Nick Saika

"transpiler" is a useless word, part two.

people.csail.mit.edu/rachit/post/...

The Advent of Code Day 1 countdown showing 23:46:29 remaining until the first puzzle unlocks.

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Slowly but surely, as time goes on, and people keep trying to use Slack as a replacement for in-person communication (read: synchronous conversation), the more I think we should go back to IRC and email.

Stop using make(1) as a command runner. That's why just.systems exists

...sorry, *still* opining.

The number of people opining about the us-east-1 outage on LinkedIn is bonkers.

New Bosch dishwasher, who dis?

Does Swiss Chalet taste better in Switzerland?

your TTY driver has configuration you can see how it’s configured by running: stty -a for example it print out the current window size! Ctrl+S by default, pressing Ctrl+S wi(( freeze your terminal (and Ctrl+Q wi(( unfreeze) I have never wanted this in my life, you can turn it off with stty -ixon (fish turns it off by default) ###fun fact: changing Ctrl+C technically you can use stty to set a different keyboard shortcut for Ctrl+C, (ike “u” stty intr u this is extremely chaotic and I can’t imagine a reason that I would ever do this though programs have to configure the TTY driver to get friendly features developer: I want arrow keys to work in my program! other person: better tell the TTY driver to turn off canonical mode! (more on the next page) the TTY driver’s settings are called “termios settings” for the gnarly details: man termios but if you’re writing a terminal program libraries like readline or ncurses will handle setting up the TTY driver panel 6 smiling stick figure with short curly hair: I’ve only needed to use stty once in the last 20 years and I mostly don’t understand its output but I think it’s a fun view into terminal internals!

stty

wizardzines.com/comics/stty/

(from The Secret Rules of the Terminal, out now! wizardzines.com/zines/termin...)

the cast of Hackers (1995) posing in a series of adjacent phone booths

Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers

Vitamin D = dill.

#slavicscience

Battlestation operational.

I totally misread the packaging on the RAM I just bought, and thought I was getting a pair of DIMMs totalling 32Gi, but they were 32Gi each.

And I thought $125/pair was a good price for 32Gi, so I bought two.

The Threadripper is happy with its 128Gi, and only half of the slots are full.

Programming hot take: let something else handle TLS.

Now Slack is pulling the whole, "heeeeey we notice you haven't fired up these workspaces lately..." shenanigans?! Yeesh.

This is the best thing written about monorepos I have ever read
blog.swgillespie.me/posts/monore...

Leveled logging is always a mistake.

How to Write Blog Posts that Developers Read Software bloggers can make the same mistakes for years that prevent readers from discovering their writing. I know because I'm one of them. Over time, I've learned techniques that help some blog posts succeed and the pitfalls that cause others to languish in obscurity.

How to Write Blog Posts that Developers Read https://lobste.rs/s/youq7y #practices

Has it verve?

Copious luxury meats.

a man wearing a suit and tie is making a funny face ALT: a man wearing a suit and tie is making a funny face

I tell ya it’s tough out there… I went to get my passport renewed, they tried tellin me sex is the same thing as gender. I said like hell it is! For one thing, my wife’s not having gender with the mailman.

So you wanna write Kubernetes controllers? Any company using Kubernetes eventually starts looking into developing their custom controllers. After all, what’s not to like about being able to provision resources with declarative configurat...

Solid read about common pitfalls when writing Kubernetes controllers: ahmet.im/blog/control...

#kubernetes #controller-runtime

After not using DuoLingo for years, I've all of a sudden started getting a steady stream of emails saying things like, "we miss you," "oh no, your streak is ruined!"

Just. Stop.

Coheed and Cambria is just Melvins for millenials.

He was alright in The King (2019), right up until Robert Pattinson shows up and steals the movie out from under him.

A photo of a squinting short-haired Chihuahua standing on top of four stacks of two cheeseburgers.

this is kubernetes

Dear friends, I'm rejoining Redis. It's a long story, so it deserved a blog post to explain all the details: antirez.com/news/144

Do you use my Redis rust crate? In particular do you use it with Valkey? Redis Inc. came knocking and I'm not sure what should be done here. I opened a GitHub issue if you have input. github.com/redis-rs/red...

Have you looked at Zulip? The last few times I've used it, I really enjoyed it.