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Should we design for iffy internet?
Around 97% of US households have internet access, but bandwidth and latency are likely worse than you expect.
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What is the randomart image for?
When you generate an SSH key (like I did when looking at signing commits with SSH keys ), you get a “randomart image” from ssh-keygen . These things:
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Digital Gardening in Obsidian
Observing growth in my notes without being overwhelmed.
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Modeling Git Internals in Alloy, Part 2: Commits and Tags
Understanding Git better by using lightweight formal methods
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Modeling CRDTs in Alloy – the importance of idempotence
Checking my assumptions about syncable data structures