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img {border-style: groove; border-width: 1px;} I love Autohotkey so much that it keeps me on Windows. It’s the best GUI automation tool out there. Here’s a shortcut that opens my current browser tab in the Wayback Machine: #HotIf WinActive("ahk_exe firefox.exe") >!^s:: { Keywait("RControl") Keywait("RAlt")…
“Markdown” is the most commonly used lightweight markup language on the internet. It is great for a subset of tasks, mainly blog posts and commenting. However, lately it has been adopted by the tec...
Using a full-featured RPC framework for IPC seems like overkill when the processes run on the same machine. However, if your project anyway exposes RPCs for public APIs or would benefit from a schema-based serialisation layer it makes sense to use only one tool that combines these—also for IPC. Microservices for…
Why and how you should write "without bugs"
How to give GPT access to large amounts of data
I have been programming for a number of years already. I have seen others introduce bugs, and I have also introduced (and solved!) many bugs while coding. Off-by-one, buffer-overflow, treating pointers as pointees, different behaviors or the same function (this is specially true for cross-platform applications), race…
This post is a rewrite of my earlier blog post from Nov 2023 with new insights and updates.
I'm a longtime Java, Ruby, and Python programmer. Yet Clojure is the first language I've used that...
Kind people already sent donations that will make my childrens' lives easier, when I'm not there any more. Thank you enormously! :-)
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While talking about Django at PyCon India this year, the most common question I got was whether it supports Si...
Without psychological safety, respect, and trust, none of the following is possible. The way we work, the work we do, and the organizations within which we work are all part of a connected system. You cannot change anything without changing everything. You cannot improve a system by tinkering with the parts. Process…
In July 1999, there was a news article stating that PC usage had doubled yet again, reaching penetration of 50% of homes. People were hailing this as yet another sign of the inevitable climb of technology, but I saw it as a warning sign that the glass was half empty, and coined the following:
Parenthetically Speaking: Articles by Shriram Krishnamurthi
A Word Aligned article posted 2013-01-08, tagged C, Torvalds, Algorithms.
Interesting post, but you lost me at “Let’s try to do that using undef”. Why bother with notions of an “undef value” (or “deferred UB”), when plain UB is all you need?
What Is Declarative Programming Broadly speaking, there are two ways to program/instruct a computer to perform a task, they are imperative...
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
The code formatting and typography is frequent, controversial but probably unavoidable topic among programmers. This document contains some representative and possibly, relevant examples of the Lisp code.
A long-form article entitled: "Domain Logic and SQL"
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Domain separation bugs have bitten Bitcoin, Ethereum, TLS, and AWS. Snowpack solves this by embedding random domain separators directly in the IDL.
