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Husband, father, grandfather, follower of Jesus, but very much a work in progress. Retired software developer, visiting lecturer, working on an IETF standard, occasionally coding in Rust.

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2024-05-30 18:40:50

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@npub1up2…k6en She needs to read the performance figures.

2024-05-30 18:35:45

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@npub1up2…k6en Why do you want a larger engine? My car has a 1.4 litre engine, but has good acceleration and top speed (e.g. on a German autobahn) and yet can give 60 MPG on a long run.

2024-04-28 14:56:01

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@npub1q37…k2ta Have you seen hoogle, for searching Haskell libraries **by type signature**m

2024-04-23 12:47:46

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@npub19sv…2zwu I doubt that many back-end web developers need to understand calculus or trigonometry.

2024-04-16 15:45:31

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@npub1q37…k2ta Absolutely! Life is too short to be clicking round dozens of undescribed links.

2024-04-13 12:07:37

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@npub1y9z…3ykm This is the obvious question, which I'm afraid I haven't tried to answer: How does EchoFeed compare to IFTTT?

2024-04-09 19:15:28

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@npub1q37…k2ta Interesting, if a bit wordy. The intro to git that really did it for me was: https://eagain.net/articles/git-for-computer-scientists/
(maybe because of my maths background)

2024-04-06 10:31:38

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@npub1q37…k2ta Great article. It's so important to understand the problem when designing a piece of software.

2024-03-23 16:41:45

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@npub16uz…xx07 Any relation to https://github.com/kyee-rs/grizzly ?

2024-02-24 05:04:01

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@npub1pmt…d4ts That sounds quite useful, especially now people are starting to develop bridges.
(I wrote this rather high-level survey of something similar, that may interest you: https://underlap.org/account-portability-in-the-social-web)

2023-12-16 19:54:48

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@npub1hyk…3p33 Thanks! Nice you are willing to cross-post for your readers' sakes.
"Every thread I post to Mastodon is simultaneously published as a blog post, ..." - is that still the case? I couldn't see the train hacking thread as a post on your blog.

2023-12-16 18:12:18

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@npub1hyk…3p33 Thanks for this, but please could you tell me why you prefer these extended threads to a long-form post?

2023-09-12 20:30:13

Wondering why the #AppleEvent is so popular. I enjoy my M1 MacBook, but I prefer a Fairphone to an iPhone, a Linux desktop for coding, and I don't see the point of wearing a watch (let alone one that troubles me with notifications). What am I missing?