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New comment by neillyons in "1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March"

neillyons — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:29:10 +0000

I stopped my 1Password subscription last year and started using Apple Passwords. The user experience is great if you switch to Safari with fingerprint login.

New comment by neillyons in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"

neillyons — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:59:24 +0000

My favourite is this disclaimer in the question. lol

> Is there any way to force install a pip python package ignoring all its dependencies that cannot be satisfied?

> (I don't care how "wrong" it is to do so, I just need to do it, any logic and reasoning aside...)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12759761/pip-force-insta...

New comment by neillyons in "The British empire's resilient subsea telegraph network"

neillyons — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 14:40:21 +0000

When visiting Ayers Rock in Australia I stayed in Alice Springs. While I was there I learnt that Alice Springs exists because it was a repeater station for a telegraph line that stretched from Southern Australia all the way to London. There would be people listening to morse code, and tapping it out again to the next repeater station. Blew my mind that there was a wire that went all the way to London from Australia!

New comment by neillyons in "Calendar"

neillyons — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 15:28:56 +0000

Can anyone recommend a native macOS app with a calendar like this that supports .ics calendars?

New comment by neillyons in "I wasted years of my life in crypto"

neillyons — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 16:46:11 +0000

Bitcoin doesn't take into account that humans are forgetful.

If you forget your bank card pin code they would post you a new card and pin, if you phone them up. I've done this a couple times in the past pre-smartphone banks.

If you forget your bitcoin password you are never getting access back.

New comment by neillyons in "A million ways to die from a data race in Go"

neillyons — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 17:59:37 +0000

Does Elixir have any footguns like this? As it is immutable I don't think any of these are possible.

New comment by neillyons in "ChatGPT Atlas"

neillyons — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 19:52:13 +0000

If you imported from Safari/Chrome in the onboarding. Go to Settings -> Personalization -> Browser Memories.

It has summarized my browsing habits and interests. Very impressive.

- "The user has a routine of checking their Fastmail inbox daily around 08:27"

New comment by neillyons in "Cancellations in async Rust"

neillyons — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 23:03:08 +0000

Elixir via the Task module https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/Task.html

New comment by neillyons in "How Britain built some of the world’s safest roads"

neillyons — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 07:39:16 +0000

I did a speed awareness course as I got caught speeding and was told if there are lamp posts the speed limit is 30mph unless stated otherwise.

New comment by neillyons in "Omarchy, a Linux Distribution by DHH"

neillyons — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 18:13:28 +0000

Crunchbang was such a good distro! I ran linux for about seven years. Ubuntu and then Crunchbang. Had my 2012 MacBook Pro dual boot into Crunchbang. Battery life was awful. It had no automatic fan control, so the laptop got so hot I could barely touch it. I ended up writing a bash script to manually control the fans using function keys https://gist.github.com/nwjlyons/b29ee6f7e26595f55a2a

As cool as it was, I can't be bothered with any of that these days. Just give me a Macbook Pro, as I know it will work and have amazing battery life!

New comment by neillyons in "Pitfalls of Safe Rust"

neillyons — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 19:33:11 +0000

Golang will panic with a runtime error index out of range if you index out of bounds. There doesn't seem to be a nice built in way to do `arr.get(3)` like in Rust.

    slice := []int{1, 2, 3}
    i := slice[3]
    fmt.Println(i)

New comment by neillyons in "Go Optimization Guide"

neillyons — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 05:33:34 +0000

Curious to know what people are building where you need to optimise like this? eg Struct Field Alignment https://goperf.dev/01-common-patterns/fields-alignment/#avoi...

New comment by neillyons in "Why Clojure?"

neillyons — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:49:14 +0000

> really hard to cultivate a community of people who have a deep love for something, but for some reason can't see what is actually wrong with it that drives ppl away

Elm is another example

New comment by neillyons in "Go Data Structures (2009)"

neillyons — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 12:08:37 +0000

wow.

New comment by neillyons in "The hidden complexity of scaling WebSockets"

neillyons — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 08:31:15 +0000

You still need to be careful, as this won't catch panics from go routines launched from your http handler.

New comment by neillyons in "Garmin's –$40B Pivot"

neillyons — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 12:46:51 +0000

I looked at the Apple watch but choose Garmin as it has a physical button to start and stop my run. I don't know if this is still the case but with the Apple watch I think you have to tap the touch screen. Takes too long, especially when every second counts on a 400m lap round the track :-P

New comment by neillyons in "Cognitive load is what matters"

neillyons — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 10:13:47 +0000

Cognitive load example in Go. It is common to give variables single letter names. Now you have to build up a mapping in your head that for example `a` means `Auction`. You could skip this mapping if you just named the variable `auction`.

New comment by neillyons in "Django and Postgres for the Busy Rails Developer"

neillyons — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 12:27:53 +0000

Yep, Django's on_delete behaviour being implemented in Python instead of SQL has caught me out a few times over the years.

I often do `on_delete=models.DO_NOTHING, db_constraint=False` and add the on delete cascade constraint manually to the migration file. https://stackoverflow.com/a/78668897/288424

Same goes for `default. Prior to `db_default` I'd often edit the migration file and set the default in SQL.

I much prefer Elixir's Ecto now.

New comment by neillyons in "ChatGPT Search"

neillyons — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 20:27:04 +0000

Definitely "Code Red" for Google Search

New comment by neillyons in "How I Got a Digital Nomad Visa for Japan"

neillyons — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 11:46:58 +0000

You can also get a Japanese Working Holiday Visa which allows you to work in Japan and stay for a year. https://yoyogi.io/en/how-to-get-a-japanese-working-holiday-v...