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Video scraping: extracting JSON data from a 35 second screen capture for less than 1/10th of a cent

simonwillison.net

17th October 2024 The other day I found myself needing to add up some numeric values...
17th October 2024 The other day I found myself needing to add up some numeric values that were scattered across twelve different emails. I didn’t particularly feel like copying and pasting all of the numbers out one at a time, so I decided to try something different: could I record a screen capture while browsing ar...

ai
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Announcing Rust 1.82.0 | Rust Blog

rust-lang.org

Oct. 17, 2024 · The Rust Release Team The Rust team is happy to announce a...
Oct. 17, 2024 · The Rust Release Team The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.82.0. Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. If you have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup, you can get 1.82.0 with: $ rustup update stable If you don'...

release rust
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Creating Accessible Figures and Tables – DIS 2023

acm.org

In this section, we have provided guidance for creating accessible figures and tables. By figures, we...
In this section, we have provided guidance for creating accessible figures and tables. By figures, we are referring to visual content such as charts, diagrams, images, designs, schematics and text blocks that may be embedded as images. Since visual content including figures contributes to a paper or pictorial’s comm...

a11y
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Sensible SQLite defaults

dev.to

Original Post SQLite is cool now. DHH uses it, Laravel defaults to it. Here is a...
Original Post SQLite is cool now. DHH uses it, Laravel defaults to it. Here is a list of sensible defaults when using sqlite. The whys? PRAGMA journal_mode = WAL; Why?: Allows concurrent reads and writes, making it more suitable for web applications with multiple users accessing the database simultaneously. PRAGMA s...

coding databases laravel rails software
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Yes, Go Does Have Exceptions

kristoff.it

October 17, 2024 • 3 min read • by Loris Cro The Zig official website states...
October 17, 2024 • 3 min read • by Loris Cro The Zig official website states in its Overview page the following (emphasis mine): [In Zig] There is no hidden control flow, no hidden memory allocations, no preprocessor, and no macros. If Zig code doesn’t look like it’s jumping away to call a function, then it isn’t. T...

go
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A Mathematical Model of Package Management Systems

arxiv.org

math pdf plt programming
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A liveness example in TLA+

surfingcomplexity.blog

formalmethods
2
paoramen - Why is everybody talking about sync engines?

fika.bar

distributed web
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Using Cloudflare on your website could be blocking RSS users

openrss.org

practices security web
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Escaping the Chrome Sandbox Through DevTools

ading.dev

browsers security
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How we Outsmarted CSGO Cheaters with IdentityLogger - Mo Beigi

mobeigi.com

games
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Exploring the intertwingularity of a docs site

technicalwriting.dev

Building a web crawler gives me another way to answer one of the fundamental questions of...
Building a web crawler gives me another way to answer one of the fundamental questions of technical writing: What pages of my docs site are important? I can’t give every page on my docs site the same level of tender loving care. I must decide which pages get more of my time and energy and which ones get less. Especi...

networking practices science show web
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P3477R0: There are exactly 8 bits in a byte

isocpp.org

c++
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Discovering features using HTTP OPTIONS

evertpot.com

Say you have an API, and you want to communicate what sort of things a user...
Say you have an API, and you want to communicate what sort of things a user can do on a specific endpoint. You can use external description formats like OpenAPI or JSON Schema, but sometimes it’s nice to also dynamically communicate this on the API itself. OPTIONS is the method used for that. You may know this HTTP ...

api programming
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75x faster: optimizing the Ion compiler backend

spidermonkey.dev

compilers performance wasm
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Forgejo v9.0 is available

forgejo.org

This is the first release under the GPL v3+ license from the previous MIT license. Comments

release vcs
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Cognitive load

minds.md

practices
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GitHub - Pilfer/heresy: Inspect and instrument React Native applications at runtime

github.com

mobile reversing security
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When should I use String vs &str?

steveklabnik.com

rust
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intent and implication

explaining.software

October 16, 2024 There was, in the mid 2010s, a popular formula for explaining a new...
October 16, 2024 There was, in the mid 2010s, a popular formula for explaining a new startup: "Uber, but for ____." This was a metaphor: the startup, despite targeting a different market, was similar to Uber. It was, however, a fairly ambiguous metaphor; there were many ways that a company could resemble Uber. The m...

philosophy programming
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Be Suspicious of Success

buttondown.com

formalmethods practices testing
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Solving the Maker-Taker problem

dri.es

“How open source projects can balance Makers and Takers: lessons from Drupal’s contribution credit system and...
“How open source projects can balance Makers and Takers: lessons from Drupal’s contribution credit system and recommendations for WordPress and other open source communities.” Comments

practices
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The Failure of the GPL | A GPL Success Story | InformIT

informit.com

David Chisnall casts a critical eye over the GNU General Public License (GPL) and asks whether...
David Chisnall casts a critical eye over the GNU General Public License (GPL) and asks whether it's done more harm than good for the Free Software movement. Like this article? We recommend  In 1985, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) was formed to promote software freedom, as defined by these four freedoms: The fre...

law
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Talos Linux

talos.dev

distributed go linux
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