I ran across The "do not be alarmed" clock on HackerNews and thought that would be a fun little project to play around with. It's been an awful long time since I've done anything with hardware and I haven't played with anything "Arduino" yet so I made my way over…
So we're expecting a baby here in the next week or two and my wife wanted a shelf/armoire/ambry(?) thing that matched our crib and changing dresser (see pictures of the store bought crib and dresser below). I drew up some plans in the free version of SketchUp and…
I switched from Chrome to Firefox a few months ago. For the most part...it feels roughly the same but there was one subtle difference that finally irked me to the point of googling: having to right click on a tab to close it. In Chrome, when you hover over…
My day job involves a lot of .NET Core development and a whole lot of logging. As a result, I've become accustomed to having logs when I need them. When working on pet projects I usually don't spend as much time on the "niceties" of life. Lately I've started doing…
So the other day I was working on transforming streams for an encryption layer for work. I ended up having some code that looked similar to this: public async Task SendAsync(byte[] data, Delegate next) { using (var stream = ...) { using (var encryptStream = ...) { using (var encodeStream = ...) { using (var reader = ...) { await next(...); } } } } } public…
I've recently started going through this brilliant article on creating your own text editor (read: nano/pico clone). If you've never built one this article breaks it down into easy to follow chunks. If you do go through it, you might notice the same thing I did. Page Up and…
I've been spending some time going through Philipp Oppermann's amazing blog series, Writing an OS in Rust. Digging into operating systems has been on my todo list for years now and I couldn't pass up the opportunity when I ran across this series on Hacker News. Phillip has done a…
What's a Database?A database is an organized collection of data 1. Data is stored on disk and in memory in a manner that maximizes reading data in complex ways. Why a Database?Databases are extremely good at complex queries. They also excel at managing concurrency, data integrity and redundancy.…