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IrDA Light: it's the radiation we can see. The communications potential of light is obvious, and indeed,...
11th Apr 2026
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IrDA

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11th Apr 2026
Light: it's the radiation we can see. The communications potential of light is obvious, and indeed, many of the earliest forms of long-distance communication relied on it: signal fires, semaphore, heliographs. You could say that we still make extensive use of light for...
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2025-03-08 It started, as it often does, with my kids. They got curious about a chess variant called Monster...
9th Mar 2025
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2025-03-08

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9th Mar 2025
It started, as it often does, with my kids. They got curious about a chess variant called Monster chess. But none of the websites out there have an implementation of it. So I set out to build one. In Lua Carousel, of course, my cross-platform app for editing and running little...
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RGB Input Range Sliders R0 G20 B0 A fun little challenge to myself this week was putting together these HTML input range...
2nd Aug 2024
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RGB Input Range Sliders

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Aug 2024
R0 G20 B0 A fun little challenge to myself this week was putting together these HTML input range type sliders to control the color of an LED.Each color channel change triggers an update to read the value, convert it to a hex code (eg. #FF0000), update the output element value,...
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Transparency Report: 2024
5th Jan 2025
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Transparency Report: 2024

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5th Jan 2025
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Comment on The 35 Headline Formulas of John Caples by Ace Rashid I was reading copy hackers article title "Is $5000 a lot to charge for a sales page" and you were...
4th Oct 2018
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Comment on The 35 Headline Formulas of John Caples by Ace Rashid

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

4th Oct 2018
I was reading copy hackers article title "Is $5000 a lot to charge for a sales page" and you were one of the 14 marketers that were asked this bonus question to which you felt that it was too low for a sales page. That drew me to your site to learn more about you. I am glad...
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All about the fillrate I bought "Blade infinity" yesterday. The game is a lot of fun and has the ability to satisfy both...
11th Dec 2010
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All about the fillrate

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

11th Dec 2010
I bought "Blade infinity" yesterday. The game is a lot of fun and has the ability to satisfy both people looking for instant fun and people wishing for a long game while collecting powerful items. At $5.99 it is a bargain, a must have not only for the gameplay but also for its...
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Inside the tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets To use the Montreal subway (the Métro), you tap a paper ticket against the turnstile and it...
23rd Jun 2024
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Inside the tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets

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

23rd Jun 2024
To use the Montreal subway (the Métro), you tap a paper ticket against the turnstile and it opens. The ticket works through a system called NFC, but what's happening internally? How does the ticket work without a battery? How does it communicate with the turnstile? And how can it...
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I'm featured in Mashable This article from today in Mashable describes some of the fun stuff I get to work with: Erik...
6th Feb 2013
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I'm featured in Mashable

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

6th Feb 2013
This article from today in Mashable describes some of the fun stuff I get to work with: Erik Bernhardsson is technical lead at Spotify, where he helped to build a music recommendation system based on large-scale machine learning algorithms, mainly matrix factorization of big...
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List of Vim forks Here are the Vim forks I know about: Neovim: “a Vim-based text editor engineered for extensibility...
a week ago
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List of Vim forks

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

a week ago
Here are the Vim forks I know about: Neovim: “a Vim-based text editor engineered for extensibility and usability, to encourage new applications and contributions.” Vim Classic: “a stable, long-term support fork of the ubiquitous text editor, maintained without the assistance of...
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RailScan: First Point Clouds from Railroad Museum Scanner I volunteer at a train, trolley, and subway museum. As a non-authoritative, hobby project combining...
16th Jul 2026
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RailScan: First Point Clouds from Railroad Museum Scanner

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

16th Jul 2026
I volunteer at a train, trolley, and subway museum. As a non-authoritative, hobby project combining my love of trains, electronics, mapping, and data, I am building a LiDAR scanner to map and analyze the museum. After designing the initial hardware and software for a GNSS-enabled...
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Customizing Neovim Scripting is configuration. Configuration is scripting. TJ DeVries A different take on editing...
2nd May 2024
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Customizing Neovim

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

2nd May 2024
Scripting is configuration. Configuration is scripting. TJ DeVries A different take on editing code I’ve been using Neovim since it forked from Vim almost 8 years ago, and I used Vim many years before that. I feel quite comfortable with Neovim, and I’ve gone down the...
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SMS Phishers Pivot to Points, Taxes, Fake Retailers China-based phishing groups blamed for non-stop scam SMS messages about a supposed wayward package...
4th Dec 2025
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SMS Phishers Pivot to Points, Taxes, Fake Retailers

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

4th Dec 2025
China-based phishing groups blamed for non-stop scam SMS messages about a supposed wayward package or unpaid toll fee are promoting a new offering, just in time for the holiday shopping season: Phishing kits for mass-creating fake but convincing e-commerce websites that convert...
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No more new apps (in August) It turns out that I have a lot of software ideas in my head. Given my penchant over the years to...
1st Aug 2026
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No more new apps (in August)

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Aug 2026
It turns out that I have a lot of software ideas in my head. Given my penchant over the years to have more side projects than most people can imagine keeping up with, I guess it shouldn't be a surprise. I've got 8 apps on the
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Walter Torous named executive director of MIT Center for Real Estate The senior lecturer, already director of the degree program, will now oversee all aspects of the...
1st Sep 2026
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Walter Torous named executive director of MIT Center for Real Estate

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

1st Sep 2026
The senior lecturer, already director of the degree program, will now oversee all aspects of the center’s activities and operations.
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Visualizing 13 million Bluesky users
12th Nov 2024
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Visualizing 13 million Bluesky users

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

12th Nov 2024
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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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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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the video lunchbox An opening note: would you believe that I have been at this for five years, now? If I planned ahead...
13th Sep 2025
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the video lunchbox

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

13th Sep 2025
An opening note: would you believe that I have been at this for five years, now? If I planned ahead better, I would have done this on the five-year anniversary, but I missed it. Computers Are Bad is now five years and four months old. When I originally launched CAB, it was my...
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GPL Clarification A quick followup on my prior conversation with Theo. During that chat, I talked briefly about a...
1st Nov 2024
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GPL Clarification

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

1st Nov 2024
A quick followup on my prior conversation with Theo. During that chat, I talked briefly about a trademark infringer that was also distributing nulled plugins. I said “Not illegal. Legal under the GPL. But they weren’t changing the names. They were selling their customers Pro...
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HoloISO: the unofficial Steam Deck experience on your PC If you have spent any time in gaming hardware circles, then you’ve probably heard about the Steam...
1st Dec 2022
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HoloISO: the unofficial Steam Deck experience on your PC

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

1st Dec 2022
If you have spent any time in gaming hardware circles, then you’ve probably heard about the Steam Deck, the Linux-based handheld gaming PC built by Valve. Yes, you heard that right: not Windows, but Linux. I’ve had my fair share of attempts at gaming on Linux. When it works,...
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Train Simulator Controller: Horn Control My several iterations over a CAN bus controller for my Train Simulator physical dashboard has made...
21st Jun 2025
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Train Simulator Controller: Horn Control

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

21st Jun 2025
My several iterations over a CAN bus controller for my Train Simulator physical dashboard has made it simple to add new controls. Here’s how I used it plus a joystick to add UK horn control to my virtual train.
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Comment on My 7 Rules for A/B Testing That Triple Conversion Rates by nick Hey Lars, any rules you have for killing tests early, other than the 10% rule? For example, if a new...
26th Jan 2018
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Comment on My 7 Rules for A/B Testing That Triple Conversion Rates by nick

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

26th Jan 2018
Hey Lars, any rules you have for killing tests early, other than the 10% rule? For example, if a new test is showing a 40% decrease at 97% confidence after only 3 days... would you kill it, let it keep bleeding out, or at the very least allocate less traffic to the test?
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Resource Management “We had to display a lot of information at once and help them make sense of it. There are many ways...
15th Jun 2017
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Resource Management

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

15th Jun 2017
“We had to display a lot of information at once and help them make sense of it. There are many ways to do that wrong and only a few ways to do it right.” The Challenge The client came to us with a problem: They had paid for a custom tool that didn’t do what they needed. They had...
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A Simple Thought I wrote that we where doing some microprogramming, making the processor work etc. We had a lab about...
2nd Feb 2012
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A Simple Thought

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

2nd Feb 2012
I wrote that we where doing some microprogramming, making the processor work etc. We had a lab about that yesterday and I was very, very nervous. The preparations weren’t that hard, but they where very bothersome. Converting the instructions to binary/hex by hand is never nice....
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Everything That Goes Up... For as long as people have had fears, we have been afraid of things falling from the sky....
9th Oct 2025
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Everything That Goes Up...

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

9th Oct 2025
For as long as people have had fears, we have been afraid of things falling from the sky. Palentologists of comedy tell us that this particular danger may have been discovered by a researcher named Og, a colleague of the late Thag Simmons, when a flock of prehistoric pigeons flew...
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20 years of Git. Still weird, still wonderful. Twenty years ago, Git was born. How did this unlikely "information manager" take over the world?
7th Apr 2025
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20 years of Git. Still weird, still wonderful.

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

7th Apr 2025
Twenty years ago, Git was born. How did this unlikely "information manager" take over the world?
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Anything's a portable speaker if you're brave enough I hate buying things that are single-purpose, which is why I ended up with this setup. Take a...
2nd Jan 2023
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Anything's a portable speaker if you're brave enough

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

2nd Jan 2023
I hate buying things that are single-purpose, which is why I ended up with this setup. Take a speaker, a battery, put them together, and what you now have is a portable speaker. Since I had access to both, I felt no need to buy a separate portable speaker for use in social...
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The origin and unexpected evolution of the word "mainframe" What is the origin of the word "mainframe", referring to a large, complex computer? Most sources...
1st Feb 2025
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The origin and unexpected evolution of the word "mainframe"

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

1st Feb 2025
What is the origin of the word "mainframe", referring to a large, complex computer? Most sources agree that the term is related to the frames that held early computers, but the details are vague.1 It turns out that the history is more interesting and complicated than you'd...
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Buying a new computer *** Desktop or Laptop *** When deciding on which computer to buy, the first decision you have to...
3rd Apr 2011
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Buying a new computer

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

3rd Apr 2011
*** Desktop or Laptop *** When deciding on which computer to buy, the first decision you have to make is about whether to go for a desktop or a laptop. There was a time that many believed that the desktop would become a niche product. Most people want a laptop because they can...
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Australian Air Force If You're Switched On, This is Paradise.
12th Apr 2025
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Australian Air Force

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

12th Apr 2025
If You're Switched On, This is Paradise.
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Writing a simple JSON parser Writing a JSON parser is one of the easiest ways to get familiar with parsing techniques. The format...
6th May 2018
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Writing a simple JSON parser

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

6th May 2018
Writing a JSON parser is one of the easiest ways to get familiar with parsing techniques. The format is extremely simple. It's defined recursively so you get a slight challenge compared to, say, parsing Brainfuck; and you probably already use JSON. Aside from that last point,...
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ESP32 Cam: cropping images on device The ESP32 camera is the cheapest microcontroller with a built-in camera that you can buy. The OV2640...
23rd Feb 2021
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ESP32 Cam: cropping images on device

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

23rd Feb 2021
The ESP32 camera is the cheapest microcontroller with a built-in camera that you can buy. The OV2640 sensor has a max resolution of 1600x1200, but sometimes you don't need the entire image.In this post I'll show how to crop the images on the ESP32 itself, before sending it of to...
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Running a million-board chess MMO in a single process Running a million-board chess MMO in a single process Recently I made a game called One Million...
24th Jun 2025
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Running a million-board chess MMO in a single process

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24th Jun 2025
Running a million-board chess MMO in a single process Recently I made a game called One Million Chessboards. It's a realtime chess MMO played over a 1000x1000 grid of chess boards. Pieces can move between boards and there are no turns. I ran the game out of a single process and...
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Confusion and disengagement in meetings The quickest way to cut through confusion or disagreement among otherwise amiable and honest folks...
30th Nov 2019
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Confusion and disengagement in meetings

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

30th Nov 2019
The quickest way to cut through confusion or disagreement among otherwise amiable and honest folks is to ask questions. Ask early so you don't waste time. But it's not enough to just ask clarifying questions because the answers won't always be clear. Sounds like Human Interaction...
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The Kingdom Hmmmmm.
6th Jul 2021
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The Kingdom

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Jul 2021
Hmmmmm.
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Notes on the Intel 8086 processor's arithmetic-logic unit In 1978, Intel introduced the 8086 processor, a revolutionary chip that led to the modern x86...
23rd Jan 2026
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Notes on the Intel 8086 processor's arithmetic-logic unit

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

23rd Jan 2026
In 1978, Intel introduced the 8086 processor, a revolutionary chip that led to the modern x86 architecture. Unlike modern 64-bit processors, however, the 8086 is a 16-bit chip. Its arithmetic/logic unit (ALU) operates on 16-bit values, performing arithmetic operations such as...
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Beast of the Green Hell Blog post about an amazing AMG Circuit day at the race track of Zolder, Belgium.
30th May 2017
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Beast of the Green Hell

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

30th May 2017
Blog post about an amazing AMG Circuit day at the race track of Zolder, Belgium.
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How to: Adding a floating “Back to top” button in Pika As we say repeatedly on its homepage, Pika is designed to help you focus on writing, not tinkering...
22nd May 2026
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How to: Adding a floating “Back to top” button in Pika

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

22nd May 2026
As we say repeatedly on its homepage, Pika is designed to help you focus on writing, not tinkering with your blog design. To that end Pika purposely doesn’t support complex liquid templating or other such code customization. However, today I thought I’d share how crazy powerful...
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Detecting corporate fraud using Benford's law Note: This is a silly application. Don't take anything seriously. Benford's law describes a...
7th Oct 2014
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Detecting corporate fraud using Benford's law

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

7th Oct 2014
Note: This is a silly application. Don't take anything seriously. Benford's law describes a phenomenon where numbers in any data series will exhibit patterns in their first digit. For instance, if you took a list of the 1,000 longest rivers of Mongolia, or the average daily...
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Building a RAID 6 array of mixed drives To be honest, 4 TB of storage isn't really necessary for home usage. However, I like to collect...
10th Aug 2008
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Building a RAID 6 array of mixed drives

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

10th Aug 2008
To be honest, 4 TB of storage isn't really necessary for home usage. However, I like to collect movies in full DVD or HD quality and so I need some storage. I decided to build myself a NAS box based on Debian Etch. Samba is used to allow clients to access the data. The machine...
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#16: The case of fake IMDb credits I was casually browsing IMDb when I landed on the page for an upcoming Ranbir Kapoor starrer movie...
7th Aug 2022
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#16: The case of fake IMDb credits

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

7th Aug 2022
I was casually browsing IMDb when I landed on the page for an upcoming Ranbir Kapoor starrer movie “Animal”.
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Postmortem of my 9 year journey at Google I started writing this retrospective during my last week at Google, I have already wrapped up...
16th Aug 2024
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Postmortem of my 9 year journey at Google

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

16th Aug 2024
I started writing this retrospective during my last week at Google, I have already wrapped up everything, had my goodbyes. In the spirit of SRE (as an ex-SRE), I thought it would be fun to write a little retrospective in the form of a postmortem. Introduction I joined Google...
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Calculating cosine similarities using dimensionality reduction This was posted on the Twitter Engineering blog a few days ago: Dimension Independent Similarity...
5th Dec 2012
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Calculating cosine similarities using dimensionality reduction

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

5th Dec 2012
This was posted on the Twitter Engineering blog a few days ago: Dimension Independent Similarity Computation (DISCO) I just glanced at the paper, and there's some cool stuff going on from a theoretical perspective. What I'm curious about is why they didn't decide to use...
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Why security is all about defense in depth Many people asume that if you regularly update your computer, you are safe from hackers. But nothing...
23rd Mar 2012
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Why security is all about defense in depth

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

23rd Mar 2012
Many people asume that if you regularly update your computer, you are safe from hackers. But nothing could be further from the truth. Keeping your systems up-to-date only protects you against exploits for publicly known vulnerabilities. Your systems are still not protected...
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Cursed circuits: charge pump voltage halver There's plenty of circuits that are hard to understand because they're complicated. And some that...
2nd Dec 2025
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Cursed circuits: charge pump voltage halver

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

2nd Dec 2025
There's plenty of circuits that are hard to understand because they're complicated. And some that are hard to make sense of because they seem too simple.
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Understanding zero-knowledge proofs What are zero-knowledge proofs, really?
24th Jul 2022
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Understanding zero-knowledge proofs

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

24th Jul 2022
What are zero-knowledge proofs, really?
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Smoking coolermaster Silent Pro M 600W TN6M50 So I was just messing around on my work station, when suddenly I smelled the smell any person...
9th Feb 2010
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Smoking coolermaster Silent Pro M 600W TN6M50

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

9th Feb 2010
So I was just messing around on my work station, when suddenly I smelled the smell any person familiar with electronics fears. The smell of some electrical component burning. The whole upper floor smelled like something was smoldering. So I shut down both my storage servers....
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HP Laptop 17 RAM Upgrade Introduction Selecting the RAM Opening up Replacing the RAM Reassembly References Introduction I do...
12th Mar 2025
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HP Laptop 17 RAM Upgrade

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

12th Mar 2025
Introduction Selecting the RAM Opening up Replacing the RAM Reassembly References Introduction I do virtually all of my hobby and home computing on Linux and MacOS. The MacOS stuff on a laptop and almost all Linux work a desktop PC. The desktop PC has Windows on it installed as...
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Day of the Dead in Mexico City If you visit, someone someone will inevitably tell you: “The Day of the Dead parade isn’t a real...
yesterday
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Day of the Dead in Mexico City

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

yesterday
If you visit, someone someone will inevitably tell you: “The Day of the Dead parade isn’t a real tradition!
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These are called opportunities
12th Nov 2020
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These are called opportunities

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

12th Nov 2020
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Don’t Let the Drawings Distract You: AI is Not About the Output Last week, I spoke with a business leader who’s excited about AI. But as we talked, it became clear...
1st Apr 2025
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Don’t Let the Drawings Distract You: AI is Not About the Output

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

1st Apr 2025
Last week, I spoke with a business leader who’s excited about AI. But as we talked, it became clear that there’s a wide gulf between enthusiasm and creating value for a particular business. Most people’s impression of AI is based on limited use and media hype. Take the recent...
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Hacking the World Poker Tour: Inside ClubWPT Gold’s Back Office
12th Oct 2025
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Hacking the World Poker Tour: Inside ClubWPT Gold’s Back Office

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

12th Oct 2025
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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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Lion's Disk Utility not compatible with CoreStorage and Filevault My 1 TB hard drive of my 2011 27" iMac was partitioned with: A bootable partition with Mac OS X...
2nd Aug 2011
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Lion's Disk Utility not compatible with CoreStorage and Filevault

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

2nd Aug 2011
My 1 TB hard drive of my 2011 27" iMac was partitioned with: A bootable partition with Mac OS X Lion Time machine partition (I use an external SSD as my main OS) Bootcamp partition with windows A data partition containg... data. The problem is that CoreStorage is too new. Disk...
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Thoughts ahead of WWDC 2026 I’ve been following Apple news and rumours since the year 2000, and I don’t think I’ve ever been...
7th Jun 2026
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Thoughts ahead of WWDC 2026

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

7th Jun 2026
I’ve been following Apple news and rumours since the year 2000, and I don’t think I’ve ever been less excited for WWDC. Apple’s software story is in rough shape, and I worry that this year’s event won’t do much to help. Perhaps it’ll be the beginning of an upswing, but we’ve got...
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The Case for Getting Rid of TestFlight Review I tweeted today about how I think TestFlight review should become a thing of the past and many...
12th Jun 2020
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The Case for Getting Rid of TestFlight Review

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

12th Jun 2020
I tweeted today about how I think TestFlight review should become a thing of the past and many developers seemed to agree, but some had questions so I wanted to expand on my thoughts a little. TestFlight’s awesome. But like App Store submissions, TestFlight betas also require a...
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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

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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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Final Fantasy The game certainly shows its age, I can tell you that much. (I played Dawn of Souls, which was the...
28th Dec 2007
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Final Fantasy

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28th Dec 2007
The game certainly shows its age, I can tell you that much. (I played Dawn of Souls, which was the slightly easier remake, and even then it was a bit of a slog.) It’s short, though, and it’s I think worth playing for its place in the canon.
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CrowdStrike's Impact on Aviation Just after midnight Eastern Time on July 19, 2024, the enterprise cybersecurity company CrowdStrike...
28th Jul 2024
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CrowdStrike's Impact on Aviation

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28th Jul 2024
Just after midnight Eastern Time on July 19, 2024, the enterprise cybersecurity company CrowdStrike YOLOed a software update to millions of Windows machines. Or as they put it: On July 19, 2024 at 04:09 UTC, as part of ongoing operations, CrowdStrike released a sensor...
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Don't be foie gras If 2016-2020 was the golden unicorn age of SaaS, 2021 nearly hurtled us into the foie gras* era.
9th Jan 2022
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Don't be foie gras

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

9th Jan 2022
If 2016-2020 was the golden unicorn age of SaaS, 2021 nearly hurtled us into the foie gras* era.
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Software is Polluting the World Sustainable UX: A design approach to reducing carbon emissions
29th Apr 2020
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Software is Polluting the World

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29th Apr 2020
Sustainable UX: A design approach to reducing carbon emissions
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2023-03-13 the door close button This will probably be a short one, and I know I haven't written for a while, but it has always been...
13th Mar 2023
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2023-03-13 the door close button

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13th Mar 2023
This will probably be a short one, and I know I haven't written for a while, but it has always been the case that you get what you pay for and Computers Are Bad is nothing if not affordable. Still, this is a topic on which I am moderately passionate and so I can probably stretch...
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Being a Bridge Person How lowering your masks can ripple outward, changing not just individuals, but entire communities.
15th Oct 2024
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Being a Bridge Person

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15th Oct 2024
How lowering your masks can ripple outward, changing not just individuals, but entire communities.
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Introducing Pebble - Hackable E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android Our first Kickstarter launch! Check out the Hacker News thread for some lively discussion
11th Apr 2012
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Introducing Pebble - Hackable E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android

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

11th Apr 2012
Our first Kickstarter launch! Check out the Hacker News thread for some lively discussion
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Escaping the flat tires You might wonder how puncture proof a "puncture-proof" bicycle tire really is. I set out to find the...
18th Nov 2021
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Escaping the flat tires

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

18th Nov 2021
You might wonder how puncture proof a "puncture-proof" bicycle tire really is. I set out to find the answer when I installed Schwalbe Durano Plus tires on my bike. It was inevitable for me to find the answer to the question: How many kilometers can you ride without flats using...
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Cribsheet A follow-up to Expecting Better focusing on the first few years of parenthood and what some...
2nd Apr 2024
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Cribsheet

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

2nd Apr 2024
A follow-up to Expecting Better focusing on the first few years of parenthood and what some combination of data, studies, and rational rigor tells us about common crossroads (breastfeeding vs. formula, daycare vs. nanny, television vs. no television, et cetera.)
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Unreasonably Effective Patterns Much of my current job is maintaining and enhancing control planes for Heroku’s managed data...
11th Oct 2020
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Unreasonably Effective Patterns

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

11th Oct 2020
Much of my current job is maintaining and enhancing control planes for Heroku’s managed data services. This post explores three patterns used to reduce operational burden and increase system safety and resiliency: state machines (and associated state-transition tables),...
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More Doom III BFG Documentation id Software developer Jan Paul Van Waveren (a.k.a Mr Elusive) is sharing some more of the knowledge...
4th Sep 2013
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More Doom III BFG Documentation

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

4th Sep 2013
id Software developer Jan Paul Van Waveren (a.k.a Mr Elusive) is sharing some more of the knowledge gained while working on Doom 3 BFG. This part focuses highly on the choice of data-structures and how paramount cacheline are to performances.
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Saibah Securitah It's always okay to buy the domain for the meme!
17th Sep 2021
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Saibah Securitah

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17th Sep 2021
It's always okay to buy the domain for the meme!
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The Raspberry Pi 5 is no match for a tini-mini-micro PC I've always been fond of the idea of the Raspberry Pi. An energy efficient, small, cheap but capable...
16th Jun 2024
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The Raspberry Pi 5 is no match for a tini-mini-micro PC

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

16th Jun 2024
I've always been fond of the idea of the Raspberry Pi. An energy efficient, small, cheap but capable computer. An ideal home server. Until the Pi 4, the Pi was not that capable, and only with the relatively recent Pi 5 (fall 2023) do I feel the Pi is OK performance wise, although...
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Spring ham radio activation of Korkattivuori (Mt. Korkatti) Korkattivuori (“Mount Korkatti”, 186m above sea level) is a small hill and Natura 2000 nature...
16th Apr 2023
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Spring ham radio activation of Korkattivuori (Mt. Korkatti)

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16th Apr 2023
Korkattivuori (“Mount Korkatti”, 186m above sea level) is a small hill and Natura 2000 nature reserve area near town Haapavesi (pop. 6588) in Finland. The nature reserve area consist of short family friendly hiking path of approximately 1.5km. One end of the path has parking...
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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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Introducing MagBase Today we launched MagBase - it makes Apple's MagSafe Charger much easier to use. After trying other...
14th Apr 2021
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Introducing MagBase

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

14th Apr 2021
Today we launched MagBase - it makes Apple's MagSafe Charger much easier to use. After trying other mounts for the MagSafe charger, we found it annoying to not be able to pick up & use your iPhone while charging. So we designed MagBase: Pull up to use your iPhone with MagSafe...
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Secure Home Assistant Access with Cloudflare and Ubiquiti Dream Machine I've become increasingly reliant on Home Assistant to automate various tasks around the house. But...
12th Dec 2020
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Secure Home Assistant Access with Cloudflare and Ubiquiti Dream Machine

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

12th Dec 2020
I've become increasingly reliant on Home Assistant to automate various tasks around the house. But how do you safely expose your instance to the internet for remote access?You want to be able to log in from a remote location, but how to keep others out? This post will show how...
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On The Contrary: “Hook” Is A Great Film Hook, the absolutely star-studded film directed by Stephen Spielberg, has received mixed reviews...
7th Jan 2026
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On The Contrary: “Hook” Is A Great Film

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7th Jan 2026
Hook, the absolutely star-studded film directed by Stephen Spielberg, has received mixed reviews from critics since its release in 1991. I still can’t figure out why. One could have given the Academy Award for Best Actor to Dustin Hoffman, and Best Supporting Actor to Robin...
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Why don't you move abroad? The IIT Dream College and Open Source Twitter @ San Francisco The Emotional Turmoil in San Francisco...
18th Nov 2024
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Why don't you move abroad?

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18th Nov 2024
The IIT Dream College and Open Source Twitter @ San Francisco The Emotional Turmoil in San Francisco College placements and first job Life…
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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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Too Late Smart My grandparents, whose little farm was next door to ours so my sisters and I grew up effectively...
1st Oct 2026
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Too Late Smart

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

1st Oct 2026
My grandparents, whose little farm was next door to ours so my sisters and I grew up effectively with two houses and two very different sets of parents, were lovely people.
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Quick Subtitles 1.6 (benchmark history, more stats, and more) Quick Subtitles has yet another update out now, which brings a few new features to the mix. UI...
3rd Jan 2026
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Quick Subtitles 1.6 (benchmark history, more stats, and more)

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Jan 2026
Quick Subtitles has yet another update out now, which brings a few new features to the mix. UI tweaks First up is a slightly refreshed UI. This is mostly a new coat of paint across the interface. The iPhone UI home page, for example, now uses all the available space
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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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Multiple $20 AI Plans Are Better Than a Single $100 AI Plan After using the $200 and $100 Anthropic monthly plans for Claude, I have now settled on $20...
1st Jul 2026
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Multiple $20 AI Plans Are Better Than a Single $100 AI Plan

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

1st Jul 2026
After using the $200 and $100 Anthropic monthly plans for Claude, I have now settled on $20 Anthropic + $20 OpenAI + $10 OpenCode Go monthly plans for coding and design work. I also use local AI occasionally for non-coding-related tasks. By using multiple entry-level AI plans...
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Two kinds of testing While talking about thinking about tests and testing in software engineering recently, I’ve come to...
24th Dec 2019
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Two kinds of testing

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

24th Dec 2019
While talking about thinking about tests and testing in software engineering recently, I’ve come to the conclusion that there are (at least) two major ideas and goals that people have when they test or talk about testing. This post aims to outline what I see as these two schools,...
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Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80's
7th Jun 2020
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Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80's

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

7th Jun 2020
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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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Great Tools Disappear The best designed products get out of the way and let you focus on the work instead of the tool
18th Sep 2025
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Great Tools Disappear

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

18th Sep 2025
The best designed products get out of the way and let you focus on the work instead of the tool
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2025-02-13 I seem to be alternating between working with html and Lua/LÖVE. In the last few days I've been...
13th Feb 2025
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2025-02-13

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

13th Feb 2025
I seem to be alternating between working with html and Lua/LÖVE. In the last few days I've been trying to extract some more timeless tools out of the ad hoc static site I replaced my old Rails website with a couple of years ago. Here's the project. Requires just Lua (any version...
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Vertigo I’m surprised that this movie is held in such high esteem relative to other Hitchcock films. I liked...
4th Jun 2022
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Vertigo

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

4th Jun 2022
I’m surprised that this movie is held in such high esteem relative to other Hitchcock films. I liked it, and I thought there were very good parts of it, and I thought it was better than Haley did. But it didn’t strike me as one of his best films beyond the dolly shot which is now...
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Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools Code forces humans to be precise. That’s good—computers need precision. But it also forces humans to...
3rd Feb 2025
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Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools

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

3rd Feb 2025
Code forces humans to be precise. That’s good—computers need precision. But it also forces humans to think like machines. For decades we tried to fix this by making programming more human-friendly. Higher-level languages. Visual interfaces. Each step helped, but we were still...
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Matrox Graphics for Professionals
24th Jul 2026
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Matrox

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24th Jul 2026
Graphics for Professionals
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Lessons from content marketing myself (aka blogging) for five years I started writing this blog in late 2012, partly because I felt like it would help me improve my...
7th Mar 2018
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Lessons from content marketing myself (aka blogging) for five years

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

7th Mar 2018
I started writing this blog in late 2012, partly because I felt like it would help me improve my English and my writing skills, partly because I kept having a lot of random ideas in my head and I wanted to write them down somewhere.
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Mythos and its impact on security I’m sure by now you’ve all read the news about Anthropic’s new “Mythos” model and its apparently...
14th Apr 2026
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Mythos and its impact on security

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

14th Apr 2026
I’m sure by now you’ve all read the news about Anthropic’s new “Mythos” model and its apparently “dangerous” capabilities in finding security vulnerabilities. I’m sure everyone reading this also has opinions about that. Well, here are a few of mine. Is it all just hype? Firstly,...
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Simple sabotage for software CIA produced a fantastic book during the peak of World War 2 called Simple Sabotage. It laid out...
13th Dec 2023
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Simple sabotage for software

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

13th Dec 2023
CIA produced a fantastic book during the peak of World War 2 called Simple Sabotage. It laid out various ways for infiltrators to ruin productivity of a company. Some of the advice is timeless, for instance the section about “General interference with Organizations and...
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Governance, Part 2: Plutocracy Is Still Bad
28th Mar 2018
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Governance, Part 2: Plutocracy Is Still Bad

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

28th Mar 2018
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Wallops 2.0 Released Another large update to my Wallops IRC client is available: wallops-2.0.sit (StuffIt 3 archive,...
12th Sep 2024
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Wallops 2.0 Released

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

12th Sep 2024
Another large update to my Wallops IRC client is available: wallops-2.0.sit (StuffIt 3 archive, includes source code and THINK C 5 project file) 532f6c72eadbb9e7ce74dded1bfcd71369a61d818f7c77160bb8a66d6f1ccf9c SHA1: c375a24e00900378e84745c1e11d3d6976ef749c This release features...
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Why I believe the new Mac Pro won't be a great machine for gaming In Accidental Tech Podcast episode 18 (love the show), I learned that John Siracusa was thinking...
22nd Jun 2013
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Why I believe the new Mac Pro won't be a great machine for gaming

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

22nd Jun 2013
In Accidental Tech Podcast episode 18 (love the show), I learned that John Siracusa was thinking about buying a new Mac Pro for gaming. I believe that gaming on the new Mac Pro will be a mediocre experience. Driver support: as John mentioned himself, the video cards are...
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My E-Reader Setup My E-Reader Setup Posted on August 10, 2023 This post is from a legacy version of this blog! No...
10th Aug 2023
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My E-Reader Setup

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

10th Aug 2023
My E-Reader Setup Posted on August 10, 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. I bought an e-reader recently, specifically the Kobo Libra 2. I felt like I wasn’t reading...
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71 TiB DIY NAS based on ZFS on Linux This is my new 71 TiB DIY NAS. This server is the successor to my six year old, twenty drive 18 TB...
2nd Aug 2014
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71 TiB DIY NAS based on ZFS on Linux

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

2nd Aug 2014
This is my new 71 TiB DIY NAS. This server is the successor to my six year old, twenty drive 18 TB NAS (17 TiB). With a storage capacity four times higher than the original and an incredible read (2.5 GB/s)/write (1.9 GB/s) performance, it's a worthy successor. Purpose The...
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3D printer repairing and modding I’ve had my VORON Trident for 2 years and I’ve run it for 2600 hours. Overall I’m happy with the...
2nd Dec 2025
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3D printer repairing and modding

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

2nd Dec 2025
I’ve had my VORON Trident for 2 years and I’ve run it for 2600 hours. Overall I’m happy with the printer but I’ve been itching to make some more mods to it. Having finally finished the VORON 0 (with mods) I now have a backup printer I can use to rescue myself when I screw up. As...
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The Fellowship I am a sucker for all things Joseph Shabason at this point, and maybe it's fair to call this album a...
1st May 2021
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The Fellowship

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st May 2021
I am a sucker for all things Joseph Shabason at this point, and maybe it's fair to call this album a little too reminiscent of his prior work, but — who cares? It's sonically diverse and lush and delightful to listen to.
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The Sting The Sting belongs in the pantheon of films I'm deeply embarrassed to have not watched earlier. Not...
3 weeks ago
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The Sting

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

3 weeks ago
The Sting belongs in the pantheon of films I'm deeply embarrassed to have not watched earlier. Not just because it's a great film — and it is — but because it is so incredibly my shit that I feel retroactively spurned for not having watched it sooner.
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Habits to start I haven’t been feeling quite as forward or as energetic lately. There are no set plans, habits or...
9th Mar 2017
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Habits to start

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

9th Mar 2017
I haven’t been feeling quite as forward or as energetic lately. There are no set plans, habits or goals for this spring and I don’t have a clear vision of what to do currently but it also feels… fine? Maybe I will cruise in a lower gear for a while and rev up when my mood...
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So I saw this headline reading it was, "Is he Deommodore 64?" (No, unfortunately, Deommodore Lenoir's jersey number is 2,...
29th Jul 2025
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So I saw this headline

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

29th Jul 2025
reading it was, "Is he Deommodore 64?" (No, unfortunately, Deommodore Lenoir's jersey number is 2, and I'm not even a 49ers fan.)
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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?

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3rd Apr 2026
Everyone pivots to the enterprise. Plus, Block becomes a box.
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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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Hello, stranger While enjoying my fresh wok lunch in Amsterdam, I noticed something odd: other folks coming in for...
12th Oct 2023
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Hello, stranger

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

12th Oct 2023
While enjoying my fresh wok lunch in Amsterdam, I noticed something odd: other folks coming in for something to eat ignored the person standing at the counter, preferring to order through a digital kiosk. The crazy thing about this? They are just centimetres apart! In fact, they...
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2025-01-19 Infrastructure for graphical debugging See transcript below. audio/video; 4...
19th Jan 2025
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2025-01-19

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

19th Jan 2025
Infrastructure for graphical debugging See transcript below. audio/video; 4 minutes; 25MB; scroll down for shorter clips Transcript For a while now I've been trying to improve the way I program. I've made some progress. I can edit my programs live, and...
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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 GitButler [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
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Back to Training Five days of school now and things are starting to settle down a bit. The courses are pretty cool;...
4th Sep 2011
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Back to Training

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

4th Sep 2011
Five days of school now and things are starting to settle down a bit. The courses are pretty cool; we have linear algebra which is pretty interesting, we have a java course where we’re going to make a game (!) and one about structures and algorithms. Pretty promising but we’ll...
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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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On AI In 2019, I started watching Andreas Kling's programming videos, many of which were live-coding...
23rd Jul 2026
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On AI

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

23rd Jul 2026
In 2019, I started watching Andreas Kling's programming videos, many of which were live-coding sessions writing his new operating system Serenity OS. He was always pretty fast at writing code, especially since his IDE, Qt Creator, had knowledge of all his C++ code and...
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Fio-plot: creating nice charts from FIO storage benchmark data New release of fio-plot I've rewritten fio-plot, a tool that turns FIO benchmark data into nice...
27th Nov 2019
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Fio-plot: creating nice charts from FIO storage benchmark data

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

27th Nov 2019
New release of fio-plot I've rewritten fio-plot, a tool that turns FIO benchmark data into nice charts. It allows you to create four types of graphs which will be discussed below. The github project page explains how to run this tool. Fio-plot also includes a benchmark script...
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How traffic shaping can dramatically improve internet responsiveness At work, access to the internet is provided by a 10 Mbit down / 1 Mbit up ADSL-connection. As we are...
8th Mar 2014
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How traffic shaping can dramatically improve internet responsiveness

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

8th Mar 2014
At work, access to the internet is provided by a 10 Mbit down / 1 Mbit up ADSL-connection. As we are a mid-size company, bandwidth is clearly a severe constraint. But it was not our biggest problem. Even simple web-browsing was very slow. As I was setting up a monitoring...
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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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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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The Pulse: Cloudflare rewrites Next.js as AI rewrites commercial open source An engineer at Cloudflare rewrote most of Vercel’s Next.js in one week with AI agents. It looks like...
5th Mar 2026
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The Pulse: Cloudflare rewrites Next.js as AI rewrites commercial open source

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

5th Mar 2026
An engineer at Cloudflare rewrote most of Vercel’s Next.js in one week with AI agents. It looks like a sign of how AI will disrupt existing moats and business models. Analysis
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March Theme: 10 seconds Well well here’s something interesting. The Experimental Gameplay Project has given us a really...
2nd Mar 2010
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March Theme: 10 seconds

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

2nd Mar 2010
Well well here’s something interesting. The Experimental Gameplay Project has given us a really interesting thing to focus on: Time. Like Braid, it’s time for us to make something interesting with time itself. 10 seconds is the constraint and that’s not a lot, but perhaps enough?
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The Hunting Gun A slim, potent, and dense novella. The easy (lazy) comparison is to rashomon, and the way we see...
15th Jul 2018
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The Hunting Gun

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

15th Jul 2018
A slim, potent, and dense novella. The easy (lazy) comparison is to rashomon, and the way we see Misugi change from thin and narrow to nuanced and vital and then to a defeated husk of a man is expertly drawn. This kind of framing device has an odd effect: if it was done in a more...
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Top ten activities that make me happy Recently we finally moved out of our old apartment and into a new larger apartment and it’s awesome....
24th Jun 2017
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Top ten activities that make me happy

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

24th Jun 2017
Recently we finally moved out of our old apartment and into a new larger apartment and it’s awesome. It’s no more than a year old and feels very fresh compared to the old one. It’s also larger with an extra room, dishwasher (!) and closer to the city centrum and everything is...
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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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Reader/reader blocking in reader/writer locks Abstract In writer-priority reader/writer locks, as soon as a single writer enters the acquisition...
7th May 2019
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Reader/reader blocking in reader/writer locks

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

7th May 2019
Abstract In writer-priority reader/writer locks, as soon as a single writer enters the acquisition queue, all future accesses block behind any in-flight reads. Thus, if any readers hold the lock for extended periods of time, this can lead to extreme pauses and loss of throughput...
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Using AI to generate code Discover how AI-generated code can revolutionise your software development process and optimise...
2nd May 2023
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Using AI to generate code

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

2nd May 2023
Discover how AI-generated code can revolutionise your software development process and optimise cloud performance in our fascinating exploration of GPT-4's transformative capabilities.
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This mouse droid knows how to party Not a lot of thought went into the “mouse droid” in the first Star Wars movie. It was just a bit of...
1st Oct 2026
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This mouse droid knows how to party

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

1st Oct 2026
Not a lot of thought went into the “mouse droid” in the first Star Wars movie. It was just a bit of cute world-building, created by putting a box on an RC car. But it became a fan favorite and that in-universe model, the MSE-6, appears throughout subsequent movies, TV shows, and...
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Studying foreign languages with inbox zero The only time I've been able to seriously, rapidly improve my ability to speak a foreign language...
4th Apr 2020
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Studying foreign languages with inbox zero

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

4th Apr 2020
The only time I've been able to seriously, rapidly improve my ability to speak a foreign language was through intensive language courses in college. I was forced to actively speak, read, and write Chinese for 6-8 hours a week (1-2 hours every day). Then study another 5-10 hours a...
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I'll give up Neovim when you pry it from my cold, dead hands I recently came upon a horror story where a developer was forced to switch editor from Neovim to...
18th Feb 2025
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I'll give up Neovim when you pry it from my cold, dead hands

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

18th Feb 2025
I recently came upon a horror story where a developer was forced to switch editor from Neovim to Cursor and I felt I had to write a little to cleanse myself of the disgust I felt. Two different ways of approaching an editor I think that there’s two opposing ways of thinking about...
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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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CVE-2007-4573: The Anatomy of a Kernel Exploit CVE-2007-4573 is two years old at this point, but it remains one of my favorite vulnerabilities. It...
5th Feb 2010
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CVE-2007-4573: The Anatomy of a Kernel Exploit

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

5th Feb 2010
CVE-2007-4573 is two years old at this point, but it remains one of my favorite vulnerabilities. It was a local privilege-escalation vulnerability on all x86_64 kernels prior to v2.6.22.7. It’s very simple to understand with a little bit of background, and the exploit is...
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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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DeltaForce 65: Das Wilde Keyboard One of my all time favorite brands is Metadot’s Das Keyboard. They typically don’t include all the...
18th Dec 2025
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DeltaForce 65: Das Wilde Keyboard

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

18th Dec 2025
One of my all time favorite brands is Metadot’s Das Keyboard. They typically don’t include all the bells and whistles, but they are built so well. But what if a Das Keyboard had all the current extras?
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To weigh a watermelon There are many frontiers.
3rd Jul 2026
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To weigh a watermelon

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

3rd Jul 2026
There are many frontiers.
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Op-Amp Helper PCB A PCB for breadboards to make working with op-amps easier.
8th Nov 2023
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Op-Amp Helper PCB

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

8th Nov 2023
A PCB for breadboards to make working with op-amps easier.
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An affordable server platform based on server-grade hardware Updated post (June 2014) found HERE There are some reasons why you should consider buying true...
13th Dec 2013
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An affordable server platform based on server-grade hardware

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

13th Dec 2013
Updated post (June 2014) found HERE There are some reasons why you should consider buying true server-grade harware when building a server, wether it's for home or business use. This is why I want to introduce you to the Supermicro X9SCM-F motherboard. This motherboard costs...
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RealityCapture to Gaussian Splatting using PostShot TLDR: Tutorial on using RealityCapture to align an image dataset, export the alignment, and import...
21st Jul 2024
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RealityCapture to Gaussian Splatting using PostShot

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

21st Jul 2024
TLDR: Tutorial on using RealityCapture to align an image dataset, export the alignment, and import it into PostShot to train Gaussian Splats without using COLMAP. Video tutorial RealityCapture Import your images and align them. If you ever need help with tricky dataset, refer to...
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A new job, a new life Last month, I started a new job working as a fullstack software engineer at ClassDojo. This was an...
3rd Jul 2025
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A new job, a new life

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

3rd Jul 2025
Last month, I started a new job working as a fullstack software engineer at ClassDojo. This was an interesting job transition for me. It was the first time I got caught up in layoffs and the first time that I ended up with multiple job offers to choose from. As I weighed the...
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2023-11-04 nuclear safety Nuclear weapons are complex in many ways. The basic problem of achieving criticality is difficult on...
4th Nov 2023
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2023-11-04 nuclear safety

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

4th Nov 2023
Nuclear weapons are complex in many ways. The basic problem of achieving criticality is difficult on its own, but deploying nuclear weapons as operational military assets involves yet more challenges. Nuclear weapons must be safe and reliable, even with the rough handling and...
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Year in review: 2022 Every new year I reflect on the previous year and set new goals. I'm focusing primarily on my...
11th Jan 2023
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Year in review: 2022

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

11th Jan 2023
Every new year I reflect on the previous year and set new goals. I'm focusing primarily on my YouTube channel and newsletter, but there are personal reflections in here as well. Last year was an off year for me, and I'm gearing up to make up for lost time in 2023.
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2025-07-06 secret cellular phone numbers A long time ago I wrote about secret government telephone numbers, and before that, secret military...
6th Jul 2025
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2025-07-06 secret cellular phone numbers

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

6th Jul 2025
A long time ago I wrote about secret government telephone numbers, and before that, secret military telephone buttons. I suppose this is becoming a series. To be clear, the "secret" here is a joke, but more charitably I could say that it refers to obscurity rather than any real...
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Postmortem: Jonas IceCream Stand Ah my latest game Jonas IceCream Stand is finished and up and running and I’m really proud of it!...
1st Dec 2009
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Postmortem: Jonas IceCream Stand

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

1st Dec 2009
Ah my latest game Jonas IceCream Stand is finished and up and running and I’m really proud of it! And thanks for the feedback guys, it’s always welcome. I spent almost exactly fifty hours on this game and that’s by far the most I’ve spent on a 7day project. To be honest it’s...
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Interior I liked-not-loved this. It was fun and a little bit vibe-y and would happily listen to it again, but...
1st Jul 2022
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Interior

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Jul 2022
I liked-not-loved this. It was fun and a little bit vibe-y and would happily listen to it again, but I would be hard-pressed to recognize it out of a crowd.
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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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#14: Extreme ironing A couple of months back, I made a search engine to look for half loaves of bread in stores. I was...
3rd Jul 2022
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#14: Extreme ironing

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

3rd Jul 2022
A couple of months back, I made a search engine to look for half loaves of bread in stores. I was tired of wasting leftover bread and made this because, well I could. You can try it here: halfloafnear.me
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Are we any closer to the Quantum Apocalypse? Another day, another urgent pronouncement on the need to transition to post-quantum cryptography...
2nd Jul 2026
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Are we any closer to the Quantum Apocalypse?

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

2nd Jul 2026
Another day, another urgent pronouncement on the need to transition to post-quantum cryptography ASAP: this one from the White House, in the form of an Executive Order requiring certain “high value” systems to transition to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) by the end of 2030 (for...
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Study shows how a common fertilizer ingredient benefits plants The findings could enable new ways to increase plants’ resilience to UV stress and enhance seedling...
7th Jul 2025
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Study shows how a common fertilizer ingredient benefits plants

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

7th Jul 2025
The findings could enable new ways to increase plants’ resilience to UV stress and enhance seedling growth.
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Notes from April Welcome to spring, bona fide and humid. Lots of writing this month:
1st May 2024
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Notes from April

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st May 2024
Welcome to spring, bona fide and humid. Lots of writing this month:
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2026-05-24 What is text? This blog post reminds me of the time 10 years ago when I tried to do away with...
24th May 2026
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2026-05-24

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

24th May 2026
What is text? This blog post reminds me of the time 10 years ago when I tried to do away with Linux's desktop environment because it seemed overly complex and hard to wrap my head around. I had a lot of trouble running wifi without the desktop environment, and it left me quite...
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Is Datalog a good language for authorization? Datalog is a logic programming language, based on Prolog, which is seeing something of a resurgence...
19th Feb 2022
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Is Datalog a good language for authorization?

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

19th Feb 2022
Datalog is a logic programming language, based on Prolog, which is seeing something of a resurgence in interest in recent years. In particular, several recent approaches to authorization (working out who can do what) have used Datalog as the logical basis for access control...
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Multi-Window support in your iPad app Last month Apple released iPadOS, the first dedicated operating system for iPad. It differs from iOS...
6th Oct 2019
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Multi-Window support in your iPad app

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

6th Oct 2019
Last month Apple released iPadOS, the first dedicated operating system for iPad. It differs from iOS with its support for the larger iPad screen, including multi / split screen windows. I develop apps and it was time to take advantage of these new possibilities that iPadOS...
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Computer says no The weather app indicating rain caused an empty bike lane this morning, making me wonder about the...
10th Sep 2022
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Computer says no

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

10th Sep 2022
The weather app indicating rain caused an empty bike lane this morning, making me wonder about the power we put into these things.
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Traction Heroes Ep. 46: Tribal Psychology We keep reading scary reports of swarms of AI agents breaking into computer systems and doing other...
4 weeks ago
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Traction Heroes Ep. 46: Tribal Psychology

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

4 weeks ago
We keep reading scary reports of swarms of AI agents breaking into computer systems and doing other untoward and perhaps illegal things. To what degree do these agents influence each other? And is there anything we can learn from human behavior that would help mitigate these...
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Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire - Mitel MiCollab CVE-2024-35286, CVE-2024-41713 And An 0day It is not just APTs that like to target telephone systems, but ourselves at watchTowr too. We can't...
5th Dec 2024
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Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire - Mitel MiCollab CVE-2024-35286, CVE-2024-41713 And An 0day

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

5th Dec 2024
It is not just APTs that like to target telephone systems, but ourselves at watchTowr too. We can't overstate the consequences of an attacker crossing the boundary from the 'computer system' to the 'telephone system'. We've seen attackers realise this in 2024,
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Building the GH60 I’ve finally completed my first custom made keyboard. I’m still missing stabilizers and some smaller...
12th Oct 2016
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Building the GH60

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

12th Oct 2016
I’ve finally completed my first custom made keyboard. I’m still missing stabilizers and some smaller screws to hold it all together but I’ve been using it the last days and I thought I’d share. The hardware Several years ago I joined the geekhack forum and I joined in a few group...
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Moving private repositories to Bitbucket Long overdue, I recently moved my private repositories from Github to Bitbucket. Github is great of...
10th Oct 2012
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Moving private repositories to Bitbucket

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

10th Oct 2012
Long overdue, I recently moved my private repositories from Github to Bitbucket. Github is great of courseand they even gave me a free students account and I still host all my public repositories there. Still, Bitbucket has unlimited free private repositories for up to 5 users...
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The History of R2E and the Micral The second personal computer
5th May 2025
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The History of R2E and the Micral

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

5th May 2025
The second personal computer
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#13: GoogleWhacking It has blocked a total of 2.337 Million network requests in the last 3 years for me. That is an...
5th Mar 2022
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#13: GoogleWhacking

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

5th Mar 2022
It has blocked a total of 2.337 Million network requests in the last 3 years for me. That is an astonishing no. of ads and trackers. The 21% here means that for every 5 network requests made on a webpage I opened, roughly one of them was for an ad or a tracker. 1 in 5!!!
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Books update
15th Dec 2022
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Books update

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

15th Dec 2022
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New trend: extreme hours at AI startups Pulling 80+ hour work weeks – including weekends – is becoming the norm across AI startups, and is...
14th Aug 2025
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New trend: extreme hours at AI startups

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

14th Aug 2025
Pulling 80+ hour work weeks – including weekends – is becoming the norm across AI startups, and is unlikely to stop while AI is so hot.
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Web Push Pitfall Whilst implementing Web Push notifications for my toy Q&A service curiouswolf I ran into an issue...
30th Mar 2023
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Web Push Pitfall

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

30th Mar 2023
Whilst implementing Web Push notifications for my toy Q&A service curiouswolf I ran into an issue that led to me being stumped for hours. I was successfully receiving notifications from my server when using Chrome, but no matter what Safari was not playing ball. Web Push requires...
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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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The New Economic Reality: It's Still Your Money at the Bank Whether you're an economist or not, a financial professional or not, it's still your money that's...
1st Jun 2025
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The New Economic Reality: It's Still Your Money at the Bank

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

1st Jun 2025
Whether you're an economist or not, a financial professional or not, it's still your money that's being affected. Like many people, I've avoided looking at my 401k these past few weeks. Well, I peeked, and it's all in the red. There are so many interpretations of what's going on....
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Do amazing things with a focused mind Just when the temperature was a low 2° Celsius, I jumped in the Amstel river! While it was nearly...
5th Dec 2018
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Do amazing things with a focused mind

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

5th Dec 2018
Just when the temperature was a low 2° Celsius, I jumped in the Amstel river! While it was nearly freezing outside I went for a swim, just moments after I've taken an ice bath! This post is about the incredible birthday present I got, a workshop involving the Wim Hof Method. Wim...
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The Same, Differently It's been over half a year since I moved from the city to the countryside. I regularly travel...
22nd Aug 2023
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The Same, Differently

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

22nd Aug 2023
It's been over half a year since I moved from the city to the countryside. I regularly travel between these locations for work and leisure. Being a cycling enthusiast, I keep a bike at both places, and this has led me to discover a funny thing. Last November, I relocated to the...
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Climbing Mount Etna Last week me and my wife went to Sicily for a little summer holiday. It is the largest island in the...
1st Sep 2017
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Climbing Mount Etna

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

1st Sep 2017
Last week me and my wife went to Sicily for a little summer holiday. It is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. It is an autonomous region of Italy, along with surrounding minor islands. It's home to Europe's largest active volcano: Mount Etna. We had a chance to visit...
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Carving the Super Nintendo Video System
29th Jul 2024
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Carving the Super Nintendo Video System

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

29th Jul 2024
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3D Model Viewer Improvements [Software] Unlocking the embedded gimbals
28th Nov 2023
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3D Model Viewer Improvements

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

28th Nov 2023
[Software] Unlocking the embedded gimbals
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When Harry Met Sally This, to me, is the ur-romcom — the gold standard against which all others are compared, and most...
27th Sep 2018
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When Harry Met Sally

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

27th Sep 2018
This, to me, is the ur-romcom — the gold standard against which all others are compared, and most are found wanting. The chemistry, the script, the everpresent autumn, the interstitials with old couples — it is all so good, and exactly what it is trying to be!
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More MCMC – Analyzing a small dataset with 1-5 ratings I've been obsessed with how to iterate quickly based on small scale feedback lately. One awesome...
5th Dec 2015
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More MCMC – Analyzing a small dataset with 1-5 ratings

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

5th Dec 2015
I've been obsessed with how to iterate quickly based on small scale feedback lately. One awesome website I encountered is Usability Hub which lets you run 5 second tests. Users see your site for 5 seconds and you can ask them free-form questions afterwards.
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How I stole the identity of every Yahoo user
9th May 2017
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How I stole the identity of every Yahoo user

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

9th May 2017
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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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Introducing The 5-Year Compact Battery for AirTag There are few things worse than a dead AirTag when you need it. That's why we designed the The...
4th Dec 2025
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Introducing The 5-Year Compact Battery for AirTag

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

4th Dec 2025
There are few things worse than a dead AirTag when you need it. That's why we designed the The 5-Year Compact Battery for AirTag.  It replaces the CR2032 coin cell for two uses AAA batteries for 5.5x more capacity. And does so in a small, lightweight form factor.  Discrete,...
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iPad Pro as primary computer Is the time right to use an iPad as primary development platform to get some real work done?
14th Aug 2016
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iPad Pro as primary computer

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

14th Aug 2016
Is the time right to use an iPad as primary development platform to get some real work done?
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Qualcomm's buying Arduino – what it means for makers Qualcomm's buying Arduino – what it means for makers Qualcomm just announced they're...
7th Oct 2025
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Qualcomm's buying Arduino – what it means for makers

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

7th Oct 2025
Qualcomm's buying Arduino – what it means for makers Qualcomm just announced they're acquiring Arduino, the company that introduced a whole generation of tinkerers to microcontrollers and embedded electronics. The Uno R3 was the first microcontroller board I owned....
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AI automatically preps a bottle when the baby cries Bottle prepping machines make life just a little bit less hectic for overwhelmed parents, but they...
2nd Jan 2026
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AI automatically preps a bottle when the baby cries

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

2nd Jan 2026
Bottle prepping machines make life just a little bit less hectic for overwhelmed parents, but they do still need to be started and that is easier said than done when you’ve got a wailing baby in your arms. That’s why Manivannan created this edge AI-powered system that...
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Designing a multi dimensional capacity queue Dealing with a capacity queue is challenging, but if you take the time to model it right it is...
1st Dec 2020
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Designing a multi dimensional capacity queue

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

1st Dec 2020
Dealing with a capacity queue is challenging, but if you take the time to model it right it is possible to create a performant and reliable system.
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Realtime service uptime monitoring Downtime happens and it is nothing to be ashamed of, just make sure that you set yourself up to...
1st Feb 2021
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Realtime service uptime monitoring

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

1st Feb 2021
Downtime happens and it is nothing to be ashamed of, just make sure that you set yourself up to discover problems as soon as possible! You can use realtime uptime monitoring to automatically keep an eye on your servers and services. Read along to find out how. Uptime, downtime...
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Plus Post: Computerwise TransTerm 3 Introducing the TransTerm 3 Battery Powered Terminal
1st May 2025
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Plus Post: Computerwise TransTerm 3

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

1st May 2025
Introducing the TransTerm 3 Battery Powered Terminal
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Microsoft makes 6502 BASIC open source It was probably going to happen sooner or later, but Microsoft has officially released the source...
3rd Sep 2025
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Microsoft makes 6502 BASIC open source

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

3rd Sep 2025
It was probably going to happen sooner or later, but Microsoft has officially released the source code for 6502 BASIC. The specific revision is very Commodore-centric: it's the 1977 "8K" BASIC variant "1.1," which Commodore users know better as BASIC V2.0, the same BASIC used in...
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April 2021 newsletter with links on AI scaling, particular new East Asian record-breaking work & deep reinforcement...
3rd Jun 2021
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April 2021 newsletter

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

3rd Jun 2021
with links on AI scaling, particular new East Asian record-breaking work & deep reinforcement learning.
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Core i7 920 @ 3,6 Ghz is a true beast! Even today, Core 2 Duo processors clocked at 2 ghz are no slugs. However, the Core i7 920 is of a...
4th Mar 2009
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Core i7 920 @ 3,6 Ghz is a true beast!

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

4th Mar 2009
Even today, Core 2 Duo processors clocked at 2 ghz are no slugs. However, the Core i7 920 is of a different kind. First, it is not only clocked at a higher speed (default 2,8 Ghz), it is also a quad-core processor. Thanks to the re- introduction of hyperthreading, this processor...
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The iPhone, iPad and iOS are powering a revolution Most people just don't understand computers. Are these people dumb? Some may be dumb, but the people...
6th Nov 2010
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The iPhone, iPad and iOS are powering a revolution

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

6th Nov 2010
Most people just don't understand computers. Are these people dumb? Some may be dumb, but the people who make them are maybe even dumber. Because they can't seem to figure out how to create a computer that the majority of people understand. When the original macintosh arrived at...
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Smartwatches vs Mechanical watches Why I still wear a mechanical watch and why smartwatches have potential.
29th Apr 2017
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Smartwatches vs Mechanical watches

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

29th Apr 2017
Why I still wear a mechanical watch and why smartwatches have potential.
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The Living Computers Museum finally isn't First off, apologies for a quiet month as I've been dealing with family matters which hopefully are...
26th Jun 2024
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The Living Computers Museum finally isn't

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

26th Jun 2024
First off, apologies for a quiet month as I've been dealing with family matters which hopefully are now on a better footing (more articles are in the hopper). Unfortunately, the same apparently can't be said for the once-great Living Computers Museum + Labs in Seattle,...
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On building quicker How AI tools have transformed my approach to building projects, making it possible to launch ideas...
31st Mar 2025
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On building quicker

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

31st Mar 2025
How AI tools have transformed my approach to building projects, making it possible to launch ideas faster and focus on what matters most.
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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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Vote for the Topic of the February 2024 Plus Post If you are a paid subscriber, voting is open for one week
6th Feb 2024
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Vote for the Topic of the February 2024 Plus Post

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

6th Feb 2024
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From Capelton Hill This is very much an album about what it means to have spent twenty years making music that is...
4th Jun 2022
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From Capelton Hill

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Jun 2022
This is very much an album about what it means to have spent twenty years making music that is almost entirely about being in your late twenties and feeling that the most important parts of life are happening and fleeting. It is soft and comforting and you can't help but feel...
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A couple of git nits A small rant on git papercuts, and why they are like that.
16th Mar 2026
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A couple of git nits

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

16th Mar 2026
A small rant on git papercuts, and why they are like that.
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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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Video Killed the Social Media Star The two 2024 Presidential Debates have proven the continued centrality of television to our...
16th Sep 2024
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Video Killed the Social Media Star

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

16th Sep 2024
The two 2024 Presidential Debates have proven the continued centrality of television to our electoral system.
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Backdooring Your Backdoors - Another $20 Domain, More Governments After the excitement of our .MOBI research, we were left twiddling our thumbs. As you may recall, in...
8th Jan 2025
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Backdooring Your Backdoors - Another $20 Domain, More Governments

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

8th Jan 2025
After the excitement of our .MOBI research, we were left twiddling our thumbs. As you may recall, in 2024, we demonstrated the impact of an unregistered domain when we subverted the TLS/SSL CA process for verifying domain ownership to give ourselves the ability to issue valid and...
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Rebuilding a 1995 GPS Time Server so I don't get Telstra'd In June I purchased this TrueTime XL-AK time server, so I could learn more of the history of...
4th Sep 2026
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Rebuilding a 1995 GPS Time Server so I don't get Telstra'd

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

4th Sep 2026
In June I purchased this TrueTime XL-AK time server, so I could learn more of the history of GPS-based time. I received it on June 22, and just 16 days later a similar GPS time server took down Australia's cell service for 12 hours! I made a short video about it but put off...
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SipHash-based encryption for constrained devices I see a lot of attempts to define encryption schemes for constrained devices with short...
6th May 2024
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SipHash-based encryption for constrained devices

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

6th May 2024
I see a lot of attempts to define encryption schemes for constrained devices with short authentication tags (e.g., 64 bits) using universal hashing. For example, there’s a proposal in CFRG at the moment for a version of AES-GCM with short tags for this kind of use-case. In my...
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Poor Person Software's Write-Hand Man "Almost a sidekick for CP/M"
1st Dec 2025
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Poor Person Software's Write-Hand Man

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

1st Dec 2025
"Almost a sidekick for CP/M"
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A Quick Garbled Circuits Primer
21st Mar 2020
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A Quick Garbled Circuits Primer

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

21st Mar 2020
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Wearing Grand Seiko Sadness could be seen in my eyes when my custom made watch got damaged earlier this month, while...
4th Jun 2021
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Wearing Grand Seiko

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

4th Jun 2021
Sadness could be seen in my eyes when my custom made watch got damaged earlier this month, while awaiting repairs I was fortunate to wear a Grand Seiko. Its unique mix of craftsmanship, innovation and practicality is worth sharing with you. As a friend of my blog, you might know...
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Achieving 2.3 GB/s with 16 x 4 TB drives I'm in the process of building a new storage server to replace my 18 TB NAS. The server is almost...
12th Jul 2014
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Achieving 2.3 GB/s with 16 x 4 TB drives

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

12th Jul 2014
I'm in the process of building a new storage server to replace my 18 TB NAS. The server is almost finished, it's now down to adding disk drives. I'm using the HGST 4 TB 7200 RPM drive for this build (SKU 0S03356) (review). I have not bought all drives at once, but slowly adding...
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Collecting health data with Biostrap Wearing a clinical-grade PPG sensor for a month to collect advanced biometrics from my wrist.
14th Nov 2017
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Collecting health data with Biostrap

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

14th Nov 2017
Wearing a clinical-grade PPG sensor for a month to collect advanced biometrics from my wrist.
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The Tandy Corporation, Part 2 Trash-80s get Colorful, and Trash-80s get into your pockets
2nd Jun 2025
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The Tandy Corporation, Part 2

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

2nd Jun 2025
Trash-80s get Colorful, and Trash-80s get into your pockets
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250 lbs Six months ago, while I was setting up a new code editor, I noticed that the default font size felt...
16th Feb 2026
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250 lbs

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

16th Feb 2026
Six months ago, while I was setting up a new code editor, I noticed that the default font size felt just a bit too small, when displayed on my monitor. Not a big deal, I just bumped it up one size and went back to my work. Then it happened again, this time, when reading sheet...
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Google Summer of Code 2016 Report : Stingray It began 5 months ago, in February. Due to my recent interests in Image Processing, I had made few...
20th Jan 2017
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Google Summer of Code 2016 Report : Stingray

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

20th Jan 2017
It began 5 months ago, in February. Due to my recent interests in Image Processing, I had made few Pull Requests to the scikit-image library…
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How optimistic or pessimistic are the Kurzgesagt videos? A sentiment analysis on the last 20 videos of Kurzgesagt.
2nd Jul 2023
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How optimistic or pessimistic are the Kurzgesagt videos?

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

2nd Jul 2023
A sentiment analysis on the last 20 videos of Kurzgesagt.
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Wallops 2.2 Released A new release of my Wallops IRC client is available: wallops-2.2.sit (StuffIt 3...
2nd Feb 2026
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Wallops 2.2 Released

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

2nd Feb 2026
A new release of my Wallops IRC client is available: wallops-2.2.sit (StuffIt 3 archive) adc2b473664ec0960b5b028335566831dd69f4a1de40f79e22bf1337292cca88 SHA1: 603c5080c41a0d5752cae49a08376db4e18628b1 This update includes a number of new features and bugfixes: Auto-connect with...
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