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🎉 R74n Turns 7 - Community Art Gallery & More

The R74n.com website has gained another year, this time its seventh!

Study of Historical Code

I’ve started studying a larger historical code base. Within this post, I want to summarize the sort of historical questions we might ask and notes on how to approach them. Objective My objectives f...

Navigating the Buzzwords of Frontend Development

A guide to commonly used jargon in the frontend and full-stack development world.

Harry Chapin and RATM: the problem with bleeding interests

Note: this post requires a basic familiarity with the songs discussed. If you’re not familiar with them, I’d recommend you listen to at least a portion of the following three songs: Free Bird by Ly...

🥘 NEW GAME: Make a dish in Infinite Chef 🆕

From the developer of Sandboxels comes a new in-browser cooking experience.

Disabling the borrow checker

How you can bypass borrow checking in your rust programs if you need to

On Duct Tape and Fence Posts

From computer security to writing the MTG rulebook, there are some failure modes that everyone tends to fall into.

Classic web badges

My curation of over 70 88x31 badges, representing what I and this site use and stand for.

Streamlit Fragments - Make the Dashboard Dream come true

An old coworker gave me a shout-out that Streamlits latest (1.33.0) release added Fragments. Fragments simply put enables creation of indepedently updated fragments inside your streamlit applicatio...

On conversations of debate and exploration

Dear friend, I appreciate your so-called engineering mindset. It's great to aim to approach things rationally, to understand things from the ground up, to do analysis of how systems work and how ea...

Unencrypted connections do mean injection

Reply to wdym [ISPs inject content], any examples? by dflxh, posted 2024-04-15 My previous response to similar concerns is relevant. To elaborate:If nothing prevents bad behavior from an ISP, and i...

Local AI to the rescue

The last couple of years have been dominated by the advancements in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) field. Many of us witnessed and are currently experiencing some sort of renaissance of AI. It st...

Vim visual block mode for column editing

The visual block mode in Vim lets you edit text simultaneously across adjacent lines, similar to the “Alt-drag” feature in modern editors, but there’s more you can do with it. One of the basic form...

Building My First Homelab Server Rack

Seven years ago, I built my first home server. It made my software development work faster and more enjoyable, so I’ve gotten more into the home server scene. I built a custom storage server, anoth...

Temple of Fascism

How I get stuff done with Spoon Theory and Shortcuts

I have always been a person that organizes his day and tasks, and I have grown, over the years, a little bit too much obsessed about scheduling and prioritizing things to do. Recently I was diagnos...

2024 Privacy and AI Update

April Cool’s Day inspired me to do something different and share something unexpected. We live in a very different world from the one that existed when this blog was created. It’s taken many differ...

Judge Calls in the 21st Century

A modest proposal to reform the system of summoning judges to assist players in need.

Context binding password-based authentication

Experimenting with password-based authentication implemented directly in Postgres, all sprinkled with a few twists.

For the joy of making it

I. In the bottom section of Y Combinator's website we read: Make something people want. Make. Something. People. Want. Make. It's about making. Creating. Crafting. This is about art. Not fine art, ...