Subhomoy Haldar

Set Theory for Beginners is out today and it’s the top result for the search term on Amazon UK! It is available on all Amazon marketplaces, Gumroad, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, and everywhere you get your ebooks from. Grab a copy and let me know your thoughts! coderscompass.org/books/set-th...

An excellent guide for upgrading from Debian 12 to 13. I could upgrade with no problems on old hardware. Didn't even have to restart my containers! linuxiac.com/how-to-upgra...

I am thrilled to announce that paperback copies of Set Theory for Beginners are now available! All copies are signed and numbered by me. Get in touch if you want a copy. 😁

Email is the cockroach of the internet - it outlives every wave trying to kill it. Forget Slack, forget Discord, forget chat apps. Email is universal, decentralized, and asynchronous. It's not sexy, but it's the ultimate survivor.

I may have a PhD, but I regularly write my entire name in the "first name" box on forms.

My attempt at making educational short form content! Let me know what you think about it. Open to suggestions!

Another nail in the coffin of cosine similarity! I started disliking cossim some years ago due to multiple reasons such as the non-linearity around 0.0 and the loss of certainty-information due to the normalization of feature vectors but this study seems to give another good reason to abandon it.

I have sent out the final version of my ebook to Amazon, Draft2Digital and everything is in place for next week's release date! My book Set Theory for Beginners comes out on 22nd January. Hope you all enjoy this book! coderscompass.org/books/set-th...

Today's installment in why shouldn't work when you're tired: Integration tests pass locally but not in the CI. What gives? I forgot to commit and push a file to the branch. That's it. Wasted the equivalent of a day. The holidays can't come soon enough. 🥹

Phase Transition xkcd.com/3025

ASK A DEV!! Since the year is near the end it's time for one of my favorite things to do, Ask A Dev! If you have any questions, if there is something confusing you, this is a no judgement space. Either I or another dev will answer! Devs, please help these folks out!

I got sick of my console complaining I don’t have a favicon when I'm testing stuff locally, so now I just put an empty SVG in there. `<link rel="icon" type="image/svg+xml" href="data:image/svg+xml,<svg></svg>" />`

If you use SQLite and haven't read this article by Sylvain Kerkour, you should read it. kerkour.com/sqlite-for-s...

Atoms are binary. They are either intended to be hydrogen or helium. We can't just scrap this worldview just because of a handful of exceptions

Reminder. I wouldn't have the career I do now if I didn't have access to our generation's equivalent of social media.

Someone became a dev at 18. Someone became a dev at 50. Leonardo Dicaprio started acting at age 5! Samuel L Jackson didn't get a starting role until he was 40. Someone got their first job when they were 16. someone changed a career at 55! You aren't late, you're right on time!

Make art that you think is fuckin sick as hell. Make the shit you never thought you could that you always wanted to see. Beat your insecurity to death and fight to become your own favorite artist.

Reminder! My Set Theory for Gophers talk is happening today evening. Golang Talks @ Pivot+Mark, 6 PM onwards.

PHP can do anything! I used it at work to build a classifier based on keywords in the description. It worked really well as a production prototype. We'll supplement the classifier with a better dataset but it will stay as a backup.

open source and free software is neat

Dear Mutuals and Followers, Does anyone have experience with local version control for spreadsheets? Ideally the Microsoft Excel: XLSX format? Git would need a binary diff detection extension, I think?

The story behind Rebecca Purple (#663399 // “rebeccapurple”) is very poignant. medium.com/@valgaze/the... The rest of the video is very good too. Worth a watch.

Manifest your goals into being!

How cool is this: this is from the Bluesky firehose! What's so cool about this is: 1. The throwback style 2. That *any* dev can do this! Thanks to there being an API for this (no other social network allows this AFAIK) This API is a big reason to be bullish on Bluesky firehose3d.theo.io

porting my favorite post to my new favorite social network

Man the suppression on posts with links is appalling. Extremely frustrating when using Threads, or any Meta product in general. Anyway, Bristol folks try and attend my talk at Pivot+Mark!

There's a difference between an echo chamber and a community of like minded individuals.

Bristol Gophers assemble! We'll be at Golang Talks @ Pivot+Mark on November 26th, and talk about our upcoming book: Set Theory for Beginners.

I'll be speaking at Golang Talks @ Pivot+Mark, Bristol, on November 26th, Tuesday. My talk is titled Set Theory for Beginners. A gentle intro to set theory for devs. See you there! https://meetu.ps/e/NByKk/15gctX/i

Quite chuffed tbh

every time I accept a Terms of Service, I cross my fingers behind my back. they can't get me.

Testing self hosted services on a homelab setting (read: old laptop + local network) is an excellent way to test if a software service is worth self hosting on a VPS. My UptimeKuma deployment graduated to a Hetzner VPS!

Interesting take and I agree with it. Standards are good (I love gofmt) but they should be open and adaptable. Not rigid. Especially if they are enforced automatically. You should be able to report edge cases and stuff.

Really liberating to not have link suppression on Bsky.

I made a thing. Use it well.

Thank you so much for 50 followers! 🤩🎉 Stay tuned for more tech rambles and the occasional update on my book Set Theory for Beginners.