The apocryphal origins of the Hot Dog Stand color scheme
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November 25, 2025Posts from today
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Why Design Awards Matter and How Readymag Rethinks Them
As a website design tool, Readymag has taken part in and won international design awards while running its own for years. Let’s look at their insights from this experience.... Take me to this post.
November 25, 2025Exploring the .NET boot process via host tracing
In this post we enable host tracing and use that to understand how a .NET app boots up via the dotnet muxer, hostfxr, and hostpolicy.dll... Take me to this post.
November 25, 2025CodeSOD: The Map to Your Confession
Today, Reginald approaches us for a confession. He writes: I've no idea where I "copied" this code from five years ago. The purpose of this code was to filter out Maps and Collections Maybe the intention was to avoid a recursive implementation by an endless loop? I am shocked that I wrote such code. Well, that doesn't bode well, Reginald. Let's take a look at this Java snippet: /** * * @param input * @return */ protected Map rearrangeMap(Map input) { Map retMap = new HashMap(); if (inp... Take me to this post.
November 25, 2025Notes on the WASM Basic C ABI
The WebAssembly/tool-conventions repository contains "Conventions supporting interoperability between tools working with WebAssembly". Of special interest, in contains the Basic C ABI - an ABI for representing C programs in WASM. This ABI is followed by compilers like Clang with the wasm32 target. Rust is also switching to this ABI for …... Take me to this post.
November 25, 2025Context privateering: debugging custom instructions like a pirate
I occasionally add context instructions to an AI tool, but then am not sure whether those changes were picked up by the tool. The fun way to debug this is to add “Always speak like a pirate” to the instructions. This works in all tools. Context engineering! Context I use LLM tools like Claude Code. These come with the ability to customise the context fed to the model with files like ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md or /CLAUDE.md, which can be used for personal and/or project-specific guidelines and tips. ... Take me to this post.
November 25, 2025