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Starting in Android 14, it may not be necessary to use a third-party app to turn your smartphone into a webcam for your PC, as that functionality is getting baked into the Android OS itself — though there’s a catch.
I have the reputation, at least among some friends and family, of being 'good in a crisis' – such as (to give a somewhat minor example) the day last year, deep in lockdown, when a shard of flying flowerpot ended up halfway through my partner's hand, sending her to hospital and upending our finely calibrated work and…
How to use and configure a Yubikey
Oh you like SSH? Name every flag.
How to use GNU Parallel to gather stats on long-running flaky tests by running them many times and capturing their results.
git-sim: Visually simulate Git operations in your own repos with a single terminal command
Video showing bitwarden. User then sets the pin 2345. The vault is locked and then bitwarden is quit. In the terminal the exploit program is run, which after a short while outputs the PIN 2345.
Explore the weird and wonderful things on Google Street View
What's new in the latest release of Ardour: great new features, quality-of-life improvements, and bugfixes
QGIS is incredible: You can build maps that make use of the absolute wealth of public data out there and put Google Maps to absolute shame. This article is doing just that.
I've been writing recently about servers and internet infrastructure 1 . A lot of this writing is predicated on running server software on a VM or physical machine, rather than using a more cloudy solution, which is somewhat unpopular these days. However, I think it's a pretty reasonable way to do things, and it's not…
Where you learn the power of motions and how you can move blazingly fast and with extreme prevision using VSCodeVim
2023-10-12: I have written a followup with some details about the process used to generate this list: Extracting HN Book Recommendations with the ChatGPT API, Vol. II
It's dark and funny and unlike anything else
Watch movies like the makers intended by switching off weird smart tv settings.
How I had paid ¥77,619 (500 USD) to have a bricked MacBook returned to me.
Example based guide to mastering GNU awk
How to make your RSS feed look nice and provide useful information at the same time.
For my cousin’s wedding I did not make a photo booth but a video booth. - With an array of DSLRs to create a bullet time effect. Click the image to see the video on youtube.com. Since this is a very visual project, you should really watch the video. This blog post contains the same info with more details, but those…
I love GitHub Actions: I’ve been a daily user of it since 2019 for both professional and hobbyist projects, and have found it invaluable to both my overall productivity and peace of mind. I’m just old enough to have used Travis CI et al. professionally before moving to GitHub Actions, and I do not look back with joy 1…
Over the past 21 months I’ve written a code editor from the ground up, including: a fast (~120fps) canvas-based editor component; multi-language syntax highlighting with Tree-sitter; snippets; a file browser; find-and-replace with regex and JavaScript expression support; and two completely new features: AST mode and…
I'm going to take a wild guess here and say that you, like me, have a large pile (or digital equivalent) of books or articles you've been meaning to get around to reading, plus maybe a long queue of podcast episodes to which you'd love to listen, if only you had the time. It's the archetypal "first-world problem", I…
How I run CLIP (ViT-B-32) on iPhone to search the Photos album offline with Queryable: exporting Core ML text and image encoders for CLIP photo search
Getting Started with networkQuality The networkQuality tool is a built-in tool released in macOS Monterey that can help diagnose network issues and measure network performance. In this post, we'll go over how to use the networkQuality tool and some of its key features. Running the Default Tests To
Buck2, our new open source, large-scale build system, is now available on GitHub. Buck2 is an extensible and performant build system written in Rust and designed to make your build experience faste…
