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answer:
January 13, 2026 at 8:07 PM
think fast! which of these 4 work (sql server)

CREATE TABLE test.dbo.example (thing decimal(20,10) NULL);

. INSERT INTO example VALUES ('950.45'), ('1000')
. INSERT INTO example VALUES (950.45), ('1000')
. INSERT INTO example VALUES (950), ('1000')
. INSERT INTO example VALUES (950), (1000)
January 13, 2026 at 7:55 PM
ok the touying slides can embed animations
January 11, 2026 at 8:15 PM
trying slides in typst
January 11, 2026 at 8:08 PM
(rubbing my two brain cells together thinking really hard) ok, but what about _kantian_ game theory
January 6, 2026 at 3:46 PM
they're going to start making cognitohazard suits after this prompt finishes
January 2, 2026 at 3:40 PM
trying a thing. tentative for now.
December 31, 2025 at 8:48 PM
found a funny along the way.

"all of your essays suck. go home."
December 30, 2025 at 9:34 PM
penultimate post of the year on yoga and all that jazz

blog.draconacht.dev/posts/2025/y...
musings on yoga and the purpose of exercise
i assure you this isn’t (just) traumadumping.\n
blog.draconacht.dev
December 30, 2025 at 9:32 PM
December 8, 2025 at 4:53 PM
math is fun
December 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
having some fun with today's advent of code problem
December 7, 2025 at 10:15 AM
fuck switching domain registrars from `name.com` to `cloudflare` is so nice.

effortless email forwarding? non-shitty browser sessions? actually working redirects? no shitty added prices for WHOIS / TLS cert? actual metrics for shit?

amateur hour is over. worth the hassle.
December 1, 2025 at 8:49 PM
python perf is crazy

"so we inlined append for when you dont have to change the list size and now it's 25% faster fuck you"
- time: 2022

and im like damn you spent 20 years not doing that
November 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
hi i am albanian DB driver because of poor technology in my SQL flavour i am not able to escape parameters. please do that yourself

github.com/grafana/athe...
October 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM
athena query parametrisation is something else... and of course the associated code examples are only in java.
October 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
made a #nushell script to track mutual fund investments in India

github.com/draconacht/p...

input is loaded from a CAMS report and cross-referenced with mfapi.in
MFapi.in - Free India Mutual Fund API
India's first free mutual fund API. Get complete historical data for Indian mutual funds over JSON API. Updated daily.
mfapi.in
October 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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make of this what you will
October 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
@hankgreen.bsky.social hi i wanted to tell this to someone but idk who and ur a smart guy

bring back sulphur in fuel to own the libs W or L

third video on this link - wttc.org/events-webin...

the guy owns viking cruises which runs cruise ships for rich people
October 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
very unfortunate choice of words

github.com/go-gota/gota
GitHub - go-gota/gota: Gota: DataFrames and data wrangling in Go (Golang)
Gota: DataFrames and data wrangling in Go (Golang) - go-gota/gota
github.com
July 30, 2025 at 7:36 PM