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GitButler
GitButler is joining the Open Source Pledge GitButler is joining the Open Source Pledge to help move towards a more sustainable open source...
10 months ago
Posts on Made of...
CVE-2010-4258: Turning denial-of-service into privilege escalation Dan Rosenberg recently released a privilege escalation bug for Linux, based on three different...
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over a year ago
Dan Rosenberg recently released a privilege escalation bug for Linux, based on three different kernel vulnerabilities I reported recently. This post is about CVE-2010-4258, the most interesting of them, and, as Dan writes, the reason he wrote the exploit in the first place. In...
Louwrentius
Setup a VPN on your iPhone with OpenVPN and Linux ⚠️ 🚨 Update 2024 🚨⚠️ I'm not using OpenVPN anymore for my VPN needs and this article is considered...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
⚠️ 🚨 Update 2024 🚨⚠️ I'm not using OpenVPN anymore for my VPN needs and this article is considered unmaintained. It's stronly recommended not to use this tutorial and find up-to-date documentation. I also have no plans to update this blogpost in the future. [Update 2018] This...
Daniel De Laney
Network Engineering “My first job was to understand what network engineers do. Then, I had to show them complex data in...
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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...
Computer Ads from...
EPYX's Pitstop Where Winning is the Pits.
a year ago
Notes on software...
Writing a Jinja-inspired template library in Python In this post we'll build a minimal text templating library in Python inspired by Jinja. It will be...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In this post we'll build a minimal text templating library in Python inspired by Jinja. It will be able to display variables and iterate over arrays. By the end of this article, with around 300 lines of code, we'll be able to create this program: from pytemplate import...
Lighthouse Blog
Updates December 15: Rebranding to Lighthouse and complete redesign
a year ago
Notes on software...
Transparency and communication on small teams I saw a post on dev.to that talks about dysfunctional teams. This is a response that...
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over a year ago
I saw a post on dev.to that talks about dysfunctional teams. This is a response that focuses specifically on how to prevent burnout from overworking. This is aimed at senior/lead engineers and engineering/project managers -- because everyone in a leadership role is responsible...
Abort Retry Fail
Housekeeping 20241208 Corrections, stats, and an update
7 months ago
Computer Ads from...
Plus Post: VTech Laser MSX2 The exciting new MSX computer with more features for less money
3 months ago
Jorge Arango
The User Research Strategist Podcast Nikki Anderson interviewed me for her User Research Strategist podcast. Our focus was AI’s impact on...
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5 months ago
Nikki Anderson interviewed me for her User Research Strategist podcast. Our focus was AI’s impact on research and informaton architecture – and how practitioners can take advantage of this new technology. See the episode page, which includes show notes. If you want to learn...
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...
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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...
Notes on software...
Eight years of organizing tech meetups This is a collection of random personal experiences. So if you don't want to read everything, feel...
a year ago
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a year ago
This is a collection of random personal experiences. So if you don't want to read everything, feel free to skip to the end for takeaways. I write because I'd like to see more high-quality meetups. And maybe my little bit of experience will help someone out. 2015: Philadelphia I...
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...
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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.
Arduino Blog
This machine automatically creates chain art Art is very personal and we often consider the process of creation itself when evaluating the...
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11 months ago
Art is very personal and we often consider the process of creation itself when evaluating the resulting piece. Does a sculpture have more artistic value when molded by human hands rather than a 3D printer? Most would say that it does. But what if the automation was, itself, part...
Jonas Hietala
HandCash handles require trust and are insecure The HandCash wallet has recently become a popular Bitcoin Cash wallet in large part thanks to their...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The HandCash wallet has recently become a popular Bitcoin Cash wallet in large part thanks to their $handle concept. It’s basically a username you use instead of the normal Bitcoin Cash address, similar to how domain names abstract away IP addresses. For example instead of...
Style over Substance
Create a Hue-compatible DIY LED light sculpture Learn how to create your own Hue compatible LED light sculpture, inspired by by the REFLEKTION art,...
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over a year ago
Learn how to create your own Hue compatible LED light sculpture, inspired by by the REFLEKTION art, using cheap LED strips and DIY parts you can order online. The post Create a Hue-compatible DIY LED light sculpture appeared first on Style over Substance.
Posts on Made of...
A Brief Introduction to termios: termios(3) and stty (This is part two of a multi-part introduction to termios and terminal emulation on UNIX. Read part...
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over a year ago
(This is part two of a multi-part introduction to termios and terminal emulation on UNIX. Read part 1 if you’re new here) In this entry, we’ll look at the interfaces that are used to control the behavior of the “termios” box sitting between the master and slave pty. The behaviors...
Notes on software...
The case for comments in code When I first started programming, especially when asked for code samples, my comments lacked purpose...
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over a year ago
When I first started programming, especially when asked for code samples, my comments lacked purpose and would often duplicate in English what the code clearly indicated. I knew that "commenting is good" but as a beginner I had no further insight. Over time with the help of books...
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
Arduino Blog
A DIY bottle-labeling machine perfect for homebrewers While it is certainly possible (and common) to put homebrewed beer into kegs, that requires...
a year ago
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a year ago
While it is certainly possible (and common) to put homebrewed beer into kegs, that requires regulated gas and large refrigeration space. A keg is also more difficult to transport and overkill if you just want to bring a few beers to a friend’s backyard BBQ. For those reasons,...
computers are bad
2023-02-07 secret government telephone numbers Very nearly a year ago, I wrote a popular article about secret military telephone buttons. To be...
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over a year ago
Very nearly a year ago, I wrote a popular article about secret military telephone buttons. To be clear, the "secret" here was a joke and these buttons are in fact well documented. The buttons I was talking about were the AUTOVON call precedence buttons, used for a five-level...
Jonas Hietala
Bullets and AI The game is still far from being an actual game but some progress has been made. I fixed most of the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The game is still far from being an actual game but some progress has been made. I fixed most of the collision detection problems and I’m now trying to make some sort of AI working for the ship. It’s a bit hard and time consuming and I don’t know how to make things good. Maybe...
Posts on Made of...
A Brief Introduction to termios: Signaling and Job Control (This is part three of a multi-part introduction to termios and terminal emulation on UNIX. Read...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
(This is part three of a multi-part introduction to termios and terminal emulation on UNIX. Read part 1 or part 2 if you’re new here) For my final entry on termios, I will be looking at job control in the shell (i.e. backgrounding and foreground jobs) and the very closely related...
Computer Ads from...
Comics from 1984/04 Creative Computing Mag Sorry for the delay. - JP
5 months ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 6: The Splurge
8 months ago
Electronics etc…
Making Screenshots of Test Equipment Old and New Introduction Screenshot Capturing Interfaces Hardware and Software Tools Capturing GPIB data in Talk...
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7 months ago
Introduction Screenshot Capturing Interfaces Hardware and Software Tools Capturing GPIB data in Talk Only mode TDS 540 Oscilloscope - GPIB - PCL Output HP 54542A Oscilloscope - Parallel Port - PCL or HPGL Output HP Inifinium 54825A Oscilloscope - Parallel Port - Encapsulated...
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...
Ian's Blog
Learn how Windows builds its store of trusted root CA certificates Today I learned something fascinating about how Windows deals with trusted root CA certificates. It...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Today I learned something fascinating about how Windows deals with trusted root CA certificates. It might surprise you, and it certainly did for me, but out-of-the-box Windows doesn't come with a set of root CA certificates sufficient for web browsing. You can see this for...
Matt Blewitt
Thoughts on User Safety We need to move beyond mere security and towards safety for our customers and our users. This is how...
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over a year ago
We need to move beyond mere security and towards safety for our customers and our users. This is how we can do that.
Louwrentius
Compiling Multicore PAR2 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin If you want to compile PAR2 with multicore support on Linux, it may not work right away from source....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you want to compile PAR2 with multicore support on Linux, it may not work right away from source. I used this version of PAR2 with multicore support. Update 2015: the original link is dead, I foud a copy of the source and put it on my own site here for you to download. First,...
Applied Cartography
Use Rails I have a good number of people ask me what software stack they should use. I always have a two-part...
a year ago
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a year ago
I have a good number of people ask me what software stack they should use. I always have a two-part answer: Use what you're familiar with. If there's something that you've spent a good amount of time using, stick with that one. Rails. People are usually surprised when I say this...
Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course Week 15: Boethius In week 15 of the humanities crash course, we started making our way out of classical antiquity and...
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2 months ago
In week 15 of the humanities crash course, we started making our way out of classical antiquity and into the Middle Ages. The reading for this week was Boethius’s The Consolation of Philosophy, a book perhaps second only to the Bible in influencing Medieval thinking. I used the...
Louwrentius
Migrated this blog from blogger.com to blogofile Until now, I was hosting my blog on Google's blogger. I switched to using Blogofile. I wanted to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Until now, I was hosting my blog on Google's blogger. I switched to using Blogofile. I wanted to have more control over my content and the layout. I had many issues with the blogger blog post editor, resulting in ugly posts with too much white space, strange fonts and fonts...
Jonas Hietala
Incomplete game coming up Man I’m far too much of a perfectionist, with this mentality I’ll never get anything done -...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Man I’m far too much of a perfectionist, with this mentality I’ll never get anything done - seriously. I spent far too many hours, even days, figuring out in my mind how the game should be and I started off going for nothing less than just that. But it turned out to be a lot...
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #49: How bat protection regulations broke Britain's planning system Plus how Europe isn't *all bad* at growth, why every Netflix film is forgettable, and why you should...
6 months ago
Jorge Arango
LLMs Give You Power User Abilities LLMs are a general-purpose technology with seemingly endless use cases. Among my favorite is...
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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...
Notes on software...
Static analysis with semgrep: practical examples using Docker In this post we'll get a basic semgrep environment set up in Docker running some custom rules...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In this post we'll get a basic semgrep environment set up in Docker running some custom rules against our code. Existing linters Linters like pylint for Python or eslint for JavaScript are great for general, broad language standards. But what about common nits in code review like...
Good Enough
Actual Customer Support Is Remarkable What a sad thing to write. We believe in good software around here. There is a lot of poorly built...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
What a sad thing to write. We believe in good software around here. There is a lot of poorly built software on the Internet and in the app stores. Our motivation with Good Enough is to try to put together a few products that feel just right to the folks using them. The things we...
Christian Selig
Qi2 is kinda underwhelming Using MagSafe for portable battery packs has so many niceties versus Qi1: Increased communication...
a year ago
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a year ago
Using MagSafe for portable battery packs has so many niceties versus Qi1: Increased communication with the device, allowing for better efficiency due to better thermal management and charging Easily view the charge percentage of the external battery when first attaching it, and...
Push to Prod
One Key Aspect of Optimizing Computational Throughput When optimizing throughput, think carefully about how many CPUs you have when adding threads or...
9 months ago
Birchtree
My lil' Ghostty terminal config I wrote about Ghosty last week, and since then I've played around with it enough to know it's my new...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
I wrote about Ghosty last week, and since then I've played around with it enough to know it's my new terminal emulator of choice. For me the killer feature is how fast it is, putting the most popular apps to shame (Apple Terminal and iTerm, specifically)
Arduino Blog
Hey Google! Meet Arduino Cloud We’re excited to announce that the Arduino Cloud now supports Google Home™! This means you can now...
a year ago
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a year ago
We’re excited to announce that the Arduino Cloud now supports Google Home™! This means you can now interact with your devices, simply through your Google Home Assistant: use voice commands, the Google Home app, or create new routines integrating Arduino solutions.  This new...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Degen communism: the only correct political ideology
a year ago
Notes on software...
Go database driver overhead on insert-heavy workloads The most popular SQLite and PostgreSQL database drivers in Go are (roughly) 20-76% slower than...
a year ago
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a year ago
The most popular SQLite and PostgreSQL database drivers in Go are (roughly) 20-76% slower than alternative Go drivers on insert-heavy benchmarks of mine. So if you are bulk-inserting data with Go (and potentially also bulk-retrieving data with Go), you may want to consider the...
Neil Madden
Machine Learning and the triumph of GOFAI I’ve been slowly reading Brian Cantwell Smith’s “The Promise of Artificial Intelligence” recently. I...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve been slowly reading Brian Cantwell Smith’s “The Promise of Artificial Intelligence” recently. I haven’t finished reading it yet, and like much of BCS’s writing, it’ll probably take me 3 or 4 read-throughs to really understand it, but there’s one point that I want to pick up...
Arduino Blog
Knuckle typing in mixed reality just makes sense While mixed reality — virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) — has come a long way in...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
While mixed reality — virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) — has come a long way in recent years, there are still a lot of challenges that developers struggle to overcome in a practical and user-friendly way. Typing is one example and current virtual keyboard...
Computer Ads from...
Applied Analytics' MicroSPEED Test-Fly A $20 Million Jet On An Apple? Yes. With MicroSPEED
a year ago
Computer Ads from...
Plus Post: North Star Advantage North Star's Advantage over IBM and Apple is easy to see.
2 months ago
Birchtree
Hark! A new CGP Grey video! I personally find this argument quite compelling, but I looked up arguments against discontinuing...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
I personally find this argument quite compelling, but I looked up arguments against discontinuing production of the penny and nickel and they basically revolve around fears around prices rounding up more often than down, creating a tax on those who pay with cash. I'm sympathetic...
Posts on Made of...
Some Android reverse-engineering tools I’ve spent a lot of time this last week staring at decompiled Dalvik assembly. In the process, I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve spent a lot of time this last week staring at decompiled Dalvik assembly. In the process, I created a couple of useful tools that I figure are worth sharing. I’ve been using dedexer instead of baksmali, honestly mainly because the former’s output has fewer blank lines and so...
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?...
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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...
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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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...
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #63: A major electric vehicle breakthrough?! Plus why the Democrats lost, the AI camera explosion, and more.
3 months 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...
Arduino Blog
Introducing the Image Map widget: A smarter way to visualize your data We’re excited to introduce the new Image Map Widget in Arduino Cloud! This powerful feature allows...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
We’re excited to introduce the new Image Map Widget in Arduino Cloud! This powerful feature allows you to overlay live data onto an image, creating interactive and highly visual dashboards. Whether you’re managing a factory floor, an office space, or a piece of industrial...
Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course Week 5: Eudaemonia In week 5 of my humanities crash course, I read Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and Poetics. I also...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
In week 5 of my humanities crash course, I read Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and Poetics. I also listened to more Bach, looked at Italian Baroque sculpture, and watched a classic – if somewhat boring – movie. Getting through it despite the difficulties was part of the...
Louwrentius
Linux: get a list of al disks and their size To get a list of all disk drives of a Linux system, such as this: Disk /dev/md0: 58.0 GB Disk...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
To get a list of all disk drives of a Linux system, such as this: Disk /dev/md0: 58.0 GB Disk /dev/md1: 2015 MB Disk /dev/md5: 18002.2 GB Disk /dev/sda: 60.0 GB Disk /dev/sdb: 60.0 GB Disk /dev/sdc: 1000.1 GB Disk /dev/sdd: 1000.1 GB Disk /dev/sde: 1000.1 GB Disk /dev/sdf: 1000.1...
Jonas Hietala
Customizing Neovim Scripting is configuration. Configuration is scripting. TJ DeVries A different take on editing...
a year ago
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a year ago
Scripting is configuration. Configuration is scripting. TJ DeVries A different take on editing code I’ve been using Neovim since it forked from Vim almost 8 years ago, and I used Vim many years before that. I feel quite comfortable with Neovim, and I’ve gone down the...
axio.ms
Axio.ms site refresh This is the obligatory “first post on new platform” post, coupled with a bit of “first post in 4...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is the obligatory “first post on new platform” post, coupled with a bit of “first post in 4 years, I’m still alive”. The original axio.ms site was a very HTML1.0 affair and while this was kind of intentional-tongue-in-cheek-chic, it was also a PITA to update. It wasn’t...
Odds and Ends of...
AI is going to break how schools work – but that will be good The awkward reality the government seems scared to talk about
5 months ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Why Proof of Stake (Nov 2020)
over a year ago
Avestura's Blog
How optimistic or pessimistic are the Kurzgesagt videos? A sentiment analysis on the last 20 videos of Kurzgesagt.
over a year ago
lcamtuf’s thing
AI in infosec: the future is now, old man I do my best to keep punditry off this blog, but I don't always succeed.
3 months ago
Arduino Blog
You can now work in collaboration in Arduino Cloud In today’s busy world, getting students or engineers to work together is key to tackling complex IoT...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
In today’s busy world, getting students or engineers to work together is key to tackling complex IoT projects. Traditional code sharing and editing methods, like using offline IDEs or swapping files manually, often slow down projects and lead to mistakes. This can be a hassle and...
Willem's Blog
Cutting Cloud Costs Facing sky-high cloud costs, I found software optimisation vital. Discover how I saved 90% on cloud...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Facing sky-high cloud costs, I found software optimisation vital. Discover how I saved 90% on cloud expenses!
Good Enough
Season 1, Issue 2: Just the Two of Us 0. Everyone Likes a Giveaway Stick around to hear how you can win a fabulous prize by hardly doing...
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over a year ago
0. Everyone Likes a Giveaway Stick around to hear how you can win a fabulous prize by hardly doing anything. Take it away, fellas… 1. Still Positive Did you know that once you acquire COVID-19 your PCR test can be positive for up to 90 days? Did you know that the at-home tests...
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.
Arduino Blog
Making a car more secure with the Arduino Nicla Vision Shortly after attending a recent tinyML workshop in Sao Paolo, Brazil, Joao Vitor Freitas da Costa...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Shortly after attending a recent tinyML workshop in Sao Paolo, Brazil, Joao Vitor Freitas da Costa was looking for a way to incorporate some of the technologies and techniques he learned into a useful project. Given that he lives in an area which experiences elevated levels of...
Jonas Hietala
5 Kup After a season with very bad attendence, I blame school and lack of motivation, I still went to...
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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...
Birchtree
On the "streaming is more expensive than cable" complaint A social media post flew by today where someone was complaining that they stopped paying $180 for...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
A social media post flew by today where someone was complaining that they stopped paying $180 for cable and now they're paying $200 for streaming apps. I see this sort of complaint a lot, and I find myself feeling like I'm taking crazy pills whenever I
Notes on software...
Intuitions for Distributed Consensus by Phil Eaton This is an external talk of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
9 months ago
Neil Madden
Multiple input MACs When working with Message Authentication Codes (MACs), you often need to authenticate not just a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When working with Message Authentication Codes (MACs), you often need to authenticate not just a single string, but multiple fields of data. For example, when creating an authenticated encryption mode by composing a cipher and a MAC (like AES-CBC and HMAC), you need to ensure the...
Christian Selig
Trials and tribulations of 360° video in Juno In building Juno, a visionOS app for YouTube, a question that’s come up from users a few times is...
a year ago
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a year ago
In building Juno, a visionOS app for YouTube, a question that’s come up from users a few times is whether it supports 360° and 180° videos (for the unfamiliar, it’s an immersive video format that fully surrounds you). The short answer is no, it’s sort of a niche feature without...
Arduino Blog
Can this tiny lawn mower robot cut it in the real world? We’re finally starting to see robotic lawn mowers gain a little bit of traction as prices come down...
a year ago
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a year ago
We’re finally starting to see robotic lawn mowers gain a little bit of traction as prices come down and consumer trust goes up. They work a bit like Roomba vacuums and pathfinding sophistication varies from one model to the next. But even the most basic models are still a lot...
Arduino Blog
This small device enables users to feel braille through haptics For the visually impaired community, most of their interactions on mobile phones are confined to...
a year ago
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a year ago
For the visually impaired community, most of their interactions on mobile phones are confined to text-to-speech (TTS) interfaces that read portions of the screen aloud. Dynamic braille displays also exist as a tactile means of communication, but their prices can get close to...
Style over Substance
CANARY Corrugated Cardboard Cutter The CANARY corrugated cardboard cutter is definitely in my top 10 list of most useful purchases...
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The CANARY corrugated cardboard cutter is definitely in my top 10 list of most useful purchases ever. During the COVID-19 lockdowns, we all started shopping online a lot more. The number of cardboard boxes in our house basically quadrupled overnight and cutting them down to size...
Construction Physics
Do U.S. Ports Need More Automation? On October 1st, 47,000 members of the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA), primarily...
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9 months ago
On October 1st, 47,000 members of the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA), primarily dockworkers on East and Gulf Coast ports, went on strike after failing to agree contract terms with USMX, an alliance of port operators and employers.
Odds and Ends of...
WATCH: Were the US election polls right? My conversation with polling guru Mark Pack
7 months ago
Matt Mullenweg
Ed Catmull on Change I’ve been really enjoying the book Creativity Inc by Ed Catmull of Pixar, it was recommended to me...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
I’ve been really enjoying the book Creativity Inc by Ed Catmull of Pixar, it was recommended to me by my colleague Dave Martin a while back and I finally got around to it. There’s an interesting story in it where George Lucas has asked him to develop a film editing system that...
Willem's Blog
The day I killed my LAN I killed my office LAN and went 4G only. Saves a lot of clutter, energy and money.
over a year ago
Birchtree
My default apps of 2024 Last year I was the 27th of four hundred and freaking eight people to write about their default...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Last year I was the 27th of four hundred and freaking eight people to write about their default apps, and I though it would be fun to turn this into a tradition and revisit the list to see if anything has changed since last year. ✨ next to each change
Arduino Blog
ardEEG is an Arduino UNO R4 WiFi shield for measuring biosignals The secrets to most of the mind’s mysteries may still elude us, but we’ve made a tremendous amount...
a year ago
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a year ago
The secrets to most of the mind’s mysteries may still elude us, but we’ve made a tremendous amount of progress in reading signals produced by the brain. We may not understand exactly what is going on, but we can see the result and utilize it. And now you can start...
Jonas Hietala
The Arty Timeline While working on Jonas IceCream Stand I took a screenshot every day and I thought they looked pretty...
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over a year ago
While working on Jonas IceCream Stand I took a screenshot every day and I thought they looked pretty cool so here they are: And now I’m off with New World Order and (for once) I’ve got a really really good idea!
Good Enough
Prettier Email Headers As we’re building Jelly, we have found ourselves looking at lots of raw emails. In particular, we’ve...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
As we’re building Jelly, we have found ourselves looking at lots of raw emails. In particular, we’ve spent a lot of time with email headers. If you’ve ever had cause to do the same, you know it can lead to lots of scanning and squinting. There’s got to be a better way! And here...
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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A lot of people use WordPress to manage their website. Prevent your site from being hacked using this blog post.
Arduino Blog
Web Serial Camera stream with Arduino Hey there, fellow tech enthusiasts! Ever wondered how you could effortlessly stream camera footage...
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Hey there, fellow tech enthusiasts! Ever wondered how you could effortlessly stream camera footage from your Arduino boards directly to your web browser? Wonder no more! Arduino’s Web Serial Camera demo shows how to bring your camera projects to life. Stream images from your...
./techtipsy
My server setups throughout the years My self-hosting adventure started during my university days. Once I actually had money to buy myself...
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My self-hosting adventure started during my university days. Once I actually had money to buy myself a decent used laptop (ThinkPad T430) that had more than 3GB of RAM that my ThinkPad T60 had, I could use some of my older hardware as testbeds for any of the stupid ideas that I...
Old Vintage...
Ward Christensen dies There was initially some issue verifying this, but there appears to be direct confirmation now that...
9 months ago
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There was initially some issue verifying this, but there appears to be direct confirmation now that Ward Christensen passed away October 11 at the age of 78, co-founder of the pioneering Computerized Bulletin Board System in February 1978 with Randy Suess — now believed to be the...
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.
Arduino Blog
This disturbing Halloween doll was brought to life with Bottango Halloween is popular for a lot of reasons and it is safe to say that “creative expression” is near...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Halloween is popular for a lot of reasons and it is safe to say that “creative expression” is near the top of the list. That extends beyond store-bought costumes and decorations to DIY projects. If you want an excuse to make something impractical, Halloween can provide that. And...
Never Met a Science
The (Electoral) Politics of Age Gaps (Yes, this post is the beginning of a victory lap.
10 months ago
Arduino Blog
Track the location history of your devices in Arduino Cloud IoT dashboards Asset tracking has become increasingly crucial across various industries and applications. Whether...
a year ago
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a year ago
Asset tracking has become increasingly crucial across various industries and applications. Whether you’re a logistics company monitoring your fleet, a conservation organization tracking wildlife, or an individual passionate about outdoor adventures, the ability to track and...
lcamtuf’s thing
Getting silly with C, part (void*)2 They won't be able to find bugs in your code if they can't figure out how it works.
6 months ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
How will Ethereum's multi-client philosophy interact with ZK-EVMs?
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Let's build a VORON: Printing & Tuning It’s up and running, and now it’s finally printing time! Less exciting—but necessary—tuning the...
a year ago
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a year ago
It’s up and running, and now it’s finally printing time! Less exciting—but necessary—tuning the printer to make the prints better. Filament shipment Even though I’ve been building the printer for more than a month, I wasn’t ready for it being time for printing so soon. I don’t...
Notes on software...
Thinking about functional programming Someone on Discord asked about how to learn functional programming. The question and my initial...
a year ago
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a year ago
Someone on Discord asked about how to learn functional programming. The question and my initial tweet on the subject prompted an interesting discussion with Shriram Krishnamurthi and other folks. So here's a slightly more thought out exploration. And just for backstory sake: I...
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...
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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.
Notes on software...
Extending gosql to supporting LIMIT and OFFSET It's been a few months since I picked up gosql and I wanted to use it to prototype a SQL interface...
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It's been a few months since I picked up gosql and I wanted to use it to prototype a SQL interface for data stored in S3. But one missing critical feature in gosql is LIMIT and OFFSET support. This post walks through the few key changes to gosql to support LIMIT and OFFSET. You...
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #58: An even greater London? Plus a revealing portrait of Westminster's hidden connections and some cope on why Trump might not...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Plus a revealing portrait of Westminster's hidden connections and some cope on why Trump might not be *so* catastrophic. Maybe. If we're lucky.
Home on Erik...
Exploding offers are bullshit I do a lot of recruiting and have given maybe 50 offers in my career. Although many companies do, I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I do a lot of recruiting and have given maybe 50 offers in my career. Although many companies do, I never put a deadline on any of them. Unfortunately, I've often ended up competing with other companies who do, and I feel really bad that this usually tricks younger developers...
Birchtree
Strong (fanboy) opinions loosely held Tim Hardwick writing for MacRumors: iPhone 17 Air USB-C Port May Have This Unusual Design...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Tim Hardwick writing for MacRumors: iPhone 17 Air USB-C Port May Have This Unusual Design Quirk Dummy models shared by AppleTrack suggest that Apple has made some subtle adjustments to accommodate internal components in the tighter chassis. Most notably, the USB-C port on the...
Applied Cartography
Stripe Sessions 2024 Stripe held the keynote for Sessions, their annual WWDC/re:invent-esque conference, this morning. I...
a year ago
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a year ago
Stripe held the keynote for Sessions, their annual WWDC/re:invent-esque conference, this morning. I wanted to jot down some thoughts while they’re still fresh. (I think the changelog is the best way to poke around both the changes I’m writing about and the ones that I...
Lighthouse Blog
Rules improvement: filter based on content
7 months ago
Arduino Blog
Arduino makes TIME’s 2025 World’s Top EdTech Companies We’re proud to share that Arduino has ranked #9 in TIME magazine’s 2025 list of the World’s Top...
2 months ago
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We’re proud to share that Arduino has ranked #9 in TIME magazine’s 2025 list of the World’s Top EdTech Companies, created in collaboration with global market research firm Statista. This recognition places us in the top 10 globally – and reinforces our long-term commitment to...
tim.sh
Github scam investigation: Thousands of "mods" and "cracks" stealing your data While looking through the articles on a "social engineering" themed forum I discovered a relatively...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
While looking through the articles on a "social engineering" themed forum I discovered a relatively new scam scheme that shocked me. People create thousands of GitHub repositories with all sorts of things - from Roblox and Fortnite mods to "cracked" FL Studio and Photoshop. As...
Jonas Hietala
Embedding youtube videos with Hakyll A while ago a made a timelapse of my entry to Ludum Dare. This is how I parse and embed videos using...
over a year ago
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A while ago a made a timelapse of my entry to Ludum Dare. This is how I parse and embed videos using Hakyll. I don’t want to remember any special syntax for embedding, I don’t want to bother (remember?) to use something like {% youtube: <link> %} or whatever syntax we might find...
Matt Blewitt
Regular Restarts Are Good, Actually Anecdotally, one of the more maligned features of the Heroku platform are the 24-hour limits on...
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8 months ago
Anecdotally, one of the more maligned features of the Heroku platform are the 24-hour limits on compute units, known as “dynos”. This is actually a good thing, but very misunderstood.
Construction Physics
How We Got the Lithium-ion Battery It took decades of research, performed around the world, before a practical lithium-ion battery was...
7 months ago
Birchtree
Apple’s 2024 report card: the Mac 💻 This is the third in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
This is the third in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I did this last year and you can read last year’s Mac report card here. MacBook Pro The MacBook Pro continues to get a relentless stream of updates, as
Arduino Blog
Arduino Days 2025 is almost here! With just a few days to go, Arduino Days 2025 promises to be one of the biggest and most exciting...
3 months ago
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With just a few days to go, Arduino Days 2025 promises to be one of the biggest and most exciting events in our 20-year history! Join us for two days of live-streamed content on March 21st-22nd, featuring inspiring talks, major product announcements, and community showcases from...
Neil Madden
Why the OAuth mTLS spec is more interesting than you might think I was catching up on the always excellent Security. Cryptography. Whatever. podcast, and enjoyed the...
over a year ago
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I was catching up on the always excellent Security. Cryptography. Whatever. podcast, and enjoyed the episode with Colm MacCárthaigh about a bunch of topics around TLS. It’s a great episode that touches a lot of subjects I’m interested in, so go ahead and listen to it if you...
Jonas Hietala
Postmortem: MenuCity Good times, good times. MenuCity has been out a while and thanks for all the positive and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Good times, good times. MenuCity has been out a while and thanks for all the positive and constructive feedback guys, it’s like my food doing this (programming is my air and the fun is the water… err). Anyway here’s the postmortem of my latest, and greatest, game. Let’s start...
Matt Blewitt
Riding the Risk Railway When building and operating a user-facing system, especially one that is open to the public, it is...
over a year ago
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When building and operating a user-facing system, especially one that is open to the public, it is important to consider the riskiness of a user, which can also be characterised as trustworthiness. These will typically be negatively correlated, with low trust indicating high risk...
Matt Mullenweg
WPAI Very excited to share that we’ve acquired WPAI and the team is joining Automattic. They have some...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Very excited to share that we’ve acquired WPAI and the team is joining Automattic. They have some very cool products including CodeWP, AgentWP, and WP.chat.
./techtipsy
The hidden media play/pause/stop keys on the Lenovo ThinkPad L390 Yoga ThinkPad keyboards were once well known for their great layouts, feel and functionality. This...
a year ago
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a year ago
ThinkPad keyboards were once well known for their great layouts, feel and functionality. This included the media playback control keys. On the ThinkPad T430, the new chiclet keyboard layout moved the media keys to the function row. Still there, but less convenient to access. The...
Abort Retry Fail
Intel: Stumbling in the Spotlight Shrinking nodes and shrinking profits
2 months ago
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4 months ago
./techtipsy
Your Wi-Fi might be terrible because of Dynamic Frequency Selection (DFS) For a few months, I had issues with my Wi-Fi network. The 2.4 GHz network would be fine, but the 5...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
For a few months, I had issues with my Wi-Fi network. The 2.4 GHz network would be fine, but the 5 GHz one would suddenly stop working and completely disappear from the available Wi-Fi networks. OpenWRT upgrades also didn’t improve the situation. This was very annoying. After...
./techtipsy
Back to roots This blog is running on a home server again. I have once again gained access to a competent internet...
a year ago
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a year ago
This blog is running on a home server again. I have once again gained access to a competent internet connection1, and I think I have figured out the IPv6 setup as well2, leading to this change. The IP address is dynamic, there are occasional power outages and I might just mess up...
Vitalik Buterin's...
The Revenue-Evil Curve: a different way to think about prioritizing public goods funding
over a year ago
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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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...
Himanshu Mishra |...
A brief history of Platform Engineering I remember the day I heard the word microservices for the first time. For a while, I did not know...
a year ago
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a year ago
I remember the day I heard the word microservices for the first time. For a while, I did not know what it truly meant. But it was a very hot…
Vitalik Buterin's...
Trust Models
over a year ago
Home on Erik...
What's Erik up to? I joined Better in early 2015 because I thought the team was crazy enough to actually change one of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I joined Better in early 2015 because I thought the team was crazy enough to actually change one of the largest industries in the US. For six years, I ran the tech team, hiring 300+ people, probably doing 2,000+ interviews, and according to GitHub I added 646,941 lines of code...
Birchtree
Steam Deck sales numbers are in, and they’re not as spectacular as I’d hope (but I do still have... Sean Hollister writing for The Verge: Three Years Later, the Steam Deck Has Dominated Handheld PC...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Sean Hollister writing for The Verge: Three Years Later, the Steam Deck Has Dominated Handheld PC Gaming Shipments Add it up, and that’s just under 6 million shipments in three years. One way to view that: it’s small and it’s not really growing. IDC&
Jonas Hietala
Writing lessons learned after writing a book A good writer isn’t born; a good writer is created It may sound dumb, but one of my reasons for...
a year ago
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a year ago
A good writer isn’t born; a good writer is created It may sound dumb, but one of my reasons for writing a book was to improve my writing ability. Maybe I could’ve practiced on the blog instead, but putting things on paper gave it some added weight I don’t think I would’ve gotten...
Louwrentius
Thunderbolt, a cheap high-speed storage interconnect? Intel and Apple released Thunderbolt a high-speed (10 Gigabit/s) interface, that seems to replace...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Intel and Apple released Thunderbolt a high-speed (10 Gigabit/s) interface, that seems to replace both USB and Firewire. It is mainly targeted at end-user systems allowing to connect peripherals with just a single cable to a computer. Thunderbolt devices, like external hard...
Never Met a Science
What Are Survey Experiments For? The titular question emerged as I was working with Alessandro Vecchiato on our visual conjoint...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
The titular question emerged as I was working with Alessandro Vecchiato on our visual conjoint experiment, just published at the Journal of Experimental Political Science:
Posts on Made of...
Using Haskell's 'newtype' in C A common problem in software engineering is avoiding confusion and errors when dealing with multiple...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A common problem in software engineering is avoiding confusion and errors when dealing with multiple types of data that share the same representation. Classic examples include differentiating between measurements stored in different units, distinguishing between a string of HTML...
Vitalik Buterin's...
A Philosophy of Blockchain Validation
over a year ago
Louwrentius
'Syslog: the hidden security risk' People sometimes forget that there are also a number of UDP-based services that may pose a threat to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
People sometimes forget that there are also a number of UDP-based services that may pose a threat to the security of your systems. SNMP is a well-known service, notorious for being configured with a default password (or community string). But there is another service that is...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Interesting double-poly latches inside AMD's vintage LANCE Ethernet chip I've studied a lot of chips from the 1970s and 1980s, so I usually know what to expect. But an...
a year ago
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a year ago
I've studied a lot of chips from the 1970s and 1980s, so I usually know what to expect. But an Ethernet chip from 1982 had something new: a strange layer of yellow wiring on the die. After some study, I learned that the yellow wiring is a second layer of resistive polysilicon,...
Birchtree
My favorite (and least favorite) movies of 2024 I’ve watched 48 new release movies in 2024, and with just a few weeks left in the year, I wanted to...
6 months ago
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I’ve watched 48 new release movies in 2024, and with just a few weeks left in the year, I wanted to make what is my current top 10 (plus honorable mentions & worst movies). As we get to the end of the year and you might have some
Louwrentius
Compiling Ceph on the Raspberry Pi 3B+ (armhf) using Clang/LLVM UPDATE 2019 / 2020 There are official ARM64 binaries of Ceph that you can run on a 64-bit version of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
UPDATE 2019 / 2020 There are official ARM64 binaries of Ceph that you can run on a 64-bit version of Ubuntu 18.04. Important: I consider this page obsolete. I will keep it up for transparency's sake Introduction In this blog post I'll show you how to compile Ceph Luminous for...
Construction Physics
Morris Chang and the Origins of TSMC Book review of the autobiography of Morris Chang.
6 months ago
Willem's Blog
Repairing a Giro AEON bicycle helmet Try fixing your Giro bicycle helmet? I went through some trouble to do it! Read along to find out...
over a year ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
AI as the engine, humans as the steering wheel
4 months ago
./techtipsy
Fairphone 5: my heavily biased overview after 58 days of use (and counting) After months of contemplating I finally pulled the trigger and got myself a Fairphone 5. The...
a year ago
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a year ago
After months of contemplating I finally pulled the trigger and got myself a Fairphone 5. The fact that iPhone X stopped receiving major iOS updates certainly helped make that decision. “But why? My Xiaomi/Oneplus/Samsung/other glued-together device is like so much cheaper and...
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!
Posts on Made of...
Security doesn't respect abstraction boundaries The fundamental tool of any engineering discipline is the notion of abstraction. If we can build a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The fundamental tool of any engineering discipline is the notion of abstraction. If we can build a set of useful, easily-described behaviors out of a complex system, we can build other systems on top of those pieces, without having to understand to worry about the full complexity...
axio.ms
Internet of kitchen lighting, with OSC This project was completed in June 2015. Wow, is it 2017 already? In this post, I’d like to say...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This project was completed in June 2015. Wow, is it 2017 already? In this post, I’d like to say that I wrote a useful little bit of software and built up a crappy hack to demonstrate it but, secretly, the crappy hack came first and I’ve retroactively found something vaguely...
Arduino Blog
This DIY experimental reactor harnesses the Birkeland-Eyde process Nitrogen is critical for farming at scale and without some form of nitrogen to enrich the soil, we...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Nitrogen is critical for farming at scale and without some form of nitrogen to enrich the soil, we couldn’t grow staple crops efficiently enough to feed our large global population. Serious science goes into the production of fertilizers and the Birkeland-Eyde process was one...
Neil Madden
Book review: The Joy of Cryptography Mike Rosulek, Oregon State University. Draft of January 3, 2021. Online: The Joy of Cryptography....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Mike Rosulek, Oregon State University. Draft of January 3, 2021. Online: The Joy of Cryptography. This is a freely-available book covering introductory material on cryptography. It’s suitable for anyone with undergraduate-level computer science knowledge. As is often the case in...
Jorge Arango
One Year of “Duly Noted” Duly Noted just celebrated its first birthday. It’s an opportunity for me to reflect on what’s...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Duly Noted just celebrated its first birthday. It’s an opportunity for me to reflect on what’s changed since it came out. The book’s central premise is evergreen: thinking isn’t limited to the spongy mass between your ears. Instead, you think by interacting with your environment...
Arduino Blog
Arduino is at work to make bio-based PCBs! April 22 is Earth Day – a powerful reminder of our shared responsibility to preserve the planet for...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
April 22 is Earth Day – a powerful reminder of our shared responsibility to preserve the planet for future generations. While the call for climate action grows louder, Arduino is committed to making sustainability an ongoing priority through concrete projects and global...
Himanshu Mishra |...
Geniune Love and Infatuation After a long time, I read something so meaningful on reddit. How do you distinguish genuine love for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
After a long time, I read something so meaningful on reddit. How do you distinguish genuine love for someone from infatuation? was the…
Matt Blewitt
On That Okta LDAP Bug A quick explanation of the Okta AD/LDAP DelAuth bug that was being shared around, and the importance...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
A quick explanation of the Okta AD/LDAP DelAuth bug that was being shared around, and the importance of sensible defaults.
lcamtuf’s thing
Random objects: Intel Edison A glimpse of the missteps of x86 in the embedded world.
a year ago
./techtipsy
DIY cloud gaming: NVIDIA and Moonlight As you might have read from my previous post on this topic, I have a pretty neat “cloud” gaming...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As you might have read from my previous post on this topic, I have a pretty neat “cloud” gaming setup running. I have one powerful desktop PC, one virtual machine with a GPU attached to it, and client machines that can be used to stream games from. To keep things simple (and...
./techtipsy
Accidentally turning the ASRock DeskMini X300 into a semi-passively cooled PC After playing around with fan curves on my ASRock DeskMini X300 based home server, I noticed one...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
After playing around with fan curves on my ASRock DeskMini X300 based home server, I noticed one interesting thing. At least it was interesting to me. Background I had one goal: to try to see if I could turn it into a semi-passive PC by only turning the fan on when the PC was...
Himanshu Mishra |...
रानी (Rani) Dedicated to all the nameless young girls out there in our villages…
over a year ago
Computer Ads from...
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2 months ago
Computer Ads from...
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a year ago
Old Vintage...
Thou shalt follow these Vintage Computing Commandments Thou shalt check voltage and polarity on new-to-thee power supplies, or thy machines shall be smote...
a year ago
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a year ago
Thou shalt check voltage and polarity on new-to-thee power supplies, or thy machines shall be smote and release smoke. This is sometimes very hard to judge without a load, but they should be somewhere in the ballpark, verily, and you should get in the habit of checking any new...
Willem's Blog
Google Analytics vs AWStats Comparing Google Analytics with AWStats to find out where they differ and which is better.
over a year ago
Arduino Blog
Meet Mr. Wallplate, an animatronic wall plate that speaks to you Interactive robots always bring an element of intrigue, and even more so when they feature unusual...
a year ago
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a year ago
Interactive robots always bring an element of intrigue, and even more so when they feature unusual parts and techniques to perform their actions. Mr. Wallplate, affectionately named by Tony K on Instructables, is one such robot that is contained within an electrical wall plate...
Posts on Made of...
Git in pictures In my previous blog post, I discussed how git is distinctive among version control system in the way...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In my previous blog post, I discussed how git is distinctive among version control system in the way in which it makes the backend model that is being used to store data the most important element of the tool, and that experts use it by having the complete model in their head,...
./techtipsy
Oops, I published my drafts! Those of you who follow my blog using the RSS feed might have seen that new, incomplete posts popped...
a year ago
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a year ago
Those of you who follow my blog using the RSS feed might have seen that new, incomplete posts popped up around the time I published my FOSDEM 2024 post. Oops. I recently tried looking for an alternative to writing blog posts in IntelliJ and out of all the options I stuck...
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #48: The most important week of Labour government so far? Plus a British tech unicorn, a nuclear energy ticking time bomb and... New Zealand's weird...
6 months ago
./techtipsy
Trying out VR on an AMD Ryzen 4000 series APU You may know that I really like small, efficient APU-based builds. At this point in time, they’re so...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
You may know that I really like small, efficient APU-based builds. At this point in time, they’re so close to being a viable mainstream option for gaming, especially the Ryzen 6000-series mobile APU-s. Forza Horizon 5, at 1080p high settings? Yes, they’re that good. I don’t have...
Home on Erik...
Model benchmarks A lot of people have asked me what models we use for recommendations at Spotify so I wanted to share...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A lot of people have asked me what models we use for recommendations at Spotify so I wanted to share some insights. Here's benchmarks for some models. Note that we don't use all of them in production.
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a year ago
Birchtree
Ghostty is the hot new terminal and it’s out now Ghostty is a hip new terminal from Mitchell Hashimoto, who he described in October’s Ghostty 1.0 Is...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Ghostty is a hip new terminal from Mitchell Hashimoto, who he described in October’s Ghostty 1.0 Is Coming: With Ghostty, I set out to build a terminal emulator that was fast, feature-rich, and had a platform-native GUI while still being cross-platform. I believe Ghostty 1.0...
Louwrentius
Systemd Forward Secure Sealing of system logs makes little sense Systemd is a more modern replacement of sysvinit and its in the process of being integrated into...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Systemd is a more modern replacement of sysvinit and its in the process of being integrated into most mainstream Linux distributions. I'm a bit troubled by one of it's features. I'd like to discuss the Forward Secure Sealing (FSS) feature for log files that is part of systemd....
Louwrentius
Improving iSCSI Native Multi Pathing Round Robin performance 10 Gb ethernet is still quite expensive. You not only need to buy appropriate NICS, but you must...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
10 Gb ethernet is still quite expensive. You not only need to buy appropriate NICS, but you must also upgrade your network hardware as well. You may even need to replace existing fiber optic cabling if it's not rated for 10 Gbit. So I decided to still just go for plain old 1...
Jonas Hietala
Jonas IceCream Stand Ahoy there! This time I’ll take you along for a ride with an arty Tycoon game. Jonas IceCream...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Ahoy there! This time I’ll take you along for a ride with an arty Tycoon game. Jonas IceCream Stand Instructions It should be pretty self-explanatory, it’s a very simply tycoon game. Credits Music: Eric Maskol Steve Chatterton Sound effects: freesound Rest: Me
Notes on software...
We put a distributed database in the browser – and made a game of it This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
Ken Shirriff's blog
Reverse engineering the 386 processor's prefetch queue circuitry In 1985, Intel introduced the groundbreaking 386 processor, the first 32-bit processor in the x86...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
In 1985, Intel introduced the groundbreaking 386 processor, the first 32-bit processor in the x86 architecture. To improve performance, the 386 has a 16-byte instruction prefetch queue. The purpose of the prefetch queue is to fetch instructions from memory before they are...
Applied Cartography
Two weeks of parenthood We've had Lucy for two weeks, which qualifies us as experts, which means it is time to write about...
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We've had Lucy for two weeks, which qualifies us as experts, which means it is time to write about parenthood. (In all seriousness, consider the below descriptive and not prescriptive: mostly, it's a notepad filled with things that were remarkable or surprising or divergent from...
Applied Cartography
Why your marketing site should be separate In Notes on buttondown.com and How Buttondown uses HAProxy, I outlined the slightly kludgy way we...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
In Notes on buttondown.com and How Buttondown uses HAProxy, I outlined the slightly kludgy way we serve buttondown.com both as a marketing site (public-facing, Next/Vercel, largely just content pushed by non-developers) and an author-facing app (behind a login, Django/Heroku/Vue)...
Jonas Hietala
Understanding the Computer When I discovered programming it felt like a whole new world opened up for me with endless...
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When I discovered programming it felt like a whole new world opened up for me with endless possibilities. It granted unlimited power and I could create virtually anything and it explained so much to me - how did a program work? How could you make a game or a website? But there...
Notes on software...
Obsession In your professional and personal life, I don't believe there is a stronger motivation than having...
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In your professional and personal life, I don't believe there is a stronger motivation than having something in mind and the desire to do it. Yet the natural way to deal with a desire to do something is to justify why it's not possible. "I want to read more books but nobody reads...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Talking to memory: Inside the Intel 8088 processor's bus interface state machine In 1979, Intel introduced the 8088 microprocessor, a variant of the 16-bit 8086 processor. IBM's...
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In 1979, Intel introduced the 8088 microprocessor, a variant of the 16-bit 8086 processor. IBM's decision to use the 8088 processor in the IBM PC (1981) was a critical point in computer history, leading to the success of the x86 architecture. The designers of the IBM PC selected...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Reverse engineering the 59-pound printer onboard the Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle contained a bulky printer so the astronauts could receive procedures, mission...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
The Space Shuttle contained a bulky printer so the astronauts could receive procedures, mission plans, weather reports, crew activity plans, and other documents. Needed for the first Shuttle launch in 1981, this printer was designed in just 7 months, built around an Army...
Willem's Blog
Business in a bag After much testing I have selected a bag and set of cases to fit my entire business, wherever I go.
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After much testing I have selected a bag and set of cases to fit my entire business, wherever I go.
Arduino Blog
Alumnus Software joins Arduino’s System Integrators Partnership Program We are thrilled to announce that Alumnus Software, based in India and the United States, has joined...
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We are thrilled to announce that Alumnus Software, based in India and the United States, has joined our System Integrators Partnership Program (SIPP) at the Gold level. With over 20 years of expertise in embedded software, IoT applications, and Edge AI development, Alumnus has a...
Arduino Blog
Clone your IoT projects with Arduino Cloud Custom Templates Whether you are an IoT enthusiast, an enterprise developer or a high school teacher, we all know the...
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Whether you are an IoT enthusiast, an enterprise developer or a high school teacher, we all know the thrill of bringing a new IoT project to life. But we also understand the frustration of repetitive setup processes and the time sink of configuring the same elements over and over...
Vitalik Buterin's...
不同類型的 ZK-EVM
over a year ago
Jorge Arango
Prescriptive and Descriptive Information Architectures There are two stances you can take toward language in your website or app: prescriptive or...
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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...
Notes on software...
Minimal downtime Postgres major version upgrades with EDB Postgres Distributed This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
4 months ago
Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing TagVault Strap for AirTag Having DSLR cameras stolen, having gear bags stolen, we wanted a hard-core AirTag mount to mount to...
over a year ago
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Having DSLR cameras stolen, having gear bags stolen, we wanted a hard-core AirTag mount to mount to them and to be discreet. So we took our much loved TagVault Pet waterproof AirTag case, over engineered to take abuse from large dogs, and gave it all matte black hardware so it...
anderegg.ca
Skylight and the AT Protocol Since my last piece about Bluesky, I’ve been using the service a lot more. Just about everyone I...
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Since my last piece about Bluesky, I’ve been using the service a lot more. Just about everyone I followed on other services is there now, and it’s way more fun than late-stage Twitter ever was. Halifax is particularly into Bluesky, which reminds me of our local scene during the...
GitButler
Git Merge 2024 Talks are Up All the Git Merge 2024 talks are up on Youtube. Here is a quick summary of each one.
8 months ago
Louwrentius
Why you should not use IPsec for VPN connectivity IPsec is a well-known and widely-used VPN solution. It seems that it's not widely known that Niels...
over a year ago
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IPsec is a well-known and widely-used VPN solution. It seems that it's not widely known that Niels Ferguson and Bruce Schneier performed a detailed security analysis of IPsec and that the results were not very positive. We strongly discourage the use of IPsec in its current form...
Arduino Blog
Giving a teenage pet turtle a synthetic pizza-ordering voice If B. F. Skinner’s famous research proved anything, it is that virtually all animals are capable of...
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If B. F. Skinner’s famous research proved anything, it is that virtually all animals are capable of some degree of training. Training is really just taking advantage of an animal’s natural inclination to adapt for survival, which is something all living organisms do. With that in...
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Applied Cartography
Tailwind black magic: swallowing all pointer events I wrote two days ago about a real and useful application of Tailwind black magic; here's...
a year ago
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I wrote two days ago about a real and useful application of Tailwind black magic; here's another. Buttondown has a dropzone component lets folks drag-and-drop items or click on it to get a file-picker. It's used for importing images, archives, CSVs, the works: because it's so...
Greater Still by...
Talking to the Protocol An exploration into a new communication layer. By Gaby Goldberg & Sophie Fujiwara
over a year ago
Louwrentius
Why I still won't switch to Linux and keep my Mac The current state of Linux is amazing. If we take a look at, for example, Ubuntu Linux, we have to...
over a year ago
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The current state of Linux is amazing. If we take a look at, for example, Ubuntu Linux, we have to admit that the Linux desktop is really becoming a nice, user-friendly environment. I'm truly starting to like what I see. I considered whiping Mac OS X from my macbook, but there...
Applied Cartography
Hypermodern Django I've been on the hunt for a new way to dogfood Buttondown for the past month or so, and I've finally...
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I've been on the hunt for a new way to dogfood Buttondown for the past month or so, and I've finally found it: Hypermodern Django. At this point, all of my/our usages of Buttondown for Buttondown don't involve archives: we're using it headlessly, with RSS-to-email and APIs...
Birchtree
Nothing in your workflow is permenent My friend and podcast co-host Chris Lawley just posted a video about how his relationship with the...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
My friend and podcast co-host Chris Lawley just posted a video about how his relationship with the iPad has changed over time. I linked to this on social media and got a few replies from folks who said something to the effect of, "we told you so," which
Never Met a Science
Video Killed the Social Media Star The two 2024 Presidential Debates have proven the continued centrality of television to our...
9 months ago
Arduino Blog
A desktop-sized DIY vending machine for your room Have you ever wanted your very own vending machine? If so, you likely found that they’re expensive...
a year ago
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Have you ever wanted your very own vending machine? If so, you likely found that they’re expensive and too bulky to fit in most homes. But now you can experience vending bliss thanks to this miniature vending machine designed by m22pj, which you can craft yourself using an...
Jonas Hietala
The games that make me who I am I read an article the other day where he met someone who didn’t read fiction: He suggested that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I read an article the other day where he met someone who didn’t read fiction: He suggested that fiction was a waste of his time — he read to learn, not for "mere" entertainment I don’t agree with this view and neither did he: Fiction allows you to be part of situations that are...
Willem's Blog
Programming on Apple Watch Programming with VIM over SSH on Apple Watch using a bluetooth keyboard
over a year ago
Birchtree
A lot changed for LLMs in 2024 I thought this was a fascinating post by Simon Willison: Things We Learned About LLMs in 2024 This...
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I thought this was a fascinating post by Simon Willison: Things We Learned About LLMs in 2024 This increase in efficiency and reduction in price is my single favourite trend from 2024. I want the utility of LLMs at a fraction of the energy cost and it looks like that&
Good Enough
TIL: Blocking Password App Autocomplete on Form Fields I wanted to disable password managers, particularly 1Password, from interacting with a username...
a year ago
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a year ago
I wanted to disable password managers, particularly 1Password, from interacting with a username field in Contact Me. It was pretty simple in the end: <%= form.text_field :username, "data-lpignore": true, "data-1p-ignore": true %> Reference: 1Password, Lastpass.
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...
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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
Wearing WHOOP 4.0 Use WHOOP to see the impact your choices have on your body, think of it as a special kind of mirror...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Use WHOOP to see the impact your choices have on your body, think of it as a special kind of mirror - it's so powerful, that I don't take mine off!
Birchtree
What got you here… John Siracusa: Apple Turnover From virtue comes money, and all other good things. This idea rings in...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
John Siracusa: Apple Turnover From virtue comes money, and all other good things. This idea rings in my head whenever I think about Apple. It’s the most succinct explanation of what pulled Apple from the brink of bankruptcy in the 1990s to its astronomical success today. Don’
Posts on Made of...
Confessions of a programmer: I hate code review Most of the projects I've been working on today have fairly strict code review policies. My work...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Most of the projects I've been working on today have fairly strict code review policies. My work requires code review on most of our code, and as we bring on an army of interns for the summer, I've been responsible for reviewing lots of code. Additionally, about five months ago...
Louwrentius
Cheap solution for putting an SSD in an iMac If you want to order a new iMac with an SSD there are two problems: An SSD of 256 gigabytes will...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you want to order a new iMac with an SSD there are two problems: An SSD of 256 gigabytes will cost you a lot: 600 euros. The SSD is of medium quality, and does not justify the cost of 600 euros. Here you can find information about the Toshiba SSD that Apple provides. You can...
Odds and Ends of...
Tony Blair is right about Net Zero Tough on carbon, tough on the sources of carbon
2 months ago
Notes on software...
Zig, Rust, and other languages Having worked a bit in Zig, Rust, Go and now C, I think there are a few common topics worth having a...
a year ago
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a year ago
Having worked a bit in Zig, Rust, Go and now C, I think there are a few common topics worth having a fresh conversation on: automatic memory management, the standard library, and explicit allocation. Zig is not a mature language. But it has made enough useful choices for a number...
Notes on software...
Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 2. user-defined functions and variables Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 3. LLVM 4. LLVM conditionals and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 3. LLVM 4. LLVM conditionals and compiling fibonacci 5. LLVM system calls 6. an x86 upgrade In this post we'll extend the compiler to support defining functions and variables. Additionally, we'll require the...
Birchtree
Yet more YouTube videos I've enjoyed recently I guess this is a series now… Do you have a chair where "half dirty" clothes go? If so, this chair...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
I guess this is a series now… Do you have a chair where "half dirty" clothes go? If so, this chair will be very compelling. I'm not a big fan of most Apple TV+ shows, but Severance was lovely and I can't wait
Jonas Hietala
I Made It! It’s been over a year, but I haven’t lost (most) my touch yet! For the second time I’ve completed a...
over a year ago
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It’s been over a year, but I haven’t lost (most) my touch yet! For the second time I’ve completed a Ludum Dare! Not an easy feat and yet there are tons of games that look absolutely wonderful. I’m not there yet but now I have at least gotten back into game making again, long...
Vitalik Buterin's...
STARKs, Part I: Proofs with Polynomials
over a year ago
Computer Ads from...
MicroTimes Interviews Jim Clark from Mosaic Communications (1994) They discuss how to commercialize the internet.
3 months ago
Himanshu Mishra |...
Why do I hate my friends on Instagram? Watch this video from Nerdwriter1 Let's Fix Instagram (YouTube). Instagram is Facebook, but only...
over a year ago
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Watch this video from Nerdwriter1 Let's Fix Instagram (YouTube). Instagram is Facebook, but only with a different purpose than connecting…
Home on Erik...
Annoy 1.10 released, with Hamming distance and Windows support I've been a bit bad at posting things with a regular cadence lately, partly because I'm trying to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've been a bit bad at posting things with a regular cadence lately, partly because I'm trying to adjust to having a toddler, partly because the hunt for clicks has caused such a high bar for me that I feel like I have to post something Pulitzer-worthy.
./techtipsy
They make USB-C cables with displays now! I’ve reached a point in my setup where most of the devices that I use are based around the coveted...
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I’ve reached a point in my setup where most of the devices that I use are based around the coveted USB-C port. This meant that I had a valid reason to get a few extra because I didn’t yet have a stockpile of good USB-C cables. That’s when I found out that there exist cables that...
./techtipsy
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over a year ago
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No HDMI port on the ThinkPad T430? No problem! The ThinkPad T430 has a few options for running it with an external display: VGA port, which is...
a year ago
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The ThinkPad T430 has a few options for running it with an external display: VGA port, which is pretty much obsolete at this point mini DisplayPort connector on the laptop itself DVI or DisplayPort on a dock The mini DisplayPort port has annoyed me for as long as I’ve had this...
Birchtree
Ghost 6 is coming in 2025 and will include ActivityPub for everyone The Ghost Blog: The Story So Far This year we're going to ship ActivityPub to everyone, in a...
5 months ago
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The Ghost Blog: The Story So Far This year we're going to ship ActivityPub to everyone, in a flagship Ghost 6.0 release. I have nothing else to add other than I’m happy with my choice of blogging back end.
Abishek Muthian
Are we worrying more about AI than global warming So, my friend said this — If I may state mine — It’s not we’re more worried about AI, it’s the media...
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So, my friend said this — If I may state mine — It’s not we’re more worried about AI, it’s the media inducing cognitive biases fuelled by Hollywood when a celebrity speaks about dooms day AI. Let’s discuss some facts, Let’s take prof. Hawing, he’s vocal about the need to keep AI...
Louwrentius
The minimum requirements for a secure system The most secure server system is a system that is not connected to a network and turned off....
over a year ago
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The most secure server system is a system that is not connected to a network and turned off. However, little work seems to be getting done this way. So we want to turn systems on and connect them to a network, or even (God forbid) the internet. The thing is this. A system...
./techtipsy
Lenovo ThinkPad P14s gen 4 (AMD): it doesn't suck under Linux I’ve had the opportunity to try out another new laptop at work. I’ve used a brand new laptop...
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I’ve had the opportunity to try out another new laptop at work. I’ve used a brand new laptop recently, and it was horrible. But this time I’m pleasantly surprised. The Lenovo ThinkPad P14s gen 4 has great specs: CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U (8 cores, 16 threads, up to 5.1 GHz) GPU:...
./techtipsy
How to fix ZFS pool not importing at boot Issue description You are running a Linux-based machine with an install of ZFS on Linux. Everything...
over a year ago
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Issue description You are running a Linux-based machine with an install of ZFS on Linux. Everything seems to work correctly, but after restarting your machine, the ZFS pool is not visible. You can still import your pool manually using zpool import poolname or zpool import -a. In...
Matt Mullenweg
I Voted! It was a huge pain in the butt, because my mail-in ballot didn’t register properly, but I found a...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
It was a huge pain in the butt, because my mail-in ballot didn’t register properly, but I found a last-minute flight to Houston and this morning walked over to Congregation Emanu El and voted. It is our most sacred duty as a citizen. I encourage every American to vote.
Gwern.net Newsletter
December newsletter December 2020 gwern.net newsletter with links on AI and technology; major new site feature:...
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over a year ago
December 2020 gwern.net newsletter with links on AI and technology; major new site feature: fully-generalized recursive popups.
Birchtree
Politics are personal Justin Ferrell: It's Not Politics, It's Just Personal What happens when no amount of work or...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Justin Ferrell: It's Not Politics, It's Just Personal What happens when no amount of work or labor—and no tax cuts—could even scratch the surface of the tens of thousands of dollars in medical care that keeps your son above ground? A very
Arduino Blog
This three-fingered robot hand makes use of serial bus servos A small startup called K-Scale Labs is in the process of developing an affordable, open-source...
4 months ago
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A small startup called K-Scale Labs is in the process of developing an affordable, open-source humanoid robot and Mike Rigsby wanted to build a compatible hand. This three-fingered robot hand is the result, and it makes use of serial bus servos from Waveshare. Most Arduino users...
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a year ago
Notes on software...
Writing a SQL database, take two: Zig and RocksDB For my second project while learning Zig, I decided to port an old, minimal SQL database project...
over a year ago
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For my second project while learning Zig, I decided to port an old, minimal SQL database project from Go to Zig. In this post, in ~1700 lines of code (yes, I'm sorry it's bigger than my usual), we'll create a basic embedded SQL database in Zig on top of RocksDB. Other than the...
Simply Explained
Why I don't take sponsorships Last year I made that video in response to a sponsorship offer that I got from various VPN...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Last year I made that video in response to a sponsorship offer that I got from various VPN providers. They all told me the same thing: our service is the best way to protect your privacy, and we were hoping you could convey this message in one of your videos.So I decided to do...
Jonas Hietala
Getting Comfortable So I physically built the computer and now I’ve been using it a while, configuring stuff and getting...
over a year ago
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So I physically built the computer and now I’ve been using it a while, configuring stuff and getting used to my new screens. I think they’re about three times wide as my old laptop and now I have this one huge vertical space which is absolutely wonderful for surfing forums and...
Jorge Arango
Traction Heroes Ep. 3: Beyond Data In episode 3 of the Traction Heroes podcast, Harry and I discussed the relationship between...
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In episode 3 of the Traction Heroes podcast, Harry and I discussed the relationship between decision-making and data. Is it ok for some decisions to be made intuitively? What role do emotions play in decision-making? How do you deal with stakeholders who demand that decisions be...
Arduino Blog
Technology meets creativity in two interactive art student projects Art and engineering are not separate concepts. There is a great deal of overlap between the two and...
8 months ago
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Art and engineering are not separate concepts. There is a great deal of overlap between the two and many modern disciplines increasingly blur those lines. Mónica Riki is an “electronic artist and creative coder” who embodies that idea: you might remember her and her incredible...
Arduino Blog
Arduino Nicla Sense Env: adding advanced environmental sensing to a broad range of applications We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Nicla Sense Env: the latest addition to our portfolio of...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Nicla Sense Env: the latest addition to our portfolio of system-on-modules and sensor nodes, empowering innovators with the tools to unlock new possibilities. This tiny yet powerful sensor node is designed to elevate your environmental...
Vitalik Buterin's...
STARKs, Part 3: Into the Weeds
over a year ago
Matt Blewitt
So, You Want To Build A DBaaS Part 2: Technical Bits In my first post in this pseudo-series, we covered more of the theory and organisational practices...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In my first post in this pseudo-series, we covered more of the theory and organisational practices around building and operating a database-as-a-service platform. In this post, I’ll cover some of the more technical aspects of this that I think are worth considering, drawn from my...
Jonas Hietala
The current Cybershard layout This is the keyboard layout I’m using for my custom keyboard that I generated, printed, and...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
This is the keyboard layout I’m using for my custom keyboard that I generated, printed, and hand-wired. It’s a minimalistic keyboard of 35 keys and features an integrated trackball on the right-hand side. The keyboard layout started out as a direct copy of the T-34 keyboard...
Arduino Blog
Adding real-time local voice controls to a SMARS Quad Mod robot with an Arduino RP2040 Connect Robotics kits like the Screwless/Screwed Modular Assemblable Robotic System (SMARS) are great tools...
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Robotics kits like the Screwless/Screwed Modular Assemblable Robotic System (SMARS) are great tools for learning more about how electronics, mechanics, and software can combine to perform useful tasks in the physical world. And in his latest project, Edge Impulse’s senior...
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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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,...
Birchtree
The day Birchtree grew up Today's a symbolically big day for Birchtree! After doing this site and its many offshoot projects...
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Today's a symbolically big day for Birchtree! After doing this site and its many offshoot projects since 2010, I finally put a ring on it and registered Birchtree Productions LLC. 🎉 For you, this means basically nothing at all. Footers might be updated and I might invest in
Notes on software...
My favorite software subreddits Originally published on December 5, 2021. If you are an experienced software developer whose only...
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Originally published on December 5, 2021. If you are an experienced software developer whose only exposure to reddit is dank memes, proggit or even language-specific subreddits like /r/python, you're missing out. What follows are my favorite subreddits in tech. My criteria is...
Simply Explained
Migrating This Blog From Jekyll to Eleventy Jekyll has been powering this site for many years now. It replaced my WordPress setup, and I haven't...
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Jekyll has been powering this site for many years now. It replaced my WordPress setup, and I haven't looked back. Over the last few months, I have become fed up with Jekyll. It's slowing me down. Time to replace it with something new and shiny!
Home on Erik...
Pinterest open sources Pinball Pinterest just open sourced Pinball which seems like an interesting Luigi alternative. There's two...
over a year ago
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Pinterest just open sourced Pinball which seems like an interesting Luigi alternative. There's two blog posts: Pinball: Building workflow management (from 2014) and Open-sourcing Pinball (from this week). The author has a comment in the comments thread on Hacker News:
Simply Explained
Good Home Automation Should be Boring I'm a huge fan of Home Assistant to automate various things around the house. I often look at other...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I'm a huge fan of Home Assistant to automate various things around the house. I often look at other people's setup for inspiration, and one thing struck me. Many people have cluttered dashboards and use Home Assistant to track just about any metric they can.That's quite different...
computers are bad
2023-02-14 something up there pt I Over the last few weeks, there has been an astounding increase in the number of objects shot down by...
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Over the last few weeks, there has been an astounding increase in the number of objects shot down by North American air defense. Little is yet known about some of these objects, but it is clearly one of the more dramatic UFO turns in recent memory. Some of the mystery is simply...
Arduino Blog
Self-leveling workbench can travel without trouble An actually level workbench is critical for many different jobs, such as pouring resin or...
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An actually level workbench is critical for many different jobs, such as pouring resin or calibrating sensors. But it is difficult enough to level a stationary workbench and that becomes a nightmare for a workbench that needs to roll around a shop on casters, as shop floors...
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #62: Right-wing populism is over... maybe... possibly... hopefully Plus over-diagnosis, governance theatre, and... crisps.
3 months ago
Birchtree
Who pays tariffs Lee Morris of Fstoppers on how tariffs impact him, as someone who wants to make his stuff in the...
2 months ago
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Lee Morris of Fstoppers on how tariffs impact him, as someone who wants to make his stuff in the US: This is a really good breakdown of how tariffs impact small businesses and why they aren't a great tool for getting manufacturing to come back to America (at
Good Enough
Having Trouble Getting Started? Pair Up! A body at rest tends to stay at rest, and a body in motion tends to stay in motion, unless acted on...
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A body at rest tends to stay at rest, and a body in motion tends to stay in motion, unless acted on by a net external force. Sir Isaac Newton I often find that just getting started is the hardest part of doing something. This is especially true when the project is large or...
Good Enough
TIL: Easily Support Gravatars in Rails We’re building some software where we’d like to display avatars for email contacts even if they...
a year ago
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a year ago
We’re building some software where we’d like to display avatars for email contacts even if they aren’t users of our software. While Gravatar is a relic of Web 2.0, we’ve found that there are still a significant number of people who have their email addresses in that...
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...
Himanshu Mishra |...
Threads “You’re an interesting species. An interesting mix. You’re capable of such beautiful dreams, and...
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“You’re an interesting species. An interesting mix. You’re capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost…
Birchtree
➕ iPhone 16e review in progress: photography Here's a peek behind the scenes as I work on my iPhone 16e review.
4 months ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Why sharding is great: demystifying the technical properties
over a year ago
Himanshu Mishra |...
धुआं (Dhuaan)
over a year ago
Willem's Blog
Realtime human pose recognition through computer vision For an exciting new project I have been experimenting with TensorFlow, enabling realtime pose...
over a year ago
Abishek Muthian
Migrating PostgreSQL To SQLite I'm migrating a project from PostgreSQL to SQLite. There's nothing wrong with PostgreSQL, It's the...
over a year ago
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I'm migrating a project from PostgreSQL to SQLite. There's nothing wrong with PostgreSQL, It's the best RDBMS; period. I'm just building a product where the benefits of the portability, performance seem to outweigh the quirks of SQLite; At-least that's what I think. Btw, I learnt...
Notes on software...
First few hurdles writing a Scheme interpreter I started working on BSDScheme last October, inspired to get back into language implementation after...
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I started working on BSDScheme last October, inspired to get back into language implementation after my coworker built bshift, a compiler for a C-like language. BSDScheme is an interpreter for a (currently small subset of) Scheme written in D. It implements a few substantial...
Jonas Hietala
OP_RETURN based tokens are fundamentally flawed Two new Bitcoin Cash token solutions have recently been suggested: Simple Ledger Protocol: A token...
over a year ago
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Two new Bitcoin Cash token solutions have recently been suggested: Simple Ledger Protocol: A token system for Bitcoin Cash Introducing Colored Coins: a Bitcoin Cash token implementation Both are improvements over Tokeda as they allow permissionless transfers. However all commit...
Arduino Blog
The future of making, Made in India: Introducing the Arduino UNO Ek R4 We are proud to announce the Made-in-India UNO Ek R4! Available exclusively in India in both WiFi...
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We are proud to announce the Made-in-India UNO Ek R4! Available exclusively in India in both WiFi and Minima variants, it is born to meet the needs of the country’s growing maker and innovation ecosystem, by combining all the powerful features of the UNO R4 with the benefits of...
Arduino Blog
Control your Raspberry PI GPIO with Arduino Cloud using Node.js | Part III As a Node.js developer, you’re probably eager to put your JavaScript skills to work beyond the...
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5 months ago
As a Node.js developer, you’re probably eager to put your JavaScript skills to work beyond the browser or server, diving into the world of hardware control with Raspberry Pi GPIOs. If that’s the case, you’re in the right place! This article is the third part of our series,...
watchTowr Labs
Auth. Bypass In (Un)Limited Scenarios - Progress MOVEit Transfer (CVE-2024-5806) In the early hours of a day in a month in 2024, watchTowr Labs was sent a chat log: 13:37 -!-...
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In the early hours of a day in a month in 2024, watchTowr Labs was sent a chat log: 13:37 -!- dav1d_bl41ne [def_not_phalanx@kernel.org] has joined #!hack (irc.efnet.nl) 13:37 -!- dav1d_bl41ne changed the topic of #!hack to: mag1c sh0w
The Pragmatic...
Software engineering job openings hit five-year low? There are 35% fewer software developer job listings on Indeed today, than five years ago. Compared...
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There are 35% fewer software developer job listings on Indeed today, than five years ago. Compared to other industries, job listings for software engineers grew much more in 2021-2022, but have declined much faster since. A look into possible reasons for this, and what could come...
Birchtree
TikTok is gone for at least a couple days, so here's some YouTube videos to stave off the boredom I don't use TikTok so I have no idea, but presumably some people are like "what do I even watch on...
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I don't use TikTok so I have no idea, but presumably some people are like "what do I even watch on my phone now?" LegalEagle with a good explainer over what's happening. For the record, I think this sucks and isn't how
Odds and Ends of...
How to fix the New Statesman In which I probably burn some bridges.
4 months ago
Never Met a Science
Action Syllabus Week 1: Decide Technology Policy in the Classroom
a year ago
Applied Cartography
Git one-liner: get the earliest commit from X hours ago I wanted to get a commit that was temporally some distance back as part of my experimentation with...
a year ago
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a year ago
I wanted to get a commit that was temporally some distance back as part of my experimentation with git cliff. This took some time to do, but here's what I ended up with: git log --since="72 hours ago" --until="now" --reverse --pretty=format:"%h" | head -1 Nothing particularly...
Home on Erik...
I'm looking for data engineers I'm interrupting the regular programming for a quick announcement: we're looking for data engineers...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I'm interrupting the regular programming for a quick announcement: we're looking for data engineers at Better. You would be the first one to join and would work a lot directly with me. Some fun things you could work on (these are all projects I'm working on right now):
Good Enough
TIL: Tapback Keyboard Shortcuts If you use Mac, and you use Messages on your Mac, you will probably know that in the not-too-distant...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you use Mac, and you use Messages on your Mac, you will probably know that in the not-too-distant past, simple reactions to messages were added: what Apple calls Tapbacks. These are great for a quick way to say yes (or no, or WTF!?!), but they are a bit of a pain to actually...
./techtipsy
Control - how to make a game enjoyable for casual audiences I’ve decided to intentionally take more time to play video games this year, since it’s a relatively...
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I’ve decided to intentionally take more time to play video games this year, since it’s a relatively healthy way to escape from the real world once in a while. A friend recommended one game in particular: Control: Ultimate Edition. During the Steam summer sale of 2023, I went...
Willem's Blog
From tree to table Creating a night stand from a raw slab of chestnut wood.
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Failed mime type for Krita I thought Krita worked fine… Until I tried to save. Krita crashed whenever I tried to save (or open)...
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I thought Krita worked fine… Until I tried to save. Krita crashed whenever I tried to save (or open) a file and gave the error: Could not find mime type "application/x-krita" Turns out if you reinstall the package shared-mime-info which comes natively with Slackware the...
Toni Lijic
2024 Year in Review Everything that happened to me this year
6 months ago
Home on Erik...
Antipodes I was playing around with D3 last night and built a silly visualization of antipodes and how our...
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I was playing around with D3 last night and built a silly visualization of antipodes and how our intuitive understanding of the world sometimes doesn't make sense. Check out the visualization at bl.ocks.org! Basically the idea is if you fly from Beijing to Buenos Aires then you...
Home on Erik...
Top posts These are some blog posts which have gotten a disproportionate amount of traffic (10,000+ page...
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These are some blog posts which have gotten a disproportionate amount of traffic (10,000+ page views): 2024 It's hard to write code for computers, but it's even harder to write code for humans 2023 Simple sabotage for software 2022 We are still early with the cloud: why...
Matt Mullenweg
Everyone’s An Owner Last Friday we said goodbye to 159 colleagues as part of our alignment offer. It was a tough day,...
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9 months ago
Last Friday we said goodbye to 159 colleagues as part of our alignment offer. It was a tough day, there are a lot of close relationships within Automattic, and goodbyes are always hard. On Monday, I got to be Oprah for a few minutes. We had scheduled a town hall for leaders...
Computer Ads from...
MicroTimes Interviews the Head Honchos of Silicon Graphics (1989) Ed McCracken and Jim Clark talk about their hardware and the future of 3D
a year ago
Good Enough
How LRUG uses Jelly to remove confusion and simplify organisation The London Ruby User Group is one of the longest-running technology user groups in the world, having...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
The London Ruby User Group is one of the longest-running technology user groups in the world, having held a monthly meeting almost every single month since late 2006. It’s no small feat to have kept a local community running for so long, especially since everyone involved is a...
Krebs on Security
How Each Pillar of the 1st Amendment is Under Attack In an address to Congress this month, President Trump claimed he had "brought free speech back to...
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In an address to Congress this month, President Trump claimed he had "brought free speech back to America." But barely two months into his second term, the president has waged an unprecedented attack on the First Amendment rights of journalists, students, universities, government...
Christian Selig
Juno for YouTube has been removed from the App Store For those not aware, a few months ago after reaching out to me, YouTube contacted the App Store...
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For those not aware, a few months ago after reaching out to me, YouTube contacted the App Store stating that Juno does not adhere to YouTube guidelines and modifies the website in a way they don’t approve of, and alludes to their trademarks and iconography. I don’t personally...
axio.ms
A small ode to the CRT Built October 2018 I used to hate Cathode Ray Tubes. As a kid in Europe, everything flickered at...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Built October 2018 I used to hate Cathode Ray Tubes. As a kid in Europe, everything flickered at 50Hz, or made a loud whistle at 15.625KHz (back when I could still hear it). CRTs just seemed crude, “electro-brutalist” contraptions from the valve era. They were heavy, and...
Jonas Hietala
Widening the horizon This is a game making site but where are the games? What gives? I’ve been slightly less motivated in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is a game making site but where are the games? What gives? I’ve been slightly less motivated in making games lately and I’ve been doing different things, just to get my ideas and my motivation up. As I said in an earlier post I wanted a break from Experimental Games and I...
tim.sh
Why I created Ethereum Proof of Stake demo Hi there!
8 months ago
Birchtree
Squashing links on social media Anil Dash: “Link in Bio” Is a Slow Knife For a closed system, those kinds of open connections are...
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7 months ago
Anil Dash: “Link in Bio” Is a Slow Knife For a closed system, those kinds of open connections are deeply dangerous. If anyone on Instagram can just link to any old store on the web, how can Instagram — meaning Facebook, Instagram’s increasingly-overbearing owner — tightly
Simply Explained
I Built a CO2 Sensor and It Terrifies Me Governments are pushing CO2 sensors to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, but proper ventilation is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Governments are pushing CO2 sensors to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, but proper ventilation is equally important for our health and even our cognitive performance.In this blog post we'll look at a DIY CO2 sensor: how it runs ESPHome, how it integrates with Home Assistant, how it...
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over a year ago
Nabeel S. Qureshi
Films + Books, Q1 2023 What I watched and read
over a year ago
Himanshu Mishra |...
PEP8Speaks - Now helping 5,000 open source projects write neat and clean Python What is this project? 🐍 PEP8Speaks = PEP 8 + Speaks GitHub:...
over a year ago
Computer Ads from...
Adam Osborne Interview by Practical Computing (1983) Osborne reveals his philosophy
3 months ago
Notes on software...
Running SQL Server in a container on Github Actions This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
Louwrentius
Personal Security: erase your computer or phone before repair Computer nerds are self sufficient when it comes to fixing their computer. Non-computer experts have...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Computer nerds are self sufficient when it comes to fixing their computer. Non-computer experts have to find some other person with greater computer knowledge to repair their computer or phone. That person will then be able to access all data stored on their computer or phone. By...
Home on Erik...
More Luigi alternatives The workflow engine battle has intensified with some more interesting entries lately! Here are a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The workflow engine battle has intensified with some more interesting entries lately! Here are a couple I encountered in the last few days. I love that at least two of them are direct references to Luigi!
Good Enough
Our Favorite Video Games Right Now While everyone at Good Enough is their own kind of nerd, thank you very much, as builders of the web...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
While everyone at Good Enough is their own kind of nerd, thank you very much, as builders of the web you probably expect that we also play video games. And we do! Well, collectively we do, but not to an unhealthy degree. Usually. I asked the team to share with me what their...
Vitalik Buterin's...
On Nathan Schneider on the limits of cryptoeconomics
over a year ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Verkle trees
over a year ago
Good Enough
TIL: Victory Symbol We noticed that the victory symbol at the bottom of our homepage looked different in Chrome than...
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over a year ago
We noticed that the victory symbol at the bottom of our homepage looked different in Chrome than Safari––it was playing smart and rendered the unicode character as an emoji. Lettini found a fix though! Append this string of code to the symbol: &#xFE0E;. So &#9996;&#xFE0E; renders...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Proof of Stake FAQ
over a year ago
Computer Ads from...
VenturCom's VENIX Mixing REAL Time With REAL UNIX Is Not Magic...It Is Technology.
a year ago
anderegg.ca
How decentralized is Bluesky really? Here’s an excellent article from Christine Lemmer-Webber that takes a deeper technical look into...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Here’s an excellent article from Christine Lemmer-Webber that takes a deeper technical look into some of the criticisms I had in my previous piece. The article is long, but very much worth a read. From the conclusion: Bluesky is built by good people who care, and it is providing...
Arduino Blog
Arduino and System Electronics partner for industrial vision and AI-powered inventory and logistics Arduino and System Electronics are joining forces to create cutting-edge solutions for industrial...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Arduino and System Electronics are joining forces to create cutting-edge solutions for industrial and building automation, focusing specifically on edge computing to deliver real-time processing, predictive analytics, and seamless integration for AI-driven inventory management...
Arduino Blog
This automatic laser turret keeps the cats entertained for hours Cats may be adorable, but they evolved to be predators. Unfortunately, responsible owners keep their...
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Cats may be adorable, but they evolved to be predators. Unfortunately, responsible owners keep their cats indoors to avoid decimating the local wildlife population and that means Mr. Whiskers and Ms. Socks don’t get much opportunity to express their hunting urges. That’s why...
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #65: Economic growth is core to a progressive agenda Plus the terrifying story of what actually happened to Boeing's Starliner capsule, and a terrible...
3 months ago
Jorge Arango
Solsbury Hill Today is Peter Gabriel’s 75th birthday. He’s contributed much through his music and by bringing...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Today is Peter Gabriel’s 75th birthday. He’s contributed much through his music and by bringing people together through the arts. But today, I want to celebrate one of his songs that’s had a profound impact on my life: Solsbury Hill. Solsbury Hill was Gabriel’s debut single as...