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Obsidian Note Codes
I made a little plugin for Obsidian: Note Codes.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,504 posts.
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Tau² benchmark: How a prompt rewrite boosted GPT-5-mini by 22%
We expected small models to be fast, but our benchmarks revealed a common reliability trap. Here’s our deep dive on finding and fixing it.
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Apple Photos app corrupts images
The Apple Photos app sometimes corrupts images when importing from my camera. I just wanted to make a blog post about it in case anyone else runs into the problem. I’ve seen other references to this online, but most of the people gave up trying to fix it, and none of them went as far as I did to debug the issue. I’ll…
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How to make the Framework Desktop run even quieter
Discover how custom Noctua mods and 3D-printed parts can make the Framework Desktop PC cooler, quieter, and even more impressive.
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I’m Not a Robot
Prove your humanity once and for all
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Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio (2024)
Last week, I went on an adventure through the electromagnetic spectrum!
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Hosting a website on a disposable vape
Someone's trash is another person's web server.
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Asciinema CLI 3.0 rewritten in Rust, adds live streaming, upgrades file format
News about asciinema development and new releases
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How to self-host a web font from Google Fonts
Here's how to self-host a web font from Google Fonts - Blog-ifyer
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The Mac app flea market
Have you ever searched for “AI chat” in the Mac App Store? I have. It’s like strolling through one of those counterfeit, replica markets where all the goods…
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Which NPM package has the largest version number?
I spent way too much time on this
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Two Slice, a font that's only 2px tall
A font that's only 2px tall, and somewhat readable! Uppercase and lowercase have some different variants, in case you find one more readable than the other. Numbers (sort of) and some punctuation marks are included.
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Java 25's new CPU-Time Profiler
Learn all about Java 25's new CPU-time profiler and why it matters in this weeks blog post from the creator himself.
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I used standard Emacs extension-points to extend org-mode
Recently I read this beginners guide to extend Emacs. The guide is perfect for starting out with elisp and it shows a lot of care in teaching how to interact with Emacs.
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A beginner's guide to extending Emacs
How to build a custom completion backend for emacs from scratch.
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3D modeling with paper
Exploring the process of designing and assembling 3D models from paper.
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We can’t circumvent the work needed to train our minds
Debunking the myth that search engines and AI eliminate the need for memory. Building deep knowledge through active learning remains essential for critical thinking, despite promises of instant information access.
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The Socratic Journal Method: A Simple Journaling Method That Works
Journaling doesn’t need to be a chore. In this post, I share The Socratic Journal Method, my simple twist on journaling that turns blank pages into meaningful conversations. It’s a method designed to help you reflect, stay consistent, and actually enjoy the process.
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Tarsnap is cozy
I have been aware of tarsnap for a long time, but only recently did I actually get around to using it for anything, as a result of my big personal digital resiliency audit for 2025. For those of you not in the know, tarsnap is “online backups for the truly paranoid”, and tarsnap the command-line program is the…
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Tomorrow's emoji today: Unicode 17.0
Trombone emoji skanking it's way into our hearts …
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iPhone dumbphone
I used Apple Configurator to turn my iPhone into a dumb phone. I can only access the apps and websites I want to use, and it’s feeling great!
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Signal Secure Backups
In the past, if you broke or lost your phone, your Signal message history was gone. This has been a challenge for people whose most important conversations happen on Signal. Think family photos, sweet messages, important documents, or anything else you don’t want to lose forever. This explains wh...
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Experimenting with Local LLMs on macOS
A developer's guide to downloading and running LLMs on macOS, for experimentation and privacy.
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De-Clouding: Music
I’m going through a phase of figuring out what I can get out of the cloud and “own”. Particularly with regard to streaming services. I’ve never paid for Spotify. But I’ve had iTunes Match so that I can take all of the weird, not-on-streaming music that I have (I wrote about this back in 2013!!!!), […]
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A critique of package managers
n.b. This is a written version of a dialogue from a YouTube video: 2 Language Creators vs 2 Idiots | The StandupPackage managers (for programming languages) are evil.11 The term “evil” is being used partially hyperbolic to make a point.To start, I need to make a few distinctions between concepts a lot of programmers…
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The Helix Text Editor (2024)
I’ve come to accept that I’m just a sucker for shiny nerd things. I use Rust, despite never having had a professional reason to use it in my life. I switched to Linux in my student years and I’ve never looked back since, even though it constantly breaks and I can’t get my Bluetooth headphones to connect. I have a…
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Formatting code should be unnecessary
and we knew this back in the 80s
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Things you can do with a debugger but not with print debugging
People do or do not use debuggers for a variety of reasons. For one thing, they are hard to setup in many codebases. Second, you can’t use them when your application is running on remote environments (such as kuberenetes). So, anecdotally, I have seen way more people using Print/ log.Debug compared to a debugger.
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Making a font of my handwriting
Recently I’ve been on a small campaign to try to make my personal website more… personal. Little ways to make it obvious it’s mine and personal , not just another piece of the boring corporate dystopia that is most of the web these days. I don’t quite want to fully regress to the Geocities era and fill the screen with…