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The Ratings Game, Part 2: The Hearing(filfre.net)
1 points by dyates 5y ago|0 comments
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Smart Contract Security for Pentesters(iosiro.com)
63 points by dyates 5y ago|38 comments
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The Ratings Game, Part 1: A Likely and an Unlikely Suspect(filfre.net)
2 points by dyates 5y ago|0 comments
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by dyates 6y ago
Markdown is pretty good for advanced blogging if you use it as a superset of HTML, as originally intended.[1] That way you get simple syntax for the stuff you're likely to use most often and can still implement more complex formatting
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Death to the Document(davidyat.es)
2 points by dyates 6y ago|0 comments
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by dyates 6y ago
Twitter is awful for longform, but it's where the eyeballs are. https://blog.ayjay.org/thread/
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by dyates 6y ago
It's called the Mid-Atlantic or Transatlantic accent and was designed as a way to blend the American accent with British Received Pronunciation. It was deliberately cultivated by the upper class and actors in the early 20th century; th
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Roam Research(davidyat.es)
3 points by dyates 6y ago|0 comments
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Dumb Smart Quotes(davidyat.es)
2 points by dyates 6y ago|0 comments
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by dyates 7y ago
The best solution I've seen for making sidenotes responsive is to move them into the body text. Examples: http://craftinginterpreters.com/a-map-of-the-territory.html https://www.martigeon.com/textbook-t
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by dyates 7y ago
Mine is https://davidyat.es I write about a lot of different things, often technical, sometimes not. Common subjects include technical tutorials and rants, reviews of books and games, and thoughts about different aspects of inte
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Extended Validation Certificates Are Really Dead(troyhunt.com)
162 points by dyates 7y ago|149 comments
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by dyates 7y ago
The Digital Antiquarian has an article that goes quite in-depth on the history and context of this game: https://www.filfre.net/2015/07/a-new-force-in-games-part-2-a...
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Fake News on the Social Graph(davidyat.es)
1 points by dyates 7y ago|0 comments
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Untangling the IndieWeb(davidyat.es)
2 points by dyates 7y ago|0 comments
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RIP Google Inbox(davidyat.es)
3 points by dyates 8y ago|2 comments
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The Pyramids of Giza Chapter 1: The Charlatan and the Gossip(analog-antiquarian.net)
2 points by dyates 8y ago|0 comments
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by dyates 8y ago
This is so true. The other day I listened to a project manager rant about how Slack is "like a coding tool" because "you need to put stars for bold". She was really quite upset about it. Another time a friend of mine, wh
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by dyates 9y ago
Using LaTeX is like writing a program to automate something you do a lot:[1] lots of effort up front for payback down the line. Once you work out how to use it and iron out the kinks in your templates, it becomes much easier, permanently. W
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The project wizard(davidyat.es)
1 points by dyates 9y ago|0 comments
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by dyates 9y ago
Yes, it's an experiment I'm running in advertising-alternative monetisation. Importantly, all mining is consensual -- the miner will only run if you open the accordion and hit Play. Not sure if I made that clear enough in the blur
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RSS: there's nothing better(davidyat.es)
640 points by dyates 9y ago|287 comments
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by dyates 9y ago
+1 for vimwiki. I use it for everything, from taking notes and todo lists to writing blogposts. The wiki format just works so well with my brain. My favourite features are nested syntax (highlighting for codeblocks in any language vim has h
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by dyates 10y ago
This sort of expanding text is used heavily in hypertext-based interactive fiction,[1][2] but I haven't seen it used outside of that before. Nice work! [1]: https://twinery.org/ [2]: https://texturewriter.co
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by dyates 10y ago
>As a long time 4channer, there's some "naturalness" I feel in the off-the-cuff discussions on the site where I know my stupidity won't be saved forever. Not sure how true that is anymore these days, with the existenc
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by dyates 10y ago
The Escapist really is a sad story. Back when it started in PDF form in 2005, it was intended to be a high-brow gaming magazine with no news or reviews, just in-depth articles about trends in games. This was compromised when they started do
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The Freedom to Associate(filfre.net)
4 points by dyates 10y ago|1 comments
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by dyates 10y ago
GM was my first exposure to programming at about age 12. I would highly recommend it for your kid, for all the following reasons. It doesn't require programming. Pretty complex games can be made with the drag-and-drop interface, which
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Writing a LaTeX macro that takes a variable number of arguments(davidyat.es)
3 points by dyates 10y ago|0 comments
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by dyates 10y ago
Considering it was a radio series before it was a book, and was also adapted into an innovative text adventure, I'm not so sure that's true.

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