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This blog post explains how to avoid unnecessary copies when appending to a C++ std::vector , and recommends the fast_vector_append helper l...

This blog post explains how to make backups of your WhatsApp chats and photos safely on your Android device, and how to restore your backups...

This blog post explains how to check whether a filename is safe for overwriting the file contents on a Unix system, and it also contains C c...

This blog post explains how to fix Python SSL errors when downloading web pages using the https:// protocol in Python (e.g. by using the url...

This blog post explains how to compile Lepton , the recently released JPEG lossless recompressor by Dropbox without autotools on Linux. You...

This blog post explains how to back up photos on Google Photos and Google Drive as is, keeping the original images files, bit-by-bit identic...

This blog post explains how to install Hungarian spell checking and hyphenation for LibreOffice and OpenOffice on Linux. The instructions we...

This blog post explains how to disable (reject) any root password on Debian and Ubuntu, thus rejecting login attempts as root. Becoming root...

Please disregard this post, it's a cryptographic proof checked by keybase.io/pts . ===================================================...

This blog post is to announce statically linked binaries for Linux i386 of MicroPython . MicroPython (Python for microcontrollers) is an o...

This blog post explains how to extract comments from a JPEG file. Each JPEG file consists of segments. Each segment describes parts of the i...

This blog post is an announcement of flickrurlget , a command-line tool for Unix, written in Python 2.x that can be used to download photos ...

This blog post explains how to compute the sorted intersection of two sorted lists, and it shows a fast Python implementation. The time comp...