Opinionated Logic

I've been making more changes to my form API backend recently, migrating the deployment environment from FreeBSD jails to Docker containers. This isn't a post about that migration though. In the process of migrating I lost access to a fully featured sendmail binary. If you'd lik…

You've deleted your database. The database. Well, not delete per se, just unintentionally rolled it back to an almost year old backup. The specifics of how you managed such a tragically foolish thing aren't important (though it involved a very cute toddler and command line histor…

Welcome, dear traveller. Today I will regale you with a tale of perseverance, triumph over the odds, but mostly a tale of laziness that was enabled by the Rust programming language.

Wooooo buddy! Did I have some debugging fun this weekend guys. Let's talk about Gatsby—the React framework for building single page web applications, not the literary novel. I had occasion recently to start upgrading a project from Gatsby version 3 to version 4. The upgrade was g…

I've had this idea floating around in my head for a while on how knowledge of, and familiarity with, one programming language can help you learn another. Maybe something to give as a presentation. Before that I need to get the idea down, so that's this post. Below I list the languages and the features from them, that helped me learn comparable (to my mind) concepts in Swift. Let's jump in.

My wife tasked me with reading up on COVID-19 vaccines to see if they were safe for our oldest to take. I, not being one to shy away from the opportunity to spend a day or so reading papers, jumped at the opportunity!