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Lazygit Turns 5: Musings on Git, TUIs, and open source
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Archive.today: on the trail of mysterious guerrilla archivists of the Internet
Do you like reading articles in publications like Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal or the Economist, but can’t afford to pay what can be hundreds of dollars a year in subscriptions? If so, …
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Eventual Business Consistency
Executive Summary of Bi-temporality
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Math Exposition on YouTube
This summer, 3Blue1Brown launched the third installment of the Summer of Math Exposition contest. Every year, I’ve been impressed and inspired by the quality of some of the videos in this con…
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Non-determinism in GPT-4 is caused by Sparse MoE
It’s well-known at this point that GPT-4/GPT-3.5-turbo is non-deterministic, even at temperature=0.0. This is an odd behavior if you’re used to dense decoder-only models, where temp=0 should imply greedy sampling which should imply full determinism, because the logits for the next token should be a pure function of…
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Throw away your first draft of your code
The next time you start on a major project, I want you to write code for a couple of days and then delete it all . Just throw it away.
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My favorite Vim oneliners for text manipulation
Vim one-liners for fast text edits: count words, format JSON, delete blank lines, sum the numbers in a file, extract IP addresses, and open files in splits.
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GNUStep now has badges
Finally I got around implementing and committing badge support in GNUStep ! I think it is one of the fine additions Apple did to the origina...
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Remote work requires communicating more, but less frequently
Async communication is like gzip compression for humans: more processing up front, but greater throughput with fewer packets.
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Teach a man to phish and he’s set for life
One frustrating aspect of email phishing is the frequency with which scammers fall back on tried-and-true methods that really have no business working these days. Like attaching a phishing email to a traditional, clean email message, or leveraging link redirects on LinkedIn , or abusing an encoding method that makes…
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The Coming Enshittification of Public Libraries
Global investment vampires have positioned themselves to suck our libraries dry
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Catching up on the weird world of LLMs
I gave a talk on Sunday at North Bay Python where I attempted to summarize the last few years of development in the space of LLMs—Large Language Models, the technology …
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Why early modern books are so beautiful
Three theories
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Making peer-to-peer multiplayer seamless with Godot (2022)
Software engineer, artist and musician
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Do something, so we can change it
A habit for addressing two-way decisions.
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Elixir for cynical curmudgeons
You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites . This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone.
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Elastic tabstops
Elastic tabstops - a better way to indent and align code
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Don't be clever
The story of the CRUDController
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Man spends entire career mastering crappy codebase
Westbrook spent 35 years in a codebase that allegedly powers some sort of medical software somewhere. During his tenure, he contributed hundreds of lines of code to his projects.
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Netscape Meteors
I went on a small journey the last couple days to find the original Netscape Navigator “meteors” animation. This one has a special place in my head and heart because it is so clearly connected to my memories of discovering the web as a kid. Here it is in its original 60×60 px glory:
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System settings that aren’t in System Settings
Where would you set the default call handler for macOS? And where in System Settings do you set the default web browser?
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If Web Components are so great, why am I not using them?
Rem recently asked:
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Cops still take more stuff from people than burglars do (2021)
Let’s get one thing out of the way: it’s not normal to stuff $100,000 in cash into a suitcase and then check said suitcase on to a domestic flight.
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Kickstarting a book to end enshittification, because Amazon will not carry it
My next book is The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation : it's a Big Tech disassembly manual that explains how to disenshittify the web and bring back the old good internet. The hardcover comes from Verso on Sept 5, but the audiobook comes from me – because Amazon refuses to sell my audio:
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If you have first-hand knowledge of the FDA’s torpor, get in touch
The title says it: if you’re involved in drug or medical development and have experienced the FDA’s torpor, or vengeance, consider getting in touch; anonymously is fine. I want to make …
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A non-mathematical introduction to Kalman filters for programmers
Read my manifesto on Code as an alternative to Mathematics. Code for this article can be found on this Colab Notebook should you choose to follow along. Why Kalman Filters? Kalman filters are ingenius. If you have never heard of them, then a very intuitive (and arguably reductive) way to think about them is to
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Excuse me, is there a problem?
Many startups fail despite identifying a real problem and building a product that solves that problem. This explains why, so you can avoid their fate.