Monthly Pulse: January 2025
2025-02-01 | Estimated reading time: 5 minutes
The first three weeks of this year was more or less just a lot of SSDD for me. A cold took me out for a week; my first week back to work after 3 weeks off was an uneventful week of being on-call; and yet another mostly uneventful week followed. But then: event after event, as if they were trying to make up for the boring first ~20 days of the year.
Monthly Pulse: Pilot
2024-12-31 | Estimated reading time: 10 minutes
Sometimes procrastination does solve problems: When I started thinking about the very first entry to the Monthly Pulse series in early November, treating the pilot like any other episode felt wrong. But looking back at an entire year in November didn’t feel right, either. Both problems were skilfully “addressed” by not acting on them for over a month and writing a “year in review” entry in December and then publishing it on New Year’s Eve feels entirely fine.
I'm writing PHP again... and I don't need that much help?!
2024-07-15 | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
tl;dr: I picked up PHP again after ~20 years and it’s not that bad. The language and its ecosystem have improved a lot and having an IDE helped me apply what I know from other languages more easily.
Recovering from a lost or broken phone
2024-03-16 | Estimated reading time: 5 minutes
Not too long ago, a friend of mine and I had a conversation about how we keep doing more and more things on our phones, which then led to me pointing out the elephant in the room: “What is your plan for if/when you lose access to your phone?”
Two-factor authentication (2FA) on Lemmy is a hot mess
2023-12-10 | Estimated reading time: 5 minutes
It’s been about half a year since Reddit effectively locked out third-party apps (RIP Apollo 🫡) and I have to admit that I kinda do miss Reddit a bit. Old Reddit makes it more bearable – there even is a browser extension that automagically redirects me to Old Reddit –, but most of my Reddit consumption was on my phone…
Huy Dinh
Senior Software Engineer
at Solaris SE
