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Greppability is an underrated code metric
Keeping your codebase searchable will make your maintenance life easier in the long run. A collection of guidelines to keep your code base greppable
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,433 posts.
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QWERTY-Flip: The better keyboard layout your fingers already know
The 10 most frequent letters in English are ETAOINSRHL . This layout gets most of those letters onto the home row while making use of existing muscle memory. According to Carpalx , QWERTY-Flip scores about as well as the famous Dvorak layout, but while Dvorak is very hard to learn, with QWERTY-Flip you'll be up and…
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The Art of Finishing
My endless battle with the "Project Hydra": why I can't seem to finish projects, and the strategies I'm exploring to finally complete what I start. A personal journey through productivity's thorniest challenge.
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Web scraping with GPT-4o: powerful but expensive
tl;dr; show me the demo and source code!
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Owners of 1-Time Passcode Theft Service Plead Guilty
Three men in the United Kingdom have pleaded guilty to operating otp[.]agency , a once popular online service that helped attackers intercept the one-time passcodes (OTPs) that many websites require as a second authentication factor in addition to passwords.
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Understanding the Y Combinator
This article is about the Y combinator, a fixed-point combinator that provides a way of using recursion in scenarios and programming languages where symbols are not available. The concept of the Y combinator itself is closely related to lambda calculus (λ-calculus) and functional programming languages. More…
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How the Hourglass Won
The Internet's architecture is viewed as an hourglass: broad application support at the top, narrow waist (IP), wide choice of links below IP
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My Blog Engine Is the Erlang Build Tool
From time to time, people ask me what I use to power my blog, maybe because they like the minimalist form it has. I tell them it’s a bad idea and that I use the Erlang compiler infrastructure for it, and they agree to look elsewhere.
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They don't make 'em like that any more: the 3.5mm headphone jack socket
What’s the real reason that cellphone manufacturers stopped fitting this simple, robust connector?
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Upgrading a Toshiba NAS HDD Firmware on Linux
I reversed the firmware updater of my Toshiba HDD to be able to update it on Linux. The following commands should work, USE AT YOUR OWN RISK :
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People can read their manager's mind (2015)
People generally don't do what they're told, but what they expect to be rewarded for. Managers often say they'll reward something – perhaps they even believe it. But then they proceed to reward different things.
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Parsing Awk Is Tricky
A somewhat compact implementation of the awk programming language
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Dublin Core, what is it good for?
There are several popular meta schemas out there. Open Graph may be the best supported, but if you want your meta data to be picked up by a particular service you might need to do a bit of research. Or support them all.
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A Real Life Off-by-One Error
The Championnats d’Europe d’Escalade (climbing) in Villars-sur-Ollon has just finished. I couldn’t make it to all the events, but did see the finals of the “Speed” event. It’s a series of head-to-head elimination races up a 15m tall wall, resulting in an eventual victor after enough rounds.
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Extreme Pi Boot Optimization
🚀 3.5 sec to Linux userspace code
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The Pentium as a Navajo Weaving
Hurrying through the National Gallery of Art five minutes before closing, I passed a Navajo weaving with a complex abstract pattern. Suddenl...
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The web's clipboard, and how it stores data of different types
Exploring the web’s clipboard APIs, their limitations, and their history.
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Massachusetts Bodged Transistor Authority
in which two women are driven into madness by poorly documented cab signaling gear
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Honey, I shrunk {fmt}: bringing binary size to 14k and ditching the C++ runtime
The {fmt} formatting library is known for its small binary footprint, often producing code that is several times smaller per function call compared to alternatives like IOStreams, Boost Format, or, somewhat ironically, tinyformat. This is mainly achieved through careful application of type erasure on various levels…
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Strange Attractors (2018)
Interactive Mathematical Applets and Animations
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Playstation 2 GS emulation – the final frontier of Vulkan compute emulation
As you may, or may not know, I wrote paraLLEl-RDP back in 2020. It aimed at implementing the N64 RDP in Vulkan compute. Lightning fast, and extremely accurate, plus the added support of up-scaling on top. I’m quite happy how it turned out. Of course, the extreme accuracy was due to Angrylion being used as reference…
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Taming the beast that is the Django ORM – An introduction
The Django ORM, how it compares to raw SQL and gotchas that you should be aware of when using it
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Building LLMs from the Ground Up: A 3-Hour Coding Workshop
If your weekend plans include catching up on AI developments and understanding Large Language Models (LLMs), I've prepared a 1-hour presentation on the development cycle of LLMs, covering everything from architectural implementation to the finetuning stages.
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Orphaning bcachefs-tools in Debian
Around a decade ago, I was happy to learn about bcache – a Linux block cache system that implements tiered storage (like a pool of hard disks with SSDs for cache) on Linux. At that stage, ZFS on Linux was nowhere close to where it is today, so any progress on gaining more ZFS features in general Linux systems was very…
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Five Most Productive Years: What Happened and What's Next
On his 65th birthday, Stephen Wolfram details how his 'now or never' thinking has made the last five years some of his most productive. Read about his projects in tech and science.
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Bresenham's Circle Drawing Algorithm (2021)
Once upon a time I was given the following problem for a technical programming interview: