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Simple sabotage for software CIA produced a fantastic book during the peak of World War 2 called Simple Sabotage. It laid out...
13th Dec 2023
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Simple sabotage for software

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

13th Dec 2023
CIA produced a fantastic book during the peak of World War 2 called Simple Sabotage. It laid out various ways for infiltrators to ruin productivity of a company. Some of the advice is timeless, for instance the section about “General interference with Organizations and...
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Bloated It used to happen sporadicly but now it is a daily experience.
23rd Sep 2018
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Bloated

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

23rd Sep 2018
It used to happen sporadicly but now it is a daily experience.
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3 Reflections from a sabbatical after Google I quit Google at the end of July 2024 and I took a work break until mid-January 2025 (when I joined...
15th Mar 2025
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3 Reflections from a sabbatical after Google

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

15th Mar 2025
I quit Google at the end of July 2024 and I took a work break until mid-January 2025 (when I joined a startup accelerator full time). It would be a miss if I didn’t reflect on my sabbatical experience! I will describe what I was up to in another post, but in short it was a mix of...
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Cowboy Bebop (2021) This was neither as bad as I thought it could be nor as good as I hoped it might be. The vast...
1st Jan 2022
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Cowboy Bebop (2021)

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

1st Jan 2022
This was neither as bad as I thought it could be nor as good as I hoped it might be. The vast majority of the blame I think has to go towards the scriptwriting, which has a Joss Whedon-esque self-referentiality to it that completely undermines the philosophy of the original and,...
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Collecting health data with Biostrap Most wearables (smartwatches, fitness trackers, etc.) use very basic sensors to capture heart rate....
14th Nov 2017
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Collecting health data with Biostrap

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

14th Nov 2017
Most wearables (smartwatches, fitness trackers, etc.) use very basic sensors to capture heart rate. Their signal is binary: just counting beats. Biostrap is different, instead of just checking pulses, it captures a high-fidelity PPG waveform. These waveforms are the same kind...
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Fluid speed issues! Fluid v1.3 is too fast on 3GX iPhones ;( ! I will released a fix tonight !
29th Jun 2009
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Fluid speed issues!

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

29th Jun 2009
Fluid v1.3 is too fast on 3GX iPhones ;( ! I will released a fix tonight !
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Self-hosting 101: Server and Tailscale
8th Sep 2025
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Self-hosting 101: Server and Tailscale

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

8th Sep 2025
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From GitHub to Codeberg/Forgejo Respect your users and their confidence in you, “Microsoft” GitHub. Ethkuil, Updates to your GitHub...
28th Apr 2026
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From GitHub to Codeberg/Forgejo

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

28th Apr 2026
Respect your users and their confidence in you, “Microsoft” GitHub. Ethkuil, Updates to your GitHub Feed #65343 After years of waffling around I finally bit the bullet and migrated away from GitHub onto Codeberg and a private Forgejo instance. If Codeberg is good enough for...
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Deploying apps in Coolify, part 1
1st Oct 2025
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Deploying apps in Coolify, part 1

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

1st Oct 2025
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CKSyncEngine questions and answers I didn't know what to put as a header so here are some iClouds (interesting clouds) in Maine I’ve...
7th Jan 2026
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CKSyncEngine questions and answers

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

7th Jan 2026
I didn't know what to put as a header so here are some iClouds (interesting clouds) in Maine I’ve had a lot of fun working with CKSyncEngine over the last month or so. I truly think it’s one of the best APIs Apple has built, and they’ve managed to take a very complex topic...
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iPad Pro next to my primary machine I wanted see if I can find something better than my old fashioned pencil and paper that I use for...
29th Jan 2017
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iPad Pro next to my primary machine

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

29th Jan 2017
I wanted see if I can find something better than my old fashioned pencil and paper that I use for designing software as professional developer. I knew iPad Pro from my test last summer, figuring out if it could replace my primary development machine. While it may not be able to...
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The Tandy Corporation, Part 2 Trash-80s get Colorful, and Trash-80s get into your pockets
2nd Jun 2025
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The Tandy Corporation, Part 2

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

2nd Jun 2025
Trash-80s get Colorful, and Trash-80s get into your pockets
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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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Major Update: Private AI Recs
2nd Aug 2025
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Major Update: Private AI Recs

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2nd Aug 2025
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Python's easter eggs and hidden jokes Just when you thought, Python could not be more fun. Read on GitHub...
8th May 2017
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Python's easter eggs and hidden jokes

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

8th May 2017
Just when you thought, Python could not be more fun. Read on GitHub https://github.com/OrkoHunter/python-easter-eggs 1. Hello World 2. The…
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My First Million I had a great chat with Sam Parr and Shaan Puri on their podcast, My First Million.
2nd Feb 2025
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My First Million

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

2nd Feb 2025
I had a great chat with Sam Parr and Shaan Puri on their podcast, My First Million.
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Work is Life Too 10 PM on a Sunday night. You’re back home after a night out with friends. A couple of beers and some...
31st Mar 2025
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Work is Life Too

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

31st Mar 2025
10 PM on a Sunday night. You’re back home after a night out with friends. A couple of beers and some pizza. The place was too loud but you…
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Interpreting Go After spending some time at work on tooling for keeping documentation in sync with Go struct...
12th Oct 2019
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Interpreting Go

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

12th Oct 2019
After spending some time at work on tooling for keeping documentation in sync with Go struct definitions I had enough exposure to Go's built-in parsing package that next steps were clear: write an interpreter. It's a great way to get more comfortable with a language's AST. In...
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Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor Keeping my focus has been challenging. It’s not a new phenomenon, and I suspect that there are...
1st Apr 2026
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Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor

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

1st Apr 2026
Keeping my focus has been challenging. It’s not a new phenomenon, and I suspect that there are contributing factors that have lead to the unfocused state dominating. For example, I’ve been that guy who wants to be on top of things, to be in the loop, to respond to urgent issues....
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Fujifilm Instax Wide 300 to Mamiya Press mount mod How I modified an Instax Wide instant camera to mount a Mamiya Press medium format lens The post...
24th May 2020
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Fujifilm Instax Wide 300 to Mamiya Press mount mod

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

24th May 2020
How I modified an Instax Wide instant camera to mount a Mamiya Press medium format lens The post Fujifilm Instax Wide 300 to Mamiya Press mount mod appeared first on Style over Substance.
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Table Stakes This is a short post on what I see are table stakes for any new user-facing service, security-wise....
19th Dec 2019
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Table Stakes

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

19th Dec 2019
This is a short post on what I see are table stakes for any new user-facing service, security-wise. Mostly focused on user-focused, rather than intra-service, considerations.
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Butt Pomodoro - A butt triggered pomodoro timer A need gap of Remind me to take break when working from home was recently posted. Forgetting to take...
10th Jul 2020
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Butt Pomodoro - A butt triggered pomodoro timer

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

10th Jul 2020
A need gap of Remind me to take break when working from home was recently posted. Forgetting to take regular breaks when immersed with work in front of a computer is a common problem, especially when working from home. On the flip side, getting distracted from completing a task...
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Minecraft Server Hosting I play the phenomena that is Minecraft on and off. Sometimes the laid back building or the exploring...
22nd Apr 2013
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Minecraft Server Hosting

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

22nd Apr 2013
I play the phenomena that is Minecraft on and off. Sometimes the laid back building or the exploring is just what I need. Sometimes I can challange myself to build cool complex stuff and I’m even an avid follower of Doc’M and Etho and the other mindcrackers over at the youtube....
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Dithering in Colour
8th Mar 2025
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Dithering in Colour

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

8th Mar 2025
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How I Became a Spam Vector There are several reasons for Google to downrank a website from their search results. My first...
1st Dec 2025
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How I Became a Spam Vector

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

1st Dec 2025
There are several reasons for Google to downrank a website from their search results. My first experience with downranking was on my very first day at a job in 2011. The day I walked into the building, Google released their first Panda update. My new employer, being a "content...
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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...
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Fluid Simulation Pendant [Hardware] Wearable real-time FLIP device
13th Jan 2025
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Fluid Simulation Pendant

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

13th Jan 2025
[Hardware] Wearable real-time FLIP device
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Looking for vulnerabilities is the last thing I do There’s a common misconception among developers that my job, as a (application) Security Engineer,...
20th Feb 2026
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Looking for vulnerabilities is the last thing I do

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

20th Feb 2026
There’s a common misconception among developers that my job, as a (application) Security Engineer, is to just search for security bugs in their code. They may well have seen junior security engineers doing this kind of thing. But, although this can be useful (and is part of the...
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Momentum and mean reversion might just be volatility bias The Economist just published an article called The best, the worst and the ugly. By looking at...
13th Jan 2013
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Momentum and mean reversion might just be volatility bias

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

13th Jan 2013
The Economist just published an article called The best, the worst and the ugly. By looking at historical performance for mutual funds, they find strong support for momentum and mean reversion. Picking the best or the worst fund over the previous five years gives great returns...
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Health and fitness data Since the start of this new year I am working out harder than the previous months. I have set some...
15th Jan 2024
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Health and fitness data

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

15th Jan 2024
Since the start of this new year I am working out harder than the previous months. I have set some goals for myself and have taken on a training scheme incorporating running, cycling and swimming. As I sift through the growing mountain of workout data, I find myself questioning:...
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Practical? Common Lisp on the JVM: A quick intro to ABCL for modern web apps In a ridiculous attempt to prove an internet wrong about the practicality of Lisp (Common Lisp...
5th Aug 2021
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Practical? Common Lisp on the JVM: A quick intro to ABCL for modern web apps

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

5th Aug 2021
In a ridiculous attempt to prove an internet wrong about the practicality of Lisp (Common Lisp specifically), I tried to get a simple (but realistic) web app running. After four days and a patch to ABCL I got something working. The code I had in mind would look something like...
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My Theme for 2026 I’m starting off 2026 with a post that likely won’t interest you at all. I’m only sharing it to 1)...
1st Jan 2026
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My Theme for 2026

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

1st Jan 2026
I’m starting off 2026 with a post that likely won’t interest you at all. I’m only sharing it to 1) think it through and 2) make myself accountable. It’s inspired by this video: Among other things, Pink suggests adopting a one-word theme for the year: “Not a sentence. Not a...
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A single-node Kubernetes cluster without virtualization or a container registry This post is a recipe for setting up a minimal Kubernetes cluster on Fedora without requiring...
25th Jul 2020
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A single-node Kubernetes cluster without virtualization or a container registry

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

25th Jul 2020
This post is a recipe for setting up a minimal Kubernetes cluster on Fedora without requiring virtualization or a container registry. These two features make the system cloud-agnostic and the cluster entirely self-contained. The post will end with us running a simple Flask...
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Cutting Cloud Costs Like many, I faced soaring cloud service costs for my clients, prompting a wake-up call. To stay...
4th Apr 2023
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Cutting Cloud Costs

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

4th Apr 2023
Like many, I faced soaring cloud service costs for my clients, prompting a wake-up call. To stay afloat, it's essential to incorporate software optimisation as a strategy for managing cloud expenses. Join me as I share how I managed to save up to 90% on cloud costs through...
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Being a volunteer in Amsterdam-Zuidoost After realising how lucky I am as an healthy, well educated, young man with a solid income, I wanted...
20th Nov 2016
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Being a volunteer in Amsterdam-Zuidoost

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

20th Nov 2016
After realising how lucky I am as an healthy, well educated, young man with a solid income, I wanted to do something for other people as volunteer. It just so happens to be that two years ago I received a flyer in my mailbox from the local community center: they were looking for...
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Game Engine Black Books I am almost done with the first volume of what I hope will become a serie called "Game Engine Black...
7th Aug 2014
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Game Engine Black Books

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

7th Aug 2014
I am almost done with the first volume of what I hope will become a serie called "Game Engine Black Book". Each book would take further what I tried to do with my articles: Explain simply, yet in great details, a legendary game engine. For the first one I decided to go with...
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The Eli Schiff Problem Fellow members of The International Cabal to Destroy Design, I write you today because we stand atop...
19th May 2016
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The Eli Schiff Problem

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

19th May 2016
Fellow members of The International Cabal to Destroy Design, I write you today because we stand atop a precipice, faced with the threat of annihilation. The rogue Eli Schiff has been systematically exposing our wicked deeds in an attempt to derail the Modern Minimalist plot. I’m...
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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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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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Verge interview at CES 2013 2025 Note - probably the last video of me without a beard!
9th Jan 2013
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Verge interview at CES 2013

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

9th Jan 2013
2025 Note - probably the last video of me without a beard!
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The day I sold my car This week I sold my car, I now no longer own one. I look back at my years of owning a sports car, if...
12th Feb 2020
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The day I sold my car

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

12th Feb 2020
This week I sold my car, I now no longer own one. I look back at my years of owning a sports car, if you're looking for a reason to buy one you should check this out.
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Disable Auto-Update How is it possible that a feature I use every day, in an app I rely on daily, entirely offline, just...
1st May 2026
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Disable Auto-Update

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

1st May 2026
How is it possible that a feature I use every day, in an app I rely on daily, entirely offline, just disappeared from my phone? I use a fitness app. My metrics, such as steps, workout routines, heart rate, are collected from a wearable device like a smartwatch and sent to the app...
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2025-07-06 secret cellular phone numbers A long time ago I wrote about secret government telephone numbers, and before that, secret military...
6th Jul 2025
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2025-07-06 secret cellular phone numbers

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

6th Jul 2025
A long time ago I wrote about secret government telephone numbers, and before that, secret military telephone buttons. I suppose this is becoming a series. To be clear, the "secret" here is a joke, but more charitably I could say that it refers to obscurity rather than any real...
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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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Why I went back to using a ThinkPad from 2012 This post is inspired by this article from the Low-tech Magazine. I highly recommend giving that a...
9th Jan 2022
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Why I went back to using a ThinkPad from 2012

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

9th Jan 2022
This post is inspired by this article from the Low-tech Magazine. I highly recommend giving that a read as well! Over my lifetime, I’ve used a bunch of different computers, mainly due to new ideas and requirements popping into my mind every time I’m content with my current setup....
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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 Applied Cartography [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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Visual representation of hard drives and their temperature If you build a NAS with many drives, it may be of interest to you which drives get hot and where...
12th Sep 2009
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Visual representation of hard drives and their temperature

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

12th Sep 2009
If you build a NAS with many drives, it may be of interest to you which drives get hot and where they are located in the chassis. My Norco 4020 case has twenty drives in RAID 6, plus two operating system drives in RAID 1. I wrote a script that shows me the temperature of each...
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Qualcomm's buying Arduino – what it means for makers Qualcomm's buying Arduino – what it means for makers Qualcomm just announced they're...
7th Oct 2025
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Qualcomm's buying Arduino – what it means for makers

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

7th Oct 2025
Qualcomm's buying Arduino – what it means for makers Qualcomm just announced they're acquiring Arduino, the company that introduced a whole generation of tinkerers to microcontrollers and embedded electronics. The Uno R3 was the first microcontroller board I owned....
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Talking Tines [Concept] Tuning forks that talk
29th Jun 2024
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Talking Tines

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

29th Jun 2024
[Concept] Tuning forks that talk
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The Talk Show Timeline I really enjoy John Gruber’s podcast The Talk Show. However, I’ve noticed that it’s been a while...
8th Sep 2026
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The Talk Show Timeline

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

8th Sep 2026
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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Get out of the token path What would you build if you couldn't build AI?
5th Jun 2026
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Get out of the token path

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

5th Jun 2026
What would you build if you couldn't build AI?
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2024-09-08 private lines I have been meaning, for some time, to write about common carrier switching arrangements (CCSAs)....
8th Sep 2024
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2024-09-08 private lines

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

8th Sep 2024
I have been meaning, for some time, to write about common carrier switching arrangements (CCSAs). These could be considered an early form of products like "virtual private ethernet:" a private telephone network that was served by the same switching machines that handled the...
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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"
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Being John Malkovich I had held off on watching Being John Malkovich for a while, mostly because I think I had a pretty...
1st Feb 2025
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Being John Malkovich

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

1st Feb 2025
I had held off on watching Being John Malkovich for a while, mostly because I think I had a pretty good idea of what it was and, while I wanted to watch it at some point, it never felt particularly urgent. (The vision in my head was a sort of Bosch painting filled with John...
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There is Definitely a Grid Grids are the best thing to ever happen to graphic design. They form a rational basis for organizing...
10th Jun 2016
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There is Definitely a Grid

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

10th Jun 2016
Grids are the best thing to ever happen to graphic design. They form a rational basis for organizing information. They support the harmonious distribution of elements and visual weight. We don’t design things with grids because it’s easy, or because everyone else is doing it....
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The Caldera: a sleek split and wireless keyboard I designed my own keyboard and it’s freely available! I’m calling it the Caldera, and it’s basically...
20th Jul 2024
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The Caldera: a sleek split and wireless keyboard

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

20th Jul 2024
I designed my own keyboard and it’s freely available! I’m calling it the Caldera, and it’s basically my dream wireless split keyboard. I’ve been using it for months, and I love it. Video overview If you’re a visual person, I made a fun little video showcasing the...
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On Psychedelics I wrote - Hello :name-retracted:! Last night, I watched the movie Her. It was a fascinating movie on...
4th Aug 2018
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On Psychedelics

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

4th Aug 2018
I wrote - Hello :name-retracted:! Last night, I watched the movie Her. It was a fascinating movie on emotions and AI. It was one of its kind…
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Some spoiler free thoughts about the first episode of “Jet Lag: The Game” season 13 Tom Scott is playing to win. The intro music made me wonder if the Wendover team watch...
5th Mar 2025
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Some spoiler free thoughts about the first episode of “Jet Lag: The Game” season 13

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

5th Mar 2025
Tom Scott is playing to win. The intro music made me wonder if the Wendover team watch c90dventures. At one point in the episode, Adam breaks out some Scatman. This is going to be a great season.
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Watchduino - first video 2025 Note - I created the first prototype of Pebble by myself in 2008. It was powered by an ATmega...
8th Jun 2008
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Watchduino - first video

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

8th Jun 2008
2025 Note - I created the first prototype of Pebble by myself in 2008. It was powered by an ATmega (Arduino) and used a display from a Nokia…
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Autonomous Standing Desk and Chair Review Autonomous was nice enough to send me one of both their Smart Desk Pro standing desks and ErgoChair...
14th Nov 2023
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Autonomous Standing Desk and Chair Review

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

14th Nov 2023
Autonomous was nice enough to send me one of both their Smart Desk Pro standing desks and ErgoChair Pro chairs in exchange for posting about them on Twitter, and I wanted to cover them in more detail on my blog as well so I could give my full thoughts on them for anyone in the...
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Humanities Crash Course Week 5: Eudaemonia In week 5 of my humanities crash course, I read Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and Poetics. I also...
2nd Feb 2025
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Humanities Crash Course Week 5: Eudaemonia

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

2nd Feb 2025
In week 5 of my humanities crash course, I read Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and Poetics. I also listened to more Bach, looked at Italian Baroque sculpture, and watched a classic – if somewhat boring – movie. Getting through it despite the difficulties was part of the...
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The T-34/2 keyboard layout The T-34/2 layout. QMK Heatmap Generator, with all layers and combos. It’s been 6 months since my...
28th Aug 2022
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The T-34/2 keyboard layout

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

28th Aug 2022
The T-34/2 layout. QMK Heatmap Generator, with all layers and combos. It’s been 6 months since my last update on the T-34 keyboard layout, and I’ve made some changes I’d like to document here. As seen in the heatmap above, the layout seems quite decent. There’s still an issue...
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Smile Like Zuck Smile Like Zuck Sometimes I'm photographed and I'm not sure how to smile. It's hard! There's a lot...
10th Mar 2025
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Smile Like Zuck

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

10th Mar 2025
Smile Like Zuck Sometimes I'm photographed and I'm not sure how to smile. It's hard! There's a lot that you have to do with your mouth and eyes. Last week I decided to improve at this - and who better to learn from than Mark Zuckerberg? Read the full post on my blog! Here's a...
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Setting up a Jabber instant messaging server |_http-title: Site doesn't have a title (text/html;... I wanted to see how dificult it is to setup an instant messaging server based on open source...
5th Feb 2011
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Setting up a Jabber instant messaging server |_http-title: Site doesn't have a title (text/html; charset=utf-8).

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

5th Feb 2011
I wanted to see how dificult it is to setup an instant messaging server based on open source software. Now I know that it is very easy, unless you are stubborn and do things your own way. In this example, I'm setting up a small IM server that is only for internal company use, but...
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Using a budget Android as main smartphone Every now and then, I switch phones to keep track of mobile developments. As professional app and...
8th Oct 2018
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Using a budget Android as main smartphone

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

8th Oct 2018
Every now and then, I switch phones to keep track of mobile developments. As professional app and web developer, I need to know how different devices work in real life. This time I used a budget Android smartphone, making me curious how it would compare to an expensive iPhone....
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Corporate Legibility for Software Engineers Corporate legibility is the art of making tasks, and their outcomes, easier to understand for those...
13th Dec 2022
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Corporate Legibility for Software Engineers

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

13th Dec 2022
Corporate legibility is the art of making tasks, and their outcomes, easier to understand for those not directly involved. I’ll help you understand why this is an important thing to be aware of and how to use it to help your career.
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Rescuing photos from a crashed iMac This week I attempted to recover two decades of personal photo history from a crashed iMac.
14th Oct 2020
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Rescuing photos from a crashed iMac

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

14th Oct 2020
This week I attempted to recover two decades of personal photo history from a crashed iMac.
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Designing a multi dimensional capacity queue Dealing with a capacity queue is challenging, but if you take the time to model it right it is...
1st Dec 2020
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Designing a multi dimensional capacity queue

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

1st Dec 2020
Dealing with a capacity queue is challenging, but if you take the time to model it right it is possible to create a performant and reliable system.
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The History of R2E and the Micral The second personal computer
5th May 2025
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The History of R2E and the Micral

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

5th May 2025
The second personal computer
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How We Configure Our Rails Local CI Continuous integration is a great thing, and having tests and security checks run before every...
9th Jan 2026
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How We Configure Our Rails Local CI

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

9th Jan 2026
Continuous integration is a great thing, and having tests and security checks run before every deploy is also a great thing. But if you’re a developer who has been shipping production code for more than a week, you definitely understand how much it can all feel like a house of...
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Bomb Squad Peripherals' BLOWGUN It Could Have Been a Lot Worse - His Data is BLOWGUN Protected!
19th Jun 2024
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Bomb Squad Peripherals' BLOWGUN

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

19th Jun 2024
It Could Have Been a Lot Worse - His Data is BLOWGUN Protected!
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Looper In retrospect, almost a proto-Blade Runner 2049. I thought the acting and general plot was kinda...
3rd Aug 2020
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Looper

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

3rd Aug 2020
In retrospect, almost a proto-Blade Runner 2049. I thought the acting and general plot was kinda milquetoast but the underlying setting was a hair above neat, and the depiction of an unevenly distributed future is probably one of the best realizations of science fiction I’ve ever...
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Film in the Fridge I’ve got a bunch of old film I need to get through. Stored properly – I shouldn’t need to add too...
7th May 2026
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Film in the Fridge

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in technology

7th May 2026
I’ve got a bunch of old film I need to get through. Stored properly – I shouldn’t need to add too many additional stops.I think this may be the golden age. Enjoy while you can.
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Hacking Chess.com and Accessing 50 Million Customer Records
16th Dec 2020
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Hacking Chess.com and Accessing 50 Million Customer Records

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

16th Dec 2020
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The day I killed my LAN Today I called my provider to quit my office's ADSL internet subscription, I don't need it anymore....
30th Jul 2017
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The day I killed my LAN

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

30th Jul 2017
Today I called my provider to quit my office's ADSL internet subscription, I don't need it anymore. I have turned off my local area network and switched my workflow onto mobile internet only. The simplicity and savings actually surprised me so much, that I made blog post for it....
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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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Gosling’s Old Rum Virginia has draconian liquor laws, which means I have to get interesting bottles shipped from...
3rd Feb 2024
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Gosling’s Old Rum

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

3rd Feb 2024
Virginia has draconian liquor laws, which means I have to get interesting bottles shipped from [REDACTED], a site on which I am very prone to judging a book by its cover; every month I'll end up purchasing a bottle of something purely because it looks interesting and I can...
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We moved away from the city When me and my girlfriend Veronica moved to Linköping to study at the University the plan was never...
18th Oct 2019
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We moved away from the city

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

18th Oct 2019
When me and my girlfriend Veronica moved to Linköping to study at the University the plan was never to stay there permanently. We just moved there to study but the longterm plan, if you can have one at that stage, was always to move back to the north of Sweden where we came...
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Understanding PLONK
22nd Sep 2019
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Understanding PLONK

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

22nd Sep 2019
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Cribsheet A follow-up to Expecting Better focusing on the first few years of parenthood and what some...
2nd Apr 2024
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Cribsheet

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

2nd Apr 2024
A follow-up to Expecting Better focusing on the first few years of parenthood and what some combination of data, studies, and rational rigor tells us about common crossroads (breastfeeding vs. formula, daycare vs. nanny, television vs. no television, et cetera.)
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dEngine Source Code Released More...
28th Apr 2011
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dEngine Source Code Released

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

28th Apr 2011
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Benchmarking cheap SSDs for fun, no profit (be warned) The price of Solid-state drives (SSDs) has dropped significantly over the last few years. It's now...
26th Mar 2023
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Benchmarking cheap SSDs for fun, no profit (be warned)

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

26th Mar 2023
The price of Solid-state drives (SSDs) has dropped significantly over the last few years. It's now possible to buy a 1TB solid-state drive for less than €60. However, at such low price points, there is a catch. Although cheap SSDs do perform fine regarding reads, sustained write...
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BlackHat/DEFCON 2011 talk: Breaking out of KVM I’ve posted the final slides from my talk this year at DEFCON and Black Hat, on breaking out of the...
8th Aug 2011
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BlackHat/DEFCON 2011 talk: Breaking out of KVM

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

8th Aug 2011
I’ve posted the final slides from my talk this year at DEFCON and Black Hat, on breaking out of the KVM Kernel Virtual Machine on Linux. Virtunoid: Breaking out of KVM from Nelson Elhage [Edited 2011-08-11] The code is now available. It should be fairly well-commented, and...
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BatteryPro available on Apple.com! Good news, BatteryPro is now available worldwide online at Apple! This makes it much easier and less...
18th Oct 2017
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BatteryPro available on Apple.com!

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

18th Oct 2017
Good news, BatteryPro is now available worldwide online at Apple! This makes it much easier and less expensive for customers outside the USA to pick one up. And we couldn't be more humbled and proud - it goes to show that when you design a product you really want for yourself,...
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Quality vs quantity in the age of AI Over the last four months I’ve increased my use of AI for web dev work pretty dramatically. I use it...
27th Apr 2026
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Quality vs quantity in the age of AI

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

27th Apr 2026
Over the last four months I’ve increased my use of AI for web dev work pretty dramatically. I use it every day at work, as do most of my coworkers. I don’t think it’s disputed anymore that AI-assisted development can save a lot of time and effort. The question is, what do we do...
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Improving web application security by implementing database security Security is about defense-in-depth. It bogles my mind why it is so difficult to implement...
17th May 2012
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Improving web application security by implementing database security

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

17th May 2012
Security is about defense-in-depth. It bogles my mind why it is so difficult to implement defense-in-depth security in web applications. 99.9% of applications use a single database account, with root-like privileges. Easiest for the developer of course, and the database is just a...
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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...
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Reading List 10/04/2025 Boeing’s 737 replacement, parking lot investments, a deflected hurricane, opinions on nuclear power,...
4th Oct 2025
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Reading List 10/04/2025

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

4th Oct 2025
Boeing’s 737 replacement, parking lot investments, a deflected hurricane, opinions on nuclear power, and more.
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Test suites as classifiers Suppose we have some codebase we’re considering applying some patch to, and which has a robust and...
1st Mar 2020
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Test suites as classifiers

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

1st Mar 2020
Suppose we have some codebase we’re considering applying some patch to, and which has a robust and maintained test suite. Considering the patch, we may ask, is this patch acceptable to apply and deploy. By this we mean to ask if the patch breaks any important functionality,...
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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 Writing [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”...
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Disking Banana Go Bananas
1st Aug 2025
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Disking Banana

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

1st Aug 2025
Go Bananas
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Enjoy a festival without alcohol Last weekend me and my brother went to Rock Werchter, a multi-day, music festival in Belgium. Over...
9th Jul 2018
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Enjoy a festival without alcohol

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

9th Jul 2018
Last weekend me and my brother went to Rock Werchter, a multi-day, music festival in Belgium. Over 140 thousand visitors enjoy world famous artists like Pearl Jam, Nick Cave, Artic Monkeys, Noel Gallagher, The Killers and the Queens of the Stone Age. This year I didn't drink...
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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...
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The Triangle of Harm
16th Jul 2017
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The Triangle of Harm

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

16th Jul 2017
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Hannah and her Sisters I came in with high hopes: I like Allen's ouevre and this was supposed to be one of his best.
2nd Sep 2020
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Hannah and her Sisters

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

2nd Sep 2020
I came in with high hopes: I like Allen's ouevre and this was supposed to be one of his best.
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How the UK is Weakening Safety Worldwide
23rd Feb 2025
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How the UK is Weakening Safety Worldwide

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

23rd Feb 2025
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Harpoom: of course the Apple Network Server can be hacked into running Doom a $10,000+ Apple server running IBM AIX. Of course you can. Well, you can now. Now, let's go ahead...
1st Jun 2025
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Harpoom: of course the Apple Network Server can be hacked into running Doom

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

1st Jun 2025
a $10,000+ Apple server running IBM AIX. Of course you can. Well, you can now. Now, let's go ahead and get the grumbling out of the way. No, the ANS is not running Linux or NetBSD. No, this is not a backport of NCommander's AIX Doom, because that runs on AIX 4.3. The Apple...
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Writing a simple JSON parser Writing a JSON parser is one of the easiest ways to get familiar with parsing techniques. The format...
6th May 2018
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Writing a simple JSON parser

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

6th May 2018
Writing a JSON parser is one of the easiest ways to get familiar with parsing techniques. The format is extremely simple. It's defined recursively so you get a slight challenge compared to, say, parsing Brainfuck; and you probably already use JSON. Aside from that last point,...
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Cable Length Measurement with an HP 8007B Pulse Generator MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [...
1st Apr 2023
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Cable Length Measurement with an HP 8007B Pulse Generator

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

1st Apr 2023
MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [ ['$', '$'], ["\\(", "\\)"] ], displayMath: [ ['$$', '$$'], ["\\[", "\\]"] ], processEscapes: true, skipTags: ['script', 'noscript', 'style', 'textarea', 'pre',...
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Dispatches from the farm upstate Middle-aged computer expert opts to escape civilization, offers dubious life advice.
3rd Aug 2024
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Dispatches from the farm upstate

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

3rd Aug 2024
Middle-aged computer expert opts to escape civilization, offers dubious life advice.
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Towards solving Ultimate Tic Tac Toe Summary: Read about my efforts to solve the game of Ultimate Tic Tac Toe. It’s been a fun journey...
15th Jul 2020
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Towards solving Ultimate Tic Tac Toe

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

15th Jul 2020
Summary: Read about my efforts to solve the game of Ultimate Tic Tac Toe. It’s been a fun journey into interesting algorithms and high-performance parallel programming in Rust. Backstory Starting around the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdown, I’ve gotten myself deeply nerdsniped...
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I made a little audio speed calculator I was recently listening to an 8-hour-and-51-minute audiobook, and wanted to know how much time I’d...
3rd Dec 2025
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I made a little audio speed calculator

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

3rd Dec 2025
I was recently listening to an 8-hour-and-51-minute audiobook, and wanted to know how much time I’d save if I listened to it on 1.5× speed. This math is easy enough; divide 8 hours and 51 minutes by 1.5 to get the new duration: 5 hours and 54 minutes. But I also wanted to: See...
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DIY cloud gaming setup with VFIO, Parsec and AMD This is a follow-up to my previous post where I covered the VFIO setup in general. For many people...
7th Sep 2021
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DIY cloud gaming setup with VFIO, Parsec and AMD

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

7th Sep 2021
This is a follow-up to my previous post where I covered the VFIO setup in general. For many people that would have been good enough, but my goal with this setup was to have a powerful gaming setup that I could access from my living room PC with 20 meters of Ethernet cables...
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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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Puzzling out climate change Accenture Fellow Shreyaa Raghavan applies machine learning and optimization methods to explore ways...
10th Feb 2025
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Puzzling out climate change

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

10th Feb 2025
Accenture Fellow Shreyaa Raghavan applies machine learning and optimization methods to explore ways to reduce transportation sector emissions.
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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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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 Raspberry Pi 5 is no match for a tini-mini-micro PC I've always been fond of the idea of the Raspberry Pi. An energy efficient, small, cheap but capable...
16th Jun 2024
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The Raspberry Pi 5 is no match for a tini-mini-micro PC

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

16th Jun 2024
I've always been fond of the idea of the Raspberry Pi. An energy efficient, small, cheap but capable computer. An ideal home server. Until the Pi 4, the Pi was not that capable, and only with the relatively recent Pi 5 (fall 2023) do I feel the Pi is OK performance wise, although...
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The web is changing, and we are not going back Whenever I saw someone type a natural language query into Google, it made me cringe. "It's not a...
1st Jun 2026
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The web is changing, and we are not going back

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

1st Jun 2026
Whenever I saw someone type a natural language query into Google, it made me cringe. "It's not a person," I would say. "Type like you're talking to a machine." This was especially true for programmers and it was before AI took over everything. Instead of "how do I write a...
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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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The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon
5th Jul 2025
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The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon

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

5th Jul 2025
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Et Tu, Aldi? It was the day that I stopped forever my weekly visit to Kroger. The COVID-19 epidemic was underway,...
5th Nov 2025
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Et Tu, Aldi?

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

5th Nov 2025
It was the day that I stopped forever my weekly visit to Kroger. The COVID-19 epidemic was underway, and we were advised to stay away from each other. It was cold, and the forecast was that an ice storm would hit about sundown (made an hour earlier each year for no good reason by...
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Better Laptop This post is a quick rundown of assembling my new Framework 13 laptop, why I chose this brand and...
9th Feb 2025
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Better Laptop

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

9th Feb 2025
This post is a quick rundown of assembling my new Framework 13 laptop, why I chose this brand and what's next.
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Does AI exacerbate English-language inequality? It’s an empirical question!
2nd Oct 2026
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Does AI exacerbate English-language inequality?

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

2nd Oct 2026
It’s an empirical question!
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What is RSS?
26th Mar 2025
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What is RSS?

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26th Mar 2025
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USA 250 This auspicious 250th Independence Day, I find myself thinking of what Om wrote in iAMerican when he...
5th Jul 2026
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USA 250

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

5th Jul 2026
This auspicious 250th Independence Day, I find myself thinking of what Om wrote in iAMerican when he became a US citizen in 2013. On a globe, America is a landmass, a country. In an immigrant’s heart it is a belief that future is almost always better. It may not be perfect and it...
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How I Use Alfred to Search My Obsidian Notes Faster (with Spotlight!) In this post, I’ll show you how I integrated Obsidian into Alfred so I can search my vault from...
22nd Mar 2023
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How I Use Alfred to Search My Obsidian Notes Faster (with Spotlight!)

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

22nd Mar 2023
In this post, I’ll show you how I integrated Obsidian into Alfred so I can search my vault from anywhere on my Mac. I just open Alfred, type “note” followed by my query, and see my search results. Hit enter and the correct note opens in Obsidian. Easy and quick!
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From web developer to database developer in 10 years Last month I completed my first year at EnterpriseDB. I'm on the team that built and...
15th Feb 2025
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From web developer to database developer in 10 years

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

15th Feb 2025
Last month I completed my first year at EnterpriseDB. I'm on the team that built and maintains pglogical and who, over the years, contributed a good chunk of the logical replication functionality that exists in community Postgres. Most of my work, our work, is in C and Rust with...
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We’re Shutting Down Yay.Boo and Ponder Update 12/03/2025: Yay.Boo is staying alive! 🙌 Keep your eyes peeled to Yay.Boo for updates. We...
3rd Nov 2025
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We’re Shutting Down Yay.Boo and Ponder

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

3rd Nov 2025
Update 12/03/2025: Yay.Boo is staying alive! 🙌 Keep your eyes peeled to Yay.Boo for updates. We have built a lot of good products here at Good Enough. Whether you’re sharing an inbox with your team or avoiding social media with a blog, we’ve got you covered. Unfortunately,...
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Speeding up Go's builtin JSON encoder up to 55% for large arrays of objects This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
3rd Mar 2022
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Speeding up Go's builtin JSON encoder up to 55% for large arrays of objects

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3rd Mar 2022
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Protecting VMware ESXi In response to an incident on a server, I detected a possible security breach. The affected machine...
30th Aug 2021
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Protecting VMware ESXi

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

30th Aug 2021
In response to an incident on a server, I detected a possible security breach. The affected machine ran VMware ESXi, a bare metal hypervisor used to run virtual private servers. In standalone mode, a web based management console offers full control over the infrastructure, posing...
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Functional programming is the libertarianism of software engineering This is a pretty dumb post, in which I argue that functional programming has a lot of the bad parts...
10th Jan 2017
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Functional programming is the libertarianism of software engineering

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

10th Jan 2017
This is a pretty dumb post, in which I argue that functional programming has a lot of the bad parts of libertarianism and a lot of the good parts: Both ideologies strive to eliminate [the] state.
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Trying out open weights LLM-s on hardware that I can actually afford Seize the means of code production!
1st Sep 2026
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Trying out open weights LLM-s on hardware that I can actually afford

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1st Sep 2026
Seize the means of code production!
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Hackers Used Meta’s AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts The Instagram accounts for the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Space...
1st Jun 2026
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Hackers Used Meta’s AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts

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

1st Jun 2026
The Instagram accounts for the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Space Force were briefly defaced with pro-Iranian images and messages over the weekend, after instructions began circulating on Telegram showing how to trick Meta’s “AI support assistant”...
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Being a Bridge Person How lowering your masks can ripple outward, changing not just individuals, but entire communities.
15th Oct 2024
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Being a Bridge Person

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

15th Oct 2024
How lowering your masks can ripple outward, changing not just individuals, but entire communities.
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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

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3rd Apr 2024
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The Godfather It has taken me far too long to watch The Godfather, and having finished it I find myself slightly...
6th Feb 2023
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The Godfather

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Feb 2023
It has taken me far too long to watch The Godfather, and having finished it I find myself slightly deflated — because it is a tremendous movie, worthy of its status in both the American and cinematic anons, and every line and meme which has etched itself into the collective...
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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.
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Estimating Logarithms
21st May 2025
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Estimating Logarithms

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

21st May 2025
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Administering Kubernetes is hard Kubernetes is easy to use after some exposure; it's pretty convenient too. But it is super hard to...
30th Sep 2019
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Administering Kubernetes is hard

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

30th Sep 2019
Kubernetes is easy to use after some exposure; it's pretty convenient too. But it is super hard to set up. eksctl is a good tool for folks who don't want to spend hours/days/weeks debugging VPC configuration in 1000s of lines of CloudFormation. None of the other tools seem to be...
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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 Applied Cartography [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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TIL: Tiptap Excerpt Extension with Rails While building Pika’s Stream of posts layout, we had need to add the capability to manage excerpts...
16th Jan 2025
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TIL: Tiptap Excerpt Extension with Rails

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

16th Jan 2025
While building Pika’s Stream of posts layout, we had need to add the capability to manage excerpts in the Pika editor. These excerpts would be used to show a small portion of your post in a post stream while offering a “continue reading” link for readers to click to read the rest...
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Geniune Love and Infatuation After a long time, I read something so meaningful on reddit. How do you distinguish genuine love for...
10th Jan 2019
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Geniune Love and Infatuation

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10th Jan 2019
After a long time, I read something so meaningful on reddit. How do you distinguish genuine love for someone from infatuation? was the…
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The MANIAC One third of the way through The MANIAC, I found myself wondering why this book was not more...
2nd Nov 2024
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The MANIAC

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

2nd Nov 2024
One third of the way through The MANIAC, I found myself wondering why this book was not more popular: it seemed to be a perfect storm of formalism and postmodernism (it being told in a fugue-like oral history), scientistic reckoning (suddenly in vogue thanks to oppenheimer),...
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Study shows how a common fertilizer ingredient benefits plants The findings could enable new ways to increase plants’ resilience to UV stress and enhance seedling...
7th Jul 2025
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Study shows how a common fertilizer ingredient benefits plants

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7th Jul 2025
The findings could enable new ways to increase plants’ resilience to UV stress and enhance seedling growth.
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It’s not just an IDE: building the developer cloud is hard
9th Aug 2023
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It’s not just an IDE: building the developer cloud is hard

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9th Aug 2023
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Easy setup of a static site on Amazon S3 with SSL I’ve been hosting my site on Amazon S3 for a while now but I never activated SSL for it. I just...
3rd Apr 2019
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Easy setup of a static site on Amazon S3 with SSL

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

3rd Apr 2019
I’ve been hosting my site on Amazon S3 for a while now but I never activated SSL for it. I just never got around to it, probably the usual procrastination. When I had to setup a new site for another project I chose to host on Amazon as well. Although there are many other free...
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Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later
22nd Nov 2019
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Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later

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

22nd Nov 2019
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The T-34 keyboard layout A couple of months ago I started looking into ergonomical keyboards; mainly split keyboards with...
3rd Jun 2021
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The T-34 keyboard layout

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

3rd Jun 2021
A couple of months ago I started looking into ergonomical keyboards; mainly split keyboards with much fewer keys, like the 36-key Gergoplex and the 44-key Kyria. I may write another post about the reasons why, but long story short I started getting pain in my thumbs, fingers,...
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SQLite in Go, with and without cgo This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
12th May 2022
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SQLite in Go, with and without cgo

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12th May 2022
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2023-09-03 plastic money You will sometimes hear someone say, in a loose conceptual sense, that credit cards have money in...
3rd Sep 2023
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2023-09-03 plastic money

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

3rd Sep 2023
You will sometimes hear someone say, in a loose conceptual sense, that credit cards have money in them. Of course we know that that isn't the case; our modern plastic card payment network relies on online transactions where the balance tracking and authorization decisions happen...
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Apple GPU drivers now in Asahi Linux We’re excited to announce our first Apple GPU driver release! We’ve been working hard over the past...
7th Dec 2022
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Apple GPU drivers now in Asahi Linux

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

7th Dec 2022
We’re excited to announce our first Apple GPU driver release! We’ve been working hard over the past two years to bring this new driver to everyone, and we’re really proud to finally be here. This is still an alpha driver, but it’s already good enough to run a smooth desktop...
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Passing the reins on Panfrost Today is my last day at Collabora and my last day leading the Panfrost driver. It’s been a wild...
10th Apr 2023
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Passing the reins on Panfrost

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

10th Apr 2023
Today is my last day at Collabora and my last day leading the Panfrost driver. It’s been a wild ride. In 2017, I began work on the chai driver for Mali T (Midgard). chai would later be merged into Lyude Paul’s and Connor Abbott’s BiOpenly project for Mali G (Bifrost) to form...
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2026-05-24 What is text? This blog post reminds me of the time 10 years ago when I tried to do away with...
24th May 2026
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2026-05-24

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

24th May 2026
What is text? This blog post reminds me of the time 10 years ago when I tried to do away with Linux's desktop environment because it seemed overly complex and hard to wrap my head around. I had a lot of trouble running wifi without the desktop environment, and it left me quite...
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Scala Data Pipelines for Music Recommendations Chris Johnson‘s presentation from Data Day Texas:
13th Jan 2015
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Scala Data Pipelines for Music Recommendations

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

13th Jan 2015
Chris Johnson‘s presentation from Data Day Texas:
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What Are You Going Through The book was good but it felt like a step back from the masterwork of The Friend; they are so...
3rd Jan 2021
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What Are You Going Through

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

3rd Jan 2021
The book was good but it felt like a step back from the masterwork of The Friend; they are so similar in structure and style but it felt a little bit like everything in this one was a few percentage points less powerful, which accumulated. The writerly citations and digressions...
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My 71 TiB ZFS NAS after 10 years and zero drive failures My 4U 71 TiB ZFS NAS built with twenty-four 4 TB drives is over 10 years old and still going...
14th Sep 2024
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My 71 TiB ZFS NAS after 10 years and zero drive failures

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

14th Sep 2024
My 4U 71 TiB ZFS NAS built with twenty-four 4 TB drives is over 10 years old and still going strong. Although now on its second motherboard and power supply, the system has yet to experience a single drive failure (knock on wood). Zero drive failures in ten years, how is that...
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GitButler is now Fair Source GitButler is now officially one of the first members of the Fair Source movement, helping to shift...
6th Aug 2024
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GitButler is now Fair Source

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6th Aug 2024
GitButler is now officially one of the first members of the Fair Source movement, helping to shift closed source to publicly available software by default.
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From error-handling to structured concurrency How should we think about error-handling in concurrent programs? In single-threaded programs, we’ve...
23rd Mar 2026
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From error-handling to structured concurrency

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

23rd Mar 2026
How should we think about error-handling in concurrent programs? In single-threaded programs, we’ve mostly converged on a standard pattern, with a diverse zoo of implementations and concrete patterns. When an error occurs, it is propagated up the stack until we find a stack frame...
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Resource Management “We had to display a lot of information at once and help them make sense of it. There are many ways...
15th Jun 2017
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Resource Management

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

15th Jun 2017
“We had to display a lot of information at once and help them make sense of it. There are many ways to do that wrong and only a few ways to do it right.” The Challenge The client came to us with a problem: They had paid for a custom tool that didn’t do what they needed. They had...
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8 Million Requests Later, We Made The SolarWinds Supply Chain Attack Look Amateur Surprise surprise, we've done it again. We've demonstrated an ability to compromise significantly...
4th Feb 2025
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8 Million Requests Later, We Made The SolarWinds Supply Chain Attack Look Amateur

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

4th Feb 2025
Surprise surprise, we've done it again. We've demonstrated an ability to compromise significantly sensitive networks, including governments, militaries, space agencies, cyber security companies, supply chains, software development systems and environments, and more. “Ugh, won’t...
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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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I have thoughts on the iPhone Air Hard to believe, but it’s been over 9 months since the current crop of iPhones came out, and I...
7th Jul 2026
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I have thoughts on the iPhone Air

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

7th Jul 2026
Hard to believe, but it’s been over 9 months since the current crop of iPhones came out, and I elected to grab the (apparently not super popular) iPhone Air, a new model of iPhone introduced for the first time. Rumor season for the new iPhones is in full swing, so it seemed like...
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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...
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Prince Of Persia Code Review On Apr 17, 2012 Jordan Mechner released the source code of Prince of Persia. I immediately took at...
14th Jun 2013
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Prince Of Persia Code Review

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

14th Jun 2013
On Apr 17, 2012 Jordan Mechner released the source code of Prince of Persia. I immediately took at look at it!
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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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AI for generating 2D animations I wanted to add some frills in Memory Hammer app1 when the user completes review of their...
26th Oct 2025
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AI for generating 2D animations

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

26th Oct 2025
I wanted to add some frills in Memory Hammer app1 when the user completes review of their flashcards. I decided to add a simple 2D animation where a brain is sulking and after being hit by the hammer (memory hammer's mascot) the brain becomes happy and jubilant. I made a simple...
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Talking tablets: what makes a great tablet? Over the past few weeks I worked with Microsoft Surface Pro X to see if it is any good, can it be...
13th Apr 2020
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Talking tablets: what makes a great tablet?

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

13th Apr 2020
Over the past few weeks I worked with Microsoft Surface Pro X to see if it is any good, can it be your main computer?
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Revisiting the Businesscard Raytracer
1st May 2020
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Revisiting the Businesscard Raytracer

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

1st May 2020
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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....
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Reverse-engineering an analog Bendix air data computer: part 4, the Mach section MathJax = { tex: { inlineMath: [['$', '$'], ['\\(', '\\)']] }, svg: { fontCache:...
11th Feb 2024
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Reverse-engineering an analog Bendix air data computer: part 4, the Mach section

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

11th Feb 2024
MathJax = { tex: { inlineMath: [['$', '$'], ['\\(', '\\)']] }, svg: { fontCache: 'global' }, chtml: { displayAlign: 'left' } }; MathJax.Hub.Config({ "HTML-CSS": { scale: 175} }); .MathJax {font-size: 1em !important} In the 1950s, many fighter...
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I made a Chrome extension to help avoid playing cheaters in chess If you google “chrome extension for cheating in chess”, you’ll find a lot of them. Cheating is so...
22nd Dec 2024
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I made a Chrome extension to help avoid playing cheaters in chess

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

22nd Dec 2024
If you google “chrome extension for cheating in chess”, you’ll find a lot of them. Cheating is so easy, it’s crazy. If you google “chrome…
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Wealth distribution in the United States Forbes recently published the Forbes 400 List for 2024, listing the 400 richest people in the United...
9th Oct 2024
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Wealth distribution in the United States

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

9th Oct 2024
Forbes recently published the Forbes 400 List for 2024, listing the 400 richest people in the United States. This inspired me to make a histogram to show the distribution of wealth in the United States. It turns out that if you put Elon Musk on the graph, almost the entire US...
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20 years of Git. Still weird, still wonderful. Twenty years ago, Git was born. How did this unlikely "information manager" take over the world?
7th Apr 2025
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20 years of Git. Still weird, still wonderful.

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

7th Apr 2025
Twenty years ago, Git was born. How did this unlikely "information manager" take over the world?
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Archive
1st Jan 2001
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Archive

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

1st Jan 2001
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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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How to play Nintendo 3DS games in 3D with XREAL XR glasses Playing Nintendo 3DS games in 3D in XR glasses looks better than it ever did on native 3DS hardware....
17th Apr 2026
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How to play Nintendo 3DS games in 3D with XREAL XR glasses

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

17th Apr 2026
Playing Nintendo 3DS games in 3D in XR glasses looks better than it ever did on native 3DS hardware. With super-sampling, the game will look quite sharp, blown up on a large private, virtual display. This is a guide describing my hardware and software setup for playing 3DS games...
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Google DNS - what to think of it? Google now provide an open DNS service. At first I was scared that they use their service to get...
3rd Dec 2009
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Google DNS - what to think of it?

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

3rd Dec 2009
Google now provide an open DNS service. At first I was scared that they use their service to get information about users. However, their privacy statement tells us that no personal identifiable information is stored for longer than 48 hours. The permanent logs do not contain such...
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The banality of surveillance Do our dull lives become worth watching?
6th Mar 2026
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The banality of surveillance

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

6th Mar 2026
Do our dull lives become worth watching?
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MIT School of Engineering faculty receive awards in winter 2026 Faculty members and researchers were honored in recognition of their scholarship, service, and...
7th May 2026
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MIT School of Engineering faculty receive awards in winter 2026

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

7th May 2026
Faculty members and researchers were honored in recognition of their scholarship, service, and overall excellence.
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John C. Dvorak has died Reports coming in of the death of John C. Dvorak, apparently passed away on Monday (July 20th) from...
23rd Jul 2026
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John C. Dvorak has died

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

23rd Jul 2026
Reports coming in of the death of John C. Dvorak, apparently passed away on Monday (July 20th) from complications of heart bypass surgery. Dvorak started in wine and moved to silicon as an early columnist at InfoWorld, one of the pillar references for this particular blog because...
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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...
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Where to use a blockchain in non-financial applications?
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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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Solving Regex Crosswords with Z3 For a while now, I’ve been fascinated by Z3 and by SMT solving more broadly. While on pat leave...
21st Oct 2025
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Solving Regex Crosswords with Z3

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21st Oct 2025
For a while now, I’ve been fascinated by Z3 and by SMT solving more broadly. While on pat leave recently, I was reminded of the existence of regular-expression crossword puzzles, and allowed myself to get nerdsniped by writing a Z3-backed solver. I expected to spend perhaps an...
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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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Google Summer of Code 2016 Report : Stingray It began 5 months ago, in February. Due to my recent interests in Image Processing, I had made few...
20th Jan 2017
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Google Summer of Code 2016 Report : Stingray

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

20th Jan 2017
It began 5 months ago, in February. Due to my recent interests in Image Processing, I had made few Pull Requests to the scikit-image library…
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I broke and fixed my Ghost blog In case you find this post after hours of google searching
16th Oct 2025
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I broke and fixed my Ghost blog

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16th Oct 2025
In case you find this post after hours of google searching
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How to setup a local or private Ubuntu Mirror Preface In this article I provide instructions on how to setup a local Ubuntu mirror using...
18th Jan 2023
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How to setup a local or private Ubuntu Mirror

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

18th Jan 2023
Preface In this article I provide instructions on how to setup a local Ubuntu mirror using debmirror. To set expectations: the mirror will work as intended and distribute packages and updates, but a do-release upgrade from one major version of Ubuntu to the next won't...
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धुआं (Dhuaan) …
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धुआं (Dhuaan)

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4th Mar 2017
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This Kenyan engineer modernizes vintage cars with a custom ECU and EFI upgrades The automotive industry’s switch from carburetion to fuel injection was one of the most effective...
1st Oct 2024
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This Kenyan engineer modernizes vintage cars with a custom ECU and EFI upgrades

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

1st Oct 2024
The automotive industry’s switch from carburetion to fuel injection was one of the most effective advancements of the 20th century. Electronic fuel injection allows for precise control over an internal combustion engine’s air-fuel mixture, which dramatically improves fuel...
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The Pulse: Bending Spoons' Acquisition Strategy In only 5 years, Hopin went from zero to a $7.7B valuation, and back to zero again. Also: Bending...
5th Aug 2026
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The Pulse: Bending Spoons' Acquisition Strategy

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

5th Aug 2026
In only 5 years, Hopin went from zero to a $7.7B valuation, and back to zero again. Also: Bending Spoons’ startup acquisition model.
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Release of PPSS - the Parallel Processing Shell Script PPSS is a shell script that processess files or other items in parallel. It is designed to make use...
3rd Jan 2009
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Release of PPSS - the Parallel Processing Shell Script

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

3rd Jan 2009
PPSS is a shell script that processess files or other items in parallel. It is designed to make use of the current multi-core CPUs. It will detect the number of available CPUs and start a thread for each CPU core.  This script is build with the goal to be very easy to use. Also,...
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Humanities Crash Course Week 44: Modernist Art Week 44 of the humanities crash course had me delving into three modernist classics by two Irish...
2nd Nov 2025
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Humanities Crash Course Week 44: Modernist Art

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

2nd Nov 2025
Week 44 of the humanities crash course had me delving into three modernist classics by two Irish authors: Samuel Beckett’s absurdist play Waiting for Godot and selections from James Joyce’s Dubliners and Ulysses. I’d long been intimidated by the latter, but enjoyed the first...
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Rewriting my Neovim config in Lua This screenshot betrays just how much productive time was wasted setting this up. I’ve got tons of...
1st Oct 2023
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Rewriting my Neovim config in Lua

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

1st Oct 2023
This screenshot betrays just how much productive time was wasted setting this up. I’ve got tons of things to do; clean the bathrooms, prototype an idea for a SaaS and ponder world peace. So naturally the procrastination took over and I rewrote my Neovim configuration in...
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Getting the Sitecom AC600 Wi-Fi adapter running on Linux TL;DR Yes it works with some modifications of the driver source. A USB Wi-Fi adapter I used with a...
1st Nov 2014
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Getting the Sitecom AC600 Wi-Fi adapter running on Linux

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

1st Nov 2014
TL;DR Yes it works with some modifications of the driver source. A USB Wi-Fi adapter I used with a Raspberry Pi broke as I dropped it on the floor, so I had to replace it. I just went to a local shop and bought the Sitecom AC600 adapter as that's what they had available (with...
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Graceful behavior at capacity Suppose we’ve got a service. We’ll gloss over the details for now, but let’s stipulate that it...
7th Aug 2023
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Graceful behavior at capacity

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7th Aug 2023
Suppose we’ve got a service. We’ll gloss over the details for now, but let’s stipulate that it accepts requests from the outside world, and takes some action in response. Maybe those requests are HTTP requests, or RPCs, or just incoming packets to be routed at the network layer....
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I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS—and You Should Too <img src="/assets\images\blog_posts\2025_01_12-rss\banner.png" alt="An image of a banner cartoon of...
15th Jan 2025
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I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS—and You Should Too

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15th Jan 2025
<img src="/assets\images\blog_posts\2025_01_12-rss\banner.png" alt="An image of a banner cartoon of the topic at ...
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Logical replication in Postgres: Basics This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
17th Jan 2025
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Logical replication in Postgres: Basics

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17th Jan 2025
This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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Part 1: Will greater access to capital spark Bahrain's economy? Many claim that a lack of capital is THE primary reason behind lackluster productivity in the...
5th Oct 2019
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Part 1: Will greater access to capital spark Bahrain's economy?

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

5th Oct 2019
Many claim that a lack of capital is THE primary reason behind lackluster productivity in the economy. Let's explore this question.
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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...
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Links #10 How to Get on a Podcast - This is a short and invaluable post for anyone who wants to be a podcast...
2nd Aug 2024
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Links #10

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

2nd Aug 2024
How to Get on a Podcast - This is a short and invaluable post for anyone who wants to be a podcast guest. It puts you in the shoes of a podcaster, showing you what they need, and how you can be a “sure thing” for them. As usual, there are no short cuts. You gotta do the work! A...
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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...
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You can’t fix a problem you don’t understand A few weeks ago, I was building a server-side API client. I had written the code and tested it in...
17th Feb 2025
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You can’t fix a problem you don’t understand

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

17th Feb 2025
A few weeks ago, I was building a server-side API client. I had written the code and tested it in isolation. Everything looked good. Unfortunately, when I included it in the main service, I started seeing errors. I decided to try asking an AI tool for suggestions. I gave it the...
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Script that shows relevant disk information I wrote a small Python script called 'showdisks' that displays relevant information about any...
1st Oct 2013
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Script that shows relevant disk information

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

1st Oct 2013
I wrote a small Python script called 'showdisks' that displays relevant information about any physical storage devices supported by hdparm. Information such as model and capacity are shown, but also controller and device path. This script only requires python and hdparm. I hope...
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Back to Training Five days of school now and things are starting to settle down a bit. The courses are pretty cool;...
4th Sep 2011
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Back to Training

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

4th Sep 2011
Five days of school now and things are starting to settle down a bit. The courses are pretty cool; we have linear algebra which is pretty interesting, we have a java course where we’re going to make a game (!) and one about structures and algorithms. Pretty promising but we’ll...
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Cake Hole Whistler Mountain Often inviting. This terrain just off the Whistler peak road can be an enticing sun-swept run of...
1st Dec 2024
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Cake Hole Whistler Mountain

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1st Dec 2024
Often inviting. This terrain just off the Whistler peak road can be an enticing sun-swept run of untouched powder.Understanding that you need to come back up the same way you go down, can make you question if it’s really worth it.Know before you go. Cake Hole by Andrew...
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A Brief History of Sega Enterprises Sega does what Nintendon't
12th Jan 2026
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A Brief History of Sega Enterprises

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12th Jan 2026
Sega does what Nintendon't
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What the heck is OCSP? The online certificate status protocol, or OCSP for short, is a way for TLS clients (like your web...
9th May 2019
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What the heck is OCSP?

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

9th May 2019
The online certificate status protocol, or OCSP for short, is a way for TLS clients (like your web browser) to check if a certificate has been revoked or not. Certificate Revocation? With asymmetrical encryption, your encryption is only as good as long as your private key remains...
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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

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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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STARKs, Part 3: Into the Weeds
21st Jul 2018
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STARKs, Part 3: Into the Weeds

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

21st Jul 2018
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