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No mention of libgfshare, which comes with utilities `gfsplit` and `gfcombine`: https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/gfsplit.1.h... We use it in production to pregenera…

> But ctypes being a terrifying pain in the ass, people tread very carefully around it. I'm not sure how much people treading carefully actually translates into safety in practice.…

https://snapdrop.net is my go to for this. Works on any modern browser on the same LAN. Supports files and plain text. Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=…

Hah, you beat me to this by a minute. I guess I'm not the only one that looks back on this paper with fondness.

Related: Graham Hutton's classic paper: a tutorial on the universality and expressiveness of fold [PDF]: https://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~pszgmh/fold.pdf Section 5.1 walks the reader thr…

> I separate file backup and version control. I keep every git repository I'm working on in Dropbox, and don't ever worry about how often I'm committing and pushing. Motivated by a…

I too wanted to preserve privacy and avoid a cookie banner for my blog. I ended up rolling a privacy preserving proxy via Cloudflare workers that forwards `pageview` events to Goog…

I evaluated both Plausible and Matamo as privacy preserving analytics options for my blog, and ended up rolling my own solution for cost reasons. Cloudflare workers and Pulumi make…

I was able to make the switch over cold turkey after ~11 years of ArchLinux. By sheer happenstance, I blogged earlier this week about one particular killer feature that doesn't get…

> How do NixOS users typically manage software that is not a Nix package By writing a Nix package for it (I don't mean for this to sound flippant, tone is a bit hard to convey over…

> I don't think it's a perfect analogy, but I see what the author is getting at - you need to break the abstraction of some packaging tool, but you want the functionality it provid…

Thanks, I didn't know about this. It's been about a decade since I actually used Gentoo and I was writing from the hip. I've published a correction: https://zeroindexed.com/nix-eje…

My blog [1] has expanded commentary on the motivation: > I thought that surely in 2021, somebody would have built a simple page view counter that I could just plug into my dinky bl…

We use StackExchange's blackbox to check in GPG encrypted secrets into our monorepo: https://github.com/StackExchange/blackbox

Accumulating loop results in an array is bad for perf, but won't necessarily cause logic bugs. My favourite implicit return gotcha comes from the intersection of CoffeeScript and j…

> What statically typed language lets me define a type as “number between -180 and +180”, or “string which contains only alphanumeric chars”? Pretty much all of them. Any simple pr…

This... isn't even using the `make` part of Makefiles at all. If you look at the final example, every [1] rule is marked as `.PHONY`. `make` bundles 2 capabilities: a dependency gr…

> That being said though, I'd expect that a tuple would satisfy a `any[]` type. You have it backwards, the error in question is complaining that `any[]` does not satisfy the tuple …

That's fair, I too use a trucker's hitch for the ridgeline of a tarp. However, I'll use adjustable grip hitches for the guylines. That lets me freely adjust how my tarp is placed a…

Incidentally, my favourite knot of all time is also listed first: the adjustable grip hitch, https://www.animatedknots.com/adjustable-grip-hitch-knot Take 5 minutes out of your day…