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queezey··on .gitignore Everything by Default
This approach is actually ideal for Docker ignore files to reduce bloat of your Docker images.
queezey··on Everything’s a bug (or an issue)
Unfortunately, Pivotal Tracker was decommissioned on April 30, 2025. It's dead and gone.

Related HackerNews discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41591622

queezey··on Building my npx business card
This would be a great advertisement for security consulting.

"I was just able to run arbitrary code on your computer. Here is a sample of your recent browser history. Let me tell you help you mitigate your security vulnerabilities."

queezey··on On “I don't trust microcode” (2021)
Nintendo 64’s RSP (Reality Signal Processor) was effectively a vector-optimized MIPS CPU, so its “microcode” was really just MIPS assembly. The “micro” aspect of RSP microcode came from the 4KB Instruction Memory and 4KB Data Memory that the RSP had direct access to.

The RSP was not a GPU, but it did process display lists before handing them off to the RDP (Reality Display Processor). RSP microcode was used for audio processing, video decoding, display list transform & lighting, as well as other more general processing tasks such as terrain generation.

queezey··on Cloud costs are in a bubble
Related reading from DHH (creator of Ruby on Rails, Basecamp, and Hey): https://world.hey.com/dhh/why-we-re-leaving-the-cloud-654b47...
queezey··on How Fly.io and Tailscale Saved Notado
FYI: Your link for Overmind is to the wrong project. The process manager is https://github.com/DarthSim/overmind

The article currently links to a deprecated Angular.js project with the same name (https://github.com/geddski/overmind)

queezey··on PicoCart64: Nintendo 64 flash cart using a Raspberry Pi RP2040
Not a retail release, but 2MB is plenty for homebrew development. For example, there is a clone of Flappy Bird[1] written for the open-source LibDragon SDK[2] that works great on PicoCart64. With FPGA-based flash carts increasing in price and decreasing in availability, I welcome any solution that lowers the barrier to entry for testing homebrew on real consoles.

  [1] https://github.com/meeq/FlappyBird-N64/
  [2] https://dragonminded.com/n64dev/libdragon/
queezey··on Fixed Point Arithmetic
The “jitter” of PSX graphics is caused by a number of factors: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/5021

Incidentally, the Nintendo 64 also used fixed point numbers in RDP graphics instructions, but did not exhibit the same visual artifacts as the PlayStation.

queezey··on New WebKit Features in Safari 13.1
> These improvements are available to users running watchOS 6.2 [...]

I would like more information about Safari being available on Apple Watch.

Normally I'd think it's inclusion was an accident or oversight, but it's mentioned at both the top and the bottom of the article.

queezey··on Tech tips for people who are going to die someday (2015)
I am not a/your lawyer, but what you are describing is known as a ["Holographic Will"](https://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/holographic-will.asp). Such a document may not be sufficient depending on your state/circumstances, and may not be respected by the probate court if the document is lost, destroyed, or otherwise called into question.

What you want is a [Testamentary Will ](https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/testamentary-will.asp) that has been notarized and/or signed in the presence of witnesses.

queezey··on Show HN: Checkbot for Chrome – web crawler that tests for web best practices
Very cool.

I noticed that it's mangling some of my URLs, though.

`/!0ead1aEq` is getting turned into `/%210ead1aEq` (the exclamation point is getting percent-encoded), which leads to a bunch of spurious 404 errors.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-3.3