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Bryan Braun - Blog
Links #10 How to Get on a Podcast - This is a short and invaluable post for anyone who wants to be a podcast...
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How to Get on a Podcast - This is a short and invaluable post for anyone who wants to be a podcast guest. It puts you in the shoes of a podcaster, showing you what they need, and how you can be a “sure thing” for them. As usual, there are no short cuts. You gotta do the work! A...
Willem's Blog
Escaping the flat tires Finding the answer to the question how resilient a puncture-proof tire really is took me quite some...
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over a year ago
Finding the answer to the question how resilient a puncture-proof tire really is took me quite some time, but alas - here it is!
Notes on software...
Speeding up Go's builtin JSON encoder up to 55% for large arrays of objects This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
Willem's Blog
Three tips to make a content strategy work Consider these three things to maximise the effect of the words you write for your website, blog or...
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Postmortem: Jonas IceCream Stand Ah my latest game Jonas IceCream Stand is finished and up and running and I’m really proud of it!...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Ah my latest game Jonas IceCream Stand is finished and up and running and I’m really proud of it! And thanks for the feedback guys, it’s always welcome. I spent almost exactly fifty hours on this game and that’s by far the most I’ve spent on a 7day project. To be honest it’s...
Louwrentius
Switching away from Debian to Ubuntu LTS Over the last couple of years, Debian Linux has released new stable versions about every two years....
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Over the last couple of years, Debian Linux has released new stable versions about every two years. This pace is great for progress, but there is a serious problem. This problem is related to their support for older Debian stable versions. If you read the quote below from the...
Christian Selig
Introducing Tiny Storage: a small, lightweight UserDefaults replacement Hey I'm a developer not an artist Following my last blog post about difficulties surrounding...
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Hey I'm a developer not an artist Following my last blog post about difficulties surrounding UserDefaults and edge cases that lead to data loss (give it a read if you haven’t, it’s an important precursor to this post!), I wanted to build something small and lightweight that...
Simply Explained
ESP32: Keep WiFi connection alive with a FreeRTOS task I have a few ESP32's running in my house. A few of them are running 24/7 and require an always-on...
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over a year ago
I have a few ESP32's running in my house. A few of them are running 24/7 and require an always-on WiFi connection. That's been quite tricky to implement. I used to include various checks throughout my code, but that's not scalable.What I need is something running in the...
Louwrentius
'Linux: monitor a directory for files' Inotify is a mechanism in the Linux kernel that reports when a file system event occurs. The...
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Inotify is a mechanism in the Linux kernel that reports when a file system event occurs. The inotifywait comand line utility can be used in shell scripts to monitor directories for new files. It can also be used to monitor files for changes. Inotifywait must be installed and is...
computers are bad
2024-09-08 private lines I have been meaning, for some time, to write about common carrier switching arrangements (CCSAs)....
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I have been meaning, for some time, to write about common carrier switching arrangements (CCSAs). These could be considered an early form of products like "virtual private ethernet:" a private telephone network that was served by the same switching machines that handled the...
Birchtree
🫡 A certain individual who owns a certain social media site spoke at a certain President's...
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A certain individual who owns a certain social media site spoke at a certain President's inauguration earlier this week and at one point gave a very distinctive salute. Now look, I'm not calling this billionaire a Nazi, and I'm not telling you whether I
Home on Erik...
Pinterest open sources Pinball Pinterest just open sourced Pinball which seems like an interesting Luigi alternative. There's two...
over a year ago
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Pinterest just open sourced Pinball which seems like an interesting Luigi alternative. There's two blog posts: Pinball: Building workflow management (from 2014) and Open-sourcing Pinball (from this week). The author has a comment in the comments thread on Hacker News:
Louwrentius
Using InfiniBand for cheap and fast point-to-point Networking InfiniBand networking is quite awesome. It's mainly used for two reasons: low latency high...
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over a year ago
InfiniBand networking is quite awesome. It's mainly used for two reasons: low latency high bandwidth As a home user, I'm mainly interested in setting up a high bandwidth link between two servers. I was using quad-port network cards with Linux Bonding, but this solution has some...
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IBM RISC System/6000 Family Just when PowerSeeker thought they had nowhere to go...
a year ago
latest projects -...
Eurorack Knob Idea [Hardware] An idea for knobs for synthesizers.
2 months ago
Jonas Hietala
I, Robot Here are the results of the big robot construction course we had before christmas! The whole process...
over a year ago
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Here are the results of the big robot construction course we had before christmas! The whole process went smooth and our group was amazing. The design and building of the robot went well even though in hindsight I would’ve changed a lot of stuff. The ending competition didn’t go...
Vitalik Buterin's...
d/acc: one year later
6 months ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
The Most Important Scarce Resource is Legitimacy
over a year ago
Home on Erik...
New approximate nearest neighbor benchmarks As some of you may know, one of my side interests is approximate nearest neighbor algorithms. I'm...
over a year ago
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As some of you may know, one of my side interests is approximate nearest neighbor algorithms. I'm the author of Annoy, a library with 3,500+ stars on Github as of today. It offers fast approximate search for nearest neighbors with the additional benefit that you can load data...
Jorge Arango
Traction Heroes Ep. 7: Better Questions Conversations on the Traction Heroes podcast are proving highly relevant. To wit, episode 7 delves...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Conversations on the Traction Heroes podcast are proving highly relevant. To wit, episode 7 delves into how the questions we ask ourselves influence our ability to act skillfully. This came up in the context of dealing with uncertainty. Specifically, Harry brought to the...
Jonas Hietala
(Fake) Bittman Chinese Chicken Lesson 6! I went to Cervera and bought a holder to allow me to steam chicken. I broke the recipe on...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Lesson 6! I went to Cervera and bought a holder to allow me to steam chicken. I broke the recipe on multiple fronts: chicken wings instead of chicken breasts, mushroom soy instead of tamarin, roman salad instead of baby bok choi (where the heck do you find that…) and I even...
Applied Cartography
Meta's two assets (Epistemic disclaimer: there are few Extremely Big Tech Companies to whom I feel apathy more vividly...
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(Epistemic disclaimer: there are few Extremely Big Tech Companies to whom I feel apathy more vividly than Meta. I had a Facebook account in high school and college and got rid of it at some point post-graduation, though I'd be hard-pressed to tell you when exactly that was.) It...
Arduino Blog
Patrol the pool with this Arduino Nano-powered DIY RC submarine There is something inherently intriguing about submarines that doesn’t seem to apply to other...
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There is something inherently intriguing about submarines that doesn’t seem to apply to other vehicles. Maybe that reflects our natural fears and phobias, or maybe it is a result of our curiosity about the mysterious depths. Maybe it is simply that most of us will never get the...
Home on Erik...
How to hire smarter than the market: a toy model Let's consider a toy model where you're hiring for two things and that those are equally valuable....
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Let's consider a toy model where you're hiring for two things and that those are equally valuable. It's not very important what those are, so let's just call them “thing A” and “thing B” for now.
Jonas Hietala
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,...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
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...
Abishek Muthian
Testing FDA cleared pulse oximeter Fake FDA certified pulse oximeters Ecommerce sites in India are full of pulse oximeters falsely...
over a year ago
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Fake FDA certified pulse oximeters Ecommerce sites in India are full of pulse oximeters falsely claiming to be FDA certified. If they are actually available in U.S., they don't claim it to be FDA certified and are not listed on FDA's database. Some of the pulse oximeters try to...
Birchtree
I've moved to Ghost Pro Here's hoping this post is short and sweet… Back in 2019 I moved my blog off of WordPress and over...
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Here's hoping this post is short and sweet… Back in 2019 I moved my blog off of WordPress and over to Ghost. In short, I wasn't happy with WordPress and wanted a blogging engine that felt more like it was made for blogging than a
Never Met a Science
What Are Survey Experiments For? The titular question emerged as I was working with Alessandro Vecchiato on our visual conjoint...
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The titular question emerged as I was working with Alessandro Vecchiato on our visual conjoint experiment, just published at the Journal of Experimental Political Science:
computers are bad
2023-06-30 calling in the alarm I currently find myself on vacation in the Canadian Rockies, where internet is hard to come by. But...
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I currently find myself on vacation in the Canadian Rockies, where internet is hard to come by. But here's something short while I'm temporarily back in the warm embrace of 5G: more about burglar alarms. I recently gave a presentation on this topic and I'll probably record it for...
Bryan Braun - Blog
Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it’s haunted In mid-2022 I bought a new domain name. The name was musicbox.fun. I got it for a side-project, an...
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In mid-2022 I bought a new domain name. The name was musicbox.fun. I got it for a side-project, an interactive online music box that I had built and hosted at musicboxfun.com. The new name was shorter and more quirky. I felt lucky to have grabbed it. Unfortunately, musicbox.fun...
Home on Erik...
Interview with a Data Scientist: Erik Bernhardsson I was featured in Peadar Coyle's interview series interviewing various “data scientists” – which is...
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over a year ago
I was featured in Peadar Coyle's interview series interviewing various “data scientists” – which is kind of arguable since (a) all the other ppl in that series are much cooler than me (b) I'm not really a data scientist.
Christian Selig
Logging information from iOS Widgets Lately users have been emailing me with a few odd things happening with their Apollo iOS 14 home...
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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...
Style over Substance
Adding night shading to a Home Assistant mini-graph-card chart One of my favorite Lovelace interface cards for Home Assistant is the mini-graph-card by kalkih....
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One of my favorite Lovelace interface cards for Home Assistant is the mini-graph-card by kalkih. It’s the card running most of the graphs in our smart home‘s dashboard. Surprisingly, mini-graph card is actually not included in Home Assistant by default – honestly, it should be,...
Arduino Blog
Control your volume with a wireless rotary encoder, as you deserve Every decent stereo sold since the invention of sound has included a knob on the front for adjusting...
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Every decent stereo sold since the invention of sound has included a knob on the front for adjusting volume. There are influencers and entire communities dedicated to evaluating the feel of those wonderful knobs. So why would you settle for the mushy volume buttons on a remote?...
Jonas Hietala
Christmas break So school is on a break and I welcome it with all of my heart. The semester has been pretty fun and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
So school is on a break and I welcome it with all of my heart. The semester has been pretty fun and I really enjoy studying here. We had lisp the whole time which is a pretty sweet little language and if you haven’t, give it a shot. Then we had math and I do like math, although I...
Home on Erik...
Black Box Machine Learning in the Cloud There's a bunch of companies working on machine learning as a service. Some old companies like...
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There's a bunch of companies working on machine learning as a service. Some old companies like Google, but now also Amazon and Microsoft. Then there's a ton of startups: PredictionIO ($2.7M funding), BigML ($1.6M funding), Clarifai, etc, etc.
Arduino Blog
Recreating a bizarre century-old electronic instrument There are a handful of instruments that are staples of modern music, like guitars and pianos. And...
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There are a handful of instruments that are staples of modern music, like guitars and pianos. And then there are hundreds of other instruments that were invented throughout history and then fell into obscurity without much notice. The Luminaphone, invented by Harry Grindell...
Matt Mullenweg
Ed Catmull on Change I’ve been really enjoying the book Creativity Inc by Ed Catmull of Pixar, it was recommended to me...
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I’ve been really enjoying the book Creativity Inc by Ed Catmull of Pixar, it was recommended to me by my colleague Dave Martin a while back and I finally got around to it. There’s an interesting story in it where George Lucas has asked him to develop a film editing system that...
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Maxell's MF 2-DD Floppies The Gold Standard
7 months ago
Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing MagicGrips Apple has a long history with with computer mice. They pioneered one of the first commercially...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Apple has a long history with with computer mice. They pioneered one of the first commercially available with the Lisa Mouse and helped make it mainstream when it shipped with the Macintosh 128K.   Apple has also been known to make good looking mice at the expense of ergonomics -...
Vitalik Buterin's...
A Note On Charity Through Marginal Price Discrimination
over a year ago
Construction Physics
How Will the Trump Tariffs Affect Construction? Earlier this month the Trump administration announced hefty 25% tariffs on Canadian and Mexican...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Earlier this month the Trump administration announced hefty 25% tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports, along with an additional 10% tariffs on Chinese imports.
Ian's Blog
All About Apache Cassandra: Snapshots The concept of a "Snapshot" In computing, a snapshot is a point-in-time copy of data or state of a...
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over a year ago
The concept of a "Snapshot" In computing, a snapshot is a point-in-time copy of data or state of a machine. You ever end up doing something like this? Each one of these files is a snapshot, as it's a copy of your essay at the point-in-time when you saved it. Snapshots provide us...
watchTowr Labs
Bypassing Authentication Like It’s The ‘90s - Pre-Auth RCE Chain(s) in Kentico Xperience CMS I recently joined watchTowr, and it is, therefore, time - time for my first watchTowr Labs blogpost,...
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I recently joined watchTowr, and it is, therefore, time - time for my first watchTowr Labs blogpost, previously teased in a tweet of a pre-auth RCE chain affecting some ‘unknown software’. Joining the team, I wanted to maintain the trail of destruction left by the watchTowr Labs...
Jonas Hietala
Netrunner Summer Tournament Linköping There was another Netrunner tournament this Sunday with 8 entrants. We had two new legal data packs...
over a year ago
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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...
Louwrentius
Neato XV-15 / XV-11 Robotic Vacuum cleaner review Update 18 February 2012 There is one problem. When the robot is not connected to the charger, the...
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over a year ago
Update 18 February 2012 There is one problem. When the robot is not connected to the charger, the batteries are depleted very fast. Even if the batteries are not entirely depleted and the robot can still display the menu, the clock loses it's time. Every time the robot gets a too...
Arduino Blog
Kickstart your tech journey, with the new Arduino Plug and Make Kit! Hey, creating an IoT device shouldn’t be rocket science. We believe technology is for everyone....
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Hey, creating an IoT device shouldn’t be rocket science. We believe technology is for everyone. That’s why we’ve developed the whole new, beginner-friendly Plug and Make Kit – the easiest way to get started with Arduino!  Inside the box, you’ll find everything you need to create...
Old Vintage...
A mostly merry Southern Hemisphere Commodore Christmas A merry Christmas and happy holidays from the Southern Hemisphere, where it's our year to be with my...
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A merry Christmas and happy holidays from the Southern Hemisphere, where it's our year to be with my wife's family in regional New South Wales, Australia. One of my wife's relatives had an "old Commodore" in their house and asked if I wanted it. Stupid question, yeah? The...
Birchtree
Hark! A new CGP Grey video! I personally find this argument quite compelling, but I looked up arguments against discontinuing...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
I personally find this argument quite compelling, but I looked up arguments against discontinuing production of the penny and nickel and they basically revolve around fears around prices rounding up more often than down, creating a tax on those who pay with cash. I'm sympathetic...
Home on Erik...
Implicit data and collaborative filtering A lot of people these days know about collaborative filtering. It's that Netflix Prize thing, right?...
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A lot of people these days know about collaborative filtering. It's that Netflix Prize thing, right? People rate things 1-5 stars and then you have to predict missing ratings. While there's no doubt that the Netflix Prize was successful, I think it created an illusion that all...
Nabeel S. Qureshi
The Serendipity Machine Notes on Using Twitter
a year ago
Abishek Muthian
On Apple slowing down its phones Build world’s best smartphone CPU & release a CPU governor to slow it down via software update...
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Build world’s best smartphone CPU & release a CPU governor to slow it down via software update 😑 This isn’t an isolated incident, Li-ion batteries have been plaguing the tech industry. While other parts of the smartphone like displays, compute power, data transfer, storage...
watchTowr Labs
By Executive Order, We Are Banning Blacklists - Domain-Level RCE in Veeam Backup & Replication... It’s us again! Once again, we hear the collective groans - but we're back and with yet another...
3 months ago
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It’s us again! Once again, we hear the collective groans - but we're back and with yet another merciless pwnage of an inspired and clearly comprehensive RCE solution - no, wait, it's another vuln in yet another backup and replication solution.. While we would
Vitalik Buterin's...
Layer 2s as cultural extensions of Ethereum
a year ago
Electronics etc…
ThinMachine - a $25 Thin Client MacOS Time Machine Appliance The instructions below set up Time Machine using the Apple File Protocol (AFP). After publishing...
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The instructions below set up Time Machine using the Apple File Protocol (AFP). After publishing this blog post, I’ve been told that this is now deprecated and that Samba should be used instead. I’ll update this blog post in the near future. Introduction The HP t520 Thin...
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Comics from 1983/12 Issue of Videogaming and Computer Gaming Illustrated Time for some oldie levity.
2 months ago
lcamtuf’s thing
AI in infosec: the future is now, old man I do my best to keep punditry off this blog, but I don't always succeed.
3 months ago
./techtipsy
IODD ST400 review: great idea, good product, terrible firmware I’ve written about abusing USB storage devices in the past, with a passing mention that I’m too...
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I’ve written about abusing USB storage devices in the past, with a passing mention that I’m too cheap to buy an IODD device. Then I bought one. I’ve always liked the promise of tools like Ventoy: you only need to carry the one storage device that boots anything you...
Notes on software...
Obsession In your professional and personal life, I don't believe there is a stronger motivation than having...
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10 months ago
In your professional and personal life, I don't believe there is a stronger motivation than having something in mind and the desire to do it. Yet the natural way to deal with a desire to do something is to justify why it's not possible. "I want to read more books but nobody reads...
Jonas Hietala
Recent experiences with Netrunner tournaments After a bit of a hiatus after the Winter Kit Tournament the 16th January I participated in three...
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After a bit of a hiatus after the Winter Kit Tournament the 16th January I participated in three tournaments during February - March. After each of these tournaments I started a writeup of them but they fell off my mind a bit but consider this my break with my blogging...
Jonas Hietala
Microfeatures in my blog xkcd: Nerd sniping A while I ago I encountered a blog post called Microfeatures I Love in Blogs and...
a year ago
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a year ago
xkcd: Nerd sniping A while I ago I encountered a blog post called Microfeatures I Love in Blogs and Personal Websites, and together with the related Hacker News discussion I got nerd sniped. (I spent more time than I care to admit implementing new and exciting microfeatures for...
latest projects -...
Robot Slide Whistle Orchestrion [Hardware] Army of Robot Slide Whistles
a year ago
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Plus Post: Sony SMC-777C One person, Eight languages. The 8bit.
a month ago
Willem's Blog
Lunch by plane This week I went out for lunch by plane from Hilversum to Texel with a good buddy of mine.
over a year ago
./techtipsy
Turns out that I'm a 'prolific open-source influencer' now Yes, you read that right. I’m a prolific open-source influencer now. Some years ago I set up a...
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4 months ago
Yes, you read that right. I’m a prolific open-source influencer now. Some years ago I set up a Google Alert with my name, for fun. Who knows what it might show one day? On 7th of February, it fired an alert. Turns out that my thoughts on Ubuntu were somewhat popular, and it ended...
Posts on Made of...
Testing and feedback loops Testing and feedback loops This post tries to set out one mental model I have for thinking about...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Testing and feedback loops This post tries to set out one mental model I have for thinking about testing and the purpose testing serves in software engineering, and to explore some of the suggestions of this model. As mentioned in an earlier post, I think a lot about working in...
Louwrentius
A practical understanding of lead acid batteries Introduction The goal of this article is to give you a practical understanding Lead Acid batteries....
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Introduction The goal of this article is to give you a practical understanding Lead Acid batteries. We won't address the underlying chemistry, we'll treat them as a black-box and we will discover their characteristics and how to keep them healthy. Disclaimer I'm an amateur. I...
Good Enough
TIL: Merge nested attributes in Rails permit params I am working on a new product that's a bit more complicated than our prior releases. Getting...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I am working on a new product that's a bit more complicated than our prior releases. Getting refamiliarized with nested parameters in Rails has been interesting. In this case imagine I have a discussion that, when creating it I also want to create the first comment. The...
./techtipsy
VR, VFIO and how latency ruined everything I’ve been running my all-in-one PC for a while now. It was my desktop, my NAS and my gaming...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been running my all-in-one PC for a while now. It was my desktop, my NAS and my gaming PC. However, during the next couple of months I kept hitting small bumps along the road. Most of these were quite straightforward to fix, but there is one that finally convinced me to go...
Home on Erik...
Interviewing is a noisy prediction problem I have done roughly 2,000 interviews in my life. When I started recruiting, I had so much confidence...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I have done roughly 2,000 interviews in my life. When I started recruiting, I had so much confidence in my ability to assess people. Let me just throw a couple of algorithm questions at a candidate and then I'll tell you if they are good or not!
Neil Madden
A few clarifications about CVE-2022-21449 Just a few quick notes/updates to correct some potentially inaccurate statements that are floating...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Just a few quick notes/updates to correct some potentially inaccurate statements that are floating around on Reddit/Twitter etc: The bug only impacts Java 15 and above. The original advisory from Oracle incorrectly listed earlier versions (like 7, 8 and 11) as being impacted....
Abishek Muthian
The Social Media Pandemic Earth Health Organization(EHO) has declared a pandemic due to the most dangerous plague till date....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Earth Health Organization(EHO) has declared a pandemic due to the most dangerous plague till date. It supposedly has severe consequences for not only the current population but also for future generations. It's named 'Social Media Pandemic' as the plague is caused by the several...
Home on Erik...
It's hard to write code for computers, but it's even harder to write code for humans Writing code for a computer is hard enough. You take something big and fuzzy, some large vague...
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9 months ago
Writing code for a computer is hard enough. You take something big and fuzzy, some large vague business outcome you want to achive. Then you break it down recursively and think about all the cases until you have clear logical statements a computer can follow.
./techtipsy
How to save an old printer from the e-waste pile with a Raspberry Pi A family member has a Canon PIXMA MP250 printer, originally released in 2009. It has been a very...
a year ago
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a year ago
A family member has a Canon PIXMA MP250 printer, originally released in 2009. It has been a very reliable piece of hardware, especially for a printer. Then came Windows 10. The printer would not work out of the box with it and the official drivers got stuck during installation....
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ViaGrafix Computer Training Videos Learn...by Simply Watching TV
8 months ago
computers are bad
2024-09-26 the GE switched services network We currently find ourselves in something of a series, working our way from private lines to...
9 months ago
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We currently find ourselves in something of a series, working our way from private lines to large private line systems like the four-wire private-line national warning system. Let's continue to build on the concept of the private line into large corporate systems. In principle, a...
Arduino Blog
Come visit Arduino at Embedded World 2025! We’re gearing up for Embedded World, the leading event for embedded systems, industrial automation,...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
We’re gearing up for Embedded World, the leading event for embedded systems, industrial automation, and IoT technology, taking place March 11th-13th in Nuremberg. Visit us in Hall 3A, Booth 313 to explore our latest innovations and experience more live demos than ever, thanks to...
Notes on software...
Transparency and communication on small teams I saw a post on dev.to that talks about dysfunctional teams. This is a response that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I saw a post on dev.to that talks about dysfunctional teams. This is a response that focuses specifically on how to prevent burnout from overworking. This is aimed at senior/lead engineers and engineering/project managers -- because everyone in a leadership role is responsible...
Jonas Hietala
Blogging in Djot instead of Markdown What if we weren’t chained to the past? What if we tried to create a light markup syntax that keeps...
a year ago
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a year ago
What if we weren’t chained to the past? What if we tried to create a light markup syntax that keeps what is good about Markdown, while revising some of the features that have led to bloat and complexity in the CommonMark spec? John Macfarlane, Beyond Markdown I recently...
Notes on software...
SQLite in Go, with and without cgo This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
Willem's Blog
Wearing Grand Seiko I am glad I took the opportunity to wear a Grand Seiko, learning first hand about its craftsmanship,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I am glad I took the opportunity to wear a Grand Seiko, learning first hand about its craftsmanship, innovation and practicality.
Good Enough
Season 1, Issue 5: Promotes Regularity Good Enough is taking a summer pause! We each have travel plans lined up for the summer. We each...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Good Enough is taking a summer pause! We each have travel plans lined up for the summer. We each have at least two children in our homes, begging for attention. And we each truly appreciate extended breaks as a means of reinvigorating ourselves to the ever important task of...
Birchtree
Quick Reviews for iOS is coming soon I teased this last week for More Birchtree subscribers, and today I'm excited to announce my new...
5 months ago
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I teased this last week for More Birchtree subscribers, and today I'm excited to announce my new app, Quick Reviews! Wait, Quick Reviews which I've been making on the web for years? No, Quick Reviews for iOS. I talked about what tools helped me make this
Daniel De Laney
Resource Management “We had to display a lot of information at once and help them make sense of it. There are many ways...
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“We had to display a lot of information at once and help them make sense of it. There are many ways to do that wrong and only a few ways to do it right.” The Challenge The client came to us with a problem: They had paid for a custom tool that didn’t do what they needed. They had...
Birchtree
I'm not crazy about liking Android TV, here's why (members post) People think I'm joking or something when I say that Android TV is better than you'd think, and that...
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People think I'm joking or something when I say that Android TV is better than you'd think, and that tvOS could learn some things from it. Today's post is a video walk through of Android TV which tries to illustrate why it's compelling to me.
Jonas Hietala
Bitcoin Cash needs a Specification I’m not a Bitcoin developer, I’m just some guy looking in from the outside. Lately there’s been a...
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I’m not a Bitcoin developer, I’m just some guy looking in from the outside. Lately there’s been a bunch of heated debates between the different Bitcoin Cash developer teams. Something that stood out from all the noise was problems with communications and a lack of specification...
Jonas Hietala
Competition Feedback The voting is over and I got a few ratings I want to comment on. You can view all ratings and...
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over a year ago
The voting is over and I got a few ratings I want to comment on. You can view all ratings and comments here. They’re all from 1 to 5. Innovation: 3.75 Fun: 3.29 Theme: 3.17 Graphics: 2.54 Audio: 2.14 Humor: 2.54 that ugly. Overall: 3.13 something playable out of this. Community:...
Simply Explained
My Sixth Year as YouTube Creator (statistics + retrospective) Every new year I reflect on the previous year and set new goals. Last year has been my most...
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over a year ago
Every new year I reflect on the previous year and set new goals. Last year has been my most successful year on YouTube so far, and I'd like to share some statistics and thoughts. I will also go over how my email newsletter is doing and where I'm headed. And finally, I'll set...
Avestura's Blog
Problems of C, and how Zig addresses them What are the problems of C, and how Zig addresses them?
over a year ago
Willem's Blog
Realtime service uptime monitoring Downtime happens and it is nothing to be ashamed of, just make sure that you set yourself up to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Downtime happens and it is nothing to be ashamed of, just make sure that you set yourself up to discover problems as soon as possible! Know about problems before your customers do!
Birchtree
Nebula Sans (and my new Jet Lag addiction) My friend and Comfort Zone cohost Niléane recently recommended the series Jet Lag: The Game, and...
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2 months ago
My friend and Comfort Zone cohost Niléane recently recommended the series Jet Lag: The Game, and it's become my new obsession recently. I think the show is so fun, and Sam, Adam, and Ben have such a great dynamic. The show is on YouTube, but it&
Computer Ads from...
Vote for the March 2025 + Post Topic Time is running out.
3 months ago
Matt Mullenweg
My First Million I had a great chat with Sam Parr and Shaan Puri on their podcast, My First Million.
5 months ago
Greater Still by...
Talking to the Protocol An exploration into a new communication layer. By Gaby Goldberg & Sophie Fujiwara
over a year ago
Bryan Braun - Blog
Unusual Git IDs You can search Github for unusual commit IDs: There are over 2k commits starting with...
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7 months ago
You can search Github for unusual commit IDs: There are over 2k commits starting with 0000000! While looking for commits like these, I started to become suspicious that people were intentionally modifying their commits IDs to be unusual: A commit ID of eeeeeee, with a message...
Good Enough
TIL: Rails Testing I had to figure out how to run browser-based tests in Rails again. In part that meant working around...
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I had to figure out how to run browser-based tests in Rails again. In part that meant working around my lack of Chrome. Rails System Tests with Safari. I also had some problems with Rails Turbo Drive taking over EVERYTHING, which required me to figure out how to deal with a Rails...
computers are bad
2024-01-21 multi-channel audio part 1 Stereophonic or two-channel audio is so ubiquitous today that we tend to refer to all kinds of...
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Stereophonic or two-channel audio is so ubiquitous today that we tend to refer to all kinds of pieces of consumer audio reproduction equipment as "a stereo." As you might imagine, this is a relatively modern phenomenon. While stereo audio in concept dates to the late 19th...
Birchtree
That app could probably be a website P. Martin Ortiz writing for Rogue Engine: Your App Should Have Been a Website Some companies push...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
P. Martin Ortiz writing for Rogue Engine: Your App Should Have Been a Website Some companies push for app installations because they gain access to more permissions than they would in the browser. Apps allow them to collect more data and track user activity, often under the...
Abort Retry Fail
Chipzilla Extends its Domination MMX, Bunny People, Celeron, Xeon
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Louwrentius
Why I still won't switch to Linux and keep my Mac The current state of Linux is amazing. If we take a look at, for example, Ubuntu Linux, we have to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The current state of Linux is amazing. If we take a look at, for example, Ubuntu Linux, we have to admit that the Linux desktop is really becoming a nice, user-friendly environment. I'm truly starting to like what I see. I considered whiping Mac OS X from my macbook, but there...
Applied Cartography
Notes on ActivityPub By far the single most-fruitful tactic has been "just look at raw GET responses from Mastodon and...
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a year ago
By far the single most-fruitful tactic has been "just look at raw GET responses from Mastodon and see what things are shaped like." I know that "ActivityPub is under-specified" is a bit of a meme, but it's wild how little prior art there is. Something that gives distinctly bad...
Good Enough
How We Built Quack (Beta) We recently launched Quack, a simple utility for you to share a beautifully rendered version of any...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We recently launched Quack, a simple utility for you to share a beautifully rendered version of any Markdown text. This software is completely front-end based, and for me personally it was a bit of a challenging puzzle to implement. Thankfully we have genius hackers like Arun...
Abishek Muthian
iPhone price drop making to headlines is aspiration porn It's no secret that consumer electronics brands are increasingly relying upon aspiration to sell...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It's no secret that consumer electronics brands are increasingly relying upon aspiration to sell their products as their utility diminishes. None more so than Apple. Professional photographers, filmmakers use their phones says Apple every year, This year wasn't any different. So...
Notes on software...
Things that go wrong with disk IO There are a few interesting scenarios to keep in mind when writing applications (not just...
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3 months ago
There are a few interesting scenarios to keep in mind when writing applications (not just databases!) that interact with read and writes files, particularly in transactional contexts where you actually care about the integrity of the data and when you are editing data in...
Christian Selig
Trials and tribulations of 360° video in Juno In building Juno, a visionOS app for YouTube, a question that’s come up from users a few times is...
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a year ago
In building Juno, a visionOS app for YouTube, a question that’s come up from users a few times is whether it supports 360° and 180° videos (for the unfamiliar, it’s an immersive video format that fully surrounds you). The short answer is no, it’s sort of a niche feature without...
Birchtree
Trump’s latest executive order plainly states no one has authority over him The White House: Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies Sec. 7. Rules of Conduct Guiding Federal...
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4 months ago
The White House: Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies Sec. 7. Rules of Conduct Guiding Federal Employees’ Interpretation of the Law. The President and the Attorney General, subject to the President’s supervision and control, shall provide authoritative interpretations of law...
Odds and Ends of...
Nobody knows what the National Data Library is (not even the government) A policy wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma
8 months ago
Greater Still by...
Substack Should Integrate Native Payments Featuring 0xDesigner Design Everydays S2 109
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Willem's Blog
Cutting Cloud Costs Facing sky-high cloud costs, I found software optimisation vital. Discover how I saved 90% on cloud...
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Facing sky-high cloud costs, I found software optimisation vital. Discover how I saved 90% on cloud expenses!
Arduino Blog
Giving a teenage pet turtle a synthetic pizza-ordering voice If B. F. Skinner’s famous research proved anything, it is that virtually all animals are capable of...
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If B. F. Skinner’s famous research proved anything, it is that virtually all animals are capable of some degree of training. Training is really just taking advantage of an animal’s natural inclination to adapt for survival, which is something all living organisms do. With that in...
Jonas Hietala
Bitcoin's security isn't binary I’d like to address a misconception that’s at the core in many Bitcoin discussions lately: Bitcoin’s...
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over a year ago
I’d like to address a misconception that’s at the core in many Bitcoin discussions lately: Bitcoin’s security isn’t binary. In fact security in general isn’t black and white. It’s a trade-off being secure enough for your threat model vs the cost and feasibility of your...
Notes on software...
Benchmarking esbuild, swc, tsc, and babel for React/JSX projects This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
computers are bad
2023-10-22 cooler screens Audible even over the squeal of an HVAC blower with a suffering belt, the whine of small, high...
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Audible even over the squeal of an HVAC blower with a suffering belt, the whine of small, high velocity fans pervades the grocery side of this Walgreens. Were they always this loud? I'm not sure; some of the fans sound distinctly unhealthy. Still, it's a familiar kind of noise to...
Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course Week 17: Curiositas In week 17 of the humanities crash course, I read a book that was completely new to me: Apuleius’s...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
In week 17 of the humanities crash course, I read a book that was completely new to me: Apuleius’s Metamorphoses, better known as The Golden Ass. I also watched a movie with a similar story (but with different aims.) Readings The Golden Ass was written by Apuleius around the...
GitButler
The Future of Open Source A GitHub founder's musings on the past, present and future of large groups of people collaborating...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
A GitHub founder's musings on the past, present and future of large groups of people collaborating on software in awesome ways.
Arduino Blog
Meet Mr. Wallplate, an animatronic wall plate that speaks to you Interactive robots always bring an element of intrigue, and even more so when they feature unusual...
a year ago
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Interactive robots always bring an element of intrigue, and even more so when they feature unusual parts and techniques to perform their actions. Mr. Wallplate, affectionately named by Tony K on Instructables, is one such robot that is contained within an electrical wall plate...
Opsbros
Artemis 1 Countdown I've been following the Artemis 1 Launch Schedule quite closely on a few forums and discussing it...
over a year ago
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I've been following the Artemis 1 Launch Schedule quite closely on a few forums and discussing it with serveral people, and I had been regularly posting updated DateandTime countdown links for the revised launch attempts. With the schedule chnages and scrubs that have happened...
lcamtuf’s thing
Choosing an op-amp for your project Just say no to LM741.
6 months ago
Christian Selig
Choosing a travel pack is hard I love the “carry-on only” traveling style, it’s cheaper and you don’t have to worry about airlines...
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a year ago
I love the “carry-on only” traveling style, it’s cheaper and you don’t have to worry about airlines losing your stuff. Outside of requiring a bit more planning, what’s not to love? Turns out this is a beloved product category with a passionate community behind it, and as a result...
Home on Erik...
How to build up a data team (everything I ever learned about recruiting) During my time at Spotify, I've reviewed thousands of resumes and interviewed hundreds of people....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
During my time at Spotify, I've reviewed thousands of resumes and interviewed hundreds of people. Lots of them were rejected but lots of them also got offers. Finally, I've also had my share of offers rejected by the candidate.
Arduino Blog
Introducing the Image Map widget: A smarter way to visualize your data We’re excited to introduce the new Image Map Widget in Arduino Cloud! This powerful feature allows...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
We’re excited to introduce the new Image Map Widget in Arduino Cloud! This powerful feature allows you to overlay live data onto an image, creating interactive and highly visual dashboards. Whether you’re managing a factory floor, an office space, or a piece of industrial...
Birchtree
Was 2024 a good year? Oh, and all the metrics and earnings info you could ever want. 2024 was a weird year for the Birchler household. Without getting into the details, two things put a...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
2024 was a weird year for the Birchler household. Without getting into the details, two things put a damper on the year right from the jump: a health issue and a radical increase in monthly spending. I won't go into the details here, but over the course of
Home on Erik...
Nearest neighbors and vector models – part 2 – algorithms and data structures This is a blog post rewritten from a presentation at NYC Machine Learning on Sep 17. It covers a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is a blog post rewritten from a presentation at NYC Machine Learning on Sep 17. It covers a library called Annoy that I have built that helps you do nearest neighbor queries in high dimensional spaces.
Arduino Blog
A miniature Vegas Sphere is the perfect nightlight Sphere in Las Vegas is inarguably one of the most notable architectural achievements of the...
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Sphere in Las Vegas is inarguably one of the most notable architectural achievements of the 21st century so far. Gaudy? Maybe. Controversial? Definitely. Interesting? Absolutely — no one can debate that with a straight face. When 15-year-old Ben Kennedy’s bedroom nightlight...
Opsbros
The Bindicator So I made this project for my dad for Fathers Day a couple of years ago, and thought i'd share it....
over a year ago
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So I made this project for my dad for Fathers Day a couple of years ago, and thought i'd share it. The one shown is the Rev-1 design which is far from perfect, in fact it has several major issues I will discuss below, however it definitely works,
Posts on Made of...
Some opinionated thoughts on SQL databases People who work with me tend to realize that I have Opinions about databases, and SQL databases in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
People who work with me tend to realize that I have Opinions about databases, and SQL databases in particular. Last week, I wrote about a Postgres debugging story and tweeted about AWS’ policy ban on internal use of SQL databases, and had occasion to discuss and debate some of...
Odds and Ends of...
I think I've solved the AI copyright problem A sketch of what a grand bargain might look like
2 months ago
Home on Erik...
Analyzing 50k fonts using deep neural networks For some reason I decided one night I wanted to get a bunch of fonts. A lot of them. An hour later I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For some reason I decided one night I wanted to get a bunch of fonts. A lot of them. An hour later I had a bunch of scrapy scripts pulling down fonts and a few days later I had more than 50k fonts on my computer.
Arduino Blog
Introducing Opta Expansions: scalable simplicity! Last year, we launched the Arduino Pro Opta: it was an instant success with our community, and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Last year, we launched the Arduino Pro Opta: it was an instant success with our community, and allowed us to reach PLC engineers with a new solution specifically designed for their needs.  To further expand Opta’s capabilities, today the Arduino ecosystem welcomes various...
Willem's Blog
Measuring cholesterol levels in blood This week I had my blood examined to measure my cholesterol levels, taking a lipid profile. Know...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This week I had my blood examined to measure my cholesterol levels, taking a lipid profile. Know your LDL, HDL and Triglycerides numbers with a simple test.
Louwrentius
Don't be afraid of RAID Introduction I sense this sentiment on the internet that RAID is dangerous, that the likelihood of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Introduction I sense this sentiment on the internet that RAID is dangerous, that the likelihood of your RAID array failing during a rebuild is almost a certainty, because hard drives have become so large. I think nothing is further from the truth and I would like to dispel this...
Good Enough
Actual Customer Support Is Remarkable What a sad thing to write. We believe in good software around here. There is a lot of poorly built...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
What a sad thing to write. We believe in good software around here. There is a lot of poorly built software on the Internet and in the app stores. Our motivation with Good Enough is to try to put together a few products that feel just right to the folks using them. The things we...
Birchtree
Yet more YouTube videos I've enjoyed recently I guess this is a series now… Do you have a chair where "half dirty" clothes go? If so, this chair...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
I guess this is a series now… Do you have a chair where "half dirty" clothes go? If so, this chair will be very compelling. I'm not a big fan of most Apple TV+ shows, but Severance was lovely and I can't wait
Vitalik Buterin's...
What even is an institution?
over a year ago
Krebs on Security
Patch Tuesday, April 2025 Edition Microsoft today released updates to plug at least 121 security holes in its Windows operating...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Microsoft today released updates to plug at least 121 security holes in its Windows operating systems and software, including one vulnerability that is already being exploited in the wild. Eleven of those flaws earned Microsoft's most-dire "critical" rating, meaning malware or...
watchTowr Labs
Visionaries Have Democratised Remote Network Access - Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops... Well, we’re back again, with yet another fresh-off-the-press bug chain (and associated Interactive...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Well, we’re back again, with yet another fresh-off-the-press bug chain (and associated Interactive Artifact Generator). This time, it’s in Citrix’s “Virtual Apps and Desktops” offering. This is a tech stack that enables end-users (and likely, your friendly neighbourhood...
computers are bad
2024-05-15 catalina connections Some things have been made nearly impossible to search for. Say, for example, the long-running...
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Some things have been made nearly impossible to search for. Say, for example, the long-running partnership between Epson and Catalina: a query that will return pages upon pages of people trying to use Epson printers with an old version of MacOS. When you think of a point of sale...
Jorge Arango
LLMs Give You Power User Abilities LLMs are a general-purpose technology with seemingly endless use cases. Among my favorite is...
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5 months ago
LLMs are a general-purpose technology with seemingly endless use cases. Among my favorite is unlocking the potential of other technologies. For example, all modern “desktop” OSs come with shell environments. If you know a bit of scripting, you can automate tasks in ways that go...
Posts on Made of...
6.170, CVS, and SVN I’m taking 6.170 Lab in Software Engineering this semester. The course sucks in various ways, but...
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over a year ago
I’m taking 6.170 Lab in Software Engineering this semester. The course sucks in various ways, but one of the most egregious, in my opinion, is that they force you to use CVS for your version control. Problem sets are distributed by the TAs importing them into your repository, and...
Jonas Hietala
Why I don't rely on AI for programming (too much) I find that ai can help significantly with doing plumbing, but it has no problems with connecting...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
I find that ai can help significantly with doing plumbing, but it has no problems with connecting the pipes wrong. I need to double and triple check the updated code - or fix the resulting errors when I don’t do that. thih9 on Hacker News I’ve been skeptical of the AI craze...
Himanshu Mishra |...
Brain, Mind and Consciousness — Essay Layers of ‘I’ when perceiving anything which is external to it Thanks to Montaigne, one of the first...
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over a year ago
Layers of ‘I’ when perceiving anything which is external to it Thanks to Montaigne, one of the first essay writers, for popularizing this…
Jonas Hietala
Swelling with New Shiny Books So I read the wonderful Design for Hackers and I managed to win some money for books from a course…...
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So I read the wonderful Design for Hackers and I managed to win some money for books from a course… So I ran away and ordered some new books, and they just arrived today. Yay! First off I ordered Introduction to Algorithms which is the de facto book about algorithms and it seemed...
Abort Retry Fail
The History of OS/2 Getting a Divorce
a year ago
Home on Erik...
On the Equifax breach and how to really prevent identity theft A funny thing about being a foreigner is how you realize people take broken things for granted. I'm...
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A funny thing about being a foreigner is how you realize people take broken things for granted. I'm going to go out on a limb here claiming that the US has a pretty dumb banking system.
Matt Blewitt
Lua: The Little Language That Could Lua is probably my favourite “little language” - a language designed to have low cognitive load, and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Lua is probably my favourite “little language” - a language designed to have low cognitive load, and be easy to learn and use. It’s embedded in a lot of software, such as Redis, NGINX via OpenResty and Wireshark. It’s also used as a scripting language in games such as World of...
./techtipsy
How I fixed one hardware issue with another one I happen to run on an ASRock Fatal1ty B450 Gaming-ITX/ac motherboard that used to run fine, but ever...
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I happen to run on an ASRock Fatal1ty B450 Gaming-ITX/ac motherboard that used to run fine, but ever since I installed one UEFI update, it has had this one annoying issue: whenever you reboot, it gets stuck at POST. Cold boots work fine and the shutdown-and-push-the-power-button...
Christian Selig
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...
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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,...
Willem's Blog
Influencing purchase behaviour For my work I am continuously looking into scientific sources to improve e-commerce performance,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For my work I am continuously looking into scientific sources to improve e-commerce performance, conversion rates and online revenue. Use this useful report to apply behavioural sciences principles to your advantage.
Jonas Hietala
Let's build a VORON: Toolhead Since the last update I’ve made some good progress: All the motors are installed The x-axis and belt...
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Since the last update I’ve made some good progress: All the motors are installed The x-axis and belt are installed Tap is installed The toolhead with Stealthburner + Clockwork 2 is also installed Purple means Pretty. I’ve run into a few problems on the way that I’ll try to...
Arduino Blog
Slot machine game harnesses the beauty of Nixie tubes Everyone loves the look of Nixie tubes, with their glowing orange characters made of curvy filament....
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Everyone loves the look of Nixie tubes, with their glowing orange characters made of curvy filament. But we usually only see makers using Nixie tubes for one purpose: clocks. That’s unfortunate, because they have a lot more potential, as illustrated by Bob Cascisa’s Nixie tube...
Good Enough
TIL: Tapback Keyboard Shortcuts If you use Mac, and you use Messages on your Mac, you will probably know that in the not-too-distant...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you use Mac, and you use Messages on your Mac, you will probably know that in the not-too-distant past, simple reactions to messages were added: what Apple calls Tapbacks. These are great for a quick way to say yes (or no, or WTF!?!), but they are a bit of a pain to actually...
Simply Explained
How I Built an NFC Movie Library for my Kids When I was a kid, my sister and I had a tower of VHS tapes we watched endlessly. Fast-forward to...
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a year ago
When I was a kid, my sister and I had a tower of VHS tapes we watched endlessly. Fast-forward to today, and my children's movie collection is vastly different. It's completely digital and dispersed across services. I wanted to recreate the tangible magic of my childhood for them.
Willem's Blog
iPad Pro next to my primary machine Using iPad Pro with Apple Pencil next to my computer to form a create powerhouse
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
2016 in Review See the previous reviews. 2016 Geek Achievements Placed 2nd in Linköping’s Regional in...
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over a year ago
See the previous reviews. 2016 Geek Achievements Placed 2nd in Linköping’s Regional in Netrunner. Won a couple of smaller Netrunner tournaments. Got Veronica to play Game of Thrones with us. She beat us and she loved it! Programmed a little bit of Elixir and a tiny bit of front...
Odds and Ends of...
Here's how AI can REDUCE health misinformation How the government can build a bullshit detector
8 months ago
./techtipsy
I encourage you to write a blog It’s been over 4 years since my first post on this blog. During those 4 years I’ve written over 90...
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It’s been over 4 years since my first post on this blog. During those 4 years I’ve written over 90 posts, received over 1 million clicks, a dozen legitimate reader e-mails and thousands of spam e-mails. And I love it! I’ve found that writing can be very fulfilling and I encourage...
Simply Explained
Preventing Cumulative Layout Shifts with lazy loaded images (Eleventy + markdown-it) There's nothing more annoying than a website shifting down just as you're about to click on a button...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There's nothing more annoying than a website shifting down just as you're about to click on a button or link. This is called a layout shift, and Google has declared war on them. They've added layout shifts to the Core Web Vitals, and if your website has a lot of them, it will get...
Applied Cartography
Content debt There’s a nascent trend of releasing ostensibly-private material (changelogs, public wikis,...
a year ago
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There’s a nascent trend of releasing ostensibly-private material (changelogs, public wikis, handbooks, etc.) to the public as a bit of a marketing push. This is essentially a form of debt, to the extent that you’re taking a lump-sum payment now in exchange for the implicit cost...
Gwern.net Newsletter
June gwern.net newsletter June 2020 gwern.net newsletter with 3 new pages/essays, and links on CRISPR, population screening,...
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June 2020 gwern.net newsletter with 3 new pages/essays, and links on CRISPR, population screening, AI scaling, politics, and technological unemployment.
OH8HUB’s Substack
A quick visit to Vaajasalo island Vaajasalo is a small island in lake Kallavesi in eastern Finland with population less than hundred....
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Vaajasalo is a small island in lake Kallavesi in eastern Finland with population less than hundred. There’s also a winery called Alahovi Berry Wine Farm. They produce berry wines, cider, beer and liqueur. The temptation to visit them was huge, but I was on tight schedule. Maybe...
Vitalik Buterin's...
The promise and challenges of crypto + AI applications
a year ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Why Proof of Stake (Nov 2020)
over a year ago
Notes on software...
Writing an x86 emulator from scratch in JavaScript: 1. a stack and register machine Better yet, take a look at this post walking through emulating x86 ELF binaries in Go: Emulating...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Better yet, take a look at this post walking through emulating x86 ELF binaries in Go: Emulating linux/AMD64 userland: interpreting an ELF binary 2. system calls In this post we'll create a small virtual machine in JavaScript and use it to run a simple C program compiled...
Neil Madden
Hybrid encryption and the KEM/DEM paradigm If you know a bit about public key cryptography, you probably know that you don’t directly encrypt a...
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over a year ago
If you know a bit about public key cryptography, you probably know that you don’t directly encrypt a message with a public key encryption algorithm like RSA. This is for many reasons, one of which being that it is incredibly slow. Instead you do what’s called hybrid encryption:...
Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course Week 7: Gilgamesh Week 7 of my humanities crash course had me exploring ancient Mesopotamia with a side trip to...
4 months ago
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Week 7 of my humanities crash course had me exploring ancient Mesopotamia with a side trip to northern India. I also watched an Iranian film that had me pondering the meaning of life. Readings This week, I read two short ancient texts: the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Dhammapada....
Ken Shirriff's blog
Wealth distribution in the United States Forbes recently published the Forbes 400 List for 2024, listing the 400 richest people in the United...
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Forbes recently published the Forbes 400 List for 2024, listing the 400 richest people in the United States. This inspired me to make a histogram to show the distribution of wealth in the United States. It turns out that if you put Elon Musk on the graph, almost the entire US...
Notes on software...
Surveying SQL parser libraries in a few high-level languages This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
Arduino Blog
Adding voice commands to a LEGO planetarium set with an Arduino Nano 33 IoT From Mindstorms to Technic, LEGO has produced a wide variety of sets that give users new learning...
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11 months ago
From Mindstorms to Technic, LEGO has produced a wide variety of sets that give users new learning and creative experiences, and for Electromaker’s Robin Mitchell, this was the LEGO planetarium set. With it, rotational input will cause the Earth and moon models to orbit around the...
The New Oil
The Unique ID You're Giving to Everyone
4 months ago
Louwrentius
Wake On Lan not working with realtek r8168 card After messing around with different kernels on Debian Lenny, I noticed that my system did no longer...
over a year ago
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After messing around with different kernels on Debian Lenny, I noticed that my system did no longer respond to WOL packets. The system is using an on-board Realtek R8168 chip which supports wake on lan. After searching and reading i found the problem. The system is using an...
Arduino Blog
Arduino Days 2025 is almost here! With just a few days to go, Arduino Days 2025 promises to be one of the biggest and most exciting...
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With just a few days to go, Arduino Days 2025 promises to be one of the biggest and most exciting events in our 20-year history! Join us for two days of live-streamed content on March 21st-22nd, featuring inspiring talks, major product announcements, and community showcases from...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Sidechains vs Plasma vs Sharding
over a year ago
Arduino Blog
The Swervebot is an omnidirectional robot that combines LEGO and 3D-printed parts Robotic vehicles can have a wide variety of drive mechanisms that range from a simple tricycle setup...
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Robotic vehicles can have a wide variety of drive mechanisms that range from a simple tricycle setup all the way to crawling legs. Alex Le’s project leverages the reliability of LEGO blocks with the customizability of 3D-printed pieces to create a highly mobile omnidirectional...
lcamtuf’s thing
PCBs, ground planes, and you A closer look at a fashion trend in printed circuit board design.
5 months ago
Louwrentius
Understanding IOPS, latency and storage performance Update 2020: I've written another blogpost about this topic, including some benchmark examples. When...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Update 2020: I've written another blogpost about this topic, including some benchmark examples. When most people think about storage performance, they think about throughput. But throughput is similar to the top speed of a car. In reality, you will almost never reach the top...
Daniel De Laney
Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools Code forces humans to be precise. That’s good—computers need precision. But it also forces humans to...
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5 months ago
Code forces humans to be precise. That’s good—computers need precision. But it also forces humans to think like machines. For decades we tried to fix this by making programming more human-friendly. Higher-level languages. Visual interfaces. Each step helped, but we were still...
./techtipsy
ASRock DeskMini X300: the future form factor of desktop PC-s? I wasn’t happy with my “one machine that does it all” setup, which is why I finally bit the bullet...
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I wasn’t happy with my “one machine that does it all” setup, which is why I finally bit the bullet and got myself an ASRock DeskMini X300 bare-bones kit. This is a fantastic little desktop PC kit that is very small, quiet and can still be configured to have ridiculous amounts of...
Arduino Blog
This rolling ball game brings Skee-Ball-style fun from the arcade to your home Ask your friends about their favorite games at the arcade and the most common answer will likely be...
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Ask your friends about their favorite games at the arcade and the most common answer will likely be Skee-Ball. But while many other popular arcade games have viable at-home alternatives, Skee-Ball doesn’t — at least not unless you’re willing to spend a serious amount of money....
Birchtree
+ Impressions of that secret product I'm not talking about yet Another 2,000 words on the thing that I'm not talking about yet.
2 months ago
Notes on software...
First month on a database team A little over a month ago, I joined EnterpriseDB on a distributed Postgres product (PGD). The...
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A little over a month ago, I joined EnterpriseDB on a distributed Postgres product (PGD). The process of onboarding myself has been pretty similar at each company in the last decade, though I think I've gotten better at it. The process is of course influenced by the team, and my...
Matt Mullenweg
Studio Sync WordPress.com launched a new update to Studio this week, and we’re already seeing some buzz....
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WordPress.com launched a new update to Studio this week, and we’re already seeing some buzz. Studio is our free and open source app for local WordPress development, enabling you to spin up unlimited WordPress sites on your personal computer. Through its newest feature, Studio...
Matt Mullenweg
On Lenny’s Podcast One of my must-read newsletters for the past several years has been Lenny’s Newsletter, probably...
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4 months ago
One of my must-read newsletters for the past several years has been Lenny’s Newsletter, probably best known for its writing on growth and product management, which really means it covered everything you need to create a great company. It expanded into a really well-done podcast;...
Abishek Muthian
Memory and Mental Health It's been known for a while that depression can cause us to not remember finer details of an past...
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It's been known for a while that depression can cause us to not remember finer details of an past event (or) even cause forgetfulness of future events. But while depressed, We have no dearth of negative thoughts and memories i.e. Rumination. Since rumination weakens our cognitive...
Willem's Blog
Using Google Free Android Using a Google Free Android phone is uncommon these days, yet I decided to try the Volla Phone to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Using a Google Free Android phone is uncommon these days, yet I decided to try the Volla Phone to experience its freedom and privacy.
Greater Still by...
Integrate Are we building apps or infrastructure? ...Yes
a year ago
Willem's Blog
Google Analytics vs AWStats Comparing Google Analytics with AWStats to find out where they differ and which is better.
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Let's build a VORON: Filters I can print, but the printer is missing a very important thing that I alluded to in the previous...
a year ago
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a year ago
I can print, but the printer is missing a very important thing that I alluded to in the previous post: filtering dangerous particles and fumes. This is mostly covered by the kit, but I was missing some parts from the print it forward and the kit didn’t include a HEPA...
Bryan Braun - Blog
The flood of AI website builders There are so many of them. instead of markdown to enable lazy-loading --> How good...
a year ago
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a year ago
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...
Home on Erik...
Delivering Music Recommendations I've turned into a lazy bastard and I'm just posting presentations on this blog, but here's one from...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've turned into a lazy bastard and I'm just posting presentations on this blog, but here's one from Rohan Singh at Spotify talking about the backend infrastructure of the Discover page.
Matt Mullenweg
Inc Hit Piece When Inc Magazine reached out to have David H. Freedman (website powered by WordPress) write a...
6 months ago
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When Inc Magazine reached out to have David H. Freedman (website powered by WordPress) write a feature piece I was excited because though Inc wasn’t a magazine I have read much since I was a teenager, David seemed like a legit journalist who usually writes for better publications...
Willem's Blog
Fietselfstedentocht 2017 Cycling the 235KM long Fietselfstedentocht through Friesland
over a year ago
Lighthouse Blog
What is RSS?
3 months ago
Birchtree
A new/old Pokémon game, how Hollywood can make good movies, and a puzzle with all edge pieces We are so back! Please keep making smaller, original movies so that we get new franchises A puzzle...
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3 months ago
We are so back! Please keep making smaller, original movies so that we get new franchises A puzzle with all edge pieces that looks fun but also very hard Every font is free…as long as you remake it yourself Fellow olds, if you haven't seen this,
noahbuscher.com
Radio Install in a Porsche Boxster The 987.2 Porsche Boxster is one of the best values in the used sports car market today. There is so...
over a year ago
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The 987.2 Porsche Boxster is one of the best values in the used sports car market today. There is so much to love about the vehicle, but the OEM headunit is not one of them. It's very dated, clunky, and doesn't support CarPlay (!), so one of the first things I did after picking...
Louwrentius
'Linux: obtain motherboard model / type and vendor' If you want to know what motherboard is installed in a system, use the tool dmidecode: dmidecode |...
over a year ago
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If you want to know what motherboard is installed in a system, use the tool dmidecode: dmidecode | grep -e "Manufacturer|Product" | head -n 4 | tail -n 2 The result might be something like: Manufacturer: ASUSTeK Computer INC. Product Name: P5Q-EM DO Manufacturer: ASUSTeK Computer...
Style over Substance
3D-printable Raleno 104 lightbox adapter for camera film scanning My latest creation is a 3D-printed adapter for the Raleno PLV-S104 (Raleno 104) light. The model...
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My latest creation is a 3D-printed adapter for the Raleno PLV-S104 (Raleno 104) light. The model turns it into a lightbox that you can use for digital camera scanning of your negative film. It also contains a holder compatible with the Valoi 35mm/120 film carriers. Additionally,...
Lighthouse Blog
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10 months ago
Louwrentius
Installation of ZFS on Linux hangs on Debian Wheezy This article is no longer relevant. After a fresh net-install of Debian Wheezy, I was unable to...
over a year ago
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This article is no longer relevant. After a fresh net-install of Debian Wheezy, I was unable to compile the ZFS for Linux kernel module. I've installed apt-get install build-essential but that wasn't enough. The apt-get install debian-zfs command would just hang. I noticed a...
Jonas Hietala
Poking at Emacs I’ve been a vim vim fan for a while now and with some recent configs I’m starting to feel pretty...
over a year ago
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I’ve been a vim vim fan for a while now and with some recent configs I’m starting to feel pretty confident and happy with it. For those who don’t know it’s basically a text editor, like notepad, but with a lot of keycommands which allows you to edit code (and text in general)...
Arduino Blog
This telescope can intelligently point itself anywhere in the sky Known by their characteristic mounting solution, Dobsonian telescopes are the standard in amateur...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Known by their characteristic mounting solution, Dobsonian telescopes are the standard in amateur astronomy due to their lower cost and ease-of-use. But after seeing how some of the larger, motorized telescopes at observatories can simply pivot to a target of interest, one member...
Applied Cartography
What Gives Matthieu asks: Since you do a lot of things (investor, dad, owner of a "small" business, blog...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Matthieu asks: Since you do a lot of things (investor, dad, owner of a "small" business, blog writer) I was wondering what you don't do to keep up with this level of commitment. In the same line, it often said that behind one person success, there's a wife/husband that helps to...
Applied Cartography
Hypermodern Django I've been on the hunt for a new way to dogfood Buttondown for the past month or so, and I've finally...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
I've been on the hunt for a new way to dogfood Buttondown for the past month or so, and I've finally found it: Hypermodern Django. At this point, all of my/our usages of Buttondown for Buttondown don't involve archives: we're using it headlessly, with RSS-to-email and APIs...
Odds and Ends of...
Just Stop Oil is doing more harm for the cause than good Mitigating climate change requires more than poems and protest
4 months ago
Engineers Need Art
Virtual Pinhead Discovering virtual pinball, a hobbyist community devoted to it, and building a full-size virtual...
a year ago
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Discovering virtual pinball, a hobbyist community devoted to it, and building a full-size virtual pinball cabinet.
Home on Erik...
Some more font links My blog post about fonts generated lots of traffic – it landed on Hacker News, took down my site...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My blog post about fonts generated lots of traffic – it landed on Hacker News, took down my site while I was sleeping, and then obviously vanished from HN before I woke up. But it also got retweeted by a ton of people.
Home on Erik...
ML at Twitter I recently came across this paper describing how they do ML at Twitter. TL;DR Their approach is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I recently came across this paper describing how they do ML at Twitter. TL;DR Their approach is pretty interesting. Everything is a Pig workflow and then they do everything as UDF's. This approach seems pretty interesting.
Home on Erik...
How to set compensation using commonsense principles Compensation has always been one of the most confusing parts of management to me. Getting it right...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Compensation has always been one of the most confusing parts of management to me. Getting it right is obviously extremely important. Compensation is what drives our entire economy, and you could look at the market for labor as one gigantic resource-allocating machine in the same...
Louwrentius
Why I believe the new Mac Pro won't be a great machine for gaming In Accidental Tech Podcast episode 18 (love the show), I learned that John Siracusa was thinking...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In Accidental Tech Podcast episode 18 (love the show), I learned that John Siracusa was thinking about buying a new Mac Pro for gaming. I believe that gaming on the new Mac Pro will be a mediocre experience. Driver support: as John mentioned himself, the video cards are...
Matt Blewitt
Logical Replication Guardrails I’ve been working with logical replication in PostgreSQL recently, and I wanted to share a few...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve been working with logical replication in PostgreSQL recently, and I wanted to share a few thoughts on how to implement some guardrails to make things easier on operators.
Birchtree
Handheld consoles, assemble! Jez Corden writing for Windows Central: EXCLUSIVE: Xbox's New Hardware Plans Begin With a Gaming...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Jez Corden writing for Windows Central: EXCLUSIVE: Xbox's New Hardware Plans Begin With a Gaming Handheld Set for Later This Year, With Full Next-Gen Consoles Targeting 2027 Microsoft is working with a PC gaming OEM (think ASUS, Lenovo, MSI, Razer, etc.) on an Xbox-branded gaming...
Louwrentius
Why VMware vSphere replication is changing the game If you are running a serious VMware environment, chances are you do have a SAN. Often with smaller...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you are running a serious VMware environment, chances are you do have a SAN. Often with smaller setups, many people do employ multiple VMware hosts, but the SAN is a single point of failure. SANs are often fully redundant devices, with redundant PSUs, storage controllers,...
Simply Explained
Year in review: 2022 Every new year I reflect on the previous year and set new goals. I'm focusing primarily on my...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Every new year I reflect on the previous year and set new goals. I'm focusing primarily on my YouTube channel and newsletter, but there are personal reflections in here as well. Last year was an off year for me, and I'm gearing up to make up for lost time in 2023.
computers are bad
2025-05-04 iBeacons You know sometimes a technology just sort of... comes and goes? Without leaving much of an...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
You know sometimes a technology just sort of... comes and goes? Without leaving much of an impression? And then gets lodged in your brain for the next decade? Let's talk about one of those: the iBeacon. I think the reason that iBeacons loom so large in my memory is that...
Jonas Hietala
An Epic Start Oh what a mistake. I woke up at 05.00 when my girlfriend woke up, she’s working early today, and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Oh what a mistake. I woke up at 05.00 when my girlfriend woke up, she’s working early today, and went to the bathroom. After I was done, still pretty tired, I made a big mistake. I checked the current theme for Ludum Dare 29: Beneath the Surface and guess what? Now I wasn’t tired...
Birchtree
Samsung will release their phone first and still gets accused of copying Apple Chance Miller on 9to5Mac: Samsung Is Already Working on Its iPhone 17 Air Copycat Apple is expected...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Chance Miller on 9to5Mac: Samsung Is Already Working on Its iPhone 17 Air Copycat Apple is expected to release an all-new “iPhone 17 Air” model this year, prioritizing form over function. A new supply chain report today reiterates what to expect from the iPhone 17 Air size and
Applied Cartography
November, 2024 Not a lot to share this month; it was a particularly busy time, between a mystery (and now solved,...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Not a lot to share this month; it was a particularly busy time, between a mystery (and now solved, without fanfare or closure) cough and a dearth of time to write as I started to explore easing back into full-time work. Still, some writing (and selfishly, I'm excited to end the...
Gwern.net Newsletter
May Gwern.net Newsletter Link compilation newsletter with anime GAN updates, links on AI scaling, discussion of GPT-3, and 1...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Link compilation newsletter with anime GAN updates, links on AI scaling, discussion of GPT-3, and 1 book review.
Jonas Hietala
An invisible Remake What does a guy like me do when not working on a new game? Except living my life, being a coach for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
What does a guy like me do when not working on a new game? Except living my life, being a coach for my little brother’s hockey team and eating strawberries? The last week or so I’ve been working hard with my webpage, yes this page. If you’ve visited my site before today you’ll...
Old Vintage...
After 41 years, my first assembly program on my first computer, the Tomy Tutor We got it in 1983, I think, so it only took me about 41 years to get around to it. This Tomy Tutor...
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a year ago
We got it in 1983, I think, so it only took me about 41 years to get around to it. This Tomy Tutor isn't a replacement system I secondarily acquired, nor is it a Ship of Theseus Frankenstein rebuild. This is my actual first computer, in its original case, on its original...
Birchtree
The best app for gaming on the Vision Pro will soon be Safari Andrew Fear writing for the official NVIDIA blog: PC Gaming in the Cloud Goes Everywhere With New...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Andrew Fear writing for the official NVIDIA blog: PC Gaming in the Cloud Goes Everywhere With New Devices and AAA Games on GeForce NOW Get immersed in a new dimension of big-screen gaming as GeForce NOW brings AAA titles to life on Apple Vision Pro spatial computers, Meta Quest 3
Birchtree
My lil' Ghostty terminal config I wrote about Ghosty last week, and since then I've played around with it enough to know it's my new...
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I wrote about Ghosty last week, and since then I've played around with it enough to know it's my new terminal emulator of choice. For me the killer feature is how fast it is, putting the most popular apps to shame (Apple Terminal and iTerm, specifically)
Home on Erik...
Bagging as a regularizer One thing I encountered today was a trick using bagging as a way to go beyond a point estimate and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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.
Jonas Hietala
Changes A lot has been going on lately and it feels like I’m being swamped. I can’t complain too much but...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A lot has been going on lately and it feels like I’m being swamped. I can’t complain too much but there are things I’d like to change after the exam period this week. Program more! nothing since christmas or someting. I need to finish: Ada project for school. Can’t believe I...
Birchtree
Meta, moderation, and whose freedoms come first A lot has been said about Meta’s recently-announced moderation changes, so I won’t add too much to...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
A lot has been said about Meta’s recently-announced moderation changes, so I won’t add too much to your reading backlog today, but I did want to comment on it after letting it simmer in my head for a bit. Let me just start by repeating the
Willem's Blog
Champions League of Webdesign This blog post highlights often-unseen details behind the high performance website of Escape Club...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
This blog post highlights often-unseen details behind the high performance website of Escape Club Amsterdam, blending cutting-edge technology with design and commerce.
Himanshu Mishra |...
Joining Spotify in Sweden Image source Life in Japan All the things that I knew about Japan turned out to be true, as soon as...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Image source Life in Japan All the things that I knew about Japan turned out to be true, as soon as I arrived here 8 months ago. Japan is a…
./techtipsy
The simplicity of the modulo operator: how I scaled an inefficient solution on a legacy system Your service cannot process events fast enough during peak hours. There is no obvious quick and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Your service cannot process events fast enough during peak hours. There is no obvious quick and dirty fix. Refactoring would take ages. People have been unhappy for a while now. What the hell do you do? Background I had the pleasure of working with a legacy backend system...
Matt Blewitt
On That Okta LDAP Bug A quick explanation of the Okta AD/LDAP DelAuth bug that was being shared around, and the importance...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
A quick explanation of the Okta AD/LDAP DelAuth bug that was being shared around, and the importance of sensible defaults.
Computer Ads from...
Epyx Oil Barons Oil Barons. If You're Smart, You'll get Filthy Rich.
a month ago
Jonas Hietala
The Decline of FPS Games I read an article about the decline of FPS games and it made me think a bit. When was the last time...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I read an article about the decline of FPS games and it made me think a bit. When was the last time I actually enjoyed an FPS game? I installed old Deus Ex a while ago but it’s what 12 years old? Team Fortress was okay, the one or two times I tried it, but I can’t say I truly...
Louwrentius
20 disk 18 TB RAID 6 storage based on Debian Linux This system is no longer operational and has been decomissioned (2017) This is my NAS storage server...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This system is no longer operational and has been decomissioned (2017) This is my NAS storage server based on Debian Linux. It uses software RAID and 20 one terrabyte hard drives. It provides a total usable storage capacity of 18 terrabytes in a single RAID 6 array. One of the...
Krebs on Security
DOGE Worker’s Code Supports NLRB Whistleblower A whistleblower at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleged last week that denizens of Elon...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
A whistleblower at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleged last week that denizens of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) siphoned gigabytes of data from the agency's sensitive case files in early March. The whistleblower said accounts created for...
Applied Cartography
Mass renaming files in fish on macOS One of many two-liners to come as I migrate things from the old site onto Obsidian: brew install...
a year ago
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a year ago
One of many two-liners to come as I migrate things from the old site onto Obsidian: brew install rename rename "s/.mdx/.md/" **.md
Arduino Blog
These Shattered Space helmet replicas stay video game accurate using an Arduino Nano Starfield, a game set in the vast expanse of our galaxy, is receiving a new expansion called...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Starfield, a game set in the vast expanse of our galaxy, is receiving a new expansion called “Shattered Space” in which players can don novel weapons and gear to take on the latest challenge. As part of its release, the expansion’s publisher Bethesda reached out to cosplayer...
Engineers Need Art
Duane Blehm A little about Duane Blehm, an early Macintosh shareware author.
4 months ago
Posts on Made of...
Reader/reader blocking in reader/writer locks Abstract In writer-priority reader/writer locks, as soon as a single writer enters the acquisition...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Abstract In writer-priority reader/writer locks, as soon as a single writer enters the acquisition queue, all future accesses block behind any in-flight reads. Thus, if any readers hold the lock for extended periods of time, this can lead to extreme pauses and loss of throughput...
Home on Erik...
The half-life of code & the ship of Theseus As a project evolves, does the new code just add on top of the old code? Or does it replace the old...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As a project evolves, does the new code just add on top of the old code? Or does it replace the old code slowly over time? In order to understand this, I built a little thing to analyze Git projects, with help from the formidable GitPython project.
Vitalik Buterin's...
On Collusion
over a year ago
Willem's Blog
Something the smartwatch will never have: patina Patina is often neglected when comparing smartwatches with regular watches.
over a year ago
computers are bad
2024-09-14 the national warning system Previously on Deep Space Nine, we discussed the extensive and variable products that AT&T and...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Previously on Deep Space Nine, we discussed the extensive and variable products that AT&T and telephone operating companies sold as private lines. One of the interesting properties of private line systems is that they can be ordered as four-wire. Internally, the telephone network...
Birchtree
The VR market shrunk yet again in 2024 Counterpoint Research: Global VR Market Declines 12% YoY in 2024; ‘AR+AI’ Smart Glasses to Take...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Counterpoint Research: Global VR Market Declines 12% YoY in 2024; ‘AR+AI’ Smart Glasses to Take Centre Stage in 2025 Global VR headset shipments fell 12% YoY in 2024, marking their third consecutive year of declines due to the continued weak consumer demand. This is actually...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Antenna diodes in the Pentium processor I was studying the silicon die of the Pentium processor and noticed some puzzling structures...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
I was studying the silicon die of the Pentium processor and noticed some puzzling structures where signal lines were connected to the silicon substrate for no apparent reason. Two examples are in the photo below, where the metal wiring (orange) connects to small square regions of...
Applied Cartography
Tailwind black magic: styling paragraphs within tables The new version of the Buttondown docs site is all in on Keystatic, Markdoc, and Tailwind's...
a year ago
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a year ago
The new version of the Buttondown docs site is all in on Keystatic, Markdoc, and Tailwind's typography plugin — which makes it really easy to author beautiful docs in plaintext. We ran into one small issue, which is that the Markdoc renderer likes to place paragraph tags in table...
Louwrentius
Script that shows smart values of all disks' Please use this tool on github instead of this ancient script. So you have a Linux system with a lot...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Please use this tool on github instead of this ancient script. So you have a Linux system with a lot of hard drives. If you want to quickly check on some key SMART values to determine the health of individual disks, you might be interested in this script. I wrote a small Python...
Willem's Blog
One year on the ultimate commuter bike Answering questions from one of the most popular posts of last year, I am reviewing my commuter bike...
over a year ago
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Answering questions from one of the most popular posts of last year, I am reviewing my commuter bike after one year of extensive use through winter and summer.
Louwrentius
Don't use cloud services if you care about secrecy of your data When you use cloud services, you are storing your data on other people's hard drives. The moment you...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When you use cloud services, you are storing your data on other people's hard drives. The moment you put your data within a cloud service, that data is no longer under your control. You don't know who will access that data. Secrecy is lost. Instead of using services like Gmail...
detreville
This is "detreville" It's my name, and the name of my Substack too. That's one less thing for everyone to remember.
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over a year ago
It's my name, and the name of my Substack too. That's one less thing for everyone to remember.
Arduino Blog
Seaside Sweeper keeps beaches pristine Without anyone caring for them, beaches quickly become trash-covered swaths of disappointment. That...
a year ago
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a year ago
Without anyone caring for them, beaches quickly become trash-covered swaths of disappointment. That care is necessary to maintain the beautiful sandy havens that we all want to enjoy, but it requires a lot of labor. A capstone team of students from the University of Colorado...
Notes on software...
HTML event handler attributes: down the rabbit hole This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
Good Enough
Let's talk about conversations If you subscribe to our newsletter — which you do, right? — then you'll know that recently we've...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you subscribe to our newsletter — which you do, right? — then you'll know that recently we've been thinking about conversations. We're a small group making fun software for people, and we like to have conversations with those people; the lovely folks who like our take on...
Posts on Made of...
Design for Testability When designing a new software project, one is often faced with a glut of choices about how to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When designing a new software project, one is often faced with a glut of choices about how to structure it. What should the core abstractions be? How should they interact with each other? In this post, I want to argue for a design heuristic that I’ve found to be a useful guide to...
Louwrentius
Setting up a VPN with your iPhone using L2TP, IPSec and Linux This blogpost discusses how to setup an IPSec-based VPN between your iPhone and a Linux server....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This blogpost discusses how to setup an IPSec-based VPN between your iPhone and a Linux server. Updated 16 October 2012 - now compatible with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS IMPORTANT! (update January 2013) I find using OpenVPN with the new iOS OpenVPN client a way better solution. OpenVPN...
Abort Retry Fail
The History of Commodore, Part 2 The VIC-20
a year ago
Push to Prod
How Would You Design Amazon S3? One of my favorite system design questions from a few years ago and a fascinating thing I learned...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
One of my favorite system design questions from a few years ago and a fascinating thing I learned while answering it.
Notes on software...
An intuition for distributed consensus in OLTP systems Distributed consensus in transactional databases (e.g. etcd or Cockroach) is a big deal these days....
a year ago
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a year ago
Distributed consensus in transactional databases (e.g. etcd or Cockroach) is a big deal these days. Most often under the hood are variations of log-based Paxos-like algorithms such as MultiPaxos, Viewstamped Replication, or Raft. While there are new variations that come out each...
Applied Cartography
Grace notes I'm not loving Unreasonable Hospitality, but it did supply me with a phrase that I've been looking...
a year ago
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a year ago
I'm not loving Unreasonable Hospitality, but it did supply me with a phrase that I've been looking for: Eventually, that gesture became one of our steps of service. The host would ask guests, “How’d you get here tonight?” If they responded, “Oh, we drove,” he’d follow up with,...
anderegg.ca
Apple and the AI divide This morning I read a 404 Media article about Instagram showing people ads with AI-generated images...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
This morning I read a 404 Media article about Instagram showing people ads with AI-generated images of themselves. I thought this take from Sam Biddle was very good: Never in my career have I seen such a giant gulf between What Companies Think Is the Most Important Thing in the...
axio.ms
Classical virtualisation rules applied to RISC-style atomics In 1974, Gerald Popek and Robert Goldberg published a paper, “Formal Requirements for Virtualizable...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In 1974, Gerald Popek and Robert Goldberg published a paper, “Formal Requirements for Virtualizable Third Generation Architectures”, giving a set of characteristics for correct full-machine virtualisation. Today, these characteristics remain very useful. Computer architects will...
Vitalik Buterin's...
On Free Speech
over a year ago
Home on Erik...
Why conversion matters: a toy model There are often close relationships between top level business metrics. For instance, it's well...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There are often close relationships between top level business metrics. For instance, it's well known that retention has a super strong impact on the valuation of a subscription business. Or that the % of occupied seats is super important for an airline.
Odds and Ends of...
The government ordering Apple to break its encryption is stupid, counter-productive and unworkable For the love of god, ask the computer people if your plan might actually work first.
5 months ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Should Ethereum be okay with enshrining more things in the protocol?
a year ago
Louwrentius
The iPhone, iPad and iOS are powering a revolution Most people just don't understand computers. Are these people dumb? Some may be dumb, but the people...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Most people just don't understand computers. Are these people dumb? Some may be dumb, but the people who make them are maybe even dumber. Because they can't seem to figure out how to create a computer that the majority of people understand. When the original macintosh arrived at...
Computer Ads from...
Applied Analytics' MicroSPEED Test-Fly A $20 Million Jet On An Apple? Yes. With MicroSPEED
a year ago
Willem's Blog
Scalable application design without magic I needed to design a scalable backend infrastructure that could handle lots of concurrent users. I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I needed to design a scalable backend infrastructure that could handle lots of concurrent users. I did this by leveraging the client's computing power having it handle most of the user interaction workload.
Arduino Blog
Hey Google! Meet Arduino Cloud We’re excited to announce that the Arduino Cloud now supports Google Home™! This means you can now...
a year ago
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a year ago
We’re excited to announce that the Arduino Cloud now supports Google Home™! This means you can now interact with your devices, simply through your Google Home Assistant: use voice commands, the Google Home app, or create new routines integrating Arduino solutions.  This new...
Jonas Hietala
Balls Here’s my first ever experimental game! The theme was Addictive Gaming. My first thought was oh god...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Here’s my first ever experimental game! The theme was Addictive Gaming. My first thought was oh god I’ll be making another tetris clone but the end result turned out a bit different. I’m not sure it’s very addictive but it’s actually okay! =D Balls is a game about… balls. Well...
Matt Blewitt
Thoughts on User Safety: 2 Following up from last time, let’s explore the internal and insider fronts when moving beyond...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Following up from last time, let’s explore the internal and insider fronts when moving beyond security towards safety for our users.
Notes on software...
Writing a web server from scratch: 1. HTTP and sockets Say we have some HTML: <html> <body> <h1>Hello world!</h1> </body> </html> And say we'd...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Say we have some HTML: <html> <body> <h1>Hello world!</h1> </body> </html> And say we'd like to be able to render this page in a web browser. If the server is hosted locally we may want to enter localhost:9000/hello-world.html in the address bar, hit enter, make a...
Home on Erik...
Luigi: complex pipelines of tasks in Python I'm shamelessly promoting my first major open source project. Luigi is a Python module that helps...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
Home on Erik...
The mathematical principles of management I've read about 100 management books by now but if there's something that always bothered me it's...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've read about 100 management books by now but if there's something that always bothered me it's the lack of first principles thinking. Basically it's a ton of heuristics. And heuristics are great, but when you present heuristics as true objectives, it kind of clouds the...
Birchtree
What people do with an empty text box I was listening to Hard Fork this weekend when Kevin Roose said this (emphasis mine): I think that...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
I was listening to Hard Fork this weekend when Kevin Roose said this (emphasis mine): I think that there is sort of a basic assumption if you're a heavy user of, say, ChatGPT, that there are certain things that it's good at and there are certain
The Pragmatic...
Software engineering job openings hit five-year low? There are 35% fewer software developer job listings on Indeed today, than five years ago. Compared...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
There are 35% fewer software developer job listings on Indeed today, than five years ago. Compared to other industries, job listings for software engineers grew much more in 2021-2022, but have declined much faster since. A look into possible reasons for this, and what could come...
Arduino Blog
Two NEW Arduino Plug and Make Kit projects recreate iconic vintage games The Plug and Make Kit is a toolbox you can use for infinite ideas. So what happens if you ask a mix...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
The Plug and Make Kit is a toolbox you can use for infinite ideas. So what happens if you ask a mix of Arduino designers, engineers, and managers to sit down and brainstorm new ideas to have fun with it? Well, at least one of them is guaranteed to come up with an adorable,...
Abishek Muthian
False Accusation False accusation for children especially if the accusation goes totally against their values can...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
False accusation for children especially if the accusation goes totally against their values can have profound negative consequences. When I was in grade school(early 2000, India), I went out to take a photo-copy(xerox) of a study material in a shop nearby school. After I...
Home on Erik...
Are data sets the new server rooms? This blog post Data sets are the new server rooms makes the point that a bunch of companies raise a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This blog post Data sets are the new server rooms makes the point that a bunch of companies raise a ton of money to go get really proprietary awesome data as a competitive moat. Because once you have the data, you can build a better product, and no one can copy it (at least not...
Nabeel S. Qureshi
How To Sell Sales at a startup is counter-intuitive.
over a year ago
./techtipsy
How to fix ZFS pool not importing at boot Issue description You are running a Linux-based machine with an install of ZFS on Linux. Everything...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Issue description You are running a Linux-based machine with an install of ZFS on Linux. Everything seems to work correctly, but after restarting your machine, the ZFS pool is not visible. You can still import your pool manually using zpool import poolname or zpool import -a. In...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Gitcoin Grants Round 6 Retrospective
over a year ago
Good Enough
You Need Customers to Succeed in Small Business For your small business to survive, you need customers. Not just to buy once. You need them to come...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
For your small business to survive, you need customers. Not just to buy once. You need them to come back, tell their friends, and trust you over time. And yet, too many small businesses make it weirdly hard to talk to them. Well, duh, right? I agree, yet I see small businesses...
Lighthouse Blog
Overview of the reading view
a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Ludum Dare 29 Entry After months of procrastination it is time for me to enter Ludum Dare again! I am totally...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
After months of procrastination it is time for me to enter Ludum Dare again! I am totally unprepared, but I did setup a setup which actually compiles. I never got audio to run but hopefully I can manage something. Repository: https://github.com/treeman/LD29. Going for C++ this...
Birchtree
This challenge escalated quickly! Check it out on YouTube and Podcasts! Matt and Chris have all the new Apple hardware, and Niléane...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Check it out on YouTube and Podcasts! Matt and Chris have all the new Apple hardware, and Niléane takes the challenge to the next level. Weekly Topics iPhone 16e iPad Air (M3) MacBook Air (M4) Other Things Discussed Niléane’s brilliant Touch ID setup TP-Link
Willem's Blog
The Same, Differently
a year ago
Birchtree
➕ Who cares about smartphone design? Just how important is physical design in someone's smartphone buying decision? As with so many...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Just how important is physical design in someone's smartphone buying decision? As with so many things, it depends who you ask.
Vitalik Buterin's...
Ethereum has blobs. Where do we go from here?
a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Dijkstra's Algorithm For rust, I’m updating the documentation for the standard library and specifically with the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For rust, I’m updating the documentation for the standard library and specifically with the collections. For the priority queue I had the idea to use Dijkstra’s algorithm as a fun example. That idea was well received and that example is now live. At first I wanted to use A* to...
Good Enough
TIL: System Colors are supported in CSS, but they’re unreliable I’ve said this before: We’re primarily a web shop here at Good Enough, but occasionally we come up...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve said this before: We’re primarily a web shop here at Good Enough, but occasionally we come up with ideas that we think would work really well as a native desktop or mobile application. Still, we prototype those ideas on the web first. Recently, I wanted to try and make one...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Notes on the Pentium's microcode circuitry Most people think of machine instructions as the fundamental steps that a computer...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Most people think of machine instructions as the fundamental steps that a computer performs. However, many processors have another layer of software underneath: microcode. With microcode, instead of building the processor's control circuitry from complex logic gates, the control...
Posts on Made of...
Performance engineering, profilers, and seeing the invisible I was recently introduced to the paper “Seeing the Invisible: Perceptual-Cognitive Aspects of...
a year ago
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a year ago
I was recently introduced to the paper “Seeing the Invisible: Perceptual-Cognitive Aspects of Expertise” by Gary Klein and Robert Hoffman. It’s excellent and I recommend you read it when you have a chance. Klein and Hoffman discuss the ability of experts to “see what is not...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Layer 1 Should Be Innovative in the Short Term but Less in the Long Term
over a year ago
Old Vintage...
prior-art-dept.: The hierarchical hypermedia world of Hyper-G Prior Art Department and today we'll consider a forgotten yet still extant sidebar of the early...
a month ago
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a month ago
Prior Art Department and today we'll consider a forgotten yet still extant sidebar of the early 1990s Internet. If you had Internet access at home back then, it was almost certainly dialup modem (like I did); only the filthy rich had T1 lines or ISDN. Moreover, from a user...
lcamtuf’s thing
The 8-bit (MCU) manifesto Eight-bit microcontrollers aren't relics; they are a design philosophy. You might want to use them...
a year ago
computers are bad
2025-04-18 white alice When we last talked about Troposcatter, it was Pole Vault. Pole Vault was the first troposcatter...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
When we last talked about Troposcatter, it was Pole Vault. Pole Vault was the first troposcatter communications network, on the east coast of Canada. It would not be alone for long. By the time the first Pole Vault stations were complete, work was already underway on a similar...
Computer Ads from...
NCR PC4i Growing with your needs
6 months ago
Willem's Blog
Cyber security: 5 easy tips to protect your server against hackers These 5 practical cyber security measures will improve the safety of server, website and data.
over a year ago
Arduino Blog
Adding real-time local voice controls to a SMARS Quad Mod robot with an Arduino RP2040 Connect Robotics kits like the Screwless/Screwed Modular Assemblable Robotic System (SMARS) are great tools...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Robotics kits like the Screwless/Screwed Modular Assemblable Robotic System (SMARS) are great tools for learning more about how electronics, mechanics, and software can combine to perform useful tasks in the physical world. And in his latest project, Edge Impulse’s senior...
Jonas Hietala
Preventing Firefox from creating Desktop directories With a fresh firefox installation I found that it kept creating a ~/Desktop directory. But I found...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
With a fresh firefox installation I found that it kept creating a ~/Desktop directory. But I found how to turn it off. Edit ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs...
csvbase blog
Being on The Semantic Web is easy, and, frankly, well worth the bother Web 3.0 was not about the blockchain, thank god
10 months ago
Arduino Blog
Arduino Cloud is now available in AWS Marketplace! We’re excited to announce that Arduino Cloud is now available in AWS Marketplace, making it easier...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
We’re excited to announce that Arduino Cloud is now available in AWS Marketplace, making it easier than ever for developers and businesses worldwide to integrate our powerful IoT platform into their AWS infrastructure. This development is particularly relevant for those in...