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Emacs, how it all started for me
A presentation of why, and how, I started using Emacs
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Gribouille 0.3.0: A Grammar of Graphics for Typst
Gribouille 0.3.0 gives guides and axes a much finer on/off switch, lets compose() carry its own theme, and makes geom-area() stack by default. A long list of legend and annotation fixes rounds it out.
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Even more batteries included with Emacs
Emacs features have a discoverability problem, and we’re chipping away at it one demo at a time. The years since I wrote the last one of these have yielded more surprising and useful finds, so it’s time again for a “batteries included” report. Note This is the third in a series of articles highlighting useful but…
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Pac-Man, but you're the ghost
I always felt a little bad for the ghosts in Pac-Man. They patrol the maze, they corner the guy, and then he eats a glowing pellet and suddenly they're the ones running for their lives. So I built a small game where you finally get to play the other side.
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Orthodox C++ (2016)
Branimir Karadžić's Home Page
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The experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt
Once upon a time, a frontend ticket landed on my queue which was not properly mine, but the only other Arabic reader on the team was on leave. It went roughly as follows; a block of mixed-content Arabic prose on the …
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Every Frame Perfect
How imprecise UI animations erode trust in product
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Ported my C game to WASM, here's every bug that I hit
ernesernesto dev blog
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Removing 'um' from a recording is harder than it sounds
A tour of erm, a local CLI that removes disfluencies from English speech recordings using faster-whisper, a few detectors that look at the audio directly, and ffmpeg.
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Lisp's Influence on Ruby
Once I wrote users.select { |u| u.admin? }.map(&:email) and realized I’d written Lisp.
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Lines of code got a better publicist
A case against measuring AI-assisted engineering by code volume and other vanity metrics instead of outcomes.
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Making a vintage LLM from scratch
In this blog post, I will share the adventures I had creating my own LLM, from (almost) scratch, trained only on old texts. I made my own base-training and fine-tuning scripts, data processing pipelines and custom datasets. ("almost from scratch" means I did use existing programming languages and libraries, I didn't…
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Spoiling Linux Kernel with "sanctioned" code
Last year I've fixed a bug in Linux kernel OHCI (USB 1.1) stack , which rendered my old printer unreliable: OHCI adds artificial delay of 1ms for each USB transfer of send-read pattern, while my very old, host-based printer expects very tight timings and constant latency, like some kind of CnC machine.
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Emacs appearances in pop culture
Thank you for the support, this blog post got featured on the front page of Hacker News (YCombinator).
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Build a Basic AI Agent from Scratch: Long Task Planning
In the previous part of the Build A Basic AI Agent From Scratch series, we added the essential tools to our agent to allow it to work…
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Test-case reducers are underappreciated debugging tools
Test-case reducers are less well known than they should be, and those who are aware of them don’t always realise the variety of ways we can use – perhaps even abuse! – them. In this post, I’m going to explore some of the things I’ve learnt while using these wonderful tools. I’ll start at the basics, because the idea…
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Making Graphics Like it's 1993
A deep dive into the asset creation pipeline for Catlantean 3D.
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Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers
We've all worked with a rockstar developer. They joined the team years ago, full of energy. They had great ideas about new tech, new paradigms, new architectures. Their cutting-edge ideas left everyone else feeling a bit behind and outdated.
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SVG-Line: Better Status Bars for Emacs – Charlie Holland's Blog
Emacs provides four useful status bars (mode-line, header-line, tab-bar, and tab-line), but each imposes different, inconsistent limits on multi-line layout, al...
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Klondike Solitaire game for curses in 5k of C
How I developed a Klondike Solitaire game for curses in C language as an entry for the IOCCC.
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Lies we tell ourselves about email addresses
Bear with me, because some of these "lies" are going to feel obvious, or like unimportant trivia. In all honesty, that's not that far from the truth. However, I hope you'll let me try to build a detailed and fun illustration showing how something as mundane as email can break our expectations in surprising ways.
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Who Runs Your Rust Future? Hands-On Intro to Async Rust
Build the smallest Rust async runner and see how futures, polling, waking, and runtimes work together.
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The Smallest Brain You Can Build: A Perceptron in Python
A perceptron explained from scratch in Python, with interactive demos. Learn weights, bias, the decision boundary, epochs, learning rate, and why we normalize data.
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Reverse engineering the Creative Katana soundbar to control it from Linux
Ethical Hacking and Cybersecurity Blog
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Cloning a Sennheiser BA2015 battery pack
I generally avoid messing with Li-ion battery packs, but these are both Ni-mh and expensive.
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Running Python code in a sandbox with MicroPython and WASM
I’ve been experimenting with different approaches to running code in a sandbox for several years now, but my latest attempt feels like it might finally have all of the characteristics …
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The perils of UUID primary keys in SQLite
A blog mostly about Clojure programming
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Conventional Commits encourages focus on the wrong things
You’ve almost certainly encountered Conventional Commits before. It may have reared its ugly head in the changelog of an open source project you’ve used. It may have been the enforced commit format for an open source project you contributed to. A lot of people swear by it. I swear at it. Even though it is used by a…
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Playing with Vision Embeddings
Poking at the geometry of an image model's feature space.