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I recently ran a little experiment to bring macOS's long-press-accents-like behavior to Emacs. What I forgot to mention is that macOS's character viewer just works from our beloved editor. If you have a newer MacBook model, you can press the 🌐 key to summon the emoji picker (character viewer). You may need to set this key binding from macOS keyboard preferences . I'm happy to take this Emacs freebie, kthxbye. Edits: Like oth..
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Bots are absolutely crippling the Internet ecosystem. The “future” in the film Terminator 2 is set in the 2020s. If you apply its predictions to the running of a website, it’s honestly very accurate. Modern bot traffic is virtually indistinguishable from human traffic, and can pummel any self-hosted service into the ground, flood any form with comment spam, and is a chronic headache for almost any small scale web service operator.
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Terraform is an infrastructure as code (IaC) solution that enables DevOps teams to deploy on-premise or public cloud infrastructure components. Today, we’ll discuss some common strategies for testing effectively in Terraform.
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Not really, no. Not without annoying workarounds and a confusing user experience. Another email, another annoyed user: Firefox not loading websites when launched through rcmd! It works when launched from Alfred.. Please fix ASAP!! I’m gonna fix this Firefox issue once and for all! Launch Xcode, open the rcmd project, check the launchApp function code, it’s just a NSWorkspace.open call on Firefox.app, what does Alfred do diffe....
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I have had lots of jobs during my life and I think I can identify at least one thing I have learnt at each of them. I usually know it is time to move to a new role if I no longer enjoy it or I am no longer learning something new.
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I have had lots of jobs during my life and I think I can identify at least one thing I have learnt at each of them. I usually know it is time to move to a new role if I no longer enjoy it or I am no longer learning something new.
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WFH Day 870 Long time no update. I was pretty occupied at work getting some larger projects off the ground. The projects are currently in midair and need only occasional course adjustments to arrive at their final destination in the next three months. My employer is thankfully shutting down the offices in the US for the 4th of July week. Everybody is out of the office and getting some prescribed rest. I decided to move my PTO beginning t..
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How I build my website benhoyt.com with GitHub Pages, Jekyll, a simple HTML+CSS layout, Sublime Text, and Sublime Merge.
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This post documents when MAD breaks down: heavy-tailed distributions, multimodal data, and large outlier contamination. Pragmastat recommends Spread — the Shamos estimator — which handles many of these cases while maintaining a 29% breakdown point. Confidence intervals are available via SpreadBounds . pragmastat.dev github.com/AndreyAkinshin/pragmastat The median absolute deviation is a measure of dispersion which can be used..
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Exploring the PGAS paradigm and experimenting with coarrays in Fortran. Learning about the principles behind PGAS, Fortran coarrays and its applications in parallel programming.
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SoundCloud has a variety of resource groups, and one such group is called Women in Engineering, or WINE. The mission statement of the group…
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This post documents when MAD breaks down: heavy-tailed distributions, multimodal data, and large outlier contamination. Pragmastat recommends Spread — the Shamos estimator — which handles many of these cases while maintaining a 29% breakdown point. Confidence intervals are available via SpreadBounds . pragmastat.dev github.com/AndreyAkinshin/pragmastat The median absolute deviation is a measure of dispersion which can be used..
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SoundCloud has a variety of resource groups, and one such group is called Women in Engineering, or WINE. The mission statement of the group…
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Exploring the PGAS paradigm and experimenting with coarrays in Fortran. Learning about the principles behind PGAS, Fortran coarrays and its applications in parallel programming.
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I'm just going to write some memories of Josh. The mundane, everyday things. The stuff I'll slowly, inevitably forget, because I'm not sure…
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We’re excited to announce the Snyk Developer Challenge! This event gives conference attendees a chance to flex their security skills by fixing vulnerabilities to earn points on the leaderboard. At the end of the conference, the two highest scoring participants will be crowned the winners and receive a special prize.
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We’re thrilled to welcome Manoj Nair joins Snyk today as our new Chief Product Officer. In this pivotal phase of Snyk’s growth, Manoj will lead our global product team, setting our comprehensive product roadmap and strategy in both the short and long-term.
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The highlights of this release include integration with Hive Metastore and the ability to monitor Flink jobs right inside your IDE, as well as SSO authentication on Amazon S3. The new version provides many other noteworthy changes that are covered below. Get the latest version by installing it to the 2022.2 of your IDE. Hive Metastore […]
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At some point in life you might find yourself running E2E (end-to-end) test suite using Kubernetes cluster. Such tests are relatively short living processes (they born to run the test and die when are finished). The question is: How to get the generated test report from the container in Kubernetes?
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Because organizations continually adopt new technologies, the need for skilled IT professionals to support those technologies is always increasing. Technology certification has been the most common skills benchmark used for hiring and promotion in the IT industry since the early 1990s, with Linux certification being one of the most sought-after. After all, knowing how to use, configure and administer the Linux operating system is prerequisi..
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Because organizations continually adopt new technologies, the need for skilled IT professionals to support those technologies is always increasing. Technology certification has been the most common skills benchmark used for hiring and promotion in the IT industry since the early 1990s, with Linux certification being one of the most sought-after. After all, knowing how to use, configure and administer the Linux operating system is prerequisi..
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IndiaFOSS 2.0 [1] , the second edition of the conference organised by the FOSS United Foundation, of which I am a part of, was held in Bengaluru on the 23rd and 24th of July. Previously named IndiaOS , the first edition that ran in January 2020 was an experiment that turned out to be a small, nice gathering of ~100 people in a small hall in a corner of JP Nagar, a residential area in South Bengaluru. There were talks, discussions, and f..
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I continue hunting for use-cases I can migrate to dwim-shell-command … After adding clipboard support (via [] id: cb ---) I found one more. Copy URL from browser. Invoke dwim-shell-commands-mpv-stream-clipboard-url. Enjoy picture in picture from Emacs ;) What's the secret sauce? Very little. Invoke the awesome mpv with a wrapping function using dwim-shell-command-on-marked-files. (defun dwim-shell-commands-mpv-stream-clipboard..
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IndiaFOSS 2.0 [1] , the second edition of the conference organised by the FOSS United Foundation, of which I am a part of, was held in Bengaluru on the 23rd and 24th of July. Previously named IndiaOS , the first edition that ran in January 2020 was an experiment that turned out to be a small, nice gathering of ~100 people in a small hall in a corner of JP Nagar, a residential area in South Bengaluru. There were talks, discussions, and f..
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New technologies generate a lot of noise as they work their way through the hype cycle and it’s hard for newcomers to figure out what they should learn. Only a small number of these new technologies will survive the test of time, most will be forgotton, but the FOMO is real. While there’s value in the process of learning the new hotness, I think you’ll see a higher lifetime return when you invest in learning the basic tools of the trade..
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It's been decades since the invention of browser tabs. Now, everybody uses them. What does the future of tabs look like?
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As a long-time user of Pocket, I honor all the insightful and fascinating blogs that I come across on the internet
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This week I created a custom build of the Iosevka font. I’ve used Input Mono for a long time now, and was very happy with it. However, it was missing a few glyphs that I wanted to use. Moreover, I didn’t have a license for the Input font to use on e.g. my blog. Iosevka is stupendously customizable , so I thought I’d see if I could get something close to Input’s styles. Iosevka’s default style is extremely narrow. However, I discove....
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This is a monthly email about what I'm up to! ✨ Highlights of last month - Spent almost the entire month traveling. It was great to be back in LA and Denver for a bit. - For coffee on the road, I...
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Some months ago I wrote about how this blog is “Google free” since I’m using the open source umami analytics service instead of Google Analytics. And I wrote also that I was using it on a free instance of Heroku, but, after 6/7 months the things on Heroku became worse and worse, there were lots of issues. One is that umami is using a new release of Next.js and Heroku hasn’t upgraded since months, so I wasn’t able to build the latest..
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The Jacket An enigma. I've been a bit obsessed with this weird jacket I found online in an ad. The pictures are from the store that sells the jacket. At a first glance it looks like a men's jacket. But the more you look at it, the more it looks... off somehow. The Jacket Ok, check it, let's zoom in on this thing. Can you see it?
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Some months ago I wrote about how this blog is “Google free” since I’m using the open source umami analytics service instead of Google Analytics. And I wrote also that I was using it on a free instance of Heroku, but, after 6/7 months the things on Heroku became worse and worse, there were lots of issues. One is that umami is using a new release of Next.js and Heroku hasn’t upgraded since months, so I wasn’t able to build the latest..
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This week I created a custom build of the Iosevka font. I’ve used Input Mono for a long time now, and was very happy with it. However, it was missing a few glyphs that I wanted to use. Moreover, I didn’t have a license for the Input font to use on e.g. my blog. Iosevka is stupendously customizable , so I thought I’d see if I could get something close to Input’s styles. Iosevka’s default style is extremely narrow. However, I discove....
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Hi, lainons. Yesterday I started learning Tcl and it seems like its paradigm of everything being a string is simply better and easier than everything else I've tried. Why don't more languages do it? And why does it seem like we get less innovative ideas in programming?
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