tailscale go sqlite bindings
https://github.com/tailscale/sqlite Not yet officially released, but presumably in heavy usage by tailscale
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Unicode's Transliteration Rules Are Turing-Complete
https://seriot.ch/computation/uts35/ Lovely little article where Nicolas Seriot shows how you can use Unicode's rewrite rules , which are intended for converting characters from one language to another, to execute arbitrary programs. via bsky
World Cup Visualizations
https://wc26.bogachev.fr/index.html For an example from a spectacular game, check out the Argentina vs Egypt match By Alevandre Bogachev, via Francis Gagnon
All Them Witches
I'm really digging their new album, and this performance on KEXP was great too: There's a couple live shows of theirs on my youtube concerts list that are fun. Recommended if you like heavy, fuzzed out guitars.
Parse, don't validate — In a Language That Doesn't Want You To
https://cekrem.github.io/posts/parse-dont-validate-typescript/ A practical exercise walking through how to " Parse, don't validate " in plain typescript. I did not know about the "brand" technique, so that was neat to learn. I generally like to do a light version of this, but I also often find it frustrating and brittle when people go down the FP-style "All Information Must Be Encoded in the…
Prism - An Impure Functional Language With Typed Effects
This is Prism, a proof of concept functional compiler I've been working on for the last three years, built around modeling effects with modern types inspired by the intellectual lineage of OCaml 5, Haskell and Koka. The big idea of the last five or six years of functional programming is that effects are real, effects are fine, and the interesting question is not how to avoid them but how to…
installing retroarch on steam
Retroarch gets installed to ~/Library/Application\ Support/Steam/steamapps/common/RetroArch I had to disable the PS5 button support in mac to get it to work inside retroarch Retroarch also picked up my controller as #2 instead of #1, and I had to flip it in settings I had to disable the steam overlay to get the ps5 button working in retroarch guide here telling you how to get the cores, which are…
A data-driven normal for the Spain temperature chart
https://dominicroye.github.io/blog/spain-temperature-normals-openmeteo/ The author goes through his many choices for building the above chart, and gives the code and shows how they gathered the data for it. Thoughtful and thorough.
statistics that live in your SQL
https://kolistat.com/blog/the-stats-duck-v0-6-0/ Announcement of a really neat duckdb extension called the-stats-duck ( KoliStat/the-stats-duck ) which puts statistical functions inside duckDB. It then goes on to add some visualization in duckdb sql, by serializing out to vega-lite format, á la ggsql (which the author calls out on news.yc as a direct inspiration) My favorite bit is the function…
The Coming Loop
Present-day models tend to produce code that is too defensive, too complex, too local in its reasoning. They avoid strong invariants. They add fallbacks instead of making bad states impossible. They duplicate code, invent bad abstractions, and paper over unclear design with more machinery. Worse though: I so far see very little progress of this improving. If anything, on that front it feels to me…
beach rose
Beach roses only bloom for a few weeks around the start of spring, and I love them as a marker of the start of the beautiful Maine summer. I somehow didn't notice the bug in this one until I processed the shot. On the same photo walk, my 9 year old son shot with his mini instax camera, and came up with some lovely ones. He also art-directed this shot of a bloom he plucked and put in this…
ggsql
https://ggsql.org/ ggsql brings the elegance of the Grammar of Graphics to SQL. Write familiar queries, add visualization clauses, and see your data transform into beautiful, composable charts — no context switching, no separate tools, just SQL with superpowers. ggsql introduces the VISUALIZE keyword into its sql dialect, allowing you to do grammar of graphics charts from SQL queries. The home…
chatto
https://bsky.app/profile/hmans.dev/post/3mehazd6c4c2u https://www.hmans.dev/blog/chatto-timeline Somebody else had the same idea as me , to build a slack/discord clone. He has an instance available, but seems similarly in dev as I am update : chatto is now open-source (AGPL) and self-hostable Meanwhile, I have done zero work on my own similar idea. Kudos to the author!
HTTPBin
https://httpbin.org/ A simple HTTP Request & Response Service. https://github.com/postmanlabs/httpbin mostly unmaintained, but also functional. The httpbin.org server is wobbly sometimes. https://github.com/mccutchen/go-httpbin go-httpbin offers very similar functionality to httpbin , but written in go and can serve TLS. Much easier to deploy, so I've started using it in a docker container…
youtube concerts
Lately, I've been browsing youtube and looking for good live concerts to watch. Some favorites: Sonny Rollins live in '65 and '68 McCoy Tyner Quartet Montreux 1973 old link broke, here it is in 2 parts: pt1 pt2 Mulatu Astatke in The Temple of Dendur 2021 Led Zeppelin, Fillmore West 1969 (audio only) King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Ancienne Belgiques, 2016 All Them Witches,…