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One of the most underrated things in the industry, especially when you’re working as a full-time developer, is the power of keeping a “knowledge stash” handy. There’s this perception that knowledge comes through experience, time, or simply osmosis, and, while that can be true over a long enough period of time and for…
Best practices when adding a JSON output option to your command-line application.
easier than scraping a hide, I suppose
How to be a pro programmer
Update (2024-09-08): Read this article in Japanese at Qiita or at Emacs-JP. You’re using Avy wrong. Too harsh? Let me rephrase: you’re barely using Avy. Still too broad? Okay, the noninflammatory version: Avy, the Emacs package to jump around the screen, lends itself to efficient composable usage that’s obscured by…
I have created a Blender plugin that takes an image texture with some structure and generates an animation of how this structure grows. To be more precise, it creates a non-color data image with the animation information that can be used in a shader. Since animations are hard to describe in words or individual images…
The non-writing UX is bad enough to render product unusuable
Many folders have them. They’re so invisible that you can’t even see them when you show hidden files. And the only way you know they’re there is when they cause problems.
Emacs has a reputation for being borderline unusable out of the box, of being bloated but somehow surprisingly bare. This is largely a discoverability problem1. The solution the Internet has settled on seems to be “Emacs distributions” like Doom, Spacemacs or Prelude that glue together dozens (sometimes hundreds) of…
I’ve been lurking the fish shell for a couple of years now (and the nushell but it is another story for another time). Not so long ago, I decided to try it, and it’s simply… amazing. If I had to state one feature that makes me like to use it, it’ll be the autocompletion, hands down. It’s the first time I just take a…
You thought your family was going to be talking about web3 this Thanksgiving. But they’re actually talking about ebikes. Let’s help you prepare. Ebikes are about to change the world. They are already the best selling electric vehicles, and are selling as fast as factories can make them.
I talk about tree sitter, CEDET, and Combobulate -- my "paredit-style" package that's designed to work with most programming languages.
5 bash tricks I find myself using often that I wish I'd discovered sooner.
The code for this post is at my Github repository: github.com/arxanas/detect-recruiter-spam. However, I have not included my pre-trained model, since it cont...
Can we move our development environment from our local machines to a remote server, and interact with it through a browser-mediated IDE?
The reMarkable is a premium e-ink notebook. Imagine a Kindle, but you can write on it. It has become my daily notebook. I take all my meeting notes on it, dump my ideas and designs, and carry it with me everywhere. As a bonus, it also has replaced
It's like a Let's Play, but for obscure software documentation. I tried to learn Nix, and it was pretty hard. I kept a diary of every command I tried, every wrong assumption that I made, and every realization that I had along the way.
Git ls-files is up to 5 times faster than fd or find in this benchmark, but why?
List of all the plugins I use in PyCharm and Idea.
Sedano et al (2017)[1] on "Software Development Waste" identified and describe that software projects manifest nine possible types of waste, in terms of loss of productivity and unnecessary friction.
Overview of different techniques to implement comments using a static site generator.
This is a little sed challenge that ocurred to me somewhat recently, when I wondered how many weeks were between 2 dates. Of course, I just looked at the calendar and counted, but then I wondered what kind of sed script I’d need in the middle of a cal -y | ... | wc -l pipeline to get the same answer.
The other day, I was creating a new account on the web. It was financial in nature, which means it gets one of my most secure passwords. I used Password Safe to generate this 16-character alphanumeric password: :s^Twd.J;3hzg=Q~ Which was rejected by the site, because it didn’t meet its password security rules. It took…
redux adjective brought back; resurgent: the Victorian era redux.
Force Microsoft Edge to open a truly blank new tab page using a Windows Registry tweak when the built-in customization options fall short.
