Posts tagged "tech"

Apple HomeKit and Linux SystemD

If you’ve ever dreamt of controlling your Linux applications or running commands directly from your iPhone, I’ve got some exciting news for you. I’ve been tinkering around and have come up with a s...

Debian Linux 12.1 released with Security Updates

Debian Linux project announces the first update of the Debian project's stable distribution, Debian 12 (codename "bookworm") named Debian 12.1. This update mainly addresses security issues and sign...

Setting up VSCode for Ansible Lightspeed AI in Ubuntu 22.04 desktop

Red Hat launched the Ansible Lightspeed Code Assistant Generative AI with IBM Watson Code Assistant in May 2023. This preview is now available to all Ansible users, allowing them to explore the tec...

I gave up on statistics

For a very long time it has been almost essential to track traffic on your site and peek on the analytics. But what if you... don't?

Strong focus

I have a strong opinion on how strong your focus indicators should be. They should be strong!

Moving into a New Data Centre with Equinix MA5

We’d been operating out of the Equinix MA2 Reynolds House data centre in Manchester for many years - it was our first POP/colocation site which we originally came to when it was called IFL2. Howeve...

Brute-forcing the NYT Digits game

You’re given a list of integers and a target number. You can add, subtract, multiply, or divide numbers, and you can use the result for future operations. Once you have used a number in an operatio...

Maintaining the past

One of the nasty parts of having a long internet presence is that you have all those old things still around. So, I preserved a quirks mode test page.

Craft your own serverless observability platform

How do you build your own observability platform? And should you?

External links with the least HTML

These days we have the need to display links to external sites with an accompanying icon. Typical implementations involve adding lots of extra elements under the hood. Is there a way to get it done...

How to Blow Up a Timeline

NOTE: I’d been working on this piece on and off for a few weeks while trying to move to NYC and settle into my new apartment, and just as I was about to publish it, Elon rate-limited Twitter and so...

Startup Friday

A couple of years ago, I came up with this concept and have tried to keep it in mind at all times.

My personal one-pager

A short write-up about creating my portfolio website.

Tips on DP + Bitmasking for competitive programming

Bash completion for aliases

Bash completion is a wonderful feature that allows you quickly compose complex shell commands. Add muscle memory to the mix, and one-liners will appear on the screen as if you were typing with 20 f...

Floats in 2023

Floats used to be the way to do the entire layout. Since moving to responsive mobile first design and flexbox people have avoided them. Could they still be actually useful in the current age?

The Optics

The significance of questioning widely-held beliefs and how this can lead to new insights.

Google Apps Script APIs performance

During the last few months, as I was implementing a few scripts on Google’s Apps Script, I needed to answer the question of what is the right place to store data.

WebAssembly runtimes will replace container-based runtimes by 2030

This is a fancified excerpt of Jonathan Norris’ unpopular opinion on Go Time #275. Jonathan is Co-Founder & CTO @ DevCycle where they’re using WebAssembly in very interesting ways. To get the full ...

Introducing The Spatial Cypher Cheat Sheet

A resource for working with geospatial data in Neo4j.