Issues from 2023

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2023-W38

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This week has been about Bun, a cleverer cd, shell pipelines in Rust, circles in printing, sustainability guidelines for the web and SQLite for multi-file documents.

2023-W37

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This week has been about the 4-colour map theory, a cross-platform nantive GUI for Rust, a terminal file manager, an interactive Linux kernel map, the Odin programming language and a Unix timestamp clock.

2023-W36

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This week has been about a tool for colour selection, a jq clone, Nix Flakes, Matrix shortcomings, the Oil shell and a video on curl.

2023-W35

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This week has been about a Web Component for math formulas, a Clojure language on top of LLVM, a Git command-palette, measuring developer productivity, the impact of Copilot and a offline maps application.

2023-W34

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This week has been about incompetent nice people, CVEs rescored without proper explanations, a package manager for Conda, Google DRM to control the Web, styilish maps and a WebAssembly framework for serverless.

2023-W33

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This week has been about Jira from the terminal, GitHub integrations with Rust, Postgres replicated to SQLite, a collection of miniature programming languages, unused CSS and whether syntax highlighting helps or not.

2023-W32

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This week has been about the Red Book of data management, animations in WebAssembly, an embeddable relational database, Machine Learning in Rust, a tool to compress in many formats and a memory for the creator of Vim.

2023-W31

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This week has been about Lua multi-values, the Fennel language, the Wing Cloud language, a keyboard customiser for MacOS, the history of Unicode and how to use semicolons in English.

2023-W30

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This week has been about a Rust code checker, portable maps with WebGPU, Apple's Private Access Tokens, Desktop Container Environments, a tool for MacOS automation with Lua and a high-level systems programming language.

2023-W29

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This week has been about a CLI for plain-text HTTP requests, a linter for Python imports, a chart library in Rust a software license against bigotry, WebGPU and Rust traits for data streams.

2023-W28

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This week has been about SQLite synchronisation, interactive widgets with DuckDB, a game with lasers and chess pieces, prototyping with Rust and Python, a web application framework driven by SQL and a library for diagramming in JavaScript.

2023-W27

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This week has been about SQLite on Postgres protocol, an IRC desktop application, relational joins, checkmate patterns, a statically typed configuration language and a carbon footprint calculator.

2023-W26

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This week has been about CSS Hue, a tool for code structural search, calling C++ from Rust, a block-based editor, a single data access layer library and memory allocation basics.

2023-W25

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This week has been about completion scripts from BNF, a lambda calculus repl, Rust Git hooks, the Kakoune editor, repurposing hardware and data abstractions.

2023-W24

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This week has been about a SurrealDB playground, PDF annotation in Obsidian, snapshot testing in Rust, the new EU AI Act, CSS blend modes and weaknesses in OOXML signatures.

2023-W23

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This week has been about a system for consultations, speeding up Rust Docker builds, a curly Python dialect, the London tube in Git, a collection of CSS patterns and low-level WASM in TypeScript.

2023-W22

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This week has been about bypassing paywalls, stored procedures in SQLite, a local meta search engine, merging tree-like structures, WASI on POSIX and a web bundler in Rust compatible with Webpack.

2023-W21

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This week has been about a tool to generate flamegraphs, debugging asynchronous Rust, a technical debt classification, electronic music rudiments, a spreadsheet-like tool supporting Python and a programming language with manual memory management and Python-like syntax.

2023-W19

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This week has been about RocksDB, emoji prompts, managing Python, querying binary files, prompt engineering and a tutorial on TLS.

2023-W18

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This week has been about the internals of Pandas, internals of Deno KV, unsafe Rust vs Zig, useful errors in Rust, search and replace for Neovim and streaming statistics.

2023-W17

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This week has been about the internals of databases, LLMs in Python, LLMs in Rust, a service offering pre-trained models, MVCC in Postgres and a tool to kill processes.

2023-W16

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This week has been about data exfiltration in Python, WebAssembly in Python, Rust backing mobile applications, text minimaps, interactive graphics in JavaScript and load balancer strategies.

2023-W15

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This week has been about a simplified Nix, fast lexers in Rust, accessible SolidJS, the London tube in 3D, a technical search engine, and headless mobile applications.

2023-W14

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This week has been about networks and graphs with Gephi Lite, a JavaScript library for graph manipulation, a Python library for data validation, a Make-like build tool, the state of AI research, and WebAssembly tail call optimisation in V8.

2023-W13

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This week has been about the Janet language, the bicycle movement, a tool for analysing security risks, a typesetting system, and a talk on data-oriented design.

2023-W12

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This week has been about collations in databases, flaws in Linux processes, provenance for digital content, Amazon S3 as a local file system, the GPT hype and deceptive design patterns.

2023-W11

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This week has been about translating C to Rust, a graphical font editor, an alternative to Parquet, a WASM Markdown parser, Lua in Neovim and AI Animation.

2023-W10

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This week has been about incident management, a tool for managing JavaScript projects, a Rust actor framework inspired by Erlang, gradient descent in SQL, a toolset for interactive Markdown and a study of the Panopticon.

2023-W09

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This week has been about how the Internet works, prompt injection threats, fast SQLite indexing, an edge CMS, an in-memory database and trait references in Rust.

2023-W08

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This week has been about daily art, a tool for searching in repositories, SQL in Jupyter with DuckDB, plain text accounting, Rust programs interactive visualisations and the accessibility of Shadow DOM.

2023-W07

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This week has been about an iOS Mastodon application, a tool for inspecting large allocations in Rust, a tool to make Linux applications behave, Python's GIL, Go's proposal on telemetry and a deep dive on Rust and WebAssembly.

2023-W06

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This week has been about a multi-source query engine, a file-tree visualiser, a Rust magazine, GPT-3 prompt injections, a tutorial on fzf and Rust procedural macros.

2023-W05

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This week has been about shipping pre-built Rust binaries, an alternative to asdf, an alternative to Git, a 12-bit colour palette, a recursive game of life and the Quite Ok Image format.

2023-W04

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This week has been about using NPM for non-javascript packages, the line of death pattern, story points and planning, rare Git commands, a pub/sub protocol and a new introduction to Nix.

2023-W03

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This week has been about float point numbers, an interaction net runtime, deep learning in Rust, data wrangling in Python and modem handshakes explained.

2023-W02

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This week has been about WebAssembly User Defined Functions (UDF) in libSQL, a collection of failed projects, a collection of web fonts, a multi-clipboard tool, a collection of React components for 2D diagrams and a book on Rust atomics.

2023-W01

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This week has been about reactive libraries mechanics, graph neural networks, reusable SQL with M4, TypeScript types from Rust, a command-line JSON viewer and web browsers user agent compatibility.