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Chrome registers a global shortcut for Gemini popup window
Chrome’s breaking and entering I got pissed at Chrome the other day. This is not the first user-hostile thing Chrome did – off the top of my head, I remember the updater fiasco from some years ago, and the more recent…
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Verse: A New Scripting Language
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SQLite WAL Mode Can Lock Short-Lived Readers
We write extremely rarely to the database (in some cases less than once per month) but read tens or hundreds of times…
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Memory Safety Absolutists
The article examines the debate over memory safety in systems programming languages, focusing on Rust and the emerging…
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Being Linux Torvalds
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Your harddrive is probably full
Posted: 2026-07-25I currently have 17 GB free space on my root drive, out of 0.47 TB usable space, that’s 3% free…
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The secret life of data in Valkey
The secret life of data in Valkey Technical Deep Dive 2026-07-21 · Kyle Davis If you’ve used Valkey for very long…
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Using ThinkPad T480 as a mobile phone
Using ThinkPad T480 as a mobile phone 26/07/2026 ThinkPad T480 can be used as a fully featured mobile phone,…
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Forth Moving Lisp Moving Forth
Using macro abstractions we have developed, we create an implementation of one of my favourite programming languages:…
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stinkpot: sqlite-backed shell history
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OpenLoco version 26.07 Release
This month’s release incorporates changes made both this month and last as we didn’t have enough to put into a…
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Zig by Example
Zig by Example Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal and…
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Dmitri Gaskin on jQuery
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Xavier Leroy on programming, languages and formal verification
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Fast DEFLATE compression in Lean
kim@lean:~$ cat posts/2026·07·24.md Why Lean is faster than Rust 2026·07·24 [performance] [lean] I can't possibly be…
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Languages as designed latent spaces
This post is an edited version of a Mastodon thread I wrote recently. I have been thinking recently about how language…
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Maybe we should revisit microkernels
Sat 25 July 2026 misc Microkernels If you want a complete description of what microkernels are then read the wikipedia…
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Beginner J: Dealing Cards
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Banner Highway 01
Banner Highway 01 Get on the fast lane, 汽车是旅行的工具 is the first installment in Banner Highway, a browser-based visual…
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Himalaya v2.0.0: CLI to manage emails
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Systems and Delays (2026)
I’d be interested in learning what, mathematically, makes these oscillations inevitable Say you model your inventory…
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Nothing Works and Everyone Is Euphoric
A great write up focusing on what the actual structural problems are in the software industry. I also expect that…
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stinkpot: sqlite-backed shell history
I wonder how easy it would be to delete commands from one's history? Would it be diving into some sql to delete a row…
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A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway
I use the null command all the time when I start typing something out but still want it in the history so I don't have…
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Your harddrive is probably full
There will always be more repos to clone Hi @jeaye Silly question (because maybe i'm totally mis-interpreting what is…
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stinkpot: sqlite-backed shell history
I wonder how easy it would be to delete commands from one's history? Would it be diving into some sql to delete a row…
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Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB, Affecting Shizuku, libadb and Developers
Hoping for Linux phones to succeed and be able to replace an Android one, but I don't know if that will be the case…
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Verse: A New Scripting Language
I'm usually a huge pl nerd, and sure, verse has some interesting ideas, but I just do not understand the rationale and…
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A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway
I use the null command all the time when I start typing something out but still want it in the history so I don't have…
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Zig by Example
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I'm running the ICFP programming contest
(Note: I am completely unaffiliated with this project, I just read the description.) Clearly, one can point point a…
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General Resolution: LLM usage in Debian
As far as I know there are zero distros so far which have already enacted policies around compromised upstreams. I…
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Don't take the black pill
As a fellow millennial programmer who learned to program before having the web. The central message that we shouldn't…
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General Resolution: LLM usage in Debian
As far as I know there are zero distros so far which have already enacted policies around compromised upstreams. I…
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The case for MUDs in modern times
The broken Pinwheel link appears to want to be this https://www.andrewzigler.com/feed/pinwheel-mud-engine and…
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stinkpot: sqlite-backed shell history
I wonder how easy it would be to delete commands from one's history? Would it be diving into some sql to delete a row…
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Your harddrive is probably full
There will always be more repos to clone Hi @jeaye Silly question (because maybe i'm totally mis-interpreting what is…
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What are you doing this weekend?
If you embrace the social aspects, studying at a university will broaden your horizons more than anything I have ever…
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I'm running the ICFP programming contest
(Note: I am completely unaffiliated with this project, I just read the description.) Clearly, one can point point a…
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Languages as designed latent spaces
It’s also work that an LLM cannot do: they are symbol manipulators, not creators of symbols. This is something that…
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Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB, Affecting Shizuku, libadb and Developers
There is a true, valid reason behind this, and I think two different approach can be taken. Instead, simply click the…
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Accessibility errors increased 10% from 2025 to 2026
The evaluation was conducted using the WAVE stand-alone API (with additional tools to collect site technology and…
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Making GIFs from 35mm film photography
The Hardest Way to Make a GIF Jul 23, 2026 Everyone loves a good GIF, and my favourite (of all time) is this one…
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Fast Synthesis of Basic Oscillators
Fast Synthesis of Basic Oscillators 2026-07-23 I’ve been working on synthesizers for the GBA and rp2040 the past…
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I Regret Migrating to Codeberg
The web interface got rewritten into a sluggish pile of JavaScript that either broke things which used to just work,…
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FreeBSD ports frozen
For more than 48 hours now, no changes have been accepted or made to the tree, and here’s why.A 150MB binary file was…
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Why l (new runtime for k and q)
The author, a long-time user of K and Q, proposes a new runtime called l to modernize the execution engine without…
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Platform Support for GNU Extensions to Basic Regular Expressions
The colleague replied that \+ in a basic regular expression (BRE) was the same as + in ERE (one or more repetitions).…
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mmo-chip: Multiplayer CMOS Standard Cell Chips Reverse Engineering Tool
The mmo-chip tool is designed for reverse-engineering integrated circuits from die photographs, with a focus on CMOS…
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