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Using Google Free Android Using a Google Free Android phone is uncommon these days, yet I decided to try the Volla Phone to...
24th Oct 2021
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Using Google Free Android

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

24th Oct 2021
Using a Google Free Android phone is uncommon these days, yet I decided to try the Volla Phone to experience its freedom and privacy.
RailScan: First Point Clouds from Railroad Museum Scanner I volunteer at a train, trolley, and subway museum. As a non-authoritative, hobby project combining...
16th Jul 2026
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RailScan: First Point Clouds from Railroad Museum Scanner

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

16th Jul 2026
I volunteer at a train, trolley, and subway museum. As a non-authoritative, hobby project combining my love of trains, electronics, mapping, and data, I am building a LiDAR scanner to map and analyze the museum. After designing the initial hardware and software for a GNSS-enabled...
Speedrunning Tesco (Odds and Ends #93) Plus mixed feelings about Artemis, Mormon gambling, and a council finance nightmare.
1st Apr 2026
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Speedrunning Tesco (Odds and Ends #93)

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

1st Apr 2026
Plus mixed feelings about Artemis, Mormon gambling, and a council finance nightmare.
When the Going Gets Tough Yesterday I finished the Leiden Marathon, it was the hardest 42K I ever completed due to the...
11th May 2025
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When the Going Gets Tough

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

11th May 2025
Yesterday I finished the Leiden Marathon, it was the hardest 42K I ever completed due to the temperature. Sunny with a clear sky, temperatures climbed to 25°C. Several runners collapsed from heat exhaustion, and one even required resuscitation. When you push your limits,...
The Reason You Prohibit Things You want less of them. That’s the reason. You may find that it’s too hard to stop people from doing...
a week ago
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The Reason You Prohibit Things

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

a week ago
You want less of them. That’s the reason. You may find that it’s too hard to stop people from doing the thing, literally blood, sweat, and tears trying to prosecute people, but that’s a different thing.
Accidentally turning the ASRock DeskMini X300 into a semi-passively cooled PC After playing around with fan curves on my ASRock DeskMini X300 based home server, I noticed one...
17th Sep 2022
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17th Sep 2022
After playing around with fan curves on my ASRock DeskMini X300 based home server, I noticed one interesting thing. At least it was interesting to me. Background I had one goal: to try to see if I could turn it into a semi-passive PC by only turning the fan on when the PC was...
Train Simulator Controller: CAN-Connected Air Gauge, Part 2 In my ongoing quest to build a physical cab dashboard to control Train Simulator, an important set...
25th May 2025
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Train Simulator Controller: CAN-Connected Air Gauge, Part 2

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

25th May 2025
In my ongoing quest to build a physical cab dashboard to control Train Simulator, an important set of components are the gauges that tell me what’s going on with the train. As I build the dashboard into which to embed my gauges, I realized I needed to better modularize my air...
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...
14th Jul 2024
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Pretty pictures, bootable floppy disks, and the first Canon Cat demo?

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

14th Jul 2024
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...
The world of PostgreSQL wire compatibility This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
8th Feb 2022
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The world of PostgreSQL wire compatibility

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

8th Feb 2022
This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
SRI & ARC The Dawn of the Information Age
27th Sep 2025
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SRI & ARC

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

27th Sep 2025
The Dawn of the Information Age
Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools Code forces humans to be precise. That’s good. Computers need precision. But it also forces humans...
3rd Feb 2025
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Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools

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

3rd Feb 2025
Code forces humans to be precise. That’s good. Computers need precision. But it also forces humans to think like machines. For decades we tried to fix this by making programming more human-friendly. Higher-level languages. Visual interfaces. Each step helped, but we were still...
Twenty Times Faster On 11 August I wrote in my notebook: the speed at which we move is about twenty times the old top...
4 weeks ago
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Twenty Times Faster

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

4 weeks ago
On 11 August I wrote in my notebook: the speed at which we move is about twenty times the old top speed. In one day I do what I used to do in twenty. This post is about that speed, what it does to the human in the loop, and the counterweight I found. It is the first post of...
Vote for the Topic of the February 2024 Plus Post If you are a paid subscriber, voting is open for one week
6th Feb 2024
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Vote for the Topic of the February 2024 Plus Post

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

6th Feb 2024
If you are a paid subscriber, voting is open for one week
My new podcast: Tick Talk + Core 2 Duo demo I started a little podcast… And named it something ridiculous - Tick Talk w/ Eric Migicovsky !...
1st May 2025
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My new podcast: Tick Talk + Core 2 Duo demo

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

1st May 2025
I started a little podcast… And named it something ridiculous - Tick Talk w/ Eric Migicovsky ! We’ll see if that name sticks 😂. I set up a…
Tools for a Culture of Writing One of the hardest things we do, as humans, is try and communicate what is going on in our minds to...
30th Oct 2021
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Tools for a Culture of Writing

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

30th Oct 2021
One of the hardest things we do, as humans, is try and communicate what is going on in our minds to each other. With significant room for misunderstanding, biases, assumptions and cultural differences, communicating with other engineers (or to stakeholders) appears fraught....
Australian Air Force If You're Switched On, This is Paradise.
12th Apr 2025
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Australian Air Force

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

12th Apr 2025
If You're Switched On, This is Paradise.
Interpreting Go After spending some time at work on tooling for keeping documentation in sync with Go struct...
12th Oct 2019
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Interpreting Go

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

12th Oct 2019
After spending some time at work on tooling for keeping documentation in sync with Go struct definitions I had enough exposure to Go's built-in parsing package that next steps were clear: write an interpreter. It's a great way to get more comfortable with a language's AST. In...
Best of Enemies Last year, I watched The War Room, the documentary following Bill Clinton's first campaign — a film...
1st Aug 2026
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Best of Enemies

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

1st Aug 2026
Last year, I watched The War Room, the documentary following Bill Clinton's first campaign — a film I am remiss for having never written about, because it was captivating, satisfying, and illuminating. And whether for good reasons or bad, it punctured most of my belief that the...
Surveying SQL parser libraries in a few high-level languages This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
11th Apr 2022
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Surveying SQL parser libraries in a few high-level languages

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

11th Apr 2022
This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
DIY cloud gaming: NVIDIA and Moonlight As you might have read from my previous post on this topic, I have a pretty neat “cloud” gaming...
13th Oct 2021
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DIY cloud gaming: NVIDIA and Moonlight

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

13th Oct 2021
As you might have read from my previous post on this topic, I have a pretty neat “cloud” gaming setup running. I have one powerful desktop PC, one virtual machine with a GPU attached to it, and client machines that can be used to stream games from. To keep things simple (and...
Testing a cheap ExpressCard to NVMe SSD adapter on my ThinkPad T430 I stumbled upon this post in /r/thinkpad, which got my attention. It showcases an ExpressCard to M.2...
4th Oct 2022
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Testing a cheap ExpressCard to NVMe SSD adapter on my ThinkPad T430

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

4th Oct 2022
I stumbled upon this post in /r/thinkpad, which got my attention. It showcases an ExpressCard to M.2 NGFF adapter that they purchased from AliExpress. The adapter has a similar purpose to the one designed by thinkmods.store, with the added bonus that it could fit longer NVMe...
Principles // This was originally a Google Doc where I gathered hard-won life lessons; eventually I open...
12th Jan 2025
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Principles

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

12th Jan 2025
// This was originally a Google Doc where I gathered hard-won life lessons; eventually I open sourced it. It got a great response, including a shoutout from Tim Ferriss, so here it is on Substack.
Repairing a Nintendo Gameboy Advance SP This month Nintendo released the Switch with Zelda "Breath of the Wild". The new console received...
25th Mar 2017
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Repairing a Nintendo Gameboy Advance SP

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

25th Mar 2017
This month Nintendo released the Switch with Zelda "Breath of the Wild". The new console received positive reviews. The new Zelda game is amazing and can be played on-the-go, thanks to the portability of the Nintendo Switch. But it its hardly the first Nintendo device that...
Adding a USB Port to the ThinkPad X1 Nano (the Hard Way) I wanted to add an internal USB port to my ThinkPad X1 Nano which should have been a fairly easy...
29th May 2024
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Adding a USB Port to the ThinkPad X1 Nano (the Hard Way)

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

29th May 2024
I wanted to add an internal USB port to my ThinkPad X1 Nano which should have been a fairly easy thing to do, but it wasn't. Of course, if I were still using my Framework Laptop it would be as easy as plugging in a custom module but I've been using my X1 Nano as my primary laptop...
Album Listening in Album Whale Back in March we added Album Search in Album Whale. This was a very nice update because it meant you...
4th Aug 2026
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Album Listening in Album Whale

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

4th Aug 2026
Back in March we added Album Search in Album Whale. This was a very nice update because it meant you no longer had to first grab an album share link from a music service (e.g. Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp, etc) in order to save an album to a list. You can just head straight to...
Atomic Design in 1998 When you hear “atomic design,” you probably think of Brad Frost. Interestingly, he was not the first...
8th Feb 2018
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Atomic Design in 1998

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

8th Feb 2018
When you hear “atomic design,” you probably think of Brad Frost. Interestingly, he was not the first person to develop that method of delivering design as components, or even the terminology. Brad published his atomic design article in 2013. While digging through the archives at...
Improve your sleep by blocking light Over the past few weeks I have been experimenting with wearing a sleep mask in bed, blocking all...
23rd Jan 2020
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Improve your sleep by blocking light

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

23rd Jan 2020
Over the past few weeks I have been experimenting with wearing a sleep mask in bed, blocking all light. Our bodies produce the sleep hormone, melatonin, in darkness. Living in an environment awash in artificial light, is therefore exactly the sort of thing that disrupts one's...
Chinatown Well, that was probably the most depressing final sequence I can remember in a film (especially one...
4th Aug 2022
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Chinatown

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

4th Aug 2022
Well, that was probably the most depressing final sequence I can remember in a film (especially one so devoted to realism, or at least its brand of plausibility.)
Adding Custom Sleep Screen Images to the Kindle Scribe Last year I upgraded my Kindle Paperwhite to a Kindle Scribe to be able to write notes and draw...
24th Feb 2025
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Adding Custom Sleep Screen Images to the Kindle Scribe

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

24th Feb 2025
Last year I upgraded my Kindle Paperwhite to a Kindle Scribe to be able to write notes and draw diagrams while programming to help visualize things. One thing that bothered me about the Scribe was that its sleep screen images were pretty boring and because I'm now often reading...
Train Simulator Controller: Laser-Cutting a Door Control Panel As the different pieces of my Train Simulator controller come together, a bite-sized first task of...
1st May 2024
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Train Simulator Controller: Laser-Cutting a Door Control Panel

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

1st May 2024
As the different pieces of my Train Simulator controller come together, a bite-sized first task of building the physical dashboard is the door controls placed at each side of the cab. Here, I detail the process of prototyping the door control panel from a Class 80x out of...
How to run Debian Linux on an Intel based Mac Mini The Mac Mini is just a gorgeous device. It is beautiful, small, silent, powerfull yet energy...
1st Nov 2009
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How to run Debian Linux on an Intel based Mac Mini

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

1st Nov 2009
The Mac Mini is just a gorgeous device. It is beautiful, small, silent, powerfull yet energy efficient. When idle, it uses around 20 watts. I'm using one of the first Intel-based Minis with an Intel Core Duo chip, running at 1.6 Ghz. I want to use this mini as an expensive router...
Integrate Home Assistant with Apple Reminders I recently integrated Home Assistant with Apple Reminders so that automations can create new todos....
27th Jul 2022
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Integrate Home Assistant with Apple Reminders

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

27th Jul 2022
I recently integrated Home Assistant with Apple Reminders so that automations can create new todos. This is trickier as it sounds, because Reminders has no API that can be accessed from Home Assistant. Here's how I worked around that problem with a script, input text helper and...
A brief history of Platform Engineering I remember the day I heard the word microservices for the first time. For a while, I did not know...
12th Aug 2023
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A brief history of Platform Engineering

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

12th Aug 2023
I remember the day I heard the word microservices for the first time. For a while, I did not know what it truly meant. But it was a very hot…
Finishing Stuff I haven’t done much blogging or game programming in a while but instead I’ve finished some school...
7th Dec 2011
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Finishing Stuff

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

7th Dec 2011
I haven’t done much blogging or game programming in a while but instead I’ve finished some school stuff. We completed the assembly course labs, which were pretty fun actually, and I managed to finally complete the electronics course I’ve been holding off on for like forever… But...
Git Worktrees and GitButler How do git worktrees help you work on more than one branch at the same time, and how does that...
4th Mar 2024
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Git Worktrees and GitButler

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

4th Mar 2024
How do git worktrees help you work on more than one branch at the same time, and how does that differ from virtual branches in GitButler?
Mortality statistics and Sweden's "dry tinder" effect We live in a year of about 350,000 amateur epidemiologists and I have no desire to join that “club”....
23rd Sep 2020
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Mortality statistics and Sweden's "dry tinder" effect

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

23rd Sep 2020
We live in a year of about 350,000 amateur epidemiologists and I have no desire to join that “club”. But I read something about COVID-19 deaths that I thought was interesting and wanted to see if I could replicated it through data.
Notes from August 2025 Things I published and things I saw this August. See also: my notes from last month, which has links...
31st Aug 2025
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Notes from August 2025

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

31st Aug 2025
Things I published and things I saw this August. See also: my notes from last month, which has links to all the previous months so far. Things I published this month Most of my work this month was on private stuff, like some contracting and a demo app for a small social group....
Protocol Politics Metascience is my bag.
4th Jun 2026
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Protocol Politics

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

4th Jun 2026
Metascience is my bag.
Advent of Code in C++ Template Metaprogramming This December, the imp of the perverse struck me, and I decided to see how many days of Advent of...
8th Dec 2023
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Advent of Code in C++ Template Metaprogramming

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

8th Dec 2023
This December, the imp of the perverse struck me, and I decided to see how many days of Advent of Code I could do purely in compile-time C++ metaprogramming. As of this writing, I’ve done two days, and I’m not sure I’ll make it any further. However, that’s one more day than I...
No, I Won't Build That! If you're an accomplished developer (as in: you've actually created things in the past), you may...
4th Mar 2024
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No, I Won't Build That!

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

4th Mar 2024
If you're an accomplished developer (as in: you've actually created things in the past), you may recognise this scenario: people reaching out to you, asking you to build something specific. "Can you build X for me?" A fellow technician once urged me to refuse more often: be proud...
Vibe Coding Grossing over $48K a month, the flight simulator game by Pieter Levels spurred a whole flurry of...
14th Apr 2025
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Vibe Coding

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

14th Apr 2025
Grossing over $48K a month, the flight simulator game by Pieter Levels spurred a whole flurry of innovation. Without detailed knowledge of 3D game engine technology, he 'vibe coded' his game using AI. Critics of his work pointed at security and scalability issues, while...
Talking tablets: what makes a great tablet? Earlier this year Microsoft released their brand new Surface Pro X tablet computer, in many ways...
13th Apr 2020
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Talking tablets: what makes a great tablet?

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

13th Apr 2020
Earlier this year Microsoft released their brand new Surface Pro X tablet computer, in many ways this is a forward thinking device. As I like working with tablets I wondered what exactly makes a great tablet? Is Surface Pro X any good? Read along to find out. Surface Pro X Unlike...
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Kickstarter 1 Campaign Updates

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

20th Jun 2012
In defense of GitHub's poor uptime In short: GitHub’s downtime is bad, but uptime numbers can be misleading. It’s not as bad as it...
10th Apr 2026
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In defense of GitHub's poor uptime

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

10th Apr 2026
In short: GitHub’s downtime is bad, but uptime numbers can be misleading. It’s not as bad as it looks; more like a D than an F. “Zero nines uptime”? 99.99% uptime, or “four nines”, is a common industry standard. Four nines of uptime is equivalent to 1.008 minutes of downtime per...
The Olivetti Company Beautiful machines from a beautiful country
8th Dec 2025
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The Olivetti Company

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

8th Dec 2025
Beautiful machines from a beautiful country
Everyone knows all the apps on your phone Until a few years ago, any app you installed on an Android device could see all other apps on your...
27th Mar 2025
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Everyone knows all the apps on your phone

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

27th Mar 2025
Until a few years ago, any app you installed on an Android device could see all other apps on your phone without your permission.
Using a budget Android as main smartphone I switched to Android to find out how good a budget smartphone performs compared to an expensive...
8th Oct 2018
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Using a budget Android as main smartphone

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

8th Oct 2018
I switched to Android to find out how good a budget smartphone performs compared to an expensive iPhone.
An ode to my favorite mobile game I can’t stop telling my friends about Forward: Escape the Fold and now I’m telling you. I bought it...
4th Mar 2025
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An ode to my favorite mobile game

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

4th Mar 2025
I can’t stop telling my friends about Forward: Escape the Fold and now I’m telling you. I bought it more than two years ago and it’s my favorite mobile game by a mile. Forward describes itself as the “perfect bitesized roguelike dungeon crawler”. You control a character trying to...
One year as a solo dev building open-source data tools without funding This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
10th Jun 2022
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One year as a solo dev building open-source data tools without funding

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

10th Jun 2022
This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
Death, and Utsuge This post discusses topics some may wish to avoid: terminal illness, hospice care, death, and...
1st Nov 2024
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Death, and Utsuge

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

1st Nov 2024
This post discusses topics some may wish to avoid: terminal illness, hospice care, death, and Japanese visual novels.
5 Frames with Nikon FM and Fomapan 100 On a few photowalks around Kitsilano in Vancouver BC with my first roll of Fomapan Classic 100. All...
8th Feb 2025
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5 Frames with Nikon FM and Fomapan 100

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in technology

8th Feb 2025
On a few photowalks around Kitsilano in Vancouver BC with my first roll of Fomapan Classic 100. All pictures shot with older, non-AI Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 lens. Developed in Ilford Ilfosol3 for 5 minutes at 20°C and scanned with a cheap film scanner. Color has been removed and some...
Vulkan 1.4 sur Asahi Linux English version follows. Aujourd’hui, Khronos Group a sorti la spécification 1.4 de l’API graphique...
2nd Dec 2024
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Vulkan 1.4 sur Asahi Linux

from Alyssa Rosenzweig [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Dec 2024
English version follows. Aujourd’hui, Khronos Group a sorti la spécification 1.4 de l’API graphique standard Vulkan. Le projet Asahi Linux est fier d’annoncer le premier pilote Vulkan 1.4 pour le matériel d’Apple. En effet, notre pilote graphique Honeykrisp est reconnu par...
Is This A Joke? In The Auth Header? (F5 BIG-IP UnAuth Heap-Overflow to RCE CVE-2026-94127) Well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well. We're...
a week ago
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a week ago
Well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well. We're back. Sorry. We've been watching the onslaught of vulnerabilities flood the internet. Every man, dog, and their grandmas (apparently?) are now using LLMs to find and reproduce...
March 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter 2 major new site features: 'popins' and recursive Wikipedia popups
6th Apr 2021
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March 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter

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

6th Apr 2021
2 major new site features: 'popins' and recursive Wikipedia popups
Bloated It used to happen sporadicly but now it is a daily experience.
23rd Sep 2018
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Bloated

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

23rd Sep 2018
It used to happen sporadicly but now it is a daily experience.
Pi in the Pentium: reverse-engineering the constants in its floating-point unit Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of...
5th Jan 2025
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Pi in the Pentium: reverse-engineering the constants in its floating-point unit

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

5th Jan 2025
Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of high-performance processors.1 The Pentium includes a floating-point unit that can rapidly compute functions such as sines, cosines, logarithms, and exponentials. But how does the Pentium...
Back to the University This month, I headed back to university for a special course on scientific programming. With...
7th Feb 2023
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Back to the University

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

7th Feb 2023
This month, I headed back to university for a special course on scientific programming. With numerous recent advancements in machine learning (referred to as "AI" in PowerPoint parlance), including ChatGPT, it felt like the ideal moment to delve into Python programming. Join me...
Computer says no The weather app indicating rain caused an empty bike lane this morning, making me wonder about the...
10th Sep 2022
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Computer says no

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

10th Sep 2022
The weather app indicating rain caused an empty bike lane this morning, making me wonder about the power we put into these things.
14th Apr 2025
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Why I support privacy

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

14th Apr 2025
More Luigi alternatives The workflow engine battle has intensified with some more interesting entries lately! Here are a...
2nd Jul 2015
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More Luigi alternatives

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

2nd Jul 2015
The workflow engine battle has intensified with some more interesting entries lately! Here are a couple I encountered in the last few days. I love that at least two of them are direct references to Luigi!
Omoiyari Inconsequential and pleasant!
1st Mar 2021
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Omoiyari

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Mar 2021
Inconsequential and pleasant!
RIP Sonny Rollins Sonny Rollins, the Saxophone Colossus, has passed. He is probably my favorite saxophonist, and while...
27th May 2026
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RIP Sonny Rollins

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

27th May 2026
Sonny Rollins, the Saxophone Colossus, has passed. He is probably my favorite saxophonist, and while the aforementioned album is one of the five I would take to a deserted island, he has so many other good ones like The Cutting Edge which also has bagpipes, or Sonny Side Up with...
Design for Testability When designing a new software project, one is often faced with a glut of choices about how to...
6th Mar 2016
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Design for Testability

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

6th Mar 2016
When designing a new software project, one is often faced with a glut of choices about how to structure it. What should the core abstractions be? How should they interact with each other? In this post, I want to argue for a design heuristic that I’ve found to be a useful guide to...
Mindwalk Let us know how the water rises.
1st Apr 2026
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Mindwalk

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

1st Apr 2026
Let us know how the water rises.
Apple at 50: My journey to the Mac Growing up, I hated Apple the way only an arrogant teenager could. Who in their right mind would buy...
1st Apr 2026
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Apple at 50: My journey to the Mac

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

1st Apr 2026
Growing up, I hated Apple the way only an arrogant teenager could. Who in their right mind would buy an overpriced toy instead of a “real computer”? Here’s how I switched to the Mac, and haven’t looked back… despite some recent reservations. My family’s first real computer was a...
FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more...
1st Sep 2026
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FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses

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

1st Sep 2026
A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from people in the United States and Canada. Based on interviews with individuals whose licenses are available for purchase on this service, it...
Wealth distribution in the United States Forbes recently published the Forbes 400 List for 2024, listing the 400 richest people in the United...
9th Oct 2024
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Wealth distribution in the United States

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

9th Oct 2024
Forbes recently published the Forbes 400 List for 2024, listing the 400 richest people in the United States. This inspired me to make a histogram to show the distribution of wealth in the United States. It turns out that if you put Elon Musk on the graph, almost the entire US...
I made a Chrome extension to help avoid playing cheaters in chess If you google “chrome extension for cheating in chess”, you’ll find a lot of them. Cheating is so...
22nd Dec 2024
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22nd Dec 2024
If you google “chrome extension for cheating in chess”, you’ll find a lot of them. Cheating is so easy, it’s crazy. If you google “chrome…
Identifying Counterfeit AirPods Pro 2 Turns out buying Air Pods from eBay is risky, who knew? Well, clearly I didn't because I totally...
14th May 2025
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Identifying Counterfeit AirPods Pro 2

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

14th May 2025
Turns out buying Air Pods from eBay is risky, who knew? Well, clearly I didn't because I totally fell for one. I was looking to pick up some used AirPods Pro 2 to use while out on walks or whenever my usual over-ears wouldn't be comfortable. I found a decent-enough looking...
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...
5th Dec 2018
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Do amazing things with a focused mind

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

5th Dec 2018
Read about my experience during the workshop I got as a birth day present involving the Wim Hof Method.
ZFS performance on HP Proliant Microserver Gen8 G1610T I think the HP Proliant Microserver Gen8 is a very interesting little box if you want to build your...
14th Aug 2015
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ZFS performance on HP Proliant Microserver Gen8 G1610T

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

14th Aug 2015
I think the HP Proliant Microserver Gen8 is a very interesting little box if you want to build your own ZFS-based NAS. The benchmarks I've performed seem to confirm this. The Microserver Gen8 has nice features such as: iLO (KVM over IP with dedicated network interface) support...
Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction In the 1970s, floating-point arithmetic was a mess. Computer manufacturers had a dozen incompatible...
3 weeks ago
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Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction

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

3 weeks ago
In the 1970s, floating-point arithmetic was a mess. Computer manufacturers had a dozen incompatible arithmetic standards. Moreover, floating-point systems were designed around hardware simplicity rather than mathematical rigor, leading to problems with numerical stability. This...
Google Analytics vs AWStats This month I have been working on website statistics, tracking traffic using different technologies....
19th Aug 2018
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Google Analytics vs AWStats

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

19th Aug 2018
This month I have been working on website statistics, tracking traffic using different technologies. Some of my customers use Google Analytics, others use AWStats, and some use both. Which is better is often debated, but few people really understand the differences. Time to shed...
Fluid speed issues! Fluid v1.3 is too fast on 3GX iPhones ;( ! I will released a fix tonight !
29th Jun 2009
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Fluid speed issues!

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

29th Jun 2009
Fluid v1.3 is too fast on 3GX iPhones ;( ! I will released a fix tonight !
2023-08-07 STIRred AND SHAKEN In a couple of days, I pack up my bags to head for DEFCON. In a rare moment of pre-planning, perhaps...
7th Aug 2023
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2023-08-07 STIRred AND SHAKEN

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

7th Aug 2023
In a couple of days, I pack up my bags to head for DEFCON. In a rare moment of pre-planning, perhaps spurred by boredom, I looked through the schedule to see what's in store in the world of telephony. There is a workshop on SS7, of course [1], plenty of content on cellular, but...
Chipzilla Extends its Domination MMX, Bunny People, Celeron, Xeon
2nd Mar 2025
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Chipzilla Extends its Domination

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

2nd Mar 2025
MMX, Bunny People, Celeron, Xeon
The Boys in the Boat A friend of mine who's in finance told me that the book is a cult favorite in his office, as most of...
14th Jan 2019
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The Boys in the Boat

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

14th Jan 2019
A friend of mine who's in finance told me that the book is a cult favorite in his office, as most of them did crew in college. There's gotta be a word for the narrative neatness that this book employs. Of course the UW folks are the young upstarts — of course they are portrayed...
CVE-2007-4573: The Anatomy of a Kernel Exploit CVE-2007-4573 is two years old at this point, but it remains one of my favorite vulnerabilities. It...
5th Feb 2010
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CVE-2007-4573: The Anatomy of a Kernel Exploit

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

5th Feb 2010
CVE-2007-4573 is two years old at this point, but it remains one of my favorite vulnerabilities. It was a local privilege-escalation vulnerability on all x86_64 kernels prior to v2.6.22.7. It’s very simple to understand with a little bit of background, and the exploit is...
CANARY Corrugated Cardboard Cutter The CANARY corrugated cardboard cutter is definitely in my top 10 list of most useful purchases...
15th Nov 2022
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CANARY Corrugated Cardboard Cutter

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

15th Nov 2022
The CANARY corrugated cardboard cutter is definitely in my top 10 list of most useful purchases ever. During the COVID-19 lockdowns, we all started shopping online a lot more. The number of cardboard boxes in our house basically quadrupled overnight and cutting them down to size...
IDA Summer of Code 2014 IDA Summer of Code is Linköping University’s response to Google Summer of Code. Students can send in...
11th Jun 2014
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IDA Summer of Code 2014

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

11th Jun 2014
IDA Summer of Code is Linköping University’s response to Google Summer of Code. Students can send in a project of their choice and if selected they get paid to work on it for 4 weeks during the summer. In return the university get to show off the students and their projects in...
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...
1st Apr 2025
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Benchmarks from M2 Pro to M4 Pro

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Apr 2025
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
Control your volume with a wireless rotary encoder, as you deserve Every decent stereo sold since the invention of sound has included a knob on the front for adjusting...
6th Jan 2025
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Control your volume with a wireless rotary encoder, as you deserve

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

6th Jan 2025
Every decent stereo sold since the invention of sound has included a knob on the front for adjusting volume. There are influencers and entire communities dedicated to evaluating the feel of those wonderful knobs. So why would you settle for the mushy volume buttons on a remote?...
telephones caught in between During the heyday of AT&T, it was often said that the telephone system was the largest machine ever...
2nd Aug 2026
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telephones caught in between

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

2nd Aug 2026
During the heyday of AT&T, it was often said that the telephone system was the largest machine ever built. The "hello machine" certainly was vast, but whether or not you consider it to be a single machine raises challenging questions of definition. The Internet, I think we can...
Introducing The 5-Year Compact Battery for AirTag There are few things worse than a dead AirTag when you need it. That's why we designed the The...
4th Dec 2025
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Introducing The 5-Year Compact Battery for AirTag

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

4th Dec 2025
There are few things worse than a dead AirTag when you need it. That's why we designed the The 5-Year Compact Battery for AirTag.  It replaces the CR2032 coin cell for two uses AAA batteries for 5.5x more capacity. And does so in a small, lightweight form factor.  Discrete,...
From Capelton Hill This is very much an album about what it means to have spent twenty years making music that is...
4th Jun 2022
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From Capelton Hill

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Jun 2022
This is very much an album about what it means to have spent twenty years making music that is almost entirely about being in your late twenties and feeling that the most important parts of life are happening and fleeting. It is soft and comforting and you can't help but feel...
3D printer repairing and modding I’ve had my VORON Trident for 2 years and I’ve run it for 2600 hours. Overall I’m happy with the...
2nd Dec 2025
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3D printer repairing and modding

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

2nd Dec 2025
I’ve had my VORON Trident for 2 years and I’ve run it for 2600 hours. Overall I’m happy with the printer but I’ve been itching to make some more mods to it. Having finally finished the VORON 0 (with mods) I now have a backup printer I can use to rescue myself when I screw up. As...
Going down the rabbit hole of Git's new bundle-uri Git's new bundle-uri could help significantly speed up clones, but what bugs lurk within?
13th Mar 2025
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Going down the rabbit hole of Git's new bundle-uri

from GitButler [alt+shift+b] in technology

13th Mar 2025
Git's new bundle-uri could help significantly speed up clones, but what bugs lurk within?
Trump 2.0 Brings Cuts to Cyber, Consumer Protections One month into his second term, President Trump's actions to shrink the government through mass...
23rd Feb 2025
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Trump 2.0 Brings Cuts to Cyber, Consumer Protections

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

23rd Feb 2025
One month into his second term, President Trump's actions to shrink the government through mass layoffs, firings and withholding funds allocated by Congress have thrown federal cybersecurity and consumer protection programs into disarray. At the same time, agencies are battling...
SwiftUI Explorations My journey of learning SwiftUI as a designer.
21st Jun 2024
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SwiftUI Explorations

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

21st Jun 2024
My journey of learning SwiftUI as a designer.
Free software scares normal people I’m the person my friends and family come to for computer-related help. (Maybe you, gentle reader,...
30th Oct 2025
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Free software scares normal people

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

30th Oct 2025
I’m the person my friends and family come to for computer-related help. (Maybe you, gentle reader, can relate.) This experience has taught me which computing tasks are frustrating for normal people. Normal people often struggle with converting video. They will need to watch,...
You Already Have Our Personal Data, Take Our Phone Calls Too (FreePBX CVE-2025-57819) We’re back - it’s a day, in a month, in a year - and once again, something has happened. In this...
10th Sep 2025
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10th Sep 2025
We’re back - it’s a day, in a month, in a year - and once again, something has happened. In this week’s episode of “the Internet is made of string and there is literally no evidence to suggest otherwise”, we present even
Train Simulator Controller: Stepper Speedometer Begins For quite a few years now, I have been an avid Train Simulator player, operating virtual trains from...
27th Jan 2023
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Train Simulator Controller: Stepper Speedometer Begins

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

27th Jan 2023
For quite a few years now, I have been an avid Train Simulator player, operating virtual trains from the United States, the UK, and beyond. I’ve played Dovetail Games’ Train Simulator 2015 to 2022 and now “Train Simulator Classic”, FIFA-style annual upgrades that have...
Finishing up a FreeBSD experiment I've been using FreeBSD as my daily driver at work since December. I've successfully done my job and...
28th Apr 2018
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Finishing up a FreeBSD experiment

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

28th Apr 2018
I've been using FreeBSD as my daily driver at work since December. I've successfully done my job and I've learned a hell of a lot forcing myself on CURRENT... But there's been a number of issues with it that have made it difficult to keep using, so I replaced it with Arch Linux...
I prefer boring technologies When I start new projects I try to build them with boring technologies that I used before and I try...
30th Dec 2021
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I prefer boring technologies

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

30th Dec 2021
When I start new projects I try to build them with boring technologies that I used before and I try to limit picking up new libraries, tools and technologies to a minimum. This is because I want to build actual products and not to do projects for the sake of learning exciting...
Train Simulator Controller: Dashboard Prototype Part 4, All the Panels With the center console of my train simulator built, I rapidly modeled and fabricated prototypes of...
30th Dec 2025
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Train Simulator Controller: Dashboard Prototype Part 4, All the Panels

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

30th Dec 2025
With the center console of my train simulator built, I rapidly modeled and fabricated prototypes of the four other panels.
GitButler for Windows The GitButler client is now available natively on Windows.
12th Apr 2024
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GitButler for Windows

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

12th Apr 2024
The GitButler client is now available natively on Windows.
Maths is Fun and Useful but Lasers Are More So Way back when, I made a cool but basic paper sculpture (in Maths is Fun and Useful) by hand, using a...
11th Aug 2017
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Maths is Fun and Useful but Lasers Are More So

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

11th Aug 2017
Way back when, I made a cool but basic paper sculpture (in Maths is Fun and Useful) by hand, using a perl script for the shape template. For cultural reasons, I wanted to make a gift out of paper and it had to be Heaps Good. I had finally got access to a laser cutter (omgomg)...
Ted Lasso (Season 1) Gilbert & Sullivan would have loved Ted Lasso — absurd and friendly and ever, ever obsessed with...
4th Aug 2024
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Ted Lasso (Season 1)

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Aug 2024
Gilbert & Sullivan would have loved Ted Lasso — absurd and friendly and ever, ever obsessed with having its pathos and eating it too. I write this in a period of what I would describe as post-post-backlash: there was a period where America, particularly during COVID, was obsessed...
Advice That Actually Worked For Me My contribution to the 'productivity advice' genre.
4th Jul 2022
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Advice That Actually Worked For Me

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

4th Jul 2022
My contribution to the 'productivity advice' genre.
Weird SEGA facts I fell down a weird Wikipedia rabbit hole this morning. It was kicked off by a Bluesky post from...
15th Aug 2025
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Weird SEGA facts

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

15th Aug 2025
I fell down a weird Wikipedia rabbit hole this morning. It was kicked off by a Bluesky post from Jeff Gerstmann, and it taught me two weird things about Sonic the Hedgehog. Gerstmann’s post shows off MTV’s Beavis and Butt-Head for the Game Gear. I’d never seen it before and...
9th May 2019
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Control as Liability

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

9th May 2019
'Zabbix Security: client-server communication seems insecure' Zabbix is a populair tool for monitoring servers, services and network equipment. For monitoring...
27th Sep 2010
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'Zabbix Security: client-server communication seems insecure'

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

27th Sep 2010
Zabbix is a populair tool for monitoring servers, services and network equipment. For monitoring hosts, Zabbix provides an agent that can be installed on the hosts that must be monitored. Based on the supplied documentation and some remarks on the internets, the 'security' of...
12th Aug 2024
Virtual Branches Alpha GitButler is introducing an entirely new way to work on branches in Git. Join the alpha!
1st Sep 2023
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Virtual Branches Alpha

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

1st Sep 2023
GitButler is introducing an entirely new way to work on branches in Git. Join the alpha!
Fietselfstedentocht 2017 Cycling the 235KM long Fietselfstedentocht through Friesland
29th Jun 2017
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Fietselfstedentocht 2017

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

29th Jun 2017
Cycling the 235KM long Fietselfstedentocht through Friesland
Designers Desk #2 - Aaron Della Vedova Designer's Desk is a new series featuring the desk setups of artists, designers, and creators -...
3rd Aug 2017
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Designers Desk #2 - Aaron Della Vedova

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

3rd Aug 2017
Designer's Desk is a new series featuring the desk setups of artists, designers, and creators - showcasing how they work and what their workspace looks like.   Aaron Della Vedova is one of the world's most celebrated tattoo artists and the owner of Guru Tattoo, which has two...
Leadership at the Peak I want to start by thanking the Automattic board, and in particular General (Ret.) Ann Dunwoody, for...
10th Feb 2026
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Leadership at the Peak

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

10th Feb 2026
I want to start by thanking the Automattic board, and in particular General (Ret.) Ann Dunwoody, for encouraging me to step away from the endless work of being CEO of Automattic to focus on training and development. Ann, as one of this generation’s great leaders, did it herself...
Release of PPSS - the Parallel Processing Shell Script PPSS is a shell script that processess files or other items in parallel. It is designed to make use...
3rd Jan 2009
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Release of PPSS - the Parallel Processing Shell Script

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

3rd Jan 2009
PPSS is a shell script that processess files or other items in parallel. It is designed to make use of the current multi-core CPUs. It will detect the number of available CPUs and start a thread for each CPU core.  This script is build with the goal to be very easy to use. Also,...
From KEMs to protocols This is the third part of my series on Key Encapsulation Mechanisms (KEMs) and why you should care...
8th Apr 2021
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From KEMs to protocols

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

8th Apr 2021
This is the third part of my series on Key Encapsulation Mechanisms (KEMs) and why you should care about them. Part 1 looked at what a KEM is and the KEM/DEM paradigm for constructing public key encryption schemes. Part 2 looked at cases where the basic KEM abstraction is not...
Godzilla Minus One I wrote a bit in Everybody's in L.A. about the constraint of evaluating the merit of something...
4th Jun 2024
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Godzilla Minus One

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Jun 2024
I wrote a bit in Everybody's in L.A. about the constraint of evaluating the merit of something that's in conversation with a genre you don't really care for in the first place; I don't care much for late night shows, and I care even less for kaiju movies, even with my knowledge...
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...
5th Apr 2024
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A paper reading club at work; databases and distributed systems research

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

5th Apr 2024
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...
Major disaster has struck the computing industry. TL;DR your computers are going to get slow because of patches aimed at fixing unprecedented...
4th Jan 2018
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Major disaster has struck the computing industry.

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

4th Jan 2018
TL;DR your computers are going to get slow because of patches aimed at fixing unprecedented vulnerabilities in the CPU. For the rest (simplified), Modern computational security relies on maintaining the sanctum of memory, i.e keeping secure memory (say your passwords) out of...
2024-03-01 listening in on the neighborhood Last week, someone leaked a spreadsheet of SoundThinking sensors to Wired. You are probably asking...
1st Mar 2024
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2024-03-01 listening in on the neighborhood

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

1st Mar 2024
Last week, someone leaked a spreadsheet of SoundThinking sensors to Wired. You are probably asking "What is SoundThinking," because the company rebranded last year. They used to be called ShotSpotter, and their outdoor acoustic gunfire detection system still goes by the...
Subway waiting math Why does it suck to wait for things? In a previous post I analyzed a NYC subway dataset and found...
9th Jul 2016
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Subway waiting math

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

9th Jul 2016
Why does it suck to wait for things? In a previous post I analyzed a NYC subway dataset and found that at some point, quite early, it's worth just giving up. This isn't a proof that the subway doesn't run on time – in fact it might actually proves that the subway runs really...
Polygon Codec More...
26th Jun 2011
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Polygon Codec

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

26th Jun 2011
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Iterate or die Here's a conclusion I've made building consumer products for many years: the speed at which a...
2nd Mar 2016
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Iterate or die

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

2nd Mar 2016
Here's a conclusion I've made building consumer products for many years: the speed at which a company innovates is limited by its iteration speed. I don't even mean throughput here. I just mean the cycle time.
How I ended up building storylearner.app I’ve always been drawn to self-directed learning. My interests have been pretty diverse - I would...
17th May 2025
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How I ended up building storylearner.app

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

17th May 2025
I’ve always been drawn to self-directed learning. My interests have been pretty diverse - I would spend countless hours on math, science, soft-skills, movement skills (juggling, handstands) as well as languages. A long standing language learning obsession Over the years (starting...
Quasimode for Text Selection A short design exploration of how stacked cards could work within iA writer
10th Mar 2021
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Quasimode for Text Selection

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

10th Mar 2021
A short design exploration of how stacked cards could work within iA writer
How to take down production with a single Helm command You’re Cletus Kubernetus: a software developer, and a proud Fedora Linux user.1 You know Kubernetes,...
4th Apr 2024
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How to take down production with a single Helm command

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

4th Apr 2024
You’re Cletus Kubernetus: a software developer, and a proud Fedora Linux user.1 You know Kubernetes, especially after the time you migrated some services to it. Everything is calm. Your pods are running. Your service is up. Business as usual. You release some minor changes to...
Revived I got too busy with a new job and living in a different country. But I love writing and I am very...
13th Feb 2021
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Revived

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

13th Feb 2021
I got too busy with a new job and living in a different country. But I love writing and I am very happy to start writing in tinystruggles.com again. What have I been up to in last couple of years? I have joined Google in Dublin, so new job, new country, new friends, new hobbies....
I don't know how to feel about Palantir Normal company or uniquely evil? Let's reason through it.
3rd May 2026
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I don't know how to feel about Palantir

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

3rd May 2026
Normal company or uniquely evil? Let's reason through it.
Securing Your GitHub Account Let's talk about some of the simple & practical steps you can take to improve your GitHub account...
11th Mar 2020
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Securing Your GitHub Account

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

11th Mar 2020
Let's talk about some of the simple & practical steps you can take to improve your GitHub account security. There's plenty of good reasons why you should try to keep any online account safe, but I feel that GitHub deserves special attention among developers. With automation...
LED Matrix Earrings [Hardware] Itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow dot-matrix LED
20th Feb 2024
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LED Matrix Earrings

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

20th Feb 2024
[Hardware] Itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow dot-matrix LED
Master of Change In this post I discuss the brilliant book Master of Change by Brad Stulberg, providing a...
17th Jan 2025
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Master of Change

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

17th Jan 2025
In this post I discuss the brilliant book Master of Change by Brad Stulberg, providing a thought-provoking guide to thrive in a changing world.
Links #14 See below for links to recent things that have made me think. It’s quite the mix of mediums...
30th Mar 2026
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Links #14

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

30th Mar 2026
See below for links to recent things that have made me think. It’s quite the mix of mediums (animated videos, short posts, letters, and 6-hour podcasts), but it wasn’t until I gathered them that I noticed a recurring theme: sacrifice Sometimes the world imposes constraints on us,...
Fio-plot: creating nice charts from FIO storage benchmark data New release of fio-plot I've rewritten fio-plot, a tool that turns FIO benchmark data into nice...
27th Nov 2019
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Fio-plot: creating nice charts from FIO storage benchmark data

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

27th Nov 2019
New release of fio-plot I've rewritten fio-plot, a tool that turns FIO benchmark data into nice charts. It allows you to create four types of graphs which will be discussed below. The github project page explains how to run this tool. Fio-plot also includes a benchmark script...
How Rick and Morty fans helped McDonald’s SzeChuan sauce scarcity marketing McDonald's Szechaun Sauce announcement The #SzechuanSauce fiasco with McDonald’s is a very...
9th Oct 2017
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9th Oct 2017
McDonald's Szechaun Sauce announcement The #SzechuanSauce fiasco with McDonald’s is a very interesting (successful ?) example of scarcity marketing and targeting intellectuals for generating bandwagon effect. Some BG : Rick and MortyBuy, a science fiction animated show with the...
Survey: What’s in your tech stack? We want to capture an accurate snapshot of software engineering, today – and need your help! Tell us...
18th Mar 2025
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Survey: What’s in your tech stack?

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

18th Mar 2025
We want to capture an accurate snapshot of software engineering, today – and need your help! Tell us about your tech stack and get early access to the final report, plus extra analysis
Theming Apps on iOS is Hard Theming apps (the ability to change up the color scheme for an app from say, a white background with...
7th Feb 2022
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Theming Apps on iOS is Hard

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

7th Feb 2022
Theming apps (the ability to change up the color scheme for an app from say, a white background with blue links to a light green background with green links) is a pretty common feature across a lot of apps. It’s one of the core features of the new “Twitter Blue” subscription,...
Invertimo Binance Crypto Integration You can now import your binance Crypto related transactions to invertimo.com (open source investment...
2nd Feb 2022
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Invertimo Binance Crypto Integration

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

2nd Feb 2022
You can now import your binance Crypto related transactions to invertimo.com (open source investment tracking app). Why track crypto transactions in invertimo? Invertimo helps you track all transactions related to your investments as well as dividends and received income in one...
The reasons Trump gives for attacking Iran It does not add up to much
1st Mar 2026
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The reasons Trump gives for attacking Iran

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

1st Mar 2026
It does not add up to much
Apple and the AI divide This morning I read a 404 Media article about Instagram showing people ads with AI-generated images...
7th Jan 2025
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Apple and the AI divide

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

7th Jan 2025
This morning I read a 404 Media article about Instagram showing people ads with AI-generated images of themselves. I thought this take from Sam Biddle was very good: Never in my career have I seen such a giant gulf between What Companies Think Is the Most Important Thing in the...
Cursed circuits: charge pump voltage halver There's plenty of circuits that are hard to understand because they're complicated. And some that...
2nd Dec 2025
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Cursed circuits: charge pump voltage halver

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

2nd Dec 2025
There's plenty of circuits that are hard to understand because they're complicated. And some that are hard to make sense of because they seem too simple.
AI and machine learning for engineering design Popular mechanical engineering course applies machine learning and AI theory to real-world...
7th Sep 2025
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AI and machine learning for engineering design

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

7th Sep 2025
Popular mechanical engineering course applies machine learning and AI theory to real-world engineering design.
Australian Open 2026: Alcaraz and Rybakina Triumph In The Shadow Of Legends The gala which precedes the tournament is not a ball, but exhibition tennis, which featured legends...
4th Feb 2026
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Australian Open 2026: Alcaraz and Rybakina Triumph In The Shadow Of Legends

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

4th Feb 2026
The gala which precedes the tournament is not a ball, but exhibition tennis, which featured legends Roger Federer, Andre Agassi, Patrick Rafter, and 2022 women’s champion Ashleigh Barty. Long-time OFB readers will know how much seeing Federer again means to me.
The first conformant M1 GPU driver Conformant OpenGL® ES 3.1 drivers are now available for M1- and M2-family GPUs. That means the...
22nd Aug 2023
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The first conformant M1 GPU driver

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

22nd Aug 2023
Conformant OpenGL® ES 3.1 drivers are now available for M1- and M2-family GPUs. That means the drivers are compatible with any OpenGL ES 3.1 application. Interested? Just install Linux! For existing Asahi Linux users, upgrade your system with dnf upgrade (Fedora) or pacman -Syu...
Buy A Help Desk, Bundle A Remote Access Solution? (SolarWinds Web Help Desk Pre-Auth RCE Chain(s)) It’s been a while, but we’re back - in time for story time. Gather round, strap in, and prepare for...
25th Feb 2026
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25th Feb 2026
It’s been a while, but we’re back - in time for story time. Gather round, strap in, and prepare for another depressing journey of “all we wanted to do was reproduce an N-day, and here we are with 0-days”. Today, friends, we’re
Creating a minimal road bike I wondered how hard it would be to make a bike from spare parts I had in my garage
17th Aug 2019
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Creating a minimal road bike

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

17th Aug 2019
I wondered how hard it would be to make a bike from spare parts I had in my garage
New benchmarks for approximate nearest neighbors UPDATE(2018-06-17): There are is a later blog post with newer benchmarks! One of my super nerdy...
15th Feb 2018
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New benchmarks for approximate nearest neighbors

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

15th Feb 2018
UPDATE(2018-06-17): There are is a later blog post with newer benchmarks! One of my super nerdy interests include approximate algorithms for nearest neighbors in high-dimensional spaces. The problem is simple. You have say 1M points in some high-dimensional space.
AAA gaming on Asahi Linux Gaming on Linux on M1 is here! We’re thrilled to release our Asahi game playing toolkit, which...
10th Oct 2024
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AAA gaming on Asahi Linux

from Alyssa Rosenzweig [alt+shift+b] in technology

10th Oct 2024
Gaming on Linux on M1 is here! We’re thrilled to release our Asahi game playing toolkit, which integrates our Vulkan 1.3 drivers with x86 emulation and Windows compatibility. Plus a bonus: conformant OpenCL 3.0. Asahi Linux now ships the only conformant OpenGL®, OpenCL™, and...
Statistics showing relevance of caching proxy In this day and age of dynamic web content, how relevant can a caching proxy server be? I believe...
18th Dec 2012
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Statistics showing relevance of caching proxy

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

18th Dec 2012
In this day and age of dynamic web content, how relevant can a caching proxy server be? I believe that the answer could be: quite! I have installed a caching proxy server based on Squid, which is now used within my company. It also does content scanning using squidclamav and...
Buying a new computer *** Desktop or Laptop *** When deciding on which computer to buy, the first decision you have to...
3rd Apr 2011
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Buying a new computer

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

3rd Apr 2011
*** Desktop or Laptop *** When deciding on which computer to buy, the first decision you have to make is about whether to go for a desktop or a laptop. There was a time that many believed that the desktop would become a niche product. Most people want a laptop because they can...
MUSE in Carré Last Sunday I experienced a breathtaking fusion of legendary rock band MUSE and Amsterdam's iconic...
22nd Oct 2022
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MUSE in Carré

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

22nd Oct 2022
Last Sunday I experienced a breathtaking fusion of legendary rock band MUSE and Amsterdam's iconic Royal Theatre Carré. The band's electrifying sound in the theatre's sophisticated atmosphere proved to be a recipe for an unforgettable night. MUSE Hailing from Teignmouth, Devon,...
Calculating cosine similarities using dimensionality reduction This was posted on the Twitter Engineering blog a few days ago: Dimension Independent Similarity...
5th Dec 2012
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Calculating cosine similarities using dimensionality reduction

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

5th Dec 2012
This was posted on the Twitter Engineering blog a few days ago: Dimension Independent Similarity Computation (DISCO) I just glanced at the paper, and there's some cool stuff going on from a theoretical perspective. What I'm curious about is why they didn't decide to use...
More interruptions, not fewer Have you ever gotten to the end of a long work day and realized you’re no closer to your goals? I...
1st Dec 2025
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More interruptions, not fewer

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

1st Dec 2025
Have you ever gotten to the end of a long work day and realized you’re no closer to your goals? I have. The problem, counterintuitively, was lack of interruption. Sure, I was doing a lot of stuff. But I never paused to ask whether I was doing the right stuff. Or whether my...
Understanding Ceph: open-source scalable storage Introduction In this blog post I will try to explain why I believe Ceph is such an interesting...
19th Aug 2018
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Understanding Ceph: open-source scalable storage

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

19th Aug 2018
Introduction In this blog post I will try to explain why I believe Ceph is such an interesting storage solution. After you finished reading this blog post you should have a good high-level overview of Ceph. I've written this blog post purely because I'm a storage enthusiast and I...
Customizing Neovim Scripting is configuration. Configuration is scripting. TJ DeVries A different take on editing...
2nd May 2024
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Customizing Neovim

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

2nd May 2024
Scripting is configuration. Configuration is scripting. TJ DeVries A different take on editing code I’ve been using Neovim since it forked from Vim almost 8 years ago, and I used Vim many years before that. I feel quite comfortable with Neovim, and I’ve gone down the...
A single-node Kubernetes cluster without virtualization or a container registry This post is a recipe for setting up a minimal Kubernetes cluster on Fedora without requiring...
25th Jul 2020
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A single-node Kubernetes cluster without virtualization or a container registry

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

25th Jul 2020
This post is a recipe for setting up a minimal Kubernetes cluster on Fedora without requiring virtualization or a container registry. These two features make the system cloud-agnostic and the cluster entirely self-contained. The post will end with us running a simple Flask...
Search like a pro: Google search operators Read along for a comprehensive list of advanced Google search operators that allow you to filter...
24th Apr 2019
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Search like a pro: Google search operators

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

24th Apr 2019
Read along for a comprehensive list of advanced Google search operators that allow you to filter your search results.
Tracing the baseband I was reading an article on planetbeing's blog the other day and my curiosity was tipped off when...
27th May 2010
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Tracing the baseband

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

27th May 2010
I was reading an article on planetbeing's blog the other day and my curiosity was tipped off when he mentioned that phones don't run only one operating system but two. I decided to learn a bit how all this really works and here are my notes with the source code associated....
Complex Heterodynes Explained Introduction Some Common DSP Notations Sampling with 1 ADC Creates a Real Signal Heterodyning the...
7th Feb 2026
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Complex Heterodynes Explained

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

7th Feb 2026
Introduction Some Common DSP Notations Sampling with 1 ADC Creates a Real Signal Heterodyning the Signal to Baseband the Wrong Way Complex Heterodyne to the Rescue Filtering Away the Old Negative Image Decimation Final Block Diagram Conclusion Afterthought: the Fourier Transform...
More Evidence That Words Don't Mean What We Thought They Meant (Ivanti Sentry Pre-Auth OS Command... Today, Ivanti published an advisory. “No way?” we hear you say. "Yes way!" a random dog screams back...
10th Jun 2026
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10th Jun 2026
Today, Ivanti published an advisory. “No way?” we hear you say. "Yes way!" a random dog screams back at you, across the street. Today’s rare advisory outlines two vulnerabilities in Ivanti’s Sentry product, appealing directly to our inner desire for sophisticated server-side,
When Overwhelmed, Make a List of Questions In my first big project at Netflix, I learned this disturbingly simple problem-solving technique.
5th Aug 2024
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When Overwhelmed, Make a List of Questions

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

5th Aug 2024
In my first big project at Netflix, I learned this disturbingly simple problem-solving technique.
Passing the reins on Panfrost Today is my last day at Collabora and my last day leading the Panfrost driver. It’s been a wild...
10th Apr 2023
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Passing the reins on Panfrost

from Alyssa Rosenzweig [alt+shift+b] in technology

10th Apr 2023
Today is my last day at Collabora and my last day leading the Panfrost driver. It’s been a wild ride. In 2017, I began work on the chai driver for Mali T (Midgard). chai would later be merged into Lyude Paul’s and Connor Abbott’s BiOpenly project for Mali G (Bifrost) to form...
MicroTimes Interviews Borland's Philippe Kahn Again (1995) Khan talks about his post-Borland work at Starfish and competition with Lotus and Microsoft
3rd Mar 2026
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MicroTimes Interviews Borland's Philippe Kahn Again (1995)

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

3rd Mar 2026
Khan talks about his post-Borland work at Starfish and competition with Lotus and Microsoft
Canvas Breach Disrupts Schools & Colleges Nationwide An ongoing data extortion attack targeting the widely-used education technology platform Canvas...
8th May 2026
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Canvas Breach Disrupts Schools & Colleges Nationwide

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

8th May 2026
An ongoing data extortion attack targeting the widely-used education technology platform Canvas disrupted classes and coursework at school districts and universities across the United States today, after a cybercrime group defaced the service’s login page with a ransom demand...
Offline Advocate Digital hoarding as a check against the ephemeral nature of the internet ... and maybe some peace of...
19th Nov 2024
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Offline Advocate

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

19th Nov 2024
Digital hoarding as a check against the ephemeral nature of the internet ... and maybe some peace of mind.
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....
5th Jul 2019
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Why I’m Switching Web Hosts

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

5th Jul 2019
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....
Monitoring energy usage with smart plugs, Prometheus and Grafana This post isn’t a detailed line-by-line tutorial on how to set up each individual piece of the setup...
2nd May 2024
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Monitoring energy usage with smart plugs, Prometheus and Grafana

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

2nd May 2024
This post isn’t a detailed line-by-line tutorial on how to set up each individual piece of the setup as those types of guides tend to get out of date really easily, but if you know your way around Linux and the command line, then you can definitely replicate this setup on your...
The case for Nightingale Datacentres Britain isn’t prepared for the looming AI national security crisis
27th Aug 2026
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The case for Nightingale Datacentres

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

27th Aug 2026
Britain isn’t prepared for the looming AI national security crisis
Odds and Ends #65: Everything is about everything Plus why Britain can't build things... except for the Lower Thames Crossing, apparently.
1st Apr 2025
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Odds and Ends #65: Everything is about everything

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

1st Apr 2025
Plus why Britain can't build things... except for the Lower Thames Crossing, apparently.
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It's Never Simple Until It Is (Dell UnityVSA Pre-Auth Command Injection CVE-2025-36604) Welcome back, and what a week! We’re glad that happened for you and/or sorry that happened to you....
3rd Oct 2025
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3rd Oct 2025
Welcome back, and what a week! We’re glad that happened for you and/or sorry that happened to you. It will get better and/or worse, and you will likely survive. Today, we’re walking down the garden path and digging into the archives, publishing our analysis
Guy’s Cool Tools This is a placeholder post! I’m a huge fan of Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools site and have loved their...
16th Jul 2022
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Guy’s Cool Tools

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

16th Jul 2022
This is a placeholder post! I’m a huge fan of Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools site and have loved their recommendations for years. So much, so that I even started a Pinterest board filled with my own recommendations. But after a few years of running into the limitations of the form, I...
April 2021 newsletter with links on AI scaling, particular new East Asian record-breaking work & deep reinforcement...
3rd Jun 2021
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April 2021 newsletter

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

3rd Jun 2021
with links on AI scaling, particular new East Asian record-breaking work & deep reinforcement learning.
Introducing AirTag Security Cable We wanted to make a better braided steel AirTag mount - more compact, stronger, really well...
18th Feb 2025
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Introducing AirTag Security Cable

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

18th Feb 2025
We wanted to make a better braided steel AirTag mount - more compact, stronger, really well made.    So we fired up our Swiss lathe and machined a custom oversized screw that keeps it secure and looks awesome. It is T10 Torx and comes with an included driver.   There is an...
Capability makes your life simpler If you can tolerate discomfort, then you can camp much lighter. Camping lighter means you spend less...
31st Jul 2024
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Capability makes your life simpler

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

31st Jul 2024
If you can tolerate discomfort, then you can camp much lighter. Camping lighter means you spend less time and energy packing, setting-up, tearing down, and unpacking. The same goes for travel. Fewer clothes and shoes means less luggage to carry, manage, and lose. You can board...
Writing a web server from scratch: 1. HTTP and sockets Say we have some HTML: <html> <body> <h1>Hello world!</h1> </body> </html> And say we'd...
6th Apr 2019
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Writing a web server from scratch: 1. HTTP and sockets

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

6th Apr 2019
Say we have some HTML: <html> <body> <h1>Hello world!</h1> </body> </html> And say we'd like to be able to render this page in a web browser. If the server is hosted locally we may want to enter localhost:9000/hello-world.html in the address bar, hit enter, make a...
3rd Oct 2025
Two Perspectives on the End-to-End Principle Back when I was an undergraduate, as part of a class called “Computer Systems Engineering”, we read...
11th Jun 2017
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Two Perspectives on the End-to-End Principle

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

11th Jun 2017
Back when I was an undergraduate, as part of a class called “Computer Systems Engineering”, we read numerous classic papers of systems design. I enjoyed and learned a great deal from many of these papers, but one that paper that has stuck with me in particular was Saltzer et al’s...
I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS—and You Should Too <img src="/assets\images\blog_posts\2025_01_12-rss\banner.png" alt="An image of a banner cartoon of...
15th Jan 2025
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I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS—and You Should Too

from Joey's Hoard of Stuff [alt+shift+b] in technology

15th Jan 2025
<img src="/assets\images\blog_posts\2025_01_12-rss\banner.png" alt="An image of a banner cartoon of the topic at ...
Refurb weekend: Atari Stacy Ask any Atari Stacy owner how to open an Atari Stacy and the answer is always "never, if you can...
5th Jan 2025
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Refurb weekend: Atari Stacy

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

5th Jan 2025
Ask any Atari Stacy owner how to open an Atari Stacy and the answer is always "never, if you can avoid it." So I'll just lead with this spoiler image after the refurb to prove this particular escapade didn't completely end in tragedy: see the much lighter and streamlined STBook...
Regular JSON For better or worse, depending on your perspective, JSON has become a dominant data format and shows...
31st May 2023
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Regular JSON

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

31st May 2023
For better or worse, depending on your perspective, JSON has become a dominant data format and shows no signs of being replaced any time soon. There are good reasons for that: on the face of it, it provides a very simple format with just enough features to cover a lot of...
My E-Reader Setup My E-Reader Setup Posted on August 10, 2023 This post is from a legacy version of this blog! No...
10th Aug 2023
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My E-Reader Setup

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

10th Aug 2023
My E-Reader Setup Posted on August 10, 2023 This post is from a legacy version of this blog! No changes have been made to the content in the migration, so things might read weird. I bought an e-reader recently, specifically the Kobo Libra 2. I felt like I wasn’t reading...
Realtime service uptime monitoring Downtime happens and it is nothing to be ashamed of, just make sure that you set yourself up to...
1st Feb 2021
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Realtime service uptime monitoring

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

1st Feb 2021
Downtime happens and it is nothing to be ashamed of, just make sure that you set yourself up to discover problems as soon as possible! Know about problems before your customers do!
Using GitButler With Multiple GitHub Accounts Working across multiple GitHub accounts can get messy fast. GitButler removes a lot of that friction...
15th Dec 2025
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Using GitButler With Multiple GitHub Accounts

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

15th Dec 2025
Working across multiple GitHub accounts can get messy fast. GitButler removes a lot of that friction with built-in GitHub integration.
Interviewing is a noisy prediction problem I have done roughly 2,000 interviews in my life. When I started recruiting, I had so much confidence...
2nd May 2018
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Interviewing is a noisy prediction problem

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

2nd May 2018
I have done roughly 2,000 interviews in my life. When I started recruiting, I had so much confidence in my ability to assess people. Let me just throw a couple of algorithm questions at a candidate and then I'll tell you if they are good or not!
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