We'd be Better Off with 9-bit Bytes
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Like the pdp-10 had
Linked is an interesting hypothetical article that has both technical and historical contrxt.
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August 2025
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07-08-2025
July 2025
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23-07-2025
Reading QR codes without a computer!
qr.blinry.orgJust with a pencil and paper
Linked article covers something that’s always been a matter of some amusing fascination for me. Which is how QR codes work, and how there are apparently variations in the basic look which continue working with the same algorithms.
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17-07-2025
Artisanal Handcrafted Git Repositories | drew's dev blog
drew.silcock.devHow to lovingly handcraft your own git repositories
Linked is a madman’s tour of git’s persistent data structures. Yes, crazy, but pretty amazing. They use not-simple shall commands to create all the bits by hand. If you follow along you will know more than any of your friends how git work#!
January 2025
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26-01-2025
cmdalias: Multi word alias
github.comJust a small tool to help me (and you but without any guaranty) to create command alias and sub-aliases (multi word alias) - adoy/cmdalias
Linked is not a recommendation - as I have not tried it. But I've been typing lots of repetitive commands the last few days and I got to thinking that having a way to have aliases which were more than a single word would make them easier to remember and more flexible. This is one that I found
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22-01-2025
Atuin - Magical Shell History
atuin.shSync, search and backup shell history with Atuin
Linked is a linux-friendly command history editor. I needed one and I grabbed the first one I saw. But I am feeling like it's too heavy weight.
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13-01-2025
Useful things you can do with Rails console
impactahead.comDiscover essential tips and tricks to boost your productivity with Ruby on Rails console commands and features.
Linked is a wonderful cheat sheet or grab bag of Rails console commands. I knew many but not all of them. Good reminders.
December 2024
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27-12-2024
ghostty-org/ghostty: 👻 Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.
github.com👻 Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration. - ghostty-org/ghostty
Linked is a new terminal emulator. What interests me is that it is said to be embeddable because it is distributed also as a library with well defined apis.
August 2024
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30-08-2024
Dokku: my favorite personal serverless platform – Hamel’s Blog
hamel.devLike Heroku, but you own it.
Linked is an article about #dokku which is software that lets you run the equivalent (more or less) of #heroku on your own server, including a server instance from a service like #digitalocean. Very nice. Good offering to remember!dokku
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28-08-2024
Good Refactoring vs Bad Refactoring
dev.toI've hired a lot of developers over the years. More than a few of them have come in with a strong...
Linked is a quite insightful article about good vs bad refactoring. What? Isn’t refactoring always “good”? There are lots of examples of bad ones here.
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21-08-2024
GitHub - sinaatalay/rendercv: A LaTeX CV/Resume Framework
github.comA LaTeX CV/Resume Framework. Contribute to sinaatalay/rendercv development by creating an account on GitHub.
Kinda cool. Linked is a simple tool which formats a cv in one of several styles. But the trick is that the input is a yaml file which contains all the content as a structured text file that you can edit with vscode and version track with GitHub. Nice!
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03-08-2024
LearnDjango | LearnDjango.com
learndjango.comLearn web development with Python and the Django Web Framework. Tutorials on Django REST Framework, Docker, React, and Vue.
Linked is a good review of Python Flask and Django. I came from a Ruby world, that’s like comparing Sinatra to Rails. Very different and very related.
July 2024
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20-07-2024
LLM: A CLI utility and Python library for interacting with Large Language Models
llm.datasette.ioA CLI utility and Python library for interacting with Large Language Models, both via remote APIs and models that can be installed and run on your own machine.
Follow the link below: I’ve been looking for a nicely packaged way to try llms locally, that is without using a cloud based service and without uploading my pi to another company. This tool is a good solution to the problem.
June 2024
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22-06-2024
Jade Rubick - Implementing Amazon's single threaded owner model a retrospective
rubick.comA Single Threaded Owner (STO), is a single leader that is completely responsible for their area of the product. I share my experiences implementing this model, including the tradeoffs and challenges. And I give the nuts and bolts of how we implemented it and what we learned.
The attached article describes an org structure apparently originated at Amazon, called “single threaded owner” or STO. In a company with multiple products, one common setup is to have separate dev, pm and design groups each covering all products. STO says to have a separate, single manager for…
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14-06-2024
TEO
teodev.ioTEO is the schema-driven web server framework native to Rust, Node.js and Python. It reduces developing time and improves developers' life experience.
Wow a brand new web framework! Where did this spring from, apparently fully formed, out of nowhere? Or am I not hanging out in the right neighborhood? Take a look at the attached site!
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10-06-2024
Piku
piku.github.iopiku, inspired by dokku, allows you do git push deployments to your own servers, no matter how small they are.
There are now several new and different ways for us to try and get back the magic of #heroku #git-push deployments. The attached link shows a new entrant that’s worth a look
May 2024
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30-05-2024
Marp: Markdown Presentation Ecosystem
marp.appMarp (also known as the Markdown Presentation Ecosystem) provides an intuitive experience for creating beautiful slide decks. You only have to focus on writing your story in a Markdown document.
Another tool to turn markdown into html and css. This is FYI. So far I am still looking.
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30-05-2024
Deckset for Mac: Presentations from Markdown in No Time
deckset.comWrite down your thoughts in your favourite text editor, and Deckset will turn them into beautiful presentations.
I was looking for a nice package to create slides using markdown files. This one is very nice except it cannot export to straight html/css/js. But other than that, I do recommend it!
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09-05-2024
Deploy on Your Own Servers
hivegrid.devFastest way to deploy a Rails app!
Once Heroku got rid of their free tier, we all wanted alternatives. Doku is one of them. It lets you create your very own Heroku service on top of a cheap Digitial Ocean partition.
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09-05-2024
ankane/ahoy: Simple, powerful, first-party analytics for Rails
github.comSimple, powerful, first-party analytics for Rails. Contribute to ankane/ahoy development by creating an account on GitHub.
Remember this gem. It looks really useful for collecting stats from Rails based sites.
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07-05-2024
roidrage/lograge: An attempt to tame Rails' default policy to log everything.
github.comAn attempt to tame Rails' default policy to log everything. - roidrage/lograge
This is a useful Rails gem which will consolidate log file data and allows you to easily add additional info to it.