David Edgar's website

Saturday, 26 October 2024

πŸ”– Fedify

A Typescript library for building on the fediverse. But also a global cli tool that has helped me more than anything else - particularly the ActivityPub sec - to find my mistakes when implementing.

Friday, 25 October 2024

Spent an hour in Ambarvale Hotel drinking a GOAT (it’s not) and watching Swans vs Collingwood from Round 1, 1987. Complete with Winfield 25s ads at the ground.

The past truly is a different country.

Thursday, 24 October 2024

Every parliament should have a Lidia Thorpe to flush out the utter cynicism and vacuousness of the place.

Monday, 21 October 2024

πŸ”– Into the Wreck

The beginning of examination of how linked the systems within which we operate are, and how that affects us.

I'm re-reading Red Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson. I think every time I read this, Arkady radicalises me just a little bit more :-)

πŸ”– Anarchist Healthcare

πŸ”– Understanding Legacy Code

A bunch of reading material and notes on how to manage legacy projects and code

Sunday, 20 October 2024

πŸ”– CS251 - Great Ideas in Theoretical Computer Science

An online course on the study of computation

πŸ”– Reclaiming the Web with a Personal Reader

Building a personal web reader

πŸ”– Engineering Manager

A ton of links on Engineering Management

πŸ”– I don't know how CPUs work so I simulated one in code

Description of simulating a CPU in code in order to actually understand one, albeit a fairly simple one. A modern CPU? Or a system on a chip? Can't even imagine the complexity.

So I suppose someone should simulate one in order to understand it :-)

πŸ”– Between Chaos and the Man

Book reviews of Ursula Le Guin's "The Disposed" and "The Dawn of Everything" by David Graeber and David Wengrow

πŸ”– Software Possession for Personal Use

Memory pressure forced me to clear out (save elsewhere) a bunch of browser tabs today, and while doing so I accidentally unpinned and closed belong.io, Andy Baio's (@andybaio@xoxo.zone) months-gone link aggregator. Elon Musk is unforgivable for so so many things, but belong.io used to get me through my commute every single day. I miss it.

I'd been keeping it pinned, in the same that I still have reminders to clean the cage/hutch of pets gone for a decade; my own little GNU clack to keep the memories alive.

πŸ”– About (Chris Glass)

A really nice example of an About Page and some other slash pages for a personal site

πŸ”– Bytecode Interpreters For Tiny Computers

πŸ”– CRDT Text Buffer

I found useful as a primer on CRDT in general

πŸ”– CRDT Filesync

High level views on how owning your own data works across multiple devices.

πŸ”– Local First Software

An examination of the idea of owning and controlling the data produced and used by the software that you use, rather than giving it to cloud services.

πŸ”– Slash Pages

Suggestions for common pages you might like to see on a personal website.

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