Reading List

The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

Land of Opportunity

Complete "The Assault on Fort Mercer"

The peanut gallery

On the use of words like “simple”, “elegant”, and “elegant” in the sense of software.

Post Series

Using docker and docker compose for my Homelab

I’ve seen some very elaborate homelab set-ups online but wanted to get the easiest possible implementation I could, within my current skill set. As I have quite a lot of experience with using docker for development in my day to day work, I thought I’d just try using docker compose to setup my homelab service […]

Optimizing row storage in 8-byte chunks

How to optimize field order in a row to avoid padding (for when tables are expected to be really big) and a useful query to help.