A blog about software engineering, programming languages and technical tinkering
Posted by Simon Larsén in Programming
Earlier this week, I came across a situation where someone wanted a QR code to "have 300 DPI so it looks good when printed". As I don't have much experience with image formats, it took me a while to figure out what the actual request was: to print the QR …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Programming
Humans aren't great at multitasking. You can focus on just about one thing at a time. This doesn't mean that you can only do one thing at a time, because not all things you do require your full attention. For example, try walking around, but before taking each step, really …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Programming
Back when I was in university, I had a teacher in database systems who also did contract work as a database administrator. He told me that 90% of his work was to just add and reorganize indexes to speed up queries. That was almost 10 years ago, and I'm now …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Programming
As of my previous post on extending NeoVim for commenting and uncommenting code blocks, I'm on something of a NeoVim extension streak. The flavor of the week is syntax highlighting. I've been using the highly customizable nvim-treesitter for the past few years. This depends on there being a Tree-sitter parser …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Programming
I've been using some variation of Vim for going on a decade now, yet I've never bothered with an efficient way of commenting out code. It just isn't something that I do very often. But I saw a colleague comment out and uncomment lines of code like a breeze in …