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Bryan Braun - Blog
Breaking down circular dependencies in JavaScript I write a lot of JavaScript but circular dependencies have always been kind of a mystery to me. The...
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I write a lot of JavaScript but circular dependencies have always been kind of a mystery to me. The error messages always seem random and inscrutable, and sometimes there’s no error message at all! I wanted to understand this topic better, so I ran a series of experiments and...
Yazin Alirhayim
How do you know that an API does what it says it does? Having been in fintech for a while, I’ve noticed something in common between the many new startups...
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over a year ago
Having been in fintech for a while, I’ve noticed something in common between the many new startups that come and go. They all require access to personal information. A specific example that comes to mind is the Plaid-like solution we developed while working on amal. We’d ask...
Home on Erik...
It's hard to write code for computers, but it's even harder to write code for humans Writing code for a computer is hard enough. You take something big and fuzzy, some large vague...
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9 months ago
Writing code for a computer is hard enough. You take something big and fuzzy, some large vague business outcome you want to achive. Then you break it down recursively and think about all the cases until you have clear logical statements a computer can follow.
The New Oil
Life Without a SIM Card
3 months ago
Abort Retry Fail
The History of Windows NT 3.1 A Highly Portable Future
a year ago
Notes on software...
io_uring basics: Writing a file to disk King and I wrote a blog post about building an event-driven cross-platform IO library that...
a year ago
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a year ago
King and I wrote a blog post about building an event-driven cross-platform IO library that used io_uring on Linux. We sketched out how it works at a high level but I hadn't yet internalized how you actually code with io_uring. So I strapped myself down this week and wrote...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later
over a year ago
Home on Erik...
ML at Twitter I recently came across this paper describing how they do ML at Twitter. TL;DR Their approach is...
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I recently came across this paper describing how they do ML at Twitter. TL;DR Their approach is pretty interesting. Everything is a Pig workflow and then they do everything as UDF's. This approach seems pretty interesting.
Lighthouse Blog
Updates January 19
a year ago
Abishek Muthian
Scam alert : mail from IPTI Mail from IPTI This is a physical scam mail alert yeah because we don’t get enough of cyber...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Mail from IPTI This is a physical scam mail alert yeah because we don’t get enough of cyber phishing; right! Those who have filed international patents, keep an eye out for mails such as the above. I received a professional looking mail from IPTI & from what it looks like on the...
Birchtree
Pulling myself out of the pit I'll be honest, I wasn't an iOS veteran engineer when I started work on Quick Reviews at the start...
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2 months ago
I'll be honest, I wasn't an iOS veteran engineer when I started work on Quick Reviews at the start of this year. I'm really proud of what I made, I'm happy with how quickly I was able to get it out there,
Elevation Lab - Blog
BatteryPro available on Apple.com! Good news, BatteryPro is now available worldwide online at Apple! This makes it much easier and less...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Good news, BatteryPro is now available worldwide online at Apple! This makes it much easier and less expensive for customers outside the USA to pick one up. And we couldn't be more humbled and proud - it goes to show that when you design a product you really want for yourself,...
Applied Cartography
Are monopolies bad, actually? One of the more interesting theses advanced by Zero to One [1] is that monopolies are good to the...
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a year ago
One of the more interesting theses advanced by Zero to One [1] is that monopolies are good to the extent that they afford companies the agency and comfort to engage in long-term activities: Monopolists can think about things other than making money; non-monopolists can’t. In...
Louwrentius
RAID 5 is perfectly fine for home usage RAID 5 gets a lot of flak these days. You either run RAID 1, RAID 10 or you use RAID 6, but if you...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
RAID 5 gets a lot of flak these days. You either run RAID 1, RAID 10 or you use RAID 6, but if you run RAID 5 you're told that you are a crazy person. Using RAID 5 is portrayed as an unreasonable risk to the availability of your data. It is suggested that it is likely that you...
Matt Mullenweg
Hash tables “You didn’t just come up with a cool hash table,” he remembers telling Krapivin. “You’ve actually...
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4 months ago
“You didn’t just come up with a cool hash table,” he remembers telling Krapivin. “You’ve actually completely wiped out a 40-year-old conjecture!” There’s a delightful article on an undergraduate discovering an optimization in a very basic computer science principle.
Matt Mullenweg
Those Other Lawsuits It’s a heavy day, and I’m sad to write this. Not sure where to start. In 2022, a lawyer recruited...
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8 months ago
It’s a heavy day, and I’m sad to write this. Not sure where to start. In 2022, a lawyer recruited two people who took care of my Mom—an assistant and one of her dozen nurses—to resign and demand a million dollars each, or they would publish horrible things about her in a lawsuit....
Bryan Braun - Blog
Setting up your /now page with an RSS feed I have a /now page, which I use to tell people what I’m up to these days. I like the concept of “now...
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8 months ago
I have a /now page, which I use to tell people what I’m up to these days. I like the concept of “now pages” but I felt like it would be better if it had an RSS feed. The feed would give interested parties a way to subscribe to life changes. The problem is that RSS feeds aren’t...
Jonas Hietala
Let's build a VORON: Wrap-up It’s finally done™. I’ve built a VORON that prints reliably and I’ve modded it enough to be able to...
a year ago
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a year ago
It’s finally done™. I’ve built a VORON that prints reliably and I’ve modded it enough to be able to leave it alone for a while, so I think it’s time to wrap up this build series with a little retrospective. Building the printer was really fun and rewarding I’ve always seen...
Louwrentius
Neato XV-15 / XV-11 Robotic Vacuum cleaner review Update 18 February 2012 There is one problem. When the robot is not connected to the charger, the...
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over a year ago
Update 18 February 2012 There is one problem. When the robot is not connected to the charger, the batteries are depleted very fast. Even if the batteries are not entirely depleted and the robot can still display the menu, the clock loses it's time. Every time the robot gets a too...
Construction Physics
Born Sleeping A personal post about the loss of our son
9 months ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Soulbound
over a year ago
Arduino Blog
Adding proximity unlock to an old car with the Arduino Nano 33 BLE A lot of newer cars have a really nifty feature called “proximity unlock,” which automatically...
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A lot of newer cars have a really nifty feature called “proximity unlock,” which automatically unlocks the doors when the driver approaches while carrying their key fob. When paired with a push-to-start ignition switch, the driver never has to take their keys out of their pocket....
Matt Blewitt
Riding the Risk Railway When building and operating a user-facing system, especially one that is open to the public, it is...
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over a year ago
When building and operating a user-facing system, especially one that is open to the public, it is important to consider the riskiness of a user, which can also be characterised as trustworthiness. These will typically be negatively correlated, with low trust indicating high risk...
Willem's Blog
Inspiration from a child Explore the world together with your kids and reap the rewards of adventure and fun!
over a year ago
Birchtree
Incomplete thought: using data to tell a story (members post) A year ago I tried to understand how much power ChatGPT was using and if I should be outraged by it....
5 months ago
computers are bad
2023-08-07 STIRred AND SHAKEN In a couple of days, I pack up my bags to head for DEFCON. In a rare moment of pre-planning, perhaps...
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a year ago
In a couple of days, I pack up my bags to head for DEFCON. In a rare moment of pre-planning, perhaps spurred by boredom, I looked through the schedule to see what's in store in the world of telephony. There is a workshop on SS7, of course [1], plenty of content on cellular, but...
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #46: The transformation of London's skyline, a big week for nuclear, and installing... Plus how to avoid the road pricing landmine
7 months ago
Jonas Hietala
2018 in review A new year and a lingering feeling of not having done enough during the year. A fast review of the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A new year and a lingering feeling of not having done enough during the year. A fast review of the year usually makes me feel better. 2018 non-geek achievements Was on parental leave for about 7 months. It was great although I’ve been crawling up the walls a little the last...
Matt Mullenweg
Status Quo I wrote over on WordPress.org about breaking the status quo with a Joost/Karim fork. It’s a perfect...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
I wrote over on WordPress.org about breaking the status quo with a Joost/Karim fork. It’s a perfect time as Automattic is re-focusing its work while the legal stuff is going on.
Louwrentius
Calculating EXT2 EXT3 EXT4 stride size when using RAID When formatting a RAID device with an EXT filesystem, it is always advised to specify a stride size....
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When formatting a RAID device with an EXT filesystem, it is always advised to specify a stride size. The format utility will take this stride size into account when formatting a device. The stride size is the number you get when you divide the 'chunck' size, as specified with...
Home on Erik...
Annoy Annoy is a simple package to find approximate nearest neighbors (ANN) that I just put on Github. I'm...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Annoy is a simple package to find approximate nearest neighbors (ANN) that I just put on Github. I'm not trying to compete with existing packages, but Annoy has a couple of features that makes it pretty useful.
Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course Week 15: Boethius In week 15 of the humanities crash course, we started making our way out of classical antiquity and...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
In week 15 of the humanities crash course, we started making our way out of classical antiquity and into the Middle Ages. The reading for this week was Boethius’s The Consolation of Philosophy, a book perhaps second only to the Bible in influencing Medieval thinking. I used the...
Matt Mullenweg
Inc Hit Piece When Inc Magazine reached out to have David H. Freedman (website powered by WordPress) write a...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
When Inc Magazine reached out to have David H. Freedman (website powered by WordPress) write a feature piece I was excited because though Inc wasn’t a magazine I have read much since I was a teenager, David seemed like a legit journalist who usually writes for better publications...
Posts on Made of...
Why the Sorbet typechecker is fast This is the second in an indefinite series of posts about things that I think went well in the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is the second in an indefinite series of posts about things that I think went well in the Sorbet project. The previous one covered our testing approach. Sorbet is fast. Numerous of our early users commented specifically on how fast it was, and how much they appreciated this...
Notes on software...
Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 2. user-defined functions and variables Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 3. LLVM 4. LLVM conditionals and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 3. LLVM 4. LLVM conditionals and compiling fibonacci 5. LLVM system calls 6. an x86 upgrade In this post we'll extend the compiler to support defining functions and variables. Additionally, we'll require the...
Posts on Made of...
Transformers for software engineers Ever since its introduction in the 2017 paper, Attention is All You Need, the Transformer model...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Ever since its introduction in the 2017 paper, Attention is All You Need, the Transformer model architecture has taken the deep-learning world by storm. Initially introduced for machine translation, it has become the tool of choice for a wide range of domains, including text,...
Jonas Hietala
2019 in Review As is tradition a quick rundown of the year is due. It’s been good to do as it makes me reflect on...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As is tradition a quick rundown of the year is due. It’s been good to do as it makes me reflect on the past year, and see that I did indeed do some things, and to look ahead a little. 2019 Non-Geek Achievements Played around with Isidor. It’s hard to describe how happy a kid can...
Posts on Made of...
Why node.js is cool (it's not about performance) For the past N months, it seems like there is no new technology stack that is either hotter or more...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For the past N months, it seems like there is no new technology stack that is either hotter or more controversial than node.js. node.js is cancer! node.js cures cancer! node.js is bad ass rock star tech!. I myself have given node.js a lot of shit, often involving the phrase...
./techtipsy
Can a laptop from 2012 be a viable home server? I’m a man of many ideas. It’s a shame that most of them are quite stupid. This is one of them, but...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’m a man of many ideas. It’s a shame that most of them are quite stupid. This is one of them, but at least it makes for a fun experiment. Intro After adding an UPS to accompany my server, my setup was as complete as it could reasonably be. The server is low power, but packs...
Old Vintage...
Refurb weekend: Data General/One (and the worst LCD in the world) I mentioned earlier that while I prefer specializing in non-x86 laptops, that doesn't mean I don't...
a year ago
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a year ago
I mentioned earlier that while I prefer specializing in non-x86 laptops, that doesn't mean I don't collect interesting or unusual x86 laptops, like the Brother GeoBook NB-60 (I finally tracked down a mostly working NB-80C, the top of the line model, which will be the subject of a...
Arduino Blog
This autonomous go-kart only needs a camera to navigate a workshop circuit Autonomous vehicles, and self-driving cars in particular, are probably one of the most enticing...
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Autonomous vehicles, and self-driving cars in particular, are probably one of the most enticing technologies of the 21st century. But despite a great deal of R&D and even more speculation, we have yet to see a self-driving car that can actually operate on real public roads...
Abishek Muthian
I found my 7th grade art book ! The drawings from my 7th grade art book gives an insight of what my life and dreams were during that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The drawings from my 7th grade art book gives an insight of what my life and dreams were during that period. I share this is to inspire at-least few to go back and check what they were and what they are now. Art book cover My 7th grade Art notebook. I’m 29 year old Indian male....
Birchtree
Grading my 2024 Apple predictions First off, merry Christmas! I closed out last year with a series of posts reviewing Apple’s main...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
First off, merry Christmas! I closed out last year with a series of posts reviewing Apple’s main product lines, iPhones, iPads, Macs, Watches, and the soon-to-be-released Vision Pro. I’ll be doing that again over the last few days of the year, but in the interest of
./techtipsy
I finally found an use case for my Raspberry Pi Model B+ You have probably heard about the Raspberry Pi. It’s a nice little affordable single-board computer...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
You have probably heard about the Raspberry Pi. It’s a nice little affordable single-board computer with a huge community using it for all sorts of projects. I got my first Raspberry Pi, the Model B+, during my first year at university, which was around the winter of...
Jonas Hietala
Ludum Dare 17 - an hour or two into it I decided to participate in the Ludum Dare this time, even though I’ve spent the whole day on a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I decided to participate in the Ludum Dare this time, even though I’ve spent the whole day on a massage course (which by the way was pretty darn good), and about halfway there this is what I’ve done: Chockingly… ugly All is not what meets the eye though, I’ve got the basics done...
Posts on Made of...
Fun with the preprocessor: CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION hacks in Linux About two months ago, Linux saw CVE-2010-0307, which was a trival denial-of-service attack that...
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over a year ago
About two months ago, Linux saw CVE-2010-0307, which was a trival denial-of-service attack that could crash essentially any 64-bit Linux machine with 32-bit compatibility enabled. LWN has an excellent writeup of the bug, which turns out to be a subtle error related to the details...
Matt Mullenweg
Automattic Operating System I was interviewed by Inc magazine for almost two hours where we covered a lot of great topics for...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
I was interviewed by Inc magazine for almost two hours where we covered a lot of great topics for entrepreneurs but almost none of it made it into the weird hit piece they published, however since both the journalist and I had recording of the interview I’ve decided to adapt some...
Willem's Blog
The joy of a simple laptop This week I tested the Surface Laptop Go with Windows 10 and quite frankly was amazed by the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This week I tested the Surface Laptop Go with Windows 10 and quite frankly was amazed by the experience!
Matt Blewitt
Lua: The Little Language That Could Lua is probably my favourite “little language” - a language designed to have low cognitive load, and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Lua is probably my favourite “little language” - a language designed to have low cognitive load, and be easy to learn and use. It’s embedded in a lot of software, such as Redis, NGINX via OpenResty and Wireshark. It’s also used as a scripting language in games such as World of...
Abort Retry Fail
The History of Commodore, Part 3 Are you keeping up with the Commodore?
a year ago
Jonas Hietala
The I'm Great quote A new semester at the uni and so far it looks promising; I got a hold of some new books even though...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A new semester at the uni and so far it looks promising; I got a hold of some new books even though the bookstore had a snakelike queue similar to the Jörmungandr (the snake that encircled the earth in nordic mythology) and our new programming course started. This time it’s Ada’s...
Jonas Hietala
Why is my file so huge? My latest game was absolutely huge! And I’m not talking about the music (which was pretty huge too -...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My latest game was absolutely huge! And I’m not talking about the music (which was pretty huge too - roughly 20mb) but the little .exe file. It was 14,6mb!! Now every way you look at it, that’s incredibly huge. It’s like comparing an ant to a human. Normally the little ant is the...
axio.ms
MicroMac, a Macintosh for under £5 A microcontroller Macintosh This all started from a conversation about the RP2040 MCU, and building...
a year ago
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a year ago
A microcontroller Macintosh This all started from a conversation about the RP2040 MCU, and building a simple desktop/GUI for it. I’d made a comment along the lines of “or, just run some old OS”, and it got me thinking about the original Macintosh. The original Macintosh was...
Abishek Muthian
Are we worrying more about AI than global warming So, my friend said this — If I may state mine — It’s not we’re more worried about AI, it’s the media...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
So, my friend said this — If I may state mine — It’s not we’re more worried about AI, it’s the media inducing cognitive biases fuelled by Hollywood when a celebrity speaks about dooms day AI. Let’s discuss some facts, Let’s take prof. Hawing, he’s vocal about the need to keep AI...
Lars Lofgren
How Live Chat Tools Impact Conversions and Why I Launched a Bad Variant Do those live chat tools actually help your business? Will they get you more customers by allowing...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Do those live chat tools actually help your business? Will they get you more customers by allowing your visitors to chat directly with your team? Like most tests, you can come up with theories that sound great for both sides. Pro Live Chat Theory: Having a live chat tool helps...
Good Enough
Thoughts On Thoughts It’s time for a revolution. Too long have we, collectively and individually, been tyrannized by our...
a year ago
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a year ago
It’s time for a revolution. Too long have we, collectively and individually, been tyrannized by our thoughts and what we believe about them. Or perhaps we can think of this as an intervention. This post is the circle of friends gathered to help us stop hitting ourselves in the...
watchTowr Labs
No Way, PHP Strikes Again! (CVE-2024-4577) Orange Tsai tweeted a few hours ago about “One of [his] PHP vulnerabilities, which affects XAMPP by...
a year ago
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a year ago
Orange Tsai tweeted a few hours ago about “One of [his] PHP vulnerabilities, which affects XAMPP by default”, and we were curious to say the least. XAMPP is a very popular way for administrators and developers to rapidly deploy Apache, PHP, and a bunch of other tools, and
Birchtree
We do this same thing with AI bots and human blogs Giles Thomas writing on his personal blog, which he’s been writing since 2006: It's Still Worth...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Giles Thomas writing on his personal blog, which he’s been writing since 2006: It's Still Worth Blogging in the Age of AI If you want to blog to make a name for yourself, then you're going to have a hard time. Here's
Applied Cartography
Git one-liner: get the earliest commit from X hours ago I wanted to get a commit that was temporally some distance back as part of my experimentation with...
a year ago
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a year ago
I wanted to get a commit that was temporally some distance back as part of my experimentation with git cliff. This took some time to do, but here's what I ended up with: git log --since="72 hours ago" --until="now" --reverse --pretty=format:"%h" | head -1 Nothing particularly...
Computer Ads from...
July 4th Weekend Sale Hurry in to save 40%!
23 hours ago
Good Enough
Jelly was #1 on Hacker News Yesterday, Lettini took a chance and posted about Jelly on Hacker News, a discussion site notorious...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Yesterday, Lettini took a chance and posted about Jelly on Hacker News, a discussion site notorious for it's mercurial population of tech-maybe-too-saavy experts. Jelly is a tough sell for some of them, those with the technical skill to pipe email at a low level through...
Posts on Made of...
Reader/reader blocking in reader/writer locks Abstract In writer-priority reader/writer locks, as soon as a single writer enters the acquisition...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
Home on Erik...
Ping the world I just pinged a few million random IP addresses from my apartment in NYC. Here's the result: Some...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I just pinged a few million random IP addresses from my apartment in NYC. Here's the result: Some notes: What's going on with Sweden? Too much torrenting? Ireland is likewise super slow, but not Northern Ireland Eastern Ukraine is also super slow, maybe not surprising given...
Computer Ads from...
Huson Soft HuCAL Hudson creates business software for everyone.
a year ago
Jonas Hietala
addwatch: resource exhausted While tampering with Hakyll and running site preview I stumbled upon this error message: site:...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
While tampering with Hakyll and running site preview I stumbled upon this error message: site: addWatch: resource exhausted (No space left on device) At first I tried to clear /tmp but, so clearly the device did have some space left. After a bit of googling I found a solution...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Plurality philosophy in an incredibly oversized nutshell
10 months ago
Jonas Hietala
A type checking error in Elixir 1.18 Although I’m a big Elixir fan, the lack of static typing has always been my biggest annoyance (and...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Although I’m a big Elixir fan, the lack of static typing has always been my biggest annoyance (and why I think Gleam is so cool). I think static typing helps catch bugs earlier and in an automated way, leading to less buggy software and saves time in the long run. To my great joy...
./techtipsy
The optimization treadmill: why I keep changing my computing setup all the time I have a bad habit of changing my computing setups all the time. I tend to see new gear, then I...
a year ago
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a year ago
I have a bad habit of changing my computing setups all the time. I tend to see new gear, then I get some new ideas, and then I obsessively think about it for weeks and months until I just buy it. And then the cycle repeats. I’ve had time to think about why that keeps happening...
Notes on software...
Writing a document database from scratch in Go: Lucene-like filters and indexes In this post we'll write a rudimentary document database from scratch in Go. In less than 500 lines...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In this post we'll write a rudimentary document database from scratch in Go. In less than 500 lines of code we'll be able to support the following interactions, inspired by Elasticsearch: $ curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"name": "Kevin", "age": "45"}'...
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #45: Deliverism, blasphemy and selfies from space Plus the best Minecraft-themed political deepfake you'll see today
7 months ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Alternatives to selling at below-market-clearing prices for achieving fairness (or community...
over a year ago
Arduino Blog
An engineer’s journey to bring the ultimate TMJ pain relief tool to market To the average person, invention and new product development seem like pretty straightforward...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
To the average person, invention and new product development seem like pretty straightforward processes; you come up with a killer idea, do the engineering work to cobble together a working prototype, have a truckload of units manufactured, and then sell those to turn a profit....
Willem's Blog
The day I sold my car This week I sold my car, I now no longer own one. I look back at my years of owning a sports car, if...
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over a year ago
This week I sold my car, I now no longer own one. I look back at my years of owning a sports car, if you're looking for a reason to buy one you should check this out.
./techtipsy
The Fedora Linux starter pack: everything you need for a smooth experience I like Fedora Linux. It’s the Linux distro that stopped my habit of distro-hopping. Big deal? Ooh,...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
I like Fedora Linux. It’s the Linux distro that stopped my habit of distro-hopping. Big deal? Ooh, big deal! It’s stable in day-to-day use, ships with up-to-date software, and the software selection is adequate out of the box. It also ships with a fresh Linux kernel version1,...
Birchtree
My lil' Ghostty terminal config I wrote about Ghosty last week, and since then I've played around with it enough to know it's my new...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
I wrote about Ghosty last week, and since then I've played around with it enough to know it's my new terminal emulator of choice. For me the killer feature is how fast it is, putting the most popular apps to shame (Apple Terminal and iTerm, specifically)
Christian Selig
Apollo for Reddit 1.9 Apollo 1.9’s a massive update to Apollo that’s taken months and months to complete, but I’m really...
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Apollo 1.9’s a massive update to Apollo that’s taken months and months to complete, but I’m really happy with the result, and it brings together a ton of ideas from the community to make Apollo even nicer to use. The update includes a variety of features around crossposts, flair,...
./techtipsy
Why I went back to using a ThinkPad from 2012 This post is inspired by this article from the Low-tech Magazine. I highly recommend giving that a...
over a year ago
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This post is inspired by this article from the Low-tech Magazine. I highly recommend giving that a read as well! Over my lifetime, I’ve used a bunch of different computers, mainly due to new ideas and requirements popping into my mind every time I’m content with my current setup....
Azad's Blog
Simulating + Streaming a 4k, 90hz, ultrawide, HDR PC monitor to Apple Vision Pro VR headsets can be pretty awesome at simulating monitors of any size and shape. Most VR headsets are...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
VR headsets can be pretty awesome at simulating monitors of any size and shape. Most VR headsets are also capable of outputting at a high refresh rate (60hz, 90hz, 120hz, or even 144hz). Some headsets (like Apple Vision Pro) can also output in HDR! The beauty of it all is that in...
Arduino Blog
It’s silver, it’s green, it’s the Batteryrunner! An Arduino-powered, fully custom electric car Inventor Charly Bosch and his daughter Leonie have crafted something truly remarkable: a fully...
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Inventor Charly Bosch and his daughter Leonie have crafted something truly remarkable: a fully electric, Arduino-powered car that’s as innovative as it is sustainable. Called the Batteryrunner, this vehicle is designed with a focus on environmental impact, simplicity, and custom...
Jonas Hietala
The T-34/0 keyboard layout This is an update to the T-34 keyboard layout I’ve been using for a solid number of weeks. While...
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over a year ago
This is an update to the T-34 keyboard layout I’ve been using for a solid number of weeks. While there are more changes I’d like to try, I’m quite pleased with these changes so I figured I might as well immortalize them before I explore further. (And I do have a bunch of big...
Applied Cartography
Recursive filter schema When we added support for complex filtering in Buttondown, I spent a long time trying to come up...
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When we added support for complex filtering in Buttondown, I spent a long time trying to come up with a schema for filters that felt sufficiently ergonomic and future-proof. I had a few constraints, all of which were reasonable: It needed to be JSON-serializable, and trivially...
Jonas Hietala
Postmortem: Bugger It’s time for the follow up on my latest game Bugger. Wow it seems like forever since I begun this...
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over a year ago
It’s time for the follow up on my latest game Bugger. Wow it seems like forever since I begun this monthly game business, but it’s only been two months since I first thought about this and here I am having finished my third game. I’ve really come a long way, in the beginning I...
Home on Erik...
Annoy – now without Boost dependencies and with Python 3 Support Annoy is a C++/Python package I built for fast approximate nearest neighbor search in high...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Annoy is a C++/Python package I built for fast approximate nearest neighbor search in high dimensional spaces. Spotify uses it a lot to find similar items. First, matrix factorization gives a low dimensional representation of each item (artist/album/track/user) so that every item...
Jonas Hietala
Sat-E So I entered Ludum Dare 22 this weekend as a preamble for tomorrow’s linear algebra exam. The theme...
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over a year ago
So I entered Ludum Dare 22 this weekend as a preamble for tomorrow’s linear algebra exam. The theme this time around was Alone and the game I came up with is about a lonely satellite in space, kinda like Wall-E. Sat-E Instructions Collect junk and other items for you to buy...
Applied Cartography
HQ1 After many wonderful years of working out of my home office (see Workspaces), I've now "expanded"...
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After many wonderful years of working out of my home office (see Workspaces), I've now "expanded" [1] into an office of my own. 406 W Franklin St #201 is now the Richmond-area headquarters of Buttondown. Send me gifts! The move is a bittersweet one; it was a great joy to be so...
Posts on Made of...
What's with ML software and pickles? I have spent many years as an software engineer who was a total outsider to machine-learning, but...
a year ago
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a year ago
I have spent many years as an software engineer who was a total outsider to machine-learning, but with some curiosity and occasional peripheral interactions with it. During this time, a recurring theme for me was horror (and, to be honest, disdain) every time I encountered the...
Abort Retry Fail
Intel and the New Millenium Losing the performance crown
3 months ago
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #56: The awkward truth about Brexit Plus a giant leap for devolution, the nuclear industry being cowards, and some crazy humanoid robots
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Notes on software...
Writing a minimal Lua implementation with a virtual machine from scratch in Rust By the end of this guide we'll have a minimal, working implementation of a small part of Lua from...
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By the end of this guide we'll have a minimal, working implementation of a small part of Lua from scratch. It will be able to run the following program (among others): function fib(n) if n < 2 then return n; end local n1 = fib(n-1); local n2 = fib(n-2); ...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Exploring circle STARKs
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Christian Selig
The Case for Getting Rid of TestFlight Review I tweeted today about how I think TestFlight review should become a thing of the past and many...
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over a year ago
I tweeted today about how I think TestFlight review should become a thing of the past and many developers seemed to agree, but some had questions so I wanted to expand on my thoughts a little. TestFlight’s awesome. But like App Store submissions, TestFlight betas also require a...
Louwrentius
How to determine which process causes IO ? There is a nifty little program called 'iotop'. Iotop is part of Debian or Ubuntu and can be...
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over a year ago
There is a nifty little program called 'iotop'. Iotop is part of Debian or Ubuntu and can be installed with a simple apt-get. Once you have determined with 'top' that the system is waiting on IO-access, It is nice to know which process is responsibe for this IO. Therefore, you...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Gitcoin Grants Round 6 Retrospective
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Arduino Blog
This DIY bruxism detector prevents jaw clenching during sleep At some point in your life, you’ve probably had a doctor or dentist ask you if you clench your jaw...
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At some point in your life, you’ve probably had a doctor or dentist ask you if you clench your jaw or grind your teeth — particularly at night. That is called bruxism and it can have serious effects, such as tooth damage, jaw pain, headaches, and more. But because it often...
The Pragmatic...
Which IDEs do software engineers love, and why? oftware engineers shared their favorite IDEs on social media, and the most-mentioned one by a...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
oftware engineers shared their favorite IDEs on social media, and the most-mentioned one by a comfortable margin was Cursor. WindSurf and Zed also seem to be getting traction at the expense of Visual Studio, and JetBrains.
Jonas Hietala
2012 in Review Like the last two years I’m summarizing the year. At the end of the year like this it always feel...
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over a year ago
Like the last two years I’m summarizing the year. At the end of the year like this it always feel like I didn’t accomplish much, but after the yearly summary it always feels better. 2012 Geek Achievements Designed a processor which fulfills the Core Wars 88 standard. Includes a...
Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course Week 12: Suetonius It’s hard to believe, but we’re almost at the first quarter mark for the humanities crash course. Up...
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It’s hard to believe, but we’re almost at the first quarter mark for the humanities crash course. Up this week: Suetonius’s The Twelve Caesars. I doubled down on the Republic’s fall by watching a classic movie set in this time. Readings The Twelve Caesars is a collection of...
Birchtree
Ghost gets ActivityPub into beta Ghost: Social Web We've got our social web integration for Ghost to a point where we're excited to...
3 months ago
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Ghost: Social Web We've got our social web integration for Ghost to a point where we're excited to have you try it out, but there's a lot of work still in progress and (as alluded to earlier) there are some significant rough edges. I&
Jonas Hietala
Printing Hextraction for my kids A session of Hextraction, a 3D printed board game. I did it. I made something actually useful with...
a year ago
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a year ago
A session of Hextraction, a 3D printed board game. I did it. I made something actually useful with my 3D printer instead of just tinkering with it. I printed Hextraction, a very cool 3D printed board game for my kids—and they love it. Hextraction is a gamified marble run, where...
The Pragmatic...
Are LLMs making StackOverflow irrelevant? Fresh data shows that the number of questions asked on StackOverflow are as low as they were back in...
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Fresh data shows that the number of questions asked on StackOverflow are as low as they were back in 2009 – which was when StackOverflow was one years old. The drop suggests that ChatGPT – and LLMs – managed to make StackOverflow’s business model irrelevant in about two years’...
Opsbros
Nix Windows Feedback There turns out to be a far easier way to disable the 'Win+F' Windows Feedback app.
over a year ago
Birchtree
This menu needs to die M.G. Siegler: The Great AI UI Unification And depending on which model you choose to use, you get...
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4 months ago
M.G. Siegler: The Great AI UI Unification And depending on which model you choose to use, you get other options from there, as various buttons will be enabled in the message box for 'Web Search' and now 'Deep Research'. Oh and I forgot the '
Vitalik Buterin's...
Epochs and slots all the way down: ways to give Ethereum users faster transaction confirmation times
a year ago
Jonas Hietala
February gets Themed: Rejection The Experimental Gameplay Project has announced their next theme - and shame on me if I wouldn’t...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The Experimental Gameplay Project has announced their next theme - and shame on me if I wouldn’t follow suite! With valentine coming up I might just have found a pretty nice idea, just now, writing this… Booyah!!
Matt Mullenweg
Ed Catmull on Change I’ve been really enjoying the book Creativity Inc by Ed Catmull of Pixar, it was recommended to me...
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I’ve been really enjoying the book Creativity Inc by Ed Catmull of Pixar, it was recommended to me by my colleague Dave Martin a while back and I finally got around to it. There’s an interesting story in it where George Lucas has asked him to develop a film editing system that...
Vitalik Buterin's...
From prediction markets to info finance
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Arduino Blog
Agitating homemade PCBs with ease If you want to make PCBs at home and you don’t happen to own a CNC mill, then you’ll probably need...
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If you want to make PCBs at home and you don’t happen to own a CNC mill, then you’ll probably need to turn to chemical etching. Use one of several different techniques to mask the blank PCB’s copper that you want to keep, then toss the whole thing into a bath to dissolve away the...
./techtipsy
My self-hosting setup has an UPS now, here's my experience with it I changed my setup again. I’m now the proud owner of an APC Smart-UPS 750. Why? Because I got it as...
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I changed my setup again. I’m now the proud owner of an APC Smart-UPS 750. Why? Because I got it as a gift, and I have never actually had an UPS before, so it makes for a good introduction to this world. Overview My setup is quite basic: everything that I have on my table...
Jonas Hietala
Doing Stuff The school and my life is trotting along. I’m handling the extra course fine, but instead I’ve left...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The school and my life is trotting along. I’m handling the extra course fine, but instead I’ve left the standard math course behind a bit. Actually more than a bit but hopefully I’ll correct things later. No my life is going along just fine, it almost feels like my life is runing...
tim.sh
$2m laundered: the YouTube crypto tutorials’ huge scam (investigation) How 1 youtube video turned out to be a part of a million dollar scam scheme
5 months ago
Lighthouse Blog
Introducing Lighthouse - The RSS reader, newsletter reader, and read-it-later app to fight content...
a year ago
Never Met a Science
Video Killed the Social Media Star The two 2024 Presidential Debates have proven the continued centrality of television to our...
9 months ago
GitButler
Stacked Branches with GitButler GitButler can now manage dependent branches that are stacked, including managing stacked GitHub PRs.
7 months ago
Electronics etc…
An In-Depth Look at the ICE-V Wireless FPGA Development Board Introduction The ICE-V Wireless FPGA Board Preloading the PSRAM with User Data The Overall Boot...
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Introduction The ICE-V Wireless FPGA Board Preloading the PSRAM with User Data The Overall Boot Process UART Console Getting Started with the ICE-V Wireless Board for Real Reinstalling or Modifying the ESP32C3 Firmware The RISC-V Example FPGA Design Compiling the RISC-V Example...
Posts on Made of...
How I Write Tests The longer I spend as a software engineer, the more obsessive I get about testing. I fully subscribe...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The longer I spend as a software engineer, the more obsessive I get about testing. I fully subscribe to the definition of legacy code as “code without an automated test suite.” I’m convinced that the best thing you can do to encourage fast progress in a test suite is to design...
Arduino Blog
This robotic kalimba plays melodies with an Arduino Nano With roots in Africa, the kalimba is a type of hand piano featuring an array of keys that are each...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
With roots in Africa, the kalimba is a type of hand piano featuring an array of keys that are each tuned for a specific note, and upon plucking or striking one, a pleasant xylophone-like sound can be heard. Taking inspiration from his mini kalimba, Axel from the YouTube channel...
Buck on Software
23 things you should know 1: Management’s true confidence is reflected in how fast they are hiring
over a year ago
Good Enough
Cosmic Maelstrom As Barry wrote in his recent blogpost, we're busy building prototypes here at Good Enough. It's...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As Barry wrote in his recent blogpost, we're busy building prototypes here at Good Enough. It's weird to be in this situation. Most of the Good Enough team are used to working on just one software at a time, focusing on steadily improving it. But right now we're doing the...
Birchtree
Apple’s 2024 report card: iPhone 📱 This is the first in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
This is the first in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I did this last year and you can read last year’s iPhone report card here. iPhone 16 Pro I really, really liked the 15 Pro lineup, and I would
./techtipsy
Whacky setups: seedbox on a wall The Orange Pi Zero is one hell of an SBC. It has served as a Wi-Fi access point for months without...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The Orange Pi Zero is one hell of an SBC. It has served as a Wi-Fi access point for months without issues and as a testbed for playing around with MySQL. I wanted it to be a useful device again, but had trouble finding an use case for it due to its hardware limitations. After...
Good Enough
How We Made A Good Enough Zine We made a zine! The first issue was released in August, and I finished the second issue just last...
a year ago
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a year ago
We made a zine! The first issue was released in August, and I finished the second issue just last week. Right now, a hundred copies are on their way from the printer to me (update: they've just arrived!). Today I'd like to share the story of how this zine came about. (Sorry for...
Jonas Hietala
The Experimental Games It’s been nine months since I started doing Experimental Games and I think it’s time to evaluate and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It’s been nine months since I started doing Experimental Games and I think it’s time to evaluate and maybe go in a new direction. At first I had been stuck for ages with my never-ending projects and I had literally nothing to show for all my coding. Well now things have changed a...
Birchtree
2 weeks to go and I don't think I'll have to eat that AirPod Last month I made the courageous promise that I would eat an AirPod if a 9to5Mac writer's prediction...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Last month I made the courageous promise that I would eat an AirPod if a 9to5Mac writer's prediction that "[b]efore the end of the year, I have no doubt Apple’s AI features—especially what’s coming in 18.2—will become
Computer Ads from...
Expedited Vote for the February 2025 + Post Topic Time is running out.
4 months ago
Louwrentius
Understanding Windows KMS and MAK volume license activation Introduction If you have to administer a large number of PCs running Windows, you will end up...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Introduction If you have to administer a large number of PCs running Windows, you will end up creating an automated deployment platform for your Windows clients. You may implement something like Windows Deployment Services. I used WDS to create a fully automated installation of...
Home on Erik...
Norvig's claim that programming competitions correlate negatively with being good on the job I saw a bunch of tweets over the weekend about Peter Norvig claiming there's a negative correlation...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I saw a bunch of tweets over the weekend about Peter Norvig claiming there's a negative correlation between being good at programming competitions and being good at the job. There were some decent Hacker News comments on it.
Posts on Made of...
Using X forwarding with screen by proxying $DISPLAY If you’re reading this blog, I probably don’t have to explain why I love GNU screen. I can keep a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you’re reading this blog, I probably don’t have to explain why I love GNU screen. I can keep a long-running session going on a server somewhere, and log in and resume my session without losing any state. I also love X-forwarding. I love being able to log into a remote server...
Electronics etc…
$17 GM1312 Thermometer Review, Test, and Teardown Introduction What is a thermocouple The GM1213 Thermometer A few...
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Introduction What is a thermocouple The GM1213 Thermometer A few tests Internals Conclusion References Introduction I’ve been doing a bunch of measurements on oven-controlled oscillators lately, including their temperature. There are multiple ways to measure...
lcamtuf’s thing
AI in infosec: the future is now, old man I do my best to keep punditry off this blog, but I don't always succeed.
3 months ago
Jonas Hietala
Let's build a VORON: Toolhead Since the last update I’ve made some good progress: All the motors are installed The x-axis and belt...
a year ago
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a year ago
Since the last update I’ve made some good progress: All the motors are installed The x-axis and belt are installed Tap is installed The toolhead with Stealthburner + Clockwork 2 is also installed Purple means Pretty. I’ve run into a few problems on the way that I’ll try to...
Willem's Blog
Fietselfstedentocht 2017 Cycling the 235KM long Fietselfstedentocht through Friesland
over a year ago
Good Enough
TIL: Fixing Broken Social Share Images in Twitter/X I have an admission to make. Social share images for Pika were broken on Twitter/X, LinkedIn, and...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
I have an admission to make. Social share images for Pika were broken on Twitter/X, LinkedIn, and Apple Messages for months. And it made me sad. But in the past few months we got it fixed. And that made me very happy! We really love our Pika social share images. They are...
Jonas Hietala
Exploring the Gleam FFI My brain is a curious thing. I’m on a business trip right now and I’ve set aside time to finish some...
a year ago
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a year ago
My brain is a curious thing. I’m on a business trip right now and I’ve set aside time to finish some important todos I want and need to get done. But instead of focusing on them, I started playing around with Gleam—a young and interesting programming language. My (current)...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Governance, Part 2: Plutocracy Is Still Bad
over a year ago
Louwrentius
Cryptocurrencies are detrimental to society Want to listen to this article? audio element. Introduction How would you explain the inner...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Want to listen to this article? audio element. Introduction How would you explain the inner workings of bitcoin to a person in simple, understandable terms? source This explanation seems perfect to me because it illustrates some seriously problematic aspects of...
Elevation Lab - Blog
Designers Desk #2 - Aaron Della Vedova Designer's Desk is a new series featuring the desk setups of artists, designers, and creators -...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Designer's Desk is a new series featuring the desk setups of artists, designers, and creators - showcasing how they work and what their workspace looks like.   Aaron Della Vedova is one of the world's most celebrated tattoo artists and the owner of Guru Tattoo, which has two...
Opsbros
Artemis 1 Countdown I've been following the Artemis 1 Launch Schedule quite closely on a few forums and discussing it...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've been following the Artemis 1 Launch Schedule quite closely on a few forums and discussing it with serveral people, and I had been regularly posting updated DateandTime countdown links for the revised launch attempts. With the schedule chnages and scrubs that have happened...
Willem's Blog
Wearing WHOOP 4.0 Use WHOOP to see the impact your choices have on your body, think of it as a special kind of mirror...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Use WHOOP to see the impact your choices have on your body, think of it as a special kind of mirror - it's so powerful, that I don't take mine off!
Ken Shirriff's blog
Reverse-engineering an analog Bendix air data computer: part 4, the Mach section MathJax = { tex: { inlineMath: [['$', '$'], ['\\(', '\\)']] }, svg: { fontCache:...
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a year ago
MathJax = { tex: { inlineMath: [['$', '$'], ['\\(', '\\)']] }, svg: { fontCache: 'global' }, chtml: { displayAlign: 'left' } }; MathJax.Hub.Config({ "HTML-CSS": { scale: 175} }); .MathJax {font-size: 1em !important} In the 1950s, many fighter...
Computer Ads from...
American Heart Association A PSA and an Ad
7 months ago
./techtipsy
Back to roots This blog is running on a home server again. I have once again gained access to a competent internet...
a year ago
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a year ago
This blog is running on a home server again. I have once again gained access to a competent internet connection1, and I think I have figured out the IPv6 setup as well2, leading to this change. The IP address is dynamic, there are occasional power outages and I might just mess up...
Arduino Blog
Explore e-paper technology with Nano Matter and the new EPDK-Matter from Pervasive Displays We’re excited to share that Pervasive Displays has just launched the E-Paper Development Kit for...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
We’re excited to share that Pervasive Displays has just launched the E-Paper Development Kit for Matter! This groundbreaking, self-contained kit is designed to revolutionize how smart home devices use e-paper displays, enhancing user experience while driving down energy...
Notes on software...
The year in books: 2022 In 2022 I finished 20 books spanning 15,801 pages. 3 more than I read in 2021, but about twice the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In 2022 I finished 20 books spanning 15,801 pages. 3 more than I read in 2021, but about twice the number of pages. 3 fiction and 17 non-fiction. Another ~30 started but not finished. I had a hard time reading books while I was trying to start my own company. But I also...
Old Vintage...
Virtualizing the 6502 on a 6502 with 6o6 (and The Incredible KIMplement goes 1.0) Okay, promises, promises. Here's the first of my bucket list projects I'm completing which I've...
a year ago
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a year ago
Okay, promises, promises. Here's the first of my bucket list projects I'm completing which I've intermittently worked on for literally two decades. Now that I've finally shaken out more bugs, tuned it up and cleaned it off, it's time to let people play with the source...
Louwrentius
Automated install of Debian Linux based on PXE net booting Every honest and good system administrator is continue bussy with automating his work. For two...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Every honest and good system administrator is continue bussy with automating his work. For two reasons: Repeating the same task over and over again is friggin boring. A system administrator has better things to do, such as drinking coffee. Humans make mistakes, especially if...
Computer Ads from...
Rabbit Software's Death Star Attila the Hun. Ivan the Terrible. Count Dracula. The Daleks. More evil then all of them put...
2 months ago
Willem's Blog
iPad Pro next to my primary machine Using iPad Pro with Apple Pencil next to my computer to form a create powerhouse
over a year ago
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Mark Williams' C Programming System What C did for Programming Mark Williams has done for C Programming
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Louwrentius
Creating a basic ZFS file system on Linux Here are some notes on creating a basic ZFS file system on Linux, using ZFS on Linux. I'm...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Here are some notes on creating a basic ZFS file system on Linux, using ZFS on Linux. I'm documenting the scenario where I just want to create a file system that can tollerate at least a single drive failure and can be shared over NFS. Identify the drives you want to use for the...
Home on Erik...
Optimizing for iteration speed I've written before about the importance of iterating quickly but I didn't necessarily talk about...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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.
computers are bad
2023-01-16 huff-duff We've talked a fair amount about HF radio recently, in the context of OTH radar. Recall that an...
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over a year ago
We've talked a fair amount about HF radio recently, in the context of OTH radar. Recall that an extremely useful property of HF radio here is that HF frequencies can reflect off of the upper layers of the atmosphere, causing them to rebound towards earth at a range much further...
Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course Week 9: The Bible For week 9 of the humanities crash course, I revisited the most important text in Western culture:...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
For week 9 of the humanities crash course, I revisited the most important text in Western culture: the Bible. Of course, I didn’t read the whole book – only a small subset. Still, it was a lot. As I’ve done in previous weeks, I followed Gioia’s suggestions for the...
Jonas Hietala
How I did the layout for my self-published book This is a rundown of how I typeset and laid out my self-published book for the web version, the EPUB...
a year ago
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a year ago
This is a rundown of how I typeset and laid out my self-published book for the web version, the EPUB version, and the printed version. I was planning to include many more details, but the project took a lot longer than planned so I’ve forgotten some things. Web page I started...
Applied Cartography
Notebook as marketing primitive Earlier this week, I stumbled upon this brilliant marketing-slash-documentation idea from...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Earlier this week, I stumbled upon this brilliant marketing-slash-documentation idea from SingleStore — notebooks as a first-party page! There are a handful of nice things about this idea: Very easy to fan out. You're not going to really run out of sample notebooks from which you...
Jonas Hietala
Writing Home Assistant automations using Genservers in Elixir I’ve been a fan of Home Assistant a while now; it’s a great platform for home automation with its...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
I’ve been a fan of Home Assistant a while now; it’s a great platform for home automation with its beginner friendly and feature rich UI, support for a ton of different devices and integrations, and there’s a bunch of ways to create automations. But there’s no engine for writing...
Bryan Braun - Blog
Links #10 How to Get on a Podcast - This is a short and invaluable post for anyone who wants to be a podcast...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
How to Get on a Podcast - This is a short and invaluable post for anyone who wants to be a podcast guest. It puts you in the shoes of a podcaster, showing you what they need, and how you can be a “sure thing” for them. As usual, there are no short cuts. You gotta do the work! A...
Jonas Hietala
Dbot So I made a small irc bot in 294 characters in code-golfing language #1: Perl. Usage perl...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
So I made a small irc bot in 294 characters in code-golfing language #1: Perl. Usage perl Dbot Commands .name - Echo the bots name .hello - Output “hello world!” .src - Dump the source code Code use IO::Socket;$s=IO::Socket::INET->new("158.38.8.251:6667");sub o{print$s...
Arduino Blog
This three-fingered robot hand makes use of serial bus servos A small startup called K-Scale Labs is in the process of developing an affordable, open-source...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
A small startup called K-Scale Labs is in the process of developing an affordable, open-source humanoid robot and Mike Rigsby wanted to build a compatible hand. This three-fingered robot hand is the result, and it makes use of serial bus servos from Waveshare. Most Arduino users...
Lighthouse Blog
What are blogrolls?
2 months ago
Birchtree
I’m Not a Panda Person Niléane has a new webcam, Chris is downing in keyboards, and everyone installs some web-ass web...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Niléane has a new webcam, Chris is downing in keyboards, and everyone installs some web-ass web apps. Watch it on YouTube or listen in your favorite podcast app!
./techtipsy
Oversimplified guide into snapshots on the btrfs filesystem Friday afternoon. You’re trying out a script that you wrote to mass-rename and move some files...
over a year ago
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Friday afternoon. You’re trying out a script that you wrote to mass-rename and move some files around. You finish the script and test it out. Oops. All the files now have all the wrong names, and some have been randomly moved 10 folders deep. It’s a mess. And you didn’t make a...
Daniel De Laney
Atomic Design in&nbsp;1998 When you hear “atomic design,” you probably think of Brad Frost. Interestingly, he was not the first...
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over a year ago
When you hear “atomic design,” you probably think of Brad Frost. Interestingly, he was not the first person to develop that method of delivering design as components, or even the terminology. Brad published his atomic design article in 2013. While digging through the archives at...
Old Vintage...
CAP-X and COMP-X: how the Tandy Pocket Computers got a sucky Japanese assembler I grew up primarily with the Commodore 64, where if you wanted to do anything really cool and...
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a year ago
I grew up primarily with the Commodore 64, where if you wanted to do anything really cool and useful, you had to do it in 6502 assembly language. Today I still write 6502 assembly, plus some Power ISA and even a little TMS9900. I like assembly languages and how in control of the...
Jonas Hietala
Let's build a VORON: Wiring Dread it. Run from it. Wiring arrives all the same. It’s time for the part of my VORON build that...
a year ago
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a year ago
Dread it. Run from it. Wiring arrives all the same. It’s time for the part of my VORON build that I’ve been dreading: the wiring. It’s scary because I really have no clue what I’m doing, and mistakes can be very costly and time-consuming. I’ve taken my time to double- and...
The Pragmatic...
Did Automattic commit open source theft? The maker of WordPress took 2M customers from its biggest rival: has a red line been crossed?
8 months ago
Elevation Lab - Blog
Jet Black - New Experimental finish ::Update:: - The manufacturing fallout from making these fingerprint-loving docks was too high, even...
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::Update:: - The manufacturing fallout from making these fingerprint-loving docks was too high, even after a dozen process revisions, so we're not continuing making these after our second run. Recommend going with the Matte Black finish, it's super beautiful with all color...
OH8HUB’s Substack
Albert's Nature Reserve Spring is here. Time to get radio active.
2 months ago
Applied Cartography
Why can't you just...? Buried in a snarky thread about why Google Calendar doesn’t support calendar syncing is a long,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Buried in a snarky thread about why Google Calendar doesn’t support calendar syncing is a long, detailed explanation of why shipping this sort of thing is hard: Designing a consent experience for the enterprise admin and enterprise end user Creating a special "read only" object...
Matt Blewitt
7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025 I’ve been running databases-as-a-service for a long time, and there are always new things to keep...
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I’ve been running databases-as-a-service for a long time, and there are always new things to keep abreast of - new technologies, different ways of solving problems, not to mention all the research coming out of universities. In 2025, consider spending a week with each of these...
Computer Ads from...
Applix Alis Finally, some answers in Wonderland
3 months ago
Willem's Blog
Durable Smartphone
4 months ago
Louwrentius
ZFS on Linux: monitor cache hit ratio I'm performing some FIO random read 4k I/O benchmarks on a ZFS file system. So since I didn't trust...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I'm performing some FIO random read 4k I/O benchmarks on a ZFS file system. So since I didn't trust the numbers I got, I wanted to know how many of the IOPs I got were due to cache hits rather than disk hits. This is why I wrote a small shell script called archhitratio. Sample...
Arduino Blog
Bringing Quake to Arduino: a game-changing project by Nicola Wrachien Following up on his successful Doom port last year, engineer Nicola Wrachien – who works at Silicon...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Following up on his successful Doom port last year, engineer Nicola Wrachien – who works at Silicon Labs, a leader in secure, intelligent wireless technology for a more connected world and long-time Arduino partner – has now tackled an even bigger challenge: porting Quake, the...
Computer Ads from...
Anchor Pad Two experts want your computer. Which one will get to it first?
3 months ago
Good Enough
TIL: Blocking Password App Autocomplete on Form Fields I wanted to disable password managers, particularly 1Password, from interacting with a username...
a year ago
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a year ago
I wanted to disable password managers, particularly 1Password, from interacting with a username field in Contact Me. It was pretty simple in the end: <%= form.text_field :username, "data-lpignore": true, "data-1p-ignore": true %> Reference: 1Password, Lastpass.
Louwrentius
Distributed Parallel Processing Shell Script (PPSS) released I'd like to announce the release of the distributed version of the Parallel Processing Shell Script...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I'd like to announce the release of the distributed version of the Parallel Processing Shell Script (PPSS). PPSS is a bash script that allows you to run commands in parallel. It is written to make use of current multi-core CPUs. The new distributed version of PPSS allows you to...
Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing DraftTable for iPad Pro We are thrilled to release DraftTable for iPad Pro. It's the result of hundreds of hours of testing...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We are thrilled to release DraftTable for iPad Pro. It's the result of hundreds of hours of testing and iteration with artists, designers and heavy iPad users to make the very best stand for working on iPad pro. Like a traditional drafters table, it is ultra-sturdy, widely...
lcamtuf’s thing
The Rapture It’s fascinating how these vascular bundles, containing xylem and phloem, are arranged in a ring...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
It’s fascinating how these vascular bundles, containing xylem and phloem, are arranged in a ring located beneath the skin (periderm) and the cortex.
Home on Erik...
The mathematical principles of management I've read about 100 management books by now but if there's something that always bothered me it's...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've read about 100 management books by now but if there's something that always bothered me it's the lack of first principles thinking. Basically it's a ton of heuristics. And heuristics are great, but when you present heuristics as true objectives, it kind of clouds the...
Arduino Blog
A pair of Arduino UNO R4 boards power this Tron-inspired, decked-out shop room Bob Clagett of the “I Like to Make Stuff” YouTube channel has recently undertaken an extensive shop...
a year ago
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a year ago
Bob Clagett of the “I Like to Make Stuff” YouTube channel has recently undertaken an extensive shop renovation project where he is rearranging tools, tidying up various spaces, and even creating a dedicated “clean” room for his collection of 3D printers/electronics work. With its...
Arduino Blog
MKR Keylock is an open-source IoT keypad for your front door The age-old combination of physical locks and keys, although reliable, also comes with a few...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
The age-old combination of physical locks and keys, although reliable, also comes with a few drawbacks, such as when you lose the key or you want to share access with someone else remotely. Davide Gomba has recognized this and built the MKR Keylock project as a way to address...
Electronics etc…
HP 33120A Repair - Shutting Down the Eye of Sauron Introduction Opening Up an HP 33120A A Walk Through the Block Diagram Bug Hunting Zener...
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Introduction Opening Up an HP 33120A A Walk Through the Block Diagram Bug Hunting Zener Replacement Staring at the Eye of Sauron FLIR IR Imaging To Destroy a PCB in Order to Save It Circuit Reconstruction Success! Trust but Verify Conclusion References Introduction When the...
Electronics etc…
Teardown of the TM4313 GPS Disciplined Oscillator Introduction What is a GPSDO? The TM4313 GPSDO Power Consumption Inside the TM4313 The TM4313...
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a year ago
Introduction What is a GPSDO? The TM4313 GPSDO Power Consumption Inside the TM4313 The TM4313 Schematic Frequency or Phase Lock Loop? OCXO Temperature The Curious Case of the MAX6192 Voltage Reference The Discrete Tuning DAC GPS Module Microcontroller instead of NMEA Serial...
Vitalik Buterin's...
On Collusion
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Breaking the rule of three It’s pretty darn stressful making a game in a week, especially when you have this big great vision...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It’s pretty darn stressful making a game in a week, especially when you have this big great vision on how your game should be (which is always grand). For me making Balls, Black and White and Jonas IceCream Stand where truly stressful, MenuCity and Bugger not so much but...
Vitalik Buterin's...
The near and mid-term future of improving the Ethereum network's permissionlessness and...
a year ago
Arduino Blog
Arduino IDE 2.3.3: discover new support for shared spaces and more! We’re excited to announce that the Arduino IDE 2.3.3 is now live!  What’s in the new version This...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
We’re excited to announce that the Arduino IDE 2.3.3 is now live!  What’s in the new version This new release is packed with improvements, including one feature we’re particularly proud of: support for shared spaces in Arduino Cloud. If you have a Cloud Business plan or School...
Willem's Blog
Cutting Cloud Costs Facing sky-high cloud costs, I found software optimisation vital. Discover how I saved 90% on cloud...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Facing sky-high cloud costs, I found software optimisation vital. Discover how I saved 90% on cloud expenses!
latest projects -...
Portable Probability Panel [Misc] Laser-cut Galton board
11 months ago
lcamtuf’s thing
Investigating an "evil" RJ45 dongle Reverse-engineering hardware can be difficult -- but sometimes, all you need is a comfy armchair and...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Reverse-engineering hardware can be difficult -- but sometimes, all you need is a comfy armchair and some Google Translate.
Jonas Hietala
My first theme: Addictive Gaming In true experimental spirit I’ll now announce the theme for my first game: Addictive Gaming. I won’t...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In true experimental spirit I’ll now announce the theme for my first game: Addictive Gaming. I won’t be following the lead from the Experimental Gameplay Project’s site but I will follow their three laws (7 days, alone, themes). Puh… my first game! Wish me luck =)
Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course Week 18: 1,001 Nights In week 18 of the humanities crash course, I read five stories from One Thousand and One Nights, a...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
In week 18 of the humanities crash course, I read five stories from One Thousand and One Nights, a collection of Middle Eastern folktales that have influenced lots of other stories. Keeping with the theme, I also saw one of the most influential movies based on these...
Arduino Blog
Amassing a mobile Minion militia Channeling his inner Gru, YouTuber Electo built a robotic minion army to terrorize and amuse the...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Channeling his inner Gru, YouTuber Electo built a robotic minion army to terrorize and amuse the public in local shopping malls. Building one minion robot is, in theory, pretty straightforward. That is especially true when, like these, that robot isn’t actually bipedal and...
Arduino Blog
Two NEW Arduino Plug and Make Kit projects recreate iconic vintage games The Plug and Make Kit is a toolbox you can use for infinite ideas. So what happens if you ask a mix...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
The Plug and Make Kit is a toolbox you can use for infinite ideas. So what happens if you ask a mix of Arduino designers, engineers, and managers to sit down and brainstorm new ideas to have fun with it? Well, at least one of them is guaranteed to come up with an adorable,...
Arduino Blog
This 3D-printed robotic arm can be built with just a few inexpensive components Robotics is already an intimidating field, thanks to the complexity involved. And the cost of parts,...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Robotics is already an intimidating field, thanks to the complexity involved. And the cost of parts, such as actuators, only increases that feeling of inaccessibility. But as FABRI Creator shows in their most recent video, you can build a useful robotic arm with just a handful of...
Never Met a Science
The (Electoral) Politics of Age Gaps (Yes, this post is the beginning of a victory lap.
10 months ago
Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing QuickDraw This may be the best product we've ever designed. Existing cord organizers sit at the back or edge...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This may be the best product we've ever designed. Existing cord organizers sit at the back or edge of your desk and create a mountain of clutter. Using them requires reaching for the cord you want and pulling it across your desk. To put it back, you have to flip the the cord...
Greater Still by...
Stop Calling it a Wallet How language shapes our view of the world
over a year ago
Louwrentius
Mounting a file system or partition from a disk image You cannot just make a disk copy with dd and then just mount it as a regular disk. You must know...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
You cannot just make a disk copy with dd and then just mount it as a regular disk. You must know where the partition starts on the disk. So first, you need to get the partition table with sfdisk: sfdisk -l -uS image_file.dd The output is something like: Disk...
Abort Retry Fail
The History of Windows 2.0 Success and Litigation
a year ago
Elevation Lab - Blog
Elevation Lab X Apple: GoStand for iPhone Apple contacted us to design an iPhone stand for Apple Fitness+. So we designed GoStand - Ultra...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Apple contacted us to design an iPhone stand for Apple Fitness+. So we designed GoStand - Ultra compact, widely adjustable, works great. Highly adjustable, from upright down to 45°, for the perfect viewing angle. A hidden push-button ratcheting design makes adjusting the back...
Willem's Blog
Realtime service uptime monitoring Downtime happens and it is nothing to be ashamed of, just make sure that you set yourself up to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Downtime happens and it is nothing to be ashamed of, just make sure that you set yourself up to discover problems as soon as possible! Know about problems before your customers do!
Arduino Blog
Arduino partners with RS/OKdo strategically to further expand the China Market Arduino is excited to announce a strategic new partnership with RS/OKdo, a prominent leader in the...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Arduino is excited to announce a strategic new partnership with RS/OKdo, a prominent leader in the distribution of industrial and electronic equipment. This collaboration marks a significant step forward in bringing Arduino’s technology closer to China’s thriving maker community...
Applied Cartography
Weird test: internal link checking I wrote last month about using weird tests. Here's another example: checking for broken internal...
a year ago
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a year ago
I wrote last month about using weird tests. Here's another example: checking for broken internal links in our upcoming docsite redesign! const extractInternalLinks = (content: string): string[] => { // Check for internal links only, in the form of [text](/path). const...
Vitalik Buterin's...
What do I think about network states?
over a year ago
Posts on Made of...
Using Haskell's 'newtype' in C A common problem in software engineering is avoiding confusion and errors when dealing with multiple...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A common problem in software engineering is avoiding confusion and errors when dealing with multiple types of data that share the same representation. Classic examples include differentiating between measurements stored in different units, distinguishing between a string of HTML...
detreville
A writer's autobiography (Just not mine.)
over a year ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Control as Liability
over a year ago
Construction Physics
Why the U.S. Can’t Build Icebreaking Ships I want to say thank you to all the people who sent condolences following last week’s post,...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
I want to say thank you to all the people who sent condolences following last week’s post, especially those who shared their own stories of loss.
Home on Erik...
What's up with music recommendations? I just answered a Quora question about what, if any, are the differences in the algorithms that are...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I just answered a Quora question about what, if any, are the differences in the algorithms that are behind recommendations for music and movies. Of course, every media type is different. For instance, there's fundamental reasons why latent factor models works really well for...
Jonas Hietala
Slackware installation notes It seems like it’s been a yearly recurrence reinstalling slackware from scratch. This time it...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It seems like it’s been a yearly recurrence reinstalling slackware from scratch. This time it happened during my vacation when I was mucking around with trying to compile erlang with wxWidgets support and somehow a make clean started to remove / and I only noticed it too late…...
./techtipsy
IODD ST400 review: great idea, good product, terrible firmware I’ve written about abusing USB storage devices in the past, with a passing mention that I’m too...
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4 months ago
I’ve written about abusing USB storage devices in the past, with a passing mention that I’m too cheap to buy an IODD device. Then I bought one. I’ve always liked the promise of tools like Ventoy: you only need to carry the one storage device that boots anything you...
Home on Erik...
Vote for our SXSW panel! If you have a few minutes, you should check out mine and Chris Johnson‘s panel proposal. Go here and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you have a few minutes, you should check out mine and Chris Johnson‘s panel proposal. Go here and vote: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/24504 Algorithmic Music Discovery at Spotify ****Spotify crunches hundreds of billions of streams to analyze user's music taste and provide...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Review of Gitcoin Quadratic Funding Round 3
over a year ago
computers are bad
2024-09-08 private lines I have been meaning, for some time, to write about common carrier switching arrangements (CCSAs)....
10 months ago
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10 months ago
I have been meaning, for some time, to write about common carrier switching arrangements (CCSAs). These could be considered an early form of products like "virtual private ethernet:" a private telephone network that was served by the same switching machines that handled the...
Willem's Blog
Saving a MacBook Air with exploded battery Saving a MacBook Air with a swollen battery pack.
over a year ago
Applied Cartography
Is cool enough? Via HN I ran into not one but two extremely neat and pleasant-looking libraries for URL...
a year ago
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a year ago
Via HN I ran into not one but two extremely neat and pleasant-looking libraries for URL manipulation. They look like great libraries, and a prior version of me would have taken a brief set of cursory glances at the hodgepodge of janky URL manipulation code that I wrote for...
Neil Madden
A few programming language features I’d like to see I enjoyed Hillel Wayne’s recent newsletter about microfeatures they’d like to see in programming...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I enjoyed Hillel Wayne’s recent newsletter about microfeatures they’d like to see in programming languages. A “microfeature” is essentially a small convenience that makes programming in that language a bit easier without fundamentally changing it. I love this idea. I’m partial to...
Abishek Muthian
Voice summary of news There is a need gap for Human voice summary of news. Until this need gap gets addressed, we can use...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There is a need gap for Human voice summary of news. Until this need gap gets addressed, we can use automation tool like tasker to implement read-aloud feature for news app like inshorts. Requirements Tasker android app. AutoInput android app. Selecting preferred voice in the...
Willem's Blog
Commuter bike checkup This week my trustworthy commuter bike started making strange squeaking noises when braking, time to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This week my trustworthy commuter bike started making strange squeaking noises when braking, time to have a look at the bike after 21.000KM!
Birchtree
Is ChatGPT the next Dropbox or the next iPhone? Ed Zitron on his Where's Your Ed At blog: There Is No AI Revolution I kept coming back to one...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Ed Zitron on his Where's Your Ed At blog: There Is No AI Revolution I kept coming back to one thought: where's the money? No, really, where is it? Where is the money that this supposedly revolutionary, world-changing industry is making, and will make? The answer
Nabeel S. Qureshi
Principles // This was originally a Google Doc where I gathered hard-won life lessons; eventually I open...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
// This was originally a Google Doc where I gathered hard-won life lessons; eventually I open sourced it. It got a great response, including a shoutout from Tim Ferriss, so here it is on Substack.
Louwrentius
Lion's Disk Utility not compatible with CoreStorage and Filevault My 1 TB hard drive of my 2011 27" iMac was partitioned with: A bootable partition with Mac OS X...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
Louwrentius
'Tip of the day for every Linux or Unix user: brace expantion' Searching the web I discovered some really nice feature of the unix shell, which I didn't know...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Searching the web I discovered some really nice feature of the unix shell, which I didn't know about. Try this: touch foobar.conf Now try this: cp foobar.conf{,.bak} It is equivalent to: cp foobar.conf foobar.conf.bak This is also the easiest way to create sequences. Do not use...
Home on Erik...
I don't want to learn your garbage query language This is a bit of a rant but I really don't like software that invents its own query language....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is a bit of a rant but I really don't like software that invents its own query language. There's a trillion different ORMs out there. Another trillion databases with their own query language. Another trillion SaaS products where the only way to query is to learn some random...
Jonas Hietala
Postmortem: MenuCity Good times, good times. MenuCity has been out a while and thanks for all the positive and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Good times, good times. MenuCity has been out a while and thanks for all the positive and constructive feedback guys, it’s like my food doing this (programming is my air and the fun is the water… err). Anyway here’s the postmortem of my latest, and greatest, game. Let’s start...
Notes on software...
Coolest hard-tech companies in NYC 2021 For years I've kept a private list of really cool tech companies in NYC. Now that I'm funemployed...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For years I've kept a private list of really cool tech companies in NYC. Now that I'm funemployed it's the perfect time to publish. This list is influenced by 1) my perception of the difficulty of the engineering behind the product and 2) the company's educational and OSS...
Neil Madden
Galois/Counter Mode and random nonces It turns out you can encrypt more than 2^32 messages with AES-GCM with a random nonce under certain...
a year ago
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a year ago
It turns out you can encrypt more than 2^32 messages with AES-GCM with a random nonce under certain conditions. It’s still not a good idea, but you can just about do it. #cryptography
Arduino Blog
Kickstart your tech journey, with the new Arduino Plug and Make Kit! Hey, creating an IoT device shouldn’t be rocket science. We believe technology is for everyone....
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Hey, creating an IoT device shouldn’t be rocket science. We believe technology is for everyone. That’s why we’ve developed the whole new, beginner-friendly Plug and Make Kit – the easiest way to get started with Arduino!  Inside the box, you’ll find everything you need to create...
Louwrentius
My 71 TiB ZFS NAS after 10 years and zero drive failures My 4U 71 TiB ZFS NAS built with twenty-four 4 TB drives is over 10 years old and still going...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
My 4U 71 TiB ZFS NAS built with twenty-four 4 TB drives is over 10 years old and still going strong. Although now on its second motherboard and power supply, the system has yet to experience a single drive failure (knock on wood). Zero drive failures in ten years, how is that...
detreville
Father's Day (First posted on Father's Day, 2022.)
over a year ago
Arduino Blog
Venderoo is an Arduino Mega-powered DIY vending machine For now-college student Joel Grayson, making something that combined his interests in mechanics,...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
For now-college student Joel Grayson, making something that combined his interests in mechanics, electronics, and programming while being simultaneously useful to those around him was a longtime goal. His recent Venderoo project is exactly that, as the creatively named vending...
Abort Retry Fail
Tandy Corporation, Part 4 The Decline and Fall
a week ago
Style over Substance
My new purchase: a Zeiss Ikon Nettar 517/16 Cheaper than a tank of gas, smaller than a Leica, 6x6 medium format negs - tons of fun. This Nettar...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Cheaper than a tank of gas, smaller than a Leica, 6x6 medium format negs - tons of fun. This Nettar folding camera sure is bang for buck! The post My new purchase: a Zeiss Ikon Nettar 517/16 appeared first on Style over Substance.
Greater Still by...
Good Things Take Time A crypto whitepill with Bridget Harris
10 months ago
watchTowr Labs
Do Secure-By-Design Pledges Come With Stickers? - Ivanti Connect Secure RCE (CVE-2025-0282) Did you have a good break? Have you had a chance to breathe? Wake up. It’s 2025, and the chaos...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Did you have a good break? Have you had a chance to breathe? Wake up. It’s 2025, and the chaos continues. Haha, see what we did? We wrote the exact same thing in 2024 because 2024 was exactly the same. As an industry, we are on GroundHog day
Evan Hahn's blog
Notes from "Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement" I just finished James Vincent’s Beyond Measure, a 2023 book about the history of measurement and its...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
I just finished James Vincent’s Beyond Measure, a 2023 book about the history of measurement and its impact on our lives. The book reveals how the meter’s length is tied to the French Revolution. It highlights many scientific discoveries linked to advances in measurement. It...
Jonas Hietala
Securing my partner's digital life I’ve been with Veronica for over a decade now and I think I’m starting to know her fairly well. Yet...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
I’ve been with Veronica for over a decade now and I think I’m starting to know her fairly well. Yet she still manages to surprise me. For instance, a couple of weeks ago she came and asked me about email security: I worry that my email password is too weak. Can you help me change...
watchTowr Labs
Cleo Harmony, VLTrader, and LexiCom - RCE via Arbitrary File Write (CVE-2024-50623) We were having a nice uneventful week at watchTowr, when we got news of some ransomware operators...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
We were having a nice uneventful week at watchTowr, when we got news of some ransomware operators using a zero-day exploit in Cleo MFT software - namely, LexiCom, VLTransfer, and Harmony - applications that many large enterprises rely on to share files securely. Cleo have a...
Home on Erik...
Nearest neighbors and vector models – part 2 – algorithms and data structures This is a blog post rewritten from a presentation at NYC Machine Learning on Sep 17. It covers a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is a blog post rewritten from a presentation at NYC Machine Learning on Sep 17. It covers a library called Annoy that I have built that helps you do nearest neighbor queries in high dimensional spaces.
Posts on Made of...
A week with the iPhone I’ve had a new iPhone for about a week now, so I figure it’s time to write up some thoughts about...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve had a new iPhone for about a week now, so I figure it’s time to write up some thoughts about it. First, the little things. It is, in typical Apple fashion, an incredibly slick piece of work. Scrolling and zooming images or webpages is simple, easy, and, well, just fun to do...
Birchtree
Remember when the Switch 2 was *only* going to cost $449? Nintendo Life: Nintendo Delays Switch 2 Pre-Orders in the US Amidst New Trump Tariffs Nintendo has...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Nintendo Life: Nintendo Delays Switch 2 Pre-Orders in the US Amidst New Trump Tariffs Nintendo has delayed pre-orders for the Switch 2 in the US while it evaluates the potential impact of new tariffs from The Trump Administration. And A $2,300 Apple iPhone? Trump tariffs could...
Jorge Arango
The New Leverage: AI and the Power of Small Teams This weekend, a small team in Latvia won an Oscar for a film they made using free software. That’s...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
This weekend, a small team in Latvia won an Oscar for a film they made using free software. That’s not just cool — it’s a sign of what’s coming. Sunday night was family movie night in my home. We picked a recent movie, FLOW. I’d heard good things about it and thought we’d enjoy...
Bryan Braun - Blog
Goodbye Evernote, Hello Obsidian I use note-taking software every day. I use it for journaling, blogging, capturing ideas,...
a year ago
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a year ago
I use note-taking software every day. I use it for journaling, blogging, capturing ideas, researching technologies, managing my projects, and many other things. Writing is how I think through problems, and note-taking software makes all that thinking easy to search and...
Arduino Blog
This DIY guitar transmitter sends digital audio to the amp When on stage, most guitarists will simply run a long cable from their guitar to the amp or mixer....
11 months ago
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When on stage, most guitarists will simply run a long cable from their guitar to the amp or mixer. But that cable can become tangled or get in the way, which is a problem for some of the more animated musicians out there. Wireless transmitters exist for them to express themselves...
computers are bad
2025-05-04 iBeacons You know sometimes a technology just sort of... comes and goes? Without leaving much of an...
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2 months ago
You know sometimes a technology just sort of... comes and goes? Without leaving much of an impression? And then gets lodged in your brain for the next decade? Let's talk about one of those: the iBeacon. I think the reason that iBeacons loom so large in my memory is that...
Home on Erik...
Missing the point about microservices: it's about testing and deploying independently Ok, so I have to first preface this whole blog post by a few things: I really struggle with the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Ok, so I have to first preface this whole blog post by a few things: I really struggle with the term microservices. I can't put my finger on exactly why. Maybe because the term is hopelessly ill-defined, maybe because it's gotten picked up by the hype train.
./techtipsy
Overcoming hardware limitations: the time-to-sleep script As some of you might own, I’m still rocking a ThinkPad T430, a laptop model originally released in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As some of you might own, I’m still rocking a ThinkPad T430, a laptop model originally released in 2012. It’s not the fastest laptop out there, but it is plenty fast for a number of tasks, even most software development work. I also try to keep my machines up to date and properly...
Notes on software...
A minimal REST API in Java There's a style of Java that is a joy to write. This post will cover how to set up a basic...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There's a style of Java that is a joy to write. This post will cover how to set up a basic PostgreSQL-integrated REST API using Jersey and JOOQ in a style not dissimilar to Flask and SQLAlchemy in Python. In particular, we'll try to avoid as much runtime reflection/class-loading...
Posts on Made of...
Advent of Code in C++ Template Metaprogramming This December, the imp of the perverse struck me, and I decided to see how many days of Advent of...
a year ago
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a year ago
This December, the imp of the perverse struck me, and I decided to see how many days of Advent of Code I could do purely in compile-time C++ metaprogramming. As of this writing, I’ve done two days, and I’m not sure I’ll make it any further. However, that’s one more day than I...
Jonas Hietala
fish_update_completions in Slackware 14.1 I’ve been trying out fish shell lately. A cool feature with fish is that it can automatically...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been trying out fish shell lately. A cool feature with fish is that it can automatically generate completions by parsing the installed man pages by running fish_update_completions. Unfortunately this is what I got: Traceback (most recent call last): File...
Computer Ads from...
Plus Post: Sony SMC-777C One person, Eight languages. The 8bit.
a month ago
computers are bad
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...
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over a year ago
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...
Abishek Muthian
The Social Media Pandemic Earth Health Organization(EHO) has declared a pandemic due to the most dangerous plague till date....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Earth Health Organization(EHO) has declared a pandemic due to the most dangerous plague till date. It supposedly has severe consequences for not only the current population but also for future generations. It's named 'Social Media Pandemic' as the plague is caused by the several...
watchTowr Labs
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...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
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,
Applied Cartography
Projects are things with steps Lots of kind words poured in as a response to My approach to GTD and PKM, and one question was asked...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Lots of kind words poured in as a response to My approach to GTD and PKM, and one question was asked so frequently that I decided to write about it. Why is “Get mom a birthday present” a project and not a task? GTD is very orthodox in what a “project” is: it’s anything that: you...
Birchtree
First look at my next big thing (members post) I've been working on something new, but it's not ready for prime time.
5 months ago
Himanshu Mishra |...
The Discovery of pseudo-Acquaintance It’s the dawn of the 20th century. If we pick two homo sapiens on earth, we can classify their...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It’s the dawn of the 20th century. If we pick two homo sapiens on earth, we can classify their relationship as one of these three types: An…
Buck on Software
Don't be foie gras If 2016-2020 was the golden unicorn age of SaaS, 2021 nearly hurtled us into the foie gras* era.
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If 2016-2020 was the golden unicorn age of SaaS, 2021 nearly hurtled us into the foie gras* era.
Computer Ads from...
T/Maker: Tiny Software Company Takes on the Giants (Interview) An interesting look at a company with less than 20 employees playing with the big boys
8 months ago
Good Enough
My Tears of the Kingdom Addiction I don’t know how big my internet social bubble really is, but it feels like everyone in the world...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I don’t know how big my internet social bubble really is, but it feels like everyone in the world that bubble has been playing a lot of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom lately. Me included! It’s amazing, and I’m thoroughly engrossed—I think I’ve stayed up playing until...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Prediction Markets: Tales from the Election
over a year ago
lcamtuf’s thing
Building a phosphorescence detector There's very little written about natural phosphorescence. Let's design a device that can spot it in...
7 months ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
The math of when stage 1 and stage 2 make sense
2 months ago
Daniel De Laney
Objectivity is superstition An objective, external world is a non-falsifiable assumption. The prevailing theory is that our...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
An objective, external world is a non-falsifiable assumption. The prevailing theory is that our subjective experiences correspond to an external reality. However, they may simply be subjective through and through. That which we claim to be evidence of external reality is actually...
Posts on Made of...
Measuring Capacity Through Utilization (This post is cross-posted from Honeycomb’s instrumentation series). One of my favorite concepts...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
(This post is cross-posted from Honeycomb’s instrumentation series). One of my favorite concepts when thinking about instrumenting a system to understand its overall performance and capacity is what I call “time utilization”. By this I mean: If you look at the behavior of a...
Jonas Hietala
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....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
./techtipsy
Recovering a password-protected ThinkPad T60 A couple of years ago, I worked on a ThinkPad T60. That ThinkPad had been in use by a family member...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A couple of years ago, I worked on a ThinkPad T60. That ThinkPad had been in use by a family member before that, and I started its cleanup by disassembling the whole machine and making sure that it was pristine. However, once I put it all back together, I saw that it was password...
Home on Erik...
Optimizing things: everything is a proxy for a proxy for a proxy Say you build a machine learning model, like a movie recommender system. You need to optimize for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Say you build a machine learning model, like a movie recommender system. You need to optimize for something. You have 1-5 stars as ratings so let's optimize for mean squared error. Great. Then let's say you build a new model.
Jonas Hietala
The T-34/2 keyboard layout The T-34/2 layout. QMK Heatmap Generator, with all layers and combos. It’s been 6 months since my...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The T-34/2 layout. QMK Heatmap Generator, with all layers and combos. It’s been 6 months since my last update on the T-34 keyboard layout, and I’ve made some changes I’d like to document here. As seen in the heatmap above, the layout seems quite decent. There’s still an issue...
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #58: An even greater London? Plus a revealing portrait of Westminster's hidden connections and some cope on why Trump might not...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Plus a revealing portrait of Westminster's hidden connections and some cope on why Trump might not be *so* catastrophic. Maybe. If we're lucky.
Jonas Hietala
Postmortem: A Geek Valentine Ah man the mush in my brain is finally letting go and I’m starting to feel this tiny little...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Ah man the mush in my brain is finally letting go and I’m starting to feel this tiny little programming urge again… This time it’s not Haskell or a new experimental game that’s luring me on, no this time it’s me longing to create this fantastic awesome epic RTS game. Sadly it’s a...
./techtipsy
I tried out the CyberPower UT650EG UPS After some spicy feedback to my post where a ThinkPad T430 acted as a server, I decided to try out...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
After some spicy feedback to my post where a ThinkPad T430 acted as a server, I decided to try out one UPS that was recommended on the basis of it being much more power efficient compared to the APC UPS that I previously ran. That UPS? CyberPower UT650EG. Why switch out a...
latest projects -...
Robot Slide Whistle Orchestrion [Hardware] Army of Robot Slide Whistles
a year ago
Jonas Hietala
We moved away from the city When me and my girlfriend Veronica moved to Linköping to study at the University the plan was never...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When me and my girlfriend Veronica moved to Linköping to study at the University the plan was never to stay there permanently. We just moved there to study but the longterm plan, if you can have one at that stage, was always to move back to the north of Sweden where we came...
Applied Cartography
Applied Cartography × Indie Rails Chatted with Jess and Jeremy about a whole slew of things, from pricing strategy to terrifying and...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Chatted with Jess and Jeremy about a whole slew of things, from pricing strategy to terrifying and arcane differences between various Markdown parsers (including why I hate Slack.) They were particularly kind and gracious given that the amount of production-quality Rails I've...
Odds and Ends of...
Have I ever been a NIMBY? And other questions from the Spring mailbag.
2 months ago
Arduino Blog
Create your own affordable Arduino-powered smart glasses When Google Glass launched in 2013, the public opinion seemed to be “interesting technology, but the...
a year ago
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a year ago
When Google Glass launched in 2013, the public opinion seemed to be “interesting technology, but the world isn’t ready yet.” Now that more than a decade has passed, the world may finally be ready — especially with the omission of controversial features like video recording. If...
Ian's Blog
Pragmatically Generating a Self-Signed Certificate and Private Key using OpenSSL Recently I found myself needing to generate a HTTPS Server Certificate and Private Key for an iOS...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Recently I found myself needing to generate a HTTPS Server Certificate and Private Key for an iOS app using OpenSSL, what surprised me was the total lack of documentation for OpenSSL. While there is plenty of function documentation, what OpenSSL really lacks is examples of how it...
Avestura's Blog
An opinion on what's a good general-purpose programming language What features should a programming language have to be ideal, in my opinion?
over a year ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
El recurso escaso más importante es la legitimidad
over a year ago
computers are bad
2023-11-04 nuclear safety Nuclear weapons are complex in many ways. The basic problem of achieving criticality is difficult on...
a year ago
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a year ago
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...
Birchtree
Ghost 6 is coming in 2025 and will include ActivityPub for everyone The Ghost Blog: The Story So Far This year we're going to ship ActivityPub to everyone, in a...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
The Ghost Blog: The Story So Far This year we're going to ship ActivityPub to everyone, in a flagship Ghost 6.0 release. I have nothing else to add other than I’m happy with my choice of blogging back end.
Notes on software...
What's the big deal about Deterministic Simulation Testing? Bugs in distributed systems are hard to find, largely because systems interact in chaotic ways. And...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Bugs in distributed systems are hard to find, largely because systems interact in chaotic ways. And even once you've found a bug, it can be anywhere from simple to impossible to reproduce it. It's about as far away as you can get from the ideal test environment: property...
Ken Shirriff's blog
A USB interface to the "Mother of All Demos" keyset In the early 1960s, Douglas Engelbart started investigating how computers could augment human...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
In the early 1960s, Douglas Engelbart started investigating how computers could augment human intelligence: "If, in your office, you as an intellectual worker were supplied with a computer display backed up by a computer that was alive for you all day and was instantly...
Krebs on Security
When Getting Phished Puts You in Mortal Danger Many successful phishing attacks result in a financial loss or malware infection. But falling for...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Many successful phishing attacks result in a financial loss or malware infection. But falling for some phishing scams, like those currently targeting Russians searching online for organizations that are fighting the Kremlin war machine, can cost you your freedom or your life.
computers are bad
2023-06-12 radio on the tv Like many people in my generation, my memories of youth are heavily defined by cable television. I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Like many people in my generation, my memories of youth are heavily defined by cable television. I was fortunate enough to have a premium cable package in my childhood home, Comcast's early digital service based on Motorola equipment. It included a perk that fascinated me but...
Good Enough
PEOs are Good Enough (for us) Hi, I’m Patrick. Good Enough brought me on as a part-time Operations Manager who basically does all...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Hi, I’m Patrick. Good Enough brought me on as a part-time Operations Manager who basically does all the things that Shawn and Barry don’t want to do! My first task was to set up payroll for Good Enough’s three employees, something we thought would maybe be worth talking about! If...
latest projects -...
3D Model Viewer Improvements [Software] Unlocking the embedded gimbals
a year ago
Ken Shirriff's blog
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...
a year ago
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a year ago
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...
Posts on Made of...
Test suites as classifiers Suppose we have some codebase we’re considering applying some patch to, and which has a robust and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Suppose we have some codebase we’re considering applying some patch to, and which has a robust and maintained test suite. Considering the patch, we may ask, is this patch acceptable to apply and deploy. By this we mean to ask if the patch breaks any important functionality,...
Willem's Blog
Hello, stranger "Discover the transformative power of simple conversations in our tech-dominated world, as one...
a year ago
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a year ago
"Discover the transformative power of simple conversations in our tech-dominated world, as one individual delves into the lost art of talking to strangers and the profound connections it can forge."
./techtipsy
My very first career day This post is a short overview of my experience at a career day in Valga, Estonia, hosted with the...
a year ago
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a year ago
This post is a short overview of my experience at a career day in Valga, Estonia, hosted with the help of GreenDice. I’ve never spoken at a career day before nor attended one as a student, which is why I instantly agreed to going to one when GreenDice reached out to me. Why? I...
Willem's Blog
For the love of mini The iPhone Mini has intangible greatness that most folks don't know about: read along for the love...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The iPhone Mini has intangible greatness that most folks don't know about: read along for the love of mini!
Good Enough
Cool URLs Don’t Die If you've been reading our newsletter (and you should be reading our newsletter) you will have seen...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you've been reading our newsletter (and you should be reading our newsletter) you will have seen that I've been building some printers. This is actually the resurrection of a project I began in 2012 with the help of some colleagues, and while I've been updating it, it's been...
Applied Cartography
Truncating timedeltas in Django Consider a fan-out-ish model that you want to aggregate a bunch of: likes on a post, for...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Consider a fan-out-ish model that you want to aggregate a bunch of: likes on a post, for instance. class Post(models.Model): created_at = models.DateTimeField() class Event(models.Model): post = models.ForeignKey(Post, on_delete=models.CASCADE) created_at =...
Arduino Blog
This miniature monorail stays upright with the help of gyro stabilization Most monorail systems, like the kind at Disney and in Las Vegas, stay upright because the “rail” is...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Most monorail systems, like the kind at Disney and in Las Vegas, stay upright because the “rail” is actually a very wide beam. The car’s load tires (often literal truck or trailer tires) roll on top of that beam and guide tires clamp the sides of the beam, preventing the car from...
Style over Substance
Our favorite places to eat and drinks during our Portugal vacation In the summer of 2023, we went on an amazing trip through Portugal. We’d already visited Lisbon on a...
a year ago
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a year ago
In the summer of 2023, we went on an amazing trip through Portugal. We’d already visited Lisbon on a short city trip a few years earlier, and that experience was so good we knew we had to return. This time, we decided to take a full three weeks and see the sights. We were...
Notes on software...
Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 4. LLVM conditionals and compiling fibonacci Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 2. user-defined functions and variables ...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 2. user-defined functions and variables 3. LLVM 5. LLVM system calls 6. an x86 upgrade In this post we'll extend the compiler's LLVM backend to support compiling conditionals such that we can support...
The New Oil
Noteworthy Updates to The New Oil
3 months ago