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Setting up a VPN with your iPhone using L2TP, IPSec and Linux This blogpost discusses how to setup an IPSec-based VPN between your iPhone and a Linux server....
11th Dec 2011
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Setting up a VPN with your iPhone using L2TP, IPSec and Linux

from Louwrentius - Solar [alt+shift+b] in technology

11th Dec 2011
This blogpost discusses how to setup an IPSec-based VPN between your iPhone and a Linux server. Updated 16 October 2012 - now compatible with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS IMPORTANT! (update January 2013) I find using OpenVPN with the new iOS OpenVPN client a way better solution. OpenVPN...
Braindump Sometimes, getting it all down on paper helps me think through things. This is that, a complete...
21st Oct 2020
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Braindump

from Yazin Alirhayim [alt+shift+b] in technology

21st Oct 2020
Sometimes, getting it all down on paper helps me think through things. This is that, a complete brain dump.
Album Search in Album Whale Did you know that we, Good Enough, make a little website called Album Whale where you can make...
24th Mar 2026
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Album Search in Album Whale

from Good Enough [alt+shift+b] in technology

24th Mar 2026
Did you know that we, Good Enough, make a little website called Album Whale where you can make beautiful lists of albums to share with your friends, the world, or just yourself? It’s true! We haven’t made an update there in quite some time (it’s pretty good enough as-is), but I...
Cowboy Bebop (2021) This was neither as bad as I thought it could be nor as good as I hoped it might be. The vast...
1st Jan 2022
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Cowboy Bebop (2021)

from Applied Cartography [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Jan 2022
This was neither as bad as I thought it could be nor as good as I hoped it might be. The vast majority of the blame I think has to go towards the scriptwriting, which has a Joss Whedon-esque self-referentiality to it that completely undermines the philosophy of the original and,...
Uber Money, Uber Everything? A critical review of Uber's move into payments
19th Dec 2019
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Uber Money, Uber Everything?

from Kent de Bruin [alt+shift+b] in technology

19th Dec 2019
A critical review of Uber's move into payments
Bomb Squad Peripherals' BLOWGUN It Could Have Been a Lot Worse - His Data is BLOWGUN Protected!
19th Jun 2024
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Bomb Squad Peripherals' BLOWGUN

from Computer Ads from the Past [alt+shift+b] in technology

19th Jun 2024
It Could Have Been a Lot Worse - His Data is BLOWGUN Protected!
It Must *Be* Good The need for companies to do the right thing
15th Dec 2022
1

It Must *Be* Good

from Kent de Bruin [alt+shift+b] in technology

15th Dec 2022
The need for companies to do the right thing
A Simple Thought I wrote that we where doing some microprogramming, making the processor work etc. We had a lab about...
2nd Feb 2012
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A Simple Thought

from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Feb 2012
I wrote that we where doing some microprogramming, making the processor work etc. We had a lab about that yesterday and I was very, very nervous. The preparations weren’t that hard, but they where very bothersome. Converting the instructions to binary/hex by hand is never nice....
Invertimo Binance Crypto Integration You can now import your binance Crypto related transactions to invertimo.com (open source investment...
2nd Feb 2022
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Invertimo Binance Crypto Integration

from Tiny struggles [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Feb 2022
You can now import your binance Crypto related transactions to invertimo.com (open source investment tracking app). Why track crypto transactions in invertimo? Invertimo helps you track all transactions related to your investments as well as dividends and received income in one...
Clip control on the Apple GPU Neverball rendered on the Apple M1 GPU with an open source OpenGL driver After a year in...
22nd Aug 2022
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Clip control on the Apple GPU

from Alyssa Rosenzweig [alt+shift+b] in technology

22nd Aug 2022
Neverball rendered on the Apple M1 GPU with an open source OpenGL driver After a year in development, the open source “Asahi” driver for the Apple GPU is running real games. There’s more to do, but Neverball is already playable (and a lot of fun!). Neverball uses legacy “fixed...
Integrate Are we building apps or infrastructure? ...Yes
25th Apr 2024
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Integrate

from Greater Still by Gaby Goldberg [alt+shift+b] in technology

25th Apr 2024
Are we building apps or infrastructure? ...Yes
Builder.ai did not “fake AI with 700 engineers” The claim that the AI startup “faked AI” with hundreds of engineers went viral – and I also fell for...
12th Jun 2025
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Builder.ai did not “fake AI with 700 engineers”

from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in technology

12th Jun 2025
The claim that the AI startup “faked AI” with hundreds of engineers went viral – and I also fell for it, initially. The reality is much more sobering: Builder.ai built a code generator on top of Claude and other LLMs; it did not build a so-called “Mechanical Turk.”
Klarna’s AI chatbot: how revolutionary is it, really? Klarna launched its AI chatbot, built in collaboration with OpenAI, which the company wants to use...
8th Aug 2024
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Klarna’s AI chatbot: how revolutionary is it, really?

from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in technology

8th Aug 2024
Klarna launched its AI chatbot, built in collaboration with OpenAI, which the company wants to use to eliminate 2/3rds of customer support positions. But is it as revolutionary, and as likely to replace jobs, as Klarna claims?
Write your own Ghost Theme I struggled to make a Ghost CMS theme that worked the way I wanted, so I made my own. Turned out to...
5th Jun 2025
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Write your own Ghost Theme

from matduggan.com [alt+shift+b] in technology

5th Jun 2025
I struggled to make a Ghost CMS theme that worked the way I wanted, so I made my own. Turned out to be a surprisingly easy experience.
Changes A lot has been going on lately and it feels like I’m being swamped. I can’t complain too much but...
4th Mar 2012
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Changes

from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Mar 2012
A lot has been going on lately and it feels like I’m being swamped. I can’t complain too much but there are things I’d like to change after the exam period this week. Program more! nothing since christmas or someting. I need to finish: Ada project for school. Can’t believe I...
JS fetch converts string request bodies to UTF-8 In short: when a fetch request body is a string, the server will receive UTF-8 bytes. I was recently...
6th Sep 2025
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JS fetch converts string request bodies to UTF-8

from Evan Hahn (dot com) [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Sep 2025
In short: when a fetch request body is a string, the server will receive UTF-8 bytes. I was recently calling fetch with a string body, like this: await fetch("/foo", { method: "POST", body: "🍉", }); I wondered: what exact bytes would the server receive? Most stuff uses...
Creating a minimal road bike Over the past months I have worked on different bikes, leading to an accumulation of spare parts in...
17th Aug 2019
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Creating a minimal road bike

from Willem L. Middelkoop [alt+shift+b] in technology

17th Aug 2019
Over the past months I have worked on different bikes, leading to an accumulation of spare parts in my garage. I wondered how hard it would be to make a new bike using these spare parts. I decided to take advantage of this moment to refinish some parts, removing excessive decals...
The day I killed my LAN I killed my office LAN and went 4G only. Saves a lot of clutter, energy and money.
30th Jul 2017
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The day I killed my LAN

from Willem's Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

30th Jul 2017
I killed my office LAN and went 4G only. Saves a lot of clutter, energy and money.
Better Interfaces, Better Products Identity via algorithms, wallets as browsers, crypto's "front page" — how interfaces govern the way...
14th Mar 2023
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Better Interfaces, Better Products

from Greater Still by Gaby Goldberg [alt+shift+b] in technology

14th Mar 2023
Identity via algorithms, wallets as browsers, crypto's "front page" — how interfaces govern the way we interact with the world
Software is Polluting the World Sustainable UX: A design approach to reducing carbon emissions
29th Apr 2020
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Software is Polluting the World

from Kent de Bruin [alt+shift+b] in technology

29th Apr 2020
Sustainable UX: A design approach to reducing carbon emissions
AI is critically important but not for you Before Chat-GPT caused a sensation, big tech companies like Facebook and Apple were betting their...
14th May 2024
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AI is critically important but not for you

from Louwrentius - Solar [alt+shift+b] in technology

14th May 2024
Before Chat-GPT caused a sensation, big tech companies like Facebook and Apple were betting their future growth on virtual reality. But I'm convinced that virtual reality will never be a mainstream thing. If you ever used VR you know why: A heavy thing on your head that messes up...
Does Pinball Cause Violence? A recurring theme here is that social science often asks the wrong questions about media -- and that...
15th May 2025
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Does Pinball Cause Violence?

from Never Met a Science [alt+shift+b] in technology

15th May 2025
A recurring theme here is that social science often asks the wrong questions about media -- and that this dysfunction is driven by media itself. This puts us in a bit of a bind, obviously, insofar as we are relying on social science to improve the media enviroment, or at least to...
1st Mar 2026
Point and Call It’s 2AM. You’re paged to respond to a failing set of components that you are the Subject Matter...
14th Sep 2021
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Point and Call

from Matt Blewitt [alt+shift+b] in technology

14th Sep 2021
It’s 2AM. You’re paged to respond to a failing set of components that you are the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for. Sleepy, you load up the playbook for when the SplineReticulatorBlocked alert has gone off, and start executing. The Incident Commander (IC) is vaguely aware of what...
VC-subsidized tokens Simon Willison writes about the recent Cursor changes:
1st Jul 2025
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VC-subsidized tokens

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Jul 2025
Simon Willison writes about the recent Cursor changes:
Train Simulator Controller: Laser-Cutting a Door Control Panel As the different pieces of my Train Simulator controller come together, a bite-sized first task of...
1st May 2024
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Train Simulator Controller: Laser-Cutting a Door Control Panel

from Project Blog on Christopher Mitchell, Ph.D. [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st May 2024
As the different pieces of my Train Simulator controller come together, a bite-sized first task of building the physical dashboard is the door controls placed at each side of the cab. Here, I detail the process of prototyping the door control panel from a Class 80x out of...
The Afterlife AGENT: I am prescribing vardenafil 5 mg for you.
2nd Mar 2025
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The Afterlife

from lcamtuf’s thing [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Mar 2025
AGENT: I am prescribing vardenafil 5 mg for you.
Google Summer of Code 2016 Report : Stingray It began 5 months ago, in February. Due to my recent interests in Image Processing, I had made few...
20th Jan 2017
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Google Summer of Code 2016 Report : Stingray

from Himanshu Mishra | orkohunter.net RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in technology

20th Jan 2017
It began 5 months ago, in February. Due to my recent interests in Image Processing, I had made few Pull Requests to the scikit-image library…
Wearing WHOOP 4.0 How often do you look in the mirror? Probably more than a few times a week! I have been thinking...
13th Jan 2022
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Wearing WHOOP 4.0

from Willem L. Middelkoop [alt+shift+b] in technology

13th Jan 2022
How often do you look in the mirror? Probably more than a few times a week! I have been thinking about this ever since I received my newest WHOOP 4.0 biometric sensor. It's great. But, why do I wear it? What value does it provide? Why should you wear it? What is WHOOP? First...
The Name of the Rose Ah, so this is where pentiment gets so much of its richness.
9th Dec 2023
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The Name of the Rose

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

9th Dec 2023
Ah, so this is where pentiment gets so much of its richness.
Speedrunning Tesco (Odds and Ends #93) Plus mixed feelings about Artemis, Mormon gambling, and a council finance nightmare.
1st Apr 2026
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Speedrunning Tesco (Odds and Ends #93)

from Odds and Ends of History [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Apr 2026
Plus mixed feelings about Artemis, Mormon gambling, and a council finance nightmare.
How to fix Top Gear And the story of my beef with Jeremy Clarkson
2nd Sep 2026
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How to fix Top Gear

from Odds and Ends of History [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Sep 2026
And the story of my beef with Jeremy Clarkson
No Way, PHP Strikes Again! (CVE-2024-4577) Orange Tsai tweeted a few hours ago about “One of [his] PHP vulnerabilities, which affects XAMPP by...
7th Jun 2024
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No Way, PHP Strikes Again! (CVE-2024-4577)

from watchTowr Labs [alt+shift+b] in technology

7th Jun 2024
Orange Tsai tweeted a few hours ago about “One of [his] PHP vulnerabilities, which affects XAMPP by default”, and we were curious to say the least. XAMPP is a very popular way for administrators and developers to rapidly deploy Apache, PHP, and a bunch of other tools, and
2025-03-08 It started, as it often does, with my kids. They got curious about a chess variant called Monster...
9th Mar 2025
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2025-03-08

from Freewheeling Apps [alt+shift+b] in technology

9th Mar 2025
It started, as it often does, with my kids. They got curious about a chess variant called Monster chess. But none of the websites out there have an implementation of it. So I set out to build one. In Lua Carousel, of course, my cross-platform app for editing and running little...
Movement for Engineers Until we get get to be chromed-up cyborgs, we’re stuck with our meat bodies, and like many things,...
9th Jul 2023
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Movement for Engineers

from Matt Blewitt [alt+shift+b] in technology

9th Jul 2023
Until we get get to be chromed-up cyborgs, we’re stuck with our meat bodies, and like many things, they need regular maintenance. Here is a brief introduction to keeping your body moving as someone who spends a lot of time sitting down.
An Apple district manager's Macintosh Portable in 1989-91 (featuring GEIS AppleLink and a look at... a late prototype Macintosh Portable. But it turns out it's not merely notable for what it is than...
3rd Mar 2024
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3rd Mar 2024
a late prototype Macintosh Portable. But it turns out it's not merely notable for what it is than what it has on it: a beta version of System 6.0.6 (the doomed release that Apple pulled due to bugs), Apple sales databases, two online services — the maligned Mac Prodigy client,...
Being a volunteer in Amsterdam-Zuidoost After realising how lucky I am as an healthy, well educated, young man with a solid income, I wanted...
20th Nov 2016
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Being a volunteer in Amsterdam-Zuidoost

from Willem L. Middelkoop [alt+shift+b] in technology

20th Nov 2016
After realising how lucky I am as an healthy, well educated, young man with a solid income, I wanted to do something for other people as volunteer. It just so happens to be that two years ago I received a flyer in my mailbox from the local community center: they were looking for...
Problems of C, and how Zig addresses them What are the problems of C, and how Zig addresses them?
9th Jun 2023
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Problems of C, and how Zig addresses them

from Avestura's Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

9th Jun 2023
What are the problems of C, and how Zig addresses them?
Steam Deck: I like it I got a Steam Deck. Only took me a year or so of contemplating getting one, and trying out HoloISO,...
2nd Jun 2024
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Steam Deck: I like it

from ./techtipsy [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Jun 2024
I got a Steam Deck. Only took me a year or so of contemplating getting one, and trying out HoloISO, the unofficial SteamOS installer finally convinced me to get one.1 It took another year to actually get down to writing down my thoughts on it. This post is written from the...
Hannah and her Sisters I came in with high hopes: I like Allen's ouevre and this was supposed to be one of his best.
2nd Sep 2020
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Hannah and her Sisters

from Applied Cartography [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Sep 2020
I came in with high hopes: I like Allen's ouevre and this was supposed to be one of his best.
My First Million I had a great chat with Sam Parr and Shaan Puri on their podcast, My First Million.
2nd Feb 2025
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My First Million

from Matt Mullenweg [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Feb 2025
I had a great chat with Sam Parr and Shaan Puri on their podcast, My First Million.
Scam alert : mail from IPTI Mail from IPTI This is a physical scam mail alert yeah because we don’t get enough of cyber...
22nd Dec 2016
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Scam alert : mail from IPTI

from Abishek Muthian [alt+shift+b] in technology

22nd Dec 2016
Mail from IPTI This is a physical scam mail alert yeah because we don’t get enough of cyber phishing; right! Those who have filed international patents, keep an eye out for mails such as the above. I received a professional looking mail from IPTI & from what it looks like on the...
Example of a home networking setup with VLANs Updated October 24, 2012, see below. This post is a description of my home network setup based on...
5th Feb 2012
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Example of a home networking setup with VLANs

from Louwrentius - Solar [alt+shift+b] in technology

5th Feb 2012
Updated October 24, 2012, see below. This post is a description of my home network setup based on gigabit ethernet. I did a non-standard trick with VLANs that may also be of interest to other people. I'm going to start with a diagram of the network. Just take a look (click to...
A minimal REST API in Java There's a style of Java that is a joy to write. This post will cover how to set up a basic...
1st Feb 2020
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A minimal REST API in Java

from Notes on software development [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Feb 2020
There's a style of Java that is a joy to write. This post will cover how to set up a basic PostgreSQL-integrated REST API using Jersey and JOOQ in a style not dissimilar to Flask and SQLAlchemy in Python. In particular, we'll try to avoid as much runtime reflection/class-loading...
Mourning the Loss of Cohost The staff running Cohost have announced (archived) that at the end of 2024 Cohost will be shutting...
11th Sep 2024
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Mourning the Loss of Cohost

from Ian's Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

11th Sep 2024
The staff running Cohost have announced (archived) that at the end of 2024 Cohost will be shutting down, with the site going read-only on October 1st 2024. This news was deeply upsetting to receive, as Cohost filled a space left by other social media websites when they stopped...
Food vacation in Japan Me and my friend spent 2 weeks in Japan and had a great time. I wasn’t planning on taking a lot of...
18th Jul 2019
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Food vacation in Japan

from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology

18th Jul 2019
Me and my friend spent 2 weeks in Japan and had a great time. I wasn’t planning on taking a lot of pictures, but I ended up sending a bunch back home as a ways of keeping my family up to date. When I look back most of them are about food… So I’ll turn this into a post about the...
January, 2025 Hello, 2025! (As always, Death Cab remains the soundtrack by which you should read this.)
5th Jan 2025
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January, 2025

from Applied Cartography [alt+shift+b] in technology

5th Jan 2025
Hello, 2025! (As always, Death Cab remains the soundtrack by which you should read this.)
How AI Assistants are Moving the Security Goalposts AI-based assistants or “agents” — autonomous programs that have access to the user’s computer,...
8th Mar 2026
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How AI Assistants are Moving the Security Goalposts

from Krebs on Security [alt+shift+b] in technology

8th Mar 2026
AI-based assistants or “agents” — autonomous programs that have access to the user’s computer, files, online services and can automate virtually any task — are growing in popularity with developers and IT workers. But as so many eyebrow-raising headlines over the past few weeks...
This inexpensive adapter brings Apple Universal Control to vintage Macs In the distant past of about two decades ago, one would need to use a KVM (Keyboard, Video, Mouse)...
4th Aug 2025
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This inexpensive adapter brings Apple Universal Control to vintage Macs

from Arduino Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Aug 2025
In the distant past of about two decades ago, one would need to use a KVM (Keyboard, Video, Mouse) switch to control multiple computers with the same mouse and keyboard — and even then, it would take a button press to move from one to the other. Today, Apple’s Universal Control...
Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end In 2020, Apple released the M1 with a custom GPU. We got to work reverse-engineering the hardware...
26th Aug 2025
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Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end

from Alyssa Rosenzweig [alt+shift+b] in technology

26th Aug 2025
In 2020, Apple released the M1 with a custom GPU. We got to work reverse-engineering the hardware and porting Linux. Today, you can run Linux on a range of M1 and M2 Macs, with almost all hardware working: wireless, audio, and full graphics acceleration. Our story begins in...
Momentum strategies Haven't posted anything in ages, so here's a quick hack I threw together in Python on a Sunday...
3rd Mar 2014
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Momentum strategies

from Home on Erik Bernhardsson [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Mar 2014
Haven't posted anything in ages, so here's a quick hack I threw together in Python on a Sunday night. Basically I wanted to know whether momentum strategies work well for international stock indexes. I spent a bit of time putting together a strategy that buys the stock index if...
Introducing GitButler The development world runs on Git, yet pretty much nobody actually likes using Git. The main reason...
13th Apr 2023
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Introducing GitButler

from Butler's Log [alt+shift+b] in technology

13th Apr 2023
The development world runs on Git, yet pretty much nobody actually likes using Git. The main reason people put up with Git is love for GitHub, but GitHub is where people collaborate, not where people work. GitHub is not local. Nobody has really tried to reinvent the concept of...
My experience with LLM-assisted tools in software development It’s no secret that I was highly skeptical of LLM-s. Cool, there is this new thing that can spit out...
8th Jun 2026
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My experience with LLM-assisted tools in software development

from ./techtipsy [alt+shift+b] in technology

8th Jun 2026
It’s no secret that I was highly skeptical of LLM-s. Cool, there is this new thing that can spit out plausible text and create cheap-looking images and videos, resulting in a lot of low-quality content being shared. It was also a huge disappointment to see a human-written post...
A newer, better, ElevationDock Today we launched an update to our iPhone dock. It's wider to fit a bigger generation of phones,...
1st Jun 2015
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A newer, better, ElevationDock

from Elevation Lab - Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Jun 2015
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...
Every Enemy Wears Your Face The enemy in your head is usually wearing your face. On projection, the villains we invent, and the...
28th May 2026
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Every Enemy Wears Your Face

from Simone Salis [alt+shift+b] in technology

28th May 2026
The enemy in your head is usually wearing your face. On projection, the villains we invent, and the chair we can't see ourselves sitting in.
How I wrote a book using Pollen I wrote an online book using Pollen, a static site generator in Racket. An earlier post contains my...
3rd May 2020
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How I wrote a book using Pollen

from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd May 2020
I wrote an online book using Pollen, a static site generator in Racket. An earlier post contains my first impressions of it, but as the book is now completed I think I can summarize some implementation details in more detail with this post. I really like the markup language and...
Intercepting and modifying Linux system calls with ptrace How software fails is interesting. But real-world errors can be infrequent to manifest....
1st Oct 2023
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Intercepting and modifying Linux system calls with ptrace

from Notes on software development [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Oct 2023
How software fails is interesting. But real-world errors can be infrequent to manifest. Fault injection is a formal-sounding term that just means: trying to explicitly trigger errors in the hopes of discovering bad logic, typically during automated tests. Jepsen and ChaosMonkey...
Google Analytics vs AWStats Comparing Google Analytics with AWStats to find out where they differ and which is better.
19th Aug 2018
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Google Analytics vs AWStats

from Willem's Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

19th Aug 2018
Comparing Google Analytics with AWStats to find out where they differ and which is better.
Developer experience as a competitive advantage I spent a ton of time looking at different software providers, both as a CTO, and as a nerd...
6th Oct 2020
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Developer experience as a competitive advantage

from Home on Erik Bernhardsson [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Oct 2020
I spent a ton of time looking at different software providers, both as a CTO, and as a nerd “advanced” consumer who builds stuff in my spare time. In the last 10 years, there has been an order of magnitude more products that cater directly to developers, through APIs, SDKs, and...
Casady & Greene Remembering Casady & Greene and the excitement (and closing) of an era of Macintosh software...
9th Sep 2024
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Casady & Greene

from Engineers Need Art [alt+shift+b] in technology

9th Sep 2024
Remembering Casady & Greene and the excitement (and closing) of an era of Macintosh software publishing.
Fluid speed issues! Fluid v1.3 is too fast on 3GX iPhones ;( ! I will released a fix tonight !
29th Jun 2009
1

Fluid speed issues!

from Fabien Sanglard [alt+shift+b] in technology

29th Jun 2009
Fluid v1.3 is too fast on 3GX iPhones ;( ! I will released a fix tonight !
SRI & ARC The Dawn of the Information Age
27th Sep 2025
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SRI & ARC

from Abort Retry Fail [alt+shift+b] in technology

27th Sep 2025
The Dawn of the Information Age
Create a Markdown Portfolio with Next.js So you've set out to create a new portfolio for yourself. You start gathering inspiration from...
7th Mar 2023
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Create a Markdown Portfolio with Next.js

from noahbuscher.com [alt+shift+b] in technology

7th Mar 2023
So you've set out to create a new portfolio for yourself. You start gathering inspiration from platforms like Godly and Minimal Gallery, draw some rectangles in Figma, and open your text editor. You pause. There's thousands of ways to build your website, how do you decide which...
Tunneling Elixir cluster network traffic over Wireguard Introduction The other day I was supporting a customer with an Elixir-based platform that would make...
7th Nov 2023
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Tunneling Elixir cluster network traffic over Wireguard

from Louwrentius - Solar [alt+shift+b] in technology

7th Nov 2023
Introduction The other day I was supporting a customer with an Elixir-based platform that would make use of Elixir libcluster, so messages on one host can be passed to other hosts. This can - for example - enable live updates for all users, even if they are not communicating with...
Postmortem of Butt Mover I suffer from chronic lower back pain, Since I don't consume opioids I find exercises 1 to be the...
13th Dec 2022
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Postmortem of Butt Mover

from Abishek Muthian [alt+shift+b] in technology

13th Dec 2022
I suffer from chronic lower back pain, Since I don't consume opioids I find exercises 1 to be the best pain management technique. In addition to the specific exercises for managing back pain, Not sitting for long durations seems to be the key factor for me to not trigger the back...
Momentum and mean reversion might just be volatility bias The Economist just published an article called The best, the worst and the ugly. By looking at...
13th Jan 2013
22

Momentum and mean reversion might just be volatility bias

from Home on Erik Bernhardsson [alt+shift+b] in technology

13th Jan 2013
The Economist just published an article called The best, the worst and the ugly. By looking at historical performance for mutual funds, they find strong support for momentum and mean reversion. Picking the best or the worst fund over the previous five years gives great returns...
Mini-review: David Pogue's Apple: The First 50 Years Apple: The First 50 Years to see if I even wanted to bother with the hardcover. Previously the...
1st Apr 2026
1

Mini-review: David Pogue's Apple: The First 50 Years

from Old Vintage Computing Research [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Apr 2026
Apple: The First 50 Years to see if I even wanted to bother with the hardcover. Previously the essential tome on Apple (and especially Mac) history was Owen Linzmeyer's Apple Confidential, still on my shelf in the well-thumbed 2.0 paperback. I was prepared to find this book...
MUSE in Carré MUSE's legendary rock fused with Amsterdam's Royal Theatre Carré for an unforgettable, electrifying...
22nd Oct 2022
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MUSE in Carré

from Willem's Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

22nd Oct 2022
MUSE's legendary rock fused with Amsterdam's Royal Theatre Carré for an unforgettable, electrifying experience - read about my experience!
More Evidence That Words Don't Mean What We Thought They Meant (Ivanti Sentry Pre-Auth OS Command... Today, Ivanti published an advisory. “No way?” we hear you say. "Yes way!" a random dog screams back...
10th Jun 2026
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10th Jun 2026
Today, Ivanti published an advisory. “No way?” we hear you say. "Yes way!" a random dog screams back at you, across the street. Today’s rare advisory outlines two vulnerabilities in Ivanti’s Sentry product, appealing directly to our inner desire for sophisticated server-side,
Solving the NYTimes Pips puzzle with a constraint solver pre { background: #f4f4f4; border: 1px solid #ddd; border-left: 3px solid #a03; ...
18th Oct 2025
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Solving the NYTimes Pips puzzle with a constraint solver

from Ken Shirriff's blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

18th Oct 2025
pre { background: #f4f4f4; border: 1px solid #ddd; border-left: 3px solid #a03; border-radius: 2px; color: #666; display: block; font-family: monospace; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 1.6em; max-width: 60em; overflow: auto; padding: 1em 1.5em; ...
11th Aug 2023
And 18 very popular NPM Packages are compromised On September 8th, 18 npm packages were compromised with malicious code. These packages are very...
8th Sep 2025
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And 18 very popular NPM Packages are compromised

from Software and Tech stories from an Insider - iDiallo.com [alt+shift+b] in technology

8th Sep 2025
On September 8th, 18 npm packages were compromised with malicious code. These packages are very popular. They receive an average of 2 billion downloads every week. If you are not sure whether you are affected, you can run this grep command on your repository to search for the...
Humanities Crash Course Week 18: 1,001 Nights In week 18 of the humanities crash course, I read five stories from One Thousand and One Nights, a...
4th May 2025
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Humanities Crash Course Week 18: 1,001 Nights

from Jorge Arango [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th May 2025
In week 18 of the humanities crash course, I read five stories from One Thousand and One Nights, a collection of Middle Eastern folktales that have influenced lots of other stories. Keeping with the theme, I also saw one of the most influential movies based on these...
Conkeror I’ve recently switched to Conkeror as my primary browser. It started life as a Firefox extension,...
13th Mar 2008
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Conkeror

from Posts on Made of Bugs [alt+shift+b] in technology

13th Mar 2008
I’ve recently switched to Conkeror as my primary browser. It started life as a Firefox extension, but nowadays it’s a standalone app built on top of Mozilla’s xulrunner, so it uses the Gecko rendering engine. What it is, is an emacs implemented in Javascript, for the web. This...
Norvig's claim that programming competitions correlate negatively with being good on the job I saw a bunch of tweets over the weekend about Peter Norvig claiming there's a negative correlation...
7th Apr 2015
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7th Apr 2015
I saw a bunch of tweets over the weekend about Peter Norvig claiming there's a negative correlation between being good at programming competitions and being good at the job. There were some decent Hacker News comments on it.
WandaVision What to say about this show that isn’t damning with faint praise?
1st Mar 2021
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WandaVision

from Applied Cartography [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Mar 2021
What to say about this show that isn’t damning with faint praise?
from hookswitch to grave Through decades of consolidation, reorganization, and divestiture, AT&T left a famously complicated...
14th Jun 2026
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from hookswitch to grave

from computers are bad [alt+shift+b] in technology

14th Jun 2026
Through decades of consolidation, reorganization, and divestiture, AT&T left a famously complicated corporate history. One of the greatest enterprises in American history, arguably the greatest enterprise, AT&T has often rivaled the federal government in the size of its budget...
Corporate Legibility for Software Engineers Corporate legibility is the art of making tasks, and their outcomes, easier to understand for those...
13th Dec 2022
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Corporate Legibility for Software Engineers

from Matt Blewitt [alt+shift+b] in technology

13th Dec 2022
Corporate legibility is the art of making tasks, and their outcomes, easier to understand for those not directly involved. I’ll help you understand why this is an important thing to be aware of and how to use it to help your career.
Is it worth writing about? You acquire a skill or experience through time and effort, then downplay the impact of writing and...
1st Dec 2022
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Is it worth writing about?

from Notes on software development [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Dec 2022
You acquire a skill or experience through time and effort, then downplay the impact of writing and sharing the learning process. Professionals seem naturally to imagine a high bar for what is worth writing about. I think that's misguided. This article is not criticism of folks...
2026-01-28 As I start teaching the kids programming, I’ve been thinking about how to motivate it to them. They...
29th Jan 2026
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2026-01-28

from Freewheeling Apps [alt+shift+b] in technology

29th Jan 2026
As I start teaching the kids programming, I’ve been thinking about how to motivate it to them. They do a lot of drawing, so that seemed like a potential hook to show how drawing on the computer may make some things easier (erasing, manipulating, repeating) and other things harder...
Discwasher SpikeMaster Meet the Mighty SpikeMaster, Protector of Computers.
1st Feb 2025
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Discwasher SpikeMaster

from Computer Ads from the Past [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Feb 2025
Meet the Mighty SpikeMaster, Protector of Computers.
Teardown of the TM4313 GPS Disciplined Oscillator Introduction What is a GPSDO? The TM4313 GPSDO Power Consumption Inside the TM4313 The TM4313...
9th Jul 2023
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Teardown of the TM4313 GPS Disciplined Oscillator

from Electronics etc… [alt+shift+b] in technology

9th Jul 2023
Introduction What is a GPSDO? The TM4313 GPSDO Power Consumption Inside the TM4313 The TM4313 Schematic Frequency or Phase Lock Loop? OCXO Temperature The Curious Case of the MAX6192 Voltage Reference The Discrete Tuning DAC GPS Module Microcontroller instead of NMEA Serial...
Finding Killer Domain Names Using LLMs A contrarian approach to finding great domain names by leveraging dropped domains and LLMs, instead...
1st Apr 2025
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Finding Killer Domain Names Using LLMs

from Yazin Alirhayim [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Apr 2025
A contrarian approach to finding great domain names by leveraging dropped domains and LLMs, instead of the traditional domain search and negotiation process.
Reflections on Palantir A retrospective of an eight-year stint.
15th Oct 2024
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Reflections on Palantir

from Nabeel S. Qureshi [alt+shift+b] in technology

15th Oct 2024
A retrospective of an eight-year stint.
Protecting VMware ESXi In response to an incident on a server, I detected a possible security breach. The affected machine...
30th Aug 2021
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Protecting VMware ESXi

from Willem L. Middelkoop [alt+shift+b] in technology

30th Aug 2021
In response to an incident on a server, I detected a possible security breach. The affected machine ran VMware ESXi, a bare metal hypervisor used to run virtual private servers. In standalone mode, a web based management console offers full control over the infrastructure, posing...
I see dead people Imagine seeing your dead family members - not just on a picture, but lifelike and in three...
9th Sep 2024
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I see dead people

from Willem L. Middelkoop [alt+shift+b] in technology

9th Sep 2024
Imagine seeing your dead family members - not just on a picture, but lifelike and in three dimensions! You can almost touch them. It hits you differently, I can assure you. I'm still in awe: I just saw my dead grandfather, lifelike and for the first time ever in three dimensions!...
What's the big deal about Deterministic Simulation Testing? Bugs in distributed systems are hard to find, largely because systems interact in chaotic ways. And...
20th Aug 2024
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What's the big deal about Deterministic Simulation Testing?

from Notes on software development [alt+shift+b] in technology

20th Aug 2024
Bugs in distributed systems are hard to find, largely because systems interact in chaotic ways. And even once you've found a bug, it can be anywhere from simple to impossible to reproduce it. It's about as far away as you can get from the ideal test environment: property...
Enjoying the Journey Reflections on training for a marathon and a lesson from my late Uncle Murray
1st Jan 2024
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Enjoying the Journey

from Greater Still by Gaby Goldberg [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Jan 2024
Reflections on training for a marathon and a lesson from my late Uncle Murray
4th Mar 2025
Track Zelda release anniversaries in your calendar The original Legend of Zelda came out 40 years ago today. With other birthdays on the horizon, like...
21st Feb 2026
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Track Zelda release anniversaries in your calendar

from Evan Hahn (dot com) [alt+shift+b] in technology

21st Feb 2026
The original Legend of Zelda came out 40 years ago today. With other birthdays on the horizon, like Twilight Princess’s 20th in November, I wanted a calendar that showed the anniversary of every Zelda game. So I made one. Subscribe to this URL in your calendar...
All clocks are 30 seconds late OK, this is going to sound crazy: I believe all clocks are 30 seconds late. Let's get a few things...
6th Jan 2025
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All clocks are 30 seconds late

from Victor Poughon [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Jan 2025
OK, this is going to sound crazy: I believe all clocks are 30 seconds late. Let's get a few things out of the way: this is neither about time zones, nor leap seconds. It's not about synchronization of clocks, and it's not about relativity or any obscure corner of physics. I'm...
On PBKDF2 iterations There has been a lot of discussion recently around the LastPass breach, especially with regards to...
9th Jan 2023
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On PBKDF2 iterations

from Neil Madden [alt+shift+b] in technology

9th Jan 2023
There has been a lot of discussion recently around the LastPass breach, especially with regards to the number of PBKDF2 iterations applied to the master password to derive the vault encryption key. Other people have already dissected this particular breach, but I want to more...
How Will the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act Affect Housing Supply? Part III This is my third and final essay looking at the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, and how it’s...
4 weeks ago
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How Will the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act Affect Housing Supply? Part III

from Construction Physics [alt+shift+b] in technology

4 weeks ago
This is my third and final essay looking at the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, and how it’s likely to affect housing supply.
Beast of the Green Hell Blog post about an amazing AMG Circuit day at the race track of Zolder, Belgium.
30th May 2017
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Beast of the Green Hell

from Willem's Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

30th May 2017
Blog post about an amazing AMG Circuit day at the race track of Zolder, Belgium.
Building Quarter-Cab - Phase I Lets build a simple virtual pinball controller to bring more immersion to your game.
8th May 2024
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Building Quarter-Cab - Phase I

from Engineers Need Art [alt+shift+b] in technology

8th May 2024
Lets build a simple virtual pinball controller to bring more immersion to your game.
Where is Lee Wittlinger? Lee controls the board of WP Engine. The board is why WP Engine hasn’t done a trademark deal for...
28th Sep 2024
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Where is Lee Wittlinger?

from Matt Mullenweg [alt+shift+b] in technology

28th Sep 2024
Lee controls the board of WP Engine. The board is why WP Engine hasn’t done a trademark deal for their use of the WordPress and WooCommerce trademarks. You hide behind lawyers and corporate PR when you’re wrong, not when you’re right. I’m replying on Twitter, I’m commenting on...
Information and Technological Evolution I spend a lot of time reading about the nature of technological progress, and I’ve found that the...
2nd Apr 2026
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Information and Technological Evolution

from Construction Physics [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Apr 2026
I spend a lot of time reading about the nature of technological progress, and I’ve found that the literature on technology is somewhat uneven.
A practical understanding of lead acid batteries Introduction The goal of this article is to give you a practical understanding Lead Acid batteries....
29th Aug 2021
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A practical understanding of lead acid batteries

from Louwrentius - Solar [alt+shift+b] in technology

29th Aug 2021
Introduction The goal of this article is to give you a practical understanding Lead Acid batteries. We won't address the underlying chemistry, we'll treat them as a black-box and we will discover their characteristics and how to keep them healthy. Disclaimer I'm an amateur. I...
Master of the Senate I’m going to dispense with the usual reverence for Caro — not because I don’t think this book merits...
1st May 2022
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Master of the Senate

from Applied Cartography [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st May 2022
I’m going to dispense with the usual reverence for Caro — not because I don’t think this book merits it, but because I think I’ve covered that enough in my postscripts to Path to Power and Means of Ascent.
Wearing Grand Seiko I am glad I took the opportunity to wear a Grand Seiko, learning first hand about its craftsmanship,...
4th Jun 2021
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Wearing Grand Seiko

from Willem's Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Jun 2021
I am glad I took the opportunity to wear a Grand Seiko, learning first hand about its craftsmanship, innovation and practicality.
Vision Pro My thoughts on using Vision Pro to get some real work done, exploring what Spatial Computing means...
15th Feb 2024
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Vision Pro

from Willem's Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

15th Feb 2024
My thoughts on using Vision Pro to get some real work done, exploring what Spatial Computing means and how it can be useful.
Using GitButler With Multiple GitHub Accounts Working across multiple GitHub accounts can get messy fast. GitButler removes a lot of that friction...
15th Dec 2025
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Using GitButler With Multiple GitHub Accounts

from Butler's Log [alt+shift+b] in technology

15th Dec 2025
Working across multiple GitHub accounts can get messy fast. GitButler removes a lot of that friction with built-in GitHub integration.
Odds and Ends #65: Everything is about everything Plus why Britain can't build things... except for the Lower Thames Crossing, apparently.
1st Apr 2025
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Odds and Ends #65: Everything is about everything

from Odds and Ends of History [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Apr 2025
Plus why Britain can't build things... except for the Lower Thames Crossing, apparently.
A Four-Eyed Update Wow it’s been a while! Almost a month and a half since my last update. There I complained about my...
21st Mar 2011
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A Four-Eyed Update

from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology

21st Mar 2011
Wow it’s been a while! Almost a month and a half since my last update. There I complained about my almost constant headaches which hampered me a lot actually. Luckily now I have joined the rank of cool. I took home three frames I think and tried them out and I settled some I...
Et Tu, Aldi? It was the day that I stopped forever my weekly visit to Kroger. The COVID-19 epidemic was underway,...
5th Nov 2025
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Et Tu, Aldi?

from Open for Business [alt+shift+b] in technology

5th Nov 2025
It was the day that I stopped forever my weekly visit to Kroger. The COVID-19 epidemic was underway, and we were advised to stay away from each other. It was cold, and the forecast was that an ice storm would hit about sundown (made an hour earlier each year for no good reason by...
I'll give up Neovim when you pry it from my cold, dead hands I recently came upon a horror story where a developer was forced to switch editor from Neovim to...
18th Feb 2025
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I'll give up Neovim when you pry it from my cold, dead hands

from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology

18th Feb 2025
I recently came upon a horror story where a developer was forced to switch editor from Neovim to Cursor and I felt I had to write a little to cleanse myself of the disgust I felt. Two different ways of approaching an editor I think that there’s two opposing ways of thinking about...
Create a Hue-compatible DIY LED light sculpture Learn how to create your own Hue compatible LED light sculpture, inspired by by the REFLEKTION art,...
15th Aug 2020
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Create a Hue-compatible DIY LED light sculpture

from Style over Substance [alt+shift+b] in technology

15th Aug 2020
Learn how to create your own Hue compatible LED light sculpture, inspired by by the REFLEKTION art, using cheap LED strips and DIY parts you can order online. The post Create a Hue-compatible DIY LED light sculpture appeared first on Style over Substance.
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...
12th Feb 2024
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FOSDEM 2024: my experience, some notes and tech tips

from ./techtipsy [alt+shift+b] in technology

12th Feb 2024
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...
The Vinland Saga (Season 2) I thought the first season of this anime was good and entertaining but certainly not anything to...
6th Jul 2023
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The Vinland Saga (Season 2)

from Applied Cartography [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Jul 2023
I thought the first season of this anime was good and entertaining but certainly not anything to write home about, a slightly tropey anime with interesting character work and a novel setting. The second season did something that I (to my recollection) have never seen in an anime,...
Why should I accept all cookies? Around 2013, my team and I finally embarked in upgrading our company's internal software to version...
1st Nov 2025
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Why should I accept all cookies?

from Software and Tech stories from an Insider - iDiallo.com [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Nov 2025
Around 2013, my team and I finally embarked in upgrading our company's internal software to version 2.0. We had a large backlog of user complaints that we were finally addressing, with security at the top of the list. The very top of the list was moving away from plain text...
RIP Sonny Rollins Sonny Rollins, the Saxophone Colossus, has passed. He is probably my favorite saxophonist, and while...
27th May 2026
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RIP Sonny Rollins

from Matt Mullenweg [alt+shift+b] in technology

27th May 2026
Sonny Rollins, the Saxophone Colossus, has passed. He is probably my favorite saxophonist, and while the aforementioned album is one of the five I would take to a deserted island, he has so many other good ones like The Cutting Edge which also has bagpipes, or Sonny Side Up with...
Ori and the Blind Forest It is incorrect to describe this game as a melange of celeste and gris because of course this game...
5th May 2023
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Ori and the Blind Forest

from Applied Cartography [alt+shift+b] in technology

5th May 2023
It is incorrect to describe this game as a melange of celeste and gris because of course this game predates both of them. But that is where my mind went — this sort of "emotional platformer" — and this game is terrific, ten hours of beauty and challenge and fun and very sweet...
Choosing an op-amp for your project Just say no to LM741.
3rd Jan 2025
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Choosing an op-amp for your project

from lcamtuf’s thing [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Jan 2025
Just say no to LM741.
Seaside Sweeper keeps beaches pristine Without anyone caring for them, beaches quickly become trash-covered swaths of disappointment. That...
2nd May 2024
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Seaside Sweeper keeps beaches pristine

from Arduino Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd May 2024
Without anyone caring for them, beaches quickly become trash-covered swaths of disappointment. That care is necessary to maintain the beautiful sandy havens that we all want to enjoy, but it requires a lot of labor. A capstone team of students from the University of Colorado...
Driverless Pizzas How self-driving vehicles and algorithms will change cities
21st Apr 2019
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Driverless Pizzas

from Kent de Bruin [alt+shift+b] in technology

21st Apr 2019
How self-driving vehicles and algorithms will change cities
Securing Your GitHub Account Let's talk about some of the simple & practical steps you can take to improve your GitHub account...
11th Mar 2020
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Securing Your GitHub Account

from Ian's Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

11th Mar 2020
Let's talk about some of the simple & practical steps you can take to improve your GitHub account security. There's plenty of good reasons why you should try to keep any online account safe, but I feel that GitHub deserves special attention among developers. With automation...
What I've learned running Linux and Windows off of USB flash drives I’ve recently made an effort to reduce the amount of tech stuff that I own. Lack of space, lack of...
2nd Dec 2024
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What I've learned running Linux and Windows off of USB flash drives

from ./techtipsy [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Dec 2024
I’ve recently made an effort to reduce the amount of tech stuff that I own. Lack of space, lack of time and the guilt of storing perfectly functional hardware unused in a box were the main motivators. This has resulted in experiments with my assortment of USB flash storage that...
4th May 2025
Recycle your old laptop display and turn it into a monitor During a cleaning spree I decided that it was time to recycle two old laptops that were just...
13th Mar 2021
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Recycle your old laptop display and turn it into a monitor

from Louwrentius - Solar [alt+shift+b] in technology

13th Mar 2021
During a cleaning spree I decided that it was time to recycle two old laptops that were just collecting dust on a shelf for many years. Although I didn't have any purpose for them anymore, I realised that the displays were still perfectly fine. This is the display of my old 13"...
Making a photo enlarger more efficient with precisely controlled LEDs In photography, an enlarger is a piece of equipment that projects a smaller image onto a...
2nd Mar 2025
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Making a photo enlarger more efficient with precisely controlled LEDs

from Arduino Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Mar 2025
In photography, an enlarger is a piece of equipment that projects a smaller image onto a photosensitive material below using a strong light source and a negative to produce a much larger print. And while these have historically relied on single-color incandescent bulbs, such as...
2025-03-01 the cold glow of tritium I have been slowly working on a book. Don't get too excited, it is on a very niche topic and I will...
1st Mar 2025
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2025-03-01 the cold glow of tritium

from computers are bad [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Mar 2025
I have been slowly working on a book. Don't get too excited, it is on a very niche topic and I will probably eventually barely finish it and then post it here. But in the mean time, I will recount some stories which are related, but don't quite fit in. Today, we'll learn a bit...
reptyr: Changing a process's controlling terminal reptyr (announced recently on this blog) takes a process that is currently running in one terminal,...
8th Feb 2011
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reptyr: Changing a process's controlling terminal

from Posts on Made of Bugs [alt+shift+b] in technology

8th Feb 2011
reptyr (announced recently on this blog) takes a process that is currently running in one terminal, and transplants it to a new terminal. reptyr comes from a proud family of similar hacks, and works in the same basic way: We use ptrace(2) to attach to a target process and force...
Improve your sleep by blocking light I have been wearing a sleep mask in bed, blocking all light. It has been amazing for my sleep's...
23rd Jan 2020
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Improve your sleep by blocking light

from Willem's Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

23rd Jan 2020
I have been wearing a sleep mask in bed, blocking all light. It has been amazing for my sleep's quality. Read along for my findings!
For-Profit Academic Publishers Love LLM Garbage Springer Nature CEOs say: Hooray for Open Access!!
8th Nov 2024
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For-Profit Academic Publishers Love LLM Garbage

from Never Met a Science [alt+shift+b] in technology

8th Nov 2024
Springer Nature CEOs say: Hooray for Open Access!!
Transactions are a protocol Transactions are not an intrinsic part of a storage system. Any storage system can be made...
20th Apr 2025
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Transactions are a protocol

from Notes on software development [alt+shift+b] in technology

20th Apr 2025
Transactions are not an intrinsic part of a storage system. Any storage system can be made transactional: Redis, S3, the filesystem, etc. Delta Lake and Orleans demonstrated techniques to make S3 (or cloud storage in general) transactional. Epoxy demonstrated techniques to make...
Wikiphilia I've been obsessed with Wikipedia for the past ten years. Occasionally I find some good articles...
2nd Jun 2013
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Wikiphilia

from Home on Erik Bernhardsson [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Jun 2013
I've been obsessed with Wikipedia for the past ten years. Occasionally I find some good articles worth sharing and that's why I created the wikiphilia Twitter handle. Just a long stream of stuff that for one reason or another may be interesting.
The 2030 Census is in Trouble Trump wants to add a citizenship question and ban questions on race
yesterday
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The 2030 Census is in Trouble

from Can We Still Govern? [alt+shift+b] in technology

yesterday
Trump wants to add a citizenship question and ban questions on race
Raspberry pi3 vs iPad2 for personal computing I blew my personal computer and before I could build a new one I needed a temporary machine which...
24th Mar 2017
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Raspberry pi3 vs iPad2 for personal computing

from Abishek Muthian [alt+shift+b] in technology

24th Mar 2017
I blew my personal computer and before I could build a new one I needed a temporary machine which could perform some of my routine tasks like browsing, social network, word processing, programming, gaming, videos, music & ocassional heavy computation. Though I would be needing a...
High quality, low filesize GIFs While the GIF format is a little on the older side, it’s still a really handy format in 2025 for...
2nd Aug 2025
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High quality, low filesize GIFs

from Christian Selig [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Aug 2025
While the GIF format is a little on the older side, it’s still a really handy format in 2025 for sharing short clips where an actual video file might have some compatibility issues. For instance, I find when you just want a short little video on your website, a GIF is still so...
Measuring the HP 11720A Pulse Modulator and Coax Cables Introduction What is a pulse modulator and what are they used for? The HP 11720A Pulse...
6th May 2023
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Measuring the HP 11720A Pulse Modulator and Coax Cables

from Electronics etc… [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th May 2023
Introduction What is a pulse modulator and what are they used for? The HP 11720A Pulse Modulator Inside the HP 11720A Measurement Setup for a Quick Testing Session Pin Modulator Power Measurements with HP 432A Cable Loss Measurements with HP 432A Cable Power Measurements with...
Dig for dummies When you're building websites, apps or email services you may run into domain names and their...
23rd May 2019
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Dig for dummies

from Willem L. Middelkoop [alt+shift+b] in technology

23rd May 2019
When you're building websites, apps or email services you may run into domain names and their configurations. When everything is working as it should, most of this is invisible. But when troubleshooting a domain name configuration, it may be necessary to dig a little deeper......
Why is Git Autocorrect too fast for Formula One drivers? Why does Git's autocorrect wait 0.1s before executing a mistyped command? Let's dig in.
13th Jan 2025
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Why is Git Autocorrect too fast for Formula One drivers?

from GitButler [alt+shift+b] in technology

13th Jan 2025
Why does Git's autocorrect wait 0.1s before executing a mistyped command? Let's dig in.
Train Simulator Controller: Master Controllers and Starwheels I have long played Train Simulator, and have wanted something a bit more realistic to control the...
18th Apr 2023
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Train Simulator Controller: Master Controllers and Starwheels

from Project Blog on Christopher Mitchell, Ph.D. [alt+shift+b] in technology

18th Apr 2023
I have long played Train Simulator, and have wanted something a bit more realistic to control the game. The first part of this log discussed my plans and motivations, and detailed the first steps along the journey: experimenting with connecting a speedometer and AWS...
The day I sold my car This week I sold my car, I now no longer own one. For me, this is something of a change as over the...
12th Feb 2020
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The day I sold my car

from Willem L. Middelkoop [alt+shift+b] in technology

12th Feb 2020
This week I sold my car, I now no longer own one. For me, this is something of a change as over the years I owned various sports cars that were like a hobby to me. My discovery of cycling and the birth of my son changed this. But if you're looking for a reason to buy a sports...
iPad Pro as primary computer The lack of physical clutter, distracting branding, or blinking LED's makes the iPad Pro a textbook...
14th Aug 2016
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iPad Pro as primary computer

from Willem L. Middelkoop [alt+shift+b] in technology

14th Aug 2016
The lack of physical clutter, distracting branding, or blinking LED's makes the iPad Pro a textbook example of minimal design. My despiction of distraction explains my interest in using the iPad Pro as only computer to test if it is up to the task. Is Apple's latest effort on iOS...
Logical replication in Postgres: Basics This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
17th Jan 2025
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Logical replication in Postgres: Basics

from Notes on software development [alt+shift+b] in technology

17th Jan 2025
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megawatts by microwave In 1914 the Department of the Interior, through the Bureau of Reclamation, investigated the...
4th Jul 2026
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megawatts by microwave

from computers are bad [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Jul 2026
In 1914 the Department of the Interior, through the Bureau of Reclamation, investigated the possibilities of developing the Columbia River. Thousands of arid but potentially fertile acres needed only water to become the Imperial Valley of the Northwest. Locked in the mountain...
Jet Black - New Experimental finish ::Update:: - The manufacturing fallout from making these fingerprint-loving docks was too high, even...
6th Oct 2016
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Jet Black - New Experimental finish

from Elevation Lab - Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Oct 2016
::Update:: - The manufacturing fallout from making these fingerprint-loving docks was too high, even after a dozen process revisions, so we're not continuing making these after our second run. Recommend going with the Matte Black finish, it's super beautiful with all color...
A quick visit to Vaajasalo island Vaajasalo is a small island in lake Kallavesi in eastern Finland with population less than hundred....
25th Aug 2023
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A quick visit to Vaajasalo island

from OH8HUB’s Substack [alt+shift+b] in technology

25th Aug 2023
Vaajasalo is a small island in lake Kallavesi in eastern Finland with population less than hundred. There’s also a winery called Alahovi Berry Wine Farm. They produce berry wines, cider, beer and liqueur. The temptation to visit them was huge, but I was on tight schedule. Maybe...
Changephobia Felt...forgettable? I need to spend some more time with it.
1st Jun 2021
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Changephobia

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Jun 2021
Felt...forgettable? I need to spend some more time with it.
Analyzing Link Rot in My Newsletter (After 31 Editions) I've been writing a monthly newsletter for the past 2.5 years. In every edition, I link to...
2nd Sep 2023
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Analyzing Link Rot in My Newsletter (After 31 Editions)

from Simply Explained [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Sep 2023
I've been writing a monthly newsletter for the past 2.5 years. In every edition, I link to interesting articles related to science and technology. I thought it would be interesting to analyze how many of those links are still accessible, and how many have succumbed to link rot....
Balls Here’s my first ever experimental game! The theme was Addictive Gaming. My first thought was oh god...
1st Aug 2009
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Balls

from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Aug 2009
Here’s my first ever experimental game! The theme was Addictive Gaming. My first thought was oh god I’ll be making another tetris clone but the end result turned out a bit different. I’m not sure it’s very addictive but it’s actually okay! =D Balls is a game about… balls. Well...
Logging information from iOS Widgets Lately users have been emailing me with a few odd things happening with their Apollo iOS 14 home...
1st Dec 2020
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Logging information from iOS Widgets

from Christian Selig [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Dec 2020
Lately users have been emailing me with a few odd things happening with their Apollo iOS 14 home screen widgets, and some well-placed logs can really help with identifying what’s going wrong. iOS has a sophisticated built in logging mechanism, os_log, and now with SwiftLogger in...
How old is this newspaper? Guess the year from old newspaper front pages.
29th Dec 2025
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How old is this newspaper?

from Pea Bee [alt+shift+b] in technology

29th Dec 2025
Guess the year from old newspaper front pages.
Inspiration from a child Explore the world together with your kids and reap the rewards of adventure and fun!
29th Sep 2021
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Inspiration from a child

from Willem's Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

29th Sep 2021
Explore the world together with your kids and reap the rewards of adventure and fun!
My issue with GPU-accelerated deep learning I've been spending several hundred bucks renting GPU instances on AWS over the last year. The...
3rd Feb 2016
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My issue with GPU-accelerated deep learning

from Home on Erik Bernhardsson [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Feb 2016
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...
Designing for People The kindest and strongest praise that you can give this book is that it was written in 1955 and...
1st Jan 2023
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Designing for People

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Jan 2023
The kindest and strongest praise that you can give this book is that it was written in 1955 and neither its praxis nor its theory has aged a day. A lot of external praise is directed at its much-ballyhooed prognostication of the future (predicting FaceTime in 1955, that sort of...
Long Term Goals Update During my vacation I suddenly got a bunch of “life crisis” type thoughts in an almost panic inducing...
18th Jul 2016
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Long Term Goals Update

from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology

18th Jul 2016
During my vacation I suddenly got a bunch of “life crisis” type thoughts in an almost panic inducing intensity. They were mostly thoughts about not having accomplished anything and that the future looks bleak and meaningless and it’s not worth to do anything. As usual they are...
Protecting VMware ESXi In response to a possible security breach on a VMware ESXi host machine, I search for a way to...
30th Aug 2021
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Protecting VMware ESXi

from Willem's Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

30th Aug 2021
In response to a possible security breach on a VMware ESXi host machine, I search for a way to improve security of the management console using NGINX and a firewall
Train Simulator Controller: CAN-Connected Air Gauge In my ongoing quest to build a physical cab dashboard to control Train Simulator, an important set...
28th Dec 2023
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Train Simulator Controller: CAN-Connected Air Gauge

from Project Blog on Christopher Mitchell, Ph.D. [alt+shift+b] in technology

28th Dec 2023
In my ongoing quest to build a physical cab dashboard to control Train Simulator, an important set of components are the gauges that tell me what’s going on with the train. I already showed off the internals of an AWS sunflower and early experiments with a speedometer. In this...
Quality vs quantity in the age of AI Over the last four months I’ve increased my use of AI for web dev work pretty dramatically. I use it...
27th Apr 2026
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Quality vs quantity in the age of AI

from Bryan Braun - Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

27th Apr 2026
Over the last four months I’ve increased my use of AI for web dev work pretty dramatically. I use it every day at work, as do most of my coworkers. I don’t think it’s disputed anymore that AI-assisted development can save a lot of time and effort. The question is, what do we do...
SolidGoldMagikarp In November 2019, years before the launch of ChatGPT, OpenAI created a 1.5 billion parameter Large...
28th Oct 2025
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SolidGoldMagikarp

from Bryan Braun - Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

28th Oct 2025
In November 2019, years before the launch of ChatGPT, OpenAI created a 1.5 billion parameter Large Language Model and released it publicly under the name GPT-2. Immediately, researchers and enthusiasts began playing with it, using it to generate poetry, folk music, fan-fiction...
Programming the Convergent WorkSlate's spreadsheet microcassette future In this particular future, we will all use handheld spreadsheets stored on microcassettes, talking...
4th Sep 2024
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Programming the Convergent WorkSlate's spreadsheet microcassette future

from Old Vintage Computing Research [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Sep 2024
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...
Slow Horses (Season 2) Not as great as the first season; still tremendously entertaining television, with more than a few...
7th Jan 2024
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Slow Horses (Season 2)

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

7th Jan 2024
Not as great as the first season; still tremendously entertaining television, with more than a few twists that I couldn't predict and an underlying thread of competence in set design, pacing, and acting that is hard to deny.
Lessons from a takeaway plastic bag How we're tricked into repeated purchases replacing perfectly fine products just for the sake of...
7th Jan 2018
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Lessons from a takeaway plastic bag

from Willem's Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

7th Jan 2018
How we're tricked into repeated purchases replacing perfectly fine products just for the sake of change.
31st Oct 2021
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Crypto Cities

from Vitalik Buterin's website [alt+shift+b] in technology

31st Oct 2021
Introducing AirTag Security Cable We wanted to make a better braided steel AirTag mount - more compact, stronger, really well...
18th Feb 2025
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Introducing AirTag Security Cable

from Elevation Lab - Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

18th Feb 2025
We wanted to make a better braided steel AirTag mount - more compact, stronger, really well made.    So we fired up our Swiss lathe and machined a custom oversized screw that keeps it secure and looks awesome. It is T10 Torx and comes with an included driver.   There is an...
Conformant OpenGL 4.6 on the M1 For years, the M1 has only supported OpenGL 4.1. That changes today – with our release of full...
14th Feb 2024
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Conformant OpenGL 4.6 on the M1

from Alyssa Rosenzweig [alt+shift+b] in technology

14th Feb 2024
For years, the M1 has only supported OpenGL 4.1. That changes today – with our release of full OpenGL® 4.6 and OpenGL® ES 3.2! Install Fedora for the latest M1/M2-series drivers. Already installed? Just dnf upgrade --refresh. Unlike the vendor’s non-conformant 4.1 drivers, our...
Multitasking on ESP32 with Arduino and FreeRTOS By now, it's no secret that the ESP32 is my go-to chip for making IoT devices. They're small,...
6th Jan 2020
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Multitasking on ESP32 with Arduino and FreeRTOS

from Simply Explained [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Jan 2020
By now, it's no secret that the ESP32 is my go-to chip for making IoT devices. They're small, powerful, have a ton of onboard features, and they're relatively easy to program.However, when using it together with Arduino, all your code runs on a single core. That seems a bit...
Notifications with xmonad/irssi/urxvt So I’ve been idling on irc for years now and I’ve been using irssi for that, which works fine. I...
3rd Jul 2014
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Notifications with xmonad/irssi/urxvt

from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Jul 2014
So I’ve been idling on irc for years now and I’ve been using irssi for that, which works fine. I have not had notifications enabled, so I can see from the statusbar whenever someone messages me. As I’ve never been very active this has been fine, but now I figured it’s time to fix...
Fujifilm Instax Wide 300 to Mamiya Press mount mod How I modified an Instax Wide instant camera to mount a Mamiya Press medium format lens The post...
24th May 2020
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Fujifilm Instax Wide 300 to Mamiya Press mount mod

from Style over Substance [alt+shift+b] in technology

24th May 2020
How I modified an Instax Wide instant camera to mount a Mamiya Press medium format lens The post Fujifilm Instax Wide 300 to Mamiya Press mount mod appeared first on Style over Substance.
Interview on Crackberry 2025 Note - Kevin from Crackberry was the first person in the press who covered us! The timeline was...
27th Apr 2010
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Interview on Crackberry

from Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in technology

27th Apr 2010
2025 Note - Kevin from Crackberry was the first person in the press who covered us! The timeline was crazy - I sent him this email and he…
Detecting corporate fraud using Benford's law Note: This is a silly application. Don't take anything seriously. Benford's law describes a...
7th Oct 2014
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Detecting corporate fraud using Benford's law

from Home on Erik Bernhardsson [alt+shift+b] in technology

7th Oct 2014
Note: This is a silly application. Don't take anything seriously. Benford's law describes a phenomenon where numbers in any data series will exhibit patterns in their first digit. For instance, if you took a list of the 1,000 longest rivers of Mongolia, or the average daily...
How WebP Images Reduced My Bandwidth Usage by 50% Last year I migrated this website from Jekyll to Eleventy. This year, I’m finally implementing WebP...
8th Feb 2022
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How WebP Images Reduced My Bandwidth Usage by 50%

from Simply Explained [alt+shift+b] in technology

8th Feb 2022
Last year I migrated this website from Jekyll to Eleventy. This year, I’m finally implementing WebP images to save bandwidth and make this site even faster to load! This simple change reduced my bandwidth usage by 50% and is still backwards compatible with old devices and...
Recent forays into developer productivity I've written before about my posture around LLMs being mostly summarizable as design your systems...
1st Feb 2026
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Recent forays into developer productivity

from Applied Cartography [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Feb 2026
I've written before about my posture around LLMs being mostly summarizable as design your systems and abstractions to accommodate an infinite number of junior engineers.
All About Apache Cassandra: Snapshots The concept of a "Snapshot" In computing, a snapshot is a point-in-time copy of data or state of a...
27th Jul 2019
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All About Apache Cassandra: Snapshots

from Ian's Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

27th Jul 2019
The concept of a "Snapshot" In computing, a snapshot is a point-in-time copy of data or state of a machine. You ever end up doing something like this? Each one of these files is a snapshot, as it's a copy of your essay at the point-in-time when you saved it. Snapshots provide us...
More Efficient/Faster Average Color of Image Skip to the ‘Juicy Code 🧃’ section if you just want the code and don’t care about the preamble of...
2nd Apr 2021
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More Efficient/Faster Average Color of Image

from Christian Selig [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Apr 2021
Skip to the ‘Juicy Code 🧃’ section if you just want the code and don’t care about the preamble of why you might want this! Finding the average color of an image is a nice trick to have in your toolbelt for spicing up views. For instance on iOS, it’s used by Apple to make their...
My attempt at archiving nfscars.net Background My mother once had a laptop: the Compaq Armada 1592DT. It came with Windows ME which...
1st Mar 2021
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My attempt at archiving nfscars.net

from ./techtipsy [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Mar 2021
Background My mother once had a laptop: the Compaq Armada 1592DT. It came with Windows ME which later got “upgraded” to Windows 98 SE after I managed to completely screw up the OS, a whopping 96MB of RAM and a hard drive that probably wasn’t much larger than 1-3GB. It wasn’t...
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...
8th Sep 2017
21

The immediate threat is AR and not AI

from Abishek Muthian [alt+shift+b] in technology

8th Sep 2017
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...
Creating a minimal iPhone stand Today I created a minimal iPhone stand from oak wood. I used a single piece of wood to get it done.
1st Jun 2018
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Creating a minimal iPhone stand

from Willem's Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Jun 2018
Today I created a minimal iPhone stand from oak wood. I used a single piece of wood to get it done.
October 2020 news October 2020 gwern.net newsletter with links on AI scaling, Euclid; further site reorganization &...
1st Nov 2020
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October 2020 news

from Gwern.net Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Nov 2020
October 2020 gwern.net newsletter with links on AI scaling, Euclid; further site reorganization & improvement.
GitButler 0.12 - "Stingy Baker" New GitButler release is out! Undo anything, modify your commits with ease, new AI stuff and more!
3rd Jun 2024
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GitButler 0.12 - "Stingy Baker"

from Butler's Log [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Jun 2024
New GitButler release is out! Undo anything, modify your commits with ease, new AI stuff and more!
AI stirs up the recipe for concrete in MIT study With demand for cement alternatives rising, an MIT team uses machine learning to hunt for new...
2nd Jun 2025
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AI stirs up the recipe for concrete in MIT study

from MIT News - Civil and environmental engineering [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Jun 2025
With demand for cement alternatives rising, an MIT team uses machine learning to hunt for new ingredients across the scientific literature.
Cult Classic I can't find where I wrote this, but I described Crosley's writing persona (having read her other...
8th Nov 2022
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Cult Classic

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

8th Nov 2022
I can't find where I wrote this, but I described Crosley's writing persona (having read her other two books) as that of a friend you run into at a party who fits in perfectly and has the best bon mots and she knows it and needs to make sure you know it, too.
Fearless Rebasing GitButler now supports first class conflicts, which makes rebasing much less annoying. What is...
23rd Oct 2024
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Fearless Rebasing

from GitButler [alt+shift+b] in technology

23rd Oct 2024
GitButler now supports first class conflicts, which makes rebasing much less annoying. What is "fearless rebasing"?
Comics from 1984/04 Creative Computing Mag Sorry for the delay. - JP
22nd Jan 2025
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Comics from 1984/04 Creative Computing Mag

from Computer Ads from the Past [alt+shift+b] in technology

22nd Jan 2025
Sorry for the delay. - JP
Housekeeping for 20240102 Some stats, updates, and whatnot
3rd Jan 2024
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Housekeeping for 20240102

from Abort Retry Fail [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Jan 2024
Some stats, updates, and whatnot
Unbundling and Abundance on the (high) dimensionality of 21st century ideology
13th Mar 2025
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Unbundling and Abundance

from Never Met a Science [alt+shift+b] in technology

13th Mar 2025
on the (high) dimensionality of 21st century ideology
Thinking incrementally about SaaS An overview of the key output of the growth software machine
3rd Apr 2021
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Thinking incrementally about SaaS

from Buck on Software [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Apr 2021
An overview of the key output of the growth software machine
Germany Doxes “UNKN,” Head of RU Ransomware Gangs REvil, GandCrab An elusive hacker who went by the handle “UNKN” and ran the early Russian ransomware groups GandCrab...
6th Apr 2026
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Germany Doxes “UNKN,” Head of RU Ransomware Gangs REvil, GandCrab

from Krebs on Security [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Apr 2026
An elusive hacker who went by the handle “UNKN” and ran the early Russian ransomware groups GandCrab and REvil now has a name and a face. Authorities in Germany say 31-year-old Russian Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin headed both cybercrime gangs and helped carry out at least 130 acts...
Writing an x86 emulator from scratch in JavaScript: 2. system calls Previously in emulator basics: 1. a stack and register machine In this post we'll extend x86e...
20th Jul 2019
27

Writing an x86 emulator from scratch in JavaScript: 2. system calls

from Notes on software development [alt+shift+b] in technology

20th Jul 2019
Previously in emulator basics: 1. a stack and register machine In this post we'll extend x86e to support the exit and write Linux system calls, or syscalls. A syscall is a function handled by the kernel that allows the process to interact with data outside of its memory....
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