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Written by Ian Wagner on 2025-01-23 at 09:26

lol I just realized that Google Voice deleted my phone number. Fortunately the only thing I used it for was spam and a bank. And banks don’t really have any useful security lol

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Shared by Ian Wagner on 2025-01-22 at 01:35 (original by Martin Fleischmann)

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Written by Ian Wagner on 2025-01-21 at 16:25

More than 20 years later, Switchfoot's The Beautiful Letdown is still one of the most meaningful albums to me. And the respin form early 2023 keeps growing on me. https://album.link/t/280777354

"We were meant to live for so much more. Have we lost our selves? Somewhere we live inside... we want more than the wars of our fathers, and everything inside screams for second life!"

[#]soundoftheday

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Written by Ian Wagner on 2025-01-20 at 06:36

I have what I think is a somewhat contrarian view among programmers: the CLI is NOT the world's best interface for most things. It CAN be efficient with decades of practice (which I have). But for all the dogma of CLIs just being "better," I still haven't found a sane way to curl a URL with Korean text in the query string. I have to encode the URL first! This is UX, and is solved in nearly every GUI.

Text may be the "universal API" but all that means is that it's the lowest common denominator.

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Shared by Ian Wagner on 2025-01-20 at 05:22 (original by Tinker ☀️)

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Shared by Ian Wagner on 2025-01-20 at 05:21 (original by Alan Grant)

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Written by Ian Wagner on 2025-01-20 at 02:55

How did I mis this?! Oh yeah, I guess I was rather preoccupied with travels when this was released.... As usual, a fantastic mix from Boris 😍 🙌

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d6Y9vEtCQ8

[#]soundoftheday

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Shared by Ian Wagner on 2025-01-20 at 02:21 (original by Ben Visness)

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Written by Ian Wagner on 2025-01-20 at 01:10

One of our ETL pipelines had a classic stderr logger. Switching to @duckdb opened up a lot of analysis possibilities (incl. several that I didn't think of until I started using it) so I did a quick writeup. I think this pattern is applicable to a LOT of apps!

https://ianwwagner.com/blog/databases-as-an-alternative-to-application-logging

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