Compiling the Birthday Problem into Rust
The Birthday Problem demonstrates that, in a group of 23 people, the odds of two people sharing a birthday exceed 50%. You can read the linked article for an explanation, but the probability is...
The Birthday Problem demonstrates that, in a group of 23 people, the odds of two people sharing a birthday exceed 50%. You can read the linked article for an explanation, but the probability is...
I’ve been cheating on Neovim lately. I’m playing around with Zed (in vim mode, naturally). Zed’s default settings allow Markdown editing just fine, of course. Markdown is just text, after all. I don’t want...
Recently, my boss asked me for a server capacity planning model. This was a new ask for me. I can launch Excel with the best of ‘em: fire up Alfred and type “ex<enter>”. I...
Cool kids multiplex with Zellij. Data engineers shred data with Nushell. Let’s make them work better together. Let’s autostart Zellij when our terminal and shell start. The Zellij documentation provides instructions for making Zellij...
I recently wrote a shell script that required both date parsing and date arithmetic. The pertinent bits for this post are that the script: Seemed simple enough. A little googling and some experimentation gave...
Development / Linux / Mac / Rust / Software
by Rob Warner · Published April 5, 2023 · Last modified April 30, 2023
I’ve recently re-discovered nushell and I’ve fallen hard. I’m committed. I’m stumbling my way through things, of course, but I’ve set my course and am not turning back. Perhaps one day I’ll blog my...
Development / JavaScript / Linux / Rust
by Rob Warner · Published February 4, 2023 · Last modified February 5, 2023
This article is part 3 in a multipart series that makes a message board using a Raspberry Pi and a Tidbyt. Here are the parts in the series: Prerequisites Nodejs Create the Application In...
Development / JavaScript / Linux / Rust
by Rob Warner · Published January 27, 2023 · Last modified February 4, 2023
This article is part 2 in a multipart series that makes a message board using a Raspberry Pi and a Tidbyt. Here are the parts in the series: Prerequisites Create the Service Rocket has...
Development / JavaScript / Linux / Rust
by Rob Warner · Published January 27, 2023 · Last modified February 4, 2023
This article launches a multipart series that makes a message board using a Raspberry Pi and a Tidbyt. Note that you can skip the Tidbyt and use a monitor to display messages. Here are...
Development / DevOps / Linux / Mac / Software
by Rob Warner · Published August 8, 2022 · Last modified August 17, 2022
Update 8/17/2022: I just learned about the new git setting: push.autoSetupRemote — I learned it from here, and so can you! You’ve seen it many times: So what do you do? You go to...
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