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Last updated 3 days ago

TypeScript strictness is non-monotonic: strict-null-checks and no-implicit-any interact

5 days ago

The TypeScript compiler options strictNullChecks and noImplicitAny interact in a strange way...

Context privateering: debugging custom instructions like a pirate

13 days ago

I occasionally add context instructions to an AI tool, but then am...

Is that a deprecation? Or is it just removed?

3 months ago

I’ve noticed different people seem to use the word “deprecating” to mean...

Convenient 'Copy as cURL': explicit, executable, editable request replays

3 months ago

The network tab of a browser’s developer tools shows a list of...

Communicating bugs: use a single standalone shell script

8 months ago

Hitting a bug is no fun: maybe it interferes with your work...

Take a break: Rust match has fallthrough

9 months ago

Rust’s match statement can do a lot of things, even C-style fallthough...

Newtons are a unit of mileage

9 months ago

The conventional units for expressing the mileage of an electric vehicle, like...

Prefer tee -a, not >>, in CI

10 months ago

Shell scripts sometimes have to append data to a file. Redirecting output...

Async hazard: mmap is secretly blocking IO

over 1 year ago

Memory mapping a file for reading sounds nice: turn inconvenient read calls...

GitHub tip-hub: habitual permalinks

over 1 year ago

GitHub offers permalinks to versions of files and lines, within a repository...

10 > 64, in QR codes

over 1 year ago

Encoding data in decimal requires many more characters than the same data...

Mechanical sympathy for QR codes: making NSW check-in better

about 4 years ago

Governments here in Australia have been telling us to keep distance from...