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Deciding where data files should be placed on a Linux system. It’s a bit strange how
/var/libwas chosen for this, instead of something like/var/local. I would’ve thought that’d make more sense, much like how binaries are placed in/usr/local. -
Shows how much of a romantic I am: it took a 10 minute tram ride before I realised why so many people were carrying flowers. 💐
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Spent some time this evening working on my image hosting tool. It’s slowly coming along, but wow do I suck at UI design (the “Edit Photo” screen needs some rebalancing).
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It’s hot cross bun season again, and as always, I have to relearn how I heated them up last year. I thought the 15:150 rule would suffice: 15 minutes from frozen in an 150°C oven from cold. They were editable, but they weren’t warm enough for my taste. I’ll have to bump it up next time.
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Back at Fitzroy Gardens for the PGBC Grand Final. Weather’s absolutely stunning. May even have a chance of winning this year. 🏆
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For anyone else who has recently installed Vivaldi, and wants to get rid of the unnecessary padding around the address bar that seems to be the default now, this forum post worked a treat.
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Safari, what the fudge do I need to do to get you to recognise that I go to Google Photos quite frequently, so as to stop you from deleting the authentication cookie? Having to constantly login is so unbelievably frustrating! 😡
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Reading Greg Morris’s post about self-censoring on his own blog got me wondering why more blogging CMS’s don’t support private posts. Well, I guess I do know why: generally a blogging CMS is to make posts available on the open web. But for CMS’s that are geared towards individuals that just want a place to write, it seems like having the ability to publish a post that is only visible to yourself would be a nice feature. And yeah, I know there are some CMS’s that do support this, but it would be nice to see this on the newer ones that have been released.1
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And no, drafts or “in review” posts don’t count; they need to be fully published posts, completely integrated into the timeline and nav that are otherwise hidden from public view. ↩︎
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Must say rebinding the keyboard shortcut for Keyboard’s Maestro’s Clipboard Picker has been quite successful. It’s definitely easier to remember and invoke, and I’m using the clipboard picker a lot more now than I was previously (which was never).
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Rubber-ducking: On Context
I’m torn between extracting auth credentials in the handler from a Go Context and passing them as arguments to service methods, or just passing the context and having the service methods get it from the Context themselves. Previously, when the auth credentials just had a user ID, we were doing the former. But we’re now using more information about what the user has access to and if we were to continue doing this, we’ll need to pass more parameters through to the service layer. Continue reading →
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Had a rubber-ducking session with myself between passing auth info within the Go Context through to the service methods, or passing them as explicit parameters.
I decided to go with passing it as explicit parameters. It’s kinda painful to see both the auth info passed through in both the Go context and a parameter. But it will result in more readable code, and it does make it clear that this information is needed. Plus, we’re already doing this already in the codebase I’m working on already (previously it was just the user ID, but we’re going to be including some additional auth info alongside it).
I am kinda glad that this tension has been resolved. It’s been weighing on me a little.
Also, for a bit of fun, I wrote this rubber-ducking session in a post. Well, it’s not entirely for fun: that’s how I was able to work through the problem. But writing it as a dialogue and posting it online was fun.
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Rubberducking: On Context
I’m torn between extracting auth credentials in the handler from a Go Context and passing them as arguments to service methods, or just passing the context and having the service methods get it from the Context themselves. Previously, when the auth credentials just had a user ID, we were doing the former. But we’re now using more information about what the user has access to and if we were to continue doing this, we’ll need to pass more parameters through to the service layer. Continue reading →
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It would be nice if the CSV diff in Gitlab had a “row order not important” mode, in that any changes in row order are treated almost like whitespace changes. It won’t be something that’ll apply to all CSV files. But more often that not, the CSV files I deal with are not dependent on any row order.
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Oof, turns out you can’t trust a browser to tell you the right MIME type for a file upload. I expected some logic involving magic numbers, but it just looks like a mixture of guessing based on file extension, deferring to the OS, and giving up and sending you
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Spent the last few days building a small site which will convert an OPML file of RSS subscriptions into an HTML list of links to their respective websites. I needed it for a blogroll I’m planning to add, but I figured this might be something others may find useful.
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Goland Debugger Not Working? Try Upgrading All The Things
I’ve been having occasional trouble with the debugger in Goland. Every attempt to debug a test would just fail with the following error: /usr/local/go/bin/go tool test2json -t /Applications/GoLand.app/… API server listening at: 127.0.0.1:60732 could not launch process: EOF Debugger finished with the exit code 1 My previous attempts at fixing this — upgrading Go and Goland — did get it working for a while, but recently it’s been happening to me again. Continue reading →
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I’m a bit surprised that Jira doesn’t have a notion of drafts. You start writing a task, then you think that it might be best to know whether it’s worth doing. What do you do with this half written task? Do you create it? At the moment I just keep them in an open browser tab, which is… not ideal.
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Need to find a way to represent a collection of IDs in Go, all representable in different ways, with each one having a different type. Kinda wish Go had algebraic data type like Elm or Haskell, or even just enums with associated data like Java or Swift. Would be so useful for this.
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Discovered a new artist through a YouTube channel I watch. They make some pretty good chill-out music. I can recommend Synths Working Overtime and Music For Podcasts 6, particularly “Cloudloop” (track 6) and “Systematic” (track 7). 🎵
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Falling into the trap of not using a particular mug because it’s “special”. I bought the mug to be used, I should actually use it. As the appraisers on Antiques Roadshow are wont to say, it’s a real shame that such a special thing never leaves the cupboard.
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It’s about time I started seriously using the clipboard support that comes with Keyboard Maestro. I think the first step is making it easier to show the history. I’ve remapped the history picker to ^ ⌥ ⌘ ⇧ which feels easier to invoke, and probably easier to remember. We’ll see how it goes.
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So after logging in this morning, I had to:
- Enter my 1Password master password,
- so I can get to my laptop password to log into the VPN,
- so I can enter my admin passwords in Settings,
- so that MacOS knows I have admin rights,
- so I can enter my admin password again to upgrade Slack.
Yep, we truly live in a golden age. 😒
