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For your next side project, make a browser extension
Reflections on the benefits of tweaking an existing app, instead of starting from scratch.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,733 posts.
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Remastering Colin McRae Rally 3 with SilentPatch
A fresh take on the classic rally game with widescreen support, high definition UI, and countless bug fixes.
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Subverting the software interview (2021)
Writing code for online games, particularly for mobile or web-based slot games like this one , involves a mix of advanced graphics rendering, real-time networking, security implementations, and intricate game logic. Developers need to balance between performance optimization, cross-platform compatibility, and the…
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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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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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Static HTML Comments
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Write admin tools from day one (2022)
UPDATE: I gave a talk expanding on this blog post at EMPEX NYC 2023 . The Problem Writing useful features for your users is key to a succes...
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Your tech stack is not the product
Early stage technology decisions must be, uncomfortably, a means to an end.
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Supporting the use of Rust in the Chromium project
Posted by Dana Jansens (she/her), Chrome Security Team We are pleased to announce that moving forward, the Chromium project is going to s...
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Just use a monorepo
In which I tell you that you're overcomplicating things and you should throw everything behind a single git repository.
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Nintendo 64 Java
Mike Kohn's music, software, and electronics projects.
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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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Writing a TLA⁺ tree-sitter grammar: my foray into free software
My foray into free software
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Grayscale on 1-bit LCDs (2022)
Note: this post is also available in video format on YouTube . Some demo/ difference would be more obvious in video.
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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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Pictures of a working garbage collector
C++, a "Reality sandwich", and an Octopus.
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Sometimes it actually is a kernel bug: bind() in Linux 6.0.16
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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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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The gotcha of unhandled promise rejections
A rough edge with promises that can sneak up on you.
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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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CTEs as lookup tables
How to use a CTE instead of complicated CASE expressions
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Setting the TZ environment variable avoids thousands of system calls (2017)
In this article, you can find how setting the TZ environment variable can prevent thousands of system calls.
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What happens when you open a terminal and enter `ls’
This article explores how terminal emulators function, decoding the process of sending commands to the shell for execution. Unveil the mystery behind what happens when you open a terminal and enter Is.
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Bullshit graph database performance benchmarks
Hey HackerNews, let me just drop my mixtape, checkout my soundcloud and “Death Row” is the label that pays me. How is the Graph Database category supposed to grow when vendors keep spou…
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On leading underscores and names reserved by the C and C++ languages
The rules laid out.
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Bringing MathML back to Chromium
Igalia is an open source consulting firm specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and client-side web technologies, graphics pipeline, compilers and virtual machines. We have the most WPE, WebKit…