27 April 2024

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SVG Viewer

SVG Viewer is an online tool to view, edit and optimize SVGs.

How did the Medici make their money?

How did the Medici manage to earn vast sums of money from banking, when lending money with interest was forbidden?

Why I like Android 🤖

Things I like about Android that do not exist on iOS and iPadOS

Request Response Messaging Pattern With MassTransit

When building distributed systems with .NET, direct calls between services can create tight coupling. The request-response messaging pattern can allow distributed services to communicate in a loosely coupled way.

How I search in 2024

We are now in a very weird liminal space in information retrieval for consumers, particularly those attuned to trends in search and working on the bleeding...

Don't get hit with the pendulum: DevOps shifted too far left

You probably wouldn’t be surprised if I told you modern networking based on open source projects like Istio, SPIFFE, Cilium and others (See my paper about the CAKES stack) are typically consumed by what we now call “platform engineering” teams. You’ve probably…

State Machines

A blog about computers, functional languages, Lisp, and Scheme.

I made a new backplane for my Terramaster F2-221 NAS | codedbearder

In a previous post I wrote about how I setup NixOS on my Terramaster F2-221 instead of using the included TOS provided by Terramaster. This in itself was quite simple as the NAS contains Intel J3355, a standard X86_64 CPU. However the NAS only has 2 SATA conne…

E-Scooters: First Thoughts

I’m obsessed with technologies that improve my freedom of movement. Cars are incredible floating living rooms, bicycles make one feel like you can fly, and walking/running are the healthiest form of self-propelled movement imaginable. They all have tradeoffs t…