Jan-Lukas Else

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XXXX-07-16


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It took me so long to find the cause of a memory leak in GoBlog. I thought it was smart to use a cache for prepared database statements. But I didn’t read the documentation and didn’t know that prepared statements need to be closed when they are no longer needed to free up the allocated resources. 🤦‍♂️ I finally fixed it by removing the prepared statement cache altogether. Less code, fewer problems in the future, and the cache wasn’t much of an improvement anyway. I also learned about the usefulness of memory profiling.

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#SlowTravel in the IC/IR 73 Traianus from Budapest to Timişoara. 🚂

I’m curious when these train wagons were built, but I can’t find any source online. I only found this website with some possible wagon numbers.

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This OneDrive feature to remind about pictures from x years ago is really awesome! I captured this sunset 4 years ago today.

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“I made a robot to cut my hair with scissors”

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Shane Wighton from the YouTube channel “Stuff Made Here” built a robot that cuts his hair. It worked OK for part of his hair, but see yourself… I wonder how one could even come up with such an idea to have one’s hair cut by a robot with scissors? Crazy!

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Beautiful poem and so true, Henrique! Even as someone who has so far attached less importance to physical contact, I can now absolutely understand how important it is.

Physical contact is much more important than it seems to us. Yes, emotional connections are important. But emotional connections with physical contact reach cosmic proportions.

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Hackers convinced Twitter employee to help them hijack accounts

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Social engineering is more like hacking people instead of hacking systems. Still, Twitter has been hacked:

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Awesome Personal Blogs

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You’ve probably come across Awesome lists already. This one is quite similar to Personalsit.es, which I linked to recently. It’s nice to have such a long list full of personal blogs to explore. Exploring other’s personal blogs always offers the possibility to learn and discover new things and get to know new people who share interesting stuff.

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