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I accidentally used YAML.parse instead of JSON.parse and it worked
How I stumbled upon the fact that YAML is a superset of JSON.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,872 posts.
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From Go on EC2 to Fly.io
How I switched hosting my Go-based side projects from Amazon EC2 to Fly.io, significantly simplified deployment, and saved a bit of cash while I was at it.
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During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website
We recently passed the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Helene and its devastating impact on Western North Carolina. As a web developer, I am thinking again about my experience with the mobile web on the day after the storm.
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GIMP – 2016 in review
When we released GIMP 2.9.2 in late 2015 and stepped over into 2016, we already knew that we’d be doing mostly polishing. This turned out to be true to a larger extent, but quite a few new features slipped in. So, what are the big changes for GIMP in 2016?
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On the slow productivity of John Wick
I found myself recently, as one does, watching the mini-documentary featurettes included on the DVD for the popular 2014 Keanu Reeves movie, John Wick — ... Read more
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How is the free firmware for the Raspberry progressing?
Raspberry Pi computers require a piece of non-free software to boot — the infamous raspi-firmware package. But for almost as long as there has been a Raspberry Pi to talk of (this year it turns 10 years old!), there have been efforts to get it to boot using only free software. How is it progressing?
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Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel (2020)
No newsletter next week Running the TLA+ workshop. No way I'm gonna have any brainpower after that. Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel...
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Worst CAPTCHA Ever
By definition, CAPTCHA should be easy to read by humans but hard to read by machines. Apparently, they don’t agree with that at D&B:
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New treatment eliminates bladder cancer in 82% of patients
LOS ANGELES — A new drug-releasing system, TAR-200, eliminated tumors in 82% of patients in a phase 2 clinical trial for individuals with high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer whose cancer had previously resisted treatment. In the majority of cases, the cancer disappeared after only three months of treatment…
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RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland
Try the RustDesk Wayland preview for x86_64 Debian/Ubuntu-based systems: unattended access across multiple monitors and at the login screen after reboot.
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The Raspberry Pi can boot off NVMe SSDs now
When the Compute Module 4 was released (see my CM4 review here), I asked the Pi Foundation engineers when we might be able to boot off NVMe storage, since it was trivially easy to use with the exposed PCIe x1 lane on the CM4 IO Board. The initial response in October 2020 was "we'll see". Luckily, after more people…
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Introduction to Apache Airflow
Airflow is a platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows. In this blog we will underestand the basics of airflow
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American Red Cross Asks for Ham Radio Operators for Puerto Rico Relief Effort
The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the national association for amateur radio, connecting hams around the U.S. with news, information and resources.
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Good and Bad Elixir
Words from Chris Keathley
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Customize Twitter Bootstrap To Not Look Bootstrap-y
PLEASE, if you do use Bootstrap for just about everything be courteous to your audience and change up some of the basic variables so it doesn’t look all…
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Gentoo Tesla – T2 Edition
Location Voiture Electrique à la journée, le week-end ou au mois. Dès 50€/jour. Oubliez les agences de location. Assurance tous risques.
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Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash
Qwen offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.
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The future is specific
I’m going to make a bold claim: The future of tools isn’t in a better Eclipse or Visual Studio, it’s in easily created domain specific experiences.
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UCLA computer grad constructs “crown jewel of cryptography”
Aayush Jain’s dissertation, “Indistinguishability Obfuscation from Well-Studied Assumptions,” established the feasibility of mathematically rigorous software obfuscation from well-studied hardness conjectures. The central goal of software obfuscation is to transform source code to make it unintelligible without…
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FreeBSD on Firecracker
A large amount of fantastic open source software originates from “scratching an itch”. Such was the case with Firecracker . In 2014, Amazon launched AWS Lambda as a “serverless” compute platform: Users can provide a function — say, ten lines of Python code — and Lambda provides all of the infrastructure between an…
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Deus Ex: Human Revolution – Graphics Study
2015/03/12: Back online after Reddit and Slashdot killed my bandwidth with 30,000 visits in the last hours. Followed by HN. 2015/03/11: Update with …
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What's new in Emacs 31.1
Emacs 31.1 adds a slew of quality-of-life features. It retires its quirky unexec dumper; there are general improvements to tree-sitter, including a much-wanted auto-installer for grammars; and much more.
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Terraforming 1Password
We are excited to finally have all our development, test, staging, and production environments managed with Terraform.
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How to unc0ver a 0-day in 4 hours or less
By Brandon Azad, Project ZeroAt 3 PM PDT on May 23, 2020, the unc0ver jailbreak was released for ...
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I 10x'd a TI-84 emulator's speed by replacing a switch-case
There’s a javascript emulator for the TI83+, TI84+, and TI84+CSE calculators called jsTIfied, which was written by Christopher Mitchell, founder of the calculator fan site cemetech.net. There’s not a whole lot of reasons to use it over something else if you’ve got a native option available, but if you don’t it’s…