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Unicode Symbols is a catalog and generator offering 2939+ symbols across categories (Math, Currency, Arrows, Geometry, Decorative, Tech, Punctuation, Box, Block, Control, Legacy). Tap to copy/paste. It includes a Font Generator with 170+ styles and Unicode tools for emojis, bold/fancy text, and platform-ready symbols, plus browse-by-category links.
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Anthropic fixed Claude Code’s signature flicker in update 2.0.72 by rebuilding the renderer (still React-based) to support fine-grained, incremental updates instead of full redraws. The problem isn’t unique to Claude Code; Ink-based renderers and other TUIs struggle because terminals aren’t designed for interactive updates. While alt-screen TUIs remove flicker, they break native features like text selection, scrolling, and search. The landscape includes Amp, Gemini, OpenCode, Codex, and Mario Zechner’s pi, which demonstrates differential rendering that preserves terminal behavior. Verdict: flicker can be eliminated while keeping terminal muscle memory.
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Likely a misspelling referring to Euclid, the ancient Greek mathematician.
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Streaming compression rewrites per-frame: reuse a single zstd encoder/decoder across WebSocket messages, flush to end a block, and feed data sequentially. The encoder progressively learns the stream, creating a dictionary on the fly, yielding much better compression than independent frames (claimed ~80% bandwidth reduction). This is comparable to interframe vs intraframe video. Potential uses include OpenTelemetry and other streaming transports; gRPC is tricky because it uses per-message compression. The author also built a Rust crate for streaming HTTP response compression for gRPC-web and SSE, and provides example code.
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AI is now unavoidable at work and reshapes software development, favoring speed and performance over old-fashioned rigor. The piece contrasts romantic, hands-on coding with a fast, AI-enabled era, where tool overload risks erasing the human edge through cognitive offloading. To cope, the author introduces the Time Intelligence Economy (TIE) framework and a plan for a personal AI operating system that maps tools to real problems and business metrics. Citing a study of 300 engineers, he previews topics on active vs. passive tools, and a practical AI stack.
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A Claude Code plugin, Safety Net, blocks destructive git and filesystem commands before they run. It uses semantic analysis to parse arguments, flags, and shell wrappers, distinguishing safe operations from dangerous ones (beyond simple prefix rules). The repository includes the plugin, tests, and a hook-based implementation (safety_net.py with rules_git.py and rules_rm.py) plus shell parsing utilities. Features: strict/Paranoid modes, shell-wrapper and interpreter-one-liner detection, secret redaction, and audit logging to ~/.cc-safety-net/logs. Quick start: install via Claude Code marketplace and restart; blocked commands show a BLOCKED by Safety Net message; examples of blocked vs allowed commands.
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CoverLetterMaker provides an AI cover letter generator that creates unique PDF cover letters for job applications in seconds. It supports LinkedIn URLs, auto/manual job posting URLs, and uploading resumes (PDF). It offers instant PDFs, less typing, and multilingual support across Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Users sign in to generate PDFs; a free trial is available, and a self-hosted version is on GitHub. © 2025 CoverLetterMaker. Privacy, Terms, Support.
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Incremental backups of Gmail Takeout mbox are tricky because new mails don’t append. The author rejects complex parsing (e.g., stripping attachments) and instead chunks the mbox at “From ” boundaries, storing each chunk as a content-addressed file (MD5) and recording the chunk sequence for recovery. This handles potential mail reordering and distributes files across directories. In a low-traffic account, about 99.8K chunks cover ~50.6K threads; larger accounts would see more chunks. Mitigations include reducing split frequency (e.g., hash-based) and using a GitHub app.
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Cloudflare reported that the Worker for cuiiliste.de exceeded resource limits (Error 1102), causing a page render failure. An unknown error occurred during rendering; site owners should consult Workers Logs (Workers - Errors and Exceptions) for cuiiliste.de.
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Keith Burgun argues that many RPGs hinge on three spaces—Outside, Dungeon, Town—with Outside flexible, Town dense with shops and quests, and Dungeons full of monsters and bosses. He loves the pattern but wants messier implementations: borders that blur, dungeons connected to houses or caves, 50/50 blends, rather than obvious checklists and explicit location signs. Instancing can rob discovery, and modern games risk feeling too conservative. He envisions more interconnected, surprising spaces in his own project, Free Tiya Bannet, to invite wonder while balancing clarity and safety.
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Chaos Computer Club’s 39c3 talk “Hacking Washing Machines” investigates how modern laundry appliances rely on complex, proprietary control boards, internal buses, and undocumented diagnostic interfaces. It covers reverse-engineering approaches—from examining control hardware and buses to decompiling firmware and bypassing protections to read firmware. The talk also discusses integrating legacy appliances into mainstream home-automation platforms and highlights security measures protecting diagnostic access. Focused on B/S/H/ and Miele machines, it provides downloadable multilingual video and audio files in various resolutions.
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Create 45 groups of 45 by repeatedly merging two items at a time.
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Stranger Things creator Ross Duffer urged viewers to watch season 5 with TV picture settings disabled to preserve the show's look. He advised turning off dynamic contrast, super resolution, edge enhancement, color filters, noise reduction, truemotion, and smoothmotion, and avoiding vivid. He suggested switching to advanced presets like Dolby Vision Movie Dark and manually verifying each setting remains off. The guidance highlights tension between tech enhancements and a director’s vision. Stranger Things season 5 volume 1 is streaming on Netflix; volume 2 arrives December 25, 2025, with the finale December 31, 2025.
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Vitest Browser Mode is a new way to run frontend component tests inside a real browser via Vitest, not in jsdom. It renders a component in an iframe in Chrome/Firefox-like environments, letting you test with real Web APIs, async behavior, and visual previews. Tests use Playwright-style Locator objects (from vitest-browser-react) to query and interact, with async expect.element() polls for changes. It targets single components at a time, but you get a real browser context and CI compatibility. Setup: install @vitest/browser-playwright, vitest-browser-react, choose a browser provider (Playwright recommended), and run vitest --browser with a browser.config. It's production-ready from Vitest v4.
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Max details migration to EU-hosted stack centered on Proton: Mail, Calendar, Drive, Pass, VPN, notes; Scaleway hosting; Vivaldi browser; Ecosia search; DeepL translation; Grammarly; Canva; Superlist replacing Todoist; MeisterTask disliked; Notion replaced by Standard Notes. For AI, uses Mammouth access to many models (Mistral, Flux, Claude Code, Gemini) and Lumo AI for privacy-first tasks. Tradeoffs include lack of Google SSO and steeper learning curve with LibreOffice/Collabora; Proton Docs/Sheets preferred; anonymous emails via Proton; 2TB storage shared with wife. Old stack ~€83/mo vs new ~€39/mo; saves ~€528/yr. Encourages EU-hosted options.
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MongoDB Security Engineering identified and patched a vulnerability in MongoDB Server (CVE-2025-14847, Mongobleed) affecting Community and Enterprise; Atlas was not breached. Patches rolled out rapidly: discovery Dec 12, validation Dec 12–14, rollout Dec 15–17, Atlas patching Dec 17–18, CVE published Dec 19, patch guidance Dec 23. Tens of thousands of Atlas customers and hundreds of thousands of Atlas instances were patched within days; patches also released for Enterprise Advanced and Community Edition. MongoDB emphasizes transparency and ongoing security investments.
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USGS's Gulf of the Farallones fact sheet emphasizes the area's unusual geology and oceanography, which complicate assessing environmental impacts from dredge-spoil dumping and hazardous/radioactive waste. USGS provides geological interpretations to regulators to aid disposal-site decisions, in collaboration with EPA, the Army Corps, and the Navy; candidate sites were reduced from six to three over roughly 1,000 sq mi west of San Francisco. Side-scan sonar helps map targets; ideal sites are geologically stable with net deposition and weak currents. About 50,000 drums were dumped 1946–1970; exact container locations remain unknown. Only 15% mapped; ongoing USGS/NOAA work.
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Intelligence: an interactive game that won’t work without JavaScript; the message apologizes for the inconvenience.
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