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Everyone knows your location, Part 2: try it yourself and share the results Learn how to record and analyse your mobile device traffic, take an app from the list of "shady"...
17th Apr 2025
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Everyone knows your location, Part 2: try it yourself and share the results

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

17th Apr 2025
Learn how to record and analyse your mobile device traffic, take an app from the list of "shady" apps and share the results.
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Inside the Apollo "8-Ball" FDAI (Flight Director / Attitude Indicator) During the Apollo flights to the Moon, the astronauts observed the spacecraft's orientation on a...
14th Jun 2025
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Inside the Apollo "8-Ball" FDAI (Flight Director / Attitude Indicator)

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

14th Jun 2025
During the Apollo flights to the Moon, the astronauts observed the spacecraft's orientation on a special instrument called the FDAI (Flight Director / Attitude Indicator). This instrument showed the spacecraft's attitude—its orientation—by rotating a ball. This ball was nicknamed...
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A Hardware Interposer to Fix the Symmetricom SyncServer S200 GPS Week Number Rollover Problem Introduction IMPORTANT: Use the Right GPS Antenna! The Problem: SyncServer Refuses to Lock to...
18th Aug 2024
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A Hardware Interposer to Fix the Symmetricom SyncServer S200 GPS Week Number Rollover Problem

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

18th Aug 2024
Introduction IMPORTANT: Use the Right GPS Antenna! The Problem: SyncServer Refuses to Lock to GPS The GPS Week Number Rollover Issue Making the Furuno GT-8031 Work Again How It Works Build Instructions Power Supply Recapping The Future: A Software-Only Solution The...
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Hacking Kia: Remotely Controlling Cars With Just a License Plate
20th Sep 2024
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Hacking Kia: Remotely Controlling Cars With Just a License Plate

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

20th Sep 2024
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Looper In retrospect, almost a proto-Blade Runner 2049. I thought the acting and general plot was kinda...
3rd Aug 2020
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Looper

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

3rd Aug 2020
In retrospect, almost a proto-Blade Runner 2049. I thought the acting and general plot was kinda milquetoast but the underlying setting was a hair above neat, and the depiction of an unevenly distributed future is probably one of the best realizations of science fiction I’ve ever...
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Writing a SQL database, take two: Zig and RocksDB For my second project while learning Zig, I decided to port an old, minimal SQL database project...
13th Nov 2022
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Writing a SQL database, take two: Zig and RocksDB

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

13th Nov 2022
For my second project while learning Zig, I decided to port an old, minimal SQL database project from Go to Zig. In this post, in ~1700 lines of code (yes, I'm sorry it's bigger than my usual), we'll create a basic embedded SQL database in Zig on top of RocksDB. Other than the...
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Family Computing Interviews Jack Tramiel after Atari Purchase (1985) They talk about Jack's past and the future of Atari.
3rd Nov 2025
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Family Computing Interviews Jack Tramiel after Atari Purchase (1985)

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

3rd Nov 2025
They talk about Jack's past and the future of Atari.
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I'll only buy devices with GrapheneOS Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS — I say that’s freedom Calvin...
28th Aug 2025
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I'll only buy devices with GrapheneOS

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

28th Aug 2025
Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS — I say that’s freedom Calvin Wankhede We’re in a dark time period right now. Authoritarianism is on the rise throughout the globe. Governments wants to monitor your social media accounts so they can make you disappear if...
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Cutting Cloud Costs Like many, I faced soaring cloud service costs for my clients, prompting a wake-up call. To stay...
4th Apr 2023
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Cutting Cloud Costs

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

4th Apr 2023
Like many, I faced soaring cloud service costs for my clients, prompting a wake-up call. To stay afloat, it's essential to incorporate software optimisation as a strategy for managing cloud expenses. Join me as I share how I managed to save up to 90% on cloud costs through...
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Easy setup of a static site on Amazon S3 with SSL I’ve been hosting my site on Amazon S3 for a while now but I never activated SSL for it. I just...
3rd Apr 2019
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Easy setup of a static site on Amazon S3 with SSL

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

3rd Apr 2019
I’ve been hosting my site on Amazon S3 for a while now but I never activated SSL for it. I just never got around to it, probably the usual procrastination. When I had to setup a new site for another project I chose to host on Amazon as well. Although there are many other free...
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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...
9th Jan 2022
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Why I went back to using a ThinkPad from 2012

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

9th Jan 2022
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....
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IDA Summer of Code 2014 IDA Summer of Code is Linköping University’s response to Google Summer of Code. Students can send in...
11th Jun 2014
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IDA Summer of Code 2014

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

11th Jun 2014
IDA Summer of Code is Linköping University’s response to Google Summer of Code. Students can send in a project of their choice and if selected they get paid to work on it for 4 weeks during the summer. In return the university get to show off the students and their projects in...
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Script that shows relevant disk information I wrote a small Python script called 'showdisks' that displays relevant information about any...
1st Oct 2013
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Script that shows relevant disk information

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

1st Oct 2013
I wrote a small Python script called 'showdisks' that displays relevant information about any physical storage devices supported by hdparm. Information such as model and capacity are shown, but also controller and device path. This script only requires python and hdparm. I hope...
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2025-08-16 passive microwave repeaters One of the most significant single advancements in telecommunications technology was the development...
16th Aug 2025
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2025-08-16 passive microwave repeaters

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

16th Aug 2025
One of the most significant single advancements in telecommunications technology was the development of microwave radio. Essentially an evolution of radar, the middle of the Second World War saw the first practical microwave telephone system. By the time Japan surrendered, AT&T...
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Some low-stakes misinformation spread like wildfire, and I got it wrong too Giovanni Colantonio writing for Digital Trends: The Confusion Around $90 Switch 2 Games Proves How...
1st May 2025
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Some low-stakes misinformation spread like wildfire, and I got it wrong too

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st May 2025
Giovanni Colantonio writing for Digital Trends: The Confusion Around $90 Switch 2 Games Proves How Broken the Internet Is There’s just one problem: *Mario Kart World* does not cost $90, at least based on what we know right now. No currently announced Nintendo Switch 2 game...
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The web is changing, and we are not going back Whenever I saw someone type a natural language query into Google, it made me cringe. "It's not a...
1st Jun 2026
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The web is changing, and we are not going back

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

1st Jun 2026
Whenever I saw someone type a natural language query into Google, it made me cringe. "It's not a person," I would say. "Type like you're talking to a machine." This was especially true for programmers and it was before AI took over everything. Instead of "how do I write a...
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Peak Design quick-connect Leash and Cuff straps My camera collection has been growing steadily over the years, but it’s been expanding even faster...
18th Mar 2021
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Peak Design quick-connect Leash and Cuff straps

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

18th Mar 2021
My camera collection has been growing steadily over the years, but it’s been expanding even faster during the COVID-19 lockdowns. Online shopping therapy keeps me sane while I’m cooped up at home, and with easy access to eBay and other auction sites my GAS – photographers...
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Sometimes, You Can Just Feel The Security In The Design (Junos OS Evolved CVE-2026-21902 RCE) On today’s ‘good news disguised as other things’ segment, we’re turning our gaze to CVE-2026-21902 -...
3rd Mar 2026
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Sometimes, You Can Just Feel The Security In The Design (Junos OS Evolved CVE-2026-21902 RCE)

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

3rd Mar 2026
On today’s ‘good news disguised as other things’ segment, we’re turning our gaze to CVE-2026-21902 - a recently disclosed “Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource” vulnerability affecting Juniper’s Junos OS Evolved platform. This vulnerability affects only Juniper’s...
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Indices point between elements If you’re familiar with nearly any mainstream programming language, and I asked you to draw a...
17th Jul 2015
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Indices point between elements

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

17th Jul 2015
If you’re familiar with nearly any mainstream programming language, and I asked you to draw a diagram of an array, the array indices, and the array elements, odds are good you’d produce a diagram something like this: In this post, I want to persuade you to replace that image, or,...
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Using wpa_supplicant on Debian/Ubuntu I’ve been using wpa_supplicant to manage wifi on my Ubuntu laptop for a while, and have found that...
22nd Aug 2008
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Using wpa_supplicant on Debian/Ubuntu

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

22nd Aug 2008
I’ve been using wpa_supplicant to manage wifi on my Ubuntu laptop for a while, and have found that it’s pretty close to what I want for managing wireless — closer than anything else I’ve found, at least. I figured I should document my setup and experiences. Some Background You...
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Dept. of Speculation A book that at times filled the same holes in my head that Bluets did; a poetic and bittersweet...
13th Aug 2016
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Dept. of Speculation

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

13th Aug 2016
A book that at times filled the same holes in my head that Bluets did; a poetic and bittersweet narrative about connections that are made and then severed and the trials of both states. It’s inventive and quiet and rhythmic.
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To weigh a watermelon There are many frontiers.
3rd Jul 2026
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To weigh a watermelon

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

3rd Jul 2026
There are many frontiers.
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2025-01-19 Infrastructure for graphical debugging See transcript below. audio/video; 4...
19th Jan 2025
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2025-01-19

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

19th Jan 2025
Infrastructure for graphical debugging See transcript below. audio/video; 4 minutes; 25MB; scroll down for shorter clips Transcript For a while now I've been trying to improve the way I program. I've made some progress. I can edit my programs live, and...
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Train Simulator Controller: Simulator Takes Shape with Custom Table With the center console of my train simulator built, I rapidly modeled and fabricated prototypes of...
11th Jan 2026
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Train Simulator Controller: Simulator Takes Shape with Custom Table

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

11th Jan 2026
With the center console of my train simulator built, I rapidly modeled and fabricated prototypes of the four other panels.
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2024-11-09 iron mountain atomic storage I have quipped before about "underground datacenters," and how they never succeed. During the late...
9th Nov 2024
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2024-11-09 iron mountain atomic storage

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

9th Nov 2024
I have quipped before about "underground datacenters," and how they never succeed. During the late decades of the Cold War and even into the '00s, the military and (to a lesser extent) the telecommunications industry parted ways with a great number of underground facilities....
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Walter Torous named executive director of MIT Center for Real Estate The senior lecturer, already director of the degree program, will now oversee all aspects of the...
1st Sep 2026
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Walter Torous named executive director of MIT Center for Real Estate

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

1st Sep 2026
The senior lecturer, already director of the degree program, will now oversee all aspects of the center’s activities and operations.
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Being a volunteer in Amsterdam-Zuidoost About my work as volunteer in the local community center in Amsterdam Zuidoost
20th Nov 2016
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Being a volunteer in Amsterdam-Zuidoost

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

20th Nov 2016
About my work as volunteer in the local community center in Amsterdam Zuidoost
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Designing for People The kindest and strongest praise that you can give this book is that it was written in 1955 and...
1st Jan 2023
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Designing for People

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Jan 2023
The kindest and strongest praise that you can give this book is that it was written in 1955 and neither its praxis nor its theory has aged a day. A lot of external praise is directed at its much-ballyhooed prognostication of the future (predicting FaceTime in 1955, that sort of...
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+ Gone too far There's a chance, slim as it might be, that things won't go the way the've gone the last 30 years...
3 weeks ago
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+ Gone too far

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

3 weeks ago
There's a chance, slim as it might be, that things won't go the way the've gone the last 30 years with digitization the moving to rental models for everyhing.
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Digital Minimalism I find myself weirdly torn on this book.
3rd Dec 2020
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Digital Minimalism

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

3rd Dec 2020
I find myself weirdly torn on this book.
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Recreating Apple's beautiful visionOS search bar Many of Apple’s own visionOS apps, like Music, Safari, and Apple TV, have a handy search bar front...
24th Mar 2024
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Recreating Apple's beautiful visionOS search bar

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

24th Mar 2024
Many of Apple’s own visionOS apps, like Music, Safari, and Apple TV, have a handy search bar front and center on the window so you can easily search through your content. Oddly, as of visionOS 1.1, replicating this visually as a developer using SwiftUI or UIKit is not...
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Postmortem of Butt Mover I suffer from chronic lower back pain, Since I don't consume opioids I find exercises 1 to be the...
13th Dec 2022
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Postmortem of Butt Mover

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

13th Dec 2022
I suffer from chronic lower back pain, Since I don't consume opioids I find exercises 1 to be the best pain management technique. In addition to the specific exercises for managing back pain, Not sitting for long durations seems to be the key factor for me to not trigger the back...
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What’s the Object of Information Architecture? Ironically, information architects haven’t explained how we create value in terms most people...
3rd Jan 2025
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What’s the Object of Information Architecture?

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

3rd Jan 2025
Ironically, information architects haven’t explained how we create value in terms most people understand. If I tell someone at a party that I’m an IA, they won’t know what I do. It’s a problem: if others don’t understand how we can help, they won’t hire us. The main challenge is...
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The eigenvector of "Why we moved from language X to language Y" I was reading yet another blog post titled “Why our team moved from <language X> to <language Y>” (I...
15th Mar 2017
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The eigenvector of "Why we moved from language X to language Y"

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

15th Mar 2017
I was reading yet another blog post titled “Why our team moved from <language X> to <language Y>” (I forgot which one) and I started wondering if you can generalize it a bit. Is it possible to generate a N * N contingency table of moving from language X to language Y?
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SEO Is Dead In the first week of April I did the SEO job I had put off for years: new landing pages and...
18th Apr 2026
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SEO Is Dead

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

18th Apr 2026
In the first week of April I did the SEO job I had put off for years: new landing pages and thousands of cross-links, on willem.com and on two customer sites, generated through the new API of my platform. It works, and well, I wrote on 4 April. Two weeks later I looked at what it...
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A Prehistory of the Ethereum Protocol
14th Sep 2017
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A Prehistory of the Ethereum Protocol

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

14th Sep 2017
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Durable Smartphone While sitting in the train the guy in front of me surprised me, out of his fancy pants he pulled...
4th Mar 2025
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Durable Smartphone

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

4th Mar 2025
While sitting in the train the guy in front of me surprised me, out of his fancy pants he pulled this well worn, patina rich, piece of tech. We're travelling first class and judging by his classy attire, this man is not of limited means. Like a well-raced Porsche, this thing has...
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Climbing Mount Etna Last week me and my wife went to Sicily for a little summer holiday. It is the largest island in the...
1st Sep 2017
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Climbing Mount Etna

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

1st Sep 2017
Last week me and my wife went to Sicily for a little summer holiday. It is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. It is an autonomous region of Italy, along with surrounding minor islands. It's home to Europe's largest active volcano: Mount Etna. We had a chance to visit...
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Volumer I've always wanted a good USB volume control, so I decided to design one.
21st Mar 2020
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Volumer

from Opsbros [alt+shift+b] in technology

21st Mar 2020
I've always wanted a good USB volume control, so I decided to design one.
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The impact of management teams as a decision-making group, in startups and enterprise Ambitious companies form management teams at every level above you, sometimes including you....
11th Nov 2020
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The impact of management teams as a decision-making group, in startups and enterprise

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

11th Nov 2020
Ambitious companies form management teams at every level above you, sometimes including you. Management teams meet periodically and have private chat rooms. They discuss customers, product and organizational direction. Sometimes discussions are well documented and...
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Crazy With the Heat Heat is awful, humidity makes it worse, and deathly stillness renders it just about...
16th Jul 2026
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Crazy With the Heat

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

16th Jul 2026
Heat is awful, humidity makes it worse, and deathly stillness renders it just about insufferable. The other night my neighbor was standing on his porch. He blew a smoke ring. Next morning, it was still there, though the morning fog had made it soggy so it had sunk to the ground.
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A History of Operation Breakthrough Many who look at the high and rising cost of housing see the problem as fundamentally one of...
6th Mar 2026
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A History of Operation Breakthrough

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

6th Mar 2026
Many who look at the high and rising cost of housing see the problem as fundamentally one of production methods; more specifically, that homes could be built more cheaply if they were made using factories and industrialized processes, instead of assembling them on site using...
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Reflections on Palantir A retrospective of an eight-year stint.
15th Oct 2024
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Reflections on Palantir

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

15th Oct 2024
A retrospective of an eight-year stint.
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May Gwern.net Newsletter Link compilation newsletter with anime GAN updates, links on AI scaling, discussion of GPT-3, and 1...
6th Jun 2020
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May Gwern.net Newsletter

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

6th Jun 2020
Link compilation newsletter with anime GAN updates, links on AI scaling, discussion of GPT-3, and 1 book review.
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AI Starting Points A friend is getting back into UX research after a two-year gap. Recognizing AI is a big deal, she...
3rd Feb 2026
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AI Starting Points

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

3rd Feb 2026
A friend is getting back into UX research after a two-year gap. Recognizing AI is a big deal, she asked where to start learning. Great question! Other people are surely wondering as well, so I’m sharing my answers here. Caveats: These answers reflect how I learn; YMMV. You’re...
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Hour 10: Updating the website We're back! Instead of working on something brand new, I'll be updating the existing website hosted...
25th Nov 2025
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Hour 10: Updating the website

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

25th Nov 2025
We're back! Instead of working on something brand new, I'll be updating the existing website hosted at eyadquaibi.com
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The Comet’s Path: On Cycles of Presence and Withdrawal Some of us burn bright in moments of presence, then retreat to darker orbits. It's not...
2nd Dec 2024
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The Comet’s Path: On Cycles of Presence and Withdrawal

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

2nd Dec 2024
Some of us burn bright in moments of presence, then retreat to darker orbits. It's not antisocial—it's survival. A meditation on the natural rhythm of engagement and withdrawal.
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Instruction decoding in the Intel 8087 floating-point chip pre {border:none;} In the 1980s, if you wanted your IBM PC to run faster, you could buy the Intel...
14th Feb 2026
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Instruction decoding in the Intel 8087 floating-point chip

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

14th Feb 2026
pre {border:none;} In the 1980s, if you wanted your IBM PC to run faster, you could buy the Intel 8087 floating-point coprocessor chip. With this chip, CAD software, spreadsheets, flight simulators, and other programs were much speedier. The 8087 chip could add, subtract,...
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My self-sovereign / local / private / secure LLM setup, April 2026
2nd Apr 2026
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My self-sovereign / local / private / secure LLM setup, April 2026

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

2nd Apr 2026
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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...
31st Dec 2007
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A week with the iPhone

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

31st Dec 2007
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...
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Towards Digital Sovereignty Over the years I have experimented with different digital tools, platforms and apps to get my work...
1st Aug 2025
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Towards Digital Sovereignty

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

1st Aug 2025
Over the years I have experimented with different digital tools, platforms and apps to get my work done. From easy-to-use but locked down commercial systems to free/libre solutions that are powerful but more challenging to setup. I learned a lot along the way. Now I offer that...
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Pebble Kickstarter Campaign Success!
18th May 2012
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Pebble Kickstarter Campaign Success!

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

18th May 2012
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Doom3 Source Code Review On November 23, 2011 id Software maintained the tradition and released the source code of their...
8th Jun 2012
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Doom3 Source Code Review

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

8th Jun 2012
On November 23, 2011 id Software maintained the tradition and released the source code of their previous engine. This time is was the turn of idTech4 which powered Prey, Quake 4 and of course Doom 3. Within hours the GitHub repository was forked more than 400 times and...
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Syntax highlighting on the web
31st May 2022
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Syntax highlighting on the web

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

31st May 2022
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How China Is Like the 19th Century U.S. I spend a lot of time reading about manufacturing and its evolution, which means I end up repeatedly...
1st Nov 2024
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How China Is Like the 19th Century U.S.

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

1st Nov 2024
I spend a lot of time reading about manufacturing and its evolution, which means I end up repeatedly reading about the times and places where radical changes in manufacturing were taking place: Britain in the late 18th century, the US in the late 19th and early 20th centuries,...
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DSLogic U3Pro16 Review and Teardown Introduction The DSLogic U3Pro16 In the Box Probe Cables and Clips The Controller Hardware The Input...
12th Apr 2025
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DSLogic U3Pro16 Review and Teardown

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12th Apr 2025
Introduction The DSLogic U3Pro16 In the Box Probe Cables and Clips The Controller Hardware The Input Circuit Impact of Input Circuit on Circuit Under Test Additional IOs: External Clock, Trigger In, Trigger Out Software: From Saleae Logic to PulseView to DSView Installing DSView...
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Annoy Annoy is a simple package to find approximate nearest neighbors (ANN) that I just put on Github. I'm...
12th Apr 2013
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Annoy

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

12th Apr 2013
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.
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Whoop strap review: 24/7 wearable sensor
30th Dec 2019
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Whoop strap review: 24/7 wearable sensor

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30th Dec 2019
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It's Never Simple Until It Is (Dell UnityVSA Pre-Auth Command Injection CVE-2025-36604) Welcome back, and what a week! We’re glad that happened for you and/or sorry that happened to you....
3rd Oct 2025
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It's Never Simple Until It Is (Dell UnityVSA Pre-Auth Command Injection CVE-2025-36604)

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3rd Oct 2025
Welcome back, and what a week! We’re glad that happened for you and/or sorry that happened to you. It will get better and/or worse, and you will likely survive. Today, we’re walking down the garden path and digging into the archives, publishing our analysis
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Verge interview at CES 2013 2025 Note - probably the last video of me without a beard!
9th Jan 2013
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Verge interview at CES 2013

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9th Jan 2013
2025 Note - probably the last video of me without a beard!
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FOSDEM 2024: my experience, some notes and tech tips I finally went to FOSDEM. I’m sleep-deprived, completely exhausted, but incredibly excited about the...
12th Feb 2024
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FOSDEM 2024: my experience, some notes and tech tips

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12th Feb 2024
I finally went to FOSDEM. I’m sleep-deprived, completely exhausted, but incredibly excited about the whole experience. I’ve split this post into three separate sections. overall notes on the conference and the city less technical, but sheds light on the FOSDEM experience the...
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Christmas break So school is on a break and I welcome it with all of my heart. The semester has been pretty fun and...
18th Dec 2010
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Christmas break

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

18th Dec 2010
So school is on a break and I welcome it with all of my heart. The semester has been pretty fun and I really enjoy studying here. We had lisp the whole time which is a pretty sweet little language and if you haven’t, give it a shot. Then we had math and I do like math, although I...
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Enjoying the Journey Reflections on training for a marathon and a lesson from my late Uncle Murray
1st Jan 2024
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Enjoying the Journey

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

1st Jan 2024
Reflections on training for a marathon and a lesson from my late Uncle Murray
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The iPhone, iPad and iOS are powering a revolution Most people just don't understand computers. Are these people dumb? Some may be dumb, but the people...
6th Nov 2010
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The iPhone, iPad and iOS are powering a revolution

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6th Nov 2010
Most people just don't understand computers. Are these people dumb? Some may be dumb, but the people who make them are maybe even dumber. Because they can't seem to figure out how to create a computer that the majority of people understand. When the original macintosh arrived at...
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A database without dynamic memory allocation This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
12th Oct 2022
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A database without dynamic memory allocation

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12th Oct 2022
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Testing a cheap ExpressCard to NVMe SSD adapter on my ThinkPad T430 I stumbled upon this post in /r/thinkpad, which got my attention. It showcases an ExpressCard to M.2...
4th Oct 2022
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Testing a cheap ExpressCard to NVMe SSD adapter on my ThinkPad T430

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

4th Oct 2022
I stumbled upon this post in /r/thinkpad, which got my attention. It showcases an ExpressCard to M.2 NGFF adapter that they purchased from AliExpress. The adapter has a similar purpose to the one designed by thinkmods.store, with the added bonus that it could fit longer NVMe...
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ZFS performance on HP Proliant Microserver Gen8 G1610T I think the HP Proliant Microserver Gen8 is a very interesting little box if you want to build your...
14th Aug 2015
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ZFS performance on HP Proliant Microserver Gen8 G1610T

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14th Aug 2015
I think the HP Proliant Microserver Gen8 is a very interesting little box if you want to build your own ZFS-based NAS. The benchmarks I've performed seem to confirm this. The Microserver Gen8 has nice features such as: iLO (KVM over IP with dedicated network interface) support...
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Recent forays into developer productivity I've written before about my posture around LLMs being mostly summarizable as design your systems...
1st Feb 2026
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Recent forays into developer productivity

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1st Feb 2026
I've written before about my posture around LLMs being mostly summarizable as design your systems and abstractions to accommodate an infinite number of junior engineers.
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The best keyboard for iPad The tablet is at the frontier of mobile computing and its hardware form factor is evolving. This...
10th Aug 2020
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The best keyboard for iPad

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

10th Aug 2020
The tablet is at the frontier of mobile computing and its hardware form factor is evolving. This year Apple introduced a new Magic Keyboard for iPad that includes a trackpad. Everybody is raving about it, yet I think there is something to be said for the "mouse-less" Smart...
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The great Hochstapler Hey there. A lot has happened lately since my last update and my last game here. I’m now a pretty...
19th Sep 2010
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The great Hochstapler

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

19th Sep 2010
Hey there. A lot has happened lately since my last update and my last game here. I’m now a pretty happy student at Linköpings university and I’m reading something similar to Computer Science or Computer engineering, but I guess it’ll become whatever you make it to be. For...
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Books I read in 2015 Early last year when I left Spotify I decided to do more reading. I was planning to read at least...
1st Jan 2016
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Books I read in 2015

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

1st Jan 2016
Early last year when I left Spotify I decided to do more reading. I was planning to read at least one book per week and in particular I wanted to brush up on management, economics, and technology.
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Using AI to generate code As part of my software optimisation efforts to cut cloud costs, I needed to replace an existing...
2nd May 2023
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Using AI to generate code

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

2nd May 2023
As part of my software optimisation efforts to cut cloud costs, I needed to replace an existing piece of inefficient server software with something that uses more robust (yet fragmented) tooling available in Debian GNU/Linux. Could the GPT4 language model deliver me some AI...
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How the SNES Graphics System works
9th Aug 2024
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How the SNES Graphics System works

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9th Aug 2024
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Pi in the Pentium: reverse-engineering the constants in its floating-point unit Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of...
5th Jan 2025
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Pi in the Pentium: reverse-engineering the constants in its floating-point unit

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5th Jan 2025
Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of high-performance processors.1 The Pentium includes a floating-point unit that can rapidly compute functions such as sines, cosines, logarithms, and exponentials. But how does the Pentium...
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Climbing Mount Etna Climbing Mount Etna, an active volcano on Sicily Italy.
1st Sep 2017
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Climbing Mount Etna

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1st Sep 2017
Climbing Mount Etna, an active volcano on Sicily Italy.
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Programming on Apple Watch Programming with VIM over SSH on Apple Watch using a bluetooth keyboard
15th Feb 2017
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Programming on Apple Watch

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15th Feb 2017
Programming with VIM over SSH on Apple Watch using a bluetooth keyboard
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WiFi Binary Clock Who doesn't love a classic Binary Clock? I remember getting one of these when I was in my 20's from...
21st Mar 2022
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WiFi Binary Clock

from Opsbros [alt+shift+b] in technology

21st Mar 2022
Who doesn't love a classic Binary Clock? I remember getting one of these when I was in my 20's from ThinkGeek, and it was pride of place on my desk. LED's are a thing of beauty.
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Agatha Christie’s Poirot Delightful. I’d recommend pacing out your consumption a bit more than we did — like the books...
3rd Jan 2020
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Agatha Christie’s Poirot

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3rd Jan 2020
Delightful. I’d recommend pacing out your consumption a bit more than we did — like the books themselves, and perhaps like the format writ large, the formula wears a bit thin and obvious when you’re giving yourself ninety minutes of it each night — but Suchet’s acting is...
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Leadership at the Peak I want to start by thanking the Automattic board, and in particular General (Ret.) Ann Dunwoody, for...
10th Feb 2026
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Leadership at the Peak

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

10th Feb 2026
I want to start by thanking the Automattic board, and in particular General (Ret.) Ann Dunwoody, for encouraging me to step away from the endless work of being CEO of Automattic to focus on training and development. Ann, as one of this generation’s great leaders, did it herself...
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Cult Classic I can't find where I wrote this, but I described Crosley's writing persona (having read her other...
8th Nov 2022
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Cult Classic

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8th Nov 2022
I can't find where I wrote this, but I described Crosley's writing persona (having read her other two books) as that of a friend you run into at a party who fits in perfectly and has the best bon mots and she knows it and needs to make sure you know it, too.
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A Simple Thought I wrote that we where doing some microprogramming, making the processor work etc. We had a lab about...
2nd Feb 2012
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A Simple Thought

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

2nd Feb 2012
I wrote that we where doing some microprogramming, making the processor work etc. We had a lab about that yesterday and I was very, very nervous. The preparations weren’t that hard, but they where very bothersome. Converting the instructions to binary/hex by hand is never nice....
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$17 GM1312 Thermometer Review, Test, and Teardown Introduction What is a thermocouple The GM1213 Thermometer A few...
11th Feb 2023
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$17 GM1312 Thermometer Review, Test, and Teardown

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11th Feb 2023
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...
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Improve your sleep by blocking light I have been wearing a sleep mask in bed, blocking all light. It has been amazing for my sleep's...
23rd Jan 2020
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Improve your sleep by blocking light

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

23rd Jan 2020
I have been wearing a sleep mask in bed, blocking all light. It has been amazing for my sleep's quality. Read along for my findings!
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CrowdStrike's Impact on Aviation Just after midnight Eastern Time on July 19, 2024, the enterprise cybersecurity company CrowdStrike...
28th Jul 2024
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CrowdStrike's Impact on Aviation

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28th Jul 2024
Just after midnight Eastern Time on July 19, 2024, the enterprise cybersecurity company CrowdStrike YOLOed a software update to millions of Windows machines. Or as they put it: On July 19, 2024 at 04:09 UTC, as part of ongoing operations, CrowdStrike released a sensor...
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Two Perspectives on the End-to-End Principle Back when I was an undergraduate, as part of a class called “Computer Systems Engineering”, we read...
11th Jun 2017
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Two Perspectives on the End-to-End Principle

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11th Jun 2017
Back when I was an undergraduate, as part of a class called “Computer Systems Engineering”, we read numerous classic papers of systems design. I enjoyed and learned a great deal from many of these papers, but one that paper that has stuck with me in particular was Saltzer et al’s...
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Difference of behavior in SATA Solid State Drives Introduction Update: I've noticed some strange behavior of SSDs when benchmarking them with FIO....
28th Jan 2020
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Difference of behavior in SATA Solid State Drives

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28th Jan 2020
Introduction Update: I've noticed some strange behavior of SSDs when benchmarking them with FIO. After further investigation and additional testing, I've found the reason for the strange patterns in the graphs. The 'strange' test results are due to the fact that they were...
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The 'free' server build Man takes old computer, turns it into a home server again. Man happy.
9th Jul 2026
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The 'free' server build

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9th Jul 2026
Man takes old computer, turns it into a home server again. Man happy.
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GitButler 0.22 - "Catch 22" The newest GitButler release has landed, including native GitHub stacked pull requests
6th Aug 2026
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GitButler 0.22 - "Catch 22"

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

6th Aug 2026
The newest GitButler release has landed, including native GitHub stacked pull requests
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Collecting health data with Biostrap Most wearables (smartwatches, fitness trackers, etc.) use very basic sensors to capture heart rate....
14th Nov 2017
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Collecting health data with Biostrap

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

14th Nov 2017
Most wearables (smartwatches, fitness trackers, etc.) use very basic sensors to capture heart rate. Their signal is binary: just counting beats. Biostrap is different, instead of just checking pulses, it captures a high-fidelity PPG waveform. These waveforms are the same kind...
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Revisiting LLM Geolocation Two Years Later In 2023 Bellingcat published “Can AI Chatbots Be Used for Geolocation?”. In that article, they...
21st Mar 2025
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Revisiting LLM Geolocation Two Years Later

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21st Mar 2025
In 2023 Bellingcat published “Can AI Chatbots Be Used for Geolocation?”. In that article, they examine the ability of LLMs to geolocate photos. They gave Microsoft Bing and Google Bard three photos of locations in Canada: the Edmonton City Hall Churchill Square, also in...
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Bagging as a regularizer One thing I encountered today was a trick using bagging as a way to go beyond a point estimate and...
6th Dec 2013
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Bagging as a regularizer

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

6th Dec 2013
One thing I encountered today was a trick using bagging as a way to go beyond a point estimate and get an approximation for the full distribution. This can then be used to penalize predictions with larger uncertainty, which helps reducing false positives.
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The Apple GPU and the Impossible Bug In late 2020, Apple debuted the M1 with Apple’s GPU architecture, AGX, rumoured to be derived from...
13th May 2022
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The Apple GPU and the Impossible Bug

from On Life and Lisp [alt+shift+b] in technology

13th May 2022
In late 2020, Apple debuted the M1 with Apple’s GPU architecture, AGX, rumoured to be derived from Imagination’s PowerVR series. Since then, we’ve been reverse-engineering AGX and building open source graphics drivers. Last January, I rendered a triangle with my own code, but...
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Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later
22nd Nov 2019
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Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later

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22nd Nov 2019
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Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools Code forces humans to be precise. That’s good—computers need precision. But it also forces humans to...
3rd Feb 2025
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Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools

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

3rd Feb 2025
Code forces humans to be precise. That’s good—computers need precision. But it also forces humans to think like machines. For decades we tried to fix this by making programming more human-friendly. Higher-level languages. Visual interfaces. Each step helped, but we were still...
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Plus Post: Sony SMC-777C One person, Eight languages. The 8bit.
1st Jun 2025
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Plus Post: Sony SMC-777C

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1st Jun 2025
One person, Eight languages. The 8bit.
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The 2030 Census is in Trouble Trump wants to add a citizenship question and ban questions on race
3 weeks ago
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The 2030 Census is in Trouble

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3 weeks ago
Trump wants to add a citizenship question and ban questions on race
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Breasts and Eggs I think if I were to recommend this book to someone I would do it simply: do not read the second...
3rd Jan 2021
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Breasts and Eggs

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3rd Jan 2021
I think if I were to recommend this book to someone I would do it simply: do not read the second part. This is an amalgam of two novellas (explicitly demarcated as such in the final product), and the first book — rife with a crisper style and interesting voices — is dulled by the...
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From building ships to shipping builds: how to succeed in making a career switch to software... I have worked with a few software developers who made the switch to this industry in the middle of...
1st Jul 2025
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From building ships to shipping builds: how to succeed in making a career switch to software development

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1st Jul 2025
I have worked with a few software developers who made the switch to this industry in the middle of their careers. A major change like that can be scary and raise a lot of fears and doubts, but I can attest that this can work out well with the right personality traits and a...
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A couple of git nits A small rant on git papercuts, and why they are like that.
16th Mar 2026
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A couple of git nits

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16th Mar 2026
A small rant on git papercuts, and why they are like that.
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Stereotypes I read a great essay or article about stereotypical programmers called The Little Printf. I really...
14th Oct 2015
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Stereotypes

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

14th Oct 2015
I read a great essay or article about stereotypical programmers called The Little Printf. I really couldn’t do it justice so do yourself a favor and go read it. It touches on several types of programmers or rather traits of programmers I recognize in my surroundings and also...
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BlackHat/DEFCON 2011 talk: Breaking out of KVM I’ve posted the final slides from my talk this year at DEFCON and Black Hat, on breaking out of the...
8th Aug 2011
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BlackHat/DEFCON 2011 talk: Breaking out of KVM

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

8th Aug 2011
I’ve posted the final slides from my talk this year at DEFCON and Black Hat, on breaking out of the KVM Kernel Virtual Machine on Linux. Virtunoid: Breaking out of KVM from Nelson Elhage [Edited 2011-08-11] The code is now available. It should be fairly well-commented, and...
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Momentum strategies Haven't posted anything in ages, so here's a quick hack I threw together in Python on a Sunday...
3rd Mar 2014
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Momentum strategies

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

3rd Mar 2014
Haven't posted anything in ages, so here's a quick hack I threw together in Python on a Sunday night. Basically I wanted to know whether momentum strategies work well for international stock indexes. I spent a bit of time putting together a strategy that buys the stock index if...
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Introducing TagVault Pet for AirTag Having pets that went missing before, AirTags are the perfect companion. We wanted a case that could...
22nd May 2021
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Introducing TagVault Pet for AirTag

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22nd May 2021
Having pets that went missing before, AirTags are the perfect companion. We wanted a case that could take the abuse of an active full-size dog, fit nice on a cat, work with all pet collars, and be durable. So we designed Tagvault Pet. It's waterproof, fits every collar, and is...
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2025test Everything that happened to me this year
30th Dec 2025
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2025test

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30th Dec 2025
Everything that happened to me this year
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Steam Deck: I like it I got a Steam Deck. Only took me a year or so of contemplating getting one, and trying out HoloISO,...
2nd Jun 2024
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Steam Deck: I like it

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

2nd Jun 2024
I got a Steam Deck. Only took me a year or so of contemplating getting one, and trying out HoloISO, the unofficial SteamOS installer finally convinced me to get one.1 It took another year to actually get down to writing down my thoughts on it. This post is written from the...
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Web3’s Mobile Moment In 2013, media & technology analyst Benedict Evans presented “Mobile is eating the world,” looking...
27th Feb 2022
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Web3’s Mobile Moment

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

27th Feb 2022
In 2013, media & technology analyst Benedict Evans presented “Mobile is eating the world,” looking at how the unprecedented scale of mobile was beginning to change the Internet and the economy at large.
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Talking Tines [Concept] Tuning forks that talk
29th Jun 2024
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Talking Tines

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

29th Jun 2024
[Concept] Tuning forks that talk
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Notes on running Electron This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
13th Oct 2021
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Notes on running Electron

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13th Oct 2021
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How to take down production with a single Helm command You’re Cletus Kubernetus: a software developer, and a proud Fedora Linux user.1 You know Kubernetes,...
4th Apr 2024
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How to take down production with a single Helm command

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

4th Apr 2024
You’re Cletus Kubernetus: a software developer, and a proud Fedora Linux user.1 You know Kubernetes, especially after the time you migrated some services to it. Everything is calm. Your pods are running. Your service is up. Business as usual. You release some minor changes to...
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RailScan: Museum Track and Wire Scanner I volunteer at a train, trolley, and subway museum, including working on restoration of full-sized...
25th Jun 2026
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RailScan: Museum Track and Wire Scanner

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

25th Jun 2026
I volunteer at a train, trolley, and subway museum, including working on restoration of full-sized rail vehicles and maintaining railway infrastructure. As a non-authoritative, hobby project combining my love of trains, electronics, mapping, and data, I am building a LiDAR...
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Do amazing things with a focused mind Just when the temperature was a low 2° Celsius, I jumped in the Amstel river! While it was nearly...
5th Dec 2018
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Do amazing things with a focused mind

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

5th Dec 2018
Just when the temperature was a low 2° Celsius, I jumped in the Amstel river! While it was nearly freezing outside I went for a swim, just moments after I've taken an ice bath! This post is about the incredible birthday present I got, a workshop involving the Wim Hof Method. Wim...
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Situazioni di collusione
1st Jan 2000
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Situazioni di collusione

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

1st Jan 2000
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Plex Might Be Indavertently Bottlenecking You Plex has this Relay feature that basically pipes your traffic through their servers if direct access...
12th May 2025
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Plex Might Be Indavertently Bottlenecking You

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12th May 2025
Plex has this Relay feature that basically pipes your traffic through their servers if direct access isn't possible for whatever reason, bypassing NAT and presumably cutting down on their support tickets. For free users the relay is capped at a measly 1 Mbps and the [ever-growing...
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The Pentium as a Navajo weaving Hurrying through the National Gallery of Art five minutes before closing, I passed a Navajo weaving...
1st Sep 2024
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The Pentium as a Navajo weaving

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

1st Sep 2024
Hurrying through the National Gallery of Art five minutes before closing, I passed a Navajo weaving with a complex abstract pattern. Suddenly, I realized the pattern was strangely familiar, so I stopped and looked closely. The design turned out to be an image of Intel's Pentium...
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Resurrecting Nexus 6P from bootloop of death Nexus Before the Pixel there was Nexus, smartphones and tablets to showcase the latest in android...
14th Jun 2019
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Resurrecting Nexus 6P from bootloop of death

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

14th Jun 2019
Nexus Before the Pixel there was Nexus, smartphones and tablets to showcase the latest in android with the brand of the manufacturer. They packed in latest android version with top end specifications and pathetic camera (processed image/video) quality; no wonder they didn't take...
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Winners Take All The book is not groundbreaking, and it owes a lot (in terms of "MarketWorld" and "protocols") to...
5th Jun 2020
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Winners Take All

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

5th Jun 2020
The book is not groundbreaking, and it owes a lot (in terms of "MarketWorld" and "protocols") to James Scott, but I liked it more than I thought it would. The distillation of a corporate "win-win" ethos was a pretty damning excoriation of my alma mater's consulting pipeline, and...
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Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor Keeping my focus has been challenging. It’s not a new phenomenon, and I suspect that there are...
1st Apr 2026
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Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor

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

1st Apr 2026
Keeping my focus has been challenging. It’s not a new phenomenon, and I suspect that there are contributing factors that have lead to the unfocused state dominating. For example, I’ve been that guy who wants to be on top of things, to be in the loop, to respond to urgent issues....
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GitHub Copilot for Vim Review My review of GitHub Copilot for Vim
1st May 2025
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GitHub Copilot for Vim Review

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1st May 2025
My review of GitHub Copilot for Vim
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The Design of Everyday Things My favorite book of the year. I’m not going to gush about it — enough others have in the decades of...
30th Dec 2014
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The Design of Everyday Things

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

30th Dec 2014
My favorite book of the year. I’m not going to gush about it — enough others have in the decades of its existence — but know that it is that good and that timeless. Norman changed the way I thought about technology.
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The little Wi-Fi AP that could I have a bad habit of testing things whenever a “good” idea pops into my head. This is a short...
22nd Jul 2020
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The little Wi-Fi AP that could

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

22nd Jul 2020
I have a bad habit of testing things whenever a “good” idea pops into my head. This is a short overview of one of them. The Orange Pi Zero is a SBC (single board computer) that has a slow 32-bit ARM 4 core CPU, 512MB of RAM and no display output. It’s actually quite OK for many...
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Java’s SSLContext protocol name is a footgun This should be old news, but I keep seeing the same mistake crop up, so I thought I’d blog about it...
23rd Jun 2026
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Java’s SSLContext protocol name is a footgun

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

23rd Jun 2026
This should be old news, but I keep seeing the same mistake crop up, so I thought I’d blog about it and spread awareness. In Java, if you want to configure TLS you generally start with an SSLContext. And you get an instance of this class by calling the static method...
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Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D, 2nd Edition The second edition of the Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D is out.
6th Dec 2018
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Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D, 2nd Edition

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

6th Dec 2018
The second edition of the Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D is out.
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'Zabbix Security: client-server communication seems insecure' Zabbix is a populair tool for monitoring servers, services and network equipment. For monitoring...
27th Sep 2010
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'Zabbix Security: client-server communication seems insecure'

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

27th Sep 2010
Zabbix is a populair tool for monitoring servers, services and network equipment. For monitoring hosts, Zabbix provides an agent that can be installed on the hosts that must be monitored. Based on the supplied documentation and some remarks on the internets, the 'security' of...
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Writing a web server from scratch: 1. HTTP and sockets Say we have some HTML: <html> <body> <h1>Hello world!</h1> </body> </html> And say we'd...
6th Apr 2019
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Writing a web server from scratch: 1. HTTP and sockets

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

6th Apr 2019
Say we have some HTML: <html> <body> <h1>Hello world!</h1> </body> </html> And say we'd like to be able to render this page in a web browser. If the server is hosted locally we may want to enter localhost:9000/hello-world.html in the address bar, hit enter, make a...
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SQLite in Go, with and without cgo This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
12th May 2022
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SQLite in Go, with and without cgo

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12th May 2022
This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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Hardware Founders: (When) Should You Try To Raise VC Money? If you choose to raise any amount of venture capital investment you are making an implicit agreement...
9th Jul 2018
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Hardware Founders: (When) Should You Try To Raise VC Money?

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

9th Jul 2018
If you choose to raise any amount of venture capital investment you are making an implicit agreement with your investor that your aim is to…
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A Four-Eyed Update Wow it’s been a while! Almost a month and a half since my last update. There I complained about my...
21st Mar 2011
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A Four-Eyed Update

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

21st Mar 2011
Wow it’s been a while! Almost a month and a half since my last update. There I complained about my almost constant headaches which hampered me a lot actually. Luckily now I have joined the rank of cool. I took home three frames I think and tried them out and I settled some I...
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Track Zelda release anniversaries in your calendar The original Legend of Zelda came out 40 years ago today. With other birthdays on the horizon, like...
21st Feb 2026
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Track Zelda release anniversaries in your calendar

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

21st Feb 2026
The original Legend of Zelda came out 40 years ago today. With other birthdays on the horizon, like Twilight Princess’s 20th in November, I wanted a calendar that showed the anniversary of every Zelda game. So I made one. Subscribe to this URL in your calendar...
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The 101 of analog signal filtering Some intuition about this topic can be developed without summoning the ghost of Pierre-Simon...
12th Jul 2024
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The 101 of analog signal filtering

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

12th Jul 2024
Some intuition about this topic can be developed without summoning the ghost of Pierre-Simon Laplace.
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Decoding the Arctic to predict winter weather With the help of AI, MIT Research Scientist Judah Cohen is reshaping subseasonal forecasting, with...
8th Jan 2026
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Decoding the Arctic to predict winter weather

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

8th Jan 2026
With the help of AI, MIT Research Scientist Judah Cohen is reshaping subseasonal forecasting, with the goal of extending the lead time for predicting impactful weather.
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2023 in review This is my yearly review #14. Amazing that I’ve kept up with this for 14 years. Even though it’s not...
1st Jan 2024
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2023 in review

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

1st Jan 2024
This is my yearly review #14. Amazing that I’ve kept up with this for 14 years. Even though it’s not anything advanced, I really like looking back at the year to see what has happened. Maybe it’s a very light version of a reverse bucket list, and I can see that it provides some...
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Git Merge 2026 Git Merge is coming to Lisbon this September, and GitButler is once again helping host two days of...
8th May 2026
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Git Merge 2026

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

8th May 2026
Git Merge is coming to Lisbon this September, and GitButler is once again helping host two days of Git talks, community, and deep technical nerdery.
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Where is Lee Wittlinger? Lee controls the board of WP Engine. The board is why WP Engine hasn’t done a trademark deal for...
28th Sep 2024
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Where is Lee Wittlinger?

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

28th Sep 2024
Lee controls the board of WP Engine. The board is why WP Engine hasn’t done a trademark deal for their use of the WordPress and WooCommerce trademarks. You hide behind lawyers and corporate PR when you’re wrong, not when you’re right. I’m replying on Twitter, I’m commenting on...
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Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full
17th Aug 2026
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Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full

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

17th Aug 2026
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test tr Thanks for reading. If you have any feedback or would like to discuss further, I would be happy to...
30th Dec 2025
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test tr

from sibervepunk [alt+shift+b] in technology

30th Dec 2025
Thanks for reading. If you have any feedback or would like to discuss further, I would be happy to hear from you. twitter | [email protected] Previous
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Reading List 12/06/2025 3D printed legos, exploding wire detonators, the David Taylor model basin, multi-point metal...
6th Dec 2025
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Reading List 12/06/2025

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

6th Dec 2025
3D printed legos, exploding wire detonators, the David Taylor model basin, multi-point metal forming, and more.
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2025 in review It’s time for a yearly review again. Time flies. Nerdy things I enjoyed I read a few books this...
3rd Jan 2026
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2025 in review

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

3rd Jan 2026
It’s time for a yearly review again. Time flies. Nerdy things I enjoyed I read a few books this year. The whole Dungeon Crawler Carl series was absolutely amazing and it quickly jumped up to one of my favorite series of all time. I can’t be held accountable for everything I’ve...
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All About Apache Cassandra: Snapshots The concept of a "Snapshot" In computing, a snapshot is a point-in-time copy of data or state of a...
27th Jul 2019
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All About Apache Cassandra: Snapshots

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

27th Jul 2019
The concept of a "Snapshot" In computing, a snapshot is a point-in-time copy of data or state of a machine. You ever end up doing something like this? Each one of these files is a snapshot, as it's a copy of your essay at the point-in-time when you saved it. Snapshots provide us...
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Back to the University Join me on a special course exploring scientific programming, the perfect moment to learn Python...
7th Feb 2023
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Back to the University

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

7th Feb 2023
Join me on a special course exploring scientific programming, the perfect moment to learn Python with recent advancements in machine learning like ChatGPT!
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Building a professional 72TB NAS This month I installed a professional HPE ProLiant DL380p server in a datacenter in Amsterdam, read...
21st Nov 2019
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Building a professional 72TB NAS

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

21st Nov 2019
This month I installed a professional HPE ProLiant DL380p server in a datacenter in Amsterdam, read this post to see how this was done!
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One year on the ultimate commuter bike Answering questions from one of the most popular posts of last year, I am reviewing my commuter bike...
26th Feb 2019
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One year on the ultimate commuter bike

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

26th Feb 2019
Answering questions from one of the most popular posts of last year, I am reviewing my commuter bike after one year of extensive use through winter and summer.
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FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more...
1st Sep 2026
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FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses

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

1st Sep 2026
A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from people in the United States and Canada. Based on interviews with individuals whose licenses are available for purchase on this service, it...
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Marathon Last Sunday I completed my first full marathon, covering a distance of 42KM in and around Amsterdam....
19th Oct 2024
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Marathon

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

19th Oct 2024
Last Sunday I completed my first full marathon, covering a distance of 42KM in and around Amsterdam. An idea that started in a bar with some beers and concluded with a finish in the Olympic Stadium. What a journey, what an experience, well worthy of a blog post. About a year ago,...
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Achieving 2.3 GB/s with 16 x 4 TB drives I'm in the process of building a new storage server to replace my 18 TB NAS. The server is almost...
12th Jul 2014
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Achieving 2.3 GB/s with 16 x 4 TB drives

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

12th Jul 2014
I'm in the process of building a new storage server to replace my 18 TB NAS. The server is almost finished, it's now down to adding disk drives. I'm using the HGST 4 TB 7200 RPM drive for this build (SKU 0S03356) (review). I have not bought all drives at once, but slowly adding...
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The rise and fall of IBM's 4 Pi aerospace computers: an illustrated history The morning of April 12, 1981, 20 years to the day after Yuri Gagarin became the first person in...
29th Mar 2026
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The rise and fall of IBM's 4 Pi aerospace computers: an illustrated history

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

29th Mar 2026
The morning of April 12, 1981, 20 years to the day after Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space, the Space Shuttle thundered into the Florida sky. Commander Young and Pilot Crippen were at the controls as the Shuttle ascended on its first flight. But the launch, like much...
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Stuff costs money The many temptations of software businesses. Plus, a hackquisition?
5th Sep 2025
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Stuff costs money

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

5th Sep 2025
The many temptations of software businesses. Plus, a hackquisition?
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Monitoring energy usage with smart plugs, Prometheus and Grafana This post isn’t a detailed line-by-line tutorial on how to set up each individual piece of the setup...
2nd May 2024
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Monitoring energy usage with smart plugs, Prometheus and Grafana

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

2nd May 2024
This post isn’t a detailed line-by-line tutorial on how to set up each individual piece of the setup as those types of guides tend to get out of date really easily, but if you know your way around Linux and the command line, then you can definitely replicate this setup on your...
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Objectivity is superstition An objective, external world is a non-falsifiable assumption. The prevailing theory is that our...
17th Mar 2025
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Objectivity is superstition

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

17th Mar 2025
An objective, external world is a non-falsifiable assumption. The prevailing theory is that our subjective experiences correspond to an external reality. However, they may simply be subjective through and through. That which we claim to be evidence of external reality is actually...
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Antipodes I was playing around with D3 last night and built a silly visualization of antipodes and how our...
8th Sep 2015
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Antipodes

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

8th Sep 2015
I was playing around with D3 last night and built a silly visualization of antipodes and how our intuitive understanding of the world sometimes doesn't make sense. Check out the visualization at bl.ocks.org! Basically the idea is if you fly from Beijing to Buenos Aires then you...
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YouTube is a mysterious monopoly Yesterday I saw this Bluesky post from Adrian Black. He runs Adrian’s Digital Basement, a retro...
8th Sep 2025
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YouTube is a mysterious monopoly

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

8th Sep 2025
Yesterday I saw this Bluesky post from Adrian Black. He runs Adrian’s Digital Basement, a retro computer repair channel I really enjoy. In the post, he points out a trend I didn’t know about: YouTube views seem to have fallen off a cliff recently. Further down the thread, Jeff...
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Hello, stranger While enjoying my fresh wok lunch in Amsterdam, I noticed something odd: other folks coming in for...
12th Oct 2023
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Hello, stranger

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

12th Oct 2023
While enjoying my fresh wok lunch in Amsterdam, I noticed something odd: other folks coming in for something to eat ignored the person standing at the counter, preferring to order through a digital kiosk. The crazy thing about this? They are just centimetres apart! In fact, they...
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Entering Pintos First week of school is over and it’s been full throttle from the start, in a good way. We’re having...
3rd Sep 2012
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Entering Pintos

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

3rd Sep 2012
First week of school is over and it’s been full throttle from the start, in a good way. We’re having four courses and for once I like them all. We have an interesting math course, a useful course “Software Development in Theory” (boring but useful) and a big project course where...
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A new job, a new life Last month, I started a new job working as a fullstack software engineer at ClassDojo. This was an...
3rd Jul 2025
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A new job, a new life

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

3rd Jul 2025
Last month, I started a new job working as a fullstack software engineer at ClassDojo. This was an interesting job transition for me. It was the first time I got caught up in layoffs and the first time that I ended up with multiple job offers to choose from. As I weighed the...
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Disable Auto-Update How is it possible that a feature I use every day, in an app I rely on daily, entirely offline, just...
1st May 2026
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Disable Auto-Update

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

1st May 2026
How is it possible that a feature I use every day, in an app I rely on daily, entirely offline, just disappeared from my phone? I use a fitness app. My metrics, such as steps, workout routines, heart rate, are collected from a wearable device like a smartwatch and sent to the app...
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Minecraft Server Hosting I play the phenomena that is Minecraft on and off. Sometimes the laid back building or the exploring...
22nd Apr 2013
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Minecraft Server Hosting

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

22nd Apr 2013
I play the phenomena that is Minecraft on and off. Sometimes the laid back building or the exploring is just what I need. Sometimes I can challange myself to build cool complex stuff and I’m even an avid follower of Doc’M and Etho and the other mindcrackers over at the youtube....
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Being a volunteer in Amsterdam-Zuidoost After realising how lucky I am as an healthy, well educated, young man with a solid income, I wanted...
20th Nov 2016
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Being a volunteer in Amsterdam-Zuidoost

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

20th Nov 2016
After realising how lucky I am as an healthy, well educated, young man with a solid income, I wanted to do something for other people as volunteer. It just so happens to be that two years ago I received a flyer in my mailbox from the local community center: they were looking for...
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Ambition, fun and not Cheat on enterprise sales objection handling.
4th Jul 2025
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Ambition, fun and not

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

4th Jul 2025
Cheat on enterprise sales objection handling.
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Review: museums of the future, Dubai and Tokyo
3rd Aug 2024
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Review: museums of the future, Dubai and Tokyo

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

3rd Aug 2024
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SOAPwn: Pwning .NET Framework Applications Through HTTP Client Proxies And WSDL Welcome back! As we near the end of 2025, we are, of course, waiting for the next round of SSLVPN...
10th Dec 2025
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SOAPwn: Pwning .NET Framework Applications Through HTTP Client Proxies And WSDL

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

10th Dec 2025
Welcome back! As we near the end of 2025, we are, of course, waiting for the next round of SSLVPN exploitation to occur in January (as it did in 2024 and 2025). Weeeeeeeee. Before then, we want to clear the decks and see how much research we can publish. This
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Learning Legendary Hardware More...
7th Oct 2013
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Learning Legendary Hardware

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

7th Oct 2013
More...
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Instant Pan Gesture Interactions Apple has a really awesome WWDC 2018 video called Designing Fluid Interfaces, and one of the key...
13th May 2023
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Instant Pan Gesture Interactions

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

13th May 2023
Apple has a really awesome WWDC 2018 video called Designing Fluid Interfaces, and one of the key takeaways from the videos that one of the presenters, Chan Karunamuni, said is “Look for delays everywhere. Everything needs to respond instantly.” (6:28) A really great example of...
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2025-04-06 Airfone We've talked before about carphones, and certainly one of the only ways to make phones even more...
6th Apr 2025
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2025-04-06 Airfone

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

6th Apr 2025
We've talked before about carphones, and certainly one of the only ways to make phones even more interesting is to put them in modes of transportation. Installing telephones in cars made a lot of sense when radiotelephones were big and required a lot of power; and they faded...
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Some actual good news for once! Cornish Lithium, an Oxford Street Monorail, and why astronomy funding is under threat
2nd Mar 2026
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Some actual good news for once!

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

2nd Mar 2026
Cornish Lithium, an Oxford Street Monorail, and why astronomy funding is under threat
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How FM Radio Works
14th Feb 2025
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How FM Radio Works

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

14th Feb 2025
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Baccano! I wanted to like this one so much. It seemed tailor-made to what I love in anime: interesting,...
4th Nov 2021
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Baccano!

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

4th Nov 2021
I wanted to like this one so much. It seemed tailor-made to what I love in anime: interesting, anachronistic setting; weird alchemy stuff; a huge slew of characters and viewpoints; framing devices within framing devices.
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Epochs and slots all the way down: ways to give Ethereum users faster transaction confirmation times
30th Jun 2024
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Epochs and slots all the way down: ways to give Ethereum users faster transaction confirmation times

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

30th Jun 2024
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On The Contrary: “Hook” Is A Great Film Hook, the absolutely star-studded film directed by Stephen Spielberg, has received mixed reviews...
7th Jan 2026
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On The Contrary: “Hook” Is A Great Film

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

7th Jan 2026
Hook, the absolutely star-studded film directed by Stephen Spielberg, has received mixed reviews from critics since its release in 1991. I still can’t figure out why. One could have given the Academy Award for Best Actor to Dustin Hoffman, and Best Supporting Actor to Robin...
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Announcing Startup School Winter 2020
10th Dec 2019
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Announcing Startup School Winter 2020

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

10th Dec 2019
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Joining TCG Crypto I am thrilled to share that I am joining the team at TCG, The Chernin Group, to focus on the firm’s...
14th Sep 2021
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Joining TCG Crypto

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

14th Sep 2021
I am thrilled to share that I am joining the team at TCG, The Chernin Group, to focus on the firm’s investments at the intersection of consumer and crypto.
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Hiding a photo inside another photo How to hide a small photo inside a larger photo?
28th Apr 2022
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Hiding a photo inside another photo

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

28th Apr 2022
How to hide a small photo inside a larger photo?
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"Republic.com 2.0" is a terrible book title we don't always need citations to justify research
6th Jan 2025
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"Republic.com 2.0" is a terrible book title

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6th Jan 2025
we don't always need citations to justify research
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I see dead people Imagine seeing your dead family members - not just on a picture, but lifelike and in three...
9th Sep 2024
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I see dead people

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

9th Sep 2024
Imagine seeing your dead family members - not just on a picture, but lifelike and in three dimensions! You can almost touch them. It hits you differently, I can assure you. I'm still in awe: I just saw my dead grandfather, lifelike and for the first time ever in three dimensions!...
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Thinking about functional programming Someone on Discord asked about how to learn functional programming. The question and my initial...
15th Aug 2023
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Thinking about functional programming

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

15th Aug 2023
Someone on Discord asked about how to learn functional programming. The question and my initial tweet on the subject prompted an interesting discussion with Shriram Krishnamurthi and other folks. So here's a slightly more thought out exploration. And just for backstory sake: I...
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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...
4th Aug 2022
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I tried out the CyberPower UT650EG UPS

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

4th Aug 2022
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...
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Plus Post: Quantum Software Systems Ltd's QNX Operating Systems Come in Many Flavors But QNX Can Take the Heat
1st Apr 2024
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Plus Post: Quantum Software Systems Ltd's QNX

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

1st Apr 2024
Operating Systems Come in Many Flavors But QNX Can Take the Heat
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Understanding PLONK
22nd Sep 2019
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Understanding PLONK

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

22nd Sep 2019
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Fortinet FortiGate CVE-2024-23113 - A Super Complex Vulnerability In A Super Secure Appliance In... Today we'd like to share a recent journey into (yet another) SSLVPN appliance vulnerability - a...
14th Oct 2024
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Fortinet FortiGate CVE-2024-23113 - A Super Complex Vulnerability In A Super Secure Appliance In 2024

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

14th Oct 2024
Today we'd like to share a recent journey into (yet another) SSLVPN appliance vulnerability - a Format String vulnerability, unusually, in Fortinet's FortiGate devices. It affected (before patching) all currently-maintained branches, and recently was highlighted by CISA as...
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New Blog Location I finally got fed up with Blogger, and am moving this blog to live on Wordpress hosted off of...
12th Sep 2008
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New Blog Location

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

12th Sep 2008
I finally got fed up with Blogger, and am moving this blog to live on Wordpress hosted off of scripts.mit.edu. In the process of converting everything over and setting up Wordpress I’ve decided I hate it, but hopefully I hate it less than I hate Blogger. We’ll see. I’ve also...
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Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction In the 1970s, floating-point arithmetic was a mess. Computer manufacturers had a dozen incompatible...
12th Sep 2026
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Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction

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

12th Sep 2026
In the 1970s, floating-point arithmetic was a mess. Computer manufacturers had a dozen incompatible arithmetic standards. Moreover, floating-point systems were designed around hardware simplicity rather than mathematical rigor, leading to problems with numerical stability. This...
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2023-07-10 the tragedy of beatrice foods Occasionally, research into the history of telephony takes you into some strange places. There are...
10th Jul 2023
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2023-07-10 the tragedy of beatrice foods

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

10th Jul 2023
Occasionally, research into the history of telephony takes you into some strange places. There are conspiracy theories, of course, and there are people who insist on their version of events so incessantly that details of dates and places can become heated arguments. There is also...
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RAID array size and rebuild speed When a disk fails of a RAID 5 array, you are no longer protected against (another) disk failure and...
3rd Apr 2010
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RAID array size and rebuild speed

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

3rd Apr 2010
When a disk fails of a RAID 5 array, you are no longer protected against (another) disk failure and thus data loss. During this rebuild time, you are vulnerable. The longer it takes to rebuild your array, the longer you are vulnerable. Especially during a disk-intensive period,...
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Being John Malkovich I had held off on watching Being John Malkovich for a while, mostly because I think I had a pretty...
1st Feb 2025
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Being John Malkovich

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

1st Feb 2025
I had held off on watching Being John Malkovich for a while, mostly because I think I had a pretty good idea of what it was and, while I wanted to watch it at some point, it never felt particularly urgent. (The vision in my head was a sort of Bosch painting filled with John...
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Forgot your safe combination? This Arduino-controlled autodialer can crack it for you Safes are designed specifically to be impenetrable — that’s kind of the whole point. That’s great...
1st Apr 2025
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Forgot your safe combination? This Arduino-controlled autodialer can crack it for you

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

1st Apr 2025
Safes are designed specifically to be impenetrable — that’s kind of the whole point. That’s great when you need to protect something, but it is a real problem when you forget the combination to your safe or when a safe’s combination becomes lost to history. In such situations,...
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Goodbye Evernote, Hello Obsidian I use note-taking software every day. I use it for journaling, blogging, capturing ideas,...
10th Jun 2024
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Goodbye Evernote, Hello Obsidian

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

10th Jun 2024
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...
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Why I still won't switch to Linux and keep my Mac The current state of Linux is amazing. If we take a look at, for example, Ubuntu Linux, we have to...
1st Feb 2009
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Why I still won't switch to Linux and keep my Mac

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

1st Feb 2009
The current state of Linux is amazing. If we take a look at, for example, Ubuntu Linux, we have to admit that the Linux desktop is really becoming a nice, user-friendly environment. I'm truly starting to like what I see. I considered whiping Mac OS X from my macbook, but there...
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Great Tools Disappear The best designed products get out of the way and let you focus on the work instead of the tool
18th Sep 2025
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Great Tools Disappear

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

18th Sep 2025
The best designed products get out of the way and let you focus on the work instead of the tool
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Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 4. LLVM conditionals and compiling fibonacci Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 2. user-defined functions and variables ...
4th May 2019
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Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 4. LLVM conditionals and compiling fibonacci

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

4th May 2019
Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 2. user-defined functions and variables 3. LLVM 5. LLVM system calls 6. an x86 upgrade In this post we'll extend the compiler's LLVM backend to support compiling conditionals such that we can support...
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XSS doesn’t have to be game over There’s a persistent belief among web security people that cross-site scripting (XSS) is a “game...
10th Dec 2020
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XSS doesn’t have to be game over

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

10th Dec 2020
There’s a persistent belief among web security people that cross-site scripting (XSS) is a “game over” event for defence: there is no effective way to recover if an attacker can inject code into your site. Brian Campbell refers to this as “XSS Nihilism”, which is a great...
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Zoo elephants get a musical toy to enrich their lives Everyone loves looking at exotic animals and most of us only get to do that at zoos. But, of course,...
2nd Dec 2024
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Zoo elephants get a musical toy to enrich their lives

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

2nd Dec 2024
Everyone loves looking at exotic animals and most of us only get to do that at zoos. But, of course, there is a lot to be said about the morality of keeping those animals in captivity. So, good zoos put a lot of effort into keeping their animals healthy and happy. For more...
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Talking to memory: Inside the Intel 8088 processor's bus interface state machine In 1979, Intel introduced the 8088 microprocessor, a variant of the 16-bit 8086 processor. IBM's...
28th Apr 2024
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Talking to memory: Inside the Intel 8088 processor's bus interface state machine

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

28th Apr 2024
In 1979, Intel introduced the 8088 microprocessor, a variant of the 16-bit 8086 processor. IBM's decision to use the 8088 processor in the IBM PC (1981) was a critical point in computer history, leading to the success of the x86 architecture. The designers of the IBM PC selected...
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Testing the Mono Gateway, a custom-built 10 Gbps Router Testing the Mono Gateway, a custom-built 10 Gbps Router Last month, the stars aligned...
2nd Jan 2026
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Testing the Mono Gateway, a custom-built 10 Gbps Router

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

2nd Jan 2026
Testing the Mono Gateway, a custom-built 10 Gbps Router Last month, the stars aligned for me to bring the Mono Gateway (a 10 Gbps router that YouTuber Tomaž Zaman and his team at Mono built from scratch) on a trip to Phoenix, and test it with one of the most OP...
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Some thoughts on scaling code review AI code-writing tools make it possible for more people to write code than ever before. On my current...
28th Sep 2025
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Some thoughts on scaling code review

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

28th Sep 2025
AI code-writing tools make it possible for more people to write code than ever before. On my current team, I’ve seen PRs opened by engineers, designers, marketers, managers, and product people. There’s something special about empowering more people to build and fix things. That...
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Multiple input MACs When working with Message Authentication Codes (MACs), you often need to authenticate not just a...
27th Oct 2021
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Multiple input MACs

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

27th Oct 2021
When working with Message Authentication Codes (MACs), you often need to authenticate not just a single string, but multiple fields of data. For example, when creating an authenticated encryption mode by composing a cipher and a MAC (like AES-CBC and HMAC), you need to ensure the...
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Designing a multi dimensional capacity queue Dealing with a capacity queue is challenging, but if you take the time to model it right it is...
1st Dec 2020
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Designing a multi dimensional capacity queue

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

1st Dec 2020
Dealing with a capacity queue is challenging, but if you take the time to model it right it is possible to create a performant and reliable system.
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WetSocks Revival How to get a broken METAR/TAF Toolbar application working again; the fun way! Seeing what we can do...
25th Aug 2021
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WetSocks Revival

from Opsbros [alt+shift+b] in technology

25th Aug 2021
How to get a broken METAR/TAF Toolbar application working again; the fun way! Seeing what we can do to get WetSocks Windows 98 tray weather app working again.
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Outside the comfort zone: amateur acting This month I strapped myself with sensors during a little experiment outside my comfort zone: I...
17th Apr 2018
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Outside the comfort zone: amateur acting

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

17th Apr 2018
This month I strapped myself with sensors during a little experiment outside my comfort zone: I debuted as amateur actor!
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Interviewing is a noisy prediction problem I have done roughly 2,000 interviews in my life. When I started recruiting, I had so much confidence...
2nd May 2018
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Interviewing is a noisy prediction problem

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

2nd May 2018
I have done roughly 2,000 interviews in my life. When I started recruiting, I had so much confidence in my ability to assess people. Let me just throw a couple of algorithm questions at a candidate and then I'll tell you if they are good or not!
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Buienwatch, a custom Home Assistant integration for Buienradar and Buienalarm graphs on your Apple... Back in 2021, I wired up data from Buienalarm and Buienradar through Node-RED and a big pile of...
16th Sep 2026
0

Buienwatch, a custom Home Assistant integration for Buienradar and Buienalarm graphs on your Apple Watch

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

16th Sep 2026
Back in 2021, I wired up data from Buienalarm and Buienradar through Node-RED and a big pile of Jinja2 templates to get a rain forecast graph on my Apple Watch: eight Unicode block characters showing the next two hours in 15-minute chunks, glanceable without unlocking the phone....
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Content debt There’s a nascent trend of releasing ostensibly-private material (changelogs, public wikis,...
4th Jul 2024
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Content debt

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

4th Jul 2024
There’s a nascent trend of releasing ostensibly-private material (changelogs, public wikis, handbooks, etc.) to the public as a bit of a marketing push. This is essentially a form of debt, to the extent that you’re taking a lump-sum payment now in exchange for the implicit cost...
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Done this, done that. What now? Finished and uploaded our java game Grand Thief Arto, done an exam (didn’t quite go as intended) and...
5th Nov 2011
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Done this, done that. What now?

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

5th Nov 2011
Finished and uploaded our java game Grand Thief Arto, done an exam (didn’t quite go as intended) and starting some new courses in school. I’m liking my choice of Computer Science more and more. Data structures and Algorithms was a super fun course, I actually ordered a new book...
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