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Shop vac becomes a Roomba on steroids A robotic vacuum, such as a Roomba, offers a lot of convenience. Instead of having to vacuum and...
29th Apr 2024
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Shop vac becomes a Roomba on steroids

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

29th Apr 2024
A robotic vacuum, such as a Roomba, offers a lot of convenience. Instead of having to vacuum and sweep your own floors, you have a little maid robot to do the job for you. But these devices have very little power and capacity, which makes them useless for anything other than...
"Sixteenth of a year", a 1.8 KiB art piece As I write this, we’re about 7 sixteenths through 2026, and it’s about 14 sixteenths through the...
3rd Jun 2026
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"Sixteenth of a year", a 1.8 KiB art piece

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

3rd Jun 2026
As I write this, we’re about 7 sixteenths through 2026, and it’s about 14 sixteenths through the day. For the sixteenth issue of the Taper online magazine, I split time into sixteenths to think about its passage in a different way. The code, which had to be under 2048 bytes,...
New trend: extreme hours at AI startups Pulling 80+ hour work weeks – including weekends – is becoming the norm across AI startups, and is...
14th Aug 2025
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New trend: extreme hours at AI startups

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

14th Aug 2025
Pulling 80+ hour work weeks – including weekends – is becoming the norm across AI startups, and is unlikely to stop while AI is so hot.
Search like a pro: Google search operators You probably use the world's most famous search engine to find things everyday, but you might not...
24th Apr 2019
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Search like a pro: Google search operators

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

24th Apr 2019
You probably use the world's most famous search engine to find things everyday, but you might not know about some of its advanced search operators. You can use these special search phrases to find things that are otherwise burried in the search results. Read along for a...
Transparency, the cure to newspaperpreneurs We've all seen it: front page headlines of "visionaries" gazing into the abyss .. every sentence...
2nd May 2015
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Transparency, the cure to newspaperpreneurs

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

2nd May 2015
We've all seen it: front page headlines of "visionaries" gazing into the abyss .. every sentence attesting to the incredible success that he/she's been able to conjure in the face adversity.
An apology We launched an AirTag silencing tool recently. We have always made products we want for ourselves,...
3 weeks ago
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An apology

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

3 weeks ago
We launched an AirTag silencing tool recently. We have always made products we want for ourselves, and this was no different - we wanted it for AirTags on our bikes. (Some of us here have bikes more valuable than our cars.) In retrospect though, this also has the side effect of...
A desktop-sized DIY vending machine for your room Have you ever wanted your very own vending machine? If so, you likely found that they’re expensive...
2nd Jul 2024
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A desktop-sized DIY vending machine for your room

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

2nd Jul 2024
Have you ever wanted your very own vending machine? If so, you likely found that they’re expensive and too bulky to fit in most homes. But now you can experience vending bliss thanks to this miniature vending machine designed by m22pj, which you can craft yourself using an...
Solving Regex Crosswords with Z3 For a while now, I’ve been fascinated by Z3 and by SMT solving more broadly. While on pat leave...
21st Oct 2025
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Solving Regex Crosswords with Z3

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

21st Oct 2025
For a while now, I’ve been fascinated by Z3 and by SMT solving more broadly. While on pat leave recently, I was reminded of the existence of regular-expression crossword puzzles, and allowed myself to get nerdsniped by writing a Z3-backed solver. I expected to spend perhaps an...
2025-10-30 An experiment involving scrollbars Keeping scrollbars easy to acquire even in large...
31st Oct 2025
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2025-10-30

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

31st Oct 2025
An experiment involving scrollbars Keeping scrollbars easy to acquire even in large files. Demo of an idea for a scrollbar with a shadow or "penumbra" which makes it easier to acquire to drag around, even as the conventional and smaller central object continues to be...
Maxell's MF 2-DD Floppies The Gold Standard
1st Dec 2024
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Maxell's MF 2-DD Floppies

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

1st Dec 2024
The Gold Standard
Notes from "On Writing Well" I’ve been trying to improve my writing so I read On Writing Well by William Zinsser. My main...
4th Jan 2026
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Notes from "On Writing Well"

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

4th Jan 2026
I’ve been trying to improve my writing so I read On Writing Well by William Zinsser. My main takeaways: Clear thinking is a prerequisite for clear writing. How do you avoid cluttered writing? “The answer is to clear our heads of clutter. Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one...
Personal Security: erase your computer or phone before repair Computer nerds are self sufficient when it comes to fixing their computer. Non-computer experts have...
4th Nov 2012
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Personal Security: erase your computer or phone before repair

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

4th Nov 2012
Computer nerds are self sufficient when it comes to fixing their computer. Non-computer experts have to find some other person with greater computer knowledge to repair their computer or phone. That person will then be able to access all data stored on their computer or phone. By...
Sometimes stupid product ideas are the best - motivation behind the secret tuna salad recipe I created a digital product out of my family’s favorite tuna salad recipe and in this article I will...
17th Mar 2022
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17th Mar 2022
I created a digital product out of my family’s favorite tuna salad recipe and in this article I will tell you why I thought it was a good idea. I’m a software engineer by trade and I have spent thousands of hours building software products that don’t really earn me money...
Tom Dowdy Tom Dowdy was a software engineer at Apple back in 1995 when I was still writing Macintosh games in...
3rd Apr 2022
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Tom Dowdy

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

3rd Apr 2022
Tom Dowdy was a software engineer at Apple back in 1995 when I was still writing Macintosh games in Lawrence, Kansas.
How I treat my urge to hoard data The tagline for /r/datahoarder reads: “It’s A Digital Disease!”. I agree. At some point I realized...
8th Mar 2022
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How I treat my urge to hoard data

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

8th Mar 2022
The tagline for /r/datahoarder reads: “It’s A Digital Disease!”. I agree. At some point I realized that the pursuit to hoard all the things will just keep on consuming more and more of my time and money. Storage is cheap up until to a point, once you find yourself tracking hard...
snakes.run: rendering 100M pixels a second over ssh snakes.run: rendering 100M pixels a second over ssh snakes.run is a massively multiplayer snake game...
25th Feb 2026
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snakes.run: rendering 100M pixels a second over ssh

from eieio.games [alt+shift+b] in technology

25th Feb 2026
snakes.run: rendering 100M pixels a second over ssh snakes.run is a massively multiplayer snake game that uses the Secure Snake Home (SSH) protocol. It can render 100M pixels a second. ssh snakes.run to play. Read the full post on my blog! Here's a raw link, if you need it: ...
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...
Free software scares normal people I’m the person my friends and family come to for computer-related help. (Maybe you, gentle reader,...
30th Oct 2025
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Free software scares normal people

from Daniel De Laney [alt+shift+b] in technology

30th Oct 2025
I’m the person my friends and family come to for computer-related help. (Maybe you, gentle reader, can relate.) This experience has taught me which computing tasks are frustrating for normal people. Normal people often struggle with converting video. They will need to watch,...
MichTron ProText The Last Word Processor You'll Ever Need
3 days ago
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MichTron ProText

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

3 days ago
The Last Word Processor You'll Ever Need
Accidentally turning the ASRock DeskMini X300 into a semi-passively cooled PC After playing around with fan curves on my ASRock DeskMini X300 based home server, I noticed one...
17th Sep 2022
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17th Sep 2022
After playing around with fan curves on my ASRock DeskMini X300 based home server, I noticed one interesting thing. At least it was interesting to me. Background I had one goal: to try to see if I could turn it into a semi-passive PC by only turning the fan on when the PC was...
Clouds below my floor At my home I have this crazy fast optical internet connection. It is a 600MB up and down fibre...
30th Aug 2017
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Clouds below my floor

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

30th Aug 2017
At my home I have this crazy fast optical internet connection. It is a 600MB up and down fibre connection which directly arrives in my home (no copper cables involved). It's like a private internet highway. Reason enough to find out if I could do something to make better use of...
A Love Letter to Giant Robots Ah, giant robots. I grew up thinking they are the coolest things ever, and I still do. My first...
1st Jun 2024
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A Love Letter to Giant Robots

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

1st Jun 2024
Ah, giant robots. I grew up thinking they are the coolest things ever, and I still do. My first exposure to them was probably through 1994’s BattleTech animated series, where Adam Steiner piloted an AXM-2N Axman, in its frankly ridiculous neon green and purple paint job. And from...
Anything's a portable speaker if you're brave enough I hate buying things that are single-purpose, which is why I ended up with this setup. Take a...
2nd Jan 2023
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Anything's a portable speaker if you're brave enough

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

2nd Jan 2023
I hate buying things that are single-purpose, which is why I ended up with this setup. Take a speaker, a battery, put them together, and what you now have is a portable speaker. Since I had access to both, I felt no need to buy a separate portable speaker for use in social...
Java’s SSLContext protocol name is a footgun This should be old news, but I keep seeing the same mistake crop up, so I thought I’d blog about it...
23rd Jun 2026
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Java’s SSLContext protocol name is a footgun

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

23rd Jun 2026
This should be old news, but I keep seeing the same mistake crop up, so I thought I’d blog about it and spread awareness. In Java, if you want to configure TLS you generally start with an SSLContext. And you get an instance of this class by calling the static method...
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...
FLIP Fluid on Flip Dots [Hardware] Electromechanical Fluid Simulation
24th Sep 2026
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FLIP Fluid on Flip Dots

from latest projects - mitxela.com [alt+shift+b] in technology

24th Sep 2026
[Hardware] Electromechanical Fluid Simulation
Hour 9: Categorizing the content Now that we've cracked the API, we need to save all the content and categorize it.
24th Jun 2025
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Hour 9: Categorizing the content

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

24th Jun 2025
Now that we've cracked the API, we need to save all the content and categorize it.
Google Analytics vs AWStats This month I have been working on website statistics, tracking traffic using different technologies....
19th Aug 2018
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Google Analytics vs AWStats

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

19th Aug 2018
This month I have been working on website statistics, tracking traffic using different technologies. Some of my customers use Google Analytics, others use AWStats, and some use both. Which is better is often debated, but few people really understand the differences. Time to shed...
2025-01-19 Infrastructure for graphical debugging See transcript below. audio/video; 4...
19th Jan 2025
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2025-01-19

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

19th Jan 2025
Infrastructure for graphical debugging See transcript below. audio/video; 4 minutes; 25MB; scroll down for shorter clips Transcript For a while now I've been trying to improve the way I program. I've made some progress. I can edit my programs live, and...
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy a bad book with a good thesis. the author warns you of its incoherence early on, which is a shame...
1st Mar 2020
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How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

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

1st Mar 2020
a bad book with a good thesis. the author warns you of its incoherence early on, which is a shame because there are very good pieces of logos amidst the circumlocution
Omarchy on iMac After helping a family member migrate to a new computer, I found myself with an old iMac. The...
21st Sep 2025
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Omarchy on iMac

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

21st Sep 2025
After helping a family member migrate to a new computer, I found myself with an old iMac. The machine from 2017 was very slow running modern macOS, yet I have a soft spot for these all-in-one computers designed by Jony Ive and his team. Could I install Linux on it to give it a...
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.
Being John Malkovich I had held off on watching Being John Malkovich for a while, mostly because I think I had a pretty...
1st Feb 2025
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Being John Malkovich

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

1st Feb 2025
I had held off on watching Being John Malkovich for a while, mostly because I think I had a pretty good idea of what it was and, while I wanted to watch it at some point, it never felt particularly urgent. (The vision in my head was a sort of Bosch painting filled with John...
Building a professional 72TB NAS This month I installed a professional HPE ProLiant DL380p server in a datacenter in Amsterdam, read...
21st Nov 2019
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Building a professional 72TB NAS

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

21st Nov 2019
This month I installed a professional HPE ProLiant DL380p server in a datacenter in Amsterdam, read this post to see how this was done!
Home office renovation When we moved back to our childhood community and bought a house I had one pretty big requirement: I...
1st Mar 2019
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Home office renovation

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

1st Mar 2019
When we moved back to our childhood community and bought a house I had one pretty big requirement: I had to have a home office as I need to work remote. There simply isn’t any software development work for me here. So the later part of 2018 and early 2019 we’ve renovated an old...
Clickhouse is winning the Observability Wars For roughly the last ten years, a meaningful percentage of my working hours have been spent thinking...
1st Jul 2026
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Clickhouse is winning the Observability Wars

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

1st Jul 2026
For roughly the last ten years, a meaningful percentage of my working hours have been spent thinking about observability. If you're not familiar with the term, "observability" is what we call it now that "monitoring" doesn't sound expensive enough. The actual work
There are 665 open licences, most are pretty rubbish you are in a maze of twisty licences, all alike
19th Sep 2024
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There are 665 open licences, most are pretty rubbish

from csvbase blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

19th Sep 2024
you are in a maze of twisty licences, all alike
Is Datalog a good language for authorization? Datalog is a logic programming language, based on Prolog, which is seeing something of a resurgence...
19th Feb 2022
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Is Datalog a good language for authorization?

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

19th Feb 2022
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...
Tasmota Quad Switch Breakout The Tasmota Quad Switch Breakout is designed to make connecting a custom quad light switch to a...
3rd Oct 2021
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Tasmota Quad Switch Breakout

from Opsbros [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Oct 2021
The Tasmota Quad Switch Breakout is designed to make connecting a custom quad light switch to a Wemos D1 mini running Tasmota super super easy.
Algorithms are breaking how we think Today, Alec Watson posted a video titled “Algorithms are breaking how we think” on his YouTube...
23rd Feb 2025
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Algorithms are breaking how we think

from anderegg.ca [alt+shift+b] in technology

23rd Feb 2025
Today, Alec Watson posted a video titled “Algorithms are breaking how we think” on his YouTube channel, Technology Connections. The whole thing is excellent and very well argued. The main thrust is: people seem increasingly less mindful about the stuff they engage with. Watson...
Pea Bee #8: GT-I5800 Only a few days back, I heard the news that Blackberry has finally died.
14th Jan 2022
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Pea Bee #8: GT-I5800

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

14th Jan 2022
Only a few days back, I heard the news that Blackberry has finally died.
Healthy Holidays It began the way colds always do: a kind of dry, scratchy feeling in the nose, arriving over a...
4th Dec 2025
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Healthy Holidays

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

4th Dec 2025
It began the way colds always do: a kind of dry, scratchy feeling in the nose, arriving over a couple of hours. I suppose there is a psychological essay to be written about it, on the order of Elizabeth Kübler-Ross’s five stages of grief. In both, the first stage is denial. “No,...
Access Ring Discover and invoke UI elements near your cursor, without precise mouse targeting. A Logi Actions...
16th Apr 2026
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Access Ring

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

16th Apr 2026
Discover and invoke UI elements near your cursor, without precise mouse targeting. A Logi Actions SDK plugin for MX Creative Console and Actions Ring. Buttons, checkboxes, menus, tabs, dropdowns: tap to interact with whatever is nearby. The problem with precise clicking Every...
Building a mobile app in 1 day: Thunoob Is it even possible to make an app in just 1 day? Well, let's find out!
1st Dec 2025
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Building a mobile app in 1 day: Thunoob

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

1st Dec 2025
Is it even possible to make an app in just 1 day? Well, let's find out!
Verge interview at CES 2013 2025 Note - probably the last video of me without a beard!
9th Jan 2013
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Verge interview at CES 2013

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

9th Jan 2013
2025 Note - probably the last video of me without a beard!
Rewriting my Neovim config in Lua This screenshot betrays just how much productive time was wasted setting this up. I’ve got tons of...
1st Oct 2023
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Rewriting my Neovim config in Lua

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

1st Oct 2023
This screenshot betrays just how much productive time was wasted setting this up. I’ve got tons of things to do; clean the bathrooms, prototype an idea for a SaaS and ponder world peace. So naturally the procrastination took over and I rewrote my Neovim configuration in...
Escaping LLM piping mess with nifty engineering In this post I’ll walk through how I upgraded a set of tangled Python notebooks—responsible for...
25th Jun 2025
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Escaping LLM piping mess with nifty engineering

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

25th Jun 2025
In this post I’ll walk through how I upgraded a set of tangled Python notebooks—responsible for thousands of LLM calls—into a robust content-adaptation studio powered by: an async FastAPI pipeline, a disk-first Next.js frontend, and a small suite of custom CLI...
One year as a solo dev building open-source data tools without funding This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
10th Jun 2022
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One year as a solo dev building open-source data tools without funding

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

10th Jun 2022
This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
We moved away from the city When me and my girlfriend Veronica moved to Linköping to study at the University the plan was never...
18th Oct 2019
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We moved away from the city

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

18th Oct 2019
When me and my girlfriend Veronica moved to Linköping to study at the University the plan was never to stay there permanently. We just moved there to study but the longterm plan, if you can have one at that stage, was always to move back to the north of Sweden where we came...
Confusion is a muse Some of the most interesting technical blog posts I read come from, and a common reason for posts I...
14th Jun 2024
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Confusion is a muse

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

14th Jun 2024
Some of the most interesting technical blog posts I read come from, and a common reason for posts I write is, confusion. You're at work and you start asking questions that are difficult to answer. You spend a few hours or a day trying to get to the bottom of things. If you ask a...
How I’m using AI tools in early 2025 (members post) What am I actually using these LLMs for at the start of 2025? Quite a bit, actually.
2nd Mar 2025
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How I’m using AI tools in early 2025 (members post)

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Mar 2025
What am I actually using these LLMs for at the start of 2025? Quite a bit, actually.
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...
Finance, Fairer Sharing our investment in Jia, which turns crypto liquidity into working capital for small...
17th May 2023
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Finance, Fairer

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

17th May 2023
Sharing our investment in Jia, which turns crypto liquidity into working capital for small businesses in every corner of the world.
BigBasket slot alert BigBasket is the leading online grocery delivery portal in India, due to the reduced workforce and...
19th Apr 2020
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BigBasket slot alert

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

19th Apr 2020
BigBasket is the leading online grocery delivery portal in India, due to the reduced workforce and extraordinary demand; the bookings happen at random slots and we have no other choice but to keep checking the app regularly. A need gap was posted recently, asking for a solution...
Using WordPress is risky It’s been a couple of weeks since I last wrote about WordPress. Stuff’s been happening in the...
1st Nov 2024
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Using WordPress is risky

from anderegg.ca [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Nov 2024
It’s been a couple of weeks since I last wrote about WordPress. Stuff’s been happening in the background, but I’ve been trying to ignore it. This morning I read a story that bothered me enough to require another round of therapy-by-blog-post. First up, a couple of things that...
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.
Ugly and Slow Progress Ludum Dare is coming along… Slowly. The rust on me is probably so brown it’s nearly black. But I...
25th Aug 2012
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Ugly and Slow Progress

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

25th Aug 2012
Ludum Dare is coming along… Slowly. The rust on me is probably so brown it’s nearly black. But I have an idea and it might be good, all I need to do is execute it. Right? Programmer graphics coming to take you away! Anyway it’s going to be a risk-like game with a twist: you can...
Pattern Recognition It was funny to read 2002-era reviews of this book, which universally bemoaned the "tres hip"-ness...
5th Apr 2023
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Pattern Recognition

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

5th Apr 2023
It was funny to read 2002-era reviews of this book, which universally bemoaned the "tres hip"-ness of Gibson's brand deployments (iBooks! MUJI!) as a flaw that would instantly date its relevance — and nary a mention of how grounded the book was in the September 11th attacks,...
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...
Test suites as classifiers Suppose we have some codebase we’re considering applying some patch to, and which has a robust and...
1st Mar 2020
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Test suites as classifiers

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

1st Mar 2020
Suppose we have some codebase we’re considering applying some patch to, and which has a robust and maintained test suite. Considering the patch, we may ask, is this patch acceptable to apply and deploy. By this we mean to ask if the patch breaks any important functionality,...
Three apps that will not change your life After what has felt like a long winter of habitual reliance on my existing tools, I’m finally...
15th Aug 2025
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Three apps that will not change your life

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

15th Aug 2025
After what has felt like a long winter of habitual reliance on my existing tools, I’m finally playing around with some new ones. This is a healthy habit—so long as you don’t convince yourself that you’re just one more App Store download away from a previously unimaginable level...
2011 in Review It’s time to wrap up the year that’s been. Be warned for slight ego boosting here. 2011 Geek...
4th Jan 2012
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2011 in Review

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

4th Jan 2012
It’s time to wrap up the year that’s been. Be warned for slight ego boosting here. 2011 Geek Achievements Wrote three games this year: My Minions Grand Thief Arto Sat-E Bought a new computer! Bought a mechanical keyboard. Bought custom Starcraft 2 keycaps for the...
Fluent Visitors: revisiting a classic design pattern It’s been a while since I’ve written a pure programming post. I was recently implementing a...
4th Nov 2025
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Fluent Visitors: revisiting a classic design pattern

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

4th Nov 2025
It’s been a while since I’ve written a pure programming post. I was recently implementing a specialist collection class that contained items of a number of different types. I needed to be able to iterate over the collection performing different actions depending on the specific...
2023-04-10 solving problems with chatgpt One of the foundational goals of computer technology, at least as understood by popular culture, is...
10th Apr 2023
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2023-04-10 solving problems with chatgpt

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

10th Apr 2023
One of the foundational goals of computer technology, at least as understood by popular culture, is to automate away our jobs. When your job is (put simply) to get computers to work correctly, there's sort of an irony to this view of things. Still, just within the span of my...
From building ships to shipping builds: how to succeed in making a career switch to software... I have worked with a few software developers who made the switch to this industry in the middle of...
1st Jul 2025
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1st Jul 2025
I have worked with a few software developers who made the switch to this industry in the middle of their careers. A major change like that can be scary and raise a lot of fears and doubts, but I can attest that this can work out well with the right personality traits and a...
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...
3rd Mar 2023
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TOMO M4: probably the coolest power bank I've owned

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

3rd Mar 2023
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...
Ted Lasso (Season 1) Gilbert & Sullivan would have loved Ted Lasso — absurd and friendly and ever, ever obsessed with...
4th Aug 2024
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Ted Lasso (Season 1)

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Aug 2024
Gilbert & Sullivan would have loved Ted Lasso — absurd and friendly and ever, ever obsessed with having its pathos and eating it too. I write this in a period of what I would describe as post-post-backlash: there was a period where America, particularly during COVID, was obsessed...
Servicing a robot vacuum cleaner This week it was time for some maintenance on my iRobot Roomba robot vacuum cleaner. Read along to...
19th Mar 2019
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Servicing a robot vacuum cleaner

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

19th Mar 2019
This week it was time for some maintenance on my iRobot Roomba robot vacuum cleaner. Read along to learn how I did it.
Pragmatically Generating a Self-Signed Certificate and Private Key using OpenSSL Recently I found myself needing to generate a HTTPS Server Certificate and Private Key for an iOS...
17th Jul 2017
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Recently I found myself needing to generate a HTTPS Server Certificate and Private Key for an iOS app using OpenSSL, what surprised me was the total lack of documentation for OpenSSL. While there is plenty of function documentation, what OpenSSL really lacks is examples of how it...
Will AI Pet My Dog for Me? Will AI Pet My Dog for Me? Sometimes I don't want to outsource work - especially when it comes to...
19th Jan 2026
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Will AI Pet My Dog for Me?

from eieio.games [alt+shift+b] in technology

19th Jan 2026
Will AI Pet My Dog for Me? Sometimes I don't want to outsource work - especially when it comes to understanding a system. Where should I draw the line? Read the full post on my blog! Here's a raw link, if you need it: https://eieio.games/blog/will-ai-pet-my-dog-for-me
London Match A satisfying but non-revelatory ending to the trilogy started by Berlin Game and Mexico Set, whose...
6th Mar 2024
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London Match

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Mar 2024
A satisfying but non-revelatory ending to the trilogy started by Berlin Game and Mexico Set, whose lack of true satisfaction in its ending both feels earned (in the sense that one of the main messages of these books has been the lack of clean breaks and endings in the conflicts...
How Much More Must We Bleed? - Citrix NetScaler Memory Disclosure (CitrixBleed 2 CVE-2025-5777) Before you dive into our latest diatribe, indulge us and join us on a journey. Sit in your chair,...
4th Jul 2025
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4th Jul 2025
Before you dive into our latest diatribe, indulge us and join us on a journey. Sit in your chair, stand at your desk, lick your phone screen - close your eyes and imagine a world in which things are great. It’s sunny outside, the birds are chirping, and
Browser caching with Django & Webpack Table of contents What is browser caching and why is it useful? Crude approaches ...
8th Jan 2022
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Browser caching with Django & Webpack

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

8th Jan 2022
Table of contents What is browser caching and why is it useful? Crude approaches Disable all caching! Change the filename/import every time you edit Content hashes in filenames Let Django do it for you ...
Joining Spotify in Sweden Image source Life in Japan All the things that I knew about Japan turned out to be true, as soon as...
22nd May 2020
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Joining Spotify in Sweden

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

22nd May 2020
Image source Life in Japan All the things that I knew about Japan turned out to be true, as soon as I arrived here 8 months ago. Japan is a…
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...
How to help us build open source Pebble software! As you may have heard, last week Google published the source code for PebbleOS. This is a big...
6th Feb 2025
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How to help us build open source Pebble software!

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

6th Feb 2025
As you may have heard, last week Google published the source code for PebbleOS. This is a big deal! Thank you again to Google for this…
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「网络国家」之我见

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

13th Jul 2022
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
2001: A Space Odyssey 50 years ago a movie changed everything. That’s how aptly, the re-release trailer backed by...
6th May 2018
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2001: A Space Odyssey

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

6th May 2018
50 years ago a movie changed everything. That’s how aptly, the re-release trailer backed by Christopher Nolan begins! Watch video on YouTube 2001: A Space Odyssey — Original Theatrical Trailer | Credits: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. It’s safe to say that there’s no other...
Predicting solar eclipses with Python As I am en route to see my first total solar eclipse, I was curious how hard it would be to compute...
7th Apr 2024
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Predicting solar eclipses with Python

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

7th Apr 2024
As I am en route to see my first total solar eclipse, I was curious how hard it would be to compute eclipses in Python. It turns out, ignoring some minor coordinate system head-banging, I was able to get something half-decent working in a couple of hours.
Amazon Basics, but for intellectual property. Amazon has been accused several times for ripping off merchants on its platform. And every single...
6th Jul 2026
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Amazon Basics, but for intellectual property.

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

6th Jul 2026
Amazon has been accused several times for ripping off merchants on its platform. And every single time they denied any wrongdoing. A merchant, or anyone really, can create a product (or source it from China), then resell it on amazon. Amazon is the service provider, and hosts...
RailScan: Museum Track and Wire Scanner I volunteer at a train, trolley, and subway museum, including working on restoration of full-sized...
25th Jun 2026
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RailScan: Museum Track and Wire Scanner

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

25th Jun 2026
I volunteer at a train, trolley, and subway museum, including working on restoration of full-sized rail vehicles and maintaining railway infrastructure. As a non-authoritative, hobby project combining my love of trains, electronics, mapping, and data, I am building a LiDAR...
Implementing MVCC and major SQL transaction isolation levels In this post we'll build a database in 400 lines of code with basic support for five standard SQL...
16th May 2024
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Implementing MVCC and major SQL transaction isolation levels

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

16th May 2024
In this post we'll build a database in 400 lines of code with basic support for five standard SQL transaction levels: Read Uncommitted, Read Committed, Repeatable Read, Snapshot Isolation and Serializable. We'll use multi-version concurrency control (MVCC) and optimistic...
2024-04-05 the life of one earth station Sometimes, when I am feeling down, I read about failed satellite TV (STV) services. Don't we all?...
5th Apr 2024
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2024-04-05 the life of one earth station

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

5th Apr 2024
Sometimes, when I am feeling down, I read about failed satellite TV (STV) services. Don't we all? As a result, I've periodically come across a company called AlphaStar Television Network. PrimeStar may have had a rough life, but AlphaStar barely had one at all: it launched in...
Lenovo ThinkCentre M900 Tiny: how does it fare as a home server? My evenings of absent-minded local auction site scrolling1 paid off: I now own a Lenovo ThinkCentre...
6th Jun 2025
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Lenovo ThinkCentre M900 Tiny: how does it fare as a home server?

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

6th Jun 2025
My evenings of absent-minded local auction site scrolling1 paid off: I now own a Lenovo ThinkCentre M900 Tiny. It’s relatively old, being manufactured in 20162, but it’s tiny and has a lot of useful life left in it. It’s also featured in the TinyMiniMicro series by...
Oops, I accidentally built a Steam Machine I like the Steam Deck. It’s what convinced me that gaming on Linux is actually viable now. But after...
1st Dec 2025
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Oops, I accidentally built a Steam Machine

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

1st Dec 2025
I like the Steam Deck. It’s what convinced me that gaming on Linux is actually viable now. But after playing through games like God of War Ragnarök1, I felt like I needed an upgrade. I love playing with the Steam Deck, but what I love more is playing without having to worry about...
Interior I liked-not-loved this. It was fun and a little bit vibe-y and would happily listen to it again, but...
1st Jul 2022
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Interior

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Jul 2022
I liked-not-loved this. It was fun and a little bit vibe-y and would happily listen to it again, but I would be hard-pressed to recognize it out of a crowd.
Difference of behavior in SATA Solid State Drives Introduction Update: I've noticed some strange behavior of SSDs when benchmarking them with FIO....
28th Jan 2020
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Difference of behavior in SATA Solid State Drives

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

28th Jan 2020
Introduction Update: I've noticed some strange behavior of SSDs when benchmarking them with FIO. After further investigation and additional testing, I've found the reason for the strange patterns in the graphs. The 'strange' test results are due to the fact that they were...
3rd May 2024
How I find time for indie hacking while having a full time job A friend recently asked me: “How do you find time for all your projects while working full time?” “I...
3rd Jun 2022
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How I find time for indie hacking while having a full time job

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

3rd Jun 2022
A friend recently asked me: “How do you find time for all your projects while working full time?” “I don’t, I just complain about not having enough time instead.” But more seriously, I am working on two products, while having a demanding full time job and doing a lot of sports...
MIT engineers whip up a more breathable hydrogel The new aerated material could enable longer-lasting bandages, implants, and wearable sensors.
8th Jul 2026
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MIT engineers whip up a more breathable hydrogel

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

8th Jul 2026
The new aerated material could enable longer-lasting bandages, implants, and wearable sensors.
It’s not just Radio, it’s Meshtastic! My latest interest in microcontrollers has me learning all about Meshtastic mesh radio devices.The...
20th Jan 2026
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It’s not just Radio, it’s Meshtastic!

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in technology

20th Jan 2026
My latest interest in microcontrollers has me learning all about Meshtastic mesh radio devices.The Meshtastic website puts it concisely – “An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices”.A lot to unpack right there but...
Free software scares normal people I’m the person my friends and family come to for computer-related help. (Maybe you, gentle reader,...
30th Oct 2025
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Free software scares normal people

from Daniel De Laney [alt+shift+b] in technology

30th Oct 2025
I’m the person my friends and family come to for computer-related help. (Maybe you, gentle reader, can relate.) This experience has taught me which computing tasks are frustrating for normal people. Normal people often struggle with converting video. They will need to watch,...
Lustre and the risk of Serious Data Loss Personally I have a weakness for big-ass storage. Say 'petabyte' and I'm interested. So I was...
3rd Jul 2010
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Lustre and the risk of Serious Data Loss

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

3rd Jul 2010
Personally I have a weakness for big-ass storage. Say 'petabyte' and I'm interested. So I was thinking about how you would setup a large, scalable storage infrastructure. How should such a thing work? Very simple: you should be able just to add hosts with some bad-ass huge...
The current T-34 keyboard layout I’ve been documenting my own keyboard layout in a series for a while now. But as the layout is...
6th Sep 2022
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The current T-34 keyboard layout

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

6th Sep 2022
I’ve been documenting my own keyboard layout in a series for a while now. But as the layout is constantly changing it’s been difficult to piece together how the layout currently looks like, so this post tries to show how the layout looks right now in it’s entirety. If you want to...
Fortinet FortiGate CVE-2024-23113 - A Super Complex Vulnerability In A Super Secure Appliance In... Today we'd like to share a recent journey into (yet another) SSLVPN appliance vulnerability - a...
14th Oct 2024
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Today we'd like to share a recent journey into (yet another) SSLVPN appliance vulnerability - a Format String vulnerability, unusually, in Fortinet's FortiGate devices. It affected (before patching) all currently-maintained branches, and recently was highlighted by CISA as...
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...
1st Nov 2016
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Are data sets the new server rooms?

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

1st Nov 2016
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...
A 15-minute intro to hobby CNC In which the author tilts at windmills for a brief while.
6th Sep 2024
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A 15-minute intro to hobby CNC

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

6th Sep 2024
In which the author tilts at windmills for a brief while.
Service Objects in Rails Let’s kick off 2016 with a whistle-stop tour of one of my favourite OO approaches, Service Objects,...
7th Feb 2016
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Service Objects in Rails

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

7th Feb 2016
Let’s kick off 2016 with a whistle-stop tour of one of my favourite OO approaches, Service Objects, in the context of Rails.
2025-02-13 I seem to be alternating between working with html and Lua/LÖVE. In the last few days I've been...
13th Feb 2025
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2025-02-13

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

13th Feb 2025
I seem to be alternating between working with html and Lua/LÖVE. In the last few days I've been trying to extract some more timeless tools out of the ad hoc static site I replaced my old Rails website with a couple of years ago. Here's the project. Requires just Lua (any version...
Compiling Handbrake CLI on Debian Lenny In this post I will show you how to compile Handbrake for Debian Lenny. Please note that although...
3rd Aug 2010
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Compiling Handbrake CLI on Debian Lenny

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

3rd Aug 2010
In this post I will show you how to compile Handbrake for Debian Lenny. Please note that although the Handbrake GUI version does compile on Lenny, it crashes with a segmentation fault like this: Gtk: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -5 and height...
Netrunner Lindhska Store Championship Örebro After the awesomeness during the previous store championship, I decided to go to the store...
2nd Apr 2015
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Netrunner Lindhska Store Championship Örebro

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

2nd Apr 2015
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...
How We Configure Our Rails Local CI Continuous integration is a great thing, and having tests and security checks run before every...
9th Jan 2026
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How We Configure Our Rails Local CI

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

9th Jan 2026
Continuous integration is a great thing, and having tests and security checks run before every deploy is also a great thing. But if you’re a developer who has been shipping production code for more than a week, you definitely understand how much it can all feel like a house of...
Commuter bike checkup This week my trustworthy commuter bike started making strange squeaking noises when braking. It has...
9th Jan 2021
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Commuter bike checkup

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

9th Jan 2021
This week my trustworthy commuter bike started making strange squeaking noises when braking. It has been just over three years since I started cycling on it. People frequently ask me how the bike is performing and how the Gates Carbon CDX belt drive is doing? Time to have a look...
Core i7 920 @ 3,6 Ghz is a true beast! Even today, Core 2 Duo processors clocked at 2 ghz are no slugs. However, the Core i7 920 is of a...
4th Mar 2009
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Core i7 920 @ 3,6 Ghz is a true beast!

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

4th Mar 2009
Even today, Core 2 Duo processors clocked at 2 ghz are no slugs. However, the Core i7 920 is of a different kind. First, it is not only clocked at a higher speed (default 2,8 Ghz), it is also a quad-core processor. Thanks to the re- introduction of hyperthreading, this processor...
Intel's Inboard 386/PC Welcome to the 1990s.
15th Oct 2024
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Intel's Inboard 386/PC

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

15th Oct 2024
Welcome to the 1990s.
Cyber Forensic Expert in 2,000+ Cases Faces FBI Probe A Minnesota cybersecurity and computer forensics expert whose testimony has featured in thousands of...
3rd Mar 2025
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Cyber Forensic Expert in 2,000+ Cases Faces FBI Probe

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

3rd Mar 2025
A Minnesota cybersecurity and computer forensics expert whose testimony has featured in thousands of courtroom trials over the past 30 years is facing questions about his credentials and an inquiry from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Legal experts say the inquiry...
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...
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...
Annoy 1.10 released, with Hamming distance and Windows support I've been a bit bad at posting things with a regular cadence lately, partly because I'm trying to...
26th Nov 2017
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Annoy 1.10 released, with Hamming distance and Windows support

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

26th Nov 2017
I've been a bit bad at posting things with a regular cadence lately, partly because I'm trying to adjust to having a toddler, partly because the hunt for clicks has caused such a high bar for me that I feel like I have to post something Pulitzer-worthy.
Introducing TagVault Strap Compact for AirTag We wanted a strap mount that was secure, rugged, ultra-compact, and super easier to assemble. So we...
12th Mar 2025
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Introducing TagVault Strap Compact for AirTag

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

12th Mar 2025
We wanted a strap mount that was secure, rugged, ultra-compact, and super easier to assemble. So we designed TagVault Strap Compact. Fully waterproof with a hidden inner gasket.   It's ultra low-profile.   Perfect for backpacks.   Also really great for cameras.   Also available...
Breakneck I, like so many other people in the Tyler Cowen / Stripe Press extended universe, have deeply...
1st Nov 2025
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Breakneck

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Nov 2025
I, like so many other people in the Tyler Cowen / Stripe Press extended universe, have deeply enjoyed Dan Wang's annual letters over the past years. And I was delighted to see that he returned to writing in the form of a long-form book, largely about the same subject. In writing...
Done this, done that. What now? Finished and uploaded our java game Grand Thief Arto, done an exam (didn’t quite go as intended) and...
5th Nov 2011
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Done this, done that. What now?

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

5th Nov 2011
Finished and uploaded our java game Grand Thief Arto, done an exam (didn’t quite go as intended) and starting some new courses in school. I’m liking my choice of Computer Science more and more. Data structures and Algorithms was a super fun course, I actually ordered a new book...
Traction Heroes Ep. 33: Perceptions Here’s a tricky situation: you start reading someone through a negative lens, which changes how you...
6th Apr 2026
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Traction Heroes Ep. 33: Perceptions

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

6th Apr 2026
Here’s a tricky situation: you start reading someone through a negative lens, which changes how you interact with them. They respond in kind, which seems to confirm your negative views. Cue vicious cycle. In any situation, you are both observer and participant, whether you...
A Go/C Polyglot Writing a Go/C polyglot Someone on a Slack I’m on recently raised the question of how you might...
5th Sep 2019
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A Go/C Polyglot

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

5th Sep 2019
Writing a Go/C polyglot Someone on a Slack I’m on recently raised the question of how you might write a source file that’s both valid C and Go, commenting that it wasn’t immediately obvious if this was even possible. I got nerdsniped, and succeeded in producing one, which you can...
How to change visibility in massive GitHub organizations like EpicGames? How to publicize and un-publicize your visibility in massive GitHub orgs?
23rd Oct 2021
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How to change visibility in massive GitHub organizations like EpicGames?

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

23rd Oct 2021
How to publicize and un-publicize your visibility in massive GitHub orgs?
Keep : A personal shell command keeper A Meta CLI toolkit Writwick Wraj loves using the command line. Writwick googles “How to do X in...
23rd Feb 2017
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Keep : A personal shell command keeper

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

23rd Feb 2017
A Meta CLI toolkit Writwick Wraj loves using the command line. Writwick googles “How to do X in terminal?” and multiple forums and blog…
Thou shalt follow these Vintage Computing Commandments Thou shalt check voltage and polarity on new-to-thee power supplies, or thy machines shall be smote...
3rd Feb 2024
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Thou shalt follow these Vintage Computing Commandments

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

3rd Feb 2024
Thou shalt check voltage and polarity on new-to-thee power supplies, or thy machines shall be smote and release smoke. This is sometimes very hard to judge without a load, but they should be somewhere in the ballpark, verily, and you should get in the habit of checking any new...
The grief when AI writes most of the code When AI writes almost all code, what happens to software engineering? There is grief involved for us...
7th Jan 2026
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The grief when AI writes most of the code

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

7th Jan 2026
When AI writes almost all code, what happens to software engineering? There is grief involved for us developers, that's for sure.
25th Sep 2022
I held a talk about my self-hosting adventure! There are two reasons why I haven’t written much lately, and one of them is that I was cooking up...
26th May 2023
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I held a talk about my self-hosting adventure!

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

26th May 2023
There are two reasons why I haven’t written much lately, and one of them is that I was cooking up a talk about self-hosting, more specifically my own self-hosting adventure (the other one is the Steam Deck, more about that in the future). The talk took place on May 25th 2023 at...
My first netrunner store championship My girlfriend has told me I get these narrow interests where I pour all my energy and thoughts into...
24th Feb 2015
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My first netrunner store championship

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

24th Feb 2015
My girlfriend has told me I get these narrow interests where I pour all my energy and thoughts into and about 1,5 months ago I discovered Netrunner, a very awesome card game. Check out this how to play or team covenant’s channel if you want to know more. So this Sunday I went to...
Best of Enemies Last year, I watched The War Room, the documentary following Bill Clinton's first campaign — a film...
1st Aug 2026
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Best of Enemies

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

1st Aug 2026
Last year, I watched The War Room, the documentary following Bill Clinton's first campaign — a film I am remiss for having never written about, because it was captivating, satisfying, and illuminating. And whether for good reasons or bad, it punctured most of my belief that the...
The Caldera: a sleek split and wireless keyboard I designed my own keyboard and it’s freely available! I’m calling it the Caldera, and it’s basically...
20th Jul 2024
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The Caldera: a sleek split and wireless keyboard

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

20th Jul 2024
I designed my own keyboard and it’s freely available! I’m calling it the Caldera, and it’s basically my dream wireless split keyboard. I’ve been using it for months, and I love it. Video overview If you’re a visual person, I made a fun little video showcasing the...
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...
ode to libraries (the book ones) Most of the audience reading this post think of some random new programming tool dropped recently...
25th Sep 2025
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ode to libraries (the book ones)

from sibervepunk [alt+shift+b] in technology

25th Sep 2025
Most of the audience reading this post think of some random new programming tool dropped recently when the word library comes up. Let’s leave our déformation professionnelle in the door and think about the libraries. Book ones. This post is an ode to them. I am not sure if...
Get notification when a new device connects to OpenWRT When a new device is connects to my OpenWRT router, I get a notification on Gotify. This serves as a...
12th Dec 2024
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Get notification when a new device connects to OpenWRT

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

12th Dec 2024
When a new device is connects to my OpenWRT router, I get a notification on Gotify. This serves as a good low-key intrusion detection along with my earlier OpenWRT login alerts. Heavy lifting was already done by Brandon McFarlin, I had to just modify the code to send messages to...
The first good Raspberry Pi Laptop Ever since the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 was introduced, I wondered why nobody built a decent...
6th Feb 2026
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The first good Raspberry Pi Laptop

from Jeff Geerling [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Feb 2026
Ever since the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 was introduced, I wondered why nobody built a decent laptop chassis around it. You could swap out a low spec CM5 for a higher spec, and get an instant computer upgrade. Or, assuming a CM6 comes out someday in the same form factor,...
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...
Turbine Transport Transformer [Concept] Transforming turbine transport
19th Jun 2025
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Turbine Transport Transformer

from latest projects - mitxela.com [alt+shift+b] in technology

19th Jun 2025
[Concept] Transforming turbine transport
Machines building machines Yesterday, a group of MIT researchers released an article titled “Sparks of Weight-Space...
12 hours ago
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Machines building machines

from anderegg.ca [alt+shift+b] in technology

12 hours ago
Yesterday, a group of MIT researchers released an article titled “Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights”. The piece describes a set of experiments which convincingly show OpenAI’s latest Astra model is able to understand and...
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”....
23rd Sep 2020
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Mortality statistics and Sweden's "dry tinder" effect

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

23rd Sep 2020
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.
A Tektronix TDS 684B Oscilloscope Uses CCD Analog Memory Introduction The TDS600 Series The Acquisition Board Measuring Along the Signal Path A Closer Look...
4th May 2025
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A Tektronix TDS 684B Oscilloscope Uses CCD Analog Memory

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

4th May 2025
Introduction The TDS600 Series The Acquisition Board Measuring Along the Signal Path A Closer Look at the Noise Issue Conclusion Introduction I have a Tektronix TDS 684B oscilloscope that I bought cheaply at an auction. It has 4 channels, 1 GHz of BW and a sample rate of 5...
Apple GPU drivers now in Asahi Linux We’re excited to announce our first Apple GPU driver release! We’ve been working hard over the past...
7th Dec 2022
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Apple GPU drivers now in Asahi Linux

from On Life and Lisp [alt+shift+b] in technology

7th Dec 2022
We’re excited to announce our first Apple GPU driver release! We’ve been working hard over the past two years to bring this new driver to everyone, and we’re really proud to finally be here. This is still an alpha driver, but it’s already good enough to run a smooth desktop...
3D-printable Raleno 104 lightbox adapter for camera film scanning My latest creation is a 3D-printed adapter for the Raleno PLV-S104 (Raleno 104) light. The model...
11th Jul 2021
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3D-printable Raleno 104 lightbox adapter for camera film scanning

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

11th Jul 2021
My latest creation is a 3D-printed adapter for the Raleno PLV-S104 (Raleno 104) light. The model turns it into a lightbox that you can use for digital camera scanning of your negative film. It also contains a holder compatible with the Valoi 35mm/120 film carriers. Additionally,...
SEO Is Dead In the first week of April I did the SEO job I had put off for years: new landing pages and...
18th Apr 2026
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SEO Is Dead

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

18th Apr 2026
In the first week of April I did the SEO job I had put off for years: new landing pages and thousands of cross-links, on willem.com and on two customer sites, generated through the new API of my platform. It works, and well, I wrote on 4 April. Two weeks later I looked at what it...
Startup School - How to talk to users 2025 Note - I based this off the Mom Test , written by a fellow YC founder. Interestingly enough -...
25th Jul 2019
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Startup School - How to talk to users

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

25th Jul 2019
2025 Note - I based this off the Mom Test , written by a fellow YC founder. Interestingly enough - if you look at the products I build…
Traction Heroes Ep. 48: Visions Harry threw me off course in episode 48 of Traction Heroes. At first, I thought was reading from a...
22 hours ago
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Traction Heroes Ep. 48: Visions

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

22 hours ago
Harry threw me off course in episode 48 of Traction Heroes. At first, I thought was reading from a book about mind mapping. Soon, it became clear it was about something else: how to define a clear vision for a team or organization. Visions are notoriously hard to articulate....
How optimistic or pessimistic are the Kurzgesagt videos? A sentiment analysis on the last 20 videos of Kurzgesagt.
2nd Jul 2023
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How optimistic or pessimistic are the Kurzgesagt videos?

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

2nd Jul 2023
A sentiment analysis on the last 20 videos of Kurzgesagt.
Is This A Joke? In The Auth Header? (F5 BIG-IP UnAuth Heap-Overflow to RCE CVE-2026-94127) Well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well. We're...
23rd Sep 2026
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23rd Sep 2026
Well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well. We're back. Sorry. We've been watching the onslaught of vulnerabilities flood the internet. Every man, dog, and their grandmas (apparently?) are now using LLMs to find and reproduce...
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...
Announcing Weave, a native iOS app for Typefully I'm happy to announce the release of my new app, Weave. As is often the case with my apps, I built...
2nd Mar 2026
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Announcing Weave, a native iOS app for Typefully

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Mar 2026
I'm happy to announce the release of my new app, Weave. As is often the case with my apps, I built this one for myself and then decided it was worth sharing with the world. Weave is a native iPhone and iPad app for Typefully users. For those
Software Engineers and Automation Every once in a while when talking to smart people the topic of automation comes up. Technology has...
16th Aug 2015
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Software Engineers and Automation

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

16th Aug 2015
Every once in a while when talking to smart people the topic of automation comes up. Technology has made lots of occupations redundant, so what's next? Switchboard operator, a long time ago What about software engineers?
Every Perceptually Uniform Color Map as a CSS Gradient div.gradient { width: 650px; height: 60px; border-radius: 3px; margin-bottom: 10px; ...
29th Apr 2025
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Every Perceptually Uniform Color Map as a CSS Gradient

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

29th Apr 2025
div.gradient { width: 650px; height: 60px; border-radius: 3px; margin-bottom: 10px; box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px rgb(0, 0, 0, 0.5); margin: 0 auto; } pre { max-width: 600px; } Colormaps are functions that map from [0, 1] to colors. I love colormaps! Maybe a...
Why the OAuth mTLS spec is more interesting than you might think I was catching up on the always excellent Security. Cryptography. Whatever. podcast, and enjoyed the...
20th Jan 2022
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Why the OAuth mTLS spec is more interesting than you might think

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

20th Jan 2022
I was catching up on the always excellent Security. Cryptography. Whatever. podcast, and enjoyed the episode with Colm MacCárthaigh about a bunch of topics around TLS. It’s a great episode that touches a lot of subjects I’m interested in, so go ahead and listen to it if you...
Buienwatch, a custom Home Assistant integration for Buienradar and Buienalarm graphs on your Apple... Back in 2021, I wired up data from Buienalarm and Buienradar through Node-RED and a big pile of...
16th Sep 2026
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16th Sep 2026
Back in 2021, I wired up data from Buienalarm and Buienradar through Node-RED and a big pile of Jinja2 templates to get a rain forecast graph on my Apple Watch: eight Unicode block characters showing the next two hours in 15-minute chunks, glanceable without unlocking the phone....
How I Built an NFC Movie Library for my Kids When I was a kid, my sister and I had a tower of VHS tapes we watched endlessly. Fast-forward to...
14th Nov 2023
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How I Built an NFC Movie Library for my Kids

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

14th Nov 2023
When I was a kid, my sister and I had a tower of VHS tapes we watched endlessly. Fast-forward to today, and my children's movie collection is vastly different. It's completely digital and dispersed across services. I wanted to recreate the tangible magic of my childhood for them.
Design for Testability When designing a new software project, one is often faced with a glut of choices about how to...
6th Mar 2016
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Design for Testability

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

6th Mar 2016
When designing a new software project, one is often faced with a glut of choices about how to structure it. What should the core abstractions be? How should they interact with each other? In this post, I want to argue for a design heuristic that I’ve found to be a useful guide to...
Embodiment Since I was small, I’d lived my life through screens, one way or another. For the last...
15th May 2025
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Embodiment

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

15th May 2025
Since I was small, I’d lived my life through screens, one way or another. For the last quarter-century or so, I had been piloting the machine of flesh and sinew to keep my mind going, rarely engaging with the machine itself. This was a mistake.
App Clip Local Experiences have consumed my day Okay, I have to be doing something astronomically stupid, right? This should be working? I’m playing...
8th Sep 2025
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App Clip Local Experiences have consumed my day

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

8th Sep 2025
Okay, I have to be doing something astronomically stupid, right? This should be working? I’m playing around with an App Clip and want to just run it on the device as a test, but no matter how I set things up nothing ever works. If you see what I’m doing wrong let me know and I’ll...
Refurb weekend: Atari Stacy Ask any Atari Stacy owner how to open an Atari Stacy and the answer is always "never, if you can...
5th Jan 2025
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Refurb weekend: Atari Stacy

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

5th Jan 2025
Ask any Atari Stacy owner how to open an Atari Stacy and the answer is always "never, if you can avoid it." So I'll just lead with this spoiler image after the refurb to prove this particular escapade didn't completely end in tragedy: see the much lighter and streamlined STBook...
Is storage really that cheap? Nowadays you can buy a 1 TB harddrive for less than 100 euro's . So I build myself a 4 TB NAS box,...
5th Oct 2008
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Is storage really that cheap?

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

5th Oct 2008
Nowadays you can buy a 1 TB harddrive for less than 100 euro's . So I build myself a 4 TB NAS box, which is already 50% full. However, although it is to some degree fault-tollerant by using RAID 6, one mistake or catastrophic hardware faillure and all data is lost. And that's...
Inside the mechanical Bendix Air Data Computer, part 3: pressure transducers MathJax = { tex: { inlineMath: [['$', '$'], ['\\(', '\\)']] }, svg: { fontCache:...
16th Jan 2024
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Inside the mechanical Bendix Air Data Computer, part 3: pressure transducers

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

16th Jan 2024
MathJax = { tex: { inlineMath: [['$', '$'], ['\\(', '\\)']] }, svg: { fontCache: 'global' }, chtml: { displayAlign: 'left' } }; MathJax.Hub.Config({ "HTML-CSS": { scale: 175} }); .MathJax {font-size: 1em !important} The Bendix Central Air...
I tried out the CyberPower UT650EG UPS After some spicy feedback to my post where a ThinkPad T430 acted as a server, I decided to try out...
4th Aug 2022
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I tried out the CyberPower UT650EG UPS

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

4th Aug 2022
After some spicy feedback to my post where a ThinkPad T430 acted as a server, I decided to try out one UPS that was recommended on the basis of it being much more power efficient compared to the APC UPS that I previously ran. That UPS? CyberPower UT650EG. Why switch out a...
Puzzling out climate change Accenture Fellow Shreyaa Raghavan applies machine learning and optimization methods to explore ways...
10th Feb 2025
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Puzzling out climate change

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

10th Feb 2025
Accenture Fellow Shreyaa Raghavan applies machine learning and optimization methods to explore ways to reduce transportation sector emissions.
Wealth distribution in the United States Forbes recently published the Forbes 400 List for 2024, listing the 400 richest people in the United...
9th Oct 2024
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Wealth distribution in the United States

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

9th Oct 2024
Forbes recently published the Forbes 400 List for 2024, listing the 400 richest people in the United States. This inspired me to make a histogram to show the distribution of wealth in the United States. It turns out that if you put Elon Musk on the graph, almost the entire US...
On AI In 2019, I started watching Andreas Kling's programming videos, many of which were live-coding...
23rd Jul 2026
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On AI

from joshua stein [alt+shift+b] in technology

23rd Jul 2026
In 2019, I started watching Andreas Kling's programming videos, many of which were live-coding sessions writing his new operating system Serenity OS. He was always pretty fast at writing code, especially since his IDE, Qt Creator, had knowledge of all his C++ code and...
Two weeks of parenthood We've had lucy for two weeks, which qualifies us as experts, which means it is time to write about...
6th Oct 2024
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Two weeks of parenthood

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Oct 2024
We've had lucy for two weeks, which qualifies us as experts, which means it is time to write about parenthood. (In all seriousness, consider the below descriptive and not prescriptive: mostly, it's a notepad filled with things that were remarkable or surprising or divergent from...
Maths is Fun and Useful but Lasers Are More So Way back when, I made a cool but basic paper sculpture (in Maths is Fun and Useful) by hand, using a...
11th Aug 2017
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Maths is Fun and Useful but Lasers Are More So

from axio.ms [alt+shift+b] in technology

11th Aug 2017
Way back when, I made a cool but basic paper sculpture (in Maths is Fun and Useful) by hand, using a perl script for the shape template. For cultural reasons, I wanted to make a gift out of paper and it had to be Heaps Good. I had finally got access to a laser cutter (omgomg)...
Taxonomist I’m really excited to introduce a project I worked on with various AI agents the other night, which...
2nd Apr 2026
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Taxonomist

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

2nd Apr 2026
I’m really excited to introduce a project I worked on with various AI agents the other night, which I think represents a new way we might build things in the future. First, the problem: My WordPress site has 5,600+ posts going back decades, and I had some categories that were old...
Web Push Pitfall Web Push Pitfall Posted on March 30, 2023 This post is from a legacy version of this blog! No...
30th Mar 2023
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Web Push Pitfall

from videah.net [alt+shift+b] in technology

30th Mar 2023
Web Push Pitfall Posted on March 30, 2023 This post is from a legacy version of this blog! No changes have been made to the content in the migration, so things might read weird. Whilst implementing Web Push notifications for my toy Q&A service curiouswolf I ran into an issue...
Varieties of Disturbance My review of Break it Down, a much earlier entry in Lydia Davis' ouevre, last year was a bit of...
1st Mar 2023
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Varieties of Disturbance

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

1st Mar 2023
My review of Break it Down, a much earlier entry in Lydia Davis' ouevre, last year was a bit of damning with faint praise:
Hello, stranger While enjoying my fresh wok lunch in Amsterdam, I noticed something odd: other folks coming in for...
12th Oct 2023
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Hello, stranger

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

12th Oct 2023
While enjoying my fresh wok lunch in Amsterdam, I noticed something odd: other folks coming in for something to eat ignored the person standing at the counter, preferring to order through a digital kiosk. The crazy thing about this? They are just centimetres apart! In fact, they...
FFmpeg performance on a Core i7 920 @ 3.6 Ghz The system i'm running is a Core i7 920 @ 3.6 Ghz. I am transcoding a DVD (Grave Of The Fire Flies)...
22nd Apr 2009
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FFmpeg performance on a Core i7 920 @ 3.6 Ghz

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

22nd Apr 2009
The system i'm running is a Core i7 920 @ 3.6 Ghz. I am transcoding a DVD (Grave Of The Fire Flies) to iPod format (640x480 x264). Thread support is enabled, to FFmpeg uses about 250% CPU. That's 2.5 of the 4 cores available. If possible, I would have liked to see it use all four...
I went on an Amazon propaganda tour In which I'm forced to confront a contradictions in my values
1st Jul 2026
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I went on an Amazon propaganda tour

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

1st Jul 2026
In which I'm forced to confront a contradictions in my values
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.
Software engineering with LLMs in 2025: temperature check How are devs using AI tools at Big Tech and startups, and what do they actually think of them? This...
5th Jul 2025
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Software engineering with LLMs in 2025: temperature check

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

5th Jul 2025
How are devs using AI tools at Big Tech and startups, and what do they actually think of them? This was the topic of my annual conference talk, in June 2025, in London, at LDX3 by LeadDev. At LDX3 by LeadDev To research, I talked with devs at: AI
Spring, 2025 Hello! I have so much to catch up with you about. The time has flown.
1st Jun 2025
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Spring, 2025

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

1st Jun 2025
Hello! I have so much to catch up with you about. The time has flown.
Moving private repositories to Bitbucket Long overdue, I recently moved my private repositories from Github to Bitbucket. Github is great of...
10th Oct 2012
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Moving private repositories to Bitbucket

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

10th Oct 2012
Long overdue, I recently moved my private repositories from Github to Bitbucket. Github is great of courseand they even gave me a free students account and I still host all my public repositories there. Still, Bitbucket has unlimited free private repositories for up to 5 users...
May, 2026 There are two mental models about work and fatigue which, like my brief dalliance with Roshe Runs, I...
1st Jun 2026
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May, 2026

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

1st Jun 2026
There are two mental models about work and fatigue which, like my brief dalliance with Roshe Runs, I have loved and outgrown:
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...
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...
24th Mar 2024
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Recreating Apple's beautiful visionOS search bar

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

24th Mar 2024
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...
Notes from April Welcome to spring, bona fide and humid. Lots of writing this month:
1st May 2024
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Notes from April

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

1st May 2024
Welcome to spring, bona fide and humid. Lots of writing this month:
What MongoDB got Right MongoDB is perhaps the most-widely-mocked piece of software out there right now. While some of the...
1st Nov 2015
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What MongoDB got Right

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

1st Nov 2015
MongoDB is perhaps the most-widely-mocked piece of software out there right now. While some of the mockery is out-of-date or rooted in misunderstandings, much of it is well-deserved, and it’s difficult to disagree that much of MongoDB’s engineering is incredibly simplistic,...
Understanding zero-knowledge proofs What are zero-knowledge proofs, really?
24th Jul 2022
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Understanding zero-knowledge proofs

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

24th Jul 2022
What are zero-knowledge proofs, really?
Simple Screw Counter [Misc] Laser-cut dispensers of nuts and bolts
28th Feb 2026
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Simple Screw Counter

from latest projects - mitxela.com [alt+shift+b] in technology

28th Feb 2026
[Misc] Laser-cut dispensers of nuts and bolts
How to build your own Goodman ZONE camera, part 2 The Goodman ZONE is a medium-format 3D-printed film camera designed by Dora Goodman as part of her...
21st Feb 2020
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How to build your own Goodman ZONE camera, part 2

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

21st Feb 2020
The Goodman ZONE is a medium-format 3D-printed film camera designed by Dora Goodman as part of her range of open-source camera models, using the existing Mamiya Press lens series for glass and the Mamiya RB67 backs to hold film. She sells pre-printed kits that contain all the...
Designing a multi dimensional capacity queue Dealing with a capacity queue is challenging, but if you take the time to model it right it is...
1st Dec 2020
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Designing a multi dimensional capacity queue

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

1st Dec 2020
Dealing with a capacity queue is challenging, but if you take the time to model it right it is possible to create a performant and reliable system.
Benchmarking nearest neighbor libraries in Python Radim Rehurek has put together an excellent summary of approximate nearest neighbor libraries in...
12th Jan 2014
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Benchmarking nearest neighbor libraries in Python

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

12th Jan 2014
Radim Rehurek has put together an excellent summary of approximate nearest neighbor libraries in Python. This is exciting, because one of the libraries he's covering, annoy, was built by me. After introducing the problem, he goes through the list of contestants and sticks with...
Plus Post: Logic Programming Associates 386-PROLOG Yes, it's here! LPA 386-PROLOG is now available in a version for Windows!
1st Jul 2026
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Plus Post: Logic Programming Associates 386-PROLOG

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

1st Jul 2026
Yes, it's here! LPA 386-PROLOG is now available in a version for Windows!
What caused the large AWS outage? On Monday, a major AWS outage hit thousands of sites & apps, and even a Premier League soccer game....
23rd Oct 2025
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What caused the large AWS outage?

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

23rd Oct 2025
On Monday, a major AWS outage hit thousands of sites & apps, and even a Premier League soccer game. An overview of what caused this high-profile, global outage
reptyr: Attach a running process to a new terminal Over the last week, I’ve written a nifty tool that I call reptyr. reptyr is a utility for taking an...
21st Jan 2011
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reptyr: Attach a running process to a new terminal

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

21st Jan 2011
Over the last week, I’ve written a nifty tool that I call reptyr. reptyr is a utility for taking an existing running program and attaching it to a new terminal. Started a long-running process over ssh, but have to leave and don’t want to interrupt it? Just start a screen, use...
'Linux: show graphical layout of disk temperatures' graphic, representation To get a visual representation of hard drive temperatures, I wrote a...
3rd Jan 2010
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'Linux: show graphical layout of disk temperatures'

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

3rd Jan 2010
graphic, representation To get a visual representation of hard drive temperatures, I wrote a small script. The output of this script looks like this: This output is tailored to the exact disk lay-out of my storage server. However, it is also usable for other servers. You have to...
Plus Post: Sony SMC-777C One person, Eight languages. The 8bit.
1st Jun 2025
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Plus Post: Sony SMC-777C

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

1st Jun 2025
One person, Eight languages. The 8bit.
Chinatown Well, that was probably the most depressing final sequence I can remember in a film (especially one...
4th Aug 2022
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Chinatown

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

4th Aug 2022
Well, that was probably the most depressing final sequence I can remember in a film (especially one so devoted to realism, or at least its brand of plausibility.)
3D printer repairing and modding I’ve had my VORON Trident for 2 years and I’ve run it for 2600 hours. Overall I’m happy with the...
2nd Dec 2025
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3D printer repairing and modding

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

2nd Dec 2025
I’ve had my VORON Trident for 2 years and I’ve run it for 2600 hours. Overall I’m happy with the printer but I’ve been itching to make some more mods to it. Having finally finished the VORON 0 (with mods) I now have a backup printer I can use to rescue myself when I screw up. As...
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