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Kawaiicon was everything I wanted it to be. It reminds me of the old Ruxcon days.
November 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Kawaiicon was everything I wanted it to be. It reminds me of the old Ruxcon days.
With 15 years in the industry I feel comfortable saying debugging is a skill I’ve honed pretty well. When I sat down and wrote about it the ideas flowed easily. So here’s part I: Your mental model is wrong
patrobinson.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-...
patrobinson.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-...
The Art of Debugging: Part I
Prologue This blog is designed to be the first of a multi-part series. If I find the motivation it will become a book. My interest with comp...
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May 25, 2025 at 4:56 AM
With 15 years in the industry I feel comfortable saying debugging is a skill I’ve honed pretty well. When I sat down and wrote about it the ideas flowed easily. So here’s part I: Your mental model is wrong
patrobinson.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-...
patrobinson.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-...
Friendly reminder to teach your kids that minecraft isn’t accurate on the safe consumption of raw meat products
May 18, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Friendly reminder to teach your kids that minecraft isn’t accurate on the safe consumption of raw meat products
Sales people are way too cheerful for my liking. I want brutal, nihilistic, sales folk with tattoos and black nail polish
May 14, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Sales people are way too cheerful for my liking. I want brutal, nihilistic, sales folk with tattoos and black nail polish
TIL GitHub automatically ignores anything in a folder called build/ from its file search and will collapse any files in it from a PR diff
github.blog/changelog/20...
github.blog/changelog/20...
File Finder: Customize Default Exclusions - GitHub Changelog
The repository file finder is a convenient way to jump to a specific file by typing part of its path. It can be accessed by pressing t or using the…
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May 13, 2025 at 1:02 PM
TIL GitHub automatically ignores anything in a folder called build/ from its file search and will collapse any files in it from a PR diff
github.blog/changelog/20...
github.blog/changelog/20...
I almost resigned after hanging my queen, but my opponent didn’t take it 🤷♂️
May 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I almost resigned after hanging my queen, but my opponent didn’t take it 🤷♂️
Time for a celebratory drink
May 3, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Time for a celebratory drink
My yubikey was delivered to the wrong address. Startrack mixed up the labels so they opened it, i was very confused when i received a Liverpool FC jersey
March 31, 2025 at 7:14 AM
My yubikey was delivered to the wrong address. Startrack mixed up the labels so they opened it, i was very confused when i received a Liverpool FC jersey
Reposted
TypeScript team: rewrites compiler in Go.
Go community: what do you mean your new compiler takes more than a minute to compile? Unacceptable. Dishonorable even. We are so sorry for this sub par experience. Not how we do things around here.
Two days later: WIP 5x speedup.
HN: why pick Go anyway?
Go community: what do you mean your new compiler takes more than a minute to compile? Unacceptable. Dishonorable even. We are so sorry for this sub par experience. Not how we do things around here.
Two days later: WIP 5x speedup.
HN: why pick Go anyway?
cmd/compile: slow escape analysis in large package in the typescript compiler · Issue #72815 · golang/go
Go version go version go1.24.1 linux/amd64 Output of go env in your module/workspace: AR='ar' CC='gcc' CGO_CFLAGS='-O2 -g' CGO_CPPFLAGS='' CGO_CXXFLAGS='-O2 -g' CGO_ENABLED='1' CGO_FFLAGS='-O2 -g' ...
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March 13, 2025 at 12:53 AM
TypeScript team: rewrites compiler in Go.
Go community: what do you mean your new compiler takes more than a minute to compile? Unacceptable. Dishonorable even. We are so sorry for this sub par experience. Not how we do things around here.
Two days later: WIP 5x speedup.
HN: why pick Go anyway?
Go community: what do you mean your new compiler takes more than a minute to compile? Unacceptable. Dishonorable even. We are so sorry for this sub par experience. Not how we do things around here.
Two days later: WIP 5x speedup.
HN: why pick Go anyway?
The term “strong opinions loosely held” always nagged at me, but i had a revelation yesterday. I have strong opinions about what good looks like and i hold them strongly, I don’t hold my opinions on how to get there strongly. People mean the latter not the former.
February 21, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The term “strong opinions loosely held” always nagged at me, but i had a revelation yesterday. I have strong opinions about what good looks like and i hold them strongly, I don’t hold my opinions on how to get there strongly. People mean the latter not the former.
Americans: “Everyone has the right to express their opinions wherever they want”
Europeans: “Do you want Nazis? ‘Cause that’s how you get Nazis”
Europeans: “Do you want Nazis? ‘Cause that’s how you get Nazis”
February 21, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Americans: “Everyone has the right to express their opinions wherever they want”
Europeans: “Do you want Nazis? ‘Cause that’s how you get Nazis”
Europeans: “Do you want Nazis? ‘Cause that’s how you get Nazis”
I thought I'd start blogging again, here's a post about I don't say "Technical Debt"
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I dislike the term Technical Debt
5 or so years ago a manager at my company, Leon Messerschmidt , gave a talk to our engineering department called “Why I don’t use the term...
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February 14, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I thought I'd start blogging again, here's a post about I don't say "Technical Debt"
patrobinson.blogspot.com/2025/02/i-di...
patrobinson.blogspot.com/2025/02/i-di...
Time to play the annual game of: how many of the hottest 100 songs have i heard before?
January 26, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Time to play the annual game of: how many of the hottest 100 songs have i heard before?
While the term “asperger syndrome” has largely disappeared from our vernacular, the inherent ablism remains. The DSM V defines 3 levels of ASD based on support needs, in practice only level 3 is seen as a “disability” by our society
January 25, 2025 at 2:54 AM
While the term “asperger syndrome” has largely disappeared from our vernacular, the inherent ablism remains. The DSM V defines 3 levels of ASD based on support needs, in practice only level 3 is seen as a “disability” by our society
If i have my headphones on and I’m walking my dog I’m not intentionally ignoring you.
I’m just autistic and trying to be polite by not letting my dog jump on you
I’m just autistic and trying to be polite by not letting my dog jump on you
January 23, 2025 at 7:15 AM
If i have my headphones on and I’m walking my dog I’m not intentionally ignoring you.
I’m just autistic and trying to be polite by not letting my dog jump on you
I’m just autistic and trying to be polite by not letting my dog jump on you
Interesting discussion at work about allowing AI to record and summarise incident video conferences.
In aviation access to the cockpit voice recording is strictly controlled and is inadmissible in a court of law in some countries.
In aviation access to the cockpit voice recording is strictly controlled and is inadmissible in a court of law in some countries.
December 12, 2024 at 9:11 AM
Interesting discussion at work about allowing AI to record and summarise incident video conferences.
In aviation access to the cockpit voice recording is strictly controlled and is inadmissible in a court of law in some countries.
In aviation access to the cockpit voice recording is strictly controlled and is inadmissible in a court of law in some countries.
I’m in this photo and i like it!
December 11, 2024 at 11:22 PM
I’m in this photo and i like it!
A pilot had an engine failure on final approach and made a split second decision. Trying him in a court doesn’t help anyone, it hinders our ability to make flying safer.
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
Queensland pilot found guilty of dangerous flying in fatal crash
Leslie Ronald Woodall faced a three-day trial in the Brisbane District Court this week.
www.abc.net.au
December 11, 2024 at 9:08 AM
A pilot had an engine failure on final approach and made a split second decision. Trying him in a court doesn’t help anyone, it hinders our ability to make flying safer.
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
Been reading Database internals (amzn.asia/d/acyUDCd) and felt the need to implement what i was learning. So I’m rewriting sqlite in Rust
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github.com/patrobinson/...
GitHub - patrobinson/sqlite-rust
Contribute to patrobinson/sqlite-rust development by creating an account on GitHub.
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December 8, 2024 at 3:11 AM
Been reading Database internals (amzn.asia/d/acyUDCd) and felt the need to implement what i was learning. So I’m rewriting sqlite in Rust
github.com/patrobinson/...
github.com/patrobinson/...
