Well, maybe not quite heaven, but the combination of asdf and direnv is the best solution I've found to the problem of: 1. Managing multiple versions of languages installed at the same time 2. Creating isolated environments for application development with a specific language version Of course lots of people

TLDR: Read these docs on the Tailscale site. If, like me, you have a VPS that serves some low traffic websites, you probably have SSH configured so you can perform admin tasks. Hopefully you disable password authentication and use public key authentication instead. That makes things more secure, but It's

If you enjoy keeping up-to-date with current science news, I can recommentd Science in Action from the BBC World Service. It goes out weekly on a Thursday and you can subscribe to the podcast to listen when it suits you. A big part of why I enjoy it so much

This site has been given a fresh start. All the old posts have been moved to old.keybits.net. Thanks to Conor for the motivation for keeping outdated stuff online. That version of the site was limited to technical posts. There weren't very many of them recently! Between 2005 and

Jason Fried and DHH recently launched a new feature for their email service called 'Hey World'. Send an email to a special address and it gets posted on a nice web page. It's great to see another option for easily publishing to the web. Especially one where the pages are