Lewis Mcguffie, the designer of Columba, wrote this piece about designing with scale in mind: Something will always be in the shadows, or even behind a hill, we may be colour-blind, or a thing may simply be too small to see (the list is endless). To put it another way — things change depending on how big they are....

It feels fun to be part of a nice phenomenon.

Update: This idea got popular enough that I decided to turn it into a tool. You can grab it from http://pprof.sh. There are a lot of great articles on the interwebs about profiling entire Go applications for CPU and memory usage, however I can never remember the syntax for doing the same thing for specific...

The ease of installation and use of modern desktop Linux distributions comes at a price. I review a couple of low-complexity alternatives to mainstream Linux distributions: Alpine and Devuan.