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Willem's Blog
Minimalistic road bike with Gates carbon drive For the past few months I have been riding the Schindelhauer Siegfried Road bike with the Gates CDX...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For the past few months I have been riding the Schindelhauer Siegfried Road bike with the Gates CDX Carbon Drive, read about this beautiful minimal bike in this post.
Willem's Blog
Tips for Long-Distance Cycling Embark on your own long-distance cycling adventure by learning from my post-COVID...
a year ago
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a year ago
Embark on your own long-distance cycling adventure by learning from my post-COVID Fietselfstedentocht experience, packed with invaluable tips and tricks.
Lighthouse Blog
What I want to achieve with Lighthouse
10 months ago
Simply Explained
How I Use Alfred to Search My Obsidian Notes Faster (with Spotlight!) In this post, I’ll show you how I integrated Obsidian into Alfred so I can search my vault from...
a year ago
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a year ago
In this post, I’ll show you how I integrated Obsidian into Alfred so I can search my vault from anywhere on my Mac. I just open Alfred, type “note” followed by my query, and see my search results. Hit enter and the correct note opens in Obsidian. Easy and quick!
Lighthouse Blog
Overview of content
6 months ago
computers are bad
2024-10-26 buy payphones and retire PAYPHONES at High Volume Existing sites! Earn BIG $$. Money Back Guarantee! Dropshipping AliExpress...
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PAYPHONES at High Volume Existing sites! Earn BIG $$. Money Back Guarantee! Dropshipping AliExpress watches, AI-generated SEO spam websites... marginally legal and ethical passive income schemes, that serve to generate that income mostly for their promoters, can feel like a...
Arduino Blog
This beautiful table creates art in the sand Kinetic sand art tables are pretty hot right now, because they look really cool. They’re like zen...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Kinetic sand art tables are pretty hot right now, because they look really cool. They’re like zen gardens that rake themselves in intricate patterns. But most of the builds we’ve seen use a conventional cartesian CNC layout or polar layout. This table by Newsons Electronics takes...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Some reflections on the Bitcoin block size war
6 months ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
[Mirror] Exploring Elliptic Curve Pairings
over a year ago
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Grifters, believers, grinders, and coasters Why do engineers get mad at each other so often? I think a lot of programmer arguments bottom out...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Why do engineers get mad at each other so often? I think a lot of programmer arguments bottom out in a cultural clash between different…
Jonas Hietala
Changes A lot has been going on lately and it feels like I’m being swamped. I can’t complain too much but...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
Posts on Made of...
What's with ML software and pickles? I have spent many years as an software engineer who was a total outsider to machine-learning, but...
a year ago
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a year ago
I have spent many years as an software engineer who was a total outsider to machine-learning, but with some curiosity and occasional peripheral interactions with it. During this time, a recurring theme for me was horror (and, to be honest, disdain) every time I encountered the...
Gwern.net Newsletter
August 2020 gwern.net newsletter with an essay on sidenotes; links on human competence, efficient-computing/hardware-overhangs; no...
over a year ago
Odds and Ends of...
I'm pro-assisted dying in principle, but I'm not sure about the proposed law Is no law better than a bad law?
a month ago
Jonas Hietala
Autocomplete with nvim-cmp Autocomplete tags in the frontmatter. Autocompletion is an absurdly powerful feature that I—and I...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Autocomplete tags in the frontmatter. Autocompletion is an absurdly powerful feature that I—and I must assume most programmers—use all the time. It’s not as crucial for writing blog posts as when you’re coding but it’s still easy to come up with examples of how autocomplete...
Jonas Hietala
Building the GH60 I’ve finally completed my first custom made keyboard. I’m still missing stabilizers and some smaller...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve finally completed my first custom made keyboard. I’m still missing stabilizers and some smaller screws to hold it all together but I’ve been using it the last days and I thought I’d share. The hardware Several years ago I joined the geekhack forum and I joined in a few group...
Jonas Hietala
Blogging in Djot instead of Markdown What if we weren’t chained to the past? What if we tried to create a light markup syntax that keeps...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
What if we weren’t chained to the past? What if we tried to create a light markup syntax that keeps what is good about Markdown, while revising some of the features that have led to bloat and complexity in the CommonMark spec? John Macfarlane, Beyond Markdown I recently...
Lighthouse Blog
Hidden features
6 months ago
Christian Selig
Logging information from iOS Widgets Lately users have been emailing me with a few odd things happening with their Apollo iOS 14 home...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Lately users have been emailing me with a few odd things happening with their Apollo iOS 14 home screen widgets, and some well-placed logs can really help with identifying what’s going wrong. iOS has a sophisticated built in logging mechanism, os_log, and now with SwiftLogger in...
Jonas Hietala
Breaking the rule of three It’s pretty darn stressful making a game in a week, especially when you have this big great vision...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It’s pretty darn stressful making a game in a week, especially when you have this big great vision on how your game should be (which is always grand). For me making Balls, Black and White and Jonas IceCream Stand where truly stressful, MenuCity and Bugger not so much but...
Arduino Blog
Easy and fun block-based coding with the Alvik robot is here, now Chromebook compatible! At Arduino, we believe coding should be accessible to everyone – including the youngest learners....
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At Arduino, we believe coding should be accessible to everyone – including the youngest learners. With this in mind, we’re thrilled to announce that the Arduino Alvik robot now officially supports block-based coding! Coding has never been easier thanks to Alvik’s seamless...
Louwrentius
Monitor power usage with your UPS If a system is connected to a UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply), it is possible to determine how...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If a system is connected to a UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply), it is possible to determine how much power it consumes. For this purpose, I wrote a small script: Host:~# ./ups.sh UPS model: Back-UPS RS 1200 LCD APC model: Back-UPS RS 1200 LC Capacity: 720 Watt Load: 18...
Neil Madden
SipHash-based encryption for constrained devices I see a lot of attempts to define encryption schemes for constrained devices with short...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
I see a lot of attempts to define encryption schemes for constrained devices with short authentication tags (e.g., 64 bits) using universal hashing. For example, there’s a proposal in CFRG at the moment for a version of AES-GCM with short tags for this kind of use-case. In my...
Posts on Made of...
Property Testing Like AFL In my last last post, I argued that property-based testing and fuzzing are essentially the same...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In my last last post, I argued that property-based testing and fuzzing are essentially the same practice, or at least share a lot of commonality. In this followup post, I want to explore that idea a bit more: I’ll first detour into some of my frustrations and hesitations around...
Electronics etc…
Installing Linux GPIB Drivers for the Agilent 82357B Introduction Other Installation Instructions Agilent 82357B Initialization Process Installing the...
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Introduction Other Installation Instructions Agilent 82357B Initialization Process Installing the Agilent 82357B GPIB Driver on an Ubuntu Linux Distribution References Introduction I’ve started to grow a collection of older test equipment from the eighties, the nineties, and the...
Arduino Blog
Simplifying IoT for smarter manufacturing: Join the chat with Arduino, AWS, and Atlas Machine We all know that the future of manufacturing lies in IoT — yet the path to adoption can sometimes...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
We all know that the future of manufacturing lies in IoT — yet the path to adoption can sometimes feel daunting. But what if you could simplify the process and start seeing results quickly? That’s exactly what we’re going to explore in our upcoming Arduino Cloud Café webinar on...
latest projects -...
Badge [Hardware] A RISC-V LED matrix
a year ago
Electronics etc…
Symmetricom 58532A GPS Antenna Supply Voltage Mod The Symmatricom 58532A Opening up the 58532A Voltage Regulation Result What about the other 58532A...
9 months ago
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The Symmatricom 58532A Opening up the 58532A Voltage Regulation Result What about the other 58532A variant? References The Symmatricom 58532A As part of a package deal, I got my hands on a Symmetricom 58532A L1 GPS antenna. Microchip, which acquired Symmetricom in 2013, doesn’t...
Arduino Blog
A new Plug and Make Kit challenge! A game of rhythm and creativity The Arduino Plug and Make Kit is all about unleashing creativity while simplifying the process of...
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a week ago
The Arduino Plug and Make Kit is all about unleashing creativity while simplifying the process of turning ideas into reality. It enables everyone to focus on the fun of creating with the power of the UNO R4 WiFi and a user-friendly, modular design – bypassing the complexities of...
Jonas Hietala
Zucchini Crabcakes With a tiny bit more planning I made a dinner out the lessons 4 and 5 as the crabcakes were only...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
With a tiny bit more planning I made a dinner out the lessons 4 and 5 as the crabcakes were only supposed to be an appetizer: Crabcakes: Surprisingly delicious. Both me and Veronica gives them a 7. Zucchini: While I thought they passed Veronica said “Zucchini is not my thing” and...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Hard Forks, Soft Forks, Defaults and Coercion
over a year ago
Home on Erik...
Norvig's claim that programming competitions correlate negatively with being good on the job I saw a bunch of tweets over the weekend about Peter Norvig claiming there's a negative correlation...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I saw a bunch of tweets over the weekend about Peter Norvig claiming there's a negative correlation between being good at programming competitions and being good at the job. There were some decent Hacker News comments on it.
Notes on software...
Static analysis with semgrep: practical examples using Docker In this post we'll get a basic semgrep environment set up in Docker running some custom rules...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In this post we'll get a basic semgrep environment set up in Docker running some custom rules against our code. Existing linters Linters like pylint for Python or eslint for JavaScript are great for general, broad language standards. But what about common nits in code review like...
Willem's Blog
Different ways to visualise health To better understand how to visualise health I looked at different health/fitness apps and games.
over a year ago
Ken Shirriff's blog
Reverse engineering standard cell logic in the Intel 386 processor The 386 processor (1985) was Intel's most complex processor at the time, with 285,000...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
The 386 processor (1985) was Intel's most complex processor at the time, with 285,000 transistors. Intel had scheduled 50 person-years to design the processor, but it was falling behind schedule. The design team decided to automate chunks of the layout, developing "automatic...
latest projects -...
Robot Slide Whistle Orchestrion [Hardware] Army of Robot Slide Whistles
8 months ago
Jonas Hietala
2019 in Review As is tradition a quick rundown of the year is due. It’s been good to do as it makes me reflect on...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As is tradition a quick rundown of the year is due. It’s been good to do as it makes me reflect on the past year, and see that I did indeed do some things, and to look ahead a little. 2019 Non-Geek Achievements Played around with Isidor. It’s hard to describe how happy a kid can...
Simply Explained
Why I don't take sponsorships Last year I made that video in response to a sponsorship offer that I got from various VPN...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Last year I made that video in response to a sponsorship offer that I got from various VPN providers. They all told me the same thing: our service is the best way to protect your privacy, and we were hoping you could convey this message in one of your videos.So I decided to do...
Applied Cartography
Applied Cartography × People & Blogs There are few pleasures greater than getting to be profiled for an interview series that you've been...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
There are few pleasures greater than getting to be profiled for an interview series that you've been reading for months, and last week I got to do exactly that. To browse Manu's site — not just this interview series — feels a bit like walking on a quiet beach in autumn: there's a...
Abort Retry Fail
Housekeeping for 20240309 Super quick updates
9 months ago
Jonas Hietala
Fun or Frustration? Ludum Dare 33 One of my goals this year was to participate in a Ludum Dare. I have cleared up my schedule,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One of my goals this year was to participate in a Ludum Dare. I have cleared up my schedule, negotiated with my better half and everything is set up for epicness. At first the idea was to make a game in rust, even tough I basically haven’t used it in almost a year, but when I...
Notes on software...
Administering Kubernetes is hard Kubernetes is easy to use after some exposure; it's pretty convenient too. But it is super hard to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Kubernetes is easy to use after some exposure; it's pretty convenient too. But it is super hard to set up. eksctl is a good tool for folks who don't want to spend hours/days/weeks debugging VPC configuration in 1000s of lines of CloudFormation. None of the other tools seem to be...
Home on Erik...
Stuff that bothers me: “100x faster than Hadoop” The simple way to get featured on big data blog these days seem to be Build something that does 1...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The simple way to get featured on big data blog these days seem to be Build something that does 1 thing super well but nothing else Benchmark it against Hadoop Publish stats showing that it's 100x faster than Hadoop $$$ Spark claims their 100x faster than Hadoop and there's a...
Willem's Blog
Saving a MacBook Air with exploded battery Saving a MacBook Air with a swollen battery pack.
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Slackware installation notes It seems like it’s been a yearly recurrence reinstalling slackware from scratch. This time it...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It seems like it’s been a yearly recurrence reinstalling slackware from scratch. This time it happened during my vacation when I was mucking around with trying to compile erlang with wxWidgets support and somehow a make clean started to remove / and I only noticed it too late…...
Construction Physics
The Long Road to Fiber Optics Over the past six decades, advances in computers and microprocessors have completely reshaped our...
3 months ago
Simply Explained
Serverless Anagram Solver with Cloudflare R2 and Pages Six years ago, I reworked my anagram solver so it would run on top of AWS Lambda and DynamoDB....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Six years ago, I reworked my anagram solver so it would run on top of AWS Lambda and DynamoDB. However, this year I realized I didn't need server-side code or a database at all. I could make it completely static by pre-computing anagram solutions.
Home on Erik...
How to build up a data team (everything I ever learned about recruiting) During my time at Spotify, I've reviewed thousands of resumes and interviewed hundreds of people....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
During my time at Spotify, I've reviewed thousands of resumes and interviewed hundreds of people. Lots of them were rejected but lots of them also got offers. Finally, I've also had my share of offers rejected by the candidate.
Notes on software...
Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go: 1. SELECT, INSERT, CREATE and a REPL Next in database basics: 2. binary expressions and WHERE filters 3. indexes 4. a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Next in database basics: 2. binary expressions and WHERE filters 3. indexes 4. a database/sql driver In this series we'll write a rudimentary database from scratch in Go. Project source code is available on Github. In this first post we'll build enough of a parser to...
Jonas Hietala
Going to University I mentioned in the last post that I’m going to the university, which might explain my lack of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
Vitalik Buterin's...
La Guía Incompleta de los Rollups
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
OP_RETURN based tokens are fundamentally flawed Two new Bitcoin Cash token solutions have recently been suggested: Simple Ledger Protocol: A token...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Two new Bitcoin Cash token solutions have recently been suggested: Simple Ledger Protocol: A token system for Bitcoin Cash Introducing Colored Coins: a Bitcoin Cash token implementation Both are improvements over Tokeda as they allow permissionless transfers. However all commit...
Gwern.net Newsletter
October 2020 news October 2020 gwern.net newsletter with links on AI scaling, Euclid; further site reorganization &...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
October 2020 gwern.net newsletter with links on AI scaling, Euclid; further site reorganization & improvement.
Opsbros
Nix Windows Feedback There turns out to be a far easier way to disable the 'Win+F' Windows Feedback app.
over a year ago
Simply Explained
HEIC to JPG: Build a Quick Action with Automator With the release of iOS 11, Apple switched from JPG to HEIC to store your photos. The...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
With the release of iOS 11, Apple switched from JPG to HEIC to store your photos. The High-Efficiency Image File Format saves a lot of storage space on your devices while still maintaining your photos' quality. However, it does become problematic if you want to share those files...
Applied Cartography
buttondown.com/alternatives Some kind words from Chris Krycho on Buttondown's Alternatives page: This is how I want all my tools...
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a week ago
Some kind words from Chris Krycho on Buttondown's Alternatives page: This is how I want all my tools to be. There is a ton of room in these markets for healthy and friendly competition — and no need at all for winner-take-all or monopolist attitudes. First off — credit where it's...
Arduino Blog
Control your Raspberry Pi GPIOs with Arduino Cloud using Python | Part II As a Python developer, you’re probably eager to control and monitor your Raspberry Pi GPIOs...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
As a Python developer, you’re probably eager to control and monitor your Raspberry Pi GPIOs remotely. Well, you have landed in the right place.  This article builds upon our previous introduction to “Visualize your Raspberry Pi data with Arduino Cloud | Part I.” Now, we’ll...
Lars Lofgren
How Live Chat Tools Impact Conversions and Why I Launched a Bad Variant Do those live chat tools actually help your business? Will they get you more customers by allowing...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Do those live chat tools actually help your business? Will they get you more customers by allowing your visitors to chat directly with your team? Like most tests, you can come up with theories that sound great for both sides. Pro Live Chat Theory: Having a live chat tool helps...
Jonas Hietala
Habits to start I haven’t been feeling quite as forward or as energetic lately. There are no set plans, habits or...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I haven’t been feeling quite as forward or as energetic lately. There are no set plans, habits or goals for this spring and I don’t have a clear vision of what to do currently but it also feels… fine? Maybe I will cruise in a lower gear for a while and rev up when my mood...
Louwrentius
24 TB based on Norco RPC-4020 and Linux Software RAID Just a quick link: Some person build basically the same setup, including identical...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Just a quick link: Some person build basically the same setup, including identical controller, providing 28 TB of storage: Take a look here The main difference is that this person uses 1.5 TB disk, thus achieving more storage.
Jonas Hietala
Settled on an unoriginal idea I think I’ve decided what to do. Some very slight progress has been made.
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
I designed my own keyboard layout. Was it worth it? Almost two and a half years ago I embarked on the journey to change keyboard layout. At first I...
a year ago
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a year ago
Almost two and a half years ago I embarked on the journey to change keyboard layout. At first I tried out existing ones, but it didn’t take long before I figured it’s better to develop my own—and things went downhill fast from there. (Some) combos of the T-34 layout. But now...
Home on Erik...
Meta-blogging (This is not a very relevant/useful post for regular readers – feel free to skip. I thought I would...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
(This is not a very relevant/useful post for regular readers – feel free to skip. I thought I would share it so people can find it on Google.) My blog blew up twice in a week earlier this year when I landed on Hacker News.
computers are bad
2024-12-11 travelers information stations Histories of radio broadcasting often make a particular focus on the most powerful stations. For...
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Histories of radio broadcasting often make a particular focus on the most powerful stations. For historic reasons, WBCT of Grand Rapids, Michigan broadcasts FM at 320¸000 watts. Many AM stations are licensed to operate at 50,000 watts, but this modern license limit represented a...
Good Enough
Why We Built Quack (Beta) Today we're launching a tiny beta tool called Quack. It is a simple utility for you to share a...
a year ago
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a year ago
Today we're launching a tiny beta tool called Quack. It is a simple utility for you to share a beautifully rendered version of any markdown text. Type away in our simple editor. When you're done writing, click Share to grab the link for sending to others. There are no servers in...
Jonas Hietala
The eBook for 'Why Cryptocurrencies?' is now available for free The eBook for my book Why Cryptocurrencies? is now available for free. It’s been almost 4 years...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
The eBook for my book Why Cryptocurrencies? is now available for free. It’s been almost 4 years since the web version was done, and 3 since the physical copy was available… Which can hardly be called a success. Things happened, so let’s do a quick retrospective to, maybe, learn...
Louwrentius
Some pretty NAS case designs If you are planning on building your own NAS box, I have some suggestions regarding the case. In my...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you are planning on building your own NAS box, I have some suggestions regarding the case. In my opinion, most computer case designers have absolutely no taste. Antec and Lian Li do create nice cases, but not that spectacular. And Lian Li is just very expensive. A fairly new...
./techtipsy
ASRock DeskMini X300: the future form factor of desktop PC-s? I wasn’t happy with my “one machine that does it all” setup, which is why I finally bit the bullet...
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over a year ago
I wasn’t happy with my “one machine that does it all” setup, which is why I finally bit the bullet and got myself an ASRock DeskMini X300 bare-bones kit. This is a fantastic little desktop PC kit that is very small, quiet and can still be configured to have ridiculous amounts of...
Louwrentius
Why filtering DHCP traffic is not always possible with iptables When configuring my new firewall using iptables, I noticed something very peculiar. Even if all...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When configuring my new firewall using iptables, I noticed something very peculiar. Even if all input, forward and output traffic was dropped, DHCP traffic to and from my DHCP server was not blocked even if there were no rules permitting this traffic. I even flushed all rules,...
Arduino Blog
Reduce power consumption in IoT and wearable devices, with Arduino’s new power management library! Developing energy-efficient IoT and wearable devices is complex and time-consuming, yet it is...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Developing energy-efficient IoT and wearable devices is complex and time-consuming, yet it is essential for creating high-quality products that stand out in today’s market. A key part in this process is optimizing power consumption without sacrificing performance or...
Home on Erik...
Software Engineers and Automation Every once in a while when talking to smart people the topic of automation comes up. Technology has...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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?
Lighthouse Blog
Updates June 14
6 months ago
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #43: An awesome drone trial in central London, legalised e-scooters at last, and... And yes, I am on Bluesky.
a month ago
Arduino Blog
Using Arduino UNO to sync a visual neuroscience lab Common research methods to study the visual system in the laboratory include recording and...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Common research methods to study the visual system in the laboratory include recording and monitoring neural activity in the presence of sensory stimuli, to help scientists study how neurons encode and respond, for example, to specific visual inputs.  One of the biggest technical...
computers are bad
2023-02-13 my homelab I have always found the term "homelab" a little confusing. It's a bit like the residential version...
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a year ago
I have always found the term "homelab" a little confusing. It's a bit like the residential version of "on-premises cloud," in that it seems to presuppose that a lab is the normal place that you find computer equipment. Of course I get that "homelab" is usually used by those who...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Governance, Part 2: Plutocracy Is Still Bad
over a year ago
Old Vintage...
Refurb weekend: Canon Cat It's the Memorial Day holiday weekend and it's time for a little deferred maintenance, especially on...
6 months ago
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It's the Memorial Day holiday weekend and it's time for a little deferred maintenance, especially on those machines I intend to work on more in the near future. So we'll start with one that's widely considered to be a remarkable cul-de-sac in computing history: the Canon...
Willem's Blog
CAPTCHA Alternative If you're looking for a user-friendly alternative for CAPTCHA's you should check this post out where...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you're looking for a user-friendly alternative for CAPTCHA's you should check this post out where I outline how I protect web forms against malicious actors and spammers.
Jonas Hietala
My Dream Game: The RTS Even if there are a million great games there’s one that has a very special place in my heart:...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Even if there are a million great games there’s one that has a very special place in my heart: Supreme Commander. It’s not the game I’ve played the most and there might even be games which are better and more fun but supcom was the game that introduced me to competitive gaming...
Louwrentius
'Tip of the day: Scrolling in GNU screen' Just the answer: By default, on Debian, the scroll back buffer is about 1K lines. This can...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Just the answer: By default, on Debian, the scroll back buffer is about 1K lines. This can be changed in the .screenrc file in your home directory. The following example sets the scroll back buffer to 5K lines. defscrollback 5000 Set the scroll back buffer on the fly with: First...
Computer Ads from...
Comics from 1985/12 Australian Personal Computer Mag Some computer related levity from OZ
2 weeks ago
Louwrentius
Blu Ray is dead HD-DVD may be dead, but Blu Ray is just as dead. The whole concept of optical media is dead....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
HD-DVD may be dead, but Blu Ray is just as dead. The whole concept of optical media is dead. Honestly, who is still burning CD's or DVD's nowadays? (If you are, why for Christ sake? I can't think of a single good reason) And at 10 euros ($100) for a single Blu Ray disk, you must...
GitButler
GitButler is now Fair Source GitButler is now officially one of the first members of the Fair Source movement, helping to shift...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
GitButler is now officially one of the first members of the Fair Source movement, helping to shift closed source to publicly available software by default.
Notes on software...
Analyzing large JSON files via partial JSON parsing This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
Arduino Blog
How to customize your Arduino Cloud IoT dashboards on the go The Arduino Cloud has long been a trusted platform for makers, engineers, and developers to manage...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
The Arduino Cloud has long been a trusted platform for makers, engineers, and developers to manage their IoT projects with ease. From tracking sensor data to automating smart devices, the cloud enables seamless connectivity. Complementing this, the Arduino IoT Remote mobile app...
GitButler
The Birth of THE MERGE Sitting at lunch one day, the GitButler team were having our usual conversations of how awesome our...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Sitting at lunch one day, the GitButler team were having our usual conversations of how awesome our community is, product feature ideas, and how much Kiril loves food. As we shifted toward the topic of conferences, the idea of hosting our own event emerged. Wouldn’t it be fun
./techtipsy
The little Wi-Fi AP that could I have a bad habit of testing things whenever a “good” idea pops into my head. This is a short...
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I have a bad habit of testing things whenever a “good” idea pops into my head. This is a short overview of one of them. The Orange Pi Zero is a SBC (single board computer) that has a slow 32-bit ARM 4 core CPU, 512MB of RAM and no display output. It’s actually quite OK for many...
Applied Cartography
Notes on buttondown.com We spent $85,000 for buttondown.com in April; this was the biggest capital expenditure I've ever...
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We spent $85,000 for buttondown.com in April; this was the biggest capital expenditure I've ever made, and though it was coming from cash flow generated by Buttondown rather than my own checking account it was by rough estimation the largest non-house purchase I've ever made. As...
computers are bad
2024-03-01 listening in on the neighborhood Last week, someone leaked a spreadsheet of SoundThinking sensors to Wired. You are probably asking...
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Last week, someone leaked a spreadsheet of SoundThinking sensors to Wired. You are probably asking "What is SoundThinking," because the company rebranded last year. They used to be called ShotSpotter, and their outdoor acoustic gunfire detection system still goes by the...
detreville
Newsletter 1: What's next? This is the first in a series of newsletters covering this blog
a year ago
Jonas Hietala
December Theme: New World Order The The Experimental Gameplay Project drives on with the Art Game theme which will last the rest of...
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The The Experimental Gameplay Project drives on with the Art Game theme which will last the rest of this year but that’s something we can’t accept! I’ve done my game and I didn’t force myself out from the Haskell world just to do nuthin so here’s a new little theme for me :) What...
Arduino Blog
Technology meets creativity in two interactive art student projects Art and engineering are not separate concepts. There is a great deal of overlap between the two and...
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Art and engineering are not separate concepts. There is a great deal of overlap between the two and many modern disciplines increasingly blur those lines. Mónica Riki is an “electronic artist and creative coder” who embodies that idea: you might remember her and her incredible...
Willem's Blog
One year on the ultimate commuter bike Answering questions from one of the most popular posts of last year, I am reviewing my commuter bike...
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Answering questions from one of the most popular posts of last year, I am reviewing my commuter bike after one year of extensive use through winter and summer.
Jonas Hietala
Microfeatures in my blog xkcd: Nerd sniping A while I ago I encountered a blog post called Microfeatures I Love in Blogs and...
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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...
Jonas Hietala
September theme: Failure I’m out of the busy mode and here’s the new theme! I’ve got an idea and I’ll be beginning very soon...
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I’m out of the busy mode and here’s the new theme! I’ve got an idea and I’ll be beginning very soon I hope and again I’m following Experimental Gameplay Project’s site. Let’s rock!!
Christian Selig
First on New Blog Converted the blog over to a new Hugo theme! Hopefully everything here sorta works. Test post will...
a year ago
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a year ago
Converted the blog over to a new Hugo theme! Hopefully everything here sorta works. Test post will remove. This goat’s name is apparently Gubgub, and very cute.
Jonas Hietala
Establishing Habits with Habitica I have used Habitica the last 18 months to organize my habits and things I want to get done. I...
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I have used Habitica the last 18 months to organize my habits and things I want to get done. I believe it all started with an amazing book called The Power of Habit which describes the amazing benefits habits can give, both in the context of your own life but also in business....
./techtipsy
How I treat my urge to hoard data The tagline for /r/datahoarder reads: “It’s A Digital Disease!”. I agree. At some point I realized...
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The tagline for /r/datahoarder reads: “It’s A Digital Disease!”. I agree. At some point I realized that the pursuit to hoard all the things will just keep on consuming more and more of my time and money. Storage is cheap up until to a point, once you find yourself tracking hard...
Home on Erik...
Where do locals go in NYC? One obvious thing to anyone living in NYC is how tourists cluster in certain areas. I was curious...
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One obvious thing to anyone living in NYC is how tourists cluster in certain areas. I was curious about the larger patterns around this, so I spent some time looking at data. The thing I wanted to understand is: what areas are dominated by tourists?
Computer Ads from...
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axio.ms
Internet of kitchen lighting, with OSC This project was completed in June 2015. Wow, is it 2017 already? In this post, I’d like to say...
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This project was completed in June 2015. Wow, is it 2017 already? In this post, I’d like to say that I wrote a useful little bit of software and built up a crappy hack to demonstrate it but, secretly, the crappy hack came first and I’ve retroactively found something vaguely...
Vitalik Buterin's...
The Three Transitions
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Computer Ads from...
Small Systems Engineering's PETSPEED Fast Enough for the Human Race
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Vitalik Buterin's...
Fast Fourier Transforms
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
The current T-34 keyboard layout I’ve been documenting my own keyboard layout in a series for a while now. But as the layout is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been documenting my own keyboard layout in a series for a while now. But as the layout is constantly changing it’s been difficult to piece together how the layout currently looks like, so this post tries to show how the layout looks right now in it’s entirety. If you want to...
Home on Erik...
Leaving Spotify Febrary 6 was my last day at Spotify. In total I spent more than six years at Spotify and it was an...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Febrary 6 was my last day at Spotify. In total I spent more than six years at Spotify and it was an amazing experience. I joined Spotify in Stockholm in 2008, mainly because a bunch of friends from programming competitions had joined already.
Jonas Hietala
Focusing Attention: Study Hacking A week of drawing is over, but I didn’t draw that much. It was a little bit of a fail from my...
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over a year ago
A week of drawing is over, but I didn’t draw that much. It was a little bit of a fail from my part. But the past is the past and this week I’m going to be study focused. Not that I need to study, but I really need to rework my study technique. I’ve been going on like a classical...
Posts on Made of...
Write testable code by writing generic code Alex Gaynor recently asked this question in an IRC channel I hang out in (a channel which contains...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Alex Gaynor recently asked this question in an IRC channel I hang out in (a channel which contains several software engineers nearly as obsessed with software testing as I am): uhh, so I’m writing some code to handle an econnreset… how do I test this? This is a good question!...
Birchtree
The “Bluesky feels like early Twitter!” vibe Bluesky has the juice right now, and while it’s slowed down a bit this week, they were adding over 1...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
Bluesky has the juice right now, and while it’s slowed down a bit this week, they were adding over 1 million users a day for a bit last week. One sentiment I’m hearing a lot recently is that Bluely “feels like early Twitter,” which
Lighthouse Blog
Updates November 4: Free newsletter to RSS tool
a month ago
Willem's Blog
Repairing a Nintendo Gameboy Advance SP Reparing an old Nintendo Gameboy Advance to play classic Zelda again.
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Ludum Dare 29 Entry After months of procrastination it is time for me to enter Ludum Dare again! I am totally...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
After months of procrastination it is time for me to enter Ludum Dare again! I am totally unprepared, but I did setup a setup which actually compiles. I never got audio to run but hopefully I can manage something. Repository: https://github.com/treeman/LD29. Going for C++ this...
Willem's Blog
Refining my tablet OS experience Installing Debian GNU/Linux on a Surface Go 2 with LTE/4G to replace my iPad Pro as daily driver.
over a year ago
Arduino Blog
Let’s play at the Maker Faire Rome 2024! We are excited to be back at Maker Faire Rome as a Gold Sponsor of the 12th edition (October 25-27,...
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We are excited to be back at Maker Faire Rome as a Gold Sponsor of the 12th edition (October 25-27, 2024), with some exciting experiences lined up for all makers, innovators, and creators who attend! Learn by playing at our booth  Visit us at the fair for a playful, interactive...
Good Enough
Season 3, Issue 4: Cosmic Staggering Tortoises 1. Weekly Studio Update Hello. We're going to try doing this newsletter thing regularly. The...
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1. Weekly Studio Update Hello. We're going to try doing this newsletter thing regularly. The ambitious goal is to write you a lovely letter every week. Aim for the moon, right? But wait, if you aim for the moon, how in this physical world can you possibly hit a star by...
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From hours to seconds: AI tools to detect animal calls If you’re currently spending time listening to long audio recordings of birdcalls or animal noises,...
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If you’re currently spending time listening to long audio recordings of birdcalls or animal noises, it’s likely that the last four years of…
Jordan’s Substack
On Building Git for Lawyers Over this past weekend, Twitter discovered the problem that I have dedicated the past four years of...
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a month ago
Over this past weekend, Twitter discovered the problem that I have dedicated the past four years of my life to solving. Why don't lawyers and other non-coders use git?
Notes on software...
A minimal RocksDB example with Zig I mostly programmed in Go the last few years. So every time I wanted an embedded key-value database,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I mostly programmed in Go the last few years. So every time I wanted an embedded key-value database, I reached for Cockroach's Pebble. Pebble is great for Go programming but Go does not embed well into other languages. Pebble was inspired by RocksDB (and its...
Birchtree
Yet more YouTube videos I've enjoyed recently I guess this is a series now… Do you have a chair where "half dirty" clothes go? If so, this chair...
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I guess this is a series now… Do you have a chair where "half dirty" clothes go? If so, this chair will be very compelling. I'm not a big fan of most Apple TV+ shows, but Severance was lovely and I can't wait
Jonas Hietala
Bitcoin's security isn't binary I’d like to address a misconception that’s at the core in many Bitcoin discussions lately: Bitcoin’s...
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I’d like to address a misconception that’s at the core in many Bitcoin discussions lately: Bitcoin’s security isn’t binary. In fact security in general isn’t black and white. It’s a trade-off being secure enough for your threat model vs the cost and feasibility of your...
Simply Explained
My Sixth Year as YouTube Creator (statistics + retrospective) Every new year I reflect on the previous year and set new goals. Last year has been my most...
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over a year ago
Every new year I reflect on the previous year and set new goals. Last year has been my most successful year on YouTube so far, and I'd like to share some statistics and thoughts. I will also go over how my email newsletter is doing and where I'm headed. And finally, I'll set...
Willem's Blog
The joy of a simple laptop This week I tested the Surface Laptop Go with Windows 10 and quite frankly was amazed by the...
over a year ago
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This week I tested the Surface Laptop Go with Windows 10 and quite frankly was amazed by the experience!
Engineers Need Art
VPX Scripting - Part 6 (End Sound) This post wraps up the sound work on Teacher's Pet.
8 months ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
On Medium-of-Exchange Token Valuations
over a year ago
Notes on software...
Enumerating and analyzing 40+ non-V8 JavaScript implementations V8 is, I'm sure, the most used implementation of JavaScript today. Used in Chrome, (and by...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
V8 is, I'm sure, the most used implementation of JavaScript today. Used in Chrome, (and by extension) Microsoft Edge, Node.js, etc. Safari's JavaScriptCore and Firefox's SpiderMonkey are also contenders for extremely mainstream implementations. But what else is out there? What if...
Lighthouse Blog
Updates May 24
7 months ago
Applied Cartography
VC does not guarantee PMF Two companies that I started following (with no small amount of envy) back in 2021: Hype (fka Pico)...
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Two companies that I started following (with no small amount of envy) back in 2021: Hype (fka Pico) sold to an MMA-themed holdco earlier this year. Raised a $4.5m seed from Stripe and Bloomberg Beta and a $10m Series A; crossed the finish line at $200K ARR after eight years. Stir...
Willem's Blog
Building the blog... in style! Find out if it is possible to turn a computer from the 90s into a modern development machine.
over a year ago
Louwrentius
RAID 5 vs. RAID 6 or do you care about your data? Storage is cheap. Lots of storage with 10+ hard drives is still cheap. Running 10 drives increases...
over a year ago
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Storage is cheap. Lots of storage with 10+ hard drives is still cheap. Running 10 drives increases the risk of a drive failure tenfold. So often RAID 5 is used to keep your data up and running if one single disks fails. But disks are so cheap and storage arrays are getting so...
Home on Erik...
Nearest neighbors and vector models – part 2 – algorithms and data structures This is a blog post rewritten from a presentation at NYC Machine Learning on Sep 17. It covers a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is a blog post rewritten from a presentation at NYC Machine Learning on Sep 17. It covers a library called Annoy that I have built that helps you do nearest neighbor queries in high dimensional spaces.
Applied Cartography
Keeping a technical edge Someone emailed me in response to Two years as an independent technologist, in which I wrote: I miss...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Someone emailed me in response to Two years as an independent technologist, in which I wrote: I miss of being at a large company, which is dealing with deeply cutting-edge technical problems, but my ability to analyze information, make decisions, and perform at a high-level has...
Arduino Blog
Synjets provide non-contact haptic feedback If the COVID pandemic showed us anything, it is that our public spaces are overflowing with...
7 months ago
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If the COVID pandemic showed us anything, it is that our public spaces are overflowing with opportunity for germ transmission. In 2019, most people didn’t think twice about touching a gas pump handle or an ATM touchscreen, but it quickly became apparent that such contact presents...
Yazin Alirhayim
The Meem app: it sucks If you’re a “digital only” bank like Meem, the app your customers use is all they see: it’s like a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you’re a “digital only” bank like Meem, the app your customers use is all they see: it’s like a virtual 🏦 branch. That’s fitting, because you know what my impression of meem is as a user? When I open up their app, it feels like walking into a crowded butcher shop, with...
computers are bad
2024-09-26 the GE switched services network We currently find ourselves in something of a series, working our way from private lines to...
2 months ago
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We currently find ourselves in something of a series, working our way from private lines to large private line systems like the four-wire private-line national warning system. Let's continue to build on the concept of the private line into large corporate systems. In principle, a...
Arduino Blog
Easily build an energy meter with the Arduino Nano Matter The primary appeal of microcontrollers is their versatility. They are, essentially, the embedded...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
The primary appeal of microcontrollers is their versatility. They are, essentially, the embedded equivalent of computers — general purpose devices that can perform a wide range of functions. And to get the most out of a microcontroller, you’ll also want connectivity suitable for...
Arduino Blog
Galco goes Platinum! Welcome our newest SIPP Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Madison Heights, Michigan, Galco is a leading e-commerce...
7 months ago
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Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Madison Heights, Michigan, Galco is a leading e-commerce distributor that specializes in providing a wide range of industrial and commercial electrical and electronic products, focusing on maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO).  Known for...
Simply Explained
Migrating This Blog From Jekyll to Eleventy Jekyll has been powering this site for many years now. It replaced my WordPress setup, and I haven't...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Jekyll has been powering this site for many years now. It replaced my WordPress setup, and I haven't looked back. Over the last few months, I have become fed up with Jekyll. It's slowing me down. Time to replace it with something new and shiny!
Arduino Blog
A DIY bottle-labeling machine perfect for homebrewers While it is certainly possible (and common) to put homebrewed beer into kegs, that requires...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
While it is certainly possible (and common) to put homebrewed beer into kegs, that requires regulated gas and large refrigeration space. A keg is also more difficult to transport and overkill if you just want to bring a few beers to a friend’s backyard BBQ. For those reasons,...
Home on Erik...
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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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.
Matt Mullenweg
Bezos at Dealbook It looks like the Dealbook Summit had a number of great interviews this year, major props to Andrew...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
It looks like the Dealbook Summit had a number of great interviews this year, major props to Andrew Ross Sorkin, but this one with Jeff Bezos was particularly good.
Posts on Made of...
Lightweight Linux Kernel Development with KVM I don’t do a ton of Linux kernel development these days, but I’ve done a fair bit in the past, and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I don’t do a ton of Linux kernel development these days, but I’ve done a fair bit in the past, and picked up a number of useful techniques for doing kernel development in a relatively painless fashion. This blog post is a writeup of the tools and techniques I use when developing...
./techtipsy
So you need some tech tips... I’m an experienced software developer located in Estonia 🇪🇪🇪🇺 . I don’t simply get things done,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’m an experienced software developer located in Estonia 🇪🇪🇪🇺 . I don’t simply get things done, I get them done done. Here’s what I bring to the table: software development skillset building useful solutions monitoring, observability incident response I know how to use...
Ian's Blog
Securing Your GitHub Account Let's talk about some of the simple & practical steps you can take to improve your GitHub account...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Let's talk about some of the simple & practical steps you can take to improve your GitHub account security. There's plenty of good reasons why you should try to keep any online account safe, but I feel that GitHub deserves special attention among developers. With automation...
Jonas Hietala
Home office renovation When we moved back to our childhood community and bought a house I had one pretty big requirement: I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When we moved back to our childhood community and bought a house I had one pretty big requirement: I had to have a home office as I need to work remote. There simply isn’t any software development work for me here. So the later part of 2018 and early 2019 we’ve renovated an old...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Wealth distribution in the United States Forbes recently published the Forbes 400 List for 2024, listing the 400 richest people in the United...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Forbes recently published the Forbes 400 List for 2024, listing the 400 richest people in the United States. This inspired me to make a histogram to show the distribution of wealth in the United States. It turns out that if you put Elon Musk on the graph, almost the entire US...
Home on Erik...
Books I consumed in 2017 Turns out having a toddler isn't super compatible with reading. I used to read ~100 books/year as a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Turns out having a toddler isn't super compatible with reading. I used to read ~100 books/year as a teenager, but it has slowly deteriorated to maybe 20-30 books, at most. And I don't even finish all of them because life is too short!
Willem's Blog
Fixed Gear Gran Fondo Taking a fixed gear road bike for a gran fondo! Let some of my fun be of inspiration to you!
over a year ago
./techtipsy
VR, VFIO and how latency ruined everything I’ve been running my all-in-one PC for a while now. It was my desktop, my NAS and my gaming...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been running my all-in-one PC for a while now. It was my desktop, my NAS and my gaming PC. However, during the next couple of months I kept hitting small bumps along the road. Most of these were quite straightforward to fix, but there is one that finally convinced me to go...
Avestura's Blog
Hiding a photo inside another photo How to hide a small photo inside a larger photo?
over a year ago
computers are bad
2023-09-03 plastic money You will sometimes hear someone say, in a loose conceptual sense, that credit cards have money in...
a year ago
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a year ago
You will sometimes hear someone say, in a loose conceptual sense, that credit cards have money in them. Of course we know that that isn't the case; our modern plastic card payment network relies on online transactions where the balance tracking and authorization decisions happen...
Vitalik Buterin's...
DAOs are not corporations: where decentralization in autonomous organizations matters
over a year ago
Christian Selig
Juno 1.1 If you’re new, Juno is a visionOS app for YouTube! Juno’s initial launch blew my socks off. It was...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
If you’re new, Juno is a visionOS app for YouTube! Juno’s initial launch blew my socks off. It was such a cool feeling to release an app on day one of the Apple Vision Pro’s launch, and having people be so excited about it and have such great feedback made it that much better....
Electronics etc…
$17 GM1312 Thermometer Review, Test, and Teardown Introduction What is a thermocouple The GM1213 Thermometer A few...
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Introduction What is a thermocouple The GM1213 Thermometer A few tests Internals Conclusion References Introduction I’ve been doing a bunch of measurements on oven-controlled oscillators lately, including their temperature. There are multiple ways to measure...
Good Enough
Yes, Facebook Is Terrible, but Also… I’m not on Facebook. It was eight or ten years ago when I left for good. While there were some good...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’m not on Facebook. It was eight or ten years ago when I left for good. While there were some good and useful interactions, the algorithm brought me down, I didn’t have a lot of desire to keep up with old acquaintances, and hearing everyone’s political stance was not good for...
Buck on Software
23 things you should know 1: Management’s true confidence is reflected in how fast they are hiring
over a year ago
Matt Blewitt
Corporate Legibility for Software Engineers Corporate legibility is the art of making tasks, and their outcomes, easier to understand for those...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Corporate legibility is the art of making tasks, and their outcomes, easier to understand for those not directly involved. I’ll help you understand why this is an important thing to be aware of and how to use it to help your career.
Neil Madden
XSS doesn’t have to be game over There’s a persistent belief among web security people that cross-site scripting (XSS) is a “game...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There’s a persistent belief among web security people that cross-site scripting (XSS) is a “game over” event for defence: there is no effective way to recover if an attacker can inject code into your site. Brian Campbell refers to this as “XSS Nihilism”, which is a great...
Home on Erik...
The software engineering rule of 3 Here's a dumb extremely accurate rule I'm postulating* for software engineering projects: *you need...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Here's a dumb extremely accurate rule I'm postulating* for software engineering projects: *you need at least 3 examples before you solve the right problem*. This is what I've noticed: Don't factor out shared code between two classes.
Arduino Blog
Venderoo is an Arduino Mega-powered DIY vending machine For now-college student Joel Grayson, making something that combined his interests in mechanics,...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
For now-college student Joel Grayson, making something that combined his interests in mechanics, electronics, and programming while being simultaneously useful to those around him was a longtime goal. His recent Venderoo project is exactly that, as the creatively named vending...
latest projects -...
Hand-cranked Flux Capacitor [Concept] Control the flow of time
a year ago
Louwrentius
Improving iSCSI Native Multi Pathing Round Robin performance 10 Gb ethernet is still quite expensive. You not only need to buy appropriate NICS, but you must...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
10 Gb ethernet is still quite expensive. You not only need to buy appropriate NICS, but you must also upgrade your network hardware as well. You may even need to replace existing fiber optic cabling if it's not rated for 10 Gbit. So I decided to still just go for plain old 1...
Gwern.net Newsletter
May 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter links on AI hardware, diffusion models, optogenetics, brain scanning.
over a year ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
On Radical Markets
over a year ago
Arduino Blog
This frighteningly realistic animatronic head features expressive silicone skin The human face is remarkably complex, with 43 different muscles contorting the skin in all kinds of...
a week ago
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a week ago
The human face is remarkably complex, with 43 different muscles contorting the skin in all kinds of ways. Some of that is utilitarian — your jaw muscles are good for chewing, after all. But a lot of it seems to be the result of evolution giving us fantastic non-verbal...
Home on Erik...
Interviewing is a noisy prediction problem I have done roughly 2,000 interviews in my life. When I started recruiting, I had so much confidence...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I have done roughly 2,000 interviews in my life. When I started recruiting, I had so much confidence in my ability to assess people. Let me just throw a couple of algorithm questions at a candidate and then I'll tell you if they are good or not!
Notes on software...
How to get better at recursion tldr; reimplement standard library functions in your favorite language without loops. Background For...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
tldr; reimplement standard library functions in your favorite language without loops. Background For a few years after college I spent a lot of free time doing projects in Standard ML and Scheme. As a result I got really comfortable doing recursion. The two big reasons for this...
Posts on Made of...
Disable Transparent Hugepages tl;dr “Transparent Hugepages” is a Linux kernel feature intended to improve performance by making...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
tl;dr “Transparent Hugepages” is a Linux kernel feature intended to improve performance by making more efficient use of your processor’s memory-mapping hardware. It is enabled ("enabled=always") by default in most Linux distributions. Transparent Hugepages gives some applications...
Vitalik Buterin's...
預測市場:一個選舉小故事(2021年 二月)
over a year ago
Engineers Need Art
SystemSix SystemSix is a desk calendar project that displays the weather forecast and phase of the moon on an...
over a year ago
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SystemSix is a desk calendar project that displays the weather forecast and phase of the moon on an e-ink display.
Vitalik Buterin's...
Prediction Markets: Tales from the Election
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Rewriting my blog in Rust for fun and profit Background I’ve used Hakyll as my static site generator for around 9 years now. Before that I think...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Background I’ve used Hakyll as my static site generator for around 9 years now. Before that I think I used Jekyll and also more dynamic pages with Mojolicious in Perl and Kohana in PHP, but I can’t be completely sure as the git history doesn’t go back that far. But all good...
Good Enough
Having Trouble Getting Started? Pair Up! A body at rest tends to stay at rest, and a body in motion tends to stay in motion, unless acted on...
a year ago
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a year ago
A body at rest tends to stay at rest, and a body in motion tends to stay in motion, unless acted on by a net external force. Sir Isaac Newton I often find that just getting started is the hardest part of doing something. This is especially true when the project is large or...
Arduino Blog
This perplexing robotic performer operates under the control of three different Arduino boards Every decade or two, humanity seems to develop a renewed interest in humanoid robots and their...
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Every decade or two, humanity seems to develop a renewed interest in humanoid robots and their potential within our world. Because the practical applications are actually pretty limited (given the high cost), we inevitably begin to consider how those robots might function as...
Jonas Hietala
Minecraft Server Hosting I play the phenomena that is Minecraft on and off. Sometimes the laid back building or the exploring...
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I play the phenomena that is Minecraft on and off. Sometimes the laid back building or the exploring is just what I need. Sometimes I can challange myself to build cool complex stuff and I’m even an avid follower of Doc’M and Etho and the other mindcrackers over at the youtube....
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MicroTimes Interviews the Head Honchos of Silicon Graphics (1989) Ed McCracken and Jim Clark talk about their hardware and the future of 3D
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Matt Blewitt
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...
a year ago
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a year ago
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...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Why Proof of Stake (Nov 2020)
over a year ago
Simply Explained
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...
over a year ago
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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...
Construction Physics
Born Sleeping A personal post about the loss of our son
3 months ago
Posts on Made of...
Some musings on ORMs I’m pretty sure every developer who has ever worked with a modern database-backed application,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’m pretty sure every developer who has ever worked with a modern database-backed application, particularly a web-app, has a love/hate relationship with their ORM, or object-relational mapper. On the one hand, ORMs are vastly more pleasant to work with than code that constructs...
Christian Selig
My little Apple Vision Pro stand I want somewhere to put my Vision Pro when not in use. Many people use the original box, and there’s...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
I want somewhere to put my Vision Pro when not in use. Many people use the original box, and there’s beautiful stands that exist out there, but I was looking for something more compact and vertical so it would take up less room on my desk. So I opened Fusion 360 (which I am still...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Alternatives to selling at below-market-clearing prices for achieving fairness (or community...
over a year ago
Applied Cartography
Notes from April Welcome to spring, bona fide and humid. Lots of writing this month: I wrote about spending the past...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Welcome to spring, bona fide and humid. Lots of writing this month: I wrote about spending the past two years as an independent technologist. On the media side of things: brief words on Murderville (meh), The Parallax View (incredible), This is Personal (meh), Cribsheet...
Home on Erik...
What is your motivation? I've been trying to learn Clojure. I keep telling people I meet that I really want to learn Clojure,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've been trying to learn Clojure. I keep telling people I meet that I really want to learn Clojure, but still every night I can't get myself to spend time with it. It's unclear if I really want to learn Clojure or just want to have learned Clojure?
Notes on software...
Exploring a Postgres query plan I learned this week that you can intercept and redirect Postgres query execution. You can hook into...
a year ago
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a year ago
I learned this week that you can intercept and redirect Postgres query execution. You can hook into the execution layer so you're given a query plan and you get to decide what to do with it. What rows to return, if any, and where they come from. That's very interesting. So I...
Posts on Made of...
Measuring Capacity Through Utilization (This post is cross-posted from Honeycomb’s instrumentation series). One of my favorite concepts...
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over a year ago
(This post is cross-posted from Honeycomb’s instrumentation series). One of my favorite concepts when thinking about instrumenting a system to understand its overall performance and capacity is what I call “time utilization”. By this I mean: If you look at the behavior of a...
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The secret lives of snowblowers Yes, they throw snow. But the mechanical design of residential snowblowers is more interesting than...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Yes, they throw snow. But the mechanical design of residential snowblowers is more interesting than it seems.
Arduino Blog
Meet Mr. Wallplate, an animatronic wall plate that speaks to you Interactive robots always bring an element of intrigue, and even more so when they feature unusual...
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Interactive robots always bring an element of intrigue, and even more so when they feature unusual parts and techniques to perform their actions. Mr. Wallplate, affectionately named by Tony K on Instructables, is one such robot that is contained within an electrical wall plate...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Christmas Special
over a year ago
./techtipsy
Database optimization adventures on low-end hardware I used to work on a short-term project a while ago where the goal was to visualize some metrics that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I used to work on a short-term project a while ago where the goal was to visualize some metrics that were collected from a pretty fancy smart home setup. This data included power usage of various sections of the building, temperature sensors, water usage levels and more. The data...
Home on Erik...
Why I went into the mortgage industry I just realized last Thursday that I have spent two full years at Better, incidentally on the same...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I just realized last Thursday that I have spent two full years at Better, incidentally on the same day as we announced a $15M round led by Kleiner Perkins. So it was a good point to reflect a bit and think back – what the F led me to abandon my role managing the machine learning...
Gwern.net Newsletter
April 2021 newsletter with links on AI scaling, particular new East Asian record-breaking work & deep reinforcement...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
with links on AI scaling, particular new East Asian record-breaking work & deep reinforcement learning.
Arduino Blog
7 powerful ways to integrate Collaborative Coding into education with the Arduino Cloud Collaborative coding in education can be a game-changer for students, providing them with real-world...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Collaborative coding in education can be a game-changer for students, providing them with real-world skills in communication, teamwork, and problem-solving. With the new collaborating coding feature of the Arduino Cloud, students can collaborate in real time on coding projects,...
Jonas Hietala
Trying and returning the Eight Sleep Pod 4 I recently bought the Eight Sleep Pod 4—a smart mattress cover that tracks your heart rate, HRV,...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
I recently bought the Eight Sleep Pod 4—a smart mattress cover that tracks your heart rate, HRV, snoring, and cools or warms the mattress during the night. There’s a lot to like about the mattress but in the end I opted to return it. This post describes my experience with the Pod...
Applied Cartography
Meta's two assets (Epistemic disclaimer: there are few Extremely Big Tech Companies to whom I feel apathy more vividly...
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(Epistemic disclaimer: there are few Extremely Big Tech Companies to whom I feel apathy more vividly than Meta. I had a Facebook account in high school and college and got rid of it at some point post-graduation, though I'd be hard-pressed to tell you when exactly that was.) It...
Vitalik Buterin's...
On Free Speech
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Language spec in code blocks Even though I just recently restyled the blog and wasn’t going to touch it, there was one thing I...
a year ago
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a year ago
Even though I just recently restyled the blog and wasn’t going to touch it, there was one thing I wanted to add, but it felt a little bothersome so I skipped it. It was to display the highlighted language in code blocks: The code spec displays what programming language the code...
Good Enough
Let's talk about conversations If you subscribe to our newsletter — which you do, right? — then you'll know that recently we've...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
If you subscribe to our newsletter — which you do, right? — then you'll know that recently we've been thinking about conversations. We're a small group making fun software for people, and we like to have conversations with those people; the lovely folks who like our take on...
Arduino Blog
Storing ephemeral micropoetry on RFID cards for bite-sized readings Most people don’t consume poetry in the same way that they do novels. Instead of reading a book of...
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Most people don’t consume poetry in the same way that they do novels. Instead of reading a book of poetry from cover-to-cover over the course of a few sessions, the majority of people seem to prefer enjoying poetry in occasional little chunks. And unlike the epic poems of Greek...
Avestura's Blog
How to change visibility in massive GitHub organizations like EpicGames? How to publicize and un-publicize your visibility in massive GitHub orgs?
over a year ago
Home on Erik...
Deep learning for... chess I've been meaning to learn Theano for a while and I've also wanted to build a chess AI at some...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've been meaning to learn Theano for a while and I've also wanted to build a chess AI at some point. So why not combine the two? That's what I thought, and I ended up spending way too much time on it.
Applied Cartography
PSA: mess around with Keystatic We've been using Keystatic in Buttondown for around six months now: we migrated most of the content...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
We've been using Keystatic in Buttondown for around six months now: we migrated most of the content on the marketing site (which is backed by Next) from MDX onto Keystatic, and were so happy with the experience that the upcoming rebuild of the docs site will be featuring...
Bryan Braun - Blog
Why we prefer computers over consoles when introducing kids to gaming I grew up gaming on consoles like Nintendo 64 and Gamecube. I have a lot of fond memories playing...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
I grew up gaming on consoles like Nintendo 64 and Gamecube. I have a lot of fond memories playing games with my brothers on those devices. But as my own kids have gotten older, my wife and I have decided to first introduce them to gaming with computers, instead of consoles. The...
Lighthouse Blog
Updates September 30: UI/UX
2 months ago
On Life and Lisp
OpenGL 3.1 on Asahi Linux Upgrade your Asahi Linux systems, because your graphics drivers are getting a big boost:...
a year ago
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a year ago
Upgrade your Asahi Linux systems, because your graphics drivers are getting a big boost: leapfrogging from OpenGL 2.1 over OpenGL 3.0 up to OpenGL 3.1! Similarly, the OpenGL ES 2.0 support is bumping up to OpenGL ES 3.0. That means more playable games and more functioning...
Simply Explained
How I Built an NFC Movie Library for my Kids When I was a kid, my sister and I had a tower of VHS tapes we watched endlessly. Fast-forward to...
a year ago
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a year ago
When I was a kid, my sister and I had a tower of VHS tapes we watched endlessly. Fast-forward to today, and my children's movie collection is vastly different. It's completely digital and dispersed across services. I wanted to recreate the tangible magic of my childhood for them.
Computer Ads from...
Oberon International' Omni-Reader Audio Engineers announce a revolution in taking words from page to your computer
5 days ago
Louwrentius
Compiling Multicore PAR2 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin If you want to compile PAR2 with multicore support on Linux, it may not work right away from source....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you want to compile PAR2 with multicore support on Linux, it may not work right away from source. I used this version of PAR2 with multicore support. Update 2015: the original link is dead, I foud a copy of the source and put it on my own site here for you to download. First,...
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Why some engineers get trusted with high-impact work It’s fun and rewarding to work on critical tasks. But there’s only so much important work to go...
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21 hours ago
It’s fun and rewarding to work on critical tasks. But there’s only so much important work to go around. Worse still, the chances to work on…
Vitalik Buterin's...
Exploring circle STARKs
5 months ago
csvbase blog
My favourite API is a zipfile on the European Central Bank's website Simple data pipeline powertools: sqlite, pandas, gnuplot and friends
a year ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
In Defense of Bitcoin Maximalism
over a year ago
Louwrentius
'Tool of the month: iftop - advanced bandwidth monitoring' The utility iftop allows you to monitor bandwidth usage. It is in some sense similar to tools like...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The utility iftop allows you to monitor bandwidth usage. It is in some sense similar to tools like iptraf, dstat and bwm-ng. Iftop is more special than those. Because iftop lets you monitor the speed of individual TCP / UDP connections. Basically, you will be able to determine...
Louwrentius
Why you should not use IPsec for VPN connectivity IPsec is a well-known and widely-used VPN solution. It seems that it's not widely known that Niels...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
IPsec is a well-known and widely-used VPN solution. It seems that it's not widely known that Niels Ferguson and Bruce Schneier performed a detailed security analysis of IPsec and that the results were not very positive. We strongly discourage the use of IPsec in its current form...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Understanding PLONK
over a year ago
anderegg.ca
More details on Bluesky’s subscription plan Update: I had missed this, but the Bluesky team had already announced a subscription model was on...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Update: I had missed this, but the Bluesky team had already announced a subscription model was on the way. I had written this article assuming that was the news. What is new is the work happening on their official apps, which contains details on features and potential pricing. An...
Louwrentius
HP Proliant Microserver N40L is a great NAS or Router Update 2012-12-11: It seems that a new and faster version is on the horizon. Update 2012-12-21:...
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Update 2012-12-11: It seems that a new and faster version is on the horizon. Update 2012-12-21: Yes, the new model G7 N54L is out. Some products seem almost too good to be true and I think the HP Proliant Microserver N40L is one of them. If you are into the market for a very...
Christian Selig
Trials and tribulations of 360° video in Juno In building Juno, a visionOS app for YouTube, a question that’s come up from users a few times is...
10 months ago
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In building Juno, a visionOS app for YouTube, a question that’s come up from users a few times is whether it supports 360° and 180° videos (for the unfamiliar, it’s an immersive video format that fully surrounds you). The short answer is no, it’s sort of a niche feature without...
Notes on software...
Building a fast SCSS-like rule expander for CSS using fuzzy parsing This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 2: The Surge
2 months ago
Birchtree
The future simply has more computers (members post) Glasses and headsets and computers, oh my! Why the future continues to be all about adding computers...
5 days ago
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5 days ago
Glasses and headsets and computers, oh my! Why the future continues to be all about adding computers to our lives, not replacing anything.
computers are bad
2023-08-07 STIRred AND SHAKEN In a couple of days, I pack up my bags to head for DEFCON. In a rare moment of pre-planning, perhaps...
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a year ago
In a couple of days, I pack up my bags to head for DEFCON. In a rare moment of pre-planning, perhaps spurred by boredom, I looked through the schedule to see what's in store in the world of telephony. There is a workshop on SS7, of course [1], plenty of content on cellular, but...
Yazin Alirhayim
Getting started with Flutter It used to be that you needed to know Kotlin and Swift to develop apps for both Android and iOS, but...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It used to be that you needed to know Kotlin and Swift to develop apps for both Android and iOS, but those days are long gone. Even the fundamental reasons for doing so have changed — some sort of compromise between performance and speed to deployment. React Native apps were...
axio.ms
Colourclock Original concept circa 2008, revisited 2012, hardware designed Feb 2014, firmware designed...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Original concept circa 2008, revisited 2012, hardware designed Feb 2014, firmware designed April-August 2014, project completed August 2014, installed in spare room in 2016, written up in March 2018 (jeeez…) Acrylic, LEDs, ARM Cortex-M0 microcontroller. ...
Home on Erik...
Black Box Machine Learning in the Cloud There's a bunch of companies working on machine learning as a service. Some old companies like...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There's a bunch of companies working on machine learning as a service. Some old companies like Google, but now also Amazon and Microsoft. Then there's a ton of startups: PredictionIO ($2.7M funding), BigML ($1.6M funding), Clarifai, etc, etc.
Posts on Made of...
Software Engineers should keep lab notebooks Software engineers, as a rule, suck at writing things down. Part of this is training – unlike...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Software engineers, as a rule, suck at writing things down. Part of this is training – unlike chemists and biologists who are trailed to obsessively document everything they do in their lab notebooks, computer scientists are taught to document the end results of their work, but...
Jonas Hietala
The killer features of the Steam Deck In the beginning of the year I gave myself a late Christmas gift and bought a Steam Deck for...
a year ago
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a year ago
In the beginning of the year I gave myself a late Christmas gift and bought a Steam Deck for myself. There were two main reasons I decided to buy it: burnout and depression by picking up gaming again. And boy did it deliver. The Deck is probably the most impressive thing I can...
Home on Erik...
Software infrastructure 2.0: a wishlist Software infrastructure (by which I include everything ending with *aaS, or anything remotely...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Software infrastructure (by which I include everything ending with *aaS, or anything remotely similar to it) is an exciting field, in particular because (despite what the neo-luddites may say) it keeps getting better every year! I love working with something that moves so...
Engineers Need Art
VPX Scripting - Part 2 (Linting) The second in a series of posts about scripting Visual Pinball tables.
8 months ago
Simply Explained
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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Making Ethereum alignment legible
2 months ago
Neil Madden
Multiple input MACs When working with Message Authentication Codes (MACs), you often need to authenticate not just a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When working with Message Authentication Codes (MACs), you often need to authenticate not just a single string, but multiple fields of data. For example, when creating an authenticated encryption mode by composing a cipher and a MAC (like AES-CBC and HMAC), you need to ensure the...
Neil Madden
Some incomplete thoughts about Gödel I saw another article on Gödel’s incompleteness theorems linked from Reddit today. It’s a topic I’ve...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I saw another article on Gödel’s incompleteness theorems linked from Reddit today. It’s a topic I’ve wanted to write about for some time. Although many articles do a decent job in giving an idea of what the big deal is (and this one is pretty good), they can sometimes give a...
./techtipsy
Testing GPU passthrough on AMD Ryzen 7 5700G APU Introduction Before we jump into all the nitty-gritty details, I’d like to go over what we are...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Introduction Before we jump into all the nitty-gritty details, I’d like to go over what we are dealing with here since these topics may be unfamiliar to you. VFIO is quite a niche topic and not everyone knows about it. GPU passthrough: the process of allowing a VM...
Notes on software...
On NYC, Tokyo and Seoul I’ve lived in NYC for the past year — moved here after years in Philly and after growing up in a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve lived in NYC for the past year — moved here after years in Philly and after growing up in a rural community a few hours west of there. My wife is South Korean and last week concluded my second trip to the suburbs of Seoul to visit her family. We finished up that trip with a...
Notes on software...
Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 1. lisp to assembly Next in compiler basics: 2. user-defined functions and variables 3. LLVM 4. LLVM...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Next in compiler basics: 2. user-defined functions and variables 3. LLVM 4. LLVM conditionals and compiling fibonacci 5. LLVM system calls 6. an x86 upgrade In this post we'll write a simple compiler in Javascript (on Node) without any third-party libraries....
Christian Selig
Introducing Tiny Storage: a small, lightweight UserDefaults replacement Hey I'm a developer not an artist Following my last blog post about difficulties surrounding...
2 months ago
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Hey I'm a developer not an artist Following my last blog post about difficulties surrounding UserDefaults and edge cases that lead to data loss (give it a read if you haven’t, it’s an important precursor to this post!), I wanted to build something small and lightweight that...
Matt Blewitt
Table Stakes This is a short post on what I see are table stakes for any new user-facing service, security-wise....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is a short post on what I see are table stakes for any new user-facing service, security-wise. Mostly focused on user-focused, rather than intra-service, considerations.
csvbase blog
There are 665 open licences, most are pretty rubbish you are in a maze of twisty licences, all alike
3 months ago
Louwrentius
The security risk of vendor-supplied default SSL certificates Often, software comes supplied with some default SSL certificate, for testing purposes, such as...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Often, software comes supplied with some default SSL certificate, for testing purposes, such as those 'snake oil' certificates (they are called snake oil certificates for a reason). In practice, I often encounter usage of such certificates. People may seem to think that as long...
Arduino Blog
Transform trash into treasure with the DIY Bottle Plotter Manufacturers put a lot of effort into their packaging (there is an entire engineering discipline...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Manufacturers put a lot of effort into their packaging (there is an entire engineering discipline just for that) and some of it can be quite beautiful. But it usually still ends up in the landfill or, at best, in a recycling center. However, if you’re the type of person who can...
Birchtree
Squashing links on social media Anil Dash: “Link in Bio” Is a Slow Knife For a closed system, those kinds of open connections are...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Anil Dash: “Link in Bio” Is a Slow Knife For a closed system, those kinds of open connections are deeply dangerous. If anyone on Instagram can just link to any old store on the web, how can Instagram — meaning Facebook, Instagram’s increasingly-overbearing owner — tightly
Electronics etc…
Measuring the HP 11720A Pulse Modulator and Coax Cables Introduction What is a pulse modulator and what are they used for? The HP 11720A Pulse...
a year ago
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Introduction What is a pulse modulator and what are they used for? The HP 11720A Pulse Modulator Inside the HP 11720A Measurement Setup for a Quick Testing Session Pin Modulator Power Measurements with HP 432A Cable Loss Measurements with HP 432A Cable Power Measurements with...
Lighthouse Blog
How to manually add content to read it later
6 months ago
Posts on Made of...
A Brief Introduction to termios If you’re a regular user of the terminal on a UNIX system, there are probably a large number of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you’re a regular user of the terminal on a UNIX system, there are probably a large number of behaviors you take mostly for granted without really thinking about them. If you press ^C or ^Z it kills or stops the foreground program – unless it’s something like emacs or vim, in...
Jonas Hietala
Making a Game Again? I’ve gotta do a lab today at school, tomorrow I need to do the exam I missed when I had my...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve gotta do a lab today at school, tomorrow I need to do the exam I missed when I had my glasses-missing headaches and I’m going to Ikea and some other shops for, you guessed it, shopping! Sure it’s fun and sure I need to do these things but the only thing on my mind now is...
Computer Ads from...
1988 Interview Between Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems and MicroTimes Scott McNealy talks about Sun Microsystems, RISC, UNIX, and NeXT
6 months ago
computers are bad
2023-06-30 calling in the alarm I currently find myself on vacation in the Canadian Rockies, where internet is hard to come by. But...
a year ago
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a year ago
I currently find myself on vacation in the Canadian Rockies, where internet is hard to come by. But here's something short while I'm temporarily back in the warm embrace of 5G: more about burglar alarms. I recently gave a presentation on this topic and I'll probably record it for...
Willem's Blog
Talking tablets: what makes a great tablet? Over the past few weeks I worked with Microsoft Surface Pro X to see if it is any good, can it be...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Over the past few weeks I worked with Microsoft Surface Pro X to see if it is any good, can it be your main computer?
Computer Ads from...
Plus Post: Quantum Software Systems Ltd's QNX Operating Systems Come in Many Flavors But QNX Can Take the Heat
8 months ago
Posts on Made of...
Testing and feedback loops Testing and feedback loops This post tries to set out one mental model I have for thinking about...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Testing and feedback loops This post tries to set out one mental model I have for thinking about testing and the purpose testing serves in software engineering, and to explore some of the suggestions of this model. As mentioned in an earlier post, I think a lot about working in...
Computer Ads from...
Page 6 Magazine Interviews the Godfather of Adventure Games, Scott Adams Scott McNealy talks about Sun Microsystems, RISC, UNIX, and NeXT
4 months ago
Gwern.net Newsletter
September 2020 News September 2020 gwern.net newsletter with links on DRL and AI scaling, psychiatric disorders; no...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
September 2020 gwern.net newsletter with links on DRL and AI scaling, psychiatric disorders; no reviews.
Arduino Blog
This Strandbeest-style coffee table can deliver drinks More than 30 years ago, Dutch artist Theo Jansen began astounding the world with his Strandbeesten...
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More than 30 years ago, Dutch artist Theo Jansen began astounding the world with his Strandbeesten walking sculptures. Even after decades, they have an almost mythical allure thanks to the incredibly fluid way in which they walk. They’re clearly constructs, but with gaits that...
Good Enough
TIL: Turbo Stream broadcasting needs default_url_options to be set We've been using Turbo Streams in some of our recent prototypes, which makes it really easy and fun...
a year ago
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a year ago
We've been using Turbo Streams in some of our recent prototypes, which makes it really easy and fun to get responsive and fun interactions set up. However, we kept having issues with images sent in a turbo stream response. If the response was delivered by a normal controller...
latest projects -...
LED Matrix Earrings [Hardware] Itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow dot-matrix LED
10 months ago
csvbase blog
DuckDB isn't just fast A whistlestop tour of the cool bits of DuckDB
6 months ago
Notes on software...
Exploring Postgres's arena allocator by writing an HTTP server from scratch This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
a month ago
Notes on software...
SMTP protocol basics from scratch in Go: receiving email from Gmail I've never run my own mail server before. Before today I had no clue how email worked under the hood...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've never run my own mail server before. Before today I had no clue how email worked under the hood other than the very few times I've set up mail clients. I've heard no few times how hard it is to send mail from a self-hosted server (because of spam filters). But how hard can...
Notes on software...
Exploring PL/pgSQL part two: implementing a Forth-like interpreter Previously in exploring PL/pgSQL: Strings, arrays, recursion and parsing JSON In my last post I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Previously in exploring PL/pgSQL: Strings, arrays, recursion and parsing JSON In my last post I walked through the basics of PL/pgSQL, the embedded procedural language inside of PostgreSQL. It covered simple functions, recursions and parsing. But there was something very...
Neil Madden
Macaroon access tokens for OAuth: Part 2 – transactional auth In part 1, I showed how Macaroon access tokens in ForgeRock Access Management 7.0 can be used as a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In part 1, I showed how Macaroon access tokens in ForgeRock Access Management 7.0 can be used as a lightweight and easy-to-deploy alternative to proof of possession (PoP) schemes for securing tokens in browser-based apps. The same techniques can be adapted to secure tokens in...
Notes on software...
Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 2. user-defined functions and variables Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 3. LLVM 4. LLVM conditionals and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 3. LLVM 4. LLVM conditionals and compiling fibonacci 5. LLVM system calls 6. an x86 upgrade In this post we'll extend the compiler to support defining functions and variables. Additionally, we'll require the...
Posts on Made of...
Two Perspectives on the End-to-End Principle Back when I was an undergraduate, as part of a class called “Computer Systems Engineering”, we read...
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over a year ago
Back when I was an undergraduate, as part of a class called “Computer Systems Engineering”, we read numerous classic papers of systems design. I enjoyed and learned a great deal from many of these papers, but one that paper that has stuck with me in particular was Saltzer et al’s...
Louwrentius
ZFS: Performance and capacity impact of ashift=9 on 4K sector drives Update 2014-8-23: I was testing with ashift for my new NAS. The ashift=9 write performance...
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Update 2014-8-23: I was testing with ashift for my new NAS. The ashift=9 write performance deteriorated from 1.1 GB/s to 830 MB/s with just 16 TB of data on the pool. Also I noticed that resilvering was very slow. This is why I decided to abandon my 24 drive RAIDZ3...
Old Vintage...
xa (xa65) 2.4.1 A quick one: xa (xa65), André Fachat's compatible fast two-pass cross-assembler for 6502, 65C02,...
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A quick one: xa (xa65), André Fachat's compatible fast two-pass cross-assembler for 6502, 65C02, R65C02 and 65816 processors that André and I maintain is now at version 2.4.1. This optionally expands the syntax from 2.4.0 and fixes some bugs primarily with relocatable .o65...
Home on Erik...
Tumblr's awesome project names Not sure how I managed to miss this, but I'm watching this Tumblr presentation and they talk about...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Not sure how I managed to miss this, but I'm watching this Tumblr presentation and they talk about their projects named after Arrested Development topics: Gob, Parmesan, Buster, Jetpants, Oscar, George and Motherboy. Still, the best software project name is probably still Apple's...
Old Vintage...
What the KIM-1 really needs is an LCD screen Giving the 1976 1K RAM, 1MHz 6502-based KIM-1 single-board computer bubble memory storage was all...
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a year ago
Giving the 1976 1K RAM, 1MHz 6502-based KIM-1 single-board computer bubble memory storage was all well and good, but the basic unit is still just six numeric LEDs for its display. Let's solve that problem. Sure, you could hook up a serial terminal like the Silent 700 we used...
Simply Explained
Howto Virtualize Unraid on a Proxmox host Here's how to run Unraid as a virtual machine under Proxmox. This is useful when you're already...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Here's how to run Unraid as a virtual machine under Proxmox. This is useful when you're already using Proxmox and if you want to use Unraid as a NAS.
detreville
This is "detreville" It's my name, and the name of my Substack too. That's one less thing for everyone to remember.
a year ago
Willem's Blog
Wearing two watches Why you should wear two watches, don't choose between a mechanical watch and a smartwatch!
over a year ago
Louwrentius
I made my blog solar-powered, then things escalated In 2020 I wondered if I could run my blog on solar power, being inspired by Low-tech Magazine, doing...
a year ago
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a year ago
In 2020 I wondered if I could run my blog on solar power, being inspired by Low-tech Magazine, doing the same thing (but better)1. The answer was 'yes', but only through spring and summer. I live in an apartment complex in The Netherlands and my balcony is facing west. This...
Willem's Blog
The day I sold my car This week I sold my car, I now no longer own one. I look back at my years of owning a sports car, if...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This week I sold my car, I now no longer own one. I look back at my years of owning a sports car, if you're looking for a reason to buy one you should check this out.
Jonas Hietala
Friend of the Tree I just noticed I was recognized as a friend of the tree in a weekly meeting by the rust team. It...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I just noticed I was recognized as a friend of the tree in a weekly meeting by the rust team. It came during my documentation sprint during IDA Summer of Code and I discovered it now, only two and a half month later. Still a very pleasant surprise!
Notes on software...
AOT-compilation of Javascript with V8 tldr; I'm working on a AOT-compiled Javascript implementation called jsc. Many dynamically typed...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
tldr; I'm working on a AOT-compiled Javascript implementation called jsc. Many dynamically typed programming languages have implementations that compile to native binaries: Python: Cython Common Lisp: SBCL Scheme: Chicken Scheme The benefits of compiling dynamically typed...
Notes on software...
Notes on running Electron This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Trust Models
over a year ago
Construction Physics
Why the U.S. Can’t Build Icebreaking Ships I want to say thank you to all the people who sent condolences following last week’s post,...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
I want to say thank you to all the people who sent condolences following last week’s post, especially those who shared their own stories of loss.
computers are bad
2023-11-19 Centrex I have always been fascinated by the PABX - the private automatic branch exchange, often shortened...
a year ago
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a year ago
I have always been fascinated by the PABX - the private automatic branch exchange, often shortened to "PBX" in today's world where the "automatic" is implied. (Relatively) modern small and medium business PABXs of the type I like to collect are largely solid-state devices that...
Good Enough
Our Favorite Video Games Right Now While everyone at Good Enough is their own kind of nerd, thank you very much, as builders of the web...
a year ago
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a year ago
While everyone at Good Enough is their own kind of nerd, thank you very much, as builders of the web you probably expect that we also play video games. And we do! Well, collectively we do, but not to an unhealthy degree. Usually. I asked the team to share with me what their...
Arduino Blog
The Club Master is a Nano RP2040 Connect-powered device that improves your golf swing When playing golf, few things are as important as using the correct form when swinging, since even...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
When playing golf, few things are as important as using the correct form when swinging, since even small deviations can be the difference between a hole-in-one and additional strokes. To improve his game, Concept Bytes has designed a small clip-on device called the “Club Master.”...
Jonas Hietala
Let's create a Tree-sitter grammar One of my favorite features in Neovim is the Tree-sitter integration. It allows for fast syntax...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
One of my favorite features in Neovim is the Tree-sitter integration. It allows for fast syntax highlighting that works well even in an error state (often the case when you’re editing code), and it has additional semantics (you can differentiate between function parameters and...
Arduino Blog
Check out these Arduino-powered research projects from CHI 2024 Held in Hawaii this year, the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) hosted its annual conference...
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Held in Hawaii this year, the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) hosted its annual conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) that focuses on the latest developments in human-computer interaction. Students from universities all across the world attended the...
Bryan Braun - Blog
Unusual Git IDs You can search Github for unusual commit IDs: There are over 2k commits starting with...
a month ago
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a month ago
You can search Github for unusual commit IDs: There are over 2k commits starting with 0000000! While looking for commits like these, I started to become suspicious that people were intentionally modifying their commits IDs to be unusual: A commit ID of eeeeeee, with a message...
Old Vintage...
The W65C265SXB gets a SXY case Don't worry — my favourite single-board computer remains the 6502-based classic MOS/Commodore KIM-1,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Don't worry — my favourite single-board computer remains the 6502-based classic MOS/Commodore KIM-1, and I've got some future projects in the works. But these were recently on sale on Amazon and I couldn't resist getting a little sort-of RPi-sized SBC that runs the 16-bit 65816,...
Willem's Blog
Designing an interface for a food ordering page Designing a food ordering page is surprisingly challenging because of the many variables that need...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Designing a food ordering page is surprisingly challenging because of the many variables that need to be accommodated on a very small screen.
Arduino Blog
Boring rice cooker becomes uruchimai powerhouse Rice cookers are staple appliances in about half of the world and basic models are very affordable....
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Rice cookers are staple appliances in about half of the world and basic models are very affordable. But those are simple machines that are about as “dumb” as electric kettles. The result is often rice that has been sitting in the warming stage for too long, making the bottom...
Arduino Blog
This small device enables users to feel braille through haptics For the visually impaired community, most of their interactions on mobile phones are confined to...
7 months ago
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For the visually impaired community, most of their interactions on mobile phones are confined to text-to-speech (TTS) interfaces that read portions of the screen aloud. Dynamic braille displays also exist as a tactile means of communication, but their prices can get close to...
Vitalik Buterin's...
[Mirror] Quadratic Arithmetic Programs: from Zero to Hero
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
First impressions of Pollen After having consumed Practical Typography I took a look at the library he wrote to create books for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
After having consumed Practical Typography I took a look at the library he wrote to create books for the web called Pollen written in Racket. I’ve only used it a little but I feel I can give my first impressions of it. What I like The first thing I really like is Pollen enables...
Notes on software...
Deploying FreeBSD on Linode unattended in minutes I became a FreeBSD user over 2 years ago when I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. I swapped...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I became a FreeBSD user over 2 years ago when I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. I swapped my y410p dual-booting Windows / Ubuntu with FreeBSD running Gnome 3. I learned a lot during the transition and came to appreciate FreeBSD as a user. I soon began running...
computers are bad
2023-12-23 ITT Technical Institute Programming note/shameless plug: I am finally on Mastodon. The history of the telephone industry is...
a year ago
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a year ago
Programming note/shameless plug: I am finally on Mastodon. The history of the telephone industry is a bit of an odd one. For the greatest part of the 20th century, telephony in the United States was largely a monopoly of AT&T and its many affiliates. This wasn't always the case,...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Having a safe CEX: proof of solvency and beyond
over a year ago
Arduino Blog
Clone your IoT projects with Arduino Cloud Custom Templates Whether you are an IoT enthusiast, an enterprise developer or a high school teacher, we all know the...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Whether you are an IoT enthusiast, an enterprise developer or a high school teacher, we all know the thrill of bringing a new IoT project to life. But we also understand the frustration of repetitive setup processes and the time sink of configuring the same elements over and over...
Louwrentius
Switching away from Debian to Ubuntu LTS Over the last couple of years, Debian Linux has released new stable versions about every two years....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Over the last couple of years, Debian Linux has released new stable versions about every two years. This pace is great for progress, but there is a serious problem. This problem is related to their support for older Debian stable versions. If you read the quote below from the...
Jonas Hietala
My book 'Why Cryptocurrencies?' is done My first commit on my book Why Cryptocurrencies? is from Dec 19, 2018, and now about 17 months later...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My first commit on my book Why Cryptocurrencies? is from Dec 19, 2018, and now about 17 months later and 1006 more commits I’m finally done! Well, I’m done with the online version at least. I still plan to create an e-book, a PDF and a paperback and who knows how long that will...
csvbase blog
Parquet: more than just "Turbo CSV" Quicker, but also more convenient
a year ago
Matt Blewitt
Service Objects in Rails Let’s kick off 2016 with a whistle-stop tour of one of my favourite OO approaches, Service Objects,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Let’s kick off 2016 with a whistle-stop tour of one of my favourite OO approaches, Service Objects, in the context of Rails.
Neil Madden
Book review: The Joy of Cryptography Mike Rosulek, Oregon State University. Draft of January 3, 2021. Online: The Joy of Cryptography....
a year ago
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a year ago
Mike Rosulek, Oregon State University. Draft of January 3, 2021. Online: The Joy of Cryptography. This is a freely-available book covering introductory material on cryptography. It’s suitable for anyone with undergraduate-level computer science knowledge. As is often the case in...
Opsbros
WetSocks Revival How to get a broken METAR/TAF Toolbar application working again; the fun way! Seeing what we can do...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
How to get a broken METAR/TAF Toolbar application working again; the fun way! Seeing what we can do to get WetSocks Windows 98 tray weather app working again.
Louwrentius
Finding a good blu-ray player for Mac OS X I find playing a Blu-ray movie on my Mac cumbersome. I've been using Plex, XBMC and VLC but these...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I find playing a Blu-ray movie on my Mac cumbersome. I've been using Plex, XBMC and VLC but these free open-source products are all a usability nightmare. To play a Blu-ray movie, you have to perform these steps: right-click on the BDMV file choose 'show packet contents' go to...