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When I was in junior high, my friends and I discovered that a Command Prompt command called net send was enabled on our school network. AIM and similar services were blocked, but if we wanted to send messages to each other we could open up the Command Prompt and type something like: net send lab2126-24 test and get an…
Describe the image you want, and the app makes it for you.
I’m more surprised by the nature of many of these issues, by how ridiculous they are compared with the sheer age and supposed maturity of a 20+ year-old operating system.
The terminal is the result of its history, from the telegram to our terminal emulators. What is the difference with a console? The shell?
The world's worst security flow
Disparate thoughts on personal information management after traversing the hype cycle.
Observing growth in my notes without being overwhelmed.
Brian McGee's personal profile and blog
Bodging a rotary dial into a mechanical keyboard
The prefix kwarg that most compiler check functions support now accepts an array in addition to a string. The elements of the array will be concatenated separated by a newline.
Textual is a TUI framework for Python, inspired by modern web development.
New zine: The Pocket Guide to Debugging
Pixelmator Pro is a powerful, easy-to-use image editor that brings professional tools and powerful AI features to everyone across Mac and iPad.
Freeform for iPhone, iPad, and Mac makes visual collaboration easier than ever.
Deep work Nowadays, we are getting accustomed to working in a continuously interrupting environment. Smartphone notifications, hundreds of e-mails, open spaces, and meetings slicing our workday. We are feeling busy, and overworked, but are we more productive? If I am a salesman or project coordinator that way of…
This is the second in a series of posts I intend to write about how to build, deploy, and manage …
Everybody with an Emacs blogs raves about Emacs 29 these days. Things like Eglot, tree-sitter, SQL support and the like. Well, this is all nice – more than nice, brilliant! – but let’s not forget a few minor advances which are coming with Emacs 29. Let me mention a few things that I especially like.
This AI audio filter improves spoken audio to make it sound like it was recorded in a soundproofed studio.
The Quite OK Image (QOI) format was announced late last year and finalized into a specification a month later. Initially dismissive, a revisit has shifted my opinion to impressed. The format hits a sweet spot in the trade-off space between complexity, speed, and compression ratio. Also considering its alpha channel…
It’s the end of the year, and you know what that means… performance review time!
The more metrics you track, the less you know.
Production systems for ecommerce, finance, operations, and applied AI - built and operated for two decades.
A script for automatically lowering the volume during radio advertisements and DJ announcements and turns the volume back up when songs are playing. It controls a Sonos speaker using the Soco-cli P…
IDEs (Integrated Development Environment) are great tools to make the lives of developers easier.
This technical guide details how you can create your own orthorectified (aka satellite view/bird mode) imagery, point clouds and 3D models of streets with nothing but a 360 degree camera mounted on bicycle helmet, and the open source photogrammetry software OpenDroneMap.
Sysadmin doing syadmin stuff
