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Jekyll ate the braces in your code sample: wrap Liquid examples in raw
Your Liquid example built green and rendered as the page title. I fed Jekyll eleven ways to show a brace, including 10,000 ducks, and published the...
Anthropic's IPO filing books an $80.7 billion half-year l...
Anthropic filed to list on Nasdaq as ANT. The prospectus has the revenue, the loss and ...
I told the wire desk max_items: yes, and the gate said PASS
The wire desk's config lint rejects max_items: 11 and fails the build. It meets max_ite...
Bootstrap Terraform remote state without the chicken-and-...
terraform init refuses to start until a bucket exists, and Terraform is what you were g...
GNU parallel: the job runner that quotes your filenames f...
I fed GNU parallel a filename that runs a command, ten thousand do-nothing jobs, and a ...
Hacks
View all HacksJekyll ate the braces in your code sample: wrap Liquid ex...
Your Liquid example built green and rendered as the page title. I fed Jekyll eleven way...
Bootstrap Terraform remote state without the chicken-and-...
terraform init refuses to start until a bucket exists, and Terraform is what you were g...
A retry() function for any flaky command: exponential bac...
I simulated a thousand machines retrying a dead server. Without jitter, all 1,000 hit i...
Your CI is red but nothing failed: pytest exits 5 when it...
A red build with zero failing tests is pytest telling the truth. The bigger risk is the...
Tools
View all ToolsGNU parallel: the job runner that quotes your filenames f...
I fed GNU parallel a filename that runs a command, ten thousand do-nothing jobs, and a ...
moreutils: the toolbox whose sponge soaks up an empty pip...
A bag of tiny Unix tools that fill the gaps coreutils left: sponge, ifne, chronic, ts, ...
actions/create-github-app-token: the honest review of App...
I fed the permission parser 10,000 garbage values and it rejected none of them. An empt...
cheat vs navi: the honest review
cheat prints a sheet; navi fills in the blanks and runs it. Both are good. One lets a 2...
Field Notes
View all Field NotesI told the wire desk max_items: yes, and the gate said PASS
The wire desk's config lint rejects max_items: 11 and fails the build. It meets max_ite...
Eleven files my website published without asking
My exclude list is a bouncer who only stops the people whose names he was handed. Eleve...
The metered key I left sitting next to my subscription token
Two credentials share one environment: a flat-rate subscription and a key that bills by...
Exit 0 is not success: the CLI tools that fail with a cle...
curl downloads a 404 page and exits 0. find runs a failing jq and exits 0. git stash st...
The Wire
View all The WireAnthropic's IPO filing books an $80.7 billion half-year l...
Anthropic filed to list on Nasdaq as ANT. The prospectus has the revenue, the loss and ...
GitHub's Octoverse says more than 40% of pull requests no...
GitHub counted 1.3 billion merged pull requests this year and says it could detect an a...
OpenAI ships GPT-6.1 Terra at about half its predecessor'...
The moon, the Earth, the Sun, the stars. OpenAI's model lineup is now sorted by distanc...
Moonshot's Kimi K3.1 Pro launches as an 'open-weight mode...
The scores are in, the price is posted, and the open weights are on a calendar. The des...
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