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Contents Disclaimer Introduction Inequations vs. Inequalities Weak Inequalities vs. Strict inequalities Being playful with algebraic identities The AM-GM Inequality Cyclic and Symmetrical Inequalities Grouping and Splitting Terms Muirhead’s Theorem The mean inequality chain The weighted AM-GM inequality The power of ...
Now that the Webmention plugin is finally Craft 5 compatible after last week's update, I jumped at the chance and updated another plugin I had once written for my personal site. The Internet Archive plugin automates the archiving of your ...
How Rachel Ray’s crawler lead to Ada developing a new performance testing framework, hyperscale. This leads to a great conversation about the benefits of rust, modern python package managers, and why MySpace went out of business. The importance of connecting ...
Revealed: How the UK tech secretary uses ChatGPT for policy advice by Chris Stokel-Walker for the New Scientist
Imagine my surprise, when, roughly two weeks ago, I received a direct message on Mastodon from Brandon Kelly, the founder and head of the team behind Craft CMS, opening with: 👋 I spent today working on a Craft 5 port ...
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A guide to setting up old Macbooks as fun webcraft and art stations super cheaply!
Taking ownership of your data and services
Learn how the Cache-Control request header works, how browsers handle refresh and hard refresh caching, and when developers should use it themselves.
Is running Kafka on-prem different than running it in the cloud? You’ll find out from Elad Eldor’s years of experience running, tuning, and troubleshooting Kafka in production environments. Elad didn’t set out to learn Kafka, but he kept asking questions ...
I normally don't talk about politics here, but as I write this the US has started a trade war with Canada (which is partially paused for a month, but that doesn't remove the threat). It is so infuriating and upsetting ...
I’ll be honest — I am ashamed of how long it took me to get here. Too many half-hearted hypothetical protestations, hands sweatily-wrung. I read someone’s blog post about this a few years back (I’ll link it when I find ...
“I have used React for a long time. Trust me when I tell you: There is no reason to use it and a lot of reasons against it.”
Markdown reports as either text or markdown tables.Two fun plugins discussed.Links:pytest-md-reportpytest-mdTop pytest Plugins
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in February 2025.
Sam is back with us for a live episode where we discuss important questions such as “is coffee is good?”, “are people on the Internet good writers?”, and “is content creation consistency actually important?” We also share links about turning ...
Hugo Santos, founder & CEO of Namespace Labs joins us today to share his passion for fast infrastructure. From sharing childhood stories & dial-up modem phone line wiring experiences, we get to speed testing Hugo's current home internet connection: 25 ...
In our first Terminal Trove Talks, we interview Mitchell Hashimoto, the creator of Ghostty, a modern terminal emulator built with Zig.
The general state of FFI in Go can be expressed well with a story about when I had tried to get mattn/go-sqlite3 drivers to work on a Windows machine a couple years ago around version 1.17, and CGO would not ...
The lightning-fast vector database Qdrant has supported creating snapshots of its collection on S3 since version v1.10. That’s convenient and simplifies storing snapshots as backups on multiple machines. However, as of 2025, there is no way to restore a collection ...
Quick heads up: Since writing this, I’ve found one or two fairly sizeable bugs in the Galleria plugin. I’ve published anyway cause the guide is not entirely dependent on Galleria, and Galleria is mostly functional. You can still give it ...
This episode is stacked with information. You could even say “full stacked.” Sam has built and run some large scale systems as a SRE at Google, now building backend services at Budibase, and he spends his free time teaching others ...
Humanity's Last Exam by Center for AI Safety (CAIS) and Scale AI
Whether it’s a framed image that was taken at a slight angle, or a product photo that just doesn’t quite match the rest in the grid, I’ve frequently had the need to adjust the perspective of an image in my ...
How to use Obsidian to write Astro markdown content in a simple and intuitive way using GitHub submodules.
Bluesky has been on a roller coaster of growth for over a year. From the early days of figuring out a new distributed social protocol—AT protocol—to actually building it and inviting 30 million of their closest friends. Not only has ...
And your people will find you.
Being “in tech” in 2025 is depressing, and if I’m going to stick around, I need to remember why I’m here.
After putting in the work, you owe it to yourself.
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Is HTML a programming language? In this short post, I explore why HTML is powerful, fundamental, and essential—but not a programming language.
