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A database without dynamic memory allocation This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
12th Oct 2022
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A database without dynamic memory allocation

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12th Oct 2022
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Reverse-engineering an analog Bendix air data computer: part 4, the Mach section MathJax = { tex: { inlineMath: [['$', '$'], ['\\(', '\\)']] }, svg: { fontCache:...
11th Feb 2024
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Reverse-engineering an analog Bendix air data computer: part 4, the Mach section

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

11th Feb 2024
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Starting a minimal Common Lisp project If you've only vaguely heard of Lisp before or studied Scheme in school, Common Lisp is nothing like...
5th Mar 2018
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Starting a minimal Common Lisp project

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

5th Mar 2018
If you've only vaguely heard of Lisp before or studied Scheme in school, Common Lisp is nothing like what you'd expect. While functional programming is all the rage in Scheme, Common Lisp was "expressly designed to be a real-world engineering language rather than a theoretically...
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Is the Apple Watch the modern tool watch? This week I went to Frankfurt for business. I had to perform maintenance to servers in a data...
1st Nov 2018
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Is the Apple Watch the modern tool watch?

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

1st Nov 2018
This week I went to Frankfurt for business. I had to perform maintenance to servers in a data centre. This seemed like a great opportunity to test the Apple Watch's usefulness in real life (other than health and fitness). I wondered, is the Apple Watch the modern tool watch? ...
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Introducing BatteryPro BatteryPro is designed to keep anyone with an iPhone and Apple Watch powered, it's comfortable to...
2nd May 2017
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Introducing BatteryPro

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

2nd May 2017
BatteryPro is designed to keep anyone with an iPhone and Apple Watch powered, it's comfortable to carry, charges fast, and lessens cord clutter when you travel. It sports an integrated MFi-certified Apple Watch Magnetic Charger, high-speed USB-out that charges iPhone at max rate,...
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2025-05-12 Lua Carousel now comes with a comprehensive system of online help you can run on computer or...
12th May 2025
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2025-05-12

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

12th May 2025
Lua Carousel now comes with a comprehensive system of online help you can run on computer or phone: A tutorial for using it tailored towards programmers Exercises for learning programming Lots of example programs you can run right from within it, clone and remix Reference...
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The different types of ZK-EVMs
4th Aug 2022
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The different types of ZK-EVMs

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

4th Aug 2022
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Is Datalog a good language for authorization? Datalog is a logic programming language, based on Prolog, which is seeing something of a resurgence...
19th Feb 2022
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Is Datalog a good language for authorization?

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

19th Feb 2022
Datalog is a logic programming language, based on Prolog, which is seeing something of a resurgence in interest in recent years. In particular, several recent approaches to authorization (working out who can do what) have used Datalog as the logical basis for access control...
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Rescuing photos from a crashed iMac This week I attempted to recover two decades of personal photo history from a crashed iMac.
14th Oct 2020
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Rescuing photos from a crashed iMac

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

14th Oct 2020
This week I attempted to recover two decades of personal photo history from a crashed iMac.
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Cable Length Measurement with an HP 8007B Pulse Generator MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [...
1st Apr 2023
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Cable Length Measurement with an HP 8007B Pulse Generator

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

1st Apr 2023
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Cult Classic I can't find where I wrote this, but I described Crosley's writing persona (having read her other...
8th Nov 2022
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Cult Classic

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

8th Nov 2022
I can't find where I wrote this, but I described Crosley's writing persona (having read her other two books) as that of a friend you run into at a party who fits in perfectly and has the best bon mots and she knows it and needs to make sure you know it, too.
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The Future of Software and Open Source I've been writing software for the better part of 30 years, and like many of my colleagues, I have...
18th May 2023
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The Future of Software and Open Source

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

18th May 2023
I've been writing software for the better part of 30 years, and like many of my colleagues, I have recently had a difficult time identifying the last thing that has changed the way I work more quickly and massively than the current wave of large language model tooling like...
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It is okay not to be special Hi :name-retracted:! I hope I don’t bore you with this letter. I feel like talking to you about...
17th Jul 2018
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It is okay not to be special

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

17th Jul 2018
Hi :name-retracted:! I hope I don’t bore you with this letter. I feel like talking to you about life. (Which I always want to do. All the…
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SipHash-based encryption for constrained devices I see a lot of attempts to define encryption schemes for constrained devices with short...
6th May 2024
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SipHash-based encryption for constrained devices

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

6th May 2024
I see a lot of attempts to define encryption schemes for constrained devices with short authentication tags (e.g., 64 bits) using universal hashing. For example, there’s a proposal in CFRG at the moment for a version of AES-GCM with short tags for this kind of use-case. In my...
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Modeling conversion rates using Weibull and gamma distributions This is a blog post originally featured on the Better engineering blog. If you want to link to this...
5th Aug 2019
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Modeling conversion rates using Weibull and gamma distributions

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

5th Aug 2019
This is a blog post originally featured on the Better engineering blog. If you want to link to this article or share it, please go to the original post URL! Separately, I'm sorry it's been so long with no posts on this blog.
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Ultrasound-based pacemaker noninvasively steadies the heart The new design could offer a surgery-free alternative to traditional cardiac implants.
2nd Jun 2026
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Ultrasound-based pacemaker noninvasively steadies the heart

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

2nd Jun 2026
The new design could offer a surgery-free alternative to traditional cardiac implants.
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The art and engineering of Silpheed
1st Jun 2026
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The art and engineering of Silpheed

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

1st Jun 2026
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Lightweight Linux Kernel Development with KVM I don’t do a ton of Linux kernel development these days, but I’ve done a fair bit in the past, and...
30th Dec 2013
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Lightweight Linux Kernel Development with KVM

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

30th Dec 2013
I don’t do a ton of Linux kernel development these days, but I’ve done a fair bit in the past, and picked up a number of useful techniques for doing kernel development in a relatively painless fashion. This blog post is a writeup of the tools and techniques I use when developing...
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Information and Technological Evolution I spend a lot of time reading about the nature of technological progress, and I’ve found that the...
2nd Apr 2026
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Information and Technological Evolution

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

2nd Apr 2026
I spend a lot of time reading about the nature of technological progress, and I’ve found that the literature on technology is somewhat uneven.
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To become a good C programmer More...
2nd Feb 2011
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To become a good C programmer

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

2nd Feb 2011
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Notes from Neal Gabler's Walt Disney Disney was a celebrity by his mid-30s, Disney the company was famous by 1930s. Even though...
18th Feb 2023
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Notes from Neal Gabler's Walt Disney

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18th Feb 2023
Disney was a celebrity by his mid-30s, Disney the company was famous by 1930s. Even though politically the 1930s was considered the decade of Roosevelt (elected President in 1933), culturally the 1930s was considered the decade of Mickey Mouse. Almost every new...
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How China Is Like the 19th Century U.S. I spend a lot of time reading about manufacturing and its evolution, which means I end up repeatedly...
1st Nov 2024
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How China Is Like the 19th Century U.S.

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

1st Nov 2024
I spend a lot of time reading about manufacturing and its evolution, which means I end up repeatedly reading about the times and places where radical changes in manufacturing were taking place: Britain in the late 18th century, the US in the late 19th and early 20th centuries,...
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Should US homebuilders emulate Sweden? A common sentiment I see with folks interested in improving US homebuilding is that we should try...
1st Jan 2026
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Should US homebuilders emulate Sweden?

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

1st Jan 2026
A common sentiment I see with folks interested in improving US homebuilding is that we should try and emulate Sweden.
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amd64 and va_arg A while back, I was poking around LLVM bugs, and discovered, to my surprise, that LLVM doesn’t...
4th Oct 2010
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amd64 and va_arg

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

4th Oct 2010
A while back, I was poking around LLVM bugs, and discovered, to my surprise, that LLVM doesn’t support the va_arg intrinsic, used by functions to accept multiple arguments, at all on amd64. It turns out that clang and llvm-gcc, the compilers that backend to LLVM, have their own...
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An affordable server platform based on server-grade hardware Updated post (June 2014) found HERE There are some reasons why you should consider buying true...
13th Dec 2013
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An affordable server platform based on server-grade hardware

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

13th Dec 2013
Updated post (June 2014) found HERE There are some reasons why you should consider buying true server-grade harware when building a server, wether it's for home or business use. This is why I want to introduce you to the Supermicro X9SCM-F motherboard. This motherboard costs...
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FYI: Broadcom is ruining Bitnami containers You'll need to switch off ASAP.
28th Aug 2025
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FYI: Broadcom is ruining Bitnami containers

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28th Aug 2025
You'll need to switch off ASAP.
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The Purpose of a Baby is What it Does I promised another Flusser post a few weeks ago…but personal events have intervened.
2nd Mar 2026
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The Purpose of a Baby is What it Does

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

2nd Mar 2026
I promised another Flusser post a few weeks ago…but personal events have intervened.
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Professor Emeritus Chiang Chung Mei, pioneering scholar of ocean wave dynamics and fluid mechanics,... A towering figure in theoretical hydrodynamics is remembered for his intellectual rigor, generosity,...
14th Aug 2026
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Professor Emeritus Chiang Chung Mei, pioneering scholar of ocean wave dynamics and fluid mechanics, dies at 91

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

14th Aug 2026
A towering figure in theoretical hydrodynamics is remembered for his intellectual rigor, generosity, and lifelong devotion to his students.
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Joining TCG Crypto I am thrilled to share that I am joining the team at TCG, The Chernin Group, to focus on the firm’s...
14th Sep 2021
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Joining TCG Crypto

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

14th Sep 2021
I am thrilled to share that I am joining the team at TCG, The Chernin Group, to focus on the firm’s investments at the intersection of consumer and crypto.
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Phucking with Phishers
14th Oct 2024
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Phucking with Phishers

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

14th Oct 2024
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2023-04-10 solving problems with chatgpt One of the foundational goals of computer technology, at least as understood by popular culture, is...
10th Apr 2023
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2023-04-10 solving problems with chatgpt

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

10th Apr 2023
One of the foundational goals of computer technology, at least as understood by popular culture, is to automate away our jobs. When your job is (put simply) to get computers to work correctly, there's sort of an irony to this view of things. Still, just within the span of my...
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May, 2026 There are two mental models about work and fatigue which, like my brief dalliance with Roshe Runs, I...
1st Jun 2026
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May, 2026

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

1st Jun 2026
There are two mental models about work and fatigue which, like my brief dalliance with Roshe Runs, I have loved and outgrown:
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Soulbound
26th Jan 2022
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Soulbound

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

26th Jan 2022
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Ugly and Slow Progress Ludum Dare is coming along… Slowly. The rust on me is probably so brown it’s nearly black. But I...
25th Aug 2012
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Ugly and Slow Progress

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

25th Aug 2012
Ludum Dare is coming along… Slowly. The rust on me is probably so brown it’s nearly black. But I have an idea and it might be good, all I need to do is execute it. Right? Programmer graphics coming to take you away! Anyway it’s going to be a risk-like game with a twist: you can...
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Innovation Is Software In August my computer setup changed more than it had in years. And yet the lesson of the month was...
25th Aug 2026
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Innovation Is Software

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

25th Aug 2026
In August my computer setup changed more than it had in years. And yet the lesson of the month was the opposite of new hardware: the existing gear has stretch, innovation is software. This post is about one brain, the machine in the homelab where my files and my agents live, the...
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Commuter bike checkup This week my trustworthy commuter bike started making strange squeaking noises when braking, time to...
9th Jan 2021
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Commuter bike checkup

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

9th Jan 2021
This week my trustworthy commuter bike started making strange squeaking noises when braking, time to have a look at the bike after 21.000KM!
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Superhacker Rossum hacked inPulse - Have you?
18th Feb 2011
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Superhacker Rossum hacked inPulse - Have you?

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

18th Feb 2011
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The Fellowship I am a sucker for all things Joseph Shabason at this point, and maybe it's fair to call this album a...
1st May 2021
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The Fellowship

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st May 2021
I am a sucker for all things Joseph Shabason at this point, and maybe it's fair to call this album a little too reminiscent of his prior work, but — who cares? It's sonically diverse and lush and delightful to listen to.
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The Album I would forgive the simplicity of the bubblegum or the datedness of the production or the very short...
4th Aug 2021
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The Album

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Aug 2021
I would forgive the simplicity of the bubblegum or the datedness of the production or the very short runtime if any of these songs were bops but...they weren't? It just wasn't a very fu album.
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IrDA Light: it's the radiation we can see. The communications potential of light is obvious, and indeed,...
11th Apr 2026
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IrDA

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11th Apr 2026
Light: it's the radiation we can see. The communications potential of light is obvious, and indeed, many of the earliest forms of long-distance communication relied on it: signal fires, semaphore, heliographs. You could say that we still make extensive use of light for...
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Game Engine Black Book Postmortem More...
7th Sep 2017
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Game Engine Black Book Postmortem

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

7th Sep 2017
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Objectivity is superstition An objective, external world is a non-falsifiable assumption. The prevailing theory is that our...
17th Mar 2025
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Objectivity is superstition

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

17th Mar 2025
An objective, external world is a non-falsifiable assumption. The prevailing theory is that our subjective experiences correspond to an external reality. However, they may simply be subjective through and through. That which we claim to be evidence of external reality is actually...
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Hacking a Massive Steam Scamming and Phishing Operation for Fun and Profit
9th May 2018
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Hacking a Massive Steam Scamming and Phishing Operation for Fun and Profit

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

9th May 2018
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Climbing Mount Etna Last week me and my wife went to Sicily for a little summer holiday. It is the largest island in the...
1st Sep 2017
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Climbing Mount Etna

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

1st Sep 2017
Last week me and my wife went to Sicily for a little summer holiday. It is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. It is an autonomous region of Italy, along with surrounding minor islands. It's home to Europe's largest active volcano: Mount Etna. We had a chance to visit...
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Harpoom: of course the Apple Network Server can be hacked into running Doom a $10,000+ Apple server running IBM AIX. Of course you can. Well, you can now. Now, let's go ahead...
1st Jun 2025
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Harpoom: of course the Apple Network Server can be hacked into running Doom

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

1st Jun 2025
a $10,000+ Apple server running IBM AIX. Of course you can. Well, you can now. Now, let's go ahead and get the grumbling out of the way. No, the ANS is not running Linux or NetBSD. No, this is not a backport of NCommander's AIX Doom, because that runs on AIX 4.3. The Apple...
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Deploying apps in Coolify, part 1
1st Oct 2025
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Deploying apps in Coolify, part 1

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

1st Oct 2025
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Tumblr's awesome project names Not sure how I managed to miss this, but I'm watching this Tumblr presentation and they talk about...
18th Nov 2012
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Tumblr's awesome project names

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

18th Nov 2012
Not sure how I managed to miss this, but I'm watching this Tumblr presentation and they talk about their projects named after Arrested Development topics: Gob, Parmesan, Buster, Jetpants, Oscar, George and Motherboy. Still, the best software project name is probably still Apple's...
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Buffet lines are terrible, but let's try to improve them using computer simulations My company has a buffet every Friday, and the lines grow to epic proportions when the food arrives....
16th Oct 2019
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Buffet lines are terrible, but let's try to improve them using computer simulations

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

16th Oct 2019
My company has a buffet every Friday, and the lines grow to epic proportions when the food arrives. I've suspected for years that the “classic” buffet line system is a deeply flawed and inefficient method, and every time I'm stuck in the line has made me more convinced.
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The Pinecone DAISY-1 is a fantasy 8-bit computer that exists in reality There was a time when computers were exciting and fun. Now most of them feel like commodity...
2nd Jun 2026
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The Pinecone DAISY-1 is a fantasy 8-bit computer that exists in reality

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

2nd Jun 2026
There was a time when computers were exciting and fun. Now most of them feel like commodity appliances — no more interesting than a washing machine or a toaster. Joe longed for the good ol’ days of 8-bit personal computers, so he used a trio of Arduino development boards to...
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Precision Clock Acrylic Case [Hardware] Smoked acrylic upgrade for the Precision Clock Mk IV
29th Oct 2025
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Precision Clock Acrylic Case

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

29th Oct 2025
[Hardware] Smoked acrylic upgrade for the Precision Clock Mk IV
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Batavus Champion bike from 1978 Almost a year ago I bought an old steel racing bike from 1978. I wanted to figure out if using a...
2nd Sep 2016
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Batavus Champion bike from 1978

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

2nd Sep 2016
Almost a year ago I bought an old steel racing bike from 1978. I wanted to figure out if using a bike to commute worked for me. It did! I used it to ride more than 1000KM before I decided to get a modern road bike. Now, almost a year later, I decided to put the powers of the...
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My release checklist for chrome extensions Many products can be updated very quickly. You spot a bug, you push a fix in next 5 minutes, sadly...
9th Jul 2022
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My release checklist for chrome extensions

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

9th Jul 2022
Many products can be updated very quickly. You spot a bug, you push a fix in next 5 minutes, sadly for chrome extensions it’s not like that. When you update a chrome extension in the chrome web store you submit a package that then goes through a lengthy review. It can take...
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Objectivity is superstition An objective, external world is a non-falsifiable assumption. The prevailing theory is that our...
17th Mar 2025
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Objectivity is superstition

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

17th Mar 2025
An objective, external world is a non-falsifiable assumption. The prevailing theory is that our subjective experiences correspond to an external reality. However, they may simply be subjective through and through. That which we claim to be evidence of external reality is actually...
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Boomba is a Roomba with every upgrade imaginable In the classic Ship of Theseus thought experiment, we’re led to wonder if a ship is still the same...
5th May 2026
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Boomba is a Roomba with every upgrade imaginable

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

5th May 2026
In the classic Ship of Theseus thought experiment, we’re led to wonder if a ship is still the same ship after all of its parts have been replaced. But we might need to rename that to the “Robot of Boomba,” after Lucas completely rebuilt a Roomba to serve as a robotics platform....
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Vision Pro My thoughts on using Vision Pro to get some real work done, exploring what Spatial Computing means...
15th Feb 2024
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Vision Pro

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

15th Feb 2024
My thoughts on using Vision Pro to get some real work done, exploring what Spatial Computing means and how it can be useful.
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The Desktop Metaphor The implications of the desktop metaphor on digital interfaces
10th Oct 2021
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The Desktop Metaphor

from Kent de Bruin [alt+shift+b] in technology

10th Oct 2021
The implications of the desktop metaphor on digital interfaces
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Pickle plus mains Back in February 2014, it was a cold (but dry) winter’s night and we decided to warm our hearts with...
17th Mar 2018
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Pickle plus mains

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

17th Mar 2018
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...
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Understanding the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Server Autoinstaller Introduction Ubuntu Server version 18.04 LTS uses the debian-installer (d-i) for the installation...
11th Feb 2021
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Understanding the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Server Autoinstaller

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

11th Feb 2021
Introduction Ubuntu Server version 18.04 LTS uses the debian-installer (d-i) for the installation process. This includes support for 'preseeding' to create unattended (automated) installations of ubuntu. the debian installer With the introduction of Ubuntu Server 20.04 'Focal...
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How Will the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act Affect Housing Supply? Part III This is my third and final essay looking at the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, and how it’s...
3rd Sep 2026
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How Will the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act Affect Housing Supply? Part III

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

3rd Sep 2026
This is my third and final essay looking at the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, and how it’s likely to affect housing supply.
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STARKs, Part 3: Into the Weeds
21st Jul 2018
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STARKs, Part 3: Into the Weeds

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

21st Jul 2018
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Cutting Cloud Costs Like many, I faced soaring cloud service costs for my clients, prompting a wake-up call. To stay...
4th Apr 2023
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Cutting Cloud Costs

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

4th Apr 2023
Like many, I faced soaring cloud service costs for my clients, prompting a wake-up call. To stay afloat, it's essential to incorporate software optimisation as a strategy for managing cloud expenses. Join me as I share how I managed to save up to 90% on cloud costs through...
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GitButler CLI Is Really Good My workflow has remained mostly the same for over a decade. I write everything in Vim using the...
9th Feb 2026
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GitButler CLI Is Really Good

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

9th Feb 2026
My workflow has remained mostly the same for over a decade. I write everything in Vim using the configuration found here. I run Vim from inside of tmux with a configuration found here. I write things on a git branch, made with the git CLI, then I add them with
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The Pulse: Antigravity 2.0 takes ‘IDE’ out of its new IDE Feedback about the redesigned IDE is overwhelmingly negative due to bugs, poor UX & model support,...
11th Jun 2026
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The Pulse: Antigravity 2.0 takes ‘IDE’ out of its new IDE

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

11th Jun 2026
Feedback about the redesigned IDE is overwhelmingly negative due to bugs, poor UX & model support, and eating through Gemini token quotas. Also: a clue that Antigravity’s own devs use other tools for their work?
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Testing MacOS on the Apple Network Server 2.0 ROMs It's time for another save point in the continuing saga of the various ROMs for the Apple Network...
3rd May 2026
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Testing MacOS on the Apple Network Server 2.0 ROMs

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

3rd May 2026
It's time for another save point in the continuing saga of the various ROMs for the Apple Network Server, Apple's first through-and-through Unix server (previously, previously). The Apple Network Server was only ever officially able to boot AIX, IBM's proprietary Power...
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Final post on the inPulse blog
2nd Feb 2012
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Final post on the inPulse blog

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

2nd Feb 2012
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Weird SEGA facts I fell down a weird Wikipedia rabbit hole this morning. It was kicked off by a Bluesky post from...
15th Aug 2025
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Weird SEGA facts

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

15th Aug 2025
I fell down a weird Wikipedia rabbit hole this morning. It was kicked off by a Bluesky post from Jeff Gerstmann, and it taught me two weird things about Sonic the Hedgehog. Gerstmann’s post shows off MTV’s Beavis and Butt-Head for the Game Gear. I’d never seen it before and...
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Switching to Lenovo Carbon X1
2nd Oct 2020
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Switching to Lenovo Carbon X1

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

2nd Oct 2020
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Music recommendations using cover images (part 1) Scrolling through the Discover page on Spotify the other day it occurred to me that the album is in...
1st Apr 2014
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Music recommendations using cover images (part 1)

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

1st Apr 2014
Scrolling through the Discover page on Spotify the other day it occurred to me that the album is in fact a fairly strong visual proxy for what kind of content you can expect from it. I started wondering if the album cover can in fact be used for recommendations.
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Example of a home networking setup with VLANs Updated October 24, 2012, see below. This post is a description of my home network setup based on...
5th Feb 2012
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Example of a home networking setup with VLANs

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

5th Feb 2012
Updated October 24, 2012, see below. This post is a description of my home network setup based on gigabit ethernet. I did a non-standard trick with VLANs that may also be of interest to other people. I'm going to start with a diagram of the network. Just take a look (click to...
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What are web feeds?
15th Apr 2025
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What are web feeds?

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

15th Apr 2025
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USB Cheat Sheet
5th May 2022
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USB Cheat Sheet

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

5th May 2022
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The Three Transitions
9th Jun 2023
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The Three Transitions

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

9th Jun 2023
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Do people in Bahrain buy online? The story of Canvas.bh How I started a business to answer this simple question. The story of Canvas.bh
9th Sep 2014
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Do people in Bahrain buy online? The story of Canvas.bh

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

9th Sep 2014
How I started a business to answer this simple question. The story of Canvas.bh
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Why I don’t use LLMs for programming I originally posted this on Mastodon, but I thought I’d add it here too: “What I mean is that if you...
2nd Mar 2026
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Why I don’t use LLMs for programming

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

2nd Mar 2026
I originally posted this on Mastodon, but I thought I’d add it here too: “What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. That forces you to sort it out in your own mind. And the more slow and dim-witted […]
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Commuter bike checkup This week my trustworthy commuter bike started making strange squeaking noises when braking. It has...
9th Jan 2021
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Commuter bike checkup

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

9th Jan 2021
This week my trustworthy commuter bike started making strange squeaking noises when braking. It has been just over three years since I started cycling on it. People frequently ask me how the bike is performing and how the Gates Carbon CDX belt drive is doing? Time to have a look...
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Algorithmic Modernism How algorithms generate a default taste that feels personal but looks the same everywhere
24th Feb 2026
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Algorithmic Modernism

from Kent de Bruin [alt+shift+b] in technology

24th Feb 2026
How algorithms generate a default taste that feels personal but looks the same everywhere
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Germany Doxes “UNKN,” Head of RU Ransomware Gangs REvil, GandCrab An elusive hacker who went by the handle “UNKN” and ran the early Russian ransomware groups GandCrab...
6th Apr 2026
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Germany Doxes “UNKN,” Head of RU Ransomware Gangs REvil, GandCrab

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

6th Apr 2026
An elusive hacker who went by the handle “UNKN” and ran the early Russian ransomware groups GandCrab and REvil now has a name and a face. Authorities in Germany say 31-year-old Russian Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin headed both cybercrime gangs and helped carry out at least 130 acts...
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The joy of a simple laptop Every now and then I switch my gear to keep a tap on what is going on outside my regular tech...
2nd Nov 2020
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The joy of a simple laptop

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

2nd Nov 2020
Every now and then I switch my gear to keep a tap on what is going on outside my regular tech habits. You’ll be amazed by what you can learn from trying out different things. This week I had a chance to test the Surface Laptop Go running Windows 10. Quite frankly, it amazed...
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How To Sell Sales at a startup is counter-intuitive.
18th Jan 2020
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How To Sell

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

18th Jan 2020
Sales at a startup is counter-intuitive.
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Having a Website Used to Be Fun According to the Wayback Machine, I launched my website over a decade ago, in 2013. Just that...
27th Oct 2024
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Having a Website Used to Be Fun

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

27th Oct 2024
According to the Wayback Machine, I launched my website over a decade ago, in 2013. Just that thought alone makes me feel old, but going back through the old snapshots of my websites made me feel a profound feeling of longing for a time when having a website used to be a novel...
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Books update
15th Dec 2022
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Books update

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

15th Dec 2022
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Why don't you move abroad? The IIT Dream College and Open Source Twitter @ San Francisco The Emotional Turmoil in San Francisco...
18th Nov 2024
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Why don't you move abroad?

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

18th Nov 2024
The IIT Dream College and Open Source Twitter @ San Francisco The Emotional Turmoil in San Francisco College placements and first job Life…
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Recent forays into developer productivity I've written before about my posture around LLMs being mostly summarizable as design your systems...
1st Feb 2026
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Recent forays into developer productivity

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

1st Feb 2026
I've written before about my posture around LLMs being mostly summarizable as design your systems and abstractions to accommodate an infinite number of junior engineers.
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Quality vs quantity in the age of AI Over the last four months I’ve increased my use of AI for web dev work pretty dramatically. I use it...
27th Apr 2026
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Quality vs quantity in the age of AI

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

27th Apr 2026
Over the last four months I’ve increased my use of AI for web dev work pretty dramatically. I use it every day at work, as do most of my coworkers. I don’t think it’s disputed anymore that AI-assisted development can save a lot of time and effort. The question is, what do we do...
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The origin and unexpected evolution of the word "mainframe" What is the origin of the word "mainframe", referring to a large, complex computer? Most sources...
1st Feb 2025
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The origin and unexpected evolution of the word "mainframe"

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

1st Feb 2025
What is the origin of the word "mainframe", referring to a large, complex computer? Most sources agree that the term is related to the frames that held early computers, but the details are vague.1 It turns out that the history is more interesting and complicated than you'd...
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The immediate threat is AR and not AI Disclaimer: This is an attempt at trolling and satire. Don’t just tag me under technology fear...
8th Sep 2017
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The immediate threat is AR and not AI

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

8th Sep 2017
Disclaimer: This is an attempt at trolling and satire. Don’t just tag me under technology fear mongerer, I’m going to present an acute scenario in which AR could be misused to inflict significant damage to a large population. As a technology evangelist, I’am very excited to see...
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Why fastDoom is fast
4th Mar 2025
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Why fastDoom is fast

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

4th Mar 2025
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Is MAGA Melting Down? Signs and wonders, portents and data points
2nd Aug 2026
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Is MAGA Melting Down?

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

2nd Aug 2026
Signs and wonders, portents and data points
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2024 Year in Review Everything that happened to me this year
30th Dec 2024
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2024 Year in Review

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

30th Dec 2024
Everything that happened to me this year
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The Boys in the Boat A friend of mine who's in finance told me that the book is a cult favorite in his office, as most of...
14th Jan 2019
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The Boys in the Boat

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

14th Jan 2019
A friend of mine who's in finance told me that the book is a cult favorite in his office, as most of them did crew in college. There's gotta be a word for the narrative neatness that this book employs. Of course the UW folks are the young upstarts — of course they are portrayed...
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Are we any closer to the Quantum Apocalypse? Another day, another urgent pronouncement on the need to transition to post-quantum cryptography...
2nd Jul 2026
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Are we any closer to the Quantum Apocalypse?

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

2nd Jul 2026
Another day, another urgent pronouncement on the need to transition to post-quantum cryptography ASAP: this one from the White House, in the form of an Executive Order requiring certain “high value” systems to transition to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) by the end of 2030 (for...
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Send and receive WhatsApp messages through email warning: Sending and receiving messages from WhatsApp through email would bypass the end-to-end...
12th Jan 2021
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Send and receive WhatsApp messages through email

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

12th Jan 2021
warning: Sending and receiving messages from WhatsApp through email would bypass the end-to-end encryption and may leak data to the email providers (Check update). If your reason for reading this is for better data security, then this is may not the right approach. This approach...
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Open source business model struggles at WordPress Automattic, creator of Wordpress, is being sued by one of the largest WordPress hosting providers....
11th Oct 2024
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Open source business model struggles at WordPress

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

11th Oct 2024
Automattic, creator of Wordpress, is being sued by one of the largest WordPress hosting providers. The conflict fits into a trend of billion-dollar companies struggling to effectively monetize open source, and are changing tactics to limit their competition and increase their...
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A practical understanding of lead acid batteries Introduction The goal of this article is to give you a practical understanding Lead Acid batteries....
29th Aug 2021
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A practical understanding of lead acid batteries

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

29th Aug 2021
Introduction The goal of this article is to give you a practical understanding Lead Acid batteries. We won't address the underlying chemistry, we'll treat them as a black-box and we will discover their characteristics and how to keep them healthy. Disclaimer I'm an amateur. I...
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Energizing a vacuum-tube flip-flop module from a 1948 IBM system In 1948, IBM introduced the 604 Electronic Calculating Punch. This machine was a programmable...
31st Jul 2026
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Energizing a vacuum-tube flip-flop module from a 1948 IBM system

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

31st Jul 2026
In 1948, IBM introduced the 604 Electronic Calculating Punch. This machine was a programmable calculator, about the size of a double refrigerator. It was not quite a computer, but was programmed by plugging wires into a plugboard. This machine read numbers from a punch card,...
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GitButler is now Fair Source GitButler is now officially one of the first members of the Fair Source movement, helping to shift...
6th Aug 2024
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GitButler is now Fair Source

from GitButler [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Aug 2024
GitButler is now officially one of the first members of the Fair Source movement, helping to shift closed source to publicly available software by default.
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The End of the Tunnel Lately I’ve been feeling like there’s been a shit-ton of stuff going on, quite a turn-around from...
19th Oct 2011
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The End of the Tunnel

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

19th Oct 2011
Lately I’ve been feeling like there’s been a shit-ton of stuff going on, quite a turn-around from the last time. One course about data structure and algorithms (super fun to be honest) has wrapped up. We thought we were ahead with the assignments but in the end it got very...
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Understanding zero-knowledge proofs What are zero-knowledge proofs, really?
24th Jul 2022
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Understanding zero-knowledge proofs

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

24th Jul 2022
What are zero-knowledge proofs, really?
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Mark Williams' C Programming System What C did for Programming Mark Williams has done for C Programming
22nd Aug 2024
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Mark Williams' C Programming System

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

22nd Aug 2024
What C did for Programming Mark Williams has done for C Programming
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DEF CON I’m sitting in the airport in Las Vegas on the way back from DEF CON 15. It’s the first time I’ve...
5th Aug 2007
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DEF CON

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

5th Aug 2007
I’m sitting in the airport in Las Vegas on the way back from DEF CON 15. It’s the first time I’ve been at the con, and it wasn’t really what I expected. Frankly, I walked away feeling kinda underwhelmed. Very few of the talks were as technical as I was hoping – they were almost...
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Butler Flow: shipping code faster (but less like Alfred, more like CI on steroids) - Part 3 In Part 3, we take a look at some deep examples of where Butler Flow comes in handy.
4th Nov 2025
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Butler Flow: shipping code faster (but less like Alfred, more like CI on steroids) - Part 3

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

4th Nov 2025
In Part 3, we take a look at some deep examples of where Butler Flow comes in handy.
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Deep learning for… chess (addendum) My previous blog post about deep learning for chess blew up and made it to Hacker News and a couple...
8th Dec 2014
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Deep learning for… chess (addendum)

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

8th Dec 2014
My previous blog post about deep learning for chess blew up and made it to Hacker News and a couple of other places. One pretty amazing thing was that the Github repo got 150 stars overnight.
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Thou shalt follow these Vintage Computing Commandments Thou shalt check voltage and polarity on new-to-thee power supplies, or thy machines shall be smote...
3rd Feb 2024
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Thou shalt follow these Vintage Computing Commandments

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

3rd Feb 2024
Thou shalt check voltage and polarity on new-to-thee power supplies, or thy machines shall be smote and release smoke. This is sometimes very hard to judge without a load, but they should be somewhere in the ballpark, verily, and you should get in the habit of checking any new...
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How I Became a Spam Vector There are several reasons for Google to downrank a website from their search results. My first...
1st Dec 2025
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How I Became a Spam Vector

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

1st Dec 2025
There are several reasons for Google to downrank a website from their search results. My first experience with downranking was on my very first day at a job in 2011. The day I walked into the building, Google released their first Panda update. My new employer, being a "content...
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Setting up a Squid proxy with Clamav anti-virus using c-icap Security is all about a defence-in-depth strategy. Create multiple layers of defence. Every layer...
26th Aug 2012
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Setting up a Squid proxy with Clamav anti-virus using c-icap

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

26th Aug 2012
Security is all about a defence-in-depth strategy. Create multiple layers of defence. Every layer presenting a different set of challenges, requiring different skill sets and technology. So every layer will increase the time and effort to compromise your environment. A...
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Pomera DM250 Tinkering The KING JIM Pomera DM250 "digital typewriter" is a small Linux-powered ARM computer that boots up...
14th Mar 2025
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Pomera DM250 Tinkering

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

14th Mar 2025
The KING JIM Pomera DM250 "digital typewriter" is a small Linux-powered ARM computer that boots up into a custom word processor application. I've been tinkering with it to try to get OpenBSD booted on it. I'd normally wait until the end and write up a proper article...
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Introducing MagBase Today we launched MagBase - it makes Apple's MagSafe Charger much easier to use. After trying other...
14th Apr 2021
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Introducing MagBase

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

14th Apr 2021
Today we launched MagBase - it makes Apple's MagSafe Charger much easier to use. After trying other mounts for the MagSafe charger, we found it annoying to not be able to pick up & use your iPhone while charging. So we designed MagBase: Pull up to use your iPhone with MagSafe...
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The great Hochstapler Hey there. A lot has happened lately since my last update and my last game here. I’m now a pretty...
19th Sep 2010
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The great Hochstapler

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

19th Sep 2010
Hey there. A lot has happened lately since my last update and my last game here. I’m now a pretty happy student at Linköpings university and I’m reading something similar to Computer Science or Computer engineering, but I guess it’ll become whatever you make it to be. For...
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Offline Music Music has the universal power to move people. Different rhythms, emotions and vocals enable us to...
16th Jul 2022
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Offline Music

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

16th Jul 2022
Music has the universal power to move people. Different rhythms, emotions and vocals enable us to enjoy music very personally. Music is very close to my heart and I don't like anything to get in between. Therefore I don't rely on streaming music services, but manage my own...
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Chinatown Well, that was probably the most depressing final sequence I can remember in a film (especially one...
4th Aug 2022
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Chinatown

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

4th Aug 2022
Well, that was probably the most depressing final sequence I can remember in a film (especially one so devoted to realism, or at least its brand of plausibility.)
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Pea Bee #8: GT-I5800 Only a few days back, I heard the news that Blackberry has finally died.
14th Jan 2022
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Pea Bee #8: GT-I5800

from Pea Bee [alt+shift+b] in technology

14th Jan 2022
Only a few days back, I heard the news that Blackberry has finally died.
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Why Digital Fashion Matters “We’re in the midst of a technological revolution.
14th Jul 2022
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Why Digital Fashion Matters

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

14th Jul 2022
“We’re in the midst of a technological revolution.
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Refurbishing a Tektronix TDS7104 Oscilloscope Introduction The TDS7104 Common Failures Make an Image of the Hard Drive CR2032 Backup Battery...
23rd Aug 2026
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Refurbishing a Tektronix TDS7104 Oscilloscope

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

23rd Aug 2026
Introduction The TDS7104 Common Failures Make an Image of the Hard Drive CR2032 Backup Battery Replacement and Display Brightness Do NOT Remove the Front Panel Scope Disassembly A Failed Attempt at Switching over to an SSD Reinstalling from Scratch: Windows 2000 Pro or Windows...
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The History of the IBM 5100 IBM's First Personal Computer
2nd Dec 2023
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The History of the IBM 5100

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

2nd Dec 2023
IBM's First Personal Computer
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Western Conference Finals, Games 3 and 4: Spurs Steady The Ship Jason brings us back courtside as the Western Conference Finals continue with recaps of Games 3 and...
2nd Jun 2026
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Western Conference Finals, Games 3 and 4: Spurs Steady The Ship

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

2nd Jun 2026
Jason brings us back courtside as the Western Conference Finals continue with recaps of Games 3 and 4.
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Baccano! I wanted to like this one so much. It seemed tailor-made to what I love in anime: interesting,...
4th Nov 2021
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Baccano!

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Nov 2021
I wanted to like this one so much. It seemed tailor-made to what I love in anime: interesting, anachronistic setting; weird alchemy stuff; a huge slew of characters and viewpoints; framing devices within framing devices.
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The Club Master is a Nano RP2040 Connect-powered device that improves your golf swing When playing golf, few things are as important as using the correct form when swinging, since even...
3rd Jun 2024
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The Club Master is a Nano RP2040 Connect-powered device that improves your golf swing

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

3rd Jun 2024
When playing golf, few things are as important as using the correct form when swinging, since even small deviations can be the difference between a hole-in-one and additional strokes. To improve his game, Concept Bytes has designed a small clip-on device called the “Club Master.”...
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Client libraries are better when they have no API fsspec is secretly everywhere, and boss
10th Apr 2024
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Client libraries are better when they have no API

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

10th Apr 2024
fsspec is secretly everywhere, and boss
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More Luigi! Elias Freider just talked about Luigi at PyData 2013: The presentation above is much better than one...
22nd Mar 2013
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More Luigi!

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

22nd Mar 2013
Elias Freider just talked about Luigi at PyData 2013: The presentation above is much better than one I put together a few weeks ago. In case anyone is interested I'll include it too:
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Switching away from Debian to Ubuntu LTS Over the last couple of years, Debian Linux has released new stable versions about every two years....
6th Jul 2011
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Switching away from Debian to Ubuntu LTS

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

6th Jul 2011
Over the last couple of years, Debian Linux has released new stable versions about every two years. This pace is great for progress, but there is a serious problem. This problem is related to their support for older Debian stable versions. If you read the quote below from the...
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Inside a vintage aerospace navigation computer of uncertain purpose I recently obtained an aerospace computer from the early 1970s, apparently part of a navigation...
29th May 2024
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Inside a vintage aerospace navigation computer of uncertain purpose

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

29th May 2024
I recently obtained an aerospace computer from the early 1970s, apparently part of a navigation system. Aerospace computers are an interesting but mostly neglected area of computer hardware, so I'm always delighted to examine one up close. In an era when most computers were large...
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Finding near-duplicates with Jaccard similarity and MinHash Suppose we have a large collection of documents, and we wish you identify which documents are...
3rd Jul 2024
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Finding near-duplicates with Jaccard similarity and MinHash

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

3rd Jul 2024
Suppose we have a large collection of documents, and we wish you identify which documents are approximately the same as each other. For instance, we may have crawled the web over some period of time, and expect to have fetched the “same page” several times, but to see slight...
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Train Simulator Controller: Power/Brake Controller, Part 1 The core of a train simulator setup could be considered its throttle and brake, the control or...
4th Aug 2024
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Train Simulator Controller: Power/Brake Controller, Part 1

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

4th Aug 2024
The core of a train simulator setup could be considered its throttle and brake, the control or controls that make a train go and stop. In previous blog posts, I detailed my exploration of building my own controller from scratch, but a fortuitous eBay listing provided me a real...
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Netrunner Spring Tournament There was another, smaller, netrunner tournament about a week ago. I was looking forward to a very...
4th May 2015
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Netrunner Spring Tournament

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

4th May 2015
There was another, smaller, netrunner tournament about a week ago. I was looking forward to a very casual setting but there were also some guys who came from… Västerås I think, but I’m not sure. We managed to scrape together 9 people at least, and I didn’t notice anyone bringing...
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One year of cycling One year ago I started recording all my bike rides, including commutes, short grocery trips and long...
30th Dec 2016
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One year of cycling

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

30th Dec 2016
One year ago I started recording all my bike rides, including commutes, short grocery trips and long Gran Fondos. I equipped my bicycles with Garmin Edge computers that recorded location (GPS), speed, cadence and my heart rate. I covered more than 7683 kilometers during 320 hours...
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Inside an Isotemp OCXO107-10 Oven Controlled Crystal Oscillator The Isotemp OCXO107-10 Gathering Information from time-nuts Getting It to Run On the Bench Inside...
26th Oct 2025
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Inside an Isotemp OCXO107-10 Oven Controlled Crystal Oscillator

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

26th Oct 2025
The Isotemp OCXO107-10 Gathering Information from time-nuts Getting It to Run On the Bench Inside the OCXO107-10 Looking Forward The Isotemp OCXO107-10 I spent $5 at the Silicon Valley Electronics Flea Market on an Isotemp OCXO107-10 oscillator. Compared to my other OCXOs, this...
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The 'free' server build Man takes old computer, turns it into a home server again. Man happy.
9th Jul 2026
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The 'free' server build

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

9th Jul 2026
Man takes old computer, turns it into a home server again. Man happy.
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Resource Management “We had to display a lot of information at once and help them make sense of it. There are many ways...
15th Jun 2017
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Resource Management

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

15th Jun 2017
“We had to display a lot of information at once and help them make sense of it. There are many ways to do that wrong and only a few ways to do it right.” The Challenge The client came to us with a problem: They had paid for a custom tool that didn’t do what they needed. They had...
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You can’t fix a problem you don’t understand A few weeks ago, I was building a server-side API client. I had written the code and tested it in...
17th Feb 2025
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You can’t fix a problem you don’t understand

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

17th Feb 2025
A few weeks ago, I was building a server-side API client. I had written the code and tested it in isolation. Everything looked good. Unfortunately, when I included it in the main service, I started seeing errors. I decided to try asking an AI tool for suggestions. I gave it the...
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Verge interview at CES 2013 2025 Note - probably the last video of me without a beard!
9th Jan 2013
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Verge interview at CES 2013

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

9th Jan 2013
2025 Note - probably the last video of me without a beard!
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Back to the University This month, I headed back to university for a special course on scientific programming. With...
7th Feb 2023
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Back to the University

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

7th Feb 2023
This month, I headed back to university for a special course on scientific programming. With numerous recent advancements in machine learning (referred to as "AI" in PowerPoint parlance), including ChatGPT, it felt like the ideal moment to delve into Python programming. Join me...
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Everybody Wants Some!! The single most pleasurable movie of all time is Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven, and it achieves that...
1st Sep 2026
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Everybody Wants Some!!

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

1st Sep 2026
The single most pleasurable movie of all time is Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven, and it achieves that status in order to try to convey what makes filmmaking uniquely magical: a sense of shared enchantment between the audience and the director, and the ecstasy of the latter pulling a...
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Expert Beginners and Lone Wolves will dominate this early LLM era After migrating this blog from a static site generator into Drupal in 2009, I noted: As a sad...
1st Mar 2026
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Expert Beginners and Lone Wolves will dominate this early LLM era

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

1st Mar 2026
After migrating this blog from a static site generator into Drupal in 2009, I noted: As a sad side-effect, all the blog comments are gone. Forever. Wiped out. But have no fear, we can start new discussions on many new posts! I archived all the comments from the old 'Thingamablog'...
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One year on the ultimate commuter bike Answering questions from one of the most popular posts of last year, I am reviewing my commuter bike...
26th Feb 2019
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One year on the ultimate commuter bike

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

26th Feb 2019
Answering questions from one of the most popular posts of last year, I am reviewing my commuter bike after one year of extensive use through winter and summer.
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The marvelous disappearing capacitor The performance of photodiode amplifiers can be improved in a clever way.
7th Dec 2024
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The marvelous disappearing capacitor

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

7th Dec 2024
The performance of photodiode amplifiers can be improved in a clever way.
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The Living Computers Museum finally isn't First off, apologies for a quiet month as I've been dealing with family matters which hopefully are...
26th Jun 2024
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The Living Computers Museum finally isn't

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

26th Jun 2024
First off, apologies for a quiet month as I've been dealing with family matters which hopefully are now on a better footing (more articles are in the hopper). Unfortunately, the same apparently can't be said for the once-great Living Computers Museum + Labs in Seattle,...
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A Navajo weaving of an integrated circuit: the 555 timer The noted Diné (Navajo) weaver Marilou Schultz recently completed an intricate weaving composed...
6th Sep 2025
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A Navajo weaving of an integrated circuit: the 555 timer

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

6th Sep 2025
The noted Diné (Navajo) weaver Marilou Schultz recently completed an intricate weaving composed of thick white lines on a black background, punctuated with reddish-orange diamonds. Although this striking rug may appear abstract, it shows the internal circuitry of a tiny silicon...
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Building Air Quality Sensor: Luftdaten + Home Assistant Luftdaten (now Sensor Community) is a global sensor network that measures air quality around the...
3rd Sep 2020
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Building Air Quality Sensor: Luftdaten + Home Assistant

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

3rd Sep 2020
Luftdaten (now Sensor Community) is a global sensor network that measures air quality around the world. Best of all: it's open-source and anyone can build a sensor.I was very curious to see the air quality in my neighborhood, so I decided to build myself a sensor. And of course,...
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The Stupidity of Google’s Site Reputation Abuse Policy Site reputation abuse is when a third-party abuses the reputation of a domain to rank a bunch of...
5th Nov 2024
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The Stupidity of Google’s Site Reputation Abuse Policy

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

5th Nov 2024
Site reputation abuse is when a third-party abuses the reputation of a domain to rank a bunch of pages in Google. The SEO community refers to this type of thing as parasite SEO. Google has gone so far as to publish an official policy (documented here) on how this isn’t allowed:...
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20 years of Git. Still weird, still wonderful. Twenty years ago, Git was born. How did this unlikely "information manager" take over the world?
7th Apr 2025
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20 years of Git. Still weird, still wonderful.

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

7th Apr 2025
Twenty years ago, Git was born. How did this unlikely "information manager" take over the world?
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2023-11-04 nuclear safety Nuclear weapons are complex in many ways. The basic problem of achieving criticality is difficult on...
4th Nov 2023
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2023-11-04 nuclear safety

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

4th Nov 2023
Nuclear weapons are complex in many ways. The basic problem of achieving criticality is difficult on its own, but deploying nuclear weapons as operational military assets involves yet more challenges. Nuclear weapons must be safe and reliable, even with the rough handling and...
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Tasmota Quad Switch Breakout The Tasmota Quad Switch Breakout is designed to make connecting a custom quad light switch to a...
3rd Oct 2021
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Tasmota Quad Switch Breakout

from Opsbros [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Oct 2021
The Tasmota Quad Switch Breakout is designed to make connecting a custom quad light switch to a Wemos D1 mini running Tasmota super super easy.
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Best Questions and Answers to the “Terrifying Netflix Concurrency Bug” Post Why couldn't we roll back? Weren't we concerned about costs? Why is operating Netflix so...
29th Nov 2024
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Best Questions and Answers to the “Terrifying Netflix Concurrency Bug” Post

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

29th Nov 2024
Why couldn't we roll back? Weren't we concerned about costs? Why is operating Netflix so complicated? Plus many others.
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Updating Snake '97 This month I bit the bullet big time: I redesigned the game engine of the wildly popular Snake '97...
20th Feb 2018
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Updating Snake '97

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

20th Feb 2018
This month I bit the bullet big time: I redesigned the game engine of the wildly popular Snake '97 game. Read about the design challenges in this blog post.
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Clip control on the Apple GPU Neverball rendered on the Apple M1 GPU with an open source OpenGL driver After a year in...
22nd Aug 2022
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Clip control on the Apple GPU

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

22nd Aug 2022
Neverball rendered on the Apple M1 GPU with an open source OpenGL driver After a year in development, the open source “Asahi” driver for the Apple GPU is running real games. There’s more to do, but Neverball is already playable (and a lot of fun!). Neverball uses legacy “fixed...
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Using InfiniBand for cheap and fast point-to-point Networking InfiniBand networking is quite awesome. It's mainly used for two reasons: low latency high...
25th Mar 2017
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Using InfiniBand for cheap and fast point-to-point Networking

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

25th Mar 2017
InfiniBand networking is quite awesome. It's mainly used for two reasons: low latency high bandwidth As a home user, I'm mainly interested in setting up a high bandwidth link between two servers. I was using quad-port network cards with Linux Bonding, but this solution has some...
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Speedrunning Tesco (Odds and Ends #93) Plus mixed feelings about Artemis, Mormon gambling, and a council finance nightmare.
1st Apr 2026
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Speedrunning Tesco (Odds and Ends #93)

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

1st Apr 2026
Plus mixed feelings about Artemis, Mormon gambling, and a council finance nightmare.
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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...
1st Mar 2024
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Let's build a VORON: Major failure

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

1st Mar 2024
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...
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2024-12-04 operators on the front At the very core of telephone history, there is the telephone operator. For a lot of people, the...
4th Dec 2024
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2024-12-04 operators on the front

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

4th Dec 2024
At the very core of telephone history, there is the telephone operator. For a lot of people, the vague understanding that an operator used to be involved is the main thing they know about historic telephony. Of course, telephone historians, as a group, tend to be much more...
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My attempt at archiving nfscars.net Background My mother once had a laptop: the Compaq Armada 1592DT. It came with Windows ME which...
1st Mar 2021
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My attempt at archiving nfscars.net

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

1st Mar 2021
Background My mother once had a laptop: the Compaq Armada 1592DT. It came with Windows ME which later got “upgraded” to Windows 98 SE after I managed to completely screw up the OS, a whopping 96MB of RAM and a hard drive that probably wasn’t much larger than 1-3GB. It wasn’t...
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A Software Engineer's Take on The Political Spectrum You heard about the left-wing and right-wing politics. But how is that related to software?
16th Sep 2025
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A Software Engineer's Take on The Political Spectrum

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

16th Sep 2025
You heard about the left-wing and right-wing politics. But how is that related to software?
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Eight years of organizing tech meetups This is a collection of random personal experiences. So if you don't want to read everything, feel...
4th Sep 2023
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Eight years of organizing tech meetups

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

4th Sep 2023
This is a collection of random personal experiences. So if you don't want to read everything, feel free to skip to the end for takeaways. I write because I'd like to see more high-quality meetups. And maybe my little bit of experience will help someone out. 2015: Philadelphia I...
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Game of Thrones Okay, so, Game of Thrones.
28th Dec 2019
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Game of Thrones

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

28th Dec 2019
Okay, so, Game of Thrones.
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Intuitions for Distributed Consensus by Phil Eaton This is an external talk of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
8th Oct 2024
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Intuitions for Distributed Consensus by Phil Eaton

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

8th Oct 2024
This is an external talk of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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Principles // This was originally a Google Doc where I gathered hard-won life lessons; eventually I open...
12th Jan 2025
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Principles

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

12th Jan 2025
// This was originally a Google Doc where I gathered hard-won life lessons; eventually I open sourced it. It got a great response, including a shoutout from Tim Ferriss, so here it is on Substack.
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Serializable transactions for peer-to-peer databases
21st Jul 2025
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Serializable transactions for peer-to-peer databases

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

21st Jul 2025
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On Nathan Schneider on the limits of cryptoeconomics
26th Sep 2021
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On Nathan Schneider on the limits of cryptoeconomics

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

26th Sep 2021
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Owning my Social Network After yet another Mastodon drama1 and tired of migrating from one Mastodon instance to another I...
14th May 2025
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Owning my Social Network

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

14th May 2025
After yet another Mastodon drama1 and tired of migrating from one Mastodon instance to another I have decided to self-host a Mastodon instance. But Mastodon is an overkill for a single user instance, Luckily GoToSocial2 an ActivityPub social network server written in Go serves my...
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Grid Happens: Because Flexbox Wasn’t Enough How we built a flexible, responsive 12-column CSS Grid system for our website redesign: lessons,...
13th Oct 2025
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Grid Happens: Because Flexbox Wasn’t Enough

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

13th Oct 2025
How we built a flexible, responsive 12-column CSS Grid system for our website redesign: lessons, hacks, and why grid finally made sense.
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Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80's
7th Jun 2020
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Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80's

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

7th Jun 2020
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Designers Desk #1: Angelo Vilar Designer's Desk is a new series featuring the desk setups of artists, designers, and creators -...
8th Jun 2017
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Designers Desk #1: Angelo Vilar

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

8th Jun 2017
Designer's Desk is a new series featuring the desk setups of artists, designers, and creators - showcasing how they work and what their workspace looks like.   Angelo Vilar (AKA Ansirone) is an art director, animation designer, & illustrator based in Los Angeles. He keeps it...
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Calculating cosine similarities using dimensionality reduction This was posted on the Twitter Engineering blog a few days ago: Dimension Independent Similarity...
5th Dec 2012
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Calculating cosine similarities using dimensionality reduction

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

5th Dec 2012
This was posted on the Twitter Engineering blog a few days ago: Dimension Independent Similarity Computation (DISCO) I just glanced at the paper, and there's some cool stuff going on from a theoretical perspective. What I'm curious about is why they didn't decide to use...
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Don't be foie gras If 2016-2020 was the golden unicorn age of SaaS, 2021 nearly hurtled us into the foie gras* era.
9th Jan 2022
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Don't be foie gras

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

9th Jan 2022
If 2016-2020 was the golden unicorn age of SaaS, 2021 nearly hurtled us into the foie gras* era.
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2025 in review It’s time for a yearly review again. Time flies. Nerdy things I enjoyed I read a few books this...
3rd Jan 2026
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2025 in review

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

3rd Jan 2026
It’s time for a yearly review again. Time flies. Nerdy things I enjoyed I read a few books this year. The whole Dungeon Crawler Carl series was absolutely amazing and it quickly jumped up to one of my favorite series of all time. I can’t be held accountable for everything I’ve...
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Computer says no The weather app indicating rain caused an empty bike lane this morning, making me wonder about the...
10th Sep 2022
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Computer says no

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

10th Sep 2022
The weather app indicating rain caused an empty bike lane this morning, making me wonder about the power we put into these things.
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My grandfather’s Rolleiflex 2.8D twin-lens reflex (TLR) camera One of the first vintage cameras I ever got was my dad’s old Polaroid SX-70. Like so many family...
10th Oct 2020
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My grandfather’s Rolleiflex 2.8D twin-lens reflex (TLR) camera

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

10th Oct 2020
One of the first vintage cameras I ever got was my dad’s old Polaroid SX-70. Like so many family cameras it had disappeared into a closet decades ago and was only found again recently. When he gave it to me, he told me there was another classic camera he wanted to give me – if...
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Notes from "Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology" Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology is a book of essays by Ellen Ullman. In the book,...
8th Apr 2025
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Notes from "Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology"

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

8th Apr 2025
Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology is a book of essays by Ellen Ullman. In the book, Ullman laments the bad parts of computers and the internet. These systems eroded privacy, deepened income inequality, and enabled the rise of modern fascism. And they were built by a...
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The flood of AI website builders There are so many of them. instead of markdown to enable lazy-loading --> How good...
27th Apr 2024
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The flood of AI website builders

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

27th Apr 2024
There are so many of them. instead of markdown to enable lazy-loading --> How good are these site builders? I don’t know. Are you worried about job security? I have two thoughts… 1. We’ve seen this before Wordpress, Squarespace, Shopify, Webflow… all these tools...
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Instant Pan Gesture Interactions Apple has a really awesome WWDC 2018 video called Designing Fluid Interfaces, and one of the key...
13th May 2023
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Instant Pan Gesture Interactions

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

13th May 2023
Apple has a really awesome WWDC 2018 video called Designing Fluid Interfaces, and one of the key takeaways from the videos that one of the presenters, Chan Karunamuni, said is “Look for delays everywhere. Everything needs to respond instantly.” (6:28) A really great example of...
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The Apple GPU and the Impossible Bug In late 2020, Apple debuted the M1 with Apple’s GPU architecture, AGX, rumoured to be derived from...
13th May 2022
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The Apple GPU and the Impossible Bug

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

13th May 2022
In late 2020, Apple debuted the M1 with Apple’s GPU architecture, AGX, rumoured to be derived from Imagination’s PowerVR series. Since then, we’ve been reverse-engineering AGX and building open source graphics drivers. Last January, I rendered a triangle with my own code, but...
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On The Contrary: “Hook” Is A Great Film Hook, the absolutely star-studded film directed by Stephen Spielberg, has received mixed reviews...
7th Jan 2026
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On The Contrary: “Hook” Is A Great Film

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

7th Jan 2026
Hook, the absolutely star-studded film directed by Stephen Spielberg, has received mixed reviews from critics since its release in 1991. I still can’t figure out why. One could have given the Academy Award for Best Actor to Dustin Hoffman, and Best Supporting Actor to Robin...
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Repairing a Giro AEON bicycle helmet Try fixing your Giro bicycle helmet? I went through some trouble to do it! Read along to find out...
8th Jul 2020
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Repairing a Giro AEON bicycle helmet

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

8th Jul 2020
Try fixing your Giro bicycle helmet? I went through some trouble to do it! Read along to find out how.
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HandCash handles require trust and are insecure The HandCash wallet has recently become a popular Bitcoin Cash wallet in large part thanks to their...
22nd Sep 2018
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HandCash handles require trust and are insecure

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

22nd Sep 2018
The HandCash wallet has recently become a popular Bitcoin Cash wallet in large part thanks to their $handle concept. It’s basically a username you use instead of the normal Bitcoin Cash address, similar to how domain names abstract away IP addresses. For example instead of...
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iPad Pro as primary computer Is the time right to use an iPad as primary development platform to get some real work done?
14th Aug 2016
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iPad Pro as primary computer

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

14th Aug 2016
Is the time right to use an iPad as primary development platform to get some real work done?
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From error-handling to structured concurrency How should we think about error-handling in concurrent programs? In single-threaded programs, we’ve...
23rd Mar 2026
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From error-handling to structured concurrency

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

23rd Mar 2026
How should we think about error-handling in concurrent programs? In single-threaded programs, we’ve mostly converged on a standard pattern, with a diverse zoo of implementations and concrete patterns. When an error occurs, it is propagated up the stack until we find a stack frame...
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Parquet: more than just "Turbo CSV" Quicker, but also more convenient
3rd Apr 2023
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Parquet: more than just "Turbo CSV"

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

3rd Apr 2023
Quicker, but also more convenient
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Data Center Monitoring “I like to use sketches to validate ideas quickly, without a lot of investment in the wrong...
25th Jul 2019
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Data Center Monitoring

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

25th Jul 2019
“I like to use sketches to validate ideas quickly, without a lot of investment in the wrong direction.” The Challenge The computing power that runs the world is hidden away in data centers that few people get to see. While many data centers are lights-out operations most of the...
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Confessions of a programmer: I hate code review Most of the projects I've been working on today have fairly strict code review policies. My work...
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Confessions of a programmer: I hate code review

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

6th Jun 2010
Most of the projects I've been working on today have fairly strict code review policies. My work requires code review on most of our code, and as we bring on an army of interns for the summer, I've been responsible for reviewing lots of code. Additionally, about five months ago...
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On Psychedelics I wrote - Hello :name-retracted:! Last night, I watched the movie Her. It was a fascinating movie on...
4th Aug 2018
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from Himanshu Mishra | orkohunter.net RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Aug 2018
I wrote - Hello :name-retracted:! Last night, I watched the movie Her. It was a fascinating movie on emotions and AI. It was one of its kind…
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Letter with no subject :name-retracted: wrote - Hi Himanshu, Congratulations from the bottom of my heart for joining...
5th Jun 2020
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Letter with no subject

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

5th Jun 2020
:name-retracted: wrote - Hi Himanshu, Congratulations from the bottom of my heart for joining Spotify. We really miss you at college. You're…
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Don't be afraid of RAID Introduction I sense this sentiment on the internet that RAID is dangerous, that the likelihood of...
22nd May 2020
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Don't be afraid of RAID

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

22nd May 2020
Introduction I sense this sentiment on the internet that RAID is dangerous, that the likelihood of your RAID array failing during a rebuild is almost a certainty, because hard drives have become so large. I think nothing is further from the truth and I would like to dispel this...
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April 2020 gwern.net newsletter This is the April 2020 edition of the gwern.net newsletter; previous, March 2020 (archives).
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April 2020 gwern.net newsletter

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

1st May 2020
This is the April 2020 edition of the gwern.net newsletter; previous, March 2020 (archives).
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🎼This Is the Worst Trip I’ve Ever Been On 🎶 (A Lengthy Vacation Post-Mortem)
9th May 2024
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🎼This Is the Worst Trip I’ve Ever Been On 🎶

from detreville [alt+shift+b] in technology

9th May 2024
(A Lengthy Vacation Post-Mortem)
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Endgame
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Endgame

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

6th Dec 2021
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Game timers: Issues and solutions /> /> /> More...
25th Dec 2012
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Game timers: Issues and solutions

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

25th Dec 2012
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Apple Watch as Phone Embark on a digital detox journey as I swap my smartphone for an Apple Watch Ultra, exploring the...
9th Nov 2023
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Apple Watch as Phone

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

9th Nov 2023
Embark on a digital detox journey as I swap my smartphone for an Apple Watch Ultra, exploring the liberating yet challenging world of wearable tech.
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I switched my blog from Blogofile to Pelican This blog is a static website, which makes it fast, simple and secure. It was generated by Blogofile...
6th Aug 2013
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I switched my blog from Blogofile to Pelican

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

6th Aug 2013
This blog is a static website, which makes it fast, simple and secure. It was generated by Blogofile but I switched to Pelican. Blogofile has seen almost no updates over the years and I consider the project dead. Realising that blogofile is dead, I decided to look around for...
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Comics from December 1962 Issue of Computers and Automation Out oldest one yet
10th Oct 2025
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Comics from December 1962 Issue of Computers and Automation

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

10th Oct 2025
Out oldest one yet
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Life is maintenance, maintenance is life Over my relatively short career (6+ years), I’ve noticed a change in the way I approach building...
20th Apr 2023
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Life is maintenance, maintenance is life

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

20th Apr 2023
Over my relatively short career (6+ years), I’ve noticed a change in the way I approach building things. When I was still an inexperienced junior developer who barely survived operating in a Linux environment and saw backend development as a black box, I was happy to get...
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"Republic.com 2.0" is a terrible book title we don't always need citations to justify research
6th Jan 2025
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"Republic.com 2.0" is a terrible book title

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

6th Jan 2025
we don't always need citations to justify research
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Studying foreign languages with inbox zero The only time I've been able to seriously, rapidly improve my ability to speak a foreign language...
4th Apr 2020
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Studying foreign languages with inbox zero

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

4th Apr 2020
The only time I've been able to seriously, rapidly improve my ability to speak a foreign language was through intensive language courses in college. I was forced to actively speak, read, and write Chinese for 6-8 hours a week (1-2 hours every day). Then study another 5-10 hours a...
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I tried out the CyberPower UT650EG UPS After some spicy feedback to my post where a ThinkPad T430 acted as a server, I decided to try out...
4th Aug 2022
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I tried out the CyberPower UT650EG UPS

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

4th Aug 2022
After some spicy feedback to my post where a ThinkPad T430 acted as a server, I decided to try out one UPS that was recommended on the basis of it being much more power efficient compared to the APC UPS that I previously ran. That UPS? CyberPower UT650EG. Why switch out a...
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Canvas Breach Disrupts Schools & Colleges Nationwide An ongoing data extortion attack targeting the widely-used education technology platform Canvas...
8th May 2026
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Canvas Breach Disrupts Schools & Colleges Nationwide

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

8th May 2026
An ongoing data extortion attack targeting the widely-used education technology platform Canvas disrupted classes and coursework at school districts and universities across the United States today, after a cybercrime group defaced the service’s login page with a ransom demand...
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Why should one do Open Source in college? More and more students are now being involved with Open Source programming. Thanks to programs like...
19th Dec 2020
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Why should one do Open Source in college?

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

19th Dec 2020
More and more students are now being involved with Open Source programming. Thanks to programs like Google Summer of Code who have seriously…
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The story of the Rendition Vérité 1000 The story of how the Rendition v1000 briefly rule the Quake world.
1st Apr 2019
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The story of the Rendition Vérité 1000

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

1st Apr 2019
The story of how the Rendition v1000 briefly rule the Quake world.
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On NYC, Tokyo and Seoul I’ve lived in NYC for the past year — moved here after years in Philly and after growing up in a...
20th Oct 2018
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On NYC, Tokyo and Seoul

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

20th Oct 2018
I’ve lived in NYC for the past year — moved here after years in Philly and after growing up in a rural community a few hours west of there. My wife is South Korean and last week concluded my second trip to the suburbs of Seoul to visit her family. We finished up that trip with a...
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A blown up iPhone, not the next Mac Federico Viticci: Headless Macs and Hamstrung iPads In a funny twist of fate, Apple spent years...
2nd Jul 2026
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A blown up iPhone, not the next Mac

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Jul 2026
Federico Viticci: Headless Macs and Hamstrung iPads In a funny twist of fate, Apple spent years trying to make iPadOS catch up to macOS on the surface, only for macOS’ underlying nature to unlock a new generation of apps that are rewriting the rules of modern software. No amount
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Fun and Games with Exposure Notifications Exposure Notifications is a protocol developed by Apple and Google for facilitating COVID-19 contact...
7th Sep 2020
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Fun and Games with Exposure Notifications

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

7th Sep 2020
Exposure Notifications is a protocol developed by Apple and Google for facilitating COVID-19 contact tracing on mobile phones by exchanging codes with nearby phones over Bluetooth, implemented within the Android and iOS operating systems, now available here in Toronto. Wait –...
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Highpoint RocketRAID 2320 on Debian howto Get the 'open source' driver from www.highpoint-tech.com. (It's not open source, it uses a closed...
28th Sep 2008
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Highpoint RocketRAID 2320 on Debian howto

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

28th Sep 2008
Get the 'open source' driver from www.highpoint-tech.com. (It's not open source, it uses a closed binary driver.) http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/bios_rr2320.htm Install the kernel headers if you haven't already - apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.18-6-k7 - extract the...
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Apple and the AI divide This morning I read a 404 Media article about Instagram showing people ads with AI-generated images...
7th Jan 2025
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Apple and the AI divide

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

7th Jan 2025
This morning I read a 404 Media article about Instagram showing people ads with AI-generated images of themselves. I thought this take from Sam Biddle was very good: Never in my career have I seen such a giant gulf between What Companies Think Is the Most Important Thing in the...
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