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Dec 03, 2023 from Benny Powers: Web Developer

Leaving Mastodon

Mastodon is probably a great idea, but is extremely hostile to Jews, so I'm out

Nov 30, 2023 from Coding Horror

I Fight For The Users

If you haven’t been able to keep up with my blistering pace of one blog post per year, I don’t blame you. There’s a lot going on right now. It’s a busy time. But let’s pause and take a moment

Nov 29, 2023 from Outside the Asylum

The Worst Crime

I contemplate what's the worst thing a judge could do.

Nov 28, 2023 from Outside the Asylum

Prediction Markets Are Not Polls

Prediction markets have been growing in popularity lately, and I address a common point of confusion.

Nov 28, 2023 from Ishan Das Sharma

Accidentally deleted your .bashrc?

When beginning to use the terminal, we might accidentally delete our .bashrc file. What is the .bashrc file? The .bashrc file is a configuration file used by the bash shell. It contains all the env...

Nov 26, 2023 from Remote Synthesis

Updating Your Netlify Functions to 2.0

Netlify Functions 2.0 offer some important improvements, but, to take advantage of them, you'll need to make some simple updates.

Nov 25, 2023 from Muffin Man

Moon Phases • Art

It is incredibly hard to take a good photo of these. Colors have metallic reflection which I wasn’t able to capture, but it is very prominent in person. They are plotted using five different color ...

Nov 22, 2023 from Silence Calling

Compulsions

Like the desire to drink liquor Or the irresistible pleasure of sex

Nov 22, 2023 from unixdigest.com

Upgrading to FreeBSD 14 - how to fix a broken BIOS bootcode

A lot of people running ZFS zroot have managed to break their FreeBSD systems upgrading from 13.2 to the new 14.0 release because of a broken BIOS bootcode. In this tutorial I'll show you how you c...

Nov 21, 2023 from Remote Synthesis

Building a (Virtual) Events Site

What does it take to build and run a site that hosts virtual events? Let's dig into how mine is set up.

Nov 19, 2023 from Sagar Tiwari's blog

Build static websites using ReactJS and ConstexprJS

Describes how reactjs can be used to render static websites

Nov 18, 2023 from Caffeinspiration

All of the writing I did in a week as a software engineer

The other day, I was thinking about less-obvious skills that I find helpful for working as a software engineer. Some skills are obvious, like understanding technical topics, learning new things, an...

Nov 11, 2023 from Latest entries from petermolnar.net

The quest for simple, high quality music and video playback in 2023

The year 2023 reminded me of my mortality quite a bit, so I took a good, deep look at my home setups in case someone else ever needs to be able to understand it, use it, maintain it. I decided to s...

Nov 09, 2023 from unixdigest.com

Are Passkeys really the beginning of the end of passwords? I certainly hope not!

As of late, Passkeys are promoted as the killer of passwords and a lot of companies are now manically transitioning from passwords to Passkeys. I don't think that is a good idea.

Nov 07, 2023 from Outside the Asylum

Draft Bracket Printer

I threw together a simple draft bracket printer, for running ODEs, top 8 drafts, cube drafts, or whatever else you might need such a thing for.

Nov 06, 2023 from Ishan Das Sharma

The Ultimate Interactive JQ Guide

Cover Photo by Pixabay This article requires JavaScript. Sorry... Has this ever happened to you? You’ve just received a massive JSON file that looks like it was designed to confuse you. Or maybe yo...

Nov 04, 2023 from unixdigest.com

The proper design process in web development

Today web developers are told that in order to do so-called modern web development they need to use JavaScript frameworks because they are an essential part of modern front-end web development. Wha...

Nov 03, 2023 from Sagar Tiwari's blog

Datest

Documentation for 'datest', a clojure(script) testing framework designed to be used from the REPL

Nov 02, 2023 from Mr. Money Mustache

The Arizona Experiment!

The thing that drew me to early retirement is freedom, and that’s still the best part of it.  Back in 2005, the primary reason for this freedom-seeking was being able to devote my best hours to bei...

Nov 01, 2023 from bearblog

Fix for Error E1 on Tuya Zigbee TRV Smart Radiator Valves

Tuya Smart TRVs unfortunately suffer from a design flaw where they will produce an apparently unresolvable error after being stored. Luckily this is an easy fix!