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Understanding Mamdani's Vision His inauguration speech challenges the the left to govern
2nd Jan 2026
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Understanding Mamdani's Vision

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

2nd Jan 2026
His inauguration speech challenges the the left to govern
Write your own Ghost Theme I struggled to make a Ghost CMS theme that worked the way I wanted, so I made my own. Turned out to...
5th Jun 2025
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Write your own Ghost Theme

from matduggan.com [alt+shift+b] in technology

5th Jun 2025
I struggled to make a Ghost CMS theme that worked the way I wanted, so I made my own. Turned out to be a surprisingly easy experience.
Conformant OpenGL 4.6 on the M1 For years, the M1 has only supported OpenGL 4.1. That changes today – with our release of full...
14th Feb 2024
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Conformant OpenGL 4.6 on the M1

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

14th Feb 2024
For years, the M1 has only supported OpenGL 4.1. That changes today – with our release of full OpenGL® 4.6 and OpenGL® ES 3.2! Install Fedora for the latest M1/M2-series drivers. Already installed? Just dnf upgrade --refresh. Unlike the vendor’s non-conformant 4.1 drivers, our...
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
Starting a minimal Common Lisp project If you've only vaguely heard of Lisp before or studied Scheme in school, Common Lisp is nothing like...
5th Mar 2018
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Starting a minimal Common Lisp project

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

5th Mar 2018
If you've only vaguely heard of Lisp before or studied Scheme in school, Common Lisp is nothing like what you'd expect. While functional programming is all the rage in Scheme, Common Lisp was "expressly designed to be a real-world engineering language rather than a theoretically...
Phil Eaton on Technical Blogging This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
25th Mar 2025
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Phil Eaton on Technical Blogging

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

25th Mar 2025
This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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.
VC-subsidized tokens Simon Willison writes about the recent Cursor changes:
1st Jul 2025
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VC-subsidized tokens

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Jul 2025
Simon Willison writes about the recent Cursor changes:
RAID 5 is perfectly fine for home usage RAID 5 gets a lot of flak these days. You either run RAID 1, RAID 10 or you use RAID 6, but if you...
8th Sep 2016
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RAID 5 is perfectly fine for home usage

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

8th Sep 2016
RAID 5 gets a lot of flak these days. You either run RAID 1, RAID 10 or you use RAID 6, but if you run RAID 5 you're told that you are a crazy person. Using RAID 5 is portrayed as an unreasonable risk to the availability of your data. It is suggested that it is likely that you...
MkLinux and the pimped-out Apple Workgroup Server 9150 As is typical here in the Floodgap lab, it all started so innocently: rebuilding a flaky Apple...
2nd Aug 2026
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MkLinux and the pimped-out Apple Workgroup Server 9150

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

2nd Aug 2026
As is typical here in the Floodgap lab, it all started so innocently: rebuilding a flaky Apple Workgroup Server 9150, the odd duck of the Workgroup Server line and older cousin to our beloved Apple Network Server. And then I just had to pimp it out for MkLinux. sui generis IBM...
Micro app 15: Railway Dashboard for iOS I use Railway to host a few of my projects, and while they have a nice desktop interface in the...
1st May 2026
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Micro app 15: Railway Dashboard for iOS

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st May 2026
I use Railway to host a few of my projects, and while they have a nice desktop interface in the browser, their mobile UI isn't so hot, and I wanted to make something t help me monitor things like my cost and deployments on my phone with ease.
The number of letters in the word for each number Just for fun, I generated these graphs of the number of letters in the word for each number. I...
6th Sep 2017
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The number of letters in the word for each number

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

6th Sep 2017
Just for fun, I generated these graphs of the number of letters in the word for each number. I really spent about 10 minutes on this (ok…possibly also another 40 minutes tweaking the plots): More languages!
Precision Clock Mk IV [Hardware] GPS synchronised, millisecond precision, automatic timezones and more!
31st May 2025
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Precision Clock Mk IV

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

31st May 2025
[Hardware] GPS synchronised, millisecond precision, automatic timezones and more!
Don’t Let the Drawings Distract You: AI is Not About the Output Last week, I spoke with a business leader who’s excited about AI. But as we talked, it became clear...
1st Apr 2025
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Don’t Let the Drawings Distract You: AI is Not About the Output

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

1st Apr 2025
Last week, I spoke with a business leader who’s excited about AI. But as we talked, it became clear that there’s a wide gulf between enthusiasm and creating value for a particular business. Most people’s impression of AI is based on limited use and media hype. Take the recent...
A database without dynamic memory allocation This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
12th Oct 2022
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A database without dynamic memory allocation

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

12th Oct 2022
This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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...
In Defense of the New The future is being crafted out on the edge. Are you paying attention?
3rd Jun 2024
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In Defense of the New

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

3rd Jun 2024
The future is being crafted out on the edge. Are you paying attention?
Notes from April Welcome to spring, bona fide and humid. Lots of writing this month:
1st May 2024
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Notes from April

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

1st May 2024
Welcome to spring, bona fide and humid. Lots of writing this month:
Quest for Universal action — Essay You may listen to this while reading We Are All Astronauts - Ether (YouTube). Few months ago, a...
28th Jan 2018
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Quest for Universal action — Essay

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

28th Jan 2018
You may listen to this while reading We Are All Astronauts - Ether (YouTube). Few months ago, a significant percentage of my peers were…
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...
The First Ninety Days This book is an excellent example of the “would this be better as a long blog post” litmus test...
3rd Aug 2020
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The First Ninety Days

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Aug 2020
This book is an excellent example of the “would this be better as a long blog post” litmus test (which it strongly fails.)
Approximate nearest news As you may know, one of my (very geeky) interests is Approximate nearest neigbor methods, and I'm...
2nd Jun 2016
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Approximate nearest news

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

2nd Jun 2016
As you may know, one of my (very geeky) interests is Approximate nearest neigbor methods, and I'm the author of a Python package called Annoy. I've also built a benchmark suite called ann-benchmarks to compare different packages.
Designing a personal Pebble watchface I recently got a Pebble Time 2 as it seemed like a fun smartwatch away from Google/Apple/Samsung...
26th Jun 2026
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Designing a personal Pebble watchface

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

26th Jun 2026
I recently got a Pebble Time 2 as it seemed like a fun smartwatch away from Google/Apple/Samsung with a good 4 weeks of battery life. One thing I wanted to do is to create a custom watchface for my specific problems. It took more effort to design the watch than I had anticipated...
20 years of Git. Still weird, still wonderful. Twenty years ago, Git was born. How did this unlikely "information manager" take over the world?
7th Apr 2025
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20 years of Git. Still weird, still wonderful.

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

7th Apr 2025
Twenty years ago, Git was born. How did this unlikely "information manager" take over the world?
JS fetch converts string request bodies to UTF-8 In short: when a fetch request body is a string, the server will receive UTF-8 bytes. I was recently...
6th Sep 2025
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JS fetch converts string request bodies to UTF-8

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

6th Sep 2025
In short: when a fetch request body is a string, the server will receive UTF-8 bytes. I was recently calling fetch with a string body, like this: await fetch("/foo", { method: "POST", body: "🍉", }); I wondered: what exact bytes would the server receive? Most stuff uses...
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...
2 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

2 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...
Confusion and disengagement in meetings The quickest way to cut through confusion or disagreement among otherwise amiable and honest folks...
30th Nov 2019
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Confusion and disengagement in meetings

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

30th Nov 2019
The quickest way to cut through confusion or disagreement among otherwise amiable and honest folks is to ask questions. Ask early so you don't waste time. But it's not enough to just ask clarifying questions because the answers won't always be clear. Sounds like Human Interaction...
2025-07-06 secret cellular phone numbers A long time ago I wrote about secret government telephone numbers, and before that, secret military...
6th Jul 2025
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2025-07-06 secret cellular phone numbers

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

6th Jul 2025
A long time ago I wrote about secret government telephone numbers, and before that, secret military telephone buttons. I suppose this is becoming a series. To be clear, the "secret" here is a joke, but more charitably I could say that it refers to obscurity rather than any real...
Making the Internet Alive Again The Internet is changing. Are we changing, too?
28th Feb 2024
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Making the Internet Alive Again

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

28th Feb 2024
The Internet is changing. Are we changing, too?
Inspiration from a child Together with my kids I love to explore the world that we think we know as adults. A kid's...
29th Sep 2021
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Inspiration from a child

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

29th Sep 2021
Together with my kids I love to explore the world that we think we know as adults. A kid's perspective inspires and surprises! No need to travel half the world for an adventure: Fly planes, catch bad guys, solve problems, build and break stuff - (re)discover the adventure right...
Bubbles.town I mostly use my web stats service because I get a lizard-brain kick from watching numbers go up, but...
9th Aug 2026
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Bubbles.town

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

9th Aug 2026
I mostly use my web stats service because I get a lizard-brain kick from watching numbers go up, but it also provides some fun insights. For example, it’s how I found out about bubbles.town. At first I thought this might be a Mastodon instance. I get a lot of referral traffic...
Brain, Mind and Consciousness — Essay Layers of ‘I’ when perceiving anything which is external to it Thanks to Montaigne, one of the first...
16th Apr 2018
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Brain, Mind and Consciousness — Essay

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

16th Apr 2018
Layers of ‘I’ when perceiving anything which is external to it Thanks to Montaigne, one of the first essay writers, for popularizing this…
Mob Psycho 100 (Season 1) It took me a little time to get keyed into the idiosyncratic humor & ethos of this show, but once I...
1st Oct 2022
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Mob Psycho 100 (Season 1)

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

1st Oct 2022
It took me a little time to get keyed into the idiosyncratic humor & ethos of this show, but once I did I really did. It's very much a shonen, but a shonen in a way that feels more committed to deconstructing stereotypes than Ousama Ranking and with characters that are at least...
I made my screen blurry to get more done Have you ever gotten to the end of a long work day and realized you’re no closer to your goals? I...
19th Nov 2025
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I made my screen blurry to get more done

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

19th Nov 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. I never paused to ask whether I was doing the right thing. Or whether my approach was working. Or if I was spending...
Stripe's monorepo developer environment I worked at Stripe for about seven years, from 2012 to 2019. Over that time, I used and contributed...
21st May 2024
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Stripe's monorepo developer environment

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

21st May 2024
I worked at Stripe for about seven years, from 2012 to 2019. Over that time, I used and contributed to many generations of Stripe’s developer environment – the tools that engineers used daily to write and test code. I think Stripe did a pretty good job designing and building that...
For-Profit Academic Publishers Love LLM Garbage Against For-Profit "Open Access"
4th Apr 2026
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For-Profit Academic Publishers Love LLM Garbage

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

4th Apr 2026
Against For-Profit "Open Access"
Announcing Apollo: a new Reddit app for iPhone I’m really excited to unveil a project I’ve been working on for the last year or so. It’s called...
30th Jan 2015
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Announcing Apollo: a new Reddit app for iPhone

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

30th Jan 2015
I’m really excited to unveil a project I’ve been working on for the last year or so. It’s called Apollo and it’s a new Reddit app for iPhone. I’ve been a Reddit user for about four years now, and the site is a constant source of interesting discussion, hilarity and news for me...
TIL: Fixing Broken Social Share Images in Twitter/X I have an admission to make. Social share images for Pika were broken on Twitter/X, LinkedIn, and...
12th Nov 2024
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TIL: Fixing Broken Social Share Images in Twitter/X

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

12th Nov 2024
I have an admission to make. Social share images for Pika were broken on Twitter/X, LinkedIn, and Apple Messages for months. And it made me sad. But in the past few months we got it fixed. And that made me very happy! We really love our Pika social share images. They are pretty....
Retrospective: My Fifth Year on YouTube For the past 4 years, I have made a habit of reflecting on the previous year and set goals for the...
15th Jan 2021
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Retrospective: My Fifth Year on YouTube

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

15th Jan 2021
For the past 4 years, I have made a habit of reflecting on the previous year and set goals for the new year. This year is no exception, but now I try to set better goals while reflecting on some personal things in life.
No, I Won't Build That! Discover how saying 'no' can lead to more innovative and meaningful work in this blog post: "No, I...
4th Mar 2024
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No, I Won't Build That!

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

4th Mar 2024
Discover how saying 'no' can lead to more innovative and meaningful work in this blog post: "No, I Won't Build That!"
Fujifilm Instax Wide 300 to Mamiya Press mount mod How I modified an Instax Wide instant camera to mount a Mamiya Press medium format lens The post...
24th May 2020
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Fujifilm Instax Wide 300 to Mamiya Press mount mod

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

24th May 2020
How I modified an Instax Wide instant camera to mount a Mamiya Press medium format lens The post Fujifilm Instax Wide 300 to Mamiya Press mount mod appeared first on Style over Substance.
Introducing MagBase Today we launched MagBase - it makes Apple's MagSafe Charger much easier to use. After trying other...
14th Apr 2021
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Introducing MagBase

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

14th Apr 2021
Today we launched MagBase - it makes Apple's MagSafe Charger much easier to use. After trying other mounts for the MagSafe charger, we found it annoying to not be able to pick up & use your iPhone while charging. So we designed MagBase: Pull up to use your iPhone with MagSafe...
Access Ring Discover and invoke UI elements near your cursor, without precise mouse targeting. A Logi Actions...
16th Apr 2026
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Access Ring

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

16th Apr 2026
Discover and invoke UI elements near your cursor, without precise mouse targeting. A Logi Actions SDK plugin for MX Creative Console and Actions Ring. Buttons, checkboxes, menus, tabs, dropdowns: tap to interact with whatever is nearby. The problem with precise clicking Every...
The History of the IBM 5100 IBM's First Personal Computer
2nd Dec 2023
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The History of the IBM 5100

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

2nd Dec 2023
IBM's First Personal Computer
2025test Everything that happened to me this year
30th Dec 2025
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2025test

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

30th Dec 2025
Everything that happened to me this year
What's New in TLS Inspector 3.0 On March 30th 2016 the first commit of TLS Inspector, back then called Certificate Inspector, was...
11th Apr 2026
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What's New in TLS Inspector 3.0

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

11th Apr 2026
On March 30th 2016 the first commit of TLS Inspector, back then called Certificate Inspector, was made - and just shy of two weeks later version 1.0 was released. Now, 10 years later, TLS Inspector celebrates its 10th year, and I've got some exciting changes to share with you...
$17 GM1312 Thermometer Review, Test, and Teardown Introduction What is a thermocouple The GM1213 Thermometer A few...
11th Feb 2023
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$17 GM1312 Thermometer Review, Test, and Teardown

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

11th Feb 2023
Introduction What is a thermocouple The GM1213 Thermometer A few tests Internals Conclusion References Introduction I’ve been doing a bunch of measurements on oven-controlled oscillators lately, including their temperature. There are multiple ways to measure...
Why should one do Open Source in college? More and more students are now being involved with Open Source programming. Thanks to programs like...
19th Dec 2020
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Why should one do Open Source in college?

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

19th Dec 2020
More and more students are now being involved with Open Source programming. Thanks to programs like Google Summer of Code who have seriously…
Algorithms and Data structures books: One size doesn't fit them all Over the years running this moderately popular website, I have been asked many times what is the...
14th Feb 2014
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Algorithms and Data structures books: One size doesn't fit them all

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

14th Feb 2014
Over the years running this moderately popular website, I have been asked many times what is the best book about Algorithms and Data Structures. The answer is always "It depends" ! It depends on how the programmer's brain works and what kind of notation he is comfortable with....
Optimizing over multinomial distributions Sometimes you have to maximize some function $$ f(w_1, w_2, ldots, w_n) $$ where $$ w_1 + w_2 +...
24th Jul 2013
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Optimizing over multinomial distributions

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

24th Jul 2013
Sometimes you have to maximize some function $$ f(w_1, w_2, ldots, w_n) $$ where $$ w_1 + w_2 + ldots + w_n = 1 $$ and $$ 0 le w_i le 1 $$ . Usually, $$ f $$ is concave and differentiable, so there's one unique global maximum and you can solve it by applying gradient ascent.
A week with the iPhone I’ve had a new iPhone for about a week now, so I figure it’s time to write up some thoughts about...
31st Dec 2007
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A week with the iPhone

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

31st Dec 2007
I’ve had a new iPhone for about a week now, so I figure it’s time to write up some thoughts about it. First, the little things. It is, in typical Apple fashion, an incredibly slick piece of work. Scrolling and zooming images or webpages is simple, easy, and, well, just fun to do...
On NYC, Tokyo and Seoul I’ve lived in NYC for the past year — moved here after years in Philly and after growing up in a...
20th Oct 2018
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On NYC, Tokyo and Seoul

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

20th Oct 2018
I’ve lived in NYC for the past year — moved here after years in Philly and after growing up in a rural community a few hours west of there. My wife is South Korean and last week concluded my second trip to the suburbs of Seoul to visit her family. We finished up that trip with a...
Rescuing photos from a crashed iMac This week I received a message from someone with a iMac that crashed. It contained more than 50.000...
14th Oct 2020
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Rescuing photos from a crashed iMac

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

14th Oct 2020
This week I received a message from someone with a iMac that crashed. It contained more than 50.000 photos, covering two decades of personal history. As there was no backup, it was up to me to attempt to safe as much as I could. Could I possibly recover the personal...
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 Applied Cartography [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...
Train Simulator Controller: Power/Brake Controller, Part 1 The core of a train simulator setup could be considered its throttle and brake, the control or...
4th Aug 2024
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Train Simulator Controller: Power/Brake Controller, Part 1

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

4th Aug 2024
The core of a train simulator setup could be considered its throttle and brake, the control or controls that make a train go and stop. In previous blog posts, I detailed my exploration of building my own controller from scratch, but a fortuitous eBay listing provided me a real...
+ The only thing of value I can provide There is one main type of value I can bring to this blog. If I lose that, what am I even doing?
2nd Nov 2025
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+ The only thing of value I can provide

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Nov 2025
There is one main type of value I can bring to this blog. If I lose that, what am I even doing?
Sputnik Sweetheart Murakami feels more and more like an old friend with whom I feel comfortable: most of the...
18th Feb 2020
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Sputnik Sweetheart

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

18th Feb 2020
Murakami feels more and more like an old friend with whom I feel comfortable: most of the conversations and stories are ones we've had before, but it is still fun to banter and to rehash old arguments and think about the good times.
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...
From nanoscale to global scale: Advancing MIT’s special initiatives in manufacturing, health, and... MIT.nano cleanroom complex named after Robert Noyce PhD ’53 at the 2025 Nano Summit.
13th Nov 2025
1

From nanoscale to global scale: Advancing MIT’s special initiatives in manufacturing, health, and climate

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

13th Nov 2025
MIT.nano cleanroom complex named after Robert Noyce PhD ’53 at the 2025 Nano Summit.
Too Late Smart My grandparents, whose little farm was next door to ours so my sisters and I grew up effectively...
yesterday
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Too Late Smart

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

yesterday
My grandparents, whose little farm was next door to ours so my sisters and I grew up effectively with two houses and two very different sets of parents, were lovely people.
Oblast: a better Blasto game for the Commodore 64 wiring up a Gremlin Blasto arcade board, we talked at length about this 1978 arcade game's history...
6th Dec 2025
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Oblast: a better Blasto game for the Commodore 64

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

6th Dec 2025
wiring up a Gremlin Blasto arcade board, we talked at length about this 1978 arcade game's history and its sole official home computer port by Milton Bradley to the Texas Instruments 99/4A. In the single player mode you run around in a maze and try to blow up all the mines, which...
Enjoying the Journey Reflections on training for a marathon and a lesson from my late Uncle Murray
1st Jan 2024
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Enjoying the Journey

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

1st Jan 2024
Reflections on training for a marathon and a lesson from my late Uncle Murray
The Case for Getting Rid of TestFlight Review I tweeted today about how I think TestFlight review should become a thing of the past and many...
12th Jun 2020
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The Case for Getting Rid of TestFlight Review

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

12th Jun 2020
I tweeted today about how I think TestFlight review should become a thing of the past and many developers seemed to agree, but some had questions so I wanted to expand on my thoughts a little. TestFlight’s awesome. But like App Store submissions, TestFlight betas also require a...
The Rehearsal As many people have mentioned, this show owes a lot to Synecdoche; New York (a film that I have very...
3rd Sep 2022
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The Rehearsal

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Sep 2022
As many people have mentioned, this show owes a lot to Synecdoche; New York (a film that I have very strong memories of and for despite having only seen once, in a haze, ten years ago.) It's also a show in the discourse, which I think belies a little just how deeply weird it...
Amazon is complicit with counterfeiting (updated) When someone goes to the lengths of making counterfeits of your products, it's at least a sign...
1st Mar 2018
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Amazon is complicit with counterfeiting (updated)

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

1st Mar 2018
When someone goes to the lengths of making counterfeits of your products, it's at least a sign you're doing something right. And it deserves a minute of flattery. But when Chinese counterfeiters tool up and make copies of your product, send that inventory to Amazon, then overtake...
Logging information from iOS Widgets Lately users have been emailing me with a few odd things happening with their Apollo iOS 14 home...
1st Dec 2020
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Logging information from iOS Widgets

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

1st Dec 2020
Lately users have been emailing me with a few odd things happening with their Apollo iOS 14 home screen widgets, and some well-placed logs can really help with identifying what’s going wrong. iOS has a sophisticated built in logging mechanism, os_log, and now with SwiftLogger in...
February gets Themed: Rejection The Experimental Gameplay Project has announced their next theme - and shame on me if I wouldn’t...
1st Feb 2010
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February gets Themed: Rejection

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

1st Feb 2010
The Experimental Gameplay Project has announced their next theme - and shame on me if I wouldn’t follow suite! With valentine coming up I might just have found a pretty nice idea, just now, writing this… Booyah!!
Are we worrying more about AI than global warming So, my friend said this — If I may state mine — It’s not we’re more worried about AI, it’s the media...
29th Aug 2017
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Are we worrying more about AI than global warming

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

29th Aug 2017
So, my friend said this — If I may state mine — It’s not we’re more worried about AI, it’s the media inducing cognitive biases fuelled by Hollywood when a celebrity speaks about dooms day AI. Let’s discuss some facts, Let’s take prof. Hawing, he’s vocal about the need to keep AI...
Netrunner Spring Tournament There was another, smaller, netrunner tournament about a week ago. I was looking forward to a very...
4th May 2015
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Netrunner Spring Tournament

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

4th May 2015
There was another, smaller, netrunner tournament about a week ago. I was looking forward to a very casual setting but there were also some guys who came from… Västerås I think, but I’m not sure. We managed to scrape together 9 people at least, and I didn’t notice anyone bringing...
Omarchy on iMac After helping a family member migrate to a new computer, I found myself with an old iMac. The...
21st Sep 2025
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Omarchy on iMac

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

21st Sep 2025
After helping a family member migrate to a new computer, I found myself with an old iMac. The machine from 2017 was very slow running modern macOS, yet I have a soft spot for these all-in-one computers designed by Jony Ive and his team. Could I install Linux on it to give it a...
Entity authentication with a KEM In cryptography, the process of authenticating a user (or app/service) is known as entity...
20th Apr 2023
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Entity authentication with a KEM

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

20th Apr 2023
In cryptography, the process of authenticating a user (or app/service) is known as entity authentication or identification (to distinguish it from message authentication or data origin authentication). There are lots of ways to do this. In this post I’m going to talk about...
Reading List 02/06/2026 Welcome to the reading list, a look at what happened this week in infrastructure, buildings, and...
6th Feb 2026
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Reading List 02/06/2026

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

6th Feb 2026
Welcome to the reading list, a look at what happened this week in infrastructure, buildings, and building things.
Closing a Draughty Door In the last week of January I could not keep my mind on a task. It felt as if I was running behind,...
3rd Feb 2026
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Closing a Draughty Door

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

3rd Feb 2026
In the last week of January I could not keep my mind on a task. It felt as if I was running behind, non-stop. I have no experience with this, but if I had to speculate I would say I was near a burnout-like experience. This post is not advice. It is a report of a small thing I did...
TOMO M4: probably the coolest power bank I've owned A friend once showed me a power bank that was so cool that I had to get one myself. Ended up getting...
3rd Mar 2023
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TOMO M4: probably the coolest power bank I've owned

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

3rd Mar 2023
A friend once showed me a power bank that was so cool that I had to get one myself. Ended up getting two, and here’s why. This post is not sponsored. Removable batteries Let’s start with the feature that I appreciate the most: removable batteries! The TOMO M4 accepts up to 4...
On Building Git for Lawyers Over this past weekend, Twitter discovered the problem that I have dedicated the past four years of...
14th Nov 2024
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On Building Git for Lawyers

from Jordan’s Substack [alt+shift+b] in technology

14th Nov 2024
Over this past weekend, Twitter discovered the problem that I have dedicated the past four years of my life to solving. Why don't lawyers and other non-coders use git?
Beast of the Green Hell Blog post about an amazing AMG Circuit day at the race track of Zolder, Belgium.
30th May 2017
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Beast of the Green Hell

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

30th May 2017
Blog post about an amazing AMG Circuit day at the race track of Zolder, Belgium.
How is duct tape like the force? I’m at Dragon*Con this weekend, my second time here now. I decided that if I was going to Dragon*Con...
5th Sep 2010
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How is duct tape like the force?

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

5th Sep 2010
I’m at Dragon*Con this weekend, my second time here now. I decided that if I was going to Dragon*Con again, I needed to do something in terms of costuming, and I wanted it to be something unique – I wasn’t going to come anywhere near as epic as some of the costumes people pull...
The beautiful machine 20 years later, I have built an other PC!
6th Mar 2020
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The beautiful machine

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

6th Mar 2020
20 years later, I have built an other PC!
A Four-Eyed Update Wow it’s been a while! Almost a month and a half since my last update. There I complained about my...
21st Mar 2011
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A Four-Eyed Update

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

21st Mar 2011
Wow it’s been a while! Almost a month and a half since my last update. There I complained about my almost constant headaches which hampered me a lot actually. Luckily now I have joined the rank of cool. I took home three frames I think and tried them out and I settled some I...
Knuckle typing in mixed reality just makes sense While mixed reality — virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) — has come a long way in...
5th May 2025
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Knuckle typing in mixed reality just makes sense

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

5th May 2025
While mixed reality — virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) — has come a long way in recent years, there are still a lot of challenges that developers struggle to overcome in a practical and user-friendly way. Typing is one example and current virtual keyboard...
Humanities Crash Course Week 9: The Bible For week 9 of the humanities crash course, I revisited the most important text in Western culture:...
2nd Mar 2025
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Humanities Crash Course Week 9: The Bible

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

2nd Mar 2025
For week 9 of the humanities crash course, I revisited the most important text in Western culture: the Bible. Of course, I didn’t read the whole book – only a small subset. Still, it was a lot. As I’ve done in previous weeks, I followed Gioia’s suggestions for the...
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...
Business secrets from terrible people I get bored reading management books very easily and lately I've been reading about a wide range of...
16th Aug 2018
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Business secrets from terrible people

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

16th Aug 2018
I get bored reading management books very easily and lately I've been reading about a wide range of almost arbitrary topics. One of the lenses I tend to read through is to see different management styles in different environments.
Ambition, fun and not Cheat on enterprise sales objection handling.
4th Jul 2025
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Ambition, fun and not

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

4th Jul 2025
Cheat on enterprise sales objection handling.
Analemmagraph [Concept] Video of a day, one year in every frame
26th Sep 2023
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Analemmagraph

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

26th Sep 2023
[Concept] Video of a day, one year in every frame
12th Aug 2025
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On idea-driven ideas

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

12th Aug 2025
I'm running a programming contest I'm running a programming contest I've spent the last few months working with friends to design the...
24th Jul 2026
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I'm running a programming contest

from eieio.games [alt+shift+b] in technology

24th Jul 2026
I'm running a programming contest I've spent the last few months working with friends to design the 29th annual ICFP programming contest. Designing a programming contest in a world with AI agents is tricky! I think we've made some interesting choices here. Read the full post on...
Using InfiniBand for cheap and fast point-to-point Networking InfiniBand networking is quite awesome. It's mainly used for two reasons: low latency high...
25th Mar 2017
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Using InfiniBand for cheap and fast point-to-point Networking

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

25th Mar 2017
InfiniBand networking is quite awesome. It's mainly used for two reasons: low latency high bandwidth As a home user, I'm mainly interested in setting up a high bandwidth link between two servers. I was using quad-port network cards with Linux Bonding, but this solution has some...
Standard ML in 2020 Incredibly, Standard ML implementations are still actively developed. MLton, Poly/ML, MLKit, SML#...
25th Oct 2020
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Standard ML in 2020

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

25th Oct 2020
Incredibly, Standard ML implementations are still actively developed. MLton, Poly/ML, MLKit, SML# and SML/NJ are the most prominent. Discussion on the future direction of Standard ML remains healthy as well. And somehow OCaml's lesser known cousin still beats out OCaml...
A Cursed Bug In my day job at Anthropic, we run relatively large distributed systems to train large language...
23rd Feb 2022
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A Cursed Bug

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

23rd Feb 2022
In my day job at Anthropic, we run relatively large distributed systems to train large language models. One of the joys of using a lot of computing resources, especially on somewhat niche software stacks, is that you spend a lot of time running into the long-tail of bugs which...
Yes, Xxit Xxit is like Brexit for X haha
9th Dec 2024
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Yes, Xxit

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

9th Dec 2024
Xxit is like Brexit for X haha
Tracking down a faulty Storage Array Controller with ZFS One day, I lost two virtual machines on our DR environment after a storage vMotion. Further...
15th Dec 2016
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Tracking down a faulty Storage Array Controller with ZFS

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

15th Dec 2016
One day, I lost two virtual machines on our DR environment after a storage vMotion. Further investigation uncovered that any storage vMotion of a virtual machine residing on our DR storage array would corrupt the virtual machine's disks. I could easily restore the affected...
How to make a product on gumroad and earn some money (#secretunasaladrecipe) If you’ve been in the Indie Hackers circles for a while you probably heard about people like...
9th Apr 2022
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9th Apr 2022
If you’ve been in the Indie Hackers circles for a while you probably heard about people like dvassallo@ who made hundreds of thousands of dollars selling simple digital products on gumroad. Make a thing, put it on gumroad, earn money, could it all be that simple? I have heard...
Implementing a simple jq clone in Go, and basics of Go memory profiling In this post we'll build a basic jq clone in Go. It will only be able to pull a single path out of...
10th Jul 2022
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Implementing a simple jq clone in Go, and basics of Go memory profiling

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

10th Jul 2022
In this post we'll build a basic jq clone in Go. It will only be able to pull a single path out of each object it reads. It won't be able to do filters, mapping, etc. $ cat large-file.json | head -n2 | ./jqgo...
Why I went back to using a ThinkPad from 2012 This post is inspired by this article from the Low-tech Magazine. I highly recommend giving that a...
9th Jan 2022
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Why I went back to using a ThinkPad from 2012

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

9th Jan 2022
This post is inspired by this article from the Low-tech Magazine. I highly recommend giving that a read as well! Over my lifetime, I’ve used a bunch of different computers, mainly due to new ideas and requirements popping into my mind every time I’m content with my current setup....
Fixed Gear Gran Fondo Today I took my fixed gear bike for a ride, 176KM from Amsterdam to America (Limburg, The...
9th Apr 2021
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Fixed Gear Gran Fondo

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

9th Apr 2021
Today I took my fixed gear bike for a ride, 176KM from Amsterdam to America (Limburg, The Netherlands). Rain and wind added to the challenge, creating an ultimate test for man and machine. Let some of my fun be of inspiration to you! Gran Fondo The Italians call a big cycle ride...
Prefer STRICT tables in SQLite In short: I prefer strict tables in SQLite because they avoid some datatype problems, such as...
11th Jul 2026
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Prefer STRICT tables in SQLite

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

11th Jul 2026
In short: I prefer strict tables in SQLite because they avoid some datatype problems, such as putting text in number columns. SQLite has a feature that I think is underrated: strict tables. Strict tables help enforce rigid typing, preventing mistakes like putting text into...
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...
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...
You can absolutely have an RSS dependent website in 2026 I write stuff here. Sometimes the stuff is good. Sometimes it reads like I wrote it at 2 AM after an...
9th Apr 2026
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You can absolutely have an RSS dependent website in 2026

from matduggan.com [alt+shift+b] in technology

9th Apr 2026
I write stuff here. Sometimes the stuff is good. Sometimes it reads like I wrote it at 2 AM after an argument with a YAML file, which is because I did. But one decision I made early on was that I didn't want to offer an email newsletter.
Rivian R2 wishes as an R1 owner After 7 years with a Tesla Model 3, we picked up a gen 2 Rivian R1S in April of 2025. We still have...
9th Feb 2026
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Rivian R2 wishes as an R1 owner

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

9th Feb 2026
After 7 years with a Tesla Model 3, we picked up a gen 2 Rivian R1S in April of 2025. We still have the Model 3 as a second vehicle, but it’s been really cool experiencing a new electric vehicle from a very passionate new company. 2026 is a really exciting time for Rivian, as in...
2024-10-12 commercial HF radio According to a traditional system of classification, "high frequency" or HF refers to the radio...
12th Oct 2024
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2024-10-12 commercial HF radio

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

12th Oct 2024
According to a traditional system of classification, "high frequency" or HF refers to the radio spectrum between 3 and 30 MHz. The label now seems anachronistic, as HF is among the lowest ranges of radio frequencies that see regular use. This setting of the goalposts in the early...
There is Definitely a Grid Grids are the best thing to ever happen to graphic design. They form a rational basis for organizing...
10th Jun 2016
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There is Definitely a Grid

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

10th Jun 2016
Grids are the best thing to ever happen to graphic design. They form a rational basis for organizing information. They support the harmonious distribution of elements and visual weight. We don’t design things with grids because it’s easy, or because everyone else is doing it....
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...
1st Oct 2024
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Juno for YouTube has been removed from the App Store

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

1st Oct 2024
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...
Test suites as classifiers Suppose we have some codebase we’re considering applying some patch to, and which has a robust and...
1st Mar 2020
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Test suites as classifiers

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

1st Mar 2020
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,...
Train Simulator Controller: Power/Brake Controller, Part 3 The core of a train simulator setup could be considered its throttle and brake. Having figured out...
1st Jan 2025
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Train Simulator Controller: Power/Brake Controller, Part 3

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

1st Jan 2025
The core of a train simulator setup could be considered its throttle and brake. Having figured out how to interface a real UK Class 365 power/brake controller with Train Simulator, I designed and built a polished PCB to connect it to my Train Simulator setup.
Winter at the Beach A couple more pictures from the Nikon FM with Nikkor 50mm f/1.4This time using Ilford Delta 100...
11th May 2025
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Winter at the Beach

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in technology

11th May 2025
A couple more pictures from the Nikon FM with Nikkor 50mm f/1.4This time using Ilford Delta 100 film, developed in Ilfosol 3 for 5 minutes at 20°CFairly rare for snow in Vancouver to stick around very long. Trees really are the lungs of the earth. The negative I developed looked...
Two kinds of testing While talking about thinking about tests and testing in software engineering recently, I’ve come to...
24th Dec 2019
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Two kinds of testing

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

24th Dec 2019
While talking about thinking about tests and testing in software engineering recently, I’ve come to the conclusion that there are (at least) two major ideas and goals that people have when they test or talk about testing. This post aims to outline what I see as these two schools,...
1st Mar 2026
The web is changing, and we are not going back Whenever I saw someone type a natural language query into Google, it made me cringe. "It's not a...
1st Jun 2026
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The web is changing, and we are not going back

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

1st Jun 2026
Whenever I saw someone type a natural language query into Google, it made me cringe. "It's not a person," I would say. "Type like you're talking to a machine." This was especially true for programmers and it was before AI took over everything. Instead of "how do I write a...
Benchmarking nearest neighbor libraries in Python Radim Rehurek has put together an excellent summary of approximate nearest neighbor libraries in...
12th Jan 2014
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Benchmarking nearest neighbor libraries in Python

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

12th Jan 2014
Radim Rehurek has put together an excellent summary of approximate nearest neighbor libraries in Python. This is exciting, because one of the libraries he's covering, annoy, was built by me. After introducing the problem, he goes through the list of contestants and sticks with...
Building Air Quality Sensor: Luftdaten + Home Assistant Luftdaten (now Sensor Community) is a global sensor network that measures air quality around the...
3rd Sep 2020
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Building Air Quality Sensor: Luftdaten + Home Assistant

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

3rd Sep 2020
Luftdaten (now Sensor Community) is a global sensor network that measures air quality around the world. Best of all: it's open-source and anyone can build a sensor.I was very curious to see the air quality in my neighborhood, so I decided to build myself a sensor. And of course,...
Thoughts ahead of WWDC 2026 I’ve been following Apple news and rumours since the year 2000, and I don’t think I’ve ever been...
7th Jun 2026
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Thoughts ahead of WWDC 2026

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

7th Jun 2026
I’ve been following Apple news and rumours since the year 2000, and I don’t think I’ve ever been less excited for WWDC. Apple’s software story is in rough shape, and I worry that this year’s event won’t do much to help. Perhaps it’ll be the beginning of an upswing, but we’ve got...
June gwern.net newsletter June 2020 gwern.net newsletter with 3 new pages/essays, and links on CRISPR, population screening,...
2nd Jul 2020
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June gwern.net newsletter

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

2nd Jul 2020
June 2020 gwern.net newsletter with 3 new pages/essays, and links on CRISPR, population screening, AI scaling, politics, and technological unemployment.
ML+Hadoop at NYC Predictive Analytics I was just at the NYC Predictive Analytics meetup talking about how we build machine learning...
3rd Aug 2013
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ML+Hadoop at NYC Predictive Analytics

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

3rd Aug 2013
I was just at the NYC Predictive Analytics meetup talking about how we build machine learning algorithms using Hadoop to power music recommendations. Great meetup, where we had two speakers, me and Blake Shaw from Foursquare.
The Art of Deliberate Friction-Building In a world engineered to be frictionless, adding a bit of resistance can be revolutionary.
10th Sep 2024
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The Art of Deliberate Friction-Building

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

10th Sep 2024
In a world engineered to be frictionless, adding a bit of resistance can be revolutionary.
3D printing is pretty darn cool, actually I love 3D printing. Out of all the tech hype cycles and trends over the last decade, this one is...
4th Aug 2025
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3D printing is pretty darn cool, actually

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

4th Aug 2025
I love 3D printing. Out of all the tech hype cycles and trends over the last decade, this one is genuinely useful. There’s simply something magical about being able to design or download a model from the internet, send it to a machine, and after a few hours you get an actual...
CBC Spark with Nora Young Really upset to recently learn that Spark with Nora Young has been cancelled by the CBC, ending in...
13th Jun 2024
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CBC Spark with Nora Young

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in technology

13th Jun 2024
Really upset to recently learn that Spark with Nora Young has been cancelled by the CBC, ending in June 2024. (Announcement episode) One of the most intelligent, progressive technology-in-society news shows in Canada or anywhere for that matter. Perhaps that it’s medium is radio...
WarGames Clock If you haven't seen the WarGames movie, do yourself a favour and go watch it right now. If you have,...
1st May 2025
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WarGames Clock

from Opsbros [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st May 2025
If you haven't seen the WarGames movie, do yourself a favour and go watch it right now. If you have, then you know just how awesome it is. One part, as a kid, I always thought was awesome was the WOPR computer. A key scene in the WarGames
BM Snaps Burning Man really tests my mantra, “There’s no bad weather, only bad clothing.” But it’s true! For...
4 weeks ago
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BM Snaps

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

4 weeks ago
Burning Man really tests my mantra, “There’s no bad weather, only bad clothing.” But it’s true! For one week, it’s the most interesting art and technology playground in the world, creativity unbound. As a photographer, it’s a great place to test out new gear and processes. Here’s...
Visionaries Have Democratised Remote Network Access - Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops... Well, we’re back again, with yet another fresh-off-the-press bug chain (and associated Interactive...
12th Nov 2024
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12th Nov 2024
Well, we’re back again, with yet another fresh-off-the-press bug chain (and associated Interactive Artifact Generator). This time, it’s in Citrix’s “Virtual Apps and Desktops” offering. This is a tech stack that enables end-users (and likely, your friendly neighbourhood...
Detecting corporate fraud using Benford's law Note: This is a silly application. Don't take anything seriously. Benford's law describes a...
7th Oct 2014
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Detecting corporate fraud using Benford's law

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

7th Oct 2014
Note: This is a silly application. Don't take anything seriously. Benford's law describes a phenomenon where numbers in any data series will exhibit patterns in their first digit. For instance, if you took a list of the 1,000 longest rivers of Mongolia, or the average daily...
The stack circuitry of the Intel 8087 floating point chip, reverse-engineered Early microprocessors were very slow when operating with floating-point numbers. But in 1980, Intel...
9th Dec 2025
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The stack circuitry of the Intel 8087 floating point chip, reverse-engineered

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

9th Dec 2025
Early microprocessors were very slow when operating with floating-point numbers. But in 1980, Intel introduced the 8087 floating-point coprocessor, performing floating-point operations up to 100 times faster. This was a huge benefit for IBM PC applications such as AutoCAD,...
How Core Git Developers Configure Git What `git config` settings should be defaults by now? Here are some settings that even the core...
22nd Feb 2025
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How Core Git Developers Configure Git

from GitButler [alt+shift+b] in technology

22nd Feb 2025
What `git config` settings should be defaults by now? Here are some settings that even the core developers change.
WiFi Binary Clock Who doesn't love a classic Binary Clock? I remember getting one of these when I was in my 20's from...
21st Mar 2022
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WiFi Binary Clock

from Opsbros [alt+shift+b] in technology

21st Mar 2022
Who doesn't love a classic Binary Clock? I remember getting one of these when I was in my 20's from ThinkGeek, and it was pride of place on my desk. LED's are a thing of beauty.
Vertigo I’m surprised that this movie is held in such high esteem relative to other Hitchcock films. I liked...
4th Jun 2022
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Vertigo

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

4th Jun 2022
I’m surprised that this movie is held in such high esteem relative to other Hitchcock films. I liked it, and I thought there were very good parts of it, and I thought it was better than Haley did. But it didn’t strike me as one of his best films beyond the dolly shot which is now...
ESP32 Cam: cropping images on device The ESP32 camera is the cheapest microcontroller with a built-in camera that you can buy. The OV2640...
23rd Feb 2021
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ESP32 Cam: cropping images on device

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

23rd Feb 2021
The ESP32 camera is the cheapest microcontroller with a built-in camera that you can buy. The OV2640 sensor has a max resolution of 1600x1200, but sometimes you don't need the entire image.In this post I'll show how to crop the images on the ESP32 itself, before sending it of to...
Client libraries are better when they have no API fsspec is secretly everywhere, and boss
10th Apr 2024
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Client libraries are better when they have no API

from csvbase blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

10th Apr 2024
fsspec is secretly everywhere, and boss
2025-06-01 I've been reading The Nature of Order by Christopher Alexander, and it's inspired me to experiment...
1st Jun 2025
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2025-06-01

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

1st Jun 2025
I've been reading The Nature of Order by Christopher Alexander, and it's inspired me to experiment with this representation to communicate the global structure of the source code of the Game of Snake: The whole program is arranged on a 2D surface within a series of nested...
Self-hosting Wikipedia using Kiwix Do you have a need to host Wikipedia on your computer? Or a StackExchange site, like Super...
9th Dec 2021
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Self-hosting Wikipedia using Kiwix

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

9th Dec 2021
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...
The grief when AI writes most of the code When AI writes almost all code, what happens to software engineering? There is grief involved for us...
7th Jan 2026
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The grief when AI writes most of the code

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

7th Jan 2026
When AI writes almost all code, what happens to software engineering? There is grief involved for us developers, that's for sure.
Fun and Games with Exposure Notifications Exposure Notifications is a protocol developed by Apple and Google for facilitating COVID-19 contact...
7th Sep 2020
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Fun and Games with Exposure Notifications

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

7th Sep 2020
Exposure Notifications is a protocol developed by Apple and Google for facilitating COVID-19 contact tracing on mobile phones by exchanging codes with nearby phones over Bluetooth, implemented within the Android and iOS operating systems, now available here in Toronto. Wait –...
Optimising images for the web and performance One way to make your website faster is to make it smaller. Not with tiny fonts, but with less bytes!...
25th Sep 2018
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Optimising images for the web and performance

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

25th Sep 2018
One way to make your website faster is to make it smaller. Not with tiny fonts, but with less bytes! More than half the weight of an average website is because of images. Yet very few people optimise their images for the web and performance, time to find out how much bytes you...
Using Tor outside of the Tor Browser This post shows how to run Tor with a simple PowerShell script and use it in other apps like...
13th May 2019
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Using Tor outside of the Tor Browser

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

13th May 2019
This post shows how to run Tor with a simple PowerShell script and use it in other apps like Telegram...
Polygon Codec More...
26th Jun 2011
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Polygon Codec

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

26th Jun 2011
More...
Commuter bike checkup This week my trustworthy commuter bike started making strange squeaking noises when braking, time to...
9th Jan 2021
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Commuter bike checkup

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

9th Jan 2021
This week my trustworthy commuter bike started making strange squeaking noises when braking, time to have a look at the bike after 21.000KM!
Backdooring Your Backdoors - Another $20 Domain, More Governments After the excitement of our .MOBI research, we were left twiddling our thumbs. As you may recall, in...
8th Jan 2025
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Backdooring Your Backdoors - Another $20 Domain, More Governments

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

8th Jan 2025
After the excitement of our .MOBI research, we were left twiddling our thumbs. As you may recall, in 2024, we demonstrated the impact of an unregistered domain when we subverted the TLS/SSL CA process for verifying domain ownership to give ourselves the ability to issue valid and...
Stereographer Experimenting in stereo photography and I write an app to create old-fashioned stereoscopic cards.
5th Aug 2024
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Stereographer

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

5th Aug 2024
Experimenting in stereo photography and I write an app to create old-fashioned stereoscopic cards.
Disable Transparent Hugepages tl;dr “Transparent Hugepages” is a Linux kernel feature intended to improve performance by making...
10th Jul 2017
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Disable Transparent Hugepages

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

10th Jul 2017
tl;dr “Transparent Hugepages” is a Linux kernel feature intended to improve performance by making more efficient use of your processor’s memory-mapping hardware. It is enabled ("enabled=always") by default in most Linux distributions. Transparent Hugepages gives some applications...
Cult Classic I can't find where I wrote this, but I described Crosley's writing persona (having read her other...
8th Nov 2022
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Cult Classic

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

8th Nov 2022
I can't find where I wrote this, but I described Crosley's writing persona (having read her other two books) as that of a friend you run into at a party who fits in perfectly and has the best bon mots and she knows it and needs to make sure you know it, too.
Marathon Read the story of how it feels to complete your first marathon.
19th Oct 2024
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Marathon

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

19th Oct 2024
Read the story of how it feels to complete your first marathon.
Challengers One of the things that may be apocryphal—because I’ve never bothered to actually look it up, just...
6th Dec 2025
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Challengers

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Dec 2025
One of the things that may be apocryphal—because I’ve never bothered to actually look it up, just kept it kicking around in my head—is David Foster Wallace’s justification for the emphasis on footnotes in Infinite Jest: that they’re meant to be a physical metaphor for the...
ZFS RAIDZ expansion is awesome but has a small caveat Introduction Update April 2023: It has been fairly quiet since the announcement of this feature. The...
22nd Jun 2021
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ZFS RAIDZ expansion is awesome but has a small caveat

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

22nd Jun 2021
Introduction Update April 2023: It has been fairly quiet since the announcement of this feature. The Github PR about this feature is rather stale and people are wondering what the status is and what the plans are. Meanwhile, FreeBSD has announced In February 2023 that they...
#19 This is a clone of Nykaa's website The clickbait title is explained later, trust me
5th Oct 2023
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#19 This is a clone of Nykaa's website

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

5th Oct 2023
The clickbait title is explained later, trust me
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...
31st Oct 2021
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Crypto Cities

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

31st Oct 2021
Solitaire Alone Together Solitaire Alone Together I made a new game. It's called Solitaire Alone Together. It's Windows 98...
a week ago
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Solitaire Alone Together

from eieio.games [alt+shift+b] in technology

a week ago
Solitaire Alone Together I made a new game. It's called Solitaire Alone Together. It's Windows 98 solitaire, but you can play with everyone else on the internet. Read the full post on my blog! Here's a raw link, if you need it: ...
Vision Pro My thoughts on using Vision Pro to get some real work done, exploring what Spatial Computing means...
15th Feb 2024
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Vision Pro

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

15th Feb 2024
My thoughts on using Vision Pro to get some real work done, exploring what Spatial Computing means and how it can be useful.
Programming on Apple Watch Programming with VIM over SSH on Apple Watch using a bluetooth keyboard
15th Feb 2017
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Programming on Apple Watch

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

15th Feb 2017
Programming with VIM over SSH on Apple Watch using a bluetooth keyboard
Varieties of Disturbance My review of Break it Down, a much earlier entry in Lydia Davis' ouevre, last year was a bit of...
1st Mar 2023
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Varieties of Disturbance

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

1st Mar 2023
My review of Break it Down, a much earlier entry in Lydia Davis' ouevre, last year was a bit of damning with faint praise:
Easy setup of a static site on Amazon S3 with SSL I’ve been hosting my site on Amazon S3 for a while now but I never activated SSL for it. I just...
3rd Apr 2019
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Easy setup of a static site on Amazon S3 with SSL

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

3rd Apr 2019
I’ve been hosting my site on Amazon S3 for a while now but I never activated SSL for it. I just never got around to it, probably the usual procrastination. When I had to setup a new site for another project I chose to host on Amazon as well. Although there are many other free...
How to set compensation using commonsense principles Compensation has always been one of the most confusing parts of management to me. Getting it right...
8th Jun 2020
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How to set compensation using commonsense principles

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

8th Jun 2020
Compensation has always been one of the most confusing parts of management to me. Getting it right is obviously extremely important. Compensation is what drives our entire economy, and you could look at the market for labor as one gigantic resource-allocating machine in the same...
The Kimwolf Botnet is Stalking Your Local Network The story you are reading is a series of scoops nestled inside a far more urgent Internet-wide...
2nd Jan 2026
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The Kimwolf Botnet is Stalking Your Local Network

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

2nd Jan 2026
The story you are reading is a series of scoops nestled inside a far more urgent Internet-wide security advisory. The vulnerability at issue has been exploited for months already, and it’s time for a broader awareness of the threat. The short version is that everything you...
A Navajo weaving of an integrated circuit: the 555 timer The noted Diné (Navajo) weaver Marilou Schultz recently completed an intricate weaving composed...
6th Sep 2025
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A Navajo weaving of an integrated circuit: the 555 timer

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

6th Sep 2025
The noted Diné (Navajo) weaver Marilou Schultz recently completed an intricate weaving composed of thick white lines on a black background, punctuated with reddish-orange diamonds. Although this striking rug may appear abstract, it shows the internal circuitry of a tiny silicon...
Emma this was so fun. i am reminded of walter scott's description of austen as a flemish painter: "[the]...
1st Apr 2020
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Emma

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Apr 2020
this was so fun. i am reminded of walter scott's description of austen as a flemish painter: "[the] subjects are not often elegant and certainly never grand; but they are finished up to nature, and with a precision which delights the reader"
The iPhone, iPad and iOS are powering a revolution Most people just don't understand computers. Are these people dumb? Some may be dumb, but the people...
6th Nov 2010
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The iPhone, iPad and iOS are powering a revolution

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

6th Nov 2010
Most people just don't understand computers. Are these people dumb? Some may be dumb, but the people who make them are maybe even dumber. Because they can't seem to figure out how to create a computer that the majority of people understand. When the original macintosh arrived at...
How old is this newspaper? Guess the year from old newspaper front pages.
29th Dec 2025
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How old is this newspaper?

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

29th Dec 2025
Guess the year from old newspaper front pages.
With PowerPC, Windows CE and the WiiN-PAD slate, everyone's a WiiN-er (except Data General) Telemedicine (and mobile health generally) accumulated a hunk of public mindshare during the...
5th May 2024
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With PowerPC, Windows CE and the WiiN-PAD slate, everyone's a WiiN-er (except Data General)

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

5th May 2024
Telemedicine (and mobile health generally) accumulated a hunk of public mindshare during the pandemic emergency, but speaking as someone with a day job in public health for almost two decades, it's always been a buzzword in certain corners of IT with enough money sloshing around...
Slow Horses (Season 2) Not as great as the first season; still tremendously entertaining television, with more than a few...
7th Jan 2024
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Slow Horses (Season 2)

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

7th Jan 2024
Not as great as the first season; still tremendously entertaining television, with more than a few twists that I couldn't predict and an underlying thread of competence in set design, pacing, and acting that is hard to deny.
The Pinecone DAISY-1 is a fantasy 8-bit computer that exists in reality There was a time when computers were exciting and fun. Now most of them feel like commodity...
2nd Jun 2026
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The Pinecone DAISY-1 is a fantasy 8-bit computer that exists in reality

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

2nd Jun 2026
There was a time when computers were exciting and fun. Now most of them feel like commodity appliances — no more interesting than a washing machine or a toaster. Joe longed for the good ol’ days of 8-bit personal computers, so he used a trio of Arduino development boards to...
All The Ways I Broke My Website This post is a living diary of all the times I messed up something with my website in a funny way. I...
a week ago
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All The Ways I Broke My Website

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

a week ago
This post is a living diary of all the times I messed up something with my website in a funny way. I value those who have the confidence to own their mistakes and share the learning with others, and so this is me doing just that! That Time I Accidentally Made a Tarpit That Time I...
Cyber Forensic Expert in 2,000+ Cases Faces FBI Probe A Minnesota cybersecurity and computer forensics expert whose testimony has featured in thousands of...
3rd Mar 2025
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Cyber Forensic Expert in 2,000+ Cases Faces FBI Probe

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

3rd Mar 2025
A Minnesota cybersecurity and computer forensics expert whose testimony has featured in thousands of courtroom trials over the past 30 years is facing questions about his credentials and an inquiry from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Legal experts say the inquiry...
High quality, low filesize GIFs While the GIF format is a little on the older side, it’s still a really handy format in 2025 for...
2nd Aug 2025
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High quality, low filesize GIFs

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

2nd Aug 2025
While the GIF format is a little on the older side, it’s still a really handy format in 2025 for sharing short clips where an actual video file might have some compatibility issues. For instance, I find when you just want a short little video on your website, a GIF is still so...
The IKEA-powered homelab on a wall I recently learned about the IKEA SKÅDIS series, which is a pegboard that supports a variety of...
7th Sep 2023
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The IKEA-powered homelab on a wall

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

7th Sep 2023
I recently learned about the IKEA SKÅDIS series, which is a pegboard that supports a variety of extras. During my self-hosting journey having to figure out the best place for putting all my compute stuff to has always been at the back of my mind, especially due to limited...
Dig for dummies Learn how to use the dig command to query domain name servers to find the source of network...
23rd May 2019
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Dig for dummies

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

23rd May 2019
Learn how to use the dig command to query domain name servers to find the source of network problems, IP-addresses, hostnames, mail servers and related info.
Ori and the Blind Forest It is incorrect to describe this game as a melange of celeste and gris because of course this game...
5th May 2023
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Ori and the Blind Forest

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

5th May 2023
It is incorrect to describe this game as a melange of celeste and gris because of course this game predates both of them. But that is where my mind went — this sort of "emotional platformer" — and this game is terrific, ten hours of beauty and challenge and fun and very sweet...
Cable Length Measurement with an HP 8007B Pulse Generator MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [...
1st Apr 2023
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Cable Length Measurement with an HP 8007B Pulse Generator

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

1st Apr 2023
MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [ ['$', '$'], ["\\(", "\\)"] ], displayMath: [ ['$$', '$$'], ["\\[", "\\]"] ], processEscapes: true, skipTags: ['script', 'noscript', 'style', 'textarea', 'pre',...
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...
Tablet as main computer I have been using a tablet as my main computer for quite some time now. In this blog post I share...
6th Mar 2018
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Tablet as main computer

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

6th Mar 2018
I have been using a tablet as my main computer for quite some time now. In this blog post I share you my experience on using Surface Pro and iPad Pro to get my work done.
AOT-compilation of Javascript with V8 tldr; I'm working on a AOT-compiled Javascript implementation called jsc. Many dynamically typed...
26th Feb 2019
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AOT-compilation of Javascript with V8

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

26th Feb 2019
tldr; I'm working on a AOT-compiled Javascript implementation called jsc. Many dynamically typed programming languages have implementations that compile to native binaries: Python: Cython Common Lisp: SBCL Scheme: Chicken Scheme The benefits of compiling dynamically typed...
Migrating to rocks.nvim My relationship with my Neovim config is best described as an On-again, off-again relationship. At...
2nd Jun 2024
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Migrating to rocks.nvim

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

2nd Jun 2024
My relationship with my Neovim config is best described as an On-again, off-again relationship. At times I’m deeply in love and spend all my time caressing the config—like how in September I did a complete rewrite in Lua—while other times I’m busy with other love interests and...
Creating a basic ZFS file system on Linux Here are some notes on creating a basic ZFS file system on Linux, using ZFS on Linux. I'm...
1st Feb 2014
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Creating a basic ZFS file system on Linux

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

1st Feb 2014
Here are some notes on creating a basic ZFS file system on Linux, using ZFS on Linux. I'm documenting the scenario where I just want to create a file system that can tollerate at least a single drive failure and can be shared over NFS. Identify the drives you want to use for the...
Traction Heroes Ep. 37: Legibility Many teams are being measured for the wrong things: tokens used, agents deployed, etc. Their orgs...
1st Jun 2026
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Traction Heroes Ep. 37: Legibility

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

1st Jun 2026
Many teams are being measured for the wrong things: tokens used, agents deployed, etc. Their orgs have focused on tech adoption rather than value creation. It’s a mistake. I wanted to discuss this with Harry, so I read a passage from one of my favorite books, James C. Scott’s...
Extending gosql to supporting LIMIT and OFFSET It's been a few months since I picked up gosql and I wanted to use it to prototype a SQL interface...
23rd Jan 2021
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Extending gosql to supporting LIMIT and OFFSET

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

23rd Jan 2021
It's been a few months since I picked up gosql and I wanted to use it to prototype a SQL interface for data stored in S3. But one missing critical feature in gosql is LIMIT and OFFSET support. This post walks through the few key changes to gosql to support LIMIT and OFFSET. You...
What is your motivation? I've been trying to learn Clojure. I keep telling people I meet that I really want to learn Clojure,...
24th May 2016
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What is your motivation?

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

24th May 2016
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?
Crazy With the Heat Heat is awful, humidity makes it worse, and deathly stillness renders it just about...
16th Jul 2026
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Crazy With the Heat

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

16th Jul 2026
Heat is awful, humidity makes it worse, and deathly stillness renders it just about insufferable. The other night my neighbor was standing on his porch. He blew a smoke ring. Next morning, it was still there, though the morning fog had made it soggy so it had sunk to the ground.
One Year On from the One Big Beautiful Bill: Separating Fact from Trump’s Medicaid Fictions
3rd Jul 2026
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One Year On from the One Big Beautiful Bill:

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

3rd Jul 2026
Separating Fact from Trump’s Medicaid Fictions
Weather, an argument against simulation hypothesis As I am writing this, cyclone Fani with category 4 level winds 215 kph (130 mph) in the Bay of...
2nd May 2019
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Weather, an argument against simulation hypothesis

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

2nd May 2019
As I am writing this, cyclone Fani with category 4 level winds 215 kph (130 mph) in the Bay of Bengal is expected to make landfall in the state of Odisha, India by tomorrow. Over 800,00 evacuated, as 100 million people are expected to be affected by the cyclone. Cyclone Fani is...
BigBasket slot alert BigBasket is the leading online grocery delivery portal in India, due to the reduced workforce and...
19th Apr 2020
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BigBasket slot alert

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

19th Apr 2020
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...
Subtext 3.0 Released Subtext 3.0 has been released: subtext-3.0.sit (StuffIt 3 archive, includes source code and THINK C...
11th Nov 2023
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Subtext 3.0 Released

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

11th Nov 2023
Subtext 3.0 has been released: subtext-3.0.sit (StuffIt 3 archive, includes source code and THINK C 5 project file) 713f9b465281f89405522f7aef23d4fa2bf035c7cd070f690395302a4a77045a SHA1: 47ba8aa40e2abcd3811c3f26b349a15a78bcd956 ipdb-2023-11.db (Free IP Geolocation...
The Eli Schiff Problem Fellow members of The International Cabal to Destroy Design, I write you today because we stand atop...
19th May 2016
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The Eli Schiff Problem

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

19th May 2016
Fellow members of The International Cabal to Destroy Design, I write you today because we stand atop a precipice, faced with the threat of annihilation. The rogue Eli Schiff has been systematically exposing our wicked deeds in an attempt to derail the Modern Minimalist plot. I’m...
I built a timer I can’t fail to set Have you ever gotten to the end of a long work day and realized you’re no closer to your goals? I...
2nd Dec 2025
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I built a timer I can’t fail to set

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

2nd 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. Sure, I was doing a lot of stuff. But I wasn’t pausing to ask whether I was doing the right stuff. Or whether my approach was working. Or if I was spending the right amount of...
Fluent Visitors: revisiting a classic design pattern It’s been a while since I’ve written a pure programming post. I was recently implementing a...
4th Nov 2025
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Fluent Visitors: revisiting a classic design pattern

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

4th Nov 2025
It’s been a while since I’ve written a pure programming post. I was recently implementing a specialist collection class that contained items of a number of different types. I needed to be able to iterate over the collection performing different actions depending on the specific...
29th Oct 2025
A look at CloudFlare’s AI-coded OAuth library I decided today to take a look at CloudFlare’s new OAuth provider library, which they apparently...
6th Jun 2025
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A look at CloudFlare’s AI-coded OAuth library

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

6th Jun 2025
I decided today to take a look at CloudFlare’s new OAuth provider library, which they apparently coded almost entirely with Anthropic’s Claude LLM: This library (including the schema documentation) was largely written with the help of Claude, the AI model by Anthropic. Claude’s...
Are we any closer to the Quantum Apocalypse? Another day, another urgent pronouncement on the need to transition to post-quantum cryptography...
2nd Jul 2026
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Are we any closer to the Quantum Apocalypse?

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

2nd Jul 2026
Another day, another urgent pronouncement on the need to transition to post-quantum cryptography ASAP: this one from the White House, in the form of an Executive Order requiring certain “high value” systems to transition to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) by the end of 2030 (for...
Improving bicycle safety with voice-activated turn signals Bicycle safety is always a concern, but is a particularly big problem in cities where cycling is...
2nd Nov 2025
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Improving bicycle safety with voice-activated turn signals

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

2nd Nov 2025
Bicycle safety is always a concern, but is a particularly big problem in cities where cycling is less common. Drivers in cars don’t expect to encounter cyclists and don’t know how to share the road properly. To protect themselves, cyclists need to be as predictable as possible...
What Learning by Doing Looks Like The evolution of polycrystalline diamond drill bits
12th Dec 2024
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What Learning by Doing Looks Like

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

12th Dec 2024
The evolution of polycrystalline diamond drill bits
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