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Plugins case study: mdBook preprocessors

mdBook is a tool for easily creating books out of Markdown files. It's very popular in the Rust ecosystem, where it's used (among other things) to publish the official Rust book. mdBook has a simple yet effective plugin mechanism that can be used to modify the book output in arbitrary …... Take me to this post.

December 18, 2025

Deducing the consequences of Windows clipboard text formats on UTF-8

Working out the implications. The post Deducing the consequences of Windows clipboard text formats on UTF-8 appeared first on The Old New Thing.... Take me to this post.

December 17, 2025

Building Responsive, Scroll-Triggered Curved Path Animations with GSAP

Smooth curved animations look simple, but building them responsively takes careful control. This tutorial shows how to approach it in practice.... Take me to this post.

December 17, 2025

The Spare Drive

As the single-digit Fahrenheit temperatures creep across the northeast United States, one's mind drifts off to holidays- specifically summer holidays where it isn't so cold that it hurts to breathe. Luciano M works in Italy, where August 15th is a national holiday, but also August is the traditional time of year for everyone to take off, leaving the country mostly shut down for the month. A long time ago, Luciano worked for a small company, along with some friends. This was long enough that you ... Take me to this post.

December 17, 2025

What Actually Is Claude Code’s Plan Mode?

I’ve mentioned this a few times now, but when I started using Claude it was because Peter got me hooked on it. From the very beginning I became a religious user of what is colloquially called YOLO mode, which basically gives the agent all the permissions so I can just watch it do its stuff. One consequence of YOLO mode though is that it didn’t work well together with the plan mode that Claude Code had. In the beginning it didn’t inherit all the tool permissions, so in plan mode it actually ask... Take me to this post.

December 17, 2025

Directional CSS with scroll-state(scrolled)

Style based on scroll direction with this new scroll-state query feature.... Take me to this post.

December 17, 2025
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