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February 15, 2025For those who’re just joining us, I’ve dusted off a two-decade-old project idea and have actually started working on it. There’s a working prototype which I’m not going to link in this post, because this text will likely be around long after it’s been and gone, either shelved for another 20 years or thrown online in some kind of working form. [...]
February 9, 2025In April 2005, I registered a domain name. I had a plan, and it was an ambitious one. I had read an O’Reilly book on XML (cover-to-cover) a couple of years beforehand, and it did something to my brain and I thought I could see through time. Weblogs were ascending fast, the web was exciting, … [Read more …] [...]
Chinwag Posts
Imagine telling people you were kicked out of Australia for being too racist.
I wish I'd realised you can set up streaming replication with PostgreSQL with a newer version of the server at the receiving end much earlier. I've always matched versions, assuming I had to, when I could have saved time on later upgrades by promoting the replica after a sync.
Unexpected rail replacement bus really reminding me that it's Monday.
Please join me in celebrating the fact that after about a whole year, I finally remembered that I was completely out of soy sauce while I was actually in a supermarket.
Me: This feeling of low key general anxiety that's been haunting me all weekend is extremely unpleasant.
My brain: Let's have more coffee. That'll help.