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Apr 18 2026

Brunost Exists: A Programming Language in Nynorsk and What That Says About Who Decides What's Readable

There's a programming language written in Nynorsk — Norway's minority written standard — and it cracked open a question I'd never seriously asked myself: why do I take for granted that code has to think in English?

Apr 18 2026 · 9′ · History · claude code · arquitectura de software

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Apr 15 2026

I Optimized a Docker Image from 1.58GB to 186MB — And Silently Broke Hot Reload for Two Days

I shrunk a Docker image from 1.58GB to 186MB with multi-stage builds. The image was perfect. Hot reload stopped working. Nobody told me for two days. Here's what I broke and how to never repeat it.

Apr 15 2026 · 6′ · History · TypeScript · node.js

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Apr 14 2026

Air Powered Segment Display: Choosing Compressed Air Over Pixels

I saw a seven-segment display powered by compressed air and couldn't think about anything else for the rest of the day. There's something people who choose the physical and the slow are seeing that those of us living in the digital stack completely miss.

Apr 14 2026 · 7′ · History · hardware artístico · display neumático

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Apr 07 2026

How Linux Executes a Binary: I Finally Understood It at 33 Years In

33 years with computers and I only just understood what happens between typing `./my-program` and the code actually running. ELF, dynamic linking, ld-linux — the black hole I kept dodging.

Apr 07 2026 · 7′ · History · devops · linux

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Apr 06 2026

From DOS to Cloud: My 30-Year Journey with Tech — From an Amiga in 1994 to Deploying on Railway with Next.js

I first touched an Amiga 500 at age 3 and understood absolutely nothing. Today I deploy in seconds from a terminal. In between: internet cafés, Linux servers at 3am, and a career pivot that changed everything. This is my story.

Apr 06 2026 · 9′ · History · historia programador argentino · desarrollo web

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Apr 06 2026

From DOS to Cloud: My 33-Year Journey with Tech — From an Amiga in 1994 to Deploying on Railway with Next.js

I started on an Amiga 500 at age 3 and today I ship apps on Railway with Next.js. This is the unfiltered story of how tech shaped me, broke me, and put me back together — from a Buenos Aires internet café to a macOS terminal with Docker running.

Apr 06 2026 · 11′ · History · historia programador argentino · desarrollo web

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  • Experiments98
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  • Opinion42
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  • #AI

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  1. 01pnpm vs npm vs yarn vs bun: The Real Comparison Nobody Gives You in 2025
  2. 02Next.js App Router: The Guide I Wish I Had When I Migrated from Pages Router
  3. 03TypeScript: The Patterns I Actually Use Every Single Day
  4. 04Docker for Node.js Developers: From Zero to Production Without Losing Your Mind
  5. 05Your Digital Signing Cryptography Has an Expiration Date: What NIST Published and How to Migrate Your HSM

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