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Semantic HTML in React with zero new ideas

When writing websites it is important to know the underlying HTML elements. This article considers the means to keep them visible in your React JSX.

Updating The Single Most Influential Book of the BASIC Era

In a way, these two books are responsible for my entire professional career.With early computers, you didn’t boot up to a fancy schmancy desktop, or a screen full of apps you could easily poke and ...

New Things of 2021

It's getting to be the end of 2021 - so it's a good time to look through some of the things I bought over the year, and reflect on how they've turned out. Some of them have been rubbish of course, ...

TIL: How to create an empty Pull Request on GitHub

This Website Is Now Available on IPFS, ENS, and Handshake

Intro In the past few months there has been a lot of chatter about web3 and what it means and doesn’t mean for the future of the web. There’s a lot of hype around NFTs, mostly because of the money ...

A directory is not a folder.

我的专辑《夜》

今年在做一张纯钢琴的氛围专辑。还没做完，这里先放出前四首曲子，包括音频和乐谱。这些音乐都和“夜”有关，要么描述与夜有关的意象，要么表达和夜有关的情绪。非常期待有朋友愿意演奏这些音乐。 前奏曲《午夜》 乐谱 午夜，客厅的大钟在铛铛作响。你进入半睡半醒的状态。 前奏曲《月光》 乐谱 海上的月亮在云的笼罩下，若隐若现。海浪越来越大，巨大的月亮忽然出现在你的视野中。 前奏曲与赋格《雨后的街道》 乐谱...

My IDE Broke

Last week my IDE broke. I tried to fix it and failed, and then I realised I was a failure as a software developer.

simple API load testing using k6

A very lightweight and powerful tool to loadtest any http endpoints is k6. It allows you to run basic javascripts in parallel for any duration. You can tweak the number of parallel threads and the ...

Moving from utterances to giscus

Why migrate? I added the ability to leave comments on posts of this blog around a year ago. Back then I was looking for a privacy friendly, open source, free and easy to setup solution. When I came...

Forwarding gpg-agent Over SSH

Intro Basic notes from setting up gpg-agent forwarding between a MacOS and Debian Linux system. Client System Assuming system is running MacOS install gpg and pinentry (GPG password prompt tool) us...

Signal Desktop on OpenBSD via vmm(4)

X11 forwarding to the rescue Early this year, I completely switched over to Signal and I’m fortunate enough to have everyone that I talk to switch over as well. I know I wrote what some might view ...

You block ads in your browser, why not in your city?

There are defences against badvertising on the internet, and you should use them. But there are defences against bad advertising in real life too, and you should use them too. Put badvertising in i...

Searching for Nothing, Finding a Surprise

Search engines are a fact of daily life for most of the population nowadays. Google (sub your preferred provider) is an extension of the brain, imagined as giving you access to the sum of the world...

Why newly created AWS Route53 records may not resolve

So there you are with your newly created Route53 hosted zone, ready to assign some DNS names to your hosts. A simple click on the “Create Record” button and you want to check if it works immediatel...

Drinking From the (Musical) Firehose on YouTube

YouTube provides a great experience for music discovery, but sometimes it's nice to break out of your filter bubble and be the first ever person to listen to a brand new song.

No, California Is Not Going to Take Your Generator Away

It's time to read the docs and learn what the law really says, before getting in a huff about your generator losing its puff.

Face Brain: Password stealer with vm detection

Today I’m taking a look at a password stealer filled with obfuscation and some virtual machine detection. The sample can be obtained from malshare, with an automated analysis report on joesandbox. ...

A Twitch bot to create memes and show them live

During the dark side of quarantine, I had to keep my hands busy, and instead of writing on this blog (sorry!) I started streaming on Twitch instead. To add some interactivity with my viewers, I mad...

Developers: you might be a Product Manager if...

This is a fancified excerpt of Liana Leahy from JS party #203. Liana spent 20 years as a developer before transitioning to product, so she knows what she’s talking about here. To get the full exper...