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Mar 20, 2025 from Commented Out

Design of a processor and board independent driver layer

Reusability is an idea often touted in software, and embedded projects are no exception. In fact, the reasons for needing re-usability or ease of porting are often more pertinent to embedded projec...

Mar 19, 2025 from Autistic As Fxxk

How my selective mutism is connected to childhood trauma

Content Warning: childhood trauma, domestic abuse Hey everyone, I know I haven’t posted anything new for some time. I’ve been doing a lot of inner work to understand myself better and try to heal f...

Mar 19, 2025 from Remote Synthesis

Your DevRel Questions Answered. Finally!

Welcome to my hot takes on DevRel where I share all my spicy opinions that are likely to get me lambasted on a certain social media site I don't use anymore.

Mar 19, 2025 from Londogard Blog

Transformers.js.py accelerated on-device inference with Python WASM

Transformers.js is an ambitious project by HuggingFace to bring transformers to Web/JS and simplify inference on-device, running onnxruntime-web under-the-hood. I’ve written blogs and apps with onn...

Mar 19, 2025 from Michael Lynch

No Longer My Favorite Git Commit

Six years ago, David Thompson wrote a popular blog post called “My favourite Git commit” celebrating a whimsically detailed commit message his co-worker wrote. I enjoyed the post at the time and ha...

Mar 18, 2025 from Saeed Esmaili

Enhancing Text-to-SQL With Synthetic Summaries

LLMs are being experimented with to do so many things today, and one of the use cases that sound compelling is getting their help to generate insights from data. What if you could find the answer t...

Mar 18, 2025 from nixCraft

Download of the day: GIMP 3.0 is FINALLY Here!

Wow! After years of hard work and countless commits, we have finally reached a huge milestone: GIMP 3.0 is officially released! I am excited as I write this and can't wait to share some incredible ...

Mar 17, 2025 from The Linkfest

Linkfest #32: Technofossils, "StickTok", and A Web Site You Update By Calling It

Hello there! Time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — my latest “Linkfest”, in which I carefully boil the entire Internet to produce a savory reduction containing the finest posts about science, ...

Mar 16, 2025 from Saeed Esmaili

Building a Personal Content Recommendation System, Part One: Introduction

Every morning, my RSS reader greets me with hundreds of new posts. Tech blogs, indie developers’ journals, photography content - they all compete for attention. While I’ve gotten good at quickly sc...

Mar 16, 2025 from nixCraft

Ubuntu to Explore Rust-Based “uutils” as Potential GNU Core Utilities Replacement

In a move that has sparked significant discussion within the Ubuntu Linux fan-base and community, Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has announced its intention to explore the potential replacem...

Mar 15, 2025 from Julio Merino (jmmv.dev)

Bazel at Snowflake two years in

Two and a half years ago, I joined Snowflake to help their mission of migrating to Bazel. I spent the first year of this period as an Individual Contributor (IC) diving deep into the migration task...

Mar 14, 2025 from Sam Patterson's Blog

Can AI Tell You What You Need (But Don't Want) To Hear?

In Which I Question Whether AI Will Help Us Stay Grounded

Mar 13, 2025 from Sam Patterson's Blog

Why Don't You Walk Daily?

In Which I Persuade you to do something you already know you should be doing

Mar 11, 2025 from Sam Patterson's Blog

Interesting Facts About my Father

In Which I Share Stories about my Father

Mar 10, 2025 from Adventures in Open Source Software

SCaLE 22x

NOTE: When I initially wrote this article I used “they/them” pronouns when referring to Hazel Weakly instead of the preferred “she/her” pronouns shared in her speaker notes. People have pointed out...

Mar 10, 2025 from micheal@ecliptik.com

Surfing GlobalTalk with a Macintosh 512Ke

While I’ve discussed the origins of my Macintosh 512Ke and the enhancements I’ve done over the past year. What really kicked off my interest in using it more than just Zoom background discussion pi...

Mar 10, 2025 from Sam Patterson's Blog

My Book List 2024-2025

A dive into my reading from the past 18 months, featuring highlights across science, history, philosophy, and fiction.

Mar 09, 2025 from Jordi Villar

2025W09

It’s been a while since the last time I published a post with the list of articles I’ve read. This one contains the highlights from the past few months. We Were Wrong About GPUs — Fly.io invested i...

Mar 09, 2025 from seize the dev

Parsing JSON in Forty Lines of Awk

A single-function JSON parser for the POSIX shell.

Mar 08, 2025 from Karl Bartel's Website

Stack Traces are Underrated

Stack Traces are Underrated I Love Stack Traces When something goes wrong in a program, many languages will spit out a stack trace with lots of useful information. Here's an example from one of my ...