A Blog on Books and Tech
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Insider 10x developer
I can’t remember HTMLDivElement and HTMLImageElement Use useRef<ElementRef<‘div’>>(null) Reminder: Complex types of inheritance are never worth it. Remember: satisfies and “as const” are incredible. as const satisfies [Sum, Mul] are most times better than specifying the return type (Gives the caller back complete immutable types!) Normalized Types from returns have problems. Never use discriminated unions…
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dnf update: Curl error (23), zsh failed and JetBrains Toolbox
One day my Fedora 38 system started to behave weirdly and the issues seemed related to some disk space problem. Symptoms The things I checked: df -h: / seems fine, checked SMART all fine, checked any btrfs write errors OK, ran btrfs scrub, check journalctl and dmesg – no suspicious log entries Google is not…
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Takeaways from “A mind for numbers”
A great book written by Barbara Oakley. The book contains so many details about how to learn everything the easiest way possible. The following summary contains my favorite points. Habits You can think of habits are like (brainless) zombies, if you don’t train yourself to control them, they will live for you, maybe not the…
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About me
Hey there, fellow bookworms and tech enthusiasts! My name is Ben, and I’m the voice behind this blog. By day, I’m a software engineer, and by night, I’m an avid reader with a love for all things literary. This cozy little corner of the internet is where I share my thoughts and reviews on the…