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Today I learnt about "bypass charging", a phone feature where it can run directly off the mains without using the battery at all. No battery charging, less heat, less battery wear. Nifty.
miniblog.
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I'm considering using WebP more: for example, my websites would load faster and browsers have supported it since 2020: https://caniuse.com/webp
That said, GitHub just added support in August 2025, so I suspect I'd still find use cases that don't work yet:
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Test code is total: we require it to always terminate or it's a failure! It also typically has 100% line and branch coverage.
I feel way less nervous about refactoring tests, you can always just run them.
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I certainly see the appeal of an LLM system with full context and tool use (OpenClaw), but the lethal trifecta puts me off deploying it.
I do like the idea of an agent with a heartbeat though. A bunch of nice cron-style workflows can be built on top.
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Date of birth pickers are a surprisingly nuanced UI problem.
What do you pick as the initial value? How do you allow users to easily move by large amounts (years) as well as small amounts (the exact day)?
Defaulting to today and even allowing future dates is funny though.
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I've written a website that archives all my posts/tweets/toots/skeets across different microblogging platforms!
It's fun to be able to see similar posts that I wrote at completely different times. It also lets me edit links that have bitrotted.
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When I moved back to the UK, I ordered SIMs for both myself and my wife. We ended up with consecutive numbers!
It's really convenient sometimes.
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An AI benchmark website that tries to run comparable benchmarks regularly to discover when LLM performance is degrading:
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Futhark's design is deliberately trying to stay simple to keep long term design sustainable.
The author also has an interesting discussion of relative versus absolute paths in import syntax, and how relative paths can make local analysis easier.
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The vast majority of libraries have a single maintainer. Even if you weight by downloads, roughly half of downloaded libraries have a single maintainer too.
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Show, don't tell: effective advice for writing for both LLMs and people!
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I've been working on a search tool for a website with 9K items and a dumb implementation works just fine. I'd normally gravitate to a library or tool like elasticsearch (ES).
Adding custom filters etc is trivial on handrolled code. I wonder what scale requires actual search infra like ES.
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I see people advocating for writing a FAQ, but I really struggle to write one from scratch.
The best FAQs are written as a response to, well, frequent questions.
How do you populate the initial FAQ?
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Wonderful post from the lead LLVM maintainer reflecting on how the project is run, the design issues in LLVM today, and opportunities to make it better:
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My default assumption is that external libraries are better than what I (or an LLM) would write in a v1.
The extra effort to publish a project generally signifies that the author has spent a good amount of time on the problem. I end up prompting LLMs to prefer external code.
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