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Your EPUB Is Fine. Kobo Disagrees. Blame Adobe

Adobe isn’t exactly a beloved company these days. People begrudgingly use their stuff, because the Creative Suite is an industry standard (read: monopoly) or there are simply no worthwhile alternatives,...

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Nordstjernen Web Browser

Nordstjernen is a web browser, written from scratch in C. Focused on supporting the HTML and CSS standards. Runs on Windows, Mac and Linux, Android and Java.

Topics: Infrastructure

Entities: Infrastructure

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im removing my nix flakes vs guix post

this isn't a hate letter to andrew or anything like that. i'm writing this because i want to make sure nobody thinks i deleted the post after getting "caught" for "using an llm".

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curl summer of bliss

The curl project will not accept or otherwise handle any vulnerability reports during the month of July 2026. We call it the curl summer of bliss. curl's submission form on Hackerone will be paused starting July 1, 2026. Summer of bliss starts: July 1,...

Topics: Security

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Parsing JSON at compile time with C++26 static reflection

Suppose that you have a configuration file in JSON. Something like this: { "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "fullscreen": true, "title": "My Game", "volume": 0.8 } Normally you ship this file alongside your program, open it at startup, read it, and parse it....