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Redditor sauntcartas offers a nice solution for getting Emacs dired filenames in an arbitrary order . I have to say, while relatively rare, this is something I need from time to time. You see, I like to apply batch file operations from the comfort of dired buffers (via dwim-shell-command ). Take, for example, M-x dwim-shell-commands-join-images-horizontally. It does what it says on the tin. I can mark a handful of image files via di....
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If you want to increase fertility, look at how religions do it
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wyclif.substack.com
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10 months ago
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It‘s been a week since the last time I wrote anything on the blog. Time flies when you are heads down, programming, in the thick of it. I feel like I'm just finally coming up for air after a very long time underwater. And I know, I‘ve got to go right back down to the depths of the sea again. Just time to write a few notes. #
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Luci Gutiérrez, from the linked article. Arthur C. Brooks, in his July 2019 Atlantic article Your Professional Decline Is Coming (Much) Sooner Than You Think , confronts an uncomfortable truth: professional decline begins much earlier than most people expect. The core of Brooks’ argument is based on psychologist Raymond Cattell’s work from the 1940s, which distinguished between fluid and crystallized intelligence. Fluid intelligenc..
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Email eats up so much of so many people's days. Learn how to set boundaries and spend more time on other, more important things.
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Patching and building Emacs from source on macOS is fairly straightforward, but what if I'd like to patch my Emacs Plus Homebrew builds? Let's cover both ways of patching our favourite editor… Patching Emacs upstream sources If you'd like to build from the master branch, you can check its sources out like so: git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/emacs.git cd emacs Next, we'll patch Emacs source as needed. For example, I recently wan....
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Build production SQL tools for LLM agents with proper auth, least-privilege access, and injection protection. PostgreSQL examples included.
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Learn how to split a large Jupyter notebook into multiple notebooks and combine them into a cohesive report using Quarto's book project functionality for HTML, PDF, or EPUB formats.
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Learn how to split a large Jupyter notebook into multiple notebooks and combine them into a cohesive report using Quarto's book project functionality for HTML, PDF, or EPUB formats.
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To the very few true oldfags/originalfags - not larpers - that were there in the ACTUAL old internet and not the transvestite version of it "y2k" by fags and general retards, do you use any community or else to fall back to, or do you stick to closed friends group? Or did everyone fucking killed themselves post-2015, moved on, became a weird hybrid of normalfagism, made a family/left the internet? Is there no one that remembers all of it th..
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AI in Healthcare: 5 Real-World Examples That Actually Solve Problems
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blog.risingstack.com
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10 months ago
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eng
AI in healthcare is no longer theory. It’s showing up in real hospitals, solving specific problems. Not just in research papers or flashy demos, but in production. This post walks through five recent examples where AI made a real difference. No hype, just what was built, what problem it tackled, and how it fit into […] The post AI in Healthcare: 5 Real-World Examples That Actually Solve Problems appeared first on RisingStack Engineerin..
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My character in Skyrim was a werewolf. The way this works is you can choose to turn into a werewolf at any time. This gives you super combat powers for a short period, like 5 minutes. To me, this felt disingenuous to how werewolves work in fiction. It’s not a bonus, it should be a […]
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Frank Wiles' recent podcast appearances so far in 2025. Touching on topics such as Python, Django, AI agents, LLM assisted coding, and improving engineering teams.
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Frank Wiles' recent podcast appearances so far in 2025. Touching on topics such as Python, Django, AI agents, LLM assisted coding, and improving engineering teams.
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You inherit a team mid-flight. You didn’t hire them. You didn’t set the culture. But now it’s yours—and the results are on you. Some leaders react with frustration. Others get to work. In this piece, I break down a practical playbook for turning around a low-performing team: how to listen, diagnose what’s broken (people, product, or process), land early wins, and sustain momentum. It’s not glamorous work—but it’s some of the most meaningful..
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I have had the good fortune of meeting Scott several times at various conferences and the MVP Summits held at Microsoft headquarters in Seattle. Seeing him get emotional in this talk does not surprise me, nor is it unusual for him to criticize the very technology 1 that his company promotes. He has always been an entertaining speaker and teacher. As it turns out, the TED format suits him perfectly. Or rather, the way that t..
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In the last year, a mindset shift and approach appeared as a very simple idea: just do one thing, that I want to do today . The one thing can be small or big, easy or labored, fleeting or long. I carve out time to go play drums for two hours, go for a bouldering session, do a shorter 20 minute run, read a page of a book, eat something I’m really excited about, and more. Even on the most difficult day, I can adjust and find the smalles..
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Maintainers of ESLint Prettier Plugin Attacked via npm Supply Chain Malware
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snyk.io
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10 months ago
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eng
Urgent warning: Maintainers of popular npm packages like ESLint Prettier Plugin were attacked via an npm supply chain malware incident. Learn about the typosquatting, phishing, and impacted packages, plus essential steps to protect your projects.
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I ran Cursor Agents on production codebases for weeks. Background tasks, multi-file edits, and where it still breaks down.
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Recently at work I had a side quest on the following task: choose a binning scheme for some 1-dimensional data that has an annoying distribution. Quantile binning wasn't great (at the sparse tails it produces very wide bins, and in the center very tiny ones), and equal width was also out. Basically I wanted to be able to specify a number of bins (n_bins) and get some "reasonable" bin edges out. def compute_bin_edges ( data : np . ....
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basically im a colossal retard and fuarrrked some soykaf up in persistent mode thatd take like an hour or 2 to unfuck so i have just deleted the virtual machines and reinstalled whonix from the same .ova file. is this ok or could soykaf from persistent mode now be present in that file? should i have deleted the .ova and downloaded it fresh??
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Using LLMs and MCP to Debug PostgreSQL Performance in Rails
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pawelurbanek.com
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10 months ago
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eng
I’ve recently automated a large portion of my Rails performance audits. In this tutorial, I’ll describe how to configure an AI-powered PG performance debugging. We will cover using LLMs with custom MCP (model context protocol) n8n integration. We will also discuss the legal and security implications of connecting AI to the production database. How to optimize PostgreSQL performance with AI? I’m not sure if the current blogosphere needs ....
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Using LLMs and MCP to Debug PostgreSQL Performance in Rails
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pawelurbanek.com
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10 months ago
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I’ve recently automated a large portion of my Rails performance audits. In this tutorial, I’ll describe how to configure an AI-powered PG performance debugging. We will cover using LLMs with custom MCP (model context protocol) n8n integration. We will also discuss the legal and security implications of connecting AI to the production database. How to optimize PostgreSQL performance with AI? I’m not sure if the current blogosphere needs ....
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In certain dialects of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese, the word for ‘four’ sounds very similar to the word for ‘death’ 1 . Consequently, the number 4 is considered by many people in East Asian nations to be unlucky. It is not unusual for buildings in that region to skip the number 4 when labeling floors, much in the same way 13th floors are omitted in some parts of the world 2 . In Hong Kong, at least one skyscraper avoids the pr....
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gcloud_ssh A simple script that finds a google cloud compute VM by IP address across all projects of an organization and runs gcloud ssh to it. #!/bin/bash GCLOUD_SSH_FLAGS="--internal-ip" # Get organization ID dynamically get_org_id() { gcloud organizations list --format="value(name)" --limit=1 2>/dev/null | sed 's|organizations/||' } search_and_connect() { local ip_address=$1 echo "Searching …
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gcloud_ssh A simple script that finds a google cloud compute VM by IP address across all projects of an organization and runs gcloud ssh to it. #!/bin/bash GCLOUD_SSH_FLAGS="--internal-ip" # Get organization ID dynamically get_org_id() { gcloud organizations list --format="value(name)" --limit=1 2>/dev/null | sed 's|organizations/||' } search_and_connect() { local ip_address=$1 echo "Searching …
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gcloud_ssh A simple script that finds a google cloud compute VM by IP address across all projects of an organization and runs gcloud ssh to it. #!/bin/bash GCLOUD_SSH_FLAGS="--internal-ip" # Get organization ID dynamically get_org_id() { gcloud organizations list --format="value(name)" --limit=1 2>/dev/null | sed 's|organizations/||' } search_and_connect() { local ip_address=$1 echo "Searching …
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Fan Organized Events around the Acquired Live Show
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www.nothingeasyaboutthis.com
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10 months ago
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eng
Pulling off three fan organized events alongside the Acquired live show in New York City was a massive undertaking. We did a community run, a pre-show meetup at a local bar, and then a takeover of the Rockefeller Center Rink for the afterparty. Here’s a breakdown of what
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How to Create and Combine SwiftUI Views Without Getting Lost in Deep Nesting and Complex Layouts
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matteomanferdini.com
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10 months ago
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eng
As you create increasingly complex SwiftUI views, you may feel your code is turning into a tangled mess of nested stacks, layout view modifiers, and conditionals. In this article, we’ll explore how to leverage SwiftUI’s full toolkit—beyond just stacks—to build configurable views. You’ll learn to use built-in specialized views, view styles, and view builders for ... Read more The post How to Create and Combine SwiftUI Views Without Gett..
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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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The more I work on API standards, the more I realise how few teams understand that they can adopt the standards and, without breaking any contract, adapt them to make a strong interface for their own application. One of my … Continue reading →
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