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In fact, there are two free versions: one for Classic MacOS, made freeware when WordPerfect discontinued Mac support, and a native Linux version, for which Corel offered a free, fully-working, demo version. But there is a catch of course: theyre both very old and hard to run on a…
CSS Remynification: A completely crazy idea that worked -- Remy Luisant's whimsical take on squishy computing science things
Learn how to make a Raspberry Pi VPN server using OpenVPN, PiVPN, Surfshark, and WireGuard! You can set up a VPN tunnel for access to your home network while away.
A programmer's text editor is their castle
A nice blog
TIN is a fast, full-featured, full-text search index for Postgres
Learn how to setup and use vale, a syntax-aware prose linter with neovim for technical writing be it personal blogs or technical documentation.
Sources tell KrebsOnSecurity that Microsoft Corp. is slated to release a software update on Tuesday to fix an extraordinarily serious security vulnerability in a core cryptographic component present in all versions of Windows . Those sources say Microsoft has quietly shipped a patch for the bug to branches of the U.S…
Bioinformatics, genomics, and Javascript
I learned about socat a few years ago and am generally surprised more developers don’t know about it. Maybe I appreciate it all the more…
Today I saw a co-worker take a link from a specific line number in our team’s github repository and place it in the comments section of a user story. This is very helpful for those who need to see a quick reference to the code that could be causing a defect, but it’s wrong . Here’s what you need to do instead.
A primary goal of Vagrant is not only to provide easy-to-use development environments, but also to make it easy to share and collaborate on these environments. With Vagrant 1.5, we're introducing a feature that will allow you to share your running Vagrant environment with anyone, on any network connected to the…
Today, we’re excited to announce that Canonical’s Ubuntu Linux Distro is now available in the Windows Store and can be downloaded and installed on any
Do not apologize for replying late to my email par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
Build Awesome is a rebrand of 11ty/Eleventy, backed by a successful $40k Kickstarter. But this attempt to monetize static site generators repeats the same …
Ongoing According to Repology , the latest packaged Git for Windows is version . To keep up with releases of Git for Windows, which includes Git Bash and the Mintty terminal emulator , see github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases or groups.google.com/g/git-for-windows .
After a barrage of recommendations on my twitter, I finally ended up reading Oliver Burkeman’s Four Thousand Weeks. The central premise of the book is simple: everyone has got about four thousand weeks to live, and spending that limited time chasing efficiency is wrongheaded. The message seems old. The entire…
Remember YouTube5? And a Dinosaur remembers. YouTube5 was a Safari extension back when Flash was still a thing and hated by everyone. It replaced the YouTube...
Fang-Pen Lin's blog about programming
I have a special sympathy for sufferers of a particular human problem, and I get more emails about it than just about any other topic. There are normal people, who
We are now releasing Lyra V2, with a new architecture with a wider platform support, provides scalable bitrate capabilities, has better performance.
A blog post on building a panel with multiple electronic shelf labels (ESL).
I've just released devd , a small, self-contained, command-line-only HTTP server for developers. It started as a weekend stress-relief hack (that's a thing where I'm from), but has now become my preferred "daily driver" for most web-ish things. It's simple, direct and does more or less exactly what I need. This isn't…
This is the second in a series of posts I intend to write about how to build, deploy, and manage …
