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Bringing Gemini intelligence to Google Home APIs

Gemini-charged Home APIs electrify smart homes, tapping into a staggering750 million devices. Apps? They now whisper intelligent automations. Dive in and transform your smart home into a mind reader with AI’s sleight of hand, all perfectly meshed with Google platforms... read more  

Bringing Gemini intelligence to Google Home APIs
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You are in a box

Tools often bloat as users cling to them, terrified of steep costs.Ripgrepand the classicGNUgrep syntax point the way to easier transitions—if we bothered to notice. Simpler shell workflows beckon us. But beware the tug-of-war: unstructured IPC flounders without a schema, andPowerShellcan't get its .. read more  

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Zig's New Async I/O

Zig's New I/O Interfacelets users plug in their own I/O designs, cranking up parallelism and taming the chaos of async function spread. Code bloat? Vanquished, thanks to clever virtual tables. And those compiling optimizations? They shave down runtime expense like a barber on a mission... read more  

Zig's New Async I/O
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Happy 20th birthday Django! Here’s my talk on Django Origins from Django’s 10th

Django'stale began like any good saga—chock-full of twists. Fast forward20 years, and it's not just surviving; it's flourishing, born from an urgent need to ship projects at breakneck speed... read more  

Happy 20th birthday Django! Here’s my talk on Django Origins from Django’s 10th
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Why Your First 100 Bugs Are the Best Thing That Ever Happened to You

Bugsaren't failures; they're mysterious mentors, whispering secrets of logic and nuance that tutorials gloss over. Debugging sharpens your mind into a puzzle-slayer, priming you to catch issues before your code even hits the keyboard. It's not arookie's curse; it's a coder's lifetime gym session... read more  

Why Your First 100 Bugs Are the Best Thing That Ever Happened to You
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I’m more proud of these 128 kilobytes than anything I’ve built since

Ditching webfonts for system fonts? A masterstroke. It dodged FOUT and saved bytes by leaning on native beauties likeRobotoorSan Francisco. When juggling a tight128KBbudget, out goes the clunky frameworks. In comesWhizz, a slick custom library that sharpens DOM and AJAX choreography. Images weren't .. read more  

I’m more proud of these 128 kilobytes than anything I’ve built since
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How to bring data centre-like connectivity to your home with IPTTTH

IPTTTHin India serves up enterprise-grade connectivity minus the ISP circus. It's like bypassing the bouncer to get inside the exclusive club. Costs? A slippery beast to tame. And those routing snafus? An obstacle course for the faint of heart. Yet, for networking aficionados, it's a ride you won't .. read more  

How to bring data centre-like connectivity to your home with IPTTTH
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How does a screen work?

Tiny electric crystalshave dethroned the clunkyelectron guns, quietly transforming digital displays into computing's under-the-radar MVPs. From firing electrons at glowing phosphors to bending light through crystal layers, screens are the overlooked magic powering everything we see. Understanding th.. read more  

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Algorithms for making interesting organic simulations

Jeff Jonescrafted an algorithm inspired by the ever-curiousPhysarumslime mold. His system uses agents sniffing out trails and veering according to their strength. But that's just the base model.36 Pointscranked up the intricacy by throwing in 20 parameters to keep things unpredictable. Instead of st.. read more  

Algorithms for making interesting organic simulations
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Grok 4 Heavy won’t reveal its system prompt

Grok 4 Heavytucks its system prompt under the rug, abandoning its earlier promise of transparency. This move risks its credibility, especially on the heels of that recent antisemitic prompt debacle... read more  

Grok 4 Heavy won’t reveal its system prompt
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