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CodePen 2.0
Noting perhaps my largest personal career accomplishment, which is launching CodePen 2.0. Far more work, believe it or not, than the entire creation of the original CodePen. This isn’t the pl…
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,504 posts.
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Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub
Stacked pull requests break large changes into small, reviewable pull requests. They’re an ordered series of pull requests that each represent focused layers of your change. With stacks, you can…
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The Productivity Mirage
What I once thought about programming productivity was wrong
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Turning a dumb AC unit smart (without losing my security deposit)
TL;DR: DIY home automation is ezpz with nothing more than a stepper motor, an esp32, and a high tolerance for Jank. My rental apartment’s AC unit can only be controlled using these retro-looking analog knob-based controls, mounted right onto the unit. No separate wall-mounted thermostat, no remote…
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Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust
The tools themselves are new and their capabilities are in constant flux. If your kitchen knife kept changing shape, weight, and edge, you’d have to relearn it every time; that’s a hard tool to build trust in. But it also points to a flaw in how you use that tool, the process around it, and the way the tool reinforces…
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More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle
Community updates make Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle more useful, with Tailscale SSH, proxy modes for KOReader, and full TUN mode on some devices. Plus: plugins for Kobo and Pocket Reader.
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Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management
Unattributed is a former IT person, discovering life after work.
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Bad Apple but It's Traceroute
This was unavoidable, given my post from the other day about how to make traceroute display (almost) arbitrary strings.
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Should you wash your solar panels?
I have a small solar farm and the panels have got visibly dusty. Is cleaning them worthwhile? How much difference does it make? Let's find out.
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Ruff v0.16.0 – Significant new updates – 413 default rules up from 59
The next stable version of Ruff is out now.
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Git rebase -i is not that scary
a guide to interactive rebasing.
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RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB
Upgrade your RTX 2080 Ti from 11GB to 22GB worldwide. Professional VRAM replacement, BIOS tuning & testing by GPU Solutions.
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Stinkpot: SQLite-backed shell history
sqlite-backed shell history
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Emacs Is a Lispboard
What would have happened if Emacs' default buffer had been a terminal emulator? Conceptually, from the outside, it would be perceived as a terminal…
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Malleable computing, Emacs, and you
It all started with a routine task. I use GitHub issues for all of my public-facing projects but my preference is keeping track of things in Org Agenda. To reconcile the two, I would manually...
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Ghost Cut – Or why Cut and Paste is broken everywhere
Is it Cut 'n' Paste, like Fish 'n' Chips?
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Back to Kagi
A reflection on returning to Kagi after trying some alternatives including the much worse search engine called Google.
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git's –end-of-options Flag
The git flag I assumed was an LLM hallucination
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Escape IntelliJ: Scala and Kotlin LSPs on Emacs Eglot
Enjoy Emacs and its built-in language server (LSP) superpowers, for JVM languages. Let's walk through basic language setups, specialized workspace configuration handling, and dive deep into some advanced JSON-RPC and advice-based workarounds for Scala (Metals) and Kotlin that make development truly seamless from Emacs…
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Making ASCII Art in Vim
I like using Vim to make ASCII art. I don't use any plugins; Vim already has a bunch of built-in features that are super useful for making ASCII art!
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Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files
After quite a long while, Hyprland 0.55 is upon us! This is an enormous update by each measurable metric - commits, contributors, features and changes.
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I burned all my tokens researching how to save tokens
How I burned a full Claude limit in 30 minutes and built my own deep research pipeline instead: 3 subscriptions, shared memory, a clear role for each model. You can build the same from what you already pay for.
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The death and rebirth of my home server
steen's online burrow
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Ollama: All Aboard Open Models
Serving 8.9 million developers, Ollama has raised $88M from Benchmark, Theory Ventures, 8VC, Y Combinator, and many incredible angel investors.
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Transcribe.cpp
A place to play around with technology and make it easy and fun
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Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide
Step-by-step guide to turning your spare Mac into an always-on machine Claude Code can fully control - talk to it from your phone through the Claude app or from your main Mac over SSH.
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I started a “dirt notebook”
I love taking notes, but one problem that I have is that that I start cherishing every notebook that I start. I can't seem to keep my notes messy. Eventually...
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LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models
The AI agent made for open models, built to get things done.