Blog of [Peter Bhat Harkins](https://malaprop.org)
15 years ago I took an education course for becoming a Certified Financial Planner from Northwestern University. ⊕Which is bullshit, NU rents its prestige to an independent training company. This was before the popularization of fee-only financial planners and I didn’t want to learn how to manage my finances from salespeople. I also had no interest in working as a CFP, so I didn’t take the exam…
I bought a Rovyvon A5R flashlight. It’s a great little flashlight that charges by USB C and has many useful modes. While I’m generally quite happy with modes, I spend a lot less time using a flashlight than editing text and was a little confused about how to switch to the one I wanted. The manual for the flashlight is accurate but not clearly written.
I’ve published a Lua implementation of TypeId:
Some friends and I have played a friendly, low-stakes Texas Hold ‘Em poker game for years. One player wanted to play a night of silly, rule-breaking poker for his birthday.
I got a TV for the first time since 2001 and a couple friends asked me to explain the setup.
This post is getting updates - I’m trying to collect ad samples and investigate with a site owner so I can give away js that site owners can use to detect and block the ads. Please help!
Reposting the announcement posted on Lobsters for my blog’s rss feed:
Lobsters has had a chat room on Libera Chat for 9 years today. Lobsters itself is 12, and I see Libera Chat as continuous with a rename a few years ago.
I really liked a “Long Term Refactors” by Max Chernyak explaining a nice development practice. I was reminded of a thing that surprised me about refactors and dependency management.
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.