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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 521 posts.
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Nginx Playground
New tool: an nginx playground
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Coverage is not strongly correlated with test suite effectiveness
One of my recent hobby projects was a blocks-based tool for doing basic data science , and I was very pleased when its test suite reached 100% line coverage. However, Inozemtseva2014 found that code coverage is a poor predictor of how effective a test suite is at detecting bugs once the size of the test suite is…
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Nyxt 2.2.0
We are happy to announce Nyxt 2.2.0. Lot's of new features and architectural changes!
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A different kind of keyboard
I’ve always been attracted to chording keyboards in theory, but I lack whatever childhood musical training is required to wrap my fingers around them. So I made something else: an arpeggio keyboard. Peggi is an eight-key keyboard that fits on the back of your phone. While chording keyboards require you to press…
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More Casio Watch Mods
Hey everyone, it's been a while. Hope you're all doing well. Today I want to show you some more watch related stuff I've been working on.
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Ruby for eBook Publishing
A lot of times, people ask what’s Ruby good for apart from Rails. Ruby is great for various tasks from several different domains, and today, I would like to share how anybody can use Ruby in publishing ebooks.
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What is property-based testing? (2016)
I get asked this a lot, and I write property based testing tools for a living, so you'd think I have a good answer to this, but historically I haven't. This is my attempt to fix that.
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The Elements of Git
This is not a tutorial. If you're looking for a quick, easy, "how to use git" kind of post, look elsewhere.The goal of this post is to give you just enough understanding of the git internals that you can build up a correct intuition of what various git commands actually do under the hood.
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The pitfalls of using SSH-agent, or how to use an agent safely
Unfortunately for you, we promised a follow up to talk about the security implications of using such an agent. So, here we are.
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Git Commands Explained with Cats (2017)
git purr, git meowge, and git puss! My doodling on basic git commands, and difference between merge and rebase with cats!
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Building apps in minutes, not months
In order to build the many experiments for my research on the future of personal computing, and the subsequent demos for these Lab Notes, I needed a way to build much faster than was presently possible...
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Ditch your version manager
Try Nix and don't look back.
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Version control without Git
If you have any question or suggestions about this tutorial, please file them as issues here .
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Chafa 1.8: Terminal graphics with a side of everything
Improvements to the Chafa terminal graphics package: Kitty and iTerm2 protocols, newly supported terminals, new Unicode symbols, and more.
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Five Minute Journal – Daily Journal Techniques and Tips
A quick daily practice with prompts for gratitude, intentions, and reflection. I've always struggled to journal consistently by opening a blank page and…
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Multiperspective Diagramming – A guide for system engineers
A multiperspective diagramming guide for system, software, cloud, network, and other engineers.
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How to Crawl the Web with Scrapy
How to use the python web scraping framework Scrapy to crawl indeed.com. Learn data engineering strategies for getting actionable insights from public information.
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To Don't – The reverse to-do list
To Don't - The reverse to-do list.
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Write More, but Shorter
After the "keep it simple" in programming, the "keep it short" for writing.
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I want a better shell (2019)
I want a better shell.
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How to Replace Docker with Podman on a Mac
Back in March 2021, I wrote about how I replaced Docker with Podman on a Mac using VirtualBox and Vagrant after an old version of podman machine became depre...
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Pedalboard: Spotify’s Audio Effects Library for Python
We’ve just open sourced , Spotify’s framework for adding effects to audio in Python. Pedalboard makes it easy to use studio-quality audio effects in your code, rather than just in your digital audio workstation (DAW).
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