Easily navigate recent changes based on your pending work and Git history. Marketplace | OpenVSX Fresh File Explorer Time Window Selection Switch between viewing pending (uncommitted) changes or files modified in configurable time periods. Pending Changes mode shows uncommitted changes … Read more
When I joined Etsy the team was two years into a rewrite chasing a more elegant architecture (actually two distinct incompatible elegant architectures), and hadn’t shipped a customer facing feature in that time. I like to say (and it may … Read more
Food Keep in mind that the food cultures are constantly being imported and exported. This is not a test of identifying the origin. The answers are based on where the pictures were taken. For instance, noodle was invented in China, … Read more
annas-archive.li/blog, 2026-02-18 From our new llms.txt file: # Anna’s Archive > We are a non-profit project with two goals: > 1. Preservation: Backing up all knowledge and culture of humanity. > 2. Access: Making this knowledge and culture available to … Read more
Designing a slightly sneaky blur filter and then poking holes in it. If you follow information security discussions on the internet, you might have heard that blurring an image is not a good way of redacting its contents. This is … Read more
You can make up HTML tags: (Maurycy’s blog) Navigation: HomepageYearly archivesAstrophotographyAssorted softwareReal pagesAll tags Aug 2, 2025 (Programming) Instead of writing HTML like this: Hello, World! … you can write HTML like this: Hello, World! … and CSS like this: … Read more
Many languages¹ that have exceptions also have a finally clause, so you can write try { ⟦ stuff ⟧ } finally { always(); } A quick checks shows that this control structure exists in Java, C#, Python, JavaScript, but not … Read more
“in the hurry of leaving i forgot the sites src at home, sorry, had to rewrite the whole thing. expect a nicer site by tomorrow. im patching as we speak.” – crackticker (
uv installs packages faster than pip by an order of magnitude. The usual explanation is “it’s written in Rust.” That’s true, but it doesn’t explain much. Plenty of tools are written in Rust without being notably fast. The interesting question … Read more
Getting into reading again this year after a long break. The most memorable read of this year was “The Count of Monte Cristo” (1846) by Alexander Dumas . It’s one of the greatest stories ever told. It’s ~1250 pages but … Read more