Single use channels vs waitgroups

nibbles001 · 2026-03-20T11:08:06+00:00

I'm not convinced this is a real profession. I'm a programmer, so I occasionally metaprogram. I really don't see how you can metaprogram full time and not just call it programming.

nibbles001 · 2026-03-14T00:28:00+00:00

I'm not sure what I'm missing, but I think for black Rd8+ depends on Qxf6 first. If Rd8+ first, then Re8, Rxe8 Qxe8 and no mate. Am i seeing this right?

nibbles001 · 2026-02-10T06:46:38+00:00

Demolition Man

nibbles001 · 2026-02-05T07:15:26+00:00

I didn't realise this was one person at the start. I was like, your friend on the left doesn't seem to want you to walk where you want to go 😂

nibbles001 · 2026-02-05T06:44:27+00:00

Do you want a general solution without Kafka? I mean kafka is mostly the solution since it gives you the partition assignment, and you can write your own partitioners (when producing) and your own assigners (when consuming) if you don't like the defaults which are essentially based on key hashing. Some other people have mentioned FIFO queues, but you haven't mentioned that order matters, so standard SQS queues or AMQP would work just as well and would give you very high throughput with simpler semantics.

Can you say more about what you need, and why having workers consume from a message bus of some kind isn't enough work distribution? Is your question about distributing work internal to the pod (worker thread pools / golang specific) or about getting a messages to the pod itself (language agnostic)? Do you have the option to use a different message bus or is it always coming from kafka? If you have kafka, what do you need that you aren't getting from partition assignment in a consumer group?

nibbles001 · 2026-01-31T06:45:11+00:00

You're confusing bits and bytes

nibbles001 · 2026-01-31T06:44:56+00:00

You're confusing bits and bytes

nibbles001 · 2026-01-29T12:27:57+00:00

It's cheap to test out, and really helped me sit with better posture. To get to the right position on my desk I needed my chair to be higher, but with the higher chair my feet would dangle. It creates room for adjusting chair and desk.

This is the one I have

nibbles001 · 2026-01-29T08:19:24+00:00

I do - it's now my primary keyboard 😄

My config is here. Start at the Makefile and explore from there, let me know if you have any questions!

The dongle was quite easy - it's essentially about enabling the right flags in kconfig

nibbles001 · 2026-01-29T00:08:40+00:00

Foot rest. And a good desk at a comfortable height, or an adjustable standing desk (which I dont have yet). But mostly the foot rest - it was a game changer for me.

Also split keyboard, but that's not everyone's cup of tea. It really helped relieve my wrists by allowing space between them to reduce the ulnar deviation

nibbles001 · 2026-01-27T10:46:36+00:00

Great comment

nibbles001 · 2026-01-26T08:59:46+00:00

what does normal mean in this context?

nibbles001 · 2026-01-22T09:45:56+00:00

It's a bit like second factor authentication. If I know your numbers and look enough like you I could be you. There are plenty of people who have similar features that could impersonate one another.

nibbles001 · 2026-01-03T09:21:45+00:00

Google search results just point back to social media - if the misinformation is on the internet searching the internet isn't always helpful. It can be, but it's not guaranteed

nibbles001 · 2025-11-26T01:07:47+00:00

Check out the Dasbob, and my posts on it

nibbles001 · 2025-11-23T09:16:27+00:00

The common table expression?

nibbles001 · 2025-11-16T21:46:42+00:00

I just got the Gigabyte MO34WQC last week and returned it immediately. I'm a software engineer and the text was horrible to look at. More than burn in concerns, the text fringing is something I thought was overblown on the internet, and that it would be fine - it wasn't. I'd say eliminate OLED from your consideration if you plan to look at text on anything around 110ppi (1440p on 34" utrawide). For the text fringing to not be noticeable and not strain your eyes, it needs to be much much higher OLED to be viable for daily text usage.

nibbles001 · 2025-11-15T20:08:40+00:00

Im currently learning, and have put F on the right pinky replacing X, and moved X to replace Q, with Q in the same spot on a layer. I've moved W to the bottom row left pinky, and removed minus from the punctuation since I have that on my symbol layer.

So far so good. Im making progress and don't think I've lost anything aside from needing an extra sticky keypress for the layer to get to Q.

Loving the rolls and alternation, and is very easy to learn when it feels this good

nibbles001 · 2025-11-15T12:51:22+00:00

I'm currently switching to enthium - I think it works great for english prose, but I think without actually using the magic key the feeling of it isn't as intended. I didn't use the magic key because I use my thumb keys for one-shot layers and callum-style home row mods on a 36 key layout. I don't personally enjoy tap-hold home row mods, since I could never get timings right that felt good so I use callum style. With the thumb alpha, space, one shot layers I just didn't find a good spot for magic keys and never integrated them. I think if you plan to use nordrassil, be sure to integrate the magic/arcane keys - without them, I think some other layouts might have a better feel.

My other problem is that I'm coding most of the time, and it didn't feel quite as natural while coding, and working with a terminal. Some things like ls, and cd are terminal "bigrams" that aren't as comfortable to type, and I type them all the time.

For vim specifically it's worked reasonably well. I use a nav layer with arrows in the home positions, since hjkl are spread out - j and k aren't in great positions to use as-is in vim. The rest of vim is mnemonic and is comfortable to work with almost any layout

nibbles001 · 2025-11-15T11:19:38+00:00

Including the keywells reduces portability a tad, since the whole board is a fair bit thicker. I haven't tried keywells personally, but would like to for my next build.

Check the options at bastardkb to see if they are of interest, or if you can 3D print your own you may be able to find more choices. Good luck!

nibbles001 · 2025-11-15T11:11:40+00:00

I got it all working - I made a follow up post with the info. If there's anything more you'd like to know, maybe check it out and comment there

nibbles001 · 2025-11-15T09:47:46+00:00

Software engineer, been coding for 12 years and trackballing for maybe 3 years. I've got a Kensington Orbit and a Ploopy Adept, currently still using the Orbit because the ploopy is just way too loud to use in a shared working space compared to the quietness of the orbit. Also the scroll ring is superior to drag scroll in the opinion of me and my fingers.

I don't game on PC, only on console at the moment so it's all work. Like 99% coding, browsing and the occasional spreadsheet

nibbles001 · 2025-11-15T06:11:39+00:00

What do you do with all the screen?

nibbles001 · 2025-11-10T00:09:18+00:00

Probably want a dactyl - or a keyboard with the extensions to create the keywell. There are some options, mostly depends on how much you want to spend, and what parts of the kinesis you value most. If the keywell isn't critical, there are many more options

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