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Battery Longevity
I switched to a Lenovo X1 Carbon (3rd gen) in January, and one of the delights of a new laptop was a new laptop battery. I chuckle when I get a stern notification that my battery is running low: it’s...
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Peter Bhat Harkins
On the happy occasion of of our marriage, my spouse and I have adopted the shared last name Bhat Harkins. (I’m also dropping my little-used middle name.) Please do us the favor of updating your...
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Advice for First-Time Attendees to MicroConf
In April, I attented MicroConf. The talks and conversations were invaluable to my business. As the tickets for MicroConf 2016 are going on sale shortly, I wanted to write up advice for first-time...
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The Plan
In January I planned to blog every two weeks. This is my 26th post of 2015. A few of them were finished last-minute, but they were finished. It was a great writing exercise, and I’m going to let my...
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2016 Media Reviews
I’ve appreciated when people take the time to write reviews and highlight connections to other good works. This post will be regularly updated through 2016. Previously: 2014 2015 Starred items are...
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Recursive Sum
In #ruby on Freenode, platzhirsch asked about how to total an array of Transactions when the Transactions may have parents. The two obvious approaches have pitfalls when there are a lot of...
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Vim: highlight word wrap column in insert mode
I like vim’s colorcolumn for highlighting where word wrap will occur, but I consider it a distraction when I’m not in insert mode. After some tinkering, I wrote this in my .vimrc: " highlight...
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Queue Zero
Almost exactly a year ago, I posted about Sizing Up My Queue to count up how much video and audio I had downloaded to watch. The final tally? queue: 877 files, 674007 seconds = 7d:19h:13m:27s total...
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Hard Lessons
Having worked on email-related code before, I have been morbidly fascinated by one of the founders of handmade.network writing an email client. Handmade Network is trying to reinvigorate programming...
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Redshift With Cloudiness Adjustment
A Lobsters story on the bright blue light of displays reminded me I should post this. I use redshift to adjust the color temperature of my monitor at night so I sleep better, and I wrote a custom...
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Arithmetic Wrap in GMS2
I’m learning GameMaker Studio 2 because my 10-year old nephew wants to make video games (and the 10 year old inside of me wants to make video games, too). It’s a nice toolkit and IDE for games, very...
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MiscPodcast
I have some random episodes of podcasts laying around waiting to get listened to from podcasts I don’t (yet) care to subscribe to. Maybe they had an interesting guest or topic, or came recommended....
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Attending Recurse Center
I have been accepted to the Recurse Center to spend three months on collaborative, self-directed study of programming. I’m planning to continue studying Haskell and dependent types, proof assistants,...
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Lobsters
I’m now the sysop of Lobsters, a social news site focused on technology. Its creator jcs announced three weeks ago that he was ready pass the torch. I’ve been very active on the site, submitting tons...
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Voicemail
Robots and elderly relatives have finally driven me to extreme measures. My voicemail greeting is now this “you have reached a number that has been disconnected” recording repeated for sixty seconds...
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Return Statement
I’ve finished my time at Recurse Center, and a small tradition is to write a “return statement” about what you did in your time there. Attending Recurse Center was a very rewarding time for me,...
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2017 Media Reviews
I’ve appreciated when people take the time to write reviews and highlight connections to other good works. This post was written in one go at the end of 2017. I didn’t keep good track of the games, so...
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2018 Media Reviews
I’ve appreciated when people take the time to write reviews and highlight connections to other good works. This is an in-progress list that I’ll update over the course of the year. Previously: 2014...
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I really enjoy playing board games with friends, as you can probably guess from my media reviews. Over the last ~25 years of playing we’ve evolved a couple house rules that are worth formalizing and...
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This is a writeup of my notes on how to get NixOS running on a VPS at prgmr, followed by more general notes on this experiment in learning nix. Provision I went with the lowest tier, currently 1.25...
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