Programming Leftovers
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Juha-Matti Santala ☛ Syntax Error #12: Debugging Browser Extensions
Syntax Error is a newsletter about debugging for developers, students, hobbyists, curious and duck fans. In this 1 year anniversary birthday issue of Syntax Error I write about tips and tools for debugging browser extensions. Read full article at syntaxerror.tech/syntax-error-12-browser-extension-debugging/ and either subscribe to the email or RSS feed to catch all of them.
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Anne van Kesteren: WebKit and web-platform-tests
Let me state upfront that this strategy of keeping WebKit synchronized with parts of web-platform-tests has worked quite well for me, but I’m not at all an expert in this area so you might want to take advice from someone else.
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David Bremner: Generating ikiwiki markdown from org
My web pages are (still) in ikiwiki, but lately I have started authoring things like assignments and lectures in org-mode so that I can have some literate programming facilities. There is is org-mode export built-in, but it just exports source blocks as examples (i.e. unhighlighted verbatim). I added a custom exporter to mark up source blocks in a way ikiwiki can understand.
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Perl / Raku
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Perl ☛ What's new on CPAN - January 2024
Welcome to “What’s new on CPAN”, a curated look at last month’s new CPAN uploads for your reading and programming pleasure. Enjoy!
APIs & Apps
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Python
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Sumana Harihareswara ☛ Celebrate Beautiful Soup's 20th Anniversary
Please help join a celebration for the 20th anniversary of the software project Beautiful Soup on May 19th, 2024! For twenty years, this screen-scraping library has made it easier to get data out of HTML.
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Education
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The Register UK ☛ Forgetting the history of Unix is coding us into a corner
FOSDEM 2024 There are vital lessons to be learned from the history of Unix, but they're being forgotten. This is leading to truly vast amounts of wasted effort.
This article is the second in a series of pieces based on The Reg FOSS desk's talk at FOSDEM 2024.
FOSDEM is a conference all about free and open source software, and these days, perhaps regrettably, FOSS is about Unix. Increasingly, Unix today is Linux. The problem is that everyone is forgetting what UNIX really is and knowing your history is essential. As George Santayana said, often misquoted: [...]
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