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The first post on this personal blog dates back to December 2012. It’s been more than a decade! As with many others, I’ve always struggled with how to setup my personal website. It is just too enticing to build it “from scratch”, which usually means using a static
m4 is a macro processor, in the sense that it copies its input to the output, expanding macros as it goes
Many folders have them. They’re so invisible that you can’t even see them when you show hidden files. And the only way you know they’re there is when they cause problems.
The Pragmatic Programmer advocates you should know your editor inside and out. So why don't you know your version control system just as well? Discover git add "patch mode" and learn how to make more concisely crafted commits leading to a cleaner git history and more friends.
Encrypting files with passkeys, using the WebAuthn prf extension and the TypeScript age implementation.
Sometimes you need info about hardware, and you probably lost your invoice, spec list or a password to a store website. Maybe you did an upgrade and this info isn't accurate anymore. It's an easy case for home users, but what to do is you have many machines
In another post, I laid out my reasons for building a personal logging system. Here, I’ll go into the strategy and tactics issues.
Digg now uses something they call the DiggBar, which serves as both a new interface for Digg and doubles as a URL shortening service, and which frames the content of the site they’re linking to. Here’s how to block it.
A dashboard with the weather forecast and top headlines is an easy, but useful little project.
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Fellow core developer and Canadian, Mariatta, asked on Twitter about python -m pip and who told her about that idiom along with asking for a reference explaining it: I learned sometime ago that we should be doing `python -m pip install ...` instead of simply `pip install ...` but now I can'
Welcome to the 2030s.
Is your robotic vacuum cleaner getting stuck on the laundry drying rack? Just raise the rack slightly off the floor and it becomes a natural robot barrier.
Alex Clemmer is a computer programmer. Other programmers love Alex, excitedly describing him as "employed here" and "the boss's son".
A merge workflow for activating multiple branches simultaneously using Jujutsu, an alternative VCS to Git.
An article about why academic papers distributed in PostScript, what is LaTeX, and why you should care.
My last post documented my initial exposure to the wild world of custom keyboards and the numerous ways it's possible to improve on the conventional design. As I dug deeper into the topic, I was struck with the simplicity of the underlying concepts. While the Ergodox is a notable and admirable achievement of…
T hat’s right – for just $60 a week, I’ve bought myself some time to chase after some dreams: working out, playing guitar, and of course writing.
I want terminal keypresses to Just Work. What do I mean Just Work? I mean programs in a simple orthogonal way, can determine the key that was pressed, and this model should easily map to the user's expectation.
Take a company you have a problem with 1. Imagine you hate Ryanair. I do not btw they are just an example of a company this would work on. 2...
A digital feed is an online stream of content which gets updated as new content is pushed by the feed’s sources. Generally, content is created by users on the social media platform, to be consumed by their followers.
The amazing Rene Stange added USB Gadget (i.e. device) support to the Circle bare metal Raspberry Pi environment a while ago so I’ve now incorporated that into MiniDexed. This allows MiniDexe…
