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Sometimes, I come across other people's blog posts, articles, or other resources that I find interesting. This is my space to share those resources with you.

Every link includes a brief note or summary that I wrote up describing that specific entry and why I find it interesting or noteworthy.

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• Jesse Duffield: horcrux - Split your file into encrypted fragments so that you don't need to remember a passcode

  < https://github.com/jesseduffield/horcrux >
  retrieved November 7, 2023

  A simple terminal program that allows you to split files into encrypted chunks that can later be re-combined into the original file. Think of it like a RAID setup but for individual files or archives, inspired by an everything-phobic fantasy media franchise. I actually find the concept really facinating: it could be a good way to split up large media files and share them over the internet. Even if one horcrux gets corrupted, the others can still make up the original file, and since it is encrypted, it's tougher to discern what the original file is without enough pieces to put it together.

• Logan Gore: Open-sourcing SQX, a way to build flexible database models in Go

  < https://stytch.com/blog/open-sourcing-sqx-a-way-to-build-flexible-database-models-in-go/ >
  originally published on August 31, 2023 - retrieved September 9, 2023

  A really cool SQL interface for Go that both simplifies a lot of the boilerplate and allows for quickly building complex models through OOP. I don't have any experience in Go, but I'm honestly tempted to start learning Go just to try this library out and see if a port of it to other languages like C++ or Rust is possible.

• Mickey Muldoon: Every Software Project is a Startup That Will Probably Fail

  < https://muldoon.cloud/2023/09/06/software-keeps-failing.html >
  originally published on September 6, 2023 - retrieved September 9, 2023

  A short retrospective on the reality of software projects: the value you get out of most of them is the lessons you learn when they crumble. I feel like this lesson could be told in a way less intrinsic to our dumb economic system, but I don't have enough brain capacity to write that up right now.

• Lionel Dricot: Stop Trying to Make Social Networks Succeed

  < https://ploum.net/2023-07-06-stop-trying-to-make-social-networks-succeed.html >
  originally published on July 6, 2023 - retrieved July 6, 2023

  Social networks will never become universal or ubiquitous in the way companies and VC's want them to. Every social network will appeal to certain people more than others, so the best social network is the one that works best for you and your contacts. If one doesn't exist... make one! (or have someone else make it for you).

• Matthew Guay: Notes apps are where ideas go to die. And that’s good.

  < https://www.reproof.app/blog/notes-apps-help-us-forget >
  originally published on February 15, 2022 - retrieved June 3, 2023

  Notes apps always market themselves as tools to remember important things before they leave your mind. But maybe we should think of it the other way instead: notes afford us the ability to let thoughts leave our mind since we have already saved the information elsewhere.

• Dash for macOS - an API Documentation Browser and Code Snippet Manager

  < https://kapeli.com/dash >
  retrieved June 3, 2023

  Really cool offline documentation viewer for macOS... that's also $30 for some reason. DESPITE THERE BEING AN OFFICAL OPEN SOURCE PORT TO WINDOWS AND LINUX. I AM GOING TO COMBUST

• News.am: World's first portable quantum computers on sale in Japan: Prices start at $8,700

  < https://tech.news.am/eng/news/510/worlds-first-portable-quantum-computers-on-sale-in-japan-prices-start-at-$8700.html >
  originally published on December 21, 2022 - retrieved May 20, 2023

  they put an android tablet on a fucking quantum computer, i'm shitting and cumming rn

• Verhaert: User Inyerface

  < https://userinyerface.com/ >
  retrieved May 20, 2023

  Want to hate technology and how all of its innovations can be used for great evil? Try to work your way through this.

• Jim Nielsen: Deadlines as Technology

  < https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2023/deadlines-as-technology/ >
  originally published on March 9, 2023 - retrieved May 20, 2023

  My ADHD means I always procrastinate things until the last minute. Well, if there is no 'last minute' -- i.e. there is no deadline -- shit won't get done. If you try to pace yourself to hit certain self-set deadlines, you may find that work becomes easier.

• Chris Arnade: Why the US can't have nice things - A rant on bus stops

  < https://walkingtheworld.substack.com/p/why-the-us-cant-have-nice-things >
  originally published on May 20, 2023 - retrieved May 20, 2023

  A blog post on why US public works suck so much: the government doesn't trust its citizens to utilize public works properly nor make their own organic solutions for public issues. Really good read!