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  1. A primer on car insurance (in India)

  2. Improved font rendering in Guix

  3. git stage over git add

  4. On Stephen Baxter's Manifold books

  5. Tip for my future self: If Emacs throws an arcane error — project--read-file-name: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil — while trying to find a file in a git project (C-x p f), then one likely reason is that the git project is empty.

    Solution? Make sure you have something inside the git project. Even a staged file is enough.

  6. How I configured OS-specific fonts in Emacs

  7. A case of unsoundness in TypeScript

  8. Understanding various syntaxes to annotate a function's type in TypeScript

  9. JavaScript function declaration v/s arrow function in a browser console

  10. Someone's high hopes- to dash or not to dash

  11. Copying all files of a directory, including hidden ones, with cp

  12. Proximity of an error in static and dynamic languages

  13. Design Rework #1 - reworking my university hoarding

  14. Making tanstack docs more accessible with Stylus

  15. Use cases for <form method="dialog">

  16. Name your SQL constraints

  17. Connecting to MySQL running on NixOS on local network

  18. Flossing - do orthodon't. There is no try.

  19. Being chill

  20. A mental model for Linux file, hard and soft links

  21. The Trumping Joke

  22. Different kinds of simple

  23. Ki modal editor - first impressions

  24. How I use :has() selector to add table of contents

  25. Forgotten lesson remembered after staring 5 minutes at the screen: innerHTML cannot contain a <script> tag.

  26. Cool ways to generate a UUID

  27. Choosing curious over judgmental

  28. Scripting with Scala

  29. Task failed successfully - Linux edition

  30. British v/s American comedy dramas

  31. Stubborn pop-up on Mutual Fund Utilities (MFU) website

  32. Effective Scala, part 8 - OO concepts

  33. Series - Effective Programming in Scala

  34. Effective Scala, part 7 - entry point of a project

  35. Effective Scala, part 6 - Scala Build Tool (SBT)

  36. Effective Scala, part 5 - collections

  37. Effective Scala, part 4 - function v/s method

  38. Effective Scala, part 3 - compatibility roulette

  39. Effective Scala, part 2 - domain modelling

  40. Effective Scala, part 1 - elements of a program

  41. An overview of OCaml editor tooling

  42. Memorising branch order in git rebase

  43. I switched to fish shell Nope. Back to bash.

  44. Make an opam local switch and dune init project work together

  45. Spoonfeeding machine architecture to OCaml toolchain on Apple Silicon

  46. List of movies better than their book counterparts

  47. An elegant triplet of fonts

  48. How to mark up a code snippet in HTML

  49. Location of emacs config

  50. What box-sizing does

  51. Fake SHA256 in a Nix derivation

  52. How to use Hover Click without animation in GNOME

  53. How to write a Firefox add-on in ClojureScript