vogt.world

Back in October I designed and built a couch.

It’s been a quieter month for projects, with the one holiday done and another coming up.

Every couple of months the fine readers over at Hacker News work themselves up into a real hoot over Microsoft Excel.[0] They alternate between love and hate.

In my free time this month I built a couch.

Last month I tried doing a This-Month-I-Learned list, so I’m going to keep doing that, but I’m also going two write about some other things I’ve been thinking about and doing.

Going to try something new.

Multiple round trips to a postgres database can slow your application down.

Writing decent software is difficult because the surface area (what works) is much different from the volume of the code (how it works, and more importantly, how it does not work.)

Gitlab, Github, Travis, and other all are CI pipelines that are intended to run all sorts of integration tests as really granular actions.

One of the many cool things about rust is how flexible enums are.

Neo 2 A little more than two months ago, I bought an AlphaSmart Neo2 - a positively ancient single-purpose computer that works like a plain-text word processor.

Some time ago I read a reprint of Elmore Leonard’s ten rules on writing, which was initially published in 2001.

Here are some of my notes from the Programming Rust O’Reilly book.

This is a workspace post.

This is a workspace post.

A list of stuff about spreadsheets.

You can find these images with a quick image search, but I wanted examples of each in one place so I can see the general UI patterns.

Let’s jump to the good stuff: How hard is it to create a program that can acoustic fingerprint a television show?