Daniel Nitsikopoulos

https://martin.kleppmann.com/2016/02/08/how-to-do-distributed-locking.html

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2023/04/the-part-of-postgresql-we-hate-the-most.html

https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/engineers-checklist-logging-best-practices

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://conduition.io/coding/ticketmaster/

https://increment.com/testing/i-test-in-production/

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/

Debugging index concurrent creation in Postgres.

A chilly one in the valley this morn!

Link: https://ia.net/topics/turning-the-tables-on-ai Some solid takes on the common use-cases for AI "stuff".

https://ia.net/topics/turning-the-tables-on-ai

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Inspired by this episode of Reconcilable Differences where John and Merlin introduce the concept of "Best, First, Favourite", I thought I'd do a version for the only band ever Best : Boiled Frogs First : This Could Be Anywhere in the World Favourite : Hap…

Visited by this cutie the other morning!

I've been trying to shake things up a bit in terms of my go-to tools in my work / computer life.

Over the last few days, our test suite at work had a pretty gnarly run of test failures.

https://cabel.com/2024/05/16/the-forged-apple-employee-badge/

My "quit hitting yourself" deck worked perfectly first try, never to be repeated ever again.

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/tale-of-daniel/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?

Gigantic moon in Canberra this evening!

My Home Screen for March '24 Shrinking down the music widget and bringing in a couple more apps — specifically Mail.

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://rubypilot.com/

https://justin.searls.co/posts/simultaneously-save-and-copy-screenshots-on-the-mac/

Well that's a wrap on Super Mario Bros.

https://toyotatimes.jp/series/design/011.html

My Home Screen for February'24 (Ignore the unreads — I will reply to them at some point!)

https://www.thefarside.com/

https://notes.cagrimmett.com/how-to-hit-reset-when-in-a-slump/

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://dukope.itch.io/mars-after-midnight/devlog/261758/mars-after-midnight

https://www.marktechpost.com/2024/01/21/google-deepmind-introduces-alphageometry-an-olympiad-level-artificial-intelligence-system-for-geometry/

I was pairing with a colleague this afternoon at work on trying to test an action in Hanami 2 where we explicitly needed to read the body of the request.

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://iconduck.com/

This year I tried my darndest to Scrobble more to last.fm like it was 2008.

Finished reading Neuromancer by William Gibson the other week!

https://www.highgo.ca/2023/12/18/new-in-postgresql-16-bi-directional-logical-replication/

There is a fly stuck in the roller of one of the blinds in my house.

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

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

More camels and oasis-es, less cards.

Another fun one!

Day 7 saw us playing cards, on camels — camel cards!

Catchup time!

Please, my CPU, it needs help!

My favourite so far!

https://youtube.com/watch?

And so the painful puzzles begin!

Send push notifications via curl — https://docs.ntfy.sh/

As I was building out the admin area of this blog, I wanted to make sure only authenticated people could hop in an edit things.

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://marbla.de/