Coding

Photo by Ramiro Mendes

Set up Wake-on-LAN on systemd

OR: How to Help Save the Earth, and save a couple bucks on your electric bill PhotoStructure is (mostly) developed on an AMD Ryzen 9 5950X workstation. It’s nice and speedy, but consumes 500+ watts when busy, and 200 watts at idle!

Switch your cross-platform CI to GitHub Actions in 5 minutes

If you maintain an open source project that’s hosted on GitHub, and you’re frustrated by one or more of your current continuous integration (CI) providers, good news: GitHub Actions is a free CI service that supports running tests and other tasks on macOS, Windows, and Linux.

If Something is Odd, Inappropriate, Confusing, or Boring, It Is Probably Important.

That guy smiling at you is my Dad, David McEachen. He taught English Literature to a surprisingly large portion of the teenagers growing up in Santa Barbara from 1965 to 2004.

Uncertain, lazy, forgetful, & impatient: It’s what you want your code to be.

While building PhotoStructure, which is written in TypeScript, I found myself missing a bunch of Scala-isms. Character trait #1: Unabashed uncertainty One of the first bits I missed from Scala was the Option monad.