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chmaynard

32,901 karmajoined 12 years ago
“I don’t think computing is a real field. It acts like a pop culture, it deals in fads, and it doesn’t even know its own roots.” – Alan Kay

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An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation

lwn.net
141 points·by chmaynard·10 hours ago·129 comments

Apple's Slide Down the Advertising Slippery Slope

daringfireball.net
14 points·by chmaynard·yesterday·1 comments

The Bizarre Flaw in the New Orleans Levees

practical.engineering
4 points·by chmaynard·4 days ago·0 comments

The Linux kernel's iomap layer

lwn.net
6 points·by chmaynard·4 days ago·0 comments

Did the founders of the United States intend to create a Christian nation?

theconversation.com
5 points·by chmaynard·7 days ago·0 comments

assert() and similar macros in SQLite

sqlite.org
3 points·by chmaynard·9 days ago·0 comments

MacBook Air M4 for development: 1 year review

notnotp.com
2 points·by chmaynard·10 days ago·0 comments

Flexible Metaprogramming with Rhombus

lwn.net
2 points·by chmaynard·11 days ago·0 comments

Waiting for SQL:202y: Stockholm (BMA) Meeting Report

peter.eisentraut.org
4 points·by chmaynard·11 days ago·0 comments

Structured Primary Keys

modern-sql.com
6 points·by chmaynard·15 days ago·0 comments

Trailing Dots Are the Worst

daniel.haxx.se
5 points·by chmaynard·15 days ago·0 comments

Scrutineer: Scanning open source without flooding maintainers

nesbitt.io
2 points·by chmaynard·15 days ago·0 comments

A CVE Dispute

daniel.haxx.se
15 points·by chmaynard·16 days ago·2 comments

I automated my job (and it made me a better leader)

github.blog
16 points·by chmaynard·17 days ago·3 comments

Sunsetting a Package Manager

nesbitt.io
1 points·by chmaynard·18 days ago·0 comments

How Open Source Projects Change Hands

nesbitt.io
3 points·by chmaynard·25 days ago·0 comments

What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes

notnotp.com
273 points·by chmaynard·25 days ago·224 comments

Beware of Star Trek managers, especially when bearing MBAs

nibblestew.blogspot.com
18 points·by chmaynard·25 days ago·2 comments

Parsing JSON at compile time with C++26 static reflection

lemire.me
3 points·by chmaynard·27 days ago·0 comments

Biological evolution and information acquisition

construction-physics.com
67 points·by chmaynard·29 days ago·14 comments

comments

chmaynard
·4 days ago·discuss
Source: https://langsec.org/spw26/
chmaynard
·2 months ago·discuss
Tip: To read the full article, subscribe to their RSS feed.
chmaynard
·2 months ago·discuss
Two things come to mind:

    - No support for Liquid 5.x (see GitHub issue #8535)
    - SQLite not a first-class data source (workaround: a 3rd-party plugin)
chmaynard
·2 months ago·discuss
Then there's Jekyll, which is not exactly dead but definitely moribund. It seems to be blocked by GitHub's refusal to support further development and upgrade to the 4.x releases.
chmaynard
·2 months ago·discuss
The broadcast companies that have been selling air time to K4K for two decades should be held accountable for misleading advertising. Oh wait, the broadcasters own the US Congress and federal regulators. Never mind.
chmaynard
·2 months ago·discuss
Homebrew installs GNU tar as "gtar". On my M4 MacBook:

  $ which gtar
  gtar is /opt/homebrew/bin/gtar
chmaynard
·2 months ago·discuss
Opinion piece from 2020.
chmaynard
·4 months ago·discuss
From the release history: "Due to backwards-compatibility issues associated with some new features, the 3.52.0 release has been withdrawn."

3.52.0 seems to work fine for me. For now, I'll avoid using any of the new features (with fingers crossed).
chmaynard
·4 months ago·discuss
Clever hack, but in the meantime I suggest that you start looking for better place to work.
chmaynard
·4 months ago·discuss
> Manual: https://github.com/dentm42/aver/docs/MANUAL.md

See also: https://avercli.dev/#manual

TODO: Fix dead link to manual on github.
chmaynard
·4 months ago·discuss
See the Multics History Project:

https://people.csail.mit.edu/saltzer/Multics/Multics-Documen...
chmaynard
·5 months ago·discuss
For a deeper dive on git ignore files, see:

https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/12/the-many-flavors-of-ignore-fil...
chmaynard
·5 months ago·discuss
Nice write-up! This is one component of a much larger umbrella framework for security on Apple platforms:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security
chmaynard
·5 months ago·discuss
GitHub reports that there are 242 open issues labeled "Bug".

https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire/issues?q=is...
chmaynard
·5 months ago·discuss
I'm staying away from macOS Tahoe for now. NetNewsWire has already announced that they will no longer support the earlier 6.x release that I use. I assume that means no bug fixes or back-porting of new features. Sad.
chmaynard
·5 months ago·discuss
Second installment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46901662
chmaynard
·5 months ago·discuss
See also: https://www.sqlite.org/sqldiff.html
chmaynard
·5 months ago·discuss
Minor quibble: sqlite3 is not a database, it's the CLI for SQLite 3.x
chmaynard
·5 months ago·discuss
I admire what you are doing. It obviously serves you well and you hope it helps others.

I'm familiar with how to import CSV data with SQLite and I could probably learn how to do it with DuckDB with ease. Your tool introduces a new and rather shallow abstraction layer with commands that work for both databases.

The world needs tools that provide a great deal of utility, are trustworthy, and keep getting more reliable and capable. I'm not sure that yours will qualify.
chmaynard
·5 months ago·discuss
+1 for Carbon Copy Cloner. Rock-solid reliable and well-supported.

https://bombich.com