One of the greatest investments in the last half decade I made was the purchase of a Kobo e-reader. The ability to take your library anywhere with you, the e-ink display that doesn’t give you eye strain, the freedom to actually own your...

I recently wrapped up a job where I spent the last two years writing the backend of a B2B SaaS product in Rust, so now is the ideal time to reflect on the experience and write about it. Contents Learning The Good Performance Tooling Type...

The sunflowers and bees are just around the corner

Letterboxd has an API but it's available by request only. This is why in the past my projects have either relied on their export functionality (like Letterboxd Gaps) or simple webscraping. This works well when you only need your own...

In the early 90s I worked for a couple of years in a what used to be called a "bucket-shop". One of the owners, Jerry Bridge - chose the companies name... Bridge The World , a travel agency specialising in cheap deals to the antipodes. I...

Title: splitbrain.org Website: splitbrain.org RSS Feed: splitbrain.org/feed/blog Personal website and blog of Andreas Gohr. Covering all kinds of things like software development, travel, wood working and everything else. RSS users are...

This Week — Peace and Quiet TL;DR:I watched two cool donghuas, played the latest Vampire Survivors update, participated in CSS Naked Day, and finally got this blog listed on Ye Olde Blogroll. This blog post has approximately 477 words...

The monks’ common room beneath the dormitory of Battle Abbey turned into the chapel of the Green Knight, and the nearby Battle Great Wood. Photographs by the author. I’ve got the week off work (I had some annual leave I needed to use or...

There's a claim running around that em dashes are a sign of AI writing. That might say something bleak about the level of writing polish we expect from humans.