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The time of our lives
7th Dec 2016
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The time of our lives

from Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in technology

7th Dec 2016
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Competition Feedback The voting is over and I got a few ratings I want to comment on. You can view all ratings and...
18th May 2010
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Competition Feedback

from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology

18th May 2010
The voting is over and I got a few ratings I want to comment on. You can view all ratings and comments here. They’re all from 1 to 5. Innovation: 3.75 Fun: 3.29 Theme: 3.17 Graphics: 2.54 Audio: 2.14 Humor: 2.54 that ugly. Overall: 3.13 something playable out of this. Community:...
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"Republic.com 2.0" is a terrible book title we don't always need citations to justify research
6th Jan 2025
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"Republic.com 2.0" is a terrible book title

from Never Met a Science [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Jan 2025
we don't always need citations to justify research
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The Most Important Scarce Resource is Legitimacy
23rd Mar 2021
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The Most Important Scarce Resource is Legitimacy

from Vitalik Buterin's website [alt+shift+b] in technology

23rd Mar 2021
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"Sixteenth of a year", a 1.8 KiB art piece As I write this, we’re about 7 sixteenths through 2026, and it’s about 14 sixteenths through the...
3rd Jun 2026
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"Sixteenth of a year", a 1.8 KiB art piece

from Evan Hahn (dot com) [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Jun 2026
As I write this, we’re about 7 sixteenths through 2026, and it’s about 14 sixteenths through the day. For the sixteenth issue of the Taper online magazine, I split time into sixteenths to think about its passage in a different way. The code, which had to be under 2048 bytes,...
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Qualcomm's buying Arduino – what it means for makers Qualcomm's buying Arduino – what it means for makers Qualcomm just announced they're...
7th Oct 2025
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Qualcomm's buying Arduino – what it means for makers

from Jeff Geerling [alt+shift+b] in technology

7th Oct 2025
Qualcomm's buying Arduino – what it means for makers Qualcomm just announced they're acquiring Arduino, the company that introduced a whole generation of tinkerers to microcontrollers and embedded electronics. The Uno R3 was the first microcontroller board I owned....
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Problems of C, and how Zig addresses them What are the problems of C, and how Zig addresses them?
9th Jun 2023
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Problems of C, and how Zig addresses them

from Avestura's Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

9th Jun 2023
What are the problems of C, and how Zig addresses them?
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Tablet as main computer I have been using a tablet as my main computer for quite some time now. In this blog post I share...
6th Mar 2018
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Tablet as main computer

from Willem's Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Mar 2018
I have been using a tablet as my main computer for quite some time now. In this blog post I share you my experience on using Surface Pro and iPad Pro to get my work done.
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On PBKDF2 iterations There has been a lot of discussion recently around the LastPass breach, especially with regards to...
9th Jan 2023
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On PBKDF2 iterations

from Neil Madden [alt+shift+b] in technology

9th Jan 2023
There has been a lot of discussion recently around the LastPass breach, especially with regards to the number of PBKDF2 iterations applied to the master password to derive the vault encryption key. Other people have already dissected this particular breach, but I want to more...
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IKEA $50 VINDSTYRKA vs. $290 Dylos air quality monitor This is a brief article in which I compare the IKEA VINDSTYRKA $50 air quality monitor (PM2.5) with...
17th Sep 2023
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IKEA $50 VINDSTYRKA vs. $290 Dylos air quality monitor

from Louwrentius - Solar [alt+shift+b] in technology

17th Sep 2023
This is a brief article in which I compare the IKEA VINDSTYRKA $50 air quality monitor (PM2.5) with a $290 air quality monitor made by Dylos to see if it's any good. Context If you care about indoor air quality, you may already own a CO2 to determine if it's time to ventilate...
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Git Merge 2024 GitButler is organizing the 2024 Git Merge conference, Sep 19/20 in Berlin!
22nd Jul 2024
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Git Merge 2024

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22nd Jul 2024
GitButler is organizing the 2024 Git Merge conference, Sep 19/20 in Berlin!
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Game Engine Black Book Postmortem More...
7th Sep 2017
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Game Engine Black Book Postmortem

from Fabien Sanglard [alt+shift+b] in technology

7th Sep 2017
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Clouds below my floor Building a little datacenter in my basement utilising a very fast internet connection.
30th Aug 2017
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Clouds below my floor

from Willem's Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

30th Aug 2017
Building a little datacenter in my basement utilising a very fast internet connection.
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Advent of GitButler Code This holiday season, GitButler is sponsoring the Advent of Code and our first present is a new...
30th Nov 2023
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Advent of GitButler Code

from Butler's Log [alt+shift+b] in technology

30th Nov 2023
This holiday season, GitButler is sponsoring the Advent of Code and our first present is a new release! Join us in solving coding puzzles every day with our new client alpha!
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Klute A terrific, terrific film, with a great performance by Jane Fonda (insert quip of "the film should...
2nd Sep 2023
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Klute

from Applied Cartography [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Sep 2023
A terrific, terrific film, with a great performance by Jane Fonda (insert quip of "the film should be called Bree!" here.) I think some of the noir aspects felt a little more obvious than in The Conversation, but the pair of performances and the deep sense of sonic dread that...
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Are We All Forced Meme Stock Investors Now? Let's be honest, the financial landscape feels… weird lately. For years, the mantra for most...
14th Apr 2025
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Are We All Forced Meme Stock Investors Now?

from Software and Tech stories from an Insider - iDiallo.com [alt+shift+b] in technology

14th Apr 2025
Let's be honest, the financial landscape feels… weird lately. For years, the mantra for most investors has been clear: diversify, buy stable index funds, and let time work its magic. It wasn't the most thrilling advice, but it was generally sound. The idea was that the underlying...
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So you want to migrate to Kubernetes: observations from a software developer Kubernetes: everyone wants to do it, regardless of their scale and business objectives.1 Common...
1st Oct 2024
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So you want to migrate to Kubernetes: observations from a software developer

from ./techtipsy [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Oct 2024
Kubernetes: everyone wants to do it, regardless of their scale and business objectives.1 Common justifications include better scalability, cost savings, standardization and being super modern and stuff. It’s the future! In my personal experience, Kubernetes is far from the...
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Comment on My 7 Rules for A/B Testing That Triple Conversion Rates by nick Hey Lars, any rules you have for killing tests early, other than the 10% rule? For example, if a new...
26th Jan 2018
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Comment on My 7 Rules for A/B Testing That Triple Conversion Rates by nick

from Comments for Lars Lofgren [alt+shift+b] in technology

26th Jan 2018
Hey Lars, any rules you have for killing tests early, other than the 10% rule? For example, if a new test is showing a 40% decrease at 97% confidence after only 3 days... would you kill it, let it keep bleeding out, or at the very least allocate less traffic to the test?
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Cyber Forensic Expert in 2,000+ Cases Faces FBI Probe A Minnesota cybersecurity and computer forensics expert whose testimony has featured in thousands of...
4th Apr 2025
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Cyber Forensic Expert in 2,000+ Cases Faces FBI Probe

from Krebs on Security [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Apr 2025
A Minnesota cybersecurity and computer forensics expert whose testimony has featured in thousands of courtroom trials over the past 30 years is facing questions about his credentials and an inquiry from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Legal experts say the inquiry...
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Two weeks of parenthood We've had lucy for two weeks, which qualifies us as experts, which means it is time to write about...
6th Oct 2024
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Two weeks of parenthood

from Applied Cartography [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Oct 2024
We've had lucy for two weeks, which qualifies us as experts, which means it is time to write about parenthood. (In all seriousness, consider the below descriptive and not prescriptive: mostly, it's a notepad filled with things that were remarkable or surprising or divergent from...
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Attention is All You Need Reading Expands Our Context Windows
7th Jul 2025
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Attention is All You Need

from Never Met a Science [alt+shift+b] in technology

7th Jul 2025
Reading Expands Our Context Windows
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Painting parts beige for retro towers (eventually) So here’s the thing. Late last year I bought the excellent SilverStone FLP02, a retro-themed...
2nd Jun 2026
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Painting parts beige for retro towers (eventually)

from Rubenerd [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Jun 2026
So here’s the thing. Late last year I bought the excellent SilverStone FLP02, a retro-themed computer case with modern component support. It was absolutely, jaw-droppingly gorgeous, and has easily become my favourite modern case alongside the legendary NCASE M1. It’s big,...
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Implementing a simple jq clone in Go, and basics of Go memory profiling In this post we'll build a basic jq clone in Go. It will only be able to pull a single path out of...
10th Jul 2022
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Implementing a simple jq clone in Go, and basics of Go memory profiling

from Notes on software development [alt+shift+b] in technology

10th Jul 2022
In this post we'll build a basic jq clone in Go. It will only be able to pull a single path out of each object it reads. It won't be able to do filters, mapping, etc. $ cat large-file.json | head -n2 | ./jqgo...
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Introducing TagVault Magnetic for AirTag Wanting to easily, securely, and discretely keep an AirTag on our car, we designed...
28th Nov 2023
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Introducing TagVault Magnetic for AirTag

from Elevation Lab - Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

28th Nov 2023
Wanting to easily, securely, and discretely keep an AirTag on our car, we designed the TagVault Magnetic Mount. Testing many designs, we did not want to settle with anything that couldn't stand extreme vibration. So we gave our mount has an huge, thick Neodymium rare earth...
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Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce" In short: from my experience, people like map and filter, but not reduce. I use functions like map...
13th Sep 2026
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Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce"

from Evan Hahn (dot com) [alt+shift+b] in technology

13th Sep 2026
In short: from my experience, people like map and filter, but not reduce. I use functions like map and filter all the time. When I put that code up for review, my peers rarely complain. I get plenty of feedback about other decisions, but not about my use of map and filter. I...
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speed reading (the meaning of language) One of the difficult things about describing a grift, or at least what became a grift, is judging...
8th Dec 2025
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speed reading (the meaning of language)

from computers are bad [alt+shift+b] in technology

8th Dec 2025
One of the difficult things about describing a grift, or at least what became a grift, is judging the sincerity with which the whole thing started. Scams often crystallize around a kernel of truth: genuinely good intentions that start rolling down the hill to profitability and...
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Wayback Machine Joint Automattic has been working with the Internet Archive to develop a plugin to combat link rot, and...
1st Nov 2025
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Wayback Machine Joint

from Matt Mullenweg [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Nov 2025
Automattic has been working with the Internet Archive to develop a plugin to combat link rot, and it’s a plugin I’d encourage you to install. As the plugin says: When a linked page disappears, the plugin helps preserve your user experience by redirecting visitors to a reliable...
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MD5-based uniqueness constraints in Django Yesterday, I was trying to set a unique constraint for comments in Buttondown to prevent accidental...
1st Sep 2024
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MD5-based uniqueness constraints in Django

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Sep 2024
Yesterday, I was trying to set a unique constraint for comments in Buttondown to prevent accidental double-commenting, and I ran into a problem that I hadn't seen before:
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There are 665 open licences, most are pretty rubbish you are in a maze of twisty licences, all alike
19th Sep 2024
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There are 665 open licences, most are pretty rubbish

from csvbase blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

19th Sep 2024
you are in a maze of twisty licences, all alike
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The day I sold my car This week I sold my car, I now no longer own one. For me, this is something of a change as over the...
12th Feb 2020
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The day I sold my car

from Willem L. Middelkoop [alt+shift+b] in technology

12th Feb 2020
This week I sold my car, I now no longer own one. For me, this is something of a change as over the years I owned various sports cars that were like a hobby to me. My discovery of cycling and the birth of my son changed this. But if you're looking for a reason to buy a sports...
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GitButler 0.15 - "Quirky Quinceañera" GitButler 0.15 is out, featuring a brand new user interface, stability improvements, line based...
2nd Jul 2025
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GitButler 0.15 - "Quirky Quinceañera"

from Butler's Log [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Jul 2025
GitButler 0.15 is out, featuring a brand new user interface, stability improvements, line based commits and more!
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This unique electronic toy helps children learn their shapes It isn’t a secret that many kids find math to be boring and it is easy for them to develop an...
1st Jul 2025
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This unique electronic toy helps children learn their shapes

from Arduino Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Jul 2025
It isn’t a secret that many kids find math to be boring and it is easy for them to develop an attitude of “when am I ever going to use this?” But math is incredibly useful in the real world, from blue-collar machinists using trigonometry to quantum physicists unveiling the...
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Figma agent vs. one button: shipping design tokens to npm I automated our design tokens release with two AI agents. It took six minutes per run. A button my...
7th Sep 2026
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Figma agent vs. one button: shipping design tokens to npm

from Butler's Log [alt+shift+b] in technology

7th Sep 2026
I automated our design tokens release with two AI agents. It took six minutes per run. A button my plugin has had for years takes seconds.
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Confusion and disengagement in meetings The quickest way to cut through confusion or disagreement among otherwise amiable and honest folks...
30th Nov 2019
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Confusion and disengagement in meetings

from Notes on software development [alt+shift+b] in technology

30th Nov 2019
The quickest way to cut through confusion or disagreement among otherwise amiable and honest folks is to ask questions. Ask early so you don't waste time. But it's not enough to just ask clarifying questions because the answers won't always be clear. Sounds like Human Interaction...
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A Cursed Bug In my day job at Anthropic, we run relatively large distributed systems to train large language...
23rd Feb 2022
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A Cursed Bug

from Posts on Made of Bugs [alt+shift+b] in technology

23rd Feb 2022
In my day job at Anthropic, we run relatively large distributed systems to train large language models. One of the joys of using a lot of computing resources, especially on somewhat niche software stacks, is that you spend a lot of time running into the long-tail of bugs which...
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reptyr: Changing a process's controlling terminal reptyr (announced recently on this blog) takes a process that is currently running in one terminal,...
8th Feb 2011
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reptyr: Changing a process's controlling terminal

from Posts on Made of Bugs [alt+shift+b] in technology

8th Feb 2011
reptyr (announced recently on this blog) takes a process that is currently running in one terminal, and transplants it to a new terminal. reptyr comes from a proud family of similar hacks, and works in the same basic way: We use ptrace(2) to attach to a target process and force...
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Do U.S. Ports Need More Automation? On October 1st, 47,000 members of the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA), primarily...
8th Oct 2024
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Do U.S. Ports Need More Automation?

from Construction Physics [alt+shift+b] in technology

8th Oct 2024
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.
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Fun and Games with Exposure Notifications Exposure Notifications is a protocol developed by Apple and Google for facilitating COVID-19 contact...
7th Sep 2020
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Fun and Games with Exposure Notifications

from On Life and Lisp [alt+shift+b] in technology

7th Sep 2020
Exposure Notifications is a protocol developed by Apple and Google for facilitating COVID-19 contact tracing on mobile phones by exchanging codes with nearby phones over Bluetooth, implemented within the Android and iOS operating systems, now available here in Toronto. Wait –...
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A miniature Vegas Sphere is the perfect nightlight Sphere in Las Vegas is inarguably one of the most notable architectural achievements of the...
1st Aug 2024
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A miniature Vegas Sphere is the perfect nightlight

from Arduino Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Aug 2024
Sphere in Las Vegas is inarguably one of the most notable architectural achievements of the 21st century so far. Gaudy? Maybe. Controversial? Definitely. Interesting? Absolutely — no one can debate that with a straight face. When 15-year-old Ben Kennedy’s bedroom nightlight...
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Opening Up GitButler Today we're flipping the public switch on GitHub for our GitButler client code and removing the...
2nd Feb 2024
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Opening Up GitButler

from Butler's Log [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Feb 2024
Today we're flipping the public switch on GitHub for our GitButler client code and removing the waiting list entirely. Everyone and anyone can now directly download the GitButler client and access the source code.
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Master of Change Change is one of life's few constants. Yet, even with its inevitability, facing it head-on can feel...
17th Jan 2025
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Master of Change

from Willem L. Middelkoop [alt+shift+b] in technology

17th Jan 2025
Change is one of life's few constants. Yet, even with its inevitability, facing it head-on can feel daunting and disorienting. In the book "Master of Change", Brad Stulberg offers a thought-provoking guide to not just survive but thrive in an ever changing world. As you grow...
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Belkin Gigabit USB 2.0 adapter works perfectly with Linux My ISP upgraded my internet connection speed to a whopping 120 Mbit. I am using a mac mini as my...
8th Dec 2010
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Belkin Gigabit USB 2.0 adapter works perfectly with Linux

from Louwrentius - Solar [alt+shift+b] in technology

8th Dec 2010
My ISP upgraded my internet connection speed to a whopping 120 Mbit. I am using a mac mini as my internet router. As you may be aware, the mini has only one network interface, so I added a second interface using a USB to ethernet adapter. This adapter was limited to 100 Mbit, so...
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The Making Of Stunt Island How Stunt Island from IBM PC was programmed back in 1992!
21st Apr 2020
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The Making Of Stunt Island

from Fabien Sanglard [alt+shift+b] in technology

21st Apr 2020
How Stunt Island from IBM PC was programmed back in 1992!
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Adding Custom Sleep Screen Images to the Kindle Scribe Last year I upgraded my Kindle Paperwhite to a Kindle Scribe to be able to write notes and draw...
24th Feb 2025
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Adding Custom Sleep Screen Images to the Kindle Scribe

from joshua stein [alt+shift+b] in technology

24th Feb 2025
Last year I upgraded my Kindle Paperwhite to a Kindle Scribe to be able to write notes and draw diagrams while programming to help visualize things. One thing that bothered me about the Scribe was that its sleep screen images were pretty boring and because I'm now often reading...
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Train Simulator Controller: TPWS Control Panel TPWS is a key safety system in UK trains, so my Class 80x cab needed a precisely replicated TPWS...
16th Nov 2025
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Train Simulator Controller: TPWS Control Panel

from Project Blog on Christopher Mitchell, Ph.D. [alt+shift+b] in technology

16th Nov 2025
TPWS is a key safety system in UK trains, so my Class 80x cab needed a precisely replicated TPWS control panel.
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How Will the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act Affect Housing Supply? Part III This is my third and final essay looking at the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, and how it’s...
3rd Sep 2026
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How Will the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act Affect Housing Supply? Part III

from Construction Physics [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Sep 2026
This is my third and final essay looking at the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, and how it’s likely to affect housing supply.
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The best keyboard for iPad The tablet is at the frontier of mobile computing and its hardware form factor is evolving. This...
10th Aug 2020
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The best keyboard for iPad

from Willem L. Middelkoop [alt+shift+b] in technology

10th Aug 2020
The tablet is at the frontier of mobile computing and its hardware form factor is evolving. This year Apple introduced a new Magic Keyboard for iPad that includes a trackpad. Everybody is raving about it, yet I think there is something to be said for the "mouse-less" Smart...
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What's the big deal about Deterministic Simulation Testing? Bugs in distributed systems are hard to find, largely because systems interact in chaotic ways. And...
20th Aug 2024
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What's the big deal about Deterministic Simulation Testing?

from Notes on software development [alt+shift+b] in technology

20th Aug 2024
Bugs in distributed systems are hard to find, largely because systems interact in chaotic ways. And even once you've found a bug, it can be anywhere from simple to impossible to reproduce it. It's about as far away as you can get from the ideal test environment: property...
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The day I killed my LAN Today I called my provider to quit my office's ADSL internet subscription, I don't need it anymore....
30th Jul 2017
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The day I killed my LAN

from Willem L. Middelkoop [alt+shift+b] in technology

30th Jul 2017
Today I called my provider to quit my office's ADSL internet subscription, I don't need it anymore. I have turned off my local area network and switched my workflow onto mobile internet only. The simplicity and savings actually surprised me so much, that I made blog post for it....
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Introducing Lighthouse - The RSS reader, newsletter reader, and read-it-later app to fight content...
3rd Apr 2024
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Introducing Lighthouse - The RSS reader, newsletter reader, and read-it-later app to fight content overload

from Lighthouse Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Apr 2024
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Goodwill Read essay: Goodwill
1st Sep 2025
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Goodwill

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Sep 2025
Read essay: Goodwill
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The History of the IBM 5100 IBM's First Personal Computer
2nd Dec 2023
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The History of the IBM 5100

from Abort Retry Fail [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Dec 2023
IBM's First Personal Computer
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IDA Summer of Code 2014: Summary This is a wrap-up post of my entry to IDA Summer of Code this year. Quick stats 65 merged...
6th Oct 2014
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IDA Summer of Code 2014: Summary

from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Oct 2014
This is a wrap-up post of my entry to IDA Summer of Code this year. Quick stats 65 merged commits 6790 lines added 2822 lines deleted 36 pull requests, 34 merged 12 pull requests directly fixing issues rest either documentation or cleanup 1 RFC submitted...
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From prediction markets to info finance
9th Nov 2024
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From prediction markets to info finance

from Vitalik Buterin's website [alt+shift+b] in technology

9th Nov 2024
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Baccano! I wanted to like this one so much. It seemed tailor-made to what I love in anime: interesting,...
4th Nov 2021
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Baccano!

from Applied Cartography [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Nov 2021
I wanted to like this one so much. It seemed tailor-made to what I love in anime: interesting, anachronistic setting; weird alchemy stuff; a huge slew of characters and viewpoints; framing devices within framing devices.
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2023-01-16 huff-duff We've talked a fair amount about HF radio recently, in the context of OTH radar. Recall that an...
16th Jan 2023
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2023-01-16 huff-duff

from computers are bad [alt+shift+b] in technology

16th Jan 2023
We've talked a fair amount about HF radio recently, in the context of OTH radar. Recall that an extremely useful property of HF radio here is that HF frequencies can reflect off of the upper layers of the atmosphere, causing them to rebound towards earth at a range much further...
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Puzzling out climate change Accenture Fellow Shreyaa Raghavan applies machine learning and optimization methods to explore ways...
10th Feb 2025
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Puzzling out climate change

from MIT News - Civil and environmental engineering [alt+shift+b] in technology

10th Feb 2025
Accenture Fellow Shreyaa Raghavan applies machine learning and optimization methods to explore ways to reduce transportation sector emissions.
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Comparison of Models Used for Aviation Briefings I have a collection of prompts and tools that I give to LLMs to generate daily aviation briefings....
18th Jul 2026
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Comparison of Models Used for Aviation Briefings

from John Wiseman [alt+shift+b] in technology

18th Jul 2026
I have a collection of prompts and tools that I give to LLMs to generate daily aviation briefings. The briefings are supposed to be a summary of everything interesting that’s happened in the air in the past several hours, either globally or in a region of interest. The model...
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Marathon Read the story of how it feels to complete your first marathon.
19th Oct 2024
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Marathon

from Willem's Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

19th Oct 2024
Read the story of how it feels to complete your first marathon.
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I'll give up Neovim when you pry it from my cold, dead hands I recently came upon a horror story where a developer was forced to switch editor from Neovim to...
18th Feb 2025
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I'll give up Neovim when you pry it from my cold, dead hands

from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology

18th Feb 2025
I recently came upon a horror story where a developer was forced to switch editor from Neovim to Cursor and I felt I had to write a little to cleanse myself of the disgust I felt. Two different ways of approaching an editor I think that there’s two opposing ways of thinking about...
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Practical? Common Lisp on the JVM: A quick intro to ABCL for modern web apps In a ridiculous attempt to prove an internet wrong about the practicality of Lisp (Common Lisp...
5th Aug 2021
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Practical? Common Lisp on the JVM: A quick intro to ABCL for modern web apps

from Notes on software development [alt+shift+b] in technology

5th Aug 2021
In a ridiculous attempt to prove an internet wrong about the practicality of Lisp (Common Lisp specifically), I tried to get a simple (but realistic) web app running. After four days and a patch to ABCL I got something working. The code I had in mind would look something like...
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Implementing a declarative mini-language in the C preprocessor Last time, I announced Check Plus, a declarative language for defining Check tests in C. This time,...
4th Jul 2010
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Implementing a declarative mini-language in the C preprocessor

from Posts on Made of Bugs [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Jul 2010
Last time, I announced Check Plus, a declarative language for defining Check tests in C. This time, I want to talk about the tricks I used to implement a declarative minilanguage using the C preprocessor (and some GCC extensions). The Problem We want to write some toplevel...
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How to fix Top Gear And the story of my beef with Jeremy Clarkson
2nd Sep 2026
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How to fix Top Gear

from Odds and Ends of History [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Sep 2026
And the story of my beef with Jeremy Clarkson
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Train Simulator Controller: CAN-Connected Air Gauge, Part 2 In my ongoing quest to build a physical cab dashboard to control Train Simulator, an important set...
25th May 2025
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Train Simulator Controller: CAN-Connected Air Gauge, Part 2

from Project Blog on Christopher Mitchell, Ph.D. [alt+shift+b] in technology

25th May 2025
In my ongoing quest to build a physical cab dashboard to control Train Simulator, an important set of components are the gauges that tell me what’s going on with the train. As I build the dashboard into which to embed my gauges, I realized I needed to better modularize my air...
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The Hunting Gun A slim, potent, and dense novella. The easy (lazy) comparison is to rashomon, and the way we see...
15th Jul 2018
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The Hunting Gun

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

15th Jul 2018
A slim, potent, and dense novella. The easy (lazy) comparison is to rashomon, and the way we see Misugi change from thin and narrow to nuanced and vital and then to a defeated husk of a man is expertly drawn. This kind of framing device has an odd effect: if it was done in a more...
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The Scenic Route to Repairing a Self-Destructing SRS DG535 Digital Delay Generator Introduction The Stanford Research Systems DG535 Who Uses a Pulse Delay Generator? Inside the...
24th Dec 2025
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The Scenic Route to Repairing a Self-Destructing SRS DG535 Digital Delay Generator

from Electronics etc… [alt+shift+b] in technology

24th Dec 2025
Introduction The Stanford Research Systems DG535 Who Uses a Pulse Delay Generator? Inside the DG535 The Annoying Mechanical Design of the DG535 It’s Always the Power Supply Power Architecture of the DG535 The How, Why, and Please Don’t of Current Boost Resistor Circuits Root...
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My attempt at archiving nfscars.net Background My mother once had a laptop: the Compaq Armada 1592DT. It came with Windows ME which...
1st Mar 2021
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My attempt at archiving nfscars.net

from ./techtipsy [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Mar 2021
Background My mother once had a laptop: the Compaq Armada 1592DT. It came with Windows ME which later got “upgraded” to Windows 98 SE after I managed to completely screw up the OS, a whopping 96MB of RAM and a hard drive that probably wasn’t much larger than 1-3GB. It wasn’t...
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AI Allows More Diversity in the Forms of Social Science Glad to be back!
1st May 2026
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AI Allows More Diversity in the Forms of Social Science

from Never Met a Science [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st May 2026
Glad to be back!
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2025-08-16 passive microwave repeaters One of the most significant single advancements in telecommunications technology was the development...
16th Aug 2025
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2025-08-16 passive microwave repeaters

from computers are bad [alt+shift+b] in technology

16th Aug 2025
One of the most significant single advancements in telecommunications technology was the development of microwave radio. Essentially an evolution of radar, the middle of the Second World War saw the first practical microwave telephone system. By the time Japan surrendered, AT&T...
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Switching to Claude Code + VSCode inside Docker Why I decided to ditch Cursor and switch to running Claude Code in an isolated environment + diy...
11th Jul 2025
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Switching to Claude Code + VSCode inside Docker

from tim.sh [alt+shift+b] in technology

11th Jul 2025
Why I decided to ditch Cursor and switch to running Claude Code in an isolated environment + diy guide!
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Towards solving Ultimate Tic Tac Toe Summary: Read about my efforts to solve the game of Ultimate Tic Tac Toe. It’s been a fun journey...
15th Jul 2020
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Towards solving Ultimate Tic Tac Toe

from Posts on Made of Bugs [alt+shift+b] in technology

15th Jul 2020
Summary: Read about my efforts to solve the game of Ultimate Tic Tac Toe. It’s been a fun journey into interesting algorithms and high-performance parallel programming in Rust. Backstory Starting around the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdown, I’ve gotten myself deeply nerdsniped...
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Smart Open Xcode If you’re like me, you often have multiple versions of Xcode installed. One or two beta versions, a...
2nd Aug 2023
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Smart Open Xcode

from Christian Selig [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Aug 2023
If you’re like me, you often have multiple versions of Xcode installed. One or two beta versions, a stable version, and maybe another version in case the most recent stable version has something weird about it. I also really like mapping my Caps Lock key to something more useful,...
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How I Use Alfred to Search My Obsidian Notes Faster (with Spotlight!) In this post, I’ll show you how I integrated Obsidian into Alfred so I can search my vault from...
22nd Mar 2023
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How I Use Alfred to Search My Obsidian Notes Faster (with Spotlight!)

from Simply Explained [alt+shift+b] in technology

22nd Mar 2023
In this post, I’ll show you how I integrated Obsidian into Alfred so I can search my vault from anywhere on my Mac. I just open Alfred, type “note” followed by my query, and see my search results. Hit enter and the correct note opens in Obsidian. Easy and quick!
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March Theme: 10 seconds Well well here’s something interesting. The Experimental Gameplay Project has given us a really...
2nd Mar 2010
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March Theme: 10 seconds

from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Mar 2010
Well well here’s something interesting. The Experimental Gameplay Project has given us a really interesting thing to focus on: Time. Like Braid, it’s time for us to make something interesting with time itself. 10 seconds is the constraint and that’s not a lot, but perhaps enough?
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Great Tools Disappear The best designed products get out of the way and let you focus on the work instead of the tool
18th Sep 2025
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Great Tools Disappear

from Kent de Bruin [alt+shift+b] in technology

18th Sep 2025
The best designed products get out of the way and let you focus on the work instead of the tool
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Back to Training Five days of school now and things are starting to settle down a bit. The courses are pretty cool;...
4th Sep 2011
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Back to Training

from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Sep 2011
Five days of school now and things are starting to settle down a bit. The courses are pretty cool; we have linear algebra which is pretty interesting, we have a java course where we’re going to make a game (!) and one about structures and algorithms. Pretty promising but we’ll...
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The beginning of the end of the open web
22nd Oct 2023
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The beginning of the end of the open web

from Joel Gustafson [alt+shift+b] in technology

22nd Oct 2023
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Predicting solar eclipses with Python As I am en route to see my first total solar eclipse, I was curious how hard it would be to compute...
7th Apr 2024
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Predicting solar eclipses with Python

from Home on Erik Bernhardsson [alt+shift+b] in technology

7th Apr 2024
As I am en route to see my first total solar eclipse, I was curious how hard it would be to compute eclipses in Python. It turns out, ignoring some minor coordinate system head-banging, I was able to get something half-decent working in a couple of hours.
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Intel's Inboard 386/PC Welcome to the 1990s.
15th Oct 2024
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Intel's Inboard 386/PC

from Computer Ads from the Past [alt+shift+b] in technology

15th Oct 2024
Welcome to the 1990s.
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A single-node Kubernetes cluster without virtualization or a container registry This post is a recipe for setting up a minimal Kubernetes cluster on Fedora without requiring...
25th Jul 2020
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A single-node Kubernetes cluster without virtualization or a container registry

from Notes on software development [alt+shift+b] in technology

25th Jul 2020
This post is a recipe for setting up a minimal Kubernetes cluster on Fedora without requiring virtualization or a container registry. These two features make the system cloud-agnostic and the cluster entirely self-contained. The post will end with us running a simple Flask...
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On Medium-of-Exchange Token Valuations
17th Oct 2017
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On Medium-of-Exchange Token Valuations

from Vitalik Buterin's website [alt+shift+b] in technology

17th Oct 2017
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Haunted by the ghosts of materialism Is philosophy real? We sent our correspondent to find out.
2 weeks ago
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Haunted by the ghosts of materialism

from lcamtuf’s thing [alt+shift+b] in technology

2 weeks ago
Is philosophy real? We sent our correspondent to find out.
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Anything's a portable speaker if you're brave enough I hate buying things that are single-purpose, which is why I ended up with this setup. Take a...
2nd Jan 2023
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Anything's a portable speaker if you're brave enough

from ./techtipsy [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Jan 2023
I hate buying things that are single-purpose, which is why I ended up with this setup. Take a speaker, a battery, put them together, and what you now have is a portable speaker. Since I had access to both, I felt no need to buy a separate portable speaker for use in social...
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Self-hosting Wikipedia using Kiwix Do you have a need to host Wikipedia on your computer? Or a StackExchange site, like Super...
9th Dec 2021
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Self-hosting Wikipedia using Kiwix

from ./techtipsy [alt+shift+b] in technology

9th Dec 2021
Do you have a need to host Wikipedia on your computer? Or a StackExchange site, like Super User? It’s easier than you think! Step 1: download stuff! The Kiwix project provides ZIM files for many popular websites, including Wikipedia. These files can be downloaded over at Kiwix...
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Done this, done that. What now? Finished and uploaded our java game Grand Thief Arto, done an exam (didn’t quite go as intended) and...
5th Nov 2011
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Done this, done that. What now?

from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology

5th Nov 2011
Finished and uploaded our java game Grand Thief Arto, done an exam (didn’t quite go as intended) and starting some new courses in school. I’m liking my choice of Computer Science more and more. Data structures and Algorithms was a super fun course, I actually ordered a new book...
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What If We Made Advertising Illegal? What if we banned all advertising? Not regulate it—abolish it. This proposal would transform...
2nd Apr 2025
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What If We Made Advertising Illegal?

from Simone Salis [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Apr 2025
What if we banned all advertising? Not regulate it—abolish it. This proposal would transform manipulation machines, and maybe save democracy itself. A thought experiment worth considering.
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Train Simulator Controller: Laser-Cutting a Door Control Panel As the different pieces of my Train Simulator controller come together, a bite-sized first task of...
1st May 2024
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Train Simulator Controller: Laser-Cutting a Door Control Panel

from Project Blog on Christopher Mitchell, Ph.D. [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st May 2024
As the different pieces of my Train Simulator controller come together, a bite-sized first task of building the physical dashboard is the door controls placed at each side of the cab. Here, I detail the process of prototyping the door control panel from a Class 80x out of...
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मसान (Masaan) …
24th Nov 2016
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मसान (Masaan)

from Himanshu Mishra | orkohunter.net RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in technology

24th Nov 2016
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Securing My Web Infrastructure Securing My Web Infrastructure A few months ago, I very briefly mentioned that I've migrated all my...
17th Apr 2025
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Securing My Web Infrastructure

from Ian's Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

17th Apr 2025
Securing My Web Infrastructure A few months ago, I very briefly mentioned that I've migrated all my web infrastructure off Cloudflare, as well as having built a custom web service to host it all. I call this new web service WebCentral and I'd like to talk about some of the steps...
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MUSE in Carré Last Sunday I experienced a breathtaking fusion of legendary rock band MUSE and Amsterdam's iconic...
22nd Oct 2022
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MUSE in Carré

from Willem L. Middelkoop [alt+shift+b] in technology

22nd Oct 2022
Last Sunday I experienced a breathtaking fusion of legendary rock band MUSE and Amsterdam's iconic Royal Theatre Carré. The band's electrifying sound in the theatre's sophisticated atmosphere proved to be a recipe for an unforgettable night. MUSE Hailing from Teignmouth, Devon,...
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How Much More Must We Bleed? - Citrix NetScaler Memory Disclosure (CitrixBleed 2 CVE-2025-5777) Before you dive into our latest diatribe, indulge us and join us on a journey. Sit in your chair,...
4th Jul 2025
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How Much More Must We Bleed? - Citrix NetScaler Memory Disclosure (CitrixBleed 2 CVE-2025-5777)

from watchTowr Labs [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Jul 2025
Before you dive into our latest diatribe, indulge us and join us on a journey. Sit in your chair, stand at your desk, lick your phone screen - close your eyes and imagine a world in which things are great. It’s sunny outside, the birds are chirping, and
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Content debt There’s a nascent trend of releasing ostensibly-private material (changelogs, public wikis,...
4th Jul 2024
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Content debt

from Applied Cartography [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Jul 2024
There’s a nascent trend of releasing ostensibly-private material (changelogs, public wikis, handbooks, etc.) to the public as a bit of a marketing push. This is essentially a form of debt, to the extent that you’re taking a lump-sum payment now in exchange for the implicit cost...
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What Learning by Doing Looks Like The evolution of polycrystalline diamond drill bits
12th Dec 2024
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What Learning by Doing Looks Like

from Construction Physics [alt+shift+b] in technology

12th Dec 2024
The evolution of polycrystalline diamond drill bits
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What went wrong with wireless USB (Hat tip to the late Bill Strauss and The Capitol Steps' Lirty Dies.) take my Palm OS Fossil Wrist...
4th May 2025
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What went wrong with wireless USB

from Old Vintage Computing Research [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th May 2025
(Hat tip to the late Bill Strauss and The Capitol Steps' Lirty Dies.) take my Palm OS Fossil Wrist PDA smartwatch mobile. It has no on-board networking libraries but can be coerced into doing PPP over its serial port (via USB) by using the libraries from my Palm m505. Of...
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Elfstedentocht on Feel Last Monday I rode the Fietselfstedentocht, the hottest edition ever, on my fixed gear bike. No bike...
26th May 2026
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Elfstedentocht on Feel

from Willem L. Middelkoop [alt+shift+b] in technology

26th May 2026
Last Monday I rode the Fietselfstedentocht, the hottest edition ever, on my fixed gear bike. No bike computer, no GPS, no heart rate on my wrist. Just a mechanical watch, a stamp card and my WHOOP quietly recording in the background. Eighteen months ago I wondered whether I could...
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Building a killer NAS with an old Rackable Server Like many others, I'm generating a lot of digital data. Constantly taking photos, writing scripts,...
29th Jun 2021
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Building a killer NAS with an old Rackable Server

from Simply Explained [alt+shift+b] in technology

29th Jun 2021
Like many others, I'm generating a lot of digital data. Constantly taking photos, writing scripts, taking notes, coding projects, and making videos. I'm storing all these files on Google Drive, which has been very reliable but also a bit risky. What if Google closes my account?...
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Seaside Sweeper keeps beaches pristine Without anyone caring for them, beaches quickly become trash-covered swaths of disappointment. That...
2nd May 2024
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Seaside Sweeper keeps beaches pristine

from Arduino Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd May 2024
Without anyone caring for them, beaches quickly become trash-covered swaths of disappointment. That care is necessary to maintain the beautiful sandy havens that we all want to enjoy, but it requires a lot of labor. A capstone team of students from the University of Colorado...
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Bagging as a regularizer One thing I encountered today was a trick using bagging as a way to go beyond a point estimate and...
6th Dec 2013
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Bagging as a regularizer

from Home on Erik Bernhardsson [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Dec 2013
One thing I encountered today was a trick using bagging as a way to go beyond a point estimate and get an approximation for the full distribution. This can then be used to penalize predictions with larger uncertainty, which helps reducing false positives.
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Announcing Startup School Beijing
26th Apr 2018
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Announcing Startup School Beijing

from Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in technology

26th Apr 2018
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Breakneck I, like so many other people in the Tyler Cowen / Stripe Press extended universe, have deeply...
1st Nov 2025
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Breakneck

from Applied Cartography [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Nov 2025
I, like so many other people in the Tyler Cowen / Stripe Press extended universe, have deeply enjoyed Dan Wang's annual letters over the past years. And I was delighted to see that he returned to writing in the form of a long-form book, largely about the same subject. In writing...
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Invertimo Binance Crypto Integration You can now import your binance Crypto related transactions to invertimo.com (open source investment...
2nd Feb 2022
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Invertimo Binance Crypto Integration

from Tiny struggles [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Feb 2022
You can now import your binance Crypto related transactions to invertimo.com (open source investment tracking app). Why track crypto transactions in invertimo? Invertimo helps you track all transactions related to your investments as well as dividends and received income in one...
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Spring day ham radio activation in Hiastinlahti, Finland Hiastinlahti is a bay where river Iijoki flows into Bothnian Bay, the northernmost part of Gulf of...
2nd May 2023
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Spring day ham radio activation in Hiastinlahti, Finland

from OH8HUB’s Substack [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd May 2023
Hiastinlahti is a bay where river Iijoki flows into Bothnian Bay, the northernmost part of Gulf of Bothnia. This area is a Nature 2000 nature reserve area and good spot for bird watching. The area has a two kilometer long nature trail with fireplace, lean-to and toilet. From the...
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One Million Chessboards One Million Chessboards I made a website. It's called One Million Chessboards. It has a million...
28th Apr 2025
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One Million Chessboards

from eieio.games [alt+shift+b] in technology

28th Apr 2025
One Million Chessboards I made a website. It's called One Million Chessboards. It has a million chessboards on it. Moving a piece moves it for everyone, instantly. There are no turns. Read the full post on my blog! Here's a raw link, if you need it: ...
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32-bit hat, with LEDs Built in November 2015 (now-traditional multi-year writeup delay applied) A hat,...
14th Sep 2021
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32-bit hat, with LEDs

from axio.ms [alt+shift+b] in technology

14th Sep 2021
Built in November 2015 (now-traditional multi-year writeup delay applied) A hat, bejewelled with 38 RGB LEDs Is this thing on..? It’s been a while since I’ve written one of these. So, the hat. It’s been on the writeup pile for almost 6 years, nagging away. Finally...
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Action Syllabus Week 1: Decide Technology Policy in the Classroom
22nd Apr 2024
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Action Syllabus

from Never Met a Science [alt+shift+b] in technology

22nd Apr 2024
Week 1: Decide Technology Policy in the Classroom
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Comics from 1984/04 Creative Computing Mag Sorry for the delay. - JP
22nd Jan 2025
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Comics from 1984/04 Creative Computing Mag

from Computer Ads from the Past [alt+shift+b] in technology

22nd Jan 2025
Sorry for the delay. - JP
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Passing the reins on Panfrost Today is my last day at Collabora and my last day leading the Panfrost driver. It’s been a wild...
10th Apr 2023
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Passing the reins on Panfrost

from Alyssa Rosenzweig [alt+shift+b] in technology

10th Apr 2023
Today is my last day at Collabora and my last day leading the Panfrost driver. It’s been a wild ride. In 2017, I began work on the chai driver for Mali T (Midgard). chai would later be merged into Lyude Paul’s and Connor Abbott’s BiOpenly project for Mali G (Bifrost) to form...
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Notes from "Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy" I just finished Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy, a profile of the Tor Project. I...
8th Nov 2025
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Notes from "Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy"

from Evan Hahn (dot com) [alt+shift+b] in technology

8th Nov 2025
I just finished Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy, a profile of the Tor Project. I thought it was an approachable overview of Tor and its history. If you’re interested, the book is free! Or you can read my chapter-by-chapter notes below. Chapter 1: Privacy...
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Have you tried a text box? Maybe all we need to do is write stuff down.
2nd Jan 2026
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Have you tried a text box?

from benn.substack [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Jan 2026
Maybe all we need to do is write stuff down.
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It's All Smiles The production is too glitchy & clever to be pleasant or interesting, which in of itself is not a...
1st Dec 2021
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It's All Smiles

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Dec 2021
The production is too glitchy & clever to be pleasant or interesting, which in of itself is not a huge deal except that the lyrics & vocals are so featherweight that it's not worth the effort of digestion.
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A Philosophy of Blockchain Validation
17th Aug 2020
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A Philosophy of Blockchain Validation

from Vitalik Buterin's website [alt+shift+b] in technology

17th Aug 2020
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Trials and Tribulations of Making an Interruptable Custom View Controller Transition on iOS I think it’s safe to say while the iOS custom view controller transition API is a very powerful one,...
19th Feb 2021
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Trials and Tribulations of Making an Interruptable Custom View Controller Transition on iOS

from Christian Selig [alt+shift+b] in technology

19th Feb 2021
I think it’s safe to say while the iOS custom view controller transition API is a very powerful one, with that power comes a great deal of complexity. It can be tricky, and I’m having one of those days where it’s getting the better of me and I just cannot get it to do what I want...
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Updating Snake '97 Few years ago my brother threw a beer on my iPhone in an Amsterdam bar. The poor thing didn't like...
20th Feb 2018
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Updating Snake '97

from Willem L. Middelkoop [alt+shift+b] in technology

20th Feb 2018
Few years ago my brother threw a beer on my iPhone in an Amsterdam bar. The poor thing didn't like the Dutch brew as much as I do: it died. While waiting for a new phone to arrive, I used an old one that couldn't do anything but texting, calling and... Snake! The idea for Snake...
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On Nathan Schneider on the limits of cryptoeconomics
26th Sep 2021
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On Nathan Schneider on the limits of cryptoeconomics

from Vitalik Buterin's website [alt+shift+b] in technology

26th Sep 2021
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The Flamethrowers “Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for...
1st Mar 2025
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The Flamethrowers

from Applied Cartography [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Mar 2025
“Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For not dissolving into it.”
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The architecture of declarative configuration management With the ongoing move towards “infrastructure-as-code” and similar notions, there’s been an ongoing...
12th Nov 2019
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The architecture of declarative configuration management

from Posts on Made of Bugs [alt+shift+b] in technology

12th Nov 2019
With the ongoing move towards “infrastructure-as-code” and similar notions, there’s been an ongoing increase in the number and popularity of declarative configuration management tools. This post attempts to lay out my mental model of the conceptual architecture and internal...
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How I Built an NFC Movie Library for my Kids When I was a kid, my sister and I had a tower of VHS tapes we watched endlessly. Fast-forward to...
14th Nov 2023
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How I Built an NFC Movie Library for my Kids

from Simply Explained [alt+shift+b] in technology

14th Nov 2023
When I was a kid, my sister and I had a tower of VHS tapes we watched endlessly. Fast-forward to today, and my children's movie collection is vastly different. It's completely digital and dispersed across services. I wanted to recreate the tangible magic of my childhood for them.
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Skylight and the AT Protocol Since my last piece about Bluesky, I’ve been using the service a lot more. Just about everyone I...
4th Apr 2025
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Skylight and the AT Protocol

from anderegg.ca [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Apr 2025
Since my last piece about Bluesky, I’ve been using the service a lot more. Just about everyone I followed on other services is there now, and it’s way more fun than late-stage Twitter ever was. Halifax is particularly into Bluesky, which reminds me of our local scene during the...
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Comment on The 35 Headline Formulas of John Caples by Ace Rashid I was reading copy hackers article title "Is $5000 a lot to charge for a sales page" and you were...
4th Oct 2018
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Comment on The 35 Headline Formulas of John Caples by Ace Rashid

from Comments for Lars Lofgren [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Oct 2018
I was reading copy hackers article title "Is $5000 a lot to charge for a sales page" and you were one of the 14 marketers that were asked this bonus question to which you felt that it was too low for a sales page. That drew me to your site to learn more about you. I am glad...
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I see dead people Imagine seeing your dead family members - not just on a picture, but lifelike and in three...
9th Sep 2024
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I see dead people

from Willem L. Middelkoop [alt+shift+b] in technology

9th Sep 2024
Imagine seeing your dead family members - not just on a picture, but lifelike and in three dimensions! You can almost touch them. It hits you differently, I can assure you. I'm still in awe: I just saw my dead grandfather, lifelike and for the first time ever in three dimensions!...
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The Caldera: a sleek split and wireless keyboard I designed my own keyboard and it’s freely available! I’m calling it the Caldera, and it’s basically...
20th Jul 2024
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The Caldera: a sleek split and wireless keyboard

from Christian Selig [alt+shift+b] in technology

20th Jul 2024
I designed my own keyboard and it’s freely available! I’m calling it the Caldera, and it’s basically my dream wireless split keyboard. I’ve been using it for months, and I love it. Video overview If you’re a visual person, I made a fun little video showcasing the...
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The birth of a child Today I witnessed the birth of my daughter! You feel humble as a man, witnessing the labour and...
12th Jul 2021
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The birth of a child

from Willem L. Middelkoop [alt+shift+b] in technology

12th Jul 2021
Today I witnessed the birth of my daughter! You feel humble as a man, witnessing the labour and magic. Not sure if I can come up with something having more impact on a man than this. For the purposes of science and curiosity I wore a biometric sensor, and this is what it...
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My Home Assistant setup (2023 edition) For the past few years, I have been running Home Assistant to make my apartment a smart home. It’s...
23rd Jan 2023
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My Home Assistant setup (2023 edition)

from Style over Substance [alt+shift+b] in technology

23rd Jan 2023
For the past few years, I have been running Home Assistant to make my apartment a smart home. It’s become such a hobby of mine that I’ve even started coding add-ons for it. While there are other popular automation platforms, Home Assistant’s versatility blows the rest out of the...
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Conversion rates – you are (most likely) computing them wrong How hard can it be to compute conversion rate? Take the total number of users that converted and...
23rd May 2017
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Conversion rates – you are (most likely) computing them wrong

from Home on Erik Bernhardsson [alt+shift+b] in technology

23rd May 2017
How hard can it be to compute conversion rate? Take the total number of users that converted and divide them with the total number of users. Done. Except… it's a lot more complicated when you have any sort of significant time lag.
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I see dead people This may be Apple Vision Pro's killer feature, enabling you to see dead people: augmenting old...
9th Sep 2024
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I see dead people

from Willem's Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

9th Sep 2024
This may be Apple Vision Pro's killer feature, enabling you to see dead people: augmenting old photos into lifelike representations.
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Slay the Spire In lieu of more to say, I think this is the most well-designed game I've ever played. The size of a...
16th May 2019
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Slay the Spire

from Applied Cartography [alt+shift+b] in technology

16th May 2019
In lieu of more to say, I think this is the most well-designed game I've ever played. The size of a given session is perfect for me (45-75 minutes); the difficulty curve is elegant and sloping; variety is strong. I have poured at least a hundred hours into the game and could see...
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Mortality statistics and Sweden's "dry tinder" effect We live in a year of about 350,000 amateur epidemiologists and I have no desire to join that “club”....
23rd Sep 2020
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Mortality statistics and Sweden's "dry tinder" effect

from Home on Erik Bernhardsson [alt+shift+b] in technology

23rd Sep 2020
We live in a year of about 350,000 amateur epidemiologists and I have no desire to join that “club”. But I read something about COVID-19 deaths that I thought was interesting and wanted to see if I could replicated it through data.
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ShinyHunters Wage Broad Corporate Extortion Spree A cybercriminal group that used voice phishing attacks to siphon more than a billion records from...
7th Oct 2025
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ShinyHunters Wage Broad Corporate Extortion Spree

from Krebs on Security [alt+shift+b] in technology

7th Oct 2025
A cybercriminal group that used voice phishing attacks to siphon more than a billion records from Salesforce customers earlier this year has launched a website that threatens to publish data stolen from dozens of Fortune 500 firms if they refuse to pay a ransom. The group also...
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Train Simulator Controller: Dashboard Prototyping, Part 1 After sourcing rough measurements of the dashboard of a Class 80x train, I began creating a...
31st Jul 2025
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Train Simulator Controller: Dashboard Prototyping, Part 1

from Project Blog on Christopher Mitchell, Ph.D. [alt+shift+b] in technology

31st Jul 2025
After sourcing rough measurements of the dashboard of a Class 80x train, I began creating a cardboard prototype, plus associated CAD designs to get the design fabricated.
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The Polygons of Another World Let's kick off the year with a series about Another World!
1st Jan 2020
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The Polygons of Another World

from Fabien Sanglard [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Jan 2020
Let's kick off the year with a series about Another World!
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The iPhone, iPad and iOS are powering a revolution Most people just don't understand computers. Are these people dumb? Some may be dumb, but the people...
6th Nov 2010
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The iPhone, iPad and iOS are powering a revolution

from Louwrentius - Solar [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Nov 2010
Most people just don't understand computers. Are these people dumb? Some may be dumb, but the people who make them are maybe even dumber. Because they can't seem to figure out how to create a computer that the majority of people understand. When the original macintosh arrived at...
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Fully unattended deployment of Windows clients using limited resources Introduction Anyone who ever installed Windows on a computer by hand must have wished for a solution...
7th Jul 2012
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Fully unattended deployment of Windows clients using limited resources

from Louwrentius - Solar [alt+shift+b] in technology

7th Jul 2012
Introduction Anyone who ever installed Windows on a computer by hand must have wished for a solution that automate this task. It's just waiting a lot and pressing a button now and then. But installing the operating system itself is only the beginning. Once installed, you need to...
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Baduizm Very relaxing and pleasant and simple and great. Nothing revelatory but I see myself coming back to...
1st Sep 2021
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Baduizm

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Sep 2021
Very relaxing and pleasant and simple and great. Nothing revelatory but I see myself coming back to this over and over (and finally understand the Badu hype.)
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Vote for the Topic of the February 2024 Plus Post If you are a paid subscriber, voting is open for one week
6th Feb 2024
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Vote for the Topic of the February 2024 Plus Post

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6th Feb 2024
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250 lbs Six months ago, while I was setting up a new code editor, I noticed that the default font size felt...
16th Feb 2026
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250 lbs

from Bryan Braun - Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

16th Feb 2026
Six months ago, while I was setting up a new code editor, I noticed that the default font size felt just a bit too small, when displayed on my monitor. Not a big deal, I just bumped it up one size and went back to my work. Then it happened again, this time, when reading sheet...
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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...
10th Apr 2021
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Good Home Automation Should be Boring

from Simply Explained [alt+shift+b] in technology

10th Apr 2021
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...
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Talking Tines [Concept] Tuning forks that talk
29th Jun 2024
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Talking Tines

from latest projects - mitxela.com [alt+shift+b] in technology

29th Jun 2024
[Concept] Tuning forks that talk
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Vulkan 1.4 sur Asahi Linux English version follows. Aujourd’hui, Khronos Group a sorti la spécification 1.4 de l’API graphique...
2nd Dec 2024
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Vulkan 1.4 sur Asahi Linux

from On Life and Lisp [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Dec 2024
English version follows. Aujourd’hui, Khronos Group a sorti la spécification 1.4 de l’API graphique standard Vulkan. Le projet Asahi Linux est fier d’annoncer le premier pilote Vulkan 1.4 pour le matériel d’Apple. En effet, notre pilote graphique Honeykrisp est reconnu par...
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The antimeme is the message of the medium The antimeme of the antimeme no longer exists.
1st Aug 2025
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The antimeme is the message of the medium

from Never Met a Science [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Aug 2025
The antimeme of the antimeme no longer exists.
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Offline command line translation with TranslateGemma + Ollama I wrote a simple script that translates text at the command line, completely offline. Here’s an...
1st May 2026
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Offline command line translation with TranslateGemma + Ollama

from Evan Hahn (dot com) [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st May 2026
I wrote a simple script that translates text at the command line, completely offline. Here’s an example of how it works on my computer: echo '¿Cómo estás?' | translate # => How are you? It combines a few tools: TranslateGemma, a special-purpose language model for...
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Designing a multi dimensional capacity queue Dealing with a capacity queue is challenging, but if you take the time to model it right it is...
1st Dec 2020
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Designing a multi dimensional capacity queue

from Willem's Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Dec 2020
Dealing with a capacity queue is challenging, but if you take the time to model it right it is possible to create a performant and reliable system.
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Why is Git Autocorrect too fast for Formula One drivers? Why does Git's autocorrect wait 0.1s before executing a mistyped command? Let's dig in.
13th Jan 2025
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Why is Git Autocorrect too fast for Formula One drivers?

from Butler's Log [alt+shift+b] in technology

13th Jan 2025
Why does Git's autocorrect wait 0.1s before executing a mistyped command? Let's dig in.
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Starting a minimal Common Lisp project If you've only vaguely heard of Lisp before or studied Scheme in school, Common Lisp is nothing like...
5th Mar 2018
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Starting a minimal Common Lisp project

from Notes on software development [alt+shift+b] in technology

5th Mar 2018
If you've only vaguely heard of Lisp before or studied Scheme in school, Common Lisp is nothing like what you'd expect. While functional programming is all the rage in Scheme, Common Lisp was "expressly designed to be a real-world engineering language rather than a theoretically...
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RAM: the forgotten history We owe computers not to Charles Babbage, but to the invention of electronically-controlled working...
15th Oct 2024
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RAM: the forgotten history

from lcamtuf’s thing [alt+shift+b] in technology

15th Oct 2024
We owe computers not to Charles Babbage, but to the invention of electronically-controlled working memory.
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2025-04-04 Automatically selecting colors with sufficient contrast. Here's a test build of my hypertext...
5th Apr 2025
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2025-04-04

from Freewheeling Apps [alt+shift+b] in technology

5th Apr 2025
Automatically selecting colors with sufficient contrast. Here's a test build of my hypertext browser where every "page load" picks a random background. The foreground and link colors adapt to preserve a minimum contrast (WCAG AAA level). I repeatedly click on links in...
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Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction In the 1970s, floating-point arithmetic was a mess. Computer manufacturers had a dozen incompatible...
12th Sep 2026
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Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction

from Ken Shirriff's blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

12th Sep 2026
In the 1970s, floating-point arithmetic was a mess. Computer manufacturers had a dozen incompatible arithmetic standards. Moreover, floating-point systems were designed around hardware simplicity rather than mathematical rigor, leading to problems with numerical stability. This...
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Amazon is complicit with counterfeiting (updated) When someone goes to the lengths of making counterfeits of your products, it's at least a sign...
1st Mar 2018
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Amazon is complicit with counterfeiting (updated)

from Elevation Lab - Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Mar 2018
When someone goes to the lengths of making counterfeits of your products, it's at least a sign you're doing something right. And it deserves a minute of flattery. But when Chinese counterfeiters tool up and make copies of your product, send that inventory to Amazon, then overtake...
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Obfuscation: building the final boss of cryptography (Part I)
29th Jun 2026
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Obfuscation: building the final boss of cryptography (Part I)

from Vitalik Buterin's website [alt+shift+b] in technology

29th Jun 2026
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Category velocity People make decisions, not businesses.
15th Jun 2021
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Category velocity

from Buck on Software [alt+shift+b] in technology

15th Jun 2021
People make decisions, not businesses.
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Maxell's MF 2-DD Floppies The Gold Standard
1st Dec 2024
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Maxell's MF 2-DD Floppies

from Computer Ads from the Past [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Dec 2024
The Gold Standard
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The TikTok Model is the Future of the Web I hate to say it, but when I wake up in the morning, the very first thing I do is check my phone....
24th Oct 2025
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The TikTok Model is the Future of the Web

from Software and Tech stories from an Insider - iDiallo.com [alt+shift+b] in technology

24th Oct 2025
I hate to say it, but when I wake up in the morning, the very first thing I do is check my phone. First I turn off my alarm, I've made it a habit to wake up before it goes off. Then I scroll through a handful of websites. Yahoo Finance first, because the market is crazy. Hacker...
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Create a Markdown Portfolio with Next.js So you've set out to create a new portfolio for yourself. You start gathering inspiration from...
7th Mar 2023
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Create a Markdown Portfolio with Next.js

from noahbuscher.com [alt+shift+b] in technology

7th Mar 2023
So you've set out to create a new portfolio for yourself. You start gathering inspiration from platforms like Godly and Minimal Gallery, draw some rectangles in Figma, and open your text editor. You pause. There's thousands of ways to build your website, how do you decide which...
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JS fetch converts string request bodies to UTF-8 In short: when a fetch request body is a string, the server will receive UTF-8 bytes. I was recently...
6th Sep 2025
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JS fetch converts string request bodies to UTF-8

from Evan Hahn (dot com) [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Sep 2025
In short: when a fetch request body is a string, the server will receive UTF-8 bytes. I was recently calling fetch with a string body, like this: await fetch("/foo", { method: "POST", body: "🍉", }); I wondered: what exact bytes would the server receive? Most stuff uses...
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TIL: Rails, CloundFront CDN, and imgproxy In September, I worked on improving Pika’s image performance. I’ve had a long career now (25 years...
14th Oct 2025
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TIL: Rails, CloundFront CDN, and imgproxy

from Good Enough [alt+shift+b] in technology

14th Oct 2025
In September, I worked on improving Pika’s image performance. I’ve had a long career now (25 years 😭) doing mostly web-programming tasks, yet somehow I’ve never set up a CDN myself. I suppose the “management years” right as my prior organization was getting bigger contributed to...
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Notes from "The Weather Machine: A Journey Inside the Forecast" In The Weather Machine: A Journey Inside the Forecast, author Andrew Blum gives a high-level...
25th Jul 2025
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Notes from "The Weather Machine: A Journey Inside the Forecast"

from Evan Hahn (dot com) [alt+shift+b] in technology

25th Jul 2025
In The Weather Machine: A Journey Inside the Forecast, author Andrew Blum gives a high-level overview of global weather forecasting. What complexity hides behind the simple interfaces of our daily weather apps? Three main points stuck out to me: “The weather machine has to be a...
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Breaking Changes Last week I ran into unexpected trouble during a routine maintenance procedure on my company's email...
3rd Jun 2025
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Breaking Changes

from Willem L. Middelkoop [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Jun 2025
Last week I ran into unexpected trouble during a routine maintenance procedure on my company's email infrastructure. Processing thousands of emails each day, we use Dovecot to give our clients access to their messages. That all came to a grinding halt when I updated to version...
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Hands-on with two Apple Network Server prototype ROMs Grateful acknowledgement made to the several former Apple employees who materially contributed to...
25th Jan 2026
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Hands-on with two Apple Network Server prototype ROMs

from Old Vintage Computing Research [alt+shift+b] in technology

25th Jan 2026
Grateful acknowledgement made to the several former Apple employees who materially contributed to this entry. This article wouldn't have been possible without you! Here's why I need to do inventory more often. its complicated history is a microcosm of some of Apple's strangest...
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Inside a 1980s filter chip that uses switched capacitors Sometimes it's easier to identify an IC with a microscope. While sorting a box of old ICs,...
a week ago
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Inside a 1980s filter chip that uses switched capacitors

from Ken Shirriff's blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

a week ago
Sometimes it's easier to identify an IC with a microscope. While sorting a box of old ICs, CuriousMarc came across some Harris ICs labeled "F1-10-5", a mysterious part number that didn't show up in any databooks. Since unidentifiable ICs are useless, he gave me one to...
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Coding with Claude Code Vibe coding, code assistance, no-code, call it what you want. “AI” coding tools are likely being...
4th Aug 2025
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Coding with Claude Code

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Aug 2025
Vibe coding, code assistance, no-code, call it what you want. “AI” coding tools are likely being used to produce a good majority of software today. And for good reason as they have come a long way in a short time. A popular article written this week titled Claude Code is a Slot...
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2023 in review This is my yearly review #14. Amazing that I’ve kept up with this for 14 years. Even though it’s not...
1st Jan 2024
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2023 in review

from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Jan 2024
This is my yearly review #14. Amazing that I’ve kept up with this for 14 years. Even though it’s not anything advanced, I really like looking back at the year to see what has happened. Maybe it’s a very light version of a reverse bucket list, and I can see that it provides some...
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Reading List 09/06/2025 London homebuilding, historical home prices, a humanoid robot loading a dishwasher, France’s history...
6th Sep 2025
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Reading List 09/06/2025

from Construction Physics [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Sep 2025
London homebuilding, historical home prices, a humanoid robot loading a dishwasher, France’s history of nuclear reactor construction, and more.
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Conformant OpenGL 4.6 on the M1 For years, the M1 has only supported OpenGL 4.1. That changes today – with our release of full...
14th Feb 2024
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Conformant OpenGL 4.6 on the M1

from Alyssa Rosenzweig [alt+shift+b] in technology

14th Feb 2024
For years, the M1 has only supported OpenGL 4.1. That changes today – with our release of full OpenGL® 4.6 and OpenGL® ES 3.2! Install Fedora for the latest M1/M2-series drivers. Already installed? Just dnf upgrade --refresh. Unlike the vendor’s non-conformant 4.1 drivers, our...
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Ted Lasso (Season 1) Gilbert & Sullivan would have loved Ted Lasso — absurd and friendly and ever, ever obsessed with...
4th Aug 2024
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Ted Lasso (Season 1)

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Aug 2024
Gilbert & Sullivan would have loved Ted Lasso — absurd and friendly and ever, ever obsessed with having its pathos and eating it too. I write this in a period of what I would describe as post-post-backlash: there was a period where America, particularly during COVID, was obsessed...
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From building ships to shipping builds: how to succeed in making a career switch to software... I have worked with a few software developers who made the switch to this industry in the middle of...
1st Jul 2025
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From building ships to shipping builds: how to succeed in making a career switch to software development

from ./techtipsy [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Jul 2025
I have worked with a few software developers who made the switch to this industry in the middle of their careers. A major change like that can be scary and raise a lot of fears and doubts, but I can attest that this can work out well with the right personality traits and a...
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Something in the orange A last exit.
3rd Oct 2025
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Something in the orange

from benn.substack [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Oct 2025
A last exit.
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Volumer I've always wanted a good USB volume control, so I decided to design one.
21st Mar 2020
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Volumer

from Opsbros [alt+shift+b] in technology

21st Mar 2020
I've always wanted a good USB volume control, so I decided to design one.
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Designing a multi dimensional capacity queue This month I needed to create additional dimensions to a capacity queue mechanism. The food ordering...
1st Dec 2020
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Designing a multi dimensional capacity queue

from Willem L. Middelkoop [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Dec 2020
This month I needed to create additional dimensions to a capacity queue mechanism. The food ordering app that I created needed to be able to restrict capacity based on the number of orders, the contents in individual orders and the dispatch type (takeaway/delivery). Read along to...
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The Invisible Way You Can Be Tracked Online
8th Dec 2024
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The Invisible Way You Can Be Tracked Online

from The New Oil [alt+shift+b] in technology

8th Dec 2024
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Gosling’s Old Rum Virginia has draconian liquor laws, which means I have to get interesting bottles shipped from...
3rd Feb 2024
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Gosling’s Old Rum

from Applied Cartography [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Feb 2024
Virginia has draconian liquor laws, which means I have to get interesting bottles shipped from [REDACTED], a site on which I am very prone to judging a book by its cover; every month I'll end up purchasing a bottle of something purely because it looks interesting and I can...
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Finishing Stuff I haven’t done much blogging or game programming in a while but instead I’ve finished some school...
7th Dec 2011
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Finishing Stuff

from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology

7th Dec 2011
I haven’t done much blogging or game programming in a while but instead I’ve finished some school stuff. We completed the assembly course labs, which were pretty fun actually, and I managed to finally complete the electronics course I’ve been holding off on for like forever… But...
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You can’t fix a problem you don’t understand A few weeks ago, I was building a server-side API client. I had written the code and tested it in...
17th Feb 2025
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You can’t fix a problem you don’t understand

from Bryan Braun - Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

17th Feb 2025
A few weeks ago, I was building a server-side API client. I had written the code and tested it in isolation. Everything looked good. Unfortunately, when I included it in the main service, I started seeing errors. I decided to try asking an AI tool for suggestions. I gave it the...
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CVE-2007-4573: The Anatomy of a Kernel Exploit CVE-2007-4573 is two years old at this point, but it remains one of my favorite vulnerabilities. It...
5th Feb 2010
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CVE-2007-4573: The Anatomy of a Kernel Exploit

from Posts on Made of Bugs [alt+shift+b] in technology

5th Feb 2010
CVE-2007-4573 is two years old at this point, but it remains one of my favorite vulnerabilities. It was a local privilege-escalation vulnerability on all x86_64 kernels prior to v2.6.22.7. It’s very simple to understand with a little bit of background, and the exploit is...
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Star-Crossed The obvious and deserved comparison is with Evermore/Folklore — a stripped down, mellower version of...
2nd Oct 2021
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Star-Crossed

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Oct 2021
The obvious and deserved comparison is with Evermore/Folklore — a stripped down, mellower version of the author's ouevre. While I think Taylor's latest outings are good-not-great, I thought this was closer to great; the songwriting is steadier and more interesting, and the pathos...
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February gets Themed: Rejection The Experimental Gameplay Project has announced their next theme - and shame on me if I wouldn’t...
1st Feb 2010
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February gets Themed: Rejection

from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Feb 2010
The Experimental Gameplay Project has announced their next theme - and shame on me if I wouldn’t follow suite! With valentine coming up I might just have found a pretty nice idea, just now, writing this… Booyah!!
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Remembering the Origins of Birthright Citizenship Administrative Burdens Were Long Used to Restrict Internal Migration
2nd Apr 2026
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Remembering the Origins of Birthright Citizenship

from Can We Still Govern? [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Apr 2026
Administrative Burdens Were Long Used to Restrict Internal Migration
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When a KEM is not enough In my previous post, I described the KEM/DEM paradigm for hybrid encryption. The key encapsulation...
16th Feb 2021
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When a KEM is not enough

from Neil Madden [alt+shift+b] in technology

16th Feb 2021
In my previous post, I described the KEM/DEM paradigm for hybrid encryption. The key encapsulation mechanism is given the recipient’s public key and outputs a fresh AES key and an encapsulation of that key that the recipient can decapsulate to recover the AES key. In this post I...
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Introducing TagVault Security Mount for AirTag Having had our skis stolen, we wanted to design the ultimate AirTag ski and snowboard mount. It...
24th Oct 2024
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Introducing TagVault Security Mount for AirTag

from Elevation Lab - Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

24th Oct 2024
Having had our skis stolen, we wanted to design the ultimate AirTag ski and snowboard mount. It needed to be ultra-tough so it couldn't get knocked off, waterproof, hard to remove, and discreet. After a lot of design, testing, and iteration, we have TagVault Security Mount for...
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A Note On Charity Through Marginal Price Discrimination
11th Mar 2017
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A Note On Charity Through Marginal Price Discrimination

from Vitalik Buterin's website [alt+shift+b] in technology

11th Mar 2017
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Ori and the Blind Forest It is incorrect to describe this game as a melange of celeste and gris because of course this game...
5th May 2023
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Ori and the Blind Forest

from Applied Cartography [alt+shift+b] in technology

5th May 2023
It is incorrect to describe this game as a melange of celeste and gris because of course this game predates both of them. But that is where my mind went — this sort of "emotional platformer" — and this game is terrific, ten hours of beauty and challenge and fun and very sweet...
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Learning can be a waste of time Learning and studying isn’t universally a good thing. I found that saying “sometimes spending some...
13th Nov 2021
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Learning can be a waste of time

from Tiny struggles [alt+shift+b] in technology

13th Nov 2021
Learning and studying isn’t universally a good thing. I found that saying “sometimes spending some time studying and learning can be a waste of time” is very contentious. Especially in a quickly evolving tech environment. If you stop learning and become rigid in your ways, you...
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memories of .us How much do you remember from elementary school? I remember vinyl tile floors, the playground, the...
11th Nov 2025
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memories of .us

from computers are bad [alt+shift+b] in technology

11th Nov 2025
How much do you remember from elementary school? I remember vinyl tile floors, the playground, the teacher sentencing me to standing in the hallway. I had a teacher who was a chess fanatic; he painted a huge chess board in the paved schoolyard and got someone to fabricate big...
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Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 1. lisp to assembly Next in compiler basics: 2. user-defined functions and variables 3. LLVM 4. LLVM...
20th Nov 2018
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Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 1. lisp to assembly

from Notes on software development [alt+shift+b] in technology

20th Nov 2018
Next in compiler basics: 2. user-defined functions and variables 3. LLVM 4. LLVM conditionals and compiling fibonacci 5. LLVM system calls 6. an x86 upgrade In this post we'll write a simple compiler in Javascript (on Node) without any third-party libraries....
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Experiences running ZFS on Ubuntu Linux 12.04 I really like ZFS because with current data sets, I do believe that data corruption may start...
18th Oct 2012
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Experiences running ZFS on Ubuntu Linux 12.04

from Louwrentius - Solar [alt+shift+b] in technology

18th Oct 2012
I really like ZFS because with current data sets, I do believe that data corruption may start becoming an issue. The thing is that the license under which ZFS is released does not permit it to be used in the Linux kernel. That's quite unfortunate, but there is hope. There is a...
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In Defense of Bitcoin Maximalism
1st Apr 2022
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In Defense of Bitcoin Maximalism

from Vitalik Buterin's website [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Apr 2022
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Inside the Apollo "8-Ball" FDAI (Flight Director / Attitude Indicator) During the Apollo flights to the Moon, the astronauts observed the spacecraft's orientation on a...
14th Jun 2025
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Inside the Apollo "8-Ball" FDAI (Flight Director / Attitude Indicator)

from Ken Shirriff's blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

14th Jun 2025
During the Apollo flights to the Moon, the astronauts observed the spacecraft's orientation on a special instrument called the FDAI (Flight Director / Attitude Indicator). This instrument showed the spacecraft's attitude—its orientation—by rotating a ball. This ball was nicknamed...
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Survey: What’s in your tech stack? We want to capture an accurate snapshot of software engineering, today – and need your help! Tell us...
18th Mar 2025
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Survey: What’s in your tech stack?

from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in technology

18th Mar 2025
We want to capture an accurate snapshot of software engineering, today – and need your help! Tell us about your tech stack and get early access to the final report, plus extra analysis
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Braindump Sometimes, getting it all down on paper helps me think through things. This is that, a complete...
21st Oct 2020
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Braindump

from Yazin Alirhayim [alt+shift+b] in technology

21st Oct 2020
Sometimes, getting it all down on paper helps me think through things. This is that, a complete brain dump.
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I've reached the self-hosting endgame Setup After I had a perfectly functional, quiet and performant server up and running, I fell victim...
23rd May 2021
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I've reached the self-hosting endgame

from ./techtipsy [alt+shift+b] in technology

23rd May 2021
Setup After I had a perfectly functional, quiet and performant server up and running, I fell victim to my imagination and completely changed my self-hosting setup. Again. Here it is, in all its glory: Well, at least that’s what’s on the table. This machine is a true all-in-one:...
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Game of Thrones Okay, so, Game of Thrones.
28th Dec 2019
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Game of Thrones

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

28th Dec 2019
Okay, so, Game of Thrones.
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'Linux: show graphical layout of disk temperatures' graphic, representation To get a visual representation of hard drive temperatures, I wrote a...
3rd Jan 2010
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'Linux: show graphical layout of disk temperatures'

from Louwrentius - Solar [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Jan 2010
graphic, representation To get a visual representation of hard drive temperatures, I wrote a small script. The output of this script looks like this: This output is tailored to the exact disk lay-out of my storage server. However, it is also usable for other servers. You have to...
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COVID-19 temperature correlation A user on needgap posted a problem of not being able to find graphs showing confirmed COVID-19 cases...
11th Mar 2020
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COVID-19 temperature correlation

from Abishek Muthian [alt+shift+b] in technology

11th Mar 2020
A user on needgap posted a problem of not being able to find graphs showing confirmed COVID-19 cases and local weather data such as temperature. The reason for reputed agencies not publishing such graph is likely to prevent misinformation and possibly to avoid governments getting...
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Hannah and her Sisters I came in with high hopes: I like Allen's ouevre and this was supposed to be one of his best.
2nd Sep 2020
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Hannah and her Sisters

from Applied Cartography [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Sep 2020
I came in with high hopes: I like Allen's ouevre and this was supposed to be one of his best.
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This Kenyan engineer modernizes vintage cars with a custom ECU and EFI upgrades The automotive industry’s switch from carburetion to fuel injection was one of the most effective...
1st Oct 2024
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This Kenyan engineer modernizes vintage cars with a custom ECU and EFI upgrades

from Arduino Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Oct 2024
The automotive industry’s switch from carburetion to fuel injection was one of the most effective advancements of the 20th century. Electronic fuel injection allows for precise control over an internal combustion engine’s air-fuel mixture, which dramatically improves fuel...
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TIL: Fixing Broken Social Share Images in Twitter/X I have an admission to make. Social share images for Pika were broken on Twitter/X, LinkedIn, and...
12th Nov 2024
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TIL: Fixing Broken Social Share Images in Twitter/X

from Good Enough [alt+shift+b] in technology

12th Nov 2024
I have an admission to make. Social share images for Pika were broken on Twitter/X, LinkedIn, and Apple Messages for months. And it made me sad. But in the past few months we got it fixed. And that made me very happy! We really love our Pika social share images. They are pretty....
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Whoop strap review: 24/7 wearable sensor
30th Dec 2019
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Whoop strap review: 24/7 wearable sensor

from Willem's Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

30th Dec 2019
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Understanding Windows KMS and MAK volume license activation Introduction If you have to administer a large number of PCs running Windows, you will end up...
9th Jun 2012
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Understanding Windows KMS and MAK volume license activation

from Louwrentius - Solar [alt+shift+b] in technology

9th Jun 2012
Introduction If you have to administer a large number of PCs running Windows, you will end up creating an automated deployment platform for your Windows clients. You may implement something like Windows Deployment Services. I used WDS to create a fully automated installation of...
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Camera Genealogica (Part 1) I’m very much into genealogy. I came to realize that my interest was more specifically as a kind of...
30th Jul 2025
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Camera Genealogica (Part 1)

from Engineers Need Art [alt+shift+b] in technology

30th Jul 2025
I’m very much into genealogy. I came to realize that my interest was more specifically as a kind of photograph genealogist.
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How good old mud can lower building costs Builders pour concrete into temporary molds called formwork. MIT researchers invented a way to make...
24th Jan 2025
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How good old mud can lower building costs

from MIT News - Civil and environmental engineering [alt+shift+b] in technology

24th Jan 2025
Builders pour concrete into temporary molds called formwork. MIT researchers invented a way to make these structures out of on-site soil.
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You are not your grand plans “You are not your grand plans. You are your daily patterns.” I love this quote from James Clear...
11th Jul 2026
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You are not your grand plans

from Bryan Braun - Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

11th Jul 2026
“You are not your grand plans. You are your daily patterns.” I love this quote from James Clear because it hurts me in all the right ways. At my worst, I feel like my daily patterns are at war with my grand plans. When I’m fighting a daily battle and willpower is slipping, I need...
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Why doesn't Apple make a standalone Touch ID? Why doesn't Apple make a standalone Touch ID? I finally upgraded to a mechanical...
3rd Dec 2025
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Why doesn't Apple make a standalone Touch ID?

from Jeff Geerling [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Dec 2025
Why doesn't Apple make a standalone Touch ID? I finally upgraded to a mechanical keyboard. But because Apple's so protective of their Touch ID hardware, there aren't any mechanical keyboards with that feature built in. But there is a way to hack it. It's incredibly...
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