Daniel Nitsikopoulos

Onwards!

Advent of Code is one of my favourite times of year.

Currently reading: Leviathan Wakes by James S.

I've been using RTX for a couple of personal projects recently — it's looking pretty promising and I might give it a go with some work prjects, given that it can drop in in place of asdf — https://github.com/jdx/rtx

I was poking through my photo library this evening and thought it'd be fun to share some of the photos I had taken of my desk over the years!

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/write-your-own-terminal

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://medium.com/@suzhinton/my-twitch-live-coding-setup-b2516672fb21

Can't believe I'm only just now finding out how similar Alan Wake is to Twin Peaks!

Who needs a whole couch.

Floriade time of year!

Holy moly Cyberpunk looks incredible!

https://debezium.io/blog/2020/02/25/lessons-learned-running-debezium-with-postgresql-on-rds/

One thing I miss from the iPhone mini is being able to plug it in at 20% charge and be at 80% in a handful of minutes.

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?

For the longest time, I have wanted to be able to write with just an iPad, with markdown, in some native text editor and not need to copy and paste text in to a WYSYWIG.

"Asteroid City" was the most Wes Anderson thing that there ever was

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://martinfowler.com/articles/bottlenecks-of-scaleups/04-costs.html#ReducePhase

https://www.warpstream.com/blog/kafka-is-dead-long-live-kafka

The first few weeks of any new project are always the most exciting!

https://mitchellh.com/writing/building-large-technical-projects

https://www.canva.dev/blog/engineering/dms-aws-rds-migration/

this was a pretty enthralling watch — https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://kottke.org/23/05/the-fastest-maze-solving-competition-on-earth

What a cutie this thing is!

https://www.niskanencenter.org/culture-eats-policy/

https://notes.alinpanaitiu.com/How%20I%20write%20this%20blog%20on%20my%20iPhone%20in%20a%20train

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://techandcoffee.com/zen-and-the-art-of-cable-management

Over the many years that I have been working with Ruby, I have never really learned to use a debugger, and really only lean on tools like Pry to start a REPL session at a particular line in some Ruby code.

Crumpet does this thing where she throws herself around in bed to get comfortable — this was how she landed.

I've been using Obsidian for a little while now.

Breaky time

Best part about visiting your friends' kiddos: free entertainment for a couple hours while you watch them figure out how to eat.

Missed u live music 😘

As applications built on Rails get larger and larger, and more and more engineers work in the same monolith, our community needs to think more about what sort of tooling and architectural changes will help us continue to scale.

Some pretty amazing gradients this morning on the way to Melbourne!

Guess the year a photo was taken.

Crumpet does this thing where she throws herself around in her bed to get comfortable — this was how she landed.

I often get asked about recommendations for resources to learn Ruby (and how to program, generally).

There's something about this charicature-like artform that keeps me coming back to this almost 2-decade long thread. — https://polycount.com/discussion/41232/lowpoly-or-the-optimisation-appreciation-organisation

https://supabase.com/blog/choosing-a-postgres-primary-key

I have a couple of small hobby apps that were on Heroku's free tier (RIP) that I have now moved over to Fly.io.

It's not often that I get a new computer, but on the odd occasion that I do, I like to have all of my config prepared and ready to copy over!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?

Like most people*, I like to name the various devices in the house after a theme.

Christmas Eve cuddles. 📷: Naomi

Breakfast cuties 🥰

Crumpet ready to give today's update.

https://deniseyu.io/2020/05/23/habits-of-high-performing-teams.html

https://rauchg.com/2020/static-hoisting

Happy Mother's Day to these absolutely amazing women ❤️❤️❤️

https://quicktype.io/