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A study of Google's code review tooling (Critique)
A study of Google's code review tooling (Critique), AI-powered improvements, and recent statistics
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A guide to home row mods
What are home row mods? What is a mod-tap? What settings do you need to use? What are the alternatives? And more in this article...
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Now I can just print that video
It all started with Instagram Reels showing me too many yummy cooking videos. I wanted to try some recipes out myself. But I didn’t want to have to keep my phone in the kitchen, and I didn’t want to have to keep unlocking it to see the next step. I wanted to print the recipe out, and have it on the counter while I was…
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Llamafile is the new best way to run a LLM on your own computer
Mozilla’s innovation group and Justine Tunney just released llamafile, and I think it’s now the single best way to get started running Large Language Models (think your own local copy …
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Combine GPTs with private knowledge for actually useful AIs
Custom GPTs by OpenAI are practically free new hires. But as as new hires go, most are not very useful.
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Writing documentation for your house
Have you considered writing documentation for your house?
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Download all of Wikipedia on your phone
Download all of Wikipedia on your phone and never be without the useful internet ever again.
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Making a font
This month I decided to learn how to make a font to use in my comic hakum . Previously, I was drawing the text digitally with my pen tablet. The result was fine, but sometimes difficult to read(the text would grow and shrink often in one page). I didn't want to use an existing font, so I decided to make one based on…
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Emacs and the mouse: A modest defense of the rodent
A modest defense of the rodent So, Emacs and the mouse. This is an unexpectedly contentious topic, with discussions that end, at best, with careless dismissal. More often they turn into arguments with folks talking past one another. The advantages of using the mouse for common actions in Emacs are immediate and…
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Fun with DNS TXT Records
TXT Record Specification Primer # Reading through the RFC Using the Domain Name System To Store Arbitrary String Attributes to summarise the relevant part: Any printable ASCII character is permitted for the attribute name. More importantly, on the restrictions section Some DNS server implementations place limits on…
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The Curse of Docker
I'm heading to Las Vegas for re:invent soon, perhaps the most boring type of industry extravaganza there could be. In that spirit, I thought I would write something quick and oddly professional: I'm going to complain about Docker.
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A DX7 USB Dongle
The amazing Rene Stange added USB Gadget (i.e. device) support to the Circle bare metal Raspberry Pi environment a while ago so I’ve now incorporated that into MiniDexed. This allows MiniDexe…
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The bash book to rule them all
I ♥ to /bin/bash and last week I came around the one bash book to rule them all.
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GIMP 3.0 has a release schedule
The team is targeting May 2024, but it's going to be tough, and here is why
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Git Branches: Intuition and Reality
git branches: intuition & reality
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RSS can be used to distribute all sorts of information
Thoughts for Nov 19, 2023
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Stable Fiddusion: Frequency-domain blue noise generator
Frequency-domain blue noise generator
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From email to phone number, a new OSINT approach (2019)
How to find out someone's phone number if you just know their email address and how it can be automated using a new OSINT tool: email2phonenumber
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Push ifs up and fors down
A short note on two related rules of thumb.
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Summing columns in remote Parquet files using DuckDB
vivym/midjourney-messages on Hugging Face is a large (~8GB) dataset consisting of 55,082,563 Midjourney images - each one with the prompt and a URL to the image hosted on Discord.
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GitHub Actions Are a Problem
A blog, mostly about programming
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Archive your old projects
In this post I describe how I wish I had archived all my old projects and my approach going forward.
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Debugging tricks in the browser
Advanced browser parlor tricks
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Let's create a Python Debugger together
An article series where I show you how to write a fully functional Python debugger.