Brandur

@brandur

Engineering @ Stripe. Ex-Heroku. Occasional writer. Themes: web APIs, Postgres, Rust, software safety and resilience, efficient human interfaces, and running.

San Francisco
Vrijeme pridruživanja: ožujak 2009.

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  1. 31. sij
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  2. 13. sij

    Dove Monterey this weekend. Great experience, but even with 7mm wetsuit and two layers of it on the torso, yeesh that water is chilly.

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  3. 5. sij

    Deployed a couple small things to Google Cloud Run finally. First impressions: Cloud Build is awesome (totally avoided installing local Docker), excellent custom domain setup/TLS, way too expensive but may work for tiny projects, GCP TUI/GUI both underwhelming but functional.

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  4. 30. pro 2019.

    Favorite new Mac OS mini-productivity tip: Copy the current path in a focused Finder window with ⌥ Option + ⌘ Command + C. So good when a common action turns out to have an easy default shortcut. (You may have to disable an Alfred shortcut in Features -> Clipboard History.)

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  5. 29. pro 2019.

    Today: Writing, light coding, photo editing, whole pot of coffee. Interludes for calisthenics and running in the greenbelt. All in the quiet of the 'burbs (away from SF's natural soundtrack of heavy machinery/road noise). Yep I'm boring, but practically a perfect day off.

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  6. 26. pro 2019.

    Last week wrote about rain in SF, 70s space optimism (and the MOMA), mainframes, vectorized SQL execution, and the artistic philosophy behind "Under the Wave Off Kanagawa". This week going out in ~1 hour.

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  7. 26. pro 2019.

    A couple snowy/icy Alberta shots, mandatory for the season.

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  8. 22. pro 2019.

    They're making "Wonder Woman 1984" and joining the 80s nostalgia train started by Stranger Things, It, Deutschland 83, etc. Me: The present is so stylistically unremarkable that we're like an elderly generation reminiscing on a more vibrant past. Also me: sign me up.

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  9. 20. pro 2019.

    Really neat to see that the runner that powers GitHub Actions has been open-sourced, but it seems like a missed opportunity in that the release was so light on context. Can any GitHubbers comment on the choice of C#?

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  10. 19. pro 2019.

    I've been having trouble finding inspiring writing topics recently, so experimenting with a (not quite) weekly newsletter to help get some words flowing. Last week's: an old Heroku eggnog recipe, and a dive into GitHub Actions.

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  11. 10. pro 2019.

    And I shouldn't be too hard on the NeXT logo — it does have a great 80s vibe. Certainly more interesting than today's "just use sans-serif" school of design.

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  12. 10. pro 2019.

    Re-read the Jobs biography and was reminded of Steve paying Paul Rand $100k, sight unseen, for the NeXT logo. There's some nice photos of Rand's booklet online, and even a reaction video — from 1986! The logo is a little homely, but it's a *great* story.

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  13. 13. stu 2019.

    (And although a new scissor mechanism had been predicted for a while, the physical Esc key and T-shaped arrow configuration were very nice surprises.)

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  14. 13. stu 2019.

    RE 16-inch MacBook Pro: Thankful that Apple didn't lay it on _too thick_ with superlative rhetorical bullsh*t about "reinventing the keyboard" or anything like that after the new variant is clearly a revert of a Really, Truly, Worst-of-Apple-hubristic-design Bad Idea.

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  15. 12. stu 2019.

    And probably obvious, but I'd highly recommend enabling this. It works on both web and mobile, and is set up in such a way that you can always show images from your trusted senders. (And if enough of us do it, it'll significantly dilute the value of these dark techniques.)

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  16. 12. stu 2019.

    Gmail's new-ish setting to not show external images by default is its best new feature in years. I get an inordinate amount of pleasure examining tracking pixels from recruiters (in source) and knowing that they can no longer trust their surreptitious telemetry.

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  17. 7. stu 2019.

    (Still looking for a way of getting easy access to a version of Imagemagick built in the last decade though. Shell utilities via Docker container is awkward to say the least.)

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  18. 7. stu 2019.

    Ended up migrating my blog's build from Travis to GitHub Actions. All in all, not too different, but really like the formalized build steps — output is a lot easier to read. Also, access to more modern packages via Docker.

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  19. 3. stu 2019.

    I really like this piece suggesting thoughtfulness on runaway use of dependencies. (Quite a radical position by today's standards.) e.g. If Apache Struts as disclosed three major remote execution vulnerabilities in four years, consider avoiding it.

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  20. 28. lis 2019.

    A pod of dolphins swimming alongside our dive boat. Impossible not to love these animals. Near Bunaken, Indonesia.

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