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 Just discovered this post https://www.amazingcto.com/postgres-for-everything/  which is short, and to the point. Copying it verbatim, becau...

 Here are a few talks from the C++ community that when I watched I thought I'd rewatch again because they either are very cool even thou...

 I've been a big fan of option pickers since.... forever. I've used ratmenu, ratmen, dmenu, dzen, percol, fzf, helm, vertico, consul...

 I've read a post called " Code the shortest path first ", and I couldn't agree more, really. The core idea is a well know...

The more I do APL and K, the more I see forks and hooks everywhere else. That's just a couple of little helpers I've added in some c...

Here's a devastating quote from Andy Kinslow (NATO SOFTWARE ENGINEERING CONFERENCE ,1968)  There are two classes of system designers. Th...

And how to fix it.   So I was pretty sure that I had done some sort of large-ish destructive (as in side-effect-y) operations in batches of ...

Variable names is a big point of discussion in communities, projects, PRs... I'm on the "terse" side of the spectrum, and I th...

Here's a snippet where I explored different places where to "stop" on the ladder of extensibility/abstraction/suggestivity. It...

 I love state machines, and I use them in real world scenarios at least once a year. The more I'm using them, in different languages or ...

I found this talk about time series which seems super cool, about smart things people can do with time series https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I realized today I haven't mentioned Brian Cantwell Smith in this blog before.  I'm not intimately familiar with his work, but I...

Dan Ingalls and Brian Kernighan are the few people that I can listen for N hours straight, no x2, just x1, and just listen and be in awe.   ...

Jq has become the de-facto json console tool. Apart from slicing and dicing your jsons, one can do things like assigning new fields to it, ...

Yesterday, this HN thread Write your own task queue got me thinking again on the NIH and "build vs buy".  I'm sometimes an ad...

Earlier today I saw a post on vscode subreddit where the author explores a plugin to transform parts of the code from/to camel/snake/kebab ...

This is so helpful that I'm just putting it here for future reference. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32437550/whats-the-difference...

I just found this thread in HN, and I think I'm sold already on aliasing watch to this improved version of the watch command. https://ne...

Some time ago I created a new homepage for https://raimonster.com, where I was supposed to migrate my blog to. The migration never happened ...

Parsing cli arguments is a solved problem. Every language has a library to get the flags from your command line. Maybe not in the stdlib, bu...