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erlang haaland

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software dev | 🇨🇦 github.com/dotxlem github.com/akkoro

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giri nathan @girinathan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
we might be throwing out a generational umami opportunity. i will taste the forbidden fish sauce defector.com/abandoned-fi...
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Let Me And A Food Scientist Sample The Abandoned Fish Sauce Terrorizing A Small Canadian Town | Defector
Take capelin, a small silvery fish in the smelt family. Now add salt. Then throw those two ingredients in 110 vats, each of them about 10 feet tall, and let them sit in a defunct factory for over two ...
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another morgan @mheslin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
imagining a grizzled hardboiled detective saying this while gripping some guy's lapels at a shady bar
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Catherine @whitequark.org · 26/10/2025
please enjoy: my Wasm-hosted, Wasm-targeting build of Clang/Clang++/LLD: a self-contained, 25 MiB (gzipped) pure function www.npmjs.com/package/@yow...
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Charity Majors @charity.wtf · 09/07/2025
New post up, with a bunch of thoughts on what drives me personally, and my own 40-year career (h/t @lethain.com). I have a pretty unusual life story. But one of the reasons I love the tech industry so much is how common unusual stories like mine have historically been. charity.wtf/2025/07/09/t...
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Thoughts on Motivation and My 40-Year Career
I’ve never published an essay quite like this. I’ve written about my life before, reams of stuff actually, because that’s how I process what I think, but never for public consumption. I’ve been pus…
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erlang haaland @xlem.net · 07/07/2025
I don’t know how I managed to avoid spoilers all day until I could watch the replay, but the British GP was excellent
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erlang haaland @xlem.net · 24/06/2025
A new teammate at work turned us on to Terragrunt recently, and I don't know how I've been living without it this long Being able to define dependencies between deployments and connect outputs/inputs like this really reduces a lot of cognitive overhead
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erlang haaland @xlem.net · 20/06/2025
Last night I dreamt I had lunch with Bill Gates and I started pressing him on whether he thought economic growth could continue indefinitely on a finite world A weird one since I don’t feel like I spend a lot of time thinking about Bill Gates, enough for him to appear in my sleep
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erlang haaland @xlem.net · 17/06/2025
I have a habit of trying to write things and getting stuck on the structure of the thing or deciding what I want to say. I was thinking that trying. to do more stream of consiousness type of writing might help, but I get stuck there too Maybe the bitrate of my consciousness is too low
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erlang haaland @xlem.net · 11/06/2025
Coming out of my recreational dev hiatus by following the siren song of every developer: a new blog. Planning to self-host this on my homelab, which I've been tinkering with the past months instead of writing code
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erlang haaland @xlem.net · 10/06/2025
I'm writing a thing with the AWS S3 #RustLang SDK and for some reason I get API errors only when I compile in release mode. I assume I'm holding it wrong but I can't figure out how. I thought it was because I was using Garage on the backend, but it does the same thing against AWS as well
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Rodney Brooks @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
David Ginty at Harvard has so far identified 18 families of sensing neurons for different aspects of our sense of touch. Humans-teach-robots dexterity approaches ignore touch and contact, or reduce it to a few bits sensing one aspect. I think they are doomed. www.quantamagazine.org/touch-our-mo...
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Touch, Our Most Complex Sense, Is a Landscape of Cellular Sensors | Quanta Magazine
Every soft caress of wind, searing burn and seismic rumble is detected by our skin’s tangle of touch sensors. David Ginty has spent his career cataloging the neurons beneath everyday sensations.
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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 27/01/2025
Most AI related valuations are rooted in a narrative that AI is closer to magic, that only a few magicians can preform, than just another approach to software architecture.
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erlang haaland @xlem.net · 22/01/2025
I didn’t think it was possible to beat AWS for terrible UX but the Cloudflare R2 console is just awful
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erlang haaland @xlem.net · 18/01/2025
Your Thyme is Coming: a herb delivery service
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erlang haaland @xlem.net · 18/01/2025
So I set up a new iPad and Apple Music refused to enable library sync. Just throws a redundant pop up error that I have to enable sync to see my library Then I turned off sync on my Mac and iPhone to see if maybe that would reset something and now they ALL throw that error and won’t sync 😡
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erlang haaland @xlem.net · 15/01/2025
Went down a rabbit hole on Wikipedia reading about optical disc formats and … I think we should bring back LaserDisc. There’s just something about the size of them that I love
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erlang haaland @xlem.net · 14/01/2025
Had a suspicion that we would want to rewrite a tool at work from Python to Go so during the lull before the holidays I took a crack at it… and then in post-holiday planning we decided on the rewrite! Felt good to be able to pipe up in the meeting and say I already had it prototyped 😅
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Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 13/01/2025
paul graham has finally achieved what most thought impossible: he's written a post so bad that the hacker news comments are actually better than it
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erlang haaland @xlem.net · 27/12/2024
It's shipped! As someone who almost never finishes side projects I'm pretty excited about it. Hoping the small win will keep me motivated to go back to my larger projects. Anyway here's s3b: SQL-queryable S3 backups #BuildInPublic #RustLang #AWS
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GitHub - dotxlem/s3b: A command line tool for uploading data to Amazon S3, backed by an embedded database.
A command line tool for uploading data to Amazon S3, backed by an embedded database. - dotxlem/s3b
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erlang haaland @xlem.net · 24/12/2024
“You’ll be visited by three spirits.” The three spirits:
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erlang haaland @xlem.net · 21/12/2024
My S3 archive tool that I thought I’d have finished months ago is now *actually* finally almost done. Or at least, almost ready to publish. Taking everything in me not to bloat it. I almost converted it into a TUI app last night and am very proud that I resisted temptation
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erlang haaland @xlem.net · 18/12/2024
I think a lot (probably too much) about what a better LinkedIn would look like. I like the core of it — a professional network and living resume. But spammy DMs and coarse post visibility settings are a problem. Also the unhinged engagement farming posts, which is not really a tech problem
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 11/12/2024
Canada is investigating Chinese tech companies, but it should be much more concerned with how dependent we’ve become on US tech monopolies that run roughshod over our rules and laws. In @thestar.com, I argue it’s time for Canada to reclaim its digital sovereignty.
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With Trump threat looming, it’s time for Canada to take control of its digital future
With the threat of Trump looming, perhaps it's time for Canada to take back its digital infrastructure.
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Alex Russell @infrequently.org · 30/11/2024
I've come to understand what's happening in frontend's decade-long failure to deliver decent user experiences as a sort of epistemic closure. I'm calling it "frameworkism", and the epicenter is now React. Here's a lot of words on why we should all reject it: infrequently.org/2024/11/if-not-r…
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If Not React, Then What? - Infrequently Noted
Frameworkism is now the dominant creed of today's frontend discourse, and it's bullshit. We owe it to ourselves and to our users to reject dogma and embrace engineering as a discipline that strives to...
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erlang haaland @xlem.net · 28/11/2024
Is there a way to filter out posts that are screenshots from Twitter? If not, can there be?
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erlang haaland @xlem.net · 27/11/2024
Pronouncing “Bluesky” like “brewski”
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erlang haaland @xlem.net · 25/11/2024
The timing of this release could not be more perfect for me, assuming it becomes available in the Rust SDK soon #AWS aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...
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Amazon S3 adds new functionality for conditional writes - AWS
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon S3 adds new functionality for conditional writes
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erlang haaland @xlem.net · 25/11/2024
I started using Rayon to parallelize file hashing in my S3 backup tool, but I’ve been in Java land so long I forgot there are, y’know, rules about parallel data access when pushing into a Vec #rustlang
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erlang haaland @xlem.net · 25/11/2024
You pronounce “Glicked” like “licked”
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erlang haaland @xlem.net · 24/11/2024
Is it safe to upgrade to Sequoia now? Seemed like it had some pretty sketchy bugs at launch
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erlang haaland @xlem.net · 23/11/2024
Just now realizing that one of my all-time favourite records had its 30th anniversary this year I don’t mean this as hyperbole: hearing “The Holy Bible” for the first time changed me. I was 15 or 16 when I first heard it. It became a formative pillar of my taste in music A work of art
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The Holy Bible 20 (Deluxe) by Manic Street Preachers on Apple Music
Album · 1994 · 68 Songs
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erlang haaland @xlem.net · 17/11/2024
Every time I do a seasonal tire change I gain renewed respect for mechanics. Every part of me hurts now 😫 I know they’re probably in better shape than me from doing this kind of work regularly and probably have better tools but still, it’s not easy work
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erlang haaland @xlem.net · 16/11/2024
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erlang haaland @xlem.net · 14/11/2024
For my 5 year anniversary at work I get a ✨company branded jacket✨ … thanks capitalism!
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erlang haaland @xlem.net · 14/11/2024
Narrator: he did not finish it over the long weekend
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erlang haaland @xlem.net · 12/11/2024
I was thinking about using a domain for my handle here, but it seems like when I do my current handle becomes available. So if I have my old handle linked anywhere it becomes a dead link? I guess that's incentive to do it sooner rather than later, but it seems like a vector for impersonation
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erlang haaland @xlem.net · 09/11/2024
I’m not sure how much of my software dev stuff I’ll dump here. I also have Mastodon where I’ve usually done that but that stuff but we’ll see how it goes But I’m working on a tool to do archival to S3 with an embedded SQL database stored in the bucket to make it quickly searchable, find dupes, etc
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Dan Cook (@xlem@hachyderm.io)
I have a few machines that I code on and I tend to keep things organized in ~/Dev in roughly the same folder structure, but not exactly. Some things in there are git repos and in sync but some are uni...
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Ilya Kaminsky @ilyakaminsky.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
When you're in the shit up to your neck, there's nothing left to do but sing. -Samuel Beckett
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erlang haaland @xlem.net · 08/11/2024
Apparently I’m just going to use Bluesky to post music
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erlang haaland @xlem.net · 08/11/2024
The Dan Da Dan opening is so so so good music.apple.com/ca/album/%E3...
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Otonoke - Single by Creepy Nuts on Apple Music
Album · 2024 · 2 Songs
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erlang haaland @xlem.net · 06/11/2024
Maybe not much comfort for those of you experiencing an existential crisis this evening… but The Cure’s new album is really good music.apple.com/ca/album/son...
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Songs Of A Lost World by The Cure on Apple Music
Album · 2024 · 8 Songs
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erlang haaland @xlem.net · 05/11/2024
I joined BlueSky like a year ago and haven’t really used it because the vibe at the time was kinda off for me. Seems more palatable now so I guess I’ll try again. Hello world!
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erlang haaland @xlem.net · 16/07/2023
Infuriating that people keep comparing the actor scanning thing to that episode of Black Mirror and not that whole plot around it in Bojack Horseman
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erlang haaland @xlem.net · 12/07/2023
*krombopulos michael voice* oh boy, here I go breaking Cranelift again!
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erlang haaland @xlem.net · 05/07/2023
Today I stumbled across miniserde and I'm thinking it might be a nice alternative to using serde in WASM. For its smaller size in particular, but also because I think "infallable serialization" is a nice property when using JSON to pass data back across the module boundary
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GitHub - dtolnay/miniserde: Data structure serialization library with several opposite design goals ...
Data structure serialization library with several opposite design goals from Serde - GitHub - dtolnay/miniserde: Data structure serialization library with several opposite design goals from Serde
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erlang haaland @xlem.net · 05/07/2023
I very nearly have WIT component model support finished for AssemblyLift's Ruby runtime Last thing is to fix support for running Ruby functions locally with `asml host` (it all assumes Lambda or Docker rn) so that I can properly test github.com/akkoro/assemblylift/pull…
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erlang haaland @xlem.net · 04/07/2023
First post! I expect I will be posting about the same things as I do everywhere else... Rust and WebAssembly and whatever music I happen to be into right now
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