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17th Jun 2023
Classical virtualisation rules applied to RISC-style atomics In 1974, Gerald Popek and Robert Goldberg published a paper, “Formal Requirements for Virtualizable...
15th May 2022
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Classical virtualisation rules applied to RISC-style atomics

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

15th May 2022
In 1974, Gerald Popek and Robert Goldberg published a paper, “Formal Requirements for Virtualizable Third Generation Architectures”, giving a set of characteristics for correct full-machine virtualisation. Today, these characteristics remain very useful. Computer architects will...
Configuring SCST iSCSI target on Debian Linux (Wheezy) My goal is to export ZFS zvol volumes through iSCSI to other machines. The platform I'm using is...
1st Feb 2015
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Configuring SCST iSCSI target on Debian Linux (Wheezy)

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

1st Feb 2015
My goal is to export ZFS zvol volumes through iSCSI to other machines. The platform I'm using is Debian Wheezy. There are three iSCSI target solutions available for Linux: LIO IET SCST I've briefly played with LIO but the targetcli tool is interactive only. If you want to...
Death, and Utsuge This post discusses topics some may wish to avoid: terminal illness, hospice care, death, and...
1st Nov 2024
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Death, and Utsuge

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

1st Nov 2024
This post discusses topics some may wish to avoid: terminal illness, hospice care, death, and Japanese visual novels.
24th Nov 2016
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मसान (Masaan)

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

24th Nov 2016
Embedding the Sky Two projects at the intersection of geospatial data and AI. First, a semantic search engine for...
27th Feb 2026
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Embedding the Sky

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

27th Feb 2026
Two projects at the intersection of geospatial data and AI. First, a semantic search engine for aerial imagery, fine-tuned on OpenStreetMap-tagged data. Second, WARP—a custom neural model that learns embeddings of aircraft flight trajectories, trained on roughly a million...
March 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter 2 major new site features: 'popins' and recursive Wikipedia popups
6th Apr 2021
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March 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter

from Gwern.net Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Apr 2021
2 major new site features: 'popins' and recursive Wikipedia popups
The Whirlpool of the Artificial There are many processes now subsumed under the term “Artificial Intelligence.” The reason we’re...
21st Oct 2024
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The Whirlpool of the Artificial

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

21st Oct 2024
There are many processes now subsumed under the term “Artificial Intelligence.” The reason we’re talking about it now, though, is that the websites are doing things we never thought websites could do.
Shop vac becomes a Roomba on steroids A robotic vacuum, such as a Roomba, offers a lot of convenience. Instead of having to vacuum and...
29th Apr 2024
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Shop vac becomes a Roomba on steroids

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

29th Apr 2024
A robotic vacuum, such as a Roomba, offers a lot of convenience. Instead of having to vacuum and sweep your own floors, you have a little maid robot to do the job for you. But these devices have very little power and capacity, which makes them useless for anything other than...
Adam74 The Adam74 is a small ASCII-based terminal designed for the 8-bit hobbyist.
21st Aug 2022
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Adam74

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

21st Aug 2022
The Adam74 is a small ASCII-based terminal designed for the 8-bit hobbyist.
Studying foreign languages with inbox zero The only time I've been able to seriously, rapidly improve my ability to speak a foreign language...
4th Apr 2020
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Studying foreign languages with inbox zero

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

4th Apr 2020
The only time I've been able to seriously, rapidly improve my ability to speak a foreign language was through intensive language courses in college. I was forced to actively speak, read, and write Chinese for 6-8 hours a week (1-2 hours every day). Then study another 5-10 hours a...
Building the blog... in style! One must be a bit crazy to come up with the idea to build a blog (as in: actual programming) on an...
22nd Jun 2016
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Building the blog... in style!

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

22nd Jun 2016
One must be a bit crazy to come up with the idea to build a blog (as in: actual programming) on an old 486 laptop with just 16MB RAM. I happen to be that crazy: I took my very first laptop from the 90s and decided to find out if it was possible to turn it into a development...
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?...
18th Jun 2021
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Verkle trees

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

18th Jun 2021
How to use a Phase One H20 digital back on a medium format Hasselblad V camera (500EL/M) My newest purchase was a bit of a gamble. I bought a $500 Phase One H20 digital back for my...
1st Jan 2021
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1st Jan 2021
My newest purchase was a bit of a gamble. I bought a $500 Phase One H20 digital back for my Hasselblad 500EL/M medium format camera. Or, simply put, I bought an expensive old gadget for my even older analog camera, making it a digital camera. A gadget that was released in the...
Control Loops and Rice Cookers Rice cookers are fascinating machines. I’ve owned one for years, as rice is a significant part of my...
8th Dec 2021
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Control Loops and Rice Cookers

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

8th Dec 2021
Rice cookers are fascinating machines. I’ve owned one for years, as rice is a significant part of my regular diet, and it completely removes the stress of preparing rice. They also operate on a simple principle that can help us operate cloud infrastructure – the control loop.
Objectivity is superstition An objective, external world is a non-falsifiable assumption. The prevailing theory is that our...
17th Mar 2025
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Objectivity is superstition

from Daniel De Laney [alt+shift+b] in technology

17th Mar 2025
An objective, external world is a non-falsifiable assumption. The prevailing theory is that our subjective experiences correspond to an external reality. However, they may simply be subjective through and through. That which we claim to be evidence of external reality is actually...
A Hardware Interposer to Fix the Symmetricom SyncServer S200 GPS Week Number Rollover Problem Introduction IMPORTANT: Use the Right GPS Antenna! The Problem: SyncServer Refuses to Lock to...
18th Aug 2024
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18th Aug 2024
Introduction IMPORTANT: Use the Right GPS Antenna! The Problem: SyncServer Refuses to Lock to GPS The GPS Week Number Rollover Issue Making the Furuno GT-8031 Work Again How It Works Build Instructions Power Supply Recapping The Future: A Software-Only Solution The...
The banality of surveillance Do our dull lives become worth watching?
6th Mar 2026
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The banality of surveillance

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

6th Mar 2026
Do our dull lives become worth watching?
A Year With the Mini M Just over a year ago I got my Unicomp Model M Mini, a newly manufactured version of what is in my...
1st Jan 2026
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A Year With the Mini M

from Open for Business [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Jan 2026
Just over a year ago I got my Unicomp Model M Mini, a newly manufactured version of what is in my estimation the best computer keyboard ever, the IBM Model M SSK. The Minis and the SSKs are like a regular IBM Model M, but they don’t have a number pad at the right, so I can put...
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 Writing [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...
Moving private repositories to Bitbucket Long overdue, I recently moved my private repositories from Github to Bitbucket. Github is great of...
10th Oct 2012
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Moving private repositories to Bitbucket

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

10th Oct 2012
Long overdue, I recently moved my private repositories from Github to Bitbucket. Github is great of courseand they even gave me a free students account and I still host all my public repositories there. Still, Bitbucket has unlimited free private repositories for up to 5 users...
Hitachi Ltd, Part I Kabushikigaisha Hitachi Seisaku-sho
23rd Mar 2026
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Hitachi Ltd, Part I

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

23rd Mar 2026
Kabushikigaisha Hitachi Seisaku-sho
From nanoscale to global scale: Advancing MIT’s special initiatives in manufacturing, health, and... MIT.nano cleanroom complex named after Robert Noyce PhD ’53 at the 2025 Nano Summit.
13th Nov 2025
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From nanoscale to global scale: Advancing MIT’s special initiatives in manufacturing, health, and climate

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

13th Nov 2025
MIT.nano cleanroom complex named after Robert Noyce PhD ’53 at the 2025 Nano Summit.
Being John Malkovich I had held off on watching Being John Malkovich for a while, mostly because I think I had a pretty...
1st Feb 2025
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Being John Malkovich

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Feb 2025
I had held off on watching Being John Malkovich for a while, mostly because I think I had a pretty good idea of what it was and, while I wanted to watch it at some point, it never felt particularly urgent. (The vision in my head was a sort of Bosch painting filled with John...
Can analysis ever be automated? The catch-22 of all these AI analysts. Plus, go crazy folks; go crazy.
1st Aug 2025
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Can analysis ever be automated?

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

1st Aug 2025
The catch-22 of all these AI analysts. Plus, go crazy folks; go crazy.
How to find insights Excel, still invincible!
2 weeks ago
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How to find insights

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

2 weeks ago
Excel, still invincible!
Is it worth writing about? You acquire a skill or experience through time and effort, then downplay the impact of writing and...
1st Dec 2022
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Is it worth writing about?

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

1st Dec 2022
You acquire a skill or experience through time and effort, then downplay the impact of writing and sharing the learning process. Professionals seem naturally to imagine a high bar for what is worth writing about. I think that's misguided. This article is not criticism of folks...
Using a budget Android as main smartphone I switched to Android to find out how good a budget smartphone performs compared to an expensive...
8th Oct 2018
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Using a budget Android as main smartphone

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

8th Oct 2018
I switched to Android to find out how good a budget smartphone performs compared to an expensive iPhone.
I designed my own keyboard layout. Was it worth it? Almost two and a half years ago I embarked on the journey to change keyboard layout. At first I...
2nd Nov 2023
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I designed my own keyboard layout. Was it worth it?

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

2nd Nov 2023
Almost two and a half years ago I embarked on the journey to change keyboard layout. At first I tried out existing ones, but it didn’t take long before I figured it’s better to develop my own—and things went downhill fast from there. (Some) combos of the T-34 layout. But now...
How I treat my urge to hoard data The tagline for /r/datahoarder reads: “It’s A Digital Disease!”. I agree. At some point I realized...
8th Mar 2022
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How I treat my urge to hoard data

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

8th Mar 2022
The tagline for /r/datahoarder reads: “It’s A Digital Disease!”. I agree. At some point I realized that the pursuit to hoard all the things will just keep on consuming more and more of my time and money. Storage is cheap up until to a point, once you find yourself tracking hard...
Exercise while you game with this interactive treadmill add-on Motion-based controls for games have been around for decades, but even with the latest generation of...
2nd Sep 2024
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Exercise while you game with this interactive treadmill add-on

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

2nd Sep 2024
Motion-based controls for games have been around for decades, but even with the latest generation of virtual reality headsets, gaming is still done with relatively limited movement unless one has access to an expensive VR walking/running setup. As an effort to get more physical...
In defense of GitHub's poor uptime In short: GitHub’s downtime is bad, but uptime numbers can be misleading. It’s not as bad as it...
10th Apr 2026
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In defense of GitHub's poor uptime

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

10th Apr 2026
In short: GitHub’s downtime is bad, but uptime numbers can be misleading. It’s not as bad as it looks; more like a D than an F. “Zero nines uptime”? 99.99% uptime, or “four nines”, is a common industry standard. Four nines of uptime is equivalent to 1.008 minutes of downtime per...
My lil' Ghostty terminal config I wrote about Ghosty last week, and since then I've played around with it enough to know it's my new...
3rd Jan 2025
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My lil' Ghostty terminal config

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Jan 2025
I wrote about Ghosty last week, and since then I've played around with it enough to know it's my new terminal emulator of choice. For me the killer feature is how fast it is, putting the most popular apps to shame (Apple Terminal and iTerm, specifically)
Android Shmup Six months ago I released the source code of "SHMUP": a modest indie 3D shoot'em up designed for...
23rd Feb 2012
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Android Shmup

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

23rd Feb 2012
Six months ago I released the source code of "SHMUP": a modest indie 3D shoot'em up designed for iOS. Since it did honorably on the Apple Appstore I offered anyone to port it to Android Appmarket for a 50/50 revenues split. Two developers consecutively took on the challenge only...
Netrunner Spring Tournament There was another, smaller, netrunner tournament about a week ago. I was looking forward to a very...
4th May 2015
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Netrunner Spring Tournament

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

4th May 2015
There was another, smaller, netrunner tournament about a week ago. I was looking forward to a very casual setting but there were also some guys who came from… Västerås I think, but I’m not sure. We managed to scrape together 9 people at least, and I didn’t notice anyone bringing...
Dig for dummies When you're building websites, apps or email services you may run into domain names and their...
23rd May 2019
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Dig for dummies

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

23rd May 2019
When you're building websites, apps or email services you may run into domain names and their configurations. When everything is working as it should, most of this is invisible. But when troubleshooting a domain name configuration, it may be necessary to dig a little deeper......
Master of the Senate I’m going to dispense with the usual reverence for Caro — not because I don’t think this book merits...
1st May 2022
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Master of the Senate

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st May 2022
I’m going to dispense with the usual reverence for Caro — not because I don’t think this book merits it, but because I think I’ve covered that enough in my postscripts to Path to Power and Means of Ascent.
Pinterest open sources Pinball Pinterest just open sourced Pinball which seems like an interesting Luigi alternative. There's two...
14th Mar 2015
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Pinterest open sources Pinball

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

14th Mar 2015
Pinterest just open sourced Pinball which seems like an interesting Luigi alternative. There's two blog posts: Pinball: Building workflow management (from 2014) and Open-sourcing Pinball (from this week). The author has a comment in the comments thread on Hacker News:
How to make digital copies of your old video tapes Introduction This is a short overview of one way to take your old video tapes and make digital...
27th Dec 2020
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How to make digital copies of your old video tapes

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

27th Dec 2020
Introduction This is a short overview of one way to take your old video tapes and make digital copies of their contents. To get started, you will need the following: old video tapes that you want to make copies of (VHS and its variants) a device that can read analog AV signals...
2023-06-02 the reinvention of owens lake Programming note: In an effort to introduce an exciting new social aspect to Computers Are Bad (a...
2nd Jun 2023
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2023-06-02 the reinvention of owens lake

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

2nd Jun 2023
Programming note: In an effort to introduce an exciting new social aspect to Computers Are Bad (a functional necessity to appease early-stage investor demands for "engagement")¸ I am launching a Matrix room for CAB readers. You can join it! Do whatever you do to join rooms in...
Pareto efficency Pareto efficiency is a useful concept I like to think about. It often comes up when you compare...
25th Oct 2016
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Pareto efficency

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

25th Oct 2016
Pareto efficiency is a useful concept I like to think about. It often comes up when you compare items on multiple dimensions. Say you want to buy a new TV. To simplify it let's assume you only care about two factors: price and quality.
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!...
Home office renovation When we moved back to our childhood community and bought a house I had one pretty big requirement: I...
1st Mar 2019
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Home office renovation

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

1st Mar 2019
When we moved back to our childhood community and bought a house I had one pretty big requirement: I had to have a home office as I need to work remote. There simply isn’t any software development work for me here. So the later part of 2018 and early 2019 we’ve renovated an old...
Jan 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter January 2021 gwern.net newsletter with links on AI scaling up and down.
4th Feb 2021
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Jan 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter

from Gwern.net Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Feb 2021
January 2021 gwern.net newsletter with links on AI scaling up and down.
The New Economic Reality: It's Still Your Money at the Bank Whether you're an economist or not, a financial professional or not, it's still your money that's...
1st Jun 2025
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The New Economic Reality: It's Still Your Money at the Bank

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

1st Jun 2025
Whether you're an economist or not, a financial professional or not, it's still your money that's being affected. Like many people, I've avoided looking at my 401k these past few weeks. Well, I peeked, and it's all in the red. There are so many interpretations of what's going on....
Death to the Forum Well it was fun while it lasted, but now it’s gone and it’ll stay gone for a long time I think. It...
2nd Apr 2010
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Death to the Forum

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

2nd Apr 2010
Well it was fun while it lasted, but now it’s gone and it’ll stay gone for a long time I think. It was mainly a test to see if I could do it and I’m really proud of my styling of it but it’s deader than in a grave, which isn’t really surprising, and it bothered me that I didn’t...
Repairing a Giro AEON bicycle helmet This month my trustworthy Giro Aeon bicycle helmet broke down! Normally I wouldn't hesitate to...
8th Jul 2020
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Repairing a Giro AEON bicycle helmet

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

8th Jul 2020
This month my trustworthy Giro Aeon bicycle helmet broke down! Normally I wouldn't hesitate to invest in safety and thus buying a new one. But I like the Aeon helmet so much that I went through some extra trouble to fix it. Read along to see how I did it. Giro Aeon The Giro Aeon...
Advent of Code in C++ Template Metaprogramming This December, the imp of the perverse struck me, and I decided to see how many days of Advent of...
8th Dec 2023
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Advent of Code in C++ Template Metaprogramming

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

8th Dec 2023
This December, the imp of the perverse struck me, and I decided to see how many days of Advent of Code I could do purely in compile-time C++ metaprogramming. As of this writing, I’ve done two days, and I’m not sure I’ll make it any further. However, that’s one more day than I...
The Comet’s Path: On Cycles of Presence and Withdrawal Some of us burn bright in moments of presence, then retreat to darker orbits. It's not...
2nd Dec 2024
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The Comet’s Path: On Cycles of Presence and Withdrawal

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

2nd Dec 2024
Some of us burn bright in moments of presence, then retreat to darker orbits. It's not antisocial—it's survival. A meditation on the natural rhythm of engagement and withdrawal.
Small Systems Engineering's PETSPEED Fast Enough for the Human Race
10th Jul 2024
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Small Systems Engineering's PETSPEED

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

10th Jul 2024
Fast Enough for the Human Race
USA 250 This auspicious 250th Independence Day, I find myself thinking of what Om wrote in iAMerican when he...
5th Jul 2026
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USA 250

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

5th Jul 2026
This auspicious 250th Independence Day, I find myself thinking of what Om wrote in iAMerican when he became a US citizen in 2013. On a globe, America is a landmass, a country. In an immigrant’s heart it is a belief that future is almost always better. It may not be perfect and it...
DSLogic U3Pro16 Review and Teardown Introduction The DSLogic U3Pro16 In the Box Probe Cables and Clips The Controller Hardware The Input...
12th Apr 2025
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DSLogic U3Pro16 Review and Teardown

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

12th Apr 2025
Introduction The DSLogic U3Pro16 In the Box Probe Cables and Clips The Controller Hardware The Input Circuit Impact of Input Circuit on Circuit Under Test Additional IOs: External Clock, Trigger In, Trigger Out Software: From Saleae Logic to PulseView to DSView Installing DSView...
The Scriptovision Super Micro Script video titler is almost a home computer Notwithstanding filmed art and transparencies, early static television titles were generated by...
8th Feb 2026
1

The Scriptovision Super Micro Script video titler is almost a home computer

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

8th Feb 2026
Notwithstanding filmed art and transparencies, early static television titles were generated by monoscopes, modified cathode ray tubes that fired their electron guns at embedded plates marked with a metallized image. These units then assimilated the reflected particles into a...
Running cheap and crappy USB hard drives in RAID0 is indeed a very terrible idea Some of my dumb experiments result in interesting findings and unexpected successes. Some end up...
14th Jan 2026
1
14th Jan 2026
Some of my dumb experiments result in interesting findings and unexpected successes. Some end up with very predictable failures. What happens when you have two crappy USB hard drives running btrfs1 in raid0 mode? Nothing, until something goes wrong on one of the drives. Here’s...
Threads “You’re an interesting species. An interesting mix. You’re capable of such beautiful dreams, and...
14th Oct 2018
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Threads

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

14th Oct 2018
“You’re an interesting species. An interesting mix. You’re capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost…
On joining Payfort “How hard could it possibly be?”, I remember thinking. Boy was I in for a treat.
24th Jul 2015
1

On joining Payfort

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

24th Jul 2015
“How hard could it possibly be?”, I remember thinking. Boy was I in for a treat.
My 71 TiB ZFS NAS after 10 years and zero drive failures My 4U 71 TiB ZFS NAS built with twenty-four 4 TB drives is over 10 years old and still going...
14th Sep 2024
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My 71 TiB ZFS NAS after 10 years and zero drive failures

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

14th Sep 2024
My 4U 71 TiB ZFS NAS built with twenty-four 4 TB drives is over 10 years old and still going strong. Although now on its second motherboard and power supply, the system has yet to experience a single drive failure (knock on wood). Zero drive failures in ten years, how is that...
Creating a Robotics Experimentation Environment: My Experience and Practical Lessons Part 1 of a series on practical robotics experimentation As part of my journey into robotics, I...
13th Aug 2025
1
13th Aug 2025
Part 1 of a series on practical robotics experimentation As part of my journey into robotics, I found myself facing a classic problem: I wanted to experiment with different learning approaches for robotic manipulation, but I needed a flexible playground where I could quickly test...
16th Jul 2017
25

The Triangle of Harm

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

16th Jul 2017
Real Estate Idea This isn't a particular idea, but a possibility. I've had very little experience with real estate,...
2nd Jul 2017
1

Real Estate Idea

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

2nd Jul 2017
This isn't a particular idea, but a possibility. I've had very little experience with real estate, but I'm sure there's a way to make it at least 10x better, either for the buyer or for the agents themselves.
The Hunting Gun A slim, potent, and dense novella. The easy (lazy) comparison is to rashomon, and the way we see...
15th Jul 2018
1

The Hunting Gun

from Applied Cartography [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...
How software engineering is changing: an essay challenge The pace of change in software engineering is only accelerating, especially since January of this...
2 weeks ago
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How software engineering is changing: an essay challenge

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

2 weeks ago
The pace of change in software engineering is only accelerating, especially since January of this year. This is all to do with the industry-wide adoption of LLMs, AI tooling, and AI infrastructure. At The Pragmatic Engineer, we always want to capture as much of what’s going on
Hedley Davis has died A more obscure Commodore employee (where he apparently met his wife), but still quite influential...
17th Mar 2026
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Hedley Davis has died

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

17th Mar 2026
A more obscure Commodore employee (where he apparently met his wife), but still quite influential during the Amiga era. Along with more pedestrian units such as the Amiga 3000 and the monochrome Amiga 2024 monitor, my favourite device he worked on was the 1987 prototype SX-500....
Talking tablets: what makes a great tablet? Earlier this year Microsoft released their brand new Surface Pro X tablet computer, in many ways...
13th Apr 2020
1

Talking tablets: what makes a great tablet?

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

13th Apr 2020
Earlier this year Microsoft released their brand new Surface Pro X tablet computer, in many ways this is a forward thinking device. As I like working with tablets I wondered what exactly makes a great tablet? Is Surface Pro X any good? Read along to find out. Surface Pro X Unlike...
Build your own handheld retro console with the Arduino® UNO™ Q board Arduino® Project Hub has featured a lot of DIY handheld consoles on this blog over the years. Most...
6th Aug 2026
1

Build your own handheld retro console with the Arduino® UNO™ Q board

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

6th Aug 2026
Arduino® Project Hub has featured a lot of DIY handheld consoles on this blog over the years. Most of them are impressive, and most of them require at least some custom hardware – a purpose-designed PCB, a specialized connector, a part you can only get from one supplier. They’re...
Leaving Spotify Febrary 6 was my last day at Spotify. In total I spent more than six years at Spotify and it was an...
11th Feb 2015
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Leaving Spotify

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

11th Feb 2015
Febrary 6 was my last day at Spotify. In total I spent more than six years at Spotify and it was an amazing experience. I joined Spotify in Stockholm in 2008, mainly because a bunch of friends from programming competitions had joined already.
Better Laptop This post is a quick rundown of assembling my new Framework 13 laptop, why I chose this brand and...
9th Feb 2025
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Better Laptop

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

9th Feb 2025
This post is a quick rundown of assembling my new Framework 13 laptop, why I chose this brand and what's next.
The AI Bubble Is Bursting My surprisingly frustrating experience with Google force enabling Gemini AI on Workspaces.
20th Jan 2025
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The AI Bubble Is Bursting

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

20th Jan 2025
My surprisingly frustrating experience with Google force enabling Gemini AI on Workspaces.
Optical vs chest strap heart rate monitors Understanding the differences in common HR monitors used in wearables, smartwatches and fitness...
14th Jul 2019
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Optical vs chest strap heart rate monitors

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

14th Jul 2019
Understanding the differences in common HR monitors used in wearables, smartwatches and fitness trackers
So, You Want To Build A DBaaS Part 2: Technical Bits In my first post in this pseudo-series, we covered more of the theory and organisational practices...
21st May 2023
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So, You Want To Build A DBaaS Part 2: Technical Bits

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

21st May 2023
In my first post in this pseudo-series, we covered more of the theory and organisational practices around building and operating a database-as-a-service platform. In this post, I’ll cover some of the more technical aspects of this that I think are worth considering, drawn from my...
Commuter bike checkup This week my trustworthy commuter bike started making strange squeaking noises when braking. It has...
9th Jan 2021
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Commuter bike checkup

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

9th Jan 2021
This week my trustworthy commuter bike started making strange squeaking noises when braking. It has been just over three years since I started cycling on it. People frequently ask me how the bike is performing and how the Gates Carbon CDX belt drive is doing? Time to have a look...
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.
Train Simulator Controller: Inside an AWS Sunflower In my first post about the Train Simulator Controller project, I introduced the Automated Warning...
20th May 2023
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Train Simulator Controller: Inside an AWS Sunflower

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

20th May 2023
In my first post about the Train Simulator Controller project, I introduced the Automated Warning System (AWS) on most of the UK trains that I drive in Train Simulator. This safety system is designed to warn drivers of restricting (non-green) signals, often because there’s a...
12th Aug 2024
Pea Bee #7: Planned Obsolescence A few weeks ago, my laptop stopped working.
16th Sep 2021
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Pea Bee #7: Planned Obsolescence

from Pea Bee [alt+shift+b] in technology

16th Sep 2021
A few weeks ago, my laptop stopped working.
Good Things Take Time A crypto whitepill with Bridget Harris
22nd Aug 2024
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Good Things Take Time

from Greater Still by Gaby Goldberg [alt+shift+b] in technology

22nd Aug 2024
A crypto whitepill with Bridget Harris
Knuckle typing in mixed reality just makes sense While mixed reality — virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) — has come a long way in...
5th May 2025
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Knuckle typing in mixed reality just makes sense

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

5th May 2025
While mixed reality — virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) — has come a long way in recent years, there are still a lot of challenges that developers struggle to overcome in a practical and user-friendly way. Typing is one example and current virtual keyboard...
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.
Writing a minimal in-memory storage engine for MySQL/MariaDB I spent a week looking at MySQL/MariaDB internals along with ~80 other devs. Although MySQL and...
9th Jan 2024
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Writing a minimal in-memory storage engine for MySQL/MariaDB

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

9th Jan 2024
I spent a week looking at MySQL/MariaDB internals along with ~80 other devs. Although MySQL and MariaDB are mostly the same (more on that later), I focused on MariaDB specifically this week. Before last week I had never built MySQL/MariaDB before. The first day of this hack week,...
Letter with no subject :name-retracted: wrote - Hi Himanshu, Congratulations from the bottom of my heart for joining...
5th Jun 2020
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Letter with no subject

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

5th Jun 2020
:name-retracted: wrote - Hi Himanshu, Congratulations from the bottom of my heart for joining Spotify. We really miss you at college. You're…
#16: The case of fake IMDb credits I was casually browsing IMDb when I landed on the page for an upcoming Ranbir Kapoor starrer movie...
7th Aug 2022
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#16: The case of fake IMDb credits

from Pea Bee [alt+shift+b] in technology

7th Aug 2022
I was casually browsing IMDb when I landed on the page for an upcoming Ranbir Kapoor starrer movie “Animal”.
I'm running a programming contest I'm running a programming contest I've spent the last few months working with friends to design the...
24th Jul 2026
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I'm running a programming contest

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

24th Jul 2026
I'm running a programming contest I've spent the last few months working with friends to design the 29th annual ICFP programming contest. Designing a programming contest in a world with AI agents is tricky! I think we've made some interesting choices here. Read the full post on...
Made in 2024 Here are some things I made in 2024: Music Box Fun: Advanced Editing (a new major feature): ...
1st Jan 2025
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Made in 2024

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

1st Jan 2025
Here are some things I made in 2024: Music Box Fun: Advanced Editing (a new major feature): Adds multiple-note selection for bulk operations on notes (like deletion, copy/paste, nudging and dragging) Also includes a “space editor” for arbitrarily adding/removing space...
Functional programming is the libertarianism of software engineering This is a pretty dumb post, in which I argue that functional programming has a lot of the bad parts...
10th Jan 2017
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Functional programming is the libertarianism of software engineering

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

10th Jan 2017
This is a pretty dumb post, in which I argue that functional programming has a lot of the bad parts of libertarianism and a lot of the good parts: Both ideologies strive to eliminate [the] state.
Packing Neovim with Fennel I’ve got lots of stuff to do but I ended up rewriting my Neovim config instead. … anyone can do...
29th Oct 2025
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Packing Neovim with Fennel

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

29th Oct 2025
I’ve got lots of stuff to do but I ended up rewriting my Neovim config instead. … anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment. Robert Benchley, in Chips off the Old Benchley, 1949 My partner Veronica is amazing as...
A writer's autobiography (Just not mine.)
1st Feb 2023
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A writer's autobiography

from detreville [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Feb 2023
(Just not mine.)
Life lessons after one year at Rostra Today marks one year at Rostra, where I’ve had the incredible privilege of working alongside Lulu...
16th Sep 2025
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Life lessons after one year at Rostra

from Greater Still by Gaby Goldberg [alt+shift+b] in technology

16th Sep 2025
Today marks one year at Rostra, where I’ve had the incredible privilege of working alongside Lulu Meservey to help some of the most consequential companies of our time tell their stories.
Study of facial bacteria could lead to probiotics that promote healthy skin During the early teen years, many new strains of C. acnes colonize the skin on our faces. This could...
1st May 2025
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Study of facial bacteria could lead to probiotics that promote healthy skin

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

1st May 2025
During the early teen years, many new strains of C. acnes colonize the skin on our faces. This could be an optimal time for probiotic treatment.
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...
I prefer boring technologies When I start new projects I try to build them with boring technologies that I used before and I try...
30th Dec 2021
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I prefer boring technologies

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

30th Dec 2021
When I start new projects I try to build them with boring technologies that I used before and I try to limit picking up new libraries, tools and technologies to a minimum. This is because I want to build actual products and not to do projects for the sake of learning exciting...
Privacy Policy The legal terms mentioned here covers abishekmuthian.com and products which explicitly link to this...
1st Jan 2001
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Privacy Policy

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

1st Jan 2001
The legal terms mentioned here covers abishekmuthian.com and products which explicitly link to this legal page. For legal terms of my individual products please refer to the legal section on their respective websites. Privacy Policy What personal data are collected and why its...
Vote for our SXSW panel! If you have a few minutes, you should check out mine and Chris Johnson‘s panel proposal. Go here and...
4th Sep 2013
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Vote for our SXSW panel!

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

4th Sep 2013
If you have a few minutes, you should check out mine and Chris Johnson‘s panel proposal. Go here and vote: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/24504 Algorithmic Music Discovery at Spotify ****Spotify crunches hundreds of billions of streams to analyze user's music taste and provide...
The Godfather It has taken me far too long to watch The Godfather, and having finished it I find myself slightly...
6th Feb 2023
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The Godfather

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Feb 2023
It has taken me far too long to watch The Godfather, and having finished it I find myself slightly deflated — because it is a tremendous movie, worthy of its status in both the American and cinematic anons, and every line and meme which has etched itself into the collective...
Confessions of a programmer: I hate code review Most of the projects I've been working on today have fairly strict code review policies. My work...
6th Jun 2010
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Confessions of a programmer: I hate code review

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

6th Jun 2010
Most of the projects I've been working on today have fairly strict code review policies. My work requires code review on most of our code, and as we bring on an army of interns for the summer, I've been responsible for reviewing lots of code. Additionally, about five months ago...
The Tandy Corporation, Part 2 Trash-80s get Colorful, and Trash-80s get into your pockets
2nd Jun 2025
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The Tandy Corporation, Part 2

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

2nd Jun 2025
Trash-80s get Colorful, and Trash-80s get into your pockets
Virtual Precision Clock [Software] Pacify that pining for precision
13th May 2026
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Virtual Precision Clock

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

13th May 2026
[Software] Pacify that pining for precision
Designing a personal Pebble watchface I recently got a Pebble Time 2 as it seemed like a fun smartwatch away from Google/Apple/Samsung...
26th Jun 2026
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Designing a personal Pebble watchface

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

26th Jun 2026
I recently got a Pebble Time 2 as it seemed like a fun smartwatch away from Google/Apple/Samsung with a good 4 weeks of battery life. One thing I wanted to do is to create a custom watchface for my specific problems. It took more effort to design the watch than I had anticipated...
Anatomy of a change Exactly a year ago today, I changed something about myself that had been part of my life for ten...
9th Apr 2026
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Anatomy of a change

from sibervepunk [alt+shift+b] in technology

9th Apr 2026
Exactly a year ago today, I changed something about myself that had been part of my life for ten years. What that "thing" is won’t be mentioned here, so as not to take the subject out of context, but I can tell you a few things about it. Because it had persisted for a decade, it...
15th Dec 2022
Designers Desk #1: Angelo Vilar Designer's Desk is a new series featuring the desk setups of artists, designers, and creators -...
8th Jun 2017
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Designers Desk #1: Angelo Vilar

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

8th Jun 2017
Designer's Desk is a new series featuring the desk setups of artists, designers, and creators - showcasing how they work and what their workspace looks like.   Angelo Vilar (AKA Ansirone) is an art director, animation designer, & illustrator based in Los Angeles. He keeps it...
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.
Homage to My Last Name How I build my custom error page with Next.js & Tailwind
25th Oct 2024
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Homage to My Last Name

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

25th Oct 2024
How I build my custom error page with Next.js & Tailwind
Stereographer Experimenting in stereo photography and I write an app to create old-fashioned stereoscopic cards.
5th Aug 2024
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Stereographer

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

5th Aug 2024
Experimenting in stereo photography and I write an app to create old-fashioned stereoscopic cards.
Six months with MCADD It's six months since our son was born with MCADD, a good moment to reflect upon the experience of...
23rd Jun 2019
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Six months with MCADD

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

23rd Jun 2019
It's six months since our son was born with MCADD, a good moment to reflect upon the experience of being a parent with some thoughts and tips.
Trying out VR on an AMD Ryzen 4000 series APU You may know that I really like small, efficient APU-based builds. At this point in time, they’re so...
4th May 2022
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Trying out VR on an AMD Ryzen 4000 series APU

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

4th May 2022
You may know that I really like small, efficient APU-based builds. At this point in time, they’re so close to being a viable mainstream option for gaming, especially the Ryzen 6000-series mobile APU-s. Forza Horizon 5, at 1080p high settings? Yes, they’re that good. I don’t have...
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?
3rd Oct 2025
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Introducing Juno for Apple Vision Pro YouTube is probably one of the parts of the internet I consume the most, so I was more than a little...
2nd Feb 2024
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Introducing Juno for Apple Vision Pro

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

2nd Feb 2024
YouTube is probably one of the parts of the internet I consume the most, so I was more than a little sad when YouTube announced that they don’t have plans to build a visionOS app, and disabled the option to load the iPad app. This leaves you with Safari, and the website is okay,...
Test suites as classifiers Suppose we have some codebase we’re considering applying some patch to, and which has a robust and...
1st Mar 2020
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Test suites as classifiers

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

1st Mar 2020
Suppose we have some codebase we’re considering applying some patch to, and which has a robust and maintained test suite. Considering the patch, we may ask, is this patch acceptable to apply and deploy. By this we mean to ask if the patch breaks any important functionality,...
Inside an Isotemp OCXO107-10 Oven Controlled Crystal Oscillator The Isotemp OCXO107-10 Gathering Information from time-nuts Getting It to Run On the Bench Inside...
26th Oct 2025
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Inside an Isotemp OCXO107-10 Oven Controlled Crystal Oscillator

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

26th Oct 2025
The Isotemp OCXO107-10 Gathering Information from time-nuts Getting It to Run On the Bench Inside the OCXO107-10 Looking Forward The Isotemp OCXO107-10 I spent $5 at the Silicon Valley Electronics Flea Market on an Isotemp OCXO107-10 oscillator. Compared to my other OCXOs, this...
8th Mar 2025
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Dithering in Colour

from Niklas Oberhuber’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

8th Mar 2025
2024-09-08 private lines I have been meaning, for some time, to write about common carrier switching arrangements (CCSAs)....
8th Sep 2024
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2024-09-08 private lines

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

8th Sep 2024
I have been meaning, for some time, to write about common carrier switching arrangements (CCSAs). These could be considered an early form of products like "virtual private ethernet:" a private telephone network that was served by the same switching machines that handled the...
Do people in Bahrain buy online? The story of Canvas.bh How I started a business to answer this simple question. The story of Canvas.bh
9th Sep 2014
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Do people in Bahrain buy online? The story of Canvas.bh

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

9th Sep 2014
How I started a business to answer this simple question. The story of Canvas.bh
Technology you don’t have to think about “Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without...
28th Mar 2025
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Technology you don’t have to think about

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

28th Mar 2025
“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.” – Alfred North Whitehead Effective technology takes our most time-consuming tasks and moves them into the background so we can focus on other important...
The Raspberry Pi 5 is no match for a tini-mini-micro PC I've always been fond of the idea of the Raspberry Pi. An energy efficient, small, cheap but capable...
16th Jun 2024
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The Raspberry Pi 5 is no match for a tini-mini-micro PC

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

16th Jun 2024
I've always been fond of the idea of the Raspberry Pi. An energy efficient, small, cheap but capable computer. An ideal home server. Until the Pi 4, the Pi was not that capable, and only with the relatively recent Pi 5 (fall 2023) do I feel the Pi is OK performance wise, although...
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 Applied Cartography [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.
Matrox Graphics for Professionals
24th Jul 2026
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Matrox

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

24th Jul 2026
Graphics for Professionals
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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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...
Why should I accept all cookies? Around 2013, my team and I finally embarked in upgrading our company's internal software to version...
1st Nov 2025
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Why should I accept all cookies?

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

1st Nov 2025
Around 2013, my team and I finally embarked in upgrading our company's internal software to version 2.0. We had a large backlog of user complaints that we were finally addressing, with security at the top of the list. The very top of the list was moving away from plain text...
The Design of Everyday Things My favorite book of the year. I’m not going to gush about it — enough others have in the decades of...
30th Dec 2014
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The Design of Everyday Things

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

30th Dec 2014
My favorite book of the year. I’m not going to gush about it — enough others have in the decades of its existence — but know that it is that good and that timeless. Norman changed the way I thought about technology.
I'm done with Ubuntu I liked Ubuntu. For a very long time, it was the sensible default option. Around 2016, I used the...
5th Feb 2025
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I'm done with Ubuntu

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

5th Feb 2025
I liked Ubuntu. For a very long time, it was the sensible default option. Around 2016, I used the Ubuntu GNOME flavor, and after they ditched the Unity desktop environment, GNOME became the default option. I was really happy with it, both for work and personal computing...
What is the type of Type? Should type of `Type` be also `Type`? Or is there an alternative?
20th Mar 2022
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What is the type of Type?

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

20th Mar 2022
Should type of `Type` be also `Type`? Or is there an alternative?
Humanities Crash Course Week 18: 1,001 Nights In week 18 of the humanities crash course, I read five stories from One Thousand and One Nights, a...
4th May 2025
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Humanities Crash Course Week 18: 1,001 Nights

from Jorge Arango [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th May 2025
In week 18 of the humanities crash course, I read five stories from One Thousand and One Nights, a collection of Middle Eastern folktales that have influenced lots of other stories. Keeping with the theme, I also saw one of the most influential movies based on these...
Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools Code forces humans to be precise. That’s good. Computers need precision. But it also forces humans...
3rd Feb 2025
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Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools

from Daniel De Laney [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Feb 2025
Code forces humans to be precise. That’s good. Computers need precision. But it also forces humans to think like machines. For decades we tried to fix this by making programming more human-friendly. Higher-level languages. Visual interfaces. Each step helped, but we were still...
2025-03-08 It started, as it often does, with my kids. They got curious about a chess variant called Monster...
9th Mar 2025
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2025-03-08

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

9th Mar 2025
It started, as it often does, with my kids. They got curious about a chess variant called Monster chess. But none of the websites out there have an implementation of it. So I set out to build one. In Lua Carousel, of course, my cross-platform app for editing and running little...
GitButler 0.12 - "Stingy Baker" New GitButler release is out! Undo anything, modify your commits with ease, new AI stuff and more!
3rd Jun 2024
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GitButler 0.12 - "Stingy Baker"

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

3rd Jun 2024
New GitButler release is out! Undo anything, modify your commits with ease, new AI stuff and more!
Changes A lot has been going on lately and it feels like I’m being swamped. I can’t complain too much but...
4th Mar 2012
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Changes

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

4th Mar 2012
A lot has been going on lately and it feels like I’m being swamped. I can’t complain too much but there are things I’d like to change after the exam period this week. Program more! nothing since christmas or someting. I need to finish: Ada project for school. Can’t believe I...
Create a Hue-compatible DIY LED light sculpture Learn how to create your own Hue compatible LED light sculpture, inspired by by the REFLEKTION art,...
15th Aug 2020
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Create a Hue-compatible DIY LED light sculpture

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

15th Aug 2020
Learn how to create your own Hue compatible LED light sculpture, inspired by by the REFLEKTION art, using cheap LED strips and DIY parts you can order online. The post Create a Hue-compatible DIY LED light sculpture appeared first on Style over Substance.
Norvig's claim that programming competitions correlate negatively with being good on the job I saw a bunch of tweets over the weekend about Peter Norvig claiming there's a negative correlation...
7th Apr 2015
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7th Apr 2015
I saw a bunch of tweets over the weekend about Peter Norvig claiming there's a negative correlation between being good at programming competitions and being good at the job. There were some decent Hacker News comments on it.
Video Games are the Future of Education The things you learn by yourself stick; the things that are “taught” to you do not stick.
21st Jun 2020
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Video Games are the Future of Education

from Nabeel S. Qureshi [alt+shift+b] in technology

21st Jun 2020
The things you learn by yourself stick; the things that are “taught” to you do not stick.
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...
Analemmagraph [Concept] Video of a day, one year in every frame
26th Sep 2023
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Analemmagraph

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

26th Sep 2023
[Concept] Video of a day, one year in every frame
Announcing Apollo: a new Reddit app for iPhone I’m really excited to unveil a project I’ve been working on for the last year or so. It’s called...
30th Jan 2015
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Announcing Apollo: a new Reddit app for iPhone

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

30th Jan 2015
I’m really excited to unveil a project I’ve been working on for the last year or so. It’s called Apollo and it’s a new Reddit app for iPhone. I’ve been a Reddit user for about four years now, and the site is a constant source of interesting discussion, hilarity and news for me...
Intercepting and modifying Linux system calls with ptrace How software fails is interesting. But real-world errors can be infrequent to manifest....
1st Oct 2023
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Intercepting and modifying Linux system calls with ptrace

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

1st Oct 2023
How software fails is interesting. But real-world errors can be infrequent to manifest. Fault injection is a formal-sounding term that just means: trying to explicitly trigger errors in the hopes of discovering bad logic, typically during automated tests. Jepsen and ChaosMonkey...
A Navajo weaving of an integrated circuit: the 555 timer The noted Diné (Navajo) weaver Marilou Schultz recently completed an intricate weaving composed...
6th Sep 2025
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A Navajo weaving of an integrated circuit: the 555 timer

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

6th Sep 2025
The noted Diné (Navajo) weaver Marilou Schultz recently completed an intricate weaving composed of thick white lines on a black background, punctuated with reddish-orange diamonds. Although this striking rug may appear abstract, it shows the internal circuitry of a tiny silicon...
2022 in review A bit late, but it’s time for my yearly review. It’s something I like doing for myself and it’s nice...
15th Feb 2023
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2022 in review

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

15th Feb 2023
A bit late, but it’s time for my yearly review. It’s something I like doing for myself and it’s nice to see that despite a tough year I’ve done some good things. 2022 Non-Geek Achievements We got our third child! This time we got a girl to complement our two boys, and I love them...
The Antiportfolio: Counter-advice for Aspiring Artists Why ten years ago I quit my passion as a job to follow my passions as just passions.
1st Mar 2025
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The Antiportfolio: Counter-advice for Aspiring Artists

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

1st Mar 2025
Why ten years ago I quit my passion as a job to follow my passions as just passions.
All about the fillrate I bought "Blade infinity" yesterday. The game is a lot of fun and has the ability to satisfy both...
11th Dec 2010
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All about the fillrate

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

11th Dec 2010
I bought "Blade infinity" yesterday. The game is a lot of fun and has the ability to satisfy both people looking for instant fun and people wishing for a long game while collecting powerful items. At $5.99 it is a bargain, a must have not only for the gameplay but also for its...
Tumblr's awesome project names Not sure how I managed to miss this, but I'm watching this Tumblr presentation and they talk about...
18th Nov 2012
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Tumblr's awesome project names

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

18th Nov 2012
Not sure how I managed to miss this, but I'm watching this Tumblr presentation and they talk about their projects named after Arrested Development topics: Gob, Parmesan, Buster, Jetpants, Oscar, George and Motherboy. Still, the best software project name is probably still Apple's...
The case for Nightingale Datacentres Britain isn’t prepared for the looming AI national security crisis
3 weeks ago
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The case for Nightingale Datacentres

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

3 weeks ago
Britain isn’t prepared for the looming AI national security crisis
3D Printing in 2025 It turns out that I didn’t hate 3D printing, I just hated my Ender. Here were my experiments in 3D...
17th Jan 2026
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3D Printing in 2025

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

17th Jan 2026
It turns out that I didn’t hate 3D printing, I just hated my Ender. Here were my experiments in 3D printing in 2025.
Vulkan 1.3 on the M1 in 1 month u{text-decoration-thickness:0.09em;text-decoration-color:skyblue} Finally, conformant Vulkan for the...
5th Jun 2024
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Vulkan 1.3 on the M1 in 1 month

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

5th Jun 2024
u{text-decoration-thickness:0.09em;text-decoration-color:skyblue} Finally, conformant Vulkan for the M1! The new “Honeykrisp” driver is the first conformant Vulkan® for Apple hardware on any operating system, implementing the full 1.3 spec without “portability”...
The Pentium as a Navajo weaving Hurrying through the National Gallery of Art five minutes before closing, I passed a Navajo weaving...
1st Sep 2024
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The Pentium as a Navajo weaving

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

1st Sep 2024
Hurrying through the National Gallery of Art five minutes before closing, I passed a Navajo weaving with a complex abstract pattern. Suddenly, I realized the pattern was strangely familiar, so I stopped and looked closely. The design turned out to be an image of Intel's Pentium...
It's hard to write code for computers, but it's even harder to write code for humans Writing code for a computer is hard enough. You take something big and fuzzy, some large vague...
27th Sep 2024
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It's hard to write code for computers, but it's even harder to write code for humans

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

27th Sep 2024
Writing code for a computer is hard enough. You take something big and fuzzy, some large vague business outcome you want to achive. Then you break it down recursively and think about all the cases until you have clear logical statements a computer can follow.
Improving web application security by implementing database security Security is about defense-in-depth. It bogles my mind why it is so difficult to implement...
17th May 2012
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Improving web application security by implementing database security

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

17th May 2012
Security is about defense-in-depth. It bogles my mind why it is so difficult to implement defense-in-depth security in web applications. 99.9% of applications use a single database account, with root-like privileges. Easiest for the developer of course, and the database is just a...
Doom engine 1993 code review Before studying the iPhone version, it was important for me to understand how Doom engine WAS...
13th Jan 2010
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Doom engine 1993 code review

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

13th Jan 2010
Before studying the iPhone version, it was important for me to understand how Doom engine WAS performing rendition back in 1993. After all the OpenGL port must reuse the same data from the WAD archive. Here are my notes about Doom 1993 renderer, maybe it will help someone to dive...
Cameraperson Read review: Cameraperson
1st Jan 2026
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Cameraperson

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

1st Jan 2026
Read review: Cameraperson
Letters What did you do?? I have developed a habbit of writing letters to friends and family for the past...
7th Apr 2019
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Letters

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

7th Apr 2019
What did you do?? I have developed a habbit of writing letters to friends and family for the past few years. Today, I made some of them…
I have thoughts on the iPhone Air Hard to believe, but it’s been over 9 months since the current crop of iPhones came out, and I...
7th Jul 2026
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I have thoughts on the iPhone Air

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

7th Jul 2026
Hard to believe, but it’s been over 9 months since the current crop of iPhones came out, and I elected to grab the (apparently not super popular) iPhone Air, a new model of iPhone introduced for the first time. Rumor season for the new iPhones is in full swing, so it seemed like...
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...
Minor site updates As it happens I got a little tired of the syntax highlighter Pandoc uses so on a whim I started...
29th Apr 2020
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Minor site updates

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

29th Apr 2020
As it happens I got a little tired of the syntax highlighter Pandoc uses so on a whim I started looking at moving to Pygments as my highlighter. With some searching around I found a blog post about just that! That’s lucky because while I like Haskell, I’ve never really grocked it...
RAID 5 is perfectly fine for home usage RAID 5 gets a lot of flak these days. You either run RAID 1, RAID 10 or you use RAID 6, but if you...
8th Sep 2016
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RAID 5 is perfectly fine for home usage

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

8th Sep 2016
RAID 5 gets a lot of flak these days. You either run RAID 1, RAID 10 or you use RAID 6, but if you run RAID 5 you're told that you are a crazy person. Using RAID 5 is portrayed as an unreasonable risk to the availability of your data. It is suggested that it is likely that you...
I found my 7th grade art book ! The drawings from my 7th grade art book gives an insight of what my life and dreams were during that...
24th Apr 2016
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I found my 7th grade art book !

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

24th Apr 2016
The drawings from my 7th grade art book gives an insight of what my life and dreams were during that period. I share this is to inspire at-least few to go back and check what they were and what they are now. Art book cover My 7th grade Art notebook. I’m 29 year old Indian male....
Developer experience as a competitive advantage I spent a ton of time looking at different software providers, both as a CTO, and as a nerd...
6th Oct 2020
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Developer experience as a competitive advantage

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

6th Oct 2020
I spent a ton of time looking at different software providers, both as a CTO, and as a nerd “advanced” consumer who builds stuff in my spare time. In the last 10 years, there has been an order of magnitude more products that cater directly to developers, through APIs, SDKs, and...
The Pulse: Cloudflare rewrites Next.js as AI rewrites commercial open source An engineer at Cloudflare rewrote most of Vercel’s Next.js in one week with AI agents. It looks like...
5th Mar 2026
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The Pulse: Cloudflare rewrites Next.js as AI rewrites commercial open source

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

5th Mar 2026
An engineer at Cloudflare rewrote most of Vercel’s Next.js in one week with AI agents. It looks like a sign of how AI will disrupt existing moats and business models. Analysis
Corporate Legibility for Software Engineers Corporate legibility is the art of making tasks, and their outcomes, easier to understand for those...
13th Dec 2022
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Corporate Legibility for Software Engineers

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

13th Dec 2022
Corporate legibility is the art of making tasks, and their outcomes, easier to understand for those not directly involved. I’ll help you understand why this is an important thing to be aware of and how to use it to help your career.
2nd Oct 2025
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....
No, I Won't Build That! If you're an accomplished developer (as in: you've actually created things in the past), you may...
4th Mar 2024
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No, I Won't Build That!

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

4th Mar 2024
If you're an accomplished developer (as in: you've actually created things in the past), you may recognise this scenario: people reaching out to you, asking you to build something specific. "Can you build X for me?" A fellow technician once urged me to refuse more often: be proud...
Scam Telegram: Uncovering a network of groups spreading crypto drainers How I found a large network of fake support groups spreading crypto stealers and drainers.
4th Dec 2025
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4th Dec 2025
How I found a large network of fake support groups spreading crypto stealers and drainers.
Finding near-duplicates with Jaccard similarity and MinHash Suppose we have a large collection of documents, and we wish you identify which documents are...
3rd Jul 2024
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Finding near-duplicates with Jaccard similarity and MinHash

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

3rd Jul 2024
Suppose we have a large collection of documents, and we wish you identify which documents are approximately the same as each other. For instance, we may have crawled the web over some period of time, and expect to have fetched the “same page” several times, but to see slight...
Everyone knows all the apps on your phone Until a few years ago, any app you installed on an Android device could see all other apps on your...
27th Mar 2025
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Everyone knows all the apps on your phone

from Pea Bee [alt+shift+b] in technology

27th Mar 2025
Until a few years ago, any app you installed on an Android device could see all other apps on your phone without your permission.
Vibe Coding What can we learn from successful vibe coding examples? Is programming with AI the new standard?...
14th Apr 2025
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Vibe Coding

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

14th Apr 2025
What can we learn from successful vibe coding examples? Is programming with AI the new standard? What are its limitations?
Understanding the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Server Autoinstaller Introduction Ubuntu Server version 18.04 LTS uses the debian-installer (d-i) for the installation...
11th Feb 2021
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Understanding the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Server Autoinstaller

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

11th Feb 2021
Introduction Ubuntu Server version 18.04 LTS uses the debian-installer (d-i) for the installation process. This includes support for 'preseeding' to create unattended (automated) installations of ubuntu. the debian installer With the introduction of Ubuntu Server 20.04 'Focal...
2025-02-02 residential networking over telephone Recently, I covered some of the history of Ethernet's tenuous relationship with installed...
2nd Feb 2025
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2025-02-02 residential networking over telephone

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

2nd Feb 2025
Recently, I covered some of the history of Ethernet's tenuous relationship with installed telephone cabling. That article focused on the earlier and more business-oriented products, but many of you probably know that there have been a number of efforts to install IP...
I Want People To Agree With Me, Not Die Pastor Tim has already written about this in light of another assassination attempt on either...
6th May 2026
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I Want People To Agree With Me, Not Die

from Open for Business [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th May 2026
Pastor Tim has already written about this in light of another assassination attempt on either President Trump or other members of the administration. Many people are unhealthily and dangerously angry, and it seems like it’s getting worse.
A Brief Introduction to termios If you’re a regular user of the terminal on a UNIX system, there are probably a large number of...
22nd Dec 2009
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A Brief Introduction to termios

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

22nd Dec 2009
If you’re a regular user of the terminal on a UNIX system, there are probably a large number of behaviors you take mostly for granted without really thinking about them. If you press ^C or ^Z it kills or stops the foreground program – unless it’s something like emacs or vim, in...
Setting up a VPN with your iPhone using L2TP, IPSec and Linux This blogpost discusses how to setup an IPSec-based VPN between your iPhone and a Linux server....
11th Dec 2011
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Setting up a VPN with your iPhone using L2TP, IPSec and Linux

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

11th Dec 2011
This blogpost discusses how to setup an IPSec-based VPN between your iPhone and a Linux server. Updated 16 October 2012 - now compatible with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS IMPORTANT! (update January 2013) I find using OpenVPN with the new iOS OpenVPN client a way better solution. OpenVPN...
Vim's UserGettingBored autocmd In short: Vim has a joke autocmd called UserGettingBored that doesn’t do anything. Vim’s automatic...
22nd Aug 2026
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Vim's UserGettingBored autocmd

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

22nd Aug 2026
In short: Vim has a joke autocmd called UserGettingBored that doesn’t do anything. Vim’s automatic commands feature, usually shortened to “autocmd”, lets you run code when various events occur. For example, you could implement an auto-save feature by binding the TextChanged event...
Train Simulator Controller: Simulator Takes Shape with Custom Table With the center console of my train simulator built, I rapidly modeled and fabricated prototypes of...
11th Jan 2026
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Train Simulator Controller: Simulator Takes Shape with Custom Table

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

11th Jan 2026
With the center console of my train simulator built, I rapidly modeled and fabricated prototypes of the four other panels.
Enumerating and analyzing 40+ non-V8 JavaScript implementations V8 is, I'm sure, the most used implementation of JavaScript today. Used in Chrome, (and by...
21st Sep 2021
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Enumerating and analyzing 40+ non-V8 JavaScript implementations

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

21st Sep 2021
V8 is, I'm sure, the most used implementation of JavaScript today. Used in Chrome, (and by extension) Microsoft Edge, Node.js, etc. Safari's JavaScriptCore and Firefox's SpiderMonkey are also contenders for extremely mainstream implementations. But what else is out there? What if...
Hybrid encryption and the KEM/DEM paradigm If you know a bit about public key cryptography, you probably know that you don’t directly encrypt a...
22nd Jan 2021
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Hybrid encryption and the KEM/DEM paradigm

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

22nd Jan 2021
If you know a bit about public key cryptography, you probably know that you don’t directly encrypt a message with a public key encryption algorithm like RSA. This is for many reasons, one of which being that it is incredibly slow. Instead you do what’s called hybrid encryption:...
SystemSix SystemSix is a desk calendar project that displays the weather forecast and phase of the moon on an...
15th Mar 2022
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SystemSix

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

15th Mar 2022
SystemSix is a desk calendar project that displays the weather forecast and phase of the moon on an e-ink display.
Plus Post: subLOGIC Flight Simulator II Put yourself in the pilot's seat of a Piper 181 Cherokee Archer for an awe-inspiring flight over...
3rd Apr 2026
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Plus Post: subLOGIC Flight Simulator II

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

3rd Apr 2026
Put yourself in the pilot's seat of a Piper 181 Cherokee Archer for an awe-inspiring flight over realistic scenery...
How traffic shaping can dramatically improve internet responsiveness At work, access to the internet is provided by a 10 Mbit down / 1 Mbit up ADSL-connection. As we are...
8th Mar 2014
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How traffic shaping can dramatically improve internet responsiveness

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

8th Mar 2014
At work, access to the internet is provided by a 10 Mbit down / 1 Mbit up ADSL-connection. As we are a mid-size company, bandwidth is clearly a severe constraint. But it was not our biggest problem. Even simple web-browsing was very slow. As I was setting up a monitoring...
Train Simulator Controller: CAN Controller, Part 1 I’m building a physical cab dashboard to control Train Simulator, from master controller to an AWS...
22nd Jun 2023
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Train Simulator Controller: CAN Controller, Part 1

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

22nd Jun 2023
I’m building a physical cab dashboard to control Train Simulator, from master controller to an AWS sunflower to a speedometer, and everything in between. The engineer or hobbyist interested in getting this project ready expediently would probably find their favorite...
Why conversion matters: a toy model There are often close relationships between top level business metrics. For instance, it's well...
30th Oct 2017
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Why conversion matters: a toy model

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

30th Oct 2017
There are often close relationships between top level business metrics. For instance, it's well known that retention has a super strong impact on the valuation of a subscription business. Or that the % of occupied seats is super important for an airline.
7th Sep 2017
Thinking incrementally about SaaS An overview of the key output of the growth software machine
3rd Apr 2021
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Thinking incrementally about SaaS

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

3rd Apr 2021
An overview of the key output of the growth software machine
Multi-Window support in your iPad app Take advantage of the improved support for multiple windows on iPadOS by implementing new UI...
6th Oct 2019
29

Multi-Window support in your iPad app

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

6th Oct 2019
Take advantage of the improved support for multiple windows on iPadOS by implementing new UI concepts enabling different use cases for your app.
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