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Entering Pintos First week of school is over and it’s been full throttle from the start, in a good way. We’re having...
3rd Sep 2012
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Entering Pintos

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

3rd Sep 2012
First week of school is over and it’s been full throttle from the start, in a good way. We’re having four courses and for once I like them all. We have an interesting math course, a useful course “Software Development in Theory” (boring but useful) and a big project course where...
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How FM Radio Works
14th Feb 2025
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How FM Radio Works

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

14th Feb 2025
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How Would You Design Amazon S3? One of my favorite system design questions from a few years ago and a fascinating thing I learned...
1st Oct 2024
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How Would You Design Amazon S3?

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

1st Oct 2024
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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2024 Year in Review Everything that happened to me this year
30th Dec 2024
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2024 Year in Review

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

30th Dec 2024
Everything that happened to me this year
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Are data sets the new server rooms? This blog post Data sets are the new server rooms makes the point that a bunch of companies raise a...
1st Nov 2016
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Are data sets the new server rooms?

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

1st Nov 2016
This blog post Data sets are the new server rooms makes the point that a bunch of companies raise a ton of money to go get really proprietary awesome data as a competitive moat. Because once you have the data, you can build a better product, and no one can copy it (at least not...
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Client libraries are better when they have no API fsspec is secretly everywhere, and boss
10th Apr 2024
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Client libraries are better when they have no API

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

10th Apr 2024
fsspec is secretly everywhere, and boss
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Apple GPU drivers now in Asahi Linux We’re excited to announce our first Apple GPU driver release! We’ve been working hard over the past...
7th Dec 2022
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Apple GPU drivers now in Asahi Linux

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

7th Dec 2022
We’re excited to announce our first Apple GPU driver release! We’ve been working hard over the past two years to bring this new driver to everyone, and we’re really proud to finally be here. This is still an alpha driver, but it’s already good enough to run a smooth desktop...
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Running SQL Server in a container on Github Actions This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
16th Dec 2021
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Running SQL Server in a container on Github Actions

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

16th Dec 2021
This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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Revisiting the Businesscard Raytracer
1st May 2020
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Revisiting the Businesscard Raytracer

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

1st May 2020
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Repetition is the shadow of structure
2nd Nov 2019
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Repetition is the shadow of structure

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

2nd Nov 2019
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Thinking about functional programming Someone on Discord asked about how to learn functional programming. The question and my initial...
15th Aug 2023
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Thinking about functional programming

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

15th Aug 2023
Someone on Discord asked about how to learn functional programming. The question and my initial tweet on the subject prompted an interesting discussion with Shriram Krishnamurthi and other folks. So here's a slightly more thought out exploration. And just for backstory sake: I...
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Debugging Tauri in VS Code If you're working on a Tauri app in VS Code and want to set breakpoints and use a debugger like a...
5th Dec 2023
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Debugging Tauri in VS Code

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

5th Dec 2023
If you're working on a Tauri app in VS Code and want to set breakpoints and use a debugger like a grown up, this is how to get it done.
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For a Business, Should Making (Extra) Money Be Incidental? Humans are desire-driven machines: a business should help dissipate desires by satisfying them...
21st Jul 2026
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For a Business, Should Making (Extra) Money Be Incidental?

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

21st Jul 2026
Humans are desire-driven machines: a business should help dissipate desires by satisfying them without exploiting you.
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Conformant OpenGL 4.6 on the M1 For years, the M1 has only supported OpenGL 4.1. That changes today – with our release of full...
14th Feb 2024
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Conformant OpenGL 4.6 on the M1

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

14th Feb 2024
For years, the M1 has only supported OpenGL 4.1. That changes today – with our release of full OpenGL® 4.6 and OpenGL® ES 3.2! Install Fedora for the latest M1/M2-series drivers. Already installed? Just dnf –refresh upgrade. Unlike the vendor’s non-conformant 4.1 drivers, our...
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Adding a USB Port to the ThinkPad X1 Nano (the Hard Way) I wanted to add an internal USB port to my ThinkPad X1 Nano which should have been a fairly easy...
29th May 2024
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Adding a USB Port to the ThinkPad X1 Nano (the Hard Way)

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

29th May 2024
I wanted to add an internal USB port to my ThinkPad X1 Nano which should have been a fairly easy thing to do, but it wasn't. Of course, if I were still using my Framework Laptop it would be as easy as plugging in a custom module but I've been using my X1 Nano as my primary laptop...
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Zenith Data Systems, Part I The quality goes in before the name goes on
4th Oct 2026
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Zenith Data Systems, Part I

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

4th Oct 2026
The quality goes in before the name goes on
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The Comet’s Path: On Cycles of Presence and Withdrawal Some of us burn bright in moments of presence, then retreat to darker orbits. It's not...
2nd Dec 2024
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The Comet’s Path: On Cycles of Presence and Withdrawal

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

2nd Dec 2024
Some of us burn bright in moments of presence, then retreat to darker orbits. It's not antisocial—it's survival. A meditation on the natural rhythm of engagement and withdrawal.
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From nanoscale to global scale: Advancing MIT’s special initiatives in manufacturing, health, and... MIT.nano cleanroom complex named after Robert Noyce PhD ’53 at the 2025 Nano Summit.
13th Nov 2025
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From nanoscale to global scale: Advancing MIT’s special initiatives in manufacturing, health, and climate

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

13th Nov 2025
MIT.nano cleanroom complex named after Robert Noyce PhD ’53 at the 2025 Nano Summit.
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Commuter bike checkup This week my trustworthy commuter bike started making strange squeaking noises when braking. It has...
9th Jan 2021
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Commuter bike checkup

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

9th Jan 2021
This week my trustworthy commuter bike started making strange squeaking noises when braking. It has been just over three years since I started cycling on it. People frequently ask me how the bike is performing and how the Gates Carbon CDX belt drive is doing? Time to have a look...
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Inside a vintage aerospace navigation computer of uncertain purpose I recently obtained an aerospace computer from the early 1970s, apparently part of a navigation...
29th May 2024
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Inside a vintage aerospace navigation computer of uncertain purpose

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

29th May 2024
I recently obtained an aerospace computer from the early 1970s, apparently part of a navigation system. Aerospace computers are an interesting but mostly neglected area of computer hardware, so I'm always delighted to examine one up close. In an era when most computers were large...
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Measuring Capacity Through Utilization (This post is cross-posted from Honeycomb’s instrumentation series). One of my favorite concepts...
8th Jan 2017
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Measuring Capacity Through Utilization

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

8th Jan 2017
(This post is cross-posted from Honeycomb’s instrumentation series). One of my favorite concepts when thinking about instrumenting a system to understand its overall performance and capacity is what I call “time utilization”. By this I mean: If you look at the behavior of a...
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I went on an Amazon propaganda tour In which I'm forced to confront a contradictions in my values
1st Jul 2026
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I went on an Amazon propaganda tour

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

1st Jul 2026
In which I'm forced to confront a contradictions in my values
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You Won’t Hear About These, Even In Myths (Atlassian Jira, Confluence (and more) Pre-Auth Arbitrary... Welcome back to yet another episode of "security was taken seriously". Being who we are (and...
4 weeks ago
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You Won’t Hear About These, Even In Myths (Atlassian Jira, Confluence (and more) Pre-Auth Arbitrary File Read CVE-2026-21589)

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

4 weeks ago
Welcome back to yet another episode of "security was taken seriously". Being who we are (and constantly being exposed to what we see…), we recognize we have been doomed to eternal damnation as we keep on watching security best practices crumble behind “secure by design”
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OpenGL 3.1 on Asahi Linux Upgrade your Asahi Linux systems, because your graphics drivers are getting a big boost:...
6th Jun 2023
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OpenGL 3.1 on Asahi Linux

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

6th Jun 2023
Upgrade your Asahi Linux systems, because your graphics drivers are getting a big boost: leapfrogging from OpenGL 2.1 over OpenGL 3.0 up to OpenGL 3.1! Similarly, the OpenGL ES 2.0 support is bumping up to OpenGL ES 3.0. That means more playable games and more functioning...
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telephones caught in between During the heyday of AT&T, it was often said that the telephone system was the largest machine ever...
2nd Aug 2026
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telephones caught in between

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

2nd Aug 2026
During the heyday of AT&T, it was often said that the telephone system was the largest machine ever built. The "hello machine" certainly was vast, but whether or not you consider it to be a single machine raises challenging questions of definition. The Internet, I think we can...
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Goals for Autumn 2016 Every once and a while I like to redo my priorities and set new goals for myself. I recently read...
12th Aug 2016
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Goals for Autumn 2016

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

12th Aug 2016
Every once and a while I like to redo my priorities and set new goals for myself. I recently read the book 59 seconds which among other things presented a way of structuring goals I will try out. In short you should divide your main goal into 5 subgoals with a date of completion,...
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You can absolutely have an RSS dependent website in 2026 I write stuff here. Sometimes the stuff is good. Sometimes it reads like I wrote it at 2 AM after an...
9th Apr 2026
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You can absolutely have an RSS dependent website in 2026

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

9th Apr 2026
I write stuff here. Sometimes the stuff is good. Sometimes it reads like I wrote it at 2 AM after an argument with a YAML file, which is because I did. But one decision I made early on was that I didn't want to offer an email newsletter.
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The 4-Hour Chef: Scrambled Eggs I’ve been listening to The Tim Ferriss Show a while now and he and his guests often inspire me to...
14th Jan 2017
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The 4-Hour Chef: Scrambled Eggs

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

14th Jan 2017
I’ve been listening to The Tim Ferriss Show a while now and he and his guests often inspire me to make changes and start doing new things. I got introduced to Josh Waitzkin’s excellent The Art of Learning and the meta skill of learning has since then fascinated me. So when I got...
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Multidimensional gas pricing
9th May 2024
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Multidimensional gas pricing

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

9th May 2024
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Tracking down a faulty Storage Array Controller with ZFS One day, I lost two virtual machines on our DR environment after a storage vMotion. Further...
15th Dec 2016
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Tracking down a faulty Storage Array Controller with ZFS

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

15th Dec 2016
One day, I lost two virtual machines on our DR environment after a storage vMotion. Further investigation uncovered that any storage vMotion of a virtual machine residing on our DR storage array would corrupt the virtual machine's disks. I could easily restore the affected...
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Fortinet FortiGate CVE-2024-23113 - A Super Complex Vulnerability In A Super Secure Appliance In... Today we'd like to share a recent journey into (yet another) SSLVPN appliance vulnerability - a...
14th Oct 2024
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Fortinet FortiGate CVE-2024-23113 - A Super Complex Vulnerability In A Super Secure Appliance In 2024

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

14th Oct 2024
Today we'd like to share a recent journey into (yet another) SSLVPN appliance vulnerability - a Format String vulnerability, unusually, in Fortinet's FortiGate devices. It affected (before patching) all currently-maintained branches, and recently was highlighted by CISA as...
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Godzilla Minus One I wrote a bit in Everybody's in L.A. about the constraint of evaluating the merit of something...
4th Jun 2024
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Godzilla Minus One

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

4th Jun 2024
I wrote a bit in Everybody's in L.A. about the constraint of evaluating the merit of something that's in conversation with a genre you don't really care for in the first place; I don't care much for late night shows, and I care even less for kaiju movies, even with my knowledge...
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Have you tried a text box? Maybe all we need to do is write stuff down.
2nd Jan 2026
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Have you tried a text box?

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

2nd Jan 2026
Maybe all we need to do is write stuff down.
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Does AI exacerbate English-language inequality? It’s an empirical question!
2nd Oct 2026
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Does AI exacerbate English-language inequality?

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

2nd Oct 2026
It’s an empirical question!
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February 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter links on AI scaling, semaglutide, and ethicist ethics
13th Mar 2021
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February 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter

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

13th Mar 2021
links on AI scaling, semaglutide, and ethicist ethics
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Harpoom: of course the Apple Network Server can be hacked into running Doom a $10,000+ Apple server running IBM AIX. Of course you can. Well, you can now. Now, let's go ahead...
1st Jun 2025
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Harpoom: of course the Apple Network Server can be hacked into running Doom

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

1st Jun 2025
a $10,000+ Apple server running IBM AIX. Of course you can. Well, you can now. Now, let's go ahead and get the grumbling out of the way. No, the ANS is not running Linux or NetBSD. No, this is not a backport of NCommander's AIX Doom, because that runs on AIX 4.3. The Apple...
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Disable Transparent Hugepages tl;dr “Transparent Hugepages” is a Linux kernel feature intended to improve performance by making...
10th Jul 2017
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Disable Transparent Hugepages

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

10th Jul 2017
tl;dr “Transparent Hugepages” is a Linux kernel feature intended to improve performance by making more efficient use of your processor’s memory-mapping hardware. It is enabled ("enabled=always") by default in most Linux distributions. Transparent Hugepages gives some applications...
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Paytm says to me that it’s PoS feature didn’t have a security risk Paytm- Alibaba backed India’s leading mobile payment wallet saw a 1000 % growth in the amount of...
29th Nov 2016
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Paytm says to me that it’s PoS feature didn’t have a security risk

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

29th Nov 2016
Paytm- Alibaba backed India’s leading mobile payment wallet saw a 1000 % growth in the amount of money added to its wallet during India’s demonetisation. I must acknowledge that digital wallets like Paytm, Ola money etc. did help in easing the pains of demonetisation for those...
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Notifications with xmonad/irssi/urxvt So I’ve been idling on irc for years now and I’ve been using irssi for that, which works fine. I...
3rd Jul 2014
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Notifications with xmonad/irssi/urxvt

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

3rd Jul 2014
So I’ve been idling on irc for years now and I’ve been using irssi for that, which works fine. I have not had notifications enabled, so I can see from the statusbar whenever someone messages me. As I’ve never been very active this has been fine, but now I figured it’s time to fix...
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Eco-driving measures could significantly reduce vehicle emissions New research shows automatically controlling vehicle speeds to mitigate traffic at intersections can...
7th Aug 2025
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Eco-driving measures could significantly reduce vehicle emissions

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

7th Aug 2025
New research shows automatically controlling vehicle speeds to mitigate traffic at intersections can cut carbon emissions between 11 and 22 percent.
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Cursed circuits: charge pump voltage halver There's plenty of circuits that are hard to understand because they're complicated. And some that...
2nd Dec 2025
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Cursed circuits: charge pump voltage halver

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

2nd Dec 2025
There's plenty of circuits that are hard to understand because they're complicated. And some that are hard to make sense of because they seem too simple.
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Notes from "On Writing Well" I’ve been trying to improve my writing so I read On Writing Well by William Zinsser. My main...
4th Jan 2026
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Notes from "On Writing Well"

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

4th Jan 2026
I’ve been trying to improve my writing so I read On Writing Well by William Zinsser. My main takeaways: Clear thinking is a prerequisite for clear writing. How do you avoid cluttered writing? “The answer is to clear our heads of clutter. Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one...
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The Design of Everyday Things My favorite book of the year. I’m not going to gush about it — enough others have in the decades of...
30th Dec 2014
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The Design of Everyday Things

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

30th Dec 2014
My favorite book of the year. I’m not going to gush about it — enough others have in the decades of its existence — but know that it is that good and that timeless. Norman changed the way I thought about technology.
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Syncing files seamlessly between smartphone and tablet In order to optimise my workflow, I was looking for a way to seamlessly access the same files on...
15th Sep 2020
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Syncing files seamlessly between smartphone and tablet

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

15th Sep 2020
In order to optimise my workflow, I was looking for a way to seamlessly access the same files on both my computer and smartphone. This is useful to when you want to quickly send files from your computer using your smartphone through various messaging apps and vice versa. Read...
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Fixed Gear Gran Fondo Today I took my fixed gear bike for a ride, 176KM from Amsterdam to America (Limburg, The...
9th Apr 2021
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Fixed Gear Gran Fondo

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

9th Apr 2021
Today I took my fixed gear bike for a ride, 176KM from Amsterdam to America (Limburg, The Netherlands). Rain and wind added to the challenge, creating an ultimate test for man and machine. Let some of my fun be of inspiration to you! Gran Fondo The Italians call a big cycle ride...
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A 15-minute intro to hobby CNC In which the author tilts at windmills for a brief while.
6th Sep 2024
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A 15-minute intro to hobby CNC

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

6th Sep 2024
In which the author tilts at windmills for a brief while.
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Amazon Basics, but for intellectual property. Amazon has been accused several times for ripping off merchants on its platform. And every single...
6th Jul 2026
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Amazon Basics, but for intellectual property.

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

6th Jul 2026
Amazon has been accused several times for ripping off merchants on its platform. And every single time they denied any wrongdoing. A merchant, or anyone really, can create a product (or source it from China), then resell it on amazon. Amazon is the service provider, and hosts...
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Startup School - How to talk to users 2025 Note - I based this off the Mom Test , written by a fellow YC founder. Interestingly enough -...
25th Jul 2019
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Startup School - How to talk to users

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

25th Jul 2019
2025 Note - I based this off the Mom Test , written by a fellow YC founder. Interestingly enough - if you look at the products I build…
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How the UK is Weakening Safety Worldwide
23rd Feb 2025
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How the UK is Weakening Safety Worldwide

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

23rd Feb 2025
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Invisible Problems During the pandemic, we completed one of our largest projects at work. To celebrate, since we...
3rd Aug 2026
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Invisible Problems

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

3rd Aug 2026
During the pandemic, we completed one of our largest projects at work. To celebrate, since we couldn't meet in person, we all ordered food on DoorDash and played an online escape room game together. We were on a Zoom call, helping each other out and having fun. The first...
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Introducing TagVault Magnetic for AirTag Wanting to easily, securely, and discretely keep an AirTag on our car, we designed...
28th Nov 2023
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Introducing TagVault Magnetic for AirTag

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

28th Nov 2023
Wanting to easily, securely, and discretely keep an AirTag on our car, we designed the TagVault Magnetic Mount. Testing many designs, we did not want to settle with anything that couldn't stand extreme vibration. So we gave our mount has an huge, thick Neodymium rare earth...
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Death, and Utsuge This post discusses topics some may wish to avoid: terminal illness, hospice care, death, and...
1st Nov 2024
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Death, and Utsuge

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

1st Nov 2024
This post discusses topics some may wish to avoid: terminal illness, hospice care, death, and Japanese visual novels.
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DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market Today Raspberry Pi announced more price increases for all Pis with LPDDR4 RAM, alongside a...
1st Apr 2026
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DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market

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

1st Apr 2026
Today Raspberry Pi announced more price increases for all Pis with LPDDR4 RAM, alongside a 'right-sized' 3GB RAM Pi 4 for $83.75. The price increases bring the 16GB Pi 5 up to $299.99. Despite today's date, this is not a joke. I published a video going over the state of the...
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Mini-review: David Pogue's Apple: The First 50 Years Apple: The First 50 Years to see if I even wanted to bother with the hardcover. Previously the...
1st Apr 2026
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Mini-review: David Pogue's Apple: The First 50 Years

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

1st Apr 2026
Apple: The First 50 Years to see if I even wanted to bother with the hardcover. Previously the essential tome on Apple (and especially Mac) history was Owen Linzmeyer's Apple Confidential, still on my shelf in the well-thumbed 2.0 paperback. I was prepared to find this book...
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2013 Read Books I actually read more books in 2013 than in 2012. In a somewhat unorganized list: Fiction Livet...
3rd Jan 2014
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2013 Read Books

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

3rd Jan 2014
I actually read more books in 2013 than in 2012. In a somewhat unorganized list: Fiction Livet Deluxe - Jens Lapidius Escape from camp 14 - Blaine Harden Wonderful. A great book. Edge - Jeffery Deaver Dollar - Lee Child Gisslan - Lee Child Bränd - Lee Child Besökaren - Lee...
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Gitcoin Grants Round 5 Retrospective
30th Apr 2020
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Gitcoin Grants Round 5 Retrospective

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

30th Apr 2020
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This is Personal One of the trickiest tightropes for an author publishing a business book to walk is: "how deftly do...
2nd Apr 2024
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This is Personal

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Apr 2024
One of the trickiest tightropes for an author publishing a business book to walk is: "how deftly do I tip my hand that this is all part of a greater lead generation and monetization engine?"
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Build your own handheld retro console with the Arduino® UNO™ Q board Arduino® Project Hub has featured a lot of DIY handheld consoles on this blog over the years. Most...
6th Aug 2026
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Build your own handheld retro console with the Arduino® UNO™ Q board

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

6th Aug 2026
Arduino® Project Hub has featured a lot of DIY handheld consoles on this blog over the years. Most of them are impressive, and most of them require at least some custom hardware – a purpose-designed PCB, a specialized connector, a part you can only get from one supplier. They’re...
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mDNS Primer
11th Aug 2023
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mDNS Primer

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11th Aug 2023
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Escaping the flat tires Finding the answer to the question how resilient a puncture-proof tire really is took me quite some...
18th Nov 2021
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Escaping the flat tires

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

18th Nov 2021
Finding the answer to the question how resilient a puncture-proof tire really is took me quite some time, but alas - here it is!
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Pomera DM250 Tinkering The KING JIM Pomera DM250 "digital typewriter" is a small Linux-powered ARM computer that boots up...
14th Mar 2025
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Pomera DM250 Tinkering

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14th Mar 2025
The KING JIM Pomera DM250 "digital typewriter" is a small Linux-powered ARM computer that boots up into a custom word processor application. I've been tinkering with it to try to get OpenBSD booted on it. I'd normally wait until the end and write up a proper article...
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Complex Heterodynes Explained Introduction Some Common DSP Notations Sampling with 1 ADC Creates a Real Signal Heterodyning the...
7th Feb 2026
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Complex Heterodynes Explained

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

7th Feb 2026
Introduction Some Common DSP Notations Sampling with 1 ADC Creates a Real Signal Heterodyning the Signal to Baseband the Wrong Way Complex Heterodyne to the Rescue Filtering Away the Old Negative Image Decimation Final Block Diagram Conclusion Afterthought: the Fourier Transform...
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How to use a Phase One H20 digital back on a medium format Hasselblad V camera (500EL/M) My newest purchase was a bit of a gamble. I bought a $500 Phase One H20 digital back for my...
1st Jan 2021
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How to use a Phase One H20 digital back on a medium format Hasselblad V camera (500EL/M)

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

1st Jan 2021
My newest purchase was a bit of a gamble. I bought a $500 Phase One H20 digital back for my Hasselblad 500EL/M medium format camera. Or, simply put, I bought an expensive old gadget for my even older analog camera, making it a digital camera. A gadget that was released in the...
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Git Merge 2024 GitButler is organizing the 2024 Git Merge conference, Sep 19/20 in Berlin!
22nd Jul 2024
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Git Merge 2024

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22nd Jul 2024
GitButler is organizing the 2024 Git Merge conference, Sep 19/20 in Berlin!
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The Apple GPU and the Impossible Bug In late 2020, Apple debuted the M1 with Apple’s GPU architecture, AGX, rumoured to be derived from...
13th May 2022
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The Apple GPU and the Impossible Bug

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

13th May 2022
In late 2020, Apple debuted the M1 with Apple’s GPU architecture, AGX, rumoured to be derived from Imagination’s PowerVR series. Since then, we’ve been reverse-engineering AGX and building open source graphics drivers. Last January, I rendered a triangle with my own code, but...
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With PowerPC, Windows CE and the WiiN-PAD slate, everyone's a WiiN-er (except Data General) Telemedicine (and mobile health generally) accumulated a hunk of public mindshare during the...
5th May 2024
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With PowerPC, Windows CE and the WiiN-PAD slate, everyone's a WiiN-er (except Data General)

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

5th May 2024
Telemedicine (and mobile health generally) accumulated a hunk of public mindshare during the pandemic emergency, but speaking as someone with a day job in public health for almost two decades, it's always been a buzzword in certain corners of IT with enough money sloshing around...
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Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools Code forces humans to be precise. That’s good—computers need precision. But it also forces humans to...
3rd Feb 2025
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Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools

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

3rd Feb 2025
Code forces humans to be precise. That’s good—computers need precision. But it also forces humans to think like machines. For decades we tried to fix this by making programming more human-friendly. Higher-level languages. Visual interfaces. Each step helped, but we were still...
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Casady & Greene Remembering Casady & Greene and the excitement (and closing) of an era of Macintosh software...
9th Sep 2024
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Casady & Greene

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9th Sep 2024
Remembering Casady & Greene and the excitement (and closing) of an era of Macintosh software publishing.
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Train Simulator Controller: Laser-Cutting a Door Control Panel As the different pieces of my Train Simulator controller come together, a bite-sized first task of...
1st May 2024
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Train Simulator Controller: Laser-Cutting a Door Control Panel

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

1st May 2024
As the different pieces of my Train Simulator controller come together, a bite-sized first task of building the physical dashboard is the door controls placed at each side of the cab. Here, I detail the process of prototyping the door control panel from a Class 80x out of...
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RSS in Next 14 We finished Buttondown’s migration from MDX to Markdoc last week. It went swimmingly, except for one...
1st Sep 2024
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RSS in Next 14

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

1st Sep 2024
We finished Buttondown’s migration from MDX to Markdoc last week. It went swimmingly, except for one little hitch: our RSS feeds, which sat on top of getServerSideProps and read in the flat .mdoc files, threw 500s in Vercel. (They worked fine locally and in CI, but then those...
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Compiling Handbrake CLI on Debian Lenny In this post I will show you how to compile Handbrake for Debian Lenny. Please note that although...
3rd Aug 2010
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Compiling Handbrake CLI on Debian Lenny

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

3rd Aug 2010
In this post I will show you how to compile Handbrake for Debian Lenny. Please note that although the Handbrake GUI version does compile on Lenny, it crashes with a segmentation fault like this: Gtk: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -5 and height...
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Introducing NightPad Wireless Charger NightPad has no LEDs, so it won't light up your room. This was a frustration we had with other...
19th Jul 2018
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Introducing NightPad Wireless Charger

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

19th Jul 2018
NightPad has no LEDs, so it won't light up your room. This was a frustration we had with other wireless chargers - which I covered with electrical tape. So in designing this one, the first thing we did was remove the light. NightPad charges iPhone 50% faster than standard Qi...
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Microsystems Interviews Andrew D. Hall, Director of the Bell Labs System V Development (1984) They discuss Unix in the 1980s.
1st Oct 2026
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Microsystems Interviews Andrew D. Hall, Director of the Bell Labs System V Development (1984)

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1st Oct 2026
They discuss Unix in the 1980s.
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The Three Transitions
9th Jun 2023
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The Three Transitions

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

9th Jun 2023
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Inspiration from a child Explore the world together with your kids and reap the rewards of adventure and fun!
29th Sep 2021
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Inspiration from a child

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

29th Sep 2021
Explore the world together with your kids and reap the rewards of adventure and fun!
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A writer's autobiography (Just not mine.)
1st Feb 2023
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A writer's autobiography

from detreville [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Feb 2023
(Just not mine.)
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5 Frames of Kodacolor 100 with the Nikon FM Many years have past since I last shot colour film. Maybe 20 years ago I was using the Lomo Smena 8m...
28th Jun 2026
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5 Frames of Kodacolor 100 with the Nikon FM

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in technology

28th Jun 2026
Many years have past since I last shot colour film. Maybe 20 years ago I was using the Lomo Smena 8m camping. Mostly FujiFilm because I liked the greens. Once I started shooting Black & White and developing the film myself, I really didn’t see the need to have someone else...
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Optical vs chest strap heart rate monitors With modern wearables, smartwatches and fitness bands, it has become easy and common to measure your...
14th Jul 2019
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Optical vs chest strap heart rate monitors

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

14th Jul 2019
With modern wearables, smartwatches and fitness bands, it has become easy and common to measure your heart rate. There are however fundamental differences in sensor types. Some sensors capture the electrical signal from your heart while others use light to analyse the blood...
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Hacking Chess.com and Accessing 50 Million Customer Records
16th Dec 2020
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Hacking Chess.com and Accessing 50 Million Customer Records

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

16th Dec 2020
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Baccano! I wanted to like this one so much. It seemed tailor-made to what I love in anime: interesting,...
4th Nov 2021
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Baccano!

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Nov 2021
I wanted to like this one so much. It seemed tailor-made to what I love in anime: interesting, anachronistic setting; weird alchemy stuff; a huge slew of characters and viewpoints; framing devices within framing devices.
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Virtual Precision Clock [Software] Pacify that pining for precision
13th May 2026
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Virtual Precision Clock

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

13th May 2026
[Software] Pacify that pining for precision
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Free software scares normal people I’m the person my friends and family come to for computer-related help. (Maybe you, gentle reader,...
30th Oct 2025
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Free software scares normal people

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

30th Oct 2025
I’m the person my friends and family come to for computer-related help. (Maybe you, gentle reader, can relate.) This experience has taught me which computing tasks are frustrating for normal people. Normal people often struggle with converting video. They will need to watch,...
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I quit my startup because of comic sans Okay, it wasn’t really caused by the Comic Sans. I had very fun 3 months of pretty fun collaboration...
14th Jul 2023
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I quit my startup because of comic sans

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

14th Jul 2023
Okay, it wasn’t really caused by the Comic Sans. I had very fun 3 months of pretty fun collaboration and intense learning, but in the end I had this very clear feeling that I would be better of on my own. It wasn’t awful, but it wasn’t great. There were many small and big things...
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FFmpeg performance on a Core i7 920 @ 3.6 Ghz The system i'm running is a Core i7 920 @ 3.6 Ghz. I am transcoding a DVD (Grave Of The Fire Flies)...
22nd Apr 2009
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FFmpeg performance on a Core i7 920 @ 3.6 Ghz

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

22nd Apr 2009
The system i'm running is a Core i7 920 @ 3.6 Ghz. I am transcoding a DVD (Grave Of The Fire Flies) to iPod format (640x480 x264). Thread support is enabled, to FFmpeg uses about 250% CPU. That's 2.5 of the 4 cores available. If possible, I would have liked to see it use all four...
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June, 2026 June, like any month in which I neither write very much nor read very much, feels already...
1st Jul 2026
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June, 2026

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

1st Jul 2026
June, like any month in which I neither write very much nor read very much, feels already cryptographic in retrospect.
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A Brief History of Sega Enterprises Sega does what Nintendon't
12th Jan 2026
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A Brief History of Sega Enterprises

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

12th Jan 2026
Sega does what Nintendon't
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Stacked Branches with GitButler GitButler can now manage dependent branches that are stacked, including managing stacked GitHub PRs.
4th Dec 2024
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Stacked Branches with GitButler

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

4th Dec 2024
GitButler can now manage dependent branches that are stacked, including managing stacked GitHub PRs.
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SystemSix SystemSix is a desk calendar project that displays the weather forecast and phase of the moon on an...
15th Mar 2022
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SystemSix

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

15th Mar 2022
SystemSix is a desk calendar project that displays the weather forecast and phase of the moon on an e-ink display.
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The Most Important Scarce Resource is Legitimacy
23rd Mar 2021
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The Most Important Scarce Resource is Legitimacy

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

23rd Mar 2021
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Language pitch Here's a fun analysis that I did of the pitch (aka. frequency) of various languages. Certain...
1st Feb 2017
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Language pitch

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

1st Feb 2017
Here's a fun analysis that I did of the pitch (aka. frequency) of various languages. Certain languages are simply pronounced with lower or higher pitch. Whether this is a feature of the language or more a cultural thing is a good question, but there are some substantial...
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Armadillo Space T-shirt Finally received my Armadillo Space T-Shirt and mug. I recommend them !
14th Oct 2009
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Armadillo Space T-shirt

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

14th Oct 2009
Finally received my Armadillo Space T-Shirt and mug. I recommend them !
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WandaVision What to say about this show that isn’t damning with faint praise?
1st Mar 2021
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WandaVision

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

1st Mar 2021
What to say about this show that isn’t damning with faint praise?
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Governance, Part 2: Plutocracy Is Still Bad
28th Mar 2018
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Governance, Part 2: Plutocracy Is Still Bad

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

28th Mar 2018
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MichTron ProText The Last Word Processor You'll Ever Need
3 days ago
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MichTron ProText

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

3 days ago
The Last Word Processor You'll Ever Need
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D’Angelo & Diane Just last night I was re-watching Annie Hall to remember and honor Diane Keaton, and now the news...
15th Oct 2025
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D’Angelo & Diane

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

15th Oct 2025
Just last night I was re-watching Annie Hall to remember and honor Diane Keaton, and now the news that D’Angelo had passed. I’m writing this listening to Voodoo, one of the great albums of all time. That CD in my beater car in Houston was on constant rotation, the richness of the...
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Why I don't take sponsorships Last year I made that video in response to a sponsorship offer that I got from various VPN...
20th May 2020
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Why I don't take sponsorships

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

20th May 2020
Last year I made that video in response to a sponsorship offer that I got from various VPN providers. They all told me the same thing: our service is the best way to protect your privacy, and we were hoping you could convey this message in one of your videos.So I decided to do...
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Dithering in Colour
8th Mar 2025
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Dithering in Colour

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

8th Mar 2025
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Cannot access Windows guest within VMware Fusion when running vsphere client Currently, I am running VMware ESXi 4.1 on a test system. To manage ESXi, you need the VSphere...
17th Jun 2011
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Cannot access Windows guest within VMware Fusion when running vsphere client

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

17th Jun 2011
Currently, I am running VMware ESXi 4.1 on a test system. To manage ESXi, you need the VSphere client, which is only available for the Windows platform. Therefore, I run VMware Fusion on my Mac to be able to access VSphere and manage my ESXi host. The trouble is that both ESXi...
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Increasing Frequency Counter Precision with Linear Regression MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [...
16th Jun 2023
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Increasing Frequency Counter Precision with Linear Regression

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

16th Jun 2023
MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [ ['$', '$'], ["\\(", "\\)"] ], displayMath: [ ['$$', '$$'], ["\\[", "\\]"] ], processEscapes: true, skipTags: ['script', 'noscript', 'style', 'textarea', 'pre',...
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I didn't write any Javascript, and other shortcuts Getting it done by not doing a lot of it
22nd Aug 2023
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I didn't write any Javascript, and other shortcuts

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

22nd Aug 2023
Getting it done by not doing a lot of it
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GitButler is joining the Open Source Pledge GitButler is joining the Open Source Pledge to help move towards a more sustainable open source...
2nd Sep 2024
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GitButler is joining the Open Source Pledge

from GitButler [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Sep 2024
GitButler is joining the Open Source Pledge to help move towards a more sustainable open source ecosystem.
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Google interviews vs the LSAT, and why AI will save us from both
14th Jun 2023
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Google interviews vs the LSAT, and why AI will save us from both

from Scott Kennedy [alt+shift+b] in technology

14th Jun 2023
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Corporate Legibility for Software Engineers Corporate legibility is the art of making tasks, and their outcomes, easier to understand for those...
13th Dec 2022
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Corporate Legibility for Software Engineers

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

13th Dec 2022
Corporate legibility is the art of making tasks, and their outcomes, easier to understand for those not directly involved. I’ll help you understand why this is an important thing to be aware of and how to use it to help your career.
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Track Zelda release anniversaries in your calendar The original Legend of Zelda came out 40 years ago today. With other birthdays on the horizon, like...
21st Feb 2026
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Track Zelda release anniversaries in your calendar

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

21st Feb 2026
The original Legend of Zelda came out 40 years ago today. With other birthdays on the horizon, like Twilight Princess’s 20th in November, I wanted a calendar that showed the anniversary of every Zelda game. So I made one. Subscribe to this URL in your calendar...
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My issue with GPU-accelerated deep learning I've been spending several hundred bucks renting GPU instances on AWS over the last year. The...
3rd Feb 2016
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My issue with GPU-accelerated deep learning

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

3rd Feb 2016
I've been spending several hundred bucks renting GPU instances on AWS over the last year. The speedup from a GPU is awesome and hard to deny. GPUs have taken over the field. Maybe following the footsteps of Bitcoin mining there's some research on using FPGA (I know very little...
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An intuition for distributed consensus in OLTP systems Distributed consensus in transactional databases (e.g. etcd or Cockroach) is a big deal these days....
8th Feb 2024
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An intuition for distributed consensus in OLTP systems

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

8th Feb 2024
Distributed consensus in transactional databases (e.g. etcd or Cockroach) is a big deal these days. Most often under the hood are variations of log-based Paxos-like algorithms such as MultiPaxos, Viewstamped Replication, or Raft. While there are new variations that come out each...
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Housekeeping 20241208 Corrections, stats, and an update
8th Dec 2024
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Housekeeping 20241208

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

8th Dec 2024
Corrections, stats, and an update
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AI is critically important but not for you Before Chat-GPT caused a sensation, big tech companies like Facebook and Apple were betting their...
14th May 2024
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AI is critically important but not for you

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

14th May 2024
Before Chat-GPT caused a sensation, big tech companies like Facebook and Apple were betting their future growth on virtual reality. But I'm convinced that virtual reality will never be a mainstream thing. If you ever used VR you know why: A heavy thing on your head that messes up...
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The Kingdom Hmmmmm.
6th Jul 2021
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The Kingdom

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Jul 2021
Hmmmmm.
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Your product either lives long enough to become a platform or it dies out Everything around you is a platform💡 If you are building a software to be used by developers, you...
25th Oct 2022
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Your product either lives long enough to become a platform or it dies out

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

25th Oct 2022
Everything around you is a platform💡 If you are building a software to be used by developers, you can not ignore extensibility. It needs to…
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Play YouTube video from firefox on mpv YouTube on Firefox skips frames and neither Google nor Firefox seem to have the incentive to fix it,...
13th Aug 2024
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Play YouTube video from firefox on mpv

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

13th Aug 2024
YouTube on Firefox skips frames and neither Google nor Firefox seem to have the incentive to fix it, let's do it ourselves. When this is done, we can watch YouTube videos in the browser with smooth playback using mpv as the video player backend. Note: This guide is for Linux...
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Apple Watch as Phone Embark on a digital detox journey as I swap my smartphone for an Apple Watch Ultra, exploring the...
9th Nov 2023
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Apple Watch as Phone

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

9th Nov 2023
Embark on a digital detox journey as I swap my smartphone for an Apple Watch Ultra, exploring the liberating yet challenging world of wearable tech.
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The beautiful silent thunderbolt-3 PC
22nd Dec 2020
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The beautiful silent thunderbolt-3 PC

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

22nd Dec 2020
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Making the Internet Alive Again The Internet is changing. Are we changing, too?
28th Feb 2024
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Making the Internet Alive Again

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

28th Feb 2024
The Internet is changing. Are we changing, too?
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AI Starting Points A friend is getting back into UX research after a two-year gap. Recognizing AI is a big deal, she...
3rd Feb 2026
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AI Starting Points

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

3rd Feb 2026
A friend is getting back into UX research after a two-year gap. Recognizing AI is a big deal, she asked where to start learning. Great question! Other people are surely wondering as well, so I’m sharing my answers here. Caveats: These answers reflect how I learn; YMMV. You’re...
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Recreating Apple's beautiful visionOS search bar Many of Apple’s own visionOS apps, like Music, Safari, and Apple TV, have a handy search bar front...
24th Mar 2024
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Recreating Apple's beautiful visionOS search bar

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

24th Mar 2024
Many of Apple’s own visionOS apps, like Music, Safari, and Apple TV, have a handy search bar front and center on the window so you can easily search through your content. Oddly, as of visionOS 1.1, replicating this visually as a developer using SwiftUI or UIKit is not...
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Offline Music People sometimes act suprised when I tell them about my music hobby, manually converting CD's to...
16th Jul 2022
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Offline Music

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

16th Jul 2022
People sometimes act suprised when I tell them about my music hobby, manually converting CD's to lossless audio files; there is some reason to this madness however!
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Unit testing C code with gtest This post covers building and testing a minimal, but still useful, C project. We'll use...
31st Aug 2019
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Unit testing C code with gtest

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

31st Aug 2019
This post covers building and testing a minimal, but still useful, C project. We'll use Google's gtest and CMake for testing C code. This will serve as a foundation for some upcoming posts/projects on programming Linux, userland networking and interpreters. test/CMakeLists.txt...
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Writing a simple Python compiler: 1. hello, fibonacci In this post we'll write a Python to C compiler in Python. This is especially easy to do since...
16th Aug 2020
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Writing a simple Python compiler: 1. hello, fibonacci

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

16th Aug 2020
In this post we'll write a Python to C compiler in Python. This is especially easy to do since Python has a builtin parser library and because a number of CPython internals are exposed for extension writers. By the end of this post, in a few hundred lines of Python, we'll be able...
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Silence Isn't Violence The last decade, we’ve been told we have to speak — and speak loudly — or we’re the bad guys. And,...
2nd Sep 2026
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Silence Isn't Violence

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

2nd Sep 2026
The last decade, we’ve been told we have to speak — and speak loudly — or we’re the bad guys. And, of course, say what the mob says or we’re still the bad guys. But silence is often more profound.
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THE GLOBAL CAPSLOCK KEY THE GLOBAL CAPSLOCK KEY I MADE A GLOBAL CAPS LOCK KEY SO THAT WE CAN ALL AGREE ON WHEN TO USE CAPS...
5th Feb 2025
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THE GLOBAL CAPSLOCK KEY

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

5th Feb 2025
THE GLOBAL CAPSLOCK KEY I MADE A GLOBAL CAPS LOCK KEY SO THAT WE CAN ALL AGREE ON WHEN TO USE CAPS LOCK. You can see the status and download the client at https://globalcapslock.com. Read the full post on my blog! Here's a raw link, if you need it: ...
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USA 250 This auspicious 250th Independence Day, I find myself thinking of what Om wrote in iAMerican when he...
5th Jul 2026
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USA 250

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

5th Jul 2026
This auspicious 250th Independence Day, I find myself thinking of what Om wrote in iAMerican when he became a US citizen in 2013. On a globe, America is a landmass, a country. In an immigrant’s heart it is a belief that future is almost always better. It may not be perfect and it...
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Parquet: more than just "Turbo CSV" Quicker, but also more convenient
3rd Apr 2023
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Parquet: more than just "Turbo CSV"

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

3rd Apr 2023
Quicker, but also more convenient
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Where is Lee Wittlinger? Lee controls the board of WP Engine. The board is why WP Engine hasn’t done a trademark deal for...
28th Sep 2024
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Where is Lee Wittlinger?

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

28th Sep 2024
Lee controls the board of WP Engine. The board is why WP Engine hasn’t done a trademark deal for their use of the WordPress and WooCommerce trademarks. You hide behind lawyers and corporate PR when you’re wrong, not when you’re right. I’m replying on Twitter, I’m commenting on...
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From web developer to database developer in 10 years Last month I completed my first year at EnterpriseDB. I'm on the team that built and...
15th Feb 2025
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From web developer to database developer in 10 years

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

15th Feb 2025
Last month I completed my first year at EnterpriseDB. I'm on the team that built and maintains pglogical and who, over the years, contributed a good chunk of the logical replication functionality that exists in community Postgres. Most of my work, our work, is in C and Rust with...
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No Way, PHP Strikes Again! (CVE-2024-4577) Orange Tsai tweeted a few hours ago about “One of [his] PHP vulnerabilities, which affects XAMPP by...
7th Jun 2024
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No Way, PHP Strikes Again! (CVE-2024-4577)

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

7th Jun 2024
Orange Tsai tweeted a few hours ago about “One of [his] PHP vulnerabilities, which affects XAMPP by default”, and we were curious to say the least. XAMPP is a very popular way for administrators and developers to rapidly deploy Apache, PHP, and a bunch of other tools, and
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Hedley Davis has died A more obscure Commodore employee (where he apparently met his wife), but still quite influential...
17th Mar 2026
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Hedley Davis has died

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

17th Mar 2026
A more obscure Commodore employee (where he apparently met his wife), but still quite influential during the Amiga era. Along with more pedestrian units such as the Amiga 3000 and the monochrome Amiga 2024 monitor, my favourite device he worked on was the 1987 prototype SX-500....
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Coordination, Good and Bad
11th Sep 2020
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Coordination, Good and Bad

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

11th Sep 2020
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A Vacation Filled with Obsession A nice thing about school are the nice long vacations. Directly after my last exam we went north to...
7th Jan 2013
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A Vacation Filled with Obsession

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

7th Jan 2013
A nice thing about school are the nice long vacations. Directly after my last exam we went north to our dear home village Övertorneå and spent two weeks celebrating Christmas and New Years Eve. What did we do? I practiced some obsessive behavior with Power Grid and Minecraft (and...
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Wayback Machine Joint Automattic has been working with the Internet Archive to develop a plugin to combat link rot, and...
1st Nov 2025
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Wayback Machine Joint

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

1st Nov 2025
Automattic has been working with the Internet Archive to develop a plugin to combat link rot, and it’s a plugin I’d encourage you to install. As the plugin says: When a linked page disappears, the plugin helps preserve your user experience by redirecting visitors to a reliable...
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Plus Post: subLOGIC Flight Simulator II Put yourself in the pilot's seat of a Piper 181 Cherokee Archer for an awe-inspiring flight over...
3rd Apr 2026
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Plus Post: subLOGIC Flight Simulator II

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

3rd Apr 2026
Put yourself in the pilot's seat of a Piper 181 Cherokee Archer for an awe-inspiring flight over realistic scenery...
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You should repaste your MacBook (but don't) My favorite memory of my M1 Pro MacBook Pro was the whole sensation of “holy crap, you never hear...
10th Jul 2025
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You should repaste your MacBook (but don't)

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

10th Jul 2025
My favorite memory of my M1 Pro MacBook Pro was the whole sensation of “holy crap, you never hear the fans in this thing”, which was very novel in 2021. Four years later, this MacBook Pro is still a delight. It’s the longest I’ve ever owned a laptop, and while I’d love to pick up...
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Rewriting my Neovim config in Lua This screenshot betrays just how much productive time was wasted setting this up. I’ve got tons of...
1st Oct 2023
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Rewriting my Neovim config in Lua

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

1st Oct 2023
This screenshot betrays just how much productive time was wasted setting this up. I’ve got tons of things to do; clean the bathrooms, prototype an idea for a SaaS and ponder world peace. So naturally the procrastination took over and I rewrote my Neovim configuration in...
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How I self-host this blog at home with a dynamic IPv4 address, IPv6 prefix, and a dash of Wireguard Networking has long been my Achilles heel. I know the very basics, but the more complex areas of...
6th May 2026
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How I self-host this blog at home with a dynamic IPv4 address, IPv6 prefix, and a dash of Wireguard

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

6th May 2026
Networking has long been my Achilles heel. I know the very basics, but the more complex areas of networking have been a bit puzzling to me. By the time I figured out how IPv4 works, I found IPv6 and that my ISP supports it. Back to square one. That didn’t stop me from learning...
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An AI usage statement for bryanbraun.com I’ve had “AI usage statements” in the back of my mind ever since I read Ethan Marcott’s blog post...
2 weeks ago
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An AI usage statement for bryanbraun.com

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

2 weeks ago
I’ve had “AI usage statements” in the back of my mind ever since I read Ethan Marcott’s blog post sharing a round-up of his favorite ones. I didn’t consider writing one for this site, since it had the smell of status-signaling. Like a quasi-political declaration of allegiance to...
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Configuring, attacking and securing VRRP on Linux The VRRP or Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol helps you create a reliable network by using multiple...
2nd Jan 2015
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Configuring, attacking and securing VRRP on Linux

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

2nd Jan 2015
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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2025-06-08 Omnimax In a previous life, I worked for a location-based entertainment company, part of a huge team of...
8th Jun 2025
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2025-06-08 Omnimax

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8th Jun 2025
In a previous life, I worked for a location-based entertainment company, part of a huge team of people developing a location for Las Vegas, Nevada. It was COVID, a rough time for location-based anything, and things were delayed more than usual. Coworkers paid a lot of attention...
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Candid experiences starting a hardware startup 2025 Note - I gave this talk at the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View about 6 months before we launched...
4th Oct 2011
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Candid experiences starting a hardware startup

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

4th Oct 2011
2025 Note - I gave this talk at the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View about 6 months before we launched Pebble on Kickstarter. I was 4 years into…
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Some spoiler free thoughts about the first episode of “Jet Lag: The Game” season 13 Tom Scott is playing to win. The intro music made me wonder if the Wendover team watch...
5th Mar 2025
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Some spoiler free thoughts about the first episode of “Jet Lag: The Game” season 13

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

5th Mar 2025
Tom Scott is playing to win. The intro music made me wonder if the Wendover team watch c90dventures. At one point in the episode, Adam breaks out some Scatman. This is going to be a great season.
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Tasmota Quad Switch Breakout The Tasmota Quad Switch Breakout is designed to make connecting a custom quad light switch to a...
3rd Oct 2021
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Tasmota Quad Switch Breakout

from Opsbros [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Oct 2021
The Tasmota Quad Switch Breakout is designed to make connecting a custom quad light switch to a Wemos D1 mini running Tasmota super super easy.
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The hardest challenge about becoming a manager Note: this post is full of pseudo-psychology and highly speculative content. Like most fun stuff! I...
5th Jun 2015
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The hardest challenge about becoming a manager

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

5th Jun 2015
Note: this post is full of pseudo-psychology and highly speculative content. Like most fun stuff! I became a manager back in 2009. Being a developer is fun. You have this very tangible way to measure yourself.
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Study shows how a common fertilizer ingredient benefits plants The findings could enable new ways to increase plants’ resilience to UV stress and enhance seedling...
7th Jul 2025
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Study shows how a common fertilizer ingredient benefits plants

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

7th Jul 2025
The findings could enable new ways to increase plants’ resilience to UV stress and enhance seedling growth.
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Understanding zero-knowledge proofs What are zero-knowledge proofs, really?
24th Jul 2022
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Understanding zero-knowledge proofs

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

24th Jul 2022
What are zero-knowledge proofs, really?
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More MCMC – Analyzing a small dataset with 1-5 ratings I've been obsessed with how to iterate quickly based on small scale feedback lately. One awesome...
5th Dec 2015
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More MCMC – Analyzing a small dataset with 1-5 ratings

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

5th Dec 2015
I've been obsessed with how to iterate quickly based on small scale feedback lately. One awesome website I encountered is Usability Hub which lets you run 5 second tests. Users see your site for 5 seconds and you can ask them free-form questions afterwards.
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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...
12th Nov 2024
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Curing Mac mini M4 fomo with 3D printing

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

12th Nov 2024
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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A geometric world now
31st Jul 2018
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A geometric world now

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

31st Jul 2018
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What Happened After I Outed a Reddit Mod for Affiliate Spam I recently broke down how Reddit mods and users are abusing Google search rankings with affiliate...
9th Sep 2024
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What Happened After I Outed a Reddit Mod for Affiliate Spam

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

9th Sep 2024
I recently broke down how Reddit mods and users are abusing Google search rankings with affiliate spam. It’s reddit marketing gone awry. The post blew up and got a decent amount of attention. Then I got a front row seat to how deep of a spam filled porta-potty Reddit has become....
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Is storage really that cheap? Nowadays you can buy a 1 TB harddrive for less than 100 euro's . So I build myself a 4 TB NAS box,...
5th Oct 2008
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Is storage really that cheap?

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

5th Oct 2008
Nowadays you can buy a 1 TB harddrive for less than 100 euro's . So I build myself a 4 TB NAS box, which is already 50% full. However, although it is to some degree fault-tollerant by using RAID 6, one mistake or catastrophic hardware faillure and all data is lost. And that's...
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List of Vim forks Here are the Vim forks I know about: Neovim: “a Vim-based text editor engineered for extensibility...
a week ago
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List of Vim forks

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

a week ago
Here are the Vim forks I know about: Neovim: “a Vim-based text editor engineered for extensibility and usability, to encourage new applications and contributions.” Vim Classic: “a stable, long-term support fork of the ubiquitous text editor, maintained without the assistance of...
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Op-Amp Helper PCB A PCB for breadboards to make working with op-amps easier.
8th Nov 2023
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Op-Amp Helper PCB

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

8th Nov 2023
A PCB for breadboards to make working with op-amps easier.
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20 years of Git. Still weird, still wonderful. Twenty years ago, Git was born. How did this unlikely "information manager" take over the world?
7th Apr 2025
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20 years of Git. Still weird, still wonderful.

from GitButler [alt+shift+b] in technology

7th Apr 2025
Twenty years ago, Git was born. How did this unlikely "information manager" take over the world?
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A Guide to 99% Fault Tolerant Consensus
7th Aug 2018
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A Guide to 99% Fault Tolerant Consensus

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

7th Aug 2018
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Slay the Spire In lieu of more to say, I think this is the most well-designed game I've ever played. The size of a...
16th May 2019
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Slay the Spire

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

16th May 2019
In lieu of more to say, I think this is the most well-designed game I've ever played. The size of a given session is perfect for me (45-75 minutes); the difficulty curve is elegant and sloping; variety is strong. I have poured at least a hundred hours into the game and could see...
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Java’s SSLContext protocol name is a footgun This should be old news, but I keep seeing the same mistake crop up, so I thought I’d blog about it...
23rd Jun 2026
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Java’s SSLContext protocol name is a footgun

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

23rd Jun 2026
This should be old news, but I keep seeing the same mistake crop up, so I thought I’d blog about it and spread awareness. In Java, if you want to configure TLS you generally start with an SSLContext. And you get an instance of this class by calling the static method...
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How I wrote a book using Pollen I wrote an online book using Pollen, a static site generator in Racket. An earlier post contains my...
3rd May 2020
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How I wrote a book using Pollen

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

3rd May 2020
I wrote an online book using Pollen, a static site generator in Racket. An earlier post contains my first impressions of it, but as the book is now completed I think I can summarize some implementation details in more detail with this post. I really like the markup language and...
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For the love of mini People regulary ask me why I have a small smartphone, a modern iPhone 13 Mini. Often I simply reply...
8th Dec 2021
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For the love of mini

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

8th Dec 2021
People regulary ask me why I have a small smartphone, a modern iPhone 13 Mini. Often I simply reply that I like it. The smaller size offers more than just an easier fit in your pocket. I have come to appreciate its intangible greatness, read along for the love of mini! iPhone...
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Notes on Puzzles 1. I mostly don’t play chess anymore — it’s too addictive, and tends to take over your brain in a...
11th Jul 2023
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Notes on Puzzles

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

11th Jul 2023
1. I mostly don’t play chess anymore — it’s too addictive, and tends to take over your brain in a way I don’t like — but one habit I’ve retained is solving puzzles.
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2024-11-09 iron mountain atomic storage I have quipped before about "underground datacenters," and how they never succeed. During the late...
9th Nov 2024
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2024-11-09 iron mountain atomic storage

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

9th Nov 2024
I have quipped before about "underground datacenters," and how they never succeed. During the late decades of the Cold War and even into the '00s, the military and (to a lesser extent) the telecommunications industry parted ways with a great number of underground facilities....
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A Dick Smith VZ200 without the Dick Smith (but with a serial port) Australians! They walk among us! Do not be deceived by those charming faces! precious bodily...
13th Sep 2026
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A Dick Smith VZ200 without the Dick Smith (but with a serial port)

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

13th Sep 2026
Australians! They walk among us! Do not be deceived by those charming faces! precious bodily fluids, we must remove the scurrilous larrikin influence of Australia upon our American home computers, and I know exactly where to start! Why allow Dick Smith's name (even though he'd...
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Nokia 5110 - Back from the dead. Part 1: Nostalgia I loved my Nokia 5110 and I wonder if it was possible to breathe new life into this long-shelved and...
27th Nov 2022
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Nokia 5110 - Back from the dead. Part 1: Nostalgia

from Opsbros [alt+shift+b] in technology

27th Nov 2022
I loved my Nokia 5110 and I wonder if it was possible to breathe new life into this long-shelved and still-memed mobile phone. As it turns out, not only is it possible, but it's going to be a lot easier than I anticipated.
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The Joy of Computer History Books
1st Apr 2023
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The Joy of Computer History Books

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

1st Apr 2023
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Hannah and her Sisters I came in with high hopes: I like Allen's ouevre and this was supposed to be one of his best.
2nd Sep 2020
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Hannah and her Sisters

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

2nd Sep 2020
I came in with high hopes: I like Allen's ouevre and this was supposed to be one of his best.
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Opening Up GitButler Today we're flipping the public switch on GitHub for our GitButler client code and removing the...
2nd Feb 2024
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Opening Up GitButler

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

2nd Feb 2024
Today we're flipping the public switch on GitHub for our GitButler client code and removing the waiting list entirely. Everyone and anyone can now directly download the GitButler client and access the source code.
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[Mirror] Exploring Elliptic Curve Pairings
14th Jan 2017
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[Mirror] Exploring Elliptic Curve Pairings

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

14th Jan 2017
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Marc Andreessen Egg Game Marc Andreessen Egg Game Marc Andreessen Egg Game is a game about doodling on eggs to make them look...
7th May 2026
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Marc Andreessen Egg Game

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

7th May 2026
Marc Andreessen Egg Game Marc Andreessen Egg Game is a game about doodling on eggs to make them look like Marc Andreessen. Read the full post on my blog! Here's a raw link, if you need it: https://eieio.games/blog/marc-andreessen-egg-game
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Better Laptop Consumer electronics often lock us into sealed hardware and forced upgrades, creating enormous...
9th Feb 2025
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Better Laptop

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

9th Feb 2025
Consumer electronics often lock us into sealed hardware and forced upgrades, creating enormous e-waste. Framework challenges that norm by making laptops you can service, upgrade, and customise, which extends their lifespan and cuts down on unnecessary e-waste. My Framework 13...
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Three years later Reflections on October 7th
3 weeks ago
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Three years later

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

3 weeks ago
Reflections on October 7th
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No, I Won't Build That! Discover how saying 'no' can lead to more innovative and meaningful work in this blog post: "No, I...
4th Mar 2024
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No, I Won't Build That!

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

4th Mar 2024
Discover how saying 'no' can lead to more innovative and meaningful work in this blog post: "No, I Won't Build That!"
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Some low-stakes misinformation spread like wildfire, and I got it wrong too Giovanni Colantonio writing for Digital Trends: The Confusion Around $90 Switch 2 Games Proves How...
1st May 2025
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Some low-stakes misinformation spread like wildfire, and I got it wrong too

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st May 2025
Giovanni Colantonio writing for Digital Trends: The Confusion Around $90 Switch 2 Games Proves How Broken the Internet Is There’s just one problem: *Mario Kart World* does not cost $90, at least based on what we know right now. No currently announced Nintendo Switch 2 game...
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Writing a SQL database, take two: Zig and RocksDB For my second project while learning Zig, I decided to port an old, minimal SQL database project...
13th Nov 2022
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Writing a SQL database, take two: Zig and RocksDB

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

13th Nov 2022
For my second project while learning Zig, I decided to port an old, minimal SQL database project from Go to Zig. In this post, in ~1700 lines of code (yes, I'm sorry it's bigger than my usual), we'll create a basic embedded SQL database in Zig on top of RocksDB. Other than the...
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Video Games are the Future of Education The things you learn by yourself stick; the things that are “taught” to you do not stick.
21st Jun 2020
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Video Games are the Future of Education

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

21st Jun 2020
The things you learn by yourself stick; the things that are “taught” to you do not stick.
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Clickhouse is winning the Observability Wars For roughly the last ten years, a meaningful percentage of my working hours have been spent thinking...
1st Jul 2026
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Clickhouse is winning the Observability Wars

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

1st Jul 2026
For roughly the last ten years, a meaningful percentage of my working hours have been spent thinking about observability. If you're not familiar with the term, "observability" is what we call it now that "monitoring" doesn't sound expensive enough. The actual work
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Game timers: Issues and solutions /> /> /> More...
25th Dec 2012
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Game timers: Issues and solutions

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

25th Dec 2012
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3D printing is pretty darn cool, actually I love 3D printing. Out of all the tech hype cycles and trends over the last decade, this one is...
4th Aug 2025
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3D printing is pretty darn cool, actually

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

4th Aug 2025
I love 3D printing. Out of all the tech hype cycles and trends over the last decade, this one is genuinely useful. There’s simply something magical about being able to design or download a model from the internet, send it to a machine, and after a few hours you get an actual...
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A faster way to solve complex planning problems By eliminating redundant computations, a new data-driven method can streamline processes like...
16th Apr 2025
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A faster way to solve complex planning problems

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

16th Apr 2025
By eliminating redundant computations, a new data-driven method can streamline processes like scheduling trains, routing delivery drivers, or assigning airline crews.
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Expecting Better Really good book, and one I would recommend to anyone thinking about family planning. Nothing coy or...
3rd Nov 2023
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Expecting Better

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Nov 2023
Really good book, and one I would recommend to anyone thinking about family planning. Nothing coy or clever to say; just thought it was solid, actionable, and sober without being a drag to read.
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Saibah Securitah It's always okay to buy the domain for the meme!
17th Sep 2021
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Saibah Securitah

from Opsbros [alt+shift+b] in technology

17th Sep 2021
It's always okay to buy the domain for the meme!
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BatteryPro available on Apple.com! Good news, BatteryPro is now available worldwide online at Apple! This makes it much easier and less...
18th Oct 2017
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BatteryPro available on Apple.com!

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

18th Oct 2017
Good news, BatteryPro is now available worldwide online at Apple! This makes it much easier and less expensive for customers outside the USA to pick one up. And we couldn't be more humbled and proud - it goes to show that when you design a product you really want for yourself,...
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2023-12-05 vhf omnidirectional range The term "VHF omnidirectional range" can at first be confusing, because it includes "range"---a...
5th Dec 2023
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2023-12-05 vhf omnidirectional range

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

5th Dec 2023
The term "VHF omnidirectional range" can at first be confusing, because it includes "range"---a measurement that the technology does not provide. The answer to this conundrum is, as is so often the case, history. The "range" refers not to the radio equipment but to the space...
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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....
8th Jun 2014
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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

8th Jun 2014
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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The Design of Everyday Things My favorite book of the year. I’m not going to gush about it — enough others have in the decades of...
30th Dec 2014
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The Design of Everyday Things

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

30th Dec 2014
My favorite book of the year. I’m not going to gush about it — enough others have in the decades of its existence — but know that it is that good and that timeless. Norman changed the way I thought about technology.
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Pinterest open sources Pinball Pinterest just open sourced Pinball which seems like an interesting Luigi alternative. There's two...
14th Mar 2015
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Pinterest open sources Pinball

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

14th Mar 2015
Pinterest just open sourced Pinball which seems like an interesting Luigi alternative. There's two blog posts: Pinball: Building workflow management (from 2014) and Open-sourcing Pinball (from this week). The author has a comment in the comments thread on Hacker News:
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DevDays in Vilnius The team headed to DevDays conference in Lithuania last week. I gave a keynote about the history and...
1st Jun 2023
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DevDays in Vilnius

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

1st Jun 2023
The team headed to DevDays conference in Lithuania last week. I gave a keynote about the history and future of version control tools and we had a blast meeting new friends and talking version control.
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Fighting backscatter spam at server level This month I had to deal with backscatter spam, affecting one of the mail servers I manage. As...
9th Sep 2019
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Fighting backscatter spam at server level

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

9th Sep 2019
This month I had to deal with backscatter spam, affecting one of the mail servers I manage. As server engineer I make sure that servers don't send spam and that incoming email gets filtered. Despite all good efforts, this server kept being blacklisted for sending spam to iCloud,...
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The Idea Factory My mail, WhatsApp and Signal now live in one app I built myself. I called it Contact. It is not a...
1st Oct 2026
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The Idea Factory

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

1st Oct 2026
My mail, WhatsApp and Signal now live in one app I built myself. I called it Contact. It is not a chat app and not an AI app, it sits somewhere in between. When I tried to draw what it is in my notebook, a factory came out. This post explains that drawing, starting with a...
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Principles // This was originally a Google Doc where I gathered hard-won life lessons; eventually I open...
12th Jan 2025
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Principles

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12th Jan 2025
// This was originally a Google Doc where I gathered hard-won life lessons; eventually I open sourced it. It got a great response, including a shoutout from Tim Ferriss, so here it is on Substack.
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Migration from blogger to blogofile and disqus is complete As stated in my previous post, I migrated all posts from blogger.com to my own host running...
3rd Jan 2011
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Migration from blogger to blogofile and disqus is complete

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3rd Jan 2011
As stated in my previous post, I migrated all posts from blogger.com to my own host running blogofile. At the time of my previous post, I was not able to restore all comments made on my old blog. Thanks to some help from disqcus I fixed an error on my behalf and all old comments...
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The “Home Alone” / “NiGHTS into Dreams” connection NiGHTS into Dreams is one of those games I tend to think about when Christmas rolls around. It’s one...
6th Dec 2024
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The “Home Alone” / “NiGHTS into Dreams” connection

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6th Dec 2024
NiGHTS into Dreams is one of those games I tend to think about when Christmas rolls around. It’s one of my favourites from the Saturn lineup, and it also had a free Christmas version. In it, there’s a song I really love that plays on the level select screen called Gate of Your...
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Final Fantasy The game certainly shows its age, I can tell you that much. (I played Dawn of Souls, which was the...
28th Dec 2007
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Final Fantasy

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

28th Dec 2007
The game certainly shows its age, I can tell you that much. (I played Dawn of Souls, which was the slightly easier remake, and even then it was a bit of a slog.) It’s short, though, and it’s I think worth playing for its place in the canon.
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Street Fighter 2: Sound System Internals
15th Jan 2022
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Street Fighter 2: Sound System Internals

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15th Jan 2022
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Inspiration from a child Together with my kids I love to explore the world that we think we know as adults. A kid's...
29th Sep 2021
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Inspiration from a child

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

29th Sep 2021
Together with my kids I love to explore the world that we think we know as adults. A kid's perspective inspires and surprises! No need to travel half the world for an adventure: Fly planes, catch bad guys, solve problems, build and break stuff - (re)discover the adventure right...
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Australian Air Force If You're Switched On, This is Paradise.
12th Apr 2025
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Australian Air Force

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

12th Apr 2025
If You're Switched On, This is Paradise.
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A type checking error in Elixir 1.18 Although I’m a big Elixir fan, the lack of static typing has always been my biggest annoyance (and...
30th Dec 2024
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A type checking error in Elixir 1.18

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

30th Dec 2024
Although I’m a big Elixir fan, the lack of static typing has always been my biggest annoyance (and why I think Gleam is so cool). I think static typing helps catch bugs earlier and in an automated way, leading to less buggy software and saves time in the long run. To my great joy...
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First month on a database team A little over a month ago, I joined EnterpriseDB on a distributed Postgres product (PGD). The...
11th Mar 2024
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First month on a database team

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11th Mar 2024
A little over a month ago, I joined EnterpriseDB on a distributed Postgres product (PGD). The process of onboarding myself has been pretty similar at each company in the last decade, though I think I've gotten better at it. The process is of course influenced by the team, and my...
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Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 2. user-defined functions and variables Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 3. LLVM 4. LLVM conditionals and...
20th Jan 2019
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Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 2. user-defined functions and variables

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20th Jan 2019
Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 3. LLVM 4. LLVM conditionals and compiling fibonacci 5. LLVM system calls 6. an x86 upgrade In this post we'll extend the compiler to support defining functions and variables. Additionally, we'll require the...
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I found my 7th grade art book ! The drawings from my 7th grade art book gives an insight of what my life and dreams were during that...
24th Apr 2016
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I found my 7th grade art book !

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

24th Apr 2016
The drawings from my 7th grade art book gives an insight of what my life and dreams were during that period. I share this is to inspire at-least few to go back and check what they were and what they are now. Art book cover My 7th grade Art notebook. I’m 29 year old Indian male....
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5 Frames with Nikon FM and Fomapan 100 On a few photowalks around Kitsilano in Vancouver BC with my first roll of Fomapan Classic 100. All...
8th Feb 2025
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5 Frames with Nikon FM and Fomapan 100

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in technology

8th Feb 2025
On a few photowalks around Kitsilano in Vancouver BC with my first roll of Fomapan Classic 100. All pictures shot with older, non-AI Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 lens. Developed in Ilford Ilfosol3 for 5 minutes at 20°C and scanned with a cheap film scanner. Color has been removed and some...
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Snakebite Just promoting Spotify stuff here: check out the Snakebite repo on Github, written by Wouter de Bie....
7th May 2013
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Snakebite

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

7th May 2013
Just promoting Spotify stuff here: check out the Snakebite repo on Github, written by Wouter de Bie. It's a super fast tool to access HDFS over CLI/Python, by accessing the namenode directly over sockets/protobuf. Spotify's developer blog features a nice blog post outlining what...
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How to fix Top Gear And the story of my beef with Jeremy Clarkson
2nd Sep 2026
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How to fix Top Gear

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

2nd Sep 2026
And the story of my beef with Jeremy Clarkson
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Some opinionated thoughts on SQL databases People who work with me tend to realize that I have Opinions about databases, and SQL databases in...
30th Mar 2021
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Some opinionated thoughts on SQL databases

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

30th Mar 2021
People who work with me tend to realize that I have Opinions about databases, and SQL databases in particular. Last week, I wrote about a Postgres debugging story and tweeted about AWS’ policy ban on internal use of SQL databases, and had occasion to discuss and debate some of...
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