Gavin Baker @gavinb

Digital artisan antonym.org Melbourne, Australia Joined May 2007

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Gavin Baker @gavinb

6 months ago

@manixh Ideally a shared vault with 1Password, LastPass, etc. If not, Magic Wormhole - secure direct file transfer. magic-wormhole.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

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Gavin Baker @gavinb

9 months ago

@mitsuhiko Using Neon Postgres you can create a branch for the db and run each test in isolation. neon.com/docs/introduct…

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Gavin Baker @gavinb

2 years ago

@ThePrimeagen @SlutskyTom @jorandirkgreef I learned this early on from FLOSS as “Fail early and fail loudly”. Been repeating it ever since.

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@yiningkarlli ZMQ has some really good options if you need different strategies, topologies, fanout, pub-sub, etc. If it’s point to point then Protobufs/CapnProto is probably the easiest to pass structured messages back and forth. As @ragecryx points out, discovery is important and tricky.

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Gavin Baker @gavinb

2 years ago

Wrote a CLI tool in Rust and was blown away. Gave myself about 1h to solve a problem and within 2h I had a polished solution. Used clap, nix, Rayon, indicatif, and simplelog. Result was incredibly fast and reliable. Much better DX than C++. 🦀

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Gavin Baker @gavinb

2 years ago

@TechCrunch Twitter is showing stealth ads (again). #1. Clicked on a regular image to enlarge it and instead was taken to the AliExpress website and a product page for contoured pillows! #2. Gambling post not labelled as “Ad” but menu reveals it definitely is an ad.

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Gavin Baker @gavinb

2 years ago

@engineers_feed The hardest part is finishing what you started.

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Gavin Baker @gavinb

2 years ago

@ConversationEDU @GrattanInst We already have a quality crisis in the building industry. Volume builders prioritise speed over quality and compliance, as evidenced by tiktok.com/@siteinspectio… - we need to fix these fundamental problems first. Reg compliance is a minimum.

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Gavin Baker @gavinb

2 years ago

@timClicks Which libraries are you using?

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Gavin Baker @gavinb

3 years ago

@joebarnard The audiobook is extraordinary. Ray Porter does a phenomenal job of all the different voices and accents. I would recommend anything he reads!

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Gavin Baker @gavinb

3 years ago

The Wes Anderson quartet of short films on @netflix from an anthology of short stories by Roald Dahl is nothing short of cinematic gold. Exquisitely carefully shot, he employs many conspicuous theatrical devices & direct narratives which break convention and beguile the viewer.

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Gavin Baker @gavinb

3 years ago

@jeffdl @engineering ??? That option is gone for me. 🫤 As to how and why it tries to download something when I select "Why this ad?" is truly baffling...

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Gavin Baker @gavinb

3 years ago

@tekbog Literally happened today fam

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Gavin Baker @gavinb

3 years ago

Literally just installed the latest version of Node.js and on the first run I get this. It's crazy how many components, packages and frameworks you need to just to get started. #webdev #wtf

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Gavin Baker @gavinb

3 years ago

Starting a side #webdev project. A million framework/host choices! Started with @Netlify for a quick result. First wizard didn't clone sample repo due to master/main conflict. Then some weird ERR_OSSL_EVP_UNSUPPORTED error due to webpack version conflict. Not a fun start.