Bryan Braun - Blog
Links #11
Here are some more links to things that I keep thinking about. I shared a bit more detail on these...
3rd Dec 2024
Here are some more links to things that I keep thinking about. I shared a bit more detail on these ones than I usually do—there were so many good quotes to include. Enjoy!
Selfishness & Therapy Culture
Earlier this year, there was a post in the New York Times called “Sometimes,...
MIT News - Civil and...
MIT School of Engineering faculty receive awards in winter 2026
Faculty members and researchers were honored in recognition of their scholarship, service, and...
7th May 2026
Faculty members and researchers were honored in recognition of their scholarship, service, and overall excellence.
Applied Cartography
STAR LINE
In retrospect, I think there are two really noteworthy things about Chance the Rapper's career:
14th Aug 2025
In retrospect, I think there are two really noteworthy things about Chance the Rapper's career:
Tiny struggles
I prefer boring technologies
When I start new projects I try to build them with boring technologies that I used before and I try...
30th Dec 2021
When I start new projects I try to build them with boring technologies that I used before and I try to limit picking up new libraries, tools and technologies to a minimum.
This is because I want to build actual products and not to do projects for the sake of learning exciting...
Kent de Bruin
Algorithmic Modernism
How algorithms generate a default taste that feels personal but looks the same everywhere
24th Feb 2026
How algorithms generate a default taste that feels personal but looks the same everywhere
Push to Prod
When Overwhelmed, Make a List of Questions
In my first big project at Netflix, I learned this disturbingly simple problem-solving technique.
5th Aug 2024
In my first big project at Netflix, I learned this disturbingly simple problem-solving technique.
Ken Shirriff's blog
A tricky Commodore PET repair: tracking down 6 1/2 bad chips
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13th Apr 2025
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In 1977, Commodore released the PET computer, a quirky home computer that combined the processor,
a tiny keyboard, a cassette drive for storage, and...
Fabien Sanglard
The art and engineering of Silpheed
1st Jun 2026
Jonas Hietala
Super ultrawide Niri
A Niri workspace with 7 visible columns.
After having used practically the same xmonad...
6 days ago
A Niri workspace with 7 visible columns.
After having used practically the same xmonad configuration for a decade and a half I’ve now modernized my setup with the scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor Niri.
It’s been a bit of a struggle to unlearn my old workflow but I’m really...
Abishek Muthian
Access Ring
Discover and invoke UI elements near your cursor, without precise mouse targeting.
A Logi Actions...
16th Apr 2026
Discover and invoke UI elements near your cursor, without precise mouse targeting.
A Logi Actions SDK plugin for MX Creative Console and Actions Ring.
Buttons, checkboxes, menus, tabs, dropdowns: tap to interact with whatever is nearby.
The problem with precise clicking
Every...
./techtipsy
Accidentally turning the ASRock DeskMini X300 into a semi-passively cooled PC
After playing around with fan curves on my ASRock DeskMini X300
based home server, I noticed one...
17th Sep 2022
After playing around with fan curves on my ASRock DeskMini X300
based home server, I noticed one interesting thing. At least it was
interesting to me.
Background
I had one goal: to try to see if I could turn it into a semi-passive PC by only
turning the fan on when the PC was...
Louwrentius - Solar
Compiling Handbrake CLI on Debian Lenny
In this post I will show you how to compile Handbrake for Debian Lenny. Please
note that although...
3rd Aug 2010
In this post I will show you how to compile Handbrake for Debian Lenny. Please
note that although the Handbrake GUI version does compile on Lenny, it crashes
with a segmentation fault like this:
Gtk: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -5
and height...
Rubenerd
Painting parts beige for retro towers (eventually)
So here’s the thing. Late last year I bought the excellent SilverStone FLP02, a retro-themed...
2nd Jun 2026
So here’s the thing. Late last year I bought the excellent SilverStone FLP02, a retro-themed computer case with modern component support. It was absolutely, jaw-droppingly gorgeous, and has easily become my favourite modern case alongside the legendary NCASE M1. It’s big,...
Applied Cartography
2019
2019 was pretty great. here are the highlights:
25th Dec 2019
2019 was pretty great. here are the highlights:
watchTowr Labs
Visionaries Have Democratised Remote Network Access - Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops...
Well, we’re back again, with yet another fresh-off-the-press bug chain (and associated Interactive...
12th Nov 2024
Well, we’re back again, with yet another fresh-off-the-press bug chain (and associated Interactive Artifact Generator). This time, it’s in Citrix’s “Virtual Apps and Desktops” offering.
This is a tech stack that enables end-users (and likely, your friendly neighbourhood...
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...
2nd Sep 2024
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...
Simply Explained
Retrospective: My Fifth Year on YouTube
For the past 4 years, I have made a habit of reflecting on the previous year and set goals for the...
15th Jan 2021
For the past 4 years, I have made a habit of reflecting on the previous year and set goals for the new year. This year is no exception, but now I try to set better goals while reflecting on some personal things in life.
GitButler
How Core Git Developers Configure Git
What `git config` settings should be defaults by now? Here are some settings that even the core...
22nd Feb 2025
What `git config` settings should be defaults by now? Here are some settings that even the core developers change.
Jonas Hietala
The 4-Hour Chef: Scrambled Eggs
I’ve been listening to The Tim Ferriss Show a while now and he and his guests often inspire me to...
14th Jan 2017
I’ve been listening to The Tim Ferriss Show a while now and he and his guests often inspire me to make changes and start doing new things. I got introduced to Josh Waitzkin’s excellent The Art of Learning and the meta skill of learning has since then fascinated me. So when I got...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Degen communism: the only correct political ideology
1st Apr 2024
Push to Prod
When One Pro Is Worth Ten Cons
Stop listing options and start making arguments
3rd Feb 2026
Stop listing options and start making arguments
watchTowr Labs
SOAPwn: Pwning .NET Framework Applications Through HTTP Client Proxies And WSDL
Welcome back! As we near the end of 2025, we are, of course, waiting for the next round of SSLVPN...
10th Dec 2025
Welcome back! As we near the end of 2025, we are, of course, waiting for the next round of SSLVPN exploitation to occur in January (as it did in 2024 and 2025).
Weeeeeeeee. Before then, we want to clear the decks and see how much research we can publish.
This
Matt Blewitt
So, You Want To Build A DBaaS Part 2: Technical Bits
In my first post in this pseudo-series, we covered more of the theory and organisational practices...
21st May 2023
In my first post in this pseudo-series, we covered more of the theory and organisational practices around building and operating a database-as-a-service platform. In this post, I’ll cover some of the more technical aspects of this that I think are worth considering, drawn from my...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Exploring Fully Homomorphic Encryption
20th Jul 2020
Applied Cartography
No Filter
A pleasant and uncontroversial read; it is not the exciting tell-all that Bad Blood or to a lesser...
3rd Oct 2020
A pleasant and uncontroversial read; it is not the exciting tell-all that Bad Blood or to a lesser extent Super Pumped was, but I think its lack of emphasis on drama gave it a more sober lens with which to view Instagram's transformation. Some scattered thoughts:
Christian Selig
App Clip Local Experiences have consumed my day
Okay, I have to be doing something astronomically stupid, right? This should be working? I’m playing...
8th Sep 2025
Okay, I have to be doing something astronomically stupid, right? This should be working? I’m playing around with an App Clip and want to just run it on the device as a test, but no matter how I set things up nothing ever works. If you see what I’m doing wrong let me know and I’ll...
Home on Erik...
Optimizing for iteration speed
I've written before about the importance of iterating quickly but I didn't necessarily talk about...
6th Jul 2017
I've written before about the importance of iterating quickly but I didn't necessarily talk about some concrete things you can do. When I've built up the tech team at Better, I've intentionally optimized for fast iteration speed above almost everything else.
Jonas Hietala
How I wrote a book using Pollen
I wrote an online book using Pollen, a static site generator in Racket. An earlier post contains my...
3rd May 2020
I wrote an online book using Pollen, a static site generator in Racket. An earlier post contains my first impressions of it, but as the book is now completed I think I can summarize some implementation details in more detail with this post.
I really like the markup language and...
Computer Ads from...
Plus Post: Quantum Software Systems Ltd's QNX
Operating Systems Come in Many Flavors But QNX Can Take the Heat
1st Apr 2024
Operating Systems Come in Many Flavors But QNX Can Take the Heat
Abort Retry Fail
Hitachi Ltd, Part II
H8, PA-RISC, and SuperH
19th Apr 2026
lcamtuf’s thing
The Afterlife
AGENT: I am prescribing vardenafil 5 mg for you.
2nd Mar 2025
AGENT: I am prescribing vardenafil 5 mg for you.
Arduino Blog
This unique electronic toy helps children learn their shapes
It isn’t a secret that many kids find math to be boring and it is easy for them to develop an...
1st Jul 2025
It isn’t a secret that many kids find math to be boring and it is easy for them to develop an attitude of “when am I ever going to use this?” But math is incredibly useful in the real world, from blue-collar machinists using trigonometry to quantum physicists unveiling the...
Blog | Sam Curry
Leaked Secrets and Unlimited Miles: Hacking the Largest Airline and Hotel Rewards Platform
...
3rd Aug 2023
Fabien Sanglard
Observing my cellphone switch towers
15th May 2021
Old Vintage...
Mini-review: David Pogue's Apple: The First 50 Years
Apple: The First 50 Years to see if I even wanted to bother with the hardcover. Previously the...
1st Apr 2026
Apple: The First 50 Years to see if I even wanted to bother with the hardcover. Previously the essential tome on Apple (and especially Mac) history was Owen Linzmeyer's Apple Confidential, still on my shelf in the well-thumbed 2.0 paperback. I was prepared to find this book...
Jeff Geerling
I tested every IP KVM in my Homelab
Since the PiKVM came out in 2017, there's been an explosion of IP KVMs. I've tested almost every...
5th Jun 2026
Since the PiKVM came out in 2017, there's been an explosion of IP KVMs. I've tested almost every one. But what are they good for?
You can use Remote Desktop, Screen Sharing, or VNC to remote control a computer from anywhere on a LAN. And if you don't have a private VPN, you could...
Louwrentius - Solar
Benchmarking a 1.44 MB floppy drive
I've used fio - a storage benchmarking tool - to benchmark a 1.44 MB floppy drive to gauge its...
16th Dec 2019
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...
Jordan’s Substack
On Building Git for Lawyers
Over this past weekend, Twitter discovered the problem that I have dedicated the past four years of...
14th Nov 2024
Over this past weekend, Twitter discovered the problem that I have dedicated the past four years of my life to solving. Why don't lawyers and other non-coders use git?
Home on Erik...
Benchmarking nearest neighbor libraries in Python
Radim Rehurek has put together an excellent summary of approximate nearest neighbor libraries in...
12th Jan 2014
Radim Rehurek has put together an excellent summary of approximate nearest neighbor libraries in Python. This is exciting, because one of the libraries he's covering, annoy, was built by me.
After introducing the problem, he goes through the list of contestants and sticks with...
On Life and Lisp
Vulkan 1.3 on the M1 in 1 month
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Finally, conformant Vulkan for the...
5th Jun 2024
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Finally, conformant Vulkan for the M1! The new “Honeykrisp” driver is
the first conformant
Vulkan® for Apple hardware on any operating system, implementing the
full 1.3 spec without “portability”...
Willem's Blog
Creating a minimal iPhone stand
Today I created a minimal iPhone stand from oak wood. I used a single piece of wood to get it done.
1st Jun 2018
Today I created a minimal iPhone stand from oak wood. I used a single piece of wood to get it done.
Evan Hahn (dot com)
The two kinds of error
In short: in my mind, errors are divided into two categories. Expected errors (think “user entered...
1st Mar 2026
In short: in my mind, errors are divided into two categories. Expected errors (think “user entered invalid data”), which are part of normal operation, aren’t the developer’s fault, and should be handled. Unexpected errors (think “null pointer exception”) are the developer’s...
MIT News - Civil and...
Desirée Plata appointed associate dean of engineering
Faculty member in civil and environmental engineering will advance research and entrepreneurial...
8th Apr 2026
Faculty member in civil and environmental engineering will advance research and entrepreneurial initiatives across the School of Engineering.
Jonas Hietala
Ludum Dare 29 Entry
After months of procrastination it is time for me to enter Ludum Dare again!
I am totally...
25th Apr 2014
After months of procrastination it is time for me to enter Ludum Dare again!
I am totally unprepared, but I did setup a setup which actually compiles. I never got audio to run but hopefully I can manage something.
Repository: https://github.com/treeman/LD29. Going for C++ this...
Willem's Blog
Repairing a Giro AEON bicycle helmet
Try fixing your Giro bicycle helmet? I went through some trouble to do it! Read along to find out...
8th Jul 2020
Try fixing your Giro bicycle helmet? I went through some trouble to do it! Read along to find out how.
Posts on Made of...
From error-handling to structured concurrency
How should we think about error-handling in concurrent programs?
In single-threaded programs, we’ve...
23rd Mar 2026
How should we think about error-handling in concurrent programs?
In single-threaded programs, we’ve mostly converged on a standard pattern, with a diverse zoo of implementations and concrete patterns. When an error occurs, it is propagated up the stack until we find a stack frame...
Home on Erik...
Vote for our SXSW panel!
If you have a few minutes, you should check out mine and Chris Johnson‘s panel proposal. Go here and...
4th Sep 2013
If you have a few minutes, you should check out mine and Chris Johnson‘s panel proposal. Go here and vote: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/24504
Algorithmic Music Discovery at Spotify
****Spotify crunches hundreds of billions of streams to analyze user's music taste and provide...
computers are bad
2024-11-09 iron mountain atomic storage
I have quipped before about "underground datacenters," and how they never
succeed. During the late...
9th Nov 2024
I have quipped before about "underground datacenters," and how they never
succeed. During the late decades of the Cold War and even into the '00s, the
military and (to a lesser extent) the telecommunications industry parted ways
with a great number of underground facilities....
GitButler
GitButler 0.12 - "Stingy Baker"
New GitButler release is out! Undo anything, modify your commits with ease, new AI stuff and more!
3rd Jun 2024
New GitButler release is out! Undo anything, modify your commits with ease, new AI stuff and more!
Applied Cartography
Breakneck
I, like so many other people in the Tyler Cowen / Stripe Press extended universe, have deeply...
1st Nov 2025
I, like so many other people in the Tyler Cowen / Stripe Press extended universe, have deeply enjoyed Dan Wang's annual letters over the past years. And I was delighted to see that he returned to writing in the form of a long-form book, largely about the same subject. In writing...
benn.substack
Stuff costs money
The many temptations of software businesses. Plus, a hackquisition?
5th Sep 2025
The many temptations of software businesses. Plus, a hackquisition?
Jonas Hietala
2020 in review
And so 2020 has come to an end. On a global scale it’s been quite a horrible year, and for me...
4th Jan 2021
And so 2020 has come to an end. On a global scale it’s been quite a horrible year, and for me personally it’s been both good and bad. Luckily we haven’t been directly affected by COVID too much, but it’s still been very disruptive. Either way as I’ve done for years now it always...
Willem L. Middelkoop
Enjoy a festival without alcohol
Last weekend me and my brother went to Rock Werchter, a multi-day, music festival in Belgium. Over...
9th Jul 2018
Last weekend me and my brother went to Rock Werchter, a multi-day, music festival in Belgium. Over 140 thousand visitors enjoy world famous artists like Pearl Jam, Nick Cave, Artic Monkeys, Noel Gallagher, The Killers and the Queens of the Stone Age. This year I didn't drink...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Pi in the Pentium: reverse-engineering the constants in its floating-point unit
Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of...
5th Jan 2025
Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of high-performance processors.1
The Pentium includes a floating-point unit that can rapidly compute functions such as sines, cosines, logarithms, and exponentials.
But how does the Pentium...
Willem L. Middelkoop
The birth of a child
Today I witnessed the birth of my daughter! You feel humble as a man, witnessing the labour and...
12th Jul 2021
Today I witnessed the birth of my daughter! You feel humble as a man, witnessing the labour and magic. Not sure if I can come up with something having more impact on a man than this. For the purposes of science and curiosity I wore a biometric sensor, and this is what it...
Writing
Baduizm
Very relaxing and pleasant and simple and great. Nothing revelatory but I see myself coming back to...
1st Sep 2021
Very relaxing and pleasant and simple and great. Nothing revelatory but I see myself coming back to this over and over (and finally understand the Badu hype.)
Electronics etc…
Measuring the HP 11720A Pulse Modulator and Coax Cables
Introduction
What is a pulse modulator and what are they used for?
The HP 11720A Pulse...
6th May 2023
Introduction
What is a pulse modulator and what are they used for?
The HP 11720A Pulse Modulator
Inside the HP 11720A
Measurement Setup for a Quick Testing Session
Pin Modulator Power Measurements with HP 432A
Cable Loss Measurements with HP 432A
Cable Power Measurements with...
Willem L. Middelkoop
Repairing a Nintendo Gameboy Advance SP
This month Nintendo released the Switch with Zelda "Breath of the Wild". The new console received...
25th Mar 2017
This month Nintendo released the Switch with Zelda "Breath of the Wild". The new console received positive reviews. The new Zelda game is amazing and can be played on-the-go, thanks to the portability of the Nintendo Switch. But it its hardly the first Nintendo device that...
Christian Selig
The Case for Getting Rid of TestFlight Review
I tweeted today about how I think TestFlight review should become a thing of the past and many...
12th Jun 2020
I tweeted today about how I think TestFlight review should become a thing of the past and many developers seemed to agree, but some had questions so I wanted to expand on my thoughts a little.
TestFlight’s awesome. But like App Store submissions, TestFlight betas also require a...
Matt Mullenweg
Automattic Alignment
Winston Churchill said, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Since I last blogged here, WP Engine...
4th Oct 2024
Winston Churchill said, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Since I last blogged here, WP Engine filed a meritless lawsuit and Automattic responded, and there’s been a hurricane of public activity and press. Inside of Automattic, there’s been a parallel debate and process....
Home on Erik...
Antipodes
I was playing around with D3 last night and built a silly visualization of antipodes and how our...
8th Sep 2015
I was playing around with D3 last night and built a silly visualization of antipodes and how our intuitive understanding of the world sometimes doesn't make sense. Check out the visualization at bl.ocks.org!
Basically the idea is if you fly from Beijing to Buenos Aires then you...
Willem L. Middelkoop
Creating a minimal iPhone stand
Today I created a minimal iPhone stand from oak wood. While it's much faster to buy one online, I...
1st Jun 2018
Today I created a minimal iPhone stand from oak wood. While it's much faster to buy one online, I wanted one to fit my phone horizontally, with its case on. I like minimal design, so I opted to machine a single piece of wood to get it done.
Workmate with wood router ready for...
Comments for Lars...
The Billion-Dollar World of Parasite SEO: How to Cash In
Parasite SEO is when a third-party company partners with an established domain, then posts a bunch...
23rd Oct 2024
Parasite SEO is when a third-party company partners with an established domain, then posts a bunch of SEO content to make a bunch of money. Content often gets published in a subfolder or subdomain or the website. The goal is to leverage the domain’s trust with Google to get...
Writing
FEVER DREAM
Wow they got generic quick!
10th Apr 2021
Wow they got generic quick!
Simply Explained
Filtering spam on YouTube with TensorFlow & AI
My YouTube channel has been attracting a lot of spammers. They try to trick people by saying they...
6th Jul 2021
My YouTube channel has been attracting a lot of spammers. They try to trick people by saying they know how to profit from trading cryptocurrencies or that they can recover lost wallet keys.I've been marking these comments as spam, thinking that YouTube would learn to recognize...
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...
12th Dec 2017
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...
Applied Cartography
The Godfather
It has taken me far too long to watch The Godfather, and having finished it I find myself
slightly...
6th Feb 2023
It has taken me far too long to watch The Godfather, and having finished it I find myself
slightly deflated — because it is a tremendous movie, worthy of its status in both the American
and cinematic anons, and every line and meme which has etched itself into the collective...
Daniel De Laney
Secure File Transfer
During my time at frog, I lead a team of designers to transform a secure file transfer app owned by...
20th Apr 2018
During my time at frog, I lead a team of designers to transform a secure file transfer app owned by IBM. In addition to leading the team in Austin I helped manage designers working out of frog’s new studio in India, reviewing their work and setting priorities.
frog itself has a...
Jonas Hietala
Doing some online Personality tests
For some reason I’ve done a couple of personality tests the last month, mostly to satisfy my own...
11th Dec 2016
For some reason I’ve done a couple of personality tests the last month, mostly to satisfy my own curiosity.
The Braverman Test
Inspired by Charles Poliquin’s visit on The Tim Ferriss Show I tried out the Braverman test to determine my neurotransmitter type. The point Charles...
Christian Selig
I have thoughts on the iPhone Air
Hard to believe, but it’s been over 9 months since the current crop of iPhones came out, and I...
7th Jul 2026
Hard to believe, but it’s been over 9 months since the current crop of iPhones came out, and I elected to grab the (apparently not super popular) iPhone Air, a new model of iPhone introduced for the first time. Rumor season for the new iPhones is in full swing, so it seemed like...
Gwern.net Newsletter
October 2020 news
October 2020 gwern.net newsletter with links on AI scaling, Euclid; further site reorganization &...
1st Nov 2020
October 2020 gwern.net newsletter with links on AI scaling, Euclid; further site reorganization & improvement.
./techtipsy
How I treat my urge to hoard data
The tagline for /r/datahoarder reads:
“It’s A Digital Disease!”. I agree.
At some point I realized...
8th Mar 2022
The tagline for /r/datahoarder reads:
“It’s A Digital Disease!”. I agree.
At some point I realized that the pursuit to hoard all the things will just keep
on consuming more and more of my time and money. Storage is cheap up until to a
point, once you find yourself tracking hard...
Style over Substance
Leitz Summicron 50mm f/2 rigid (type 2) lens
My newest lens acquisition wasn’t actually originally on my wishlist. I already had a 50mm Summicron...
8th Sep 2020
My newest lens acquisition wasn’t actually originally on my wishlist. I already had a 50mm Summicron lens, though that was the first generation collapsible model known as a Type 1. This lens has lived on my Leica M3 permanently for the past few years, and I have enjoyed the hell...
./techtipsy
The best laptop is the one somebody else had
In 2011, I was finishing 9th grade. As a gift, I got to choose a laptop in the
400 EUR range. I...
1st Nov 2024
In 2011, I was finishing 9th grade. As a gift, I got to choose a laptop in the
400 EUR range. I ended up picking
an ASUS Eee PC 1201PN. It was new and the
first computer in my life that was 100% mine, but awfully slow for a lot of tasks.
It was so slow that I ended up giving...
MIT News - Civil and...
Nitrous oxide, a product of fertilizer use, may harm some soil bacteria
While some N2O is produced naturally at the plant root, agricultural practices can increase its...
4th Mar 2026
While some N2O is produced naturally at the plant root, agricultural practices can increase its levels, to the detriment of some microbes that support plant growth.
MIT News - Civil and...
A faster way to solve complex planning problems
By eliminating redundant computations, a new data-driven method can streamline processes like...
16th Apr 2025
By eliminating redundant computations, a new data-driven method can streamline processes like scheduling trains, routing delivery drivers, or assigning airline crews.
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...
1st Mar 2024
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...
Tiny struggles
How to make a product on gumroad and earn some money (#secretunasaladrecipe)
If you’ve been in the Indie Hackers circles for a while you probably heard about people like...
9th Apr 2022
If you’ve been in the Indie Hackers circles for a while you probably heard about people like dvassallo@ who made hundreds of thousands of dollars selling simple digital products on gumroad.
Make a thing, put it on gumroad, earn money, could it all be that simple?
I have heard...
Fabien Sanglard
Armadillo Space T-shirt
Finally received my Armadillo Space T-Shirt and mug. I recommend them !
14th Oct 2009
Finally received my Armadillo Space T-Shirt and mug. I recommend them !
Willem's Blog
Repairing a Nintendo Gameboy Advance SP
Reparing an old Nintendo Gameboy Advance to play classic Zelda again.
25th Mar 2017
Reparing an old Nintendo Gameboy Advance to play classic Zelda again.
Fabien Sanglard
Revisiting the Businesscard Raytracer
1st May 2020
Notes on software...
A minimal REST API in Java
There's a style of Java that is a joy to write. This post will cover
how to set up a basic...
1st Feb 2020
There's a style of Java that is a joy to write. This post will cover
how to set up a basic PostgreSQL-integrated REST API using
Jersey and
JOOQ in a style not dissimilar to Flask and
SQLAlchemy in Python.
In particular, we'll try to avoid as much runtime
reflection/class-loading...
latest projects -...
Talking Tines
[Concept] Tuning forks that talk
29th Jun 2024
[Concept] Tuning forks that talk
Lighthouse Blog
A deep dive into the rss feed reader landscape
7th Oct 2025
Bryan Braun - Blog
You are not your grand plans
“You are not your grand plans. You are your daily patterns.”
I love this quote from James Clear...
11th Jul 2026
“You are not your grand plans. You are your daily patterns.”
I love this quote from James Clear because it hurts me in all the right ways.
At my worst, I feel like my daily patterns are at war with my grand plans. When I’m fighting a daily battle and willpower is slipping, I need...
Jonas Hietala
A Vacation Filled with Obsession
A nice thing about school are the nice long vacations. Directly after my last exam we went north to...
7th Jan 2013
A nice thing about school are the nice long vacations. Directly after my last exam we went north to our dear home village Övertorneå and spent two weeks celebrating Christmas and New Years Eve. What did we do? I practiced some obsessive behavior with Power Grid and Minecraft (and...
Daniel De Laney
Never Use the Confirm Dialog
It’s a standard function of all browsers, it’s everywhere, and it’s time to retire it. Here’s an...
8th Sep 2015
It’s a standard function of all browsers, it’s everywhere, and it’s time to retire it. Here’s an example from JIRA. Trying to “Cancel” a comment brings up the confirm dialog:
Even if we assume confirmation is necessary, the standard confirm dialog is a bad way to get it:
Most of...
Tiny struggles
Invertimo Binance Crypto Integration
You can now import your binance Crypto related transactions to invertimo.com (open source investment...
2nd Feb 2022
You can now import your binance Crypto related transactions to invertimo.com (open source investment tracking app).
Why track crypto transactions in invertimo?
Invertimo helps you track all transactions related to your investments as well as dividends and received income in one...
Computer Ads from...
Vote for the Topic of the February 2024 Plus Post
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6th Feb 2024
If you are a paid subscriber, voting is open for one week
Notes on software...
A paper reading club at work; databases and distributed systems research
I started a paper reading club this week at work, focused on databases
and distributed systems...
5th Apr 2024
I started a paper reading club this week at work, focused on databases
and distributed systems research. I posted in a general channel about
the premise and asked if anyone was interested. I clarified the
intended topic and that discussions would be asynchronous over email,
run...
Electronics etc…
Repairing an HP 5370A Time Interval Counter
MathJax.Hub.Config({
jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"],
tex2jax: {
inlineMath: [...
10th Aug 2025
MathJax.Hub.Config({
jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"],
tex2jax: {
inlineMath: [ ['$', '$'], ["\\(", "\\)"] ],
displayMath: [ ['$$', '$$'], ["\\[", "\\]"] ],
processEscapes: true,
skipTags: ['script', 'noscript', 'style', 'textarea', 'pre',...
benn.substack
Will there ever be a worse time to start a startup?
Today's frontier is tomorrow's tech debt.
5th Dec 2025
Today's frontier is tomorrow's tech debt.
Bryan Braun - Blog
SolidGoldMagikarp
In November 2019, years before the launch of ChatGPT, OpenAI created a 1.5 billion parameter Large...
28th Oct 2025
In November 2019, years before the launch of ChatGPT, OpenAI created a 1.5 billion parameter Large Language Model and released it publicly under the name GPT-2.
Immediately, researchers and enthusiasts began playing with it, using it to generate poetry, folk music, fan-fiction...
Electronics etc…
Notes about Basic Polyphase Decimation Filters
Introduction
Decimation with FIR Anti-Aliasing Filter
Naive Hardware Implementation
Reduce number of...
25th Jan 2026
Introduction
Decimation with FIR Anti-Aliasing Filter
Naive Hardware Implementation
Reduce number of calculations - Move decimator before multiplier
Polyphase decomposition of the original filter
The Noble Identity for Decimation
Re-using Common Hardware in the Fast Clock...
Odds and Ends of...
Here's how AI can REDUCE health misinformation
How the government can build a bullshit detector
22nd Oct 2024
How the government can build a bullshit detector
Evan Hahn (dot com)
I made a little audio speed calculator
I was recently listening to an 8-hour-and-51-minute audiobook, and wanted to know how much time I’d...
3rd Dec 2025
I was recently listening to an 8-hour-and-51-minute audiobook, and wanted to know how much time I’d save if I listened to it on 1.5× speed.
This math is easy enough; divide 8 hours and 51 minutes by 1.5 to get the new duration: 5 hours and 54 minutes. But I also wanted to:
See...
Louwrentius - Solar
My Ceph test cluster based on Raspberry Pi's and HP MicroServers
Introduction
To learn more about Ceph, I've build myself a Ceph Cluster based on actual hardware. In...
26th Jan 2019
Introduction
To learn more about Ceph, I've build myself a Ceph Cluster based on actual hardware. In this blogpost I'll discus the cluster in more detail and I've also included (fio) benchmark results.
This is my test Ceph cluster:
The cluster consists of the following...
Willem L. Middelkoop
Improve your sleep by blocking light
Over the past few weeks I have been experimenting with wearing a sleep mask in bed, blocking all...
23rd Jan 2020
Over the past few weeks I have been experimenting with wearing a sleep mask in bed, blocking all light. Our bodies produce the sleep hormone, melatonin, in darkness. Living in an environment awash in artificial light, is therefore exactly the sort of thing that disrupts one's...
Jeff Geerling
Expert Beginners and Lone Wolves will dominate this early LLM era
After migrating this blog from a static site generator into Drupal in 2009, I noted:
As a sad...
1st Mar 2026
After migrating this blog from a static site generator into Drupal in 2009, I noted:
As a sad side-effect, all the blog comments are gone. Forever. Wiped out. But have no fear, we can start new discussions on many new posts! I archived all the comments from the old 'Thingamablog'...
Willem L. Middelkoop
Servicing a robot vacuum cleaner
Back in 2011 I got myself an iRobot Roomba 555 robot vacuum cleaner to automatically clean my...
19th Mar 2019
Back in 2011 I got myself an iRobot Roomba 555 robot vacuum cleaner to automatically clean my apartment. It's a little circle shaped robot that drives around sucking up dust bunnies. Over the years it has bravely fought the dangers of my apartment... shoes, cables, carpet and...
Home on Erik...
Detecting corporate fraud using Benford's law
Note: This is a silly application. Don't take anything seriously.
Benford's law describes a...
7th Oct 2014
Note: This is a silly application. Don't take anything seriously.
Benford's law describes a phenomenon where numbers in any data series will exhibit patterns in their first digit. For instance, if you took a list of the 1,000 longest rivers of Mongolia, or the average daily...
Butler's Log
We’ve raised $17M to build what comes after Git
GitButler has raised a Series A round to accelerate developing the infrastructure for how software...
8th Apr 2026
GitButler has raised a Series A round to accelerate developing the infrastructure for how software gets built next
Matt Blewitt
Unreasonably Effective Patterns
Much of my current job is maintaining and enhancing control planes for Heroku’s managed data...
11th Oct 2020
Much of my current job is maintaining and enhancing control planes for Heroku’s managed data services. This post explores three patterns used to reduce operational burden and increase system safety and resiliency: state machines (and associated state-transition tables),...
Style over Substance
Buienwatch, a custom Home Assistant integration for Buienradar and Buienalarm graphs on your Apple...
Back in 2021, I wired up data from Buienalarm and Buienradar through Node-RED and a big pile of...
14 hours ago
Back in 2021, I wired up data from Buienalarm and Buienradar through Node-RED and a big pile of Jinja2 templates to get a rain forecast graph on my Apple Watch: eight Unicode block characters showing the next two hours in 15-minute chunks, glanceable without unlocking the phone....
Gwern.net Newsletter
April 2021 newsletter
with links on AI scaling, particular new East Asian record-breaking work & deep reinforcement...
3rd Jun 2021
with links on AI scaling, particular new East Asian record-breaking work & deep reinforcement learning.
Blog | Sam Curry
Abusing HTTP Path Normalization and Cache Poisoning to steal Rocket League accounts
19th Apr 2020
eieio.games
Will AI Pet My Dog for Me?
Will AI Pet My Dog for Me?
Sometimes I don't want to outsource work - especially when it comes to...
19th Jan 2026
Will AI Pet My Dog for Me?
Sometimes I don't want to outsource work - especially when it comes to understanding a system. Where should I draw the line?
Read the full post on my blog!
Here's a raw link, if you need it:
https://eieio.games/blog/will-ai-pet-my-dog-for-me
Azad's Blog
What I learned while gaming at 480 FPS
It’s clear that with display technologies, we’ve hit a point of diminishing returns with packing...
12th May 2025
It’s clear that with display technologies, we’ve hit a point of diminishing returns with packing pixels more densly. However, there is room for rendering frames faster and faster. Having listened to Digital Foundry’s John Linneman talk so highlighy about playing games in 480hz on...
Abishek Muthian
Powering Xbox OneX using ATX power supply
My post-warranty Xbox One X power supply went kaput, Microsoft wanted me to visit a walk-in center...
2nd Jan 2022
My post-warranty Xbox One X power supply went kaput, Microsoft wanted me to visit a walk-in center 500 Km (~ 300 Mi) away and exchange it for a new one for ~ 250 USD. I couldn't find replacement power supply online where I live and shipping it from abroad was risky on several...
Posts on Made of...
Three kinds of memory leaks
So, you’ve got a program that’s using more and more over time as it runs. Probably you can...
29th Apr 2018
So, you’ve got a program that’s using more and more over time as it runs. Probably you can immediately identify this as a likely symptom of a memory leak.
But when we say “memory leak”, what do we actually mean? In my experience, apparent memory leaks divide into three broad...
Writing
When Harry Met Sally
This, to me, is the ur-romcom — the gold standard against which all others are compared, and most...
27th Sep 2018
This, to me, is the ur-romcom — the gold standard against which all others are compared, and most are found wanting. The chemistry, the script, the everpresent autumn, the interstitials with old couples — it is all so good, and exactly what it is trying to be!
Good Enough
TIL: Fixing Broken Social Share Images in Twitter/X
I have an admission to make. Social share images for Pika were broken on Twitter/X, LinkedIn, and...
12th Nov 2024
I have an admission to make. Social share images for Pika were broken on Twitter/X, LinkedIn, and Apple Messages for months. And it made me sad.
But in the past few months we got it fixed. And that made me very happy!
We really love our Pika social share images. They are pretty....
Construction Physics
How China Is Like the 19th Century U.S.
I spend a lot of time reading about manufacturing and its evolution, which means I end up repeatedly...
1st Nov 2024
I spend a lot of time reading about manufacturing and its evolution, which means I end up repeatedly reading about the times and places where radical changes in manufacturing were taking place: Britain in the late 18th century, the US in the late 19th and early 20th centuries,...
Willem L. Middelkoop
Search like a pro: Google search operators
You probably use the world's most famous search engine to find things everyday, but you might not...
24th Apr 2019
You probably use the world's most famous search engine to find things everyday, but you might not know about some of its advanced search operators. You can use these special search phrases to find things that are otherwise burried in the search results. Read along for a...
Home on Erik...
Lessons from content marketing myself (aka blogging) for five years
I started writing this blog in late 2012, partly because I felt like it would help me improve my...
7th Mar 2018
I started writing this blog in late 2012, partly because I felt like it would help me improve my English and my writing skills, partly because I kept having a lot of random ideas in my head and I wanted to write them down somewhere.
Gwern.net Newsletter
June gwern.net newsletter
June 2020 gwern.net newsletter with 3 new pages/essays, and links on CRISPR, population screening,...
2nd Jul 2020
June 2020 gwern.net newsletter with 3 new pages/essays, and links on CRISPR, population screening, AI scaling, politics, and technological unemployment.
latest projects -...
E-book Bellows
[Concept] Dynamically deflatable
4th Nov 2025
[Concept] Dynamically deflatable
Applied Cartography
Two weeks of parenthood
We've had lucy for two weeks, which qualifies us as experts, which means it is time to write about...
6th Oct 2024
We've had lucy for two weeks, which qualifies us as experts, which means it is time to write about parenthood. (In all seriousness, consider the below descriptive and not prescriptive: mostly, it's a notepad filled with things that were remarkable or surprising or divergent from...
Old Vintage...
Hedley Davis has died
A more obscure Commodore employee (where he apparently met his wife), but still quite influential...
17th Mar 2026
A more obscure Commodore employee (where he apparently met his wife), but still quite influential during the Amiga era. Along with more pedestrian units such as the Amiga 3000 and the monochrome Amiga 2024 monitor, my favourite device he worked on was the 1987 prototype SX-500....
Louwrentius - Solar
Why I still won't switch to Linux and keep my Mac
The current state of Linux is amazing. If we take a look at, for example,
Ubuntu Linux, we have to...
1st Feb 2009
The current state of Linux is amazing. If we take a look at, for example,
Ubuntu Linux, we have to admit that the Linux desktop is really becoming a
nice, user-friendly environment. I'm truly starting to like what I see. I
considered whiping Mac OS X from my macbook, but there...
Software and Tech...
Is Blogging Dead?
When I started 2025, I set myself a simple challenge: write consistently and see if I could reclaim...
2nd Jan 2026
When I started 2025, I set myself a simple challenge: write consistently and see if I could reclaim some of the audience this blog once had. In 2024, I had published just 4 posts and had only a handful of RSS subscribers. It felt like shouting into the void.
By the end of 2025, I...
Jonas Hietala
Designing a personal Pebble watchface
I recently got a Pebble Time 2 as it seemed like a fun smartwatch away from Google/Apple/Samsung...
26th Jun 2026
I recently got a Pebble Time 2 as it seemed like a fun smartwatch away from Google/Apple/Samsung with a good 4 weeks of battery life.
One thing I wanted to do is to create a custom watchface for my specific problems.
It took more effort to design the watch than I had anticipated...
The New Oil
Noteworthy Updates to The New Oil
6th Apr 2025
On Life and Lisp
AAA gaming on Asahi Linux
Gaming on Linux on M1 is here! We’re thrilled to release our Asahi
game playing toolkit, which...
10th Oct 2024
Gaming on Linux on M1 is here! We’re thrilled to release our Asahi
game playing toolkit, which integrates our Vulkan 1.3 drivers with x86
emulation and Windows compatibility. Plus a bonus: conformant OpenCL
3.0.
Asahi Linux now ships the only conformant OpenGL®,
OpenCL™,
and...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Exit games for EVM validiums: the return of Plasma
14th Nov 2023
Kent de Bruin
The Desktop Metaphor
The implications of the desktop metaphor on digital interfaces
10th Oct 2021
The implications of the desktop metaphor on digital interfaces
Electronics etc…
Making Screenshots of Test Equipment Old and New
Introduction
Screenshot Capturing Interfaces
Hardware and Software Tools
Capturing GPIB data in Talk...
29th Nov 2024
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...
Engineers Need Art
Tom Dowdy
Tom Dowdy was a software engineer at Apple back in 1995 when I was still writing Macintosh games in...
3rd Apr 2022
Tom Dowdy was a software engineer at Apple back in 1995 when I was still writing Macintosh games in Lawrence, Kansas.
Alyssa Rosenzweig
Hilariously Fast Volume Computation with the Divergence Theorem
(No, there won’t be jokes.)
The following presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of...
16th Feb 2018
(No, there won’t be jokes.)
The following presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of a
simple, closed, triangulated 3D mesh. This assumption is a consequence
of the divergence theorem. Further extensions may generalise to other
meshes as well, although that is presently...
Himanshu Mishra |...
It is okay not to be special
Hi :name-retracted:! I hope I don’t bore you with this letter. I feel like talking to you about...
17th Jul 2018
Hi :name-retracted:! I hope I don’t bore you with this letter. I feel like talking to you about life. (Which I always want to do. All the…
Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing Anchor Pro!
Our original Anchor, the first under-desk headphone mount, is truly a great product - easy to...
22nd Oct 2018
Our original Anchor, the first under-desk headphone mount, is truly a great product - easy to install, does what it says, and a timeless design. It's in use on over 100,000 desks worldwide.
So what do you do when you have a great product like The Anchor? Well, we decided to make...
Engineers Need Art
Experiments in Printmaking - Part 1
Trying some unconventional techniques to create a pop-art print of a Cherry Mash candy bar.
13th Mar 2024
Trying some unconventional techniques to create a pop-art print of a Cherry Mash candy bar.
eieio.games
yt-browse: a powerful youtube search TUI
yt-browse: a powerful youtube search TUI
I made a TUI for searching a specific youtube channel. I...
4th Mar 2026
yt-browse: a powerful youtube search TUI
I made a TUI for searching a specific youtube channel. I think it's much nicer than the experience of searching a channel on youtube's website.
Read the full post on my blog!
Here's a raw link, if you need it:
...
Toni's Blog
SwiftUI Explorations
My journey of learning SwiftUI as a designer.
21st Jun 2024
My journey of learning SwiftUI as a designer.
Butler's Log
GitButler for Windows
The GitButler client is now available natively on Windows.
12th Apr 2024
The GitButler client is now available natively on Windows.
detreville
I invent a new kind of magnet, sort of...
It's SO new, it has ZERO external magnetic field!
29th Aug 2025
It's SO new, it has ZERO external magnetic field!
computers are bad
air traffic control: the IBM 9020
Previously on Computers Are Bad, we discussed the early history of air
traffic control in the United...
17th Jan 2026
Previously on Computers Are Bad, we discussed the early history of air
traffic control in the United States.
The technical demands of air traffic control are well known in computer history
circles because of the prominence of SAGE, but what's less well known is that
SAGE itself...
Yazin Alirhayim
Values
One of the most important things that a company needs to agree on is values. Values are a strange...
11th Feb 2016
One of the most important things that a company needs to agree on is values. Values are a strange being though — they are defined even when no one has explicitly taken the task of putting them on a powerpoint deck.
Yazin Alirhayim
The Meem app: it sucks
I've been using Meem, the first digital-only bank in the Middle East, for about a year now. I...
1st Dec 2019
I've been using Meem, the first digital-only bank in the Middle East, for about a year now. I absolutely hate their app.
Vitalik Buterin's...
Governance, Part 2: Plutocracy Is Still Bad
28th Mar 2018
Abishek Muthian
Memory and Mental Health
It's been known for a while that depression can cause us to not remember finer details of an past...
18th Nov 2022
It's been known for a while that depression can cause us to not remember finer details of an past event (or) even cause forgetfulness of future events.
But while depressed, We have no dearth of negative thoughts and memories i.e. Rumination. Since rumination weakens our cognitive...
Jonas Hietala
The T-34/2 keyboard layout
The T-34/2 layout.
QMK Heatmap Generator, with all layers and combos.
It’s been 6 months since my...
28th Aug 2022
The T-34/2 layout.
QMK Heatmap Generator, with all layers and combos.
It’s been 6 months since my last update on the T-34 keyboard layout, and I’ve made some changes I’d like to document here.
As seen in the heatmap above, the layout seems quite decent. There’s still an issue...
Electronics etc…
A Tektronix TDS 684B Oscilloscope Uses CCD Analog Memory
Introduction
The TDS600 Series
The Acquisition Board
Measuring Along the Signal Path
A Closer Look...
4th May 2025
Introduction
The TDS600 Series
The Acquisition Board
Measuring Along the Signal Path
A Closer Look at the Noise Issue
Conclusion
Introduction
I have a Tektronix TDS 684B oscilloscope that I bought
cheaply at an auction. It has 4 channels, 1 GHz of BW and a sample rate of 5...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Where to use a blockchain in non-financial applications?
12th Jun 2022
Toni's Blog
2025test
Everything that happened to me this year
30th Dec 2025
Everything that happened to me this year
Willem's Blog
From tree to table
Creating a night stand from a raw slab of chestnut wood.
22nd Oct 2017
Creating a night stand from a raw slab of chestnut wood.
Fabien Sanglard
SSD reboot your thinking
How SDD drives took my breath away...
17th Mar 2012
How SDD drives took my breath away...
Fabien Sanglard
The best Tech books
More...
17th Jan 2013
Niklas Oberhuber’s...
How to be Right without being Sure
9th Jun 2025
Comments for Lars...
Comment on My 7 Rules for A/B Testing That Triple Conversion Rates by Naman Modi
Thanks for the useful steps. I usually pay good attention to how actively plugin is maintained & how...
13th Dec 2018
Thanks for the useful steps. I usually pay good attention to how actively plugin is maintained & how often plugin supports questions are answered in the forum.
Jonas Hietala
Domains, certificates, and DNS
Accessing services via raw IP addresses isn’t that swell; I’m no Rain Man.
It’s time to set up...
6th Aug 2026
Accessing services via raw IP addresses isn’t that swell; I’m no Rain Man.
It’s time to set up subdomains for my hietala.xyz domain for internal use.
We’ll use the Gateway API to set up routes, cert-manager to give us https without self-signed browser warnings, and ExternalDNS to...
Blog | Sam Curry
Hacking Chess.com and Accessing 50 Million Customer Records
16th Dec 2020
Vitalik Buterin's...
Obfuscation: building the final boss of cryptography (Part I)
29th Jun 2026
Open for Business
Crazy With the Heat
Heat is awful, humidity makes it worse, and deathly stillness renders it just about...
16th Jul 2026
Heat is awful, humidity makes it worse, and deathly stillness renders it just about insufferable.
The other night my neighbor was standing on his porch. He blew a smoke ring. Next morning, it was still there, though the morning fog had made it soggy so it had sunk to the ground.
Notes on software...
Implementing MVCC and major SQL transaction isolation levels
In this post we'll build a database in 400 lines of code with basic
support for five standard SQL...
16th May 2024
In this post we'll build a database in 400 lines of code with basic
support for five standard SQL transaction levels: Read Uncommitted,
Read Committed, Repeatable Read, Snapshot Isolation and
Serializable. We'll use multi-version concurrency control (MVCC) and
optimistic...
Willem L. Middelkoop
Back to the University
This month, I headed back to university for a special course on scientific programming. With...
7th Feb 2023
This month, I headed back to university for a special course on scientific programming. With numerous recent advancements in machine learning (referred to as "AI" in PowerPoint parlance), including ChatGPT, it felt like the ideal moment to delve into Python programming. Join me...
computers are bad
extremely low frequencies
The submarine is a surprisingly ancient technology—at least in its early,
primitive forms. The idea...
9th May 2026
The submarine is a surprisingly ancient technology—at least in its early,
primitive forms. The idea is quite simple, that a well-enough-sealed boat ought
to be able to submerge and resurface. It's the practicalities that make the
whole thing difficult. It is generally considered...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later
22nd Nov 2019
eieio.games
Bad Apple but it's 6,500 regexes that I search for in vim
Bad Apple but it's 6,500 regexes that I search for in vim
Look. There's simply no reason that I...
10th Jan 2025
Bad Apple but it's 6,500 regexes that I search for in vim
Look. There's simply no reason that I should have to exit vim when I want to watch Bad Apple, the shadow-art video that folks enjoy embedding in fun spots. So I got Bad Apple running inside vim just using vim's search...
Construction Physics
A History of Operation Breakthrough
Many who look at the high and rising cost of housing see the problem as fundamentally one of...
6th Mar 2026
Many who look at the high and rising cost of housing see the problem as fundamentally one of production methods; more specifically, that homes could be built more cheaply if they were made using factories and industrialized processes, instead of assembling them on site using...
Old Vintage...
Composite and hard reset mods for the Tandyvision One
I still have my literal first home computer (the Tomy Tutor), and it so happens I also have my...
8th Dec 2024
I still have my literal first home computer (the Tomy Tutor), and it so happens I also have my literal first game console: the Tandyvision One, Tandy Radio Shack's label variant of the Mattel Intellivision Master Component.
The Mattel Intellivision proper originally hails...
computers are bad
2023-11-04 nuclear safety
Nuclear weapons are complex in many ways. The basic problem of achieving
criticality is difficult on...
4th Nov 2023
Nuclear weapons are complex in many ways. The basic problem of achieving
criticality is difficult on its own, but deploying nuclear weapons as
operational military assets involves yet more challenges. Nuclear weapons must
be safe and reliable, even with the rough handling and...
Alyssa Rosenzweig
Vulkan 1.3 on the M1 in 1 month
u{text-decoration-thickness:0.09em;text-decoration-color:skyblue}
Finally, conformant Vulkan for the...
5th Jun 2024
u{text-decoration-thickness:0.09em;text-decoration-color:skyblue}
Finally, conformant Vulkan for the M1! The new “Honeykrisp” driver is
the first conformant
Vulkan® for Apple hardware on any operating system, implementing the
full 1.3 spec without “portability”...
Writing
Baccano!
I wanted to like this one so much. It seemed tailor-made to what I love in anime: interesting,...
4th Nov 2021
I wanted to like this one so much. It seemed tailor-made to what I love in anime: interesting, anachronistic setting; weird alchemy stuff; a huge slew of characters and viewpoints; framing devices within framing devices.
Jonas Hietala
Food vacation in Japan
Me and my friend spent 2 weeks in Japan and had a great time. I wasn’t planning on taking a lot of...
18th Jul 2019
Me and my friend spent 2 weeks in Japan and had a great time. I wasn’t planning on taking a lot of pictures, but I ended up sending a bunch back home as a ways of keeping my family up to date. When I look back most of them are about food… So I’ll turn this into a post about the...
Writing
Across the Spiderverse
It is very gratifying for me to see all the praise for this movie, some of it feeling overdue from...
7th Jun 2023
It is very gratifying for me to see all the praise for this movie, some of it feeling overdue from the somehow-underappreciated
Into the Spiderverse. And, to be sure, the praise is earned: this is "what if the first movie, but more" in the best way
possible.
I thought the former,...
Abishek Muthian
Scam alert : mail from IPTI
Mail from IPTI
This is a physical scam mail alert yeah because we don’t get enough of cyber...
22nd Dec 2016
Mail from IPTI
This is a physical scam mail alert yeah because we don’t get enough of cyber phishing; right!
Those who have filed international patents, keep an eye out for mails such as the above. I received a professional looking mail from IPTI & from what it looks like on the...
Louwrentius - Solar
How to run victron veconfigure on a mac
Introduction
Victron Multiplus-II inverter/charges are configured with the veconfigure1 tool....
4th Mar 2024
Introduction
Victron Multiplus-II inverter/charges are configured with the veconfigure1 tool. Unforntunately this is a Windows-only tool, but there is still a way for Apple users to run this tool without any problems.
Tip: if you've never worked with the Terminal app on MacOS, it...
Applied Cartography
Godzilla Minus One
I wrote a bit in Everybody's in L.A. about the constraint of evaluating the merit of something...
4th Jun 2024
I wrote a bit in Everybody's in L.A. about the constraint of evaluating the merit of something that's in conversation with a genre you don't really care for in the first place; I don't care much for late night shows, and I care even less for kaiju movies, even with my knowledge...
anderegg.ca
Skylight and the AT Protocol
Since my last piece about Bluesky, I’ve been using the service a lot more. Just about everyone I...
4th Apr 2025
Since my last piece about Bluesky, I’ve been using the service a lot more. Just about everyone I followed on other services is there now, and it’s way more fun than late-stage Twitter ever was. Halifax is particularly into Bluesky, which reminds me of our local scene during the...
Electronics etc…
Zephyr Ravenna Control Board Replacement
Blog post that probably has an audience of one, myself.
Introduction
Zephyr Ravenna - Confusing...
12th May 2024
Blog post that probably has an audience of one, myself.
Introduction
Zephyr Ravenna - Confusing Information
Two PCBs - Control Board & Switch Assembly
Switch of the Breaker!!!
Glass Canopy Removal
Duct Cover Removal
Swapping the Control...
Vitalik Buterin's...
A Prehistory of the Ethereum Protocol
14th Sep 2017
eieio.games
Are Two Heads Better Than One?
Are Two Heads Better Than One?
You're playing a game with your lying friends Alice and Bob.
Bob...
9th Dec 2025
Are Two Heads Better Than One?
You're playing a game with your lying friends Alice and Bob.
Bob flips a coin and shows it to Alice. Alice tells you what she saw - but she lies 20% of the time. Then you take your best guess on whether the coin is heads or tails.
Your best...
watchTowr Labs
IBM QRadar - When The Attacker Controls Your Security Stack (CVE-2022-26377)
Welcome to April 2024.
A depressing year so far - we've seen critical vulnerabilities across a wide...
12th Apr 2024
Welcome to April 2024.
A depressing year so far - we've seen critical vulnerabilities across a wide range of enterprise software stacks.
In addition, we've seen surreptitious and patient threat actors light our industry on fire with slowly introduced backdoors in the XZ...
Home on Erik...
More Luigi!
Elias Freider just talked about Luigi at PyData 2013:
The presentation above is much better than one...
22nd Mar 2013
Elias Freider just talked about Luigi at PyData 2013:
The presentation above is much better than one I put together a few weeks ago. In case anyone is interested I'll include it too:
computers are bad
2023-08-07 STIRred AND SHAKEN
In a couple of days, I pack up my bags to head for DEFCON. In a rare moment of
pre-planning, perhaps...
7th Aug 2023
In a couple of days, I pack up my bags to head for DEFCON. In a rare moment of
pre-planning, perhaps spurred by boredom, I looked through the schedule to see
what's in store in the world of telephony. There is a workshop on SS7, of
course [1], plenty of content on cellular, but...
The Pragmatic...
Klarna’s AI chatbot: how revolutionary is it, really?
Klarna launched its AI chatbot, built in collaboration with OpenAI, which the company wants to use...
8th Aug 2024
Klarna launched its AI chatbot, built in collaboration with OpenAI, which the company wants to use to eliminate 2/3rds of customer support positions. But is it as revolutionary, and as likely to replace jobs, as Klarna claims?
matduggan.com
Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse
I have never been an "online community first" person. The internet is how I stay in touch with...
6th Mar 2026
I have never been an "online community first" person. The internet is how I stay in touch with people I met in real life. I'm not a "tweet comments at celebrities" guy. I was never funny enough to be the funniest person on Twitter.
Notes on software...
First few hurdles writing a Scheme interpreter
I started working on BSDScheme last October, inspired to get back
into language implementation after...
10th Jan 2018
I started working on BSDScheme last October, inspired to get back
into language implementation after my coworker built bshift, a
compiler for a C-like language. BSDScheme is an interpreter for a
(currently small subset of) Scheme written in D. It implements a few
substantial...
Ian's Blog
Securing My Web Infrastructure
Securing My Web Infrastructure
A few months ago, I very briefly mentioned that I've migrated all my...
17th Apr 2025
Securing My Web Infrastructure
A few months ago, I very briefly mentioned that I've migrated all my web infrastructure off Cloudflare, as well as having built a custom web service to host it all. I call this new web service WebCentral and I'd like to talk about some of the steps...
matduggan.com
I Am a Flat-Rate Monthly Responsibility Service
Most people, when asked why they do what they do, lie. This isn’t because they’re malicious but it’s...
6 days ago
Most people, when asked why they do what they do, lie. This isn’t because they’re malicious but it’s because the honest justification for a career is rarely noble. It’s usually a combination of a decent paycheck, tolerable hours, and whatever neurosis you
Yazin Alirhayim
Hour 10: Updating the website
We're back! Instead of working on something brand new, I'll be updating the existing website hosted...
25th Nov 2025
We're back! Instead of working on something brand new, I'll be updating the existing website hosted at eyadquaibi.com
Can We Still Govern?
What I wrote in The Atlantic about the Clicktatorship
When content matters more than the truth
4th Feb 2026
When content matters more than the truth
computers are bad
The Ascent to Sandia Crest II
Where we left
off,
Albuquerque's boosters, together with the Forest Service, had...
19th Oct 2025
Where we left
off,
Albuquerque's boosters, together with the Forest Service, had completed
construction of the Ellis Ranch Loop and a spur to the Sandia Crest. It was
possible, even easy, to drive from Albuquerque east through Tijeras Pass, north
to the present-day location of...
Jorge Arango
My Theme for 2026
I’m starting off 2026 with a post that likely won’t interest you at all. I’m only sharing it to 1)...
1st Jan 2026
I’m starting off 2026 with a post that likely won’t interest you at all. I’m only sharing it to 1) think it through and 2) make myself accountable. It’s inspired by this video:
Among other things, Pink suggests adopting a one-word theme for the year: “Not a sentence. Not a...
Azad's Blog
RealityCapture to Gaussian Splatting using PostShot
TLDR: Tutorial on using RealityCapture to align an image dataset, export the alignment, and import...
21st Jul 2024
TLDR: Tutorial on using RealityCapture to align an image dataset, export the alignment, and import it into PostShot to train Gaussian Splats without using COLMAP. Video tutorial RealityCapture Import your images and align them. If you ever need help with tricky dataset, refer to...
MIT News - Civil and...
Concrete “battery” developed at MIT now packs 10 times the power
Improved carbon-cement supercapacitors could turn the concrete around us into massive energy storage...
1st Oct 2025
Improved carbon-cement supercapacitors could turn the concrete around us into massive energy storage systems.
GitButler
Fearless Rebasing
GitButler now supports first class conflicts, which makes rebasing much less annoying. What is...
23rd Oct 2024
GitButler now supports first class conflicts, which makes rebasing much less annoying. What is "fearless rebasing"?
Opsbros
JSON and PowerShell
Working with Object-based arrays in PowerShell can be a challenge; but here's a trick that will...
11th May 2020
Working with Object-based arrays in PowerShell can be a challenge; but here's a trick that will allow you to manipulate these objects efficiently.
Applied Cartography
Sputnik Sweetheart
Murakami feels more and more like an old friend with whom I feel comfortable: most of the...
18th Feb 2020
Murakami feels more and more like an old friend with whom I feel comfortable: most of the conversations and stories are ones we've had before, but it is still fun to banter and to rehash old arguments and think about the good times.
matduggan.com
The Intolerable Hypocrisy of Cyberlibertarianism
I like the Internet. I am old enough to remember the pre-Internet era and despite the younger...
7th May 2026
I like the Internet. I am old enough to remember the pre-Internet era and despite the younger generations pining for those simpler days, I was there. Paper maps were absolutely horrible, just you and a compass in your car on the side of the road in the middle of the
joshua stein
Subtext 3.0 Released
Subtext
3.0 has been released:
subtext-3.0.sit
(StuffIt 3 archive, includes
source code
and THINK C...
11th Nov 2023
Subtext
3.0 has been released:
subtext-3.0.sit
(StuffIt 3 archive, includes
source code
and THINK C 5 project file)
713f9b465281f89405522f7aef23d4fa2bf035c7cd070f690395302a4a77045a
SHA1: 47ba8aa40e2abcd3811c3f26b349a15a78bcd956
ipdb-2023-11.db
(Free IP Geolocation...
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