1 May 2022

28 links · Sunday

Find and fix problems, not symptoms – A musing Mulcahy

I’ve had my share of medical interventions over the last ten years – sometimes, I feel like I’ve had more than my share. My experience with the medical practitioners I’ve interacted with is that they tend to focus on the symptom the patient presents with. Tha…

The accord in perfumery

In perfumery, the accord is the pooling of different raw materials, balanced and harmonised to create a unique scent, defining the soul of the fragrance. The accord is made up of a maximum of 6 to 10 different components.

Why the fediverse is stuck.

You know I'm a committed user of the fediverse,  perhaps this post will surprise you. Still, at some point the truth has to be told, before lying leads to a catastrophe. I think I've been present in the fediverse (sometimes hosting a pod of some software and …

Learning tmux as a beginner

A beginner notes for the useful software that exists in our terminals

A Gentle Introduction to SSR

I had the opportunity to deliver a session on SSR (Server-Side Rendering) at the CityJS Conference 2022 in late April — The Fastify SSR Workshop.

Incentive Flipping

Problems with misaligned incentives in a system can be solved by using futures to flip the incentives to make the system more aligned with solving the problem.

Distributed Systems Shibboleths | Joey Lynch's Site

Shibboleths are historically a word or phrasing that indicate membership in a particular group or culture. I was introduced to the term in the West Wing where the President needed to verify the veracity of a person’s claims of religious persecution.

How to professionally say

A guide for your daily "professional" interactions

I accidentally loaned all my money to the US government

Recently I learned that the US government offers a little gift called I-bonds, and that this is the month to buy them. Depending on your perspective, I-bonds are either free money or the only true money storage. They're zero-risk bonds with an interest rate th…

Free Accounting Software | GnuCash

GnuCash is personal and small-business financial-accounting software, freely licensed under the GNU GPL and available for GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.

Pushing Updates to a PR

This is unashamedly a "note to self" post... something I occasionally need to do, and always need to ask about or look-up. As a maintainer ...

I've Used All The Notebooks

They aren’t a record of my thinking process. They are my thinking process.