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Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #62: Right-wing populism is over... maybe... possibly... hopefully Plus over-diagnosis, governance theatre, and... crisps.
4 months ago
Arduino Blog
Find the right Arduino Cloud plan for you Arduino Cloud has grown tremendously over the past year, adding powerful features to make...
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3 months ago
Arduino Cloud has grown tremendously over the past year, adding powerful features to make development smoother and IoT deployments more scalable. From real-time collaboration to interactive digital twins on a dashboard and AI-powered coding assistance, our platform has evolved to...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Inside the Intel 386 processor die: the clock circuit Processors are driven by a clock, which controls the timing of each step inside the chip. In this...
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a year ago
Processors are driven by a clock, which controls the timing of each step inside the chip. In this blog post, I'll examine the clock-generation circuitry inside the Intel 386 processor. Earlier processors such as the 8086 (1978) were simpler, using two clock phases internally. The...
Notes on software...
Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go: 1. SELECT, INSERT, CREATE and a REPL Next in database basics: 2. binary expressions and WHERE filters 3. indexes 4. a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Next in database basics: 2. binary expressions and WHERE filters 3. indexes 4. a database/sql driver In this series we'll write a rudimentary database from scratch in Go. Project source code is available on Github. In this first post we'll build enough of a parser to...
Good Enough
Season 1, Issue 3: Fool Me Three Times This will be a short one. Barry’s summer vacation has started, and Shawn is deflated after the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This will be a short one. Barry’s summer vacation has started, and Shawn is deflated after the Warr…iors... sob… It’s just one game, right? 1. No One Likes a Giveaway Who doesn’t love a good pickle? Well that didn’t happen. There were no entries to last week’s giveaway. If you...
Birchtree
I've moved to Ghost Pro Here's hoping this post is short and sweet… Back in 2019 I moved my blog off of WordPress and over...
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3 months ago
Here's hoping this post is short and sweet… Back in 2019 I moved my blog off of WordPress and over to Ghost. In short, I wasn't happy with WordPress and wanted a blogging engine that felt more like it was made for blogging than a
Birchtree
I strongly recommend Portal: Revolution (members post) In this new series, I’ll be reviewing the media I experience (I don’t like saying I “consume” media)...
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6 months ago
In this new series, I’ll be reviewing the media I experience (I don’t like saying I “consume” media) in more detail than I normally do. Don’t worry, the movie reviews are staying free and on social media ✌️
Birchtree
The prices, they keep a-rising Microsoft in a support document today: As of May 1, we have adjusted recommended retailer pricing...
2 months ago
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Microsoft in a support document today: As of May 1, we have adjusted recommended retailer pricing for our consoles and controllers worldwide. We also expect to adjust the pricing of some of our new, first-party games starting this holiday season to $79.99. This PDF shows the new...
Greater Still by...
Good Things Take Time A crypto whitepill with Bridget Harris
10 months ago
Arduino Blog
ExoKit is a novice-friendly foundation for building powered exoskeletons Our modern technological world is built upon shared knowledge. If you want to build a car, you don’t...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Our modern technological world is built upon shared knowledge. If you want to build a car, you don’t have to reinvent the wheel—you can rely on existing research and engineering, so you can skip ahead to the more complex specialized work. Such foundations exist in every industry...
Notes on software...
io_uring basics: Writing a file to disk King and I wrote a blog post about building an event-driven cross-platform IO library that...
a year ago
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a year ago
King and I wrote a blog post about building an event-driven cross-platform IO library that used io_uring on Linux. We sketched out how it works at a high level but I hadn't yet internalized how you actually code with io_uring. So I strapped myself down this week and wrote...
Matt Mullenweg
Bezos at Dealbook It looks like the Dealbook Summit had a number of great interviews this year, major props to Andrew...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
It looks like the Dealbook Summit had a number of great interviews this year, major props to Andrew Ross Sorkin, but this one with Jeff Bezos was particularly good.
Jonas Hietala
Trying and returning the Eight Sleep Pod 4 I recently bought the Eight Sleep Pod 4—a smart mattress cover that tracks your heart rate, HRV,...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
I recently bought the Eight Sleep Pod 4—a smart mattress cover that tracks your heart rate, HRV, snoring, and cools or warms the mattress during the night. There’s a lot to like about the mattress but in the end I opted to return it. This post describes my experience with the Pod...
Yazin Alirhayim
How do you know that an API does what it says it does? Having been in fintech for a while, I’ve noticed something in common between the many new startups...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Having been in fintech for a while, I’ve noticed something in common between the many new startups that come and go. They all require access to personal information. A specific example that comes to mind is the Plaid-like solution we developed while working on amal. We’d ask...
Arduino Blog
The bare necessities: cleaner water and safer food with Arduino There’s a handful of things we truly need in order to live, and food and water comfortably make the...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
There’s a handful of things we truly need in order to live, and food and water comfortably make the list. Unfortunately, our water and food sources are not always safe. Throughout the world — even in developed countries — pollution, climate change, and poor management are...
Style over Substance
Our favorite places to eat and drinks during our Portugal vacation In the summer of 2023, we went on an amazing trip through Portugal. We’d already visited Lisbon on a...
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a year ago
In the summer of 2023, we went on an amazing trip through Portugal. We’d already visited Lisbon on a short city trip a few years earlier, and that experience was so good we knew we had to return. This time, we decided to take a full three weeks and see the sights. We were...
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.
Never Met a Science
Do Something Else Lakens and the Second Reformation
9 months ago
Neil Madden
From KEMs to protocols This is the third part of my series on Key Encapsulation Mechanisms (KEMs) and why you should care...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is the third part of my series on Key Encapsulation Mechanisms (KEMs) and why you should care about them. Part 1 looked at what a KEM is and the KEM/DEM paradigm for constructing public key encryption schemes. Part 2 looked at cases where the basic KEM abstraction is not...
Arduino Blog
Harness the power and connectivity of your Arduino UNO R4 WiFi with this IoT lamp It can be tough to get started with building an Internet of Things (IoT) project from the ground-up,...
a year ago
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a year ago
It can be tough to get started with building an Internet of Things (IoT) project from the ground-up, as getting connected, serving a webpage, and managing other devices can all be a challenge to a beginner. This is why the YouTuber known as “Mario’s Ideas” made an end-to-end...
Abort Retry Fail
The History of Windows XP NT Vincit Omnia
2 days ago
Elevation Lab - Blog
Amazon is complicit with counterfeiting (updated) When someone goes to the lengths of making counterfeits of your products, it's at least a sign...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When someone goes to the lengths of making counterfeits of your products, it's at least a sign you're doing something right. And it deserves a minute of flattery. But when Chinese counterfeiters tool up and make copies of your product, send that inventory to Amazon, then overtake...
Arduino Blog
A new Plug and Make Kit challenge! A game of rhythm and creativity The Arduino Plug and Make Kit is all about unleashing creativity while simplifying the process of...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
The Arduino Plug and Make Kit is all about unleashing creativity while simplifying the process of turning ideas into reality. It enables everyone to focus on the fun of creating with the power of the UNO R4 WiFi and a user-friendly, modular design – bypassing the complexities of...
Jonas Hietala
Regex substitution with unicode in Haskell While remaking the site I noticed my automatic embedding of bare youtube links sometimes didn’t...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
While remaking the site I noticed my automatic embedding of bare youtube links sometimes didn’t work. The culprit was unicode in the document which the regex library couldn’t handle. Apparently while this would be supported by default by almost all modern languages it’s not the...
Applied Cartography
Weird test: internal link checking I wrote last month about using weird tests. Here's another example: checking for broken internal...
a year ago
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a year ago
I wrote last month about using weird tests. Here's another example: checking for broken internal links in our upcoming docsite redesign! const extractInternalLinks = (content: string): string[] => { // Check for internal links only, in the form of [text](/path). const...
Jonas Hietala
Drawing a self portrait Drawing is hard. I’d like to improve though. Here’s a self portrait I tried to draw in Krita. I’m...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Drawing is hard. I’d like to improve though. Here’s a self portrait I tried to draw in Krita. I’m really slow so I stopped a bit before it really was finished. Obviously I’d like it to be a bit better, but I’m still a little happy about the glasses and the eyebrows. The mouth...
Birchtree
Dangerous ground Zolan Kanno-Youngs: El Salvador’s President Says He Won’t Return Maryland Man Who Was Wrongly...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Zolan Kanno-Youngs: El Salvador’s President Says He Won’t Return Maryland Man Who Was Wrongly Deported In an Oval Office meeting with President Trump on Monday, President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador said that he would not return a Maryland man who was wrongly deported from the
Louwrentius
Lion's FileVault does not support Bootcamp and external boot disks Read the comments as they may provide useful information for your particular situation I boot my...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Read the comments as they may provide useful information for your particular situation I boot my iMac from an external FW800 SSD. I found out that it is impossible to encrypt this disk using the new FileVault as part of Lion. Furthermore, I also found out that if you have a disk...
Jonas Hietala
Let's build a VORON: Software The build continues, now in a little more familiar territory. Firmware flashing To flash the...
a year ago
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a year ago
The build continues, now in a little more familiar territory. Firmware flashing To flash the firmware I had to order a microSD card reader. With that on hand the flashing wasn’t difficult. The VORON docs walks you through the installation very well. Mainsail I chose to install...
Louwrentius
Why the iPad will be a breakthrough in human computing The fact is that computers aren't made for humans. Computers are just made, and humans have to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The fact is that computers aren't made for humans. Computers are just made, and humans have to adjust to them. The problem is that most people that are not into technology just don't understand how computers work. Should I single click of double click? Click left or right? The...
Daniel De Laney
Secure File Transfer During my time at frog, I lead a team of designers to transform a secure file transfer app owned by...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
During my time at frog, I lead a team of designers to transform a secure file transfer app owned by IBM. In addition to leading the team in Austin I helped manage designers working out of frog’s new studio in India, reviewing their work and setting priorities. frog itself has a...
Electronics etc…
A Tektronix TDS 684B Oscilloscope Uses CCD Analog Memory Introduction The TDS600 Series The Acquisition Board Measuring Along the Signal Path A Closer Look...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Introduction The TDS600 Series The Acquisition Board Measuring Along the Signal Path A Closer Look at the Noise Issue Conclusion Introduction I have a Tektronix TDS 684B oscilloscope that I bought cheaply at an auction. It has 4 channels, 1 GHz of BW and a sample rate of 5...
Posts on Made of...
Record/Replay testing in Sorbet In 2017 and 2018, I (along with Paul Tarjan and Dmitry Petrashko) was a founding member of the...
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over a year ago
In 2017 and 2018, I (along with Paul Tarjan and Dmitry Petrashko) was a founding member of the Sorbet project at Stripe to build a gradual static typechecking system for Ruby, with the aim of enhancing productivity on Stripe’s millions of lines of Ruby, and eventually producing a...
Louwrentius
A practical understanding of lead acid batteries Introduction The goal of this article is to give you a practical understanding Lead Acid batteries....
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over a year ago
Introduction The goal of this article is to give you a practical understanding Lead Acid batteries. We won't address the underlying chemistry, we'll treat them as a black-box and we will discover their characteristics and how to keep them healthy. Disclaimer I'm an amateur. I...
Jonas Hietala
Design for Hackers has arrived! Design for Hackers It’s here! After about a month of waiting I’ve finally gotten the book that will...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Design for Hackers It’s here! After about a month of waiting I’ve finally gotten the book that will make me a design god! Or at least make me aware of something called design. Joking aside I’m really terrible at design and making things look good. Admittedly my programming art...
Louwrentius
24 TB based on Norco RPC-4020 and Linux Software RAID Just a quick link: Some person build basically the same setup, including identical...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Just a quick link: Some person build basically the same setup, including identical controller, providing 28 TB of storage: Take a look here The main difference is that this person uses 1.5 TB disk, thus achieving more storage.
Jorge Arango
Book Notes: “A Thousand Brains” A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence By Jeff Hawkins Basic Books, 2021 If you’re...
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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...
Computer Ads from...
Applix Alis Finally, some answers in Wonderland
3 months ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Control as Liability
over a year ago
Good Enough
TIL: System Colors are supported in CSS, but they’re unreliable I’ve said this before: We’re primarily a web shop here at Good Enough, but occasionally we come up...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve said this before: We’re primarily a web shop here at Good Enough, but occasionally we come up with ideas that we think would work really well as a native desktop or mobile application. Still, we prototype those ideas on the web first. Recently, I wanted to try and make one...
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #66: The winner of the 2040 US Presidential election is in space Plus ultra-grim Nazi revisionism, why Kemi is right about Adolescence, and my Gladiators conspiracy...
3 months ago
Home on Erik...
Spotify's Discovery page The Discovery page, the new start page in Spotify, is finally out to a fairly significant percentage...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The Discovery page, the new start page in Spotify, is finally out to a fairly significant percentage of all users. Really happy since we have worked on it for the past six months. Here's a screen shot:
Lighthouse Blog
How to combine multiple RSS feeds in one view
a year ago
Matt Mullenweg
Falling Snow The talented Felix Arntz has given an incredible Christmas gift to the WordPress community with his...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
The talented Felix Arntz has given an incredible Christmas gift to the WordPress community with his fast, light, and accessible Snow Fall plugin, which is live on this site and you can install on yours. I hope everyone is having a happy holidays! Search for “snow fall” in your...
Krebs on Security
China-based SMS Phishing Triad Pivots to Banks China-based purveyors of SMS phishing kits are enjoying remarkable success converting phished...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
China-based purveyors of SMS phishing kits are enjoying remarkable success converting phished payment card data into mobile wallets from Apple and Google. Until recently, the so-called “Smishing Triad” mainly impersonated toll road operators and shipping companies. But experts...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Antenna diodes in the Pentium processor I was studying the silicon die of the Pentium processor and noticed some puzzling structures...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
I was studying the silicon die of the Pentium processor and noticed some puzzling structures where signal lines were connected to the silicon substrate for no apparent reason. Two examples are in the photo below, where the metal wiring (orange) connects to small square regions of...
Home on Erik...
Implicit data and collaborative filtering A lot of people these days know about collaborative filtering. It's that Netflix Prize thing, right?...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A lot of people these days know about collaborative filtering. It's that Netflix Prize thing, right? People rate things 1-5 stars and then you have to predict missing ratings. While there's no doubt that the Netflix Prize was successful, I think it created an illusion that all...
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...
Computer Ads from...
Ann Arbor Software's Textra Word Processing The shortest distance between your thoughts and the printed word.
a week ago
./techtipsy
The absolute state of Bluetooth audio in 2022 I have the Sony WH-1000XM3 headphones. They’re good for consuming content. Audio calls with your...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I have the Sony WH-1000XM3 headphones. They’re good for consuming content. Audio calls with your colleagues? Forget about it. This is the setup I have to go with, and it has all to do with how Bluetooth works. Your options with Bluetooth headsets are the following: high quality...
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...
Home on Erik...
Everything I learned about technical debt I just made it to Sweden suffering from jet lag induced insomnia, but this blog post will not cover...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I just made it to Sweden suffering from jet lag induced insomnia, but this blog post will not cover that. Instead, I will talk a little bit about technical debt. The concept of technical debt always resonated with me, partly because I always like the analogy with “real” debt.
Matt Mullenweg
On Logan Bartlett Show You may not have heard of Logan Bartlett, but he’s one of the most hilarious people on Twitter and...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
You may not have heard of Logan Bartlett, but he’s one of the most hilarious people on Twitter and does a really interesting podcast. (He had a cool episode with Marc Benioff recently.) We sat down for a discussion on managing through crisis, open source and AI, employee...
Himanshu Mishra |...
Brain, Mind and Consciousness — Essay Layers of ‘I’ when perceiving anything which is external to it Thanks to Montaigne, one of the first...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Layers of ‘I’ when perceiving anything which is external to it Thanks to Montaigne, one of the first essay writers, for popularizing this…
Lighthouse Blog
Updates January 12
a year ago
Birchtree
+ Power users need love too
3 months ago
Home on Erik...
We are still early with the cloud: why software development is overdue for a change This is is in many respects a successor to a blog post I wrote last year about what I want from...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is is in many respects a successor to a blog post I wrote last year about what I want from software infrastructure, but the ideas morphed in my head into something sort of wider.
The Pragmatic...
How does ChatGPT work? As explained by the ChatGPT team. For those of us who have not spent the past few years building ChatGPT from the ground up, how does...
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a year ago
For those of us who have not spent the past few years building ChatGPT from the ground up, how does it work? From Evan Morikawa, who leads the Applied engineering team at OpenAI
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...
Jonas Hietala
Hard Work I’ve spent literally the whole day coding and it feels like I’ve only done a small parts of the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve spent literally the whole day coding and it feels like I’ve only done a small parts of the actual game mechanics… I know this isn’t going to end well. I can allow myself a small pause I feel… Not sure where this is going to end, but I’m having a blast anyway!
Willem's Blog
Working with special hardware from China This month I reversed engineered my way into developing software for a Chinese Android device with...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This month I reversed engineered my way into developing software for a Chinese Android device with an embedded printer!
Louwrentius
How to setup a local or private Ubuntu Mirror Preface In this article I provide instructions on how to setup a local Ubuntu mirror using...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Preface In this article I provide instructions on how to setup a local Ubuntu mirror using debmirror. To set expectations: the mirror will work as intended and distribute packages and updates, but a do-release upgrade from one major version of Ubuntu to the next won't...
Posts on Made of...
Performance of the Python 3.14 tail-call interpreter About a month ago, the CPython project merged a new implementation strategy for their bytecode...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
About a month ago, the CPython project merged a new implementation strategy for their bytecode interpreter. The initial headline results were very impressive, showing a 10-15% performance improvement on average across a wide range of benchmarks across a variety of...
Computer Ads from...
Bomb Squad Peripherals' BLOWGUN It Could Have Been a Lot Worse - His Data is BLOWGUN Protected!
a year ago
Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course Week 8: Ancient Egypt Week 8 of my humanities crash course focused on ancient Egypt with musical excursions to modern...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Week 8 of my humanities crash course focused on ancient Egypt with musical excursions to modern North Africa. I also finally saw an astonishing opera I’d heard countless times but had never seen. The internet delivers! Readings Rather than a specific text, like the Odyssey or the...
Home on Erik...
Building a data team at a mid-stage startup: a short story I guess I should really call this a parable. The backdrop is: you have been brought in to grow a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I guess I should really call this a parable. The backdrop is: you have been brought in to grow a tiny data team (~4 people) at a mid-stage startup (~$10M annual revenue), although this story could take place at many different types of companies.
Arduino Blog
This Arduino failsafe protects an amazing backyard observatory Nothing quite compares to the feeling of looking up at the cosmos on a dark night, and even an...
a month ago
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a month ago
Nothing quite compares to the feeling of looking up at the cosmos on a dark night, and even an affordable telescope can enhance that experience. But if you’re willing to spend the time and money, you can take things much further. That’s what Redditor CosmicRuin did when they...
./techtipsy
What changing the CPU on a laptop looks like This post illustrates something that is not common on modern laptops: changing the...
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over a year ago
This post illustrates something that is not common on modern laptops: changing the CPU. Background One of the modifications that you can do to a ThinkPad T430 laptop is changing the CPU to a more powerful quad core model. That’s exactly what I did back in 2017, but due to the...
Electronics etc…
Hideo Okawara’s Mixed Signal Lecture Series Introduction Hideo Okawara’s Mixed Signal Lecture Series Frequency/Phase Movement Analysis by...
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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...
Birchtree
I think OpenAI’s next app is a web browser Casey Newton: Hands on With Operator — A Promising but Frustrating New Frontier for Artificial...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Casey Newton: Hands on With Operator — A Promising but Frustrating New Frontier for Artificial Intelligence The experience revealed to me one of Operator’s key deficiencies: it can use a web browser, but it cannot use your web browser. This matters a lot, because your browser is...
Louwrentius
Things you should consider when building a ZFS NAS ZFS is a modern file system designed by Sun Microsystems, targeted at enterprise environments. Many...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
ZFS is a modern file system designed by Sun Microsystems, targeted at enterprise environments. Many features of ZFS also appeal to home NAS builders and with good reason. But not all features are relevant or necessary for home use. I believe that most home users building their...
Odds and Ends of...
A tale of two theme parks Plus why British Steel turned into a crisis, and how to level up... but do it properly
3 months ago
Jonas Hietala
I designed my own keyboard layout. Was it worth it? Almost two and a half years ago I embarked on the journey to change keyboard layout. At first I...
a year ago
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a year ago
Almost two and a half years ago I embarked on the journey to change keyboard layout. At first I tried out existing ones, but it didn’t take long before I figured it’s better to develop my own—and things went downhill fast from there. (Some) combos of the T-34 layout. But now...
Christian Selig
Server side Live Activities guide iOS 17.2 gained the capability to start Live Activities from a server, which is pretty cool and...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
iOS 17.2 gained the capability to start Live Activities from a server, which is pretty cool and handy! I’ve been playing around with it a bit and found some parts a bit confusing, so I thought I’d do a little write up for future me as well as anyone else who could benefit! (For...
Willem's Blog
Write your own words Why not to use AI for writing - a blog post on the underestimated long term costs of AI tools for...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Why not to use AI for writing - a blog post on the underestimated long term costs of AI tools for human creativity.
watchTowr Labs
Hop-Skip-FortiJump-FortiJump-Higher - Fortinet FortiManager CVE-2024-47575 It’s been a tricky time for Fortinet (and their customers) lately - arguably, even more so than...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
It’s been a tricky time for Fortinet (and their customers) lately - arguably, even more so than usual. Adding to the steady flow of vulnerabilities in appliances recently was a nasty CVSS 9.8 vulnerability in FortiManager, their tool for central management of FortiGate...
Jorge Arango
Prescriptive and Descriptive Information Architectures There are two stances you can take toward language in your website or app: prescriptive or...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
There are two stances you can take toward language in your website or app: prescriptive or descriptive. Which you choose influences the system’s understandability and findability. The terms come from linguistics. I heard about them in a radio show (or was it a podcast?) many...
Arduino Blog
Why we chose Claude for the Arduino Cloud AI Assistant We know that introducing AI into your coding environment comes with questions – about safety,...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
We know that introducing AI into your coding environment comes with questions – about safety, accuracy, privacy, and trust. That’s why we want to be transparent about how we built the recently-announced Arduino AI Assistant in the Cloud IDE, and why we chose to power it with...
Applied Cartography
Notes on 'Founder Mode' / Lieutenancy In Paul Graham’s latest essay, he writes: The theme of Brian's talk was that the conventional wisdom...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
In Paul Graham’s latest essay, he writes: The theme of Brian's talk was that the conventional wisdom about how to run larger companies is mistaken. As Airbnb grew, well-meaning people advised him that he had to run the company in a certain way for it to scale. Their advice could...
computers are bad
2024-01-06 usb on the go USB, the Universal Serial Bus, was first released in 1996. It did not achieve widespread adoption...
a year ago
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USB, the Universal Serial Bus, was first released in 1996. It did not achieve widespread adoption until some years later; for most of the '90s RS-232-ish serial and its awkward sibling the parallel port were the norm for external peripheral. It's sort of surprising that USB...
detreville
Father's Day (First posted on Father's Day, 2022.)
over a year ago
Willem's Blog
Three tips to make a content strategy work Consider these three things to maximise the effect of the words you write for your website, blog or...
over a year ago
Arduino Blog
YouTuber builds robot to make boyfriend take out the trash Is there anything more irritating than living with a partner who procrastinates on their share of...
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Is there anything more irritating than living with a partner who procrastinates on their share of the chores? Even if it isn’t malicious, it sure is annoying. Taking out the trash is YouTuber CircuitCindy’s boyfriend’s responsibility, but he often fails to do the task in a timely...
Arduino Blog
David Cuartielles receives the Open Source Award on Skills and Education We are proud to announce that David Cuartielles, co-founder of Arduino, has been honored with the...
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5 months ago
We are proud to announce that David Cuartielles, co-founder of Arduino, has been honored with the Open Source Award on Skills and Education 2025 and has become a founding member of the Open Source Academy of Europe. This prestigious award recognizes individuals who have made...
Posts on Made of...
Design for Testability When designing a new software project, one is often faced with a glut of choices about how to...
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When designing a new software project, one is often faced with a glut of choices about how to structure it. What should the core abstractions be? How should they interact with each other? In this post, I want to argue for a design heuristic that I’ve found to be a useful guide to...
Home on Erik...
How to hire smarter than the market: a toy model Let's consider a toy model where you're hiring for two things and that those are equally valuable....
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Let's consider a toy model where you're hiring for two things and that those are equally valuable. It's not very important what those are, so let's just call them “thing A” and “thing B” for now.
Good Enough
TIL: Merge nested attributes in Rails permit params I am working on a new product that's a bit more complicated than our prior releases. Getting...
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over a year ago
I am working on a new product that's a bit more complicated than our prior releases. Getting refamiliarized with nested parameters in Rails has been interesting. In this case imagine I have a discussion that, when creating it I also want to create the first comment. The...
Ken Shirriff's blog
The first microcomputer: The transfluxor-powered Arma Micro Computer from 1962 What would you say is the first microcomputer?1 The Apple I from 1976? The Altair 8800 from...
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a year ago
What would you say is the first microcomputer?1 The Apple I from 1976? The Altair 8800 from 1974? Perhaps the lesser-known Micral N (1973) or Q1 (1972)? How about the Arma Micro Computer from way back in 1962. The Arma Micro Computer was a compact 20-pound transistorized...
Old Vintage...
Refurb weekend: the Symbolics MacIvory Lisp machine I have hated Every collector has that machine, the machine they sunk so much time and, often, money into that...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Every collector has that machine, the machine they sunk so much time and, often, money into that they would have defenestrated it years ago except for all the aforementioned time and money. Yours truly is no exception. a future article.) They existed in highly technical...
Applied Cartography
Order, Tailwind, DRY (Order in the CSS rule sense, not the metaphysical sense.) The time has come to begin exfiltrating...
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(Order in the CSS rule sense, not the metaphysical sense.) The time has come to begin exfiltrating some higher-traffic, higher-leverage parts of Buttondown's admin UI away from the autogenerated Django admin and into some more bespoke components. Take, for instance, this rather...
Matt Mullenweg
Michael Palmisano on Collier I’ve been obsessed with Jacob Collier since I first saw his Don’t You Worry ‘Bout A Thing cover on...
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I’ve been obsessed with Jacob Collier since I first saw his Don’t You Worry ‘Bout A Thing cover on YouTube, and one of my favorite genres of videos is genius musicians breaking down the incredible musical stuff Jacob is doing. (He even has his own instrument now.) This reaction...
lcamtuf’s thing
Weekend projects: Sketchy Sketch Making a nicer version of a forgotten, electronic Etch-A-Sketch toy.
6 months ago
Arduino Blog
Arduino CLI 1.0 is out! We are excited to share some incredible news with you all! We recently released the Arduino CLI...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
We are excited to share some incredible news with you all! We recently released the Arduino CLI version 1.0.0, marking a significant milestone for our software. This release is a big deal because it signifies the stabilization of the software API, bringing greater reliability and...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Making Ethereum alignment legible
9 months ago
Home on Erik...
Plotting author statistics for Git repos using Git of Theseus I spent a few days during the holidays fixing up a bunch of semi-dormant open source projects and I...
over a year ago
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I spent a few days during the holidays fixing up a bunch of semi-dormant open source projects and I have a couple of blog posts in the pipeline about various updates. First up, I made a number of fixes to Git of Theseus which is a tool (written in Python) that generates...
Vitalik Buterin's...
The end of my childhood
a year ago
Himanshu Mishra |...
Why should one do Open Source in college? More and more students are now being involved with Open Source programming. Thanks to programs like...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
More and more students are now being involved with Open Source programming. Thanks to programs like Google Summer of Code who have seriously…
Jonas Hietala
Minecraft Server Hosting I play the phenomena that is Minecraft on and off. Sometimes the laid back building or the exploring...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I play the phenomena that is Minecraft on and off. Sometimes the laid back building or the exploring is just what I need. Sometimes I can challange myself to build cool complex stuff and I’m even an avid follower of Doc’M and Etho and the other mindcrackers over at the youtube....
lcamtuf’s thing
Random objects: Guycot & Jarre Early repeating handguns, or another unnecessary excursion into the bowels of history.
a year ago
Willem's Blog
And... there is light! Discover how one cyclist's quest for the perfect lighting solution led to a custom installation of...
a year ago
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a year ago
Discover how one cyclist's quest for the perfect lighting solution led to a custom installation of dynamo powered lights, ensuring a bright and hassle-free ride on the darkest roads.
Jorge Arango
AI and Taxonomies: Creating vs. Applying Recently, I wrote about using AI to solve taxonomy drift — the all-too-common problem of lists of...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Recently, I wrote about using AI to solve taxonomy drift — the all-too-common problem of lists of terms (tags, categories) falling out of sync with the content they describe. A response to that post raised an important distinction worth clarifying: the difference between creating...
Abort Retry Fail
The History of Commodore, Part 4 The Amiga, The Decline, The Fall
a year ago
Home on Erik...
The software engineering rule of 3 Here's a dumb extremely accurate rule I'm postulating* for software engineering projects: *you need...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Here's a dumb extremely accurate rule I'm postulating* for software engineering projects: *you need at least 3 examples before you solve the right problem*. This is what I've noticed: Don't factor out shared code between two classes.
./techtipsy
ThinkPad as a server: third time's the charm This is a follow-up to my two previous attempts on this topic: Can a laptop from 2012 be a viable...
9 months ago
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This is a follow-up to my two previous attempts on this topic: Can a laptop from 2012 be a viable home server? ThinkPad as a server: the follow-up Since then, I’ve had quite a few changes to my home server setup: I put my home server stuff on an IKEA pegboard I tried the...
Gwern.net Newsletter
June gwern.net newsletter June 2020 gwern.net newsletter with 3 new pages/essays, and links on CRISPR, population screening,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
June 2020 gwern.net newsletter with 3 new pages/essays, and links on CRISPR, population screening, AI scaling, politics, and technological unemployment.
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...
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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...
Matt Blewitt
Shunn The Shunn manuscript format is a set of guidelines for writers to follow when submitting manuscripts...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Shunn manuscript format is a set of guidelines for writers to follow when submitting manuscripts to publishers. It was created by author William Shunn and is widely used in the publishing industry. Here is a brief demonstration of a tool I wrote to facilitate generating...
Computer Ads from...
MacWorld Interviews Apple CEO John Sculley (1987) They discuss the future of Apple, personal computing, and the Mac II
8 months ago
Willem's Blog
Building the blog... in style! Find out if it is possible to turn a computer from the 90s into a modern development machine.
over a year ago
The Pragmatic...
Where to find to The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast covers software engineering at Big Tech and startups, from the...
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The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast covers software engineering at Big Tech and startups, from the inside. We do deepdives with experienced engineers and tech professionals who share their hard-earned lessons, interesting stories and advice they have on building software. After each...
Old Vintage...
An Apple district manager's Macintosh Portable in 1989-91 (featuring GEIS AppleLink and a look at... a late prototype Macintosh Portable. But it turns out it's not merely notable for what it is than...
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a year ago
a late prototype Macintosh Portable. But it turns out it's not merely notable for what it is than what it has on it: a beta version of System 6.0.6 (the doomed release that Apple pulled due to bugs), Apple sales databases, two online services — the maligned Mac Prodigy client,...
Opsbros
WiFi Binary Clock Who doesn't love a classic Binary Clock? I remember getting one of these when I was in my 20's from...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Who doesn't love a classic Binary Clock? I remember getting one of these when I was in my 20's from ThinkGeek, and it was pride of place on my desk. LED's are a thing of beauty.
Arduino Blog
5 ways to use Arduino with kids One of the great things about making is that it really is for everyone — every budget, every skill...
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One of the great things about making is that it really is for everyone — every budget, every skill level, and every age group. Children are one of the groups that can benefit the most from Arduino. Getting exposed to making and home automation from an early age can be enormously...
Willem's Blog
Do amazing things with a focused mind Read about my experience during the workshop I got as a birth day present involving the Wim Hof...
over a year ago
./techtipsy
Can a laptop from 2012 be a viable home server? I’m a man of many ideas. It’s a shame that most of them are quite stupid. This is one of them, but...
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I’m a man of many ideas. It’s a shame that most of them are quite stupid. This is one of them, but at least it makes for a fun experiment. Intro After adding an UPS to accompany my server, my setup was as complete as it could reasonably be. The server is low power, but packs...
axio.ms
Maths is Fun and Useful but Lasers Are More So Way back when, I made a cool but basic paper sculpture (in Maths is Fun and Useful) by hand, using a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Way back when, I made a cool but basic paper sculpture (in Maths is Fun and Useful) by hand, using a perl script for the shape template. For cultural reasons, I wanted to make a gift out of paper and it had to be Heaps Good. I had finally got access to a laser cutter (omgomg)...
Louwrentius
Bash Shell Function Library (BSFL) released. The Bash Shell Function Library (BSFL) is a small Bash script that acts as a library for bash...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The Bash Shell Function Library (BSFL) is a small Bash script that acts as a library for bash scripts. It provides a couple of functions that makes the lives of most people using shell scripts a bit easier. The purpose of this library is to provide pre-build functions for...
Louwrentius
Wake On Lan not working with realtek r8168 card After messing around with different kernels on Debian Lenny, I noticed that my system did no longer...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
After messing around with different kernels on Debian Lenny, I noticed that my system did no longer respond to WOL packets. The system is using an on-board Realtek R8168 chip which supports wake on lan. After searching and reading i found the problem. The system is using an...
Willem's Blog
Your own addressbook and calendar cloud You can setup a CardDAV/CalDAV server to manage your own contacts, addressbook, agenda and task data...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
You can setup a CardDAV/CalDAV server to manage your own contacts, addressbook, agenda and task data and share it between your devices.
Posts on Made of...
Some opinionated thoughts on SQL databases People who work with me tend to realize that I have Opinions about databases, and SQL databases in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
People who work with me tend to realize that I have Opinions about databases, and SQL databases in particular. Last week, I wrote about a Postgres debugging story and tweeted about AWS’ policy ban on internal use of SQL databases, and had occasion to discuss and debate some of...
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
The Pragmatic...
Which IDEs do software engineers love, and why? oftware engineers shared their favorite IDEs on social media, and the most-mentioned one by a...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
oftware engineers shared their favorite IDEs on social media, and the most-mentioned one by a comfortable margin was Cursor. WindSurf and Zed also seem to be getting traction at the expense of Visual Studio, and JetBrains.
Posts on Made of...
Running Tensorflow on AWS GPUs I’ve been spending some time learning deep learning and tensorflow recently, and as part of that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been spending some time learning deep learning and tensorflow recently, and as part of that project I wanted to be able to train models using GPUs on EC2. This post contains some notes on what it took to get that working. As many people have commented, the environment setup...
Notes on software...
How do databases execute expressions? Databases are fun. They sit at the confluence of Computer Science topics that might otherwise not...
a year ago
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a year ago
Databases are fun. They sit at the confluence of Computer Science topics that might otherwise not seem practical in life as a developer. For example, every database with a query language is also a programming language implementation of some caliber. That doesn't include all...
computers are bad
2024-10-26 buy payphones and retire PAYPHONES at High Volume Existing sites! Earn BIG $$. Money Back Guarantee! Dropshipping AliExpress...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
PAYPHONES at High Volume Existing sites! Earn BIG $$. Money Back Guarantee! Dropshipping AliExpress watches, AI-generated SEO spam websites... marginally legal and ethical passive income schemes, that serve to generate that income mostly for their promoters, can feel like a...
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...
Arduino Blog
This haptic glove could help deafblind people communicate Part of the reason that we all learned in school about the Helen Keller’s inspiring life was because...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Part of the reason that we all learned in school about the Helen Keller’s inspiring life was because the combination of blindness and deafness are so challenging. An impairment with just one still leaves the opportunity to communicate using the other. But without either sight or...
Electronics etc…
Symbolic Reference and Hardware Models in Python The Traditional Hardware Design and Verification Flow An Image Downscaler as Example Design The...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
The Traditional Hardware Design and Verification Flow An Image Downscaler as Example Design The Reference Model The Micro-Architecture Model Comparing the results Conversion to Hardware Combining symbolic models with random input generation Specification changes Things to...
Matt Mullenweg
Sun and shadows
4 months ago
Louwrentius
Highpoint RocketRAID 2320 on Debian howto Get the 'open source' driver from www.highpoint-tech.com. (It's not open source, it uses a closed...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Get the 'open source' driver from www.highpoint-tech.com. (It's not open source, it uses a closed binary driver.) http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/bios_rr2320.htm Install the kernel headers if you haven't already - apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.18-6-k7 - extract the...
Willem's Blog
Rescuing files from a broken harddisk Yesterday I helped a young woman with her broken computer containing precious photos, could I safe...
over a year ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
An Incomplete Guide to Rollups
over a year ago
Louwrentius
Why VMware vSphere replication is changing the game If you are running a serious VMware environment, chances are you do have a SAN. Often with smaller...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you are running a serious VMware environment, chances are you do have a SAN. Often with smaller setups, many people do employ multiple VMware hosts, but the SAN is a single point of failure. SANs are often fully redundant devices, with redundant PSUs, storage controllers,...
Louwrentius
Affordable server with server-grade hardware part II If you want to build a home server, it may be advised to actually use server-grade components. I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you want to build a home server, it may be advised to actually use server-grade components. I documented the reasons for choosing server-grade hardware already in an earlier post on this topic. It is recommended to read the old post first. In this new post, I only show new...
Notes on software...
A database without dynamic memory allocation This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
computers are bad
2025-01-20 office of secure transportation I've seen them at least twice on /r/whatisthisthing, a good couple dozen times on the road, and...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
I've seen them at least twice on /r/whatisthisthing, a good couple dozen times on the road, and these days, even in press photos: GMC trucks with custom square boxes on the back, painted dark blue, with US Government "E" plates. These courier escorts, "unmarked" but about as...
Matt Mullenweg
Inc Hit Piece When Inc Magazine reached out to have David H. Freedman (website powered by WordPress) write a...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
When Inc Magazine reached out to have David H. Freedman (website powered by WordPress) write a feature piece I was excited because though Inc wasn’t a magazine I have read much since I was a teenager, David seemed like a legit journalist who usually writes for better publications...
Jonas Hietala
February gets Themed: Rejection The Experimental Gameplay Project has announced their next theme - and shame on me if I wouldn’t...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The Experimental Gameplay Project has announced their next theme - and shame on me if I wouldn’t follow suite! With valentine coming up I might just have found a pretty nice idea, just now, writing this… Booyah!!
Home on Erik...
Storm in the stratosphere: how the cloud will be reshuffled Here's a theory I have about cloud vendors (AWS, Azure, GCP): Cloud vendors1 will increasingly...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Here's a theory I have about cloud vendors (AWS, Azure, GCP): Cloud vendors1 will increasingly focus on the lowest layers in the stack: basically leasing capacity in their data centers through an API. Other pure-software providers will build all the stuff on top of it.
Matt Mullenweg
Cloudflare Stories There are two great Cloudflare-related stories published this weekend. The first is Steven Levy’s...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
There are two great Cloudflare-related stories published this weekend. The first is Steven Levy’s incredible story about Tim Jenkin, who created a secure communication protocol for the African National Congress to overthrow the apartheid regime in South Africa. Cloudflare’s CTO,...
computers are bad
2024-11-23 cablesoft As an American, I often feel an intense jealousy of Ceefax, one of several commercially successful...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
As an American, I often feel an intense jealousy of Ceefax, one of several commercially successful teletext services in the UK and Europe. "Teletext" is sometimes a confusing term because of its apparent relation to telecom-industry technologies like the teletypewriter and...
lcamtuf’s thing
But good sir, what is electricity? A quick look at the physics of conductors, insulators, and electric charges.
4 months ago
Louwrentius
Getting the Sitecom AC600 Wi-Fi adapter running on Linux TL;DR Yes it works with some modifications of the driver source. A USB Wi-Fi adapter I used with a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
TL;DR Yes it works with some modifications of the driver source. A USB Wi-Fi adapter I used with a Raspberry Pi broke as I dropped it on the floor, so I had to replace it. I just went to a local shop and bought the Sitecom AC600 adapter as that's what they had available (with...
Lighthouse Blog
Browser extensions to add articles
6 months ago
Notes on software...
How I run a software book club I've been running software book clubs almost continuously since last summer, about 12 months ago. We...
a year ago
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a year ago
I've been running software book clubs almost continuously since last summer, about 12 months ago. We read through Designing Data-Intensive Applications, Database Internals, Systems Performance, and we just started Understanding Software Dynamics. The DDIA discussions were...
Louwrentius
The future of ZFS now that OpenSolaris is dead With the probable loss of OpenSolaris, there may be another, maybe more devastating loss. The very...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
With the probable loss of OpenSolaris, there may be another, maybe more devastating loss. The very popular and very advanced Zetabyte File System (ZFS) The only open source platform that actively supports ZFS is FreeBSD. And they just 'copied' the code from OpenSolaris. Are they...
Birchtree
📕 I recommend: Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI Hey everyone, this post is for everyone, but it’s a part of a new series I’m doing on More Birchtree...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Hey everyone, this post is for everyone, but it’s a part of a new series I’m doing on More Birchtree where I review the books and games I read and play in 2025. My movie reviews have been a relative hit on social media for the
Abort Retry Fail
The History of Commodore, Part 2 The VIC-20
a year ago
Notes on software...
A minimal REST API in Java There's a style of Java that is a joy to write. This post will cover how to set up a basic...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There's a style of Java that is a joy to write. This post will cover how to set up a basic PostgreSQL-integrated REST API using Jersey and JOOQ in a style not dissimilar to Flask and SQLAlchemy in Python. In particular, we'll try to avoid as much runtime reflection/class-loading...
Construction Physics
Why Is Homeowners Insurance Getting So Expensive? The recent Los Angeles fires have highlighted the rising costs of homeowners insurance in the US.
5 months ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
What even is an institution?
over a year ago
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.
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...
Himanshu Mishra |...
Lessons for creating good open source software I was reading about The Cathedral and the Bazaar, a book by Eric S. Raymond on various (open source)...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I was reading about The Cathedral and the Bazaar, a book by Eric S. Raymond on various (open source) software development methods. The…
Style over Substance
Review of the 2-dial TTArtisan Light Meter My latest purchase for my analog cameras is the TTArtisan light meter, a hotshoe-mounted meter...
over a year ago
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My latest purchase for my analog cameras is the TTArtisan light meter, a hotshoe-mounted meter accessory. The market for these shoe-mounted light meters for vintage cameras has become weirdly competitive. They fit on top of a mechanical camera and provide you with the right...
Willem's Blog
Optimising images for the web and performance Make your website faster by optimising the images. This posts explains how you can do this.
over a year ago
Notes on software...
Implementing zip archiving in Golang: unzipping All code for this post is available on Github. Let's take a look at how zip files work. Take a small...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
All code for this post is available on Github. Let's take a look at how zip files work. Take a small file for example: $ cat hello.text Hello! Let's zip it up. $ zip test.zip hello.text adding: hello.text (stored 0%) $ ls -lah test.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 phil phil 177 Nov 23 23:04...
Arduino Blog
A stroopwafel doneness detection device If you’re lucky enough to visit the Netherlands and you order a hot drink, you’ll likely be given a...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you’re lucky enough to visit the Netherlands and you order a hot drink, you’ll likely be given a sweet treat as well. That is a stroopwafel, a crispy little waffle-syrup sandwich that the Dutch like to rest on top of their drink so that the rising heat will soften the pastry....
Birchtree
This is why people see attacks on DEI as thinly veiled racism The tragedy in Washington D.C. this week was horrible, and a shocking incident. There should and...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
The tragedy in Washington D.C. this week was horrible, and a shocking incident. There should and will be an investigation into what went wrong here, but every politician and official who spoke at the White House today explicitly blamed DEI programs for this crash. The message may...
Willem's Blog
Multi-Window support in your iPad app Take advantage of the improved support for multiple windows on iPadOS by implementing new UI...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Take advantage of the improved support for multiple windows on iPadOS by implementing new UI concepts enabling different use cases for your app.
Arduino Blog
Join Arduino at Automate 2025 to explore the future of automation We’re heading to Automate 2025, the largest robotics and automation event in the Americas, happening...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
We’re heading to Automate 2025, the largest robotics and automation event in the Americas, happening May 12-15 at Huntington Place in Detroit – and we’re bringing a lineup of fresh innovations, live demos, and exciting new launches. You’ll find us in Booth #6632, right next to...
Abishek Muthian
The Social Media Pandemic Earth Health Organization(EHO) has declared a pandemic due to the most dangerous plague till date....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Earth Health Organization(EHO) has declared a pandemic due to the most dangerous plague till date. It supposedly has severe consequences for not only the current population but also for future generations. It's named 'Social Media Pandemic' as the plague is caused by the several...
Abishek Muthian
Testing FDA cleared pulse oximeter Fake FDA certified pulse oximeters Ecommerce sites in India are full of pulse oximeters falsely...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Fake FDA certified pulse oximeters Ecommerce sites in India are full of pulse oximeters falsely claiming to be FDA certified. If they are actually available in U.S., they don't claim it to be FDA certified and are not listed on FDA's database. Some of the pulse oximeters try to...
Himanshu Mishra |...
Erotomania : An Unfortunate Tale “Hey Wake up! Wake up, for you are left with just 30 more minutes. You better sleep after this is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
“Hey Wake up! Wake up, for you are left with just 30 more minutes. You better sleep after this is over; rather that would be your only…
Jonas Hietala
A Nice Weekend I’ve had a pretty nice weekend. On Friday MLG Orlando began and I’ve been staying up to 2 and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve had a pretty nice weekend. On Friday MLG Orlando began and I’ve been staying up to 2 and sleeping until at least 10 the last days. My inner night-owl is very happy about it, my early-rising girlfriend perhaps not as much, but I think she’s a bit understanding? On Saturday we...
Lighthouse Blog
How to manage tags
a year ago
Good Enough
Cosmic Maelstrom As Barry wrote in his recent blogpost, we're busy building prototypes here at Good Enough. It's...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As Barry wrote in his recent blogpost, we're busy building prototypes here at Good Enough. It's weird to be in this situation. Most of the Good Enough team are used to working on just one software at a time, focusing on steadily improving it. But right now we're doing the...
anderegg.ca
Halls of Torment: a thematically questionable downtime game Merry Christmas and happy holidays! I hope everyone out there has a joyful and relaxing day, however...
6 months ago
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Merry Christmas and happy holidays! I hope everyone out there has a joyful and relaxing day, however you celebrate. During the downtime I got to play a game I’d been wanting to try for a while. Last summer on The Besties podcast, Russ Frushtick mentioned that he was enjoying...
Birchtree
Incomplete thought: using data to tell a story (members post) A year ago I tried to understand how much power ChatGPT was using and if I should be outraged by it....
5 months ago
Birchtree
The tale of Narcissus Ted Gioia: What's Happening to Students? I’m dumbfounded when I hear ‘experts’ claim that phones are...
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3 months ago
Ted Gioia: What's Happening to Students? I’m dumbfounded when I hear ‘experts’ claim that phones are not the problem. Like tobacco companies—whose hired experts long denied the connection between smoking and cancer—they say that “correlation does not prove causation.
Engineers Need Art
Casady & Greene Remembering Casady & Greene and the excitement (and closing) of an era of Macintosh software...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Remembering Casady & Greene and the excitement (and closing) of an era of Macintosh software publishing.
./techtipsy
Running my ThinkPad T430 with an eGPU in 2024 I probably shouldn’t have written down my notes on the eGPU setup I had years ago. I’d be lying if I...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
I probably shouldn’t have written down my notes on the eGPU setup I had years ago. I’d be lying if I wasn’t considering remaking this setup with everything I’ve learned 6 years later. Oops. I got access to an allegedly-faulty AMD Radeon RX 480 and an NVIDIA GTX 1650 for free...
Good Enough
TIL: Turbo Stream broadcasting needs default_url_options to be set We've been using Turbo Streams in some of our recent prototypes, which makes it really easy and fun...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We've been using Turbo Streams in some of our recent prototypes, which makes it really easy and fun to get responsive and fun interactions set up. However, we kept having issues with images sent in a turbo stream response. If the response was delivered by a normal controller...
Jonas Hietala
On The Decline of FPS Games Mr. Eriksson just sent me this link as a fitting video on my post on The Decline of FPS...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Mr. Eriksson just sent me this link as a fitting video on my post on The Decline of FPS Games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1ZtBCpo0eU Oh How true!
Jonas Hietala
Giving the blog a facelift When I rewrote the blog in Rust I tried not to touch any of the styling, but some things annoyed...
a year ago
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a year ago
When I rewrote the blog in Rust I tried not to touch any of the styling, but some things annoyed me: It wasn’t pretty (even ugly in some parts). No dark mode support. Some elements were broken, for instance images or code blocks overlapping the header when it was floating to the...
Arduino Blog
This DIY guitar transmitter sends digital audio to the amp When on stage, most guitarists will simply run a long cable from their guitar to the amp or mixer....
11 months ago
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11 months ago
When on stage, most guitarists will simply run a long cable from their guitar to the amp or mixer. But that cable can become tangled or get in the way, which is a problem for some of the more animated musicians out there. Wireless transmitters exist for them to express themselves...
Willem's Blog
WordPress: 10 tips to secure your website A lot of people use WordPress to manage their website. Prevent your site from being hacked using...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A lot of people use WordPress to manage their website. Prevent your site from being hacked using this blog post.
Vitalik Buterin's...
Analyzing Token Sale Models
over a year ago
Arduino Blog
This Strandbeest-style coffee table can deliver drinks More than 30 years ago, Dutch artist Theo Jansen began astounding the world with his Strandbeesten...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
More than 30 years ago, Dutch artist Theo Jansen began astounding the world with his Strandbeesten walking sculptures. Even after decades, they have an almost mythical allure thanks to the incredibly fluid way in which they walk. They’re clearly constructs, but with gaits that...
Birchtree
🕹️ I strongly recommend: Resident Evil 2 (members post) Oh buddy, what a game!
5 months ago
Jonas Hietala
Rewriting my blog in Rust for fun and profit Background I’ve used Hakyll as my static site generator for around 9 years now. Before that I think...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Background I’ve used Hakyll as my static site generator for around 9 years now. Before that I think I used Jekyll and also more dynamic pages with Mojolicious in Perl and Kohana in PHP, but I can’t be completely sure as the git history doesn’t go back that far. But all good...
Home on Erik...
Luigi Presentation @ NYC Data Science, Dec 16, 2014 More Luigi presentations!
over a year ago
Home on Erik...
How to set compensation using commonsense principles Compensation has always been one of the most confusing parts of management to me. Getting it right...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Compensation has always been one of the most confusing parts of management to me. Getting it right is obviously extremely important. Compensation is what drives our entire economy, and you could look at the market for labor as one gigantic resource-allocating machine in the same...
Birchtree
Let's move on from post-credits scenes Director James Mangold: talking about whether he'd want to put a post-credit scenes in one of this...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Director James Mangold: talking about whether he'd want to put a post-credit scenes in one of this movies back in 2018 The idea of making a movie that would fucking embarrass me, that's part of the anesthetizing of this country or the world. That's
Arduino Blog
Easily add Python-controlled GPIO pins to any computer Let’s say that, hypothetically, you wanted to use your computer to blink an LED or read the state of...
a year ago
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a year ago
Let’s say that, hypothetically, you wanted to use your computer to blink an LED or read the state of a button. Could you? Almost certainly not — at least not without additional hardware. Most modern computers don’t provide any interface for direct interaction with low-level...
Good Enough
Why We're Writing Blog Software We’re seven months into our Cosmic Maelstrom and we have started writing blogging software. What the...
a year ago
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a year ago
We’re seven months into our Cosmic Maelstrom and we have started writing blogging software. What the why?! First, let me say that, yes, I do realize there are probably 100s of blog software options out there. In terms of static-site generators (SSGs) alone, there are probably...
Louwrentius
Building a RAID 6 array of mixed drives To be honest, 4 TB of storage isn't really necessary for home usage. However, I like to collect...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
To be honest, 4 TB of storage isn't really necessary for home usage. However, I like to collect movies in full DVD or HD quality and so I need some storage. I decided to build myself a NAS box based on Debian Etch. Samba is used to allow clients to access the data. The machine...
Willem's Blog
Rescuing photos from a crashed iMac This week I attempted to recover two decades of personal photo history from a crashed iMac.
over a year ago
Never Met a Science
The (Electoral) Politics of Age Gaps (Yes, this post is the beginning of a victory lap.
10 months ago
anderegg.ca
WordPress is in trouble Since I last wrote about WordPress, things have gone off the rails. This after a brief period when...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Since I last wrote about WordPress, things have gone off the rails. This after a brief period when things were blissfully quiet. Matt Mullenweg stopped commenting for a while, though his company had launched WP Engine Tracker — a site for tracking WordPress-driven websites that...
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...
Posts on Made of...
Thoughts On Kubernetes I spent a while the last week porting livegrep.com from running directly AWS to running on...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I spent a while the last week porting livegrep.com from running directly AWS to running on Kubernetes on Google’s Cloud Platform (specifically, the google container engine, which provisions and manages the cluster for me). I left this experience profoundly enthusiastic about the...
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,...
12 months ago
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12 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...
Buck on Software
Thoughts on SaaS and other things Welcome to Buck on Software!
over a year ago
anderegg.ca
Some spoiler free thoughts about the first episode of “Jet Lag: The Game” season 13 Tom Scott is playing to win. The intro music made me wonder if the Wendover team watch...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Tom Scott is playing to win. The intro music made me wonder if the Wendover team watch c90dventures. At one point in the episode, Adam breaks out some Scatman. This is going to be a great season.
Good Enough
Season 1, Issue 5: Promotes Regularity Good Enough is taking a summer pause! We each have travel plans lined up for the summer. We each...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Good Enough is taking a summer pause! We each have travel plans lined up for the summer. We each have at least two children in our homes, begging for attention. And we each truly appreciate extended breaks as a means of reinvigorating ourselves to the ever important task of...
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2 months ago
Home on Erik...
Where do locals go in NYC? One obvious thing to anyone living in NYC is how tourists cluster in certain areas. I was curious...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One obvious thing to anyone living in NYC is how tourists cluster in certain areas. I was curious about the larger patterns around this, so I spent some time looking at data. The thing I wanted to understand is: what areas are dominated by tourists?
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...
12 months ago
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12 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...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Deeper dive on cross-L2 reading for wallets and other use cases
over a year ago
Abishek Muthian
Scam alert : mail from IPTI Mail from IPTI This is a physical scam mail alert yeah because we don’t get enough of cyber...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Mail from IPTI This is a physical scam mail alert yeah because we don’t get enough of cyber phishing; right! Those who have filed international patents, keep an eye out for mails such as the above. I received a professional looking mail from IPTI & from what it looks like on the...
./techtipsy
ASRock X570M Pro4 motherboard overview Not too long ago, I had the goal of consolidating all my computing needs onto a single desktop PC....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Not too long ago, I had the goal of consolidating all my computing needs onto a single desktop PC. That meant moving from an mITX-based build to something that had a bit more expandability. Since I already had a Fractal Meshify C Mini, I decided to go for an mATX motherboard. And...
Louwrentius
Bose SoundLink on-ear headphones battery replacement Skip to the bottom two paragraph for instructions on how to replace the battery. I bought my Bose...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Skip to the bottom two paragraph for instructions on how to replace the battery. I bought my Bose SoundLink on-ear Bluetooth headphones for 250 Euros around 2017 and I really like them. They are small, light, comfortable and can easily fit in a coat pocket when folded. Up until...
Odds and Ends of...
Britain needs a national drone company Forget GB Railways and GB Energy... how about GB Drones?
4 months ago
Lighthouse Blog
Inbox zero for your content
a year ago
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #65: Everything is about everything Plus why Britain can't build things... except for the Lower Thames Crossing, apparently.
3 months ago
Applied Cartography
A good H1 Buttondown was kindly featured in H1 Gallery last week, and Ryan asked me to opine a bit on how we...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Buttondown was kindly featured in H1 Gallery last week, and Ryan asked me to opine a bit on how we arrived at our current iteration, which is the anodyne yet pointed Email for you. Yes, you. Historically, we've called Buttondown a 'newsletter tool' — the h1 before this was 'The...
Abishek Muthian
I was told, I would become quadriplegic Tingling on the side of the face during tasks involving intense cognition was my first...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Tingling on the side of the face during tasks involving intense cognition was my first symptom. Nature of my job involves regular problem solving of various degree, on certain occasions there was a halting tingling sensation on the right side of my face to the end of lower...
Notes on software...
1 million page views I was delighted to notice this morning that this site has recently passed 1M page views. And since...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
I was delighted to notice this morning that this site has recently passed 1M page views. And since Murat wrote about his 1M page view accomplishment at the time, I felt compelled to now too. I started regularly blogging in 2018. For some reason I decided to write a blog post...
Jonas Hietala
ghc 8.8.3 cannot find cabal 3.0.0.0 packages I’ve been using cabal to manage my Haskell dependencies for years, but when I last updated my system...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been using cabal to manage my Haskell dependencies for years, but when I last updated my system it suddenly stopped working. I installed my dependencies with cabal install xmonad, and checked that it’s installed under ~/.cabal: $ ls .cabal/bin/ xmonad@ But still when I...
Louwrentius
Automated install of Debian Linux based on PXE net booting Every honest and good system administrator is continue bussy with automating his work. For two...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Every honest and good system administrator is continue bussy with automating his work. For two reasons: Repeating the same task over and over again is friggin boring. A system administrator has better things to do, such as drinking coffee. Humans make mistakes, especially if...
Willem's Blog
For the love of mini The iPhone Mini has intangible greatness that most folks don't know about: read along for the love...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The iPhone Mini has intangible greatness that most folks don't know about: read along for the love of mini!
Home on Erik...
Momentum and mean reversion might just be volatility bias The Economist just published an article called The best, the worst and the ugly. By looking at...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The Economist just published an article called The best, the worst and the ugly. By looking at historical performance for mutual funds, they find strong support for momentum and mean reversion. Picking the best or the worst fund over the previous five years gives great returns...
./techtipsy
IODD ST400 review: great idea, good product, terrible firmware I’ve written about abusing USB storage devices in the past, with a passing mention that I’m too...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
I’ve written about abusing USB storage devices in the past, with a passing mention that I’m too cheap to buy an IODD device. Then I bought one. I’ve always liked the promise of tools like Ventoy: you only need to carry the one storage device that boots anything you...
Willem's Blog
Impact of training Join me on an intriguing journey as I explore the transformative impact of effective training and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Join me on an intriguing journey as I explore the transformative impact of effective training and data analysis on my performance in the Fietselfstedentocht 2023.
Good Enough
You Complete Me When Good Enough was in its infancy as a truly American LLC (formed in Delaware and representing one...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
When Good Enough was in its infancy as a truly American LLC (formed in Delaware and representing one or two people who were only semi-serious about a business), it was fun to play around with building websites. Shawn and I were truly just playing and exploring, more than anything...
Simply Explained
Bringing Foam Monsters to Life: How I Wrote and Illustrated a Children's Book Using AI I've always wanted to write a book. It's been on my bucket list for several years, but I never got...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
I've always wanted to write a book. It's been on my bucket list for several years, but I never got around to it. Last summer I had a revelation: my kids love being read to, so why don't I write a story for them?Here's how I approached writing a children's book and how I used AI...
Opsbros
Artemis 1 Countdown I've been following the Artemis 1 Launch Schedule quite closely on a few forums and discussing it...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've been following the Artemis 1 Launch Schedule quite closely on a few forums and discussing it with serveral people, and I had been regularly posting updated DateandTime countdown links for the revised launch attempts. With the schedule chnages and scrubs that have happened...
Never Met a Science
Unbundling and Abundance on the (high) dimensionality of 21st century ideology
4 months ago
Good Enough
Season 1, Issue 1: The Loneliest Number 1. Confirmed Positive After two years of running from reality, it has finally happened for my...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
1. Confirmed Positive After two years of running from reality, it has finally happened for my family. I have tested positive for SARS Coronavirus-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. For this honor, I would like to thank our society’s collective tiring of virus mitigation. It truly...
Push to Prod
Is AI-based Root Cause Analysis a Real Thing? Logs, LLMs, AI, Decision Trees, and Root Causes
3 months ago
computers are bad
2024-03-09 the purple streetscape Across the United States, streets are taking on a strange hue at night. Purple. Purple streetlights...
a year ago
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a year ago
Across the United States, streets are taking on a strange hue at night. Purple. Purple streetlights have been reported in Tampa, Vancouver, Wichita, Boston. They're certainly in evidence here in Albuquerque, where Coal through downtown has turned almost entirely to mood lighting....
Jonas Hietala
Postmortem: Jonas IceCream Stand Ah my latest game Jonas IceCream Stand is finished and up and running and I’m really proud of it!...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Ah my latest game Jonas IceCream Stand is finished and up and running and I’m really proud of it! And thanks for the feedback guys, it’s always welcome. I spent almost exactly fifty hours on this game and that’s by far the most I’ve spent on a 7day project. To be honest it’s...
Old Vintage...
See Jane 128 by Arktronics run (featuring Magic Desk, 3-Plus-1 and the Thomson MO5) "Look," says Jane. "I'm a computer program. Run, computer program, run." Commodore 128DCR is the...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
"Look," says Jane. "I'm a computer program. Run, computer program, run." Commodore 128DCR is the best 8-bit computer Commodore ever made: built-in 1571 disk drive, burst mode serial, detachable keyboard, 2MHz operation, separate 40 and 80 column video, CP/M option, a powerful...
Jonas Hietala
The eBook for 'Why Cryptocurrencies?' is now available for free The eBook for my book Why Cryptocurrencies? is now available for free. It’s been almost 4 years...
a year ago
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a year ago
The eBook for my book Why Cryptocurrencies? is now available for free. It’s been almost 4 years since the web version was done, and 3 since the physical copy was available… Which can hardly be called a success. Things happened, so let’s do a quick retrospective to, maybe, learn...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Review of Optimism retro funding round 1
over a year ago
Electronics etc…
HP 33120A Repair - Shutting Down the Eye of Sauron Introduction Opening Up an HP 33120A A Walk Through the Block Diagram Bug Hunting Zener...
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over a year ago
Introduction Opening Up an HP 33120A A Walk Through the Block Diagram Bug Hunting Zener Replacement Staring at the Eye of Sauron FLIR IR Imaging To Destroy a PCB in Order to Save It Circuit Reconstruction Success! Trust but Verify Conclusion References Introduction When the...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Why Proof of Stake (Nov 2020)
over a year ago
Posts on Made of...
Write yourself an strace in 70 lines of code Basically anyone who’s used Linux for any amount of time eventually comes to know and love the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Basically anyone who’s used Linux for any amount of time eventually comes to know and love the strace command. strace is the system-call tracer, which traces the calls that a program makes into the kernel in order to interact with the outside world. If you’re not already familiar...
Willem's Blog
Hello, stranger "Discover the transformative power of simple conversations in our tech-dominated world, as one...
a year ago
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a year ago
"Discover the transformative power of simple conversations in our tech-dominated world, as one individual delves into the lost art of talking to strangers and the profound connections it can forge."
Nabeel S. Qureshi
Reading Notes on “Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp” by Josef Czapski
over a year ago
Electronics etc…
Measuring the HP 11720A Pulse Modulator and Coax Cables Introduction What is a pulse modulator and what are they used for? The HP 11720A Pulse...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Introduction What is a pulse modulator and what are they used for? The HP 11720A Pulse Modulator Inside the HP 11720A Measurement Setup for a Quick Testing Session Pin Modulator Power Measurements with HP 432A Cable Loss Measurements with HP 432A Cable Power Measurements with...
Arduino Blog
This smart spice box makes cooking a breeze Many people shy away from cooking because they’re overwhelmed by all of the different steps and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Many people shy away from cooking because they’re overwhelmed by all of the different steps and ingredients. Recipes are useful, but they aren’t very intuitive to those who are more comfortable with visual thinking. To help these people enjoy the cooking experience, Purdue...
Louwrentius
Secure caching DNS server on Linux with DJBDNS The most commonly used DNS server software is ISC BIND, the "Berkeley Internet Name Daemon"....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The most commonly used DNS server software is ISC BIND, the "Berkeley Internet Name Daemon". However, this software has a bad security track record and is in my opinion a pain to configure. Mr. D.J. Bernstein developed "djbdns", which comes with a guarantee: if anyone finds a...
Arduino Blog
Concept Bytes’ coffee table tracks people and walks itself across a room when called The term “mmWave” refers to radio waves with wavelengths on the millimeter scale. When it comes to...
a week ago
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a week ago
The term “mmWave” refers to radio waves with wavelengths on the millimeter scale. When it comes to wireless communications technology, like 5G, mmWave allows for very fast data transfer — though that comes at the expense of range. But mmWave technology also has some very useful...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Convex and Concave Dispositions
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Soda These quotes are from hacker news and I found them all too funny. It’s hard for me to understand the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
These quotes are from hacker news and I found them all too funny. It’s hard for me to understand the whole soda phenomenon in Canada and the US. Is it as addictive as cigarettes? Does it make you crave for more? Or it simply tastes so good that you can’t get enough of it? Why not...
Abort Retry Fail
The History of Microsoft Encarta Searchable Human Knowledge
a year ago
The New Oil
Cybersecurity & Privacy For Beginners: Ad Blocking
6 months ago
Christian Selig
Introducing Juno for Apple Vision Pro YouTube is probably one of the parts of the internet I consume the most, so I was more than a little...
a year ago
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a year ago
YouTube is probably one of the parts of the internet I consume the most, so I was more than a little sad when YouTube announced that they don’t have plans to build a visionOS app, and disabled the option to load the iPad app. This leaves you with Safari, and the website is okay,...
Arduino Blog
Axiom is Arduino’s newest Gold Integration Partner! Digital manufacturing consultancy and solutions provider, Axiom Manufacturing Systems, based in the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Digital manufacturing consultancy and solutions provider, Axiom Manufacturing Systems, based in the United States, has recently joined our System Integrators Partnership Program. As Gold-level partners, Axiom will supercharge their mission – to empower manufacturers to rapidly...
Simply Explained
HEIC to JPG: Build a Quick Action with Automator With the release of iOS 11, Apple switched from JPG to HEIC to store your photos. The...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
With the release of iOS 11, Apple switched from JPG to HEIC to store your photos. The High-Efficiency Image File Format saves a lot of storage space on your devices while still maintaining your photos' quality. However, it does become problematic if you want to share those files...
Willem's Blog
Using AI to generate code Discover how AI-generated code can revolutionise your software development process and optimise...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Discover how AI-generated code can revolutionise your software development process and optimise cloud performance in our fascinating exploration of GPT-4's transformative capabilities.
Home on Erik...
Mortality statistics and Sweden's "dry tinder" effect We live in a year of about 350,000 amateur epidemiologists and I have no desire to join that “club”....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We live in a year of about 350,000 amateur epidemiologists and I have no desire to join that “club”. But I read something about COVID-19 deaths that I thought was interesting and wanted to see if I could replicated it through data.
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5 months ago
Louwrentius
How traffic shaping can dramatically improve internet responsiveness At work, access to the internet is provided by a 10 Mbit down / 1 Mbit up ADSL-connection. As we are...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
At work, access to the internet is provided by a 10 Mbit down / 1 Mbit up ADSL-connection. As we are a mid-size company, bandwidth is clearly a severe constraint. But it was not our biggest problem. Even simple web-browsing was very slow. As I was setting up a monitoring...
Birchtree
Some thoughts on the Switch 2 Nintendo finally rolled out the red carpet for the Switch 2 yesterday, and I'll be honest, I'm super...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Nintendo finally rolled out the red carpet for the Switch 2 yesterday, and I'll be honest, I'm super excited for it. The hardware The hardware for the new Switch is everything I ever wanted, minus one thing. The performance looks pretty darn good, and it appears
Jonas Hietala
The Experimental Games It’s been nine months since I started doing Experimental Games and I think it’s time to evaluate and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It’s been nine months since I started doing Experimental Games and I think it’s time to evaluate and maybe go in a new direction. At first I had been stuck for ages with my never-ending projects and I had literally nothing to show for all my coding. Well now things have changed a...
Jonas Hietala
Moving to FastMail About two years ago after Lavabit’s shutdown I searched for a replacement email provider. For some...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
About two years ago after Lavabit’s shutdown I searched for a replacement email provider. For some reason I settled on eumx which I used since then. Yesterday I got an email saying the recurring billing could not be renewed as I had my old credit card registered and it got me...
Computer Ads from...
MicroSpeed PC-TRAC Let's Get Right To the Point
a year ago
Good Enough
How We Built Unique Social Preview Images for Pika One of the goals of Pika, the happy blogging software that we recently launched, is to help you find...
a year ago
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a year ago
One of the goals of Pika, the happy blogging software that we recently launched, is to help you find your own place on the internet. Along with a nice place on the internet, when you share links to your blog we want them to represent your internet home, which you've likely taken...
Jorge Arango
LLMs Give You Power User Abilities LLMs are a general-purpose technology with seemingly endless use cases. Among my favorite is...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
LLMs are a general-purpose technology with seemingly endless use cases. Among my favorite is unlocking the potential of other technologies. For example, all modern “desktop” OSs come with shell environments. If you know a bit of scripting, you can automate tasks in ways that go...
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #53: Now TfL is betting on AI cameras to improve safety Plus Leicester's neo-imperial ambitions, why governments are too scared to govern, a theory on why...
5 months ago
Arduino Blog
Speed up your project’s compile time by up to 50% in Arduino Cloud! At Arduino, we know how precious your time is when you’re building your next big project or...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
At Arduino, we know how precious your time is when you’re building your next big project or experimenting with new ideas. That’s why we’re thrilled to introduce a game-changing update to the Cloud Editor Builder — the engine behind compiling your sketches in Arduino Cloud. This...
Posts on Made of...
Check Plus: An EDSL for writing unit tests in C Check is an excellent unit-testing framework for C code, used by a number of relatively well-known...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Check is an excellent unit-testing framework for C code, used by a number of relatively well-known projects. It includes features such as running all tests in separate address spaces (using fork(2)), which means that the test suite can properly report segfaults or similar crashes...
./techtipsy
Quest towards energy efficiency part 1: the water heater While listening to the SelfHosted podcast, one of the hosts brought up their peculiar...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
While listening to the SelfHosted podcast, one of the hosts brought up their peculiar living arrangement multiple times. Essentially, he and his family are living in an RV that runs off of batteries, has solar panels, utilizes Home Assistant for automation, supports multiple...
Willem's Blog
Protecting VMware ESXi In response to a possible security breach on a VMware ESXi host machine, I search for a way to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In response to a possible security breach on a VMware ESXi host machine, I search for a way to improve security of the management console using NGINX and a firewall
Himanshu Mishra |...
Response to 'How is Life?' I was asked "How is Life?" over chat by someone and I thought of responding with a letter. Hello...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I was asked "How is Life?" over chat by someone and I thought of responding with a letter. Hello :name-retracted:, I am sorry it took me so…
Old Vintage...
Programming the Convergent WorkSlate's spreadsheet microcassette future In this particular future, we will all use handheld spreadsheets stored on microcassettes, talking...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
In this particular future, we will all use handheld spreadsheets stored on microcassettes, talking to each other via speakerphone, and probably listening to Devo and New Order a lot. (Though that part isn't too different from my actual present.) a computer whose manufacturer...
Vitalik Buterin's...
We should talk less about public goods funding and more about open source funding
3 months ago
Jonas Hietala
2023 in review This is my yearly review #14. Amazing that I’ve kept up with this for 14 years. Even though it’s not...
a year ago
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a year ago
This is my yearly review #14. Amazing that I’ve kept up with this for 14 years. Even though it’s not anything advanced, I really like looking back at the year to see what has happened. Maybe it’s a very light version of a reverse bucket list, and I can see that it provides some...
Louwrentius
Linux Software RAID benchmarking script Just a small post. To benchmark your Linux software RAID array as setup with MDADM, please use...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Just a small post. To benchmark your Linux software RAID array as setup with MDADM, please use my new benchmark script. I used this script to create these results. You may need to configure some values within the header of this file to make it fit your enviroment. ...
Abishek Muthian
Apple’s Chipnomics — How is apple chip faster than the rest From Tom’s guide review of iPhone 8 Many reviewers have shared benchmark results of the new A11...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
From Tom’s guide review of iPhone 8 Many reviewers have shared benchmark results of the new A11 Bionic SoC (System on Chip) from latest Apple devices & this was not unexpected. I would like to introspect how Apple is managing to build better SoC’s than even traditional chip...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Verkle trees
over a year ago
Arduino Blog
Enhance your IoT dashboards with Arduino Cloud’s new Image widget At Arduino, we’re constantly working to improve your IoT management experience. Today, we’re excited...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
At Arduino, we’re constantly working to improve your IoT management experience. Today, we’re excited to announce a new feature for Arduino Cloud that will allow you to enhance your IoT dashboards: the Image widget. The new Image widget The Image widget is a simple yet powerful...
Jonas Hietala
Beginning Programming I read a wonderful post, 3 Things I hate about “beginner” programming books, which I couldn’t agree...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I read a wonderful post, 3 Things I hate about “beginner” programming books, which I couldn’t agree more with. Basically he has these points: Too long Too many examples like “Hello World!” No answers to exercises. Nr 1 is a pretty curious one. Even though I think a book is good,...
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...
Old Vintage...
Harpoom: of course the Apple Network Server can be hacked into running Doom a $10,000+ Apple server running IBM AIX. Of course you can. Well, you can now. Now, let's go ahead...
a month ago
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a month ago
a $10,000+ Apple server running IBM AIX. Of course you can. Well, you can now. Now, let's go ahead and get the grumbling out of the way. No, the ANS is not running Linux or NetBSD. No, this is not a backport of NCommander's AIX Doom, because that runs on AIX 4.3. The Apple...
Vitalik Buterin's...
d/acc: one year later
6 months ago
Abishek Muthian
Major disaster has struck the computing industry. TL;DR your computers are going to get slow because of patches aimed at fixing unprecedented...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
TL;DR your computers are going to get slow because of patches aimed at fixing unprecedented vulnerabilities in the CPU. For the rest (simplified), Modern computational security relies on maintaining the sanctum of memory, i.e keeping secure memory (say your passwords) out of...
Jonas Hietala
2011 in Review It’s time to wrap up the year that’s been. Be warned for slight ego boosting here. 2011 Geek...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It’s time to wrap up the year that’s been. Be warned for slight ego boosting here. 2011 Geek Achievements Wrote three games this year: My Minions Grand Thief Arto Sat-E Bought a new computer! Bought a mechanical keyboard. Bought custom Starcraft 2 keycaps for the...
Louwrentius
Fully unattended deployment of Windows clients using limited resources Introduction Anyone who ever installed Windows on a computer by hand must have wished for a solution...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Introduction Anyone who ever installed Windows on a computer by hand must have wished for a solution that automate this task. It's just waiting a lot and pressing a button now and then. But installing the operating system itself is only the beginning. Once installed, you need to...
Arduino Blog
Behind the boards: How Alba PCB Group and Arduino bring Made-in-Italy innovation to life Our manufacturing partner Alba PCB Group, headquartered in Mogliano Veneto, Italy, invites you to...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Our manufacturing partner Alba PCB Group, headquartered in Mogliano Veneto, Italy, invites you to take a peek behind the scenes with a beautiful documentary by Italian director Massimiliano Finazzer Flory, A Different Alba: Arduino, an Italian Invention. Discover the...
Engineers Need Art
Duane Blehm A little about Duane Blehm, an early Macintosh shareware author.
4 months ago
Birchtree
AI as Normal Technology Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor: AI as Normal Technology We articulate a vision of artificial...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor: AI as Normal Technology We articulate a vision of artificial intelligence (AI) as normal technology. To view AI as normal is not to understate its impact—even transformative, general-purpose technologies such as electricity and the internet are...
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...
2 months ago
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2 months 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...
Applied Cartography
The taste of beer Unlike stories, real life, when it has passed, inclines toward obscurity, not clarity. There’s a...
a year ago
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a year ago
Unlike stories, real life, when it has passed, inclines toward obscurity, not clarity. There’s a relatively famous line from Bezos, circulated first at YC in ’08 and then more recently by the folks at Acquired (a great pod!): Jeff uses this analogy for AWS. He talks about...
Posts on Made of...
Software Engineers should keep lab notebooks Software engineers, as a rule, suck at writing things down. Part of this is training – unlike...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Software engineers, as a rule, suck at writing things down. Part of this is training – unlike chemists and biologists who are trailed to obsessively document everything they do in their lab notebooks, computer scientists are taught to document the end results of their work, but...
Home on Erik...
σ-driven project management: when is the optimal time to give up? Hi! It's your friendly project management theorician. You might remember me from blog posts such as...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Hi! It's your friendly project management theorician. You might remember me from blog posts such as Why software projects take longer than you think, which is a blog post I wrote a long time ago positing that software projects completion time follow a log-normal distribution.
Krebs on Security
Cyber Forensic Expert in 2,000+ Cases Faces FBI Probe A Minnesota cybersecurity and computer forensics expert whose testimony has featured in thousands of...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
A Minnesota cybersecurity and computer forensics expert whose testimony has featured in thousands of courtroom trials over the past 30 years is facing questions about his credentials and an inquiry from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Legal experts say the inquiry...
Jonas Hietala
I, Robot Here are the results of the big robot construction course we had before christmas! The whole process...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Here are the results of the big robot construction course we had before christmas! The whole process went smooth and our group was amazing. The design and building of the robot went well even though in hindsight I would’ve changed a lot of stuff. The ending competition didn’t go...
Arduino Blog
Meet Pico: A smart companion robot with vision Drawing upon the design and behaviors of the BD-1 droid from Star Wars, Mateo of the YouTube channel...
a month ago
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a month ago
Drawing upon the design and behaviors of the BD-1 droid from Star Wars, Mateo of the YouTube channel MateoTechLab has adapted it into a shoulder-mounted animatronic named “Pico” that can constantly interact with the wearer. All movement, sound generation, and lighting are handled...
Jonas Hietala
Plans for Summer of Code My first summer job is now over, and after a weekend of rest, it is now time to plan for my second...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My first summer job is now over, and after a weekend of rest, it is now time to plan for my second summer job: IDA Summer of Code. I will work a month, or 4 weeks, with contributing to rust! The only issue is, I have no idea where to start. I didn’t have a strict plan or a vision...
Louwrentius
RAID array size and rebuild speed When a disk fails of a RAID 5 array, you are no longer protected against (another) disk failure and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When a disk fails of a RAID 5 array, you are no longer protected against (another) disk failure and thus data loss. During this rebuild time, you are vulnerable. The longer it takes to rebuild your array, the longer you are vulnerable. Especially during a disk-intensive period,...
Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing TagVault Pet for AirTag Having pets that went missing before, AirTags are the perfect companion. We wanted a case that could...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Having pets that went missing before, AirTags are the perfect companion. We wanted a case that could take the abuse of an active full-size dog, fit nice on a cat, work with all pet collars, and be durable. So we designed Tagvault Pet. It's waterproof, fits every collar, and is...
Home on Erik...
I don't want to learn your garbage query language This is a bit of a rant but I really don't like software that invents its own query language....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is a bit of a rant but I really don't like software that invents its own query language. There's a trillion different ORMs out there. Another trillion databases with their own query language. Another trillion SaaS products where the only way to query is to learn some random...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Inside an unusual 7400-series chip implemented with a gate array When I look inside a chip from the popular 7400 series, I know what to expect: a fairly simple...
a year ago
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a year ago
When I look inside a chip from the popular 7400 series, I know what to expect: a fairly simple die, implemented in a straightforward, cost-effective way. However, when I looked inside a military-grade chip built by Integrated Device Technology (IDT)4 I found a very unexpected...
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!
Arduino Blog
MicroPython programming on Arduino just got easier If you’ve been exploring MicroPython on Arduino, you already know how powerful and flexible this...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
If you’ve been exploring MicroPython on Arduino, you already know how powerful and flexible this Python-based language can be for microcontroller programming. Whether you’re a pro or just starting out, MicroPython opens up a new world of quick prototyping and clean, readable...
Neil Madden
Macaroon access tokens for OAuth: Part 2 – transactional auth In part 1, I showed how Macaroon access tokens in ForgeRock Access Management 7.0 can be used as a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In part 1, I showed how Macaroon access tokens in ForgeRock Access Management 7.0 can be used as a lightweight and easy-to-deploy alternative to proof of possession (PoP) schemes for securing tokens in browser-based apps. The same techniques can be adapted to secure tokens in...
Birchtree
First look at my next big thing (members post) I've been working on something new, but it's not ready for prime time.
6 months ago
Jonas Hietala
Zucchini Crabcakes With a tiny bit more planning I made a dinner out the lessons 4 and 5 as the crabcakes were only...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
With a tiny bit more planning I made a dinner out the lessons 4 and 5 as the crabcakes were only supposed to be an appetizer: Crabcakes: Surprisingly delicious. Both me and Veronica gives them a 7. Zucchini: While I thought they passed Veronica said “Zucchini is not my thing” and...
Odds and Ends of...
Why we need seven bins It's time for some #binchat
7 months ago
Willem's Blog
Upgrading a 27-inch iMac 5K to 14 terabytes This month I nearly destroyed my iMac during an attempt to upgrade it. Thanks to determination and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This month I nearly destroyed my iMac during an attempt to upgrade it. Thanks to determination and some spare time I was able to resurrect it from the death!
Abort Retry Fail
Chipzilla eats an Apple The rise of Intel Core
3 months ago
Applied Cartography
Notes from April Welcome to spring, bona fide and humid. Lots of writing this month: I wrote about spending the past...
a year ago
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a year ago
Welcome to spring, bona fide and humid. Lots of writing this month: I wrote about spending the past two years as an independent technologist. On the media side of things: brief words on Murderville (meh), The Parallax View (incredible), This is Personal (meh), Cribsheet...
csvbase blog
I didn't write any Javascript, and other shortcuts Getting it done by not doing a lot of it
a year ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Crypto Cities
over a year ago
computers are bad
2023-06-12 radio on the tv Like many people in my generation, my memories of youth are heavily defined by cable television. I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Like many people in my generation, my memories of youth are heavily defined by cable television. I was fortunate enough to have a premium cable package in my childhood home, Comcast's early digital service based on Motorola equipment. It included a perk that fascinated me but...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Inside the guidance system and computer of the Minuteman III nuclear missile The Minuteman missile was introduced in 1962 as a key part of America's nuclear deterrent. The...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
The Minuteman missile was introduced in 1962 as a key part of America's nuclear deterrent. The Minuteman III missile is currently the only US land-based intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), with 400 missiles ready for launch, spread across five central states.1 The missile...