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The Tao of Datastar Guide

Datastar is just a tool. The Tao of Datastar, or “the Datastar way” as it is often referred to, is a set of opinions from the core team on how to best use Datastar to build maintainable, scalable, high-performance web apps.

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A human in control

There seems to be a fair amount of people in either extremes in the current AI landscape. At one side we see the "vibe coders" who use agents and allow them to merge code without any person even looking at the source, while on the other side of the field...

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I Hate (Most) Keyboard ‘Fn’ Keys

Sometimes keyboards come with a 'Fn' key that allows some of their context-sensitive keys to do particular general-purpose functions. Sometimes these are implemented in careful, considerate and configurable ways... and other times they just make me want to...

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Trojaned OpenSSH

This is a story I had been considering writing for a long time, as many wrong or stupid things have been said or written at the time it happened.

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17 bugs in 10 weeks from AI security scanning

Over the last several weeks, I’ve been receiving more security bug reports for Perfetto’s trace processor than I ever have before, all of them found by AI. And I’m very happy about it! These are bugs that would almost certainly not have been found a year...

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