Today's episode of "things that make you go 'wat'" is sponsored by unzip. Yes, the venerable utility ubiquitous on UNIX-like systems. I mean, what could possibly go wrong? This morning I was...

Forgive me in advance, but this post will probably be a bit rant-y. If you're looking for a way to do container builds in GitLab CI without a lot of fuss, this article is for you. RIP Kaniko I'm writi...

Recently I've been doing some work using Apache DataFusion for some high-throughput data pipelines. One of the interesting things I noticed on the user guide was the suggestion to set RUSTFLAGS='-C ta...

Rust's ownership system is well-known for the ways it enforces memory safety guaranteees. For example, you can't use some value after it's been freed. Further, it also ensures that mutability is expli...

Today I ran into an amusingly named place, thanks to some sharp eyes on the OpenStreetMap US Slack. The name of this restaurant is listed as "𝐊𝐄𝐁𝐀𝐁 𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐘𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐎𝐍". That isn't some font tricker...

DNS is a complex beast, so it's little surprise when I learn something new. Today I learned a bit more about the internals of how DNS works at various privacy-centric providers. It all started a few w...

Earlier today, a friend sent me a joke about boycotting <some big evil tech company> for three days: Feb 29, 30, and 31. I thought this was pretty funny. But then, darker thoughts started to for...

Despite nearly 15 years of developing iOS apps on a daily basis, it’s occasionally jarring to go back to some of the older APIs. Today's blog is about MapKit, which isn't quite as old as CoreGraphics,...

In my work, I've been doing a lot of ETL pipeline design recently for our geocoding system. The system processes on the order of a billion records per job, and failures are part of the process. We wan...

This isn't so much a TIL as a quick PSA. If you're a Rust developer and need to ensure specific things about your toolchain, the rust-toolchain.toml file is a real gem! I don't quite remember how, but...