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Should Ethereum be okay with enshrining more things in the protocol?
30th Sep 2023
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Should Ethereum be okay with enshrining more things in the protocol?

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

30th Sep 2023
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SBC Clusters are a terrible value, but they're fun anyway Pictured above is the new DeskPi Super4C installed in an 8U mini rack. The Super4C is a 4-node...
1st May 2026
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SBC Clusters are a terrible value, but they're fun anyway

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

1st May 2026
Pictured above is the new DeskPi Super4C installed in an 8U mini rack. The Super4C is a 4-node Raspberry Pi CM5 cluster board that solves two pain points I had with the older Super6C. I was testing this board around the same time I helped kick off the SBCC 2026, the Single Board...
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Done this, done that. What now? Finished and uploaded our java game Grand Thief Arto, done an exam (didn’t quite go as intended) and...
5th Nov 2011
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Done this, done that. What now?

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

5th Nov 2011
Finished and uploaded our java game Grand Thief Arto, done an exam (didn’t quite go as intended) and starting some new courses in school. I’m liking my choice of Computer Science more and more. Data structures and Algorithms was a super fun course, I actually ordered a new book...
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To weigh a watermelon There are many frontiers.
3rd Jul 2026
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To weigh a watermelon

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

3rd Jul 2026
There are many frontiers.
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To become a good C programmer More...
2nd Feb 2011
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To become a good C programmer

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

2nd Feb 2011
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Introducing The AirTag Silencer Apple made AirTag randomly chirp when bumped or moved when out of bluetooth range of your iPhone....
a week ago
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Introducing The AirTag Silencer

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

a week ago
Apple made AirTag randomly chirp when bumped or moved when out of bluetooth range of your iPhone. That's great, but if your bike is stolen - the very last thing you would want is for the thief to hear the AirTag and throw it away. That's why we designed The AirTag Silencer - a...
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The promise and challenges of crypto + AI applications
30th Jan 2024
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The promise and challenges of crypto + AI applications

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

30th Jan 2024
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Make Ethereum Cypherpunk Again
28th Dec 2023
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Make Ethereum Cypherpunk Again

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

28th Dec 2023
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Programming the Convergent WorkSlate's spreadsheet microcassette future In this particular future, we will all use handheld spreadsheets stored on microcassettes, talking...
4th Sep 2024
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Programming the Convergent WorkSlate's spreadsheet microcassette future

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

4th Sep 2024
In this particular future, we will all use handheld spreadsheets stored on microcassettes, talking to each other via speakerphone, and probably listening to Devo and New Order a lot. (Though that part isn't too different from my actual present.) a computer whose manufacturer...
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Play YouTube video from firefox on mpv YouTube on Firefox skips frames and neither Google nor Firefox seem to have the incentive to fix it,...
13th Aug 2024
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Play YouTube video from firefox on mpv

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

13th Aug 2024
YouTube on Firefox skips frames and neither Google nor Firefox seem to have the incentive to fix it, let's do it ourselves. When this is done, we can watch YouTube videos in the browser with smooth playback using mpv as the video player backend. Note: This guide is for Linux...
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A work week one bag travel Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. Neale Donald Walsch I’m lucky that I have a job...
10th Mar 2026
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A work week one bag travel

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

10th Mar 2026
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. Neale Donald Walsch I’m lucky that I have a job where I can work remotely as it allows me to live in a small community where there are no tech jobs anywhere close. It does require me to travel a few weeks per year to the office but...
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What's up It’s been a while again since the last time we met mr. Blog. I’ve been busy with school and other...
22nd Apr 2011
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What's up

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

22nd Apr 2011
It’s been a while again since the last time we met mr. Blog. I’ve been busy with school and other stuff. I’ve thought about you but I just never really picked up emacs to write to you. I know it’s my fault but I beg of your mercy mr. Blog. You know that I had laid off school for...
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Everything That Goes Up... For as long as people have had fears, we have been afraid of things falling from the sky....
9th Oct 2025
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Everything That Goes Up...

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

9th Oct 2025
For as long as people have had fears, we have been afraid of things falling from the sky. Palentologists of comedy tell us that this particular danger may have been discovered by a researcher named Og, a colleague of the late Thag Simmons, when a flock of prehistoric pigeons flew...
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Klute A terrific, terrific film, with a great performance by Jane Fonda (insert quip of "the film should...
2nd Sep 2023
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Klute

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Sep 2023
A terrific, terrific film, with a great performance by Jane Fonda (insert quip of "the film should be called Bree!" here.) I think some of the noir aspects felt a little more obvious than in The Conversation, but the pair of performances and the deep sense of sonic dread that...
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Credits Credits / Attribution Some of the art used around this blog are by other people. Here is a list of...
21st Apr 2025
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Credits

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

21st Apr 2025
Credits / Attribution Some of the art used around this blog are by other people. Here is a list of them: Smug Videah by Kelevtov Rantsona Sidebar Videah by ScruffKerfluff Callout Pixel Art Videah by lockedsdcard Videah Mutant Standard Emoji by Caius Nocturne
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Cores in space: The core memory module from a 1980 Spacelab computer Spacelab was a reusable laboratory that could be carried in the Space Shuttle's cargo bay, providing...
30th Aug 2026
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Cores in space: The core memory module from a 1980 Spacelab computer

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

30th Aug 2026
Spacelab was a reusable laboratory that could be carried in the Space Shuttle's cargo bay, providing lab space for astronauts and experiments.1 Because Spacelab was a European project, it used a French-built minicomputer, the Mitra 125 MS,2 rather than the Shuttle's main...
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SwiftUI Explorations My journey of learning SwiftUI as a designer.
21st Jun 2024
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SwiftUI Explorations

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

21st Jun 2024
My journey of learning SwiftUI as a designer.
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Digital Minimalism I find myself weirdly torn on this book.
3rd Dec 2020
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Digital Minimalism

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Dec 2020
I find myself weirdly torn on this book.
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Casady & Greene Remembering Casady & Greene and the excitement (and closing) of an era of Macintosh software...
9th Sep 2024
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Casady & Greene

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

9th Sep 2024
Remembering Casady & Greene and the excitement (and closing) of an era of Macintosh software publishing.
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Subway waiting math Why does it suck to wait for things? In a previous post I analyzed a NYC subway dataset and found...
9th Jul 2016
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Subway waiting math

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

9th Jul 2016
Why does it suck to wait for things? In a previous post I analyzed a NYC subway dataset and found that at some point, quite early, it's worth just giving up. This isn't a proof that the subway doesn't run on time – in fact it might actually proves that the subway runs really...
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Lion's Disk Utility not compatible with CoreStorage and Filevault My 1 TB hard drive of my 2011 27" iMac was partitioned with: A bootable partition with Mac OS X...
2nd Aug 2011
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Lion's Disk Utility not compatible with CoreStorage and Filevault

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

2nd Aug 2011
My 1 TB hard drive of my 2011 27" iMac was partitioned with: A bootable partition with Mac OS X Lion Time machine partition (I use an external SSD as my main OS) Bootcamp partition with windows A data partition containg... data. The problem is that CoreStorage is too new. Disk...
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It Observes An observer writing a daily log of what it sees watching Earth, it uses no names of countries or...
13th Mar 2026
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It Observes

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

13th Mar 2026
An observer writing a daily log of what it sees watching Earth, it uses no names of countries or organisations, instead it speaks in metaphorical descriptions. Its distance provides an alternative perspective on our daily news. Let me tell you about this experiment I have been...
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Netrunner Summer Tournament Linköping There was another Netrunner tournament this Sunday with 8 entrants. We had two new legal data packs...
18th Sep 2015
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Netrunner Summer Tournament Linköping

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

18th Sep 2015
There was another Netrunner tournament this Sunday with 8 entrants. We had two new legal data packs with Old Hollywood and The Universe of Tomorrow so a lot of new things were tried. I heard a rumor that a full playset of both Aesop’s Pawnshop and Wyldside were available so I...
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After Forty Years, Still No Silver Bullet Forty years ago, computer scientist Fred Brooks published a paper called No Silver Bullet: Essence...
10th Jul 2026
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After Forty Years, Still No Silver Bullet

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

10th Jul 2026
Forty years ago, computer scientist Fred Brooks published a paper called No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accident in Software Engineering. As its title implies, the paper argues there are no technological shortcuts to making software radically easier, simpler, or more reliable. You...
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Entity authentication with a KEM In cryptography, the process of authenticating a user (or app/service) is known as entity...
20th Apr 2023
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Entity authentication with a KEM

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

20th Apr 2023
In cryptography, the process of authenticating a user (or app/service) is known as entity authentication or identification (to distinguish it from message authentication or data origin authentication). There are lots of ways to do this. In this post I’m going to talk about...
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Thinking about functional programming Someone on Discord asked about how to learn functional programming. The question and my initial...
15th Aug 2023
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Thinking about functional programming

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

15th Aug 2023
Someone on Discord asked about how to learn functional programming. The question and my initial tweet on the subject prompted an interesting discussion with Shriram Krishnamurthi and other folks. So here's a slightly more thought out exploration. And just for backstory sake: I...
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Introducing TagVault Pet for AirTag Having pets that went missing before, AirTags are the perfect companion. We wanted a case that could...
22nd May 2021
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Introducing TagVault Pet for AirTag

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

22nd May 2021
Having pets that went missing before, AirTags are the perfect companion. We wanted a case that could take the abuse of an active full-size dog, fit nice on a cat, work with all pet collars, and be durable. So we designed Tagvault Pet. It's waterproof, fits every collar, and is...
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It Must *Be* Good The need for companies to do the right thing
15th Dec 2022
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It Must *Be* Good

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

15th Dec 2022
The need for companies to do the right thing
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From GitHub to Codeberg/Forgejo Respect your users and their confidence in you, “Microsoft” GitHub. Ethkuil, Updates to your GitHub...
28th Apr 2026
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From GitHub to Codeberg/Forgejo

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

28th Apr 2026
Respect your users and their confidence in you, “Microsoft” GitHub. Ethkuil, Updates to your GitHub Feed #65343 After years of waffling around I finally bit the bullet and migrated away from GitHub onto Codeberg and a private Forgejo instance. If Codeberg is good enough for...
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Why fastDoom is fast
4th Mar 2025
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Why fastDoom is fast

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

4th Mar 2025
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Model benchmarks A lot of people have asked me what models we use for recommendations at Spotify so I wanted to share...
2nd Nov 2013
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Model benchmarks

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

2nd Nov 2013
A lot of people have asked me what models we use for recommendations at Spotify so I wanted to share some insights. Here's benchmarks for some models. Note that we don't use all of them in production.
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Fathom I'd been meaning to jot down some thoughts on Fathom for a while, and did not have a particularly...
1st Dec 2024
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Fathom

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

1st Dec 2024
I'd been meaning to jot down some thoughts on Fathom for a while, and did not have a particularly good reason to do so until the news broke that Paul Jarvis was selling his share of the company to Jack Ellis, the technical co-founder. 1The blog post itself is a great example of...
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I'm running a programming contest I'm running a programming contest I've spent the last few months working with friends to design the...
24th Jul 2026
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I'm running a programming contest

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

24th Jul 2026
I'm running a programming contest I've spent the last few months working with friends to design the 29th annual ICFP programming contest. Designing a programming contest in a world with AI agents is tricky! I think we've made some interesting choices here. Read the full post on...
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Anxious People The friend who suggested this book for book club prefaced it with "I like this author because...
4th Nov 2020
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Anxious People

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Nov 2020
The friend who suggested this book for book club prefaced it with "I like this author because nothing is left to subtext", and that certainly is true! If you are ever looking for a book in which the author tells you exactly what everything means and what everyone is thinking and...
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Statistics showing relevance of caching proxy In this day and age of dynamic web content, how relevant can a caching proxy server be? I believe...
18th Dec 2012
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Statistics showing relevance of caching proxy

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

18th Dec 2012
In this day and age of dynamic web content, how relevant can a caching proxy server be? I believe that the answer could be: quite! I have installed a caching proxy server based on Squid, which is now used within my company. It also does content scanning using squidclamav and...
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When the Ground Looks Empty Don’t you just love spring flowers? Here we are, coming up to Easter and spring flowers are blooming...
2nd Apr 2026
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When the Ground Looks Empty

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

2nd Apr 2026
Don’t you just love spring flowers? Here we are, coming up to Easter and spring flowers are blooming outside. But the process of planting spring bulbs is really kind of strange if you think about it.
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DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market Today Raspberry Pi announced more price increases for all Pis with LPDDR4 RAM, alongside a...
1st Apr 2026
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DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market

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

1st Apr 2026
Today Raspberry Pi announced more price increases for all Pis with LPDDR4 RAM, alongside a 'right-sized' 3GB RAM Pi 4 for $83.75. The price increases bring the 16GB Pi 5 up to $299.99. Despite today's date, this is not a joke. I published a video going over the state of the...
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Volumer I've always wanted a good USB volume control, so I decided to design one.
21st Mar 2020
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Volumer

from Opsbros [alt+shift+b] in technology

21st Mar 2020
I've always wanted a good USB volume control, so I decided to design one.
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Introducing FamilyCharger Today we launched FamilyCharger - it's designed to be a central place to charge all your devices,...
18th Jul 2019
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Introducing FamilyCharger

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

18th Jul 2019
Today we launched FamilyCharger - it's designed to be a central place to charge all your devices, fast, without clutter. Our initial designs for a family charger started out as big multi-charging docks, but they were too inflexible, expensive, and took up a lot of space....
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Train Simulator Controller: Driver's Reminder Appliance (DRA) I’m building a physical cab dashboard to control Train Simulator, replicating the controls present...
5th Feb 2024
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Train Simulator Controller: Driver's Reminder Appliance (DRA)

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

5th Feb 2024
I’m building a physical cab dashboard to control Train Simulator, replicating the controls present in UK trains such as the Class 80x. One of the important safety systems is the Driver’s Reminder Appliance (DRA) that helps the driver avoid passing a red signal. I added a...
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2024-12-04 operators on the front At the very core of telephone history, there is the telephone operator. For a lot of people, the...
4th Dec 2024
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2024-12-04 operators on the front

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

4th Dec 2024
At the very core of telephone history, there is the telephone operator. For a lot of people, the vague understanding that an operator used to be involved is the main thing they know about historic telephony. Of course, telephone historians, as a group, tend to be much more...
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WiFi Binary Clock Who doesn't love a classic Binary Clock? I remember getting one of these when I was in my 20's from...
21st Mar 2022
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WiFi Binary Clock

from Opsbros [alt+shift+b] in technology

21st Mar 2022
Who doesn't love a classic Binary Clock? I remember getting one of these when I was in my 20's from ThinkGeek, and it was pride of place on my desk. LED's are a thing of beauty.
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Everybody Wants Some!! The single most pleasurable movie of all time is Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven, and it achieves that...
1st Sep 2026
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Everybody Wants Some!!

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

1st Sep 2026
The single most pleasurable movie of all time is Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven, and it achieves that status in order to try to convey what makes filmmaking uniquely magical: a sense of shared enchantment between the audience and the director, and the ecstasy of the latter pulling a...
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Macaroon access tokens for OAuth: Part 2 – transactional auth In part 1, I showed how Macaroon access tokens in ForgeRock Access Management 7.0 can be used as a...
9th Sep 2020
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Macaroon access tokens for OAuth: Part 2 – transactional auth

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

9th Sep 2020
In part 1, I showed how Macaroon access tokens in ForgeRock Access Management 7.0 can be used as a lightweight and easy-to-deploy alternative to proof of possession (PoP) schemes for securing tokens in browser-based apps. The same techniques can be adapted to secure tokens in...
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The End of the Tunnel Lately I’ve been feeling like there’s been a shit-ton of stuff going on, quite a turn-around from...
19th Oct 2011
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The End of the Tunnel

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

19th Oct 2011
Lately I’ve been feeling like there’s been a shit-ton of stuff going on, quite a turn-around from the last time. One course about data structure and algorithms (super fun to be honest) has wrapped up. We thought we were ahead with the assignments but in the end it got very...
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The flood of AI website builders There are so many of them. instead of markdown to enable lazy-loading --> How good...
27th Apr 2024
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The flood of AI website builders

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

27th Apr 2024
There are so many of them. instead of markdown to enable lazy-loading --> How good are these site builders? I don’t know. Are you worried about job security? I have two thoughts… 1. We’ve seen this before Wordpress, Squarespace, Shopify, Webflow… all these tools...
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Make small changes and solve the problems you have Two frustrating things that can happen in an organization are 1) big changes and 2) changes that...
27th Dec 2018
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Make small changes and solve the problems you have

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

27th Dec 2018
Two frustrating things that can happen in an organization are 1) big changes and 2) changes that aren’t clearly associated with a known problem. It’s even worse in that order. These situations tend to happen when a problem remain unaddressed for too long. These situations tend to...
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Success and Failure at Pebble I’ve been giving a talk on the importance of learning from failure to every YC batch for last few...
11th Apr 2022
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Success and Failure at Pebble

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

11th Apr 2022
I’ve been giving a talk on the importance of learning from failure to every YC batch for last few years. I wrote this post in 2017 but never…
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The Tandy Corporation, Part 2 Trash-80s get Colorful, and Trash-80s get into your pockets
2nd Jun 2025
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The Tandy Corporation, Part 2

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

2nd Jun 2025
Trash-80s get Colorful, and Trash-80s get into your pockets
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Finance, Fairer Sharing our investment in Jia, which turns crypto liquidity into working capital for small...
17th May 2023
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Finance, Fairer

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

17th May 2023
Sharing our investment in Jia, which turns crypto liquidity into working capital for small businesses in every corner of the world.
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Best of Enemies Last year, I watched The War Room, the documentary following Bill Clinton's first campaign — a film...
1st Aug 2026
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Best of Enemies

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

1st Aug 2026
Last year, I watched The War Room, the documentary following Bill Clinton's first campaign — a film I am remiss for having never written about, because it was captivating, satisfying, and illuminating. And whether for good reasons or bad, it punctured most of my belief that the...
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Ted Lasso (Season 1) Gilbert & Sullivan would have loved Ted Lasso — absurd and friendly and ever, ever obsessed with...
4th Aug 2024
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Ted Lasso (Season 1)

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Aug 2024
Gilbert & Sullivan would have loved Ted Lasso — absurd and friendly and ever, ever obsessed with having its pathos and eating it too. I write this in a period of what I would describe as post-post-backlash: there was a period where America, particularly during COVID, was obsessed...
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Backup Rotation Scheme Learn about the rsync-backup-rotator tool that helps you automatically rotate backups using rsync,...
14th Dec 2023
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Backup Rotation Scheme

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

14th Dec 2023
Learn about the rsync-backup-rotator tool that helps you automatically rotate backups using rsync, creating and maintaining multiple recovery points from your backups.
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Algorithmic Modernism How algorithms generate a default taste that feels personal but looks the same everywhere
24th Feb 2026
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Algorithmic Modernism

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

24th Feb 2026
How algorithms generate a default taste that feels personal but looks the same everywhere
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My experience with LLM-assisted tools in software development It’s no secret that I was highly skeptical of LLM-s. Cool, there is this new thing that can spit out...
8th Jun 2026
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My experience with LLM-assisted tools in software development

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

8th Jun 2026
It’s no secret that I was highly skeptical of LLM-s. Cool, there is this new thing that can spit out plausible text and create cheap-looking images and videos, resulting in a lot of low-quality content being shared. It was also a huge disappointment to see a human-written post...
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What Are You Going Through The book was good but it felt like a step back from the masterwork of The Friend; they are so...
3rd Jan 2021
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What Are You Going Through

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

3rd Jan 2021
The book was good but it felt like a step back from the masterwork of The Friend; they are so similar in structure and style but it felt a little bit like everything in this one was a few percentage points less powerful, which accumulated. The writerly citations and digressions...
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Observing my cellphone switch towers
15th May 2021
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Observing my cellphone switch towers

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

15th May 2021
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The case for Nightingale Datacentres Britain isn’t prepared for the looming AI national security crisis
27th Aug 2026
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The case for Nightingale Datacentres

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

27th Aug 2026
Britain isn’t prepared for the looming AI national security crisis
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Testing MacOS on the Apple Network Server 2.0 ROMs It's time for another save point in the continuing saga of the various ROMs for the Apple Network...
3rd May 2026
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Testing MacOS on the Apple Network Server 2.0 ROMs

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

3rd May 2026
It's time for another save point in the continuing saga of the various ROMs for the Apple Network Server, Apple's first through-and-through Unix server (previously, previously). The Apple Network Server was only ever officially able to boot AIX, IBM's proprietary Power...
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CKSyncEngine questions and answers I didn't know what to put as a header so here are some iClouds (interesting clouds) in Maine I’ve...
7th Jan 2026
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CKSyncEngine questions and answers

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

7th Jan 2026
I didn't know what to put as a header so here are some iClouds (interesting clouds) in Maine I’ve had a lot of fun working with CKSyncEngine over the last month or so. I truly think it’s one of the best APIs Apple has built, and they’ve managed to take a very complex topic...
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The hardest challenge about becoming a manager Note: this post is full of pseudo-psychology and highly speculative content. Like most fun stuff! I...
5th Jun 2015
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The hardest challenge about becoming a manager

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

5th Jun 2015
Note: this post is full of pseudo-psychology and highly speculative content. Like most fun stuff! I became a manager back in 2009. Being a developer is fun. You have this very tangible way to measure yourself.
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Trying and returning the Eight Sleep Pod 4 I recently bought the Eight Sleep Pod 4—a smart mattress cover that tracks your heart rate, HRV,...
5th Oct 2024
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Trying and returning the Eight Sleep Pod 4

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

5th Oct 2024
I recently bought the Eight Sleep Pod 4—a smart mattress cover that tracks your heart rate, HRV, snoring, and cools or warms the mattress during the night. There’s a lot to like about the mattress but in the end I opted to return it. This post describes my experience with the Pod...
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memories of .us How much do you remember from elementary school? I remember vinyl tile floors, the playground, the...
11th Nov 2025
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memories of .us

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

11th Nov 2025
How much do you remember from elementary school? I remember vinyl tile floors, the playground, the teacher sentencing me to standing in the hallway. I had a teacher who was a chess fanatic; he painted a huge chess board in the paved schoolyard and got someone to fabricate big...
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Announcing Startup School Winter 2020
10th Dec 2019
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Announcing Startup School Winter 2020

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

10th Dec 2019
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Smartwatches vs Mechanical watches Why I still wear a mechanical watch and why smartwatches have potential.
29th Apr 2017
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Smartwatches vs Mechanical watches

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

29th Apr 2017
Why I still wear a mechanical watch and why smartwatches have potential.
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Talking to memory: Inside the Intel 8088 processor's bus interface state machine In 1979, Intel introduced the 8088 microprocessor, a variant of the 16-bit 8086 processor. IBM's...
28th Apr 2024
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Talking to memory: Inside the Intel 8088 processor's bus interface state machine

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

28th Apr 2024
In 1979, Intel introduced the 8088 microprocessor, a variant of the 16-bit 8086 processor. IBM's decision to use the 8088 processor in the IBM PC (1981) was a critical point in computer history, leading to the success of the x86 architecture. The designers of the IBM PC selected...
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The architecture of declarative configuration management With the ongoing move towards “infrastructure-as-code” and similar notions, there’s been an ongoing...
12th Nov 2019
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The architecture of declarative configuration management

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

12th Nov 2019
With the ongoing move towards “infrastructure-as-code” and similar notions, there’s been an ongoing increase in the number and popularity of declarative configuration management tools. This post attempts to lay out my mental model of the conceptual architecture and internal...
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Tech tip: eliminate HDD humming noise Anyone that has bought themselves external WD drives from the Elements/My Book/Easystore series are...
2nd Apr 2021
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Tech tip: eliminate HDD humming noise

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

2nd Apr 2021
Anyone that has bought themselves external WD drives from the Elements/My Book/Easystore series are probably familiar with the acoustic characteristics of the drives. The drives have a loud hum caused by WD running the drives at 7200rpm while claiming the drives to be...
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Every Enemy Wears Your Face The enemy in your head is usually wearing your face. On projection, the villains we invent, and the...
28th May 2026
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Every Enemy Wears Your Face

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

28th May 2026
The enemy in your head is usually wearing your face. On projection, the villains we invent, and the chair we can't see ourselves sitting in.
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La Guía Incompleta de los Rollups
5th Jan 2021
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La Guía Incompleta de los Rollups

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

5th Jan 2021
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The different types of ZK-EVMs
4th Aug 2022
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The different types of ZK-EVMs

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

4th Aug 2022
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Prefer STRICT tables in SQLite In short: I prefer strict tables in SQLite because they avoid some datatype problems, such as...
11th Jul 2026
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Prefer STRICT tables in SQLite

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

11th Jul 2026
In short: I prefer strict tables in SQLite because they avoid some datatype problems, such as putting text in number columns. SQLite has a feature that I think is underrated: strict tables. Strict tables help enforce rigid typing, preventing mistakes like putting text into...
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Plex Might Be Indavertently Bottlenecking You Plex has this Relay feature that basically pipes your traffic through their servers if direct access...
12th May 2025
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Plex Might Be Indavertently Bottlenecking You

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

12th May 2025
Plex has this Relay feature that basically pipes your traffic through their servers if direct access isn't possible for whatever reason, bypassing NAT and presumably cutting down on their support tickets. For free users the relay is capped at a measly 1 Mbps and the [ever-growing...
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The Trouble With Optionality What if amassing options to no end isn't the optimal choice beyond early childhood? I explore the...
3rd Nov 2020
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The Trouble With Optionality

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

3rd Nov 2020
What if amassing options to no end isn't the optimal choice beyond early childhood? I explore the topic of optionality, why it's bad and what to do about it
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Powering Xbox OneX using ATX power supply My post-warranty Xbox One X power supply went kaput, Microsoft wanted me to visit a walk-in center...
2nd Jan 2022
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Powering Xbox OneX using ATX power supply

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

2nd Jan 2022
My post-warranty Xbox One X power supply went kaput, Microsoft wanted me to visit a walk-in center 500 Km (~ 300 Mi) away and exchange it for a new one for ~ 250 USD. I couldn't find replacement power supply online where I live and shipping it from abroad was risky on several...
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Followup to "A Very Subtle Bug" After my previous post got posted to reddit, there was a bunch of interesting discussion there about...
3rd Mar 2010
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Followup to "A Very Subtle Bug"

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

3rd Mar 2010
After my previous post got posted to reddit, there was a bunch of interesting discussion there about some details I’d handwaved over. This is a quick followup on some the investigation that various people carried out, and the conclusions they reached. In the reddit thread,...
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Steam Deck: I like it I got a Steam Deck. Only took me a year or so of contemplating getting one, and trying out HoloISO,...
2nd Jun 2024
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Steam Deck: I like it

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

2nd Jun 2024
I got a Steam Deck. Only took me a year or so of contemplating getting one, and trying out HoloISO, the unofficial SteamOS installer finally convinced me to get one.1 It took another year to actually get down to writing down my thoughts on it. This post is written from the...
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Writing a simple JSON parser Writing a JSON parser is one of the easiest ways to get familiar with parsing techniques. The format...
6th May 2018
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Writing a simple JSON parser

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

6th May 2018
Writing a JSON parser is one of the easiest ways to get familiar with parsing techniques. The format is extremely simple. It's defined recursively so you get a slight challenge compared to, say, parsing Brainfuck; and you probably already use JSON. Aside from that last point,...
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Rear Window I'm not sure at what point it dawned on me that the setting & vantage of Rear Window was going to be...
1st Feb 2022
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Rear Window

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Feb 2022
I'm not sure at what point it dawned on me that the setting & vantage of Rear Window was going to be a fixture of the entire film, and not just a cute way to stage the first fifteen minutes — but that realization, and everything therein (the vignettes of every other "screen"...
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0x4 reasons to write and publish
7th Nov 2023
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0x4 reasons to write and publish

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

7th Nov 2023
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Agentic Version Control Benchmarks Which version-control tool should you give your coding agent? We pit Git, Jujutsu and GitButler...
7th Jul 2026
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Agentic Version Control Benchmarks

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

7th Jul 2026
Which version-control tool should you give your coding agent? We pit Git, Jujutsu and GitButler against each other in a fight to the death
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Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire - Mitel MiCollab CVE-2024-35286, CVE-2024-41713 And An 0day It is not just APTs that like to target telephone systems, but ourselves at watchTowr too. We can't...
5th Dec 2024
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Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire - Mitel MiCollab CVE-2024-35286, CVE-2024-41713 And An 0day

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

5th Dec 2024
It is not just APTs that like to target telephone systems, but ourselves at watchTowr too. We can't overstate the consequences of an attacker crossing the boundary from the 'computer system' to the 'telephone system'. We've seen attackers realise this in 2024,
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Chinatown Well, that was probably the most depressing final sequence I can remember in a film (especially one...
4th Aug 2022
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Chinatown

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Aug 2022
Well, that was probably the most depressing final sequence I can remember in a film (especially one so devoted to realism, or at least its brand of plausibility.)
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I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS—and You Should Too <img src="/assets\images\blog_posts\2025_01_12-rss\banner.png" alt="An image of a banner cartoon of...
15th Jan 2025
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I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS—and You Should Too

from Joey's Hoard of Stuff [alt+shift+b] in technology

15th Jan 2025
<img src="/assets\images\blog_posts\2025_01_12-rss\banner.png" alt="An image of a banner cartoon of the topic at ...
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Maths is Fun and Useful but Lasers Are More So Way back when, I made a cool but basic paper sculpture (in Maths is Fun and Useful) by hand, using a...
11th Aug 2017
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Maths is Fun and Useful but Lasers Are More So

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

11th Aug 2017
Way back when, I made a cool but basic paper sculpture (in Maths is Fun and Useful) by hand, using a perl script for the shape template. For cultural reasons, I wanted to make a gift out of paper and it had to be Heaps Good. I had finally got access to a laser cutter (omgomg)...
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Symmetricom 58532A GPS Antenna Supply Voltage Mod The Symmatricom 58532A Opening up the 58532A Voltage Regulation Result What about the other 58532A...
23rd Mar 2024
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Symmetricom 58532A GPS Antenna Supply Voltage Mod

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

23rd Mar 2024
The Symmatricom 58532A Opening up the 58532A Voltage Regulation Result What about the other 58532A variant? References The Symmatricom 58532A As part of a package deal, I got my hands on a Symmetricom 58532A L1 GPS antenna. Microchip, which acquired Symmetricom in 2013, doesn’t...
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Game Engine Black Book update The Game Engine Black Books have been updated. Free pdfs, high-quality prints, and source code are...
17th May 2019
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Game Engine Black Book update

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

17th May 2019
The Game Engine Black Books have been updated. Free pdfs, high-quality prints, and source code are available.
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Objectivity is superstition An objective, external world is a non-falsifiable assumption. The prevailing theory is that our...
17th Mar 2025
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Objectivity is superstition

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

17th Mar 2025
An objective, external world is a non-falsifiable assumption. The prevailing theory is that our subjective experiences correspond to an external reality. However, they may simply be subjective through and through. That which we claim to be evidence of external reality is actually...
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Moving beyond coin voting governance
16th Aug 2021
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Moving beyond coin voting governance

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

16th Aug 2021
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Luigi: complex pipelines of tasks in Python I'm shamelessly promoting my first major open source project. Luigi is a Python module that helps...
21st Oct 2012
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Luigi: complex pipelines of tasks in Python

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

21st Oct 2012
I'm shamelessly promoting my first major open source project. Luigi is a Python module that helps you build complex pipelines of batch jobs, handle dependency resolution, and create visualizations to help manage multiple workflows. It also comes with Hadoop support built in...
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February gets Themed: Rejection The Experimental Gameplay Project has announced their next theme - and shame on me if I wouldn’t...
1st Feb 2010
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February gets Themed: Rejection

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

1st Feb 2010
The Experimental Gameplay Project has announced their next theme - and shame on me if I wouldn’t follow suite! With valentine coming up I might just have found a pretty nice idea, just now, writing this… Booyah!!
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Should there be demand-based recurring fees on ENS domains?
9th Sep 2022
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Should there be demand-based recurring fees on ENS domains?

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

9th Sep 2022
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I killed my side projects - clean slate I have recently shut down the indie products I’ve been accumulating over the years, RIP: redeal.app...
15th Sep 2024
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I killed my side projects - clean slate

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

15th Sep 2024
I have recently shut down the indie products I’ve been accumulating over the years, RIP: redeal.app - real estate investment calculator - inspired by bigger pockets, initially scraping daft (irish real estate listing website) invertimo.com - investment tracking and bookkeeping...
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Introducing TagVault Strap Compact for AirTag We wanted a strap mount that was secure, rugged, ultra-compact, and super easier to assemble. So we...
12th Mar 2025
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Introducing TagVault Strap Compact for AirTag

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

12th Mar 2025
We wanted a strap mount that was secure, rugged, ultra-compact, and super easier to assemble. So we designed TagVault Strap Compact. Fully waterproof with a hidden inner gasket.   It's ultra low-profile.   Perfect for backpacks.   Also really great for cameras.   Also available...
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Figma agent vs. one button: shipping design tokens to npm I automated our design tokens release with two AI agents. It took six minutes per run. A button my...
7th Sep 2026
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Figma agent vs. one button: shipping design tokens to npm

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

7th Sep 2026
I automated our design tokens release with two AI agents. It took six minutes per run. A button my plugin has had for years takes seconds.
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Anxious People The friend who suggested this book for book club prefaced it with "I like this author because...
4th Nov 2020
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Anxious People

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

4th Nov 2020
The friend who suggested this book for book club prefaced it with "I like this author because nothing is left to subtext", and that certainly is true! If you are ever looking for a book in which the author tells you exactly what everything means and what everyone is thinking and...
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Resurrection Aah what a nice summer! It was nice to be back in Övertorneå, doing nothing in particular. Just not...
18th Aug 2011
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Resurrection

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

18th Aug 2011
Aah what a nice summer! It was nice to be back in Övertorneå, doing nothing in particular. Just not having to make lunch and dinner every day is such a relief, and if you do slip up food with grandma or Veronica’s parents is only a phone call away. I watched TV, played...
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Bagging as a regularizer One thing I encountered today was a trick using bagging as a way to go beyond a point estimate and...
6th Dec 2013
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Bagging as a regularizer

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

6th Dec 2013
One thing I encountered today was a trick using bagging as a way to go beyond a point estimate and get an approximation for the full distribution. This can then be used to penalize predictions with larger uncertainty, which helps reducing false positives.
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Builder.ai did not “fake AI with 700 engineers” The claim that the AI startup “faked AI” with hundreds of engineers went viral – and I also fell for...
12th Jun 2025
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Builder.ai did not “fake AI with 700 engineers”

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

12th Jun 2025
The claim that the AI startup “faked AI” with hundreds of engineers went viral – and I also fell for it, initially. The reality is much more sobering: Builder.ai built a code generator on top of Claude and other LLMs; it did not build a so-called “Mechanical Turk.”
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Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 1: The Merge
14th Oct 2024
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Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 1: The Merge

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

14th Oct 2024
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Is the Apple Watch the modern tool watch? This week I went to Frankfurt for business. I had to perform maintenance to servers in a data...
1st Nov 2018
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Is the Apple Watch the modern tool watch?

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

1st Nov 2018
This week I went to Frankfurt for business. I had to perform maintenance to servers in a data centre. This seemed like a great opportunity to test the Apple Watch's usefulness in real life (other than health and fitness). I wondered, is the Apple Watch the modern tool watch? ...
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Alleged Jabber Zeus Coder &#8216;MrICQ&#8217; in U.S. Custody A Ukrainian man indicted in 2012 for conspiring with a prolific hacking group to steal tens of...
2nd Nov 2025
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Alleged Jabber Zeus Coder &#8216;MrICQ&#8217; in U.S. Custody

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

2nd Nov 2025
A Ukrainian man indicted in 2012 for conspiring with a prolific hacking group to steal tens of millions of dollars from U.S. businesses was arrested in Italy and is now in custody in the United States, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Sources close to the investigation say Yuriy...
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Apollo for Reddit 1.9 Apollo 1.9’s a massive update to Apollo that’s taken months and months to complete, but I’m really...
12th Sep 2020
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Apollo for Reddit 1.9

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

12th Sep 2020
Apollo 1.9’s a massive update to Apollo that’s taken months and months to complete, but I’m really happy with the result, and it brings together a ton of ideas from the community to make Apollo even nicer to use. The update includes a variety of features around crossposts, flair,...
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A trip down NBA Jam graphics pipeline I took some time to study how NBA Jam arcade cabinet worked. Here is what I learned.
28th Oct 2019
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A trip down NBA Jam graphics pipeline

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

28th Oct 2019
I took some time to study how NBA Jam arcade cabinet worked. Here is what I learned.
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Achieving 2.3 GB/s with 16 x 4 TB drives I'm in the process of building a new storage server to replace my 18 TB NAS. The server is almost...
12th Jul 2014
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Achieving 2.3 GB/s with 16 x 4 TB drives

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

12th Jul 2014
I'm in the process of building a new storage server to replace my 18 TB NAS. The server is almost finished, it's now down to adding disk drives. I'm using the HGST 4 TB 7200 RPM drive for this build (SKU 0S03356) (review). I have not bought all drives at once, but slowly adding...
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Administering Kubernetes is hard Kubernetes is easy to use after some exposure; it's pretty convenient too. But it is super hard to...
30th Sep 2019
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Administering Kubernetes is hard

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

30th Sep 2019
Kubernetes is easy to use after some exposure; it's pretty convenient too. But it is super hard to set up. eksctl is a good tool for folks who don't want to spend hours/days/weeks debugging VPC configuration in 1000s of lines of CloudFormation. None of the other tools seem to be...
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BlackHat/DEFCON 2011 talk: Breaking out of KVM I’ve posted the final slides from my talk this year at DEFCON and Black Hat, on breaking out of the...
8th Aug 2011
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BlackHat/DEFCON 2011 talk: Breaking out of KVM

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

8th Aug 2011
I’ve posted the final slides from my talk this year at DEFCON and Black Hat, on breaking out of the KVM Kernel Virtual Machine on Linux. Virtunoid: Breaking out of KVM from Nelson Elhage [Edited 2011-08-11] The code is now available. It should be fairly well-commented, and...
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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...
2nd Sep 2023
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Analyzing Link Rot in My Newsletter (After 31 Editions)

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

2nd Sep 2023
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....
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Testing a cheap ExpressCard to NVMe SSD adapter on my ThinkPad T430 I stumbled upon this post in /r/thinkpad, which got my attention. It showcases an ExpressCard to M.2...
4th Oct 2022
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Testing a cheap ExpressCard to NVMe SSD adapter on my ThinkPad T430

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

4th Oct 2022
I stumbled upon this post in /r/thinkpad, which got my attention. It showcases an ExpressCard to M.2 NGFF adapter that they purchased from AliExpress. The adapter has a similar purpose to the one designed by thinkmods.store, with the added bonus that it could fit longer NVMe...
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2011 in Review It’s time to wrap up the year that’s been. Be warned for slight ego boosting here. 2011 Geek...
4th Jan 2012
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2011 in Review

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

4th Jan 2012
It’s time to wrap up the year that’s been. Be warned for slight ego boosting here. 2011 Geek Achievements Wrote three games this year: My Minions Grand Thief Arto Sat-E Bought a new computer! Bought a mechanical keyboard. Bought custom Starcraft 2 keycaps for the...
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Automattic Alignment Winston Churchill said, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Since I last blogged here, WP Engine...
4th Oct 2024
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Automattic Alignment

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

4th Oct 2024
Winston Churchill said, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Since I last blogged here, WP Engine filed a meritless lawsuit and Automattic responded, and there’s been a hurricane of public activity and press. Inside of Automattic, there’s been a parallel debate and process....
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DIY cloud gaming setup with VFIO, Parsec and AMD This is a follow-up to my previous post where I covered the VFIO setup in general. For many people...
7th Sep 2021
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DIY cloud gaming setup with VFIO, Parsec and AMD

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

7th Sep 2021
This is a follow-up to my previous post where I covered the VFIO setup in general. For many people that would have been good enough, but my goal with this setup was to have a powerful gaming setup that I could access from my living room PC with 20 meters of Ethernet cables...
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SSD reboot your thinking How SDD drives took my breath away...
17th Mar 2012
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SSD reboot your thinking

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

17th Mar 2012
How SDD drives took my breath away...
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All The Ways I Broke My Website This post is a living diary of all the times I messed up something with my website in a funny way. I...
3 weeks ago
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All The Ways I Broke My Website

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

3 weeks ago
This post is a living diary of all the times I messed up something with my website in a funny way. I value those who have the confidence to own their mistakes and share the learning with others, and so this is me doing just that! That Time I Accidentally Made a Tarpit That Time I...
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A faster way to solve complex planning problems By eliminating redundant computations, a new data-driven method can streamline processes like...
16th Apr 2025
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A faster way to solve complex planning problems

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

16th Apr 2025
By eliminating redundant computations, a new data-driven method can streamline processes like scheduling trains, routing delivery drivers, or assigning airline crews.
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The day I killed my LAN Today I called my provider to quit my office's ADSL internet subscription, I don't need it anymore....
30th Jul 2017
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The day I killed my LAN

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

30th Jul 2017
Today I called my provider to quit my office's ADSL internet subscription, I don't need it anymore. I have turned off my local area network and switched my workflow onto mobile internet only. The simplicity and savings actually surprised me so much, that I made blog post for it....
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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...
22nd Aug 2008
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Using wpa_supplicant on Debian/Ubuntu

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

22nd Aug 2008
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...
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Pareto efficency Pareto efficiency is a useful concept I like to think about. It often comes up when you compare...
25th Oct 2016
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Pareto efficency

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

25th Oct 2016
Pareto efficiency is a useful concept I like to think about. It often comes up when you compare items on multiple dimensions. Say you want to buy a new TV. To simplify it let's assume you only care about two factors: price and quality.
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Logging information from iOS Widgets Lately users have been emailing me with a few odd things happening with their Apollo iOS 14 home...
1st Dec 2020
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Logging information from iOS Widgets

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

1st Dec 2020
Lately users have been emailing me with a few odd things happening with their Apollo iOS 14 home screen widgets, and some well-placed logs can really help with identifying what’s going wrong. iOS has a sophisticated built in logging mechanism, os_log, and now with SwiftLogger in...
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The two kinds of error In short: in my mind, errors are divided into two categories. Expected errors (think “user entered...
1st Mar 2026
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The two kinds of error

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

1st Mar 2026
In short: in my mind, errors are divided into two categories. Expected errors (think “user entered invalid data”), which are part of normal operation, aren’t the developer’s fault, and should be handled. Unexpected errors (think “null pointer exception”) are the developer’s...
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Gosling’s Old Rum Virginia has draconian liquor laws, which means I have to get interesting bottles shipped from...
3rd Feb 2024
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Gosling’s Old Rum

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Feb 2024
Virginia has draconian liquor laws, which means I have to get interesting bottles shipped from [REDACTED], a site on which I am very prone to judging a book by its cover; every month I'll end up purchasing a bottle of something purely because it looks interesting and I can...
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Experiments in Printmaking - Part 1 Trying some unconventional techniques to create a pop-art print of a Cherry Mash candy bar.
13th Mar 2024
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Experiments in Printmaking - Part 1

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13th Mar 2024
Trying some unconventional techniques to create a pop-art print of a Cherry Mash candy bar.
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Painting parts beige for retro towers (eventually) So here’s the thing. Late last year I bought the excellent SilverStone FLP02, a retro-themed...
2nd Jun 2026
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Painting parts beige for retro towers (eventually)

from Rubenerd [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Jun 2026
So here’s the thing. Late last year I bought the excellent SilverStone FLP02, a retro-themed computer case with modern component support. It was absolutely, jaw-droppingly gorgeous, and has easily become my favourite modern case alongside the legendary NCASE M1. It’s big,...
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Offline Music Music has the universal power to move people. Different rhythms, emotions and vocals enable us to...
16th Jul 2022
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Offline Music

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

16th Jul 2022
Music has the universal power to move people. Different rhythms, emotions and vocals enable us to enjoy music very personally. Music is very close to my heart and I don't like anything to get in between. Therefore I don't rely on streaming music services, but manage my own...
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ASRock X570M Pro4 motherboard overview Not too long ago, I had the goal of consolidating all my computing needs onto a single desktop PC....
2nd Feb 2022
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ASRock X570M Pro4 motherboard overview

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

2nd Feb 2022
Not too long ago, I had the goal of consolidating all my computing needs onto a single desktop PC. That meant moving from an mITX-based build to something that had a bit more expandability. Since I already had a Fractal Meshify C Mini, I decided to go for an mATX motherboard. And...
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The Postcard and the Thing Itself (On Falling in Love with Ideas) My meditation teacher said something that stopped me cold: “We fall in love with the idea of a...
28th Oct 2025
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The Postcard and the Thing Itself (On Falling in Love with Ideas)

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

28th Oct 2025
My meditation teacher said something that stopped me cold: “We fall in love with the idea of a person, and then we fight so hard to keep it alive.”
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The origin and unexpected evolution of the word "mainframe" What is the origin of the word "mainframe", referring to a large, complex computer? Most sources...
1st Feb 2025
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The origin and unexpected evolution of the word "mainframe"

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

1st Feb 2025
What is the origin of the word "mainframe", referring to a large, complex computer? Most sources agree that the term is related to the frames that held early computers, but the details are vague.1 It turns out that the history is more interesting and complicated than you'd...
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Designing for People The kindest and strongest praise that you can give this book is that it was written in 1955 and...
1st Jan 2023
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Designing for People

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

1st Jan 2023
The kindest and strongest praise that you can give this book is that it was written in 1955 and neither its praxis nor its theory has aged a day. A lot of external praise is directed at its much-ballyhooed prognostication of the future (predicting FaceTime in 1955, that sort of...
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On building quicker How AI tools have transformed my approach to building projects, making it possible to launch ideas...
31st Mar 2025
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On building quicker

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

31st Mar 2025
How AI tools have transformed my approach to building projects, making it possible to launch ideas faster and focus on what matters most.
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Virtual Pinhead Discovering virtual pinball, a hobbyist community devoted to it, and building a full-size virtual...
2nd Apr 2024
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Virtual Pinhead

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

2nd Apr 2024
Discovering virtual pinball, a hobbyist community devoted to it, and building a full-size virtual pinball cabinet.
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I'll only buy devices with GrapheneOS Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS — I say that’s freedom Calvin...
28th Aug 2025
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I'll only buy devices with GrapheneOS

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

28th Aug 2025
Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS — I say that’s freedom Calvin Wankhede We’re in a dark time period right now. Authoritarianism is on the rise throughout the globe. Governments wants to monitor your social media accounts so they can make you disappear if...
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Barry is Good Enough We put a lot of ourselves into our work, and it occurs to us that you, dear reader, might not know...
15th Apr 2025
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Barry is Good Enough

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

15th Apr 2025
We put a lot of ourselves into our work, and it occurs to us that you, dear reader, might not know much about us. So we’re continuing our Q&A column to introduce ourselves, one-at-a-time. Today, we’re meeting the biggest Pika fan, Barry Hess… Who are you? (Who, who, who, who?) My...
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Spring, 2025 Hello! I have so much to catch up with you about. The time has flown.
1st Jun 2025
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Spring, 2025

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

1st Jun 2025
Hello! I have so much to catch up with you about. The time has flown.
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LED Matrix Earrings [Hardware] Itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow dot-matrix LED
20th Feb 2024
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LED Matrix Earrings

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

20th Feb 2024
[Hardware] Itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow dot-matrix LED
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Joining TCG Crypto I am thrilled to share that I am joining the team at TCG, The Chernin Group, to focus on the firm’s...
14th Sep 2021
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Joining TCG Crypto

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

14th Sep 2021
I am thrilled to share that I am joining the team at TCG, The Chernin Group, to focus on the firm’s investments at the intersection of consumer and crypto.
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How I could've taken over the production server of a Yahoo acquisition through command...
4th Jun 2017
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How I could've taken over the production server of a Yahoo acquisition through command injection

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

4th Jun 2017
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Backup PostgreSQL to cloud This post will help you with easy, cost-effective and secure way to backup your PostgreSQL database...
9th Sep 2020
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Backup PostgreSQL to cloud

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

9th Sep 2020
This post will help you with easy, cost-effective and secure way to backup your PostgreSQL database to cloud. Create local scheduled backup of PostgreSQL database Login as postgres user on the console (tmux is recommended). Create .pgpass file to access database without entering...
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Trying out VR on an AMD Ryzen 4000 series APU You may know that I really like small, efficient APU-based builds. At this point in time, they’re so...
4th May 2022
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Trying out VR on an AMD Ryzen 4000 series APU

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

4th May 2022
You may know that I really like small, efficient APU-based builds. At this point in time, they’re so close to being a viable mainstream option for gaming, especially the Ryzen 6000-series mobile APU-s. Forza Horizon 5, at 1080p high settings? Yes, they’re that good. I don’t have...
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RealityCapture to Gaussian Splatting using PostShot TLDR: Tutorial on using RealityCapture to align an image dataset, export the alignment, and import...
21st Jul 2024
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RealityCapture to Gaussian Splatting using PostShot

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

21st Jul 2024
TLDR: Tutorial on using RealityCapture to align an image dataset, export the alignment, and import it into PostShot to train Gaussian Splats without using COLMAP. Video tutorial RealityCapture Import your images and align them. If you ever need help with tricky dataset, refer to...
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Australian Open 2026: Alcaraz and Rybakina Triumph In The Shadow Of Legends The gala which precedes the tournament is not a ball, but exhibition tennis, which featured legends...
4th Feb 2026
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Australian Open 2026: Alcaraz and Rybakina Triumph In The Shadow Of Legends

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

4th Feb 2026
The gala which precedes the tournament is not a ball, but exhibition tennis, which featured legends Roger Federer, Andre Agassi, Patrick Rafter, and 2022 women’s champion Ashleigh Barty. Long-time OFB readers will know how much seeing Federer again means to me.
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Looper In retrospect, almost a proto-Blade Runner 2049. I thought the acting and general plot was kinda...
3rd Aug 2020
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Looper

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

3rd Aug 2020
In retrospect, almost a proto-Blade Runner 2049. I thought the acting and general plot was kinda milquetoast but the underlying setting was a hair above neat, and the depiction of an unevenly distributed future is probably one of the best realizations of science fiction I’ve ever...
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Backup Rotation Scheme In today's digital age, safeguarding your data is paramount. Simply creating a copy of your files...
14th Dec 2023
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Backup Rotation Scheme

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

14th Dec 2023
In today's digital age, safeguarding your data is paramount. Simply creating a copy of your files may not be enough as they can get corrupted, overwritten or blocked by ransomware. Having multiple, time-rotated (and ideally, offsite) backups is a stronger defense. I created a new...
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Some spoiler free thoughts about the first episode of “Jet Lag: The Game” season 13 Tom Scott is playing to win. The intro music made me wonder if the Wendover team watch...
5th Mar 2025
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Some spoiler free thoughts about the first episode of “Jet Lag: The Game” season 13

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

5th Mar 2025
Tom Scott is playing to win. The intro music made me wonder if the Wendover team watch c90dventures. At one point in the episode, Adam breaks out some Scatman. This is going to be a great season.
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Designing a personal Pebble watchface I recently got a Pebble Time 2 as it seemed like a fun smartwatch away from Google/Apple/Samsung...
26th Jun 2026
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Designing a personal Pebble watchface

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

26th Jun 2026
I recently got a Pebble Time 2 as it seemed like a fun smartwatch away from Google/Apple/Samsung with a good 4 weeks of battery life. One thing I wanted to do is to create a custom watchface for my specific problems. It took more effort to design the watch than I had anticipated...
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HP Laptop 17 RAM Upgrade Introduction Selecting the RAM Opening up Replacing the RAM Reassembly References Introduction I do...
12th Mar 2025
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HP Laptop 17 RAM Upgrade

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

12th Mar 2025
Introduction Selecting the RAM Opening up Replacing the RAM Reassembly References Introduction I do virtually all of my hobby and home computing on Linux and MacOS. The MacOS stuff on a laptop and almost all Linux work a desktop PC. The desktop PC has Windows on it installed as...
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Reading List 12/06/2025 3D printed legos, exploding wire detonators, the David Taylor model basin, multi-point metal...
6th Dec 2025
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Reading List 12/06/2025

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

6th Dec 2025
3D printed legos, exploding wire detonators, the David Taylor model basin, multi-point metal forming, and more.
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VC-subsidized tokens Simon Willison writes about the recent Cursor changes:
1st Jul 2025
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VC-subsidized tokens

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Jul 2025
Simon Willison writes about the recent Cursor changes:
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Running SQL Server in a container on Github Actions This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
16th Dec 2021
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Running SQL Server in a container on Github Actions

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

16th Dec 2021
This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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My Apollo Bibliography Over the last few years — perhaps not that unusually among the nerds I know — I’ve become...
9th Apr 2019
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My Apollo Bibliography

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

9th Apr 2019
Over the last few years — perhaps not that unusually among the nerds I know — I’ve become increasingly fascinated by the Apollo program (and early space program more generally), and been reading my way through a growing number of books and documentaries written about it. At a...
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Love is to die
29th Nov 2021
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Love is to die

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

29th Nov 2021
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Tunneling Elixir cluster network traffic over Wireguard Introduction The other day I was supporting a customer with an Elixir-based platform that would make...
7th Nov 2023
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Tunneling Elixir cluster network traffic over Wireguard

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

7th Nov 2023
Introduction The other day I was supporting a customer with an Elixir-based platform that would make use of Elixir libcluster, so messages on one host can be passed to other hosts. This can - for example - enable live updates for all users, even if they are not communicating with...
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October 2020 news October 2020 gwern.net newsletter with links on AI scaling, Euclid; further site reorganization &...
1st Nov 2020
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October 2020 news

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

1st Nov 2020
October 2020 gwern.net newsletter with links on AI scaling, Euclid; further site reorganization & improvement.
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#13: GoogleWhacking It has blocked a total of 2.337 Million network requests in the last 3 years for me. That is an...
5th Mar 2022
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#13: GoogleWhacking

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

5th Mar 2022
It has blocked a total of 2.337 Million network requests in the last 3 years for me. That is an astonishing no. of ads and trackers. The 21% here means that for every 5 network requests made on a webpage I opened, roughly one of them was for an ad or a tracker. 1 in 5!!!
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How to copy media off of an iPhone the hard way (using Linux) I helped a family member upgrade to a newer iPhone and make some room so that the internal storage...
2nd Sep 2024
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How to copy media off of an iPhone the hard way (using Linux)

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

2nd Sep 2024
I helped a family member upgrade to a newer iPhone and make some room so that the internal storage does not run out. They had Nextcloud installed on the current phone, but due to limitations of the Nextcloud iOS app, the backups only take place if the app itself is open, meaning...
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Creating a Robotics Experimentation Environment: My Experience and Practical Lessons Part 1 of a series on practical robotics experimentation As part of my journey into robotics, I...
13th Aug 2025
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Creating a Robotics Experimentation Environment: My Experience and Practical Lessons

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

13th Aug 2025
Part 1 of a series on practical robotics experimentation As part of my journey into robotics, I found myself facing a classic problem: I wanted to experiment with different learning approaches for robotic manipulation, but I needed a flexible playground where I could quickly test...
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Jan 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter January 2021 gwern.net newsletter with links on AI scaling up and down.
4th Feb 2021
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Jan 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter

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

4th Feb 2021
January 2021 gwern.net newsletter with links on AI scaling up and down.
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Designers Desk #1: Angelo Vilar Designer's Desk is a new series featuring the desk setups of artists, designers, and creators -...
8th Jun 2017
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Designers Desk #1: Angelo Vilar

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

8th Jun 2017
Designer's Desk is a new series featuring the desk setups of artists, designers, and creators - showcasing how they work and what their workspace looks like.   Angelo Vilar (AKA Ansirone) is an art director, animation designer, & illustrator based in Los Angeles. He keeps it...
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Cracking my windshield and earning $10,000 on the Tesla Bug Bounty Program
14th Jul 2019
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Cracking my windshield and earning $10,000 on the Tesla Bug Bounty Program

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

14th Jul 2019
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Transparency Report: 2024
5th Jan 2025
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Transparency Report: 2024

from The New Oil [alt+shift+b] in technology

5th Jan 2025
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The beginning of the end of the open web
22nd Oct 2023
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The beginning of the end of the open web

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

22nd Oct 2023
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Building a killer NAS with an old Rackable Server Like many others, I'm generating a lot of digital data. Constantly taking photos, writing scripts,...
29th Jun 2021
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Building a killer NAS with an old Rackable Server

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

29th Jun 2021
Like many others, I'm generating a lot of digital data. Constantly taking photos, writing scripts, taking notes, coding projects, and making videos. I'm storing all these files on Google Drive, which has been very reliable but also a bit risky. What if Google closes my account?...
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IDA Summer of Code 2014 IDA Summer of Code is Linköping University’s response to Google Summer of Code. Students can send in...
11th Jun 2014
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IDA Summer of Code 2014

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

11th Jun 2014
IDA Summer of Code is Linköping University’s response to Google Summer of Code. Students can send in a project of their choice and if selected they get paid to work on it for 4 weeks during the summer. In return the university get to show off the students and their projects in...
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BigBasket slot alert BigBasket is the leading online grocery delivery portal in India, due to the reduced workforce and...
19th Apr 2020
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BigBasket slot alert

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

19th Apr 2020
BigBasket is the leading online grocery delivery portal in India, due to the reduced workforce and extraordinary demand; the bookings happen at random slots and we have no other choice but to keep checking the app regularly. A need gap was posted recently, asking for a solution...
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A Cursed Bug In my day job at Anthropic, we run relatively large distributed systems to train large language...
23rd Feb 2022
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A Cursed Bug

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

23rd Feb 2022
In my day job at Anthropic, we run relatively large distributed systems to train large language models. One of the joys of using a lot of computing resources, especially on somewhat niche software stacks, is that you spend a lot of time running into the long-tail of bugs which...
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Open source business model struggles at WordPress Automattic, creator of Wordpress, is being sued by one of the largest WordPress hosting providers....
11th Oct 2024
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Open source business model struggles at WordPress

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

11th Oct 2024
Automattic, creator of Wordpress, is being sued by one of the largest WordPress hosting providers. The conflict fits into a trend of billion-dollar companies struggling to effectively monetize open source, and are changing tactics to limit their competition and increase their...
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The Wrong Bet The next decade in SaaS won't look like the last
10th May 2021
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The Wrong Bet

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

10th May 2021
The next decade in SaaS won't look like the last
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The Design of Everyday Things My favorite book of the year. I’m not going to gush about it — enough others have in the decades of...
30th Dec 2014
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The Design of Everyday Things

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

30th Dec 2014
My favorite book of the year. I’m not going to gush about it — enough others have in the decades of its existence — but know that it is that good and that timeless. Norman changed the way I thought about technology.
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Game of Thrones Okay, so, Game of Thrones.
28th Dec 2019
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Game of Thrones

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

28th Dec 2019
Okay, so, Game of Thrones.
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Enjoy a festival without alcohol This year I didn't drink alcohol during Rock Werchter, leading to interesting observations during...
9th Jul 2018
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Enjoy a festival without alcohol

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

9th Jul 2018
This year I didn't drink alcohol during Rock Werchter, leading to interesting observations during the music festival.
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My Half-Anniversary with Starlink It was six months ago today that I first plugged my computer into the Starlink router, connected to...
20th Aug 2026
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My Half-Anniversary with Starlink

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

20th Aug 2026
It was six months ago today that I first plugged my computer into the Starlink router, connected to the standard-sized Starlink “dish” (it’s a panel) that was flopped down haphazardly in my back yard.
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Why I'm back to Whoop (for now) I recently started to subscribe to Whoop again after I canceled it around a year ago. I was partly...
2nd Jun 2025
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Why I'm back to Whoop (for now)

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

2nd Jun 2025
I recently started to subscribe to Whoop again after I canceled it around a year ago. I was partly dissatisfied with my Garmin watch as a fitness and health tracker and I also wanted a new tech device to tinker with. The plan was to write a short post about what I like and don’t...
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When machine learning matters I joined Spotify in 2008 to focus on machine learning and music recommendations. It's easy to...
5th Aug 2016
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When machine learning matters

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

5th Aug 2016
I joined Spotify in 2008 to focus on machine learning and music recommendations. It's easy to forget, but Spotify's key differentiator back then was the low-latency playback. People would say that it felt like they had the music on their own hard drive.
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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...
4th Jan 2021
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2020 in review

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

4th Jan 2021
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...
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Train Simulator Controller: TPWS Control Panel TPWS is a key safety system in UK trains, so my Class 80x cab needed a precisely replicated TPWS...
16th Nov 2025
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Train Simulator Controller: TPWS Control Panel

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

16th Nov 2025
TPWS is a key safety system in UK trains, so my Class 80x cab needed a precisely replicated TPWS control panel.
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App Clip Local Experiences have consumed my day Okay, I have to be doing something astronomically stupid, right? This should be working? I’m playing...
8th Sep 2025
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App Clip Local Experiences have consumed my day

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

8th Sep 2025
Okay, I have to be doing something astronomically stupid, right? This should be working? I’m playing around with an App Clip and want to just run it on the device as a test, but no matter how I set things up nothing ever works. If you see what I’m doing wrong let me know and I’ll...
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Oversimplified ideas of the great philosophers of all times Ideas of the great philosophers of all times explained in a few lines
23rd Mar 2023
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Oversimplified ideas of the great philosophers of all times

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

23rd Mar 2023
Ideas of the great philosophers of all times explained in a few lines
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Across the Spiderverse It is very gratifying for me to see all the praise for this movie, some of it feeling overdue from...
7th Jun 2023
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Across the Spiderverse

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

7th Jun 2023
It is very gratifying for me to see all the praise for this movie, some of it feeling overdue from the somehow-underappreciated Into the Spiderverse. And, to be sure, the praise is earned: this is "what if the first movie, but more" in the best way possible. I thought the former,...
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Control - how to make a game enjoyable for casual audiences I’ve decided to intentionally take more time to play video games this year, since it’s a relatively...
1st Dec 2023
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Control - how to make a game enjoyable for casual audiences

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

1st Dec 2023
I’ve decided to intentionally take more time to play video games this year, since it’s a relatively healthy way to escape from the real world once in a while. A friend recommended one game in particular: Control: Ultimate Edition. During the Steam summer sale of 2023, I went...
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Plotting author statistics for Git repos using Git of Theseus I spent a few days during the holidays fixing up a bunch of semi-dormant open source projects and I...
3rd Jan 2018
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Plotting author statistics for Git repos using Git of Theseus

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

3rd Jan 2018
I spent a few days during the holidays fixing up a bunch of semi-dormant open source projects and I have a couple of blog posts in the pipeline about various updates. First up, I made a number of fixes to Git of Theseus which is a tool (written in Python) that generates...
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Gitcoin Grants Round 9: The Next Phase of Growth
2nd Apr 2021
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Gitcoin Grants Round 9: The Next Phase of Growth

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

2nd Apr 2021
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Fathom I'd been meaning to jot down some thoughts on Fathom for a while, and did not have a particularly...
1st Dec 2024
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Fathom

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Dec 2024
I'd been meaning to jot down some thoughts on Fathom for a while, and did not have a particularly good reason to do so until the news broke that Paul Jarvis was selling his share of the company to Jack Ellis, the technical co-founder. 1The blog post itself is a great example of...
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Train Simulator Controller: Dashboard Prototyping, Part 2 My cardboard prototype of the central portion of a Class 80x dashboard allowed me to iterate to a...
6th Sep 2025
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Train Simulator Controller: Dashboard Prototyping, Part 2

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

6th Sep 2025
My cardboard prototype of the central portion of a Class 80x dashboard allowed me to iterate to a laser-cut hardboard prototype.
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TIL: Fixing Broken Social Share Images in Twitter/X I have an admission to make. Social share images for Pika were broken on Twitter/X, LinkedIn, and...
12th Nov 2024
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TIL: Fixing Broken Social Share Images in Twitter/X

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

12th Nov 2024
I have an admission to make. Social share images for Pika were broken on Twitter/X, LinkedIn, and Apple Messages for months. And it made me sad. But in the past few months we got it fixed. And that made me very happy! We really love our Pika social share images. They are pretty....
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So thieves broke into your storage unit - again If you've been wondering why entries have been a little slow lately, let me tell you a story. All...
5th Oct 2024
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So thieves broke into your storage unit - again

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

5th Oct 2024
If you've been wondering why entries have been a little slow lately, let me tell you a story. All collectors tend to be a bit obsessive by nature, and us classic computer nerds probably pick up more hardware than we can (or should) store in our residence — especially if the...
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Writing a Jinja-inspired template library in Python In this post we'll build a minimal text templating library in Python inspired by Jinja. It will be...
23rd May 2021
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Writing a Jinja-inspired template library in Python

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

23rd May 2021
In this post we'll build a minimal text templating library in Python inspired by Jinja. It will be able to display variables and iterate over arrays. By the end of this article, with around 300 lines of code, we'll be able to create this program: from pytemplate import...
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Game Design Analysis: World of Goo Introduction This is the second essay for the course Game Design and this thime I will be analysing...
1st Jun 2010
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Game Design Analysis: World of Goo

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

1st Jun 2010
Introduction This is the second essay for the course Game Design and this thime I will be analysing the game World of Goo a bit. The first level The game is very simple. You begin with a structure and a few Goo balls, the charming balls bobbing around there, which you can drag...
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New feature: RSS feed export
2nd Dec 2024
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New feature: RSS feed export

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

2nd Dec 2024
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Conformant OpenGL 4.6 on the M1 For years, the M1 has only supported OpenGL 4.1. That changes today – with our release of full...
14th Feb 2024
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Conformant OpenGL 4.6 on the M1

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

14th Feb 2024
For years, the M1 has only supported OpenGL 4.1. That changes today – with our release of full OpenGL® 4.6 and OpenGL® ES 3.2! Install Fedora for the latest M1/M2-series drivers. Already installed? Just dnf upgrade --refresh. Unlike the vendor’s non-conformant 4.1 drivers, our...
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Debugging Tauri in VS Code If you're working on a Tauri app in VS Code and want to set breakpoints and use a debugger like a...
5th Dec 2023
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Debugging Tauri in VS Code

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

5th Dec 2023
If you're working on a Tauri app in VS Code and want to set breakpoints and use a debugger like a grown up, this is how to get it done.
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bitCards Thrill Your Friends This Christmas with a gift from bitCards
1st Sep 2026
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bitCards

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

1st Sep 2026
Thrill Your Friends This Christmas with a gift from bitCards
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Reading List 11/01/2025 A new semiconductor lithography startup, how to make batteries more like bombs, AI and real estate...
1st Nov 2025
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Reading List 11/01/2025

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

1st Nov 2025
A new semiconductor lithography startup, how to make batteries more like bombs, AI and real estate listings, a monastery being built in Wyoming, and more.
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Omoiyari Inconsequential and pleasant!
1st Mar 2021
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Omoiyari

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Mar 2021
Inconsequential and pleasant!
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So, You Want To Build A DBaaS Part 2: Technical Bits In my first post in this pseudo-series, we covered more of the theory and organisational practices...
21st May 2023
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So, You Want To Build A DBaaS Part 2: Technical Bits

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

21st May 2023
In my first post in this pseudo-series, we covered more of the theory and organisational practices around building and operating a database-as-a-service platform. In this post, I’ll cover some of the more technical aspects of this that I think are worth considering, drawn from my...
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Silence Isn't Violence The last decade, we’ve been told we have to speak — and speak loudly — or we’re the bad guys. And,...
2nd Sep 2026
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Silence Isn't Violence

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

2nd Sep 2026
The last decade, we’ve been told we have to speak — and speak loudly — or we’re the bad guys. And, of course, say what the mob says or we’re still the bad guys. But silence is often more profound.
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August 2020 gwern.net newsletter with an essay on sidenotes; links on human competence, efficient-computing/hardware-overhangs; no...
1st Sep 2020
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August 2020 gwern.net newsletter

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

1st Sep 2020
with an essay on sidenotes; links on human competence, efficient-computing/hardware-overhangs; no reviews.
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Tumblr's awesome project names Not sure how I managed to miss this, but I'm watching this Tumblr presentation and they talk about...
18th Nov 2012
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Tumblr's awesome project names

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

18th Nov 2012
Not sure how I managed to miss this, but I'm watching this Tumblr presentation and they talk about their projects named after Arrested Development topics: Gob, Parmesan, Buster, Jetpants, Oscar, George and Motherboy. Still, the best software project name is probably still Apple's...
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Revived I got too busy with a new job and living in a different country. But I love writing and I am very...
13th Feb 2021
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Revived

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

13th Feb 2021
I got too busy with a new job and living in a different country. But I love writing and I am very happy to start writing in tinystruggles.com again. What have I been up to in last couple of years? I have joined Google in Dublin, so new job, new country, new friends, new hobbies....
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Vertigo I’m surprised that this movie is held in such high esteem relative to other Hitchcock films. I liked...
4th Jun 2022
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Vertigo

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

4th Jun 2022
I’m surprised that this movie is held in such high esteem relative to other Hitchcock films. I liked it, and I thought there were very good parts of it, and I thought it was better than Haley did. But it didn’t strike me as one of his best films beyond the dolly shot which is now...
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Boomba is a Roomba with every upgrade imaginable In the classic Ship of Theseus thought experiment, we’re led to wonder if a ship is still the same...
5th May 2026
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Boomba is a Roomba with every upgrade imaginable

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

5th May 2026
In the classic Ship of Theseus thought experiment, we’re led to wonder if a ship is still the same ship after all of its parts have been replaced. But we might need to rename that to the “Robot of Boomba,” after Lucas completely rebuilt a Roomba to serve as a robotics platform....
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Using the EZCOO / AVStar HAE118 HDMI2.1 Audio Extractor for PS5/Xbox audio Back in 2021, we bought a PlayStation 5 (PS5) as our main living room console. Making the most out...
9th Jun 2023
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Using the EZCOO / AVStar HAE118 HDMI2.1 Audio Extractor for PS5/Xbox audio

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

9th Jun 2023
Back in 2021, we bought a PlayStation 5 (PS5) as our main living room console. Making the most out of this console meant we also had to buy a new TV, as our old TV was not 4K-compatible and did not support HDMI2.1, the new A/V standard required to support all of the PS5’s...
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