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At FeeFighters, we’ve been helping business owners comparison shop credit card processors for years. One complaint kept resurfacing over and over for online merchants: what to do about the gateway? Learn a little bit about a samurai economics mindset.
We are excited to announce the first development release of GIMP in the 2.9.x series. It is another major milestone towards making GIMP a state-of-the art image editing application for graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, and scientists.
New features to streamline the interaction between CLI, code editors, and remote databases.
Today Mozilla is pleased to announce the availability of Firefox Developer Edition 40 (DE 40) featuring all-new performance tools! In this post we will cover some of DE 40’s new ...
A progress update on where my Rye Project is today.
Starting with Safari 10 on OS X El Capitan and macOS Sierra, Safari comes bundled with a WebDriver implementation that's maintained by the Web Developer Experience team at Apple.
Llama 3.2 Vision 11B and 90B models are now available in Ollama.
Mocking creates false security by testing isolation, not real behavior. Separate business logic from IO, use in-memory DBs, write server-side E2E tests instead.
How I burned a full Claude limit in 30 minutes and built my own deep research pipeline instead: 3 subscriptions, shared memory, a clear role for each model. You can build the same from what you already pay for.
Here's how to verify your Bluesky account by setting your website as your username.
Here's how to self-host a web font from Google Fonts - Blog-ifyer
My computer setup attracts attention when I'm out and about. This has two effects: engineers [1] ask me about it, and everyone else ignores me. These effects are not undesirable, but further testing is required.
This article is about how to use the 'tail' command. Here is an overview of how you can use the 'head' and 'tail' commands to output different parts of a file:
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Have you ever wished for a 500 Hz, millimeter-precise linear position sensing system? Well you're in luck --- all you need is some circuit board, a basic microcontroller, and a wee bit of maths!
Stop re-learning things you've already figured out. Two simple ways to document any process, and find it again when you need it.
Learn how you can go back in time and replay what went wrong in a C/C++ program with rr (a GNU Debugger Linux enhancement) in this short demo.
I’ve been delving deeper into the vast and strange world of knowledge organizing tools (notes apps, contact organizers, personal search engines). During this rather abstract expedition, one of my goals has been to emerge with some opinionated thesis about the way these tools should be designed to harbor and extend our…
Blog posts about GNU Guix.
The bash (Readline) shortcuts worth knowing for editing, recalling and controlling commands, plus the ! and ^ history tricks.
With a Raspberry Pi or other modern single-board computers, you can make very simple toys. I started with the hello world of interactive apps: the soundboard. But even then, I was too ambitious. The soundpad Since the main target was kids. I wanted a simple, screen-less toy that would teach …
Illustrated notes on the Building A Second Brain course
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An experienced project manager I used to work with claimed that he took the programmers’ time estimates, multiplied by pi and converted to the next time magnitude to get the true number. 1 day converts to 3.14 weeks. He had learned the hard way that programmers are bad at estimating times . To get a more precise…
Posted by James Wexler, Senior Software Engineer, Google Big Picture Team(Cross-posted on the Google Open Source Blog)Getting the best results out ...
