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May 20
Really hoping the attackers donโt leak my repos full of:
- six competing notes app prototypes
- readmes that just sayโTODOโ
- projects with 83 dependencies and one feature
Please respect my privacy at this difficult time.
May 19
๐จData Breach Alert โผ๏ธ
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TeamPCP hacking group claimed the compromise and sale of GitHub internal data, allegedly including around 4,000 private repositories containing source code related to GitHubโs main platform and internal organizations.
Threat actor: TeamPCP
Sector: ICT
Data exposure (claimed): Approximately 4,000 private repositories
Data type: Source code
Observed: May 19, 2026
Status: Pending verification
ESIXยฉ: 7.96
Full details and impact assessment on HackRisk.io
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May 19
Just tried moving off OpenAI's Go SDK in favour of a small client covering just the Responses API... it reduced my binary's size by 30%!
github.com/alexpls/untils/coโฆ
May 19
If this ends up with OpenAI moving their Go SDK off Stainless, that's a win in my book. The thing currently adds 11MB to my project's binary... nearly half the size of ALL my deps combined.
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19 Aug 2023
Wow, reading through the GNU Parallel book and it's hilarious right from its opening dedication...
(it's also free under creative commons, here: zenodo.org/record/1146014)
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20 Aug 2023
GNU Parallel book was very much worth the read. Helped me turn a ~14 line bash script into one command :)
Wrote a post with more details: alexplescan.com/posts/2023/0โฆ
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4 Aug 2023
YouTube ads are really messing with the efficacy of my rick rolls.
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3 Aug 2023
In Ruby, pattern matching a regexp sets global variables containing the last match results.
$1 for the first capture, $2 for the second, etc.
Makes for a neat way to use regex in case statements and access their captures.
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27 Jul 2023
I've been using iStat Menus by @bjango to put clocks I refer to often (e.g. UTC) in my menu bar.
Time saving and second to none! Puns intended... guess it's time for me to clock out.
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17 Jul 2023
Homebrew package spring cleaning time. `$ brew leaves` will list all the ones you've installed (and not the ones installed as dependencies of others).
Combine with `$ brew leaves | xargs brew desc --eval-all` for prettier output.
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15 Jul 2023
Last week I posted about using SVG to create easy sparkline charts. A couple of questions came in about how I get the timeseries data for the charts in the first place... I do it with PostgreSQL's set returning functions. More details:
alexplescan.com/posts/2023/0โฆ
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Alex Plescan retweeted
12 Jul 2023
Elixir Radar issue 389 is out! ๐ฃ
You can read it here: buff.ly/44nuPUc
This issue comes with content from @bemesa21 @alexplescan @JohnElmLabs @zediogoviana @sean_moriarity @diwakarsapan . Thank you!
#MyElixirStatus
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15 Jan 2023
A post on how I set up recurring subscriptions on mailgrip.io using @gumroad:
alexplescan.com/posts/2022/1โฆ
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14 Jan 2023
Web TIL: In case you've been out of the loop like me and are still using `Element.scrollLeft` to scroll a container til it shows an element, check out `Element.scrollIntoView`.
Super simple API compatible with all modern browsers.
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/โฆ
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Alex Plescan retweeted
25 Dec 2022
As is tradition, the wonderful Ruby core team puts a present under our tree structures: Ruby 3.2 is out at ruby-lang.org/en/news/2022/1โฆ - I do think they are too humble to really drive home the massive performance gains in the YJIT engine, though!
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26 Dec 2022
Holiday project: low-bandwidth live stream of a beautiful landscape using a @Raspberry_Pi and a @GoPro. Kudos to the GoPro team for making their camera so automatable! Here's a couple of things I had no idea you could do...
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26 Dec 2022
There's also GoPro Labs, a first-party firmware to extend the camera beyond stock features. I'm using it to turn on the camera whenever it detects USB power, but there's *a lot* more it lets you do.
github.com/gopro/labs
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26 Dec 2022
e.g. taking a photo and downloading it looks like:
```
curl http://gopro-ip/gopro/camera/shutter/start
curl http://gopro-ip/gopro/media/list
curl http://gopro-ip/videos/DCIM/100GOPRO/GOPR0001.JPG > mypic.jpg
```
API docs: gopro.github.io/OpenGoPro/htโฆ
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26 Dec 2022
Command a GoPro via an HTTP API that works over Wi-Fi, or USB (using NCM). Capabilities include starting video streams, taking photos, switching capture quality modes, and accessing/managing media on the SD card...
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