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Yaakov

Tooling 2 min read

Better Tools: Difftastic

A very quick primer on an alternative diff tool that does some very smart highlighting in the terminal.
Tooling 1 min read

Better Tools: Bat

Sometimes reinventing the wheel is good and even a task like "show the contents of this file" can be improved upon.
Tooling 2 min read

Better Tools: Mosh

A short post about Mosh "the mobile shell", which handles network interruptions far better than SSH.
Development 2 min read

ECDSA Signatures: OpenSSL vs .NET

In which I figure out why they don't talk to each-other, because that would be far too easy.
Development 2 min read

How Git Clone Actually Works

"Begun, the Clone Wars have."
Internet 2 min read

On The Value of Blogging

In which I ponder the value of personal blogs and once again consider writing more frequently.
Development 2 min read

The rabbit hole of xplat Docker .NET images

A little bit of a deeper dive into how building cross-platform Linux container images works, thanks to a bug with running .NET.
Development 3 min read

Running Swift on a Nintendo DS

I came across a way for Swift code to compile for GameBoy Advance and decided to try it on real Nintendo hardware.
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