Hello, friends! After 10(!) years of #AdventOfCode, I've made some changes to preserve my sanity: there will be 12 days of puzzles each December (still starting Dec 1) and there is no longer a global leaderboard. Read more:
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editing text in a REPL

wizardzines.com/comics/editi...

(from "The Secret Rules of the Terminal", which is out now! wizardzines.com/zines/terminal)

@rich-harris.dev could you please clue me into what you're using to inspect at 39:53 in this video of your promose.then(...) talk youtu.be/e-1pVKUWlOQ?...?

Googling around for Svelte inspector yielded nothing useful unfortunately...

jj has a new logo, thanks to the wife of one of the contributors. turns out her initials are also "JJ" and so she decided to design one when he asked her. adorable!

Neat to see the two jumps in globally routed IPv4 space in this plot from Geoff Huston's "BGP in 2024" blog post:
1. Formerly unused DoD IPv4 space (AS8003, then AS749)
2. Formerly unused AWS IPv4 space

🚨 Personal news: I‘m super happy to team up with @graphichunters.bsky.social and offer an in-depth course to learn Svelte + D3 for data visualization! 🙀
⏰ 1 & 2 July in Utrecht
➡️ graphichunters.nl/interactive-...

You’re still arguing about tabs vs. spaces? May I present…

I'm about to rebrand all my cron jobs to AI agents and raise a $100,000,000 seed round.

The Kademlia wikipedia article is a reasonable overview en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kademlia (Kademlia being a particular way of doing DHT, which the "Mainline DHT" used by Bittorrent is an instantiation of. I think.)

I am truly tech agnostic. My gaming rig is windows, my work and personal laptops are macos. I have an android phone, an ipad, and a linux minipc that's plugged into my tv. No one ecosystem can contain me.

This is only partially true any more blog.cloudflare.com/harnessing-o...

1bit art looks amazing in amber. I know back in the 80s, I would have been amazed seeing something like this on a DOS PC with an MDA monitor... Could someone make a video player for Hercules cards?

This imagery comes from the amazing music video directed by GERIKO:

youtu.be/CqaAs_3azSs?...

Was reminded earlier of sadservers.com, really fun.

i love how cats just slap everything they don't understand

On this day in 2002, 22 years ago, Pokémon Ruby & Sapphire were first released.

These games started the third generation and introduced 135 new Pokémon. It told the story of you stopping Team Aqua or Team Magma

serebii.net/rubysapphire/

Here are some free/open-source sites for the preparation of scientific illustrations, including icon libraries: bioicons.com, scidraw.io, bioart.niaid.nih.gov, inkscape.org, biogdp.com, reactome.org/icon-lib