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Notes. Random thoughts, ideas, links, musings, short and unstructured.

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Tim Hårek wrote about the overhaul of their homelab. Really impressed with the networking work they did. I have to admit I am also a bit jelly about that new hardware too lol! Really nice stuff.

Homelabs are so much fun.

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I may submit to the unknown, but never to the unknowable.

― Roger Zelazny Lord of Light
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Impermanence is not a loss you’re owed protection from, no instead it is the thing that makes any thing worth enjoying while it’s here.

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Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

― Frank Herbert Dune
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Adults with ADHD may pay high price to mask traits and fit in, SFU study finds

A new SFU study found more than 91 per cent of adult participants with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) reported hiding, suppressing or compensating for their ADHD traits to navigate social situations.

While masking may help people get through day-to-day interactions, the study found it often leads to exhaustion, anxiety, depression and low self-esteem. Many participants also reported feelings of inauthenticity, impostor syndrome and uncertainty about their identity.

yeah pretty much.

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Dopamine Fracking

The act of pumping immense, disproportionate resources — money, crowdsourced math, analytics, optimization, min-maxing, popular opinion aggregation, etc. — into a previously casual or complex, layered activity to forcefully extract and squeeze out the purest, most concentrated dopamine hit, with no regard for anything except dopamine.

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https://blainsmith.com/articles/just-fucking-use-go/

Hey, dipshit. You know what compiles in two seconds, deploys as a single binary, and doesn’t shit itself when a transitive dependency gets yanked from npm at 3am? Go.

oh yeah, this is speaking my language.

Dependencies that don’t ruin your weekend

go mod init. Done. Your dependencies live in go.mod and go.sum. The sum file is a cryptographic record of what you actually got, so you can tell when somebody pulls a left-pad on you. There is no node_modules directory. There is no lockfile drift between dev and CI. There are no peer dependencies, no optional dependencies, no devDependencies, no peerDependenciesMeta. There is one file that lists what you use, and one file that proves you got what you expected.

Oh yeah buddy this is the good stuff!