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These kind of stories led me to explore de-googling my digital life. And honestly its been a fun journey and given meaning and purpose to my homelab. 100% recommend. Own your digit…

His real beef seems to be with “any lawful use”. He doesn't agree with the law and wants to only sell to customers who agree with his own moral code. I respect his moral choice but…

The UNIX philosophy of tools that handle text streams, staying "quiet" unless something goes wrong, doing one thing well, etc. are all still so well suited to the modern age of AI …

You can go a long way with just Termux. You can upcycle old phones by installing or building code in Termux to turn the phones into a compute grid, AI inference nodes, file servers…

More generally the tools used to write the code show through in the code itself. In the way code is distributed across files, in the length and style of names, in the organization …

Following Karl Popper's thinking on this topic, I'd say that our problems define us, and when we solve our problems we often discover new and interesting children problems demandin…

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some legacy applications were designed around having a 32 bit wordsize for pointers. so calculations of offsets into memory where a data structure includes pointers depends on a po…

Here's a counterpoint blog using a chan that sends a chan in order to implement a dynamic dispatch mechanism. This is in Limbo not Go. But same concepts. Maybe the complexity prove…

The software industry has become swamped with suits optimizing their status and prestige.

This article is not so much about Go but about choosing to specialize in one language ecosystem instead of spreading one's attention across several.

here's the article I learned this from. https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/2543/using-hashbytes-... you'd add a hash column to the table you want to track. this would be used i…

Another technique not discussed is to create an md5 hash of each record and to keep track of added and deleted hashes. The d hash would exist as an additional column on each table …

and by simple architecture that includes graphql, k8s, and custom network protocol! LMAO, LMFAO!!

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amen, brother!

You can also run inferno on a raspberry pi pico. I did the port here https://github.com/caerwynj/inferno-os/tree/pico

I'd recommend also reading Rob Pike's Notes on Programming in C, http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/pikestyle