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many traditional and modern card games. At only 120 cards, it supports a large number of existing game systems, such as: The Everdeck is a card game system that can be adapted to play many traditio…
Most startups run (or believe they must run) a hodge-podge of email-slash-communication tools like person email, CRM, ticketing, etc.. But everything gets easier if you just have one email address and one system.
A window manager is a program that runs in the background, and give you keybinds and/or mouse moves to move/resize and arrange your windows on your screen.
T here is a wide range of input mechanisms for computers, starting with keyboards (which are relatively mature) and extending to various types of neural interfaces (currently under research). Speech lies somewhere on this spectrum with a lot of promises but still not much to show for. Keeping accessibility aspects…
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Look, I really didn’t want to like Duet. I don’t want to be an Anthropic fanboy and it annoys me when they do things better than the competition. But they have done it again.
A collection of QMK firmware libraries, macros, and thoughts on ergonomic keyboards.
The people who live in a Golden Age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks. – Randall Jarrell
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
I do all my work in the terminal, so it has to be quick. How my zsh starts in 30 milliseconds without a framework, and how to measure where your own shell spends its time.
How to use a company's TXT records to discover the products they use.
How many times did I want to watch a directory waiting for a file to appear in it? Constant ls, for example, quickly got boring. A quick Perl script that would reload ls every 5 seconds… yeah it works but it takes a while to type up, and often enough I'm too lazy for that. And then I found 'watch' – a utility that…
That’s the headline for my latest project (with Tomas Petricek), presented at HATRA. [paper] [recorded talk] With this work I am finally confronting the demon cursing my work: version control. If w…
Discover what's new in Emacs 24.4 as I annotate most of the changes made to the new Emacs version.
iOS 14 USB tethering broken on Linux: looking for documentation and contact at Apple
After a long day of exhausting conversations about Hybrid Post-Quantum Cryptography, random jackasses trying to play gotcha with endpoint attacks against end-to-end encrypted messaging apps, and me…
I have used Hugo, the blog engine this blog runs on top of, more and more lately for less and less typical use cases. Hopefully this post will inspire others in similar ways.
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Feross Aboukhadijeh is a computer security researcher, teacher, web developer, designer, long distance runner, gamer, music lover, and builder of websites that (sometimes) go viral.
Here’s something crazy and pointless: did you know that LCD monitors draw single pixels by mixing three individual red, green and blue subpixels ? It’s true! In fact, some devices (like mobile phones and handheld gaming devices) actually use this to anti-alias text and make borders more distinct. Microsoft even use it…
Clojure beginners sometimes struggle with setting up a new Clojure deps.edn project compared to setting up a lein project. This is one of the reasons I've built neil . But not only for beginners, I've been using neil myself a ton too, to add common features to existing deps.edn projects. You may think that neil is a…
Stick microphone out window, catch chorps, feel joy.
