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#programming #typescript #javascript #friday1

TypeScript Crash Course

2026-11-07 • 13 min read • Steve Lloyd

JavaScript With a Safety Net — Now Compiled by Go

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#language #punjabi

Punjabi for Missionaries

2026-11-07 • 19 min read • Steve Lloyd

Spoken in India, Pakistan, and Punjabi communities in the UK, Canada, the USA, and Australia

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#trivia #technology #friday5

Tech Trivia Vol. 4

2026-10-30 • 13 min read • Steve Lloyd

The Odd Little Origins Hiding Inside Your Keyboard, Phone, and Code

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#language #albanian

Albanian for Missionaries

2026-10-30 • 17 min read • Steve Lloyd

Spoken in Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, and Albanian communities across Europe and the USA

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#ai #claude #claudecode #cli #friday4

Getting Started with Claude CLI

2026-10-23 • 19 min read • Steve Lloyd

Install Claude Code on Windows or Mac and put an AI pair programmer in your terminal

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#language #clickbooks #languagelearning #picturebooks

Learn a Language with ClickBooks

2026-10-23 • 15 min read • Steve Lloyd

Free picture books in two languages at once, read aloud, in 14 languages

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#databases #postgresql #mysql #explain #performance #friday3

Reading EXPLAIN ANALYZE

2026-10-16 • 14 min read • Steve Lloyd

Stop guessing why your query is slow — the database will tell you

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#language #turkish

Turkish for Missionaries

2026-10-16 • 18 min read • Steve Lloyd

Spoken in Turkey, Northern Cyprus, and Turkish communities across Europe

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#language #bulgarian

Bulgarian for Missionaries

2026-10-09 • 17 min read • Steve Lloyd

Spoken in Bulgaria, and by Bulgarian diaspora communities across Europe and North America

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#ostools #systemd #linux #commandlinetools #friday2

systemd

2026-10-09 • 13 min read • Steve Lloyd

The Daemon That Became Linux's Init System, Logger, Scheduler, and More

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#programming #c #friday1

C Crash Course

2026-10-02 • 21 min read • Steve Lloyd

The Language Everything Else Is Built On

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#language #romanian

Romanian for Missionaries

2026-10-02 • 16 min read • Steve Lloyd

Spoken in Romania and Moldova, and by Romanian diaspora communities across Western Europe and North America

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#language #xhosa

Xhosa for Missionaries

2026-09-25 • 15 min read • Steve Lloyd

Spoken in South Africa — especially the Eastern Cape and Western Cape — and understood across much of Southern Africa

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#ai #ollama #llm #localai #friday4

Ollama

2026-09-25 • 18 min read • Steve Lloyd

Run Powerful AI Models Right on Your Own Machine

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#databases #postgresql #pgvector #ai #embeddings #friday3

pgvector & Vector Search

2026-09-18 • 15 min read • Steve Lloyd

Teaching Your Database to Understand Meaning

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#language #lao

Lao for Missionaries

2026-09-18 • 19 min read • Steve Lloyd

Spoken in Laos, Northeastern Thailand, and Lao Communities Across the U.S., France, and Australia

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#commandlinetools #jq #json #friday2

jq

2026-09-11 • 15 min read • Steve Lloyd

Command-Line JSON, Done Right

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#language #guarani

Guaraní for Missionaries

2026-09-08 • 22 min read • Steve Lloyd

Spoken in Paraguay, and in parts of Argentina, Bolivia, and Brazil

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#programming #swift #friday1

Swift Crash Course

2026-09-04 • 12 min read • Steve Lloyd

The Language Behind Every iPhone — and Now Much More

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#language #greek

Greek for Missionaries

2026-09-02 • 19 min read • Steve Lloyd

Spoken in Greece, Cyprus, and Greek diaspora communities across the United States, Australia, Germany, Canada, and the United Kingdom

RAG -- Giving LLMs a Memory - thumbnail
#ai #rag #llm #embeddings #friday4

RAG -- Giving LLMs a Memory

2026-08-28 • 26 min read • Steve Lloyd

How to Make an AI Answer From Your Data, Not Its Guesses

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#language #yoruba

Yoruba for Missionaries

2026-08-22 • 15 min read • Steve Lloyd

Spoken in Nigeria, Benin, and Togo, and among large diaspora communities in Brazil, Cuba, the UK, and the United States

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#language #zulu

Zulu for Missionaries

2026-08-22 • 15 min read • Steve Lloyd

Spoken in South Africa, and understood across Eswatini, Lesotho, and much of southern Africa

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#databases #sql #indexing #performance #friday3

Database Indexing Deep Dive

2026-08-21 • 14 min read • Steve Lloyd

The Data Structure That Decides If Your Query Takes 2ms or 2 Minutes

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#commandlinetools #sed #awk #textprocessing #friday2

sed & awk

2026-08-14 • 15 min read • Steve Lloyd

The Text-Processing Power Twins

Go Crash Course - thumbnail
#programming #go #golang #friday1

Go Crash Course

2026-08-07 • 13 min read • Steve Lloyd

The Language That Powers the Cloud — Simple by Design

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#trivia #technology #friday5

Tech Trivia Vol. 3

2026-07-31 • 13 min read • Steve Lloyd

The Stories Behind the Buttons You Press Every Day

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#language #armenian

Armenian for Missionaries

2026-07-24 • 18 min read • Steve Lloyd

Spoken in Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh, and large diaspora communities across Russia, the United States (especially Glendale, California), France, Lebanon, Iran, and Georgia

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#databases #sqlite #embedded #friday3

SQLite

2026-07-17 • 13 min read • Steve Lloyd

The Most Deployed Database on Earth

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#language #malagasy

Malagasy for Missionaries

2026-07-14 • 23 min read • Steve Lloyd

Spoken in Madagascar and Malagasy communities worldwide

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#commandlinetools #cron #automation #scheduling #friday2

Crons

2026-07-10 • 14 min read • Steve Lloyd

The quiet workhorse of computing

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#language #quechua

Quechua for Missionaries

2026-07-09 • 23 min read • Steve Lloyd

Spoken in Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, and parts of Argentina, Chile, and Colombia

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#language #danish

Danish for Missionaries

2026-07-07 • 20 min read • Steve Lloyd

Spoken in Denmark, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands

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#language #arabic

Arabic for Missionaries

2026-07-06 • 24 min read • Steve Lloyd

Spoken across North Africa and the Middle East

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#language #swahili

Swahili for Missionaries

2026-07-06 • 15 min read • Steve Lloyd

Spoken in Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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