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It Just Works
Marco Arment wrote about Apple losing the ‘functional high ground’ earlier this year, and it was met with tons of discussion - blog posts, podcasts, twitter battles and more. The…
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Mesh: I tried Htmx, then ditched it
Alex Moon is an Australian-British software engineer and artist based in the North East of England.
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Speeding up my ZSH shell
Super quick one I want to document here! I got myself on a side quest, again! No biggie, my ZSH shell was taking ages to load. When I say ages, more like...
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The Registers of Rust
It’s been nearly two and half years since I was an active contributor to the Rust project. There are some releases that I’ve been very excited about since then, and I’m heartened by Niko’s recent blog post emphasizing stability and polish over grand new projects. But I’ve also felt a certain apprehension at a lot of…
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Building an Intelligent Emacs
This post introduces the combination of Emacs and LSP, and how you can make your own editor “smarter” by using the same idea of communications between an editor client and multiple language servers. Edit: Thank you for the support, this blog post got featured on the front page of Hacker News (YCombinator).
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Discovery Coding
Discovery coding is a practice of understanding a problem by writing code first, rather than attempting to do some design process or thinking beforehand.
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A SoundCloud client in React and Redux
Build a React + Redux SoundCloud Client. It is a huge tutorial where you build an example real world application. Learn React JS and Redux along the way. Consume the SoundCloud API, login and interact...
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Authorization in a Microservices World
Authorization? How hard can it be? I am pretty sure that others have already solved it. We are not the first ones doing microservices. It should be easy to integrate what's already out there.
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ANTLR Mega Tutorial
The definitive ANTLR mega tutorial on ANTLR4. Learn everything you need to know; with code in JavaScript, Python, Java and C#.
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Image unshredder by simulated annealing (2015)
On another page , I unleash the simulated annealing algorithm on a toy problem. It generates an image full of random colorful pixels, and rearranges the pixels so that similar colors are near each other.
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Crafting Interpreters: Superclasses
You can choose your friends but you sho’ can’t choose your family, an’ they’re still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge ’em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don’t.
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How I helped fix Canadaʼs Covid Alert app
On July 31st , Canada’s COVID Alert app was made available for general use, though it does not have support for actually reporting a diagnosis in most provinces, yet.
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Forging a Microsoft Edge Full Chain with Logic Bugs Only
This is what I built for Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 — a completely handmade, logic-only Microsoft Edge Full Chain, with no memory corruption, and no AI at all! 🔥
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How to create NBA shot charts in Python
In this post I go over how to extract a player's shot chart data and then plot it using matplotlib and seaborn .
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Hosting a website on an 8-bit microcontroller
My victim is the AVR64DD32 which is quite similar to the Atmega328 of Arduino fame. Compared to the older Atmega, these AVR DD lines are cheaper for the same memory, use a single programming pin and have nicer peripherals:
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Writing Vim Plugins
A while ago I wrote a post about switching back to Vim . Since then I've written two plugins for Vim, one of which has been officially "released".
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Clojure needs a Rails
I think there's another reason this problem persists in Clojure. There's no Rails for Clojure.
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C++ std::move doesn't move anything: A deep dive into Value Categories
Why std::move is just a cast, how it kills RVO if used wrong, and the mechanics of ownership transfer.
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Introducing ASP.NET vNext
There’s some really cool stuff going on on the ASP.NET and Web Tools team. The ...
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WebKit is the jQuery of Browser Engines
The news has just come out that Opera is switching all of their browsers (both mobile and desktop) to use WebKit (specifically, Chromium). I’ve seen a lot of gnashing of teeth on Twitter and I feel like I can respond because I use to feel the same way back in 2008-2009. However this is 2013 and the Chrome/Chromium…
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Go subtleties
Some of my favorite tidbits from the past year of working with Go.
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Why I forked httpx
I forked the python library httpx to httpxyz after over a year without a release of this popular package
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Deployment and infrastructure for a bootstrapped webapp with 150k monthly visits
How I deploy my webapp using blue-green deployment and zero rocket-science
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Building a single-page app with Htmx
People talk about htmx as though it's saving the web from single-page apps. Well, I guess I missed the memo, because I used htmx to build a single-page app.