2025-03-28

March 28, 2025 — ~wheresalice

Things you may have missed in March, or my monthly(ish) linkblog

Articles

Avoid the nightmare bicycle, stop hiding your underlying infrastructure and give users the ability to build a clear model in their heads
Hierarchy of Hazard Controls (or how to stop devs from dropping prod) is a good introduction to the topic and applies it to devops. The failure to apply this was also highlighted in a recent Marine Accident Investigation
Infinite Canvas encourages us to use virtual whiteboards instead of traditional note apps. Personally I really like this approach as the landing page for a team's documentation
Life Altering Postgresql Patterns or just some tips on designing your tables
Mid-conditional love talks about (un)conditional love isn't a binary, it's a spectrum
Traefik TLS configuration
Weird but useful charts

bearlytics is a straightforward web analytics tool that helps you understand your website traffic without selling your soul to the tracking gods. No cookies, no PII problems, just the basics
Redirector rewrite URLs in your browser based on regex patterns. For example rewrite all Twitter links to xcancel or all Reddit links to old.reddit.com
Search Engine Party compares search engines in terms of privacy in a nice table. Maybe combine it with search engines with their own index
TrainPlanner is an open-ended puzzle game where you have to create a safe, efficient and pretty rail network to let Miku deliver her leeks. It's important work!
zk is my new pkm tool of choice at work, combined with a neovim plugin. No more needing a mouse, everything in the commandline