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New Sep 9, 2024
Is the Tailscale Magic Fading?
The Tailscale magic ✨ is starting to wear off. I gave positive opinions on Tailscale back in August 2022: “Basically Tailscale does one thing extremely well and the accompanying features aren’t bad...
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New Sep 1, 2024
Hmmarkdown
I rolled my own Markdown library! It’s called Hmmarkdown on GitHub. It’s published on both JSR and NPM too. I’m testing in production on my own website! That might be a mistake but it’s too late now....
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New Aug 12, 2024
Docker Network Bugs and Fixes
Docker is great! Docker networks are grand. I know, controversial opinions! Docker and Docker networks are not easy to understand and often table-flippin-infuriating for newcomers. Trouble is they...
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New Aug 9, 2024
JSR and Deno: Final Review đźš®
With my first impressions and second look of JSR (the JavaScript Registry) I tried to be positive and optimistic. I saw the potential that JSR could offer something more than NPM. Half a year after...
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New Aug 5, 2024
The Deno Package Paradox
Deno packaging is now a fragmented mess. It didn’t start that way. “Designing Deno’s module system around HTTP imports was ambitious. It aimed to replace npm with a distributed system over HTTP,...
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New Jul 30, 2024
Summer 2024: Self-Hosted Update
Back in March I shared my spring self-hosted update. I had a new ZimaBlade to play with. I bought a cheap GeForce GT 710 just to try the PCIe. It worked. That graphics card is terrible (more on that...
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New Jul 25, 2024
Git Granary
Captain’s log: it’s been 10 days since I entered the Git LFS rabbit hole. Following an emergency in-prod GitHub replacement I got nerd sniped by the Git Large File Storage API. Git Granary 🌾 Git...
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New Jul 19, 2024
Private Submodules
For years now both my website source code and content have lived side by side in harmony within a public GitHub repository. This was convenient for the various build and deploy scripts I’ve monkeyed...
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New Jul 15, 2024
Replacing GitHub LFS
GitHub sent me a scary email notification: “We wanted to let you know that you’ve used 80% of your data plan for Git LFS on your personal account […]” 80% only one week into a monthly quota — oh dear!...
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New Jul 10, 2024
Microblog
I stealth launched a new microblog on this here website last week. You can subscribe to my microblog RSS feed — do it! My main blog is for longer, more considered content. I don’t want to drown the...