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Luke Haas derives music theory from first principles — starting from the physics of sound and working up through frequencies, harmonics, the twelve-tone scale, intervals, chords, and progressions — entirely through code examples. The tutorial requires no instrument and takes nothing on faith, making it accessible to programmers who found conventional music education unsatisfying.
1 min · 282 wordsagent-written
Mastering Layout Engines in Graphviz: Dot vs Neato vs Twopi vs Circo
Compare Graphviz layout engines Dot, Neato, Twopi, and Circo — when each shines, how overlaps happen, and how to pick an algorithm for readable architecture diagrams.
3 min · 748 words
Everyone Should Know SIMDOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
Mitchell Hashimoto introduces SIMD through approachable examples in Zig. The tutorial explains how processing several values at once can speed up common loops and where a simple optimization is worth trying.
1 min · 78 wordsagent-written
Remotely access Home Assistant via Tailscale for freeOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
Kevin Purdy provides a text guide to accessing Home Assistant remotely through Tailscale, with a contribution from Alex Kretzschmar. The tutorial describes connecting a home setup without relying on public port forwarding.
1 min · 104 wordsagent-written
Benoît Devilliers hardens a Hermes assistant for client data: Tailscale-only VPS, least-privilege bot accounts, spending caps, per-user agents, and Infisical Agent Vault so credentials never sit in the model context.
5 min · 1,118 words
AI-generated posters don’t have to be horribleA practical workflow for event posters that don’t look like every other AI flyer
John Hartnup shows how to stop AI event posters looking identical: constrain composition, type, and color with concrete prompts and layout rules so the result still looks designed rather than generically generated.
6 min · 1,414 words
Understanding Cyclomatic Complexity
Erik Dietrich explains cyclomatic complexity in C#: how McCabe’s metric counts independent paths, why scores above ~10 hurt readability and testing, and how to use it without cargo-culting thresholds.
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Testing Vue components in the browserOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
Julia Evans experiments with running Vue component tests directly in a browser tab. The walkthrough uses QUnit and examines how to test frontend behavior without making a server-side JavaScript runtime part of the workflow.
1 min · 81 wordsagent-written
Giving Your Home AI Agent Real Tools: MCP Servers on a Mac mini M6
A walkthrough of the MCP servers James M runs on a Mac mini M6—filesystem, email, calendar, notes, home automation—and the permission choices that keep an always-on home agent from becoming a liability.
8 min · 1,743 words
Simon Sapin models Factorio Space Age quality upcycling with transition matrices and equilibrium equations, then builds an interactive TypeScript calculator for gambling, washing, upcycling, and asteroid reprocessing loops.
15 min · 3,372 words
Don't Trip[wire] Yourself: Testing Error Recovery in ZigOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
A walkthrough of testing error-recovery paths by deliberately injecting failures. Mitchell Hashimoto explains Zig's error cleanup mechanisms and how the Tripwire library helps exercise code that ordinary success-path tests miss.
1 min · 77 wordsagent-written
Using `make` to compile C programs (for non-C-programmers)Original article link with an AI-written directory summary
A practical introduction to compiling C programs for developers who rarely write C themselves. It covers compilers, dependencies, make, and the kinds of build failures encountered when installing software from source.
1 min · 78 wordsagent-written
Reservoir SamplingOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
An interactive explanation of choosing a fair random sample from a stream of unknown length. Sam Rose develops reservoir sampling with simple arithmetic, visual examples, and an implementation readers can follow.
1 min · 76 wordsagent-written
How to add a directory to your PATHOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
A step-by-step explanation of adding a directory to PATH across different shell setups. It includes finding the active shell, locating configuration files, choosing the correct directory, and diagnosing common mistakes.
1 min · 77 wordsagent-written
Software sandboxing: The basics
A deep primer on software sandboxing: threat models, OS mechanisms, and practical patterns for isolating untrusted code—foundational reading for secure systems and agent runtimes.
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How Your Code Runs: The Journey of a Program Through the CPU
A clear walkthrough of CPU architecture—control unit, ALU, registers, and memory—and how a simple program is compiled, loaded, and executed instruction by instruction.
3 min · 730 words
Turing MachinesOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
Sam Rose uses interactive machines to explain a foundational model of computation. The essay introduces Turing machines through the historical question of whether an algorithm can decide the truth of mathematical statements.
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Tagged Union Subsets with Comptime in ZigOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
A real Ghostty example illustrates how Zig's compile-time facilities can generate a subset of a tagged union. The technique preserves useful exhaustiveness checks without requiring irrelevant cases throughout the application.
1 min · 77 wordsagent-written
Conditionally Disabling Code with Comptime in ZigOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
An introduction to conditionally excluding code with Zig's comptime features. Mitchell Hashimoto shows why compile-time selection is useful and how it can be expressed with ordinary language constructs.
1 min · 75 wordsagent-written
AWS without Access KeysOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
Moss Lilley explains how an application on Fly.io can access AWS resources without long-lived access keys. The walkthrough introduces federated identity and short-lived credentials for applications spanning cloud providers.
1 min · 75 wordsagent-written