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Using the 5S Principle in Coding
A few years ago, I read The Toyota Way, driven by my curiosity about the origins of Agile software development. However, I became even more…
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The Wolfram Prompt Repository (2023)
Curated collection of prompts for use with LLMs. Accessible interactively in Chat Notebooks and programmatically in functions like LLMFunction. Initial categories in the Prompt Repository cover personas, functions, modifiers.
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QWERTY-Flip: The better keyboard layout your fingers already know
The 10 most frequent letters in English are ETAOINSRHL . This layout gets most of those letters onto the home row while making use of existing muscle memory. According to Carpalx , QWERTY-Flip scores about as well as the famous Dvorak layout, but while Dvorak is very hard to learn, with QWERTY-Flip you'll be up and…
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Preserving a floppy disk with a logic analyzer and a serial cable
Being involved with retro computers, I have a few floppy disks (of the 3.5-inch variety) that I would like to preserve as faithfully as possible. Of course, I know there are dedicated devices for doing that, such as the Kryoflux or the SuperCard Pro . But it occurred to me that I already own the required hardware to…
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Practical Vim command workflow (2023)
Master the art of efficient text navigation and editing in Vim with this comprehensive command workflow tutorial. Explore key commands and practical examples to enhance your productivity in Vim.
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Rebuilding my homelab: Suffering as a service
With additional Kubernetes mode!
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The Tao of Unicode Sparklines (2021)
I’ve long been enamored of the sparkline, a graphical device which its inventor Edward Tufte defines thusly: A sparkline is a small intense, simple, word-sized graphic with typographic resolu…
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Refix: Fast, Debuggable, Reproducible Builds
What makes it really fast is a small Rust program called refix that post-processes your build outputs (if you don't want to compile from source, here's a static Linux binary .) Both the program and this document are written for the context of C/C++ source code compiled to native binaries. But this can work with other…
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Receive push notifications from your rice cooker
I have a lovely, and reasonably priced, Mini Panda Rice Cooker. It does not have any SmartHome features. You put in water and rice, press a button, it cooks rice. Nice! The only problem is - I don't know how long the rice will take to cook. It uses "Fuzzy Logic" to work out exactly how much heat and time is needed for…
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Adding keyboard shortcuts to a 24 year-old government website with userscripts
Writing userscripts to optimize my data entry workflow with the FDA's 510k database.
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Parsing Protobuf Definitions with Tree-sitter
If you work with Protocol Buffers (protobuf), you can really save time, boredom, and headache by parsing your defin…
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State of the Terminal
This is a companion article to my talk at Neovimconf 2023. I have been using Vim/Neovim as my full time text editor for close to 10 years. I’ve spent a lot of time in the terminal and have become very aware of the many flaws and idiosyncrasies of this bizarre platform. But I also think it gets a lot of things right!…
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Automating My /Now Page
A deep dive into how I automated my now page on my personal website by creating a Go script and making use of GitHub Actions.
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Make the most of your burl
Elegant, Exquisite, Museum Quality Lidded Finial Vessels and Urns hand made by Woodturner and Artist, Cindy Drozda. Woodturning instruction, Demonstrations and Instructional DVDs.
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My simple knowledge management and time tracking system
I am using a very simple system for remembering commands and procedures, and for tracking what I work on. I have two plain text files called notes.txt and worktime.txt. In the notes file, I write d…
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Fighting Infomania: Why 80% of Your Reading Is a Waste of Time (2016)
Author, writer, and creator sharing insights on learning, writing, philosophy, entrepreneurship, and more.
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The importance of local development
Efficient software development benefits from local development, it enables faster iteration, better debugging and ensures consistency between local and production environments.
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TOTP Codes in the Terminal
The demise of Authy desktop has brought about a number of changes, probably the one of which I most appreciate is a mobile app which lets me edit codes: with 2FAS I can edit labels on codes, and I’...
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What docs-as-code means
I’ve recently started a new job as a documentation engineer. While my work is largely the same as that of a technical writer, …
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Linux for UX Designers: What I learn after a year of doing design work on Linux
My experience with moving from Mac to Linux for professional UX and UI design work and how to make the switch yourself.
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Automated Test-Case Reduction
In a previous post, I used a simple interpreter bug to demonstrate the research skill of manually reducing test cases. This time, I show off the excellent Shrinkray reducer to see how it can automate the same process. The tricky part when using automated test-case reducers is writing an interestingness test that…
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Pleasant Debugging with GDB and DDD
GDB is an old and ubiquitous debugger for Linux and BSD systems that has extensive language, processor, and binary format support. Its interface is a little cryptic, but learning GDB pays off.
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My Obsidian note-taking workflow
A Vim-Inspired Approach to Efficient Note Management with Obsidian and Markdown
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Mutt on Windows Without WSL
I have this weird hobby of trying to get good unix tools to run natively on Windows. I find this is the most efficient use of my laptop's resources, and therefore the nicest experience. WSL is nice, but it takes up a lot of RAM on my system. I prefer to use MSYS2 . Getting unix tools to work correctly under MSYS2 is a…
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Navtive FlameGraphViewer
This website is for sale! laladrik.xyz is your first and best source for information about laladrik. Here you will also find topics relating to issues of general interest. We hope you find what you are looking for!
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Dublin Core, what is it good for?
There are several popular meta schemas out there. Open Graph may be the best supported, but if you want your meta data to be picked up by a particular service you might need to do a bit of research. Or support them all.
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Why Vim uses hjkl keys as arrow keys
I was reading about vim the other day and found out why it used `hjkl` keys as arrow keys. When Bill Joy created the vi text editor he used the ADM-3A terminal, which had the arrows on hjkl keys. Naturally he reused the same keys and the rest is history. Here is how the `hjkl` keys looked. ADM-3A keyboard's hjkl…
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File over app
If you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Use tools that give you...