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1. Responses to walking a very large poodle

   Shameless plug: Archie is on Instagram.

   I was inspired by a recent article posted on HN about how people responded to seeing a man unicycling, to do a similar analysis of the way people responded …

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2. vidsteps

   I wrote a quick tool to help myself follow along to recipe videos as I cook. The idea is to divide a video into "steps" and then play the video step-by-step, looping the current step until told to advance.

   If that sounds useful to you, then check it out here …

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3. How to build highly-debuggable C++ binaries

   This article is tightly scoped to cover one topic with specific, actionable advice: How to configure your C++ toolchain to produce binaries that are highly-debuggable with respect to your current bug. Follow this link to skip the intro text and jump directly to the advice.

   C …

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4. xargs is the inverse function of echo

   xargs is a particularly confusing unix command. I want to share my trick for understanding how it works.

   Let's look at the abbreviated tldr output for xargs:

   $ tldr xargs
   xargs
   
    - Run a command using the input data as arguments:
      {{arguments_source}} | xargs {{command}}
   

   So, for example, if …

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