# 'programming' (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1409 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover 'programming'. Page: Feed: --- ## [Chapter 1: Introduction](https://programminggroundup.blogspot.com/2007/01/chapter-1-introduction.html) _2099-01-31 · Admin · Programming from the Ground Up_ Welcome to Programming I love programming. I enjoy the challenge to not only make a working program, but to do so with style. Programming is like poetry. It conveys a message, not only to the computer, but to those who modify and use your program. With a program, you build your own world with your own rules. You create your world according to your conception of both the problem and the solution.… ## [Looping Is Not in the GIF Spec](https://llbbl.blog/2026/08/25/looping-is-not-in-the.html) _2026-08-25 · LLBBL Blog_ The GIF89a specification defines the signature, the color tables, the LZW encoder, the four interlacing passes, transparency, and the per-frame delay. It does not define animation looping. Download it and search: the word "loop" does not appear in the document once. Every GIF you have ever watched repeat did so because of a 19-byte block that Netscape made up in 1995 and nobody ever standardized.… ## [JPEG Quality 80 Is Not a Setting](https://llbbl.blog/2026/08/24/jpeg-quality-is-not-a.html) _2026-08-24 · LLBBL Blog_ MP4's boxes are exact about everything: every byte accounted for, every offset written down. JPEG is exact about its structure too, and then hands you one control that has no defined meaning at all. It destroys things. That is the entire point, and it will not tell you how much. Here is one 512x512 PNG, encoded to JPEG four times, on the same machine, with every encoder set to quality 80.… ## [An AVIF Is an MP4 With One Frame](https://llbbl.blog/2026/08/23/an-avif-is-an-mp.html) _2026-08-23 · LLBBL Blog_ GIF's structure was a header, some tables, and a sequence of blocks with a one-byte type code. MP4 is stricter than that, and the strictness is the whole design. Every byte in the file lives inside a box, and every box starts the same way: 4 bytes size, big-endian, including this header 4 bytes type, four ASCII characters That is it. Eight bytes, and any parser that knows nothing else about the… ## [Every XML Feature Is One You Turn Off](https://llbbl.blog/2026/08/22/every-xml-feature-is-one.html) _2026-08-22 · LLBBL Blog_ Last post ended on a question. XML is the format in this series that specified everything, so what did all that specifying buy? An answer for every question, and an attack surface made entirely of answers. The other formats in this series failed by leaving things out. CSV never had a standard. JSON declined to say what a number means. YAML wrote the rules down and then most implementations kept… ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/notes/2026/08/22/190035/index.html) _2026-08-22 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ Another strange thing about the world, some might say funny, it sort of is and it isn't, is that eventually eventually at some point nothing is allowed, even doing nothing, at which point it really doesn't matter what you do, just do something, or nothing, or for extra bonus bad guyness do nothing and something at the same time. # ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/notes/2026/08/22/182128/index.html) _2026-08-22 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ Pretty soon everyone is going to be reving their engines at everyone. Might as well get a few revs in there early doors. # ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/notes/2026/08/22/181850/index.html) _2026-08-22 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ Go on world, blame me for everything again. You know you want to. # ## [(untitled)](https://fantastic.earth/@abnv/117137538731844467) _2026-08-22 · Abhinav 🧭_ Got https:// indieweb.social/@blr working again by running https:// github.com/jcrabapple/feedecho via # NixOS on my server. Now that I'm # selhosting it, I can echo any number of # feeds to # Mastodon . ## [(untitled)](https://fantastic.earth/@abnv/117137277909378824) _2026-08-22 · Abhinav 🧭_ More than half of the traffic to my not-at-all popular website is now bots. # indieweb ## [One Cloud, Every AI Layer (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/IxeP7hCEruom) _2026-08-22 · **Sponsored**_ Run agents, inference, and infrastructure on one stack — economics improve as you scale. ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/notes/2026/08/22/100943/index.html) _2026-08-22 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ Quick follow up on yesterday's piece on blocking . First of all I have no issues per-se about security guards coding, in fact I think that's brilliant. What's not brilliant imho is a piece of software, and society kind of is that, where changing something in one place breaks something in a completely unrelated place. Anyone that has debugged a badly written website will know the pitfalls.… ## [Huge RTCReporting Logs and Dropbox](https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/08/21/huge-rtcreporting-logs-and-dropbox/) _2026-08-21 · Michael Tsai · Michael Tsai_ One of our Macs kept filling up its SSD even though there isn’t supposed to be anything more stored on it. Photos is set to optimize its storage, and Messages is set to only keep messages for a year. It should be pretty much in a steady state, but we kept getting alerts from Mail \[…\] ## [Walmart to Support Apple Pay](https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/08/21/walmart-to-support-apple-pay/) _2026-08-21 · Michael Tsai · Michael Tsai_ Joe Rossignol: After years of holding out, Walmart today announced that it will finally begin accepting tap-to-pay options like Apple Pay in some of its Walmart and Sam’s Club stores in the U.S. starting Monday, August 24. The retailer plans to roll out tap-to-pay support to all of its U.S. stores by the end of \[…\] ## [The Best Worst E-mail Client](https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/08/21/the-best-worst-e-mail-client/) _2026-08-21 · Michael Tsai · Michael Tsai_ Rui Carmo: Apple Mail is the first app open every day and the one I find hardest to defend, and I’ve been defending it for twenty years (longer if you remember the original NeXT mail client). The broader story is one of abandonment. \[…\] Apple deprecated that API, replaced it with a (much more restrictive) \[…\] ## [Norway Is Not a Boolean](https://llbbl.blog/2026/08/21/norway-is-not-a-boolean.html) _2026-08-21 · LLBBL Blog_ JSON's problem is that its specification is too small. It tells you 9007199254740993 is a well-formed number and then declines to say which number. YAML went the other way. The 1.2.2 specification is a book. It has a formal grammar, a chapter on recommended schemas, and an answer for nearly everything. And it will still read your config file and decide, without asking, that Norway is false. The… ## [Ghostty Vs. iTerm2 For Developers: Which Terminal Workflow Fits Your Work?](https://slaptijack.com/articles/ghostty-vs-iterm2-for-developers-which-terminal-workflow-fits-your-work.html) _2026-08-21 · Scott Hebert · slaptijack_ Choose between Ghostty and iTerm2 by comparing the terminal responsibilities, compatibility needs, and migration cost that shape your daily development workflow. ## [The world just cannot not block](https://markjgsmith.com/posts/2026/08/21/the-world-just-cannot-not-block/index.html) _2026-08-21 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ This is a situation I have written about so many times on the blog over the years. It happens in all sorts of different ways, but it‘s ultimately the same pattern every time. You figure something out that is absolutely crucial to everything, will make everything much much better, and you prove it and get it working, and somehow the world finds a way to block you, usually in a very offensive way.… ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/notes/2026/08/21/101403/index.html) _2026-08-21 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ Internet situation is dire. Connection currently droping about 50% of packets, in bursts. So bascially it's on for 30 seconds, then off for 30 secs. I am told a technician will be investigating "at some point". # ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/notes/2026/08/21/083815/index.html) _2026-08-21 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ Probably going to be a few test posts today. # ## [Directly milling a small parabolic aluminum mirror](https://www.tspi.at/2026/08/21/mirrormilling01.html) _2026-08-20 · tsp, flo · tspi.at_ Optical mirrors are usually ground, lapped and polished, especially when one wants high surface quality. In some geometries, however, that classical route becomes awkward very quickly. This note summarizes a small mirror project in which we needed a very compact parabolic aluminum mirror for photon extraction inside a transmission electron microscope and ended up milling the optical surface… ## [Ship everywhere from one CLI (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Bv3myRxzvqQt) _2026-08-20 · **Sponsored**_ One codebase, hosted runners, encrypted credentials, and automated submissions across stores ## [Nobody Needs This](https://www.tspi.at/2026/08/21/nobofyneedsthis.html) _2026-08-20 · tsp · tspi.at_ Nobody needs this sounds like a reassuring argument for a restriction. After all, if something is merely an unnecessary luxury, hobby or convenience, little is lost by making it expensive, difficult or impossible to obtain. But taken seriously, the same reasoning applies to almost everything beyond bare survival: comfortable beds, bicycles, spices, musical instruments, travel, gardens, powerful… ## [The End of EWS in Mail and AppleScript in Outlook](https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/08/20/the-end-of-ews-in-mail-and-applescript-in-outlook/) _2026-08-20 · Michael Tsai · Michael Tsai_ Microsoft: Exchange Web Services (EWS) is approaching end of service in Exchange Online. We first announced this change was coming in 2018, when we announced that Exchange Web Services (EWS) will no longer receive functionality updates. In 2023, we announced that EWS will be disabled in Exchange Online in October 2026. Today we’re announcing we \[…\] ## [Re-Launching InvoiceMore](https://vancelucas.com/blog/re-launching-invoicemore/) _2026-08-20 · vlucas · Vance Lucas_ I re-built and re-launched InvoiceMore, my own time-tracking and invoicing software. Since I am doing a lot of consulting lately, I am back to billing for services, time, and sending invoices to be paid by clients. Thus, I felt the pain of this process acutely. First launched way back in 2009, InvoiceMore is the longest... View Article ## [(untitled)](https://fantastic.earth/@abnv/117128583247562270) _2026-08-20 · Abhinav 🧭_ Bookmarked: \[stackbuilders.com\] GHC optimization and fusion https:// web.archive.org/web/20260819/h ttps://www.stackbuilders.com/insights/ghc-optimization-and-fusion/ See more links at abhinavsarkar.net/linkblog # linkblog # linkblogging ## [Your JSON Parser Disagrees With Mine](https://llbbl.blog/2026/08/20/your-json-parser-disagrees-with.html) _2026-08-20 · LLBBL Blog_ Markdown has too many specs. CSV has one that nobody agreed to follow. JSON is supposed to be the happy ending: a grammar small enough to print on a business card, standardized twice over, and elevated to a full Internet Standard. It is, and the parsers still disagree with each other about what your file says. Not about whether it's valid. About what the values are. The Same Number, Three Answers… ## [Ask, Plan, Confirm: Making Agents Stop Before They Start](https://compositecode.blog/2026/08/20/plan-then-build/) _2026-08-20 · Adron · Adron's Composite Code_ The text emphasizes the importance of a structured workflow for coding agents to prevent unintended changes. By introducing a three-step gating process—Ask, Plan, and Confirm—developers can ensure that agents check for ambiguities, outline necessary changes, and obtain explicit approval before implementation. This approach mitigates risks and enhances code quality. ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/notes/2026/08/20/204029/index.html) _2026-08-20 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ And it's some kind of a pink tsumami of never ending bizare synchronicities. I'm afraid to do anything in case I break the multiverse that is probably balancing on a toothpick. Probably shouldn't have mentioned toothpicks. # ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/notes/2026/08/20/203541/index.html) _2026-08-20 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ It's definitely one of those days. Power appears to be restored but main internet is totally blocked. No bueno. # ## [(untitled)](https://markjgsmith.com/notes/2026/08/20/153626/index.html) _2026-08-20 · markjgsmith - Everything Feed_ Strangely timed internet connectivity and power issues today :( # ## [Why Scientific Papers Should Still Be Written by Humans](https://www.tspi.at/2026/08/20/sciencewritinghuman.html) _2026-08-19 · tsp · tspi.at_ The usual argument against generative AI in scientific writing is that language models hallucinate, invent citations, or simply get things wrong. With modern agentic systems that can search, retrieve sources, execute calculations, verify results, and iteratively correct themselves, however, this is increasingly an argument against using the tools badly rather than against using AI itself. There… ## [Web Coding With AI, Live (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/QBtNx9zghAz6) _2026-08-19 · **Sponsored**_ Collaborative screen sharing with simultaneous remote control, open source. ## [Mojo 1.0](https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/08/19/mojo-1-0/) _2026-08-19 · Michael Tsai · Michael Tsai_ Modular (tweet, beta, Hacker News): Today, the Mojo language officially reaches 1.0: a milestone the language has been building toward since its first release in 2023. Mojo has grown into a general-purpose language with a vibrant developer community writing their own libraries, tools, and applications on top of it. With Mojo 1.0, developers can now \[…\] ## [Sudoku in Turing-Complete Unicode Transliteration Rules](https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/08/19/sudoku-in-turing-complete-unicode-transliteration-rules/) _2026-08-19 · Michael Tsai · Michael Tsai_ Nicolas Seriot (Hacker News, Reddit): The core Unicode algorithms (normalization, casing, bidi, collation) are deliberately bounded, but UTS #35 transliteration rules, under their natural unbounded semantics, are not. This is a result I haven’t found published before. These rules ship as locale data in ICU, the Unicode library shipped in operating systems, browsers, runtimes, and \[…\] ## [Jira Is Turing-Complete](https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/08/19/jira-is-turing-complete/) _2026-08-19 · Michael Tsai · Michael Tsai_ Nicolas Seriot (Hacker News): Engineering folklore holds that Jira (Atlassian’s project-tracking tool) is Turing-complete. Existing claims point vaguely at automation features without exhibiting a reduction. This article supplies a proof, with setup instructions and execution trace. \[…\] Minsky proved this model Turing-complete (1967). Exhibiting it in Jira’s automation language therefore… ## [CueCam 2.0](https://rsmck.co.uk/blog/cuecam-2-0/) _2026-08-19 · rsmck · rsmck_ So, this is probably the biggest software release I've been responsible for in a while, and it all started as 'pet project' for myself and a couple of other LDs (much like lxkey I guess!) What is CueCam? In summary, it's an app for ## [Atproto Gave Me Superpowers to Fix My Bookhive Data](https://www.davideaversa.it/bytes/202608191844-atproto-gave-me-superpowers-to-fix-my-bookhive-data/?utm_source=atom_feed) _2026-08-19 · Davide Aversa · Davide Aversa_ I let Claude log into my atproto PDS with a temporary password and fix my messy Bookhive reading data against my Obsidian vault. Ten minutes later, everything was in sync. Imagine what we could do if this was the standard way of interacting with applications data. -- Read More ## [Nobody Agrees What a CSV Is](https://llbbl.blog/2026/08/19/nobody-agrees-what-a-csv.html) _2026-08-19 · LLBBL Blog_ CSV is simple but powerful. Values, separated by commas. It's easy to understand and use. It is also, by a wide margin, the one that destroys the most data. That's not a paradox. It's cause and effect. A format simple enough that everyone writes their own parser is a format with as many dialects as it has parsers, and CSV's defining property is that it carries no information about how to read it.… ## [Giving Every Agent Its Own Branch: Git Worktrees for Parallel AI Work](https://compositecode.blog/2026/08/19/worktrees/) _2026-08-19 · Adron · Adron's Composite Code_ The text discusses challenges faced when using multiple coding agents on a single Git working tree, leading to merge conflicts and lost edits. It emphasizes the need for independent work environments through Git worktrees, which allow each agent to operate in its own directory while sharing an object store. The author details a structured solution to managing these worktrees, outlining scripts for… ## [Protected: Pasta/80 – 7. Hooking it all up](https://lemmings.info/pasta-80-7-hooking-it-all-up/) _2026-08-19 · mikedailly · THE LIFE OF A GAME DEVELOPER_ There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. The post Protected: Pasta/80 – 7. Hooking it all up appeared first on THE LIFE OF A GAME DEVELOPER . ## [Ghostty, tmux, And SSH: A Terminal Workflow That Survives Context Switching](https://slaptijack.com/articles/ghostty-tmux-and-ssh-a-terminal-workflow-that-survives-context-switching.html) _2026-08-19 · Scott Hebert · slaptijack_ Separate terminal rendering, durable sessions, and remote access so a context switch, disconnect, or laptop change does not turn active engineering work into a scavenger hunt. ## [New EU App Store Terms to Comply With DMA](https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/08/18/new-eu-app-store-terms-to-comply-with-dma/) _2026-08-18 · Michael Tsai · Michael Tsai_ Apple (developer, details, Hacker News, TechCrunch, The Verge, 9To5Mac): These changes resolve Apple’s disagreements with the Commission over business terms and alternative distribution. They also reduce complexity by moving every developer that distributes apps in the EU to a single set of business terms. \[…\] The Core Technology Fee, a per-install fee for developers that \[…\] ## [macOS 26.6.2](https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/08/18/macos-26-6-2/) _2026-08-18 · Michael Tsai · Michael Tsai_ Joe Rossignol (release notes, security, no enterprise, no developer, full installer, IPSW): macOS 26.6.2 delivers security fixes that were first made available in the macOS Golden Gate 27 beta. Howard Oakley: There don’t appear to any matching security updates to Sequoia or Sonoma, though. See also: Mr. Macintosh. Previously: iOS 26.6.1 and iPadOS 26.6.1 macOS \[…\] ## [iOS 26.6.1 and iPadOS 26.6.1](https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/08/18/ios-26-6-1-and-ipados-26-6-1/) _2026-08-18 · Michael Tsai · Michael Tsai_ Joe Rossignol (iOS/iPadOS release notes, security, no enterprise, no developer): Apple today released iOS 26.6.1, iPadOS 26.6.1, visionOS 26.6.1, and macOS 26.6.2, with all of the updates containing security fixes. Apple also released iOS 18.7.10 and iPadOS 18.7.10 with security fixes. The version numbers are now out of sync with macOS because macOS 26.6.1 fixed \[…\] ## ["My Baby Is Ugly"](https://www.davideaversa.it/blog/my-baby-is-ugly/?utm_source=atom_feed) _2026-08-18 · Davide Aversa · Davide Aversa_ Every time I finish a draft, I need to face the reality: my draft sucks. Stiff dialogue, absent descriptions, plot holes larger than my apartment. But I can make it better. Revising is hard work, but it is the best work. -- Read More ## ["My Baby Is Ugly"](https://www.davideaversa.it/blog/my-baby-is-ugly/?utm_source=atom_feed) _2026-08-18 · Davide Aversa · Davide Aversa_ Every time I finish a draft, I need to face the reality: my draft sucks. Stiff dialogue, absent descriptions, plot holes larger than my apartment. But I can make it better. Revising is hard work, but it is the best work. -- Read More ## [Team Next Step conquered the Falmouth Road Race!](https://www.nextstepnet.org/team-next-step-conquered-the-falmouth-road-race/) _2026-08-18 · admnextstep · Next Step Fund, Inc._ Congratulations and thank you to our amazing Team Next Step runners who volunteered their time this summer to train for the 54th Annual ASICS Falmouth Road Race and raise important \[…\] The post Team Next Step conquered the Falmouth Road Race! appeared first on Next Step Fund, Inc. . ## [Word Documents Used to Be Filesystems](https://llbbl.blog/2026/08/18/word-documents-used-to-be.html) _2026-08-18 · LLBBL Blog_ Last post ended on a promise: a .docx is a ZIP file, and you already know how ZIP works. That's true, and it's the smaller half of the story. The interesting part is what .docx replaced, because the old .doc format was doing something strange. It wasn't a document. It was a filesystem with a document living inside it. A Filesystem in a File Here's a real .doc from 2015, 10,240 bytes. The first… ## [Nobody Agrees What a CSV Is](https://llbbl.blog/2026/08/18/nobody-agrees-what-a-csv.html) _2026-08-18 · LLBBL Blog_ CSV is the simple but powerful. Values, separated by commas. It's easy to understand and use. It is also, by a wide margin, the one that destroys the most data. That's not a paradox. It's cause and effect. A format simple enough that everyone writes their own parser is a format with as many dialects as it has parsers, and CSV's defining property is that it carries no information about how to read… ## [A Research Agent on a Budget Leash, and How I’d Sequence the Whole Build](https://compositecode.blog/2026/08/18/a-research-agent-on-a-budget-leash-and-how-id-sequence-the-whole-build/) _2026-08-18 · Adron · Adron's Composite Code_ Part 8 emphasizes building a supervised AI agent within a structured workflow using Temporal, focusing on retrieval, reasoning, and drafting without overspending on model tokens. The author outlines the importance of sequencing the development, integrating guardrails like budget limits, and asserts that trust in the agent comes from structured testing and supervision, not vague prompts. ## [The Rise of AI and Its Implications for Entrepreneurs](https://incolumitas.com/2026/08/18/the-rise-of-ai-and-its-implications-for-entrepreneurs/) _2026-08-18 · Nikolai Tschacher · incolumitas.com_ Will AI get more powerful and what are the implications for people that create new businesses? ## [GLSL, Shadertoy, Ai, and Zoe... oh my.](https://rsmck.co.uk/blog/glsl-shadertoy-ai-and-zoe-backgrounds/) _2026-08-18 · rsmck · rsmck_ I have long been a fan of Shadertoy website, and the vast collection of computational animations made by people far smarter than I therein. This beautiful fractal-like animation is just 40 lines of code and clever maths But since this is all based on an open technology, GLSL shaders,