1+ week, 1+ day ago   (648+ words) So I decided to rewrite the lid question fifty ways. Then, rereading the question, I found that its answer key was wrong. That story comes first. Here is the original. 페트 300 투명 10박스 뚜껑 흰거 5봉이요 (10 boxes of clear PET 300, 5 bags of…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (178+ words) Welcome back dear reader, I am Alex M. Schapelle, AKA Silent-Mobius, your Semi-automated cog-engine. As the time of machine is upon us, also known as AI-Prompt-Engineering, I've decided to invest my virtual belongings into useful user interface for a tools that…...

3+ week, 19+ hour ago   (303+ words) Developers solve problems every day. You debug unexpected behavior, trace dependencies, question assumptions, search for edge cases, and occasionally discover that the problem was caused by a missing character. Riddles exercise many of the same mental habits. The best adult…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (752+ words) This article gives you the move that lets a cell read "21.2x" while it still holds 21.1919 underneath: a custom number format. Press Ctrl+1, pick Custom, type 0.0"x". The display changes. The number does not. The principle is one line, and it…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (649+ words) In my last post I discussed DSLs for database querying in Clojure. These typically take the form of data structures. I also discussed how some query languages, like SPARQL and Datomic, use variables in their queries, and that these appear…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (889+ words) If you work with measurements often enough, you eventually run into the same problem: the value you have isn't in the unit you need. A product specification might be in inches. A construction drawing might use feet. A European supplier…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (526+ words) There is no codebase per customer at GoodBarber. What defines an app is a description — which sections exist, how they're arranged, what they look like, how they behave — read by an engine that all apps share. When we improve the…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (464+ words) Each week Mohammad S. Anwar sends out The Weekly Challenge, a chance for all of us to come up with solutions to two weekly tasks. My solutions are written in Python first, and then converted to Perl. Unless otherwise stated, Copilot…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago   (148+ words) Hi everyone! 👋 I’ve built CountryClue, a lightweight web game for guessing world flags. I focused heavily on zero-dependency performance and smooth UI animations, trying to keep it as fast and clean as possible. Please check out the game and let…...