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Sometimes stupid product ideas are the best - motivation behind the secret tuna salad recipe I created a digital product out of my family’s favorite tuna salad recipe and in this article I will...
17th Mar 2022
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17th Mar 2022
I created a digital product out of my family’s favorite tuna salad recipe and in this article I will tell you why I thought it was a good idea. I’m a software engineer by trade and I have spent thousands of hours building software products that don’t really earn me money...
Passing the reins on Panfrost Today is my last day at Collabora and my last day leading the Panfrost driver. It’s been a wild...
10th Apr 2023
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Passing the reins on Panfrost

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

10th Apr 2023
Today is my last day at Collabora and my last day leading the Panfrost driver. It’s been a wild ride. In 2017, I began work on the chai driver for Mali T (Midgard). chai would later be merged into Lyude Paul’s and Connor Abbott’s BiOpenly project for Mali G (Bifrost) to form...
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...
Why I’m Switching Web Hosts Recently, I’ve gotten fed up with my web host. Since I stood this site up, I’ve used MediaTemple....
5th Jul 2019
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Why I’m Switching Web Hosts

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

5th Jul 2019
Recently, I’ve gotten fed up with my web host. Since I stood this site up, I’ve used MediaTemple. This was before WP Engine was around. At the time, MediaTemple had carved out a nice niche for themselves as the premium web host. Tim Ferriss also raved about them back in the day....
A Galois Field Arithmetic Primer Introduction A Galois Field Introduction by Example Base Galois Fields A Real World Example of a...
14th Jun 2026
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A Galois Field Arithmetic Primer

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

14th Jun 2026
Introduction A Galois Field Introduction by Example Base Galois Fields A Real World Example of a Base Galois Field GF(2) Extended Galois Fields Extended Galois Field Addition Extended Galois Field Multiplication A Field Defining Irreducible Polynomial A Primitive Polynomial From...
The Most Important Micros That is, for what they represent
28th Feb 2026
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The Most Important Micros

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

28th Feb 2026
That is, for what they represent
SQLite has pretty limited builtin functions This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
21st Aug 2022
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SQLite has pretty limited builtin functions

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

21st Aug 2022
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WetSocks Revival How to get a broken METAR/TAF Toolbar application working again; the fun way! Seeing what we can do...
25th Aug 2021
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WetSocks Revival

from Opsbros [alt+shift+b] in technology

25th Aug 2021
How to get a broken METAR/TAF Toolbar application working again; the fun way! Seeing what we can do to get WetSocks Windows 98 tray weather app working again.
Transactions are a protocol Transactions are not an intrinsic part of a storage system. Any storage system can be made...
20th Apr 2025
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Transactions are a protocol

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

20th Apr 2025
Transactions are not an intrinsic part of a storage system. Any storage system can be made transactional: Redis, S3, the filesystem, etc. Delta Lake and Orleans demonstrated techniques to make S3 (or cloud storage in general) transactional. Epoxy demonstrated techniques to make...
Cutting Cloud Costs Like many, I faced soaring cloud service costs for my clients, prompting a wake-up call. To stay...
4th Apr 2023
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Cutting Cloud Costs

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

4th Apr 2023
Like many, I faced soaring cloud service costs for my clients, prompting a wake-up call. To stay afloat, it's essential to incorporate software optimisation as a strategy for managing cloud expenses. Join me as I share how I managed to save up to 90% on cloud costs through...
2021 in review A new year is always a good time to review the past year. Funny how this is already the 12th year...
10th Jan 2022
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2021 in review

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

10th Jan 2022
A new year is always a good time to review the past year. Funny how this is already the 12th year I’ve done this kind of quick review… Time sure flies. 2021 Non-Geek Achievements Started strength training using a strength coach from Kabuki. I got inspired by the book Peak that...
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 !
The reasons Trump gives for attacking Iran It does not add up to much
1st Mar 2026
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The reasons Trump gives for attacking Iran

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

1st Mar 2026
It does not add up to much
Omarchy on iMac After helping a family member migrate to a new computer, I found myself with an old iMac. The...
21st Sep 2025
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Omarchy on iMac

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

21st Sep 2025
After helping a family member migrate to a new computer, I found myself with an old iMac. The machine from 2017 was very slow running modern macOS, yet I have a soft spot for these all-in-one computers designed by Jony Ive and his team. Could I install Linux on it to give it a...
I had to let Go of Java If you're a millennial and involved in SW-development then its likely Java has touched your life in...
21st Aug 2021
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I had to let Go of Java

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

21st Aug 2021
If you're a millennial and involved in SW-development then its likely Java has touched your life in some way. Java was the magic pill in late 90s in India and every Engineering graduate irrespective of their domain was told to get certified in it for a job. My sister(ECE) was one...
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...
Introducing TagVault Fabric Extreme for AirTag Our original TagVault Fabric Mount is one of our most popular AirTag cases. So we wanted another...
17th Oct 2025
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Introducing TagVault Fabric Extreme for AirTag

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

17th Oct 2025
Our original TagVault Fabric Mount is one of our most popular AirTag cases. So we wanted another design that was just as useful but even more rugged and fully waterproof. So we designed TagVault Fabric Extreme for AirTag. It's ultra-flexible to move with your fabric. Ultra-secure...
Do amazing things with a focused mind Read about my experience during the workshop I got as a birth day present involving the Wim Hof...
5th Dec 2018
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Do amazing things with a focused mind

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

5th Dec 2018
Read about my experience during the workshop I got as a birth day present involving the Wim Hof Method.
2020 in review And so 2020 has come to an end. On a global scale it’s been quite a horrible year, and for me...
4th Jan 2021
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2020 in review

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

4th Jan 2021
And so 2020 has come to an end. On a global scale it’s been quite a horrible year, and for me personally it’s been both good and bad. Luckily we haven’t been directly affected by COVID too much, but it’s still been very disruptive. Either way as I’ve done for years now it always...
What the heck is OCSP? The online certificate status protocol, or OCSP for short, is a way for TLS clients (like your web...
9th May 2019
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What the heck is OCSP?

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

9th May 2019
The online certificate status protocol, or OCSP for short, is a way for TLS clients (like your web browser) to check if a certificate has been revoked or not. Certificate Revocation? With asymmetrical encryption, your encryption is only as good as long as your private key remains...
Nielsen Norman Group on iOS 26 usability On Friday, Raluca Budiu posted “Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26” to the...
12th Oct 2025
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Nielsen Norman Group on iOS 26 usability

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

12th Oct 2025
On Friday, Raluca Budiu posted “Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26” to the Nielsen Norman Group site. If the name isn’t familiar to you, the Nielsen Norman Group are UI/UX specialists who’ve been commenting insightfully about design since the late-90s. The...
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,...
σ-driven project management: when is the optimal time to give up? Hi! It's your friendly project management theorician. You might remember me from blog posts such as...
5th Apr 2022
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σ-driven project management: when is the optimal time to give up?

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

5th Apr 2022
Hi! It's your friendly project management theorician. You might remember me from blog posts such as Why software projects take longer than you think, which is a blog post I wrote a long time ago positing that software projects completion time follow a log-normal distribution.
Trump Shoots the Messenger Firing the BLS Commissioner moves us into banana republic territory
1st Aug 2025
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Trump Shoots the Messenger

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

1st Aug 2025
Firing the BLS Commissioner moves us into banana republic territory
Is Datalog a good language for authorization? Datalog is a logic programming language, based on Prolog, which is seeing something of a resurgence...
19th Feb 2022
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Is Datalog a good language for authorization?

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

19th Feb 2022
Datalog is a logic programming language, based on Prolog, which is seeing something of a resurgence in interest in recent years. In particular, several recent approaches to authorization (working out who can do what) have used Datalog as the logical basis for access control...
September 2020 News September 2020 gwern.net newsletter with links on DRL and AI scaling, psychiatric disorders; no...
26th Oct 2020
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September 2020 News

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

26th Oct 2020
September 2020 gwern.net newsletter with links on DRL and AI scaling, psychiatric disorders; no reviews.
How I find time for indie hacking while having a full time job A friend recently asked me: “How do you find time for all your projects while working full time?” “I...
3rd Jun 2022
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How I find time for indie hacking while having a full time job

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

3rd Jun 2022
A friend recently asked me: “How do you find time for all your projects while working full time?” “I don’t, I just complain about not having enough time instead.” But more seriously, I am working on two products, while having a demanding full time job and doing a lot of sports...
From tree to table Creating a night stand from a raw slab of chestnut wood.
22nd Oct 2017
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From tree to table

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

22nd Oct 2017
Creating a night stand from a raw slab of chestnut wood.
Running Theano on EC2 Inspired by Sander Dieleman's internship at Spotify, I've been playing around with deep learning...
19th Aug 2014
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Running Theano on EC2

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

19th Aug 2014
Inspired by Sander Dieleman's internship at Spotify, I've been playing around with deep learning using Theano. Theano is this Python package that lets you define symbolic expressions (cool), does automatic differentiation (really cool), and compiles it down into bytecode to run...
Waterfield's weirdly compact Apple Vision Pro Case Disclosure: Waterfield sent this in exchange for a review. Yeah, that probably colors something on a...
2nd Apr 2024
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Waterfield's weirdly compact Apple Vision Pro Case

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

2nd Apr 2024
Disclosure: Waterfield sent this in exchange for a review. Yeah, that probably colors something on a deep-down, subconscious level, but I won’t say anything that I don’t truly believe. Unlike a phone or laptop, the Vision Pro is one of those products that is particularly tricky...
When Overwhelmed, Make a List of Questions In my first big project at Netflix, I learned this disturbingly simple problem-solving technique.
5th Aug 2024
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When Overwhelmed, Make a List of Questions

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

5th Aug 2024
In my first big project at Netflix, I learned this disturbingly simple problem-solving technique.
2019 2019 was pretty great. here are the highlights:
25th Dec 2019
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2019

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

25th Dec 2019
2019 was pretty great. here are the highlights:
Things I wish I knew about Ring Fit Adventure I’ve played a lot of Ring Fit Adventure, the fitness game for Nintendo Switch. Here are some things...
4th May 2025
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Things I wish I knew about Ring Fit Adventure

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

4th May 2025
I’ve played a lot of Ring Fit Adventure, the fitness game for Nintendo Switch. Here are some things I wish I knew when I got started. Jump over battles to skip them You can jump over enemies to avoid fighting them! I first discovered this when watching a speedrun of the game. If...
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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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...
I finally found an use case for my Raspberry Pi Model B+ You have probably heard about the Raspberry Pi. It’s a nice little affordable single-board computer...
1st Nov 2022
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I finally found an use case for my Raspberry Pi Model B+

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

1st Nov 2022
You have probably heard about the Raspberry Pi. It’s a nice little affordable single-board computer with a huge community using it for all sorts of projects. I got my first Raspberry Pi, the Model B+, during my first year at university, which was around the winter of...
Gosling’s Old Rum Virginia has draconian liquor laws, which means I have to get interesting bottles shipped from...
3rd Feb 2024
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Gosling’s Old Rum

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Feb 2024
Virginia has draconian liquor laws, which means I have to get interesting bottles shipped from [REDACTED], a site on which I am very prone to judging a book by its cover; every month I'll end up purchasing a bottle of something purely because it looks interesting and I can...
Look for the Adults In terms of sheer volume of words, factoids, and data of all kinds, this is surely an information...
1st Mar 2026
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Look for the Adults

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

1st Mar 2026
In terms of sheer volume of words, factoids, and data of all kinds, this is surely an information age. But in terms of understanding, wisdom, spiritual clarity, and civility, we have entered a darker age. — David Orr, Verbicide (1999) You know how Mr. Rogers said that in a...
A friendly game of Twilight Imperium A few weeks ago I played my first game of Twilight Imperium (Fourth Edition). It was fantastic. We...
11th Dec 2019
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A friendly game of Twilight Imperium

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

11th Dec 2019
A few weeks ago I played my first game of Twilight Imperium (Fourth Edition). It was fantastic. We were six players, most had played the third edition before. As I was quite hyped before the game, I had read up on the rules, watched a let’s play or two and listened to a podcast...
Building an offline AI stoic chatbot Inspiration Many teens are turning to AI chatbots for friendship and emotional support and online AI...
28th Nov 2025
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Building an offline AI stoic chatbot

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

28th Nov 2025
Inspiration Many teens are turning to AI chatbots for friendship and emotional support and online AI chatbots are harnessing their data. As an alternate, I propose Epictetus- A 100% offline chatbot built on the wisdom of Epictetus-- A Stoic philosopher who taught ~2000 years ago...
My Hacker News knowledge assimilation stack Long time Hacker News readers would agree that the real gold is in the comments, There are very few...
14th Nov 2021
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My Hacker News knowledge assimilation stack

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

14th Nov 2021
Long time Hacker News readers would agree that the real gold is in the comments, There are very few platforms left where people with subject matter experience and authority share valuable insights with less noise. HN provides a way to save those comments, but I also wanted a way...
May Gwern.net Newsletter Link compilation newsletter with anime GAN updates, links on AI scaling, discussion of GPT-3, and 1...
6th Jun 2020
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May Gwern.net Newsletter

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

6th Jun 2020
Link compilation newsletter with anime GAN updates, links on AI scaling, discussion of GPT-3, and 1 book review.
App Clip Local Experiences have consumed my day Okay, I have to be doing something astronomically stupid, right? This should be working? I’m playing...
8th Sep 2025
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App Clip Local Experiences have consumed my day

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

8th Sep 2025
Okay, I have to be doing something astronomically stupid, right? This should be working? I’m playing around with an App Clip and want to just run it on the device as a test, but no matter how I set things up nothing ever works. If you see what I’m doing wrong let me know and I’ll...
Surveying SQL parser libraries in a few high-level languages This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
11th Apr 2022
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Surveying SQL parser libraries in a few high-level languages

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

11th Apr 2022
This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
E-book Bellows [Concept] Dynamically deflatable
4th Nov 2025
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E-book Bellows

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

4th Nov 2025
[Concept] Dynamically deflatable
Humanities Crash Course Week 44: Modernist Art Week 44 of the humanities crash course had me delving into three modernist classics by two Irish...
2nd Nov 2025
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Humanities Crash Course Week 44: Modernist Art

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

2nd Nov 2025
Week 44 of the humanities crash course had me delving into three modernist classics by two Irish authors: Samuel Beckett’s absurdist play Waiting for Godot and selections from James Joyce’s Dubliners and Ulysses. I’d long been intimidated by the latter, but enjoyed the first...
The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker Before GPS, how did aircraft navigate? One important technique was celestial navigation: navigating...
18th Apr 2026
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The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker

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

18th Apr 2026
Before GPS, how did aircraft navigate? One important technique was celestial navigation: navigating from the positions of the stars, planets, or the sun. While celestial navigation is accurate, cannot be jammed, and doesn't require any broadcast infrastructure, it is a difficult...
A Brief Introduction to termios If you’re a regular user of the terminal on a UNIX system, there are probably a large number of...
22nd Dec 2009
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A Brief Introduction to termios

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

22nd Dec 2009
If you’re a regular user of the terminal on a UNIX system, there are probably a large number of behaviors you take mostly for granted without really thinking about them. If you press ^C or ^Z it kills or stops the foreground program – unless it’s something like emacs or vim, in...
Building my ultimate keyboard The Cybershard keyboard. What comes to mind when you see the description “the ultimate...
26th Nov 2024
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Building my ultimate keyboard

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

26th Nov 2024
The Cybershard keyboard. What comes to mind when you see the description “the ultimate keyboard”? There are many keyboards in this world; here are some that might fit the “ultimate” moniker: Das Keyboard 4 Ultimate mechanical keyboard DataHand Ergodox EZ Glove80 Happy...
Artificial Intelligence In 2018 I worked with argodesign on an artificial intelligence client project, and Fast Company...
4th Jun 2019
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Artificial Intelligence

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

4th Jun 2019
In 2018 I worked with argodesign on an artificial intelligence client project, and Fast Company published an article on our work: This Is The World’s First Graphical AI Interface. For confidentiality reasons I can’t publicly go into more detail on the project than to link to that...
Don't be foie gras If 2016-2020 was the golden unicorn age of SaaS, 2021 nearly hurtled us into the foie gras* era.
9th Jan 2022
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Don't be foie gras

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

9th Jan 2022
If 2016-2020 was the golden unicorn age of SaaS, 2021 nearly hurtled us into the foie gras* era.
Algorithms are breaking how we think Today, Alec Watson posted a video titled “Algorithms are breaking how we think” on his YouTube...
23rd Feb 2025
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Algorithms are breaking how we think

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

23rd Feb 2025
Today, Alec Watson posted a video titled “Algorithms are breaking how we think” on his YouTube channel, Technology Connections. The whole thing is excellent and very well argued. The main thrust is: people seem increasingly less mindful about the stuff they engage with. Watson...
Cash is king, or is it? Very often I see men carry a wallet filled with plastic: multiple debit and credit cards plus a...
14th Jul 2016
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Cash is king, or is it?

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

14th Jul 2016
Very often I see men carry a wallet filled with plastic: multiple debit and credit cards plus a bunch of loyalty programs and membership cards. Then, some even top it off with stinky paper money and sticky metal coins! It made me wonder if I can free up one pocket by ditching the...
Android Shmup Six months ago I released the source code of "SHMUP": a modest indie 3D shoot'em up designed for...
23rd Feb 2012
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Android Shmup

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

23rd Feb 2012
Six months ago I released the source code of "SHMUP": a modest indie 3D shoot'em up designed for iOS. Since it did honorably on the Apple Appstore I offered anyone to port it to Android Appmarket for a 50/50 revenues split. Two developers consecutively took on the challenge only...
Epaper digital art frame based on Seeed Studio reTerminal E1002 display and IKEA RÖDALM using... For the last month, I’ve been experimenting with making a digital art frame based on color epaper....
24th Nov 2025
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24th Nov 2025
For the last month, I’ve been experimenting with making a digital art frame based on color epaper. Spectra 6 is the latest color epaper tech available, offering 6 colors (black, white, red, green, blue, yellow) in brighter and more saturated tones then its predecessors. And with...
2023-08-07 STIRred AND SHAKEN In a couple of days, I pack up my bags to head for DEFCON. In a rare moment of pre-planning, perhaps...
7th Aug 2023
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2023-08-07 STIRred AND SHAKEN

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

7th Aug 2023
In a couple of days, I pack up my bags to head for DEFCON. In a rare moment of pre-planning, perhaps spurred by boredom, I looked through the schedule to see what's in store in the world of telephony. There is a workshop on SS7, of course [1], plenty of content on cellular, but...
Aldous Huxley's world of perceptions You may already know of this novel called 1984, and its author George Orwell. Aldous Huxley wrote a...
18th Jul 2021
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Aldous Huxley's world of perceptions

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

18th Jul 2021
You may already know of this novel called 1984, and its author George Orwell. Aldous Huxley wrote a dystopian classic called Brave New World…
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...
air traffic control: the IBM 9020 Previously on Computers Are Bad, we discussed the early history of air traffic control in the United...
17th Jan 2026
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air traffic control: the IBM 9020

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

17th Jan 2026
Previously on Computers Are Bad, we discussed the early history of air traffic control in the United States. The technical demands of air traffic control are well known in computer history circles because of the prominence of SAGE, but what's less well known is that SAGE itself...
Subtext 4.0 Released Subtext 4.0 has been released: subtext-4.0.sit (StuffIt 3 archive, includes source code and THINK C...
19th Feb 2024
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Subtext 4.0 Released

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

19th Feb 2024
Subtext 4.0 has been released: subtext-4.0.sit (StuffIt 3 archive, includes source code and THINK C 5 project file) c33a6abe15e7f07159a18d936dce7c435d9619f80d6c53d1cdd26fabf06712f7 SHA1: 0f4bdcd08b57b568125d8ddcab5ad97f1f5dd586 ipdb-2023-11.db (Free IP Geolocation...
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...
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...
All clocks are 30 seconds late OK, this is going to sound crazy: I believe all clocks are 30 seconds late. Let's get a few things...
6th Jan 2025
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All clocks are 30 seconds late

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

6th Jan 2025
OK, this is going to sound crazy: I believe all clocks are 30 seconds late. Let's get a few things out of the way: this is neither about time zones, nor leap seconds. It's not about synchronization of clocks, and it's not about relativity or any obscure corner of physics. I'm...
Commuting by bike For a few years now, I commute to work using a bicycle. I have lost more than 15KG since I stopped...
1st Dec 2017
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Commuting by bike

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

1st Dec 2017
For a few years now, I commute to work using a bicycle. I have lost more than 15KG since I stopped using my scooter. This week I tested a VanMoof Electrified S, an electric bike with an industrial, minimal design. Is it any good? How does it compare to a normal bike? Will an...
Effective unemployment and social media Being unemployed can be incredibly depressing. So much rejection. Everything seems to be out of your...
5th Nov 2024
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Effective unemployment and social media

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

5th Nov 2024
Being unemployed can be incredibly depressing. So much rejection. Everything seems to be out of your control. Everything except for one thing: what you produce. You might know that repeatedly posting on social media that you are looking for work is ineffective. That it looks (or...
2023-03-13 the door close button This will probably be a short one, and I know I haven't written for a while, but it has always been...
13th Mar 2023
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2023-03-13 the door close button

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

13th Mar 2023
This will probably be a short one, and I know I haven't written for a while, but it has always been the case that you get what you pay for and Computers Are Bad is nothing if not affordable. Still, this is a topic on which I am moderately passionate and so I can probably stretch...
Experiments in Printmaking - Part 1 Trying some unconventional techniques to create a pop-art print of a Cherry Mash candy bar.
13th Mar 2024
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Experiments in Printmaking - Part 1

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

13th Mar 2024
Trying some unconventional techniques to create a pop-art print of a Cherry Mash candy bar.
Standard ML in 2020 Incredibly, Standard ML implementations are still actively developed. MLton, Poly/ML, MLKit, SML#...
25th Oct 2020
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Standard ML in 2020

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

25th Oct 2020
Incredibly, Standard ML implementations are still actively developed. MLton, Poly/ML, MLKit, SML# and SML/NJ are the most prominent. Discussion on the future direction of Standard ML remains healthy as well. And somehow OCaml's lesser known cousin still beats out OCaml...
A trip down NBA Jam graphics pipeline I took some time to study how NBA Jam arcade cabinet worked. Here is what I learned.
28th Oct 2019
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A trip down NBA Jam graphics pipeline

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

28th Oct 2019
I took some time to study how NBA Jam arcade cabinet worked. Here is what I learned.
Vulkan 1.3 on the M1 in 1 month u{text-decoration-thickness:0.09em;text-decoration-color:skyblue} Finally, conformant Vulkan for the...
5th Jun 2024
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Vulkan 1.3 on the M1 in 1 month

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

5th Jun 2024
u{text-decoration-thickness:0.09em;text-decoration-color:skyblue} Finally, conformant Vulkan for the M1! The new “Honeykrisp” driver is the first conformant Vulkan® for Apple hardware on any operating system, implementing the full 1.3 spec without “portability”...
Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go: 1. SELECT, INSERT, CREATE and a REPL Next in database basics: 2. binary expressions and WHERE filters 3. indexes 4. a...
6th Mar 2020
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Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go: 1. SELECT, INSERT, CREATE and a REPL

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

6th Mar 2020
Next in database basics: 2. binary expressions and WHERE filters 3. indexes 4. a database/sql driver In this series we'll write a rudimentary database from scratch in Go. Project source code is available on Github. In this first post we'll build enough of a parser to...
How to Remove Virtual Desktop’s Leftover macOS Audio Devices Uninstalling Virtual Desktop Streamer can leave Virtual Desktop Mic and Virtual Desktop Speakers...
1st Sep 2026
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How to Remove Virtual Desktop’s Leftover macOS Audio Devices

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

1st Sep 2026
Uninstalling Virtual Desktop Streamer can leave Virtual Desktop Mic and Virtual Desktop Speakers behind in macOS Sound settings. Copy-paste this prompt to your AI agent Prompt: Remove the leftover Virtual Desktop Streamer audio components from my Mac. Move these exact items to...
Best of Enemies Last year, I watched The War Room, the documentary following Bill Clinton's first campaign — a film...
1st Aug 2026
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Best of Enemies

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

1st Aug 2026
Last year, I watched The War Room, the documentary following Bill Clinton's first campaign — a film I am remiss for having never written about, because it was captivating, satisfying, and illuminating. And whether for good reasons or bad, it punctured most of my belief that the...
CVE-2010-4258: Turning denial-of-service into privilege escalation Dan Rosenberg recently released a privilege escalation bug for Linux, based on three different...
10th Dec 2010
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CVE-2010-4258: Turning denial-of-service into privilege escalation

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

10th Dec 2010
Dan Rosenberg recently released a privilege escalation bug for Linux, based on three different kernel vulnerabilities I reported recently. This post is about CVE-2010-4258, the most interesting of them, and, as Dan writes, the reason he wrote the exploit in the first place. In...
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...
From building ships to shipping builds: how to succeed in making a career switch to software... I have worked with a few software developers who made the switch to this industry in the middle of...
1st Jul 2025
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1st Jul 2025
I have worked with a few software developers who made the switch to this industry in the middle of their careers. A major change like that can be scary and raise a lot of fears and doubts, but I can attest that this can work out well with the right personality traits and a...
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.
All About Apache Cassandra: Snapshots The concept of a "Snapshot" In computing, a snapshot is a point-in-time copy of data or state of a...
27th Jul 2019
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All About Apache Cassandra: Snapshots

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

27th Jul 2019
The concept of a "Snapshot" In computing, a snapshot is a point-in-time copy of data or state of a machine. You ever end up doing something like this? Each one of these files is a snapshot, as it's a copy of your essay at the point-in-time when you saved it. Snapshots provide us...
Web3’s Mobile Moment In 2013, media & technology analyst Benedict Evans presented “Mobile is eating the world,” looking...
27th Feb 2022
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Web3’s Mobile Moment

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

27th Feb 2022
In 2013, media & technology analyst Benedict Evans presented “Mobile is eating the world,” looking at how the unprecedented scale of mobile was beginning to change the Internet and the economy at large.
MIT engineers whip up a more breathable hydrogel The new aerated material could enable longer-lasting bandages, implants, and wearable sensors.
8th Jul 2026
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MIT engineers whip up a more breathable hydrogel

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

8th Jul 2026
The new aerated material could enable longer-lasting bandages, implants, and wearable sensors.
Implementing SARM on your VLA dataset in practice 1. Motivation: use big video dataset optimally for VLA training In the first part of this series, I...
14th Dec 2025
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Implementing SARM on your VLA dataset in practice

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

14th Dec 2025
1. Motivation: use big video dataset optimally for VLA training In the first part of this series, I explained what is SARM: Stage-Aware Reward Modeling for Long Horizon Robot Manipulation and how it can be used with a challenge such as Stanford Behavior Challenge (1200h of...
So I saw this headline reading it was, "Is he Deommodore 64?" (No, unfortunately, Deommodore Lenoir's jersey number is 2,...
29th Jul 2025
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So I saw this headline

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

29th Jul 2025
reading it was, "Is he Deommodore 64?" (No, unfortunately, Deommodore Lenoir's jersey number is 2, and I'm not even a 49ers fan.)
1st Jan 2001
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Open source

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

1st Jan 2001
A paper reading club at work; databases and distributed systems research I started a paper reading club this week at work, focused on databases and distributed systems...
5th Apr 2024
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A paper reading club at work; databases and distributed systems research

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

5th Apr 2024
I started a paper reading club this week at work, focused on databases and distributed systems research. I posted in a general channel about the premise and asked if anyone was interested. I clarified the intended topic and that discussions would be asynchronous over email, run...
Notes from "Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology" Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology is a book of essays by Ellen Ullman. In the book,...
8th Apr 2025
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Notes from "Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology"

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

8th Apr 2025
Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology is a book of essays by Ellen Ullman. In the book, Ullman laments the bad parts of computers and the internet. These systems eroded privacy, deepened income inequality, and enabled the rise of modern fascism. And they were built by a...
Why should I accept all cookies? Around 2013, my team and I finally embarked in upgrading our company's internal software to version...
1st Nov 2025
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Why should I accept all cookies?

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

1st Nov 2025
Around 2013, my team and I finally embarked in upgrading our company's internal software to version 2.0. We had a large backlog of user complaints that we were finally addressing, with security at the top of the list. The very top of the list was moving away from plain text...
More Evidence That Words Don't Mean What We Thought They Meant (Ivanti Sentry Pre-Auth OS Command... Today, Ivanti published an advisory. “No way?” we hear you say. "Yes way!" a random dog screams back...
10th Jun 2026
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10th Jun 2026
Today, Ivanti published an advisory. “No way?” we hear you say. "Yes way!" a random dog screams back at you, across the street. Today’s rare advisory outlines two vulnerabilities in Ivanti’s Sentry product, appealing directly to our inner desire for sophisticated server-side,
xAI Dev Leaks API Key for Private SpaceX, Tesla LLMs A employee at Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI leaked a private key on GitHub that...
2nd May 2025
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xAI Dev Leaks API Key for Private SpaceX, Tesla LLMs

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

2nd May 2025
A employee at Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI leaked a private key on GitHub that for the past two months could have allowed anyone to query private xAI large language models (LLMs) which appear to have been custom made for working with internal data from Musk's...
Looking for smart people I haven't mentioned what I'm currently up to. Earlier this year I left Spotify to join a small...
4th Nov 2015
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Looking for smart people

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

4th Nov 2015
I haven't mentioned what I'm currently up to. Earlier this year I left Spotify to join a small startup called Better. We're going after one of the biggest industries in the world that also turns out to be completely broken.
The Pinecone DAISY-1 is a fantasy 8-bit computer that exists in reality There was a time when computers were exciting and fun. Now most of them feel like commodity...
2nd Jun 2026
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The Pinecone DAISY-1 is a fantasy 8-bit computer that exists in reality

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

2nd Jun 2026
There was a time when computers were exciting and fun. Now most of them feel like commodity appliances — no more interesting than a washing machine or a toaster. Joe longed for the good ol’ days of 8-bit personal computers, so he used a trio of Arduino development boards to...
I broke and fixed my Ghost blog In case you find this post after hours of google searching
16th Oct 2025
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I broke and fixed my Ghost blog

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

16th Oct 2025
In case you find this post after hours of google searching
The Pulse: AI load breaks GitHub – why not other vendors? GitHub’s leadership blames the 3.5x increase in service load as the cause of degradation – or it...
7th May 2026
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The Pulse: AI load breaks GitHub – why not other vendors?

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

7th May 2026
GitHub’s leadership blames the 3.5x increase in service load as the cause of degradation – or it might be self-inflicted.
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...
Anything's a portable speaker if you're brave enough I hate buying things that are single-purpose, which is why I ended up with this setup. Take a...
2nd Jan 2023
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Anything's a portable speaker if you're brave enough

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

2nd Jan 2023
I hate buying things that are single-purpose, which is why I ended up with this setup. Take a speaker, a battery, put them together, and what you now have is a portable speaker. Since I had access to both, I felt no need to buy a separate portable speaker for use in social...
Developing a native iOS app How hard can it be to build your own cycling and running workout tracker app using native code with...
10th May 2024
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Developing a native iOS app

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

10th May 2024
How hard can it be to build your own cycling and running workout tracker app using native code with some help from AI? Read along to find out!
Buy A Help Desk, Bundle A Remote Access Solution? (SolarWinds Web Help Desk Pre-Auth RCE Chain(s)) It’s been a while, but we’re back - in time for story time. Gather round, strap in, and prepare for...
25th Feb 2026
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25th Feb 2026
It’s been a while, but we’re back - in time for story time. Gather round, strap in, and prepare for another depressing journey of “all we wanted to do was reproduce an N-day, and here we are with 0-days”. Today, friends, we’re
Life lessons after one year at Rostra Today marks one year at Rostra, where I’ve had the incredible privilege of working alongside Lulu...
16th Sep 2025
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Life lessons after one year at Rostra

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

16th Sep 2025
Today marks one year at Rostra, where I’ve had the incredible privilege of working alongside Lulu Meservey to help some of the most consequential companies of our time tell their stories.
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
Fujifilm Instax Wide 300 to Mamiya Press mount mod How I modified an Instax Wide instant camera to mount a Mamiya Press medium format lens The post...
24th May 2020
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Fujifilm Instax Wide 300 to Mamiya Press mount mod

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

24th May 2020
How I modified an Instax Wide instant camera to mount a Mamiya Press medium format lens The post Fujifilm Instax Wide 300 to Mamiya Press mount mod appeared first on Style over Substance.
Lightweight Linux Kernel Development with KVM I don’t do a ton of Linux kernel development these days, but I’ve done a fair bit in the past, and...
30th Dec 2013
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Lightweight Linux Kernel Development with KVM

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

30th Dec 2013
I don’t do a ton of Linux kernel development these days, but I’ve done a fair bit in the past, and picked up a number of useful techniques for doing kernel development in a relatively painless fashion. This blog post is a writeup of the tools and techniques I use when developing...
Introducing Anchor Pro! Our original Anchor, the first under-desk headphone mount, is truly a great product - easy to...
22nd Oct 2018
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Introducing Anchor Pro!

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

22nd Oct 2018
Our original Anchor, the first under-desk headphone mount, is truly a great product - easy to install, does what it says, and a timeless design. It's in use on over 100,000 desks worldwide. So what do you do when you have a great product like The Anchor? Well, we decided to make...
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 Applied Cartography [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.
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.
10th Aug 2025
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The Story of Creative Technology

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

10th Aug 2025
The Sound Blaster
Create a Markdown Portfolio with Next.js So you've set out to create a new portfolio for yourself. You start gathering inspiration from...
7th Mar 2023
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Create a Markdown Portfolio with Next.js

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

7th Mar 2023
So you've set out to create a new portfolio for yourself. You start gathering inspiration from platforms like Godly and Minimal Gallery, draw some rectangles in Figma, and open your text editor. You pause. There's thousands of ways to build your website, how do you decide which...
LotusNotes I tend to focus on the origin of the computer within the military. Particularly in the early days of...
14th Mar 2026
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LotusNotes

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

14th Mar 2026
I tend to focus on the origin of the computer within the military. Particularly in the early days of digital computing, the military was a key customer, and fundamental concepts of modern computing arose in universities and laboratories serving military contracts. Of course, the...
Annoy Annoy is a simple package to find approximate nearest neighbors (ANN) that I just put on Github. I'm...
12th Apr 2013
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Annoy

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

12th Apr 2013
Annoy is a simple package to find approximate nearest neighbors (ANN) that I just put on Github. I'm not trying to compete with existing packages, but Annoy has a couple of features that makes it pretty useful.
Everyone knows your location, Part 2: try it yourself and share the results Learn how to record and analyse your mobile device traffic, take an app from the list of "shady"...
17th Apr 2025
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17th Apr 2025
Learn how to record and analyse your mobile device traffic, take an app from the list of "shady" apps and share the results.
Bitcoin's security isn't binary I’d like to address a misconception that’s at the core in many Bitcoin discussions lately: Bitcoin’s...
28th Jul 2018
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Bitcoin's security isn't binary

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

28th Jul 2018
I’d like to address a misconception that’s at the core in many Bitcoin discussions lately: Bitcoin’s security isn’t binary. In fact security in general isn’t black and white. It’s a trade-off being secure enough for your threat model vs the cost and feasibility of your...
The ITTAGE indirect branch predictor While investigating the performance of the new Python 3.14 tail-calling interpreter, I learned (via...
4th Jul 2025
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The ITTAGE indirect branch predictor

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

4th Jul 2025
While investigating the performance of the new Python 3.14 tail-calling interpreter, I learned (via this very informative comment from Sam Gross) new (to me) piece of performance trivia: Modern CPUs mostly no longer struggle to predict the bytecode-dispatch indirect jump inside a...
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 Writing [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...
Service Objects in Rails Let’s kick off 2016 with a whistle-stop tour of one of my favourite OO approaches, Service Objects,...
7th Feb 2016
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Service Objects in Rails

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

7th Feb 2016
Let’s kick off 2016 with a whistle-stop tour of one of my favourite OO approaches, Service Objects, in the context of Rails.
learning to swim at 26 I learned how to swim at the age of 26. Or rather, I'm still learning. In my last lesson, I managed...
17th Jul 2026
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learning to swim at 26

from sibervepunk [alt+shift+b] in technology

17th Jul 2026
I learned how to swim at the age of 26. Or rather, I'm still learning. In my last lesson, I managed to swim 50 meters without using any support (and I didn't drown, lol). In the lesson before that, I got dizzy, my leg cramped three times, and I had swallowed half the pool. (you...
The Shoe on The Other Foot Ten years ago, I was in a dark season. My first startup had cratered. Confidence, gone. I would walk...
2nd Feb 2026
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The Shoe on The Other Foot

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

2nd Feb 2026
Ten years ago, I was in a dark season. My first startup had cratered. Confidence, gone. I would walk for hours to clear my head, often through parts of the city we typically hurry past. One Tuesday, I saw a man sitting outside a boarded-up storefront. He was weathered, his eyes...
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...
The Pulse: Cloudflare rewrites Next.js as AI rewrites commercial open source An engineer at Cloudflare rewrote most of Vercel’s Next.js in one week with AI agents. It looks like...
5th Mar 2026
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The Pulse: Cloudflare rewrites Next.js as AI rewrites commercial open source

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

5th Mar 2026
An engineer at Cloudflare rewrote most of Vercel’s Next.js in one week with AI agents. It looks like a sign of how AI will disrupt existing moats and business models. Analysis
Is MAGA Melting Down? Signs and wonders, portents and data points
2nd Aug 2026
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Is MAGA Melting Down?

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

2nd Aug 2026
Signs and wonders, portents and data points
Comics from 1984/04 Creative Computing Mag Sorry for the delay. - JP
22nd Jan 2025
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Comics from 1984/04 Creative Computing Mag

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

22nd Jan 2025
Sorry for the delay. - JP
2024-10-12 commercial HF radio According to a traditional system of classification, "high frequency" or HF refers to the radio...
12th Oct 2024
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2024-10-12 commercial HF radio

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

12th Oct 2024
According to a traditional system of classification, "high frequency" or HF refers to the radio spectrum between 3 and 30 MHz. The label now seems anachronistic, as HF is among the lowest ranges of radio frequencies that see regular use. This setting of the goalposts in the early...
I made a Chrome extension to help avoid playing cheaters in chess If you google “chrome extension for cheating in chess”, you’ll find a lot of them. Cheating is so...
22nd Dec 2024
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I made a Chrome extension to help avoid playing cheaters in chess

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

22nd Dec 2024
If you google “chrome extension for cheating in chess”, you’ll find a lot of them. Cheating is so easy, it’s crazy. If you google “chrome…
BigBasket slot alert BigBasket is the leading online grocery delivery portal in India, due to the reduced workforce and...
19th Apr 2020
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BigBasket slot alert

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

19th Apr 2020
BigBasket is the leading online grocery delivery portal in India, due to the reduced workforce and extraordinary demand; the bookings happen at random slots and we have no other choice but to keep checking the app regularly. A need gap was posted recently, asking for a solution...
Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce" In short: from my experience, people like map and filter, but not reduce. I use functions like map...
13th Sep 2026
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Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce"

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

13th Sep 2026
In short: from my experience, people like map and filter, but not reduce. I use functions like map and filter all the time. When I put that code up for review, my peers rarely complain. I get plenty of feedback about other decisions, but not about my use of map and filter. I...
Bloated It used to happen sporadicly but now it is a daily experience.
23rd Sep 2018
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Bloated

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

23rd Sep 2018
It used to happen sporadicly but now it is a daily experience.
Static analysis with semgrep: practical examples using Docker In this post we'll get a basic semgrep environment set up in Docker running some custom rules...
20th Dec 2020
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Static analysis with semgrep: practical examples using Docker

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

20th Dec 2020
In this post we'll get a basic semgrep environment set up in Docker running some custom rules against our code. Existing linters Linters like pylint for Python or eslint for JavaScript are great for general, broad language standards. But what about common nits in code review like...
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…
The Pentium as a Navajo weaving Hurrying through the National Gallery of Art five minutes before closing, I passed a Navajo weaving...
1st Sep 2024
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The Pentium as a Navajo weaving

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

1st Sep 2024
Hurrying through the National Gallery of Art five minutes before closing, I passed a Navajo weaving with a complex abstract pattern. Suddenly, I realized the pattern was strangely familiar, so I stopped and looked closely. The design turned out to be an image of Intel's Pentium...
Shop vac becomes a Roomba on steroids A robotic vacuum, such as a Roomba, offers a lot of convenience. Instead of having to vacuum and...
29th Apr 2024
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Shop vac becomes a Roomba on steroids

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

29th Apr 2024
A robotic vacuum, such as a Roomba, offers a lot of convenience. Instead of having to vacuum and sweep your own floors, you have a little maid robot to do the job for you. But these devices have very little power and capacity, which makes them useless for anything other than...
Does Pinball Cause Violence? A recurring theme here is that social science often asks the wrong questions about media -- and that...
15th May 2025
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Does Pinball Cause Violence?

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

15th May 2025
A recurring theme here is that social science often asks the wrong questions about media -- and that this dysfunction is driven by media itself. This puts us in a bit of a bind, obviously, insofar as we are relying on social science to improve the media enviroment, or at least to...
Retrospective: My Fifth Year on YouTube For the past 4 years, I have made a habit of reflecting on the previous year and set goals for the...
15th Jan 2021
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Retrospective: My Fifth Year on YouTube

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

15th Jan 2021
For the past 4 years, I have made a habit of reflecting on the previous year and set goals for the new year. This year is no exception, but now I try to set better goals while reflecting on some personal things in life.
Vertical Aggregation I’ve written in the past that I think returns for SaaS won’t be as attractive over the next decade.
12th Oct 2021
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Vertical Aggregation

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

12th Oct 2021
I’ve written in the past that I think returns for SaaS won’t be as attractive over the next decade.
Cash is king, or is it? Is the time right to ditch the wallet?
14th Jul 2016
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Cash is king, or is it?

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

14th Jul 2016
Is the time right to ditch the wallet?
Prefer STRICT tables in SQLite In short: I prefer strict tables in SQLite because they avoid some datatype problems, such as...
11th Jul 2026
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Prefer STRICT tables in SQLite

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

11th Jul 2026
In short: I prefer strict tables in SQLite because they avoid some datatype problems, such as putting text in number columns. SQLite has a feature that I think is underrated: strict tables. Strict tables help enforce rigid typing, preventing mistakes like putting text into...
Network Engineering “My first job was to understand what network engineers do. Then, I had to show them complex data in...
24th May 2017
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Network Engineering

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

24th May 2017
“My first job was to understand what network engineers do. Then, I had to show them complex data in a comprehensible and usable way. Finally, I had to make it less ugly.” The Challenge When you type “google.com” into your browser and press the Enter key, what happens? How do you...
Breasts and Eggs I think if I were to recommend this book to someone I would do it simply: do not read the second...
3rd Jan 2021
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Breasts and Eggs

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Jan 2021
I think if I were to recommend this book to someone I would do it simply: do not read the second part. This is an amalgam of two novellas (explicitly demarcated as such in the final product), and the first book — rife with a crisper style and interesting voices — is dulled by the...
Agatha Christie’s Poirot Delightful. I’d recommend pacing out your consumption a bit more than we did — like the books...
3rd Jan 2020
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Agatha Christie’s Poirot

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

3rd Jan 2020
Delightful. I’d recommend pacing out your consumption a bit more than we did — like the books themselves, and perhaps like the format writ large, the formula wears a bit thin and obvious when you’re giving yourself ninety minutes of it each night — but Suchet’s acting is...
2nd Oct 2025
Serverless Anagram Solver with Cloudflare R2 and Pages Six years ago, I reworked my anagram solver so it would run on top of AWS Lambda and DynamoDB....
10th Sep 2022
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Serverless Anagram Solver with Cloudflare R2 and Pages

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

10th Sep 2022
Six years ago, I reworked my anagram solver so it would run on top of AWS Lambda and DynamoDB. However, this year I realized I didn't need server-side code or a database at all. I could make it completely static by pre-computing anagram solutions.
GitButler for Windows The GitButler client is now available natively on Windows.
12th Apr 2024
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GitButler for Windows

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

12th Apr 2024
The GitButler client is now available natively on Windows.
Introducing The AirTag Silencer Apple made AirTag randomly chirp when bumped or moved when out of bluetooth range of your iPhone....
3 weeks ago
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Introducing The AirTag Silencer

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

3 weeks ago
Apple made AirTag randomly chirp when bumped or moved when out of bluetooth range of your iPhone. That's great, but if your bike is stolen - the very last thing you would want is for the thief to hear the AirTag and throw it away. That's why we designed The AirTag Silencer - a...
New reptyr feature: TTY-stealing Ever since I wrote reptyr, I’ve been frustrated by a number of issues in reptyr that I fundamentally...
20th Aug 2014
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New reptyr feature: TTY-stealing

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

20th Aug 2014
Ever since I wrote reptyr, I’ve been frustrated by a number of issues in reptyr that I fundamentally didn’t know how to solve within the reptyr model. Most annoyingly, reptyr fundamentally only worked on single processes, and could not attach processes with children, making it...
Exercise while you game with this interactive treadmill add-on Motion-based controls for games have been around for decades, but even with the latest generation of...
2nd Sep 2024
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Exercise while you game with this interactive treadmill add-on

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

2nd Sep 2024
Motion-based controls for games have been around for decades, but even with the latest generation of virtual reality headsets, gaming is still done with relatively limited movement unless one has access to an expensive VR walking/running setup. As an effort to get more physical...
16th Aug 2017
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On Focus

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

16th Aug 2017
More Luigi alternatives The workflow engine battle has intensified with some more interesting entries lately! Here are a...
2nd Jul 2015
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More Luigi alternatives

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

2nd Jul 2015
The workflow engine battle has intensified with some more interesting entries lately! Here are a couple I encountered in the last few days. I love that at least two of them are direct references to Luigi!
I resurrected my Dutch movie review site from 2003 Introduction Between 2003 and 2006, I ran a Dutch movie review site called moevie.nl.1 I built the...
9th Jun 2022
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I resurrected my Dutch movie review site from 2003

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

9th Jun 2022
Introduction Between 2003 and 2006, I ran a Dutch movie review site called moevie.nl.1 I built the site and wrote the reviews. It never made any money. It cost me money to host, and it cost me a lot of time writing reviews, but I remember enjoying writing reviews about films I...
Health and fitness data Since the start of this new year I am working out harder than the previous months. I have set some...
15th Jan 2024
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Health and fitness data

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

15th Jan 2024
Since the start of this new year I am working out harder than the previous months. I have set some goals for myself and have taken on a training scheme incorporating running, cycling and swimming. As I sift through the growing mountain of workout data, I find myself questioning:...
In Defense of the New The future is being crafted out on the edge. Are you paying attention?
3rd Jun 2024
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In Defense of the New

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

3rd Jun 2024
The future is being crafted out on the edge. Are you paying attention?
Picking up volleyball in NYC with Goodrec and New York Urban I was so intimidated to go at first, but it is in fact easy and fun to start playing beginner...
26th Dec 2024
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Picking up volleyball in NYC with Goodrec and New York Urban

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

26th Dec 2024
I was so intimidated to go at first, but it is in fact easy and fun to start playing beginner volleyball in New York. The people are so friendly and welcoming that it has been easy to keep playing consistently every week since I started for the first time this August. It's been a...
Securing Your GitHub Account Let's talk about some of the simple & practical steps you can take to improve your GitHub account...
11th Mar 2020
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Securing Your GitHub Account

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

11th Mar 2020
Let's talk about some of the simple & practical steps you can take to improve your GitHub account security. There's plenty of good reasons why you should try to keep any online account safe, but I feel that GitHub deserves special attention among developers. With automation...
Varieties of Disturbance My review of Break it Down, a much earlier entry in Lydia Davis' ouevre, last year was a bit of...
1st Mar 2023
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Varieties of Disturbance

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Mar 2023
My review of Break it Down, a much earlier entry in Lydia Davis' ouevre, last year was a bit of damning with faint praise:
How good old mud can lower building costs Builders pour concrete into temporary molds called formwork. MIT researchers invented a way to make...
24th Jan 2025
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How good old mud can lower building costs

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

24th Jan 2025
Builders pour concrete into temporary molds called formwork. MIT researchers invented a way to make these structures out of on-site soil.
Family Computing Interviews Jack Tramiel after Atari Purchase (1985) They talk about Jack's past and the future of Atari.
3rd Nov 2025
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Family Computing Interviews Jack Tramiel after Atari Purchase (1985)

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

3rd Nov 2025
They talk about Jack's past and the future of Atari.
2023-01-16 huff-duff We've talked a fair amount about HF radio recently, in the context of OTH radar. Recall that an...
16th Jan 2023
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2023-01-16 huff-duff

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

16th Jan 2023
We've talked a fair amount about HF radio recently, in the context of OTH radar. Recall that an extremely useful property of HF radio here is that HF frequencies can reflect off of the upper layers of the atmosphere, causing them to rebound towards earth at a range much further...
Secure caching DNS server on Linux with DJBDNS The most commonly used DNS server software is ISC BIND, the "Berkeley Internet Name Daemon"....
12th Jun 2010
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Secure caching DNS server on Linux with DJBDNS

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

12th Jun 2010
The most commonly used DNS server software is ISC BIND, the "Berkeley Internet Name Daemon". However, this software has a bad security track record and is in my opinion a pain to configure. Mr. D.J. Bernstein developed "djbdns", which comes with a guarantee: if anyone finds a...
Calculating EXT2 EXT3 EXT4 stride size when using RAID When formatting a RAID device with an EXT filesystem, it is always advised to specify a stride size....
20th Dec 2008
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Calculating EXT2 EXT3 EXT4 stride size when using RAID

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

20th Dec 2008
When formatting a RAID device with an EXT filesystem, it is always advised to specify a stride size. The format utility will take this stride size into account when formatting a device. The stride size is the number you get when you divide the 'chunck' size, as specified with...
The Name of the Rose Ah, so this is where pentiment gets so much of its richness.
9th Dec 2023
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The Name of the Rose

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

9th Dec 2023
Ah, so this is where pentiment gets so much of its richness.
Digital Minimalism I find myself weirdly torn on this book.
3rd Dec 2020
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Digital Minimalism

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

3rd Dec 2020
I find myself weirdly torn on this book.
Fearless Rebasing GitButler now supports first class conflicts, which makes rebasing much less annoying. What is...
23rd Oct 2024
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Fearless Rebasing

from GitButler [alt+shift+b] in technology

23rd Oct 2024
GitButler now supports first class conflicts, which makes rebasing much less annoying. What is "fearless rebasing"?
Inside the Apollo "8-Ball" FDAI (Flight Director / Attitude Indicator) During the Apollo flights to the Moon, the astronauts observed the spacecraft's orientation on a...
14th Jun 2025
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Inside the Apollo "8-Ball" FDAI (Flight Director / Attitude Indicator)

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

14th Jun 2025
During the Apollo flights to the Moon, the astronauts observed the spacecraft's orientation on a special instrument called the FDAI (Flight Director / Attitude Indicator). This instrument showed the spacecraft's attitude—its orientation—by rotating a ball. This ball was nicknamed...
Happy Endings This, to me, is the perfect sit-com. It’s that simple: for two seasons (skip the first season; you...
27th Nov 2017
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Happy Endings

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

27th Nov 2017
This, to me, is the perfect sit-com. It’s that simple: for two seasons (skip the first season; you don’t need it and the show tries to be too conventional) it shits out an outrageous level of humor with a cast that has a perfect chemistry. There is a tiny bit of “aw, shucks”...
Two more 27.0 design grumbles After living with Apple’s 27.0 OSs since launch, I have some more annoyances to get off my chest....
3 weeks ago
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Two more 27.0 design grumbles

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

3 weeks ago
After living with Apple’s 27.0 OSs since launch, I have some more annoyances to get off my chest. This time, it’s all about how tabs and menus have gotten worse. I’ve already ranted about the Liquid Glass material in general, but these two design changes in particular have really...
GitButler is now Fair Source GitButler is now officially one of the first members of the Fair Source movement, helping to shift...
6th Aug 2024
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GitButler is now Fair Source

from GitButler [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Aug 2024
GitButler is now officially one of the first members of the Fair Source movement, helping to shift closed source to publicly available software by default.
Metaprogramming in Zig and parsing CSS I knew Zig supported some sort of reflection on types. But I had been confused about how to use it....
19th Jun 2023
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Metaprogramming in Zig and parsing CSS

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

19th Jun 2023
I knew Zig supported some sort of reflection on types. But I had been confused about how to use it. What's the difference between @typeInfo and @TypeOf? I ignored this aspect of Zig until a problem came up at work where reflection made sense. The situation was parsing and storing...
'Syslog: the hidden security risk' People sometimes forget that there are also a number of UDP-based services that may pose a threat to...
18th Mar 2010
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'Syslog: the hidden security risk'

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

18th Mar 2010
People sometimes forget that there are also a number of UDP-based services that may pose a threat to the security of your systems. SNMP is a well-known service, notorious for being configured with a default password (or community string). But there is another service that is...
Comment on How Live Chat Tools Impact Conversions and Why I Launched a Bad Variant by Jeffrey... I would love to talk to you about this but there's no live chat on this site!
26th Jun 2018
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26th Jun 2018
I would love to talk to you about this but there's no live chat on this site!
Films + Books, Q1 2023 What I watched and read
6th May 2023
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Films + Books, Q1 2023

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

6th May 2023
What I watched and read
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: ...
Talking to memory: Inside the Intel 8088 processor's bus interface state machine In 1979, Intel introduced the 8088 microprocessor, a variant of the 16-bit 8086 processor. IBM's...
28th Apr 2024
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Talking to memory: Inside the Intel 8088 processor's bus interface state machine

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

28th Apr 2024
In 1979, Intel introduced the 8088 microprocessor, a variant of the 16-bit 8086 processor. IBM's decision to use the 8088 processor in the IBM PC (1981) was a critical point in computer history, leading to the success of the x86 architecture. The designers of the IBM PC selected...
Fietselfstedentocht 2017 This month I cycled the Fietselfstedentocht, a 235KM tour through Friesland. This tour brings you...
29th Jun 2017
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Fietselfstedentocht 2017

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

29th Jun 2017
This month I cycled the Fietselfstedentocht, a 235KM tour through Friesland. This tour brings you through various Frisian cities throughout one of the most Northern provinces of the Netherlands. The tour was first organised in 1912 and has grown to become legendary due to its...
The 8-bit (MCU) manifesto Eight-bit microcontrollers aren't relics; they are a design philosophy. You might want to use them...
12th Jun 2024
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The 8-bit (MCU) manifesto

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

12th Jun 2024
Eight-bit microcontrollers aren't relics; they are a design philosophy. You might want to use them more.
2023-06-02 the reinvention of owens lake Programming note: In an effort to introduce an exciting new social aspect to Computers Are Bad (a...
2nd Jun 2023
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2023-06-02 the reinvention of owens lake

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

2nd Jun 2023
Programming note: In an effort to introduce an exciting new social aspect to Computers Are Bad (a functional necessity to appease early-stage investor demands for "engagement")¸ I am launching a Matrix room for CAB readers. You can join it! Do whatever you do to join rooms in...
Using Tor outside of the Tor Browser This post shows how to run Tor with a simple PowerShell script and use it in other apps like...
13th May 2019
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Using Tor outside of the Tor Browser

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

13th May 2019
This post shows how to run Tor with a simple PowerShell script and use it in other apps like Telegram...
Finding An Idea The first step is finding an idea, one of the most intimidating parts of this whole process. In this...
25th Jun 2017
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Finding An Idea

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

25th Jun 2017
The first step is finding an idea, one of the most intimidating parts of this whole process. In this post, I describe how I go about tackling this
Be A Donor This is probably the proudest moment of my Computer Science career so far: On April 17th, 2012 the...
22nd Apr 2012
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Be A Donor

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

22nd Apr 2012
This is probably the proudest moment of my Computer Science career so far: On April 17th, 2012 the Government of Ontario released the Mobile Website I designed and implemented for the major part of 2011. Beadonor.ca allows you reinforce your decision to be an organ donor. I feel...
Creating a minimal iPhone stand Today I created a minimal iPhone stand from oak wood. I used a single piece of wood to get it done.
1st Jun 2018
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Creating a minimal iPhone stand

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

1st Jun 2018
Today I created a minimal iPhone stand from oak wood. I used a single piece of wood to get it done.
The Case for Getting Rid of TestFlight Review I tweeted today about how I think TestFlight review should become a thing of the past and many...
12th Jun 2020
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The Case for Getting Rid of TestFlight Review

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

12th Jun 2020
I tweeted today about how I think TestFlight review should become a thing of the past and many developers seemed to agree, but some had questions so I wanted to expand on my thoughts a little. TestFlight’s awesome. But like App Store submissions, TestFlight betas also require a...
Reverse engineering the 59-pound printer onboard the Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle contained a bulky printer so the astronauts could receive procedures, mission...
3rd Aug 2024
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Reverse engineering the 59-pound printer onboard the Space Shuttle

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

3rd Aug 2024
The Space Shuttle contained a bulky printer so the astronauts could receive procedures, mission plans, weather reports, crew activity plans, and other documents. Needed for the first Shuttle launch in 1981, this printer was designed in just 7 months, built around an Army...
Building a RAID 6 array of mixed drives To be honest, 4 TB of storage isn't really necessary for home usage. However, I like to collect...
10th Aug 2008
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Building a RAID 6 array of mixed drives

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

10th Aug 2008
To be honest, 4 TB of storage isn't really necessary for home usage. However, I like to collect movies in full DVD or HD quality and so I need some storage. I decided to build myself a NAS box based on Debian Etch. Samba is used to allow clients to access the data. The machine...
Performance monitoring using dstat I'd like to introduce the utility 'dstat'. Dstat provides detailed statistics about what is...
22nd May 2011
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Performance monitoring using dstat

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

22nd May 2011
I'd like to introduce the utility 'dstat'. Dstat provides detailed statistics about what is currently happening on your Linux box. Dstat allows you to monitor the system load, disk troughput, disk io, network bandwith, and many more items. Dstat is so valuable because it...
Verge interview at CES 2013 2025 Note - probably the last video of me without a beard!
9th Jan 2013
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Verge interview at CES 2013

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

9th Jan 2013
2025 Note - probably the last video of me without a beard!
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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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.
April, 2026 I had hoped and expected that the chaos which had marked the start of the year — floors, termites,...
1st May 2026
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April, 2026

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

1st May 2026
I had hoped and expected that the chaos which had marked the start of the year — floors, termites, sickness, fires, ACL surgery — was largely behind us, and that I would be freed to find some sort of rhythm or backbeat with which to tether a new normalcy. And of course, this has...
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.
Don’t Let the Drawings Distract You: AI is Not About the Output Last week, I spoke with a business leader who’s excited about AI. But as we talked, it became clear...
1st Apr 2025
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Don’t Let the Drawings Distract You: AI is Not About the Output

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

1st Apr 2025
Last week, I spoke with a business leader who’s excited about AI. But as we talked, it became clear that there’s a wide gulf between enthusiasm and creating value for a particular business. Most people’s impression of AI is based on limited use and media hype. Take the recent...
Weather, an argument against simulation hypothesis As I am writing this, cyclone Fani with category 4 level winds 215 kph (130 mph) in the Bay of...
2nd May 2019
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Weather, an argument against simulation hypothesis

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

2nd May 2019
As I am writing this, cyclone Fani with category 4 level winds 215 kph (130 mph) in the Bay of Bengal is expected to make landfall in the state of Odisha, India by tomorrow. Over 800,00 evacuated, as 100 million people are expected to be affected by the cyclone. Cyclone Fani is...
The story of the Rendition Vérité 1000 The story of how the Rendition v1000 briefly rule the Quake world.
1st Apr 2019
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The story of the Rendition Vérité 1000

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

1st Apr 2019
The story of how the Rendition v1000 briefly rule the Quake world.
Ambition, fun and not Cheat on enterprise sales objection handling.
4th Jul 2025
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Ambition, fun and not

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

4th Jul 2025
Cheat on enterprise sales objection handling.
Slackware update The last time I (re)installed Slackware I documented what I did. Somehow I managed to really bork my...
2nd Aug 2015
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Slackware update

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

2nd Aug 2015
The last time I (re)installed Slackware I documented what I did. Somehow I managed to really bork my installation and I decided to go through with a larger reinstallation once more. This is a log of some things I did differently. Kernel Before installing the kernel it’s nice to...
Bye Bye Alan Dye I was trying to get something down about Alan Dye leaving Apple, but John Gruber got there first and...
5th Dec 2025
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Bye Bye Alan Dye

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

5th Dec 2025
I was trying to get something down about Alan Dye leaving Apple, but John Gruber got there first and has done a much better job. I’ve grumbled several times in the past about the new Liquid Glass redesign, but it’s just the latest push in a direction I’ve been unhappy with for...
The Farmer's Hotel My first piece of work by O'Hara, shockingly, and it was a cute little three act play filled with as...
3rd May 2020
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The Farmer's Hotel

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd May 2020
My first piece of work by O'Hara, shockingly, and it was a cute little three act play filled with as much drinking and death as I'd been led to believe.
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