My Git+Synology setup
I upgraded my NAS and setup git on it again. I went a little custom this time around, so I’m documenting it here if I ever need to do it again.
How to setup a git server
Here’s how I setup a git server with Gitweb on a Raspberry Pi.
The Oregon Trail’s Origins
Very interesting documentary on The Oregon Trail’s Origins.
Slack’s scrollbar
I was searching for CSS scrollbar rules for Safari and came across this completely unrelated article about how Slack customizes their scrollbar by hiding it and showing their own. Clever!
Don’t think to write, write to think
This is one of the lessons that every writer comes to appreciate: writing is thinking. Writing is not the artifact of thinking, it’s the actual thinking process.
The Rails Attributes API
Test Double wrote about the Rails Attributes API. Great article—just don’t be tempted to use it on a serialized column like jsonb… you’ll hate yourself eventually like I always do.
90s cursor effects
I saw this list of 90s cursor effects posted on Hacker News today.
The seventy thousand
The Biden administration announced their student debt relief program this week. Of course there are a lot of opinions on this, ranging from literal tears of relief to outright rage over liberals getting another handout. I’m one of those people who penny pinched for years to pay my loans off and I think this is a great idea. Strap in for a story.
rsync compression is slow afterall
I tested compression in rsync on a big file and, no surprise, it’s pretty slow (about 9x slower).
Linux Sticky Bandits (the sticky bit and friends)
I always have to look up how to apply sticky bit/suid/sgid, so I am bookmarking it here for future reference.