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Willem's Blog
Vision Pro My thoughts on using Vision Pro to get some real work done, exploring what Spatial Computing means...
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My thoughts on using Vision Pro to get some real work done, exploring what Spatial Computing means and how it can be useful.
Posts on Made of...
DEF CON I’m sitting in the airport in Las Vegas on the way back from DEF CON 15. It’s the first time I’ve...
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I’m sitting in the airport in Las Vegas on the way back from DEF CON 15. It’s the first time I’ve been at the con, and it wasn’t really what I expected. Frankly, I walked away feeling kinda underwhelmed. Very few of the talks were as technical as I was hoping – they were almost...
Home on Erik...
statself.com Btw I just put something up online that I spent a couple of evenings in my couch putting together:...
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Btw I just put something up online that I spent a couple of evenings in my couch putting together: it's a website where you can track any numerical data on the web. Want to know how many Twitter followers you have?
Arduino Blog
Arduino and System Electronics partner for industrial vision and AI-powered inventory and logistics Arduino and System Electronics are joining forces to create cutting-edge solutions for industrial...
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4 months ago
Arduino and System Electronics are joining forces to create cutting-edge solutions for industrial and building automation, focusing specifically on edge computing to deliver real-time processing, predictive analytics, and seamless integration for AI-driven inventory management...
Jonas Hietala
Where's Teddy? So I did this course Game Design and what’s a course on Game Design without a game? Well, here it...
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So I did this course Game Design and what’s a course on Game Design without a game? Well, here it is. Made in about seven days (more likely eight) and I thought it became quite cool. Where’s Teddy? How to Play Your mission is to find teddy and his teddybear friends. The...
Arduino Blog
Move Mario remotely with this online N64 controller system For obvious reasons, video game console controls provide input commands directly to the console....
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For obvious reasons, video game console controls provide input commands directly to the console. Modern consoles may do so wirelessly, but the effect is the same: direct input. But what if you connected a “controller” to the internet? Then you could play from anywhere and that is...
./techtipsy
Monitoring energy usage with smart plugs, Prometheus and Grafana This post isn’t a detailed line-by-line tutorial on how to set up each individual piece of the setup...
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This post isn’t a detailed line-by-line tutorial on how to set up each individual piece of the setup as those types of guides tend to get out of date really easily, but if you know your way around Linux and the command line, then you can definitely replicate this setup on your...
Ian's Blog
Having a Website Used to Be Fun According to the Wayback Machine, I launched my website over a decade ago, in 2013. Just that...
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8 months ago
According to the Wayback Machine, I launched my website over a decade ago, in 2013. Just that thought alone makes me feel old, but going back through the old snapshots of my websites made me feel a profound feeling of longing for a time when having a website used to be a novel...
lcamtuf’s thing
A 15-minute intro to involute gears Involute gears are everywhere: toys, kitchen appliances, cars. But what's so special about their...
7 months ago
Old Vintage...
Harpoom: of course the Apple Network Server can be hacked into running Doom a $10,000+ Apple server running IBM AIX. Of course you can. Well, you can now. Now, let's go ahead...
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a $10,000+ Apple server running IBM AIX. Of course you can. Well, you can now. Now, let's go ahead and get the grumbling out of the way. No, the ANS is not running Linux or NetBSD. No, this is not a backport of NCommander's AIX Doom, because that runs on AIX 4.3. The Apple...
Christian Selig
Apollo for Reddit 1.9 Apollo 1.9’s a massive update to Apollo that’s taken months and months to complete, but I’m really...
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Apollo 1.9’s a massive update to Apollo that’s taken months and months to complete, but I’m really happy with the result, and it brings together a ton of ideas from the community to make Apollo even nicer to use. The update includes a variety of features around crossposts, flair,...
Willem's Blog
Designing my own watch Last month I received my custom made wristwatch from Switzerland, it is a minimalistic mechanical...
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over a year ago
Last month I received my custom made wristwatch from Switzerland, it is a minimalistic mechanical annual calendar designed to be understated and true to the metal.
csvbase blog
There are 665 open licences, most are pretty rubbish you are in a maze of twisty licences, all alike
9 months ago
Posts on Made of...
Software Engineers should keep lab notebooks Software engineers, as a rule, suck at writing things down. Part of this is training – unlike...
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Software engineers, as a rule, suck at writing things down. Part of this is training – unlike chemists and biologists who are trailed to obsessively document everything they do in their lab notebooks, computer scientists are taught to document the end results of their work, but...
computers are bad
2023-02-13 my homelab I have always found the term "homelab" a little confusing. It's a bit like the residential version...
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I have always found the term "homelab" a little confusing. It's a bit like the residential version of "on-premises cloud," in that it seems to presuppose that a lab is the normal place that you find computer equipment. Of course I get that "homelab" is usually used by those who...
Home on Erik...
NYC subway math Apparently MTA (the company running the NYC subway) has a real-time API. My fascination for the...
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Apparently MTA (the company running the NYC subway) has a real-time API. My fascination for the subway takes autistic proportions and so obviously I had to analyze some of the data. The documentation is somewhat terrible, but here's some relevant code for how to use the API:
watchTowr Labs
XSS To RCE By Abusing Custom File Handlers - Kentico Xperience CMS (CVE-2025-2748) We know what you’re waiting for - this isn’t it. Today, we’re back with more tales of our adventures...
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We know what you’re waiting for - this isn’t it. Today, we’re back with more tales of our adventures in Kentico’s Xperience CMS. Due to it’s wide usage, the type of solution, and the types of enterprises using this solution
Push to Prod
4 Ways To Say No, Elegantly and Effectively In my early days at Netflix, my inability to say no led me into unpleasant terrain. Here's how I...
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In my early days at Netflix, my inability to say no led me into unpleasant terrain. Here's how I evolved to navigate these situations more fluidly.
Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing TagVault Camera for AirTag After having $10k+ of camera gear stolen, we set our to make the best AirTag mount for cameras. We...
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4 months ago
After having $10k+ of camera gear stolen, we set our to make the best AirTag mount for cameras. We wanted it to be very discreet and something you never needed to take off.  After many design iterations, tool changes, testing exotic materials, drop testing with old camera bodies...
Birchtree
📕 I recommend: Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI Hey everyone, this post is for everyone, but it’s a part of a new series I’m doing on More Birchtree...
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Hey everyone, this post is for everyone, but it’s a part of a new series I’m doing on More Birchtree where I review the books and games I read and play in 2025. My movie reviews have been a relative hit on social media for the
Arduino Blog
Knuckle typing in mixed reality just makes sense While mixed reality — virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) — has come a long way in...
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While mixed reality — virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) — has come a long way in recent years, there are still a lot of challenges that developers struggle to overcome in a practical and user-friendly way. Typing is one example and current virtual keyboard...
Jonas Hietala
My Dream Game: The Tycoon I’ve been playing Starcraft 2 a little this christmas. It wasn’t dead serious 1v1 which really is my...
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I’ve been playing Starcraft 2 a little this christmas. It wasn’t dead serious 1v1 which really is my favorite but I’ve played 2v2 with some friends and I actually played the campaign a bit and it was pretty fun! Usually I never play the campaign on RTS games but this one I liked....
Applied Cartography
You should build this: A prior iteration of this site had a page called "Project ideas" that listed a bunch of things that...
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A prior iteration of this site had a page called "Project ideas" that listed a bunch of things that I'd like to build. This was a good idea and useful in its own right (I got a few people to build companies and projects based on them, and it was a useful avenue by which folks...
Jonas Hietala
Computer upgrade After 5 years or so I’ve made a large upgrade to my desktop, and this post contains details and some...
a year ago
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After 5 years or so I’ve made a large upgrade to my desktop, and this post contains details and some pictures about the process. It was time I didn’t really want to do an upgrade right now, but I felt I had to do it. Sometimes the lag had gotten very noticeable, for example when...
Posts on Made of...
A Brief Introduction to termios: Signaling and Job Control (This is part three of a multi-part introduction to termios and terminal emulation on UNIX. Read...
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(This is part three of a multi-part introduction to termios and terminal emulation on UNIX. Read part 1 or part 2 if you’re new here) For my final entry on termios, I will be looking at job control in the shell (i.e. backgrounding and foreground jobs) and the very closely related...
Notes on software...
Writing a minimal in-memory storage engine for MySQL/MariaDB I spent a week looking at MySQL/MariaDB internals along with ~80 other devs. Although MySQL and...
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I spent a week looking at MySQL/MariaDB internals along with ~80 other devs. Although MySQL and MariaDB are mostly the same (more on that later), I focused on MariaDB specifically this week. Before last week I had never built MySQL/MariaDB before. The first day of this hack week,...
Willem's Blog
Repairing a Nintendo Gameboy Advance SP Reparing an old Nintendo Gameboy Advance to play classic Zelda again.
over a year ago
lcamtuf’s thing
RAM: the forgotten history We owe computers not to Charles Babbage, but to the invention of electronically-controlled working...
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We owe computers not to Charles Babbage, but to the invention of electronically-controlled working memory.
Odds and Ends of...
The Lower Thames Crossing, getting mad at boomers and the scourge of Everythingism Plus we're 18,000 homes closer to the, er, 1.5 million homes target
3 months ago
Posts on Made of...
Some musings on ORMs I’m pretty sure every developer who has ever worked with a modern database-backed application,...
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I’m pretty sure every developer who has ever worked with a modern database-backed application, particularly a web-app, has a love/hate relationship with their ORM, or object-relational mapper. On the one hand, ORMs are vastly more pleasant to work with than code that constructs...
Louwrentius
The downside of 120 Mbit broadband internet My Dutch ISP Ziggo provides internet access through DOCSIS cable modems. They are now capable of...
over a year ago
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My Dutch ISP Ziggo provides internet access through DOCSIS cable modems. They are now capable of providging 120 Mbit downstream and 10 Mbit upstream, for an affordable price. In a way this is mind boggling. Most people have 100 Mbit home networks that are not capable of handling...
Willem's Blog
Giving AI Training Explore the transformative power of AI in everyday work: Dive into firsthand insights from a recent...
a year ago
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Explore the transformative power of AI in everyday work: Dive into firsthand insights from a recent AI training session that's reshaping professional landscapes.
watchTowr Labs
Hop-Skip-FortiJump-FortiJump-Higher - Fortinet FortiManager CVE-2024-47575 It’s been a tricky time for Fortinet (and their customers) lately - arguably, even more so than...
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It’s been a tricky time for Fortinet (and their customers) lately - arguably, even more so than usual. Adding to the steady flow of vulnerabilities in appliances recently was a nasty CVSS 9.8 vulnerability in FortiManager, their tool for central management of FortiGate...
The Pragmatic...
Are LLMs making StackOverflow irrelevant? Fresh data shows that the number of questions asked on StackOverflow are as low as they were back in...
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Fresh data shows that the number of questions asked on StackOverflow are as low as they were back in 2009 – which was when StackOverflow was one years old. The drop suggests that ChatGPT – and LLMs – managed to make StackOverflow’s business model irrelevant in about two years’...
Simply Explained
MAX17043: Battery Monitoring Done Right (Arduino & ESP32) Building a battery-powered IoT device? Then you'll want to monitor the battery's percentage. Here's...
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Building a battery-powered IoT device? Then you'll want to monitor the battery's percentage. Here's how to do it properly.
Good Enough
Cosmic Maelstrom As Barry wrote in his recent blogpost, we're busy building prototypes here at Good Enough. It's...
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As Barry wrote in his recent blogpost, we're busy building prototypes here at Good Enough. It's weird to be in this situation. Most of the Good Enough team are used to working on just one software at a time, focusing on steadily improving it. But right now we're doing the...
Odds and Ends of...
How to fix the New Statesman In which I probably burn some bridges.
4 months ago
Christian Selig
A free, 3D printable Meta Quest 3 stand People were really kind and seemed to enjoy my 3D printable Apple Vision Pro stand, a stand I...
a year ago
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People were really kind and seemed to enjoy my 3D printable Apple Vision Pro stand, a stand I designed in Fusion 360 with the goal of being visually appealing and compact as it stored the headset vertically so it wouldn’t take up too much space on your desk. Turns out there were...
Arduino Blog
Get notified of impending floods with this Arduino Nano 33 IoT-based display As climate change continues to worsen, events such as heavy rains, hurricanes, and atmospheric...
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As climate change continues to worsen, events such as heavy rains, hurricanes, and atmospheric rivers have only intensified, and with them, large amounts of flooding that pose serious risks to life and property. Jude Pullen and Pete Milne, therefore, have responded by creating a...
Good Enough
Season 1, Issue 3: Fool Me Three Times This will be a short one. Barry’s summer vacation has started, and Shawn is deflated after the...
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This will be a short one. Barry’s summer vacation has started, and Shawn is deflated after the Warr…iors... sob… It’s just one game, right? 1. No One Likes a Giveaway Who doesn’t love a good pickle? Well that didn’t happen. There were no entries to last week’s giveaway. If you...
Willem's Blog
Wearing two watches Why you should wear two watches, don't choose between a mechanical watch and a smartwatch!
over a year ago
Odds and Ends of...
A tale of two theme parks Plus why British Steel turned into a crisis, and how to level up... but do it properly
3 months ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Über Kollusion
over a year ago
Abishek Muthian
The immediate threat is AR and not AI Disclaimer: This is an attempt at trolling and satire. Don’t just tag me under technology fear...
over a year ago
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Disclaimer: This is an attempt at trolling and satire. Don’t just tag me under technology fear mongerer, I’m going to present an acute scenario in which AR could be misused to inflict significant damage to a large population. As a technology evangelist, I’am very excited to see...
Willem's Blog
Born with MCADD Our son was diagnosed with MCADD days after he was born. We experienced a metabolic crisis but were...
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Our son was diagnosed with MCADD days after he was born. We experienced a metabolic crisis but were lucky to be just in time!
Willem's Blog
Working Offline First Dive into a digital blast from the past and learn how a 15-year-old ThinkPad X200 can revolutionise...
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Dive into a digital blast from the past and learn how a 15-year-old ThinkPad X200 can revolutionise your workflow – join my cloud-free adventure today!
Posts on Made of...
A Brief Introduction to termios If you’re a regular user of the terminal on a UNIX system, there are probably a large number of...
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over a year ago
If you’re a regular user of the terminal on a UNIX system, there are probably a large number of behaviors you take mostly for granted without really thinking about them. If you press ^C or ^Z it kills or stops the foreground program – unless it’s something like emacs or vim, in...
Willem's Blog
Data versus Feeling Do you rely on data or on your feeling when running a Marathon? I decided to run two marathons to...
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Do you rely on data or on your feeling when running a Marathon? I decided to run two marathons to find out the differences!
Arduino Blog
This belt grinder uses an Arduino Opta micro PLC A mainstay in most machine shops, the belt grinder assists in greatly increasing the speed at which...
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9 months ago
A mainstay in most machine shops, the belt grinder assists in greatly increasing the speed at which parts can be ground down in a safer, more controlled manner compared to an angle grinder. As an effort to build a tool like this one for the first time, Julien Alexandre chose to...
Greater Still by...
Joining TCG Crypto I am thrilled to share that I am joining the team at TCG, The Chernin Group, to focus on the firm’s...
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I am thrilled to share that I am joining the team at TCG, The Chernin Group, to focus on the firm’s investments at the intersection of consumer and crypto.
Matt Mullenweg
WordCamp Asia and Maha Kumbh Mela It’s been fantastic being in the Philippines for this year’s WordCamp Asia. We have attendees from...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
It’s been fantastic being in the Philippines for this year’s WordCamp Asia. We have attendees from 71 countries, over 1,800 tickets sold, and contributor day had over 700 people! It’s an interesting contrast to US and EU WordCamps as well in that the audience is definitely a lot...
Birchtree
Apple’s 2024 report card: Vision Pro 👓 This is the fifth and final post in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major...
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This is the fifth and final post in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I did this last year and you can read last year’s Vision Pro report card here. Year one of Vision Pro This is a bit of
computers are bad
2023-01-16 huff-duff We've talked a fair amount about HF radio recently, in the context of OTH radar. Recall that an...
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We've talked a fair amount about HF radio recently, in the context of OTH radar. Recall that an extremely useful property of HF radio here is that HF frequencies can reflect off of the upper layers of the atmosphere, causing them to rebound towards earth at a range much further...
Applied Cartography
Smoke test your Django admin site Here is a confession: I am a very strong proponent of a robust test suite being perhaps the single...
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Here is a confession: I am a very strong proponent of a robust test suite being perhaps the single most important asset of a codebase, but when it comes to auxiliary services like admin sites or CLIs when it comes to testing I tend to ask for forgiveness more than I ask for...
Birchtree
Are these 2025’s new iPhones? 9to5Mac has links to two mock ups claiming to represent the iPhone 17 Air and iPhone 17 Pro coming...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
9to5Mac has links to two mock ups claiming to represent the iPhone 17 Air and iPhone 17 Pro coming this fall. If I could be so bold, I’d say the 17 Air looks potentially reasonable, but the 17 pro render looks absolutely atrocious. I think there’s
Arduino Blog
How to customize your Arduino Cloud IoT dashboards on the go The Arduino Cloud has long been a trusted platform for makers, engineers, and developers to manage...
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The Arduino Cloud has long been a trusted platform for makers, engineers, and developers to manage their IoT projects with ease. From tracking sensor data to automating smart devices, the cloud enables seamless connectivity. Complementing this, the Arduino IoT Remote mobile app...
Applied Cartography
Notes on 'Founder Mode' / Lieutenancy In Paul Graham’s latest essay, he writes: The theme of Brian's talk was that the conventional wisdom...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
In Paul Graham’s latest essay, he writes: The theme of Brian's talk was that the conventional wisdom about how to run larger companies is mistaken. As Airbnb grew, well-meaning people advised him that he had to run the company in a certain way for it to scale. Their advice could...
lcamtuf’s thing
The untimely demise of an image upscaler ML-based image enhancement models are great. Unfortunately, some of them are great only once.
10 months ago
Home on Erik...
My issue with GPU-accelerated deep learning I've been spending several hundred bucks renting GPU instances on AWS over the last year. The...
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I've been spending several hundred bucks renting GPU instances on AWS over the last year. The speedup from a GPU is awesome and hard to deny. GPUs have taken over the field. Maybe following the footsteps of Bitcoin mining there's some research on using FPGA (I know very little...
lcamtuf’s thing
Random objects: Intel Edison A glimpse of the missteps of x86 in the embedded world.
a year ago
lcamtuf’s thing
The Afterlife AGENT: I am prescribing vardenafil 5 mg for you.
4 months ago
Posts on Made of...
Some opinionated thoughts on SQL databases People who work with me tend to realize that I have Opinions about databases, and SQL databases in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
People who work with me tend to realize that I have Opinions about databases, and SQL databases in particular. Last week, I wrote about a Postgres debugging story and tweeted about AWS’ policy ban on internal use of SQL databases, and had occasion to discuss and debate some of...
./techtipsy
Fairphone 5: my heavily biased overview after 58 days of use (and counting) After months of contemplating I finally pulled the trigger and got myself a Fairphone 5. The...
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After months of contemplating I finally pulled the trigger and got myself a Fairphone 5. The fact that iPhone X stopped receiving major iOS updates certainly helped make that decision. “But why? My Xiaomi/Oneplus/Samsung/other glued-together device is like so much cheaper and...
computers are bad
2024-12-21 something over New Jersey There were thousands of reports: strange aircraft, floating through the sky. A retrospective sum of...
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There were thousands of reports: strange aircraft, floating through the sky. A retrospective sum of press accounts finds that some 100,000 people were reported to have witnessed aerial intruders. Despite the scant details associated with most reports, an eager press repeated the...
Simply Explained
How I Structure My ESPHome Config Files I'm a big fan of ESPHome. I have 24 devices running it, and I only buy new IoT devices when I know...
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I'm a big fan of ESPHome. I have 24 devices running it, and I only buy new IoT devices when I know they can run ESPHome.ESPHome is a modular firmware that you have to configure with YAML files. You define what components it should load and how it should talk to the hardware of...
Applied Cartography
Things take time Things take time. Nintendo fairly famously was born in 1889, and the modern incarnation — Yamamuchi...
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Things take time. Nintendo fairly famously was born in 1889, and the modern incarnation — Yamamuchi Nintendo & Co., LTD — was established nearly fifty years later, in 1933. They spent forty years selling playing cards, then another decade operating merely as a distributor of...
Neil Madden
Towards a standard for bearer token URLs In XSS doesn’t have to be Game Over, and earlier when discussing Can you ever (safely) include...
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In XSS doesn’t have to be Game Over, and earlier when discussing Can you ever (safely) include credentials in a URL?, I raised the possibility of standardising a new URL scheme that safely allows encoding a bearer token into a URL. This makes it more convenient to use lots of...
Construction Physics
How Will the Trump Tariffs Affect Construction? Earlier this month the Trump administration announced hefty 25% tariffs on Canadian and Mexican...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Earlier this month the Trump administration announced hefty 25% tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports, along with an additional 10% tariffs on Chinese imports.
Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing TagVault Pet for AirTag Having pets that went missing before, AirTags are the perfect companion. We wanted a case that could...
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over a year ago
Having pets that went missing before, AirTags are the perfect companion. We wanted a case that could take the abuse of an active full-size dog, fit nice on a cat, work with all pet collars, and be durable. So we designed Tagvault Pet. It's waterproof, fits every collar, and is...
Elevation Lab - Blog
Elevation Lab X Apple: GoStand for iPhone Apple contacted us to design an iPhone stand for Apple Fitness+. So we designed GoStand - Ultra...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Apple contacted us to design an iPhone stand for Apple Fitness+. So we designed GoStand - Ultra compact, widely adjustable, works great. Highly adjustable, from upright down to 45°, for the perfect viewing angle. A hidden push-button ratcheting design makes adjusting the back...
Old Vintage...
What went wrong with wireless USB (Hat tip to the late Bill Strauss and The Capitol Steps' Lirty Dies.) take my Palm OS Fossil Wrist...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
(Hat tip to the late Bill Strauss and The Capitol Steps' Lirty Dies.) take my Palm OS Fossil Wrist PDA smartwatch mobile. It has no on-board networking libraries but can be coerced into doing PPP over its serial port (via USB) by using the libraries from my Palm m505. Of...
Krebs on Security
Alleged ‘Scattered Spider’ Member Extradited to U.S. A 23-year-old Scottish man thought to be a member of the prolific Scattered Spider cybercrime group...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
A 23-year-old Scottish man thought to be a member of the prolific Scattered Spider cybercrime group was extradited last week from Spain to the United States, where he is facing charges of wire fraud, conspiracy and identity theft. U.S. prosecutors allege Tyler Robert Buchanan and...
Matt Mullenweg
Kindness and Techcrunch Disrupt Back in June I recorded an episode with Jaclyn Lindsey on the Why Kindness podcast, for their...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Back in June I recorded an episode with Jaclyn Lindsey on the Why Kindness podcast, for their awesome non-profit kindness.org. You can listen to it through Pocket Casts here: This is kind of funny because I’m obviously in the midst of the big battle with Silver Lake and WP...
Odds and Ends of...
The government should stop worrying about the Daily Mail Test You can't fix the Civil Service by penny-pinching
3 months ago
Louwrentius
I switched my blog from Blogofile to Pelican This blog is a static website, which makes it fast, simple and secure. It was generated by Blogofile...
over a year ago
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This blog is a static website, which makes it fast, simple and secure. It was generated by Blogofile but I switched to Pelican. Blogofile has seen almost no updates over the years and I consider the project dead. Realising that blogofile is dead, I decided to look around for...
Birchtree
A project to smooth relations with devs Theo in a video about some recent Visual Studio Code drama: We have to remember the role of VS Code....
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Theo in a video about some recent Visual Studio Code drama: We have to remember the role of VS Code. VS Code was never, ever, ever meant to make money. Microsoft's plan with VS Code was at no point, "we're going to charge for this
Daniel De Laney
Network Engineering “My first job was to understand what network engineers do. Then, I had to show them complex data in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
“My first job was to understand what network engineers do. Then, I had to show them complex data in a comprehensible and usable way. Finally, I had to make it less ugly.” The Challenge When you type “google.com” into your browser and press the Enter key, what happens? How do you...
Arduino Blog
Innovative new tactile sensor helps assess fine motor skills Fine motor skills correlate strongly with cognition and the accurate assessment of an individual’s...
a year ago
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a year ago
Fine motor skills correlate strongly with cognition and the accurate assessment of an individual’s motor skills can be critical in diagnosing and treating a variety of conditions. But objective evaluation has been a challenge, as suitable sensors weren’t available. To help...
Home on Erik...
Luigi conquering the world I keep forgetting to buy a costume for Halloween every year, so this year I prepared and got myself...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I keep forgetting to buy a costume for Halloween every year, so this year I prepared and got myself a Luigi costume a month in advance. Only to realize I was going to be out of town the whole weekend.
Ken Shirriff's blog
The Pentium as a Navajo weaving Hurrying through the National Gallery of Art five minutes before closing, I passed a Navajo weaving...
10 months ago
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Hurrying through the National Gallery of Art five minutes before closing, I passed a Navajo weaving with a complex abstract pattern. Suddenly, I realized the pattern was strangely familiar, so I stopped and looked closely. The design turned out to be an image of Intel's Pentium...
Jonas Hietala
Habits to start I haven’t been feeling quite as forward or as energetic lately. There are no set plans, habits or...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I haven’t been feeling quite as forward or as energetic lately. There are no set plans, habits or goals for this spring and I don’t have a clear vision of what to do currently but it also feels… fine? Maybe I will cruise in a lower gear for a while and rev up when my mood...
Birchtree
All the games I played in 2024, reviewed I love movies, but I really love games as well, so I figured I may as well follow up my 2024 movies...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
I love movies, but I really love games as well, so I figured I may as well follow up my 2024 movies of the year post with something similar for games. I’m not going to rank these, but I’ll give a few words on each one
Home on Erik...
Why I went into the mortgage industry I just realized last Thursday that I have spent two full years at Better, incidentally on the same...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I just realized last Thursday that I have spent two full years at Better, incidentally on the same day as we announced a $15M round led by Kleiner Perkins. So it was a good point to reflect a bit and think back – what the F led me to abandon my role managing the machine learning...
OH8HUB’s Substack
Spring ham radio activation of Korkattivuori (Mt. Korkatti) Korkattivuori (“Mount Korkatti”, 186m above sea level) is a small hill and Natura 2000 nature...
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Korkattivuori (“Mount Korkatti”, 186m above sea level) is a small hill and Natura 2000 nature reserve area near town Haapavesi (pop. 6588) in Finland. The nature reserve area consist of short family friendly hiking path of approximately 1.5km. One end of the path has parking...
Birchtree
Some low-stakes misinformation spread like wildfire, and I got it wrong too Giovanni Colantonio writing for Digital Trends: The Confusion Around $90 Switch 2 Games Proves How...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Giovanni Colantonio writing for Digital Trends: The Confusion Around $90 Switch 2 Games Proves How Broken the Internet Is There’s just one problem: *Mario Kart World* does not cost $90, at least based on what we know right now. No currently announced Nintendo Switch 2 game...
Vitalik Buterin's...
STARKs, Part I: Proofs with Polynomials
over a year ago
computers are bad
2023-10-03 overheard overhead Let's talk about overhead paging. The concept goes by various names: paging, public address, even...
a year ago
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a year ago
Let's talk about overhead paging. The concept goes by various names: paging, public address, even intercom, although the accuracy of the latter term can be questionable. It's probably one of the aspects of business telephone systems that gets the most public attention, on account...
Louwrentius
Finding a good blu-ray player for Mac OS X I find playing a Blu-ray movie on my Mac cumbersome. I've been using Plex, XBMC and VLC but these...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I find playing a Blu-ray movie on my Mac cumbersome. I've been using Plex, XBMC and VLC but these free open-source products are all a usability nightmare. To play a Blu-ray movie, you have to perform these steps: right-click on the BDMV file choose 'show packet contents' go to...
Odds and Ends of...
Here's how AI can REDUCE health misinformation How the government can build a bullshit detector
8 months ago
Old Vintage...
Refurb weekend: Data General/One (and the worst LCD in the world) I mentioned earlier that while I prefer specializing in non-x86 laptops, that doesn't mean I don't...
a year ago
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a year ago
I mentioned earlier that while I prefer specializing in non-x86 laptops, that doesn't mean I don't collect interesting or unusual x86 laptops, like the Brother GeoBook NB-60 (I finally tracked down a mostly working NB-80C, the top of the line model, which will be the subject of a...
The Pragmatic...
Tech hiring: is this an inflection point? We might be seeing the end of remote coding interviews as we know them, and a return of in-person...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
We might be seeing the end of remote coding interviews as we know them, and a return of in-person interviews, trial days and longer trial periods. Could hiring be returning to pre-pandemic norms?
Old Vintage...
With PowerPC, Windows CE and the WiiN-PAD slate, everyone's a WiiN-er (except Data General) Telemedicine (and mobile health generally) accumulated a hunk of public mindshare during the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Telemedicine (and mobile health generally) accumulated a hunk of public mindshare during the pandemic emergency, but speaking as someone with a day job in public health for almost two decades, it's always been a buzzword in certain corners of IT with enough money sloshing around...
Odds and Ends of...
NEW EVENT: How the YIMBYs won Book now to see my conversation with housing hero Anya Martin!
5 months ago
Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing MagBase Today we launched MagBase - it makes Apple's MagSafe Charger much easier to use. After trying other...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Today we launched MagBase - it makes Apple's MagSafe Charger much easier to use. After trying other mounts for the MagSafe charger, we found it annoying to not be able to pick up & use your iPhone while charging. So we designed MagBase: Pull up to use your iPhone with MagSafe...
Computer Ads from...
Oberon International' Omni-Reader Audio Engineers announce a revolution in taking words from page to your computer
6 months ago
Home on Erik...
Toxic meeting culture I spent six years at a company that went from 50 people to 1500 and one contributing factor leading...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I spent six years at a company that went from 50 people to 1500 and one contributing factor leading to my departure was that I went from a “maker” to a person stuck in meetings every day.
./techtipsy
TOMO M4: probably the coolest power bank I've owned A friend once showed me a power bank that was so cool that I had to get one myself. Ended up getting...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A friend once showed me a power bank that was so cool that I had to get one myself. Ended up getting two, and here’s why. This post is not sponsored. Removable batteries Let’s start with the feature that I appreciate the most: removable batteries! The TOMO M4 accepts up to 4...
Jonas Hietala
Postmortem: Balls So it’s been what? Two, three years since I discovered the art of programming and I haven’t made one...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
So it’s been what? Two, three years since I discovered the art of programming and I haven’t made one single game?! Well now I’m not counting the visual basic nightmare mastermind I made a long time ago but a real game. Whatever that means. I’ve had these monster-projects; Point...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Reverse-engineering a carry-lookahead adder in the Pentium Addition is harder than you'd expect, at least for a computer. Computers use multiple types of adder...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Addition is harder than you'd expect, at least for a computer. Computers use multiple types of adder circuits with different tradeoffs of size versus speed. In this article, I reverse-engineer an 8-bit adder in the Pentium's floating point unit. This adder turns out to be a...
Odds and Ends of...
Keir Starmer needs to prepare for a world without America Today's empires, tomorrow's ashes.
8 months ago
Willem's Blog
Workout data in 3D I had this idea to use ThreeJS to visualise workout data from a recent run, read along to see what...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
I had this idea to use ThreeJS to visualise workout data from a recent run, read along to see what I've created.
Louwrentius
Additional proof that Apple is ditching the optical drive I'm a strong advocate of killing the optical drive. As of 2011, there is no need for it anymore....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I'm a strong advocate of killing the optical drive. As of 2011, there is no need for it anymore. Laptops could get lighter, smaller or have more room for additional battery capacity if the optical drive would no longer be present. In my life, I never see people use the optical...
Home on Erik...
More MCMC – Analyzing a small dataset with 1-5 ratings I've been obsessed with how to iterate quickly based on small scale feedback lately. One awesome...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've been obsessed with how to iterate quickly based on small scale feedback lately. One awesome website I encountered is Usability Hub which lets you run 5 second tests. Users see your site for 5 seconds and you can ask them free-form questions afterwards.
Louwrentius
Why I believe the new Mac Pro won't be a great machine for gaming In Accidental Tech Podcast episode 18 (love the show), I learned that John Siracusa was thinking...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In Accidental Tech Podcast episode 18 (love the show), I learned that John Siracusa was thinking about buying a new Mac Pro for gaming. I believe that gaming on the new Mac Pro will be a mediocre experience. Driver support: as John mentioned himself, the video cards are...
Posts on Made of...
CVE-2010-4258: Turning denial-of-service into privilege escalation Dan Rosenberg recently released a privilege escalation bug for Linux, based on three different...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Dan Rosenberg recently released a privilege escalation bug for Linux, based on three different kernel vulnerabilities I reported recently. This post is about CVE-2010-4258, the most interesting of them, and, as Dan writes, the reason he wrote the exploit in the first place. In...
Notes on software...
Two books I recommend to developers Originally published on February 1, 2021. The original version included two books I don't think...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Originally published on February 1, 2021. The original version included two books I don't think are actually so worthwhile. This list is down to two. I think that's a good thing actually. These are the books I recommend to developers wanting to improve their skills as...
Good Enough
Asking the Right Question Lately I've been pondering the future for Album Whale. It does what we'd like it to do, and we've...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Lately I've been pondering the future for Album Whale. It does what we'd like it to do, and we've spread the word enough that there's now a steady stream of new users coming in each day. So, what's next? Portrait of the author pondering My first impulse was to answer this...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Notes on Blockchain Governance
over a year ago
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #47: I think this YouTube video just changed my life Plus vertical farming, the Russia/EU border, and more on why the Lobby is bad.
7 months ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Multidimensional gas pricing
a year ago
Home on Erik...
More recommender algorithms I wanted to share some more insight into the algorithms we use at Spotify. One matrix factorization...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I wanted to share some more insight into the algorithms we use at Spotify. One matrix factorization algorithm we have used for a while assumes that we have user vectors $$ bf{a}_u $$ and item vectors $$ bf{b}_i $$ .
Elevation Lab - Blog
Designers Desk #1: Angelo Vilar Designer's Desk is a new series featuring the desk setups of artists, designers, and creators -...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Designer's Desk is a new series featuring the desk setups of artists, designers, and creators - showcasing how they work and what their workspace looks like.   Angelo Vilar (AKA Ansirone) is an art director, animation designer, & illustrator based in Los Angeles. He keeps it...
Jonas Hietala
An invisible Remake What does a guy like me do when not working on a new game? Except living my life, being a coach for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
What does a guy like me do when not working on a new game? Except living my life, being a coach for my little brother’s hockey team and eating strawberries? The last week or so I’ve been working hard with my webpage, yes this page. If you’ve visited my site before today you’ll...
Home on Erik...
When machine learning matters I joined Spotify in 2008 to focus on machine learning and music recommendations. It's easy to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I joined Spotify in 2008 to focus on machine learning and music recommendations. It's easy to forget, but Spotify's key differentiator back then was the low-latency playback. People would say that it felt like they had the music on their own hard drive.
./techtipsy
So you want to migrate to Kubernetes: observations from a software developer Kubernetes: everyone wants to do it, regardless of their scale and business objectives.1 Common...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Kubernetes: everyone wants to do it, regardless of their scale and business objectives.1 Common justifications include better scalability, cost savings, standardization and being super modern and stuff. It’s the future! In my personal experience, Kubernetes is far from the...
Louwrentius
The ZFS Event Daemon on Linux If something goes wrong with my zpool, I'd like to be notified by email. On Linux using MDADM, the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If something goes wrong with my zpool, I'd like to be notified by email. On Linux using MDADM, the MDADM daemon took care of that. With the release of ZoL 0.6.3, a brand new 'ZFS Event Daemon' or ZED has been introduced. I could not find much information about it, so consider...
Willem's Blog
My first weeks as dad Last Christmas my wife gave birth of our son. It's a life changing experience to become a parent....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Last Christmas my wife gave birth of our son. It's a life changing experience to become a parent. Read along for my (biometric) findings and some practical tips.
Arduino Blog
How to customize your Arduino Cloud IoT dashboards on the go The Arduino Cloud has long been a trusted platform for makers, engineers, and developers to manage...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
The Arduino Cloud has long been a trusted platform for makers, engineers, and developers to manage their IoT projects with ease. From tracking sensor data to automating smart devices, the cloud enables seamless connectivity. Complementing this, the Arduino IoT Remote mobile app...
Arduino Blog
Exercise while you game with this interactive treadmill add-on Motion-based controls for games have been around for decades, but even with the latest generation of...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Motion-based controls for games have been around for decades, but even with the latest generation of virtual reality headsets, gaming is still done with relatively limited movement unless one has access to an expensive VR walking/running setup. As an effort to get more physical...
Greater Still by...
Joining Rostra I am thrilled to share that I am joining Rostra, where I’ll be working alongside Lulu Meservey and...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
I am thrilled to share that I am joining Rostra, where I’ll be working alongside Lulu Meservey and Sergey Alexashenko to help founders go direct.
Vitalik Buterin's...
Analyzing Token Sale Models
over a year ago
Greater Still by...
In Defense of the New The future is being crafted out on the edge. Are you paying attention?
a year ago
Notes on software...
Writing a simple JSON parser Writing a JSON parser is one of the easiest ways to get familiar with parsing techniques. The format...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Writing a JSON parser is one of the easiest ways to get familiar with parsing techniques. The format is extremely simple. It's defined recursively so you get a slight challenge compared to, say, parsing Brainfuck; and you probably already use JSON. Aside from that last point,...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Reverse-engineering a three-axis attitude indicator from the F-4 fighter plane We recently received an attitude indicator for the F-4 fighter plane, an instrument that uses a...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
We recently received an attitude indicator for the F-4 fighter plane, an instrument that uses a rotating ball to show the aircraft's orientation and direction. In a normal aircraft, the artificial horizon shows the orientation in two axes (pitch and roll), but the F-4...
Old Vintage...
prior-art-dept.: The hierarchical hypermedia world of Hyper-G Prior Art Department and today we'll consider a forgotten yet still extant sidebar of the early...
a month ago
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a month ago
Prior Art Department and today we'll consider a forgotten yet still extant sidebar of the early 1990s Internet. If you had Internet access at home back then, it was almost certainly dialup modem (like I did); only the filthy rich had T1 lines or ISDN. Moreover, from a user...
Construction Physics
How Good Are American Roads? We’re in an era where US infrastructure is getting a lot of attention.
7 months ago
Willem's Blog
The day I sold my car This week I sold my car, I now no longer own one. I look back at my years of owning a sports car, if...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This week I sold my car, I now no longer own one. I look back at my years of owning a sports car, if you're looking for a reason to buy one you should check this out.
Good Enough
TIL: JavaScript Turbo Stream Requests I am working on search for Album Whale and I was very confused when my JavaScript fetch requests...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I am working on search for Album Whale and I was very confused when my JavaScript fetch requests were not resulting in turbo_stream rendering getting displayed on my page. I checked my logs to see if the render was happening. I looked for missing <%= tags. Debugged and...
Arduino Blog
SeaPerch II introduces students to underwater ROV exploration While professionals around the world take advantage of Arduino products and the extensive ecosystem,...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
While professionals around the world take advantage of Arduino products and the extensive ecosystem, the core Arduino philosophy is to simplify complex technology. A bare microcontroller is intimidating to the uninitiated, but an Arduino development board is friendly and...
Arduino Blog
Control your Raspberry Pi GPIOs with Arduino Cloud using Python | Part II As a Python developer, you’re probably eager to control and monitor your Raspberry Pi GPIOs...
a year ago
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a year ago
As a Python developer, you’re probably eager to control and monitor your Raspberry Pi GPIOs remotely. Well, you have landed in the right place.  This article builds upon our previous introduction to “Visualize your Raspberry Pi data with Arduino Cloud | Part I.” Now, we’ll...
Jorge Arango
Traction Heroes Ep. 2: Unprecedented In episode 2 of the Traction Heroes podcast, Harry shared an extreme personal experience in service...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
In episode 2 of the Traction Heroes podcast, Harry shared an extreme personal experience in service to exploring the question: How can we act skillfully in unfamiliar circumstances? I considered adding a trigger warning – Harry’s story made me wince. That said, we landed in a...
Arduino Blog
RIoT Secure joins Arduino’s SIPP as Gold Partner We are excited to announce that RIoT Secure has joined Arduino’s System Integrators Partnership...
a year ago
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a year ago
We are excited to announce that RIoT Secure has joined Arduino’s System Integrators Partnership Program at the Gold level. Founded in 2017 in Stockholm, Sweden, RIoT Secure is at the forefront of IoT security, especially in regards to resource-constrained microcontrollers,...
Notes on software...
Minimal downtime Postgres major version upgrades with EDB Postgres Distributed This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
4 months ago
Arduino Blog
CapibaraZero: a student’s journey in reinventing hacking tools with Arduino Inventive, open-source, and cost-effective – these words perfectly describe CapibaraZero, a...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Inventive, open-source, and cost-effective – these words perfectly describe CapibaraZero, a multifunctional security and hacking tool developed by young innovator Andrea Canale. Inspired by the popular Flipper Zero, a portable device used to interact with digital systems, Canale...
Notes on software...
SQLite in Go, with and without cgo This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Mining Incorporated (unfinished) Download Linux 64bit Windows Timelapse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIbr-mLi4DU I made a very...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Download Linux 64bit Windows Timelapse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIbr-mLi4DU I made a very serious attempt at making a grand game for Ludum Dare 29. Unfortunately it was a far, far, too big of a game for me to be able to finish it in one weekend. But I had a great...
Engineers Need Art
Adam74 The Adam74 is a small ASCII-based terminal designed for the 8-bit hobbyist.
over a year ago
Jorge Arango
LLMs Give You Power User Abilities LLMs are a general-purpose technology with seemingly endless use cases. Among my favorite is...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
LLMs are a general-purpose technology with seemingly endless use cases. Among my favorite is unlocking the potential of other technologies. For example, all modern “desktop” OSs come with shell environments. If you know a bit of scripting, you can automate tasks in ways that go...
Home on Erik...
The hacker's guide to uncertainty estimates It started with a tweet: New years resolution: every plot I make during 2018 will contain...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It started with a tweet: New years resolution: every plot I make during 2018 will contain uncertainty estimates — Erik Bernhardsson (@bernhardsson) January 7, 2018 Why? Because I've been sitting in 100,000,000 meetings where people endlessly debate whether the monthly number of...
./techtipsy
The optimization treadmill: why I keep changing my computing setup all the time I have a bad habit of changing my computing setups all the time. I tend to see new gear, then I...
a year ago
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a year ago
I have a bad habit of changing my computing setups all the time. I tend to see new gear, then I get some new ideas, and then I obsessively think about it for weeks and months until I just buy it. And then the cycle repeats. I’ve had time to think about why that keeps happening...
Birchtree
Samsung will release their phone first and still gets accused of copying Apple Chance Miller on 9to5Mac: Samsung Is Already Working on Its iPhone 17 Air Copycat Apple is expected...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Chance Miller on 9to5Mac: Samsung Is Already Working on Its iPhone 17 Air Copycat Apple is expected to release an all-new “iPhone 17 Air” model this year, prioritizing form over function. A new supply chain report today reiterates what to expect from the iPhone 17 Air size and
Notes on software...
Finishing up a FreeBSD experiment I've been using FreeBSD as my daily driver at work since December. I've successfully done my job and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've been using FreeBSD as my daily driver at work since December. I've successfully done my job and I've learned a hell of a lot forcing myself on CURRENT... But there's been a number of issues with it that have made it difficult to keep using, so I replaced it with Arch Linux...
./techtipsy
What running out of SATA ports looks like One day I stumbled upon a Craft Computing video about his new server build, and on the parts list...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One day I stumbled upon a Craft Computing video about his new server build, and on the parts list was a Sedna PCI Express 2x SATA adapter card: There are different designs out there, including a 4x SATA card, which is bonkers. Anyway, I thought that I might as well give this a...
Elevation Lab - Blog
A newer, better, ElevationDock Today we launched an update to our iPhone dock. It's wider to fit a bigger generation of phones,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Today we launched an update to our iPhone dock. It's wider to fit a bigger generation of phones, ships with an Apple-certified Lightning connector (that you can assemble in seconds with the new tool-free back plate), and we've added some new lateral supports for added...
Jonas Hietala
Netrunner Lindhska Store Championship Örebro After the awesomeness during the previous store championship, I decided to go to the store...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
After the awesomeness during the previous store championship, I decided to go to the store championship at Lindhska Bokhandel in Örebro. I brought a modified version of the same corp I used the last time, a Blue Sun kill deck and a new runner with Leela Patel. See the links for...
Neil Madden
Is Datalog a good language for authorization? Datalog is a logic programming language, based on Prolog, which is seeing something of a resurgence...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Datalog is a logic programming language, based on Prolog, which is seeing something of a resurgence in interest in recent years. In particular, several recent approaches to authorization (working out who can do what) have used Datalog as the logical basis for access control...
Computer Ads from...
Comics from Winter 1980 Issue of Electronics Today International AI and everything in between.
a week ago
tim.sh
Why I created Ethereum Proof of Stake demo Hi there!
8 months ago
Arduino Blog
Why we chose Claude for the Arduino Cloud AI Assistant We know that introducing AI into your coding environment comes with questions – about safety,...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
We know that introducing AI into your coding environment comes with questions – about safety, accuracy, privacy, and trust. That’s why we want to be transparent about how we built the recently-announced Arduino AI Assistant in the Cloud IDE, and why we chose to power it with...
Posts on Made of...
Security doesn't respect abstraction boundaries The fundamental tool of any engineering discipline is the notion of abstraction. If we can build a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The fundamental tool of any engineering discipline is the notion of abstraction. If we can build a set of useful, easily-described behaviors out of a complex system, we can build other systems on top of those pieces, without having to understand to worry about the full complexity...
watchTowr Labs
SonicBoom, From Stolen Tokens to Remote Shells - SonicWall SMA (CVE-2023-44221, CVE-2024-38475) Another day, another edge device being targeted - it’s a typical Thursday! In today’s blog post,...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Another day, another edge device being targeted - it’s a typical Thursday! In today’s blog post, we’re excited to share our previously private analysis of the now exploited in-the-wild N-day vulnerabilities affecting SonicWall’s SMA100 appliance. Over the last few months, our...
Greater Still by...
Talking to the Protocol An exploration into a new communication layer. By Gaby Goldberg & Sophie Fujiwara
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
2023 in review This is my yearly review #14. Amazing that I’ve kept up with this for 14 years. Even though it’s not...
a year ago
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a year ago
This is my yearly review #14. Amazing that I’ve kept up with this for 14 years. Even though it’s not anything advanced, I really like looking back at the year to see what has happened. Maybe it’s a very light version of a reverse bucket list, and I can see that it provides some...
Arduino Blog
Marble art madness from a marvelous machine Marbles are underrated. They’re very round, roll well, tend to be pretty shiny, and come in all...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Marbles are underrated. They’re very round, roll well, tend to be pretty shiny, and come in all sorts of neat colors. That last characteristic makes them suitable for artwork, like orbicular pixels. In his most ambitious project to date, Engineezy took advantage of those...
Posts on Made of...
Lightweight Linux Kernel Development with KVM I don’t do a ton of Linux kernel development these days, but I’ve done a fair bit in the past, and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I don’t do a ton of Linux kernel development these days, but I’ve done a fair bit in the past, and picked up a number of useful techniques for doing kernel development in a relatively painless fashion. This blog post is a writeup of the tools and techniques I use when developing...
Buck on Software
The Software Slog As a newly minted high school grad I had a brief stint as a wildland firefighter.
over a year ago
Krebs on Security
DOGE Worker’s Code Supports NLRB Whistleblower A whistleblower at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleged last week that denizens of Elon...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
A whistleblower at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleged last week that denizens of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) siphoned gigabytes of data from the agency's sensitive case files in early March. The whistleblower said accounts created for...
Notes on software...
How to get better at recursion tldr; reimplement standard library functions in your favorite language without loops. Background For...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
tldr; reimplement standard library functions in your favorite language without loops. Background For a few years after college I spent a lot of free time doing projects in Standard ML and Scheme. As a result I got really comfortable doing recursion. The two big reasons for this...
Good Enough
How We Built Quack (Beta) We recently launched Quack, a simple utility for you to share a beautifully rendered version of any...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We recently launched Quack, a simple utility for you to share a beautifully rendered version of any Markdown text. This software is completely front-end based, and for me personally it was a bit of a challenging puzzle to implement. Thankfully we have genius hackers like Arun...
Old Vintage...
More pro for the DEC Professional 380 (featuring PRO/VENIX) In computing the DEC PDP-11 is something of a geologic feature. Plus, as most systems in the family...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
In computing the DEC PDP-11 is something of a geologic feature. Plus, as most systems in the family were minicomputers, they had the whole monolith thing going for them too (minus murderous apes and sucking astronauts into hyperspace). Its fame is even more notable given that...
Simply Explained
ESP32: Tips to increase battery life Running an ESP32 on a battery is a tricky operation. The chip is a powerhouse, and with power comes...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Running an ESP32 on a battery is a tricky operation. The chip is a powerhouse, and with power comes great responsibility. In this post, I’ll outline how I got an ESP32 to run for over 15 weeks (and counting) on a single 1000mAh battery.
Good Enough
Season 3, Issue 1: Whale, Hello There! Dear friends, we have not been good at writing this newsletter regularly. But writing is hard work,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Dear friends, we have not been good at writing this newsletter regularly. But writing is hard work, and there’s only so much time we have, and there was the winter break and Shawn kept getting sick—we have many excuses, how much time do you have? Gosh, since July of last year?...
Arduino Blog
This small device enables users to feel braille through haptics For the visually impaired community, most of their interactions on mobile phones are confined to...
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For the visually impaired community, most of their interactions on mobile phones are confined to text-to-speech (TTS) interfaces that read portions of the screen aloud. Dynamic braille displays also exist as a tactile means of communication, but their prices can get close to...
Old Vintage...
Let's give PRO/VENIX a barely adequate, pre-C89 TCP/IP stack (featuring Slirp-CK) TCP/IP Illustrated (what would now be called the first edition prior to the 2011 update) for a...
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TCP/IP Illustrated (what would now be called the first edition prior to the 2011 update) for a hundred-odd bucks on sale which has now sat on my bookshelf, encased in its original shrinkwrap, for at least twenty years. It would be fun to put up the 4.4BSD data structures poster...
Matt Mullenweg
Automattic Operating System I was interviewed by Inc magazine for almost two hours where we covered a lot of great topics for...
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I was interviewed by Inc magazine for almost two hours where we covered a lot of great topics for entrepreneurs but almost none of it made it into the weird hit piece they published, however since both the journalist and I had recording of the interview I’ve decided to adapt some...
Willem's Blog
Inspiration from a child Explore the world together with your kids and reap the rewards of adventure and fun!
over a year ago
Posts on Made of...
wpa_supplicant: GUI and wpa_action I’ve made two new interesting discoveries about wpa_supplicant since writing my last blog post on...
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I’ve made two new interesting discoveries about wpa_supplicant since writing my last blog post on the subject. (Actually, I pretty much made both of them while reading documentation in order to write it, and have been lame about writing them up). Using wpa_gui It turns out that...
Birchtree
Handheld consoles, assemble! Jez Corden writing for Windows Central: EXCLUSIVE: Xbox's New Hardware Plans Begin With a Gaming...
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Jez Corden writing for Windows Central: EXCLUSIVE: Xbox's New Hardware Plans Begin With a Gaming Handheld Set for Later This Year, With Full Next-Gen Consoles Targeting 2027 Microsoft is working with a PC gaming OEM (think ASUS, Lenovo, MSI, Razer, etc.) on an Xbox-branded gaming...
watchTowr Labs
Visionaries Have Democratised Remote Network Access - Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops... Well, we’re back again, with yet another fresh-off-the-press bug chain (and associated Interactive...
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Well, we’re back again, with yet another fresh-off-the-press bug chain (and associated Interactive Artifact Generator). This time, it’s in Citrix’s “Virtual Apps and Desktops” offering. This is a tech stack that enables end-users (and likely, your friendly neighbourhood...
Matt Mullenweg
Age-gating I’m not opposed to age-gating at all, I think it’s appropriate in many situations and useful, and...
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I’m not opposed to age-gating at all, I think it’s appropriate in many situations and useful, and democratic societies can decide their own rules there. But it should be handled and authenticated as low-level as possible, at the operating system layer. See also: Australia’s...
./techtipsy
Steam local network game transfers are a game-changer Steam recently launched a new feature: local network game transfers. The idea is simple: if you have...
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Steam recently launched a new feature: local network game transfers. The idea is simple: if you have a game downloaded on another PC and you’re both on the same local network, then Steam can download game data from that PC, avoiding the need to download the game over public...
Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course: Week 3 I’m undertaking a year-long crash course in the humanities. These are my notes for week 3. Following...
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I’m undertaking a year-long crash course in the humanities. These are my notes for week 3. Following Ted Gioia’s curriculum, this week I read the remainder of the Odyssey. On the audiovisual front, I watched a movie that made me think differently about the poem’s...
Posts on Made of...
Exploiting misuse of Python's "pickle" If you program in Python, you’re probably familiar with the pickle serialization library, which...
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If you program in Python, you’re probably familiar with the pickle serialization library, which provides for efficient binary serialization and loading of Python datatypes. Hopefully, you’re also familiar with the warning printed prominently near the start of pickle’s...
./techtipsy
About the time my ThinkPad T430 ran with an external GPU The ThinkPad T430 is not a remarkable laptop. It’s thick, bulky and built like a tank. I got mine in...
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The ThinkPad T430 is not a remarkable laptop. It’s thick, bulky and built like a tank. I got mine in 2016 when the first university scholarship money dropped, and it’s still my backup laptop of choice. Around 2017 I did something every reasonable poor computer science...
Opsbros
Debug Header After watching a livestream by UnexpectedMaker struggling to put probe pins on his Stepper Motor...
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After watching a livestream by UnexpectedMaker struggling to put probe pins on his Stepper Motor driver connected to a Raspberry Pi, I thought a breakout header might help; so I whipped up this little board.
Louwrentius
'Linux: using disk labels to counter storage device name changes' My router decided to change the device name for some USB storage devices. So /dev/sdc was swapped...
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My router decided to change the device name for some USB storage devices. So /dev/sdc was swapped for /dev/sdd and vice versa. The result was some file system corruption on /dev/sdc, because it was used on a remote system through iSCSI, using a different file system from...
Vitalik Buterin's...
為什麼權益證明棒棒的(2020 年十一月)
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Louwrentius
Migration from blogger to blogofile and disqus is complete As stated in my previous post, I migrated all posts from blogger.com to my own host running...
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As stated in my previous post, I migrated all posts from blogger.com to my own host running blogofile. At the time of my previous post, I was not able to restore all comments made on my old blog. Thanks to some help from disqcus I fixed an error on my behalf and all old comments...
Jonas Hietala
Postmortem: Black and White All this time working on my latest game I thought it sucked and I was trying hard to make it to not...
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All this time working on my latest game I thought it sucked and I was trying hard to make it to not suck. My spirit wasn’t high, just check this post and this but now when it’s done it’s like night and day, or like black and white! I’m damn happy I got it done!! Aah I’ll try to...
Vitalik Buterin's...
The Dawn of Hybrid Layer 2 Protocols
over a year ago
Ian's Blog
Hardware-Accelerated Video Encoding with Intel Arc on Redhat Linux I've been wanting hardware-accelerated video encoding on my Linux machine for quite a while now, but...
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I've been wanting hardware-accelerated video encoding on my Linux machine for quite a while now, but ask anybody who's used a Linux machine and they'll tell you of the horrors of Nvidia or AMD drivers. Intel, on the other hand, seems to be taking things in a much different, much...
Lighthouse Blog
Updates December 22
a year ago
Applied Cartography
Are monopolies bad, actually? One of the more interesting theses advanced by Zero to One [1] is that monopolies are good to the...
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One of the more interesting theses advanced by Zero to One [1] is that monopolies are good to the extent that they afford companies the agency and comfort to engage in long-term activities: Monopolists can think about things other than making money; non-monopolists can’t. In...
Notes on software...
A minimal distributed key-value database with Hashicorp's Raft library When I wrote the "build a distributed PostgreSQL proof of concept" post I first had to figure...
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When I wrote the "build a distributed PostgreSQL proof of concept" post I first had to figure out how to use Hashicorp's Raft implementation. There weren't any examples I could find in the Hashicorp repo itself. And the only example I could find was Philip O'Toole's hraftd. It's...
Birchtree
Bending the knee, $1 million at a time M.G. Siegler on his blog, Spyglass: $1M Knee Pads Of course, the point here, in the real world,...
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M.G. Siegler on his blog, Spyglass: $1M Knee Pads Of course, the point here, in the real world, isn't actually the money – though I would just note that as President, Trump will have access to thousands of warheads... – but what the money signals. That is,
Jorge Arango
A Crash Course in the Humanities My education has lots of gaps. “Youth is wasted on the young” is an apt cliché: I wasted lots of...
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My education has lots of gaps. “Youth is wasted on the young” is an apt cliché: I wasted lots of opportunities as a young person. After graduation, I committed to ongoing learning. Alas, it’s been scattered and undirected. This year, I’m doing something about it: immersing myself...
Nabeel S. Qureshi
May Updates + New Essay On Moral AI A few months back, I read a tweet from Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) which stuck in my...
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A few months back, I read a tweet from Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) which stuck in my mind: “the long term goal is to build AGI that loves people the way parents love their children”.
lcamtuf’s thing
What's the deal with magnetic fields? I apologize, but there won't be any Insane Clown Posse jokes in this article.
5 months ago
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Back to roots This blog is running on a home server again. I have once again gained access to a competent internet...
a year ago
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This blog is running on a home server again. I have once again gained access to a competent internet connection1, and I think I have figured out the IPv6 setup as well2, leading to this change. The IP address is dynamic, there are occasional power outages and I might just mess up...
Arduino Blog
Coolest controllers ever? Icy gamepads melt in users’ hands Nintendo’s Joy-Con controller system is very innovative and generally well-regarded, with one major...
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Nintendo’s Joy-Con controller system is very innovative and generally well-regarded, with one major exception: stick drift. That’s a reliability issue that eventually affects a large percentage of Joy-Cons, to the frustration of gamers. But what if that was intentional and...
Vitalik Buterin's...
How do trusted setups work?
over a year ago
Birchtree
Slamming Into Walls Mark Crump: Slamming Into Walls The thought process behind this current post, was a long decision...
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Mark Crump: Slamming Into Walls The thought process behind this current post, was a long decision made quickly. It was a difficult decision as I spent a lot of time reconciling where I believe the future of computing to lie, and the reality of where computing is. The hard fact
./techtipsy
The best laptop is the one somebody else had In 2011, I was finishing 9th grade. As a gift, I got to choose a laptop in the 400 EUR range. I...
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In 2011, I was finishing 9th grade. As a gift, I got to choose a laptop in the 400 EUR range. I ended up picking an ASUS Eee PC 1201PN. It was new and the first computer in my life that was 100% mine, but awfully slow for a lot of tasks. It was so slow that I ended up giving...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 1: The Merge
9 months ago
computers are bad
2025-01-05 pairs not taken So we all know about twisted-pair ethernet, huh? I get a little frustrated with a lot of histories...
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So we all know about twisted-pair ethernet, huh? I get a little frustrated with a lot of histories of the topic, like the recent neil breen^w^wserial port video, because they often fail to address some obvious questions about the origin of twisted-pair network cabling. Well, I...
computers are bad
2024-07-13 the contemporary carphone Cathode Ray Dude, in one of his many excellent "Quick Start" videos, made an interesting observation...
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Cathode Ray Dude, in one of his many excellent "Quick Start" videos, made an interesting observation that has stuck in my brain: sophisticated computer users, nerds if you will, have a tendency to completely ignore things that they know are worthless. He was referring to the...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Against overuse of the Gini coefficient
over a year ago
Never Met a Science
A View on the Job Market for Computational Social Science and some professional news...
a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Faster than Light So I returned to Faster than Light again this weekend, this time for real. I bought it when it came...
over a year ago
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So I returned to Faster than Light again this weekend, this time for real. I bought it when it came out and I played it only in passing, but this weekend I played it a ton. Aaahh a new beginning in FTL. Will it be death once more I generally don’t like games where you have to...
Good Enough
Why We're Writing Blog Software We’re seven months into our Cosmic Maelstrom and we have started writing blogging software. What the...
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We’re seven months into our Cosmic Maelstrom and we have started writing blogging software. What the why?! First, let me say that, yes, I do realize there are probably 100s of blog software options out there. In terms of static-site generators (SSGs) alone, there are probably...
Home on Erik...
Building a data team at a mid-stage startup: a short story I guess I should really call this a parable. The backdrop is: you have been brought in to grow a...
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I guess I should really call this a parable. The backdrop is: you have been brought in to grow a tiny data team (~4 people) at a mid-stage startup (~$10M annual revenue), although this story could take place at many different types of companies.
Bryan Braun - Blog
One Million Checkboxes and the fear of viral success When Nolen Royalty’s One Million Checkboxes site went viral, several people sent me links to it. If...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
When Nolen Royalty’s One Million Checkboxes site went viral, several people sent me links to it. If you haven't heard of One Million Checkboxes, see the Wikipedia article for more details. I loved everything about One Million Checkboxes. It was simple but strangely compelling....
Matt Mullenweg
Those Other Lawsuits It’s a heavy day, and I’m sad to write this. Not sure where to start. In 2022, a lawyer recruited...
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It’s a heavy day, and I’m sad to write this. Not sure where to start. In 2022, a lawyer recruited two people who took care of my Mom—an assistant and one of her dozen nurses—to resign and demand a million dollars each, or they would publish horrible things about her in a lawsuit....
Vitalik Buterin's...
Review of Gitcoin Quadratic Funding Round 3
over a year ago
Computer Ads from...
Plus Post: Sony SMC-777C One person, Eight languages. The 8bit.
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Simply Explained
HEIC to JPG: Build a Quick Action with Automator With the release of iOS 11, Apple switched from JPG to HEIC to store your photos. The...
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With the release of iOS 11, Apple switched from JPG to HEIC to store your photos. The High-Efficiency Image File Format saves a lot of storage space on your devices while still maintaining your photos' quality. However, it does become problematic if you want to share those files...
Home on Erik...
Are data sets the new server rooms? This blog post Data sets are the new server rooms makes the point that a bunch of companies raise a...
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This blog post Data sets are the new server rooms makes the point that a bunch of companies raise a ton of money to go get really proprietary awesome data as a competitive moat. Because once you have the data, you can build a better product, and no one can copy it (at least not...
Louwrentius
Linux: get a list of al disks and their size To get a list of all disk drives of a Linux system, such as this: Disk /dev/md0: 58.0 GB Disk...
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To get a list of all disk drives of a Linux system, such as this: Disk /dev/md0: 58.0 GB Disk /dev/md1: 2015 MB Disk /dev/md5: 18002.2 GB Disk /dev/sda: 60.0 GB Disk /dev/sdb: 60.0 GB Disk /dev/sdc: 1000.1 GB Disk /dev/sdd: 1000.1 GB Disk /dev/sde: 1000.1 GB Disk /dev/sdf: 1000.1...
Vitalik Buterin's...
We should talk less about public goods funding and more about open source funding
3 months ago
csvbase blog
Take the tools out of 'Data', but don't take the data out of the tools Using dataframes to write smaller, faster programs
over a year ago
Willem's Blog
Tablet as Tool Discover the hidden advantages of the iPad Pro in this insightful blog post, offering tips and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Discover the hidden advantages of the iPad Pro in this insightful blog post, offering tips and personal experiences to help you maximise the tablet's potential and redefine your workflow.
Lighthouse Blog
Updates November 17: Content classification and summary
a year ago
Simply Explained
Why I don't take sponsorships Last year I made that video in response to a sponsorship offer that I got from various VPN...
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over a year ago
Last year I made that video in response to a sponsorship offer that I got from various VPN providers. They all told me the same thing: our service is the best way to protect your privacy, and we were hoping you could convey this message in one of your videos.So I decided to do...
anderegg.ca
A look back at 2024, and what’s next for 2025 At the end of last year, I wrote about wanting to focus on the web in 2024. How did that shake...
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At the end of last year, I wrote about wanting to focus on the web in 2024. How did that shake out? Top level stats I considered 2023 the first year that I honestly tried getting back into blogging. My goal then was to post something every month, and I managed that with 14 posts...
Abort Retry Fail
The Tandy Corporation, Part 1 From leather shoe bits to the TRS-80
a month ago
Jonas Hietala
2016 in Review See the previous reviews. 2016 Geek Achievements Placed 2nd in Linköping’s Regional in...
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See the previous reviews. 2016 Geek Achievements Placed 2nd in Linköping’s Regional in Netrunner. Won a couple of smaller Netrunner tournaments. Got Veronica to play Game of Thrones with us. She beat us and she loved it! Programmed a little bit of Elixir and a tiny bit of front...
Himanshu Mishra |...
Why don't you move abroad? The IIT Dream College and Open Source Twitter @ San Francisco The Emotional Turmoil in San Francisco...
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7 months ago
The IIT Dream College and Open Source Twitter @ San Francisco The Emotional Turmoil in San Francisco College placements and first job Life…
./techtipsy
The absolute state of Bluetooth audio in 2022 I have the Sony WH-1000XM3 headphones. They’re good for consuming content. Audio calls with your...
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I have the Sony WH-1000XM3 headphones. They’re good for consuming content. Audio calls with your colleagues? Forget about it. This is the setup I have to go with, and it has all to do with how Bluetooth works. Your options with Bluetooth headsets are the following: high quality...
Jorge Arango
Why Website Taxonomies Drift (and What to Do about It) AI is everywhere, but most websites are still managed manually by humans using content management...
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AI is everywhere, but most websites are still managed manually by humans using content management systems like WordPress and Drupal. These systems provide means for tagging and categorizing content. But over time, these structures degrade. Without vigilance and maintenance,...
Birchtree
Claude finally gets its “thinking” update Anthropic released Claude 3.7 yesterday, and as a bit of a Claude stan myself, it’s fair to say I...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Anthropic released Claude 3.7 yesterday, and as a bit of a Claude stan myself, it’s fair to say I was excited to see it. The last few months have seen meaningful updates to GPT and Gemini, and in an industry moving at this rate, Anthropic felt like
Arduino Blog
This desk lamp automatically adjusts its brightness using AI on an Arduino UNO When you hear about all of the amazing things being accomplished with artificial intelligence today,...
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When you hear about all of the amazing things being accomplished with artificial intelligence today, you probably assume that they require a massive amount of processing power. And while that is often true, there are machine learning models that can run on the edge — including on...
Never Met a Science
The Political Institution of Mortality The Democratic incumbent was too old to run for re-election.
3 months ago
Willem's Blog
Three tips to make a content strategy work Consider these three things to maximise the effect of the words you write for your website, blog or...
over a year ago
./techtipsy
FOSDEM 2024: my experience, some notes and tech tips I finally went to FOSDEM. I’m sleep-deprived, completely exhausted, but incredibly excited about the...
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I finally went to FOSDEM. I’m sleep-deprived, completely exhausted, but incredibly excited about the whole experience. I’ve split this post into three separate sections. overall notes on the conference and the city less technical, but sheds light on the FOSDEM experience the...
Evan Hahn's blog
Notes from "Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology" Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology is a book of essays by Ellen Ullman. In the book,...
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Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology is a book of essays by Ellen Ullman. In the book, Ullman laments the bad parts of computers and the internet. These systems eroded privacy, deepened income inequality, and enabled the rise of modern fascism. And they were built by a...
Jonas Hietala
The games that make me who I am I read an article the other day where he met someone who didn’t read fiction: He suggested that...
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I read an article the other day where he met someone who didn’t read fiction: He suggested that fiction was a waste of his time — he read to learn, not for "mere" entertainment I don’t agree with this view and neither did he: Fiction allows you to be part of situations that are...
lcamtuf’s thing
Shining light on photodiodes Photodiodes are incredibly versatile, but commonly misused and misunderstood.
8 months ago
Jonas Hietala
MenuCity: Level 0 Walkthrough It hasn’t even been a week since I released my latest game MenyCity and already so much positive...
over a year ago
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It hasn’t even been a week since I released my latest game MenyCity and already so much positive feedback! I’m so thrilled :) However, all isn’t blue skies and nice sunshine. A lot of times the first question is: How do you play it? or How do you get past the first level? I admit...
computers are bad
2024-03-27 telephone cables So let's say you're working on a household project and need around a dozen telephone cables---the...
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So let's say you're working on a household project and need around a dozen telephone cables---the ordinary kind that you would use between your telephone and the wall. It is, of course, more cost effective to buy bulk cable, or simply a long cable, and cut it to length and attach...
Jonas Hietala
I Made It! It’s been over a year, but I haven’t lost (most) my touch yet! For the second time I’ve completed a...
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It’s been over a year, but I haven’t lost (most) my touch yet! For the second time I’ve completed a Ludum Dare! Not an easy feat and yet there are tons of games that look absolutely wonderful. I’m not there yet but now I have at least gotten back into game making again, long...
Computer Ads from...
Plus Post: VTech Laser MSX2 The exciting new MSX computer with more features for less money
3 months ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Na colusão
over a year ago
computers are bad
2024-12-11 travelers information stations Histories of radio broadcasting often make a particular focus on the most powerful stations. For...
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Histories of radio broadcasting often make a particular focus on the most powerful stations. For historic reasons, WBCT of Grand Rapids, Michigan broadcasts FM at 320¸000 watts. Many AM stations are licensed to operate at 50,000 watts, but this modern license limit represented a...
Home on Erik...
What can startups learn from Koch Industries? I recently finished the excellent book Kochland. This isn't my first interest in Koch—I read The...
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I recently finished the excellent book Kochland. This isn't my first interest in Koch—I read The Science of Success by Charles Koch himself a couple of years ago. Charles Koch inherited a tiny company in 1967 and turned it into one of the world's largest ones.
Birchtree
A new/old Pokémon game, how Hollywood can make good movies, and a puzzle with all edge pieces We are so back! Please keep making smaller, original movies so that we get new franchises A puzzle...
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We are so back! Please keep making smaller, original movies so that we get new franchises A puzzle with all edge pieces that looks fun but also very hard Every font is free…as long as you remake it yourself Fellow olds, if you haven't seen this,
Birchtree
Castro is back, baby Dustin Bluck writing for the Castro blog: State of the App: Year 1 Private and popular feeds update...
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Dustin Bluck writing for the Castro blog: State of the App: Year 1 Private and popular feeds update have seen marked improvements, but unpopular feeds were the real issue before and that issue is entirely gone. I emailed Castro support back in 2021 to ask them for help with my
Posts on Made of...
A Very Subtle Bug 6.033, MIT’s class on computer systems, has as one of its catchphrases, “Complex systems fail for...
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over a year ago
6.033, MIT’s class on computer systems, has as one of its catchphrases, “Complex systems fail for complex reasons”. As a class about designing and building complex systems, it’s a reminder that failure modes are subtle and often involve strange interactions between multiple parts...
Arduino Blog
This Strandbeest-style coffee table can deliver drinks More than 30 years ago, Dutch artist Theo Jansen began astounding the world with his Strandbeesten...
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More than 30 years ago, Dutch artist Theo Jansen began astounding the world with his Strandbeesten walking sculptures. Even after decades, they have an almost mythical allure thanks to the incredibly fluid way in which they walk. They’re clearly constructs, but with gaits that...
anderegg.ca
Two flavours of open social media Yesterday, the Mastodon team announced it would be handing over control of its project to a new...
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Yesterday, the Mastodon team announced it would be handing over control of its project to a new non-profit organization. The timing of this announcement is perfect given everything that’s happening with WordPress, Meta, and… well, everything else. To date, I think Eugen Rochko...
Willem's Blog
Hello, stranger "Discover the transformative power of simple conversations in our tech-dominated world, as one...
a year ago
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a year ago
"Discover the transformative power of simple conversations in our tech-dominated world, as one individual delves into the lost art of talking to strangers and the profound connections it can forge."
Jonas Hietala
Tufte style sidenotes and marginnotes in Pollen When evaluating Pollen I complained about markdown/pandoc’s lack of sidenote handling. I have solved...
over a year ago
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When evaluating Pollen I complained about markdown/pandoc’s lack of sidenote handling. I have solved it for Pollen but felt it deserved it’s own post. A caveat: I generated Tufte CSS style sidenotes and marginnotes which made it more complex than if I had simply generated...
Birchtree
🕹️ I casually recommend Steamworld Heist 2 (members post) This game is definitely fun, and I enjoyed my time with it, but it didn't blow me away.
4 months ago
Old Vintage...
RIP Bill Atkinson As posted by his family (Facebook link), Bill Atkinson passed away on June 5 from pancreatic cancer...
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As posted by his family (Facebook link), Bill Atkinson passed away on June 5 from pancreatic cancer at the age of 74. The Macintosh would not have been the same without him (QuickDraw, MacPaint, HyperCard, and so much more). Rest in peace.
Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing Anchor Pro! Our original Anchor, the first under-desk headphone mount, is truly a great product - easy to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Our original Anchor, the first under-desk headphone mount, is truly a great product - easy to install, does what it says, and a timeless design. It's in use on over 100,000 desks worldwide. So what do you do when you have a great product like The Anchor? Well, we decided to make...
Birchtree
The worst product Marques Brownlee ever reviewed dies after 10 months Jay Peters for The Verge: HP Is Buying Humane and Shutting Down the AI Pin Humane is selling “key AI...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Jay Peters for The Verge: HP Is Buying Humane and Shutting Down the AI Pin Humane is selling “key AI capabilities” to HP for $116 million and will stop selling AI Pin, the company announced today. AI Pins that have already been purchased will continue to function normally
Yazin Alirhayim
Getting started with Flutter It used to be that you needed to know Kotlin and Swift to develop apps for both Android and iOS, but...
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over a year ago
It used to be that you needed to know Kotlin and Swift to develop apps for both Android and iOS, but those days are long gone. Even the fundamental reasons for doing so have changed — some sort of compromise between performance and speed to deployment. React Native apps were...
Christian Selig
Smart Open Xcode If you’re like me, you often have multiple versions of Xcode installed. One or two beta versions, a...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you’re like me, you often have multiple versions of Xcode installed. One or two beta versions, a stable version, and maybe another version in case the most recent stable version has something weird about it. I also really like mapping my Caps Lock key to something more useful,...
Arduino Blog
Harness the power and connectivity of your Arduino UNO R4 WiFi with this IoT lamp It can be tough to get started with building an Internet of Things (IoT) project from the ground-up,...
a year ago
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a year ago
It can be tough to get started with building an Internet of Things (IoT) project from the ground-up, as getting connected, serving a webpage, and managing other devices can all be a challenge to a beginner. This is why the YouTuber known as “Mario’s Ideas” made an end-to-end...
Birchtree
+ The broken toe
2 months ago
Posts on Made of...
How is duct tape like the force? I’m at Dragon*Con this weekend, my second time here now. I decided that if I was going to Dragon*Con...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’m at Dragon*Con this weekend, my second time here now. I decided that if I was going to Dragon*Con again, I needed to do something in terms of costuming, and I wanted it to be something unique – I wasn’t going to come anywhere near as epic as some of the costumes people pull...
Never Met a Science
Yes, Xxit Xxit is like Brexit for X haha
7 months ago
Ken Shirriff's blog
Two interesting XOR circuits inside the Intel 386 processor Intel's 386 processor (1985) was an important advance in the x86 architecture, not only moving to a...
a year ago
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a year ago
Intel's 386 processor (1985) was an important advance in the x86 architecture, not only moving to a 32-bit processor but also switching to a CMOS implementation. I've been reverse-engineering parts of the 386 chip and came across two interesting and completely different circuits...
Birchtree
Sign up for X to see that amber alert. Yikes Kate Knibbs writing for Wired: Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Kate Knibbs writing for Wired: Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old Earlier this week, the California Highway Patrol sent an Amber Alert push notification to phones in the Los Angeles area about a 14-year-old girl that authorities...
watchTowr Labs
Pots and Pans, AKA an SSLVPN - Palo Alto PAN-OS CVE-2024-0012 and CVE-2024-9474 It'll be no surprise that 2024, 2023, 2022, and every other year of humanities' existence has been...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
It'll be no surprise that 2024, 2023, 2022, and every other year of humanities' existence has been tough for SSLVPN appliances. Anyhow, there are new vulnerabilities (well, two of them) that are being exploited in the Palo Alto Networks firewall and SSLVPN offering, and as ever,...
Greater Still by...
Towards Crypto Literacy Consumer scale isn’t reached by abstracting the crypto away — not yet, at least.
over a year ago
Louwrentius
I made my blog solar-powered, then things escalated In 2020 I wondered if I could run my blog on solar power, being inspired by Low-tech Magazine, doing...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In 2020 I wondered if I could run my blog on solar power, being inspired by Low-tech Magazine, doing the same thing (but better)1. The answer was 'yes', but only through spring and summer. I live in an apartment complex in The Netherlands and my balcony is facing west. This...
Good Enough
TIL: Turbo Frames DoEvery.Day calendar navigation was broken. We built it using Turbo Rails as it was being developed....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
DoEvery.Day calendar navigation was broken. We built it using Turbo Rails as it was being developed. As we have updated libraries, including Rails, the API has changed. In order to get the calendar navigation working again, I had to pull out some old hacks that made use of...
Louwrentius
Why I bought a digital projector (Panasonic PT-AT5000E) I don't have a TV. I haven't been watching TV for more than 10 years. But I love to watch movies or...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I don't have a TV. I haven't been watching TV for more than 10 years. But I love to watch movies or great series like Dexter and Game of Thrones. Until recently, I watched movies or series on my 27" iMac. Twenty-seven inch is large for a computer screen but for a TV, it's quite...
The Pragmatic...
Open source business model struggles at WordPress Automattic, creator of Wordpress, is being sued by one of the largest WordPress hosting providers....
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Automattic, creator of Wordpress, is being sued by one of the largest WordPress hosting providers. The conflict fits into a trend of billion-dollar companies struggling to effectively monetize open source, and are changing tactics to limit their competition and increase their...
Engineers Need Art
Experiments in Printmaking - Part 1 Trying some unconventional techniques to create a pop-art print of a Cherry Mash candy bar.
a year ago
Applied Cartography
Globals in Histoire Histoire, like so many other tools in the Vue ecosystem, is a bit of a neglected younger sibling to...
a year ago
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a year ago
Histoire, like so many other tools in the Vue ecosystem, is a bit of a neglected younger sibling to Storybook — a little bit uglier, with worse documentation and a couple rough edges, but much more tightly integrated with Vue and Vite. [1] One thing that was not particularly...
Notes on software...
A minimal RocksDB example with Zig I mostly programmed in Go the last few years. So every time I wanted an embedded key-value database,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I mostly programmed in Go the last few years. So every time I wanted an embedded key-value database, I reached for Cockroach's Pebble. Pebble is great for Go programming but Go does not embed well into other languages. Pebble was inspired by RocksDB (and its...
Nabeel S. Qureshi
How To Understand Things The smartest person I’ve ever known had a habit that, as a teenager, I found striking...
over a year ago
Arduino Blog
YouTuber builds robot to make boyfriend take out the trash Is there anything more irritating than living with a partner who procrastinates on their share of...
a month ago
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a month ago
Is there anything more irritating than living with a partner who procrastinates on their share of the chores? Even if it isn’t malicious, it sure is annoying. Taking out the trash is YouTuber CircuitCindy’s boyfriend’s responsibility, but he often fails to do the task in a timely...
Arduino Blog
Kickstart your tech journey, with the new Arduino Plug and Make Kit! Hey, creating an IoT device shouldn’t be rocket science. We believe technology is for everyone....
a year ago
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a year ago
Hey, creating an IoT device shouldn’t be rocket science. We believe technology is for everyone. That’s why we’ve developed the whole new, beginner-friendly Plug and Make Kit – the easiest way to get started with Arduino!  Inside the box, you’ll find everything you need to create...
Home on Erik...
Mortality statistics and Sweden's "dry tinder" effect We live in a year of about 350,000 amateur epidemiologists and I have no desire to join that “club”....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We live in a year of about 350,000 amateur epidemiologists and I have no desire to join that “club”. But I read something about COVID-19 deaths that I thought was interesting and wanted to see if I could replicated it through data.
Home on Erik...
Annoying blog post I spent a couple of hours this weekend going through some pull requests and issues to Annoy, which...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I spent a couple of hours this weekend going through some pull requests and issues to Annoy, which is an open source C++/Python library for Approximate Nearest Neighbor search. I set up Travis-CI integration and spent some time on one of the issues that multiple people had...
Louwrentius
'Syslog: the hidden security risk' People sometimes forget that there are also a number of UDP-based services that may pose a threat to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
People sometimes forget that there are also a number of UDP-based services that may pose a threat to the security of your systems. SNMP is a well-known service, notorious for being configured with a default password (or community string). But there is another service that is...
Jonas Hietala
FTL got a new victim Faster than Light the great game I lost a ton of time on, has found a new victim. It’s not someone...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Faster than Light the great game I lost a ton of time on, has found a new victim. It’s not someone you’d expect, it’s even someone who said: “What a bad game” when she saw me playing it. But nevertheless this Saturday she played it more than 2.5 hours! I told Veronica I wanted...
Jonas Hietala
An Epic Start Oh what a mistake. I woke up at 05.00 when my girlfriend woke up, she’s working early today, and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Oh what a mistake. I woke up at 05.00 when my girlfriend woke up, she’s working early today, and went to the bathroom. After I was done, still pretty tired, I made a big mistake. I checked the current theme for Ludum Dare 29: Beneath the Surface and guess what? Now I wasn’t tired...
Christian Selig
Recreating Apple's beautiful visionOS search bar Many of Apple’s own visionOS apps, like Music, Safari, and Apple TV, have a handy search bar front...
a year ago
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a year ago
Many of Apple’s own visionOS apps, like Music, Safari, and Apple TV, have a handy search bar front and center on the window so you can easily search through your content. Oddly, as of visionOS 1.1, replicating this visually as a developer using SwiftUI or UIKit is not...
Jonas Hietala
5 Years at Linköping's University I recently finished my master’s degree (civilingenjör or civil engineering) at Linköping’s...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I recently finished my master’s degree (civilingenjör or civil engineering) at Linköping’s University. At first it felt like 5 years would be an eternity, but in hindsight it was over in a flash. my gut feeling is that I haven’t learnt or done anything of note, except you know...
Elevation Lab - Blog
NightStand at your local Apple Store NightStands now come in some beautiful new colors & new packaging - you can find them in Apple...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
NightStands now come in some beautiful new colors & new packaging - you can find them in Apple Stores around the globe beginning today. For any designer, to see something you made out in the wild is a special experience. So today is a real trip for our tiny little Portland...
Jonas Hietala
Monaco What's Yours is Mine I’ve been waiting for soon to be three years for Monaco What’s Yours is Mine, and today I was...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been waiting for soon to be three years for Monaco What’s Yours is Mine, and today I was granted an early christmas present - I was given a beta key! w00p!! I was planning on studying and sending some emails to some companies… But who knows what I’ll end up doing? Tomorrow...
Arduino Blog
This robotic piano has solenoids for all 88 keys Pianos famously have a lot of keys. A standard full-size piano has 52 white keys and 36 black keys,...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Pianos famously have a lot of keys. A standard full-size piano has 52 white keys and 36 black keys, for a total of 88. Therefore, people need to get clever when they build self-playing pianos. However, the brute force approach works, too. Paul Junkin’s brute force strategy was to...
Jorge Arango
Traction Heroes Ep. 4: Mental Models In episode 4 of the Traction Heroes podcast, Harry and I discussed mental models. It’s a tricky...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
In episode 4 of the Traction Heroes podcast, Harry and I discussed mental models. It’s a tricky phrase: we brought up two different, yet common, uses: Mental models as individuals’ internal understandings of a particular things and situations – i.e., the “Indi Young”...
Louwrentius
Configuring SCST iSCSI target on Debian Linux (Wheezy) My goal is to export ZFS zvol volumes through iSCSI to other machines. The platform I'm using is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My goal is to export ZFS zvol volumes through iSCSI to other machines. The platform I'm using is Debian Wheezy. There are three iSCSI target solutions available for Linux: LIO IET SCST I've briefly played with LIO but the targetcli tool is interactive only. If you want to...
Applied Cartography
What Gives Matthieu asks: Since you do a lot of things (investor, dad, owner of a "small" business, blog...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Matthieu asks: Since you do a lot of things (investor, dad, owner of a "small" business, blog writer) I was wondering what you don't do to keep up with this level of commitment. In the same line, it often said that behind one person success, there's a wife/husband that helps to...
Notes on software...
Writing a document database from scratch in Go: Lucene-like filters and indexes In this post we'll write a rudimentary document database from scratch in Go. In less than 500 lines...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In this post we'll write a rudimentary document database from scratch in Go. In less than 500 lines of code we'll be able to support the following interactions, inspired by Elasticsearch: $ curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"name": "Kevin", "age": "45"}'...
Bryan Braun - Blog
Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it’s haunted In mid-2022 I bought a new domain name. The name was musicbox.fun. I got it for a side-project, an...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
In mid-2022 I bought a new domain name. The name was musicbox.fun. I got it for a side-project, an interactive online music box that I had built and hosted at musicboxfun.com. The new name was shorter and more quirky. I felt lucky to have grabbed it. Unfortunately, musicbox.fun...
Willem's Blog
Developing a native iOS app How hard can it be to build your own cycling and running workout tracker app using native code with...
a year ago
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a year ago
How hard can it be to build your own cycling and running workout tracker app using native code with some help from AI? Read along to find out!
Jonas Hietala
A type checking error in Elixir 1.18 Although I’m a big Elixir fan, the lack of static typing has always been my biggest annoyance (and...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Although I’m a big Elixir fan, the lack of static typing has always been my biggest annoyance (and why I think Gleam is so cool). I think static typing helps catch bugs earlier and in an automated way, leading to less buggy software and saves time in the long run. To my great joy...
Neil Madden
Hybrid encryption and the KEM/DEM paradigm If you know a bit about public key cryptography, you probably know that you don’t directly encrypt a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you know a bit about public key cryptography, you probably know that you don’t directly encrypt a message with a public key encryption algorithm like RSA. This is for many reasons, one of which being that it is incredibly slow. Instead you do what’s called hybrid encryption:...
anderegg.ca
Maybe Bluesky has “won” November has sucked so far. One upside of the terrible nonsense is that more people are fleeing X....
8 months ago
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8 months ago
November has sucked so far. One upside of the terrible nonsense is that more people are fleeing X. Many are choosing Bluesky. I’ve seen a bunch of takes about this recently, but I keep seeing things I disagree with. I figure that’s a good enough excuse to write more about this...
Applied Cartography
Finding null JSON values in Postgres Postgres' JSONB functionality is fast and useful but when I find myself dropping down from the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Postgres' JSONB functionality is fast and useful but when I find myself dropping down from the Django ORM into SQL to do weird things, the syntax strikes me as confusing and arcane. As such, when I need to do esoteric things it takes me longer time than I'd like, and in hopes...
Arduino Blog
This rolling ball game brings Skee-Ball-style fun from the arcade to your home Ask your friends about their favorite games at the arcade and the most common answer will likely be...
a year ago
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a year ago
Ask your friends about their favorite games at the arcade and the most common answer will likely be Skee-Ball. But while many other popular arcade games have viable at-home alternatives, Skee-Ball doesn’t — at least not unless you’re willing to spend a serious amount of money....
Willem's Blog
Helping people with free software This week I helped a man with repairing and reinstalling his computer with Debian GNU/Linux.
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Ludum Dare 22 Timelapse Here’s the timelapse for my entry to Ludum Dare 22,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Here’s the timelapse for my entry to Ludum Dare 22, Sat-E. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoKDyhxCVm0 This time I managed to record one screen every minute, which is very suboptimal to say the least but I slowed it down a bit so you can at least see something being done there.
Old Vintage...
Programming the Convergent WorkSlate's spreadsheet microcassette future In this particular future, we will all use handheld spreadsheets stored on microcassettes, talking...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
In this particular future, we will all use handheld spreadsheets stored on microcassettes, talking to each other via speakerphone, and probably listening to Devo and New Order a lot. (Though that part isn't too different from my actual present.) a computer whose manufacturer...
Abishek Muthian
Meta is holding my Facebook Page hostage I have been trying to delete my Meta/Facebook account for past several months in vain because I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I have been trying to delete my Meta/Facebook account for past several months in vain because I couldn't download a copy of my Facebook Page before I delete my account. Facebook provides 'Request a download' feature for downloading a copy of the the Page. It worked fine for pages...
Notes on software...
Tail call elimination In this post we'll explore what tail calls are, why they are useful, and how they can be eliminated...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In this post we'll explore what tail calls are, why they are useful, and how they can be eliminated in an interpreter, a compiler targeting C++, and a compiler targeting LLVM IR. Tail calls A tail call is a function call made at the end of a block that returns the value of the...
Arduino Blog
DIY ECU controls Honda Insight’s Kubota diesel engine The Honda Insight was the first hybrid car released in North America and Honda put serious effort...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Honda Insight was the first hybrid car released in North America and Honda put serious effort into making it as efficient as was practical at the time. That meant aerodynamic streamlining, which is why the first-generation Insight had very distinct covers over the rear...
Greater Still by...
Why is the Internet So Lonely? Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote a piece called My Modern Friends and Me, as an ode to the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote a piece called My Modern Friends and Me, as an ode to the digital-turned-physical friends I had made throughout 2020.
Odds and Ends of...
How I learned to stop worrying and love the military industrial complex Whether Trump wins or loses today, Europe should tool up and prepare to fight.
8 months ago
Simply Explained
Securely access home network with Cloudflare Tunnel and WARP When Cloudflare announced that their Tunnel service would become free, I saw an opportunity to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When Cloudflare announced that their Tunnel service would become free, I saw an opportunity to strengthen the security of my Home Assistant instance. Until now, I have been using Cloudflare's CDN to connect to my HA instance, but that required opening ports on my router and...
Ken Shirriff's blog
The first microcomputer: The transfluxor-powered Arma Micro Computer from 1962 What would you say is the first microcomputer?1 The Apple I from 1976? The Altair 8800 from...
a year ago
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a year ago
What would you say is the first microcomputer?1 The Apple I from 1976? The Altair 8800 from 1974? Perhaps the lesser-known Micral N (1973) or Q1 (1972)? How about the Arma Micro Computer from way back in 1962. The Arma Micro Computer was a compact 20-pound transistorized...
Willem's Blog
Smartwatches vs Mechanical watches Why I still wear a mechanical watch and why smartwatches have potential.
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
The T-34/2 keyboard layout The T-34/2 layout. QMK Heatmap Generator, with all layers and combos. It’s been 6 months since my...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The T-34/2 layout. QMK Heatmap Generator, with all layers and combos. It’s been 6 months since my last update on the T-34 keyboard layout, and I’ve made some changes I’d like to document here. As seen in the heatmap above, the layout seems quite decent. There’s still an issue...
Computer Ads from...
Microwriter "I'll show you how to take on word processing single handed."
2 months ago
Arduino Blog
Ready for SPS Italia 2024? Ready for accessible industrial automation! Save the date on May 28th-30th, Arduino will be back at SPS Italia in Parma, showcasing how our...
a year ago
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a year ago
Save the date on May 28th-30th, Arduino will be back at SPS Italia in Parma, showcasing how our open-source solutions are revolutionizing the industrial sector with high performance and accessibility. At Arduino’s booth #C020, hall 7, we’ll be presenting the latest additions to...