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How to save $13.27 on your SaaS bill
Vercel has a decent entry level analytics product which I cannot afford so I am going to build my own.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,504 posts.
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My Obsidian note-taking workflow
A Vim-Inspired Approach to Efficient Note Management with Obsidian and Markdown
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My favorite tools and techniques for procedural gamedev
An overview of some of my favorite shaders, algorithms, and techniques I use to aid my work in procedural gamedev and 3D scenes. It focuses particularly on things that can be added or mixed in to enhance non-procedural scenes.
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Mastering Ruby Code Navigation: Ruby LSP Enhancements in the First Half of 2024
In the first half of 2024, Ruby LSP has seen significant enhancements, particularly in the area of code navigation, thanks to the advancement of its indexer. In this post, we’ll dive into the major code navigation enhancements that have been made to Ruby LSP. We’ll also touch on some experimental features that are on…
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Maestro: Netflix's Workflow Orchestrator
By Jun He, Natallia Dzenisenka, Praneeth Yenugutala, Yingyi Zhang, and Anjali Norwood
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Playing guitar tablatures in Rust
Introducing Ruxguitar, a guitar tablature player written in Rust
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Hash-based bisect debugging in compilers and runtimes
Does this sound familar? You make a change to a library to optimize its performance or clean up technical debt or fix a bug, only to get a bug report: some very large, incomprehensibly opaque test is now failing. Or you add a new compiler optimization with a similar result. Now you have a major debugging job in an…
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Mermaid Gantt diagrams for displaying distributed traces in Markdown (2023)
Today I noticed via a tweet by @mitsuhiko that Mermaid Gantt diagrams are great for displaying distributed trace information like what you’d get from JaegerU...
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Stop Microsoft users sending 'reactions' to email by adding a postfix header
Over the past few months, I’ve noticed that an increasing number of replies to email that I’ve sent are “reactions”.
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Automated Test-Case Reduction
In a previous post, I used a simple interpreter bug to demonstrate the research skill of manually reducing test cases. This time, I show off the excellent Shrinkray reducer to see how it can automate the same process. The tricky part when using automated test-case reducers is writing an interestingness test that…
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The Open Collaboration Tools
Weʼre unveiling a new open source project designed to connect with others and live-share your code in real-time collaboration sessions. Extensibility and openness are built into its core.
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Quartz: A Deterministic Time Testing Library for Go
Quartz shares the high level design of a Clock interface that closely resembles the functions in the time standard library, and a "real" clock passes through to the standard library in production, while a mock clock gives precise control in testing.
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Use a work journal
You’re working on the most complex problem in computer science: fixing permissions on a deployment pipeline. It’s been 4 days you started on that simple task...
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Things I know about Git commits
Some of the things I've learned over a decade of Git usage, and working on writing good commit messages.
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The Overengineered Resume with Zola, JSON Resume, Weasyprint, and Nix (2023)
Maintaining a resume is not the most interesting use of time. Naturally, when I needed to bring my own up to date, I decided to spend a great deal more time on it and overengineer the process.
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Docs as code (2017)
author, Eric Holscher& the Write the Docs community,. Documentation as Code ( Docs as Code) refers to a philosophy that you should be writing documentation with the same tools as code: Issue Tr...
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PySkyWiFi: Free stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights
The plane reached 10,000ft. I took out my laptop, planning to peruse the internet and maybe do a little work if I got really desperate.
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How to use the Bitwarden forwarded email alias generator
Bitwarden includes a very handy integration called forwarded email aliases. Learn how to use the feature in this blog!
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A Mini Monitor for a Pi
This post outlines how I used a small 2 inch display as a monitor for my pi. Where it can display tty terminals and X desktops and applications as if it was a normal screen connected over hdmi. My overall goal is to have a sort of handheld “console” that I can connect a keyboard to and use as a normal computer. This…
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YouTube embeds are heavy and it’s fixable
Which one makes more sense to use, big and slow or small and fast? Especially with the same appearance and functionality, the youtube-lite component is a no-brainer.
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Inline previous result in Emacs Lisp
Artur Malabarba's Debugging Elisp Part 1: Earn your independence is nearly a decade old, yet it rings just as true today. Learning to Edebug really *"...
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Using the 5S Principle in Coding
A few years ago, I read The Toyota Way, driven by my curiosity about the origins of Agile software development. However, I became even more…
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Preserving a floppy disk with a logic analyzer and a serial cable
Being involved with retro computers, I have a few floppy disks (of the 3.5-inch variety) that I would like to preserve as faithfully as possible. Of course, I know there are dedicated devices for doing that, such as the Kryoflux or the SuperCard Pro . But it occurred to me that I already own the required hardware to…
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The sad state of property-based testing libraries
Property-based testing is a rare example of academic research that has made it to the mainstream in less than 30 years. Under the slogan “don’t write tests, generate them” property-based testing has gained support from a diverse group of programming language communities. In fact, the Wikipedia page of the original…
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Wcurl: a curl wrapper to download files
My personal website
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Analyzing my electricity consumption
Electricity prices have been steadily rising in France for the past few years, with a particularly sharp increase since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This has led me to wonder about my own electricity consumption and how I could optimize it. The hardware Since 2015, the organization managing the…
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The Cheapest NAS
I wanted to replace my old trusty 'router' (with an attached HDD)--that was not working as a router, but as a network drive after flashing OpenWRT onto it--I wanter to replace it with an SBC+HDD combo.