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One of my first TIL entries was about how you can imitate Node’s node_modules semantics in Python on UNIX-like operating systems. A lot has happened since then (to the better!) and it’s time for an update. direnv still rocks, though.
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in February 2024.
> My first attempt at bringing back the short story in 30 years.
Before we begin, I’d like to clarify that the project ideas I am about to suggest are mainly intended for those who are interested in exploring new areas of knowledge. However, it’s important to note that most of these ideas ...
Intro This article is a continuation of my previous selection of non-trivial algebra problems from the Romanian Math Olympiad for high-school students. However, this time I have included a few harder problems from the National Phase that would definitely provide ...
Well it’s that time again, migrating for one reason or another listlessly between computers as priorities and jobs change. Here’s a middle-depth breakdown of how I speed-run getting a new machine off the ground. This post is for Mac computer ...
Now that we have the new Go enchanced routing features, the standard library is all we need.
I manifested a "State of Diffusion++" meetup yesterday that I felt was a success. 200 people signed up! Here are some photos!
“I’ve seen all those headlines about Svelte being the “most loved” framework, and… well I admit, I just ignored it as noise. But the next time that survey comes around, I’ll be right up there with them, waving from the ...
The Logitech Spotlight presentation remote is a sleek piece of hardware. It is comparatively small, fits nicely in the palm of your hand, and the buttons come with a very satisfying, albeit for my taste a tiny bit too loud, ...
Gaining a strange disease and losing my ability to see straight
I just published the 11th issue of Own Your Web, my newsletter about designing, building, creating, and publishing on the Web. When I started the newsletter back in autumn of 2023, I didn’t yet know what form the newsletter would ...
Imagine you post and make new friends on an online network for more than a decade – and suddenly, your account gets suspended for no apparent reason. And there is nothing you can do about it. Or imagine the online ...
Every day, we browse the Web and scroll our timelines. And every day, we find even more interesting websites, blog posts, articles, videos, podcasts, and other insights and ideas that we want to document, preserve, and share. The most obvious ...
In this short article, I will discuss a cute mathematical problem that I discovered while reading “Polya’s Footsteps: Miscellaneous Mathematical Expositions” by the Canadian mathematician Ross Honsberger. If you’re not familiar with Honsberger’s work, he is a well-known author in ...
Charlie Marsh and team are using Rust to make Python tooling faster.Ruff can take the place of Flake8, isort, and Black, and so much more.uv can take the place of pip, pip-tools, and virtualenvAstral is Charlie's venture backed company, and ...
Collecting people I know who work at the intersection of design and engineering, in an attempt to figure out what a design engineer is
Introduction In this section of the series, we will be exploring how to send a HTTP request in golang. We will understand how to send a basic POST request, crea
A collection of public thoughts that could be blogposts but i dont have time, so here, have the short form. I may upgrade these to full posts in future.
A collection of public thoughts that could be blogposts but i dont have time, so here, have the short form. I may upgrade these to full posts in future.
All of us - software engineers - use git every day, however most people only ever touch the most basic of commands, such as "add", "commit", "push" or "pull", like it's still 2005. Git however, introduced many features since then, ...
Alex Sims, Solutions Architect & Sr. Software Engineer at James and James Fulfilment, talks about their journey to 80ms response SLO with PHP & React.Alex shares how they optimised API performance, specifically highlighting improvements made by altering interactions with Amazon ...
Today we delve into BuildKit and Dagger, focusing on their significance in the development and deployment of containerized applications, as well as Kubernetes integration.BuildKit's Role: Essential for anyone using Docker Build, facilitating efficient, dependency-aware container builds with advanced caching mechanisms. ...
This episode looks into the observability tool Parca & Polar Signals Cloud with Frederic Branczyk and Thor Hansen. We discuss experiences and discoveries using Parca for detailed system-wide performance analysis, which transcends programming languages.We highlight a significant discovery related to ...
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in January 2024.
Software engineers that move into leadership roles have a struggle between learning leadership skills, maintaining technical skills, and learning new leadership and technical skills. Matt Makai went from individual contributor to developer relations to leadership in devrel. We discuss how ...
Shrimp, bagels, grannies pwning newbs, fantasy consoles, Alan Turing cameos, 'American Hand Egg', and data loss; This episode has it all!Links & Notes:Game devPanic Playdate handheld console and SDKGodot game engineCreativity in the design of Comix ZoneM*ckup (Part 2)⚠️ Be ...
Introduction This is a “follow-up” to the previous article: “The math exams of my life”, as some readers were curious to see some examples of Math Olympiad exercises. This is a selection of cute, non-trivial algebra problems (with a hint ...
How to gather people and create communities in ways that are low-stress and high-payoff
We are currently migrating our main application database from AWS Aurora Postgres to Google AlloyDB Postgres (it’s a cost decision) and I’m using Google’s database Migration tool to do the work. At some point last week the migration failed on ...
Whilst I love working in the CLI one thing that I've often found a challenge has been navigating across multiple directories in the terminal. Fortunately, I found the best solution I could
In the last issue of Own Your Web, we looked at blogrolls as one way to improve the visibility and discoverability of our sites. Whether or not you want to add a blogroll to your site is a matter of ...
