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

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

9th Jan 2021
This week my trustworthy commuter bike started making strange squeaking noises when braking, time to have a look at the bike after 21.000KM!
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Train Simulator Controller: Power/Brake Controller, Part 3 The core of a train simulator setup could be considered its throttle and brake. Having figured out...
1st Jan 2025
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Train Simulator Controller: Power/Brake Controller, Part 3

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

1st Jan 2025
The core of a train simulator setup could be considered its throttle and brake. Having figured out how to interface a real UK Class 365 power/brake controller with Train Simulator, I designed and built a polished PCB to connect it to my Train Simulator setup.
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GPL Clarification A quick followup on my prior conversation with Theo. During that chat, I talked briefly about a...
1st Nov 2024
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GPL Clarification

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

1st Nov 2024
A quick followup on my prior conversation with Theo. During that chat, I talked briefly about a trademark infringer that was also distributing nulled plugins. I said “Not illegal. Legal under the GPL. But they weren’t changing the names. They were selling their customers Pro...
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Resource Management “We had to display a lot of information at once and help them make sense of it. There are many ways...
15th Jun 2017
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Resource Management

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

15th Jun 2017
“We had to display a lot of information at once and help them make sense of it. There are many ways to do that wrong and only a few ways to do it right.” The Challenge The client came to us with a problem: They had paid for a custom tool that didn’t do what they needed. They had...
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Vim's UserGettingBored autocmd In short: Vim has a joke autocmd called UserGettingBored that doesn’t do anything. Vim’s automatic...
22nd Aug 2026
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Vim's UserGettingBored autocmd

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

22nd Aug 2026
In short: Vim has a joke autocmd called UserGettingBored that doesn’t do anything. Vim’s automatic commands feature, usually shortened to “autocmd”, lets you run code when various events occur. For example, you could implement an auto-save feature by binding the TextChanged event...
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Reading List 10/04/2025 Boeing’s 737 replacement, parking lot investments, a deflected hurricane, opinions on nuclear power,...
4th Oct 2025
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Reading List 10/04/2025

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

4th Oct 2025
Boeing’s 737 replacement, parking lot investments, a deflected hurricane, opinions on nuclear power, and more.
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It Must *Be* Good The need for companies to do the right thing
15th Dec 2022
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It Must *Be* Good

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

15th Dec 2022
The need for companies to do the right thing
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Fully unattended deployment of Windows clients using limited resources Introduction Anyone who ever installed Windows on a computer by hand must have wished for a solution...
7th Jul 2012
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Fully unattended deployment of Windows clients using limited resources

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

7th Jul 2012
Introduction Anyone who ever installed Windows on a computer by hand must have wished for a solution that automate this task. It's just waiting a lot and pressing a button now and then. But installing the operating system itself is only the beginning. Once installed, you need to...
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Wealth distribution in the United States Forbes recently published the Forbes 400 List for 2024, listing the 400 richest people in the United...
9th Oct 2024
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Wealth distribution in the United States

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

9th Oct 2024
Forbes recently published the Forbes 400 List for 2024, listing the 400 richest people in the United States. This inspired me to make a histogram to show the distribution of wealth in the United States. It turns out that if you put Elon Musk on the graph, almost the entire US...
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Being John Malkovich I had held off on watching Being John Malkovich for a while, mostly because I think I had a pretty...
1st Feb 2025
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Being John Malkovich

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

1st Feb 2025
I had held off on watching Being John Malkovich for a while, mostly because I think I had a pretty good idea of what it was and, while I wanted to watch it at some point, it never felt particularly urgent. (The vision in my head was a sort of Bosch painting filled with John...
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Enjoying the Journey Reflections on training for a marathon and a lesson from my late Uncle Murray
1st Jan 2024
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Enjoying the Journey

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

1st Jan 2024
Reflections on training for a marathon and a lesson from my late Uncle Murray
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Measuring Capacity Through Utilization (This post is cross-posted from Honeycomb’s instrumentation series). One of my favorite concepts...
8th Jan 2017
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Measuring Capacity Through Utilization

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

8th Jan 2017
(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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We should talk less about public goods funding and more about open source funding
29th Mar 2025
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We should talk less about public goods funding and more about open source funding

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

29th Mar 2025
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Symmetricom 58532A GPS Antenna Supply Voltage Mod The Symmatricom 58532A Opening up the 58532A Voltage Regulation Result What about the other 58532A...
23rd Mar 2024
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Symmetricom 58532A GPS Antenna Supply Voltage Mod

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

23rd Mar 2024
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...
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The Creep of Politicization A new assault on science highlights a broader pattern
1st Jun 2026
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The Creep of Politicization

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

1st Jun 2026
A new assault on science highlights a broader pattern
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No more new apps (in August) It turns out that I have a lot of software ideas in my head. Given my penchant over the years to...
1st Aug 2026
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No more new apps (in August)

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Aug 2026
It turns out that I have a lot of software ideas in my head. Given my penchant over the years to have more side projects than most people can imagine keeping up with, I guess it shouldn't be a surprise. I've got 8 apps on the
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NightStand at your local Apple Store NightStands now come in some beautiful new colors & new packaging - you can find them in Apple...
26th Aug 2015
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NightStand at your local Apple Store

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

26th Aug 2015
NightStands now come in some beautiful new colors & new packaging - you can find them in Apple Stores around the globe beginning today. For any designer, to see something you made out in the wild is a special experience. So today is a real trip for our tiny little Portland...
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Here's how AI can REDUCE health misinformation How the government can build a bullshit detector
22nd Oct 2024
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Here's how AI can REDUCE health misinformation

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

22nd Oct 2024
How the government can build a bullshit detector
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The T-34/0 keyboard layout This is an update to the T-34 keyboard layout I’ve been using for a solid number of weeks. While...
5th Sep 2021
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The T-34/0 keyboard layout

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

5th Sep 2021
This is an update to the T-34 keyboard layout I’ve been using for a solid number of weeks. While there are more changes I’d like to try, I’m quite pleased with these changes so I figured I might as well immortalize them before I explore further. (And I do have a bunch of big...
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Lessons from a takeaway plastic bag About five months ago I got some take away food from our local Asian restaurant. They packaged the...
7th Jan 2018
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Lessons from a takeaway plastic bag

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

7th Jan 2018
About five months ago I got some take away food from our local Asian restaurant. They packaged the food and gave me a plastic bag to carry it home. On my way home I was thinking about the bag. Although it has some nice styling printed on it, it's designed for single use only....
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Traction Heroes Ep. 44: WEIRD People Are you more of an analytical or a holistic thinker? The answer might depend on the culture in which...
7th Sep 2026
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Traction Heroes Ep. 44: WEIRD People

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

7th Sep 2026
Are you more of an analytical or a holistic thinker? The answer might depend on the culture in which you were raised — and will impact your ability to gain traction. In episode 44 of Traction Heroes, Harry read a short segment from Joseph Henrich’s The WEIRDest People in the...
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How I made a kick-ass cover for my self-published book If you want to publish a book, one of the most important things to consider is the cover—after all,...
10th May 2021
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How I made a kick-ass cover for my self-published book

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

10th May 2021
If you want to publish a book, one of the most important things to consider is the cover—after all, we judge the book by the cover. And I did it the universally recommended way: I hired a designer. Simple, right? But real talk; it’s not exactly that simple and I did a bunch of...
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Final Fantasy IX I’ve noticed that if I want to give something a perfect score but know that it’s not a “perfect”...
28th Dec 2013
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Final Fantasy IX

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

28th Dec 2013
I’ve noticed that if I want to give something a perfect score but know that it’s not a “perfect” thing, I always start off with “okay, so, it has flaws.”
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Wolfenstein 3D for iPhone code review For once, developers were able to read the source code of an id software product just a few days...
9th May 2009
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Wolfenstein 3D for iPhone code review

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

9th May 2009
For once, developers were able to read the source code of an id software product just a few days after its release. I spent a week in my spare time reading the internal of the Wolfenstein 3D for iPhone engine. It is by far the cleanest and easiest id source code release to date.
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Introducing QuickDraw This may be the best product we've ever designed. Existing cord organizers sit at the back or edge...
23rd Nov 2021
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Introducing QuickDraw

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

23rd Nov 2021
This may be the best product we've ever designed. Existing cord organizers sit at the back or edge of your desk and create a mountain of clutter. Using them requires reaching for the cord you want and pulling it across your desk. To put it back, you have to flip the the cord...
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Microfeatures in my blog xkcd: Nerd sniping A while I ago I encountered a blog post called Microfeatures I Love in Blogs and...
9th Jul 2024
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Microfeatures in my blog

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

9th Jul 2024
xkcd: Nerd sniping A while I ago I encountered a blog post called Microfeatures I Love in Blogs and Personal Websites, and together with the related Hacker News discussion I got nerd sniped. (I spent more time than I care to admit implementing new and exciting microfeatures for...
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Interior I liked-not-loved this. It was fun and a little bit vibe-y and would happily listen to it again, but...
1st Jul 2022
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Interior

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Jul 2022
I liked-not-loved this. It was fun and a little bit vibe-y and would happily listen to it again, but I would be hard-pressed to recognize it out of a crowd.
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The Sleazy World of Reddit Marketing, Everything is Fake I’m going to show you how to cash grab as a Reddit moderator. 5 minutes of work, then thousands of...
21st Aug 2024
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The Sleazy World of Reddit Marketing, Everything is Fake

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

21st Aug 2024
I’m going to show you how to cash grab as a Reddit moderator. 5 minutes of work, then thousands of dollars per month for doing nothing. Maybe tens of thousands. With a 100% real example. I’ve edited nothing. When you’re a Reddit mod, you have a TON of power in that subreddit. You...
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Traction Heroes Ep. 37: Legibility Many teams are being measured for the wrong things: tokens used, agents deployed, etc. Their orgs...
1st Jun 2026
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Traction Heroes Ep. 37: Legibility

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

1st Jun 2026
Many teams are being measured for the wrong things: tokens used, agents deployed, etc. Their orgs have focused on tech adoption rather than value creation. It’s a mistake. I wanted to discuss this with Harry, so I read a passage from one of my favorite books, James C. Scott’s...
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Hacking Starbucks and Accessing Nearly 100 Million Customer Records
20th Jun 2020
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Hacking Starbucks and Accessing Nearly 100 Million Customer Records

from Blog | Sam Curry [alt+shift+b] in technology

20th Jun 2020
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Suggestion time: What should I blog about? I haven’t been feeling very motivated to blog lately – I’ve missed the last two weeks of Iron...
8th Aug 2010
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Suggestion time: What should I blog about?

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

8th Aug 2010
I haven’t been feeling very motivated to blog lately – I’ve missed the last two weeks of Iron Blogger, and I’m not totally enthusiastic about any of the items on my “to blog” list. But, I do enjoy blogging when I actually get into posts, and I’d like to keep updating this blog....
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2025 in review It’s time for a yearly review again. Time flies. Nerdy things I enjoyed I read a few books this...
3rd Jan 2026
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2025 in review

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

3rd Jan 2026
It’s time for a yearly review again. Time flies. Nerdy things I enjoyed I read a few books this year. The whole Dungeon Crawler Carl series was absolutely amazing and it quickly jumped up to one of my favorite series of all time. I can’t be held accountable for everything I’ve...
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How We Configure Our Rails Local CI Continuous integration is a great thing, and having tests and security checks run before every...
9th Jan 2026
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How We Configure Our Rails Local CI

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

9th Jan 2026
Continuous integration is a great thing, and having tests and security checks run before every deploy is also a great thing. But if you’re a developer who has been shipping production code for more than a week, you definitely understand how much it can all feel like a house of...
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What I wrote in The Atlantic about the Clicktatorship When content matters more than the truth
4th Feb 2026
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What I wrote in The Atlantic about the Clicktatorship

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

4th Feb 2026
When content matters more than the truth
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A Guide to Safe Online Shopping (2025 Edition)
1st Nov 2025
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A Guide to Safe Online Shopping (2025 Edition)

from The New Oil [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Nov 2025
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Nix Windows Feedback There turns out to be a far easier way to disable the 'Win+F' Windows Feedback app.
11th Oct 2020
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Nix Windows Feedback

from Opsbros [alt+shift+b] in technology

11th Oct 2020
There turns out to be a far easier way to disable the 'Win+F' Windows Feedback app.
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DIY cloud gaming setup with VFIO, Parsec and AMD This is a follow-up to my previous post where I covered the VFIO setup in general. For many people...
7th Sep 2021
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DIY cloud gaming setup with VFIO, Parsec and AMD

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

7th Sep 2021
This is a follow-up to my previous post where I covered the VFIO setup in general. For many people that would have been good enough, but my goal with this setup was to have a powerful gaming setup that I could access from my living room PC with 20 meters of Ethernet cables...
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Efficiency trades off against resiliency What’s the “right” level of CPU utilization for a server? If you look at a monitoring dashboard from...
15th Apr 2023
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Efficiency trades off against resiliency

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

15th Apr 2023
What’s the “right” level of CPU utilization for a server? If you look at a monitoring dashboard from a well-designed and well-run service, what CPU utilization should we hope to see, averaged over a day or two? It’s a very general question, and it’s not clear it should have a...
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Six Websites in Ten Days Halfway June I came back from Amsterdam buzzing. A week and a half later six websites were live on a...
23rd Jun 2026
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Six Websites in Ten Days

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

23rd Jun 2026
Halfway June I came back from Amsterdam buzzing. A week and a half later six websites were live on a publisher that did not exist before: MP1, a static site generator that lives as a ZIP file inside my own CMS. This post is about what made that possible: automating the dull work...
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Eurorack Knob Idea [Hardware] An idea for knobs for synthesizers.
24th Apr 2025
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Eurorack Knob Idea

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

24th Apr 2025
[Hardware] An idea for knobs for synthesizers.
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Robotics Hackathon in Bimanual Manipulation in Munich How a LinkedIn Post Led Me to a Munich Basement with Millions of Euros Worth of Robotics...
5th Oct 2025
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Robotics Hackathon in Bimanual Manipulation in Munich

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

5th Oct 2025
How a LinkedIn Post Led Me to a Munich Basement with Millions of Euros Worth of Robotics Equipment My LinkedIn feed has become a stream of robotics content over the past few months. As someone diving deep into AI robotics after years in ML/AI/RL, I’ve been deliberately connecting...
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November newsletter November 2020 gwern.net newsletter with links on DL and genomics scaling, dark mode rewrite, 1...
4th Dec 2020
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November newsletter

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

4th Dec 2020
November 2020 gwern.net newsletter with links on DL and genomics scaling, dark mode rewrite, 1 essay, and 1 opera review ('The Ring' cycle).
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This inexpensive adapter brings Apple Universal Control to vintage Macs In the distant past of about two decades ago, one would need to use a KVM (Keyboard, Video, Mouse)...
4th Aug 2025
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This inexpensive adapter brings Apple Universal Control to vintage Macs

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

4th Aug 2025
In the distant past of about two decades ago, one would need to use a KVM (Keyboard, Video, Mouse) switch to control multiple computers with the same mouse and keyboard — and even then, it would take a button press to move from one to the other. Today, Apple’s Universal Control...
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Theming Apps on iOS is Hard Theming apps (the ability to change up the color scheme for an app from say, a white background with...
7th Feb 2022
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Theming Apps on iOS is Hard

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

7th Feb 2022
Theming apps (the ability to change up the color scheme for an app from say, a white background with blue links to a light green background with green links) is a pretty common feature across a lot of apps. It’s one of the core features of the new “Twitter Blue” subscription,...
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Benchmarking esbuild, swc, tsc, and babel for React/JSX projects This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
13th Nov 2021
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Benchmarking esbuild, swc, tsc, and babel for React/JSX projects

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

13th Nov 2021
This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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Prediction Markets: Tales from the Election
18th Feb 2021
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Prediction Markets: Tales from the Election

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

18th Feb 2021
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Objectivity is superstition An objective, external world is a non-falsifiable assumption. The prevailing theory is that our...
17th Mar 2025
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Objectivity is superstition

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

17th Mar 2025
An objective, external world is a non-falsifiable assumption. The prevailing theory is that our subjective experiences correspond to an external reality. However, they may simply be subjective through and through. That which we claim to be evidence of external reality is actually...
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SQLite has pretty limited builtin functions This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
21st Aug 2022
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SQLite has pretty limited builtin functions

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

21st Aug 2022
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How to be Right without being Sure
9th Jun 2025
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How to be Right without being Sure

from Niklas Oberhuber’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

9th Jun 2025
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Why I used to prefer permissive licenses and now favor copyleft
7th Jul 2025
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Why I used to prefer permissive licenses and now favor copyleft

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

7th Jul 2025
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We Hacked Apple for 3 Months: Here’s What We Found
7th Oct 2020
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We Hacked Apple for 3 Months: Here’s What We Found

from Blog | Sam Curry [alt+shift+b] in technology

7th Oct 2020
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Reverse engineering the mysterious Up-Data Link Test Set from Apollo Back in 2021, a collector friend of ours was visiting a dusty warehouse in search of Apollo-era...
21st Jul 2025
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Reverse engineering the mysterious Up-Data Link Test Set from Apollo

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

21st Jul 2025
Back in 2021, a collector friend of ours was visiting a dusty warehouse in search of Apollo-era communications equipment. A box with NASA-style lights caught his eye—the "AGC Confirm" light suggested a connection with the Apollo Guidance Computer. Disappointingly, the box was...
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Syncing files seamlessly between smartphone and tablet In order to optimise my workflow, I was looking for a way to seamlessly access the same files on...
15th Sep 2020
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Syncing files seamlessly between smartphone and tablet

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

15th Sep 2020
In order to optimise my workflow, I was looking for a way to seamlessly access the same files on both my computer and smartphone. Read along to find out how I did it.
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Introducing TagVault Pet for AirTag Having pets that went missing before, AirTags are the perfect companion. We wanted a case that could...
22nd May 2021
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Introducing TagVault Pet for AirTag

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

22nd May 2021
Having pets that went missing before, AirTags are the perfect companion. We wanted a case that could take the abuse of an active full-size dog, fit nice on a cat, work with all pet collars, and be durable. So we designed Tagvault Pet. It's waterproof, fits every collar, and is...
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Three apps that will not change your life After what has felt like a long winter of habitual reliance on my existing tools, I’m finally...
15th Aug 2025
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Three apps that will not change your life

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

15th Aug 2025
After what has felt like a long winter of habitual reliance on my existing tools, I’m finally playing around with some new ones. This is a healthy habit—so long as you don’t convince yourself that you’re just one more App Store download away from a previously unimaginable level...
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Quadratic Payments: A Primer
7th Dec 2019
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Quadratic Payments: A Primer

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

7th Dec 2019
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Postmortem: Jonas IceCream Stand Ah my latest game Jonas IceCream Stand is finished and up and running and I’m really proud of it!...
1st Dec 2009
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Postmortem: Jonas IceCream Stand

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

1st Dec 2009
Ah my latest game Jonas IceCream Stand is finished and up and running and I’m really proud of it! And thanks for the feedback guys, it’s always welcome. I spent almost exactly fifty hours on this game and that’s by far the most I’ve spent on a 7day project. To be honest it’s...
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TOMO M4: probably the coolest power bank I've owned A friend once showed me a power bank that was so cool that I had to get one myself. Ended up getting...
3rd Mar 2023
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TOMO M4: probably the coolest power bank I've owned

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

3rd Mar 2023
A friend once showed me a power bank that was so cool that I had to get one myself. Ended up getting two, and here’s why. This post is not sponsored. Removable batteries Let’s start with the feature that I appreciate the most: removable batteries! The TOMO M4 accepts up to 4...
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IKEA $50 VINDSTYRKA vs. $290 Dylos air quality monitor This is a brief article in which I compare the IKEA VINDSTYRKA $50 air quality monitor (PM2.5) with...
17th Sep 2023
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IKEA $50 VINDSTYRKA vs. $290 Dylos air quality monitor

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17th Sep 2023
This is a brief article in which I compare the IKEA VINDSTYRKA $50 air quality monitor (PM2.5) with a $290 air quality monitor made by Dylos to see if it's any good. Context If you care about indoor air quality, you may already own a CO2 to determine if it's time to ventilate...
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Do amazing things with a focused mind Read about my experience during the workshop I got as a birth day present involving the Wim Hof...
5th Dec 2018
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Do amazing things with a focused mind

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

5th Dec 2018
Read about my experience during the workshop I got as a birth day present involving the Wim Hof Method.
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A faster way to solve complex planning problems By eliminating redundant computations, a new data-driven method can streamline processes like...
16th Apr 2025
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A faster way to solve complex planning problems

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16th Apr 2025
By eliminating redundant computations, a new data-driven method can streamline processes like scheduling trains, routing delivery drivers, or assigning airline crews.
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Introducing ElevationDock 4! Well we started from scratch this time... :) ElevationDock 4 is the result of designing every...
7th Sep 2017
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Introducing ElevationDock 4!

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

7th Sep 2017
Well we started from scratch this time... :) ElevationDock 4 is the result of designing every feature that we & our customers wanted into the dock. We made the adjustment not only more precise than any other dock, but easier too. It works out of the box, no cord mounting...
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I've reached the self-hosting endgame Setup After I had a perfectly functional, quiet and performant server up and running, I fell victim...
23rd May 2021
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I've reached the self-hosting endgame

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

23rd May 2021
Setup After I had a perfectly functional, quiet and performant server up and running, I fell victim to my imagination and completely changed my self-hosting setup. Again. Here it is, in all its glory: Well, at least that’s what’s on the table. This machine is a true all-in-one:...
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Control - how to make a game enjoyable for casual audiences I’ve decided to intentionally take more time to play video games this year, since it’s a relatively...
1st Dec 2023
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Control - how to make a game enjoyable for casual audiences

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

1st Dec 2023
I’ve decided to intentionally take more time to play video games this year, since it’s a relatively healthy way to escape from the real world once in a while. A friend recommended one game in particular: Control: Ultimate Edition. During the Steam summer sale of 2023, I went...
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Impact of Adblockers on Google Analytics (vs. Plausible) Adblocker usage is quickly rising, with some estimates saying that almost 25% of internet users have...
27th Oct 2020
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Impact of Adblockers on Google Analytics (vs. Plausible)

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

27th Oct 2020
Adblocker usage is quickly rising, with some estimates saying that almost 25% of internet users have one installed. Not only do they block advertisements, but also analytics scripts (like Google Analytics, Matomo, etc.)So that begs the question: what is the impact of these...
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A trip down NBA Jam graphics pipeline I took some time to study how NBA Jam arcade cabinet worked. Here is what I learned.
28th Oct 2019
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A trip down NBA Jam graphics pipeline

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28th Oct 2019
I took some time to study how NBA Jam arcade cabinet worked. Here is what I learned.
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Two worlds: idea people and developers I recently attended a startup weekend and was surprised by the backgrounds of the other...
29th Apr 2023
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Two worlds: idea people and developers

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29th Apr 2023
I recently attended a startup weekend and was surprised by the backgrounds of the other attendees. As a software engineer myself, I expected to see mostly engineers, but that wasn’t the case. Instead, I found myself surrounded by people with a diverse range of backgrounds and...
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Qualcomm Acquires Arduino At todays “blink to think” event a new Arduino board was released, the Arduino Q, however perhaps...
8th Oct 2025
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Qualcomm Acquires Arduino

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in technology

8th Oct 2025
At todays “blink to think” event a new Arduino board was released, the Arduino Q, however perhaps most important was the announcement that chipmaker Qualcomm had acquired Arduino for an undisclosed amount. After watching the entire two hours of announcements I’m not crazy about...
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statself.com Btw I just put something up online that I spent a couple of evenings in my couch putting together:...
18th Oct 2013
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statself.com

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

18th Oct 2013
Btw I just put something up online that I spent a couple of evenings in my couch putting together: it's a website where you can track any numerical data on the web. Want to know how many Twitter followers you have?
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The Aces Some isolated bops but extremely uneven and unfinished in terms of feel.
1st Feb 2021
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The Aces

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1st Feb 2021
Some isolated bops but extremely uneven and unfinished in terms of feel.
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USA 250 This auspicious 250th Independence Day, I find myself thinking of what Om wrote in iAMerican when he...
5th Jul 2026
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USA 250

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

5th Jul 2026
This auspicious 250th Independence Day, I find myself thinking of what Om wrote in iAMerican when he became a US citizen in 2013. On a globe, America is a landmass, a country. In an immigrant’s heart it is a belief that future is almost always better. It may not be perfect and it...
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Attention is All You Need Reading Expands Our Context Windows
7th Jul 2025
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Attention is All You Need

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7th Jul 2025
Reading Expands Our Context Windows
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Scalable application design without magic I needed to design a scalable backend infrastructure that could handle lots of concurrent users. I...
10th May 2020
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Scalable application design without magic

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

10th May 2020
I needed to design a scalable backend infrastructure that could handle lots of concurrent users. I did this by leveraging the client's computing power having it handle most of the user interaction workload.
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Complex Heterodynes Explained Introduction Some Common DSP Notations Sampling with 1 ADC Creates a Real Signal Heterodyning the...
7th Feb 2026
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Complex Heterodynes Explained

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7th Feb 2026
Introduction Some Common DSP Notations Sampling with 1 ADC Creates a Real Signal Heterodyning the Signal to Baseband the Wrong Way Complex Heterodyne to the Rescue Filtering Away the Old Negative Image Decimation Final Block Diagram Conclusion Afterthought: the Fourier Transform...
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Switching away from Debian to Ubuntu LTS Over the last couple of years, Debian Linux has released new stable versions about every two years....
6th Jul 2011
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Switching away from Debian to Ubuntu LTS

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

6th Jul 2011
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...
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Berkshire Hathaway Meeting I’ve checked off a bucket list item: I’m attending a Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting. It’s...
2nd May 2025
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Berkshire Hathaway Meeting

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

2nd May 2025
I’ve checked off a bucket list item: I’m attending a Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting. It’s really an event! Thousands flock to Omaha, Nebraska, for the legendary Q&A sessions with Warren Buffett and shareholder deals. They’ve made it quite the circus, with every Berkshire...
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250 lbs Six months ago, while I was setting up a new code editor, I noticed that the default font size felt...
16th Feb 2026
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250 lbs

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

16th Feb 2026
Six months ago, while I was setting up a new code editor, I noticed that the default font size felt just a bit too small, when displayed on my monitor. Not a big deal, I just bumped it up one size and went back to my work. Then it happened again, this time, when reading sheet...
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#19 This is a clone of Nykaa's website The clickbait title is explained later, trust me
5th Oct 2023
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#19 This is a clone of Nykaa's website

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5th Oct 2023
The clickbait title is explained later, trust me
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The time of our lives
7th Dec 2016
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The time of our lives

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7th Dec 2016
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Retrospective: My Fifth Year on YouTube For the past 4 years, I have made a habit of reflecting on the previous year and set goals for the...
15th Jan 2021
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Retrospective: My Fifth Year on YouTube

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

15th Jan 2021
For the past 4 years, I have made a habit of reflecting on the previous year and set goals for the new year. This year is no exception, but now I try to set better goals while reflecting on some personal things in life.
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Greenland is a beautiful nightmare Greenland is a complicated topic here in Denmark. The former colony that is still treated a bit like...
27th Sep 2025
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Greenland is a beautiful nightmare

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

27th Sep 2025
Greenland is a complicated topic here in Denmark. The former colony that is still treated a bit like a colony is something that inspires a lot of emotions. Greenland has been subjected to a lot of unethical experiments by Denmark, from taking their kids to wild experiments in...
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The Pentium contains a complicated circuit to multiply by three In 1993, Intel released the high-performance Pentium processor, the start of the long-running...
2nd Mar 2025
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The Pentium contains a complicated circuit to multiply by three

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

2nd Mar 2025
In 1993, Intel released the high-performance Pentium processor, the start of the long-running Pentium line. I've been examining the Pentium's circuitry in detail and I came across a circuit to multiply by three, a complex circuit with thousands of transistors. Why does the...
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On NYC, Tokyo and Seoul I’ve lived in NYC for the past year — moved here after years in Philly and after growing up in a...
20th Oct 2018
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On NYC, Tokyo and Seoul

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

20th Oct 2018
I’ve lived in NYC for the past year — moved here after years in Philly and after growing up in a rural community a few hours west of there. My wife is South Korean and last week concluded my second trip to the suburbs of Seoul to visit her family. We finished up that trip with a...
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Decoding the Arctic to predict winter weather With the help of AI, MIT Research Scientist Judah Cohen is reshaping subseasonal forecasting, with...
8th Jan 2026
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Decoding the Arctic to predict winter weather

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

8th Jan 2026
With the help of AI, MIT Research Scientist Judah Cohen is reshaping subseasonal forecasting, with the goal of extending the lead time for predicting impactful weather.
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POV Candle [Hardware] Tiny volumetric display
1st Dec 2023
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POV Candle

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

1st Dec 2023
[Hardware] Tiny volumetric display
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What's New in TLS Inspector 3.0 On March 30th 2016 the first commit of TLS Inspector, back then called Certificate Inspector, was...
11th Apr 2026
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What's New in TLS Inspector 3.0

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

11th Apr 2026
On March 30th 2016 the first commit of TLS Inspector, back then called Certificate Inspector, was made - and just shy of two weeks later version 1.0 was released. Now, 10 years later, TLS Inspector celebrates its 10th year, and I've got some exciting changes to share with you...
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Breaking Changes Last week I ran into unexpected trouble during a routine maintenance procedure on my company's email...
3rd Jun 2025
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Breaking Changes

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

3rd Jun 2025
Last week I ran into unexpected trouble during a routine maintenance procedure on my company's email infrastructure. Processing thousands of emails each day, we use Dovecot to give our clients access to their messages. That all came to a grinding halt when I updated to version...
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Vulkan 1.3 on the M1 in 1 month u{text-decoration-thickness:0.09em;text-decoration-color:skyblue} Finally, conformant Vulkan for the...
5th Jun 2024
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Vulkan 1.3 on the M1 in 1 month

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

5th Jun 2024
u{text-decoration-thickness:0.09em;text-decoration-color:skyblue} Finally, conformant Vulkan for the M1! The new “Honeykrisp” driver is the first conformant Vulkan® for Apple hardware on any operating system, implementing the full 1.3 spec without “portability”...
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It is okay not to be special Hi :name-retracted:! I hope I don’t bore you with this letter. I feel like talking to you about...
17th Jul 2018
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It is okay not to be special

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17th Jul 2018
Hi :name-retracted:! I hope I don’t bore you with this letter. I feel like talking to you about life. (Which I always want to do. All the…
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Content debt There’s a nascent trend of releasing ostensibly-private material (changelogs, public wikis,...
4th Jul 2024
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Content debt

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

4th Jul 2024
There’s a nascent trend of releasing ostensibly-private material (changelogs, public wikis, handbooks, etc.) to the public as a bit of a marketing push. This is essentially a form of debt, to the extent that you’re taking a lump-sum payment now in exchange for the implicit cost...
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Why scons is cool I’ve recently started playing with scons a little for some small personal projects. It’s not...
7th Nov 2010
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Why scons is cool

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

7th Nov 2010
I’ve recently started playing with scons a little for some small personal projects. It’s not perfect, but I’ve rapidly come to the conclusion that it’s a probably far better choice than make in many cases. The main exceptions would be cases where you need to integrate into legacy...
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Harpoom: of course the Apple Network Server can be hacked into running Doom a $10,000+ Apple server running IBM AIX. Of course you can. Well, you can now. Now, let's go ahead...
1st Jun 2025
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Harpoom: of course the Apple Network Server can be hacked into running Doom

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

1st Jun 2025
a $10,000+ Apple server running IBM AIX. Of course you can. Well, you can now. Now, let's go ahead and get the grumbling out of the way. No, the ANS is not running Linux or NetBSD. No, this is not a backport of NCommander's AIX Doom, because that runs on AIX 4.3. The Apple...
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June gwern.net newsletter June 2020 gwern.net newsletter with 3 new pages/essays, and links on CRISPR, population screening,...
2nd Jul 2020
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June gwern.net newsletter

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

2nd Jul 2020
June 2020 gwern.net newsletter with 3 new pages/essays, and links on CRISPR, population screening, AI scaling, politics, and technological unemployment.
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How to achieve cost-effective predictive maintenance with the Arduino® UNO™ Q board Most machines warn you before they fail. A motor begins to vibrate differently. A pump slowly drifts...
2nd Jul 2026
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How to achieve cost-effective predictive maintenance with the Arduino® UNO™ Q board

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

2nd Jul 2026
Most machines warn you before they fail. A motor begins to vibrate differently. A pump slowly drifts out of balance. A bearing develops a new mechanical signature. A cooling fan starts producing frequencies that were not present during normal operation. These changes can appear...
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On Medium-of-Exchange Token Valuations
17th Oct 2017
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On Medium-of-Exchange Token Valuations

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

17th Oct 2017
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Implementing a declarative mini-language in the C preprocessor Last time, I announced Check Plus, a declarative language for defining Check tests in C. This time,...
4th Jul 2010
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Implementing a declarative mini-language in the C preprocessor

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

4th Jul 2010
Last time, I announced Check Plus, a declarative language for defining Check tests in C. This time, I want to talk about the tricks I used to implement a declarative minilanguage using the C preprocessor (and some GCC extensions). The Problem We want to write some toplevel...
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Cash is king, or is it? Is the time right to ditch the wallet?
14th Jul 2016
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Cash is king, or is it?

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

14th Jul 2016
Is the time right to ditch the wallet?
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Writing a Jinja-inspired template library in Python In this post we'll build a minimal text templating library in Python inspired by Jinja. It will be...
23rd May 2021
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Writing a Jinja-inspired template library in Python

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

23rd May 2021
In this post we'll build a minimal text templating library in Python inspired by Jinja. It will be able to display variables and iterate over arrays. By the end of this article, with around 300 lines of code, we'll be able to create this program: from pytemplate import...
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Benchmarking nearest neighbor libraries in Python Radim Rehurek has put together an excellent summary of approximate nearest neighbor libraries in...
12th Jan 2014
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Benchmarking nearest neighbor libraries in Python

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

12th Jan 2014
Radim Rehurek has put together an excellent summary of approximate nearest neighbor libraries in Python. This is exciting, because one of the libraries he's covering, annoy, was built by me. After introducing the problem, he goes through the list of contestants and sticks with...
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What If We Made Advertising Illegal? What if we banned all advertising? Not regulate it—abolish it. This proposal would transform...
2nd Apr 2025
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What If We Made Advertising Illegal?

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

2nd Apr 2025
What if we banned all advertising? Not regulate it—abolish it. This proposal would transform manipulation machines, and maybe save democracy itself. A thought experiment worth considering.
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Guide Technology GT300 Frequency Standard Teardown MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [...
6th Apr 2024
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Guide Technology GT300 Frequency Standard Teardown

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

6th Apr 2024
MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [ ['$', '$'], ["\\(", "\\)"] ], displayMath: [ ['$$', '$$'], ["\\[", "\\]"] ], processEscapes: true, skipTags: ['script', 'noscript', 'style', 'textarea', 'pre',...
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How Would You Design Amazon S3? One of my favorite system design questions from a few years ago and a fascinating thing I learned...
1st Oct 2024
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How Would You Design Amazon S3?

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

1st Oct 2024
One of my favorite system design questions from a few years ago and a fascinating thing I learned while answering it.
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Why I believe the new Mac Pro won't be a great machine for gaming In Accidental Tech Podcast episode 18 (love the show), I learned that John Siracusa was thinking...
22nd Jun 2013
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Why I believe the new Mac Pro won't be a great machine for gaming

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

22nd Jun 2013
In Accidental Tech Podcast episode 18 (love the show), I learned that John Siracusa was thinking about buying a new Mac Pro for gaming. I believe that gaming on the new Mac Pro will be a mediocre experience. Driver support: as John mentioned himself, the video cards are...
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Desirée Plata appointed associate dean of engineering Faculty member in civil and environmental engineering will advance research and entrepreneurial...
8th Apr 2026
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Desirée Plata appointed associate dean of engineering

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

8th Apr 2026
Faculty member in civil and environmental engineering will advance research and entrepreneurial initiatives across the School of Engineering.
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Interpreting Go After spending some time at work on tooling for keeping documentation in sync with Go struct...
12th Oct 2019
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Interpreting Go

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

12th Oct 2019
After spending some time at work on tooling for keeping documentation in sync with Go struct definitions I had enough exposure to Go's built-in parsing package that next steps were clear: write an interpreter. It's a great way to get more comfortable with a language's AST. In...
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Fields or Hutches? When I was small, living on a small farm near a college town, my father fell for an idea proffered...
12th Nov 2025
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Fields or Hutches?

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

12th Nov 2025
When I was small, living on a small farm near a college town, my father fell for an idea proffered by the Ralston Purina Company of Checkerboard Square in St. Louis.
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How to find insights Excel, still invincible!
4th Sep 2026
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How to find insights

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

4th Sep 2026
Excel, still invincible!
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Be A Donor This is probably the proudest moment of my Computer Science career so far: On April 17th, 2012 the...
22nd Apr 2012
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Be A Donor

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

22nd Apr 2012
This is probably the proudest moment of my Computer Science career so far: On April 17th, 2012 the Government of Ontario released the Mobile Website I designed and implemented for the major part of 2011. Beadonor.ca allows you reinforce your decision to be an organ donor. I feel...
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Compiling Handbrake CLI on Debian Lenny In this post I will show you how to compile Handbrake for Debian Lenny. Please note that although...
3rd Aug 2010
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Compiling Handbrake CLI on Debian Lenny

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

3rd Aug 2010
In this post I will show you how to compile Handbrake for Debian Lenny. Please note that although the Handbrake GUI version does compile on Lenny, it crashes with a segmentation fault like this: Gtk: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -5 and height...
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3D printing is pretty darn cool, actually I love 3D printing. Out of all the tech hype cycles and trends over the last decade, this one is...
4th Aug 2025
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3D printing is pretty darn cool, actually

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

4th Aug 2025
I love 3D printing. Out of all the tech hype cycles and trends over the last decade, this one is genuinely useful. There’s simply something magical about being able to design or download a model from the internet, send it to a machine, and after a few hours you get an actual...
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Using Claude Code to write Home Assistant integrations For the past few months, I’ve been dabbling with Claude Code. Not in a “no one needs developers...
5th Apr 2026
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Using Claude Code to write Home Assistant integrations

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

5th Apr 2026
For the past few months, I’ve been dabbling with Claude Code. Not in a “no one needs developers anymore, anyone can build apps now” kind of way. More in a “I have a basic understanding of this, but not enough to turn it into code I can actually use” kind of way. I don’t need...
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Love is to die
29th Nov 2021
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Love is to die

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

29th Nov 2021
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Clouds below my floor At my home I have this crazy fast optical internet connection. It is a 600MB up and down fibre...
30th Aug 2017
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Clouds below my floor

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

30th Aug 2017
At my home I have this crazy fast optical internet connection. It is a 600MB up and down fibre connection which directly arrives in my home (no copper cables involved). It's like a private internet highway. Reason enough to find out if I could do something to make better use of...
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Snakebite Just promoting Spotify stuff here: check out the Snakebite repo on Github, written by Wouter de Bie....
7th May 2013
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Snakebite

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

7th May 2013
Just promoting Spotify stuff here: check out the Snakebite repo on Github, written by Wouter de Bie. It's a super fast tool to access HDFS over CLI/Python, by accessing the namenode directly over sockets/protobuf. Spotify's developer blog features a nice blog post outlining what...
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Powering Xbox OneX using ATX power supply My post-warranty Xbox One X power supply went kaput, Microsoft wanted me to visit a walk-in center...
2nd Jan 2022
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Powering Xbox OneX using ATX power supply

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

2nd Jan 2022
My post-warranty Xbox One X power supply went kaput, Microsoft wanted me to visit a walk-in center 500 Km (~ 300 Mi) away and exchange it for a new one for ~ 250 USD. I couldn't find replacement power supply online where I live and shipping it from abroad was risky on several...
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You can absolutely have an RSS dependent website in 2026 I write stuff here. Sometimes the stuff is good. Sometimes it reads like I wrote it at 2 AM after an...
9th Apr 2026
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You can absolutely have an RSS dependent website in 2026

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

9th Apr 2026
I write stuff here. Sometimes the stuff is good. Sometimes it reads like I wrote it at 2 AM after an argument with a YAML file, which is because I did. But one decision I made early on was that I didn't want to offer an email newsletter.
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Different types of layer 2s
31st Oct 2023
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Different types of layer 2s

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

31st Oct 2023
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Solving Ghost in The Wire codes More...
11th Sep 2011
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Solving Ghost in The Wire codes

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

11th Sep 2011
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Core 2 Duo - Beta Test Signup! My personal Core 2 Duo, featuring irek’s beautiful Brutal watchface Hopefully you have...
11th Jun 2025
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Core 2 Duo - Beta Test Signup!

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

11th Jun 2025
My personal Core 2 Duo, featuring irek’s beautiful Brutal watchface Hopefully you have pre-ordered a Core 2 Duo watch - if not, you…
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HP 8656A Signal Generator Schematics Agilent has made the 8656A Signal Generator Operating & Service Manual available as a PDF, but the...
22nd Feb 2024
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HP 8656A Signal Generator Schematics

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

22nd Feb 2024
Agilent has made the 8656A Signal Generator Operating & Service Manual available as a PDF, but the schematics of chapter 8 are all spread over 3 or 4 pages, which makes them hard to follow. I spent a good evening extracting the schematics pages, cutting-and-pasting them together...
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The number of letters in the word for each number Just for fun, I generated these graphs of the number of letters in the word for each number. I...
6th Sep 2017
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The number of letters in the word for each number

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

6th Sep 2017
Just for fun, I generated these graphs of the number of letters in the word for each number. I really spent about 10 minutes on this (ok…possibly also another 40 minutes tweaking the plots): More languages!
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Batavus Champion bike from 1978 Almost a year ago I bought an old steel racing bike from 1978. I wanted to figure out if using a...
2nd Sep 2016
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Batavus Champion bike from 1978

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

2nd Sep 2016
Almost a year ago I bought an old steel racing bike from 1978. I wanted to figure out if using a bike to commute worked for me. It did! I used it to ride more than 1000KM before I decided to get a modern road bike. Now, almost a year later, I decided to put the powers of the...
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When you put your brand's mascot on the enemy's platform Back in February 2024, Xbox held a short podcast where they reacted directly to swirling rumors...
28th Oct 2025
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When you put your brand's mascot on the enemy's platform

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

28th Oct 2025
Back in February 2024, Xbox held a short podcast where they reacted directly to swirling rumors about Xbox exclusive titles that were about to go multi-platform, which was giving Xbox fans anxiety. This question from host Tina Amini was right near the start: So when you are...
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Happy Endings This, to me, is the perfect sit-com. It’s that simple: for two seasons (skip the first season; you...
27th Nov 2017
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Happy Endings

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

27th Nov 2017
This, to me, is the perfect sit-com. It’s that simple: for two seasons (skip the first season; you don’t need it and the show tries to be too conventional) it shits out an outrageous level of humor with a cast that has a perfect chemistry. There is a tiny bit of “aw, shucks”...
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The Album I would forgive the simplicity of the bubblegum or the datedness of the production or the very short...
4th Aug 2021
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The Album

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Aug 2021
I would forgive the simplicity of the bubblegum or the datedness of the production or the very short runtime if any of these songs were bops but...they weren't? It just wasn't a very fu album.
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I Am a Flat-Rate Monthly Responsibility Service Most people, when asked why they do what they do, lie. This isn’t because they’re malicious but it’s...
11th Sep 2026
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I Am a Flat-Rate Monthly Responsibility Service

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

11th Sep 2026
Most people, when asked why they do what they do, lie. This isn’t because they’re malicious but it’s because the honest justification for a career is rarely noble. It’s usually a combination of a decent paycheck, tolerable hours, and whatever neurosis you
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Rescuing photos from a crashed iMac This week I received a message from someone with a iMac that crashed. It contained more than 50.000...
14th Oct 2020
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Rescuing photos from a crashed iMac

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

14th Oct 2020
This week I received a message from someone with a iMac that crashed. It contained more than 50.000 photos, covering two decades of personal history. As there was no backup, it was up to me to attempt to safe as much as I could. Could I possibly recover the personal...
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Notes on running Electron This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
13th Oct 2021
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Notes on running Electron

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

13th Oct 2021
This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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NeXTWorld Interviews Bud Tribble (1994) They discuss NeXT's OpenStep, open standards, and more.
1st Feb 2026
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NeXTWorld Interviews Bud Tribble (1994)

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

1st Feb 2026
They discuss NeXT's OpenStep, open standards, and more.
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Optimizing over multinomial distributions Sometimes you have to maximize some function $$ f(w_1, w_2, ldots, w_n) $$ where $$ w_1 + w_2 +...
24th Jul 2013
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Optimizing over multinomial distributions

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

24th Jul 2013
Sometimes you have to maximize some function $$ f(w_1, w_2, ldots, w_n) $$ where $$ w_1 + w_2 + ldots + w_n = 1 $$ and $$ 0 le w_i le 1 $$ . Usually, $$ f $$ is concave and differentiable, so there's one unique global maximum and you can solve it by applying gradient ascent.
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Intuitions for Distributed Consensus by Phil Eaton This is an external talk of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
8th Oct 2024
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Intuitions for Distributed Consensus by Phil Eaton

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

8th Oct 2024
This is an external talk of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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How To Sell Sales at a startup is counter-intuitive.
18th Jan 2020
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How To Sell

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

18th Jan 2020
Sales at a startup is counter-intuitive.
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Over-Engineering Sleep A while back, this implementation of a cross-platform sleep for GitHub Actions Runners caught my...
24th Aug 2025
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Over-Engineering Sleep

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

24th Aug 2025
A while back, this implementation of a cross-platform sleep for GitHub Actions Runners caught my eye, and I wanted to see what it would take to re-implement sleep from the ground up, while trying to be as cross-platform as possible.
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Write your own Ghost Theme I struggled to make a Ghost CMS theme that worked the way I wanted, so I made my own. Turned out to...
5th Jun 2025
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Write your own Ghost Theme

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

5th Jun 2025
I struggled to make a Ghost CMS theme that worked the way I wanted, so I made my own. Turned out to be a surprisingly easy experience.
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Hilariously Fast Volume Computation with the Divergence Theorem (No, there won’t be jokes.) The following presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of a...
16th Feb 2018
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Hilariously Fast Volume Computation with the Divergence Theorem

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

16th Feb 2018
(No, there won’t be jokes.) The following presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of a simple, closed, triangulated 3D mesh. This assumption is a consequence of the divergence theorem. Further extensions may generalise to other meshes as well, although that is presently...
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Train Simulator Controller: CAN Controller, Part 2 I’m building a physical cab dashboard to control Train Simulator, and to tie it all together as...
4th Jan 2024
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Train Simulator Controller: CAN Controller, Part 2

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

4th Jan 2024
I’m building a physical cab dashboard to control Train Simulator, and to tie it all together as robustly as possible, I am use CAN. This protocol is designed to rapidly share small updates around a network in an electrically noise environment, and in a previous post, I detailed...
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Software companies buying software: a story of ecosystems and vendors Why are new startups growing so fast? Why is the wage distribution getting larger for software...
25th Feb 2026
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Software companies buying software: a story of ecosystems and vendors

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

25th Feb 2026
Why are new startups growing so fast? Why is the wage distribution getting larger for software engineers? Why do I love infrastructure? Is open source dead? I think a lot of these things, and some more things, all have their roots in a big shift in how we build software. Or...
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You Complete Me When Good Enough was in its infancy as a truly American LLC (formed in Delaware and representing one...
4th Dec 2024
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You Complete Me

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

4th Dec 2024
When Good Enough was in its infancy as a truly American LLC (formed in Delaware and representing one or two people who were only semi-serious about a business), it was fun to play around with building websites. Shawn and I were truly just playing and exploring, more than anything...
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Changephobia Felt...forgettable? I need to spend some more time with it.
1st Jun 2021
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Changephobia

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Jun 2021
Felt...forgettable? I need to spend some more time with it.
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[Mirror] Quadratic Arithmetic Programs: from Zero to Hero
10th Dec 2016
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[Mirror] Quadratic Arithmetic Programs: from Zero to Hero

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

10th Dec 2016
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2023-03-13 the door close button This will probably be a short one, and I know I haven't written for a while, but it has always been...
13th Mar 2023
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2023-03-13 the door close button

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

13th Mar 2023
This will probably be a short one, and I know I haven't written for a while, but it has always been the case that you get what you pay for and Computers Are Bad is nothing if not affordable. Still, this is a topic on which I am moderately passionate and so I can probably stretch...
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I'm running a programming contest I'm running a programming contest I've spent the last few months working with friends to design the...
24th Jul 2026
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I'm running a programming contest

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

24th Jul 2026
I'm running a programming contest I've spent the last few months working with friends to design the 29th annual ICFP programming contest. Designing a programming contest in a world with AI agents is tricky! I think we've made some interesting choices here. Read the full post on...
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Notes about Basic Polyphase Decimation Filters Introduction Decimation with FIR Anti-Aliasing Filter Naive Hardware Implementation Reduce number of...
25th Jan 2026
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Notes about Basic Polyphase Decimation Filters

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

25th Jan 2026
Introduction Decimation with FIR Anti-Aliasing Filter Naive Hardware Implementation Reduce number of calculations - Move decimator before multiplier Polyphase decomposition of the original filter The Noble Identity for Decimation Re-using Common Hardware in the Fast Clock...
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Intel's $475 million error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug In 1993, Intel released the high-performance Pentium processor, the start of the long-running...
28th Dec 2024
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Intel's $475 million error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug

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

28th Dec 2024
In 1993, Intel released the high-performance Pentium processor, the start of the long-running Pentium line. The Pentium had many improvements over the previous processor, the Intel 486, including a faster floating-point division algorithm. A year later, Professor Nicely, a number...
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Wearing WHOOP 4.0 How often do you look in the mirror? Probably more than a few times a week! I have been thinking...
13th Jan 2022
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Wearing WHOOP 4.0

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

13th Jan 2022
How often do you look in the mirror? Probably more than a few times a week! I have been thinking about this ever since I received my newest WHOOP 4.0 biometric sensor. It's great. But, why do I wear it? What value does it provide? Why should you wear it? What is WHOOP? First...
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MUSE in Carré MUSE's legendary rock fused with Amsterdam's Royal Theatre Carré for an unforgettable, electrifying...
22nd Oct 2022
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MUSE in Carré

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

22nd Oct 2022
MUSE's legendary rock fused with Amsterdam's Royal Theatre Carré for an unforgettable, electrifying experience - read about my experience!
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Skylight and the AT Protocol Since my last piece about Bluesky, I’ve been using the service a lot more. Just about everyone I...
4th Apr 2025
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Skylight and the AT Protocol

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

4th Apr 2025
Since my last piece about Bluesky, I’ve been using the service a lot more. Just about everyone I followed on other services is there now, and it’s way more fun than late-stage Twitter ever was. Halifax is particularly into Bluesky, which reminds me of our local scene during the...
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Updating Snake '97 Few years ago my brother threw a beer on my iPhone in an Amsterdam bar. The poor thing didn't like...
20th Feb 2018
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Updating Snake '97

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

20th Feb 2018
Few years ago my brother threw a beer on my iPhone in an Amsterdam bar. The poor thing didn't like the Dutch brew as much as I do: it died. While waiting for a new phone to arrive, I used an old one that couldn't do anything but texting, calling and... Snake! The idea for Snake...
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Reasons to have higher L1 gas limits even in an L2-heavy Ethereum
14th Feb 2025
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Reasons to have higher L1 gas limits even in an L2-heavy Ethereum

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

14th Feb 2025
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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...
2nd Feb 2024
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Blogging in Djot instead of Markdown

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

2nd Feb 2024
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...
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The Story of Creative Technology The Sound Blaster
10th Aug 2025
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The Story of Creative Technology

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

10th Aug 2025
The Sound Blaster
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I broke and fixed my Ghost blog In case you find this post after hours of google searching
16th Oct 2025
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I broke and fixed my Ghost blog

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

16th Oct 2025
In case you find this post after hours of google searching
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Digital minimalism
6 hours ago
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Digital minimalism

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

6 hours ago
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Raspberry pi3 vs iPad2 for personal computing I blew my personal computer and before I could build a new one I needed a temporary machine which...
24th Mar 2017
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Raspberry pi3 vs iPad2 for personal computing

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

24th Mar 2017
I blew my personal computer and before I could build a new one I needed a temporary machine which could perform some of my routine tasks like browsing, social network, word processing, programming, gaming, videos, music & ocassional heavy computation. Though I would be needing a...
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Speeding up Go's builtin JSON encoder up to 55% for large arrays of objects This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
3rd Mar 2022
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Speeding up Go's builtin JSON encoder up to 55% for large arrays of objects

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

3rd Mar 2022
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Train Simulator Controller: CAN Controller, Part 1 I’m building a physical cab dashboard to control Train Simulator, from master controller to an AWS...
22nd Jun 2023
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Train Simulator Controller: CAN Controller, Part 1

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

22nd Jun 2023
I’m building a physical cab dashboard to control Train Simulator, from master controller to an AWS sunflower to a speedometer, and everything in between. The engineer or hobbyist interested in getting this project ready expediently would probably find their favorite...
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learning to swim at 26 I learned how to swim at the age of 26. Or rather, I'm still learning. In my last lesson, I managed...
17th Jul 2026
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learning to swim at 26

from sibervepunk [alt+shift+b] in technology

17th Jul 2026
I learned how to swim at the age of 26. Or rather, I'm still learning. In my last lesson, I managed to swim 50 meters without using any support (and I didn't drown, lol). In the lesson before that, I got dizzy, my leg cramped three times, and I had swallowed half the pool. (you...
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Every Enemy Wears Your Face The enemy in your head is usually wearing your face. On projection, the villains we invent, and the...
28th May 2026
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Every Enemy Wears Your Face

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

28th May 2026
The enemy in your head is usually wearing your face. On projection, the villains we invent, and the chair we can't see ourselves sitting in.
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Notes on Puzzles 1. I mostly don’t play chess anymore — it’s too addictive, and tends to take over your brain in a...
11th Jul 2023
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Notes on Puzzles

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

11th Jul 2023
1. I mostly don’t play chess anymore — it’s too addictive, and tends to take over your brain in a way I don’t like — but one habit I’ve retained is solving puzzles.
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Battling burnout Mamma Mia! Here we go again… Once again, I’m finding myself trying to recover from burnout, and...
14th Mar 2023
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Battling burnout

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

14th Mar 2023
Mamma Mia! Here we go again… Once again, I’m finding myself trying to recover from burnout, and after about a year I’m finally feeling more like myself. Even though I’ve been here before, it’s a difficult thing to recognize and avoid, so I’m writing this to maybe help you or my...
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Analysis of CVE-2019-14994 - Jira Service Desk Path Traversal leads to Massive Information...
26th Sep 2019
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Analysis of CVE-2019-14994 - Jira Service Desk Path Traversal leads to Massive Information Disclosure

from Blog | Sam Curry [alt+shift+b] in technology

26th Sep 2019
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Agentic Version Control Benchmarks Which version-control tool should you give your coding agent? We pit Git, Jujutsu and GitButler...
7th Jul 2026
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Agentic Version Control Benchmarks

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

7th Jul 2026
Which version-control tool should you give your coding agent? We pit Git, Jujutsu and GitButler against each other in a fight to the death
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Creating a Git commit: The Hard Way Let's create a Git commit using Git's low-level (plumbing) commands
4th Sep 2024
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Creating a Git commit: The Hard Way

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

4th Sep 2024
Let's create a Git commit using Git's low-level (plumbing) commands
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The flood of AI website builders There are so many of them. instead of markdown to enable lazy-loading --> How good...
27th Apr 2024
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The flood of AI website builders

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

27th Apr 2024
There are so many of them. instead of markdown to enable lazy-loading --> How good are these site builders? I don’t know. Are you worried about job security? I have two thoughts… 1. We’ve seen this before Wordpress, Squarespace, Shopify, Webflow… all these tools...
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Confusion is a muse Some of the most interesting technical blog posts I read come from, and a common reason for posts I...
14th Jun 2024
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Confusion is a muse

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

14th Jun 2024
Some of the most interesting technical blog posts I read come from, and a common reason for posts I write is, confusion. You're at work and you start asking questions that are difficult to answer. You spend a few hours or a day trying to get to the bottom of things. If you ask a...
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Tracing the baseband I was reading an article on planetbeing's blog the other day and my curiosity was tipped off when...
27th May 2010
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Tracing the baseband

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

27th May 2010
I was reading an article on planetbeing's blog the other day and my curiosity was tipped off when he mentioned that phones don't run only one operating system but two. I decided to learn a bit how all this really works and here are my notes with the source code associated....
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Clickhouse is winning the Observability Wars For roughly the last ten years, a meaningful percentage of my working hours have been spent thinking...
1st Jul 2026
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Clickhouse is winning the Observability Wars

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

1st Jul 2026
For roughly the last ten years, a meaningful percentage of my working hours have been spent thinking about observability. If you're not familiar with the term, "observability" is what we call it now that "monitoring" doesn't sound expensive enough. The actual work
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Syntax highlighting on the web
31st May 2022
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Syntax highlighting on the web

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

31st May 2022
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How I Write Tests The longer I spend as a software engineer, the more obsessive I get about testing. I fully subscribe...
29th Dec 2016
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How I Write Tests

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

29th Dec 2016
The longer I spend as a software engineer, the more obsessive I get about testing. I fully subscribe to the definition of legacy code as “code without an automated test suite.” I’m convinced that the best thing you can do to encourage fast progress in a test suite is to design...
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Markus Buehler receives 2025 Washington Award Materials scientist is honored for his academic leadership and innovative research that bridge...
3rd Mar 2025
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Markus Buehler receives 2025 Washington Award

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

3rd Mar 2025
Materials scientist is honored for his academic leadership and innovative research that bridge engineering and nature.
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Search like a pro: Google search operators Read along for a comprehensive list of advanced Google search operators that allow you to filter...
24th Apr 2019
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Search like a pro: Google search operators

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

24th Apr 2019
Read along for a comprehensive list of advanced Google search operators that allow you to filter your search results.
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Let's build a VORON: Filters I can print, but the printer is missing a very important thing that I alluded to in the previous...
15th Dec 2023
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Let's build a VORON: Filters

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

15th Dec 2023
I can print, but the printer is missing a very important thing that I alluded to in the previous post: filtering dangerous particles and fumes. This is mostly covered by the kit, but I was missing some parts from the print it forward and the kit didn’t include a HEPA...
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Inspiration from a child Together with my kids I love to explore the world that we think we know as adults. A kid's...
29th Sep 2021
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Inspiration from a child

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

29th Sep 2021
Together with my kids I love to explore the world that we think we know as adults. A kid's perspective inspires and surprises! No need to travel half the world for an adventure: Fly planes, catch bad guys, solve problems, build and break stuff - (re)discover the adventure right...
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Luigi: complex pipelines of tasks in Python I'm shamelessly promoting my first major open source project. Luigi is a Python module that helps...
21st Oct 2012
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Luigi: complex pipelines of tasks in Python

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

21st Oct 2012
I'm shamelessly promoting my first major open source project. Luigi is a Python module that helps you build complex pipelines of batch jobs, handle dependency resolution, and create visualizations to help manage multiple workflows. It also comes with Hadoop support built in...
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Pick and place without the CNC Pick and place (PnP) machines are the linchpin on which modern electronics manufacturing rests. A...
2nd Apr 2026
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Pick and place without the CNC

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

2nd Apr 2026
Pick and place (PnP) machines are the linchpin on which modern electronics manufacturing rests. A PnP is a special kind of robot with a vacuum end effector designed to pick up SMD (surface-mount device) components and place them on a PCB for soldering. But for hobbyists, they’re...
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The Vinland Saga (Season 2) I thought the first season of this anime was good and entertaining but certainly not anything to...
6th Jul 2023
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The Vinland Saga (Season 2)

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

6th Jul 2023
I thought the first season of this anime was good and entertaining but certainly not anything to write home about, a slightly tropey anime with interesting character work and a novel setting. The second season did something that I (to my recollection) have never seen in an anime,...
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Lighthouse manifesto - Personal value matters more than general quality
16th Jun 2025
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Lighthouse manifesto - Personal value matters more than general quality

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

16th Jun 2025
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Should they buy…Allbirds? Everyone pivots to the enterprise. Plus, Block becomes a box.
3rd Apr 2026
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Should they buy…Allbirds?

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

3rd Apr 2026
Everyone pivots to the enterprise. Plus, Block becomes a box.
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Spring, 2025 Hello! I have so much to catch up with you about. The time has flown.
1st Jun 2025
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Spring, 2025

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

1st Jun 2025
Hello! I have so much to catch up with you about. The time has flown.
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A Hardware Interposer to Fix the Symmetricom SyncServer S200 GPS Week Number Rollover Problem Introduction IMPORTANT: Use the Right GPS Antenna! The Problem: SyncServer Refuses to Lock to...
18th Aug 2024
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A Hardware Interposer to Fix the Symmetricom SyncServer S200 GPS Week Number Rollover Problem

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

18th Aug 2024
Introduction IMPORTANT: Use the Right GPS Antenna! The Problem: SyncServer Refuses to Lock to GPS The GPS Week Number Rollover Issue Making the Furuno GT-8031 Work Again How It Works Build Instructions Power Supply Recapping The Future: A Software-Only Solution The...
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Why I’m Switching Web Hosts Recently, I’ve gotten fed up with my web host. Since I stood this site up, I’ve used MediaTemple....
5th Jul 2019
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Why I’m Switching Web Hosts

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

5th Jul 2019
Recently, I’ve gotten fed up with my web host. Since I stood this site up, I’ve used MediaTemple. This was before WP Engine was around. At the time, MediaTemple had carved out a nice niche for themselves as the premium web host. Tim Ferriss also raved about them back in the day....
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IDA Summer of Code 2014 IDA Summer of Code is Linköping University’s response to Google Summer of Code. Students can send in...
11th Jun 2014
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IDA Summer of Code 2014

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

11th Jun 2014
IDA Summer of Code is Linköping University’s response to Google Summer of Code. Students can send in a project of their choice and if selected they get paid to work on it for 4 weeks during the summer. In return the university get to show off the students and their projects in...
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Tunneling Elixir cluster network traffic over Wireguard Introduction The other day I was supporting a customer with an Elixir-based platform that would make...
7th Nov 2023
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Tunneling Elixir cluster network traffic over Wireguard

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

7th Nov 2023
Introduction The other day I was supporting a customer with an Elixir-based platform that would make use of Elixir libcluster, so messages on one host can be passed to other hosts. This can - for example - enable live updates for all users, even if they are not communicating with...
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I invent a new kind of magnet, sort of... It's SO new, it has ZERO external magnetic field!
29th Aug 2025
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I invent a new kind of magnet, sort of...

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29th Aug 2025
It's SO new, it has ZERO external magnetic field!
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How I self-host this blog at home with a dynamic IPv4 address, IPv6 prefix, and a dash of Wireguard Networking has long been my Achilles heel. I know the very basics, but the more complex areas of...
6th May 2026
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How I self-host this blog at home with a dynamic IPv4 address, IPv6 prefix, and a dash of Wireguard

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

6th May 2026
Networking has long been my Achilles heel. I know the very basics, but the more complex areas of networking have been a bit puzzling to me. By the time I figured out how IPv4 works, I found IPv6 and that my ISP supports it. Back to square one. That didn’t stop me from learning...
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Miscellaneous unsolicited (and possibly biased) career advice No one asked for this, but I'm something like ~12 years into my career and have had my fair share of...
26th Sep 2019
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Miscellaneous unsolicited (and possibly biased) career advice

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26th Sep 2019
No one asked for this, but I'm something like ~12 years into my career and have had my fair share of mistakes and luck so I thought I'd share some. Honestly, I feel like I've mostly benefitted from luck.
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Baduizm Very relaxing and pleasant and simple and great. Nothing revelatory but I see myself coming back to...
1st Sep 2021
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Baduizm

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Sep 2021
Very relaxing and pleasant and simple and great. Nothing revelatory but I see myself coming back to this over and over (and finally understand the Badu hype.)
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Armadillo Space T-shirt Finally received my Armadillo Space T-Shirt and mug. I recommend them !
14th Oct 2009
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Armadillo Space T-shirt

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

14th Oct 2009
Finally received my Armadillo Space T-Shirt and mug. I recommend them !
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2025-04-06 Airfone We've talked before about carphones, and certainly one of the only ways to make phones even more...
6th Apr 2025
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2025-04-06 Airfone

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6th Apr 2025
We've talked before about carphones, and certainly one of the only ways to make phones even more interesting is to put them in modes of transportation. Installing telephones in cars made a lot of sense when radiotelephones were big and required a lot of power; and they faded...
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Leadership Power Tools: SQL and Statistics A common pattern I’ve seen over the years have been folks in engineering leadership positions that...
4th Dec 2024
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Leadership Power Tools: SQL and Statistics

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

4th Dec 2024
A common pattern I’ve seen over the years have been folks in engineering leadership positions that are not super comfortable with extracting and interpreting data from stores, be it databases, CSV files in an object store, or even just a spreadsheet. We’re going to cover SQL &...
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Long Story Short Long Story Short, feels like in many ways a synthesis of everything Raphael and Lisa have been...
3rd Oct 2025
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Long Story Short

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

3rd Oct 2025
Long Story Short, feels like in many ways a synthesis of everything Raphael and Lisa have been trying to do and say, packaged in a slightly more mature and restrained way than the excesses of Bojack Horseman and their respective written fiction (everyone should read Someone Who...
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Offline Music Music has the universal power to move people. Different rhythms, emotions and vocals enable us to...
16th Jul 2022
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Offline Music

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

16th Jul 2022
Music has the universal power to move people. Different rhythms, emotions and vocals enable us to enjoy music very personally. Music is very close to my heart and I don't like anything to get in between. Therefore I don't rely on streaming music services, but manage my own...
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Train Simulator Controller: Power/Brake Controller, Part 1 The core of a train simulator setup could be considered its throttle and brake, the control or...
4th Aug 2024
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Train Simulator Controller: Power/Brake Controller, Part 1

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

4th Aug 2024
The core of a train simulator setup could be considered its throttle and brake, the control or controls that make a train go and stop. In previous blog posts, I detailed my exploration of building my own controller from scratch, but a fortuitous eBay listing provided me a real...
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STAR LINE In retrospect, I think there are two really noteworthy things about Chance the Rapper's career:
14th Aug 2025
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STAR LINE

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14th Aug 2025
In retrospect, I think there are two really noteworthy things about Chance the Rapper's career:
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Algorithms and Data structures books: One size doesn't fit them all Over the years running this moderately popular website, I have been asked many times what is the...
14th Feb 2014
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Algorithms and Data structures books: One size doesn't fit them all

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

14th Feb 2014
Over the years running this moderately popular website, I have been asked many times what is the best book about Algorithms and Data Structures. The answer is always "It depends" ! It depends on how the programmer's brain works and what kind of notation he is comfortable with....
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Have I Got Fake News For You (Odds and Ends #79) A jaw-dropping screw-up on prime time BBC One – and more!
3rd Oct 2025
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Have I Got Fake News For You (Odds and Ends #79)

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

3rd Oct 2025
A jaw-dropping screw-up on prime time BBC One – and more!
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Recycle your old laptop display and turn it into a monitor During a cleaning spree I decided that it was time to recycle two old laptops that were just...
13th Mar 2021
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Recycle your old laptop display and turn it into a monitor

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

13th Mar 2021
During a cleaning spree I decided that it was time to recycle two old laptops that were just collecting dust on a shelf for many years. Although I didn't have any purpose for them anymore, I realised that the displays were still perfectly fine. This is the display of my old 13"...
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Shrinkflation, SanDisk style 2023-02-16 update: this post is not about the “GB vs GiB” issue, or the “lost disk space” that...
15th Feb 2023
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Shrinkflation, SanDisk style

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

15th Feb 2023
2023-02-16 update: this post is not about the “GB vs GiB” issue, or the “lost disk space” that you notice after formatting the device in an OS. Please read the article in full before making inaccurate comments online. For many years, I have used two SanDisk Ultra 16 GB USB flash...
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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...
2nd Nov 2023
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I designed my own keyboard layout. Was it worth it?

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

2nd Nov 2023
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...
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All About Apache Cassandra: Snapshots The concept of a "Snapshot" In computing, a snapshot is a point-in-time copy of data or state of a...
27th Jul 2019
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All About Apache Cassandra: Snapshots

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

27th Jul 2019
The concept of a "Snapshot" In computing, a snapshot is a point-in-time copy of data or state of a machine. You ever end up doing something like this? Each one of these files is a snapshot, as it's a copy of your essay at the point-in-time when you saved it. Snapshots provide us...
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