20 random bookmarks

2025-10-24

137.

How to Run 1:1s as an Engineering Manager

justoffbyone.com

2025-09-01

132.

Jujutsu for everyone

jj-for-everyone.github.io

A Jujutsu tutorial that requires no previous experience with Git or other version control systems.

2025-06-17

119.

Debugging tricks for IntelliJ

andreabergia.com/blog/2025/06/debugging-tricks-for-intellij

I have been using IntelliJ Idea at work for a decade or so by now, and it’s been a reliable companion. JetBrains IDEs have a bit of a reputation for being slow, but their feature set is incredible: powerful refactoring tools, a great VCS UI (though I like magit even more!), a huge number of supported frameworks, integration with just about any testing library for any language, code coverage tools, powerful debuggers, etc.

2025-05-23

111.

share_target - Web application manifest

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web_apps/Manifest/Reference/share_target

The share_target manifest member allows installed Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) to be registered as a share target in the system's share dialog.

2024-12-31

95.

Idiosyncra

exple.tive.org/blarg/2024/12/29/idiosyncra

Interesting setup for pet computers. Debian + sway + cage

2024-11-22

89.

New stuff in Emacs 30

www.mgmarlow.com/words/2024-07-28-emacs-30-news

Reading through the Emacs 30 NEWS file and picking
out the stuff I think is the most interesting.

2024-09-19

77.

Blogging in Djot instead of Markdown

www.jonashietala.se/blog/2024/02/02/blogging_in_djot_instead_of_markdown

2024-09-17

75.

Master hexagonal architecture in Rust

www.howtocodeit.com/articles/master-hexagonal-architecture-rust

Everything you need to write flexible, future-proof Rust applications using hexagonal architecture.

2024-09-10

71.

run freebsd in qemu on linux

sethops1.net/post/run-freebsd-in-qemu-on-linux

2024-09-02

70.

Parsing awk is tricky

www.raygard.net/awkdoc/pages/awk_parsing_is_tricky.html

A somewhat compact implementation of the awk programming language

2024-08-15

66.

Planning Weekly Workouts in 100 lines of Haskell

alt-romes.github.io/posts/2024-08-14-planning-a-workout-week-with-100-lines-of-haskell.html

A lightning post on logic programming in Haskell to construct a workout weekly schedule given the set of exercises, days and constraints.

2024-08-09

64.

Store Code Discussions in Git using Git Notes

wouterj.nl/2024/08/git-notes

Code discussions contain relevant information. Isn’t it a shame that we
keep these in the centralized GitHub/GitLab servers, far away from our
decentralized Git code? As soon as we move provider, we’ll lose all old
discussions! And how do you ever find the pull requests back from 5
years ago? Symfony has implemented a lightweight solution to this problem
years ago using a less-known feature of Git: Git Notes.

2024-07-05

60.

JavaScript-Free Sidenotes in Hugo

danilafe.com/blog/sidenotes

2024-06-24

52.

Counting Immutable Beans: Reference Counting Optimized for Purely Functional Programming

arxiv.org/abs/1908.05647

Most functional languages rely on some garbage collection for automatic memory management. They usually eschew reference counting in favor of a tracing garbage collector, which has less bookkeeping overhead at runtime. On the other hand, having an exact reference count of each value can enable optimizations, such as destructive updates. We explore these optimization opportunities in the context of an eager, purely functional programming language. We propose a new mechanism for efficiently reclaiming memory used by nonshared values, reducing stress on the global memory allocator. We describe an approach for minimizing the number of reference counts updates using borrowed references and a heuristic for automatically inferring borrow annotations. We implemented all these techniques in a new compiler for an eager and purely functional programming language with support for multi-threading. Our preliminary experimental results demonstrate our approach is competitive and often outperforms state-of-the-art compilers.

2024-06-17

35.

OpenBSD, the computer appliance maker's secret weapon

hiandrewquinn.github.io/til-site/posts/openbsd-the-computer-appliance-maker-s-secret-weapon

Between our ESP32 prokaryotic organisms and our 24/7 Internet-enabled megafauna servers, there exists a vast and loosely-defined ecosystem of things the B2B world likes to call computer appliances. Picture a bespoke Pi 4 packaged up neatly with some Python scripts, a little fancy plastic embossing, and maybe a well-guarded id_ed25519.pub in case you end up in hot water during the (long - very long, stable cash flow for generations long) maintenance contract, and you’re in the ballpark.

2024-06-14

33.

A useful shell prompt

blog.meain.io/2022/my-shell-prompt

Featureful zsh prompt.

2024-06-13

18.

An easy-to-implement, arena-friendly hash map

nullprogram.com/blog/2023/09/30
16.

Avoid Linux locking up in low memory situations using earlyoom

dataswamp.org/~solene/2022-09-28-earlyoom.html

This article presents the program earlyoom to prevent a Linux system to lock up in low memory situations.

14.

Optimal SQLite settings for Django

gcollazo.com/optimal-sqlite-settings-for-django

There’s plenty of information out there on how to scale Django to handle numerous requests per second, but most of it…

2024-06-12

12.

I really like the RP2040

dgroshev.com/blog/rp2040