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The hunt for a perfect laptop continues

Drowning in a sea of PC laptops, each promising the moon with only a whisper of difference? Choice paralysis kicks in hard. EnterApple and Framework.They cut through the chaos with sleek, straightforward lineups that don't make your eyes cross—proving less really is more...

The hunt for a perfect laptop continues
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Pharo 13 Released!

Pharochucks constructors, types, and interfaces overboard. Its syntax—effortlessly elegant like a well-crafted haiku. Pharo 13.0 rolls in, riding the wave of 698 shiny new pull requests...

Pharo 13 Released!
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Programming Language Theory has a public relations problem

Programming Language Theory (PLT) can bewilder those on the outside. It's the Rubik's Cube of abstractions, wrapped in complex topological theorems. Imagine wading into a codebase teeming with hidden layers. Researchers? They prefer to sculpt fresh theorems from raw clay rather than recycling someon..

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I’m more proud of these 128 kilobytes than anything I’ve built since

Ditching webfonts for system fonts? A masterstroke. It dodged FOUT and saved bytes by leaning on native beauties likeRobotoorSan Francisco. When juggling a tight128KBbudget, out goes the clunky frameworks. In comesWhizz, a slick custom library that sharpens DOM and AJAX choreography. Images weren't ..

I’m more proud of these 128 kilobytes than anything I’ve built since
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Bringing Gemini intelligence to Google Home APIs

Gemini-charged Home APIs electrify smart homes, tapping into a staggering750 million devices. Apps? They now whisper intelligent automations. Dive in and transform your smart home into a mind reader with AI’s sleight of hand, all perfectly meshed with Google platforms...

Bringing Gemini intelligence to Google Home APIs
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Using a USB Foot Pedal for Vibe Coding

AUSB foot pedalfor code autocompletion sounds like a coder's jam session. Free your hands, keep typing, and let your feet work their magic. It's like adding rhythm to your workflow, turning coding into a symphony...

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Why Your First 100 Bugs Are the Best Thing That Ever Happened to You

Bugsaren't failures; they're mysterious mentors, whispering secrets of logic and nuance that tutorials gloss over. Debugging sharpens your mind into a puzzle-slayer, priming you to catch issues before your code even hits the keyboard. It's not arookie's curse; it's a coder's lifetime gym session...

Why Your First 100 Bugs Are the Best Thing That Ever Happened to You
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Zig's New Async I/O

Zig's New I/O Interfacelets users plug in their own I/O designs, cranking up parallelism and taming the chaos of async function spread. Code bloat? Vanquished, thanks to clever virtual tables. And those compiling optimizations? They shave down runtime expense like a barber on a mission...

Zig's New Async I/O
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You are in a box

Tools often bloat as users cling to them, terrified of steep costs.Ripgrepand the classicGNUgrep syntax point the way to easier transitions—if we bothered to notice. Simpler shell workflows beckon us. But beware the tug-of-war: unstructured IPC flounders without a schema, andPowerShellcan't get its ..

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Happy 20th birthday Django! Here’s my talk on Django Origins from Django’s 10th

Django'stale began like any good saga—chock-full of twists. Fast forward20 years, and it's not just surviving; it's flourishing, born from an urgent need to ship projects at breakneck speed...

Happy 20th birthday Django! Here’s my talk on Django Origins from Django’s 10th