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Overengineering a way to know if people are in my university's CS lab
Who knew figuring out the lab's occupancy would be so much work?!
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Skeptical of rewriting JavaScript tools in "faster" languages
I’ve written a lot of JavaScript. I like JavaScript. And more importantly, I’ve built up a set of skills in understanding, optimizing, and debugging JavaScript…
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What docs-as-code means
I’ve recently started a new job as a documentation engineer. While my work is largely the same as that of a technical writer, …
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Using static websites for tiny archives
I've been creating small, hand-written websites to organise my files. It's a lightweight, flexible approach that I hope will last a long time.
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Unit tests as documentation
Unit tests are always in sync with the code, making them a powerful tool for up-to-date documentation.
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Video scraping: extracting JSON from a 35s screen capture for 1/10th of a cent
The other day I found myself needing to add up some numeric values that were scattered across twelve different emails. I didn’t particularly feel like copying and pasting all of …
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I Self-Hosted Llama 3.2 with Coolify on My Home Server
Discover how I transformed an old server into a powerful AI engine, self-hosting Llama 3.2 with GPU acceleration using Coolify. A step-by-step guide.
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Sound Lab – A Simple Analogue Synthesiser
Sound Lab is an analogue synthesiser, consisting of six modules that can be combined in a variety of ways. It uses a single printed circuit board that doubles as the front panel and wiring, with surface-mount components and PCB-mounted controls to make the construction as easy as possible:
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Exploring Typst, a new typesetting system similar to LaTeX
In this article, we explore Typst, a new typesetting system similar to LaTeX. We explore its syntax, current uses and possible uses; we test its scripting system, which is incredibly powerful; we compare it with LaTeX, Markdown and Word, which can be used in similar roles; and we explore its applicability to the task…
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Started a guide to writing FUSE filesystems in Python
As DebConf22 was coming to an end, in Kosovo, talking with Eeveelweezel they invited me to prepare a talk to give for the Chicago Python User Group . I replied that I’m not really that much of a Python guy… But would think about a topic. Two years passed. I meet Eeveelweezel again for DebConf24 in Busan, South Korea…
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WordPress Alternatives
Alternative WordPress options that you can drop onto a server and get running with
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Command Line Tools I Like (2022)
The personal site of R. W. Blickhan
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The importance of local development
Efficient software development benefits from local development, it enables faster iteration, better debugging and ensures consistency between local and production environments.
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Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer
Instead of doom-scrolling through my phone in the morning, I built an alternative with a Raspberry Pi, a dot matrix printer, and some PHP.
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Why my apps will soon be gone from the Google Play Store
The first real money I ever made from game development was on Android. It was in 2013, when Android was still the underdog compared to the iPhone, and was being touted as a great platform for developers. I’d taken two weeks to build Patchy, a retro arcade game revamped for touch controls, and published it on the…
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Web scraping with your web browser: Why not?
You can find plenty of tutorials on the Internet about the art of web scraping (for example, here and here ) and the first things you will learn about are Python and Beautiful Soup. There is no tutorial on web scraping with Javascript in a web browser though you will find browser extensions that claim to do it all…
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The best browser bookmarking system is files
(Thanks for getting this on front page of HackerNews!) Along the years I have tested various...
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Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture (2022)
A couple of moments ago, I finished reading the article by Rob O'Leary about the pervasive data collection done by Visual Studio Code. Whilst Visual Studio Code is "open-source" (as per the OSD) the value-add which transforms the editor into anything of value ("what people actually refer
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Notion's mid-life crisis
Notion sat down on the curb, crushed his cigarette into the pavement, put his face into his hands, and sobbed. It felt good to finally let i...
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I Made a Rubbish Clock
With separate plastic, metal, paper, and glass recycling, composting, and pick up of all the rest, knowing which days to put out which bins ...
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Obsessed with Cuttle: Parametric CAD for prototyping, producing, and procrastin
Write-up of a bunch of laser-cut projects designed with Cuttle.
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The best $4 ever spent
Kids get excited about things that are very different from those of adults. You probably remember your kid's first birthday...
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Greenwich: an experiment in collaborative links
Greenwich, an experiment in collaborative curation
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No more blurry fonts in Linux (2023)
Ever since I saw elementary os sporting the very legible Inter font for its UI and site, I wanted to make it part of my desktop too. The only problem was any font I'd choose got a little blurry. Not any more!
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Refactoring Python with Tree-sitter and Jedi
I was toying around with a refactor the other day that would have taken me ages by hand as it involved 100s of files. I wanted to rename every instance of...
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Cloudflare Is Breaking My SVGs?
Fixing problems that shouldn't exist
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Analyzing the OpenAPI Tooling Ecosystem
Diagram of the OpenAPI Specification tooling ecosystem, focusing on how tasks relate to the specification
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I Like Makefiles
Fancy new build tools come and go, but I think I will stick with using makefiles to orchestrate everyday tasks in my projects.