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I didn't write any Javascript, and other shortcuts Getting it done by not doing a lot of it
22nd Aug 2023
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I didn't write any Javascript, and other shortcuts

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

22nd Aug 2023
Getting it done by not doing a lot of it
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Work is Life Too 10 PM on a Sunday night. You’re back home after a night out with friends. A couple of beers and some...
31st Mar 2025
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Work is Life Too

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

31st Mar 2025
10 PM on a Sunday night. You’re back home after a night out with friends. A couple of beers and some pizza. The place was too loud but you…
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OTel Isn't Going Well (And I Made A Spreadsheet About It) For years now one of the most reliable complaints I hear when I try to drag a team off their vendor...
12th Aug 2026
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OTel Isn't Going Well (And I Made A Spreadsheet About It)

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

12th Aug 2026
For years now one of the most reliable complaints I hear when I try to drag a team off their vendor specific SDK and onto OpenTelemetry is some variation of: "why does it seem like this isn't done yet?" Vendor SDKs for observability are, to put
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My experience at the k-space hackerspace hackathon k-space is a hackerspace in Tallinn, Estonia, and they organized a hackathon recently. Unlike in...
3rd Aug 2023
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My experience at the k-space hackerspace hackathon

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

3rd Aug 2023
k-space is a hackerspace in Tallinn, Estonia, and they organized a hackathon recently. Unlike in most hackathons, in this one you could whatever you like with no expectations about building a business or coming up with an MVP, just come on down to the space and start working on...
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Against choosing your political allegiances based on who is "pro-crypto"
17th Jul 2024
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Against choosing your political allegiances based on who is "pro-crypto"

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

17th Jul 2024
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Raspberry Mint
6th Feb 2019
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Raspberry Mint

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

6th Feb 2019
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Embodiment Since I was small, I’d lived my life through screens, one way or another. For the last...
15th May 2025
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Embodiment

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

15th May 2025
Since I was small, I’d lived my life through screens, one way or another. For the last quarter-century or so, I had been piloting the machine of flesh and sinew to keep my mind going, rarely engaging with the machine itself. This was a mistake.
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My favourite API is a zipfile on the European Central Bank's website Simple data pipeline powertools: sqlite, pandas, gnuplot and friends
13th Sep 2023
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My favourite API is a zipfile on the European Central Bank's website

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

13th Sep 2023
Simple data pipeline powertools: sqlite, pandas, gnuplot and friends
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Happy Endings This, to me, is the perfect sit-com. It’s that simple: for two seasons (skip the first season; you...
27th Nov 2017
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Happy Endings

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

27th Nov 2017
This, to me, is the perfect sit-com. It’s that simple: for two seasons (skip the first season; you don’t need it and the show tries to be too conventional) it shits out an outrageous level of humor with a cast that has a perfect chemistry. There is a tiny bit of “aw, shucks”...
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Atomic Design in 1998 When you hear “atomic design,” you probably think of Brad Frost. Interestingly, he was not the first...
8th Feb 2018
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Atomic Design in 1998

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

8th Feb 2018
When you hear “atomic design,” you probably think of Brad Frost. Interestingly, he was not the first person to develop that method of delivering design as components, or even the terminology. Brad published his atomic design article in 2013. While digging through the archives at...
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Final Fantasy The game certainly shows its age, I can tell you that much. (I played Dawn of Souls, which was the...
28th Dec 2007
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Final Fantasy

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

28th Dec 2007
The game certainly shows its age, I can tell you that much. (I played Dawn of Souls, which was the slightly easier remake, and even then it was a bit of a slog.) It’s short, though, and it’s I think worth playing for its place in the canon.
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The banality of surveillance Do our dull lives become worth watching?
6th Mar 2026
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The banality of surveillance

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

6th Mar 2026
Do our dull lives become worth watching?
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From tree to table Creating a night stand from a raw slab of chestnut wood.
22nd Oct 2017
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From tree to table

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

22nd Oct 2017
Creating a night stand from a raw slab of chestnut wood.
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Amazon Basics, but for intellectual property. Amazon has been accused several times for ripping off merchants on its platform. And every single...
6th Jul 2026
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Amazon Basics, but for intellectual property.

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

6th Jul 2026
Amazon has been accused several times for ripping off merchants on its platform. And every single time they denied any wrongdoing. A merchant, or anyone really, can create a product (or source it from China), then resell it on amazon. Amazon is the service provider, and hosts...
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Pebble Kickstarter Campaign Success!
18th May 2012
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Pebble Kickstarter Campaign Success!

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

18th May 2012
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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,...
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Notes from August 2025 Things I published and things I saw this August. See also: my notes from last month, which has links...
31st Aug 2025
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Notes from August 2025

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

31st Aug 2025
Things I published and things I saw this August. See also: my notes from last month, which has links to all the previous months so far. Things I published this month Most of my work this month was on private stuff, like some contracting and a demo app for a small social group....
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The Flamethrowers “Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for...
1st Mar 2025
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The Flamethrowers

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

1st Mar 2025
“Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For not dissolving into it.”
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Apple is killing off the optical drive just like the floppy disk With the release of the new MacBook Air we are one step closer to killing off the cd-rom and the...
23rd Oct 2010
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Apple is killing off the optical drive just like the floppy disk

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

23rd Oct 2010
With the release of the new MacBook Air we are one step closer to killing off the cd-rom and the dvd. As with the previous MacBook Air, this device has no optical drive. And that is a good thing. People do not need an optical drive. You have the network and you have USB disks....
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Strike Commander: Interview with Frank Savage There is a playful way to study the architecture of computers of the past. Find a piece of software...
3rd Dec 2019
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Strike Commander: Interview with Frank Savage

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

3rd Dec 2019
There is a playful way to study the architecture of computers of the past. Find a piece of software you know well and try to find out how it was ported to these machine you don't...
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+ 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?
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IKEA $50 VINDSTYRKA vs. $290 Dylos air quality monitor This is a brief article in which I compare the IKEA VINDSTYRKA $50 air quality monitor (PM2.5) with...
17th Sep 2023
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IKEA $50 VINDSTYRKA vs. $290 Dylos air quality monitor

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

17th Sep 2023
This is a brief article in which I compare the IKEA VINDSTYRKA $50 air quality monitor (PM2.5) with a $290 air quality monitor made by Dylos to see if it's any good. Context If you care about indoor air quality, you may already own a CO2 to determine if it's time to ventilate...
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Don't you mean extinct?
10th Jul 2026
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Don't you mean extinct?

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

10th Jul 2026
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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.
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Release of PPSS - the Parallel Processing Shell Script PPSS is a shell script that processess files or other items in parallel. It is designed to make use...
3rd Jan 2009
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Release of PPSS - the Parallel Processing Shell Script

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

3rd Jan 2009
PPSS is a shell script that processess files or other items in parallel. It is designed to make use of the current multi-core CPUs. It will detect the number of available CPUs and start a thread for each CPU core.  This script is build with the goal to be very easy to use. Also,...
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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...
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Understanding zero-knowledge proofs What are zero-knowledge proofs, really?
24th Jul 2022
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Understanding zero-knowledge proofs

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

24th Jul 2022
What are zero-knowledge proofs, really?
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Durable Smartphone While sitting in the train the guy in front of me surprised me, out of his fancy pants he pulled...
4th Mar 2025
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Durable Smartphone

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

4th Mar 2025
While sitting in the train the guy in front of me surprised me, out of his fancy pants he pulled this well worn, patina rich, piece of tech. We're travelling first class and judging by his classy attire, this man is not of limited means. Like a well-raced Porsche, this thing has...
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Help Me Help You, Maintainers My plea with OSS maintainers on how they can help me help them.
7th Mar 2025
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Help Me Help You, Maintainers

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

7th Mar 2025
My plea with OSS maintainers on how they can help me help them.
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The Tapestry of Influence: The Inspirations That Shape Us Discover how your unique combination of influences—from art and philosophy to pop culture and...
5th Nov 2024
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The Tapestry of Influence: The Inspirations That Shape Us

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

5th Nov 2024
Discover how your unique combination of influences—from art and philosophy to pop culture and personal experiences—shapes your creative perspective. Explore how connecting seemingly unrelated passions and memories creates unexpected insights and original expression.
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The Discipline and the Discipline at the intersection of art and social science
8th Sep 2026
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The Discipline and the Discipline

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

8th Sep 2026
at the intersection of art and social science
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Pick and place without the CNC Pick and place (PnP) machines are the linchpin on which modern electronics manufacturing rests. A...
2nd Apr 2026
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Pick and place without the CNC

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

2nd Apr 2026
Pick and place (PnP) machines are the linchpin on which modern electronics manufacturing rests. A PnP is a special kind of robot with a vacuum end effector designed to pick up SMD (surface-mount device) components and place them on a PCB for soldering. But for hobbyists, they’re...
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Secure caching DNS server on Linux with DJBDNS The most commonly used DNS server software is ISC BIND, the "Berkeley Internet Name Daemon"....
12th Jun 2010
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Secure caching DNS server on Linux with DJBDNS

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

12th Jun 2010
The most commonly used DNS server software is ISC BIND, the "Berkeley Internet Name Daemon". However, this software has a bad security track record and is in my opinion a pain to configure. Mr. D.J. Bernstein developed "djbdns", which comes with a guarantee: if anyone finds a...
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What MongoDB got Right MongoDB is perhaps the most-widely-mocked piece of software out there right now. While some of the...
1st Nov 2015
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What MongoDB got Right

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

1st Nov 2015
MongoDB is perhaps the most-widely-mocked piece of software out there right now. While some of the mockery is out-of-date or rooted in misunderstandings, much of it is well-deserved, and it’s difficult to disagree that much of MongoDB’s engineering is incredibly simplistic,...
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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...
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A trip down NBA Jam graphics pipeline I took some time to study how NBA Jam arcade cabinet worked. Here is what I learned.
28th Oct 2019
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A trip down NBA Jam graphics pipeline

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

28th Oct 2019
I took some time to study how NBA Jam arcade cabinet worked. Here is what I learned.
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How Long Does It Take to Plan a Bridge? Many folks, including me, have observed that it seems to take much longer to build infrastructure in...
4th Jun 2026
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How Long Does It Take to Plan a Bridge?

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

4th Jun 2026
Many folks, including me, have observed that it seems to take much longer to build infrastructure in the US than it used to.
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Rescuing photos from a crashed iMac This week I attempted to recover two decades of personal photo history from a crashed iMac.
14th Oct 2020
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Rescuing photos from a crashed iMac

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

14th Oct 2020
This week I attempted to recover two decades of personal photo history from a crashed iMac.
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The case for comments in code When I first started programming, especially when asked for code samples, my comments lacked purpose...
7th Sep 2020
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The case for comments in code

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

7th Sep 2020
When I first started programming, especially when asked for code samples, my comments lacked purpose and would often duplicate in English what the code clearly indicated. I knew that "commenting is good" but as a beginner I had no further insight. Over time with the help of books...
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The square roots of all evil Every programmer knows Donald Knuth’s famous quote that “premature optimization is the root of all...
3rd Dec 2024
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The square roots of all evil

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

3rd Dec 2024
Every programmer knows Donald Knuth’s famous quote that “premature optimization is the root of all evil”, from his 1974 Turing Award lecture (pdf). A fuller quotation of the surrounding context gives a rounder view: I am sorry to say that many people nowadays are condemning...
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In Crypto, Apps Need Infrastructure Like Infrastructure Needs Apps Or, maybe the real infrastructure was the applications we made along the way
6th Oct 2023
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In Crypto, Apps Need Infrastructure Like Infrastructure Needs Apps

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

6th Oct 2023
Or, maybe the real infrastructure was the applications we made along the way
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An ode to my favorite mobile game I can’t stop telling my friends about Forward: Escape the Fold and now I’m telling you. I bought it...
4th Mar 2025
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An ode to my favorite mobile game

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

4th Mar 2025
I can’t stop telling my friends about Forward: Escape the Fold and now I’m telling you. I bought it more than two years ago and it’s my favorite mobile game by a mile. Forward describes itself as the “perfect bitesized roguelike dungeon crawler”. You control a character trying to...
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Recycle your old laptop display and turn it into a monitor During a cleaning spree I decided that it was time to recycle two old laptops that were just...
13th Mar 2021
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Recycle your old laptop display and turn it into a monitor

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

13th Mar 2021
During a cleaning spree I decided that it was time to recycle two old laptops that were just collecting dust on a shelf for many years. Although I didn't have any purpose for them anymore, I realised that the displays were still perfectly fine. This is the display of my old 13"...
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When the Ground Looks Empty Don’t you just love spring flowers? Here we are, coming up to Easter and spring flowers are blooming...
2nd Apr 2026
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When the Ground Looks Empty

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

2nd Apr 2026
Don’t you just love spring flowers? Here we are, coming up to Easter and spring flowers are blooming outside. But the process of planting spring bulbs is really kind of strange if you think about it.
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Android Shmup Six months ago I released the source code of "SHMUP": a modest indie 3D shoot'em up designed for...
23rd Feb 2012
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Android Shmup

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

23rd Feb 2012
Six months ago I released the source code of "SHMUP": a modest indie 3D shoot'em up designed for iOS. Since it did honorably on the Apple Appstore I offered anyone to port it to Android Appmarket for a 50/50 revenues split. Two developers consecutively took on the challenge only...
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Python's easter eggs and hidden jokes Just when you thought, Python could not be more fun. Read on GitHub...
8th May 2017
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Python's easter eggs and hidden jokes

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

8th May 2017
Just when you thought, Python could not be more fun. Read on GitHub https://github.com/OrkoHunter/python-easter-eggs 1. Hello World 2. The…
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Microsystems Interviews Andrew D. Hall, Director of the Bell Labs System V Development (1984) They discuss Unix in the 1980s.
3 weeks ago
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Microsystems Interviews Andrew D. Hall, Director of the Bell Labs System V Development (1984)

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

3 weeks ago
They discuss Unix in the 1980s.
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Content debt There’s a nascent trend of releasing ostensibly-private material (changelogs, public wikis,...
4th Jul 2024
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Content debt

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Jul 2024
There’s a nascent trend of releasing ostensibly-private material (changelogs, public wikis, handbooks, etc.) to the public as a bit of a marketing push. This is essentially a form of debt, to the extent that you’re taking a lump-sum payment now in exchange for the implicit cost...
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Ask security questions
9th Feb 2024
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Ask security questions

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

9th Feb 2024
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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...
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Control Loops and Rice Cookers Rice cookers are fascinating machines. I’ve owned one for years, as rice is a significant part of my...
8th Dec 2021
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Control Loops and Rice Cookers

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

8th Dec 2021
Rice cookers are fascinating machines. I’ve owned one for years, as rice is a significant part of my regular diet, and it completely removes the stress of preparing rice. They also operate on a simple principle that can help us operate cloud infrastructure – the control loop.
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Escaping the flat tires You might wonder how puncture proof a "puncture-proof" bicycle tire really is. I set out to find the...
18th Nov 2021
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Escaping the flat tires

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

18th Nov 2021
You might wonder how puncture proof a "puncture-proof" bicycle tire really is. I set out to find the answer when I installed Schwalbe Durano Plus tires on my bike. It was inevitable for me to find the answer to the question: How many kilometers can you ride without flats using...
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Vacation Finally back from a 2 week vacation up at Övertorneå. It’s been pretty great to be taken care of and...
14th Aug 2014
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Vacation

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

14th Aug 2014
Finally back from a 2 week vacation up at Övertorneå. It’s been pretty great to be taken care of and not doing anything. Well, I did get my ass kicked in Terra Mystica and I played a bit of Minecraft, but still. We got some nice food and my in-laws and my parents were nice. I’m...
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How WebP Images Reduced My Bandwidth Usage by 50% Last year I migrated this website from Jekyll to Eleventy. This year, I’m finally implementing WebP...
8th Feb 2022
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How WebP Images Reduced My Bandwidth Usage by 50%

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

8th Feb 2022
Last year I migrated this website from Jekyll to Eleventy. This year, I’m finally implementing WebP images to save bandwidth and make this site even faster to load! This simple change reduced my bandwidth usage by 50% and is still backwards compatible with old devices and...
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Benchmarking a 1.44 MB floppy drive I've used fio - a storage benchmarking tool - to benchmark a 1.44 MB floppy drive to gauge its...
16th Dec 2019
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Benchmarking a 1.44 MB floppy drive

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

16th Dec 2019
I've used fio - a storage benchmarking tool - to benchmark a 1.44 MB floppy drive to gauge its random I/O performance. I have no real reason for doing this. I just thought it was funny. I've run a benchmark against the floppy drives for different queue depths. The results are...
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A 12.48 inch (1304x984) three-color e-paper display by Waveshare Introduction Update September 2023: A small horizontal and large vertical row of pixels died. Demo...
22nd Dec 2020
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A 12.48 inch (1304x984) three-color e-paper display by Waveshare

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

22nd Dec 2020
Introduction Update September 2023: A small horizontal and large vertical row of pixels died. Demo of defective display here. I'm running a solar-powered blog and I wanted to add a low-power display to show the daily solar 'harvest'1 and maybe some additional information. So I...
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A Simple Thought I wrote that we where doing some microprogramming, making the processor work etc. We had a lab about...
2nd Feb 2012
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A Simple Thought

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

2nd Feb 2012
I wrote that we where doing some microprogramming, making the processor work etc. We had a lab about that yesterday and I was very, very nervous. The preparations weren’t that hard, but they where very bothersome. Converting the instructions to binary/hex by hand is never nice....
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All you can do is play the game I don’t know what’s coming next.
14th Nov 2025
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All you can do is play the game

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

14th Nov 2025
I don’t know what’s coming next.
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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
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I invent a new kind of magnet, sort of... It's SO new, it has ZERO external magnetic field!
29th Aug 2025
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I invent a new kind of magnet, sort of...

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It's SO new, it has ZERO external magnetic field!
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Goodwill Read essay: Goodwill
1st Sep 2025
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Goodwill

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1st Sep 2025
Read essay: Goodwill
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2025-06-08 Omnimax In a previous life, I worked for a location-based entertainment company, part of a huge team of...
8th Jun 2025
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2025-06-08 Omnimax

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8th Jun 2025
In a previous life, I worked for a location-based entertainment company, part of a huge team of people developing a location for Las Vegas, Nevada. It was COVID, a rough time for location-based anything, and things were delayed more than usual. Coworkers paid a lot of attention...
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More MCMC – Analyzing a small dataset with 1-5 ratings I've been obsessed with how to iterate quickly based on small scale feedback lately. One awesome...
5th Dec 2015
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More MCMC – Analyzing a small dataset with 1-5 ratings

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

5th Dec 2015
I've been obsessed with how to iterate quickly based on small scale feedback lately. One awesome website I encountered is Usability Hub which lets you run 5 second tests. Users see your site for 5 seconds and you can ask them free-form questions afterwards.
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bitCards Thrill Your Friends This Christmas with a gift from bitCards
1st Sep 2026
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bitCards

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1st Sep 2026
Thrill Your Friends This Christmas with a gift from bitCards
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Is the Apple Watch the modern tool watch? This week I went to Frankfurt for business. I had to perform maintenance to servers in a data...
1st Nov 2018
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Is the Apple Watch the modern tool watch?

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

1st Nov 2018
This week I went to Frankfurt for business. I had to perform maintenance to servers in a data centre. This seemed like a great opportunity to test the Apple Watch's usefulness in real life (other than health and fitness). I wondered, is the Apple Watch the modern tool watch? ...
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CVE-2007-4573: The Anatomy of a Kernel Exploit CVE-2007-4573 is two years old at this point, but it remains one of my favorite vulnerabilities. It...
5th Feb 2010
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CVE-2007-4573: The Anatomy of a Kernel Exploit

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

5th Feb 2010
CVE-2007-4573 is two years old at this point, but it remains one of my favorite vulnerabilities. It was a local privilege-escalation vulnerability on all x86_64 kernels prior to v2.6.22.7. It’s very simple to understand with a little bit of background, and the exploit is...
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Core 2 Duo - Beta Test Signup! My personal Core 2 Duo, featuring irek’s beautiful Brutal watchface Hopefully you have...
11th Jun 2025
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Core 2 Duo - Beta Test Signup!

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

11th Jun 2025
My personal Core 2 Duo, featuring irek’s beautiful Brutal watchface Hopefully you have pre-ordered a Core 2 Duo watch - if not, you…
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Why fastDoom is fast
4th Mar 2025
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Why fastDoom is fast

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4th Mar 2025
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Speeding up Go's builtin JSON encoder up to 55% for large arrays of objects This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
3rd Mar 2022
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Speeding up Go's builtin JSON encoder up to 55% for large arrays of objects

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3rd Mar 2022
This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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Maxell's MF 2-DD Floppies The Gold Standard
1st Dec 2024
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Maxell's MF 2-DD Floppies

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1st Dec 2024
The Gold Standard
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7ème tour des subventions Gitcoin - Rétrospective
18th Oct 2020
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7ème tour des subventions Gitcoin - Rétrospective

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

18th Oct 2020
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Situazioni di collusione
1st Jan 2000
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Situazioni di collusione

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

1st Jan 2000
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Counting Agentic Traffic This month I brought Lemmid Count back: the website statistics of my platform, rebuilt from scratch...
6th Jul 2026
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Counting Agentic Traffic

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

6th Jul 2026
This month I brought Lemmid Count back: the website statistics of my platform, rebuilt from scratch without AWStats and without a database. Its party piece is the dimension every other analytics tool throws away: the bots. In the agentic era the question "what did AI agents read...
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FLIP Fluid on Flip Dots [Hardware] Electromechanical Fluid Simulation
4 weeks ago
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FLIP Fluid on Flip Dots

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4 weeks ago
[Hardware] Electromechanical Fluid Simulation
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Pea Bee #4: Speak the time to me Google search
13th Mar 2021
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Pea Bee #4: Speak the time to me

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13th Mar 2021
Google search
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Look for the Adults In terms of sheer volume of words, factoids, and data of all kinds, this is surely an information...
1st Mar 2026
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Look for the Adults

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

1st Mar 2026
In terms of sheer volume of words, factoids, and data of all kinds, this is surely an information age. But in terms of understanding, wisdom, spiritual clarity, and civility, we have entered a darker age. — David Orr, Verbicide (1999) You know how Mr. Rogers said that in a...
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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!!
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Going to University I mentioned in the last post that I’m going to the university, which might explain my lack of...
6th Oct 2010
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Going to University

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

6th Oct 2010
I mentioned in the last post that I’m going to the university, which might explain my lack of activity here and for that I’m sorry. It’s not as hard as I had imagined, and I don’t have that much in school but there’s still a lot that’s going on. For example now how to make...
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Film in the Fridge I’ve got a bunch of old film I need to get through. Stored properly – I shouldn’t need to add too...
7th May 2026
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Film in the Fridge

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in technology

7th May 2026
I’ve got a bunch of old film I need to get through. Stored properly – I shouldn’t need to add too many additional stops.I think this may be the golden age. Enjoy while you can.
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Transparency, the cure to newspaperpreneurs We've all seen it: front page headlines of "visionaries" gazing into the abyss .. every sentence...
2nd May 2015
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Transparency, the cure to newspaperpreneurs

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

2nd May 2015
We've all seen it: front page headlines of "visionaries" gazing into the abyss .. every sentence attesting to the incredible success that he/she's been able to conjure in the face adversity.
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Attention is All You Need Reading Expands Our Context Windows
7th Jul 2025
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Attention is All You Need

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7th Jul 2025
Reading Expands Our Context Windows
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March 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter 2 major new site features: 'popins' and recursive Wikipedia popups
6th Apr 2021
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March 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter

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6th Apr 2021
2 major new site features: 'popins' and recursive Wikipedia popups
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Three tips to make a content strategy work Consider these three things to maximise the effect of the words you write for your website, blog or...
24th Mar 2021
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Three tips to make a content strategy work

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

24th Mar 2021
Consider these three things to maximise the effect of the words you write for your website, blog or company.
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Seeing Like a Newsfeed Machine Learning Through Machine Poetry
5th Aug 2024
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Seeing Like a Newsfeed

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5th Aug 2024
Machine Learning Through Machine Poetry
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On Medium-of-Exchange Token Valuations
17th Oct 2017
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On Medium-of-Exchange Token Valuations

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

17th Oct 2017
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Apple and the AI divide This morning I read a 404 Media article about Instagram showing people ads with AI-generated images...
7th Jan 2025
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Apple and the AI divide

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7th Jan 2025
This morning I read a 404 Media article about Instagram showing people ads with AI-generated images of themselves. I thought this take from Sam Biddle was very good: Never in my career have I seen such a giant gulf between What Companies Think Is the Most Important Thing in the...
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Passing the reins on Panfrost Today is my last day at Collabora and my last day leading the Panfrost driver. It’s been a wild...
10th Apr 2023
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Passing the reins on Panfrost

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

10th Apr 2023
Today is my last day at Collabora and my last day leading the Panfrost driver. It’s been a wild ride. In 2017, I began work on the chai driver for Mali T (Midgard). chai would later be merged into Lyude Paul’s and Connor Abbott’s BiOpenly project for Mali G (Bifrost) to form...
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What Makes Art Great? Some notes toward an answer
3rd May 2026
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What Makes Art Great?

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

3rd May 2026
Some notes toward an answer
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My 7 Rules for A/B Testing That Triple Conversion Rates I really don’t care how any given A/B test turns out. That’s right. Not one bit. But wait, how do I...
11th Sep 2015
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My 7 Rules for A/B Testing That Triple Conversion Rates

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

11th Sep 2015
I really don’t care how any given A/B test turns out. That’s right. Not one bit. But wait, how do I double or triple conversion rates without caring how a test performs? I actually care about the whole SYSTEM of testing. All the pieces need to fit together just right. If not,...
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Train Simulator Controller: Designing a Dashboard Having sporadically built controls and gauges to interface with Train Simulator over the course of a...
1st Feb 2025
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Train Simulator Controller: Designing a Dashboard

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

1st Feb 2025
Having sporadically built controls and gauges to interface with Train Simulator over the course of a year, in April 2024 I began to figure out how to design the dashboard they would all fit into.
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Dithering is obsolete (except when it isn’t); creating OpenDithering Dithering is one of those techniques that feels like it belongs in a museum. It peaked in the ’90s,...
6th Jun 2026
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Dithering is obsolete (except when it isn’t); creating OpenDithering

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6th Jun 2026
Dithering is one of those techniques that feels like it belongs in a museum. It peaked in the ’90s, the era of 256-color palettes and early computer graphics, when you needed to trick the eye into seeing colors that your hardware couldn’t actually produce. Now, even our phones...
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Net Gains I'm probably not going to do that, but it's a thought that's been on my mind.
8th Dec 2022
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Net Gains

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8th Dec 2022
I'm probably not going to do that, but it's a thought that's been on my mind.
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Verge interview at CES 2016 2025 Note - Behind the scenes, Pebble was a mess. We were about to do a layoff and enter the final...
8th Jan 2016
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Verge interview at CES 2016

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

8th Jan 2016
2025 Note - Behind the scenes, Pebble was a mess. We were about to do a layoff and enter the final year…
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Evolution of inPulse - Part 1
25th Oct 2009
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Evolution of inPulse - Part 1

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

25th Oct 2009
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Agentic Version Control Benchmarks Which version-control tool should you give your coding agent? We pit Git, Jujutsu and GitButler...
7th Jul 2026
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Agentic Version Control Benchmarks

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

7th Jul 2026
Which version-control tool should you give your coding agent? We pit Git, Jujutsu and GitButler against each other in a fight to the death
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I resurrected my Dutch movie review site from 2003 Introduction Between 2003 and 2006, I ran a Dutch movie review site called moevie.nl.1 I built the...
9th Jun 2022
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I resurrected my Dutch movie review site from 2003

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9th Jun 2022
Introduction Between 2003 and 2006, I ran a Dutch movie review site called moevie.nl.1 I built the site and wrote the reviews. It never made any money. It cost me money to host, and it cost me a lot of time writing reviews, but I remember enjoying writing reviews about films I...
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How I could've taken over the production server of a Yahoo acquisition through command...
4th Jun 2017
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How I could've taken over the production server of a Yahoo acquisition through command injection

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4th Jun 2017
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Curing Mac mini M4 fomo with 3D printing Spoiler: 3D printed! The colored ports really sell the effect If you’re anything like me, you’ve...
12th Nov 2024
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Curing Mac mini M4 fomo with 3D printing

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

12th Nov 2024
Spoiler: 3D printed! The colored ports really sell the effect If you’re anything like me, you’ve found the new, tinier Mac mini to be absolutely adorable. But you might also be like me that you either already have an awesome M1 Mac mini that you have no real reason to replace,...
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0x4 reasons to write and publish
7th Nov 2023
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0x4 reasons to write and publish

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7th Nov 2023
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It's hard to write code for computers, but it's even harder to write code for humans Writing code for a computer is hard enough. You take something big and fuzzy, some large vague...
27th Sep 2024
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It's hard to write code for computers, but it's even harder to write code for humans

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

27th Sep 2024
Writing code for a computer is hard enough. You take something big and fuzzy, some large vague business outcome you want to achive. Then you break it down recursively and think about all the cases until you have clear logical statements a computer can follow.
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Healthy Holidays It began the way colds always do: a kind of dry, scratchy feeling in the nose, arriving over a...
4th Dec 2025
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Healthy Holidays

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

4th Dec 2025
It began the way colds always do: a kind of dry, scratchy feeling in the nose, arriving over a couple of hours. I suppose there is a psychological essay to be written about it, on the order of Elizabeth Kübler-Ross’s five stages of grief. In both, the first stage is denial. “No,...
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Creating a Robotics Experimentation Environment: My Experience and Practical Lessons Part 1 of a series on practical robotics experimentation As part of my journey into robotics, I...
13th Aug 2025
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Creating a Robotics Experimentation Environment: My Experience and Practical Lessons

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

13th Aug 2025
Part 1 of a series on practical robotics experimentation As part of my journey into robotics, I found myself facing a classic problem: I wanted to experiment with different learning approaches for robotic manipulation, but I needed a flexible playground where I could quickly test...
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Changephobia Felt...forgettable? I need to spend some more time with it.
1st Jun 2021
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Changephobia

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1st Jun 2021
Felt...forgettable? I need to spend some more time with it.
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In defense of false positives (why you can't fail with A/B tests) Many years ago, I used to think that A/B tests were foolproof and all you need to do is compare the...
30th Jul 2014
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In defense of false positives (why you can't fail with A/B tests)

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

30th Jul 2014
Many years ago, I used to think that A/B tests were foolproof and all you need to do is compare the metrics for the two groups. The group with the highest conversion rate wins, right?
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How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy a bad book with a good thesis. the author warns you of its incoherence early on, which is a shame...
1st Mar 2020
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How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

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1st Mar 2020
a bad book with a good thesis. the author warns you of its incoherence early on, which is a shame because there are very good pieces of logos amidst the circumlocution
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About the time my ThinkPad T430 ran with an external GPU The ThinkPad T430 is not a remarkable laptop. It’s thick, bulky and built like a tank. I got mine in...
3rd Jul 2024
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About the time my ThinkPad T430 ran with an external GPU

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3rd Jul 2024
The ThinkPad T430 is not a remarkable laptop. It’s thick, bulky and built like a tank. I got mine in 2016 when the first university scholarship money dropped, and it’s still my backup laptop of choice. Around 2017 I did something every reasonable poor computer science...
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Tracing the baseband I was reading an article on planetbeing's blog the other day and my curiosity was tipped off when...
27th May 2010
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Tracing the baseband

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

27th May 2010
I was reading an article on planetbeing's blog the other day and my curiosity was tipped off when he mentioned that phones don't run only one operating system but two. I decided to learn a bit how all this really works and here are my notes with the source code associated....
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On Psychedelics I wrote - Hello :name-retracted:! Last night, I watched the movie Her. It was a fascinating movie on...
4th Aug 2018
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On Psychedelics

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4th Aug 2018
I wrote - Hello :name-retracted:! Last night, I watched the movie Her. It was a fascinating movie on emotions and AI. It was one of its kind…
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Designing for People The kindest and strongest praise that you can give this book is that it was written in 1955 and...
1st Jan 2023
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Designing for People

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

1st Jan 2023
The kindest and strongest praise that you can give this book is that it was written in 1955 and neither its praxis nor its theory has aged a day. A lot of external praise is directed at its much-ballyhooed prognostication of the future (predicting FaceTime in 1955, that sort of...
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The ITTAGE indirect branch predictor While investigating the performance of the new Python 3.14 tail-calling interpreter, I learned (via...
4th Jul 2025
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The ITTAGE indirect branch predictor

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

4th Jul 2025
While investigating the performance of the new Python 3.14 tail-calling interpreter, I learned (via this very informative comment from Sam Gross) new (to me) piece of performance trivia: Modern CPUs mostly no longer struggle to predict the bytecode-dispatch indirect jump inside a...
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Changes A lot has been going on lately and it feels like I’m being swamped. I can’t complain too much but...
4th Mar 2012
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Changes

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

4th Mar 2012
A lot has been going on lately and it feels like I’m being swamped. I can’t complain too much but there are things I’d like to change after the exam period this week. Program more! nothing since christmas or someting. I need to finish: Ada project for school. Can’t believe I...
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Harpoom: of course the Apple Network Server can be hacked into running Doom a $10,000+ Apple server running IBM AIX. Of course you can. Well, you can now. Now, let's go ahead...
1st Jun 2025
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Harpoom: of course the Apple Network Server can be hacked into running Doom

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

1st Jun 2025
a $10,000+ Apple server running IBM AIX. Of course you can. Well, you can now. Now, let's go ahead and get the grumbling out of the way. No, the ANS is not running Linux or NetBSD. No, this is not a backport of NCommander's AIX Doom, because that runs on AIX 4.3. The Apple...
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The architecture of declarative configuration management With the ongoing move towards “infrastructure-as-code” and similar notions, there’s been an ongoing...
12th Nov 2019
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The architecture of declarative configuration management

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

12th Nov 2019
With the ongoing move towards “infrastructure-as-code” and similar notions, there’s been an ongoing increase in the number and popularity of declarative configuration management tools. This post attempts to lay out my mental model of the conceptual architecture and internal...
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I made a Chrome extension to help avoid playing cheaters in chess If you google “chrome extension for cheating in chess”, you’ll find a lot of them. Cheating is so...
22nd Dec 2024
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I made a Chrome extension to help avoid playing cheaters in chess

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22nd Dec 2024
If you google “chrome extension for cheating in chess”, you’ll find a lot of them. Cheating is so easy, it’s crazy. If you google “chrome…
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Balsa “2001: A Space Odyssey” Model The spacecraft from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey have always had a special place for me. Here I...
30th Dec 2025
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Balsa “2001: A Space Odyssey” Model

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

30th Dec 2025
The spacecraft from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey have always had a special place for me. Here I build a replica from balsa.
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Software Engineers and Automation Every once in a while when talking to smart people the topic of automation comes up. Technology has...
16th Aug 2015
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Software Engineers and Automation

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

16th Aug 2015
Every once in a while when talking to smart people the topic of automation comes up. Technology has made lots of occupations redundant, so what's next? Switchboard operator, a long time ago What about software engineers?
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HandCash handles require trust and are insecure The HandCash wallet has recently become a popular Bitcoin Cash wallet in large part thanks to their...
22nd Sep 2018
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HandCash handles require trust and are insecure

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

22nd Sep 2018
The HandCash wallet has recently become a popular Bitcoin Cash wallet in large part thanks to their $handle concept. It’s basically a username you use instead of the normal Bitcoin Cash address, similar to how domain names abstract away IP addresses. For example instead of...
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Parametric half-circle For my torchlensmaker project, I need to represent lenses surface shapes parameterically. That is, I...
20th Dec 2024
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Parametric half-circle

from Victor Poughon [alt+shift+b] in technology

20th Dec 2024
For my torchlensmaker project, I need to represent lenses surface shapes parameterically. That is, I need equations that give the X and Y coordinates of the surface, as a function of a parameter, usually called t. The project supports different parametric shapes, but a very...
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The Fellowship I am a sucker for all things Joseph Shabason at this point, and maybe it's fair to call this album a...
1st May 2021
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The Fellowship

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

1st May 2021
I am a sucker for all things Joseph Shabason at this point, and maybe it's fair to call this album a little too reminiscent of his prior work, but — who cares? It's sonically diverse and lush and delightful to listen to.
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COVID-19 temperature correlation A user on needgap posted a problem of not being able to find graphs showing confirmed COVID-19 cases...
11th Mar 2020
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COVID-19 temperature correlation

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

11th Mar 2020
A user on needgap posted a problem of not being able to find graphs showing confirmed COVID-19 cases and local weather data such as temperature. The reason for reputed agencies not publishing such graph is likely to prevent misinformation and possibly to avoid governments getting...
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David Cuartielles receives the Open Source Award on Skills and Education We are proud to announce that David Cuartielles, co-founder of Arduino, has been honored with the...
3rd Feb 2025
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David Cuartielles receives the Open Source Award on Skills and Education

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3rd Feb 2025
We are proud to announce that David Cuartielles, co-founder of Arduino, has been honored with the Open Source Award on Skills and Education 2025 and has become a founding member of the Open Source Academy of Europe. This prestigious award recognizes individuals who have made...
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things will have to change Social Science in the age of AI
15th Jan 2026
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things will have to change

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

15th Jan 2026
Social Science in the age of AI
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Would you like a drainer served at the very top of DuckDuckGo? Probably no, right? That would be very dangerous, especially if the phishing website serving it is...
16th Jun 2026
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Would you like a drainer served at the very top of DuckDuckGo?

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

16th Jun 2026
Probably no, right? That would be very dangerous, especially if the phishing website serving it is an exact copy of the thing you was looking for. Well that's what happened to me! TL;DR I found a fake tronscan blockchain explorer duplicate on the #1 position in the
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How to hire smarter than the market: a toy model Let's consider a toy model where you're hiring for two things and that those are equally valuable....
13th Jan 2020
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How to hire smarter than the market: a toy model

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

13th Jan 2020
Let's consider a toy model where you're hiring for two things and that those are equally valuable. It's not very important what those are, so let's just call them “thing A” and “thing B” for now.
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The Raspberry Pi 5 is no match for a tini-mini-micro PC I've always been fond of the idea of the Raspberry Pi. An energy efficient, small, cheap but capable...
16th Jun 2024
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The Raspberry Pi 5 is no match for a tini-mini-micro PC

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

16th Jun 2024
I've always been fond of the idea of the Raspberry Pi. An energy efficient, small, cheap but capable computer. An ideal home server. Until the Pi 4, the Pi was not that capable, and only with the relatively recent Pi 5 (fall 2023) do I feel the Pi is OK performance wise, although...
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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 Writing [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:
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Quick Subtitles 1.6 (benchmark history, more stats, and more) Quick Subtitles has yet another update out now, which brings a few new features to the mix. UI...
3rd Jan 2026
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Quick Subtitles 1.6 (benchmark history, more stats, and more)

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Jan 2026
Quick Subtitles has yet another update out now, which brings a few new features to the mix. UI tweaks First up is a slightly refreshed UI. This is mostly a new coat of paint across the interface. The iPhone UI home page, for example, now uses all the available space
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Writing a simple JSON parser Writing a JSON parser is one of the easiest ways to get familiar with parsing techniques. The format...
6th May 2018
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Writing a simple JSON parser

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

6th May 2018
Writing a JSON parser is one of the easiest ways to get familiar with parsing techniques. The format is extremely simple. It's defined recursively so you get a slight challenge compared to, say, parsing Brainfuck; and you probably already use JSON. Aside from that last point,...
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Slay the Spire In lieu of more to say, I think this is the most well-designed game I've ever played. The size of a...
16th May 2019
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Slay the Spire

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

16th May 2019
In lieu of more to say, I think this is the most well-designed game I've ever played. The size of a given session is perfect for me (45-75 minutes); the difficulty curve is elegant and sloping; variety is strong. I have poured at least a hundred hours into the game and could see...
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Choosing an op-amp for your project Just say no to LM741.
3rd Jan 2025
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Choosing an op-amp for your project

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

3rd Jan 2025
Just say no to LM741.
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We’re Shutting Down Yay.Boo and Ponder Update 12/03/2025: Yay.Boo is staying alive! 🙌 Keep your eyes peeled to Yay.Boo for updates. We...
3rd Nov 2025
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We’re Shutting Down Yay.Boo and Ponder

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

3rd Nov 2025
Update 12/03/2025: Yay.Boo is staying alive! 🙌 Keep your eyes peeled to Yay.Boo for updates. We have built a lot of good products here at Good Enough. Whether you’re sharing an inbox with your team or avoiding social media with a blog, we’ve got you covered. Unfortunately,...
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Plus Post: subLOGIC Flight Simulator II Put yourself in the pilot's seat of a Piper 181 Cherokee Archer for an awe-inspiring flight over...
3rd Apr 2026
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Plus Post: subLOGIC Flight Simulator II

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

3rd Apr 2026
Put yourself in the pilot's seat of a Piper 181 Cherokee Archer for an awe-inspiring flight over realistic scenery...
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Comparison of Models Used for Aviation Briefings I have a collection of prompts and tools that I give to LLMs to generate daily aviation briefings....
18th Jul 2026
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Comparison of Models Used for Aviation Briefings

from John Wiseman [alt+shift+b] in technology

18th Jul 2026
I have a collection of prompts and tools that I give to LLMs to generate daily aviation briefings. The briefings are supposed to be a summary of everything interesting that’s happened in the air in the past several hours, either globally or in a region of interest. The model...
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I Built a CO2 Sensor and It Terrifies Me Governments are pushing CO2 sensors to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, but proper ventilation is...
3rd Oct 2021
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I Built a CO2 Sensor and It Terrifies Me

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

3rd Oct 2021
Governments are pushing CO2 sensors to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, but proper ventilation is equally important for our health and even our cognitive performance.In this blog post we'll look at a DIY CO2 sensor: how it runs ESPHome, how it integrates with Home Assistant, how it...
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Be A Donor This is probably the proudest moment of my Computer Science career so far: On April 17th, 2012 the...
22nd Apr 2012
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Be A Donor

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

22nd Apr 2012
This is probably the proudest moment of my Computer Science career so far: On April 17th, 2012 the Government of Ontario released the Mobile Website I designed and implemented for the major part of 2011. Beadonor.ca allows you reinforce your decision to be an organ donor. I feel...
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Filtering spam on YouTube with TensorFlow & AI My YouTube channel has been attracting a lot of spammers. They try to trick people by saying they...
6th Jul 2021
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Filtering spam on YouTube with TensorFlow & AI

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

6th Jul 2021
My YouTube channel has been attracting a lot of spammers. They try to trick people by saying they know how to profit from trading cryptocurrencies or that they can recover lost wallet keys.I've been marking these comments as spam, thinking that YouTube would learn to recognize...
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Cribsheet A follow-up to Expecting Better focusing on the first few years of parenthood and what some...
2nd Apr 2024
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Cribsheet

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

2nd Apr 2024
A follow-up to Expecting Better focusing on the first few years of parenthood and what some combination of data, studies, and rational rigor tells us about common crossroads (breastfeeding vs. formula, daycare vs. nanny, television vs. no television, et cetera.)
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A Tektronix TDS 684B Oscilloscope Uses CCD Analog Memory Introduction The TDS600 Series The Acquisition Board Measuring Along the Signal Path A Closer Look...
4th May 2025
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A Tektronix TDS 684B Oscilloscope Uses CCD Analog Memory

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

4th May 2025
Introduction The TDS600 Series The Acquisition Board Measuring Along the Signal Path A Closer Look at the Noise Issue Conclusion Introduction I have a Tektronix TDS 684B oscilloscope that I bought cheaply at an auction. It has 4 channels, 1 GHz of BW and a sample rate of 5...
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Tech rants: PC-s use way too much power in 2021 Welcome to 2021. We have: supply chain issues no reasonably priced GPU-s consumer-grade CPU-s with...
3rd Nov 2021
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Tech rants: PC-s use way too much power in 2021

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

3rd Nov 2021
Welcome to 2021. We have: supply chain issues no reasonably priced GPU-s consumer-grade CPU-s with peak power consumption at 296W GPU-s that consume 350-400W of power under normal use At the same time, we have made great leaps in CPU/GPU architectures and chip manufacturing...
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More Doom III BFG Documentation id Software developer Jan Paul Van Waveren (a.k.a Mr Elusive) is sharing some more of the knowledge...
4th Sep 2013
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More Doom III BFG Documentation

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

4th Sep 2013
id Software developer Jan Paul Van Waveren (a.k.a Mr Elusive) is sharing some more of the knowledge gained while working on Doom 3 BFG. This part focuses highly on the choice of data-structures and how paramount cacheline are to performances.
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THE GLOBAL CAPSLOCK KEY THE GLOBAL CAPSLOCK KEY I MADE A GLOBAL CAPS LOCK KEY SO THAT WE CAN ALL AGREE ON WHEN TO USE CAPS...
5th Feb 2025
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THE GLOBAL CAPSLOCK KEY

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5th Feb 2025
THE GLOBAL CAPSLOCK KEY I MADE A GLOBAL CAPS LOCK KEY SO THAT WE CAN ALL AGREE ON WHEN TO USE CAPS LOCK. You can see the status and download the client at https://globalcapslock.com. Read the full post on my blog! Here's a raw link, if you need it: ...
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Part 1: Will greater access to capital spark Bahrain's economy? Many claim that a lack of capital is THE primary reason behind lackluster productivity in the...
5th Oct 2019
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Part 1: Will greater access to capital spark Bahrain's economy?

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

5th Oct 2019
Many claim that a lack of capital is THE primary reason behind lackluster productivity in the economy. Let's explore this question.
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I tested every IP KVM in my Homelab Since the PiKVM came out in 2017, there's been an explosion of IP KVMs. I've tested almost every...
5th Jun 2026
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I tested every IP KVM in my Homelab

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

5th Jun 2026
Since the PiKVM came out in 2017, there's been an explosion of IP KVMs. I've tested almost every one. But what are they good for? You can use Remote Desktop, Screen Sharing, or VNC to remote control a computer from anywhere on a LAN. And if you don't have a private VPN, you could...
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Engineering Security Through Coordination Problems
8th May 2017
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Engineering Security Through Coordination Problems

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

8th May 2017
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2024-11-09 iron mountain atomic storage I have quipped before about "underground datacenters," and how they never succeed. During the late...
9th Nov 2024
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2024-11-09 iron mountain atomic storage

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

9th Nov 2024
I have quipped before about "underground datacenters," and how they never succeed. During the late decades of the Cold War and even into the '00s, the military and (to a lesser extent) the telecommunications industry parted ways with a great number of underground facilities....
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How optimistic or pessimistic are the Kurzgesagt videos? A sentiment analysis on the last 20 videos of Kurzgesagt.
2nd Jul 2023
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How optimistic or pessimistic are the Kurzgesagt videos?

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

2nd Jul 2023
A sentiment analysis on the last 20 videos of Kurzgesagt.
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Zoo elephants get a musical toy to enrich their lives Everyone loves looking at exotic animals and most of us only get to do that at zoos. But, of course,...
2nd Dec 2024
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Zoo elephants get a musical toy to enrich their lives

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

2nd Dec 2024
Everyone loves looking at exotic animals and most of us only get to do that at zoos. But, of course, there is a lot to be said about the morality of keeping those animals in captivity. So, good zoos put a lot of effort into keeping their animals healthy and happy. For more...
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6.170, CVS, and SVN I’m taking 6.170 Lab in Software Engineering this semester. The course sucks in various ways, but...
11th Feb 2007
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6.170, CVS, and SVN

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

11th Feb 2007
I’m taking 6.170 Lab in Software Engineering this semester. The course sucks in various ways, but one of the most egregious, in my opinion, is that they force you to use CVS for your version control. Problem sets are distributed by the TAs importing them into your repository, and...
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Fairy Tale Alternate universe VGM-y nujabes. Nothing world-shattering, but extremely good vibes.
3rd Mar 2022
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Fairy Tale

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Mar 2022
Alternate universe VGM-y nujabes. Nothing world-shattering, but extremely good vibes.
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Germany Doxes “UNKN,” Head of RU Ransomware Gangs REvil, GandCrab An elusive hacker who went by the handle “UNKN” and ran the early Russian ransomware groups GandCrab...
6th Apr 2026
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Germany Doxes “UNKN,” Head of RU Ransomware Gangs REvil, GandCrab

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

6th Apr 2026
An elusive hacker who went by the handle “UNKN” and ran the early Russian ransomware groups GandCrab and REvil now has a name and a face. Authorities in Germany say 31-year-old Russian Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin headed both cybercrime gangs and helped carry out at least 130 acts...
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Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full
17th Aug 2026
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Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full

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

17th Aug 2026
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What Happened After I Outed a Reddit Mod for Affiliate Spam I recently broke down how Reddit mods and users are abusing Google search rankings with affiliate...
9th Sep 2024
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What Happened After I Outed a Reddit Mod for Affiliate Spam

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

9th Sep 2024
I recently broke down how Reddit mods and users are abusing Google search rankings with affiliate spam. It’s reddit marketing gone awry. The post blew up and got a decent amount of attention. Then I got a front row seat to how deep of a spam filled porta-potty Reddit has become....
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A type checking error in Elixir 1.18 Although I’m a big Elixir fan, the lack of static typing has always been my biggest annoyance (and...
30th Dec 2024
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A type checking error in Elixir 1.18

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

30th Dec 2024
Although I’m a big Elixir fan, the lack of static typing has always been my biggest annoyance (and why I think Gleam is so cool). I think static typing helps catch bugs earlier and in an automated way, leading to less buggy software and saves time in the long run. To my great joy...
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Microfeatures in my blog xkcd: Nerd sniping A while I ago I encountered a blog post called Microfeatures I Love in Blogs and...
9th Jul 2024
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Microfeatures in my blog

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

9th Jul 2024
xkcd: Nerd sniping A while I ago I encountered a blog post called Microfeatures I Love in Blogs and Personal Websites, and together with the related Hacker News discussion I got nerd sniped. (I spent more time than I care to admit implementing new and exciting microfeatures for...
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Comment on How Live Chat Tools Impact Conversions and Why I Launched a Bad Variant by Kannan... Thanks for all your insights. I really wonder why my sales are actually gone down since I...
7th Aug 2018
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Comment on How Live Chat Tools Impact Conversions and Why I Launched a Bad Variant by Kannan Rajendiran

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

7th Aug 2018
Thanks for all your insights. I really wonder why my sales are actually gone down since I implemented tawk. Probably it is a good idea to take off and see if there are a dance in the sales graph.
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Bypassing Authentication Like It’s The ‘90s - Pre-Auth RCE Chain(s) in Kentico Xperience CMS I recently joined watchTowr, and it is, therefore, time - time for my first watchTowr Labs blogpost,...
17th Mar 2025
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Bypassing Authentication Like It’s The ‘90s - Pre-Auth RCE Chain(s) in Kentico Xperience CMS

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

17th Mar 2025
I recently joined watchTowr, and it is, therefore, time - time for my first watchTowr Labs blogpost, previously teased in a tweet of a pre-auth RCE chain affecting some ‘unknown software’. Joining the team, I wanted to maintain the trail of destruction left by the watchTowr Labs...
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Fortinet FortiGate CVE-2024-23113 - A Super Complex Vulnerability In A Super Secure Appliance In... Today we'd like to share a recent journey into (yet another) SSLVPN appliance vulnerability - a...
14th Oct 2024
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Fortinet FortiGate CVE-2024-23113 - A Super Complex Vulnerability In A Super Secure Appliance In 2024

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

14th Oct 2024
Today we'd like to share a recent journey into (yet another) SSLVPN appliance vulnerability - a Format String vulnerability, unusually, in Fortinet's FortiGate devices. It affected (before patching) all currently-maintained branches, and recently was highlighted by CISA as...
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Spatio-temporal indexing the Bluesky firehose
7th Aug 2025
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Spatio-temporal indexing the Bluesky firehose

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

7th Aug 2025
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The Vinland Saga (Season 2) I thought the first season of this anime was good and entertaining but certainly not anything to...
6th Jul 2023
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The Vinland Saga (Season 2)

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Jul 2023
I thought the first season of this anime was good and entertaining but certainly not anything to write home about, a slightly tropey anime with interesting character work and a novel setting. The second season did something that I (to my recollection) have never seen in an anime,...
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Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D, 2nd Edition The second edition of the Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D is out.
6th Dec 2018
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Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D, 2nd Edition

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

6th Dec 2018
The second edition of the Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D is out.
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Vote for the Topic of the February 2024 Plus Post If you are a paid subscriber, voting is open for one week
6th Feb 2024
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Vote for the Topic of the February 2024 Plus Post

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

6th Feb 2024
If you are a paid subscriber, voting is open for one week
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How I made HA-meural: a Meural Canvas integration for Home Assistant One of my 2020 lockdown projects I’m extremely proud of is HA-meural – a custom integration for the...
30th Nov 2020
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How I made HA-meural: a Meural Canvas integration for Home Assistant

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

30th Nov 2020
One of my 2020 lockdown projects I’m extremely proud of is HA-meural – a custom integration for the Home Assistant home automation software that lets you control a NETGEAR Meural Canvas digital frame. It’s the result of a few months of work, lots of trial and error, and many...
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Gosling’s Old Rum Virginia has draconian liquor laws, which means I have to get interesting bottles shipped from...
3rd Feb 2024
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Gosling’s Old Rum

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Feb 2024
Virginia has draconian liquor laws, which means I have to get interesting bottles shipped from [REDACTED], a site on which I am very prone to judging a book by its cover; every month I'll end up purchasing a bottle of something purely because it looks interesting and I can...
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NYC subway math Apparently MTA (the company running the NYC subway) has a real-time API. My fascination for the...
4th Apr 2016
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NYC subway math

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

4th Apr 2016
Apparently MTA (the company running the NYC subway) has a real-time API. My fascination for the subway takes autistic proportions and so obviously I had to analyze some of the data. The documentation is somewhat terrible, but here's some relevant code for how to use the API:
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LotusNotes I tend to focus on the origin of the computer within the military. Particularly in the early days of...
14th Mar 2026
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LotusNotes

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

14th Mar 2026
I tend to focus on the origin of the computer within the military. Particularly in the early days of digital computing, the military was a key customer, and fundamental concepts of modern computing arose in universities and laboratories serving military contracts. Of course, the...
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Don't buy the transparent plastic version of the Makita DCL-180 vacuum cleaner Looks cool, doesn't last.
3 weeks ago
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Don't buy the transparent plastic version of the Makita DCL-180 vacuum cleaner

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

3 weeks ago
Looks cool, doesn't last.
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Joining TCG Crypto I am thrilled to share that I am joining the team at TCG, The Chernin Group, to focus on the firm’s...
14th Sep 2021
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Joining TCG Crypto

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

14th Sep 2021
I am thrilled to share that I am joining the team at TCG, The Chernin Group, to focus on the firm’s investments at the intersection of consumer and crypto.
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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...
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IBM M13 Trackpoint USB Converter Me, never not on the lookout for an opportunity to design something, whether needed or not, worked...
4th Jan 2022
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IBM M13 Trackpoint USB Converter

from Opsbros [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Jan 2022
Me, never not on the lookout for an opportunity to design something, whether needed or not, worked with @micon to design a module that could fit snugly in the keyboard, and provide a USB-C interface directly into the Keyboard/Mouse module.
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MD5-based uniqueness constraints in Django Yesterday, I was trying to set a unique constraint for comments in Buttondown to prevent accidental...
1st Sep 2024
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MD5-based uniqueness constraints in Django

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Sep 2024
Yesterday, I was trying to set a unique constraint for comments in Buttondown to prevent accidental double-commenting, and I ran into a problem that I hadn't seen before:
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DIY: Use an IKEA VINDRIKTNING air quality sensor in Home Assistant with ESPHome IKEA has released some interesting new products lately, focused on air quality. In this product...
21st Aug 2021
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DIY: Use an IKEA VINDRIKTNING air quality sensor in Home Assistant with ESPHome

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

21st Aug 2021
IKEA has released some interesting new products lately, focused on air quality. In this product line, one unit that stands out is the VINDRIKTNING air quality sensor. This cheap (just €9,99) sensor measures the air quality in your home, using a simple traffic light scheme to...
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The Vinland Saga (Season 2) I thought the first season of this anime was good and entertaining but certainly not anything to...
6th Jul 2023
1

The Vinland Saga (Season 2)

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

6th Jul 2023
I thought the first season of this anime was good and entertaining but certainly not anything to write home about, a slightly tropey anime with interesting character work and a novel setting. The second season did something that I (to my recollection) have never seen in an anime,...
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The Design of Everyday Things My favorite book of the year. I’m not going to gush about it — enough others have in the decades of...
30th Dec 2014
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The Design of Everyday Things

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

30th Dec 2014
My favorite book of the year. I’m not going to gush about it — enough others have in the decades of its existence — but know that it is that good and that timeless. Norman changed the way I thought about technology.
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Shop vac becomes a Roomba on steroids A robotic vacuum, such as a Roomba, offers a lot of convenience. Instead of having to vacuum and...
29th Apr 2024
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Shop vac becomes a Roomba on steroids

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

29th Apr 2024
A robotic vacuum, such as a Roomba, offers a lot of convenience. Instead of having to vacuum and sweep your own floors, you have a little maid robot to do the job for you. But these devices have very little power and capacity, which makes them useless for anything other than...
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Outside the comfort zone: amateur acting This month I strapped myself with sensors during a little experiment outside my comfort zone: I...
17th Apr 2018
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Outside the comfort zone: amateur acting

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

17th Apr 2018
This month I strapped myself with sensors during a little experiment outside my comfort zone: I debuted as amateur actor!
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Bose SoundLink on-ear headphones battery replacement Skip to the bottom two paragraph for instructions on how to replace the battery. I bought my Bose...
25th Feb 2025
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Bose SoundLink on-ear headphones battery replacement

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

25th Feb 2025
Skip to the bottom two paragraph for instructions on how to replace the battery. I bought my Bose SoundLink on-ear Bluetooth headphones for 250 Euros around 2017 and I really like them. They are small, light, comfortable and can easily fit in a coat pocket when folded. Up until...
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February Shenzhen Trip Update It took me a few days to get back to normal after returning from my trip to Shenzhen last week....
3rd Mar 2025
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February Shenzhen Trip Update

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

3rd Mar 2025
It took me a few days to get back to normal after returning from my trip to Shenzhen last week. Overall, pretty decent trip - I met with 1…
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No, I Won't Build That! If you're an accomplished developer (as in: you've actually created things in the past), you may...
4th Mar 2024
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No, I Won't Build That!

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

4th Mar 2024
If you're an accomplished developer (as in: you've actually created things in the past), you may recognise this scenario: people reaching out to you, asking you to build something specific. "Can you build X for me?" A fellow technician once urged me to refuse more often: be proud...
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Information and Technological Evolution I spend a lot of time reading about the nature of technological progress, and I’ve found that the...
2nd Apr 2026
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Information and Technological Evolution

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

2nd Apr 2026
I spend a lot of time reading about the nature of technological progress, and I’ve found that the literature on technology is somewhat uneven.
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#16: The case of fake IMDb credits I was casually browsing IMDb when I landed on the page for an upcoming Ranbir Kapoor starrer movie...
7th Aug 2022
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#16: The case of fake IMDb credits

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

7th Aug 2022
I was casually browsing IMDb when I landed on the page for an upcoming Ranbir Kapoor starrer movie “Animal”.
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Chipzilla Extends its Domination MMX, Bunny People, Celeron, Xeon
2nd Mar 2025
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Chipzilla Extends its Domination

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

2nd Mar 2025
MMX, Bunny People, Celeron, Xeon
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Pea Bee #2: We're here because we're here Hi all, thank you for subscribing to this newsletter.
5th Jan 2021
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Pea Bee #2: We're here because we're here

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

5th Jan 2021
Hi all, thank you for subscribing to this newsletter.
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Some VORON 0 mods I recently completed my VORON 0 build and I was determined to leave it as-is for a while and to...
2nd May 2025
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Some VORON 0 mods

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

2nd May 2025
I recently completed my VORON 0 build and I was determined to leave it as-is for a while and to start modding my VORON Trident… So before embarking om my larger Trident modding journey I decided to work on the VORON 0 just a little bit more. HEPA filter With the Nevermore Micro...
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The Limits to Blockchain Scalability
23rd May 2021
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The Limits to Blockchain Scalability

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

23rd May 2021
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Understanding PLONK
22nd Sep 2019
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Understanding PLONK

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

22nd Sep 2019
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Property-Based Testing Is Fuzzing “Property-based testing” refers to the idea of writing statements that should be true of your code...
3rd Oct 2017
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Property-Based Testing Is Fuzzing

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

3rd Oct 2017
“Property-based testing” refers to the idea of writing statements that should be true of your code (“properties”), and then using automated tooling to generate test inputs (typically, randomly-generated inputs of an appropriate type), and observe whether the properties hold for...
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AAA gaming on Asahi Linux Gaming on Linux on M1 is here! We’re thrilled to release our Asahi game playing toolkit, which...
10th Oct 2024
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AAA gaming on Asahi Linux

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

10th Oct 2024
Gaming on Linux on M1 is here! We’re thrilled to release our Asahi game playing toolkit, which integrates our Vulkan 1.3 drivers with x86 emulation and Windows compatibility. Plus a bonus: conformant OpenCL 3.0. Asahi Linux now ships the only conformant OpenGL®, OpenCL™, and...
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2020 in review And so 2020 has come to an end. On a global scale it’s been quite a horrible year, and for me...
4th Jan 2021
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2020 in review

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

4th Jan 2021
And so 2020 has come to an end. On a global scale it’s been quite a horrible year, and for me personally it’s been both good and bad. Luckily we haven’t been directly affected by COVID too much, but it’s still been very disruptive. Either way as I’ve done for years now it always...
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Interior I liked-not-loved this. It was fun and a little bit vibe-y and would happily listen to it again, but...
1st Jul 2022
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Interior

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Jul 2022
I liked-not-loved this. It was fun and a little bit vibe-y and would happily listen to it again, but I would be hard-pressed to recognize it out of a crowd.
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We should talk less about public goods funding and more about open source funding
29th Mar 2025
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We should talk less about public goods funding and more about open source funding

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

29th Mar 2025
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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...
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Do Smart People Ever Say They’re Smart? (SmarterTools SmarterMail Pre-Auth RCE CVE-2025-52691) Welcome to 2026! While we are all waiting for the scheduled SSLVPN ITW exploitation programming that...
8th Jan 2026
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Do Smart People Ever Say They’re Smart? (SmarterTools SmarterMail Pre-Auth RCE CVE-2025-52691)

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

8th Jan 2026
Welcome to 2026! While we are all waiting for the scheduled SSLVPN ITW exploitation programming that occurs every January, we’re back from Christmas and idle hands, idle minds, yada yada. In December, we were alerted to a vulnerability in SmarterTools’ SmarterMail solution,...
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It's All Smiles The production is too glitchy & clever to be pleasant or interesting, which in of itself is not a...
1st Dec 2021
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It's All Smiles

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Dec 2021
The production is too glitchy & clever to be pleasant or interesting, which in of itself is not a huge deal except that the lyrics & vocals are so featherweight that it's not worth the effort of digestion.
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In response to a frontend developer asking about database development This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
1st Jan 2023
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In response to a frontend developer asking about database development

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

1st Jan 2023
This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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Every Enemy Wears Your Face The enemy in your head is usually wearing your face. On projection, the villains we invent, and the...
28th May 2026
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Every Enemy Wears Your Face

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

28th May 2026
The enemy in your head is usually wearing your face. On projection, the villains we invent, and the chair we can't see ourselves sitting in.
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NightStand at your local Apple Store NightStands now come in some beautiful new colors & new packaging - you can find them in Apple...
26th Aug 2015
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NightStand at your local Apple Store

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

26th Aug 2015
NightStands now come in some beautiful new colors & new packaging - you can find them in Apple Stores around the globe beginning today. For any designer, to see something you made out in the wild is a special experience. So today is a real trip for our tiny little Portland...
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Trespasser: Jurassic Park CG Source Code Review More...
10th Jun 2014
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Trespasser: Jurassic Park CG Source Code Review

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

10th Jun 2014
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Walter Torous named executive director of MIT Center for Real Estate The senior lecturer, already director of the degree program, will now oversee all aspects of the...
1st Sep 2026
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Walter Torous named executive director of MIT Center for Real Estate

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

1st Sep 2026
The senior lecturer, already director of the degree program, will now oversee all aspects of the center’s activities and operations.
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So, You Want To Build A DBaaS So you’ve made the decision to build a Database-as-a-Service product (or something similar). As a...
29th Mar 2023
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So, You Want To Build A DBaaS

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

29th Mar 2023
So you’ve made the decision to build a Database-as-a-Service product (or something similar). As a result, you are making state and coordination your problem. Here are some things I’ve learned to keep in mind as you embark on this project, in no particular order (other than the...
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inPulse tumblr - ah memories
19th Sep 2010
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inPulse tumblr - ah memories

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

19th Sep 2010
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