Mike Hadlow
@mikehadlow.com
Lewes, UK. Software guy. blog: mikehadlow.com. TypeScript, C#. Author of guitardashboard.com and easynetq.com. Talk to me about: code / tech / guitar / science / history / progressive-rock
And here is his grandfather George Robinson, a rather fine looking Victorian gentleman. I've inherited the massive nose!
September 3, 2025 at 9:59 PM
And here is his grandfather George Robinson, a rather fine looking Victorian gentleman. I've inherited the massive nose!
My Grandfather (highlighted) with his class, training to be a lieutenant in the Royal Navy at HMS King Alfred (yes that's now the swimming pool) in Hove during WWII.
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September 3, 2025 at 9:56 PM
My Grandfather (highlighted) with his class, training to be a lieutenant in the Royal Navy at HMS King Alfred (yes that's now the swimming pool) in Hove during WWII.
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Not a huge fan of the Rust closure syntax. I imagine there's a good reason for using pipe instead of brackets for the argument list. I suppose at least it makes it clear that this is a closure rather than a function.
August 28, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Not a huge fan of the Rust closure syntax. I imagine there's a good reason for using pipe instead of brackets for the argument list. I suppose at least it makes it clear that this is a closure rather than a function.
The Rust debugger in Zed is pretty intuitive for anyone who's used the C# debugger in VS. I've only used it on really simple examples so far though.
August 22, 2025 at 11:12 AM
The Rust debugger in Zed is pretty intuitive for anyone who's used the C# debugger in VS. I've only used it on really simple examples so far though.
Interesting how Rust provides the `?` syntax as a kind of poor-mans `do` notation. Can one make it work with one's own types I wonder?
August 15, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Interesting how Rust provides the `?` syntax as a kind of poor-mans `do` notation. Can one make it work with one's own types I wonder?
Unexpected mini-feature of Rust that I haven't come across in any other language: You can reuse a variable name in a new variable declaration and the compiler is fine with it. If it's in a new inner scope then the outer scope retains the original value too. I'm not sure I like this.
August 11, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Unexpected mini-feature of Rust that I haven't come across in any other language: You can reuse a variable name in a new variable declaration and the compiler is fine with it. If it's in a new inner scope then the outer scope retains the original value too. I'm not sure I like this.
Why does this not surprise me. Extraversion by profession.
August 2, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Why does this not surprise me. Extraversion by profession.
Inside my BMG Super. Construction is quite different from any other electric guitar I've seen. Very easy to access everything once you take off the scratch plate.
July 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Inside my BMG Super. Construction is quite different from any other electric guitar I've seen. Very easy to access everything once you take off the scratch plate.
I've been working on an open-source SAML Proxy. It's ready to take for a test drive. I'd welcome any feedback: github.com/mikehadlow/s...
July 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I've been working on an open-source SAML Proxy. It's ready to take for a test drive. I'd welcome any feedback: github.com/mikehadlow/s...
Good article in today's Guardian about the Initial Teaching Alphabet. A failed teaching experiment used at my primary school. It was totally bonkers.
July 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Good article in today's Guardian about the Initial Teaching Alphabet. A failed teaching experiment used at my primary school. It was totally bonkers.
Near Brighton is a natural feature named after one of Spinal Tap's greatest songs.
July 2, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Near Brighton is a natural feature named after one of Spinal Tap's greatest songs.
I found myself writing this result merge function just avoid nested closures. It's not very pretty, but it does the trick. It would be cool if I could find a way to persuade the type system to give nicer names than "a" and "b" though.
June 11, 2025 at 9:33 AM
I found myself writing this result merge function just avoid nested closures. It's not very pretty, but it does the trick. It would be cool if I could find a way to persuade the type system to give nicer names than "a" and "b" though.
At least it admitted it had made it all up.
June 4, 2025 at 10:10 AM
At least it admitted it had made it all up.
My favourite, on the South Downs near Falmer in East Sussex.
May 25, 2025 at 8:35 AM
My favourite, on the South Downs near Falmer in East Sussex.
Quote post with a picture of the plane you’d expect as a bribe
May 14, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Quote post with a picture of the plane you’d expect as a bribe
On the Downs near Lewes.
March 30, 2025 at 10:59 PM
On the Downs near Lewes.
Southern England next week:
March 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Southern England next week:
Surely some mistake? This is the UK _in early March_!
February 28, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Surely some mistake? This is the UK _in early March_!
2/n Raycast, a spotlight replacement.
February 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
2/n Raycast, a spotlight replacement.
Other tools I'm currently enjoying on MacOS include:
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The Ghostty terminal:
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The Ghostty terminal:
February 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Other tools I'm currently enjoying on MacOS include:
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The Ghostty terminal:
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The Ghostty terminal:
TIL: DaisyDisk on MacOS is super nice. daisydiskapp.com
February 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
TIL: DaisyDisk on MacOS is super nice. daisydiskapp.com