The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,416 posts.
With advancements in machine learning, screenshots are quickly becoming a universal data format. It's now (relatively) easy to extract meaning (image-to-text), layout information (object recognition), text (optical ch...
A few months ago I got to debug and fix an interesting bug in the Csharp virtual terminal library VtNetCore . We use VtNetCore at BastionZero to extract terminal commands in realtime from user terminal sessions as they flow over the wire. This requires feeding the standard out and standard err of a terminal session…
If you're exploring or publishing data, you should give this open source tool a go.
I implemented new --shuffle option for GNU make to simulate non-deterministic build order in parallel makefiles.
There is an area of Python that many developers have problems with. This is an area that has seen many different solutions pop up over the years, with many different opinions, wars, and attempts to solve it. Many have complained about the packaging ecosystem and tools making their lives harder. Many beginners are…
In October 2022 traffic to my blog dropped like a stone. What happened?
Confession time: I don't fully understand how terminals, shells and SSH really work (and my guess is you don't either). And I don't mean the cryptography behind SSH. I mean how SSH and the terminal — and the shell for that matter — interact with one another.
I made a custom split mechanical keyboard! Because it's me, this involved things like contributing to a PCB design tool and discovering a ridiculously optimized way to read a keyboard matrix.
As a data format, yaml is extremely complicated and it has many footguns. In this post I explain some of those pitfalls by means of an example, and I suggest a few simpler and safer yaml alternatives.
Code level discussion of web scraping, gray hat automation, growth hacking and bounty hunting
A set of recipes for using Makefiles for web development.
A long-standing debate between me and a peer at work has been how we should name services. His position was always that services should be named something descriptive, so that you can infer from the name what it does. My position is that the name should definitely not be descriptive, but should be something cute and…
A pragmatic way for you to start automating deployments of a Legacy system.
We know, "no idea is a bad idea," but brainstorming is often unsuccessful. These prompts actually work. They could even lead to a unique business model.
I updated the whoami.filippo.io dataset! I explain how it works, and how I fetched the new data.
What worked for the long haul, what we cut out over time, and the boring tech that keeps the app alive
A huge stream of information and FOMO
I really try to automate part of my work. But I do not always strive to automate the task at hand entirely. I have come to realize, at least for my usual duties, that automation is a balance between the productivity and consistency gains you would get from not doing it by hand versus the time it would take to cover…
My favorite MacOS productivity trick for daily use.
L.C. Bakken technical blog
It's dark and funny and unlike anything else
Personal blog of Julien (jvoisin) Voisin
