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Arduino Blog
This disturbing Halloween doll was brought to life with Bottango Halloween is popular for a lot of reasons and it is safe to say that “creative expression” is near...
8 months ago
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This disturbing Halloween doll was brought to life with Bottango

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8 months ago
Halloween is popular for a lot of reasons and it is safe to say that “creative expression” is near the top of the list. That extends beyond store-bought costumes and decorations to DIY projects. If you want an excuse to make something impractical, Halloween can provide that. And...
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Gwern.net Newsletter
June gwern.net newsletter June 2020 gwern.net newsletter with 3 new pages/essays, and links on CRISPR, population screening,...
over a year ago
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June gwern.net newsletter

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over a year ago
June 2020 gwern.net newsletter with 3 new pages/essays, and links on CRISPR, population screening, AI scaling, politics, and technological unemployment.
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Elevation Lab - Blog
Elevation Lab X Apple: GoStand for iPhone Apple contacted us to design an iPhone stand for Apple Fitness+. So we designed GoStand - Ultra...
over a year ago
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Elevation Lab X Apple: GoStand for iPhone

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

over a year ago
Apple contacted us to design an iPhone stand for Apple Fitness+. So we designed GoStand - Ultra compact, widely adjustable, works great. Highly adjustable, from upright down to 45°, for the perfect viewing angle. A hidden push-button ratcheting design makes adjusting the back...
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./techtipsy
Accidentally turning the ASRock DeskMini X300 into a semi-passively cooled PC After playing around with fan curves on my ASRock DeskMini X300 based home server, I noticed one...
over a year ago
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Accidentally turning the ASRock DeskMini X300 into a semi-passively cooled PC

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

over a year ago
After playing around with fan curves on my ASRock DeskMini X300 based home server, I noticed one interesting thing. At least it was interesting to me. Background I had one goal: to try to see if I could turn it into a semi-passive PC by only turning the fan on when the PC was...
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Louwrentius
Why the iPad will be a breakthrough in human computing The fact is that computers aren't made for humans. Computers are just made, and humans have to...
over a year ago
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Why the iPad will be a breakthrough in human computing

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over a year ago
The fact is that computers aren't made for humans. Computers are just made, and humans have to adjust to them. The problem is that most people that are not into technology just don't understand how computers work. Should I single click of double click? Click left or right? The...
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Vitalik Buterin's...
In Defense of Bitcoin Maximalism
over a year ago
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In Defense of Bitcoin Maximalism

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

over a year ago
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Good Enough
TIL: Rails Testing I had to figure out how to run browser-based tests in Rails again. In part that meant working around...
over a year ago
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TIL: Rails Testing

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over a year ago
I had to figure out how to run browser-based tests in Rails again. In part that meant working around my lack of Chrome. Rails System Tests with Safari. I also had some problems with Rails Turbo Drive taking over EVERYTHING, which required me to figure out how to deal with a Rails...
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Willem's Blog
Podcast Downloader Tired of being constantly nudged toward "more relevant content", I built a script to break free from...
5 months ago
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Podcast Downloader

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5 months ago
Tired of being constantly nudged toward "more relevant content", I built a script to break free from commercial or closed-source podcast apps.
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Style over Substance
Adding night shading to a Home Assistant mini-graph-card chart One of my favorite Lovelace interface cards for Home Assistant is the mini-graph-card by kalkih....
over a year ago
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Adding night shading to a Home Assistant mini-graph-card chart

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over a year ago
One of my favorite Lovelace interface cards for Home Assistant is the mini-graph-card by kalkih. It’s the card running most of the graphs in our smart home‘s dashboard. Surprisingly, mini-graph card is actually not included in Home Assistant by default – honestly, it should be,...
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lcamtuf’s thing
Shining light on photodiodes Photodiodes are incredibly versatile, but commonly misused and misunderstood.
8 months ago
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Shining light on photodiodes

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8 months ago
Photodiodes are incredibly versatile, but commonly misused and misunderstood.
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Arduino Blog
Forgot your safe combination? This Arduino-controlled autodialer can crack it for you Safes are designed specifically to be impenetrable — that’s kind of the whole point. That’s great...
3 months ago
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Forgot your safe combination? This Arduino-controlled autodialer can crack it for you

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3 months ago
Safes are designed specifically to be impenetrable — that’s kind of the whole point. That’s great when you need to protect something, but it is a real problem when you forget the combination to your safe or when a safe’s combination becomes lost to history. In such situations,...
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Birchtree
Tariffs, integrity, and chaos Ben Thompson: American Disruption (emphasis mine): [T]he most important components for executing a...
3 months ago
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Tariffs, integrity, and chaos

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3 months ago
Ben Thompson: American Disruption (emphasis mine): [T]he most important components for executing a fundamental shift in trade are those that go into building actual factories, or equipment for those factories. In the vast sea of stupidity that are these tariffs this is perhaps...
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lcamtuf’s thing
Building a phosphorescence detector There's very little written about natural phosphorescence. Let's design a device that can spot it in...
7 months ago
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Building a phosphorescence detector

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

7 months ago
There's very little written about natural phosphorescence. Let's design a device that can spot it in the wild.
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Simply Explained
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...
over a year ago
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How I Use Alfred to Search My Obsidian Notes Faster (with Spotlight!)

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over a year ago
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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Computer Ads from...
Vote for the March 2025 + Post Topic Time is running out.
3 months ago
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Vote for the March 2025 + Post Topic

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3 months ago
Time is running out.
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Notes on software...
Studying foreign languages with inbox zero The only time I've been able to seriously, rapidly improve my ability to speak a foreign language...
over a year ago
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Studying foreign languages with inbox zero

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over a year ago
The only time I've been able to seriously, rapidly improve my ability to speak a foreign language was through intensive language courses in college. I was forced to actively speak, read, and write Chinese for 6-8 hours a week (1-2 hours every day). Then study another 5-10 hours a...
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Arduino Blog
This plant always gets enough sunlight thanks to its robotic legs Plants of all kinds are quite infamous for their inability to move, and this can be especially...
2 months ago
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This plant always gets enough sunlight thanks to its robotic legs

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2 months ago
Plants of all kinds are quite infamous for their inability to move, and this can be especially problematic for houseplants that rely on consistently sunny locations within a room in order to get enough light. Driven by wanting their plant to have the best possible growing...
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Construction Physics
Will the China Cycle Come for Airbus and Boeing? Noah Smith, author of the economics Substack Noahpinion, often refers to a common trajectory in...
8 months ago
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Will the China Cycle Come for Airbus and Boeing?

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8 months ago
Noah Smith, author of the economics Substack Noahpinion, often refers to a common trajectory in Chinese manufacturing as the “China Cycle”:
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Birchtree
Ghostty is the hot new terminal and it’s out now Ghostty is a hip new terminal from Mitchell Hashimoto, who he described in October’s Ghostty 1.0 Is...
6 months ago
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Ghostty is the hot new terminal and it’s out now

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6 months ago
Ghostty is a hip new terminal from Mitchell Hashimoto, who he described in October’s Ghostty 1.0 Is Coming: With Ghostty, I set out to build a terminal emulator that was fast, feature-rich, and had a platform-native GUI while still being cross-platform. I believe Ghostty 1.0...
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Computer Ads from...
Vote for the April 2025 + Post Topic Poll will only be live for 3 days, so vote while you can.
2 months ago
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Vote for the April 2025 + Post Topic

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2 months ago
Poll will only be live for 3 days, so vote while you can.
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Notes on software...
An effective product manager There are three specific activities I have loved in some product managers I've worked with (and...
over a year ago
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An effective product manager

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over a year ago
There are three specific activities I have loved in some product managers I've worked with (and missed in others). tldr; Talk with customers and prospects Develop and share a vision Evangelize Talk with customers and prospects As a product manager, your superpower over...
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Engineers Need Art
The First Time I Was Almost Fired From Apple Oh yes, I screwed up more than once during my tenure at Apple.
a month ago
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The First Time I Was Almost Fired From Apple

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a month ago
Oh yes, I screwed up more than once during my tenure at Apple.
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watchTowr Labs
Veeam Backup & Response - RCE With Auth, But Mostly Without Auth (CVE-2024-40711) Every sysadmin is familiar with Veeam’s enterprise-oriented backup solution, ‘Veeam Backup &...
10 months ago
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Veeam Backup & Response - RCE With Auth, But Mostly Without Auth (CVE-2024-40711)

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10 months ago
Every sysadmin is familiar with Veeam’s enterprise-oriented backup solution, ‘Veeam Backup & Replication’. Unfortunately, so is every ransomware operator, given it's somewhat 'privileged position' in the storage world of most enterprise's networks. There's no point deploying...
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Home on Erik...
Deep learning for... chess I've been meaning to learn Theano for a while and I've also wanted to build a chess AI at some...
over a year ago
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Deep learning for... chess

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

over a year ago
I've been meaning to learn Theano for a while and I've also wanted to build a chess AI at some point. So why not combine the two? That's what I thought, and I ended up spending way too much time on it.
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Posts on Made of...
On git and usability I’ve been helping a number of people get started working with git over the last couple of weeks, as...
over a year ago
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On git and usability

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

over a year ago
I’ve been helping a number of people get started working with git over the last couple of weeks, as Ksplice has brought on some new interns, and we’ve had to get them up to speed on our internal git repositories. (As you might expect from a bunch of kernel hackers, we use git for...
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Notes on software...
Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go: 4. a database/sql driver Previously in database basics: 1. SELECT, INSERT, CREATE and a REPL 2. binary expressions...
over a year ago
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Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go: 4. a database/sql driver

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over a year ago
Previously in database basics: 1. SELECT, INSERT, CREATE and a REPL 2. binary expressions and WHERE filters 3. indexes In this post, we'll extend gosql to implement the database/sql driver interface. This will allow us to interact with gosql the same way we would...
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watchTowr Labs
Is The Sofistication In The Room With Us? - X-Forwarded-For and Ivanti Connect Secure... What's that Skippy? Another Ivanti Connect Secure vulnerability? At this point, regular readers will...
3 months ago
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Is The Sofistication In The Room With Us? - X-Forwarded-For and Ivanti Connect Secure (CVE-2025-22457)

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3 months ago
What's that Skippy? Another Ivanti Connect Secure vulnerability? At this point, regular readers will know all about Ivanti (and a handful of other vendors of the same class of devices), from our regular analysis. Do you know the fun things about these posts? We can copy text...
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Posts on Made of...
Performance engineering, profilers, and seeing the invisible I was recently introduced to the paper “Seeing the Invisible: Perceptual-Cognitive Aspects of...
a year ago
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Performance engineering, profilers, and seeing the invisible

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

a year ago
I was recently introduced to the paper “Seeing the Invisible: Perceptual-Cognitive Aspects of Expertise” by Gary Klein and Robert Hoffman. It’s excellent and I recommend you read it when you have a chance. Klein and Hoffman discuss the ability of experts to “see what is not...
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Home on Erik...
More Luigi: Presentation from OSCON I was in Portland, OR for a few days hanging out at OSCON. Was fun. I also talked a bit about...
over a year ago
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More Luigi: Presentation from OSCON

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

over a year ago
I was in Portland, OR for a few days hanging out at OSCON. Was fun. I also talked a bit about Luigi: Next week I'm presenting at the NYC Predictive Analytics meetup together with Blake Shaw from Foursquare.
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Jonas Hietala
Poking at Emacs I’ve been a vim vim fan for a while now and with some recent configs I’m starting to feel pretty...
over a year ago
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Poking at Emacs

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

over a year ago
I’ve been a vim vim fan for a while now and with some recent configs I’m starting to feel pretty confident and happy with it. For those who don’t know it’s basically a text editor, like notepad, but with a lot of keycommands which allows you to edit code (and text in general)...
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Willem's Blog
Cyber security: 5 easy tips to protect your server against hackers These 5 practical cyber security measures will improve the safety of server, website and data.
over a year ago
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Cyber security: 5 easy tips to protect your server against hackers

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over a year ago
These 5 practical cyber security measures will improve the safety of server, website and data.
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Louwrentius
My solar-powered blog is now on Lithium Iron Phosphate In my last blog post I discussed how a small solar project - to power this blog on a Raspberry Pi -...
over a year ago
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My solar-powered blog is now on Lithium Iron Phosphate

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over a year ago
In my last blog post I discussed how a small solar project - to power this blog on a Raspberry Pi - escalated into a full-blown off-grid solar setup, large enough to power the computer I use at the moment to write this update1. In this update, I want to discuss my battery...
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Birchtree
+ Power users need love too
3 months ago
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+ Power users need love too

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3 months ago
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Louwrentius
Configuring, attacking and securing VRRP on Linux The VRRP or Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol helps you create a reliable network by using multiple...
over a year ago
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Configuring, attacking and securing VRRP on Linux

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
The VRRP or Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol helps you create a reliable network by using multiple routers in an active/passive configuration. If the primary router fails, the backup router takes over almost seamlessly. This is how VRRP works: Clients connect to a virtual...
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./techtipsy
How to mess up a simple ThinkPad X230 BIOS flash and how to recover from it Background I have a Lenovo ThinkPad X230. It’s a small and good laptop that I’ve used as my main...
over a year ago
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How to mess up a simple ThinkPad X230 BIOS flash and how to recover from it

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over a year ago
Background I have a Lenovo ThinkPad X230. It’s a small and good laptop that I’ve used as my main laptop and a server as well. A couple of years ago I messed around with flashing alternative BIOS implementations on the X230, such as the skulls project, which made installing...
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./techtipsy
My very first career day This post is a short overview of my experience at a career day in Valga, Estonia, hosted with the...
a year ago
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My very first career day

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a year ago
This post is a short overview of my experience at a career day in Valga, Estonia, hosted with the help of GreenDice. I’ve never spoken at a career day before nor attended one as a student, which is why I instantly agreed to going to one when GreenDice reached out to me. Why? I...
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Ken Shirriff's blog
Reverse engineering the barrel shifter circuit on the Intel 386 processor die The Intel 386 processor (1985) was a large step from the 286 processor, moving x86 to a 32-bit...
a year ago
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Reverse engineering the barrel shifter circuit on the Intel 386 processor die

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

a year ago
The Intel 386 processor (1985) was a large step from the 286 processor, moving x86 to a 32-bit architecture. The 386 also dramatically improved the performance of shift and rotate operations by adding a "barrel shifter", a circuit that can shift by multiple bits in one step. The...
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Abishek Muthian
Why are we addicted to misery porn I walked by the living room other day and there was this reality show on television in which the...
over a year ago
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Why are we addicted to misery porn

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

over a year ago
I walked by the living room other day and there was this reality show on television in which the participants were narrating what it seemed like their life story. It was sad, they and other participants were crying inconsolably while the camera panned to each of their faces for a...
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Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course: Week 1 I’m embarking on a year-long crash course in the humanities. These are my notes for week...
6 months ago
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Humanities Crash Course: Week 1

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6 months ago
I’m embarking on a year-long crash course in the humanities. These are my notes for week 1. Readings Following Gioia’s plan, I read six of Plato’s dialogues: Euthypro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, and Books I and VII of The Republic. I used the beautiful edition published (for free)...
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Christian Selig
Curing Mac mini M4 fomo with 3D printing Spoiler: 3D printed! The colored ports really sell the effect If you’re anything like me, you’ve...
7 months ago
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Curing Mac mini M4 fomo with 3D printing

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

7 months ago
Spoiler: 3D printed! The colored ports really sell the effect If you’re anything like me, you’ve found the new, tinier Mac mini to be absolutely adorable. But you might also be like me that you either already have an awesome M1 Mac mini that you have no real reason to replace,...
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Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #58: An even greater London? Plus a revealing portrait of Westminster's hidden connections and some cope on why Trump might not...
4 months ago
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Odds and Ends #58: An even greater London?

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

4 months ago
Plus a revealing portrait of Westminster's hidden connections and some cope on why Trump might not be *so* catastrophic. Maybe. If we're lucky.
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Willem's Blog
Riding with a power meter on your bike In this post I describe my experience with installing the 4iiii Precision Powermeter on my road...
over a year ago
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Riding with a power meter on your bike

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over a year ago
In this post I describe my experience with installing the 4iiii Precision Powermeter on my road bike.
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Louwrentius
Redhat explains why chroot is not a security feature I came across this Redhat security blog post that explains why the chroot command has it's uses, but...
over a year ago
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Redhat explains why chroot is not a security feature

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
I came across this Redhat security blog post that explains why the chroot command has it's uses, but it isn't magic security pixie dust. Running an application from within a chrooted jail or just on a well-configured system would result in the same level of security. Josh...
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Posts on Made of...
Conkeror I’ve recently switched to Conkeror as my primary browser. It started life as a Firefox extension,...
over a year ago
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Conkeror

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

over a year ago
I’ve recently switched to Conkeror as my primary browser. It started life as a Firefox extension, but nowadays it’s a standalone app built on top of Mozilla’s xulrunner, so it uses the Gecko rendering engine. What it is, is an emacs implemented in Javascript, for the web. This...
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Louwrentius
Switching away from Debian to Ubuntu LTS Over the last couple of years, Debian Linux has released new stable versions about every two years....
over a year ago
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Switching away from Debian to Ubuntu LTS

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over a year ago
Over the last couple of years, Debian Linux has released new stable versions about every two years. This pace is great for progress, but there is a serious problem. This problem is related to their support for older Debian stable versions. If you read the quote below from the...
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Jonas Hietala
5 Kup After a season with very bad attendence, I blame school and lack of motivation, I still went to...
over a year ago
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5 Kup

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

over a year ago
After a season with very bad attendence, I blame school and lack of motivation, I still went to grading. I slept well but I was super stressed all weekend so I had to constantly run to the bathroom and I couldn’t eat lunch or breakfast properly, and I don’t usually get...
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Louwrentius
Statistics showing relevance of caching proxy In this day and age of dynamic web content, how relevant can a caching proxy server be? I believe...
over a year ago
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Statistics showing relevance of caching proxy

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over a year ago
In this day and age of dynamic web content, how relevant can a caching proxy server be? I believe that the answer could be: quite! I have installed a caching proxy server based on Squid, which is now used within my company. It also does content scanning using squidclamav and...
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Abort Retry Fail
The History of Commodore, Part 1 Chuck Peddle, the 6502, MOS, and the PET
a year ago
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The History of Commodore, Part 1

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a year ago
Chuck Peddle, the 6502, MOS, and the PET
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Vitalik Buterin's...
Exit games for EVM validiums: the return of Plasma
a year ago
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Exit games for EVM validiums: the return of Plasma

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Odds and Ends of...
Building luxury homes for millionaires is good for poor people Yes In My Back Yard!
4 months ago
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Building luxury homes for millionaires is good for poor people

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4 months ago
Yes In My Back Yard!
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Posts on Made of...
Using wpa_supplicant on Debian/Ubuntu I’ve been using wpa_supplicant to manage wifi on my Ubuntu laptop for a while, and have found that...
over a year ago
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Using wpa_supplicant on Debian/Ubuntu

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over a year ago
I’ve been using wpa_supplicant to manage wifi on my Ubuntu laptop for a while, and have found that it’s pretty close to what I want for managing wireless — closer than anything else I’ve found, at least. I figured I should document my setup and experiences. Some Background You...
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Posts on Made of...
New Blog Location I finally got fed up with Blogger, and am moving this blog to live on Wordpress hosted off of...
over a year ago
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New Blog Location

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

over a year ago
I finally got fed up with Blogger, and am moving this blog to live on Wordpress hosted off of scripts.mit.edu. In the process of converting everything over and setting up Wordpress I’ve decided I hate it, but hopefully I hate it less than I hate Blogger. We’ll see. I’ve also...
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Vitalik Buterin's...
Gitcoin Grants Round 9: The Next Phase of Growth
over a year ago
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Gitcoin Grants Round 9: The Next Phase of Growth

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over a year ago
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Electronics etc…
HP Laptop 17 RAM Upgrade Introduction Selecting the RAM Opening up Replacing the RAM Reassembly References Introduction I do...
3 months ago
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HP Laptop 17 RAM Upgrade

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

3 months ago
Introduction Selecting the RAM Opening up Replacing the RAM Reassembly References Introduction I do virtually all of my hobby and home computing on Linux and MacOS. The MacOS stuff on a laptop and almost all Linux work a desktop PC. The desktop PC has Windows on it installed as...
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Ken Shirriff's blog
Inside the Intel 386 processor die: the clock circuit Processors are driven by a clock, which controls the timing of each step inside the chip. In this...
a year ago
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Inside the Intel 386 processor die: the clock circuit

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

a year ago
Processors are driven by a clock, which controls the timing of each step inside the chip. In this blog post, I'll examine the clock-generation circuitry inside the Intel 386 processor. Earlier processors such as the 8086 (1978) were simpler, using two clock phases internally. The...
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Himanshu Mishra |...
Geniune Love and Infatuation After a long time, I read something so meaningful on reddit. How do you distinguish genuine love for...
over a year ago
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Geniune Love and Infatuation

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

over a year ago
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 New Oil
Hooked 2.0: How Scams are Evolving & How to Avoid Them
4 months ago
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Hooked 2.0: How Scams are Evolving & How to Avoid Them

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4 months ago
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Style over Substance
Buienalarm / Buienradar Apple Watch complication using Home Assistant Living in the Netherlands, one of the things I really miss on my Apple Watch is a Buienradar...
over a year ago
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Buienalarm / Buienradar Apple Watch complication using Home Assistant

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over a year ago
Living in the Netherlands, one of the things I really miss on my Apple Watch is a Buienradar complication. Buienradar, Dutch for rain radar, is a popular site here that uses weather radar images to predict if it’s going to rain in the next few hours. For many people living here,...
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Louwrentius
Linux: script that creates table of network interface properties My server has 5 network interfaces and I wanted a quick overview of some properties. There may be an...
over a year ago
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Linux: script that creates table of network interface properties

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over a year ago
My server has 5 network interfaces and I wanted a quick overview of some properties. There may be an existing linux command for this but I couldn't find it so I quickly wrote my own script (download). This is the output: The only requirement for this script is that you have...
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axio.ms
Colourclock Original concept circa 2008, revisited 2012, hardware designed Feb 2014, firmware designed...
over a year ago
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Colourclock

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

over a year ago
Original concept circa 2008, revisited 2012, hardware designed Feb 2014, firmware designed April-August 2014, project completed August 2014, installed in spare room in 2016, written up in March 2018 (jeeez…) Acrylic, LEDs, ARM Cortex-M0 microcontroller. ...
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Vitalik Buterin's...
Fast Fourier Transforms
over a year ago
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Fast Fourier Transforms

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over a year ago
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Louwrentius
Fully unattended deployment of Windows clients using limited resources Introduction Anyone who ever installed Windows on a computer by hand must have wished for a solution...
over a year ago
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Fully unattended deployment of Windows clients using limited resources

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Introduction Anyone who ever installed Windows on a computer by hand must have wished for a solution that automate this task. It's just waiting a lot and pressing a button now and then. But installing the operating system itself is only the beginning. Once installed, you need to...
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Abort Retry Fail
The History of Windows 2.0 Success and Litigation
a year ago
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The History of Windows 2.0

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a year ago
Success and Litigation
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Greater Still by...
Joining TCG Crypto I am thrilled to share that I am joining the team at TCG, The Chernin Group, to focus on the firm’s...
over a year ago
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Joining TCG Crypto

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

over a year ago
I am thrilled to share that I am joining the team at TCG, The Chernin Group, to focus on the firm’s investments at the intersection of consumer and crypto.
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Style over Substance
How to build your own Goodman ZONE camera, part 2 The Goodman ZONE is a medium-format 3D-printed film camera designed by Dora Goodman as part of her...
over a year ago
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How to build your own Goodman ZONE camera, part 2

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

over a year ago
The Goodman ZONE is a medium-format 3D-printed film camera designed by Dora Goodman as part of her range of open-source camera models, using the existing Mamiya Press lens series for glass and the Mamiya RB67 backs to hold film. She sells pre-printed kits that contain all the...
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Abishek Muthian
What is the value of my life Content Warning: If you are at the brink of an existential crisis, depressed from the ongoing...
over a year ago
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What is the value of my life

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

over a year ago
Content Warning: If you are at the brink of an existential crisis, depressed from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic or suicidal, please do not proceed further with this content. Be advised that there could also be usage of expletives in this content. Disclaimer: This is a work of...
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Lighthouse Blog
Rules improvement: filter based on content
7 months ago
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Rules improvement: filter based on content

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7 months ago
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Applied Cartography
Notes from April Welcome to spring, bona fide and humid. Lots of writing this month: I wrote about spending the past...
a year ago
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Notes from April

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a year ago
Welcome to spring, bona fide and humid. Lots of writing this month: I wrote about spending the past two years as an independent technologist. On the media side of things: brief words on Murderville (meh), The Parallax View (incredible), This is Personal (meh), Cribsheet...
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Vitalik Buterin's...
Soulbound
over a year ago
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Soulbound

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over a year ago
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Louwrentius
Storage and I/O: reads vs. writes There is a fundamental difference between a read operation and a write operation. Storage can lie...
over a year ago
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Storage and I/O: reads vs. writes

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
There is a fundamental difference between a read operation and a write operation. Storage can lie about completing a write operation, but it can never lie about completing a read operation. Therefore read and writes have different characteristics. This is what I've learned. About...
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Arduino Blog
Making fire detection more accurate with ML sensor fusion The mere presence of a flame in a controlled environment, such as a candle, is perfectly acceptable,...
11 months ago
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Making fire detection more accurate with ML sensor fusion

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11 months ago
The mere presence of a flame in a controlled environment, such as a candle, is perfectly acceptable, but when tasked with determining if there is cause for alarm solely using vision data, embedded AI models can struggle with false positives. Solomon Githu’s project aims to lower...
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Arduino Blog
Kickstart your tech journey, with the new Arduino Plug and Make Kit! Hey, creating an IoT device shouldn’t be rocket science. We believe technology is for everyone....
12 months ago
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Kickstart your tech journey, with the new Arduino Plug and Make Kit!

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

12 months ago
Hey, creating an IoT device shouldn’t be rocket science. We believe technology is for everyone. That’s why we’ve developed the whole new, beginner-friendly Plug and Make Kit – the easiest way to get started with Arduino!  Inside the box, you’ll find everything you need to create...
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Louwrentius
How to determine which process causes IO ? There is a nifty little program called 'iotop'. Iotop is part of Debian or Ubuntu and can be...
over a year ago
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How to determine which process causes IO ?

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
There is a nifty little program called 'iotop'. Iotop is part of Debian or Ubuntu and can be installed with a simple apt-get. Once you have determined with 'top' that the system is waiting on IO-access, It is nice to know which process is responsibe for this IO. Therefore, you...
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noahbuscher.com
Zed Public Beta I have been a dedicated Nova user for over three years. I switched over from VSCode after tiring of...
over a year ago
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Zed Public Beta

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

over a year ago
I have been a dedicated Nova user for over three years. I switched over from VSCode after tiring of the slow performance and "uncanny valley" interface. I'm a sucker for a well-done native app, and Panic really hit the sweet spot with Nova: a beautiful, minimal editor that felt...
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Lighthouse Blog
Updates June 14
a year ago
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Updates June 14

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a year ago
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./techtipsy
Turning leftover PC parts into a decent gaming PC Introduction About a year ago, I bought an used PC based off of a Lenovo Erazer X510. It had a...
over a year ago
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Turning leftover PC parts into a decent gaming PC

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

over a year ago
Introduction About a year ago, I bought an used PC based off of a Lenovo Erazer X510. It had a dual-core Intel Pentium G3220 CPU, 4GB of DDR3 RAM, a crappy Codegen 400W power supply and a 60GB SSD. I added an Nvidia GTX 1050 and just like that, a budget gaming PC was born. My...
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Birchtree
Nothing in your workflow is permenent My friend and podcast co-host Chris Lawley just posted a video about how his relationship with the...
3 months ago
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Nothing in your workflow is permenent

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3 months ago
My friend and podcast co-host Chris Lawley just posted a video about how his relationship with the iPad has changed over time. I linked to this on social media and got a few replies from folks who said something to the effect of, "we told you so," which
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Arduino Blog
DexteriSync lets you walk a mile in the gloves of a user with manual disability Good designers prioritize the user experience — particularly the experience of users with...
8 months ago
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DexteriSync lets you walk a mile in the gloves of a user with manual disability

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

8 months ago
Good designers prioritize the user experience — particularly the experience of users with disabilities that affect their perception and fine motor skills. A young person without disabilities, for example, may feel that jars are easy to open, while an elderly person with reduced...
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Arduino Blog
Can remote co-presence keep distant human connections alive? The pandemic made a lot of things obvious, not the least of which is that humans need social...
a year ago
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Can remote co-presence keep distant human connections alive?

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

a year ago
The pandemic made a lot of things obvious, not the least of which is that humans need social interaction to maintain good mental health. Sadly, many of us spend our lives physically separated from our loved ones by great distances or inopportune circumstances. That’s why a team...
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Willem's Blog
Different ways to visualise health To better understand how to visualise health I looked at different health/fitness apps and games.
over a year ago
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Different ways to visualise health

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over a year ago
To better understand how to visualise health I looked at different health/fitness apps and games.
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Evan Hahn's blog
UI tip: maybe don't round percentages to 0% or 100% In short: maybe don’t round to 0% or 100% in your UI. I am not a UI expert. But I sometimes build...
2 months ago
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UI tip: maybe don't round percentages to 0% or 100%

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

2 months ago
In short: maybe don’t round to 0% or 100% in your UI. I am not a UI expert. But I sometimes build user interfaces, and I sometimes want to render a percentage to the user. For example, something like “you’ve downloaded 45% of this file”. In my experience, it’s often better to...
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Notes on software...
Static analysis with semgrep: practical examples using Docker In this post we'll get a basic semgrep environment set up in Docker running some custom rules...
over a year ago
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Static analysis with semgrep: practical examples using Docker

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

over a year ago
In this post we'll get a basic semgrep environment set up in Docker running some custom rules against our code. Existing linters Linters like pylint for Python or eslint for JavaScript are great for general, broad language standards. But what about common nits in code review like...
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Jonas Hietala
2015 Read Books I didn’t read a lot of books in 2015, but the books I did read were pretty damn good. Fiction A Song...
over a year ago
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2015 Read Books

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

over a year ago
I didn’t read a lot of books in 2015, but the books I did read were pretty damn good. Fiction A Song of Ice and Fire: A Dance with Dragons - George R.R. Martin Reread. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms - Gearge R.R. Martin The Skin Collector - Jeffery Deaver Best Served Cold - Joe...
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Vitalik Buterin's...
Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 1: The Merge
8 months ago
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Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 1: The Merge

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8 months ago
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Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course Week 10: Greek Drama Week 10 of the humanities crash course had me reading (and listening to) classic Greek plays. I also...
4 months ago
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Humanities Crash Course Week 10: Greek Drama

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

4 months ago
Week 10 of the humanities crash course had me reading (and listening to) classic Greek plays. I also listened to the blues and watched a movie starring a venerable recently departed actor. How do they connect? Perhaps they don’t. Let’s find out. Readings The plan for this week...
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Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing TagVault Camera for AirTag After having $10k+ of camera gear stolen, we set our to make the best AirTag mount for cameras. We...
4 months ago
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Introducing TagVault Camera for AirTag

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

4 months ago
After having $10k+ of camera gear stolen, we set our to make the best AirTag mount for cameras. We wanted it to be very discreet and something you never needed to take off.  After many design iterations, tool changes, testing exotic materials, drop testing with old camera bodies...
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Matt Mullenweg
Inc Hit Piece When Inc Magazine reached out to have David H. Freedman (website powered by WordPress) write a...
6 months ago
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Inc Hit Piece

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6 months ago
When Inc Magazine reached out to have David H. Freedman (website powered by WordPress) write a feature piece I was excited because though Inc wasn’t a magazine I have read much since I was a teenager, David seemed like a legit journalist who usually writes for better publications...
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Louwrentius
Linux on Mac Mini - boot after power failure When using a Mac Mini as a server or router, it is very nice if the machine automatically boots if a...
over a year ago
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Linux on Mac Mini - boot after power failure

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
When using a Mac Mini as a server or router, it is very nice if the machine automatically boots if a power failure has occurred. User chirhoxi on the ubuntu forum found out how this can be achieved: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1209576 Basically you need one of these...
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GitButler
The New Era of Town Hall Chat We're moving from Slack to Discord so we can involve our community more. Here's how we did it and...
10 months ago
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The New Era of Town Hall Chat

from GitButler [alt+shift+b] in technology

10 months ago
We're moving from Slack to Discord so we can involve our community more. Here's how we did it and more importantly, why.
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Birchtree
The LLM bubble might be about to burst (but not for the reason you think) Ben Turner: Chinese Researchers Just Built an Open-Source Rival to ChatGPT in 2 Months. Silicon...
5 months ago
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The LLM bubble might be about to burst (but not for the reason you think)

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5 months ago
Ben Turner: Chinese Researchers Just Built an Open-Source Rival to ChatGPT in 2 Months. Silicon Valley Is Freaked Out. Now, R1 has also surpassed ChatGPT's latest o1 model in many of the same tests. This impressive performance at a fraction of the cost of other models, its...
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Arduino Blog
A new Plug and Make Kit challenge! A game of rhythm and creativity The Arduino Plug and Make Kit is all about unleashing creativity while simplifying the process of...
7 months ago
38

A new Plug and Make Kit challenge! A game of rhythm and creativity

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

7 months ago
The Arduino Plug and Make Kit is all about unleashing creativity while simplifying the process of turning ideas into reality. It enables everyone to focus on the fun of creating with the power of the UNO R4 WiFi and a user-friendly, modular design – bypassing the complexities of...
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./techtipsy
Testing GPU passthrough on AMD Ryzen 7 5700G APU Introduction Before we jump into all the nitty-gritty details, I’d like to go over what we are...
over a year ago
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Testing GPU passthrough on AMD Ryzen 7 5700G APU

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

over a year ago
Introduction Before we jump into all the nitty-gritty details, I’d like to go over what we are dealing with here since these topics may be unfamiliar to you. VFIO is quite a niche topic and not everyone knows about it. GPU passthrough: the process of allowing a VM...
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Neil Madden
Regular JSON For better or worse, depending on your perspective, JSON has become a dominant data format and shows...
over a year ago
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Regular JSON

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

over a year ago
For better or worse, depending on your perspective, JSON has become a dominant data format and shows no signs of being replaced any time soon. There are good reasons for that: on the face of it, it provides a very simple format with just enough features to cover a lot of...
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Notes on software...
Logical replication in Postgres: Basics This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
5 months ago
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Logical replication in Postgres: Basics

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5 months ago
This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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Lighthouse Blog
What is JSON Feed?
2 months ago
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What is JSON Feed?

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2 months ago
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Some reflections on the Bitcoin block size war
a year ago
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Some reflections on the Bitcoin block size war

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./techtipsy
Testing a cheap ExpressCard to NVMe SSD adapter on my ThinkPad T430 I stumbled upon this post in /r/thinkpad, which got my attention. It showcases an ExpressCard to M.2...
over a year ago
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Testing a cheap ExpressCard to NVMe SSD adapter on my ThinkPad T430

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I stumbled upon this post in /r/thinkpad, which got my attention. It showcases an ExpressCard to M.2 NGFF adapter that they purchased from AliExpress. The adapter has a similar purpose to the one designed by thinkmods.store, with the added bonus that it could fit longer NVMe...
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Vitalik Buterin's...
Gitcoin Grants Round 7 Retrospective
over a year ago
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Gitcoin Grants Round 7 Retrospective

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Odds and Ends of...
The social justice case for self-driving cars Abundant mobility should be a moral crusade
6 months ago
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The social justice case for self-driving cars

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6 months ago
Abundant mobility should be a moral crusade
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Vitalik Buterin's...
Quadratic Payments: A Primer
over a year ago
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Quadratic Payments: A Primer

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./techtipsy
Lenovo ThinkCentre M900 Tiny: how does it fare as a home server? My evenings of absent-minded local auction site scrolling1 paid off: I now own a Lenovo ThinkCentre...
a month ago
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Lenovo ThinkCentre M900 Tiny: how does it fare as a home server?

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a month ago
My evenings of absent-minded local auction site scrolling1 paid off: I now own a Lenovo ThinkCentre M900 Tiny. It’s relatively old, being manufactured in 20162, but it’s tiny and has a lot of useful life left in it. It’s also featured in the TinyMiniMicro series by...
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Neil Madden
Digital signatures and how to avoid them Wikipedia’s definition of a digital signature is: A digital signature is a mathematical scheme for...
9 months ago
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Digital signatures and how to avoid them

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9 months ago
Wikipedia’s definition of a digital signature is: A digital signature is a mathematical scheme for verifying the authenticity of digital messages or documents. A valid digital signature on a message gives a recipient confidence that the message came from a sender known to the...
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Electronics etc…
A Hardware Interposer to Fix the Symmetricom SyncServer S200 GPS Week Number Rollover Problem Introduction IMPORTANT: Use the Right GPS Antenna! The Problem: SyncServer Refuses to Lock to...
10 months ago
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A Hardware Interposer to Fix the Symmetricom SyncServer S200 GPS Week Number Rollover Problem

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10 months ago
Introduction IMPORTANT: Use the Right GPS Antenna! The Problem: SyncServer Refuses to Lock to GPS The GPS Week Number Rollover Issue Making the Furuno GT-8031 Work Again How It Works Build Instructions Power Supply Recapping The Future: A Software-Only Solution The...
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Notes on software...
A write-ahead log is not a universal part of durability A database does not need a write-ahead log (WAL) to achieve durability. A database can write its...
a year ago
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A write-ahead log is not a universal part of durability

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a year ago
A database does not need a write-ahead log (WAL) to achieve durability. A database can write its long-term data structure durably to disk before returning to a client. Granted, this is a bad idea! And granted, a WAL is critical for durability by design in most databases. But I...
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Louwrentius
Migrated this blog from blogger.com to blogofile Until now, I was hosting my blog on Google's blogger. I switched to using Blogofile. I wanted to...
over a year ago
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Migrated this blog from blogger.com to blogofile

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over a year ago
Until now, I was hosting my blog on Google's blogger. I switched to using Blogofile. I wanted to have more control over my content and the layout. I had many issues with the blogger blog post editor, resulting in ugly posts with too much white space, strange fonts and fonts...
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lcamtuf’s thing
The Long Winter Interior of a vast cavern.
2 months ago
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The Long Winter

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2 months ago
Interior of a vast cavern.
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Willem's Blog
Google Analytics vs AWStats Comparing Google Analytics with AWStats to find out where they differ and which is better.
over a year ago
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Google Analytics vs AWStats

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over a year ago
Comparing Google Analytics with AWStats to find out where they differ and which is better.
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lcamtuf’s thing
The Rapture It’s fascinating how these vascular bundles, containing xylem and phloem, are arranged in a ring...
3 months ago
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The Rapture

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3 months ago
It’s fascinating how these vascular bundles, containing xylem and phloem, are arranged in a ring located beneath the skin (periderm) and the cortex.
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The New Oil
The Unique ID You're Giving to Everyone
4 months ago
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The Unique ID You're Giving to Everyone

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Vitalik Buterin's...
How do layer 2s really differ from execution sharding?
a year ago
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How do layer 2s really differ from execution sharding?

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Abort Retry Fail
The History of Commodore, Part 2 The VIC-20
a year ago
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The History of Commodore, Part 2

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a year ago
The VIC-20
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Birchtree
The future simply has more computers (members post) Glasses and headsets and computers, oh my! Why the future continues to be all about adding computers...
6 months ago
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The future simply has more computers (members post)

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6 months ago
Glasses and headsets and computers, oh my! Why the future continues to be all about adding computers to our lives, not replacing anything.
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Opsbros
The Bindicator So I made this project for my dad for Fathers Day a couple of years ago, and thought i'd share it....
over a year ago
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The Bindicator

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over a year ago
So I made this project for my dad for Fathers Day a couple of years ago, and thought i'd share it. The one shown is the Rev-1 design which is far from perfect, in fact it has several major issues I will discuss below, however it definitely works,
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Arduino Blog
This rolling ball game brings Skee-Ball-style fun from the arcade to your home Ask your friends about their favorite games at the arcade and the most common answer will likely be...
a year ago
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This rolling ball game brings Skee-Ball-style fun from the arcade to your home

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a year ago
Ask your friends about their favorite games at the arcade and the most common answer will likely be Skee-Ball. But while many other popular arcade games have viable at-home alternatives, Skee-Ball doesn’t — at least not unless you’re willing to spend a serious amount of money....
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Matt Mullenweg
Automattic Alignment Winston Churchill said, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Since I last blogged here, WP Engine...
9 months ago
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Automattic Alignment

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9 months ago
Winston Churchill said, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Since I last blogged here, WP Engine filed a meritless lawsuit and Automattic responded, and there’s been a hurricane of public activity and press. Inside of Automattic, there’s been a parallel debate and process....
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Vitalik Buterin's...
On Radical Markets
over a year ago
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On Radical Markets

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Himanshu Mishra |...
Lessons for creating good open source software I was reading about The Cathedral and the Bazaar, a book by Eric S. Raymond on various (open source)...
over a year ago
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Lessons for creating good open source software

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over a year ago
I was reading about The Cathedral and the Bazaar, a book by Eric S. Raymond on various (open source) software development methods. The…
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Birchtree
The day Birchtree grew up Today's a symbolically big day for Birchtree! After doing this site and its many offshoot projects...
6 months ago
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The day Birchtree grew up

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6 months ago
Today's a symbolically big day for Birchtree! After doing this site and its many offshoot projects since 2010, I finally put a ring on it and registered Birchtree Productions LLC. 🎉 For you, this means basically nothing at all. Footers might be updated and I might invest in
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Posts on Made of...
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...
over a year ago
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Towards solving Ultimate Tic Tac Toe

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over a year ago
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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Louwrentius
How to compile HAProxy from source and setup a basic configuration To learn more about HAProxy I decided to compile it from source and use it to load-balance traffic...
over a year ago
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How to compile HAProxy from source and setup a basic configuration

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over a year ago
To learn more about HAProxy I decided to compile it from source and use it to load-balance traffic to louwrentius.com across two different web servers. I run HAProxy on a VPS based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Let's dive right in. First, we need to download the source. Don't copy/pased...
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Lighthouse Blog
Updates February 02
a year ago
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Updates February 02

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Lighthouse Blog
Overview of content
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Overview of content

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Birchtree
Claude finally gets its “thinking” update Anthropic released Claude 3.7 yesterday, and as a bit of a Claude stan myself, it’s fair to say I...
4 months ago
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Claude finally gets its “thinking” update

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4 months ago
Anthropic released Claude 3.7 yesterday, and as a bit of a Claude stan myself, it’s fair to say I was excited to see it. The last few months have seen meaningful updates to GPT and Gemini, and in an industry moving at this rate, Anthropic felt like
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Home on Erik...
Exploding offers are bullshit I do a lot of recruiting and have given maybe 50 offers in my career. Although many companies do, I...
over a year ago
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Exploding offers are bullshit

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over a year ago
I do a lot of recruiting and have given maybe 50 offers in my career. Although many companies do, I never put a deadline on any of them. Unfortunately, I've often ended up competing with other companies who do, and I feel really bad that this usually tricks younger developers...
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Birchtree
Is ChatGPT the next Dropbox or the next iPhone? Ed Zitron on his Where's Your Ed At blog: There Is No AI Revolution I kept coming back to one...
4 months ago
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Is ChatGPT the next Dropbox or the next iPhone?

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4 months ago
Ed Zitron on his Where's Your Ed At blog: There Is No AI Revolution I kept coming back to one thought: where's the money? No, really, where is it? Where is the money that this supposedly revolutionary, world-changing industry is making, and will make? The answer
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The Pragmatic...
Which IDEs do software engineers love, and why? oftware engineers shared their favorite IDEs on social media, and the most-mentioned one by a...
7 months ago
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Which IDEs do software engineers love, and why?

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7 months ago
oftware engineers shared their favorite IDEs on social media, and the most-mentioned one by a comfortable margin was Cursor. WindSurf and Zed also seem to be getting traction at the expense of Visual Studio, and JetBrains.
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Abishek Muthian
Supporters Supporters of The Tallest Dwarf Anjan has bought a Coffees for The Tallest Dwarf. Jarett has bought...
over a year ago
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Supporters

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over a year ago
Supporters of The Tallest Dwarf Anjan has bought a Coffees for The Tallest Dwarf. Jarett has bought a Coffee for The Tallest Dwarf. Dan has bought a Coffee for The Tallest Dwarf. Alexander has bought a Coffee for The Tallest Dwarf. [Don't want to be named] has bought a Coffee for...
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Arduino Blog
How makers can use AR and VR Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) are both currently experiencing a meteoric rise in...
a year ago
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How makers can use AR and VR

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a year ago
Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) are both currently experiencing a meteoric rise in popularity, with the combined market expected to reach $77 billion by 2025, from just $15.3 billion in 2020. For makers, AR and VR represent exciting opportunities to build new...
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Yazin Alirhayim
Serializing and deserializing a Cookie Jar I was recently working on a way to serialize and deserialize a Faraday connection that uses...
over a year ago
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Serializing and deserializing a Cookie Jar

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over a year ago
I was recently working on a way to serialize and deserialize a Faraday connection that uses HTTP::CookieJar to manage persistent cookies across requests. I needed to do this because I wanted a way to “freeze” an HTTP connection instance, and later “thaw” it to resume the...
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Louwrentius
Debian Lenny and Dell S300 H200 and H700 RAID controllers update november 2010: it is reported in the comments that the next release will support these...
over a year ago
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Debian Lenny and Dell S300 H200 and H700 RAID controllers

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over a year ago
update november 2010: it is reported in the comments that the next release will support these controllers. However, which controllers are supported is not clear. Also, we may have to wait for quite some time before squeeze will be released. Just a quick note: it seems that the...
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Jonas Hietala
rustc: error while loading shared libraries: librustc_driver I had installed and used rust already but today I fired it up and received: rustc...
over a year ago
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rustc: error while loading shared libraries: librustc_driver

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over a year ago
I had installed and used rust already but today I fired it up and received: rustc --version rustc: error while loading shared libraries: librustc_driver-7e44814b.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I’ve seen this before… I thought modifying...
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Computer Ads from...
Australian Air Force If You're Switched On, This is Paradise.
2 months ago
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Australian Air Force

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2 months ago
If You're Switched On, This is Paradise.
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Louwrentius
Distributed Parallel Processing Shell Script (PPSS) released I'd like to announce the release of the distributed version of the Parallel Processing Shell Script...
over a year ago
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Distributed Parallel Processing Shell Script (PPSS) released

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over a year ago
I'd like to announce the release of the distributed version of the Parallel Processing Shell Script (PPSS). PPSS is a bash script that allows you to run commands in parallel. It is written to make use of current multi-core CPUs. The new distributed version of PPSS allows you to...
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Greater Still by...
Why Digital Fashion Matters “We’re in the midst of a technological revolution.
over a year ago
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Why Digital Fashion Matters

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over a year ago
“We’re in the midst of a technological revolution.
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Jonas Hietala
Starcraft 2 Keycaps When I ordered this computer I was compelled, utterly compelled to buy a mechanical keyboard. Sure...
over a year ago
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Starcraft 2 Keycaps

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over a year ago
When I ordered this computer I was compelled, utterly compelled to buy a mechanical keyboard. Sure they cost almost 10x as much as a “regular” one and they didn’t even have these funky multimedia keys, what gives? Did I loose my insanity? It was supposed to give a great typing...
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Louwrentius
A practical understanding of lead acid batteries Introduction The goal of this article is to give you a practical understanding Lead Acid batteries....
over a year ago
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A practical understanding of lead acid batteries

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over a year ago
Introduction The goal of this article is to give you a practical understanding Lead Acid batteries. We won't address the underlying chemistry, we'll treat them as a black-box and we will discover their characteristics and how to keep them healthy. Disclaimer I'm an amateur. I...
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Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing NightPad Wireless Charger NightPad has no LEDs, so it won't light up your room. This was a frustration we had with other...
over a year ago
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Introducing NightPad Wireless Charger

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over a year ago
NightPad has no LEDs, so it won't light up your room. This was a frustration we had with other wireless chargers - which I covered with electrical tape. So in designing this one, the first thing we did was remove the light. NightPad charges iPhone 50% faster than standard Qi...
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Jordan’s Substack
Coming soon This is Jordan’s Substack.
7 months ago
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Coming soon

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7 months ago
This is Jordan’s Substack.
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Greater Still by...
Stop Calling it a Wallet How language shapes our view of the world
over a year ago
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Stop Calling it a Wallet

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over a year ago
How language shapes our view of the world
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Arduino Blog
Arduino Cloud is now natively supported on tablets  We’re excited to announce the release of IoT Remote v3.0.0, featuring a native tablet version...
a year ago
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Arduino Cloud is now natively supported on tablets 

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a year ago
We’re excited to announce the release of IoT Remote v3.0.0, featuring a native tablet version (available for both Android and iOS platforms) optimized for unlocking the full potential of larger screen sizes. What is the Arduino IoT Remote app?  The Arduino IoT Remote app allows...
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Home on Erik...
Nearest neighbor methods and vector models – part 1 This is a blog post rewritten from a presentation at NYC Machine Learning last week. It covers a...
over a year ago
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Nearest neighbor methods and vector models – part 1

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over a year ago
This is a blog post rewritten from a presentation at NYC Machine Learning last week. It covers a library called Annoy that I have built that helps you do (approximate) nearest neighbor queries in high dimensional spaces.
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Computer Ads from...
T/Maker: Tiny Software Company Takes on the Giants (Interview) An interesting look at a company with less than 20 employees playing with the big boys
8 months ago
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T/Maker: Tiny Software Company Takes on the Giants (Interview)

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8 months ago
An interesting look at a company with less than 20 employees playing with the big boys
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Birchtree
🕹️ I casually recommend Steamworld Heist 2 (members post) This game is definitely fun, and I enjoyed my time with it, but it didn't blow me away.
4 months ago
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🕹️ I casually recommend Steamworld Heist 2 (members post)

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4 months ago
This game is definitely fun, and I enjoyed my time with it, but it didn't blow me away.
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Notes on software...
A minimal REST API in Java There's a style of Java that is a joy to write. This post will cover how to set up a basic...
over a year ago
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A minimal REST API in Java

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over a year ago
There's a style of Java that is a joy to write. This post will cover how to set up a basic PostgreSQL-integrated REST API using Jersey and JOOQ in a style not dissimilar to Flask and SQLAlchemy in Python. In particular, we'll try to avoid as much runtime reflection/class-loading...
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Push to Prod
How Would You Design Amazon S3? One of my favorite system design questions from a few years ago and a fascinating thing I learned...
9 months ago
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How Would You Design Amazon S3?

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9 months ago
One of my favorite system design questions from a few years ago and a fascinating thing I learned while answering it.
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Good Enough
PEOs are Good Enough (for us) Hi, I’m Patrick. Good Enough brought me on as a part-time Operations Manager who basically does all...
over a year ago
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PEOs are Good Enough (for us)

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over a year ago
Hi, I’m Patrick. Good Enough brought me on as a part-time Operations Manager who basically does all the things that Shawn and Barry don’t want to do! My first task was to set up payroll for Good Enough’s three employees, something we thought would maybe be worth talking about! If...
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Louwrentius
Convert dos file to linux format wit vim If you have some file that has been saved on a (Win)do(w)s host you may notice that all lines end...
over a year ago
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Convert dos file to linux format wit vim

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
If you have some file that has been saved on a (Win)do(w)s host you may notice that all lines end with ^M. To fix this, you can use the tool dos2unix. If however this tool is not at your disposal, you may have a problem. If vim is available, you do not have a problem: The trick...
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detreville
This is "detreville" It's my name, and the name of my Substack too. That's one less thing for everyone to remember.
over a year ago
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This is "detreville"

from detreville [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
It's my name, and the name of my Substack too. That's one less thing for everyone to remember.
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Evan Hahn's blog
Notes from "Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement" I just finished James Vincent’s Beyond Measure, a 2023 book about the history of measurement and its...
4 months ago
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Notes from "Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement"

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

4 months ago
I just finished James Vincent’s Beyond Measure, a 2023 book about the history of measurement and its impact on our lives. The book reveals how the meter’s length is tied to the French Revolution. It highlights many scientific discoveries linked to advances in measurement. It...
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Ken Shirriff's blog
Reverse engineering CMOS, illustrated with a vintage Soviet counter chip I recently came across an interesting die photo of a Soviet1 chip, probably designed in the...
a year ago
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Reverse engineering CMOS, illustrated with a vintage Soviet counter chip

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

a year ago
I recently came across an interesting die photo of a Soviet1 chip, probably designed in the 1970s. This article provides an introductory guide to reverse-engineering CMOS circuits, using this chip as an example. Although the chip looks like a tangle of lines at first, its large...
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Birchtree
People’s passion for art made by humans persists M.G. Siegler: A Spirited Debate Around AI This isn’t the end of art. It may indeed be the dawn of a...
3 months ago
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People’s passion for art made by humans persists

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

3 months ago
M.G. Siegler: A Spirited Debate Around AI This isn’t the end of art. It may indeed be the dawn of a new age for art. And that may not devalue the human-created art as is the clear fear right now. In fact, it may even *elevate* it
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Odds and Ends of...
I'm pro-assisted dying in principle, but I'm not sure about the proposed law Is no law better than a bad law?
7 months ago
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I'm pro-assisted dying in principle, but I'm not sure about the proposed law

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7 months ago
Is no law better than a bad law?
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Jonas Hietala
Let's build a VORON: Noise The build is going well and the printer is printing tons of random stuff and I’m generally in awe of...
a year ago
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Let's build a VORON: Noise

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

a year ago
The build is going well and the printer is printing tons of random stuff and I’m generally in awe of how cool the printer is. But there’s one thing that sucks: it’s damn loud. I knew that it wouldn’t be silent, but I wasn’t prepared for this kind of noise. Silent controller...
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Gwern.net Newsletter
September 2020 News September 2020 gwern.net newsletter with links on DRL and AI scaling, psychiatric disorders; no...
over a year ago
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September 2020 News

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

over a year ago
September 2020 gwern.net newsletter with links on DRL and AI scaling, psychiatric disorders; no reviews.
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Jonas Hietala
My book 'Why Cryptocurrencies?' is done My first commit on my book Why Cryptocurrencies? is from Dec 19, 2018, and now about 17 months later...
over a year ago
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My book 'Why Cryptocurrencies?' is done

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

over a year ago
My first commit on my book Why Cryptocurrencies? is from Dec 19, 2018, and now about 17 months later and 1006 more commits I’m finally done! Well, I’m done with the online version at least. I still plan to create an e-book, a PDF and a paperback and who knows how long that will...
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Abort Retry Fail
The History of Windows 1.0 Vaporware
a year ago
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The History of Windows 1.0

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a year ago
Vaporware
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Avestura's Blog
Using Tor outside of the Tor Browser This post shows how to run Tor with a simple PowerShell script and use it in other apps like...
over a year ago
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Using Tor outside of the Tor Browser

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

over a year ago
This post shows how to run Tor with a simple PowerShell script and use it in other apps like Telegram...
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Christian Selig
Embedding Godot games in iOS is easy Recently there’s been very exciting developments in the Godot game engine, that have allowed really...
a month ago
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Embedding Godot games in iOS is easy

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

a month ago
Recently there’s been very exciting developments in the Godot game engine, that have allowed really easy and powerful integration into an existing normal iOS or Mac app. I couldn’t find a lot of documentation or discussion about this, so I wanted to shine some light on why this...
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Electronics etc…
HP 8656A Signal Generator Schematics Agilent has made the 8656A Signal Generator Operating & Service Manual available as a PDF, but the...
a year ago
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HP 8656A Signal Generator Schematics

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

a year ago
Agilent has made the 8656A Signal Generator Operating & Service Manual available as a PDF, but the schematics of chapter 8 are all spread over 3 or 4 pages, which makes them hard to follow. I spent a good evening extracting the schematics pages, cutting-and-pasting them together...
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Posts on Made of...
A brief look at Linux's security record After the fuss of the last two weeks because of CVE-2010-3081 and CVE-2010-3301, I decided to take a...
over a year ago
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A brief look at Linux's security record

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

over a year ago
After the fuss of the last two weeks because of CVE-2010-3081 and CVE-2010-3301, I decided to take a look at a handful of the high-profile privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux from the last few years. So, here's a summary of the ones I picked out. There are also a large...
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Abort Retry Fail
The History of Red Hat The Billion Dollar Open Source Company
a year ago
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The History of Red Hat

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a year ago
The Billion Dollar Open Source Company
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Willem's Blog
Optimising images for the web and performance Make your website faster by optimising the images. This posts explains how you can do this.
over a year ago
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Optimising images for the web and performance

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

over a year ago
Make your website faster by optimising the images. This posts explains how you can do this.
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Home on Erik...
Fermat's principle I was browsing around on the Internet and the physics geek in me started reading about Fermat's...
over a year ago
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Fermat's principle

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

over a year ago
I was browsing around on the Internet and the physics geek in me started reading about Fermat's principle. And suddenly something came back to me that I've been trying to suppress for many years – how I never understood why there's anything fundamental about the principal of...
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Jonas Hietala
Friend of the Tree I just noticed I was recognized as a friend of the tree in a weekly meeting by the rust team. It...
over a year ago
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Friend of the Tree

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

over a year ago
I just noticed I was recognized as a friend of the tree in a weekly meeting by the rust team. It came during my documentation sprint during IDA Summer of Code and I discovered it now, only two and a half month later. Still a very pleasant surprise!
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Jonas Hietala
Making a Game Again? I’ve gotta do a lab today at school, tomorrow I need to do the exam I missed when I had my...
over a year ago
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Making a Game Again?

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

over a year ago
I’ve gotta do a lab today at school, tomorrow I need to do the exam I missed when I had my glasses-missing headaches and I’m going to Ikea and some other shops for, you guessed it, shopping! Sure it’s fun and sure I need to do these things but the only thing on my mind now is...
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Willem's Blog
Creating a minimal road bike I wondered how hard it would be to make a bike from spare parts I had in my garage
over a year ago
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Creating a minimal road bike

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

over a year ago
I wondered how hard it would be to make a bike from spare parts I had in my garage
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Notes on software...
Interpreting Go After spending some time at work on tooling for keeping documentation in sync with Go struct...
over a year ago
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Interpreting Go

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

over a year ago
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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Home on Erik...
Luigi conquering the world I keep forgetting to buy a costume for Halloween every year, so this year I prepared and got myself...
over a year ago
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Luigi conquering the world

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

over a year ago
I keep forgetting to buy a costume for Halloween every year, so this year I prepared and got myself a Luigi costume a month in advance. Only to realize I was going to be out of town the whole weekend.
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Birchtree
Some thoughts on the Switch 2 Nintendo finally rolled out the red carpet for the Switch 2 yesterday, and I'll be honest, I'm super...
3 months ago
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Some thoughts on the Switch 2

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

3 months ago
Nintendo finally rolled out the red carpet for the Switch 2 yesterday, and I'll be honest, I'm super excited for it. The hardware The hardware for the new Switch is everything I ever wanted, minus one thing. The performance looks pretty darn good, and it appears
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Matt Blewitt
Modifying pg_dump To Exclude Event Triggers At $WORK, we have a case where we have implemented an event trigger to prevent customers from...
a year ago
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Modifying pg_dump To Exclude Event Triggers

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

a year ago
At $WORK, we have a case where we have implemented an event trigger to prevent customers from dropping an extension. As this extension is part of contrib and normally installed by users, we can’t prevent them from dropping it normally. However, event triggers can only be created...
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./techtipsy
How to save an old printer from the e-waste pile with a Raspberry Pi A family member has a Canon PIXMA MP250 printer, originally released in 2009. It has been a very...
a year ago
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How to save an old printer from the e-waste pile with a Raspberry Pi

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

a year ago
A family member has a Canon PIXMA MP250 printer, originally released in 2009. It has been a very reliable piece of hardware, especially for a printer. Then came Windows 10. The printer would not work out of the box with it and the official drivers got stuck during installation....
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Construction Physics
Does All Semiconductor Manufacturing Depend on Spruce Pine Quartz? Here’s an idea you see spreading across the internet every so often: that all semiconductor and...
8 months ago
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Does All Semiconductor Manufacturing Depend on Spruce Pine Quartz?

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

8 months ago
Here’s an idea you see spreading across the internet every so often: that all semiconductor and solar PV manufacturing depends on extremely pure quartz from the town of Spruce Pine, North Carolina.
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lcamtuf’s thing
Weekend projects: Sketchy Sketch Making a nicer version of a forgotten, electronic Etch-A-Sketch toy.
6 months ago
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Weekend projects: Sketchy Sketch

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6 months ago
Making a nicer version of a forgotten, electronic Etch-A-Sketch toy.
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Good Enough
TIL: Deploying a Sinatra app to Render.com This morning I wanted to deploy a simple Sinatra app to Render.com. It wasn’t super obvious to me,...
over a year ago
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TIL: Deploying a Sinatra app to Render.com

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over a year ago
This morning I wanted to deploy a simple Sinatra app to Render.com. It wasn’t super obvious to me, so I figured I’d write down what worked in the end. First, a Gemfile: # Gemfile source 'https://rubygems.org' gem 'sinatra' gem 'sinatra-contrib' gem 'puma' * I’m pretty sure...
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Vitalik Buterin's...
The bulldozer vs vetocracy political axis
over a year ago
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The bulldozer vs vetocracy political axis

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

over a year ago
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Home on Erik...
Momentum strategies Haven't posted anything in ages, so here's a quick hack I threw together in Python on a Sunday...
over a year ago
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Momentum strategies

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

over a year ago
Haven't posted anything in ages, so here's a quick hack I threw together in Python on a Sunday night. Basically I wanted to know whether momentum strategies work well for international stock indexes. I spent a bit of time putting together a strategy that buys the stock index if...
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somenice
Russet Lake Early Summer An early canvas of Fissile mountain reflected in Russet Lake. This time early summer when there was...
9 months ago
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Russet Lake Early Summer

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9 months ago
An early canvas of Fissile mountain reflected in Russet Lake. This time early summer when there was still a bit of ice on the lake and the mountain tops are covered with snow. The painting is framed in western red cedar. Russet Lake Early Summer by Andrew SmithAcrylic on canvas10...
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Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course Week 5: Eudaemonia In week 5 of my humanities crash course, I read Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and Poetics. I also...
5 months ago
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Humanities Crash Course Week 5: Eudaemonia

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

5 months ago
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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Abishek Muthian
Weather, an argument against simulation hypothesis As I am writing this, cyclone Fani with category 4 level winds 215 kph (130 mph) in the Bay of...
over a year ago
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Weather, an argument against simulation hypothesis

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

over a year ago
As I am writing this, cyclone Fani with category 4 level winds 215 kph (130 mph) in the Bay of Bengal is expected to make landfall in the state of Odisha, India by tomorrow. Over 800,00 evacuated, as 100 million people are expected to be affected by the cyclone. Cyclone Fani is...
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Arduino Blog
Boring rice cooker becomes uruchimai powerhouse Rice cookers are staple appliances in about half of the world and basic models are very affordable....
11 months ago
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Boring rice cooker becomes uruchimai powerhouse

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11 months ago
Rice cookers are staple appliances in about half of the world and basic models are very affordable. But those are simple machines that are about as “dumb” as electric kettles. The result is often rice that has been sitting in the warming stage for too long, making the bottom...
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lcamtuf’s thing
The Afterlife AGENT: I am prescribing vardenafil 5 mg for you.
4 months ago
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The Afterlife

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4 months ago
AGENT: I am prescribing vardenafil 5 mg for you.
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Jonas Hietala
Postmortem: Sat-E This is my postmortem for my Ludum Dare 22 entry, Sat-E. You can find the timelapse over here. The...
over a year ago
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Postmortem: Sat-E

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over a year ago
This is my postmortem for my Ludum Dare 22 entry, Sat-E. You can find the timelapse over here. The Good Motivation I was really motivated for this dare and it showed in the game and outside it. It’s super hard to make a game in only 48 hours but this time it went pretty well. My...
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Ken Shirriff's blog
Interesting BiCMOS circuits in the Pentium, reverse-engineered Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of...
5 months ago
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Interesting BiCMOS circuits in the Pentium, reverse-engineered

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

5 months ago
Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of processors. Earlier, I wrote about the ROM in the Pentium's floating point unit that holds constants such as π. In this post, I'll look at some interesting circuits associated with this...
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./techtipsy
Cool projects This is an unsorted list of projects that really cool and neat. Chromebook cluster someone took...
a year ago
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Cool projects

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a year ago
This is an unsorted list of projects that really cool and neat. Chromebook cluster someone took some old Chromebooks, stripped them down and built a cluster. I love this kind of jank!
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Notes on software...
Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go: 1. SELECT, INSERT, CREATE and a REPL Next in database basics: 2. binary expressions and WHERE filters 3. indexes 4. a...
over a year ago
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Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go: 1. SELECT, INSERT, CREATE and a REPL

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over a year ago
Next in database basics: 2. binary expressions and WHERE filters 3. indexes 4. a database/sql driver In this series we'll write a rudimentary database from scratch in Go. Project source code is available on Github. In this first post we'll build enough of a parser to...
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Neil Madden
Book review: The Joy of Cryptography Mike Rosulek, Oregon State University. Draft of January 3, 2021. Online: The Joy of Cryptography....
over a year ago
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Book review: The Joy of Cryptography

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over a year ago
Mike Rosulek, Oregon State University. Draft of January 3, 2021. Online: The Joy of Cryptography. This is a freely-available book covering introductory material on cryptography. It’s suitable for anyone with undergraduate-level computer science knowledge. As is often the case in...
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Birchtree
Incomplete thought: using data to tell a story (members post) A year ago I tried to understand how much power ChatGPT was using and if I should be outraged by it....
5 months ago
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Incomplete thought: using data to tell a story (members post)

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5 months ago
A year ago I tried to understand how much power ChatGPT was using and if I should be outraged by it. Today I try it again.
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Jonas Hietala
The Little Things in Life It’s the little things in life that makes it extra special. Sometimes it’s the luxury of coffee...
over a year ago
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The Little Things in Life

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over a year ago
It’s the little things in life that makes it extra special. Sometimes it’s the luxury of coffee together with the morning paper and other times it’s just a small simple smile from a random stranger, kid or dog. Today when I got this bad headache I got saved by a two hour nap and...
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Simply Explained
Tracking gas usage with ESPHome, Home Assistant, and TCRT5000 In 2019, I built an energy monitor to keep track of our electricity consumption. Then, in 2021, Home...
over a year ago
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Tracking gas usage with ESPHome, Home Assistant, and TCRT5000

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over a year ago
In 2019, I built an energy monitor to keep track of our electricity consumption. Then, in 2021, Home Assistant added an Energy Management feature that keeps track of electricity and gas usage. So naturally, I had to make my gas meter smart as well.
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Never Met a Science
Seeing Like a Newsfeed Machine Learning Through Machine Poetry
11 months ago
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Seeing Like a Newsfeed

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11 months ago
Machine Learning Through Machine Poetry
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Willem's Blog
Moving to the countryside Join me on a journey from the bustle of Amsterdam to the tranquility of Noord-Limburg's countryside.
over a year ago
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Moving to the countryside

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over a year ago
Join me on a journey from the bustle of Amsterdam to the tranquility of Noord-Limburg's countryside.
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Bryan Braun - Blog
Links #12 Oscar, an open-source contributor agent architecture - Oscar is a project from the Go community that...
2 months ago
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Links #12

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2 months ago
Oscar, an open-source contributor agent architecture - Oscar is a project from the Go community that aims to develop AI agents that assist open source maintainers. I think this is a great idea. Open source is a load-bearing pillar in our modern digital infrastructure and...
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Jonas Hietala
Building my ultimate keyboard The Cybershard keyboard. What comes to mind when you see the description “the ultimate...
7 months ago
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Building my ultimate keyboard

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7 months ago
The Cybershard keyboard. What comes to mind when you see the description “the ultimate keyboard”? There are many keyboards in this world; here are some that might fit the “ultimate” moniker: Das Keyboard 4 Ultimate mechanical keyboard DataHand Ergodox EZ Glove80 Happy...
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Notes on software...
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...
over a year ago
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A single-node Kubernetes cluster without virtualization or a container registry

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over a year ago
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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Nabeel S. Qureshi
The Serendipity Machine Notes on Using Twitter
a year ago
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The Serendipity Machine

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a year ago
Notes on Using Twitter
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Arduino Blog
Using Arduino with gaming It’s not surprising that the Arduino community is packed to the brim with examples of gaming-related...
8 months ago
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Using Arduino with gaming

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8 months ago
It’s not surprising that the Arduino community is packed to the brim with examples of gaming-related projects. Both activities tend to attract people with a love for problem-solving, technology, and getting immersed in one challenging activity for hours at a time. The result is...
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Why sharding is great: demystifying the technical properties
over a year ago
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Why sharding is great: demystifying the technical properties

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over a year ago
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Arduino Blog
A miniature Vegas Sphere is the perfect nightlight Sphere in Las Vegas is inarguably one of the most notable architectural achievements of the...
11 months ago
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A miniature Vegas Sphere is the perfect nightlight

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11 months ago
Sphere in Las Vegas is inarguably one of the most notable architectural achievements of the 21st century so far. Gaudy? Maybe. Controversial? Definitely. Interesting? Absolutely — no one can debate that with a straight face. When 15-year-old Ben Kennedy’s bedroom nightlight...
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Jonas Hietala
Home office renovation When we moved back to our childhood community and bought a house I had one pretty big requirement: I...
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Home office renovation

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over a year ago
When we moved back to our childhood community and bought a house I had one pretty big requirement: I had to have a home office as I need to work remote. There simply isn’t any software development work for me here. So the later part of 2018 and early 2019 we’ve renovated an old...
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Vitalik Buterin's...
The Three Transitions
over a year ago
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The Three Transitions

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over a year ago
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Willem's Blog
Tablet as Tool Discover the hidden advantages of the iPad Pro in this insightful blog post, offering tips and...
over a year ago
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Tablet as Tool

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over a year ago
Discover the hidden advantages of the iPad Pro in this insightful blog post, offering tips and personal experiences to help you maximise the tablet's potential and redefine your workflow.
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Arduino Blog
Hey Google! Meet Arduino Cloud We’re excited to announce that the Arduino Cloud now supports Google Home™! This means you can now...
a year ago
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Hey Google! Meet Arduino Cloud

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a year ago
We’re excited to announce that the Arduino Cloud now supports Google Home™! This means you can now interact with your devices, simply through your Google Home Assistant: use voice commands, the Google Home app, or create new routines integrating Arduino solutions.  This new...
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Louwrentius
Using ncat to provide SSL-support to non-ssl capable software Sometimes, people are using software that does not support encrypted connections using SSL. To...
over a year ago
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Using ncat to provide SSL-support to non-ssl capable software

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over a year ago
Sometimes, people are using software that does not support encrypted connections using SSL. To provide SSL-support to such a client, ncat can be used. Ncat is part of nmap, the famous port-scanner. The main principle is that the non-ssl capable software does not connect to the...
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Old Vintage...
The "35-cent" Commodore 64 softmodem Rockwell famously used 6502-based cores in modems for many years, but that doesn't mean other 6502s...
5 months ago
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The "35-cent" Commodore 64 softmodem

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5 months ago
Rockwell famously used 6502-based cores in modems for many years, but that doesn't mean other 6502s couldn't be used. If only there were a way to connect a Commodore 64's audio output directly to an RJ-11 plug ... Convergent WorkSlate stuff I've got to catalogue. Officially...
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為什麼權益證明棒棒的（2020 年十一月）
over a year ago
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為什麼權益證明棒棒的（2020 年十一月）

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over a year ago
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computers are bad
2023-09-10 the Essex GWEN site Programming note: this post is in color. I will not debase myself to the level of sending HTML...
a year ago
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2023-09-10 the Essex GWEN site

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a year ago
Programming note: this post is in color. I will not debase myself to the level of sending HTML email, so if you receive Computers Are Bad by email and want the benefit of the pictures, consider reading this online instead (the link is at the top of the email). In the aftermath of...
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Good Enough
How We Built Quack (Beta) We recently launched Quack, a simple utility for you to share a beautifully rendered version of any...
over a year ago
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How We Built Quack (Beta)

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over a year ago
We recently launched Quack, a simple utility for you to share a beautifully rendered version of any Markdown text. This software is completely front-end based, and for me personally it was a bit of a challenging puzzle to implement. Thankfully we have genius hackers like Arun...
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Willem's Blog
Vision Pro My thoughts on using Vision Pro to get some real work done, exploring what Spatial Computing means...
a year ago
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Vision Pro

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a year ago
My thoughts on using Vision Pro to get some real work done, exploring what Spatial Computing means and how it can be useful.
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Willem's Blog
Realtime service uptime monitoring Downtime happens and it is nothing to be ashamed of, just make sure that you set yourself up to...
over a year ago
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Realtime service uptime monitoring

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over a year ago
Downtime happens and it is nothing to be ashamed of, just make sure that you set yourself up to discover problems as soon as possible! Know about problems before your customers do!
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Willem's Blog
Servicing a robot vacuum cleaner This week it was time for some maintenance on my iRobot Roomba robot vacuum cleaner. Read along to...
over a year ago
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Servicing a robot vacuum cleaner

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over a year ago
This week it was time for some maintenance on my iRobot Roomba robot vacuum cleaner. Read along to learn how I did it.
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Arduino Blog
Discover the new Arduino UNO SPE Shield: the quick and easy way to advanced connectivity Arduino and Microchip are excited to open electronica – the “world’s leading trade fair and...
7 months ago
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Discover the new Arduino UNO SPE Shield: the quick and easy way to advanced connectivity

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7 months ago
Arduino and Microchip are excited to open electronica – the “world’s leading trade fair and conference for electronics” – by introducing the Arduino UNO SPE Shield, a powerful ally to bring advanced connectivity to new and existing projects, with Single-Pair Ethernet (SPE) and...
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Arduino Blog
This Arduino device helps ‘split the G’ on a pint of Guinness Guinness is one of those beers (specifically, a stout) that people take seriously and the Guinness...
4 months ago
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This Arduino device helps ‘split the G’ on a pint of Guinness

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4 months ago
Guinness is one of those beers (specifically, a stout) that people take seriously and the Guinness brand has taken full advantage of that in their marketing. They even sell a glass designed specifically for enjoying their flagship creation, which has led to a trend that the...
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Notes on software...
Build a serverless ACID database with this one neat trick (atomic PutIfAbsent) Delta Lake is an open protocol for serverless ACID databases. Due to its simplicity, scalability,...
9 months ago
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Build a serverless ACID database with this one neat trick (atomic PutIfAbsent)

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9 months ago
Delta Lake is an open protocol for serverless ACID databases. Due to its simplicity, scalability, and the number of open-source implementations, it's quickly becoming the DuckDB of serverless transactional databases for analytics workloads. Iceberg is a contender too, and is...
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Willem's Blog
Free from the iCloud: Escaping Apple Photos Recently I freed myself from Apple Photos, using free software to manage my photo library. Read...
over a year ago
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Free from the iCloud: Escaping Apple Photos

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over a year ago
Recently I freed myself from Apple Photos, using free software to manage my photo library. Read along to find out what software I use and how to make it play nice with your devices.
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Posts on Made of...
Getting carried away with hack value Recently, I’ve been working on some BarnOwl branches that move more of the core functionality of...
over a year ago
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Getting carried away with hack value

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over a year ago
Recently, I’ve been working on some BarnOwl branches that move more of the core functionality of BarnOwl into perl code, instead of C (BarnOwl is written in an unholy mix of C and perl code that call each other back and forth obsessively). Moving code into perl has many...
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anderegg.ca
Two flavours of open social media Yesterday, the Mastodon team announced it would be handing over control of its project to a new...
5 months ago
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Two flavours of open social media

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5 months ago
Yesterday, the Mastodon team announced it would be handing over control of its project to a new non-profit organization. The timing of this announcement is perfect given everything that’s happening with WordPress, Meta, and… well, everything else. To date, I think Eugen Rochko...
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Evan Hahn's blog
Everything we know about the next Zelda game, as of March 2025 In short: it’ll probably emphasize player freedom, not be a “dungeon editor” game, and won’t reuse...
3 months ago
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Everything we know about the next Zelda game, as of March 2025

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3 months ago
In short: it’ll probably emphasize player freedom, not be a “dungeon editor” game, and won’t reuse the same map of Hyrule. See my post at Zelda Dungeon for more. I enjoyed rounding up all pre-release information about The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. I’m back to do this...
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Posts on Made of...
Wordpress tricks: Disabling editing shortcuts One of the major reasons I can’t stand webapps is because I’m a serious emacs junkie, and I can’t...
over a year ago
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Wordpress tricks: Disabling editing shortcuts

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over a year ago
One of the major reasons I can’t stand webapps is because I’m a serious emacs junkie, and I can’t edit text in anything that doesn’t have decent emacs keybindings. Fortunately, on Linux, at least, GTK provides basic emacs keybindings if you add gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs" to...
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Computer Ads from...
NCR PC4i Growing with your needs
6 months ago
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NCR PC4i

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6 months ago
Growing with your needs
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Notes on software...
Controlled HTML select element in React has weird default UX This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
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Controlled HTML select element in React has weird default UX

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over a year ago
This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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Notes on software...
Eight years of organizing tech meetups This is a collection of random personal experiences. So if you don't want to read everything, feel...
a year ago
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Eight years of organizing tech meetups

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a year ago
This is a collection of random personal experiences. So if you don't want to read everything, feel free to skip to the end for takeaways. I write because I'd like to see more high-quality meetups. And maybe my little bit of experience will help someone out. 2015: Philadelphia I...
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Computer Ads from...
Computer Games mag Interviews Don Bluth (1984) Talks about the famous Dragon's Lair
a week ago
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Computer Games mag Interviews Don Bluth (1984)

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a week ago
Talks about the famous Dragon's Lair
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Old Vintage...
Pretty pictures, bootable floppy disks, and the first Canon Cat demo? Now that our 1987 Canon Cat is refurbished and ready to go another nine innings or so, it's time to...
12 months ago
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Pretty pictures, bootable floppy disks, and the first Canon Cat demo?

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12 months ago
Now that our 1987 Canon Cat is refurbished and ready to go another nine innings or so, it's time to get into the operating system and pull some tricks. from our historical discussion of the Canon Cat, the Cat was designed by Jef Raskin as a sophisticated user-centric computer...
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Louwrentius
Don't be afraid of RAID Introduction I sense this sentiment on the internet that RAID is dangerous, that the likelihood of...
over a year ago
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Don't be afraid of RAID

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over a year ago
Introduction I sense this sentiment on the internet that RAID is dangerous, that the likelihood of your RAID array failing during a rebuild is almost a certainty, because hard drives have become so large. I think nothing is further from the truth and I would like to dispel this...
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Bryan Braun - Blog
Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it’s haunted In mid-2022 I bought a new domain name. The name was musicbox.fun. I got it for a side-project, an...
8 months ago
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Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it’s haunted

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8 months ago
In mid-2022 I bought a new domain name. The name was musicbox.fun. I got it for a side-project, an interactive online music box that I had built and hosted at musicboxfun.com. The new name was shorter and more quirky. I felt lucky to have grabbed it. Unfortunately, musicbox.fun...
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Willem's Blog
Six months with MCADD It's six months since our son was born with MCADD, a good moment to reflect upon the experience of...
over a year ago
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Six months with MCADD

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over a year ago
It's six months since our son was born with MCADD, a good moment to reflect upon the experience of being a parent with some thoughts and tips.
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Jonas Hietala
A Vacation Filled with Obsession A nice thing about school are the nice long vacations. Directly after my last exam we went north to...
over a year ago
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A Vacation Filled with Obsession

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over a year ago
A nice thing about school are the nice long vacations. Directly after my last exam we went north to our dear home village Övertorneå and spent two weeks celebrating Christmas and New Years Eve. What did we do? I practiced some obsessive behavior with Power Grid and Minecraft (and...
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Arduino Blog
Expanding possibilities: Blues Wireless amplifies Opta’s connectivity Blues Wireless and Arduino have joined forces to create the game-changing Blues Wireless for Arduino...
a year ago
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Expanding possibilities: Blues Wireless amplifies Opta’s connectivity

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a year ago
Blues Wireless and Arduino have joined forces to create the game-changing Blues Wireless for Arduino Opta, unveiled this week at the Automate Show in Chicago. The expansion module is an affordable solution to enhance connectivity options for Arduino Opta micro PLCs, and marks a...
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Vitalik Buterin's...
The different types of ZK-EVMs
over a year ago
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The different types of ZK-EVMs

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over a year ago
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Notes on software...
Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go: 2. binary expressions and WHERE filters Previously in database basics: 1. SELECT, INSERT, CREATE and a REPL 3. indexes 4. a...
over a year ago
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Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go: 2. binary expressions and WHERE filters

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over a year ago
Previously in database basics: 1. SELECT, INSERT, CREATE and a REPL 3. indexes 4. a database/sql driver In this post, we'll extend gosql to support binary expressions and very simple filtering on SELECT results via WHERE. We'll introduce a general mechanism...
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Arduino Blog
A beautiful custom calculator built with IV-12 VFD tubes Nixie tubes have been the go-to option for makers looking for retro display aesthetics for many...
a year ago
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A beautiful custom calculator built with IV-12 VFD tubes

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a year ago
Nixie tubes have been the go-to option for makers looking for retro display aesthetics for many years, because their distinct orange glow carries a lot of vintage appeal. But VFD (vacuum fluorescent display) tubes have been gaining in popularity recently and have different —...
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Vitalik Buterin's...
Some ways to use ZK-SNARKs for privacy
over a year ago
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Some ways to use ZK-SNARKs for privacy

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over a year ago
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Vitalik Buterin's...
On Path Independence
over a year ago
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On Path Independence

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over a year ago
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Home on Erik...
Wikiphilia I've been obsessed with Wikipedia for the past ten years. Occasionally I find some good articles...
over a year ago
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Wikiphilia

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

over a year ago
I've been obsessed with Wikipedia for the past ten years. Occasionally I find some good articles worth sharing and that's why I created the wikiphilia Twitter handle. Just a long stream of stuff that for one reason or another may be interesting.
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Jonas Hietala
Drawing a self portrait Drawing is hard. I’d like to improve though. Here’s a self portrait I tried to draw in Krita. I’m...
over a year ago
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Drawing a self portrait

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over a year ago
Drawing is hard. I’d like to improve though. Here’s a self portrait I tried to draw in Krita. I’m really slow so I stopped a bit before it really was finished. Obviously I’d like it to be a bit better, but I’m still a little happy about the glasses and the eyebrows. The mouth...
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csvbase blog
Client libraries are better when they have no API fsspec is secretly everywhere, and boss
a year ago
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Client libraries are better when they have no API

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a year ago
fsspec is secretly everywhere, and boss
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Odds and Ends of...
Listen: How the YIMBYs won My event with Anya Martin (with a brief cameo from Chris Curtis MP!)
3 months ago
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Listen: How the YIMBYs won

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3 months ago
My event with Anya Martin (with a brief cameo from Chris Curtis MP!)
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./techtipsy
How I treat my urge to hoard data The tagline for /r/datahoarder reads: “It’s A Digital Disease!”. I agree. At some point I realized...
over a year ago
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How I treat my urge to hoard data

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over a year ago
The tagline for /r/datahoarder reads: “It’s A Digital Disease!”. I agree. At some point I realized that the pursuit to hoard all the things will just keep on consuming more and more of my time and money. Storage is cheap up until to a point, once you find yourself tracking hard...
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Willem's Blog
Half Marathon Discover my journey from noob to (half) marathon finisher and how I balanced data with fitness -...
a year ago
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Half Marathon

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a year ago
Discover my journey from noob to (half) marathon finisher and how I balanced data with fitness - read about my experiences!
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Vitalik Buterin's...
What even is an institution?
over a year ago
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What even is an institution?

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over a year ago
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Louwrentius
The impact of the MDADM bitmap on RAID performance Introduction I'm aware that most people with intensive storage workloads won't run those workloads...
over a year ago
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The impact of the MDADM bitmap on RAID performance

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over a year ago
Introduction I'm aware that most people with intensive storage workloads won't run those workloads on hard drives anymore, that ship has sailed a long time ago. SSDs have taken their place (or 'the cloud'). For those few left who do use hard drives in Linux software RAID setups...
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Notes on software...
Metaprogramming in Zig and parsing CSS I knew Zig supported some sort of reflection on types. But I had been confused about how to use it....
over a year ago
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Metaprogramming in Zig and parsing CSS

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over a year ago
I knew Zig supported some sort of reflection on types. But I had been confused about how to use it. What's the difference between @typeInfo and @TypeOf? I ignored this aspect of Zig until a problem came up at work where reflection made sense. The situation was parsing and storing...
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Home on Erik...
I'm featured in Mashable This article from today in Mashable describes some of the fun stuff I get to work with: Erik...
over a year ago
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I'm featured in Mashable

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

over a year ago
This article from today in Mashable describes some of the fun stuff I get to work with: Erik Bernhardsson is technical lead at Spotify, where he helped to build a music recommendation system based on large-scale machine learning algorithms, mainly matrix factorization of big...
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./techtipsy
This site will be offline on 2022-08-17 between 18:00-19:00 EEST There really isn’t much to say here, nor is there a rational reason behind this. I just see it as an...
over a year ago
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This site will be offline on 2022-08-17 between 18:00-19:00 EEST

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

over a year ago
There really isn’t much to say here, nor is there a rational reason behind this. I just see it as an opportunity to send a signal and test the capabilities of my UPS. I’ve prepared for this moment with my self-hosting setup, let’s see how well it holds up. Hopefully better than...
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computers are bad
2025-01-05 pairs not taken So we all know about twisted-pair ethernet, huh? I get a little frustrated with a lot of histories...
6 months ago
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2025-01-05 pairs not taken

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

6 months ago
So we all know about twisted-pair ethernet, huh? I get a little frustrated with a lot of histories of the topic, like the recent neil breen^w^wserial port video, because they often fail to address some obvious questions about the origin of twisted-pair network cabling. Well, I...
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Never Met a Science
What Are Survey Experiments For? The titular question emerged as I was working with Alessandro Vecchiato on our visual conjoint...
6 months ago
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What Are Survey Experiments For?

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

6 months ago
The titular question emerged as I was working with Alessandro Vecchiato on our visual conjoint experiment, just published at the Journal of Experimental Political Science:
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Vitalik Buterin's...
Alternatives to selling at below-market-clearing prices for achieving fairness (or community...
over a year ago
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Alternatives to selling at below-market-clearing prices for achieving fairness (or community sentiment, or fun)

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

over a year ago
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Notes on software...
Make small changes and solve the problems you have Two frustrating things that can happen in an organization are 1) big changes and 2) changes that...
over a year ago
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Make small changes and solve the problems you have

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

over a year ago
Two frustrating things that can happen in an organization are 1) big changes and 2) changes that aren’t clearly associated with a known problem. It’s even worse in that order. These situations tend to happen when a problem remain unaddressed for too long. These situations tend to...
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Willem's Blog
Dig for dummies Learn how to use the dig command to query domain name servers to find the source of network...
over a year ago
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Dig for dummies

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

over a year ago
Learn how to use the dig command to query domain name servers to find the source of network problems, IP-addresses, hostnames, mail servers and related info.
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Ian's Blog
Learn how Windows builds its store of trusted root CA certificates Today I learned something fascinating about how Windows deals with trusted root CA certificates. It...
over a year ago
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Learn how Windows builds its store of trusted root CA certificates

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

over a year ago
Today I learned something fascinating about how Windows deals with trusted root CA certificates. It might surprise you, and it certainly did for me, but out-of-the-box Windows doesn't come with a set of root CA certificates sufficient for web browsing. You can see this for...
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Jonas Hietala
Monty Hall I’m currently reading The Drunkard’s Walk, a well written book about probabilities. There they...
over a year ago
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Monty Hall

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

over a year ago
I’m currently reading The Drunkard’s Walk, a well written book about probabilities. There they discussed the famous Monty Hall Problem. I’ve heard about it before and I know the answer, but he mentioned a simulation of the problem and that sounded cool so I made a simulation of...
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Vitalik Buterin's...
Should there be demand-based recurring fees on ENS domains?
over a year ago
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Should there be demand-based recurring fees on ENS domains?

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over a year ago
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Matt Mullenweg
Age-gating I’m not opposed to age-gating at all, I think it’s appropriate in many situations and useful, and...
7 months ago
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Age-gating

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

7 months ago
I’m not opposed to age-gating at all, I think it’s appropriate in many situations and useful, and democratic societies can decide their own rules there. But it should be handled and authenticated as low-level as possible, at the operating system layer. See also: Australia’s...
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axio.ms
Maths is Fun and Useful but Lasers Are More So Way back when, I made a cool but basic paper sculpture (in Maths is Fun and Useful) by hand, using a...
over a year ago
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Maths is Fun and Useful but Lasers Are More So

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

over a year ago
Way back when, I made a cool but basic paper sculpture (in Maths is Fun and Useful) by hand, using a perl script for the shape template. For cultural reasons, I wanted to make a gift out of paper and it had to be Heaps Good. I had finally got access to a laser cutter (omgomg)...
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Jorge Arango
IA Fail: Which Kindle Edition? One of the goals of information architecture is making it possible for people to easily find what...
6 months ago
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IA Fail: Which Kindle Edition?

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

6 months ago
One of the goals of information architecture is making it possible for people to easily find what they’re looking for. As a large and complex information environment, Amazon.com provides lots of examples of how to do it right – and how to do it wrong. This post highlights one of...
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Opsbros
WetSocks Revival How to get a broken METAR/TAF Toolbar application working again; the fun way! Seeing what we can do...
over a year ago
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WetSocks Revival

from Opsbros [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
How to get a broken METAR/TAF Toolbar application working again; the fun way! Seeing what we can do to get WetSocks Windows 98 tray weather app working again.
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Old Vintage...
prior-art-dept.: The hierarchical hypermedia world of Hyper-G Prior Art Department and today we'll consider a forgotten yet still extant sidebar of the early...
a month ago
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prior-art-dept.: The hierarchical hypermedia world of Hyper-G

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

a month ago
Prior Art Department and today we'll consider a forgotten yet still extant sidebar of the early 1990s Internet. If you had Internet access at home back then, it was almost certainly dialup modem (like I did); only the filthy rich had T1 lines or ISDN. Moreover, from a user...
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Good Enough
Say hello to Jelly: the simplest way to jam on email as a team Dear readers, we need to apologize. We know some of you have noticed that Good Enough has gotten...
12 months ago
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Say hello to Jelly: the simplest way to jam on email as a team

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

12 months ago
Dear readers, we need to apologize. We know some of you have noticed that Good Enough has gotten much quieter this year than last, across this blog, our newsletter, and socials. We’ve been heads down for the last few months on something new, but we’re now ready to come back up...
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Jonas Hietala
Browse posts with telescope.nvim I’ve used telescope.nvim's find files with require("telescope.builtin").find_files for quite some...
a year ago
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Browse posts with telescope.nvim

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

a year ago
I’ve used telescope.nvim's find files with require("telescope.builtin").find_files for quite some time. I use find files together with it’s cousin .oldfiles (find recently opened files) all the time for finding source code files, blog posts, and more. But it’s naturally...
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Yazin Alirhayim
Tracking where a WhatsApp user came from At Amal, we have an AI chat bot that works over WhatsApp — allowing our customers to speak to their...
over a year ago
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Tracking where a WhatsApp user came from

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

over a year ago
At Amal, we have an AI chat bot that works over WhatsApp — allowing our customers to speak to their bank account, asking questions like “What’s my balance” and “How much have I spent on Uber’s this month?”. A problem we faced really early on when connecting to WhatsApp was that...
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Jonas Hietala
Let's build a VORON: Build start The end goal, as rendered by Autodesk’s online viewer I’m not sure where it came from, but it was...
a year ago
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Let's build a VORON: Build start

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

a year ago
The end goal, as rendered by Autodesk’s online viewer I’m not sure where it came from, but it was suddenly very important that I got myself a 3D printer. Maybe it was an important insight, but it maybe it was only a fix idea I got that somehow became this all-import...
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Arduino Blog
This Strandbeest-style coffee table can deliver drinks More than 30 years ago, Dutch artist Theo Jansen began astounding the world with his Strandbeesten...
10 months ago
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This Strandbeest-style coffee table can deliver drinks

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

10 months ago
More than 30 years ago, Dutch artist Theo Jansen began astounding the world with his Strandbeesten walking sculptures. Even after decades, they have an almost mythical allure thanks to the incredibly fluid way in which they walk. They’re clearly constructs, but with gaits that...
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Louwrentius
Cryptocurrencies are detrimental to society Want to listen to this article? audio element. Introduction How would you explain the inner...
over a year ago
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Cryptocurrencies are detrimental to society

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Want to listen to this article? audio element. Introduction How would you explain the inner workings of bitcoin to a person in simple, understandable terms? source This explanation seems perfect to me because it illustrates some seriously problematic aspects of...
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Vitalik Buterin's...
Über Kollusion
over a year ago
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Über Kollusion

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

over a year ago
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Arduino Blog
Finally, you can DIY your own espresso machine Caffeine lovers take their coffee very seriously and that is most apparent when you dive into the...
9 months ago
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Finally, you can DIY your own espresso machine

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

9 months ago
Caffeine lovers take their coffee very seriously and that is most apparent when you dive into the world of espresso machines. To satisfy enthusiasts, an espresso machine needs to provide precise control over temperature, pressure, and flow to enable the perfect pull. But if...
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Computer Ads from...
Comics from 1978/05 Creative Computing Mag Time for some oldie levity.
3 months ago
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Comics from 1978/05 Creative Computing Mag

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

3 months ago
Time for some oldie levity.
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Arduino Blog
Concept Bytes’ coffee table tracks people and walks itself across a room when called The term “mmWave” refers to radio waves with wavelengths on the millimeter scale. When it comes to...
3 days ago
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Concept Bytes’ coffee table tracks people and walks itself across a room when called

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

3 days ago
The term “mmWave” refers to radio waves with wavelengths on the millimeter scale. When it comes to wireless communications technology, like 5G, mmWave allows for very fast data transfer — though that comes at the expense of range. But mmWave technology also has some very useful...
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Matt Mullenweg
Response to DHH I’ve taken this post down. I’ve been attacked so much the past few days; the most vicious, personal,...
8 months ago
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Response to DHH

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

8 months ago
I’ve taken this post down. I’ve been attacked so much the past few days; the most vicious, personal, hateful words poisoned my brain, and the original version of this post was mean. I am so sorry. I shouldn’t let this stuff get to me, but it clearly did, and I took it out on DHH,...
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The Pragmatic...
Open source business model struggles at WordPress Automattic, creator of Wordpress, is being sued by one of the largest WordPress hosting providers....
9 months ago
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Open source business model struggles at WordPress

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

9 months ago
Automattic, creator of Wordpress, is being sued by one of the largest WordPress hosting providers. The conflict fits into a trend of billion-dollar companies struggling to effectively monetize open source, and are changing tactics to limit their competition and increase their...
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Odds and Ends of...
How I learned to stop worrying and love the military industrial complex Whether Trump wins or loses today, Europe should tool up and prepare to fight.
8 months ago
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How I learned to stop worrying and love the military industrial complex

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

8 months ago
Whether Trump wins or loses today, Europe should tool up and prepare to fight.
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Jonas Hietala
October theme says: Numbers New month and a new theme. As with the two previous games I’m following The Experimental Gameplay...
over a year ago
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October theme says: Numbers

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

over a year ago
New month and a new theme. As with the two previous games I’m following The Experimental Gameplay Project theme which this month is numbers. What’s it gonna be? A sudoku game or something more… thrilling? I’ll see what I can do :)
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Engineers Need Art
Jigsaw Puzzle Those of us who fiddled while Apple Computer burned. Well, actually some of us put together a big...
over a year ago
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Jigsaw Puzzle

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

over a year ago
Those of us who fiddled while Apple Computer burned. Well, actually some of us put together a big jigsaw puzzle.
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Home on Erik...
Running Theano on EC2 Inspired by Sander Dieleman's internship at Spotify, I've been playing around with deep learning...
over a year ago
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Running Theano on EC2

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

over a year ago
Inspired by Sander Dieleman's internship at Spotify, I've been playing around with deep learning using Theano. Theano is this Python package that lets you define symbolic expressions (cool), does automatic differentiation (really cool), and compiles it down into bytecode to run...
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latest projects -...
Precision Clock Mk IV [Hardware] GPS synchronised, millisecond precision, automatic timezones and more!
a month ago
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Precision Clock Mk IV

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

a month ago
[Hardware] GPS synchronised, millisecond precision, automatic timezones and more!
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Himanshu Mishra |...
Letters What did you do?? I have developed a habbit of writing letters to friends and family for the past...
over a year ago
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Letters

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

over a year ago
What did you do?? I have developed a habbit of writing letters to friends and family for the past few years. Today, I made some of them…
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Abort Retry Fail
Tandy Corporation, Part 3 Becoming IBM Compatible
4 weeks ago
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Tandy Corporation, Part 3

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4 weeks ago
Becoming IBM Compatible
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Abishek Muthian
Major disaster has struck the computing industry. TL;DR your computers are going to get slow because of patches aimed at fixing unprecedented...
over a year ago
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Major disaster has struck the computing industry.

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

over a year ago
TL;DR your computers are going to get slow because of patches aimed at fixing unprecedented vulnerabilities in the CPU. For the rest (simplified), Modern computational security relies on maintaining the sanctum of memory, i.e keeping secure memory (say your passwords) out of...
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Arduino Blog
Wired for success: Inspiring the next generation of women in science Did you know that it’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science on February 11th, 2025? To...
4 months ago
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Wired for success: Inspiring the next generation of women in science

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

4 months ago
Did you know that it’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science on February 11th, 2025? To celebrate this global event, we’re shining a light on the efforts to make STEM more accessible, inclusive, and inspiring for future generations. Let’s dive in! Mind the gap: gender...
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Willem's Blog
The Ultimate Freedom Bike With the Brompton foldable bike you find yourself a very versatile companion to go whenever and...
over a year ago
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The Ultimate Freedom Bike

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

over a year ago
With the Brompton foldable bike you find yourself a very versatile companion to go whenever and wherever you please!
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Good Enough
Lettini is Good Enough We put a lot of ourselves into our work, and it occurs to us that you, dear reader, might not know...
a year ago
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Lettini is Good Enough

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a year ago
We put a lot of ourselves into our work, and it occurs to us that you, dear reader, might not know much about us. So we’re starting a new Q&A column to introduce ourselves, one-at-a-time, starting with our resident designer… Who the hell do you think you are? 👋 Hello, I’m...
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./techtipsy
How to fix ZFS pool not importing at boot Issue description You are running a Linux-based machine with an install of ZFS on Linux. Everything...
over a year ago
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How to fix ZFS pool not importing at boot

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over a year ago
Issue description You are running a Linux-based machine with an install of ZFS on Linux. Everything seems to work correctly, but after restarting your machine, the ZFS pool is not visible. You can still import your pool manually using zpool import poolname or zpool import -a. In...
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Birchtree
I'm just gonna be your YouTube algorithm now It turns out I like sharing the cool YouTube videos I see when there aren't any schedules or rules...
6 months ago
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I'm just gonna be your YouTube algorithm now

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6 months ago
It turns out I like sharing the cool YouTube videos I see when there aren't any schedules or rules about how often I share them, so here's another collection I enjoyed recently. An oldie but a goodie, I really loved what Scotty was doing back in
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Himanshu Mishra |...
Why don't you move abroad? The IIT Dream College and Open Source Twitter @ San Francisco The Emotional Turmoil in San Francisco...
7 months ago
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Why don't you move abroad?

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7 months ago
The IIT Dream College and Open Source Twitter @ San Francisco The Emotional Turmoil in San Francisco College placements and first job Life…
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Krebs on Security
Who is the DOGE and X Technician Branden Spikes? At 49, Branden Spikes isn't just one of the oldest technologists who has been involved in Elon...
4 months ago
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Who is the DOGE and X Technician Branden Spikes?

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4 months ago
At 49, Branden Spikes isn't just one of the oldest technologists who has been involved in Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). As the current director of information technology at X/Twitter and an early hire at PayPal, Zip2, Tesla and SpaceX, Spikes is also...
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Notes on software...
Checking linearizability in Go You want to check for strict consistency (linearizability) for your project but you don't want to...
8 months ago
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Checking linearizability in Go

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8 months ago
You want to check for strict consistency (linearizability) for your project but you don't want to have to deal with the JVM. Porcupine, used by a number of real-world systems like etcd and TiDB, has you covered! Importantly, neither Jepsen projects nor Porcupine can...
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Abishek Muthian
Reviewing the Chromebook Google sent me for free after 2 years Around December 2017, Google sent me a free Acer Chromebook 11 N7 (C731). Well, technically they...
over a year ago
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Reviewing the Chromebook Google sent me for free after 2 years

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

over a year ago
Around December 2017, Google sent me a free Acer Chromebook 11 N7 (C731). Well, technically they sent me a free Chromebook cover first, with the promise of a Chromebook to follow and only caveat (or request) being my time to listen to their Google Cloud Platform sales pitch. Acer...
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Birchtree
Raycast does this The gang gets to work defending their Mac login items. Who has the most minimal startup? Who's got...
2 months ago
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Raycast does this

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2 months ago
The gang gets to work defending their Mac login items. Who has the most minimal startup? Who's got the craziest apps? This episode has more new apps mentioned in any episode of Comfort Zone ever! Watch or listen now. Other Things Discussed Chris's hyper key video
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Applied Cartography
buttondown.com/alternatives Some kind words from Chris Krycho on Buttondown's Alternatives page: This is how I want all my tools...
6 months ago
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buttondown.com/alternatives

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6 months ago
Some kind words from Chris Krycho on Buttondown's Alternatives page: This is how I want all my tools to be. There is a ton of room in these markets for healthy and friendly competition — and no need at all for winner-take-all or monopolist attitudes. First off — credit where it's...
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Jonas Hietala
Mailto: links with FastMail in Firefox You can change the application to handle mailto: links in Firefox in Preferences -> Applications....
over a year ago
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Mailto: links with FastMail in Firefox

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

over a year ago
You can change the application to handle mailto: links in Firefox in Preferences -> Applications. The problem is that you can’t input custom urls and some email providers, like hotmail or fastmail, aren’t supported. I managed to fix it with the plugin MailtoWebmails. It annoys me...
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Arduino Blog
Move Mario remotely with this online N64 controller system For obvious reasons, video game console controls provide input commands directly to the console....
6 months ago
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Move Mario remotely with this online N64 controller system

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6 months ago
For obvious reasons, video game console controls provide input commands directly to the console. Modern consoles may do so wirelessly, but the effect is the same: direct input. But what if you connected a “controller” to the internet? Then you could play from anywhere and that is...
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Home on Erik...
How to build up a data team (everything I ever learned about recruiting) During my time at Spotify, I've reviewed thousands of resumes and interviewed hundreds of people....
over a year ago
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How to build up a data team (everything I ever learned about recruiting)

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

over a year ago
During my time at Spotify, I've reviewed thousands of resumes and interviewed hundreds of people. Lots of them were rejected but lots of them also got offers. Finally, I've also had my share of offers rejected by the candidate.
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Louwrentius
The 'hidden' cost of using ZFS for your home NAS Introduction Update December 2023: In June, it was announced that iXsystems would sponsor...
over a year ago
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The 'hidden' cost of using ZFS for your home NAS

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Introduction Update December 2023: In June, it was announced that iXsystems would sponsor implementing the VDEV expansion feature. A new pr has been created for this effort. The feature was merged into the code base, but may not be available to the general public before the end...
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Louwrentius
Did you know that RDP is as insecure as telnet? Microsoft developed the remote desktop protocol in order to allow remote GUI- based access to hosts....
over a year ago
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Did you know that RDP is as insecure as telnet?

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Microsoft developed the remote desktop protocol in order to allow remote GUI- based access to hosts. It is easy to pick on Microsoft and I do respect what they have accomplished, however, it may not come as a surprise that they did it all wrong with RDP in terms of security. By...
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Birchtree
Quick Reviews 1.0.5: the quality of life update An update to my app, Quick Reviews, is rolling out now! After a lot of feature adds in the first few...
4 months ago
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Quick Reviews 1.0.5: the quality of life update

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

4 months ago
An update to my app, Quick Reviews, is rolling out now! After a lot of feature adds in the first few updates, I took this as a chance to clean up some bugs and improve a few elements that made the app a little annoying to use at times. Oh,
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Lighthouse Blog
Browser extensions to add articles
6 months ago
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Browser extensions to add articles

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6 months ago
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Notes on software...
Administering Kubernetes is hard Kubernetes is easy to use after some exposure; it's pretty convenient too. But it is super hard to...
over a year ago
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Administering Kubernetes is hard

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

over a year ago
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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Vitalik Buterin's...
Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 5: The Purge
8 months ago
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Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 5: The Purge

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8 months ago
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Computer Ads from...
Commodore Magazine Interviews Epyx (1989) They discuss the early days of computer game company.
5 months ago
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Commodore Magazine Interviews Epyx (1989)

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5 months ago
They discuss the early days of computer game company.
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My server setups throughout the years My self-hosting adventure started during my university days. Once I actually had money to buy myself...
over a year ago
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My server setups throughout the years

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

over a year ago
My self-hosting adventure started during my university days. Once I actually had money to buy myself a decent used laptop (ThinkPad T430) that had more than 3GB of RAM that my ThinkPad T60 had, I could use some of my older hardware as testbeds for any of the stupid ideas that I...
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Avestura's Blog
Oversimplified ideas of the great philosophers of all times Ideas of the great philosophers of all times explained in a few lines
over a year ago
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Oversimplified ideas of the great philosophers of all times

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

over a year ago
Ideas of the great philosophers of all times explained in a few lines
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