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I was chugging along with this personal pet project of mine, but then the whole .env content is in the chatbox, in all its glory. Be right back, just have to go and rotate about 10 app credentials that just got sent in plaintext to Anthropic's server.
The coolest thing about the Zed Editor imo, is the ability to bind keyboard shortcut with the fn key. Another additional modifier key equals an additional few hundreds possible keybinds. I love the fact that I can switch pane with fn + hjkl.
What is the secret sauce for this? The only other tool that have this possibility is skhd, and I'm using skhd to add fn based keybind to other application, which is a godsend
Just published another issue of Register Spill.
This time I wrote about the curiousity that is Chrome showing the memory usage of tabs. That lead me to writing about the sounds computers used to make.
Read it here: https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/the-hum-of-the-machine
Have you noticed that the newest versions of Chrome on macOS show how much memory a tab is using? I don’t mean something in the developer tools, or an internal process manager. No, you now only have to hover your cursor over a tab and Chrome tells you: this one uses 60MB, that one 200MB, the one at the end uses 400MB.
Just finished following the book "Writing an Interpreter in Go". Easily the best technical book I have ever read. Mad shoutout to @mrnugget for teaching me what the college class 3 years ago couldn't.
Now on to writing the compiler.
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Stencil spotted in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
Mention Pixelfed, get banned on Facebook/Instagram.
Meanwhile, we just started https://respectfulplatforms.org
Every friend you save from Meta's ecosystem is one less person whose digital life can be erased at Zuck's whim.
Spread the word.
Just finished the first Raytracing book written with Rust. My first attempt at writing a Rust program. Taught me a tremendous amount of knowledge, both in Computer Graphics and Rust.
Definitely recommended for everybody.
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