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Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev · 13/05/2025

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Tim Berglund @tlberglund.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

What about the DataStream API makes it better than the Table API, do you think?

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Tim Berglund @tlberglund.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Wait, so ARM is little-endian? The perfidy! The effrontery!

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Tim Berglund @tlberglund.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Shooting some videos about Kafka Connect today, which is deadly serious business.

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Tim Berglund @tlberglund.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Me: *takes survey* Culture Amp: "LOVE ME!"

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Tim Berglund @tlberglund.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Thanks, man. Glad you caught that. 😊

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Tim Berglund @tlberglund.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Oh, I didn't know that was a thing. This project is mostly about me wanting to upgrade the lights on my shelves in my background. It will be cool when it's done. Next up I need something that generates events. For obvious reasons. :)

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Tim Berglund @tlberglund.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Surely he is, but I seriously meant I was hardware/firmware hacking. I got FreeRTOS running on various Raspberry Pi Pico boards. It blinks a light. Fear me. github.com/tlberglund/p...

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Tim Berglund @tlberglund.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

I was thinking of doing a reboot of mine over the holidays, but I spent my free time on a bunch of hardware/firmware hacking instead. Your site, though? Love it!

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Tim Berglund @tlberglund.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

this is much more exciting than data streaming, where did my career go wrong

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Tim Berglund @tlberglund.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Any Bay Area photographers around here? I’m looking for a vantage point to capture a time lapse of the fog coming in over the hills. Thinking more Peninsula-ish than in the City.

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Tim Berglund @tlberglund.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Little-known fact: my back yard is an airport ramp. Merry Christmas to you too!

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Tim Berglund @tlberglund.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I hope everyone who celebrates is planning to have this awesome of a Christmas.

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Tim Berglund @tlberglund.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Well this just reflects my weak PLG vision: I thought you were trolling me! But VS Code and JS kinda do fit that profile, and certain open life up to LLMs. I will be thinking about this...

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Tim Berglund @tlberglund.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Not all of my #advent posts are for the lulz. This one gets me every year. "It's okay. He's here."

Mary, the mother of Jesus, comforts Eve, who is holding the fruit she ate and hanging her head in shame. Mary looks at her with kindness, placing Eve's hand on her pregnant belly, as if to say, "It's okay. He's here."

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Tim Berglund @tlberglund.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

It probably didn't happen, but hey, it's Christmas.

Nicholas punches Arius at the council of Nicea in entirely anachronistic clothing in an event that probably didn't happen.

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Tim Berglund @tlberglund.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Any positive ones? It's an interesting hypothesis.

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Tim Berglund @tlberglund.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I am only marginally aware, myself.

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Tim Berglund @tlberglund.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

This is interesting! Can you cite any examples?

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Tim Berglund @tlberglund.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Don't settle for creedally uninformed mall Santas, people!

A little boy sits on a mall Santa's lap and asks "Homoousios or Homoiusios?" The Santa is confused, and the boy says, "You're not the real St. Nicholas."

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Tim Berglund @tlberglund.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

"You have the Christmas music taste of a quirked up Christian autumn influencer girl." —My Stepdaughter

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Tim Berglund @tlberglund.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Sure! I haven't touched it, but it's hardly rare these days, and learning a new language is always fun.

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Tim Berglund @tlberglund.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

I think all code requires this. I imagine Scala even more so.

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Tim Berglund @tlberglund.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Marmee March was an Effective Altruist.

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Tim Berglund @tlberglund.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

"CMake isn't a build system; it's a build system generator." Okay, well, now I have two problems. (Happily cmake.org is more straightforward than this. But reading tutorials that try to tell me I am not fighting with a build system? Tim: 🤬.)

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Tim Berglund @tlberglund.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I think it grew out of the needs of the Git project itself, which was written in C. It makes a lot of sense when you look at the C dependency management system (which is no system at all). :)

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Tim Berglund @tlberglund.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Amazing! I can't wait for an excuse to try this out.

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Tim Berglund @tlberglund.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

And now I'm wondering how big an LLM foundation model I could run on a Pi 5...

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Tim Berglund @tlberglund.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Heh, well, it's definitely not without its benefits! This problem I had yesterday was really a head-scratcher. What I was seeing seemed impossible. I didn't stick around to try to figure it out (the embedded systems hacking was hard enough), but...man!

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Tim Berglund @tlberglund.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

(Also, I spend my afternoon trying—and failing—to get an RTOS to build on a Raspberry Pi Pico W board. Some things don't change. :) )

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Tim Berglund @tlberglund.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I haven't fired it up yet, but I just wrote a new Raspian image to an SD card for an old Pi 3 I have—and I was thinking that little machine seemed pretty old-fashioned by now. They've come far!

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Tim Berglund @tlberglund.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

That somehow didn't work. Git was looking around to find residue of the submodule, or something. I don't know. The whole repo was a fork of a hello world anyway, so I actually blew away my fork and make a whole new repo with fresh submodule adds.

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Tim Berglund @tlberglund.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Every time I hear somebody say, "Git got messed up, so I blew away the repo and cloned again," I die inside a little. You can always fix things, if only someone will show you how! Then I actually tried blowing away a submodule and re-adding it.

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Tim Berglund @tlberglund.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Of course, I ask this only minutes later actually to be confounded by an apparently impossible difference between a submodule in the clone of a repo and that same submodule in that same repo as it occurs as a submodule of another. Sunday hobby time is fun. Maybe submodules aren't.

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Tim Berglund @tlberglund.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

This is the report I seem to hear the most. You might be right—maybe being better at Git would have saved the day—but how good should you have to be? Is this a you problem, really? :) I am not at all bashing Git here; more just musing on product thoughts.

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Tim Berglund @tlberglund.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Ah, interesting! But I really can't see a new language community coming to prominence with submodules as its dependency management solution. This must be evidence in favor of you being right. :)

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Tim Berglund @tlberglund.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Have you seen otherwise? They don't seem to show up in projects that have actual dependency management systems associated with them, so I don't know if they actually get used a bunch.

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Tim Berglund @tlberglund.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I have tried to use them in anger, though, and did not see good results—even as one who has shown moderate skill at explaining how Git works. The distribution of Git skills in any team is just too broad to count on folks being able to sort things out when they get wonky, which they inevitably will.

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Tim Berglund @tlberglund.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Git submodules are great. They're an elegant twist on Git's model of the world that almost makes C's approach to dependency management (to wit, "What, you need more than a filesystem, princess?") into something workable.

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