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Looking for smart people I haven't mentioned what I'm currently up to. Earlier this year I left Spotify to join a small...
4th Nov 2015
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Looking for smart people

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

4th Nov 2015
I haven't mentioned what I'm currently up to. Earlier this year I left Spotify to join a small startup called Better. We're going after one of the biggest industries in the world that also turns out to be completely broken.
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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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2025-01-05 pairs not taken So we all know about twisted-pair ethernet, huh? I get a little frustrated with a lot of histories...
5th Jan 2025
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2025-01-05 pairs not taken

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

5th Jan 2025
So we all know about twisted-pair ethernet, huh? I get a little frustrated with a lot of histories of the topic, like the recent neil breen^w^wserial port video, because they often fail to address some obvious questions about the origin of twisted-pair network cabling. Well, I...
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Solving Ghost in The Wire codes More...
11th Sep 2011
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Solving Ghost in The Wire codes

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

11th Sep 2011
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6.170, CVS, and SVN I’m taking 6.170 Lab in Software Engineering this semester. The course sucks in various ways, but...
11th Feb 2007
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6.170, CVS, and SVN

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

11th Feb 2007
I’m taking 6.170 Lab in Software Engineering this semester. The course sucks in various ways, but one of the most egregious, in my opinion, is that they force you to use CVS for your version control. Problem sets are distributed by the TAs importing them into your repository, and...
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Innovation Is Software In August my computer setup changed more than it had in years. And yet the lesson of the month was...
25th Aug 2026
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Innovation Is Software

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

25th Aug 2026
In August my computer setup changed more than it had in years. And yet the lesson of the month was the opposite of new hardware: the existing gear has stretch, innovation is software. This post is about one brain, the machine in the homelab where my files and my agents live, the...
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A work week one bag travel Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. Neale Donald Walsch I’m lucky that I have a job...
10th Mar 2026
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A work week one bag travel

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

10th Mar 2026
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. Neale Donald Walsch I’m lucky that I have a job where I can work remotely as it allows me to live in a small community where there are no tech jobs anywhere close. It does require me to travel a few weeks per year to the office but...
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It’s not just Radio, it’s Meshtastic! My latest interest in microcontrollers has me learning all about Meshtastic mesh radio devices.The...
20th Jan 2026
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It’s not just Radio, it’s Meshtastic!

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in technology

20th Jan 2026
My latest interest in microcontrollers has me learning all about Meshtastic mesh radio devices.The Meshtastic website puts it concisely – “An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices”.A lot to unpack right there but...
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JSON and PowerShell Working with Object-based arrays in PowerShell can be a challenge; but here's a trick that will...
11th May 2020
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JSON and PowerShell

from Opsbros [alt+shift+b] in technology

11th May 2020
Working with Object-based arrays in PowerShell can be a challenge; but here's a trick that will allow you to manipulate these objects efficiently.
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2023-05-07 electrical characteristics of telephone lines Let's take a break from our boring topic of regional history to focus instead on an even more boring...
7th May 2023
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2023-05-07 electrical characteristics of telephone lines

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

7th May 2023
Let's take a break from our boring topic of regional history to focus instead on an even more boring topic: implementation details of telephone lines. The conventional "copper pair" analog telephone line is fading away. The FCC has begun to authorize abandonment of copper outside...
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January, 2025 Hello, 2025! (As always, Death Cab remains the soundtrack by which you should read this.)
5th Jan 2025
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January, 2025

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

5th Jan 2025
Hello, 2025! (As always, Death Cab remains the soundtrack by which you should read this.)
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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...
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Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor Keeping my focus has been challenging. It’s not a new phenomenon, and I suspect that there are...
1st Apr 2026
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Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor

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

1st Apr 2026
Keeping my focus has been challenging. It’s not a new phenomenon, and I suspect that there are contributing factors that have lead to the unfocused state dominating. For example, I’ve been that guy who wants to be on top of things, to be in the loop, to respond to urgent issues....
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Fortinet FortiGate CVE-2024-23113 - A Super Complex Vulnerability In A Super Secure Appliance In... Today we'd like to share a recent journey into (yet another) SSLVPN appliance vulnerability - a...
14th Oct 2024
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Fortinet FortiGate CVE-2024-23113 - A Super Complex Vulnerability In A Super Secure Appliance In 2024

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

14th Oct 2024
Today we'd like to share a recent journey into (yet another) SSLVPN appliance vulnerability - a Format String vulnerability, unusually, in Fortinet's FortiGate devices. It affected (before patching) all currently-maintained branches, and recently was highlighted by CISA as...
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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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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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Barry is Good Enough We put a lot of ourselves into our work, and it occurs to us that you, dear reader, might not know...
15th Apr 2025
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Barry is Good Enough

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

15th Apr 2025
We put a lot of ourselves into our work, and it occurs to us that you, dear reader, might not know much about us. So we’re continuing our Q&A column to introduce ourselves, one-at-a-time. Today, we’re meeting the biggest Pika fan, Barry Hess… Who are you? (Who, who, who, who?) My...
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No Way, PHP Strikes Again! (CVE-2024-4577) Orange Tsai tweeted a few hours ago about “One of [his] PHP vulnerabilities, which affects XAMPP by...
7th Jun 2024
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No Way, PHP Strikes Again! (CVE-2024-4577)

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

7th Jun 2024
Orange Tsai tweeted a few hours ago about “One of [his] PHP vulnerabilities, which affects XAMPP by default”, and we were curious to say the least. XAMPP is a very popular way for administrators and developers to rapidly deploy Apache, PHP, and a bunch of other tools, and
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My release checklist for chrome extensions Many products can be updated very quickly. You spot a bug, you push a fix in next 5 minutes, sadly...
9th Jul 2022
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My release checklist for chrome extensions

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

9th Jul 2022
Many products can be updated very quickly. You spot a bug, you push a fix in next 5 minutes, sadly for chrome extensions it’s not like that. When you update a chrome extension in the chrome web store you submit a package that then goes through a lengthy review. It can take...
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"AI" on a Calculator: Part 1 Can AI run on a calculator? Machine learning and computer vision algorithms can certainly be run on...
28th Mar 2023
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"AI" on a Calculator: Part 1

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

28th Mar 2023
Can AI run on a calculator? Machine learning and computer vision algorithms can certainly be run on a calculator albeit slowly: I ported a convolutional neural network (CNN) to a TI-84 Plus CE, making it capable of using “AI” to identify handwritten digits. As an added challenge,...
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How I gained access to chef, docker, AWS, and MongoDB instances in a single request
3rd Aug 2017
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How I gained access to chef, docker, AWS, and MongoDB instances in a single request

from Blog | Sam Curry [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Aug 2017
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You’re Not Supposed To ShareFile With Everyone (Progress ShareFile Pre-Auth RCE Chain CVE-2026-2699... If you squint and look at the CISA KEV list, you might think it's made up exclusively of...
2nd Apr 2026
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You’re Not Supposed To ShareFile With Everyone (Progress ShareFile Pre-Auth RCE Chain CVE-2026-2699 & CVE-2026-2701)

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

2nd Apr 2026
If you squint and look at the CISA KEV list, you might think it's made up exclusively of vulnerabilities in file transfer solutions. While this would be wrong (and you shouldn’t squint, it’s bad for your eyes), file transfer solutions do play a decent
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How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy a bad book with a good thesis. the author warns you of its incoherence early on, which is a shame...
1st Mar 2020
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How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

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

1st Mar 2020
a bad book with a good thesis. the author warns you of its incoherence early on, which is a shame because there are very good pieces of logos amidst the circumlocution
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Varieties of Disturbance My review of Break it Down, a much earlier entry in Lydia Davis' ouevre, last year was a bit of...
1st Mar 2023
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Varieties of Disturbance

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

1st Mar 2023
My review of Break it Down, a much earlier entry in Lydia Davis' ouevre, last year was a bit of damning with faint praise:
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Major Update: Private AI Recs
2nd Aug 2025
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Major Update: Private AI Recs

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

2nd Aug 2025
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Hour 5: Getting the mobile app content My 2nd attempt to reverse engineer the mobile app to get the content. Getting the content from the...
10th May 2025
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Hour 5: Getting the mobile app content

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

10th May 2025
My 2nd attempt to reverse engineer the mobile app to get the content. Getting the content from the app would unlock access to everything we need!
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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
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How To Sell Sales at a startup is counter-intuitive.
18th Jan 2020
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How To Sell

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

18th Jan 2020
Sales at a startup is counter-intuitive.
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An ode to the 10,000 RPM Western Digital (Veloci)Raptor Introduction Back in 2004, I visited a now bankrupt Dutch computer store called MyCom1, located at...
30th Oct 2021
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An ode to the 10,000 RPM Western Digital (Veloci)Raptor

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

30th Oct 2021
Introduction Back in 2004, I visited a now bankrupt Dutch computer store called MyCom1, located at the Kinkerstraat in Amsterdam. I was there to buy a Western Digital Raptor model WD740, with 74 GB of capacity, running at 10,000 RPM. When I bought this drive, we were still in...
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What the heck is OCSP? The online certificate status protocol, or OCSP for short, is a way for TLS clients (like your web...
9th May 2019
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What the heck is OCSP?

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

9th May 2019
The online certificate status protocol, or OCSP for short, is a way for TLS clients (like your web browser) to check if a certificate has been revoked or not. Certificate Revocation? With asymmetrical encryption, your encryption is only as good as long as your private key remains...
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Setting up a Jabber instant messaging server |_http-title: Site doesn't have a title (text/html;... I wanted to see how dificult it is to setup an instant messaging server based on open source...
5th Feb 2011
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Setting up a Jabber instant messaging server |_http-title: Site doesn't have a title (text/html; charset=utf-8).

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

5th Feb 2011
I wanted to see how dificult it is to setup an instant messaging server based on open source software. Now I know that it is very easy, unless you are stubborn and do things your own way. In this example, I'm setting up a small IM server that is only for internal company use, but...
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Housekeeping 20241208 Corrections, stats, and an update
8th Dec 2024
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Housekeeping 20241208

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

8th Dec 2024
Corrections, stats, and an update
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Server side Live Activities guide iOS 17.2 gained the capability to start Live Activities from a server, which is pretty cool and...
23rd Sep 2024
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Server side Live Activities guide

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

23rd Sep 2024
iOS 17.2 gained the capability to start Live Activities from a server, which is pretty cool and handy! I’ve been playing around with it a bit and found some parts a bit confusing, so I thought I’d do a little write up for future me as well as anyone else who could benefit! (For...
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Hacking Chess.com and Accessing 50 Million Customer Records
16th Dec 2020
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Hacking Chess.com and Accessing 50 Million Customer Records

from Blog | Sam Curry [alt+shift+b] in technology

16th Dec 2020
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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 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.
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My E-Reader Setup My E-Reader Setup Posted on August 10, 2023 This post is from a legacy version of this blog! No...
10th Aug 2023
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My E-Reader Setup

from videah.net [alt+shift+b] in technology

10th Aug 2023
My E-Reader Setup Posted on August 10, 2023 This post is from a legacy version of this blog! No changes have been made to the content in the migration, so things might read weird. I bought an e-reader recently, specifically the Kobo Libra 2. I felt like I wasn’t reading...
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Google DNS - what to think of it? Google now provide an open DNS service. At first I was scared that they use their service to get...
3rd Dec 2009
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Google DNS - what to think of it?

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

3rd Dec 2009
Google now provide an open DNS service. At first I was scared that they use their service to get information about users. However, their privacy statement tells us that no personal identifiable information is stored for longer than 48 hours. The permanent logs do not contain such...
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You need a Product Mindset Treat Your Developers Like VIP Customers Your developers are not just users; they're customers who...
23rd Sep 2023
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You need a Product Mindset

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

23rd Sep 2023
Treat Your Developers Like VIP Customers Your developers are not just users; they're customers who have high expectations from your internal…
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Why I created Ethereum Proof of Stake demo Hi there!
2nd Nov 2024
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Why I created Ethereum Proof of Stake demo

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

2nd Nov 2024
Hi there!
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The Orientation Game
29th Oct 2025
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The Orientation Game

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

29th Oct 2025
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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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I went on an Amazon propaganda tour In which I'm forced to confront a contradictions in my values
1st Jul 2026
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I went on an Amazon propaganda tour

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

1st Jul 2026
In which I'm forced to confront a contradictions in my values
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Linux Iptables Firewall Script released on Google code I have released LIFS, the Linux Iptables Firewall Script. This script allows you to setup a firewall...
8th Jan 2012
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Linux Iptables Firewall Script released on Google code

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

8th Jan 2012
I have released LIFS, the Linux Iptables Firewall Script. This script allows you to setup a firewall within minutes. It is easy to use, yet very powerful. It uses Iptables and even improves upon some limitations of Iptables. Every person who has to maintain some kind of...
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I had to let Go of Java If you're a millennial and involved in SW-development then its likely Java has touched your life in...
21st Aug 2021
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I had to let Go of Java

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

21st Aug 2021
If you're a millennial and involved in SW-development then its likely Java has touched your life in some way. Java was the magic pill in late 90s in India and every Engineering graduate irrespective of their domain was told to get certified in it for a job. My sister(ECE) was one...
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Compiling Multicore PAR2 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin If you want to compile PAR2 with multicore support on Linux, it may not work right away from source....
15th Sep 2012
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Compiling Multicore PAR2 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin

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

15th Sep 2012
If you want to compile PAR2 with multicore support on Linux, it may not work right away from source. I used this version of PAR2 with multicore support. Update 2015: the original link is dead, I foud a copy of the source and put it on my own site here for you to download. First,...
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Google Summer of Code 2016 Report : Stingray It began 5 months ago, in February. Due to my recent interests in Image Processing, I had made few...
20th Jan 2017
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Google Summer of Code 2016 Report : Stingray

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

20th Jan 2017
It began 5 months ago, in February. Due to my recent interests in Image Processing, I had made few Pull Requests to the scikit-image library…
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Thoughts on User Safety We need to move beyond mere security and towards safety for our customers and our users. This is how...
18th Sep 2019
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Thoughts on User Safety

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

18th Sep 2019
We need to move beyond mere security and towards safety for our customers and our users. This is how we can do that.
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Why My Asus Laptop Kept Rebooting After Sleep and How to Fix it Three years ago, I bought an Asus laptop, specifically the Zenbook Pro 17. It's a powerful machine...
a week ago
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Why My Asus Laptop Kept Rebooting After Sleep and How to Fix it

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

a week ago
Three years ago, I bought an Asus laptop, specifically the Zenbook Pro 17. It's a powerful machine and works just fine for my needs, but it had one problem that made me want to either return it or throw it out the window. I would work on projects for hours on end and close...
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A trip down NBA Jam graphics pipeline I took some time to study how NBA Jam arcade cabinet worked. Here is what I learned.
28th Oct 2019
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A trip down NBA Jam graphics pipeline

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

28th Oct 2019
I took some time to study how NBA Jam arcade cabinet worked. Here is what I learned.
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Unbundling and Abundance on the (high) dimensionality of 21st century ideology
13th Mar 2025
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Unbundling and Abundance

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

13th Mar 2025
on the (high) dimensionality of 21st century ideology
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London Match A satisfying but non-revelatory ending to the trilogy started by Berlin Game and Mexico Set, whose...
6th Mar 2024
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London Match

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

6th Mar 2024
A satisfying but non-revelatory ending to the trilogy started by Berlin Game and Mexico Set, whose lack of true satisfaction in its ending both feels earned (in the sense that one of the main messages of these books has been the lack of clean breaks and endings in the conflicts...
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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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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....
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Planes, Trains, and Automobiles You wanna hurt me? Go right ahead if it makes you feel any better. I'm an easy target. Yeah, you're...
9th Jan 2025
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Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

9th Jan 2025
You wanna hurt me? Go right ahead if it makes you feel any better. I'm an easy target. Yeah, you're right, I talk too much. I also listen too much. I could be a cold-hearted cynic like you... but I don't like to hurt people's feelings. Well, you think what you want about me; I'm...
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3D-printable Raleno 104 lightbox adapter for camera film scanning My latest creation is a 3D-printed adapter for the Raleno PLV-S104 (Raleno 104) light. The model...
11th Jul 2021
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3D-printable Raleno 104 lightbox adapter for camera film scanning

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

11th Jul 2021
My latest creation is a 3D-printed adapter for the Raleno PLV-S104 (Raleno 104) light. The model turns it into a lightbox that you can use for digital camera scanning of your negative film. It also contains a holder compatible with the Valoi 35mm/120 film carriers. Additionally,...
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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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Review of Gitcoin Quadratic Funding Round 4
28th Jan 2020
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Review of Gitcoin Quadratic Funding Round 4

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

28th Jan 2020
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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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Rebuilding a 1995 GPS Time Server so I don't get Telstra'd In June I purchased this TrueTime XL-AK time server, so I could learn more of the history of...
4th Sep 2026
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Rebuilding a 1995 GPS Time Server so I don't get Telstra'd

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

4th Sep 2026
In June I purchased this TrueTime XL-AK time server, so I could learn more of the history of GPS-based time. I received it on June 22, and just 16 days later a similar GPS time server took down Australia's cell service for 12 hours! I made a short video about it but put off...
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Thinking about functional programming Someone on Discord asked about how to learn functional programming. The question and my initial...
15th Aug 2023
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Thinking about functional programming

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

15th Aug 2023
Someone on Discord asked about how to learn functional programming. The question and my initial tweet on the subject prompted an interesting discussion with Shriram Krishnamurthi and other folks. So here's a slightly more thought out exploration. And just for backstory sake: I...
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Inside the interconnection queue Electric power in the US is provided by the electrical grid, a huge network of power plants,...
5th Feb 2025
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Inside the interconnection queue

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

5th Feb 2025
Electric power in the US is provided by the electrical grid, a huge network of power plants, transmission lines, and transformers that moves electric power from where it's generated to where it's consumed.
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Notes from April Welcome to spring, bona fide and humid. Lots of writing this month:
1st May 2024
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Notes from April

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

1st May 2024
Welcome to spring, bona fide and humid. Lots of writing this month:
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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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On NYC, Tokyo and Seoul I’ve lived in NYC for the past year — moved here after years in Philly and after growing up in a...
20th Oct 2018
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On NYC, Tokyo and Seoul

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

20th Oct 2018
I’ve lived in NYC for the past year — moved here after years in Philly and after growing up in a rural community a few hours west of there. My wife is South Korean and last week concluded my second trip to the suburbs of Seoul to visit her family. We finished up that trip with a...
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Your government is breaking: EPA edition Scientists purged, imaginary gold bars for the rubes
3rd Sep 2025
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Your government is breaking: EPA edition

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3rd Sep 2025
Scientists purged, imaginary gold bars for the rubes
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Raspberry pi3 vs iPad2 for personal computing I blew my personal computer and before I could build a new one I needed a temporary machine which...
24th Mar 2017
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Raspberry pi3 vs iPad2 for personal computing

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

24th Mar 2017
I blew my personal computer and before I could build a new one I needed a temporary machine which could perform some of my routine tasks like browsing, social network, word processing, programming, gaming, videos, music & ocassional heavy computation. Though I would be needing a...
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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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5 Frames of Kodacolor 100 with the Nikon FM Many years have past since I last shot colour film. Maybe 20 years ago I was using the Lomo Smena 8m...
28th Jun 2026
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5 Frames of Kodacolor 100 with the Nikon FM

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in technology

28th Jun 2026
Many years have past since I last shot colour film. Maybe 20 years ago I was using the Lomo Smena 8m camping. Mostly FujiFilm because I liked the greens. Once I started shooting Black & White and developing the film myself, I really didn’t see the need to have someone else...
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What Makes Art Great? Some notes toward an answer
3rd May 2026
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What Makes Art Great?

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

3rd May 2026
Some notes toward an answer
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We should talk less about public goods funding and more about open source funding
29th Mar 2025
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We should talk less about public goods funding and more about open source funding

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

29th Mar 2025
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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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May Gwern.net Newsletter Link compilation newsletter with anime GAN updates, links on AI scaling, discussion of GPT-3, and 1...
6th Jun 2020
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May Gwern.net Newsletter

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

6th Jun 2020
Link compilation newsletter with anime GAN updates, links on AI scaling, discussion of GPT-3, and 1 book review.
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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 to...
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...
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The eigenvector of "Why we moved from language X to language Y" I was reading yet another blog post titled “Why our team moved from <language X> to <language Y>” (I...
15th Mar 2017
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The eigenvector of "Why we moved from language X to language Y"

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

15th Mar 2017
I was reading yet another blog post titled “Why our team moved from <language X> to <language Y>” (I forgot which one) and I started wondering if you can generalize it a bit. Is it possible to generate a N * N contingency table of moving from language X to language Y?
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2024-12-04 operators on the front At the very core of telephone history, there is the telephone operator. For a lot of people, the...
4th Dec 2024
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2024-12-04 operators on the front

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

4th Dec 2024
At the very core of telephone history, there is the telephone operator. For a lot of people, the vague understanding that an operator used to be involved is the main thing they know about historic telephony. Of course, telephone historians, as a group, tend to be much more...
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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
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CANARY Corrugated Cardboard Cutter The CANARY corrugated cardboard cutter is definitely in my top 10 list of most useful purchases...
15th Nov 2022
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CANARY Corrugated Cardboard Cutter

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

15th Nov 2022
The CANARY corrugated cardboard cutter is definitely in my top 10 list of most useful purchases ever. During the COVID-19 lockdowns, we all started shopping online a lot more. The number of cardboard boxes in our house basically quadrupled overnight and cutting them down to size...
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How I could've taken over the production server of a Yahoo acquisition through command...
4th Jun 2017
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How I could've taken over the production server of a Yahoo acquisition through command injection

from Blog | Sam Curry [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Jun 2017
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An Elixir based payment processor for the Coinparty hackathon Bitcoin Unlimited is hosting a Bitcoin Cash hackathon this December and it seemed like a good...
30th Nov 2020
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An Elixir based payment processor for the Coinparty hackathon

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

30th Nov 2020
Bitcoin Unlimited is hosting a Bitcoin Cash hackathon this December and it seemed like a good opportunity for me to explore how to program against Bitcoin Cash, and it gives me an excuse to build something real with Phoenix and Elixir. (While an event like this might help combat...
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The little Wi-Fi AP that could I have a bad habit of testing things whenever a “good” idea pops into my head. This is a short...
22nd Jul 2020
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The little Wi-Fi AP that could

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

22nd Jul 2020
I have a bad habit of testing things whenever a “good” idea pops into my head. This is a short overview of one of them. The Orange Pi Zero is a SBC (single board computer) that has a slow 32-bit ARM 4 core CPU, 512MB of RAM and no display output. It’s actually quite OK for many...
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London Match A satisfying but non-revelatory ending to the trilogy started by Berlin Game and Mexico Set, whose...
6th Mar 2024
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London Match

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Mar 2024
A satisfying but non-revelatory ending to the trilogy started by Berlin Game and Mexico Set, whose lack of true satisfaction in its ending both feels earned (in the sense that one of the main messages of these books has been the lack of clean breaks and endings in the conflicts...
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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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AI and machine learning for engineering design Popular mechanical engineering course applies machine learning and AI theory to real-world...
7th Sep 2025
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AI and machine learning for engineering design

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

7th Sep 2025
Popular mechanical engineering course applies machine learning and AI theory to real-world engineering design.
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Forty years of programming
8th Oct 2023
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Forty years of programming

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

8th Oct 2023
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No Filter A pleasant and uncontroversial read; it is not the exciting tell-all that Bad Blood or to a lesser...
3rd Oct 2020
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No Filter

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

3rd Oct 2020
A pleasant and uncontroversial read; it is not the exciting tell-all that Bad Blood or to a lesser extent Super Pumped was, but I think its lack of emphasis on drama gave it a more sober lens with which to view Instagram's transformation. Some scattered thoughts:
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2024-02-11 the top of the DNS hierarchy In the past (in fact two years ago, proof I have been doing this for a while now!) I wrote about the...
11th Feb 2024
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2024-02-11 the top of the DNS hierarchy

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

11th Feb 2024
In the past (in fact two years ago, proof I have been doing this for a while now!) I wrote about the "inconvenient truth" that structural aspects of the Internet make truly decentralized systems infeasible, due to the lack of a means to perform broadcast discovery. As a result,...
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Data architecture vs backend architecture A modern tech stack typically involves at least a frontend and backend but relatively quickly also...
10th Jan 2019
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Data architecture vs backend architecture

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

10th Jan 2019
A modern tech stack typically involves at least a frontend and backend but relatively quickly also grows to include a data platform. This typically grows out of the need for ad-hoc analysis and reporting but possibly evolves into a whole oil refinery of cronjobs, dashboards, bulk...
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Simulating + Streaming a 4k, 90hz, ultrawide, HDR PC monitor to Apple Vision Pro VR headsets can be pretty awesome at simulating monitors of any size and shape. Most VR headsets are...
7th Sep 2024
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Simulating + Streaming a 4k, 90hz, ultrawide, HDR PC monitor to Apple Vision Pro

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

7th Sep 2024
VR headsets can be pretty awesome at simulating monitors of any size and shape. Most VR headsets are also capable of outputting at a high refresh rate (60hz, 90hz, 120hz, or even 144hz). Some headsets (like Apple Vision Pro) can also output in HDR! The beauty of it all is that in...
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The Olivetti Company Beautiful machines from a beautiful country
8th Dec 2025
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The Olivetti Company

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

8th Dec 2025
Beautiful machines from a beautiful country
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Abusing HTTP Path Normalization and Cache Poisoning to steal Rocket League accounts
19th Apr 2020
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Abusing HTTP Path Normalization and Cache Poisoning to steal Rocket League accounts

from Blog | Sam Curry [alt+shift+b] in technology

19th Apr 2020
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A slept on upscaling tool for macOS I uploaded YouTube videos from time to time, and a fun comment I often get is “Whoa, this is in...
30th Jun 2025
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A slept on upscaling tool for macOS

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

30th Jun 2025
I uploaded YouTube videos from time to time, and a fun comment I often get is “Whoa, this is in 8K!”. Even better, I’ve had comments from the like, seven people with 8K TVs that the video looks awesome on their TV. And you guessed it, I don’t record my videos in 8K! I record them...
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Let's build a VORON: Major failure The left POM nut got ground down, making the bed fall down. After 600 hours, the printer met it’s...
1st Mar 2024
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Let's build a VORON: Major failure

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

1st Mar 2024
The left POM nut got ground down, making the bed fall down. After 600 hours, the printer met it’s first major failure. I know I earlier described how the extruder starter skipping in a big way, but that was just some filament getting stuck in the extruder. This time a part...
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Et Tu, Aldi? It was the day that I stopped forever my weekly visit to Kroger. The COVID-19 epidemic was underway,...
5th Nov 2025
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Et Tu, Aldi?

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

5th Nov 2025
It was the day that I stopped forever my weekly visit to Kroger. The COVID-19 epidemic was underway, and we were advised to stay away from each other. It was cold, and the forecast was that an ice storm would hit about sundown (made an hour earlier each year for no good reason by...
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Cash is king, or is it? Very often I see men carry a wallet filled with plastic: multiple debit and credit cards plus a...
14th Jul 2016
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Cash is king, or is it?

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

14th Jul 2016
Very often I see men carry a wallet filled with plastic: multiple debit and credit cards plus a bunch of loyalty programs and membership cards. Then, some even top it off with stinky paper money and sticky metal coins! It made me wonder if I can free up one pocket by ditching the...
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HP Proliant Microserver Gen10 as router or NAS Introduction In the summer of 2017, HP released the Proliant Microserver Gen10. This machine...
14th Sep 2017
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HP Proliant Microserver Gen10 as router or NAS

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

14th Sep 2017
Introduction In the summer of 2017, HP released the Proliant Microserver Gen10. This machine replaces the older Gen8 model. For hobbyists, the Microserver always has been an interesting device for a custom home NAS build or as a router. Let's find out if this is still the case....
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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
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Amazon Basics, but for intellectual property. Amazon has been accused several times for ripping off merchants on its platform. And every single...
6th Jul 2026
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Amazon Basics, but for intellectual property.

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

6th Jul 2026
Amazon has been accused several times for ripping off merchants on its platform. And every single time they denied any wrongdoing. A merchant, or anyone really, can create a product (or source it from China), then resell it on amazon. Amazon is the service provider, and hosts...
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App Clip Local Experiences have consumed my day Okay, I have to be doing something astronomically stupid, right? This should be working? I’m playing...
8th Sep 2025
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App Clip Local Experiences have consumed my day

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

8th Sep 2025
Okay, I have to be doing something astronomically stupid, right? This should be working? I’m playing around with an App Clip and want to just run it on the device as a test, but no matter how I set things up nothing ever works. If you see what I’m doing wrong let me know and I’ll...
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Winners Take All The book is not groundbreaking, and it owes a lot (in terms of "MarketWorld" and "protocols") to...
5th Jun 2020
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Winners Take All

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

5th Jun 2020
The book is not groundbreaking, and it owes a lot (in terms of "MarketWorld" and "protocols") to James Scott, but I liked it more than I thought it would. The distillation of a corporate "win-win" ethos was a pretty damning excoriation of my alma mater's consulting pipeline, and...
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BatteryPro available on Apple.com! Good news, BatteryPro is now available worldwide online at Apple! This makes it much easier and less...
18th Oct 2017
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BatteryPro available on Apple.com!

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

18th Oct 2017
Good news, BatteryPro is now available worldwide online at Apple! This makes it much easier and less expensive for customers outside the USA to pick one up. And we couldn't be more humbled and proud - it goes to show that when you design a product you really want for yourself,...
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GitButler 0.19 - "Commander Keen" GitButler 0.19 is out, now shipping with a CLI, improved diffing, improved agentic help and more!
5th Feb 2026
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GitButler 0.19 - "Commander Keen"

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

5th Feb 2026
GitButler 0.19 is out, now shipping with a CLI, improved diffing, improved agentic help and more!
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Goodbye Evernote, Hello Obsidian I use note-taking software every day. I use it for journaling, blogging, capturing ideas,...
10th Jun 2024
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Goodbye Evernote, Hello Obsidian

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

10th Jun 2024
I use note-taking software every day. I use it for journaling, blogging, capturing ideas, researching technologies, managing my projects, and many other things. Writing is how I think through problems, and note-taking software makes all that thinking easy to search and...
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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...
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You Won’t Hear About These, Even In Myths (Atlassian Jira, Confluence (and more) Pre-Auth Arbitrary... Welcome back to yet another episode of "security was taken seriously". Being who we are (and...
a week ago
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You Won’t Hear About These, Even In Myths (Atlassian Jira, Confluence (and more) Pre-Auth Arbitrary File Read CVE-2026-21589)

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

a week ago
Welcome back to yet another episode of "security was taken seriously". Being who we are (and constantly being exposed to what we see…), we recognize we have been doomed to eternal damnation as we keep on watching security best practices crumble behind “secure by design”
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Train Simulator Controller: Driver's Reminder Appliance (DRA) I’m building a physical cab dashboard to control Train Simulator, replicating the controls present...
5th Feb 2024
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Train Simulator Controller: Driver's Reminder Appliance (DRA)

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

5th Feb 2024
I’m building a physical cab dashboard to control Train Simulator, replicating the controls present in UK trains such as the Class 80x. One of the important safety systems is the Driver’s Reminder Appliance (DRA) that helps the driver avoid passing a red signal. I added a...
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Pocketwatch of Goo [Concept] Liquid filled timepiece
6th Mar 2025
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Pocketwatch of Goo

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

6th Mar 2025
[Concept] Liquid filled timepiece
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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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The Postcard and the Thing Itself (On Falling in Love with Ideas) My meditation teacher said something that stopped me cold: “We fall in love with the idea of a...
28th Oct 2025
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The Postcard and the Thing Itself (On Falling in Love with Ideas)

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

28th Oct 2025
My meditation teacher said something that stopped me cold: “We fall in love with the idea of a person, and then we fight so hard to keep it alive.”
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The cryptographic world computer
2 weeks ago
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The cryptographic world computer

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

2 weeks ago
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Deploying FreeBSD on Linode unattended in minutes I became a FreeBSD user over 2 years ago when I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. I swapped...
11th Mar 2017
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Deploying FreeBSD on Linode unattended in minutes

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

11th Mar 2017
I became a FreeBSD user over 2 years ago when I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. I swapped my y410p dual-booting Windows / Ubuntu with FreeBSD running Gnome 3. I learned a lot during the transition and came to appreciate FreeBSD as a user. I soon began running...
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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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Pretty pictures, bootable floppy disks, and the first Canon Cat demo? Now that our 1987 Canon Cat is refurbished and ready to go another nine innings or so, it's time to...
14th Jul 2024
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Pretty pictures, bootable floppy disks, and the first Canon Cat demo?

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

14th Jul 2024
Now that our 1987 Canon Cat is refurbished and ready to go another nine innings or so, it's time to get into the operating system and pull some tricks. from our historical discussion of the Canon Cat, the Cat was designed by Jef Raskin as a sophisticated user-centric computer...
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The Shoe on The Other Foot Ten years ago, I was in a dark season. My first startup had cratered. Confidence, gone. I would walk...
2nd Feb 2026
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The Shoe on The Other Foot

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

2nd Feb 2026
Ten years ago, I was in a dark season. My first startup had cratered. Confidence, gone. I would walk for hours to clear my head, often through parts of the city we typically hurry past. One Tuesday, I saw a man sitting outside a boarded-up storefront. He was weathered, his eyes...
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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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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...
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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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LED Matrix Earrings [Hardware] Itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow dot-matrix LED
20th Feb 2024
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LED Matrix Earrings

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20th Feb 2024
[Hardware] Itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow dot-matrix LED
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Don't you mean extinct?
10th Jul 2026
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Don't you mean extinct?

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

10th Jul 2026
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On Apple slowing down its phones Build world’s best smartphone CPU & release a CPU governor to slow it down via software update...
22nd Dec 2017
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On Apple slowing down its phones

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

22nd Dec 2017
Build world’s best smartphone CPU & release a CPU governor to slow it down via software update 😑 This isn’t an isolated incident, Li-ion batteries have been plaguing the tech industry. While other parts of the smartphone like displays, compute power, data transfer, storage...
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Mythos and its impact on security I’m sure by now you’ve all read the news about Anthropic’s new “Mythos” model and its apparently...
14th Apr 2026
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Mythos and its impact on security

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

14th Apr 2026
I’m sure by now you’ve all read the news about Anthropic’s new “Mythos” model and its apparently “dangerous” capabilities in finding security vulnerabilities. I’m sure everyone reading this also has opinions about that. Well, here are a few of mine. Is it all just hype? Firstly,...
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Street Fighter 2: Sound System Internals
15th Jan 2022
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Street Fighter 2: Sound System Internals

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

15th Jan 2022
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Digital Minimalism I find myself weirdly torn on this book.
3rd Dec 2020
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Digital Minimalism

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

3rd Dec 2020
I find myself weirdly torn on this book.
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AI for generating 2D animations I wanted to add some frills in Memory Hammer app1 when the user completes review of their...
26th Oct 2025
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AI for generating 2D animations

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

26th Oct 2025
I wanted to add some frills in Memory Hammer app1 when the user completes review of their flashcards. I decided to add a simple 2D animation where a brain is sulking and after being hit by the hammer (memory hammer's mascot) the brain becomes happy and jubilant. I made a simple...
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Wallops 2.2 Released A new release of my Wallops IRC client is available: wallops-2.2.sit (StuffIt 3...
2nd Feb 2026
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Wallops 2.2 Released

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2nd Feb 2026
A new release of my Wallops IRC client is available: wallops-2.2.sit (StuffIt 3 archive) adc2b473664ec0960b5b028335566831dd69f4a1de40f79e22bf1337292cca88 SHA1: 603c5080c41a0d5752cae49a08376db4e18628b1 This update includes a number of new features and bugfixes: Auto-connect with...
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Switching to Lenovo Carbon X1
2nd Oct 2020
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Switching to Lenovo Carbon X1

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

2nd Oct 2020
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STAR LINE In retrospect, I think there are two really noteworthy things about Chance the Rapper's career:
14th Aug 2025
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STAR LINE

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

14th Aug 2025
In retrospect, I think there are two really noteworthy things about Chance the Rapper's career:
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The Rehearsal As many people have mentioned, this show owes a lot to Synecdoche; New York (a film that I have very...
3rd Sep 2022
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The Rehearsal

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Sep 2022
As many people have mentioned, this show owes a lot to Synecdoche; New York (a film that I have very strong memories of and for despite having only seen once, in a haze, ten years ago.) It's also a show in the discourse, which I think belies a little just how deeply weird it...
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Exploiting misuse of Python's "pickle" If you program in Python, you’re probably familiar with the pickle serialization library, which...
20th Mar 2011
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Exploiting misuse of Python's "pickle"

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

20th Mar 2011
If you program in Python, you’re probably familiar with the pickle serialization library, which provides for efficient binary serialization and loading of Python datatypes. Hopefully, you’re also familiar with the warning printed prominently near the start of pickle’s...
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Fluid Simulation Pendant [Hardware] Wearable real-time FLIP device
13th Jan 2025
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Fluid Simulation Pendant

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13th Jan 2025
[Hardware] Wearable real-time FLIP device
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Walter Torous named executive director of MIT Center for Real Estate The senior lecturer, already director of the degree program, will now oversee all aspects of the...
1st Sep 2026
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Walter Torous named executive director of MIT Center for Real Estate

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

1st Sep 2026
The senior lecturer, already director of the degree program, will now oversee all aspects of the center’s activities and operations.
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Updates May 3
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Updates May 3

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3rd May 2024
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Better Laptop Consumer electronics often lock us into sealed hardware and forced upgrades, creating enormous...
9th Feb 2025
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Better Laptop

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

9th Feb 2025
Consumer electronics often lock us into sealed hardware and forced upgrades, creating enormous e-waste. Framework challenges that norm by making laptops you can service, upgrade, and customise, which extends their lifespan and cuts down on unnecessary e-waste. My Framework 13...
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This Arduino failsafe protects an amazing backyard observatory Nothing quite compares to the feeling of looking up at the cosmos on a dark night, and even an...
3rd Jun 2025
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This Arduino failsafe protects an amazing backyard observatory

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

3rd Jun 2025
Nothing quite compares to the feeling of looking up at the cosmos on a dark night, and even an affordable telescope can enhance that experience. But if you’re willing to spend the time and money, you can take things much further. That’s what Redditor CosmicRuin did when they...
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Stereographer Experimenting in stereo photography and I write an app to create old-fashioned stereoscopic cards.
5th Aug 2024
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Stereographer

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5th Aug 2024
Experimenting in stereo photography and I write an app to create old-fashioned stereoscopic cards.
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Reclaiming Your Memory in the Age of Distraction In today's social media-saturated world, does it feel like your memory is failing you? It's not that...
1st Jul 2025
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Reclaiming Your Memory in the Age of Distraction

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

1st Jul 2025
In today's social media-saturated world, does it feel like your memory is failing you? It's not that you can't remember anything, but rather that you're constantly distracted while trying to remember. Just a few years ago, I had a nightly ritual. Before drifting off to sleep, I'd...
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The best laptop is the one somebody else had In 2011, I was finishing 9th grade. As a gift, I got to choose a laptop in the 400 EUR range. I...
1st Nov 2024
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The best laptop is the one somebody else had

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

1st Nov 2024
In 2011, I was finishing 9th grade. As a gift, I got to choose a laptop in the 400 EUR range. I ended up picking an ASUS Eee PC 1201PN. It was new and the first computer in my life that was 100% mine, but awfully slow for a lot of tasks. It was so slow that I ended up giving...
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The Three Transitions
9th Jun 2023
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The Three Transitions

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

9th Jun 2023
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The unreasonable effectiveness of the pancake rule Being chronically late to meetings sucks. Not only is it very rude, but you’re signalling that you...
8th Sep 2025
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The unreasonable effectiveness of the pancake rule

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

8th Sep 2025
Being chronically late to meetings sucks. Not only is it very rude, but you’re signalling that you don’t value your coworkers’ time. However, I’ve picked up a technique that works unreasonably well within a team.1 If you are late to the first meeting of the day three times within...
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Three kinds of memory leaks So, you’ve got a program that’s using more and more over time as it runs. Probably you can...
29th Apr 2018
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Three kinds of memory leaks

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29th Apr 2018
So, you’ve got a program that’s using more and more over time as it runs. Probably you can immediately identify this as a likely symptom of a memory leak. But when we say “memory leak”, what do we actually mean? In my experience, apparent memory leaks divide into three broad...
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UNIX Review Magazine Interviews Larry Tesler They discuss Tesler's involvement with Xerox, Apple and office automation with Unix.
10th Sep 2024
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UNIX Review Magazine Interviews Larry Tesler

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

10th Sep 2024
They discuss Tesler's involvement with Xerox, Apple and office automation with Unix.
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air traffic control: the IBM 9020 Previously on Computers Are Bad, we discussed the early history of air traffic control in the United...
17th Jan 2026
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air traffic control: the IBM 9020

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

17th Jan 2026
Previously on Computers Are Bad, we discussed the early history of air traffic control in the United States. The technical demands of air traffic control are well known in computer history circles because of the prominence of SAGE, but what's less well known is that SAGE itself...
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2001: A Space Odyssey 50 years ago a movie changed everything. That’s how aptly, the re-release trailer backed by...
6th May 2018
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2001: A Space Odyssey

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

6th May 2018
50 years ago a movie changed everything. That’s how aptly, the re-release trailer backed by Christopher Nolan begins! Watch video on YouTube 2001: A Space Odyssey — Original Theatrical Trailer | Credits: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. It’s safe to say that there’s no other...
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MicroTimes Interviews Borland's Philippe Kahn Again (1995) Khan talks about his post-Borland work at Starfish and competition with Lotus and Microsoft
3rd Mar 2026
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MicroTimes Interviews Borland's Philippe Kahn Again (1995)

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

3rd Mar 2026
Khan talks about his post-Borland work at Starfish and competition with Lotus and Microsoft
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Using Claude Code to write Home Assistant integrations For the past few months, I’ve been dabbling with Claude Code. Not in a “no one needs developers...
5th Apr 2026
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Using Claude Code to write Home Assistant integrations

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

5th Apr 2026
For the past few months, I’ve been dabbling with Claude Code. Not in a “no one needs developers anymore, anyone can build apps now” kind of way. More in a “I have a basic understanding of this, but not enough to turn it into code I can actually use” kind of way. I don’t need...
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Halo and more: exploring incremental verification and SNARKs without pairings
5th Nov 2021
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Halo and more: exploring incremental verification and SNARKs without pairings

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

5th Nov 2021
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Aldous Huxley's world of perceptions You may already know of this novel called 1984, and its author George Orwell. Aldous Huxley wrote a...
18th Jul 2021
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Aldous Huxley's world of perceptions

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

18th Jul 2021
You may already know of this novel called 1984, and its author George Orwell. Aldous Huxley wrote a dystopian classic called Brave New World…
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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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Why I don’t use LLMs for programming I originally posted this on Mastodon, but I thought I’d add it here too: “What I mean is that if you...
2nd Mar 2026
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Why I don’t use LLMs for programming

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

2nd Mar 2026
I originally posted this on Mastodon, but I thought I’d add it here too: “What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. That forces you to sort it out in your own mind. And the more slow and dim-witted […]
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Atomic Design in&nbsp;1998 When you hear “atomic design,” you probably think of Brad Frost. Interestingly, he was not the first...
8th Feb 2018
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Atomic Design in&nbsp;1998

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

8th Feb 2018
When you hear “atomic design,” you probably think of Brad Frost. Interestingly, he was not the first person to develop that method of delivering design as components, or even the terminology. Brad published his atomic design article in 2013. While digging through the archives at...
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How Core Git Developers Configure Git What `git config` settings should be defaults by now? Here are some settings that even the core...
22nd Feb 2025
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How Core Git Developers Configure Git

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22nd Feb 2025
What `git config` settings should be defaults by now? Here are some settings that even the core developers change.
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Being a volunteer in Amsterdam-Zuidoost After realising how lucky I am as an healthy, well educated, young man with a solid income, I wanted...
20th Nov 2016
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Being a volunteer in Amsterdam-Zuidoost

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

20th Nov 2016
After realising how lucky I am as an healthy, well educated, young man with a solid income, I wanted to do something for other people as volunteer. It just so happens to be that two years ago I received a flyer in my mailbox from the local community center: they were looking for...
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Train Simulator Controller: CAN-Connected Air Gauge In my ongoing quest to build a physical cab dashboard to control Train Simulator, an important set...
28th Dec 2023
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Train Simulator Controller: CAN-Connected Air Gauge

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

28th Dec 2023
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. I already showed off the internals of an AWS sunflower and early experiments with a speedometer. In this...
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Home Energy Monitor: V2 My DIY home energy monitor has been running for almost a year now. It's been recording my...
11th Feb 2020
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Home Energy Monitor: V2

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

11th Feb 2020
My DIY home energy monitor has been running for almost a year now. It's been recording my electricity consumption every second and everything is neatly archived in my AWS account.Still, though, there is room for improvement. It's time to look back, evaluate & improve the design....
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A Vacation Filled with Obsession A nice thing about school are the nice long vacations. Directly after my last exam we went north to...
7th Jan 2013
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A Vacation Filled with Obsession

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

7th Jan 2013
A nice thing about school are the nice long vacations. Directly after my last exam we went north to our dear home village Övertorneå and spent two weeks celebrating Christmas and New Years Eve. What did we do? I practiced some obsessive behavior with Power Grid and Minecraft (and...
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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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From tree to table Right next to the house were I was born there was this chestnut tree, sadly it died one and a half...
22nd Oct 2017
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From tree to table

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

22nd Oct 2017
Right next to the house were I was born there was this chestnut tree, sadly it died one and a half year ago. When it was taken down, my brother saved me a slab of wood. I intended to create something from it, a nice "do it yourself" adventure, worthy of a blog post! The chestnut...
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Django - growing up from SQLite to PostgreSQL Django by default comes with SQLite as a database.It’s a great choice for initial development and...
11th Jul 2021
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Django - growing up from SQLite to PostgreSQL

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

11th Jul 2021
Django by default comes with SQLite as a database.It’s a great choice for initial development and for testing,but not if you want to run multiple app servers, e.g. in a SaaS project. At some point it’s time to pick up a DB like MySQL or PostgreSQL that is more suitable for this...
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Love is to die
29th Nov 2021
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Love is to die

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

29th Nov 2021
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Cutting Cloud Costs Like many, I faced soaring cloud service costs for my clients, prompting a wake-up call. To stay...
4th Apr 2023
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Cutting Cloud Costs

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

4th Apr 2023
Like many, I faced soaring cloud service costs for my clients, prompting a wake-up call. To stay afloat, it's essential to incorporate software optimisation as a strategy for managing cloud expenses. Join me as I share how I managed to save up to 90% on cloud costs through...
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Wearing WHOOP 4.0 Use WHOOP to see the impact your choices have on your body, think of it as a special kind of mirror...
13th Jan 2022
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Wearing WHOOP 4.0

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

13th Jan 2022
Use WHOOP to see the impact your choices have on your body, think of it as a special kind of mirror - it's so powerful, that I don't take mine off!
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SipHash-based encryption for constrained devices I see a lot of attempts to define encryption schemes for constrained devices with short...
6th May 2024
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SipHash-based encryption for constrained devices

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

6th May 2024
I see a lot of attempts to define encryption schemes for constrained devices with short authentication tags (e.g., 64 bits) using universal hashing. For example, there’s a proposal in CFRG at the moment for a version of AES-GCM with short tags for this kind of use-case. In my...
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Control as Liability
9th May 2019
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Control as Liability

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

9th May 2019
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Fluent Visitors: revisiting a classic design pattern It’s been a while since I’ve written a pure programming post. I was recently implementing a...
4th Nov 2025
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Fluent Visitors: revisiting a classic design pattern

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

4th Nov 2025
It’s been a while since I’ve written a pure programming post. I was recently implementing a specialist collection class that contained items of a number of different types. I needed to be able to iterate over the collection performing different actions depending on the specific...
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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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71 TiB DIY NAS based on ZFS on Linux This is my new 71 TiB DIY NAS. This server is the successor to my six year old, twenty drive 18 TB...
2nd Aug 2014
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71 TiB DIY NAS based on ZFS on Linux

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

2nd Aug 2014
This is my new 71 TiB DIY NAS. This server is the successor to my six year old, twenty drive 18 TB NAS (17 TiB). With a storage capacity four times higher than the original and an incredible read (2.5 GB/s)/write (1.9 GB/s) performance, it's a worthy successor. Purpose The...
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What Are You Going Through The book was good but it felt like a step back from the masterwork of The Friend; they are so...
3rd Jan 2021
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What Are You Going Through

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

3rd Jan 2021
The book was good but it felt like a step back from the masterwork of The Friend; they are so similar in structure and style but it felt a little bit like everything in this one was a few percentage points less powerful, which accumulated. The writerly citations and digressions...
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bitCards Thrill Your Friends This Christmas with a gift from bitCards
1st Sep 2026
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bitCards

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

1st Sep 2026
Thrill Your Friends This Christmas with a gift from bitCards
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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
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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...
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Hilariously Fast Volume Computation with the Divergence Theorem (No, there won’t be jokes.) The following presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of a...
16th Feb 2018
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Hilariously Fast Volume Computation with the Divergence Theorem

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

16th Feb 2018
(No, there won’t be jokes.) The following presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of a simple, closed, triangulated 3D mesh. This assumption is a consequence of the divergence theorem. Further extensions may generalise to other meshes as well, although that is presently...
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Quick Pebble Project Update
9th Jul 2025
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Quick Pebble Project Update

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

9th Jul 2025
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Links #10 How to Get on a Podcast - This is a short and invaluable post for anyone who wants to be a podcast...
2nd Aug 2024
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Links #10

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

2nd Aug 2024
How to Get on a Podcast - This is a short and invaluable post for anyone who wants to be a podcast guest. It puts you in the shoes of a podcaster, showing you what they need, and how you can be a “sure thing” for them. As usual, there are no short cuts. You gotta do the work! A...
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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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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.
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Visual representation of hard drives and their temperature If you build a NAS with many drives, it may be of interest to you which drives get hot and where...
12th Sep 2009
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Visual representation of hard drives and their temperature

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

12th Sep 2009
If you build a NAS with many drives, it may be of interest to you which drives get hot and where they are located in the chassis. My Norco 4020 case has twenty drives in RAID 6, plus two operating system drives in RAID 1. I wrote a script that shows me the temperature of each...
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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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Track Zelda release anniversaries in your calendar The original Legend of Zelda came out 40 years ago today. With other birthdays on the horizon, like...
21st Feb 2026
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Track Zelda release anniversaries in your calendar

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

21st Feb 2026
The original Legend of Zelda came out 40 years ago today. With other birthdays on the horizon, like Twilight Princess’s 20th in November, I wanted a calendar that showed the anniversary of every Zelda game. So I made one. Subscribe to this URL in your calendar...
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Simsim Pendant [Concept] Mercurial Medallion
5th Mar 2024
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Simsim Pendant

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

5th Mar 2024
[Concept] Mercurial Medallion
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Apple at 50: my most memorable product announcements Apple turns 50 today, so I thought I'd take some time to think back on some of the most memorable...
1st Apr 2026
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Apple at 50: my most memorable product announcements

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Apr 2026
Apple turns 50 today, so I thought I'd take some time to think back on some of the most memorable Apple product announcements. I'm relying entirely on my own memory, so forgive me if I get some small details wrong. Original iPhone We have to start
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How to Research New Media Effects As I approach my second decade studying digital media, there’s one thing I keep noticing:
21st May 2024
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How to Research New Media Effects

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

21st May 2024
As I approach my second decade studying digital media, there’s one thing I keep noticing:
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YouTube is a mysterious monopoly Yesterday I saw this Bluesky post from Adrian Black. He runs Adrian’s Digital Basement, a retro...
8th Sep 2025
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YouTube is a mysterious monopoly

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

8th Sep 2025
Yesterday I saw this Bluesky post from Adrian Black. He runs Adrian’s Digital Basement, a retro computer repair channel I really enjoy. In the post, he points out a trend I didn’t know about: YouTube views seem to have fallen off a cliff recently. Further down the thread, Jeff...
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Optimizing for iteration speed I've written before about the importance of iterating quickly but I didn't necessarily talk about...
6th Jul 2017
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Optimizing for iteration speed

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

6th Jul 2017
I've written before about the importance of iterating quickly but I didn't necessarily talk about some concrete things you can do. When I've built up the tech team at Better, I've intentionally optimized for fast iteration speed above almost everything else.
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[Mirror] Zk-SNARKs: Under the Hood
1st Feb 2017
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[Mirror] Zk-SNARKs: Under the Hood

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

1st Feb 2017
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Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end In 2020, Apple released the M1 with a custom GPU. We got to work reverse-engineering the hardware...
26th Aug 2025
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Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end

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

26th Aug 2025
In 2020, Apple released the M1 with a custom GPU. We got to work reverse-engineering the hardware and porting Linux. Today, you can run Linux on a range of M1 and M2 Macs, with almost all hardware working: wireless, audio, and full graphics acceleration. Our story begins in...
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Omarchy on iMac After helping a family member migrate to a new computer, I found myself with an old iMac. The...
21st Sep 2025
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Omarchy on iMac

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

21st Sep 2025
After helping a family member migrate to a new computer, I found myself with an old iMac. The machine from 2017 was very slow running modern macOS, yet I have a soft spot for these all-in-one computers designed by Jony Ive and his team. Could I install Linux on it to give it a...
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Increasing Frequency Counter Precision with Linear Regression MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [...
16th Jun 2023
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Increasing Frequency Counter Precision with Linear Regression

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

16th Jun 2023
MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [ ['$', '$'], ["\\(", "\\)"] ], displayMath: [ ['$$', '$$'], ["\\[", "\\]"] ], processEscapes: true, skipTags: ['script', 'noscript', 'style', 'textarea', 'pre',...
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digital consumption keeps me from getting better at my job know thyself There is a new lifestyle imposed on almost the entire world, willingly or unwillingly,...
31st Jul 2024
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digital consumption keeps me from getting better at my job

from sibervepunk [alt+shift+b] in technology

31st Jul 2024
know thyself There is a new lifestyle imposed on almost the entire world, willingly or unwillingly, perhaps by powerful people or by many small people that want to be powerful, which somehow affects all ordinary people: a consumption-oriented life. Fast consumption, constant...
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What's the deal with magnetic fields? I apologize, but there won't be any Insane Clown Posse jokes in this article.
4th Feb 2025
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What's the deal with magnetic fields?

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

4th Feb 2025
I apologize, but there won't be any Insane Clown Posse jokes in this article.
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Bubbles.town I mostly use my web stats service because I get a lizard-brain kick from watching numbers go up, but...
9th Aug 2026
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Bubbles.town

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

9th Aug 2026
I mostly use my web stats service because I get a lizard-brain kick from watching numbers go up, but it also provides some fun insights. For example, it’s how I found out about bubbles.town. At first I thought this might be a Mastodon instance. I get a lot of referral traffic...
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More interruptions, not fewer Have you ever gotten to the end of a long work day and realized you’re no closer to your goals? I...
1st Dec 2025
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More interruptions, not fewer

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

1st Dec 2025
Have you ever gotten to the end of a long work day and realized you’re no closer to your goals? I have. The problem, counterintuitively, was lack of interruption. Sure, I was doing a lot of stuff. But I never paused to ask whether I was doing the right stuff. Or whether my...
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Lion's Disk Utility not compatible with CoreStorage and Filevault My 1 TB hard drive of my 2011 27" iMac was partitioned with: A bootable partition with Mac OS X...
2nd Aug 2011
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Lion's Disk Utility not compatible with CoreStorage and Filevault

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

2nd Aug 2011
My 1 TB hard drive of my 2011 27" iMac was partitioned with: A bootable partition with Mac OS X Lion Time machine partition (I use an external SSD as my main OS) Bootcamp partition with windows A data partition containg... data. The problem is that CoreStorage is too new. Disk...
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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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Hacking the World Poker Tour: Inside ClubWPT Gold’s Back Office
12th Oct 2025
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Hacking the World Poker Tour: Inside ClubWPT Gold’s Back Office

from Blog | Sam Curry [alt+shift+b] in technology

12th Oct 2025
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Measuring Capacity Through Utilization (This post is cross-posted from Honeycomb’s instrumentation series). One of my favorite concepts...
8th Jan 2017
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Measuring Capacity Through Utilization

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

8th Jan 2017
(This post is cross-posted from Honeycomb’s instrumentation series). One of my favorite concepts when thinking about instrumenting a system to understand its overall performance and capacity is what I call “time utilization”. By this I mean: If you look at the behavior of a...
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Carving the Super Nintendo Video System
29th Jul 2024
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Carving the Super Nintendo Video System

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

29th Jul 2024
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2023-10-03 overheard overhead Let's talk about overhead paging. The concept goes by various names: paging, public address, even...
3rd Oct 2023
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2023-10-03 overheard overhead

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

3rd Oct 2023
Let's talk about overhead paging. The concept goes by various names: paging, public address, even intercom, although the accuracy of the latter term can be questionable. It's probably one of the aspects of business telephone systems that gets the most public attention, on account...
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Multitasking on ESP32 with Arduino and FreeRTOS By now, it's no secret that the ESP32 is my go-to chip for making IoT devices. They're small,...
6th Jan 2020
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Multitasking on ESP32 with Arduino and FreeRTOS

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

6th Jan 2020
By now, it's no secret that the ESP32 is my go-to chip for making IoT devices. They're small, powerful, have a ton of onboard features, and they're relatively easy to program.However, when using it together with Arduino, all your code runs on a single core. That seems a bit...
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the video lunchbox An opening note: would you believe that I have been at this for five years, now? If I planned ahead...
13th Sep 2025
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the video lunchbox

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

13th Sep 2025
An opening note: would you believe that I have been at this for five years, now? If I planned ahead better, I would have done this on the five-year anniversary, but I missed it. Computers Are Bad is now five years and four months old. When I originally launched CAB, it was my...
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Reckoning with Liquid Glass When Apple released its new operating systems last year, I wasn’t in a hurry to upgrade. I had...
20th Jan 2026
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Reckoning with Liquid Glass

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

20th Jan 2026
When Apple released its new operating systems last year, I wasn’t in a hurry to upgrade. I had initially come away from WWDC 2025 excited about the new Liquid Glass design language, but then became grumpy. The visual effects looked nice to me, but they functioned more poorly than...
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Checkboxes are never&nbsp;round I’ve noticed a worrying number of professional designers mixing up basic form elements lately....
3rd Sep 2015
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Checkboxes are never&nbsp;round

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

3rd Sep 2015
I’ve noticed a worrying number of professional designers mixing up basic form elements lately. Checkboxes and radio buttons, particularly. This is the Jobs page on Designer News: See that “Remote Friendly” control? It’s a trick control. It looks like a radio button, but it...
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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…
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