The /llms.txt file – llms-txt
Having your stuff show up in LLMs is, like it or not, another way and a browing way of having your stuff found. If you don't want to fight that fact, this might be one useful approach to making it work for you.
Plans for a Lego cat
Post on Threads with plans for an adorable Lego cat.
A modern guide to SQL JOINs
A useful-looking guide to SQL joins.
How to Make an Emacs Minor Mode
A good looking tutorial on how to make a minor mode in and for Emacs.
Composing Text in Emacs: Unicode, Emojis, and the Power of C-x 8 | Rahul's Blog
Good overview of how to compose various characters in Emacs.
QQQLANG
This... is awesome. Sit someone in front of this, let them mash the keyboard, fun happens.
Pony Tutorial
I doubt I'll ever have a need for it, but there's something about Pony that looks interesting. I think I might have to dabble at some point...
Learn Dutch phrases, vocabulary and grammar – Understanding Dutch
Useful-looking site with resources for learning Dutch.
Git Notes: git's coolest, most unloved feature - Tyler Cipriani
You can add notes to commits in git. It's almost never spoken about.
Lisp Logical Pathnames
A short and useful introduction to logical pathnames in Common Lisp.
Common Lisp Strong Typing Example
As the title says: examples of strong typing in Common Lisp.
A Scheme Primer
Nice little introduction to Scheme.
Asyncio Demystified: Rebuilding it From Scratch One Yield at a Time
How to do async in Python the hard way, as a way to learn how it works so you undersatnd things better when you do it the easy way.
Lazy self-installing Python scripts with uv
Post in praise of uv (as most posts about uv are) and detailing how it can be used to make self-installing scripts.
How to Use Async Agnostic Decorators in Python
Interesting article on how you can go about writing Python decorators that are async-agnostic.
A successful Git branching model
Pretty good guide to an approach to a git branching strategy.
HOW TO BUILD TWITTER CLONE PROJECT WITH REACT JS FOR BEGINNERS
I can't actually decide if this is humour or not, but it's hilarious, for sure.
The Inner Workings of Python Dataclasses Explained
Everything you ever wanted to know about Python's dataclasses. And probably more. And probably stuff you didn't care to know. And probably stuff you didn't know you'd ever want to know, or not.
Crafting Interpreters
A guide to building an interpreter for your own language.
One day.... one day.
WebGPU Unleashed: A Practical Tutorial
A tutorial on getting to grips with WebGPU.
Statically Typed Functional Programming with Python 3.12
One person's adventutes in functional programmming in Python.
Homoiconic Python - MOHAMMED JAMAL
Those who don't learn Lisp are doomed to reinvent it. Actually, those who do learn list are also doomed to reinvent it too. Here someone sort of reinvents Lisp in Python.
How Python Asyncio Works: Recreating it from Scratch
An approach to explaining Python's asyncio by recreating it from scratch.
From Zero To IDE with Emacs and LSP
Handy guide to getting going with lots of LSP goodness in Emacs.
A beginner's guide to Ollama
Straightfoward into to getting up and running with Ollama.
How to mod the Fallout 4 VR game so it actually works
It's widly-accepted that the VR port of Fallout 4 is trash; but it's also the case that with all the right mods it can be a pretty good VR experience. Here's a guide to modding into an okay VR game.
How To Make VERTICAL VIDEOS in iMovie - the RIGHT WAY!
Probably the best method I've seen yet for how to make YouTube Short style videos in iMove.
(How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (in Python))
This page has two purposes: to describe how to implement computer language interpreters in general, and in particular to build an interpreter for most of the Scheme dialect of Lisp using Python 3 as the implementation language. I call my language and interpreter Lispy (lis.py). Years ago, I showed how to write a semi-practical Scheme interpreter Java and in in Common Lisp). This time around the goal is to demonstrate, as concisely and simply as possible, what Alan Kay called "Maxwell's Equations of Software."
Elisp in replacement string
Something I've never really paid attention to, and it's actually quite a powerful feature: when doing search/repalce in Emacs you can replace with Elisp code (as in, Elisp code can provide the replacement).
Annotating args and kwargs in Python
Useful blog post that goes over the best ways to type *args and **kwargs in Python.