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Educational programming content.
1 degree celsius in the gym this morning. No thanks.
August 18, 2025 at 11:49 PM
July 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
What I find interesting in this exchange is that Zuck seemed sold on doubling down on Facebook as a brand. But we all know they ended up going with Meta later on.

I wonder what exchange he had that caused him to go the other way.
Mark Zuckerberg on rebranding Facebook

May 3, 2018
July 12, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Ruby really is the GOAT of SaaS languages.

Tooling and package ecosystem shits all over other popular languages in the space (JS, C#, Java, go)

The language itself is approachable and borrows so many good patterns from other languages.

It’s not perfect, but easily the best choice
January 7, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Morning deadlifts. 160kg x 5 x 2. 155kgs x 5 x 1. Still getting used to conventional and mixed grip.
January 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Over the holiday break I wanted to learn how programming languages _actually_ work.

I implemented enough of a Lisp like language to complete the first day of Advent of Code.

File reading, sorting, name spaces, variables and even JS interop.

Code here: github.com/Gwash3189/si...
GitHub - Gwash3189/sindarin: A Scheme/Lisp like language implemented in Deno
A Scheme/Lisp like language implemented in Deno . Contribute to Gwash3189/sindarin development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
December 31, 2024 at 2:38 AM
The extended fatigue from testing my 1 RM deadlift is nuts.

A week later and my legs are still getting tired from normal daily activity.
December 22, 2024 at 10:58 PM
December recommendations mid way through December?

Let’s go

open.substack.com/pub/688techn...
December Recommendations
December Recommendations midway through December? Nailed it.
open.substack.com
December 15, 2024 at 9:42 PM
New 1RM of 210kg.

Big ups to my wife for the cheer squad
December 15, 2024 at 8:42 PM
Yo who the fuck wouldn’t play a game because the protagonist is a female?

Sounds fucking backwards.
December 15, 2024 at 3:16 AM
Ay yo where are the software engineers or indie hackers at 👀
December 14, 2024 at 5:47 AM
Went to sleep and woke up to everyone saying Polio is making a comeback in the US.

What absolute fuck is going on over there.
December 13, 2024 at 8:44 PM
This is more of documentation for myself that others can view, but here is everything use in my day to day as a software engineer

open.substack.com/pub/688techn...
Everything I Use
Everything I use and install on a fresh laptop
open.substack.com
December 13, 2024 at 7:40 AM
I made my first few dollars from writing today.

A year and a half of writing on the internet and I have my first paying customer.
December 12, 2024 at 10:11 AM
You know I keep those scoops in me
December 12, 2024 at 1:47 AM
This is where I’d have some very good copy to get you to click on my blog teaching you about implementing user authentication

But I’m just a programmer that likes teaching.

User authentication open.substack.com/pub/688techn...
Web Security Fundamentals: User Login and Logging Out
Hands-on guide to implementing user login and logout functionality, focusing on best practices and common vulnerabilities.
open.substack.com
December 11, 2024 at 9:08 PM
One of the hardest parts of living away from your birth country is missing all the relatives you left behind.

While my life here in Aus is infinitely better than it would have been in the US, I still miss them.
December 11, 2024 at 9:54 AM
Last heavy deadlifts of my last block.

180kg x 2 x 3 easy peasy 🍋.
December 8, 2024 at 6:56 PM
“A Christmas Story” is a bottom of the garbage Christmas movie.

Always has been
December 7, 2024 at 8:34 PM
Deno is quickly becoming my preferred JS/TS runtime. It seems so backwards to use node when Deno has backwards compatibility with all of NPM.

I’m writing posts as I learn more about the runtime.

open.substack.com/pub/688techn...
Reading A File Line By Line In Deno
Reading a file line by line is a far more efficient way to read large files. Let's learn how to do it in Deno
open.substack.com
December 6, 2024 at 7:32 PM
10/10 thread on why it’s important to take care of your digital spaces.
IQuick Thread: I really love people who work to take care of the spaces we share online. Because Bluesky is less centralized, more of that work falls to us.

As in all things…look for the helpers.
December 6, 2024 at 7:27 PM
How do you fuck up laying down for 8 hours? Waking up sore ain’t it.
December 6, 2024 at 4:20 AM
Name a heavier opener to a recent album. I’ll wait.

open.spotify.com/track/3WMiRL...
Torn Through The Leather
Splinter · The Hill I'll Die On · Song · 2024
open.spotify.com
December 5, 2024 at 6:52 AM
People who use single character variable names need help.
December 4, 2024 at 3:02 AM
I spent the last 5 weeks of my life upgrading a system from bootstrap 4 to 5 and it was a nightmare. Real legacy hours.

For larger apps, the dream you have of returning to a world of simple HTML and raw JS doesn’t exist and it’s better you don’t return.
December 3, 2024 at 7:04 PM