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Last updated about 1 month ago

Is that a deprecation? Or is it just removed?

about 1 month ago

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

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

about 2 months ago

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

Communicating bugs: use a single standalone shell script

6 months ago

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

Take a break: Rust match has fallthrough

8 months ago

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

Newtons are a unit of mileage

8 months ago

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

Prefer tee -a, not >>, in CI

8 months ago

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

Async hazard: mmap is secretly blocking IO

about 1 year ago

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

GitHub tip-hub: habitual permalinks

about 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...

QR error correction helps and hinders scanning

about 4 years ago

Error correction sounds good. It means fewer errors, right? When it comes...

The joy of cooking (an app)

about 4 years ago

Taking shortcuts? Leaving edge-cases unconsidered and unhandled? Is this engineering?! My approach...