Posts tagged "tech"

My Favorite Albums - The 2010s

A chronological list of my favorite albums from 2010 to 2019 with reasons why I like them. As of late 2024, this is the final post in the #albums series. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles (II) Rele...

Prioritize People Over Pay, Position and Product

Focus on the people you'll work with and for over specific salary goals, title or working on/with a cool product.

Protovalidate: Can Input Validation Be This Easy?

Effortless input validation for Protobuf! Protovalidate lets you define rules directly in your .proto files.

Automated Screenshot Hosting with jsDelivr

In Which I Make a Cool Script

The Tiny Book of Great Joys

If you are interested in how I over-engineered the process of making a tiny book for my wife, using AI, a pen plotter, a 3D printer, and a lot of time, you are in the right place. The book is title...

Live, Laugh, Localtalk with Basilisk II

As I mentioned in my Enhancing my Macintosh 512Ke post, I use the Basilisk II Macintosh 68k emulator alongside my Macintosh Plus to facilitate downloading software, sharing files with AppleShare, p...

Testing Zonos TTS + Ubuntu + 4090

Testing it out

AI Tools Suck and are Amazing

Love Hate

☕️ Infinite Chef CUP Update - OUT NOW 🥤

Our in-browser cooking simulator, Infinite Chef, has received its first major update in half a year, including long-awaited features!

Use custom managers in Renovate

Mend Renovate is a wonderful set-and-forget utility that helps you keep your project’s dependencies up to date. It’s similar to Dependabot, only much better regarding automatic dependency discovery...

The case for sans-io

The most popular option to decompress ZIP files from the Rust programming language is a crate simply named zip — At the time of this writing, it has 48 million downloads. It’s fully-featured, suppo...

Some terminal frustrations

A few weeks ago I ran a terminal survey (you can read the results here) and at the end I asked: What’s the most frustrating thing about using the terminal for you? 1600 people answered, and I decid...

Enhancing my Macintosh 512Ke

This is the second in a series of posts on my Macintosh 512Ke. In my first post I went over the history of how I obtained this machine, initial exploration and repairs over the years. My Macintosh ...

My Seventh Year as a Bootstrapped Founder

Seven years ago, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own bootstrapped software company. Every year, I post an update about how that’s going and what my life is like as an indie foun...

Change font-weight based on the user's screen DPI

A lot of us as developers have hi-DPI screens, and we can easily forget to test the websites we build on low-DPI screens. One common issue I noticed is that thin font weights can be hard to read on...

Announcing Last.played

The public release of Last.played a widget maker to show off your Last.FM's latest scrobbled track anywhere images are embeddable.

Lean in to the graph when writing resolvers

Designing great resolver functions in GraphQL is quite unintuitive. Giving consumers the ability to describe their desired response payload means it’s possible for consumers to access fields via su...

Hypocrisy and politics in free and open source software projects

Upcoming Events: CentOS Connect, FOSDEM, and CfgMgmtCamp

The next few days are shaping up to be packed with open-source goodness! I’ll be heading to CentOS Connect, FOSDEM, and CfgMgmtCamp, three of the best events in the ecosystem. These conferences alw...

Parametric Subtyping for Structural Parametric Polymorphism

Recursive types, generics (sometimes called parametric polymorphism), and subtyping are all essential features for modern programming languages across numerous paradigms. However, structural subtyp...