It occurred to me that things which work well are often under-represented online. I absolutely love my listening headphones, so I thought I'd write a quick post about them. To say I love music is an understatement. My iTunes... er... Apple Music libr ... read more →
It's not quite two months in, but I said I'd give an update on the Elecom Deft Pro after some use, so here I am! Bad Stuff Bad news first... Initial Adjustment Period I'm not gonna lie, the initial adjustent period on this was rougher than I expected ... read more →
Pretty much overnight, it seems that a movie I had never even heard of became the most-watched movie ever on Netflix. People everywhere are now singing the songs from K-Pop Demon Hunters. It originally seemed more popular outside Korea (the first doz ... read more →
I'm currently working on a project which involves a lot of lower level data structures. By lower level I mean things like layout and bit positions, and exact sizes being important. As such, I have a number of pedantic lints enabled. One of the lints ... read more →
I recently picked up a new trackball to replace my prematurely aging Elecom HUGE. Here are my first impressions after only a few hours, since there wasn't much I could find online comparing them properly. NOTE: I have an updated review after ~2 month ... read more →
Over the past few days of vacation I finally had the chance to finish reading Dragonball! I started this a few years ago and have gone in spurts, sometimes not reading for months at a time as work got in the way. This post is a short reflection on wh ... read more →
Today's episode of "things that make you go 'wat'" is sponsored by unzip. Yes, the venerable utility ubiquitous on UNIX-like systems. I mean, what could possibly go wrong? This morning I was minding my own business sipping a coffee, when su ... read more →
Forgive me in advance, but this post will probably be a bit rant-y. If you're looking for a way to do container builds in GitLab CI without a lot of fuss, this article is for you. RIP Kaniko I'm writing this post because Google recently canned yet an ... read more →
Recently I've been doing some work using Apache DataFusion for some high-throughput data pipelines. One of the interesting things I noticed on the user guide was the suggestion to set RUSTFLAGS='-C target-cpu=native'. This is actually a pretty common ... read more →
Rust's ownership system is well-known for the ways it enforces memory safety guaranteees. For example, you can't use some value after it's been freed. Further, it also ensures that mutability is explicit, and it enforces some extra rules that make mo ... read more →
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