2024-11-19Turbo considered harmful

Every techie dreams of one day writing a considered harmful post and today, my friends, today that honor is finally bestowed on me. Gather round the fire, and I'll tell you the blood-curdling tale of a library once known as PJAX, whose restless ghost still haunts these realms.

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2024-11-18Baby unit tests

I once heard Dave Rupert call types "baby unit tests" and that never really left my mind.

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2024-06-11Being a dick

My social media has taken a hard turn for the nerdier since Twitter shut down and everyone with a modicum of moral fibre stopped posting there. So even though I'm not really a Linux developer, I was recently exposed to the drama around Hyprland and its maintainer.

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2024-06-05Parenting

I recently stumbled over a reddit thread about children and parenting. Those threads pop up every now and then and I find them amusing and distressing in roughly similar amounts, because boy howdy are people wrong on the Internet, but also: that nagging dread that parents are always carrying in the back of their mind, that they're being judged by people around them? Yeah, that's absolutely true.

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