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When I was growing up, “mils” were milliliters. This is coming from a family where both parents worked in a laboratory in some capacity…
Jason Dusek
Sep 10, 2020
Property Rights and the Tech Giants
Property Rights and the Tech Giants
Recently, the senate held hearings on the social and economic power of the tech giants. One consistent theme was users’ frustration with…
Jason Dusek
Aug 5, 2020
Extracting a Bear backup
Extracting a Bear backup
Bear’s backups — the .bearbk files — are zip files, but won’t extract cleanly with unzip if posts have UTF-8 titles.
Jason Dusek
Sep 29, 2019
Kotlin Reflection, Shadow Jars & `minimize`
Kotlin Reflection, Shadow Jars & `minimize`
Kotlin’s reflection support uses a dynamic strategy and so interacts poorly with dependency optimizers like the shadow Gradle plugin’s…
Jason Dusek
Sep 15, 2019
Easy Uberjars with Kotlin
Easy Uberjars with Kotlin
Gradle/Kotlin JVM projects are just a five short lines away from building self-contained, executable .jars, using the application and…
Jason Dusek
Sep 2, 2019
Why Scala Is Still Great
Why Scala Is Still Great
I hate Scala. Its tools, while good, are often surprisingly resource intensive and sometimes crash my little MacBook. The syntax and…
Jason Dusek
Mar 1, 2018
Why ever declare a column `NOT NULL DEFAULT ‘-’`?
Why ever declare a column `NOT NULL DEFAULT ‘-’`?
When NULL values are present, a row can both not match a predicate, and not match its opposite.
Jason Dusek
Jul 16, 2017
Infrastructure As Pseudocode
Infrastructure As Pseudocode
There are too many special snowflake systems in DevOps. One way we see this is in the proliferation of DevOps data stores: databases and…
Jason Dusek
May 4, 2017
Egg Yolks for Creaming Coffee
Egg Yolks for Creaming Coffee
Eggs keep well, are full of vitamins and come conveniently packaged into servings. Cream, on the other hand, is messy to pour and can go…
Jason Dusek
Feb 25, 2017
My Favorite Microstuff
My Favorite Microstuff
I’ve used Visual Studio Code for more almost two years now. I was always pleased with its Python support, but using a TypeScript has really…
Jason Dusek
Feb 23, 2017
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