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Building LLVM in 90 seconds using Amazon Lambda Last week, Frederic Cambus wrote about building LLVM quickly on some very large machines,...
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over a year ago
Last week, Frederic Cambus wrote about building LLVM quickly on some very large machines, culminating in a 2m37s build on a 160-core ARM machine. I don’t have a giant ARM behemoth, but I have been working on a tool I call Llama, which lets you offload computational work –...
Christian Selig
First on New Blog Converted the blog over to a new Hugo theme! Hopefully everything here sorta works. Test post will...
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Converted the blog over to a new Hugo theme! Hopefully everything here sorta works. Test post will remove. This goat’s name is apparently Gubgub, and very cute.
Matt Blewitt
Sensibly Default There are two programming principles that I hold dear to my heart: the principle of least surprise...
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8 months ago
There are two programming principles that I hold dear to my heart: the principle of least surprise and provide sensible defaults. I’ve recently been working within the GraphQL ecosystem, and the number of violations of both here has frustrated me. This will be a little bit ranty.
Computer Ads from...
UNIX Review Magazine Interviews Larry Tesler They discuss Tesler's involvement with Xerox, Apple and office automation with Unix.
10 months ago
Neil Madden
How do you use a bearer URL? In “Towards a standard for bearer token URLs”, I described a URL scheme that can be safely used to...
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over a year ago
In “Towards a standard for bearer token URLs”, I described a URL scheme that can be safely used to incorporate a bearer token (such as an OAuth access token) into a URL. That blog post concentrated on the technical details of how that would work and the security properties of the...
Computer Ads from...
Plus Post: Quantum Software Systems Ltd's QNX Operating Systems Come in Many Flavors But QNX Can Take the Heat
a year ago
Style over Substance
3D-printable Raleno 104 lightbox adapter for camera film scanning My latest creation is a 3D-printed adapter for the Raleno PLV-S104 (Raleno 104) light. The model...
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My latest creation is a 3D-printed adapter for the Raleno PLV-S104 (Raleno 104) light. The model turns it into a lightbox that you can use for digital camera scanning of your negative film. It also contains a holder compatible with the Valoi 35mm/120 film carriers. Additionally,...
Posts on Made of...
reptyr: Attach a running process to a new terminal Over the last week, I’ve written a nifty tool that I call reptyr. reptyr is a utility for taking an...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Over the last week, I’ve written a nifty tool that I call reptyr. reptyr is a utility for taking an existing running program and attaching it to a new terminal. Started a long-running process over ssh, but have to leave and don’t want to interrupt it? Just start a screen, use...
Arduino Blog
Turning a desk mat into a MIDI drum kit Playing drums is a lot of fun, but drum sets are very big and very loud. They also aren’t cheap....
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7 months ago
Playing drums is a lot of fun, but drum sets are very big and very loud. They also aren’t cheap. Those factors keep them from being an option for many people who would otherwise be interested. Conventional electronic drum sets are much quieter and a bit more compact, but they...
Notes on software...
Container scheduling strategies for integration testing 14 different databases in Github Actions This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
Notes on software...
A single-node Kubernetes cluster without virtualization or a container registry This post is a recipe for setting up a minimal Kubernetes cluster on Fedora without requiring...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This post is a recipe for setting up a minimal Kubernetes cluster on Fedora without requiring virtualization or a container registry. These two features make the system cloud-agnostic and the cluster entirely self-contained. The post will end with us running a simple Flask...
Notes on software...
io_uring basics: Writing a file to disk King and I wrote a blog post about building an event-driven cross-platform IO library that...
a year ago
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a year ago
King and I wrote a blog post about building an event-driven cross-platform IO library that used io_uring on Linux. We sketched out how it works at a high level but I hadn't yet internalized how you actually code with io_uring. So I strapped myself down this week and wrote...
Matt Mullenweg
Boom & Deepseek What an exciting time to be alive. I was hipped to Deepseek by Andrej Kaparthy’s tweet the day after...
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5 months ago
What an exciting time to be alive. I was hipped to Deepseek by Andrej Kaparthy’s tweet the day after Christmas, it was clear then that something big had happened and that it was truly open source and open weights (not this fake Llama stuff). It’s been fun to see the rest of the...
Notes on software...
Book Review: ANSI Common Lisp Score: 4.5 / 5 Paul Graham and his editor(s) are excellent. His prose is light and easy to follow....
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Score: 4.5 / 5 Paul Graham and his editor(s) are excellent. His prose is light and easy to follow. The only awkward component of the book's organization is that he tends to use a concept one section before explicitly introducing and defining that concept. I'm not sure yet if this...
Jonas Hietala
Ludum Dare 17 - an hour or two into it I decided to participate in the Ludum Dare this time, even though I’ve spent the whole day on a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I decided to participate in the Ludum Dare this time, even though I’ve spent the whole day on a massage course (which by the way was pretty darn good), and about halfway there this is what I’ve done: Chockingly… ugly All is not what meets the eye though, I’ve got the basics done...
Arduino Blog
A stroopwafel doneness detection device If you’re lucky enough to visit the Netherlands and you order a hot drink, you’ll likely be given a...
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a year ago
If you’re lucky enough to visit the Netherlands and you order a hot drink, you’ll likely be given a sweet treat as well. That is a stroopwafel, a crispy little waffle-syrup sandwich that the Dutch like to rest on top of their drink so that the rising heat will soften the pastry....
Neil Madden
A few programming language features I’d like to see I enjoyed Hillel Wayne’s recent newsletter about microfeatures they’d like to see in programming...
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over a year ago
I enjoyed Hillel Wayne’s recent newsletter about microfeatures they’d like to see in programming languages. A “microfeature” is essentially a small convenience that makes programming in that language a bit easier without fundamentally changing it. I love this idea. I’m partial to...
Jonas Hietala
Fixing Problems Today I have fixed two large annoyances I’ve had! I fixed the blue people on youtube bug I found a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Today I have fixed two large annoyances I’ve had! I fixed the blue people on youtube bug I found a nice thread with a great answer. I solved it by forcefully patching libflashplayer.so perl -pi.bak -e 's/libvdpau/lixvdpau/g' libflashplayer.so Worked perfectly! I fixed the...
Himanshu Mishra |...
Erotomania : An Unfortunate Tale “Hey Wake up! Wake up, for you are left with just 30 more minutes. You better sleep after this is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
“Hey Wake up! Wake up, for you are left with just 30 more minutes. You better sleep after this is over; rather that would be your only…
Arduino Blog
This Kenyan engineer modernizes vintage cars with a custom ECU and EFI upgrades The automotive industry’s switch from carburetion to fuel injection was one of the most effective...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
The automotive industry’s switch from carburetion to fuel injection was one of the most effective advancements of the 20th century. Electronic fuel injection allows for precise control over an internal combustion engine’s air-fuel mixture, which dramatically improves fuel...
Notes on software...
Effective unemployment and social media Being unemployed can be incredibly depressing. So much rejection. Everything seems to be out of your...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Being unemployed can be incredibly depressing. So much rejection. Everything seems to be out of your control. Everything except for one thing: what you produce. You might know that repeatedly posting on social media that you are looking for work is ineffective. That it looks (or...
Birchtree
The Vision Pro makes Touch ID more appealing Ryan Christoffel writing on 9to5Mac: Why Vision Pro Is Apple’s Best Reason Yet to Bring Touch ID...
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5 months ago
Ryan Christoffel writing on 9to5Mac: Why Vision Pro Is Apple’s Best Reason Yet to Bring Touch ID Back to iPhone Because Face ID on iPhone does no good when Vision Pro is strapped to your face—an unfortunate detail I’m reminded of every time I
Jonas Hietala
Exploring the Gleam FFI My brain is a curious thing. I’m on a business trip right now and I’ve set aside time to finish some...
a year ago
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a year ago
My brain is a curious thing. I’m on a business trip right now and I’ve set aside time to finish some important todos I want and need to get done. But instead of focusing on them, I started playing around with Gleam—a young and interesting programming language. My (current)...
Arduino Blog
This smart spice box makes cooking a breeze Many people shy away from cooking because they’re overwhelmed by all of the different steps and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Many people shy away from cooking because they’re overwhelmed by all of the different steps and ingredients. Recipes are useful, but they aren’t very intuitive to those who are more comfortable with visual thinking. To help these people enjoy the cooking experience, Purdue...
Engineers Need Art
Virtual Pinhead Discovering virtual pinball, a hobbyist community devoted to it, and building a full-size virtual...
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a year ago
Discovering virtual pinball, a hobbyist community devoted to it, and building a full-size virtual pinball cabinet.
Louwrentius
Why security is all about defense in depth Many people asume that if you regularly update your computer, you are safe from hackers. But nothing...
over a year ago
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Many people asume that if you regularly update your computer, you are safe from hackers. But nothing could be further from the truth. Keeping your systems up-to-date only protects you against exploits for publicly known vulnerabilities. Your systems are still not protected...
Louwrentius
Redhat explains why chroot is not a security feature I came across this Redhat security blog post that explains why the chroot command has it's uses, but...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I came across this Redhat security blog post that explains why the chroot command has it's uses, but it isn't magic security pixie dust. Running an application from within a chrooted jail or just on a well-configured system would result in the same level of security. Josh...
Arduino Blog
Innovative new tactile sensor helps assess fine motor skills Fine motor skills correlate strongly with cognition and the accurate assessment of an individual’s...
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Fine motor skills correlate strongly with cognition and the accurate assessment of an individual’s motor skills can be critical in diagnosing and treating a variety of conditions. But objective evaluation has been a challenge, as suitable sensors weren’t available. To help...
Willem's Blog
Space travelling from El Teide On Tenerife you'll find Teide, the world's second highest volcano with extra terestial views and a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
On Tenerife you'll find Teide, the world's second highest volcano with extra terestial views and a perfect altitude for stargazing.
axio.ms
32-bit hat, with LEDs Built in November 2015 (now-traditional multi-year writeup delay applied) A hat,...
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over a year ago
Built in November 2015 (now-traditional multi-year writeup delay applied) A hat, bejewelled with 38 RGB LEDs Is this thing on..? It’s been a while since I’ve written one of these. So, the hat. It’s been on the writeup pile for almost 6 years, nagging away. Finally...
Lars Lofgren
How Live Chat Tools Impact Conversions and Why I Launched a Bad Variant Do those live chat tools actually help your business? Will they get you more customers by allowing...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Do those live chat tools actually help your business? Will they get you more customers by allowing your visitors to chat directly with your team? Like most tests, you can come up with theories that sound great for both sides. Pro Live Chat Theory: Having a live chat tool helps...
Jonas Hietala
Dbot So I made a small irc bot in 294 characters in code-golfing language #1: Perl. Usage perl...
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So I made a small irc bot in 294 characters in code-golfing language #1: Perl. Usage perl Dbot Commands .name - Echo the bots name .hello - Output “hello world!” .src - Dump the source code Code use IO::Socket;$s=IO::Socket::INET->new("158.38.8.251:6667");sub o{print$s...
tim.sh
Why I created Ethereum Proof of Stake demo Hi there!
8 months ago
Matt Mullenweg
Those Other Lawsuits It’s a heavy day, and I’m sad to write this. Not sure where to start. In 2022, a lawyer recruited...
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8 months ago
It’s a heavy day, and I’m sad to write this. Not sure where to start. In 2022, a lawyer recruited two people who took care of my Mom—an assistant and one of her dozen nurses—to resign and demand a million dollars each, or they would publish horrible things about her in a lawsuit....
Jonas Hietala
Rising from the Dead, it's Ludum Dare I’ve been a long time gone, been busy with school then having summer vacation and generally not...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been a long time gone, been busy with school then having summer vacation and generally not making games or blogging. But I have revived! I scrambled to push my new website live because today it’s Ludum Dare time! The theme is “Evolution” and it’s the 24th time for Ludum Dare...
Birchtree
The next few vids you'll watch on YouTube I know it's a bit of cliché, but count me in the group of white men who 2021's Inside really...
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5 months ago
I know it's a bit of cliché, but count me in the group of white men who 2021's Inside really connected with me in a huge way. Anyway, now All Eyes on Me is going to be stuck in my head for the next month.
Simply Explained
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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
Good Enough
TIL: Easily Support Gravatars in Rails We’re building some software where we’d like to display avatars for email contacts even if they...
a year ago
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a year ago
We’re building some software where we’d like to display avatars for email contacts even if they aren’t users of our software. While Gravatar is a relic of Web 2.0, we’ve found that there are still a significant number of people who have their email addresses in that...
Jonas Hietala
Bullets and AI The game is still far from being an actual game but some progress has been made. I fixed most of the...
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over a year ago
The game is still far from being an actual game but some progress has been made. I fixed most of the collision detection problems and I’m now trying to make some sort of AI working for the ship. It’s a bit hard and time consuming and I don’t know how to make things good. Maybe...
Matt Blewitt
Everything I Know About Operations, I Learned From NHS 111 Ever heard someone say “It’s only software/money/<trivial thing>, not life or death”, in the context...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Ever heard someone say “It’s only software/money/<trivial thing>, not life or death”, in the context of incidents at your company? Although mostly true, I want to talk about a time in my career when sometimes, just sometimes, it was the latter, and how it shaped my approach to...
Jonas Hietala
An invisible Remake What does a guy like me do when not working on a new game? Except living my life, being a coach for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
What does a guy like me do when not working on a new game? Except living my life, being a coach for my little brother’s hockey team and eating strawberries? The last week or so I’ve been working hard with my webpage, yes this page. If you’ve visited my site before today you’ll...
Greater Still by...
Revisiting Borderless Payments What’s old is new again. By Gaby Goldberg & Bridget Harris
a year ago
Birchtree
Settings > Default Apps > Voice Assistant Parker Ortolani writing Gemini, Siri, and Default Assistants on iOS, arguing that Apple should allow...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Parker Ortolani writing Gemini, Siri, and Default Assistants on iOS, arguing that Apple should allow you to set a different default voice assistant: it would do two things: it would mitigate some of the damage with customer relations while they wait for the new Siri and it sets a...
Good Enough
TIL: Don’t forget your Web Manifest file We’re primarily a web shop. We’re dipping our toes into mobile app development, but our collective...
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over a year ago
We’re primarily a web shop. We’re dipping our toes into mobile app development, but our collective expertise is in making products and services for the web. And like everyone else, our use of the web has shifted from our desktops and laptops to our phones. As we’re creating and...
Home on Erik...
The lane next to you is more likely to be slower than yours Saw this link on Hacker News the other day: The Highway Lane Next to Yours Isn’t Really Moving Any...
over a year ago
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Saw this link on Hacker News the other day: The Highway Lane Next to Yours Isn’t Really Moving Any Faster The article describes a phenomenon unique to traffic where cars spread out when they go fast and get more compact when they go slow.
Posts on Made of...
Using wpa_supplicant on Debian/Ubuntu I’ve been using wpa_supplicant to manage wifi on my Ubuntu laptop for a while, and have found that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been using wpa_supplicant to manage wifi on my Ubuntu laptop for a while, and have found that it’s pretty close to what I want for managing wireless — closer than anything else I’ve found, at least. I figured I should document my setup and experiences. Some Background You...
Louwrentius
Core i7 920 @ 3,6 Ghz is a true beast! Even today, Core 2 Duo processors clocked at 2 ghz are no slugs. However, the Core i7 920 is of a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Even today, Core 2 Duo processors clocked at 2 ghz are no slugs. However, the Core i7 920 is of a different kind. First, it is not only clocked at a higher speed (default 2,8 Ghz), it is also a quad-core processor. Thanks to the re- introduction of hyperthreading, this processor...
Willem's Blog
Born with MCADD Our son was diagnosed with MCADD days after he was born. We experienced a metabolic crisis but were...
over a year ago
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Our son was diagnosed with MCADD days after he was born. We experienced a metabolic crisis but were lucky to be just in time!
Birchtree
A lot changed for LLMs in 2024 I thought this was a fascinating post by Simon Willison: Things We Learned About LLMs in 2024 This...
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I thought this was a fascinating post by Simon Willison: Things We Learned About LLMs in 2024 This increase in efficiency and reduction in price is my single favourite trend from 2024. I want the utility of LLMs at a fraction of the energy cost and it looks like that&
Vitalik Buterin's...
How will Ethereum's multi-client philosophy interact with ZK-EVMs?
over a year ago
Arduino Blog
A DIY weather display with dedicated outdoor sensor station Weather stations are popular projects in the maker community because they’re useful and usually...
a year ago
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Weather stations are popular projects in the maker community because they’re useful and usually quite affordable to construct. But most that we see are really weather information displays that gather data through the internet from stations in the region. That data is fairly...
computers are bad
2023-07-10 the tragedy of beatrice foods Occasionally, research into the history of telephony takes you into some strange places. There are...
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Occasionally, research into the history of telephony takes you into some strange places. There are conspiracy theories, of course, and there are people who insist on their version of events so incessantly that details of dates and places can become heated arguments. There is also...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Inside an IBM/Motorola mainframe controller chip from 1981 In this article, I look inside a chip in the IBM 3274 Control Unit.1 But before I discuss the chip,...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
In this article, I look inside a chip in the IBM 3274 Control Unit.1 But before I discuss the chip, I need to give some background on mainframes. (I didn't completely analyze the chip, so don't expect a nice narrative or solid conclusions.) Die photo of the Motorola/IBM SC81150...
Odds and Ends of...
A significant UK think-tanking is backing the campaign to liberate the Postcode Address File The pressure is on the government to abolish the Innovation Tax
4 months ago
Old Vintage...
Thou shalt follow these Vintage Computing Commandments Thou shalt check voltage and polarity on new-to-thee power supplies, or thy machines shall be smote...
a year ago
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a year ago
Thou shalt check voltage and polarity on new-to-thee power supplies, or thy machines shall be smote and release smoke. This is sometimes very hard to judge without a load, but they should be somewhere in the ballpark, verily, and you should get in the habit of checking any new...
Computer Ads from...
Comics from 1983/08 Today Mag Time for some levity. The following comics were all found in the August 1983 issue of Today...
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Time for some levity. The following comics were all found in the August 1983 issue of Today magazine. Enjoy! What computer ads would you like to see in the future? Please comment below. If you enjoyed it, please share it with your friends and relatives. Thank you.
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #44: The New Statesman still needs fixing Plus Channel Tunnel news, a NIMBY assault on an excellent pub, and more!
7 months ago
Abishek Muthian
Possible compromise of Read Aloud browser extension Possible compromise of Read Aloud browser extension. Read Aloud is a famous Text-To-Speech browser...
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over a year ago
Possible compromise of Read Aloud browser extension. Read Aloud is a famous Text-To-Speech browser extension with 65,065 Users & Recommended badge on Firefox and 3,000,000+ users on Chrome web store. It is mostly used by people with accessibility needs, Especially those who are...
latest projects -...
Light comms on the 003 [Hardware] Tiny terrahertz transmissions
11 months ago
lcamtuf’s thing
A 15-minute intro to involute gears Involute gears are everywhere: toys, kitchen appliances, cars. But what's so special about their...
7 months ago
Abort Retry Fail
Chipzilla Extends its Domination MMX, Bunny People, Celeron, Xeon
4 months ago
Willem's Blog
Collecting health data with Biostrap Wearing a clinical-grade PPG sensor for a month to collect advanced biometrics from my wrist.
over a year ago
Buck on Software
Explaining the growth software sell-off The terminal value double whammy of rising interest rates
over a year ago
Greater Still by...
Web3’s Mobile Moment In 2013, media & technology analyst Benedict Evans presented “Mobile is eating the world,” looking...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In 2013, media & technology analyst Benedict Evans presented “Mobile is eating the world,” looking at how the unprecedented scale of mobile was beginning to change the Internet and the economy at large.
Jonas Hietala
Establishing Habits with Habitica I have used Habitica the last 18 months to organize my habits and things I want to get done. I...
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over a year ago
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....
Louwrentius
WFS - WAN Failover Script now available Since I could not find a WAN failover script for Linux to my likening, I wrote one myself. If you...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Since I could not find a WAN failover script for Linux to my likening, I wrote one myself. If you have any use for it: I put it on a Google code project. WFS tests the availability of your primary WAN connection and switches to your secondary / backup connection when a failure is...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Inside an unusual 7400-series chip implemented with a gate array When I look inside a chip from the popular 7400 series, I know what to expect: a fairly simple...
a year ago
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a year ago
When I look inside a chip from the popular 7400 series, I know what to expect: a fairly simple die, implemented in a straightforward, cost-effective way. However, when I looked inside a military-grade chip built by Integrated Device Technology (IDT)4 I found a very unexpected...
anderegg.ca
An update on Mastodon and referer headers Earlier this year, I looked into why Mastodon didn’t include referer headers. As someone who enjoys...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Earlier this year, I looked into why Mastodon didn’t include referer headers. As someone who enjoys following web analytics, it seemed a shame that Mastodon appeared never to send any traffic. I knew this wasn’t the case, but that lack of traffic data certainly wasn’t doing...
Arduino Blog
Reimagining the chicken coop with predator detection, Wi-Fi control, and more The traditional backyard chicken coop is a very simple structure that typically consists of a...
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11 months ago
The traditional backyard chicken coop is a very simple structure that typically consists of a nesting area, an egg-retrieval panel, and a way to provide food and water as needed. Realizing that some aspects of raising chickens are too labor-intensive, the Coders Cafe crew decided...
Lars Lofgren
My 7 Rules for A/B Testing That Triple Conversion Rates I really don’t care how any given A/B test turns out. That’s right. Not one bit. But wait, how do I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I really don’t care how any given A/B test turns out. That’s right. Not one bit. But wait, how do I double or triple conversion rates without caring how a test performs? I actually care about the whole SYSTEM of testing. All the pieces need to fit together just right. If not,...
Posts on Made of...
Measuring Capacity Through Utilization (This post is cross-posted from Honeycomb’s instrumentation series). One of my favorite concepts...
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over a year ago
(This post is cross-posted from Honeycomb’s instrumentation series). One of my favorite concepts when thinking about instrumenting a system to understand its overall performance and capacity is what I call “time utilization”. By this I mean: If you look at the behavior of a...
Abort Retry Fail
The History of Microsoft Encarta Searchable Human Knowledge
a year ago
lcamtuf’s thing
Building a phosphorescence detector There's very little written about natural phosphorescence. Let's design a device that can spot it in...
7 months ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Blockchain voting is overrated among uninformed people but underrated among informed people
over a year ago
latest projects -...
Smallest USB-C MIDI Synth [Hardware] The smallest and silliest MIDI synth yet
a year ago
Notes on software...
1 million page views I was delighted to notice this morning that this site has recently passed 1M page views. And since...
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7 months ago
I was delighted to notice this morning that this site has recently passed 1M page views. And since Murat wrote about his 1M page view accomplishment at the time, I felt compelled to now too. I started regularly blogging in 2018. For some reason I decided to write a blog post...
Himanshu Mishra |...
Threads “You’re an interesting species. An interesting mix. You’re capable of such beautiful dreams, and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
“You’re an interesting species. An interesting mix. You’re capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost…
somenice
Matter as a Smart home standard Matter is the name of the smart home standard that promises to bridge IOT devices and different home...
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a year ago
Matter is the name of the smart home standard that promises to bridge IOT devices and different home eco-systems. Amazon Alexa, Google Home, Apple Homekit, Samsung SmartThings, etc. To prevent 6+ flavours of smart lightbulbs working with 6+ different apps, a standard needed to be...
Jonas Hietala
Reinstalling Slackware So I reinstalled slackware on my machine and decided to take some rough notes of the most important...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
So I reinstalled slackware on my machine and decided to take some rough notes of the most important steps I made. I did not document the steps in detail, and some are very specific for my setup. But maybe it can be useful for someone, or myself. Basic steps Make slackware usb...
computers are bad
2023-02-17 something up there pt II As we discussed previously, the search for UAP is often contextualized in terms of the events of...
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As we discussed previously, the search for UAP is often contextualized in terms of the events of 2017: the public revelation of the AATIP and alien-hunting efforts by Robert Bigelow and Tom DeLonge. While widely publicized, these programs seem to have lead to very little. I...
Matt Mullenweg
On Lenny’s Podcast One of my must-read newsletters for the past several years has been Lenny’s Newsletter, probably...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
One of my must-read newsletters for the past several years has been Lenny’s Newsletter, probably best known for its writing on growth and product management, which really means it covered everything you need to create a great company. It expanded into a really well-done podcast;...
Bryan Braun - Blog
Links #10 How to Get on a Podcast - This is a short and invaluable post for anyone who wants to be a podcast...
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11 months ago
How to Get on a Podcast - This is a short and invaluable post for anyone who wants to be a podcast guest. It puts you in the shoes of a podcaster, showing you what they need, and how you can be a “sure thing” for them. As usual, there are no short cuts. You gotta do the work! A...
Louwrentius
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...
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over a year ago
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...
Louwrentius
Linux: get a list of al disks and their size To get a list of all disk drives of a Linux system, such as this: Disk /dev/md0: 58.0 GB Disk...
over a year ago
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To get a list of all disk drives of a Linux system, such as this: Disk /dev/md0: 58.0 GB Disk /dev/md1: 2015 MB Disk /dev/md5: 18002.2 GB Disk /dev/sda: 60.0 GB Disk /dev/sdb: 60.0 GB Disk /dev/sdc: 1000.1 GB Disk /dev/sdd: 1000.1 GB Disk /dev/sde: 1000.1 GB Disk /dev/sdf: 1000.1...
computers are bad
2024-09-08 private lines I have been meaning, for some time, to write about common carrier switching arrangements (CCSAs)....
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I have been meaning, for some time, to write about common carrier switching arrangements (CCSAs). These could be considered an early form of products like "virtual private ethernet:" a private telephone network that was served by the same switching machines that handled the...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Exploring Fully Homomorphic Encryption
over a year ago
Home on Erik...
Installing TensorFlow on AWS Curious about Google's newly released TensorFlow? I don't have a beefy GPU machine, so I spent some...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Curious about Google's newly released TensorFlow? I don't have a beefy GPU machine, so I spent some time getting it to run on EC2. The steps on how to reproduce it are pretty brutal and I wouldn't recommend going through it unless you want to waste five hours of your live.
Louwrentius
RAID array size and rebuild speed When a disk fails of a RAID 5 array, you are no longer protected against (another) disk failure and...
over a year ago
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When a disk fails of a RAID 5 array, you are no longer protected against (another) disk failure and thus data loss. During this rebuild time, you are vulnerable. The longer it takes to rebuild your array, the longer you are vulnerable. Especially during a disk-intensive period,...
Abort Retry Fail
The Tandy Corporation, Part 1 From leather shoe bits to the TRS-80
a month ago
Birchtree
Tariffs, integrity, and chaos Ben Thompson: American Disruption (emphasis mine): [T]he most important components for executing a...
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3 months ago
Ben Thompson: American Disruption (emphasis mine): [T]he most important components for executing a fundamental shift in trade are those that go into building actual factories, or equipment for those factories. In the vast sea of stupidity that are these tariffs this is perhaps...
Louwrentius
Linux on Mac Mini - boot after power failure When using a Mac Mini as a server or router, it is very nice if the machine automatically boots if a...
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over a year ago
When using a Mac Mini as a server or router, it is very nice if the machine automatically boots if a power failure has occurred. User chirhoxi on the ubuntu forum found out how this can be achieved: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1209576 Basically you need one of these...
Louwrentius
ZFS on Linux: monitor cache hit ratio I'm performing some FIO random read 4k I/O benchmarks on a ZFS file system. So since I didn't trust...
over a year ago
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I'm performing some FIO random read 4k I/O benchmarks on a ZFS file system. So since I didn't trust the numbers I got, I wanted to know how many of the IOPs I got were due to cache hits rather than disk hits. This is why I wrote a small shell script called archhitratio. Sample...
./techtipsy
Turns out that I'm a 'prolific open-source influencer' now Yes, you read that right. I’m a prolific open-source influencer now. Some years ago I set up a...
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4 months ago
Yes, you read that right. I’m a prolific open-source influencer now. Some years ago I set up a Google Alert with my name, for fun. Who knows what it might show one day? On 7th of February, it fired an alert. Turns out that my thoughts on Ubuntu were somewhat popular, and it ended...
Notes on software...
How I run a software book club I've been running software book clubs almost continuously since last summer, about 12 months ago. We...
a year ago
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a year ago
I've been running software book clubs almost continuously since last summer, about 12 months ago. We read through Designing Data-Intensive Applications, Database Internals, Systems Performance, and we just started Understanding Software Dynamics. The DDIA discussions were...
Odds and Ends of...
Yes, AI really can be used to tackle potholes It's not bullshit, it's already happening.
5 months ago
Opsbros
WetSocks Revival How to get a broken METAR/TAF Toolbar application working again; the fun way! Seeing what we can do...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
How to get a broken METAR/TAF Toolbar application working again; the fun way! Seeing what we can do to get WetSocks Windows 98 tray weather app working again.
Vitalik Buterin's...
Binius: highly efficient proofs over binary fields
a year ago
Applied Cartography
Using Cursor to port Django tests to pytest When it comes to AI tooling, I am equal parts optimist and cynic. I have no moral qualm with using...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
When it comes to AI tooling, I am equal parts optimist and cynic. I have no moral qualm with using these tools (Supermaven is a pretty heavy part of my day-to-day work), but have found most tools quite bad by the metric of "do they make me more productive on Buttondown's code...
anderegg.ca
More details on Bluesky’s subscription plan Update: I had missed this, but the Bluesky team had already announced a subscription model was on...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Update: I had missed this, but the Bluesky team had already announced a subscription model was on the way. I had written this article assuming that was the news. What is new is the work happening on their official apps, which contains details on features and potential pricing. An...
Lighthouse Blog
Updates May 24
a year ago
Jonas Hietala
We moved away from the city When me and my girlfriend Veronica moved to Linköping to study at the University the plan was never...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When me and my girlfriend Veronica moved to Linköping to study at the University the plan was never to stay there permanently. We just moved there to study but the longterm plan, if you can have one at that stage, was always to move back to the north of Sweden where we came...
Jonas Hietala
Ludum Dare 20 Timelapse So this time I managed to compose a timelapse of my weekend and the making of My Minions. Sadly I...
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So this time I managed to compose a timelapse of my weekend and the making of My Minions. Sadly I lost the first few hours as I forgot to turn it on… Anyway here’s the result: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABVPlRaA5iI
anderegg.ca
Trying out GoodLinks The weeks leading up to the holidays have been hectic. I’m behind on “internet stuff” since entering...
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The weeks leading up to the holidays have been hectic. I’m behind on “internet stuff” since entering Christmas-mode, and have been looking for a better way to capture things I want to look at later. I’ve had this issue before, but solved it in an ad-hoc way. Previously I’d made...
Jonas Hietala
The I'm Great quote A new semester at the uni and so far it looks promising; I got a hold of some new books even though...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A new semester at the uni and so far it looks promising; I got a hold of some new books even though the bookstore had a snakelike queue similar to the Jörmungandr (the snake that encircled the earth in nordic mythology) and our new programming course started. This time it’s Ada’s...
The New Oil
Cybersecurity & Privacy For Beginners: Ad Blocking
5 months ago
Home on Erik...
Welcome Echo Nest! In case you missed it, we just acquired a company called Echo Nest in Boston. These people have been...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In case you missed it, we just acquired a company called Echo Nest in Boston. These people have been obsessed with understanding music for the past 8 years since it was founded by Brian Whitman and Tristan Jehan out of MIT Medialab.
Willem's Blog
Designing a multi dimensional capacity queue Dealing with a capacity queue is challenging, but if you take the time to model it right it is...
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over a year ago
Dealing with a capacity queue is challenging, but if you take the time to model it right it is possible to create a performant and reliable system.
anderegg.ca
A look back at 2024, and what’s next for 2025 At the end of last year, I wrote about wanting to focus on the web in 2024. How did that shake...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
At the end of last year, I wrote about wanting to focus on the web in 2024. How did that shake out? Top level stats I considered 2023 the first year that I honestly tried getting back into blogging. My goal then was to post something every month, and I managed that with 14 posts...
Lighthouse Blog
Updates December 01: UX improvements
a year ago
Old Vintage...
Pretty pictures, bootable floppy disks, and the first Canon Cat demo? Now that our 1987 Canon Cat is refurbished and ready to go another nine innings or so, it's time to...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
Now that our 1987 Canon Cat is refurbished and ready to go another nine innings or so, it's time to get into the operating system and pull some tricks. from our historical discussion of the Canon Cat, the Cat was designed by Jef Raskin as a sophisticated user-centric computer...
Applied Cartography
Vibes and years XH asks: How do indie developers/small teams keep track of and prioritize long-term roadmaps? I've...
a year ago
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a year ago
XH asks: How do indie developers/small teams keep track of and prioritize long-term roadmaps? I've been basically work off my gut + Feeling of the Day for the past few years, and that's getting a bit unsustainable Buttondown's roadmapping has existed for the past three years in a...
Applied Cartography
Use Rails I have a good number of people ask me what software stack they should use. I always have a two-part...
a year ago
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a year ago
I have a good number of people ask me what software stack they should use. I always have a two-part answer: Use what you're familiar with. If there's something that you've spent a good amount of time using, stick with that one. Rails. People are usually surprised when I say this...
Arduino Blog
Improve laser engraving speeds with an Arduino-controlled turntable Engraving items with a laser-based system at home is amazingly convenient for one-off parts, but...
a year ago
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Engraving items with a laser-based system at home is amazingly convenient for one-off parts, but what happens when the production volume needs to increase? For element14 Presents host Clem Mayer, this usually meant preparing many uniform pieces of engraving stock, opening the...
Engineers Need Art
Mooncraft 2000 A web-based game, Mooncraft 2000 is released.
over a year ago
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #59: The end of "woke capitalism" Plus the government did the stupid thing after all.
4 months ago
Willem's Blog
Developing a native iOS app How hard can it be to build your own cycling and running workout tracker app using native code with...
a year ago
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a year ago
How hard can it be to build your own cycling and running workout tracker app using native code with some help from AI? Read along to find out!
Old Vintage...
There's not much point in buying Commodore Bona fides: Commodore 128DCR on my desk with a second 1571, Ultimate II+-L and a ZoomFloppy, three...
a month ago
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a month ago
Bona fides: Commodore 128DCR on my desk with a second 1571, Ultimate II+-L and a ZoomFloppy, three SX-64s I use for various projects, heaps of spare 128DCRs, breadbox 64s, 16s, Plus/4s and VIC-20s on standby, multiple Commodore collectables (blue-label PET 2001, C64GS, 116, TV...
Birchtree
Apple jumps in the hot tub Zac Hall writing for 9to5Mac: Apple Responds After Being Forced to Approve Porn App on EU iPhones...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Zac Hall writing for 9to5Mac: Apple Responds After Being Forced to Approve Porn App on EU iPhones Due to DMA The bottom line for parents, though, is that the “Apple-approved” messaging around the porn app on iPhone omits the fact that Apple is legally required to approve the
Ken Shirriff's blog
Inside the tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets To use the Montreal subway (the Métro), you tap a paper ticket against the turnstile and it...
a year ago
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a year ago
To use the Montreal subway (the Métro), you tap a paper ticket against the turnstile and it opens. The ticket works through a system called NFC, but what's happening internally? How does the ticket work without a battery? How does it communicate with the turnstile? And how can it...
Good Enough
Adding Social Preview Images To Our 11ty Blog Twitter X recently removed headlines and descriptions from link previews, in the name of...
a year ago
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a year ago
Twitter X recently removed headlines and descriptions from link previews, in the name of “esthetics.” Inspired by Steph Ango, while we try not to run our business on the whims of a social media platform, this change did push us into making a change we’ve been meaning to for...
Himanshu Mishra |...
Quest for Universal action — Essay You may listen to this while reading We Are All Astronauts - Ether (YouTube). Few months ago, a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
You may listen to this while reading We Are All Astronauts - Ether (YouTube). Few months ago, a significant percentage of my peers were…
./techtipsy
Why I went back to using a ThinkPad from 2012 This post is inspired by this article from the Low-tech Magazine. I highly recommend giving that a...
over a year ago
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This post is inspired by this article from the Low-tech Magazine. I highly recommend giving that a read as well! Over my lifetime, I’ve used a bunch of different computers, mainly due to new ideas and requirements popping into my mind every time I’m content with my current setup....
latest projects -...
World's Smallest Molecules [Misc] If ever I had a complaint about molecule models, it's that they're too big.
2 months ago
Never Met a Science
Do Echo Chambers Cause Echo Chambers? Towards poetic validity
11 months ago
Matt Mullenweg
Berkshire Hathaway Meeting I’ve checked off a bucket list item: I’m attending a Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting. It’s...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
I’ve checked off a bucket list item: I’m attending a Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting. It’s really an event! Thousands flock to Omaha, Nebraska, for the legendary Q&A sessions with Warren Buffett and shareholder deals. They’ve made it quite the circus, with every Berkshire...
Notes on software...
Studying foreign languages with inbox zero The only time I've been able to seriously, rapidly improve my ability to speak a foreign language...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The only time I've been able to seriously, rapidly improve my ability to speak a foreign language was through intensive language courses in college. I was forced to actively speak, read, and write Chinese for 6-8 hours a week (1-2 hours every day). Then study another 5-10 hours a...
Computer Ads from...
Massive Interview with Steve Jobs from MicroTime (1992) An in-depth discussion on NeXT
4 months ago
Posts on Made of...
Test suites as classifiers Suppose we have some codebase we’re considering applying some patch to, and which has a robust and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Suppose we have some codebase we’re considering applying some patch to, and which has a robust and maintained test suite. Considering the patch, we may ask, is this patch acceptable to apply and deploy. By this we mean to ask if the patch breaks any important functionality,...
Willem's Blog
iPad Pro as primary computer Is the time right to use an iPad as primary development platform to get some real work done?
over a year ago
./techtipsy
How I treat my urge to hoard data The tagline for /r/datahoarder reads: “It’s A Digital Disease!”. I agree. At some point I realized...
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The tagline for /r/datahoarder reads: “It’s A Digital Disease!”. I agree. At some point I realized that the pursuit to hoard all the things will just keep on consuming more and more of my time and money. Storage is cheap up until to a point, once you find yourself tracking hard...
Elevation Lab - Blog
Designers Desk #2 - Aaron Della Vedova Designer's Desk is a new series featuring the desk setups of artists, designers, and creators -...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Designer's Desk is a new series featuring the desk setups of artists, designers, and creators - showcasing how they work and what their workspace looks like.   Aaron Della Vedova is one of the world's most celebrated tattoo artists and the owner of Guru Tattoo, which has two...
Odds and Ends of...
Christmas Mailbag! Is Elon Musk actually smart? Will HS2 ever be properly finished? Do I like Dominic Cummings? And...
6 months ago
Notes on software...
An intuition for distributed consensus in OLTP systems Distributed consensus in transactional databases (e.g. etcd or Cockroach) is a big deal these days....
a year ago
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a year ago
Distributed consensus in transactional databases (e.g. etcd or Cockroach) is a big deal these days. Most often under the hood are variations of log-based Paxos-like algorithms such as MultiPaxos, Viewstamped Replication, or Raft. While there are new variations that come out each...
Applied Cartography
Globals in Histoire Histoire, like so many other tools in the Vue ecosystem, is a bit of a neglected younger sibling to...
a year ago
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a year ago
Histoire, like so many other tools in the Vue ecosystem, is a bit of a neglected younger sibling to Storybook — a little bit uglier, with worse documentation and a couple rough edges, but much more tightly integrated with Vue and Vite. [1] One thing that was not particularly...
Birchtree
Show “nobody wanted” was the second-most-watched show on Disney+ Katie Campione writing for Deadline with a very long headline: Broadcast Was “Surprisingly...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Katie Campione writing for Deadline with a very long headline: Broadcast Was “Surprisingly Resilient” in 2024 Amid Production Declines, but Streaming Still Leads the Pack; ‘Fool Me Once’ Led TV Last Year, Luminate Says big IP franchises were still the best performing series on...
Jonas Hietala
8-puzzle in rust I think rust is one of the most interesting upcoming programming languages out there. So I wrote a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I think rust is one of the most interesting upcoming programming languages out there. So I wrote a solution to the 8-puzzle (see the 15-puzzle) using A*. It also has a breadth first search for solutions on a specific distance away from the goal. The solution is not by any means a...
Old Vintage...
Ward Christensen dies There was initially some issue verifying this, but there appears to be direct confirmation now that...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
There was initially some issue verifying this, but there appears to be direct confirmation now that Ward Christensen passed away October 11 at the age of 78, co-founder of the pioneering Computerized Bulletin Board System in February 1978 with Randy Suess — now believed to be the...
Notes on software...
Reviewing the Surface Book 2 The first few paragraphs cover what I was looking for and what I considered. Then the review. Why...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The first few paragraphs cover what I was looking for and what I considered. Then the review. Why the Surface Book 2 I used a Macbook throughout my professional career until I had the choice a few years ago when I started my current job. Here, I ran Gentoo, then FreeBSD, then...
anderegg.ca
The “Home Alone” / “NiGHTS into Dreams” connection NiGHTS into Dreams is one of those games I tend to think about when Christmas rolls around. It’s one...
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7 months ago
NiGHTS into Dreams is one of those games I tend to think about when Christmas rolls around. It’s one of my favourites from the Saturn lineup, and it also had a free Christmas version. In it, there’s a song I really love that plays on the level select screen called Gate of Your...
lcamtuf’s thing
Random objects: Guycot & Jarre Early repeating handguns, or another unnecessary excursion into the bowels of history.
a year ago
GitButler
The Birth of THE MERGE Sitting at lunch one day, the GitButler team were having our usual conversations of how awesome our...
a year ago
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a year ago
Sitting at lunch one day, the GitButler team were having our usual conversations of how awesome our community is, product feature ideas, and how much Kiril loves food. As we shifted toward the topic of conferences, the idea of hosting our own event emerged. Wouldn’t it be fun
Neil Madden
Making things I made my daughter a toy tree house thing for Christmas out of old firewood (and a slice of cedar...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I made my daughter a toy tree house thing for Christmas out of old firewood (and a slice of cedar donated by a neighbour). It’s a bit clunky in places — “rustic” shall we say? But I probably enjoyed making this, over a few weeks of lunchtimes and evenings, more than anything I’ve...
computers are bad
2024-02-25 a history of the tty It's one of those anachronisms that is deeply embedded in modern technology. From cloud operator...
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It's one of those anachronisms that is deeply embedded in modern technology. From cloud operator servers to embedded controllers in appliances, there must be uncountable devices that think they are connected to a TTY. I will omit the many interesting details of the Linux terminal...
Computer Ads from...
MBP's Visual COBOL Because Productivity Is The Key To Your Future
2 weeks ago
Louwrentius
Benchmark results of Random I/O performance of different RAID levels Introduction I have performed some benchmarks to determine how different RAID levels perform when...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Introduction I have performed some benchmarks to determine how different RAID levels perform when handling a 100% random workload of 4K requests. This is a worst-case scenario for almost every storage subsystem. Normal day-to-day workloads may not be that harsh in a real-life...
Good Enough
Why We're Writing Blog Software We’re seven months into our Cosmic Maelstrom and we have started writing blogging software. What the...
a year ago
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a year ago
We’re seven months into our Cosmic Maelstrom and we have started writing blogging software. What the why?! First, let me say that, yes, I do realize there are probably 100s of blog software options out there. In terms of static-site generators (SSGs) alone, there are probably...
Home on Erik...
What is the right level of specialization? For data teams and anyone else. This isn't as much of a blog post as an elaboration of a tweet I posted the other day: I think this...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This isn't as much of a blog post as an elaboration of a tweet I posted the other day: I think this specialization of data teams into 99 different roles (data scientist, data engineer, analytics engineer, ML engineer etc) is generally a bad thing driven by the fact that tools are...
Willem's Blog
Workout data in 3D I had this idea to use ThreeJS to visualise workout data from a recent run, read along to see what...
4 months ago
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I had this idea to use ThreeJS to visualise workout data from a recent run, read along to see what I've created.
Style over Substance
Shooting the Ligero 3D-printed Mamiya Press camera by MaxWanderlush Last year I started shooting my first 3D-printed camera, a Goodman Zone. It was soon followed by the...
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Last year I started shooting my first 3D-printed camera, a Goodman Zone. It was soon followed by the panoramic pinhole Goodman Scura and the MPWide, a modified Fuji Instax Wide 300. The MPWide is a mod by the talented Mario, otherwise known as MaxWanderlush. He has been releasing...
Applied Cartography
Buttondown Analytics 3.0 Working on a new analytics engine — a scant eleven months after the previous 'new analytics...
a year ago
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a year ago
Working on a new analytics engine — a scant eleven months after the previous 'new analytics engine'. Calling this 3.0 is a bit of a misnomer: most of the code, design, and plumbing from the 2023 redesign is sticking around, just in a more modular format. The goal here is to...
Lighthouse Blog
How to rate content and find it again
a year ago
Electronics etc…
HP 33120A Repair - Shutting Down the Eye of Sauron Introduction Opening Up an HP 33120A A Walk Through the Block Diagram Bug Hunting Zener...
over a year ago
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Introduction Opening Up an HP 33120A A Walk Through the Block Diagram Bug Hunting Zener Replacement Staring at the Eye of Sauron FLIR IR Imaging To Destroy a PCB in Order to Save It Circuit Reconstruction Success! Trust but Verify Conclusion References Introduction When the...
Notes on software...
Writing to be read There is a common struggle in the writing and maintenance of documentation, checklists, emails,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There is a common struggle in the writing and maintenance of documentation, checklists, emails, guides, etc. Each provides immense value; a document may be the key to an important process. The goal is to remove barriers -- to encourage understanding and correct application of...
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #46: The transformation of London's skyline, a big week for nuclear, and installing... Plus how to avoid the road pricing landmine
7 months ago
Christian Selig
Table of Contents Selector View I wrote a new little view for a future version of Apollo that makes some changes to the default iOS...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I wrote a new little view for a future version of Apollo that makes some changes to the default iOS version (that seems to be a weird trend in my recent programming, despite me loving built-in components). Here’s some details about it! It’s also available as a library on GitHub...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Antenna diodes in the Pentium processor I was studying the silicon die of the Pentium processor and noticed some puzzling structures...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
I was studying the silicon die of the Pentium processor and noticed some puzzling structures where signal lines were connected to the silicon substrate for no apparent reason. Two examples are in the photo below, where the metal wiring (orange) connects to small square regions of...
Buck on Software
Don't be foie gras If 2016-2020 was the golden unicorn age of SaaS, 2021 nearly hurtled us into the foie gras* era.
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If 2016-2020 was the golden unicorn age of SaaS, 2021 nearly hurtled us into the foie gras* era.
Bryan Braun - Blog
Goodbye Evernote, Hello Obsidian I use note-taking software every day. I use it for journaling, blogging, capturing ideas,...
a year ago
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a year ago
I use note-taking software every day. I use it for journaling, blogging, capturing ideas, researching technologies, managing my projects, and many other things. Writing is how I think through problems, and note-taking software makes all that thinking easy to search and...
./techtipsy
Can a laptop from 2012 be a viable home server? I’m a man of many ideas. It’s a shame that most of them are quite stupid. This is one of them, but...
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I’m a man of many ideas. It’s a shame that most of them are quite stupid. This is one of them, but at least it makes for a fun experiment. Intro After adding an UPS to accompany my server, my setup was as complete as it could reasonably be. The server is low power, but packs...
Arduino Blog
Can this tiny lawn mower robot cut it in the real world? We’re finally starting to see robotic lawn mowers gain a little bit of traction as prices come down...
a year ago
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a year ago
We’re finally starting to see robotic lawn mowers gain a little bit of traction as prices come down and consumer trust goes up. They work a bit like Roomba vacuums and pathfinding sophistication varies from one model to the next. But even the most basic models are still a lot...
Matt Blewitt
Thoughts on User Safety: 2 Following up from last time, let’s explore the internal and insider fronts when moving beyond...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Following up from last time, let’s explore the internal and insider fronts when moving beyond security towards safety for our users.
Home on Erik...
Dollar cost averaging (I accidentally published an unfinished draft of this post a few days ago – sorry about...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
(I accidentally published an unfinished draft of this post a few days ago – sorry about that). There's a lot of sources preaching the benefits of dollar cost averaging, or the practice of investing a fixed amount of money regularly.
./techtipsy
So you want to migrate to Kubernetes: observations from a software developer Kubernetes: everyone wants to do it, regardless of their scale and business objectives.1 Common...
9 months ago
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Kubernetes: everyone wants to do it, regardless of their scale and business objectives.1 Common justifications include better scalability, cost savings, standardization and being super modern and stuff. It’s the future! In my personal experience, Kubernetes is far from the...
Abishek Muthian
My Hacker News knowledge assimilation stack Long time Hacker News readers would agree that the real gold is in the comments, There are very few...
over a year ago
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Long time Hacker News readers would agree that the real gold is in the comments, There are very few platforms left where people with subject matter experience and authority share valuable insights with less noise. HN provides a way to save those comments, but I also wanted a way...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Fast Fourier Transforms
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
2016 Read Books Yeah so I managed to not read a single fiction book this year. To compensate and make myself feel...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Yeah so I managed to not read a single fiction book this year. To compensate and make myself feel better I’ll add in some new mangas I’ve read, but I may may have missed some. Fiction Crickets Non-Fiction Getting to Yes Relax into Stretch Thinking, Fast and Slow 59 seconds The...
Jonas Hietala
Slackware update The last time I (re)installed Slackware I documented what I did. Somehow I managed to really bork my...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The last time I (re)installed Slackware I documented what I did. Somehow I managed to really bork my installation and I decided to go through with a larger reinstallation once more. This is a log of some things I did differently. Kernel Before installing the kernel it’s nice to...
GitButler
Going down the rabbit hole of Git's new bundle-uri Git's new bundle-uri could help significantly speed up clones, but what bugs lurk within?
3 months ago
Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing Anchor Pro! Our original Anchor, the first under-desk headphone mount, is truly a great product - easy to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Our original Anchor, the first under-desk headphone mount, is truly a great product - easy to install, does what it says, and a timeless design. It's in use on over 100,000 desks worldwide. So what do you do when you have a great product like The Anchor? Well, we decided to make...
Louwrentius
Speeding up Linux MDADM RAID array rebuild time using bitmaps Update 2020: Please beware of the impact of random write I/O performance. Please note that with a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Update 2020: Please beware of the impact of random write I/O performance. Please note that with a modern Linux distribution, bitmaps are enabled by default. They will not help speed up a rebuild after a failed drive. But it will help resync an array that got out-of-sync due to...
Applied Cartography
January, 2025 Hello, 2025! (As always, Death Cab remains the soundtrack by which you should read this.) Headlining...
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6 months ago
Hello, 2025! (As always, Death Cab remains the soundtrack by which you should read this.) Headlining this month was my annual review; everything else is flotsam. But, speaking of flotsam: A quick development note on the order attribute in CSS Notes on Linear and Fathom Why...
Good Enough
TIL: Managing Raspberry Pi software with a bit less pain For the printer project I'm working on, most of the software behind it runs "in the cloud", but...
a year ago
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a year ago
For the printer project I'm working on, most of the software behind it runs "in the cloud", but there's some software that needs to run beside each printer, to check for new things to print and manage the process of downloading and sending those things to the printer component...
Opsbros
The past lives again! I found a GameBoy Camera for my GBC and thought it'd be a good idea to extract the photos from eons...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I found a GameBoy Camera for my GBC and thought it'd be a good idea to extract the photos from eons ago and bring them to the era of the internet.
Ken Shirriff's blog
Interesting BiCMOS circuits in the Pentium, reverse-engineered Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of processors. Earlier, I wrote about the ROM in the Pentium's floating point unit that holds constants such as π. In this post, I'll look at some interesting circuits associated with this...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Hard Forks, Soft Forks, Defaults and Coercion
over a year ago
./techtipsy
I looked at this site on the Wayback Machine Yesterday was election day in Estonia and the results are in, which is why I remembered that one...
over a year ago
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Yesterday was election day in Estonia and the results are in, which is why I remembered that one time I looked at my website on the Wayback Machine. This domain used to point to a Wordpress site that hosted content for a candidate in the local elections, at least around...
Simply Explained
Analyzing Link Rot in My Newsletter (After 31 Editions) I've been writing a monthly newsletter for the past 2.5 years. In every edition, I link to...
a year ago
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a year ago
I've been writing a monthly newsletter for the past 2.5 years. In every edition, I link to interesting articles related to science and technology. I thought it would be interesting to analyze how many of those links are still accessible, and how many have succumbed to link rot....
Computer Ads from...
Vote for the Topic of the February 2024 Plus Post If you are a paid subscriber, voting is open for one week
a year ago
Abishek Muthian
Restart modem automatically when Internet is down If I have to restart my modem often like a caveman, I'll at least automate it. Years ago I would...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
If I have to restart my modem often like a caveman, I'll at least automate it. Years ago I would have pitied the soul which had to restart their Internet modem often, Now I'm in the situation where the ISP seems to have not heard about network reliability and so my modem hangs at...
Arduino Blog
The end of Mbed marks a new beginning for Arduino As you might have heard, on July 9th, Arm announced that the Mbed platform and OS are officially...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
As you might have heard, on July 9th, Arm announced that the Mbed platform and OS are officially destined to reach end of life in July 2026, and therefore will no longer be maintained. The news has sent ripples through the embedded development community, particularly affecting...
Louwrentius
Recovering a lost partition using gpart Even today people do not understand how important it is for the safety of your data to make backups....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Even today people do not understand how important it is for the safety of your data to make backups. I was asked to perform some data recovery on a hard drive of an old computer, which still contained important documents and photo's. The first thing I did was to make a disk image...
Yazin Alirhayim
How do you know that an API does what it says it does? Having been in fintech for a while, I’ve noticed something in common between the many new startups...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Having been in fintech for a while, I’ve noticed something in common between the many new startups that come and go. They all require access to personal information. A specific example that comes to mind is the Plaid-like solution we developed while working on amal. We’d ask...
Home on Erik...
Simple sabotage for software CIA produced a fantastic book during the peak of World War 2 called Simple Sabotage. It laid out...
a year ago
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a year ago
CIA produced a fantastic book during the peak of World War 2 called Simple Sabotage. It laid out various ways for infiltrators to ruin productivity of a company. Some of the advice is timeless, for instance the section about “General interference with Organizations and...
Arduino Blog
MKR Keylock is an open-source IoT keypad for your front door The age-old combination of physical locks and keys, although reliable, also comes with a few...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
The age-old combination of physical locks and keys, although reliable, also comes with a few drawbacks, such as when you lose the key or you want to share access with someone else remotely. Davide Gomba has recognized this and built the MKR Keylock project as a way to address...
Arduino Blog
This student made his own odds with a DIY slot machine Today’s digital slot machines are anything but “fair,” in the way that most of us understand that...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Today’s digital slot machines are anything but “fair,” in the way that most of us understand that word. There is tight regulation in most places, but the machines can still adjust their odds of payout in order to maintain a specific profit margin. If the machine thinks it has...
Applied Cartography
Talking to customers You say that these numbers mean dial it down. I say they mean dial it up. You haven't gotten...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
You say that these numbers mean dial it down. I say they mean dial it up. You haven't gotten through. There are people you haven't persuaded yet. These number mean dial it up. Otherwise you're like the French radical, watching the crowd run by and saying, "There go my people. I...
Style over Substance
Our favorite places to eat and drinks during our Portugal vacation In the summer of 2023, we went on an amazing trip through Portugal. We’d already visited Lisbon on a...
a year ago
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a year ago
In the summer of 2023, we went on an amazing trip through Portugal. We’d already visited Lisbon on a short city trip a few years earlier, and that experience was so good we knew we had to return. This time, we decided to take a full three weeks and see the sights. We were...
Ian's Blog
Learn how Windows builds its store of trusted root CA certificates Today I learned something fascinating about how Windows deals with trusted root CA certificates. It...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Today I learned something fascinating about how Windows deals with trusted root CA certificates. It might surprise you, and it certainly did for me, but out-of-the-box Windows doesn't come with a set of root CA certificates sufficient for web browsing. You can see this for...
Construction Physics
Why Is Homeowners Insurance Getting So Expensive? The recent Los Angeles fires have highlighted the rising costs of homeowners insurance in the US.
5 months ago
Jonas Hietala
Eduroam for wicd in Linkoping's University So we have eduroam at our University and unsurprisingly wicd is not on their official support list...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
So we have eduroam at our University and unsurprisingly wicd is not on their official support list but with some googling the wonderful Arch Wiki had the answer. Well, almost. Save the following as /etc/wicd/encryption/templates/ttls-80211: name = TTLS for Wireless author =...
lcamtuf’s thing
My approach to teaching electronics Explaining the reasoning behind my series of articles on electronics -- and asking for your...
2 months ago
Home on Erik...
Predicting solar eclipses with Python As I am en route to see my first total solar eclipse, I was curious how hard it would be to compute...
a year ago
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a year ago
As I am en route to see my first total solar eclipse, I was curious how hard it would be to compute eclipses in Python. It turns out, ignoring some minor coordinate system head-banging, I was able to get something half-decent working in a couple of hours.
Jonas Hietala
Mining Incorporated (unfinished) Download Linux 64bit Windows Timelapse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIbr-mLi4DU I made a very...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Download Linux 64bit Windows Timelapse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIbr-mLi4DU I made a very serious attempt at making a grand game for Ludum Dare 29. Unfortunately it was a far, far, too big of a game for me to be able to finish it in one weekend. But I had a great...
lcamtuf’s thing
What's root mean square voltage? And how do we derive its value for sine waves?
3 months ago
Arduino Blog
French Minitel terminal becomes a peculiar AI workstation Before the rest of the world began logging on to the World Wide Web, the French had a very...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Before the rest of the world began logging on to the World Wide Web, the French had a very interesting online service called Télétel. It was somewhat similar to early bulletin board systems (BBS), but with much more functionality than really anything else from the era. By 1982,...
Arduino Blog
You can now run Arduino and MicroPython side-by-side on multi-core microcontrollers We’re excited to announce a powerful new feature that we have been working on in collaboration with...
a year ago
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a year ago
We’re excited to announce a powerful new feature that we have been working on in collaboration with the MicroPython team!  Starting with the upcoming release (v1.23), MicroPython will offer support for Asymmetric Multiprocessing (AMP) on multi-core microcontrollers, based on the...
Willem's Blog
iPad Pro next to my primary machine Using iPad Pro with Apple Pencil next to my computer to form a create powerhouse
over a year ago
Arduino Blog
This unique wall sconce welcomes you home with warm light Have you ever walked through your front door after a long day of work and realized that your home...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Have you ever walked through your front door after a long day of work and realized that your home just isn’t as inviting as it seems like it should be? While it may not work miracles, some nice and welcoming lighting can make a big difference. That’s why Lauren Palazzi made this...
lcamtuf’s thing
Electric chainsaws and the gorge of misery Lithium batteries are great -- so why do mid-size electric power tools suck in 2024?
11 months ago
Greater Still by...
Stop Calling it a Wallet How language shapes our view of the world
over a year ago
Willem's Blog
Optical vs chest strap heart rate monitors Understanding the differences in common HR monitors used in wearables, smartwatches and fitness...
over a year ago
Birchtree
What people do with an empty text box I was listening to Hard Fork this weekend when Kevin Roose said this (emphasis mine): I think that...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
I was listening to Hard Fork this weekend when Kevin Roose said this (emphasis mine): I think that there is sort of a basic assumption if you're a heavy user of, say, ChatGPT, that there are certain things that it's good at and there are certain
Posts on Made of...
What MongoDB got Right MongoDB is perhaps the most-widely-mocked piece of software out there right now. While some of the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
MongoDB is perhaps the most-widely-mocked piece of software out there right now. While some of the mockery is out-of-date or rooted in misunderstandings, much of it is well-deserved, and it’s difficult to disagree that much of MongoDB’s engineering is incredibly simplistic,...
Applied Cartography
Shipping is capturing value This great essay from Sean Goedecke went viral two weeks ago, drawing fury and fervor alike for a...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
This great essay from Sean Goedecke went viral two weeks ago, drawing fury and fervor alike for a Moral Mazes-esque analysis of how engineers at large companies should think about shipping: Shipping is a social construct within a company. Concretely, that means that a project is...
Elevation Lab - Blog
BatteryPro available on Apple.com! Good news, BatteryPro is now available worldwide online at Apple! This makes it much easier and less...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Good news, BatteryPro is now available worldwide online at Apple! This makes it much easier and less expensive for customers outside the USA to pick one up. And we couldn't be more humbled and proud - it goes to show that when you design a product you really want for yourself,...
Birchtree
“Retina” is not a static PPI I’m just going to keep posting about this every few months because people keep getting “retina”...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
I’m just going to keep posting about this every few months because people keep getting “retina” wrong. According to this YouTube video that was recommended to me today, retina on desktop monitors is exactly 218ppi (pixels per inch). Now of course the iPhone 4, which was
Notes on software...
Unit testing C code with gtest This post covers building and testing a minimal, but still useful, C project. We'll use...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This post covers building and testing a minimal, but still useful, C project. We'll use Google's gtest and CMake for testing C code. This will serve as a foundation for some upcoming posts/projects on programming Linux, userland networking and interpreters. test/CMakeLists.txt...
computers are bad
2023-12-05 vhf omnidirectional range The term "VHF omnidirectional range" can at first be confusing, because it includes "range"---a...
a year ago
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a year ago
The term "VHF omnidirectional range" can at first be confusing, because it includes "range"---a measurement that the technology does not provide. The answer to this conundrum is, as is so often the case, history. The "range" refers not to the radio equipment but to the space...
Yazin Alirhayim
Part 2: Will greater access to capital spark Bahrain’s economy? 👉 If you haven’t read Part 1, do that first. In the last post, I discussed the question of access...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
👉 If you haven’t read Part 1, do that first. In the last post, I discussed the question of access to capital and why’s important to verify that we do in fact have a problem before we attempt to “solve” it. Now, we’re going to talk about the method for measuring the extent of...
Matt Blewitt
Point and Call It’s 2AM. You’re paged to respond to a failing set of components that you are the Subject Matter...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It’s 2AM. You’re paged to respond to a failing set of components that you are the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for. Sleepy, you load up the playbook for when the SplineReticulatorBlocked alert has gone off, and start executing. The Incident Commander (IC) is vaguely aware of what...
Louwrentius
Compatibility Highpoint RocketRAID 2320 and Samsung Spinpoint F1 There are some reports about incompatibility between RAID controllers and Samsung Spinpoint F1...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There are some reports about incompatibility between RAID controllers and Samsung Spinpoint F1 drives. I have no troubles with my 0.5 and 1.0 TB drives from Samsung using mentioned controller. See below: Controller 1: RocketRAID 232x SATA Controller 1/1/1 SAMSUNG HD103UJ...
Jonas Hietala
The eBook for 'Why Cryptocurrencies?' is now available for free The eBook for my book Why Cryptocurrencies? is now available for free. It’s been almost 4 years...
a year ago
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a year ago
The eBook for my book Why Cryptocurrencies? is now available for free. It’s been almost 4 years since the web version was done, and 3 since the physical copy was available… Which can hardly be called a success. Things happened, so let’s do a quick retrospective to, maybe, learn...
Jonas Hietala
A Christmas Game I’m going through a bit of a boardgame stint, as I usually do during christmas time. I had exactly...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’m going through a bit of a boardgame stint, as I usually do during christmas time. I had exactly one thing on my wishlist for this christmas for my little brother: Ticket to Ride: Nordic Countries. Guess what? I got something from my wishlist! This was our 5th or 6th game (or...
Jonas Hietala
Bitcoin's security isn't binary I’d like to address a misconception that’s at the core in many Bitcoin discussions lately: Bitcoin’s...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’d like to address a misconception that’s at the core in many Bitcoin discussions lately: Bitcoin’s security isn’t binary. In fact security in general isn’t black and white. It’s a trade-off being secure enough for your threat model vs the cost and feasibility of your...
Good Enough
Having Trouble Getting Started? Pair Up! A body at rest tends to stay at rest, and a body in motion tends to stay in motion, unless acted on...
a year ago
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a year ago
A body at rest tends to stay at rest, and a body in motion tends to stay in motion, unless acted on by a net external force. Sir Isaac Newton I often find that just getting started is the hardest part of doing something. This is especially true when the project is large or...
lcamtuf’s thing
The serious science of trolling LLMs The internet's oldest pastime finally has a purpose -- and it's more serious than AI companies would...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
The internet's oldest pastime finally has a purpose -- and it's more serious than AI companies would like to admit.
Arduino Blog
Kick off the Monaco Grand Prix weekend with these Formula 1-inspired Arduino projects The Monaco Grand Prix is just days away and will likely be one of the most exciting races of the...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Monaco Grand Prix is just days away and will likely be one of the most exciting races of the season. While most fans can’t participate directly — except as spectators — they can celebrate their passion through DIY projects. That’s why we’ve scoured the community to find the...
Jorge Arango
Smarter AI Begins With Your Business’ Knowledge Pipeline A common question I’m hearing from leaders is “how can I best use AI in my business?” They expect...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
A common question I’m hearing from leaders is “how can I best use AI in my business?” They expect concrete, practical answers — not the platitudes and hype that dominate the media. It’s a fair question: businesses stand to gain significant advantages from judicious use of AI. But...
Arduino Blog
These Shattered Space helmet replicas stay video game accurate using an Arduino Nano Starfield, a game set in the vast expanse of our galaxy, is receiving a new expansion called...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Starfield, a game set in the vast expanse of our galaxy, is receiving a new expansion called “Shattered Space” in which players can don novel weapons and gear to take on the latest challenge. As part of its release, the expansion’s publisher Bethesda reached out to cosplayer...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Updating my blog: a quick GPT chatbot coding experiment
over a year ago
Notes on software...
My favorite software subreddits Originally published on December 5, 2021. If you are an experienced software developer whose only...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Originally published on December 5, 2021. If you are an experienced software developer whose only exposure to reddit is dank memes, proggit or even language-specific subreddits like /r/python, you're missing out. What follows are my favorite subreddits in tech. My criteria is...
Computer Ads from...
Anchor Pad Two experts want your computer. Which one will get to it first?
3 months ago
Matt Blewitt
Lua: The Little Language That Could Lua is probably my favourite “little language” - a language designed to have low cognitive load, and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Lua is probably my favourite “little language” - a language designed to have low cognitive load, and be easy to learn and use. It’s embedded in a lot of software, such as Redis, NGINX via OpenResty and Wireshark. It’s also used as a scripting language in games such as World of...
Lighthouse Blog
What is JSON Feed?
2 months ago
Notes on software...
One year as a solo dev building open-source data tools without funding This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
Odds and Ends of...
LISTEN: The future of transport – with Michael Dnes Where we're going, we need roads (and trains) (and maybe drones)
5 months ago
Abishek Muthian
Butt Pomodoro - A butt triggered pomodoro timer A need gap of Remind me to take break when working from home was recently posted. Forgetting to take...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A need gap of Remind me to take break when working from home was recently posted. Forgetting to take regular breaks when immersed with work in front of a computer is a common problem, especially when working from home. On the flip side, getting distracted from completing a task...
Willem's Blog
Tablet as Tool Discover the hidden advantages of the iPad Pro in this insightful blog post, offering tips and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Discover the hidden advantages of the iPad Pro in this insightful blog post, offering tips and personal experiences to help you maximise the tablet's potential and redefine your workflow.
Arduino Blog
Web Serial Camera stream with Arduino Hey there, fellow tech enthusiasts! Ever wondered how you could effortlessly stream camera footage...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Hey there, fellow tech enthusiasts! Ever wondered how you could effortlessly stream camera footage from your Arduino boards directly to your web browser? Wonder no more! Arduino’s Web Serial Camera demo shows how to bring your camera projects to life. Stream images from your...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later
over a year ago
Electronics etc…
HP Laptop 17 RAM Upgrade Introduction Selecting the RAM Opening up Replacing the RAM Reassembly References Introduction I do...
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3 months ago
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...
Krebs on Security
When Getting Phished Puts You in Mortal Danger Many successful phishing attacks result in a financial loss or malware infection. But falling for...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Many successful phishing attacks result in a financial loss or malware infection. But falling for some phishing scams, like those currently targeting Russians searching online for organizations that are fighting the Kremlin war machine, can cost you your freedom or your life.
Computer Ads from...
Maxell's MF 2-DD Floppies The Gold Standard
7 months ago
Arduino Blog
Light up the holiday season, with a new Plug and Make Kit tutorial! Looking for a fun and creative way to brighten up the holiday season? With the Arduino Plug and Make...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Looking for a fun and creative way to brighten up the holiday season? With the Arduino Plug and Make Kit, you can build an interactive LED light installation that reacts when someone walks by – perfect for spreading cheer and adding a high-tech twist to your decorations. This...
Jonas Hietala
IDA Summer of Code 2014: Summary This is a wrap-up post of my entry to IDA Summer of Code this year. Quick stats 65 merged...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is a wrap-up post of my entry to IDA Summer of Code this year. Quick stats 65 merged commits 6790 lines added 2822 lines deleted 36 pull requests, 34 merged 12 pull requests directly fixing issues rest either documentation or cleanup 1 RFC submitted...
lcamtuf’s thing
The Rapture It’s fascinating how these vascular bundles, containing xylem and phloem, are arranged in a ring...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
It’s fascinating how these vascular bundles, containing xylem and phloem, are arranged in a ring located beneath the skin (periderm) and the cortex.
./techtipsy
Life is maintenance, maintenance is life Over my relatively short career (6+ years), I’ve noticed a change in the way I approach building...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Over my relatively short career (6+ years), I’ve noticed a change in the way I approach building things. When I was still an inexperienced junior developer who barely survived operating in a Linux environment and saw backend development as a black box, I was happy to get...
Jonas Hietala
Ores Now we can build rooms, we can place objects and the worker will do things for us. Now I’ve added...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Now we can build rooms, we can place objects and the worker will do things for us. Now I’ve added some ores which makes the game look a bit less boring. I realize I’ve spent all my time on these little things and I still don’t have a game! But it doesn’t matter, maybe I can...
latest projects -...
Portable Probability Panel [Misc] Laser-cut Galton board
11 months ago
Himanshu Mishra |...
Letters What did you do?? I have developed a habbit of writing letters to friends and family for the past...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
What did you do?? I have developed a habbit of writing letters to friends and family for the past few years. Today, I made some of them…
Arduino Blog
Coolest controllers ever? Icy gamepads melt in users’ hands Nintendo’s Joy-Con controller system is very innovative and generally well-regarded, with one major...
a year ago
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a year ago
Nintendo’s Joy-Con controller system is very innovative and generally well-regarded, with one major exception: stick drift. That’s a reliability issue that eventually affects a large percentage of Joy-Cons, to the frustration of gamers. But what if that was intentional and...
Birchtree
The mythical iOS 18.4 Zac Hall writing for 9to5Mac: Apple’s Competitive Edge in AI Hinges on These Three Unreleased Siri...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Zac Hall writing for 9to5Mac: Apple’s Competitive Edge in AI Hinges on These Three Unreleased Siri Features It feels like a make-or-break moment for Siri, and these three remaining iOS 18 features are key indicators of Apple’s ability to leverage AI with Siri. These three Siri
Applied Cartography
Why can't you just...? Buried in a snarky thread about why Google Calendar doesn’t support calendar syncing is a long,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Buried in a snarky thread about why Google Calendar doesn’t support calendar syncing is a long, detailed explanation of why shipping this sort of thing is hard: Designing a consent experience for the enterprise admin and enterprise end user Creating a special "read only" object...
./techtipsy
Anything's a portable speaker if you're brave enough I hate buying things that are single-purpose, which is why I ended up with this setup. Take a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I hate buying things that are single-purpose, which is why I ended up with this setup. Take a speaker, a battery, put them together, and what you now have is a portable speaker. Since I had access to both, I felt no need to buy a separate portable speaker for use in social...
Notes on software...
A database without dynamic memory allocation This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
On Medium-of-Exchange Token Valuations
over a year ago
Never Met a Science
For-Profit Academic Publishers Love LLM Garbage Springer Nature CEOs say: Hooray for Open Access!!
8 months ago
Matt Mullenweg
Rhino Dehorning Yesterday in the African bush was great, I saw giraffes, zebras, warthogs, leopard turtles,...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Yesterday in the African bush was great, I saw giraffes, zebras, warthogs, leopard turtles, elephants. Today wasn’t great: I witnessed a rhino shot with a tranquilizer from a helicopter, then it was held down, had its horns cut off, and then shaved down. I have some photos and...
Lighthouse Blog
Updates April 12
a year ago
Jonas Hietala
2017 in Review In contrast to previous years I haven’t kept up with the blog. For good reason I’d say since we got...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In contrast to previous years I haven’t kept up with the blog. For good reason I’d say since we got a child in October! It really alters your perspectives and other things suddenly feel a little less important and of course there’s less time to do other stuff. A little late and...
watchTowr Labs
Pots and Pans, AKA an SSLVPN - Palo Alto PAN-OS CVE-2024-0012 and CVE-2024-9474 It'll be no surprise that 2024, 2023, 2022, and every other year of humanities' existence has been...
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It'll be no surprise that 2024, 2023, 2022, and every other year of humanities' existence has been tough for SSLVPN appliances. Anyhow, there are new vulnerabilities (well, two of them) that are being exploited in the Palo Alto Networks firewall and SSLVPN offering, and as ever,...
Gwern.net Newsletter
April 2021 newsletter with links on AI scaling, particular new East Asian record-breaking work & deep reinforcement...
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with links on AI scaling, particular new East Asian record-breaking work & deep reinforcement learning.
Home on Erik...
ML+Hadoop at NYC Predictive Analytics I was just at the NYC Predictive Analytics meetup talking about how we build machine learning...
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I was just at the NYC Predictive Analytics meetup talking about how we build machine learning algorithms using Hadoop to power music recommendations. Great meetup, where we had two speakers, me and Blake Shaw from Foursquare.
Jonas Hietala
Starcraft 2 Keycaps When I ordered this computer I was compelled, utterly compelled to buy a mechanical keyboard. Sure...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When I ordered this computer I was compelled, utterly compelled to buy a mechanical keyboard. Sure they cost almost 10x as much as a “regular” one and they didn’t even have these funky multimedia keys, what gives? Did I loose my insanity? It was supposed to give a great typing...
Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing AirTag Security Cable We wanted to make a better braided steel AirTag mount - more compact, stronger, really well...
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We wanted to make a better braided steel AirTag mount - more compact, stronger, really well made.    So we fired up our Swiss lathe and machined a custom oversized screw that keeps it secure and looks awesome. It is T10 Torx and comes with an included driver.   There is an...
Louwrentius
Getting the Sitecom AC600 Wi-Fi adapter running on Linux TL;DR Yes it works with some modifications of the driver source. A USB Wi-Fi adapter I used with a...
over a year ago
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TL;DR Yes it works with some modifications of the driver source. A USB Wi-Fi adapter I used with a Raspberry Pi broke as I dropped it on the floor, so I had to replace it. I just went to a local shop and bought the Sitecom AC600 adapter as that's what they had available (with...
computers are bad
2024-12-11 travelers information stations Histories of radio broadcasting often make a particular focus on the most powerful stations. For...
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Histories of radio broadcasting often make a particular focus on the most powerful stations. For historic reasons, WBCT of Grand Rapids, Michigan broadcasts FM at 320¸000 watts. Many AM stations are licensed to operate at 50,000 watts, but this modern license limit represented a...
The Pragmatic...
Interesting startup idea: benchmarking cloud platform pricing A team of 3 developers built a neat platform called Spare Cores that makes cloud instance pricing...
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A team of 3 developers built a neat platform called Spare Cores that makes cloud instance pricing more transparent. A deepdive on how exactly they did it.
anderegg.ca
How decentralized is Bluesky really? Here’s an excellent article from Christine Lemmer-Webber that takes a deeper technical look into...
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Here’s an excellent article from Christine Lemmer-Webber that takes a deeper technical look into some of the criticisms I had in my previous piece. The article is long, but very much worth a read. From the conclusion: Bluesky is built by good people who care, and it is providing...
computers are bad
2025-01-05 pairs not taken So we all know about twisted-pair ethernet, huh? I get a little frustrated with a lot of histories...
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So we all know about twisted-pair ethernet, huh? I get a little frustrated with a lot of histories of the topic, like the recent neil breen^w^wserial port video, because they often fail to address some obvious questions about the origin of twisted-pair network cabling. Well, I...
Good Enough
TIL: Fixing Broken Action Text Images in Atom Feeds For a while now we've seen that images in our Pika atom feeds were not displaying in some feed...
a year ago
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a year ago
For a while now we've seen that images in our Pika atom feeds were not displaying in some feed readers. In fact, they weren't displaying in my own feed reader, which routes through Feedly. I was sad. I spent a lot of time troubleshooting this. Compared our feed with a lot of atom...
Vitalik Buterin's...
DAOs are not corporations: where decentralization in autonomous organizations matters
over a year ago
Louwrentius
HP Proliant Microserver N40L is a great NAS or Router Update 2012-12-11: It seems that a new and faster version is on the horizon. Update 2012-12-21:...
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Update 2012-12-11: It seems that a new and faster version is on the horizon. Update 2012-12-21: Yes, the new model G7 N54L is out. Some products seem almost too good to be true and I think the HP Proliant Microserver N40L is one of them. If you are into the market for a very...
Notes on software...
SQLite has pretty limited builtin functions This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
lcamtuf’s thing
Analog filters, part 2: let it ring A continuation of the gentle intro to analog signal filtering. In today's episode: the Sallen-Key...
9 months ago
Computer Ads from...
Mark Williams' C Programming System What C did for Programming Mark Williams has done for C Programming
10 months ago
Matt Mullenweg
I Voted! It was a huge pain in the butt, because my mail-in ballot didn’t register properly, but I found a...
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It was a huge pain in the butt, because my mail-in ballot didn’t register properly, but I found a last-minute flight to Houston and this morning walked over to Congregation Emanu El and voted. It is our most sacred duty as a citizen. I encourage every American to vote.
Computer Ads from...
Plus Post: Sony SMC-777C One person, Eight languages. The 8bit.
a month ago
Ken Shirriff's blog
Inside the guidance system and computer of the Minuteman III nuclear missile The Minuteman missile was introduced in 1962 as a key part of America's nuclear deterrent. The...
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10 months ago
The Minuteman missile was introduced in 1962 as a key part of America's nuclear deterrent. The Minuteman III missile is currently the only US land-based intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), with 400 missiles ready for launch, spread across five central states.1 The missile...
tim.sh
Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads How I tracked myself down using leaked location data in the in-app ads, and what I found along the...
5 months ago
Notes on software...
How to recommend books, or, stop recommending SICP Many "must-read" books are not well-written. I try to read a lot, but I still have a low tolerance...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Many "must-read" books are not well-written. I try to read a lot, but I still have a low tolerance for bad writing and bad editing. I write this post both to discourage thoughtless recommendations and to encourage the receivers of bad recommendations. For software developers,...
Abort Retry Fail
Housekeeping for 20240102 Some stats, updates, and whatnot
a year ago
Old Vintage...
What went wrong with wireless USB (Hat tip to the late Bill Strauss and The Capitol Steps' Lirty Dies.) take my Palm OS Fossil Wrist...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
(Hat tip to the late Bill Strauss and The Capitol Steps' Lirty Dies.) take my Palm OS Fossil Wrist PDA smartwatch mobile. It has no on-board networking libraries but can be coerced into doing PPP over its serial port (via USB) by using the libraries from my Palm m505. Of...
Louwrentius
The minimum requirements for a secure system The most secure server system is a system that is not connected to a network and turned off....
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The most secure server system is a system that is not connected to a network and turned off. However, little work seems to be getting done this way. So we want to turn systems on and connect them to a network, or even (God forbid) the internet. The thing is this. A system...
Louwrentius
This blog is now running on solar power Introduction This blog is now running on solar power. I've put a solar panel on my balcony, which...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Introduction This blog is now running on solar power. I've put a solar panel on my balcony, which is connected to a solar charge controller. This device charges an old worn-out car battery and provides power to a Raspberry Pi ~~3b+~~ 4B, which in turn powers this (static)...
Jonas Hietala
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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
Notes on software...
Interpreting TypeScript In addition to providing a static type system and compiler for a superset of JavaScript, TypeScript...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In addition to providing a static type system and compiler for a superset of JavaScript, TypeScript makes much of its functionality available programmatically. In this post we'll use the TypeScript compiler API to build an interpreter. We'll build off of a...
Arduino Blog
Get notified of impending floods with this Arduino Nano 33 IoT-based display As climate change continues to worsen, events such as heavy rains, hurricanes, and atmospheric...
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As climate change continues to worsen, events such as heavy rains, hurricanes, and atmospheric rivers have only intensified, and with them, large amounts of flooding that pose serious risks to life and property. Jude Pullen and Pete Milne, therefore, have responded by creating a...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Reverse-engineering a three-axis attitude indicator from the F-4 fighter plane We recently received an attitude indicator for the F-4 fighter plane, an instrument that uses a...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
We recently received an attitude indicator for the F-4 fighter plane, an instrument that uses a rotating ball to show the aircraft's orientation and direction. In a normal aircraft, the artificial horizon shows the orientation in two axes (pitch and roll), but the F-4...
Jonas Hietala
2020 in review And so 2020 has come to an end. On a global scale it’s been quite a horrible year, and for me...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
And so 2020 has come to an end. On a global scale it’s been quite a horrible year, and for me personally it’s been both good and bad. Luckily we haven’t been directly affected by COVID too much, but it’s still been very disruptive. Either way as I’ve done for years now it always...
Willem's Blog
Lunch by plane This week I went out for lunch by plane from Hilversum to Texel with a good buddy of mine.
over a year ago
Louwrentius
A practical understanding of lead acid batteries Introduction The goal of this article is to give you a practical understanding Lead Acid batteries....
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Introduction The goal of this article is to give you a practical understanding Lead Acid batteries. We won't address the underlying chemistry, we'll treat them as a black-box and we will discover their characteristics and how to keep them healthy. Disclaimer I'm an amateur. I...
csvbase blog
Caching secrets of the HTTP elders, part 1 ETags - an elegant weapon, for a more civilised age
a year ago
Notes on software...
Things that go wrong with disk IO There are a few interesting scenarios to keep in mind when writing applications (not just...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
There are a few interesting scenarios to keep in mind when writing applications (not just databases!) that interact with read and writes files, particularly in transactional contexts where you actually care about the integrity of the data and when you are editing data in...
Neil Madden
Hybrid encryption and the KEM/DEM paradigm If you know a bit about public key cryptography, you probably know that you don’t directly encrypt a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you know a bit about public key cryptography, you probably know that you don’t directly encrypt a message with a public key encryption algorithm like RSA. This is for many reasons, one of which being that it is incredibly slow. Instead you do what’s called hybrid encryption:...
Posts on Made of...
CVE-2010-4258: Turning denial-of-service into privilege escalation Dan Rosenberg recently released a privilege escalation bug for Linux, based on three different...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Dan Rosenberg recently released a privilege escalation bug for Linux, based on three different kernel vulnerabilities I reported recently. This post is about CVE-2010-4258, the most interesting of them, and, as Dan writes, the reason he wrote the exploit in the first place. In...
Azad's Blog
Simulating + Streaming a 4k, 90hz, ultrawide, HDR PC monitor to Apple Vision Pro VR headsets can be pretty awesome at simulating monitors of any size and shape. Most VR headsets are...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
VR headsets can be pretty awesome at simulating monitors of any size and shape. Most VR headsets are also capable of outputting at a high refresh rate (60hz, 90hz, 120hz, or even 144hz). Some headsets (like Apple Vision Pro) can also output in HDR! The beauty of it all is that in...
Arduino Blog
An engineer’s journey to bring the ultimate TMJ pain relief tool to market To the average person, invention and new product development seem like pretty straightforward...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
To the average person, invention and new product development seem like pretty straightforward processes; you come up with a killer idea, do the engineering work to cobble together a working prototype, have a truckload of units manufactured, and then sell those to turn a profit....
Louwrentius
'Linux: using disk labels to counter storage device name changes' My router decided to change the device name for some USB storage devices. So /dev/sdc was swapped...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My router decided to change the device name for some USB storage devices. So /dev/sdc was swapped for /dev/sdd and vice versa. The result was some file system corruption on /dev/sdc, because it was used on a remote system through iSCSI, using a different file system from...
Willem's Blog
Different ways to visualise health To better understand how to visualise health I looked at different health/fitness apps and games.
over a year ago
Applied Cartography
Smoke test your Django admin site Here is a confession: I am a very strong proponent of a robust test suite being perhaps the single...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Here is a confession: I am a very strong proponent of a robust test suite being perhaps the single most important asset of a codebase, but when it comes to auxiliary services like admin sites or CLIs when it comes to testing I tend to ask for forgiveness more than I ask for...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Na colusão
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Rewriting my blog in Rust for fun and profit Background I’ve used Hakyll as my static site generator for around 9 years now. Before that I think...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Background I’ve used Hakyll as my static site generator for around 9 years now. Before that I think I used Jekyll and also more dynamic pages with Mojolicious in Perl and Kohana in PHP, but I can’t be completely sure as the git history doesn’t go back that far. But all good...
Odds and Ends of...
How to fix the New Statesman In which I probably burn some bridges.
4 months ago
Home on Erik...
Everything I learned about technical debt I just made it to Sweden suffering from jet lag induced insomnia, but this blog post will not cover...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I just made it to Sweden suffering from jet lag induced insomnia, but this blog post will not cover that. Instead, I will talk a little bit about technical debt. The concept of technical debt always resonated with me, partly because I always like the analogy with “real” debt.
Construction Physics
Do U.S. Ports Need More Automation? On October 1st, 47,000 members of the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA), primarily...
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On October 1st, 47,000 members of the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA), primarily dockworkers on East and Gulf Coast ports, went on strike after failing to agree contract terms with USMX, an alliance of port operators and employers.
Bryan Braun - Blog
Unusual Git IDs You can search Github for unusual commit IDs: There are over 2k commits starting with...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
You can search Github for unusual commit IDs: There are over 2k commits starting with 0000000! While looking for commits like these, I started to become suspicious that people were intentionally modifying their commits IDs to be unusual: A commit ID of eeeeeee, with a message...
csvbase blog
From Shell to Excel - with a little bit of HTTPS Write once, read everywhere
11 months ago
Computer Ads from...
Comics from 1986/06 Australian Personal Computer Mag It’s that time of the month. This time let’s look at humor from down under. These comics are from...
a year ago
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a year ago
It’s that time of the month. This time let’s look at humor from down under. These comics are from the June 1986 issue of Australian Computer magazine. Enjoy! What computer ads would you like to see in the future? Please comment below. If you enjoyed it, please share it with your...
Arduino Blog
This small device enables users to feel braille through haptics For the visually impaired community, most of their interactions on mobile phones are confined to...
a year ago
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For the visually impaired community, most of their interactions on mobile phones are confined to text-to-speech (TTS) interfaces that read portions of the screen aloud. Dynamic braille displays also exist as a tactile means of communication, but their prices can get close to...