Technically Personal

Last year I wrote a fair number of articles.

I was reading my RSS feed when I came across Daniel Roy Greenfeld’s article about using uv to run unit tests on multiple versions of Python.

Maybe not the most traditionally vegetarian option, but the first place I’d like to open this series with is a burger joint I recently discovered: Pop’s Diner.

Oh no, my torch broke.

tl;dr: Go sign the Stop Killing Games EU-wide petition now!

Today I released comparqter publicly.

On 3rd June 2025, the Lemm.ee team announced they were shutting down the instance, and yesterday, the website went dark.

Recently, I was working on a data project for a client that required diving into their data lake.

Following the departure of Jay and Sarah from the podcast scene last September, it’s now Mark’s turn over at Divernet (ex ScubaDiverMag) to cease the production of his podcast, Scuba Diver Magazine.

In recent years, Rust and WebAssembly have become much more usable for pure backend-style engineers.

One of the email providers I use is Migadu.

For over a decade, this blog was called Drop a Blog.

I know the season finale has been out for a few weeks; however I also know not everyone watches everything immediately.

Steve Klabnik recently wrote about the toxic reactions to Microsoft’s release of the Golangified TypeScript compiler.

Scala is a functional programming language that I’ve come across in the past, but it never stuck in my tool belt.

I’m not going to lie: I’m typing this at an excruciatingly low speed.

Nigh on a decade ago, I switched from Pelican to Jekyll as my blog’s engine.

Once upon a time, there was a little boy who really wanted a dog.

Please note: This entry was written over the course of a few months; some of the chronology might not make sense.

I love Free.

Update in 2025: After using FreeBSD for a few years, the little netbook gave up the ghost.

An old Maemo friend reached out on Twitter and asked for help regarding some issue he was running into using mysqli and PHP.

Over the past few days, I’ve been thinkering with this blog.

There’s a nasty bug that plagues GCC 5.1 (the current version of GCC in Fedora 22), which blocks the unit tests for Realm.

I went to the office today (well, technically, yesterday) to take care of the final paperwork, get my final paycheck and stuff (more on that in another post, hopefully).

This is part two of my attempt to solve the Hash Anagram challenge offered by TrustPilot.

At the office, a few us use Fedora.

As I mentioned previously, I’ve been working on a technical challenge I found a few days ago.

Please note: This article was initially published on my previous blog, called Arrogant and Condescending, on 2nd February 2011.

I’m currently deploying Jenkins at work, in order to simplify the build process.

My ISP, Free, is in a bit of a conflict with Google, on a number of subjects.