Rust: What to pick for the Error type when writing your own Result type The Result type in rust is great! Combined with the ? operator, it makes error handling much more concise than other languages. Consider ? vs: Go: if err != nil { return nil, err
Observable + bean-count Two of my favorite tools lately are Observable (observablehq.com) (a long time favorite for quickly prototyping javascript and creating interactive visualizations) and bean-count (a more recent addition for doing
Learning Mutability in Rust I'm writing Rust for the first time in awhile, and I ran into an issue with mutability, that I figured I'd write up. The thing I was trying to do was have a Client that creates an XML response body, and then makes a
How to MITM yourself with socat with TLS I was learning about OFX api's (what Quicken uses to pull your transaction info) for a personal project, and I kept getting 400 Bad Request errors. I wanted to see
Skincare: An ignorant guy's attempt to learn more part 2 - Dermatologists and the microbiome In the first post in this series, I laid out the following things to do: See a dermatologist (but read below about things to keep in mind)Try a product
skincare Skin care: an ignorant guy's attempt to learn more Bernie Sanders was interviewed by Cosmopolitan, and at the very end of the interview, they asked: Jessica Pels: What’s your skincare routine? Bernie Sanders: Not much. Jessica Pels: Do
obseravable Embedding Observable notebooks into a blog This post is an Observable notebook! Follow that link to edit or fork it. // Load the Observable runtime and inspector. import {Runtime, Inspector} from "https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@observablehq/runtime@4/dist/runtime.js"; // Your notebook, compiled as an ES module. import notebook
Do it Live! with ObservableHQ, a platform by the creator of D3.js presentation by Paul Carleton from Stripe for EventLoop in Mexico City on September 4th 2019 Do it Live! with ObservableHQ, a platform by the creator of D3.jsAn Observable notebook by Paul Carleton.Paul CarletonObservable
CLI for the Moon After trudging through the grossness of trying to add to $PS1 from a script, I got to thinking it would be fun to have the phase of the moon on my shell prompt.
PS1: The shell prompt variable and the tricky parts about setting it I wanted to add some information to the shell prompt from a script recently and learned some things about bash, PS1 and shell variables along the way. What is a
Telnet An exchange I had a few months ago went something like this: Me: Weird, my requests aren't getting through, but I can ping the server just fine. Coworker: I can't telnet to the port... the firewall is probably blocking your traffic. <later>
Reflections on TIL posts TL;DR Here are things I found helpful the past few days: Set goals, set time limits, enforce with timers Outline, outline, outline Be genuine The Experiment Last Wednesday, I
linux networking Why does TCP even need a 3-way handshake? The 3-way handshake. It's inevitable in any TCP discussion that you mention the TCP connection establishment three-way handshake. After writing about QUIC and how it aims to have 0-RTT connection establishment cost, I started wondering why TCP needed that 1-RTT 3-way handshake in the first place.
linux networking TIL: QUIC is like TLS over UDP QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections) is a new(ish) protocol for developing applications on the internet. It aims to provide TLS-like encryption without the overhead of TCP.
linux networking TIL: The difference between netstat and ss Motivation In this post, I'm going to go over two tools for inspecting the socket states (netstat and ss), and why to choose one over the other (spoiler: you can
linux networking TIL: There are 16 T1 Internet Service Providers I've been collecting information for a "Practical Guide to Linux Networking" by reading material I can find. Two things I've been reading recently are: A Practical Guide to
TIL New Format: Today I Learned I am going to try a new format where I write about something I learned. My goals with this format are: Increase the amount of writing I do Increase the
rust Dumb dig clone in Rust Why write a DNS client When I started digging in to DNS, I thought it would be interesting to try implementing a very simple DNS client similar to dig, but
linux networking Starting to figure out SSL Introduction I've been slowly working towards a personal finance app, but before I can actually put it on the open web, I want to be reasonably confident that I am
linux networking Meandering History of DNS Authority As a follow up to my DNS post, I started trying to answer "Who's in charge of all this?". Basically, I wanted to know what keeps me from
Wifi Wifi Woes resolved with Ubiquiti Fast Wifi is possible! I have declared my Ubiquiti experiment a success! I am consistently measuring internet speeds over 100 MB/s with the lowest I've seen around 40 MB/
Wifi Debugging Slow Wifi Introduction I ran into the ever common problem of slow WiFi recently. In this post I want to detail the experiments I ran and what I gleaned from the results.
linux networking DNS End to End Domain Name System: End to End We all interact with the Domain Name System (DNS) every day. Every time we load a web page, or click a link, our software
Linux What does mount do? Background As I mentioned in my [post about containers][container-post], I want to write a container tool in rust to learn more about rust and containers. I started doing that with my friend Kevin, and our (humble) progress so far is on Github in
Running a Single Page App in Docker - Part 2 Introduction In my [last post][last-post], I left off with 2 docker containers: one running the Go server back-end and one running the Nginx front-end serving the JavaScript for the site. In this post, I will describe how I got the whole app running
