The Itch # MeTube is a neat self-hosted YouTube downloader with a clean web UI. Paste a link, pick your format, hit download. Simple. Except YouTube decided that simple things shouldn’t stay simple. At some point, downloads started failing with the lovely “Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot” message. Classic. YouTube’s bot detection had gotten stricter, the web is not fun anymore. On top of that, I wanted my downloaded videos t....
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2025 was one full challenge and change for all of us. As the long tail of home renovation efforts from 2024 wrapped up, we started thinking seriously about selling the house. With college drawing close for Ben, the allure of a smaller house, with less maintenance and more freedom to travel, combined with current market…
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I recently performed an overdue Ubuntu 24.04 upgrade on a few machines and as with past upgrades , I had to fix a few things after the fact. As usual, I keep any backports of packages I make for myself in my noble PPA . AppArmor fix for Brave Beta & Nightly I had to modify the brave AppArmor profile in /etc/apparmor.d/brave in order to enable proper sandboxing in Brave Beta & Nightly . Network problems Surprisingly, .local resolu....
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In one form or another, Firefox Sync has been around for years (in fact, it's not that far off being decade s ...). It allows you to share tabs, history and bookmarks between browsers on different devices (though, frustratingly, it doesn't sync settings or extension config ). Although sending that data via a 3rd party server might sound concerning, Mozilla are unable to see the content that's being synced because the data is end-t....
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DeveloPassion's Newsletter 204 - Building in Public - The Numbers, The Struggles, and My Plans for 2026
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www.dsebastien.net
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5 months ago
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A newsletter discussing AI, Knowledge Work, Knowledge Management Systems, Zen Productivity, Personal Organization, and everything in between!
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odd i havent seen something on the matter here. Lets see if any lains have some good ol wisdom from the oldschool. As i personally remember elder people having had it as hobby back then. whats your favorite tool, which brands are the most sophisticated to crack, hehe
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Karpathy: I have never felt this much left behind as a programmer
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nicolaiarocci.com
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5 months ago
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I’ve never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become available over the last ~year and a failure to claim the boost feels decidedly like skill issue. There’s a new programmable layer of abstraction to master (in addition....
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What are tech companies looking for these days that you don't see in job descriptions, and are unlikely to come up in interviews, but still usually looked out for?
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Is AI really bringing/brought undeniable doom to Junior web developer roles. If yes, how can one adapt without selling their soul to prompting away all the knowledge they've gathered?
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I keep track of an "ideal architecture", one that I would use if tasked to design a new system from scratch. For several years now this was AWS serverless. The AWS part is personal: this is the stack I'm most familiar with. And serverless because it works the same for small and for large. It is a magical feeling to do a terraform apply and see that all the different parts are coming live, ready to serve whatever load coming its way. A well-....
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In this post, I’ll show you how to think about AI agents through the infrastructure patterns you already use. Think about your CI runner. It spins up an environment. Runs some steps. Reads files. Runs tests. Captures output. Decides what to do next. Knows when to stop. Now swap out the hardcoded logic for an LLM. That’s it. That’s an AI agent in simpler terms. The fancy demos want you to think it’s magic. Some brand new thing you need to ....
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Distinguishing yourself early in your career as a developer
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notes.eatonphil.com
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5 months ago
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Sometimes I get asked questions that would be more fun to answer in public. All letters are treated as anonymous unless permission is otherwise granted. Hello [Redacted]! You asked about a friend's son who is a recent graduate looking for work as a software developer and having a hard time. I like to think of three key aspects of getting a job: 1) knowing where to apply, 2) getting an interview at all, and 3) passing the interview. K....
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In this post, I’ll show you how to think about AI agents through the infrastructure patterns you already use. Think about your CI runner. It spins up an environment. Runs some steps. Reads files. Runs tests. Captures output. Decides what to do next. Knows when to stop. Now swap out the hardcoded logic for an LLM. That’s it. That’s an AI agent in simpler terms. The fancy demos want you to think it’s magic. Some brand new thing you need to ....
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Like many coders, I participated in Advent of Code 2025. However, this year I want to make it challenging. Learning Rust or Elixir are both tempting options, but why not go for something a bit more out there? I want to solve every problem with the GPU not the CPU. Which means a compute shader. I chose to use Swift and Metal as my shader language. Mostly because I was using a Mac and partly because I’ve been meaning to improve my Swift skill..
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PyCoder's Weekly included over 1,500 links to articles, blog posts, tutorials, and projects in 2025. Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week to help wrap up everything by sharing some highlights and uncovering a few hidden gems from the pile.
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