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Lars Lofgren
CNN and USA Today Have Fake Websites, I Believe Forbes Marketplace Runs Them What if I told you that Forbes Marketplace, the affiliate company operating on Forbes.com ALSO had...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
What if I told you that Forbes Marketplace, the affiliate company operating on Forbes.com ALSO had agreements with CNN and USA Today? And that Forbes Marketplace was stuffing those sites full of affiliate content just like it is with Forbes? And what if Forbes Marketplace went to...
Jonas Hietala
MenuCity This game is called MenuCity and it’s a numbers game. Well that’s the theme anyway. The game pretty...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This game is called MenuCity and it’s a numbers game. Well that’s the theme anyway. The game pretty much held to what I planned for - except that it deviated from the theme -again- a bit. My game is very reminiscent of the old calculator classic Block Dude made by Brandon...
Notes on software...
Is it worth writing about? You acquire a skill or experience through time and effort, then downplay the impact of writing and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
You acquire a skill or experience through time and effort, then downplay the impact of writing and sharing the learning process. Professionals seem naturally to imagine a high bar for what is worth writing about. I think that's misguided. This article is not criticism of folks...
Odds and Ends of...
The social justice case for self-driving cars Abundant mobility should be a moral crusade
5 months ago
Jonas Hietala
First impressions of Ghostty There are two conflicting forces in play in setting up your computer environment: It’s common to...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
There are two conflicting forces in play in setting up your computer environment: It’s common to find people get stuck at the extreme ends of the spectrum; some programmers refuse to configure or learn their tools at all, while others get stuck re-configuring their setups...
Birchtree
Strong (fanboy) opinions loosely held Tim Hardwick writing for MacRumors: iPhone 17 Air USB-C Port May Have This Unusual Design...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Tim Hardwick writing for MacRumors: iPhone 17 Air USB-C Port May Have This Unusual Design Quirk Dummy models shared by AppleTrack suggest that Apple has made some subtle adjustments to accommodate internal components in the tighter chassis. Most notably, the USB-C port on the...
Abishek Muthian
No more global micro-SaaS from India Reserve Bank of India has published draft regulatory guidelines for payment aggregators1 which...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Reserve Bank of India has published draft regulatory guidelines for payment aggregators1 which requires payment aggregators to perform physical KYC on small & medium sized merchants, verify their bank accounts among other regulations. Stripe, sighting the aforementioned...
Arduino Blog
This robotic tongue drummer bangs out all the ambient hits If you like to listen to those “deep focus” soundtracks that are all ambient and relaxing, then...
4 weeks ago
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4 weeks ago
If you like to listen to those “deep focus” soundtracks that are all ambient and relaxing, then you’ve heard a tongue drum in action. A tongue drum, or tank drum, is a unique percussion instrument traditionally made from an empty propane cylinder — though purpose-built models are...
Odds and Ends of...
5 questions about the "AI opportunities action plan" What the lobby should have asked.
5 months ago
Applied Cartography
Projects are things with steps Lots of kind words poured in as a response to My approach to GTD and PKM, and one question was asked...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Lots of kind words poured in as a response to My approach to GTD and PKM, and one question was asked so frequently that I decided to write about it. Why is “Get mom a birthday present” a project and not a task? GTD is very orthodox in what a “project” is: it’s anything that: you...
Applied Cartography
Against Against Innovation Tokens Glyph (whose writing and contributions to the Python ecosystem I am deeply grateful for) wrote...
a year ago
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a year ago
Glyph (whose writing and contributions to the Python ecosystem I am deeply grateful for) wrote Against Innovation Tokens yesterday: In 2015, Dan McKinley laid out a model for software teams selecting technologies. He proposed that each team have a limited supply of “innovation...
Willem's Blog
Some thoughts on touch screen user interface design I am working on a new app involving personal health that requires a natural intuitive interface that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I am working on a new app involving personal health that requires a natural intuitive interface that works well on touch screens. It's good to check out some best practices for touch UI design
csvbase blog
You can't just assume UTF-8 How to infer character encodings with statistics
a year ago
Notes on software...
Eight years of organizing tech meetups This is a collection of random personal experiences. So if you don't want to read everything, feel...
a year ago
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a year ago
This is a collection of random personal experiences. So if you don't want to read everything, feel free to skip to the end for takeaways. I write because I'd like to see more high-quality meetups. And maybe my little bit of experience will help someone out. 2015: Philadelphia I...
Arduino Blog
This Kenyan engineer modernizes vintage cars with a custom ECU and EFI upgrades The automotive industry’s switch from carburetion to fuel injection was one of the most effective...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
The automotive industry’s switch from carburetion to fuel injection was one of the most effective advancements of the 20th century. Electronic fuel injection allows for precise control over an internal combustion engine’s air-fuel mixture, which dramatically improves fuel...
Willem's Blog
Supernova E3 Pro 2 dynamo powered headlight
over a year ago
Birchtree
Your brain doesn’t want you to work out Dean Burnett writing for Science Focus: Your Brain Is Hard-Wired to Avoid Exercise. Here's Why So...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Dean Burnett writing for Science Focus: Your Brain Is Hard-Wired to Avoid Exercise. Here's Why So why, even though we’ve evolved to do it, doesn't everyone enjoy exercise? The baffling complexity of the human brain is to blame. Evolving an ability doesn’t
Arduino Blog
CapibaraZero: a student’s journey in reinventing hacking tools with Arduino Inventive, open-source, and cost-effective – these words perfectly describe CapibaraZero, a...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Inventive, open-source, and cost-effective – these words perfectly describe CapibaraZero, a multifunctional security and hacking tool developed by young innovator Andrea Canale. Inspired by the popular Flipper Zero, a portable device used to interact with digital systems, Canale...
Louwrentius
Making cowpatty recognize a four-way handshake I was unable to get cowpatty working with a packet capture that actually contains a four-way...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I was unable to get cowpatty working with a packet capture that actually contains a four-way handshake of a WPA session. I got it working like this: First, download cowpatty 4.6 right here, within the source directory of cowpatty. Extract cowpatty and apply this patch using these...
Home on Erik...
More Luigi! Continuing in the same spirit of shameless self-promotion, here's some recent Luigi press: Reddit...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Continuing in the same spirit of shameless self-promotion, here's some recent Luigi press: Reddit thread A Guide to Python Frameworks for Hadoop (slides from the NYC Hadoop User Group) This presentation from the Open Analytics NYC meetup about how Foursquare uses Luigi  Luigi...
Abishek Muthian
OpenWrt login alert I wanted to receive alert when logged into my OpenWrt router via SSH and this what I did. Replace...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I wanted to receive alert when logged into my OpenWrt router via SSH and this what I did. Replace Dropbear with OpenSSH-server OpenWrt uses lightweight Dropbear as SSH server by default but it needs to be compiled with PAM support to add alerts. Instead I'm replacing Dropbear...
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!
7 months ago
Posts on Made of...
What MongoDB got Right MongoDB is perhaps the most-widely-mocked piece of software out there right now. While some of the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
MongoDB is perhaps the most-widely-mocked piece of software out there right now. While some of the mockery is out-of-date or rooted in misunderstandings, much of it is well-deserved, and it’s difficult to disagree that much of MongoDB’s engineering is incredibly simplistic,...
Jonas Hietala
The first (worst) post Well, here it is: The opening post. What will come here? Here’s where I’ll outline what the blog...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Well, here it is: The opening post. What will come here? Here’s where I’ll outline what the blog will be about and maybe, if I’m dedicated, it won’t die before Christmas you think. And sure, you’re right. I will run away to the corner in about two and a half months crying I never...
Birchtree
The "essential" iPhone Today marks day 13 of using the iPhone 16e as my primary phone, and after this review goes live,...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Today marks day 13 of using the iPhone 16e as my primary phone, and after this review goes live, I'll be moving my eSIM back to the 16 Pro that I use day to day. I intended to use this phone for a month before going back to
Lighthouse Blog
What is OPML?
2 months ago
Notes on software...
Writing an x86 emulator from scratch in JavaScript: 2. system calls Previously in emulator basics: 1. a stack and register machine In this post we'll extend x86e...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Previously in emulator basics: 1. a stack and register machine In this post we'll extend x86e to support the exit and write Linux system calls, or syscalls. A syscall is a function handled by the kernel that allows the process to interact with data outside of its memory....
Arduino Blog
Recreating a bizarre century-old electronic instrument There are a handful of instruments that are staples of modern music, like guitars and pianos. And...
a month ago
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a month ago
There are a handful of instruments that are staples of modern music, like guitars and pianos. And then there are hundreds of other instruments that were invented throughout history and then fell into obscurity without much notice. The Luminaphone, invented by Harry Grindell...
Jonas Hietala
Friend of the Tree I just noticed I was recognized as a friend of the tree in a weekly meeting by the rust team. It...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I just noticed I was recognized as a friend of the tree in a weekly meeting by the rust team. It came during my documentation sprint during IDA Summer of Code and I discovered it now, only two and a half month later. Still a very pleasant surprise!
Home on Erik...
Modeling conversion rates using Weibull and gamma distributions This is a blog post originally featured on the Better engineering blog. If you want to link to this...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is a blog post originally featured on the Better engineering blog. If you want to link to this article or share it, please go to the original post URL! Separately, I'm sorry it's been so long with no posts on this blog.
Home on Erik...
New approximate nearest neighbor benchmarks As some of you may know, one of my side interests is approximate nearest neighbor algorithms. I'm...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As some of you may know, one of my side interests is approximate nearest neighbor algorithms. I'm the author of Annoy, a library with 3,500+ stars on Github as of today. It offers fast approximate search for nearest neighbors with the additional benefit that you can load data...
Willem's Blog
Designing an interface for a food ordering page Designing a food ordering page is surprisingly challenging because of the many variables that need...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Designing a food ordering page is surprisingly challenging because of the many variables that need to be accommodated on a very small screen.
Jonas Hietala
Why I don't rely on AI for programming (too much) I find that ai can help significantly with doing plumbing, but it has no problems with connecting...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
I find that ai can help significantly with doing plumbing, but it has no problems with connecting the pipes wrong. I need to double and triple check the updated code - or fix the resulting errors when I don’t do that. thih9 on Hacker News I’ve been skeptical of the AI craze...
Applied Cartography
My approach to GTD and PKM One pernicious thing with writing about productivity and knowledge systems: you only change systems...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
One pernicious thing with writing about productivity and knowledge systems: you only change systems that aren’t working, and you tend to write about things during times of change. So most writing about productivity systems stem from people whose systems have failed them. It is...
Louwrentius
Scanning many hosts in parallel with Nmap using PPSS Scanning a large number of hosts using Nmap often takes a lot of time. During this time, no output...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Scanning a large number of hosts using Nmap often takes a lot of time. During this time, no output is written to a file or disk. Only when Nmap is finished, is all output written to the output file. Often, I want to start processing results of hosts that have already been...
Birchtree
That app could probably be a website P. Martin Ortiz writing for Rogue Engine: Your App Should Have Been a Website Some companies push...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
P. Martin Ortiz writing for Rogue Engine: Your App Should Have Been a Website Some companies push for app installations because they gain access to more permissions than they would in the browser. Apps allow them to collect more data and track user activity, often under the...
Jonas Hietala
(Fake) Bittman Chinese Chicken Lesson 6! I went to Cervera and bought a holder to allow me to steam chicken. I broke the recipe on...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Lesson 6! I went to Cervera and bought a holder to allow me to steam chicken. I broke the recipe on multiple fronts: chicken wings instead of chicken breasts, mushroom soy instead of tamarin, roman salad instead of baby bok choi (where the heck do you find that…) and I even...
Birchtree
Apple says they will add encryption to RCS Jess Weatherbed writing for The Verge: Apple Will Soon Support Encrypted RCS Messaging With Android...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Jess Weatherbed writing for The Verge: Apple Will Soon Support Encrypted RCS Messaging With Android Users “End-to-end encryption is a powerful privacy and security technology that iMessage has supported since the beginning, and now we are pleased to have helped lead a cross...
Jorge Arango
Book Notes: “A Thousand Brains” A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence By Jeff Hawkins Basic Books, 2021 If you’re...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence By Jeff Hawkins Basic Books, 2021 If you’re interested in artificial intelligence (and you should be,) it behooves you to learn about intelligence in general. While there’s still lots to learn, neuroscience has made lots of...
./techtipsy
Feature toggles: just roll your own! When you’re dealing with a particularly large service with a slow deployment pipeline (15-30...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
When you’re dealing with a particularly large service with a slow deployment pipeline (15-30 minutes), and a rollback delay of up to 10 minutes, you’re going to need feature toggles (some also call them feature flags) to turn those half-an-hour nerve-wrecking major incidents into...
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...
4 days ago
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4 days ago
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...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Two interesting XOR circuits inside the Intel 386 processor Intel's 386 processor (1985) was an important advance in the x86 architecture, not only moving to a...
a year ago
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a year ago
Intel's 386 processor (1985) was an important advance in the x86 architecture, not only moving to a 32-bit processor but also switching to a CMOS implementation. I've been reverse-engineering parts of the 386 chip and came across two interesting and completely different circuits...
Neil Madden
Why the OAuth mTLS spec is more interesting than you might think I was catching up on the always excellent Security. Cryptography. Whatever. podcast, and enjoyed the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I was catching up on the always excellent Security. Cryptography. Whatever. podcast, and enjoyed the episode with Colm MacCárthaigh about a bunch of topics around TLS. It’s a great episode that touches a lot of subjects I’m interested in, so go ahead and listen to it if you...
Lighthouse Blog
Updates November 10
a year ago
Odds and Ends of...
New event! How AI can (maybe) fix the government! Book your tickets now!
5 months ago
Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course Week 10: Greek Drama Week 10 of the humanities crash course had me reading (and listening to) classic Greek plays. I also...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Week 10 of the humanities crash course had me reading (and listening to) classic Greek plays. I also listened to the blues and watched a movie starring a venerable recently departed actor. How do they connect? Perhaps they don’t. Let’s find out. Readings The plan for this week...
Arduino Blog
Arduino partners with RS/OKdo strategically to further expand the China Market Arduino is excited to announce a strategic new partnership with RS/OKdo, a prominent leader in the...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Arduino is excited to announce a strategic new partnership with RS/OKdo, a prominent leader in the distribution of industrial and electronic equipment. This collaboration marks a significant step forward in bringing Arduino’s technology closer to China’s thriving maker community...
./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...
a year ago
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a year ago
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...
Jorge Arango
The User Research Strategist Podcast Nikki Anderson interviewed me for her User Research Strategist podcast. Our focus was AI’s impact on...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Nikki Anderson interviewed me for her User Research Strategist podcast. Our focus was AI’s impact on research and informaton architecture – and how practitioners can take advantage of this new technology. See the episode page, which includes show notes. If you want to learn...
Greater Still by...
In Defense of the New The future is being crafted out on the edge. Are you paying attention?
a year ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
What I would love to see in a wallet
7 months ago
./techtipsy
How to copy media off of an iPhone the hard way (using Linux) I helped a family member upgrade to a newer iPhone and make some room so that the internal storage...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
I helped a family member upgrade to a newer iPhone and make some room so that the internal storage does not run out. They had Nextcloud installed on the current phone, but due to limitations of the Nextcloud iOS app, the backups only take place if the app itself is open, meaning...
Applied Cartography
Why can't you just...? Buried in a snarky thread about why Google Calendar doesn’t support calendar syncing is a long,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Buried in a snarky thread about why Google Calendar doesn’t support calendar syncing is a long, detailed explanation of why shipping this sort of thing is hard: Designing a consent experience for the enterprise admin and enterprise end user Creating a special "read only" object...
Computer Ads from...
Rabbit Software's Death Star Attila the Hun. Ivan the Terrible. Count Dracula. The Daleks. More evil then all of them put...
2 months ago
Willem's Blog
Talking tablets: what makes a great tablet? Over the past few weeks I worked with Microsoft Surface Pro X to see if it is any good, can it be...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Over the past few weeks I worked with Microsoft Surface Pro X to see if it is any good, can it be your main computer?
Louwrentius
Is there an easy and secure way to transfer files? Many organisations just assume that the local physical network is trusted. That their network...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Many organisations just assume that the local physical network is trusted. That their network equipment is physically secure and that it is impossible for an attacker to get on the wire and start eavesdropping on network traffic. Many organisations do not seem too concerned about...
Louwrentius
HP Procurve "auto DoS" feature causing network problems A feature on more recent HP Procurve models (18xx series, such as 1810G etc.) is called "Auto DoS"....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A feature on more recent HP Procurve models (18xx series, such as 1810G etc.) is called "Auto DoS". You can find it in the section "Security" and then "Advanced security". If you enable the Auto DoS feature, traffic is blocked based on one of these conditions: the source port...
./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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
Abishek Muthian
False Accusation False accusation for children especially if the accusation goes totally against their values can...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
False accusation for children especially if the accusation goes totally against their values can have profound negative consequences. When I was in grade school(early 2000, India), I went out to take a photo-copy(xerox) of a study material in a shop nearby school. After I...
Birchtree
The worst product Marques Brownlee ever reviewed dies after 10 months Jay Peters for The Verge: HP Is Buying Humane and Shutting Down the AI Pin Humane is selling “key AI...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Jay Peters for The Verge: HP Is Buying Humane and Shutting Down the AI Pin Humane is selling “key AI capabilities” to HP for $116 million and will stop selling AI Pin, the company announced today. AI Pins that have already been purchased will continue to function normally
Evan Hahn's blog
Notes from "Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement" I just finished James Vincent’s Beyond Measure, a 2023 book about the history of measurement and its...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
I just finished James Vincent’s Beyond Measure, a 2023 book about the history of measurement and its impact on our lives. The book reveals how the meter’s length is tied to the French Revolution. It highlights many scientific discoveries linked to advances in measurement. It...
Computer Ads from...
MicroTimes Interviews Apple Newton Devs (1993) The Newton laid the groundwork for the I-devices.
a week ago
Jonas Hietala
5 Kup After a season with very bad attendence, I blame school and lack of motivation, I still went to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
After a season with very bad attendence, I blame school and lack of motivation, I still went to grading. I slept well but I was super stressed all weekend so I had to constantly run to the bathroom and I couldn’t eat lunch or breakfast properly, and I don’t usually get...
Jonas Hietala
An Epic Start Oh what a mistake. I woke up at 05.00 when my girlfriend woke up, she’s working early today, and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Oh what a mistake. I woke up at 05.00 when my girlfriend woke up, she’s working early today, and went to the bathroom. After I was done, still pretty tired, I made a big mistake. I checked the current theme for Ludum Dare 29: Beneath the Surface and guess what? Now I wasn’t tired...
Ken Shirriff's blog
The Pentium as a Navajo weaving Hurrying through the National Gallery of Art five minutes before closing, I passed a Navajo weaving...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Hurrying through the National Gallery of Art five minutes before closing, I passed a Navajo weaving with a complex abstract pattern. Suddenly, I realized the pattern was strangely familiar, so I stopped and looked closely. The design turned out to be an image of Intel's Pentium...
Matt Mullenweg
RIP Quincy Jones Quincy Jones had such an impact on the culture that it’s impossible to summarize. His discography is...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Quincy Jones had such an impact on the culture that it’s impossible to summarize. His discography is amazing. I feel so lucky to have met him in 2012 when I was much earlier in my career, and he didn’t have any reason to give me time, but he treated everyone as if they were...
Jonas Hietala
Summer job at Configura This is a wrap up of my 5 weeks at Configura as a summer internship. There were 6 interns and we had...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is a wrap up of my 5 weeks at Configura as a summer internship. There were 6 interns and we had two teams doing different things. I worked with two other awesome guys and it was great! The Premise We had two assignments this summer. One was to create an optimized version of...
Buck on Software
Thoughts on SaaS and other things Welcome to Buck on Software!
over a year ago
Willem's Blog
Snake '97 High Scores Happily accepting the invitation to attend an exhibition of Snake 97 art works in Antwerp. This was...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Happily accepting the invitation to attend an exhibition of Snake 97 art works in Antwerp. This was totally WOW!
./techtipsy
I have a 'Dall UD19PB ThundeRbglt Dock': my experience with the HP Elitebook 845 G9 I’ve decided to give a new laptop a test drive, mainly because I had the opportunity at work, and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve decided to give a new laptop a test drive, mainly because I had the opportunity at work, and also out of morbid curiosity. It’s the HP Elitebook 845 G9, and it has pretty good specifications: CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 6800U RAM: 2x16GB DDR5 Storage: 512GB KIOXIA NVMe SSD...
Construction Physics
Do U.S. Ports Need More Automation? On October 1st, 47,000 members of the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA), primarily...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
On October 1st, 47,000 members of the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA), primarily dockworkers on East and Gulf Coast ports, went on strike after failing to agree contract terms with USMX, an alliance of port operators and employers.
Jorge Arango
Horsey Horseless and the Challenge of AI-native Products Disruptive technologies call for rethinking product design. We must question assumptions about...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Disruptive technologies call for rethinking product design. We must question assumptions about underlying infrastructure and mental models while acknowledging neither change overnight. For example, self-driving cars don’t need steering wheels. Users direct AI-driven vehicles by...
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...
./techtipsy
Testing GPU passthrough on AMD Ryzen 7 5700G APU Introduction Before we jump into all the nitty-gritty details, I’d like to go over what we are...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Introduction Before we jump into all the nitty-gritty details, I’d like to go over what we are dealing with here since these topics may be unfamiliar to you. VFIO is quite a niche topic and not everyone knows about it. GPU passthrough: the process of allowing a VM...
Birchtree
Steam Deck sales numbers are in, and they’re not as spectacular as I’d hope (but I do still have... Sean Hollister writing for The Verge: Three Years Later, the Steam Deck Has Dominated Handheld PC...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Sean Hollister writing for The Verge: Three Years Later, the Steam Deck Has Dominated Handheld PC Gaming Shipments Add it up, and that’s just under 6 million shipments in three years. One way to view that: it’s small and it’s not really growing. IDC&
Abishek Muthian
Reviewing the Chromebook Google sent me for free after 2 years Around December 2017, Google sent me a free Acer Chromebook 11 N7 (C731). Well, technically they...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Around December 2017, Google sent me a free Acer Chromebook 11 N7 (C731). Well, technically they sent me a free Chromebook cover first, with the promise of a Chromebook to follow and only caveat (or request) being my time to listen to their Google Cloud Platform sales pitch. Acer...
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
Style over Substance
How I made HA-meural: a Meural Canvas integration for Home Assistant One of my 2020 lockdown projects I’m extremely proud of is HA-meural – a custom integration for the...
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over a year ago
One of my 2020 lockdown projects I’m extremely proud of is HA-meural – a custom integration for the Home Assistant home automation software that lets you control a NETGEAR Meural Canvas digital frame. It’s the result of a few months of work, lots of trial and error, and many...
Lars Lofgren
The 9 Delusions From the Halo Effect You’re being lied to. Well, not intentionally. We’re constantly being pinged with stories of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
You’re being lied to. Well, not intentionally. We’re constantly being pinged with stories of companies that have rocketed to success. Especially in tech, there’s always another $1 billion unicorn around the corner. Uber, Facebook, Airbnb, Slack, Zenefits, Box, Shopify, yadda...
Jonas Hietala
An invisible Remake What does a guy like me do when not working on a new game? Except living my life, being a coach for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
What does a guy like me do when not working on a new game? Except living my life, being a coach for my little brother’s hockey team and eating strawberries? The last week or so I’ve been working hard with my webpage, yes this page. If you’ve visited my site before today you’ll...
./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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
Arduino Blog
Ride safer with these DIY bicycle lights Many people around the world live in cities designed for cars, with bicycle use being a distant...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Many people around the world live in cities designed for cars, with bicycle use being a distant afterthought. That makes cycling dangerous and lights can do a lot to make riding safer. That’s why Giovanni Aggiustatutto designed this DIY system that includes headlights, a...
lcamtuf’s thing
Dispatches from the farm upstate Middle-aged computer expert opts to escape civilization, offers dubious life advice.
11 months ago
Elevation Lab - Blog
A newer, better, ElevationDock Today we launched an update to our iPhone dock. It's wider to fit a bigger generation of phones,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Today we launched an update to our iPhone dock. It's wider to fit a bigger generation of phones, ships with an Apple-certified Lightning connector (that you can assemble in seconds with the new tool-free back plate), and we've added some new lateral supports for added...
Abishek Muthian
Getting smoother desktop experience on Raspberry Pi Raspberry Pi, according to me sits on the same row as smartphones when it comes democratizing...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Raspberry Pi, according to me sits on the same row as smartphones when it comes democratizing computation. Between $5 - $35, these tiny computers are capable of functioning as standalone desktop or power hundreds of IoT projects. Raspberry Pi foundation consciously price their...
Arduino Blog
Tecnoseta revives the silk industry with open-source innovation The silk industry has a rich history in Italy, but modern challenges have brought this centuries-old...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
The silk industry has a rich history in Italy, but modern challenges have brought this centuries-old tradition to the brink of decline. Once a cornerstone of the rural economy in Italy, with a strong presence in Zagarolo, Rome, silk production has dwindled in the country due to...
./techtipsy
FOSDEM 2024: my experience, some notes and tech tips I finally went to FOSDEM. I’m sleep-deprived, completely exhausted, but incredibly excited about the...
a year ago
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a year ago
I finally went to FOSDEM. I’m sleep-deprived, completely exhausted, but incredibly excited about the whole experience. I’ve split this post into three separate sections. overall notes on the conference and the city less technical, but sheds light on the FOSDEM experience the...
Computer Ads from...
IBM RISC System/6000 Family Just when PowerSeeker thought they had nowhere to go...
a year ago
Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing NightPad Wireless Charger NightPad has no LEDs, so it won't light up your room. This was a frustration we had with other...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
NightPad has no LEDs, so it won't light up your room. This was a frustration we had with other wireless chargers - which I covered with electrical tape. So in designing this one, the first thing we did was remove the light. NightPad charges iPhone 50% faster than standard Qi...
Jorge Arango
Traction Heroes Ep. 5: Strategic Priorities Episode 5 of the Traction Heroes podcast featured a conversation about strategic priorities. What do...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Episode 5 of the Traction Heroes podcast featured a conversation about strategic priorities. What do I mean by that? I’m referring to prioritizing at two levels: When you’re thinking about what to focus on now – what you should and shouldn’t do next. When you’re thinking about...
Vitalik Buterin's...
收入-邪恶曲线:思考“公共物品融资优先”的另一种方式
over a year ago
Notes on software...
Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 6. an x86 upgrade 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. LLVM system calls This post upgrades the ulisp x86 backend from using a limited set of registers (with no spilling...
Jonas Hietala
Balls Here’s my first ever experimental game! The theme was Addictive Gaming. My first thought was oh god...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Here’s my first ever experimental game! The theme was Addictive Gaming. My first thought was oh god I’ll be making another tetris clone but the end result turned out a bit different. I’m not sure it’s very addictive but it’s actually okay! =D Balls is a game about… balls. Well...
Birchtree
Everything is a reaction, nothing is forever, and everything comes back (members post) Why nothing stays popular forever.
7 months ago
Engineers Need Art
Jigsaw Puzzle Those of us who fiddled while Apple Computer burned. Well, actually some of us put together a big...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Those of us who fiddled while Apple Computer burned. Well, actually some of us put together a big jigsaw puzzle.
Vitalik Buterin's...
Gitcoin Grants Round 7 Retrospective
over a year ago
Louwrentius
Distributed Parallel Processing Shell Script (PPSS) released I'd like to announce the release of the distributed version of the Parallel Processing Shell Script...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I'd like to announce the release of the distributed version of the Parallel Processing Shell Script (PPSS). PPSS is a bash script that allows you to run commands in parallel. It is written to make use of current multi-core CPUs. The new distributed version of PPSS allows you to...
Posts on Made of...
Reader/reader blocking in reader/writer locks Abstract In writer-priority reader/writer locks, as soon as a single writer enters the acquisition...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Abstract In writer-priority reader/writer locks, as soon as a single writer enters the acquisition queue, all future accesses block behind any in-flight reads. Thus, if any readers hold the lock for extended periods of time, this can lead to extreme pauses and loss of throughput...
Computer Ads from...
Massive Interview with Steve Jobs from MicroTime (1992) An in-depth discussion on NeXT
4 months ago
Birchtree
The Vision Pro one year later: this product just ain’t for me If you enjoy your Vision Pro, don't let this post imply that i think you're wrong to enjoy it. This...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
If you enjoy your Vision Pro, don't let this post imply that i think you're wrong to enjoy it. This is a personal blog with my personal experiences, not some neutral outlet trying to assign an objective score to each product. It’s been one
Louwrentius
'A Moment Of Silence: OpenSolaris Is Dead' The last release of OpenSolaris dates back to July 2009. The next release was scheduled for March...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The last release of OpenSolaris dates back to July 2009. The next release was scheduled for March 2010, but Oracle did not release anything. It is dead silent around OpenSolaris. On 12 July 2010, the OpenSolaris Government Board sent out an ultimatum to Oracle: "please...
Matt Blewitt
Thoughts on User Safety: 2 Following up from last time, let’s explore the internal and insider fronts when moving beyond...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Following up from last time, let’s explore the internal and insider fronts when moving beyond security towards safety for our users.
Applied Cartography
Finding null JSON values in Postgres Postgres' JSONB functionality is fast and useful but when I find myself dropping down from the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Postgres' JSONB functionality is fast and useful but when I find myself dropping down from the Django ORM into SQL to do weird things, the syntax strikes me as confusing and arcane. As such, when I need to do esoteric things it takes me longer time than I'd like, and in hopes...
Vitalik Buterin's...
On Collusion
over a year ago
Applied Cartography
Au revoir, Invoke It's not quite interesting or noteworthy enough to warrant a full-on essay, but yesterday we...
a year ago
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a year 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...
Birchtree
+ Book and video game review catchup
3 months ago
Applied Cartography
Grace notes I'm not loving Unreasonable Hospitality, but it did supply me with a phrase that I've been looking...
a year ago
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a year ago
I'm not loving Unreasonable Hospitality, but it did supply me with a phrase that I've been looking for: Eventually, that gesture became one of our steps of service. The host would ask guests, “How’d you get here tonight?” If they responded, “Oh, we drove,” he’d follow up with,...
Applied Cartography
Applied Cartography × Indie Rails Chatted with Jess and Jeremy about a whole slew of things, from pricing strategy to terrifying and...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Chatted with Jess and Jeremy about a whole slew of things, from pricing strategy to terrifying and arcane differences between various Markdown parsers (including why I hate Slack.) They were particularly kind and gracious given that the amount of production-quality Rails I've...
Arduino Blog
Meet Real Robot One V2: A mini DIY industrial robot arm Started in 2022 as an exploration of what’s possible in the field of DIY robotics, Pavel Surynek’s...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Started in 2022 as an exploration of what’s possible in the field of DIY robotics, Pavel Surynek’s Real Robot One (RR1) project is a fully-featured 6+1-axis robot arm based on 3D-printed parts and widely available electronics. The initial release was constructed with PETG...
Abort Retry Fail
The History of GM-NAA I/O and SHARE The Birth of Computer Operating Systems
a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Jonas IceCream Stand Ahoy there! This time I’ll take you along for a ride with an arty Tycoon game. Jonas IceCream...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Ahoy there! This time I’ll take you along for a ride with an arty Tycoon game. Jonas IceCream Stand Instructions It should be pretty self-explanatory, it’s a very simply tycoon game. Credits Music: Eric Maskol Steve Chatterton Sound effects: freesound Rest: Me
watchTowr Labs
Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire - Mitel MiCollab CVE-2024-35286, CVE-2024-41713 And An 0day It is not just APTs that like to target telephone systems, but ourselves at watchTowr too. We can't...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
It is not just APTs that like to target telephone systems, but ourselves at watchTowr too. We can't overstate the consequences of an attacker crossing the boundary from the 'computer system' to the 'telephone system'. We've seen attackers realise this in 2024,
Jonas Hietala
Game Design Analysis: World of Goo Introduction This is the second essay for the course Game Design and this thime I will be analysing...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Introduction This is the second essay for the course Game Design and this thime I will be analysing the game World of Goo a bit. The first level The game is very simple. You begin with a structure and a few Goo balls, the charming balls bobbing around there, which you can drag...
Lighthouse Blog
How to manage tags
a year ago
Push to Prod
Is AI-based Root Cause Analysis a Real Thing? Logs, LLMs, AI, Decision Trees, and Root Causes
3 months ago
Posts on Made of...
Building LLVM in 90 seconds using Amazon Lambda Last week, Frederic Cambus wrote about building LLVM quickly on some very large machines,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Last week, Frederic Cambus wrote about building LLVM quickly on some very large machines, culminating in a 2m37s build on a 160-core ARM machine. I don’t have a giant ARM behemoth, but I have been working on a tool I call Llama, which lets you offload computational work –...
Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing The 10-Year Battery for AirTag My camera bag with $10k of gear was stolen from my car. When I saw the broken glass and empty...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
My camera bag with $10k of gear was stolen from my car. When I saw the broken glass and empty backseat, I immediately pulled up FindMy to track the thief - only to find that its last location was my office 3 months ago... because I hadn't changed the AirTag's battery. It was a...
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...
Himanshu Mishra |...
The Discovery of pseudo-Acquaintance It’s the dawn of the 20th century. If we pick two homo sapiens on earth, we can classify their...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It’s the dawn of the 20th century. If we pick two homo sapiens on earth, we can classify their relationship as one of these three types: An…
Push to Prod
Best Questions and Answers to the “Terrifying Netflix Concurrency Bug” Post Why couldn't we roll back? Weren't we concerned about costs? Why is operating Netflix so...
7 months ago
Krebs on Security
Feds Link $150M Cyberheist to 2022 LastPass Hacks In September 2023, KrebsOnSecurity published findings from security researchers who concluded that a...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
In September 2023, KrebsOnSecurity published findings from security researchers who concluded that a series of six-figure cyberheists across dozens of victims resulted from thieves cracking master passwords stolen from the password manager service LastPass in 2022. In a court...
Home on Erik...
I believe in the 10x engineer, but... The easiest way to be a 10x engineer is to make 10 other engineers 2x more efficient. Someone can be...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The easiest way to be a 10x engineer is to make 10 other engineers 2x more efficient. Someone can be a 10x engineer if they do nothing for 364 days then convinces the team to change programming language to a 2x more productive language.
Willem's Blog
Realtime service uptime monitoring Downtime happens and it is nothing to be ashamed of, just make sure that you set yourself up to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Downtime happens and it is nothing to be ashamed of, just make sure that you set yourself up to discover problems as soon as possible! Know about problems before your customers do!
Lighthouse Blog
What is RSS?
3 months ago
Jorge Arango
AI Needs Architects – That’s Why I’m Pivoting In over thirty years in business, two technological shifts have fundamentally changed my work. The...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
In over thirty years in business, two technological shifts have fundamentally changed my work. The first was the web in the mid 1990s, which led me to leave architecture and focus on what we now call UX. The second is happening now – and it may be bigger. AI is poised to reshape...
Arduino Blog
This 3D-printed robotic arm can be built with just a few inexpensive components Robotics is already an intimidating field, thanks to the complexity involved. And the cost of parts,...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Robotics is already an intimidating field, thanks to the complexity involved. And the cost of parts, such as actuators, only increases that feeling of inaccessibility. But as FABRI Creator shows in their most recent video, you can build a useful robotic arm with just a handful of...
Home on Erik...
Bagging as a regularizer One thing I encountered today was a trick using bagging as a way to go beyond a point estimate and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One thing I encountered today was a trick using bagging as a way to go beyond a point estimate and get an approximation for the full distribution. This can then be used to penalize predictions with larger uncertainty, which helps reducing false positives.
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.
Notes on software...
Notes from Neal Gabler's Walt Disney Disney was a celebrity by his mid-30s, Disney the company was famous by 1930s. Even though...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Disney was a celebrity by his mid-30s, Disney the company was famous by 1930s. Even though politically the 1930s was considered the decade of Roosevelt (elected President in 1933), culturally the 1930s was considered the decade of Mickey Mouse. Almost every new...
lcamtuf’s thing
My approach to teaching electronics Explaining the reasoning behind my series of articles on electronics -- and asking for your...
2 months ago
Louwrentius
Linux network interface bonding / trunking or how to get beyond 1 Gb/s This article discusses Linux bonding and how to achieve 2 Gb/s transfer speeds with a single TCP/UDP...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This article discusses Linux bonding and how to achieve 2 Gb/s transfer speeds with a single TCP/UDP connection. UPDATE July 2011 Due to hardware problems, I was not able to achieve transfer speeds beyond 150 MB/s. By replacing a network card with one from another vendor (HP...
Home on Erik...
Momentum strategies Haven't posted anything in ages, so here's a quick hack I threw together in Python on a Sunday...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Haven't posted anything in ages, so here's a quick hack I threw together in Python on a Sunday night. Basically I wanted to know whether momentum strategies work well for international stock indexes. I spent a bit of time putting together a strategy that buys the stock index if...
Engineers Need Art
Tom Dowdy Tom Dowdy was a software engineer at Apple back in 1995 when I was still writing Macintosh games in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Tom Dowdy was a software engineer at Apple back in 1995 when I was still writing Macintosh games in Lawrence, Kansas.
tim.sh
Github scam investigation: Thousands of "mods" and "cracks" stealing your data While looking through the articles on a "social engineering" themed forum I discovered a relatively...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
While looking through the articles on a "social engineering" themed forum I discovered a relatively new scam scheme that shocked me. People create thousands of GitHub repositories with all sorts of things - from Roblox and Fortnite mods to "cracked" FL Studio and Photoshop. As...
Jonas Hietala
Building my ultimate keyboard The Cybershard keyboard. What comes to mind when you see the description “the ultimate...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
The Cybershard keyboard. What comes to mind when you see the description “the ultimate keyboard”? There are many keyboards in this world; here are some that might fit the “ultimate” moniker: Das Keyboard 4 Ultimate mechanical keyboard DataHand Ergodox EZ Glove80 Happy...
Good Enough
TIL: Listen for JavaScript events only once! A common thing I find myself doing in Javascript is adding some event driven behavior that I only...
a year ago
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a year ago
A common thing I find myself doing in Javascript is adding some event driven behavior that I only want to happen once. Let’s say I have a big button that starts the process of lowering a certain spy into a pool of certain doom — I don’t want a second button press to awkwardly...
Home on Erik...
statself.com Btw I just put something up online that I spent a couple of evenings in my couch putting together:...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Btw I just put something up online that I spent a couple of evenings in my couch putting together: it's a website where you can track any numerical data on the web. Want to know how many Twitter followers you have?
./techtipsy
We get laptops with annoying cooling fans because we keep buying them I don’t like laptops with loud cooling fans in them. Quite a controversial position, I know. But...
a month ago
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a month ago
I don’t like laptops with loud cooling fans in them. Quite a controversial position, I know. But really, they do suck. A laptop can be great to use, have a fantastic keyboard, sharp display, lots of storage and a fast CPU, and all of that can be ruined by one component: the...
./techtipsy
About the time my ThinkPad T430 ran with an external GPU The ThinkPad T430 is not a remarkable laptop. It’s thick, bulky and built like a tank. I got mine in...
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a year ago
The ThinkPad T430 is not a remarkable laptop. It’s thick, bulky and built like a tank. I got mine in 2016 when the first university scholarship money dropped, and it’s still my backup laptop of choice. Around 2017 I did something every reasonable poor computer science...
./techtipsy
How to fix ZFS pool not importing at boot Issue description You are running a Linux-based machine with an install of ZFS on Linux. Everything...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Issue description You are running a Linux-based machine with an install of ZFS on Linux. Everything seems to work correctly, but after restarting your machine, the ZFS pool is not visible. You can still import your pool manually using zpool import poolname or zpool import -a. In...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Prediction Markets: Tales from the Election
over a year ago
Applied Cartography
Typesafe routes in Vue I watched Gary Bernhardt's talk on static routing back a few years ago and — I'm not sure if I would...
a year ago
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a year ago
I watched Gary Bernhardt's talk on static routing back a few years ago and — I'm not sure if I would call it formative, but it stuck in my craw as a platonic ideal of sorts, as something I couldn't really justify adopting within Buttondown but really wanted. I built out and...
Arduino Blog
Code faster with the new Arduino AI Assistant We’re very excited to share that the Arduino AI Assistant is now available in the Arduino Cloud...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
We’re very excited to share that the Arduino AI Assistant is now available in the Arduino Cloud Editor! This expert coding companion truly understands your project and board, and can generate and fix your code in seconds. We know that many of you already use other AI tools to...
Willem's Blog
Designing my own watch Last month I received my custom made wristwatch from Switzerland, it is a minimalistic mechanical...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Last month I received my custom made wristwatch from Switzerland, it is a minimalistic mechanical annual calendar designed to be understated and true to the metal.
Vitalik Buterin's...
The roads not taken
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
The Top Idea Recently I’ve been having a dozen ideas and projects I’ve been poking around with: I wrote a simple...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Recently I’ve been having a dozen ideas and projects I’ve been poking around with: I wrote a simple lua, later perl, which announced when a new day9 episode has come. Later I expanded it to search for new manga episodes, but now it’s broken and unfinished. In an attempt to learn...
./techtipsy
I encourage you to write a blog It’s been over 4 years since my first post on this blog. During those 4 years I’ve written over 90...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
It’s been over 4 years since my first post on this blog. During those 4 years I’ve written over 90 posts, received over 1 million clicks, a dozen legitimate reader e-mails and thousands of spam e-mails. And I love it! I’ve found that writing can be very fulfilling and I encourage...
Jonas Hietala
Starcraft 2 Keycaps When I ordered this computer I was compelled, utterly compelled to buy a mechanical keyboard. Sure...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When I ordered this computer I was compelled, utterly compelled to buy a mechanical keyboard. Sure they cost almost 10x as much as a “regular” one and they didn’t even have these funky multimedia keys, what gives? Did I loose my insanity? It was supposed to give a great typing...
Home on Erik...
Buffet lines are terrible, but let's try to improve them using computer simulations My company has a buffet every Friday, and the lines grow to epic proportions when the food arrives....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My company has a buffet every Friday, and the lines grow to epic proportions when the food arrives. I've suspected for years that the “classic” buffet line system is a deeply flawed and inefficient method, and every time I'm stuck in the line has made me more convinced.
Lighthouse Blog
Updates April 05
a year ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
On Medium-of-Exchange Token Valuations
over a year ago
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!!
Birchtree
El Salvador gives up on Bitcoin The Tico Times: El Salvador Abandons Bitcoin as Legal Tender After Failed Experiment Bitcoin was...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
The Tico Times: El Salvador Abandons Bitcoin as Legal Tender After Failed Experiment Bitcoin was never used by most Salvadorans, its modern city was never built, and now it will cease to be legal tender in El Salvador, the first country in the world to adopt it in 2021: a
Arduino Blog
This machine automatically scans books from cover to cover Hard data is hard to find, but roughly 100 million books were published prior to the 21st century....
a week ago
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a week ago
Hard data is hard to find, but roughly 100 million books were published prior to the 21st century. Of those, a significant portion were never available in a digital format and haven’t yet been digitized, which means their content is effectively inaccessible to most people today....
Louwrentius
My home network setup based on managed switches and VLANs My home networking setup I live in a two story apartment, with on the top floor my utilities closet...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My home networking setup I live in a two story apartment, with on the top floor my utilities closet and my living room. The bottom floor contains a bedroom with all my servers and networking gear. So this is my setup (click for a bigger version): I like to run my own router but...
watchTowr Labs
Palo Alto - Putting The Protecc In GlobalProtect (CVE-2024-3400) Welcome to April 2024, again. We’re back, again. Over the weekend, we were all greeted by...
a year ago
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a year ago
Welcome to April 2024, again. We’re back, again. Over the weekend, we were all greeted by now-familiar news—a nation-state was exploiting a “sophisticated” vulnerability for full compromise in yet another enterprise-grade SSLVPN device. We’ve seen all the commentary around the...
Jonas Hietala
The current T-34 keyboard layout I’ve been documenting my own keyboard layout in a series for a while now. But as the layout is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been documenting my own keyboard layout in a series for a while now. But as the layout is constantly changing it’s been difficult to piece together how the layout currently looks like, so this post tries to show how the layout looks right now in it’s entirety. If you want to...
Abort Retry Fail
Housekeeping for 20240701 Another correction
a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Evolution of RTS games Introduction This is an essay for the course Game Design and I’m going to give you a ride through...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Introduction This is an essay for the course Game Design and I’m going to give you a ride through the evolution of RTS game genre. I like RTS games and I’ve played them for as long as I can remember, from the classic Red Alert and Age of Empires to the newer Supreme Commander and...
Computer Ads from...
Datamost Nightraiders Day Must Turn to Night Before Mankind Dares to Fight
a month ago
Home on Erik...
Giving more tools to software engineers: the reorganization of the factory It's a popular attitude among developers to rant about our tools and how broken things are. Maybe...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It's a popular attitude among developers to rant about our tools and how broken things are. Maybe I'm an optimistic person, because my viewpoint is the complete opposite! I had my first job as a software engineer in 1999, and in the last two decades I've seen software engineering...
Old Vintage...
The Hall SC-VGA-2 video processor, the Atari ST and NeXTSTEP: more tales of the unscreenshotable A periodic fascination on this blog is figuring out better ways to get better screenshots of our...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
A periodic fascination on this blog is figuring out better ways to get better screenshots of our classic systems, which often hail from the Wild Wild West/East in terms of video standards (read all entries in this series). Naturally the best way is a bitwise direct grab of the...
Arduino Blog
Monitoring the weather with an Arduino MKR WiFi 1010-based station Being able to monitor the weather in real-time is great for education, research, or simply to...
a year ago
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a year ago
Being able to monitor the weather in real-time is great for education, research, or simply to analyze how the local climate changes over time. This project by Hackster.io user Pradeep explores how he was able to design a simple station outdoors that could communicate with a...
Arduino Blog
Wired for success: Inspiring the next generation of women in science Did you know that it’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science on February 11th, 2025? To...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Did you know that it’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science on February 11th, 2025? To celebrate this global event, we’re shining a light on the efforts to make STEM more accessible, inclusive, and inspiring for future generations. Let’s dive in! Mind the gap: gender...
Louwrentius
Cannot access Windows guest within VMware Fusion when running vsphere client Currently, I am running VMware ESXi 4.1 on a test system. To manage ESXi, you need the VSphere...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Currently, I am running VMware ESXi 4.1 on a test system. To manage ESXi, you need the VSphere client, which is only available for the Windows platform. Therefore, I run VMware Fusion on my Mac to be able to access VSphere and manage my ESXi host. The trouble is that both ESXi...
lcamtuf’s thing
Sierpiński triangle? In my bitwise AND? Exploring a peculiar bit-twiddling hack at the intersection of 1980s geek sensibilities.
a month ago
Daniel De Laney
Network Engineering “My first job was to understand what network engineers do. Then, I had to show them complex data in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
“My first job was to understand what network engineers do. Then, I had to show them complex data in a comprehensible and usable way. Finally, I had to make it less ugly.” The Challenge When you type “google.com” into your browser and press the Enter key, what happens? How do you...
Birchtree
Modding a Nintendo 3DS is precise, but doable in 2025 I went through the act if installing custom firmware on my New Nintendo 2DS tonight, and I wanted to...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
I went through the act if installing custom firmware on my New Nintendo 2DS tonight, and I wanted to shout out this guide for being absolutely spectacular. Not only does it have the best step-by-step instructions I think I've ever seen, it even has branches off the main
./techtipsy
DIY cloud gaming setup with VFIO, Parsec and AMD This is a follow-up to my previous post where I covered the VFIO setup in general. For many people...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is a follow-up to my previous post where I covered the VFIO setup in general. For many people that would have been good enough, but my goal with this setup was to have a powerful gaming setup that I could access from my living room PC with 20 meters of Ethernet cables...
Birchtree
Some low-stakes misinformation spread like wildfire, and I got it wrong too Giovanni Colantonio writing for Digital Trends: The Confusion Around $90 Switch 2 Games Proves How...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Giovanni Colantonio writing for Digital Trends: The Confusion Around $90 Switch 2 Games Proves How Broken the Internet Is There’s just one problem: *Mario Kart World* does not cost $90, at least based on what we know right now. No currently announced Nintendo Switch 2 game...
Notes on software...
Benchmarking esbuild, swc, tsc, and babel for React/JSX projects This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
Birchtree
The mythical iOS 18.4 Zac Hall writing for 9to5Mac: Apple’s Competitive Edge in AI Hinges on These Three Unreleased Siri...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Zac Hall writing for 9to5Mac: Apple’s Competitive Edge in AI Hinges on These Three Unreleased Siri Features It feels like a make-or-break moment for Siri, and these three remaining iOS 18 features are key indicators of Apple’s ability to leverage AI with Siri. These three Siri
watchTowr Labs
Pots and Pans, AKA an SSLVPN - Palo Alto PAN-OS CVE-2024-0012 and CVE-2024-9474 It'll be no surprise that 2024, 2023, 2022, and every other year of humanities' existence has been...
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7 months ago
It'll be no surprise that 2024, 2023, 2022, and every other year of humanities' existence has been tough for SSLVPN appliances. Anyhow, there are new vulnerabilities (well, two of them) that are being exploited in the Palo Alto Networks firewall and SSLVPN offering, and as ever,...
lcamtuf’s thing
The secret lives of snowblowers Yes, they throw snow. But the mechanical design of residential snowblowers is more interesting than...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Yes, they throw snow. But the mechanical design of residential snowblowers is more interesting than it seems.
Lighthouse Blog
What are web feeds?
2 months ago
Arduino Blog
This student made his own odds with a DIY slot machine Today’s digital slot machines are anything but “fair,” in the way that most of us understand that...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Today’s digital slot machines are anything but “fair,” in the way that most of us understand that word. There is tight regulation in most places, but the machines can still adjust their odds of payout in order to maintain a specific profit margin. If the machine thinks it has...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Inside an IBM/Motorola mainframe controller chip from 1981 In this article, I look inside a chip in the IBM 3274 Control Unit.1 But before I discuss the chip,...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
In this article, I look inside a chip in the IBM 3274 Control Unit.1 But before I discuss the chip, I need to give some background on mainframes. (I didn't completely analyze the chip, so don't expect a nice narrative or solid conclusions.) Die photo of the Motorola/IBM SC81150...
Home on Erik...
Recurrent Neural Networks for Collaborative Filtering I’ve been spending quite some time lately playing around with RNN’s for collaborative filtering....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been spending quite some time lately playing around with RNN’s for collaborative filtering. RNN’s are models that predict a sequence of something. The beauty is that this something can be anything really – as long as you can design an output gate with a proper loss function,...
Jonas Hietala
2016 Read Books Yeah so I managed to not read a single fiction book this year. To compensate and make myself feel...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Yeah so I managed to not read a single fiction book this year. To compensate and make myself feel better I’ll add in some new mangas I’ve read, but I may may have missed some. Fiction Crickets Non-Fiction Getting to Yes Relax into Stretch Thinking, Fast and Slow 59 seconds The...
Old Vintage...
After 41 years, my first assembly program on my first computer, the Tomy Tutor We got it in 1983, I think, so it only took me about 41 years to get around to it. This Tomy Tutor...
a year ago
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a year ago
We got it in 1983, I think, so it only took me about 41 years to get around to it. This Tomy Tutor isn't a replacement system I secondarily acquired, nor is it a Ship of Theseus Frankenstein rebuild. This is my actual first computer, in its original case, on its original...
Jonas Hietala
Easy setup of a static site on Amazon S3 with SSL I’ve been hosting my site on Amazon S3 for a while now but I never activated SSL for it. I just...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been hosting my site on Amazon S3 for a while now but I never activated SSL for it. I just never got around to it, probably the usual procrastination. When I had to setup a new site for another project I chose to host on Amazon as well. Although there are many other free...
Notes on software...
How I run a coffee club I started the NYC Systems Coffee Club in December of 2023. It's gone pretty well! I regularly get...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
I started the NYC Systems Coffee Club in December of 2023. It's gone pretty well! I regularly get around 20 people each month. You bring a drink if you feel like it and you hang out with people for an hour or two. There is no agenda, there is no speaker, there is no structure....
computers are bad
2023-04-10 solving problems with chatgpt One of the foundational goals of computer technology, at least as understood by popular culture, is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One of the foundational goals of computer technology, at least as understood by popular culture, is to automate away our jobs. When your job is (put simply) to get computers to work correctly, there's sort of an irony to this view of things. Still, just within the span of my...
Lighthouse Blog
How to combine multiple RSS feeds in one view
a year ago
Jonas Hietala
I'm writing a book: Why Cryptocurrencies? I decided to write a book. It’s called “Why Cryptocurrencies?” and I will be uploading chapters as I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I decided to write a book. It’s called “Why Cryptocurrencies?” and I will be uploading chapters as I complete them. It’s available to read online for free. I’ve only uploaded the introductory parts but I’ve got a bunch more planned. Why write a book you ask? Well, why not? I...
Arduino Blog
Knuckle typing in mixed reality just makes sense While mixed reality — virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) — has come a long way in...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
While mixed reality — virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) — has come a long way in recent years, there are still a lot of challenges that developers struggle to overcome in a practical and user-friendly way. Typing is one example and current virtual keyboard...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Wealth distribution in the United States Forbes recently published the Forbes 400 List for 2024, listing the 400 richest people in the United...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Forbes recently published the Forbes 400 List for 2024, listing the 400 richest people in the United States. This inspired me to make a histogram to show the distribution of wealth in the United States. It turns out that if you put Elon Musk on the graph, almost the entire US...
Birchtree
The releases keep on coming! New MacBook Air and Mac Studio Man, the releases recently are coming in fast and furious, today with Apple announcing new MacBook...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Man, the releases recently are coming in fast and furious, today with Apple announcing new MacBook Airs and Mac Studios. My MacBook Air predictions The Air will likely get a bump to the M4 chip and I’m not totally sure what will happen to the $999 model. as
Ken Shirriff's blog
The absurdly complicated circuitry for the 386 processor's registers The groundbreaking Intel 386 processor (1985) was the first 32-bit processor in the x86...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
The groundbreaking Intel 386 processor (1985) was the first 32-bit processor in the x86 architecture. Like most processors, the 386 contains numerous registers; registers are a key part of a processor because they provide storage that is much faster than main memory. The register...
Good Enough
My Tears of the Kingdom Addiction I don’t know how big my internet social bubble really is, but it feels like everyone in the world...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I don’t know how big my internet social bubble really is, but it feels like everyone in the world that bubble has been playing a lot of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom lately. Me included! It’s amazing, and I’m thoroughly engrossed—I think I’ve stayed up playing until...
Arduino Blog
Boring rice cooker becomes uruchimai powerhouse Rice cookers are staple appliances in about half of the world and basic models are very affordable....
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Rice cookers are staple appliances in about half of the world and basic models are very affordable. But those are simple machines that are about as “dumb” as electric kettles. The result is often rice that has been sitting in the warming stage for too long, making the bottom...
Arduino Blog
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...
12 months ago
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12 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...
Lighthouse Blog
How to stay on top of (new) content
a year ago
csvbase blog
Being on The Semantic Web is easy, and, frankly, well worth the bother Web 3.0 was not about the blockchain, thank god
10 months ago
Nabeel S. Qureshi
Advice That Actually Worked For Me My contribution to the 'productivity advice' genre.
over a year ago
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...
over a year ago
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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...
Computer Ads from...
Merry Christmas 2024 and a Happy New Year
6 months ago
Engineers Need Art
VPX Scripting - Part 6 (End Sound) This post wraps up the sound work on Teacher's Pet.
a year ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Verkle trees
over a year ago
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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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.
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 -!-...
a year ago
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a year ago
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
Vitalik Buterin's...
On Nathan Schneider on the limits of cryptoeconomics
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
My book 'Why Cryptocurrencies?' is done My first commit on my book Why Cryptocurrencies? is from Dec 19, 2018, and now about 17 months later...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My first commit on my book Why Cryptocurrencies? is from Dec 19, 2018, and now about 17 months later and 1006 more commits I’m finally done! Well, I’m done with the online version at least. I still plan to create an e-book, a PDF and a paperback and who knows how long that will...
Never Met a Science
Seeing Like a Newsfeed Machine Learning Through Machine Poetry
11 months ago
Arduino Blog
An ultra-affordable DIY underwater ROV ROVs (remotely operated vehicles) let us explore bodies of water and it is hard not to be excited by...
a year ago
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a year ago
ROVs (remotely operated vehicles) let us explore bodies of water and it is hard not to be excited by the possibilities. But traditional ROVs cost a lot of money and often require serious expertise to operate and maintain. Luckily there are affordable alternatives, such as this...
Jonas Hietala
No game this month Well here I am in the end of the month - without a game. It’s a failure I know but once again I lack...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Well here I am in the end of the month - without a game. It’s a failure I know but once again I lack inspiration and then it’s really hard to do something. Instead I’ve been thinking of something I could do that would make me wanna code like really bad again. I’m thinking of...
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...
a year ago
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a year 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...
computers are bad
2023-01-29 the parallel port A few days ago, on a certain orange website, I came across an article about an improvised parallel...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A few days ago, on a certain orange website, I came across an article about an improvised parallel printer capture device. This contains the line: There are other projects out there, but when you google for terms such as "parallel port to usb", they drown in a sea of "USB to...
Notes on software...
Why (and how) to read books The last time I read for fun was in elementary school. Since college I knew I must read more, but I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The last time I read for fun was in elementary school. Since college I knew I must read more, but I never forced myself to build the habit. Then three years ago I spent time around my brother and a coworker who were avid readers. This "peer pressure" helped me get started. Since...
Abort Retry Fail
The History of Windows 3 Windows becomes competitive
a year ago
Arduino Blog
This platypus-shaped robot is built from vacuum cleaner parts We all love the immense convenience provided by robot vacuum cleaners, but what happens when they...
a week ago
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a week ago
We all love the immense convenience provided by robot vacuum cleaners, but what happens when they get too old to function? Rather than throwing it away, Milos Rasic from element14 Presents wanted to extract the often-expensive components and repurpose them into an entirely new...
Bryan Braun - Blog
Links #10 How to Get on a Podcast - This is a short and invaluable post for anyone who wants to be a podcast...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
How to Get on a Podcast - This is a short and invaluable post for anyone who wants to be a podcast guest. It puts you in the shoes of a podcaster, showing you what they need, and how you can be a “sure thing” for them. As usual, there are no short cuts. You gotta do the work! 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...
Jonas Hietala
Entering Pintos First week of school is over and it’s been full throttle from the start, in a good way. We’re having...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
First week of school is over and it’s been full throttle from the start, in a good way. We’re having four courses and for once I like them all. We have an interesting math course, a useful course “Software Development in Theory” (boring but useful) and a big project course where...
Jonas Hietala
Design for Hackers I get these.. urges sometimes. Not like Dexter no, but sometimes I just have to buy a specific...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I get these.. urges sometimes. Not like Dexter no, but sometimes I just have to buy a specific thing. It happened again yesterday (or was it the day before I don’t know) when I saw this post on hackernews. It’s a book this time, again, but this is something a little different -...
Louwrentius
The ZFS Event Daemon on Linux If something goes wrong with my zpool, I'd like to be notified by email. On Linux using MDADM, the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If something goes wrong with my zpool, I'd like to be notified by email. On Linux using MDADM, the MDADM daemon took care of that. With the release of ZoL 0.6.3, a brand new 'ZFS Event Daemon' or ZED has been introduced. I could not find much information about it, so consider...
Posts on Made of...
Lightweight Linux Kernel Development with KVM I don’t do a ton of Linux kernel development these days, but I’ve done a fair bit in the past, and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I don’t do a ton of Linux kernel development these days, but I’ve done a fair bit in the past, and picked up a number of useful techniques for doing kernel development in a relatively painless fashion. This blog post is a writeup of the tools and techniques I use when developing...
The New Oil
Transparency Report: 2024
6 months ago
Matt Blewitt
7 Languages in 7 Weeks for 2025 It’s been over 14 years since the original 7 Languages in 7 Weeks was first published, giving a...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
It’s been over 14 years since the original 7 Languages in 7 Weeks was first published, giving a hands on tour of Ruby, Clojure, Haskell, Io, Scala, Erlang and Prolog. Ruby achieved critical mass, to some degree so did Scala, with the others being popular within their specific...
Himanshu Mishra |...
आंसुओं के बिंब से छलकती हुई दुनिया, देखी थी मैंने एक बार
over a year ago
Nabeel S. Qureshi
How To Sell Sales at a startup is counter-intuitive.
over a year ago
Arduino Blog
Optimize maintenance with the Arduino Rileva ME Opta Bundle When your machines run smoothly, your business can go far. That’s why condition monitoring – once a...
a month ago
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a month ago
When your machines run smoothly, your business can go far. That’s why condition monitoring – once a “nice to have” – is quickly becoming a must in maintenance strategies across industrial settings. But most dedicated systems can be complex to set up or difficult to scale. To make...
Arduino Blog
Reduce power consumption in IoT and wearable devices, with Arduino’s new power management library! Developing energy-efficient IoT and wearable devices is complex and time-consuming, yet it is...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Developing energy-efficient IoT and wearable devices is complex and time-consuming, yet it is essential for creating high-quality products that stand out in today’s market. A key part in this process is optimizing power consumption without sacrificing performance or...
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
a year ago
lcamtuf’s thing
RAM: the forgotten history We owe computers not to Charles Babbage, but to the invention of electronically-controlled working...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
We owe computers not to Charles Babbage, but to the invention of electronically-controlled working memory.
Arduino Blog
Web Serial Camera stream with Arduino Hey there, fellow tech enthusiasts! Ever wondered how you could effortlessly stream camera footage...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Hey there, fellow tech enthusiasts! Ever wondered how you could effortlessly stream camera footage from your Arduino boards directly to your web browser? Wonder no more! Arduino’s Web Serial Camera demo shows how to bring your camera projects to life. Stream images from your...
Home on Erik...
Looking for smart people I haven't mentioned what I'm currently up to. Earlier this year I left Spotify to join a small...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I haven't mentioned what I'm currently up to. Earlier this year I left Spotify to join a small startup called Better. We're going after one of the biggest industries in the world that also turns out to be completely broken.
axio.ms
A small ode to the CRT Built October 2018 I used to hate Cathode Ray Tubes. As a kid in Europe, everything flickered at...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Built October 2018 I used to hate Cathode Ray Tubes. As a kid in Europe, everything flickered at 50Hz, or made a loud whistle at 15.625KHz (back when I could still hear it). CRTs just seemed crude, “electro-brutalist” contraptions from the valve era. They were heavy, and...
computers are bad
2025-02-17 of psychics and securities September 6th, 1996. Eddie Murray, of the Baltimore Orioles, is at bat. He has had 20 home runs in...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
September 6th, 1996. Eddie Murray, of the Baltimore Orioles, is at bat. He has had 20 home runs in the season; 499 in his career. Anticipation for the 500th had been building for the last week. It would make Murray only the third player to reach 500 home runs and 3000 hits. His...
./techtipsy
Turns out that I'm a 'prolific open-source influencer' now Yes, you read that right. I’m a prolific open-source influencer now. Some years ago I set up a...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Yes, you read that right. I’m a prolific open-source influencer now. Some years ago I set up a Google Alert with my name, for fun. Who knows what it might show one day? On 7th of February, it fired an alert. Turns out that my thoughts on Ubuntu were somewhat popular, and it ended...
Evan Hahn's blog
UI tip: maybe don't round percentages to 0% or 100% In short: maybe don’t round to 0% or 100% in your UI. I am not a UI expert. But I sometimes build...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
In short: maybe don’t round to 0% or 100% in your UI. I am not a UI expert. But I sometimes build user interfaces, and I sometimes want to render a percentage to the user. For example, something like “you’ve downloaded 45% of this file”. In my experience, it’s often better to...
Daniel De Laney
Data Center Monitoring “I like to use sketches to validate ideas quickly, without a lot of investment in the wrong...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
“I like to use sketches to validate ideas quickly, without a lot of investment in the wrong direction.” The Challenge The computing power that runs the world is hidden away in data centers that few people get to see. While many data centers are lights-out operations most of the...
Odds and Ends of...
How the government can raise taxes – and get away with it It's time to treat Trump like the crisis he is
3 months ago
Old Vintage...
A few retrobits updates on Floodgap Just a brief programming note. Before this blog there was Floodgap Retrobits, and I still maintain...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Just a brief programming note. Before this blog there was Floodgap Retrobits, and I still maintain those pages. One of the earliest was my Tomy Tutor-specific page devoted to my very first computer which we got in 1983. Relatives of the Texas Instruments home computers and...
Matt Blewitt
Software Sprezzatura Sprezzatura is “a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or says...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Sprezzatura is “a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or says appear to be without effort and almost without any thought about it”, coined by Castiglione in 1528’s The Book of the Courtier.
Posts on Made of...
Some notes on CVE-2010-3081 exploitability Most of you reading this blog probably remember CVE-2010-3081. The bug got an awful lot of publicity...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Most of you reading this blog probably remember CVE-2010-3081. The bug got an awful lot of publicity when it was discovered an announced, due to allowing local privilege escalation against virtually all 64-bit Linux kernels in common use at the time. While investigating...
Home on Erik...
Scala Data Pipelines for Music Recommendations Chris Johnson‘s presentation from Data Day Texas:
over a year ago
Abishek Muthian
Are we worrying more about AI than global warming So, my friend said this — If I may state mine — It’s not we’re more worried about AI, it’s the media...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
So, my friend said this — If I may state mine — It’s not we’re more worried about AI, it’s the media inducing cognitive biases fuelled by Hollywood when a celebrity speaks about dooms day AI. Let’s discuss some facts, Let’s take prof. Hawing, he’s vocal about the need to keep AI...
Arduino Blog
Giving Billy Bass the arti-fish-al intelligence he always deserved If you were unlucky enough to visit a big box retail store or goofy uncle’s home around the turn of...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
If you were unlucky enough to visit a big box retail store or goofy uncle’s home around the turn of the century, you would have undoubtedly come across a Big Mouth Billy Bass. That’s an animatronic fish that wiggles on a plaque while older, very licensable hit songs play. But...
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...
Arduino Blog
These Shattered Space helmet replicas stay video game accurate using an Arduino Nano Starfield, a game set in the vast expanse of our galaxy, is receiving a new expansion called...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Starfield, a game set in the vast expanse of our galaxy, is receiving a new expansion called “Shattered Space” in which players can don novel weapons and gear to take on the latest challenge. As part of its release, the expansion’s publisher Bethesda reached out to cosplayer...
Jonas Hietala
Let's create a Tree-sitter grammar One of my favorite features in Neovim is the Tree-sitter integration. It allows for fast syntax...
a year ago
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a year ago
One of my favorite features in Neovim is the Tree-sitter integration. It allows for fast syntax highlighting that works well even in an error state (often the case when you’re editing code), and it has additional semantics (you can differentiate between function parameters and...
csvbase blog
There are 665 open licences, most are pretty rubbish you are in a maze of twisty licences, all alike
9 months ago
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
Louwrentius
Lion's Disk Utility not compatible with CoreStorage and Filevault My 1 TB hard drive of my 2011 27" iMac was partitioned with: A bootable partition with Mac OS X...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My 1 TB hard drive of my 2011 27" iMac was partitioned with: A bootable partition with Mac OS X Lion Time machine partition (I use an external SSD as my main OS) Bootcamp partition with windows A data partition containg... data. The problem is that CoreStorage is too new. Disk...
Louwrentius
Is storage really that cheap? Nowadays you can buy a 1 TB harddrive for less than 100 euro's . So I build myself a 4 TB NAS box,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Nowadays you can buy a 1 TB harddrive for less than 100 euro's . So I build myself a 4 TB NAS box, which is already 50% full. However, although it is to some degree fault-tollerant by using RAID 6, one mistake or catastrophic hardware faillure and all data is lost. And that's...
Avestura's Blog
Hiding a photo inside another photo How to hide a small photo inside a larger photo?
over a year ago
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #45: Deliverism, blasphemy and selfies from space Plus the best Minecraft-themed political deepfake you'll see today
7 months ago
Arduino Blog
Repurposing an automatic train control unit as a car speedometer We’re just now getting semi-autonomous self-driving capabilities in cars, which let them adhere to...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
We’re just now getting semi-autonomous self-driving capabilities in cars, which let them adhere to posted speed limits and maintain their lanes. But trains have been doing the same thing for a long time — well before machine learning and computer vision became ubiquitous. How did...
Notes on software...
Interpreting Go After spending some time at work on tooling for keeping documentation in sync with Go struct...
over a year ago
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After spending some time at work on tooling for keeping documentation in sync with Go struct definitions I had enough exposure to Go's built-in parsing package that next steps were clear: write an interpreter. It's a great way to get more comfortable with a language's AST. In...
Louwrentius
What home NAS builders should understand about silent data corruption Introduction When it comes to dealing with storage in a DIY NAS context, two important topics come...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Introduction When it comes to dealing with storage in a DIY NAS context, two important topics come up: Unrecoverable read errors (UREs) or what old people like me call 'bad sectors' Silent data corruption (data corruption unnoticed by the storage layers) I get a strong impression...
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...
Louwrentius
FFmpeg performance on a Core i7 920 @ 3.6 Ghz The system i'm running is a Core i7 920 @ 3.6 Ghz. I am transcoding a DVD (Grave Of The Fire Flies)...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The system i'm running is a Core i7 920 @ 3.6 Ghz. I am transcoding a DVD (Grave Of The Fire Flies) to iPod format (640x480 x264). Thread support is enabled, to FFmpeg uses about 250% CPU. That's 2.5 of the 4 cores available. If possible, I would have liked to see it use all four...
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...
Abort Retry Fail
The History of Windows NT 3.1 A Highly Portable Future
a year ago
Birchtree
Where software innovation is focused right now Craig Mod on The Talk Show: In three minutes, I had that script built with ChatGPT. I could see it,...
a month ago
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a month ago
Craig Mod on The Talk Show: In three minutes, I had that script built with ChatGPT. I could see it, it's this bash thing, it does this thing, and authenticates with the Google, and it's great! The malleability of macOS is now, I think, giving it
Jonas Hietala
Rewriting my Neovim config in Lua This screenshot betrays just how much productive time was wasted setting this up. I’ve got tons of...
a year ago
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a year ago
This screenshot betrays just how much productive time was wasted setting this up. I’ve got tons of things to do; clean the bathrooms, prototype an idea for a SaaS and ponder world peace. So naturally the procrastination took over and I rewrote my Neovim configuration in...
Abishek Muthian
Postmortem of Butt Mover I suffer from chronic lower back pain, Since I don't consume opioids I find exercises 1 to be the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I suffer from chronic lower back pain, Since I don't consume opioids I find exercises 1 to be the best pain management technique. In addition to the specific exercises for managing back pain, Not sitting for long durations seems to be the key factor for me to not trigger the back...
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...
Arduino Blog
The new Auxivo EduExo Pro helps students with exoskeleton research Emerging technologies initially develop at a slow pace and that is due in large part to the lack of...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Emerging technologies initially develop at a slow pace and that is due in large part to the lack of resources available to students. Complex technology is built on existing knowledge and higher education students need the tools to gain hands-on experience. To help educate the...
Greater Still by...
Making the Internet Alive Again The Internet is changing. Are we changing, too?
a year ago
GitButler
20 years of Git. Still weird, still wonderful. Twenty years ago, Git was born. How did this unlikely "information manager" take over the world?
2 months ago
Louwrentius
Understanding IOPS, latency and storage performance Update 2020: I've written another blogpost about this topic, including some benchmark examples. When...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Update 2020: I've written another blogpost about this topic, including some benchmark examples. When most people think about storage performance, they think about throughput. But throughput is similar to the top speed of a car. In reality, you will almost never reach the top...
Jonas Hietala
An Elixir based payment processor for the Coinparty hackathon Bitcoin Unlimited is hosting a Bitcoin Cash hackathon this December and it seemed like a good...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Bitcoin Unlimited is hosting a Bitcoin Cash hackathon this December and it seemed like a good opportunity for me to explore how to program against Bitcoin Cash, and it gives me an excuse to build something real with Phoenix and Elixir. (While an event like this might help combat...
Notes on software...
Writing a simple JSON library from scratch: a tour through modern C++ Modern C++ has a lot of cool features. Move semantics means passing around structs in functions is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Modern C++ has a lot of cool features. Move semantics means passing around structs in functions is cheap. std::shared_ptr means I don't have to manage any memory; no more new/delete! (But try as I might to understand std::unique_ptr, I'm just not there yet.) The syntax has also...
Lighthouse Blog
How to rate content and find it again
a year ago
Birchtree
New weekend, new video recommendations My fellow F1 fans should watch this to make sure they know the main rule changes coming in this...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
My fellow F1 fans should watch this to make sure they know the main rule changes coming in this season. I totally missed that the fastest lap point was going away. Unsecured and still-using0the-default-password cameras are quite the thing…always always always change your...
Christian Selig
More Efficient/Faster Average Color of Image Skip to the ‘Juicy Code 🧃’ section if you just want the code and don’t care about the preamble of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Skip to the ‘Juicy Code 🧃’ section if you just want the code and don’t care about the preamble of why you might want this! Finding the average color of an image is a nice trick to have in your toolbelt for spicing up views. For instance on iOS, it’s used by Apple to make their...
./techtipsy
You can use almost anything as a key file for your encrypted storage device Imagine that you have an unencrypted drive containing your private data and one day it starts...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Imagine that you have an unencrypted drive containing your private data and one day it starts throwing a bunch of errors. You have backups of the data so you’ve got that part covered, but would you feel comfortable sending the drive in to be warrantied? You have no control over...
Applied Cartography
Humane Inc. Humane Inc. started in 2018; it raised around $250M over five years before coming out of stealth...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Humane Inc. started in 2018; it raised around $250M over five years before coming out of stealth mode with an AI pin that people did not like very much, and today they announced their sale (or, to be specific, the sale of their patent library) to HP for $116M. Here is a hype...
./techtipsy
How I fixed one hardware issue with another one I happen to run on an ASRock Fatal1ty B450 Gaming-ITX/ac motherboard that used to run fine, but ever...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I happen to run on an ASRock Fatal1ty B450 Gaming-ITX/ac motherboard that used to run fine, but ever since I installed one UEFI update, it has had this one annoying issue: whenever you reboot, it gets stuck at POST. Cold boots work fine and the shutdown-and-push-the-power-button...
Birchtree
I’m not used to seeing this John Gruber: Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino The fiasco here is not that Apple is late...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
John Gruber: Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino The fiasco here is not that Apple is late on AI. It’s also not that they had to announce an embarrassing delay on promised features last week. Those are problems, not fiascos, and problems happen. They’re
Old Vintage...
prior-art-dept.: The hierarchical hypermedia world of Hyper-G Prior Art Department and today we'll consider a forgotten yet still extant sidebar of the early...
a month ago
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a month ago
Prior Art Department and today we'll consider a forgotten yet still extant sidebar of the early 1990s Internet. If you had Internet access at home back then, it was almost certainly dialup modem (like I did); only the filthy rich had T1 lines or ISDN. Moreover, from a user...
Never Met a Science
"Republic.com 2.0" is a terrible book title we don't always need citations to justify research
6 months ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Alternatives to selling at below-market-clearing prices for achieving fairness (or community...
over a year ago
Notes on software...
Writing a minimal Lua implementation with a virtual machine from scratch in Rust By the end of this guide we'll have a minimal, working implementation of a small part of Lua from...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
By the end of this guide we'll have a minimal, working implementation of a small part of Lua from scratch. It will be able to run the following program (among others): function fib(n) if n < 2 then return n; end local n1 = fib(n-1); local n2 = fib(n-2); ...
Louwrentius
Difference of behavior in SATA Solid State Drives Introduction Update: I've noticed some strange behavior of SSDs when benchmarking them with FIO....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Introduction Update: I've noticed some strange behavior of SSDs when benchmarking them with FIO. After further investigation and additional testing, I've found the reason for the strange patterns in the graphs. The 'strange' test results are due to the fact that they were...
Good Enough
Having Trouble Getting Started? Pair Up! A body at rest tends to stay at rest, and a body in motion tends to stay in motion, unless acted on...
a year ago
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a year ago
A body at rest tends to stay at rest, and a body in motion tends to stay in motion, unless acted on by a net external force. Sir Isaac Newton I often find that just getting started is the hardest part of doing something. This is especially true when the project is large or...
Posts on Made of...
Using X forwarding with screen by proxying $DISPLAY If you’re reading this blog, I probably don’t have to explain why I love GNU screen. I can keep a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you’re reading this blog, I probably don’t have to explain why I love GNU screen. I can keep a long-running session going on a server somewhere, and log in and resume my session without losing any state. I also love X-forwarding. I love being able to log into a remote server...
Abishek Muthian
On Apple slowing down its phones Build world’s best smartphone CPU & release a CPU governor to slow it down via software update...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Build world’s best smartphone CPU & release a CPU governor to slow it down via software update 😑 This isn’t an isolated incident, Li-ion batteries have been plaguing the tech industry. While other parts of the smartphone like displays, compute power, data transfer, storage...
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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course Week 16: The Art of War In week 16 of the humanities crash course, I revisited the Tao Te Ching and The Art of War. I just...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
In week 16 of the humanities crash course, I revisited the Tao Te Ching and The Art of War. I just re-read the Tao Te Ching last year, so I only revisited my notes now. I’ve also read The Art of War a few times, but decided to re-visit it now anyway. Readings Both books are...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Glue and coprocessor architectures
10 months ago
The Pragmatic...
Did Automattic commit open source theft? The maker of WordPress took 2M customers from its biggest rival: has a red line been crossed?
8 months ago
Birchtree
Oh my gosh, I can try the horse browser! Listen or watch now! Niléane brings a spicy browser extension, Chris works through some iPad...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Listen or watch now! Niléane brings a spicy browser extension, Chris works through some iPad feelings, and Matt made the gang decide what app they consider "undefeated". We want to hear from you! How would you have done our challenges? How would you answer the question
Willem's Blog
Servicing a robot vacuum cleaner This week it was time for some maintenance on my iRobot Roomba robot vacuum cleaner. Read along to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This week it was time for some maintenance on my iRobot Roomba robot vacuum cleaner. Read along to learn how I did it.
Jorge Arango
Traction Heroes Ep. 2: Unprecedented In episode 2 of the Traction Heroes podcast, Harry shared an extreme personal experience in service...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
In episode 2 of the Traction Heroes podcast, Harry shared an extreme personal experience in service to exploring the question: How can we act skillfully in unfamiliar circumstances? I considered adding a trigger warning – Harry’s story made me wince. That said, we landed in a...
latest projects -...
Ghetto soldering tweezers [Misc] And other 3D printed accessories
3 months ago
Notes on software...
What makes a great technical blog I want to explain why the blogs in My favorite technical blogs are my favorite. That page is solely...
a year ago
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a year ago
I want to explain why the blogs in My favorite technical blogs are my favorite. That page is solely about non-corporate tech blogs. So this post is too. I'll have to make another list for favorite corporate tech blogs. In short, they: Tackle hard and confusing topics Show working...
computers are bad
2023-10-03 overheard overhead Let's talk about overhead paging. The concept goes by various names: paging, public address, even...
a year ago
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a year ago
Let's talk about overhead paging. The concept goes by various names: paging, public address, even intercom, although the accuracy of the latter term can be questionable. It's probably one of the aspects of business telephone systems that gets the most public attention, on account...
Willem's Blog
iPad Pro next to my primary machine Using iPad Pro with Apple Pencil next to my computer to form a create powerhouse
over a year ago
Arduino Blog
An engineer’s journey to bring the ultimate TMJ pain relief tool to market To the average person, invention and new product development seem like pretty straightforward...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
To the average person, invention and new product development seem like pretty straightforward processes; you come up with a killer idea, do the engineering work to cobble together a working prototype, have a truckload of units manufactured, and then sell those to turn a profit....
Jonas Hietala
2010 in review I saw a post on briancarper where he reviews the past year and it sounds like a great idea...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I saw a post on briancarper where he reviews the past year and it sounds like a great idea actually. 2010 Geek Achievements Wrote a few games earlier this year; The Chronicles of Bim: The 100 Fake Afros A Geek Valentine Beebop The Island Hopper Where’s Teddy? Updated this site a...
Matt Mullenweg
Matt 4.1 Forty-one is a nice birthday because it doesn’t feel like too much pressure. For forty I did a big...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Forty-one is a nice birthday because it doesn’t feel like too much pressure. For forty I did a big eclipse thing that ended up amazing, this year I’m replicating what I did a few years ago and celebrating in New York, Houston, and San Francisco. My birthday today has already been...
The Pragmatic...
Are LLMs making StackOverflow irrelevant? Fresh data shows that the number of questions asked on StackOverflow are as low as they were back in...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Fresh data shows that the number of questions asked on StackOverflow are as low as they were back in 2009 – which was when StackOverflow was one years old. The drop suggests that ChatGPT – and LLMs – managed to make StackOverflow’s business model irrelevant in about two years’...
Abishek Muthian
What is the value of my life Content Warning: If you are at the brink of an existential crisis, depressed from the ongoing...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Content Warning: If you are at the brink of an existential crisis, depressed from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic or suicidal, please do not proceed further with this content. Be advised that there could also be usage of expletives in this content. Disclaimer: This is a work of...
detreville
This is "detreville" It's my name, and the name of my Substack too. That's one less thing for everyone to remember.
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It's my name, and the name of my Substack too. That's one less thing for everyone to remember.
axio.ms
Classical virtualisation rules applied to RISC-style atomics In 1974, Gerald Popek and Robert Goldberg published a paper, “Formal Requirements for Virtualizable...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In 1974, Gerald Popek and Robert Goldberg published a paper, “Formal Requirements for Virtualizable Third Generation Architectures”, giving a set of characteristics for correct full-machine virtualisation. Today, these characteristics remain very useful. Computer architects will...
Home on Erik...
Subway waiting math Why does it suck to wait for things? In a previous post I analyzed a NYC subway dataset and found...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Why does it suck to wait for things? In a previous post I analyzed a NYC subway dataset and found that at some point, quite early, it's worth just giving up. This isn't a proof that the subway doesn't run on time – in fact it might actually proves that the subway runs really...
Electronics etc…
Hideo Okawara’s Mixed Signal Lecture Series Introduction Hideo Okawara’s Mixed Signal Lecture Series Frequency/Phase Movement Analysis by...
a year ago
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a year ago
Introduction Hideo Okawara’s Mixed Signal Lecture Series Frequency/Phase Movement Analysis by Orthogonal Demodulation Misc Introduction While researching a DSP related topic, Google dug up an excellent article, written by Hideo Okawara, that is just one part of a series of ~53. I...