Blogs about Development

ALTView on TwitterTwitter is removing the free API access, which will have the inevitable consequence of driving most twitter bots into extinction. I’ve written a fair bit about art bots over the years, since they’re …

The examples used here are from the weekly challenge problem statement and demonstrate the working solution. File Index "ch-1.pl" Defined by 1. "ch-2.pl" Defined by 7. Part 1: Element Digit Sum You are given an …

When I set out to build a history module for my bashrc/profile, the dearth of code re-use and collaborative ~unixy modularity struck me as a little sad. I knew early on that I wanted to …

Changing the rules a bit, yesterday, limits the richest player to around twice the starting amount. But are there still permanent winners and losers?

Here are some interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (April 15, 2024 - April 21, 2024) Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure - Other Software Dev …

Something has been bothering me for some time since moving to PipeWire on my Linux boxes, and that is the way multichannel audio devices are handled. As we all know (and loath), Linux audio is …

Reply to Responsibly empowering developers with AI on MDN by Steve Teixeira IntroductionFollowing the release of MDN’s AI chatbot “feature”, many developers turned to GitHub Issues to voice concerns. Most concerns revolved around the chatbot …

In recent months, there have been increasing attempts to spread malware via some seemingly ‘harmless’ programs, luring the user through rewards such as sending money with cryptocurrency or NFT-themed gifts. The unsuspecting user by running …

I have been working on moving a collection of about 20-30 AWS accounts from two different AWS Organizations into a new AWS Organization with Control Tower enabled. During the process I have run into a …

Just like week 108, I started writing this post late-march, but got so busy that it wasn’t finished and published until May. On March 21, Morten Just posted a tweet that set my brain on …

I was putting together some notes for a talk I gave, and I wanted an efficient way to create screenshots of specific moments in a video of that talk. After much messing around in ChatGPT …

What happened? Since I'm trying to tell a story here, let's start at the beginning. I have an Alarm clock that reliably wakes me up every workday, featuring a piezo beeper and an RGB backlit …

In August I bought a Kinesis Freestyle Edge keyboard off of eBay. I’ve been using it for about four months now, and I’m typing this review on it. I’d been wanting to try out a …

We just returned from a 3-day ski adventure in Italy’s stunning Valle d’Aosta. The weather forecast predicted a Retour d’Est hitting the region, making it perfect timing for fresh powder runs. Crévacol: A Nostalgic Glimpse …

Last Sunday I flew out eastwards to meet Shannon in Nashville to view the eclipse. I just managed to get a brief glimpse of the city, visiting Broadway the night...

One of the most interesting aspects of SwiftUI, at least from an architectural perspective, is how it essentially treats views as data. After all, a SwiftUI view isn’t a direct representation of the pixels that …

Well, here goes another one — Elite Soccer Club is officially live in the App Store. Please do check it out here! The elevator pitch? Elite Soccer (…or, football 😉) Club is an easy way …

A note on how learning works (in my experience, anyway). Assumed audience: People interested in learning—especially but not only math, programming languages, music, or engineering. For the past week or so, I have been working …

We are now in a very weird liminal space in information retrieval for consumers, particularly those attuned to trends in search and working on the bleeding edge of LLMs. On the one hand, we have …