1981
How we deploy faster with warm Docker containers
Warm Docker containers reduce cold starts, learn how Dagster deploys 5x faster using PEX-based builds.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,504 posts.
1982
Nix-Powered Development with OCaml
Bootstrapping OCaml projects with Nix
1983
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1985
Switching to Fedora Silverblue
For the last 10 years or so, Arch Linux has been my Linux distribution of choice. The early years were a bit rough, and the process of moving to systemd wasn't without its challenges either, though the experience has improved dramatically since then. In spite of these improvements, certain issues persisted, such as…
1986
MailCrab
MailCrab is an email test server for development, written entirely in Rust.
1987
Use GNU Emacs
This work by Keith Waclena is copyright 2026 and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license.
1988
1989
FreeBSD Home Audio Studio
Another guest post by @NeoMoevius from Twitter. Same as earlier with the Native Urban Terror on FreeBSD article. This time it will be about setting up Home Audio Studio on a FreeBSD 13.1 system. Th…
1990
Nix journey part 0: Learning and reference materials
In this series I'll be documenting my journey learning Nix and this first installment is more of a prequel. A common complaint when learning Nix is that the documentation "is not good", and I think what people mean by that is that the documentation is spread across several sources which may or may not be easy to find…
1991
1992
Git branches are named sequences of commits
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
1993
A Relational Spreadsheet
I tried doing an INNER JOIN in Google Sheets and it was so awkward I was compelled to build my own lightweight relational spreadsheet / language / system.
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1995
SymPy makes math fun again
An introduction into symbolic computations in Python. Don't worry, it's much simpler than it sounds. It's about making Python do your math for you with very little investment in the technology.
1996
Burgr – Books in Your Terminal
I spend most of my time writing code in a full screen terminal. I like to read books on my breaks and I'm a big fan of Project Gutenberg, which has over 70...
1997
Mermaid Cheat Sheet
Cheat Sheet for Mermaid.
1998
AsciiDoc, Liquid and Jekyll
A couple of days ago I was giving a little update to my website and I needed a wayto create and inject custom HTML into some of my posts.
1999
TIL: You Can Stop Updating Copyright Attribution Years (2021)
Every January 1st, an army of open source developers rushes out to update their copyright attributions in licenses and documentation. Why? Because we’ve always done it that way.
2000
2001
What is the randomart image for?
When you generate an SSH key (like I did when looking at signing commits with SSH keys ), you get a “randomart image” from ssh-keygen . These things:
2002
Replacing my MacBook Air M1 with a ThinkPad T480
In which you probably wonder, but ...why?
2003
Make systemd better for Podman with Quadlet
One of the best features of Podman is how well it works with systemd. Podman uses the standard fork/exec model, which is easily adaptable to the systemd syst...
2004
CheatGPT
This week I stepped out of one world and landed in another. It started while I was marking assignments in a few of my programming courses.The quality of the code I was reading was amazing! My students were doing the sorts of things that my open source peers do:
2005
How to Start Your Blog in 2023
A practical guide to starting a personal blog you can keep for years, without depending on social platforms or fragile tools.
2006
Creating a landing page using AI tools and no code
A step-by-step guide to making a landing page with AI and no-code tools: AI-written code and copy, fonts, colour palettes, images, audio and video.
2007
Setting up an electronics workshop
A minimalist, non-commercial take on a handful of indispensable workshop tools.
2008
Sips: Scriptable Image Processing System
I wanted to convert some .webp images to .png on my Mac. I asked ChatGPT:
2009
Making macOS Apps Uninstallable
Wiggling apps in Launchpad There's this thing called **Launchpad** on macOS which shows you all the apps on your Mac in an iOS like manner. You may already have it in the Dock, but you can also launch it as any other app. There's even a nifty trackpad gesture for it where you *pinch with thumb and three fingers*. ...
2010
Why 'Atomic Habits' may not be working for you
Couple of weeks ago, we were discussing random things at work, and we landed on the topic of discipline. One of my colleagues was praising me for having a very disciplined life. It felt as if he was talking about someone else.