Written by Remy Sharp
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on Jun. 29, 2021
A great collection of tools similar to my own "CLI improved" post a few years back and includes some tools I use daily already (including jq, bat, fd and fzf). There's some nice additions but the trick is to use them for local tooling and not for shared tools or workflows as it's less likely someon…
Written by Remy Sharp
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on Jun. 21, 2021
After baulking at the fuss over light and dark theming in both browsers and systems, I've fully jumped into the bandwagon and enjoy when my system theme switches to "evening" mode and everything goes easier on my eyes - I even blogged about my set up last year. Firefox recently updated with a Syste…
Written by Remy Sharp
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on Jun. 18, 2021
When using postgres locally for development, sometimes, if the production dataset is too large, I'll take a sample to work with locally. More recently I've run into the problem that when I load new production data into tables with auto increment primary key columns, I'll get a conflict, i.e. I load…
Written by Remy Sharp
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on Jun. 18, 2021
I've been using postgres a lot lately for projects, but when dealing with large dataset changes and testing, it's not a quick process to reset the state to start again. I stumbled upon stellar which appears to do exactly this job, but I had a couple of gotchas so figured I'd capture it here. Instal…
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on Jun. 14, 2021
I've just today finished an online course that I stumbled upon, it took me a month (of bits during lunch breaks and a few evenings) and it was really rewarding. It's been around for about 5 years, so it's possible you've heard of it, but all the same, it's called From Nand to Tetris. I'm writing th…
Written by Remy Sharp
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on Jun. 14, 2021
Marbles Squared is now in the last leg of development and I'm working through the minor bugs in the software - things like a single white pixel sometimes appears in the bottom of the "game over" box. But right up to the last moments I'm still making significant changes that I won't be able to chang…