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Overnight Pizza and the Consistent Unreliability of Expert Guidelines
Author disclaimer: As always, keep in mind that I am at best some random guy on the internet.
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Golang: Know Your 'Nil'
In Golang, nil is an interesting value. You may be familiar with Go’s philosophy of making the “zero value” meaningful.
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Building a Magical 3D Button with Vanilla HTML/CSS
Every action we take on the web starts with a button click, and yet most buttons are ho-hum and uninspired. In this tutorial, we'll build an animated 3D button with HTML and CSS that sparks joy.
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Storage is now available in Supabase (YC S20)
Launching Supabase Storage and how you can use it in your apps
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Improving Shell Workflows with Fzf
I show how I improved four of my shell workflows to parameter-less commands with the help of fzf.
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Man Built a $188M Fortune Investing in Stocks Then Donated It to Charity
Jack MacDonald was a frugal attorney who wanted to build a big net worth to give it to charity thanks to his hobby of investing in the stock market.
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Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images
I’m excited to share Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images today. The reason I’m excited about this acquisition is because it’s not goodbye, it’s about acceleration. This is not one of those tech acquisitions where the company is bought to be shut down. Unsplash will
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Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is back in its all-online format
Apple today announced it will host its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) June 7 through 11, in an all-online format.
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Nil in Go is typed in theory and sort of untyped in practice
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Let’s fix font size
What happens when you set fontSize: 32 in your favorite editor
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The sixtyforgan: Commodore 64 equipped with a spring reverb
The sixtyforgan is a Commodore 64 equipped with a spring reverb, featuring the keyboard layout of a chromatic button accordion.
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Compiling a Lisp to x86_64 (2020)
Tiger got to hunt, Bird got to fly; Lisper got to sit and wonder, (Y (Y Y))? Tiger got to sleep, Bird got to land; Lisper got to tell himself he understand. -- Kurt Vonnegut, modified by Darius Bacon
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Bebop: An Efficient, Schema-Based Binary Serialization Format
BUILDING FOR HUMANITY
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Down the Golang Nil Rabbit Hole
Edit 2021-03-30: Jeremy Mikkola wrote about some closely related topics back in 2017. Edit 2021-03-31: Chris Siebenmann wrote a response to this post that explains exactly how interface values that are nil are typed. It’s more complicated than I thought! I’m not sure I have another Rust & Postgres blog post in me…
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Git email flow vs. GitHub flow
Comparing the Github and Gitlab pull request workflow to the Git built-in email workflow.
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How to Build a Web App with and Without Rails Libraries
Ruby on Rails is a web framework that contains many libraries you’d need to create and deploy a successful web application. We often take for granted the ability to run rails new to create a fully functional web application with tons of built-in features.
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Innernet: open source Rust based Tailscale alternative
Nurture and shape your own private networks with simple, free, open-source infrastructure
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Tar is an ill-specified format (2015)
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Speech to Birdsong Conversion
A blog about signals, programming, music, and other stuff.
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The end of TenFourFox and what I've learned from it
Now that I have your attention. I've been mulling TenFourFox's future for awhile now in light of certain feature needs that are far bigger ...
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Hello, HPy
Welcome to the shiny new HPy blog! HPy has been around for a while now. The initial discussion started during EuroPython 2019, in the good old times when we could still go to conferences and have real
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USB 3.0* Radio Frequency Interference on 2.4 GHz Devices (2012)
Browse Intel product information for Intel® Core™ processors, Intel® Xeon® processors, Intel® Arc™ graphics and more.
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VPN over SSH? The Socks Proxy
Some resources on the internet might be only accessible from clients with particular IP addresses. For example, suppose you want to…
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Yes, experts will lie to you sometimes
Econ gives us an example of when and why this happens.
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No one gives a shit what programming language you use
I’ve had it up to here (gestures at nose level) with the bullshit around programming language elitism. Back when I thought it mattered I was just as bad as the bullshit I’m seeing today…
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U.S. Church Membership Falls Below Majority for First Time
For the first time in Gallup's polling history, less than half of U.S. adults report belonging to a church, synagogue or mosque.
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A new Cloudflare Web Application Firewall
Today we are announcing a new Cloudflare Web Application Firewall for all Cloudflare paid zone customers.