I have really enjoyed using my PineTime as a watch, so I really wanted to make my own watchface. I based it around the colors of my KDE Plasma theme. Here's what it looks like: Link to Codeberg repository And next I'm gonna ramble how I did it, what I learned etc. I wanted to share this due to being asked how it was...

This article is part of my notes from Chapter 2 on Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann. You can read other chapter notes as well. Chapter 1: Reliability, Scalability, and Maintainability in Distributed Applications Chapter 2: Data Models and Query Languages Chapter 3: Data Storage and Retrieval...

Why With Heroku dropping the free tier from their service I decided to make better use of the “server” I have sitting in my home office. My current system was to just boot docker containers in the background with --restart unless-stopped, setting the ports manually, and updating my nginx configuration to forward...

Back in 2009, Cory Doctorow described how to write like the wind: Researching isn't writing and vice-versa. When you come to a factual matter that you could google in a matter of seconds, don't. Don't give in and look up the length of the Brooklyn Bridge, the population of Rhode Island, or the distance to the Sun....