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Apr 03, 2025 from ℤ→ℤ

Routines of Substitution (Review)

Early post-war computing can often seem alien as terminology mixed metaphors and the pioneers brought their own distinct toolsets to the field. Thus, it seems fitting that a powerful influence on c...

Apr 03, 2025 from Victor Blomqvist's blog

Is AI on the way to kill the code review?

Every day I bike to work - a 35-45min ride each direction. It gives me time to think, reflect on work, but also family and random thoughts. Something that's been on my mind recently is if the (huma...

Apr 03, 2025 from Muffin Man

CSS-only glitch effect

Let me show you how I created a CSS-only image glitch effect. I was working on the robot poet and wanted my robotic bard to glitch - because it felt fitting given the quality of poetry it generates...

Apr 02, 2025 from ttntm.me - Blog

Website Evolution: Q1 2025

As the first quarter of 2025 comes to an end, it’s time for another entry in the website #evolution series. This post covers versions 3.20 to 4.1. Content and Pages This section provides an overvie...

Apr 01, 2025 from R74n Newsletter

🔳 Sandboxels v1.11.1 - FOOLS-2-5 - OUT NOW 🔲

Today's a special, special day.

Mar 31, 2025 from The Scholar's Stage

The Eight Tribes of Trump and China

LAST OCTOBER I published a short breakdown of four geopolitical ‘schools’ that might shape China strategy under Trump. That piece was a pre-election preview of a much larger report I was writing fo...

Mar 31, 2025 from SIGPLAN Blog

How to Give a Good Talk

In computer science, conferences are a focal point of academic attention. Conferences are a moment where computing communities—distributed over the globe—come together. Giving a talk at a conferenc...

Mar 31, 2025 from Saeed Esmaili

Comparing local large language models for alt-text generation

I’m always interested in reading how people use language models for automating boring tasks or performing what they wouldn’t be able to do manually. In his post, Dries explores using several local ...

Mar 31, 2025 from (Fabio Alessandro Locati|Fale)'s blog

Fedora on Scaleway Dedibox with bootc

For a while now, I’ve been looking into optimizing and reorganizing some of the infrastructure that powers my self-hosting services. After evaluating a few alternatives, Scaleway’s Dedibox lineup c...

Mar 31, 2025 from Muffin Man

Make regular expressions easier to read

This is a simple formatting trick I use to make regular expressions more readable. The secret? Break them into multiple lines. To achieve this, format the regex as an array of strings and then conc...

Mar 31, 2025 from Michael Lynch

My Book's Pre-Sale Just Barely Succeeded

For the past few months, I’ve been working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developers. I didn’t want to spend a year writing the book only to find out that nobo...

Mar 30, 2025 from Daryl Sun's Journal

Special Edition — Self-Expression

Special Edition — Self-Expression TL;DR:This website is my form of self-expression. This blog post has approximately 413 words and may take 3 minutes to read. This post was submitted as part of the...

Mar 29, 2025 from Gonçalo Valério

Security.txt in the wild: 2025 edition

One year ago, I checked the top 1 million “websites” for a security.txt file and then posted the results in this blog. As it was described at the time, I used a tool written by someone else who had...

Mar 28, 2025 from fasterthanli.me

Impromptu disaster recovery

Background im-promp-tu (im-ˈpräm(p)-(ˌ)tü) made, done, or formed on or as if on the spur of the moment: improvised composed or uttered without previous preparation: extemporaneous Merriam-Webster O...

Mar 28, 2025 from Heitor's log

Pushing Docker images to a remote host

How to push and pull Docker/Podman images to a remote server, without using an Image Registry.

Mar 27, 2025 from briancmoses.com

Rackstack: An open-source, modular, and 3D-printed miniature rack

An awesome open source project which enabled me to design and 3D-print a completely customized miniature network rack for my homelab.

Mar 27, 2025 from Sam Patterson's Blog

Informed versus Uninformed AI Skeptics

In Which I Describe why some AI Skeptics need to Experiment

Mar 26, 2025 from Saeed Esmaili

Building a Personal Content Recommendation System, Part Two: Data Processing and Cleaning

In part one of this blog series , I explored the motivation behind developing a personal recommendation system. The main goals are to learn how recommendation systems work and to build a tool that ...

Mar 26, 2025 from ℤ→ℤ

Ludii Wumpus World

Ludii is a general game system for modeling games and puzzles, although it focuses on historical and traditional games. Ludii was recently used to provide the training data for a Kaggle competition...

Mar 25, 2025 from ℤ→ℤ

Investigating MacPaint's Source Code

MacPaint is a monochromatic raster image painting program that introduced many people to mouse-driven controls, tool palettes, and copy and paste integration with other applications. One of two lau...