Posts tagged "tech"

Introducing facet: Reflection for Rust

I have long been at war against Rust compile times. Part of the solution for me was to buy my way into Apple Silicon dreamland, where builds are, like… faster. I remember every time I SSH into an x...

FESCO Q&A

Improving Product Discovery of Tabletop RPG Maps (Preliminary Investigation)

As catalogs for digital marketplaces grow in size, customers have greater difficulty in finding products that meet their needs. Marketplace owners might improve product discovery by adding new cate...

HTTP QUERY and Go

We need another HTTP verb. I'll explain why.

Rails’ Connection Pool

In which I learn to read YAML syntax.

Introducing number and currency formaters (and more) for KMP in pale-blue-kmp-core

Native-backed currency and number formatters, plus a type-safe KmmResult wrapper that works seamlessly across iOS and Android. These additions fill long-standing gaps in the Kotlin Multiplatform to...

Leverage Red Hat Ansible to automate your IBM Power Systems

Preserving text size when scaling SVGs

SVGs support non-scaling strokes using the vector-effect attribute, which we can even use to draw non-scaling rectangles and circles. For example, in graphs and charts, text can become too small or...

Leverage Event-Driven Ansible to reduce your automation reaction time

My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts

A heartfelt provocation about AI-assisted programming. Tech execs are mandating LLM adoption. That’s bad strategy. But I get where they’re coming from. Some of the smartest people I know share a bo...

Automating Power Virtual Servers with Ansible and AAP

Weekly update #20250601

Messaging as a customer channel and its relationship to cost of labour: interesting thoughts from Mark Zuckerberg in this interview by Stripe’s co-CEO John Collison. Happy to see that almost no one...

This Week — Now For Something Slightly Different

This Week — Now For Something Slightly Different TL;DR:Some interesting web projects launched this week. Also, I tried out Hypixel Skyblock. This blog post has approximately 513 words and may take ...

Special Edition — Small Web Communities

Special Edition — Small Web Communities TL;DR:Small web communities helped me feel more confident and less lonely. This blog post has approximately 928 words and may take 5 minutes to read. This po...

May 2025

The shortest work month in Norway is over, and summer is right around the corner! From the blog this month: Docker Context Introducing git-bump 🍀 Life My SO started traveling offshore this month. S...

Upcoming Events: CEC, Flock, and DevConf.cz

In the coming couple of weeks I’ll be heading to the Common Europe Congress (CEC2025), Flock 2025, and DevConf.cz 2025, some of the best community-driven events in the ecosystem. If you’re around, ...

Django: Deferred constrain enforcement

Another Friday, another Django related post. I guess this blog is becoming a bit monothematic. I promise the next ones will bring the much-needed diversity of contents, but today let’s explore a ve...

The virtue of unsynn

Addressing the rumors There have been rumors going around, in the Reddit thread for facet, my take on reflection in Rust, which happened a bit too early, but here we are, cat’s out of the bag, let’...

Digital Spring Cleaning Part 1

Taking Obsidian for a drive around the block.

Using Kamal 2.0 in Production

Agile Web Development with Rails 8 is off to production, where they do things like editing, indexing, pagination, and printing. In researching the chapter on Deployment and Production, I became ver...