They un-archived it today long enough to revert a change to the purging algorithm that was merged in March [0]. The first archive date I saw this morning was from the last week of May. I won't speculate about the reason, but it's a small relief that the archiving seems deliberate and that the maintainers are still active.
> failing to load the one part of the map that I want to see.
Yep. My partner and I have this problem every time we use the app in our home city. It usually works better when we’re traveling. I’ve left them feedback and will keep hoping for better. Meantime, I’ve switched to a less frustrating app.
Same. The guy didn’t change any of my profile or recovery info, luckily, so I was able to get it back. And then he sent me a message from another account asking why I had taken his UIN. We ended up chatting for a while. It’s a fond memory.
I actually tried to delete that UIN a few years ago, but the support folks wanted me to provide a few UINs from my contact list to verify ownership. No chance I’m going to remember those.
My main use case is upgrading codebases that depend on ffmpeg. I work for a shop that does a lot of media encoding and analysis across several independent systems, and we can’t upgrade all of them at once when a new ffmpeg is released, which means that for a while we’re actively supporting versions N and N+1. With this plugin, each codebase can declare which version of ffmpeg it wants in .tool-versions, and I don’t have to remember to do the uninstall/reinstall dance.
Most people won’t need this, but a few might find it very helpful.
Congrats, Bob, and thanks for all of your time and effort. I enjoyed the illustration videos that you included in the earlier blog post [1] (under "Illustrating by Hand"). That post landed at a time when many of us were badly stressed, and I remember it being very soothing.
One advantage of CloudFront is support for uploading large files (5GB+) to the origin server. CDNs tend to enforce a low size limit for uploads. It’s probably an uncommon use case, but the reduced client-side latency is nice for customers who are far away from the origin.
A tool for visualizing log file volume over time in your terminal [1]. Useful for quickly getting a handle on traffic patterns during a production incident. This began as a scratch-the-itch project and was also the first useful thing I made in Rust. Two itches scratched :)
A tool for visualizing ping latency as a heatmap [2]. My Macbook's wifi had developed a severe latency stutter every ~500ms that was driving me nuts when using interactive tools like SSH. It was very satisfying to visualize it and see the pattern, and it helped to narrow the list of possible causes.
Last year I built a tool for visualizing log file volume (based on time) in your terminal [1]. Similar tools exist, but none were fast enough or easy to set up in a hurry, e.g. when you're investigating a production outage.
The year before that, a tool for visualizing ping latency as a heatmap [2]. My laptop's wifi had developed a severe latency stutter every ~500ms that was driving me nuts when using SSH and other interactive tools, not to mention killing my throughput. Once I could visualize it and saw the pattern, it was very clear that there was a system-level issue. Eventually traced it to a virtualization product's network driver.
It's definitely a pattern for me -- feel frustrated with diagnostic and data viz tools that are either too slow to handle or too complex to configure when I need them, and try to build simple tools that solve exactly the problems I keep bumping into. These smaller projects also provide good opportunities to practice with new languages or frameworks.
"Chasing the Scream" - a timely and interesting summary of the war on drugs and its (in)effectiveness.
"Mr. Bloomfield's Orchard" - a fun book about fungi from a mycologist with a solid sense of humor.
"On the Move" - Oliver Sacks's biography. Insightful and uplifting, especially if you enjoy writing.
"Ready Player One" - a dystopian cyber thriller. Reminded me of Snow Crash. Good stuff.
"The Last Place on Earth" - a good (if labored) summary of the races to the north and south poles and their geopolitical impacts.
"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" - been on my list for years. Long but good.
"Steve Jobs" - needs no introduction. Got me interested in Isaacson's other books.
"Hallucinations" (Oliver Sacks) - insightful analysis of the prevalence and for-reaching effects of hallucination. It's a lot more common (and puzzling) than most of us realize.