I was reading about Abstraction inversion on Wikipedia which mentioned the anti-pattern of “using spreadsheet lookup functions to replicate the functionality of a database”.
Author Archives: Jay Jay
Writing a book: is it worth it?
Today I read Writing a book: is it worth it? which turned up on Hacker News. I’m thinking about writing a book so this was a good read.
The danger of target=_blank and opener
Today I read The danger of target=_blank and opener which has some good pointers about how to open links in a new window, e.g. <a href="https://an.evil.site" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">An evil site</a>
MariaDB Sequences
Today I discovered sequences in MariaDB. Gonna take them for a spin!
Don’t Compare Averages
An article Don’t Compare Averages from Martin Fowler has lots of good info about data visualisation techniques.
The unrealized potential of federation
Today I read The unrealized potential of federation.
Backing up data like the adult I supposedly am
This great article Backing up data like the adult I supposedly am popped up on Lobste.rs today. I think I’m gonna get myself an rsync.net account.
// 2022-09-18 jj5 – UPDATE: I have had an rsync.net account for some time now, works great. <3
App Consoles
This discussion of App Consoles came up on Lobsters today.
watch catting together HTML head/foot and MySQL information_schema.processlist
This came up back on August 9th 2020 in #lobsters on freenode. They were doing a system upgrade and providing a report by using `watch` to `cat` together a HTML header and footer with `mysql -e ‘select * from information_schema.processlist’` to provide a status report. Thought that was a neat hack.
10 Tips for Ramping Up as a Senior Engineer
I enjoyed reading 10 Tips for Ramping Up as a Senior Engineer which turned up on r/programming today.