Kurt Vonnegut’s lost board game finally published
If you buy something from a Polygon link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Fans of literature most likely know Kurt Vonnegut for the novel Slaughterhouse-Five.
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How Google took my job — and how yours could be next
As you may know, up until this month, I was editor-in-chief of GGRecon, a small but growing publisher in the UK focusing on gaming and esports. In August last year, we hit record numbers of visitors to the site.
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Unlocking the Power of JSON Patch
What is JSON Patch?# JSON Patch is a standardized format defined in RFC 6902 for describing how to modify a JSON document. It was created to address the need for a simple, efficient, and standardized way to apply partial updates to resources, especially over HTTP.
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mathix420/free-the-web-apps
FTWA is an utility to free your web apps from their browser's frame. So you don't need to wait for Arc Browser on Linux to have great looking webapps! Feel free to contribute and suggest apps you find useful!
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0 → 1, Shipping Threads in 5 Months
Malkani: I'm Zahan. I've been an engineer at Meta for over a decade. I'm here to tell you about how we launched the Threads app last year. Let's start by talking about the opportunity that presented itself. It was January last year, and I'd just returned to work after a couple of months on leave.
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adaline/gateway
The only fully local production-grade Super SDK that provides a simple, unified, and powerful interface for calling more than 200+ LLMs. Gateway object maintains the queue, cache, callbacks, implements OpenTelemetry, etc.
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Everything App for your teams
Huly is your ultimate task, project, and time management solution meticulously crafted for developers and product teams alike.
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HTML for People
HTML isn’t only for people working in the tech field. It’s for anybody, the way documents are for anybody. HTML is just another type of document. A very special one—the one the web is built on. I’m Blake Watson. I’ve been building websites since the early 2000s.
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The Copenhagen Book
The Copenhagen Book provides a general guideline on implementing auth in web applications. It is free, open source, and community maintained. It may be opinionated or incomplete at times but we hope this fills a certain void in online resources.
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Media Chrome Docs
Documentation for Media Chrome, a set of fully customizable media player controls using web components.
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Practices of Reliable Software Design
If we find out we can’t use an off-the-shelf solution, we need to build something cheap and reliable. That usually means not having all the bells and whistles, but that’s a trade-off worth making. One of my favourite ways of phrasing this is
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My dev environment for php projects
Project development requires not only programming skills but also the ability to set up an effective working environment. In this article, I'll share my experience in creating a dev environment for PHP projects using Docker.
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PHPDocker.io
A PHP development environment generator built with Docker containers.
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How were the 70s versions of pong and similar games implemented without a p
They were made by mostly avoiding 'computing' concepts altogether, and treating it more like a mechanical thing. For example with Pong a major component is usually timers - every xth of a second the timer will emit a signal.
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SiteOne Crawler
Our mission is to help improve the quality of websites and web applications worldwide, free of charge. Discover a free website analyzer and exporter you will ♥ as a Dev/DevOps, QA engineer, SEO specialist, website owner or consultant. With love from SiteOne.
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Fixing Layout Shifts Caused by Web Fonts | DebugBear
This post explores how web fonts can cause layout shifts, negatively impacting your Core Web Vitals scores and user experience. Layout shifts occur when visible elements on a page change position unexpectedly.
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Serialization is the Secret - Zach Daniel
One of the major elements that sets Elixir apart from most other programming languages is immutability. But what does that actually mean? What does it do for us? The word immutable is defined by Merriam-Webster as “not capable of or susceptible to change”.
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The Grug Brained Developer
Introduction this collection of thoughts on software development gathered by grug brain developer grug brain developer not so smart, but grug brain developer program many long year and learn some things although mostly still confused grug brain developer try collect learns into small, easily digesti
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Boris Vallejo and the Pixel Art of the Demoscene | Marin Comics
As an epic fantasy painter, Boris Vallejo had a great influence on 1980s and 90s fantasy book covers, computer game box art, and the demoscene. Through the decades, his works have been replicated by pixel artists.
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Bop Spotter
I installed a box high up on a pole somewhere in the Mission of San Francisco. Inside is a crappy Android phone, set to Shazam constantly, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It's solar powered, and the mic is pointed down at the street below.
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SQL Tips and Tricks : Hacker News
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SQL Antipatterns: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Database Programming (Pragmatic
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ReplicateUI
This file contains bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters.
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What's inside the QR code menu at this cafe? - by peabee
A few days ago, I went to a cafe near my home. I sat down and scanned the QR code on the table. It took me to a website displaying the cafe's menu. It asked me for my name and Whatsapp mobile number. I entered the details and placed the order. In 5 mins my order arrived at the table.
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Launch emulators like never before
App for launching iOS and Android emulators. Lightweight, Open source, fully native. MiniSim sits in your menubar and offers a lot of handy utilities.
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Text makeup
You can also hover over the sidebar to see working examples. Type any string or use the menu above to show examples. Then, tap on any letter to see more information.
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Comic Mono
A legible monospace font… the very typeface you’ve been trained to recognize since childhood. This font is a fork of Shannon Miwa’s Comic Shanns (version 1). I have no font creation skills; I’m just a software developer.
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Download the Atkinson Hyperlegible Font
Ready to Join? Is this font easy for you to read? Good—that’s the idea.
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Must-Know Tips for Efficient Laravel Apps (Not just selecting only needed c
Forget the usual advice like selecting only needed columns, subqueries, eager loading, caching queries, using queues, and indexes. This article dives deeper into actionable strategies that can truly level up your Laravel applications. The toBase() function is a hidden gem in Laravel's Eloquent ORM.
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HOW TO SUCCEED IN MRBEAST PRODUCTION (leaked PDF)
. Whether or not you enjoy MrBeast’s format of YouTube videos (here’s a 2022 Rolling Stone profile if you’re unfamiliar), this leaked onboarding document for new members of his production company is a compelling read.
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A (more) Modern CSS Reset - Piccalilli
I know I also have a terrible record with open source maintenance, so I thought I’d archive the original and just post this instead. Do with it what you want! To be super clear, this is a reset that works for me, personally and us at Set Studio.
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Breaking Down OnlyFans’ Stunning Economics
Though a private company, Felix International (“OnlyFans”) is a UK company and therefore required to publicly disclose certain information pertaining to its business and operations.
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The 7 Levels of Laravel Optimization: From Rookie to Optimization Overlord
Buckle up! We’re diving headfirst into the wild world of Laravel optimizations, climbing the treacherous ladder from “just glad it works” to “your colleagues might call you a wizard” or curse you for turning simple tasks into a dark art. Ah, the basics.
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Illuminate
Illuminate Illuminate EXPERIMENT Sign in Illuminate Google apps Main menu
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yournextstore/yournextstore
We officially support the current LTS version – 20 at the time of writing. YNS should work on versions 18, 20, and 22. If you're using one of those versions and encounter a problem, please report it!
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Features of your font you had no idea about
In the previous article (Quick guide to web typography for developers) we covered the basic steps to improve the typography in your apps. Today I'd like to expand a bit more on the topic of fonts and what you can get out of a high-quality font (paid or free).
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How I Built an NFC Movie Library for my Kids
When I was a kid, my sister and I had a tower of VHS tapes we watched endlessly. Fast-forward to today, and my children's movie collection is vastly different. It's completely digital and dispersed across services. I wanted to recreate the tangible magic of my childhood for them.
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Accessible Colour Palettes | Figma
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Just Our Type: The Story of Creating Figma Sans | Figma Blog
Developing a brand refresh means rethinking its very foundations. As we charted an evolution of image, color, pattern, and motion, we treated our typeface as a crucial counterpart—a way to punctuate a heightened visual language.
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OAuth from First Principles - Stack Auth
I've wanted to write a blog post for everyone who learns things the same way that I do; by trying to break them. I'll start off with an awfully flawed implementation that authorizes a user with a 3rd-party app, and then continuously attack it until we arrive at something that's secure, kind of.
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Creating a Git commit: The Hard Way
Many of us create a few Git commits daily, either through GUI tools or the command line. It can be as simple as following these steps: Here, we've used Git high-level commands (also known as Porcelain commands) like git add, and git commit.
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Introducing Pollen
Pollen is a highly configurable, responsive library of style-agnostic CSS variables for your next design system. It lets you write faster, more consistent, and more maintainable styles. Made and maintained with ❤️ by the fine people at Bokeh.
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A Post-Google World
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HiEventsDev/Hi.Events
Hi.Events is a feature-rich, self-hosted event management and ticketing platform. From conferences to club nights, Hi.Events is designed to help you create, manage, and sell tickets for events of all sizes. For detailed installation instructions, please refer to our documentation.
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OAuth from First Principles
I've wanted to write a blog post for everyone who learns things the same way that I do; by trying to break them. I'll start off with an awfully flawed implementation that authorizes a user with a 3rd-party app, and then continuously attack it until we arrive at something that's secure, kind of.
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Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm
AnythingLLM: The all-in-one AI app you were looking for. Chat with your docs, use AI Agents, hyper-configurable, multi-user, & no frustrating set up required.
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Routed Gothic Font
A clean implementation of a common lettering style found on technical drawings, engraved office signs, computer and typewriter keyboards, and some comic books and avionics from the mid-20th century. It’s ugly, and therein lies its beauty.
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What's Functional Programming All About?
There are many descriptions floating around the internet, trying to explain functional programming in simple terms. Unfortunately, most discuss details only loosely related to functional programming, while others focus on topics that are completely irrelevant. So of course, I had to write my own!
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CSS @property and the New Style
The @property at-rule has recently gained support across all modern browsers, unlocking the ability to explicitly define a syntax, initial value, and inheritance for CSS custom properties. It seems like forever ago that CSS Houdini and its CSS Properties and Values API were initially introduced.
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A simple approach to static site generation
This blog is over 7 years old now, and I'm still writing on it! Not bad! It has always been a statically generated site, backed by my own static generator. In fact, the name "stitcher" comes from that generator. It's called that way because it "stitches" content together.
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The secret inside One Million Checkboxes
A few days into making One Million Checkboxes I thought I’d been hacked. What was that doing in my database? But let’s back up.
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Dokku: my favorite personal serverless platform
It’s often desirable to have HTTPS for your site. Dokku makes this easy with the Let’s Encrypt Plugin, which will even auto-renew for you. I don’t use this, because I’m letting Cloudflare handle this with its proxy.
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TIL: 8 versions of UUID and when to use them
About a month ago1, I was onboarding a friend into one of my side project codebases and she asked me why I was using a particular type of UUID. I'd heard about this type while working on that project, and it's really neat.
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You Are NOT Dumb, You Just Lack the Prerequisites
I always thought I was too “dumb” to understand math. During my school years, it was evident to me that for some kids math was easy, and for others like myself: painfully difficult. This belief shadowed me for years, a constant reminder that while believe I am smart… I’m not THAT smart.
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Awesome Stuff on Hot Page
AboutDocsPricingEdit this page!Login or Signup! Build Any Web Page Build your web site on Hot Page and unlock the power of professional tools by using real HTML, CSS and JavaScript—without the hassle.
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Continuous reinvention: A brief history of block storage at AWS | All Thing
Marc Olson has been part of the team shaping Elastic Block Store (EBS) for over a decade.
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Code as Art - Andrew Watson
In almost all circumstances, code is a means to an end. The phrase "computer programming" itself describes the activity of programming a computer to accomplish a particular task. Often, that task is logical.
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Collection Pipelines in PHP
If you read the book “Refactoring to Collections” or saw screencasts and talks by Adam Wathan about collection pipelines, but do not work with Laravel, you might have asked yourself how to apply these techniques to other PHP applications, for example Magento.
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PHP 7: Type-safe Arrays of Objects
With PHP 7 you can choose to write much more type-safe code than before, thanks to scalar type hints and return types. But what about arrays? There’s still only the generic “array” type hint, you cannot specify what’s in the array. For the IDE, you can add PhpDoc comments:
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On the Record: Music Before Mass Production
With the launch of Thomas A. Edison’s Perfected Phonograph in 1888, recording technologies entered the lives of a significant part of the world’s population.
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CSS Grid Areas
CSS Grid support has been widely available since March 2017 in all major browsers. Yet, here we are in 2024, and I still see few people using the grid template areas feature. It’s no surprise that many avoid template areas as making sense of the grid is challenging enough.
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Video with alpha transparency on the web
I've been helping some teams at Shopify improve page load performance, and the issue of 'videos with an alpha channel' kept coming up, where videos of UI mocks needed to be composited on top of inconsistent backgrounds, such as larger CSS backgrounds.
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I don't write code the way I used to - stitcher.io
I turned 30 last week, and it made me realise I've been coding for more than half of my life now. I took a moment to reflect on my programming skills after a decade, and realised that 20-year-old me would probably facepalm if he'd seen my write code today. First, I gave up on most abstractions.
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How I Use "AI"
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Tony Hawk’s Pro Strcpy – I Code 4 Coffee
Back in 2016 I really wanted to improve my exploit development skills and find some new bugs to hack the original Xbox. For many years people could download a hacked game save for games like 007 Agent Under Fire, Splinter Cell, or Mechassault and use it to hack their console.
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Andy Warhol’s lost Amiga art found
After 39 years, Andy Warhol’s lost Amiga art has been found. And it’s for sale. Details of the reemergence help to shed light on an earlier discovery from about a decade ago. And those details come from the very person who taught Andy Warhol how to use a computer.
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"We ran out of columns" - The best, worst codebase
Oh the merchants2 table? Yeah, we ran out of columns on merchants, so we made merchants2 When I started programming as a kid, I didn't know people were paid to program.
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I Recreated Shazam's Algorithm with Go
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How Google handles JavaScript throughout the indexing process
MERJ and Vercel's research to demystify Google's rendering through empirical evidence.
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The lie of music discovery algorithms
> I come up with an idea of generating playlists from images. Images that you shot on your phone yourself, or that you found on Pinterest, or a painting that you really like and feel inspired by.
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StreamPot/StreamPot
StreamPot is still in the early stages of development, we would appreciate your feedback. StreamPot is a project that provides scaffolding for transforming media in your app (e.g. trimming a video, stripping the audio from a video, transcoding a video from mp4 to webp).
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The “Sun Motorway” is 65 years old: a short history of an extraordinary inf
Eight years pass between the laying of the first stone, on May 19 1956 in San Donato Milanese, with President of the Republic Giovanni Gronchi, and the inauguration of the 764 kilometers between Milan and Naples, on October 4 1964, by Prime Minister Aldo Moro.
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The New Internet : Hacker News
zokier 8 minutes ago | next [–] Of course these ideas are not that new. IPv6 was supposed to give end-to-end connectivity to all, and originally IPsec was supposed to be mandatory part of IPv6, giving each internet host cryptographic identity. And so on.
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Generating sudokus for fun and no profit
Once upon a time I decided to create a complete sudoku application as my grandma wanted to play some sudokus on her computer and I wasn't satisfied with the free offers available. The project went on for some years and finally lead to sudoku.tn1ck.
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WALL·E
From a trash-filled Earth to the futuristic Axiom and back again, WALL·E is a finely crafted balance between consumerist dystopia and sixties space-race optimism.
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A Guide to PHP Attributes | Ash Allen Design
When building web applications in PHP, there may be times when you want to add metadata to annotate your code that can be read by other parts of your application.
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The Super Effectiveness of Pokémon Embeddings Using Only Raw JSON and Image
Embeddings are one of the most useful but unfortunately underdiscussed concepts in the artificial intelligence space relative to the modern generative AI gigahype.
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These Stunning Butterflies Flew 2,600 Miles Across the Atlantic Ocean Witho
Gerard Talavera was walking on a beach in French Guiana in October 2013 when he came across a spectacle that stopped him in his tracks: about ten butterflies fluttering around with tattered wings. These were not just any butterflies.
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A Model of a Mind
\(\newcommand{\customstrut}{}\) \(\newcommand{\crossedouty}{\dot y \kern -5pt \scriptscriptstyle{\diagup\atop\vphantom{y}}}\) \(\newcommand{\crossedoutone}{\dot 1 \kern -5pt {\scriptscriptstyle{\diagup\atop\vphantom{\textstyle 1}}}}\) \(\newcommand{\crossedouttwo}{\dot 2 \kern -5pt {\scriptscriptsty
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Adding PHPStan to a legacy project | BackEndTea
PHPStan is a static analysis tool for PHP. It helps you find problems in your code base, like passing wrong types, calling methods that don’t exist, detect wrong annotations, and so much more.
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Rubenerd
Sean Endicott quoted a CNBC interview with Microsoft’s CEO of AI, and it’s nothing if not entertaining! “With respect to content that is already on the open web, the social contract of that content since the 90s has been that it is fair use.
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The World's Fastest Voice Bot Demo
A demo showcasing the potential capabilities of voice-driven AI chatbots when optimized and deployed to minimize network and model latency.
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Table of Contents
Corcel is a collection of PHP classes built on top of Eloquent ORM (from Laravel framework), that provides a fluent interface to connect and get data directly from a WordPress database.
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The story of Jim Phillips' Screaming Hand
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The many faces of undefined in JavaScript
But in the end, you have to use this language and you can’t avoid undefined values. Here are some things I’ve found that can limit the exposure to the defects created by the many faces of undefined.
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Synthesizer for thought | thesephist.com
I share new posts on my newsletter. If you liked this one, you should consider joining the list. Have a comment or response? You can email me.
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llama.ttf
llama.ttf is a font file which is also a large language model and an inference engine for that model. Ehm, what? llama.ttf is a font file which is also a large language model and an inference engine for that model.
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Introducing Type Perfect for extra Safety
When dealing with legacy, we first focus on safety by knowing the important types. Code must have reliable type declarations to be refactored safely. Over time, we've been adding our custom rules to address PHPStan blind spots first. Today, we're proud to publish them in one solid package.
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Billard
Make music in the browser by letting balls clash, setting key, mode, gravity, speed... MIDI enabled.
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Monads are like burritos
At first I thought the choice of burritos was only a facetious reference to the peculiar and sometimes strained analogies these tutorials make. But then I realized that monads are like burritos.
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?️ Hi.Events: Open-source event ticketing application built using Laravel
Hey all 👋
Over the last year I've been working on an open-source ticketing application. It's finally somewhat useable, so I thought I'd share.
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Things you wish you didn't need to know about S3
Let’s try all the different S3 encryption options, see why it’s more like access control than encryption, and why that matters. What happens when marketing and cloud security get together without supervision? Enjoy our review of cloud security marketing material.
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Tagged Singletons - stitcher.io
I've added a pretty interesting feature to Tempest: tagged singletons. Let me give you the tl;dr: Tempest allows you to attach a tag to a singleton definition, which means you can have multiple singletons of the same class, as long as their tags differ.
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Essays on programming I think about a lot | benkuhn.net
Every so often I read an essay that I end up thinking about, and citing in conversation, over and over again. Here’s my index of all the ones of those I can remember! I’ll try to keep it up to date as I think of more.
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string theory, the guitar kind
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