Fernando Borretti
Fernando Borretti
Fernando Borretti
I’m a software engineer. In my free time I write code, a blog, fiction, and build a programming language.
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I have a lot of communication apps. By volume: Twitter DMs, Signal, Whatsapp, iMessage, Discord, email. Because I have so many disjoint places where communication happens, I have a daily task on Todoist to go through each of these, and...
On Hacker News and Lobsters I often see blog posts with titles like: Why I built my startup on Common Lisp and DragonflyBSD Rewriting PyTorch in APL (year six update) I will never, ever, ever learn Docker The general form being: why...
I recently wrapped up a job where I spent the last two years writing the backend of a B2B SaaS product in Rust, so now is the ideal time to reflect on the experience and write about it. Contents Learning The Good Performance Tooling Type...
tl;dr two portable SSDs, synced with rsync; and a Backblaze bucket synced with restic: I’m finally satisfied with my infrastructure for backups, so I’m writing it up so others can benefit from it. Criteria My requirements for backup...
Yesterday I was reading Exploring the Internet, an oral history of the early Internet. The first part of the book describes the author’s efforts to publish the ITU’s Blue Book: 19 kilopages of standards documents for telephony and...
This post is, in a sense, a continuation to Unbundling Tools for Thought. It’s an argument for why you shouldn’t try to use a single tool to do everything, aimed at people who have been spent too much time shoveling prose into a “second...