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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 ...
Perhaps you could use your new-found knowledge on DNS to wow people at all the cool parties you probably attend.
Quantifying the importance of caching just got a lot easier
“Refuse to go along with plans to build YAJSD (Yet Another JavaScript Disaster). Engineering leaders look to their senior engineers for trusted guidance about what technologies to adopt. When someone inevitably proposes the React rewrite, do not be silent.”
The Space space keyboard is a small, non-split keyboard designed by qpockets, of the now (unfortunately) closed P3Dstore. The keyboard in the picture in particular was built by Reddit user lily_vacation01. The interest check for this board was held almost ...
In this episode, we discuss the complex flavour notes produced by third-wave coffee, natural wine, South Carolinian sweetgrass, instruments of musical nature, and developers as they steep themselves in the wonderful worlds of Statamic and Livewire.Links:StatamicFlat CampLivewireVoltFind us on X@austencam ...
Why on earth would you make something render-blocking?!
How does Michal Kuratczyk, Staff Software Engineer at RabbitMQ, access Kubernetes workloads securely, from anywhere? Regardless whether it's a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster or Kubernetes in Docker (KiND), Tailscale is a simple solution for this particular use case. This ...
Robin says design ain’t a democracy, great design can only thrive with a dictator/director I aim to push back
Data is Not the New Oil - More Like Deep Fryer RefuseThe Grim RealityLet's burst that bubble: Most data is far from being the light, sweet crude we were promised. Think less "Spindletop gushes riches" and more "last night's deep ...
I spent several months iterating on the design and build of a ping pong ball collecting robot back in about 2014 but never posted the final photos of it anywhere, these are the final photos I took of the finished ...
