Posts tagged "tech"

Onward and Upward

I’m thrilled to share the excitement with you all as my YouTube channel posted the solution video for the Codility Longest Password exercise on Thursday right on schedule (it was iffy for a minute ...

It’s not this, it’s that

In the vast landscape of programming challenges, Codility stands tall as a formidable arena where developers showcase their skills and problem-solving prowess. However, nestled within this realm li...

What to Expect for Developers in 2024 (My Predictions)

I make my (not so bold) predictions for 2024 around web development, AI, developer events and DevRel.

TCP tunneling with Cloudflare Tunnel

TCP connection forwarding with Cloudflare Tunnel

Self-hosting a high-availability Postgres cluster on Kubernetes

Deploying an HA Postgres cluster using Zalando w/ K8s

Vulnerable thoughts

In the vast landscape of content creation, the journey is often filled with highs and lows, unexpected turns, and, above all, vulnerability. Today, I want to talk about my experience on YouTube, th...

The Changelog has never gone viral

In the 14+ years we’ve been making The Changelog podcast, it has never gone viral. We’ve had popular episodes and not so popular episodes. We’ve made episodes we love and episodes listeners love. B...

Fancy code blocks in Astro

Customizing Markdown & MDX code blocks in Astro

Create better documentation with Mkdocs

Setting up and deploying documentation for your projects

Exposing deployment versions and commit hashes with Astro

Adding custom version routes to your blog to validate deployments

HTML inert property and React fallback

HTML inert is a relatively new property, but it is supported in all major browsers since April this year. When you set inert on an element, the browser will ignore all user events on it, including ...

OpenWRT and the 802.11s mesh network

Recently I wanted to improve the WiFi coverage in my house. My trusted Linksys EA6350 v3 wasn’t able to cover to full square footage, so I got a second router to fill in the wireless gap - the TP-L...

I built a gnome shell extension to show how much my day, month, year and life has passed.

NixOS has one fatal flaw

Jerod’s Note: The short embedded below of Tammer Saleh on Ship It! created a firestorm of comments from folks who were unsatisfied with the lack of explanation behind his conclusion. I caught up wi...

Strange Loops

Loops are another one of those areas where Magic's rules and policy intersect in an awkward way. I don't have all the answers here, but I provide the ones I do have.

Blogging with Jupyter Notebooks in Hugo

Featured Photo by Simon Berger I’ve realized something important about myself lately: I need to make it easy for me to publish my stuff. If I have to do a lot of steps to get my text online, I lose...

Honey bee cellular automaton

A cellular automaton that simulates a real world phenomena

Hello, World!

Editor’s Note Welcome to the inaugural issue of my newsletter! Launching this newsletter has been a long time coming. While my blog has been the primary platform for sharing my thoughts and polishe...

Video subtitles, captions, audio descriptions and transcripts

The difference between subtitles, closed captions, audio descriptions and transcriptions, including related accessibility guidelines.

Understanding Subjective Probabilities

Does it make sense to talk about the probability of a future event that's more complicated than a die roll or coin toss?Traditional entry-level math education leads people to many misconceptions in...