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by jez 27d ago
Somehow I was hopeful that this would be an announcement about adding syntax highlighted code blocks to Slack messages.
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by jez 29d ago
This is a relatively recent feature. I was first introduced to it in GitHub's release notes for Git 2.54: https://github.blog/open-source/git/highlights-from-git-2-54... And discussion at the time: https:&#x
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by jez 2mo ago
SQLite has a conceptually similar contribution process: > the project does not accept patches from random people on the internet https://sqlite.org/copyright.html In their case, it's motivated by a desire to keep co
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YIMBY data projects, between naps(maxmautner.com)
2 points by jez 4mo ago|0 comments
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Lessons from 6 Years of Local Advocacy(maxmautner.com)
2 points by jez 4mo ago|0 comments
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by jez 5mo ago
> Additionally, some repos can be configured to automatically merge PRs when all requirements are met, one of which might be your approval. If anyone at GitHub is reading this, I’d love a fourth checkbox in the “leave a review” modal tha
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by jez 5mo ago
I want the same mode, but on iOS! Imagine carrying nothing but the phone in your pocket, sitting down at your desk, plugging your phone into the monitor, which has your keyboard and mouse docked, and you have a full development environment.
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The Declining Driver's License: Good, Bad, or Both?(maxmautner.com)
7 points by jez 5mo ago|0 comments
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by jez 5mo ago
Even in Vim, the editing experience falls over when making markdown tables that have non-trivial content in their cells (multiple paragraphs, a code block, etc.). I recently learned that reStructuredText supports something called "list
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by jez 5mo ago
What is your Linux photo editing software of choice?
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Fast CI for a 50M-line Ruby monorepo(stripe.dev)
4 points by jez 5mo ago|0 comments
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by jez 7mo ago
Still the only thing I miss about the Firefox right-click context menu coming from Chrome is that Firefox doesn't have a "Look up '<selection>'" in the menu on macOS, to look up in the macOS dictionary, for lo
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The Summer Slide, part 3: The tax code we had(substack.com)
1 points by jez 7mo ago|1 comments
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FOMC Insight Engine: semantic search over Fed archives(causalityineconomics.com)
2 points by jez 7mo ago|0 comments
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by jez 7mo ago
A more complicated version of this problem exists in TypeScript and Ruby, where there are only arrays. Python’s case is considerably simpler by also having tuples, whose length is fixed at the time of assignment. In Python, `x = []` should
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by jez 7mo ago
I have used this in the past when building shell scripts and Makefiles to orchestrate an existing build system: https://github.com/jez/symbol/blob/master/scaffold/symbol#L1... The existing build sys
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by jez 7mo ago
Another fun consequence of this is that you can initialize otherwise-unset file descriptors this way: $ cat foo.sh #!/usr/bin/env bash >&1 echo "will print on stdout" >&2 echo "
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by jez 7mo ago
For comparison, Visa's stated FY 2025 (ended Sep 30, 2025) payments volume was $14.2T. rough math, but: $14.2T / $1.9T * 1.6% = 12% global GDP
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by jez 7mo ago
Paypal TPV YoY growth for 2025 was 7%[1]. Stripe cites 34% growth for the same period and metric. [1]: https://s205.q4cdn.com/875401827/files/doc_financials/2025/q...
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by jez 7mo ago
The tender offer announced in the article is open to former employees as well, so they personally profit regardless of Stripe being public (unless the claim is that by being public the valuation would be materially higher than the stated va
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by jez 7mo ago
As others have mentioned, it comes down to the threat model, but sometimes the threat model itself is uncomfortable to talk about. It’s sad to think about, but in my recollection a lot of intra-building badge readers went up in response to
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Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter(stripe.com)
238 points by jez 7mo ago|245 comments
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by jez 7mo ago
I have a command called `ascii-4col.txt` in my personal `bin/` folder that prints this out: https://github.com/jez/bin/blob/master/ascii-4col.txt It's neat because it's the only command I
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The imminent risk of vibe coding(basta.substack.com)
1 points by jez 8mo ago|0 comments
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by jez 8mo ago
On a US keyboard layout this is the same number of keys because { and } are Shift+[ and Shift+]
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by jez 8mo ago
Something I never understood about this: is the pipe necessary, or just to have another symbol contributing to the mayhem? :(){:&;:};: This is the same number of characters but doesn’t use a pipe, and I was never able to figure
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by jez 8mo ago
Far be it from me to get in the way of someone protesting megabank centralization, but... I have to imagine that this bank relationship will be different from those previous acquisitions? I never interacted with Goldman Sachs for the durati
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by jez 8mo ago
Does that mean that this new partnership will be better because Chase is better at consumer banking than Goldman Sachs, or Chase negotiated a deal that will not cause them to lose a lot of money? If it's the latter, does that mean that
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Fixing an 11th hour Street Fighter II GFX ROM bug [video](youtube.com)
2 points by jez 9mo ago|0 comments
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by jez 9mo ago
If you tap and hold a second thumb after you’ve tapped and held to bring up the moveable cursor, it switches to a selection range.

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