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30 from 15 May 2013 to 18 Jul 2026
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2026 3

  1. Self-Hosted Dynamic DNS
  2. Will Software Engineering Survive?
  3. Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?

2025 2

  1. Bits of Open-Source in 2025
  2. Parsing JSON in Forty Lines of Awk

2024 2

  1. A Tricky Floating-Point Calculation
  2. Improving Date Formatting Performance in Node.js

2022 3

  1. Unix is not Linux
  2. Installing FreeBSD on Oracle Cloud
  3. A Simple Setup for C and C++

2021 1

  1. How to Break Software

2020 3

  1. A Guide to Compiling Programs on Windows
  2. Using UTF-8 in the Windows Terminal
  3. Fix WSL File System Behavior

2019 2

  1. Get Notifications From the Terminal
  2. npm Global Install Without sudo

2018 9

  1. macOS Terminal Dark Mode Toggle
  2. macOS Terminal Timer
  3. Editing Configuration Files Programmatically
  4. Today in History, Brought to You by UNIX
  5. API Errors As Exceptions
  6. Color-Coding Dots in CSS
  7. Zero-Setup Web Analytics
  8. GitLab Isn’t Really Open-Source
  9. JavaScript Generator Gotchas

2017 3

  1. SQLite Gotchas
  2. Generating User-Friendly Random IDs
  3. Rendering a View to a String in ASP.NET Core

2013 2

  1. Choosing Which Steam Game to Play Using Python
  2. A Python Developer's Guide to Powershell