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Arduino Blog
Play rock-paper-scissors using a time-of-flight sensor and an Arduino UNO R4 Owing to its simplicity and fast-paced nature, rock-paper-scissors is a great game to play with...
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5 months ago
Owing to its simplicity and fast-paced nature, rock-paper-scissors is a great game to play with friends, and when it comes to translating it into a digital format, many creative adaptations can be made. This version by madmcu forgoes the typical three-button input scheme in favor...
Notes on software...
Errors and Zig At TigerBeetle these last few weeks I've been doing a mix of documenting client libraries, writing...
a year ago
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a year ago
At TigerBeetle these last few weeks I've been doing a mix of documenting client libraries, writing sample code for client libraries, and writing integration tests against the sample code. The client library documentation is generated with a Zig script. The sample code is...
Louwrentius
Which file system for a large storage array under Linux? There are many file systems available under Linux, however only a few of them can be used for a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There are many file systems available under Linux, however only a few of them can be used for a large storage array. I am assuming that you want to create a single file system. I don't care if you use LVM or other layers beneath, this is about which file system to use. I will...
Louwrentius
Unattended automatic installation of Linux nvidia binary driver As part of an unattended installation, it was necessary to install a binary nvidia graphics driver....
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As part of an unattended installation, it was necessary to install a binary nvidia graphics driver. This is a manual proces by default. However, it can be done fully automatic: prerequisite: install xserver-xorg-dev package or similar xorg development package. sh NVIDIA-.run -q...
./techtipsy
This page looks better in the app You’re a web developer at a social media company that has recently made a big push for modernizing...
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over a year ago
You’re a web developer at a social media company that has recently made a big push for modernizing their frontend for the mobile-first era. It has taken a lot of time and effort from many people. Countless challenges, arguments, testing. The release is near. You’re probably a bit...
Style over Substance
Shooting the Ligero 3D-printed Mamiya Press camera by MaxWanderlush Last year I started shooting my first 3D-printed camera, a Goodman Zone. It was soon followed by the...
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Last year I started shooting my first 3D-printed camera, a Goodman Zone. It was soon followed by the panoramic pinhole Goodman Scura and the MPWide, a modified Fuji Instax Wide 300. The MPWide is a mod by the talented Mario, otherwise known as MaxWanderlush. He has been releasing...
./techtipsy
Testing a cheap ExpressCard to NVMe SSD adapter on my ThinkPad T430 I stumbled upon this post in /r/thinkpad, which got my attention. It showcases an ExpressCard to M.2...
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over a year ago
I stumbled upon this post in /r/thinkpad, which got my attention. It showcases an ExpressCard to M.2 NGFF adapter that they purchased from AliExpress. The adapter has a similar purpose to the one designed by thinkmods.store, with the added bonus that it could fit longer NVMe...
Arduino Blog
Arduino’s Alvik Robot shortlisted for the Bett Awards 2025 in the AV, VR/AR, Robotics, and Digital... We’re thrilled to announce that Arduino Education has been shortlisted for the Bett Awards 2025,...
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We’re thrilled to announce that Arduino Education has been shortlisted for the Bett Awards 2025, this time in the AV, VR/AR, Robotics, or Digital Device category with our Alvik robot! This recognition highlights our dedication to innovation, inclusivity, and the advancement of...
Neil Madden
I still don’t really get “hash shucking” If you want to learn how to store passwords securely, you could do a lot worse than looking at the...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you want to learn how to store passwords securely, you could do a lot worse than looking at the OWASP Password Storage Cheat Sheet. These cheat sheets are generally pretty good, and the password storage one is particularly good. The editors do a great job of keeping it up to...
./techtipsy
You can use almost anything as a key file for your encrypted storage device Imagine that you have an unencrypted drive containing your private data and one day it starts...
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a month ago
Imagine that you have an unencrypted drive containing your private data and one day it starts throwing a bunch of errors. You have backups of the data so you’ve got that part covered, but would you feel comfortable sending the drive in to be warrantied? You have no control over...
Ian's Blog
Mourning the Loss of Cohost The staff running Cohost have announced (archived) that at the end of 2024 Cohost will be shutting...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
The staff running Cohost have announced (archived) that at the end of 2024 Cohost will be shutting down, with the site going read-only on October 1st 2024. This news was deeply upsetting to receive, as Cohost filled a space left by other social media websites when they stopped...
Good Enough
Why We Built Quack (Beta) Today we're launching a tiny beta tool called Quack. It is a simple utility for you to share a...
a year ago
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a year ago
Today we're launching a tiny beta tool called Quack. It is a simple utility for you to share a beautifully rendered version of any markdown text. Type away in our simple editor. When you're done writing, click Share to grab the link for sending to others. There are no servers in...
Louwrentius
71 TiB DIY NAS based on ZFS on Linux This is my new 71 TiB DIY NAS. This server is the successor to my six year old, twenty drive 18 TB...
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over a year ago
This is my new 71 TiB DIY NAS. This server is the successor to my six year old, twenty drive 18 TB NAS (17 TiB). With a storage capacity four times higher than the original and an incredible read (2.5 GB/s)/write (1.9 GB/s) performance, it's a worthy successor. Purpose The...
Home on Erik...
It's called Berkson's paradox! As noted by multiple tweets, my previous post describes a phenomenon denoted Berkson's...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As noted by multiple tweets, my previous post describes a phenomenon denoted Berkson's paradox. Here's another example: Why Are Handsome Men Such Jerks?
Applied Cartography
October, 2024 Hello! Lots of writing in October (what early parenthood takes away in terms of deep flow, it gives...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Hello! Lots of writing in October (what early parenthood takes away in terms of deep flow, it gives back in terms of twenty-minute pockets of time and thought): On the content front, I wrote about Monster Sanctuary (a delightful JRPG), The Anderson Tapes (a solid late-period Sean...
Lighthouse Blog
Updates June 14
6 months ago
Odds and Ends of...
Book now! Where we're going, we need roads (and trains) My next in-person event/meet-up, with transport policy expert Michael Dnes!
a month ago
computers are bad
2025-01-05 pairs not taken So we all know about twisted-pair ethernet, huh? I get a little frustrated with a lot of histories...
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4 days ago
So we all know about twisted-pair ethernet, huh? I get a little frustrated with a lot of histories of the topic, like the recent neil breen^w^wserial port video, because they often fail to address some obvious questions about the origin of twisted-pair network cabling. Well, I...
Jonas Hietala
Let's build a VORON: Toolhead Since the last update I’ve made some good progress: All the motors are installed The x-axis and belt...
a year ago
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a year ago
Since the last update I’ve made some good progress: All the motors are installed The x-axis and belt are installed Tap is installed The toolhead with Stealthburner + Clockwork 2 is also installed Purple means Pretty. I’ve run into a few problems on the way that I’ll try to...
Arduino Blog
Finally, you can DIY your own espresso machine Caffeine lovers take their coffee very seriously and that is most apparent when you dive into the...
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3 months ago
Caffeine lovers take their coffee very seriously and that is most apparent when you dive into the world of espresso machines. To satisfy enthusiasts, an espresso machine needs to provide precise control over temperature, pressure, and flow to enable the perfect pull. But if...
Notes on software...
Interpreting TypeScript In addition to providing a static type system and compiler for a superset of JavaScript, TypeScript...
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over a year ago
In addition to providing a static type system and compiler for a superset of JavaScript, TypeScript makes much of its functionality available programmatically. In this post we'll use the TypeScript compiler API to build an interpreter. We'll build off of a...
Ian's Blog
What the heck is OCSP? The online certificate status protocol, or OCSP for short, is a way for TLS clients (like your web...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
Computer Ads from...
Comics from 1985/12 Australian Personal Computer Mag Some computer related levity from OZ
a month ago
Applied Cartography
Hypermodern Django I've been on the hunt for a new way to dogfood Buttondown for the past month or so, and I've finally...
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3 weeks ago
I've been on the hunt for a new way to dogfood Buttondown for the past month or so, and I've finally found it: Hypermodern Django. At this point, all of my/our usages of Buttondown for Buttondown don't involve archives: we're using it headlessly, with RSS-to-email and APIs...
Vitalik Buterin's...
How will Ethereum's multi-client philosophy interact with ZK-EVMs?
a year ago
Home on Erik...
NYC subway math Apparently MTA (the company running the NYC subway) has a real-time API. My fascination for the...
over a year ago
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Apparently MTA (the company running the NYC subway) has a real-time API. My fascination for the subway takes autistic proportions and so obviously I had to analyze some of the data. The documentation is somewhat terrible, but here's some relevant code for how to use the API:
Good Enough
Bad Ideas Are Fun Once I was complaining to Arun about how hard it is to come up with ideas, and he pointed out that...
a year ago
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a year ago
Once I was complaining to Arun about how hard it is to come up with ideas, and he pointed out that coming up with ideas is actually very easy––what makes it hard is that we’re aiming for good ideas. The next time you're coming up with ideas, tell yourself, Forget about good...
./techtipsy
How to copy media off of an iPhone the hard way (using Linux) I helped a family member upgrade to a newer iPhone and make some room so that the internal storage...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
I helped a family member upgrade to a newer iPhone and make some room so that the internal storage does not run out. They had Nextcloud installed on the current phone, but due to limitations of the Nextcloud iOS app, the backups only take place if the app itself is open, meaning...
Gwern.net Newsletter
August 2020 gwern.net newsletter with an essay on sidenotes; links on human competence, efficient-computing/hardware-overhangs; no...
over a year ago
Christian Selig
First on New Blog Converted the blog over to a new Hugo theme! Hopefully everything here sorta works. Test post will...
a year ago
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a year ago
Converted the blog over to a new Hugo theme! Hopefully everything here sorta works. Test post will remove. This goat’s name is apparently Gubgub, and very cute.
Willem's Blog
Lunch by plane This week I went out for lunch by plane from Hilversum to Texel with a good buddy of mine.
over a year ago
Christian Selig
More Efficient/Faster Average Color of Image Skip to the ‘Juicy Code 🧃’ section if you just want the code and don’t care about the preamble of...
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Skip to the ‘Juicy Code 🧃’ section if you just want the code and don’t care about the preamble of why you might want this! Finding the average color of an image is a nice trick to have in your toolbelt for spicing up views. For instance on iOS, it’s used by Apple to make their...
watchTowr Labs
Veeam Backup & Response - RCE With Auth, But Mostly Without Auth (CVE-2024-40711) Every sysadmin is familiar with Veeam’s enterprise-oriented backup solution, ‘Veeam Backup &...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Every sysadmin is familiar with Veeam’s enterprise-oriented backup solution, ‘Veeam Backup & Replication’. Unfortunately, so is every ransomware operator, given it's somewhat 'privileged position' in the storage world of most enterprise's networks. There's no point deploying...
Arduino Blog
Clone your IoT projects with Arduino Cloud Custom Templates Whether you are an IoT enthusiast, an enterprise developer or a high school teacher, we all know the...
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5 months ago
Whether you are an IoT enthusiast, an enterprise developer or a high school teacher, we all know the thrill of bringing a new IoT project to life. But we also understand the frustration of repetitive setup processes and the time sink of configuring the same elements over and over...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Farklı ZK-EVM Türleri
over a year ago
Posts on Made of...
Conkeror I’ve recently switched to Conkeror as my primary browser. It started life as a Firefox extension,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve recently switched to Conkeror as my primary browser. It started life as a Firefox extension, but nowadays it’s a standalone app built on top of Mozilla’s xulrunner, so it uses the Gecko rendering engine. What it is, is an emacs implemented in Javascript, for the web. This...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Coordination, Good and Bad
over a year ago
Opsbros
Docker and CumulusMX I wanted to find out if I could successfully redeploy my Weather Station monitoring software into a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I wanted to find out if I could successfully redeploy my Weather Station monitoring software into a Docker container. Let's battle the elements together...
Good Enough
TIL: Fixing Broken Social Share Images in Twitter/X I have an admission to make. Social share images for Pika were broken on Twitter/X, LinkedIn, and...
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a month ago
I have an admission to make. Social share images for Pika were broken on Twitter/X, LinkedIn, and Apple Messages for months. And it made me sad. But in the past few months we got it fixed. And that made me very happy! We really love our Pika social share images. They are...
Simply Explained
Building a killer NAS with an old Rackable Server Like many others, I'm generating a lot of digital data. Constantly taking photos, writing scripts,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Like many others, I'm generating a lot of digital data. Constantly taking photos, writing scripts, taking notes, coding projects, and making videos. I'm storing all these files on Google Drive, which has been very reliable but also a bit risky. What if Google closes my account?...
Simply Explained
Secure Home Assistant Access with Cloudflare and Ubiquiti Dream Machine I've become increasingly reliant on Home Assistant to automate various tasks around the house. But...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've become increasingly reliant on Home Assistant to automate various tasks around the house. But how do you safely expose your instance to the internet for remote access?You want to be able to log in from a remote location, but how to keep others out? This post will show how...
Neil Madden
Macaroon access tokens for OAuth: Part 2 – transactional auth In part 1, I showed how Macaroon access tokens in ForgeRock Access Management 7.0 can be used as a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In part 1, I showed how Macaroon access tokens in ForgeRock Access Management 7.0 can be used as a lightweight and easy-to-deploy alternative to proof of possession (PoP) schemes for securing tokens in browser-based apps. The same techniques can be adapted to secure tokens in...
Vitalik Buterin's...
STARKs, Part 3: Into the Weeds
over a year ago
Abort Retry Fail
The Birth of Windows Gaming Software is a fluid that expands to fill its container
a year ago
Arduino Blog
Massive tentacle robot draws massive attention at EMF Camp Most of the robots we feature only require a single Arduino board, because one Arduino can control...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Most of the robots we feature only require a single Arduino board, because one Arduino can control several motors and monitor a bunch of sensors. But what if the robot is enormous and the motors are far apart? James Bruton found himself in that situation when he constructed this...
Electronics etc…
Symmetricom 58532A GPS Antenna Supply Voltage Mod The Symmatricom 58532A Opening up the 58532A Voltage Regulation Result What about the other 58532A...
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9 months ago
The Symmatricom 58532A Opening up the 58532A Voltage Regulation Result What about the other 58532A variant? References The Symmatricom 58532A As part of a package deal, I got my hands on a Symmetricom 58532A L1 GPS antenna. Microchip, which acquired Symmetricom in 2013, doesn’t...
On Life and Lisp
Hilariously Fast Volume Computation with the Divergence Theorem (No, there won’t be jokes.) The following presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
(No, there won’t be jokes.) The following presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of a simple, closed, triangulated 3D mesh. This assumption is a consequence of the divergence theorem. Further extensions may generalise to other meshes as well, although that is presently...
seangoedecke.com RSS...
How I ship projects at big tech companies I have shipped a lot of different projects over the last ~10 years in tech. I often get tapped to...
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2 months ago
I have shipped a lot of different projects over the last ~10 years in tech. I often get tapped to lead new ones when it’s important to get…
Louwrentius
'Tip of the day: Scrolling in GNU screen' Just the answer: By default, on Debian, the scroll back buffer is about 1K lines. This can...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Just the answer: By default, on Debian, the scroll back buffer is about 1K lines. This can be changed in the .screenrc file in your home directory. The following example sets the scroll back buffer to 5K lines. defscrollback 5000 Set the scroll back buffer on the fly with: First...
Louwrentius
Mounting a file system or partition from a disk image You cannot just make a disk copy with dd and then just mount it as a regular disk. You must know...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
You cannot just make a disk copy with dd and then just mount it as a regular disk. You must know where the partition starts on the disk. So first, you need to get the partition table with sfdisk: sfdisk -l -uS image_file.dd The output is something like: Disk...
computers are bad
2023-07-10 the tragedy of beatrice foods Occasionally, research into the history of telephony takes you into some strange places. There are...
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Occasionally, research into the history of telephony takes you into some strange places. There are conspiracy theories, of course, and there are people who insist on their version of events so incessantly that details of dates and places can become heated arguments. There is also...
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Acing the design interview If you haven’t designed an actual system before, design interviews can be tough. Knowing how to work...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you haven’t designed an actual system before, design interviews can be tough. Knowing how to work with a particular web service or…
Arduino Blog
RIoT Secure joins Arduino’s SIPP as Gold Partner We are excited to announce that RIoT Secure has joined Arduino’s System Integrators Partnership...
7 months ago
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We are excited to announce that RIoT Secure has joined Arduino’s System Integrators Partnership Program at the Gold level. Founded in 2017 in Stockholm, Sweden, RIoT Secure is at the forefront of IoT security, especially in regards to resource-constrained microcontrollers,...
Willem's Blog
Building a professional 72TB NAS This month I installed a professional HPE ProLiant DL380p server in a datacenter in Amsterdam, read...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This month I installed a professional HPE ProLiant DL380p server in a datacenter in Amsterdam, read this post to see how this was done!
Jonas Hietala
2015 Read Books I didn’t read a lot of books in 2015, but the books I did read were pretty damn good. Fiction A Song...
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over a year ago
I didn’t read a lot of books in 2015, but the books I did read were pretty damn good. Fiction A Song of Ice and Fire: A Dance with Dragons - George R.R. Martin Reread. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms - Gearge R.R. Martin The Skin Collector - Jeffery Deaver Best Served Cold - Joe...
Nabeel S. Qureshi
Films + Books, Q1 2023 What I watched and read
a year ago
Willem's Blog
Cutting Cloud Costs Facing sky-high cloud costs, I found software optimisation vital. Discover how I saved 90% on cloud...
a year ago
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a year ago
Facing sky-high cloud costs, I found software optimisation vital. Discover how I saved 90% on cloud expenses!
Arduino Blog
Adding voice commands to a LEGO planetarium set with an Arduino Nano 33 IoT From Mindstorms to Technic, LEGO has produced a wide variety of sets that give users new learning...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
From Mindstorms to Technic, LEGO has produced a wide variety of sets that give users new learning and creative experiences, and for Electromaker’s Robin Mitchell, this was the LEGO planetarium set. With it, rotational input will cause the Earth and moon models to orbit around the...
Applied Cartography
Notes from April Welcome to spring, bona fide and humid. Lots of writing this month: I wrote about spending the past...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Welcome to spring, bona fide and humid. Lots of writing this month: I wrote about spending the past two years as an independent technologist. On the media side of things: brief words on Murderville (meh), The Parallax View (incredible), This is Personal (meh), Cribsheet...
Jonas Hietala
Mining Incorporated (unfinished) Download Linux 64bit Windows Timelapse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIbr-mLi4DU I made a very...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Download Linux 64bit Windows Timelapse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIbr-mLi4DU I made a very serious attempt at making a grand game for Ludum Dare 29. Unfortunately it was a far, far, too big of a game for me to be able to finish it in one weekend. But I had a great...
Avestura's Blog
How to change visibility in massive GitHub organizations like EpicGames? How to publicize and un-publicize your visibility in massive GitHub orgs?
over a year ago
Louwrentius
How to run Debian Linux on an Intel based Mac Mini The Mac Mini is just a gorgeous device. It is beautiful, small, silent, powerfull yet energy...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The Mac Mini is just a gorgeous device. It is beautiful, small, silent, powerfull yet energy efficient. When idle, it uses around 20 watts. I'm using one of the first Intel-based Minis with an Intel Core Duo chip, running at 1.6 Ghz. I want to use this mini as an expensive router...
Applied Cartography
Buttondown Analytics 3.0 Working on a new analytics engine — a scant eleven months after the previous 'new analytics...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Working on a new analytics engine — a scant eleven months after the previous 'new analytics engine'. Calling this 3.0 is a bit of a misnomer: most of the code, design, and plumbing from the 2023 redesign is sticking around, just in a more modular format. The goal here is to...
On Life and Lisp
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...
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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...
Odds and Ends of...
Christmas Mailbag - Questions Wanted! Ask me stuff!
4 weeks ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Layer 1 Should Be Innovative in the Short Term but Less in the Long Term
over a year ago
anderegg.ca
Using WordPress is risky It’s been a couple of weeks since I last wrote about WordPress. Stuff’s been happening in the...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
It’s been a couple of weeks since I last wrote about WordPress. Stuff’s been happening in the background, but I’ve been trying to ignore it. This morning I read a story that bothered me enough to require another round of therapy-by-blog-post. First up, a couple of things that...
Louwrentius
Eztables: simple yet powerful firewall configuration for Linux I've created and released Eztables on Github. Anyone who ever has a need to setup a firewall on...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've created and released Eztables on Github. Anyone who ever has a need to setup a firewall on Linux may be interested in this project. It doesn't matter if you need to protect a laptop, server or want to setup a network firewall. Eztables supports it all. If you're not afraid...
computers are bad
2024-03-27 telephone cables So let's say you're working on a household project and need around a dozen telephone cables---the...
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So let's say you're working on a household project and need around a dozen telephone cables---the ordinary kind that you would use between your telephone and the wall. It is, of course, more cost effective to buy bulk cable, or simply a long cable, and cut it to length and attach...
Arduino Blog
Bringing Quake to Arduino: a game-changing project by Nicola Wrachien Following up on his successful Doom port last year, engineer Nicola Wrachien – who works at Silicon...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Following up on his successful Doom port last year, engineer Nicola Wrachien – who works at Silicon Labs, a leader in secure, intelligent wireless technology for a more connected world and long-time Arduino partner – has now tackled an even bigger challenge: porting Quake, the...
Matt Blewitt
Long Distance Relationships I’ve been managing a fully remote, fully distributed team, covering timezones from UTC-8 through...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
I’ve been managing a fully remote, fully distributed team, covering timezones from UTC-8 through UTC+10, for the last couple of years. Through that time, I’ve learned a lot on organising work, interpersonal relationships, and ultimately how to overcome a lack of promximity to my...
csvbase blog
You can't just assume UTF-8 How to infer character encodings with statistics
8 months ago
Good Enough
Lettini is Good Enough We put a lot of ourselves into our work, and it occurs to us that you, dear reader, might not know...
a year ago
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a year ago
We put a lot of ourselves into our work, and it occurs to us that you, dear reader, might not know much about us. So we’re starting a new Q&A column to introduce ourselves, one-at-a-time, starting with our resident designer… Who the hell do you think you are? 👋 Hello, I’m...
Applied Cartography
Typesafe routes in Vue I watched Gary Bernhardt's talk on static routing back a few years ago and — I'm not sure if I would...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
I watched Gary Bernhardt's talk on static routing back a few years ago and — I'm not sure if I would call it formative, but it stuck in my craw as a platonic ideal of sorts, as something I couldn't really justify adopting within Buttondown but really wanted. I built out and...
lcamtuf’s thing
The secret lives of snowblowers Yes, they throw snow. But the mechanical design of residential snowblowers is more interesting than...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Yes, they throw snow. But the mechanical design of residential snowblowers is more interesting than it seems.
./techtipsy
DIY cloud gaming setup with VFIO, Parsec and AMD This is a follow-up to my previous post where I covered the VFIO setup in general. For many people...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is a follow-up to my previous post where I covered the VFIO setup in general. For many people that would have been good enough, but my goal with this setup was to have a powerful gaming setup that I could access from my living room PC with 20 meters of Ethernet cables...
Home on Erik...
hdfs2cass Just open sourced hdfs2cass which is a Hadoop job (written in Java) to do efficient Cassandra...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Just open sourced hdfs2cass which is a Hadoop job (written in Java) to do efficient Cassandra bulkloading. The nice thing is that it queries Cassandra for its topology and uses that to partition the data so that each reducer can upload data directly to a Cassandra node.
Applied Cartography
A good H1 Buttondown was kindly featured in H1 Gallery last week, and Ryan asked me to opine a bit on how we...
a month ago
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a month ago
Buttondown was kindly featured in H1 Gallery last week, and Ryan asked me to opine a bit on how we arrived at our current iteration, which is the anodyne yet pointed Email for you. Yes, you. Historically, we've called Buttondown a 'newsletter tool' — the h1 before this was 'The...
watchTowr Labs
Visionaries Have Democratised Remote Network Access - Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops... Well, we’re back again, with yet another fresh-off-the-press bug chain (and associated Interactive...
a month ago
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a month ago
Well, we’re back again, with yet another fresh-off-the-press bug chain (and associated Interactive Artifact Generator). This time, it’s in Citrix’s “Virtual Apps and Desktops” offering. This is a tech stack that enables end-users (and likely, your friendly neighbourhood...
Jonas Hietala
Speeding Ahead Life is slowly settling down over here. School has started with some pretty interesting stuff this...
over a year ago
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Life is slowly settling down over here. School has started with some pretty interesting stuff this year. Firstly we have a math analysis course in multiple variables which is ok. I’m not a fan of the previous analysis courses but maybe this will be a bit different. We’re...
Style over Substance
Leitz Summicron 50mm f/2 rigid (type 2) lens My newest lens acquisition wasn’t actually originally on my wishlist. I already had a 50mm Summicron...
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My newest lens acquisition wasn’t actually originally on my wishlist. I already had a 50mm Summicron lens, though that was the first generation collapsible model known as a Type 1. This lens has lived on my Leica M3 permanently for the past few years, and I have enjoyed the hell...
Home on Erik...
Interview with a Data Scientist: Erik Bernhardsson I was featured in Peadar Coyle's interview series interviewing various “data scientists” – which is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I was featured in Peadar Coyle's interview series interviewing various “data scientists” – which is kind of arguable since (a) all the other ppl in that series are much cooler than me (b) I'm not really a data scientist.
Computer Ads from...
Applied Analytics' MicroSPEED Test-Fly A $20 Million Jet On An Apple? Yes. With MicroSPEED
7 months ago
Jonas Hietala
We moved away from the city When me and my girlfriend Veronica moved to Linköping to study at the University the plan was never...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When me and my girlfriend Veronica moved to Linköping to study at the University the plan was never to stay there permanently. We just moved there to study but the longterm plan, if you can have one at that stage, was always to move back to the north of Sweden where we came...
Jonas Hietala
Monty Hall I’m currently reading The Drunkard’s Walk, a well written book about probabilities. There they...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’m currently reading The Drunkard’s Walk, a well written book about probabilities. There they discussed the famous Monty Hall Problem. I’ve heard about it before and I know the answer, but he mentioned a simulation of the problem and that sounded cool so I made a simulation of...
Nabeel S. Qureshi
Notes on Puzzles 1. I mostly don’t play chess anymore — it’s too addictive, and tends to take over your brain in a...
a year ago
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a year ago
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.
Jonas Hietala
A Nice Weekend I’ve had a pretty nice weekend. On Friday MLG Orlando began and I’ve been staying up to 2 and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve had a pretty nice weekend. On Friday MLG Orlando began and I’ve been staying up to 2 and sleeping until at least 10 the last days. My inner night-owl is very happy about it, my early-rising girlfriend perhaps not as much, but I think she’s a bit understanding? On Saturday we...
Neil Madden
Machine Learning and the triumph of GOFAI I’ve been slowly reading Brian Cantwell Smith’s “The Promise of Artificial Intelligence” recently. I...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
I’ve been slowly reading Brian Cantwell Smith’s “The Promise of Artificial Intelligence” recently. I haven’t finished reading it yet, and like much of BCS’s writing, it’ll probably take me 3 or 4 read-throughs to really understand it, but there’s one point that I want to pick up...
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Is it cynical to do what your manager wants? When I suggest doing what your management chain wants, people call me cynical. Is it cynical to...
yesterday
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yesterday
When I suggest doing what your management chain wants, people call me cynical. Is it cynical to deliberately work on things your company…
csvbase blog
From Shell to Excel - with a little bit of HTTPS Write once, read everywhere
5 months ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
The bulldozer vs vetocracy political axis
over a year ago
computers are bad
2024-07-20 minuteman missile communications A programming note: I am looking at making some changes to how I host things like Computers Are Bad...
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A programming note: I am looking at making some changes to how I host things like Computers Are Bad and wikimap that are going to involve a lot more recurring expense. For that and other reasons, I want to see if y'all would be willing to throw some money my way. If everyone...
./techtipsy
Running my ThinkPad T430 with an eGPU in 2024 I probably shouldn’t have written down my notes on the eGPU setup I had years ago. I’d be lying if I...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
I probably shouldn’t have written down my notes on the eGPU setup I had years ago. I’d be lying if I wasn’t considering remaking this setup with everything I’ve learned 6 years later. Oops. I got access to an allegedly-faulty AMD Radeon RX 480 and an NVIDIA GTX 1650 for free...
Louwrentius
Cheap solution for putting an SSD in an iMac If you want to order a new iMac with an SSD there are two problems: An SSD of 256 gigabytes will...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you want to order a new iMac with an SSD there are two problems: An SSD of 256 gigabytes will cost you a lot: 600 euros. The SSD is of medium quality, and does not justify the cost of 600 euros. Here you can find information about the Toshiba SSD that Apple provides. You can...
Arduino Blog
Easily build an energy meter with the Arduino Nano Matter The primary appeal of microcontrollers is their versatility. They are, essentially, the embedded...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
The primary appeal of microcontrollers is their versatility. They are, essentially, the embedded equivalent of computers — general purpose devices that can perform a wide range of functions. And to get the most out of a microcontroller, you’ll also want connectivity suitable for...
Applied Cartography
Incumbency Andrew Rea with an interesting and increasingly familiar take about how AI will disrupt...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Andrew Rea with an interesting and increasingly familiar take about how AI will disrupt software-focused private equity: Distribution and brand moats can protect your legacy products for a while (esp in enterprise) but eventually you get lapped by competitors with better...
Louwrentius
Cannot access Windows guest within VMware Fusion when running vsphere client Currently, I am running VMware ESXi 4.1 on a test system. To manage ESXi, you need the VSphere...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Currently, I am running VMware ESXi 4.1 on a test system. To manage ESXi, you need the VSphere client, which is only available for the Windows platform. Therefore, I run VMware Fusion on my Mac to be able to access VSphere and manage my ESXi host. The trouble is that both ESXi...
Louwrentius
HP Proliant Microserver N40L is a great NAS or Router Update 2012-12-11: It seems that a new and faster version is on the horizon. Update 2012-12-21:...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Update 2012-12-11: It seems that a new and faster version is on the horizon. Update 2012-12-21: Yes, the new model G7 N54L is out. Some products seem almost too good to be true and I think the HP Proliant Microserver N40L is one of them. If you are into the market for a very...
Bryan Braun - Blog
Why we prefer computers over consoles when introducing kids to gaming I grew up gaming on consoles like Nintendo 64 and Gamecube. I have a lot of fond memories playing...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
I grew up gaming on consoles like Nintendo 64 and Gamecube. I have a lot of fond memories playing games with my brothers on those devices. But as my own kids have gotten older, my wife and I have decided to first introduce them to gaming with computers, instead of consoles. The...
Louwrentius
'Syslog: the hidden security risk' People sometimes forget that there are also a number of UDP-based services that may pose a threat to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
Arduino Blog
This unique wall sconce welcomes you home with warm light Have you ever walked through your front door after a long day of work and realized that your home...
4 weeks ago
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4 weeks ago
Have you ever walked through your front door after a long day of work and realized that your home just isn’t as inviting as it seems like it should be? While it may not work miracles, some nice and welcoming lighting can make a big difference. That’s why Lauren Palazzi made this...
Louwrentius
FreeBSD 10.1 unattended install over PXE & HTTP (no NFS) To gain some more experience with FreeBSD, I decided to make a PXE-based unattended installation of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
To gain some more experience with FreeBSD, I decided to make a PXE-based unattended installation of FreeBSD 10.1. My goal is to set something up similar to Debian/Ubuntu + preseeding or Redhat/CentOS + kickstart. Getting a PXE-based unattended installation of FreeBSD 10.1 was...
./techtipsy
Fairphone 5: my heavily biased overview after 58 days of use (and counting) After months of contemplating I finally pulled the trigger and got myself a Fairphone 5. The...
10 months ago
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After months of contemplating I finally pulled the trigger and got myself a Fairphone 5. The fact that iPhone X stopped receiving major iOS updates certainly helped make that decision. “But why? My Xiaomi/Oneplus/Samsung/other glued-together device is like so much cheaper and...
Notes on software...
RFCs and asynchronous-first culture I hated writing documentation before working on features. But after a while I realized I couldn't...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I hated writing documentation before working on features. But after a while I realized I couldn't communicate well enough, even with folks I had a good connection with. It took me a number of mistaken deliveries to get the message. Sketches and mockups Designers solve this by...
Notes on software...
HTML event handler attributes: down the rabbit hole This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
Arduino Blog
This beautiful table creates art in the sand Kinetic sand art tables are pretty hot right now, because they look really cool. They’re like zen...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Kinetic sand art tables are pretty hot right now, because they look really cool. They’re like zen gardens that rake themselves in intricate patterns. But most of the builds we’ve seen use a conventional cartesian CNC layout or polar layout. This table by Newsons Electronics takes...
Notes on software...
Coolest hard-tech companies in NYC 2021 For years I've kept a private list of really cool tech companies in NYC. Now that I'm funemployed...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For years I've kept a private list of really cool tech companies in NYC. Now that I'm funemployed it's the perfect time to publish. This list is influenced by 1) my perception of the difficulty of the engineering behind the product and 2) the company's educational and OSS...
Arduino Blog
Explore two ways to white label with Arduino Cloud We’re excited to announce a brand-new feature called “Custom Branding,” which allows Enterprise plan...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
We’re excited to announce a brand-new feature called “Custom Branding,” which allows Enterprise plan users to white label their workspace and enhance the overall user experience. This announcement is exciting because it empowers businesses to create a truly tailored environment...
Computer Ads from...
Comics from 1983/08 Today Mag Time for some levity. The following comics were all found in the August 1983 issue of Today...
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10 months ago
Time for some levity. The following comics were all found in the August 1983 issue of Today magazine. Enjoy! What computer ads would you like to see in the future? Please comment below. If you enjoyed it, please share it with your friends and relatives. Thank you.
Jonas Hietala
Long Term Goals I have a lot of things I want to do. Right now I want to go to the kids training tomorrow and also...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I have a lot of things I want to do. Right now I want to go to the kids training tomorrow and also to our training time. I haven’t trained a lot lately so it feels good to do something again and training the kids is very rewarding. On Monday I have the next graph theory lecture...
Louwrentius
Solaris is an obsolete platform Assuming that the rumor is true and OpenSolaris will be slain by Oracle, we must conclude that the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Assuming that the rumor is true and OpenSolaris will be slain by Oracle, we must conclude that the Solaris operating system is obsolete. Solaris can be considered legacy. Sun was a hardware shop and to sell their hardware, they needed a great operating system. Sun had a great...
Louwrentius
Storage and I/O: reads vs. writes There is a fundamental difference between a read operation and a write operation. Storage can lie...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There is a fundamental difference between a read operation and a write operation. Storage can lie about completing a write operation, but it can never lie about completing a read operation. Therefore read and writes have different characteristics. This is what I've learned. About...
csvbase blog
Caching secrets of the HTTP elders, part 1 ETags - an elegant weapon, for a more civilised age
8 months ago
Louwrentius
Apple is killing off the optical drive just like the floppy disk With the release of the new MacBook Air we are one step closer to killing off the cd-rom and the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
With the release of the new MacBook Air we are one step closer to killing off the cd-rom and the dvd. As with the previous MacBook Air, this device has no optical drive. And that is a good thing. People do not need an optical drive. You have the network and you have USB disks....
Jonas Hietala
Postmortem: Jonas IceCream Stand Ah my latest game Jonas IceCream Stand is finished and up and running and I’m really proud of it!...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Ah my latest game Jonas IceCream Stand is finished and up and running and I’m really proud of it! And thanks for the feedback guys, it’s always welcome. I spent almost exactly fifty hours on this game and that’s by far the most I’ve spent on a 7day project. To be honest it’s...
Vitalik Buterin's...
STARKs, Part I: Proofs with Polynomials
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
First impressions of Pollen After having consumed Practical Typography I took a look at the library he wrote to create books for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
After having consumed Practical Typography I took a look at the library he wrote to create books for the web called Pollen written in Racket. I’ve only used it a little but I feel I can give my first impressions of it. What I like The first thing I really like is Pollen enables...
Willem's Blog
Computer says no The weather app indicating rain caused an empty bike lane this morning, making me wonder about the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The weather app indicating rain caused an empty bike lane this morning, making me wonder about the power we put into these things.
Jonas Hietala
Computer upgrade After 5 years or so I’ve made a large upgrade to my desktop, and this post contains details and some...
a year ago
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a year ago
After 5 years or so I’ve made a large upgrade to my desktop, and this post contains details and some pictures about the process. It was time I didn’t really want to do an upgrade right now, but I felt I had to do it. Sometimes the lag had gotten very noticeable, for example when...
Ian's Blog
Hardware-Protected Apple Distribution Certificates Using a YubiKey iOS and macOS developers will be familiar with the dreaded distribution certificate, a codesigning...
a year ago
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a year ago
iOS and macOS developers will be familiar with the dreaded distribution certificate, a codesigning certificate issued to you by Apple for signing your release artifacts before you distribute them. Protecting that signing key is important, as Apple must blindly trust any binaries...
Jonas Hietala
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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Travel time ~= 750 * distance ^ 0.6
a year ago
Jonas Hietala
MenuCity: Level 0 Walkthrough It hasn’t even been a week since I released my latest game MenyCity and already so much positive...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It hasn’t even been a week since I released my latest game MenyCity and already so much positive feedback! I’m so thrilled :) However, all isn’t blue skies and nice sunshine. A lot of times the first question is: How do you play it? or How do you get past the first level? I admit...
Home on Erik...
2D embedding of 5k artists = WIN I'm at KDD in Chicago for a few days. We have a Spotify booth tomorrow, and I wanted to put together...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I'm at KDD in Chicago for a few days. We have a Spotify booth tomorrow, and I wanted to put together some cool graphics to show. I've been thinking about doing a 2D embedding of the top artists forever since I read about t-SNE and other papers so this was a perfect opportunity to...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Pi in the Pentium: reverse-engineering the constants in its floating-point unit Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of...
4 days ago
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4 days ago
Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of high-performance processors.1 The Pentium includes a floating-point unit that can rapidly compute functions such as sines, cosines, logarithms, and exponentials. But how does the Pentium...
Applied Cartography
Improving Django's default pagination performance Buttondown's API calls are very fast, and one of the reasons why is that we've removed every single...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Buttondown's API calls are very fast, and one of the reasons why is that we've removed every single possible database query that we can. The most recent was what looked like a fairly benign COUNT(*) query, coming from the default Django paginator; if you're gonna paginate things,...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Inside the tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets To use the Montreal subway (the Métro), you tap a paper ticket against the turnstile and it...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
To use the Montreal subway (the Métro), you tap a paper ticket against the turnstile and it opens. The ticket works through a system called NFC, but what's happening internally? How does the ticket work without a battery? How does it communicate with the turnstile? And how can it...
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Grifters, believers, grinders, and coasters Why do engineers get mad at each other so often? I think a lot of programmer arguments bottom out...
a month ago
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a month ago
Why do engineers get mad at each other so often? I think a lot of programmer arguments bottom out in a cultural clash between different…
Home on Erik...
The power of ensembles From my presentation at MLConf, one of the points I think is worth stressing again is how extremely...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
From my presentation at MLConf, one of the points I think is worth stressing again is how extremely well combining different algorithms works. In this case, we're training machine learning algorithms on different data sets (playlists, play counts, sessions) and different...
Computer Ads from...
Plus Post: Rockwell AIM 65 The Company Rockwell International has been around for quite a while. Willard Rockwell started the...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
The Company Rockwell International has been around for quite a while. Willard Rockwell started the company in 1919 to sell a newly designed truck axle bearing. Over the years, Rockwell acquired businesses in many different fields, including defense, industrial electronics,...
Posts on Made of...
Towards solving Ultimate Tic Tac Toe Summary: Read about my efforts to solve the game of Ultimate Tic Tac Toe. It’s been a fun journey...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Summary: Read about my efforts to solve the game of Ultimate Tic Tac Toe. It’s been a fun journey into interesting algorithms and high-performance parallel programming in Rust. Backstory Starting around the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdown, I’ve gotten myself deeply nerdsniped...
Willem's Blog
Backup Rotation Scheme Learn about the rsync-backup-rotator tool that helps you automatically rotate backups using rsync,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Learn about the rsync-backup-rotator tool that helps you automatically rotate backups using rsync, creating and maintaining multiple recovery points from your backups.
Vitalik Buterin's...
A Note on Metcalfe's Law, Externalities and Ecosystem Splits
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
2022 in review A bit late, but it’s time for my yearly review. It’s something I like doing for myself and it’s nice...
a year ago
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a year ago
A bit late, but it’s time for my yearly review. It’s something I like doing for myself and it’s nice to see that despite a tough year I’ve done some good things. 2022 Non-Geek Achievements We got our third child! This time we got a girl to complement our two boys, and I love them...
Willem's Blog
Traffic shaping using iptables and tc This month I responded to an automated alert indicating excessive bandwidth usage on a server,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This month I responded to an automated alert indicating excessive bandwidth usage on a server, requiring me to apply traffic shaping to mitigate the traffic.
Willem's Blog
Realtime human pose recognition through computer vision For an exciting new project I have been experimenting with TensorFlow, enabling realtime pose...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For an exciting new project I have been experimenting with TensorFlow, enabling realtime pose detection using PoseNet.
lcamtuf’s thing
A 15-minute intro to hobby CNC In which the author tilts at windmills for a brief while.
4 months ago
computers are bad
2023-10-03 overheard overhead Let's talk about overhead paging. The concept goes by various names: paging, public address, even...
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Let's talk about overhead paging. The concept goes by various names: paging, public address, even intercom, although the accuracy of the latter term can be questionable. It's probably one of the aspects of business telephone systems that gets the most public attention, on account...
Neil Madden
XSS doesn’t have to be game over There’s a persistent belief among web security people that cross-site scripting (XSS) is a “game...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There’s a persistent belief among web security people that cross-site scripting (XSS) is a “game over” event for defence: there is no effective way to recover if an attacker can inject code into your site. Brian Campbell refers to this as “XSS Nihilism”, which is a great...
Louwrentius
Setting up a VPN with your iPhone using L2TP, IPSec and Linux This blogpost discusses how to setup an IPSec-based VPN between your iPhone and a Linux server....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This blogpost discusses how to setup an IPSec-based VPN between your iPhone and a Linux server. Updated 16 October 2012 - now compatible with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS IMPORTANT! (update January 2013) I find using OpenVPN with the new iOS OpenVPN client a way better solution. OpenVPN...
Notes on software...
Make small changes and solve the problems you have Two frustrating things that can happen in an organization are 1) big changes and 2) changes that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Two frustrating things that can happen in an organization are 1) big changes and 2) changes that aren’t clearly associated with a known problem. It’s even worse in that order. These situations tend to happen when a problem remain unaddressed for too long. These situations tend to...
Jonas Hietala
December Theme: New World Order The The Experimental Gameplay Project drives on with the Art Game theme which will last the rest of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The The Experimental Gameplay Project drives on with the Art Game theme which will last the rest of this year but that’s something we can’t accept! I’ve done my game and I didn’t force myself out from the Haskell world just to do nuthin so here’s a new little theme for me :) What...
Jonas Hietala
Back to lazy.nvim Around a month ago I had an affair with rocks.nvim. It was fun, but I’m back together with lazy.nvim...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Around a month ago I had an affair with rocks.nvim. It was fun, but I’m back together with lazy.nvim again. This is a short post to explain why—at this point in time—the grass wasn’t greener on the other side. Problems with rocks.nvim Too many weird issues. I had quite a few...
Arduino Blog
Using Arduino with gaming It’s not surprising that the Arduino community is packed to the brim with examples of gaming-related...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
It’s not surprising that the Arduino community is packed to the brim with examples of gaming-related projects. Both activities tend to attract people with a love for problem-solving, technology, and getting immersed in one challenging activity for hours at a time. The result is...
./techtipsy
How I fixed one hardware issue with another one I happen to run on an ASRock Fatal1ty B450 Gaming-ITX/ac motherboard that used to run fine, but ever...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I happen to run on an ASRock Fatal1ty B450 Gaming-ITX/ac motherboard that used to run fine, but ever since I installed one UEFI update, it has had this one annoying issue: whenever you reboot, it gets stuck at POST. Cold boots work fine and the shutdown-and-push-the-power-button...
Notes on software...
How to recommend books, or, stop recommending SICP Many "must-read" books are not well-written. I try to read a lot, but I still have a low tolerance...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Many "must-read" books are not well-written. I try to read a lot, but I still have a low tolerance for bad writing and bad editing. I write this post both to discourage thoughtless recommendations and to encourage the receivers of bad recommendations. For software developers,...
Computer Ads from...
ProHance Technologies' Power Mouse Even A Totally Souped up PC Is A Dog Without PowerMouse
3 months ago
Notes on software...
Studying foreign languages with inbox zero The only time I've been able to seriously, rapidly improve my ability to speak a foreign language...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The only time I've been able to seriously, rapidly improve my ability to speak a foreign language was through intensive language courses in college. I was forced to actively speak, read, and write Chinese for 6-8 hours a week (1-2 hours every day). Then study another 5-10 hours a...
Lighthouse Blog
Improvements and fixes: December 2024
a week ago
Applied Cartography
Why should a company? For a long time, my goal with Buttondown was largely around failure avoidance: "I want to get my...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
For a long time, my goal with Buttondown was largely around failure avoidance: "I want to get my first paying customer so I know it's not a fake product"; "I want to hit a thousand dollars in revenue so I know it's not just friends humoring me"; "I want to make $10K/mo or else I...
Louwrentius
Script that deletes old files to keep disk from filling up When a disk has no free space left, all kinds of trouble can occur. Therefore, I've created a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When a disk has no free space left, all kinds of trouble can occur. Therefore, I've created a script that monitors the used space of a volume and deletes the oldest file if a certain threshold is reached. The script will keep on deleting the oldest file present on disk until...
Lighthouse Blog
Updates August 19
4 months ago
./techtipsy
Zimaboard: the closest thing to my dream home server setup I stumbled upon this Hardware Haven video about the Zimaboard recently. I liked it a lot. I finally...
a year ago
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I stumbled upon this Hardware Haven video about the Zimaboard recently. I liked it a lot. I finally bought one. In short, Zimaboard is a small single-board computer that is relatively affordable and comes with an interesting selection of ports, which includes an exposed PCI...
Notes on software...
Writing a storage engine for Postgres: an in-memory Table Access Method With Postgres 12, released in 2019, it became possible to swap out Postgres's storage engine. This...
a year ago
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a year ago
With Postgres 12, released in 2019, it became possible to swap out Postgres's storage engine. This is a feature MySQL has supported for a long time. There are at least 8 different built-in engines you can pick from. MyRocks, MySQL on RocksDB, is another popular third-party...
Notes on software...
Walking through a basic Racket web service Racket is an impressive language and ecosystem. Compared to Python, Racket (an evolution of Scheme...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Racket is an impressive language and ecosystem. Compared to Python, Racket (an evolution of Scheme R5RS is three years younger. It is as concise and expressive as Python but with much more reasonable syntax and semantics. Racket is also faster in many cases due in part to: JIT...
Construction Physics
Born Sleeping A personal post about the loss of our son
3 months ago
Jonas Hietala
Pushing toward Git The time has come; it’s time for me to move my source out in the open for the first time. Repository...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The time has come; it’s time for me to move my source out in the open for the first time. Repository deleted, never became anything Available on Github It’s nothing special really, if you want take a look at the code and help me improve it.
lcamtuf’s thing
The 101 of analog signal filtering Some intuition about this topic can be developed without summoning the ghost of Pierre-Simon...
6 months ago
watchTowr Labs
No Way, PHP Strikes Again! (CVE-2024-4577) Orange Tsai tweeted a few hours ago about “One of [his] PHP vulnerabilities, which affects XAMPP by...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Orange Tsai tweeted a few hours ago about “One of [his] PHP vulnerabilities, which affects XAMPP by default”, and we were curious to say the least. XAMPP is a very popular way for administrators and developers to rapidly deploy Apache, PHP, and a bunch of other tools, and
Arduino Blog
Easy and fun block-based coding with the Alvik robot is here, now Chromebook compatible! At Arduino, we believe coding should be accessible to everyone – including the youngest learners....
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At Arduino, we believe coding should be accessible to everyone – including the youngest learners. With this in mind, we’re thrilled to announce that the Arduino Alvik robot now officially supports block-based coding! Coding has never been easier thanks to Alvik’s seamless...
watchTowr Labs
Fortinet FortiGate CVE-2024-23113 - A Super Complex Vulnerability In A Super Secure Appliance In... Today we'd like to share a recent journey into (yet another) SSLVPN appliance vulnerability - a...
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Today we'd like to share a recent journey into (yet another) SSLVPN appliance vulnerability - a Format String vulnerability, unusually, in Fortinet's FortiGate devices. It affected (before patching) all currently-maintained branches, and recently was highlighted by CISA as...
Willem's Blog
Moving to the countryside Join me on a journey from the bustle of Amsterdam to the tranquility of Noord-Limburg's countryside.
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Join me on a journey from the bustle of Amsterdam to the tranquility of Noord-Limburg's countryside.
Jonas Hietala
8-puzzle in rust I think rust is one of the most interesting upcoming programming languages out there. So I wrote a...
over a year ago
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I think rust is one of the most interesting upcoming programming languages out there. So I wrote a solution to the 8-puzzle (see the 15-puzzle) using A*. It also has a breadth first search for solutions on a specific distance away from the goal. The solution is not by any means a...
Willem's Blog
Replacing a Shimano shift cable After some adventure with our cargo bike, the Shimano Nexus 7-speed shifter cable got damaged and...
over a year ago
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After some adventure with our cargo bike, the Shimano Nexus 7-speed shifter cable got damaged and needed replacement. Read my blog post to learn how to do this yourself.
Vitalik Buterin's...
[Mirror] Zk-SNARKs: Under the Hood
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Let's build a VORON: Build start The end goal, as rendered by Autodesk’s online viewer I’m not sure where it came from, but it was...
a year ago
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a year ago
The end goal, as rendered by Autodesk’s online viewer I’m not sure where it came from, but it was suddenly very important that I got myself a 3D printer. Maybe it was an important insight, but it maybe it was only a fix idea I got that somehow became this all-import...
Willem's Blog
Climbing Mount Etna Climbing Mount Etna, an active volcano on Sicily Italy.
over a year ago
anderegg.ca
Playing with the Bluesky firehose Over the weekend I started playing around with Jetstream, a project from the Bluesky team to deliver...
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Over the weekend I started playing around with Jetstream, a project from the Bluesky team to deliver a JSON based firehose of atproto data. Here’s an overview of the simple project I built with that data. I was inspired by a post from Simon Willison where he showed off a tool for...
Notes on software...
A single-node Kubernetes cluster without virtualization or a container registry This post is a recipe for setting up a minimal Kubernetes cluster on Fedora without requiring...
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This post is a recipe for setting up a minimal Kubernetes cluster on Fedora without requiring virtualization or a container registry. These two features make the system cloud-agnostic and the cluster entirely self-contained. The post will end with us running a simple Flask...
Willem's Blog
iPad Pro as primary computer Is the time right to use an iPad as primary development platform to get some real work done?
over a year ago
Abort Retry Fail
The History of Windows NT 4 Taking the Server Market
a year ago
Neil Madden
Newsletter Happy new year! I’m hoping to write a few posts on here over the next few weeks, but probably...
a year ago
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a year ago
Happy new year! I’m hoping to write a few posts on here over the next few weeks, but probably exploring a few topics around AI and philosophy. If you’d prefer some more technical content around security and cryptography, then take a look at the newsletter I put out for my...
./techtipsy
I held a talk about my self-hosting adventure! There are two reasons why I haven’t written much lately, and one of them is that I was cooking up...
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There are two reasons why I haven’t written much lately, and one of them is that I was cooking up a talk about self-hosting, more specifically my own self-hosting adventure (the other one is the Steam Deck, more about that in the future). The talk took place on May 25th 2023 at...
Notes on software...
Writing a minimal in-memory storage engine for MySQL/MariaDB I spent a week looking at MySQL/MariaDB internals along with ~80 other devs. Although MySQL and...
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I spent a week looking at MySQL/MariaDB internals along with ~80 other devs. Although MySQL and MariaDB are mostly the same (more on that later), I focused on MariaDB specifically this week. Before last week I had never built MySQL/MariaDB before. The first day of this hack week,...
Good Enough
You Complete Me When Good Enough was in its infancy as a truly American LLC (formed in Delaware and representing one...
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When Good Enough was in its infancy as a truly American LLC (formed in Delaware and representing one or two people who were only semi-serious about a business), it was fun to play around with building websites. Shawn and I were truly just playing and exploring, more than anything...
Jonas Hietala
Before the Games: The Site I’ve got some things I want to do before I start with my next game and they’re all about improving...
over a year ago
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I’ve got some things I want to do before I start with my next game and they’re all about improving the site. The last week or so has been extremely productive with me throwing out a lot of wasted code, speeding up the site and adding/removing features and I want to continue with...
./techtipsy
My trip to the Communication and Laptop Museum in Estonia While on vacation I went on a small road-trip across Estonia. During the second half of the trip I...
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While on vacation I went on a small road-trip across Estonia. During the second half of the trip I ended up being in Võrumaa, and while driving I suddenly remembered a random fact that some people mentioned in a hackerspace Slack channel: there’s a new museum around here! The...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Reverse-engineering an analog Bendix air data computer: part 4, the Mach section MathJax = { tex: { inlineMath: [['$', '$'], ['\\(', '\\)']] }, svg: { fontCache:...
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MathJax = { tex: { inlineMath: [['$', '$'], ['\\(', '\\)']] }, svg: { fontCache: 'global' }, chtml: { displayAlign: 'left' } }; MathJax.Hub.Config({ "HTML-CSS": { scale: 175} }); .MathJax {font-size: 1em !important} In the 1950s, many fighter...
Applied Cartography
Weird test: internal link checking I wrote last month about using weird tests. Here's another example: checking for broken internal...
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I wrote last month about using weird tests. Here's another example: checking for broken internal links in our upcoming docsite redesign! const extractInternalLinks = (content: string): string[] => { // Check for internal links only, in the form of [text](/path). const...
Applied Cartography
You gotta be able to taste the kool-aid Cognition, a six-month-old startup in the AI coding space just raised $175m at a $2b...
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Cognition, a six-month-old startup in the AI coding space just raised $175m at a $2b valuation: Despite the skepticism surrounding Devin’s launch, the AI coding assistant has shown promising results. According to the SWE-Bench benchmark, which evaluates AI models on software...
Jonas Hietala
Battling burnout Mamma Mia! Here we go again… Once again, I’m finding myself trying to recover from burnout, and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Mamma Mia! Here we go again… Once again, I’m finding myself trying to recover from burnout, and after about a year I’m finally feeling more like myself. Even though I’ve been here before, it’s a difficult thing to recognize and avoid, so I’m writing this to maybe help you or my...
Jonas Hietala
Being Productive School’s been going on now for… Is it a month and a half maybe? I don’t know really but it’s all...
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School’s been going on now for… Is it a month and a half maybe? I don’t know really but it’s all going so fast, week after week is disappearing and I don’t know where they go but I know that I’m at least not wasting them like I did most of last year! Last year I managed school...
Jonas Hietala
Laying off Pintos Exam period is here which means all courses should be wrapping up and a week or so ago we finished...
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Exam period is here which means all courses should be wrapping up and a week or so ago we finished up our lab series about pintos. The labs were among the best I’ve had yet and I learned a ton. We didn’t follow the official instructions but we had our own assigmnets....
lcamtuf’s thing
Dispatches from the farm upstate Middle-aged computer expert opts to escape civilization, offers dubious life advice.
5 months ago
Louwrentius
Personal Security: erase your computer or phone before repair Computer nerds are self sufficient when it comes to fixing their computer. Non-computer experts have...
over a year ago
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Computer nerds are self sufficient when it comes to fixing their computer. Non-computer experts have to find some other person with greater computer knowledge to repair their computer or phone. That person will then be able to access all data stored on their computer or phone. By...
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What makes strong engineers strong? As I’ve written about before, what defines a strong engineer is the ability to do tasks that weaker...
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As I’ve written about before, what defines a strong engineer is the ability to do tasks that weaker engineers can’t, even with near…
./techtipsy
My very first Dungeons and Dragons campaign In December 2024, I did something that I had never done before: I participated in a short (~6 hours)...
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In December 2024, I did something that I had never done before: I participated in a short (~6 hours) Dungeons and Dragons campaign. It was the nerdiest thing ever, and I loved it! The setting After another day of keeping a critical production service up, the whole team met up at...
Lighthouse Blog
Updates November 4: Free newsletter to RSS tool
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Simply Explained
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....
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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.
Jonas Hietala
I designed my own keyboard layout. Was it worth it? Almost two and a half years ago I embarked on the journey to change keyboard layout. At first I...
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a year ago
Almost two and a half years ago I embarked on the journey to change keyboard layout. At first I tried out existing ones, but it didn’t take long before I figured it’s better to develop my own—and things went downhill fast from there. (Some) combos of the T-34 layout. But now...
Lars Lofgren
What Happened After I Outed a Reddit Mod for Affiliate Spam I recently broke down how Reddit mods and users are abusing Google search rankings with affiliate...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
I recently broke down how Reddit mods and users are abusing Google search rankings with affiliate spam. It’s reddit marketing gone awry. The post blew up and got a decent amount of attention. Then I got a front row seat to how deep of a spam filled porta-potty Reddit has become....
Matt Blewitt
Tools for a Culture of Writing One of the hardest things we do, as humans, is try and communicate what is going on in our minds to...
over a year ago
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One of the hardest things we do, as humans, is try and communicate what is going on in our minds to each other. With significant room for misunderstanding, biases, assumptions and cultural differences, communicating with other engineers (or to stakeholders) appears fraught....
Notes on software...
Exploring PL/pgSQL: Strings, arrays, recursion, and parsing JSON Next in exploring PL/pgSQL: Implementing a Forth-like interpreter PostgreSQL comes with a...
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Next in exploring PL/pgSQL: Implementing a Forth-like interpreter PostgreSQL comes with a builtin imperative programming language called PL/pgSQL. I used to think this language was scary because it has a bit more adornment than your usual language does. But looking deeper,...
Birchtree
Matt is a Mean Guy (hey!) Matt felt like bringing an intentionally controversial topic, Niléane refuses to admit she's created...
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Matt felt like bringing an intentionally controversial topic, Niléane refuses to admit she's created a sticky note-based task manager, and everyone gives the iPad some much needed love. Or watch it on YouTube. Weekly Topics Raycast CleanShot X Final Cut Pro Google...
Louwrentius
Linux RAID 6 performance using software RAID So after toying around with RAID 0 just for fun, time to get serious. I created a RAID 6 of 10 x 1...
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So after toying around with RAID 0 just for fun, time to get serious. I created a RAID 6 of 10 x 1 TB disks. This gives me raw device read speeds of 850 MB/s and write speeds of 300 MB/s. I think this is exactly what should be expected, but boy it is damn fast. Especially the...
Arduino Blog
This fake CRT TV works using lasers and UV magic Until the 21st century, cathode-ray tube (CRT) TVs were pretty much the only option. As such, media...
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Until the 21st century, cathode-ray tube (CRT) TVs were pretty much the only option. As such, media was made to suit them. Retro video game consoles in particular look best on CRT TVs. But those old TVs are getting hard to find and desirable models are now quite expensive. So,...
./techtipsy
The IPv6 situation on Docker is good now! Good news, everyone! Doing IPv6 networking stuff on Docker is actually good now! I’ve recently...
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Good news, everyone! Doing IPv6 networking stuff on Docker is actually good now! I’ve recently started reworking my home server setup to be more IPv6 compatible, and as part of that I learned that during the summer of 2024 Docker shipped an update that eliminated a lot of the...
Home on Erik...
It's hard to write code for computers, but it's even harder to write code for humans Writing code for a computer is hard enough. You take something big and fuzzy, some large vague...
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Writing code for a computer is hard enough. You take something big and fuzzy, some large vague business outcome you want to achive. Then you break it down recursively and think about all the cases until you have clear logical statements a computer can follow.
Vitalik Buterin's...
Against choosing your political allegiances based on who is "pro-crypto"
5 months ago
Matt Blewitt
Building a PostgreSQL Extension, Line by Line I’ve been working on a particular problem - how to offer logical replication for a very large number...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
I’ve been working on a particular problem - how to offer logical replication for a very large number of Postgres databases, where I don’t have the ability (or capacity) to liaise with the users of the databases one-to-one. In order to mitigate some of the limitations, I wanted to...
Jonas Hietala
Breaking the rule of three It’s pretty darn stressful making a game in a week, especially when you have this big great vision...
over a year ago
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It’s pretty darn stressful making a game in a week, especially when you have this big great vision on how your game should be (which is always grand). For me making Balls, Black and White and Jonas IceCream Stand where truly stressful, MenuCity and Bugger not so much but...
Willem's Blog
Outside the comfort zone: amateur acting This month I strapped myself with sensors during a little experiment outside my comfort zone: I...
over a year ago
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This month I strapped myself with sensors during a little experiment outside my comfort zone: I debuted as amateur actor!
Posts on Made of...
Stripe's monorepo developer environment I worked at Stripe for about seven years, from 2012 to 2019. Over that time, I used and contributed...
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I worked at Stripe for about seven years, from 2012 to 2019. Over that time, I used and contributed to many generations of Stripe’s developer environment – the tools that engineers used daily to write and test code. I think Stripe did a pretty good job designing and building that...
Home on Erik...
What is the right level of specialization? For data teams and anyone else. This isn't as much of a blog post as an elaboration of a tweet I posted the other day: I think this...
over a year ago
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This isn't as much of a blog post as an elaboration of a tweet I posted the other day: I think this specialization of data teams into 99 different roles (data scientist, data engineer, analytics engineer, ML engineer etc) is generally a bad thing driven by the fact that tools are...
Posts on Made of...
Why scons is cool I’ve recently started playing with scons a little for some small personal projects. It’s not...
over a year ago
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I’ve recently started playing with scons a little for some small personal projects. It’s not perfect, but I’ve rapidly come to the conclusion that it’s a probably far better choice than make in many cases. The main exceptions would be cases where you need to integrate into legacy...
Old Vintage...
Refurb weekend: Atari Stacy Ask any Atari Stacy owner how to open an Atari Stacy and the answer is always "never, if you can...
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Ask any Atari Stacy owner how to open an Atari Stacy and the answer is always "never, if you can avoid it." So I'll just lead with this spoiler image after the refurb to prove this particular escapade didn't completely end in tragedy: see the much lighter and streamlined STBook...
Good Enough
Say hello to Jelly: the simplest way to jam on email as a team Dear readers, we need to apologize. We know some of you have noticed that Good Enough has gotten...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Dear readers, we need to apologize. We know some of you have noticed that Good Enough has gotten much quieter this year than last, across this blog, our newsletter, and socials. We’ve been heads down for the last few months on something new, but we’re now ready to come back up...
./techtipsy
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...
over a year ago
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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...
Willem's Blog
Rescuing files from a broken harddisk Yesterday I helped a young woman with her broken computer containing precious photos, could I safe...
over a year ago
Home on Erik...
Missing the point about microservices: it's about testing and deploying independently Ok, so I have to first preface this whole blog post by a few things: I really struggle with the...
over a year ago
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Ok, so I have to first preface this whole blog post by a few things: I really struggle with the term microservices. I can't put my finger on exactly why. Maybe because the term is hopelessly ill-defined, maybe because it's gotten picked up by the hype train.
Jonas Hietala
2016 in Review See the previous reviews. 2016 Geek Achievements Placed 2nd in Linköping’s Regional in...
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See the previous reviews. 2016 Geek Achievements Placed 2nd in Linköping’s Regional in Netrunner. Won a couple of smaller Netrunner tournaments. Got Veronica to play Game of Thrones with us. She beat us and she loved it! Programmed a little bit of Elixir and a tiny bit of front...
Willem's Blog
Using Google Free Android Using a Google Free Android phone is uncommon these days, yet I decided to try the Volla Phone to...
over a year ago
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Using a Google Free Android phone is uncommon these days, yet I decided to try the Volla Phone to experience its freedom and privacy.
Home on Erik...
I believe in the 10x engineer, but... The easiest way to be a 10x engineer is to make 10 other engineers 2x more efficient. Someone can be...
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The easiest way to be a 10x engineer is to make 10 other engineers 2x more efficient. Someone can be a 10x engineer if they do nothing for 364 days then convinces the team to change programming language to a 2x more productive language.
Arduino Blog
A stroopwafel doneness detection device If you’re lucky enough to visit the Netherlands and you order a hot drink, you’ll likely be given a...
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If you’re lucky enough to visit the Netherlands and you order a hot drink, you’ll likely be given a sweet treat as well. That is a stroopwafel, a crispy little waffle-syrup sandwich that the Dutch like to rest on top of their drink so that the rising heat will soften the pastry....
Home on Erik...
We're hiring at Better Just a quick note that my team is always hiring at Better. A lot of new people have been joining the...
over a year ago
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Just a quick note that my team is always hiring at Better. A lot of new people have been joining the team here in NYC lately—the tech team has actually grown from 35 to 60 in just ~3 months.
Louwrentius
A practical understanding of lead acid batteries Introduction The goal of this article is to give you a practical understanding Lead Acid batteries....
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Introduction The goal of this article is to give you a practical understanding Lead Acid batteries. We won't address the underlying chemistry, we'll treat them as a black-box and we will discover their characteristics and how to keep them healthy. Disclaimer I'm an amateur. I...
Matt Blewitt
Modifying pg_dump To Exclude Event Triggers At $WORK, we have a case where we have implemented an event trigger to prevent customers from...
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At $WORK, we have a case where we have implemented an event trigger to prevent customers from dropping an extension. As this extension is part of contrib and normally installed by users, we can’t prevent them from dropping it normally. However, event triggers can only be created...
Yazin Alirhayim
Part 1: Will greater access to capital spark Bahrain’s economy? Today, I was on a panel discussing lending and access to capital (not a wooden panel, mind you — but...
over a year ago
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Today, I was on a panel discussing lending and access to capital (not a wooden panel, mind you — but a panel of speakers. Now that I think about it, we may have been sitting on wooden panel flooring). At any rate, the discussion covered alot of ground, all as part of the larger...
Gwern.net Newsletter
April 2020 gwern.net newsletter This is the April 2020 edition of the gwern.net newsletter; previous, March 2020 (archives).
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Jonas Hietala
My Dream Game: The Tycoon I’ve been playing Starcraft 2 a little this christmas. It wasn’t dead serious 1v1 which really is my...
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I’ve been playing Starcraft 2 a little this christmas. It wasn’t dead serious 1v1 which really is my favorite but I’ve played 2v2 with some friends and I actually played the campaign a bit and it was pretty fun! Usually I never play the campaign on RTS games but this one I liked....
./techtipsy
My very first career day This post is a short overview of my experience at a career day in Valga, Estonia, hosted with the...
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This post is a short overview of my experience at a career day in Valga, Estonia, hosted with the help of GreenDice. I’ve never spoken at a career day before nor attended one as a student, which is why I instantly agreed to going to one when GreenDice reached out to me. Why? I...
OH8HUB’s Substack
Spring day ham radio activation in Hiastinlahti, Finland Hiastinlahti is a bay where river Iijoki flows into Bothnian Bay, the northernmost part of Gulf of...
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Hiastinlahti is a bay where river Iijoki flows into Bothnian Bay, the northernmost part of Gulf of Bothnia. This area is a Nature 2000 nature reserve area and good spot for bird watching. The area has a two kilometer long nature trail with fireplace, lean-to and toilet. From the...
Jonas Hietala
My first rust Contribution The problem with open-source for most people isn’t writing code, but it’s all the other things. How...
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The problem with open-source for most people isn’t writing code, but it’s all the other things. How shall I push my changes? How do I handle git? What should I do? I was the same and I actually dreaded my awesome summer job, just a little bit, because now I’m supposed to...
Old Vintage...
Programming the Convergent WorkSlate's spreadsheet microcassette future In this particular future, we will all use handheld spreadsheets stored on microcassettes, talking...
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In this particular future, we will all use handheld spreadsheets stored on microcassettes, talking to each other via speakerphone, and probably listening to Devo and New Order a lot. (Though that part isn't too different from my actual present.) a computer whose manufacturer...
Applied Cartography
11ty .njk as the default templating language is an odd choice, and I find myself stubbing my toe on it a...
10 months ago
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.njk as the default templating language is an odd choice, and I find myself stubbing my toe on it a good amount. Maybe that's a me thing! It is extremely fast. This site has around 2300 pages; Eleventy is compiling it in around two seconds. The extensibility ergonomics are...
Home on Erik...
How to set compensation using commonsense principles Compensation has always been one of the most confusing parts of management to me. Getting it right...
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Compensation has always been one of the most confusing parts of management to me. Getting it right is obviously extremely important. Compensation is what drives our entire economy, and you could look at the market for labor as one gigantic resource-allocating machine in the same...
On Life and Lisp
OpenGL 3.1 on Asahi Linux Upgrade your Asahi Linux systems, because your graphics drivers are getting a big boost:...
a year ago
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Upgrade your Asahi Linux systems, because your graphics drivers are getting a big boost: leapfrogging from OpenGL 2.1 over OpenGL 3.0 up to OpenGL 3.1! Similarly, the OpenGL ES 2.0 support is bumping up to OpenGL ES 3.0. That means more playable games and more functioning...
Bryan Braun - Blog
Unusual Git IDs You can search Github for unusual commit IDs: There are over 2k commits starting with...
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You can search Github for unusual commit IDs: There are over 2k commits starting with 0000000! While looking for commits like these, I started to become suspicious that people were intentionally modifying their commits IDs to be unusual: A commit ID of eeeeeee, with a message...
Jonas Hietala
We can build things! Finally we have some sort of progress! We can now build rooms and place and remove objects! Yay!!...
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Finally we have some sort of progress! We can now build rooms and place and remove objects! Yay!! But we still haven’t even begun with the game logic, resource management, the actual mining mechanic, multiple levels, actual tasks for our workers. But it’s something.
Louwrentius
Achieving 220 MB/s network file transfers using Linux Bonding I wrote an article about the subject of getting beyond the limits of gigabit network file transfers....
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I wrote an article about the subject of getting beyond the limits of gigabit network file transfers. My solution is to use multiple gigabit network cards and use Linux interface bonding to create virtual 2 gigabit network interfaces. The solution is to use mode 0 or round robin...
Jonas Hietala
Sat-E So I entered Ludum Dare 22 this weekend as a preamble for tomorrow’s linear algebra exam. The theme...
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So I entered Ludum Dare 22 this weekend as a preamble for tomorrow’s linear algebra exam. The theme this time around was Alone and the game I came up with is about a lonely satellite in space, kinda like Wall-E. Sat-E Instructions Collect junk and other items for you to buy...
Arduino Blog
Introducing Arduino cores with ZephyrOS (beta): take your embedded development to the next level Last July, when we announced the beginning of the transition from Mbed to Zephyr, we promised to...
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Last July, when we announced the beginning of the transition from Mbed to Zephyr, we promised to release the first beta by the end of 2024. Today, we are excited to announce the first release of Arduino cores with ZephyrOS in beta! ZephyrOS is an open-source, real-time operating...
axio.ms
Pickle plus mains Back in February 2014, it was a cold (but dry) winter’s night and we decided to warm our hearts with...
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Back in February 2014, it was a cold (but dry) winter’s night and we decided to warm our hearts with some science. Our experiment was to observe the conduction of electricity through a pickle, using salt ions. We connected a pickle to the mains supply. Pickles have a strong...
Arduino Blog
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...
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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...
Arduino Blog
Storing ephemeral micropoetry on RFID cards for bite-sized readings Most people don’t consume poetry in the same way that they do novels. Instead of reading a book of...
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Most people don’t consume poetry in the same way that they do novels. Instead of reading a book of poetry from cover-to-cover over the course of a few sessions, the majority of people seem to prefer enjoying poetry in occasional little chunks. And unlike the epic poems of Greek...
Arduino Blog
An Arduino-powered robotic ukulele that plays itself The ukulele has a bit of a reputation for being quaint, but it is a legitimate instrument like any...
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The ukulele has a bit of a reputation for being quaint, but it is a legitimate instrument like any other and that means it takes a lot of practice to play competently. Zeroshot is too busy building cool stuff to bother with all of that, so he put his skills to use constructing...
Posts on Made of...
Systems that defy detailed understanding Last week, I wrote about the mindset that computer systems can be understood, and behaviors can be...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Last week, I wrote about the mindset that computer systems can be understood, and behaviors can be explained, if we’re willing to dig deep enough into the stack of abstractions our software is built atop. Some of the ensuing discussion on Twitter and elsewhere lead me to write...
Ken Shirriff's blog
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...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
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...
Arduino Blog
Is there an online Arduino IDE? Since the inception of Arduino, the Arduino IDE has been a go-to tool for people learning to code...
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2 months ago
Since the inception of Arduino, the Arduino IDE has been a go-to tool for people learning to code and creating projects ranging from remote-controlled cars to soil moisture monitoring. No wonder it’s been downloaded over 24 million times this year, so far!  Now if you’ve ever...
Arduino Blog
This frighteningly realistic animatronic head features expressive silicone skin The human face is remarkably complex, with 43 different muscles contorting the skin in all kinds of...
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a month ago
The human face is remarkably complex, with 43 different muscles contorting the skin in all kinds of ways. Some of that is utilitarian — your jaw muscles are good for chewing, after all. But a lot of it seems to be the result of evolution giving us fantastic non-verbal...
Notes on software...
Book Review: ANSI Common Lisp Score: 4.5 / 5 Paul Graham and his editor(s) are excellent. His prose is light and easy to follow....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Score: 4.5 / 5 Paul Graham and his editor(s) are excellent. His prose is light and easy to follow. The only awkward component of the book's organization is that he tends to use a concept one section before explicitly introducing and defining that concept. I'm not sure yet if this...
Notes on software...
Writing a simple JSON path parser Let's say we want to implement a simple list filtering language so we can enter a.b = 12 and return...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Let's say we want to implement a simple list filtering language so we can enter a.b = 12 and return only results in a list where the a column is an object that contains a field b that is set to the value 12. What would a filter(jsonPath, equals, listOfObjects) function...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Review: museums of the future, Dubai and Tokyo
5 months ago
Louwrentius
Difference of behavior in SATA Solid State Drives Introduction Update: I've noticed some strange behavior of SSDs when benchmarking them with FIO....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Introduction Update: I've noticed some strange behavior of SSDs when benchmarking them with FIO. After further investigation and additional testing, I've found the reason for the strange patterns in the graphs. The 'strange' test results are due to the fact that they were...
Notes on software...
Let's build a distributed Postgres proof of concept What is CockroachDB under the hood? Take a look at its go.mod and notice a number of dependencies...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
What is CockroachDB under the hood? Take a look at its go.mod and notice a number of dependencies that do a lot of work: a PostgreSQL wire protocol implementation, a storage layer, a Raft implementation for distributed consensus. And not part of go.mod but still building on 3rd...
Home on Erik...
Machine, Platform, Crowd I just bought Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future and discovered that it...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I just bought Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future and discovered that it mentions my blog – in particular the post When machine learning matters. Ok, I lied a little bit. I didn't discover it serendipitously.
Vitalik Buterin's...
[Mirror] Exploring Elliptic Curve Pairings
over a year ago
Notes on software...
SQLite in Go, with and without cgo This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
Posts on Made of...
Indices point between elements If you’re familiar with nearly any mainstream programming language, and I asked you to draw a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you’re familiar with nearly any mainstream programming language, and I asked you to draw a diagram of an array, the array indices, and the array elements, odds are good you’d produce a diagram something like this: In this post, I want to persuade you to replace that image, or,...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Exit games for EVM validiums: the return of Plasma
a year ago
anderegg.ca
The trouble with openness Back in the early 2000s, there was this nebulous idea called the semantic web. It never really went...
a month ago
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a month ago
Back in the early 2000s, there was this nebulous idea called the semantic web. It never really went anywhere, but I found it exciting at the time. One piece that particularly spoke to me was the notion of including data in websites so that web scrapers could easily get at it....
Louwrentius
Monitoring HP MSA P2000 G3 I/O latency with Nagios At work we have a couple of HP MSA P2000 G3 SANs. These are entry-level SANs that still seem to have...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
At work we have a couple of HP MSA P2000 G3 SANs. These are entry-level SANs that still seem to have almost all features you might want from a SAN, except for official SSD-support. It seems that the new MSA 2040 adds support for SSDs and also provides 4 GB cache per controller...
Louwrentius
Things you should consider when building a ZFS NAS ZFS is a modern file system designed by Sun Microsystems, targeted at enterprise environments. Many...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
ZFS is a modern file system designed by Sun Microsystems, targeted at enterprise environments. Many features of ZFS also appeal to home NAS builders and with good reason. But not all features are relevant or necessary for home use. I believe that most home users building their...
Willem's Blog
The day I killed my LAN I killed my office LAN and went 4G only. Saves a lot of clutter, energy and money.
over a year ago
computers are bad
2023-07-29 Free Public WiFi Remember Free Public WiFi? Once, many years ago, I stayed on the 62nd floor of the Westin Peachtree...
a year ago
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a year ago
Remember Free Public WiFi? Once, many years ago, I stayed on the 62nd floor of the Westin Peachtree Plaza in Atlanta, Georgia. This was in the age when the price of a hotel room was directly correlated with the price of the WiFi service, and as a high school student I was not...
Posts on Made of...
Using wpa_supplicant on Debian/Ubuntu I’ve been using wpa_supplicant to manage wifi on my Ubuntu laptop for a while, and have found that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been using wpa_supplicant to manage wifi on my Ubuntu laptop for a while, and have found that it’s pretty close to what I want for managing wireless — closer than anything else I’ve found, at least. I figured I should document my setup and experiences. Some Background You...
Construction Physics
What Learning by Doing Looks Like The evolution of polycrystalline diamond drill bits
3 weeks ago
Computer Ads from...
Salamander Software's Franklin's Tomb My name is Diamond, Dan Diamond. I'm a private cop.
10 months ago
Notes on software...
Exploring Postgres's arena allocator by writing an HTTP server from scratch This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
2 months ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 2: The Surge
2 months ago
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #49: How bat protection regulations broke Britain's planning system Plus how Europe isn't *all bad* at growth, why every Netflix film is forgettable, and why you should...
a week ago
Willem's Blog
For the love of mini The iPhone Mini has intangible greatness that most folks don't know about: read along for the love...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The iPhone Mini has intangible greatness that most folks don't know about: read along for the love of mini!
./techtipsy
ASRock DeskMini X300: the future form factor of desktop PC-s? I wasn’t happy with my “one machine that does it all” setup, which is why I finally bit the bullet...
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I wasn’t happy with my “one machine that does it all” setup, which is why I finally bit the bullet and got myself an ASRock DeskMini X300 bare-bones kit. This is a fantastic little desktop PC kit that is very small, quiet and can still be configured to have ridiculous amounts of...
Posts on Made of...
Using Haskell's 'newtype' in C A common problem in software engineering is avoiding confusion and errors when dealing with multiple...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A common problem in software engineering is avoiding confusion and errors when dealing with multiple types of data that share the same representation. Classic examples include differentiating between measurements stored in different units, distinguishing between a string of HTML...
Louwrentius
Script that shows smart values of all disks' Please use this tool on github instead of this ancient script. So you have a Linux system with a lot...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Please use this tool on github instead of this ancient script. So you have a Linux system with a lot of hard drives. If you want to quickly check on some key SMART values to determine the health of individual disks, you might be interested in this script. I wrote a small Python...
Notes on software...
Effective unemployment and social media Being unemployed can be incredibly depressing. So much rejection. Everything seems to be out of your...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
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...
Jonas Hietala
Let's build a VORON: Major failure The left POM nut got ground down, making the bed fall down. After 600 hours, the printer met it’s...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
The left POM nut got ground down, making the bed fall down. After 600 hours, the printer met it’s first major failure. I know I earlier described how the extruder starter skipping in a big way, but that was just some filament getting stuck in the extruder. This time a part...
Applied Cartography
Meta's two assets (Epistemic disclaimer: there are few Extremely Big Tech Companies to whom I feel apathy more vividly...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
(Epistemic disclaimer: there are few Extremely Big Tech Companies to whom I feel apathy more vividly than Meta. I had a Facebook account in high school and college and got rid of it at some point post-graduation, though I'd be hard-pressed to tell you when exactly that was.) It...
Willem's Blog
Optical vs chest strap heart rate monitors Understanding the differences in common HR monitors used in wearables, smartwatches and fitness...
over a year ago
Good Enough
Strong Prototypes, Weakly Held Excuse any obtuse thoughts that make their way into this writing. I sat down to type with My Life in...
a year ago
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a year ago
Excuse any obtuse thoughts that make their way into this writing. I sat down to type with My Life in the Bush of Ghosts by Brian Eno and David Byrne as my soundtrack. This is an album I've never listened to before, and apparently I'm supposed to love it or hate it. Mostly the...
Electronics etc…
Measuring the HP 11720A Pulse Modulator and Coax Cables Introduction What is a pulse modulator and what are they used for? The HP 11720A Pulse...
a year ago
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a year ago
Introduction What is a pulse modulator and what are they used for? The HP 11720A Pulse Modulator Inside the HP 11720A Measurement Setup for a Quick Testing Session Pin Modulator Power Measurements with HP 432A Cable Loss Measurements with HP 432A Cable Power Measurements with...
Louwrentius
Neato XV-15 / XV-11 Robotic Vacuum cleaner review Update 18 February 2012 There is one problem. When the robot is not connected to the charger, the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Update 18 February 2012 There is one problem. When the robot is not connected to the charger, the batteries are depleted very fast. Even if the batteries are not entirely depleted and the robot can still display the menu, the clock loses it's time. Every time the robot gets a too...
Louwrentius
Determining smartphone market share using wireless sniffing I started a project to see if I could track smartphone users by sniffing for wifi-clients. Most...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I started a project to see if I could track smartphone users by sniffing for wifi-clients. Most smartphones support wifi and most people don't bother disabling wifi when they go outdoors1. If wifi is left on, it is possible to detect these smartphones and track their movement. To...
csvbase blog
Parquet: more than just "Turbo CSV" Quicker, but also more convenient
a year ago
Notes on software...
A minimal RocksDB example with Zig I mostly programmed in Go the last few years. So every time I wanted an embedded key-value database,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I mostly programmed in Go the last few years. So every time I wanted an embedded key-value database, I reached for Cockroach's Pebble. Pebble is great for Go programming but Go does not embed well into other languages. Pebble was inspired by RocksDB (and its...
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What can strong engineers do that weak engineers can't? Right now people are blowing up on Twitter about whether the USA needs to import top talent from...
a week ago
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a week ago
Right now people are blowing up on Twitter about whether the USA needs to import top talent from other countries, and if that means that…
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Keep incidents boring The internet is full of exciting incident war stories. Tough engineering problems, solved under...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The internet is full of exciting incident war stories. Tough engineering problems, solved under pressure by sleep-deprived developers. In an…
./techtipsy
ThinkPad as a server: third time's the charm This is a follow-up to my two previous attempts on this topic: Can a laptop from 2012 be a viable...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
This is a follow-up to my two previous attempts on this topic: Can a laptop from 2012 be a viable home server? ThinkPad as a server: the follow-up Since then, I’ve had quite a few changes to my home server setup: I put my home server stuff on an IKEA pegboard I tried the...
Louwrentius
The iPad will be the death of Flash So Apple finally released their tablet computer: the iPad. One of the most debated drawbacks is that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
So Apple finally released their tablet computer: the iPad. One of the most debated drawbacks is that it lacks support for Adobe Flash. The iPhone does not support Flash either, and since the iPad is based on the iPhone OS, this should not come as a surprise. Now many people see...
Posts on Made of...
Efficiency trades off against resiliency What’s the “right” level of CPU utilization for a server? If you look at a monitoring dashboard from...
a year ago
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a year ago
What’s the “right” level of CPU utilization for a server? If you look at a monitoring dashboard from a well-designed and well-run service, what CPU utilization should we hope to see, averaged over a day or two? It’s a very general question, and it’s not clear it should have a...
computers are bad
2024-09-14 the national warning system Previously on Deep Space Nine, we discussed the extensive and variable products that AT&T and...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Previously on Deep Space Nine, we discussed the extensive and variable products that AT&T and telephone operating companies sold as private lines. One of the interesting properties of private line systems is that they can be ordered as four-wire. Internally, the telephone network...
Notes on software...
io_uring basics: Writing a file to disk King and I wrote a blog post about building an event-driven cross-platform IO library that...
a year ago
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a year ago
King and I wrote a blog post about building an event-driven cross-platform IO library that used io_uring on Linux. We sketched out how it works at a high level but I hadn't yet internalized how you actually code with io_uring. So I strapped myself down this week and wrote...
Willem's Blog
Minimalistic road bike with Gates carbon drive For the past few months I have been riding the Schindelhauer Siegfried Road bike with the Gates CDX...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For the past few months I have been riding the Schindelhauer Siegfried Road bike with the Gates CDX Carbon Drive, read about this beautiful minimal bike in this post.
Jonas Hietala
Going down Ah my first game was so painless so I thought I could do any game I could imagine! Shooters, and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Ah my first game was so painless so I thought I could do any game I could imagine! Shooters, and mario bros kinda stuff. Well now I’m not so upbeat anymore, I’ve worked on this game for 7 days now and it’s not playable at all. With seven days I don’t mean a week, I’ve had a big...
./techtipsy
ThinkPad T40: it can still run modern Linux, for now I recently busted out my old ThinkPad T40, the last of the OG IBM ThinkPads. I picked it up some...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
I recently busted out my old ThinkPad T40, the last of the OG IBM ThinkPads. I picked it up some time around my university days because I liked collecting ThinkPads at the time, and it was a nice complement to my existing ThinkPad T60 and T430. The battery is dead, but everything...
Notes on software...
dsq: Commandline tool for running SQL queries against JSON, CSV, Excel, Parquet, and more. This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
Notes on software...
Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go: 1. SELECT, INSERT, CREATE and a REPL Next in database basics: 2. binary expressions and WHERE filters 3. indexes 4. a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Next in database basics: 2. binary expressions and WHERE filters 3. indexes 4. a database/sql driver In this series we'll write a rudimentary database from scratch in Go. Project source code is available on Github. In this first post we'll build enough of a parser to...
Lighthouse Blog
Updates June 07
7 months ago
Odds and Ends of...
Keir Starmer needs to prepare for a world without America Today's empires, tomorrow's ashes.
2 months ago
Abort Retry Fail
The History of Windows NT 3.1 A Highly Portable Future
a year ago
Willem's Blog
Why Apple Silicon is a big deal Never have I been so blown away as by the new MacBook Air with M1 processor. It is a big deal.
over a year ago
Louwrentius
HP Proliant Microserver Gen10 as router or NAS Introduction In the summer of 2017, HP released the Proliant Microserver Gen10. This machine...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Introduction In the summer of 2017, HP released the Proliant Microserver Gen10. This machine replaces the older Gen8 model. For hobbyists, the Microserver always has been an interesting device for a custom home NAS build or as a router. Let's find out if this is still the case....
Applied Cartography
Klarna: nineteen years, twenty billion kroner I tend to ignore the entire genre of what we now refer to as BNPL businesses — Affirm, Afterpay...
a month ago
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a month ago
I tend to ignore the entire genre of what we now refer to as BNPL businesses — Affirm, Afterpay (RIP), Klarna, et al — not for any particular sin I feel that they are committing, but because they in my mind are much less interesting companies with less volatile upside than the...
Jonas Hietala
Moving to FastMail About two years ago after Lavabit’s shutdown I searched for a replacement email provider. For some...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
About two years ago after Lavabit’s shutdown I searched for a replacement email provider. For some reason I settled on eumx which I used since then. Yesterday I got an email saying the recurring billing could not be renewed as I had my old credit card registered and it got me...
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Why some engineers get trusted with high-impact work It’s fun and rewarding to work on critical tasks. But there’s only so much important work to go...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
It’s fun and rewarding to work on critical tasks. But there’s only so much important work to go around. Worse still, the chances to work on…
Christian Selig
Announcing Juno 2.0 Juno’s been a really fun project to build, and it’s been so great hearing how other people have been...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Juno’s been a really fun project to build, and it’s been so great hearing how other people have been enjoying Juno since its launch, as well as providing awesome feedback and input to improve it. Today I’m releasing Juno 2.0, which incorporates a ton of that community feedback,...
Vitalik Buterin's...
What even is an institution?
over a year ago
Notes on software...
A Programmer-Friendly I/O Abstraction Over io_uring and kqueue This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Let's create a Tree-sitter grammar One of my favorite features in Neovim is the Tree-sitter integration. It allows for fast syntax...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
One of my favorite features in Neovim is the Tree-sitter integration. It allows for fast syntax highlighting that works well even in an error state (often the case when you’re editing code), and it has additional semantics (you can differentiate between function parameters and...
Willem's Blog
Escaping the flat tires Finding the answer to the question how resilient a puncture-proof tire really is took me quite some...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Finding the answer to the question how resilient a puncture-proof tire really is took me quite some time, but alas - here it is!