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Pipenv is a Python packaging tool that does one thing reasonably well — application dependency management. However, it is also plagued by issues, limitations and a break-neck development process. In the past, Pipenv’s promotional material was highly misleading as to its purpose and backers.
Three months ago, during my first Think Week, I realized that consistently working out would meaningfully improve my long term health and happiness.
Why I switched to Windows 10 from macOS and built a water-cooled and overclocked 5.2GHz 6-core PC for photo editing with Adobe Lightroom Classic CC.
Read up about how you can cool off your Raspberry Pi 4 and drop a few degrees. I compare several cooling solutions including firmware updates.
I thought I'd share my favorite regex of all time. [ -~] Any idea what this regexp matches? Scroll down for the answer. . . . . . . . . It matches all ASCII characters from the space to tilde. What are these characters? These are all printable characters! Take a look at this ASCII table. Printable characters start…
Every time I look at someone’s simple static site generation setup for their blog, I feel a pang of envy. I’m sure I could make a decent blogging engine in 2,000 lines of code, and it would be something I’d understand, be proud over, able to extend, and willing to share with others.
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
any speed above, say, maybe 80 wpm , isn’t going to hinder anyone when trying to put anything into the computer
Last Thursday, Yahoo announced their plans to support end-to-end encryption using a fork of Google’s end-to-end email extension. This is a Big Deal. With providers like Google and Yahoo onboa…
Pass ( main site , Arch wiki ) is a command-line Unix password manager that utilizes GPG for all underlying encryption. However, beyond passwords, we can utilize it in a number of clever ways.
A cursory review of all the non-metasearch, indexing search engines I have been able to find.
Learn how to search, query, and modify JSON data with 25 interactive jq examples and explanations
Using algorithms and Julia to install as many packages as possible from the Arch Linux official repositories
The first idea is interesting because it means cheap, precision-manufactured PCBs can be easily transformed into cheap, precise tiny motors.
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
A recent discovery from old backups revealed something long forgotten: I really developed a version of Elite for…. that’s right… Emacs text editor.
Several years ago I actually cared about the differences between AWS CloudFormation and Terraform. Namely, that Terraform did not provide…
Researcher and runner writing about technology, nature, and physical endeavours.
redux adjective brought back; resurgent: the Victorian era redux.
After a decade of writing explanations, I've simplified the strategy I use to get new concepts to click. Here's how to teach yourself a difficult idea, or…
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I recently switched from Google Chrome to Mozilla Firefox as my main desktop browser. Here’s what I did to improve upon Firefox’ sometimes not ideal defaults. There are a couple of reasons why I considered the switch from Chrome to Firefox: A growing uneasy feeling about Google’s approach to user privacy, Manifest v3…
