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+++ title = "bottling 28 years" date = 2026-09-15 slug = "bottling-28-years" description = "Laurie Voss says we're all product engineers now. I'm trying to put that job in a box, without selling another platform that almost fits." tags = ["thinks", "craft", "engineering"] +++

Laurie Voss wrote that the cost of writing code has collapsed, and that review and ops are next. What's left of making software, he says, is finding out what a particular human actually wants, saying it precisely enough that a machine can act on it, and checking that what got built is what they meant. Which it never is the first time.

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-- Pull in the wezterm API
local wezterm = require("wezterm")

-- This table will hold the configuration.
local config = {}

-- In newer versions of wezterm, use the config_builder which will
-- help provide clearer error messages
if wezterm.config_builder then
        config = wezterm.config_builder()

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#!/bin/bash
counter=0
while true; do
	NEXT=$(date -v +1H +%H:00)
	tclock -c darkgray countdown -t "$NEXT" -T "worked $counter hours"
	read -p "Start the next hour? (y/n): " yn
	case $yn in
	[Yy]*) echo "Continuing..." ;;
	[Nn]*)
		echo "Exiting..."

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ssh-keygen -Y sign -f ~/.radicle/keys/radicle -n "my@id"

#!/bin/bash

PHRASE="Hello! I might be a DID"
echo "$PHRASE" | ssh-keygen -Y sign -f ~/.radicle/keys/radicle -n "my@id" > test.sig

echo "my@id $(cat ~/.radicle/keys/radicle.pub)" > allowed_keys

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+++ categories = ['hax'] date = '2023-05-08' description = 'Hugo + gist + sh' slug = 'gist-powered-blog' title = 'Gist + Hugo + Bash Blog' +++

Over the past few weeks I've been noodling around setting up this website in my spare time. I have a lot to say personally about the work that I'm doing that isn't really appropriate from my [employers

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+++ categories = ['hax'] date = '2021-08-12' description = 'Generate deterministic passwords on the command line' slug = 'deterministic-passwords' title = 'Generate deterministic passwords on the command line' +++

Simple method for creating deterministic passwords on the commandline

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const fnCache: { [key: string]: any } = {}
function scriptValue(input: string, args: { [key: string]: any }): Function {
  let params: string[] = []
  let vals: any[] = []
  for (let k in args) {
    params.push(k)
    vals.push(args[k])
  }
  let keys = params.join(',')
  let fnKey = keys + input

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+++ categories = ['thinks'] date = '2021-01-03' description = 'roadmap and changelog file' slug = 'roadmap-to-changelogs' title = 'The Roadmap to Changelongs' +++

The Roadmap to Changelogs

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+++ categories = ['thinks'] date = '2019-11-27' description = 'Perfection vs Pragmatism' slug = 'perfection-vs-pragmatism' title = 'Walking the Tightrope: Perfection vs Pragmatism' +++

Walk the Tightrope: Perfection vs Pragmatism

• Every engineer wants their service / function / foo to be great, pure engineering pefection.

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VERSION ?=0.0.1
BUILD_TIME :=$(date -u '+%Y-%m-%d_%I:%M:%S%p')
BRANCH :=`git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD`
COMMIT :=`git rev-parse HEAD`
LDFLAGS=-ldflags "-X main.VERSION=${VERSION} -X main.BUILDTIME=${BUILD_TIME} -X main.COMMIT=${COMMIT} -X main.BRANCH=${BRANCH}"
BINARY :="surge"


default: build/sitemap.xml