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The 24 Hour “Do Nothing” Challenge
There’s not too much to say on this one, so I’ll keep it short. My goal was to do nothing for 24 hours. Like everyone in the modern world, I’m hopelessly addicted to little dopamine bur…
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Stupid Alexa Trick: Speaking French with a Horrible American Accent
Asking for a repeat, but in a different speech synthesizer.
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The Future of Transmit iOS
Hello. Here’s an update on Transmit iOS that I promise will not use the words “sunset” or “journey”.
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Emacs on an iPad
With my iPad having replaced my MacBook, the last thing I was missing was Emacs , which I not only enjoy hacking on, but is also how update my blog and resume! Let’s just say that it’s an integral tool in my life which I wanted access to, and I managed to make it happen.
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Blocking website ads with a hosts file
Am I the only one who is skeptical clicking on ads I see online? Yes, I know it is the lifeblood of entrepreneurs , but I really don't care ...
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Visual Studio 2022
Announcing Visual Studio 2022, the next major version of Visual Studio. Read about our vision for empowering developers everywhere.
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Useful Old Technologies: ASN.1 (2013)
Useful old technologies: ASN.1
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Everything You Never Wanted to Know About CMake
Just hearing the word CMake is typically enough to make a shiver run down my spine. I’ve been deep in the muck of its behavior and tooling the last few weeks as I finish up a CMake library titled IXM. While the various minutiae of how IXM works, why I wrote it, and all the nice little usage details are definitely for…
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Release Notes for Ghostty 1.1.0
Release notes for Ghostty 1.1.0, released on January 30, 2025.
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Firebug Metamorphosis
The story of Firefox and Firebug are synonymous with the rise of the web. We fought the good fight and changed how developers inspect HTML and debug JS in the browser. Firebug ushered the Web 2.0 era. Today, the work pioneered by the Firebug community through the last 12 years lives on in Firefox Developer Tools…
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Expanding Swift's IDE Support
You can now write Swift in a broader range of popular IDEs, including Cursor, VSCodium, AWS’s Kiro, and Google’s Antigravity. By leveraging VS Code extension compatibility, these editors tap directly into the Open VSX Registry, where the official Swift extension is now live.
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Guix for Development
This wonderful article by Marius Bakke (thanks for using Haunt btw!) about guix shell hit the orange website front page recently. I left a comment to the effect of “hell yeah I use it for all my projects!” and someone asked me for an example of what I do. I sent them some links but I thought hey, this could be a blog…
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How to Analyze Every Reddit Submission and Comment, in Seconds, for Free
With Reddit data in BigQuery, quantifying all the hundreds of millions of Reddit submissions and comments is trivial.
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How to win a hackathon without coming in first place
To win first place at a hackathon, you need to combine multiple components... and that's not always possible. Here's how to make the most of your next hackathon without coming in 'first place'.
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Fuzzy Finding with Emacs Instead of Fzf
fzf is a popular tool among command line hackers. But if you're an Emacs user, it's hard to use as it requires an interactive terminal. What if you could use Emacs to do the fuzzy finding instead of fzf?
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Hitachi Wood Plug Cutter Works Perfectly in Hand Held Drills (2013)
I had meant to post on this some time back and forgot. I don’t altogether like plug cutters much, but good quality ones work well in drill presses (pillar drill UK). It’s the drill press that’s the problem more than anything. Often when I need a plug
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How to list all the targets on a Makefile
A tip on how to add a target on your Makefile to list all available targets
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Cloud Code – A new set of plug-ins for IntelliJ and VS Code
Cloud Code, a new set of plug-ins for IntelliJ and VS Code, makes it easy to rapidly build, debug, and deploy to Kubernetes, using the tools you already have.
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High-fidelity remote communication
Remote is hard but it can work if you focus on what matters.
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Ollama: All Aboard Open Models
Serving 8.9 million developers, Ollama has raised $88M from Benchmark, Theory Ventures, 8VC, Y Combinator, and many incredible angel investors.
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My I3-Emacs Integration
tiling window managers are wonderful. ultra-flexible text editors are also wonderful. for a spell, i thought i'd found the ideal solution in exwm … and i think it would have been, save for the fact that i use ordinary, graphical windows as much, if not more than, text buffers, and sometimes those windows are from…
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Hacking Christmas lights
I went to Costco the other day with my wife to pick up some Christmas lights. While there, I found the most awesome christmas lights ever: the GE Color Effects G-35 .
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Kubuntu Linux 19.10 for a digital painting workstation
As you probably knows if you follow my blog, I'm using exclusively a GNU/Linux operating system for my workstation. I produce everything I do with it (webcomic, website, book, freelance, videos, etc...) and all of that since more than ten years now. Along the way, I tried so many existing solution for my…
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Bitbucket secrets
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