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Great for steganography! We can finally put our passwords on post-its again!

Having meaningful output is useful, artificial pauzes like this are only for dramatic effect. I rather have a linear, timestamped log, so I can confirm my suspicions, than a progre…

I like the idea. I guess you could do something with pubsub to simulate this model. A regular http stack (load balancer and reverse proxies in front of some http framework) would p…

This happens more often than I'd like to admit. More often it's on work chat or a call, but the principle holds: I try to explain my problem to someone else and while deepening the…

I would say you can get a long way with trying to prevent your own code from emitting interrupts. But how do you stop libraries or the JVM from emmiting them?

You can't just lock on the file operations, since this problem comes from thread interruptions. No interrupt, no problem. So, instead you need to make file operations and _any_ thr…

Awesome snippet! I organize most of my work using something similar to the Johnny decimal system[0] and use CDPATH for quicker lookups. But I love how you build a dynamic system wi…

I work at a database heavy company as an infra engineer. From time to time we get requests from devs or customer success to run a query on all customer databases to see or certain …

I maintain the cloud infrastructure at my company and I went the other way around: from laptop only to an 3 screens (laptop on a stand + two screens on the side at a 90 degree angl…

How i love these quirky side project! Do you have a link to a repo? Would like to see his setup!

A logic bug can be dangerous too though. E.g. Bumping a user ID, to get a "fresh" one or calculate port to open based on offset. When not bounded to a known range, this kind of log…

That's why we only allow RFC9225 compliant packages on our systems!

Did a lot of data wrangling this year. The usual grep, sed, awk, jq and even find has sped up my days significantly. Sed is among my favorites to whip up some quick, ad hoc, transf…

I have the same experience! On the integration side of things, ldap is often easy to configure. Most software just works, when you know your parameters. The server side, however is…

I think this analog is close to the dynamic vs static debate. However, there are probably more factors to consider, such as competence of the driver (will the driver even care to s…

I know the feeling. We use ansible extensively in our company. While it is probably the best tool at the moment to get the job done, it is not a pleasant tool for larger/complex se…

Same here! Tcl/tk is a lovely little language and much under appreciated by many! Interesting software started in tcl, such as redis, expect and sqlite. Still use some tcl through …

"Optimizing based on a lottery event seems counter-productive" I think it depends on how often you "win" the lottery. If a lottery event happens once or twice a year and it's fairl…

Took me a while to appreciate rx. I like the conciseness of normal regexes, but rx is so much more readable and maintainable! I love the extensibility options and the fact it's jus…

Just charged my phone with my laptops Usb-C charger, without any issue. Apart from special features like fast-charge, I'd say compatibility is very good.

My eye was drawn to the graphs. Especially the house price / income graphs. There seems to be a trend in the US graph: if you zoom in far enough, you can see a consistent drop in J…

Forgot a crucial parameter in the first xclip call: -t image/png. Without this, your system don't know its png data and will paste the raw data when you hit ctrl-v.

Nice! Although I'm linux user, I got inspired by the idea. I often combine imagemagick import with xclip to quickly snap parts of the screen to clipboard (import png:- | xclip -sel…

I used this a lot! Combined with scripting support, you can make the experience even more interactive. Used gdb scripts in the past to make debug sessions repeatable. Stuck beyond …

This, yes! Not necessarily the copy/paste part, but definitely the debug part! I generally like deeper debug sessions, preferably without too much pressure. Getting deep understand…