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Willem's Blog
Realtime human pose recognition through computer vision For an exciting new project I have been experimenting with TensorFlow, enabling realtime pose...
over a year ago
Willem's Blog
Rescuing photos from a crashed iMac This week I attempted to recover two decades of personal photo history from a crashed iMac.
over a year ago
Electronics etc…
Tesla’s FSD - First and Last Impressions TLDR: It’s a useless technology demo. Introduction Rules of Engagement Test Ride 1: from Kings Beach...
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TLDR: It’s a useless technology demo. Introduction Rules of Engagement Test Ride 1: from Kings Beach to Truckee (11 miles) Test Ride 2: I-80 from Truckee to Blue Canyon (36 miles) Test Ride 3: from West-Valley College to I-85 Entrance (1 mile) Conclusion Introduction In the past...
Posts on Made of...
My Apollo Bibliography Over the last few years — perhaps not that unusually among the nerds I know — I’ve become...
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over a year ago
Over the last few years — perhaps not that unusually among the nerds I know — I’ve become increasingly fascinated by the Apollo program (and early space program more generally), and been reading my way through a growing number of books and documentaries written about it. At a...
Posts on Made of...
Exploiting misuse of Python's "pickle" If you program in Python, you’re probably familiar with the pickle serialization library, which...
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over a year ago
If you program in Python, you’re probably familiar with the pickle serialization library, which provides for efficient binary serialization and loading of Python datatypes. Hopefully, you’re also familiar with the warning printed prominently near the start of pickle’s...
Home on Erik...
Snakebite Just promoting Spotify stuff here: check out the Snakebite repo on Github, written by Wouter de Bie....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Just promoting Spotify stuff here: check out the Snakebite repo on Github, written by Wouter de Bie. It's a super fast tool to access HDFS over CLI/Python, by accessing the namenode directly over sockets/protobuf. Spotify's developer blog features a nice blog post outlining what...
Louwrentius
Bash Shell Function Library (BSFL) released. The Bash Shell Function Library (BSFL) is a small Bash script that acts as a library for bash...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The Bash Shell Function Library (BSFL) is a small Bash script that acts as a library for bash scripts. It provides a couple of functions that makes the lives of most people using shell scripts a bit easier. The purpose of this library is to provide pre-build functions for...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Alternatives to selling at below-market-clearing prices for achieving fairness (or community...
over a year ago
Willem's Blog
WordPress: 10 tips to secure your website A lot of people use WordPress to manage their website. Prevent your site from being hacked using...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A lot of people use WordPress to manage their website. Prevent your site from being hacked using this blog post.
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My attempt at archiving nfscars.net Background My mother once had a laptop: the Compaq Armada 1592DT. It came with Windows ME which...
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over a year ago
Background My mother once had a laptop: the Compaq Armada 1592DT. It came with Windows ME which later got “upgraded” to Windows 98 SE after I managed to completely screw up the OS, a whopping 96MB of RAM and a hard drive that probably wasn’t much larger than 1-3GB. It wasn’t...
Birchtree
➕ Who cares about smartphone design? Just how important is physical design in someone's smartphone buying decision? As with so many...
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4 months ago
Just how important is physical design in someone's smartphone buying decision? As with so many things, it depends who you ask.
Nabeel S. Qureshi
How To Understand Things The smartest person I’ve ever known had a habit that, as a teenager, I found striking...
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
OP_RETURN based tokens are fundamentally flawed Two new Bitcoin Cash token solutions have recently been suggested: Simple Ledger Protocol: A token...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Two new Bitcoin Cash token solutions have recently been suggested: Simple Ledger Protocol: A token system for Bitcoin Cash Introducing Colored Coins: a Bitcoin Cash token implementation Both are improvements over Tokeda as they allow permissionless transfers. However all commit...
Home on Erik...
Optimizing things: everything is a proxy for a proxy for a proxy Say you build a machine learning model, like a movie recommender system. You need to optimize for...
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over a year ago
Say you build a machine learning model, like a movie recommender system. You need to optimize for something. You have 1-5 stars as ratings so let's optimize for mean squared error. Great. Then let's say you build a new model.
Willem's Blog
Cutting Cloud Costs Facing sky-high cloud costs, I found software optimisation vital. Discover how I saved 90% on cloud...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Facing sky-high cloud costs, I found software optimisation vital. Discover how I saved 90% on cloud expenses!
Good Enough
The Space Between Us Good Enough is a fully-remote team, and I think it's safe to say that we'll never have a physical...
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Good Enough is a fully-remote team, and I think it's safe to say that we'll never have a physical office. I've been working remotely for more than ten years, and overall I really like it. I love the flexibility it affords, being more present with our families, and that my...
Jonas Hietala
Browse posts with telescope.nvim I’ve used telescope.nvim's find files with require("telescope.builtin").find_files for quite some...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve used telescope.nvim's find files with require("telescope.builtin").find_files for quite some time. I use find files together with it’s cousin .oldfiles (find recently opened files) all the time for finding source code files, blog posts, and more. But it’s naturally...
Computer Ads from...
Comics from 1982/08 Commodore Computing International Mag Time for some humor
12 months ago
Good Enough
Fixing Things In 2009 I started doing something called "business travel." I bought a piece of dependable luggage:...
a year ago
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a year ago
In 2009 I started doing something called "business travel." I bought a piece of dependable luggage: the Travelpro WalkAbout Lite 2 22" Rollaboard Suiter. The reality was that this wasn't proper business travel. First, it'd only be two or three round-trip flights a year. Second,...
Birchtree
A personal update on Apple TV+ When Apple TV+ launched just over 5 years ago, it’s fair to say I wasn’t a fan. I thought their...
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3 months ago
When Apple TV+ launched just over 5 years ago, it’s fair to say I wasn’t a fan. I thought their launch shows were not to my taste, to put it generously. I don’t want to call out any specific show here, but I tried
Himanshu Mishra |...
Letter with no subject :name-retracted: wrote - Hi Himanshu, Congratulations from the bottom of my heart for joining...
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over a year ago
:name-retracted: wrote - Hi Himanshu, Congratulations from the bottom of my heart for joining Spotify. We really miss you at college. You're…
Neil Madden
Some incomplete thoughts about Gödel I saw another article on Gödel’s incompleteness theorems linked from Reddit today. It’s a topic I’ve...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I saw another article on Gödel’s incompleteness theorems linked from Reddit today. It’s a topic I’ve wanted to write about for some time. Although many articles do a decent job in giving an idea of what the big deal is (and this one is pretty good), they can sometimes give a...
Lighthouse Blog
Updates February 02
a year ago
Louwrentius
Some pretty NAS case designs If you are planning on building your own NAS box, I have some suggestions regarding the case. In my...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you are planning on building your own NAS box, I have some suggestions regarding the case. In my opinion, most computer case designers have absolutely no taste. Antec and Lian Li do create nice cases, but not that spectacular. And Lian Li is just very expensive. A fairly new...
Willem's Blog
Using Google Free Android Using a Google Free Android phone is uncommon these days, yet I decided to try the Volla Phone to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Using a Google Free Android phone is uncommon these days, yet I decided to try the Volla Phone to experience its freedom and privacy.
Jonas Hietala
The great Hochstapler Hey there. A lot has happened lately since my last update and my last game here. I’m now a pretty...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Hey there. A lot has happened lately since my last update and my last game here. I’m now a pretty happy student at Linköpings university and I’m reading something similar to Computer Science or Computer engineering, but I guess it’ll become whatever you make it to be. For...
Birchtree
The Vision Pro makes Touch ID more appealing Ryan Christoffel writing on 9to5Mac: Why Vision Pro Is Apple’s Best Reason Yet to Bring Touch ID...
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Ryan Christoffel writing on 9to5Mac: Why Vision Pro Is Apple’s Best Reason Yet to Bring Touch ID Back to iPhone Because Face ID on iPhone does no good when Vision Pro is strapped to your face—an unfortunate detail I’m reminded of every time I
Computer Ads from...
Comics from 1983/08 Today Mag Time for some levity. The following comics were all found in the August 1983 issue of Today...
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Time for some levity. The following comics were all found in the August 1983 issue of Today magazine. Enjoy! What computer ads would you like to see in the future? Please comment below. If you enjoyed it, please share it with your friends and relatives. Thank you.
Simply Explained
Retrospective: My Fifth Year on YouTube For the past 4 years, I have made a habit of reflecting on the previous year and set goals for the...
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over a year ago
For the past 4 years, I have made a habit of reflecting on the previous year and set goals for the new year. This year is no exception, but now I try to set better goals while reflecting on some personal things in life.
Louwrentius
'Tip of the day: Scrolling in GNU screen' Just the answer: By default, on Debian, the scroll back buffer is about 1K lines. This can...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Just the answer: By default, on Debian, the scroll back buffer is about 1K lines. This can be changed in the .screenrc file in your home directory. The following example sets the scroll back buffer to 5K lines. defscrollback 5000 Set the scroll back buffer on the fly with: First...
heavymeta.org
CrowdStrike's Impact on Aviation Just after midnight Eastern Time on July 19, 2024, the enterprise cybersecurity company CrowdStrike...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
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...
Christian Selig
Introducing Tiny Storage: a small, lightweight UserDefaults replacement Hey I'm a developer not an artist Following my last blog post about difficulties surrounding...
9 months ago
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Hey I'm a developer not an artist Following my last blog post about difficulties surrounding UserDefaults and edge cases that lead to data loss (give it a read if you haven’t, it’s an important precursor to this post!), I wanted to build something small and lightweight that...
Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course Week 8: Ancient Egypt Week 8 of my humanities crash course focused on ancient Egypt with musical excursions to modern...
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4 months ago
Week 8 of my humanities crash course focused on ancient Egypt with musical excursions to modern North Africa. I also finally saw an astonishing opera I’d heard countless times but had never seen. The internet delivers! Readings Rather than a specific text, like the Odyssey or the...
Good Enough
TIL: Turbo Frames DoEvery.Day calendar navigation was broken. We built it using Turbo Rails as it was being developed....
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over a year ago
DoEvery.Day calendar navigation was broken. We built it using Turbo Rails as it was being developed. As we have updated libraries, including Rails, the API has changed. In order to get the calendar navigation working again, I had to pull out some old hacks that made use of...
Birchtree
The mythical iOS 18.4 Zac Hall writing for 9to5Mac: Apple’s Competitive Edge in AI Hinges on These Three Unreleased Siri...
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Zac Hall writing for 9to5Mac: Apple’s Competitive Edge in AI Hinges on These Three Unreleased Siri Features It feels like a make-or-break moment for Siri, and these three remaining iOS 18 features are key indicators of Apple’s ability to leverage AI with Siri. These three Siri
detreville
The IBM 701 "IBM's first computer"
over a year ago
Simply Explained
Shelly 2.5 + ESPHome: potential fire hazard + fix If you have flashed your Shelly 2.5 with ESPHome, make sure to configure GPIO16. Otherwise, the pin...
over a year ago
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If you have flashed your Shelly 2.5 with ESPHome, make sure to configure GPIO16. Otherwise, the pin will be short-circuited and cause the unit to heat up significantly, creating a potential fire hazard!
Vitalik Buterin's...
7ème tour des subventions Gitcoin - Rétrospective
over a year ago
Arduino Blog
Find your way to AI with Arduino, at the EDGE AI FOUNDATION’s event in Milan We’re heading to Milan! On July 2nd-4th, Arduino will be taking part in the EDGE AI FOUNDATION’s...
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We’re heading to Milan! On July 2nd-4th, Arduino will be taking part in the EDGE AI FOUNDATION’s annual European event – a three-day gathering dedicated to exploring the future of artificial intelligence at the edge. With a mix of inspiring keynotes, hands-on workshops, product...
Odds and Ends of...
Nobody knows what the National Data Library is (not even the government) A policy wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma
8 months ago
Willem's Blog
Durable Smartphone
4 months ago
Jonas Hietala
Being Productive School’s been going on now for… Is it a month and a half maybe? I don’t know really but it’s all...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
School’s been going on now for… Is it a month and a half maybe? I don’t know really but it’s all going so fast, week after week is disappearing and I don’t know where they go but I know that I’m at least not wasting them like I did most of last year! Last year I managed school...
Jonas Hietala
Long Term Goals I have a lot of things I want to do. Right now I want to go to the kids training tomorrow and also...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I have a lot of things I want to do. Right now I want to go to the kids training tomorrow and also to our training time. I haven’t trained a lot lately so it feels good to do something again and training the kids is very rewarding. On Monday I have the next graph theory lecture...
Simply Explained
My Sixth Year as YouTube Creator (statistics + retrospective) Every new year I reflect on the previous year and set new goals. Last year has been my most...
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over a year ago
Every new year I reflect on the previous year and set new goals. Last year has been my most successful year on YouTube so far, and I'd like to share some statistics and thoughts. I will also go over how my email newsletter is doing and where I'm headed. And finally, I'll set...
Himanshu Mishra |...
Design of Public Posts: Twitter vs Facebook What design tells you about the company’s values Both Facebook and Twitter allow posts to be...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
What design tells you about the company’s values Both Facebook and Twitter allow posts to be publicly accessible by people who have not…
Notes on software...
Writing a simple JSON parser Writing a JSON parser is one of the easiest ways to get familiar with parsing techniques. The format...
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over a year ago
Writing a JSON parser is one of the easiest ways to get familiar with parsing techniques. The format is extremely simple. It's defined recursively so you get a slight challenge compared to, say, parsing Brainfuck; and you probably already use JSON. Aside from that last point,...
Birchtree
Apple’s new iPads are here, let’s break them down Another day, another opportunity to rate my 2025 Apple predictions! iPad Here’s what I predicted...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Another day, another opportunity to rate my 2025 Apple predictions! iPad Here’s what I predicted would happen with the base iPad this year: I fully expect to see the 11th gen iPad in 2025, and I think it will come with a jump to the A17 Pro or
Arduino Blog
Agitating homemade PCBs with ease If you want to make PCBs at home and you don’t happen to own a CNC mill, then you’ll probably need...
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9 months ago
If you want to make PCBs at home and you don’t happen to own a CNC mill, then you’ll probably need to turn to chemical etching. Use one of several different techniques to mask the blank PCB’s copper that you want to keep, then toss the whole thing into a bath to dissolve away the...
lcamtuf’s thing
The Long Winter Interior of a vast cavern.
2 months ago
Willem's Blog
Hospitalised with MCADD This week our son was hospitalised because a regular illness caused him to keep vomiting, a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This week our son was hospitalised because a regular illness caused him to keep vomiting, a dangerous situation if you're diagnosed with MCADD.
Christian Selig
The Case for Getting Rid of TestFlight Review I tweeted today about how I think TestFlight review should become a thing of the past and many...
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over a year ago
I tweeted today about how I think TestFlight review should become a thing of the past and many developers seemed to agree, but some had questions so I wanted to expand on my thoughts a little. TestFlight’s awesome. But like App Store submissions, TestFlight betas also require a...
Yazin Alirhayim
Tracking where a WhatsApp user came from At Amal, we have an AI chat bot that works over WhatsApp — allowing our customers to speak to their...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
At Amal, we have an AI chat bot that works over WhatsApp — allowing our customers to speak to their bank account, asking questions like “What’s my balance” and “How much have I spent on Uber’s this month?”. A problem we faced really early on when connecting to WhatsApp was that...
Arduino Blog
Circuit Canvas can help you quickly create illustrated wiring diagrams Good documentation is extremely useful when conceiving, building, or sharing electronic circuit...
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Good documentation is extremely useful when conceiving, building, or sharing electronic circuit designs, but traditional schematics and technical drawings are difficult for non-professionals to interpret and create. Makers can benefit from intuitive illustrations that look good...
Louwrentius
Experiences running ZFS on Ubuntu Linux 12.04 I really like ZFS because with current data sets, I do believe that data corruption may start...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I really like ZFS because with current data sets, I do believe that data corruption may start becoming an issue. The thing is that the license under which ZFS is released does not permit it to be used in the Linux kernel. That's quite unfortunate, but there is hope. There is a...
Greater Still by...
Joining Rostra I am thrilled to share that I am joining Rostra, where I’ll be working alongside Lulu Meservey and...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
I am thrilled to share that I am joining Rostra, where I’ll be working alongside Lulu Meservey and Sergey Alexashenko to help founders go direct.
somenice
5 Frames with Nikon FM and Fomapan 100 On a few photowalks around Kitsilano in Vancouver BC with my first roll of Fomapan Classic 100. All...
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5 months ago
On a few photowalks around Kitsilano in Vancouver BC with my first roll of Fomapan Classic 100. All pictures shot with older, non-AI Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 lens. Developed in Ilford Ilfosol3 for 5 minutes at 20°C and scanned with a cheap film scanner. Color has been removed and some...
The Pragmatic...
Paying down tech debt: further learnings In a counter-intuitive observation: by making small, non-functional improvements, you gain more...
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In a counter-intuitive observation: by making small, non-functional improvements, you gain more confidence in a new codebase, and can start to move faster.
Home on Erik...
Are data sets the new server rooms? This blog post Data sets are the new server rooms makes the point that a bunch of companies raise a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This blog post Data sets are the new server rooms makes the point that a bunch of companies raise a ton of money to go get really proprietary awesome data as a competitive moat. Because once you have the data, you can build a better product, and no one can copy it (at least not...
Notes on software...
Build a serverless ACID database with this one neat trick (atomic PutIfAbsent) Delta Lake is an open protocol for serverless ACID databases. Due to its simplicity, scalability,...
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9 months ago
Delta Lake is an open protocol for serverless ACID databases. Due to its simplicity, scalability, and the number of open-source implementations, it's quickly becoming the DuckDB of serverless transactional databases for analytics workloads. Iceberg is a contender too, and is...
Birchtree
Now I love Pedro Pascal even more Seemingly lovely actor Pedro Pascal posted this photo to Instagram a few days ago (via Kottke): ...
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4 months ago
Seemingly lovely actor Pedro Pascal posted this photo to Instagram a few days ago (via Kottke): View this post on Instagram A post shared by Pedro Pascal he/him (@pascalispunk) In response to a transphobic comment someone left, he...
Birchtree
400 million people use OpenAI/ChatGPT every week Kate Rooney for CNBC: OpenAI Tops 400 Million Users Despite DeepSeek’s Emergence The San...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Kate Rooney for CNBC: OpenAI Tops 400 Million Users Despite DeepSeek’s Emergence The San Francisco-based tech company had 400 million weekly active users as of February, up 33% from 300 million in December, the company’s chief operating officer, Brad Lightcap, told CNBC. I don’t
Home on Erik...
Approximate nearest news As you may know, one of my (very geeky) interests is Approximate nearest neigbor methods, and I'm...
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over a year ago
As you may know, one of my (very geeky) interests is Approximate nearest neigbor methods, and I'm the author of a Python package called Annoy. I've also built a benchmark suite called ann-benchmarks to compare different packages.
Christian Selig
Logging information from iOS Widgets Lately users have been emailing me with a few odd things happening with their Apollo iOS 14 home...
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over a year ago
Lately users have been emailing me with a few odd things happening with their Apollo iOS 14 home screen widgets, and some well-placed logs can really help with identifying what’s going wrong. iOS has a sophisticated built in logging mechanism, os_log, and now with SwiftLogger in...
Jonas Hietala
How I made a kick-ass cover for my self-published book If you want to publish a book, one of the most important things to consider is the cover—after all,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you want to publish a book, one of the most important things to consider is the cover—after all, we judge the book by the cover. And I did it the universally recommended way: I hired a designer. Simple, right? But real talk; it’s not exactly that simple and I did a bunch of...
Louwrentius
What home NAS builders should understand about silent data corruption Introduction When it comes to dealing with storage in a DIY NAS context, two important topics come...
over a year ago
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Introduction When it comes to dealing with storage in a DIY NAS context, two important topics come up: Unrecoverable read errors (UREs) or what old people like me call 'bad sectors' Silent data corruption (data corruption unnoticed by the storage layers) I get a strong impression...
Notes on software...
Intuitions for Distributed Consensus by Phil Eaton This is an external talk of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
9 months ago
Lighthouse Blog
Updates April 05
a year ago
Himanshu Mishra |...
Google Summer of Code 2016 Report : Stingray It began 5 months ago, in February. Due to my recent interests in Image Processing, I had made few...
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It began 5 months ago, in February. Due to my recent interests in Image Processing, I had made few Pull Requests to the scikit-image library…
Birchtree
My default apps of 2024 Last year I was the 27th of four hundred and freaking eight people to write about their default...
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Last year I was the 27th of four hundred and freaking eight people to write about their default apps, and I though it would be fun to turn this into a tradition and revisit the list to see if anything has changed since last year. ✨ next to each change
Jonas Hietala
The T-34/2 keyboard layout The T-34/2 layout. QMK Heatmap Generator, with all layers and combos. It’s been 6 months since my...
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over a year ago
The T-34/2 layout. QMK Heatmap Generator, with all layers and combos. It’s been 6 months since my last update on the T-34 keyboard layout, and I’ve made some changes I’d like to document here. As seen in the heatmap above, the layout seems quite decent. There’s still an issue...
Jonas Hietala
Notifications with xmonad/irssi/urxvt So I’ve been idling on irc for years now and I’ve been using irssi for that, which works fine. I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
So I’ve been idling on irc for years now and I’ve been using irssi for that, which works fine. I have not had notifications enabled, so I can see from the statusbar whenever someone messages me. As I’ve never been very active this has been fine, but now I figured it’s time to fix...
Willem's Blog
Is the Apple Watch the modern tool watch? I tested the Apple Watch during my work in Frankfurt this week where I had to go inside an internet...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I tested the Apple Watch during my work in Frankfurt this week where I had to go inside an internet data centre.
Applied Cartography
Klarna: nineteen years, twenty billion kroner I tend to ignore the entire genre of what we now refer to as BNPL businesses — Affirm, Afterpay...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
I tend to ignore the entire genre of what we now refer to as BNPL businesses — Affirm, Afterpay (RIP), Klarna, et al — not for any particular sin I feel that they are committing, but because they in my mind are much less interesting companies with less volatile upside than the...
Old Vintage...
So thieves broke into your storage unit - again If you've been wondering why entries have been a little slow lately, let me tell you a story. All...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
If you've been wondering why entries have been a little slow lately, let me tell you a story. All collectors tend to be a bit obsessive by nature, and us classic computer nerds probably pick up more hardware than we can (or should) store in our residence — especially if the...
Notes on software...
Picking up volleyball in NYC with Goodrec and New York Urban I was so intimidated to go at first, but it is in fact easy and fun to start playing beginner...
6 months ago
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I was so intimidated to go at first, but it is in fact easy and fun to start playing beginner volleyball in New York. The people are so friendly and welcoming that it has been easy to keep playing consistently every week since I started for the first time this August. It's been a...
Arduino Blog
Exploring fungal intelligence with biohybrid robots powered by Arduino At Cornell University, Dr. Anand Kumar Mishra and his team have been conducting groundbreaking...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
At Cornell University, Dr. Anand Kumar Mishra and his team have been conducting groundbreaking research that brings together the fields of robotics, biology, and engineering. Their recent experiments, published in Science, explore how fungal mycelia can be used to control robots....
Willem's Blog
Listen to your body Using health data gathered by sensors and wearables I learned to listen to my body. Now I have...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Using health data gathered by sensors and wearables I learned to listen to my body. Now I have stopped using bluetooth sensors all together.
Electronics etc…
Zephyr Ravenna Control Board Replacement Blog post that probably has an audience of one, myself. Introduction Zephyr Ravenna - Confusing...
a year ago
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a year ago
Blog post that probably has an audience of one, myself. Introduction Zephyr Ravenna - Confusing Information Two PCBs - Control Board & Switch Assembly Switch of the Breaker!!! Glass Canopy Removal Duct Cover Removal Swapping the Control...
Computer Ads from...
Ergotron's MacTilt MacTilt is the Solution
7 months ago
Matt Mullenweg
Michael Palmisano on Collier I’ve been obsessed with Jacob Collier since I first saw his Don’t You Worry ‘Bout A Thing cover on...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
I’ve been obsessed with Jacob Collier since I first saw his Don’t You Worry ‘Bout A Thing cover on YouTube, and one of my favorite genres of videos is genius musicians breaking down the incredible musical stuff Jacob is doing. (He even has his own instrument now.) This reaction...
Jonas Hietala
Let's create a Tree-sitter grammar One of my favorite features in Neovim is the Tree-sitter integration. It allows for fast syntax...
a year ago
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a year ago
One of my favorite features in Neovim is the Tree-sitter integration. It allows for fast syntax highlighting that works well even in an error state (often the case when you’re editing code), and it has additional semantics (you can differentiate between function parameters and...
lcamtuf’s thing
RAM: the forgotten history We owe computers not to Charles Babbage, but to the invention of electronically-controlled working...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
We owe computers not to Charles Babbage, but to the invention of electronically-controlled working memory.
Vitalik Buterin's...
An incomplete guide to stealth addresses
over a year ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
A Quick Gasprice Market Analysis
over a year ago
Home on Erik...
Meta-blogging (This is not a very relevant/useful post for regular readers – feel free to skip. I thought I would...
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(This is not a very relevant/useful post for regular readers – feel free to skip. I thought I would share it so people can find it on Google.) My blog blew up twice in a week earlier this year when I landed on Hacker News.
Home on Erik...
Bagging as a regularizer One thing I encountered today was a trick using bagging as a way to go beyond a point estimate and...
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One thing I encountered today was a trick using bagging as a way to go beyond a point estimate and get an approximation for the full distribution. This can then be used to penalize predictions with larger uncertainty, which helps reducing false positives.
Style over Substance
Using the EZCOO / AVStar HAE118 HDMI2.1 Audio Extractor for PS5/Xbox audio Back in 2021, we bought a PlayStation 5 (PS5) as our main living room console. Making the most out...
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Back in 2021, we bought a PlayStation 5 (PS5) as our main living room console. Making the most out of this console meant we also had to buy a new TV, as our old TV was not 4K-compatible and did not support HDMI2.1, the new A/V standard required to support all of the PS5’s...
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What's up with music recommendations? I just answered a Quora question about what, if any, are the differences in the algorithms that are...
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I just answered a Quora question about what, if any, are the differences in the algorithms that are behind recommendations for music and movies. Of course, every media type is different. For instance, there's fundamental reasons why latent factor models works really well for...
Arduino Blog
Arduino Cloud Café: Teach real coding concepts with Arduino AI Assistant Are you an educator looking to make coding easier and faster to teach?  Join Andrea Richetta,...
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Are you an educator looking to make coding easier and faster to teach?  Join Andrea Richetta, Principal Product Evangelist at Arduino, and Roxana Escobedo, EDU Product Marketing Specialist, for a special Arduino Cloud Café live webinar on July 7th at 5PM CET. You will discover...
Notes on software...
Writing a document database from scratch in Go: Lucene-like filters and indexes In this post we'll write a rudimentary document database from scratch in Go. In less than 500 lines...
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In this post we'll write a rudimentary document database from scratch in Go. In less than 500 lines of code we'll be able to support the following interactions, inspired by Elasticsearch: $ curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"name": "Kevin", "age": "45"}'...
Birchtree
This challenge escalated quickly! Check it out on YouTube and Podcasts! Matt and Chris have all the new Apple hardware, and Niléane...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Check it out on YouTube and Podcasts! Matt and Chris have all the new Apple hardware, and Niléane takes the challenge to the next level. Weekly Topics iPhone 16e iPad Air (M3) MacBook Air (M4) Other Things Discussed Niléane’s brilliant Touch ID setup TP-Link
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a year ago
Notes on software...
A write-ahead log is not a universal part of durability A database does not need a write-ahead log (WAL) to achieve durability. A database can write its...
a year ago
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A database does not need a write-ahead log (WAL) to achieve durability. A database can write its long-term data structure durably to disk before returning to a client. Granted, this is a bad idea! And granted, a WAL is critical for durability by design in most databases. But I...
Opsbros
Volumer I've always wanted a good USB volume control, so I decided to design one.
over a year ago
Arduino Blog
Introducing Arduino cores with ZephyrOS (beta): take your embedded development to the next level Last July, when we announced the beginning of the transition from Mbed to Zephyr, we promised to...
7 months ago
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Last July, when we announced the beginning of the transition from Mbed to Zephyr, we promised to release the first beta by the end of 2024. Today, we are excited to announce the first release of Arduino cores with ZephyrOS in beta! ZephyrOS is an open-source, real-time operating...
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Books I consumed in 2017 Turns out having a toddler isn't super compatible with reading. I used to read ~100 books/year as a...
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Turns out having a toddler isn't super compatible with reading. I used to read ~100 books/year as a teenager, but it has slowly deteriorated to maybe 20-30 books, at most. And I don't even finish all of them because life is too short!
Matt Mullenweg
Observer Article Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly writes for the Observer, WordPress Founder Matt Mullenweg Is ‘More...
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Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly writes for the Observer, WordPress Founder Matt Mullenweg Is ‘More Energized’ Than Ever Amid WP Engine Battle.
Matt Blewitt
7 Languages in 7 Weeks for 2025 It’s been over 14 years since the original 7 Languages in 7 Weeks was first published, giving a...
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It’s been over 14 years since the original 7 Languages in 7 Weeks was first published, giving a hands on tour of Ruby, Clojure, Haskell, Io, Scala, Erlang and Prolog. Ruby achieved critical mass, to some degree so did Scala, with the others being popular within their specific...
Applied Cartography
Talking to customers You say that these numbers mean dial it down. I say they mean dial it up. You haven't gotten...
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You say that these numbers mean dial it down. I say they mean dial it up. You haven't gotten through. There are people you haven't persuaded yet. These number mean dial it up. Otherwise you're like the French radical, watching the crowd run by and saying, "There go my people. I...
Birchtree
Trump’s latest executive order plainly states no one has authority over him The White House: Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies Sec. 7. Rules of Conduct Guiding Federal...
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The White House: Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies Sec. 7. Rules of Conduct Guiding Federal Employees’ Interpretation of the Law. The President and the Attorney General, subject to the President’s supervision and control, shall provide authoritative interpretations of law...
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The software engineering rule of 3 Here's a dumb extremely accurate rule I'm postulating* for software engineering projects: *you need...
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Here's a dumb extremely accurate rule I'm postulating* for software engineering projects: *you need at least 3 examples before you solve the right problem*. This is what I've noticed: Don't factor out shared code between two classes.
Louwrentius
Lion's Disk Utility not compatible with CoreStorage and Filevault My 1 TB hard drive of my 2011 27" iMac was partitioned with: A bootable partition with Mac OS X...
over a year ago
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My 1 TB hard drive of my 2011 27" iMac was partitioned with: A bootable partition with Mac OS X Lion Time machine partition (I use an external SSD as my main OS) Bootcamp partition with windows A data partition containg... data. The problem is that CoreStorage is too new. Disk...
Engineers Need Art
Same Stop Marvelling at the full circle life seems to have taken after retirement.
over a year ago
Posts on Made of...
wpa_supplicant: GUI and wpa_action I’ve made two new interesting discoveries about wpa_supplicant since writing my last blog post on...
over a year ago
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I’ve made two new interesting discoveries about wpa_supplicant since writing my last blog post on the subject. (Actually, I pretty much made both of them while reading documentation in order to write it, and have been lame about writing them up). Using wpa_gui It turns out that...
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Smallest USB-C MIDI Synth [Hardware] The smallest and silliest MIDI synth yet
a year ago
Birchtree
More YouTube goodies? More YouTube goodies. Here we go again! This is a fascinating look at trying to find the biggest tube TV On the other...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Here we go again! This is a fascinating look at trying to find the biggest tube TV On the other end of things, here's a QVC presenter destroying a TV live on camera. Cybertruck reveal vibes here too If you've tried Balatro and haven't
Willem's Blog
Search like a pro: Google search operators Read along for a comprehensive list of advanced Google search operators that allow you to filter...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Read along for a comprehensive list of advanced Google search operators that allow you to filter your search results.
Construction Physics
What Learning by Doing Looks Like The evolution of polycrystalline diamond drill bits
7 months ago
Odds and Ends of...
Have I ever been a NIMBY? And other questions from the Spring mailbag.
2 months ago
Abishek Muthian
Smart Watch to Smart Clock I was one of the early adopters of smart watch ecosystem with OG LG G Watch, but lately I have...
over a year ago
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I was one of the early adopters of smart watch ecosystem with OG LG G Watch, but lately I have stopped wearing watches altogether as they're sweaty and that I've become weary of having devices with large batteries closer to my body especially those with connectivity. But the LG G...
./techtipsy
My cat water fountain comes with a spicy USB power adapter It turns out that you can’t trust any USB type A power adapter to be within spec. I have a Catit...
a year ago
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It turns out that you can’t trust any USB type A power adapter to be within spec. I have a Catit Flower Fountain for my two adorable cats. The idea of a water fountain for cats may sound odd, but having one really helps with cats staying hydrated and that alone avoids all sorts...
Louwrentius
My 71 TiB ZFS NAS after 10 years and zero drive failures My 4U 71 TiB ZFS NAS built with twenty-four 4 TB drives is over 10 years old and still going...
10 months ago
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My 4U 71 TiB ZFS NAS built with twenty-four 4 TB drives is over 10 years old and still going strong. Although now on its second motherboard and power supply, the system has yet to experience a single drive failure (knock on wood). Zero drive failures in ten years, how is that...
Willem's Blog
Realtime service uptime monitoring Downtime happens and it is nothing to be ashamed of, just make sure that you set yourself up to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Downtime happens and it is nothing to be ashamed of, just make sure that you set yourself up to discover problems as soon as possible! Know about problems before your customers do!
Willem's Blog
Being a volunteer in Amsterdam-Zuidoost About my work as volunteer in the local community center in Amsterdam Zuidoost
over a year ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
On Medium-of-Exchange Token Valuations
over a year ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
What in the Ethereum application ecosystem excites me
over a year ago
Birchtree
Apple’s 2024 report card: iPad This is the second in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
This is the second in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I did this last year and you can read last year’s iPad report card here. iPad Pro I'm so happy I get to say it was a
Arduino Blog
This beautiful table creates art in the sand Kinetic sand art tables are pretty hot right now, because they look really cool. They’re like zen...
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Kinetic sand art tables are pretty hot right now, because they look really cool. They’re like zen gardens that rake themselves in intricate patterns. But most of the builds we’ve seen use a conventional cartesian CNC layout or polar layout. This table by Newsons Electronics takes...
Good Enough
Pika: Start Your Happy Blog Have you thought about starting or restarting a blogging habit? Have you wanted to write on the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Have you thought about starting or restarting a blogging habit? Have you wanted to write on the internet, but at your own place and at your own address rather than on a social network? Have you been overwhelmed by the online writing options that you’ve found? Well, have we got...
Notes on software...
Learning a new codebase: hacking on nginx I have never contributed to nginx. My C skills are 1/10. But downloading the source, hacking it up,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I have never contributed to nginx. My C skills are 1/10. But downloading the source, hacking it up, compiling it, and running it doesn't scare me. This post is to help you overcome your own fears about doing so. Not necessarily because you should be running out-of-tree diffs in...
Odds and Ends of...
This road is broken – and nobody can fix it The spiders aren't the only thing stopping Ebbsfleet's development
3 months ago
Willem's Blog
Offline Music People sometimes act suprised when I tell them about my music hobby, manually converting CD's to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
People sometimes act suprised when I tell them about my music hobby, manually converting CD's to lossless audio files; there is some reason to this madness however!
Odds and Ends of...
Christmas Mailbag! Is Elon Musk actually smart? Will HS2 ever be properly finished? Do I like Dominic Cummings? And...
6 months ago
watchTowr Labs
QNAP QTS - QNAPping At The Wheel (CVE-2024-27130 and friends) Infosec is, at it’s heart, all about that data. Obtaining access to it (or disrupting access to it)...
a year ago
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a year ago
Infosec is, at it’s heart, all about that data. Obtaining access to it (or disrupting access to it) is in every ransomware gang and APT group’s top-10 to-do-list items, and so it makes sense that our research voyage would, at some point, cross paths with products
Abishek Muthian
Are we worrying more about AI than global warming So, my friend said this — If I may state mine — It’s not we’re more worried about AI, it’s the media...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
So, my friend said this — If I may state mine — It’s not we’re more worried about AI, it’s the media inducing cognitive biases fuelled by Hollywood when a celebrity speaks about dooms day AI. Let’s discuss some facts, Let’s take prof. Hawing, he’s vocal about the need to keep AI...
Home on Erik...
Headcount goals, feature factories, and when to hire those mythical 10x people When I started building up a tech team for Better, I made a very conscious decision to pay at the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When I started building up a tech team for Better, I made a very conscious decision to pay at the high end to get people. I thought this made more sense: they cost a bit more money to hire, but output usually more than compensates for it.
Toni Lijic
On Design and Chemistry How I transitioned from chemistry to design, and back again.
10 months ago
Notes on software...
What's the big deal about key-value databases like FoundationDB and RocksDB? Let's assume you're familiar with basic SQL databases like PostgreSQL and MySQL, and document...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Let's assume you're familiar with basic SQL databases like PostgreSQL and MySQL, and document databases like MongoDB and Elasticsearch. You probably know Redis too. But you're hearing more and more about embedded key-value stores like RocksDB, LevelDB, PebbleDB, and so on....
Matt Mullenweg
Carmack & Rogan I guess something has changed with the Joe Rogan / Spotify deal and now all the old episodes are on...
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I guess something has changed with the Joe Rogan / Spotify deal and now all the old episodes are on YouTube again, which means the gems from the archives can now pop up. I was alerted to this conversation between Joe Rogan and John Carmack, and it’s pure gold. I know I’m five...
Good Enough
Good Enough Marketing: The Preparation We have a couple of exciting projects—Guestbook! Yay.Boo!—that we want to share with the world. But...
a year ago
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a year ago
We have a couple of exciting projects—Guestbook! Yay.Boo!—that we want to share with the world. But that’s a difficult task for us because, honestly, we’re terrible not good at self-promotion. We’d rather spend time making things than talking about the things we’ve made. We’d...
Posts on Made of...
Lab Notebooking for the Software Engineer A few weeks ago, I wrote that software engineers should keep lab notebooks as they work, in addition...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A few weeks ago, I wrote that software engineers should keep lab notebooks as they work, in addition to just documenting things after the fact. Today, I’m going to share the techniques that I’ve found useful to try to get in the habit of lab-notebooking my work, even though I...
Notes on software...
Starting a minimal Common Lisp project If you've only vaguely heard of Lisp before or studied Scheme in school, Common Lisp is nothing like...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you've only vaguely heard of Lisp before or studied Scheme in school, Common Lisp is nothing like what you'd expect. While functional programming is all the rage in Scheme, Common Lisp was "expressly designed to be a real-world engineering language rather than a theoretically...
Louwrentius
Firewire: the forgotten security risk The battle between Firewire and USB has been won by USB, but Firewire is still arround. It is not...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The battle between Firewire and USB has been won by USB, but Firewire is still arround. It is not that prevalent, cheap computers lack Firewire, but they often have a PCMCIA slot. The thing is this: Firewire allows direct access to all RAM of your computer. An attacker...
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #60: Greenpeace is complaining about... solar energy? Plus why the west has semiconductor politics all wrong, and why you should watch Conclave.
4 months ago
Lighthouse Blog
Updates September 9: Feed finding
10 months ago
Home on Erik...
Deep learning for… chess (addendum) My previous blog post about deep learning for chess blew up and made it to Hacker News and a couple...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My previous blog post about deep learning for chess blew up and made it to Hacker News and a couple of other places. One pretty amazing thing was that the Github repo got 150 stars overnight.
anderegg.ca
An update on Mastodon and referer headers Earlier this year, I looked into why Mastodon didn’t include referer headers. As someone who enjoys...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Earlier this year, I looked into why Mastodon didn’t include referer headers. As someone who enjoys following web analytics, it seemed a shame that Mastodon appeared never to send any traffic. I knew this wasn’t the case, but that lack of traffic data certainly wasn’t doing...
Jonas Hietala
Monty Hall I’m currently reading The Drunkard’s Walk, a well written book about probabilities. There they...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’m currently reading The Drunkard’s Walk, a well written book about probabilities. There they discussed the famous Monty Hall Problem. I’ve heard about it before and I know the answer, but he mentioned a simulation of the problem and that sounded cool so I made a simulation of...
Arduino Blog
DIY micro lab analyzes ammonia levels in blood and urine Cirrhosis of the liver is an extremely serious condition that requires extensive medical monitoring...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Cirrhosis of the liver is an extremely serious condition that requires extensive medical monitoring and often intervention. Progression of the condition can be fatal, so even if caught early it must be monitored closely. But, like most things in medicine, that gets expensive....
Arduino Blog
DIY ECU controls Honda Insight’s Kubota diesel engine The Honda Insight was the first hybrid car released in North America and Honda put serious effort...
a year ago
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The Honda Insight was the first hybrid car released in North America and Honda put serious effort into making it as efficient as was practical at the time. That meant aerodynamic streamlining, which is why the first-generation Insight had very distinct covers over the rear...
./techtipsy
Lenovo ThinkCentre M900 Tiny: how does it fare as a home server? My evenings of absent-minded local auction site scrolling1 paid off: I now own a Lenovo ThinkCentre...
a month ago
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My evenings of absent-minded local auction site scrolling1 paid off: I now own a Lenovo ThinkCentre M900 Tiny. It’s relatively old, being manufactured in 20162, but it’s tiny and has a lot of useful life left in it. It’s also featured in the TinyMiniMicro series by...
Posts on Made of...
reptyr: Attach a running process to a new terminal Over the last week, I’ve written a nifty tool that I call reptyr. reptyr is a utility for taking an...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Over the last week, I’ve written a nifty tool that I call reptyr. reptyr is a utility for taking an existing running program and attaching it to a new terminal. Started a long-running process over ssh, but have to leave and don’t want to interrupt it? Just start a screen, use...
Neil Madden
Digital signatures and how to avoid them Wikipedia’s definition of a digital signature is: A digital signature is a mathematical scheme for...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Wikipedia’s definition of a digital signature is: A digital signature is a mathematical scheme for verifying the authenticity of digital messages or documents. A valid digital signature on a message gives a recipient confidence that the message came from a sender known to the...
./techtipsy
Turns out that I'm a 'prolific open-source influencer' now Yes, you read that right. I’m a prolific open-source influencer now. Some years ago I set up a...
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Yes, you read that right. I’m a prolific open-source influencer now. Some years ago I set up a Google Alert with my name, for fun. Who knows what it might show one day? On 7th of February, it fired an alert. Turns out that my thoughts on Ubuntu were somewhat popular, and it ended...
Christian Selig
Server side Live Activities guide iOS 17.2 gained the capability to start Live Activities from a server, which is pretty cool and...
9 months ago
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iOS 17.2 gained the capability to start Live Activities from a server, which is pretty cool and handy! I’ve been playing around with it a bit and found some parts a bit confusing, so I thought I’d do a little write up for future me as well as anyone else who could benefit! (For...
Arduino Blog
This small device enables users to feel braille through haptics For the visually impaired community, most of their interactions on mobile phones are confined to...
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For the visually impaired community, most of their interactions on mobile phones are confined to text-to-speech (TTS) interfaces that read portions of the screen aloud. Dynamic braille displays also exist as a tactile means of communication, but their prices can get close to...
Computer Ads from...
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3 months ago
Christian Selig
Juno 1.1 If you’re new, Juno is a visionOS app for YouTube! Juno’s initial launch blew my socks off. It was...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you’re new, Juno is a visionOS app for YouTube! Juno’s initial launch blew my socks off. It was such a cool feeling to release an app on day one of the Apple Vision Pro’s launch, and having people be so excited about it and have such great feedback made it that much better....
Notes on software...
How to get better at recursion tldr; reimplement standard library functions in your favorite language without loops. Background For...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
tldr; reimplement standard library functions in your favorite language without loops. Background For a few years after college I spent a lot of free time doing projects in Standard ML and Scheme. As a result I got really comfortable doing recursion. The two big reasons for this...
Louwrentius
Blu Ray is dead HD-DVD may be dead, but Blu Ray is just as dead. The whole concept of optical media is dead....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
HD-DVD may be dead, but Blu Ray is just as dead. The whole concept of optical media is dead. Honestly, who is still burning CD's or DVD's nowadays? (If you are, why for Christ sake? I can't think of a single good reason) And at 10 euros ($100) for a single Blu Ray disk, you must...
Christian Selig
Embedding Godot games in iOS is easy Recently there’s been very exciting developments in the Godot game engine, that have allowed really...
a month ago
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a month ago
Recently there’s been very exciting developments in the Godot game engine, that have allowed really easy and powerful integration into an existing normal iOS or Mac app. I couldn’t find a lot of documentation or discussion about this, so I wanted to shine some light on why this...
Never Met a Science
The YouTube Apparatus Two quick announcements:
a year ago
Posts on Made of...
Distributed cloud builds for everyone CPU cycles are cheaper than they have ever been, and cloud computing has never been more ubiquitous....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
CPU cycles are cheaper than they have ever been, and cloud computing has never been more ubiquitous. All the major cloud providers offer generous free tiers, and services like GitHub Actions offer free compute resources to open-source repositories. So why do so many developers...
Arduino Blog
The Club Master is a Nano RP2040 Connect-powered device that improves your golf swing When playing golf, few things are as important as using the correct form when swinging, since even...
a year ago
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When playing golf, few things are as important as using the correct form when swinging, since even small deviations can be the difference between a hole-in-one and additional strokes. To improve his game, Concept Bytes has designed a small clip-on device called the “Club Master.”...
Neil Madden
Regular JSON For better or worse, depending on your perspective, JSON has become a dominant data format and shows...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For better or worse, depending on your perspective, JSON has become a dominant data format and shows no signs of being replaced any time soon. There are good reasons for that: on the face of it, it provides a very simple format with just enough features to cover a lot of...
Birchtree
Raycast does this The gang gets to work defending their Mac login items. Who has the most minimal startup? Who's got...
2 months ago
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The gang gets to work defending their Mac login items. Who has the most minimal startup? Who's got the craziest apps? This episode has more new apps mentioned in any episode of Comfort Zone ever! Watch or listen now. Other Things Discussed Chris's hyper key video
Abishek Muthian
Butt Pomodoro - A butt triggered pomodoro timer A need gap of Remind me to take break when working from home was recently posted. Forgetting to take...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A need gap of Remind me to take break when working from home was recently posted. Forgetting to take regular breaks when immersed with work in front of a computer is a common problem, especially when working from home. On the flip side, getting distracted from completing a task...
Good Enough
You Complete Me When Good Enough was in its infancy as a truly American LLC (formed in Delaware and representing one...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
When Good Enough was in its infancy as a truly American LLC (formed in Delaware and representing one or two people who were only semi-serious about a business), it was fun to play around with building websites. Shawn and I were truly just playing and exploring, more than anything...
Louwrentius
Linux network interface bonding / trunking or how to get beyond 1 Gb/s This article discusses Linux bonding and how to achieve 2 Gb/s transfer speeds with a single TCP/UDP...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This article discusses Linux bonding and how to achieve 2 Gb/s transfer speeds with a single TCP/UDP connection. UPDATE July 2011 Due to hardware problems, I was not able to achieve transfer speeds beyond 150 MB/s. By replacing a network card with one from another vendor (HP...
Construction Physics
Why the U.S. Can’t Build Icebreaking Ships I want to say thank you to all the people who sent condolences following last week’s post,...
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I want to say thank you to all the people who sent condolences following last week’s post, especially those who shared their own stories of loss.
Willem's Blog
Using the reMarkable paper tablet The paper-like display makes you forget about reMarkable's digital innards, working with this tablet...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The paper-like display makes you forget about reMarkable's digital innards, working with this tablet is therefore quite remarkable!
Jonas Hietala
The I'm Great quote A new semester at the uni and so far it looks promising; I got a hold of some new books even though...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A new semester at the uni and so far it looks promising; I got a hold of some new books even though the bookstore had a snakelike queue similar to the Jörmungandr (the snake that encircled the earth in nordic mythology) and our new programming course started. This time it’s Ada’s...
lcamtuf’s thing
Weekend projects: Sketchy Sketch Making a nicer version of a forgotten, electronic Etch-A-Sketch toy.
6 months ago
Notes on software...
General book recommendations This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
Birchtree
Comfort Zone: OLED Dreams and Studio Display Realities Niléane is out, so Chris and I are left to fend on ourselves! Chris steals like an artist and I...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Niléane is out, so Chris and I are left to fend on ourselves! Chris steals like an artist and I defend a new purchase…oh, and we have some fun with desks that sadly ends in Vision Pro slander. Why does this keep happening?! Watch on YouTube
Jonas Hietala
Why I don't rely on AI for programming (too much) I find that ai can help significantly with doing plumbing, but it has no problems with connecting...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
I find that ai can help significantly with doing plumbing, but it has no problems with connecting the pipes wrong. I need to double and triple check the updated code - or fix the resulting errors when I don’t do that. thih9 on Hacker News I’ve been skeptical of the AI craze...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Verkle trees
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
A Vacation Filled with Obsession A nice thing about school are the nice long vacations. Directly after my last exam we went north to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A nice thing about school are the nice long vacations. Directly after my last exam we went north to our dear home village Övertorneå and spent two weeks celebrating Christmas and New Years Eve. What did we do? I practiced some obsessive behavior with Power Grid and Minecraft (and...
Willem's Blog
Harvesting boredom to let creativity flourish What does it mean for my state of mind and creativity if I am no longer be constantly connected to...
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over a year ago
What does it mean for my state of mind and creativity if I am no longer be constantly connected to the Internet using a smartphone.
Jonas Hietala
The current T-34 keyboard layout I’ve been documenting my own keyboard layout in a series for a while now. But as the layout is...
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over a year ago
I’ve been documenting my own keyboard layout in a series for a while now. But as the layout is constantly changing it’s been difficult to piece together how the layout currently looks like, so this post tries to show how the layout looks right now in it’s entirety. If you want to...
Louwrentius
Difference of behavior in SATA Solid State Drives Introduction Update: I've noticed some strange behavior of SSDs when benchmarking them with FIO....
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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...
Evan Hahn's blog
Notes from "Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement" I just finished James Vincent’s Beyond Measure, a 2023 book about the history of measurement and its...
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4 months ago
I just finished James Vincent’s Beyond Measure, a 2023 book about the history of measurement and its impact on our lives. The book reveals how the meter’s length is tied to the French Revolution. It highlights many scientific discoveries linked to advances in measurement. It...
Notes on software...
Generating a REST API from a database I recently published an alpha version of a code generation tool, DBCore, that reads a...
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over a year ago
I recently published an alpha version of a code generation tool, DBCore, that reads a database schema from PostgreSQL or MySQL and generates an entire Go API with CRUD operations, pagination, filtering, and authentication. But more than just generating code like xo/xo or...
./techtipsy
The minimum viable fan control script I’ve always been a fan of tinkering with cooling setups on my computers. I’ve even went as far as...
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I’ve always been a fan of tinkering with cooling setups on my computers. I’ve even went as far as writing crappy solutions to make up for deficiencies on the hardware level. After years of dumb experiments I’ve seen how little you can get away with in cooling and how to run your...
Louwrentius
Cryptocurrencies are detrimental to society Want to listen to this article? audio element. Introduction How would you explain the inner...
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over a year ago
Want to listen to this article? audio element. Introduction How would you explain the inner workings of bitcoin to a person in simple, understandable terms? source This explanation seems perfect to me because it illustrates some seriously problematic aspects of...
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Expedited Vote for the February 2025 + Post Topic Time is running out.
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Arduino Blog
A riddle wrapped in an enigma… made easy, with Arduino Plug and Make Kit The Arduino Plug and Make Kit was designed to open up infinite possibilities, breaking down the idea...
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7 months ago
The Arduino Plug and Make Kit was designed to open up infinite possibilities, breaking down the idea that technology is a “black box” reserved for experts. With its snap-together system, this kit gives everyone – beginners and seasoned makers alike – the power to create and...
./techtipsy
Accidentally turning the ASRock DeskMini X300 into a semi-passively cooled PC After playing around with fan curves on my ASRock DeskMini X300 based home server, I noticed one...
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over a year ago
After playing around with fan curves on my ASRock DeskMini X300 based home server, I noticed one interesting thing. At least it was interesting to me. Background I had one goal: to try to see if I could turn it into a semi-passive PC by only turning the fan on when the PC was...
Arduino Blog
Vintage rotary phone becomes stylish kitchen timer It seems like everything that happens in a kitchen requires exact timing. Whisk the batter for three...
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It seems like everything that happens in a kitchen requires exact timing. Whisk the batter for three minutes, knead the dough for 15 minutes, bake for 30 minutes, and so on. A timer is a necessity for cooking and baking, but there is no reason you need to use your phone or a...
Jonas Hietala
Going into Being Busy mode I’m in the civil service atm and, sadly, we’re going to be extremely busy the coming… two months or...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’m in the civil service atm and, sadly, we’re going to be extremely busy the coming… two months or something? So I can’t promise a game the next two months. Kinda beats the point of this site doesn’t it? I’m really sorry and that’s all I can say really… Hopefully I’ll get a week...
Vitalik Buterin's...
In-person meatspace protocol to prove unconditional possession of a private key
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Doing Stuff The school and my life is trotting along. I’m handling the extra course fine, but instead I’ve left...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The school and my life is trotting along. I’m handling the extra course fine, but instead I’ve left the standard math course behind a bit. Actually more than a bit but hopefully I’ll correct things later. No my life is going along just fine, it almost feels like my life is runing...
Notes on software...
Bootloader basics I spent a few days playing around with bootloaders for the first time. This post builds up to a text...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I spent a few days playing around with bootloaders for the first time. This post builds up to a text editor with a few keyboard shortcuts. I'll be giving a virtual talk based on this work at Hacker Nights on Jan 27. There are a definitely bugs. But it's hard to find...
Birchtree
Netflix accidentally gave us something nice Chris Welch writing for The Verge: Netflix Says Its Brief Apple TV App Integration Was a...
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4 months ago
Chris Welch writing for The Verge: Netflix Says Its Brief Apple TV App Integration Was a Mistake Considering the trajectory of 2025 so far, perhaps we should’ve known that Netflix finally playing nice with the Apple TV app was too good to be true. And now the streaming
Arduino Blog
This giant animatronic LEGO minifig zombie is a delight  LEGO’s minifigs are the perfect canvas for creativity, as their simple plastic forms provide enough...
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11 months ago
LEGO’s minifigs are the perfect canvas for creativity, as their simple plastic forms provide enough constraint to force people to consider their art and design choices. That’s exactly the kind of pressure that Wicked Makers’ Jaimie and Jay thrive under, leading them to build this...
Birchtree
Quick Reviews 1.0.5: the quality of life update An update to my app, Quick Reviews, is rolling out now! After a lot of feature adds in the first few...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
An update to my app, Quick Reviews, is rolling out now! After a lot of feature adds in the first few updates, I took this as a chance to clean up some bugs and improve a few elements that made the app a little annoying to use at times. Oh,
Jonas Hietala
The Coinparty hackathon, take two In December I declared that I would enter a Bitcoin Cash hackathon and I was excited to give my...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In December I declared that I would enter a Bitcoin Cash hackathon and I was excited to give my procrastination a kick in the balls. Unfortunately the hackathon was postponed to January just an hour later. Maybe the organizers didn’t think my project was exciting enough or...
computers are bad
2024-10-26 buy payphones and retire PAYPHONES at High Volume Existing sites! Earn BIG $$. Money Back Guarantee! Dropshipping AliExpress...
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8 months ago
PAYPHONES at High Volume Existing sites! Earn BIG $$. Money Back Guarantee! Dropshipping AliExpress watches, AI-generated SEO spam websites... marginally legal and ethical passive income schemes, that serve to generate that income mostly for their promoters, can feel like a...
Willem's Blog
Solo around the Markermeer (211KM) This week I took my bike for a long distance (211)KM ride around the Dutch Markermeer, solo! Read...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This week I took my bike for a long distance (211)KM ride around the Dutch Markermeer, solo! Read along for practical tips for long distance cycling.
Engineers Need Art
Adam74 The Adam74 is a small ASCII-based terminal designed for the 8-bit hobbyist.
over a year ago
Good Enough
TIL: Fixing Broken Action Text Images in Atom Feeds For a while now we've seen that images in our Pika atom feeds were not displaying in some feed...
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a year ago
For a while now we've seen that images in our Pika atom feeds were not displaying in some feed readers. In fact, they weren't displaying in my own feed reader, which routes through Feedly. I was sad. I spent a lot of time troubleshooting this. Compared our feed with a lot of atom...
Toni Lijic
Homage to My Last Name How I build my custom error page with Next.js & Tailwind
8 months ago
Jorge Arango
Using AI to Illuminate My Blind Spots I’ve worked a lot with ChatGPT over the last couple of years. Recently, OpenAI enabled the ability...
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2 months ago
I’ve worked a lot with ChatGPT over the last couple of years. Recently, OpenAI enabled the ability for the LLM to work with past chat transcripts. This opens lots of interesting possibilities. I just tried a prompt that taps into these possibilities. The response is 100% spot on,...
Notes on software...
Writing a minimal Lua implementation with a virtual machine from scratch in Rust By the end of this guide we'll have a minimal, working implementation of a small part of Lua from...
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over a year ago
By the end of this guide we'll have a minimal, working implementation of a small part of Lua from scratch. It will be able to run the following program (among others): function fib(n) if n < 2 then return n; end local n1 = fib(n-1); local n2 = fib(n-2); ...
Willem's Blog
Increase traffic to your blog with a RSS feed Using NodeJS I added RSS feeds to my blog as support for feeds can still provide you with value....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Using NodeJS I added RSS feeds to my blog as support for feeds can still provide you with value. Read about the "how" and "why" in this post.
Vitalik Buterin's...
Why we need wide adoption of social recovery wallets
over a year ago
Lighthouse Blog
Updates December 01: UX improvements
a year ago
Willem's Blog
Saving a MacBook Air with exploded battery Saving a MacBook Air with a swollen battery pack.
over a year ago
Louwrentius
Benchmark results of Random I/O performance of different RAID levels Introduction I have performed some benchmarks to determine how different RAID levels perform when...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Introduction I have performed some benchmarks to determine how different RAID levels perform when handling a 100% random workload of 4K requests. This is a worst-case scenario for almost every storage subsystem. Normal day-to-day workloads may not be that harsh in a real-life...
Matt Blewitt
So, You Want To Build A DBaaS So you’ve made the decision to build a Database-as-a-Service product (or something similar). As a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
So you’ve made the decision to build a Database-as-a-Service product (or something similar). As a result, you are making state and coordination your problem. Here are some things I’ve learned to keep in mind as you embark on this project, in no particular order (other than the...
Push to Prod
When Things Are Slow, Look for Queues When your system is slower than desired, queues are often heavily involved. Here's an overview of...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
When your system is slower than desired, queues are often heavily involved. Here's an overview of the most common situations.
lcamtuf’s thing
Choosing an op-amp for your project Just say no to LM741.
6 months ago
Birchtree
Yesterday's 'golden age' turns into today's mess Nick Timiraos for the Wall Street Journal: Corporate America’s Euphoria Over Trump’s ‘Golden Age’ Is...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Nick Timiraos for the Wall Street Journal: Corporate America’s Euphoria Over Trump’s ‘Golden Age’ Is Giving Way to Distress Investors were caught flat-footed by Trump’s animus toward Canada, which wasn’t a part of last year’s election campaign. Global
Louwrentius
Understanding Ceph: open-source scalable storage Introduction In this blog post I will try to explain why I believe Ceph is such an interesting...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Introduction In this blog post I will try to explain why I believe Ceph is such an interesting storage solution. After you finished reading this blog post you should have a good high-level overview of Ceph. I've written this blog post purely because I'm a storage enthusiast and I...
Arduino Blog
Solar upgrades the Nebulophone synthesizer to enhance playability  Woodwinds and brass are so 19th century. We’re living in the future and now it is synthesizers all...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Woodwinds and brass are so 19th century. We’re living in the future and now it is synthesizers all the way down. There are many to choose from and the Bleep Labs Nebulophone is a neat example that was sold from 2012 to 2016, with the design files now available on GitHub for...
Jorge Arango
Traction Heroes Ep. 6: Chesterton’s Fence In Episode 6 of the Traction Heroes podcast, Harry and I explored Chesterton’s fence — a simple yet...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
In Episode 6 of the Traction Heroes podcast, Harry and I explored Chesterton’s fence — a simple yet profound idea that has important implications for leaders navigating complex, high-stakes changes. The gist: when change is needed, don’t start by destroying what you don’t...
Neil Madden
Machine Learning and the triumph of GOFAI I’ve been slowly reading Brian Cantwell Smith’s “The Promise of Artificial Intelligence” recently. I...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve been slowly reading Brian Cantwell Smith’s “The Promise of Artificial Intelligence” recently. I haven’t finished reading it yet, and like much of BCS’s writing, it’ll probably take me 3 or 4 read-throughs to really understand it, but there’s one point that I want to pick up...
Birchtree
Comfort Zone predicts tech in 2025 In this very special episode, the gang makes their "Pro" and "Pro Max" predictions for tech in 2025...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
In this very special episode, the gang makes their "Pro" and "Pro Max" predictions for tech in 2025 and oh my, does it get wild! Who's best clued into the tech coming this year? Who is just wish-casting their way to third place? This
Birchtree
This is why people see attacks on DEI as thinly veiled racism The tragedy in Washington D.C. this week was horrible, and a shocking incident. There should and...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
The tragedy in Washington D.C. this week was horrible, and a shocking incident. There should and will be an investigation into what went wrong here, but every politician and official who spoke at the White House today explicitly blamed DEI programs for this crash. The message may...
Arduino Blog
Arduino is at work to make bio-based PCBs! April 22 is Earth Day – a powerful reminder of our shared responsibility to preserve the planet for...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
April 22 is Earth Day – a powerful reminder of our shared responsibility to preserve the planet for future generations. While the call for climate action grows louder, Arduino is committed to making sustainability an ongoing priority through concrete projects and global...
latest projects -...
Pocketwatch of Goo [Concept] Liquid filled timepiece
4 months ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Christmas Special
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Birchtree
NVIDIA finally gets some competition Tom Warren for The Verge: AMD Radeon RX 9070 / 9070 XT Review and Benchmarks The RX 9070 is around...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Tom Warren for The Verge: AMD Radeon RX 9070 / 9070 XT Review and Benchmarks The RX 9070 is around 17 percent faster than Nvidia’s RTX 5070 in 4K without upscaling enabled, cruising past Nvidia’s card for the same price. The RX 9070 XT is as fast
Himanshu Mishra |...
Introducing the OrkoHunter Discord Community 👉🏻 Join the OrkoHunter Discord Community 10 years ago, I arrived as a naive fresher in my...
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7 months ago
👉🏻 Join the OrkoHunter Discord Community 10 years ago, I arrived as a naive fresher in my engineering college. And like many, my first…
Engineers Need Art
Soft Dorothy Software — Shareware Projects Wherein I attempt to recover and restore old shareware code and program again like it's 1989.
10 months ago
Arduino Blog
MicroPython programming on Arduino just got easier If you’ve been exploring MicroPython on Arduino, you already know how powerful and flexible this...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
If you’ve been exploring MicroPython on Arduino, you already know how powerful and flexible this Python-based language can be for microcontroller programming. Whether you’re a pro or just starting out, MicroPython opens up a new world of quick prototyping and clean, readable...
Jonas Hietala
Picking up rust by writing a QR code generator I wanted to pick up rust again after having used it many years ago. After around 5 years or so I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I wanted to pick up rust again after having used it many years ago. After around 5 years or so I didn’t really know where to start? Approaches to picking up a language When learning, or as in this case re-learning, a programming language there are different approaches. For...
Posts on Made of...
amd64 and va_arg A while back, I was poking around LLVM bugs, and discovered, to my surprise, that LLVM doesn’t...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
Birchtree
Benchmarks from M2 Pro to M4 Pro Long story short, I picked up a new MacBook Pro this week. I got the M4 Pro version with the higher...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Long story short, I picked up a new MacBook Pro this week. I got the M4 Pro version with the higher core count and 1TB of internal storage. It's the exact same model in the lineup as the M2 Pro I've been using for the last
Lighthouse Blog
How to manage content subscriptions
a year ago
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #44: The New Statesman still needs fixing Plus Channel Tunnel news, a NIMBY assault on an excellent pub, and more!
7 months ago
Arduino Blog
Quickly digitize your Magic deck with this 3D-printable scanning rig We call them “deck builders” for a reason: because players end up with huge piles of trading cards....
3 months ago
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3 months ago
We call them “deck builders” for a reason: because players end up with huge piles of trading cards. They can get difficult to manage, which is why the ManaBox app exists for Magic: The Gathering. It lets collectors scan and log their decks, which is handy for everything from...
Birchtree
You did not put a lot of time into this Chris has an external drive faster than you’ve ever seen, Matt has a new email app he swears isn’t...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Chris has an external drive faster than you’ve ever seen, Matt has a new email app he swears isn’t his new favorite cult, and the whole gang does their best to redesign iOS and iPadOS. Check it out in audio or video! Weekly Topics ACASIS 80Gbps
Willem's Blog
Fietselfstedentocht 2017 Cycling the 235KM long Fietselfstedentocht through Friesland
over a year ago
Louwrentius
How to determine which process causes IO ? There is a nifty little program called 'iotop'. Iotop is part of Debian or Ubuntu and can be...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There is a nifty little program called 'iotop'. Iotop is part of Debian or Ubuntu and can be installed with a simple apt-get. Once you have determined with 'top' that the system is waiting on IO-access, It is nice to know which process is responsibe for this IO. Therefore, you...
Louwrentius
Eztables: simple yet powerful firewall configuration for Linux I've created and released Eztables on Github. Anyone who ever has a need to setup a firewall on...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've created and released Eztables on Github. Anyone who ever has a need to setup a firewall on Linux may be interested in this project. It doesn't matter if you need to protect a laptop, server or want to setup a network firewall. Eztables supports it all. If you're not afraid...
Toni Lijic
2024 Year in Review Everything that happened to me this year
6 months ago
Arduino Blog
Adjusting office chair height with simple voice commands A month ago, ElectronicLab modified his office chair with an electric car jack, giving it motorized...
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11 months ago
A month ago, ElectronicLab modified his office chair with an electric car jack, giving it motorized height adjustment. That worked well, but required that he push buttons to raise or lower the seat. Pushing those buttons is a hassle when one’s hands are full, so ElectronicLab...
Good Enough
TIL: Rails has_one Nested Attributes Tweaking In a project I'm working on right now I've been using a Rails nested form and a couple of things...
a year ago
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a year ago
In a project I'm working on right now I've been using a Rails nested form and a couple of things caught me off guard. has_one Nested Form Sending id Attribute In this case I have a nested form that is in a has_one relationship with the parent model. I think this is a common thing...
Christian Selig
My little Apple Vision Pro stand I want somewhere to put my Vision Pro when not in use. Many people use the original box, and there’s...
a year ago
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a year ago
I want somewhere to put my Vision Pro when not in use. Many people use the original box, and there’s beautiful stands that exist out there, but I was looking for something more compact and vertical so it would take up less room on my desk. So I opened Fusion 360 (which I am still...
Computer Ads from...
Massive Interview with Steve Jobs from MicroTime (1992) An in-depth discussion on NeXT
4 months ago
Willem's Blog
Tablet as Tool Discover the hidden advantages of the iPad Pro in this insightful blog post, offering tips and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Discover the hidden advantages of the iPad Pro in this insightful blog post, offering tips and personal experiences to help you maximise the tablet's potential and redefine your workflow.
Jonas Hietala
Poking at Emacs I’ve been a vim vim fan for a while now and with some recent configs I’m starting to feel pretty...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been a vim vim fan for a while now and with some recent configs I’m starting to feel pretty confident and happy with it. For those who don’t know it’s basically a text editor, like notepad, but with a lot of keycommands which allows you to edit code (and text in general)...
Construction Physics
How Will the Trump Tariffs Affect Construction? Earlier this month the Trump administration announced hefty 25% tariffs on Canadian and Mexican...
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4 months ago
Earlier this month the Trump administration announced hefty 25% tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports, along with an additional 10% tariffs on Chinese imports.
Himanshu Mishra |...
रानी (Rani) Dedicated to all the nameless young girls out there in our villages…
over a year ago
Louwrentius
How to compile HAProxy from source and setup a basic configuration To learn more about HAProxy I decided to compile it from source and use it to load-balance traffic...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
To learn more about HAProxy I decided to compile it from source and use it to load-balance traffic to louwrentius.com across two different web servers. I run HAProxy on a VPS based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Let's dive right in. First, we need to download the source. Don't copy/pased...
Vitalik Buterin's...
A Guide to 99% Fault Tolerant Consensus
over a year ago
Abishek Muthian
I was told, I would become quadriplegic Tingling on the side of the face during tasks involving intense cognition was my first...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Tingling on the side of the face during tasks involving intense cognition was my first symptom. Nature of my job involves regular problem solving of various degree, on certain occasions there was a halting tingling sensation on the right side of my face to the end of lower...
Matt Mullenweg
Sun and shadows
4 months ago
Posts on Made of...
Some thoughts on Quora With the announcement this week that Quora had taken $11 million in VC at an $86 million valuation,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
With the announcement this week that Quora had taken $11 million in VC at an $86 million valuation, there’s been an awful lot of attention on Quora. I’ve had an account there and wanted to write up some of my initial thoughts. If you haven’t heard about Quora, it’s yet another...
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Salamander Software's Franklin's Tomb My name is Diamond, Dan Diamond. I'm a private cop.
a year ago
Lighthouse Blog
Browser extensions to add articles
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Louwrentius
Parallel / distributed password cracking with John the Ripper and MPI This article has been updated to reflect the changes for John version 1.7.8 as released in june...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This article has been updated to reflect the changes for John version 1.7.8 as released in june 2011. The most important change is the fact that MPI support is now integrated in the jumbo patch. The original John the Ripper off-line password cracker only uses a single processor...
Bryan Braun - Blog
Capability makes your life simpler If you can tolerate discomfort, then you can camp much lighter. Camping lighter means you spend less...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
If you can tolerate discomfort, then you can camp much lighter. Camping lighter means you spend less time and energy packing, setting-up, tearing down, and unpacking. The same goes for travel. Fewer clothes and shoes means less luggage to carry, manage, and lose. You can board...
GitButler
The New Era of Town Hall Chat We're moving from Slack to Discord so we can involve our community more. Here's how we did it and...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
We're moving from Slack to Discord so we can involve our community more. Here's how we did it and more importantly, why.
Himanshu Mishra |...
Your product either lives long enough to become a platform or it dies out Everything around you is a platform💡 If you are building a software to be used by developers, you...
over a year ago
Ian's Blog
Securing Your GitHub Account Let's talk about some of the simple & practical steps you can take to improve your GitHub account...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Let's talk about some of the simple & practical steps you can take to improve your GitHub account security. There's plenty of good reasons why you should try to keep any online account safe, but I feel that GitHub deserves special attention among developers. With automation...
Arduino Blog
Knuckle typing in mixed reality just makes sense While mixed reality — virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) — has come a long way in...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
While mixed reality — virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) — has come a long way in recent years, there are still a lot of challenges that developers struggle to overcome in a practical and user-friendly way. Typing is one example and current virtual keyboard...
The Pragmatic...
Speakers for Amsterdam / Netherlands Tech Events I (Gergely) sometimes get reachouts to do talks at events in Amsterdam (where I am based,) the...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
I (Gergely) sometimes get reachouts to do talks at events in Amsterdam (where I am based,) the Netherlands, or somewhere in Europe. Unfortunately, rarely do talks – I do one conference per year. However, I asked around in the community about tech professionals who do paid talks...
Willem's Blog
Snake '97 High Scores Happily accepting the invitation to attend an exhibition of Snake 97 art works in Antwerp. This was...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Happily accepting the invitation to attend an exhibition of Snake 97 art works in Antwerp. This was totally WOW!
Jorge Arango
Prescriptive and Descriptive Information Architectures There are two stances you can take toward language in your website or app: prescriptive or...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
There are two stances you can take toward language in your website or app: prescriptive or descriptive. Which you choose influences the system’s understandability and findability. The terms come from linguistics. I heard about them in a radio show (or was it a podcast?) many...
Krebs on Security
xAI Dev Leaks API Key for Private SpaceX, Tesla LLMs A employee at Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI leaked a private key on GitHub that...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
A employee at Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI leaked a private key on GitHub that for the past two months could have allowed anyone to query private xAI large language models (LLMs) which appear to have been custom made for working with internal data from Musk's...
Birchtree
Ghostty is the hot new terminal and it’s out now Ghostty is a hip new terminal from Mitchell Hashimoto, who he described in October’s Ghostty 1.0 Is...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Ghostty is a hip new terminal from Mitchell Hashimoto, who he described in October’s Ghostty 1.0 Is Coming: With Ghostty, I set out to build a terminal emulator that was fast, feature-rich, and had a platform-native GUI while still being cross-platform. I believe Ghostty 1.0...
Computer Ads from...
Adam Osborne Interview by Practical Computing (1983) Osborne reveals his philosophy
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Über Kollusion
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Jonas Hietala
It's Time for More School Today it’s finally starting again and it’s off with a flying start. We have 11 lectures this first...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Today it’s finally starting again and it’s off with a flying start. We have 11 lectures this first week and an absolutely smacked schedule. If that wasn’t enough I also have a mentor time to prepare for and I need to start Taekwon-do again. On another note Ḯ’m currently plowing...
./techtipsy
Feature toggles: just roll your own! When you’re dealing with a particularly large service with a slow deployment pipeline (15-30...
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5 months ago
When you’re dealing with a particularly large service with a slow deployment pipeline (15-30 minutes), and a rollback delay of up to 10 minutes, you’re going to need feature toggles (some also call them feature flags) to turn those half-an-hour nerve-wrecking major incidents into...
Jonas Hietala
2022 in review A bit late, but it’s time for my yearly review. It’s something I like doing for myself and it’s nice...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A bit late, but it’s time for my yearly review. It’s something I like doing for myself and it’s nice to see that despite a tough year I’ve done some good things. 2022 Non-Geek Achievements We got our third child! This time we got a girl to complement our two boys, and I love them...
Matt Blewitt
Sensibly Default There are two programming principles that I hold dear to my heart: the principle of least surprise...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
There are two programming principles that I hold dear to my heart: the principle of least surprise and provide sensible defaults. I’ve recently been working within the GraphQL ecosystem, and the number of violations of both here has frustrated me. This will be a little bit ranty.
Never Met a Science
There's Gold in Them Thar Reels Selling Gold Rushes
8 months ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Engineering Security Through Coordination Problems
over a year ago
Arduino Blog
This machine automatically creates chain art Art is very personal and we often consider the process of creation itself when evaluating the...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Art is very personal and we often consider the process of creation itself when evaluating the resulting piece. Does a sculpture have more artistic value when molded by human hands rather than a 3D printer? Most would say that it does. But what if the automation was, itself, part...
Abort Retry Fail
Intel: a Bug and a Pro The FDIV bug and release of the P6
4 months ago
Louwrentius
LFS - Linux Firewall Script released I started a small new Google project for a new script I wrote called LFS. It stands for Linux...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I started a small new Google project for a new script I wrote called LFS. It stands for Linux Firewall Script. I run a small Linux box as an internet router that doubles as a firewall. The firewall is configured using iptables. In my opinion, iptables is not the easiest tool to...
Notes on software...
A minimal REST API in Java There's a style of Java that is a joy to write. This post will cover how to set up a basic...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There's a style of Java that is a joy to write. This post will cover how to set up a basic PostgreSQL-integrated REST API using Jersey and JOOQ in a style not dissimilar to Flask and SQLAlchemy in Python. In particular, we'll try to avoid as much runtime reflection/class-loading...
Abort Retry Fail
The History of Commodore, Part 3 Are you keeping up with the Commodore?
a year ago
Louwrentius
'Secure programming: how to implement user account management' Most web applications work like this: The application uses a single database account to perform all...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Most web applications work like this: The application uses a single database account to perform all actions. Users are just some records in a table. Account privileges and roles are part of this table, or separate tables. This implies that all security must be designed and build...
Elevation Lab - Blog
Jet Black - New Experimental finish ::Update:: - The manufacturing fallout from making these fingerprint-loving docks was too high, even...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
::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...
Willem's Blog
My first weeks as dad Last Christmas my wife gave birth of our son. It's a life changing experience to become a parent....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Last Christmas my wife gave birth of our son. It's a life changing experience to become a parent. Read along for my (biometric) findings and some practical tips.
computers are bad
2024-02-11 the top of the DNS hierarchy In the past (in fact two years ago, proof I have been doing this for a while now!) I wrote about the...
a year ago
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a year ago
In the past (in fact two years ago, proof I have been doing this for a while now!) I wrote about the "inconvenient truth" that structural aspects of the Internet make truly decentralized systems infeasible, due to the lack of a means to perform broadcast discovery. As a result,...
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Plus Post: Centram TOPS Network Can we talk?
4 months ago
Abishek Muthian
Major disaster has struck the computing industry. TL;DR your computers are going to get slow because of patches aimed at fixing unprecedented...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
TL;DR your computers are going to get slow because of patches aimed at fixing unprecedented vulnerabilities in the CPU. For the rest (simplified), Modern computational security relies on maintaining the sanctum of memory, i.e keeping secure memory (say your passwords) out of...
./techtipsy
So you want to migrate to Kubernetes: observations from a software developer Kubernetes: everyone wants to do it, regardless of their scale and business objectives.1 Common...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Kubernetes: everyone wants to do it, regardless of their scale and business objectives.1 Common justifications include better scalability, cost savings, standardization and being super modern and stuff. It’s the future! In my personal experience, Kubernetes is far from the...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Gitcoin Grants Round 5 Retrospective
over a year ago
Electronics etc…
Teardown of the TM4313 GPS Disciplined Oscillator Introduction What is a GPSDO? The TM4313 GPSDO Power Consumption Inside the TM4313 The TM4313...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Introduction What is a GPSDO? The TM4313 GPSDO Power Consumption Inside the TM4313 The TM4313 Schematic Frequency or Phase Lock Loop? OCXO Temperature The Curious Case of the MAX6192 Voltage Reference The Discrete Tuning DAC GPS Module Microcontroller instead of NMEA Serial...
Matt Blewitt
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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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....
Greater Still by...
Joining TCG Crypto I am thrilled to share that I am joining the team at TCG, The Chernin Group, to focus on the firm’s...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I am thrilled to share that I am joining the team at TCG, The Chernin Group, to focus on the firm’s investments at the intersection of consumer and crypto.
./techtipsy
Testing a cheap ExpressCard to NVMe SSD adapter on my ThinkPad T430 I stumbled upon this post in /r/thinkpad, which got my attention. It showcases an ExpressCard to M.2...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I stumbled upon this post in /r/thinkpad, which got my attention. It showcases an ExpressCard to M.2 NGFF adapter that they purchased from AliExpress. The adapter has a similar purpose to the one designed by thinkmods.store, with the added bonus that it could fit longer NVMe...
Jonas Hietala
Stereotypes I read a great essay or article about stereotypical programmers called The Little Printf. I really...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I read a great essay or article about stereotypical programmers called The Little Printf. I really couldn’t do it justice so do yourself a favor and go read it. It touches on several types of programmers or rather traits of programmers I recognize in my surroundings and also...
Willem's Blog
The best bike computer app: Cyclemeter Collect advanced bike ride data using your smartphone connected to external Bluetooth sensors and a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Collect advanced bike ride data using your smartphone connected to external Bluetooth sensors and a steer mounted display.
Birchtree
Wow, what courage Mia McCarthy writing for Politico: No More in-Person Town Halls, NRCC Chief Tells House...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Mia McCarthy writing for Politico: No More in-Person Town Halls, NRCC Chief Tells House Republicans The chair of the House GOP's campaign arm told Republican lawmakers Tuesday to stop holding in-person town halls amid a wave of angry backlash over the cuts undertaken by President...
Arduino Blog
A drone remote designed to enhance magic shows Maker culture has always been a major part of magic performance. Some tricks are well-rehearsed...
a year ago
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a year ago
Maker culture has always been a major part of magic performance. Some tricks are well-rehearsed slight of hand, but many of them rely on clever engineering to sell an illusion. And modern technology offers a great deal of interesting possibilities. That is the idea behind Peter...
./techtipsy
Dell Latitude 5411: the Linux compatibility sweet spot Oh boy, here I go testing a new laptop again! Well, it was new back in 2020. You might remember my...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Oh boy, here I go testing a new laptop again! Well, it was new back in 2020. You might remember my article on why I went back to a ThinkPad T430 in 2022. Or that other time when I got a new HP laptop for testing and got so frustrated that I wrote about it. Well, today I’m writing...
lcamtuf’s thing
Building a phosphorescence detector There's very little written about natural phosphorescence. Let's design a device that can spot it in...
7 months ago
Construction Physics
Do U.S. Ports Need More Automation? On October 1st, 47,000 members of the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA), primarily...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
On October 1st, 47,000 members of the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA), primarily dockworkers on East and Gulf Coast ports, went on strike after failing to agree contract terms with USMX, an alliance of port operators and employers.
Notes on software...
SQLite in Go, with and without cgo This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
Toni Lijic
SwiftUI Explorations My journey of learning SwiftUI as a designer.
a year ago
Notes on software...
On NYC, Tokyo and Seoul I’ve lived in NYC for the past year — moved here after years in Philly and after growing up in a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve lived in NYC for the past year — moved here after years in Philly and after growing up in a rural community a few hours west of there. My wife is South Korean and last week concluded my second trip to the suburbs of Seoul to visit her family. We finished up that trip with a...
Odds and Ends of...
Four nuggets of Postcode Address File news To free the PAF we must first solve a coordination problem
4 months ago
Posts on Made of...
A Brief Introduction to termios: termios(3) and stty (This is part two of a multi-part introduction to termios and terminal emulation on UNIX. Read part...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
(This is part two of a multi-part introduction to termios and terminal emulation on UNIX. Read part 1 if you’re new here) In this entry, we’ll look at the interfaces that are used to control the behavior of the “termios” box sitting between the master and slave pty. The behaviors...
Arduino Blog
Keep pedaling if you want your computer to stay on Appeals to nature notwithstanding, humans didn’t evolve to sit in desk chairs all day slouching in...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Appeals to nature notwithstanding, humans didn’t evolve to sit in desk chairs all day slouching in front of computers. Nor did we evolve to handle constant and near-unlimited access to delicious, calorie-dense foods. It isn’t surprising that so many people are at less than ideal...
Jonas Hietala
Let's build a VORON: Major failure The left POM nut got ground down, making the bed fall down. After 600 hours, the printer met it’s...
a year ago
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a year ago
The left POM nut got ground down, making the bed fall down. After 600 hours, the printer met it’s first major failure. I know I earlier described how the extruder starter skipping in a big way, but that was just some filament getting stuck in the extruder. This time a part...
Louwrentius
The impact of the MDADM bitmap on RAID performance Introduction I'm aware that most people with intensive storage workloads won't run those workloads...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Introduction I'm aware that most people with intensive storage workloads won't run those workloads on hard drives anymore, that ship has sailed a long time ago. SSDs have taken their place (or 'the cloud'). For those few left who do use hard drives in Linux software RAID setups...
Jonas Hietala
Ludum Dare 22 results! The results from Ludum Dare 22 are in! I made the game Sat-E for the 48 hour competition and I was...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The results from Ludum Dare 22 are in! I made the game Sat-E for the 48 hour competition and I was quite happy with it. #24 Community 3.71 #40 Fun 3.38 #49 Theme 3.69 #65 Overall 3.42 #95 Humor 2.82 #167 Mood 2.92 #247 Innovation 2.69 #338 Audio 2.23 #340 Graphics 2.62 #376...
Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course Week 15: Boethius In week 15 of the humanities crash course, we started making our way out of classical antiquity and...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
In week 15 of the humanities crash course, we started making our way out of classical antiquity and into the Middle Ages. The reading for this week was Boethius’s The Consolation of Philosophy, a book perhaps second only to the Bible in influencing Medieval thinking. I used the...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 4: The Verge
8 months ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Exploring circle STARKs
11 months ago
Jonas Hietala
On The Decline of FPS Games Mr. Eriksson just sent me this link as a fitting video on my post on The Decline of FPS...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Mr. Eriksson just sent me this link as a fitting video on my post on The Decline of FPS Games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1ZtBCpo0eU Oh How true!
Computer Ads from...
Black Friday - Happy Birthday sale Let's mix things up!
7 months ago
Matt Mullenweg
Remember Gravatar? Gravatar has always been about giving people control over their identity online. One avatar, one...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Gravatar has always been about giving people control over their identity online. One avatar, one profile, synced across the web, verified connections, with a fully open API. Gravatar is a true open identity layer for the internet, and now for AI.  For developers, we’ve rolled out...