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Has anyone had a Golang server accept a non utf8 string that fails to insert into Postgres? I cannot reproduce this type of request for the love of all that is json

Only in #seattle
A pair of self-declared alcoholics stumble into a pizzeria with no signs, graffiti on the windows, and a broken down patio because they were drawn by the red lights like “moths to the old flame”

Ananas pizzeria/bar coming soon to first hill!

WA summers are tough to beat!

had some fun hacking around with #postgres text search on some #seattle data.

here's a streamlit + golang + postgres stack for lookups of emergency food locations.

walkthrough-ish: https://home.gerardbentley.com/guides/golang_postgres_streamlit_stack/

repo: https://github.com/gerardrbentley/golang-webservices

Someone wants me to get more work done or maybe just give her breakfast. #catsupervisor

Whoever wrote and approved the #golang date-> string format function must have been on quite a trip

Chatted with a friend working on mitigating social harm from tech and once we started getting into "an intimate threat actor already has access to the phone" I remembered why I don't want to go into security...

Privacy is so hard to get right

FAA system restart: a single point of failure

Xkcd src: https://xkcd.com/2347/

Always fun to find random test data in a project with names such as "Victor Wooten"

https://youtu.be/D0Kw7C6LtoY

Been quite a day of #yakshaving on my personal setups, but happy to have gotten my blog update up onto github pages (https://home.gerardbentley.com/) with a build helper script for jupyter notebooks.

Also excited to connect my gotosocial instance to S3 storage, but disassociated all of my old media files in the process :(

Linode block storage didn't seem to work out of the box, but AWS is going fine; now to rip all those little jpegs out of my old vps!