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The comparison is `myapp.localhost` vs `localhost:3000`. This is especially useful when you have web servers permanently running on your computer on ports, not just for momentaneou…

Incredibly fun and powerful to string along a series of simple tools: parsing a podcast xml, downloading and reencoding the files with ffmpeg, transcribed with whisper-cpp, simple …

How your classmate became a con artist: "It’s a choice that’s laden with power. Unlike a bank or a traditional business, consultancies have little capital apart from the graduates …

I'll throw in a vote for using p5.js to make some cool generative art. Setup is less than 5 lines of code, and you can make some really nice art.

More importantly than the React code, I was playing around with `next.js` and `now.sh`. It was the simplest setup I've ever done. Barely any boilerplate, support for es6, and insta…

Clojure. Lisps in general are beautiful.

It might just be that I don't have much experience with JS, but it profoundly annoys be that a "tiny" script has 8 additional config files...

The Stanford curriculum goes from Java to C++ to C in the first core year of classes. Our final project is a memory Allocator (Malloc, Realloc, Free). By the end, students really d…

I'm curious if a combination of JavaScript: The Good Parts, and a professor that emphasizes good practices can offset JS's inherent problems. Very few people formally learn JS. It'…

As a Stanford student, an important caveat is that 106J is not replacing 106A. It is still being tested out this quarter, and this is the first time it's being offered. Enrollment …