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This article has been bouncing around in my head for the past couple of months, but I finally sat down and wrote it.
8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.
Can't unconferences been seen as a semi-formal version of that?
This is quite a banger feature for web perf engineers. In Chrome Canary, you can now turn on an experimental feature to throttle single requests!
chrome://flags/#devtools-individual-request-throttling
This is golden to check the performance impact of a delayed resource. 👏
Trigonometry functions may be the "most hated" CSS feature according to recent polling, but @monknow.bsky.social shows off why there's so much to love about them, looking specifically at tan().
css-tricks.com/the-most-hat...
Weather forecast showing 1am happening twice on Sunday morning in the UK, due to the clocks going back (2am=>1am).
Full marks to the BBC weather site for correctly showing the repetition of 1am in the UK this weekend. (Hopefully most other weather sites get this right too...)
Fantastic talk by @joyeecheung.bsky.social, a must watch to package authors that want to stay up-to-date on how to ship packages in this post require(esm) era: youtu.be/I0jvOJW7NaI #nodejs
I've never seen it though.
It seemed like such a gimmick when it came out.
your TTY driver has configuration you can see how it’s configured by running: stty -a for example it print out the current window size! Ctrl+S by default, pressing Ctrl+S wi(( freeze your terminal (and Ctrl+Q wi(( unfreeze) I have never wanted this in my life, you can turn it off with stty -ixon (fish turns it off by default) ###fun fact: changing Ctrl+C technically you can use stty to set a different keyboard shortcut for Ctrl+C, (ike “u” stty intr u this is extremely chaotic and I can’t imagine a reason that I would ever do this though programs have to configure the TTY driver to get friendly features developer: I want arrow keys to work in my program! other person: better tell the TTY driver to turn off canonical mode! (more on the next page) the TTY driver’s settings are called “termios settings” for the gnarly details: man termios but if you’re writing a terminal program libraries like readline or ncurses will handle setting up the TTY driver panel 6 smiling stick figure with short curly hair: I’ve only needed to use stty once in the last 20 years and I mostly don’t understand its output but I think it’s a fun view into terminal internals!
stty
wizardzines.com/comics/stty/
(from The Secret Rules of the Terminal, out now! wizardzines.com/zines/termin...)
One of the most valuable skills you can have at senior engineering levels is knowing how to preserve your time and focus.
There are always more things to do, but the question should always be which ones are important, which can wait, which can be delegated, and which you just say no to.
Vibe coding used to be staying up until 2am only to figure out your code was missing a semicolon 😤
the brain that can see a face in a wall outlet was always doomed to hear the voice of God in a markov chain
I definitely thought this "day" was a reference to that.
There are so many great ways to overcome this problem now.
I just went through 6 pages of Orbstack docs and still had to ask Google if it was a Mac app. It's so annoying when libraries or software have no indication of what OS or language they are meant to run on.
Here's an interesting opinion.
I'm having way too much fun with this, lol.
codepen.io/kevinpowell/...
As I remember, the framers decided to call the head of the executive branch the President because, to them and at that time, “to preside” implied a far less powerful role than “Minister,” “Executor,” etc. His job was just to preside over the gov’t doing the will of Congress.
Matz is Nice.
We are Nice.
And Euruko 2025 will be Super Nice.
Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto @matz.bsky.social — the creator of Ruby — is joining us in Portugal 🇵🇹 this September!
Düsseldorf is definitely slept on as a foodie city. Great Japanese, Chinese (including a Uyghur place), Korean, French, and Georgian. There's even a Nashville Hot Chicken place.
A new era begins for Hanami, Dry and Rom — paid, ongoing maintenance for the very first time. We need your help to make it happen! Become a patron today.
hanamirb.org/blog/2025/06...
I've always wanted to make an enigma badge in firmware with paper rotars/rings.
cut my heap into pieces, this is my crash report:
allocation, no alignment
don't give a fuck if it faults on assignment
this is fatal abort()
As a security professional, this is literally insane from a signals intelligence and safety standpoint.
Just looking past the overt grift & corruption, somebody at the NSA is looking at this and has started doing shots.
This makes me hungry.
