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Falling behind on posting a couple of weekly ear-worms, so here are two:
Last week’s: Before Too Long, by Paul Kelly
This week’s: An Extraordinary Life, by Asia (this one via Reconcilable Differences).
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It’s been — what, 5-6 years — since I moved from Xubuntu to MacOS, and yet I still find myself wising for certain features present on Linux desktops that are not on MacOS. Usually it’s around how window switching works, but today, it’s the option to keep a window always at the top.
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And here I was thinking that successfully using OpenSSL to setup and test a custom CA was the most exciting thing that happened today. Nope! Just check the mail and I’ve been asked to attend jury duty, for the first time in my life. Finally!
Yep, I’m the strange one here. 😏
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I have to set up mutual TLS authentication using our own CA for inter-service communication. I found this guide on how to prepare the certificates using openssl to be really useful. There’s also this tool which looks interesting.
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Who thought that doing something properly would get results? I’ve been hacking around for the past hour trying to get a CI/CD pipeline to work, with no success. I then decided to change the pipeline properly, and it worked the first time.
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👨💻 New post on Go over at Coding Bits: Disabling Imported Jobs In Gitlab CI/CD Pipeline
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🔗 AI ‘Friend’ Company Spent $1.8 Million and Most of Its Funds on Domain Name
“It’s real! Premium domains are expensive, but it’s worth it,” Schiffman told me in an email after I reached out to ask if it was true. […] “People just don’t get consumer, I view this as saving money. Much less money needs to be spent on marketing, it’s a one time thing,” Schiffmann said.
Is the marketing in the domain name, or in the word of mouth about how much they spent on the domain name? Well, I guess they got me to talk about it. 😀
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I wonder who Amazon thinks are visiting the websites for AWS resources. They build landing pages full of copy that seems to be written for CTOs and people shopping around for solutions. Yet, I imagine most visitors to these sites are developers, trying to get to the reference documentation.
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Current Project Update
Hmm, another long gap between posts. A little unexpected, but there’s an explanation for this: between setting up Forgejo and making the occasional update to Blogging Tools, I haven’t been doing any project work. Well, at least nothing involving code. What I have been doing is trying my hand at interactive fiction, using Evergreen by Big River Games. Well, okay, it’s not completely without code: there is a bit of JavaScript involved for powering the “interactive” logic part. Continue reading →
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A lot will be happening this coming week. In fact, it feels like the whole year has been building up to it. Mum and Dad will be hosting some guests coming in from overseas, at the same time some distance cousins from Italy are over here. And I’ll be hosting some birds “flying in” from Canberra (they’re being driven in actually). Routines will be distrupted, but I think it’s going to be pretty good.
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Mesdames et messieurs: voici la tentative d’aujourd’hui de passer à un petit-déjeuner plus minimaliste: deux grands cafés au lait.
Ladies and gentlemen: presenting today’s attempt to move to a more minimalist breakfast: two large cappuccinos.
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Just listening to Ben Thompson’s and Andrew Sharp’s hot takes on baseball on the latest episode of Sharp Tech. My suggestion to Ben would be to try watching a game of test cricket some day. Sounds to me like they share many of the same attributes that Ben likes about baseball. 😄
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Reddit’s decision to allow only Google to index their site will probably mean I’ll be seeing them far less often than I do — which is almost never anyway, and generally from the results of a search. So I’m recording this screenshot, which I call “Reddit in the results”, for posterity.
Edit: Turns out Ecosia sources some of their index from Google, so these Reddit links will likely remain in my searches. I guess that makes this post unnecessary. I’m going to keep it up though, for posterity of my unnecessary effort to post for posterity. 😄
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Why did I eat the breakfast I did today? I told myself I wasn’t going to, as it tended to make me nauseous sometimes. Well, an hour later and here we are: mild nausea. 🤦♂️
Need to work on that self control thing people talk about. The aroma of baked goods at the cafe was the thing that got me today, though. Maybe I should start wearing a nose clip.
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Go Feature Request: A 'Rest' Operator for Literals
Here’s a feature request for Go: shamelessly copying JavaScript and adding support for the “rest” operator in literals. Go does have a rest operator, but it only works in function calls. I was writing a unit test today and I was thinking to myself that it would be nice to use this operator in both slice and struct literals as well. This could be useful for making copies of values without modifying the originals. Continue reading →
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I hear Robb and John are looking for a new term for the bringer of snacks for Ruminate. Allow me to throw my suggestion into the ring. It might be difficult to get at first, but trust me, it’ll make sense after saying it a few times.
Okay.
You ready?
Better strap in: it’s going to get a little mind-blowy around here.
Okay, here it is:
It’s snack-plier.
Get it? Snack…plier. The snacks supplier. What does a snack-plier do? They supply snacks. They are the snack supply person. Their whole purpose in their endeavour is to ensure the supply of snacks to those that are requiring snacks.
There it is: snack-plier. Yeah, I told you it’d be good. 😉
(Okay, I think I’ve embarrassed myself enough today. 😂)
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Was talking to a fellow colleague today and he mentioned that he’s recently started a blog on Bear Blog. He was reluctant to share the URL to it though, which I can understand. I’m not in the habit of sharing mine with people I know.
Anyway, if J. C. happens to stumble upon this blog, hey! 👋
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A Follow-Up To Mockless Unit Testing
I’m sure everyone’s dying to hear how the mockless unit tests are going. It’s been almost two months since we started this service, and we’re smack bang in the middle of brownfield iterative development: adding new features to existing ones, fixing bugs, etc. So it seems like now is a good time to reflect on whether this approach is working or not. And so far, it’s been going quite well. The amount of code we have to modify when refactoring or changing existing behaviour is dramatically smaller than before. Continue reading →
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Every so often, Goland gets into a weird state where it completely forgets about symbols from a certain package. It’s not every package, and the build might run perfectly fine. Yet when you try to do any code completion from this package, it says it cannot find symbols. It’s very strange.
Clearing the cache and restarting seems to be the only way to resolve this. I’m about to do this for the second time today.
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It’s going to be a lovely day today. Perfect day to just sit in an office and do work. 🧑💻
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Networking is hard. This remark applies to every form of networking you can think of.
