Lucas Pardue - Bits && Pieces

The core HTTP specifications don’t define their own means of providing integrity.

I recently changed my Bluesky handle from @simmervigor.bsky.social to @simmervig.org.

This website was previously powered by a self-hosted WordPress, running on a VPS.

For as long as I’ve used email, someone else has provided it to me for “free”.

Due to a single embedded tweet, it seems my website at https://t.co/jLqWpZKaB6 loads about 2.5 megabytes of JS across a dozen HTTP/1.1 requests to https://t.co/7OXJ9hd5oI.

Dicey Dungeons is a roguelike where you roll dice in dungeons.

This blog has been a little quiet in 2019.

New Year, same old blog.

FYI: SpotifyStatusApplet was broken by a Spotify API change made in Q3 2018.

FYI: SpotifyStatusApplet was broken by a Spotify API change made in Q3 2018.

Since I moved to London I drank a lot of beer.

Ode to Rhapsody to the tune of “Comme d’habitude” / “My Way” And now, the end is here And so I face, the final codegen My friend, I’ll say it clear I state my Use Case, I’ll draw a Lifeline I’ve declared a class that’s pure I created each and every depend…

Software Development Metrics are a notoriously difficult area, there exists a large allure of quantitative measurements that can be condensed into a top-level dashboard showing progress, plan alignment, effort , costs and so on.

Up vs.

One of the recurring issues I have experienced with UML, or more generally Model Driven Design is the continual struggle between definition and interpretation.

In the process of updating and refactoring an old Android project I unwittingly changed a Project configuration option (the “Is Library” option) that lead to my resource file being generated differently.

I belatedly came across the news regarding warp, a C and C++ preprocessor written by Walter Bright in a joint project with Facebook.

This is the first post in a series that looks at the modelling of User Interface (UI) related software using UML.