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Don’t underestimate the dot (shared state is dangerous)
May 2023
TrueNAS / FreeBSD / csh history command: custom date format
Apr 2023
rsync command for copying/archiving files with reasonable progress report
Apr 2023
Interface design — a craft and an art
Nov 2022
How to create a bootable USB thumb drive for Lenovo Thinkpad BIOS updates
May 2022
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selected thoughts
The scientific method: in normal times you don’t give a fuck about it
Apr 2020
GitHub: Y? Y!
Mar 2020
JavaScript: use the finally clause in generators with caution
Mar 2020
Time lapse video of raw photos (ffmpeg)
Feb 2020
Running an eBPF program may require lifting the kernel lockdown
Sep 2019
JavaScript in a browser: create a binary blob from a base64-encoded string, and decode it using UTF-8.
May 2015
In-memory SQLite database and Flask: a threading trap
May 2015
Sharing state in AngularJS: be aware of $watch issues and race conditions during app initialization
Nov 2014
Mojibake: Beatport’s ID3 text encoding is broken
Jul 2014
Steven D. Schafersman’s Introduction to Science
Jun 2014
Distributing a Python command line application
Feb 2014
A command line argument is raw binary data. It comes with limitations and needs interpretation.
Feb 2014
Reading files line by line in C++ using ifstream: dealing correctly with badbit, failbit, eofbit, and perror()
Jun 2011