Passing URL params to Javascript modules
One weird trick our tools apparently don't want us to use
A hardware boot switch
I recently added a spare SSD so I could play with desktop Linux again, and I again quickly grew tired of trying to catch the GRUB boot selection screen. So I made a thing.
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Adding constraints to Canrun
In basic Ī¼Kanren, values interact through unification. While impressive results can be achieved with a bit of creativity (see: math with Peano numbers), I wanted something more direct, understandable and arbitrarily powerful. I like my toys to have at least a veneer of practicality.
Deploying web apps
Deploying a website is harder than it might first appear. Even a simple html page with a single Javascript or CSS file is a distributed system prone to race conditions. A "modern" Single Page Application with code splitting is worse.
Simplifying a toy logic programming library
I made a toy logic programming library in Rust called Canrun. I just published a new version with fixes for several serious design flaws.
Slowly listening to old podcasts
I made a service that lets you replay old podcast feeds as if they're just starting.