Martina
@mhwelander.bsky.social
Programmer and technical writer (.NET, JS). I love to teach tech in fun and accessible ways, ideally involving a lot of cartoons. ✍️ Blogging on mhwelander.net, 🎨 drawing non-database things on instagram.com/martinahw.art.
A less online member of my household: "This show is really old, because they insulted someone by calling them a goat, but goat is good now."
November 23, 2024 at 7:25 AM
A less online member of my household: "This show is really old, because they insulted someone by calling them a goat, but goat is good now."
I'm so bad at combat in games. I had to play the first "real" battle in Hogwarts Legacy like 10 times, currently putting off a boss fight in TotK. I get sweaty hands and treacle reflexes 😭 Could not play Witcher if you paid me; have tried, basically got beaten up by a stationary dummy. #gaming
November 16, 2024 at 4:50 PM
I'm so bad at combat in games. I had to play the first "real" battle in Hogwarts Legacy like 10 times, currently putting off a boss fight in TotK. I get sweaty hands and treacle reflexes 😭 Could not play Witcher if you paid me; have tried, basically got beaten up by a stationary dummy. #gaming
I've switched from Goodreads to Storygraph! 📚 You can migrate your data and the stats are cool. app.thestorygraph.com/profile/mhwe...
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November 16, 2024 at 8:36 AM
I've switched from Goodreads to Storygraph! 📚 You can migrate your data and the stats are cool. app.thestorygraph.com/profile/mhwe...
Started Hogwarts Legacy. The older I get, the more of a Hufflepuff stan I become.
October 26, 2024 at 5:07 AM
Started Hogwarts Legacy. The older I get, the more of a Hufflepuff stan I become.
90% of Supernatural is one of the brothers relaying some controversial information to the other with a *very slight* delay, and then they have the same 'I can't believe you didn't TELL ME' fight in the car in the dark and I love it.
October 18, 2024 at 8:35 AM
90% of Supernatural is one of the brothers relaying some controversial information to the other with a *very slight* delay, and then they have the same 'I can't believe you didn't TELL ME' fight in the car in the dark and I love it.
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i straight-up bogwitch cackled when i read this headline
October 1, 2024 at 10:57 PM
i straight-up bogwitch cackled when i read this headline
When I don't want to clean I resort to Shark Mode Cleaning. You walk around and deal with anything that happens to be in your path. Tissue goes in bin, lone sock goes in hamper, glass goes in dishwasher. It's extremely inefficient but you do get a lot of steps in. And you can hum the tune from Jaws.
October 1, 2024 at 4:58 PM
When I don't want to clean I resort to Shark Mode Cleaning. You walk around and deal with anything that happens to be in your path. Tissue goes in bin, lone sock goes in hamper, glass goes in dishwasher. It's extremely inefficient but you do get a lot of steps in. And you can hum the tune from Jaws.
I find it so sad and frustrating that shopping for handmade / small batch / ethically made *anything* is a 3 hour research project. Etsy is full of dropshippers, actual handmade stuff gets pushed to page 10 of Google's search results. This sweater might be hand made but 🤷♀️🤷♀️ where? At what human cost?
October 1, 2024 at 4:15 PM
I find it so sad and frustrating that shopping for handmade / small batch / ethically made *anything* is a 3 hour research project. Etsy is full of dropshippers, actual handmade stuff gets pushed to page 10 of Google's search results. This sweater might be hand made but 🤷♀️🤷♀️ where? At what human cost?
Happy October to my Halloween cat, Flagermus (means "bat" in Danish, but she often just gets called.. Moo) 🦇🎃 #ProofOfCat
October 1, 2024 at 3:25 AM
Happy October to my Halloween cat, Flagermus (means "bat" in Danish, but she often just gets called.. Moo) 🦇🎃 #ProofOfCat
"Black and white photo of a woman smiling, jane newland, in a tropical and dystopic city, eeyrie, loosely cropped, on a canva, the second… like a calf, tessgarman, stone brick walls, by Breyten Breytenbach, selfie of a young woman, made in 2019"
That's Nürnberg 😂 Thanks for calling me young, bot.
That's Nürnberg 😂 Thanks for calling me young, bot.
September 25, 2024 at 7:20 AM
"Black and white photo of a woman smiling, jane newland, in a tropical and dystopic city, eeyrie, loosely cropped, on a canva, the second… like a calf, tessgarman, stone brick walls, by Breyten Breytenbach, selfie of a young woman, made in 2019"
That's Nürnberg 😂 Thanks for calling me young, bot.
That's Nürnberg 😂 Thanks for calling me young, bot.
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Really enjoyed this writeup from the Discord Engineering Blog about how they experimented with and eventually implemented z-std compression for their gateway-client messaging flows.
They outline the process of discovery and detail the failed experiments along the way too! Love this kinda stuff!
They outline the process of discovery and detail the failed experiments along the way too! Love this kinda stuff!
How Discord Reduced Websocket Traffic by 40%
How we rolled out zstandard and other improvements across our gateway cluster to reduce the amount of bandwidth that’s used by our clients.
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September 21, 2024 at 10:31 PM
Really enjoyed this writeup from the Discord Engineering Blog about how they experimented with and eventually implemented z-std compression for their gateway-client messaging flows.
They outline the process of discovery and detail the failed experiments along the way too! Love this kinda stuff!
They outline the process of discovery and detail the failed experiments along the way too! Love this kinda stuff!
I put a tracker on my website and realized that my cookie knowledge was a little spotty, so here is a blog post: What are cookies, and how do they work? With many silly illustrations!
mhwelander.net/blog/what-ar...
(First one since 2018, when I became a technical writer!)
mhwelander.net/blog/what-ar...
(First one since 2018, when I became a technical writer!)
September 14, 2024 at 1:18 PM
I put a tracker on my website and realized that my cookie knowledge was a little spotty, so here is a blog post: What are cookies, and how do they work? With many silly illustrations!
mhwelander.net/blog/what-ar...
(First one since 2018, when I became a technical writer!)
mhwelander.net/blog/what-ar...
(First one since 2018, when I became a technical writer!)
Saw a thread where dozens of people were CONFIDENTLY advising a person to 'just use a finer grit and sand with the grain' to fix their floors when they had clearly sanded clean through the veneer of their engineered flooring and exposed the plywood.
Cleared my bout of imposter syndrome right up.
Cleared my bout of imposter syndrome right up.
September 13, 2024 at 7:16 PM
Saw a thread where dozens of people were CONFIDENTLY advising a person to 'just use a finer grit and sand with the grain' to fix their floors when they had clearly sanded clean through the veneer of their engineered flooring and exposed the plywood.
Cleared my bout of imposter syndrome right up.
Cleared my bout of imposter syndrome right up.
This lady knows how to live. #ProofOfCat
September 12, 2024 at 6:46 AM
This lady knows how to live. #ProofOfCat
Actually very sound art advice!
"But I can't draw good"
I don't care, then draw bad
Time will pass anyway, draw bad
I don't care, then draw bad
Time will pass anyway, draw bad
September 11, 2024 at 12:09 PM
Actually very sound art advice!
Watching Supernatural, yet another "most powerful character ever" has been introduced.
The only time I have ever thought "holy crap, I am actually scared" when a show revealed the extent of a character's power was when.. spoiler spoiler...
The only time I have ever thought "holy crap, I am actually scared" when a show revealed the extent of a character's power was when.. spoiler spoiler...
September 10, 2024 at 4:18 PM
Watching Supernatural, yet another "most powerful character ever" has been introduced.
The only time I have ever thought "holy crap, I am actually scared" when a show revealed the extent of a character's power was when.. spoiler spoiler...
The only time I have ever thought "holy crap, I am actually scared" when a show revealed the extent of a character's power was when.. spoiler spoiler...
Bluesky is showing me a lot of cats and providing me the opportunity to tell said cats' human squires how cute and fantastic their cats are. That's all I really wanted from social media.
September 10, 2024 at 5:43 AM
Bluesky is showing me a lot of cats and providing me the opportunity to tell said cats' human squires how cute and fantastic their cats are. That's all I really wanted from social media.
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?
(Well timed)
(Well timed)
September 8, 2024 at 6:49 PM
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?
(Well timed)
(Well timed)
Thanks to Brazil's love for Bluesky's Paul, the first Portuguese word I learned was: pai.
September 6, 2024 at 10:26 AM
Thanks to Brazil's love for Bluesky's Paul, the first Portuguese word I learned was: pai.