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Datasette 0.22 is out with the most significant new feature I’ve added since the initial release: faceted browse. Datasette lets you deploy an instant web UI and JSON API for …
Or four one liners every Java programmer should know
There are still many situations where it's not feasible to stop a process, attach the debugger, and start futzing with memory. We can argue over whether this is because the industry didn't learn enough from the Pharo folks later. For now, let's pretend that's axiomatic: a certain amount of debugging (and even testing)…
A Personal Knowledgebase (PK) is any system that you use to store and retrieve general information. The key here is that the system should be capable of storing a large amount information on any number of topics and, ideally, provide some type of way to view relationships between the information.
Bootstrapping OCaml projects with Nix
I run Claude Code with --dangerously-skip-permissions flag, giving it full system access. Let me show you a new way of approaching computers.
Dev build 3063 is out now, with a few small improvements. There is now an equivalent to the OSX command line tool on windows: subl.exe. While the basic functionality was previously available via just passing sublime_text.exe command line arguments, because it was a windowed application rather than a console one, it…
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
This programmer does not like the PSD File Format:
How is your startup sharing knowledge with the rest of your team?We’ve been using slack’s #general or #random channels to make announcements.We regularly post documents and PPTs in slack channels s...
An extremely detailed guide on how to configure WezTerm
Yesterday on Twitter the inimitable Morten Just posted a preview of a tool he’s created that wrap ffmpeg to allow movies, such screen recordings but pretty m...
The latest MacOS release (10.6, or “Snow Leopard”) comes with a new monospace font. It’s called “Menlo” and it’s a slightly modified form of the standard Linux font (with appropriately weightly Linux name) “DejaVu Sans Serif Mono”, which is itself an updated form of Bitstream Vera Sans Mono. Apple’s modifications are…
Hotbeds are horticultural alchemy. But what is a hotbed and what makes them so magical?
I’ve been on a weird kick lately making images using Excel. [Here’s one post. I hope to post more soon.] If you add a background color to each cell in a spreadsheet and resize the cell …
Every month, a committee of Firefox volunteers — who really, REALLY love Firefox Add-ons — puts their time and effort into finding the best new ...
Rather special example: This was useful for me on a Redhat Linux, where man(1) otherwise annoyingly would intersperse the output with headers and footers for a print version, which is rarely used, though... I tried: ( echo -e ".pl 1100i"; cat "$1"; echo ".pl \\n(nlu+10\n" ) | tbl | nroff -man
LilyPond – Music notation for everyone
Our new cat, Snowy, is waking early. She is startled by the noise of jets flying over our house. Can I determine which plane is upsetting her by utilizing open source streaming solutions (Apache Kafka®), KSQL (the streaming SQL engine for Apache Kafka) a…
Create isolated project setups on all platforms, and gain a deep understanding of Python's virtual environments created with the venv module.
You can make regions of an image clickable with a number of techniques, from overlaying an SVG that contains onclick JavaScript handlers all the way to using image maps. I love this idea. I started to think about how I could create an image of my bookshelves that you could click to learn more about each book I am…
Knowledge and information are part of a continuum but not the same, and knowledge problems cannot be solved with information tools alone. ...
