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Nov 09, 2024 from ~hedy

Writing Fonts

In search of the perfect font for drafting and digital journalling. # Inter The story began when I was looking for Logseq themes. I chose miA, a theme inspired by iA Writer and MacOS UI. It recomme...

Nov 09, 2024 from Julia Evans

New microblog with TILs

I added a new section to this site a couple weeks ago called TIL (“today I learned”). the goal: save interesting tools & facts I posted on social media One kind of thing I like to post on Mastodon/...

Nov 09, 2024 from Muffin Man

Open source mac apps I love

I want to share some really nice open-source applications I use on a daily basis. I did a similar post about six years ago, so I felt there is a need for an updated one. I focused on the apps that ...

Nov 08, 2024 from ~hedy

Custom syntax highlighting with Hugo and Tree-sitter

I recently helped migrate the homepage of Cognate, a stack-based, lisp- and ML-inspired programming language, to Hugo. Here’s how I added Cognate language syntax highlighting for our Hugo site. # O...

Nov 07, 2024 from HunterDavis.com

Announcing Tui000

Announcing Tui000 (sounds like ‘three thousand’)

Nov 05, 2024 from ~hedy

Add a Meta page to your personal website

Update (2024-11-11) I’ve made a webring! Read more about this topic at meta-ring.hedy.dev If you have a personal website, chances are, you take great care into making your site yours. You update it...

Nov 05, 2024 from Victor Blomqvist's blog

Memory dump in Kubernetes with kubectl debug and dotnet-dump

One of the classic bugs is the memory leak. Even garbage collected languages like C# can leak memory, even if all the code is safe/managed. Sometimes such issues are easy to find and fix. Other tim...

Nov 04, 2024 from Darek Kay

A guide to bookmarklets

Create and use bookmarklets to streamline your web browsing.

Nov 04, 2024 from ~hedy

Typing vs Writing

I type faster than I can write. But regardless of how I put my thoughts down, the speed at which my thoughts can keep up with me putting them down is the same[1]. I believe that my speed of thought...

Nov 04, 2024 from Sophia Willows' Blog

GraphQL collection lookups

One of the powerful design patterns that can be employed within a GraphQL schema is the concept of collection lookups. This pattern allows API consumers to retrieve specific elements from a collect...

Oct 31, 2024 from The Scholar's Stage

Republican Debates on China: A Political Compass

MANY HAVE TRIED to pin Trump to Heritage’s “Project 2025.” The Trump campaign has not only refused to endorse Project 2025—they have refused to endorse any detailed policy plan whatsoever. Trump pr...

Oct 31, 2024 from Ryan Bagley

BGP Route Origin Authorization Regulation

Recent heightened scrutiny of government regulation surrounding BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) ROA (Route Origin Authorization) has emerged as a critical topic within the internet infrastructure com...

Oct 31, 2024 from The Linkfest

Linkfest #26: “Cryptophasia”, Wigner Crystals, and How van Gogh Mastered Turbulence

Hello hello! It’s time for my latest “Linkfest” — or, "the opposite of doomscrolling”, crammed full of the finest items of science, culture and technology that I could find, entirely just for you. ...

Oct 31, 2024 from Julia Evans

ASCII control characters in my terminal

Hello! I’ve been thinking about the terminal a lot and yesterday I got curious about all these “control codes”, like Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-W, etc. What’s the deal with all of them? a table of ASCII ...

Oct 31, 2024 from (Fabio Alessandro Locati|Fale)'s blog

Nebula VPN split configuration

We have had Nebula VPN within the Fedora repositories for a couple of years. A couple of months ago, I changed the default systemd service unit. More specifically, this is the change: -ExecStart=/u...

Oct 29, 2024 from ℤ→ℤ

Mathematical Analysis of the Royal Game of Ur

From the Board Games Study Journal: Mathematical analysis of the Royal Game of Ur Despite many discoveries and proposals for rules for the ancient board game known as the Royal Game of Ur (RGU), no...

Oct 29, 2024 from Autistic As Fxxk

It’s not your fault: a letter to myself

Here’s a letter I wrote to try to show myself some self-compassion. Dear Rachel, It’s not your fault that you whisper instead of speaking at a normal volume. It doesn’t mean that you’re stupid or d...

Oct 28, 2024 from ℤ→ℤ

A New Look

I’ve given this blog a new look by switching the theme from Noteworthy to Long Form, the latter a theme of my own design. Why the change? I adopted the Noteworthy theme at the onset of this blog an...

Oct 27, 2024 from Julia Evans

Using less memory to look up IP addresses in Mess With DNS

I’ve been having problems for the last 3 years or so where Mess With DNS periodically runs out of memory and gets OOM killed. This hasn’t been a big priority for me: usually it just goes down for a...

Oct 24, 2024 from Adventures in Open Source Software

2024 dbt Labs Coalesce Conference

I traveled for much of the last two months and during that time I went to four conferences. I usually like to write about them when they are happening but I wasn’t able to manage it, so I’m offerin...