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 …...
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December 18, 2025
Deducing the consequences of Windows clipboard text formats on UTF-8
Working out the implications.
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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....
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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 ...
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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...
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December 17, 2025
Directional CSS with scroll-state(scrolled)
Style based on scroll direction with this new scroll-state query feature....
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December 17, 2025