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Developer · Weekend pianist · Occasional blogger 🌐 https://galdin.dev 🐦 https://x.com/gldraphael 🐙 https://github.com/gldraphael
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Announcing `dotnet run app.cs`: A simpler way to start with C# and .NET 10 devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/annou...

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

Bilbo:Frodo::Boomers:Millennials

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

this alert is bad design 101. too fucking wordy. too complex. hides the sausage. it should say: DID YOU CALL CHASE? > Yes > No And if you tap No, it should say: > Hang up now.

submitted 32 days ago • 4 comments

So here in France we have a 5G-enabled electricity meter called Linky, which naturally here in the land where people who live in heaven think they live in hell there were all kinds of protests — Linky gives you cancer, makes your kids autistic, kills your dog, sets your house on fire, and so on.

submitted 43 days ago • 15 comments

@andypavlo.bsky.social on HN sums it up well OLAP vs. OLTP isn't right vs. wrong, they're designed for different things. Have a version of this on a slide when explaining Crunchy Data Warehouse and how it's for very different purposes than stock Postgres.

submitted 42 days ago • 2 comments

people love to have strong opinions about complex problems they've only thought about for like, 10 seconds

submitted 46 days ago • 26 comments

Just wrote a blog post on using dev containers to run one-off tools: such as using github-lingust (which needs ruby) in this case. galdin.dev/blog/using-a...

submitted 83 days ago • 2 comments

Is spot.rackspace.com legit? Their pricing seems too good to be true!

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

i hate describing my job to people. i get all tongue-tied. "you see, i kinda do… everything?" "everything?" "everything."

submitted 99 days ago • 5 comments

New post on how I like to setup my Windows dev machine

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

They were right about calculators: we lost the ability to do mental arithmetic. Predictably, this didn't matter, because that's not an important skill to have except in specific professions. Now, this is being generalized to *everything*. And yes, thinking and learning are important skills to have.

submitted 143 days ago • 8 comments

The Lord of the Rings gave me unrealistic expectations about going for a walk with your friends.

submitted 187 days ago • 0 comments