1. battesonb Dec 8, 2025 parent

   Do you have a write up about this? Actions are great, but my #2 gripe with actions, after the tenuous security posture, is that the default practice is not to run/validate actions locally.
2. battesonb Oct 15, 2025 parent

   I'm surprised not to see any comments about rainbow brackets for the Lisp family of languages. I just started in a non-Emacs environment to avoid learning two things, but colourful brackets have made the paradigm shift a lot easier for me.
3. battesonb Oct 15, 2025 parent

   Agreed on this. Especially with the return keyword argument presented in the same article.

   An assertion of correctness relating to a matter of taste is, ironically, going to be trivially falsifiable. Even though I found myself personally agreeing with most of what the author had to say (for my tastes)! I definitely want to try lifting the visual importance of comments.

4. battesonb Oct 14, 2025 parent

   I can vouch for Mealie. My wife and I run it locally for family recipes and to pull down recipes from websites. I have a DNS ad blocker running, but most recipe sites are still a mess to navigate on mobile.

   You can also distill recipes down. I find a lot of good recipes online that have a lot of hand-holding within the steps which I can just eliminate.

5. battesonb Aug 20, 2025 parent

   I'm exactly that person. Always running an older device and lamenting the lack of small devices. Unfortunately, the mainstream wants big devices, so we all get big devices.
6. battesonb Jan 21, 2024 parent

   We somewhat have this with object picking. You can render objects with unique IDs to a framebuffer, so it's all in parallel. Then you just query the buffer at your mouse coordinates.

   Of course you lose some properties of the object and it's on a one frame delay. There's the added complexity of collision response, working in 3-dimensions, etc. But, to the point of just "eyeballing" collision, we can actually parallelize it!

7. battesonb Dec 13, 2023 parent

   I look over at Zig with envy every time I have to write and, inevitably, look up how to write a Rust macro.
8. battesonb Nov 23, 2023 parent

   I started writing a static analysis tool for the BNF metasyntax. Basically one half of a parser generator, which I do not intend to implement as it's all just for fun!
9. battesonb Nov 17, 2023 parent

   I switched to Neovim because of RSI. I don't think I would have been able to keep my job without it. I know the other editors have Vim emulation plug-ins, but I found I would always reach for the mouse if I didn't know the keystroke(s).

   There are definitely moments that result in a bit of time sinking. Overall the tradeoffs work out for me.

10. battesonb Jul 4, 2023 parent

    https://battesonb.github.io

    A relatively new blog. I've picked up posting more frequently in the last few weeks. Right now, I'm working through making a simple game end-to-end using WebGPU and TypeScript. I enjoy revisiting the linear algebra involved and focusing on something different to my work day.

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