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Antipodes I was playing around with D3 last night and built a silly visualization of antipodes and how our...
8th Sep 2015
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Antipodes

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

8th Sep 2015
I was playing around with D3 last night and built a silly visualization of antipodes and how our intuitive understanding of the world sometimes doesn't make sense. Check out the visualization at bl.ocks.org! Basically the idea is if you fly from Beijing to Buenos Aires then you...
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Client libraries are better when they have no API fsspec is secretly everywhere, and boss
10th Apr 2024
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Client libraries are better when they have no API

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

10th Apr 2024
fsspec is secretly everywhere, and boss
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Optimizing for iteration speed I've written before about the importance of iterating quickly but I didn't necessarily talk about...
6th Jul 2017
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Optimizing for iteration speed

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

6th Jul 2017
I've written before about the importance of iterating quickly but I didn't necessarily talk about some concrete things you can do. When I've built up the tech team at Better, I've intentionally optimized for fast iteration speed above almost everything else.
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AI Site Builder The long-anticipated “Big Sky” AI site builder on WordPress.com went live today. It combines several...
9th Apr 2025
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AI Site Builder

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

9th Apr 2025
The long-anticipated “Big Sky” AI site builder on WordPress.com went live today. It combines several models and can create logos, site designs, typography, color schemes, and content. It’s an entirely new way to interact with and edit a brand-new or existing WordPress site. This...
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How To Sell Sales at a startup is counter-intuitive.
18th Jan 2020
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How To Sell

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

18th Jan 2020
Sales at a startup is counter-intuitive.
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Pocketwatch of Goo [Concept] Liquid filled timepiece
6th Mar 2025
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Pocketwatch of Goo

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

6th Mar 2025
[Concept] Liquid filled timepiece
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OpenBSD on the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano (1st Gen) Lenovo has finally made a smaller version of its X1 Carbon, something I've been looking forward to...
27th Jan 2021
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OpenBSD on the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano (1st Gen)

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

27th Jan 2021
Lenovo has finally made a smaller version of its X1 Carbon, something I've been looking forward to for years. Table of Contents Top Hardware Firmware Current OpenBSD Support Summary Updates Hardware The X1 Nano is basically a 13" version of the 14" X1 Carbon,...
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Optimising images for the web and performance One way to make your website faster is to make it smaller. Not with tiny fonts, but with less bytes!...
25th Sep 2018
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Optimising images for the web and performance

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

25th Sep 2018
One way to make your website faster is to make it smaller. Not with tiny fonts, but with less bytes! More than half the weight of an average website is because of images. Yet very few people optimise their images for the web and performance, time to find out how much bytes you...
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SBC Clusters are a terrible value, but they're fun anyway Pictured above is the new DeskPi Super4C installed in an 8U mini rack. The Super4C is a 4-node...
1st May 2026
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SBC Clusters are a terrible value, but they're fun anyway

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

1st May 2026
Pictured above is the new DeskPi Super4C installed in an 8U mini rack. The Super4C is a 4-node Raspberry Pi CM5 cluster board that solves two pain points I had with the older Super6C. I was testing this board around the same time I helped kick off the SBCC 2026, the Single Board...
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Building Quarter-Cab - Phase I Lets build a simple virtual pinball controller to bring more immersion to your game.
8th May 2024
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Building Quarter-Cab - Phase I

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

8th May 2024
Lets build a simple virtual pinball controller to bring more immersion to your game.
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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...
8th Dec 2014
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Deep learning for… chess (addendum)

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

8th Dec 2014
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.
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Where to use a blockchain in non-financial applications?
12th Jun 2022
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Where to use a blockchain in non-financial applications?

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

12th Jun 2022
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Introducing TagVault Strap Compact for AirTag We wanted a strap mount that was secure, rugged, ultra-compact, and super easier to assemble. So we...
12th Mar 2025
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Introducing TagVault Strap Compact for AirTag

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

12th Mar 2025
We wanted a strap mount that was secure, rugged, ultra-compact, and super easier to assemble. So we designed TagVault Strap Compact. Fully waterproof with a hidden inner gasket.   It's ultra low-profile.   Perfect for backpacks.   Also really great for cameras.   Also available...
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Comics from 1984/04 Creative Computing Mag Sorry for the delay. - JP
22nd Jan 2025
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Comics from 1984/04 Creative Computing Mag

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

22nd Jan 2025
Sorry for the delay. - JP
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My solar-powered blog is now on Lithium Iron Phosphate In my last blog post I discussed how a small solar project - to power this blog on a Raspberry Pi -...
19th May 2023
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My solar-powered blog is now on Lithium Iron Phosphate

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

19th May 2023
In my last blog post I discussed how a small solar project - to power this blog on a Raspberry Pi - escalated into a full-blown off-grid solar setup, large enough to power the computer I use at the moment to write this update1. In this update, I want to discuss my battery...
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Two thought experiments to evaluate automated stablecoins
25th May 2022
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Two thought experiments to evaluate automated stablecoins

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

25th May 2022
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My E-Reader Setup I bought an e-reader recently, specifically the Kobo Libra 2. I felt like I wasn't reading...
10th Aug 2023
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My E-Reader Setup

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

10th Aug 2023
I bought an e-reader recently, specifically the Kobo Libra 2. I felt like I wasn't reading books/manga as much as I wanted and I think the convenience of being able to carry my entire library around with me will help with that. I own an iPad Pro but I wanted a device I didn't...
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Internet of kitchen lighting, with OSC This project was completed in June 2015. Wow, is it 2017 already? In this post, I’d like to say...
3rd Jan 2017
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Internet of kitchen lighting, with OSC

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

3rd Jan 2017
This project was completed in June 2015. Wow, is it 2017 already? In this post, I’d like to say that I wrote a useful little bit of software and built up a crappy hack to demonstrate it but, secretly, the crappy hack came first and I’ve retroactively found something vaguely...
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2025-06-01 I've been reading The Nature of Order by Christopher Alexander, and it's inspired me to experiment...
1st Jun 2025
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2025-06-01

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

1st Jun 2025
I've been reading The Nature of Order by Christopher Alexander, and it's inspired me to experiment with this representation to communicate the global structure of the source code of the Game of Snake: The whole program is arranged on a 2D surface within a series of nested...
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October 2020 news October 2020 gwern.net newsletter with links on AI scaling, Euclid; further site reorganization &...
1st Nov 2020
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October 2020 news

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

1st Nov 2020
October 2020 gwern.net newsletter with links on AI scaling, Euclid; further site reorganization & improvement.
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Software Sprezzatura Sprezzatura is “a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or says...
26th Jan 2020
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Software Sprezzatura

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

26th Jan 2020
Sprezzatura is “a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or says appear to be without effort and almost without any thought about it”, coined by Castiglione in 1528’s The Book of the Courtier.
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Monolithic vs Microservices software architecture This week I flew to Gothenburg to meet people from a large international shipping company, talking...
2nd Mar 2020
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Monolithic vs Microservices software architecture

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

2nd Mar 2020
This week I flew to Gothenburg to meet people from a large international shipping company, talking about the development of enterprise level software. During the meeting there were various experts in the room, one of them asked me on choosing the right software architecture (for...
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Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D, 2nd Edition The second edition of the Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D is out.
6th Dec 2018
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Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D, 2nd Edition

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

6th Dec 2018
The second edition of the Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D is out.
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In Defense of the New The future is being crafted out on the edge. Are you paying attention?
3rd Jun 2024
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In Defense of the New

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

3rd Jun 2024
The future is being crafted out on the edge. Are you paying attention?
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Nielsen Norman Group on iOS 26 usability On Friday, Raluca Budiu posted “Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26” to the...
12th Oct 2025
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Nielsen Norman Group on iOS 26 usability

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

12th Oct 2025
On Friday, Raluca Budiu posted “Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26” to the Nielsen Norman Group site. If the name isn’t familiar to you, the Nielsen Norman Group are UI/UX specialists who’ve been commenting insightfully about design since the late-90s. The...
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The Birth of THE MERGE Sitting at lunch one day, the GitButler team were having our usual conversations of how awesome our...
24th May 2024
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The Birth of THE MERGE

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

24th May 2024
Sitting at lunch one day, the GitButler team were having our usual conversations of how awesome our community is, product feature ideas, and how much Kiril loves food. As we shifted toward the topic of conferences, the idea of hosting our own event emerged. Wouldn’t it be fun to...
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Microscope Light [Hardware] Illumination improvements
13th Mar 2026
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Microscope Light

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

13th Mar 2026
[Hardware] Illumination improvements
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5 Frames of Kodacolor 100 with the Nikon FM Many years have past since I last shot colour film. Maybe 20 years ago I was using the Lomo Smena 8m...
28th Jun 2026
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5 Frames of Kodacolor 100 with the Nikon FM

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in technology

28th Jun 2026
Many years have past since I last shot colour film. Maybe 20 years ago I was using the Lomo Smena 8m camping. Mostly FujiFilm because I liked the greens. Once I started shooting Black & White and developing the film myself, I really didn’t see the need to have someone else...
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Wealth distribution in the United States Forbes recently published the Forbes 400 List for 2024, listing the 400 richest people in the United...
9th Oct 2024
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Wealth distribution in the United States

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

9th Oct 2024
Forbes recently published the Forbes 400 List for 2024, listing the 400 richest people in the United States. This inspired me to make a histogram to show the distribution of wealth in the United States. It turns out that if you put Elon Musk on the graph, almost the entire US...
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Towards solving Ultimate Tic Tac Toe Summary: Read about my efforts to solve the game of Ultimate Tic Tac Toe. It’s been a fun journey...
15th Jul 2020
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Towards solving Ultimate Tic Tac Toe

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

15th Jul 2020
Summary: Read about my efforts to solve the game of Ultimate Tic Tac Toe. It’s been a fun journey into interesting algorithms and high-performance parallel programming in Rust. Backstory Starting around the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdown, I’ve gotten myself deeply nerdsniped...
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Solitaire Alone Together Solitaire Alone Together I made a new game. It's called Solitaire Alone Together. It's Windows 98...
21st Sep 2026
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Solitaire Alone Together

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

21st Sep 2026
Solitaire Alone Together I made a new game. It's called Solitaire Alone Together. It's Windows 98 solitaire, but you can play with everyone else on the internet. Read the full post on my blog! Here's a raw link, if you need it: ...
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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...
2nd May 2025
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xAI Dev Leaks API Key for Private SpaceX, Tesla LLMs

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

2nd May 2025
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...
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Humanities Crash Course Week 18: 1,001 Nights In week 18 of the humanities crash course, I read five stories from One Thousand and One Nights, a...
4th May 2025
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Humanities Crash Course Week 18: 1,001 Nights

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

4th May 2025
In week 18 of the humanities crash course, I read five stories from One Thousand and One Nights, a collection of Middle Eastern folktales that have influenced lots of other stories. Keeping with the theme, I also saw one of the most influential movies based on these...
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Web Push Pitfall Web Push Pitfall Posted on March 30, 2023 This post is from a legacy version of this blog! No...
30th Mar 2023
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Web Push Pitfall

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

30th Mar 2023
Web Push Pitfall Posted on March 30, 2023 This post is from a legacy version of this blog! No changes have been made to the content in the migration, so things might read weird. Whilst implementing Web Push notifications for my toy Q&A service curiouswolf I ran into an issue...
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Jet Black - New Experimental finish ::Update:: - The manufacturing fallout from making these fingerprint-loving docks was too high, even...
6th Oct 2016
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Jet Black - New Experimental finish

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

6th Oct 2016
::Update:: - The manufacturing fallout from making these fingerprint-loving docks was too high, even after a dozen process revisions, so we're not continuing making these after our second run. Recommend going with the Matte Black finish, it's super beautiful with all color...
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Raspberry pi3 vs iPad2 for personal computing I blew my personal computer and before I could build a new one I needed a temporary machine which...
24th Mar 2017
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Raspberry pi3 vs iPad2 for personal computing

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

24th Mar 2017
I blew my personal computer and before I could build a new one I needed a temporary machine which could perform some of my routine tasks like browsing, social network, word processing, programming, gaming, videos, music & ocassional heavy computation. Though I would be needing a...
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WetSocks Revival How to get a broken METAR/TAF Toolbar application working again; the fun way! Seeing what we can do...
25th Aug 2021
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WetSocks Revival

from Opsbros [alt+shift+b] in technology

25th Aug 2021
How to get a broken METAR/TAF Toolbar application working again; the fun way! Seeing what we can do to get WetSocks Windows 98 tray weather app working again.
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Commuter bike checkup This week my trustworthy commuter bike started making strange squeaking noises when braking. It has...
9th Jan 2021
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Commuter bike checkup

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

9th Jan 2021
This week my trustworthy commuter bike started making strange squeaking noises when braking. It has been just over three years since I started cycling on it. People frequently ask me how the bike is performing and how the Gates Carbon CDX belt drive is doing? Time to have a look...
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A deep dive into the rss feed reader landscape
7th Oct 2025
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A deep dive into the rss feed reader landscape

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

7th Oct 2025
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Implementing a simple jq clone in Go, and basics of Go memory profiling In this post we'll build a basic jq clone in Go. It will only be able to pull a single path out of...
10th Jul 2022
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Implementing a simple jq clone in Go, and basics of Go memory profiling

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

10th Jul 2022
In this post we'll build a basic jq clone in Go. It will only be able to pull a single path out of each object it reads. It won't be able to do filters, mapping, etc. $ cat large-file.json | head -n2 | ./jqgo...
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My 7 Rules for A/B Testing That Triple Conversion Rates I really don’t care how any given A/B test turns out. That’s right. Not one bit. But wait, how do I...
11th Sep 2015
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My 7 Rules for A/B Testing That Triple Conversion Rates

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

11th Sep 2015
I really don’t care how any given A/B test turns out. That’s right. Not one bit. But wait, how do I double or triple conversion rates without caring how a test performs? I actually care about the whole SYSTEM of testing. All the pieces need to fit together just right. If not,...
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Going Somewhere Vicky, driving me home from O'Hare, got sixteen dollars for the best conversation I had in months....
6 days ago
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Going Somewhere

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

6 days ago
Vicky, driving me home from O'Hare, got sixteen dollars for the best conversation I had in months. The last line is hers.
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The architecture of declarative configuration management With the ongoing move towards “infrastructure-as-code” and similar notions, there’s been an ongoing...
12th Nov 2019
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The architecture of declarative configuration management

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

12th Nov 2019
With the ongoing move towards “infrastructure-as-code” and similar notions, there’s been an ongoing increase in the number and popularity of declarative configuration management tools. This post attempts to lay out my mental model of the conceptual architecture and internal...
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Rescuing photos from a crashed iMac This week I received a message from someone with a iMac that crashed. It contained more than 50.000...
14th Oct 2020
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Rescuing photos from a crashed iMac

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

14th Oct 2020
This week I received a message from someone with a iMac that crashed. It contained more than 50.000 photos, covering two decades of personal history. As there was no backup, it was up to me to attempt to safe as much as I could. Could I possibly recover the personal...
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Hitachi Ltd, Part II H8, PA-RISC, and SuperH
19th Apr 2026
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Hitachi Ltd, Part II

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

19th Apr 2026
H8, PA-RISC, and SuperH
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What I have been working on: Modal Long story short: I'm working on a super cool tool called Modal. Please check it out — it lets you...
7th Dec 2022
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What I have been working on: Modal

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

7th Dec 2022
Long story short: I'm working on a super cool tool called Modal. Please check it out — it lets you run things in the cloud without having to think about infrastructure. Scaling out, scheduling, containerization, using GPUs, setting up webhooks, and all kinds of other stuff.
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How to run victron veconfigure on a mac Introduction Victron Multiplus-II inverter/charges are configured with the veconfigure1 tool....
4th Mar 2024
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How to run victron veconfigure on a mac

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

4th Mar 2024
Introduction Victron Multiplus-II inverter/charges are configured with the veconfigure1 tool. Unforntunately this is a Windows-only tool, but there is still a way for Apple users to run this tool without any problems. Tip: if you've never worked with the Terminal app on MacOS, it...
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Australian Open 2026: Alcaraz and Rybakina Triumph In The Shadow Of Legends The gala which precedes the tournament is not a ball, but exhibition tennis, which featured legends...
4th Feb 2026
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Australian Open 2026: Alcaraz and Rybakina Triumph In The Shadow Of Legends

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

4th Feb 2026
The gala which precedes the tournament is not a ball, but exhibition tennis, which featured legends Roger Federer, Andre Agassi, Patrick Rafter, and 2022 women’s champion Ashleigh Barty. Long-time OFB readers will know how much seeing Federer again means to me.
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Disable Transparent Hugepages tl;dr “Transparent Hugepages” is a Linux kernel feature intended to improve performance by making...
10th Jul 2017
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Disable Transparent Hugepages

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

10th Jul 2017
tl;dr “Transparent Hugepages” is a Linux kernel feature intended to improve performance by making more efficient use of your processor’s memory-mapping hardware. It is enabled ("enabled=always") by default in most Linux distributions. Transparent Hugepages gives some applications...
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Walking through a basic Racket web service Racket is an impressive language and ecosystem. Compared to Python, Racket (an evolution of Scheme...
29th Dec 2016
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Walking through a basic Racket web service

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

29th Dec 2016
Racket is an impressive language and ecosystem. Compared to Python, Racket (an evolution of Scheme R5RS is three years younger. It is as concise and expressive as Python but with much more reasonable syntax and semantics. Racket is also faster in many cases due in part to: JIT...
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Measuring Capacity Through Utilization (This post is cross-posted from Honeycomb’s instrumentation series). One of my favorite concepts...
8th Jan 2017
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Measuring Capacity Through Utilization

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

8th Jan 2017
(This post is cross-posted from Honeycomb’s instrumentation series). One of my favorite concepts when thinking about instrumenting a system to understand its overall performance and capacity is what I call “time utilization”. By this I mean: If you look at the behavior of a...
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You Complete Me When Good Enough was in its infancy as a truly American LLC (formed in Delaware and representing one...
4th Dec 2024
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You Complete Me

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

4th Dec 2024
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...
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Benchmarking a 1.44 MB floppy drive I've used fio - a storage benchmarking tool - to benchmark a 1.44 MB floppy drive to gauge its...
16th Dec 2019
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Benchmarking a 1.44 MB floppy drive

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

16th Dec 2019
I've used fio - a storage benchmarking tool - to benchmark a 1.44 MB floppy drive to gauge its random I/O performance. I have no real reason for doing this. I just thought it was funny. I've run a benchmark against the floppy drives for different queue depths. The results are...
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JJ Con 2026 Talks are Up All the talks from JJ Con 2026 in Lisbon are now on YouTube. Here is a quick overview of each of...
3 weeks ago
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JJ Con 2026 Talks are Up

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

3 weeks ago
All the talks from JJ Con 2026 in Lisbon are now on YouTube. Here is a quick overview of each of them.
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Developing a native iOS app How hard can it be to build your own cycling and running workout tracker app using native code with...
10th May 2024
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Developing a native iOS app

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

10th May 2024
How hard can it be to build your own cycling and running workout tracker app using native code with some help from AI? Read along to find out!
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Using AI to generate code As part of my software optimisation efforts to cut cloud costs, I needed to replace an existing...
2nd May 2023
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Using AI to generate code

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

2nd May 2023
As part of my software optimisation efforts to cut cloud costs, I needed to replace an existing piece of inefficient server software with something that uses more robust (yet fragmented) tooling available in Debian GNU/Linux. Could the GPT4 language model deliver me some AI...
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Driverless Pizzas How self-driving vehicles and algorithms will change cities
21st Apr 2019
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Driverless Pizzas

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

21st Apr 2019
How self-driving vehicles and algorithms will change cities
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Winter at the Beach A couple more pictures from the Nikon FM with Nikkor 50mm f/1.4This time using Ilford Delta 100...
11th May 2025
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Winter at the Beach

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in technology

11th May 2025
A couple more pictures from the Nikon FM with Nikkor 50mm f/1.4This time using Ilford Delta 100 film, developed in Ilfosol 3 for 5 minutes at 20°CFairly rare for snow in Vancouver to stick around very long. Trees really are the lungs of the earth. The negative I developed looked...
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Objectivity is superstition An objective, external world is a non-falsifiable assumption. The prevailing theory is that our...
17th Mar 2025
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Objectivity is superstition

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17th Mar 2025
An objective, external world is a non-falsifiable assumption. The prevailing theory is that our subjective experiences correspond to an external reality. However, they may simply be subjective through and through. That which we claim to be evidence of external reality is actually...
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Canvas Breach Disrupts Schools & Colleges Nationwide An ongoing data extortion attack targeting the widely-used education technology platform Canvas...
8th May 2026
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Canvas Breach Disrupts Schools & Colleges Nationwide

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

8th May 2026
An ongoing data extortion attack targeting the widely-used education technology platform Canvas disrupted classes and coursework at school districts and universities across the United States today, after a cybercrime group defaced the service’s login page with a ransom demand...
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What Are You Going Through The book was good but it felt like a step back from the masterwork of The Friend; they are so...
3rd Jan 2021
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What Are You Going Through

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

3rd Jan 2021
The book was good but it felt like a step back from the masterwork of The Friend; they are so similar in structure and style but it felt a little bit like everything in this one was a few percentage points less powerful, which accumulated. The writerly citations and digressions...
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POV Candle [Hardware] Tiny volumetric display
1st Dec 2023
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POV Candle

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

1st Dec 2023
[Hardware] Tiny volumetric display
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Motorised Camera Slider [Hardware] Simple smooth motor mod
7th Jul 2024
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Motorised Camera Slider

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

7th Jul 2024
[Hardware] Simple smooth motor mod
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iPad Pro next to my primary machine I wanted see if I can find something better than my old fashioned pencil and paper that I use for...
29th Jan 2017
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iPad Pro next to my primary machine

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

29th Jan 2017
I wanted see if I can find something better than my old fashioned pencil and paper that I use for designing software as professional developer. I knew iPad Pro from my test last summer, figuring out if it could replace my primary development machine. While it may not be able to...
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Having a safe CEX: proof of solvency and beyond
19th Nov 2022
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Having a safe CEX: proof of solvency and beyond

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

19th Nov 2022
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November Theme: Art Game Back over at The Experimental Gameplay Project a new theme has come up. My last three themes haven’t...
1st Nov 2009
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November Theme: Art Game

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

1st Nov 2009
Back over at The Experimental Gameplay Project a new theme has come up. My last three themes haven’t been “my” themes: I’ve been following their lead and their themes and this month is no exception. This months’ apparently a big theme - Art. It’s even a collaboration with a big...
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Announcing Startup School Beijing
26th Apr 2018
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Announcing Startup School Beijing

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

26th Apr 2018
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Good Vibrations
17th Jun 2023
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Good Vibrations

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

17th Jun 2023
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Twenty Times Faster On 11 August I wrote in my notebook: the speed at which we move is about twenty times the old top...
6th Sep 2026
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Twenty Times Faster

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

6th Sep 2026
On 11 August I wrote in my notebook: the speed at which we move is about twenty times the old top speed. In one day I do what I used to do in twenty. This post is about that speed, what it does to the human in the loop, and the counterweight I found. It is the first post of...
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Battling burnout Mamma Mia! Here we go again… Once again, I’m finding myself trying to recover from burnout, and...
14th Mar 2023
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Battling burnout

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

14th Mar 2023
Mamma Mia! Here we go again… Once again, I’m finding myself trying to recover from burnout, and after about a year I’m finally feeling more like myself. Even though I’ve been here before, it’s a difficult thing to recognize and avoid, so I’m writing this to maybe help you or my...
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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...
26th Dec 2024
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Picking up volleyball in NYC with Goodrec and New York Urban

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

26th Dec 2024
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...
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Looper In retrospect, almost a proto-Blade Runner 2049. I thought the acting and general plot was kinda...
3rd Aug 2020
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Looper

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

3rd Aug 2020
In retrospect, almost a proto-Blade Runner 2049. I thought the acting and general plot was kinda milquetoast but the underlying setting was a hair above neat, and the depiction of an unevenly distributed future is probably one of the best realizations of science fiction I’ve ever...
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November newsletter November 2020 gwern.net newsletter with links on DL and genomics scaling, dark mode rewrite, 1...
4th Dec 2020
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November newsletter

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4th Dec 2020
November 2020 gwern.net newsletter with links on DL and genomics scaling, dark mode rewrite, 1 essay, and 1 opera review ('The Ring' cycle).
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Hospitalised with MCADD This week our son was hospitalised because a regular illness caused him to keep vomiting, a...
3rd May 2021
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Hospitalised with MCADD

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

3rd May 2021
This week our son was hospitalised because a regular illness caused him to keep vomiting, a dangerous situation if you're diagnosed with MCADD.
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Puzzling out climate change Accenture Fellow Shreyaa Raghavan applies machine learning and optimization methods to explore ways...
10th Feb 2025
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Puzzling out climate change

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

10th Feb 2025
Accenture Fellow Shreyaa Raghavan applies machine learning and optimization methods to explore ways to reduce transportation sector emissions.
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Why Digital Fashion Matters “We’re in the midst of a technological revolution.
14th Jul 2022
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Why Digital Fashion Matters

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

14th Jul 2022
“We’re in the midst of a technological revolution.
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Are data sets the new server rooms? This blog post Data sets are the new server rooms makes the point that a bunch of companies raise a...
1st Nov 2016
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Are data sets the new server rooms?

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

1st Nov 2016
This blog post Data sets are the new server rooms makes the point that a bunch of companies raise a ton of money to go get really proprietary awesome data as a competitive moat. Because once you have the data, you can build a better product, and no one can copy it (at least not...
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On Radical Markets
20th Apr 2018
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On Radical Markets

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

20th Apr 2018
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Buienwatch, a custom Home Assistant integration for Buienradar and Buienalarm graphs on your Apple... Back in 2021, I wired up data from Buienalarm and Buienradar through Node-RED and a big pile of...
16th Sep 2026
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Buienwatch, a custom Home Assistant integration for Buienradar and Buienalarm graphs on your Apple Watch

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

16th Sep 2026
Back in 2021, I wired up data from Buienalarm and Buienradar through Node-RED and a big pile of Jinja2 templates to get a rain forecast graph on my Apple Watch: eight Unicode block characters showing the next two hours in 15-minute chunks, glanceable without unlocking the phone....
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For-Profit Academic Publishers Love LLM Garbage Springer Nature CEOs say: Hooray for Open Access!!
8th Nov 2024
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For-Profit Academic Publishers Love LLM Garbage

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

8th Nov 2024
Springer Nature CEOs say: Hooray for Open Access!!
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Free software scares normal people I’m the person my friends and family come to for computer-related help. (Maybe you, gentle reader,...
30th Oct 2025
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Free software scares normal people

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

30th Oct 2025
I’m the person my friends and family come to for computer-related help. (Maybe you, gentle reader, can relate.) This experience has taught me which computing tasks are frustrating for normal people. Normal people often struggle with converting video. They will need to watch,...
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Comics from July 1977 Issue of ROM Magazine Those were the early days.
7th May 2026
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Comics from July 1977 Issue of ROM Magazine

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

7th May 2026
Those were the early days.
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How will Ethereum's multi-client philosophy interact with ZK-EVMs?
31st Mar 2023
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How will Ethereum's multi-client philosophy interact with ZK-EVMs?

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

31st Mar 2023
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Java’s SSLContext protocol name is a footgun This should be old news, but I keep seeing the same mistake crop up, so I thought I’d blog about it...
23rd Jun 2026
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Java’s SSLContext protocol name is a footgun

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

23rd Jun 2026
This should be old news, but I keep seeing the same mistake crop up, so I thought I’d blog about it and spread awareness. In Java, if you want to configure TLS you generally start with an SSLContext. And you get an instance of this class by calling the static method...
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Great Tools Disappear The best designed products get out of the way and let you focus on the work instead of the tool
18th Sep 2025
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Great Tools Disappear

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18th Sep 2025
The best designed products get out of the way and let you focus on the work instead of the tool
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Intel: a Bug and a Pro The FDIV bug and release of the P6
24th Feb 2025
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Intel: a Bug and a Pro

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

24th Feb 2025
The FDIV bug and release of the P6
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UNIX Review Magazine Interviews Larry Tesler They discuss Tesler's involvement with Xerox, Apple and office automation with Unix.
10th Sep 2024
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UNIX Review Magazine Interviews Larry Tesler

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

10th Sep 2024
They discuss Tesler's involvement with Xerox, Apple and office automation with Unix.
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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...
9th Jun 2023
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Using the EZCOO / AVStar HAE118 HDMI2.1 Audio Extractor for PS5/Xbox audio

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

9th Jun 2023
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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A practical understanding of lead acid batteries Introduction The goal of this article is to give you a practical understanding Lead Acid batteries....
29th Aug 2021
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A practical understanding of lead acid batteries

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

29th Aug 2021
Introduction The goal of this article is to give you a practical understanding Lead Acid batteries. We won't address the underlying chemistry, we'll treat them as a black-box and we will discover their characteristics and how to keep them healthy. Disclaimer I'm an amateur. I...
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Mindwalk Let us know how the water rises.
1st Apr 2026
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Mindwalk

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

1st Apr 2026
Let us know how the water rises.
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2026-01-28 As I start teaching the kids programming, I’ve been thinking about how to motivate it to them. They...
29th Jan 2026
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2026-01-28

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

29th Jan 2026
As I start teaching the kids programming, I’ve been thinking about how to motivate it to them. They do a lot of drawing, so that seemed like a potential hook to show how drawing on the computer may make some things easier (erasing, manipulating, repeating) and other things harder...
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I Made It! It’s been over a year, but I haven’t lost (most) my touch yet! For the second time I’ve completed a...
2nd May 2011
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I Made It!

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

2nd May 2011
It’s been over a year, but I haven’t lost (most) my touch yet! For the second time I’ve completed a Ludum Dare! Not an easy feat and yet there are tons of games that look absolutely wonderful. I’m not there yet but now I have at least gotten back into game making again, long...
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Klute A terrific, terrific film, with a great performance by Jane Fonda (insert quip of "the film should...
2nd Sep 2023
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Klute

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

2nd Sep 2023
A terrific, terrific film, with a great performance by Jane Fonda (insert quip of "the film should be called Bree!" here.) I think some of the noir aspects felt a little more obvious than in The Conversation, but the pair of performances and the deep sense of sonic dread that...
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I switched my blog from Blogofile to Pelican This blog is a static website, which makes it fast, simple and secure. It was generated by Blogofile...
6th Aug 2013
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I switched my blog from Blogofile to Pelican

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

6th Aug 2013
This blog is a static website, which makes it fast, simple and secure. It was generated by Blogofile but I switched to Pelican. Blogofile has seen almost no updates over the years and I consider the project dead. Realising that blogofile is dead, I decided to look around for...
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3D-printable Raleno 104 lightbox adapter for camera film scanning My latest creation is a 3D-printed adapter for the Raleno PLV-S104 (Raleno 104) light. The model...
11th Jul 2021
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3D-printable Raleno 104 lightbox adapter for camera film scanning

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

11th Jul 2021
My latest creation is a 3D-printed adapter for the Raleno PLV-S104 (Raleno 104) light. The model turns it into a lightbox that you can use for digital camera scanning of your negative film. It also contains a holder compatible with the Valoi 35mm/120 film carriers. Additionally,...
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The unreasonable effectiveness of the pancake rule Being chronically late to meetings sucks. Not only is it very rude, but you’re signalling that you...
8th Sep 2025
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The unreasonable effectiveness of the pancake rule

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

8th Sep 2025
Being chronically late to meetings sucks. Not only is it very rude, but you’re signalling that you don’t value your coworkers’ time. However, I’ve picked up a technique that works unreasonably well within a team.1 If you are late to the first meeting of the day three times within...
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What working on Pebble taught me about building hardware Building hardware is fun but tough. We worked on Pebble for a full four years before we launched on...
19th Sep 2017
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What working on Pebble taught me about building hardware

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

19th Sep 2017
Building hardware is fun but tough. We worked on Pebble for a full four years before we launched on Kickstarter in 2012. We went on to sell…
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The Meem app: it sucks I've been using Meem, the first digital-only bank in the Middle East, for about a year now. I...
1st Dec 2019
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The Meem app: it sucks

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

1st Dec 2019
I've been using Meem, the first digital-only bank in the Middle East, for about a year now. I absolutely hate their app.
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Designers Desk #1: Angelo Vilar Designer's Desk is a new series featuring the desk setups of artists, designers, and creators -...
8th Jun 2017
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Designers Desk #1: Angelo Vilar

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

8th Jun 2017
Designer's Desk is a new series featuring the desk setups of artists, designers, and creators - showcasing how they work and what their workspace looks like.   Angelo Vilar (AKA Ansirone) is an art director, animation designer, & illustrator based in Los Angeles. He keeps it...
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For the love of mini The iPhone Mini has intangible greatness that most folks don't know about: read along for the love...
8th Dec 2021
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For the love of mini

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

8th Dec 2021
The iPhone Mini has intangible greatness that most folks don't know about: read along for the love of mini!
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May Day activation on island of Hailuoto May Day is celebrated on first of May.
4th May 2025
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May Day activation on island of Hailuoto

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

4th May 2025
May Day is celebrated on first of May.
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My experiences with DFS replication on Windows 2008 R2 If you are considering implementing DFS replication, consider using Windows 2012 R2 because DFS...
15th Jun 2014
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My experiences with DFS replication on Windows 2008 R2

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

15th Jun 2014
If you are considering implementing DFS replication, consider using Windows 2012 R2 because DFS replication has been massively improved. It supports larger data sets and performance has dramatically been improved over Windows 2008 R2. I've implemented DFS replication to keep two...
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Breaking Changes Last week I ran into unexpected trouble during a routine maintenance procedure on my company's email...
3rd Jun 2025
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Breaking Changes

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

3rd Jun 2025
Last week I ran into unexpected trouble during a routine maintenance procedure on my company's email infrastructure. Processing thousands of emails each day, we use Dovecot to give our clients access to their messages. That all came to a grinding halt when I updated to version...
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Batavus Champion bike from 1978 Restore the retro glory of an old bike from the 70s using the internet.
2nd Sep 2016
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Batavus Champion bike from 1978

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

2nd Sep 2016
Restore the retro glory of an old bike from the 70s using the internet.
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Scam alert : mail from IPTI Mail from IPTI This is a physical scam mail alert yeah because we don’t get enough of cyber...
22nd Dec 2016
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Scam alert : mail from IPTI

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

22nd Dec 2016
Mail from IPTI This is a physical scam mail alert yeah because we don’t get enough of cyber phishing; right! Those who have filed international patents, keep an eye out for mails such as the above. I received a professional looking mail from IPTI & from what it looks like on the...
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Model benchmarks A lot of people have asked me what models we use for recommendations at Spotify so I wanted to share...
2nd Nov 2013
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Model benchmarks

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

2nd Nov 2013
A lot of people have asked me what models we use for recommendations at Spotify so I wanted to share some insights. Here's benchmarks for some models. Note that we don't use all of them in production.
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Hiding a photo inside another photo How to hide a small photo inside a larger photo?
28th Apr 2022
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Hiding a photo inside another photo

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

28th Apr 2022
How to hide a small photo inside a larger photo?
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The Pulse: AI load breaks GitHub – why not other vendors? GitHub’s leadership blames the 3.5x increase in service load as the cause of degradation – or it...
7th May 2026
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The Pulse: AI load breaks GitHub – why not other vendors?

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

7th May 2026
GitHub’s leadership blames the 3.5x increase in service load as the cause of degradation – or it might be self-inflicted.
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2023-02-07 secret government telephone numbers Very nearly a year ago, I wrote a popular article about secret military telephone buttons. To be...
7th Feb 2023
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2023-02-07 secret government telephone numbers

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

7th Feb 2023
Very nearly a year ago, I wrote a popular article about secret military telephone buttons. To be clear, the "secret" here was a joke and these buttons are in fact well documented. The buttons I was talking about were the AUTOVON call precedence buttons, used for a five-level...
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The IKEA-powered homelab on a wall I recently learned about the IKEA SKÅDIS series, which is a pegboard that supports a variety of...
7th Sep 2023
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The IKEA-powered homelab on a wall

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

7th Sep 2023
I recently learned about the IKEA SKÅDIS series, which is a pegboard that supports a variety of extras. During my self-hosting journey having to figure out the best place for putting all my compute stuff to has always been at the back of my mind, especially due to limited...
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MIT School of Engineering faculty receive awards in winter 2026 Faculty members and researchers were honored in recognition of their scholarship, service, and...
7th May 2026
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MIT School of Engineering faculty receive awards in winter 2026

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7th May 2026
Faculty members and researchers were honored in recognition of their scholarship, service, and overall excellence.
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Train Simulator Controller: Stepper Speedometer Begins For quite a few years now, I have been an avid Train Simulator player, operating virtual trains from...
27th Jan 2023
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Train Simulator Controller: Stepper Speedometer Begins

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

27th Jan 2023
For quite a few years now, I have been an avid Train Simulator player, operating virtual trains from the United States, the UK, and beyond. I’ve played Dovetail Games’ Train Simulator 2015 to 2022 and now “Train Simulator Classic”, FIFA-style annual upgrades that have...
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Introducing FamilyCharger Today we launched FamilyCharger - it's designed to be a central place to charge all your devices,...
18th Jul 2019
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Introducing FamilyCharger

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

18th Jul 2019
Today we launched FamilyCharger - it's designed to be a central place to charge all your devices, fast, without clutter. Our initial designs for a family charger started out as big multi-charging docks, but they were too inflexible, expensive, and took up a lot of space....
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Why Do Great Engineers Lose Architecture Debates? Because being right isn't enough, unfortunately
11th Nov 2025
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Why Do Great Engineers Lose Architecture Debates?

from Push to Prod [alt+shift+b] in technology

11th Nov 2025
Because being right isn't enough, unfortunately
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Reading List 08/01/26 Pepper-spray drones, China’s chip Manhattan Project, Commonwealth Fusion’s fundraise, and a proposed...
1st Aug 2026
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Reading List 08/01/26

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

1st Aug 2026
Pepper-spray drones, China’s chip Manhattan Project, Commonwealth Fusion’s fundraise, and a proposed Dulles Airport renovation.
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The Boys in the Boat A friend of mine who's in finance told me that the book is a cult favorite in his office, as most of...
14th Jan 2019
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The Boys in the Boat

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

14th Jan 2019
A friend of mine who's in finance told me that the book is a cult favorite in his office, as most of them did crew in college. There's gotta be a word for the narrative neatness that this book employs. Of course the UW folks are the young upstarts — of course they are portrayed...
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Credits Credits / Attribution Some of the art used around this blog are by other people. Here is a list of...
21st Apr 2025
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Credits

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

21st Apr 2025
Credits / Attribution Some of the art used around this blog are by other people. Here is a list of them: Smug Videah by Kelevtov Rantsona Sidebar Videah by ScruffKerfluff Callout Pixel Art Videah by lockedsdcard Videah Mutant Standard Emoji by Caius Nocturne
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Revisiting the Businesscard Raytracer
1st May 2020
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Revisiting the Businesscard Raytracer

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

1st May 2020
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Introducing the OrkoHunter Discord Community 👉🏻 Join the OrkoHunter Discord Community 10 years ago, I arrived as a naive fresher in my...
7th Dec 2024
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Introducing the OrkoHunter Discord Community

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

7th Dec 2024
👉🏻 Join the OrkoHunter Discord Community 10 years ago, I arrived as a naive fresher in my engineering college. And like many, my first…
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Serverless Anagram Solver with Cloudflare R2 and Pages Six years ago, I reworked my anagram solver so it would run on top of AWS Lambda and DynamoDB....
10th Sep 2022
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Serverless Anagram Solver with Cloudflare R2 and Pages

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

10th Sep 2022
Six years ago, I reworked my anagram solver so it would run on top of AWS Lambda and DynamoDB. However, this year I realized I didn't need server-side code or a database at all. I could make it completely static by pre-computing anagram solutions.
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I beat FTL on Hard with all ships in the game For 2023 I wanted to do something different than usual—I wanted to start playing computer games...
16th Jun 2023
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I beat FTL on Hard with all ships in the game

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

16th Jun 2023
For 2023 I wanted to do something different than usual—I wanted to start playing computer games again. So I gave myself a late Christmas gift and bought a Steam Deck (and like any self-serving gentleman I took care to pitch it as being for my kids) and I started loading it up...
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Varieties of Disturbance My review of Break it Down, a much earlier entry in Lydia Davis' ouevre, last year was a bit of...
1st Mar 2023
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Varieties of Disturbance

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

1st Mar 2023
My review of Break it Down, a much earlier entry in Lydia Davis' ouevre, last year was a bit of damning with faint praise:
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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)...
17th May 2024
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QNAP QTS - QNAPping At The Wheel (CVE-2024-27130 and friends)

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

17th May 2024
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
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What's with ML software and pickles? I have spent many years as an software engineer who was a total outsider to machine-learning, but...
8th Nov 2023
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What's with ML software and pickles?

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

8th Nov 2023
I have spent many years as an software engineer who was a total outsider to machine-learning, but with some curiosity and occasional peripheral interactions with it. During this time, a recurring theme for me was horror (and, to be honest, disdain) every time I encountered the...
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I went on an Amazon propaganda tour In which I'm forced to confront a contradictions in my values
1st Jul 2026
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I went on an Amazon propaganda tour

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

1st Jul 2026
In which I'm forced to confront a contradictions in my values
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IBM RISC System/6000 Family Just when PowerSeeker thought they had nowhere to go...
1st May 2024
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IBM RISC System/6000 Family

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

1st May 2024
Just when PowerSeeker thought they had nowhere to go...
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I'll only buy devices with GrapheneOS Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS — I say that’s freedom Calvin...
28th Aug 2025
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I'll only buy devices with GrapheneOS

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

28th Aug 2025
Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS — I say that’s freedom Calvin Wankhede We’re in a dark time period right now. Authoritarianism is on the rise throughout the globe. Governments wants to monitor your social media accounts so they can make you disappear if...
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My lil' Ghostty terminal config I wrote about Ghosty last week, and since then I've played around with it enough to know it's my new...
3rd Jan 2025
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My lil' Ghostty terminal config

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Jan 2025
I wrote about Ghosty last week, and since then I've played around with it enough to know it's my new terminal emulator of choice. For me the killer feature is how fast it is, putting the most popular apps to shame (Apple Terminal and iTerm, specifically)
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7ème tour des subventions Gitcoin - Rétrospective
18th Oct 2020
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7ème tour des subventions Gitcoin - Rétrospective

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

18th Oct 2020
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Raspberry Pi as a router using a single network interface Introduction Disclaimer: this article is intended for consumers and hobbyists. If you want to run...
29th Sep 2021
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Raspberry Pi as a router using a single network interface

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

29th Sep 2021
Introduction Disclaimer: this article is intended for consumers and hobbyists. If you want to run your own router at home, the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B1 can be an excelent hardware choice: it's fairly cheap it's fast enough it can saturate it's gigabit network port it is...
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How WebP Images Reduced My Bandwidth Usage by 50% Last year I migrated this website from Jekyll to Eleventy. This year, I’m finally implementing WebP...
8th Feb 2022
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How WebP Images Reduced My Bandwidth Usage by 50%

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

8th Feb 2022
Last year I migrated this website from Jekyll to Eleventy. This year, I’m finally implementing WebP images to save bandwidth and make this site even faster to load! This simple change reduced my bandwidth usage by 50% and is still backwards compatible with old devices and...
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The Most Important Micros That is, for what they represent
28th Feb 2026
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The Most Important Micros

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

28th Feb 2026
That is, for what they represent
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Analyzing the Monoprice Blackbird HDCP 2.2 to 1.4 Down Converter Introduction Some Words about HDCP Inside the Monoprice Blackbird 4K Pro The Test Digging Deeper:...
26th Nov 2023
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Analyzing the Monoprice Blackbird HDCP 2.2 to 1.4 Down Converter

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

26th Nov 2023
Introduction Some Words about HDCP Inside the Monoprice Blackbird 4K Pro The Test Digging Deeper: UART Transactions Decoding HDCP I2C Transactions The Legality of It All References Footnotes Introduction I got my hands on a Monoprice Blackbird 4K Pro HDCP 2.2 to 1.4...
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Have I Got Fake News For You (Odds and Ends #79) A jaw-dropping screw-up on prime time BBC One – and more!
3rd Oct 2025
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Have I Got Fake News For You (Odds and Ends #79)

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

3rd Oct 2025
A jaw-dropping screw-up on prime time BBC One – and more!
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2023 in review This is my yearly review #14. Amazing that I’ve kept up with this for 14 years. Even though it’s not...
1st Jan 2024
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2023 in review

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

1st Jan 2024
This is my yearly review #14. Amazing that I’ve kept up with this for 14 years. Even though it’s not anything advanced, I really like looking back at the year to see what has happened. Maybe it’s a very light version of a reverse bucket list, and I can see that it provides some...
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HP 33120A Repair - Shutting Down the Eye of Sauron Introduction Opening Up an HP 33120A A Walk Through the Block Diagram Bug Hunting Zener...
2nd Jan 2023
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HP 33120A Repair - Shutting Down the Eye of Sauron

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

2nd Jan 2023
Introduction Opening Up an HP 33120A A Walk Through the Block Diagram Bug Hunting Zener Replacement Staring at the Eye of Sauron FLIR IR Imaging To Destroy a PCB in Order to Save It Circuit Reconstruction Success! Trust but Verify Conclusion References Introduction When the...
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2024 Year in Review Everything that happened to me this year
30th Dec 2024
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2024 Year in Review

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

30th Dec 2024
Everything that happened to me this year
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How I ended up building storylearner.app I’ve always been drawn to self-directed learning. My interests have been pretty diverse - I would...
17th May 2025
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How I ended up building storylearner.app

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

17th May 2025
I’ve always been drawn to self-directed learning. My interests have been pretty diverse - I would spend countless hours on math, science, soft-skills, movement skills (juggling, handstands) as well as languages. A long standing language learning obsession Over the years (starting...
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Cracking my windshield and earning $10,000 on the Tesla Bug Bounty Program
14th Jul 2019
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Cracking my windshield and earning $10,000 on the Tesla Bug Bounty Program

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

14th Jul 2019
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Open source business model struggles at WordPress Automattic, creator of Wordpress, is being sued by one of the largest WordPress hosting providers....
11th Oct 2024
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Open source business model struggles at WordPress

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

11th Oct 2024
Automattic, creator of Wordpress, is being sued by one of the largest WordPress hosting providers. The conflict fits into a trend of billion-dollar companies struggling to effectively monetize open source, and are changing tactics to limit their competition and increase their...
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Robot Slide Whistle Orchestrion [Hardware] Army of Robot Slide Whistles
1st Apr 2024
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Robot Slide Whistle Orchestrion

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

1st Apr 2024
[Hardware] Army of Robot Slide Whistles
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Action Syllabus Week 1: Decide Technology Policy in the Classroom
22nd Apr 2024
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Action Syllabus

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

22nd Apr 2024
Week 1: Decide Technology Policy in the Classroom
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Long Distance Relationships I’ve been managing a fully remote, fully distributed team, covering timezones from UTC-8 through...
12th Oct 2024
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Long Distance Relationships

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

12th Oct 2024
I’ve been managing a fully remote, fully distributed team, covering timezones from UTC-8 through UTC+10, for the last couple of years. Through that time, I’ve learned a lot on organising work, interpersonal relationships, and ultimately how to overcome a lack of promximity to my...
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The time of our lives
7th Dec 2016
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The time of our lives

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

7th Dec 2016
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A miniature Vegas Sphere is the perfect nightlight Sphere in Las Vegas is inarguably one of the most notable architectural achievements of the...
1st Aug 2024
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A miniature Vegas Sphere is the perfect nightlight

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

1st Aug 2024
Sphere in Las Vegas is inarguably one of the most notable architectural achievements of the 21st century so far. Gaudy? Maybe. Controversial? Definitely. Interesting? Absolutely — no one can debate that with a straight face. When 15-year-old Ben Kennedy’s bedroom nightlight...
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Magic the Gathering format: Fun 40
20th May 2026
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Magic the Gathering format: Fun 40

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

20th May 2026
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Best of Enemies Last year, I watched The War Room, the documentary following Bill Clinton's first campaign — a film...
1st Aug 2026
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Best of Enemies

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

1st Aug 2026
Last year, I watched The War Room, the documentary following Bill Clinton's first campaign — a film I am remiss for having never written about, because it was captivating, satisfying, and illuminating. And whether for good reasons or bad, it punctured most of my belief that the...
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The Little Things in Life It’s the little things in life that makes it extra special. Sometimes it’s the luxury of coffee...
3rd Feb 2011
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The Little Things in Life

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

3rd Feb 2011
It’s the little things in life that makes it extra special. Sometimes it’s the luxury of coffee together with the morning paper and other times it’s just a small simple smile from a random stranger, kid or dog. Today when I got this bad headache I got saved by a two hour nap and...
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Links #12 Oscar, an open-source contributor agent architecture - Oscar is a project from the Go community that...
15th Apr 2025
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Links #12

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

15th Apr 2025
Oscar, an open-source contributor agent architecture - Oscar is a project from the Go community that aims to develop AI agents that assist open source maintainers. I think this is a great idea. Open source is a load-bearing pillar in our modern digital infrastructure and...
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The Godfather It has taken me far too long to watch The Godfather, and having finished it I find myself slightly...
6th Feb 2023
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The Godfather

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

6th Feb 2023
It has taken me far too long to watch The Godfather, and having finished it I find myself slightly deflated — because it is a tremendous movie, worthy of its status in both the American and cinematic anons, and every line and meme which has etched itself into the collective...
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What in the Ethereum application ecosystem excites me
5th Dec 2022
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What in the Ethereum application ecosystem excites me

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

5th Dec 2022
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Snake '97 High Scores Happily accepting the invitation to attend an exhibition of Snake 97 art works in Antwerp. This was...
17th Apr 2022
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Snake '97 High Scores

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

17th Apr 2022
Happily accepting the invitation to attend an exhibition of Snake 97 art works in Antwerp. This was totally WOW!
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Values One of the most important things that a company needs to agree on is values. Values are a strange...
11th Feb 2016
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Values

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

11th Feb 2016
One of the most important things that a company needs to agree on is values. Values are a strange being though — they are defined even when no one has explicitly taken the task of putting them on a powerpoint deck.
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ode to libraries (the book ones) Most of the audience reading this post think of some random new programming tool dropped recently...
25th Sep 2025
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ode to libraries (the book ones)

from sibervepunk [alt+shift+b] in technology

25th Sep 2025
Most of the audience reading this post think of some random new programming tool dropped recently when the word library comes up. Let’s leave our déformation professionnelle in the door and think about the libraries. Book ones. This post is an ode to them. I am not sure if...
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Marathon Last Sunday I completed my first full marathon, covering a distance of 42KM in and around Amsterdam....
19th Oct 2024
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Marathon

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

19th Oct 2024
Last Sunday I completed my first full marathon, covering a distance of 42KM in and around Amsterdam. An idea that started in a bar with some beers and concluded with a finish in the Olympic Stadium. What a journey, what an experience, well worthy of a blog post. About a year ago,...
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Most Technical debt is just bullshit Introduction I made an offhand remark about technical debt to a friend and he interrupted me,...
25th Sep 2020
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Most Technical debt is just bullshit

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

25th Sep 2020
Introduction I made an offhand remark about technical debt to a friend and he interrupted me, saying: "technical debt is just bullshit". In his experience, people talking about technical debt were mostly trying to: cover up bad code cover up unfinished work source1 Calling...
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Star-Crossed The obvious and deserved comparison is with Evermore/Folklore — a stripped down, mellower version of...
2nd Oct 2021
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Star-Crossed

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

2nd Oct 2021
The obvious and deserved comparison is with Evermore/Folklore — a stripped down, mellower version of the author's ouevre. While I think Taylor's latest outings are good-not-great, I thought this was closer to great; the songwriting is steadier and more interesting, and the pathos...
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Unusual circuits in the Intel 386's standard cell logic I've been studying the standard cell circuitry in the Intel 386 processor recently. The 386,...
22nd Nov 2025
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Unusual circuits in the Intel 386's standard cell logic

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

22nd Nov 2025
I've been studying the standard cell circuitry in the Intel 386 processor recently. The 386, introduced in 1985, was Intel's most complex processor at the time, containing 285,000 transistors. Intel's existing design techniques couldn't handle this complexity and the chip began...
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Zenith Data Systems, Part I The quality goes in before the name goes on
3 weeks ago
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Zenith Data Systems, Part I

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

3 weeks ago
The quality goes in before the name goes on
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A Brief History of Sega Enterprises Sega does what Nintendon't
12th Jan 2026
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A Brief History of Sega Enterprises

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

12th Jan 2026
Sega does what Nintendon't
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New reptyr feature: TTY-stealing Ever since I wrote reptyr, I’ve been frustrated by a number of issues in reptyr that I fundamentally...
20th Aug 2014
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New reptyr feature: TTY-stealing

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

20th Aug 2014
Ever since I wrote reptyr, I’ve been frustrated by a number of issues in reptyr that I fundamentally didn’t know how to solve within the reptyr model. Most annoyingly, reptyr fundamentally only worked on single processes, and could not attach processes with children, making it...
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Keep : A personal shell command keeper A Meta CLI toolkit Writwick Wraj loves using the command line. Writwick googles “How to do X in...
23rd Feb 2017
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Keep : A personal shell command keeper

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

23rd Feb 2017
A Meta CLI toolkit Writwick Wraj loves using the command line. Writwick googles “How to do X in terminal?” and multiple forums and blog…
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2023-05-07 electrical characteristics of telephone lines Let's take a break from our boring topic of regional history to focus instead on an even more boring...
7th May 2023
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2023-05-07 electrical characteristics of telephone lines

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

7th May 2023
Let's take a break from our boring topic of regional history to focus instead on an even more boring topic: implementation details of telephone lines. The conventional "copper pair" analog telephone line is fading away. The FCC has begun to authorize abandonment of copper outside...
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2024-05-06 matrix For those of you who are members of the Matrix project, I wanted to let you know that I am running...
6th May 2024
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2024-05-06 matrix

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

6th May 2024
For those of you who are members of the Matrix project, I wanted to let you know that I am running for the Governing Board, and a bit about why. For those of you who are not, I hope you will forgive the intrusion. Maybe you'll find my opinions on the topic interesting anyway. I...
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Omarchy on iMac After helping a family member migrate to a new computer, I found myself with an old iMac. The...
21st Sep 2025
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Omarchy on iMac

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

21st Sep 2025
After helping a family member migrate to a new computer, I found myself with an old iMac. The machine from 2017 was very slow running modern macOS, yet I have a soft spot for these all-in-one computers designed by Jony Ive and his team. Could I install Linux on it to give it a...
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Computer says no This morning I enjoyed my bike ride on a nearly empty bicycle lane, picture perfect rays of sunlight...
10th Sep 2022
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Computer says no

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

10th Sep 2022
This morning I enjoyed my bike ride on a nearly empty bicycle lane, picture perfect rays of sunlight illuminated the dew above the fields around me. Where were all the other cyclists? I suspect it has something to do with popular weather apps. It strikes me how great the control...
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learning to swim at 26 I learned how to swim at the age of 26. Or rather, I'm still learning. In my last lesson, I managed...
17th Jul 2026
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learning to swim at 26

from sibervepunk [alt+shift+b] in technology

17th Jul 2026
I learned how to swim at the age of 26. Or rather, I'm still learning. In my last lesson, I managed to swim 50 meters without using any support (and I didn't drown, lol). In the lesson before that, I got dizzy, my leg cramped three times, and I had swallowed half the pool. (you...
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LED Matrix Earrings [Hardware] Itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow dot-matrix LED
20th Feb 2024
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LED Matrix Earrings

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

20th Feb 2024
[Hardware] Itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow dot-matrix LED
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Is there an easy and secure way to transfer files? Many organisations just assume that the local physical network is trusted. That their network...
17th Sep 2011
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Is there an easy and secure way to transfer files?

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

17th Sep 2011
Many organisations just assume that the local physical network is trusted. That their network equipment is physically secure and that it is impossible for an attacker to get on the wire and start eavesdropping on network traffic. Many organisations do not seem too concerned about...
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memories of .us How much do you remember from elementary school? I remember vinyl tile floors, the playground, the...
11th Nov 2025
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memories of .us

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

11th Nov 2025
How much do you remember from elementary school? I remember vinyl tile floors, the playground, the teacher sentencing me to standing in the hallway. I had a teacher who was a chess fanatic; he painted a huge chess board in the paved schoolyard and got someone to fabricate big...
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Godzilla Minus One I wrote a bit in Everybody's in L.A. about the constraint of evaluating the merit of something...
4th Jun 2024
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Godzilla Minus One

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Jun 2024
I wrote a bit in Everybody's in L.A. about the constraint of evaluating the merit of something that's in conversation with a genre you don't really care for in the first place; I don't care much for late night shows, and I care even less for kaiju movies, even with my knowledge...
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Repetition is the shadow of structure
2nd Nov 2019
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Repetition is the shadow of structure

from Joel Gustafson [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Nov 2019
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How Will the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act Affect Housing Supply? Part III This is my third and final essay looking at the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, and how it’s...
3rd Sep 2026
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How Will the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act Affect Housing Supply? Part III

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3rd Sep 2026
This is my third and final essay looking at the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, and how it’s likely to affect housing supply.
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Making a photo enlarger more efficient with precisely controlled LEDs In photography, an enlarger is a piece of equipment that projects a smaller image onto a...
2nd Mar 2025
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Making a photo enlarger more efficient with precisely controlled LEDs

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

2nd Mar 2025
In photography, an enlarger is a piece of equipment that projects a smaller image onto a photosensitive material below using a strong light source and a negative to produce a much larger print. And while these have historically relied on single-color incandescent bulbs, such as...
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Why should one do Open Source in college? More and more students are now being involved with Open Source programming. Thanks to programs like...
19th Dec 2020
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Why should one do Open Source in college?

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

19th Dec 2020
More and more students are now being involved with Open Source programming. Thanks to programs like Google Summer of Code who have seriously…
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Quality vs quantity in the age of AI Over the last four months I’ve increased my use of AI for web dev work pretty dramatically. I use it...
27th Apr 2026
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Quality vs quantity in the age of AI

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

27th Apr 2026
Over the last four months I’ve increased my use of AI for web dev work pretty dramatically. I use it every day at work, as do most of my coworkers. I don’t think it’s disputed anymore that AI-assisted development can save a lot of time and effort. The question is, what do we do...
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Introducing TagVault Universal for AirTag We wanted an ultra-secure AirTag case that could be mounted to anything. Easy to change AirTags...
13th Nov 2024
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Introducing TagVault Universal for AirTag

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

13th Nov 2024
We wanted an ultra-secure AirTag case that could be mounted to anything. Easy to change AirTags battery. Waterproof. Robust. And discreet. So we designed TagVault Universal Mount for AirTag. It has mounting holes for screws, rivets, and slots for zip ties. Or just epoxy it down....
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Forty years of programming
8th Oct 2023
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Forty years of programming

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

8th Oct 2023
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Composite and hard reset mods for the Tandyvision One I still have my literal first home computer (the Tomy Tutor), and it so happens I also have my...
8th Dec 2024
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Composite and hard reset mods for the Tandyvision One

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

8th Dec 2024
I still have my literal first home computer (the Tomy Tutor), and it so happens I also have my literal first game console: the Tandyvision One, Tandy Radio Shack's label variant of the Mattel Intellivision Master Component. The Mattel Intellivision proper originally hails...
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Apple is killing off the optical drive just like the floppy disk With the release of the new MacBook Air we are one step closer to killing off the cd-rom and the...
23rd Oct 2010
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Apple is killing off the optical drive just like the floppy disk

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

23rd Oct 2010
With the release of the new MacBook Air we are one step closer to killing off the cd-rom and the dvd. As with the previous MacBook Air, this device has no optical drive. And that is a good thing. People do not need an optical drive. You have the network and you have USB disks....
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Looking for vulnerabilities is the last thing I do There’s a common misconception among developers that my job, as a (application) Security Engineer,...
20th Feb 2026
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Looking for vulnerabilities is the last thing I do

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

20th Feb 2026
There’s a common misconception among developers that my job, as a (application) Security Engineer, is to just search for security bugs in their code. They may well have seen junior security engineers doing this kind of thing. But, although this can be useful (and is part of the...
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Should they buy…Allbirds? Everyone pivots to the enterprise. Plus, Block becomes a box.
3rd Apr 2026
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Should they buy…Allbirds?

from benn.substack [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Apr 2026
Everyone pivots to the enterprise. Plus, Block becomes a box.
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I don't know how to feel about Palantir Normal company or uniquely evil? Let's reason through it.
3rd May 2026
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I don't know how to feel about Palantir

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

3rd May 2026
Normal company or uniquely evil? Let's reason through it.
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Symbolic Reference and Hardware Models in Python The Traditional Hardware Design and Verification Flow An Image Downscaler as Example Design The...
27th Dec 2024
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Symbolic Reference and Hardware Models in Python

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

27th Dec 2024
The Traditional Hardware Design and Verification Flow An Image Downscaler as Example Design The Reference Model The Micro-Architecture Model Comparing the results Conversion to Hardware Combining symbolic models with random input generation Specification changes Things to...
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Riding the Risk Railway When building and operating a user-facing system, especially one that is open to the public, it is...
9th Mar 2020
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Riding the Risk Railway

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

9th Mar 2020
When building and operating a user-facing system, especially one that is open to the public, it is important to consider the riskiness of a user, which can also be characterised as trustworthiness. These will typically be negatively correlated, with low trust indicating high risk...
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What went wrong with wireless USB (Hat tip to the late Bill Strauss and The Capitol Steps' Lirty Dies.) take my Palm OS Fossil Wrist...
4th May 2025
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What went wrong with wireless USB

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

4th May 2025
(Hat tip to the late Bill Strauss and The Capitol Steps' Lirty Dies.) take my Palm OS Fossil Wrist PDA smartwatch mobile. It has no on-board networking libraries but can be coerced into doing PPP over its serial port (via USB) by using the libraries from my Palm m505. Of...
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Slay the Spire In lieu of more to say, I think this is the most well-designed game I've ever played. The size of a...
16th May 2019
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Slay the Spire

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

16th May 2019
In lieu of more to say, I think this is the most well-designed game I've ever played. The size of a given session is perfect for me (45-75 minutes); the difficulty curve is elegant and sloping; variety is strong. I have poured at least a hundred hours into the game and could see...
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Machine Learning and the triumph of GOFAI I’ve been slowly reading Brian Cantwell Smith’s “The Promise of Artificial Intelligence” recently. I...
30th Jun 2024
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Machine Learning and the triumph of GOFAI

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

30th Jun 2024
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...
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Take the tools out of 'Data', but don't take the data out of the tools Using dataframes to write smaller, faster programs
11th Jan 2023
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Take the tools out of 'Data', but don't take the data out of the tools

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

11th Jan 2023
Using dataframes to write smaller, faster programs
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New feature: RSS feed export
2nd Dec 2024
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New feature: RSS feed export

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

2nd Dec 2024
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2025-02-02 residential networking over telephone Recently, I covered some of the history of Ethernet's tenuous relationship with installed...
2nd Feb 2025
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2025-02-02 residential networking over telephone

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

2nd Feb 2025
Recently, I covered some of the history of Ethernet's tenuous relationship with installed telephone cabling. That article focused on the earlier and more business-oriented products, but many of you probably know that there have been a number of efforts to install IP...
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iOS 27 has some weird Dynamic Island behavior Thought I’d make a quick blog post about some weird behavior I’m seeing on iOS 27 and Dynamic Island...
3 days ago
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iOS 27 has some weird Dynamic Island behavior

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

3 days ago
Thought I’d make a quick blog post about some weird behavior I’m seeing on iOS 27 and Dynamic Island live activities, that I initially thought was restricted to the Duo, but turns out affects everything. Yay. Maybe this post can save some others some time, and hopefully Apple can...
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Oversimplified guide into snapshots on the btrfs filesystem Friday afternoon. You’re trying out a script that you wrote to mass-rename and move some files...
5th Apr 2022
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Oversimplified guide into snapshots on the btrfs filesystem

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

5th Apr 2022
Friday afternoon. You’re trying out a script that you wrote to mass-rename and move some files around. You finish the script and test it out. Oops. All the files now have all the wrong names, and some have been randomly moved 10 folders deep. It’s a mess. And you didn’t make a...
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Raspberry Mint
6th Feb 2019
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Raspberry Mint

from Joel Gustafson [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Feb 2019
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Running SQL Server in a container on Github Actions This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
16th Dec 2021
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Running SQL Server in a container on Github Actions

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

16th Dec 2021
This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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Some personal user experiences
28th Feb 2023
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Some personal user experiences

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

28th Feb 2023
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Hacking Chess.com and Accessing 50 Million Customer Records
16th Dec 2020
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Hacking Chess.com and Accessing 50 Million Customer Records

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

16th Dec 2020
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From voice command to robotic arm: how agentic AI on the edge is changing the factory floor For years, bringing real intelligence to industrial automation meant expensive infrastructure,...
1st Sep 2026
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From voice command to robotic arm: how agentic AI on the edge is changing the factory floor

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

1st Sep 2026
For years, bringing real intelligence to industrial automation meant expensive infrastructure, proprietary systems, and steep learning curves. That’s changing – fast. Foundation models powerful enough to run at the edge are turning natural language into machine control, and the...
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We Need To Talk Advice for keeping up activity on a blog: don’t get appendicitis in a country where you barely speak...
17th Aug 2026
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We Need To Talk

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

17th Aug 2026
Advice for keeping up activity on a blog: don’t get appendicitis in a country where you barely speak the language at the same time that your newborn baby gets his first major daycare illness.
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Why I created Ethereum Proof of Stake demo Hi there!
2nd Nov 2024
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Why I created Ethereum Proof of Stake demo

from tim.sh [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Nov 2024
Hi there!
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