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Just because we could didn't mean that we should
Exploring the universe from the inside out
Wasting time isn't bad because it wastes time
Well-built, cheap, and fast: I pick all three.
I had other plans for what to write about, and also plans for the day that didn't involve disassembling my connection...
An ESL instructor's blog covering technology, education, games, and personal reflections.
A review for the Toaplan Arcade Collection Volume 1, a collection of shooting games, for the Nintendo Switch
A cryptic prediction regarding The Foundation's recent proclamation regarding a future collaboration
A post about work-life balance and piling wood
An English teacher in France writing about technology, education, gaming, and guides with an indie web ethos.
A review for the Toaplan Arcade Collection Volume 1, a collection of shooting games, for the Nintendo Switch
A cryptic prediction regarding The Foundation's recent proclamation regarding a future collaboration
A post about work-life balance and piling wood
Banish Expectations Expand Wonder
I quote others only in order the better to express myself. —Michel de Montaigne In 1571, a French nobleman bought a c...
For roughly seven hundred years, the big theological brains of Western Christendom bent themselves into magnificent l...
Years ago, an AA sponsor said something to me that bypassed every defense I had against the idea of God. I was in ear...
Ein paar Graphen über die Anzahl der Blogposts pro Jahr.
Das Rätsel des Angzarr ist gelöst.
Maschinell ins Deutsche übersetzte SQL-Statements.
Recent content on Adventures in Open Source Software
Back at the turn of the century, open source was experiencing widespread adoption along with the growth of the Intern...
It is hard to believe that I’ve been at AWS almost four years, but it turns out that is about the amount of time one ...
The first post I made on this blog was on this date in 2003. Rather than engaging in my usual anniversary navel-gazin...
Urbanism and Culture on Florida's First Coast.
Today, the average person will struggle to find a restaurant to dine along the river in downtown that is not located ...
After a failed attempt to acquire the DCPS Southbank headquarters, Fleet Landing now has plans for a 32-story tower i...
Baptist Health is proposing to build a 15-story, 226-key hotel at its Southbank medical campus. The project will seek...
English Home | Fatbobman's Blog ｜肘子的 Swift 记事本 – Sharing content related to Swift, SwiftUI, Core Data, and Swift Data, as well as covering development tools, AI, and other topics. All articles are original creations; for reproduction, please contact the author.
Core Data remains widely used in 2026, but its mismatch with modern Swift concurrency, type safety, and code expressi...
Last week, Apple launched several new hardware products. Unlike previous launch events, this release was unusually lo...
This post documents a recent debugging journey: starting from a test failure, tracing all the way down to the Core Da...
A technical journal focused on infrastructure, networking, and IT operations, featuring configuration guides and home network design.
A little disclaimer before I start on this. Just in case someone gets the knee jerk reaction that I’m doing all of th...
Summary I have a Vaultek LifePod 1.0 (VLP10-BK) safe I bought a few years ago to store valuables or keep firearms awa...
Summary Decided to provide notes on some other aspects of system administration that not everyone knows how to do. Bu...
An online journal exploring curious and obscure works that have entered the public domain, featuring essays, collections, and cultural commentary on historical art, literature, and media.
"Tall-tale" or "exaggeration" postcards illustrating the bounties of California.
A utopian novel where men are no longer necessary.
Illustrations of Javanese *wayang kulit* puppets with vivid colour and gilding.
I'm Kevin McDonald. I am a backend software engineer from Texas, living and working in Copenhagen, Denmark. Let's learn together.
More HPACK and using http.Request and http.Response
Decoding HPACK and the evolution of the HTTP header
Books, films, TV, videogames, comics, music, all that bread and circuses stuff.
Ah, Foundation. Along with Asimov’s robot-themed stories, the Foundation series vies for the title of Asimov’s most i...
Arguably, Jon Pertwee was instrumental in pioneering the Doctor Who audio drama format. Sure, Tom Baker had done The ...
After the first and second seasons of The Companion Chronicles test-drove the concept, Big Finish would regularly ret...
The unsupported use case of a disordered, surplus, mediocre midlife in St. Johns, Oregon.
In a newsletter edition about “stakes” in storytelling, Charlie Jane makes an observation about another storytelling ...
As I’d observed, more or less, in my adult function report for Disability Determination Services, whatever else might...
The world being what it is, I never did come back to give an update on my adult function report which was requested b...
Empowering creative people
Strategic thinking skills have become one of the most valuable assets you can bring to any job, project, or life deci...
Learning how to reduce cognitive load is essential for anyone who wants to work smarter, think clearly, and maintain ...
In the context of life development, learning how to stay consistent is one of the most powerful skills you can build....
News, tips, and tricks from the team at Fly
Sprites are disposable cloud computers. They appear instantly, always include durable filesystems, and cost practical...
I’m Ben Johnson, and I work on Litestream at Fly.io. Litestream is the missing backup/restore system for SQLite. It’s...
We’re Fly.io, and this is the place in the post where we’d normally tell you that our job is to take your containers ...
Practical Linux tutorials and command-line tips covering system administration, scripting, and performance benchmarking.
Ever wondered why a package ended up in your Nix store? Here's how nix why-depends can help you find out.
Trying to win the lottery with pure Linux RNG magic.
There are plenty of CLI tools to calculate the checksum of files. But, which one is the fastest?
Hey! I'm Julia. Welcome to my blog. Here's every post I've ever written, organized by category. Enjoy!
Hello! My big takeaway from last month’s musings about man pages was that examples in man pages are really great, so ...
Hello! After spending some time working on the Git man pages last year, I’ve been thinking a little more about what m...
Hello! One of my favourite things is starting to learn an Old Boring Technology that I’ve never tried before but that...
I build distributed data systems that operate at scale. What draws me to this work is understanding how things actually work, whether that's performance challenges at scale or diving deep into system internals.
Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity — The Engineer A vs Engineer B comparison is painfully recognizable. A ships a 50...
Hedonism and Entrepreneurship in Barcelona — A potential acquisition dies because a vegan exec unknowingly eats mayo ...
I worked at Tinybird for 4 years, 2 months, and 21 days. It’s been an incredible experience that taught me a lot abou...
Mark Dominus's long-running blog exploring mathematics, programming, language, and history through long-form essays with technical depth.
A couple of days ago I recounted a common complaint: I keep seeing programmers say how angry it makes them that peopl...
A number of years ago I wondered how many movies I had seen. The only way I could think of finding out was just to ma...
Something interesting happened at work this week. Our company is going to a convention later this month, and they wil...