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what 262,715 regex questions on stack overflow haven't answered (part 2) | ian erik varatalu
the html question, the regex that passes and fails on the same input, and other things you may find surprising
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CSS: Unavoidable Bad Parts
An ersatz CSS tutorial for people who need to style a web page, but aren't web developers. I am a wrong person to write this kind of thing, as I have neither the time, nor experience. I'd much rather read a book about this. Alas, I had to learn all this...
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What Yahoo killed when it bought Maktoob | La Vita Nouva
I think I was very young when I had a multi-page argument on a Maktoob forum with a user whose handle I have lost (something like linux-jordan or linux_jordan) about whether Mandrake or Slackware was the more serious distribution for an Arab teenager...
Topics: Infrastructure
Entities: Infrastructure
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Datatype — variable font that turns text into charts
An OpenType variable font that turns simple text expressions into inline charts. No JavaScript, no images — just type.
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Laurence Tratt: Test-case Reducers Are Underappreciated Debugging Tools
Test-case reducers are less well known than they should be, and those who are aware of them don’t always realise the variety of ways we can use – perhaps even abuse! – them. In this post, I’m going to explore some of the things I’ve learnt while using these...
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Now what?
Here’s an impressive Show HN project: a comprehensive, reverse-engineered, LLM-written technical documentation of how a calculator’s operating system works. What a resource!
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Safe Terraform auto-apply with conftest
Human review of Terraform plans doesn’t scale, and AI review isn’t deterministic enough for production. Here’s how we use conftest to auto-apply plans that meet an explicit, testable policy.
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Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers - Jesse Skinner
We've all worked with a rockstar developer. They joined the team years ago, full of energy. They had great ideas about new tech, new paradigms, new...
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For the 2nd time in weeks, Microsoft packages laced with credential stealer
73 packages run self-replicating stealer as soon as they're opened by an AI agent.
Entities: Microsoft
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What I got wrong about fast terminals
A reader pushed back on my fast-terminal post, and they were right about more than I'd like. On benchmarking shells properly, modern zsh, and the difference between a shell that is fast and one that feels fast.