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Patch applies fake diffs from commit messages
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Self-updating screenshots
A blog by James Adam, of lazyatom.com fame.
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Meetings are forcing functions
A recurring meeting serves as a powerful forcing function for long-running projects.
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USB Cheat Sheet (2022)
I spend time investigating a non-existing bug today because I misunderstood a USB term. So I made myself a cheat sheet. Maybe it will save time to someone.
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Three constraints before I build anything
['Programmer', 'Computer nerd', 'Unix enthusiast'];
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Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish
I tried to use Claude Code with Opus 4.6 to implement a connector between Youtube Music and opensubsonic. The end result was a fairly short amount of time to get a working project.
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Open source memory layer so any AI agent can do what Claude.ai and ChatGPT do
Give any AI agent a persistent memory in minutes. Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Ollama, OpenRouter, and any MCP-compatible agent. Open source, self-hosted, model-agnostic.
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Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing
I’ll be attending Babashka Conf on May 8 and Dutch Clojure Days on May 9. If you’re attending either (or just visiting Amsterdam), drop me a line!
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Using the internet like it's 1999
A blog, notes, gallery, lifestyle and fully conglomerated posts from Joshua.
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Your hex editor should color-code bytes
every time i do, i feel bad for the poor person having to use it (especially if that person is me!). a plain list of bytes makes it hard to notice interesting things in the data. go ahead, try to find the single c0 in these bytes:
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Jujutsu megamerges for fun and profit
A practical guide to creating and maintaining powerful megamerge workflows in Jujutsu for faster, conflict-free development.
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Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons
I upgraded my Claude Token Counter tool to add the ability to run the same count against different models in order to compare them. As far as I can tell …
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The local LLM ecosystem doesn’t need Ollama
Ollama gained traction by being the first easy llama.cpp wrapper, then spent years dodging attribution, misleading users, and pivoting to cloud, all while riding VC money earned on someone else's engine. Here's the full history, and why the alternatives are better.
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I made a terminal pager
A writeup on implementing my own terminal viewport component in Go, which is used in my Terminal pager robinovitch61/lore and in my Kubernetes log viewer terminal application robinovitch61/kl.
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Introducing: ShaderPad
Riley J. Shaw is a programmer and designer. Rooted in repair and craft, he creates transparent, remixable tools for a sustainable and accessible future.
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Towards trust in Emacs
A post by Eshel Yaron introducing the Emacs Trust Manager
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jj – the CLI for Jujutsu
jj is the name of the CLI for Jujutsu . Jujutsu is a DVCS, or "distributed version control system." You may be familiar with other DVCSes, such as git , and this tutorial assumes you're coming to jj from git .
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Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others
TLDR: Despite claiming to backup all your data, Backblaze quietly stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders - along with potentially many other things.
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Make tmux pretty and usable (2024)
Customize the look and feel of tmux
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The End of Eleventy
Build Awesome is a rebrand of 11ty/Eleventy, backed by a successful $40k Kickstarter. But this attempt to monetize static site generators repeats the same …
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How to build a `Git diff` driver
How to write an external tool for `git diff` to delegate complex diffs to.
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The Orange Pi 6 Plus
This was a long one–I spent a fair bit of time with the Orange Pi 6 Plus over the past few months, and what I expected to be a quick look at another fast ...
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Introduction to Obsidian
An introduction to Obsidian. Why you should use it, how to keep it simple, and how you can use it.
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I just want simple S3
I just want S3. My needs are pretty basic. I don't need to scale out. I don't need replication. I just need something that can do S3 and is reliable and not slow. Minio is dead, they pulled the plug after axing the interface. They archived the repo so they …
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Productive Procrastination
Productive procrastination is real. But understanding why we avoid the work we actually love might be the key to getting more of it done.
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Filing the corners off my MacBooks
I file the sharp corners off my MacBooks. People like to freak out about this, so I wanted to post it here to make sure that everyone who wants to freak out about it gets the opportunity to do so.
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Installing every* Firefox extension
Oh, you use Firefox? Name every extension.
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I still prefer MCP over skills
Why I believe the Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a better architectural pattern than the emerging “Skills” trend for LLM tool integration.
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Native Instant Space Switching on macOS
Arhan's Blog