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The best laptop is the one somebody else had In 2011, I was finishing 9th grade. As a gift, I got to choose a laptop in the 400 EUR range. I...
1st Nov 2024
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The best laptop is the one somebody else had

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

1st Nov 2024
In 2011, I was finishing 9th grade. As a gift, I got to choose a laptop in the 400 EUR range. I ended up picking an ASUS Eee PC 1201PN. It was new and the first computer in my life that was 100% mine, but awfully slow for a lot of tasks. It was so slow that I ended up giving...
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Django - growing up from SQLite to PostgreSQL Django by default comes with SQLite as a database.It’s a great choice for initial development and...
11th Jul 2021
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Django - growing up from SQLite to PostgreSQL

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

11th Jul 2021
Django by default comes with SQLite as a database.It’s a great choice for initial development and for testing,but not if you want to run multiple app servers, e.g. in a SaaS project. At some point it’s time to pick up a DB like MySQL or PostgreSQL that is more suitable for this...
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Got myself a Norco RPC-4020 I've got this fetish for storage. So I bought a case that gives me some room for future expantion....
16th Jun 2009
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Got myself a Norco RPC-4020

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

16th Jun 2009
I've got this fetish for storage. So I bought a case that gives me some room for future expantion. The current 6 TB RAID 6 storage server does not have any room for expantion. This Norco RPC-4020 case with 20 hot swap drive bays does however. Don't know what to fill it with yet.
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Microsystems Interviews Andrew D. Hall, Director of the Bell Labs System V Development (1984) They discuss Unix in the 1980s.
3 weeks ago
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Microsystems Interviews Andrew D. Hall, Director of the Bell Labs System V Development (1984)

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

3 weeks ago
They discuss Unix in the 1980s.
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Two worlds: idea people and developers I recently attended a startup weekend and was surprised by the backgrounds of the other...
29th Apr 2023
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Two worlds: idea people and developers

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

29th Apr 2023
I recently attended a startup weekend and was surprised by the backgrounds of the other attendees. As a software engineer myself, I expected to see mostly engineers, but that wasn’t the case. Instead, I found myself surrounded by people with a diverse range of backgrounds and...
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WandaVision What to say about this show that isn’t damning with faint praise?
1st Mar 2021
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WandaVision

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

1st Mar 2021
What to say about this show that isn’t damning with faint praise?
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Protecting VMware ESXi In response to a possible security breach on a VMware ESXi host machine, I search for a way to...
30th Aug 2021
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Protecting VMware ESXi

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

30th Aug 2021
In response to a possible security breach on a VMware ESXi host machine, I search for a way to improve security of the management console using NGINX and a firewall
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Opening Up GitButler Today we're flipping the public switch on GitHub for our GitButler client code and removing the...
2nd Feb 2024
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Opening Up GitButler

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

2nd Feb 2024
Today we're flipping the public switch on GitHub for our GitButler client code and removing the waiting list entirely. Everyone and anyone can now directly download the GitButler client and access the source code.
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One Year On from the One Big Beautiful Bill: Separating Fact from Trump’s Medicaid Fictions
3rd Jul 2026
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One Year On from the One Big Beautiful Bill:

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

3rd Jul 2026
Separating Fact from Trump’s Medicaid Fictions
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Category velocity People make decisions, not businesses.
15th Jun 2021
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Category velocity

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

15th Jun 2021
People make decisions, not businesses.
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An ode to my favorite mobile game I can’t stop telling my friends about Forward: Escape the Fold and now I’m telling you. I bought it...
4th Mar 2025
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An ode to my favorite mobile game

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

4th Mar 2025
I can’t stop telling my friends about Forward: Escape the Fold and now I’m telling you. I bought it more than two years ago and it’s my favorite mobile game by a mile. Forward describes itself as the “perfect bitesized roguelike dungeon crawler”. You control a character trying to...
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How software engineering is changing: an essay challenge The pace of change in software engineering is only accelerating, especially since January of this...
1st Sep 2026
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How software engineering is changing: an essay challenge

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

1st Sep 2026
The pace of change in software engineering is only accelerating, especially since January of this year. This is all to do with the industry-wide adoption of LLMs, AI tooling, and AI infrastructure. At The Pragmatic Engineer, we always want to capture as much of what’s going on
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Pinterest open sources Pinball Pinterest just open sourced Pinball which seems like an interesting Luigi alternative. There's two...
14th Mar 2015
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Pinterest open sources Pinball

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

14th Mar 2015
Pinterest just open sourced Pinball which seems like an interesting Luigi alternative. There's two blog posts: Pinball: Building workflow management (from 2014) and Open-sourcing Pinball (from this week). The author has a comment in the comments thread on Hacker News:
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Qualcomm's buying Arduino – what it means for makers Qualcomm's buying Arduino – what it means for makers Qualcomm just announced they're...
7th Oct 2025
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Qualcomm's buying Arduino – what it means for makers

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

7th Oct 2025
Qualcomm's buying Arduino – what it means for makers Qualcomm just announced they're acquiring Arduino, the company that introduced a whole generation of tinkerers to microcontrollers and embedded electronics. The Uno R3 was the first microcontroller board I owned....
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How Live Chat Tools Impact Conversions and Why I Launched a Bad Variant Do those live chat tools actually help your business? Will they get you more customers by allowing...
21st Jul 2015
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How Live Chat Tools Impact Conversions and Why I Launched a Bad Variant

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

21st Jul 2015
Do those live chat tools actually help your business? Will they get you more customers by allowing your visitors to chat directly with your team? Like most tests, you can come up with theories that sound great for both sides. Pro Live Chat Theory: Having a live chat tool helps...
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Breasts and Eggs I think if I were to recommend this book to someone I would do it simply: do not read the second...
3rd Jan 2021
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Breasts and Eggs

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Jan 2021
I think if I were to recommend this book to someone I would do it simply: do not read the second part. This is an amalgam of two novellas (explicitly demarcated as such in the final product), and the first book — rife with a crisper style and interesting voices — is dulled by the...
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Installing OpenBSD on the Pomera DM250{,XY?} These are some notes for getting OpenBSD-current running on the Japanese-model Pomera DM250, DM250X,...
9th Apr 2026
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Installing OpenBSD on the Pomera DM250{,XY?}

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

9th Apr 2026
These are some notes for getting OpenBSD-current running on the Japanese-model Pomera DM250, DM250X, and DM250XY. Table of Contents Top Throat-clearing Making a backup Some DM250 hardware notes Making an OpenBSD installation SD card Installing...
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Plus Post: subLOGIC Flight Simulator II Put yourself in the pilot's seat of a Piper 181 Cherokee Archer for an awe-inspiring flight over...
3rd Apr 2026
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Plus Post: subLOGIC Flight Simulator II

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

3rd Apr 2026
Put yourself in the pilot's seat of a Piper 181 Cherokee Archer for an awe-inspiring flight over realistic scenery...
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Stop Calling it a Wallet How language shapes our view of the world
23rd May 2022
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Stop Calling it a Wallet

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

23rd May 2022
How language shapes our view of the world
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February 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter links on AI scaling, semaglutide, and ethicist ethics
13th Mar 2021
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February 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter

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

13th Mar 2021
links on AI scaling, semaglutide, and ethicist ethics
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Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D, 2nd Edition The second edition of the Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D is out.
6th Dec 2018
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Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D, 2nd Edition

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

6th Dec 2018
The second edition of the Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D is out.
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How to Remove Virtual Desktop’s Leftover macOS Audio Devices Uninstalling Virtual Desktop Streamer can leave Virtual Desktop Mic and Virtual Desktop Speakers...
1st Sep 2026
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How to Remove Virtual Desktop’s Leftover macOS Audio Devices

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

1st Sep 2026
Uninstalling Virtual Desktop Streamer can leave Virtual Desktop Mic and Virtual Desktop Speakers behind in macOS Sound settings. Copy-paste this prompt to your AI agent Prompt: Remove the leftover Virtual Desktop Streamer audio components from my Mac. Move these exact items to...
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Choosing an op-amp for your project Just say no to LM741.
3rd Jan 2025
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Choosing an op-amp for your project

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

3rd Jan 2025
Just say no to LM741.
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2026-01-28 As I start teaching the kids programming, I’ve been thinking about how to motivate it to them. They...
29th Jan 2026
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2026-01-28

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

29th Jan 2026
As I start teaching the kids programming, I’ve been thinking about how to motivate it to them. They do a lot of drawing, so that seemed like a potential hook to show how drawing on the computer may make some things easier (erasing, manipulating, repeating) and other things harder...
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Multiple input MACs When working with Message Authentication Codes (MACs), you often need to authenticate not just a...
27th Oct 2021
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Multiple input MACs

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

27th Oct 2021
When working with Message Authentication Codes (MACs), you often need to authenticate not just a single string, but multiple fields of data. For example, when creating an authenticated encryption mode by composing a cipher and a MAC (like AES-CBC and HMAC), you need to ensure the...
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From KEMs to protocols This is the third part of my series on Key Encapsulation Mechanisms (KEMs) and why you should care...
8th Apr 2021
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From KEMs to protocols

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

8th Apr 2021
This is the third part of my series on Key Encapsulation Mechanisms (KEMs) and why you should care about them. Part 1 looked at what a KEM is and the KEM/DEM paradigm for constructing public key encryption schemes. Part 2 looked at cases where the basic KEM abstraction is not...
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Hamilton I was not a Hamilton hater exactly (I, like many other snoots, didn’t hate Hamilton so much as I...
28th Oct 2019
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Hamilton

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

28th Oct 2019
I was not a Hamilton hater exactly (I, like many other snoots, didn’t hate Hamilton so much as I hated the people who, for a brief but painful time, were really, really into Hamilton) but I certainly was not a huge fan until Haley roped me into listening to the soundtrack. I...
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An Apple district manager's Macintosh Portable in 1989-91 (featuring GEIS AppleLink and a look at... a late prototype Macintosh Portable. But it turns out it's not merely notable for what it is than...
3rd Mar 2024
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An Apple district manager's Macintosh Portable in 1989-91 (featuring GEIS AppleLink and a look at System 7.0 alpha)

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

3rd Mar 2024
a late prototype Macintosh Portable. But it turns out it's not merely notable for what it is than what it has on it: a beta version of System 6.0.6 (the doomed release that Apple pulled due to bugs), Apple sales databases, two online services — the maligned Mac Prodigy client,...
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Conkeror I’ve recently switched to Conkeror as my primary browser. It started life as a Firefox extension,...
13th Mar 2008
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Conkeror

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

13th Mar 2008
I’ve recently switched to Conkeror as my primary browser. It started life as a Firefox extension, but nowadays it’s a standalone app built on top of Mozilla’s xulrunner, so it uses the Gecko rendering engine. What it is, is an emacs implemented in Javascript, for the web. This...
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Solving the NYTimes Pips puzzle with a constraint solver pre { background: #f4f4f4; border: 1px solid #ddd; border-left: 3px solid #a03; ...
18th Oct 2025
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Solving the NYTimes Pips puzzle with a constraint solver

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

18th Oct 2025
pre { background: #f4f4f4; border: 1px solid #ddd; border-left: 3px solid #a03; border-radius: 2px; color: #666; display: block; font-family: monospace; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 1.6em; max-width: 60em; overflow: auto; padding: 1em 1.5em; ...
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IKEA $50 VINDSTYRKA vs. $290 Dylos air quality monitor This is a brief article in which I compare the IKEA VINDSTYRKA $50 air quality monitor (PM2.5) with...
17th Sep 2023
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IKEA $50 VINDSTYRKA vs. $290 Dylos air quality monitor

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

17th Sep 2023
This is a brief article in which I compare the IKEA VINDSTYRKA $50 air quality monitor (PM2.5) with a $290 air quality monitor made by Dylos to see if it's any good. Context If you care about indoor air quality, you may already own a CO2 to determine if it's time to ventilate...
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Wearing WHOOP 4.0 Use WHOOP to see the impact your choices have on your body, think of it as a special kind of mirror...
13th Jan 2022
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Wearing WHOOP 4.0

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

13th Jan 2022
Use WHOOP to see the impact your choices have on your body, think of it as a special kind of mirror - it's so powerful, that I don't take mine off!
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Parametric half-circle For my torchlensmaker project, I need to represent lenses surface shapes parameterically. That is, I...
20th Dec 2024
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Parametric half-circle

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

20th Dec 2024
For my torchlensmaker project, I need to represent lenses surface shapes parameterically. That is, I need equations that give the X and Y coordinates of the surface, as a function of a parameter, usually called t. The project supports different parametric shapes, but a very...
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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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Running cheap and crappy USB hard drives in RAID0 is indeed a very terrible idea Some of my dumb experiments result in interesting findings and unexpected successes. Some end up...
14th Jan 2026
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Running cheap and crappy USB hard drives in RAID0 is indeed a very terrible idea

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

14th Jan 2026
Some of my dumb experiments result in interesting findings and unexpected successes. Some end up with very predictable failures. What happens when you have two crappy USB hard drives running btrfs1 in raid0 mode? Nothing, until something goes wrong on one of the drives. Here’s...
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Bose SoundLink on-ear headphones battery replacement Skip to the bottom two paragraph for instructions on how to replace the battery. I bought my Bose...
25th Feb 2025
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Bose SoundLink on-ear headphones battery replacement

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

25th Feb 2025
Skip to the bottom two paragraph for instructions on how to replace the battery. I bought my Bose SoundLink on-ear Bluetooth headphones for 250 Euros around 2017 and I really like them. They are small, light, comfortable and can easily fit in a coat pocket when folded. Up until...
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In-person meatspace protocol to prove unconditional possession of a private key
1st Oct 2019
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In-person meatspace protocol to prove unconditional possession of a private key

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

1st Oct 2019
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SystemSix SystemSix is a desk calendar project that displays the weather forecast and phase of the moon on an...
15th Mar 2022
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SystemSix

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

15th Mar 2022
SystemSix is a desk calendar project that displays the weather forecast and phase of the moon on an e-ink display.
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Creating a basic ZFS file system on Linux Here are some notes on creating a basic ZFS file system on Linux, using ZFS on Linux. I'm...
1st Feb 2014
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Creating a basic ZFS file system on Linux

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

1st Feb 2014
Here are some notes on creating a basic ZFS file system on Linux, using ZFS on Linux. I'm documenting the scenario where I just want to create a file system that can tollerate at least a single drive failure and can be shared over NFS. Identify the drives you want to use for the...
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Writing a simple JSON parser Writing a JSON parser is one of the easiest ways to get familiar with parsing techniques. The format...
6th May 2018
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Writing a simple JSON parser

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

6th May 2018
Writing a JSON parser is one of the easiest ways to get familiar with parsing techniques. The format is extremely simple. It's defined recursively so you get a slight challenge compared to, say, parsing Brainfuck; and you probably already use JSON. Aside from that last point,...
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Benchmarking a 1.44 MB floppy drive I've used fio - a storage benchmarking tool - to benchmark a 1.44 MB floppy drive to gauge its...
16th Dec 2019
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Benchmarking a 1.44 MB floppy drive

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

16th Dec 2019
I've used fio - a storage benchmarking tool - to benchmark a 1.44 MB floppy drive to gauge its random I/O performance. I have no real reason for doing this. I just thought it was funny. I've run a benchmark against the floppy drives for different queue depths. The results are...
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Having a safe CEX: proof of solvency and beyond
19th Nov 2022
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Having a safe CEX: proof of solvency and beyond

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

19th Nov 2022
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Hilariously Fast Volume Computation with the Divergence Theorem (No, there won’t be jokes.) The following presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of a...
16th Feb 2018
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Hilariously Fast Volume Computation with the Divergence Theorem

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

16th Feb 2018
(No, there won’t be jokes.) The following presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of a simple, closed, triangulated 3D mesh. This assumption is a consequence of the divergence theorem. Further extensions may generalise to other meshes as well, although that is presently...
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Album Search in Album Whale Did you know that we, Good Enough, make a little website called Album Whale where you can make...
24th Mar 2026
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Album Search in Album Whale

from Good Enough [alt+shift+b] in technology

24th Mar 2026
Did you know that we, Good Enough, make a little website called Album Whale where you can make beautiful lists of albums to share with your friends, the world, or just yourself? It’s true! We haven’t made an update there in quite some time (it’s pretty good enough as-is), but I...
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Why Nextcloud feels slow to use Nextcloud. I really want to like it, but it’s making it really difficult. I like what Nextcloud...
3rd Nov 2025
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Why Nextcloud feels slow to use

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

3rd Nov 2025
Nextcloud. I really want to like it, but it’s making it really difficult. I like what Nextcloud offers with its feature set and how easily it replaces a bunch of services under one roof (files, calendar, contacts, notes, to-do lists, photos etc.), but no matter how hard I try and...
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Don't overload Ethereum's consensus
21st May 2023
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Don't overload Ethereum's consensus

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

21st May 2023
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So I saw this headline reading it was, "Is he Deommodore 64?" (No, unfortunately, Deommodore Lenoir's jersey number is 2,...
29th Jul 2025
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So I saw this headline

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

29th Jul 2025
reading it was, "Is he Deommodore 64?" (No, unfortunately, Deommodore Lenoir's jersey number is 2, and I'm not even a 49ers fan.)
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JSON and PowerShell Working with Object-based arrays in PowerShell can be a challenge; but here's a trick that will...
11th May 2020
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JSON and PowerShell

from Opsbros [alt+shift+b] in technology

11th May 2020
Working with Object-based arrays in PowerShell can be a challenge; but here's a trick that will allow you to manipulate these objects efficiently.
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Game Engine Black Book: DOOM, Korean Edition
5th Apr 2021
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Game Engine Black Book: DOOM, Korean Edition

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

5th Apr 2021
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Anxious People The friend who suggested this book for book club prefaced it with "I like this author because...
4th Nov 2020
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Anxious People

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Nov 2020
The friend who suggested this book for book club prefaced it with "I like this author because nothing is left to subtext", and that certainly is true! If you are ever looking for a book in which the author tells you exactly what everything means and what everyone is thinking and...
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[Mirror] Exploring Elliptic Curve Pairings
14th Jan 2017
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[Mirror] Exploring Elliptic Curve Pairings

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

14th Jan 2017
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Fatherhood Read essay: Fatherhood
10th May 2025
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Fatherhood

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

10th May 2025
Read essay: Fatherhood
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收入-邪恶曲线：思考“公共物品融资优先”的另一种方式
28th Oct 2022
21

收入-邪恶曲线：思考“公共物品融资优先”的另一种方式

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

28th Oct 2022
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Humanities Crash Course Week 40: Good & Evil Week 40 of the humanities crash course had me pondering deep philosophical questions. I read...
5th Oct 2025
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Humanities Crash Course Week 40: Good & Evil

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

5th Oct 2025
Week 40 of the humanities crash course had me pondering deep philosophical questions. I read Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilych. and Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil. Both books were published in 1886 — and that’s not the only thing they have in common (despite also having many...
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How to use a Phase One H20 digital back on a medium format Hasselblad V camera (500EL/M) My newest purchase was a bit of a gamble. I bought a $500 Phase One H20 digital back for my...
1st Jan 2021
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How to use a Phase One H20 digital back on a medium format Hasselblad V camera (500EL/M)

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

1st Jan 2021
My newest purchase was a bit of a gamble. I bought a $500 Phase One H20 digital back for my Hasselblad 500EL/M medium format camera. Or, simply put, I bought an expensive old gadget for my even older analog camera, making it a digital camera. A gadget that was released in the...
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Anxious People The friend who suggested this book for book club prefaced it with "I like this author because...
4th Nov 2020
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Anxious People

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

4th Nov 2020
The friend who suggested this book for book club prefaced it with "I like this author because nothing is left to subtext", and that certainly is true! If you are ever looking for a book in which the author tells you exactly what everything means and what everyone is thinking and...
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Refurb weekend II: Alpha Micro Eagle 300 and friends This Refurb Weekend is a sequel in two ways. Six years ago I fixed the power supply and case fan in...
2 weeks ago
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Refurb weekend II: Alpha Micro Eagle 300 and friends

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

2 weeks ago
This Refurb Weekend is a sequel in two ways. Six years ago I fixed the power supply and case fan in my 68EC030-based Alpha Microsystems Eagle 300, a more modernized and substantially faster Alpha Micro running AMOS, their unique DEC-inspired multiuser operating system. These...
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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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HP Proliant Microserver Gen10 as router or NAS Introduction In the summer of 2017, HP released the Proliant Microserver Gen10. This machine...
14th Sep 2017
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HP Proliant Microserver Gen10 as router or NAS

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

14th Sep 2017
Introduction In the summer of 2017, HP released the Proliant Microserver Gen10. This machine replaces the older Gen8 model. For hobbyists, the Microserver always has been an interesting device for a custom home NAS build or as a router. Let's find out if this is still the case....
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Fixing LCD Screen Corruption of a Tektronix TDS220 Oscilloscope Introduction The TDS220 Oscilloscope Opening Up the TDS220 Common TDS220 issues Replacing the power...
3rd Nov 2025
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Fixing LCD Screen Corruption of a Tektronix TDS220 Oscilloscope

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

3rd Nov 2025
Introduction The TDS220 Oscilloscope Opening Up the TDS220 Common TDS220 issues Replacing the power supply capacitors LCD Panel Corruption Extracting the LCD Panel LCD Panel Capacitor Replacement LCD Panel Backlight Replacement Fixing the Square Wave...
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Final Fantasy The game certainly shows its age, I can tell you that much. (I played Dawn of Souls, which was the...
28th Dec 2007
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Final Fantasy

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

28th Dec 2007
The game certainly shows its age, I can tell you that much. (I played Dawn of Souls, which was the slightly easier remake, and even then it was a bit of a slog.) It’s short, though, and it’s I think worth playing for its place in the canon.
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Poor Person Software's Write-Hand Man "Almost a sidekick for CP/M"
1st Dec 2025
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Poor Person Software's Write-Hand Man

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

1st Dec 2025
"Almost a sidekick for CP/M"
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It's hard to write code for computers, but it's even harder to write code for humans Writing code for a computer is hard enough. You take something big and fuzzy, some large vague...
27th Sep 2024
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It's hard to write code for computers, but it's even harder to write code for humans

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

27th Sep 2024
Writing code for a computer is hard enough. You take something big and fuzzy, some large vague business outcome you want to achive. Then you break it down recursively and think about all the cases until you have clear logical statements a computer can follow.
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Revisiting the Businesscard Raytracer
1st May 2020
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Revisiting the Businesscard Raytracer

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

1st May 2020
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Deploying apps in Coolify, part 1
1st Oct 2025
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Deploying apps in Coolify, part 1

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1st Oct 2025
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Durable Smartphone
4th Mar 2025
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Durable Smartphone

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

4th Mar 2025
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Who's Threatening Who? The Trump administration says immigration enforcement are being assaulted; the details tell a...
4th Nov 2025
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Who's Threatening Who?

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4th Nov 2025
The Trump administration says immigration enforcement are being assaulted; the details tell a different story
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This Arduino failsafe protects an amazing backyard observatory Nothing quite compares to the feeling of looking up at the cosmos on a dark night, and even an...
3rd Jun 2025
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This Arduino failsafe protects an amazing backyard observatory

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

3rd Jun 2025
Nothing quite compares to the feeling of looking up at the cosmos on a dark night, and even an affordable telescope can enhance that experience. But if you’re willing to spend the time and money, you can take things much further. That’s what Redditor CosmicRuin did when they...
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Good Vibrations
17th Jun 2023
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Good Vibrations

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

17th Jun 2023
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A couple of git nits A small rant on git papercuts, and why they are like that.
16th Mar 2026
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A couple of git nits

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

16th Mar 2026
A small rant on git papercuts, and why they are like that.
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A quick visit to Vaajasalo island Vaajasalo is a small island in lake Kallavesi in eastern Finland with population less than hundred....
25th Aug 2023
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A quick visit to Vaajasalo island

from OH8HUB’s Substack [alt+shift+b] in technology

25th Aug 2023
Vaajasalo is a small island in lake Kallavesi in eastern Finland with population less than hundred. There’s also a winery called Alahovi Berry Wine Farm. They produce berry wines, cider, beer and liqueur. The temptation to visit them was huge, but I was on tight schedule. Maybe...
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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
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Ori and the Blind Forest

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

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...
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Introducing Pebble - Hackable E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android Our first Kickstarter launch! Check out the Hacker News thread for some lively discussion
11th Apr 2012
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Introducing Pebble - Hackable E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android

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

11th Apr 2012
Our first Kickstarter launch! Check out the Hacker News thread for some lively discussion
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Postmortem: Jonas IceCream Stand Ah my latest game Jonas IceCream Stand is finished and up and running and I’m really proud of it!...
1st Dec 2009
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Postmortem: Jonas IceCream Stand

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

1st Dec 2009
Ah my latest game Jonas IceCream Stand is finished and up and running and I’m really proud of it! And thanks for the feedback guys, it’s always welcome. I spent almost exactly fifty hours on this game and that’s by far the most I’ve spent on a 7day project. To be honest it’s...
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Two weeks of parenthood We've had lucy for two weeks, which qualifies us as experts, which means it is time to write about...
6th Oct 2024
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Two weeks of parenthood

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6th Oct 2024
We've had lucy for two weeks, which qualifies us as experts, which means it is time to write about parenthood. (In all seriousness, consider the below descriptive and not prescriptive: mostly, it's a notepad filled with things that were remarkable or surprising or divergent from...
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Baduizm Very relaxing and pleasant and simple and great. Nothing revelatory but I see myself coming back to...
1st Sep 2021
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Baduizm

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1st Sep 2021
Very relaxing and pleasant and simple and great. Nothing revelatory but I see myself coming back to this over and over (and finally understand the Badu hype.)
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FFmpeg performance on a Core i7 920 @ 3.6 Ghz The system i'm running is a Core i7 920 @ 3.6 Ghz. I am transcoding a DVD (Grave Of The Fire Flies)...
22nd Apr 2009
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FFmpeg performance on a Core i7 920 @ 3.6 Ghz

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

22nd Apr 2009
The system i'm running is a Core i7 920 @ 3.6 Ghz. I am transcoding a DVD (Grave Of The Fire Flies) to iPod format (640x480 x264). Thread support is enabled, to FFmpeg uses about 250% CPU. That's 2.5 of the 4 cores available. If possible, I would have liked to see it use all four...
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Iterate or die Here's a conclusion I've made building consumer products for many years: the speed at which a...
2nd Mar 2016
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Iterate or die

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

2nd Mar 2016
Here's a conclusion I've made building consumer products for many years: the speed at which a company innovates is limited by its iteration speed. I don't even mean throughput here. I just mean the cycle time.
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Have you tried a text box? Maybe all we need to do is write stuff down.
2nd Jan 2026
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Have you tried a text box?

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2nd Jan 2026
Maybe all we need to do is write stuff down.
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Why conversion matters: a toy model There are often close relationships between top level business metrics. For instance, it's well...
30th Oct 2017
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Why conversion matters: a toy model

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

30th Oct 2017
There are often close relationships between top level business metrics. For instance, it's well known that retention has a super strong impact on the valuation of a subscription business. Or that the % of occupied seats is super important for an airline.
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Snakebite Just promoting Spotify stuff here: check out the Snakebite repo on Github, written by Wouter de Bie....
7th May 2013
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Snakebite

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

7th May 2013
Just promoting Spotify stuff here: check out the Snakebite repo on Github, written by Wouter de Bie. It's a super fast tool to access HDFS over CLI/Python, by accessing the namenode directly over sockets/protobuf. Spotify's developer blog features a nice blog post outlining what...
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Commuting by bike For a few years now, I commute to work using a bicycle. I have lost more than 15KG since I stopped...
1st Dec 2017
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Commuting by bike

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

1st Dec 2017
For a few years now, I commute to work using a bicycle. I have lost more than 15KG since I stopped using my scooter. This week I tested a VanMoof Electrified S, an electric bike with an industrial, minimal design. Is it any good? How does it compare to a normal bike? Will an...
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Buying a new computer *** Desktop or Laptop *** When deciding on which computer to buy, the first decision you have to...
3rd Apr 2011
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Buying a new computer

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

3rd Apr 2011
*** Desktop or Laptop *** When deciding on which computer to buy, the first decision you have to make is about whether to go for a desktop or a laptop. There was a time that many believed that the desktop would become a niche product. Most people want a laptop because they can...
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Humanities Crash Course Week 44: Modernist Art Week 44 of the humanities crash course had me delving into three modernist classics by two Irish...
2nd Nov 2025
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Humanities Crash Course Week 44: Modernist Art

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

2nd Nov 2025
Week 44 of the humanities crash course had me delving into three modernist classics by two Irish authors: Samuel Beckett’s absurdist play Waiting for Godot and selections from James Joyce’s Dubliners and Ulysses. I’d long been intimidated by the latter, but enjoyed the first...
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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
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BlueSCSI Wi-Fi Desk Accessory 1.1 Released

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

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...
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Threads “You’re an interesting species. An interesting mix. You’re capable of such beautiful dreams, and...
14th Oct 2018
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Threads

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14th Oct 2018
“You’re an interesting species. An interesting mix. You’re capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost…
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2023-01-16 huff-duff We've talked a fair amount about HF radio recently, in the context of OTH radar. Recall that an...
16th Jan 2023
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2023-01-16 huff-duff

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16th Jan 2023
We've talked a fair amount about HF radio recently, in the context of OTH radar. Recall that an extremely useful property of HF radio here is that HF frequencies can reflect off of the upper layers of the atmosphere, causing them to rebound towards earth at a range much further...
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Visual representation of hard drives and their temperature If you build a NAS with many drives, it may be of interest to you which drives get hot and where...
12th Sep 2009
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Visual representation of hard drives and their temperature

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

12th Sep 2009
If you build a NAS with many drives, it may be of interest to you which drives get hot and where they are located in the chassis. My Norco 4020 case has twenty drives in RAID 6, plus two operating system drives in RAID 1. I wrote a script that shows me the temperature of each...
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Why I'm back to Whoop (for now) I recently started to subscribe to Whoop again after I canceled it around a year ago. I was partly...
2nd Jun 2025
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Why I'm back to Whoop (for now)

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

2nd Jun 2025
I recently started to subscribe to Whoop again after I canceled it around a year ago. I was partly dissatisfied with my Garmin watch as a fitness and health tracker and I also wanted a new tech device to tinker with. The plan was to write a short post about what I like and don’t...
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Winter at the Beach A couple more pictures from the Nikon FM with Nikkor 50mm f/1.4This time using Ilford Delta 100...
11th May 2025
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Winter at the Beach

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in technology

11th May 2025
A couple more pictures from the Nikon FM with Nikkor 50mm f/1.4This time using Ilford Delta 100 film, developed in Ilfosol 3 for 5 minutes at 20°CFairly rare for snow in Vancouver to stick around very long. Trees really are the lungs of the earth. The negative I developed looked...
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the video lunchbox An opening note: would you believe that I have been at this for five years, now? If I planned ahead...
13th Sep 2025
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the video lunchbox

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13th Sep 2025
An opening note: would you believe that I have been at this for five years, now? If I planned ahead better, I would have done this on the five-year anniversary, but I missed it. Computers Are Bad is now five years and four months old. When I originally launched CAB, it was my...
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The half-life of code & the ship of Theseus As a project evolves, does the new code just add on top of the old code? Or does it replace the old...
5th Dec 2016
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The half-life of code & the ship of Theseus

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

5th Dec 2016
As a project evolves, does the new code just add on top of the old code? Or does it replace the old code slowly over time? In order to understand this, I built a little thing to analyze Git projects, with help from the formidable GitPython project.
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Endnotes on 2020: Crypto and Beyond
28th Dec 2020
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Endnotes on 2020: Crypto and Beyond

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

28th Dec 2020
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Turbine Transport Transformer [Concept] Transforming turbine transport
19th Jun 2025
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Turbine Transport Transformer

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

19th Jun 2025
[Concept] Transforming turbine transport
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2025-01-05 pairs not taken So we all know about twisted-pair ethernet, huh? I get a little frustrated with a lot of histories...
5th Jan 2025
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2025-01-05 pairs not taken

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

5th Jan 2025
So we all know about twisted-pair ethernet, huh? I get a little frustrated with a lot of histories of the topic, like the recent neil breen^w^wserial port video, because they often fail to address some obvious questions about the origin of twisted-pair network cabling. Well, I...
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Disking Banana Go Bananas
1st Aug 2025
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Disking Banana

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

1st Aug 2025
Go Bananas
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Thinking about functional programming Someone on Discord asked about how to learn functional programming. The question and my initial...
15th Aug 2023
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Thinking about functional programming

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

15th Aug 2023
Someone on Discord asked about how to learn functional programming. The question and my initial tweet on the subject prompted an interesting discussion with Shriram Krishnamurthi and other folks. So here's a slightly more thought out exploration. And just for backstory sake: I...
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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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Six months with MCADD Tomorrow it's six months since our son was born, a good moment to reflect upon the experience of...
23rd Jun 2019
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Six months with MCADD

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

23rd Jun 2019
Tomorrow it's six months since our son was born, a good moment to reflect upon the experience of being a parent of a kid with MCADD. This metabolic condition demands special attention on the feeding schedule and preparation for situations when things go different. It's good to...
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HoloISO: the unofficial Steam Deck experience on your PC If you have spent any time in gaming hardware circles, then you’ve probably heard about the Steam...
1st Dec 2022
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HoloISO: the unofficial Steam Deck experience on your PC

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

1st Dec 2022
If you have spent any time in gaming hardware circles, then you’ve probably heard about the Steam Deck, the Linux-based handheld gaming PC built by Valve. Yes, you heard that right: not Windows, but Linux. I’ve had my fair share of attempts at gaming on Linux. When it works,...
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The Tandy Corporation, Part 2 Trash-80s get Colorful, and Trash-80s get into your pockets
2nd Jun 2025
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The Tandy Corporation, Part 2

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

2nd Jun 2025
Trash-80s get Colorful, and Trash-80s get into your pockets
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How Would You Design Amazon S3? One of my favorite system design questions from a few years ago and a fascinating thing I learned...
1st Oct 2024
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How Would You Design Amazon S3?

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

1st Oct 2024
One of my favorite system design questions from a few years ago and a fascinating thing I learned while answering it.
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Backdooring Your Backdoors - Another $20 Domain, More Governments After the excitement of our .MOBI research, we were left twiddling our thumbs. As you may recall, in...
8th Jan 2025
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Backdooring Your Backdoors - Another $20 Domain, More Governments

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

8th Jan 2025
After the excitement of our .MOBI research, we were left twiddling our thumbs. As you may recall, in 2024, we demonstrated the impact of an unregistered domain when we subverted the TLS/SSL CA process for verifying domain ownership to give ourselves the ability to issue valid and...
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Beeper MCP Fellow Automattician Job Thomas, down in Cape Town, South Africa, has a lovely story about using...
3 weeks ago
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Beeper MCP

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

3 weeks ago
Fellow Automattician Job Thomas, down in Cape Town, South Africa, has a lovely story about using Claude and the Beeper MCP to wrangle all the group chats for his daughter’s sports.
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Slay the Spire In lieu of more to say, I think this is the most well-designed game I've ever played. The size of a...
16th May 2019
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Slay the Spire

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

16th May 2019
In lieu of more to say, I think this is the most well-designed game I've ever played. The size of a given session is perfect for me (45-75 minutes); the difficulty curve is elegant and sloping; variety is strong. I have poured at least a hundred hours into the game and could see...
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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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Search like a pro: Google search operators Read along for a comprehensive list of advanced Google search operators that allow you to filter...
24th Apr 2019
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Search like a pro: Google search operators

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

24th Apr 2019
Read along for a comprehensive list of advanced Google search operators that allow you to filter your search results.
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Standard cells: Looking at individual gates in the Pentium processor Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, a chip to "separate the really power-hungry...
7th Jul 2024
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Standard cells: Looking at individual gates in the Pentium processor

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

7th Jul 2024
Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, a chip to "separate the really power-hungry folks from ordinary mortals." The original Pentium was followed by the Pentium Pro, the Pentium II, and others, spawning a long-running brand of high-performance processors, Intel's...
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'Syslog: the hidden security risk' People sometimes forget that there are also a number of UDP-based services that may pose a threat to...
18th Mar 2010
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'Syslog: the hidden security risk'

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

18th Mar 2010
People sometimes forget that there are also a number of UDP-based services that may pose a threat to the security of your systems. SNMP is a well-known service, notorious for being configured with a default password (or community string). But there is another service that is...
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2023-02-07 secret government telephone numbers Very nearly a year ago, I wrote a popular article about secret military telephone buttons. To be...
7th Feb 2023
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2023-02-07 secret government telephone numbers

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

7th Feb 2023
Very nearly a year ago, I wrote a popular article about secret military telephone buttons. To be clear, the "secret" here was a joke and these buttons are in fact well documented. The buttons I was talking about were the AUTOVON call precedence buttons, used for a five-level...
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The Same, Differently It's been over half a year since I moved from the city to the countryside. I regularly travel...
22nd Aug 2023
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The Same, Differently

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

22nd Aug 2023
It's been over half a year since I moved from the city to the countryside. I regularly travel between these locations for work and leisure. Being a cycling enthusiast, I keep a bike at both places, and this has led me to discover a funny thing. Last November, I relocated to the...
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Oversimplified ideas of the great philosophers of all times Ideas of the great philosophers of all times explained in a few lines
23rd Mar 2023
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Oversimplified ideas of the great philosophers of all times

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

23rd Mar 2023
Ideas of the great philosophers of all times explained in a few lines
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Servicing a robot vacuum cleaner Back in 2011 I got myself an iRobot Roomba 555 robot vacuum cleaner to automatically clean my...
19th Mar 2019
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Servicing a robot vacuum cleaner

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

19th Mar 2019
Back in 2011 I got myself an iRobot Roomba 555 robot vacuum cleaner to automatically clean my apartment. It's a little circle shaped robot that drives around sucking up dust bunnies. Over the years it has bravely fought the dangers of my apartment... shoes, cables, carpet and...
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IBM QRadar - When The Attacker Controls Your Security Stack (CVE-2022-26377) Welcome to April 2024. A depressing year so far - we've seen critical vulnerabilities across a wide...
12th Apr 2024
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IBM QRadar - When The Attacker Controls Your Security Stack (CVE-2022-26377)

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

12th Apr 2024
Welcome to April 2024. A depressing year so far - we've seen critical vulnerabilities across a wide range of enterprise software stacks. In addition, we've seen surreptitious and patient threat actors light our industry on fire with slowly introduced backdoors in the XZ...
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Shop vac becomes a Roomba on steroids A robotic vacuum, such as a Roomba, offers a lot of convenience. Instead of having to vacuum and...
29th Apr 2024
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Shop vac becomes a Roomba on steroids

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

29th Apr 2024
A robotic vacuum, such as a Roomba, offers a lot of convenience. Instead of having to vacuum and sweep your own floors, you have a little maid robot to do the job for you. But these devices have very little power and capacity, which makes them useless for anything other than...
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Smoking coolermaster Silent Pro M 600W TN6M50 So I was just messing around on my work station, when suddenly I smelled the smell any person...
9th Feb 2010
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Smoking coolermaster Silent Pro M 600W TN6M50

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

9th Feb 2010
So I was just messing around on my work station, when suddenly I smelled the smell any person familiar with electronics fears. The smell of some electrical component burning. The whole upper floor smelled like something was smoldering. So I shut down both my storage servers....
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Across the Spiderverse It is very gratifying for me to see all the praise for this movie, some of it feeling overdue from...
7th Jun 2023
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Across the Spiderverse

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

7th Jun 2023
It is very gratifying for me to see all the praise for this movie, some of it feeling overdue from the somehow-underappreciated Into the Spiderverse. And, to be sure, the praise is earned: this is "what if the first movie, but more" in the best way possible. I thought the former,...
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I broke and fixed my Ghost blog In case you find this post after hours of google searching
16th Oct 2025
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I broke and fixed my Ghost blog

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

16th Oct 2025
In case you find this post after hours of google searching
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Ann Arbor Software's Textra Word Processing The shortest distance between your thoughts and the printed word.
2nd Jul 2025
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Ann Arbor Software's Textra Word Processing

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

2nd Jul 2025
The shortest distance between your thoughts and the printed word.
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Instruction decoding in the Intel 8087 floating-point chip pre {border:none;} In the 1980s, if you wanted your IBM PC to run faster, you could buy the Intel...
14th Feb 2026
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Instruction decoding in the Intel 8087 floating-point chip

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

14th Feb 2026
pre {border:none;} In the 1980s, if you wanted your IBM PC to run faster, you could buy the Intel 8087 floating-point coprocessor chip. With this chip, CAD software, spreadsheets, flight simulators, and other programs were much speedier. The 8087 chip could add, subtract,...
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This Stream Deck alternative runs on an Arduino UNO Q If you do a lot of creative work, you’ve probably found that your computer’s keyboard and mouse...
1st Feb 2026
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This Stream Deck alternative runs on an Arduino UNO Q

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

1st Feb 2026
If you do a lot of creative work, you’ve probably found that your computer’s keyboard and mouse alone just don’t cut it. There are simply too many different shortcuts and macros to cover with memorable key combos. That’s why BlommeJan used an Arduino UNO Q to build the Starkpad....
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Where to use a blockchain in non-financial applications?
12th Jun 2022
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Where to use a blockchain in non-financial applications?

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

12th Jun 2022
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Thoughts On Kubernetes I spent a while the last week porting livegrep.com from running directly AWS to running on...
19th Feb 2017
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Thoughts On Kubernetes

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

19th Feb 2017
I spent a while the last week porting livegrep.com from running directly AWS to running on Kubernetes on Google’s Cloud Platform (specifically, the google container engine, which provisions and manages the cluster for me). I left this experience profoundly enthusiastic about the...
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How I made a kick-ass cover for my self-published book If you want to publish a book, one of the most important things to consider is the cover—after all,...
10th May 2021
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How I made a kick-ass cover for my self-published book

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

10th May 2021
If you want to publish a book, one of the most important things to consider is the cover—after all, we judge the book by the cover. And I did it the universally recommended way: I hired a designer. Simple, right? But real talk; it’s not exactly that simple and I did a bunch of...
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Arduino partners with RS/OKdo strategically to further expand the China Market Arduino is excited to announce a strategic new partnership with RS/OKdo, a prominent leader in the...
4th Nov 2024
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Arduino partners with RS/OKdo strategically to further expand the China Market

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

4th Nov 2024
Arduino is excited to announce a strategic new partnership with RS/OKdo, a prominent leader in the distribution of industrial and electronic equipment. This collaboration marks a significant step forward in bringing Arduino’s technology closer to China’s thriving maker community...
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Looking for smart people I haven't mentioned what I'm currently up to. Earlier this year I left Spotify to join a small...
4th Nov 2015
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Looking for smart people

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

4th Nov 2015
I haven't mentioned what I'm currently up to. Earlier this year I left Spotify to join a small startup called Better. We're going after one of the biggest industries in the world that also turns out to be completely broken.
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Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools Code forces humans to be precise. That’s good. Computers need precision. But it also forces humans...
3rd Feb 2025
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Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools

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

3rd Feb 2025
Code forces humans to be precise. That’s good. Computers need precision. But it also forces humans to think like machines. For decades we tried to fix this by making programming more human-friendly. Higher-level languages. Visual interfaces. Each step helped, but we were still...
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Everyone knows your location, Part 2: try it yourself and share the results Learn how to record and analyse your mobile device traffic, take an app from the list of "shady"...
17th Apr 2025
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Everyone knows your location, Part 2: try it yourself and share the results

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

17th Apr 2025
Learn how to record and analyse your mobile device traffic, take an app from the list of "shady" apps and share the results.
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Fighting backscatter spam at server level This month I had to deal with backscatter spam, affecting one of the mail servers I manage. As...
9th Sep 2019
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Fighting backscatter spam at server level

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

9th Sep 2019
This month I had to deal with backscatter spam, affecting one of the mail servers I manage. As server engineer I make sure that servers don't send spam and that incoming email gets filtered. Despite all good efforts, this server kept being blacklisted for sending spam to iCloud,...
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On AI In 2019, I started watching Andreas Kling's programming videos, many of which were live-coding...
23rd Jul 2026
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On AI

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

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...
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2025-03-01 the cold glow of tritium I have been slowly working on a book. Don't get too excited, it is on a very niche topic and I will...
1st Mar 2025
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2025-03-01 the cold glow of tritium

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

1st Mar 2025
I have been slowly working on a book. Don't get too excited, it is on a very niche topic and I will probably eventually barely finish it and then post it here. But in the mean time, I will recount some stories which are related, but don't quite fit in. Today, we'll learn a bit...
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You can now use Wi-Fi® and Bluetooth® LE simultaneously on Arduino NINA-based boards! Here’s how If you like IoT, you’ll love this update! Starting today, if you own a board powered by the...
2nd Mar 2026
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You can now use Wi-Fi® and Bluetooth® LE simultaneously on Arduino NINA-based boards! Here’s how

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

2nd Mar 2026
If you like IoT, you’ll love this update! Starting today, if you own a board powered by the NINA-W102 module – like the Arduino® MKR™ WiFi 1010, Arduino® Nano™ RP2040 Connect, or Nano 33 IoT – you can now use Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Low Energy (Bluetooth LE) at the same time, in the...
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Maxell's MF 2-DD Floppies The Gold Standard
1st Dec 2024
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Maxell's MF 2-DD Floppies

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

1st Dec 2024
The Gold Standard
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What I have been working on: Modal Long story short: I'm working on a super cool tool called Modal. Please check it out — it lets you...
7th Dec 2022
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What I have been working on: Modal

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

7th Dec 2022
Long story short: I'm working on a super cool tool called Modal. Please check it out — it lets you run things in the cloud without having to think about infrastructure. Scaling out, scheduling, containerization, using GPUs, setting up webhooks, and all kinds of other stuff.
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The New Economic Reality: It's Still Your Money at the Bank Whether you're an economist or not, a financial professional or not, it's still your money that's...
1st Jun 2025
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The New Economic Reality: It's Still Your Money at the Bank

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

1st Jun 2025
Whether you're an economist or not, a financial professional or not, it's still your money that's being affected. Like many people, I've avoided looking at my 401k these past few weeks. Well, I peeked, and it's all in the red. There are so many interpretations of what's going on....
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The antimeme is the message of the medium The antimeme of the antimeme no longer exists.
1st Aug 2025
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The antimeme is the message of the medium

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

1st Aug 2025
The antimeme of the antimeme no longer exists.
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My favorite software subreddits Originally published on December 5, 2021. If you are an experienced software developer whose only...
16th May 2023
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My favorite software subreddits

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

16th May 2023
Originally published on December 5, 2021. If you are an experienced software developer whose only exposure to reddit is dank memes, proggit or even language-specific subreddits like /r/python, you're missing out. What follows are my favorite subreddits in tech. My criteria is...
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Data architecture vs backend architecture A modern tech stack typically involves at least a frontend and backend but relatively quickly also...
10th Jan 2019
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Data architecture vs backend architecture

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

10th Jan 2019
A modern tech stack typically involves at least a frontend and backend but relatively quickly also grows to include a data platform. This typically grows out of the need for ad-hoc analysis and reporting but possibly evolves into a whole oil refinery of cronjobs, dashboards, bulk...
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RSS in Next 14 We finished Buttondown’s migration from MDX to Markdoc last week. It went swimmingly, except for one...
1st Sep 2024
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RSS in Next 14

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

1st Sep 2024
We finished Buttondown’s migration from MDX to Markdoc last week. It went swimmingly, except for one little hitch: our RSS feeds, which sat on top of getServerSideProps and read in the flat .mdoc files, threw 500s in Vercel. (They worked fine locally and in CI, but then those...
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On Building Git for Lawyers Over this past weekend, Twitter discovered the problem that I have dedicated the past four years of...
14th Nov 2024
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On Building Git for Lawyers

from Jordan’s Substack [alt+shift+b] in technology

14th Nov 2024
Over this past weekend, Twitter discovered the problem that I have dedicated the past four years of my life to solving. Why don't lawyers and other non-coders use git?
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February, 2026 Last month's Wednesday update, I recorded from a train headed to Middelburg. This month I write...
1st Mar 2026
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February, 2026

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

1st Mar 2026
Last month's Wednesday update, I recorded from a train headed to Middelburg. This month I write closer to home temporally and otherwise. I am en route to the office on a very early Friday morning. We are still eight days from being able to return home with a new set of floors and...
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Year in review: 2022 Every new year I reflect on the previous year and set new goals. I'm focusing primarily on my...
11th Jan 2023
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Year in review: 2022

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

11th Jan 2023
Every new year I reflect on the previous year and set new goals. I'm focusing primarily on my YouTube channel and newsletter, but there are personal reflections in here as well. Last year was an off year for me, and I'm gearing up to make up for lost time in 2023.
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Setting up your /now page with an RSS feed I have a /now page, which I use to tell people what I’m up to these days. I like the concept of “now...
2nd Nov 2024
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Setting up your /now page with an RSS feed

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

2nd Nov 2024
I have a /now page, which I use to tell people what I’m up to these days. I like the concept of “now pages” but I felt like it would be better if it had an RSS feed. The feed would give interested parties a way to subscribe to life changes. The problem is that RSS feeds aren’t...
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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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I quit my startup because of comic sans Okay, it wasn’t really caused by the Comic Sans. I had very fun 3 months of pretty fun collaboration...
14th Jul 2023
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I quit my startup because of comic sans

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

14th Jul 2023
Okay, it wasn’t really caused by the Comic Sans. I had very fun 3 months of pretty fun collaboration and intense learning, but in the end I had this very clear feeling that I would be better of on my own. It wasn’t awful, but it wasn’t great. There were many small and big things...
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ZFS RAIDZ expansion is awesome but has a small caveat Introduction Update April 2023: It has been fairly quiet since the announcement of this feature. The...
22nd Jun 2021
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ZFS RAIDZ expansion is awesome but has a small caveat

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

22nd Jun 2021
Introduction Update April 2023: It has been fairly quiet since the announcement of this feature. The Github PR about this feature is rather stale and people are wondering what the status is and what the plans are. Meanwhile, FreeBSD has announced In February 2023 that they...
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Confusion is a muse Some of the most interesting technical blog posts I read come from, and a common reason for posts I...
14th Jun 2024
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Confusion is a muse

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

14th Jun 2024
Some of the most interesting technical blog posts I read come from, and a common reason for posts I write is, confusion. You're at work and you start asking questions that are difficult to answer. You spend a few hours or a day trying to get to the bottom of things. If you ask a...
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An Elixir based payment processor for the Coinparty hackathon Bitcoin Unlimited is hosting a Bitcoin Cash hackathon this December and it seemed like a good...
30th Nov 2020
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An Elixir based payment processor for the Coinparty hackathon

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

30th Nov 2020
Bitcoin Unlimited is hosting a Bitcoin Cash hackathon this December and it seemed like a good opportunity for me to explore how to program against Bitcoin Cash, and it gives me an excuse to build something real with Phoenix and Elixir. (While an event like this might help combat...
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मसान (Masaan) …
24th Nov 2016
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मसान (Masaan)

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

24th Nov 2016
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Greenland is a beautiful nightmare Greenland is a complicated topic here in Denmark. The former colony that is still treated a bit like...
27th Sep 2025
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Greenland is a beautiful nightmare

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

27th Sep 2025
Greenland is a complicated topic here in Denmark. The former colony that is still treated a bit like a colony is something that inspires a lot of emotions. Greenland has been subjected to a lot of unethical experiments by Denmark, from taking their kids to wild experiments in...
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Tunneling Elixir cluster network traffic over Wireguard Introduction The other day I was supporting a customer with an Elixir-based platform that would make...
7th Nov 2023
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Tunneling Elixir cluster network traffic over Wireguard

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

7th Nov 2023
Introduction The other day I was supporting a customer with an Elixir-based platform that would make use of Elixir libcluster, so messages on one host can be passed to other hosts. This can - for example - enable live updates for all users, even if they are not communicating with...
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Missing the point about microservices: it's about testing and deploying independently Ok, so I have to first preface this whole blog post by a few things: I really struggle with the...
4th Jun 2018
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Missing the point about microservices: it's about testing and deploying independently

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

4th Jun 2018
Ok, so I have to first preface this whole blog post by a few things: I really struggle with the term microservices. I can't put my finger on exactly why. Maybe because the term is hopelessly ill-defined, maybe because it's gotten picked up by the hype train.
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Bagging as a regularizer One thing I encountered today was a trick using bagging as a way to go beyond a point estimate and...
6th Dec 2013
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Bagging as a regularizer

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

6th Dec 2013
One thing I encountered today was a trick using bagging as a way to go beyond a point estimate and get an approximation for the full distribution. This can then be used to penalize predictions with larger uncertainty, which helps reducing false positives.
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Links #12 Oscar, an open-source contributor agent architecture - Oscar is a project from the Go community that...
15th Apr 2025
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Links #12

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

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...
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The History of R2E and the Micral The second personal computer
5th May 2025
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The History of R2E and the Micral

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

5th May 2025
The second personal computer
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Why we prefer computers over consoles when introducing kids to gaming I grew up gaming on consoles like Nintendo 64 and Gamecube. I have a lot of fond memories playing...
8th Mar 2024
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Why we prefer computers over consoles when introducing kids to gaming

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

8th Mar 2024
I grew up gaming on consoles like Nintendo 64 and Gamecube. I have a lot of fond memories playing games with my brothers on those devices. But as my own kids have gotten older, my wife and I have decided to first introduce them to gaming with computers, instead of consoles. The...
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Closing a Draughty Door In the last week of January I could not keep my mind on a task. It felt as if I was running behind,...
3rd Feb 2026
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Closing a Draughty Door

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

3rd Feb 2026
In the last week of January I could not keep my mind on a task. It felt as if I was running behind, non-stop. I have no experience with this, but if I had to speculate I would say I was near a burnout-like experience. This post is not advice. It is a report of a small thing I did...
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On building quicker How AI tools have transformed my approach to building projects, making it possible to launch ideas...
31st Mar 2025
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On building quicker

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

31st Mar 2025
How AI tools have transformed my approach to building projects, making it possible to launch ideas faster and focus on what matters most.
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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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Odds and Ends #65: Everything is about everything Plus why Britain can't build things... except for the Lower Thames Crossing, apparently.
1st Apr 2025
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Odds and Ends #65: Everything is about everything

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

1st Apr 2025
Plus why Britain can't build things... except for the Lower Thames Crossing, apparently.
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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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Paying down tech debt: further learnings In a counter-intuitive observation: by making small, non-functional improvements, you gain more...
19th Sep 2024
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Paying down tech debt: further learnings

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

19th Sep 2024
In a counter-intuitive observation: by making small, non-functional improvements, you gain more confidence in a new codebase, and can start to move faster.
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Are data sets the new server rooms? This blog post Data sets are the new server rooms makes the point that a bunch of companies raise a...
1st Nov 2016
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Are data sets the new server rooms?

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

1st Nov 2016
This blog post Data sets are the new server rooms makes the point that a bunch of companies raise a ton of money to go get really proprietary awesome data as a competitive moat. Because once you have the data, you can build a better product, and no one can copy it (at least not...
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Three tips to make a content strategy work When you write for your blog or for your company's website, there are things you can consider to...
24th Mar 2021
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Three tips to make a content strategy work

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

24th Mar 2021
When you write for your blog or for your company's website, there are things you can consider to maximise the discoverability, longevity and impact of your writing. Leverage the energy you put in into your words. Today I share with you three of my lessons learned while writing...
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Rear Window I'm not sure at what point it dawned on me that the setting & vantage of Rear Window was going to be...
1st Feb 2022
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Rear Window

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Feb 2022
I'm not sure at what point it dawned on me that the setting & vantage of Rear Window was going to be a fixture of the entire film, and not just a cute way to stage the first fifteen minutes — but that realization, and everything therein (the vignettes of every other "screen"...
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June gwern.net newsletter June 2020 gwern.net newsletter with 3 new pages/essays, and links on CRISPR, population screening,...
2nd Jul 2020
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June gwern.net newsletter

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

2nd Jul 2020
June 2020 gwern.net newsletter with 3 new pages/essays, and links on CRISPR, population screening, AI scaling, politics, and technological unemployment.
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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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Why software projects take longer than you think: a statistical model Anyone who built software for a while knows that estimating how long something is going to take is...
15th Apr 2019
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Why software projects take longer than you think: a statistical model

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

15th Apr 2019
Anyone who built software for a while knows that estimating how long something is going to take is hard. It's hard to come up with an unbiased estimate of how long something will take, when fundamentally the work in itself is about solving something.
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The Polygons of Another World Let's kick off the year with a series about Another World!
1st Jan 2020
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The Polygons of Another World

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

1st Jan 2020
Let's kick off the year with a series about Another World!
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In defense of GitHub's poor uptime In short: GitHub’s downtime is bad, but uptime numbers can be misleading. It’s not as bad as it...
10th Apr 2026
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In defense of GitHub's poor uptime

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

10th Apr 2026
In short: GitHub’s downtime is bad, but uptime numbers can be misleading. It’s not as bad as it looks; more like a D than an F. “Zero nines uptime”? 99.99% uptime, or “four nines”, is a common industry standard. Four nines of uptime is equivalent to 1.008 minutes of downtime per...
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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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Vertical Aggregation I’ve written in the past that I think returns for SaaS won’t be as attractive over the next decade.
12th Oct 2021
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Vertical Aggregation

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

12th Oct 2021
I’ve written in the past that I think returns for SaaS won’t be as attractive over the next decade.
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The 167 Point Ceiling of the Game Take-It-Easy
4th Jul 2025
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The 167 Point Ceiling of the Game Take-It-Easy

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

4th Jul 2025
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Building LLVM in 90 seconds using Amazon Lambda Last week, Frederic Cambus wrote about building LLVM quickly on some very large machines,...
21st May 2021
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Building LLVM in 90 seconds using Amazon Lambda

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

21st May 2021
Last week, Frederic Cambus wrote about building LLVM quickly on some very large machines, culminating in a 2m37s build on a 160-core ARM machine. I don’t have a giant ARM behemoth, but I have been working on a tool I call Llama, which lets you offload computational work –...
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Happy Endings This, to me, is the perfect sit-com. It’s that simple: for two seasons (skip the first season; you...
27th Nov 2017
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Happy Endings

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

27th Nov 2017
This, to me, is the perfect sit-com. It’s that simple: for two seasons (skip the first season; you don’t need it and the show tries to be too conventional) it shits out an outrageous level of humor with a cast that has a perfect chemistry. There is a tiny bit of “aw, shucks”...
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What do I think about biometric proof of personhood?
24th Jul 2023
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What do I think about biometric proof of personhood?

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

24th Jul 2023
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An update on my book 'Why Cryptocurrencies?' Five months ago I gloriously declared that “my book was done”. Since then I’ve been working hard to...
9th Oct 2020
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An update on my book 'Why Cryptocurrencies?'

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

9th Oct 2020
Five months ago I gloriously declared that “my book was done”. Since then I’ve been working hard to finish the book. Sorry that’s a bit of a lie, I’ve had a nice long vacation where I didn’t work on the book and I’m also on part-time parental leave. And believe me there’s not a...
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為什麼權益證明棒棒的（2020 年十一月）
6th Nov 2020
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為什麼權益證明棒棒的（2020 年十一月）

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

6th Nov 2020
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The Attention Wars: Why Creative Time Is Now Contraband In a world of endless pings, every creative act becomes rebellion. This isn't about time...
7th Jan 2025
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The Attention Wars: Why Creative Time Is Now Contraband

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

7th Jan 2025
In a world of endless pings, every creative act becomes rebellion. This isn't about time management—it's about protecting your spark in a system designed to extinguish it.
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Escaping the flat tires Finding the answer to the question how resilient a puncture-proof tire really is took me quite some...
18th Nov 2021
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Escaping the flat tires

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

18th Nov 2021
Finding the answer to the question how resilient a puncture-proof tire really is took me quite some time, but alas - here it is!
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Analysis of CVE-2019-14994 - Jira Service Desk Path Traversal leads to Massive Information...
26th Sep 2019
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Analysis of CVE-2019-14994 - Jira Service Desk Path Traversal leads to Massive Information Disclosure

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

26th Sep 2019
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Life lessons after one year at Rostra Today marks one year at Rostra, where I’ve had the incredible privilege of working alongside Lulu...
16th Sep 2025
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Life lessons after one year at Rostra

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

16th Sep 2025
Today marks one year at Rostra, where I’ve had the incredible privilege of working alongside Lulu Meservey to help some of the most consequential companies of our time tell their stories.
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Hands-on with two Apple Network Server prototype ROMs Grateful acknowledgement made to the several former Apple employees who materially contributed to...
25th Jan 2026
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Hands-on with two Apple Network Server prototype ROMs

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

25th Jan 2026
Grateful acknowledgement made to the several former Apple employees who materially contributed to this entry. This article wouldn't have been possible without you! Here's why I need to do inventory more often. its complicated history is a microcosm of some of Apple's strangest...
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Simsim Pendant [Concept] Mercurial Medallion
5th Mar 2024
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Simsim Pendant

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

5th Mar 2024
[Concept] Mercurial Medallion
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Picking up volleyball in NYC with Goodrec and New York Urban I was so intimidated to go at first, but it is in fact easy and fun to start playing beginner...
26th Dec 2024
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Picking up volleyball in NYC with Goodrec and New York Urban

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

26th Dec 2024
I was so intimidated to go at first, but it is in fact easy and fun to start playing beginner volleyball in New York. The people are so friendly and welcoming that it has been easy to keep playing consistently every week since I started for the first time this August. It's been a...
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Three apps that will not change your life After what has felt like a long winter of habitual reliance on my existing tools, I’m finally...
15th Aug 2025
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Three apps that will not change your life

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

15th Aug 2025
After what has felt like a long winter of habitual reliance on my existing tools, I’m finally playing around with some new ones. This is a healthy habit—so long as you don’t convince yourself that you’re just one more App Store download away from a previously unimaginable level...
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How I’m using AI tools in early 2025 (members post) What am I actually using these LLMs for at the start of 2025? Quite a bit, actually.
2nd Mar 2025
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How I’m using AI tools in early 2025 (members post)

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Mar 2025
What am I actually using these LLMs for at the start of 2025? Quite a bit, actually.
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A trip down NBA Jam graphics pipeline I took some time to study how NBA Jam arcade cabinet worked. Here is what I learned.
28th Oct 2019
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A trip down NBA Jam graphics pipeline

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

28th Oct 2019
I took some time to study how NBA Jam arcade cabinet worked. Here is what I learned.
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My home lab server with 20 cores / 40 threads and 128 GB memory Update fall 2024 I have decided to decomission this machine and it is no longer in use. As of this...
12th Aug 2019
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My home lab server with 20 cores / 40 threads and 128 GB memory

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

12th Aug 2019
Update fall 2024 I have decided to decomission this machine and it is no longer in use. As of this moment, it's replaced by a cluster of four 1L PCs which use about a third of the idle power usage and boot within 20 seconds. The single-core performance of these low-power 1L PCs...
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What is RSS?
26th Mar 2025
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What is RSS?

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

26th Mar 2025
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Zephyr Ravenna Control Board Replacement Blog post that probably has an audience of one, myself. Introduction Zephyr Ravenna - Confusing...
12th May 2024
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Zephyr Ravenna Control Board Replacement

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

12th May 2024
Blog post that probably has an audience of one, myself. Introduction Zephyr Ravenna - Confusing Information Two PCBs - Control Board & Switch Assembly Switch of the Breaker!!! Glass Canopy Removal Duct Cover Removal Swapping the Control...
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The fresh new videah.net The fresh new videah.net Posted on August 30, 2026 It’s an unfortunate fact of life that every...
30th Aug 2026
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The fresh new videah.net

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30th Aug 2026
The fresh new videah.net Posted on August 30, 2026 It’s an unfortunate fact of life that every tech-savvy person who writes any kind of long-form content is born with an evil curse that compels them to spend more time coming up with increasingly complex byzantine blogging engines...
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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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Apple at 50: My journey to the Mac Growing up, I hated Apple the way only an arrogant teenager could. Who in their right mind would buy...
1st Apr 2026
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Apple at 50: My journey to the Mac

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

1st Apr 2026
Growing up, I hated Apple the way only an arrogant teenager could. Who in their right mind would buy an overpriced toy instead of a “real computer”? Here’s how I switched to the Mac, and haven’t looked back… despite some recent reservations. My family’s first real computer was a...
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Leadership at the Peak I want to start by thanking the Automattic board, and in particular General (Ret.) Ann Dunwoody, for...
10th Feb 2026
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Leadership at the Peak

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

10th Feb 2026
I want to start by thanking the Automattic board, and in particular General (Ret.) Ann Dunwoody, for encouraging me to step away from the endless work of being CEO of Automattic to focus on training and development. Ann, as one of this generation’s great leaders, did it herself...
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ode to libraries (the book ones) Most of the audience reading this post think of some random new programming tool dropped recently...
25th Sep 2025
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ode to libraries (the book ones)

from sibervepunk [alt+shift+b] in technology

25th Sep 2025
Most of the audience reading this post think of some random new programming tool dropped recently when the word library comes up. Let’s leave our déformation professionnelle in the door and think about the libraries. Book ones. This post is an ode to them. I am not sure if...
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2025-09-02 As an experiment, I've machine-translated the help docs in Lua Carousel into 7 languages: Spanish...
2nd Sep 2025
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2025-09-02

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

2nd Sep 2025
As an experiment, I've machine-translated the help docs in Lua Carousel into 7 languages: Spanish (Peninsular and Latin American) German French Japanese Chinese Portuguese Hopefully it...
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So We Read On Well, if it's not biography; and it's not literary criticism; and it's not scholarship... what is...
8th Aug 2023
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So We Read On

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

8th Aug 2023
Well, if it's not biography; and it's not literary criticism; and it's not scholarship... what is it? And the answer appears to be poorly structured, rambling, fandom.
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Make tmux the OS I recently watched the talk by Scott Jenson titled "Are we really going to use the same Desktop UX...
3 weeks ago
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Make tmux the OS

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

3 weeks ago
I recently watched the talk by Scott Jenson titled "Are we really going to use the same Desktop UX forever?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7AfAcQwLW0&t=445s. He's a great presenter, really articulate and concise. The kind of speaker that you'd
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High quality, low filesize GIFs While the GIF format is a little on the older side, it’s still a really handy format in 2025 for...
2nd Aug 2025
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High quality, low filesize GIFs

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

2nd Aug 2025
While the GIF format is a little on the older side, it’s still a really handy format in 2025 for sharing short clips where an actual video file might have some compatibility issues. For instance, I find when you just want a short little video on your website, a GIF is still so...
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