Yesterday
- The same people behind Project Kamp also run a project called Precious Plastic which is an open source plastic recycling platform. As most are well aware, plastic is a major problem polluting our land, our beaches, our rivers, our oceans, and our balls. While Ocean Cleanup is...
Last week
- Interests, interests, interests....
About a month ago
- Vim is a superb tool for repeating changes, and there is even a whole chapter in the user manual about repeating commands. Before we discuss macros, you should master the . dot command first. It repeats the previous change, and no matter how trivial that sounds, this is the...
- Some time ago, I noticed some new organization called FUTO popping up here and there. I’m always interested in seeing new organizations that fund open source popping up, and seeing as they claim several notable projects on their roster, I explored their website with interest and...
- I have just released CapyPDF 1.8. It's mostly minor fixes and tweaks but there are two notable things. The first one is that CapyPDF now supports variable axis fonts. The other one is that CapyPDF will now produce PDF version 2.0 files instead of 1.7 by default. This might seem...
- Here’s another Wikipedia rabbit hole post. This time about the Canon Cat: a weird little computer from the late 1980s. As I’ve mentioned before, I often read Wikipedia when trying to get back to sleep. This time I was looking into the Data General Nova series of minicomputers. I...
- Living intentionally in a world of distraction....
about 1 month ago
- Some argue that even if the current AI boom leads to an overbuild, it might not be a bad thing – just as the dotcom bubble left behind the internet infrastructure that powered later decades of growth. It’s a tempting comparison, but the parallels only go so far. The dotcom era’s...
- Jeremy imagines a scenario where you’re trying to understand how someone cut themselves with a blade. It’d be hard to know how they cut themselves just by looking at the wound. But if you talk to the person, not only will you find out the reason, you’ll also understand their...
- Eric Prouzet And now we see it clear, like a Cupertino sunrise bathing Mt. Bielawski in amber: Apple will censor its App Store at the behest of the Trump administration without putting up a fight. It will twist words into their antipodes to serve the powerful at the expense of...
- Hello! Earlier this summer I was talking to a friend about how much I love using fish, and how I love that I don’t have to configure it. They said that they feel the same way about the helix text editor, and so I decided to give it a try. I’ve been using it for 3 months now and...
- So tell the story you want to be true. Eventually, it will be....
- Microsoft is officially ending support for Windows 10 in October 2025, and for millions of PC users, that sounds like bad news, because you may not have the right hardware for Windows 11, or you may not want all of your personal data vacuumed up by Microsoft. But here’s the...
- Use agg with a huge font size to get high quality GIFs....
- How to use piracy to your advantage....
- Stick microphone out window, catch chorps, feel joy....
- I don’t want to write a whole thing about a company that became worse because I don’t want it to become a genre of this blog. Why am I adding to the sum of Internet drama and being such a hater. But I just gotta say (here I go) that… My recent experience with Papertrail has been...
about 2 months ago
- I love a good look at modern practices around semantic versioning and dependency management (Rick Hickey’s talk “Spec-ulation” is the canonical one I think of). Niki recently wrote a good ‘un at tonsky.me called “We shouldn’t have needed lockfiles”. What struck me was this point...
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