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Programming Leftovers
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Artyom Bologov ☛ Just Don’t
So I wondered, why are we building arbitrary restrictions into our tech? It’s computers, they can bear anything. So why not just...
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Ruben Schade ☛ Status lights should stop blinding me
We bought a new convection microwave recently, and the LED clock is so bright it illuminates the entire kitchen and lounge area at night with a sickly glow. If I’m up in the middle of the night getting a glass of water, or even walking across the apartment to get to the bathroom, the light off those few digits is incredibly obnoxious, and frankly hurts my unadjusted eyes. Solutions have been proposed to me, including putting translucent tape over the display to dim it. But it strikes me as being told the solution to a pebble in your shoe is to just wear thicker socks. It frankly floors that it has LEDs that bright in the first place.
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Rlang ☛ clav: R package and Shiny application for cluster analysis validation
Cluster analysis is a statistical procedure for grouping observations using an observation-centered approach as compared to variable-centric approaches (e.g. PCA, factor analysis).
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Rlang ☛ Shiny in Production 2025: Sponsors
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It's FOSS ☛ 4 Ways I am Encouraging My 4 Year Old Child to Help Learn Coding and Use Computer
You are never too old or too young to learn programming.
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Matt Palmer ☛ Matthew Palmer: I'm trying an open source funding experiment
As I’m currently somewhat underemployed, and could do with some extra income, I’m starting an open source crowd-funding experiment. My hypothesis is that the open source community, and perhaps a community-minded company or two, really wants more open source code in the world, and is willing to put a few dollars my way to make that happen.
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ZDNet ☛ Google is building a Linux terminal app for native Android development - here's why that's huge
For some time, Android has had access to a terminal app that ran a full-blown, text-only Linux environment. This app is enabled via Android's developer options feature and makes it possible for users to run Linux commands (even SSH).
From Google's perspective, that wasn't enough.
But it seemed a bit odd when they went mum on the Linux Terminal app at the annual I/O developer conference. Even with that silence, a bit of new news has surfaced that points to Google releasing a new take on the Linux terminal app, one that targets developers.
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Python
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Ubuntu Handbook ☛ PyCharm 2025.2 Released as Last One with Community Edition
JetBrains announced the 2025.2 release of its PyCharm Python IDE today! 2025.2 will be the last supported version of PyCharm Community. In the next 2025.3, there will be only an unified PyCharm with core functionality (including Jupyter Notebook support) for free and a Pro subscription with additional features.
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Rust
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Rust Blog ☛ The Rust Programming Language Blog: Project goals update — July 2025
The Rust Project is currently working towards a slate of 40 project goals, with 3 of them designated as flagship goals. This post provides selected updates on our progress towards these goals (or, in some cases, lack thereof). The full details for any particular goal are available in its associated tracking issue on the rust-project-goals repository.
This is the final update for the first half of 2025. We're in the process of selecting goals for the second half of the year.
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