100 Useful Command-Line Utilities
A Guide to 100 (ish) Useful Commands

Design with the screen reader layer in mind

Closing the gap between what you’ve designed and what’s announced by screen readers doesn’t require accessibility or production code expertise. It’s about being more intentional with the decisions you’re already making.

Though screen reader output depends on how the design was developed, designers have more influence over the screen reader experience than they think.

Think “role, name, state” while designing

You don’t need to memorize ARIA specs to improve accessibility. Just ask yourself three questions as you design elements like interactive or informative elements:

Role: What is this?
Name: What does it do?
State: What’s its current condition?

Learn how DNS works: hierarchy, records (A, CNAME, MX, TXT), TTL caching, and the full resolution process. Plus commands to view and clear DNS cache.

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A new immersive art project in Los Angeles is set to occupy the shuttered St. Vincent Medical Center, turning a site in transition into a large-scale environment organized around human emotion.

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• Use a 1" spade bit (with the point sawed off) to make a little indentation for the washer to sit in
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  This Old House - walls

For all of the AI industry’s advancements, the major models like ChatGPT and Claude still struggle with PDFs, one of the oldest and ubiquitous file formats.

Check-raising is a tactic that every poker player knows about. But very few make this play as often as they should. If you're one of those "check-raises too infrequently" players, you're leaving money on the table, especially against players who c-bet too often. This video breaks down 5 surprisingly good hands to check-raise so you can up your aggression confidently.

22 on K86dd with the 2d (backdoor flush draw) because your 2 outs are both clean (they can't make a flush!) The backdoor flush draw isn't always hoping to make a flush! (c/r 30% of time)

86 on 853: Tend to check-raise lower top pairs with bad kickers, not kickers that are overcards to the board (except A8 and K8). These are mixes: c/r 50% of the time

6s4s on Ah 6h 5s - Middle pair on ace-high board with straight blocker. Everyone c-bets ace-high boards!!

6s4s on Qd 5s 4d - Bottom pair with backdoors - Even when the backdoor whiffs turn, you can still bet as a bluff that you don't care about getting raised!

KQ on J 6 5 - Two overcards, backdoor flush and straight draws (c/r 50%)

These hints are for c-bets of 33% pot. You don't have to be as aggressive when the bets are larger.

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Steve Huynh, formerly Principal Engineer at Amazon, shares observations from 10+ years of interviewing software engineers, and an excerpt from his new book, Technical Behavioral Interview

Learning #2: How you deliver the story matters as much as the story itself

Here’s something that’s always struck me as odd. If you had a big presentation at work, you’d spend hours preparing for it, right?. You’d think about the structure, the flow, the key points. You’d rehearse it. You might even do a couple of dry runs with a colleague. Nobody wants to walk into a presentation and wing it.

Learning #3: The interview is an audition for what it’s like to work with you

Most candidates think the interview is an exam. If you get the right answers, then you’ll pass the test and get the job. That’s simply not how it works. Yes, you are being evaluated, and what you say matters. But there is no answer key. The interviewer doesn’t have a rubric with the “correct” responses to which they compare your answers. They’re forming an impression of you as a person, and that impression is far more nuanced than “right” or “wrong.”

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Building a fully functional, code-editing agent in less than 400 lines.

I have literally never seen LLM writing that actually improved my life.

The model produces better work. Some of my peers believe that large language models produce strictly better writing than they could produce on their own. Anecdotally, this phenomenon seems more common among English-as-a-second-language speakers. I also see it a lot with first-time programmers, for whom programming is a set of mysterious incantations to be memorized and recited. I think this is also the cause of language model use in some forms of academic writing: it differs from the prior case with paper reviews in that, presumably, the authors believe that their paper matters, but don’t believe they can produce sufficient writing

VIM Master: in-browser game that teaches core Vim motions and editing commands through short, focused levels. - GitHub - renzorlive/vimmaster: VIM Master: in-browser game that teaches core Vim motions and editing commands through short, focused levels.

As you may have seen, the US Senate agreed by unanimous consent on Tuesday to abolish standard time and keep clocks on daylight saving time all year. As you may know, I fucking hate this idea, and I kind of hate having to write about it again, because I have said my piece about the matter, repeatedly. But apparently a lot of you did not listen, so I’m going to have to explain again why the status quo on time is good and the ideas to change it are bad, in hopes that will stop the House from approving the Senate-passed bill and sending this nonsense to President Biden’s desk.