I’ve been working on a bunch of small projects involving microcontrollers. Currently a lot of them are based around the Raspberry Pi Pico boards because I like the development experience of those a lot. They have a decent SDK and … Read more
In 2018, Arthur Ashkin won the Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing optical tweezers: laser beams that can be used to manipulate microscopic particles. While useful for many biological applications, optical tweezers require extremely controlled, static conditions to work properly. … Read more
Introduction This post is the first of a series called “pondering about what we could do better in the programming world because I have time to waste”. In this post I would like to introduce the idea of a static … Read more
Inspired by the 1BR Challenge, I wanted to see how much it would cost to transfer 1 billion rows from Postgres to Snowflake. Moving 1 billion rows is no easy task. The process involves not just the transfer of data … Read more
Wednesday, November 16, 2022 It’s time for me to leave GitHub behind and move to another forge. I’m not necessarily advocating for anyone else to do the same, but if my reasons resonate with you then you may want to … Read more
Motions (as in movements) are how you move around in Vim. They are commands that when typed move the cursor around with high speed and precision. There are many of them, and each one is best suited for different types … Read more
I’ve been involved in Rust and the Rust community for many years now. Much of my work has been related to creating infrastructure for building GUI toolkits in Rust. However, I have found my frustrations with the language growing, and … Read more
This week I finally moved my gaming/Linux PC into my little office rack—it’s that 2U box above the UPS at the bottom: I remembered seeing Linus Tech Tips’ 4U build in a video a couple years ago—but he has a … Read more
If you need an unguessable random string (for a session cookie or access token, for example), it can be tempting to reach for a random UUID, which looks like this: 88cf3e49-e28e-4c0e-b95f-6a68a785a89d This is a 128-bit value formatted as 36 hexadecimal … Read more
Today I learned that since macOS High Sierra onwards you can move a window by clicking on any part of it (just like on Linux): For some reason this behaviour is hidden behind a setting accessible only through CLI 🤷♂️ … Read more