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I’d be curious to know if there’re any Go apps that are using the plugin package. I’m not aware of any myself; most seem to use things like shell-outs or embedded languages. It seems like the package itself is little more than an experiment so I’m not that surprised, but it’s a little disappointing.
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I’m a little suspicious of using project starter kits for learning something new. Sure it can whip up that React or Svelte web-app in a few seconds, but then you’re left with maintaining project infrastructure that you didn’t build yourself. Might be best to start learning projects from scratch.
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One of these days, I’m going to write a long form post, and do the narration in a single take.
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Word Cloud
From Seth’s blog: Consider building a word cloud of your writing. Seems like a good idea so that’s what I did, taking the contents of the first page of this blog. Here it is: Some observations: One of the most prominent words is “just”, with “it’s” not far behind. I though it’s because I started a lot of sentences with “it’s just”, but it turns out I’ve only used that phrase once, while the individual words show up around 10 times each. Continue reading →
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Caught up on the WWDC announcements (did Ars Technica have a live blog this year? Must’ve missed it). The scratch maths feature for the iPad looks pretty good. If my Apple Pencil wasn’t always flat, I’d definitely make use of it.
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To get to Bundanoon from Canberra you have to drive past Lake George. I’ve always seen it empty but yesterday I saw it with water, so I had to stop and take a photo.
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Day Trip to Bundanoon
Decided to go on a day trip to Bundanoon today. It’s been five years since I last visited and I remember liking the town enough that I thought it’d be worth visiting again. It’s not close, around 1 hour and 40 minutes from Canberra, but it not far either and I thought it would be a nice way to spend the day. Naturally, others agreed, which I guess explains why it was busier than I expected, what with the long weekend and all. Continue reading →
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I enabled notifications on Vintage Logo as I wanted to be notified when new logo designs were release. Today I got two nusience notifications prompting me to open the app, the last one raise mere hours after I last launched it. So now I’ve turned off notifications. Why do apps do this to themselves?
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Photos of the poor patient, sitting next to the clumsy human. Rest assured, she’s getting a course of pain killers, plus a lot of apology head scratches.
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Bit of a stressful morning, involving injuries and unplanned visits to the vet. Things are well now, and the tension is starting to dissipate. But what a way to spend the morning. 😮💨
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Working with PostgreSQL is an absolute joy. Such an amazing database. Just goes to show that the fun tech out there is not always the new and shiny. The battled hardened, featureful, bread-and-butter tools that tends to get overlooked can be just as good (Linux falls into that category as well).
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👨💻 New post on AWS over at Coding Bits: AWS Secrets Manager Cached Credentials Error
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Attempting to give head scratches while recording video is more difficult than it looks. 🦜
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An Unfair Critique Of OS/2 UI Design From 30 Years Ago
A favourite YouTube channel of mine is Michael MJD, who likes to explore retro PC products and software from the 90s and early 2000s. Examples of these include videos on Windows 95, Windows 98, and the various consumer tech products designed to get people online. Can I just say how interesting those times were, where phrases such as “surfing the net” were thrown about, and where shopping centres were always used to explain visiting websites. Continue reading →
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I found this video on the failure of the Star Wars Hotel by Jenny Nicholson to be absolutely fascinating. A great example of Disney enshittification and promising more then they can deliver. Many of her other videos are great as well (I actually went on a binge session over the weekend). 📺
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👨💻 New post on Go over at Coding Bits: Disabling Parallel Test Runs In Go
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My Pile-Up Poker result for today = $840.00. Decent result for a first game.
Also, I’m not sure if sharing my actual “solution” is consider a spoiler, so click through to see that.
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Some More Thoughts On Unit Testing
Kinda want to avoid this blog descending into a series of “this is wrong with unit testing” posts, but something did occur to me this morning. We’ve kicked off a new service at work recently. It’s just me and this other developer working on it at the moment, and it’s given us the opportunity to try out this “mockless” approach to testing, of which I ranted about a couple of weeks ago (in fact, the other developer is the person I had that discussion with). Continue reading →
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I’m not on Threads but I do click through sometimes to post shared on Mastodon, and I’m a little confused by the web-based video player. It auto-plays, which is annoying enough, but it does so with the sound off and there’s no way to pause or scrub back to the beginning. Is that by design? Do I just have to always refresh the page whenever I want to watch something just so I don’t miss the beginning? Very strange.
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Must say I’m really enjoying M. G. Siegler’s new blog Spyglass. I’ve liked pretty much every post I’ve read so far. Definitely worth subscribing to.
