anderegg.ca
Weird SEGA facts
I fell down a weird Wikipedia rabbit hole this morning. It was kicked off by a Bluesky post from...
15th Aug 2025
I fell down a weird Wikipedia rabbit hole this morning. It was kicked off by a Bluesky post from Jeff Gerstmann, and it taught me two weird things about Sonic the Hedgehog.
Gerstmann’s post shows off MTV’s Beavis and Butt-Head for the Game Gear. I’d never seen it before and...
Toni's Blog
2024 Year in Review
Everything that happened to me this year
30th Dec 2024
Everything that happened to me this year
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...
11th Feb 2007
I’m taking 6.170 Lab in Software Engineering this semester. The course sucks in various ways, but one of the most egregious, in my opinion, is that they force you to use CVS for your version control. Problem sets are distributed by the TAs importing them into your repository, and...
Louwrentius - Solar
How to setup a local or private Ubuntu Mirror
Preface
In this article I provide instructions on how to setup a local Ubuntu mirror using...
18th Jan 2023
Preface
In this article I provide instructions on how to setup a local Ubuntu mirror using debmirror. To set expectations: the mirror will work as intended and distribute packages and updates, but a do-release upgrade from one major version of Ubuntu to the next won't...
Jonas Hietala
Let's build a VORON: Major failure
The left POM nut got ground down, making the bed fall down.
After 600 hours, the printer met it’s...
1st Mar 2024
The left POM nut got ground down, making the bed fall down.
After 600 hours, the printer met it’s first major failure.
I know I earlier described how the extruder starter skipping in a big way, but that was just some filament getting stuck in the extruder.
This time a part...
Simply Explained
Filtering spam on YouTube with TensorFlow & AI
My YouTube channel has been attracting a lot of spammers. They try to trick people by saying they...
6th Jul 2021
My YouTube channel has been attracting a lot of spammers. They try to trick people by saying they know how to profit from trading cryptocurrencies or that they can recover lost wallet keys.I've been marking these comments as spam, thinking that YouTube would learn to recognize...
Nabeel S. Qureshi
What Makes Art Great?
Some notes toward an answer
3rd May 2026
Some notes toward an answer
Applied Cartography
May, 2026
There are two mental models about work and fatigue which, like my brief dalliance with Roshe Runs, I...
1st Jun 2026
There are two mental models about work and fatigue which, like my brief dalliance with Roshe Runs, I have loved and outgrown:
Jonas Hietala
Minecraft Server Hosting
I play the phenomena that is Minecraft on and off. Sometimes the laid back building or the exploring...
22nd Apr 2013
I play the phenomena that is Minecraft on and off. Sometimes the laid back building or the exploring is just what I need. Sometimes I can challange myself to build cool complex stuff and I’m even an avid follower of Doc’M and Etho and the other mindcrackers over at the youtube....
Good Enough
TIL: Fixing Broken Social Share Images in Twitter/X
I have an admission to make. Social share images for Pika were broken on Twitter/X, LinkedIn, and...
12th Nov 2024
I have an admission to make. Social share images for Pika were broken on Twitter/X, LinkedIn, and Apple Messages for months. And it made me sad.
But in the past few months we got it fixed. And that made me very happy!
We really love our Pika social share images. They are pretty....
Avestura's Blog
A Software Engineer's Take on The Political Spectrum
You heard about the left-wing and right-wing politics. But how is that related to software?
16th Sep 2025
You heard about the left-wing and right-wing politics. But how is that related to software?
Willem L. Middelkoop
Snake '97 High Scores
Last week I received a very kind invitation from a Belgian artist, to attend her art exhibition in...
17th Apr 2022
Last week I received a very kind invitation from a Belgian artist, to attend her art exhibition in Antwerp. The work on display involved the Snake '97 game that I have created. Uttering to find the right words and thrilled with excitement, I happily accepted the invitation!
Snake...
Butler's Log
Opening Up GitButler
Today we're flipping the public switch on GitHub for our GitButler client code and removing the...
2nd Feb 2024
Today we're flipping the public switch on GitHub for our GitButler client code and removing the waiting list entirely. Everyone and anyone can now directly download the GitButler client and access the source code.
Abishek Muthian
Privacy Policy
The legal terms mentioned here covers abishekmuthian.com and products which explicitly link to this...
1st Mar 2025
The legal terms mentioned here covers abishekmuthian.com and products which explicitly link to this legal page. For legal terms of my individual products please refer to the legal section on their respective websites.
Privacy Policy
What personal data are collected and why its...
Writing
Fathom
I'd been meaning to jot down some thoughts on Fathom for a while, and did not have a particularly...
1st Dec 2024
I'd been meaning to jot down some thoughts on Fathom for a while, and did not have a particularly good reason to do so until the news broke that Paul Jarvis was selling his share of the company to Jack Ellis, the technical co-founder. 1The blog post itself is a great example of...
Tiny struggles
How I ended up building storylearner.app
I’ve always been drawn to self-directed learning. My interests have been pretty diverse - I would...
17th May 2025
I’ve always been drawn to self-directed learning. My interests have been pretty diverse - I would spend countless hours on math, science, soft-skills, movement skills (juggling, handstands) as well as languages.
A long standing language learning obsession
Over the years (starting...
Victor Poughon
Every Perceptually Uniform Color Map as a CSS Gradient
div.gradient {
width: 650px;
height: 60px;
border-radius: 3px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
...
29th Apr 2025
div.gradient {
width: 650px;
height: 60px;
border-radius: 3px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px rgb(0, 0, 0, 0.5);
margin: 0 auto;
}
pre {
max-width: 600px;
}
Colormaps are functions that map from [0, 1] to colors. I love colormaps! Maybe a...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Analyzing Token Sale Models
9th Jun 2017
Greater Still by...
In Crypto, Apps Need Infrastructure Like Infrastructure Needs Apps
Or, maybe the real infrastructure was the applications we made along the way
6th Oct 2023
Or, maybe the real infrastructure was the applications we made along the way
MIT News - Civil and...
Concrete “battery” developed at MIT now packs 10 times the power
Improved carbon-cement supercapacitors could turn the concrete around us into massive energy storage...
1st Oct 2025
Improved carbon-cement supercapacitors could turn the concrete around us into massive energy storage systems.
Greater Still by...
Substack Should Integrate Native Payments
Featuring 0xDesigner Design Everydays S2 109
9th May 2024
Featuring 0xDesigner Design Everydays S2 109
./techtipsy
ASRock X570M Pro4 motherboard overview
Not too long ago, I had the goal of consolidating all my computing needs onto a
single desktop PC....
2nd Feb 2022
Not too long ago, I had the goal of consolidating all my computing needs onto a
single desktop PC. That meant moving from an mITX-based build to something that
had a bit more expandability. Since I already had a
Fractal Meshify C Mini,
I decided to go for an mATX motherboard. And...
Vitalik Buterin's...
[Mirror] Central Planning as Overfitting
25th Nov 2018
Buck on Software
Winds of Change
Software is maybe, just maybe about to get exciting
20th Jun 2024
Software is maybe, just maybe about to get exciting
Pea Bee
Pea Bee #2: We're here because we're here
Hi all, thank you for subscribing to this newsletter.
5th Jan 2021
Hi all, thank you for subscribing to this newsletter.
Vitalik Buterin's...
In-person meatspace protocol to prove unconditional possession of a private key
1st Oct 2019
Louwrentius - Solar
Cannot access Windows guest within VMware Fusion when running vsphere client
Currently, I am running VMware ESXi 4.1 on a test system. To manage ESXi, you need the VSphere...
17th Jun 2011
Currently, I am running VMware ESXi 4.1 on a test system. To manage ESXi, you need the VSphere client, which is only available for the Windows platform. Therefore, I run VMware Fusion on my Mac to be able to access VSphere and manage my ESXi host.
The trouble is that both ESXi...
Home on Erik...
Annoy
Annoy is a simple package to find approximate nearest neighbors (ANN) that I just put on Github. I'm...
12th Apr 2013
Annoy is a simple package to find approximate nearest neighbors (ANN) that I just put on Github. I'm not trying to compete with existing packages, but Annoy has a couple of features that makes it pretty useful.
Louwrentius - Solar
Getting the Sitecom AC600 Wi-Fi adapter running on Linux
TL;DR Yes it works with some modifications of the driver source.
A USB Wi-Fi adapter I used with a...
1st Nov 2014
TL;DR Yes it works with some modifications of the driver source.
A USB Wi-Fi adapter I used with a Raspberry Pi broke as I dropped it on the floor, so I had to replace it. I just went to a local shop and bought the Sitecom AC600 adapter as that's what they had available (with...
./techtipsy
I tried out the CyberPower UT650EG UPS
After some spicy feedback to my post where a ThinkPad T430 acted as a server,
I decided to try out...
4th Aug 2022
After some spicy feedback to my post where a ThinkPad T430 acted as a server,
I decided to try out one UPS that was recommended on the basis of it being much
more power efficient compared to the APC UPS that I previously ran.
That UPS? CyberPower UT650EG.
Why switch out a...
Notes on software...
Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 6. LLVM system calls
Previously in compiler basics:
1. lisp to assembly
2. user-defined functions and variables
...
22nd Jun 2019
Previously in compiler basics:
1. lisp to assembly
2. user-defined functions and variables
3. LLVM
4. LLVM conditionals and compiling fibonacci
5. an x86 upgrade
In this post we'll extend the ulisp
compiler's LLVM backend to
support printing integers to...
Notes on software...
Writing a simple JSON parser
Writing a JSON parser is one of the easiest ways to get familiar with
parsing techniques. The format...
6th May 2018
Writing a JSON parser is one of the easiest ways to get familiar with
parsing techniques. The format is extremely simple. It's defined
recursively so you get a slight challenge compared to, say, parsing
Brainfuck; and you probably
already use JSON. Aside from that last point,...
Open for Business
I Want People To Agree With Me, Not Die
Pastor Tim has already written about this in light of another assassination attempt on either...
6th May 2026
Pastor Tim has already written about this in light of another assassination attempt on either President Trump or other members of the administration.
Many people are unhealthily and dangerously angry, and it seems like it’s getting worse.
Matt Blewitt
Movement for Engineers
Until we get get to be chromed-up cyborgs, we’re stuck with our meat bodies, and like many things,...
9th Jul 2023
Until we get get to be chromed-up cyborgs, we’re stuck with our meat bodies, and like many things, they need regular maintenance. Here is a brief introduction to keeping your body moving as someone who spends a lot of time sitting down.
Never Met a Science
Does Pinball Cause Violence?
A recurring theme here is that social science often asks the wrong questions about media -- and that...
15th May 2025
A recurring theme here is that social science often asks the wrong questions about media -- and that this dysfunction is driven by media itself. This puts us in a bit of a bind, obviously, insofar as we are relying on social science to improve the media enviroment, or at least to...
Notes on software...
Finishing up a FreeBSD experiment
I've been using FreeBSD as my daily driver at work since
December. I've successfully done my job and...
28th Apr 2018
I've been using FreeBSD as my daily driver at work since
December. I've successfully done my job and I've learned a hell of a
lot forcing myself on CURRENT... But there's been a number of issues
with it that have made it difficult to keep using, so I replaced it
with Arch Linux...
Jonas Hietala
I beat FTL on Hard with all ships in the game
For 2023 I wanted to do something different than usual—I wanted to start playing computer games...
16th Jun 2023
For 2023 I wanted to do something different than usual—I wanted to start playing computer games again.
So I gave myself a late Christmas gift and bought a Steam Deck (and like any self-serving gentleman I took care to pitch it as being for my kids) and I started loading it up...
Louwrentius - Solar
Is there an easy and secure way to transfer files?
Many organisations just assume that the local physical network is trusted. That their network...
17th Sep 2011
Many organisations just assume that the local physical network is trusted. That their network equipment is physically secure and that it is impossible for an attacker to get on the wire and start eavesdropping on network traffic.
Many organisations do not seem too concerned about...
Bryan Braun - Blog
You are not your grand plans
“You are not your grand plans. You are your daily patterns.”
I love this quote from James Clear...
11th Jul 2026
“You are not your grand plans. You are your daily patterns.”
I love this quote from James Clear because it hurts me in all the right ways.
At my worst, I feel like my daily patterns are at war with my grand plans. When I’m fighting a daily battle and willpower is slipping, I need...
Abishek Muthian
How Rick and Morty fans helped McDonald’s SzeChuan sauce scarcity marketing
McDonald's Szechaun Sauce announcement
The #SzechuanSauce fiasco with McDonald’s is a very...
9th Oct 2017
McDonald's Szechaun Sauce announcement
The #SzechuanSauce fiasco with McDonald’s is a very interesting (successful ?) example of scarcity marketing and targeting intellectuals for generating bandwagon effect.
Some BG : Rick and MortyBuy, a science fiction animated show with the...
Arduino Blog
Boomba is a Roomba with every upgrade imaginable
In the classic Ship of Theseus thought experiment, we’re led to wonder if a ship is still the same...
5th May 2026
In the classic Ship of Theseus thought experiment, we’re led to wonder if a ship is still the same ship after all of its parts have been replaced. But we might need to rename that to the “Robot of Boomba,” after Lucas completely rebuilt a Roomba to serve as a robotics platform....
Open for Business
Ecclesiology, Doctrine, Ecumenism: A Few Difficult Questions
I am provoked by an internet presence that goes by “Redeemed Zoomer,” presumably a 20-something...
6th Aug 2026
I am provoked by an internet presence that goes by “Redeemed Zoomer,” presumably a 20-something young man holding theologically conservative views, and similar views on Christian ethics, who is Reformed.
GitButler
20 years of Git. Still weird, still wonderful.
Twenty years ago, Git was born. How did this unlikely "information manager" take over the world?
7th Apr 2025
Twenty years ago, Git was born. How did this unlikely "information manager" take over the world?
Comments for Lars...
Comment on Why I’m Switching Web Hosts by Hitesh Sahni
Great post Lars. I have had my fair share of issues with Godaddy, and then Bluehost. I finally found...
29th Sep 2019
Great post Lars. I have had my fair share of issues with Godaddy, and then Bluehost. I finally found satisfaction with SiteGround. The only reason GoDaddy is still in business is because of their heavy online and offline advertising.
My WordPress website has not yet reached...
computers are bad
2024-08-12 a pedantic review of the las vegas loop
Did you hear that Elon Musk dug a tunnel under the Las Vegas Convention
Center?
I think it is pretty...
12th Aug 2024
Did you hear that Elon Musk dug a tunnel under the Las Vegas Convention
Center?
I think it is pretty universally known by now that the "Las Vegas Loop" is
impractical, poorly thought out, and generally an embarrassment to society and
industry. I will spare an accounting of the...
Home on Erik...
I'm featured in Mashable
This article from today in Mashable describes some of the fun stuff I get to work with:
Erik...
6th Feb 2013
This article from today in Mashable describes some of the fun stuff I get to work with:
Erik Bernhardsson is technical lead at Spotify, where he helped to build a music recommendation system based on large-scale machine learning algorithms, mainly matrix factorization of big...
Greater Still by...
Life lessons after one year at Rostra
Today marks one year at Rostra, where I’ve had the incredible privilege of working alongside Lulu...
16th Sep 2025
Today marks one year at Rostra, where I’ve had the incredible privilege of working alongside Lulu Meservey to help some of the most consequential companies of our time tell their stories.
Joel Gustafson
Spatio-temporal indexing the Bluesky firehose
7th Aug 2025
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.
3rd Mar 2022
This is an external post of mine. Click
here
if you are not redirected.
Scott Kennedy
I have nine bosses, Bob: costs of org layering
12th Nov 2022
Posts on Made of...
Software Engineers should keep lab notebooks
Software engineers, as a rule, suck at writing things down. Part of this is training – unlike...
2nd May 2010
Software engineers, as a rule, suck at writing things down. Part of this is training – unlike chemists and biologists who are trailed to obsessively document everything they do in their lab notebooks, computer scientists are taught to document the end results of their work, but...
Writing
Hamilton
I was not a Hamilton hater exactly (I, like many other snoots, didn’t hate Hamilton so much as I...
28th Oct 2019
I was not a Hamilton hater exactly (I, like many other snoots, didn’t hate Hamilton so much as I hated the people who, for a brief but painful time, were really, really into Hamilton) but I certainly was not a huge fan until Haley roped me into listening to the soundtrack. I...
Louwrentius - Solar
Fully unattended deployment of Windows clients using limited resources
Introduction
Anyone who ever installed Windows on a computer by hand must have wished for a solution...
7th Jul 2012
Introduction
Anyone who ever installed Windows on a computer by hand must have wished for a solution that automate this task. It's just waiting a lot and pressing a button now and then. But installing the operating system itself is only the beginning. Once installed, you need to...
Fabien Sanglard
Hacker Monthly publication
More...
15th Jul 2011
Jonas Hietala
Finishing Stuff
I haven’t done much blogging or game programming in a while but instead I’ve finished some school...
7th Dec 2011
I haven’t done much blogging or game programming in a while but instead I’ve finished some school stuff. We completed the assembly course labs, which were pretty fun actually, and I managed to finally complete the electronics course I’ve been holding off on for like forever… But...
Writing
Content debt
There’s a nascent trend of releasing ostensibly-private material (changelogs, public wikis,...
4th Jul 2024
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...
Applied Cartography
June, 2026
June, like any month in which I neither write very much nor read very much, feels already...
1st Jul 2026
June, like any month in which I neither write very much nor read very much, feels already cryptographic in retrospect.
Ian's Blog
Securing Your GitHub Account
Let's talk about some of the simple & practical steps you can take to improve your GitHub account...
11th Mar 2020
Let's talk about some of the simple & practical steps you can take to improve your GitHub account security.
There's plenty of good reasons why you should try to keep any online account safe, but I feel that GitHub deserves special attention among developers. With automation...
Home on Erik...
Leaving Spotify
Febrary 6 was my last day at Spotify. In total I spent more than six years at Spotify and it was an...
11th Feb 2015
Febrary 6 was my last day at Spotify. In total I spent more than six years at Spotify and it was an amazing experience.
I joined Spotify in Stockholm in 2008, mainly because a bunch of friends from programming competitions had joined already.
MIT News - Civil and...
Nitrous oxide, a product of fertilizer use, may harm some soil bacteria
While some N2O is produced naturally at the plant root, agricultural practices can increase its...
4th Mar 2026
While some N2O is produced naturally at the plant root, agricultural practices can increase its levels, to the detriment of some microbes that support plant growth.
benn.substack
Leaderbored
Is it a race or a run?
1st May 2026
Willem L. Middelkoop
The Power of One
For my entire career, I've had a clear goal: to stay a company of one. This isn't a starting point,...
22nd Jul 2025
For my entire career, I've had a clear goal: to stay a company of one. This isn't a starting point, but a deliberate choice about the best way to do great work and build a sustainable business. In this post, let me explain why.
Focus Over Growth
In a world that often celebrates...
Freewheeling Apps
2025-06-01
I've been reading The Nature of Order by Christopher Alexander, and it's inspired me to experiment...
1st Jun 2025
I've been reading The Nature of Order by Christopher Alexander, and it's inspired me to experiment with this representation to communicate the global structure of the source code of the Game of Snake:
The whole program is arranged on a 2D surface within a series of nested...
Fabien Sanglard
Why Android developers no longer need Windows USB drivers
30th Dec 2023
computers are bad
2024-07-13 the contemporary carphone
Cathode Ray Dude, in one of his
many excellent "Quick Start" videos, made an interesting observation...
13th Jul 2024
Cathode Ray Dude, in one of his
many excellent "Quick Start" videos, made an interesting observation that
has stuck in my brain: sophisticated computer users, nerds if you will, have
a tendency to completely ignore things that they know are worthless. He was
referring to the...
csvbase blog
Client libraries are better when they have no API
fsspec is secretly everywhere, and boss
10th Apr 2024
fsspec is secretly everywhere, and boss
Writing
Klute
A terrific, terrific film, with a great performance by Jane Fonda (insert quip of "the film should...
2nd Sep 2023
A terrific, terrific film, with a great performance by Jane Fonda (insert quip of "the film should be called Bree!" here.) I think some of the noir aspects felt a little more obvious than in The Conversation, but the pair of performances and the deep sense of sonic dread that...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Pi in the Pentium: reverse-engineering the constants in its floating-point unit
Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of...
5th Jan 2025
Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of high-performance processors.1
The Pentium includes a floating-point unit that can rapidly compute functions such as sines, cosines, logarithms, and exponentials.
But how does the Pentium...
Krebs on Security
Cyber Forensic Expert in 2,000+ Cases Faces FBI Probe
A Minnesota cybersecurity and computer forensics expert whose testimony has featured in thousands of...
3rd Mar 2025
A Minnesota cybersecurity and computer forensics expert whose testimony has featured in thousands of courtroom trials over the past 30 years is facing questions about his credentials and an inquiry from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Legal experts say the inquiry...
Birchtree
Announcing Weave, a native iOS app for Typefully
I'm happy to announce the release of my new app, Weave. As is often the case with my apps, I built...
2nd Mar 2026
I'm happy to announce the release of my new app, Weave. As is often the case with my apps, I built this one for myself and then decided it was worth sharing with the world. Weave is a native iPhone and iPad app for Typefully users.
For those
Writing
Varieties of Disturbance
My review of Break it Down, a much earlier entry in Lydia Davis' ouevre, last year was a bit of...
1st Mar 2023
My review of Break it Down, a much earlier entry in Lydia Davis' ouevre, last year was a bit of damning with faint praise:
Posts on Made of...
Why node.js is cool (it's not about performance)
For the past N months, it seems like there is no new technology stack that is either hotter or more...
12th Mar 2012
For the past N months, it seems like there is no new technology stack that is either hotter or more controversial than node.js. node.js is cancer! node.js cures cancer! node.js is bad ass rock star tech!. I myself have given node.js a lot of shit, often involving the phrase...
Writing
Star-Crossed
The obvious and deserved comparison is with Evermore/Folklore — a stripped down, mellower version of...
2nd Oct 2021
The obvious and deserved comparison is with Evermore/Folklore — a stripped down, mellower version of the author's ouevre. While I think Taylor's latest outings are good-not-great, I thought this was closer to great; the songwriting is steadier and more interesting, and the pathos...
Louwrentius - Solar
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...
25th Mar 2017
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...
Jonas Hietala
Automating the Hue Tap Dial Switch in Elixir via MQTT
I recently bought a couple of Hue Tap Dial switches for our house to enhance our smart home.
We have...
1st Sep 2025
I recently bought a couple of Hue Tap Dial switches for our house to enhance our smart home.
We have quite a few smart lights and I figured the tap dial—with it’s multiple buttons and rotary dial—would be a good fit.
Since I’ve been moving away from standard Home Assistant...
Jonas Hietala
2022 in review
A bit late, but it’s time for my yearly review. It’s something I like doing for myself and it’s nice...
15th Feb 2023
A bit late, but it’s time for my yearly review. It’s something I like doing for myself and it’s nice to see that despite a tough year I’ve done some good things.
2022 Non-Geek Achievements
We got our third child!
This time we got a girl to complement our two boys, and I love them...
Notes on software...
How to get better at recursion
tldr; reimplement standard library functions in your favorite
language without loops.
Background
For...
7th Mar 2021
tldr; reimplement standard library functions in your favorite
language without loops.
Background
For a few years after college I spent a lot of free time doing
projects in Standard ML and Scheme. As a result I got really
comfortable doing recursion. The two big reasons for this...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Cores in space: The core memory module from a 1980 Spacelab computer
Spacelab was a reusable laboratory that could be carried in the Space Shuttle's cargo bay, providing...
2 weeks ago
Spacelab was a reusable laboratory that could be carried in the Space Shuttle's cargo bay, providing lab space for astronauts
and experiments.1
Because Spacelab was a European project, it used a French-built minicomputer, the Mitra 125 MS,2
rather than the Shuttle's main...
Willem's Blog
Cutting Cloud Costs
Facing sky-high cloud costs, I found software optimisation vital. Discover how I saved 90% on cloud...
4th Apr 2023
Facing sky-high cloud costs, I found software optimisation vital. Discover how I saved 90% on cloud expenses!
Comments for Lars...
What Happened After I Outed a Reddit Mod for Affiliate Spam
I recently broke down how Reddit mods and users are abusing Google search rankings with affiliate...
9th Sep 2024
I recently broke down how Reddit mods and users are abusing Google search rankings with affiliate spam. It’s reddit marketing gone awry. The post blew up and got a decent amount of attention. Then I got a front row seat to how deep of a spam filled porta-potty Reddit has become....
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...
24th Mar 2021
Consider these three things to maximise the effect of the words you write for your website, blog or company.
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...
23rd Nov 2024
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...
Louwrentius - Solar
Raspberry Pi as a router using a single network interface
Introduction
Disclaimer: this article is intended for consumers and hobbyists.
If you want to run...
29th Sep 2021
Introduction
Disclaimer: this article is intended for consumers and hobbyists.
If you want to run your own router at home, the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B1 can be an excelent hardware choice:
it's fairly cheap
it's fast enough
it can saturate it's gigabit network port
it is...
Fabien Sanglard
Strike Commander: Interview with Frank Savage
There is a playful way to study the architecture of computers of the past. Find a piece of software...
3rd Dec 2019
There is a playful way to study the architecture of computers of the past. Find a piece of software you know well and try to find out how it was ported to these machine you don't...
matduggan.com
The Intolerable Hypocrisy of Cyberlibertarianism
I like the Internet. I am old enough to remember the pre-Internet era and despite the younger...
7th May 2026
I like the Internet. I am old enough to remember the pre-Internet era and despite the younger generations pining for those simpler days, I was there. Paper maps were absolutely horrible, just you and a compass in your car on the side of the road in the middle of the
Willem L. Middelkoop
Talking tablets: what makes a great tablet?
Earlier this year Microsoft released their brand new Surface Pro X tablet computer, in many ways...
13th Apr 2020
Earlier this year Microsoft released their brand new Surface Pro X tablet computer, in many ways this is a forward thinking device. As I like working with tablets I wondered what exactly makes a great tablet? Is Surface Pro X any good? Read along to find out.
Surface Pro X
Unlike...
Willem's Blog
For the love of mini
The iPhone Mini has intangible greatness that most folks don't know about: read along for the love...
8th Dec 2021
The iPhone Mini has intangible greatness that most folks don't know about: read along for the love of mini!
Ian's Blog
Pragmatically Generating a Self-Signed Certificate and Private Key using OpenSSL
Recently I found myself needing to generate a HTTPS Server Certificate and Private Key for an iOS...
17th Jul 2017
Recently I found myself needing to generate a HTTPS Server Certificate and Private Key for an iOS app using OpenSSL, what surprised me was the total lack of documentation for OpenSSL.
While there is plenty of function documentation, what OpenSSL really lacks is examples of how it...
./techtipsy
Home is where the home server is
I moved recently, and so did my home server. You might have noticed it due to the downtime.
This...
15th May 2025
I moved recently, and so did my home server. You might have noticed it due to the downtime.
This time I have built a dedicated shelf for it, which allows for more flexibility and room for additional expensive
ideas.
The internet connection is a fiber line, which is fantastic for...
Old Vintage...
A Dick Smith VZ200 without the Dick Smith (but with a serial port)
Australians! They walk among us! Do not be deceived by those charming faces!
precious bodily...
4 days ago
Australians! They walk among us! Do not be deceived by those charming faces!
precious bodily fluids, we must remove the scurrilous larrikin influence of Australia upon our American home computers, and I know exactly where to start! Why allow Dick Smith's name (even though he'd...
Willem's Blog
Building a professional 72TB NAS
This month I installed a professional HPE ProLiant DL380p server in a datacenter in Amsterdam, read...
21st Nov 2019
This month I installed a professional HPE ProLiant DL380p server in a datacenter in Amsterdam, read this post to see how this was done!
Willem's Blog
Improve your sleep by blocking light
I have been wearing a sleep mask in bed, blocking all light. It has been amazing for my sleep's...
23rd Jan 2020
I have been wearing a sleep mask in bed, blocking all light. It has been amazing for my sleep's quality. Read along for my findings!
Writing
Cowboy Bebop (2021)
This was neither as bad as I thought it could be nor as good as I hoped it might be. The vast...
1st Jan 2022
This was neither as bad as I thought it could be nor as good as I hoped it might be. The vast majority of the blame I think has to go towards the scriptwriting, which has a Joss Whedon-esque self-referentiality to it that completely undermines the philosophy of the original and,...
Gwern.net Newsletter
Jan 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter
January 2021 gwern.net newsletter with links on AI scaling up and down.
4th Feb 2021
January 2021 gwern.net newsletter with links on AI scaling up and down.
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...
11th Jan 2023
Every new year I reflect on the previous year and set new goals. I'm focusing primarily on my YouTube channel and newsletter, but there are personal reflections in here as well. Last year was an off year for me, and I'm gearing up to make up for lost time in 2023.
somenice
Cake Hole Whistler Mountain
Often inviting. This terrain just off the Whistler peak road can be an enticing sun-swept run of...
1st Dec 2024
Often inviting. This terrain just off the Whistler peak road can be an enticing sun-swept run of untouched powder.Understanding that you need to come back up the same way you go down, can make you question if it’s really worth it.Know before you go. Cake Hole by Andrew...
Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing ElevationDock 4!
Well we started from scratch this time... :)
ElevationDock 4 is the result of designing every...
7th Sep 2017
Well we started from scratch this time... :)
ElevationDock 4 is the result of designing every feature that we & our customers wanted into the dock. We made the adjustment not only more precise than any other dock, but easier too. It works out of the box, no cord mounting...
Louwrentius - Solar
Finding a good blu-ray player for Mac OS X
I find playing a Blu-ray movie on my Mac cumbersome. I've been using Plex, XBMC and VLC but these...
22nd Sep 2013
I find playing a Blu-ray movie on my Mac cumbersome. I've been using Plex, XBMC and VLC but these free open-source products are all a usability nightmare.
To play a Blu-ray movie, you have to perform these steps:
right-click on the BDMV file
choose 'show packet contents'
go to...
Willem's Blog
Collecting health data with Biostrap
Wearing a clinical-grade PPG sensor for a month to collect advanced biometrics from my wrist.
14th Nov 2017
Wearing a clinical-grade PPG sensor for a month to collect advanced biometrics from my wrist.
Daniel De Laney
Atomic Design in 1998
When you hear “atomic design,” you probably think of Brad Frost. Interestingly, he was not the first...
8th Feb 2018
When you hear “atomic design,” you probably think of Brad Frost. Interestingly, he was not the first person to develop that method of delivering design as components, or even the terminology.
Brad published his atomic design article in 2013. While digging through the archives at...
Writing
The Farmer's Hotel
My first piece of work by O'Hara, shockingly, and it was a cute little three act play filled with as...
3rd May 2020
My first piece of work by O'Hara, shockingly, and it was a cute little three act play filled with as much drinking and death as I'd been led to believe.
Louwrentius - Solar
This blog is now running on solar power
Introduction
This blog is now running on solar power.
I've put a solar panel on my balcony, which...
6th Jul 2020
Introduction
This blog is now running on solar power.
I've put a solar panel on my balcony, which is connected to a solar charge controller. This device charges an old worn-out car battery and provides power to a Raspberry Pi ~~3b+~~ 4B, which in turn powers this (static)...
Christian Selig
Autonomous Standing Desk and Chair Review
Autonomous was nice enough to send me one of both their Smart Desk Pro standing desks and ErgoChair...
14th Nov 2023
Autonomous was nice enough to send me one of both their Smart Desk Pro standing desks and ErgoChair Pro chairs in exchange for posting about them on Twitter, and I wanted to cover them in more detail on my blog as well so I could give my full thoughts on them for anyone in the...
Vitalik Buterin's...
On Medium-of-Exchange Token Valuations
17th Oct 2017
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...
26th Feb 2019
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.
Ken Shirriff's blog
Talking to memory: Inside the Intel 8088 processor's bus interface state machine
In 1979, Intel introduced the 8088 microprocessor, a variant of the 16-bit 8086 processor.
IBM's...
28th Apr 2024
In 1979, Intel introduced the 8088 microprocessor, a variant of the 16-bit 8086 processor.
IBM's decision to use the 8088 processor in the IBM PC (1981) was a critical point in computer history,
leading to the success of the x86 architecture.
The designers of the IBM PC selected...
Jonas Hietala
September theme: Failure
I’m out of the busy mode and here’s the new theme! I’ve got an idea and I’ll be beginning very soon...
12th Sep 2009
I’m out of the busy mode and here’s the new theme! I’ve got an idea and I’ll be beginning very soon I hope and again I’m following Experimental Gameplay Project’s site.
Let’s rock!!
Bryan Braun - Blog
250 lbs
Six months ago, while I was setting up a new code editor, I noticed that the default font size felt...
16th Feb 2026
Six months ago, while I was setting up a new code editor, I noticed that the default font size felt just a bit too small, when displayed on my monitor. Not a big deal, I just bumped it up one size and went back to my work.
Then it happened again, this time, when reading sheet...
Notes on software...
Coolest hard-tech companies in NYC 2021
For years I've kept a private list of really cool tech companies in
NYC. Now that I'm funemployed...
4th Jun 2021
For years I've kept a private list of really cool tech companies in
NYC. Now that I'm funemployed it's the perfect time to publish. This
list is influenced by 1) my perception of the difficulty of the
engineering behind the product and 2) the company's educational and
OSS...
Electronics etc…
Guide Technology GT300 Frequency Standard Teardown
MathJax.Hub.Config({
jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"],
tex2jax: {
inlineMath: [...
6th Apr 2024
MathJax.Hub.Config({
jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"],
tex2jax: {
inlineMath: [ ['$', '$'], ["\\(", "\\)"] ],
displayMath: [ ['$$', '$$'], ["\\[", "\\]"] ],
processEscapes: true,
skipTags: ['script', 'noscript', 'style', 'textarea', 'pre',...
Willem L. Middelkoop
Using a budget Android as main smartphone
Every now and then, I switch phones to keep track of mobile developments. As professional app and...
8th Oct 2018
Every now and then, I switch phones to keep track of mobile developments. As professional app and web developer, I need to know how different devices work in real life. This time I used a budget Android smartphone, making me curious how it would compare to an expensive iPhone....
Nabeel S. Qureshi
Principles
// This was originally a Google Doc where I gathered hard-won life lessons; eventually I open...
12th Jan 2025
// This was originally a Google Doc where I gathered hard-won life lessons; eventually I open sourced it. It got a great response, including a shoutout from Tim Ferriss, so here it is on Substack.
Pea Bee
Pea Bee #5: Do not insert this inside your ear canal
Bird Detector
4th Apr 2021
Willem's Blog
Wearing Grand Seiko
I am glad I took the opportunity to wear a Grand Seiko, learning first hand about its craftsmanship,...
4th Jun 2021
I am glad I took the opportunity to wear a Grand Seiko, learning first hand about its craftsmanship, innovation and practicality.
Butler's Log
Our We Are Developers Adventure
Last week the GitButler team descended in force on the We Are Developers World Congress in our home...
2nd Aug 2023
Last week the GitButler team descended in force on the We Are Developers World Congress in our home town of Berlin.
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...
11th Jul 2021
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,...
Home on Erik...
Missing the point about microservices: it's about testing and deploying independently
Ok, so I have to first preface this whole blog post by a few things:
I really struggle with the...
4th Jun 2018
Ok, so I have to first preface this whole blog post by a few things:
I really struggle with the term microservices. I can't put my finger on exactly why. Maybe because the term is hopelessly ill-defined, maybe because it's gotten picked up by the hype train.
Applied Cartography
Star-Crossed
The obvious and deserved comparison is with Evermore/Folklore — a stripped down, mellower version of...
2nd Oct 2021
The obvious and deserved comparison is with Evermore/Folklore — a stripped down, mellower version of the author's ouevre. While I think Taylor's latest outings are good-not-great, I thought this was closer to great; the songwriting is steadier and more interesting, and the pathos...
Notes on software...
What's the big deal about Deterministic Simulation Testing?
Bugs in distributed systems are hard to find, largely because systems
interact in chaotic ways. And...
20th Aug 2024
Bugs in distributed systems are hard to find, largely because systems
interact in chaotic ways. And even once you've found a bug, it can be
anywhere from simple to impossible to reproduce it. It's about as far
away as you can get from the ideal test environment: property...
matduggan.com
Greenland is a beautiful nightmare
Greenland is a complicated topic here in Denmark. The former colony that is still treated a bit like...
27th Sep 2025
Greenland is a complicated topic here in Denmark. The former colony that is still treated a bit like a colony is something that inspires a lot of emotions. Greenland has been subjected to a lot of unethical experiments by Denmark, from taking their kids to wild experiments in...
The Pragmatic...
Survey: What’s in your tech stack?
We want to capture an accurate snapshot of software engineering, today – and need your help! Tell us...
18th Mar 2025
We want to capture an accurate snapshot of software engineering, today – and need your help! Tell us about your tech stack and get early access to the final report, plus extra analysis
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...
9th Jul 2024
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...
Birchtree
A blown up iPhone, not the next Mac
Federico Viticci: Headless Macs and Hamstrung iPads
In a funny twist of fate, Apple spent years...
2nd Jul 2026
Federico Viticci: Headless Macs and Hamstrung iPads
In a funny twist of fate, Apple spent years trying to make iPadOS catch up to macOS on the surface, only for macOS’ underlying nature to unlock a new generation of apps that are rewriting the rules of modern software. No amount
Applied Cartography
So We Read On
Well, if it's not biography; and it's not literary criticism; and it's not scholarship... what is...
8th Aug 2023
Well, if it's not biography; and it's not literary criticism; and it's not scholarship... what is it? And the answer appears to be poorly structured, rambling, fandom.
Jeff Geerling
Proxmox officially supports Arm, with some caveats
Proxmox today announced their Proxmox Virtual Environment is now available for 64-bit ARM.
I tested...
5th Aug 2026
Proxmox today announced their Proxmox Virtual Environment is now available for 64-bit ARM.
I tested it on my Ampere Altra Dev Platform—the same machine on which I've booted Windows on Arm the first time, messed with multiple GPUs, and most recently tested Houdini's native arm64...
watchTowr Labs
Should Security Solutions Be Secure? Maybe We're All Wrong - Fortinet FortiSIEM Pre-Auth Command...
It’s Friday, but we’re here today with unscheduled content - pushing our previously scheduled...
15th Aug 2025
It’s Friday, but we’re here today with unscheduled content - pushing our previously scheduled shenanigans to next week.
Fortinet is no stranger to the watchTowr Labs research team. Today we’re looking at CVE-2025-25256 - a pre-authentication command injection in FortiSIEM that...
Birchtree
Micro app 15: Railway Dashboard for iOS
I use Railway to host a few of my projects, and while they have a nice desktop interface in the...
1st May 2026
I use Railway to host a few of my projects, and while they have a nice desktop interface in the browser, their mobile UI isn't so hot, and I wanted to make something t help me monitor things like my cost and deployments on my phone with ease.
./techtipsy
Tech rants: PC-s use way too much power in 2021
Welcome to 2021. We have:
supply chain issues
no reasonably priced GPU-s
consumer-grade CPU-s with...
3rd Nov 2021
Welcome to 2021. We have:
supply chain issues
no reasonably priced GPU-s
consumer-grade CPU-s with peak power consumption at 296W
GPU-s that consume 350-400W of power under normal use
At the same time, we have made great leaps in CPU/GPU architectures and chip manufacturing...
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...
9th Apr 2017
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...
Applied Cartography
The Fellowship
I am a sucker for all things Joseph Shabason at this point, and maybe it's fair to call this album a...
1st May 2021
I am a sucker for all things Joseph Shabason at this point, and maybe it's fair to call this album a little too reminiscent of his prior work, but — who cares? It's sonically diverse and lush and delightful to listen to.
./techtipsy
Shrinkflation, SanDisk style
2023-02-16 update: this post is not about the “GB vs GiB” issue, or the “lost disk space” that...
15th Feb 2023
2023-02-16 update: this post is not about the “GB vs GiB” issue, or the “lost disk space” that you
notice after formatting the device in an OS. Please read the article in full before
making inaccurate comments online.
For many years, I have used two SanDisk Ultra 16 GB USB flash...
Computer Ads from...
Huson Soft HuCAL
Hudson creates business software for everyone.
24th Jan 2024
Hudson creates business software for everyone.
Applied Cartography
Pattern Recognition
It was funny to read 2002-era reviews of this book, which universally bemoaned the "tres hip"-ness...
5th Apr 2023
It was funny to read 2002-era reviews of this book, which universally bemoaned the "tres hip"-ness of Gibson's brand deployments (iBooks! MUJI!)
as a flaw that would instantly date its relevance — and nary a mention of how grounded the book was in the September 11th attacks,...
Bryan Braun - Blog
Some thoughts on scaling code review
AI code-writing tools make it possible for more people to write code than ever before. On my current...
28th Sep 2025
AI code-writing tools make it possible for more people to write code than ever before. On my current team, I’ve seen PRs opened by engineers, designers, marketers, managers, and product people. There’s something special about empowering more people to build and fix things. That...
Never Met a Science
Open Science and Its Enemies
Donald Trump has signed an Executive Order nominally aimed at “Restoring Gold Standard Science”....
2nd Jun 2025
Donald Trump has signed an Executive Order nominally aimed at “Restoring Gold Standard Science”. Setting aside the absurdity of “restoring” something that never existed, what does that purport to mean?
Fabien Sanglard
The beautiful machine
20 years later, I have built an other PC!
6th Mar 2020
20 years later, I have built an other PC!
Applied Cartography
Hamilton
I was not a Hamilton hater exactly (I, like many other snoots, didn’t hate Hamilton so much as I...
28th Oct 2019
I was not a Hamilton hater exactly (I, like many other snoots, didn’t hate Hamilton so much as I hated the people who, for a brief but painful time, were really, really into Hamilton) but I certainly was not a huge fan until Haley roped me into listening to the soundtrack. I...
Louwrentius - Solar
Setting up a Jabber instant messaging server |_http-title: Site doesn't have a title (text/html;...
I wanted to see how dificult it is to setup an instant messaging server based on open source...
5th Feb 2011
I wanted to see how dificult it is to setup an instant messaging server based on open source software. Now I know that it is very easy, unless you are stubborn and do things your own way. In this example, I'm setting up a small IM server that is only for internal company use, but...
Matt Mullenweg
GPL Clarification
A quick followup on my prior conversation with Theo. During that chat, I talked briefly about a...
1st Nov 2024
A quick followup on my prior conversation with Theo. During that chat, I talked briefly about a trademark infringer that was also distributing nulled plugins. I said “Not illegal. Legal under the GPL. But they weren’t changing the names. They were selling their customers Pro...
Louwrentius - Solar
Benchmarking cheap SSDs for fun, no profit (be warned)
The price of Solid-state drives (SSDs) has dropped significantly over the last few years. It's now...
26th Mar 2023
The price of Solid-state drives (SSDs) has dropped significantly over the last few years. It's now possible to buy a 1TB solid-state drive for less than €60. However, at such low price points, there is a catch.
Although cheap SSDs do perform fine regarding reads, sustained write...
Willem L. Middelkoop
SEO Is Dead
In the first week of April I did the SEO job I had put off for years: new landing pages and...
18th Apr 2026
In the first week of April I did the SEO job I had put off for years: new landing pages and thousands of cross-links, on willem.com and on two customer sites, generated through the new API of my platform. It works, and well, I wrote on 4 April. Two weeks later I looked at what it...
Willem L. Middelkoop
Health and fitness data
Since the start of this new year I am working out harder than the previous months. I have set some...
15th Jan 2024
Since the start of this new year I am working out harder than the previous months. I have set some goals for myself and have taken on a training scheme incorporating running, cycling and swimming. As I sift through the growing mountain of workout data, I find myself questioning:...
Butler's Log
Introducing GitButler
The development world runs on Git, yet pretty much nobody actually likes using Git. The main reason...
13th Apr 2023
The development world runs on Git, yet pretty much nobody actually likes using Git. The main reason people put up with Git is love for GitHub, but GitHub is where people collaborate, not where people work. GitHub is not local. Nobody has really tried to reinvent the concept of...
Daniel De Laney
There is Definitely a Grid
Grids are the best thing to ever happen to graphic design. They form a rational basis for organizing...
10th Jun 2016
Grids are the best thing to ever happen to graphic design. They form a rational basis for organizing information. They support the harmonious distribution of elements and visual weight. We don’t design things with grids because it’s easy, or because everyone else is doing it....
matduggan.com
I broke and fixed my Ghost blog
In case you find this post after hours of google searching
16th Oct 2025
In case you find this post after hours of google searching
Yazin Alirhayim
Serializing and deserializing a Cookie Jar
I needed a way to "freeze" a Faraday connection, and then recover it .. but the cookie jar was...
1st Jan 2020
I needed a way to "freeze" a Faraday connection, and then recover it .. but the cookie jar was getting in the way.
Yazin Alirhayim
The Trouble With Optionality
What if amassing options to no end isn't the optimal choice beyond early childhood? I explore the...
3rd Nov 2020
What if amassing options to no end isn't the optimal choice beyond early childhood? I explore the topic of optionality, why it's bad and what to do about it
Matt Mullenweg
RIP Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins, the Saxophone Colossus, has passed. He is probably my favorite saxophonist, and while...
27th May 2026
Sonny Rollins, the Saxophone Colossus, has passed. He is probably my favorite saxophonist, and while the aforementioned album is one of the five I would take to a deserted island, he has so many other good ones like The Cutting Edge which also has bagpipes, or Sonny Side Up with...
Fabien Sanglard
0x4 reasons to write and publish
7th Nov 2023
./techtipsy
DIY cloud gaming setup with VFIO, Parsec and AMD
This is a follow-up to my previous post where I covered
the VFIO setup in general. For many people...
7th Sep 2021
This is a follow-up to my previous post where I covered
the VFIO setup in general. For many people that would have been good enough, but my goal with this setup was to have a
powerful gaming setup that I could access from my living room PC with 20 meters of Ethernet cables...
Applied Cartography
Everybody Wants Some!!
The single most pleasurable movie of all time is Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven, and it achieves that...
2 weeks ago
The single most pleasurable movie of all time is Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven, and it achieves that status in order to try to convey what makes filmmaking uniquely magical: a sense of shared enchantment between the audience and the director, and the ecstasy of the latter pulling a...
Notes on software...
btest: a language agnostic test runner
btest is a minimal,
language-agnostic test runner originally written for testing
compilers. Brian,...
4th Aug 2018
btest is a minimal,
language-agnostic test runner originally written for testing
compilers. Brian, an ex- co-worker from Linode, wrote the first
implementation in Crystal (a compiled
language clone of Ruby) for testing
bshift, a compiler
project. The tool accomplished exactly...
computers are bad
2023-10-03 overheard overhead
Let's talk about overhead paging. The concept goes by various names: paging,
public address, even...
3rd Oct 2023
Let's talk about overhead paging. The concept goes by various names: paging,
public address, even intercom, although the accuracy of the latter term can be
questionable. It's probably one of the aspects of business telephone systems
that gets the most public attention, on account...
Fabien Sanglard
Doom3 Source Code Review
On November 23, 2011 id Software maintained the tradition and released the source code of their...
8th Jun 2012
On November 23, 2011 id Software maintained the tradition and released the source code of their previous engine. This time is was the turn of idTech4 which powered Prey,
Quake 4 and of course Doom 3. Within hours the GitHub repository was forked more than 400 times and...
axio.ms
Maths is Fun and Useful but Lasers Are More So
Way back when, I made a cool but basic paper sculpture (in Maths is Fun and Useful) by hand, using a...
11th Aug 2017
Way back when, I made a cool but basic paper sculpture (in Maths is Fun and Useful) by hand, using a perl script for the shape template. For cultural reasons, I wanted to make a gift out of paper and it had to be Heaps Good.
I had finally got access to a laser cutter (omgomg)...
videah.net
Web Push Pitfall
Web Push Pitfall
Posted on March 30, 2023
This post is from a legacy version of this blog!
No...
30th Mar 2023
Web Push Pitfall
Posted on March 30, 2023
This post is from a legacy version of this blog!
No changes have been made to the content in the migration, so things might read weird.
Whilst implementing Web Push notifications for my toy Q&A service curiouswolf I ran into an issue...
Can We Still Govern?
Remembering the Origins of Birthright Citizenship
Administrative Burdens Were Long Used to Restrict Internal Migration
2nd Apr 2026
Administrative Burdens Were Long Used to Restrict Internal Migration
Push to Prod
Stop Babysitting Your AI Coding Agents
Move 10x as fast, break 10x as many things
20th Jan 2026
Move 10x as fast, break 10x as many things
Writing
MD5-based uniqueness constraints in Django
Yesterday, I was trying to set a unique constraint for comments in Buttondown to prevent accidental...
1st Sep 2024
Yesterday, I was trying to set a unique constraint for comments in Buttondown to prevent accidental double-commenting, and I ran into a problem that I hadn't seen before:
Pea Bee
#14: Extreme ironing
A couple of months back, I made a search engine to look for half loaves of bread in stores. I was...
3rd Jul 2022
A couple of months back, I made a search engine to look for half loaves of bread in stores. I was tired of wasting leftover bread and made this because, well I could. You can try it here: halfloafnear.me
Azad's Blog
How to Remove Virtual Desktop’s Leftover macOS Audio Devices
Uninstalling Virtual Desktop Streamer can leave Virtual Desktop Mic and Virtual Desktop Speakers...
2 weeks ago
Uninstalling Virtual Desktop Streamer can leave Virtual Desktop Mic and Virtual Desktop Speakers behind in macOS Sound settings. Copy-paste this prompt to your AI agent Prompt: Remove the leftover Virtual Desktop Streamer audio components from my Mac. Move these exact items to...
Yazin Alirhayim
Hour 9: Categorizing the content
Now that we've cracked the API, we need to save all the content and categorize it.
24th Jun 2025
Now that we've cracked the API, we need to save all the content and categorize it.
Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course Week 5: Eudaemonia
In week 5 of my humanities crash course, I read Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and Poetics. I also...
2nd Feb 2025
In week 5 of my humanities crash course, I read Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and Poetics. I also listened to more Bach, looked at Italian Baroque sculpture, and watched a classic – if somewhat boring – movie. Getting through it despite the difficulties was part of the...
Kent de Bruin
How I use Obsidian with Claude Code
Thinking alongside an AI that lives inside my notes
20th Jan 2026
Thinking alongside an AI that lives inside my notes
Krebs on Security
Please Don’t Feed the Scattered Lapsus ShinyHunters
A prolific data ransom gang that calls itself Scattered Lapsus ShinyHunters (SLSH) has a distinctive...
2nd Feb 2026
A prolific data ransom gang that calls itself Scattered Lapsus ShinyHunters (SLSH) has a distinctive playbook when it seeks to extort payment from victim firms: Harassing, threatening and even swatting executives and their families, all while notifying journalists and regulators...
Computer Ads from...
Plus Post: subLOGIC Flight Simulator II
Put yourself in the pilot's seat of a Piper 181 Cherokee Archer for an awe-inspiring flight over...
3rd Apr 2026
Put yourself in the pilot's seat of a Piper 181 Cherokee Archer for an awe-inspiring flight over realistic scenery...
Freewheeling Apps
2025-04-04
Automatically selecting colors with sufficient contrast.
Here's a test build of my hypertext...
5th Apr 2025
Automatically selecting colors with sufficient contrast.
Here's a test build of my hypertext browser where every "page load" picks a random background. The foreground and link colors adapt to preserve a minimum contrast (WCAG AAA level).
I repeatedly click on links in...
Butler's Log
Fearless Rebasing
GitButler now supports first class conflicts, which makes rebasing much less annoying. What is...
23rd Oct 2024
GitButler now supports first class conflicts, which makes rebasing much less annoying. What is "fearless rebasing"?
OH8HUB’s Substack
Spring ham radio activation of Korkattivuori (Mt. Korkatti)
Korkattivuori (“Mount Korkatti”, 186m above sea level) is a small hill and Natura 2000 nature...
16th Apr 2023
Korkattivuori (“Mount Korkatti”, 186m above sea level) is a small hill and Natura 2000 nature reserve area near town Haapavesi (pop. 6588) in Finland. The nature reserve area consist of short family friendly hiking path of approximately 1.5km. One end of the path has parking...
computers are bad
2023-11-04 nuclear safety
Nuclear weapons are complex in many ways. The basic problem of achieving
criticality is difficult on...
4th Nov 2023
Nuclear weapons are complex in many ways. The basic problem of achieving
criticality is difficult on its own, but deploying nuclear weapons as
operational military assets involves yet more challenges. Nuclear weapons must
be safe and reliable, even with the rough handling and...
Butler's Log
GitButler 0.15 - "Quirky Quinceañera"
GitButler 0.15 is out, featuring a brand new user interface, stability improvements, line based...
2nd Jul 2025
GitButler 0.15 is out, featuring a brand new user interface, stability improvements, line based commits and more!
benn.substack
Something in the orange
A last exit.
3rd Oct 2025
Electronics etc…
Increasing Frequency Counter Precision with Linear Regression
MathJax.Hub.Config({
jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"],
tex2jax: {
inlineMath: [...
16th Jun 2023
MathJax.Hub.Config({
jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"],
tex2jax: {
inlineMath: [ ['$', '$'], ["\\(", "\\)"] ],
displayMath: [ ['$$', '$$'], ["\\[", "\\]"] ],
processEscapes: true,
skipTags: ['script', 'noscript', 'style', 'textarea', 'pre',...
Pea Bee
How old is this newspaper?
Guess the year from old newspaper front pages.
29th Dec 2025
Guess the year from old newspaper front pages.
Willem L. Middelkoop
Websites with Auto Pilot
Why do you need a website, and what can you do to maximise its value while minimising (manual)...
6th Jan 2026
Why do you need a website, and what can you do to maximise its value while minimising (manual) effort? I have been working on this with some of my most innovative customers. What if you no longer need a full blown manual content management system? What if your website updated...
Jonas Hietala
Game Design Analysis: World of Goo
Introduction
This is the second essay for the course Game Design and this thime I will be analysing...
1st Jun 2010
Introduction
This is the second essay for the course Game Design and this thime I will be analysing the game World of Goo a bit.
The first level
The game is very simple. You begin with a structure and a few Goo balls, the charming balls bobbing around there, which you can drag...
Never Met a Science
For-Profit Academic Publishers Love LLM Garbage
Against For-Profit "Open Access"
4th Apr 2026
Against For-Profit "Open Access"
watchTowr Labs
Fortinet FortiGate CVE-2024-23113 - A Super Complex Vulnerability In A Super Secure Appliance In...
Today we'd like to share a recent journey into (yet another) SSLVPN appliance vulnerability - a...
14th Oct 2024
Today we'd like to share a recent journey into (yet another) SSLVPN appliance vulnerability - a Format String vulnerability, unusually, in Fortinet's FortiGate devices.
It affected (before patching) all currently-maintained branches, and recently was highlighted by CISA as...
./techtipsy
Trying out VR on an AMD Ryzen 4000 series APU
You may know that I really like small, efficient APU-based builds.
At this point in time, they’re so...
4th May 2022
You may know that I really like small, efficient APU-based builds.
At this point in time, they’re so close to being a viable mainstream option for
gaming, especially the Ryzen 6000-series mobile APU-s. Forza Horizon 5, at
1080p high settings? Yes, they’re that good.
I don’t have...
Willem's Blog
Creating a minimal iPhone stand
Today I created a minimal iPhone stand from oak wood. I used a single piece of wood to get it done.
1st Jun 2018
Today I created a minimal iPhone stand from oak wood. I used a single piece of wood to get it done.
Posts on Made of...
BlackHat/DEFCON 2011 talk: Breaking out of KVM
I’ve posted the final slides from my talk this year at DEFCON and Black Hat, on breaking out of the...
8th Aug 2011
I’ve posted the final slides from my talk this year at DEFCON and Black Hat, on breaking out of the KVM Kernel Virtual Machine on Linux.
Virtunoid: Breaking out of KVM from Nelson Elhage [Edited 2011-08-11] The code is now available. It should be fairly well-commented, and...
Willem's Blog
Repairing a Giro AEON bicycle helmet
Try fixing your Giro bicycle helmet? I went through some trouble to do it! Read along to find out...
8th Jul 2020
Try fixing your Giro bicycle helmet? I went through some trouble to do it! Read along to find out how.
Old Vintage...
So thieves broke into your storage unit - again
If you've been wondering why entries have been a little slow lately, let me tell you a story.
All...
5th Oct 2024
If you've been wondering why entries have been a little slow lately, let me tell you a story.
All collectors tend to be a bit obsessive by nature, and us classic computer nerds probably pick up more hardware than we can (or should) store in our residence — especially if the...
Posts on Made of...
A Brief Introduction to termios: Signaling and Job Control
(This is part three of a multi-part introduction to termios and terminal emulation on UNIX. Read...
11th Jan 2010
(This is part three of a multi-part introduction to termios and terminal emulation on UNIX. Read part 1 or part 2 if you’re new here)
For my final entry on termios, I will be looking at job control in the shell (i.e. backgrounding and foreground jobs) and the very closely related...
Tiny struggles
Django - growing up from SQLite to PostgreSQL
Django by default comes with SQLite as a database.It’s a great choice for initial development and...
11th Jul 2021
Django by default comes with SQLite as a database.It’s a great choice for initial development and for testing,but not if you want to run multiple app servers, e.g. in a SaaS project. At some point it’s time to pick up a DB like MySQL or PostgreSQL that is more suitable for this...
Arduino Blog
Zoo elephants get a musical toy to enrich their lives
Everyone loves looking at exotic animals and most of us only get to do that at zoos. But, of course,...
2nd Dec 2024
Everyone loves looking at exotic animals and most of us only get to do that at zoos. But, of course, there is a lot to be said about the morality of keeping those animals in captivity. So, good zoos put a lot of effort into keeping their animals healthy and happy. For more...
Nabeel S. Qureshi
Reflections on Palantir
A retrospective of an eight-year stint.
15th Oct 2024
A retrospective of an eight-year stint.
watchTowr Labs
SonicBoom, From Stolen Tokens to Remote Shells - SonicWall SMA (CVE-2023-44221, CVE-2024-38475)
Another day, another edge device being targeted - it’s a typical Thursday!
In today’s blog post,...
1st May 2025
Another day, another edge device being targeted - it’s a typical Thursday!
In today’s blog post, we’re excited to share our previously private analysis of the now exploited in-the-wild N-day vulnerabilities affecting SonicWall’s SMA100 appliance. Over the last few months, our...
Applied Cartography
Final Fantasy IX
I’ve noticed that if I want to give something a perfect score but know that it’s not a “perfect”...
28th Dec 2013
I’ve noticed that if I want to give something a perfect score but know that it’s not a “perfect” thing, I always start off with “okay, so, it has flaws.”
The Pragmatic...
Klarna’s AI chatbot: how revolutionary is it, really?
Klarna launched its AI chatbot, built in collaboration with OpenAI, which the company wants to use...
8th Aug 2024
Klarna launched its AI chatbot, built in collaboration with OpenAI, which the company wants to use to eliminate 2/3rds of customer support positions. But is it as revolutionary, and as likely to replace jobs, as Klarna claims?
Vitalik Buterin's...
Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later
22nd Nov 2019
Home on Erik...
Tumblr's awesome project names
Not sure how I managed to miss this, but I'm watching this Tumblr presentation and they talk about...
18th Nov 2012
Not sure how I managed to miss this, but I'm watching this Tumblr presentation and they talk about their projects named after Arrested Development topics: Gob, Parmesan, Buster, Jetpants, Oscar, George and Motherboy.
Still, the best software project name is probably still Apple's...
Nabeel S. Qureshi
How To Understand Things
The smartest person I’ve ever known had a habit that, as a teenager, I found striking...
2nd Jul 2020
The smartest person I’ve ever known had a habit that, as a teenager, I found striking...
./techtipsy
How I self-host this blog at home with a dynamic IPv4 address, IPv6 prefix, and a dash of Wireguard
Networking has long been my Achilles heel. I know the very basics, but the more complex areas of...
6th May 2026
Networking has long been my Achilles heel. I know the very basics, but the more complex areas of networking have been a
bit puzzling to me. By the time I figured out how IPv4 works, I found IPv6 and that my ISP supports it.
Back to square one.
That didn’t stop me from learning...
Avestura's Blog
Oversimplified ideas of the great philosophers of all times
Ideas of the great philosophers of all times explained in a few lines
23rd Mar 2023
Ideas of the great philosophers of all times explained in a few lines
Construction Physics
Reading List 09/06/2025
London homebuilding, historical home prices, a humanoid robot loading a dishwasher, France’s history...
6th Sep 2025
London homebuilding, historical home prices, a humanoid robot loading a dishwasher, France’s history of nuclear reactor construction, and more.
Full Width 
Shortcuts 
Sign Up 
Log In 
Articles 
Reading List 