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Home on Erik...
σ-driven project management: when is the optimal time to give up? Hi! It's your friendly project management theorician. You might remember me from blog posts such as...
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over a year ago
Hi! It's your friendly project management theorician. You might remember me from blog posts such as Why software projects take longer than you think, which is a blog post I wrote a long time ago positing that software projects completion time follow a log-normal distribution.
Vitalik Buterin's...
STARKs, Part II: Thank Goodness It's FRI-day
over a year ago
Home on Erik...
The Filter Bubble is Silly and you Can't Guess What Happened Next I'm at RecSys 2014, meeting a lot of people and hanging out at talks. Some of the discussions here...
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I'm at RecSys 2014, meeting a lot of people and hanging out at talks. Some of the discussions here was about the filter bubble which prompted me to formalize my own thoughts. I firmly believe that it's the role of a system to respect the user's intent.
Arduino Blog
This frighteningly realistic animatronic head features expressive silicone skin The human face is remarkably complex, with 43 different muscles contorting the skin in all kinds of...
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The human face is remarkably complex, with 43 different muscles contorting the skin in all kinds of ways. Some of that is utilitarian — your jaw muscles are good for chewing, after all. But a lot of it seems to be the result of evolution giving us fantastic non-verbal...
Willem's Blog
Upgrading a 27-inch iMac 5K to 14 terabytes This month I nearly destroyed my iMac during an attempt to upgrade it. Thanks to determination and...
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This month I nearly destroyed my iMac during an attempt to upgrade it. Thanks to determination and some spare time I was able to resurrect it from the death!
Posts on Made of...
Some thoughts on Quora With the announcement this week that Quora had taken $11 million in VC at an $86 million valuation,...
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With the announcement this week that Quora had taken $11 million in VC at an $86 million valuation, there’s been an awful lot of attention on Quora. I’ve had an account there and wanted to write up some of my initial thoughts. If you haven’t heard about Quora, it’s yet another...
Jonas Hietala
Mailto: links with FastMail in Firefox You can change the application to handle mailto: links in Firefox in Preferences -> Applications....
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over a year ago
You can change the application to handle mailto: links in Firefox in Preferences -> Applications. The problem is that you can’t input custom urls and some email providers, like hotmail or fastmail, aren’t supported. I managed to fix it with the plugin MailtoWebmails. It annoys me...
Buck on Software
Vertical Aggregation I’ve written in the past that I think returns for SaaS won’t be as attractive over the next decade.
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I’ve written in the past that I think returns for SaaS won’t be as attractive over the next decade.
Home on Erik...
We are still early with the cloud: why software development is overdue for a change This is is in many respects a successor to a blog post I wrote last year about what I want from...
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over a year ago
This is is in many respects a successor to a blog post I wrote last year about what I want from software infrastructure, but the ideas morphed in my head into something sort of wider.
Matt Mullenweg
Cloudflare Stories There are two great Cloudflare-related stories published this weekend. The first is Steven Levy’s...
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There are two great Cloudflare-related stories published this weekend. The first is Steven Levy’s incredible story about Tim Jenkin, who created a secure communication protocol for the African National Congress to overthrow the apartheid regime in South Africa. Cloudflare’s CTO,...
Christian Selig
Announcing Juno 2.0 Juno’s been a really fun project to build, and it’s been so great hearing how other people have been...
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Juno’s been a really fun project to build, and it’s been so great hearing how other people have been enjoying Juno since its launch, as well as providing awesome feedback and input to improve it. Today I’m releasing Juno 2.0, which incorporates a ton of that community feedback,...
Notes on software...
Compiling dynamic programming languages It can be difficult to disassociate the idea that dynamically typed programming languages are tied...
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It can be difficult to disassociate the idea that dynamically typed programming languages are tied to byte-code interpreters (e.g. YARV Ruby, CPython, V8, Zend Engine, etc.). But for many languages, a compiled implementation also exists. Cython, Chicken Scheme and SBCL are good...
Louwrentius
Solaris is an obsolete platform Assuming that the rumor is true and OpenSolaris will be slain by Oracle, we must conclude that the...
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over a year ago
Assuming that the rumor is true and OpenSolaris will be slain by Oracle, we must conclude that the Solaris operating system is obsolete. Solaris can be considered legacy. Sun was a hardware shop and to sell their hardware, they needed a great operating system. Sun had a great...
Jonas Hietala
Battling burnout Mamma Mia! Here we go again… Once again, I’m finding myself trying to recover from burnout, and...
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a year ago
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...
Posts on Made of...
Navigating the Linux Kernel In response to my query last time, ezyang asked for any tips or tricks I have for finding my way...
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over a year ago
In response to my query last time, ezyang asked for any tips or tricks I have for finding my way around the Linux kernel. I’m not sure I have much in the way of systematic advice for tracking down the answers to questions about the Linux kernel, but thinking about what I do when...
Vitalik Buterin's...
A Note on Metcalfe's Law, Externalities and Ecosystem Splits
over a year ago
Willem's Blog
Making my own tablet OS I wondered if I could escape Windows by installing Debian GNU/Linux on a Surface Go, read along to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I wondered if I could escape Windows by installing Debian GNU/Linux on a Surface Go, read along to find out how to do this!
Notes on software...
HTML event handler attributes: down the rabbit hole This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
2013 in Review The year is almost over and I think I accomplished a lot this year. You can read my reviews of 2010,...
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The year is almost over and I think I accomplished a lot this year. You can read my reviews of 2010, 2011 and 2012. 2013 Geek Achievements Solved 213 UVa problems. Got 43rd at NWERC 2013. Placed high in IMPA, with one turn won. Completed the online course Programming Languages in...
watchTowr Labs
Auth. Bypass In (Un)Limited Scenarios - Progress MOVEit Transfer (CVE-2024-5806) In the early hours of a day in a month in 2024, watchTowr Labs was sent a chat log: 13:37 -!-...
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In the early hours of a day in a month in 2024, watchTowr Labs was sent a chat log: 13:37 -!- dav1d_bl41ne [def_not_phalanx@kernel.org] has joined #!hack (irc.efnet.nl) 13:37 -!- dav1d_bl41ne changed the topic of #!hack to: mag1c sh0w
Willem's Blog
The best keyboard for iPad While everybody is raving about the Magic Keyboard there is something to be said for the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
While everybody is raving about the Magic Keyboard there is something to be said for the "mouse-less" Smart Keyboard Folio. Read along for a detailed analyses based on actual iPad use.
Jonas Hietala
Let's build a VORON: Noise The build is going well and the printer is printing tons of random stuff and I’m generally in awe of...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
The build is going well and the printer is printing tons of random stuff and I’m generally in awe of how cool the printer is. But there’s one thing that sucks: it’s damn loud. I knew that it wouldn’t be silent, but I wasn’t prepared for this kind of noise. Silent controller...
Willem's Blog
Data versus Feeling Do you rely on data or on your feeling when running a Marathon? I decided to run two marathons to...
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Do you rely on data or on your feeling when running a Marathon? I decided to run two marathons to find out the differences!
Louwrentius
Calculating EXT2 EXT3 EXT4 stride size when using RAID When formatting a RAID device with an EXT filesystem, it is always advised to specify a stride size....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When formatting a RAID device with an EXT filesystem, it is always advised to specify a stride size. The format utility will take this stride size into account when formatting a device. The stride size is the number you get when you divide the 'chunck' size, as specified with...
Jonas Hietala
Resurrection Aah what a nice summer! It was nice to be back in Övertorneå, doing nothing in particular. Just not...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Aah what a nice summer! It was nice to be back in Övertorneå, doing nothing in particular. Just not having to make lunch and dinner every day is such a relief, and if you do slip up food with grandma or Veronica’s parents is only a phone call away. I watched TV, played...
Notes on software...
Reviewing the Surface Book 2 The first few paragraphs cover what I was looking for and what I considered. Then the review. Why...
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over a year ago
The first few paragraphs cover what I was looking for and what I considered. Then the review. Why the Surface Book 2 I used a Macbook throughout my professional career until I had the choice a few years ago when I started my current job. Here, I ran Gentoo, then FreeBSD, then...
./techtipsy
Tech rants: PC-s use way too much power in 2021 Welcome to 2021. We have: supply chain issues no reasonably priced GPU-s consumer-grade CPU-s with...
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Welcome to 2021. We have: supply chain issues no reasonably priced GPU-s consumer-grade CPU-s with peak power consumption at 296W GPU-s that consume 350-400W of power under normal use At the same time, we have made great leaps in CPU/GPU architectures and chip manufacturing...
Posts on Made of...
Software Engineers should keep lab notebooks Software engineers, as a rule, suck at writing things down. Part of this is training – unlike...
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over a year ago
Software engineers, as a rule, suck at writing things down. Part of this is training – unlike chemists and biologists who are trailed to obsessively document everything they do in their lab notebooks, computer scientists are taught to document the end results of their work, but...
Lars Lofgren
What Happened After I Outed a Reddit Mod for Affiliate Spam I recently broke down how Reddit mods and users are abusing Google search rankings with affiliate...
3 months ago
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I recently broke down how Reddit mods and users are abusing Google search rankings with affiliate spam. It’s reddit marketing gone awry. The post blew up and got a decent amount of attention. Then I got a front row seat to how deep of a spam filled porta-potty Reddit has become....
Home on Erik...
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over a year ago
Matt Blewitt
Movement for Engineers Until we get get to be chromed-up cyborgs, we’re stuck with our meat bodies, and like many things,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Until we get get to be chromed-up cyborgs, we’re stuck with our meat bodies, and like many things, they need regular maintenance. Here is a brief introduction to keeping your body moving as someone who spends a lot of time sitting down.
anderegg.ca
Anzu Castle Gracula Turns out you can release a QBasic game on Steam if it’s packaged correctly. Beside being a nerdy...
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Turns out you can release a QBasic game on Steam if it’s packaged correctly. Beside being a nerdy oddity, this game is extremely well made and quite fun! Lots of Castlevania II vibes going on here. Check out Anzu Castle Gracula on Steam, or give it a shot on Itch.io.
Posts on Made of...
Using Haskell's 'newtype' in C A common problem in software engineering is avoiding confusion and errors when dealing with multiple...
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A common problem in software engineering is avoiding confusion and errors when dealing with multiple types of data that share the same representation. Classic examples include differentiating between measurements stored in different units, distinguishing between a string of HTML...
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #47: I think this YouTube video just changed my life Plus vertical farming, the Russia/EU border, and more on why the Lobby is bad.
2 weeks ago
Yazin Alirhayim
The Meem app: it sucks If you’re a “digital only” bank like Meem, the app your customers use is all they see: it’s like a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you’re a “digital only” bank like Meem, the app your customers use is all they see: it’s like a virtual 🏦 branch. That’s fitting, because you know what my impression of meem is as a user? When I open up their app, it feels like walking into a crowded butcher shop, with...
Jonas Hietala
Beebop The Island Hopper It’s here! The stuff of dreams, an entry for the epic Ludum Dare 17 has been made! For those who...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It’s here! The stuff of dreams, an entry for the epic Ludum Dare 17 has been made! For those who don’t know it’s a 48 hour game making competition which actually is pretty silly. Even more silly is my two hours of commitment yesterday but late this night at about 03:05 I am now,...
detreville
But why "detreville"? (But why not?)
a year ago
anderegg.ca
How decentralized is Bluesky really? Here’s an excellent article from Christine Lemmer-Webber that takes a deeper technical look into...
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Here’s an excellent article from Christine Lemmer-Webber that takes a deeper technical look into some of the criticisms I had in my previous piece. The article is long, but very much worth a read. From the conclusion: Bluesky is built by good people who care, and it is providing...
Posts on Made of...
Systems that defy detailed understanding Last week, I wrote about the mindset that computer systems can be understood, and behaviors can be...
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over a year ago
Last week, I wrote about the mindset that computer systems can be understood, and behaviors can be explained, if we’re willing to dig deep enough into the stack of abstractions our software is built atop. Some of the ensuing discussion on Twitter and elsewhere lead me to write...
Home on Erik...
Storm in the stratosphere: how the cloud will be reshuffled Here's a theory I have about cloud vendors (AWS, Azure, GCP): Cloud vendors1 will increasingly...
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Here's a theory I have about cloud vendors (AWS, Azure, GCP): Cloud vendors1 will increasingly focus on the lowest layers in the stack: basically leasing capacity in their data centers through an API. Other pure-software providers will build all the stuff on top of it.
Lars Lofgren
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....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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....
Applied Cartography
A good H1 Buttondown was kindly featured in H1 Gallery last week, and Ryan asked me to opine a bit on how we...
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Buttondown was kindly featured in H1 Gallery last week, and Ryan asked me to opine a bit on how we arrived at our current iteration, which is the anodyne yet pointed Email for you. Yes, you. Historically, we've called Buttondown a 'newsletter tool' — the h1 before this was 'The...
Arduino Blog
DIY submersible pump controller helps retrieve well water It might surprise our urban-dwelling readers, but wells are still very common in rural areas where...
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It might surprise our urban-dwelling readers, but wells are still very common in rural areas where it is difficult or prohibitively expensive to run utilities. The CDC reports that more than 15 million households rely on groundwater and wells — and that’s just in the United...
Lighthouse Blog
Updates July 07
6 months ago
Louwrentius
Release of PPSS - the Parallel Processing Shell Script PPSS is a shell script that processess files or other items in parallel. It is designed to make use...
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over a year ago
PPSS is a shell script that processess files or other items in parallel. It is designed to make use of the current multi-core CPUs. It will detect the number of available CPUs and start a thread for each CPU core.  This script is build with the goal to be very easy to use. Also,...
Computer Ads from...
MicroTimes Interviews the Head Honchos of Silicon Graphics (1989) Ed McCracken and Jim Clark talk about their hardware and the future of 3D
7 months ago
Jonas Hietala
Ludum Dare 29 Entry After months of procrastination it is time for me to enter Ludum Dare again! I am totally...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
After months of procrastination it is time for me to enter Ludum Dare again! I am totally unprepared, but I did setup a setup which actually compiles. I never got audio to run but hopefully I can manage something. Repository: https://github.com/treeman/LD29. Going for C++ this...
Louwrentius
My 71 TiB ZFS NAS after 10 years and zero drive failures My 4U 71 TiB ZFS NAS built with twenty-four 4 TB drives is over 10 years old and still going...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
My 4U 71 TiB ZFS NAS built with twenty-four 4 TB drives is over 10 years old and still going strong. Although now on its second motherboard and power supply, the system has yet to experience a single drive failure (knock on wood). Zero drive failures in ten years, how is that...
watchTowr Labs
Check Point - Wrong Check Point (CVE-2024-24919) Gather round, gather round - it’s time for another blogpost tearing open an SSLVPN appliance and...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Gather round, gather round - it’s time for another blogpost tearing open an SSLVPN appliance and laying bare a recent in-the-wild exploited bug. This time, it is Check Point who is the focus of our penetrative gaze. Check Point, for those unaware, is the vendor responsible for...
Arduino Blog
Expanding possibilities: Blues Wireless amplifies Opta’s connectivity Blues Wireless and Arduino have joined forces to create the game-changing Blues Wireless for Arduino...
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Blues Wireless and Arduino have joined forces to create the game-changing Blues Wireless for Arduino Opta, unveiled this week at the Automate Show in Chicago. The expansion module is an affordable solution to enhance connectivity options for Arduino Opta micro PLCs, and marks a...
Notes on software...
The case for comments in code When I first started programming, especially when asked for code samples, my comments lacked purpose...
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When I first started programming, especially when asked for code samples, my comments lacked purpose and would often duplicate in English what the code clearly indicated. I knew that "commenting is good" but as a beginner I had no further insight. Over time with the help of books...
Good Enough
Actual Customer Support Is Remarkable What a sad thing to write. We believe in good software around here. There is a lot of poorly built...
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a year ago
What a sad thing to write. We believe in good software around here. There is a lot of poorly built software on the Internet and in the app stores. Our motivation with Good Enough is to try to put together a few products that feel just right to the folks using them. The things we...
Home on Erik...
Nearest neighbors and vector models – epilogue – curse of dimensionality This is another post based on my talk at NYC Machine Learning. The previous two parts covered most...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is another post based on my talk at NYC Machine Learning. The previous two parts covered most of the interesting parts, but there are still some topics left to be discussed. To go back and read the meaty stuff, check out
Simply Explained
Make Your Garage Door Opener Smart: Shelly 1, ESPHome and Home Assistant I've been adding more and more devices to my smart home lately, so naturally, my garage door opener...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've been adding more and more devices to my smart home lately, so naturally, my garage door opener had to follow. But instead of swapping it out for a new unit, I used a Shelly 1 and a cheap door contact sensor to make it smart for less than $20!It runs ESPHome (open-source, no...
./techtipsy
My experience at the k-space hackerspace hackathon k-space is a hackerspace in Tallinn, Estonia, and they organized a hackathon recently. Unlike in...
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a year ago
k-space is a hackerspace in Tallinn, Estonia, and they organized a hackathon recently. Unlike in most hackathons, in this one you could whatever you like with no expectations about building a business or coming up with an MVP, just come on down to the space and start working on...
Computer Ads from...
Electronic Protection Devices' Electro-Clamp line The Underrated Virtues of Plain Vanilla
9 months ago
Christian Selig
Introducing Tiny Storage: a small, lightweight UserDefaults replacement Hey I'm a developer not an artist Following my last blog post about difficulties surrounding...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Hey I'm a developer not an artist Following my last blog post about difficulties surrounding UserDefaults and edge cases that lead to data loss (give it a read if you haven’t, it’s an important precursor to this post!), I wanted to build something small and lightweight that...
Louwrentius
How to resolve extreme memory usage on Windows 2008 R2-based file servers I'm responsible for a file server with about 5 terrabytes of data. The file server is based on...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I'm responsible for a file server with about 5 terrabytes of data. The file server is based on Windows 2008 R2. I've noticed extreme memory usage on the server. After a reboot, it slowly builds up until almost all RAM memory is consumed. So I googled around and found this post...
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #44: The New Statesman still needs fixing Plus Channel Tunnel news, a NIMBY assault on an excellent pub, and more!
a month ago
Louwrentius
'Linux: using disk labels to counter storage device name changes' My router decided to change the device name for some USB storage devices. So /dev/sdc was swapped...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My router decided to change the device name for some USB storage devices. So /dev/sdc was swapped for /dev/sdd and vice versa. The result was some file system corruption on /dev/sdc, because it was used on a remote system through iSCSI, using a different file system from...
Jonas Hietala
Language spec in code blocks Even though I just recently restyled the blog and wasn’t going to touch it, there was one thing I...
a year ago
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a year ago
Even though I just recently restyled the blog and wasn’t going to touch it, there was one thing I wanted to add, but it felt a little bothersome so I skipped it. It was to display the highlighted language in code blocks: The code spec displays what programming language the code...
Louwrentius
Convert dos file to linux format wit vim If you have some file that has been saved on a (Win)do(w)s host you may notice that all lines end...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you have some file that has been saved on a (Win)do(w)s host you may notice that all lines end with ^M. To fix this, you can use the tool dos2unix. If however this tool is not at your disposal, you may have a problem. If vim is available, you do not have a problem: The trick...
Willem's Blog
Collecting health data with Biostrap Wearing a clinical-grade PPG sensor for a month to collect advanced biometrics from my wrist.
over a year ago
lcamtuf’s thing
The 101 of analog signal filtering Some intuition about this topic can be developed without summoning the ghost of Pierre-Simon...
5 months ago
computers are bad
2024-07-31 just disconnect the internet So, let's say that a security vendor, we'll call them ClownStrike, accidentally takes down most of...
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So, let's say that a security vendor, we'll call them ClownStrike, accidentally takes down most of their Windows install base with a poorly tested content update. Rough day at the office, huh? There are lots of things you could say about this, lots of reasons it happens this way,...
Jonas Hietala
My book 'Why Cryptocurrencies?' is done My first commit on my book Why Cryptocurrencies? is from Dec 19, 2018, and now about 17 months later...
over a year ago
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My first commit on my book Why Cryptocurrencies? is from Dec 19, 2018, and now about 17 months later and 1006 more commits I’m finally done! Well, I’m done with the online version at least. I still plan to create an e-book, a PDF and a paperback and who knows how long that will...
lcamtuf’s thing
The 8-bit (MCU) manifesto Eight-bit microcontrollers aren't relics; they are a design philosophy. You might want to use them...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Eight-bit microcontrollers aren't relics; they are a design philosophy. You might want to use them more.
Electronics etc…
Analyzing the Monoprice Blackbird HDCP 2.2 to 1.4 Down Converter Introduction Some Words about HDCP Inside the Monoprice Blackbird 4K Pro The Test Digging Deeper:...
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Introduction Some Words about HDCP Inside the Monoprice Blackbird 4K Pro The Test Digging Deeper: UART Transactions Decoding HDCP I2C Transactions The Legality of It All References Footnotes Introduction I got my hands on a Monoprice Blackbird 4K Pro HDCP 2.2 to 1.4...
latest projects -...
Simsim Pendant [Concept] Mercurial Medallion
10 months ago
Matt Blewitt
Thoughts on User Safety We need to move beyond mere security and towards safety for our customers and our users. This is how...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We need to move beyond mere security and towards safety for our customers and our users. This is how we can do that.
Posts on Made of...
Towards solving Ultimate Tic Tac Toe Summary: Read about my efforts to solve the game of Ultimate Tic Tac Toe. It’s been a fun journey...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Summary: Read about my efforts to solve the game of Ultimate Tic Tac Toe. It’s been a fun journey into interesting algorithms and high-performance parallel programming in Rust. Backstory Starting around the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdown, I’ve gotten myself deeply nerdsniped...
Old Vintage...
CAP-X and COMP-X: how the Tandy Pocket Computers got a sucky Japanese assembler I grew up primarily with the Commodore 64, where if you wanted to do anything really cool and...
10 months ago
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I grew up primarily with the Commodore 64, where if you wanted to do anything really cool and useful, you had to do it in 6502 assembly language. Today I still write 6502 assembly, plus some Power ISA and even a little TMS9900. I like assembly languages and how in control of the...
Willem's Blog
Backup Rotation Scheme Learn about the rsync-backup-rotator tool that helps you automatically rotate backups using rsync,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Learn about the rsync-backup-rotator tool that helps you automatically rotate backups using rsync, creating and maintaining multiple recovery points from your backups.
Willem's Blog
Optical vs chest strap heart rate monitors Understanding the differences in common HR monitors used in wearables, smartwatches and fitness...
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
2013 Read Books I actually read more books in 2013 than in 2012. In a somewhat unorganized list: Fiction Livet...
over a year ago
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I actually read more books in 2013 than in 2012. In a somewhat unorganized list: Fiction Livet Deluxe - Jens Lapidius Escape from camp 14 - Blaine Harden Wonderful. A great book. Edge - Jeffery Deaver Dollar - Lee Child Gisslan - Lee Child Bränd - Lee Child Besökaren - Lee...
Louwrentius
'Syslog: the hidden security risk' People sometimes forget that there are also a number of UDP-based services that may pose a threat to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
People sometimes forget that there are also a number of UDP-based services that may pose a threat to the security of your systems. SNMP is a well-known service, notorious for being configured with a default password (or community string). But there is another service that is...
./techtipsy
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...
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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...
Louwrentius
Achieving 2.3 GB/s with 16 x 4 TB drives I'm in the process of building a new storage server to replace my 18 TB NAS. The server is almost...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I'm in the process of building a new storage server to replace my 18 TB NAS. The server is almost finished, it's now down to adding disk drives. I'm using the HGST 4 TB 7200 RPM drive for this build (SKU 0S03356) (review). I have not bought all drives at once, but slowly adding...
Simply Explained
Building Air Quality Sensor: Luftdaten + Home Assistant Luftdaten (now Sensor Community) is a global sensor network that measures air quality around the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Luftdaten (now Sensor Community) is a global sensor network that measures air quality around the world. Best of all: it's open-source and anyone can build a sensor.I was very curious to see the air quality in my neighborhood, so I decided to build myself a sensor. And of course,...
lcamtuf’s thing
The secret lives of snowblowers Yes, they throw snow. But the mechanical design of residential snowblowers is more interesting than...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Yes, they throw snow. But the mechanical design of residential snowblowers is more interesting than it seems.
Matt Mullenweg
Everyone’s An Owner Last Friday we said goodbye to 159 colleagues as part of our alignment offer. It was a tough day,...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Last Friday we said goodbye to 159 colleagues as part of our alignment offer. It was a tough day, there are a lot of close relationships within Automattic, and goodbyes are always hard. On Monday, I got to be Oprah for a few minutes. We had scheduled a town hall for leaders...
Posts on Made of...
New Blog Location I finally got fed up with Blogger, and am moving this blog to live on Wordpress hosted off of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I finally got fed up with Blogger, and am moving this blog to live on Wordpress hosted off of scripts.mit.edu. In the process of converting everything over and setting up Wordpress I’ve decided I hate it, but hopefully I hate it less than I hate Blogger. We’ll see. I’ve also...
Jonas Hietala
Going to University I mentioned in the last post that I’m going to the university, which might explain my lack of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I mentioned in the last post that I’m going to the university, which might explain my lack of activity here and for that I’m sorry. It’s not as hard as I had imagined, and I don’t have that much in school but there’s still a lot that’s going on. For example now how to make...
Jonas Hietala
Let's build a VORON: Major failure The left POM nut got ground down, making the bed fall down. After 600 hours, the printer met it’s...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
The left POM nut got ground down, making the bed fall down. After 600 hours, the printer met it’s first major failure. I know I earlier described how the extruder starter skipping in a big way, but that was just some filament getting stuck in the extruder. This time a part...
./techtipsy
Lenovo ThinkPad P14s gen 4 (AMD): it doesn't suck under Linux I’ve had the opportunity to try out another new laptop at work. I’ve used a brand new laptop...
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I’ve had the opportunity to try out another new laptop at work. I’ve used a brand new laptop recently, and it was horrible. But this time I’m pleasantly surprised. The Lenovo ThinkPad P14s gen 4 has great specs: CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U (8 cores, 16 threads, up to 5.1 GHz) GPU:...
Jonas Hietala
My Dream Game: The RTS Even if there are a million great games there’s one that has a very special place in my heart:...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Even if there are a million great games there’s one that has a very special place in my heart: Supreme Commander. It’s not the game I’ve played the most and there might even be games which are better and more fun but supcom was the game that introduced me to competitive gaming...
Louwrentius
Tracking down a faulty Storage Array Controller with ZFS One day, I lost two virtual machines on our DR environment after a storage vMotion. Further...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One day, I lost two virtual machines on our DR environment after a storage vMotion. Further investigation uncovered that any storage vMotion of a virtual machine residing on our DR storage array would corrupt the virtual machine's disks. I could easily restore the affected...
Good Enough
TIL: Turbo Stream broadcasting needs default_url_options to be set We've been using Turbo Streams in some of our recent prototypes, which makes it really easy and fun...
a year ago
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a year ago
We've been using Turbo Streams in some of our recent prototypes, which makes it really easy and fun to get responsive and fun interactions set up. However, we kept having issues with images sent in a turbo stream response. If the response was delivered by a normal controller...
Good Enough
Cool URLs Don’t Die If you've been reading our newsletter (and you should be reading our newsletter) you will have seen...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you've been reading our newsletter (and you should be reading our newsletter) you will have seen that I've been building some printers. This is actually the resurrection of a project I began in 2012 with the help of some colleagues, and while I've been updating it, it's been...
Avestura's Blog
Versioning microservices in GitLab monorepos and polyrepos What are some possible options to version projects for a microservices project in Gitlab?
over a year ago
Louwrentius
Using InfiniBand for cheap and fast point-to-point Networking InfiniBand networking is quite awesome. It's mainly used for two reasons: low latency high...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
InfiniBand networking is quite awesome. It's mainly used for two reasons: low latency high bandwidth As a home user, I'm mainly interested in setting up a high bandwidth link between two servers. I was using quad-port network cards with Linux Bonding, but this solution has some...
Arduino Blog
Check out these Arduino-powered research projects from CHI 2024 Held in Hawaii this year, the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) hosted its annual conference...
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Held in Hawaii this year, the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) hosted its annual conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) that focuses on the latest developments in human-computer interaction. Students from universities all across the world attended the...
Willem's Blog
How to use rsync to make backups In this post I'll explain how to use rsync to transfer files to another computer system in an...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In this post I'll explain how to use rsync to transfer files to another computer system in an efficient manner, suitable to be used in a backup script.
Computer Ads from...
Comics from 1986/06 Australian Personal Computer Mag It’s that time of the month. This time let’s look at humor from down under. These comics are from...
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8 months ago
It’s that time of the month. This time let’s look at humor from down under. These comics are from the June 1986 issue of Australian Computer magazine. Enjoy! What computer ads would you like to see in the future? Please comment below. If you enjoyed it, please share it with your...
Louwrentius
RAID 5 is perfectly fine for home usage RAID 5 gets a lot of flak these days. You either run RAID 1, RAID 10 or you use RAID 6, but if you...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
RAID 5 gets a lot of flak these days. You either run RAID 1, RAID 10 or you use RAID 6, but if you run RAID 5 you're told that you are a crazy person. Using RAID 5 is portrayed as an unreasonable risk to the availability of your data. It is suggested that it is likely that you...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Two thought experiments to evaluate automated stablecoins
over a year ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
On Nathan Schneider on the limits of cryptoeconomics
over a year ago
Birchtree
That time Apple made Auido Hijack way worse, but eventually made it better for everyone Paul Kafasis: The Developers Who Came in From the Cold I’m delighted to say that we have completed...
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Paul Kafasis: The Developers Who Came in From the Cold I’m delighted to say that we have completed our transition to ARK, and it now powers all of our audio capture apps on MacOS 14 and higher. Our glorious hassle-free future has finally arrived, and you can get
Posts on Made of...
On git and usability I’ve been helping a number of people get started working with git over the last couple of weeks, as...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been helping a number of people get started working with git over the last couple of weeks, as Ksplice has brought on some new interns, and we’ve had to get them up to speed on our internal git repositories. (As you might expect from a bunch of kernel hackers, we use git for...
Willem's Blog
Limitations of sleep tracking using a wearable Limitations of heart rate analyses during sleep, why you should reconsider tracking your sleep.
over a year ago
Christian Selig
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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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,...
Home on Erik...
Functional programming is the libertarianism of software engineering This is a pretty dumb post, in which I argue that functional programming has a lot of the bad parts...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is a pretty dumb post, in which I argue that functional programming has a lot of the bad parts of libertarianism and a lot of the good parts: Both ideologies strive to eliminate [the] state.
Jonas Hietala
Minor site updates As it happens I got a little tired of the syntax highlighter Pandoc uses so on a whim I started...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As it happens I got a little tired of the syntax highlighter Pandoc uses so on a whim I started looking at moving to Pygments as my highlighter. With some searching around I found a blog post about just that! That’s lucky because while I like Haskell, I’ve never really grocked it...
Louwrentius
Linode hacked: the dark side of cloud hosting Linode has released an update about the security incident first reported on April 12, 2013. The...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Linode has released an update about the security incident first reported on April 12, 2013. The Linode Manager is the environment where you control your virtual private servers and where you pay for services. This is the environment that got compromised. Linode uses Adobe's...
Jonas Hietala
December Theme: New World Order The The Experimental Gameplay Project drives on with the Art Game theme which will last the rest of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The The Experimental Gameplay Project drives on with the Art Game theme which will last the rest of this year but that’s something we can’t accept! I’ve done my game and I didn’t force myself out from the Haskell world just to do nuthin so here’s a new little theme for me :) What...
Notes on software...
Tail call elimination In this post we'll explore what tail calls are, why they are useful, and how they can be eliminated...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In this post we'll explore what tail calls are, why they are useful, and how they can be eliminated in an interpreter, a compiler targeting C++, and a compiler targeting LLVM IR. Tail calls A tail call is a function call made at the end of a block that returns the value of the...
Louwrentius
Creating storage benchmark charts with FIO and GNUplot Edit 2019: I've made a new tool called 'fio-plot'to create various graphs. I use FIO to perform...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Edit 2019: I've made a new tool called 'fio-plot'to create various graphs. I use FIO to perform storage IO performance benchmarks. FIO does provide a script called "fio_generate_plots" which generates PNG or JPG based charts based on the data generated by FIO. The charts are...
Jonas Hietala
Moving to FastMail About two years ago after Lavabit’s shutdown I searched for a replacement email provider. For some...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
About two years ago after Lavabit’s shutdown I searched for a replacement email provider. For some reason I settled on eumx which I used since then. Yesterday I got an email saying the recurring billing could not be renewed as I had my old credit card registered and it got me...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Reverse engineering the 59-pound printer onboard the Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle contained a bulky printer so the astronauts could receive procedures, mission...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
The Space Shuttle contained a bulky printer so the astronauts could receive procedures, mission plans, weather reports, crew activity plans, and other documents. Needed for the first Shuttle launch in 1981, this printer was designed in just 7 months, built around an Army...
Applied Cartography
Au revoir, Invoke It's not quite interesting or noteworthy enough to warrant a full-on essay, but yesterday we...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
It's not quite interesting or noteworthy enough to warrant a full-on essay, but yesterday we unshipped the last remaining Invoke commands and ported them over to just. I think Invoke is a good, cool project, and I wish it well. If you're at the precise intersection of "you have...
computers are bad
2024-01-21 multi-channel audio part 1 Stereophonic or two-channel audio is so ubiquitous today that we tend to refer to all kinds of...
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Stereophonic or two-channel audio is so ubiquitous today that we tend to refer to all kinds of pieces of consumer audio reproduction equipment as "a stereo." As you might imagine, this is a relatively modern phenomenon. While stereo audio in concept dates to the late 19th...
Christian Selig
Using PHPickerViewController Images in a Memory-Efficient Way PHPickerViewController is (in my opinion) one of the more exciting parts of iOS 14. We developers...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
PHPickerViewController is (in my opinion) one of the more exciting parts of iOS 14. We developers now have a fully-fledged photo picker that we can just use, rather than having to spend a bunch of our time creating our own (much like SFSafariViewController did for developers and...
Jonas Hietala
A friendly game of Twilight Imperium A few weeks ago I played my first game of Twilight Imperium (Fourth Edition). It was fantastic. We...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A few weeks ago I played my first game of Twilight Imperium (Fourth Edition). It was fantastic. We were six players, most had played the third edition before. As I was quite hyped before the game, I had read up on the rules, watched a let’s play or two and listened to a podcast...
Engineers Need Art
VPX Scripting - Part 1 (Teacher's Pet) The first in a series of posts about scripting Visual Pinball tables.
8 months ago
Jonas Hietala
Coconut Cauliflower Curry Mash It’s time for lesson 3. I made the mistake of not planning for something to augment the mash with,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It’s time for lesson 3. I made the mistake of not planning for something to augment the mash with, but a simple salad had to do: It was okay. Girlfriend gave it 5/10 and I gave it a 6/10, a higher rating would be possible if there was something else to eat it with.
Arduino Blog
Use sound to trigger your camera’s flash with this DIY device In the world of photography, the exposure triangle is immutable. To get a properly exposed photo...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
In the world of photography, the exposure triangle is immutable. To get a properly exposed photo (not too bright or too dark), you need a balance of aperture size (how much light gets in), shutter speed (how long the light gets in), and ISO (sensitivity to light at the expense of...
Home on Erik...
I already found the best gifs Just search for “hackers gif“. There you go. Fun for your work emails for the next 500 years. From...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Just search for “hackers gif“. There you go. Fun for your work emails for the next 500 years. From the awesome movie Hackers. That movie together with The Warriors convinced me that I wanted to live in NYC when I was like… 14 years old.
Vitalik Buterin's...
Gitcoin Grants Round 6 Retrospective
over a year ago
./techtipsy
My trip to the Communication and Laptop Museum in Estonia While on vacation I went on a small road-trip across Estonia. During the second half of the trip I...
a year ago
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a year ago
While on vacation I went on a small road-trip across Estonia. During the second half of the trip I ended up being in Võrumaa, and while driving I suddenly remembered a random fact that some people mentioned in a hackerspace Slack channel: there’s a new museum around here! The...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Exit games for EVM validiums: the return of Plasma
a year ago
Birchtree
OpenAI is early Googling late-stage Google Chuck W. Nelson: Google's Search Results Are Infested, and Open AI Is Using Google's Playbook From...
5 days ago
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5 days ago
Chuck W. Nelson: Google's Search Results Are Infested, and Open AI Is Using Google's Playbook From the 2000s In order for Google to keep its crown, it needs to remember what it was in the 2000s and a bit of luck. Seeing Google grow from the
Jonas Hietala
Writing a Pollen lexer in Pygments After writing a few blog posts about Pollen I started getting annoyed that I didn’t have syntax...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
After writing a few blog posts about Pollen I started getting annoyed that I didn’t have syntax highlighting for the code snippets. So I did a bit of fooling around with Pygments, and it turns out writing a custom lexer isn’t that unreasonable, so here’s how I did it. Pollen...
Simply Explained
Monitoring my 3D printer with a Pi Zero, Home Assistant and TinyCore Linux Many devices in my home have become "smart" over the last couple of months, with one big exception:...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Many devices in my home have become "smart" over the last couple of months, with one big exception: my trusty 3D printer. It's a super reliable Prusa i3 MK3, but it lacks an internet connection.So I decided to use a Pi Zero to keep track of my 3D prints and send the progress to...
Jonas Hietala
My first rust Contribution The problem with open-source for most people isn’t writing code, but it’s all the other things. How...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The problem with open-source for most people isn’t writing code, but it’s all the other things. How shall I push my changes? How do I handle git? What should I do? I was the same and I actually dreaded my awesome summer job, just a little bit, because now I’m supposed to...
computers are bad
2024-09-26 the GE switched services network We currently find ourselves in something of a series, working our way from private lines to...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
We currently find ourselves in something of a series, working our way from private lines to large private line systems like the four-wire private-line national warning system. Let's continue to build on the concept of the private line into large corporate systems. In principle, a...
Posts on Made of...
A brief look at Linux's security record After the fuss of the last two weeks because of CVE-2010-3081 and CVE-2010-3301, I decided to take a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
After the fuss of the last two weeks because of CVE-2010-3081 and CVE-2010-3301, I decided to take a look at a handful of the high-profile privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux from the last few years. So, here's a summary of the ones I picked out. There are also a large...
Home on Erik...
Interview with a Data Scientist: Erik Bernhardsson I was featured in Peadar Coyle's interview series interviewing various “data scientists” – which is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I was featured in Peadar Coyle's interview series interviewing various “data scientists” – which is kind of arguable since (a) all the other ppl in that series are much cooler than me (b) I'm not really a data scientist.
computers are bad
2024-03-09 the purple streetscape Across the United States, streets are taking on a strange hue at night. Purple. Purple streetlights...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Across the United States, streets are taking on a strange hue at night. Purple. Purple streetlights have been reported in Tampa, Vancouver, Wichita, Boston. They're certainly in evidence here in Albuquerque, where Coal through downtown has turned almost entirely to mood lighting....
axio.ms
Colourclock Original concept circa 2008, revisited 2012, hardware designed Feb 2014, firmware designed...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Original concept circa 2008, revisited 2012, hardware designed Feb 2014, firmware designed April-August 2014, project completed August 2014, installed in spare room in 2016, written up in March 2018 (jeeez…) Acrylic, LEDs, ARM Cortex-M0 microcontroller. ...
Notes on software...
Zig, Rust, and other languages Having worked a bit in Zig, Rust, Go and now C, I think there are a few common topics worth having a...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Having worked a bit in Zig, Rust, Go and now C, I think there are a few common topics worth having a fresh conversation on: automatic memory management, the standard library, and explicit allocation. Zig is not a mature language. But it has made enough useful choices for a number...
Christian Selig
Instant Pan Gesture Interactions Apple has a really awesome WWDC 2018 video called Designing Fluid Interfaces, and one of the key...
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Apple has a really awesome WWDC 2018 video called Designing Fluid Interfaces, and one of the key takeaways from the videos that one of the presenters, Chan Karunamuni, said is “Look for delays everywhere. Everything needs to respond instantly.” (6:28) A really great example of...
Jonas Hietala
Browse posts with telescope.nvim I’ve used telescope.nvim's find files with require("telescope.builtin").find_files for quite some...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
I’ve used telescope.nvim's find files with require("telescope.builtin").find_files for quite some time. I use find files together with it’s cousin .oldfiles (find recently opened files) all the time for finding source code files, blog posts, and more. But it’s naturally...
Arduino Blog
Save 20% on Arduino Cloud Maker Plan this May! Enhance your IoT projects with our special offer! Get 20% off a yearly subscription to the Arduino...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Enhance your IoT projects with our special offer! Get 20% off a yearly subscription to the Arduino Cloud Maker Plan using code CLOUD20MAY. Valid until the end of May, this deal saves you $14.38, reducing the price from $71.88 to $57.50. Benefits of the Maker Plan: What is Arduino...
Home on Erik...
Language pitch Here's a fun analysis that I did of the pitch (aka. frequency) of various languages. Certain...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Here's a fun analysis that I did of the pitch (aka. frequency) of various languages. Certain languages are simply pronounced with lower or higher pitch. Whether this is a feature of the language or more a cultural thing is a good question, but there are some substantial...
Notes on software...
Studying foreign languages with inbox zero The only time I've been able to seriously, rapidly improve my ability to speak a foreign language...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The only time I've been able to seriously, rapidly improve my ability to speak a foreign language was through intensive language courses in college. I was forced to actively speak, read, and write Chinese for 6-8 hours a week (1-2 hours every day). Then study another 5-10 hours a...
Style over Substance
M4 Hex Socket Thumbscrew Knob Caps For the past few weeks I’ve been teaching myself how to use Fusion 360, a free online cloud-based...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For the past few weeks I’ve been teaching myself how to use Fusion 360, a free online cloud-based CAD/CAM program that lets you create your own 3D designs. The best way to learn how to use a new program is to build something you actually need. And my latest design is a work in...
Louwrentius
Creating a basic ZFS file system on Linux Here are some notes on creating a basic ZFS file system on Linux, using ZFS on Linux. I'm...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Here are some notes on creating a basic ZFS file system on Linux, using ZFS on Linux. I'm documenting the scenario where I just want to create a file system that can tollerate at least a single drive failure and can be shared over NFS. Identify the drives you want to use for the...
Arduino Blog
This rolling ball game brings Skee-Ball-style fun from the arcade to your home Ask your friends about their favorite games at the arcade and the most common answer will likely be...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Ask your friends about their favorite games at the arcade and the most common answer will likely be Skee-Ball. But while many other popular arcade games have viable at-home alternatives, Skee-Ball doesn’t — at least not unless you’re willing to spend a serious amount of money....
Home on Erik...
Meta-blogging (This is not a very relevant/useful post for regular readers – feel free to skip. I thought I would...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
(This is not a very relevant/useful post for regular readers – feel free to skip. I thought I would share it so people can find it on Google.) My blog blew up twice in a week earlier this year when I landed on Hacker News.
Simply Explained
I Built a CO2 Sensor and It Terrifies Me Governments are pushing CO2 sensors to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, but proper ventilation is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Governments are pushing CO2 sensors to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, but proper ventilation is equally important for our health and even our cognitive performance.In this blog post we'll look at a DIY CO2 sensor: how it runs ESPHome, how it integrates with Home Assistant, how it...
Vitalik Buterin's...
The Revenue-Evil Curve: a different way to think about prioritizing public goods funding
over a year ago
Louwrentius
Is the iPhone OS a threat to our freedom? There is one fundamental flaw with both the iPhone and the iPad. As a user, you do not have full...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There is one fundamental flaw with both the iPhone and the iPad. As a user, you do not have full control over your device. You can only install or run software that is approved by Apple. This is something that is unprecedented. All major platforms, Windows, Linux, Mac OS X do...
Louwrentius
Compiling Multicore PAR2 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin If you want to compile PAR2 with multicore support on Linux, it may not work right away from source....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you want to compile PAR2 with multicore support on Linux, it may not work right away from source. I used this version of PAR2 with multicore support. Update 2015: the original link is dead, I foud a copy of the source and put it on my own site here for you to download. First,...
Vitalik Buterin's...
The different types of ZK-EVMs
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
How I did the layout for my self-published book This is a rundown of how I typeset and laid out my self-published book for the web version, the EPUB...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
This is a rundown of how I typeset and laid out my self-published book for the web version, the EPUB version, and the printed version. I was planning to include many more details, but the project took a lot longer than planned so I’ve forgotten some things. Web page I started...
Arduino Blog
Coolest controllers ever? Icy gamepads melt in users’ hands Nintendo’s Joy-Con controller system is very innovative and generally well-regarded, with one major...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Nintendo’s Joy-Con controller system is very innovative and generally well-regarded, with one major exception: stick drift. That’s a reliability issue that eventually affects a large percentage of Joy-Cons, to the frustration of gamers. But what if that was intentional and...
Christian Selig
Juno for YouTube has been removed from the App Store For those not aware, a few months ago after reaching out to me, YouTube contacted the App Store...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
For those not aware, a few months ago after reaching out to me, YouTube contacted the App Store stating that Juno does not adhere to YouTube guidelines and modifies the website in a way they don’t approve of, and alludes to their trademarks and iconography. I don’t personally...
Style over Substance
My Home Assistant setup (2023 edition) For the past few years, I have been running Home Assistant to make my apartment a smart home. It’s...
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For the past few years, I have been running Home Assistant to make my apartment a smart home. It’s become such a hobby of mine that I’ve even started coding add-ons for it. While there are other popular automation platforms, Home Assistant’s versatility blows the rest out of the...
Construction Physics
The Long Road to Fiber Optics Over the past six decades, advances in computers and microprocessors have completely reshaped our...
3 months ago
Lighthouse Blog
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6 months ago
Style over Substance
How to use a Phase One H20 digital back on a medium format Hasselblad V camera (500EL/M) My newest purchase was a bit of a gamble. I bought a $500 Phase One H20 digital back for my...
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My newest purchase was a bit of a gamble. I bought a $500 Phase One H20 digital back for my Hasselblad 500EL/M medium format camera. Or, simply put, I bought an expensive old gadget for my even older analog camera, making it a digital camera. A gadget that was released in the...
Arduino Blog
ThermoGrasp brings thermal feedback to virtual reality Imagine playing Half-Life: Alyx and feeling the gun heat up in your hand as you take down The...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Imagine playing Half-Life: Alyx and feeling the gun heat up in your hand as you take down The Combine. Or operating a robot through augmented reality and feeling coldness on your fingers when you get close to exceeding the robot’s limits. A prototype device called ThermoGrasp...
Home on Erik...
What can startups learn from Koch Industries? I recently finished the excellent book Kochland. This isn't my first interest in Koch—I read The...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I recently finished the excellent book Kochland. This isn't my first interest in Koch—I read The Science of Success by Charles Koch himself a couple of years ago. Charles Koch inherited a tiny company in 1967 and turned it into one of the world's largest ones.
Notes on software...
Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 2. user-defined functions and variables Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 3. LLVM 4. LLVM conditionals and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 3. LLVM 4. LLVM conditionals and compiling fibonacci 5. LLVM system calls 6. an x86 upgrade In this post we'll extend the compiler to support defining functions and variables. Additionally, we'll require the...
Push to Prod
When Things Are Slow, Look for Queues When your system is slower than desired, queues are often heavily involved. Here's an overview of...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
When your system is slower than desired, queues are often heavily involved. Here's an overview of the most common situations.
Vitalik Buterin's...
Verkle trees
over a year ago
./techtipsy
How to build a fleet of networked offsite backups using Linux, WireGuard and rsync Just like most people out there, I have some files that are irreplaceable, such as cat pictures. At...
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Just like most people out there, I have some files that are irreplaceable, such as cat pictures. At one point I had a few single-board computers sitting idle, namely the Orange Pi Zero and the LattePanda V1, and a few 1TB SSD-s. I hate idle hardware, so I did the most sensible...
Notes on software...
Responsibility and ownership Responsibility is only possible by granting ownership and setting expectations. If you don't turn...
over a year ago
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Responsibility is only possible by granting ownership and setting expectations. If you don't turn over ownership, don't expect folks to take responsibility. When you grant ownership and set expectations, you'll be astounded what folks will accomplish without you. I am astounded.
Applied Cartography
Bozos Kevin Twohy has a list of heuristics for new projects/clients, and my favorite is simple: No Bozos....
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Kevin Twohy has a list of heuristics for new projects/clients, and my favorite is simple: No Bozos. Simple policy. No exceptions. You know it when you see it. Every founder has a story about the time that they ignored the red flags and bent over backwards for a particularly...
Style over Substance
Create a Hue-compatible DIY LED light sculpture Learn how to create your own Hue compatible LED light sculpture, inspired by by the REFLEKTION art,...
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Learn how to create your own Hue compatible LED light sculpture, inspired by by the REFLEKTION art, using cheap LED strips and DIY parts you can order online. The post Create a Hue-compatible DIY LED light sculpture appeared first on Style over Substance.
Jonas Hietala
Printing Hextraction for my kids A session of Hextraction, a 3D printed board game. I did it. I made something actually useful with...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
A session of Hextraction, a 3D printed board game. I did it. I made something actually useful with my 3D printer instead of just tinkering with it. I printed Hextraction, a very cool 3D printed board game for my kids—and they love it. Hextraction is a gamified marble run, where...
Azad's Blog
Traveling with Apple Vision Pro The Vision Pro has quickly become an essential item that I take onto every flight. It’s a fantastic...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
The Vision Pro has quickly become an essential item that I take onto every flight. It’s a fantastic device to travel with—Be it by train or by plane, it offers an unparalleled opportunity to selectively tune out your environment and sink into an engaging activity like watching a...
./techtipsy
How to save an old printer from the e-waste pile with a Raspberry Pi A family member has a Canon PIXMA MP250 printer, originally released in 2009. It has been a very...
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A family member has a Canon PIXMA MP250 printer, originally released in 2009. It has been a very reliable piece of hardware, especially for a printer. Then came Windows 10. The printer would not work out of the box with it and the official drivers got stuck during installation....
Arduino Blog
This fake CRT TV works using lasers and UV magic Until the 21st century, cathode-ray tube (CRT) TVs were pretty much the only option. As such, media...
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Until the 21st century, cathode-ray tube (CRT) TVs were pretty much the only option. As such, media was made to suit them. Retro video game consoles in particular look best on CRT TVs. But those old TVs are getting hard to find and desirable models are now quite expensive. So,...
Posts on Made of...
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,...
over a year ago
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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...
Willem's Blog
Measuring cholesterol levels in blood This week I had my blood examined to measure my cholesterol levels, taking a lipid profile. Know...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This week I had my blood examined to measure my cholesterol levels, taking a lipid profile. Know your LDL, HDL and Triglycerides numbers with a simple test.
Home on Erik...
Iterate or die Here's a conclusion I've made building consumer products for many years: the speed at which a...
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over a year ago
Here's a conclusion I've made building consumer products for many years: the speed at which a company innovates is limited by its iteration speed. I don't even mean throughput here. I just mean the cycle time.
GitButler
GitButler is now Fair Source GitButler is now officially one of the first members of the Fair Source movement, helping to shift...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
GitButler is now officially one of the first members of the Fair Source movement, helping to shift closed source to publicly available software by default.
Style over Substance
Using the Olympus XA as an everyday carry camera The Olympus XA has been my EDC camera this year and I gotta say – it’s a ton of fun. The concept of...
over a year ago
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The Olympus XA has been my EDC camera this year and I gotta say – it’s a ton of fun. The concept of EDC – Every Day Carry – is that a piece of equipment should be light and compact enough to have with you every day, yet still versatile enough to be useful in […] The post Using...
Applied Cartography
Are monopolies bad, actually? One of the more interesting theses advanced by Zero to One [1] is that monopolies are good to the...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
One of the more interesting theses advanced by Zero to One [1] is that monopolies are good to the extent that they afford companies the agency and comfort to engage in long-term activities: Monopolists can think about things other than making money; non-monopolists can’t. In...
anderegg.ca
My 2024 Upgradies Picks The latest instalment of The Upgradies is coming soon from our friends at the Upgrade podcast. I...
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The latest instalment of The Upgradies is coming soon from our friends at the Upgrade podcast. I submitted my recommendations earlier today, and thought it would be fun to share my picks. Best Overall iOS App Bear I once again don’t have a new app for this category, but Bear has...
Louwrentius
My home lab server with 20 cores / 40 threads and 128 GB memory Update fall 2024 I have decided to decomission this machine and it is no longer in use. As of this...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Update fall 2024 I have decided to decomission this machine and it is no longer in use. As of this moment, it's replaced by a cluster of four 1L PCs which use about a third of the idle power usage and boot within 20 seconds. The single-core performance of these low-power 1L PCs...
Willem's Blog
Dig for dummies Learn how to use the dig command to query domain name servers to find the source of network...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Learn how to use the dig command to query domain name servers to find the source of network problems, IP-addresses, hostnames, mail servers and related info.
Jonas Hietala
Being Productive School’s been going on now for… Is it a month and a half maybe? I don’t know really but it’s all...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
School’s been going on now for… Is it a month and a half maybe? I don’t know really but it’s all going so fast, week after week is disappearing and I don’t know where they go but I know that I’m at least not wasting them like I did most of last year! Last year I managed school...
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Blockchain explained simply A blockchain is a distributed database. Bitcoin, Ethereum and Dogecoin are all different databases....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A blockchain is a distributed database. Bitcoin, Ethereum and Dogecoin are all different databases. A blockchain node is a computer with an…
Home on Erik...
Learning from users faster using machine learning I had an interesting idea a few weeks ago, best explained through an example. Let's say you're...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I had an interesting idea a few weeks ago, best explained through an example. Let's say you're running an e-commerce site (I kind of do) and you want to optimize the number of purchases. Let's also say we try to learn as much as we can from users, both using A/B tests but also...
Jonas Hietala
Postmortem: Jonas IceCream Stand Ah my latest game Jonas IceCream Stand is finished and up and running and I’m really proud of it!...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
Jonas Hietala
A small LED Cube As a follow up of my hobby project goals this autumn I have now completed the smallest goal there. I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As a follow up of my hobby project goals this autumn I have now completed the smallest goal there. I got started a little with soldering by constructing a small 3x3x3 LED cube. Although extremely hard to see in this picture it actually worked without a hitch! It’s not the...
Simply Explained
ESP32 Cam: cropping images on device The ESP32 camera is the cheapest microcontroller with a built-in camera that you can buy. The OV2640...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The ESP32 camera is the cheapest microcontroller with a built-in camera that you can buy. The OV2640 sensor has a max resolution of 1600x1200, but sometimes you don't need the entire image.In this post I'll show how to crop the images on the ESP32 itself, before sending it of to...
Good Enough
TIL: Use touch-action: manipulation; to avoid double-tap-to-zoom Recently we built and launched A Good Enough Guestbook, a place where you can send us doodles and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Recently we built and launched A Good Enough Guestbook, a place where you can send us doodles and they’ll print out on our little printer. It’s quite lovely and fun, and you should send us a doodle. We might also have more in store for these printers in the future. In the...
Posts on Made of...
Some opinionated thoughts on SQL databases People who work with me tend to realize that I have Opinions about databases, and SQL databases in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
People who work with me tend to realize that I have Opinions about databases, and SQL databases in particular. Last week, I wrote about a Postgres debugging story and tweeted about AWS’ policy ban on internal use of SQL databases, and had occasion to discuss and debate some of...
Applied Cartography
Tailwind black magic: styling paragraphs within tables The new version of the Buttondown docs site is all in on Keystatic, Markdoc, and Tailwind's...
9 months ago
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The new version of the Buttondown docs site is all in on Keystatic, Markdoc, and Tailwind's typography plugin — which makes it really easy to author beautiful docs in plaintext. We ran into one small issue, which is that the Markdoc renderer likes to place paragraph tags in table...
Gwern.net Newsletter
August 2020 gwern.net newsletter with an essay on sidenotes; links on human competence, efficient-computing/hardware-overhangs; no...
over a year ago
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Using wpa_supplicant on Debian/Ubuntu I’ve been using wpa_supplicant to manage wifi on my Ubuntu laptop for a while, and have found that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been using wpa_supplicant to manage wifi on my Ubuntu laptop for a while, and have found that it’s pretty close to what I want for managing wireless — closer than anything else I’ve found, at least. I figured I should document my setup and experiences. Some Background You...
Posts on Made of...
Test suites as classifiers Suppose we have some codebase we’re considering applying some patch to, and which has a robust and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Suppose we have some codebase we’re considering applying some patch to, and which has a robust and maintained test suite. Considering the patch, we may ask, is this patch acceptable to apply and deploy. By this we mean to ask if the patch breaks any important functionality,...
Lighthouse Blog
New feature: RSS feed export
a month ago
Arduino Blog
Discover #Virgil: history comes to life with Arduino We’re excited to introduce #Virgil, an innovative project that combines the power of Arduino...
2 months ago
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We’re excited to introduce #Virgil, an innovative project that combines the power of Arduino technology with a passion for history, creating a groundbreaking interactive experience for museums.  Using Arduino’s versatile and scalable ecosystem, #Virgil operates completely...
Lighthouse Blog
Updates January 19
11 months ago
Jonas Hietala
The eBook for 'Why Cryptocurrencies?' is now available for free The eBook for my book Why Cryptocurrencies? is now available for free. It’s been almost 4 years...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
The eBook for my book Why Cryptocurrencies? is now available for free. It’s been almost 4 years since the web version was done, and 3 since the physical copy was available… Which can hardly be called a success. Things happened, so let’s do a quick retrospective to, maybe, learn...
./techtipsy
How to make digital copies of your old video tapes Introduction This is a short overview of one way to take your old video tapes and make digital...
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Introduction This is a short overview of one way to take your old video tapes and make digital copies of their contents. To get started, you will need the following: old video tapes that you want to make copies of (VHS and its variants) a device that can read analog AV signals...
Buck on Software
Explaining the growth software sell-off The terminal value double whammy of rising interest rates
over a year ago
Notes on software...
Writing an x86 emulator from scratch in JavaScript: 1. a stack and register machine Better yet, take a look at this post walking through emulating x86 ELF binaries in Go: Emulating...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Better yet, take a look at this post walking through emulating x86 ELF binaries in Go: Emulating linux/AMD64 userland: interpreting an ELF binary 2. system calls In this post we'll create a small virtual machine in JavaScript and use it to run a simple C program compiled...
Home on Erik...
Are data sets the new server rooms? This blog post Data sets are the new server rooms makes the point that a bunch of companies raise a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This blog post Data sets are the new server rooms makes the point that a bunch of companies raise a ton of money to go get really proprietary awesome data as a competitive moat. Because once you have the data, you can build a better product, and no one can copy it (at least not...
Abort Retry Fail
The History of Slackware The Oldest Surviving Linux Distribution
a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Geekhack Toxic I came back to Linköping yesterday and I had a package waiting for me to pick it up. What could it...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I came back to Linköping yesterday and I had a package waiting for me to pick it up. What could it be? With a crummy mobile phone photo I give you my TOXIC keycaps mounted on my trusty old das keyboard: Woooo If only my GH60 could arrive some time this decade…
Willem's Blog
WordPress: 10 tips to secure your website A lot of people use WordPress to manage their website. Prevent your site from being hacked using...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A lot of people use WordPress to manage their website. Prevent your site from being hacked using this blog post.
Jonas Hietala
September theme: Failure I’m out of the busy mode and here’s the new theme! I’ve got an idea and I’ll be beginning very soon...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’m out of the busy mode and here’s the new theme! I’ve got an idea and I’ll be beginning very soon I hope and again I’m following Experimental Gameplay Project’s site. Let’s rock!!
Home on Erik...
On the Equifax breach and how to really prevent identity theft A funny thing about being a foreigner is how you realize people take broken things for granted. I'm...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A funny thing about being a foreigner is how you realize people take broken things for granted. I'm going to go out on a limb here claiming that the US has a pretty dumb banking system.
Willem's Blog
Is the Apple Watch the modern tool watch? I tested the Apple Watch during my work in Frankfurt this week where I had to go inside an internet...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I tested the Apple Watch during my work in Frankfurt this week where I had to go inside an internet data centre.
Notes on software...
Generating a full-stack application from a database DBCore can now generate a TypeScript/React CRUD UI that is automatically hooked up to the generated...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
DBCore can now generate a TypeScript/React CRUD UI that is automatically hooked up to the generated REST API (in Go). The UI has full support for login, viewing (and filtering), editing, and creating database entities. PostgreSQL, SQLite and MySQL are supported. How to use? The...
Arduino Blog
Build Button Clash in minutes: a new fun game with Plug and Make Kit  The Arduino Plug and Make Kit is all about turning creative sparks into reality in mere minutes....
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The Arduino Plug and Make Kit is all about turning creative sparks into reality in mere minutes. With its intuitive, snap-together design, even the wildest ideas become achievable – fast, fun, and frustration-free. That’s exactly what Julián Caro Linares, Arduino’s Product...
lcamtuf’s thing
Dispatches from the farm upstate Middle-aged computer expert opts to escape civilization, offers dubious life advice.
5 months ago
Electronics etc…
Making Screenshots of Test Equipment Old and New Introduction Screenshot Capturing Interfaces Hardware and Software Tools Capturing GPIB data in Talk...
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Introduction Screenshot Capturing Interfaces Hardware and Software Tools Capturing GPIB data in Talk Only mode TDS 540 Oscilloscope - GPIB - PCL Output HP 54542A Oscilloscope - Parallel Port - PCL or HPGL Output HP Inifinium 54825A Oscilloscope - Parallel Port - Encapsulated...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Plurality philosophy in an incredibly oversized nutshell
4 months ago
Willem's Blog
Tablet as Tool Discover the hidden advantages of the iPad Pro in this insightful blog post, offering tips and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Discover the hidden advantages of the iPad Pro in this insightful blog post, offering tips and personal experiences to help you maximise the tablet's potential and redefine your workflow.
Willem's Blog
CAPTCHA Alternative If you're looking for a user-friendly alternative for CAPTCHA's you should check this post out where...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you're looking for a user-friendly alternative for CAPTCHA's you should check this post out where I outline how I protect web forms against malicious actors and spammers.
Louwrentius
Do not buy a hardware RAID controller for home use Hardware RAID controllers are considered 'the best' solution for high performance and high...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Hardware RAID controllers are considered 'the best' solution for high performance and high availability. However, this is not entirely true. Using a hardware RAID controller might even endanger your precious data. For enterprise environments, where performance is critical, it is...
Arduino Blog
A DIY bottle-labeling machine perfect for homebrewers While it is certainly possible (and common) to put homebrewed beer into kegs, that requires...
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While it is certainly possible (and common) to put homebrewed beer into kegs, that requires regulated gas and large refrigeration space. A keg is also more difficult to transport and overkill if you just want to bring a few beers to a friend’s backyard BBQ. For those reasons,...
Construction Physics
How Good Are American Roads? We’re in an era where US infrastructure is getting a lot of attention.
a month ago
Louwrentius
Monitor power usage with your UPS If a system is connected to a UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply), it is possible to determine how...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If a system is connected to a UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply), it is possible to determine how much power it consumes. For this purpose, I wrote a small script: Host:~# ./ups.sh UPS model: Back-UPS RS 1200 LCD APC model: Back-UPS RS 1200 LC Capacity: 720 Watt Load: 18...
Notes on software...
Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 6. LLVM system calls Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 2. user-defined functions and variables ...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 2. user-defined functions and variables 3. LLVM 4. LLVM conditionals and compiling fibonacci 5. an x86 upgrade In this post we'll extend the ulisp compiler's LLVM backend to support printing integers to...
computers are bad
2023-06-07 something up there - nasa and uaps A brief note on Grusch First, a disclaimer of sorts: I am posting another article on UAPs, yet I...
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A brief note on Grusch First, a disclaimer of sorts: I am posting another article on UAPs, yet I am not addressing the recent claims by David Grusch. This is for a couple of reasons. First, I am skeptical of Grusch. He is not the first seemingly well-positioned former...
./techtipsy
ThinkPad as a server: third time's the charm This is a follow-up to my two previous attempts on this topic: Can a laptop from 2012 be a viable...
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This is a follow-up to my two previous attempts on this topic: Can a laptop from 2012 be a viable home server? ThinkPad as a server: the follow-up Since then, I’ve had quite a few changes to my home server setup: I put my home server stuff on an IKEA pegboard I tried the...
Louwrentius
Compiling Ceph on the Raspberry Pi 3B+ (armhf) using Clang/LLVM UPDATE 2019 / 2020 There are official ARM64 binaries of Ceph that you can run on a 64-bit version of...
over a year ago
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UPDATE 2019 / 2020 There are official ARM64 binaries of Ceph that you can run on a 64-bit version of Ubuntu 18.04. Important: I consider this page obsolete. I will keep it up for transparency's sake Introduction In this blog post I'll show you how to compile Ceph Luminous for...
Applied Cartography
PSA: mess around with Kolo I had bookmarked Kolo many months ago to try out and finally got a chance to integrate it with...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
I had bookmarked Kolo many months ago to try out and finally got a chance to integrate it with Buttondown — a process that I expected to take a couple hours on a lazy Sunday and in fact took ten minutes and three lines of code. If you have a Django app, I think you should drop...
Ian's Blog
Why my Apps Aren't Available on Apple Vision Pro Recently I have received some questions from users of both TLS Inspector and DNS Inspector enquiring...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Recently I have received some questions from users of both TLS Inspector and DNS Inspector enquiring why the apps aren't available on Apple's new Vision Pro headset. While I have briefly discussed this over on my Mastodon, I figured it might be worthwhile putting things down with...
Posts on Made of...
How I Write Tests The longer I spend as a software engineer, the more obsessive I get about testing. I fully subscribe...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
Jonas Hietala
Rewriting my blog in Rust for fun and profit Background I’ve used Hakyll as my static site generator for around 9 years now. Before that I think...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Background I’ve used Hakyll as my static site generator for around 9 years now. Before that I think I used Jekyll and also more dynamic pages with Mojolicious in Perl and Kohana in PHP, but I can’t be completely sure as the git history doesn’t go back that far. But all good...
Old Vintage...
One-parting some Commodore 64 utilities for fun and profit I've got a few retrocomputing bucket list items I'm slowly working down, and a couple of them...
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I've got a few retrocomputing bucket list items I'm slowly working down, and a couple of them involve some little Commodore 64 games I've had kicking around on the backburner. However, every game needs media assets, and while there are many great tools for doing art on your...
Jonas Hietala
Postmortem: MenuCity Good times, good times. MenuCity has been out a while and thanks for all the positive and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Good times, good times. MenuCity has been out a while and thanks for all the positive and constructive feedback guys, it’s like my food doing this (programming is my air and the fun is the water… err). Anyway here’s the postmortem of my latest, and greatest, game. Let’s start...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Notes on Blockchain Governance
over a year ago
Home on Erik...
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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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!
Jonas Hietala
2021 in review A new year is always a good time to review the past year. Funny how this is already the 12th year...
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over a year ago
A new year is always a good time to review the past year. Funny how this is already the 12th year I’ve done this kind of quick review… Time sure flies. 2021 Non-Geek Achievements Started strength training using a strength coach from Kabuki. I got inspired by the book Peak that...
Willem's Blog
Cleaning a vintage watch This week I cleaned an automatic vintage watch and fitted it to with a new strap, rediscovering old...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This week I cleaned an automatic vintage watch and fitted it to with a new strap, rediscovering old beauty underneath layers of dirt!
Opsbros
Nix Windows Feedback There turns out to be a far easier way to disable the 'Win+F' Windows Feedback app.
over a year ago
Home on Erik...
How to set compensation using commonsense principles Compensation has always been one of the most confusing parts of management to me. Getting it right...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Compensation has always been one of the most confusing parts of management to me. Getting it right is obviously extremely important. Compensation is what drives our entire economy, and you could look at the market for labor as one gigantic resource-allocating machine in the same...
Arduino Blog
Get notified of impending floods with this Arduino Nano 33 IoT-based display As climate change continues to worsen, events such as heavy rains, hurricanes, and atmospheric...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
As climate change continues to worsen, events such as heavy rains, hurricanes, and atmospheric rivers have only intensified, and with them, large amounts of flooding that pose serious risks to life and property. Jude Pullen and Pete Milne, therefore, have responded by creating a...
Electronics etc…
Installing Linux GPIB Drivers for the Agilent 82357B Introduction Other Installation Instructions Agilent 82357B Initialization Process Installing the...
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Introduction Other Installation Instructions Agilent 82357B Initialization Process Installing the Agilent 82357B GPIB Driver on an Ubuntu Linux Distribution References Introduction I’ve started to grow a collection of older test equipment from the eighties, the nineties, and the...
watchTowr Labs
QNAP QTS - QNAPping At The Wheel (CVE-2024-27130 and friends) Infosec is, at it’s heart, all about that data. Obtaining access to it (or disrupting access to it)...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Infosec is, at it’s heart, all about that data. Obtaining access to it (or disrupting access to it) is in every ransomware gang and APT group’s top-10 to-do-list items, and so it makes sense that our research voyage would, at some point, cross paths with products
Jonas Hietala
Speeding Ahead Life is slowly settling down over here. School has started with some pretty interesting stuff this...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Life is slowly settling down over here. School has started with some pretty interesting stuff this year. Firstly we have a math analysis course in multiple variables which is ok. I’m not a fan of the previous analysis courses but maybe this will be a bit different. We’re...
Arduino Blog
RIoT Secure joins Arduino’s SIPP as Gold Partner We are excited to announce that RIoT Secure has joined Arduino’s System Integrators Partnership...
7 months ago
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We are excited to announce that RIoT Secure has joined Arduino’s System Integrators Partnership Program at the Gold level. Founded in 2017 in Stockholm, Sweden, RIoT Secure is at the forefront of IoT security, especially in regards to resource-constrained microcontrollers,...
Lighthouse Blog
Updates December 15: Rebranding to Lighthouse and complete redesign
a year ago
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Building multiplayer games with socket.io and HTML5 Canvas I’ve been building crappy hobby games on and off for my whole coding life. One of my very first apps...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been building crappy hobby games on and off for my whole coding life. One of my very first apps was a Visual Basic game - I was in…
./techtipsy
Tiered storage: use the right tool for the job Hard drives are still the default choice for many homelab and data hoarding enthusiasts. They still...
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Hard drives are still the default choice for many homelab and data hoarding enthusiasts. They still hold the gigabytes per dollar advantage over SSD-s (for now), and if you buy the big external drives and take the drives out of the enclosures, you can get a pretty good...
GitButler
The Future of Open Source A GitHub founder's musings on the past, present and future of large groups of people collaborating...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
A GitHub founder's musings on the past, present and future of large groups of people collaborating on software in awesome ways.
Jonas Hietala
The Little Things in Life It’s the little things in life that makes it extra special. Sometimes it’s the luxury of coffee...
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over a year ago
It’s the little things in life that makes it extra special. Sometimes it’s the luxury of coffee together with the morning paper and other times it’s just a small simple smile from a random stranger, kid or dog. Today when I got this bad headache I got saved by a two hour nap and...
Louwrentius
Don't be afraid of RAID Introduction I sense this sentiment on the internet that RAID is dangerous, that the likelihood of...
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over a year ago
Introduction I sense this sentiment on the internet that RAID is dangerous, that the likelihood of your RAID array failing during a rebuild is almost a certainty, because hard drives have become so large. I think nothing is further from the truth and I would like to dispel this...
computers are bad
2023-04-27 los alamos - compound to county pt I This weekend, I found myself staying in Los Alamos for a volunteer role in which I judge children on...
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a year ago
This weekend, I found myself staying in Los Alamos for a volunteer role in which I judge children on the quality of their software. Clearly this is not the kind of opportunity I would turn down, but I also always take an excuse to drive back up the hill. I only lived in Los...
Willem's Blog
Business in a bag After much testing I have selected a bag and set of cases to fit my entire business, wherever I go.
over a year ago
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over a year ago
After much testing I have selected a bag and set of cases to fit my entire business, wherever I go.
Good Enough
Bad Ideas Are Fun Once I was complaining to Arun about how hard it is to come up with ideas, and he pointed out that...
a year ago
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a year ago
Once I was complaining to Arun about how hard it is to come up with ideas, and he pointed out that coming up with ideas is actually very easy––what makes it hard is that we’re aiming for good ideas. The next time you're coming up with ideas, tell yourself, Forget about good...
Louwrentius
ZFS: resilver performance of various RAID schemas When building your own DIY home NAS, it is important that you simulate and test drive failures...
over a year ago
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When building your own DIY home NAS, it is important that you simulate and test drive failures before you put your important data on it. It makes sense to know what to do in case a drive needs to be replaced. I also recommend putting a substantial amount of data on your NAS and...
Willem's Blog
The Ultimate Freedom Bike With the Brompton foldable bike you find yourself a very versatile companion to go whenever and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
With the Brompton foldable bike you find yourself a very versatile companion to go whenever and wherever you please!
Arduino Blog
Innovative new tactile sensor helps assess fine motor skills Fine motor skills correlate strongly with cognition and the accurate assessment of an individual’s...
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Fine motor skills correlate strongly with cognition and the accurate assessment of an individual’s motor skills can be critical in diagnosing and treating a variety of conditions. But objective evaluation has been a challenge, as suitable sensors weren’t available. To help...
Arduino Blog
Light up the holiday season, with a new Plug and Make Kit tutorial! Looking for a fun and creative way to brighten up the holiday season? With the Arduino Plug and Make...
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Looking for a fun and creative way to brighten up the holiday season? With the Arduino Plug and Make Kit, you can build an interactive LED light installation that reacts when someone walks by – perfect for spreading cheer and adding a high-tech twist to your decorations. This...
Arduino Blog
Assess your aquarium’s health with an AI-enabled ultrasonic sensor Below the surface of any body of water, harmful amounts of toxic gases and contaminates can...
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Below the surface of any body of water, harmful amounts of toxic gases and contaminates can accumulate, which leads to a loss in fish and plant populations if not fixed quickly. But because most water testing, especially in aquariums, is done primarily on the surface, vital...
Willem's Blog
Designing and implementing a (micro) payment system Designing and implementing a micro payment system with an emphasis on simplicity. Read about how I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Designing and implementing a micro payment system with an emphasis on simplicity. Read about how I did it in this post.
Notes on software...
The world of PostgreSQL wire compatibility This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
Arduino Blog
A stroopwafel doneness detection device If you’re lucky enough to visit the Netherlands and you order a hot drink, you’ll likely be given a...
5 months ago
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If you’re lucky enough to visit the Netherlands and you order a hot drink, you’ll likely be given a sweet treat as well. That is a stroopwafel, a crispy little waffle-syrup sandwich that the Dutch like to rest on top of their drink so that the rising heat will soften the pastry....
Vitalik Buterin's...
Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 3: The Scourge
2 months ago
Willem's Blog
Go Viral on X Learn how to go viral on X using simple logic in creating engaging posts.
a month ago
Jonas Hietala
A Nice Weekend I’ve had a pretty nice weekend. On Friday MLG Orlando began and I’ve been staying up to 2 and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve had a pretty nice weekend. On Friday MLG Orlando began and I’ve been staying up to 2 and sleeping until at least 10 the last days. My inner night-owl is very happy about it, my early-rising girlfriend perhaps not as much, but I think she’s a bit understanding? On Saturday we...
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11 months ago
Jonas Hietala
Netrunner Lindhska Store Championship Örebro After the awesomeness during the previous store championship, I decided to go to the store...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
After the awesomeness during the previous store championship, I decided to go to the store championship at Lindhska Bokhandel in Örebro. I brought a modified version of the same corp I used the last time, a Blue Sun kill deck and a new runner with Leela Patel. See the links for...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Hard Forks, Soft Forks, Defaults and Coercion
over a year ago
Arduino Blog
Arduino Nicla Sense Env: adding advanced environmental sensing to a broad range of applications We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Nicla Sense Env: the latest addition to our portfolio of...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Nicla Sense Env: the latest addition to our portfolio of system-on-modules and sensor nodes, empowering innovators with the tools to unlock new possibilities. This tiny yet powerful sensor node is designed to elevate your environmental...
Louwrentius
overview of open-source load balancers I was looking at open-source load balancing software and it seems that there isn't a nice overview...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I was looking at open-source load balancing software and it seems that there isn't a nice overview except from this website, although many of the listed projects seem dead. I've made a selection of products that seem to be relevant. The biggest problem with open-source software...
Arduino Blog
Make your scary Halloween pumpkin smart with the Plug and Make Kit! With Halloween just around the corner, we’ve got the perfect project to make your decorations more...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
With Halloween just around the corner, we’ve got the perfect project to make your decorations more fun and interactive. All you have to do is take the Arduino UNO R4 WiFi and Modulino nodes included in your Plug and Make Kit to create an awesome jack-o’-lantern that will light up...
Birchtree
Matt is a Mean Guy (hey!) Matt felt like bringing an intentionally controversial topic, Niléane refuses to admit she's created...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
Matt felt like bringing an intentionally controversial topic, Niléane refuses to admit she's created a sticky note-based task manager, and everyone gives the iPad some much needed love. Or watch it on YouTube. Weekly Topics Raycast CleanShot X Final Cut Pro Google...
Louwrentius
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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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"...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Standard cells: Looking at individual gates in the Pentium processor Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, a chip to "separate the really power-hungry...
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5 months ago
Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, a chip to "separate the really power-hungry folks from ordinary mortals." The original Pentium was followed by the Pentium Pro, the Pentium II, and others, spawning a long-running brand of high-performance processors, Intel's...
lcamtuf’s thing
Analog filters, part 2: let it ring A continuation of the gentle intro to analog signal filtering. In today's episode: the Sallen-Key...
3 months ago
./techtipsy
The little Wi-Fi AP that could I have a bad habit of testing things whenever a “good” idea pops into my head. This is a short...
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over a year ago
I have a bad habit of testing things whenever a “good” idea pops into my head. This is a short overview of one of them. The Orange Pi Zero is a SBC (single board computer) that has a slow 32-bit ARM 4 core CPU, 512MB of RAM and no display output. It’s actually quite OK for many...
Bryan Braun - Blog
The flood of AI website builders There are so many of them. instead of markdown to enable lazy-loading --> How good...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
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...
./techtipsy
Strangling your service with a Kubernetes misconfiguration This is a quick story about a fun discovery that I made a while ago. For legal reasons, all of this...
over a year ago
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This is a quick story about a fun discovery that I made a while ago. For legal reasons, all of this is made up and no such service ever existed. Once upon a time, we had this Java service that handled all the backend work that you’d expect to occur for a product with a web...
computers are bad
2024-11-23 cablesoft As an American, I often feel an intense jealousy of Ceefax, one of several commercially successful...
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As an American, I often feel an intense jealousy of Ceefax, one of several commercially successful teletext services in the UK and Europe. "Teletext" is sometimes a confusing term because of its apparent relation to telecom-industry technologies like the teletypewriter and...
Home on Erik...
Conversion rates – you are (most likely) computing them wrong How hard can it be to compute conversion rate? Take the total number of users that converted and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
How hard can it be to compute conversion rate? Take the total number of users that converted and divide them with the total number of users. Done. Except… it's a lot more complicated when you have any sort of significant time lag.
Vitalik Buterin's...
La Guía Incompleta de los Rollups
over a year ago
Louwrentius
Benchmarking a 1.44 MB floppy drive I've used fio - a storage benchmarking tool - to benchmark a 1.44 MB floppy drive to gauge its...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've used fio - a storage benchmarking tool - to benchmark a 1.44 MB floppy drive to gauge its random I/O performance. I have no real reason for doing this. I just thought it was funny. I've run a benchmark against the floppy drives for different queue depths. The results are...
Jonas Hietala
What's up It’s been a while again since the last time we met mr. Blog. I’ve been busy with school and other...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It’s been a while again since the last time we met mr. Blog. I’ve been busy with school and other stuff. I’ve thought about you but I just never really picked up emacs to write to you. I know it’s my fault but I beg of your mercy mr. Blog. You know that I had laid off school for...
Lighthouse Blog
Updates November 4: Free newsletter to RSS tool
2 months ago
Louwrentius
My experiences with DFS replication on Windows 2008 R2 If you are considering implementing DFS replication, consider using Windows 2012 R2 because DFS...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you are considering implementing DFS replication, consider using Windows 2012 R2 because DFS replication has been massively improved. It supports larger data sets and performance has dramatically been improved over Windows 2008 R2. I've implemented DFS replication to keep two...
Lighthouse Blog
Updates March 08
10 months ago
Louwrentius
Switching away from Debian to Ubuntu LTS Over the last couple of years, Debian Linux has released new stable versions about every two years....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Over the last couple of years, Debian Linux has released new stable versions about every two years. This pace is great for progress, but there is a serious problem. This problem is related to their support for older Debian stable versions. If you read the quote below from the...
Arduino Blog
The end of Mbed marks a new beginning for Arduino As you might have heard, on July 9th, Arm announced that the Mbed platform and OS are officially...
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As you might have heard, on July 9th, Arm announced that the Mbed platform and OS are officially destined to reach end of life in July 2026, and therefore will no longer be maintained. The news has sent ripples through the embedded development community, particularly affecting...
computers are bad
2024-06-08 dmv.org The majority of US states have something called a "Department of Motor Vehicles," or DMV. Actually,...
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The majority of US states have something called a "Department of Motor Vehicles," or DMV. Actually, the universality of the term "DMV" seems to be overstated. A more general term is "motor vehicle administrator," used for example by the American Association of Motor Vehicle...
Jonas Hietala
Up like a Sun, Down like a Pancake I was looking forward to this weekend, for Ludum Dare and for me to finally make a game again. But...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I was looking forward to this weekend, for Ludum Dare and for me to finally make a game again. But it just don’t feel right to me. I’m not prepared, I feel a little bit stressed and I don’t really have faith in my game so I’m gonna step down this one as well. But it’s fine, Ludum...
Willem's Blog
Batavus Champion bike from 1978 Restore the retro glory of an old bike from the 70s using the internet.
over a year ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Zmowa
over a year ago
Notes on software...
Notes on running Electron This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
Louwrentius
Automated install of Debian Linux based on PXE net booting Every honest and good system administrator is continue bussy with automating his work. For two...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Every honest and good system administrator is continue bussy with automating his work. For two reasons: Repeating the same task over and over again is friggin boring. A system administrator has better things to do, such as drinking coffee. Humans make mistakes, especially if...
Louwrentius
Rebooting results in degraded RAID array using Debian Lenny As described earlier, I setup a RAID 6 array consisting of physical 1 TB disk and 'virtual' 1 TB...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As described earlier, I setup a RAID 6 array consisting of physical 1 TB disk and 'virtual' 1 TB disks that are in fact two 0.5 TB disks in RAID 0.  I wanted to upgrade to Lenny because the new kernel that ships with Lenny supports growing a RAID 6 array. After installing Lenny...
Neil Madden
How do you use a bearer URL? In “Towards a standard for bearer token URLs”, I described a URL scheme that can be safely used to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In “Towards a standard for bearer token URLs”, I described a URL scheme that can be safely used to incorporate a bearer token (such as an OAuth access token) into a URL. That blog post concentrated on the technical details of how that would work and the security properties of the...
Applied Cartography
44% If you spend enough time digesting hackneyed business or self-improvement advice, you've probably...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
If you spend enough time digesting hackneyed business or self-improvement advice, you've probably seen someone wax poetic about the following image: This is meant to be an illustration of the power of incrementalism (often referred to as kaizen when the writer is trying to be...
Applied Cartography
buttondown.com/alternatives Some kind words from Chris Krycho on Buttondown's Alternatives page: This is how I want all my tools...
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Some kind words from Chris Krycho on Buttondown's Alternatives page: This is how I want all my tools to be. There is a ton of room in these markets for healthy and friendly competition — and no need at all for winner-take-all or monopolist attitudes. First off — credit where it's...
anderegg.ca
Trying out GoodLinks The weeks leading up to the holidays have been hectic. I’m behind on “internet stuff” since entering...
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The weeks leading up to the holidays have been hectic. I’m behind on “internet stuff” since entering Christmas-mode, and have been looking for a better way to capture things I want to look at later. I’ve had this issue before, but solved it in an ad-hoc way. Previously I’d made...
Push to Prod
How We Built a Self-Healing System to Survive a Terrifying Concurrency Bug At Netflix Our CPUs were dying, the bug was temporarily un-fixable, and we had no viable path forward. Here's...
4 months ago
Home on Erik...
Norvig's claim that programming competitions correlate negatively with being good on the job I saw a bunch of tweets over the weekend about Peter Norvig claiming there's a negative correlation...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I saw a bunch of tweets over the weekend about Peter Norvig claiming there's a negative correlation between being good at programming competitions and being good at the job. There were some decent Hacker News comments on it.
axio.ms
Pickle plus mains Back in February 2014, it was a cold (but dry) winter’s night and we decided to warm our hearts with...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Back in February 2014, it was a cold (but dry) winter’s night and we decided to warm our hearts with some science. Our experiment was to observe the conduction of electricity through a pickle, using salt ions. We connected a pickle to the mains supply. Pickles have a strong...
Engineers Need Art
Apple Interview (1995) Recalling my somewhat unusual interview with Apple back in 1995.
over a year ago
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Building LLM-driven agents If you want a large language model like GPT-3 to perform a task for you, the simplest way is to just...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you want a large language model like GPT-3 to perform a task for you, the simplest way is to just ask it. Writing out a single prompt…
Home on Erik...
MCMC for marketing data The other day I was looking at marketing spend broken down by channel and wanted to compute some...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The other day I was looking at marketing spend broken down by channel and wanted to compute some simple uncertainty estimates. I have data like this: <th> Total spend </th> <th> Transactions </th> Channel A <td> 2292.
Christian Selig
Apollo for Reddit 1.9 Apollo 1.9’s a massive update to Apollo that’s taken months and months to complete, but I’m really...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Apollo 1.9’s a massive update to Apollo that’s taken months and months to complete, but I’m really happy with the result, and it brings together a ton of ideas from the community to make Apollo even nicer to use. The update includes a variety of features around crossposts, flair,...
Arduino Blog
Exercise while you game with this interactive treadmill add-on Motion-based controls for games have been around for decades, but even with the latest generation of...
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Motion-based controls for games have been around for decades, but even with the latest generation of virtual reality headsets, gaming is still done with relatively limited movement unless one has access to an expensive VR walking/running setup. As an effort to get more physical...
./techtipsy
Fairphone 5: my heavily biased overview after 58 days of use (and counting) After months of contemplating I finally pulled the trigger and got myself a Fairphone 5. The...
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After months of contemplating I finally pulled the trigger and got myself a Fairphone 5. The fact that iPhone X stopped receiving major iOS updates certainly helped make that decision. “But why? My Xiaomi/Oneplus/Samsung/other glued-together device is like so much cheaper and...
Arduino Blog
Simplifying IoT for smarter manufacturing: Join the chat with Arduino, AWS, and Atlas Machine We all know that the future of manufacturing lies in IoT — yet the path to adoption can sometimes...
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We all know that the future of manufacturing lies in IoT — yet the path to adoption can sometimes feel daunting. But what if you could simplify the process and start seeing results quickly? That’s exactly what we’re going to explore in our upcoming Arduino Cloud Café webinar on...
Willem's Blog
Fixed Gear Gran Fondo Taking a fixed gear road bike for a gran fondo! Let some of my fun be of inspiration to you!
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Christmas break So school is on a break and I welcome it with all of my heart. The semester has been pretty fun and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
So school is on a break and I welcome it with all of my heart. The semester has been pretty fun and I really enjoy studying here. We had lisp the whole time which is a pretty sweet little language and if you haven’t, give it a shot. Then we had math and I do like math, although I...
Arduino Blog
Giving a teenage pet turtle a synthetic pizza-ordering voice If B. F. Skinner’s famous research proved anything, it is that virtually all animals are capable of...
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If B. F. Skinner’s famous research proved anything, it is that virtually all animals are capable of some degree of training. Training is really just taking advantage of an animal’s natural inclination to adapt for survival, which is something all living organisms do. With that in...
./techtipsy
I held a talk about my self-hosting adventure! There are two reasons why I haven’t written much lately, and one of them is that I was cooking up...
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There are two reasons why I haven’t written much lately, and one of them is that I was cooking up a talk about self-hosting, more specifically my own self-hosting adventure (the other one is the Steam Deck, more about that in the future). The talk took place on May 25th 2023 at...
Matt Blewitt
7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025 I’ve been running databases-as-a-service for a long time, and there are always new things to keep...
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I’ve been running databases-as-a-service for a long time, and there are always new things to keep abreast of - new technologies, different ways of solving problems, not to mention all the research coming out of universities. In 2025, consider spending a week with each of these...