I care a lot about my finances, and I put a lot of effort into tracking things, making goals, and improving my financial health. Once upon a time, I didn’t: within a few years of university, I managed to blow through all my savings, loans, grants, parental support, and overdraft. There were times where I couldn’t withdraw money from a cash machine because I had less than £5 to my name (well, less than -£1995 to my name, if you exclude the overdraft). I had to carefully plan around the m...| barrucadu's memos
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I’ve spent the last week or so implementing a recursive DNS resolver in Rust. I’m not very good at either of those things, so this has been a bit of a learning experience.| barrucadu's memos
I have mixed the Widow’s Walk pieces into the Betrayal at House on the Hill base game.| barrucadu's memos
I’m good at remembering facts and details, but not so good at remembering tasks and experiences. I’d forget to do the laundry every weekend if I didn’t have it written down: so I wrote it down.| barrucadu's memos
User effectfully on reddit wrote an article It’s not a no-op to unmask an interruptible operation (reddit discussion) about a small gotcha with interruptible operations and asynchronous exceptions.| barrucadu's memos
Once upon a time I used a self-hosted instance of Jenkins and the free-for-open-source Travis CI for continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD). It worked, but had some undesirable traits:| barrucadu's memos
The 19th of March, 2020 was the last time I visited the office, and there were only a couple of other people in.| barrucadu's memos
The Domain Name System is a huge distributed eventually-consistent database1 mapping names, like memo.barrucadu.co.uk, to numbers, like 116.203.34.201. It’s federated, with trusted entities (you may have heard of the “DNS root servers”) delegating control of segments of the DNS namespace to others. It holds hundreds of millions of records, and updates to this database are typically visible in minutes to hours.| barrucadu's memos
The pile of network hardware.| barrucadu's memos