Getting to grips with an extra thumb
Members of the public have little trouble in learning very quickly how to use a third thumb – a controllable, prosthetic extra thumb – to pick up and manipulate objects.
Lizzy Banks. This story must be heard.
The short story In order to fully understand everything that has happened, I strongly encourage you to read the full article below, but this is a very short summary of what I want to say. On 28th J…
Measure schools on student growth
School accountability frameworks measure schools on the aggregate performance of current students on standardized tests rather than the growth students demonstrate between years. As a result, “school quality” measures can fluctuate up or down based on the pre…
Ctrl-Z Exhaustion - 6 Proven Methods to Overcome Mental Fatigue and Reclaim Your Energy - Sparrow's Digital Garden
Ctrl-Z Exhaustion - 6 Proven Methods to Overcome Mental Fatigue and Reclaim Your Energy - Sparrow's Digital Garden
Make Chrome go brrrrrr....
Everything started with a simple question: “Why does my laptop get hot watching YouTube?
Automating PostgreSQL backups to Digital Ocean Spaces with Kamal
Here’s a short tutorial on how I set up automated PostgreSQL backups to a DO Spaces bucket with Kamal.
LLMs as Programming Language Runtimes, or Why Monolithic Text Prompts Are a Mistake · Sibylline.dev
02 Jun 2024
The Fansite of Kumdor
“The Sword of Kumdor” (クムドールの剣) is a touch-typing RPG for the NEC PC‑98, created by Michiaki Tsubaki in 1991. You play as the Milky Way's #1 typist, summoned to planet Kumdor to fight mysterious monsters by typing spells…
Scott Hunter – Aspire and more
Scott Hunter (VP Microsoft) joins Yet Another Podcast’s reboot to talk about Aspire, Azure and much more. Do not miss this episode… Aspire will blow you away!
A graphical depiction of the steps in building a C++ executable, basics - The Old New Thing
A high-level overview.
Parable of the Sofa
When Lauren was pregnant with a child who’s now turning 25, we purchased a comfy dark-brown leather sofa which fits our living room nicely. What with kids and relatives and employees and cats and Standards Comittees and friends and book clubs and…
Blog | Nix & NixOS
Nix is a tool that takes a unique approach to package management and system configuration. Learn how to make reproducible, declarative and reliable systems.
WordPress next, and beyond: breaking the technical enclosure –
Data exploration using VIM
I’ve used vim and/or vim bindings for the better part of 10 years. But apparently there’s this tiny piece of magic that has completely escaped me all this time.
Don’t Taste One Coffee
Did you know I had a whole career in specialty coffee before I became part of the tech industry? It’s true – I trained hundreds of baristas, some of them competitors (barista competitio…
leah blogs: What autoconf got right
Thanks to the xz backdoor, many people are now talking about the state of Linux packaging tools, and in particular build systems. As a maintainer of Void Linux and packager of many things, I have my five cents to add, so today I’ll be the contrarian and argue…
Hexadecimal Sucks - Tyler Cipriani
Humans do no operate on hexadecimal symbols effectively […] there are exceptions.
htmx: Simplicity in an Age of Complicated Solutions
In an age of complicated front-end solutions, is there a simpler way of doing things? Spoiler alert: there is.
Moving Beyond Type Systems | Vhyrro's Digital Garden
Is another programming revolution possible?
Upgrading my Home surveillance system
Upgrading my home surveillance system from Zoneminder to Frigate
Icing or Cake? — dthompson
The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2024 ended one week ago. 48 games were submitted, a new record for the jam! This past week has been a time for participants to play and rate each other’s games. As I explored the entries, I noticed two distinct meta-patterns in how …