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Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation
Nano Banana allows 32,768 input tokens and I’m going to try to use them all dammit.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,415 posts.
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The terminal of the future
To redesign infrastructure, you have to allow incremental adoption, while simultaneously moving the whole design space at once.
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I hate screenshots of text
Why do people take screenshots of text?
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The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need
When my son was born last April, I had ambitious learning plans for the upcoming 5w paternity leave. As you can imagine, with two kids, life quickly verified this plan 🙃. I did eventually start some projects. One of the goals (sounding rebellious in the current AI hype cycle) was to learn and use neovim for coding. As…
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How I am deeply integrating Emacs
A blog, notes, gallery, lifestyle and fully conglomerated posts from Joshua.
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My fan worked fine, so I gave it WiFi
How I went about creating a concealed modification for a fan so I could control it over WiFi with ESPHome and Home Assistant.
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State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions
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Why Nextcloud feels slow to use
No amount of tuning the backend service performance helped, and then I learned why. Oh no. Oh no no no no.
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At the end you use `git bisect`
People rant about having to learn algorithmic questions for interviews. I get it — interview system is broken, but you ought to learn binary search at least.
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How I use every Claude Code feature
A brain dump of all the ways I've been using Claude Code.
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Text case changes the size of QR codes
Changing the case of text can change the size of the corresponding QR code. This is one of the reasons Bitcoin moved from Base58 to bech32 encoding.
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Perfetto: Swiss army knife for Linux client tracing
How Linux kernel, systems and embedded developers can use Perfetto for debugging performance issues.
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How to Obsessively Tune WezTerm
An extremely detailed guide on how to configure WezTerm
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Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade
Released in 2024, uv is hands-down the best tool for managing Python installations and dependencies. Here's why.
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From VS Code to Helix
I want less Big Tech in my life. After years of dismissing Helix as too fringe and complicated, I've tried (and loved) it.
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Aggressive bots ruined my weekend
The web-scraping arm race continues
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I've been loving Claude Code on the web
It’s very much a “v1” product. You type a prompt to start a new thread, it launches a little container for your agent to work in, and you can keep talking to it. It produces a branch, which you can open a PR for (that’s the only way to see a diff of the changes Claude Code made, for now). Or if you want to keep…
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I built my own CityMapper
We've all used a public transit router to find a quick route from A to B, such as Google Maps or CityMapper, but how do they actually work?
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You already have a Git server
If you have a git repository on a server with ssh access, you can just clone it:
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Customize Nano Text Editor (2022)
DevOps Engineer and Full-Stack Developer with 4+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and scalable web applications.
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Typst's Math Mode Problem
Typst's math mode has a strange precedence problem that most people using it will run into at some point.
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Be Careful with Obsidian
Just a few personal thoughts. Notes to myself, to people who use and love this app everyday.
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I see a future in jj
In December of 2012, I was home for Christmas, reading Hacker News. And that’s when I saw “ Rust 0.5 released ."" I’m a big fan of programming languages, so I…
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Scripts I wrote that I use all the time
I've written a number of little scripts over the years, many of which I use every day. Here's a little collection.
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Magit Is Amazing
I was reading a post about Jujutsu version control system the other day and that just made me realize how awesome is Magit!
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What I Self Host
I’ve always liked reading blogs, and have used several feed readers in the past (Feedly, for example). For a long time I was thinking it would be fun to writ...
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I invited strangers to message me through a receipt printer
Not only did I give internet strangers unrestricted access to send me completely anonymous physical messages, but I also self-hosted the entire site on a Raspberry Pi
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VisiCalc on the Apple II
In 1978, Bricklin and Frankston took out a loan to develop "Calcu-ledger," a tool that could project the fiscal health of taking out that very loan
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ImapGoose
ImapGoose is a small program to keep local mailboxes in sync with an IMAP server. The wording “keep […] in sync” implies that it does so continuously, rather than a one-time sync. ImapGoose is designed as a daemon, monitoring both the IMAP server and the local filesystem, and immediately synchronising changes. When…