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ChatGPT in an iOS Shortcut: Smart HomeKit Voice Assistant
Ever since I tried ChatGPT and GPT-3, everything else feels painfully dumb and useless: Siri, Alexa, Google Home and all other “smart”…
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An unexpected benefit of unit tests
While I won’t go so far as to diagnose myself with ADD without consulting a doctor, those who know me know I can be distracted quite easily. So recently, I decided to do something a little different with a personal project I started a few weeks ago (link to come). I wrote unit tests. That may seem rather uninspired…
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A page with no code
View Source shows nothing, but the page has content. The Page With No Code is the kind of puzzle that makes web developers unhappy.
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GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support
On January 8, 2024, GitHub will remove support for Subversion.
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🥺: the best sudo replacement
Xe Iaso's personal website.
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Gptcommit: Never write a commit message again (with the help of GPT-3)
With gptcommit, you no longer have to spend time writing your commit messages. Install gptcommit and let GPT-3 do the writing for you.
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Pandoc 3.0
A universal document converter
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Screenshots as the Universal API
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...
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The terminal escape sequences ocean is deep and dark
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…
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What’s going on in the world of extensions
About one-third of Firefox users have installed an add-on before – whether it’s an extension to add powerful and customizable features or a visual them
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Datasette is my data hammer
If you're exploring or publishing data, you should give this open source tool a go.
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New make --shuffle mode
I implemented new --shuffle option for GNU make to simulate non-deterministic build order in parallel makefiles.
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Gimp 2.10.32 on Apple Silicon (2022)
The first package of a stable version of GIMP for Apple Silicon is available!
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How to improve Python packaging
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…
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How I ruined my SEO
In October 2022 traffic to my blog dropped like a stone. What happened?
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I don't understand terminals, shells and SSH
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.
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Emacs Is Not Enough
Project Mage is a quest for seamless structural editing, a decent GUI toolkit, and, overall, an environment where interactivity, flexibility and power are valued very highly. A few applications are on the roadmap, notably the ones providing for note-taking, computational notebook capabilities, project-info tracking…
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Yet another keyboard post, or, introducing ErgoNICE
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.
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From Ruby to Node: Overhauling Shopify’s CLI for a better developer experience
In this blog post, Pedro explains why we rewrote Shopify CLI into Node instead of Ruby, the tradeoffs that came with the decision, the principles we embraced in this new iteration, and the challenges and ideas ahead of us to explore.
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The Yaml document from hell
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.
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Vim is touch-typing on steroids
Code level discussion of web scraping, gray hat automation, growth hacking and bounty hunting
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“Expect tests” make test-writing feel like a REPL session
At Jane Street we use a pattern/library called “expect tests” that makes test-writing feel like a REPL session, or like exploratory programming in a Jupyter ...
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Makefiles for web work
A set of recipes for using Makefiles for web development.
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Names should be cute, not descriptive
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…
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Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine
Anyone who’s spent any amount of time on the Internet has a good idea of how prevalent meme usage has become in online discourse. Finding new memes on the latest happening and sharing them with various friend groups to share in the humor is a long-enjoyed pastime of mine. Working in tech and in the InfoSec field has…
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Fake it until you automate it
A pragmatic way for you to start automating deployments of a Legacy system.