Reid Burke

Knowledge Updates

Observations while developing web applications and creating great software.

  • MariaDB Sandbox Mode

    Today I ran into a problem I’ve never seen before when moving MariaDB databases between systems.

    ERROR at line 1: Unknown command '\\-'.

    Quickly searching on Perplexity revealed the problem. There was a dump file compatibility change in MariaDB which introduces a new directive on the first line of a dump file to disable the execution of shell commands:

    /*!999999\- enable the sandbox mode */

    There are several remedies available.

  • BFS Interview Question and Pull-Ups

  • Berkeley Mono 2.0 ↗

    U.S. Graphics released Berkeley Mono 2.0. You should use it.

    Here’s Berkeley Mono v2 Condensed on my personal computer. It’s very nice.

    Pairs nicely with Ghostty and Fastfetch.

    More from X

    And on another person’s computer:


    Glyphs and FontLab

    Rasmus — the creator of Inter — gave advice on tools for creating fonts.

    Beautiful Grafana & Sentry

    Observability of US Graphics infrastructure is beautiful.

  • Ghostty ↗

    Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.

    Here’s my configuration. The quick terminal is very satisfying.

    font-family = TX-02
keybind = global:cmd+grave_accent=toggle_quick_terminal
theme = xcodedarkhc
window-colorspace = display-p3

    Note: I don’t use dark and light theme modes because of a visual bug when opening splits and tabs when specifying them.

    Combined with Berkeley Mono v2, next year is sharing up to become the year of the terminal.

  • Native TypeScript support in Node.js