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Metaprogramming in Ruby: It's All About the Self (2009)
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Katz Got Your Tongue
Metaprogramming in Ruby: It's All About the Self
After writing my last post on Rails plugin idioms, I realized that Ruby
metaprogramming, at its core, is actually quite simple.
It comes down to the fact that all Ruby code is executed code--there is no
separate compile or runtime phase. In Ruby, every lineโฆ
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Is .NET just miles ahead or am I delusional?
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From the dotnet community on Reddit: Is .net just miles ahead or am I delusional?
Explore this post and more from the dotnet community
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It's far from clear how grub package updates work on Ubuntu
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Shiakaku of the Day
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Daily shikaku puzzles | ShikakuOfThe.Day
Your daily shikaku puzzles. Come back everyday for new puzzles to solve.
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DIY Wi-Fi thermostat from scratch with ESPHome and Home Assistant
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Automate this
OpenTherm thermostat with ESPHome and Home Assistant
How to build a fully functioning DIY thermostat for an OpenTherm boiler with ESPHome and Home Assistant.
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Browser Security Bugs That Aren't: JavaScript in PDF
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Browser Security Bugs that Arenโt: JavaScript in PDF
A fairly common security bug report is of the form: โI can put JavaScript inside a PDF file and it runs!โ For example, open this PDF file with Chrome, and you can see the alert(1) messaโฆ
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Self-Hosted Is Awesome
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Pixeljets
Self-hosted is awesome
I'm a big fan of self-hosting. As an indie hacker who has launched several micro-SaaS products and as a CTO of a small company, I now prefer self-hosting all the tools I might need. With the rise of high-quality self-hosted offerings from talented teams usingโฆ
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Pacific castaways' 'HELP' sign sparks rescue mission and family reunion
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MSN
Pacific castawaysโ โHELPโ sign sparks US rescue mission โ and an unexpected family reunion
(CNN) โ A US Navy and Coast Guard operation on Tuesday rescued three mariners stranded on a tiny Pacific Ocean islet for more than a week after the trio spelled out โHELPโ using palm fronds laid on a white-sand beach.
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Ray Tracer in a Boot Sector
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GitHub
GitHub - nanochess/RayTracer: Ray Tracer in 483 bytes (x86 boot sector)
Ray Tracer in 483 bytes (x86 boot sector). Contribute to nanochess/RayTracer development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Identical twins both grew up with autism, but took different paths
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These identical twins both grew up with autism, but took very different paths
Sam and John Fetters are identical twins with autism. But Sam is in college, while John still struggles to form sentences. Their experience may shed light on the disorder's mix of nature and nurture.
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A disgruntled federal employee's 1980s desk calendar (2018)
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Backyard Birding (2023)
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World Sensorium / Conservancy
Backyard Birding
Backyard Birding By Gayil Nalls Sign up for our monthly newsletter! Woods surround my back property in the Hudson Valley, a deciduous forest that includes a giant majestic sycamore, several...
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HP 200LX and Related Palmtops
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The Silicon Underground
HP 200LX and related palmtops
The HP200LX was a palmtop, an early take on mobile computing from the mid 90s. It quietly built a following that continues to this day.
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350 tons of of chocolate and wine arrive on worldโs largest cargo sailboat
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Untapped New York
Tons of Chocolate and Wine Arrive on World's Largest Cargo Sailboat - Untapped New York
At Pier 17 in the South Street Seaport, New Yorkers can find the worldโs largest sailing cargo ship that is also fitted with a wine cellar.
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Tree-shaking, the horticulturally misguided algorithm
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wingolog.org
tree-shaking, the horticulturally misguided algorithm โ wingolog
wingolog: article: tree-shaking, the horticulturally misguided algorithm
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The Silver or the Lead: How White Collar Crime Prosecutors Get Punished
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Thebignewsletter
The Silver or the Lead: How White Collar Crime Prosecutors Get Punished
Corporate defense lawyers have adopted a new strategy that not even the mob considered. When facing litigation from the government, file misconduct charges against the attorneys bringing the charges.
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Harmful 5G Fast Lanes Are Coming; the FCC Needs to Stop Them
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Lessons after a Half-billion GPT Tokens
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Ken Kantzer's Blog
Lessons after a half-billion GPT tokens - Ken Kantzer's Blog
My startup Truss (gettruss.io) released a few LLM-heavy features in the last six months, and the narrative around LLMs that I read on Hacker News is now starting to diverge from my reality, so I thought Iโd share some of the more โsurprisingโ lessons afterโฆ
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Shape Typing in Python
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jameshfisher.com
Shape typing in Python
While I was looking the other way, Python got advanced static types! Hereโs matrix multiplication, describing the input shapes and its output shape:
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I accidentally built a meme search engine
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harper.blog
I accidentally built a meme search engine
I built a magical meme search engine using siglip/CLIP and vector encoding images. It was a fun way to learn about this powerful technology. I'm sharing the code so you can build your own and discover forgotten gems in your photo library. Let's unleash theโฆ
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Pylyzer โ A fast static code analyzer and language server for Python
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GitHub
GitHub - mtshiba/pylyzer: A fast, feature-rich static code analyzer & language server for Python
A fast, feature-rich static code analyzer & language server for Python - mtshiba/pylyzer
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