ttok 0.4
Release: ttok 0.4 ttok is my CLI tool for counting tokens, using OpenAI's open source tiktoken library. It hasn't been in updated in a couple of years, but I finally fixed a Click warning, updated CI, and added a…
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Quoting Carson Gross
Computer programming is, fundamentally, about two things: Problem-solving using computers Learning to control complexity while solving these problems I have a hard time imagining a future where knowing how to solve…
Why no Dependent Matrix Type?
Hello, I don't really know how to really introduce this topic. Background: I want to implement compile time safe matrix multiplication. For that i want to have a struct with const generics for the number of columns and…
Rust abstractions for kernel sources
Hi, I just got my my kernel Rust enabled and have compiled a working minimal LKM, but see that I now need access to some of the kernel calls under the net framework. Which leads me to believe I need to create some Rust…
A Bootiful Podcast: legendary Java developer Kohsuke Kawaguchi
Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, we catch up with one of the most influential engineers in modern Java history - Kohsuke Kawaguchi - for a wide-ranging conversation that’s equal parts tech retrospective, career…
Oracle Java Platform Extension for Visual Studio Code - Version 27.0.0 Is Now Available
New release of the Java Platform Extension for VS Code
Include a helper for writing `__repr__` in the standard library
I have wanted this a few times and I’m curious whether others would find this useful. For this class: class Point: def __init__(self, x, y, z, color): self.x, self.y, self.z = x, y, z self.color = color def…
Sending trip places as a stamp sheet, with the whole story in the URL fragment
When I get back from a trip I send friends a list of places. They read it in one glance and the order I had in mind is gone. So I built a small page that turns up to six places and one line each into a sheet of postage…
Query Every Token on the XRP Ledger With One Endpoint
The XRP Ledger currently has 20,437 issued tokens, and 1,381 of them traded in the last 24 hours. Getting at that data usually means running your own rippled node or stitching together several exchange APIs. There is a…
Why Your JavaScript App Is Losing Money: The Hidden Danger of Native Math
If you run a SaaS platform, a payment gateway, or an e-commerce checkout flow, we need to talk about a quiet, insidious bug living right inside your JavaScript runtime. Open your browser console right now, type 0.1 +…
intro
Hi, I’m Sakshi Yadav. I’m a 3rd-year B.Tech Computer Science student at Gyan Ganga Institute of Technology and Science, Jabalpur. I’m interested in software development and currently improving my skills in C++,…
Showing a league table offline when the signal at the ground is bad
Our club plays at a ground where the mobile signal drops to nothing about ten minutes before kick-off, which is exactly when people want to check the log and the next fixture. So the small page I keep for the club had…
I built a free no-tax-on-overtime calculator — here is the OBBBA §70202 math
I have been learning SEO this year, and my first real project is a free calculator for the new US federal overtime tax deduction. Building it forced me to read the actual statute (OBBBA §70202, new IRC §225), because…
Anarcat: PSA: Europe changes time forward soon, North America next, for the last time?
This is a copy of an email I sent at work. I'm not sure I should be making noise about this here, feedback welcome. This is your bi-yearly reminder that time is changing soon! October 25th in Europe, November 1st in…
Why are we still uploading confidential PDFs to cloud servers just to merge pages?
When building web tools in 2026, many of us default to standard microservice architecture: The user uploads sensitive documents (bank records, tax PDFs, contracts) over the wire. A backend server (Python/PyPDF2,…
I replaced our warehouse paper inventory with one HTML file
At work, inventory day looks the same every time. We walk around the warehouse with printed sheets and pens: wood panels, aluminium profiles, glass and laminates, hundreds of entries. We write numbers in the margins and…
Why your photo-to-PDF pages come out in the wrong order (and how to sort them in the browser)
If you've built an "images to PDF" feature, you've probably had this bug report: "I picked page 1, 2, 3, 4 and the PDF came out 3, 1, 4, 2." Nothing is wrong with your PDF code. The problem is the order the files arrive…
How I test SMS OTP flows in Playwright without sending real texts
Lately I've been working with OTP flows a lot. Every project seems to use a different SMS provider: Twilio here, Infobip there, AWS SNS somewhere else, and Netgsm or Verimor on the Turkish projects. Different APIs,…
Allow profiling an entrypoint (dotted.name:func) (maybe `-e`?)
minimal problem statement: profiling a module or script muddies the profile with import-time computation. it would be nice to profile just a function open problems: what to put in sys.argv[0]? (this is apparently…
Free OCR sites cap you at 15 pages/hour, so I built an unlimited one that runs Tesseract in the browser
Every free OCR service I tried throttles you: 15 pages/hour, 50 pages/month, or a free tier that exists to push you to a paid plan. The cap makes sense for them, because server compute costs money on every page. The…
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