John
@oxlox.ca
A Saskatchewanian programmer. You can see my sandbox at oxlox.ca
I was humbled today. I dared to use a toy javascript framework a month ago thinking it'd make my life easier, but it only cause me pain. The solution was to rip it out and just use vanilla JS.
October 4, 2025 at 1:41 AM
I was humbled today. I dared to use a toy javascript framework a month ago thinking it'd make my life easier, but it only cause me pain. The solution was to rip it out and just use vanilla JS.
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Why I launched a new, different kind of survey: dev.to/sachagreif/l...
(take the survey here! survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey... )
(take the survey here! survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey... )
Launching the first ever State of Devs survey
One more survey… but this one is different!
dev.to
April 18, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Why I launched a new, different kind of survey: dev.to/sachagreif/l...
(take the survey here! survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey... )
(take the survey here! survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey... )
I spent the weekend playing around with C for the first time since university, and holy moly what a way to see how far I've come.
I used to think the syntax was cumbersome and confusing. bizarre take
I used to think the syntax was cumbersome and confusing. bizarre take
April 13, 2025 at 11:34 PM
I spent the weekend playing around with C for the first time since university, and holy moly what a way to see how far I've come.
I used to think the syntax was cumbersome and confusing. bizarre take
I used to think the syntax was cumbersome and confusing. bizarre take
i still can't comprehend that car seat headrest released anything after 2014. it breaks my heart, in a purely personal sense of the loss of my younger self.
April 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
i still can't comprehend that car seat headrest released anything after 2014. it breaks my heart, in a purely personal sense of the loss of my younger self.
I've spent the past 2 days doing front-end at work (just html, css, and pure js) and it's amazing how much this stuff has gotten better over the past decade.
April 12, 2025 at 2:03 AM
I've spent the past 2 days doing front-end at work (just html, css, and pure js) and it's amazing how much this stuff has gotten better over the past decade.
shopify is so annoying. I built the discount function I needed to, but man what a pain in the butt that was.
skill issue for sure
skill issue for sure
March 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
shopify is so annoying. I built the discount function I needed to, but man what a pain in the butt that was.
skill issue for sure
skill issue for sure
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the most important aspect of kernel development is to make sure your driver freaks the fuck out whenever the system resumes from sleep
March 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
the most important aspect of kernel development is to make sure your driver freaks the fuck out whenever the system resumes from sleep
you know the taylor swift/elon private jet flight trackers? it'd be cool if someone did something like that with shaq and his league pass account to see how often he watched games
March 13, 2025 at 12:39 PM
you know the taylor swift/elon private jet flight trackers? it'd be cool if someone did something like that with shaq and his league pass account to see how often he watched games
spent the morning getting Sentry up and configured on our web server and holy moley is it a big upgrade over just sending stacktrace emails
March 6, 2025 at 7:50 PM
spent the morning getting Sentry up and configured on our web server and holy moley is it a big upgrade over just sending stacktrace emails
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Designing an idiot-proof API: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Consuming an idiot-proofed API: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck!?
Consuming an idiot-proofed API: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck!?
June 1, 2023 at 2:08 AM
Designing an idiot-proof API: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Consuming an idiot-proofed API: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck!?
Consuming an idiot-proofed API: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck!?
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I found a backdoor in Linux
January 18, 2025 at 8:52 AM
I found a backdoor in Linux