Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke In many ways, programming is very much like a kind of Magic. We even call people that are good at computers, a Computer Wiz(ard). When I volunteered at an English school I would often have a bit of fun and jokingly call myself パソコンの魔法使い or Computer magician when describing my job. Writing code can even look like writing in an ancient arcane grimoire.
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While I already use VSCode for most things, like many developers I am often curious to see what else is out there. Even though I like some of the ideas behind the Zed editor, and will follow its progress, advertising built in AI is a fairly immediate turn off. The idea of a high performance editor though is still very appealing, and it seems like there are many rust based contenders (not that my rust abilities are anywhere near the level to contribute anything).
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As I have tried to reduce my dependence on social media, I have picked up more and more blogs into my feed reader. With as much as I read, I have often felt like I should be writing more as well but I am very skilled at distractions and excuses to avoid writing.
I am often reminded about the seinfield calendar which introduced a strategy for improving at something with continuous practice.
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When one thinks of radiation, what kinds of thoughts first come to mind? For many, radiation gives the image of something scary. Often places like Fukushima and Chernobyl come to mind. For me, I’ll often immediately wonder “how much are we talking about”. There are two examples that often come to mind.
User Information / Data Like radiation being useful for X-Rays and microwaving food, there are times where you need to handle user information and data.
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I’ve been using alfred on my macs for quite a number of years. I don’t remember how I first found out about it, but it’s nearly always the first thing I install on new machines. Should I move to Linux, I am certainly going to need to find an equivalent and onagre looks like it might be one potential replacement. Inspired by a random comment on mastodon, I thought it would be interesting to write about my most commonly used workflows.
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I recently learned a new word, シンデレラフィット (Cinderella Fit) which amused me. It seems to be a term applied a lot when talking about various storage items from places like muji and ikea and refers to items that fit perfectly. I’m often reminded of it when I see videos on things like gridfinity where one tries to make a container that fits perfectly for each individual item. There’s a part of me that loves seeing things like BaseLynx , a customizable charging system that has a dock for each one of your devices.
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I was surprised when reading the changelog for Salt 3007.0 , regarding several deprecated modules to be removed in 3009.0. I also later read some of the policy changes on their blog. Going forward, they are planning on having a much smaller core module, and will be moving a lot of larger modules to external repositories.
I started using Salt while I was at Kotagent, and quite liked the way it worked.
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Loosely inspired by xinetd
, I wrote a simple dev proxy launcher.
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Nine Years I have now been in Japan for 9 years. Japan is far from a perfect company and there are plenty of bits that cause irritation at times, but overall I feel like my normal day to day is pretty good. This past year definitely had some ups and downs and I have quite a lot to consider moving into 2024.
Winter Break I had a number of paid holidays accumulated that were due to expire if I did not use them, so this year I have an extra long winter holiday.
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Rust has been on my list of things to learn for quite a while, and recently I have started to actually start learning it. I started with the Rust Book online, working through a chapter at a time, mostly during my weekly MokuMokuKai . After finishing the first I/O project I also went through the rust cli book to further check some of my understanding before moving on.
Right now I’m taking a short break from the book to experiment with a few small CLI applications in Rust to check my understanding.
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