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2 silly small ones: * Small util on an ESP32 to turn my garage lights on when I open the side door. * An app to track players I've played against before in Dota2 and pop up before …

I was just thinking of Logo today and how it got me super interested in programming. I ended up doing simple rectangles with my 5 year old. He loved the turtle!

I worked at a ~smallish startup. While we had around 20 devs employed we shared oncall between 3 people. We invested a lot into availability - especially DBs. Most of our issues we…

In my case you're 100% spot on with the unhealthy relationship part. I lost around 45kg in slightly less than a year and gained most of it back in the 2 years after. For the most p…

I don't think life is that simple. Being a skilled developer/engineer has very little to do with the ability to save money.

The first thing I thought of when seeing this was giving a card to each team member which allows for small purchases at specific partnered businesses - e.g. expensing lunch outings…

In the short term you'll probably end up feeling guilty about it but it's much better to work somewhere where you don't hate the environment. Before I started my current job, I alr…

Thanks! Some of these were the only programming books that our local library had (in the mid 90s). I remember the Adventure Programs book quite fondly.

They could fail for hundreds of different reasons, not all necessarily related to being open or closed.

I just got off a plane between Dubai and Seattle and although it was a very long flight it turned out to be one of the more productive ones I'd taken in a while. Generally when I g…

When I was in high school our local mobile networks brought out a feature called "Please call me" in which you used USSD to send an unbilled notification for another number to call…

On my first run today I saw some passwords going to the admin section on our staging servers so it really depends on what you're targeting.

As long as it's valid hex it should be fine, there seems to be a lower bound at which point servers don't respond but I didn't play around for too long with that part. Most article…

Ansible is pretty decent but new release seem to break backwards compatibility quite a lot so be prepared for playbooks not working on newer versions should you need to reuse them …

I liked ColdFusion as a whole but really disliked using it in a professional context - most other developers just seemed to have a bad understanding of how ColdFusion specific vari…

Oh, as a side note. The company I ended up working for also used a timed "mini-project" to filter out some candidates, it wasn't much more than 2 days worth of work. After that I a…

When managed properly outsourcing doesn't have to be a problem. Bad hires do tend to take a bit longer to show themselves and could end up leaving a bad taste to everything outsour…

I love squirrel, if anyone is trying it out though just be aware of the default 100 or 1000 row limit. It's great for select statements but don't forget to disable it when running …

Maybe I misread the article but I didn't get the sense that the $2.3M was in the last year. If the company has been operating for just over a dozen years that could be total revenu…

I'm not sure that specifying how things won't work is done to appear superior rather than giving feedback. There probably isn't enough time in a day to try everything and if you ca…

Have had a lot of fun with this so far even though I'm only at level 4, kind of went off on a tangent on level 3 and after getting a partial solution I realised that there was a mu…

Registration this year is open till the end of the qualification round.

Nice article, the write lock has really been making me think about whether it's really the way to go in our own stack.

Have been using this for a while now as a quick way to get data a bit readable. Works pretty well.