I learned some USB HID debugging utilities from this article. Saving it for later reference.

Interesting though useless knowledge on the evolution of the term "boilerplate" in programming context.

TL;DR: first it refers to the plate used to roll into water boiler cylinder in the steam age. Then in linotype age there is a technique to make mold lead into the lines of text for printing. These plates of lines of texts looks similar to boilerplates. And the connotation of "copy-pasted" text comes from the usage of these plates been casted several times and sent to various new publishers for printing.

A listing of good quasi-standard library for sundry purposes for the lazies.

A description about the unique features of JPEG XL.

An UX idea on rich text editing. My favorite part is the clever way to distinguish inside and outside a formatted block.

How does Photoshop's layer blending mode (or CSS mix-blend-mode) work? This article greatly illustrated with examples and the exact formulas.

A tool that helps you pore through papers. It is capable of explaining selected sentences and interactively answer questions about the paper. From my usage experience it's already quite helpful.

A document by OpenAI on Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (DDPG), a Q-learning like algorithm that works for continuous action space.

Compose ffmpeg -filter_complex using a visual node editor.

Linux server issues troubleshooting scenario game on a VM with root access. Looks fun to play. My server never finishes being created though, I guess it may have suffered from HN hug of death.

“Our theory is that consciousness developed as a memory system that is used by our unconscious brain to help us flexibly and creatively imagine the future and plan accordingly,” said author Dr. Andrew Budson. “We don’t perceive the world, make decisions, or perform actions directly. Instead, we do all these things unconsciously and then—about half a second later—consciously remember doing them.”

That is mind blowing. "You" may be not the one who's in charge. The unconscious "you" does everything automatically and "you" takes the credit as the agent.

I first heard about this theory from Blindsight by Peter Watts. It was a really interesting idea.

TL;DR:

1. The application creates a wl_data_source object, indicating that it’s going to offer data to other applications.
2. The application adds the mime types that it can handle to the data source (with wl_data_source::offer)
3. The application finally calls wl_data_device::set_selection, to indicate “I’m taking ownership of the clipboard, and the above created wl_data_source is what I’m offering”.

A rather interesting thought and it looks quite likely. Albeit for the current stage I'd argue AI would be most useful in replacing the management roles on organization, like in a warehouse.

This reminds me of the colluding ship Theseus with its vampire captain Jukka Sarasti.

Colorize photos with text prompts.

Air wave, oscillation and sound explained through an interactive article.

Very nice and simply explained theoretical computer science theorems!

A fast path finding on square grid that exploits of certain properties to avoid scanning unecessary cells. There is a nice interactive visual demo on the webpage.

Wonderful video series about control theory. I didn't know I'm interested in control theory until I watched some of them.

A lot of useful emacs debugging tools (built-in). With those I saved a lot of time to troubleshoot and fix various problems.

In addition, don't forget that there are edebug and trace-function which can also come in handy.

A simple and fast lossless image compression algorithm that achieves similar compression ratio but significantly faster than png.