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Louwrentius
Did you know that RDP is as insecure as telnet? Microsoft developed the remote desktop protocol in order to allow remote GUI- based access to hosts....
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Microsoft developed the remote desktop protocol in order to allow remote GUI- based access to hosts. It is easy to pick on Microsoft and I do respect what they have accomplished, however, it may not come as a surprise that they did it all wrong with RDP in terms of security. By...
computers are bad
2024-07-31 just disconnect the internet So, let's say that a security vendor, we'll call them ClownStrike, accidentally takes down most of...
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So, let's say that a security vendor, we'll call them ClownStrike, accidentally takes down most of their Windows install base with a poorly tested content update. Rough day at the office, huh? There are lots of things you could say about this, lots of reasons it happens this way,...
Applied Cartography
Smoke test your Django admin site Here is a confession: I am a very strong proponent of a robust test suite being perhaps the single...
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Here is a confession: I am a very strong proponent of a robust test suite being perhaps the single most important asset of a codebase, but when it comes to auxiliary services like admin sites or CLIs when it comes to testing I tend to ask for forgiveness more than I ask for...
Electronics etc…
$17 GM1312 Thermometer Review, Test, and Teardown Introduction What is a thermocouple The GM1213 Thermometer A few...
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Introduction What is a thermocouple The GM1213 Thermometer A few tests Internals Conclusion References Introduction I’ve been doing a bunch of measurements on oven-controlled oscillators lately, including their temperature. There are multiple ways to measure...
Willem's Blog
Half Marathon Discover my journey from noob to (half) marathon finisher and how I balanced data with fitness -...
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a year ago
Discover my journey from noob to (half) marathon finisher and how I balanced data with fitness - read about my experiences!
Jonas Hietala
Postmortem: The Chronicles of Bim: The 100 Fake Afros My first shooter! It’s working (although a friend got a null pointer error) so I’m a little...
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My first shooter! It’s working (although a friend got a null pointer error) so I’m a little happy. The Time I spent about 24 hours on this game. A whopping 30% was break time, mostly me eating, reading manga or playing games… This is proof of me being really lazy this month I...
Greater Still by...
Joining Rostra I am thrilled to share that I am joining Rostra, where I’ll be working alongside Lulu Meservey and...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
I am thrilled to share that I am joining Rostra, where I’ll be working alongside Lulu Meservey and Sergey Alexashenko to help founders go direct.
anderegg.ca
Trying out GoodLinks The weeks leading up to the holidays have been hectic. I’m behind on “internet stuff” since entering...
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The weeks leading up to the holidays have been hectic. I’m behind on “internet stuff” since entering Christmas-mode, and have been looking for a better way to capture things I want to look at later. I’ve had this issue before, but solved it in an ad-hoc way. Previously I’d made...
Odds and Ends of...
Britain should ban TikTok My uncharacteristically illiberal opinion
5 months ago
Abishek Muthian
Apple Watch with Android A friend passed away recently during sleep due to unknown natural causes when they were all alone in...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
A friend passed away recently during sleep due to unknown natural causes when they were all alone in a hotel in a foreign country. I couldn't dismiss the thought that may be if they had worn a smart watch they could have had better chances of reaching out for help and perhaps...
Home on Erik...
Open source
over a year ago
Home on Erik...
Conversion rates – you are (most likely) computing them wrong How hard can it be to compute conversion rate? Take the total number of users that converted and...
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How hard can it be to compute conversion rate? Take the total number of users that converted and divide them with the total number of users. Done. Except… it's a lot more complicated when you have any sort of significant time lag.
Elevation Lab - Blog
A newer, better, ElevationDock Today we launched an update to our iPhone dock. It's wider to fit a bigger generation of phones,...
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Today we launched an update to our iPhone dock. It's wider to fit a bigger generation of phones, ships with an Apple-certified Lightning connector (that you can assemble in seconds with the new tool-free back plate), and we've added some new lateral supports for added...
Lars Lofgren
Why I’m Switching Web Hosts Recently, I’ve gotten fed up with my web host. Since I stood this site up, I’ve used MediaTemple....
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Recently, I’ve gotten fed up with my web host. Since I stood this site up, I’ve used MediaTemple. This was before WP Engine was around. At the time, MediaTemple had carved out a nice niche for themselves as the premium web host. Tim Ferriss also raved about them back in the day....
Ian's Blog
Hardware-Accelerated Video Encoding with Intel Arc on Redhat Linux I've been wanting hardware-accelerated video encoding on my Linux machine for quite a while now, but...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
I've been wanting hardware-accelerated video encoding on my Linux machine for quite a while now, but ask anybody who's used a Linux machine and they'll tell you of the horrors of Nvidia or AMD drivers. Intel, on the other hand, seems to be taking things in a much different, much...
Ken Shirriff's blog
The Intel 8088 processor's instruction prefetch circuitry: a look inside In 1979, Intel introduced the 8088 microprocessor, a variant of the 16-bit 8086 processor. IBM's...
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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 dominance of the x86 architecture that continues to the present.1 One...
Birchtree
Superhuman’s next big update looks very compelling On the Superhuman blog: The Next Evolution of Superhuman AI 💖 Custom Auto Labels. Our built-in Auto...
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4 months ago
On the Superhuman blog: The Next Evolution of Superhuman AI 💖 Custom Auto Labels. Our built-in Auto Labels are great, but what's even better is making your own. Just write a prompt, like “job applications” or “requests for me to review work”. You can
OH8HUB’s Substack
May Day activation on island of Hailuoto May Day is celebrated on first of May.
2 months ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Verkle trees
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./techtipsy
Self-hosting Wikipedia using Kiwix Do you have a need to host Wikipedia on your computer? Or a StackExchange site, like Super...
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Do you have a need to host Wikipedia on your computer? Or a StackExchange site, like Super User? It’s easier than you think! Step 1: download stuff! The Kiwix project provides ZIM files for many popular websites, including Wikipedia. These files can be downloaded over at Kiwix...
Gwern.net Newsletter
August 2020 gwern.net newsletter with an essay on sidenotes; links on human competence, efficient-computing/hardware-overhangs; no...
over a year ago
Construction Physics
Inside the interconnection queue Electric power in the US is provided by the electrical grid, a huge network of power plants,...
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Electric power in the US is provided by the electrical grid, a huge network of power plants, transmission lines, and transformers that moves electric power from where it's generated to where it's consumed.
./techtipsy
Back to roots This blog is running on a home server again. I have once again gained access to a competent internet...
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This blog is running on a home server again. I have once again gained access to a competent internet connection1, and I think I have figured out the IPv6 setup as well2, leading to this change. The IP address is dynamic, there are occasional power outages and I might just mess up...
Notes on software...
Writing a Jinja-inspired template library in Python In this post we'll build a minimal text templating library in Python inspired by Jinja. It will be...
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In this post we'll build a minimal text templating library in Python inspired by Jinja. It will be able to display variables and iterate over arrays. By the end of this article, with around 300 lines of code, we'll be able to create this program: from pytemplate import...
Willem's Blog
Measuring cholesterol levels in blood This week I had my blood examined to measure my cholesterol levels, taking a lipid profile. Know...
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This week I had my blood examined to measure my cholesterol levels, taking a lipid profile. Know your LDL, HDL and Triglycerides numbers with a simple test.
Jonas Hietala
Offset coordinates in Krita with Xinerama I recently bought an Intuos Manga drawing tablet recently, because I got this fix idea that I want...
over a year ago
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I recently bought an Intuos Manga drawing tablet recently, because I got this fix idea that I want to learn how to draw. And what better way to do it than with a drawing tablet, while satisfying my need for new things? With little experience I boldly set forth and I found a...
Jonas Hietala
Top ten activities that make me happy Recently we finally moved out of our old apartment and into a new larger apartment and it’s awesome....
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Recently we finally moved out of our old apartment and into a new larger apartment and it’s awesome. It’s no more than a year old and feels very fresh compared to the old one. It’s also larger with an extra room, dishwasher (!) and closer to the city centrum and everything is...
Arduino Blog
This ‘smocking display’ adds data physicalization to clothing Elastic use in the textile industry is relatively recent. So, what did garment makers do before...
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Elastic use in the textile industry is relatively recent. So, what did garment makers do before elastic came along? They relied on smocking, which is a technique for bunching up fabric so that it can stretch to better fit the form of a body. Now a team of computer science...
Abishek Muthian
Play YouTube video from firefox on mpv YouTube on Firefox skips frames and neither Google nor Firefox seem to have the incentive to fix it,...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
YouTube on Firefox skips frames and neither Google nor Firefox seem to have the incentive to fix it, let's do it ourselves. When this is done, we can watch YouTube videos in the browser with smooth playback using mpv as the video player backend. Note: This guide is for Linux...
Matt Mullenweg
Dalio & Benioff in Singaore With the world changing so quickly, it’s hard to find alpha, but the best way is by following the...
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With the world changing so quickly, it’s hard to find alpha, but the best way is by following the brightest thinkers. This CNBC interview with Ray Dalio and Marc Benioff is good, but it’s way better if you go to the livestream about 25 minutes in and see the full discussion...
Jonas Hietala
Sat-E So I entered Ludum Dare 22 this weekend as a preamble for tomorrow’s linear algebra exam. The theme...
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So I entered Ludum Dare 22 this weekend as a preamble for tomorrow’s linear algebra exam. The theme this time around was Alone and the game I came up with is about a lonely satellite in space, kinda like Wall-E. Sat-E Instructions Collect junk and other items for you to buy...
Gwern.net Newsletter
December newsletter December 2020 gwern.net newsletter with links on AI and technology; major new site feature:...
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December 2020 gwern.net newsletter with links on AI and technology; major new site feature: fully-generalized recursive popups.
Birchtree
Benchmarks from M2 Pro to M4 Pro Long story short, I picked up a new MacBook Pro this week. I got the M4 Pro version with the higher...
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Long story short, I picked up a new MacBook Pro this week. I got the M4 Pro version with the higher core count and 1TB of internal storage. It's the exact same model in the lineup as the M2 Pro I've been using for the last
Ken Shirriff's blog
Interesting BiCMOS circuits in the Pentium, reverse-engineered Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of...
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Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of processors. Earlier, I wrote about the ROM in the Pentium's floating point unit that holds constants such as π. In this post, I'll look at some interesting circuits associated with this...
Avestura's Blog
Oversimplified ideas of the great philosophers of all times Ideas of the great philosophers of all times explained in a few lines
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Ugly and Slow Progress Ludum Dare is coming along… Slowly. The rust on me is probably so brown it’s nearly black. But I...
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Ludum Dare is coming along… Slowly. The rust on me is probably so brown it’s nearly black. But I have an idea and it might be good, all I need to do is execute it. Right? Programmer graphics coming to take you away! Anyway it’s going to be a risk-like game with a twist: you can...
Home on Erik...
Google diversity memo, global warming, Pascal's wager, and other stuff There's about 765 million blog posts about the diversity “memo” that leaked out of Google a couple...
over a year ago
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There's about 765 million blog posts about the diversity “memo” that leaked out of Google a couple of weeks ago. I think the case for any biological difference is pretty weak, and it bothers me when people refer to an “interest gap” as anything else than caused by the...
Notes on software...
Languages you can run in the browser, part 1: Python, JavaScript, SQLite This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
Posts on Made of...
Reader/reader blocking in reader/writer locks Abstract In writer-priority reader/writer locks, as soon as a single writer enters the acquisition...
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Abstract In writer-priority reader/writer locks, as soon as a single writer enters the acquisition queue, all future accesses block behind any in-flight reads. Thus, if any readers hold the lock for extended periods of time, this can lead to extreme pauses and loss of throughput...
Willem's Blog
Outside the comfort zone: amateur acting This month I strapped myself with sensors during a little experiment outside my comfort zone: I...
over a year ago
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This month I strapped myself with sensors during a little experiment outside my comfort zone: I debuted as amateur actor!
Home on Erik...
What is your motivation? I've been trying to learn Clojure. I keep telling people I meet that I really want to learn Clojure,...
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I've been trying to learn Clojure. I keep telling people I meet that I really want to learn Clojure, but still every night I can't get myself to spend time with it. It's unclear if I really want to learn Clojure or just want to have learned Clojure?
Never Met a Science
Unbundling and Abundance on the (high) dimensionality of 21st century ideology
3 months ago
Notes on software...
How I run a software book club I've been running software book clubs almost continuously since last summer, about 12 months ago. We...
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I've been running software book clubs almost continuously since last summer, about 12 months ago. We read through Designing Data-Intensive Applications, Database Internals, Systems Performance, and we just started Understanding Software Dynamics. The DDIA discussions were...
Odds and Ends of...
The new GOV.UK login system is the first step in a radical transformation of the British state A British "DOGE" (of sorts) is rearchitecting the government
4 months ago
Arduino Blog
This disturbing Halloween doll was brought to life with Bottango Halloween is popular for a lot of reasons and it is safe to say that “creative expression” is near...
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Halloween is popular for a lot of reasons and it is safe to say that “creative expression” is near the top of the list. That extends beyond store-bought costumes and decorations to DIY projects. If you want an excuse to make something impractical, Halloween can provide that. And...
Willem's Blog
Do amazing things with a focused mind Read about my experience during the workshop I got as a birth day present involving the Wim Hof...
over a year ago
./techtipsy
Anything's a portable speaker if you're brave enough I hate buying things that are single-purpose, which is why I ended up with this setup. Take a...
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I hate buying things that are single-purpose, which is why I ended up with this setup. Take a speaker, a battery, put them together, and what you now have is a portable speaker. Since I had access to both, I felt no need to buy a separate portable speaker for use in social...
Arduino Blog
A pair of Arduino UNO R4 boards power this Tron-inspired, decked-out shop room Bob Clagett of the “I Like to Make Stuff” YouTube channel has recently undertaken an extensive shop...
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Bob Clagett of the “I Like to Make Stuff” YouTube channel has recently undertaken an extensive shop renovation project where he is rearranging tools, tidying up various spaces, and even creating a dedicated “clean” room for his collection of 3D printers/electronics work. With its...
Jorge Arango
Traction Heroes Ep. 9: Procrastination Do you ever catch yourself avoiding things you need to do? Sure you, do: we all do it. In episode 9...
2 months ago
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Do you ever catch yourself avoiding things you need to do? Sure you, do: we all do it. In episode 9 of Traction Heroes, Harry and I discuss what to do about it. The conversation took off when Harry read a fragment from Oliver Burkeman’s book, Meditations for Mortals. I won’t cite...
Louwrentius
RAID 5 vs. RAID 6 or do you care about your data? Storage is cheap. Lots of storage with 10+ hard drives is still cheap. Running 10 drives increases...
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Storage is cheap. Lots of storage with 10+ hard drives is still cheap. Running 10 drives increases the risk of a drive failure tenfold. So often RAID 5 is used to keep your data up and running if one single disks fails. But disks are so cheap and storage arrays are getting so...
Arduino Blog
Introducing Arduino cores with ZephyrOS (beta): take your embedded development to the next level Last July, when we announced the beginning of the transition from Mbed to Zephyr, we promised to...
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Last July, when we announced the beginning of the transition from Mbed to Zephyr, we promised to release the first beta by the end of 2024. Today, we are excited to announce the first release of Arduino cores with ZephyrOS in beta! ZephyrOS is an open-source, real-time operating...
Jonas Hietala
fish_update_completions in Slackware 14.1 I’ve been trying out fish shell lately. A cool feature with fish is that it can automatically...
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I’ve been trying out fish shell lately. A cool feature with fish is that it can automatically generate completions by parsing the installed man pages by running fish_update_completions. Unfortunately this is what I got: Traceback (most recent call last): File...
anderegg.ca
More details on Bluesky’s subscription plan Update: I had missed this, but the Bluesky team had already announced a subscription model was on...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Update: I had missed this, but the Bluesky team had already announced a subscription model was on the way. I had written this article assuming that was the news. What is new is the work happening on their official apps, which contains details on features and potential pricing. An...
Birchtree
Matt is a Mean Guy (hey!) Matt felt like bringing an intentionally controversial topic, Niléane refuses to admit she's created...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Matt felt like bringing an intentionally controversial topic, Niléane refuses to admit she's created a sticky note-based task manager, and everyone gives the iPad some much needed love. Or watch it on YouTube. Weekly Topics Raycast CleanShot X Final Cut Pro Google...
Jonas Hietala
The ASIC pit of despair Monero has once again changed the POW to brick ASICs following confirmation that 85% of Monero’s...
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over a year ago
Monero has once again changed the POW to brick ASICs following confirmation that 85% of Monero’s hashrate were ASICs. Recurring hard forks to brick ASICs is a very dangerous game and what better to illustrate this than with an xkcd-style plot? You’re safe on the edges but how do...
Birchtree
🕹️ I strongly recommend: Resident Evil 2 (members post) Oh buddy, what a game!
5 months ago
Matt Blewitt
Regular Restarts Are Good, Actually Anecdotally, one of the more maligned features of the Heroku platform are the 24-hour limits on...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Anecdotally, one of the more maligned features of the Heroku platform are the 24-hour limits on compute units, known as “dynos”. This is actually a good thing, but very misunderstood.
Willem's Blog
Cleaning a vintage watch This week I cleaned an automatic vintage watch and fitted it to with a new strap, rediscovering old...
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This week I cleaned an automatic vintage watch and fitted it to with a new strap, rediscovering old beauty underneath layers of dirt!
Applied Cartography
Tailwind black magic: styling paragraphs within tables The new version of the Buttondown docs site is all in on Keystatic, Markdoc, and Tailwind's...
a year ago
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The new version of the Buttondown docs site is all in on Keystatic, Markdoc, and Tailwind's typography plugin — which makes it really easy to author beautiful docs in plaintext. We ran into one small issue, which is that the Markdoc renderer likes to place paragraph tags in table...
Willem's Blog
Influencing purchase behaviour For my work I am continuously looking into scientific sources to improve e-commerce performance,...
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For my work I am continuously looking into scientific sources to improve e-commerce performance, conversion rates and online revenue. Use this useful report to apply behavioural sciences principles to your advantage.
Louwrentius
FFmpeg performance on a Core i7 920 @ 3.6 Ghz The system i'm running is a Core i7 920 @ 3.6 Ghz. I am transcoding a DVD (Grave Of The Fire Flies)...
over a year ago
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The system i'm running is a Core i7 920 @ 3.6 Ghz. I am transcoding a DVD (Grave Of The Fire Flies) to iPod format (640x480 x264). Thread support is enabled, to FFmpeg uses about 250% CPU. That's 2.5 of the 4 cores available. If possible, I would have liked to see it use all four...
GitButler
Git Merge 2024 Talks are Up All the Git Merge 2024 talks are up on Youtube. Here is a quick summary of each one.
8 months ago
Abort Retry Fail
The Birth of Windows Gaming Software is a fluid that expands to fill its container
a year ago
Birchtree
Wow, what courage Mia McCarthy writing for Politico: No More in-Person Town Halls, NRCC Chief Tells House...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Mia McCarthy writing for Politico: No More in-Person Town Halls, NRCC Chief Tells House Republicans The chair of the House GOP's campaign arm told Republican lawmakers Tuesday to stop holding in-person town halls amid a wave of angry backlash over the cuts undertaken by President...
Abishek Muthian
Paytm says to me that it’s PoS feature didn’t have a security risk Paytm- Alibaba backed India’s leading mobile payment wallet saw a 1000 % growth in the amount of...
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Paytm- Alibaba backed India’s leading mobile payment wallet saw a 1000 % growth in the amount of money added to its wallet during India’s demonetisation. I must acknowledge that digital wallets like Paytm, Ola money etc. did help in easing the pains of demonetisation for those...
computers are bad
2023-01-29 the parallel port A few days ago, on a certain orange website, I came across an article about an improvised parallel...
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A few days ago, on a certain orange website, I came across an article about an improvised parallel printer capture device. This contains the line: There are other projects out there, but when you google for terms such as "parallel port to usb", they drown in a sea of "USB to...
Jonas Hietala
Vacation Finally back from a 2 week vacation up at Övertorneå. It’s been pretty great to be taken care of and...
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Finally back from a 2 week vacation up at Övertorneå. It’s been pretty great to be taken care of and not doing anything. Well, I did get my ass kicked in Terra Mystica and I played a bit of Minecraft, but still. We got some nice food and my in-laws and my parents were nice. I’m...
Arduino Blog
You can now work in collaboration in Arduino Cloud In today’s busy world, getting students or engineers to work together is key to tackling complex IoT...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
In today’s busy world, getting students or engineers to work together is key to tackling complex IoT projects. Traditional code sharing and editing methods, like using offline IDEs or swapping files manually, often slow down projects and lead to mistakes. This can be a hassle and...
Construction Physics
Why the U.S. Can’t Build Icebreaking Ships I want to say thank you to all the people who sent condolences following last week’s post,...
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I want to say thank you to all the people who sent condolences following last week’s post, especially those who shared their own stories of loss.
Birchtree
The Intuit vs the government cage fight Daniel Boguslaw: Intuit, Owner of TurboTax, Wins Battle Against America’s Taxpayers Even when the...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Daniel Boguslaw: Intuit, Owner of TurboTax, Wins Battle Against America’s Taxpayers Even when the Biden administration broke through in the Inflation Reduction Act to fund a pilot program for Direct File, which expanded to 25 states this tax season, Intuit didn’t stop fighting....
Old Vintage...
After 41 years, my first assembly program on my first computer, the Tomy Tutor We got it in 1983, I think, so it only took me about 41 years to get around to it. This Tomy Tutor...
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We got it in 1983, I think, so it only took me about 41 years to get around to it. This Tomy Tutor isn't a replacement system I secondarily acquired, nor is it a Ship of Theseus Frankenstein rebuild. This is my actual first computer, in its original case, on its original...
Jorge Arango
Solsbury Hill Today is Peter Gabriel’s 75th birthday. He’s contributed much through his music and by bringing...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Today is Peter Gabriel’s 75th birthday. He’s contributed much through his music and by bringing people together through the arts. But today, I want to celebrate one of his songs that’s had a profound impact on my life: Solsbury Hill. Solsbury Hill was Gabriel’s debut single as...
Computer Ads from...
Black Friday - Happy Birthday sale Let's mix things up!
7 months ago
lcamtuf’s thing
A 15-minute intro to resin casting At one point in my life, I penned an epic, 110-page opus on hobby manufacturing.
6 months ago
Home on Erik...
Being data driven I picked up an issue of Foreign Affairs while flying back to NYC from SFO. It features this long...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I picked up an issue of Foreign Affairs while flying back to NYC from SFO. It features this long interview with U.S. General Stanley McChrystal and I thought it was pretty interesting how striking some of the similarities are between fighting in a war and developing software.
Notes on software...
In response to a frontend developer asking about database development This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Monaco What's Yours is Mine I’ve been waiting for soon to be three years for Monaco What’s Yours is Mine, and today I was...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been waiting for soon to be three years for Monaco What’s Yours is Mine, and today I was granted an early christmas present - I was given a beta key! w00p!! I was planning on studying and sending some emails to some companies… But who knows what I’ll end up doing? Tomorrow...
Arduino Blog
Enhance your IoT dashboards with Arduino Cloud’s new Image widget At Arduino, we’re constantly working to improve your IoT management experience. Today, we’re excited...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
At Arduino, we’re constantly working to improve your IoT management experience. Today, we’re excited to announce a new feature for Arduino Cloud that will allow you to enhance your IoT dashboards: the Image widget. The new Image widget The Image widget is a simple yet powerful...
Birchtree
On the new iPhone 16e Today Apple unveiled the iPhone 16e, which they're calling a part of the iPhone 16 lineup now,...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Today Apple unveiled the iPhone 16e, which they're calling a part of the iPhone 16 lineup now, rather than this odd duck the SE had been since launch. Honestly, I think this move in particular is interesting and maybe makes a ton of sense, but let's
csvbase blog
Caching secrets of the HTTP elders, part 1 ETags - an elegant weapon, for a more civilised age
a year ago
Abishek Muthian
Ola stop polluting notifications, respect categories Ola has realized that it would never make profit just like its overrated original and so it's...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Ola has realized that it would never make profit just like its overrated original and so it's diversifying into electric vehicles. I think that's great both as a business(if it pans out) and as a consumer as it could improve the electric vehicle ecosystem in India. But you...
Posts on Made of...
Implementing a declarative mini-language in the C preprocessor Last time, I announced Check Plus, a declarative language for defining Check tests in C. This time,...
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Last time, I announced Check Plus, a declarative language for defining Check tests in C. This time, I want to talk about the tricks I used to implement a declarative minilanguage using the C preprocessor (and some GCC extensions). The Problem We want to write some toplevel...
Willem's Blog
Clouds below my floor Building a little datacenter in my basement utilising a very fast internet connection.
over a year ago
noahbuscher.com
Create a Markdown Portfolio with Next.js So you've set out to create a new portfolio for yourself. You start gathering inspiration from...
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over a year ago
So you've set out to create a new portfolio for yourself. You start gathering inspiration from platforms like Godly and Minimal Gallery, draw some rectangles in Figma, and open your text editor. You pause. There's thousands of ways to build your website, how do you decide which...
Posts on Made of...
Building LLVM in 90 seconds using Amazon Lambda Last week, Frederic Cambus wrote about building LLVM quickly on some very large machines,...
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over a year ago
Last week, Frederic Cambus wrote about building LLVM quickly on some very large machines, culminating in a 2m37s build on a 160-core ARM machine. I don’t have a giant ARM behemoth, but I have been working on a tool I call Llama, which lets you offload computational work –...
lcamtuf’s thing
Random objects: Intel Edison A glimpse of the missteps of x86 in the embedded world.
a year ago
Computer Ads from...
Australian Air Force If You're Switched On, This is Paradise.
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Louwrentius
1.0 GB/s using Linux software RAID I filled the Norco case with hardware. It is now up and running, based on Debian Linux (Lenny). I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I filled the Norco case with hardware. It is now up and running, based on Debian Linux (Lenny). I immediately performed some initial tests with software RAID 0. The results are just astounding. debian:~# dd if=/dev/md0 of=/dev/null bs=1M count=50000 50000+0 records in 50000+0...
Bryan Braun - Blog
Links #12 Oscar, an open-source contributor agent architecture - Oscar is a project from the Go community that...
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2 months ago
Oscar, an open-source contributor agent architecture - Oscar is a project from the Go community that aims to develop AI agents that assist open source maintainers. I think this is a great idea. Open source is a load-bearing pillar in our modern digital infrastructure and...
Engineers Need Art
Adam74 The Adam74 is a small ASCII-based terminal designed for the 8-bit hobbyist.
over a year ago
Birchtree
Say hello to Quick Chapters I said that Quick Stuff was a place for me to put those little web utilities that I just need...
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2 months ago
I said that Quick Stuff was a place for me to put those little web utilities that I just need sometimes, and I've already got a new entrant: Quick Chapters. This little app simply lets you provide it an MP3 file, it will extract the chapters from it,
watchTowr Labs
8 Million Requests Later, We Made The SolarWinds Supply Chain Attack Look Amateur Surprise surprise, we've done it again. We've demonstrated an ability to compromise significantly...
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5 months ago
Surprise surprise, we've done it again. We've demonstrated an ability to compromise significantly sensitive networks, including governments, militaries, space agencies, cyber security companies, supply chains, software development systems and environments, and more. “Ugh, won’t...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Über Kollusion
over a year ago
Willem's Blog
For the love of mini The iPhone Mini has intangible greatness that most folks don't know about: read along for the love...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The iPhone Mini has intangible greatness that most folks don't know about: read along for the love of mini!
Abishek Muthian
Oracle cloud free tier quirks I recently came to know that Oracle offers VMs with decent compute performance as part of always...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I recently came to know that Oracle offers VMs with decent compute performance as part of always free cloud services, Which is great for someone like me who has too many side projects and spending way more on their hosting infrastructure than one should. There are several great...
Jonas Hietala
2012 Read Books I read a post, sadly lost the link, where the author had recorded all books she had read during the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I read a post, sadly lost the link, where the author had recorded all books she had read during the year and I thought it’d be pretty fun to do. So here goes, in a mostly ordered list. The Art of Learning - Josh Waitzkin Världens Whiskey More of a reference book. Linear Algebra...
Jorge Arango
Traction Heroes Ep. 7: Better Questions Conversations on the Traction Heroes podcast are proving highly relevant. To wit, episode 7 delves...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Conversations on the Traction Heroes podcast are proving highly relevant. To wit, episode 7 delves into how the questions we ask ourselves influence our ability to act skillfully. This came up in the context of dealing with uncertainty. Specifically, Harry brought to the...
Odds and Ends of...
The social justice case for self-driving cars Abundant mobility should be a moral crusade
5 months ago
Home on Erik...
Fermat's principle I was browsing around on the Internet and the physics geek in me started reading about Fermat's...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I was browsing around on the Internet and the physics geek in me started reading about Fermat's principle. And suddenly something came back to me that I've been trying to suppress for many years – how I never understood why there's anything fundamental about the principal of...
Willem's Blog
The Same, Differently
a year ago
Ken Shirriff's blog
A tricky Commodore PET repair: tracking down 6 1/2 bad chips .cite { font-size: 70%;} .ref { vertical-align: super; font-size: 60%;} code {font-size: 100%;...
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.cite { font-size: 70%;} .ref { vertical-align: super; font-size: 60%;} code {font-size: 100%; font-family: courier, fixed;} In 1977, Commodore released the PET computer, a quirky home computer that combined the processor, a tiny keyboard, a cassette drive for storage, and...
Arduino Blog
Join us for Arduino Day 2025: celebrating 20 years of community! Mark your calendars for March 21-22, 2025, as we come together for a special Arduino Day to...
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5 months ago
Mark your calendars for March 21-22, 2025, as we come together for a special Arduino Day to celebrate our 20th anniversary! This free, online event is open to everyone, everywhere. Two decades of creativity and community Over the past 20 years, we have evolved from a simple...
Posts on Made of...
Test suites as classifiers Suppose we have some codebase we’re considering applying some patch to, and which has a robust and...
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over a year ago
Suppose we have some codebase we’re considering applying some patch to, and which has a robust and maintained test suite. Considering the patch, we may ask, is this patch acceptable to apply and deploy. By this we mean to ask if the patch breaks any important functionality,...
Notes on software...
Phil Eaton on Technical Blogging This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
3 months ago
Matt Blewitt
Sensibly Default There are two programming principles that I hold dear to my heart: the principle of least surprise...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
There are two programming principles that I hold dear to my heart: the principle of least surprise and provide sensible defaults. I’ve recently been working within the GraphQL ecosystem, and the number of violations of both here has frustrated me. This will be a little bit ranty.
Home on Erik...
Exploding offers are bullshit I do a lot of recruiting and have given maybe 50 offers in my career. Although many companies do, I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I do a lot of recruiting and have given maybe 50 offers in my career. Although many companies do, I never put a deadline on any of them. Unfortunately, I've often ended up competing with other companies who do, and I feel really bad that this usually tricks younger developers...
Notes on software...
My favorite software subreddits Originally published on December 5, 2021. If you are an experienced software developer whose only...
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over a year ago
Originally published on December 5, 2021. If you are an experienced software developer whose only exposure to reddit is dank memes, proggit or even language-specific subreddits like /r/python, you're missing out. What follows are my favorite subreddits in tech. My criteria is...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Reverse engineering the 59-pound printer onboard the Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle contained a bulky printer so the astronauts could receive procedures, mission...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
The Space Shuttle contained a bulky printer so the astronauts could receive procedures, mission plans, weather reports, crew activity plans, and other documents. Needed for the first Shuttle launch in 1981, this printer was designed in just 7 months, built around an Army...
Matt Mullenweg
AI Site Builder The long-anticipated “Big Sky” AI site builder on WordPress.com went live today. It combines several...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
The long-anticipated “Big Sky” AI site builder on WordPress.com went live today. It combines several models and can create logos, site designs, typography, color schemes, and content. It’s an entirely new way to interact with and edit a brand-new or existing WordPress site. This...
Daniel De Laney
Data Center Monitoring “I like to use sketches to validate ideas quickly, without a lot of investment in the wrong...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
“I like to use sketches to validate ideas quickly, without a lot of investment in the wrong direction.” The Challenge The computing power that runs the world is hidden away in data centers that few people get to see. While many data centers are lights-out operations most of the...
Jonas Hietala
Focusing Attention: Study Hacking A week of drawing is over, but I didn’t draw that much. It was a little bit of a fail from my...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A week of drawing is over, but I didn’t draw that much. It was a little bit of a fail from my part. But the past is the past and this week I’m going to be study focused. Not that I need to study, but I really need to rework my study technique. I’ve been going on like a classical...
Arduino Blog
Monitoring the weather with an Arduino MKR WiFi 1010-based station Being able to monitor the weather in real-time is great for education, research, or simply to...
a year ago
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a year ago
Being able to monitor the weather in real-time is great for education, research, or simply to analyze how the local climate changes over time. This project by Hackster.io user Pradeep explores how he was able to design a simple station outdoors that could communicate with a...
Krebs on Security
Alleged ‘Scattered Spider’ Member Extradited to U.S. A 23-year-old Scottish man thought to be a member of the prolific Scattered Spider cybercrime group...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
A 23-year-old Scottish man thought to be a member of the prolific Scattered Spider cybercrime group was extradited last week from Spain to the United States, where he is facing charges of wire fraud, conspiracy and identity theft. U.S. prosecutors allege Tyler Robert Buchanan and...
lcamtuf’s thing
The serious science of trolling LLMs The internet's oldest pastime finally has a purpose -- and it's more serious than AI companies would...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
The internet's oldest pastime finally has a purpose -- and it's more serious than AI companies would like to admit.
Willem's Blog
Commuting by bike One week on the VanMoof Electrified S E-bike testing it for commuting and comparing it to a normal...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One week on the VanMoof Electrified S E-bike testing it for commuting and comparing it to a normal bike.
Posts on Made of...
Computers can be understood Introduction This post attempts to describe a mindset I’ve come to realize I bring to essentially...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Introduction This post attempts to describe a mindset I’ve come to realize I bring to essentially all of my work with software. I attempt to articulate this mindset, some of its implications and strengths, and some of the ways in which it’s lead me astray. Software can be...
Willem's Blog
Cutting Cloud Costs Facing sky-high cloud costs, I found software optimisation vital. Discover how I saved 90% on cloud...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Facing sky-high cloud costs, I found software optimisation vital. Discover how I saved 90% on cloud expenses!
Louwrentius
Making cowpatty recognize a four-way handshake I was unable to get cowpatty working with a packet capture that actually contains a four-way...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I was unable to get cowpatty working with a packet capture that actually contains a four-way handshake of a WPA session. I got it working like this: First, download cowpatty 4.6 right here, within the source directory of cowpatty. Extract cowpatty and apply this patch using these...
./techtipsy
Running my ThinkPad T430 with an eGPU in 2024 I probably shouldn’t have written down my notes on the eGPU setup I had years ago. I’d be lying if I...
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I probably shouldn’t have written down my notes on the eGPU setup I had years ago. I’d be lying if I wasn’t considering remaking this setup with everything I’ve learned 6 years later. Oops. I got access to an allegedly-faulty AMD Radeon RX 480 and an NVIDIA GTX 1650 for free...
Greater Still by...
Revisiting Borderless Payments What’s old is new again. By Gaby Goldberg & Bridget Harris
a year ago
Matt Blewitt
Building a PostgreSQL Extension, Line by Line I’ve been working on a particular problem - how to offer logical replication for a very large number...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve been working on a particular problem - how to offer logical replication for a very large number of Postgres databases, where I don’t have the ability (or capacity) to liaise with the users of the databases one-to-one. In order to mitigate some of the limitations, I wanted to...
Arduino Blog
An affordable open-source robotic prosthetic arm  For those missing limbs, a robotic prosthesis represents a real and useful way to regain capability....
2 months ago
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2 months ago
For those missing limbs, a robotic prosthesis represents a real and useful way to regain capability. But such prostheses are traditionally very expensive and are inaccessible to a large percentage of the people who would benefit from them. In an effort to improve the situation,...
anderegg.ca
Maze Mice I was late to the party, but I played Luck Be a Landlord last year and really enjoyed it. It’s a...
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I was late to the party, but I played Luck Be a Landlord last year and really enjoyed it. It’s a deckbuilder where you build combos by manipulating the icons in your custom slot machine. I linked above to the Steam page, but it’s on just about every platform — I played through it...
Arduino Blog
Improve indoor air quality with Arduino When we think about air quality and pollution, it’s easy to conjure up images of smog-filled cities...
a year ago
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a year ago
When we think about air quality and pollution, it’s easy to conjure up images of smog-filled cities and power plants churning clouds of poison into the atmosphere. And while all this is still important, and has massive consequences for our health, it’s all too easy to overlook...
Arduino Blog
Machine-to-machine communication is easier than ever: Opta now supports OPC UA OPC Unified Architecture – OPC UA in short – is a cross-platform, open-source machine-to-machine...
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8 months ago
OPC Unified Architecture – OPC UA in short – is a cross-platform, open-source machine-to-machine communication protocol for industrial automation. It was developed by the Open Platform Communications (OPC) Foundation and is defined in detail in the IEC 62541 standard. With the...
Christian Selig
My little Apple Vision Pro stand I want somewhere to put my Vision Pro when not in use. Many people use the original box, and there’s...
a year ago
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a year ago
I want somewhere to put my Vision Pro when not in use. Many people use the original box, and there’s beautiful stands that exist out there, but I was looking for something more compact and vertical so it would take up less room on my desk. So I opened Fusion 360 (which I am still...
Computer Ads from...
Comics from Winter 1980 Issue of Electronics Today International AI and everything in between.
2 days ago
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Pocketwatch of Goo [Concept] Liquid filled timepiece
4 months ago
Louwrentius
Understanding the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Server Autoinstaller Introduction Ubuntu Server version 18.04 LTS uses the debian-installer (d-i) for the installation...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Introduction Ubuntu Server version 18.04 LTS uses the debian-installer (d-i) for the installation process. This includes support for 'preseeding' to create unattended (automated) installations of ubuntu. the debian installer With the introduction of Ubuntu Server 20.04 'Focal...
Matt Mullenweg
Code Matters It looks like the code that the newly announced Figma Sites is producing isn’t the best. There are...
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It looks like the code that the newly announced Figma Sites is producing isn’t the best. There are some cool Figma-to-WordPress workflows; I hope Sites gets more people exploring those options.
Computer Ads from...
VenturCom's VENIX Mixing REAL Time With REAL UNIX Is Not Magic...It Is Technology.
a year ago
Arduino Blog
Build an ePaper weather display and message board using Arduino Cloud If you haven’t yet experimented with the Arduino Cloud, then you may not be aware of how powerful it...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
If you haven’t yet experimented with the Arduino Cloud, then you may not be aware of how powerful it is for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Using the service and its online tools, you can quickly build and deploy smart IoT devices — often with little or no custom code...
Notes on software...
io_uring basics: Writing a file to disk King and I wrote a blog post about building an event-driven cross-platform IO library that...
a year ago
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a year ago
King and I wrote a blog post about building an event-driven cross-platform IO library that used io_uring on Linux. We sketched out how it works at a high level but I hadn't yet internalized how you actually code with io_uring. So I strapped myself down this week and wrote...
Birchtree
I keep telling people Google TV is better than you think Jason Snell: Who’s the Laggard? Comparing TV Streamer Boxes In short: Google TV is tasteful, well...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Jason Snell: Who’s the Laggard? Comparing TV Streamer Boxes In short: Google TV is tasteful, well done, supports live streaming decently if not perfectly, and is a great extension of the Google ecosystem. As someone who does use YouTube TV and YouTube Premium, if I had to stop
Abishek Muthian
Projects Hi I'm Abishek Muthian, an indie, I write code to solve problems in health and build tools for...
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6 months ago
Hi I'm Abishek Muthian, an indie, I write code to solve problems in health and build tools for indies to create sustainable income. Bone Health Tracker Track your bone health, Monitor the progress of your treatments. Memory Hammer What if you can remember everything you see,...
Old Vintage...
What went wrong with wireless USB (Hat tip to the late Bill Strauss and The Capitol Steps' Lirty Dies.) take my Palm OS Fossil Wrist...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
(Hat tip to the late Bill Strauss and The Capitol Steps' Lirty Dies.) take my Palm OS Fossil Wrist PDA smartwatch mobile. It has no on-board networking libraries but can be coerced into doing PPP over its serial port (via USB) by using the libraries from my Palm m505. Of...
Simply Explained
Retrospective: 4 years on YouTube Every year I sit down and take a look at how my YouTube channel has been doing. I reflect, evaluate,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Every year I sit down and take a look at how my YouTube channel has been doing. I reflect, evaluate, and set goals for the coming year. This year is no exception. January 13th, 2020, marks my fourth year on YouTube. Time to do a little retrospective.
The New Oil
Cybersecurity 101: A Guide to Staying Safe Online
7 months ago
The Pragmatic...
Interesting startup idea: benchmarking cloud platform pricing A team of 3 developers built a neat platform called Spare Cores that makes cloud instance pricing...
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8 months ago
A team of 3 developers built a neat platform called Spare Cores that makes cloud instance pricing more transparent. A deepdive on how exactly they did it.
Jonas Hietala
Death to the Forum Well it was fun while it lasted, but now it’s gone and it’ll stay gone for a long time I think. It...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Well it was fun while it lasted, but now it’s gone and it’ll stay gone for a long time I think. It was mainly a test to see if I could do it and I’m really proud of my styling of it but it’s deader than in a grave, which isn’t really surprising, and it bothered me that I didn’t...
Electronics etc…
The HP 423A and a Beginner’s Deep Dive into RF Crystal Detectors MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [...
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MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [ ['$', '$'], ["\\(", "\\)"] ], displayMath: [ ['$$', '$$'], ["\\[", "\\]"] ], processEscapes: true, skipTags: ['script', 'noscript', 'style', 'textarea', 'pre',...
Arduino Blog
Making a car more secure with the Arduino Nicla Vision Shortly after attending a recent tinyML workshop in Sao Paolo, Brazil, Joao Vitor Freitas da Costa...
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11 months ago
Shortly after attending a recent tinyML workshop in Sao Paolo, Brazil, Joao Vitor Freitas da Costa was looking for a way to incorporate some of the technologies and techniques he learned into a useful project. Given that he lives in an area which experiences elevated levels of...
Construction Physics
How Good Are American Roads? We’re in an era where US infrastructure is getting a lot of attention.
7 months ago
Bryan Braun - Blog
Goodbye Evernote, Hello Obsidian I use note-taking software every day. I use it for journaling, blogging, capturing ideas,...
a year ago
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a year ago
I use note-taking software every day. I use it for journaling, blogging, capturing ideas, researching technologies, managing my projects, and many other things. Writing is how I think through problems, and note-taking software makes all that thinking easy to search and...
Home on Erik...
Annoying blog post I spent a couple of hours this weekend going through some pull requests and issues to Annoy, which...
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over a year ago
I spent a couple of hours this weekend going through some pull requests and issues to Annoy, which is an open source C++/Python library for Approximate Nearest Neighbor search. I set up Travis-CI integration and spent some time on one of the issues that multiple people had...
Computer Ads from...
American Heart Association A PSA and an Ad
7 months ago
Good Enough
TIL: Rails Testing I had to figure out how to run browser-based tests in Rails again. In part that meant working around...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I had to figure out how to run browser-based tests in Rails again. In part that meant working around my lack of Chrome. Rails System Tests with Safari. I also had some problems with Rails Turbo Drive taking over EVERYTHING, which required me to figure out how to deal with a Rails...
Computer Ads from...
Epyx Oil Barons Oil Barons. If You're Smart, You'll get Filthy Rich.
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Jonas Hietala
Monty Hall I’m currently reading The Drunkard’s Walk, a well written book about probabilities. There they...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’m currently reading The Drunkard’s Walk, a well written book about probabilities. There they discussed the famous Monty Hall Problem. I’ve heard about it before and I know the answer, but he mentioned a simulation of the problem and that sounded cool so I made a simulation of...
./techtipsy
Disabling the crappy Broadcom Bluetooth adapter in your ThinkPad T430 running Linux You’ve disabled the boneheaded Lenovo WiFi adapter whitelist using a tool like 1vyrain, installed a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
You’ve disabled the boneheaded Lenovo WiFi adapter whitelist using a tool like 1vyrain, installed a better adapter like the Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260, and found that Bluetooth is not working as intended on your ThinkPad T430 running Linux? Here’s a guide on what you can...
Matt Mullenweg
Remember Gravatar? Gravatar has always been about giving people control over their identity online. One avatar, one...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Gravatar has always been about giving people control over their identity online. One avatar, one profile, synced across the web, verified connections, with a fully open API. Gravatar is a true open identity layer for the internet, and now for AI.  For developers, we’ve rolled out...
Krebs on Security
ClickFix: How to Infect Your PC in Three Easy Steps A clever malware deployment scheme first spotted in targeted attacks last year has now gone...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
A clever malware deployment scheme first spotted in targeted attacks last year has now gone mainstream. In this scam, dubbed "ClickFix," the visitor to a hacked or malicious website is asked to distinguish themselves from bots by pressing a combination of keyboard keys that...
Style over Substance
My new purchase: a Zeiss Ikon Nettar 517/16 Cheaper than a tank of gas, smaller than a Leica, 6x6 medium format negs - tons of fun. This Nettar...
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Cheaper than a tank of gas, smaller than a Leica, 6x6 medium format negs - tons of fun. This Nettar folding camera sure is bang for buck! The post My new purchase: a Zeiss Ikon Nettar 517/16 appeared first on Style over Substance.
Good Enough
Say hello to Jelly: the simplest way to jam on email as a team Dear readers, we need to apologize. We know some of you have noticed that Good Enough has gotten...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
Dear readers, we need to apologize. We know some of you have noticed that Good Enough has gotten much quieter this year than last, across this blog, our newsletter, and socials. We’ve been heads down for the last few months on something new, but we’re now ready to come back up...
Jonas Hietala
Doing some online Personality tests For some reason I’ve done a couple of personality tests the last month, mostly to satisfy my own...
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over a year ago
For some reason I’ve done a couple of personality tests the last month, mostly to satisfy my own curiosity. The Braverman Test Inspired by Charles Poliquin’s visit on The Tim Ferriss Show I tried out the Braverman test to determine my neurotransmitter type. The point Charles...
Good Enough
TIL: Easily Support Gravatars in Rails We’re building some software where we’d like to display avatars for email contacts even if they...
a year ago
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a year ago
We’re building some software where we’d like to display avatars for email contacts even if they aren’t users of our software. While Gravatar is a relic of Web 2.0, we’ve found that there are still a significant number of people who have their email addresses in that...
Old Vintage...
Let's give PRO/VENIX a barely adequate, pre-C89 TCP/IP stack (featuring Slirp-CK) TCP/IP Illustrated (what would now be called the first edition prior to the 2011 update) for a...
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TCP/IP Illustrated (what would now be called the first edition prior to the 2011 update) for a hundred-odd bucks on sale which has now sat on my bookshelf, encased in its original shrinkwrap, for at least twenty years. It would be fun to put up the 4.4BSD data structures poster...
Greater Still by...
Get In Loser, We’re Unbundling Again OpenSea as crypto's "shopping mall," aggregated liquidity, web3 loyalty programs, curating the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
OpenSea as crypto's "shopping mall," aggregated liquidity, web3 loyalty programs, curating the buyers, and more... some high-level thoughts around The Current Thing
Jonas Hietala
Securing my partner's digital life I’ve been with Veronica for over a decade now and I think I’m starting to know her fairly well. Yet...
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5 months ago
I’ve been with Veronica for over a decade now and I think I’m starting to know her fairly well. Yet she still manages to surprise me. For instance, a couple of weeks ago she came and asked me about email security: I worry that my email password is too weak. Can you help me change...
Himanshu Mishra |...
Threads “You’re an interesting species. An interesting mix. You’re capable of such beautiful dreams, and...
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over a year ago
“You’re an interesting species. An interesting mix. You’re capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost…
computers are bad
2023-03-13 the door close button This will probably be a short one, and I know I haven't written for a while, but it has always been...
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This will probably be a short one, and I know I haven't written for a while, but it has always been the case that you get what you pay for and Computers Are Bad is nothing if not affordable. Still, this is a topic on which I am moderately passionate and so I can probably stretch...
Neil Madden
Macaroon access tokens for OAuth: Part 2 – transactional auth In part 1, I showed how Macaroon access tokens in ForgeRock Access Management 7.0 can be used as a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In part 1, I showed how Macaroon access tokens in ForgeRock Access Management 7.0 can be used as a lightweight and easy-to-deploy alternative to proof of possession (PoP) schemes for securing tokens in browser-based apps. The same techniques can be adapted to secure tokens in...
Birchtree
Your brain doesn’t want you to work out Dean Burnett writing for Science Focus: Your Brain Is Hard-Wired to Avoid Exercise. Here's Why So...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Dean Burnett writing for Science Focus: Your Brain Is Hard-Wired to Avoid Exercise. Here's Why So why, even though we’ve evolved to do it, doesn't everyone enjoy exercise? The baffling complexity of the human brain is to blame. Evolving an ability doesn’t
Posts on Made of...
A Very Subtle Bug 6.033, MIT’s class on computer systems, has as one of its catchphrases, “Complex systems fail for...
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6.033, MIT’s class on computer systems, has as one of its catchphrases, “Complex systems fail for complex reasons”. As a class about designing and building complex systems, it’s a reminder that failure modes are subtle and often involve strange interactions between multiple parts...
Lighthouse Blog
Rules improvement: filter based on content
6 months ago
Old Vintage...
Pretty pictures, bootable floppy disks, and the first Canon Cat demo? Now that our 1987 Canon Cat is refurbished and ready to go another nine innings or so, it's time to...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Now that our 1987 Canon Cat is refurbished and ready to go another nine innings or so, it's time to get into the operating system and pull some tricks. from our historical discussion of the Canon Cat, the Cat was designed by Jef Raskin as a sophisticated user-centric computer...
Birchtree
A clear-eyed look at LLM energy use Andy Masley: A Cheat Sheet for Why Using ChatGPT Is Not Bad for the Environment If you want to...
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2 months ago
Andy Masley: A Cheat Sheet for Why Using ChatGPT Is Not Bad for the Environment If you want to prompt ChatGPT 40 times, you can just stop your shower 1 second early. If you normally take a 5 minute shower, set a timer for 299 seconds instead, and you’
Old Vintage...
The "35-cent" Commodore 64 softmodem Rockwell famously used 6502-based cores in modems for many years, but that doesn't mean other 6502s...
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5 months ago
Rockwell famously used 6502-based cores in modems for many years, but that doesn't mean other 6502s couldn't be used. If only there were a way to connect a Commodore 64's audio output directly to an RJ-11 plug ... Convergent WorkSlate stuff I've got to catalogue. Officially...
Christian Selig
Instant Pan Gesture Interactions Apple has a really awesome WWDC 2018 video called Designing Fluid Interfaces, and one of the key...
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over a year ago
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...
Never Met a Science
The Whirlpool of the Artificial There are many processes now subsumed under the term “Artificial Intelligence.” The reason we’re...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
There are many processes now subsumed under the term “Artificial Intelligence.” The reason we’re talking about it now, though, is that the websites are doing things we never thought websites could do.
anderegg.ca
Halls of Torment: a thematically questionable downtime game Merry Christmas and happy holidays! I hope everyone out there has a joyful and relaxing day, however...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Merry Christmas and happy holidays! I hope everyone out there has a joyful and relaxing day, however you celebrate. During the downtime I got to play a game I’d been wanting to try for a while. Last summer on The Besties podcast, Russ Frushtick mentioned that he was enjoying...
Never Met a Science
Video Killed the Social Media Star The two 2024 Presidential Debates have proven the continued centrality of television to our...
9 months ago
Electronics etc…
Brightness and Contrast Adjustment of Tektronix TDS 500/600/700 Oscilloscopes Introduction Finding the Display Tuning Potentiometers The Result Hardcopy Preview...
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a month ago
Introduction Finding the Display Tuning Potentiometers The Result Hardcopy Preview Mode Introduction Less than a week after finishing my TDS 684B analog memory blog post, a TDS 684C landed on my lab bench with a very dim CRT. If you follow the lives the 3-digit TDS oscilloscope...
Abishek Muthian
Legal The legal terms mentioned here covers abishekmuthian.com and products which explicitly link to this...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The legal terms mentioned here covers abishekmuthian.com and products which explicitly link to this legal page. For legal terms of my individual products please refer to the legal section on their respective websites. Privacy Policy What personal data are collected and why its...
Good Enough
Cool Songs Don’t Die Earlier this week, I watched the pilot episode of Alias. Yes, that Alias – the one that began airing...
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over a year ago
Earlier this week, I watched the pilot episode of Alias. Yes, that Alias – the one that began airing 22 years ago and ran for 5 seasons and was a pretty big hit and launched the careers of two bonafide movie stars and featured a cast of very well known supporting actors. So yeah,...
Arduino Blog
Reduce power consumption in IoT and wearable devices, with Arduino’s new power management library! Developing energy-efficient IoT and wearable devices is complex and time-consuming, yet it is...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Developing energy-efficient IoT and wearable devices is complex and time-consuming, yet it is essential for creating high-quality products that stand out in today’s market. A key part in this process is optimizing power consumption without sacrificing performance or...
Notes on software...
A paper reading club at work; databases and distributed systems research I started a paper reading club this week at work, focused on databases and distributed systems...
a year ago
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a year ago
I started a paper reading club this week at work, focused on databases and distributed systems research. I posted in a general channel about the premise and asked if anyone was interested. I clarified the intended topic and that discussions would be asynchronous over email, run...
Abishek Muthian
BigBasket slot alert BigBasket is the leading online grocery delivery portal in India, due to the reduced workforce and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
BigBasket is the leading online grocery delivery portal in India, due to the reduced workforce and extraordinary demand; the bookings happen at random slots and we have no other choice but to keep checking the app regularly. A need gap was posted recently, asking for a solution...
Posts on Made of...
New reptyr feature: TTY-stealing Ever since I wrote reptyr, I’ve been frustrated by a number of issues in reptyr that I fundamentally...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Ever since I wrote reptyr, I’ve been frustrated by a number of issues in reptyr that I fundamentally didn’t know how to solve within the reptyr model. Most annoyingly, reptyr fundamentally only worked on single processes, and could not attach processes with children, making it...
Arduino Blog
ExoKit is a novice-friendly foundation for building powered exoskeletons Our modern technological world is built upon shared knowledge. If you want to build a car, you don’t...
a month ago
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a month ago
Our modern technological world is built upon shared knowledge. If you want to build a car, you don’t have to reinvent the wheel—you can rely on existing research and engineering, so you can skip ahead to the more complex specialized work. Such foundations exist in every industry...
Home on Erik...
Delivering Music Recommendations I've turned into a lazy bastard and I'm just posting presentations on this blog, but here's one from...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've turned into a lazy bastard and I'm just posting presentations on this blog, but here's one from Rohan Singh at Spotify talking about the backend infrastructure of the Discover page.
Abort Retry Fail
The History of Red Hat The Billion Dollar Open Source Company
a year ago
Matt Mullenweg
Falling Snow The talented Felix Arntz has given an incredible Christmas gift to the WordPress community with his...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
The talented Felix Arntz has given an incredible Christmas gift to the WordPress community with his fast, light, and accessible Snow Fall plugin, which is live on this site and you can install on yours. I hope everyone is having a happy holidays! Search for “snow fall” in your...
Matt Mullenweg
Where is Lee Wittlinger? Lee controls the board of WP Engine. The board is why WP Engine hasn’t done a trademark deal for...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
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...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Reverse engineering standard cell logic in the Intel 386 processor The 386 processor (1985) was Intel's most complex processor at the time, with 285,000...
a year ago
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a year ago
The 386 processor (1985) was Intel's most complex processor at the time, with 285,000 transistors. Intel had scheduled 50 person-years to design the processor, but it was falling behind schedule. The design team decided to automate chunks of the layout, developing "automatic...
Bryan Braun - Blog
Breaking down circular dependencies in JavaScript I write a lot of JavaScript but circular dependencies have always been kind of a mystery to me. The...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
I write a lot of JavaScript but circular dependencies have always been kind of a mystery to me. The error messages always seem random and inscrutable, and sometimes there’s no error message at all! I wanted to understand this topic better, so I ran a series of experiments and...
Willem's Blog
Impact of training Join me on an intriguing journey as I explore the transformative impact of effective training and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Join me on an intriguing journey as I explore the transformative impact of effective training and data analysis on my performance in the Fietselfstedentocht 2023.
Willem's Blog
Using Google Free Android Using a Google Free Android phone is uncommon these days, yet I decided to try the Volla Phone to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Using a Google Free Android phone is uncommon these days, yet I decided to try the Volla Phone to experience its freedom and privacy.
Willem's Blog
Designing an interface for a food ordering page Designing a food ordering page is surprisingly challenging because of the many variables that need...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Designing a food ordering page is surprisingly challenging because of the many variables that need to be accommodated on a very small screen.
Posts on Made of...
New Blog Location I finally got fed up with Blogger, and am moving this blog to live on Wordpress hosted off of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
Arduino Blog
This unique wall sconce welcomes you home with warm light Have you ever walked through your front door after a long day of work and realized that your home...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Have you ever walked through your front door after a long day of work and realized that your home just isn’t as inviting as it seems like it should be? While it may not work miracles, some nice and welcoming lighting can make a big difference. That’s why Lauren Palazzi made this...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Different types of layer 2s
a year ago
computers are bad
2024-03-27 telephone cables So let's say you're working on a household project and need around a dozen telephone cables---the...
a year ago
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a year ago
So let's say you're working on a household project and need around a dozen telephone cables---the ordinary kind that you would use between your telephone and the wall. It is, of course, more cost effective to buy bulk cable, or simply a long cable, and cut it to length and attach...
Abishek Muthian
Voice summary of news There is a need gap for Human voice summary of news. Until this need gap gets addressed, we can use...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There is a need gap for Human voice summary of news. Until this need gap gets addressed, we can use automation tool like tasker to implement read-aloud feature for news app like inshorts. Requirements Tasker android app. AutoInput android app. Selecting preferred voice in the...
Abort Retry Fail
The History of Windows 3 Windows becomes competitive
a year ago
Elevation Lab - Blog
BatteryPro available on Apple.com! Good news, BatteryPro is now available worldwide online at Apple! This makes it much easier and less...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Good news, BatteryPro is now available worldwide online at Apple! This makes it much easier and less expensive for customers outside the USA to pick one up. And we couldn't be more humbled and proud - it goes to show that when you design a product you really want for yourself,...
Jorge Arango
Jorge’s Wager: Why AI Needs Information Architecture One of the most common questions I’m asked is, “is information architecture still relevant now that...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
One of the most common questions I’m asked is, “is information architecture still relevant now that we have AI?” Of course, not everyone puts it like that. Instead, they’ll say things like “we won’t need navigation if we have chat” or “AI will organize the website” or “in a world...
Lighthouse Blog
New feature: RSS feed export
7 months ago
Home on Erik...
Deep learning for... chess I've been meaning to learn Theano for a while and I've also wanted to build a chess AI at some...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've been meaning to learn Theano for a while and I've also wanted to build a chess AI at some point. So why not combine the two? That's what I thought, and I ended up spending way too much time on it.
watchTowr Labs
Cleo Harmony, VLTrader, and LexiCom - RCE via Arbitrary File Write (CVE-2024-50623) We were having a nice uneventful week at watchTowr, when we got news of some ransomware operators...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
We were having a nice uneventful week at watchTowr, when we got news of some ransomware operators using a zero-day exploit in Cleo MFT software - namely, LexiCom, VLTransfer, and Harmony - applications that many large enterprises rely on to share files securely. Cleo have a...
Notes on software...
Why (and how) to read books The last time I read for fun was in elementary school. Since college I knew I must read more, but I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The last time I read for fun was in elementary school. Since college I knew I must read more, but I never forced myself to build the habit. Then three years ago I spent time around my brother and a coworker who were avid readers. This "peer pressure" helped me get started. Since...
Electronics etc…
Analyzing the Monoprice Blackbird HDCP 2.2 to 1.4 Down Converter Introduction Some Words about HDCP Inside the Monoprice Blackbird 4K Pro The Test Digging Deeper:...
a year ago
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a year ago
Introduction Some Words about HDCP Inside the Monoprice Blackbird 4K Pro The Test Digging Deeper: UART Transactions Decoding HDCP I2C Transactions The Legality of It All References Footnotes Introduction I got my hands on a Monoprice Blackbird 4K Pro HDCP 2.2 to 1.4...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Hard Forks, Soft Forks, Defaults and Coercion
over a year ago
Nabeel S. Qureshi
Reflections on Palantir A retrospective of an eight-year stint.
8 months ago
tim.sh
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"...
2 months ago
Birchtree
📕 I mildly recommend: Life as No One Knows It (members post) A new book explaining assembly theory, a new way of thinking about the question of "what is life?"
5 months ago
Arduino Blog
This frighteningly realistic animatronic head features expressive silicone skin The human face is remarkably complex, with 43 different muscles contorting the skin in all kinds of...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
The human face is remarkably complex, with 43 different muscles contorting the skin in all kinds of ways. Some of that is utilitarian — your jaw muscles are good for chewing, after all. But a lot of it seems to be the result of evolution giving us fantastic non-verbal...
Jonas Hietala
Settled on an unoriginal idea I think I’ve decided what to do. Some very slight progress has been made.
over a year ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Moving beyond coin voting governance
over a year ago
./techtipsy
The absolute state of Bluetooth audio in 2022 I have the Sony WH-1000XM3 headphones. They’re good for consuming content. Audio calls with your...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I have the Sony WH-1000XM3 headphones. They’re good for consuming content. Audio calls with your colleagues? Forget about it. This is the setup I have to go with, and it has all to do with how Bluetooth works. Your options with Bluetooth headsets are the following: high quality...
Jonas Hietala
A Nice Weekend I’ve had a pretty nice weekend. On Friday MLG Orlando began and I’ve been staying up to 2 and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve had a pretty nice weekend. On Friday MLG Orlando began and I’ve been staying up to 2 and sleeping until at least 10 the last days. My inner night-owl is very happy about it, my early-rising girlfriend perhaps not as much, but I think she’s a bit understanding? On Saturday we...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Why we need wide adoption of social recovery wallets
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
How I did the layout for my self-published book This is a rundown of how I typeset and laid out my self-published book for the web version, the EPUB...
a year ago
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a year ago
This is a rundown of how I typeset and laid out my self-published book for the web version, the EPUB version, and the printed version. I was planning to include many more details, but the project took a lot longer than planned so I’ve forgotten some things. Web page I started...
Arduino Blog
Arduino IDE 2.3.3: discover new support for shared spaces and more! We’re excited to announce that the Arduino IDE 2.3.3 is now live!  What’s in the new version This...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
We’re excited to announce that the Arduino IDE 2.3.3 is now live!  What’s in the new version This new release is packed with improvements, including one feature we’re particularly proud of: support for shared spaces in Arduino Cloud. If you have a Cloud Business plan or School...
Louwrentius
Why filtering DHCP traffic is not always possible with iptables When configuring my new firewall using iptables, I noticed something very peculiar. Even if all...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When configuring my new firewall using iptables, I noticed something very peculiar. Even if all input, forward and output traffic was dropped, DHCP traffic to and from my DHCP server was not blocked even if there were no rules permitting this traffic. I even flushed all rules,...
Jonas Hietala
FTL got a new victim Faster than Light the great game I lost a ton of time on, has found a new victim. It’s not someone...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Faster than Light the great game I lost a ton of time on, has found a new victim. It’s not someone you’d expect, it’s even someone who said: “What a bad game” when she saw me playing it. But nevertheless this Saturday she played it more than 2.5 hours! I told Veronica I wanted...
Birchtree
Apple’s 2024 report card: Vision Pro 👓 This is the fifth and final post in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
This is the fifth and final post in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I did this last year and you can read last year’s Vision Pro report card here. Year one of Vision Pro This is a bit of
Engineers Need Art
Move Fast and Abandon Things For every shareware game I released in the 1990's, another four were partially written but put aside...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
For every shareware game I released in the 1990's, another four were partially written but put aside and abandoned.
Willem's Blog
Understanding the security concerns in shared hosting People pay me to hack them, provided I'll explain how I did it. Read along to learn how hackers use...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
People pay me to hack them, provided I'll explain how I did it. Read along to learn how hackers use security holes to hack your app, webshop or website!
computers are bad
2023-02-07 secret government telephone numbers Very nearly a year ago, I wrote a popular article about secret military telephone buttons. To be...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Very nearly a year ago, I wrote a popular article about secret military telephone buttons. To be clear, the "secret" here was a joke and these buttons are in fact well documented. The buttons I was talking about were the AUTOVON call precedence buttons, used for a five-level...
watchTowr Labs
The Best Security Is When We All Agree To Keep Everything Secret (Except The Secrets) - NAKIVO... As an industry, we believe that we’ve come to a common consensus after 25 years of circular debates...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
As an industry, we believe that we’ve come to a common consensus after 25 years of circular debates - disclosure is terrible, information is actually dangerous, it’s best that it’s not shared, and the only way to really to ensure that no one ever
./techtipsy
ThinkPad as a server: third time's the charm This is a follow-up to my two previous attempts on this topic: Can a laptop from 2012 be a viable...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
This is a follow-up to my two previous attempts on this topic: Can a laptop from 2012 be a viable home server? ThinkPad as a server: the follow-up Since then, I’ve had quite a few changes to my home server setup: I put my home server stuff on an IKEA pegboard I tried the...
Engineers Need Art
Soft Dorothy Software — Shareware Projects Wherein I attempt to recover and restore old shareware code and program again like it's 1989.
10 months ago
Birchtree
A lot changed for LLMs in 2024 I thought this was a fascinating post by Simon Willison: Things We Learned About LLMs in 2024 This...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
I thought this was a fascinating post by Simon Willison: Things We Learned About LLMs in 2024 This increase in efficiency and reduction in price is my single favourite trend from 2024. I want the utility of LLMs at a fraction of the energy cost and it looks like that&
Jonas Hietala
My MCU movie ranking I did the MCU Movie Re-Watch again this year in preparation for Avengers: Endgame. I wasn’t a huge...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I did the MCU Movie Re-Watch again this year in preparation for Avengers: Endgame. I wasn’t a huge MCU fan before doing the same re-watch for Infinity War, but after that I became one. For fun I tried to rank the movies as I saw them, this is some sort of accounting my rankings...
Notes on software...
SQLite in Go, with and without cgo This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
Birchtree
A new/old Pokémon game, how Hollywood can make good movies, and a puzzle with all edge pieces We are so back! Please keep making smaller, original movies so that we get new franchises A puzzle...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
We are so back! Please keep making smaller, original movies so that we get new franchises A puzzle with all edge pieces that looks fun but also very hard Every font is free…as long as you remake it yourself Fellow olds, if you haven't seen this,
Birchtree
Stunts are getting their Oscar in 2028 Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences: Academy Establishes Stunt Design Award for 100th...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences: Academy Establishes Stunt Design Award for 100th Oscars The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today the creation of an annual competitive Academy Award® for Achievement in Stunt Design,...
Lighthouse Blog
Updates November 4: Free newsletter to RSS tool
8 months ago
Willem's Blog
Climbing Mount Etna Climbing Mount Etna, an active volcano on Sicily Italy.
over a year ago
lcamtuf’s thing
A 15-minute intro to involute gears Involute gears are everywhere: toys, kitchen appliances, cars. But what's so special about their...
7 months ago
Matt Mullenweg
On Lenny’s Podcast One of my must-read newsletters for the past several years has been Lenny’s Newsletter, probably...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
One of my must-read newsletters for the past several years has been Lenny’s Newsletter, probably best known for its writing on growth and product management, which really means it covered everything you need to create a great company. It expanded into a really well-done podcast;...
Matt Blewitt
Leadership Power Tools: SQL and Statistics A common pattern I’ve seen over the years have been folks in engineering leadership positions that...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
A common pattern I’ve seen over the years have been folks in engineering leadership positions that are not super comfortable with extracting and interpreting data from stores, be it databases, CSV files in an object store, or even just a spreadsheet. We’re going to cover SQL &...
Posts on Made of...
A brief look at Linux's security record After the fuss of the last two weeks because of CVE-2010-3081 and CVE-2010-3301, I decided to take a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
After the fuss of the last two weeks because of CVE-2010-3081 and CVE-2010-3301, I decided to take a look at a handful of the high-profile privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux from the last few years. So, here's a summary of the ones I picked out. There are also a large...
Odds and Ends of...
Empty climate gestures, Peter Hitchens' timezone crusade, and the big questions about New Towns Let Barry have his solar panels!
3 months ago
Construction Physics
Will the China Cycle Come for Airbus and Boeing? Noah Smith, author of the economics Substack Noahpinion, often refers to a common trajectory in...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Noah Smith, author of the economics Substack Noahpinion, often refers to a common trajectory in Chinese manufacturing as the “China Cycle”:
Christian Selig
Juno for YouTube has been removed from the App Store For those not aware, a few months ago after reaching out to me, YouTube contacted the App Store...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
For those not aware, a few months ago after reaching out to me, YouTube contacted the App Store stating that Juno does not adhere to YouTube guidelines and modifies the website in a way they don’t approve of, and alludes to their trademarks and iconography. I don’t personally...
Posts on Made of...
Some opinionated thoughts on SQL databases People who work with me tend to realize that I have Opinions about databases, and SQL databases in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
People who work with me tend to realize that I have Opinions about databases, and SQL databases in particular. Last week, I wrote about a Postgres debugging story and tweeted about AWS’ policy ban on internal use of SQL databases, and had occasion to discuss and debate some of...
Notes on software...
The world of PostgreSQL wire compatibility This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
Birchtree
Chrome might be for sale. OpenAI says they'd buy it. Ryan Whitwam: ChatGPT Head Tells Court OpenAI Is Interested in Buying Chrome According to Turley,...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Ryan Whitwam: ChatGPT Head Tells Court OpenAI Is Interested in Buying Chrome According to Turley, OpenAI would throw its proverbial hat in the ring if Google had to sell. When asked if OpenAI would want Chrome, he was unequivocal. "Yes, we would, as would many other parties,"...
Birchtree
All the games I played in 2024, reviewed I love movies, but I really love games as well, so I figured I may as well follow up my 2024 movies...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
I love movies, but I really love games as well, so I figured I may as well follow up my 2024 movies of the year post with something similar for games. I’m not going to rank these, but I’ll give a few words on each one
Jonas Hietala
2021 in review A new year is always a good time to review the past year. Funny how this is already the 12th year...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A new year is always a good time to review the past year. Funny how this is already the 12th year I’ve done this kind of quick review… Time sure flies. 2021 Non-Geek Achievements Started strength training using a strength coach from Kabuki. I got inspired by the book Peak that...
Louwrentius
'Linux: unattended installation with Debian preseeding' Debian Linux provides a mechanism to install the operating system without user intervention. This...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Debian Linux provides a mechanism to install the operating system without user intervention. This mechanism is called 'preseeding' and is similar to Red Hat Kick Start and Sun Solaris Jump Start. The basic idea is that the installer is fed a recipe, according to which the system...
Neil Madden
A controversial opinion about REST API design I was just reading yet another article on REST API design guidelines. Some of it is good advice,...
a year ago
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a year ago
I was just reading yet another article on REST API design guidelines. Some of it is good advice, some of it I could quibble with. But several of the rules are about how to design the path hierarchy of your API: use plural nouns, don’t use nested sub-paths unnecessarily, etc. In...
Arduino Blog
Assess your aquarium’s health with an AI-enabled ultrasonic sensor Below the surface of any body of water, harmful amounts of toxic gases and contaminates can...
a year ago
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a year ago
Below the surface of any body of water, harmful amounts of toxic gases and contaminates can accumulate, which leads to a loss in fish and plant populations if not fixed quickly. But because most water testing, especially in aquariums, is done primarily on the surface, vital...
Jonas Hietala
Let's create a Tree-sitter grammar One of my favorite features in Neovim is the Tree-sitter integration. It allows for fast syntax...
a year ago
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a year ago
One of my favorite features in Neovim is the Tree-sitter integration. It allows for fast syntax highlighting that works well even in an error state (often the case when you’re editing code), and it has additional semantics (you can differentiate between function parameters and...
Notes on software...
Running SQL Server in a container on Github Actions This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
Arduino Blog
This Kenyan engineer modernizes vintage cars with a custom ECU and EFI upgrades The automotive industry’s switch from carburetion to fuel injection was one of the most effective...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
The automotive industry’s switch from carburetion to fuel injection was one of the most effective advancements of the 20th century. Electronic fuel injection allows for precise control over an internal combustion engine’s air-fuel mixture, which dramatically improves fuel...
Willem's Blog
Why Apple Silicon is a big deal Never have I been so blown away as by the new MacBook Air with M1 processor. It is a big deal.
over a year ago
Himanshu Mishra |...
PEP8Speaks - Now helping 5,000 open source projects write neat and clean Python What is this project? 🐍 PEP8Speaks = PEP 8 + Speaks GitHub:...
over a year ago
Birchtree
Meta has squandered Threads Jon Passantino writing for Status: Hanging by a Thread Now Threads feels rather lifeless. While...
3 months ago
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Jon Passantino writing for Status: Hanging by a Thread Now Threads feels rather lifeless. While users still post there, for many has become something of a second-tier platform—a place that they dump content out of habit, not because they’re having real conversations or finding...
Opsbros
Pro-tip for Baristas If you've ever filled one of those 'Cheeki' coffee cups, or virtually any other reusable coffee cup,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you've ever filled one of those 'Cheeki' coffee cups, or virtually any other reusable coffee cup, you've definitely come across the issue that when it's 'overfilled' it will overflow when the lid is put back on. There is a
Arduino Blog
Motion-controlled Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots will make you feel like Jackman in Real Steel 2011’s Real Steel may have vanished from the public consciousness in a remarkably short amount of...
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5 months ago
2011’s Real Steel may have vanished from the public consciousness in a remarkably short amount of time, but the concept was pretty neat. There is something exciting about the idea of fighting through motion-controlled humanoid robots. That is completely possible today — it would...
Applied Cartography
Notes on Zed I was late to the VS Code zeitgeist, and as penitence I try to go out of my way to try new editors...
a year ago
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a year ago
I was late to the VS Code zeitgeist, and as penitence I try to go out of my way to try new editors whenever I see them — which is why this morning I installed Zed, which makes its bones on performance (yay!) and teams functionality (irrelevant for my use cases, but seems...
OH8HUB’s Substack
Albert's Nature Reserve Spring is here. Time to get radio active.
2 months ago
Neil Madden
Galois/Counter Mode and random nonces It turns out you can encrypt more than 2^32 messages with AES-GCM with a random nonce under certain...
a year ago
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a year ago
It turns out you can encrypt more than 2^32 messages with AES-GCM with a random nonce under certain conditions. It’s still not a good idea, but you can just about do it. #cryptography
Himanshu Mishra |...
You need a Product Mindset Treat Your Developers Like VIP Customers Your developers are not just users; they're customers who...
a year ago
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a year ago
Treat Your Developers Like VIP Customers Your developers are not just users; they're customers who have high expectations from your internal…
Notes on software...
Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 4. LLVM conditionals and compiling fibonacci Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 2. user-defined functions and variables ...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 2. user-defined functions and variables 3. LLVM 5. LLVM system calls 6. an x86 upgrade In this post we'll extend the compiler's LLVM backend to support compiling conditionals such that we can support...
Willem's Blog
Better Laptop This post is a quick rundown of assembling my new Framework 13 laptop, why I chose this brand and...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
This post is a quick rundown of assembling my new Framework 13 laptop, why I chose this brand and what's next.
Posts on Made of...
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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
./techtipsy
The best laptop is the one somebody else had In 2011, I was finishing 9th grade. As a gift, I got to choose a laptop in the 400 EUR range. I...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
In 2011, I was finishing 9th grade. As a gift, I got to choose a laptop in the 400 EUR range. I ended up picking an ASUS Eee PC 1201PN. It was new and the first computer in my life that was 100% mine, but awfully slow for a lot of tasks. It was so slow that I ended up giving...
Home on Erik...
3D Andy Sloane decided to call my 2D visualization and raise it to 3D. (Looks a little weird in the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Andy Sloane decided to call my 2D visualization and raise it to 3D. (Looks a little weird in the iframe but check out the link). It's based on a LDA model with 200 topics, so the artists tend to stick to clusters where each cluster is a topic.
Vitalik Buterin's...
Exploring Fully Homomorphic Encryption
over a year ago
Good Enough
TIL: Use randomness to prevent email trimming With conversation threading (which almost everyone has enabled), Gmail was trimming the bottom of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
With conversation threading (which almost everyone has enabled), Gmail was trimming the bottom of the emails we send with our new app because they were too similar to the other emails in the conversation thread. They’re similar because that’s just the link to get back into the...
Birchtree
Watch me write a task manager in 30 minutes A core tenet of A Better Computer is showing, not telling. I don’t use a lot of press kit material...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
A core tenet of A Better Computer is showing, not telling. I don’t use a lot of press kit material or talking points from companies in my videos because I don’t particularly care about those. My incentives are fully aligned with showing software (and sometimes hardware)
Arduino Blog
This maker designed a custom flight controller for his supercapacitor-powered drone Basic drones are very affordable these days—you can literally find some for less than the cost of a...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Basic drones are very affordable these days—you can literally find some for less than the cost of a fast food drive-thru meal. But that doesn’t mean drones are easy to control. That is actually quite difficult, but manufacturers are able to work off of established reference...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Intel's $475 million error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug In 1993, Intel released the high-performance Pentium processor, the start of the long-running...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
In 1993, Intel released the high-performance Pentium processor, the start of the long-running Pentium line. The Pentium had many improvements over the previous processor, the Intel 486, including a faster floating-point division algorithm. A year later, Professor Nicely, a number...
Neil Madden
API Security in Action handed over to production After a flurry of last-minute corrections and updates in response to review feedback, my book has...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
After a flurry of last-minute corrections and updates in response to review feedback, my book has now been handed over to Manning’s production team. That means a few weeks of copy editing and graphics polish, then indexing and typesetting to produce the final version around...
Abishek Muthian
Testing FDA cleared pulse oximeter Fake FDA certified pulse oximeters Ecommerce sites in India are full of pulse oximeters falsely...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Fake FDA certified pulse oximeters Ecommerce sites in India are full of pulse oximeters falsely claiming to be FDA certified. If they are actually available in U.S., they don't claim it to be FDA certified and are not listed on FDA's database. Some of the pulse oximeters try to...
Old Vintage...
Refurb weekend: Data General/One (and the worst LCD in the world) I mentioned earlier that while I prefer specializing in non-x86 laptops, that doesn't mean I don't...
a year ago
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a year ago
I mentioned earlier that while I prefer specializing in non-x86 laptops, that doesn't mean I don't collect interesting or unusual x86 laptops, like the Brother GeoBook NB-60 (I finally tracked down a mostly working NB-80C, the top of the line model, which will be the subject of a...
Louwrentius
Benchmarking cheap SSDs for fun, no profit (be warned) The price of Solid-state drives (SSDs) has dropped significantly over the last few years. It's now...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The price of Solid-state drives (SSDs) has dropped significantly over the last few years. It's now possible to buy a 1TB solid-state drive for less than €60. However, at such low price points, there is a catch. Although cheap SSDs do perform fine regarding reads, sustained write...
Home on Erik...
Building a data team at a mid-stage startup: a short story I guess I should really call this a parable. The backdrop is: you have been brought in to grow a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I guess I should really call this a parable. The backdrop is: you have been brought in to grow a tiny data team (~4 people) at a mid-stage startup (~$10M annual revenue), although this story could take place at many different types of companies.
Nabeel S. Qureshi
How To Sell Sales at a startup is counter-intuitive.
over a year ago
Birchtree
The best app for gaming on the Vision Pro will soon be Safari Andrew Fear writing for the official NVIDIA blog: PC Gaming in the Cloud Goes Everywhere With New...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Andrew Fear writing for the official NVIDIA blog: PC Gaming in the Cloud Goes Everywhere With New Devices and AAA Games on GeForce NOW Get immersed in a new dimension of big-screen gaming as GeForce NOW brings AAA titles to life on Apple Vision Pro spatial computers, Meta Quest 3
Louwrentius
Got myself a Norco RPC-4020 I've got this fetish for storage. So I bought a case that gives me some room for future expantion....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've got this fetish for storage. So I bought a case that gives me some room for future expantion. The current 6 TB RAID 6 storage server does not have any room for expantion. This Norco RPC-4020 case with 20 hot swap drive bays does however. Don't know what to fill it with yet.
Good Enough
Good Enough Marketing: The Preparation We have a couple of exciting projects—Guestbook! Yay.Boo!—that we want to share with the world. But...
a year ago
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a year ago
We have a couple of exciting projects—Guestbook! Yay.Boo!—that we want to share with the world. But that’s a difficult task for us because, honestly, we’re terrible not good at self-promotion. We’d rather spend time making things than talking about the things we’ve made. We’d...
Jordan’s Substack
Coming soon This is Jordan’s Substack.
7 months ago
latest projects -...
POV Candle [Hardware] Tiny volumetric display
a year ago
Abort Retry Fail
The History of R2E and the Micral The second personal computer
2 months ago
Notes on software...
First few hurdles writing a Scheme interpreter I started working on BSDScheme last October, inspired to get back into language implementation after...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I started working on BSDScheme last October, inspired to get back into language implementation after my coworker built bshift, a compiler for a C-like language. BSDScheme is an interpreter for a (currently small subset of) Scheme written in D. It implements a few substantial...
Simply Explained
ESP32 Cam: cropping images on device The ESP32 camera is the cheapest microcontroller with a built-in camera that you can buy. The OV2640...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The ESP32 camera is the cheapest microcontroller with a built-in camera that you can buy. The OV2640 sensor has a max resolution of 1600x1200, but sometimes you don't need the entire image.In this post I'll show how to crop the images on the ESP32 itself, before sending it of to...
Birchtree
Pulling myself out of the pit I'll be honest, I wasn't an iOS veteran engineer when I started work on Quick Reviews at the start...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
I'll be honest, I wasn't an iOS veteran engineer when I started work on Quick Reviews at the start of this year. I'm really proud of what I made, I'm happy with how quickly I was able to get it out there,
Jonas Hietala
OP_RETURN based tokens are fundamentally flawed Two new Bitcoin Cash token solutions have recently been suggested: Simple Ledger Protocol: A token...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Two new Bitcoin Cash token solutions have recently been suggested: Simple Ledger Protocol: A token system for Bitcoin Cash Introducing Colored Coins: a Bitcoin Cash token implementation Both are improvements over Tokeda as they allow permissionless transfers. However all commit...
Greater Still by...
Good Things Take Time A crypto whitepill with Bridget Harris
10 months ago
Abort Retry Fail
The History of Windows NT 3.1 A Highly Portable Future
a year ago
Good Enough
Our ChatGPT Mission Statement What follows is an edited transcript of my interaction with ChatGPT to help craft a mission...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
What follows is an edited transcript of my interaction with ChatGPT to help craft a mission statement for Good Enough. The resulting mission statement was surprisingly good and I had some literal LOLs along the way. Though I think we'll leave out the haiku. You are an expert at...
./techtipsy
What running out of SATA ports looks like One day I stumbled upon a Craft Computing video about his new server build, and on the parts list...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One day I stumbled upon a Craft Computing video about his new server build, and on the parts list was a Sedna PCI Express 2x SATA adapter card: There are different designs out there, including a 4x SATA card, which is bonkers. Anyway, I thought that I might as well give this a...
Old Vintage...
The Living Computers Museum finally isn't First off, apologies for a quiet month as I've been dealing with family matters which hopefully are...
a year ago
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a year ago
First off, apologies for a quiet month as I've been dealing with family matters which hopefully are now on a better footing (more articles are in the hopper). Unfortunately, the same apparently can't be said for the once-great Living Computers Museum + Labs in Seattle,...
Louwrentius
My home lab server with 20 cores / 40 threads and 128 GB memory Update fall 2024 I have decided to decomission this machine and it is no longer in use. As of this...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Update fall 2024 I have decided to decomission this machine and it is no longer in use. As of this moment, it's replaced by a cluster of four 1L PCs which use about a third of the idle power usage and boot within 20 seconds. The single-core performance of these low-power 1L PCs...
Applied Cartography
Hidden settings are for cowards At Stripe, we had two abstractions for branching logic in production: flags, which were meant to be...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
At Stripe, we had two abstractions for branching logic in production: flags, which were meant to be explicitly temporal (temporarily split-testing traffic; rolling out a new feature or code path; exposing a specific path for a cohort of users during a closed beta) and gates,...
Home on Erik...
Stuff that bothers me: “100x faster than Hadoop” The simple way to get featured on big data blog these days seem to be Build something that does 1...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The simple way to get featured on big data blog these days seem to be Build something that does 1 thing super well but nothing else Benchmark it against Hadoop Publish stats showing that it's 100x faster than Hadoop $$$ Spark claims their 100x faster than Hadoop and there's a...
Birchtree
The Vision Pro makes Touch ID more appealing Ryan Christoffel writing on 9to5Mac: Why Vision Pro Is Apple’s Best Reason Yet to Bring Touch ID...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Ryan Christoffel writing on 9to5Mac: Why Vision Pro Is Apple’s Best Reason Yet to Bring Touch ID Back to iPhone Because Face ID on iPhone does no good when Vision Pro is strapped to your face—an unfortunate detail I’m reminded of every time I
Willem's Blog
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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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.
Matt Mullenweg
My First Million I had a great chat with Sam Parr and Shaan Puri on their podcast, My First Million.
5 months ago
Odds and Ends of...
The government should stop worrying about the Daily Mail Test You can't fix the Civil Service by penny-pinching
3 months ago
Abishek Muthian
Get notification when a new device connects to OpenWRT When a new device is connects to my OpenWRT router, I get a notification on Gotify. This serves as a...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
When a new device is connects to my OpenWRT router, I get a notification on Gotify. This serves as a good low-key intrusion detection along with my earlier OpenWRT login alerts. Heavy lifting was already done by Brandon McFarlin, I had to just modify the code to send messages to...
Louwrentius
Linux RAID 6 performance using software RAID So after toying around with RAID 0 just for fun, time to get serious. I created a RAID 6 of 10 x 1...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
So after toying around with RAID 0 just for fun, time to get serious. I created a RAID 6 of 10 x 1 TB disks. This gives me raw device read speeds of 850 MB/s and write speeds of 300 MB/s. I think this is exactly what should be expected, but boy it is damn fast. Especially the...
Avestura's Blog
Creating a Git commit: The Hard Way Let's create a Git commit using Git's low-level (plumbing) commands
10 months ago
computers are bad
2023-02-14 something up there pt I Over the last few weeks, there has been an astounding increase in the number of objects shot down by...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Over the last few weeks, there has been an astounding increase in the number of objects shot down by North American air defense. Little is yet known about some of these objects, but it is clearly one of the more dramatic UFO turns in recent memory. Some of the mystery is simply...
Vitalik Buterin's...
On Free Speech
over a year ago