Landlock supports multiple nested sandboxes, so when an operation with filesystem path is attempted, it has to check it against up to 16 nested policies. The way it currently does that is by…

I just tried to use the new CLI tool for Obsidian for the first time. To set it up, enabling a toggle switch in the “General” section of the settings should suffice. But if Obsidian is…

The $\LaTeX{}$ template that I use for writing lecture notes.

I've been making a lot of tweaks lately to MetaPho , in particular its Python/TkInter based replacement for my C/GTK2 image viewer Pho . Pho has always had quite a few modes: it can be fullscreen, in…

To extract text between two regular expressions, use sed -n '/first_regex/second_regex/p'. For instance, to ad-hoc extract the function definition of the test tsync_override_log_subdomains_off, use:…

In this permissioned data diary, we dive deep into the URI structure for permissioned data on atproto and use it to motivate a bunch of the larger design.

Se ti perdi, tuo danno (so’ cavoli tuoi. non dire che non ti avevamo avvertito) Nota a piè pagina: il bello di queste aziende è che ti dicono contemporaneamente cose incredibili (o te le fanno…

Carrying on with the theme of being lazy while editing posts , I've released blogmore.el v4.5.0. This version adds blogmore-set-as-cover . With this, if you place point on a line that is an image and…

Where the famous 43 quintillion comes from, why a C64 can’t print it the easy way, and a tiny multi-precision multiplier in BASIC that gets every digit right.

Here’s a 50-question practice exam (ACS Style) with (mostly) multiple choice questions. It covers first-semester topics (including alcohols/epoxides). [This is by request from an MOC

tutorial Xlog doesn’t require custom structure for your markdown files Default main file name is index.md and can be overriden with --index flag Create empty directory ¶ Create a new empty…

tutorial Xlog ships with a CLI that includes the core and all official extensions. There are cases where you need custom set of extensions: Maybe you need only the core features without any extension…

The problem: collision is everywhere in games Every game has to answer one question over and over: did this thing touch that thing? Did the bullet hit the enemy? Did the player land on the platform? D

As I understand it you’re looking for a true bitmap font (not vectorized like all examples on the site), with 256 or 512 glyphs, and it should be available in the correct file format. Those are quite…

Today I am launching a new service for my fellow indieweb webmasters. I wanted to make a all-in-one stop for all the dynamic features that you might need if you are are running a static web site. You…

v3.0.0 of Pure Blog has brought with it a tonne of changes. While there aren't any new features, it's a huge maintenance release that warranted a major version bump. However, one of the things that…

I'll classify their imagery with an OpenAI model and examine their EXIF metadata.

Keep connectors attached when nodes move or resize.

Application code is stateless. You can tear down a container and spin up a new one in milliseconds without losing data. Databases are stateful. When you deploy new application logic that requires a…

I have always wanted to build a personal knowledge graph. Something that connects my Slack conversations, emails, local files, and project context into one searchable, intelligent layer. I tried…

With thanks to Kim Bastin in Melbourne, who put it in the post. Spring has finally arrived in Stockholm. I mention it only because there's a quality of north European light returning after winter…

Let's loosely define a greedy algorithm as one that always takes the locally best step. In surprisingly many algorithms, this turns out to be optimal. The idea of a greedy algorithm makes for a…

The shell-pop Emacs package provides on-demand access to a terminal buffer via a single, configurable key binding. It allows toggling a terminal window without disrupting the workspace layout, making…

Eran Feit Accuracy vs. Speed: Comparing Faster R-CNN and SSD in PyTorch Last Updated on 08/05/2026 by Eran Feit In the world of computer vision, choosing the right architecture is often a game of…

The Analysis Situs ver. 2026.1 is now available. This spring release summarizes what we've been doing in the field of CAD algorithms over the past 4-5 months. You can download the Windows x64…

If my development environment needs the internet to work, that's a dependency bug. The network is the least reliable resource I have. Keep it out of the critical path. I test this by turning Wi-Fi…

As I mentioned a few days ago, the Emacs 31 release process was on the verge of starting. Now Sean Whitton writes to tell us that the Emacs 31 branch has been created and that the feature freeze has…

TL;DR- Read “Vibe coding” – Ignore the title, read the book.

Today I learned how to fill in an emoji with CSS. Here’s an example: .filledEmoji { color: transparent; text-shadow: '0 0 0 #86efac'; }

Consolidation in the [[Data Engineering]] market is happening quickly. Tools from the [[Modern Data Stack]] get unified into bigger [[Data Platform|Data Platforms]]. This note highlights the latest…

The tech industry has declared that AI will increase developer productivity. Task-level productivity feels obvious, though concrete evidence is elusive — for example, METR reported a widely cited…

Dremio revolutionizes self-service analytics for data teams. It empowers data analysts to explore and visualize data with rapid query response times. Concurrently, data engineers benefit from the…

All the different ways you can mess around with strings. So many different ways.

Learn T-SQL With Erik: Nonclustered Index Interactions Chapters *00:00:00* – Introduction *00:01:33* – Nonclustered Index Basics *00:04:05* – Index Choice Based on Metadata…

 Breaking the Single-Thread Barrier: How Firebird’s New Parallel Sort Changes Everything1. Introduction: The Multi-Core ParadoxThere is a specific economic and technical frustration well-known…

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Almost every modern web application will need a REST API for the frontend to communicate with, and in almost every scenario, that frontend is going to expect to work with JSON data. As a result, the…

Your regular reminder that shitting on OSS on social media is a selfish thing to do. Good job sapping volunteer maintainers' motivation in exchange for your "internet points". Next time: try rolling…

The update from yesterday that introduced custom team logos also introduced a bug that caused issues when saving data, especially on Windows. This has now been solved and I will do more testing on…

You already chat to Hermes Agent from your phone with text. Now you want to talk to it directly and get spoken replies back. That is usually the right move, especially if you already use Hermes as a…

I have a Framework Laptop 13 that has a Ryzen AI 7 350 CPU that includes an NPU. I have started playing with this NPU to understand how to develop software for it. While NPUs are mainly intended as…

Preamble I've always been better at the 'doing' rather than the explaining, so as part of my “what can we do with C++26” exercise I thought this would be a good opportunity to attempt to practice the…

x-ocaml { font-size: 0.8em; display: block; margin-bottom: 1.4rem; } x-ocaml.hidden { display: none; } In the previous post we fixed the racy gensym with Portable.Atomic . That worked because the…

Which of your dependencies are wearing sunglasses

Kafka Community Spotlight is an initiative to bring more life, depth, and visibility to the Kafka community by regularly highlighting the people involved in Kafka ...

Between Maps.Me and Organic Maps , some parts of the CoMaps code are 15 years old and have not been updated recently. For that reason, they continue to use quite old implementations and technologies.…

Everyone is racing to build autonomous agents. Almost nobody is designing the human role that keeps those agents from drifting, lying, or quietly burning money in a corner. That role has a name, and…

Veteran super-coder Jez is back, and claims he has "finished" implementing Cell, Andy's toy language, in Rust. Jez and Andy basically gossip a bit, about code type stuff. Read Jez's blog at…

Poop App Posted on 5/8/2026 Tags: Programming , Games , Parenting My 4-year-old son enjoys traveling... except for having to poop in a strange bathroom. It doesn't matter if it's a hotel or a…

Becasue I’m working in Health Informatics at the moment, initiatives like OpenMed are really interesting to me. I’ve gotten it working on my Raspberry Pi. 1. Prepare the Directory Ensure…