severak
22.7.2024 13:07:54
Was BASIC that horrible or… better?
from https://retrofun.pl/2023/12/18/was-basic-that-horrible-or-better/
severak
18.7.2024 17:31:28
Data Formats: 3D, Audio, Image
Paul Bourke - Data Formats: 3D, Audio, Image
severak
18.7.2024 14:03:58
Personal Data Warehouses: Reclaiming Your Data
I gave a talk yesterday about personal data warehouses for GitHub’s OCTO Speaker Series, focusing on my Datasette and Dogsheep projects. The video of the talk is now available, and …
severak
18.7.2024 14:00:52
Datasette—an ecosystem of tools for working with small data
This is the transcript and video from a talk I gave at PyGotham 2020 about using SQLite, Datasette and Dogsheep to work with small data. I really like the term …
severak
17.7.2024 16:55:36
Important Women in CS Who Aren't Grace Hopper
I’m tired of hearing about Grace Hopper, Margaret Hamilton, and Ada Lovelace. Can’t we think of someone else for once? I went ahead and compiled a bunch of really important women according to some fairly arbitrary rules: There’s a specific thing you can point to and say “That. That’s their contribution.” This leaves out a lot of really qualified people who made lots of general contributions, but I wanted to keep this list fixed on soundbites.
severak
16.7.2024 15:55:57
Rye language
Rye is a work in progress dynamic language with some new ideas
severak
16.7.2024 11:34:33
Toolbox languages
A toolbox language is a programming language that’s good at solving problems without requiring third party packages. My default toolbox languages are Python and shell scripts, which you probably already know about. Here are some of my more obscure ones. AutoHotKey Had to show up! Autohotkey is basically “shell scripting for GUIs”. Just a fantastic tool to smooth over using unprogrammable applications. It’s Windows-only but similar things exist for Mac and Linux.
severak
22.11.2023 14:12:08
google webfonts helper
A Hassle-Free Way to Self-Host Google Fonts. Get eot, ttf, svg, woff and woff2 files + CSS snippets!
severak
27.10.2023 12:19:58
The Frink is Good, the Unit is Evil
One day Alan Eliasen read a fart joke and got so mad he invented a programming language. 20 years later Frink is one of the best special purpose languages for dealing with units. “But why do we need a language just for dealing with units?” Glad you asked! Intro to Units A unit is the physical property a number represents, like distance or time. We almost always are talking about SI units, or Système international.
severak
27.10.2023 12:19:20
Computer Things
from https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/raku-is-surprisingly-good-for-clis/
severak
29.9.2023 20:25:58
Introducing Enhance Music — Begin Blog
Today, the Enhance team is excited to introduce our latest demo app: Enhance Music — a music library and audio player app built with HTML and CSS, and progressively enhanced with a couple pinches of JavaScript. Despite being built as a traditional multipage website, Enhance Music features an audio player that persists across page loads, and some gorgeous interactive UI built entirely with web standards.
severak
29.9.2023 09:59:29
Computer Things
from https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/did-brendan-eich-really-make-javascript-in-10-days/
severak
3.7.2021 15:13:18
The Untold Story of SQLite - CoRecursive Podcast
On today's show, I'm talking to Richard Hipp about surviving becoming core infrastructure for the world. SQLite is everywhere. It's in your web browser, it's in your phone, it's probably in your car, and it's definitely in commercial planes. It's where your iMessages and WhatsApp messages are stored, and if you do a find on your computer for *.db, you'll... […]
severak
12.2.2021 09:58:24
SQLite DB Migrations with PRAGMA user_version
from https://levlaz.org/sqlite-db-migrations-with-pragma-user_version/
severak
8.2.2021 10:09:48
Making Sense of The Audio Stack On Unix
Audio on Unix is a little zoo, there are so many acronyms for projects and APIs that it's easy to get lost. Let's tackle that issue! Most articles are confusing because they either use audio technical jargon, or because they barely scratch the surface and leave people clueless. A little knowledge can be dangerous.
severak
20.11.2020 15:54:27
FrontPage: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Microsoft FrontPage has its thorns, but don't discount the fact that those thorns are attached to a rose.
severak
20.11.2020 13:24:08
Windows Subsystem for Linux: The lost potential - jmmv.dev
If you have followed Windows 10 at all during the last few years, you know that the Windows Subsystem for Linux, or WSL for short, is the hot topic among developers. You can finally run your Linux tooling on Windows as a first class citizen, which means you no longer have to learn PowerShell or, god forbid, suffer through the ancient CMD.EXE console. Unfortunately, not everything is as rosy as it sounds.
severak
11.8.2020 10:02:14
They Write the Right Stuff
As the 120-ton space shuttle sits surrounded by almost 4 million pounds of rocket fuel, exhaling noxious fumes, visibly impatient to defy gravity, its on-board computers take command.
severak
5.8.2020 11:43:23
PHP - The Wrong Way
This website has been created in an attempt to present a pragmatic view on PHP programming. A view dictated by experience and practical consequence rather than popular trends, theory, or academic dogma.
severak
22.7.2020 09:34:27
Native image lazy-loading for the web
This post covers the loading attribute and how it can be used to control the loading of images.
severak
29.5.2020 09:12:14
[c][explained] Demystifying Pointers — What are they?
from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB70mUPcLU0
severak
27.5.2020 15:02:58
Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself
For the past four years, I've worked as a software developer at Google. On February 1st, I quit. It was because they refused to buy me a Christmas present.
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