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Coloring Korean Keystrokes: 11'172 Characters

sam.today

While building my Korean typing practice game type.sam.today, I wanted to do something that seemed really...
While building my Korean typing practice game type.sam.today, I wanted to do something that seemed really simple; change the text’s color key-by-key as you type it. While this is really simple for English, Korean’s writing system Hangul combined multiple syllables into a single character, complicating this task: Thi...

design
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Oneiblog

oneirical.github.io

You descend into the pit of exit codes and one-character flags, The sunken abyss of the...
You descend into the pit of exit codes and one-character flags, The sunken abyss of the Makefiles, The mill of 11-year-old legacy scripting. The writhen shell commands serve in adoration, Immured beneath a rotten run-make directory. Before you lies the servitor of order, The cleaver, The redeemer, The recreator, The...

rust
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My coding experience with LLM — kokada

kokada.dev

I don't want to talk about AI. AI fatigue is real, with (garbage) AI content everywhere...
I don't want to talk about AI. AI fatigue is real, with (garbage) AI content everywhere you go. However, I like to talk about tools, and AIs, or more specifically, Large Language Models (LLM), can be really useful tools. Maybe someday we will have our AI overlords dominating everything (including my job), but right ...

ai
1
Departure Mono

departuremono.com

design font monospace pixel retro
2
Logic and Computation Intertwined

uwaterloo.ca

formalmethods lisp
1
The Latency/Throughput Tradeoff: Why Fast Services Are Slow And Vice Versa

danslimmon.com

Special thanks to the graceful and cunning Ben Ng for consulting on this post. I’m finally...
Special thanks to the graceful and cunning Ben Ng for consulting on this post. I’m finally getting around to reading that DevOps* book everybody’s been raving about, Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems. My verdict so far: it’s pretty good. Here’s one of the first passages to jump out to ...

distributed
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Reasons to write design docs | nicole@web

ntietz.com

Monday, September 2, 2024Sometimes I joke that as a principal engineer, my main programming language is...
Monday, September 2, 2024Sometimes I joke that as a principal engineer, my main programming language is English. It's half true, though, since my job is as much about people and communciation as it is about technology. Probably more, actually. Writing is useful at all levels of software engineering. It's not just so...

practices
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2024-08-31 ipmi

computer.rip

I am making steady progress towards moving the Computers Are Bad enterprise cloud to its new...
I am making steady progress towards moving the Computers Are Bad enterprise cloud to its new home, here in New Mexico. One of the steps in this process is, of course, purchasing a new server... the current Big Iron is getting rather old (probably about a decade!) and here in town I'll have the rack space for more ma...

hardware
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Nearly-Optimal Mergesorts: Fast, Practical Sorting Methods That Optimally Adapt to Existing Runs

wild-inter.net

Powersort replaces Timsort’s merging policy in the Python library! If you are using a cutting-edge version...
Powersort replaces Timsort’s merging policy in the Python library! If you are using a cutting-edge version of Python you are running powersort whenever you sort a Python list. More precisely, both the CPython reference implementation of the Python programming language, and PyPy, a widely used alternative making heav...

compsci
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Opinions for Writing Good CSS

andrewwalpole.com

css
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the spatula

thespatula.io

This is part of a series where I’m working towards building a game from scratch using...
This is part of a series where I’m working towards building a game from scratch using Rust. By scratch, I mean using only the standard library as much as possible. So far, the only thing that has been somewhat of a cheat was creating io_uring bindings. If you don’t want to listen to me prattle on for pages, you can ...

networking rust
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On distributed systems

superdurszlak.dev

Briefly speaking, a software or computer system could be considered a distributed system as long as...
Briefly speaking, a software or computer system could be considered a distributed system as long as parts of said system run on individual devices, and at least some of them need to communicate over a network rather than via local loopback, shared memory and/or data storage. Distributed systems distinguish themselve...

distributed practices
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Why I Still Use Python Virtual Environments in Docker

hynek.me

docker packaging practices python virtual environment
3
What are you doing this week? | Lobsters

lobste.rs

What are you doing this week? Feel free to share! Keep in mind it’s OK to...
What are you doing this week? Feel free to share! Keep in mind it’s OK to do nothing at all, too.

ask programming
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In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone’s Microphone to Serve Ads for Stuff You Mention

futurism.com

privacy
4
Differing Values In A Team Are Costly

rtpg.co

practices
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GitHub - sminez/ad: an adaptable text editor

github.com

rust
1
Upgrading a Toshiba NAS HDD firmware on Linux · Bof. Another blog.

syscall.eu

reversing
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What is a place expression?

ralfj.de

rust
1
Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art

newyorker.com

In 1953, Roald Dahl published “The Great Automatic Grammatizator,” a short story about an electrical engineer...
In 1953, Roald Dahl published “The Great Automatic Grammatizator,” a short story about an electrical engineer who secretly desires to be a writer. One day, after completing construction of the world’s fastest calculating machine, the engineer realizes that “English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathem...

ai art artificial intelligence artists automation
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Extreme Pi Boot Optimization

kittenlabs.de

osdev
3
Behavior Sanitizers in Elixir

brycekerley.net

This post is adapted from my lightning talk during ElixirConf 2024. I’ve done some work with...
This post is adapted from my lightning talk during ElixirConf 2024. I’ve done some work with “behavior sanitizers” in a few different programming environments this past year. What are Sanitizers? A useful definition of “sanitizers” (from “SoK: Sanitizing for Security”) is that they instrument programs under developm...

elixir erlang
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The Pentium as a Navajo weaving

righto.com

Hurrying through the National Gallery of Art five minutes before closing, I passed a Navajo weaving...
Hurrying through the National Gallery of Art five minutes before closing, I passed a Navajo weaving with a complex abstract pattern. Suddenly, I realized the pattern was strangely familiar, so I stopped and looked closely. The design turned out to be an image of Intel's Pentium chip, the start of the long-lived Pent...

art
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i-html, an inline-html import element

keithcirkel.co.uk

web
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