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Cursorless is alien magic from the future
Xe Iaso's personal website.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,415 posts.
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Typing fast is about latency, not throughput
any speed above, say, maybe 80 wpm , isn’t going to hinder anyone when trying to put anything into the computer
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Kurdish Parentheses on OpenStreetMap, Three Ways
While making a proposal to update Noto fonts for OpenStreetMap tiles, which fixes an issue with Kurdish labels using ڵا , I noticed a street with mismatched parentheses and was anticipating a deep dive into the tile renderer. But the actual problem was somewhere else:
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Interactive examples for learning jq
Learn how to search, query, and modify JSON data with 25 interactive jq examples and explanations
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Create a shortcut for even lower phone brightness
We're all addicted to our phones and many of us go to sleep with them in our hands 1 — so it's odd that manufacturers choose the default minimum brightness to be brighter than the sun.
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Git rebase, what can go wrong
git rebase: what can go wrong?
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See the History of a Method with Git log -L
Git can “trace the evolution” of a specific method, showing you logs of how it has changed over time.
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Why You Should Write Your Own Static Site Generator
I rewrote my personal website using basic libraries and the flexibility is incredible.
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How Bear does analytics with CSS
Bear Blog has a few design constraints for speed, efficiency, and stability. There are many great open-source, privacy-focussed analytics platforms out there...
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My User Experience Porting Off Setup.py
In the past week I went to add Python 3.12 support to my zstandard Python package. A few hours into the unexpected yak shave / rat hole, I decided to start chronicling my experience so that I may share it with the broader Python community. My hope is that by sharing my (unfortunately painful) end-user experience that…
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Finding services companies via their TXT records
How to use a company's TXT records to discover the products they use.
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Fixing the volume on my Bluetooth earbuds
A bit of reverse engineering goes a long way
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Getting my library cards onto my phone the hard way
Our local libraries, The Seattle Public Library and the King County Library System, issue pieces of plastic with barcodes printed on the back assigned to your borrower account. These cards are not strictly necessary in 2023; most everything at Seattle libraries is self-service, including circulation, and these…
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Wait, what's a bookmarklet?
How this one small browser quirk turned into a tool used by countless people for decades.
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Things I've learned about building CLI tools in Python
I build a lot of command-line tools in Python. It’s become my favorite way of quickly turning a piece of code into something I can use myself and package up …
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Unified versus Split Diff
Which is better for code reviews, a unified diff or a split diff?
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Trying out TinaCMS
I'm trying out TinaCMS to make it faster and easier to post here!
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Base64 Encoding, Explained
Base64 is an elegant way to convert binary data to text, making it easy to store and transport. This article covers the basics of Base64 encoding, including what it is, how it works and why it's important. It also shows how to encode and decode Base64 data in various programming languages.
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Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Just paying Figma because nothing else works
My family wasn’t poor by any stretch of the imagination, but I was raised to avoid spending money whenever possible. I was also taught “it’s a poor craftsman that blames their tools”, which apparen...
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Organizing multiple Git identities
Here's a quick tip on how to manage multiple Git identities (e.g. personal, work, client1, client2).
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Fcron Is the Best Cron
We look at the limitations of cron, examine systemd timers as an alternative, but in the end pick fcron as more user-friendly.
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The Compact Calendar 2023-2024
The Compact Calendar presents days as a continuous candy bar of time. Weeks are presented as a stack of available time with no gaps, making it easier to count-out days naturally as you think.
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How LSP could have been better
We talk about programming like it is about writing code, but the code ends up being less important than the architecture, and the architecture ends up being less important than social issues.
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How to legally pirate every font
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