My last dance in St. George turned out to be the hardest race I’ve done so far.

TL;DR: If you don't want to read the >3000 word post, here's the gist:X-Sendfile (or a variation of it, such as X-Accel-Redirect) is an HTTP response header used by web servers (like Nginx, Apache, or Thruster) to efficiently serve files to clients without the Rails application server having to load file in-memory...

The weather is getting better, and everything is at another turning point. Canada has a new government, maybe its going to be stable. The CPC party has gone full cult, with their unelected leader living in government housing and refusing to leave. I switched up my work set up a …

Test, raz, dwa, trzy. To jest pierwszy dokument Markdown, który będzie moim blogiem. Tak naprawdę to nie pierwszy. Miałem już około milion prób. Ale ta jest ostatnia, ponieważ jestem "u siebie". To znaczy, ten plik powstaje wewnątrz mojego skarbca w Obsidianie. O tym jak to działa, dlaczego tak, a nie inaczej, co to...

Comment l’université tue le livre (et les intellectuels) Il faut sauver la bibliothèque de Louvain-la-Neuve Menacée d’expulsion par l’université, la bibliothèque publique de Louvain-la-Neuve risque de disparaître. Il est urgent de signer la pétition pour tenter de la sauver. Signez la pétition pour sauver la...

What you do on bad days matters more than on good days I am considering making this newsletter more helpful for you by extending its content while reducing the time required to read it. So, your return on investment should increase with every issue. I decided to open the issue with a few paragraphs of text, focusing...

Other people have it worse, so it often feels inappropriate to complain, but the last few days have been not great days for me. Between nonsense at work and my computer being a pain in the ass along with some family stuff, it has just been a rough few days. Everyone has those, I’m not special. But we are all the...

Duran Duran promoting their 1997 online single, Electric Barbarella; image via a fan site. At the same time as the prototype of BowieNet was being developed, key advancements were being made in online music distribution — a trend Bowie had helped kickstart the previous year with the free Telling Lies download. The...