Finishing of new oak shelves for the kitchen. Some pigmented linseed oil/wax on them and we're good to go.

Give a man a test and he'll be good for a day; teach a man to fuzz and he'll be good for a lifetime.

New on the blog: "Finding Bugs in a Coding Agent with Lightweight DST" wickstrom.tech/2025-08-28-f...

Current status: sunshine, dusty mandolin, and arpeggios

tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025-02... On our introduction of generative end-to-end testing of the TigerBeetle database.

I'm trying out scour.ing by @emschwartz.me "Get a personalized feed of content related to your interests."

New blog post on a new topic (for my blog): "Machine: Learning; Human: Unlearning;" wickstrom.tech/2025-02-11-m...

Shelving done! Some oil finish remaining, then it's time to fill up.

Office upgrade project in progress! The bookshelf is taking shape, just need to mount it next to the IVAR cabinets and cut out the remaining shelves. Probably finishing it with linseed oil for now. Maybe paint later, but I like the fur against the olive green wall.

Sketching out my new office storage system. I love using the Daylight for these projects.

TOC and content parsing of avi.im/blag/about/ finally getting there.

I just discovered this charting lib that is pure css and semantic html. Write a <table>, slap on some classes... holy shit you have charts 🤯 One of the most inspiring cases of "use the platform" I've seen in a long time: chartscss.org

Surviving two Rust live coding interviews in one day definitely feels like a milestone. From dabbler to rookie, perhaps.

Anyone who can give permission to have their blog or site used as a test case? I need moar. Please reply with urls.

Also: taking name suggestions for this thing. `site2doc` is the working name, but I'd like something less techy and more catchy, something for the inevitable domain purchase.

How do people search nix packages? `nix search` is quite slow and bloats the screen with various eval warnings, but maybe that can be fixed? Currently I mostly run `nix repl` and poke around, and it feels very blunt.

Getting there! This is the actual output right now of my website-to-book tool running on docs.quickstrom.io, not a POC.

I think it's only a good Chrome Devtools Protocol implementation holding me back from investing into Ocaml over Rust for my current project. And it's been like that before, the Ocaml ecosystem being a bit too thin. I hope it catches up! Would love to use it more.

I've been hacking on the scraper a lot, trying to get TOC extraction robust. It now handles links in all weird directions (as often seen in Sphinx sites). No JS support yet, but that's probably coming up next. I'd be happy to receive test cases I can use.

Rust and recursive data structures. 😵 Surely a skill issue, but man...

This thing could have a Monospace Web theme... 🤔

youtu.be/-opBifFfsMY Yes.

Proof of concept using Pandoc! Here I'm converting my own blog into an ereader-friendly PDF. I'd spend a lot more time making the output beautiful, as I think that's one of the major selling points. Need to build a real crawler, possibly running a real Chrome to support JS.

Thinking about writing a tool or service that can produce PDFs or ePubs for the content of entire sites (or parts of sites). For instance, it's common that project documentation consists of multiple pages, and no single-page doc. Would be nice to bundle automatically for easy offline reading.

Holiday tweaks with linseed oil paint and old IKEA gear.

You’re still arguing about tabs vs. spaces? May I present…

Associated holiday hacking to get deeper into Rust involves a little SQL engine with WAL and B-tree implementation. Also nice to get a deeper understanding of database system problems.

Been holding on to this for a little bit now. We are running an Elixir conference. 10-12 September in Varberg, Sweden. One day of NervesConf EU and two days of Goatmire Elixir. Single track. Andrea Leopardi and Sanne Kalkman are our two first speakers. A lot more to come :) #elixirlang

Christmas reading!

@daylightco writing setup in the works. Neovim and other good stuff.

It is here. Let's see if it was worth the wait. 😁

"Reinforcing the need for defense-in-depth, we’re building an exciting new testing tool: Vöʀᴛᴇx, a full-system integration test that also covers the language clients." This is what I've been up to lately at TigerBeetle! us13.campaign-archive.com?u=32cd932058...

Distributed systems generative testing and chrome://tracing, a neat combo.

chrome://tracing but realtime! Not sure it's actually useful, but I want it anyway.

It seems Zed fixed two of the problems I had with it: bad font rendering on Ubuntu and being able to open many instances from inside direnvs. Time to give it a new shot, I think!

recruiter: Hi! Your CV looks like a perfect fit for us, when can we talk? also recruiter: *ignoring any further communication in whatever form until the end of time*

Best mechanical bluetooth keyboard (preferably with usb c charging)?

after seeing yet another paper call something a "transpiler", i am once again requesting (telling) people to stop making up words that don't mean anything: rachit.pl/post/transpi... be better than a JavaScript tech bro

The trickiness of liveness properties in testing. It's tough.

Rust is really growing on me. I do miss comptime from Zig now and then, but between traits and macros it's alright. I have one or two way too big hobby projects lined up. Let's see how that goes...

Interviewer: Do you have any experience with Parquet sharding? Me: Oh yes, I've done it in anger recently.

`btop` is awesome.

Correctness and reliability is something of a theme in my career. It is certainly a deep topic with a lot of aspect from a lot of angles, from testing to design, SRE and social. go.bsky.app/PcgsgW

Hello, Bluesky users! I curate and maintain list of resources on testing distributed systems. You might have seen it before. It's a good one, if I may say so myself. asatarin.github.io/testing-dist...

Any tips for good EU remote-compatible positions?

It feels like we're getting the band back together.

I made a wee starter pack of some of the computing people I follow. I am sure I have forgot tons of people! go.bsky.app/MWGdzxM

Job searching is a lot of work, I'm reminded.

I'll be looking for work soon! Starting early next year, remote from SE. Autonomous testing, distsyst, web, data eng, PL, and probably more areas are of interest. (Reposts are highly appreciated. 🙌)

@kammadej.bsky.social 👋