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Bug Bash 2025 Conference Experience | Concerning Quality

concerningquality.com

distributed testing
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Stevens: a hackable AI assistant using a single SQLite table and a handful of cron jobs

geoffreylitt.com

There’s a lot of hype these days around patterns for building with AI. Agents, memory, RAG,...
There’s a lot of hype these days around patterns for building with AI. Agents, memory, RAG, assistants—so many buzzwords! But the reality is, you don’t need fancy techniques or libraries to build useful personal tools with LLMs. In this short post, I’ll show you how I built a useful AI assistant for my family using ...

ai programming
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Tidbyt without the company

macwright.com

Remember the Tidbyt? It’s a super low-resolution, internet-connected, wood-paneled display that I wrote a review of...
Remember the Tidbyt? It’s a super low-resolution, internet-connected, wood-paneled display that I wrote a review of it back in 2022. It’s been on my shelf for years now, showing the time, weather, warning me when the UV is going to be high. In 2023 I used it as an excuse to learn some Rust, to render custom graphics...

hardware python
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A 2025 Survey of Rust GUI Libraries

boringcactus.com

rust
3
MacPad: How I Created the Hybrid Mac-iPad Laptop and Tablet That Apple Won’t Make

macstories.net

It all started because I wanted a better keyboard for my Vision Pro. I had no...
It all started because I wanted a better keyboard for my Vision Pro. I had no idea that, in looking for one, I’d accidentally create the hybrid Apple computer of my dreams. As I quickly discovered after working on the Vision Pro daily, you can get by without an external trackpad, but a keyboard is necessary if you w...

ios ipad ipad pro mac macbook air
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An ssh adventure; or, why l10n support is important(*) ($2149340) · Snippets · GitLab

gitlab.com

this is IMPECCABLE work i was on the edge of my seat the whole time i...
this is IMPECCABLE work i was on the edge of my seat the whole time i do want to mention that you can get further with the <( $(cat custom-bashrc) ) approach if you just add more quotes x3 ; ssh -t linode "bash --rcfile <( echo '""$(cat custom-bashrc)""' )" linode-static:~$ but it breaks again as soon as you do anyt...

unix
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SSD1306 display drivers and font rendering

subalpinecircuits.com

graphics hardware
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GitHub - stasinek/stasm: GCC/Clang inline assembly wrapper, C macro pre-processor based. ASM for human beings. Painless code migration from MSVC, Borland __asm {} intel syntax style to LLVM, GCC("a...

github.com

assembly c++
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UW PLSE | Algebraic Semantics for Machine Knitting

uwplse.org

As programming languages researchers, we’re entitled to a certain level of mathematical rigor behind the languages...
As programming languages researchers, we’re entitled to a certain level of mathematical rigor behind the languages we write and analyze. Programming languages have semantics, which are definitions of what statements in the language mean. We can use those semantics to do all sorts of useful things, like error checkin...

math plt
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Flat origami is Turing Complete

arxiv.org

math
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The Post-Developer Era • Josh W. Comeau

joshwcomeau.com

ai
3
Pretty State Machine Patterns in Rust

hoverbear.org

rust
2
#1094969 - git: /usr/lib/git-core/git-remote-http is linked against incompatibly licensed OpenSSL - Debian Bug report logs

debian.org

law vcs
1
C++20 idioms for parameter packs

stanford.edu

c++
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Python is an interpreted language with a compiler | nicole@web

ntietz.com

After I put up a post about a Python gotcha, someone remarked that "there are very...
After I put up a post about a Python gotcha, someone remarked that "there are very few interpreted languages in common usage," and that they "wish Python was more widely recognized as a compiled language." This got me thinking: what is the distinction between a compiled or interpreted language? I was pretty sure tha...

plt python
2
We don’t need no virtualization

snork.dev

If you think about it, the main use case for virtualization is isolation: Given that you...
If you think about it, the main use case for virtualization is isolation: Given that you have several applications running at the same time, how can you make sure they don’t interfere with each other? For example, if a customer deploys an AWS Lambda function, Amazon doesn’t just spin up a Node.js instance and let it...

virtualization
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I've been writing software for the last 25 years. Here are a few more things I've learned so far (part 2)

rpanachi.com

go java javascript practices python
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</> htmx ~ Documentation

htmx.org

htmx is a library that allows you to access modern browser features directly from HTML, rather...
htmx is a library that allows you to access modern browser features directly from HTML, rather than using javascript. To understand htmx, first let’s take a look at an anchor tag: <a href="/blog">Blog</a> This anchor tag tells a browser: “When a user clicks on this link, issue an HTTP GET request to ‘/blog’ and load...

performance web
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Global rename and find references

gleam.run

Gleam is a type-safe and scalable language for the Erlang virtual machine and JavaScript runtimes. Today...
Gleam is a type-safe and scalable language for the Erlang virtual machine and JavaScript runtimes. Today Gleam v1.10.0 has been published. Here's what's new: Project-wide call reference graph The compiler has been upgraded to retain more information about the types and values and how they reference each other in Gle...

gleam release
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sanitizer-fun

keithp.com

Both GCC and Clang support the -fsanitize=undefined flag which instruments the generated code to detect places...
Both GCC and Clang support the -fsanitize=undefined flag which instruments the generated code to detect places where the program wanders into parts of the C language specification which are either undefined or implementation defined. Many of these are also common programming errors. It would be great if there were s...
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An Ars Technica history of the Internet, part 1

arstechnica.com

By the end of the 1970s, computers had improved significantly. The invention of the microprocessor set...
By the end of the 1970s, computers had improved significantly. The invention of the microprocessor set the stage for smaller, cheaper computers that were just beginning to enter people’s homes. Bulky teletypes were being replaced with sleek, TV-like terminals. The first commercial online service, CompuServe, was rel...

historical
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Zig's new LinkedList API (it's time to learn @fieldParentPtr)

openmymind.net

zig
2
What are you doing this week? | Lobsters

lobste.rs

What are you doing this week? Feel free to share! Keep in mind it’s OK to...
What are you doing this week? Feel free to share! Keep in mind it’s OK to do nothing at all, too.

ask programming
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Ditch the DIY Drama: Why Use Fedify Instead of Building ActivityPub from Scratch?

hackers.pub

So, you're captivated by the fediverse—the decentralized social web powered by protocols like ActivityPub. Maybe you're...
So, you're captivated by the fediverse—the decentralized social web powered by protocols like ActivityPub. Maybe you're dreaming of building the next great federated app, a unique space connected to Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed, and more. The temptation to dive deep and implement ActivityPub yourself, from the ground u...

activitypub distributed fedidev fedify javascript
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