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Why I Chose Elixir Phoenix over Rails, Laravel, and Next.js
Why I chose Phoenix LiveView over Rails, Laravel, and Next.js
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Why Exercise Is a Miracle Drug
Plus: How to save 100 million lives with 1/400th of our income
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BusyBeaver(6) Is Quite Large
For overdetermined reasons, I’ve lately found the world an increasingly terrifying and depressing place. It’s gotten harder and harder to concentrate on research, or even popular scienc…
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It's Always the Process, Stupid
Why AI Won’t Save Your Broken Workflow
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A new experimental Go API for JSON
Go 1.25 introduces experimental support for encoding/json/jsontext and encoding/json/v2 packages.
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Addressing the adding situation
We learn why adding on x86 isn't as obvious as you might think
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Babel is why I keep blogging with Emacs
Every time I look at someone’s simple static site generation setup for their blog, I feel a pang of envy. I’m sure I could make a decent blogging engine in 2,000 lines of code, and it would be something I’d understand, be proud over, able to extend, and willing to share with others.
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The tiniest yet real telescope I've built
76/300 Pocket Dobson: a tiny yet real telescope that comes with you everywhere
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Web search on the Anthropic API
Claude can now search the web through the API, giving users access to real-time information with citations for building up-to-date AI applications. Unknown block type "latestUpdates", specify a component for it in the `components.
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The story of my home made pipe organ (2000)
As the course progressed, I discovered that some of this stuff was actually logical, and also kind of fun. I found myself using the piano room just to play around. I never cared much for attempting to play sheet music, but the idea of hitting keys and getting a sound that was sometimes harmonious was strangely…
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Giving C a superpower: custom header file (safe_c.h)
The story of how I wrote a leak-free, thread-safe grep in C23 without shooting yourself in the foot, and how you can too! Introduction Let's be honest: mos...
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Take something you don’t like and try to like it
it offers lessons on your nature
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I should have loved biology too
How I went from hating it to being obsessed, the allure of great writing, and a post-scuba-dive moment of clarity
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Edit is now open source
Edit is a new command-line text editor in Windows. Edit is open source, so you can build the code or install the latest version from GitHub!
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A look at Cloudflare's AI-coded OAuth library
I decided today to take a look at CloudFlare’s new OAuth provider library, which they apparently coded almost entirely with Anthropic’s Claude LLM: This library (including the schema do…
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Backblaze: Mounting Losses, Lawsuits, Sham Accounting, Insider Selling
Summary * Backblaze (NASDAQ:BLZE) is a $250 million cloud storage and backup solution provider based in California that operates through two business segments: B2 Cloud Storage allowing “customers to store data” and “developers to build applications,” and Computer Backup that “automatically backs up data” from devices…
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Composable SQL
Better SQL through typed, composable query fragments.
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Diagnosing an Unusual WiFi Issue (2020)
Late last year, I started experiencing some unusual intermittent connection issues on my Desktop. In general, I had a stable connection with average latency; however, at (seemingly) random times throughout the week, I would start experiencing sudden 2000ms+ latency spikes every couple of seconds.
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Writing simple tab-completions for Bash and Zsh
Shell tab-completions can be very handy, but setting them up is complicated by the fact that half your users would be using Bash-on-Linux, while the other half will be using Zsh-on-OSX, each of which has different tab-completion APIs. Furthermore, most users exploring an unfamiliar CLI tool using tab completion…
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Booting Linux in QEMU and Writing PID 1 in Go to Illustrate Kernel as Program
Most books and courses introduce Linux through shell commands, leaving the kernel as a mysterious black box doing magic behind the scenes. In this post, we will run some experiments to demystify it: the Linux kernel is just a binary that you can build and run.
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How to Give a Good Talk
In computer science, conferences are a focal point of academic attention. Conferences are a moment where computing communities—distributed over the globe—come together. Giving a talk at a conferenc…
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In Memoriam: John L. Young, Cryptome Co-Founder
John L. Young, who died March 28 at age 89 in New York City, was among the first people to see the need for an online library of official secrets, a place where the public could find out things that governments and corporations didn’t want them to know. He made real the idea – revolutionary in its...
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It is worth it to buy the fast CPU
In the past few years, CPUs have gotten really fast. Shockingly fast! Yet most people are stuck on previous generation mobile chips (whether by choice, or by their companies choice), at a huge detriment to their productivity. Meanwhile, AI coding subscriptions like Cursor are all the rage these days. I'll skip the…
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30 Year Anniversary of WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness
I want to wish everyone happy Yule festivities! Midwinter in the northern hemisphere has passed, the days are now slowly becoming longer.
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We built an air-gapped Jira alternative for regulated industries
Plane Airgapped runs Plane on networks with no internet access. How it works, what you bring into the network, how licensing and upgrades work offline, and who it’s for.
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Learning Feynman's Trick for Integrals
Among a few other integral tricks and techniques, Feynman's trick was a strong reason that made me love evaluating integrals, and although the technique itself goes back to Leibniz being commonly known as the Leibniz integral rule, it was Richard Feynman who popularized it, which is why it is also referred to as…
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Kezurou-Kai #39
Kezurou-kai #39 in Itoigawa, Niigata, a handplaning contest where competitors use Japanese planes to take ultra thin shavings of wood
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The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora
Disney and OpenAI have reached an agreement to bring more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars characters to Sora for fan-inspired short videos. The agreement emphasizes responsible AI in entertainment and includes Disney’s company-wide use of ChatGPT Enterprise and the OpenAI API.