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@anildash.com Since you keep talking about “better AI critique”, you might like this article by Chelsea Troy: chelseatroy.com/2025/05/14/t... It felt like a really thoughtful approach to helping students understand the limitations of genAI, better than a blanket ban or unconditional acceptance.

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Creating a static website for all my bookmarks: alexwlchan.net/2025/bookmar... I’ve been tidying up my bookmarks, and I’ve moved them out of Pinboard into a static website on my local computer. I’ve written about why I still care about bookmarking in 2025, and how this new site works. 🔖

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Creating a static website for all my bookmarks: alexwlchan.net/2025/bookmar... I’ve been tidying up my bookmarks, and I’ve moved them out of Pinboard into a static website on my local computer. I’ve written about why I still care about bookmarking in 2025, and how this new site works. 🔖

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Did you know that JSON objects can have duplicate names? { "sides": 4, "colour": "red", "sides": 5, "colour": "blue" } This is unusual and discouraged – but it is valid syntax! I wrote about how to deal with these unfamiliar JSON objects in Python: alexwlchan.net/2025/duplica...

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Did you know that JSON objects can have duplicate names? { "sides": 4, "colour": "red", "sides": 5, "colour": "blue" } This is unusual and discouraged – but it is valid syntax! I wrote about how to deal with these unfamiliar JSON objects in Python: alexwlchan.net/2025/duplica...

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

A faster way to copy SQLite databases between computers: alexwlchan.net/2025/copying... I wrote up a quick trick I learned: dumping a SQLite database to a text file can make it much smaller, which means you can download it faster.

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@arborelia.net I used ftfy for a project today, and the fix_and_explain() function was so useful, thank you! 💚💖

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

A flash of light in the darkness: alexwlchan.net/2025/fix-dar... I wrote about a recent bug in dark mode on my website, where I forgot to set a fallback colour for a background image.

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Beyond None: actionable error messages for keyring.get_password(): alexwlchan.net/2025/get-req... I have a wrapper for get_password() so that if it can’t find a password, you get an error that explains how to set the password, and what password to choose.

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What a great day to live on terf island Much love to my trans siblings, especially my trans sisters, and good luck for the wave of extra crap that’s about to be flung our way 💚💖

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Localising the <time> with JavaScript: alexwlchan.net/2025/localis... I wrote a quick post about using the <time> element and some JavaScript to display timestamps as human-readable, localised timestamps. Compare: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 at 06:31 BST (1 hour ago) vs 2025-04-16T06:31:27Z.

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