alias watch="watch -n0.2" am I the only one?

"blearily", "reedy", "torpor", "teeming", "fervently" -- cheeses, pick a dictionary each time you read Harry Potter

Garmin ltd. has allegedly had a cyber break-in, all their data being hijacked by a ransomware. A friendly reminder that the crime is not the way of payment the ransom-askers are using (bitcoin), but the cyber-attack and ransom-asking. The regulators will claim the opposite.

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Quite soon I'll be free for a new job, project, contract or a venture. Please throw any suggestions at me, I'm still not sure what I'll be doing next. linkedin.com/feed/update/ur… RTs with your comments are highly welcome. Thanks!

If you are new to linux/unix and find command line interfaces cryptic, here is a concise explanation of how CLI arguments are supposed to work, a sort of an official guideline: pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/969…

Being fully aware of how many "blockchain" startups are actually plain databases I now wonder whether a good part of "AI startups" are just trivial algorithms full of heuristics

— Why didn't the skeleton go to the party? — He had no body to go with. Finally Christmas jokes are getting somewhat better.

We are happy to announce that Daniel Vartanov, probably one of the most known and respected engineers out of Kyrgyzstan, is joining us as a fellow. As their CTO he helped Veeqo reach 600 paying businesses and a multi-million ARR. We are proud to assist him with his next move!

Playing Half-Life nowadays is more relevant than ever

Finally, a well-written competitor to `mc` (midnight commander). I recommend everyone to try `lf`, an awesome file manager github.com/gokcehan/lf written in Go, btw

Me: learning how to cook & learning English Youtube: How to Make Spotted Dick - The Victorian Way youtube.com/watch?v=T15J5p…

Thanks to Go and Rust for a new wave of console utility tools: fd, ripgrep, lf, fzf. Both languages brought a new generation of devs to low-level programming. Seriously, thank you for that.

I couldn't even dream of it even a few years ago. What a time to be alive

New on the blog: looking back at the Roo Talks summer event we did, with talks from Daniel Vartanov Dan Sheldon Jamie Tanna | www.jvt.me James King deliveroo.engineering/2023/01/24/roo…

No, chatGPT will not replace programmers, but the programmers who use chatGPT will replace those who don't

This Friday, I am speaking at Brighton Ruby. Going to claim that since Ruby 3.3 the Ractors are as smart and powerful as goroutines in Golang. #BrightonRuby