RE: #FreeBSD
No, the drought isn't over yet. Despite some rain here in the Netherlands in recent weeks, the water flow in the Rhine is still in record low territory: around 600 m³/s, less than half of the normal flow in autumn. This keeps drawing groundwater away too.
https://waterberichtgeving.rws.nl/owb/
I made a little book out of some old bits of internet I found down the back of the sofa:
Talking dogs.
Sarcastic cats.
Strange sports.
Bizarre rituals.
Dumb jokes.
Stupid advice.
Weird ideas.
...OLD HAT
More info: https://gilest.org/books/old-hat/
It's been a few days since ye ole blog got some attention:
#blogging
Shopware 6: Moving your cart storage to Redis is standard advice for a busy shop — but the docs never answer the question that actually matters: what happens to the carts that exist right now? There's a built-in command for exactly this, in both directions.
http://
Sometimes, you accidentally find something you once wrote and think "actually, that was pretty good advice, I should follow my own principles more".
So here's an old one from the blog about surviving and (maybe) thriving in #science and #research more generally
http://sternaparadisaea.net/2025/01/25/just-one-thing/
#AcademicChatter
I just gave a presentation in my team about "What is a PhD and how to do it?" (4 current and 4 prospective PhD students) Could also have been called "Advice from an aging academic" 👵🏻