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How to wrap a generated gRPC client behind a clean Go API so users never have to touch protobuf types or connection management directly.
Back when I first started designing and coding things for the web, one of my favorite channels was the one from a designer named Mackenzie Child. In hindsight, one of his videos had a huge impact on me. Despite it being a simple video...
Eu na maioria do tempo tento ser uma pessoa mais positiva hoje em dia. Já tive a minha fase de trevas e que achava que tudo deveria acabar, mas como todo jovem a gente cresce e vê que não dá pra ser assim quando se é adulto... ou pelo...
A mission post by Captain Amelia Waterhouse, Ensign Miles Archer Mission - Let's Do The Timeloop Again The trip to Erebus was progressing pretty much as expected. They weren't in a hurry, Hades had not told them to get there as soon as...
ArticlesCult Dynamics at the Scale of Rogue DemocraciesOptimizing Eleventy Build Performance: From 38s to Under 10sDev Log: Hunting OOM kills, fixing CLS, and making Eleventy builds 10x fasterNotesAfter a few fix the feature is a success...
Today is π day, which is a silly day to celebrate based on a completely arbitrary calendar system that happens to share some concordance with the inferior circle constant in our standard number system1. But π day is a bit special to me....
This morning I went down to Collector's Con here in Eau Claire. It's a fun little con, and I stopped by last year too. I thought about selling there (since I'm at, like, literally every other con in town) but a week after Evercon was...
He estado pensando mucho en esto, en como hay momentos que se me vienen a la mente de repente. Puede que ni sean algo realmente importante, algo diminuto que pasó, pero aún después de años me acuerdo. Recuerdo por ejemplo una tarde...
March 2026. Sheffield. Our friends from Chicago roused themselves at an uncivilised hour on the Monday and we ferried them back to Luton, a journey which might have shattered their illusions about pastoral England. By Tuesday I needed to...
John Gruber linked to a piece by Sam Henri Gold entitled “This Is Not the Computer for You”, which both is and isn’t an article about the MacBook Neo. It’s a reflection on how kids get started with computers, and how when he was a kid,...
Today was the yearly club cross race: a 4K-ish parcours on and around our club's running track to figure out who becomes the club champion in their category. And would you believe it... I won! Or well, at least I won against the other...
These are the phones I remember owning since 2000. Nokia 3210 Sony Ericsson K300i Nokia E63 Dopod D600 Motorola Milestone Samsung Galaxy Nexus Nexus 5 Apple iPhone SE OnePlus 5 OnePlus 7 Pro Motorola Edge 40 Neo I’m about to buy a new...
Divya, Eryn, and I went to Bay FC’s home opener against the Denver Summit at PayPal Park this afternoon. Our girls won 2–1. I’m so glad the NWSL is back!
After saying their goodbyes to Dr. Chorus1, the gang sets about chasing the gnolls off in exchange for the Nail-Eater goblins guiding them through the sewers. A brief debate ensures re: whether the gnolls would appreciate gin or wine...
I know a few self-published authors who are quitting the business. It's not the writing that's the hard part, it's selling the books, it's marketing, it's managing their own online shop, it's struggling to find readers and fans for your...
This essay and poem are part of the Universe in Verse book. “My business is circumference,” Emily Dickinson wrote in one of her most cryptic letters. Since ancient times, human beings have been enchanted by the immutable relationship...
Calm Before the Storm Thoughts Thoughts in the calm before the storm. RVA is in the category 4 storm warning zone for tomorrow. 70+ MPH winds, 1-2" hail, and tornadoes are expected. All the schools are closed. The church preschools are...
I’m not crying, you are crying–and also, I just inhaled a book. After literal months of not being able to read. Beware: third person, present tense, single point of view (this may not be your cuppa, but I swear it works here!); anxiety...
I just came across the article BuzzKill – BuzzFeed Nearing Bankruptcy After Disastrous Turn Toward AI and thought it might be worth sharing. Not because of schadenfreude but as a reminder that going all-in on a technology that you...
When my youngest niece was a toddler, she was obsessed with this "tablet for toddlers": Fisher-Price Laugh & Learn Smart Stages Tablet It's basically a set of alphabet buttons, with a switch to set one of three "learning levels." Each...
Around 20 years ago I went to University, studying electrical engineering with a specialisation in telecommunications engineering. I was particularly interested in everything that had to do with audio. Signal processing, sound...
This short Article is in addition to my Pockethernet V2 Review I posted last year December. At the time of writing the original Article there was a announced BER Loop Adapter and ID Plugs but not available at that time. Now some time...
The New Yorker cartoon caption contest in the 3/6/25 issue features one of my totem animals, the penguin. Well, quite a lot of penguins: The three finalists for the caption will be announced in the 3/30 issue The caption — what the woman...
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It’s time for a new installment of fun Fedi links! **Drumroll** Today we have a bit of everything as your doom-scrolling antidote. Let’s start with blogging. I heard it’s back, so if you feel like getting into it (again?) here’s a post...
Dear Ciara, The first few weeks in the new house are over. It has been a wet few weeks, and a surprisingly emotional few weeks for me too. This transition into home ownership—and this change in scenery— has been challenging. I admit, I...
I was officially diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa (RP) on 30 November 2024 when seeing an eye doctor, then I wrote a post about living with RP in December. On 12 March 2026, 15 months after my initial RP diagnosis, I went to see...
Today I read a blog post entitled ”'Blessed are the Warriors' Isn’t a Thing” and I can't stop thinking about it. The title states the premise of that short blog post clearly. Jesus said “blessed are the peacemakers,” so why are so many...
You may have noticed a lack of content from me lately. My Internet has been super unreliable for ages, and these last two weeks it has been even worse. And it’s not like it has been down. Instead we’ve been having these periods (almost...
Instance 713 I. The lattice woke her before she would have woken herself. It always did. The crystal filaments threading her left flank had grown overnight — they always grew at rest, finding the paths of least resistance through flesh...
[Everything between February 09 to the date of publishing this] From single cardigan weather to sports bra and shorts.DataMovies watched: 3 (2 in cinema halls) Average steps last 30 days: 8000 Average sleep last 30 days: 7 hours 8...
I wrote this a while ago after reading Sonechka's post for the indieweb carneval on "Intersecting Interests". That interests would intersect seemed obvious to me, a bigger problem for me was formulating what exactly I'm interested in at...
The Saga Otaimatsu Torch Festival is held every March 15 at Seiryo-ji Temple, celebrating Buddha's passing. Three 7 meter tall torches are set on fire, with giant flames and embers flying everywhere. In fact, it's said to be good luck if...
This is my blog post about how I'm merging the MN Coffee Map, NYC Coffee Map and Chicago Coffee Map into a single Expo codebase.
This website has moved to a new OS and web server and host! You shouldn't really notice anything different, but there are probably more broken links than usual...
My cute outfit today! Taken by Husbando when we stopped to get coffee this afternoon.
Well here it is Saturday night. I watched most of this really cool HistoryHit archeology video on prehistoric Scotland. The stories and reasons why Orkney became this hub. Not just of people. Also technology and society. So cool. It’s...
I strain to use my eye as an investigatory tool—as a pencil, with my mind the sketch pad. I am not very skilled at it, which means that I can get better. That’s Patrick Bringley in All the Beauty in the World, a great little book about...
I have been using Obsidian now for almost six years. It seems to have gained a lot of attention recently, as people plug Claude Code directly into one of the most sacred directories on their computer. Linting and Prettifying your vault...
I listen to a lot of genres. My whole life I’ve gravitated towards indie and counter cultural folk (is there a type of folk that isn’t counter cultural? I don’t know). At times I’ve been afraid to share that I also love pop. This weirdly...
The only time I've ever "believed" was when I was a child. I would have nightmares about burning in hell, my body becoming part of a molten pit of fire. Luckily, I grew up in a really diverse area and went to a public school, so I made...
(image courtesy of an unknown artist) i have been having an immensely difficult time focusing on anything as of late. again. the fact that this is so, so, so far from an irregular occurrence is starting to truly, deeply scare me. days...
It is an oft lamented fact of modern life, at least in 'Broken Britain', that nothing seems to work any more. Lord knows, I've lamented it myself often enough – so it is good to be able to report that I've found at least one thing that...
Jürgen Habermas, well-known for his influential work in political philosophy and social theory, has died. Professor Habermas wrote extensively on critical social theory, and is often seen as a figure through which the critical theory of...
There are a number of ‘office suites’, so called after the ubiquity of MS Office. The ones listed below are all independent or open-source packages. There are a number of alternatives to using MS Word, such as markdown. It’s a...
Some of you may have noticed that I change blog platforms regularly, I love all the new ideas and how different blog providers have slightly different approaches. It allows us bloggers to find the tool that suits. Or that should be the...
Hiked part 2/27 of the Pelgrims Path, 12.9 kilometres from Amsterdamse Bos to De Kwakel. You leave Amsterdam and see the Urbanus Church of Amstelveen. Urban is venerated as the patron saint of winegrowers and is invoked against...
Found this one inside a drawer in one of auntie’s home. She said I could have it, so here we are now. I put on new batteries, found a manual in Spanish on the internet and got it working as both a calculator and a numpad. Pretty dope!...
On YouTube, there's a channel I really like that centers around what I can only call "mundane gaming content." Instead of focusing on things like expert gameplay or humorous commentary, the guy running the channel posts videos where he...
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I haven’t used Indiekit to post anything recently! Quick update on the blog: I’ve been busy working on my new Hugo theme redesign—learnt to use Git branches, forked the Anubis2 theme code so I could squash unused/overriding CSS rules,...