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As Twitter is (far too) slowly falling apart and more and more people are looking for alternatives, Bluesky is enjoying a surge in popularity at the moment. One neat little feature is that you can use your own domain as ...
One of the biggest things I struggled with throughout my career is good form when it comes to typing, that is until I discovered Home Row Mods, and how they've improved the way that I type.
Introduction Welcome to the Let's Go with Turso series. In this series, we will learn how to interact with LibSQL databases with Golang. In the past article of
This is the audio version of 🎬 Ninjastructure - Move fast & break nothingMatias Pan, a professional maté drinker & Senior Software Engineer at Dagger, is showing us an approach to Infrastructure as Code built with Pulumi.We look at Go ...
If you’re running Windows VMs beneath a Linux KVM host, you’ve very likely been plagued by an annoying issue: they start up with the wrong time by several hours, every time they’re rebooted, no matter what you do. The issue ...
For the longest time now, I've been a fan of using direct SQL queries over using an ORM. However, there's one major drawback to this, one that this new package solves.
“React has become a bloated carcass of false promises, misleading claims, and unending layers of backwards compatibility – the wrong kind of backwards compatibility, as they still occasionally break your fucking code when updating.”
Nix-Darwin has made working on macOS an absolute dream.
this post was mostly dictated off the top of my head with Wispr AI
I have Google Takeout setup to periodically export to GDrive as a series of 10Gb .zip files. I’ve been meaning to get these over to S3 for a bit in part for backup purposes, and in part because I wanted ...
“Locate your /node_modules folder and drag it to the trash bin.”
My fairly banal, basic, but beautiful command line setup
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke This quote applies just as much to developers as it does non-tech people, sometimes more. I remember towards the beginning of my programming journey (both the first time I ...
If you want to start consulting, you’re gonna need some paperwork!
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in September 2024.
In this post, I offer an overview of my home lab setup, detailing the hardware and systems I use for testing and development. From Ubiquiti routers to Raspberry Pi clusters, I explain how each component is configured and managed using ...
The idea that you can build a single platform is making it worse
SquiggleConf is a web devtools-focused conference in Boston.
Introduction Welcome to the new series in Golang, Let's Go with Turso. In this series, we will learn how to interact with LibSQL databases with Golang. We will
How to use Obsidian as a gaming backlog library. Get a long-lasting overview of games you want to and have played.
We have 3 conversations from TalosCon 2024:1. Vincent Behar & Louis Fradin from Ubisoft tell us how how they are building the next generation of game servers on Kubernetes. Recorded in a coffee shop.2. We catch up with David Flanagan ...
Posted on Piccalilli: How to make hyper-resilient components that respond to not only the container, but other languages too.…
Essential tips for your first trip to South Korea. Location, activity, accommodation, food and attraction recommendations.
Hydration failed because the initial ui does not match what was rendered on the server. Great.
Posted on GitHub: Headings have been added to GitHub Projects’ board layout…
Work is an exchange of time for money.
Most of the content on this site is an aggregate view of my work in other venues. How do I want to manage that process going forward?
Laracon in Texas was too hot for a campfire, but apparently it was NOT too hot for a twerking session, or eating at Terry Black's three nights in a row! Austen and Jesse also talk about launching DAP Keycaps and ...
In the 1800s, before serfdom was abolished in the Russian empire, landowners paid taxes based on how many serfs they had. A census was conducted every few years by government employees traveling across the empire and doing counts; a manual ...
We can’t do much to change latency, so how can we work around it?
“Applets. ActiveX. Flash. Flex. Silverlight. Angular. React. Plenty of corporations thought they knew better but failed to see the larger picture.”
David Darnes already made a <code-pen> web component. It’s great. It takes code, and creates a pen from that code. But I don’t want to create a pen, I want to embed one.
In this episode we're talking about importing part of a package into another part of the same package.We'll look at: `from . import module` and `from .module import something`and also: `import package` to access the external API from with the ...
Setting Up a Production-Ready VPS: It's Actually Easier Than You Think Recently, I've been working on a brand new micro SaaS and having a lot of fun doing so.
Whenever I publish something about my Python Docker workflows, I invariably get challenged about whether it makes sense to use virtual environments in Docker containers. As always, it’s a trade-off, and I err on the side of standards and predictability.
“Its proponents can be weird, it takes itself far too seriously, and its documentation is interminable. These are some ways that some people have described Christianity. This video is about React.js.”
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in August 2024.
Introduction This week, I was working on one of the API wrapper packages for golang, and that dealt with sending post requests with URL encoded values, setting
Starting with 0.3.0, Astral’s uv brought many great features, including support for cross-platform lock files uv.lock. Together with subsequent fixes, it has become Python’s finest workflow tool for my (non-scientific) use cases. Here’s how I build production-ready containers, as fast ...
