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A select should tell you something
With CSS appearance: base-select, an HTML option can finally hold rich content such as previews, numbers, job titles or warnings. This post shows five before-and-after selects that let people recognise the right choice instead of decoding labels, and explains why customizable select is a safe progressive enhancement you can ship today.
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writing about pratt parsing so I remember it
A hands-on walkthrough of Pratt parsing for C expressions: why it rarely shows up in standard compiler courses, how binding power handles precedence and associativity, and how prefix, infix and postfix subroutines keep the parser core small, with pointers to Crafting Interpreters.
5 min · 1,260 words
SIMD-accelerated computer vision on a $2 microcontroller
shranav describes writing a FAST corner feature detector for the ESP32-S3 using its little-known 128-bit SIMD instructions, working around misaligned reads and signed-only saturating arithmetic, and roughly doubling throughput to about 11.2 megapixels per second, around 6ms per QVGA frame.
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This is called Speculative Decoding
Gaurav Sen explains speculative decoding, the technique Google published in 2022 to make large language models answer 2 to 3 times faster with the same output: a small model drafts several tokens, the large model verifies the draft's prefixes in parallel, and the method now serves production traffic at Google and DeepSeek.
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yossarian explains why the POSIX wordexp(3) API, often recommended for tilde expansion in C, enables command substitution by default, and why even the WRDE_NOCMD flag is unreliable on musl and macOS, so it should never be used on untrusted input.
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Making My Blog Readable By AI Agents
Jake Marsh explains how he made his static nginx blog Deallocated Objects agent-friendly: markdown copies of every post with Accept-header content negotiation, llms.txt and llms-full.txt, an explicit robots.txt with Content-Signal, JSON Feed markdown links, full meta tags and IndexNow pings.
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bsandro walks through setting up a small NetBSD 11 web server the stock way with the built-in bozohttpd, covering VPS options, running bozohttpd, adding HTTPS with one extra package, and features worth exploring like CGI, Lua scripting and URL rewrites.
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Is PHP Quietly Running on Your ColdFusion Server? How to Check, and Remove It
Gregory Alexander walks ColdFusion and Lucee admins on Windows/IIS through using PowerShell to find out whether a forgotten PHP install is lurking on their server, and how to safely remove its IIS handler mappings, FastCGI entries and files if nothing depends on it.
8 min · 1,906 words
Building Java ME Apps with Modern Tooling
ROllerozxa walks through building Java ME (J2ME) apps for old feature phones with modern tooling: OpenJDK 8, MicroEmulator stub JARs for the CLDC 1.1 and MIDP 2.0 APIs, compiling with javac, packaging the JAR, preverifying with ProGuard, getting it onto a phone, and the platform's limitations.
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Full Disk Encryption on Fedora w/ TPM2
A hands-on walkthrough from apalrd's adventures on how LUKS full disk encryption works on Fedora and how to enroll a key into the TPM2 with systemd-cryptenroll, including PCR choices, PIN options, crypttab edits and rebuilding the initramfs, as a first step toward a business-wide Linux rollout.
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Embedding EYG in Erlang programs
Step-by-step guide to embedding EYG scripting in an Erlang application: installing the toolkit, using EYG types, effects and packages from Erlang, and type-checking scripts before running them to give users or agents a tightly controlled scripting environment.
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Building agents: When to fold subagents into your main agent loop
Anthropic's Diane Sarkis explains when teams building on Claude Platform should replace orchestrator-plus-subagent designs with a single agent loop that loads skills and tools on demand, how to migrate in stages while measuring with task-completion evals, and how several teams can keep contributing through MCP tools, skills and knowledge bases.
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Tell your network to explain itself and then some
A unixdigest.com tutorial that goes beyond using arp-scan to list devices on a home network, showing how to track and identify every machine and run your own DNS so you can block ads and telemetry without relying on an ISP, Google or Cloudflare.
5 min · 1,044 words
kqr of Entropic Thoughts shows how to use a Nix flake on any Linux distribution to manage a simple script's dependencies, packaging a Python text-to-speech script as a binary and then adapting the approach to other languages.
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John Earnest's Beyond Loom tutorial uses Hershey vector fonts to teach Lil, Decker's APL-influenced scripting language: points, strokes, and paths as nested lists, then layout and drawing primitives for 2D vector text and shapes.
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Expose only share links of a private service with caddy
Solène shows how to use Caddy's forward_auth directive to publish only the share links of self-hosted services like Immich and Nextcloud that otherwise sit behind a VPN, shrinking their public attack surface.
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Josh W. Comeau walks through the top 10 CSS features he voted for in Mozilla's Interop 2027 ranking, from native CSS functions onward, explaining what each does, current browser support as of October 2026, and tips you can use today, as browser vendors plan next year's cross-browser Interop focus areas.
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Do we really need bigger AI weather forecasting models to improve resolution?
Emma Scharfmann shows that instead of building a bigger AI weather model you can train a small downscaler on top of an existing global one: trained in about an hour, it sharpens AIFS-ENS temperature forecasts over France from ~28 km to 5.5 km and cuts station-measured error by 14% RMSE and 21% CRPS over the first two days.
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Aaron Allen's 'Hanami, Why?' series covers Hanami's database layer: why it splits persistence into relations, repos and structs instead of Rails-style models, the advantages of the repo pattern, keeping persistence from leaking into the rest of an app, and the rough edges he has found so far.
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Setting up SSH keys on macOS with Touch ID
Nicolas Mattia shows a three-command way to create an SSH identity in the Mac Secure Enclave, protected by Touch ID and usable with GitHub, with no private key files on disk. He then digs into what sc_auth, CryptoTokenKit and Apple's ssh-keychain.dylib are actually doing, and where the documentation runs out.
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