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neilpaon Zod 4

We're currently evaluating both Zod and ArkType as a replacement for earlier JSON schema validations. The thing I can't get over with Zod is the syntax is _so_ different from defining TS types.

Are there reasons to go with Zod over ArkType?

neilpaon Malicious compliance by booking an available meeting room

This was the de-facto practice for courses at U of M and I loved it. Although it appears they may have ended that practice in 2018

https://record.umich.edu/articles/university-updating-start-...

neilpaon SQLite-on-the-Server Is Misunderstood: Better at Hyper-Scale Than Micro-Scale

Randomly noticed your post is dated in the future - December 16, 2025

neilpaon TextAnalysisTool.NET

This looks like the app I wanted ages ago when I tried to find a TextAnalysisTool.net replacement for OSX.

https://superuser.com/questions/706761/textanalysistool-net-...

neilpaon The original birders gave photography a run for its money

Not for much longer

https://americanornithology.org/american-ornithological-soci...

neilpaon India fines Google $162M for anti-competitive practices on Android

> We wouldn't want to ban Sony MP3 players from including an app that plays music, right?

Maybe? There was that time Sony decided to install a rootkit when you played a CD

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...

neilpaon Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, with instructions

I have a literal pile of bricks in my backyard. I thought this was going to be an app that I could scan them with and tell me how to build a pizza oven.

neilpaon Critical SIP Bypass Vulnerabilities in macOS PackageKit.framework

https://github.com/tombonez/noTunes

neilpaon uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results

My w3schools workaround is appending `mdn` to any search for something related to web standards

neilpaon Fastest star ever seen is moving at 8% the speed of light

I’m assuming PGA is Programmable Gain Amplifier? It wasn’t immediately obvious from a web search.

neilpaon I Want Decentralized Version Control for Structured Data

Unfortunately development has stalled out

https://github.com/attic-labs/noms/blob/master/README.md#sta...

> Nobody is working on this right now. You shouldn't rely on it unless you're willing to take over development yourself.

neilpaon Nippon Colors

They cite what looks like this book in the footer

https://www.amazon.com/Traditional-Colors-Japan-Japanese/dp/...

Although it references a 2007 edition.

neilpaon Setting up Git identities

You can extend this trick further by specifying the User in your SSH config to make for even shorter URLs.

  Host gh-me
    Hostname github.com
    User git
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa

  Host gh-work
    Hostname github.com
    User git
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_work

Then all you need is a `git clone gh-me:org/repo` or `git clone gh-work:work/repo`. I've been using this for sometime and it's not too hard to remember. Although when I don't it's easy enough to fix the origin url by editing `.git/config`.

neilpaon Apple engineer killed in Tesla crash had previously complained about autopilot

Does anyone have a link to the actual NTSB documents linked in the article?

> https://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/NR20200211.as...

Looks like the ntsb.gov site is currently down and they haven't been indexed on archive.org yet.