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Andreas Gohr
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Nice Marmot "Yeah, well, you know, that's just like, uh, your opinion, man." Paradise Season 2 We finished watching Paradise Season 2 last night. I was wondering/hoping it'd wrap the whole thing up, but I guess we're getting a third...
I read a comment stating that git (a tool programmers use to collaborate on code, sort of like Word’s Track Changes) is not a version control system but a “system for creating a version control system.” That got me thinking about other...
FFXIV: Evercold Announcements, My Thoughts on the Future Posted on May 9, 2026 by Aywren Final Fantasy XIV Evercold – Releases in January 2027! I was present at the 2026 FFXIV NA Fanfestival, so I got to be a part of the crowd that...
When I’m using CSS Grid, I’ll often set a grid-template-columns for each breakpoint. Usually, I’m going for something like two columns on mobile, three on tablet, and four on desktop. However, with auto-fit and minmax(), this can happen...
Similar to the tradition of publishing the annual list of Defaults, this is the review of my current subscriptions. I’ve also published the lists in 2023 and 2024. Event though I have a Bear lifetime subscription, I moved my blog to...
Data Oriented Programming in Java: Progress Update 2026-02-21 Published: 2026-02-21 Available in MEAP: Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 9 Pending reviews: Chapter 10 , Chapter 11 Currently working on: Cleaning up the book I sent the final...
I consider it my lifetime mission to find the optimal desktop setup from both a productivity and aesthetic standpoint. There are two basic requirements: to maximize space utilization (especially vertically) and to minimize visual clutter...
How did we get here? I think it's safe to say that pretty much everyone who got his education in India knows what I'm talking about. In a vast majority of Indian educational institutes, there's a pathological focus on rote memorization....
← Back to home Simple bare metal zero downtime deployments with Docker and Traefik I feel as though a lot of systems are overcomplicating things with the could. For a small SaaS to run, you only really need a few things done right: A lot...
For a freelancer, "trusted by the NHS" is the kind of line that makes people look twice. And honestly, it should. Public sector and health work comes with a level of scrutiny that most commercial projects just never reach. Over the years...
Harmony and I Remember when I said I don't relate to my main character Sparky and my self-insert Qibli? Well, there emerged an unlikely connection — I relate to Harmony. Harmony's journey in Spy School can be seen as two parts. First,...
Back to writing [today_i_did_this] 28-400 A couple of years ago, I bought this bottle of shampoo. I have been reusing it and refilling it ever since. I particularly like the translucent, frosted plastic more than a crystal clear bottle...
BM25 models the odds a term would be observed in a relevant document (vs the term occurring in an irrelevant doc). It’s based on probabilistic relevance, capturing: Queries of course contain multiple terms. How do we combine those odds?...
So here's a thing that's been mildly irritating me the past few months. The problem If I'm watching a video on the YouTube website and send it, via AirPlay, to AppleTV from my laptop I get the wrong audio. I get the video just fine, but...
I loved the Arc Browser. It was (is?) such a good web browser that stood out for re-thinking what a browser UI should look like. They weren't held back by what other browsers do; they looked at how people use the web browser and all the...