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Unbelievable that we still haven't developed a better distribution mechanism for flu shots
November 17, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Pro tip: deck screws do not increase the security of your doors
November 16, 2025 at 5:51 AM
WAL mode I think? PRAGMA journal_mode=WAL;
October 28, 2025 at 3:05 AM
👀 very interesting - I was thinking about something similar, but storing the vectors in the PG that backs bufo.zone
October 24, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Amazing! What was the approach? Vector lookup?
October 23, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Shameless plug, but, Render[1] would work great for RSC mode, no messing with containers required

[1] render.com/docs/web-ser...
October 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Goose
September 23, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Wait why didn't anyone tell me about vim macros
September 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Parsing JSON in go is such a minefield. Oh you wanted numbers other than float64? Better remember to UseNumber or you might get a runtime error!
August 20, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Reposted by cal
This week’s high‑profile outages made headlines, but the 2025 Uptime Institute Outage Analysis shows a different picture: overall data center outage frequency and severity keep declining even as the need for infrastructure explodes.
June 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
When a shiny new bit of tech is released I like to find the version that IBM built a decade ago as reference material - what limitations did it have? How did it evolve?
May 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Reposted by cal
Finally I created a perfect blend of Popeye and Donald Duck:
May 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I came across this architecture diagram from OpenNext and ... This just seems wildly over complicated as a means to serve some HTML and JS
May 15, 2025 at 2:25 AM
@render.com just announced $80M in new funding[1] - we're doing some outstandingly cool things in what has been a very stagnant area. If you're starting something new, give us a try, I think you'll like it

[1] render.com/blog/series-c
$80M to reimagine the cloud for the AI era
Today marks two significant milestones in Render's journey: we’ve surpassed 2 million developers on the platform and added $80M in Series C funding to reimagine the cloud for the AI era.
render.com
January 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
A new year to some 1735689600 to others
January 1, 2025 at 5:58 AM
December 20, 2024 at 12:47 AM
Kinda goes beyond just a CLI, but I really like graphite.dev
December 4, 2024 at 5:18 AM
So dark mode in Google Calendar is great and all, but how did these borders make it to production???
December 3, 2024 at 7:26 PM
Pretty happy with day 1, nim was a pleasant surprise! github.com/cal-smith/ao...

#AdventOfCode
aoc2024/day1 at main · cal-smith/aoc2024
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December 2, 2024 at 8:48 PM
I know! I'll use nix to manage my #AdventOfCode dependencies!

*several hours of confusion pass*

Well, I can finally compile, so that's nice
December 1, 2024 at 6:21 PM
Nothing like spending hours debugging network issues only to have it be a bad config on your local machine
November 18, 2024 at 8:41 PM
I've been reworking our react-router set up for the last few weeks, and I really wish there was a clean way to type route loaders
November 4, 2024 at 10:44 PM
Me hammering a stack of papers to the door of 1 Hacker Way: GraphQL sucks and here's 95 reasons why
November 1, 2024 at 4:56 PM
🦃
October 14, 2024 at 3:07 PM
One moment you think you have it together, and then you buy a new vacuum cleaner
September 28, 2024 at 2:05 AM