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All 382 posts from 2007 to present.

2026 (9)

More Vetoes, Less Vision

Building a Visual Product Agent with Gemma 4

The Trust Fall With AI

Why you still ask a friend before buying

Model Capability Discovery: The API We're All Missing

The 200ms window: why voice AI latency is a biology problem

WebMCP Bridge

ucpify: JSON → Commerce Server in Seconds

RFCs vs. READMEs: The Evolution of Protocols

2025 (13)

My 9-Year-Old Built His Own Gaming PC (And Cannibalized a Laptop)

Consolidating 18 Years of Writing: From 6 Platforms to One

My 2025 AI Predictions: How Did They Hold Up?

We Need OKAP: OAuth for API Keys

Skills vs MCP? Wrong Question

Taking AI Agents to the Race Track: Lessons from the High-Velocity Field Test

Google Maps MCP with AgentU

AI Agents Are The New Web Stack

AgentU: The Sleekest Way to Build AI Agents

git-tips: A Decade of Open Source Impact

Deepseek Reason Extractor

vaklm - Python Client for OpenAI-Compatible APIs

piragi: The Best RAG Interface Yet

2024 (1)

OllamaFunctions and Mistral

2023 (1)

Well-known Symbols

2022 (4)

Navigation API

AbortSignal throwIfAborted

HTTP Imports on Node

HTTP Request in Postgres

2021 (11)

Unicode Segmentation in JavaScript

HDR CSS MediaQuery

Primordials in Node.js

My Site Was Hacked

Dynamic Remotes, Webpack Module Federation

Webpack Module Federation

Declarative Shadow DOM

Promisified Node Builtins

V8 Inspector from Node

URLPattern API

CSS Highlight Pseudo-elements

2020 (9)

Nullish Coalescing vs Logical OR

Logical Assignment Operators in JavaScript

Reactive Context in Svelte

Top Level Await Node REPL

Contact Picker API

WebSocketStream API

DOM Element Timing API

Detect Dark Mode

Tracking DOM Element Visibility

2019 (2)

Portal Communication

ES2019 Features

2018 (2)

What's New in Node v10?

Redux Async Actions

2017 (1)

JWT Encryption with RSA

2016 (7)

Rethinking Async in JavaScript

Succeed with Service Workers

URL Navigation from Service Worker

Webpack: Bundle Unimported Assets

Path Resolver with JavaScript Proxies

ServiceWorker Communication via MessageChannel

String.prototype.replace You Might Have Missed

2015 (13)

365 Days of GitHub

Are You Async Yet?

Recursive Map, Reduce and Filter in JavaScript

Authoring Node Modules

ES7 Async Await

Create a NodeSchool Workshop

Currying in ES6

ES7 Features

SMS Service with Firefox OS

Superfluous Patterns of JavaScript

Node Rules - Business Rules Engine

ES6 Reflect API

Custom Elements with ES6

2014 (20)

Descriptor Decorator in Python

ES6 Array Methods

Python Datasets

Date Shifting in Ruby

thisArg in JavaScript

Immediately-Invoked Generator Function Expression (IIGFE)

Check for Root User

Thunks in Haskell

navigator.sendBeacon

Detecting File Type in Node and Browser

Prime Number Generation with ES6 Generators

grunt-usemin Example

Tree Traversal with ES6 Generator

Clone All Official Yeoman Generators

npm --save to Create package.json

Atom Editor Packages with Yeoman

Current Interface and Random Port with Node.js

ES6 One Liners to Show Off

Getting Started with Koa.js

Launch Browser from Node Server

2013 (28)

Programmatically Accessing Network Interfaces

Publish Packages to NPM with Yeoman

DOM Mutation Observers

Negative Array Index in JavaScript

Redefining DOM Object's Behaviour

ES6 on Node.js

Jekyll Blog from a Subdirectory

Method Deprecated Warning in Node.js

Auto Syncing a Forked Git Repository

Auto Require Ruby Gems

Sublime Text Build System Errno 2

HTTP Status Code as a Service

Grunt Test Before Git Commit

Grunt Tweet Git Commit

Handling Currency in JavaScript

Selfless JavaScript

Auto Notify Git Pull

Getting the Expiry Date of PFX (PKCS12)

Power of Vanilla JS

Web Crawler with Python Twisted

Regular Expression Negation in Ruby

Watir-webdriver Web Inspector

Gem List to Gemfile

Packing ruby2.0 on Debian.

Made It Into the Guinness Book!

Filter Elements by Pattern jQuery.

Better HTML Password Fields for Mobile ?

Grayscale Image When User Offline

2012 (86)

Nth-child CSS Pseudo-class Christmas Colors

EventEmitter in Nodejs

Live Reload With Grunt

Why Parameter Expansion in Bash?

Node Packing Made Easy With Grunt

Making a Promise With Javascript

CoffeeScript Classes

Cluster Computing With Nodejs

IRC Notification Bot With node.js

Heroku vs Nodejitsu for Nodejs

Exposing Your Localhost to the Internet

Program Dependency Management With node.js

Perl in node.js

Temp Dir With Ruby

Get Node Details From Drupal

Convert Any Image to HTML5 Canvas

HTML5 Fullscreen video crossbrowser

Chaining Functions in Javascript

Remote debugging android browsers.

Control Telephone Calls From the Browser!

FFI Python vs Ruby

Python vs Ruby Singleton

Module Pattern in Javascript

String#each missing in Ruby 1.9

String#each Missing in ruby1.9

With Statements Got Better With Python 3.1

Cross-Window Messaging

Class Handling With classList

Asynchronous Loading of Css and Javascript

Async forEach in JavaScript

asynchronous loading of css and javascript

Singleton Pattern in JavaScript

Arrow Functions in Javascript

Getting Home Path and Username in Python

Parsing Query String in Javascript

Camera and Microphone Access With HTML5

HTML5 canvas full-screen and full-page

Camera and Microphone Access with HTML5

Top 5 JavaScript oneliners

Using the 'With' Statement in Python

Iterating List or Array With Index

Classes in JavaScript ES6

Classes in JavaScript ES6

Blocking vs Non-blocking in node.js

RSS as JSON Using node.js

How Caching Matters in JS?

Globbing in Scripting Languages

Inspecting Objects in Scripting

Handling Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) in Scripting

Google Hourly Hot Trends on Command Line

ES6 in node.js

Get iframe contents using queryselectors

Reading Logs Made Easy With Bash.

Reading logs made easy with bash

What's the Deal With on{X} ?

Ninja Object Properties in Scripting Languages

Sets and Maps in JavaScript

HTML5+JS offline/online notification

Ninja Object Properties in Scripting languages

JavaScript One Liner Extracting Unique Words From Webpages

togist chrome plugin

JavaScript one liner extracting unique words from webpages

Javascript ReferenceError: Invalid Left-hand Side in Assignment

JavaScript ReferenceError: Invalid left-hand side in assignment

Hitchhikers Guide to Npm

Hitchhiker's guide to npm

7 Ruby Gems in 7 Days

7 ruby gems in 7 days

Notes From Build Awesome Command-Line Apps

Notes from Build Awesome Command-Line apps

JSON Parsing With Ruby One-liner ?

TypeError: Object has no method 'forEach' in JavaScript

TypeError: Object # Has No Method 'forEach' in Javascript?

JSON parsing with ruby one-liner?

Native JS Like jQuery

URL Scrapping With Javascript

Download Images With node.js

TypeError: Can't Convert Regexp Into String

TypeError: can't convert Regexp into String

One click DuckDuckGo

Comparing Strings With Variable White Spacing

Watir Webdriver attach window

Remotely Enable Remote Desktop on Debian

Remotely enable remote desktop on Debian

Android Remote Control Setup

Tweaking Command Not Found

2011 (35)

Hemanth.HM

Getting server info using nodejs

HTTP-request Header From node.js

HTTP-request header from node.js

Unicode Symbols as Function Names

Unicode symbols as function names

Invalid HTML in Google's Homepage

Simple Closure for Cross Browser XHR Instance

typeof JavaScript tweaked

JavaScript Event tracking and management

Simple Cookie Management With JavaScript

Introducing the Slang API

Simple Cookie Management with JavaScript

JavaScript MapReduce One Liner?!

Word Frequency With Mapreduce in Python

Setup Your Own Cloud in 30 Seconds

Instant Upload Images to Imgur From Android

Figlr ASCII Art on Fly

Programmatically delete SMS in android using python

Programmatically Delete SMS in Android Using Python

Yoda Talks to XMPP, Twitter and Identi.ca

Random Images From Wikipedia

Wikipedia Search Summary API

Compressing Files With Python, Perl, Ruby and Php

Get Json Ip Service

SMS From Android Using Python

My Google Interview > /dev/null

Selective Directory Index From Htacess

Downloading Files : A Comparative Study

GNU MediaGoblin

Keyless Auto Login SSH Script

Server-Side JavaScript With Node.js

Stealing Google Logos Using Yahoo API

The Color Clock

Multi Lingual Xmpp Translate Bot

2010 (78)

Python Objects to JSON String

Getting the Redirected URL

Google I'm Feeling Lucky in Python and Ruby

XMPP Ruby Chat Bot

Python IRC Bot

L33t Translator

Edit Dot Rc Files and Auto Source

Copying Shared Library Dependencies

Time Zone Conversions

Curious Case of Combining Pdfs

Limpid a Simple App for P2pu

Setup Diaspora on Ubuntu

Insight of Google Instant

Meet RMS

Mozilla P2PU Course

PyBrain

Gmail Voice and Video Chat Comes to GNU/Linux at Last

SVG Smiley

Hacker News Widget

Lemote Yeeloong

Speaking Clock GNU/Linux

Scripting 101 Reddit Course

YQL YUI and JQuery

Twiit Your Google Status

Find Your Invisible Friends on Gmail

Sort Text Blocks

Desktop Session Detection Python

Google News in Terminal

RSS Feed Twitt Bots

Twitter Updates With Geolocation

Bash vs Python

Mutt Gmail Labels and Contact Suggestions via IMAP

Google Sunrise Sunset From Terminal

Getme Video

Sendmails via Sendmail With Attachments

Random Images From Xkcd as Wallpaper

Upload to Picasa From Command Line Using Googlecl

OpenVBX a Web-based Open Source Phone System.

Extended Experiment With Command Line Dictionary

Join Operation Clean Sweep

MyGooglepage

Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) Alpha 1 Get It Test It

sudosocial.me

VLC 1.1.0 Release Candidate With WebM / VP8

Google Chrome Is Stable for GNU/Linux Now

How to Get Info About All the Nodes in the Network via SSH ?

Surfraw - a Fast Unix Command Line Interface to WWW Services

Embedding Google Wave

How Google Wave Embedding Works ?

My Experience With P2pu

RFC Finder a Desktop App

Ubuntu Family a Happy Family

Fixed Enabling Desktop Effects for ATI in Ubuntu Lucid

QuickShot

An Ants Journey in a Planet Called IBM

GCC 4.5.0 Released!

Go on Ubuntu

Generate Unique Random Alphanumeric Strings Ruby

Google's Web Application Security Scanner

Script to Install Oracle

CLI twitpic

Insert into mysql DB from text files

Install SSL Certificate Tomcat bash script

Customizing Bespin

Bespin the Next Generation Web Code Editor

NS2 on Ubuntu 9.10

Generate index.html for a given directory

RSS Feed as Wallpaper

Log file viewer in PHP

Ground Control on Karmic

Django on Ubuntu

My Google Wave Ideas

Firefox 3.6 With Full HTML 5 API Support

MySQL DB Synchronization.

Synchronize remote hosts

Send mail to Gmail programatically with Python

Reseting htpasswd with PHP

Synchronizing SVN With an HTTPS URL

2009 (47)

Amd Ati Catalyst Display Driver Gnulinux

Indian Transliteration Bookmarklet Kannada

Programmatically Delete Sms Android Python

Generic File Extracter

Auto Completion in Bash for Maven

Bash Made Better With Shopt

Plotting Performance Graph of a GNU/Linux Box

Creating Self-Extracting Sources Files

Setting Up a Secure Subversion Server With Apache in Ubuntu

How to Secure Apache With HTTPS

Skype 2.1 beta on Ubuntu 9.10

Install FireFox 3.6 Namoroka for Karmic

Sound Card Not Detected in Ubuntu 9.10? Fix It!

Install Linux From HDD Without Burning From Iso

Zsync | Update to Upgrade Ubuntu

Unable to Login After Upgrade to Karmic [Solved]

CSV parsing methods in Linux

'Pax' a Powerful Tool to Read and Write File Archives and Copy Directory Hierarchies

Sudo Add-apt-repository | Karmic Kool

Howto Set Up Your Own Google Wave Sever on Ubuntu?

Install-gnome-shell-ubuntu-kamric-jaunty

OOIdenti.ca | Update identi.ca Status From OO

OOoTwitter | Open Office Twitter

How to Use the Real-time Earth Wallpaper Script for Linux

AMD/ATI | Black Edtion 64bit on Ubuntu | Fixing Issues

Resolving Application Dependencies | Apt-cache

Pidgin 2.6.1 Adds XMPP Voice and Video Support (but Not on Windows)

Install Eclipse Galileo (3.5) on Ubuntu Karmic (9.10)

Installing KDE 4.3 RC 3

Experiments With Dictionary Server Protocol Linux | RFC 2229

Install EMACS23 on Ubuntu

One Line to Search Wiki in Linux With GUI

Hyperlink to URL && Extracting all the links from a site

One line to install NMAP 5.0 from source

Know Your Weather From Terminal

Methods to Submit a Form With POST Using {Curl | Perl | Python | Ruby | Lynx}

New VLC 1.0 howto get it

xclip - command line interface to X selections (clipboard)

Cricket Score From Terminal

Integrate Google Calendar With Evolution and Gnome Clock

SoX - Sound eXchange

Wget - tricks and tips

Fun with mp3 :)

Java Docs

Play from command line!

Configuring Google Apps

Google Android SDK Setup

2008 (14)

Fun with Pdf

PDF to ****

Gobby: A Collaborative Text Editor

How to install Ubuntu in 3 easy steps !!

PhotoShop PhotoFramed

Download from youtube

Eclipse on Ubuntu for J2EE

I won't buy iTunes :)

Java and Eclipse on Ubuntu

Java CGI Tomcat Apache PHP MySQL on Ubuntu - Easy Steps

Removing USB viruses with Ubuntu

Removing USB viruses--Most of the Viruses Which Are Wide Speared Due to OS Like Windows Can Me Easily Smashed in OS Like UBUNTU ;)

Skype Problem with Audio Playback

Who said no GAMES in Ubuntu

2007 (1)

Who am i ?