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I quit my startup because of comic sans Okay, it wasn’t really caused by the Comic Sans. I had very fun 3 months of pretty fun collaboration...
14th Jul 2023
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I quit my startup because of comic sans

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

14th Jul 2023
Okay, it wasn’t really caused by the Comic Sans. I had very fun 3 months of pretty fun collaboration and intense learning, but in the end I had this very clear feeling that I would be better of on my own. It wasn’t awful, but it wasn’t great. There were many small and big things...
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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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Versioning microservices in GitLab monorepos and polyrepos What are some possible options to version projects for a microservices project in Gitlab?
2nd Jan 2022
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Versioning microservices in GitLab monorepos and polyrepos

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

2nd Jan 2022
What are some possible options to version projects for a microservices project in Gitlab?
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Reverse engineering circuitry in a Spacelab computer from 1980 Spacelab was a reusable laboratory that could be carried in the cargo bay of the Space Shuttle,...
23rd May 2026
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Reverse engineering circuitry in a Spacelab computer from 1980

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

23rd May 2026
Spacelab was a reusable laboratory that could be carried in the cargo bay of the Space Shuttle, providing lab space for astronauts and experiments. Spacelab was controlled by a French-built minicomputer, called the Mitra 125 MS. Unlike modern computers, this computer didn't...
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I Want People To Agree With Me, Not Die Pastor Tim has already written about this in light of another assassination attempt on either...
6th May 2026
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I Want People To Agree With Me, Not Die

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

6th May 2026
Pastor Tim has already written about this in light of another assassination attempt on either President Trump or other members of the administration. Many people are unhealthily and dangerously angry, and it seems like it’s getting worse.
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Servicing a robot vacuum cleaner This week it was time for some maintenance on my iRobot Roomba robot vacuum cleaner. Read along to...
19th Mar 2019
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Servicing a robot vacuum cleaner

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

19th Mar 2019
This week it was time for some maintenance on my iRobot Roomba robot vacuum cleaner. Read along to learn how I did it.
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Compiling Handbrake CLI on Debian Lenny In this post I will show you how to compile Handbrake for Debian Lenny. Please note that although...
3rd Aug 2010
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Compiling Handbrake CLI on Debian Lenny

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

3rd Aug 2010
In this post I will show you how to compile Handbrake for Debian Lenny. Please note that although the Handbrake GUI version does compile on Lenny, it crashes with a segmentation fault like this: Gtk: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -5 and height...
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Fun and Games with Exposure Notifications Exposure Notifications is a protocol developed by Apple and Google for facilitating COVID-19 contact...
7th Sep 2020
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Fun and Games with Exposure Notifications

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

7th Sep 2020
Exposure Notifications is a protocol developed by Apple and Google for facilitating COVID-19 contact tracing on mobile phones by exchanging codes with nearby phones over Bluetooth, implemented within the Android and iOS operating systems, now available here in Toronto. Wait –...
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Inspiration from a child Explore the world together with your kids and reap the rewards of adventure and fun!
29th Sep 2021
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Inspiration from a child

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

29th Sep 2021
Explore the world together with your kids and reap the rewards of adventure and fun!
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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 Writing [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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Realtime service uptime monitoring Downtime happens and it is nothing to be ashamed of, just make sure that you set yourself up to...
1st Feb 2021
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Realtime service uptime monitoring

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

1st Feb 2021
Downtime happens and it is nothing to be ashamed of, just make sure that you set yourself up to discover problems as soon as possible! Know about problems before your customers do!
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Implementing a declarative mini-language in the C preprocessor Last time, I announced Check Plus, a declarative language for defining Check tests in C. This time,...
4th Jul 2010
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Implementing a declarative mini-language in the C preprocessor

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

4th Jul 2010
Last time, I announced Check Plus, a declarative language for defining Check tests in C. This time, I want to talk about the tricks I used to implement a declarative minilanguage using the C preprocessor (and some GCC extensions). The Problem We want to write some toplevel...
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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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Observing my cellphone switch towers
15th May 2021
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Observing my cellphone switch towers

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

15th May 2021
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Search like a pro: Google search operators You probably use the world's most famous search engine to find things everyday, but you might not...
24th Apr 2019
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Search like a pro: Google search operators

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

24th Apr 2019
You probably use the world's most famous search engine to find things everyday, but you might not know about some of its advanced search operators. You can use these special search phrases to find things that are otherwise burried in the search results. Read along for a...
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Why scons is cool I’ve recently started playing with scons a little for some small personal projects. It’s not...
7th Nov 2010
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Why scons is cool

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

7th Nov 2010
I’ve recently started playing with scons a little for some small personal projects. It’s not perfect, but I’ve rapidly come to the conclusion that it’s a probably far better choice than make in many cases. The main exceptions would be cases where you need to integrate into legacy...
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Where to use a blockchain in non-financial applications?
12th Jun 2022
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Where to use a blockchain in non-financial applications?

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

12th Jun 2022
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5 Frames with Nikon FM and Fomapan 100 On a few photowalks around Kitsilano in Vancouver BC with my first roll of Fomapan Classic 100. All...
8th Feb 2025
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5 Frames with Nikon FM and Fomapan 100

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in technology

8th Feb 2025
On a few photowalks around Kitsilano in Vancouver BC with my first roll of Fomapan Classic 100. All pictures shot with older, non-AI Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 lens. Developed in Ilford Ilfosol3 for 5 minutes at 20°C and scanned with a cheap film scanner. Color has been removed and some...
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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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A Navajo weaving of an integrated circuit: the 555 timer The noted Diné (Navajo) weaver Marilou Schultz recently completed an intricate weaving composed...
6th Sep 2025
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A Navajo weaving of an integrated circuit: the 555 timer

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

6th Sep 2025
The noted Diné (Navajo) weaver Marilou Schultz recently completed an intricate weaving composed of thick white lines on a black background, punctuated with reddish-orange diamonds. Although this striking rug may appear abstract, it shows the internal circuitry of a tiny silicon...
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Breaking Changes Last week I ran into unexpected trouble during a routine maintenance procedure on my company's email...
3rd Jun 2025
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Breaking Changes

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

3rd Jun 2025
Last week I ran into unexpected trouble during a routine maintenance procedure on my company's email infrastructure. Processing thousands of emails each day, we use Dovecot to give our clients access to their messages. That all came to a grinding halt when I updated to version...
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Joining TCG Crypto I am thrilled to share that I am joining the team at TCG, The Chernin Group, to focus on the firm’s...
14th Sep 2021
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Joining TCG Crypto

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

14th Sep 2021
I am thrilled to share that I am joining the team at TCG, The Chernin Group, to focus on the firm’s investments at the intersection of consumer and crypto.
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Why don't you move abroad? The IIT Dream College and Open Source Twitter @ San Francisco The Emotional Turmoil in San Francisco...
18th Nov 2024
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Why don't you move abroad?

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

18th Nov 2024
The IIT Dream College and Open Source Twitter @ San Francisco The Emotional Turmoil in San Francisco College placements and first job Life…
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Long Story Short Long Story Short, feels like in many ways a synthesis of everything Raphael and Lisa have been...
3rd Oct 2025
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Long Story Short

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

3rd Oct 2025
Long Story Short, feels like in many ways a synthesis of everything Raphael and Lisa have been trying to do and say, packaged in a slightly more mature and restrained way than the excesses of Bojack Horseman and their respective written fiction (everyone should read Someone Who...
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A minimal REST API in Java There's a style of Java that is a joy to write. This post will cover how to set up a basic...
1st Feb 2020
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A minimal REST API in Java

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

1st Feb 2020
There's a style of Java that is a joy to write. This post will cover how to set up a basic PostgreSQL-integrated REST API using Jersey and JOOQ in a style not dissimilar to Flask and SQLAlchemy in Python. In particular, we'll try to avoid as much runtime reflection/class-loading...
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Inside the mechanical Bendix Air Data Computer, part 3: pressure transducers MathJax = { tex: { inlineMath: [['$', '$'], ['\\(', '\\)']] }, svg: { fontCache:...
16th Jan 2024
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Inside the mechanical Bendix Air Data Computer, part 3: pressure transducers

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

16th Jan 2024
MathJax = { tex: { inlineMath: [['$', '$'], ['\\(', '\\)']] }, svg: { fontCache: 'global' }, chtml: { displayAlign: 'left' } }; MathJax.Hub.Config({ "HTML-CSS": { scale: 175} }); .MathJax {font-size: 1em !important} The Bendix Central Air...
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Hardware Founders: (When) Should You Try To Raise VC Money? If you choose to raise any amount of venture capital investment you are making an implicit agreement...
9th Jul 2018
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Hardware Founders: (When) Should You Try To Raise VC Money?

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

9th Jul 2018
If you choose to raise any amount of venture capital investment you are making an implicit agreement with your investor that your aim is to…
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Things I wish I knew about Ring Fit Adventure I’ve played a lot of Ring Fit Adventure, the fitness game for Nintendo Switch. Here are some things...
4th May 2025
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Things I wish I knew about Ring Fit Adventure

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

4th May 2025
I’ve played a lot of Ring Fit Adventure, the fitness game for Nintendo Switch. Here are some things I wish I knew when I got started. Jump over battles to skip them You can jump over enemies to avoid fighting them! I first discovered this when watching a speedrun of the game. If...
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Learning from users faster using machine learning I had an interesting idea a few weeks ago, best explained through an example. Let's say you're...
12th Dec 2017
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Learning from users faster using machine learning

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

12th Dec 2017
I had an interesting idea a few weeks ago, best explained through an example. Let's say you're running an e-commerce site (I kind of do) and you want to optimize the number of purchases. Let's also say we try to learn as much as we can from users, both using A/B tests but also...
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GitButler for Windows The GitButler client is now available natively on Windows.
12th Apr 2024
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GitButler for Windows

from GitButler [alt+shift+b] in technology

12th Apr 2024
The GitButler client is now available natively on Windows.
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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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I tried making artificial sunlight at home Some time ago, I saw this video by DIY Perks where they make artificial sunlight at home with a 500W...
27th Mar 2025
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I tried making artificial sunlight at home

from Victor Poughon [alt+shift+b] in technology

27th Mar 2025
Some time ago, I saw this video by DIY Perks where they make artificial sunlight at home with a 500W LED and a gigantic (1.2m) parabolic reflector. I've been fascinated by this project ever since, and I wanted my own. Over the past year or so, I finally took the time to work on a...
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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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Do Smart People Ever Say They’re Smart? (SmarterTools SmarterMail Pre-Auth RCE CVE-2025-52691) Welcome to 2026! While we are all waiting for the scheduled SSLVPN ITW exploitation programming that...
8th Jan 2026
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Do Smart People Ever Say They’re Smart? (SmarterTools SmarterMail Pre-Auth RCE CVE-2025-52691)

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

8th Jan 2026
Welcome to 2026! While we are all waiting for the scheduled SSLVPN ITW exploitation programming that occurs every January, we’re back from Christmas and idle hands, idle minds, yada yada. In December, we were alerted to a vulnerability in SmarterTools’ SmarterMail solution,...
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The Purpose of a Baby is What it Does I promised another Flusser post a few weeks ago…but personal events have intervened.
2nd Mar 2026
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The Purpose of a Baby is What it Does

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

2nd Mar 2026
I promised another Flusser post a few weeks ago…but personal events have intervened.
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For the love of mini People regulary ask me why I have a small smartphone, a modern iPhone 13 Mini. Often I simply reply...
8th Dec 2021
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For the love of mini

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

8th Dec 2021
People regulary ask me why I have a small smartphone, a modern iPhone 13 Mini. Often I simply reply that I like it. The smaller size offers more than just an easier fit in your pocket. I have come to appreciate its intangible greatness, read along for the love of mini! iPhone...
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The Talk Show Timeline I really enjoy John Gruber’s podcast The Talk Show. However, I’ve noticed that it’s been a while...
3 weeks ago
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The Talk Show Timeline

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

3 weeks ago
I really enjoy John Gruber’s podcast The Talk Show. However, I’ve noticed that it’s been a while since it was in my feed. I decided to chart previous episode dates to check some of my assumptions about release frequency. Cutting to the chase, here’s a link to The Talk Show...
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Predicting solar eclipses with Python As I am en route to see my first total solar eclipse, I was curious how hard it would be to compute...
7th Apr 2024
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Predicting solar eclipses with Python

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

7th Apr 2024
As I am en route to see my first total solar eclipse, I was curious how hard it would be to compute eclipses in Python. It turns out, ignoring some minor coordinate system head-banging, I was able to get something half-decent working in a couple of hours.
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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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Write your own Ghost Theme I struggled to make a Ghost CMS theme that worked the way I wanted, so I made my own. Turned out to...
5th Jun 2025
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Write your own Ghost Theme

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

5th Jun 2025
I struggled to make a Ghost CMS theme that worked the way I wanted, so I made my own. Turned out to be a surprisingly easy experience.
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My experiences with DFS replication on Windows 2008 R2 If you are considering implementing DFS replication, consider using Windows 2012 R2 because DFS...
15th Jun 2014
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My experiences with DFS replication on Windows 2008 R2

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

15th Jun 2014
If you are considering implementing DFS replication, consider using Windows 2012 R2 because DFS replication has been massively improved. It supports larger data sets and performance has dramatically been improved over Windows 2008 R2. I've implemented DFS replication to keep two...
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Prisoner’s Chessboard Puzzle
22nd Aug 2026
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Prisoner’s Chessboard Puzzle

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

22nd Aug 2026
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GitButler for Windows The GitButler client is now available natively on Windows.
12th Apr 2024
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GitButler for Windows

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

12th Apr 2024
The GitButler client is now available natively on Windows.
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Noteworthy Updates to The New Oil
6th Apr 2025
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Noteworthy Updates to The New Oil

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

6th Apr 2025
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So that's what alignment means Another thought experiment comes roaring to life.
14th Aug 2026
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So that's what alignment means

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

14th Aug 2026
Another thought experiment comes roaring to life.
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MicroMac, a Macintosh for under £5 A microcontroller Macintosh This all started from a conversation about the RP2040 MCU, and building...
15th Jun 2024
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MicroMac, a Macintosh for under £5

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

15th Jun 2024
A microcontroller Macintosh This all started from a conversation about the RP2040 MCU, and building a simple desktop/GUI for it. I’d made a comment along the lines of “or, just run some old OS”, and it got me thinking about the original Macintosh. The original Macintosh was...
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A geometric world now
31st Jul 2018
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A geometric world now

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

31st Jul 2018
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One-parting some Commodore 64 utilities for fun and profit I've got a few retrocomputing bucket list items I'm slowly working down, and a couple of them...
17th Nov 2024
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One-parting some Commodore 64 utilities for fun and profit

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

17th Nov 2024
I've got a few retrocomputing bucket list items I'm slowly working down, and a couple of them involve some little Commodore 64 games I've had kicking around on the backburner. However, every game needs media assets, and while there are many great tools for doing art on your...
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RailScan: First Point Clouds from Railroad Museum Scanner I volunteer at a train, trolley, and subway museum. As a non-authoritative, hobby project combining...
16th Jul 2026
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RailScan: First Point Clouds from Railroad Museum Scanner

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

16th Jul 2026
I volunteer at a train, trolley, and subway museum. As a non-authoritative, hobby project combining my love of trains, electronics, mapping, and data, I am building a LiDAR scanner to map and analyze the museum. After designing the initial hardware and software for a GNSS-enabled...
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Back to the University Join me on a special course exploring scientific programming, the perfect moment to learn Python...
7th Feb 2023
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Back to the University

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

7th Feb 2023
Join me on a special course exploring scientific programming, the perfect moment to learn Python with recent advancements in machine learning like ChatGPT!
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Spatio-temporal indexing the Bluesky firehose
7th Aug 2025
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Spatio-temporal indexing the Bluesky firehose

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

7th Aug 2025
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The Apple GPU and the Impossible Bug In late 2020, Apple debuted the M1 with Apple’s GPU architecture, AGX, rumoured to be derived from...
13th May 2022
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The Apple GPU and the Impossible Bug

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

13th May 2022
In late 2020, Apple debuted the M1 with Apple’s GPU architecture, AGX, rumoured to be derived from Imagination’s PowerVR series. Since then, we’ve been reverse-engineering AGX and building open source graphics drivers. Last January, I rendered a triangle with my own code, but...
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Ted Lasso (Season 1) Gilbert & Sullivan would have loved Ted Lasso — absurd and friendly and ever, ever obsessed with...
4th Aug 2024
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Ted Lasso (Season 1)

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

4th Aug 2024
Gilbert & Sullivan would have loved Ted Lasso — absurd and friendly and ever, ever obsessed with having its pathos and eating it too. I write this in a period of what I would describe as post-post-backlash: there was a period where America, particularly during COVID, was obsessed...
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Postwar Postwar is not a book so much as it is a college course on 20th century Europe. Judt makes it clear...
2nd Sep 2020
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Postwar

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Sep 2020
Postwar is not a book so much as it is a college course on 20th century Europe. Judt makes it clear in his introduction that rather than try and propose a grand theory or specific thesis with which to plumb the six decades following World War II, he wrote the book in an exercise...
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Train Simulator Controller: Laser-Cutting a Door Control Panel As the different pieces of my Train Simulator controller come together, a bite-sized first task of...
1st May 2024
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Train Simulator Controller: Laser-Cutting a Door Control Panel

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

1st May 2024
As the different pieces of my Train Simulator controller come together, a bite-sized first task of building the physical dashboard is the door controls placed at each side of the cab. Here, I detail the process of prototyping the door control panel from a Class 80x out of...
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Album Search in Album Whale Did you know that we, Good Enough, make a little website called Album Whale where you can make...
24th Mar 2026
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Album Search in Album Whale

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

24th Mar 2026
Did you know that we, Good Enough, make a little website called Album Whale where you can make beautiful lists of albums to share with your friends, the world, or just yourself? It’s true! We haven’t made an update there in quite some time (it’s pretty good enough as-is), but I...
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My issue with GPU-accelerated deep learning I've been spending several hundred bucks renting GPU instances on AWS over the last year. The...
3rd Feb 2016
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My issue with GPU-accelerated deep learning

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

3rd Feb 2016
I've been spending several hundred bucks renting GPU instances on AWS over the last year. The speedup from a GPU is awesome and hard to deny. GPUs have taken over the field. Maybe following the footsteps of Bitcoin mining there's some research on using FPGA (I know very little...
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Two weeks of parenthood We've had lucy for two weeks, which qualifies us as experts, which means it is time to write about...
6th Oct 2024
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Two weeks of parenthood

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

6th Oct 2024
We've had lucy for two weeks, which qualifies us as experts, which means it is time to write about parenthood. (In all seriousness, consider the below descriptive and not prescriptive: mostly, it's a notepad filled with things that were remarkable or surprising or divergent from...
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Notes on the Intel 8086 processor's arithmetic-logic unit In 1978, Intel introduced the 8086 processor, a revolutionary chip that led to the modern x86...
23rd Jan 2026
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Notes on the Intel 8086 processor's arithmetic-logic unit

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

23rd Jan 2026
In 1978, Intel introduced the 8086 processor, a revolutionary chip that led to the modern x86 architecture. Unlike modern 64-bit processors, however, the 8086 is a 16-bit chip. Its arithmetic/logic unit (ALU) operates on 16-bit values, performing arithmetic operations such as...
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The Pentium as a Navajo weaving Hurrying through the National Gallery of Art five minutes before closing, I passed a Navajo weaving...
1st Sep 2024
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The Pentium as a Navajo weaving

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

1st Sep 2024
Hurrying through the National Gallery of Art five minutes before closing, I passed a Navajo weaving with a complex abstract pattern. Suddenly, I realized the pattern was strangely familiar, so I stopped and looked closely. The design turned out to be an image of Intel's Pentium...
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The T-34/0 keyboard layout This is an update to the T-34 keyboard layout I’ve been using for a solid number of weeks. While...
5th Sep 2021
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The T-34/0 keyboard layout

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

5th Sep 2021
This is an update to the T-34 keyboard layout I’ve been using for a solid number of weeks. While there are more changes I’d like to try, I’m quite pleased with these changes so I figured I might as well immortalize them before I explore further. (And I do have a bunch of big...
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All you may need is HTML
2nd Mar 2023
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All you may need is HTML

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

2nd Mar 2023
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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 Writing [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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All you can do is play the game I don’t know what’s coming next.
14th Nov 2025
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All you can do is play the game

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

14th Nov 2025
I don’t know what’s coming next.
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How traffic shaping can dramatically improve internet responsiveness At work, access to the internet is provided by a 10 Mbit down / 1 Mbit up ADSL-connection. As we are...
8th Mar 2014
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How traffic shaping can dramatically improve internet responsiveness

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

8th Mar 2014
At work, access to the internet is provided by a 10 Mbit down / 1 Mbit up ADSL-connection. As we are a mid-size company, bandwidth is clearly a severe constraint. But it was not our biggest problem. Even simple web-browsing was very slow. As I was setting up a monitoring...
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Pattern Recognition It was funny to read 2002-era reviews of this book, which universally bemoaned the "tres hip"-ness...
5th Apr 2023
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Pattern Recognition

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

5th Apr 2023
It was funny to read 2002-era reviews of this book, which universally bemoaned the "tres hip"-ness of Gibson's brand deployments (iBooks! MUJI!) as a flaw that would instantly date its relevance — and nary a mention of how grounded the book was in the September 11th attacks,...
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The Vinland Saga (Season 2) I thought the first season of this anime was good and entertaining but certainly not anything to...
6th Jul 2023
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The Vinland Saga (Season 2)

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

6th Jul 2023
I thought the first season of this anime was good and entertaining but certainly not anything to write home about, a slightly tropey anime with interesting character work and a novel setting. The second season did something that I (to my recollection) have never seen in an anime,...
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My Dream Game: The Tycoon I’ve been playing Starcraft 2 a little this christmas. It wasn’t dead serious 1v1 which really is my...
5th Jan 2011
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My Dream Game: The Tycoon

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

5th Jan 2011
I’ve been playing Starcraft 2 a little this christmas. It wasn’t dead serious 1v1 which really is my favorite but I’ve played 2v2 with some friends and I actually played the campaign a bit and it was pretty fun! Usually I never play the campaign on RTS games but this one I liked....
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SRI & ARC The Dawn of the Information Age
27th Sep 2025
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SRI & ARC

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

27th Sep 2025
The Dawn of the Information Age
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GitButler is joining the Open Source Pledge GitButler is joining the Open Source Pledge to help move towards a more sustainable open source...
2nd Sep 2024
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GitButler is joining the Open Source Pledge

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2nd Sep 2024
GitButler is joining the Open Source Pledge to help move towards a more sustainable open source ecosystem.
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HP Laptop 17 RAM Upgrade Introduction Selecting the RAM Opening up Replacing the RAM Reassembly References Introduction I do...
12th Mar 2025
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HP Laptop 17 RAM Upgrade

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

12th Mar 2025
Introduction Selecting the RAM Opening up Replacing the RAM Reassembly References Introduction I do virtually all of my hobby and home computing on Linux and MacOS. The MacOS stuff on a laptop and almost all Linux work a desktop PC. The desktop PC has Windows on it installed as...
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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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Ludum Dare 29 Entry After months of procrastination it is time for me to enter Ludum Dare again! I am totally...
25th Apr 2014
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Ludum Dare 29 Entry

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

25th Apr 2014
After months of procrastination it is time for me to enter Ludum Dare again! I am totally unprepared, but I did setup a setup which actually compiles. I never got audio to run but hopefully I can manage something. Repository: https://github.com/treeman/LD29. Going for C++ this...
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Vision Pro Currently, I am overlooking a lake at Mount Hood while writing this. I hear birds in the distance...
15th Feb 2024
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Vision Pro

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

15th Feb 2024
Currently, I am overlooking a lake at Mount Hood while writing this. I hear birds in the distance and see the lake calm, with subtle waves and some mist in the distance. Yet, it is fake, as I am sitting on our top floor, a barely furnished room full of items belonging to a family...
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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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Can analysis ever be automated? The catch-22 of all these AI analysts. Plus, go crazy folks; go crazy.
1st Aug 2025
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Can analysis ever be automated?

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

1st Aug 2025
The catch-22 of all these AI analysts. Plus, go crazy folks; go crazy.
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Spring ham radio activation of Korkattivuori (Mt. Korkatti) Korkattivuori (“Mount Korkatti”, 186m above sea level) is a small hill and Natura 2000 nature...
16th Apr 2023
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Spring ham radio activation of Korkattivuori (Mt. Korkatti)

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

16th Apr 2023
Korkattivuori (“Mount Korkatti”, 186m above sea level) is a small hill and Natura 2000 nature reserve area near town Haapavesi (pop. 6588) in Finland. The nature reserve area consist of short family friendly hiking path of approximately 1.5km. One end of the path has parking...
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When Overwhelmed, Make a List of Questions In my first big project at Netflix, I learned this disturbingly simple problem-solving technique.
5th Aug 2024
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When Overwhelmed, Make a List of Questions

from Push to Prod [alt+shift+b] in technology

5th Aug 2024
In my first big project at Netflix, I learned this disturbingly simple problem-solving technique.
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On The Contrary: “Hook” Is A Great Film Hook, the absolutely star-studded film directed by Stephen Spielberg, has received mixed reviews...
7th Jan 2026
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On The Contrary: “Hook” Is A Great Film

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

7th Jan 2026
Hook, the absolutely star-studded film directed by Stephen Spielberg, has received mixed reviews from critics since its release in 1991. I still can’t figure out why. One could have given the Academy Award for Best Actor to Dustin Hoffman, and Best Supporting Actor to Robin...
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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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Clickhouse is winning the Observability Wars For roughly the last ten years, a meaningful percentage of my working hours have been spent thinking...
1st Jul 2026
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Clickhouse is winning the Observability Wars

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

1st Jul 2026
For roughly the last ten years, a meaningful percentage of my working hours have been spent thinking about observability. If you're not familiar with the term, "observability" is what we call it now that "monitoring" doesn't sound expensive enough. The actual work
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Improve your sleep by blocking light Over the past few weeks I have been experimenting with wearing a sleep mask in bed, blocking all...
23rd Jan 2020
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Improve your sleep by blocking light

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

23rd Jan 2020
Over the past few weeks I have been experimenting with wearing a sleep mask in bed, blocking all light. Our bodies produce the sleep hormone, melatonin, in darkness. Living in an environment awash in artificial light, is therefore exactly the sort of thing that disrupts one's...
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Hacking a Massive Steam Scamming and Phishing Operation for Fun and Profit
9th May 2018
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Hacking a Massive Steam Scamming and Phishing Operation for Fun and Profit

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

9th May 2018
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Algorithmic Modernism How algorithms generate a default taste that feels personal but looks the same everywhere
24th Feb 2026
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Algorithmic Modernism

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

24th Feb 2026
How algorithms generate a default taste that feels personal but looks the same everywhere
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Challengers One of the things that may be apocryphal—because I’ve never bothered to actually look it up, just...
6th Dec 2025
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Challengers

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Dec 2025
One of the things that may be apocryphal—because I’ve never bothered to actually look it up, just kept it kicking around in my head—is David Foster Wallace’s justification for the emphasis on footnotes in Infinite Jest: that they’re meant to be a physical metaphor for the...
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Symmetricom 58532A GPS Antenna Supply Voltage Mod The Symmatricom 58532A Opening up the 58532A Voltage Regulation Result What about the other 58532A...
23rd Mar 2024
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Symmetricom 58532A GPS Antenna Supply Voltage Mod

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

23rd Mar 2024
The Symmatricom 58532A Opening up the 58532A Voltage Regulation Result What about the other 58532A variant? References The Symmatricom 58532A As part of a package deal, I got my hands on a Symmetricom 58532A L1 GPS antenna. Microchip, which acquired Symmetricom in 2013, doesn’t...
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Reading List 05/02/2026 Chilling effects in the build-to-rent sector, how fast could robot manufacturing scale up, PJM’s new...
2nd May 2026
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Reading List 05/02/2026

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

2nd May 2026
Chilling effects in the build-to-rent sector, how fast could robot manufacturing scale up, PJM’s new interconnection queue, the backlash against battery storage, and more.
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Deepfakes and Thirst Traps Novel media technology is changing the nature of political communication.
18th Apr 2025
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Deepfakes and Thirst Traps

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

18th Apr 2025
Novel media technology is changing the nature of political communication.
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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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The cryptographic world computer
5 days ago
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The cryptographic world computer

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

5 days ago
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Make Your Garage Door Opener Smart: Shelly 1, ESPHome and Home Assistant I've been adding more and more devices to my smart home lately, so naturally, my garage door opener...
25th Jun 2020
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Make Your Garage Door Opener Smart: Shelly 1, ESPHome and Home Assistant

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

25th Jun 2020
I've been adding more and more devices to my smart home lately, so naturally, my garage door opener had to follow. But instead of swapping it out for a new unit, I used a Shelly 1 and a cheap door contact sensor to make it smart for less than $20!It runs ESPHome (open-source, no...
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mDNS Primer
11th Aug 2023
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mDNS Primer

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

11th Aug 2023
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No, I Won't Build That! If you're an accomplished developer (as in: you've actually created things in the past), you may...
4th Mar 2024
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No, I Won't Build That!

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

4th Mar 2024
If you're an accomplished developer (as in: you've actually created things in the past), you may recognise this scenario: people reaching out to you, asking you to build something specific. "Can you build X for me?" A fellow technician once urged me to refuse more often: be proud...
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I invent a new kind of magnet, sort of... It's SO new, it has ZERO external magnetic field!
29th Aug 2025
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I invent a new kind of magnet, sort of...

from detreville [alt+shift+b] in technology

29th Aug 2025
It's SO new, it has ZERO external magnetic field!
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A Software Engineer's Take on The Political Spectrum You heard about the left-wing and right-wing politics. But how is that related to software?
16th Sep 2025
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A Software Engineer's Take on The Political Spectrum

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

16th Sep 2025
You heard about the left-wing and right-wing politics. But how is that related to software?
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The Desktop Metaphor The implications of the desktop metaphor on digital interfaces
10th Oct 2021
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The Desktop Metaphor

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

10th Oct 2021
The implications of the desktop metaphor on digital interfaces
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Analysis of CVE-2019-14994 - Jira Service Desk Path Traversal leads to Massive Information...
26th Sep 2019
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Analysis of CVE-2019-14994 - Jira Service Desk Path Traversal leads to Massive Information Disclosure

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

26th Sep 2019
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Setting up your /now page with an RSS feed I have a /now page, which I use to tell people what I’m up to these days. I like the concept of “now...
2nd Nov 2024
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Setting up your /now page with an RSS feed

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

2nd Nov 2024
I have a /now page, which I use to tell people what I’m up to these days. I like the concept of “now pages” but I felt like it would be better if it had an RSS feed. The feed would give interested parties a way to subscribe to life changes. The problem is that RSS feeds aren’t...
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Migrating to rocks.nvim My relationship with my Neovim config is best described as an On-again, off-again relationship. At...
2nd Jun 2024
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Migrating to rocks.nvim

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

2nd Jun 2024
My relationship with my Neovim config is best described as an On-again, off-again relationship. At times I’m deeply in love and spend all my time caressing the config—like how in September I did a complete rewrite in Lua—while other times I’m busy with other love interests and...
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Outside the comfort zone: amateur acting This month I made my debut as amateur actor. I am no Hollywood star, nor do I envy to become one....
17th Apr 2018
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Outside the comfort zone: amateur acting

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

17th Apr 2018
This month I made my debut as amateur actor. I am no Hollywood star, nor do I envy to become one. But I do like crazy experiments and operating outside of my comfort zone often leads to new and refreshing insights. I took part in an amateur drama play and - in the name of science...
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Pardon the Corruption Trump’s justification for invading American cities and other countries is to reduce the crime he is...
2nd Dec 2025
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Pardon the Corruption

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

2nd Dec 2025
Trump’s justification for invading American cities and other countries is to reduce the crime he is actively encouraging through his pardons
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I Made It! It’s been over a year, but I haven’t lost (most) my touch yet! For the second time I’ve completed a...
2nd May 2011
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I Made It!

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

2nd May 2011
It’s been over a year, but I haven’t lost (most) my touch yet! For the second time I’ve completed a Ludum Dare! Not an easy feat and yet there are tons of games that look absolutely wonderful. I’m not there yet but now I have at least gotten back into game making again, long...
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Building a data team at a mid-stage startup: a short story I guess I should really call this a parable. The backdrop is: you have been brought in to grow a...
7th Jul 2021
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Building a data team at a mid-stage startup: a short story

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

7th Jul 2021
I guess I should really call this a parable. The backdrop is: you have been brought in to grow a tiny data team (~4 people) at a mid-stage startup (~$10M annual revenue), although this story could take place at many different types of companies.
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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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A new job, a new life Last month, I started a new job working as a fullstack software engineer at ClassDojo. This was an...
3rd Jul 2025
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A new job, a new life

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

3rd Jul 2025
Last month, I started a new job working as a fullstack software engineer at ClassDojo. This was an interesting job transition for me. It was the first time I got caught up in layoffs and the first time that I ended up with multiple job offers to choose from. As I weighed the...
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Wearing WHOOP 4.0 How often do you look in the mirror? Probably more than a few times a week! I have been thinking...
13th Jan 2022
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Wearing WHOOP 4.0

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

13th Jan 2022
How often do you look in the mirror? Probably more than a few times a week! I have been thinking about this ever since I received my newest WHOOP 4.0 biometric sensor. It's great. But, why do I wear it? What value does it provide? Why should you wear it? What is WHOOP? First...
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Github scam investigation: Thousands of "mods" and "cracks" stealing your data While looking through the articles on a "social engineering" themed forum I discovered a relatively...
27th Feb 2025
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Github scam investigation: Thousands of "mods" and "cracks" stealing your data

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

27th Feb 2025
While looking through the articles on a "social engineering" themed forum I discovered a relatively new scam scheme that shocked me. People create thousands of GitHub repositories with all sorts of things - from Roblox and Fortnite mods to "cracked" FL Studio and Photoshop. As...
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Atomic Design in 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 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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Rear Window I'm not sure at what point it dawned on me that the setting & vantage of Rear Window was going to be...
1st Feb 2022
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Rear Window

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Feb 2022
I'm not sure at what point it dawned on me that the setting & vantage of Rear Window was going to be a fixture of the entire film, and not just a cute way to stage the first fifteen minutes — but that realization, and everything therein (the vignettes of every other "screen"...
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Comment on Why I’m Switching Web Hosts by Hitesh Sahni Great post Lars. I have had my fair share of issues with Godaddy, and then Bluehost. I finally found...
29th Sep 2019
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Comment on Why I’m Switching Web Hosts by Hitesh Sahni

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

29th Sep 2019
Great post Lars. I have had my fair share of issues with Godaddy, and then Bluehost. I finally found satisfaction with SiteGround. The only reason GoDaddy is still in business is because of their heavy online and offline advertising. My WordPress website has not yet reached...
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Balsa “2001: A Space Odyssey” Model The spacecraft from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey have always had a special place for me. Here I...
30th Dec 2025
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Balsa “2001: A Space Odyssey” Model

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

30th Dec 2025
The spacecraft from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey have always had a special place for me. Here I build a replica from balsa.
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Joining Spotify in Sweden Image source Life in Japan All the things that I knew about Japan turned out to be true, as soon as...
22nd May 2020
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Joining Spotify in Sweden

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

22nd May 2020
Image source Life in Japan All the things that I knew about Japan turned out to be true, as soon as I arrived here 8 months ago. Japan is a…
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Steam Deck: I like it I got a Steam Deck. Only took me a year or so of contemplating getting one, and trying out HoloISO,...
2nd Jun 2024
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Steam Deck: I like it

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

2nd Jun 2024
I got a Steam Deck. Only took me a year or so of contemplating getting one, and trying out HoloISO, the unofficial SteamOS installer finally convinced me to get one.1 It took another year to actually get down to writing down my thoughts on it. This post is written from the...
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Building the GH60 I’ve finally completed my first custom made keyboard. I’m still missing stabilizers and some smaller...
12th Oct 2016
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Building the GH60

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

12th Oct 2016
I’ve finally completed my first custom made keyboard. I’m still missing stabilizers and some smaller screws to hold it all together but I’ve been using it the last days and I thought I’d share. The hardware Several years ago I joined the geekhack forum and I joined in a few group...
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July 2020 gwern.net newsletter Links on the Uighurs, authoritarianism, negative emissions, AI overhang; 1 movie & 2 anime reviews
20th Aug 2020
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July 2020 gwern.net newsletter

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20th Aug 2020
Links on the Uighurs, authoritarianism, negative emissions, AI overhang; 1 movie & 2 anime reviews
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Introducing AirTag Security Cable We wanted to make a better braided steel AirTag mount - more compact, stronger, really well...
18th Feb 2025
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Introducing AirTag Security Cable

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

18th Feb 2025
We wanted to make a better braided steel AirTag mount - more compact, stronger, really well made.    So we fired up our Swiss lathe and machined a custom oversized screw that keeps it secure and looks awesome. It is T10 Torx and comes with an included driver.   There is an...
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Ask security questions
9th Feb 2024
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Ask security questions

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

9th Feb 2024
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The Hunting Gun A slim, potent, and dense novella. The easy (lazy) comparison is to rashomon, and the way we see...
15th Jul 2018
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The Hunting Gun

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

15th Jul 2018
A slim, potent, and dense novella. The easy (lazy) comparison is to rashomon, and the way we see Misugi change from thin and narrow to nuanced and vital and then to a defeated husk of a man is expertly drawn. This kind of framing device has an odd effect: if it was done in a more...
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Syntax highlighting on the web
31st May 2022
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Syntax highlighting on the web

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

31st May 2022
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Outside the comfort zone: amateur acting This month I strapped myself with sensors during a little experiment outside my comfort zone: I...
17th Apr 2018
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Outside the comfort zone: amateur acting

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

17th Apr 2018
This month I strapped myself with sensors during a little experiment outside my comfort zone: I debuted as amateur actor!
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forecourt networking The way I see it, few parts of American life are as quintessentially American as buying gas. We love...
8th Feb 2026
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forecourt networking

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

8th Feb 2026
The way I see it, few parts of American life are as quintessentially American as buying gas. We love our cars, we love our oil, and an industry about as old as automobiles themselves has developed a highly consistent, fully automated, and fairly user friendly system for filling...
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My very first Dungeons and Dragons campaign In December 2024, I did something that I had never done before: I participated in a short (~6 hours)...
3rd Jan 2025
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My very first Dungeons and Dragons campaign

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

3rd Jan 2025
In December 2024, I did something that I had never done before: I participated in a short (~6 hours) Dungeons and Dragons campaign. It was the nerdiest thing ever, and I loved it! The setting After another day of keeping a critical production service up, the whole team met up at...
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3D printer repairing and modding I’ve had my VORON Trident for 2 years and I’ve run it for 2600 hours. Overall I’m happy with the...
2nd Dec 2025
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3D printer repairing and modding

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

2nd Dec 2025
I’ve had my VORON Trident for 2 years and I’ve run it for 2600 hours. Overall I’m happy with the printer but I’ve been itching to make some more mods to it. Having finally finished the VORON 0 (with mods) I now have a backup printer I can use to rescue myself when I screw up. As...
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A Dick Smith VZ200 without the Dick Smith (but with a serial port) Australians! They walk among us! Do not be deceived by those charming faces! precious bodily...
2 weeks ago
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A Dick Smith VZ200 without the Dick Smith (but with a serial port)

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

2 weeks ago
Australians! They walk among us! Do not be deceived by those charming faces! precious bodily fluids, we must remove the scurrilous larrikin influence of Australia upon our American home computers, and I know exactly where to start! Why allow Dick Smith's name (even though he'd...
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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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June gwern.net newsletter June 2020 gwern.net newsletter with 3 new pages/essays, and links on CRISPR, population screening,...
2nd Jul 2020
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June gwern.net newsletter

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

2nd Jul 2020
June 2020 gwern.net newsletter with 3 new pages/essays, and links on CRISPR, population screening, AI scaling, politics, and technological unemployment.
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To weigh a watermelon There are many frontiers.
3rd Jul 2026
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To weigh a watermelon

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

3rd Jul 2026
There are many frontiers.
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Inside the Apollo "8-Ball" FDAI (Flight Director / Attitude Indicator) During the Apollo flights to the Moon, the astronauts observed the spacecraft's orientation on a...
14th Jun 2025
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Inside the Apollo "8-Ball" FDAI (Flight Director / Attitude Indicator)

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

14th Jun 2025
During the Apollo flights to the Moon, the astronauts observed the spacecraft's orientation on a special instrument called the FDAI (Flight Director / Attitude Indicator). This instrument showed the spacecraft's attitude—its orientation—by rotating a ball. This ball was nicknamed...
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HP 8656A Signal Generator Schematics Agilent has made the 8656A Signal Generator Operating & Service Manual available as a PDF, but the...
22nd Feb 2024
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HP 8656A Signal Generator Schematics

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

22nd Feb 2024
Agilent has made the 8656A Signal Generator Operating & Service Manual available as a PDF, but the schematics of chapter 8 are all spread over 3 or 4 pages, which makes them hard to follow. I spent a good evening extracting the schematics pages, cutting-and-pasting them together...
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A small ode to the CRT Built October 2018 I used to hate Cathode Ray Tubes. As a kid in Europe, everything flickered at...
8th Feb 2022
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A small ode to the CRT

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

8th Feb 2022
Built October 2018 I used to hate Cathode Ray Tubes. As a kid in Europe, everything flickered at 50Hz, or made a loud whistle at 15.625KHz (back when I could still hear it). CRTs just seemed crude, “electro-brutalist” contraptions from the valve era. They were heavy, and...
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A week with the iPhone I’ve had a new iPhone for about a week now, so I figure it’s time to write up some thoughts about...
31st Dec 2007
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A week with the iPhone

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

31st Dec 2007
I’ve had a new iPhone for about a week now, so I figure it’s time to write up some thoughts about it. First, the little things. It is, in typical Apple fashion, an incredibly slick piece of work. Scrolling and zooming images or webpages is simple, easy, and, well, just fun to do...
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One year of cycling One year ago I started recording all my bike rides, including commutes, short grocery trips and long...
30th Dec 2016
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One year of cycling

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

30th Dec 2016
One year ago I started recording all my bike rides, including commutes, short grocery trips and long Gran Fondos. I equipped my bicycles with Garmin Edge computers that recorded location (GPS), speed, cadence and my heart rate. I covered more than 7683 kilometers during 320 hours...
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Dept. of Speculation A book that at times filled the same holes in my head that Bluets did; a poetic and bittersweet...
13th Aug 2016
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Dept. of Speculation

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

13th Aug 2016
A book that at times filled the same holes in my head that Bluets did; a poetic and bittersweet narrative about connections that are made and then severed and the trials of both states. It’s inventive and quiet and rhythmic.
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Creating a Git commit: The Hard Way Let's create a Git commit using Git's low-level (plumbing) commands
4th Sep 2024
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Creating a Git commit: The Hard Way

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

4th Sep 2024
Let's create a Git commit using Git's low-level (plumbing) commands
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Don't be foie gras If 2016-2020 was the golden unicorn age of SaaS, 2021 nearly hurtled us into the foie gras* era.
9th Jan 2022
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Don't be foie gras

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

9th Jan 2022
If 2016-2020 was the golden unicorn age of SaaS, 2021 nearly hurtled us into the foie gras* era.
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Braindump Sometimes, getting it all down on paper helps me think through things. This is that, a complete...
21st Oct 2020
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Braindump

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

21st Oct 2020
Sometimes, getting it all down on paper helps me think through things. This is that, a complete brain dump.
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2015 Read Books I didn’t read a lot of books in 2015, but the books I did read were pretty damn good. Fiction A Song...
1st Jan 2016
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2015 Read Books

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

1st Jan 2016
I didn’t read a lot of books in 2015, but the books I did read were pretty damn good. Fiction A Song of Ice and Fire: A Dance with Dragons - George R.R. Martin Reread. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms - Gearge R.R. Martin The Skin Collector - Jeffery Deaver Best Served Cold - Joe...
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Following Street Fighter 2 paper trails
22nd Dec 2021
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Following Street Fighter 2 paper trails

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

22nd Dec 2021
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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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Experiences running ZFS on Ubuntu Linux 12.04 I really like ZFS because with current data sets, I do believe that data corruption may start...
18th Oct 2012
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Experiences running ZFS on Ubuntu Linux 12.04

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

18th Oct 2012
I really like ZFS because with current data sets, I do believe that data corruption may start becoming an issue. The thing is that the license under which ZFS is released does not permit it to be used in the Linux kernel. That's quite unfortunate, but there is hope. There is a...
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From prediction markets to info finance
9th Nov 2024
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From prediction markets to info finance

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

9th Nov 2024
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Tech rants: PC-s use way too much power in 2021 Welcome to 2021. We have: supply chain issues no reasonably priced GPU-s consumer-grade CPU-s with...
3rd Nov 2021
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Tech rants: PC-s use way too much power in 2021

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

3rd Nov 2021
Welcome to 2021. We have: supply chain issues no reasonably priced GPU-s consumer-grade CPU-s with peak power consumption at 296W GPU-s that consume 350-400W of power under normal use At the same time, we have made great leaps in CPU/GPU architectures and chip manufacturing...
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Decoding the Arctic to predict winter weather With the help of AI, MIT Research Scientist Judah Cohen is reshaping subseasonal forecasting, with...
8th Jan 2026
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Decoding the Arctic to predict winter weather

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

8th Jan 2026
With the help of AI, MIT Research Scientist Judah Cohen is reshaping subseasonal forecasting, with the goal of extending the lead time for predicting impactful weather.
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Paying down tech debt: further learnings In a counter-intuitive observation: by making small, non-functional improvements, you gain more...
19th Sep 2024
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Paying down tech debt: further learnings

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

19th Sep 2024
In a counter-intuitive observation: by making small, non-functional improvements, you gain more confidence in a new codebase, and can start to move faster.
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Gold and Ghosts In the autumn of 1892, two miners, Earl and Edward, found themselves high in the Pacific Northwest...
28th Oct 2024
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Gold and Ghosts

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in technology

28th Oct 2024
In the autumn of 1892, two miners, Earl and Edward, found themselves high in the Pacific Northwest mountains, searching for a legend as old as the hills: the lost crate of gold. The tale of “Shining Creek Gold” was whispered in every saloon from Seattle to San Francisco, a cache...
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Programming on Apple Watch Programming with VIM over SSH on Apple Watch using a bluetooth keyboard
15th Feb 2017
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Programming on Apple Watch

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

15th Feb 2017
Programming with VIM over SSH on Apple Watch using a bluetooth keyboard
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Net Gains I'm probably not going to do that, but it's a thought that's been on my mind.
8th Dec 2022
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Net Gains

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

8th Dec 2022
I'm probably not going to do that, but it's a thought that's been on my mind.
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How to run Debian Linux on an Intel based Mac Mini The Mac Mini is just a gorgeous device. It is beautiful, small, silent, powerfull yet energy...
1st Nov 2009
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How to run Debian Linux on an Intel based Mac Mini

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

1st Nov 2009
The Mac Mini is just a gorgeous device. It is beautiful, small, silent, powerfull yet energy efficient. When idle, it uses around 20 watts. I'm using one of the first Intel-based Minis with an Intel Core Duo chip, running at 1.6 Ghz. I want to use this mini as an expensive router...
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Okay, now this is what a fantasy movie should be. Absolutely gorgeous effects & cinematography (a...
3rd Oct 2020
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Oct 2020
Okay, now this is what a fantasy movie should be. Absolutely gorgeous effects & cinematography (a marked improvement from the drab darkness and excessively cool tones of Order of the Phoenix), a script with a bunch of levity (the first and I think only Harry Potter movie that...
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The beginning of the end of the open web
22nd Oct 2023
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The beginning of the end of the open web

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

22nd Oct 2023
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February 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter links on AI scaling, semaglutide, and ethicist ethics
13th Mar 2021
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February 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter

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

13th Mar 2021
links on AI scaling, semaglutide, and ethicist ethics
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2024-08-12 a pedantic review of the las vegas loop Did you hear that Elon Musk dug a tunnel under the Las Vegas Convention Center? I think it is pretty...
12th Aug 2024
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2024-08-12 a pedantic review of the las vegas loop

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

12th Aug 2024
Did you hear that Elon Musk dug a tunnel under the Las Vegas Convention Center? I think it is pretty universally known by now that the "Las Vegas Loop" is impractical, poorly thought out, and generally an embarrassment to society and industry. I will spare an accounting of the...
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NeXTWorld Interviews Bud Tribble (1994) They discuss NeXT's OpenStep, open standards, and more.
1st Feb 2026
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NeXTWorld Interviews Bud Tribble (1994)

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

1st Feb 2026
They discuss NeXT's OpenStep, open standards, and more.
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Enjoying the Journey Reflections on training for a marathon and a lesson from my late Uncle Murray
1st Jan 2024
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Enjoying the Journey

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

1st Jan 2024
Reflections on training for a marathon and a lesson from my late Uncle Murray
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Studying foreign languages with inbox zero The only time I've been able to seriously, rapidly improve my ability to speak a foreign language...
4th Apr 2020
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Studying foreign languages with inbox zero

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

4th Apr 2020
The only time I've been able to seriously, rapidly improve my ability to speak a foreign language was through intensive language courses in college. I was forced to actively speak, read, and write Chinese for 6-8 hours a week (1-2 hours every day). Then study another 5-10 hours a...
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Joining Rostra I am thrilled to share that I am joining Rostra, where I’ll be working alongside Lulu Meservey and...
17th Sep 2024
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Joining Rostra

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

17th Sep 2024
I am thrilled to share that I am joining Rostra, where I’ll be working alongside Lulu Meservey and Sergey Alexashenko to help founders go direct.
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Life is maintenance, maintenance is life Over my relatively short career (6+ years), I’ve noticed a change in the way I approach building...
20th Apr 2023
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Life is maintenance, maintenance is life

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

20th Apr 2023
Over my relatively short career (6+ years), I’ve noticed a change in the way I approach building things. When I was still an inexperienced junior developer who barely survived operating in a Linux environment and saw backend development as a black box, I was happy to get...
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Vibe Coding What can we learn from successful vibe coding examples? Is programming with AI the new standard?...
14th Apr 2025
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Vibe Coding

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

14th Apr 2025
What can we learn from successful vibe coding examples? Is programming with AI the new standard? What are its limitations?
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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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Leitz Summicron 50mm f/2 rigid (type 2) lens My newest lens acquisition wasn’t actually originally on my wishlist. I already had a 50mm Summicron...
8th Sep 2020
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Leitz Summicron 50mm f/2 rigid (type 2) lens

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

8th Sep 2020
My newest lens acquisition wasn’t actually originally on my wishlist. I already had a 50mm Summicron lens, though that was the first generation collapsible model known as a Type 1. This lens has lived on my Leica M3 permanently for the past few years, and I have enjoyed the hell...
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Raspberry Pi as a router using a single network interface Introduction Disclaimer: this article is intended for consumers and hobbyists. If you want to run...
29th Sep 2021
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Raspberry Pi as a router using a single network interface

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

29th Sep 2021
Introduction Disclaimer: this article is intended for consumers and hobbyists. If you want to run your own router at home, the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B1 can be an excelent hardware choice: it's fairly cheap it's fast enough it can saturate it's gigabit network port it is...
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My 7 Rules for A/B Testing That Triple Conversion Rates I really don’t care how any given A/B test turns out. That’s right. Not one bit. But wait, how do I...
11th Sep 2015
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My 7 Rules for A/B Testing That Triple Conversion Rates

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

11th Sep 2015
I really don’t care how any given A/B test turns out. That’s right. Not one bit. But wait, how do I double or triple conversion rates without caring how a test performs? I actually care about the whole SYSTEM of testing. All the pieces need to fit together just right. If not,...
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Make Ethereum Cypherpunk Again
28th Dec 2023
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Make Ethereum Cypherpunk Again

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

28th Dec 2023
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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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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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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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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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Building a professional 72TB NAS Over the past few years I have been moving my data and work from local computers (mostly laptops)...
21st Nov 2019
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Building a professional 72TB NAS

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

21st Nov 2019
Over the past few years I have been moving my data and work from local computers (mostly laptops) into the cloud. Cloud computing is done by servers in a datacenter, powerful computers that do the hard work. As my company grew, I needed more capacity. It was time to add some...
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A Love Letter to Giant Robots Ah, giant robots. I grew up thinking they are the coolest things ever, and I still do. My first...
1st Jun 2024
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A Love Letter to Giant Robots

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

1st Jun 2024
Ah, giant robots. I grew up thinking they are the coolest things ever, and I still do. My first exposure to them was probably through 1994’s BattleTech animated series, where Adam Steiner piloted an AXM-2N Axman, in its frankly ridiculous neon green and purple paint job. And from...
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Programming the Convergent WorkSlate's spreadsheet microcassette future In this particular future, we will all use handheld spreadsheets stored on microcassettes, talking...
4th Sep 2024
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Programming the Convergent WorkSlate's spreadsheet microcassette future

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

4th Sep 2024
In this particular future, we will all use handheld spreadsheets stored on microcassettes, talking to each other via speakerphone, and probably listening to Devo and New Order a lot. (Though that part isn't too different from my actual present.) a computer whose manufacturer...
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The kind of sound you never want to hear from your computer The sounds of hard drives that have perished These sounds are only frightening or scary if you...
14th Nov 2008
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The kind of sound you never want to hear from your computer

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

14th Nov 2008
The sounds of hard drives that have perished These sounds are only frightening or scary if you imagine your precious data only exists on that failing drive. If you make consistent and frequent backups and/or you run a fault-tolerant RAID flavour, it is but a nuisance.
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Apple Watch as Phone Imagine a week without your smartphone, replaced solely by the sleek simplicity of a smartwatch....
9th Nov 2023
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Apple Watch as Phone

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

9th Nov 2023
Imagine a week without your smartphone, replaced solely by the sleek simplicity of a smartwatch. This week I did this, leaving my smartphone behind and letting an Apple Watch take the helm. Many hail this as a liberating escape from our attention-seeking digital sidekicks, but...
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The Case for Getting Rid of TestFlight Review I tweeted today about how I think TestFlight review should become a thing of the past and many...
12th Jun 2020
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The Case for Getting Rid of TestFlight Review

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

12th Jun 2020
I tweeted today about how I think TestFlight review should become a thing of the past and many developers seemed to agree, but some had questions so I wanted to expand on my thoughts a little. TestFlight’s awesome. But like App Store submissions, TestFlight betas also require a...
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Reading Notes on “Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp” by Josef Czapski
15th Dec 2019
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Reading Notes on “Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp”

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

15th Dec 2019
by Josef Czapski
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CCPS: A CPS-1 SDK
25th Sep 2022
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CCPS: A CPS-1 SDK

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

25th Sep 2022
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The mathematical principles of management I've read about 100 management books by now but if there's something that always bothered me it's...
9th Apr 2017
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The mathematical principles of management

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

9th Apr 2017
I've read about 100 management books by now but if there's something that always bothered me it's the lack of first principles thinking. Basically it's a ton of heuristics. And heuristics are great, but when you present heuristics as true objectives, it kind of clouds the...
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Introducing Lighthouse - The RSS reader, newsletter reader, and read-it-later app to fight content...
3rd Apr 2024
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Introducing Lighthouse - The RSS reader, newsletter reader, and read-it-later app to fight content overload

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

3rd Apr 2024
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The “Bluesky feels like early Twitter!” vibe Bluesky has the juice right now, and while it’s slowed down a bit this week, they were adding over 1...
27th Nov 2024
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The “Bluesky feels like early Twitter!” vibe

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

27th Nov 2024
Bluesky has the juice right now, and while it’s slowed down a bit this week, they were adding over 1 million users a day for a bit last week. One sentiment I’m hearing a lot recently is that Bluely “feels like early Twitter,” which
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One Million Chessboards One Million Chessboards I made a website. It's called One Million Chessboards. It has a million...
28th Apr 2025
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One Million Chessboards

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

28th Apr 2025
One Million Chessboards I made a website. It's called One Million Chessboards. It has a million chessboards on it. Moving a piece moves it for everyone, instantly. There are no turns. Read the full post on my blog! Here's a raw link, if you need it: ...
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The Making Of Stunt Island How Stunt Island from IBM PC was programmed back in 1992!
21st Apr 2020
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The Making Of Stunt Island

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

21st Apr 2020
How Stunt Island from IBM PC was programmed back in 1992!
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Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by opportunity cost Hanlon's razor is a classic aphorism I'm sure you have heard before: Never attribute to malice that...
10th Mar 2020
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Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by opportunity cost

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

10th Mar 2020
Hanlon's razor is a classic aphorism I'm sure you have heard before: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. I've found that neither malice nor stupidity is the most common reason when you don't understand why something is in a certain way.
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USB Cheat Sheet
5th May 2022
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USB Cheat Sheet

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

5th May 2022
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Video Games are the Future of Education The things you learn by yourself stick; the things that are “taught” to you do not stick.
21st Jun 2020
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Video Games are the Future of Education

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

21st Jun 2020
The things you learn by yourself stick; the things that are “taught” to you do not stick.
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IKEA $50 VINDSTYRKA vs. $290 Dylos air quality monitor This is a brief article in which I compare the IKEA VINDSTYRKA $50 air quality monitor (PM2.5) with...
17th Sep 2023
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IKEA $50 VINDSTYRKA vs. $290 Dylos air quality monitor

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

17th Sep 2023
This is a brief article in which I compare the IKEA VINDSTYRKA $50 air quality monitor (PM2.5) with a $290 air quality monitor made by Dylos to see if it's any good. Context If you care about indoor air quality, you may already own a CO2 to determine if it's time to ventilate...
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3D Printing in 2025 It turns out that I didn’t hate 3D printing, I just hated my Ender. Here were my experiments in 3D...
17th Jan 2026
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3D Printing in 2025

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

17th Jan 2026
It turns out that I didn’t hate 3D printing, I just hated my Ender. Here were my experiments in 3D printing in 2025.
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Chinatown Well, that was probably the most depressing final sequence I can remember in a film (especially one...
4th Aug 2022
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Chinatown

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Aug 2022
Well, that was probably the most depressing final sequence I can remember in a film (especially one so devoted to realism, or at least its brand of plausibility.)
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2025-01-19 Infrastructure for graphical debugging See transcript below. audio/video; 4...
19th Jan 2025
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2025-01-19

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

19th Jan 2025
Infrastructure for graphical debugging See transcript below. audio/video; 4 minutes; 25MB; scroll down for shorter clips Transcript For a while now I've been trying to improve the way I program. I've made some progress. I can edit my programs live, and...
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Ori and the Blind Forest It is incorrect to describe this game as a melange of celeste and gris because of course this game...
5th May 2023
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Ori and the Blind Forest

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

5th May 2023
It is incorrect to describe this game as a melange of celeste and gris because of course this game predates both of them. But that is where my mind went — this sort of "emotional platformer" — and this game is terrific, ten hours of beauty and challenge and fun and very sweet...
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Train Simulator Controller: Simulator Takes Shape with Custom Table With the center console of my train simulator built, I rapidly modeled and fabricated prototypes of...
11th Jan 2026
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Train Simulator Controller: Simulator Takes Shape with Custom Table

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

11th Jan 2026
With the center console of my train simulator built, I rapidly modeled and fabricated prototypes of the four other panels.
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Adam74 The Adam74 is a small ASCII-based terminal designed for the 8-bit hobbyist.
21st Aug 2022
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Adam74

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

21st Aug 2022
The Adam74 is a small ASCII-based terminal designed for the 8-bit hobbyist.
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With PowerPC, Windows CE and the WiiN-PAD slate, everyone's a WiiN-er (except Data General) Telemedicine (and mobile health generally) accumulated a hunk of public mindshare during the...
5th May 2024
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With PowerPC, Windows CE and the WiiN-PAD slate, everyone's a WiiN-er (except Data General)

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

5th May 2024
Telemedicine (and mobile health generally) accumulated a hunk of public mindshare during the pandemic emergency, but speaking as someone with a day job in public health for almost two decades, it's always been a buzzword in certain corners of IT with enough money sloshing around...
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Getting Started With GitButler Agents GitButler built a new way to integrate AI-powered code generation directly into your version control...
9th Jan 2026
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Getting Started With GitButler Agents

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

9th Jan 2026
GitButler built a new way to integrate AI-powered code generation directly into your version control workflow.
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Guide Technology GT300 Frequency Standard Teardown MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [...
6th Apr 2024
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Guide Technology GT300 Frequency Standard Teardown

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

6th Apr 2024
MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [ ['$', '$'], ["\\(", "\\)"] ], displayMath: [ ['$$', '$$'], ["\\[", "\\]"] ], processEscapes: true, skipTags: ['script', 'noscript', 'style', 'textarea', 'pre',...
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Reverse engineering the mysterious Up-Data Link Test Set from Apollo Back in 2021, a collector friend of ours was visiting a dusty warehouse in search of Apollo-era...
21st Jul 2025
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Reverse engineering the mysterious Up-Data Link Test Set from Apollo

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

21st Jul 2025
Back in 2021, a collector friend of ours was visiting a dusty warehouse in search of Apollo-era communications equipment. A box with NASA-style lights caught his eye—the "AGC Confirm" light suggested a connection with the Apollo Guidance Computer. Disappointingly, the box was...
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Recycle your old laptop display and turn it into a monitor During a cleaning spree I decided that it was time to recycle two old laptops that were just...
13th Mar 2021
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Recycle your old laptop display and turn it into a monitor

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

13th Mar 2021
During a cleaning spree I decided that it was time to recycle two old laptops that were just collecting dust on a shelf for many years. Although I didn't have any purpose for them anymore, I realised that the displays were still perfectly fine. This is the display of my old 13"...
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Seeing Like a Newsfeed Machine Learning Through Machine Poetry
5th Aug 2024
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Seeing Like a Newsfeed

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

5th Aug 2024
Machine Learning Through Machine Poetry
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Memory access is O(N^[1/3])
5th Oct 2025
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Memory access is O(N^[1/3])

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

5th Oct 2025
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Game timers: Issues and solutions /> /> /> More...
25th Dec 2012
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Game timers: Issues and solutions

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

25th Dec 2012
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E-book Bellows [Concept] Dynamically deflatable
4th Nov 2025
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E-book Bellows

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

4th Nov 2025
[Concept] Dynamically deflatable
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Using Tor outside of the Tor Browser This post shows how to run Tor with a simple PowerShell script and use it in other apps like...
13th May 2019
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Using Tor outside of the Tor Browser

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

13th May 2019
This post shows how to run Tor with a simple PowerShell script and use it in other apps like Telegram...
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