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Ryan Westlund

Jul 11 '20

Comparing an autocomplete algorithm in Python, Go, Haskell

#python #go #haskell #performance

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9 min read

Ryan Westlund

Jan 8

Rate my understanding of REST

#discuss #api #rest

3 3

1 min read

It seems like Rust software is bad

Yeah. It may be in part because Rust's design is still underg...

Jan 15

What would you add to Markdown? 🤔

spoilers.

Jan 6

Why I Hate Frontend

I can't just introduce a new framework into the app at my job...

Jan 2

Why I Hate Frontend

That was really abrasive.

Jan 2

Why I Hate Frontend

I've done web backends in Go, Python, Crystal, Rust, etc.

Jan 1

I finally have done it (without sudo) - the catastrophic command

zfsnap for ZFS or snapper for BTRFS are good.

Dec 30 '20

Comparing the same web scraper in Haskell, Python, Go

I know LOC as a blind measurement is problematic but I didn't...

Dec 27 '20

Why C programmers hate C++

huh

Dec 21 '20

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Ryan Westlund

Jan 1

What's more frustrating than compiling a C program?

#watercooler #c #discuss

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1 min read

Ryan Westlund

Jan 1

Why I Hate Frontend

#javascript #css

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1 min read

Ryan Westlund

Dec 16 '20

It seems like Rust software is bad

#rust

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2 min read

Ryan Westlund

Dec 16 '20

A bug caused by silent defaults

#story #go

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1 min read

Ryan Westlund

Dec 15 '20

My new battery_warn.sh

#watercooler #shell

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1 min read

Ryan Westlund

Nov 29 '20

Why C programmers hate C++

#c #cpp

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1 min read

Ryan Westlund

Nov 28 '20

Losing faith in ORMs

#orm #database #crystal

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3 min read

Ryan Westlund

Nov 20 '20

csvcheck.py

#csv #python

1 min read

Ryan Westlund

Nov 11 '20

My first FFI contribution!

#story #crystal #sqlite

1 min read

Ryan Westlund

Nov 8 '20

Just published my first npm package!

#showdev #npm

1 min read

Ryan Westlund

Nov 8 '20

Episode 9000 of BS password restrictions

#rant #password

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1 min read

Ryan Westlund

Nov 6 '20

My proud reverse-SSH hack

#linux #ssh #story

2 min read

Ryan Westlund

Nov 4 '20

How write(1) saved the day

#story #linux

3 min read

Ryan Westlund

Oct 30 '20

Am I the only one who hates this?

#discuss #linux

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1 min read

Ryan Westlund

Oct 26 '20

Advice on Sanemark

#discuss #markdown #sanemark

3 min read

Ryan Westlund

Oct 13 '20

Apologies for slandering the Jennifer ORM

#crystal

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1 min read

Ryan Westlund

Oct 12 '20

Frustrations with Crystal ORMs

#orm #crystal

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3 min read

Ryan Westlund

Oct 1 '20

Do I count as a "junior developer"?

#discuss #question

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1 min read

Ryan Westlund

Oct 1 '20

Crystal Review

#healthydebate #crystal

11 6

12 min read

Ryan Westlund

Sep 25 '20

Can we agree that font ligatures are the worst thing ever?

#watercooler #font #rant

5 2

1 min read

Ryan Westlund

Sep 25 '20

Filesystem versus SQLite performance

#performance #sqlite

9 5

2 min read

Ryan Westlund

Sep 25 '20

System76 review request

#hardware #laptop #system76 #question

6 2

1 min read

Ryan Westlund

Sep 24 '20

OS size

#watercooler #linux #freebsd

5 5

1 min read

Ryan Westlund

Sep 23 '20

Coming around to SQLite

#sqlite #postgres #database #architecture

8 3

2 min read

Ryan Westlund

Sep 16 '20

A win for dynamic typing?

#discuss #typesystem #templates

3 2

2 min read

Ryan Westlund

Sep 12 '20

Dreams of an ideal world: Rethinking package managers

#watercooler #architecture #design

8 2

2 min read

Ryan Westlund

Sep 10 '20

Removing bloatware features from Sway

#sway #wayland #bloat

1 min read

Ryan Westlund

Sep 8 '20

Discovering pacman.conf

#todayilearned #linux #artix #archlinux

7 4

1 min read

Ryan Westlund

Sep 6 '20

Scraping DEV to measure your post quality

#crystal

11 3

3 min read

Ryan Westlund

Sep 3 '20

Any code counters that count AST size?

#discuss #codequality

1 min read

Ryan Westlund

Sep 2 '20

Evidence of Crystal's power

#crystal

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2 min read

Ryan Westlund

Aug 31 '20

The Unix world needs to get its shit together.

#unix #linux

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2 min read

Ryan Westlund

Aug 23 '20

EFI victory

#linux

24 12

2 min read

Ryan Westlund

Aug 21 '20

Why OOP HTTP frameworks?

#discuss #oop #webdev #philosophy

6 2

1 min read

Ryan Westlund

Aug 20 '20

Story of daily Linux borkage and reinstall

#linux

4 1

3 min read

Ryan Westlund

Aug 19 '20

What does OOP mean to you?

#discuss #oop

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1 min read

Ryan Westlund

Aug 18 '20

Why I don't believe in pure functional programming anymore

#functional #philosophy #haskell #rust

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3 min read

Ryan Westlund

Aug 17 '20

Specifications are contravariant

#rant #philosophy

2 min read

Ryan Westlund

Aug 14 '20

Rust Review

#healthydebate #rust

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11 min read

Ryan Westlund

Aug 12 '20

Am I the only one who pronounces git as 'jit'?

#watercooler #discuss

6 16

1 min read

Ryan Westlund

Aug 11 '20

Are you always on the other side?

#watercooler #linux #unix

1 min read

Ryan Westlund

Aug 8 '20

What to do about monospace font sizes?

#design #question #ux

3 2

1 min read

Ryan Westlund

Aug 7 '20

Code counter comparison

#tooling #question

2 min read

Ryan Westlund

Aug 6 '20

How I just left FreeBSD

#freebsd #linux #fedora #voidlinux

7 min read

Ryan Westlund

Aug 4 '20

Self-containing lists...?!?

#todayilearned #python

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1 min read

Ryan Westlund

Jul 31 '20

I'm gonna be learning Linux!

#linux

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1 min read

Ryan Westlund

Jul 31 '20

Including library code in stack traces

#debugging #design

4 min read

Ryan Westlund

Jul 29 '20

Why do ppl often add extremely short posts to their reading list?

#meta

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1 min read

Ryan Westlund

Jul 29 '20

Javascript the compiled language

#javascript

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1 min read

Ryan Westlund

Jul 28 '20

Hierarchy of else if compression

#python #ruby #julia #rust

8 1

1 min read

Ryan Westlund

Jul 28 '20

Dynamic typing is a sin

#healthydebate #typesystem #philosophy

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4 min read

Ryan Westlund

Jul 26 '20

Double-counting notifs

#meta

4 3

1 min read

Ryan Westlund

Jul 25 '20

JS date parsing aaaaargghhh

#javascript #rant

1 min read

Ryan Westlund

Jul 23 '20

CLI autocompletion algorithm in Rust

#rust #performance

7 9

2 min read

Ryan Westlund

Jul 23 '20

How I found a bug in the Rust compiler on day 1 of learning Rust

#rust

1 min read

Ryan Westlund

Jul 22 '20

Interfaces don't need fields

#go #typesystem

5 2

1 min read

Ryan Westlund

Jul 22 '20

Can function overloading and no function declaration syntax be reconciled?

#question #design #syntax

1 min read

Ryan Westlund

Jul 21 '20

I JUST discovered that less has builtin help

#todayilearned #unix #linux

1 min read

Ryan Westlund

Jul 20 '20

The solution to Javascript import

#javascript

1 min read

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