mitmproxy is an intercepting proxy that allows you to inspect and modify http requests that you send through it.
The mednafen multi-system emulator is a great piece of software. The cores that I’ve tried seem accurate enough, the interface is extremely simple and configuration is managed by a simple text flie.
A couple of times I’ve wanted to merge two separate git repos into one. This has happened when they are really parts of the same application with the same release cycle, but have been split in a fit of over architecting.
I wanted to access the columns in a 2D array in Python today. I found that it’s surprisingly simple to do. This is what I ended up with:
I took this out from Okehampton library on Saturday. They had a feature shelf about sea travel.
GNOME has a few ways to type in characters that are not normally accessible via your keyboard.
We made it back to Meldon Reservoir today. This time, Joe wasn’t feeling up to it but Isaac was excited to come and see. He was also happy to head down those steps.
Rust is a systems programming language. It aims for there to be as little as possible between your code and the hardware running it. The reason for this is to give you full control of what the CPU is doing, and how your data structures are laid out in memory.
Python contains a SQLite client in it’s standard library. This is really useful for prototyping, and great for when a script grows into needing a little more data integrity. It’s really quite unexpected to be able to use something like this without any dependencies.
Isaac got a little retro TV game box from his cousins for Christmas. It’s great fun, one game in particular stands out.
I found myself creating a mock web service for use in tests today. The idea was that during test setup I could post some json data that would then be returned during the test itself. Only a few parts of the response would change between tests, so I wanted to specify as little as possible to keep the tests descriptive.
I find the MTP implementation on Android to be very flaky. On multiple operating systems with multiple Android devices I’ve had it just hang at some point when transferring files.
We took a very quick trip out to Meldon Reservoir today. Unfortunately both our kids are feeling under the weather, and only Joe felt up to the task of crossing the dam.
I don’t know what’s going on in Axiom Verge yet, but there’s some fantastic horror sci-fi pixel art.
I’ve been listening to the Lambdacast podcast recently. During one episode they had a discussion about algebraic data types and the differences between product and sum types. I’d heard the term algebraic data types before, but had no idea what product or sum types are.