Thorsten Ball

Author of interpreterbook.com and compilerbook.com. Working at Sourcegraph. I like to program where the rubber hits the road — wherever that may be.

Thorsten Ballmrnugget
2024-05-22

@gvrooyen interesting! haven't read either of them but know of them

Thorsten Ballmrnugget
2024-05-17

@tekknolagi I got the same one, I think.

Thorsten Ballmrnugget
2024-04-14

@julia wow! Thanks for sharing!

Thorsten Ballmrnugget
2024-04-02

@tenderlove Still! 26C inside is very hot. I'm gonna bring a thermometer now too.

Thorsten Ballmrnugget
2024-04-02

@tenderlove Where is that? 26C would be far too hot for me.

Thorsten Ballmrnugget
2024-03-11

@gpanders Thanks! :)

Thorsten Ballmrnugget
2024-02-18

@tky @gianarb well, main focus of the post is on sync audio calls - not chat and not video :)

Thorsten Ballmrnugget
2024-01-13

@thomy2000 do. it!

Thorsten Ballmrnugget
2024-01-13

Does someone here want to buy my Starbook?

I'm selling my little Linux laptop (preferably to folks in EU). I just don't use it that much and it's a kickass little machine that should be used more.

Details & how-to are here: gist.github.com/mrnugget/75a7e

Photo of my Starlabs Star Book laptop, turned on.Photo of my Starlabs Star Book laptop, off
Thorsten Ballmrnugget
2024-01-08

@ellie will do! Thanks!

Thorsten Ballmrnugget
2024-01-08

@jack I'm not a drummer, but everything Drumeo puts out is fascinating, IMHO.

Thorsten Ballmrnugget
2024-01-08

@BrendanThompson haha sorry, made a typo! I mean "close to just using raycast"

Thorsten Ballmrnugget
2024-01-07

@BrendanThompson yep! I'm close to just using rectangle, to be honest :)

Thorsten Ballmrnugget
2024-01-07

@julia nah, Ghostty over here :)

Thorsten Ballmrnugget
2024-01-07

@mario nope, will take a look!

Thorsten Ballmrnugget
2024-01-07

Wrote about how I setup a new macOS machine: registerspill.thorstenball.com

Thorsten Ballmrnugget
2023-12-22

@thomy2000 hard drive /music/ you mean?

Thorsten Ballmrnugget
2023-12-22

Just published another issue of Register Spill.

This time I wrote about the curiousity that is Chrome showing the memory usage of tabs. That lead me to writing about the sounds computers used to make.

Read it here: registerspill.thorstenball.com

Thorsten Ballmrnugget
2023-12-20

Find of the day: heaptrack. This is super nice.

github.com/KDE/heaptrack

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