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#1
Rebuilding My Blog
I’ve always had a homepage or a blog of some sort, and I’ve always enjoyed tinkering with it.
My first few sites and blogs were built on an old platform called Freewebs (RIP), which I used to host my very first website when I was about 8 years old.
Over the years, especially as I’ve become more competent at this web development thing, I’ve rebuilt my blog a few times.
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#2
Discord Rich Presence
As a WSL-based NixOS user, I make life difficult for myself sometimes.
This post details setting up Discord Rich Presence to sync my Neovim activity from WSL to this blog in real-time using
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Distributed Erlang
Erlang’s actor model, OTP, and distribution work together beautifully to build fault-tolerant systems—but there are gotchas.
From process mailboxes and supervision trees to clustering challenges, network partitions, and the single mailbox bottleneck.
This post explores the many strengths, and subtle pitfalls, of building distributed systems with Erlang.
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#4
You have built an Erlang
You wanted a simple service notification system, so you added HTTP callbacks, then queues, then retries, then supervision…
Congratulations! You’ve built an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Erlang.
A satirical journey through accidentally reimplementing the actor model as seen on Hacker News.