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American science fiction novelist (Old Man's War, Redshirts, The Kaiju Preservation Society); has run the blog Whatever since 1998.

• Krissy and I have decided that if we end up staying in our house past a certain age, we're going to install an elevator. We would still have to contend with other aspects, though. The property is generally not conducive to mobility issues.
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• The Russian drone that crashed in Lithuania the other day had curl installed. As part of a default Linux install presumably, it seems unlikely it used curl for any "drony" things.

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• winget-tui — A terminal UI for Windows Package Manager (winget) - search, install, upgrade, and manage packages

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• remotion-audiogram — for creating audiograms

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• Releasedumb-alt-tab v1.0.2 — Classical, compact Alt+Tab replacement for Windows 11

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• New TIL on using Blender with coding agents on macOS: https://t.co/GvMDfD926E GPT-6 Astra (medium): > Use the already install /Applications/Blender to render a scene of a pelican riding a bicycle > OK add a background and a lot of flair > OK make it a whole lot better

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• Your agents run Full Access. The Supply Chain is Compromised. The apps are vibe-coded. It’s fine: just install Automic Vault.

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• Releasedumb-alt-tab v1.0.1 — Classical, compact Alt+Tab replacement for Windows 11

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• SQLParser — Parse MySQL schemas in PHP, fast

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Web infrastructure engineer and standards editor; chaired the IETF HTTP working group and co-authored core HTTP and Atom specifications.

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AI research engineer working on large language models. He writes the Ahead of AI newsletter and is the author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).

• A little video that - explains the relationship between conventional LLMs and reasoning models (and agents), - philosophizes a about "from scratch" approaches, - and explains how to install Python & PyTorch requirements with uv.

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• actions — Miscellaneous Github Actions

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Indian software engineer and co-founder of Skcript; builds web apps and writes at varunraj.in.

• If you’re a developer, get yourselves a homelab server, Install the below 👉 @claudeai or any coding agent 👉 @Tailscale 👉 @herdrdev 👉 @vscode for seeing code over ssh 👉 claudecodeui You’ll be all set for a your own cloud coding setup

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• changelog-plugin — Prompts your coding agent for a CHANGELOG.md entry whenever you open a pull request.

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• The lt Package: Lightweight HTML Tables for R (and Beyond)

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• 🛠️ hunk 0.17.0 is out Patches from 10 new contributors, w/ small fixes & quality-of-life improvements like: - official homebrew install (brew install hunk) - launch hunk w/o menu bar - better session reliability - esc no longer quits, proper transparent bg colours, & more

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• gremlins — Chaos gremlins for your code.

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• Just added new documentation for WSL 2 users of DotFriedRice. Now there's a mini-guide FAQ item for installing the Microsoft Terminal, WSL 2 and Arch Linux so you can install DotFriedRice in a few minutes in case you never used WSL 2 before.

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• To help find relevant RFCs no matter what your network connectivity, https://rfc.fyi now implements a service worker that caches the data locally for offline use, and can be installed as a Progressive Web app (PWA) -- i.e., you can install it to your iOS or Android home screen. Note that it still points to online-only RFCs at the RFC Editor site.

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• piductor — Terminal-native conductor for parallel Pi workspaces

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