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Introduction to Software Development Tooling (2024)
Learn the command line, version control, build systems, and correctness in NEU’s CS 4973: ISDT.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,415 posts.
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Fix HDMI-CEC weirdness with a Raspberry Pi and a $7 cable
Revenge tale against Consumer Electronics "Control".
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Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system
Announcing my latest open-source project.
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My Gift to the Rustdoc Team
About two weeks ago I entered a discussion with the docs.rs team about, basically, why we have to look at this: When we could be looking at this: And of course, as always, there are reasons why thi...
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OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI
One of the things that most excited me about Anthropic’s new Skills mechanism back in October is how easy it looked for other platforms to implement. A skill is just …
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Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools
In Dec 2022 I watched Richard Stallman's talk on the EmacsConf , it was titled "What I'd like to see in Emacs". One of the interesting points Mr. Stallman pointed out in this talk was "memorable names", "I think every …
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Useful patterns for building HTML tools
I’ve started using the term HTML tools to refer to HTML applications that I’ve been building which combine HTML, JavaScript, and CSS in a single file and use them to …
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Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration
Last week, I started working on a new side-project. It’s a standard React app partly made up of run-of-the-mill CRUD views—a perfect fit for LLM-assisted programming. I reasoned that if I could get an LLM to quickly write the boring code for me, I’d have more time to focus on the interesting problems I wanted to solve.
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How I block all online ads
A couple of years ago, I decided I'd had enough of ads. Not just the occasional banner or a quick pre-roll video — I mean all of them. They have to go.
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Making RSS More Fun
I wrote a browser extension to try and make finding random, independent websites more fun.
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Jujutsu worktrees are convenient (2024)
Jujutsu worktrees are very convenient! In git, worktrees are an old concept. The idea is that you can effectively work on your project in 2 different folders …
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Stacked Diffs with git rebase —onto
Using git `rebase --onto` workflow to work with stacked diffs
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Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release
https://slopevader.com/ A search tool and browser extension for avoiding AI slop. Available for Chrome or Firefox. The tool filters web...
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GitHub to Codeberg: my experience
In which I talk about the process involved in switching forges, and how well that went.
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Self-hosting my photos with Immich
For every cloud service I use, I want to have a local copy of my data for backup purposes and independence. Unfortunately, the gphotos-sync tool stopped working in March 2025 when Google restricted the OAuth scopes, so I needed an alternative for my existing Google Photos setup. In this post, I describe how I have set…
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Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network
Imgur started blocking UK users. Rather than installing a VPN on every device, I set up a network-wide proxy that tunnels Imgur traffic through a VPN automatically.
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Replacing My Window Manager with Google Chrome
A lesson in X11, networking, and design.
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How to Synthesize a House Loop
Code music in the browser.
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Don't Download Apps
The personal blog of Caleb Jay Rogers, Software Engineer
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The writing is on the wall for handwriting recognition
One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved
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Editing Code in Emacs
When you write code, you want to focus on the code, not on the text of the code. This means a) you have to have a good text editing setup, and b) you need to have a muscle-memory level instinct for using that setup. The second comes with practice and with consistency (i.e. not changing your config too much too…
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Markdown is holding you back
Explore why Markdown, despite its ubiquity, might not be the best fit for technical content.
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Run Docker containers natively in Proxmox 9.1 (OCI images)
Published: 20-11-2025 22:34 | Author: Remy van Elst | Text only version of this article
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OrthoRoute – GPU-accelerated autorouting for KiCad
OrthoRoute: GPU-Accelerated PCB Autorouter
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Messing with scraper bots
Markov chain babblers, bogus php files, and more!
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I can't recommend Grafana anymore
The Grafana Stack can be an incredible powerful monitoring solution, but through my experience I found out how maintenance intensive it is and how uncertain the…