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Jan 14, 2025 from Chaotican Writer

Odd Mart Oddities: JP Coovert’s Nintendo-style TTRPG Zines!

Its a rare Saturday. The snowy midwinter of Minneapolis, Minnesota peeks its head into the door despite the growing global sauna. Time and space are an open runway for one geeky writer of one disco...

Jan 14, 2025 from nixCraft

ZFS Raidz Expansion Finally, Here in version 2.3.0

After years of development and testing, the ZFS raidz expansion is finally here and has been released as part of version 2.3.0. ZFS is a popular file system for Linux and FreeBSD. RAIDz is like RAI...

Jan 13, 2025 from Paul's Weblog

I #100DaysToOffload’d

Heyo, I did it! Nice. Did what exactly, you ask? Dear reader, I wrote & published 100 posts to my personal blog over a 1-year period. That’s what #100DaysToOffload is all about. It was almost a yea...

Jan 13, 2025 from SIGPLAN Blog

The Missing Mentoring Pillar

The Missing Mentoring Pillar The programming languages (PL) community has developed a whole host of mentoring pillars to help new research become a part of our community The Programming Languages M...

Jan 12, 2025 from Paul's Weblog

!mdnio

tl;dr Use the !mdnio bang on DuckDuckGo or Kagi as a shortcut when searching MDN. I’ve been a DuckDuckGo user for a while — one of the killer features that initially drew me in were the bangs. Put ...

Jan 11, 2025 from Remote Synthesis

My Predictions for Tech in 2025: Chaos Reigns

If you are looking to have your spirit lifted, you came to the wrong place because, as I see it, the trend lines almost all point in one depressing direction.

Jan 11, 2025 from Julia Evans

What's involved in getting a "modern" terminal setup?

Hello! Recently I ran a terminal survey and I asked people what frustrated them. One person commented: There are so many pieces to having a modern terminal experience. I wish it all came out of the...

Jan 11, 2025 from Paul's Weblog

JWCC: JSON With Comments & (Trailing) Commas

Re: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42360681 The HN thread above from a ~month ago is on JSON5, which extends the JSON spec. It’s a rather weird name: it’s not the fifth version of JSON, but a...

Jan 11, 2025 from ~hedy

📚 The Anthropocene Reviewed

This would have been a great opportunity to use “The Anthropocene Reviewed, reviewed” if not for the sake of my conforming to consistent title format for book review posts. Alas, the pun is already...

Jan 10, 2025 from Home on A blog

Autonomous Vehicles in Norway - Winter Edition

Ruter is according to Wikipedia “a public transport authority for Oslo and Akershus counties in Norway”.[1] Ruter suggests that on-demand transportation could be a great alternative to private cars...

Jan 10, 2025 from Gonçalo Valério

Why isn’t my translation showing up?

Here we go again for another post of this blog’s irregular column, entitled Django’s Friday Tips. Today let’s address a silent issue, that any of you that have formerly worked with internationaliza...

Jan 10, 2025 from unixdigest.com

What if one of your online friends dies unexpectedly?

A lot of people experience online friends "vanishing" without notice. A new nonprofit project tries to help prevent this issue and it's worth joining and supporting the project!

Jan 09, 2025 from Londogard Blog

Image to Lego (Xmas Project)

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a Good New Year! 🥳 Disclaimer: I’m not affiliated with LEGO and this is a personal project. Ever wished you could turn a photo into a LEGO masterpiece? This holi...

Jan 08, 2025 from ttntm.me - Blog

Blog Questions Challenge

I saw a couple of posts about a “blog questions challenge” pop up in my feed reader this week (written by Leilukin, Hedy, or Luke, for example) and decided to participate. It’s a collection of inte...

Jan 08, 2025 from Michael Lynch

if got, want: A Simple Way to Write Better Go Tests

There’s an excellent Go testing pattern that too few people know. I can teach it to you in 30 seconds. Instead of writing Go tests like this: // The common, unrefined way. username := GetUser() if ...

Jan 07, 2025 from Coding Horror

Stay Gold, America

We are at an unprecedented point in American history, and I'm concerned we may lose sight of the American Dream.

Jan 07, 2025 from Paul's Weblog

Mils

Well, thanks to Ben & Ben at Gears & Gasoline I’m now painfully and acutely aware that when someone says “mil” or “mils”, particularly in North America, they’re possibly referring to thousands of a...

Jan 06, 2025 from ~hedy

Blog questions challenge

Kev Quirk started a personal blog challenge where you answer a few questions and “tag” a few people of your choosing to do the same. The questions are all meta in nature and I already have a dedica...

Jan 05, 2025 from The Scholar's Stage

Observations From India

In November 2024, I traveled to India as part of a delegation hosted by the India Foundation. The foundation is a part of the new nationalist establishment steering Indian society. As they see thin...

Jan 05, 2025 from Remote Synthesis

Grading my 2024 Predictions for Developers

I wasn't bold and nonetheless I didn't do great. Sheesh.