Curious how gzip works? This post by Ian Erik Varatalu explains it step by step. gzip wraps around huffman coded input, the huffman coded input wraps around lz77 back-references, and the back-references wrap around the actual bytes.
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QEC ACTIVE SHIP: Silt Aria SYSTEM: Transit, day 8 Maret found the logbook. Not our logbook. A physical one, clothbound, wedged behind the hydroponics reservoir where the pipe junction makes a shelf nobody designed. She was checking for condensation on the seals. The book was dry. The pages are filled from front to back in the same handwriting as the fourth column of the duty roster. The entries are dated but the dates don't track to any cal....
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WINTERY KNIGHT :: Bad news for liberty in Canada and Finland. but good news in America
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winteryknight.com
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3 months ago
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I saw quite a few interesting stories about free speech and religious liberty in the news this week. It’s always a shock to me to hear some Christian leaders say that Christians shouldn’t care about policy and politics. Some even say “Jesus doesn’t care about politics”. I can only think that these people are naive … Continue reading Bad news for liberty in Canada and Finland. but good news in America →
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In my last post, I showed you to use FireWire on a Raspberry Pi with a PCI Express IEEE 1394 adapter. Now I'll show you how I'm using a new FireWire HAT and a PiSugar3 Plus battery to make a portable MRU, or 'Memory Recording Unit', to replace tape in older FireWire/i.Link/DV cameras. The alternative is an old used MRU like Sony's HVR-MRC1 , which runs around $300 on eBay 1 .
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One of jOOQ’s most popular feature is the out-of-the-box debug logging experience. jOOQ developers find this feature very useful when developing their applications. Assuming you run a jOOQ query and configure your logger to print DEBUG log output: When this query is executed, your log output might contain something like this: Executing query : select … Continue reading Managing Sensitive Data in jOOQ 3.21+ Logs →
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Throne. Altar. Liberty :: Musical Conversations
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thronealtarliberty.blogspot.com
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3 months ago
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The other week a colleague joked about my “out of date” taste in music. It was five hundred years old he said. I found this highly amusing. I had been listening to the symphonies of Beethoven. Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1 in C major was first performed in Vienna in 1800. His Symphony No. 9 in D minor. the fourth movement of which contains the famous choral setting of Schiller’s Ode to Joy and which set nine as the informal upper limit fo....
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With the mountains of Python code that it's possible to generate now, how's your code review going? What are the limitations of human review, and where does machine review excel? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week with another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects.
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About nine months ago, my son said he wanted to make a video game. He said it was called Exploding Kitties. We made it together on my computer. He described the gameplay and drew the graphics. I vibed the code. The game basically worked. But we had to build it in small pieces. And, periodically, I had to spend time in the guts of the code, getting it back on the rails. Unifying two ways of doing the same thing. Fixing gnarlier bugs. Disenta....
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About nine months ago, my son said he wanted to make a video game. He said it was called Exploding Kitties. We made it together on my computer. He described the gameplay and drew the graphics. I vibed the code. The game basically worked. But we had to build it in small pieces. And, periodically, I had to spend time in the guts of the code, getting it back on the rails. Unifying two ways of doing the same thing. Fixing gnarlier bugs. Disenta....
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AI speeds up development - but it might default to past conventions and versions. How can developers ensure they work with the latest features and requirements?
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uv is a package and project manager for Python projects. It fully replaces two things: manually using virtual environments and managing packages. It is super fast, ironically because it is written in Rust! Install $ curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh Usage Initialize the directory of the Python project by invoking this inside the directory: $ uv init This creates a pyproject.toml with project metadata and .python-versio....
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Originally published on Rails At Scale . Look! A trace of slow events in a benchmark! Hover over the image to see it get bigger. A sneak preview of what the trace looks like. Now read on to see what the slow events are and how we got this pretty picture. The rules The first rule of just-in-time compilers is: you stay in JIT code. The second rule of JIT is: you STAY in JIT code! When control leaves the compiled code to run ....
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How Multi-Factor Authentication Helps Keep Your Discord Account Safe
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discord.com
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3 months ago
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eng
A Discord account is more than just your username and avatar. That’s why it’s important to help keep your account safe and secure by using Multi-Factor Authentication, SMS Backup Authentication & QR Code Login. Learn how to keep your account more secure in the following blog post!
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Unifying Internal APIs: A Different Use Case for GraphQL Gateways
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tech.trivago.com
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3 months ago
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Most GraphQL Gateway discussions focus on public-facing APIs and multi-client architectures. This article explores a different axis—using GraphQL Mesh to stitch internal services into a unified gateway powering admin tooling. We share implementation details, honest challenges from six years in production, and a forward-looking perspective on how AI agents could leverage the unified graph.
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I Built an Orchestrator That Watches GitHub Issues and Sends Agents to Fix Them
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muhammadraza.me
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3 months ago
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I have too many issues and not enough time. Same as everyone. The usual loop is: pick an issue, context switch into it, write the code, open a PR, pick the next one. Do that until the sprint ends or you lose the will. Coding agents help with this. I can point Claude Code at an issue and let it work while I do something else. But that’s still one agent, one issue, one terminal. If I have 10 issues labeled “agent-ready,” I’m not babysitting....
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Unifying Internal APIs: A Different Use Case for GraphQL Gateways
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tech.trivago.com
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3 months ago
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eng
Most GraphQL Gateway discussions focus on public-facing APIs and multi-client architectures. This article explores a different axis—using GraphQL Mesh to stitch internal services into a unified gateway powering admin tooling. We share implementation details, honest challenges from six years in production, and a forward-looking perspective on how AI agents could leverage the unified graph.
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New resource: (fr) Surveillance et fichage d'activistes à Genève : Ce qu'on apprend du cas d'Extinction Rebellion
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Originally published on Rails At Scale . Look! A trace of slow events in a benchmark! Hover over the image to see it get bigger. A sneak preview of what the trace looks like. Now read on to see what the slow events are and how we got this pretty picture. The rules The first rule of just-in-time compilers is: you stay in JIT code. The second rule of JIT is: you STAY in JIT code! When control leaves the compiled code to run ....
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Building Biz Ask Anything: From Prototype to Product
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engineeringblog.yelp.com
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3 months ago
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eng
Introduction Users have access to a wealth of information on Yelp business pages – from reviews and photos to structured information, menus, and Ask the Community feature on the business page, a single business page can be an ocean of content. At the same time, user expectations have evolved: people now expect immediate, direct answers. Sifting through dozens of reviews to find a simple fact can be time-consuming. Fortunately, advances in L..
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I Built an Orchestrator That Watches GitHub Issues and Sends Agents to Fix Them
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muhammadraza.me
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3 months ago
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eng
I have too many issues and not enough time. Same as everyone. The usual loop is: pick an issue, context switch into it, write the code, open a PR, pick the next one. Do that until the sprint ends or you lose the will. Coding agents help with this. I can point Claude Code at an issue and let it work while I do something else. But that’s still one agent, one issue, one terminal. If I have 10 issues labeled “agent-ready,” I’m not babysitting....
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After I switched to Pure Blog a bunch of links (internal and external) were broken. Because my links now look like this: https://j11g.com/this-site-switched-to-pureblog Instead of https://j11g.com/2026/03/23/this-site-switched-to-pureblog The fix is easy enough. Put this in your .htaccess file. There already is some stuff there, just put this at the top. RewriteEngine On # Redirect from /YYYY/MM/DD/slug/ to /..
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After I switched to Pure Blog a bunch of links (internal and external) were broken. Because my links now look like this: https://j11g.com/this-site-switched-to-pureblog Instead of https://j11g.com/2026/03/23/this-site-switched-to-pureblog The fix is easy enough. Put this in your .htaccess file. There already is some stuff there, just put this at the top. RewriteEngine On # Redirect from /YYYY/MM/DD/slug/ to /..
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Leonardo of Pisa (c1170-1241+), better known as Fibonacci, wrote Liber Abaci to introduce and advocate the adoption of “Indian figures” (Hindu-Arabic numerals) to Italy. The book explains how to perform arithmetic and common business problems using the digits and a positional number system. Leonardo uses a composed fractions (aka composite fractions, aka linked fractions) notation to express mixed radix quantities (i.e. positional numbers....
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Leonardo of Pisa (c1170-1241+), better known as Fibonacci, wrote Liber Abaci to introduce and advocate the adoption of “Indian figures” (Hindu-Arabic numerals) to Italy. The book explains how to perform arithmetic and common business problems using the digits and a positional number system. Leonardo uses a composed fractions (aka composite fractions, aka linked fractions) notation to express mixed radix quantities (i.e. positional numbers....
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