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In one of their podcasts with Matt Godbolt (yep, that one), Ben Rady talks about how he creates an AI sandbox so that Claude can work unattended, without asking for a thousand permissions.

Something unexpected happened the other day when working on a small frontend project.

Many years ago, when I had enough time to work on extracurricular activities, I developed a little helper CLI for libdragon - a Nintendo 64 toolchain and library - to enable development without having a full Linux system.

Win 11 made me make the move to finally start using Linux on my daily driver computer after almost 3 decades of using Windows.

Recently I was debugging a piece of rather legacy React code and I’ve realized that some of the lazy components weren’t unmounting properly for some reason, causing a cascade of additional problems.

Nearly a decade ago, I’ve written a blog on creating a debugging proxy server.

After my initial attempt at playing with async generators, recently I decided to give a similar concept a go.

I was a hunt and peck typer for a very long time.

When developing my Nintendo 64 game Voidblade, an important step was rendering the triangles.

After more than 25 years of the release of the console, there is still a great Nintendo 64 homebrew community called N64brew (discord server here).

ffi-napi is now deprecated so your milage may vary.

Let’s imagine that we want to manage cancellation of an async operation using generator functions in javascript.

Are you still paying for your SSL certificates?

For a long time, I had a dream.

I was once into hobby RC airplane stuff - unfortunately don’t have the time to fly these days.

Animation is a pain if you do not know how it is implemented.

When I was working on a isometric game engine/map editor a few years back, I thought that it would be a nice idea to use some kind of a messaging mechanism to communicate between different components of the engine.

I am collecting vinyl for the last 10 years although I have a rather limited collection of about a 100.

I was recently building a web app using Polymer 2.0 and need to include some SVG assets for wider resolution support.

Previously I have started writing on fixing my korg i5m (part-1).

Recently I was working on fixing a korg i5m 1995 workstation -that I’ve bought as is on eBay years ago- which has a noise problem in the output.

To be able to eavesdrop to internet sharing traffic, you may use pf or packet filtering tool, which is a kind of firewall used by the mac’s operating system.

I have recently started using a OSX installed macbook pro work for my work.

Node.js is a javascript runtime based on Chromium’s V8 javascript engine.

JavaScript is becoming more and more popular every day and I was wondering if I could make a standalone javaScript App.

Found an old (actually late 70s) TV camera and did my own mod.

Currently working on a hobby project on reading floppy disk images using javascript.

If you’re using a small-capacity SSD and have your main OS partition (in this case Windows 7) on it, it is possible that you run out of space in no time.