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Cracking Kevin Mitnick's Ghost In Tthe Wires Paperback Edition I received yesterday a copy of Ghost In The Wire Paperback edition. Kevin Mitnick seems to have...
9th May 2012
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Cracking Kevin Mitnick's Ghost In Tthe Wires Paperback Edition

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

9th May 2012
I received yesterday a copy of Ghost In The Wire Paperback edition. Kevin Mitnick seems to have updated all of the challenges found at the beginning of each chapters. Since they are all available on book.google.com preview I don't think it is a big deal to publish and discuss our...
Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction In the 1970s, floating-point arithmetic was a mess. Computer manufacturers had a dozen incompatible...
12th Sep 2026
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Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction

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

12th Sep 2026
In the 1970s, floating-point arithmetic was a mess. Computer manufacturers had a dozen incompatible arithmetic standards. Moreover, floating-point systems were designed around hardware simplicity rather than mathematical rigor, leading to problems with numerical stability. This...
Inside the tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets To use the Montreal subway (the Métro), you tap a paper ticket against the turnstile and it...
23rd Jun 2024
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Inside the tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets

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

23rd Jun 2024
To use the Montreal subway (the Métro), you tap a paper ticket against the turnstile and it opens. The ticket works through a system called NFC, but what's happening internally? How does the ticket work without a battery? How does it communicate with the turnstile? And how can it...
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.
This Arduino failsafe protects an amazing backyard observatory Nothing quite compares to the feeling of looking up at the cosmos on a dark night, and even an...
3rd Jun 2025
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This Arduino failsafe protects an amazing backyard observatory

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

3rd Jun 2025
Nothing quite compares to the feeling of looking up at the cosmos on a dark night, and even an affordable telescope can enhance that experience. But if you’re willing to spend the time and money, you can take things much further. That’s what Redditor CosmicRuin did when they...
Apple is killing off the optical drive just like the floppy disk With the release of the new MacBook Air we are one step closer to killing off the cd-rom and the...
23rd Oct 2010
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Apple is killing off the optical drive just like the floppy disk

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

23rd Oct 2010
With the release of the new MacBook Air we are one step closer to killing off the cd-rom and the dvd. As with the previous MacBook Air, this device has no optical drive. And that is a good thing. People do not need an optical drive. You have the network and you have USB disks....
Escaping the flat tires You might wonder how puncture proof a "puncture-proof" bicycle tire really is. I set out to find the...
18th Nov 2021
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Escaping the flat tires

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

18th Nov 2021
You might wonder how puncture proof a "puncture-proof" bicycle tire really is. I set out to find the answer when I installed Schwalbe Durano Plus tires on my bike. It was inevitable for me to find the answer to the question: How many kilometers can you ride without flats using...
Building my ultimate keyboard The Cybershard keyboard. What comes to mind when you see the description “the ultimate...
26th Nov 2024
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Building my ultimate keyboard

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

26th Nov 2024
The Cybershard keyboard. What comes to mind when you see the description “the ultimate keyboard”? There are many keyboards in this world; here are some that might fit the “ultimate” moniker: Das Keyboard 4 Ultimate mechanical keyboard DataHand Ergodox EZ Glove80 Happy...
The birth of a child Witnessing the birth of a child changes a man, for science and curiosity I wore a biometric sensor...
12th Jul 2021
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The birth of a child

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

12th Jul 2021
Witnessing the birth of a child changes a man, for science and curiosity I wore a biometric sensor capturing the impact of birth on yours truly.
Intel: a Bug and a Pro The FDIV bug and release of the P6
24th Feb 2025
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Intel: a Bug and a Pro

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

24th Feb 2025
The FDIV bug and release of the P6
Virtual Branches Alpha GitButler is introducing an entirely new way to work on branches in Git. Join the alpha!
1st Sep 2023
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Virtual Branches Alpha

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

1st Sep 2023
GitButler is introducing an entirely new way to work on branches in Git. Join the alpha!
Goals for Autumn 2016 Every once and a while I like to redo my priorities and set new goals for myself. I recently read...
12th Aug 2016
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Goals for Autumn 2016

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

12th Aug 2016
Every once and a while I like to redo my priorities and set new goals for myself. I recently read the book 59 seconds which among other things presented a way of structuring goals I will try out. In short you should divide your main goal into 5 subgoals with a date of completion,...
Increasing Frequency Counter Precision with Linear Regression MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [...
16th Jun 2023
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Increasing Frequency Counter Precision with Linear Regression

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

16th Jun 2023
MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [ ['$', '$'], ["\\(", "\\)"] ], displayMath: [ ['$$', '$$'], ["\\[", "\\]"] ], processEscapes: true, skipTags: ['script', 'noscript', 'style', 'textarea', 'pre',...
Mindwalk Let us know how the water rises.
1st Apr 2026
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Mindwalk

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

1st Apr 2026
Let us know how the water rises.
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers I liked the book. I found it charming and winsome and funny. There were no elements, of, like,...
1st Jul 2020
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A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Jul 2020
I liked the book. I found it charming and winsome and funny. There were no elements, of, like, transformative exultation: so many of the books in this genre, the woman’s bildungsroman, the Dept. of Speculations and the Bluets of the world, have a couple moments that totally and...
Quick Reviews is out now! Quick Reviews is currently available on the App Store and is a free download. Check it out! I...
2nd Feb 2025
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Quick Reviews is out now!

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Feb 2025
Quick Reviews is currently available on the App Store and is a free download. Check it out! I recently wrote about how the app works, so I’ll let you read that to see how it works. I have finalized my monetization, so I did want to lay that
Macaroon access tokens for OAuth: Part 2 – transactional auth In part 1, I showed how Macaroon access tokens in ForgeRock Access Management 7.0 can be used as a...
9th Sep 2020
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Macaroon access tokens for OAuth: Part 2 – transactional auth

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

9th Sep 2020
In part 1, I showed how Macaroon access tokens in ForgeRock Access Management 7.0 can be used as a lightweight and easy-to-deploy alternative to proof of possession (PoP) schemes for securing tokens in browser-based apps. The same techniques can be adapted to secure tokens in...
2025-05-04 iBeacons You know sometimes a technology just sort of... comes and goes? Without leaving much of an...
4th May 2025
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2025-05-04 iBeacons

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

4th May 2025
You know sometimes a technology just sort of... comes and goes? Without leaving much of an impression? And then gets lodged in your brain for the next decade? Let's talk about one of those: the iBeacon. I think the reason that iBeacons loom so large in my memory is that...
March 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter 2 major new site features: 'popins' and recursive Wikipedia popups
6th Apr 2021
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March 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter

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

6th Apr 2021
2 major new site features: 'popins' and recursive Wikipedia popups
A writer's autobiography (Just not mine.)
1st Feb 2023
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A writer's autobiography

from detreville [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Feb 2023
(Just not mine.)
Dithering is obsolete (except when it isn’t); creating OpenDithering Dithering is one of those techniques that feels like it belongs in a museum. It peaked in the ’90s,...
6th Jun 2026
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Dithering is obsolete (except when it isn’t); creating OpenDithering

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

6th Jun 2026
Dithering is one of those techniques that feels like it belongs in a museum. It peaked in the ’90s, the era of 256-color palettes and early computer graphics, when you needed to trick the eye into seeing colors that your hardware couldn’t actually produce. Now, even our phones...
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...
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.
My Half-Anniversary with Starlink It was six months ago today that I first plugged my computer into the Starlink router, connected to...
20th Aug 2026
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My Half-Anniversary with Starlink

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

20th Aug 2026
It was six months ago today that I first plugged my computer into the Starlink router, connected to the standard-sized Starlink “dish” (it’s a panel) that was flopped down haphazardly in my back yard.
Some incomplete thoughts about Gödel I saw another article on Gödel’s incompleteness theorems linked from Reddit today. It’s a topic I’ve...
17th Nov 2020
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Some incomplete thoughts about Gödel

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

17th Nov 2020
I saw another article on Gödel’s incompleteness theorems linked from Reddit today. It’s a topic I’ve wanted to write about for some time. Although many articles do a decent job in giving an idea of what the big deal is (and this one is pretty good), they can sometimes give a...
Create a Markdown Portfolio with Next.js So you've set out to create a new portfolio for yourself. You start gathering inspiration from...
7th Mar 2023
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Create a Markdown Portfolio with Next.js

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

7th Mar 2023
So you've set out to create a new portfolio for yourself. You start gathering inspiration from platforms like Godly and Minimal Gallery, draw some rectangles in Figma, and open your text editor. You pause. There's thousands of ways to build your website, how do you decide which...
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...
Trump Shoots the Messenger Firing the BLS Commissioner moves us into banana republic territory
1st Aug 2025
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Trump Shoots the Messenger

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

1st Aug 2025
Firing the BLS Commissioner moves us into banana republic territory
DIY cloud gaming: NVIDIA and Moonlight As you might have read from my previous post on this topic, I have a pretty neat “cloud” gaming...
13th Oct 2021
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DIY cloud gaming: NVIDIA and Moonlight

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

13th Oct 2021
As you might have read from my previous post on this topic, I have a pretty neat “cloud” gaming setup running. I have one powerful desktop PC, one virtual machine with a GPU attached to it, and client machines that can be used to stream games from. To keep things simple (and...
Why security is all about defense in depth Many people asume that if you regularly update your computer, you are safe from hackers. But nothing...
23rd Mar 2012
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Why security is all about defense in depth

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

23rd Mar 2012
Many people asume that if you regularly update your computer, you are safe from hackers. But nothing could be further from the truth. Keeping your systems up-to-date only protects you against exploits for publicly known vulnerabilities. Your systems are still not protected...
The Art of Deliberate Friction-Building In a world engineered to be frictionless, adding a bit of resistance can be revolutionary.
10th Sep 2024
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The Art of Deliberate Friction-Building

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

10th Sep 2024
In a world engineered to be frictionless, adding a bit of resistance can be revolutionary.
Understanding Windows KMS and MAK volume license activation Introduction If you have to administer a large number of PCs running Windows, you will end up...
9th Jun 2012
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Understanding Windows KMS and MAK volume license activation

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

9th Jun 2012
Introduction If you have to administer a large number of PCs running Windows, you will end up creating an automated deployment platform for your Windows clients. You may implement something like Windows Deployment Services. I used WDS to create a fully automated installation of...
Fietselfstedentocht 2017 Cycling the 235KM long Fietselfstedentocht through Friesland
29th Jun 2017
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Fietselfstedentocht 2017

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

29th Jun 2017
Cycling the 235KM long Fietselfstedentocht through Friesland
Building a mobile app in 1 day: Thunoob Is it even possible to make an app in just 1 day? Well, let's find out!
1st Dec 2025
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Building a mobile app in 1 day: Thunoob

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

1st Dec 2025
Is it even possible to make an app in just 1 day? Well, let's find out!
Some VORON 0 mods I recently completed my VORON 0 build and I was determined to leave it as-is for a while and to...
2nd May 2025
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Some VORON 0 mods

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

2nd May 2025
I recently completed my VORON 0 build and I was determined to leave it as-is for a while and to start modding my VORON Trident… So before embarking om my larger Trident modding journey I decided to work on the VORON 0 just a little bit more. HEPA filter With the Nevermore Micro...
It Observes An observer writing a daily log of what it sees watching Earth, it uses no names of countries or...
13th Mar 2026
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It Observes

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

13th Mar 2026
An observer writing a daily log of what it sees watching Earth, it uses no names of countries or organisations, instead it speaks in metaphorical descriptions. Its distance provides an alternative perspective on our daily news. Let me tell you about this experiment I have been...
Bad Apple but it's 6,500 regexes that I search for in vim Bad Apple but it's 6,500 regexes that I search for in vim Look. There's simply no reason that I...
10th Jan 2025
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Bad Apple but it's 6,500 regexes that I search for in vim

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

10th Jan 2025
Bad Apple but it's 6,500 regexes that I search for in vim Look. There's simply no reason that I should have to exit vim when I want to watch Bad Apple, the shadow-art video that folks enjoy embedding in fun spots. So I got Bad Apple running inside vim just using vim's search...
New benchmarks for approximate nearest neighbors UPDATE(2018-06-17): There are is a later blog post with newer benchmarks! One of my super nerdy...
15th Feb 2018
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New benchmarks for approximate nearest neighbors

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

15th Feb 2018
UPDATE(2018-06-17): There are is a later blog post with newer benchmarks! One of my super nerdy interests include approximate algorithms for nearest neighbors in high-dimensional spaces. The problem is simple. You have say 1M points in some high-dimensional space.
THE GLOBAL CAPSLOCK KEY THE GLOBAL CAPSLOCK KEY I MADE A GLOBAL CAPS LOCK KEY SO THAT WE CAN ALL AGREE ON WHEN TO USE CAPS...
5th Feb 2025
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THE GLOBAL CAPSLOCK KEY

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

5th Feb 2025
THE GLOBAL CAPSLOCK KEY I MADE A GLOBAL CAPS LOCK KEY SO THAT WE CAN ALL AGREE ON WHEN TO USE CAPS LOCK. You can see the status and download the client at https://globalcapslock.com. Read the full post on my blog! Here's a raw link, if you need it: ...
Building a RAID 6 array of mixed drives To be honest, 4 TB of storage isn't really necessary for home usage. However, I like to collect...
10th Aug 2008
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Building a RAID 6 array of mixed drives

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

10th Aug 2008
To be honest, 4 TB of storage isn't really necessary for home usage. However, I like to collect movies in full DVD or HD quality and so I need some storage. I decided to build myself a NAS box based on Debian Etch. Samba is used to allow clients to access the data. The machine...
Towards Crypto Literacy Consumer scale isn’t reached by abstracting the crypto away — not yet, at least.
6th Feb 2023
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Towards Crypto Literacy

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

6th Feb 2023
Consumer scale isn’t reached by abstracting the crypto away — not yet, at least.
Clip control on the Apple GPU Neverball rendered on the Apple M1 GPU with an open source OpenGL driver After a year in...
22nd Aug 2022
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Clip control on the Apple GPU

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

22nd Aug 2022
Neverball rendered on the Apple M1 GPU with an open source OpenGL driver After a year in development, the open source “Asahi” driver for the Apple GPU is running real games. There’s more to do, but Neverball is already playable (and a lot of fun!). Neverball uses legacy “fixed...
Syncing files seamlessly between smartphone and tablet In order to optimise my workflow, I was looking for a way to seamlessly access the same files on...
15th Sep 2020
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Syncing files seamlessly between smartphone and tablet

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

15th Sep 2020
In order to optimise my workflow, I was looking for a way to seamlessly access the same files on both my computer and smartphone. Read along to find out how I did it.
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.
Understanding zero-knowledge proofs What are zero-knowledge proofs, really?
24th Jul 2022
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Understanding zero-knowledge proofs

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

24th Jul 2022
What are zero-knowledge proofs, really?
Creating a Robotics Experimentation Environment: My Experience and Practical Lessons Part 1 of a series on practical robotics experimentation As part of my journey into robotics, I...
13th Aug 2025
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13th Aug 2025
Part 1 of a series on practical robotics experimentation As part of my journey into robotics, I found myself facing a classic problem: I wanted to experiment with different learning approaches for robotic manipulation, but I needed a flexible playground where I could quickly test...
FTL got a new victim Faster than Light the great game I lost a ton of time on, has found a new victim. It’s not someone...
6th Mar 2013
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FTL got a new victim

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

6th Mar 2013
Faster than Light the great game I lost a ton of time on, has found a new victim. It’s not someone you’d expect, it’s even someone who said: “What a bad game” when she saw me playing it. But nevertheless this Saturday she played it more than 2.5 hours! I told Veronica I wanted...
Hannah and her Sisters I came in with high hopes: I like Allen's ouevre and this was supposed to be one of his best.
2nd Sep 2020
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Hannah and her Sisters

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

2nd Sep 2020
I came in with high hopes: I like Allen's ouevre and this was supposed to be one of his best.
Durable Smartphone While sitting in the train the guy in front of me surprised me, out of his fancy pants he pulled...
4th Mar 2025
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Durable Smartphone

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

4th Mar 2025
While sitting in the train the guy in front of me surprised me, out of his fancy pants he pulled this well worn, patina rich, piece of tech. We're travelling first class and judging by his classy attire, this man is not of limited means. Like a well-raced Porsche, this thing has...
Momentum strategies Haven't posted anything in ages, so here's a quick hack I threw together in Python on a Sunday...
3rd Mar 2014
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Momentum strategies

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

3rd Mar 2014
Haven't posted anything in ages, so here's a quick hack I threw together in Python on a Sunday night. Basically I wanted to know whether momentum strategies work well for international stock indexes. I spent a bit of time putting together a strategy that buys the stock index if...
A desktop-sized DIY vending machine for your room Have you ever wanted your very own vending machine? If so, you likely found that they’re expensive...
2nd Jul 2024
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A desktop-sized DIY vending machine for your room

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

2nd Jul 2024
Have you ever wanted your very own vending machine? If so, you likely found that they’re expensive and too bulky to fit in most homes. But now you can experience vending bliss thanks to this miniature vending machine designed by m22pj, which you can craft yourself using an...
23rd May 2013
1

Doom3 BFG Code Review

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

23rd May 2013
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Why I don't take sponsorships Last year I made that video in response to a sponsorship offer that I got from various VPN...
20th May 2020
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Why I don't take sponsorships

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

20th May 2020
Last year I made that video in response to a sponsorship offer that I got from various VPN providers. They all told me the same thing: our service is the best way to protect your privacy, and we were hoping you could convey this message in one of your videos.So I decided to do...
learning to swim at 26 I learned how to swim at the age of 26. Or rather, I'm still learning. In my last lesson, I managed...
17th Jul 2026
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learning to swim at 26

from sibervepunk [alt+shift+b] in technology

17th Jul 2026
I learned how to swim at the age of 26. Or rather, I'm still learning. In my last lesson, I managed to swim 50 meters without using any support (and I didn't drown, lol). In the lesson before that, I got dizzy, my leg cramped three times, and I had swallowed half the pool. (you...
Developing a native iOS app How hard can it be to build your own cycling and running workout tracker app using native code with...
10th May 2024
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Developing a native iOS app

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

10th May 2024
How hard can it be to build your own cycling and running workout tracker app using native code with some help from AI? Read along to find out!
Lessons from a takeaway plastic bag About five months ago I got some take away food from our local Asian restaurant. They packaged the...
7th Jan 2018
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Lessons from a takeaway plastic bag

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

7th Jan 2018
About five months ago I got some take away food from our local Asian restaurant. They packaged the food and gave me a plastic bag to carry it home. On my way home I was thinking about the bag. Although it has some nice styling printed on it, it's designed for single use only....
Integrate Home Assistant with Apple Reminders I recently integrated Home Assistant with Apple Reminders so that automations can create new todos....
27th Jul 2022
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Integrate Home Assistant with Apple Reminders

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

27th Jul 2022
I recently integrated Home Assistant with Apple Reminders so that automations can create new todos. This is trickier as it sounds, because Reminders has no API that can be accessed from Home Assistant. Here's how I worked around that problem with a script, input text helper and...
Why should I accept all cookies? Around 2013, my team and I finally embarked in upgrading our company's internal software to version...
1st Nov 2025
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Why should I accept all cookies?

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

1st Nov 2025
Around 2013, my team and I finally embarked in upgrading our company's internal software to version 2.0. We had a large backlog of user complaints that we were finally addressing, with security at the top of the list. The very top of the list was moving away from plain text...
For-Profit Academic Publishers Love LLM Garbage Against For-Profit "Open Access"
4th Apr 2026
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For-Profit Academic Publishers Love LLM Garbage

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

4th Apr 2026
Against For-Profit "Open Access"
Western Conference Finals, Games 3 and 4: Spurs Steady The Ship Jason brings us back courtside as the Western Conference Finals continue with recaps of Games 3 and...
2nd Jun 2026
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Western Conference Finals, Games 3 and 4: Spurs Steady The Ship

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

2nd Jun 2026
Jason brings us back courtside as the Western Conference Finals continue with recaps of Games 3 and 4.
Alleged Jabber Zeus Coder ‘MrICQ’ in U.S. Custody A Ukrainian man indicted in 2012 for conspiring with a prolific hacking group to steal tens of...
2nd Nov 2025
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Alleged Jabber Zeus Coder ‘MrICQ’ in U.S. Custody

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

2nd Nov 2025
A Ukrainian man indicted in 2012 for conspiring with a prolific hacking group to steal tens of millions of dollars from U.S. businesses was arrested in Italy and is now in custody in the United States, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Sources close to the investigation say Yuriy...
I Built a CO2 Sensor and It Terrifies Me Governments are pushing CO2 sensors to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, but proper ventilation is...
3rd Oct 2021
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I Built a CO2 Sensor and It Terrifies Me

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

3rd Oct 2021
Governments are pushing CO2 sensors to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, but proper ventilation is equally important for our health and even our cognitive performance.In this blog post we'll look at a DIY CO2 sensor: how it runs ESPHome, how it integrates with Home Assistant, how it...
Odds and Ends #60: Greenpeace is complaining about... solar energy? Plus why the west has semiconductor politics all wrong, and why you should watch Conclave.
1st Mar 2025
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Odds and Ends #60: Greenpeace is complaining about... solar energy?

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

1st Mar 2025
Plus why the west has semiconductor politics all wrong, and why you should watch Conclave.
Client libraries are better when they have no API fsspec is secretly everywhere, and boss
10th Apr 2024
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Client libraries are better when they have no API

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

10th Apr 2024
fsspec is secretly everywhere, and boss
Vacation Finally back from a 2 week vacation up at Övertorneå. It’s been pretty great to be taken care of and...
14th Aug 2014
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Vacation

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

14th Aug 2014
Finally back from a 2 week vacation up at Övertorneå. It’s been pretty great to be taken care of and not doing anything. Well, I did get my ass kicked in Terra Mystica and I played a bit of Minecraft, but still. We got some nice food and my in-laws and my parents were nice. I’m...
Some low-stakes misinformation spread like wildfire, and I got it wrong too Giovanni Colantonio writing for Digital Trends: The Confusion Around $90 Switch 2 Games Proves How...
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Giovanni Colantonio writing for Digital Trends: The Confusion Around $90 Switch 2 Games Proves How Broken the Internet Is There’s just one problem: *Mario Kart World* does not cost $90, at least based on what we know right now. No currently announced Nintendo Switch 2 game...
Omarchy on iMac After helping a family member migrate to a new computer, I found myself with an old iMac. The...
21st Sep 2025
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Omarchy on iMac

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

21st Sep 2025
After helping a family member migrate to a new computer, I found myself with an old iMac. The machine from 2017 was very slow running modern macOS, yet I have a soft spot for these all-in-one computers designed by Jony Ive and his team. Could I install Linux on it to give it a...
Bubbles.town I mostly use my web stats service because I get a lizard-brain kick from watching numbers go up, but...
9th Aug 2026
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Bubbles.town

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

9th Aug 2026
I mostly use my web stats service because I get a lizard-brain kick from watching numbers go up, but it also provides some fun insights. For example, it’s how I found out about bubbles.town. At first I thought this might be a Mastodon instance. I get a lot of referral traffic...
Movement for Engineers Until we get get to be chromed-up cyborgs, we’re stuck with our meat bodies, and like many things,...
9th Jul 2023
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Movement for Engineers

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

9th Jul 2023
Until we get get to be chromed-up cyborgs, we’re stuck with our meat bodies, and like many things, they need regular maintenance. Here is a brief introduction to keeping your body moving as someone who spends a lot of time sitting down.
Creating a minimal iPhone stand Today I created a minimal iPhone stand from oak wood. While it's much faster to buy one online, I...
1st Jun 2018
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Creating a minimal iPhone stand

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

1st Jun 2018
Today I created a minimal iPhone stand from oak wood. While it's much faster to buy one online, I wanted one to fit my phone horizontally, with its case on. I like minimal design, so I opted to machine a single piece of wood to get it done. Workmate with wood router ready for...
Solitaire Alone Together Solitaire Alone Together I made a new game. It's called Solitaire Alone Together. It's Windows 98...
3 weeks ago
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Solitaire Alone Together

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

3 weeks ago
Solitaire Alone Together I made a new game. It's called Solitaire Alone Together. It's Windows 98 solitaire, but you can play with everyone else on the internet. Read the full post on my blog! Here's a raw link, if you need it: ...
Two more 27.0 design grumbles After living with Apple’s 27.0 OSs since launch, I have some more annoyances to get off my chest....
a week ago
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Two more 27.0 design grumbles

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

a week ago
After living with Apple’s 27.0 OSs since launch, I have some more annoyances to get off my chest. This time, it’s all about how tabs and menus have gotten worse. I’ve already ranted about the Liquid Glass material in general, but these two design changes in particular have really...
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...
Tools for a Culture of Writing One of the hardest things we do, as humans, is try and communicate what is going on in our minds to...
30th Oct 2021
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Tools for a Culture of Writing

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

30th Oct 2021
One of the hardest things we do, as humans, is try and communicate what is going on in our minds to each other. With significant room for misunderstanding, biases, assumptions and cultural differences, communicating with other engineers (or to stakeholders) appears fraught....
The Little Things in Life It’s the little things in life that makes it extra special. Sometimes it’s the luxury of coffee...
3rd Feb 2011
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The Little Things in Life

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

3rd Feb 2011
It’s the little things in life that makes it extra special. Sometimes it’s the luxury of coffee together with the morning paper and other times it’s just a small simple smile from a random stranger, kid or dog. Today when I got this bad headache I got saved by a two hour nap and...
Six months with MCADD Tomorrow it's six months since our son was born, a good moment to reflect upon the experience of...
23rd Jun 2019
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Six months with MCADD

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

23rd Jun 2019
Tomorrow it's six months since our son was born, a good moment to reflect upon the experience of being a parent of a kid with MCADD. This metabolic condition demands special attention on the feeding schedule and preparation for situations when things go different. It's good to...
I see dead people Imagine seeing your dead family members - not just on a picture, but lifelike and in three...
9th Sep 2024
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I see dead people

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

9th Sep 2024
Imagine seeing your dead family members - not just on a picture, but lifelike and in three dimensions! You can almost touch them. It hits you differently, I can assure you. I'm still in awe: I just saw my dead grandfather, lifelike and for the first time ever in three dimensions!...
The Discovery of pseudo-Acquaintance It’s the dawn of the 20th century. If we pick two homo sapiens on earth, we can classify their...
2nd Mar 2018
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The Discovery of pseudo-Acquaintance

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

2nd Mar 2018
It’s the dawn of the 20th century. If we pick two homo sapiens on earth, we can classify their relationship as one of these three types: An…
3rd Oct 2025
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Something in the orange

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

3rd Oct 2025
A last exit.
How I Built an NFC Movie Library for my Kids When I was a kid, my sister and I had a tower of VHS tapes we watched endlessly. Fast-forward to...
14th Nov 2023
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How I Built an NFC Movie Library for my Kids

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

14th Nov 2023
When I was a kid, my sister and I had a tower of VHS tapes we watched endlessly. Fast-forward to today, and my children's movie collection is vastly different. It's completely digital and dispersed across services. I wanted to recreate the tangible magic of my childhood for them.
Writing a storage engine for Postgres: an in-memory Table Access Method With Postgres 12, released in 2019, it became possible to swap out Postgres's storage engine. This...
1st Nov 2023
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Writing a storage engine for Postgres: an in-memory Table Access Method

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

1st Nov 2023
With Postgres 12, released in 2019, it became possible to swap out Postgres's storage engine. This is a feature MySQL has supported for a long time. There are at least 8 different built-in engines you can pick from. MyRocks, MySQL on RocksDB, is another popular third-party...
Lenovo ThinkCentre M900 Tiny: how does it fare as a home server? My evenings of absent-minded local auction site scrolling1 paid off: I now own a Lenovo ThinkCentre...
6th Jun 2025
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Lenovo ThinkCentre M900 Tiny: how does it fare as a home server?

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

6th Jun 2025
My evenings of absent-minded local auction site scrolling1 paid off: I now own a Lenovo ThinkCentre M900 Tiny. It’s relatively old, being manufactured in 20162, but it’s tiny and has a lot of useful life left in it. It’s also featured in the TinyMiniMicro series by...
Walking through a basic Racket web service Racket is an impressive language and ecosystem. Compared to Python, Racket (an evolution of Scheme...
29th Dec 2016
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Walking through a basic Racket web service

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

29th Dec 2016
Racket is an impressive language and ecosystem. Compared to Python, Racket (an evolution of Scheme R5RS is three years younger. It is as concise and expressive as Python but with much more reasonable syntax and semantics. Racket is also faster in many cases due in part to: JIT...
The TikTok Model is the Future of the Web I hate to say it, but when I wake up in the morning, the very first thing I do is check my phone....
24th Oct 2025
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The TikTok Model is the Future of the Web

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

24th Oct 2025
I hate to say it, but when I wake up in the morning, the very first thing I do is check my phone. First I turn off my alarm, I've made it a habit to wake up before it goes off. Then I scroll through a handful of websites. Yahoo Finance first, because the market is crazy. Hacker...
Tasmota Quad Switch Breakout The Tasmota Quad Switch Breakout is designed to make connecting a custom quad light switch to a...
3rd Oct 2021
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Tasmota Quad Switch Breakout

from Opsbros [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Oct 2021
The Tasmota Quad Switch Breakout is designed to make connecting a custom quad light switch to a Wemos D1 mini running Tasmota super super easy.
Inside the mechanical Bendix Air Data Computer, part 3: pressure transducers MathJax = { tex: { inlineMath: [['$', '$'], ['\\(', '\\)']] }, svg: { fontCache:...
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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...
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!
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.
RealityCapture to Gaussian Splatting using PostShot TLDR: Tutorial on using RealityCapture to align an image dataset, export the alignment, and import...
21st Jul 2024
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RealityCapture to Gaussian Splatting using PostShot

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

21st Jul 2024
TLDR: Tutorial on using RealityCapture to align an image dataset, export the alignment, and import it into PostShot to train Gaussian Splats without using COLMAP. Video tutorial RealityCapture Import your images and align them. If you ever need help with tricky dataset, refer to...
Microsoft makes 6502 BASIC open source It was probably going to happen sooner or later, but Microsoft has officially released the source...
3rd Sep 2025
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Microsoft makes 6502 BASIC open source

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

3rd Sep 2025
It was probably going to happen sooner or later, but Microsoft has officially released the source code for 6502 BASIC. The specific revision is very Commodore-centric: it's the 1977 "8K" BASIC variant "1.1," which Commodore users know better as BASIC V2.0, the same BASIC used in...
12th Aug 2024
It's not that hard to stop a Trane It's not that hard to stop a Trane Six years ago, I replaced the old HVAC system that...
4th Nov 2025
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It's not that hard to stop a Trane

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

4th Nov 2025
It's not that hard to stop a Trane Six years ago, I replaced the old HVAC system that came with our house, a central forced air system installed in 19951. The new system is a Trane XR AC paired with an S9V2 96% efficiency forced-air gas furnace. And it ran great!...
Yes, Xxit Xxit is like Brexit for X haha
9th Dec 2024
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Yes, Xxit

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

9th Dec 2024
Xxit is like Brexit for X haha
Legibility of Effort Legibility of Effort LLMs have broken legibility of effort - our ability to tell, at a glance,...
22nd Jun 2026
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Legibility of Effort

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

22nd Jun 2026
Legibility of Effort LLMs have broken legibility of effort - our ability to tell, at a glance, whether something took a human real work. What happens next? Read the full post on my blog! Here's a raw link, if you need it: https://eieio.games/blog/legibility-of-effort
SipHash-based encryption for constrained devices I see a lot of attempts to define encryption schemes for constrained devices with short...
6th May 2024
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SipHash-based encryption for constrained devices

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

6th May 2024
I see a lot of attempts to define encryption schemes for constrained devices with short authentication tags (e.g., 64 bits) using universal hashing. For example, there’s a proposal in CFRG at the moment for a version of AES-GCM with short tags for this kind of use-case. In my...
Oversimplified guide into snapshots on the btrfs filesystem Friday afternoon. You’re trying out a script that you wrote to mass-rename and move some files...
5th Apr 2022
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Oversimplified guide into snapshots on the btrfs filesystem

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

5th Apr 2022
Friday afternoon. You’re trying out a script that you wrote to mass-rename and move some files around. You finish the script and test it out. Oops. All the files now have all the wrong names, and some have been randomly moved 10 folders deep. It’s a mess. And you didn’t make a...
Privacy Policy The legal terms mentioned here covers abishekmuthian.com and products which explicitly link to this...
1st Mar 2025
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Privacy Policy

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

1st Mar 2025
The legal terms mentioned here covers abishekmuthian.com and products which explicitly link to this legal page. For legal terms of my individual products please refer to the legal section on their respective websites. Privacy Policy What personal data are collected and why its...
Traction Heroes Ep. 46: Tribal Psychology We keep reading scary reports of swarms of AI agents breaking into computer systems and doing other...
a week ago
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Traction Heroes Ep. 46: Tribal Psychology

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

a week ago
We keep reading scary reports of swarms of AI agents breaking into computer systems and doing other untoward and perhaps illegal things. To what degree do these agents influence each other? And is there anything we can learn from human behavior that would help mitigate these...
Belkin Gigabit USB 2.0 adapter works perfectly with Linux My ISP upgraded my internet connection speed to a whopping 120 Mbit. I am using a mac mini as my...
8th Dec 2010
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Belkin Gigabit USB 2.0 adapter works perfectly with Linux

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

8th Dec 2010
My ISP upgraded my internet connection speed to a whopping 120 Mbit. I am using a mac mini as my internet router. As you may be aware, the mini has only one network interface, so I added a second interface using a USB to ethernet adapter. This adapter was limited to 100 Mbit, so...
RAM: the forgotten history We owe computers not to Charles Babbage, but to the invention of electronically-controlled working...
15th Oct 2024
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RAM: the forgotten history

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

15th Oct 2024
We owe computers not to Charles Babbage, but to the invention of electronically-controlled working memory.
I see dead people This may be Apple Vision Pro's killer feature, enabling you to see dead people: augmenting old...
9th Sep 2024
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I see dead people

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

9th Sep 2024
This may be Apple Vision Pro's killer feature, enabling you to see dead people: augmenting old photos into lifelike representations.
August 2020 gwern.net newsletter with an essay on sidenotes; links on human competence, efficient-computing/hardware-overhangs; no...
1st Sep 2020
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August 2020 gwern.net newsletter

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

1st Sep 2020
with an essay on sidenotes; links on human competence, efficient-computing/hardware-overhangs; no reviews.
April, 2026 I had hoped and expected that the chaos which had marked the start of the year — floors, termites,...
1st May 2026
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April, 2026

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

1st May 2026
I had hoped and expected that the chaos which had marked the start of the year — floors, termites, sickness, fires, ACL surgery — was largely behind us, and that I would be freed to find some sort of rhythm or backbeat with which to tether a new normalcy. And of course, this has...
Shop vac becomes a Roomba on steroids A robotic vacuum, such as a Roomba, offers a lot of convenience. Instead of having to vacuum and...
29th Apr 2024
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Shop vac becomes a Roomba on steroids

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

29th Apr 2024
A robotic vacuum, such as a Roomba, offers a lot of convenience. Instead of having to vacuum and sweep your own floors, you have a little maid robot to do the job for you. But these devices have very little power and capacity, which makes them useless for anything other than...
Installing OpenBSD on the Pomera DM250{,XY?} These are some notes for getting OpenBSD-current running on the Japanese-model Pomera DM250, DM250X,...
9th Apr 2026
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Installing OpenBSD on the Pomera DM250{,XY?}

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

9th Apr 2026
These are some notes for getting OpenBSD-current running on the Japanese-model Pomera DM250, DM250X, and DM250XY. Table of Contents Top Throat-clearing Making a backup Some DM250 hardware notes Making an OpenBSD installation SD card Installing...
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
More Luigi! Elias Freider just talked about Luigi at PyData 2013: The presentation above is much better than one...
22nd Mar 2013
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More Luigi!

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

22nd Mar 2013
Elias Freider just talked about Luigi at PyData 2013: The presentation above is much better than one I put together a few weeks ago. In case anyone is interested I'll include it too:
About Metakgp You can listen to this in background Before The Beginning - John Frusciante (YouTube)...
13th Dec 2017
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About Metakgp

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

13th Dec 2017
You can listen to this in background Before The Beginning - John Frusciante (YouTube) :name-retracted: wrote - I wrote this couple of days…
On Design and Chemistry How I transitioned from chemistry to design, and back again.
12th Sep 2024
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On Design and Chemistry

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

12th Sep 2024
How I transitioned from chemistry to design, and back again.
I designed my own keyboard layout. Was it worth it? Almost two and a half years ago I embarked on the journey to change keyboard layout. At first I...
2nd Nov 2023
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I designed my own keyboard layout. Was it worth it?

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

2nd Nov 2023
Almost two and a half years ago I embarked on the journey to change keyboard layout. At first I tried out existing ones, but it didn’t take long before I figured it’s better to develop my own—and things went downhill fast from there. (Some) combos of the T-34 layout. But now...
The year in books: 11 to recommend in 2021 Last year (2021) I finished 17 books, a five year low. But that's ok! 4 fiction and 13 non-fiction....
5th Jan 2022
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The year in books: 11 to recommend in 2021

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

5th Jan 2022
Last year (2021) I finished 17 books, a five year low. But that's ok! 4 fiction and 13 non-fiction. Another 30 started but not finished. Non-fiction It seems I was pretty focused on business history books and history of tech. The 8 non-fiction books I liked the most: Designing...
Owning my Social Network After yet another Mastodon drama1 and tired of migrating from one Mastodon instance to another I...
14th May 2025
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Owning my Social Network

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

14th May 2025
After yet another Mastodon drama1 and tired of migrating from one Mastodon instance to another I have decided to self-host a Mastodon instance. But Mastodon is an overkill for a single user instance, Luckily GoToSocial2 an ActivityPub social network server written in Go serves my...
Spring, 2025 Hello! I have so much to catch up with you about. The time has flown.
1st Jun 2025
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Spring, 2025

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

1st Jun 2025
Hello! I have so much to catch up with you about. The time has flown.
Embedding the Sky Two projects at the intersection of geospatial data and AI. First, a semantic search engine for...
27th Feb 2026
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Embedding the Sky

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

27th Feb 2026
Two projects at the intersection of geospatial data and AI. First, a semantic search engine for aerial imagery, fine-tuned on OpenStreetMap-tagged data. Second, WARP—a custom neural model that learns embeddings of aircraft flight trajectories, trained on roughly a million...
Websites with Auto Pilot Why do you need a website, and what can you do to maximise its value while minimising (manual)...
6th Jan 2026
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Websites with Auto Pilot

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

6th Jan 2026
Why do you need a website, and what can you do to maximise its value while minimising (manual) effort? I have been working on this with some of my most innovative customers. What if you no longer need a full blown manual content management system? What if your website updated...
On Building Git for Lawyers Over this past weekend, Twitter discovered the problem that I have dedicated the past four years of...
14th Nov 2024
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On Building Git for Lawyers

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

14th Nov 2024
Over this past weekend, Twitter discovered the problem that I have dedicated the past four years of my life to solving. Why don't lawyers and other non-coders use git?
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.
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',...
An In-Depth Look at the ICE-V Wireless FPGA Development Board Introduction The ICE-V Wireless FPGA Board Preloading the PSRAM with User Data The Overall Boot...
27th Dec 2022
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An In-Depth Look at the ICE-V Wireless FPGA Development Board

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

27th Dec 2022
Introduction The ICE-V Wireless FPGA Board Preloading the PSRAM with User Data The Overall Boot Process UART Console Getting Started with the ICE-V Wireless Board for Real Reinstalling or Modifying the ESP32C3 Firmware The RISC-V Example FPGA Design Compiling the RISC-V Example...
Introducing TagVault Magnetic for AirTag Wanting to easily, securely, and discretely keep an AirTag on our car, we designed...
28th Nov 2023
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Introducing TagVault Magnetic for AirTag

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

28th Nov 2023
Wanting to easily, securely, and discretely keep an AirTag on our car, we designed the TagVault Magnetic Mount. Testing many designs, we did not want to settle with anything that couldn't stand extreme vibration. So we gave our mount has an huge, thick Neodymium rare earth...
What Learning by Doing Looks Like The evolution of polycrystalline diamond drill bits
12th Dec 2024
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What Learning by Doing Looks Like

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

12th Dec 2024
The evolution of polycrystalline diamond drill bits
Beeper MCP Fellow Automattician Job Thomas, down in Cape Town, South Africa, has a lovely story about using...
a week ago
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Beeper MCP

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

a week ago
Fellow Automattician Job Thomas, down in Cape Town, South Africa, has a lovely story about using Claude and the Beeper MCP to wrangle all the group chats for his daughter’s sports.
Why I’m Switching Web Hosts Recently, I’ve gotten fed up with my web host. Since I stood this site up, I’ve used MediaTemple....
5th Jul 2019
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Why I’m Switching Web Hosts

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

5th Jul 2019
Recently, I’ve gotten fed up with my web host. Since I stood this site up, I’ve used MediaTemple. This was before WP Engine was around. At the time, MediaTemple had carved out a nice niche for themselves as the premium web host. Tim Ferriss also raved about them back in the day....
The case for Nightingale Datacentres Britain isn’t prepared for the looming AI national security crisis
27th Aug 2026
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The case for Nightingale Datacentres

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

27th Aug 2026
Britain isn’t prepared for the looming AI national security crisis
The Wrong Bet The next decade in SaaS won't look like the last
10th May 2021
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The Wrong Bet

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

10th May 2021
The next decade in SaaS won't look like the last
2025-06-08 Omnimax In a previous life, I worked for a location-based entertainment company, part of a huge team of...
8th Jun 2025
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2025-06-08 Omnimax

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

8th Jun 2025
In a previous life, I worked for a location-based entertainment company, part of a huge team of people developing a location for Las Vegas, Nevada. It was COVID, a rough time for location-based anything, and things were delayed more than usual. Coworkers paid a lot of attention...
Choosing an op-amp for your project Just say no to LM741.
3rd Jan 2025
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Choosing an op-amp for your project

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

3rd Jan 2025
Just say no to LM741.
Ted Lasso (Season 1) Gilbert & Sullivan would have loved Ted Lasso — absurd and friendly and ever, ever obsessed with...
4th Aug 2024
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Ted Lasso (Season 1)

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Aug 2024
Gilbert & Sullivan would have loved Ted Lasso — absurd and friendly and ever, ever obsessed with having its pathos and eating it too. I write this in a period of what I would describe as post-post-backlash: there was a period where America, particularly during COVID, was obsessed...
A work week one bag travel Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. Neale Donald Walsch I’m lucky that I have a job...
10th Mar 2026
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A work week one bag travel

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

10th Mar 2026
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. Neale Donald Walsch I’m lucky that I have a job where I can work remotely as it allows me to live in a small community where there are no tech jobs anywhere close. It does require me to travel a few weeks per year to the office but...
How I Write Tests The longer I spend as a software engineer, the more obsessive I get about testing. I fully subscribe...
29th Dec 2016
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How I Write Tests

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

29th Dec 2016
The longer I spend as a software engineer, the more obsessive I get about testing. I fully subscribe to the definition of legacy code as “code without an automated test suite.” I’m convinced that the best thing you can do to encourage fast progress in a test suite is to design...
What's the deal with magnetic fields? I apologize, but there won't be any Insane Clown Posse jokes in this article.
4th Feb 2025
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What's the deal with magnetic fields?

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

4th Feb 2025
I apologize, but there won't be any Insane Clown Posse jokes in this article.
Pebble Round 2 - The Most Stylish Pebble Ever We’ve finally gotten around to it The entire Pebble relaunch would not be complete without...
2nd Jan 2026
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Pebble Round 2 - The Most Stylish Pebble Ever

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

2nd Jan 2026
We’ve finally gotten around to it The entire Pebble relaunch would not be complete without revisiting one of our most iconic watches from…
Introducing TagVault Strap for AirTag Having DSLR cameras stolen, having gear bags stolen, we wanted a hard-core AirTag mount to mount to...
8th Sep 2022
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Introducing TagVault Strap for AirTag

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

8th Sep 2022
Having DSLR cameras stolen, having gear bags stolen, we wanted a hard-core AirTag mount to mount to them and to be discreet. So we took our much loved TagVault Pet waterproof AirTag case, over engineered to take abuse from large dogs, and gave it all matte black hardware so it...
Introducing NightPad Wireless Charger NightPad has no LEDs, so it won't light up your room. This was a frustration we had with other...
19th Jul 2018
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Introducing NightPad Wireless Charger

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

19th Jul 2018
NightPad has no LEDs, so it won't light up your room. This was a frustration we had with other wireless chargers - which I covered with electrical tape. So in designing this one, the first thing we did was remove the light. NightPad charges iPhone 50% faster than standard Qi...
Fields or Hutches? When I was small, living on a small farm near a college town, my father fell for an idea proffered...
12th Nov 2025
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Fields or Hutches?

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

12th Nov 2025
When I was small, living on a small farm near a college town, my father fell for an idea proffered by the Ralston Purina Company of Checkerboard Square in St. Louis.
Introducing MagicGrips Apple has a long history with with computer mice. They pioneered one of the first commercially...
8th Feb 2017
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Introducing MagicGrips

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

8th Feb 2017
Apple has a long history with with computer mice. They pioneered one of the first commercially available with the Lisa Mouse and helped make it mainstream when it shipped with the Macintosh 128K.   Apple has also been known to make good looking mice at the expense of ergonomics -...
Bye Bye Alan Dye I was trying to get something down about Alan Dye leaving Apple, but John Gruber got there first and...
5th Dec 2025
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Bye Bye Alan Dye

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

5th Dec 2025
I was trying to get something down about Alan Dye leaving Apple, but John Gruber got there first and has done a much better job. I’ve grumbled several times in the past about the new Liquid Glass redesign, but it’s just the latest push in a direction I’ve been unhappy with for...
How To Sell Sales at a startup is counter-intuitive.
18th Jan 2020
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How To Sell

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

18th Jan 2020
Sales at a startup is counter-intuitive.
SOAPwn: Pwning .NET Framework Applications Through HTTP Client Proxies And WSDL Welcome back! As we near the end of 2025, we are, of course, waiting for the next round of SSLVPN...
10th Dec 2025
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SOAPwn: Pwning .NET Framework Applications Through HTTP Client Proxies And WSDL

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

10th Dec 2025
Welcome back! As we near the end of 2025, we are, of course, waiting for the next round of SSLVPN exploitation to occur in January (as it did in 2024 and 2025). Weeeeeeeee. Before then, we want to clear the decks and see how much research we can publish. This
Lightweight Linux Kernel Development with KVM I don’t do a ton of Linux kernel development these days, but I’ve done a fair bit in the past, and...
30th Dec 2013
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Lightweight Linux Kernel Development with KVM

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

30th Dec 2013
I don’t do a ton of Linux kernel development these days, but I’ve done a fair bit in the past, and picked up a number of useful techniques for doing kernel development in a relatively painless fashion. This blog post is a writeup of the tools and techniques I use when developing...
How Live Chat Tools Impact Conversions and Why I Launched a Bad Variant Do those live chat tools actually help your business? Will they get you more customers by allowing...
21st Jul 2015
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How Live Chat Tools Impact Conversions and Why I Launched a Bad Variant

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

21st Jul 2015
Do those live chat tools actually help your business? Will they get you more customers by allowing your visitors to chat directly with your team? Like most tests, you can come up with theories that sound great for both sides. Pro Live Chat Theory: Having a live chat tool helps...
Why the OAuth mTLS spec is more interesting than you might think I was catching up on the always excellent Security. Cryptography. Whatever. podcast, and enjoyed the...
20th Jan 2022
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Why the OAuth mTLS spec is more interesting than you might think

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

20th Jan 2022
I was catching up on the always excellent Security. Cryptography. Whatever. podcast, and enjoyed the episode with Colm MacCárthaigh about a bunch of topics around TLS. It’s a great episode that touches a lot of subjects I’m interested in, so go ahead and listen to it if you...
A simple timeline using CSS flexbox As I added a /now page to the site I also decided to refresh my /about page and I figured it would...
25th Aug 2024
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A simple timeline using CSS flexbox

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

25th Aug 2024
As I added a /now page to the site I also decided to refresh my /about page and I figured it would be neat to have timeline element where I could list some of the larger events in my life. To my surprise it wasn’t too difficult to create one that looks pretty clean—the flexbox...
Virtual Pinhead Discovering virtual pinball, a hobbyist community devoted to it, and building a full-size virtual...
2nd Apr 2024
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Virtual Pinhead

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

2nd Apr 2024
Discovering virtual pinball, a hobbyist community devoted to it, and building a full-size virtual pinball cabinet.
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「网络国家」之我见

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

13th Jul 2022
Why I still blog after 15 years Time flies when you’re having fun. Before you know it, your little babies have started school, you...
25th Sep 2024
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Why I still blog after 15 years

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

25th Sep 2024
Time flies when you’re having fun. Before you know it, your little babies have started school, you celebrate the 30th anniversary of Jurassic Park, and that little blog you started have now been going for 15 years. 15 years is a long time; longer than I’ve been waiting for Winds...
Repairing an HP 5370A Time Interval Counter MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [...
10th Aug 2025
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Repairing an HP 5370A Time Interval Counter

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

10th Aug 2025
MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [ ['$', '$'], ["\\(", "\\)"] ], displayMath: [ ['$$', '$$'], ["\\[", "\\]"] ], processEscapes: true, skipTags: ['script', 'noscript', 'style', 'textarea', 'pre',...
DIY: Use an IKEA VINDRIKTNING air quality sensor in Home Assistant with ESPHome IKEA has released some interesting new products lately, focused on air quality. In this product...
21st Aug 2021
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DIY: Use an IKEA VINDRIKTNING air quality sensor in Home Assistant with ESPHome

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

21st Aug 2021
IKEA has released some interesting new products lately, focused on air quality. In this product line, one unit that stands out is the VINDRIKTNING air quality sensor. This cheap (just €9,99) sensor measures the air quality in your home, using a simple traffic light scheme to...
Introducing BatteryPro BatteryPro is designed to keep anyone with an iPhone and Apple Watch powered, it's comfortable to...
2nd May 2017
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Introducing BatteryPro

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

2nd May 2017
BatteryPro is designed to keep anyone with an iPhone and Apple Watch powered, it's comfortable to carry, charges fast, and lessens cord clutter when you travel. It sports an integrated MFi-certified Apple Watch Magnetic Charger, high-speed USB-out that charges iPhone at max rate,...
Buy A Help Desk, Bundle A Remote Access Solution? (SolarWinds Web Help Desk Pre-Auth RCE Chain(s)) It’s been a while, but we’re back - in time for story time. Gather round, strap in, and prepare for...
25th Feb 2026
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25th Feb 2026
It’s been a while, but we’re back - in time for story time. Gather round, strap in, and prepare for another depressing journey of “all we wanted to do was reproduce an N-day, and here we are with 0-days”. Today, friends, we’re
Oops, I accidentally built a Steam Machine I like the Steam Deck. It’s what convinced me that gaming on Linux is actually viable now. But after...
1st Dec 2025
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Oops, I accidentally built a Steam Machine

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

1st Dec 2025
I like the Steam Deck. It’s what convinced me that gaming on Linux is actually viable now. But after playing through games like God of War Ragnarök1, I felt like I needed an upgrade. I love playing with the Steam Deck, but what I love more is playing without having to worry about...
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...
"AI" on a Calculator: Part 1 Can AI run on a calculator? Machine learning and computer vision algorithms can certainly be run on...
28th Mar 2023
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"AI" on a Calculator: Part 1

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

28th Mar 2023
Can AI run on a calculator? Machine learning and computer vision algorithms can certainly be run on a calculator albeit slowly: I ported a convolutional neural network (CNN) to a TI-84 Plus CE, making it capable of using “AI” to identify handwritten digits. As an added challenge,...
Simple Screw Counter [Misc] Laser-cut dispensers of nuts and bolts
28th Feb 2026
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Simple Screw Counter

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

28th Feb 2026
[Misc] Laser-cut dispensers of nuts and bolts
So We Read On Well, if it's not biography; and it's not literary criticism; and it's not scholarship... what is...
8th Aug 2023
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So We Read On

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

8th Aug 2023
Well, if it's not biography; and it's not literary criticism; and it's not scholarship... what is it? And the answer appears to be poorly structured, rambling, fandom.
Google diversity memo, global warming, Pascal's wager, and other stuff There's about 765 million blog posts about the diversity “memo” that leaked out of Google a couple...
14th Aug 2017
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Google diversity memo, global warming, Pascal's wager, and other stuff

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

14th Aug 2017
There's about 765 million blog posts about the diversity “memo” that leaked out of Google a couple of weeks ago. I think the case for any biological difference is pretty weak, and it bothers me when people refer to an “interest gap” as anything else than caused by the...
Precision Clock Mk IV [Hardware] GPS synchronised, millisecond precision, automatic timezones and more!
31st May 2025
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Precision Clock Mk IV

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

31st May 2025
[Hardware] GPS synchronised, millisecond precision, automatic timezones and more!
Mini-review: David Pogue's Apple: The First 50 Years Apple: The First 50 Years to see if I even wanted to bother with the hardcover. Previously the...
1st Apr 2026
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Mini-review: David Pogue's Apple: The First 50 Years

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

1st Apr 2026
Apple: The First 50 Years to see if I even wanted to bother with the hardcover. Previously the essential tome on Apple (and especially Mac) history was Owen Linzmeyer's Apple Confidential, still on my shelf in the well-thumbed 2.0 paperback. I was prepared to find this book...
Towards Digital Sovereignty Over the years I have experimented with different digital tools, platforms and apps to get my work...
1st Aug 2025
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Towards Digital Sovereignty

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

1st Aug 2025
Over the years I have experimented with different digital tools, platforms and apps to get my work done. From easy-to-use but locked down commercial systems to free/libre solutions that are powerful but more challenging to setup. I learned a lot along the way. Now I offer that...
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.
Credits Credits / Attribution Some of the art used around this blog are by other people. Here is a list of...
21st Apr 2025
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Credits

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

21st Apr 2025
Credits / Attribution Some of the art used around this blog are by other people. Here is a list of them: Smug Videah by Kelevtov Rantsona Sidebar Videah by ScruffKerfluff Callout Pixel Art Videah by lockedsdcard Videah Mutant Standard Emoji by Caius Nocturne
The first (worst) post Well, here it is: The opening post. What will come here? Here’s where I’ll outline what the blog...
21st Jul 2009
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The first (worst) post

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

21st Jul 2009
Well, here it is: The opening post. What will come here? Here’s where I’ll outline what the blog will be about and maybe, if I’m dedicated, it won’t die before Christmas you think. And sure, you’re right. I will run away to the corner in about two and a half months crying I never...
Control your volume with a wireless rotary encoder, as you deserve Every decent stereo sold since the invention of sound has included a knob on the front for adjusting...
6th Jan 2025
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Control your volume with a wireless rotary encoder, as you deserve

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

6th Jan 2025
Every decent stereo sold since the invention of sound has included a knob on the front for adjusting volume. There are influencers and entire communities dedicated to evaluating the feel of those wonderful knobs. So why would you settle for the mushy volume buttons on a remote?...
Painting parts beige for retro towers (eventually) So here’s the thing. Late last year I bought the excellent SilverStone FLP02, a retro-themed...
2nd Jun 2026
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Painting parts beige for retro towers (eventually)

from Rubenerd [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Jun 2026
So here’s the thing. Late last year I bought the excellent SilverStone FLP02, a retro-themed computer case with modern component support. It was absolutely, jaw-droppingly gorgeous, and has easily become my favourite modern case alongside the legendary NCASE M1. It’s big,...
Quasimode for Text Selection A short design exploration of how stacked cards could work within iA writer
10th Mar 2021
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Quasimode for Text Selection

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

10th Mar 2021
A short design exploration of how stacked cards could work within iA writer
Testing a cheap ExpressCard to NVMe SSD adapter on my ThinkPad T430 I stumbled upon this post in /r/thinkpad, which got my attention. It showcases an ExpressCard to M.2...
4th Oct 2022
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Testing a cheap ExpressCard to NVMe SSD adapter on my ThinkPad T430

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

4th Oct 2022
I stumbled upon this post in /r/thinkpad, which got my attention. It showcases an ExpressCard to M.2 NGFF adapter that they purchased from AliExpress. The adapter has a similar purpose to the one designed by thinkmods.store, with the added bonus that it could fit longer NVMe...
Batavus Champion bike from 1978 Restore the retro glory of an old bike from the 70s using the internet.
2nd Sep 2016
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Batavus Champion bike from 1978

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

2nd Sep 2016
Restore the retro glory of an old bike from the 70s using the internet.
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...
Happy Endings This, to me, is the perfect sit-com. It’s that simple: for two seasons (skip the first season; you...
27th Nov 2017
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Happy Endings

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

27th Nov 2017
This, to me, is the perfect sit-com. It’s that simple: for two seasons (skip the first season; you don’t need it and the show tries to be too conventional) it shits out an outrageous level of humor with a cast that has a perfect chemistry. There is a tiny bit of “aw, shucks”...
The Flamethrowers “Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for...
1st Mar 2025
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The Flamethrowers

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Mar 2025
“Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For not dissolving into it.”
Smart Open Xcode If you’re like me, you often have multiple versions of Xcode installed. One or two beta versions, a...
2nd Aug 2023
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Smart Open Xcode

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

2nd Aug 2023
If you’re like me, you often have multiple versions of Xcode installed. One or two beta versions, a stable version, and maybe another version in case the most recent stable version has something weird about it. I also really like mapping my Caps Lock key to something more useful,...
Metaprogramming in Zig and parsing CSS I knew Zig supported some sort of reflection on types. But I had been confused about how to use it....
19th Jun 2023
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Metaprogramming in Zig and parsing CSS

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

19th Jun 2023
I knew Zig supported some sort of reflection on types. But I had been confused about how to use it. What's the difference between @typeInfo and @TypeOf? I ignored this aspect of Zig until a problem came up at work where reflection made sense. The situation was parsing and storing...
Configuring SCST iSCSI target on Debian Linux (Wheezy) My goal is to export ZFS zvol volumes through iSCSI to other machines. The platform I'm using is...
1st Feb 2015
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Configuring SCST iSCSI target on Debian Linux (Wheezy)

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

1st Feb 2015
My goal is to export ZFS zvol volumes through iSCSI to other machines. The platform I'm using is Debian Wheezy. There are three iSCSI target solutions available for Linux: LIO IET SCST I've briefly played with LIO but the targetcli tool is interactive only. If you want to...
The Pinecone DAISY-1 is a fantasy 8-bit computer that exists in reality There was a time when computers were exciting and fun. Now most of them feel like commodity...
2nd Jun 2026
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The Pinecone DAISY-1 is a fantasy 8-bit computer that exists in reality

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

2nd Jun 2026
There was a time when computers were exciting and fun. Now most of them feel like commodity appliances — no more interesting than a washing machine or a toaster. Joe longed for the good ol’ days of 8-bit personal computers, so he used a trio of Arduino development boards to...
Death to the Forum Well it was fun while it lasted, but now it’s gone and it’ll stay gone for a long time I think. It...
2nd Apr 2010
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Death to the Forum

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

2nd Apr 2010
Well it was fun while it lasted, but now it’s gone and it’ll stay gone for a long time I think. It was mainly a test to see if I could do it and I’m really proud of my styling of it but it’s deader than in a grave, which isn’t really surprising, and it bothered me that I didn’t...
Antenna diodes in the Pentium processor I was studying the silicon die of the Pentium processor and noticed some puzzling structures...
23rd Nov 2024
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Antenna diodes in the Pentium processor

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

23rd Nov 2024
I was studying the silicon die of the Pentium processor and noticed some puzzling structures where signal lines were connected to the silicon substrate for no apparent reason. Two examples are in the photo below, where the metal wiring (orange) connects to small square regions of...
Tom Dowdy Tom Dowdy was a software engineer at Apple back in 1995 when I was still writing Macintosh games in...
3rd Apr 2022
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Tom Dowdy

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

3rd Apr 2022
Tom Dowdy was a software engineer at Apple back in 1995 when I was still writing Macintosh games in Lawrence, Kansas.
A 12.48 inch (1304x984) three-color e-paper display by Waveshare Introduction Update September 2023: A small horizontal and large vertical row of pixels died. Demo...
22nd Dec 2020
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A 12.48 inch (1304x984) three-color e-paper display by Waveshare

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

22nd Dec 2020
Introduction Update September 2023: A small horizontal and large vertical row of pixels died. Demo of defective display here. I'm running a solar-powered blog and I wanted to add a low-power display to show the daily solar 'harvest'1 and maybe some additional information. So I...
Introducing DraftTable for iPad Pro We are thrilled to release DraftTable for iPad Pro. It's the result of hundreds of hours of testing...
16th Dec 2016
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Introducing DraftTable for iPad Pro

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

16th Dec 2016
We are thrilled to release DraftTable for iPad Pro. It's the result of hundreds of hours of testing and iteration with artists, designers and heavy iPad users to make the very best stand for working on iPad pro. Like a traditional drafters table, it is ultra-sturdy, widely...
Epaper digital art frame based on Seeed Studio reTerminal E1002 display and IKEA RÖDALM using... For the last month, I’ve been experimenting with making a digital art frame based on color epaper....
24th Nov 2025
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24th Nov 2025
For the last month, I’ve been experimenting with making a digital art frame based on color epaper. Spectra 6 is the latest color epaper tech available, offering 6 colors (black, white, red, green, blue, yellow) in brighter and more saturated tones then its predecessors. And with...
Between the World and Me It was hard to get through BtWaM, and not because of the dense, beautiful prose or the sprawling...
13th Aug 2016
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Between the World and Me

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

13th Aug 2016
It was hard to get through BtWaM, and not because of the dense, beautiful prose or the sprawling indictment of the American institution. The central thing Coates keeps returning to is the physical body as a symbol of freedom, and how whips and belts and chains and bullets don’t...
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