Yesterday I ran into this news about a hacker who reused a disposable vape to host a website, pretty impressive stuff. I ordered an Oura ring 18 months ago, but haven’t really used it (or charged it, for what it’s worth) in months now. It made me think… could I build and host this website on my Oura ring as well? Probably not. Also, this isn’t even what this post is about. Kind of embarrassing for you if you believed that.
This is my first attempt at a /now page, so I will keep it short and promise to do better next time.
Well, kind of. I guess I’m leaving GitHub like I left Facebook: I don’t plan on using it anymore, but since that’s where the people of our residence tell us about their kids’ lemonade stands, I’m keeping my account to interact with the outside world when needed.
I’m finally getting my head out of the water after a pretty eventful summer, which started with spending eleven days caring for my partner, stuck at the hospital. It really sucked, I wouldn’t wish it on anybody and this is something that will keep my wonderful therapist busy for the forseeable future. Fortunately, as soon as things started improving, I took some time off for some much needed rest as well as entertaining my little sister who visited for the month.
One of the things I really like about Postgres is the various types of columns you can use (without saying that this is limited to Postgres). In this context, the array column type makes it easy to store a list of “stuff”. You can then use the various functions that PostgreSQL provides to query and transform those data. Recently I needed to get all the unique elements from all the values of an array column and once it worked, I pushed a little further to achieve the same result with Exposed.