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dEngine Source Code Released More...
28th Apr 2011
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dEngine Source Code Released

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

28th Apr 2011
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An update on my book 'Why Cryptocurrencies?' Five months ago I gloriously declared that “my book was done”. Since then I’ve been working hard to...
9th Oct 2020
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An update on my book 'Why Cryptocurrencies?'

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

9th Oct 2020
Five months ago I gloriously declared that “my book was done”. Since then I’ve been working hard to finish the book. Sorry that’s a bit of a lie, I’ve had a nice long vacation where I didn’t work on the book and I’m also on part-time parental leave. And believe me there’s not a...
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First month on a database team A little over a month ago, I joined EnterpriseDB on a distributed Postgres product (PGD). The...
11th Mar 2024
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First month on a database team

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

11th Mar 2024
A little over a month ago, I joined EnterpriseDB on a distributed Postgres product (PGD). The process of onboarding myself has been pretty similar at each company in the last decade, though I think I've gotten better at it. The process is of course influenced by the team, and my...
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Why Digital Fashion Matters “We’re in the midst of a technological revolution.
14th Jul 2022
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Why Digital Fashion Matters

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

14th Jul 2022
“We’re in the midst of a technological revolution.
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How to: Adding a floating “Back to top” button in Pika As we say repeatedly on its homepage, Pika is designed to help you focus on writing, not tinkering...
22nd May 2026
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How to: Adding a floating “Back to top” button in Pika

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

22nd May 2026
As we say repeatedly on its homepage, Pika is designed to help you focus on writing, not tinkering with your blog design. To that end Pika purposely doesn’t support complex liquid templating or other such code customization. However, today I thought I’d share how crazy powerful...
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BumpMapping hell
4th Mar 2009
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BumpMapping hell

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

4th Mar 2009
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Hacking the World Poker Tour: Inside ClubWPT Gold’s Back Office
12th Oct 2025
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Hacking the World Poker Tour: Inside ClubWPT Gold’s Back Office

from Blog | Sam Curry [alt+shift+b] in technology

12th Oct 2025
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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...
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The hearts of the Super Nintendo
1st Apr 2024
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The hearts of the Super Nintendo

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

1st Apr 2024
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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...
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CPS-1: GFX system internals
20th Feb 2022
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CPS-1: GFX system internals

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

20th Feb 2022
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The world of PostgreSQL wire compatibility This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
8th Feb 2022
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The world of PostgreSQL wire compatibility

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8th Feb 2022
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Pick and place without the CNC Pick and place (PnP) machines are the linchpin on which modern electronics manufacturing rests. A...
2nd Apr 2026
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Pick and place without the CNC

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

2nd Apr 2026
Pick and place (PnP) machines are the linchpin on which modern electronics manufacturing rests. A PnP is a special kind of robot with a vacuum end effector designed to pick up SMD (surface-mount device) components and place them on a PCB for soldering. But for hobbyists, they’re...
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Using wpa_supplicant on Debian/Ubuntu I’ve been using wpa_supplicant to manage wifi on my Ubuntu laptop for a while, and have found that...
22nd Aug 2008
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Using wpa_supplicant on Debian/Ubuntu

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

22nd Aug 2008
I’ve been using wpa_supplicant to manage wifi on my Ubuntu laptop for a while, and have found that it’s pretty close to what I want for managing wireless — closer than anything else I’ve found, at least. I figured I should document my setup and experiences. Some Background You...
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The story of the Rendition Vérité 1000 The story of how the Rendition v1000 briefly rule the Quake world.
1st Apr 2019
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The story of the Rendition Vérité 1000

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

1st Apr 2019
The story of how the Rendition v1000 briefly rule the Quake world.
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There is Definitely a Grid Grids are the best thing to ever happen to graphic design. They form a rational basis for organizing...
10th Jun 2016
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There is Definitely a Grid

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

10th Jun 2016
Grids are the best thing to ever happen to graphic design. They form a rational basis for organizing information. They support the harmonious distribution of elements and visual weight. We don’t design things with grids because it’s easy, or because everyone else is doing it....
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forecourt networking The way I see it, few parts of American life are as quintessentially American as buying gas. We love...
8th Feb 2026
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forecourt networking

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

8th Feb 2026
The way I see it, few parts of American life are as quintessentially American as buying gas. We love our cars, we love our oil, and an industry about as old as automobiles themselves has developed a highly consistent, fully automated, and fairly user friendly system for filling...
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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 Writing [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
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Against choosing your political allegiances based on who is "pro-crypto"
17th Jul 2024
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Against choosing your political allegiances based on who is "pro-crypto"

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

17th Jul 2024
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Doom iPhone code review I took some time away from programming something I hope will become a really good shmup and read the...
1st Feb 2010
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Doom iPhone code review

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

1st Feb 2010
I took some time away from programming something I hope will become a really good shmup and read the source code of Doom for iPhone. I was very interested in finding out how a pixel oriented engine made the transition to openGL. Here are my notes, as usual I got a bit carried...
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[Mirror] Exploring Elliptic Curve Pairings
14th Jan 2017
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[Mirror] Exploring Elliptic Curve Pairings

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

14th Jan 2017
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On building quicker How AI tools have transformed my approach to building projects, making it possible to launch ideas...
31st Mar 2025
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On building quicker

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

31st Mar 2025
How AI tools have transformed my approach to building projects, making it possible to launch ideas faster and focus on what matters most.
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This Kenyan engineer modernizes vintage cars with a custom ECU and EFI upgrades The automotive industry’s switch from carburetion to fuel injection was one of the most effective...
1st Oct 2024
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This Kenyan engineer modernizes vintage cars with a custom ECU and EFI upgrades

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

1st Oct 2024
The automotive industry’s switch from carburetion to fuel injection was one of the most effective advancements of the 20th century. Electronic fuel injection allows for precise control over an internal combustion engine’s air-fuel mixture, which dramatically improves fuel...
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Final Fantasy IX I’ve noticed that if I want to give something a perfect score but know that it’s not a “perfect”...
28th Dec 2013
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Final Fantasy IX

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

28th Dec 2013
I’ve noticed that if I want to give something a perfect score but know that it’s not a “perfect” thing, I always start off with “okay, so, it has flaws.”
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Huson Soft HuCAL Hudson creates business software for everyone.
24th Jan 2024
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Huson Soft HuCAL

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

24th Jan 2024
Hudson creates business software for everyone.
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d/acc: one year later
5th Jan 2025
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d/acc: one year later

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

5th Jan 2025
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A paper reading club at work; databases and distributed systems research I started a paper reading club this week at work, focused on databases and distributed systems...
5th Apr 2024
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A paper reading club at work; databases and distributed systems research

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

5th Apr 2024
I started a paper reading club this week at work, focused on databases and distributed systems research. I posted in a general channel about the premise and asked if anyone was interested. I clarified the intended topic and that discussions would be asynchronous over email, run...
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Talking to the Protocol An exploration into a new communication layer. By Gaby Goldberg & Sophie Fujiwara
5th Dec 2022
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Talking to the Protocol

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

5th Dec 2022
An exploration into a new communication layer. By Gaby Goldberg & Sophie Fujiwara
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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 ...
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The case for Nightingale Datacentres Britain isn’t prepared for the looming AI national security crisis
27th Aug 2026
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The case for Nightingale Datacentres

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

27th Aug 2026
Britain isn’t prepared for the looming AI national security crisis
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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.
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Secure caching DNS server on Linux with DJBDNS The most commonly used DNS server software is ISC BIND, the "Berkeley Internet Name Daemon"....
12th Jun 2010
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Secure caching DNS server on Linux with DJBDNS

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

12th Jun 2010
The most commonly used DNS server software is ISC BIND, the "Berkeley Internet Name Daemon". However, this software has a bad security track record and is in my opinion a pain to configure. Mr. D.J. Bernstein developed "djbdns", which comes with a guarantee: if anyone finds a...
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The 'hidden' cost of using ZFS for your home NAS Introduction Update December 2023: In June, it was announced that iXsystems would sponsor...
2nd Jan 2016
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The 'hidden' cost of using ZFS for your home NAS

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

2nd Jan 2016
Introduction Update December 2023: In June, it was announced that iXsystems would sponsor implementing the VDEV expansion feature. A new pr has been created for this effort. The feature was merged into the code base, but may not be available to the general public before the end...
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Two more 27.0 design grumbles After living with Apple’s 27.0 OSs since launch, I have some more annoyances to get off my chest....
3 days ago
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Two more 27.0 design grumbles

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

3 days ago
After living with Apple’s 27.0 OSs since launch, I have some more annoyances to get off my chest. This time, it’s all about how tabs and menus have gotten worse. I’ve already ranted about the Liquid Glass material in general, but these two design changes in particular have really...
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Vision Pro My thoughts on using Vision Pro to get some real work done, exploring what Spatial Computing means...
15th Feb 2024
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Vision Pro

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

15th Feb 2024
My thoughts on using Vision Pro to get some real work done, exploring what Spatial Computing means and how it can be useful.
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Clouds below my floor Building a little datacenter in my basement utilising a very fast internet connection.
30th Aug 2017
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Clouds below my floor

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

30th Aug 2017
Building a little datacenter in my basement utilising a very fast internet connection.
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Building Air Quality Sensor: Luftdaten + Home Assistant Luftdaten (now Sensor Community) is a global sensor network that measures air quality around the...
3rd Sep 2020
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Building Air Quality Sensor: Luftdaten + Home Assistant

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

3rd Sep 2020
Luftdaten (now Sensor Community) is a global sensor network that measures air quality around the world. Best of all: it's open-source and anyone can build a sensor.I was very curious to see the air quality in my neighborhood, so I decided to build myself a sensor. And of course,...
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Giving more tools to software engineers: the reorganization of the factory It's a popular attitude among developers to rant about our tools and how broken things are. Maybe...
16th Dec 2020
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Giving more tools to software engineers: the reorganization of the factory

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

16th Dec 2020
It's a popular attitude among developers to rant about our tools and how broken things are. Maybe I'm an optimistic person, because my viewpoint is the complete opposite! I had my first job as a software engineer in 1999, and in the last two decades I've seen software engineering...
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Phucking with Phishers
14th Oct 2024
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Phucking with Phishers

from Niklas Oberhuber’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

14th Oct 2024
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"Republic.com 2.0" is a terrible book title we don't always need citations to justify research
6th Jan 2025
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"Republic.com 2.0" is a terrible book title

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

6th Jan 2025
we don't always need citations to justify research
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2025 was the year of making a (small) dent in my universe Below is a version of the above video, so read or watch, whatever you prefer. I am not really one...
1st Dec 2025
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2025 was the year of making a (small) dent in my universe

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Dec 2025
Below is a version of the above video, so read or watch, whatever you prefer. I am not really one for inspirational quotes. I don't particularly like them. I don't particularly find them inspiring, but I really do like this one from Steve Jobs: “Life
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Vertical Aggregation I’ve written in the past that I think returns for SaaS won’t be as attractive over the next decade.
12th Oct 2021
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Vertical Aggregation

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

12th Oct 2021
I’ve written in the past that I think returns for SaaS won’t be as attractive over the next decade.
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Don't be foie gras If 2016-2020 was the golden unicorn age of SaaS, 2021 nearly hurtled us into the foie gras* era.
9th Jan 2022
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Don't be foie gras

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

9th Jan 2022
If 2016-2020 was the golden unicorn age of SaaS, 2021 nearly hurtled us into the foie gras* era.
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Hackers Used Meta’s AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts The Instagram accounts for the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Space...
1st Jun 2026
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Hackers Used Meta’s AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts

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

1st Jun 2026
The Instagram accounts for the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Space Force were briefly defaced with pro-Iranian images and messages over the weekend, after instructions began circulating on Telegram showing how to trick Meta’s “AI support assistant”...
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October theme says: Numbers New month and a new theme. As with the two previous games I’m following The Experimental Gameplay...
1st Oct 2009
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October theme says: Numbers

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

1st Oct 2009
New month and a new theme. As with the two previous games I’m following The Experimental Gameplay Project theme which this month is numbers. What’s it gonna be? A sudoku game or something more… thrilling? I’ll see what I can do :)
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It's hard to write code for computers, but it's even harder to write code for humans Writing code for a computer is hard enough. You take something big and fuzzy, some large vague...
27th Sep 2024
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It's hard to write code for computers, but it's even harder to write code for humans

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

27th Sep 2024
Writing code for a computer is hard enough. You take something big and fuzzy, some large vague business outcome you want to achive. Then you break it down recursively and think about all the cases until you have clear logical statements a computer can follow.
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Engineering Security Through Coordination Problems
8th May 2017
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Engineering Security Through Coordination Problems

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

8th May 2017
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The 9 Delusions From the Halo Effect You’re being lied to. Well, not intentionally. We’re constantly being pinged with stories of...
31st May 2015
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The 9 Delusions From the Halo Effect

from Comments for Lars Lofgren [alt+shift+b] in technology

31st May 2015
You’re being lied to. Well, not intentionally. We’re constantly being pinged with stories of companies that have rocketed to success. Especially in tech, there’s always another $1 billion unicorn around the corner. Uber, Facebook, Airbnb, Slack, Zenefits, Box, Shopify, yadda...
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Programming the Convergent WorkSlate's spreadsheet microcassette future In this particular future, we will all use handheld spreadsheets stored on microcassettes, talking...
4th Sep 2024
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Programming the Convergent WorkSlate's spreadsheet microcassette future

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

4th Sep 2024
In this particular future, we will all use handheld spreadsheets stored on microcassettes, talking to each other via speakerphone, and probably listening to Devo and New Order a lot. (Though that part isn't too different from my actual present.) a computer whose manufacturer...
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3Duino helps you rapidly create interactive 3D-printed devices Every few months, some new software comes along that promises to make some complex engineering...
3rd Dec 2025
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3Duino helps you rapidly create interactive 3D-printed devices

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

3rd Dec 2025
Every few months, some new software comes along that promises to make some complex engineering discipline accessible to everyone. Such software rarely lives up to the developer’s claims, because the claims are far too ambitious. But what if the scope is more reasonable? 3Duino...
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amd64 and va_arg A while back, I was poking around LLVM bugs, and discovered, to my surprise, that LLVM doesn’t...
4th Oct 2010
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amd64 and va_arg

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

4th Oct 2010
A while back, I was poking around LLVM bugs, and discovered, to my surprise, that LLVM doesn’t support the va_arg intrinsic, used by functions to accept multiple arguments, at all on amd64. It turns out that clang and llvm-gcc, the compilers that backend to LLVM, have their own...
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Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by opportunity cost Hanlon's razor is a classic aphorism I'm sure you have heard before: Never attribute to malice that...
10th Mar 2020
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Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by opportunity cost

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

10th Mar 2020
Hanlon's razor is a classic aphorism I'm sure you have heard before: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. I've found that neither malice nor stupidity is the most common reason when you don't understand why something is in a certain way.
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CVE-2022-21449: Psychic Signatures in Java The long-running BBC sci-fi show Doctor Who has a recurring plot device where the Doctor manages to...
19th Apr 2022
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CVE-2022-21449: Psychic Signatures in Java

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

19th Apr 2022
The long-running BBC sci-fi show Doctor Who has a recurring plot device where the Doctor manages to get out of trouble by showing an identity card which is actually completely blank. Of course, this being Doctor Who, the card is really made out of a special “psychic paper“, which...
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13th Year of Blogging Of all the days to start a blog, I chose April Fools' Day. It wasn't intentional, maybe more of a...
1st Apr 2026
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13th Year of Blogging

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

1st Apr 2026
Of all the days to start a blog, I chose April Fools' Day. It wasn't intentional, maybe more of a reflection of my mindset. When I decide to do something, I shut off my brain and just do it. This was a commitment I made without thinking about the long-term effects. I knew writing...
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avalanche technology One of the downsides of having written here for six years now is that my messy, ever-growing text...
5th Sep 2026
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avalanche technology

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

5th Sep 2026
One of the downsides of having written here for six years now is that my messy, ever-growing text file of topics for future articles contains a bunch of ideas that have been there for about six years. Part of the problem is that I just have to scroll so far up to even see them...
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ZFS RAIDZ expansion is awesome but has a small caveat Introduction Update April 2023: It has been fairly quiet since the announcement of this feature. The...
22nd Jun 2021
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ZFS RAIDZ expansion is awesome but has a small caveat

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

22nd Jun 2021
Introduction Update April 2023: It has been fairly quiet since the announcement of this feature. The Github PR about this feature is rather stale and people are wondering what the status is and what the plans are. Meanwhile, FreeBSD has announced In February 2023 that they...
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Silence Isn't Violence The last decade, we’ve been told we have to speak — and speak loudly — or we’re the bad guys. And,...
2nd Sep 2026
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Silence Isn't Violence

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

2nd Sep 2026
The last decade, we’ve been told we have to speak — and speak loudly — or we’re the bad guys. And, of course, say what the mob says or we’re still the bad guys. But silence is often more profound.
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Understanding Mamdani's Vision His inauguration speech challenges the the left to govern
2nd Jan 2026
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Understanding Mamdani's Vision

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

2nd Jan 2026
His inauguration speech challenges the the left to govern
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Fixed Gear Gran Fondo Today I took my fixed gear bike for a ride, 176KM from Amsterdam to America (Limburg, The...
9th Apr 2021
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Fixed Gear Gran Fondo

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

9th Apr 2021
Today I took my fixed gear bike for a ride, 176KM from Amsterdam to America (Limburg, The Netherlands). Rain and wind added to the challenge, creating an ultimate test for man and machine. Let some of my fun be of inspiration to you! Gran Fondo The Italians call a big cycle ride...
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Interview on Crackberry 2025 Note - Kevin from Crackberry was the first person in the press who covered us! The timeline was...
27th Apr 2010
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Interview on Crackberry

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

27th Apr 2010
2025 Note - Kevin from Crackberry was the first person in the press who covered us! The timeline was crazy - I sent him this email and he…
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Winners Take All The book is not groundbreaking, and it owes a lot (in terms of "MarketWorld" and "protocols") to...
5th Jun 2020
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Winners Take All

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

5th Jun 2020
The book is not groundbreaking, and it owes a lot (in terms of "MarketWorld" and "protocols") to James Scott, but I liked it more than I thought it would. The distillation of a corporate "win-win" ethos was a pretty damning excoriation of my alma mater's consulting pipeline, and...
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Jet Black - New Experimental finish ::Update:: - The manufacturing fallout from making these fingerprint-loving docks was too high, even...
6th Oct 2016
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Jet Black - New Experimental finish

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

6th Oct 2016
::Update:: - The manufacturing fallout from making these fingerprint-loving docks was too high, even after a dozen process revisions, so we're not continuing making these after our second run. Recommend going with the Matte Black finish, it's super beautiful with all color...
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STARKs, Part I: Proofs with Polynomials
9th Nov 2017
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STARKs, Part I: Proofs with Polynomials

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

9th Nov 2017
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No, I Won't Build That! If you're an accomplished developer (as in: you've actually created things in the past), you may...
4th Mar 2024
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No, I Won't Build That!

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

4th Mar 2024
If you're an accomplished developer (as in: you've actually created things in the past), you may recognise this scenario: people reaching out to you, asking you to build something specific. "Can you build X for me?" A fellow technician once urged me to refuse more often: be proud...
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A tricky Commodore PET repair: tracking down 6 1/2 bad chips .cite { font-size: 70%;} .ref { vertical-align: super; font-size: 60%;} code {font-size: 100%;...
13th Apr 2025
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A tricky Commodore PET repair: tracking down 6 1/2 bad chips

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

13th Apr 2025
.cite { font-size: 70%;} .ref { vertical-align: super; font-size: 60%;} code {font-size: 100%; font-family: courier, fixed;} In 1977, Commodore released the PET computer, a quirky home computer that combined the processor, a tiny keyboard, a cassette drive for storage, and...
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Survey: What’s in your tech stack? We want to capture an accurate snapshot of software engineering, today – and need your help! Tell us...
18th Mar 2025
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Survey: What’s in your tech stack?

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

18th Mar 2025
We want to capture an accurate snapshot of software engineering, today – and need your help! Tell us about your tech stack and get early access to the final report, plus extra analysis
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digital consumption keeps me from getting better at my job know thyself There is a new lifestyle imposed on almost the entire world, willingly or unwillingly,...
31st Jul 2024
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digital consumption keeps me from getting better at my job

from sibervepunk [alt+shift+b] in technology

31st Jul 2024
know thyself There is a new lifestyle imposed on almost the entire world, willingly or unwillingly, perhaps by powerful people or by many small people that want to be powerful, which somehow affects all ordinary people: a consumption-oriented life. Fast consumption, constant...
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Filling in the Blanks: Exploiting Null Byte Buffer Overflow for a $40,000 Bounty
1st Nov 2019
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Filling in the Blanks: Exploiting Null Byte Buffer Overflow for a $40,000 Bounty

from Blog | Sam Curry [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Nov 2019
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For-Profit Academic Publishers Love LLM Garbage Springer Nature CEOs say: Hooray for Open Access!!
8th Nov 2024
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For-Profit Academic Publishers Love LLM Garbage

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

8th Nov 2024
Springer Nature CEOs say: Hooray for Open Access!!
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Curing Mac mini M4 fomo with 3D printing Spoiler: 3D printed! The colored ports really sell the effect If you’re anything like me, you’ve...
12th Nov 2024
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Curing Mac mini M4 fomo with 3D printing

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

12th Nov 2024
Spoiler: 3D printed! The colored ports really sell the effect If you’re anything like me, you’ve found the new, tinier Mac mini to be absolutely adorable. But you might also be like me that you either already have an awesome M1 Mac mini that you have no real reason to replace,...
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Analysis of CVE-2019-14994 - Jira Service Desk Path Traversal leads to Massive Information...
26th Sep 2019
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Analysis of CVE-2019-14994 - Jira Service Desk Path Traversal leads to Massive Information Disclosure

from Blog | Sam Curry [alt+shift+b] in technology

26th Sep 2019
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Tools for a Culture of Writing One of the hardest things we do, as humans, is try and communicate what is going on in our minds to...
30th Oct 2021
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Tools for a Culture of Writing

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

30th Oct 2021
One of the hardest things we do, as humans, is try and communicate what is going on in our minds to each other. With significant room for misunderstanding, biases, assumptions and cultural differences, communicating with other engineers (or to stakeholders) appears fraught....
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Hacking a Massive Steam Scamming and Phishing Operation for Fun and Profit
9th May 2018
1

Hacking a Massive Steam Scamming and Phishing Operation for Fun and Profit

from Blog | Sam Curry [alt+shift+b] in technology

9th May 2018
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Small Systems Engineering's PETSPEED Fast Enough for the Human Race
10th Jul 2024
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Small Systems Engineering's PETSPEED

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

10th Jul 2024
Fast Enough for the Human Race
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Mob Psycho 100 (Season 1) It took me a little time to get keyed into the idiosyncratic humor & ethos of this show, but once I...
1st Oct 2022
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Mob Psycho 100 (Season 1)

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

1st Oct 2022
It took me a little time to get keyed into the idiosyncratic humor & ethos of this show, but once I did I really did. It's very much a shonen, but a shonen in a way that feels more committed to deconstructing stereotypes than Ousama Ranking and with characters that are at least...
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How to build Doom3 on Mac OS X with XCode More...
25th Nov 2011
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How to build Doom3 on Mac OS X with XCode

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

25th Nov 2011
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Prince Of Persia Code Review On Apr 17, 2012 Jordan Mechner released the source code of Prince of Persia. I immediately took at...
14th Jun 2013
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Prince Of Persia Code Review

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

14th Jun 2013
On Apr 17, 2012 Jordan Mechner released the source code of Prince of Persia. I immediately took at look at it!
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Slackware update The last time I (re)installed Slackware I documented what I did. Somehow I managed to really bork my...
2nd Aug 2015
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Slackware update

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

2nd Aug 2015
The last time I (re)installed Slackware I documented what I did. Somehow I managed to really bork my installation and I decided to go through with a larger reinstallation once more. This is a log of some things I did differently. Kernel Before installing the kernel it’s nice to...
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The kind of sound you never want to hear from your computer The sounds of hard drives that have perished These sounds are only frightening or scary if you...
14th Nov 2008
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The kind of sound you never want to hear from your computer

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

14th Nov 2008
The sounds of hard drives that have perished These sounds are only frightening or scary if you imagine your precious data only exists on that failing drive. If you make consistent and frequent backups and/or you run a fault-tolerant RAID flavour, it is but a nuisance.
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Network Engineering “My first job was to understand what network engineers do. Then, I had to show them complex data in...
24th May 2017
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Network Engineering

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

24th May 2017
“My first job was to understand what network engineers do. Then, I had to show them complex data in a comprehensible and usable way. Finally, I had to make it less ugly.” The Challenge When you type “google.com” into your browser and press the Enter key, what happens? How do you...
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Great Tools Disappear The best designed products get out of the way and let you focus on the work instead of the tool
18th Sep 2025
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Great Tools Disappear

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

18th Sep 2025
The best designed products get out of the way and let you focus on the work instead of the tool
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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.
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COVID-19 temperature correlation A user on needgap posted a problem of not being able to find graphs showing confirmed COVID-19 cases...
11th Mar 2020
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COVID-19 temperature correlation

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

11th Mar 2020
A user on needgap posted a problem of not being able to find graphs showing confirmed COVID-19 cases and local weather data such as temperature. The reason for reputed agencies not publishing such graph is likely to prevent misinformation and possibly to avoid governments getting...
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Impact of Adblockers on Google Analytics (vs. Plausible) Adblocker usage is quickly rising, with some estimates saying that almost 25% of internet users have...
27th Oct 2020
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Impact of Adblockers on Google Analytics (vs. Plausible)

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

27th Oct 2020
Adblocker usage is quickly rising, with some estimates saying that almost 25% of internet users have one installed. Not only do they block advertisements, but also analytics scripts (like Google Analytics, Matomo, etc.)So that begs the question: what is the impact of these...
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Hamilton I was not a Hamilton hater exactly (I, like many other snoots, didn’t hate Hamilton so much as I...
28th Oct 2019
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Hamilton

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

28th Oct 2019
I was not a Hamilton hater exactly (I, like many other snoots, didn’t hate Hamilton so much as I hated the people who, for a brief but painful time, were really, really into Hamilton) but I certainly was not a huge fan until Haley roped me into listening to the soundtrack. I...
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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...
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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...
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XSS doesn’t have to be game over There’s a persistent belief among web security people that cross-site scripting (XSS) is a “game...
10th Dec 2020
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XSS doesn’t have to be game over

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

10th Dec 2020
There’s a persistent belief among web security people that cross-site scripting (XSS) is a “game over” event for defence: there is no effective way to recover if an attacker can inject code into your site. Brian Campbell refers to this as “XSS Nihilism”, which is a great...
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Rivian R2 wishes as an R1 owner After 7 years with a Tesla Model 3, we picked up a gen 2 Rivian R1S in April of 2025. We still have...
9th Feb 2026
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Rivian R2 wishes as an R1 owner

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

9th Feb 2026
After 7 years with a Tesla Model 3, we picked up a gen 2 Rivian R1S in April of 2025. We still have the Model 3 as a second vehicle, but it’s been really cool experiencing a new electric vehicle from a very passionate new company. 2026 is a really exciting time for Rivian, as in...
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Cash is king, or is it? Is the time right to ditch the wallet?
14th Jul 2016
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Cash is king, or is it?

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

14th Jul 2016
Is the time right to ditch the wallet?
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A brief history of Platform Engineering I remember the day I heard the word microservices for the first time. For a while, I did not know...
12th Aug 2023
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A brief history of Platform Engineering

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

12th Aug 2023
I remember the day I heard the word microservices for the first time. For a while, I did not know what it truly meant. But it was a very hot…
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WiFi Binary Clock Who doesn't love a classic Binary Clock? I remember getting one of these when I was in my 20's from...
21st Mar 2022
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WiFi Binary Clock

from Opsbros [alt+shift+b] in technology

21st Mar 2022
Who doesn't love a classic Binary Clock? I remember getting one of these when I was in my 20's from ThinkGeek, and it was pride of place on my desk. LED's are a thing of beauty.
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Announcing Startup School Winter 2020
10th Dec 2019
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Announcing Startup School Winter 2020

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

10th Dec 2019
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Does Social Media Cause Anything? Yes.
3rd Jul 2024
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Does Social Media Cause Anything?

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

3rd Jul 2024
Yes.
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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...
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Introducing AirTag Security Cable We wanted to make a better braided steel AirTag mount - more compact, stronger, really well...
18th Feb 2025
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Introducing AirTag Security Cable

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

18th Feb 2025
We wanted to make a better braided steel AirTag mount - more compact, stronger, really well made.    So we fired up our Swiss lathe and machined a custom oversized screw that keeps it secure and looks awesome. It is T10 Torx and comes with an included driver.   There is an...
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CrowdStrike's Impact on Aviation Just after midnight Eastern Time on July 19, 2024, the enterprise cybersecurity company CrowdStrike...
28th Jul 2024
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CrowdStrike's Impact on Aviation

from heavymeta.org [alt+shift+b] in technology

28th Jul 2024
Just after midnight Eastern Time on July 19, 2024, the enterprise cybersecurity company CrowdStrike YOLOed a software update to millions of Windows machines. Or as they put it: On July 19, 2024 at 04:09 UTC, as part of ongoing operations, CrowdStrike released a sensor...
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Learning Legendary Hardware More...
7th Oct 2013
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Learning Legendary Hardware

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

7th Oct 2013
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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...
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Using AI to generate code Discover how AI-generated code can revolutionise your software development process and optimise...
2nd May 2023
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Using AI to generate code

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

2nd May 2023
Discover how AI-generated code can revolutionise your software development process and optimise cloud performance in our fascinating exploration of GPT-4's transformative capabilities.
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Announcing Startup School Beijing
26th Apr 2018
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Announcing Startup School Beijing

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

26th Apr 2018
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Understanding the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Server Autoinstaller Introduction Ubuntu Server version 18.04 LTS uses the debian-installer (d-i) for the installation...
11th Feb 2021
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Understanding the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Server Autoinstaller

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

11th Feb 2021
Introduction Ubuntu Server version 18.04 LTS uses the debian-installer (d-i) for the installation process. This includes support for 'preseeding' to create unattended (automated) installations of ubuntu. the debian installer With the introduction of Ubuntu Server 20.04 'Focal...
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Migrating to rocks.nvim My relationship with my Neovim config is best described as an On-again, off-again relationship. At...
2nd Jun 2024
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Migrating to rocks.nvim

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

2nd Jun 2024
My relationship with my Neovim config is best described as an On-again, off-again relationship. At times I’m deeply in love and spend all my time caressing the config—like how in September I did a complete rewrite in Lua—while other times I’m busy with other love interests and...
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Butler Flow: shipping code faster (but less like Alfred, more like CI on steroids) - Part 3 In Part 3, we take a look at some deep examples of where Butler Flow comes in handy.
4th Nov 2025
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Butler Flow: shipping code faster (but less like Alfred, more like CI on steroids) - Part 3

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

4th Nov 2025
In Part 3, we take a look at some deep examples of where Butler Flow comes in handy.
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Six months with MCADD It's six months since our son was born with MCADD, a good moment to reflect upon the experience of...
23rd Jun 2019
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Six months with MCADD

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

23rd Jun 2019
It's six months since our son was born with MCADD, a good moment to reflect upon the experience of being a parent with some thoughts and tips.
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WetSocks Revival How to get a broken METAR/TAF Toolbar application working again; the fun way! Seeing what we can do...
25th Aug 2021
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WetSocks Revival

from Opsbros [alt+shift+b] in technology

25th Aug 2021
How to get a broken METAR/TAF Toolbar application working again; the fun way! Seeing what we can do to get WetSocks Windows 98 tray weather app working again.
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The TikTok Model is the Future of the Web I hate to say it, but when I wake up in the morning, the very first thing I do is check my phone....
24th Oct 2025
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The TikTok Model is the Future of the Web

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

24th Oct 2025
I hate to say it, but when I wake up in the morning, the very first thing I do is check my phone. First I turn off my alarm, I've made it a habit to wake up before it goes off. Then I scroll through a handful of websites. Yahoo Finance first, because the market is crazy. Hacker...
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Quest for Universal action — Essay You may listen to this while reading We Are All Astronauts - Ether (YouTube). Few months ago, a...
28th Jan 2018
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Quest for Universal action — Essay

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

28th Jan 2018
You may listen to this while reading We Are All Astronauts - Ether (YouTube). Few months ago, a significant percentage of my peers were…
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Antipodes I was playing around with D3 last night and built a silly visualization of antipodes and how our...
8th Sep 2015
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Antipodes

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

8th Sep 2015
I was playing around with D3 last night and built a silly visualization of antipodes and how our intuitive understanding of the world sometimes doesn't make sense. Check out the visualization at bl.ocks.org! Basically the idea is if you fly from Beijing to Buenos Aires then you...
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The Discipline and the Discipline at the intersection of art and social science
3 weeks ago
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The Discipline and the Discipline

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

3 weeks ago
at the intersection of art and social science
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Threads “You’re an interesting species. An interesting mix. You’re capable of such beautiful dreams, and...
14th Oct 2018
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Threads

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

14th Oct 2018
“You’re an interesting species. An interesting mix. You’re capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost…
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A minimal distributed key-value database with Hashicorp's Raft library When I wrote the "build a distributed PostgreSQL proof of concept" post I first had to figure...
17th Sep 2022
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A minimal distributed key-value database with Hashicorp's Raft library

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

17th Sep 2022
When I wrote the "build a distributed PostgreSQL proof of concept" post I first had to figure out how to use Hashicorp's Raft implementation. There weren't any examples I could find in the Hashicorp repo itself. And the only example I could find was Philip O'Toole's hraftd. It's...
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Computer says no The weather app indicating rain caused an empty bike lane this morning, making me wonder about the...
10th Sep 2022
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Computer says no

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

10th Sep 2022
The weather app indicating rain caused an empty bike lane this morning, making me wonder about the power we put into these things.
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A Cursed Bug In my day job at Anthropic, we run relatively large distributed systems to train large language...
23rd Feb 2022
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A Cursed Bug

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

23rd Feb 2022
In my day job at Anthropic, we run relatively large distributed systems to train large language models. One of the joys of using a lot of computing resources, especially on somewhat niche software stacks, is that you spend a lot of time running into the long-tail of bugs which...
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Radio Install in a Porsche Boxster The 987.2 Porsche Boxster is one of the best values in the used sports car market today. There is so...
28th Jun 2023
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Radio Install in a Porsche Boxster

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

28th Jun 2023
The 987.2 Porsche Boxster is one of the best values in the used sports car market today. There is so much to love about the vehicle, but the OEM headunit is not one of them. It's very dated, clunky, and doesn't support CarPlay (!), so one of the first things I did after picking...
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Automattic Alignment Winston Churchill said, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Since I last blogged here, WP Engine...
4th Oct 2024
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Automattic Alignment

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

4th Oct 2024
Winston Churchill said, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Since I last blogged here, WP Engine filed a meritless lawsuit and Automattic responded, and there’s been a hurricane of public activity and press. Inside of Automattic, there’s been a parallel debate and process....
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Converting a Tuya Thermostat to ESPHome I bought a cheap Chinese thermostat to control an infrared heating panel in my office. It ticked all...
8th Mar 2026
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Converting a Tuya Thermostat to ESPHome

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

8th Mar 2026
I bought a cheap Chinese thermostat to control an infrared heating panel in my office. It ticked all the boxes except one: it's a Tuya device which requires a cloud connection. That's a big no-no for me. So I ripped it apart, soldered some leads onto the PCB and flashed ESPHome...
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Designing for People The kindest and strongest praise that you can give this book is that it was written in 1955 and...
1st Jan 2023
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Designing for People

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

1st Jan 2023
The kindest and strongest praise that you can give this book is that it was written in 1955 and neither its praxis nor its theory has aged a day. A lot of external praise is directed at its much-ballyhooed prognostication of the future (predicting FaceTime in 1955, that sort of...
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Lightweight Linux Kernel Development with KVM I don’t do a ton of Linux kernel development these days, but I’ve done a fair bit in the past, and...
30th Dec 2013
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Lightweight Linux Kernel Development with KVM

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

30th Dec 2013
I don’t do a ton of Linux kernel development these days, but I’ve done a fair bit in the past, and picked up a number of useful techniques for doing kernel development in a relatively painless fashion. This blog post is a writeup of the tools and techniques I use when developing...
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Reverse engineering the mysterious Up-Data Link Test Set from Apollo Back in 2021, a collector friend of ours was visiting a dusty warehouse in search of Apollo-era...
21st Jul 2025
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Reverse engineering the mysterious Up-Data Link Test Set from Apollo

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

21st Jul 2025
Back in 2021, a collector friend of ours was visiting a dusty warehouse in search of Apollo-era communications equipment. A box with NASA-style lights caught his eye—the "AGC Confirm" light suggested a connection with the Apollo Guidance Computer. Disappointingly, the box was...
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Enumerating and analyzing 40+ non-V8 JavaScript implementations V8 is, I'm sure, the most used implementation of JavaScript today. Used in Chrome, (and by...
21st Sep 2021
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Enumerating and analyzing 40+ non-V8 JavaScript implementations

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

21st Sep 2021
V8 is, I'm sure, the most used implementation of JavaScript today. Used in Chrome, (and by extension) Microsoft Edge, Node.js, etc. Safari's JavaScriptCore and Firefox's SpiderMonkey are also contenders for extremely mainstream implementations. But what else is out there? What if...
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Lessons from content marketing myself (aka blogging) for five years I started writing this blog in late 2012, partly because I felt like it would help me improve my...
7th Mar 2018
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Lessons from content marketing myself (aka blogging) for five years

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

7th Mar 2018
I started writing this blog in late 2012, partly because I felt like it would help me improve my English and my writing skills, partly because I kept having a lot of random ideas in my head and I wanted to write them down somewhere.
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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.
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We are still early with the cloud: why software development is overdue for a change This is is in many respects a successor to a blog post I wrote last year about what I want from...
19th Oct 2022
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We are still early with the cloud: why software development is overdue for a change

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

19th Oct 2022
This is is in many respects a successor to a blog post I wrote last year about what I want from software infrastructure, but the ideas morphed in my head into something sort of wider.
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Writing a SQL database, take two: Zig and RocksDB For my second project while learning Zig, I decided to port an old, minimal SQL database project...
13th Nov 2022
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Writing a SQL database, take two: Zig and RocksDB

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

13th Nov 2022
For my second project while learning Zig, I decided to port an old, minimal SQL database project from Go to Zig. In this post, in ~1700 lines of code (yes, I'm sorry it's bigger than my usual), we'll create a basic embedded SQL database in Zig on top of RocksDB. Other than the...
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Storm in the stratosphere: how the cloud will be reshuffled Here's a theory I have about cloud vendors (AWS, Azure, GCP): Cloud vendors1 will increasingly...
30th Nov 2021
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Storm in the stratosphere: how the cloud will be reshuffled

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

30th Nov 2021
Here's a theory I have about cloud vendors (AWS, Azure, GCP): Cloud vendors1 will increasingly focus on the lowest layers in the stack: basically leasing capacity in their data centers through an API. Other pure-software providers will build all the stuff on top of it.
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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.
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Train Simulator Controller: Laser-Cutting a Door Control Panel As the different pieces of my Train Simulator controller come together, a bite-sized first task of...
1st May 2024
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Train Simulator Controller: Laser-Cutting a Door Control Panel

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

1st May 2024
As the different pieces of my Train Simulator controller come together, a bite-sized first task of building the physical dashboard is the door controls placed at each side of the cab. Here, I detail the process of prototyping the door control panel from a Class 80x out of...
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Rating 26 years of Java changes I first started programming Java at IBM back in 1999 as a Pre-University Employee. If I remember...
12th Sep 2025
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Rating 26 years of Java changes

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

12th Sep 2025
I first started programming Java at IBM back in 1999 as a Pre-University Employee. If I remember correctly, we had Java 1.1.8 installed at that time, but were moving to Java 1.2 (“Java 2”), which was a massive release—I remember engineers at the time grumbling that the...
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Fighting backscatter spam at server level This month I had to deal with backscatter spam, affecting one of the mail servers I manage. As...
9th Sep 2019
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Fighting backscatter spam at server level

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

9th Sep 2019
This month I had to deal with backscatter spam, affecting one of the mail servers I manage. As server engineer I make sure that servers don't send spam and that incoming email gets filtered. Despite all good efforts, this server kept being blacklisted for sending spam to iCloud,...
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Test Post This is a test post to verify the blog functionality
19th Mar 2024
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Test Post

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

19th Mar 2024
This is a test post to verify the blog functionality
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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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Pragmatically Generating a Self-Signed Certificate and Private Key using OpenSSL

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

17th Jul 2017
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...
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How to run Debian Linux on an Intel based Mac Mini The Mac Mini is just a gorgeous device. It is beautiful, small, silent, powerfull yet energy...
1st Nov 2009
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How to run Debian Linux on an Intel based Mac Mini

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

1st Nov 2009
The Mac Mini is just a gorgeous device. It is beautiful, small, silent, powerfull yet energy efficient. When idle, it uses around 20 watts. I'm using one of the first Intel-based Minis with an Intel Core Duo chip, running at 1.6 Ghz. I want to use this mini as an expensive router...
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Getting Started With GitButler Agents GitButler built a new way to integrate AI-powered code generation directly into your version control...
9th Jan 2026
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Getting Started With GitButler Agents

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

9th Jan 2026
GitButler built a new way to integrate AI-powered code generation directly into your version control workflow.
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3D Model Viewer Improvements [Software] Unlocking the embedded gimbals
28th Nov 2023
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3D Model Viewer Improvements

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

28th Nov 2023
[Software] Unlocking the embedded gimbals
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I resurrected my Dutch movie review site from 2003 Introduction Between 2003 and 2006, I ran a Dutch movie review site called moevie.nl.1 I built the...
9th Jun 2022
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I resurrected my Dutch movie review site from 2003

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

9th Jun 2022
Introduction Between 2003 and 2006, I ran a Dutch movie review site called moevie.nl.1 I built the site and wrote the reviews. It never made any money. It cost me money to host, and it cost me a lot of time writing reviews, but I remember enjoying writing reviews about films I...
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It's Never Simple Until It Is (Dell UnityVSA Pre-Auth Command Injection CVE-2025-36604) Welcome back, and what a week! We’re glad that happened for you and/or sorry that happened to you....
3rd Oct 2025
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It's Never Simple Until It Is (Dell UnityVSA Pre-Auth Command Injection CVE-2025-36604)

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

3rd Oct 2025
Welcome back, and what a week! We’re glad that happened for you and/or sorry that happened to you. It will get better and/or worse, and you will likely survive. Today, we’re walking down the garden path and digging into the archives, publishing our analysis
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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...
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Multiple input MACs When working with Message Authentication Codes (MACs), you often need to authenticate not just a...
27th Oct 2021
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Multiple input MACs

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

27th Oct 2021
When working with Message Authentication Codes (MACs), you often need to authenticate not just a single string, but multiple fields of data. For example, when creating an authenticated encryption mode by composing a cipher and a MAC (like AES-CBC and HMAC), you need to ensure the...
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Calculating cosine similarities using dimensionality reduction This was posted on the Twitter Engineering blog a few days ago: Dimension Independent Similarity...
5th Dec 2012
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Calculating cosine similarities using dimensionality reduction

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

5th Dec 2012
This was posted on the Twitter Engineering blog a few days ago: Dimension Independent Similarity Computation (DISCO) I just glanced at the paper, and there's some cool stuff going on from a theoretical perspective. What I'm curious about is why they didn't decide to use...
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Setting up your /now page with an RSS feed I have a /now page, which I use to tell people what I’m up to these days. I like the concept of “now...
2nd Nov 2024
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Setting up your /now page with an RSS feed

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

2nd Nov 2024
I have a /now page, which I use to tell people what I’m up to these days. I like the concept of “now pages” but I felt like it would be better if it had an RSS feed. The feed would give interested parties a way to subscribe to life changes. The problem is that RSS feeds aren’t...
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So you want to migrate to Kubernetes: observations from a software developer Kubernetes: everyone wants to do it, regardless of their scale and business objectives.1 Common...
1st Oct 2024
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So you want to migrate to Kubernetes: observations from a software developer

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

1st Oct 2024
Kubernetes: everyone wants to do it, regardless of their scale and business objectives.1 Common justifications include better scalability, cost savings, standardization and being super modern and stuff. It’s the future! In my personal experience, Kubernetes is far from the...
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2024-01-06 usb on the go USB, the Universal Serial Bus, was first released in 1996. It did not achieve widespread adoption...
6th Jan 2024
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2024-01-06 usb on the go

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

6th Jan 2024
USB, the Universal Serial Bus, was first released in 1996. It did not achieve widespread adoption until some years later; for most of the '90s RS-232-ish serial and its awkward sibling the parallel port were the norm for external peripheral. It's sort of surprising that USB...
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Achieving 2.3 GB/s with 16 x 4 TB drives I'm in the process of building a new storage server to replace my 18 TB NAS. The server is almost...
12th Jul 2014
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Achieving 2.3 GB/s with 16 x 4 TB drives

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

12th Jul 2014
I'm in the process of building a new storage server to replace my 18 TB NAS. The server is almost finished, it's now down to adding disk drives. I'm using the HGST 4 TB 7200 RPM drive for this build (SKU 0S03356) (review). I have not bought all drives at once, but slowly adding...
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Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 4. LLVM conditionals and compiling fibonacci Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 2. user-defined functions and variables ...
4th May 2019
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Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 4. LLVM conditionals and compiling fibonacci

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

4th May 2019
Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 2. user-defined functions and variables 3. LLVM 5. LLVM system calls 6. an x86 upgrade In this post we'll extend the compiler's LLVM backend to support compiling conditionals such that we can support...
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Game Engine Black Book: DOOM, Korean Edition
5th Apr 2021
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Game Engine Black Book: DOOM, Korean Edition

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

5th Apr 2021
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RAID array size and rebuild speed When a disk fails of a RAID 5 array, you are no longer protected against (another) disk failure and...
3rd Apr 2010
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RAID array size and rebuild speed

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

3rd Apr 2010
When a disk fails of a RAID 5 array, you are no longer protected against (another) disk failure and thus data loss. During this rebuild time, you are vulnerable. The longer it takes to rebuild your array, the longer you are vulnerable. Especially during a disk-intensive period,...
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After Forty Years, Still No Silver Bullet Forty years ago, computer scientist Fred Brooks published a paper called No Silver Bullet: Essence...
10th Jul 2026
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After Forty Years, Still No Silver Bullet

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

10th Jul 2026
Forty years ago, computer scientist Fred Brooks published a paper called No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accident in Software Engineering. As its title implies, the paper argues there are no technological shortcuts to making software radically easier, simpler, or more reliable. You...
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The rise and fall of IBM's 4 Pi aerospace computers: an illustrated history The morning of April 12, 1981, 20 years to the day after Yuri Gagarin became the first person in...
29th Mar 2026
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The rise and fall of IBM's 4 Pi aerospace computers: an illustrated history

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

29th Mar 2026
The morning of April 12, 1981, 20 years to the day after Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space, the Space Shuttle thundered into the Florida sky. Commander Young and Pilot Crippen were at the controls as the Shuttle ascended on its first flight. But the launch, like much...
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Smart lights behind a wall switch (Shelly + ESPHome) Using smart light bulbs means you can no longer use your physical wall switches because the bulbs...
7th Oct 2022
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Smart lights behind a wall switch (Shelly + ESPHome)

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

7th Oct 2022
Using smart light bulbs means you can no longer use your physical wall switches because the bulbs need constant power. I think that's pretty dumb. Using a physical switch can be way faster than using an app to control the lights.Here's how you can put a Shelly in between the...
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Apple is killing off the optical drive just like the floppy disk With the release of the new MacBook Air we are one step closer to killing off the cd-rom and the...
23rd Oct 2010
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Apple is killing off the optical drive just like the floppy disk

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

23rd Oct 2010
With the release of the new MacBook Air we are one step closer to killing off the cd-rom and the dvd. As with the previous MacBook Air, this device has no optical drive. And that is a good thing. People do not need an optical drive. You have the network and you have USB disks....
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Lessons from a takeaway plastic bag About five months ago I got some take away food from our local Asian restaurant. They packaged the...
7th Jan 2018
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Lessons from a takeaway plastic bag

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

7th Jan 2018
About five months ago I got some take away food from our local Asian restaurant. They packaged the food and gave me a plastic bag to carry it home. On my way home I was thinking about the bag. Although it has some nice styling printed on it, it's designed for single use only....
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These are called opportunities
12th Nov 2020
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These are called opportunities

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

12th Nov 2020
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Where is Lee Wittlinger? Lee controls the board of WP Engine. The board is why WP Engine hasn’t done a trademark deal for...
28th Sep 2024
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Where is Lee Wittlinger?

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

28th Sep 2024
Lee controls the board of WP Engine. The board is why WP Engine hasn’t done a trademark deal for their use of the WordPress and WooCommerce trademarks. You hide behind lawyers and corporate PR when you’re wrong, not when you’re right. I’m replying on Twitter, I’m commenting on...
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Albert's Nature Reserve Spring is here. Time to get radio active.
22nd Apr 2025
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Albert's Nature Reserve

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

22nd Apr 2025
Spring is here. Time to get radio active.
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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...
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For a Business, Should Making (Extra) Money Be Incidental? Humans are desire-driven machines: a business should help dissipate desires by satisfying them...
21st Jul 2026
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For a Business, Should Making (Extra) Money Be Incidental?

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

21st Jul 2026
Humans are desire-driven machines: a business should help dissipate desires by satisfying them without exploiting you.
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Digital Minimalism I find myself weirdly torn on this book.
3rd Dec 2020
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Digital Minimalism

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Dec 2020
I find myself weirdly torn on this book.
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Same Stop Marvelling at the full circle life seems to have taken after retirement.
21st May 2023
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Same Stop

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

21st May 2023
Marvelling at the full circle life seems to have taken after retirement.
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Stripe's monorepo developer environment I worked at Stripe for about seven years, from 2012 to 2019. Over that time, I used and contributed...
21st May 2024
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Stripe's monorepo developer environment

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

21st May 2024
I worked at Stripe for about seven years, from 2012 to 2019. Over that time, I used and contributed to many generations of Stripe’s developer environment – the tools that engineers used daily to write and test code. I think Stripe did a pretty good job designing and building that...
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JSON and PowerShell Working with Object-based arrays in PowerShell can be a challenge; but here's a trick that will...
11th May 2020
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JSON and PowerShell

from Opsbros [alt+shift+b] in technology

11th May 2020
Working with Object-based arrays in PowerShell can be a challenge; but here's a trick that will allow you to manipulate these objects efficiently.
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My 7 Rules for A/B Testing That Triple Conversion Rates I really don’t care how any given A/B test turns out. That’s right. Not one bit. But wait, how do I...
11th Sep 2015
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My 7 Rules for A/B Testing That Triple Conversion Rates

from Comments for Lars Lofgren [alt+shift+b] in technology

11th Sep 2015
I really don’t care how any given A/B test turns out. That’s right. Not one bit. But wait, how do I double or triple conversion rates without caring how a test performs? I actually care about the whole SYSTEM of testing. All the pieces need to fit together just right. If not,...
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Symmetricom 58532A GPS Antenna Supply Voltage Mod The Symmatricom 58532A Opening up the 58532A Voltage Regulation Result What about the other 58532A...
23rd Mar 2024
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Symmetricom 58532A GPS Antenna Supply Voltage Mod

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

23rd Mar 2024
The Symmatricom 58532A Opening up the 58532A Voltage Regulation Result What about the other 58532A variant? References The Symmatricom 58532A As part of a package deal, I got my hands on a Symmetricom 58532A L1 GPS antenna. Microchip, which acquired Symmetricom in 2013, doesn’t...
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How I Use Alfred to Search My Obsidian Notes Faster (with Spotlight!) In this post, I’ll show you how I integrated Obsidian into Alfred so I can search my vault from...
22nd Mar 2023
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How I Use Alfred to Search My Obsidian Notes Faster (with Spotlight!)

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

22nd Mar 2023
In this post, I’ll show you how I integrated Obsidian into Alfred so I can search my vault from anywhere on my Mac. I just open Alfred, type “note” followed by my query, and see my search results. Hit enter and the correct note opens in Obsidian. Easy and quick!
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YouTube is a mysterious monopoly Yesterday I saw this Bluesky post from Adrian Black. He runs Adrian’s Digital Basement, a retro...
8th Sep 2025
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YouTube is a mysterious monopoly

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

8th Sep 2025
Yesterday I saw this Bluesky post from Adrian Black. He runs Adrian’s Digital Basement, a retro computer repair channel I really enjoy. In the post, he points out a trend I didn’t know about: YouTube views seem to have fallen off a cliff recently. Further down the thread, Jeff...
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AI and software security: the slop is now signal No matter how you feel about AI, it’s changing the world of software. The “T” in ChatGPT was...
10th May 2026
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AI and software security: the slop is now signal

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

10th May 2026
No matter how you feel about AI, it’s changing the world of software. The “T” in ChatGPT was invented to improve language translation, and large language models (LLMs) are very good at this. Interestingly, translating between French and Japanese is effectively the same as...
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Updates September 9: Feed finding
9th Sep 2024
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Updates September 9: Feed finding

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

9th Sep 2024
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NeXTWorld Interviews Bud Tribble (1994) They discuss NeXT's OpenStep, open standards, and more.
1st Feb 2026
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NeXTWorld Interviews Bud Tribble (1994)

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

1st Feb 2026
They discuss NeXT's OpenStep, open standards, and more.
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Eight years of organizing tech meetups This is a collection of random personal experiences. So if you don't want to read everything, feel...
4th Sep 2023
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Eight years of organizing tech meetups

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

4th Sep 2023
This is a collection of random personal experiences. So if you don't want to read everything, feel free to skip to the end for takeaways. I write because I'd like to see more high-quality meetups. And maybe my little bit of experience will help someone out. 2015: Philadelphia I...
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Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 2. user-defined functions and variables Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 3. LLVM 4. LLVM conditionals and...
20th Jan 2019
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Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 2. user-defined functions and variables

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

20th Jan 2019
Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 3. LLVM 4. LLVM conditionals and compiling fibonacci 5. LLVM system calls 6. an x86 upgrade In this post we'll extend the compiler to support defining functions and variables. Additionally, we'll require the...
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2013 Read Books I actually read more books in 2013 than in 2012. In a somewhat unorganized list: Fiction Livet...
3rd Jan 2014
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2013 Read Books

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

3rd Jan 2014
I actually read more books in 2013 than in 2012. In a somewhat unorganized list: Fiction Livet Deluxe - Jens Lapidius Escape from camp 14 - Blaine Harden Wonderful. A great book. Edge - Jeffery Deaver Dollar - Lee Child Gisslan - Lee Child Bränd - Lee Child Besökaren - Lee...
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Things I wish I knew about Ring Fit Adventure I’ve played a lot of Ring Fit Adventure, the fitness game for Nintendo Switch. Here are some things...
4th May 2025
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Things I wish I knew about Ring Fit Adventure

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

4th May 2025
I’ve played a lot of Ring Fit Adventure, the fitness game for Nintendo Switch. Here are some things I wish I knew when I got started. Jump over battles to skip them You can jump over enemies to avoid fighting them! I first discovered this when watching a speedrun of the game. If...
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Why scons is cool I’ve recently started playing with scons a little for some small personal projects. It’s not...
7th Nov 2010
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Why scons is cool

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

7th Nov 2010
I’ve recently started playing with scons a little for some small personal projects. It’s not perfect, but I’ve rapidly come to the conclusion that it’s a probably far better choice than make in many cases. The main exceptions would be cases where you need to integrate into legacy...
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We’re Shutting Down Yay.Boo and Ponder Update 12/03/2025: Yay.Boo is staying alive! 🙌 Keep your eyes peeled to Yay.Boo for updates. We...
3rd Nov 2025
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We’re Shutting Down Yay.Boo and Ponder

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

3rd Nov 2025
Update 12/03/2025: Yay.Boo is staying alive! 🙌 Keep your eyes peeled to Yay.Boo for updates. We have built a lot of good products here at Good Enough. Whether you’re sharing an inbox with your team or avoiding social media with a blog, we’ve got you covered. Unfortunately,...
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Superhacker Rossum hacked inPulse - Have you?
18th Feb 2011
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Superhacker Rossum hacked inPulse - Have you?

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

18th Feb 2011
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Obfuscation (Part III): Local Mixing
21st Aug 2026
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Obfuscation (Part III): Local Mixing

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

21st Aug 2026
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Which IDEs do software engineers love, and why? oftware engineers shared their favorite IDEs on social media, and the most-mentioned one by a...
26th Nov 2024
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Which IDEs do software engineers love, and why?

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

26th Nov 2024
oftware engineers shared their favorite IDEs on social media, and the most-mentioned one by a comfortable margin was Cursor. WindSurf and Zed also seem to be getting traction at the expense of Visual Studio, and JetBrains.
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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...
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How to build up a data team (everything I ever learned about recruiting) During my time at Spotify, I've reviewed thousands of resumes and interviewed hundreds of people....
8th Jun 2014
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How to build up a data team (everything I ever learned about recruiting)

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

8th Jun 2014
During my time at Spotify, I've reviewed thousands of resumes and interviewed hundreds of people. Lots of them were rejected but lots of them also got offers. Finally, I've also had my share of offers rejected by the candidate.
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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…
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20 years of Git. Still weird, still wonderful. Twenty years ago, Git was born. How did this unlikely "information manager" take over the world?
7th Apr 2025
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20 years of Git. Still weird, still wonderful.

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

7th Apr 2025
Twenty years ago, Git was born. How did this unlikely "information manager" take over the world?
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Tech rants: PC-s use way too much power in 2021 Welcome to 2021. We have: supply chain issues no reasonably priced GPU-s consumer-grade CPU-s with...
3rd Nov 2021
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Tech rants: PC-s use way too much power in 2021

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

3rd Nov 2021
Welcome to 2021. We have: supply chain issues no reasonably priced GPU-s consumer-grade CPU-s with peak power consumption at 296W GPU-s that consume 350-400W of power under normal use At the same time, we have made great leaps in CPU/GPU architectures and chip manufacturing...
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Git Merge 2024 GitButler is organizing the 2024 Git Merge conference, Sep 19/20 in Berlin!
22nd Jul 2024
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Git Merge 2024

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22nd Jul 2024
GitButler is organizing the 2024 Git Merge conference, Sep 19/20 in Berlin!
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We put a distributed database in the browser – and made a game of it This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
11th Jul 2023
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We put a distributed database in the browser – and made a game of it

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11th Jul 2023
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Slay the Spire In lieu of more to say, I think this is the most well-designed game I've ever played. The size of a...
16th May 2019
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Slay the Spire

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

16th May 2019
In lieu of more to say, I think this is the most well-designed game I've ever played. The size of a given session is perfect for me (45-75 minutes); the difficulty curve is elegant and sloping; variety is strong. I have poured at least a hundred hours into the game and could see...
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About the time I trashed my mother's laptop Around 2003, my mother had a laptop: the Compaq Armada 1592DT. It ran Windows Me, the worst Windows...
8th Apr 2025
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About the time I trashed my mother's laptop

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8th Apr 2025
Around 2003, my mother had a laptop: the Compaq Armada 1592DT. It ran Windows Me, the worst Windows to ever exist, whopping 96 MB of RAM, and a 3 GB hard drive. My mother used it for important stuff, and I played games on it. Given the limitations of the 3 GB hard drive,...
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Owning my Social Network After yet another Mastodon drama1 and tired of migrating from one Mastodon instance to another I...
14th May 2025
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Owning my Social Network

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

14th May 2025
After yet another Mastodon drama1 and tired of migrating from one Mastodon instance to another I have decided to self-host a Mastodon instance. But Mastodon is an overkill for a single user instance, Luckily GoToSocial2 an ActivityPub social network server written in Go serves my...
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Cable Length Measurement with an HP 8007B Pulse Generator MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [...
1st Apr 2023
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Cable Length Measurement with an HP 8007B Pulse Generator

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

1st Apr 2023
MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [ ['$', '$'], ["\\(", "\\)"] ], displayMath: [ ['$$', '$$'], ["\\[", "\\]"] ], processEscapes: true, skipTags: ['script', 'noscript', 'style', 'textarea', 'pre',...
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Trying out open weights LLM-s on hardware that I can actually afford Seize the means of code production!
1st Sep 2026
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Trying out open weights LLM-s on hardware that I can actually afford

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1st Sep 2026
Seize the means of code production!
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Should US homebuilders emulate Sweden? A common sentiment I see with folks interested in improving US homebuilding is that we should try...
1st Jan 2026
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Should US homebuilders emulate Sweden?

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

1st Jan 2026
A common sentiment I see with folks interested in improving US homebuilding is that we should try and emulate Sweden.
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#14: Extreme ironing A couple of months back, I made a search engine to look for half loaves of bread in stores. I was...
3rd Jul 2022
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#14: Extreme ironing

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

3rd Jul 2022
A couple of months back, I made a search engine to look for half loaves of bread in stores. I was tired of wasting leftover bread and made this because, well I could. You can try it here: halfloafnear.me
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Static analysis with semgrep: practical examples using Docker In this post we'll get a basic semgrep environment set up in Docker running some custom rules...
20th Dec 2020
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Static analysis with semgrep: practical examples using Docker

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20th Dec 2020
In this post we'll get a basic semgrep environment set up in Docker running some custom rules against our code. Existing linters Linters like pylint for Python or eslint for JavaScript are great for general, broad language standards. But what about common nits in code review like...
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Caitlin Clark Is Back In A Big Way The basketball megastar has now played 70 games. She now holds the record—all-time—for 20+ point, 10...
1st Jul 2026
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Caitlin Clark Is Back In A Big Way

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1st Jul 2026
The basketball megastar has now played 70 games. She now holds the record—all-time—for 20+ point, 10 assist games with 14, over all-time WNBA assist leader Courtney Vandersloot.
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2024-12-04 operators on the front At the very core of telephone history, there is the telephone operator. For a lot of people, the...
4th Dec 2024
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2024-12-04 operators on the front

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

4th Dec 2024
At the very core of telephone history, there is the telephone operator. For a lot of people, the vague understanding that an operator used to be involved is the main thing they know about historic telephony. Of course, telephone historians, as a group, tend to be much more...
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How will Ethereum's multi-client philosophy interact with ZK-EVMs?
31st Mar 2023
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How will Ethereum's multi-client philosophy interact with ZK-EVMs?

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

31st Mar 2023
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The beautiful machine 20 years later, I have built an other PC!
6th Mar 2020
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The beautiful machine

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

6th Mar 2020
20 years later, I have built an other PC!
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Let a thousand societies bloom
17th Dec 2025
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Let a thousand societies bloom

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

17th Dec 2025
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Introducing TagVault Pin for AirTag Wanting a quick, safe, and secure way to attach an AirTag to our kids, we designed the TagVault Pin...
24th Jan 2024
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Introducing TagVault Pin for AirTag

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

24th Jan 2024
Wanting a quick, safe, and secure way to attach an AirTag to our kids, we designed the TagVault Pin Mount. Other AirTag cases for kids were too easy to take off, bulky, and flopped around. So we designed a better solution with an ultra-secure mount, dual hidden safety pins, and...
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Australian Open 2026: Alcaraz and Rybakina Triumph In The Shadow Of Legends The gala which precedes the tournament is not a ball, but exhibition tennis, which featured legends...
4th Feb 2026
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Australian Open 2026: Alcaraz and Rybakina Triumph In The Shadow Of Legends

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

4th Feb 2026
The gala which precedes the tournament is not a ball, but exhibition tennis, which featured legends Roger Federer, Andre Agassi, Patrick Rafter, and 2022 women’s champion Ashleigh Barty. Long-time OFB readers will know how much seeing Federer again means to me.
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Notes on running Electron This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
13th Oct 2021
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Notes on running Electron

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

13th Oct 2021
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