31 December 2021

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Garrit's Notes

Random thoughts, tips and rants about software

Stupid Patterns

Stupid patterns on the web (and how to prevent your bank account from getting hacked)

Wise People Have Fun – trms

I may be wrong, but I think I have a general idea of what kind of person you are. If you're anything like me, you are always on the lookout for ways to improve yourself.

Do We Really Need A Link Step?

mold looks pretty cool, and a faster drop-in ld replacement is obviously extremely useful. But having no link step at all would be even fa...

Kurtis Knodel // Blog

I recently found myself needing a system to describe objects that was easy to parse like JSON, but more extensible and less clunky than something like XML or YAML. After a bit of Googling, I came up empty handed. Thus,

Why is my Rust build so slow?

I've recently come back to an older project of mine (that powers this website), and as I did some maintenance work: upgrade to newer crates, upgrade to a newer rustc , I notice...

Next-generation Blazor components with .NET 6

https://aka.ms/dotNETConf2021-GetdotNET6Blazor in .NET 6 enables building even more powerful and flexible web UI components. In this session we'll look at th...

Hyrum's Law

Put succinctly, the observation is this:

Weekly Update 276

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My Troubles with MP3s

MP3s continue to be a source of confusion — consternation? apathy? entropy? all of the above? — for me. I should be clear that by “MP3s” I mean any fixed digital documents of audio. So, by “MP3s,” I also mean WAV files, and FLAC, and ALAC, etc. Actually, I spe…

A Culture Problem in Arch Linux

The Background # I’m going to jump straight to the point, after my last post, somebody saw the Arch install guide on OpGuides and decided they didn’t like it, and so opened a PR deleting the file: Now, this story could have ended here. I could have closed the…

My role as a founder CTO: Year Four

It has been one year since I wrote the blog post where I shared the learnings from the first three years of my journey as a first-time technical founder.

Guidance for Scaling - Reversible vs. Irreversible Decisions

Was having a conversation with a founder earlier today and the topic of hiring functional leaders came up. I offered one of my common pieces of advice which was don’t hold the reins too tightly once you hire them. It’s something I see happen over and over to f…

David Nicholas Williams

Over time I've collected a bunch of self-discovered tips for how to make the writing process more enjoyable.

SQL In Orbit - Big Machine

Make yourself invaluable by learning the basics of data Science Many data science pros will tell you: learning SQL was one of the best investments in their career, even though the language is a bit basic. See why so many developers become data pros in this 2-h…