David Edgar's website

Saturday, 19 October 2024

πŸ”– Plain Vanilla Web Development

Guides for doing web development with just HTML, CSS, and Javascript. No Frameworks, just using the increasingly advanced tools in the W3C offerings.

πŸ”– 17 Micro Workouts

Small workouts that can be done in the midst of the working day

πŸ”– A skeptic's first contact with Kubernetes

Discussing beginning and intro concepts of Kubernetes

πŸ”– SQLToy

A walkthrough for building your own database

πŸ”– BTrees and Database Indexes

Primer on BTrees and how they are used in database indexing

πŸ”– SAML Technical Primer

A small manifesto/set of directions on mindfulness and calm in the face of the modern world

It’s a damn shame Lost never had any Vincent flashbacks.

πŸ”– The Quiet Art of Attention

A small manifesto/set of directions on mindfulness and calm in the face of the modern world

Monday, 07 October 2024

https://nostarch.com/building-a-debugger

It’s increasingly obvious my To Read stack is basically β€œI wish I’d been less of a doofus and tried harder in my CS degree.”

Friday, 04 October 2024

πŸ”– SQLToy

Walkthrough of building a toy sql database.

Wednesday, 02 October 2024

I will probably never sit down to do anything with this, but a pastiche of Beowulf in which a contractor is brought in to fix horrible problems in the Heorot codebase.

It starts β€œAm I sharing the right window?”

Saturday, 28 September 2024

πŸ”– Server Mono

Typewriter-esque font inspired by Apple's San Francisco font

Thursday, 26 September 2024

One day Slack will fuck up their product even further by allowing people to see the names of the sections I have put channels and DMs into.

"They think this will sell?" "Garbage Fire Conversations" "Actual Shitshows" "Wankers"

Wednesday, 25 September 2024

πŸ”– Evan Prodromou Launches The Social Web Foundation

News announcement on a new group from Evan Prodromou to support ActivityPub and the fediverse, The Social Web Foundation

Tuesday, 24 September 2024

One of my team today, an otherwise impressive, observant young man who I rely on to solve significant problems, spent 30 seconds of dead air today trying to work out how to stop screen sharing in Zoom and ended up quitting and rejoining the meeting. That’s vi-level UI/UX winning right there.

Still, we all agreed we were glad we weren’t using Chime.

Sunday, 22 September 2024

πŸ”– The Uneanted Guest, by Tamsyn Muir

Palamedes Sextus and Ianthe Naberius in a battle of wits. I think this is set just after Gideon the Ninth.

Muir’s work really does reward rereads and different angles.

I have no real way to tell, obviously, because I would never meet any of these people, but I am willing to bet real human currency that the people who assume remote workers are slacking and goofing off instead of working actually don't know how in-office people work and behave.

Or, you know, don't know any actual workers.

Wednesday, 18 September 2024

The absolute obliviousness, the actual genuine irony of people getting LLMs to generate their Talk Like A Pirate Day jokes

Saturday, 14 September 2024

I was thinking it’d be funny, but probably too petty, if Port celebrated by play acting taking a group selfie after the siren. But Ken 😬

Monday, 09 September 2024

πŸ”– OAuth from First Principles

For next time I need to talk someone through what oauth is doing

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