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Snap, Flatpak and AppImage, package formats compared
Compare real-world RAM consumption of AppImage and Flatpak packages on low-memory Linux hardware. See how each format handles dependencies and…
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I Pay for News; Why Do I Still See Intrusive Ads? (2017)
If I pay for a website, I expect to not see ads.
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Dear Spotify, please let me unlink my Facebook account
Please let me unlink my Facebook account
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The true power of regular expressions (2012)
As someone who frequents the PHP tag on StackOverflow I pretty often see questions about how to parse some particular aspect of HTML using regular expressions. A common reply to such a question is:
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Chess Game Using Racket’s Pasteboard
The Racket GUI library provides an "editor toolkit" which can be used to implement programs that use an interactive graphical canvas where objects can be moved around with the mouse. This toolkit has good reference documentation, however this documentatio...
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The Big List of RPG Plots
What follows is a scrap of trivia . . . my collection of RPG plots , in abstract form. I built this by examining the premises of hundreds o...
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On Cash
What happened was, I was walking through a train station on the way to work with the buds playing randomly on shuffle and a knifeblade of Real Music came in from outside so I had to pull them out of my ears, there was this young dude getting great electric sound out of a teeny amp doing a slow take on Little Wing with…
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Quitting my job has been the best thing I've done for my career
This post is not meant to be prescriptive. It’s also not intended to be another “Quitting Google to pursue my passion for X” article because, well, I haven’t been able to pass the interview there yet. This is a telling of my story that I hope will inspire those who are thinking about quitting to take the leap.
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Firefox removes core product support for RSS/Atom feeds
TL;DR: from Firefox 64 onwards, RSS/Atom feed support will be handled via add-ons, rather than in-product.
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TinySeed – A Startup Accelerator Designed for Bootstrappers
When you hear the term startup accelerator you likely think of YCombinator, TechStars or 500 Startups. Accelerators traditionally cater to "unicorns" – companies that have the potential to be worth at least a billion dollars. This focus has made them successful in launching startups l
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Asterisks in Python
There are a lot of places you’ll see * and ** used in Python. These two operators can be a bit mysterious at times, both for brand new programmers...
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Arguing against using protobuffers
I’ve spent a good deal of my professional life arguing against using protobuffers. They’re clearly written by amateurs, unbelievably ad-hoc, mired in gotchas, tricky to compile, and solve a problem that nobody but Google really has. If these problems of protobuffers remained quarantined in serialization abstractions…
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Continued progress porting Emacs to Rust
The project to port all of the C code in Emacs to Rust has been going quite well of late, and a progress report is in order.
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The hacker's guide to uncertainty estimates
I made a New Year's resolution: every plot I make during 2018 will contain uncertainty estimates. Nine months in and I have learned a lot, so I put together a summary of some of the most useful methods.
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The death of Google
Blog: https://lauren.vortex.com/the-death-of-google PDF: https://lauren.vortex.com/google-death.pdf Google Docs: https://lauren.vortex.com/google-death.gdoc
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Porting C to Rust
You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites . This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone.
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An Elm compiler for the Erlang Virtual Machine
I’ve been exploring the idea of an Elm compiler that produces assembly for the Erlang Virtual Machine. You can find the code for this project on GitHub . This essay documents some interesting parts of the project.
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The Bermuda Triangle of Wealth
Three points motivated me to write this — forming a Bermuda Triangle in which the average American’s savings disappear without any apparent cause. 1. Considerations on Cost Disease — the observation that certain costs (Education, Medical Care, Housing) have increased many times fas