2023-07-07 13:33
I had committed (to myself) to writing a blog post at least once per month. And I have been (mostly) keeping to that commitment.This month there won't be an update.I won't be making as much… Read More
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2023-05-30 09:50
I have some ambitions about where I want to take combine.social over time. It starts with taking the old toottail repository and moving it into a Github organization.I want to make it easier… Read More
2023-05-02 17:24
Well... it scales slightly better, at least 😅TL;DR; Separate workers now work on a subset of all the users' timelines for all the users who signed up.I recently got to a point where… Read More
2023-04-11 16:10
There is some significant work to get software from "it works for me" to "it actually works".I recently went through that exercise. And I did it in my spare time, for fun.It is interesting r… Read More
2023-03-13 09:42
Firstly, this work is based on the fantastic baseline by Abhinav, who wrote a python script to fetch context toots for replies.Byron Miller did a great write-up of why we aren't seeing the l… Read More
2023-02-22 22:42
Hear me out.This might seem like somewhat of a stretch, but hear me out. I have been exposed to some fairly large monorepos in the past, in medium to large sized companies, where hundreds of… Read More
2023-02-13 20:52
... and to be honest, I'm not super impressed.I switched away from Vue because of peacenotwar. I don't particularly love having malware included in my npm dependencies.I switched over to Rea… Read More
2023-02-01 20:47
I recently started a new project, and all the anxiety around someone running peacenotwar or other similar malicious code which would simply wipe my computer is coming up again.In a modern wo… Read More
2023-01-26 15:31
I submitted a pull request to an open source project and it didn't get approved.Obviously I'm making a fork.I don't know what it is about Open Source. On one hand, they are not my supplier… Read More
2023-01-22 23:04
TL;DR: This is an implementation of a Time Stamp Authority (no longer RFC 3161, but instead Roughtime) using JWS. Source is available at Github.A while back, I made a JWS wrapper around NTP… Read More
2023-01-13 22:11
At the time of this writing Mastodon has over 3.400 open issues, and over 200 open pull requests.We need a better way to keep Mastodon development moving forward.Who gets to decide which of… Read More
2023-01-06 10:56
TLDR: It's good for machines but bad for humans.The Principle of Least Privilege is often bad – at least in the way that it is implemented in many companies today.Before we go into why… Read More
2023-01-01 14:44
Firstly, just to make this completely clear:I want to be an ally of LGBTQIA+ people. I oppose any form of harassment and stalking. I hate racism and most other forms of -isms.Even with that… Read More
2022-04-19 22:05
If you ever needed reasons not to buy NFTs, here are a few. And remember, friends don't let friends bet on stock markets, currency exchanges, or NFTs.What is "fungible"?Firstly, here's a sho… Read More
2022-04-07 11:17
I recently learned about Volta, which is just a better tool than nvm. It is noticably faster on my 4 year old MacBook. It auto-downloads node versions when needed.How I previously set up nvm… Read More
2022-03-17 17:09
All the cool kids are on AWS, and all the cool kids are definitely using Kubernetes. So I thought it was about time to do a definitive guide on how to set it up. I will be setting up EKS - E… Read More
2022-02-28 08:36
I wanted a way to track the performance of my blog posts without showing those annoying cookie popups which have been required in Europe for a while now.I tried out a few analytics providers… Read More
2022-02-20 17:30
I have worked in a lot of places before becoming a full time consultant. Most of the time, I joined a company because I believed in their cause or I was enamoured with their product. At leas… Read More
2022-02-11 12:26
Has lambda been superseded by kubernetes? Are we better off with the versatility of just instantiating a docker image than being forced into lambda protocols?There has been a movement toward… Read More
2020-08-06 05:01
It turns out that iCloud does not necessarily free up disk space, even when you ask it to. I wanted to add a virtual machine, which required a lot of free disk space, so I started freeing up… Read More
2020-06-21 03:00
You just sent out a calendar invite to your team / department / office branch and now the accepted / rejected emails start pouring in.We all tried it. You invited a semi-large group of peopl… Read More
2020-05-13 07:39
If you're just interested in a quick howto on setting up a Kubernetes + nginx + certbot + load balancer, then skip to making the switch.In switching to Kubernetes, I have read a lot of diffe… Read More
2020-02-18 11:20
TL;DR: I created a completely self-contained reverse geo-location service which you can host yourself. Code and docker images available on github.I have been using freegeoip for a long time… Read More
2019-12-18 16:04
TL;DR: This is an implementation of a Time Stamp Authority (RFC 3161) using JWS. Source is available at Github.Time stamping is an increasingly valuable complement to digital signing practic… Read More
2019-12-08 18:13
UPDATE ABOUT REFERRALS ONFriday, December 13, 2019
It seemed easy enough, if you already have a DigitalOcean or similar hosting provider. It all should be done in 5 easy steps:Sign inCr… Read More
2019-08-30 15:51
How can you make sure your AppDelegate has a single responsibility?TL;DR: Using proxy call forwarding, the AppDelegate can be split into multiple classes. See the link to the full code at th… Read More
2019-08-10 11:31
Walther WSR-16 mechanical calculator. The row of digit-wheels in the carriage (at the front), is the AccumulatorI present a simple example with a prover and a verifier who do not know each o… Read More
2019-03-07 10:59
This article is a reaction to the From Java to Kotlin and Back Again article, which I disagree with on pretty much every single point.Kotlin is popular, Kotlin is familiar if you are coming… Read More
2018-01-30 10:41
Before we begin, I should describe why we started using Realm in the first place.Realm is fast. Really fast. At least in this comparison to SQLite + SharkORM. In most use cases, I rarely per… Read More
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