This is an email I sent to Mayor Andy Fillmore and Councillors Hinch and White on Feburary 27, 2025. An extra link to his Windsor Street Exchange comments added and a couple terms expanded for longer-term context. Hi Mayor, During Tuesday’s Windsor Street Exchange item you said something about the impact of traffic or congestion on people’s mental health. I think you meant because they are sitting in their cars and somehow a new Windsor Street Exchange or other projects are going to “ea...| Posts on Dan Peterson
It snows in Halifax!| danp.net
I’ve been spending some time on CI improvements at work recently, mostly around cutting down how long things take.| danp.net
At work, we’ve just about completed a migration from the lib/pq Go PostgreSQL driver to pgx.| danp.net
Testing code that involves time or concurrency can be a struggle.| danp.net
I’ve been having a lot of call trouble at home lately using Eastlink and an iPhone 13 mini.| danp.net
Where possible, I like to build systems around convergence.| danp.net
One of my favorite localized Go refactorings is reducing nesting by using return as early as possible. Take this example, based on a recently-refactored function at Heroku:| danp.net
It seems like Twitter may not be around much longer.| danp.net
Halifax has a systemic road safety problem. One way it manifests is people driving too fast, especially on residential| danp.net
As part of Heroku Private Spaces we attach extra Elastic Network Interfaces| danp.net
At Heroku we use Travis CI to run project tests on push to GitHub. While Travis CI offers PostgreSQL in their environment, it’s version 9.1. A project I’m working on recently started using PostgreSQL 9.2’s JSON data type, which 9.1 does not have.| danp.net
Since July 30th, I’ve been using ledger (on GitHub) to track my personal finances. What did I use before? I’m ashamed to say nothing beyond my banks’ sites.| danp.net
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