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Nice to see again the places where we travelled some few time ago: the hills, the roads, the buildings.

It remembers me "La casa de papel".
Here’s my list of self-published ebooks.
flat-html is an alternative to templating and generating complicated HTML.
You write a series of statements of what each element should be set to.
The open source, decentralized and multi-platform package manager to create and share all your native binaries.
Dolt is Git for data. Instead of versioning files, Dolt versions tables. DoltHub is a place on the internet to share Dolt repositories. As far as we can tell, Dolt is the only database with branches. How would you use such a thing?
A time tracking app that respects your privacy and gets the job done without getting too fancy.

How to SSH properly and easily improve the security of your SSH model without needing to deploy a new application or make any huge changes to UX.
A few weeks ago I wrote about Kuhn’s theory of paradigm shifts and how it relates to Bayesian inference. In this post I want to back up a little bit and explain what Bayesian inference is, and eventually rediscover the idea of a paradigm shift just from understanding how Bayesian inference works.
Last year (2019), we released the simjson library. It is a C++ library available under a liberal license (Apache) that can parse JSON documents very fast. How fast? We reach and exceed 3 gigabytes per second in many instances. It can also parse millions of small JSON documents per second.
An online roster and genealogy of 8945 programming languages from the 18th century to the present, featuring 7,800 influence links and over 11,000 citations.
The other day I read 20 most significant programming languages in history, a “preposterous table I just made up.” He certainly got preposterous right: he lists Go as “most significant” but not ALGOL, Smalltalk, or ML. He also leaves off Pascal because it’s “mostly dead”. Preposterous! That defeats the whole point of what “significant in history” means.
So let’s talk about some “mostly dead” languages and why they matter so much.