Buck on Software
Category velocity
People make decisions, not businesses.
15th Jun 2021
People make decisions, not businesses.
Applied Cartography
Cribsheet
A follow-up to Expecting Better focusing on the first few years of parenthood and what some...
2nd Apr 2024
A follow-up to Expecting Better focusing on the first few years of parenthood and what some combination of data, studies, and rational rigor tells us about common crossroads (breastfeeding vs. formula, daycare vs. nanny, television vs. no television, et cetera.)
Himanshu Mishra |...
The Discovery of pseudo-Acquaintance
It’s the dawn of the 20th century. If we pick two homo sapiens on earth, we can classify their...
2nd Mar 2018
It’s the dawn of the 20th century. If we pick two homo sapiens on earth, we can classify their relationship as one of these three types: An…
Vitalik Buterin's...
Engineering Security Through Coordination Problems
8th May 2017
matduggan.com
Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse
I have never been an "online community first" person. The internet is how I stay in touch with...
6th Mar 2026
I have never been an "online community first" person. The internet is how I stay in touch with people I met in real life. I'm not a "tweet comments at celebrities" guy. I was never funny enough to be the funniest person on Twitter.
Odds and Ends of...
Some actual good news for once!
Cornish Lithium, an Oxford Street Monorail, and why astronomy funding is under threat
2nd Mar 2026
Cornish Lithium, an Oxford Street Monorail, and why astronomy funding is under threat
Jonas Hietala
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
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...
Eric Migicovsky's...
Quick Pebble Project Update
9th Jul 2025
OH8HUB’s Substack
May Day activation on island of Hailuoto
May Day is celebrated on first of May.
4th May 2025
May Day is celebrated on first of May.
Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course Week 18: 1,001 Nights
In week 18 of the humanities crash course, I read five stories from One Thousand and One Nights, a...
4th May 2025
In week 18 of the humanities crash course, I read five stories from One Thousand and One Nights, a collection of Middle Eastern folktales that have influenced lots of other stories. Keeping with the theme, I also saw one of the most influential movies based on these...
Butler's Log
Fearless Rebasing
GitButler now supports first class conflicts, which makes rebasing much less annoying. What is...
23rd Oct 2024
GitButler now supports first class conflicts, which makes rebasing much less annoying. What is "fearless rebasing"?
Scott Kennedy
The worst take in tech: new grad hiring
11th Jun 2026
Notes on software...
In response to a frontend developer asking about database development
This is an external post of mine. Click
here
if you are not redirected.
1st Jan 2023
This is an external post of mine. Click
here
if you are not redirected.
Willem L. Middelkoop
Cutting Cloud Costs
Like many, I faced soaring cloud service costs for my clients, prompting a wake-up call. To stay...
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...
Vitalik Buterin's...
A Quick Gasprice Market Analysis
14th Dec 2017
Electronics etc…
Measuring the HP 11720A Pulse Modulator and Coax Cables
Introduction
What is a pulse modulator and what are they used for?
The HP 11720A Pulse...
6th May 2023
Introduction
What is a pulse modulator and what are they used for?
The HP 11720A Pulse Modulator
Inside the HP 11720A
Measurement Setup for a Quick Testing Session
Pin Modulator Power Measurements with HP 432A
Cable Loss Measurements with HP 432A
Cable Power Measurements with...
watchTowr Labs
You’re Back In The Room (Citrix NetScaler Pre-Auth RCE CVE-2026-8452(?))
Suddenly, you’re in a room. You look around - oh, you’re surrounded by other new starters at your...
14th Aug 2026
Suddenly, you’re in a room. You look around - oh, you’re surrounded by other new starters at your new job. Yes, it’s Monday, and you’re being onboarded.
You know the drill - it’s the typical enterprise “please don’t be
Niklas Oberhuber’s...
Voter Fraud in my Online Poll for the School Canteen
12th Nov 2024
Birchtree
When you put your brand's mascot on the enemy's platform
Back in February 2024, Xbox held a short podcast where they reacted directly to swirling rumors...
28th Oct 2025
Back in February 2024, Xbox held a short podcast where they reacted directly to swirling rumors about Xbox exclusive titles that were about to go multi-platform, which was giving Xbox fans anxiety. This question from host Tina Amini was right near the start:
So when you are...
Butler's Log
How Core Git Developers Configure Git
What `git config` settings should be defaults by now? Here are some settings that even the core...
22nd Feb 2025
What `git config` settings should be defaults by now? Here are some settings that even the core developers change.
Notes on software...
Generating a REST API from a database
I recently published an alpha version of a code generation tool,
DBCore, that reads a...
6th Jun 2020
I recently published an alpha version of a code generation tool,
DBCore, that reads a database
schema from PostgreSQL or MySQL and generates an entire Go API with
CRUD operations, pagination, filtering, and authentication.
But more than just generating code like
xo/xo or...
Louwrentius - Solar
Setting up a VPN with your iPhone using L2TP, IPSec and Linux
This blogpost discusses how to setup an IPSec-based VPN between your iPhone and a Linux server....
11th Dec 2011
This blogpost discusses how to setup an IPSec-based VPN between your iPhone and a Linux server.
Updated 16 October 2012 - now compatible with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
IMPORTANT! (update January 2013)
I find using OpenVPN with the new iOS OpenVPN client a way better solution. OpenVPN...
Louwrentius - Solar
Most Technical debt is just bullshit
Introduction
I made an offhand remark about technical debt to a friend and he interrupted me,...
25th Sep 2020
Introduction
I made an offhand remark about technical debt to a friend and he interrupted me, saying: "technical debt is just bullshit". In his experience, people talking about technical debt were mostly trying to:
cover up bad code
cover up unfinished work
source1
Calling...
Jonas Hietala
I'll only buy devices with GrapheneOS
Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS — I say that’s freedom
Calvin...
28th Aug 2025
Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS — I say that’s freedom
Calvin Wankhede
We’re in a dark time period right now.
Authoritarianism is on the rise throughout the globe.
Governments wants to monitor your social media accounts so they can make you disappear if...
Eric Migicovsky's...
The Universal Communication Bus
From the desk of Eric Migicovsky Edit : Interested in what you read below? Check out Beeper , an...
9th Jul 2020
From the desk of Eric Migicovsky Edit : Interested in what you read below? Check out Beeper , an app that we built to solve this problem…
Willem L. Middelkoop
Tablet as main computer
For the past few weeks I have been using the Microsoft Surface Pro as my main computer. It's a...
6th Mar 2018
For the past few weeks I have been using the Microsoft Surface Pro as my main computer. It's a modern tablet computer that can be used as laptop with the type cover. With the Surface Pen, it's a versatile PC that works in a lot of different ways. Time to find out if it's any good...
MIT News - Civil and...
Ultrasound-based pacemaker noninvasively steadies the heart
The new design could offer a surgery-free alternative to traditional cardiac implants.
2nd Jun 2026
The new design could offer a surgery-free alternative to traditional cardiac implants.
Home on Erik...
Momentum strategies
Haven't posted anything in ages, so here's a quick hack I threw together in Python on a Sunday...
3rd Mar 2014
Haven't posted anything in ages, so here's a quick hack I threw together in Python on a Sunday night. Basically I wanted to know whether momentum strategies work well for international stock indexes. I spent a bit of time putting together a strategy that buys the stock index if...
Never Met a Science
Action Syllabus
Week 1: Decide Technology Policy in the Classroom
22nd Apr 2024
Week 1: Decide Technology Policy in the Classroom
Christian Selig
Waterfield's weirdly compact Apple Vision Pro Case
Disclosure: Waterfield sent this in exchange for a review. Yeah, that probably colors something on a...
2nd Apr 2024
Disclosure: Waterfield sent this in exchange for a review. Yeah, that probably colors something on a deep-down, subconscious level, but I won’t say anything that I don’t truly believe.
Unlike a phone or laptop, the Vision Pro is one of those products that is particularly tricky...
Blog | Sam Curry
Abusing HTTP Path Normalization and Cache Poisoning to steal Rocket League accounts
19th Apr 2020
joshua stein
Wallops 2.2 Released
A new release of my
Wallops IRC client
is available:
wallops-2.2.sit
(StuffIt 3...
2nd Feb 2026
A new release of my
Wallops IRC client
is available:
wallops-2.2.sit
(StuffIt 3 archive)
adc2b473664ec0960b5b028335566831dd69f4a1de40f79e22bf1337292cca88
SHA1: 603c5080c41a0d5752cae49a08376db4e18628b1
This update includes a number of new features and bugfixes:
Auto-connect with...
Writing
Sputnik Sweetheart
Murakami feels more and more like an old friend with whom I feel comfortable: most of the...
18th Feb 2020
Murakami feels more and more like an old friend with whom I feel comfortable: most of the conversations and stories are ones we've had before, but it is still fun to banter and to rehash old arguments and think about the good times.
Notes on software...
First month on a database team
A little over a month ago, I joined EnterpriseDB on a
distributed Postgres product
(PGD). The...
11th Mar 2024
A little over a month ago, I joined EnterpriseDB on a
distributed Postgres product
(PGD). The process of onboarding
myself has been pretty similar at each company in the last decade,
though I think I've gotten better at it. The process is of course
influenced by the team, and my...
joshua stein
On AI
In 2019, I started watching
Andreas Kling's programming videos,
many of which were live-coding...
23rd Jul 2026
In 2019, I started watching
Andreas Kling's programming videos,
many of which were live-coding sessions writing his new operating system
Serenity OS.
He was always pretty fast at writing code, especially since his IDE, Qt
Creator, had knowledge of all his C++ code and...
Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing MagBase
Today we launched MagBase - it makes Apple's MagSafe Charger much easier to use.
After trying other...
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...
Willem L. Middelkoop
The Power of One
For my entire career, I've had a clear goal: to stay a company of one. This isn't a starting point,...
22nd Jul 2025
For my entire career, I've had a clear goal: to stay a company of one. This isn't a starting point, but a deliberate choice about the best way to do great work and build a sustainable business. In this post, let me explain why.
Focus Over Growth
In a world that often celebrates...
Notes on software...
Administering Kubernetes is hard
Kubernetes is easy to use after some exposure; it's pretty convenient
too. But it is super hard to...
30th Sep 2019
Kubernetes is easy to use after some exposure; it's pretty convenient
too. But it is super hard to set up.
eksctl is a good tool for folks who don't want to
spend hours/days/weeks debugging VPC configuration in 1000s of lines
of CloudFormation. None of the other tools seem to be...
Blog | Sam Curry
We Hacked Apple for 3 Months: Here’s What We Found
7th Oct 2020
Willem's Blog
Enjoy a festival without alcohol
This year I didn't drink alcohol during Rock Werchter, leading to interesting observations during...
9th Jul 2018
This year I didn't drink alcohol during Rock Werchter, leading to interesting observations during the music festival.
Greater Still by...
Towards Crypto Literacy
Consumer scale isn’t reached by abstracting the crypto away — not yet, at least.
6th Feb 2023
Consumer scale isn’t reached by abstracting the crypto away — not yet, at least.
Vitalik Buterin's...
Why I used to prefer permissive licenses and now favor copyleft
7th Jul 2025
Joel Gustafson
Visualizing 13 million Bluesky users
12th Nov 2024
joshua stein
BlueSCSI Wi-Fi Desk Accessory 1.1 Released
BlueSCSI Wi-Fi Desk Accessory
1.1 has been released:
wifi_da-1.1.sit
(StuffIt 3...
29th Jan 2024
BlueSCSI Wi-Fi Desk Accessory
1.1 has been released:
wifi_da-1.1.sit
(StuffIt 3 archive)
db06d941d7322089d8a98ebabf1f9a50b8f75ade80edbb355c127acc9a7fa629
SHA1: c9d6d3d165626ce592a65fd9e2011f361a0f78e4
Changes in this version:
Fix masked password entry on Mac OS 8+
Truncate...
Odds and Ends of...
How to fix Top Gear
And the story of my beef with Jeremy Clarkson
2 weeks ago
And the story of my beef with Jeremy Clarkson
Vitalik Buterin's...
Epochs and slots all the way down: ways to give Ethereum users faster transaction confirmation times
30th Jun 2024
Construction Physics
What Learning by Doing Looks Like
The evolution of polycrystalline diamond drill bits
12th Dec 2024
The evolution of polycrystalline diamond drill bits
Jeff Geerling
Rebuilding a 1995 GPS Time Server so I don't get Telstra'd
In June I purchased this TrueTime XL-AK time server, so I could learn more of the history of...
a week ago
In June I purchased this TrueTime XL-AK time server, so I could learn more of the history of GPS-based time.
I received it on June 22, and just 16 days later a similar GPS time server took down Australia's cell service for 12 hours! I made a short video about it but put off...
Comments for Lars...
Comment on My 7 Rules for A/B Testing That Triple Conversion Rates by nick
Hey Lars, any rules you have for killing tests early, other than the 10% rule? For example, if a new...
26th Jan 2018
Hey Lars, any rules you have for killing tests early, other than the 10% rule? For example, if a new test is showing a 40% decrease at 97% confidence after only 3 days... would you kill it, let it keep bleeding out, or at the very least allocate less traffic to the test?
computers are bad
2024-04-05 the life of one earth station
Sometimes, when I am feeling down, I read about failed satellite TV (STV)
services. Don't we all?...
5th Apr 2024
Sometimes, when I am feeling down, I read about failed satellite TV (STV)
services. Don't we all? As a result, I've periodically come across a company
called AlphaStar Television Network. PrimeStar may have had a rough life, but
AlphaStar barely had one at all: it launched in...
Tiny struggles
I prefer boring technologies
When I start new projects I try to build them with boring technologies that I used before and I try...
30th Dec 2021
When I start new projects I try to build them with boring technologies that I used before and I try to limit picking up new libraries, tools and technologies to a minimum.
This is because I want to build actual products and not to do projects for the sake of learning exciting...
Yazin Alirhayim
Hour 9: Categorizing the content
Now that we've cracked the API, we need to save all the content and categorize it.
24th Jun 2025
Now that we've cracked the API, we need to save all the content and categorize it.
Louwrentius - Solar
Compiling Multicore PAR2 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin
If you want to compile PAR2 with multicore support on Linux, it may not work right away from source....
15th Sep 2012
If you want to compile PAR2 with multicore support on Linux, it may not work right away from source. I used this version of PAR2 with multicore support.
Update 2015: the original link is dead, I foud a copy of the source and put it on my own site here for you to download.
First,...
Never Met a Science
Video Killed the Social Media Star
The two 2024 Presidential Debates have proven the continued centrality of television to our...
16th Sep 2024
The two 2024 Presidential Debates have proven the continued centrality of television to our electoral system.
csvbase blog
There are 665 open licences, most are pretty rubbish
you are in a maze of twisty licences, all alike
19th Sep 2024
you are in a maze of twisty licences, all alike
Project Blog on...
Train Simulator Controller: Power/Brake Controller, Part 3
The core of a train simulator setup could be considered its throttle and brake. Having figured out...
1st Jan 2025
The core of a train simulator setup could be considered its throttle and brake. Having figured out how to interface a real UK Class 365 power/brake controller with Train Simulator, I designed and built a polished PCB to connect it to my Train Simulator setup.
Fabien Sanglard
The confusing world of USB
10th Jan 2021
Writing
Fairy Tale
Alternate universe VGM-y nujabes. Nothing world-shattering, but extremely good vibes.
3rd Mar 2022
Alternate universe VGM-y nujabes. Nothing world-shattering, but extremely good vibes.
Louwrentius - Solar
The impact of the MDADM bitmap on RAID performance
Introduction
I'm aware that most people with intensive storage workloads won't run those workloads...
6th Apr 2020
Introduction
I'm aware that most people with intensive storage workloads won't run those workloads on hard drives anymore, that ship has sailed a long time ago. SSDs have taken their place (or 'the cloud').
For those few left who do use hard drives in Linux software RAID setups...
Arduino Blog
This unique electronic toy helps children learn their shapes
It isn’t a secret that many kids find math to be boring and it is easy for them to develop an...
1st Jul 2025
It isn’t a secret that many kids find math to be boring and it is easy for them to develop an attitude of “when am I ever going to use this?” But math is incredibly useful in the real world, from blue-collar machinists using trigonometry to quantum physicists unveiling the...
Greater Still by...
Enjoying the Journey
Reflections on training for a marathon and a lesson from my late Uncle Murray
1st Jan 2024
Reflections on training for a marathon and a lesson from my late Uncle Murray
tim.sh
Why I created Ethereum Proof of Stake demo
Hi there!
2nd Nov 2024
Krebs on Security
SMS Phishers Pivot to Points, Taxes, Fake Retailers
China-based phishing groups blamed for non-stop scam SMS messages about a supposed wayward package...
4th Dec 2025
China-based phishing groups blamed for non-stop scam SMS messages about a supposed wayward package or unpaid toll fee are promoting a new offering, just in time for the holiday shopping season: Phishing kits for mass-creating fake but convincing e-commerce websites that convert...
Electronics etc…
DSLogic U3Pro16 Review and Teardown
Introduction
The DSLogic U3Pro16
In the Box
Probe Cables and Clips
The Controller Hardware
The Input...
12th Apr 2025
Introduction
The DSLogic U3Pro16
In the Box
Probe Cables and Clips
The Controller Hardware
The Input Circuit
Impact of Input Circuit on Circuit Under Test
Additional IOs: External Clock, Trigger In, Trigger Out
Software: From Saleae Logic to PulseView to DSView
Installing DSView...
Fabien Sanglard
The art and engineering of Silpheed
1st Jun 2026
Willem L. Middelkoop
Cash is king, or is it?
Very often I see men carry a wallet filled with plastic: multiple debit and credit cards plus a...
14th Jul 2016
Very often I see men carry a wallet filled with plastic: multiple debit and credit cards plus a bunch of loyalty programs and membership cards. Then, some even top it off with stinky paper money and sticky metal coins! It made me wonder if I can free up one pocket by ditching the...
./techtipsy
Self-hosting Wikipedia using Kiwix
Do you have a need to host Wikipedia on your computer?
Or a StackExchange site, like Super...
9th Dec 2021
Do you have a need to host Wikipedia on your computer?
Or a StackExchange site, like Super User?
It’s easier than you think!
Step 1: download stuff!
The Kiwix project provides ZIM files for many popular websites, including Wikipedia.
These files can be downloaded over at Kiwix...
Krebs on Security
How AI Assistants are Moving the Security Goalposts
AI-based assistants or “agents” — autonomous programs that have access to the user’s computer,...
8th Mar 2026
AI-based assistants or “agents” — autonomous programs that have access to the user’s computer, files, online services and can automate virtually any task — are growing in popularity with developers and IT workers. But as so many eyebrow-raising headlines over the past few weeks...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Should there be demand-based recurring fees on ENS domains?
9th Sep 2022
Vitalik Buterin's...
Quadratic Payments: A Primer
7th Dec 2019
Tiny struggles
Sometimes stupid product ideas are the best - motivation behind the secret tuna salad recipe
I created a digital product out of my family’s favorite tuna salad recipe and in this article I will...
17th Mar 2022
I created a digital product out of my family’s favorite tuna salad recipe and in this article I will tell you why I thought it was a good idea.
I’m a software engineer by trade and I have spent thousands of hours building software products that don’t really earn me money...
Arduino Blog
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
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.”...
Writing
Chinatown
Well, that was probably the most depressing final sequence I can remember in a film (especially one...
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.)
Jonas Hietala
A type checking error in Elixir 1.18
Although I’m a big Elixir fan, the lack of static typing has always been my biggest annoyance (and...
30th Dec 2024
Although I’m a big Elixir fan, the lack of static typing has always been my biggest annoyance (and why I think Gleam is so cool).
I think static typing helps catch bugs earlier and in an automated way, leading to less buggy software and saves time in the long run.
To my great joy...
Writing
From Capelton Hill
This is very much an album about what it means to have spent twenty years making music that is...
4th Jun 2022
This is very much an album about what it means to have spent twenty years making music that is almost entirely about being in your late twenties and feeling that the most important parts of life are happening and fleeting. It is soft and comforting and you can't help but feel...
Posts on Made of...
reptyr: Attach a running process to a new terminal
Over the last week, I’ve written a nifty tool that I call reptyr. reptyr is a utility for taking an...
21st Jan 2011
Over the last week, I’ve written a nifty tool that I call reptyr. reptyr is a utility for taking an existing running program and attaching it to a new terminal. Started a long-running process over ssh, but have to leave and don’t want to interrupt it? Just start a screen, use...
Simply Explained
Bringing Foam Monsters to Life: How I Wrote and Illustrated a Children's Book Using AI
I've always wanted to write a book. It's been on my bucket list for several years, but I never got...
12th Feb 2025
I've always wanted to write a book. It's been on my bucket list for several years, but I never got around to it. Last summer I had a revelation: my kids love being read to, so why don't I write a story for them?Here's how I approached writing a children's book and how I used AI...
Abishek Muthian
Multiple $20 AI Plans Are Better Than a Single $100 AI Plan
After using the $200 and $100 Anthropic monthly plans for Claude, I have now settled on $20...
1st Jul 2026
After using the $200 and $100 Anthropic monthly plans for Claude, I have now settled on $20 Anthropic + $20 OpenAI + $10 OpenCode Go monthly plans for coding and design work. I also use local AI occasionally for non-coding-related tasks.
By using multiple entry-level AI plans...
Willem L. Middelkoop
Offline Music
Music has the universal power to move people. Different rhythms, emotions and vocals enable us to...
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...
Applied Cartography
Everybody Wants Some!!
The single most pleasurable movie of all time is Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven, and it achieves that...
2 weeks ago
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...
Greater Still by...
In Crypto, Apps Need Infrastructure Like Infrastructure Needs Apps
Or, maybe the real infrastructure was the applications we made along the way
6th Oct 2023
Or, maybe the real infrastructure was the applications we made along the way
Daniel De Laney
Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools
Code forces humans to be precise. That’s good—computers need precision. But it also forces humans to...
3rd Feb 2025
Code forces humans to be precise. That’s good—computers need precision. But it also forces humans to think like machines.
For decades we tried to fix this by making programming more human-friendly. Higher-level languages. Visual interfaces. Each step helped, but we were still...
The New Oil
A Guide to Safe Online Shopping (2025 Edition)
1st Nov 2025
Notes on software...
Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 4. LLVM conditionals and compiling fibonacci
Previously in compiler basics:
1. lisp to assembly
2. user-defined functions and variables
...
4th May 2019
Previously in compiler basics:
1. lisp to assembly
2. user-defined functions and variables
3. LLVM
5. LLVM system calls
6. an x86 upgrade
In this post we'll extend the
compiler's LLVM backend to
support compiling conditionals such that we can support...
Birchtree
Benchmarks from M2 Pro to M4 Pro
Long story short, I picked up a new MacBook Pro this week. I got the M4 Pro version with the higher...
1st Apr 2025
Long story short, I picked up a new MacBook Pro this week. I got the M4 Pro version with the higher core count and 1TB of internal storage. It's the exact same model in the lineup as the M2 Pro I've been using for the last
computers are bad
2023-12-05 vhf omnidirectional range
The term "VHF omnidirectional range" can at first be confusing, because it
includes "range"---a...
5th Dec 2023
The term "VHF omnidirectional range" can at first be confusing, because it
includes "range"---a measurement that the technology does not provide. The
answer to this conundrum is, as is so often the case, history. The "range"
refers not to the radio equipment but to the space...
Open for Business
Everything That Goes Up...
For as long as people have had fears, we have been afraid of things falling from the sky....
9th Oct 2025
For as long as people have had fears, we have been afraid of things falling from the sky. Palentologists of comedy tell us that this particular danger may have been discovered by a researcher named Og, a colleague of the late Thag Simmons, when a flock of prehistoric pigeons flew...
Louwrentius - Solar
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
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...
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #50: The weird thing about London's New Year's Fireworks
Plus how the government should respond to Musk's nonsense, and an AI video that might just show us...
4th Jan 2025
Plus how the government should respond to Musk's nonsense, and an AI video that might just show us how video production is going to change.
Applied Cartography
Klute
A terrific, terrific film, with a great performance by Jane Fonda (insert quip of "the film should...
2nd Sep 2023
A terrific, terrific film, with a great performance by Jane Fonda (insert quip of "the film should be called Bree!" here.) I think some of the noir aspects felt a little more obvious than in The Conversation, but the pair of performances and the deep sense of sonic dread that...
Jonas Hietala
Embedding youtube videos with Hakyll
A while ago a made a timelapse of my entry to Ludum Dare. This is how I parse and embed videos using...
1st Sep 2014
A while ago a made a timelapse of my entry to Ludum Dare. This is how I parse and embed videos using Hakyll.
I don’t want to remember any special syntax for embedding, I don’t want to bother (remember?) to use something like {% youtube: <link> %} or whatever syntax we might find...
Home on Erik...
Miscellaneous unsolicited (and possibly biased) career advice
No one asked for this, but I'm something like ~12 years into my career and have had my fair share of...
26th Sep 2019
No one asked for this, but I'm something like ~12 years into my career and have had my fair share of mistakes and luck so I thought I'd share some.
Honestly, I feel like I've mostly benefitted from luck.
Simply Explained
Integrate Home Assistant with Apple Reminders
I recently integrated Home Assistant with Apple Reminders so that automations can create new todos....
27th Jul 2022
I recently integrated Home Assistant with Apple Reminders so that automations can create new todos. This is trickier as it sounds, because Reminders has no API that can be accessed from Home Assistant. Here's how I worked around that problem with a script, input text helper and...
GitButler
Git Merge 2024
GitButler is organizing the 2024 Git Merge conference, Sep 19/20 in Berlin!
22nd Jul 2024
GitButler is organizing the 2024 Git Merge conference, Sep 19/20 in Berlin!
Birchtree
Quick Reviews is out now!
Quick Reviews is currently available on the App Store and is a free download. Check it out!
I...
2nd Feb 2025
Quick Reviews is currently available on the App Store and is a free download. Check it out!
I recently wrote about how the app works, so I’ll let you read that to see how it works. I have finalized my monetization, so I did want to lay that
Louwrentius - Solar
The iPhone, iPad and iOS are powering a revolution
Most people just don't understand computers. Are these people dumb? Some may
be dumb, but the people...
6th Nov 2010
Most people just don't understand computers. Are these people dumb? Some may
be dumb, but the people who make them are maybe even dumber. Because they
can't seem to figure out how to create a computer that the majority of people
understand.
When the original macintosh arrived at...
Push to Prod
Comprehension of Concurrency is a Lifelong Journey
Accept that your understanding is imperfect. There is comfort in letting go.
23rd Jul 2024
Accept that your understanding is imperfect. There is comfort in letting go.
Yazin Alirhayim
Submitting a Google Form using the Command Line
I use Google Forms alot, and when you do something ALOT, dealing with a web interface can be a drag.
24th Sep 2019
I use Google Forms alot, and when you do something ALOT, dealing with a web interface can be a drag.
Writing
Cult Classic
I can't find where I wrote this, but I described Crosley's writing persona (having read her other...
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.
Gwern.net Newsletter
March 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter
2 major new site features: 'popins' and recursive Wikipedia popups
6th Apr 2021
2 major new site features: 'popins' and recursive Wikipedia popups
./techtipsy
Trying out VR on an AMD Ryzen 4000 series APU
You may know that I really like small, efficient APU-based builds.
At this point in time, they’re so...
4th May 2022
You may know that I really like small, efficient APU-based builds.
At this point in time, they’re so close to being a viable mainstream option for
gaming, especially the Ryzen 6000-series mobile APU-s. Forza Horizon 5, at
1080p high settings? Yes, they’re that good.
I don’t have...
Louwrentius - Solar
71 TiB DIY NAS based on ZFS on Linux
This is my new 71 TiB DIY NAS. This server is the successor to my six year old, twenty drive 18 TB...
2nd Aug 2014
This is my new 71 TiB DIY NAS. This server is the successor to my six year old, twenty drive 18 TB NAS (17 TiB). With a storage capacity four times higher than the original and an incredible read (2.5 GB/s)/write (1.9 GB/s) performance, it's a worthy successor.
Purpose
The...
Willem L. Middelkoop
Optical vs chest strap heart rate monitors
With modern wearables, smartwatches and fitness bands, it has become easy and common to measure your...
14th Jul 2019
With modern wearables, smartwatches and fitness bands, it has become easy and common to measure your heart rate. There are however fundamental differences in sensor types. Some sensors capture the electrical signal from your heart while others use light to analyse the blood...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later
22nd Nov 2019
Computer Ads from...
Maxell's MF 2-DD Floppies
The Gold Standard
1st Dec 2024
Matt Blewitt
Thoughts on User Safety
We need to move beyond mere security and towards safety for our customers and our users. This is how...
18th Sep 2019
We need to move beyond mere security and towards safety for our customers and our users. This is how we can do that.
computers are bad
2023-05-07 electrical characteristics of telephone lines
Let's take a break from our boring topic of regional history to focus instead
on an even more boring...
7th May 2023
Let's take a break from our boring topic of regional history to focus instead
on an even more boring topic: implementation details of telephone lines.
The conventional "copper pair" analog telephone line is fading away. The FCC
has begun to authorize abandonment of copper outside...
Arduino Blog
Control your volume with a wireless rotary encoder, as you deserve
Every decent stereo sold since the invention of sound has included a knob on the front for adjusting...
6th Jan 2025
Every decent stereo sold since the invention of sound has included a knob on the front for adjusting volume. There are influencers and entire communities dedicated to evaluating the feel of those wonderful knobs. So why would you settle for the mushy volume buttons on a remote?...
Posts on Made of...
How is duct tape like the force?
I’m at Dragon*Con this weekend, my second time here now. I decided that if I was going to Dragon*Con...
5th Sep 2010
I’m at Dragon*Con this weekend, my second time here now. I decided that if I was going to Dragon*Con again, I needed to do something in terms of costuming, and I wanted it to be something unique – I wasn’t going to come anywhere near as epic as some of the costumes people pull...
Project Blog on...
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
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...
Vitalik Buterin's...
A Philosophy of Blockchain Validation
17th Aug 2020
Himanshu Mishra |...
Python's easter eggs and hidden jokes
Just when you thought, Python could not be more fun. Read on GitHub...
8th May 2017
Just when you thought, Python could not be more fun. Read on GitHub https://github.com/OrkoHunter/python-easter-eggs 1. Hello World 2. The…
Eric Migicovsky's...
Core 2 Duo - Beta Test Signup!
My personal Core 2 Duo, featuring irek’s beautiful Brutal watchface Hopefully you have...
11th Jun 2025
My personal Core 2 Duo, featuring irek’s beautiful Brutal watchface Hopefully you have pre-ordered a Core 2 Duo watch - if not, you…
Arduino Blog
AI automatically preps a bottle when the baby cries
Bottle prepping machines make life just a little bit less hectic for overwhelmed parents, but they...
2nd Jan 2026
Bottle prepping machines make life just a little bit less hectic for overwhelmed parents, but they do still need to be started and that is easier said than done when you’ve got a wailing baby in your arms. That’s why Manivannan created this edge AI-powered system that...
Christian Selig
Autonomous Standing Desk and Chair Review
Autonomous was nice enough to send me one of both their Smart Desk Pro standing desks and ErgoChair...
14th Nov 2023
Autonomous was nice enough to send me one of both their Smart Desk Pro standing desks and ErgoChair Pro chairs in exchange for posting about them on Twitter, and I wanted to cover them in more detail on my blog as well so I could give my full thoughts on them for anyone in the...
Can We Still Govern?
Trump Shoots the Messenger
Firing the BLS Commissioner moves us into banana republic territory
1st Aug 2025
Firing the BLS Commissioner moves us into banana republic territory
Louwrentius - Solar
Is storage really that cheap?
Nowadays you can buy a 1 TB harddrive for less than 100 euro's . So I build
myself a 4 TB NAS box,...
5th Oct 2008
Nowadays you can buy a 1 TB harddrive for less than 100 euro's . So I build
myself a 4 TB NAS box, which is already 50% full. However, although it is to
some degree fault-tollerant by using RAID 6, one mistake or catastrophic
hardware faillure and all data is lost.
And that's...
Notes on software...
The impact of management teams as a decision-making group, in startups and enterprise
Ambitious companies form management teams at every level above you,
sometimes including you....
11th Nov 2020
Ambitious companies form management teams at every level above you,
sometimes including you. Management teams meet periodically and have
private chat rooms. They discuss customers, product and organizational
direction. Sometimes discussions are well documented and...
Kent de Bruin
It Must *Be* Good
The need for companies to do the right thing
15th Dec 2022
The need for companies to do the right thing
Simone Salis
For a Business, Should Making (Extra) Money Be Incidental?
Humans are desire-driven machines: a business should help dissipate desires by satisfying them...
21st Jul 2026
Humans are desire-driven machines: a business should help dissipate desires by satisfying them without exploiting you.
Abishek Muthian
Raspberry pi3 vs iPad2 for personal computing
I blew my personal computer and before I could build a new one I needed a temporary machine which...
24th Mar 2017
I blew my personal computer and before I could build a new one I needed a temporary machine which could perform some of my routine tasks like browsing, social network, word processing, programming, gaming, videos, music & ocassional heavy computation.
Though I would be needing a...
videah's blog
Credits
Credits / Attribution
Some of the art used around this blog are by other people. Here is a list of...
21st Apr 2025
Credits / Attribution
Some of the art used around this blog are by other people. Here is a list of them:
Smug Videah by Kelevtov
Rantsona Sidebar Videah by ScruffKerfluff
Callout Pixel Art Videah by lockedsdcard
Videah Mutant Standard Emoji by Caius Nocturne
Never Met a Science
Does Social Media Cause Anything?
Yes.
3rd Jul 2024
Old Vintage...
The April Fools joke that might have got me fired
Everyone should pull one great practical joke in their lifetimes. This one was mine, and I think...
1st Apr 2025
Everyone should pull one great practical joke in their lifetimes. This one was mine, and I think it's past the statute of limitations. The story is true. Only the names are redacted to protect the guilty.
My first job out of college was a database programmer, even though my...
Greater Still by...
Substack Should Integrate Native Payments
Featuring 0xDesigner Design Everydays S2 109
9th May 2024
Featuring 0xDesigner Design Everydays S2 109
Fabien Sanglard
Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full
17th Aug 2026
Willem L. Middelkoop
Commuting by bike
For a few years now, I commute to work using a bicycle. I have lost more than 15KG since I stopped...
1st Dec 2017
For a few years now, I commute to work using a bicycle. I have lost more than 15KG since I stopped using my scooter. This week I tested a VanMoof Electrified S, an electric bike with an industrial, minimal design. Is it any good? How does it compare to a normal bike? Will an...
./techtipsy
So you want to migrate to Kubernetes: observations from a software developer
Kubernetes: everyone wants to do it, regardless of their scale and business objectives.1
Common...
1st Oct 2024
Kubernetes: everyone wants to do it, regardless of their scale and business objectives.1
Common justifications include better scalability, cost savings, standardization and being super modern and stuff. It’s
the future!
In my personal experience, Kubernetes is far from the...
Eric Migicovsky's...
Superhacker Rossum hacked inPulse - Have you?
18th Feb 2011
Kent de Bruin
Quasimode for Text Selection
A short design exploration of how stacked cards could work within iA writer
10th Mar 2021
A short design exploration of how stacked cards could work within iA writer
Fabien Sanglard
Learning Legendary Hardware
More...
7th Oct 2013
Construction Physics
Reading List 08/01/26
Pepper-spray drones, China’s chip Manhattan Project, Commonwealth Fusion’s fundraise, and a proposed...
1st Aug 2026
Pepper-spray drones, China’s chip Manhattan Project, Commonwealth Fusion’s fundraise, and a proposed Dulles Airport renovation.
Computer Ads from...
Plus Post: Sony SMC-777C
One person, Eight languages. The 8bit.
1st Jun 2025
One person, Eight languages. The 8bit.
Krebs on Security
Cyber Forensic Expert in 2,000+ Cases Faces FBI Probe
A Minnesota cybersecurity and computer forensics expert whose testimony has featured in thousands of...
3rd Mar 2025
A Minnesota cybersecurity and computer forensics expert whose testimony has featured in thousands of courtroom trials over the past 30 years is facing questions about his credentials and an inquiry from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Legal experts say the inquiry...
Abort Retry Fail
The Most Important Micros
That is, for what they represent
28th Feb 2026
That is, for what they represent
computers are bad
2025-07-06 secret cellular phone numbers
A long time ago I wrote about secret government telephone
numbers,
and before that, secret military...
6th Jul 2025
A long time ago I wrote about secret government telephone
numbers,
and before that, secret military telephone
buttons.
I suppose this is becoming a series. To be clear, the "secret" here is a joke,
but more charitably I could say that it refers to obscurity rather than any
real...
Arduino Blog
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
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....
Jonas Hietala
2018 in review
A new year and a lingering feeling of not having done enough during the year. A fast review of the...
24th Jan 2019
A new year and a lingering feeling of not having done enough during the year. A fast review of the year usually makes me feel better.
2018 non-geek achievements
Was on parental leave for about 7 months.
It was great although I’ve been crawling up the walls a little the last...
Krebs on Security
ShinyHunters Wage Broad Corporate Extortion Spree
A cybercriminal group that used voice phishing attacks to siphon more than a billion records from...
7th Oct 2025
A cybercriminal group that used voice phishing attacks to siphon more than a billion records from Salesforce customers earlier this year has launched a website that threatens to publish data stolen from dozens of Fortune 500 firms if they refuse to pay a ransom. The group also...
Alyssa Rosenzweig
Conformant OpenGL 4.6 on the M1
For years, the M1 has only supported OpenGL 4.1. That changes today –
with our release of full...
14th Feb 2024
For years, the M1 has only supported OpenGL 4.1. That changes today –
with our release of full OpenGL® 4.6 and OpenGL® ES 3.2! Install Fedora for the latest
M1/M2-series drivers.
Already installed? Just dnf upgrade
--refresh.
Unlike the vendor’s non-conformant 4.1 drivers, our...
Old Vintage...
The end of AOL dialup
America Online has ceased offering dialup access since first doing so in 1991 (using GeoWorks), and...
5th Oct 2025
America Online has ceased offering dialup access since first doing so in 1991 (using GeoWorks), and presumably any systems attempting to dial in will no longer be able to make a connection.
We actually had a fairly long history with AOL and its predecessors in our house. We got...
Abort Retry Fail
The History of the IBM 5100
IBM's First Personal Computer
2nd Dec 2023
IBM's First Personal Computer
Fabien Sanglard
Second Reality Code Review
More...
16th Aug 2013
Writing
This is Personal
One of the trickiest tightropes for an author publishing a business book to walk is: "how deftly do...
2nd Apr 2024
One of the trickiest tightropes for an author publishing a business book to walk is: "how deftly do I tip my hand that this is all part of a greater lead generation and monetization engine?"
Avestura's Blog
How optimistic or pessimistic are the Kurzgesagt videos?
A sentiment analysis on the last 20 videos of Kurzgesagt.
2nd Jul 2023
A sentiment analysis on the last 20 videos of Kurzgesagt.
Nabeel S. Qureshi
Notes on Puzzles
1. I mostly don’t play chess anymore — it’s too addictive, and tends to take over your brain in a...
11th Jul 2023
1. I mostly don’t play chess anymore — it’s too addictive, and tends to take over your brain in a way I don’t like — but one habit I’ve retained is solving puzzles.
Willem's Blog
The day I killed my LAN
I killed my office LAN and went 4G only. Saves a lot of clutter, energy and money.
30th Jul 2017
I killed my office LAN and went 4G only. Saves a lot of clutter, energy and money.
Arduino Blog
How to achieve cost-effective predictive maintenance with the Arduino® UNO™ Q board
Most machines warn you before they fail. A motor begins to vibrate differently. A pump slowly drifts...
2nd Jul 2026
Most machines warn you before they fail. A motor begins to vibrate differently. A pump slowly drifts out of balance. A bearing develops a new mechanical signature. A cooling fan starts producing frequencies that were not present during normal operation. These changes can appear...
Writing
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
a bad book with a good thesis. the author warns you of its incoherence early on, which is a shame...
1st Mar 2020
a bad book with a good thesis. the author warns you of its incoherence early on, which is a shame because there are very good pieces of logos amidst the circumlocution
Style over Substance
Our favorite places to eat and drinks during our Portugal vacation
In the summer of 2023, we went on an amazing trip through Portugal. We’d already visited Lisbon on a...
25th May 2024
In the summer of 2023, we went on an amazing trip through Portugal. We’d already visited Lisbon on a short city trip a few years earlier, and that experience was so good we knew we had to return. This time, we decided to take a full three weeks and see the sights. We were...
Odds and Ends of...
Have I Got Fake News For You (Odds and Ends #79)
A jaw-dropping screw-up on prime time BBC One – and more!
3rd Oct 2025
A jaw-dropping screw-up on prime time BBC One – and more!
Old Vintage...
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
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...
Applied Cartography
Ori and the Blind Forest
It is incorrect to describe this game as a melange of celeste and gris because of course
this game...
5th May 2023
It is incorrect to describe this game as a melange of celeste and gris because of course
this game predates both of them. But that is where my mind went — this sort of "emotional platformer" —
and this game is terrific, ten hours of beauty and challenge and fun and very sweet...
csvbase blog
Take the tools out of 'Data', but don't take the data out of the tools
Using dataframes to write smaller, faster programs
11th Jan 2023
Using dataframes to write smaller, faster programs
Electronics etc…
Hideo Okawara’s Mixed Signal Lecture Series
Introduction
Hideo Okawara’s Mixed Signal Lecture Series
Frequency/Phase Movement Analysis by...
6th Jan 2024
Introduction
Hideo Okawara’s Mixed Signal Lecture Series
Frequency/Phase Movement Analysis by Orthogonal Demodulation
Misc
Introduction
While researching a DSP related topic, Google dug up an excellent article,
written by Hideo Okawara, that is just one part of a series of ~53. I...
Louwrentius - Solar
My Ceph test cluster based on Raspberry Pi's and HP MicroServers
Introduction
To learn more about Ceph, I've build myself a Ceph Cluster based on actual hardware. In...
26th Jan 2019
Introduction
To learn more about Ceph, I've build myself a Ceph Cluster based on actual hardware. In this blogpost I'll discus the cluster in more detail and I've also included (fio) benchmark results.
This is my test Ceph cluster:
The cluster consists of the following...
Willem L. Middelkoop
Better Laptop
Consumer electronics often lock us into sealed hardware and forced upgrades, creating enormous...
9th Feb 2025
Consumer electronics often lock us into sealed hardware and forced upgrades, creating enormous e-waste. Framework challenges that norm by making laptops you can service, upgrade, and customise, which extends their lifespan and cuts down on unnecessary e-waste. My Framework 13...
Applied Cartography
Mindwalk
Let us know how the water rises.
1st Apr 2026
Let us know how the water rises.
Vitalik Buterin's...
On Nathan Schneider on the limits of cryptoeconomics
26th Sep 2021
Niklas Oberhuber’s...
The 167 Point Ceiling of the Game Take-It-Easy
4th Jul 2025
Eric Migicovsky's...
Verge interview at CES 2013
2025 Note - probably the last video of me without a beard!
9th Jan 2013
2025 Note - probably the last video of me without a beard!
Evan Hahn (dot com)
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
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...
Krebs on Security
Trump 2.0 Brings Cuts to Cyber, Consumer Protections
One month into his second term, President Trump's actions to shrink the government through mass...
23rd Feb 2025
One month into his second term, President Trump's actions to shrink the government through mass layoffs, firings and withholding funds allocated by Congress have thrown federal cybersecurity and consumer protection programs into disarray. At the same time, agencies are battling...
The New Oil
How the UK is Weakening Safety Worldwide
23rd Feb 2025
Eric Migicovsky's...
Beeper is joining Automattic
9th Apr 2024
Home on Erik...
State drift
I generally haven't written much about software architecture. People make heuristics into religion....
8th Sep 2016
I generally haven't written much about software architecture. People make heuristics into religion. But here is something I thought about: how to build in self-correction into systems. This has been something just vaguely sitting in my head lacking a clear conceptual definition...
Daniel De Laney
The Eli Schiff Problem
Fellow members of The International Cabal to Destroy Design, I write you today because we stand atop...
19th May 2016
Fellow members of The International Cabal to Destroy Design, I write you today because we stand atop a precipice, faced with the threat of annihilation. The rogue Eli Schiff has been systematically exposing our wicked deeds in an attempt to derail the Modern Minimalist plot. I’m...
Home on Erik...
Detecting corporate fraud using Benford's law
Note: This is a silly application. Don't take anything seriously.
Benford's law describes a...
7th Oct 2014
Note: This is a silly application. Don't take anything seriously.
Benford's law describes a phenomenon where numbers in any data series will exhibit patterns in their first digit. For instance, if you took a list of the 1,000 longest rivers of Mongolia, or the average daily...
Bryan Braun - Blog
Links #12
Oscar, an open-source contributor agent architecture - Oscar is a project from the Go community that...
15th Apr 2025
Oscar, an open-source contributor agent architecture - Oscar is a project from the Go community that aims to develop AI agents that assist open source maintainers. I think this is a great idea. Open source is a load-bearing pillar in our modern digital infrastructure and...
matduggan.com
Making RSS More Fun
I wrote a browser extension to try and make finding random, independent websites more fun.
2nd Dec 2025
I wrote a browser extension to try and make finding random, independent websites more fun.
Good Enough
You Complete Me
When Good Enough was in its infancy as a truly American LLC (formed in Delaware and representing one...
4th Dec 2024
When Good Enough was in its infancy as a truly American LLC (formed in Delaware and representing one or two people who were only semi-serious about a business), it was fun to play around with building websites. Shawn and I were truly just playing and exploring, more than anything...
Notes on software...
SQLite in Go, with and without cgo
This is an external post of mine. Click
here
if you are not redirected.
12th May 2022
This is an external post of mine. Click
here
if you are not redirected.
Notes on software...
Errors and Zig
At TigerBeetle these last few weeks I've been doing a mix of
documenting client libraries, writing...
21st Mar 2023
At TigerBeetle these last few weeks I've been doing a mix of
documenting client libraries, writing sample code for client
libraries, and writing integration tests against the sample code.
The client library documentation is generated with a Zig script. The
sample code is...
Jonas Hietala
Battling burnout
Mamma Mia! Here we go again…
Once again, I’m finding myself trying to recover from burnout, and...
14th Mar 2023
Mamma Mia! Here we go again…
Once again, I’m finding myself trying to recover from burnout, and after about a year I’m finally feeling more like myself.
Even though I’ve been here before, it’s a difficult thing to recognize and avoid, so I’m writing this to maybe help you or my...
MIT News - Civil and...
Walter Torous named executive director of MIT Center for Real Estate
The senior lecturer, already director of the degree program, will now oversee all aspects of the...
2 weeks ago
The senior lecturer, already director of the degree program, will now oversee all aspects of the center’s activities and operations.
Willem's Blog
Do amazing things with a focused mind
Read about my experience during the workshop I got as a birth day present involving the Wim Hof...
5th Dec 2018
Read about my experience during the workshop I got as a birth day present involving the Wim Hof Method.
Jonas Hietala
Blogging in Djot instead of Markdown
What if we weren’t chained to the past? What if we tried to create a light markup syntax that keeps...
2nd Feb 2024
What if we weren’t chained to the past? What if we tried to create a light markup syntax that keeps what is good about Markdown, while revising some of the features that have led to bloat and complexity in the CommonMark spec?
John Macfarlane, Beyond Markdown
I recently...
computers are bad
extremely low frequencies
The submarine is a surprisingly ancient technology—at least in its early,
primitive forms. The idea...
9th May 2026
The submarine is a surprisingly ancient technology—at least in its early,
primitive forms. The idea is quite simple, that a well-enough-sealed boat ought
to be able to submerge and resurface. It's the practicalities that make the
whole thing difficult. It is generally considered...
lcamtuf’s thing
What's the deal with magnetic fields?
I apologize, but there won't be any Insane Clown Posse jokes in this article.
4th Feb 2025
I apologize, but there won't be any Insane Clown Posse jokes in this article.
Birchtree
Micro app 15: Railway Dashboard for iOS
I use Railway to host a few of my projects, and while they have a nice desktop interface in the...
1st May 2026
I use Railway to host a few of my projects, and while they have a nice desktop interface in the browser, their mobile UI isn't so hot, and I wanted to make something t help me monitor things like my cost and deployments on my phone with ease.
Computer Ads from...
bitCards
Thrill Your Friends This Christmas with a gift from bitCards
2 weeks ago
Thrill Your Friends This Christmas with a gift from bitCards
Jonas Hietala
The first (worst) post
Well, here it is: The opening post. What will come here? Here’s where I’ll outline what the blog...
21st Jul 2009
Well, here it is: The opening post. What will come here? Here’s where I’ll outline what the blog will be about and maybe, if I’m dedicated, it won’t die before Christmas you think.
And sure, you’re right. I will run away to the corner in about two and a half months crying I never...
Himanshu Mishra |...
Joining Spotify in Sweden
Image source Life in Japan All the things that I knew about Japan turned out to be true, as soon as...
22nd May 2020
Image source Life in Japan All the things that I knew about Japan turned out to be true, as soon as I arrived here 8 months ago. Japan is a…
Willem L. Middelkoop
Rolex DateJust 36
The year 2022 has been very special to me, after working very hard to make it possible: me and my...
21st Dec 2022
The year 2022 has been very special to me, after working very hard to make it possible: me and my family finally made the big move to Limburg. To commemorate this milestone, I got myself a timeless timepiece: the Rolex DateJust 36. Read on to find out what it's like!
2022
Earlier...
Never Met a Science
Unbundling and Abundance
on the (high) dimensionality of 21st century ideology
13th Mar 2025
on the (high) dimensionality of 21st century ideology
Louwrentius - Solar
Cannot access Windows guest within VMware Fusion when running vsphere client
Currently, I am running VMware ESXi 4.1 on a test system. To manage ESXi, you need the VSphere...
17th Jun 2011
Currently, I am running VMware ESXi 4.1 on a test system. To manage ESXi, you need the VSphere client, which is only available for the Windows platform. Therefore, I run VMware Fusion on my Mac to be able to access VSphere and manage my ESXi host.
The trouble is that both ESXi...
Joel Gustafson
Introduction to Causal Logs
30th Sep 2024
Posts on Made of...
The ITTAGE indirect branch predictor
While investigating the performance of the new Python 3.14 tail-calling interpreter, I learned (via...
4th Jul 2025
While investigating the performance of the new Python 3.14 tail-calling interpreter, I learned (via this very informative comment from Sam Gross) new (to me) piece of performance trivia: Modern CPUs mostly no longer struggle to predict the bytecode-dispatch indirect jump inside a...
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Plus Post: Logic Programming Associates 386-PROLOG
Yes, it's here! LPA 386-PROLOG is now available in a version for Windows!
1st Jul 2026
Yes, it's here! LPA 386-PROLOG is now available in a version for Windows!
Ian's Blog
What the heck is OCSP?
The online certificate status protocol, or OCSP for short, is a way for TLS clients (like your web...
9th May 2019
The online certificate status protocol, or OCSP for short, is a way for TLS clients (like your web browser) to check if a certificate has been revoked or not.
Certificate Revocation?
With asymmetrical encryption, your encryption is only as good as long as your private key remains...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Antenna diodes in the Pentium processor
I was studying the silicon die of the Pentium processor and noticed some puzzling structures...
23rd Nov 2024
I was studying the silicon die of the Pentium processor and noticed some puzzling structures where
signal lines were connected to the silicon substrate for no apparent reason.
Two examples are in the photo below, where the metal wiring (orange) connects to small square regions of...
Louwrentius - Solar
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
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...
Louwrentius - Solar
Howto get the hard disk size under Linux?
A: There is no single tool for this job, but it seems that Fdisk is just fine:
server:~# fdisk -l 2>...
18th Aug 2009
A: There is no single tool for this job, but it seems that Fdisk is just fine:
server:~# fdisk -l 2> /dev/null | grep Disk | grep -v identifier
Disk /dev/sda: 500.0 GB, 500028145664 bytes
Disk /dev/sdb: 500.0 GB, 500028145664 bytes
Disk /dev/sdc: 1000.1 GB, 1000123400192...
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Omoiyari
Inconsequential and pleasant!
1st Mar 2021
Inconsequential and pleasant!
Ken Shirriff's blog
Intel's $475 million error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug
In 1993, Intel released the high-performance Pentium processor, the start of the long-running...
28th Dec 2024
In 1993, Intel released the high-performance Pentium processor, the start of the long-running Pentium line.
The Pentium had many improvements over the previous processor, the Intel 486, including a faster floating-point division algorithm.
A year later, Professor Nicely, a number...
Willem L. Middelkoop
Omarchy on iMac
After helping a family member migrate to a new computer, I found myself with an old iMac. The...
21st Sep 2025
After helping a family member migrate to a new computer, I found myself with an old iMac. The machine from 2017 was very slow running modern macOS, yet I have a soft spot for these all-in-one computers designed by Jony Ive and his team. Could I install Linux on it to give it a...
Jorge Arango
Traction Heroes Ep. 33: Perceptions
Here’s a tricky situation: you start reading someone through a negative lens, which changes how you...
6th Apr 2026
Here’s a tricky situation: you start reading someone through a negative lens, which changes how you interact with them. They respond in kind, which seems to confirm your negative views. Cue vicious cycle.
In any situation, you are both observer and participant, whether you...
Notes on software...
AOT-compilation of Javascript with V8
tldr; I'm working on a AOT-compiled Javascript implementation called
jsc.
Many dynamically typed...
26th Feb 2019
tldr; I'm working on a AOT-compiled Javascript implementation called
jsc.
Many dynamically typed programming languages have implementations that
compile to native binaries:
Python: Cython
Common Lisp: SBCL
Scheme: Chicken Scheme
The benefits of compiling dynamically typed...
Tiny struggles
Revived
I got too busy with a new job and living in a different country. But I love writing and I am very...
13th Feb 2021
I got too busy with a new job and living in a different country. But I love writing and I am very happy to start writing in tinystruggles.com again.
What have I been up to in last couple of years? I have joined Google in Dublin, so new job, new country, new friends, new hobbies....
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