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Thursday, September 17, 2026

My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it. — Jake A. Smith jakeasmith.com EN The author is deprecating his widely installed 2014 PHP polyfill with nearly 20 million installs due to maintenance and security concerns.
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Monday, May 18, 2026

Froot Loops and a graphics card · Daniel May danielmay.co.uk EN A developer recounts building a VB6 parser for Siemens 9005 PBX dumps, receiving Froot Loops and a graphics card as payment, and reflecting on engineering lessons and nostalgia.
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Friday, May 15, 2026

RTX 5090 + M4 MacBook Air: Can it Game? | Scott's Blog scottjg.com EN A technical walkthrough of using an RTX 5090 eGPU with an M4 MacBook Air via Thunderbolt and a Linux VM for gaming and AI.
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Friday, April 17, 2026

The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe | The Verge www.theverge.com EN-US Competitors are undermining Adobe with free and cheaper alternatives to its Creative Cloud.
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Monday, March 30, 2026

notes: copilot edited an ad into my pr notes.zachmanson.com EN A GitHub Copilot edit inserted an advertisement for itself and Raycast into the author's pull request description.
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Thursday, March 26, 2026

Podsync - I finally built my podcast track syncer - Kaushik Gopal's Website kau.sh EN Podsync is a Rust CLI that automatically aligns multitrack podcast recordings using speech detection and fingerprinting.
Podcasting Software