Dom's current

My personal micro-blog

2024/01/01 15:34

Love cracking open a new notebook & setting it up for the upcoming year, learning from things that didn’t work & iterating on the practice! πŸ““βš‘

2023/12/30 22:33

As a side-note, I really need to improve the markdown parsing and facet creation for the Bluesky syndication…

2023/12/30 22:30

APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day - https://apod.nasa.gov/) has quickly become my favourite RSS feed and is a lovely surprise every morning for me! πŸͺπŸŒŒ

2023/12/28 09:34

Picked up The Word for World is Forest as a “quick & light” read… Boy was I wrong! πŸ’™πŸ“š

2023/12/27 12:15

I really appreciated my decision to use sqlite to store my posts, as it allowed me to implement a very straight-forward migration mechanism, when I was adding the BlueSky federation/syndication.

I especially enjoyed the built-in

PRAGMA user_version;

to keep track of which migrations have already been run on a given .db file.

2023/12/27 10:15

Yesterday, I finished If Then by Jill Lepore. What a book! Meticulously researched and written in a shockingly readable style. Highly recommended to anyone who wants to learn how far back attempts at using computers to influence people’s opinion go! πŸ’™πŸ“š

2023/12/26 21:11

As of right now, my posts on my personal micro-blog are automatically syndicated to BlueSky! πŸ’™ POSSE ftw!

2023/12/25 22:16

So I’ve received my invite code for Bluesky… Strongly considering federating my posts made here automatically over there (or at least have the option to do so)…

2023/12/22 16:05

I can’t believe it took me this long to create an about page for current, but it’s finally up!

2023/12/18 07:26

Daniel Kehlmann’s Don’t Wake Me Up Too Soon was a pleasant surprise find on Hacker News! It ponders the responsibility of fiction writers (and creators in general) to dead real-life figures & what is and isn’t/should and shouldn’t be allowed. Interesting thing to mull over the morning cup of tea…