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Git Merge 2026 Git Merge is coming to Lisbon this September, and GitButler is once again helping host two days of...
8th May 2026
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Git Merge 2026

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

8th May 2026
Git Merge is coming to Lisbon this September, and GitButler is once again helping host two days of Git talks, community, and deep technical nerdery.
Eztables: simple yet powerful firewall configuration for Linux I've created and released Eztables on Github. Anyone who ever has a need to setup a firewall on...
16th Nov 2013
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Eztables: simple yet powerful firewall configuration for Linux

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

16th Nov 2013
I've created and released Eztables on Github. Anyone who ever has a need to setup a firewall on Linux may be interested in this project. It doesn't matter if you need to protect a laptop, server or want to setup a network firewall. Eztables supports it all. If you're not afraid...
What's the deal with magnetic fields? I apologize, but there won't be any Insane Clown Posse jokes in this article.
4th Feb 2025
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What's the deal with magnetic fields?

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

4th Feb 2025
I apologize, but there won't be any Insane Clown Posse jokes in this article.
Digital signatures and how to avoid them Wikipedia’s definition of a digital signature is: A digital signature is a mathematical scheme for...
18th Sep 2024
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Digital signatures and how to avoid them

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

18th Sep 2024
Wikipedia’s definition of a digital signature is: A digital signature is a mathematical scheme for verifying the authenticity of digital messages or documents. A valid digital signature on a message gives a recipient confidence that the message came from a sender known to the...
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...
How to make a product on gumroad and earn some money (#secretunasaladrecipe) If you’ve been in the Indie Hackers circles for a while you probably heard about people like...
9th Apr 2022
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9th Apr 2022
If you’ve been in the Indie Hackers circles for a while you probably heard about people like dvassallo@ who made hundreds of thousands of dollars selling simple digital products on gumroad. Make a thing, put it on gumroad, earn money, could it all be that simple? I have heard...
Remembering the Origins of Birthright Citizenship Administrative Burdens Were Long Used to Restrict Internal Migration
2nd Apr 2026
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Remembering the Origins of Birthright Citizenship

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

2nd Apr 2026
Administrative Burdens Were Long Used to Restrict Internal Migration
Mourning the Loss of Cohost The staff running Cohost have announced (archived) that at the end of 2024 Cohost will be shutting...
11th Sep 2024
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Mourning the Loss of Cohost

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

11th Sep 2024
The staff running Cohost have announced (archived) that at the end of 2024 Cohost will be shutting down, with the site going read-only on October 1st 2024. This news was deeply upsetting to receive, as Cohost filled a space left by other social media websites when they stopped...
Links #11 Here are some more links to things that I keep thinking about. I shared a bit more detail on these...
3rd Dec 2024
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Links #11

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

3rd Dec 2024
Here are some more links to things that I keep thinking about. I shared a bit more detail on these ones than I usually do—there were so many good quotes to include. Enjoy! Selfishness & Therapy Culture Earlier this year, there was a post in the New York Times called “Sometimes,...
Comment on The 35 Headline Formulas of John Caples by Ace Rashid I was reading copy hackers article title "Is $5000 a lot to charge for a sales page" and you were...
4th Oct 2018
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Comment on The 35 Headline Formulas of John Caples by Ace Rashid

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

4th Oct 2018
I was reading copy hackers article title "Is $5000 a lot to charge for a sales page" and you were one of the 14 marketers that were asked this bonus question to which you felt that it was too low for a sales page. That drew me to your site to learn more about you. I am glad...
Trials and Tribulations of Making an Interruptable Custom View Controller Transition on iOS I think it’s safe to say while the iOS custom view controller transition API is a very powerful one,...
19th Feb 2021
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19th Feb 2021
I think it’s safe to say while the iOS custom view controller transition API is a very powerful one, with that power comes a great deal of complexity. It can be tricky, and I’m having one of those days where it’s getting the better of me and I just cannot get it to do what I want...
Intuitions for Distributed Consensus by Phil Eaton This is an external talk of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
8th Oct 2024
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Intuitions for Distributed Consensus by Phil Eaton

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

8th Oct 2024
This is an external talk of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
USA 250 This auspicious 250th Independence Day, I find myself thinking of what Om wrote in iAMerican when he...
5th Jul 2026
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USA 250

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

5th Jul 2026
This auspicious 250th Independence Day, I find myself thinking of what Om wrote in iAMerican when he became a US citizen in 2013. On a globe, America is a landmass, a country. In an immigrant’s heart it is a belief that future is almost always better. It may not be perfect and it...
The Afterlife AGENT: I am prescribing vardenafil 5 mg for you.
2nd Mar 2025
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The Afterlife

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

2nd Mar 2025
AGENT: I am prescribing vardenafil 5 mg for you.
You Complete Me When Good Enough was in its infancy as a truly American LLC (formed in Delaware and representing one...
4th Dec 2024
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You Complete Me

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

4th Dec 2024
When Good Enough was in its infancy as a truly American LLC (formed in Delaware and representing one or two people who were only semi-serious about a business), it was fun to play around with building websites. Shawn and I were truly just playing and exploring, more than anything...
Notes from August 2025 Things I published and things I saw this August. See also: my notes from last month, which has links...
31st Aug 2025
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Notes from August 2025

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

31st Aug 2025
Things I published and things I saw this August. See also: my notes from last month, which has links to all the previous months so far. Things I published this month Most of my work this month was on private stuff, like some contracting and a demo app for a small social group....
Too Late Smart My grandparents, whose little farm was next door to ours so my sisters and I grew up effectively...
yesterday
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Too Late Smart

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

yesterday
My grandparents, whose little farm was next door to ours so my sisters and I grew up effectively with two houses and two very different sets of parents, were lovely people.
Housekeeping for 20240102 Some stats, updates, and whatnot
3rd Jan 2024
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Housekeeping for 20240102

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

3rd Jan 2024
Some stats, updates, and whatnot
Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 1. lisp to assembly Next in compiler basics: 2. user-defined functions and variables 3. LLVM 4. LLVM...
20th Nov 2018
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Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 1. lisp to assembly

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

20th Nov 2018
Next in compiler basics: 2. user-defined functions and variables 3. LLVM 4. LLVM conditionals and compiling fibonacci 5. LLVM system calls 6. an x86 upgrade In this post we'll write a simple compiler in Javascript (on Node) without any third-party libraries....
5th Jan 2025
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d/acc: one year later

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

5th Jan 2025
The Wrong Bet The next decade in SaaS won't look like the last
10th May 2021
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The Wrong Bet

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

10th May 2021
The next decade in SaaS won't look like the last
The Mirror With No Reflection From lovers to spouses, from employers to parental approval, we search for ourselves in others'...
12th Sep 2025
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The Mirror With No Reflection

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

12th Sep 2025
From lovers to spouses, from employers to parental approval, we search for ourselves in others' eyes—creating perhaps the most elaborate illusion ever sustained: that validation exists outside the self that seeks it.
Intel: a Bug and a Pro The FDIV bug and release of the P6
24th Feb 2025
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Intel: a Bug and a Pro

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

24th Feb 2025
The FDIV bug and release of the P6
All clocks are 30 seconds late OK, this is going to sound crazy: I believe all clocks are 30 seconds late. Let's get a few things...
6th Jan 2025
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All clocks are 30 seconds late

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

6th Jan 2025
OK, this is going to sound crazy: I believe all clocks are 30 seconds late. Let's get a few things out of the way: this is neither about time zones, nor leap seconds. It's not about synchronization of clocks, and it's not about relativity or any obscure corner of physics. I'm...
Web Push Pitfall Whilst implementing Web Push notifications for my toy Q&A service curiouswolf I ran into an issue...
30th Mar 2023
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Web Push Pitfall

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

30th Mar 2023
Whilst implementing Web Push notifications for my toy Q&A service curiouswolf I ran into an issue that led to me being stumped for hours. I was successfully receiving notifications from my server when using Chrome, but no matter what Safari was not playing ball. Web Push requires...
The Ghost All good books are different but all bad books are exactly the same. I know this to be a fact...
11th May 2025
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The Ghost

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

11th May 2025
All good books are different but all bad books are exactly the same. I know this to be a fact because in my line of work I read a lot of bad books - books so bad they aren't even published, which is quite a feat, when you consider what is published. And what they all have in...
Multi-Window support in your iPad app Last month Apple released iPadOS, the first dedicated operating system for iPad. It differs from iOS...
6th Oct 2019
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Multi-Window support in your iPad app

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

6th Oct 2019
Last month Apple released iPadOS, the first dedicated operating system for iPad. It differs from iOS with its support for the larger iPad screen, including multi / split screen windows. I develop apps and it was time to take advantage of these new possibilities that iPadOS...
ZFS performance on HP Proliant Microserver Gen8 G1610T I think the HP Proliant Microserver Gen8 is a very interesting little box if you want to build your...
14th Aug 2015
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ZFS performance on HP Proliant Microserver Gen8 G1610T

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

14th Aug 2015
I think the HP Proliant Microserver Gen8 is a very interesting little box if you want to build your own ZFS-based NAS. The benchmarks I've performed seem to confirm this. The Microserver Gen8 has nice features such as: iLO (KVM over IP with dedicated network interface) support...
HP Laptop 17 RAM Upgrade Introduction Selecting the RAM Opening up Replacing the RAM Reassembly References Introduction I do...
12th Mar 2025
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HP Laptop 17 RAM Upgrade

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

12th Mar 2025
Introduction Selecting the RAM Opening up Replacing the RAM Reassembly References Introduction I do virtually all of my hobby and home computing on Linux and MacOS. The MacOS stuff on a laptop and almost all Linux work a desktop PC. The desktop PC has Windows on it installed as...
India income tax e-filing utility for Linux India has made a major overhaul to it's Income Tax filing website and with it its offline e-filing...
1st Oct 2021
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India income tax e-filing utility for Linux

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

1st Oct 2021
India has made a major overhaul to it's Income Tax filing website and with it its offline e-filing utilities which are now available only for Windows and Mac. Earlier the utility was in Java and was available for linux. Now it's been replaced with electron wrapper over the...
GitButler 0.22 - "Catch 22" The newest GitButler release has landed, including native GitHub stacked pull requests
6th Aug 2026
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GitButler 0.22 - "Catch 22"

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

6th Aug 2026
The newest GitButler release has landed, including native GitHub stacked pull requests
The Reason You Prohibit Things You want less of them. That’s the reason. You may find that it’s too hard to stop people from doing...
a week ago
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The Reason You Prohibit Things

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

a week ago
You want less of them. That’s the reason. You may find that it’s too hard to stop people from doing the thing, literally blood, sweat, and tears trying to prosecute people, but that’s a different thing.
TOMO M4: probably the coolest power bank I've owned A friend once showed me a power bank that was so cool that I had to get one myself. Ended up getting...
3rd Mar 2023
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TOMO M4: probably the coolest power bank I've owned

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

3rd Mar 2023
A friend once showed me a power bank that was so cool that I had to get one myself. Ended up getting two, and here’s why. This post is not sponsored. Removable batteries Let’s start with the feature that I appreciate the most: removable batteries! The TOMO M4 accepts up to 4...
6.170, CVS, and SVN I’m taking 6.170 Lab in Software Engineering this semester. The course sucks in various ways, but...
11th Feb 2007
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6.170, CVS, and SVN

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

11th Feb 2007
I’m taking 6.170 Lab in Software Engineering this semester. The course sucks in various ways, but one of the most egregious, in my opinion, is that they force you to use CVS for your version control. Problem sets are distributed by the TAs importing them into your repository, and...
Train Simulator Controller: Dashboard Prototype Part 4, All the Panels With the center console of my train simulator built, I rapidly modeled and fabricated prototypes of...
30th Dec 2025
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Train Simulator Controller: Dashboard Prototype Part 4, All the Panels

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

30th Dec 2025
With the center console of my train simulator built, I rapidly modeled and fabricated prototypes of the four other panels.
Reverse engineering the barrel shifter circuit on the Intel 386 processor die The Intel 386 processor (1985) was a large step from the 286 processor, moving x86 to a 32-bit...
6th Dec 2023
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Reverse engineering the barrel shifter circuit on the Intel 386 processor die

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

6th Dec 2023
The Intel 386 processor (1985) was a large step from the 286 processor, moving x86 to a 32-bit architecture. The 386 also dramatically improved the performance of shift and rotate operations by adding a "barrel shifter", a circuit that can shift by multiple bits in one step. The...
Solitaire Alone Together Solitaire Alone Together I made a new game. It's called Solitaire Alone Together. It's Windows 98...
a week ago
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Solitaire Alone Together

from eieio.games [alt+shift+b] in technology

a week ago
Solitaire Alone Together I made a new game. It's called Solitaire Alone Together. It's Windows 98 solitaire, but you can play with everyone else on the internet. Read the full post on my blog! Here's a raw link, if you need it: ...
12th Aug 2025
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On idea-driven ideas

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

12th Aug 2025
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Evolution of inPulse - Part 1

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

25th Oct 2009
How I blew up my backup server (Valve pls fix) It all started with me getting a Steam Deck. Background After getting familiar with the Steam Deck...
10th Jun 2023
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How I blew up my backup server (Valve pls fix)

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

10th Jun 2023
It all started with me getting a Steam Deck. Background After getting familiar with the Steam Deck and how the Proton compatibility layer works, I decided to write a backup script that would back up everything in the home folder, excluding the Steam games themselves due to the...
Understanding the AI That Drives Robots An Explanation of Vision-Language-Action Models
yesterday
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Understanding the AI That Drives Robots

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

yesterday
An Explanation of Vision-Language-Action Models
The hardest challenge about becoming a manager Note: this post is full of pseudo-psychology and highly speculative content. Like most fun stuff! I...
5th Jun 2015
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The hardest challenge about becoming a manager

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

5th Jun 2015
Note: this post is full of pseudo-psychology and highly speculative content. Like most fun stuff! I became a manager back in 2009. Being a developer is fun. You have this very tangible way to measure yourself.
The day I sold my car This week I sold my car, I now no longer own one. For me, this is something of a change as over the...
12th Feb 2020
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The day I sold my car

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

12th Feb 2020
This week I sold my car, I now no longer own one. For me, this is something of a change as over the years I owned various sports cars that were like a hobby to me. My discovery of cycling and the birth of my son changed this. But if you're looking for a reason to buy a sports...
Some low-stakes misinformation spread like wildfire, and I got it wrong too Giovanni Colantonio writing for Digital Trends: The Confusion Around $90 Switch 2 Games Proves How...
1st May 2025
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1st May 2025
Giovanni Colantonio writing for Digital Trends: The Confusion Around $90 Switch 2 Games Proves How Broken the Internet Is There’s just one problem: *Mario Kart World* does not cost $90, at least based on what we know right now. No currently announced Nintendo Switch 2 game...
April 2021 newsletter with links on AI scaling, particular new East Asian record-breaking work & deep reinforcement...
3rd Jun 2021
35

April 2021 newsletter

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

3rd Jun 2021
with links on AI scaling, particular new East Asian record-breaking work & deep reinforcement learning.
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
Inspiration from a child Together with my kids I love to explore the world that we think we know as adults. A kid's...
29th Sep 2021
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Inspiration from a child

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

29th Sep 2021
Together with my kids I love to explore the world that we think we know as adults. A kid's perspective inspires and surprises! No need to travel half the world for an adventure: Fly planes, catch bad guys, solve problems, build and break stuff - (re)discover the adventure right...
March 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter 2 major new site features: 'popins' and recursive Wikipedia popups
6th Apr 2021
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March 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter

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

6th Apr 2021
2 major new site features: 'popins' and recursive Wikipedia popups
How to reverse engineer an analog chip: the TDA7000 FM radio receiver Have you ever wanted to reverse engineer an analog chip from a die photo? Wanted to understand...
2nd Aug 2025
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How to reverse engineer an analog chip: the TDA7000 FM radio receiver

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

2nd Aug 2025
Have you ever wanted to reverse engineer an analog chip from a die photo? Wanted to understand what's inside the "black box" of an integrated circuit? In this article, I explain my reverse engineering process, using the Philips TDA7000 FM radio receiver chip as an example. This...
Service Objects in Rails Let’s kick off 2016 with a whistle-stop tour of one of my favourite OO approaches, Service Objects,...
7th Feb 2016
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Service Objects in Rails

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

7th Feb 2016
Let’s kick off 2016 with a whistle-stop tour of one of my favourite OO approaches, Service Objects, in the context of Rails.
The 4-Hour Chef: Scrambled Eggs I’ve been listening to The Tim Ferriss Show a while now and he and his guests often inspire me to...
14th Jan 2017
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The 4-Hour Chef: Scrambled Eggs

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

14th Jan 2017
I’ve been listening to The Tim Ferriss Show a while now and he and his guests often inspire me to make changes and start doing new things. I got introduced to Josh Waitzkin’s excellent The Art of Learning and the meta skill of learning has since then fascinated me. So when I got...
Bye Bye Alan Dye I was trying to get something down about Alan Dye leaving Apple, but John Gruber got there first and...
5th Dec 2025
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Bye Bye Alan Dye

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

5th Dec 2025
I was trying to get something down about Alan Dye leaving Apple, but John Gruber got there first and has done a much better job. I’ve grumbled several times in the past about the new Liquid Glass redesign, but it’s just the latest push in a direction I’ve been unhappy with for...
Hideo Okawara’s Mixed Signal Lecture Series Introduction Hideo Okawara’s Mixed Signal Lecture Series Frequency/Phase Movement Analysis by...
6th Jan 2024
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Hideo Okawara’s Mixed Signal Lecture Series

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

6th Jan 2024
Introduction Hideo Okawara’s Mixed Signal Lecture Series Frequency/Phase Movement Analysis by Orthogonal Demodulation Misc Introduction While researching a DSP related topic, Google dug up an excellent article, written by Hideo Okawara, that is just one part of a series of ~53. I...
Black and white epaper photo frame based on Seeed Studio reTerminal E1003 using ESPHome and Home... Last year I wrote about how I had written an ESPHome configuration for the Seeed Studio reTerminal...
23rd May 2026
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23rd May 2026
Last year I wrote about how I had written an ESPHome configuration for the Seeed Studio reTerminal E1002 device to work as a small, color, digital art frame. This year, I wrote about how I had been using Claude Code to help me write Home Assistant code for myself. Those efforts...
Apple GPU drivers now in Asahi Linux We’re excited to announce our first Apple GPU driver release! We’ve been working hard over the past...
7th Dec 2022
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Apple GPU drivers now in Asahi Linux

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

7th Dec 2022
We’re excited to announce our first Apple GPU driver release! We’ve been working hard over the past two years to bring this new driver to everyone, and we’re really proud to finally be here. This is still an alpha driver, but it’s already good enough to run a smooth desktop...
Why I don’t use LLMs for programming I originally posted this on Mastodon, but I thought I’d add it here too: “What I mean is that if you...
2nd Mar 2026
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Why I don’t use LLMs for programming

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

2nd Mar 2026
I originally posted this on Mastodon, but I thought I’d add it here too: “What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. That forces you to sort it out in your own mind. And the more slow and dim-witted […]
Meet the Garbage PC This is the Garbage PC. Not too long ago, I received a half-broken Dell Inspiron N5110, sporting 6...
2nd Feb 2026
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Meet the Garbage PC

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

2nd Feb 2026
This is the Garbage PC. Not too long ago, I received a half-broken Dell Inspiron N5110, sporting 6 GB of RAM, a dual core Intel i3-2110M, and an unsupported NVIDIA GPU of some sort. One of the hinges was loose from the case because it was screwed into plastic (common issue for...
Pea Bee #6: Drive a train, forever, through a dreamlike land Hi all, shipping a new issue after a long time.
22nd May 2021
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Pea Bee #6: Drive a train, forever, through a dreamlike land

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

22nd May 2021
Hi all, shipping a new issue after a long time.
Building an serial and VGA "everything console" Some of our recent (and some upcoming) projects are oriented to systems with serial consoles, but...
14th Jun 2026
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Building an serial and VGA "everything console"

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

14th Jun 2026
Some of our recent (and some upcoming) projects are oriented to systems with serial consoles, but it's been getting pretty old dragging around old CRT terminals or tying up Mac laptops with a serial port. I'd like something that's self-contained, a little more portable and a bit...
I found my 7th grade art book ! The drawings from my 7th grade art book gives an insight of what my life and dreams were during that...
24th Apr 2016
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I found my 7th grade art book !

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

24th Apr 2016
The drawings from my 7th grade art book gives an insight of what my life and dreams were during that period. I share this is to inspire at-least few to go back and check what they were and what they are now. Art book cover My 7th grade Art notebook. I’m 29 year old Indian male....
August 2020 gwern.net newsletter with an essay on sidenotes; links on human competence, efficient-computing/hardware-overhangs; no...
1st Sep 2020
27

August 2020 gwern.net newsletter

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

1st Sep 2020
with an essay on sidenotes; links on human competence, efficient-computing/hardware-overhangs; no reviews.
Train Simulator Controller: Dashboard Prototyping, Part 1 After sourcing rough measurements of the dashboard of a Class 80x train, I began creating a...
31st Jul 2025
1

Train Simulator Controller: Dashboard Prototyping, Part 1

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

31st Jul 2025
After sourcing rough measurements of the dashboard of a Class 80x train, I began creating a cardboard prototype, plus associated CAD designs to get the design fabricated.
Never Use the Confirm Dialog It’s a standard function of all browsers, it’s everywhere, and it’s time to retire it. Here’s an...
8th Sep 2015
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Never Use the Confirm Dialog

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

8th Sep 2015
It’s a standard function of all browsers, it’s everywhere, and it’s time to retire it. Here’s an example from JIRA. Trying to “Cancel” a comment brings up the confirm dialog: Even if we assume confirmation is necessary, the standard confirm dialog is a bad way to get it: Most of...
A Simple Thought I wrote that we where doing some microprogramming, making the processor work etc. We had a lab about...
2nd Feb 2012
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A Simple Thought

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

2nd Feb 2012
I wrote that we where doing some microprogramming, making the processor work etc. We had a lab about that yesterday and I was very, very nervous. The preparations weren’t that hard, but they where very bothersome. Converting the instructions to binary/hex by hand is never nice....
Trump Shoots the Messenger Firing the BLS Commissioner moves us into banana republic territory
1st Aug 2025
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Trump Shoots the Messenger

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

1st Aug 2025
Firing the BLS Commissioner moves us into banana republic territory
Monitoring energy usage with smart plugs, Prometheus and Grafana This post isn’t a detailed line-by-line tutorial on how to set up each individual piece of the setup...
2nd May 2024
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Monitoring energy usage with smart plugs, Prometheus and Grafana

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

2nd May 2024
This post isn’t a detailed line-by-line tutorial on how to set up each individual piece of the setup as those types of guides tend to get out of date really easily, but if you know your way around Linux and the command line, then you can definitely replicate this setup on your...
Calculating cosine similarities using dimensionality reduction This was posted on the Twitter Engineering blog a few days ago: Dimension Independent Similarity...
5th Dec 2012
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Calculating cosine similarities using dimensionality reduction

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

5th Dec 2012
This was posted on the Twitter Engineering blog a few days ago: Dimension Independent Similarity Computation (DISCO) I just glanced at the paper, and there's some cool stuff going on from a theoretical perspective. What I'm curious about is why they didn't decide to use...
How I find time for indie hacking while having a full time job A friend recently asked me: “How do you find time for all your projects while working full time?” “I...
3rd Jun 2022
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How I find time for indie hacking while having a full time job

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

3rd Jun 2022
A friend recently asked me: “How do you find time for all your projects while working full time?” “I don’t, I just complain about not having enough time instead.” But more seriously, I am working on two products, while having a demanding full time job and doing a lot of sports...
Running a million-board chess MMO in a single process Running a million-board chess MMO in a single process Recently I made a game called One Million...
24th Jun 2025
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from eieio.games [alt+shift+b] in technology

24th Jun 2025
Running a million-board chess MMO in a single process Recently I made a game called One Million Chessboards. It's a realtime chess MMO played over a 1000x1000 grid of chess boards. Pieces can move between boards and there are no turns. I ran the game out of a single process and...
Housekeeping 20241208 Corrections, stats, and an update
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from Abort Retry Fail [alt+shift+b] in technology

8th Dec 2024
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25th Sep 2022
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.
For a Business, Should Making (Extra) Money Be Incidental? Humans are desire-driven machines: a business should help dissipate desires by satisfying them...
21st Jul 2026
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For a Business, Should Making (Extra) Money Be Incidental?

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

21st Jul 2026
Humans are desire-driven machines: a business should help dissipate desires by satisfying them without exploiting you.
Could we be living in the virtual reality as a punishment ? Well, come-on you should know upfront that I’m not going to be writing about some ground breaking...
31st Jul 2016
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Could we be living in the virtual reality as a punishment ?

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

31st Jul 2016
Well, come-on you should know upfront that I’m not going to be writing about some ground breaking research I conduct at my basement laboratory resulting in conclusive proof of Brain in a vat , if so I would rather be writing a Nobel prize acceptance speech. Now you could ask me,...
4 Ways To Say No, Elegantly and Effectively In my early days at Netflix, my inability to say no led me into unpleasant terrain. Here's how I...
4th Sep 2024
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from Push to Prod [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Sep 2024
In my early days at Netflix, my inability to say no led me into unpleasant terrain. Here's how I evolved to navigate these situations more fluidly.
Is the Apple Watch the modern tool watch? This week I went to Frankfurt for business. I had to perform maintenance to servers in a data...
1st Nov 2018
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Is the Apple Watch the modern tool watch?

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

1st Nov 2018
This week I went to Frankfurt for business. I had to perform maintenance to servers in a data centre. This seemed like a great opportunity to test the Apple Watch's usefulness in real life (other than health and fitness). I wondered, is the Apple Watch the modern tool watch? ...
Making Screenshots of Test Equipment Old and New Introduction Screenshot Capturing Interfaces Hardware and Software Tools Capturing GPIB data in Talk...
29th Nov 2024
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Making Screenshots of Test Equipment Old and New

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

29th Nov 2024
Introduction Screenshot Capturing Interfaces Hardware and Software Tools Capturing GPIB data in Talk Only mode TDS 540 Oscilloscope - GPIB - PCL Output HP 54542A Oscilloscope - Parallel Port - PCL or HPGL Output HP Inifinium 54825A Oscilloscope - Parallel Port - Encapsulated...
The End of the Tunnel Lately I’ve been feeling like there’s been a shit-ton of stuff going on, quite a turn-around from...
19th Oct 2011
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from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology

19th Oct 2011
Lately I’ve been feeling like there’s been a shit-ton of stuff going on, quite a turn-around from the last time. One course about data structure and algorithms (super fun to be honest) has wrapped up. We thought we were ahead with the assignments but in the end it got very...
Passing the reins on Panfrost Today is my last day at Collabora and my last day leading the Panfrost driver. It’s been a wild...
10th Apr 2023
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Passing the reins on Panfrost

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

10th Apr 2023
Today is my last day at Collabora and my last day leading the Panfrost driver. It’s been a wild ride. In 2017, I began work on the chai driver for Mali T (Midgard). chai would later be merged into Lyude Paul’s and Connor Abbott’s BiOpenly project for Mali G (Bifrost) to form...
Repurpose gadgets as Arduino-ready modules Most people have a general awareness of how economies of scale play into the cost of products; a...
5th Sep 2025
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Repurpose gadgets as Arduino-ready modules

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

5th Sep 2025
Most people have a general awareness of how economies of scale play into the cost of products; a bespoke, handcrafted vase is going to cost a lot more than a mass-produced vase sold in the millions. But the ramifications of that concept can be really counterintuitive when it...
My release checklist for chrome extensions Many products can be updated very quickly. You spot a bug, you push a fix in next 5 minutes, sadly...
9th Jul 2022
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My release checklist for chrome extensions

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

9th Jul 2022
Many products can be updated very quickly. You spot a bug, you push a fix in next 5 minutes, sadly for chrome extensions it’s not like that. When you update a chrome extension in the chrome web store you submit a package that then goes through a lengthy review. It can take...
Some actual good news for once! Cornish Lithium, an Oxford Street Monorail, and why astronomy funding is under threat
2nd Mar 2026
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Some actual good news for once!

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

2nd Mar 2026
Cornish Lithium, an Oxford Street Monorail, and why astronomy funding is under threat
Fluent Visitors: revisiting a classic design pattern It’s been a while since I’ve written a pure programming post. I was recently implementing a...
4th Nov 2025
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Fluent Visitors: revisiting a classic design pattern

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

4th Nov 2025
It’s been a while since I’ve written a pure programming post. I was recently implementing a specialist collection class that contained items of a number of different types. I needed to be able to iterate over the collection performing different actions depending on the specific...
MUSE in Carré MUSE's legendary rock fused with Amsterdam's Royal Theatre Carré for an unforgettable, electrifying...
22nd Oct 2022
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MUSE in Carré

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

22nd Oct 2022
MUSE's legendary rock fused with Amsterdam's Royal Theatre Carré for an unforgettable, electrifying experience - read about my experience!
When the Ground Looks Empty Don’t you just love spring flowers? Here we are, coming up to Easter and spring flowers are blooming...
2nd Apr 2026
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When the Ground Looks Empty

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

2nd Apr 2026
Don’t you just love spring flowers? Here we are, coming up to Easter and spring flowers are blooming outside. But the process of planting spring bulbs is really kind of strange if you think about it.
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

from videah.net [alt+shift+b] in technology

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...
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...
Being a volunteer in Amsterdam-Zuidoost After realising how lucky I am as an healthy, well educated, young man with a solid income, I wanted...
20th Nov 2016
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Being a volunteer in Amsterdam-Zuidoost

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

20th Nov 2016
After realising how lucky I am as an healthy, well educated, young man with a solid income, I wanted to do something for other people as volunteer. It just so happens to be that two years ago I received a flyer in my mailbox from the local community center: they were looking for...
Why Digital Fashion Matters “We’re in the midst of a technological revolution.
14th Jul 2022
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Why Digital Fashion Matters

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

14th Jul 2022
“We’re in the midst of a technological revolution.
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...
Confessions of a programmer: I hate code review Most of the projects I've been working on today have fairly strict code review policies. My work...
6th Jun 2010
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Confessions of a programmer: I hate code review

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

6th Jun 2010
Most of the projects I've been working on today have fairly strict code review policies. My work requires code review on most of our code, and as we bring on an army of interns for the summer, I've been responsible for reviewing lots of code. Additionally, about five months ago...
Strike Commander: Interview with Frank Savage There is a playful way to study the architecture of computers of the past. Find a piece of software...
3rd Dec 2019
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Strike Commander: Interview with Frank Savage

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

3rd Dec 2019
There is a playful way to study the architecture of computers of the past. Find a piece of software you know well and try to find out how it was ported to these machine you don't...
Goals for Autumn 2016 Every once and a while I like to redo my priorities and set new goals for myself. I recently read...
12th Aug 2016
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Goals for Autumn 2016

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

12th Aug 2016
Every once and a while I like to redo my priorities and set new goals for myself. I recently read the book 59 seconds which among other things presented a way of structuring goals I will try out. In short you should divide your main goal into 5 subgoals with a date of completion,...
The iPhone, iPad and iOS are powering a revolution Most people just don't understand computers. Are these people dumb? Some may be dumb, but the people...
6th Nov 2010
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The iPhone, iPad and iOS are powering a revolution

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

6th Nov 2010
Most people just don't understand computers. Are these people dumb? Some may be dumb, but the people who make them are maybe even dumber. Because they can't seem to figure out how to create a computer that the majority of people understand. When the original macintosh arrived at...
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...
2026-05-24 What is text? This blog post reminds me of the time 10 years ago when I tried to do away with...
24th May 2026
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2026-05-24

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

24th May 2026
What is text? This blog post reminds me of the time 10 years ago when I tried to do away with Linux's desktop environment because it seemed overly complex and hard to wrap my head around. I had a lot of trouble running wifi without the desktop environment, and it left me quite...
Why scons is cool I’ve recently started playing with scons a little for some small personal projects. It’s not...
7th Nov 2010
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Why scons is cool

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

7th Nov 2010
I’ve recently started playing with scons a little for some small personal projects. It’s not perfect, but I’ve rapidly come to the conclusion that it’s a probably far better choice than make in many cases. The main exceptions would be cases where you need to integrate into legacy...
Establishing Habits with Habitica I have used Habitica the last 18 months to organize my habits and things I want to get done. I...
21st Nov 2015
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Establishing Habits with Habitica

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

21st Nov 2015
I have used Habitica the last 18 months to organize my habits and things I want to get done. I believe it all started with an amazing book called The Power of Habit which describes the amazing benefits habits can give, both in the context of your own life but also in business....
My first netrunner store championship My girlfriend has told me I get these narrow interests where I pour all my energy and thoughts into...
24th Feb 2015
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My first netrunner store championship

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

24th Feb 2015
My girlfriend has told me I get these narrow interests where I pour all my energy and thoughts into and about 1,5 months ago I discovered Netrunner, a very awesome card game. Check out this how to play or team covenant’s channel if you want to know more. So this Sunday I went to...
Auto suspend and resume KVM Virtual Machine with the host When the host machine is suspended while the KVM through QEMU is running lead to issues like display...
13th Sep 2021
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Auto suspend and resume KVM Virtual Machine with the host

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

13th Sep 2021
When the host machine is suspended while the KVM through QEMU is running lead to issues like display unable to wake up when resuming suspend. Suspending and resuming the Virtual Machine when the host machine is suspended using hooks in systemd and resumed fixes this...
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.
bitCards Thrill Your Friends This Christmas with a gift from bitCards
1st Sep 2026
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bitCards

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

1st Sep 2026
Thrill Your Friends This Christmas with a gift from bitCards
The Fall and Rise of Screwworm Every spring, as sure as the seasons, and for generations unknown, screwworms began their annual...
3rd Jul 2026
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The Fall and Rise of Screwworm

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

3rd Jul 2026
Every spring, as sure as the seasons, and for generations unknown, screwworms began their annual march northward from their overwintering sanctuaries in Mexico and South Texas.
The Scriptovision Super Micro Script video titler is almost a home computer Notwithstanding filmed art and transparencies, early static television titles were generated by...
8th Feb 2026
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The Scriptovision Super Micro Script video titler is almost a home computer

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

8th Feb 2026
Notwithstanding filmed art and transparencies, early static television titles were generated by monoscopes, modified cathode ray tubes that fired their electron guns at embedded plates marked with a metallized image. These units then assimilated the reflected particles into a...
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...
18th Jun 2021
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Verkle trees

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

18th Jun 2021
The Stupidity of Google’s Site Reputation Abuse Policy Site reputation abuse is when a third-party abuses the reputation of a domain to rank a bunch of...
5th Nov 2024
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The Stupidity of Google’s Site Reputation Abuse Policy

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

5th Nov 2024
Site reputation abuse is when a third-party abuses the reputation of a domain to rank a bunch of pages in Google. The SEO community refers to this type of thing as parasite SEO. Google has gone so far as to publish an official policy (documented here) on how this isn’t allowed:...
The Fear of Being Right The best designs often look wrong. They appear unexceptional. They don’t show off. They don’t push...
7th Oct 2015
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The Fear of Being Right

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

7th Oct 2015
The best designs often look wrong. They appear unexceptional. They don’t show off. They don’t push our technical skills to the limit. They leave out things we expect. They don’t reflect the latest trends. “It just doesn’t look right.” “It almost looks unfinished.” “Nobody does...
EZStore: a tiny serverless datastore for IoT data (DynamoDB + Lambda) I've been working on a few IoT projects recently, and while prototyping, I need a simple but...
4th Jan 2022
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EZStore: a tiny serverless datastore for IoT data (DynamoDB + Lambda)

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

4th Jan 2022
I've been working on a few IoT projects recently, and while prototyping, I need a simple but flexible data store. I just want to push data to an API and query and visualize it later on.There are many solutions for this, but most are expensive or very limited. So I set out to...
September 2020 News September 2020 gwern.net newsletter with links on DRL and AI scaling, psychiatric disorders; no...
26th Oct 2020
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September 2020 News

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

26th Oct 2020
September 2020 gwern.net newsletter with links on DRL and AI scaling, psychiatric disorders; no reviews.
Hour 9: Categorizing the content Now that we've cracked the API, we need to save all the content and categorize it.
24th Jun 2025
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Hour 9: Categorizing the content

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

24th Jun 2025
Now that we've cracked the API, we need to save all the content and categorize it.
Syncing files seamlessly between smartphone and tablet In order to optimise my workflow, I was looking for a way to seamlessly access the same files on...
15th Sep 2020
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Syncing files seamlessly between smartphone and tablet

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

15th Sep 2020
In order to optimise my workflow, I was looking for a way to seamlessly access the same files on both my computer and smartphone. This is useful to when you want to quickly send files from your computer using your smartphone through various messaging apps and vice versa. Read...
Introducing TagVault Fabric for AirTag Having an AirTag fall out of our camera bag pocket that was then stolen, we wanted something...
19th Apr 2023
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Introducing TagVault Fabric for AirTag

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

19th Apr 2023
Having an AirTag fall out of our camera bag pocket that was then stolen, we wanted something better. So we designed TagVault Fabric Mount for AirTag. It is ultra-flexible to move and flow with your fabric. Discreet, so it doesn't stand out to a would-be thief. And it's...
Baccano! I wanted to like this one so much. It seemed tailor-made to what I love in anime: interesting,...
4th Nov 2021
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Baccano!

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

4th Nov 2021
I wanted to like this one so much. It seemed tailor-made to what I love in anime: interesting, anachronistic setting; weird alchemy stuff; a huge slew of characters and viewpoints; framing devices within framing devices.
2024-04-05 the life of one earth station Sometimes, when I am feeling down, I read about failed satellite TV (STV) services. Don't we all?...
5th Apr 2024
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2024-04-05 the life of one earth station

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

5th Apr 2024
Sometimes, when I am feeling down, I read about failed satellite TV (STV) services. Don't we all? As a result, I've periodically come across a company called AlphaStar Television Network. PrimeStar may have had a rough life, but AlphaStar barely had one at all: it launched in...
'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...
QNAP QTS - QNAPping At The Wheel (CVE-2024-27130 and friends) Infosec is, at it’s heart, all about that data. Obtaining access to it (or disrupting access to it)...
17th May 2024
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QNAP QTS - QNAPping At The Wheel (CVE-2024-27130 and friends)

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

17th May 2024
Infosec is, at it’s heart, all about that data. Obtaining access to it (or disrupting access to it) is in every ransomware gang and APT group’s top-10 to-do-list items, and so it makes sense that our research voyage would, at some point, cross paths with products
I'm running a programming contest I'm running a programming contest I've spent the last few months working with friends to design the...
24th Jul 2026
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I'm running a programming contest

from eieio.games [alt+shift+b] in technology

24th Jul 2026
I'm running a programming contest I've spent the last few months working with friends to design the 29th annual ICFP programming contest. Designing a programming contest in a world with AI agents is tricky! I think we've made some interesting choices here. Read the full post on...
Introducing QuickDraw This may be the best product we've ever designed. Existing cord organizers sit at the back or edge...
23rd Nov 2021
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Introducing QuickDraw

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

23rd Nov 2021
This may be the best product we've ever designed. Existing cord organizers sit at the back or edge of your desk and create a mountain of clutter. Using them requires reaching for the cord you want and pulling it across your desk. To put it back, you have to flip the the cord...
Fields or Hutches? When I was small, living on a small farm near a college town, my father fell for an idea proffered...
12th Nov 2025
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Fields or Hutches?

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

12th Nov 2025
When I was small, living on a small farm near a college town, my father fell for an idea proffered by the Ralston Purina Company of Checkerboard Square in St. Louis.
So that's what alignment means Another thought experiment comes roaring to life.
14th Aug 2026
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So that's what alignment means

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

14th Aug 2026
Another thought experiment comes roaring to life.
Send and receive WhatsApp messages through email warning: Sending and receiving messages from WhatsApp through email would bypass the end-to-end...
12th Jan 2021
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Send and receive WhatsApp messages through email

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

12th Jan 2021
warning: Sending and receiving messages from WhatsApp through email would bypass the end-to-end encryption and may leak data to the email providers (Check update). If your reason for reading this is for better data security, then this is may not the right approach. This approach...
Health and fitness data Exploring the balance between health data and intuition, this blog post delves into how personal...
15th Jan 2024
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Health and fitness data

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

15th Jan 2024
Exploring the balance between health data and intuition, this blog post delves into how personal well-being and fitness goals shape our relationship with technology and self-awareness.
When Harry Met Sally This, to me, is the ur-romcom — the gold standard against which all others are compared, and most...
27th Sep 2018
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When Harry Met Sally

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

27th Sep 2018
This, to me, is the ur-romcom — the gold standard against which all others are compared, and most are found wanting. The chemistry, the script, the everpresent autumn, the interstitials with old couples — it is all so good, and exactly what it is trying to be!
Resurrecting Nexus 6P from bootloop of death Nexus Before the Pixel there was Nexus, smartphones and tablets to showcase the latest in android...
14th Jun 2019
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Resurrecting Nexus 6P from bootloop of death

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

14th Jun 2019
Nexus Before the Pixel there was Nexus, smartphones and tablets to showcase the latest in android with the brand of the manufacturer. They packed in latest android version with top end specifications and pathetic camera (processed image/video) quality; no wonder they didn't take...
Harpoom: of course the Apple Network Server can be hacked into running Doom a $10,000+ Apple server running IBM AIX. Of course you can. Well, you can now. Now, let's go ahead...
1st Jun 2025
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Harpoom: of course the Apple Network Server can be hacked into running Doom

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

1st Jun 2025
a $10,000+ Apple server running IBM AIX. Of course you can. Well, you can now. Now, let's go ahead and get the grumbling out of the way. No, the ANS is not running Linux or NetBSD. No, this is not a backport of NCommander's AIX Doom, because that runs on AIX 4.3. The Apple...
Grit: rewriting Git in Rust with agents We used agents to port all of Git to library-first, memory-safe Rust and it passes the entire C Git...
9th Jun 2026
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Grit: rewriting Git in Rust with agents

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

9th Jun 2026
We used agents to port all of Git to library-first, memory-safe Rust and it passes the entire C Git test suite.
My Very Own Rival I’ve always marveled at people who are motivated purely by the love of what they’re doing. There’s...
12th Feb 2025
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My Very Own Rival

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

12th Feb 2025
I’ve always marveled at people who are motivated purely by the love of what they’re doing. There’s something so wholesome about that approach to life—where winning and losing don’t matter. They’re simply there to revel in the experience
Disabling the crappy Broadcom Bluetooth adapter in your ThinkPad T430 running Linux You’ve disabled the boneheaded Lenovo WiFi adapter whitelist using a tool like 1vyrain, installed a...
1st Jun 2022
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1st Jun 2022
You’ve disabled the boneheaded Lenovo WiFi adapter whitelist using a tool like 1vyrain, installed a better adapter like the Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260, and found that Bluetooth is not working as intended on your ThinkPad T430 running Linux? Here’s a guide on what you can...
Instant Pan Gesture Interactions Apple has a really awesome WWDC 2018 video called Designing Fluid Interfaces, and one of the key...
13th May 2023
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Instant Pan Gesture Interactions

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

13th May 2023
Apple has a really awesome WWDC 2018 video called Designing Fluid Interfaces, and one of the key takeaways from the videos that one of the presenters, Chan Karunamuni, said is “Look for delays everywhere. Everything needs to respond instantly.” (6:28) A really great example of...
Configuring, attacking and securing VRRP on Linux The VRRP or Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol helps you create a reliable network by using multiple...
2nd Jan 2015
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Configuring, attacking and securing VRRP on Linux

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

2nd Jan 2015
The VRRP or Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol helps you create a reliable network by using multiple routers in an active/passive configuration. If the primary router fails, the backup router takes over almost seamlessly. This is how VRRP works: Clients connect to a virtual...
Comment on How Live Chat Tools Impact Conversions and Why I Launched a Bad Variant by Jeffrey... I would love to talk to you about this but there's no live chat on this site!
26th Jun 2018
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26th Jun 2018
I would love to talk to you about this but there's no live chat on this site!
2024-02-11 the top of the DNS hierarchy In the past (in fact two years ago, proof I have been doing this for a while now!) I wrote about the...
11th Feb 2024
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2024-02-11 the top of the DNS hierarchy

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

11th Feb 2024
In the past (in fact two years ago, proof I have been doing this for a while now!) I wrote about the "inconvenient truth" that structural aspects of the Internet make truly decentralized systems infeasible, due to the lack of a means to perform broadcast discovery. As a result,...
The flood of AI website builders There are so many of them. instead of markdown to enable lazy-loading --> How good...
27th Apr 2024
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The flood of AI website builders

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

27th Apr 2024
There are so many of them. instead of markdown to enable lazy-loading --> How good are these site builders? I don’t know. Are you worried about job security? I have two thoughts… 1. We’ve seen this before Wordpress, Squarespace, Shopify, Webflow… all these tools...
The Most Important Micros That is, for what they represent
28th Feb 2026
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The Most Important Micros

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

28th Feb 2026
That is, for what they represent
How Will the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act Affect Housing Supply? Part III This is my third and final essay looking at the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, and how it’s...
4 weeks ago
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How Will the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act Affect Housing Supply? Part III

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

4 weeks ago
This is my third and final essay looking at the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, and how it’s likely to affect housing supply.
Offline Advocate Digital hoarding as a check against the ephemeral nature of the internet ... and maybe some peace of...
19th Nov 2024
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Offline Advocate

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

19th Nov 2024
Digital hoarding as a check against the ephemeral nature of the internet ... and maybe some peace of mind.
The Intolerable Hypocrisy of Cyberlibertarianism I like the Internet. I am old enough to remember the pre-Internet era and despite the younger...
7th May 2026
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The Intolerable Hypocrisy of Cyberlibertarianism

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

7th May 2026
I like the Internet. I am old enough to remember the pre-Internet era and despite the younger generations pining for those simpler days, I was there. Paper maps were absolutely horrible, just you and a compass in your car on the side of the road in the middle of the
Lion's Disk Utility not compatible with CoreStorage and Filevault My 1 TB hard drive of my 2011 27" iMac was partitioned with: A bootable partition with Mac OS X...
2nd Aug 2011
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Lion's Disk Utility not compatible with CoreStorage and Filevault

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

2nd Aug 2011
My 1 TB hard drive of my 2011 27" iMac was partitioned with: A bootable partition with Mac OS X Lion Time machine partition (I use an external SSD as my main OS) Bootcamp partition with windows A data partition containg... data. The problem is that CoreStorage is too new. Disk...
Everyone knows all the apps on your phone Until a few years ago, any app you installed on an Android device could see all other apps on your...
27th Mar 2025
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Everyone knows all the apps on your phone

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

27th Mar 2025
Until a few years ago, any app you installed on an Android device could see all other apps on your phone without your permission.
On Design and Chemistry How I transitioned from chemistry to design, and back again.
12th Sep 2024
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On Design and Chemistry

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

12th Sep 2024
How I transitioned from chemistry to design, and back again.
Using AI to generate code Discover how AI-generated code can revolutionise your software development process and optimise...
2nd May 2023
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Using AI to generate code

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

2nd May 2023
Discover how AI-generated code can revolutionise your software development process and optimise cloud performance in our fascinating exploration of GPT-4's transformative capabilities.
From nanoscale to global scale: Advancing MIT’s special initiatives in manufacturing, health, and... MIT.nano cleanroom complex named after Robert Noyce PhD ’53 at the 2025 Nano Summit.
13th Nov 2025
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From nanoscale to global scale: Advancing MIT’s special initiatives in manufacturing, health, and climate

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

13th Nov 2025
MIT.nano cleanroom complex named after Robert Noyce PhD ’53 at the 2025 Nano Summit.
29th Nov 2021
2025 was the year of making a (small) dent in my universe Below is a version of the above video, so read or watch, whatever you prefer. I am not really one...
1st Dec 2025
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2025 was the year of making a (small) dent in my universe

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Dec 2025
Below is a version of the above video, so read or watch, whatever you prefer. I am not really one for inspirational quotes. I don't particularly like them. I don't particularly find them inspiring, but I really do like this one from Steve Jobs: “Life
Trying out VR on an AMD Ryzen 4000 series APU You may know that I really like small, efficient APU-based builds. At this point in time, they’re so...
4th May 2022
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Trying out VR on an AMD Ryzen 4000 series APU

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

4th May 2022
You may know that I really like small, efficient APU-based builds. At this point in time, they’re so close to being a viable mainstream option for gaming, especially the Ryzen 6000-series mobile APU-s. Forza Horizon 5, at 1080p high settings? Yes, they’re that good. I don’t have...
Comprehension of Concurrency is a Lifelong Journey Accept that your understanding is imperfect. There is comfort in letting go.
23rd Jul 2024
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Comprehension of Concurrency is a Lifelong Journey

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

23rd Jul 2024
Accept that your understanding is imperfect. There is comfort in letting go.
After Forty Years, Still No Silver Bullet Forty years ago, computer scientist Fred Brooks published a paper called No Silver Bullet: Essence...
10th Jul 2026
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After Forty Years, Still No Silver Bullet

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

10th Jul 2026
Forty years ago, computer scientist Fred Brooks published a paper called No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accident in Software Engineering. As its title implies, the paper argues there are no technological shortcuts to making software radically easier, simpler, or more reliable. You...
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
TIL: Tiptap Excerpt Extension with Rails While building Pika’s Stream of posts layout, we had need to add the capability to manage excerpts...
16th Jan 2025
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TIL: Tiptap Excerpt Extension with Rails

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

16th Jan 2025
While building Pika’s Stream of posts layout, we had need to add the capability to manage excerpts in the Pika editor. These excerpts would be used to show a small portion of your post in a post stream while offering a “continue reading” link for readers to click to read the rest...
Steam Deck: I like it I got a Steam Deck. Only took me a year or so of contemplating getting one, and trying out HoloISO,...
2nd Jun 2024
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Steam Deck: I like it

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

2nd Jun 2024
I got a Steam Deck. Only took me a year or so of contemplating getting one, and trying out HoloISO, the unofficial SteamOS installer finally convinced me to get one.1 It took another year to actually get down to writing down my thoughts on it. This post is written from the...
Lightweight Linux Kernel Development with KVM I don’t do a ton of Linux kernel development these days, but I’ve done a fair bit in the past, and...
30th Dec 2013
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Lightweight Linux Kernel Development with KVM

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

30th Dec 2013
I don’t do a ton of Linux kernel development these days, but I’ve done a fair bit in the past, and picked up a number of useful techniques for doing kernel development in a relatively painless fashion. This blog post is a writeup of the tools and techniques I use when developing...
Batavus Champion bike from 1978 Restore the retro glory of an old bike from the 70s using the internet.
2nd Sep 2016
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Batavus Champion bike from 1978

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

2nd Sep 2016
Restore the retro glory of an old bike from the 70s using the internet.
The Flamethrowers “Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for...
1st Mar 2025
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The Flamethrowers

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

1st Mar 2025
“Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For not dissolving into it.”
The T-34/2 keyboard layout The T-34/2 layout. QMK Heatmap Generator, with all layers and combos. It’s been 6 months since my...
28th Aug 2022
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The T-34/2 keyboard layout

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

28th Aug 2022
The T-34/2 layout. QMK Heatmap Generator, with all layers and combos. It’s been 6 months since my last update on the T-34 keyboard layout, and I’ve made some changes I’d like to document here. As seen in the heatmap above, the layout seems quite decent. There’s still an issue...
Create a Hue-compatible DIY LED light sculpture Learn how to create your own Hue compatible LED light sculpture, inspired by by the REFLEKTION art,...
15th Aug 2020
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Create a Hue-compatible DIY LED light sculpture

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

15th Aug 2020
Learn how to create your own Hue compatible LED light sculpture, inspired by by the REFLEKTION art, using cheap LED strips and DIY parts you can order online. The post Create a Hue-compatible DIY LED light sculpture appeared first on Style over Substance.
Introducing GitButler The development world runs on Git, yet pretty much nobody actually likes using Git. The main reason...
13th Apr 2023
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Introducing GitButler

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

13th Apr 2023
The development world runs on Git, yet pretty much nobody actually likes using Git. The main reason people put up with Git is love for GitHub, but GitHub is where people collaborate, not where people work. GitHub is not local. Nobody has really tried to reinvent the concept of...
Is the “AI developer”a threat to jobs – or a marketing stunt? One startup released “the first AI software engineer,” while another aims to build a “superhuman...
1st May 2024
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Is the “AI developer”a threat to jobs – or a marketing stunt?

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

1st May 2024
One startup released “the first AI software engineer,” while another aims to build a “superhuman software engineer.” As intimidating as these sound: what if it’s more marketing than reality?
The Album I would forgive the simplicity of the bubblegum or the datedness of the production or the very short...
4th Aug 2021
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The Album

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Aug 2021
I would forgive the simplicity of the bubblegum or the datedness of the production or the very short runtime if any of these songs were bops but...they weren't? It just wasn't a very fu album.
Survey: What’s in your tech stack? We want to capture an accurate snapshot of software engineering, today – and need your help! Tell us...
18th Mar 2025
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Survey: What’s in your tech stack?

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

18th Mar 2025
We want to capture an accurate snapshot of software engineering, today – and need your help! Tell us about your tech stack and get early access to the final report, plus extra analysis
Tesla Spyware I noticed my Model X was uploading ~2.6gb of something to Tesla when it parked and connected to...
1st Aug 2026
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Tesla Spyware

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

1st Aug 2026
I noticed my Model X was uploading ~2.6gb of something to Tesla when it parked and connected to WiFi. Hopefully turning all these settings off stops it; otherwise, I might need a new car. But are any good?
2023-08-07 STIRred AND SHAKEN In a couple of days, I pack up my bags to head for DEFCON. In a rare moment of pre-planning, perhaps...
7th Aug 2023
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2023-08-07 STIRred AND SHAKEN

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

7th Aug 2023
In a couple of days, I pack up my bags to head for DEFCON. In a rare moment of pre-planning, perhaps spurred by boredom, I looked through the schedule to see what's in store in the world of telephony. There is a workshop on SS7, of course [1], plenty of content on cellular, but...
The Rehearsal As many people have mentioned, this show owes a lot to Synecdoche; New York (a film that I have very...
3rd Sep 2022
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The Rehearsal

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

3rd Sep 2022
As many people have mentioned, this show owes a lot to Synecdoche; New York (a film that I have very strong memories of and for despite having only seen once, in a haze, ten years ago.) It's also a show in the discourse, which I think belies a little just how deeply weird it...
2015 Read Books I didn’t read a lot of books in 2015, but the books I did read were pretty damn good. Fiction A Song...
1st Jan 2016
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2015 Read Books

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

1st Jan 2016
I didn’t read a lot of books in 2015, but the books I did read were pretty damn good. Fiction A Song of Ice and Fire: A Dance with Dragons - George R.R. Martin Reread. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms - Gearge R.R. Martin The Skin Collector - Jeffery Deaver Best Served Cold - Joe...
Property-Based Testing Is Fuzzing “Property-based testing” refers to the idea of writing statements that should be true of your code...
3rd Oct 2017
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Property-Based Testing Is Fuzzing

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

3rd Oct 2017
“Property-based testing” refers to the idea of writing statements that should be true of your code (“properties”), and then using automated tooling to generate test inputs (typically, randomly-generated inputs of an appropriate type), and observe whether the properties hold for...
How to build up a data team (everything I ever learned about recruiting) During my time at Spotify, I've reviewed thousands of resumes and interviewed hundreds of people....
8th Jun 2014
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How to build up a data team (everything I ever learned about recruiting)

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

8th Jun 2014
During my time at Spotify, I've reviewed thousands of resumes and interviewed hundreds of people. Lots of them were rejected but lots of them also got offers. Finally, I've also had my share of offers rejected by the candidate.
Annoying blog post I spent a couple of hours this weekend going through some pull requests and issues to Annoy, which...
11th Nov 2014
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Annoying blog post

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

11th Nov 2014
I spent a couple of hours this weekend going through some pull requests and issues to Annoy, which is an open source C++/Python library for Approximate Nearest Neighbor search. I set up Travis-CI integration and spent some time on one of the issues that multiple people had...
Clip control on the Apple GPU Neverball rendered on the Apple M1 GPU with an open source OpenGL driver After a year in...
22nd Aug 2022
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Clip control on the Apple GPU

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

22nd Aug 2022
Neverball rendered on the Apple M1 GPU with an open source OpenGL driver After a year in development, the open source “Asahi” driver for the Apple GPU is running real games. There’s more to do, but Neverball is already playable (and a lot of fun!). Neverball uses legacy “fixed...
I Want People To Agree With Me, Not Die Pastor Tim has already written about this in light of another assassination attempt on either...
6th May 2026
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I Want People To Agree With Me, Not Die

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

6th May 2026
Pastor Tim has already written about this in light of another assassination attempt on either President Trump or other members of the administration. Many people are unhealthily and dangerously angry, and it seems like it’s getting worse.
How to play Nintendo 3DS games in 3D with XREAL XR glasses Playing Nintendo 3DS games in 3D in XR glasses looks better than it ever did on native 3DS hardware....
17th Apr 2026
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How to play Nintendo 3DS games in 3D with XREAL XR glasses

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

17th Apr 2026
Playing Nintendo 3DS games in 3D in XR glasses looks better than it ever did on native 3DS hardware. With super-sampling, the game will look quite sharp, blown up on a large private, virtual display. This is a guide describing my hardware and software setup for playing 3DS games...
Why I’m Switching Web Hosts Recently, I’ve gotten fed up with my web host. Since I stood this site up, I’ve used MediaTemple....
5th Jul 2019
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Why I’m Switching Web Hosts

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

5th Jul 2019
Recently, I’ve gotten fed up with my web host. Since I stood this site up, I’ve used MediaTemple. This was before WP Engine was around. At the time, MediaTemple had carved out a nice niche for themselves as the premium web host. Tim Ferriss also raved about them back in the day....
Prefer STRICT tables in SQLite In short: I prefer strict tables in SQLite because they avoid some datatype problems, such as...
11th Jul 2026
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Prefer STRICT tables in SQLite

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

11th Jul 2026
In short: I prefer strict tables in SQLite because they avoid some datatype problems, such as putting text in number columns. SQLite has a feature that I think is underrated: strict tables. Strict tables help enforce rigid typing, preventing mistakes like putting text into...
I resurrected my Dutch movie review site from 2003 Introduction Between 2003 and 2006, I ran a Dutch movie review site called moevie.nl.1 I built the...
9th Jun 2022
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I resurrected my Dutch movie review site from 2003

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

9th Jun 2022
Introduction Between 2003 and 2006, I ran a Dutch movie review site called moevie.nl.1 I built the site and wrote the reviews. It never made any money. It cost me money to host, and it cost me a lot of time writing reviews, but I remember enjoying writing reviews about films I...
The Power of One For my entire career, I've had a clear goal: to stay a company of one. This isn't a starting point,...
22nd Jul 2025
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The Power of One

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

22nd Jul 2025
For my entire career, I've had a clear goal: to stay a company of one. This isn't a starting point, but a deliberate choice about the best way to do great work and build a sustainable business. In this post, let me explain why. Focus Over Growth In a world that often celebrates...
Objectivity is superstition An objective, external world is a non-falsifiable assumption. The prevailing theory is that our...
17th Mar 2025
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Objectivity is superstition

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

17th Mar 2025
An objective, external world is a non-falsifiable assumption. The prevailing theory is that our subjective experiences correspond to an external reality. However, they may simply be subjective through and through. That which we claim to be evidence of external reality is actually...
Two Perspectives on the End-to-End Principle Back when I was an undergraduate, as part of a class called “Computer Systems Engineering”, we read...
11th Jun 2017
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Two Perspectives on the End-to-End Principle

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

11th Jun 2017
Back when I was an undergraduate, as part of a class called “Computer Systems Engineering”, we read numerous classic papers of systems design. I enjoyed and learned a great deal from many of these papers, but one that paper that has stuck with me in particular was Saltzer et al’s...
SoTW Eve The State of the Word is tomorrow, and it’s so fun to see SF abuzz with WordPress open source...
2nd Dec 2025
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SoTW Eve

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

2nd Dec 2025
The State of the Word is tomorrow, and it’s so fun to see SF abuzz with WordPress open source energy. We’re doing a lot of firsts tomorrow, including the first release timed to the State of the Word, and we’ll have a good chunk of the release team there to push the button and...
How traffic shaping can dramatically improve internet responsiveness At work, access to the internet is provided by a 10 Mbit down / 1 Mbit up ADSL-connection. As we are...
8th Mar 2014
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How traffic shaping can dramatically improve internet responsiveness

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

8th Mar 2014
At work, access to the internet is provided by a 10 Mbit down / 1 Mbit up ADSL-connection. As we are a mid-size company, bandwidth is clearly a severe constraint. But it was not our biggest problem. Even simple web-browsing was very slow. As I was setting up a monitoring...
2025-05-04 iBeacons You know sometimes a technology just sort of... comes and goes? Without leaving much of an...
4th May 2025
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2025-05-04 iBeacons

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

4th May 2025
You know sometimes a technology just sort of... comes and goes? Without leaving much of an impression? And then gets lodged in your brain for the next decade? Let's talk about one of those: the iBeacon. I think the reason that iBeacons loom so large in my memory is that...
Train Simulator Controller: Driver's Reminder Appliance (DRA) I’m building a physical cab dashboard to control Train Simulator, replicating the controls present...
5th Feb 2024
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Train Simulator Controller: Driver's Reminder Appliance (DRA)

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

5th Feb 2024
I’m building a physical cab dashboard to control Train Simulator, replicating the controls present in UK trains such as the Class 80x. One of the important safety systems is the Driver’s Reminder Appliance (DRA) that helps the driver avoid passing a red signal. I added a...
David Cuartielles receives the Open Source Award on Skills and Education We are proud to announce that David Cuartielles, co-founder of Arduino, has been honored with the...
3rd Feb 2025
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David Cuartielles receives the Open Source Award on Skills and Education

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

3rd Feb 2025
We are proud to announce that David Cuartielles, co-founder of Arduino, has been honored with the Open Source Award on Skills and Education 2025 and has become a founding member of the Open Source Academy of Europe. This prestigious award recognizes individuals who have made...
Impact of Adblockers on Google Analytics (vs. Plausible) Adblocker usage is quickly rising, with some estimates saying that almost 25% of internet users have...
27th Oct 2020
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Impact of Adblockers on Google Analytics (vs. Plausible)

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

27th Oct 2020
Adblocker usage is quickly rising, with some estimates saying that almost 25% of internet users have one installed. Not only do they block advertisements, but also analytics scripts (like Google Analytics, Matomo, etc.)So that begs the question: what is the impact of these...
How to change visibility in massive GitHub organizations like EpicGames? How to publicize and un-publicize your visibility in massive GitHub orgs?
23rd Oct 2021
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How to change visibility in massive GitHub organizations like EpicGames?

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

23rd Oct 2021
How to publicize and un-publicize your visibility in massive GitHub orgs?
AI automatically preps a bottle when the baby cries Bottle prepping machines make life just a little bit less hectic for overwhelmed parents, but they...
2nd Jan 2026
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AI automatically preps a bottle when the baby cries

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

2nd Jan 2026
Bottle prepping machines make life just a little bit less hectic for overwhelmed parents, but they do still need to be started and that is easier said than done when you’ve got a wailing baby in your arms. That’s why Manivannan created this edge AI-powered system that...
From GitHub to Codeberg/Forgejo Respect your users and their confidence in you, “Microsoft” GitHub. Ethkuil, Updates to your GitHub...
28th Apr 2026
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From GitHub to Codeberg/Forgejo

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

28th Apr 2026
Respect your users and their confidence in you, “Microsoft” GitHub. Ethkuil, Updates to your GitHub Feed #65343 After years of waffling around I finally bit the bullet and migrated away from GitHub onto Codeberg and a private Forgejo instance. If Codeberg is good enough for...
The Hunting Gun A slim, potent, and dense novella. The easy (lazy) comparison is to rashomon, and the way we see...
15th Jul 2018
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The Hunting Gun

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

15th Jul 2018
A slim, potent, and dense novella. The easy (lazy) comparison is to rashomon, and the way we see Misugi change from thin and narrow to nuanced and vital and then to a defeated husk of a man is expertly drawn. This kind of framing device has an odd effect: if it was done in a more...
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