In 1969, the entire world watched as three men explored the unknown. Watch, listen, and relive the excitement of the Apollo 11 lunar landing as experienced minute-by-minute by the courageous crew of Apollo 11 and Mission Control. Are we Go … Read more
I recently went through the process of deploying various small Next.js applications to Cloudflare. As part of working on a new command called “neonctl create-app“, we built a way to automatically deploy Next.js full-stack apps (i.e., Next.js apps with a … Read more
Finding diamonds in the rough Lee Krasner, Gaea, 1966 I’ve had so many moments in my life that could have gone another way but for the people that believed in me. They saw some sort of potential and gave me … Read more
Command line interface (CLI) tools have a reputation for being difficult to use. Whilst powerful once mastered, a CLI inherently lacks a litany of user interface “nice-to-haves”, simply by virtue of its medium: Simplicity: Common tasks should be easy to … Read more
I started building the Meeting Dolphin Chrome Extension back in April and initially, the submission process was really quite intimidating. Similar to a visa application process (which I have completed many in my lifetime), it’s quite the black box with … Read more
Stephen Brennan • 12 November 2022 Since April of 2021, I’ve hosted a Mastodon server on the domain snake.club. It’s mostly for me and friends I know personally – nothing like the bigger, public ones. Until the last week or … Read more
Last year I finally decided to learn some Rust. The official book by Steve Klabnik and Carol Nichols is excellent, but even after reading it and working on some small code exercises, I felt that I needed more to really … Read more
Summary: The ability to empathize, or share the pain of others is mapped onto neurons in the insula, a new study reports. Source: Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience A new study from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience recorded the neurons of … Read more
If you’re new to Clojure, or even if you’re not but haven’t had a chance to carefully study its evaluation model, this may seem a bit mysterious. Why should putting two little characters in front of the function name suddenly … Read more
AWS has a lot of haters. Lots of horror cases where people thought they were on the free account but ended up with a $20,000 bill. We are told Azure has a much better model. You have to manually move … Read more