Thu Feb 29
A little under two months ago, I started a different kind of journey to learning something new. I swapped out the tired old qwerty layout on my keyboard for Colemak (specifically Colemak-DH variant) in an attempt to have less finger fatigue and create more comfort when working. On my Chocofi board, this was easy to...
Today I get to release the first working version of static-httpd. I have always found value in using an HTTP static file server to serve up some quick sites out of the current working directory. I've even written an article way in the beforetimes about some options to spin up a quick server. Since then there has...
Today I learned how to force a VSCode Dev Container to run on amd64 architecture on my Mac. In essence, build a custom docker image by specifying a Dockerfile and in the FROM statement of the Dockerfile, specify the --platform flag. When you spin up the DevContainer it will automatically use the platform specified....
We need to talk about the kind of person that loves "flexible" schemas, and why I am unable to disclose what I will do the next time I see one without going on a watch list. I. A few years ago, I worked at a company that had received $1M from FAANG (that's Facebook et. al. for the one art historian who reads this...
Rebuilding my site using Pelican and self hosting it on my RaspberryPi.
Inspiration came from Stu Robson The DevRel Went Down to Georgia (to the tune of The Charlie Daniels Band’s “The Devil Went Down to Georgia”) The DevRel went down to Georgia, they had some code to shillThey were in a bind, cause they were way behind, and the VP wasn’t thrilledWhen they came upon this young dev...
I was listening to a Deep Dive episode with Nathan Berry (CEO of ConvertKit) as a guest. And there was this one quote by him, that really resonated with me1: It’s simple, not easy. He was saying this in the context of writing 1000 words every day2. But I thought to myself, that this mantra actually applies to...
There’s now also an English version of this post. De hele korte versie: organisaties twijfelen vaak vele jaren over het uitbesteden van dingen, met name ICT. Gedurende die jaren vertrekken de goede ICT-mensen, want steeds je eigen bestaan moeten rechtvaardigen is rot. Op termijn gaat er dan weleens iets goed mis, en...