Random ASCII – tech blog of Bruce Dawson

This is second and final part of the story of how my career as a software developer unfolded (part 1 is here).

I’ve been lucky enough to have had a successful career as a software developer.

In 2021 I found a huge memory leak in VS code, totalling around 64 GB when I first saw it, but with no actual limit on how high it could go.

Over two years ago I installed Acronis True Image for Crucial in order to migrate my data to a new SSD I had just purchased.

(or actually they do, but they don’t use this knowledge effectively) Update, April 26, 2025: the address fix for W 6th Ave is live, mostly.

I’ve recently told a few people that I write, that I have a blog, and then I try to describe what I write about.

I used to really enjoy the other microblogging site but it became too much of a democracy-destroying disinformation hell site so I haven’t been there in a long time.

I haven’t been blogging much lately, and it turns out there is a very good reason.

The Guardian is one of my favorite news sources.

Memory is a relatively scarce resource on many consumer computers, so a feature to limit how much memory a process uses seems like a good idea, and Microsoft did indeed implement such a feature.