Learning diary › Year 2025 › August, 2025 › 2025-08-03 [2025-08-03]

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- How do you backup your non-work-related data?
    - most suggests `restic`
    - Cloud Backup: Easy, Secure, Unlimited Online Backup
        - Backblaze B2, good affordability/pricing, ~$5/mo
    - `borg` has security footgun
    - use https://healthchecks.io/ to monitor backup jobs
    - Append-only Restic backups on a Hetzner Storage Box
        - good #design, [source]
        - Append-only backups with restic and rclone
    - jmtd → computing → Network Attached Storage (NAS)
    - Personal backups and file archival // Josh Mock
- If you're remote, ramble
    - Ramblings channels let everyone share what’s on their mind without cluttering group channels
        - short updates 1-3 times per week
        - common topics
            - ideas related to current projects
            - musings about blog posts, articles, user feedback
            - “what if” suggestions
            - photos from recent trips or hobbies
            - rubber ducking a problem
    - each ramblings channel
        - named after the team member
        - only that person can post top-level messages. Others can reply in threads, but not start new ones
        - muted by default, with no expectation that anyone else will read them
    - ramblings are our equivalent of water cooler talk
- Linear Types for Programmers (2023) #lang
    - The Austral Programming Language
    - faiface/par-lang: Par (⅋) is an experimental concurrent programming language. It's an attempt to bring the expressive power of linear logic into practice.
- Twenty Eighth International Obfuscated C Code Contest
    - the redesign broke all links to the old entries without redirects
    - now requires using a javascript capable browser to view the entries on github (github having removed non-JS access last year)