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A human wrote this essay. Proof of work. Harold Bloom was a professor at Yale University and a famous author and literary critic: think Roger Ebert but for books. Many considered him a prick and colleagues often bristled at him. This grumpy professor’s in...
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... and 23 years of tedious yak shaving. Ten years ago my rather anemic post on the Arcan project started to circulate. It got enough attention that I considered stopping right there and then. I do not care much for attention; most of my other open source...
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I run a number of websites, some of which could even be said to be popular. I want humans to visit these websites, enjoy these websites, make their change of trains at New Street in good time, investigate miscarriages of justice, or find out the play they...
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only bounds are going to be the most impactful change to Rust that you’ve never heard of. They are currently being designed and developed by the Arm team (David Wood, Rémy Rakic, et al.) as part of the Sized Hierarchy and Scalable Vector Extension project...
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Postgres 19 brings plan advice: the query hints the Postgres community held off on for 15 years. Shaun Thomas covers the 15-year debate, pg_plan_advice, pg_stash_advice, and how to use them.
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the html question, the regex that passes and fails on the same input, and other things you may find surprising
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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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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...
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An OpenType variable font that turns simple text expressions into inline charts. No JavaScript, no images — just type.
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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...