Oof, get some of that in ya, Teddie boy.
Before...and after.
100+ days of lockdown, yo
🔖 The Story Behind SingleStore’s Skiplist Indexes
Thag...
Spoiler, but screw it...
'Sandy says "Whatever!"' is absolutely going into my rotation of stock responses to emails I want nothing to do with.
https://ironicsans.substack.com/p/45-you-misunderstand-cats-in-the
The LNP government of Australia has sailed through the blatant corruption of the Sports rorts and the Car Park rorts, so the idea that they would be outraged at the idea that corruption is a thing to deplore may well be shocking, but it shouldn't be a surprise.
Say what you like about the commentary team for AFL, particularly BT, but at least they don’t clearly hold the the sport they are involved with in contempt.
Whatever upgrade Apple pushed on my overnight, it bumped me to Safari 15. UI aside - its awful but I guess I will become used to it - it should be table stakes for a browser in 2021 to never ever ever lose open tabs
Leopard eats faces.
Media promotes leopard's agenda, resuscitates leopard's profile every few years, and treats leopard's face eating as just another POV
The faceless point out their faces are still being eaten.
The public yells at the media.
Media: You're eating my face!
I want to believe.
🔖 A Simple Manifesto For Making Good Shit
Help! There is a Very Normal amount of quilts in my house.
🔖 Writing a sqlite clone from scratch in C
Let's Build a Simple Database
Gosh, there's some angry caping for a poor defenceless trillion dollar multinational over this USB-C thing from the EU.
I keep waiting for Nick Cummins's milkshake duck moment
There’s a few writers I read just about everything I can find of theirs. Lech Blaine is one of them. Sometimes when I read, in parts I can almost close my eyes and be walking down Bourbong Street. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/18/larrikins-bogans-and-bullshit-artists-is-australia-ripe-for-a-blue-collar-revolution
Google Calendar has added an Insights panel to my view, gleefully telling me how much of my week was spent in meetings, It's not yet able to capture how many hours I spent bored by pointless waffle, but when it asks for camera access, I'll know the feature is ready.
It is possible to be repulsed and disgusted at the behaviour of elements of auspol and also roll your eyes that once again a political journalist is talking to other political journalists and making it all about political journalism.
🔖 Demystifying Public Speaking
Lara Hogan's A Book Apart book on the web
🔖 On Parsers
A brain dump of information about parsers and their implementation