Engineering @ Stripe. Ex-Heroku. Occasional writer. Themes: web APIs, Postgres, Rust, software safety and resilience, efficient human interfaces, and running.

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Joined March 2009
Sent Nanoglyph 018 about Ractors in Ruby 3. A more faithful implementation of the actor model than something Goroutines/channels. Two styles of message passing to get whatever blocking/non-blocking semantics you want to have. brandur.org/nanoglyphs/018-r…
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A few romantic shots of Banff to help get your week started. Can't believe I'm still hiking in January.
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After a lengthy battle, my SEO’s been usurped by an IKEA hangar rail for the garage. (Looks pretty nice actually, might get one.) Do I have any chance of taking it back, or is this the end.
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Finally finishing S4 Mr. Robot. Felt less anxiety from the culminating plot than from the idea of hacking via smartphone. Between autocorrect, no tab button, and half your shell symbols buried in keyboard menus two layers deep, this is the show’s most dystopian concept, by far.
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Happy 2021! A few pretty photos of the Rockies from the other day. Just gorgeous — lots of green, but now with a light layer of snow.
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Going through old tweets, found this 10yo ad for The Camera Store in Calgary. One minute long, no spoken words, pure inspiration. Best enjoyed by photography nerds. (The ease/art of videography has advanced since then, but this is da Vinci for its time.) invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=awq90APE…
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Life on WaniKani: wake up, underwater, to inbox(hundreds) every morning. 270 kanji in. Last week, from first principles, found that "ichiban" (一番) literally means "number one". Learned that word when I was five, and for the last 30 years thought it meant “noodles”.
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Finally, a blank slate. (Allowing me to start on one part of the surface and work inwards without breaking everything. Wayyyyy too many hours spent refactoring to get here.)
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Apple's pulled an Rdio with Big Sur. As much as blown out, low-contrast interfaces with big white space gutters look great in portfolios, they are strictly worse for usability. Modern designers need the equivalent of editorial boards, or something. andrewdenty.com/blog/2020/07…
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Planet Earth is one of the best TV series ever created, but a fair critique is how it goes to extreme lengths to gloss over human impact on these ecosystems. Recommend Attenborough’s “A Life on Our Planet” (Netflix). Same sublime cinematography, but with sobering facts attached.
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