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GitButler 0.15 - "Quirky Quinceañera" GitButler 0.15 is out, featuring a brand new user interface, stability improvements, line based...
2nd Jul 2025
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GitButler 0.15 - "Quirky Quinceañera"

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

2nd Jul 2025
GitButler 0.15 is out, featuring a brand new user interface, stability improvements, line based commits and more!
Anxious People The friend who suggested this book for book club prefaced it with "I like this author because...
4th Nov 2020
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Anxious People

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Nov 2020
The friend who suggested this book for book club prefaced it with "I like this author because nothing is left to subtext", and that certainly is true! If you are ever looking for a book in which the author tells you exactly what everything means and what everyone is thinking and...
Client libraries are better when they have no API fsspec is secretly everywhere, and boss
10th Apr 2024
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Client libraries are better when they have no API

from csvbase blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

10th Apr 2024
fsspec is secretly everywhere, and boss
The first conformant M1 GPU driver Conformant OpenGL® ES 3.1 drivers are now available for M1- and M2-family GPUs. That means the...
22nd Aug 2023
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The first conformant M1 GPU driver

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

22nd Aug 2023
Conformant OpenGL® ES 3.1 drivers are now available for M1- and M2-family GPUs. That means the drivers are compatible with any OpenGL ES 3.1 application. Interested? Just install Linux! For existing Asahi Linux users, upgrade your system with dnf upgrade (Fedora) or pacman -Syu...
A couple of git nits A small rant on git papercuts, and why they are like that.
16th Mar 2026
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A couple of git nits

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

16th Mar 2026
A small rant on git papercuts, and why they are like that.
Owning my Social Network After yet another Mastodon drama1 and tired of migrating from one Mastodon instance to another I...
14th May 2025
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Owning my Social Network

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

14th May 2025
After yet another Mastodon drama1 and tired of migrating from one Mastodon instance to another I have decided to self-host a Mastodon instance. But Mastodon is an overkill for a single user instance, Luckily GoToSocial2 an ActivityPub social network server written in Go serves my...
Table Stakes This is a short post on what I see are table stakes for any new user-facing service, security-wise....
19th Dec 2019
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Table Stakes

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

19th Dec 2019
This is a short post on what I see are table stakes for any new user-facing service, security-wise. Mostly focused on user-focused, rather than intra-service, considerations.
Introducing FamilyCharger Today we launched FamilyCharger - it's designed to be a central place to charge all your devices,...
18th Jul 2019
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Introducing FamilyCharger

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

18th Jul 2019
Today we launched FamilyCharger - it's designed to be a central place to charge all your devices, fast, without clutter. Our initial designs for a family charger started out as big multi-charging docks, but they were too inflexible, expensive, and took up a lot of space....
Standard cells: Looking at individual gates in the Pentium processor Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, a chip to "separate the really power-hungry...
7th Jul 2024
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Standard cells: Looking at individual gates in the Pentium processor

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

7th Jul 2024
Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, a chip to "separate the really power-hungry folks from ordinary mortals." The original Pentium was followed by the Pentium Pro, the Pentium II, and others, spawning a long-running brand of high-performance processors, Intel's...
Snakebite Just promoting Spotify stuff here: check out the Snakebite repo on Github, written by Wouter de Bie....
7th May 2013
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Snakebite

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

7th May 2013
Just promoting Spotify stuff here: check out the Snakebite repo on Github, written by Wouter de Bie. It's a super fast tool to access HDFS over CLI/Python, by accessing the namenode directly over sockets/protobuf. Spotify's developer blog features a nice blog post outlining what...
Expecting Better Really good book, and one I would recommend to anyone thinking about family planning. Nothing coy or...
3rd Nov 2023
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Expecting Better

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

3rd Nov 2023
Really good book, and one I would recommend to anyone thinking about family planning. Nothing coy or clever to say; just thought it was solid, actionable, and sober without being a drag to read.
Deep learning for… chess (addendum) My previous blog post about deep learning for chess blew up and made it to Hacker News and a couple...
8th Dec 2014
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Deep learning for… chess (addendum)

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

8th Dec 2014
My previous blog post about deep learning for chess blew up and made it to Hacker News and a couple of other places. One pretty amazing thing was that the Github repo got 150 stars overnight.
What’s the Object of Information Architecture? Ironically, information architects haven’t explained how we create value in terms most people...
3rd Jan 2025
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What’s the Object of Information Architecture?

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

3rd Jan 2025
Ironically, information architects haven’t explained how we create value in terms most people understand. If I tell someone at a party that I’m an IA, they won’t know what I do. It’s a problem: if others don’t understand how we can help, they won’t hire us. The main challenge is...
Where is Lee Wittlinger? Lee controls the board of WP Engine. The board is why WP Engine hasn’t done a trademark deal for...
28th Sep 2024
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Where is Lee Wittlinger?

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

28th Sep 2024
Lee controls the board of WP Engine. The board is why WP Engine hasn’t done a trademark deal for their use of the WordPress and WooCommerce trademarks. You hide behind lawyers and corporate PR when you’re wrong, not when you’re right. I’m replying on Twitter, I’m commenting on...
Happy Endings This, to me, is the perfect sit-com. It’s that simple: for two seasons (skip the first season; you...
27th Nov 2017
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Happy Endings

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

27th Nov 2017
This, to me, is the perfect sit-com. It’s that simple: for two seasons (skip the first season; you don’t need it and the show tries to be too conventional) it shits out an outrageous level of humor with a cast that has a perfect chemistry. There is a tiny bit of “aw, shucks”...
Marathon Last Sunday I completed my first full marathon, covering a distance of 42KM in and around Amsterdam....
19th Oct 2024
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Marathon

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

19th Oct 2024
Last Sunday I completed my first full marathon, covering a distance of 42KM in and around Amsterdam. An idea that started in a bar with some beers and concluded with a finish in the Olympic Stadium. What a journey, what an experience, well worthy of a blog post. About a year ago,...
Fixed Gear Gran Fondo Taking a fixed gear road bike for a gran fondo! Let some of my fun be of inspiration to you!
9th Apr 2021
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Fixed Gear Gran Fondo

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

9th Apr 2021
Taking a fixed gear road bike for a gran fondo! Let some of my fun be of inspiration to you!
We’ve raised $17M to build what comes after Git GitButler has raised a Series A round to accelerate developing the infrastructure for how software...
8th Apr 2026
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We’ve raised $17M to build what comes after Git

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

8th Apr 2026
GitButler has raised a Series A round to accelerate developing the infrastructure for how software gets built next
Predicting solar eclipses with Python As I am en route to see my first total solar eclipse, I was curious how hard it would be to compute...
7th Apr 2024
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Predicting solar eclipses with Python

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

7th Apr 2024
As I am en route to see my first total solar eclipse, I was curious how hard it would be to compute eclipses in Python. It turns out, ignoring some minor coordinate system head-banging, I was able to get something half-decent working in a couple of hours.
May Day activation on island of Hailuoto May Day is celebrated on first of May.
4th May 2025
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May Day activation on island of Hailuoto

from OH8HUB’s Substack [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th May 2025
May Day is celebrated on first of May.
Building Virtual Branches GitButler has come up with an entirely new way to work on multiple branches: simultaneously. What...
6th Jul 2023
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Building Virtual Branches

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

6th Jul 2023
GitButler has come up with an entirely new way to work on multiple branches: simultaneously. What are virtual branches?
Twenty Times Faster On 11 August I wrote in my notebook: the speed at which we move is about twenty times the old top...
3 weeks ago
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Twenty Times Faster

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

3 weeks ago
On 11 August I wrote in my notebook: the speed at which we move is about twenty times the old top speed. In one day I do what I used to do in twenty. This post is about that speed, what it does to the human in the loop, and the counterweight I found. It is the first post of...
CircuitPython in 2025 This post is a wishlist for CircuitPython in 2025. Each year Adafruit asks the community to...
5th Jan 2025
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CircuitPython in 2025

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in technology

5th Jan 2025
This post is a wishlist for CircuitPython in 2025. Each year Adafruit asks the community to contribute their thoughts or requests for the open source microcontroller language as outlined on the Adafruit blog. In 2025 I would like a library for working with vectors, similar to...
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...
5th Dec 2016
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The half-life of code & the ship of Theseus

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

5th Dec 2016
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.
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
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2024-07-13 the contemporary carphone

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

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...
First, Do Harm It’s doubly tragic that just days before Easter there’s need to address the appalling fact that more...
2nd Apr 2026
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First, Do Harm

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

2nd Apr 2026
It’s doubly tragic that just days before Easter there’s need to address the appalling fact that more and more countries in the world, and a dozen states, now have laws that allow the killing of killing their citizens and residents.
Train Simulator Controller: Simulator Takes Shape with Custom Table With the center console of my train simulator built, I rapidly modeled and fabricated prototypes of...
11th Jan 2026
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Train Simulator Controller: Simulator Takes Shape with Custom Table

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

11th Jan 2026
With the center console of my train simulator built, I rapidly modeled and fabricated prototypes of the four other panels.
AAA gaming on Asahi Linux Gaming on Linux on M1 is here! We’re thrilled to release our Asahi game playing toolkit, which...
10th Oct 2024
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AAA gaming on Asahi Linux

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

10th Oct 2024
Gaming on Linux on M1 is here! We’re thrilled to release our Asahi game playing toolkit, which integrates our Vulkan 1.3 drivers with x86 emulation and Windows compatibility. Plus a bonus: conformant OpenCL 3.0. Asahi Linux now ships the only conformant OpenGL®, OpenCL™, and...
Black Bag There's a (likely apocryphal) quote from Soderbergh about Ocean's Eleven, one of the greatest movies...
14th Jun 2025
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Black Bag

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

14th Jun 2025
There's a (likely apocryphal) quote from Soderbergh about Ocean's Eleven, one of the greatest movies about America:
Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 1. lisp to assembly Next in compiler basics: 2. user-defined functions and variables 3. LLVM 4. LLVM...
20th Nov 2018
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Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 1. lisp to assembly

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

20th Nov 2018
Next in compiler basics: 2. user-defined functions and variables 3. LLVM 4. LLVM conditionals and compiling fibonacci 5. LLVM system calls 6. an x86 upgrade In this post we'll write a simple compiler in Javascript (on Node) without any third-party libraries....
Train Simulator Controller: Power/Brake Controller, Part 3 The core of a train simulator setup could be considered its throttle and brake. Having figured out...
1st Jan 2025
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Train Simulator Controller: Power/Brake Controller, Part 3

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

1st Jan 2025
The core of a train simulator setup could be considered its throttle and brake. Having figured out how to interface a real UK Class 365 power/brake controller with Train Simulator, I designed and built a polished PCB to connect it to my Train Simulator setup.
Java’s SSLContext protocol name is a footgun This should be old news, but I keep seeing the same mistake crop up, so I thought I’d blog about it...
23rd Jun 2026
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Java’s SSLContext protocol name is a footgun

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

23rd Jun 2026
This should be old news, but I keep seeing the same mistake crop up, so I thought I’d blog about it and spread awareness. In Java, if you want to configure TLS you generally start with an SSLContext. And you get an instance of this class by calling the static method...
From error-handling to structured concurrency How should we think about error-handling in concurrent programs? In single-threaded programs, we’ve...
23rd Mar 2026
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From error-handling to structured concurrency

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

23rd Mar 2026
How should we think about error-handling in concurrent programs? In single-threaded programs, we’ve mostly converged on a standard pattern, with a diverse zoo of implementations and concrete patterns. When an error occurs, it is propagated up the stack until we find a stack frame...
Hitachi Ltd, Part I Kabushikigaisha Hitachi Seisaku-sho
23rd Mar 2026
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Hitachi Ltd, Part I

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

23rd Mar 2026
Kabushikigaisha Hitachi Seisaku-sho
Antenna diodes in the Pentium processor I was studying the silicon die of the Pentium processor and noticed some puzzling structures...
23rd Nov 2024
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Antenna diodes in the Pentium processor

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

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...
Clip control on the Apple GPU Neverball rendered on the Apple M1 GPU with an open source OpenGL driver After a year in...
22nd Aug 2022
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Clip control on the Apple GPU

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

22nd Aug 2022
Neverball rendered on the Apple M1 GPU with an open source OpenGL driver After a year in development, the open source “Asahi” driver for the Apple GPU is running real games. There’s more to do, but Neverball is already playable (and a lot of fun!). Neverball uses legacy “fixed...
9th Jun 2023
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The Three Transitions

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

9th Jun 2023
12th Aug 2025
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On idea-driven ideas

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

12th Aug 2025
Crazy With the Heat Heat is awful, humidity makes it worse, and deathly stillness renders it just about...
16th Jul 2026
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Crazy With the Heat

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

16th Jul 2026
Heat is awful, humidity makes it worse, and deathly stillness renders it just about insufferable. The other night my neighbor was standing on his porch. He blew a smoke ring. Next morning, it was still there, though the morning fog had made it soggy so it had sunk to the ground.
Auto suspend and resume KVM Virtual Machine with the host When the host machine is suspended while the KVM through QEMU is running lead to issues like display...
13th Sep 2021
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Auto suspend and resume KVM Virtual Machine with the host

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

13th Sep 2021
When the host machine is suspended while the KVM through QEMU is running lead to issues like display unable to wake up when resuming suspend. Suspending and resuming the Virtual Machine when the host machine is suspended using hooks in systemd and resumed fixes this...
Duane Blehm A little about Duane Blehm, an early Macintosh shareware author.
3rd Mar 2025
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Duane Blehm

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

3rd Mar 2025
A little about Duane Blehm, an early Macintosh shareware author.
More Evidence That Words Don't Mean What We Thought They Meant (Ivanti Sentry Pre-Auth OS Command... Today, Ivanti published an advisory. “No way?” we hear you say. "Yes way!" a random dog screams back...
10th Jun 2026
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10th Jun 2026
Today, Ivanti published an advisory. “No way?” we hear you say. "Yes way!" a random dog screams back at you, across the street. Today’s rare advisory outlines two vulnerabilities in Ivanti’s Sentry product, appealing directly to our inner desire for sophisticated server-side,
A tricky Commodore PET repair: tracking down 6 1/2 bad chips .cite { font-size: 70%;} .ref { vertical-align: super; font-size: 60%;} code {font-size: 100%;...
13th Apr 2025
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A tricky Commodore PET repair: tracking down 6 1/2 bad chips

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

13th Apr 2025
.cite { font-size: 70%;} .ref { vertical-align: super; font-size: 60%;} code {font-size: 100%; font-family: courier, fixed;} In 1977, Commodore released the PET computer, a quirky home computer that combined the processor, a tiny keyboard, a cassette drive for storage, and...
18th Jul 2023
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10NES

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

18th Jul 2023
Apple Watch as Phone Imagine a week without your smartphone, replaced solely by the sleek simplicity of a smartwatch....
9th Nov 2023
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Apple Watch as Phone

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

9th Nov 2023
Imagine a week without your smartphone, replaced solely by the sleek simplicity of a smartwatch. This week I did this, leaving my smartphone behind and letting an Apple Watch take the helm. Many hail this as a liberating escape from our attention-seeking digital sidekicks, but...
Marc Andreessen Egg Game Marc Andreessen Egg Game Marc Andreessen Egg Game is a game about doodling on eggs to make them look...
7th May 2026
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Marc Andreessen Egg Game

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

7th May 2026
Marc Andreessen Egg Game Marc Andreessen Egg Game is a game about doodling on eggs to make them look like Marc Andreessen. Read the full post on my blog! Here's a raw link, if you need it: https://eieio.games/blog/marc-andreessen-egg-game
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
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I'm featured in Mashable

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

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...
Power, democracy, and clarity What does the end of the Voting Rights Act mean?
1st May 2026
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Power, democracy, and clarity

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

1st May 2026
What does the end of the Voting Rights Act mean?
Long Story Short Long Story Short, feels like in many ways a synthesis of everything Raphael and Lisa have been...
3rd Oct 2025
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Long Story Short

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

3rd Oct 2025
Long Story Short, feels like in many ways a synthesis of everything Raphael and Lisa have been trying to do and say, packaged in a slightly more mature and restrained way than the excesses of Bojack Horseman and their respective written fiction (everyone should read Someone Who...
The Hunting Gun A slim, potent, and dense novella. The easy (lazy) comparison is to rashomon, and the way we see...
15th Jul 2018
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The Hunting Gun

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

15th Jul 2018
A slim, potent, and dense novella. The easy (lazy) comparison is to rashomon, and the way we see Misugi change from thin and narrow to nuanced and vital and then to a defeated husk of a man is expertly drawn. This kind of framing device has an odd effect: if it was done in a more...
RAM: the forgotten history We owe computers not to Charles Babbage, but to the invention of electronically-controlled working...
15th Oct 2024
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RAM: the forgotten history

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

15th Oct 2024
We owe computers not to Charles Babbage, but to the invention of electronically-controlled working memory.
Comment on How Live Chat Tools Impact Conversions and Why I Launched a Bad Variant by Jeffrey... I would love to talk to you about this but there's no live chat on this site!
26th Jun 2018
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26th Jun 2018
I would love to talk to you about this but there's no live chat on this site!
Converting a Tuya Thermostat to ESPHome I bought a cheap Chinese thermostat to control an infrared heating panel in my office. It ticked all...
8th Mar 2026
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Converting a Tuya Thermostat to ESPHome

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

8th Mar 2026
I bought a cheap Chinese thermostat to control an infrared heating panel in my office. It ticked all the boxes except one: it's a Tuya device which requires a cloud connection. That's a big no-no for me. So I ripped it apart, soldered some leads onto the PCB and flashed ESPHome...
Static analysis with semgrep: practical examples using Docker In this post we'll get a basic semgrep environment set up in Docker running some custom rules...
20th Dec 2020
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Static analysis with semgrep: practical examples using Docker

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

20th Dec 2020
In this post we'll get a basic semgrep environment set up in Docker running some custom rules against our code. Existing linters Linters like pylint for Python or eslint for JavaScript are great for general, broad language standards. But what about common nits in code review like...
What the heck is OCSP? The online certificate status protocol, or OCSP for short, is a way for TLS clients (like your web...
9th May 2019
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What the heck is OCSP?

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

9th May 2019
The online certificate status protocol, or OCSP for short, is a way for TLS clients (like your web browser) to check if a certificate has been revoked or not. Certificate Revocation? With asymmetrical encryption, your encryption is only as good as long as your private key remains...
HP 33120A Repair - Shutting Down the Eye of Sauron Introduction Opening Up an HP 33120A A Walk Through the Block Diagram Bug Hunting Zener...
2nd Jan 2023
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HP 33120A Repair - Shutting Down the Eye of Sauron

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

2nd Jan 2023
Introduction Opening Up an HP 33120A A Walk Through the Block Diagram Bug Hunting Zener Replacement Staring at the Eye of Sauron FLIR IR Imaging To Destroy a PCB in Order to Save It Circuit Reconstruction Success! Trust but Verify Conclusion References Introduction When the...
JSON and PowerShell Working with Object-based arrays in PowerShell can be a challenge; but here's a trick that will...
11th May 2020
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JSON and PowerShell

from Opsbros [alt+shift+b] in technology

11th May 2020
Working with Object-based arrays in PowerShell can be a challenge; but here's a trick that will allow you to manipulate these objects efficiently.
From building ships to shipping builds: how to succeed in making a career switch to software... I have worked with a few software developers who made the switch to this industry in the middle of...
1st Jul 2025
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1st Jul 2025
I have worked with a few software developers who made the switch to this industry in the middle of their careers. A major change like that can be scary and raise a lot of fears and doubts, but I can attest that this can work out well with the right personality traits and a...
Plus Post: Logic Programming Associates 386-PROLOG Yes, it's here! LPA 386-PROLOG is now available in a version for Windows!
1st Jul 2026
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Plus Post: Logic Programming Associates 386-PROLOG

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

1st Jul 2026
Yes, it's here! LPA 386-PROLOG is now available in a version for Windows!
You can absolutely have an RSS dependent website in 2026 I write stuff here. Sometimes the stuff is good. Sometimes it reads like I wrote it at 2 AM after an...
9th Apr 2026
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You can absolutely have an RSS dependent website in 2026

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

9th Apr 2026
I write stuff here. Sometimes the stuff is good. Sometimes it reads like I wrote it at 2 AM after an argument with a YAML file, which is because I did. But one decision I made early on was that I didn't want to offer an email newsletter.
Enjoy a festival without alcohol This year I didn't drink alcohol during Rock Werchter, leading to interesting observations during...
9th Jul 2018
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Enjoy a festival without alcohol

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

9th Jul 2018
This year I didn't drink alcohol during Rock Werchter, leading to interesting observations during the music festival.
The MANIAC One third of the way through The MANIAC, I found myself wondering why this book was not more...
2nd Nov 2024
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The MANIAC

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Nov 2024
One third of the way through The MANIAC, I found myself wondering why this book was not more popular: it seemed to be a perfect storm of formalism and postmodernism (it being told in a fugue-like oral history), scientistic reckoning (suddenly in vogue thanks to oppenheimer),...
Climbing Mount Etna Climbing Mount Etna, an active volcano on Sicily Italy.
1st Sep 2017
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Climbing Mount Etna

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

1st Sep 2017
Climbing Mount Etna, an active volcano on Sicily Italy.
A database without dynamic memory allocation This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
12th Oct 2022
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A database without dynamic memory allocation

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

12th Oct 2022
This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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
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In Crypto, Apps Need Infrastructure Like Infrastructure Needs Apps

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

6th Oct 2023
Or, maybe the real infrastructure was the applications we made along the way
Are We All Forced Meme Stock Investors Now? Let's be honest, the financial landscape feels… weird lately. For years, the mantra for most...
14th Apr 2025
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Are We All Forced Meme Stock Investors Now?

from Software and Tech stories from an Insider - iDiallo.com [alt+shift+b] in technology

14th Apr 2025
Let's be honest, the financial landscape feels… weird lately. For years, the mantra for most investors has been clear: diversify, buy stable index funds, and let time work its magic. It wasn't the most thrilling advice, but it was generally sound. The idea was that the underlying...
Vision Pro Currently, I am overlooking a lake at Mount Hood while writing this. I hear birds in the distance...
15th Feb 2024
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Vision Pro

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

15th Feb 2024
Currently, I am overlooking a lake at Mount Hood while writing this. I hear birds in the distance and see the lake calm, with subtle waves and some mist in the distance. Yet, it is fake, as I am sitting on our top floor, a barely furnished room full of items belonging to a family...
Having a Website Used to Be Fun According to the Wayback Machine, I launched my website over a decade ago, in 2013. Just that...
27th Oct 2024
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Having a Website Used to Be Fun

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

27th Oct 2024
According to the Wayback Machine, I launched my website over a decade ago, in 2013. Just that thought alone makes me feel old, but going back through the old snapshots of my websites made me feel a profound feeling of longing for a time when having a website used to be a novel...
Vulkan 1.3 on the M1 in 1 month u{text-decoration-thickness:0.09em;text-decoration-color:skyblue} Finally, conformant Vulkan for the...
5th Jun 2024
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Vulkan 1.3 on the M1 in 1 month

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

5th Jun 2024
u{text-decoration-thickness:0.09em;text-decoration-color:skyblue} Finally, conformant Vulkan for the M1! The new “Honeykrisp” driver is the first conformant Vulkan® for Apple hardware on any operating system, implementing the full 1.3 spec without “portability”...
The kind of sound you never want to hear from your computer The sounds of hard drives that have perished These sounds are only frightening or scary if you...
14th Nov 2008
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The kind of sound you never want to hear from your computer

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

14th Nov 2008
The sounds of hard drives that have perished These sounds are only frightening or scary if you imagine your precious data only exists on that failing drive. If you make consistent and frequent backups and/or you run a fault-tolerant RAID flavour, it is but a nuisance.
Train Simulator Controller: Power/Brake Controller, Part 1 The core of a train simulator setup could be considered its throttle and brake, the control or...
4th Aug 2024
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Train Simulator Controller: Power/Brake Controller, Part 1

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

4th Aug 2024
The core of a train simulator setup could be considered its throttle and brake, the control or controls that make a train go and stop. In previous blog posts, I detailed my exploration of building my own controller from scratch, but a fortuitous eBay listing provided me a real...
The T-34 keyboard layout A couple of months ago I started looking into ergonomical keyboards; mainly split keyboards with...
3rd Jun 2021
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The T-34 keyboard layout

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

3rd Jun 2021
A couple of months ago I started looking into ergonomical keyboards; mainly split keyboards with much fewer keys, like the 36-key Gergoplex and the 44-key Kyria. I may write another post about the reasons why, but long story short I started getting pain in my thumbs, fingers,...
Fell For It If there is anything as embarrassing as confessing one’s sins it has to be confessing one’s...
4th Mar 2026
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Fell For It

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

4th Mar 2026
If there is anything as embarrassing as confessing one’s sins it has to be confessing one’s stupidities. Yet here we are. Instead of describing how well my cool new Starlink-based phone-internet setup is coming together, I’m obligated to detail how I fell for a swindle so obvious...
Debugging Tauri in VS Code If you're working on a Tauri app in VS Code and want to set breakpoints and use a debugger like a...
5th Dec 2023
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Debugging Tauri in VS Code

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

5th Dec 2023
If you're working on a Tauri app in VS Code and want to set breakpoints and use a debugger like a grown up, this is how to get it done.
Humanities Crash Course Week 18: 1,001 Nights In week 18 of the humanities crash course, I read five stories from One Thousand and One Nights, a...
4th May 2025
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Humanities Crash Course Week 18: 1,001 Nights

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

4th May 2025
In week 18 of the humanities crash course, I read five stories from One Thousand and One Nights, a collection of Middle Eastern folktales that have influenced lots of other stories. Keeping with the theme, I also saw one of the most influential movies based on these...
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
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Leaving Spotify

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

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.
The T-34/1 keyboard layout This is the revision of the T-34 keyboard layout that I use as my primary driver. I’ve used this...
15th Dec 2021
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The T-34/1 keyboard layout

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

15th Dec 2021
This is the revision of the T-34 keyboard layout that I use as my primary driver. I’ve used this particular version without any major changes for almost 3 months, so I’d say it’s a good improvement over the last revision. There are two large changes from T-34/0: swapping o and...
Statistics showing relevance of caching proxy In this day and age of dynamic web content, how relevant can a caching proxy server be? I believe...
18th Dec 2012
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Statistics showing relevance of caching proxy

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

18th Dec 2012
In this day and age of dynamic web content, how relevant can a caching proxy server be? I believe that the answer could be: quite! I have installed a caching proxy server based on Squid, which is now used within my company. It also does content scanning using squidclamav and...
Howdy, Is This Thing On? Since things are uh... collapsing? I thought it'd be a good idea to finally get my blog up and...
14th Nov 2022
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Howdy, Is This Thing On?

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

14th Nov 2022
Since things are uh... collapsing? I thought it'd be a good idea to finally get my blog up and running. Come in, get comfy and take a look around! Cozy right? Getting Started (Again) Ok admittedly, this is my 4th attempt at making a blog. This time I'm...
In defense of GitHub's poor uptime In short: GitHub’s downtime is bad, but uptime numbers can be misleading. It’s not as bad as it...
10th Apr 2026
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In defense of GitHub's poor uptime

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

10th Apr 2026
In short: GitHub’s downtime is bad, but uptime numbers can be misleading. It’s not as bad as it looks; more like a D than an F. “Zero nines uptime”? 99.99% uptime, or “four nines”, is a common industry standard. Four nines of uptime is equivalent to 1.008 minutes of downtime per...
SolidGoldMagikarp In November 2019, years before the launch of ChatGPT, OpenAI created a 1.5 billion parameter Large...
28th Oct 2025
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SolidGoldMagikarp

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

28th Oct 2025
In November 2019, years before the launch of ChatGPT, OpenAI created a 1.5 billion parameter Large Language Model and released it publicly under the name GPT-2. Immediately, researchers and enthusiasts began playing with it, using it to generate poetry, folk music, fan-fiction...
The Future of Open Source A GitHub founder's musings on the past, present and future of large groups of people collaborating...
6th Aug 2024
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The Future of Open Source

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

6th Aug 2024
A GitHub founder's musings on the past, present and future of large groups of people collaborating on software in awesome ways.
Make small changes and solve the problems you have Two frustrating things that can happen in an organization are 1) big changes and 2) changes that...
27th Dec 2018
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Make small changes and solve the problems you have

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

27th Dec 2018
Two frustrating things that can happen in an organization are 1) big changes and 2) changes that aren’t clearly associated with a known problem. It’s even worse in that order. These situations tend to happen when a problem remain unaddressed for too long. These situations tend to...
How to build up a data team (everything I ever learned about recruiting) During my time at Spotify, I've reviewed thousands of resumes and interviewed hundreds of people....
8th Jun 2014
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How to build up a data team (everything I ever learned about recruiting)

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

8th Jun 2014
During my time at Spotify, I've reviewed thousands of resumes and interviewed hundreds of people. Lots of them were rejected but lots of them also got offers. Finally, I've also had my share of offers rejected by the candidate.
RAID array size and rebuild speed When a disk fails of a RAID 5 array, you are no longer protected against (another) disk failure and...
3rd Apr 2010
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RAID array size and rebuild speed

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

3rd Apr 2010
When a disk fails of a RAID 5 array, you are no longer protected against (another) disk failure and thus data loss. During this rebuild time, you are vulnerable. The longer it takes to rebuild your array, the longer you are vulnerable. Especially during a disk-intensive period,...
Service Objects in Rails Let’s kick off 2016 with a whistle-stop tour of one of my favourite OO approaches, Service Objects,...
7th Feb 2016
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Service Objects in Rails

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

7th Feb 2016
Let’s kick off 2016 with a whistle-stop tour of one of my favourite OO approaches, Service Objects, in the context of Rails.
5th Dec 2018
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A CBC Casper Tutorial

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

5th Dec 2018
btrbk is awesome I like having a safety net whenever I’m doing something potentially destructive, which is why I use...
9th Jul 2022
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btrbk is awesome

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

9th Jul 2022
I like having a safety net whenever I’m doing something potentially destructive, which is why I use the btrfs file system for my operating system and my data. Snapshots are one half of my “whoops, there goes all my work” strategy (backups are the other half). I’ve written about...
Precision Clock Acrylic Case [Hardware] Smoked acrylic upgrade for the Precision Clock Mk IV
29th Oct 2025
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Precision Clock Acrylic Case

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

29th Oct 2025
[Hardware] Smoked acrylic upgrade for the Precision Clock Mk IV
More Doom III BFG Documentation id Software developer Jan Paul Van Waveren (a.k.a Mr Elusive) is sharing some more of the knowledge...
4th Sep 2013
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More Doom III BFG Documentation

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

4th Sep 2013
id Software developer Jan Paul Van Waveren (a.k.a Mr Elusive) is sharing some more of the knowledge gained while working on Doom 3 BFG. This part focuses highly on the choice of data-structures and how paramount cacheline are to performances.
Why should one do Open Source in college? More and more students are now being involved with Open Source programming. Thanks to programs like...
19th Dec 2020
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Why should one do Open Source in college?

from Himanshu Mishra | orkohunter.net RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in technology

19th Dec 2020
More and more students are now being involved with Open Source programming. Thanks to programs like Google Summer of Code who have seriously…
Wallops 2.0 Released Another large update to my Wallops IRC client is available: wallops-2.0.sit (StuffIt 3 archive,...
12th Sep 2024
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Wallops 2.0 Released

from joshua stein [alt+shift+b] in technology

12th Sep 2024
Another large update to my Wallops IRC client is available: wallops-2.0.sit (StuffIt 3 archive, includes source code and THINK C 5 project file) 532f6c72eadbb9e7ce74dded1bfcd71369a61d818f7c77160bb8a66d6f1ccf9c SHA1: c375a24e00900378e84745c1e11d3d6976ef749c This release features...
EZStore: a tiny serverless datastore for IoT data (DynamoDB + Lambda) I've been working on a few IoT projects recently, and while prototyping, I need a simple but...
4th Jan 2022
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EZStore: a tiny serverless datastore for IoT data (DynamoDB + Lambda)

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

4th Jan 2022
I've been working on a few IoT projects recently, and while prototyping, I need a simple but flexible data store. I just want to push data to an API and query and visualize it later on.There are many solutions for this, but most are expensive or very limited. So I set out to...
Chinatown Well, that was probably the most depressing final sequence I can remember in a film (especially one...
4th Aug 2022
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Chinatown

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

4th Aug 2022
Well, that was probably the most depressing final sequence I can remember in a film (especially one so devoted to realism, or at least its brand of plausibility.)
How to copy media off of an iPhone the hard way (using Linux) I helped a family member upgrade to a newer iPhone and make some room so that the internal storage...
2nd Sep 2024
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How to copy media off of an iPhone the hard way (using Linux)

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

2nd Sep 2024
I helped a family member upgrade to a newer iPhone and make some room so that the internal storage does not run out. They had Nextcloud installed on the current phone, but due to limitations of the Nextcloud iOS app, the backups only take place if the app itself is open, meaning...
3D printing is pretty darn cool, actually I love 3D printing. Out of all the tech hype cycles and trends over the last decade, this one is...
4th Aug 2025
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3D printing is pretty darn cool, actually

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

4th Aug 2025
I love 3D printing. Out of all the tech hype cycles and trends over the last decade, this one is genuinely useful. There’s simply something magical about being able to design or download a model from the internet, send it to a machine, and after a few hours you get an actual...
Advent of GitButler Code This holiday season, GitButler is sponsoring the Advent of Code and our first present is a new...
30th Nov 2023
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Advent of GitButler Code

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

30th Nov 2023
This holiday season, GitButler is sponsoring the Advent of Code and our first present is a new release! Join us in solving coding puzzles every day with our new client alpha!
When Harry Met Sally This, to me, is the ur-romcom — the gold standard against which all others are compared, and most...
27th Sep 2018
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When Harry Met Sally

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

27th Sep 2018
This, to me, is the ur-romcom — the gold standard against which all others are compared, and most are found wanting. The chemistry, the script, the everpresent autumn, the interstitials with old couples — it is all so good, and exactly what it is trying to be!
I switched my blog from Blogofile to Pelican This blog is a static website, which makes it fast, simple and secure. It was generated by Blogofile...
6th Aug 2013
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I switched my blog from Blogofile to Pelican

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

6th Aug 2013
This blog is a static website, which makes it fast, simple and secure. It was generated by Blogofile but I switched to Pelican. Blogofile has seen almost no updates over the years and I consider the project dead. Realising that blogofile is dead, I decided to look around for...
learning to swim at 26 I learned how to swim at the age of 26. Or rather, I'm still learning. In my last lesson, I managed...
17th Jul 2026
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learning to swim at 26

from sibervepunk [alt+shift+b] in technology

17th Jul 2026
I learned how to swim at the age of 26. Or rather, I'm still learning. In my last lesson, I managed to swim 50 meters without using any support (and I didn't drown, lol). In the lesson before that, I got dizzy, my leg cramped three times, and I had swallowed half the pool. (you...
The Godfather It has taken me far too long to watch The Godfather, and having finished it I find myself slightly...
6th Feb 2023
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The Godfather

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Feb 2023
It has taken me far too long to watch The Godfather, and having finished it I find myself slightly deflated — because it is a tremendous movie, worthy of its status in both the American and cinematic anons, and every line and meme which has etched itself into the collective...
Op-Amp Helper PCB A PCB for breadboards to make working with op-amps easier.
8th Nov 2023
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Op-Amp Helper PCB

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

8th Nov 2023
A PCB for breadboards to make working with op-amps easier.
'Linux: show graphical layout of disk temperatures' graphic, representation To get a visual representation of hard drive temperatures, I wrote a...
3rd Jan 2010
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'Linux: show graphical layout of disk temperatures'

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

3rd Jan 2010
graphic, representation To get a visual representation of hard drive temperatures, I wrote a small script. The output of this script looks like this: This output is tailored to the exact disk lay-out of my storage server. However, it is also usable for other servers. You have to...
#18: The little Indian internet corner of database sellers When I googled the name “Inspirewebz”, their website was still active, but it’s no longer available....
28th May 2023
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#18: The little Indian internet corner of database sellers

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

28th May 2023
When I googled the name “Inspirewebz”, their website was still active, but it’s no longer available. However, according to the web archive of their website (available since mid-2020), they sold dodgy-looking social media marketing tools like bulk WhatsApp/SMS senders and data...
2025-06-01 I've been reading The Nature of Order by Christopher Alexander, and it's inspired me to experiment...
1st Jun 2025
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2025-06-01

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

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...
Omoiyari Inconsequential and pleasant!
1st Mar 2021
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Omoiyari

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Mar 2021
Inconsequential and pleasant!
Study shows how a common fertilizer ingredient benefits plants The findings could enable new ways to increase plants’ resilience to UV stress and enhance seedling...
7th Jul 2025
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Study shows how a common fertilizer ingredient benefits plants

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

7th Jul 2025
The findings could enable new ways to increase plants’ resilience to UV stress and enhance seedling growth.
On Apple slowing down its phones Build world’s best smartphone CPU & release a CPU governor to slow it down via software update...
22nd Dec 2017
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On Apple slowing down its phones

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

22nd Dec 2017
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...
What I have been working on: Modal Long story short: I'm working on a super cool tool called Modal. Please check it out — it lets you...
7th Dec 2022
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What I have been working on: Modal

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

7th Dec 2022
Long story short: I'm working on a super cool tool called Modal. Please check it out — it lets you run things in the cloud without having to think about infrastructure. Scaling out, scheduling, containerization, using GPUs, setting up webhooks, and all kinds of other stuff.
A newer, better, ElevationDock Today we launched an update to our iPhone dock. It's wider to fit a bigger generation of phones,...
1st Jun 2015
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A newer, better, ElevationDock

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

1st Jun 2015
Today we launched an update to our iPhone dock. It's wider to fit a bigger generation of phones, ships with an Apple-certified Lightning connector (that you can assemble in seconds with the new tool-free back plate), and we've added some new lateral supports for added...
Humanities Crash Course Week 9: The Bible For week 9 of the humanities crash course, I revisited the most important text in Western culture:...
2nd Mar 2025
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Humanities Crash Course Week 9: The Bible

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

2nd Mar 2025
For week 9 of the humanities crash course, I revisited the most important text in Western culture: the Bible. Of course, I didn’t read the whole book – only a small subset. Still, it was a lot. As I’ve done in previous weeks, I followed Gioia’s suggestions for the...
The Vinland Saga (Season 2) I thought the first season of this anime was good and entertaining but certainly not anything to...
6th Jul 2023
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The Vinland Saga (Season 2)

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

6th Jul 2023
I thought the first season of this anime was good and entertaining but certainly not anything to write home about, a slightly tropey anime with interesting character work and a novel setting. The second season did something that I (to my recollection) have never seen in an anime,...
Juno for YouTube has been removed from the App Store For those not aware, a few months ago after reaching out to me, YouTube contacted the App Store...
1st Oct 2024
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Juno for YouTube has been removed from the App Store

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

1st Oct 2024
For those not aware, a few months ago after reaching out to me, YouTube contacted the App Store stating that Juno does not adhere to YouTube guidelines and modifies the website in a way they don’t approve of, and alludes to their trademarks and iconography. I don’t personally...
#11: Searchable list of all the mistakes I have more than a decade old google account that I am no longer able to access even though I know...
13th Feb 2022
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#11: Searchable list of all the mistakes

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

13th Feb 2022
I have more than a decade old google account that I am no longer able to access even though I know the correct password.
Better Laptop Consumer electronics often lock us into sealed hardware and forced upgrades, creating enormous...
9th Feb 2025
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Better Laptop

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

9th Feb 2025
Consumer electronics often lock us into sealed hardware and forced upgrades, creating enormous e-waste. Framework challenges that norm by making laptops you can service, upgrade, and customise, which extends their lifespan and cuts down on unnecessary e-waste. My Framework 13...
State drift I generally haven't written much about software architecture. People make heuristics into religion....
8th Sep 2016
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State drift

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

8th Sep 2016
I generally haven't written much about software architecture. People make heuristics into religion. But here is something I thought about: how to build in self-correction into systems. This has been something just vaguely sitting in my head lacking a clear conceptual definition...
One year on the ultimate commuter bike A year ago I tried to create the ultimate commuter bike, a modified Sensa Cintura with the Gates...
26th Feb 2019
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One year on the ultimate commuter bike

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

26th Feb 2019
A year ago I tried to create the ultimate commuter bike, a modified Sensa Cintura with the Gates CDN/CDX carbon belt drive. I received lots of messages from cyclists and commuters from all over the world. From the Swiss alps, France, Italy, Germany, United States and even "down...
Traction Heroes Ep. 37: Legibility Many teams are being measured for the wrong things: tokens used, agents deployed, etc. Their orgs...
1st Jun 2026
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Traction Heroes Ep. 37: Legibility

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

1st Jun 2026
Many teams are being measured for the wrong things: tokens used, agents deployed, etc. Their orgs have focused on tech adoption rather than value creation. It’s a mistake. I wanted to discuss this with Harry, so I read a passage from one of my favorite books, James C. Scott’s...
2025-05-04 iBeacons You know sometimes a technology just sort of... comes and goes? Without leaving much of an...
4th May 2025
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2025-05-04 iBeacons

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

4th May 2025
You know sometimes a technology just sort of... comes and goes? Without leaving much of an impression? And then gets lodged in your brain for the next decade? Let's talk about one of those: the iBeacon. I think the reason that iBeacons loom so large in my memory is that...
#20: Finding a forgotten flavour of chips Lays India used to do a lot of experimental limited-edition flavours back in the day.
3rd Mar 2024
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#20: Finding a forgotten flavour of chips

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

3rd Mar 2024
Lays India used to do a lot of experimental limited-edition flavours back in the day.
25th Sep 2022
CVE-2007-4573: The Anatomy of a Kernel Exploit CVE-2007-4573 is two years old at this point, but it remains one of my favorite vulnerabilities. It...
5th Feb 2010
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CVE-2007-4573: The Anatomy of a Kernel Exploit

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

5th Feb 2010
CVE-2007-4573 is two years old at this point, but it remains one of my favorite vulnerabilities. It was a local privilege-escalation vulnerability on all x86_64 kernels prior to v2.6.22.7. It’s very simple to understand with a little bit of background, and the exploit is...
Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end In 2020, Apple released the M1 with a custom GPU. We got to work reverse-engineering the hardware...
26th Aug 2025
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Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end

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

26th Aug 2025
In 2020, Apple released the M1 with a custom GPU. We got to work reverse-engineering the hardware and porting Linux. Today, you can run Linux on a range of M1 and M2 Macs, with almost all hardware working: wireless, audio, and full graphics acceleration. Our story begins in...
The iPhone, iPad and iOS are powering a revolution Most people just don't understand computers. Are these people dumb? Some may be dumb, but the people...
6th Nov 2010
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The iPhone, iPad and iOS are powering a revolution

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

6th Nov 2010
Most people just don't understand computers. Are these people dumb? Some may be dumb, but the people who make them are maybe even dumber. Because they can't seem to figure out how to create a computer that the majority of people understand. When the original macintosh arrived at...
1st Mar 2026
2001: A Space Odyssey 50 years ago a movie changed everything. That’s how aptly, the re-release trailer backed by...
6th May 2018
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2001: A Space Odyssey

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

6th May 2018
50 years ago a movie changed everything. That’s how aptly, the re-release trailer backed by Christopher Nolan begins! Watch video on YouTube 2001: A Space Odyssey — Original Theatrical Trailer | Credits: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. It’s safe to say that there’s no other...
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
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Life lessons after one year at Rostra

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

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.
Happy Endings This, to me, is the perfect sit-com. It’s that simple: for two seasons (skip the first season; you...
27th Nov 2017
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Happy Endings

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

27th Nov 2017
This, to me, is the perfect sit-com. It’s that simple: for two seasons (skip the first season; you don’t need it and the show tries to be too conventional) it shits out an outrageous level of humor with a cast that has a perfect chemistry. There is a tiny bit of “aw, shucks”...
Going down the rabbit hole of Git's new bundle-uri Git's new bundle-uri could help significantly speed up clones, but what bugs lurk within?
13th Mar 2025
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Going down the rabbit hole of Git's new bundle-uri

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

13th Mar 2025
Git's new bundle-uri could help significantly speed up clones, but what bugs lurk within?
Bubbles.town I mostly use my web stats service because I get a lizard-brain kick from watching numbers go up, but...
9th Aug 2026
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Bubbles.town

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

9th Aug 2026
I mostly use my web stats service because I get a lizard-brain kick from watching numbers go up, but it also provides some fun insights. For example, it’s how I found out about bubbles.town. At first I thought this might be a Mastodon instance. I get a lot of referral traffic...
ShinyHunters Wage Broad Corporate Extortion Spree A cybercriminal group that used voice phishing attacks to siphon more than a billion records from...
7th Oct 2025
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ShinyHunters Wage Broad Corporate Extortion Spree

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

7th Oct 2025
A cybercriminal group that used voice phishing attacks to siphon more than a billion records from Salesforce customers earlier this year has launched a website that threatens to publish data stolen from dozens of Fortune 500 firms if they refuse to pay a ransom. The group also...
Property-Based Testing Is Fuzzing “Property-based testing” refers to the idea of writing statements that should be true of your code...
3rd Oct 2017
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Property-Based Testing Is Fuzzing

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

3rd Oct 2017
“Property-based testing” refers to the idea of writing statements that should be true of your code (“properties”), and then using automated tooling to generate test inputs (typically, randomly-generated inputs of an appropriate type), and observe whether the properties hold for...
Hiding a photo inside another photo How to hide a small photo inside a larger photo?
28th Apr 2022
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Hiding a photo inside another photo

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

28th Apr 2022
How to hide a small photo inside a larger photo?
AI as Normal Science shoutsout to Arvind and Sayash
2nd Sep 2025
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AI as Normal Science

from Never Met a Science [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Sep 2025
shoutsout to Arvind and Sayash
Backup Rotation Scheme In today's digital age, safeguarding your data is paramount. Simply creating a copy of your files...
14th Dec 2023
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Backup Rotation Scheme

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

14th Dec 2023
In today's digital age, safeguarding your data is paramount. Simply creating a copy of your files may not be enough as they can get corrupted, overwritten or blocked by ransomware. Having multiple, time-rotated (and ideally, offsite) backups is a stronger defense. I created a new...
Intel's Inboard 386/PC Welcome to the 1990s.
15th Oct 2024
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Intel's Inboard 386/PC

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

15th Oct 2024
Welcome to the 1990s.
What’s the Purpose of Information Architecture? It’s been fifty years since information architecture’s coming out party in Philadelphia. Alas, the...
7th Aug 2026
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What’s the Purpose of Information Architecture?

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

7th Aug 2026
It’s been fifty years since information architecture’s coming out party in Philadelphia. Alas, the discipline is still widely misunderstood. The main obstacle? The very thing that brought it to many people’s attention: the World Wide Web. I’d venture most people who’ve heard the...
Food vacation in Japan Me and my friend spent 2 weeks in Japan and had a great time. I wasn’t planning on taking a lot of...
18th Jul 2019
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Food vacation in Japan

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

18th Jul 2019
Me and my friend spent 2 weeks in Japan and had a great time. I wasn’t planning on taking a lot of pictures, but I ended up sending a bunch back home as a ways of keeping my family up to date. When I look back most of them are about food… So I’ll turn this into a post about the...
Candid experiences starting a hardware startup 2025 Note - I gave this talk at the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View about 6 months before we launched...
4th Oct 2011
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Candid experiences starting a hardware startup

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

4th Oct 2011
2025 Note - I gave this talk at the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View about 6 months before we launched Pebble on Kickstarter. I was 4 years into…
A single-node Kubernetes cluster without virtualization or a container registry This post is a recipe for setting up a minimal Kubernetes cluster on Fedora without requiring...
25th Jul 2020
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A single-node Kubernetes cluster without virtualization or a container registry

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

25th Jul 2020
This post is a recipe for setting up a minimal Kubernetes cluster on Fedora without requiring virtualization or a container registry. These two features make the system cloud-agnostic and the cluster entirely self-contained. The post will end with us running a simple Flask...
Stereographer Experimenting in stereo photography and I write an app to create old-fashioned stereoscopic cards.
5th Aug 2024
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Stereographer

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

5th Aug 2024
Experimenting in stereo photography and I write an app to create old-fashioned stereoscopic cards.
Success and Failure at Pebble I’ve been giving a talk on the importance of learning from failure to every YC batch for last few...
11th Apr 2022
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Success and Failure at Pebble

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

11th Apr 2022
I’ve been giving a talk on the importance of learning from failure to every YC batch for last few years. I wrote this post in 2017 but never…
Notes from "Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy" I just finished Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy, a profile of the Tor Project. I...
8th Nov 2025
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Notes from "Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy"

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

8th Nov 2025
I just finished Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy, a profile of the Tor Project. I thought it was an approachable overview of Tor and its history. If you’re interested, the book is free! Or you can read my chapter-by-chapter notes below. Chapter 1: Privacy...
2023-11-04 nuclear safety Nuclear weapons are complex in many ways. The basic problem of achieving criticality is difficult on...
4th Nov 2023
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2023-11-04 nuclear safety

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

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...
Back to the University Join me on a special course exploring scientific programming, the perfect moment to learn Python...
7th Feb 2023
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Back to the University

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

7th Feb 2023
Join me on a special course exploring scientific programming, the perfect moment to learn Python with recent advancements in machine learning like ChatGPT!
Embedding the Sky Two projects at the intersection of geospatial data and AI. First, a semantic search engine for...
27th Feb 2026
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Embedding the Sky

from John Wiseman [alt+shift+b] in technology

27th Feb 2026
Two projects at the intersection of geospatial data and AI. First, a semantic search engine for aerial imagery, fine-tuned on OpenStreetMap-tagged data. Second, WARP—a custom neural model that learns embeddings of aircraft flight trajectories, trained on roughly a million...
Reverse engineering the 59-pound printer onboard the Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle contained a bulky printer so the astronauts could receive procedures, mission...
3rd Aug 2024
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Reverse engineering the 59-pound printer onboard the Space Shuttle

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

3rd Aug 2024
The Space Shuttle contained a bulky printer so the astronauts could receive procedures, mission plans, weather reports, crew activity plans, and other documents. Needed for the first Shuttle launch in 1981, this printer was designed in just 7 months, built around an Army...
🎼This Is the Worst Trip I’ve Ever Been On 🎶 (A Lengthy Vacation Post-Mortem)
9th May 2024
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🎼This Is the Worst Trip I’ve Ever Been On 🎶

from detreville [alt+shift+b] in technology

9th May 2024
(A Lengthy Vacation Post-Mortem)
Challengers One of the things that may be apocryphal—because I’ve never bothered to actually look it up, just...
6th Dec 2025
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Challengers

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

6th Dec 2025
One of the things that may be apocryphal—because I’ve never bothered to actually look it up, just kept it kicking around in my head—is David Foster Wallace’s justification for the emphasis on footnotes in Infinite Jest: that they’re meant to be a physical metaphor for the...
The immediate threat is AR and not AI Disclaimer: This is an attempt at trolling and satire. Don’t just tag me under technology fear...
8th Sep 2017
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The immediate threat is AR and not AI

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

8th Sep 2017
Disclaimer: This is an attempt at trolling and satire. Don’t just tag me under technology fear mongerer, I’m going to present an acute scenario in which AR could be misused to inflict significant damage to a large population. As a technology evangelist, I’am very excited to see...
More Luigi alternatives The workflow engine battle has intensified with some more interesting entries lately! Here are a...
2nd Jul 2015
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More Luigi alternatives

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

2nd Jul 2015
The workflow engine battle has intensified with some more interesting entries lately! Here are a couple I encountered in the last few days. I love that at least two of them are direct references to Luigi!
Stop Calling it a Wallet How language shapes our view of the world
23rd May 2022
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Stop Calling it a Wallet

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

23rd May 2022
How language shapes our view of the world
Jan 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter January 2021 gwern.net newsletter with links on AI scaling up and down.
4th Feb 2021
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Jan 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter

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

4th Feb 2021
January 2021 gwern.net newsletter with links on AI scaling up and down.
We’re Shutting Down Yay.Boo and Ponder Update 12/03/2025: Yay.Boo is staying alive! 🙌 Keep your eyes peeled to Yay.Boo for updates. We...
3rd Nov 2025
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We’re Shutting Down Yay.Boo and Ponder

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

3rd Nov 2025
Update 12/03/2025: Yay.Boo is staying alive! 🙌 Keep your eyes peeled to Yay.Boo for updates. We have built a lot of good products here at Good Enough. Whether you’re sharing an inbox with your team or avoiding social media with a blog, we’ve got you covered. Unfortunately,...
Customizing Neovim Scripting is configuration. Configuration is scripting. TJ DeVries A different take on editing...
2nd May 2024
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Customizing Neovim

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

2nd May 2024
Scripting is configuration. Configuration is scripting. TJ DeVries A different take on editing code I’ve been using Neovim since it forked from Vim almost 8 years ago, and I used Vim many years before that. I feel quite comfortable with Neovim, and I’ve gone down the...
BFS vs DFS in friendships If you already know and remember what Breadth First Search (BFS) and Depth First Search (DFS) are,...
9th Feb 2020
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BFS vs DFS in friendships

from Himanshu Mishra | orkohunter.net RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in technology

9th Feb 2020
If you already know and remember what Breadth First Search (BFS) and Depth First Search (DFS) are, skip to What are you saying? Take my…
Configuring, attacking and securing VRRP on Linux The VRRP or Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol helps you create a reliable network by using multiple...
2nd Jan 2015
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Configuring, attacking and securing VRRP on Linux

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

2nd Jan 2015
The VRRP or Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol helps you create a reliable network by using multiple routers in an active/passive configuration. If the primary router fails, the backup router takes over almost seamlessly. This is how VRRP works: Clients connect to a virtual...
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
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Web Push Pitfall

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

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...
India income tax e-filing utility for Linux India has made a major overhaul to it's Income Tax filing website and with it its offline e-filing...
1st Oct 2021
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India income tax e-filing utility for Linux

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

1st Oct 2021
India has made a major overhaul to it's Income Tax filing website and with it its offline e-filing utilities which are now available only for Windows and Mac. Earlier the utility was in Java and was available for linux. Now it's been replaced with electron wrapper over the...
7th Sep 2017
2019 2019 was pretty great. here are the highlights:
25th Dec 2019
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2019

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

25th Dec 2019
2019 was pretty great. here are the highlights:
2025 was the year of making a (small) dent in my universe Below is a version of the above video, so read or watch, whatever you prefer. I am not really one...
1st Dec 2025
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2025 was the year of making a (small) dent in my universe

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Dec 2025
Below is a version of the above video, so read or watch, whatever you prefer. I am not really one for inspirational quotes. I don't particularly like them. I don't particularly find them inspiring, but I really do like this one from Steve Jobs: “Life
Should they buy…Allbirds? Everyone pivots to the enterprise. Plus, Block becomes a box.
3rd Apr 2026
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Should they buy…Allbirds?

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

3rd Apr 2026
Everyone pivots to the enterprise. Plus, Block becomes a box.
Joining TCG Crypto I am thrilled to share that I am joining the team at TCG, The Chernin Group, to focus on the firm’s...
14th Sep 2021
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Joining TCG Crypto

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

14th Sep 2021
I am thrilled to share that I am joining the team at TCG, The Chernin Group, to focus on the firm’s investments at the intersection of consumer and crypto.
Visual representation of hard drives and their temperature If you build a NAS with many drives, it may be of interest to you which drives get hot and where...
12th Sep 2009
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Visual representation of hard drives and their temperature

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

12th Sep 2009
If you build a NAS with many drives, it may be of interest to you which drives get hot and where they are located in the chassis. My Norco 4020 case has twenty drives in RAID 6, plus two operating system drives in RAID 1. I wrote a script that shows me the temperature of each...
Net Gains I'm probably not going to do that, but it's a thought that's been on my mind.
8th Dec 2022
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Net Gains

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

8th Dec 2022
I'm probably not going to do that, but it's a thought that's been on my mind.
Introducing The AirTag Silencer Apple made AirTag randomly chirp when bumped or moved when out of bluetooth range of your iPhone....
18 hours ago
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Introducing The AirTag Silencer

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

18 hours ago
Apple made AirTag randomly chirp when bumped or moved when out of bluetooth range of your iPhone. That's great, but if your bike is stolen - the very last thing you would want is for the thief to hear the AirTag and throw it away. That's why we designed The AirTag Silencer - a...
The 'free' server build Man takes old computer, turns it into a home server again. Man happy.
9th Jul 2026
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The 'free' server build

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

9th Jul 2026
Man takes old computer, turns it into a home server again. Man happy.
Balsa “2001: A Space Odyssey” Model The spacecraft from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey have always had a special place for me. Here I...
30th Dec 2025
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Balsa “2001: A Space Odyssey” Model

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

30th Dec 2025
The spacecraft from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey have always had a special place for me. Here I build a replica from balsa.
Fietselfstedentocht 2017 Cycling the 235KM long Fietselfstedentocht through Friesland
29th Jun 2017
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Fietselfstedentocht 2017

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

29th Jun 2017
Cycling the 235KM long Fietselfstedentocht through Friesland
Guide Technology GT300 Frequency Standard Teardown MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [...
6th Apr 2024
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Guide Technology GT300 Frequency Standard Teardown

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

6th Apr 2024
MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [ ['$', '$'], ["\\(", "\\)"] ], displayMath: [ ['$$', '$$'], ["\\[", "\\]"] ], processEscapes: true, skipTags: ['script', 'noscript', 'style', 'textarea', 'pre',...
Rolex DateJust 36 The year 2022 has been very special to me, after working very hard to make it possible: me and my...
21st Dec 2022
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Rolex DateJust 36

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

21st Dec 2022
The year 2022 has been very special to me, after working very hard to make it possible: me and my family finally made the big move to Limburg. To commemorate this milestone, I got myself a timeless timepiece: the Rolex DateJust 36. Read on to find out what it's like! 2022 Earlier...
The number of letters in the word for each number Just for fun, I generated these graphs of the number of letters in the word for each number. I...
6th Sep 2017
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The number of letters in the word for each number

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

6th Sep 2017
Just for fun, I generated these graphs of the number of letters in the word for each number. I really spent about 10 minutes on this (ok…possibly also another 40 minutes tweaking the plots): More languages!
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
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What's the big deal about Deterministic Simulation Testing?

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

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...
My E-Reader Setup My E-Reader Setup Posted on August 10, 2023 This post is from a legacy version of this blog! No...
10th Aug 2023
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My E-Reader Setup

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

10th Aug 2023
My E-Reader Setup Posted on August 10, 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. I bought an e-reader recently, specifically the Kobo Libra 2. I felt like I wasn’t reading...
Reclaiming Your Memory in the Age of Distraction In today's social media-saturated world, does it feel like your memory is failing you? It's not that...
1st Jul 2025
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Reclaiming Your Memory in the Age of Distraction

from Software and Tech stories from an Insider - iDiallo.com [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Jul 2025
In today's social media-saturated world, does it feel like your memory is failing you? It's not that you can't remember anything, but rather that you're constantly distracted while trying to remember. Just a few years ago, I had a nightly ritual. Before drifting off to sleep, I'd...
23rd Jan 2023
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Mjolnir

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

23rd Jan 2023
Write your own Ghost Theme I struggled to make a Ghost CMS theme that worked the way I wanted, so I made my own. Turned out to...
5th Jun 2025
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Write your own Ghost Theme

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

5th Jun 2025
I struggled to make a Ghost CMS theme that worked the way I wanted, so I made my own. Turned out to be a surprisingly easy experience.
Resurrecting Nexus 6P from bootloop of death Nexus Before the Pixel there was Nexus, smartphones and tablets to showcase the latest in android...
14th Jun 2019
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Resurrecting Nexus 6P from bootloop of death

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

14th Jun 2019
Nexus Before the Pixel there was Nexus, smartphones and tablets to showcase the latest in android with the brand of the manufacturer. They packed in latest android version with top end specifications and pathetic camera (processed image/video) quality; no wonder they didn't take...
Updating Snake '97 Few years ago my brother threw a beer on my iPhone in an Amsterdam bar. The poor thing didn't like...
20th Feb 2018
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Updating Snake '97

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

20th Feb 2018
Few years ago my brother threw a beer on my iPhone in an Amsterdam bar. The poor thing didn't like the Dutch brew as much as I do: it died. While waiting for a new phone to arrive, I used an old one that couldn't do anything but texting, calling and... Snake! The idea for Snake...
Optical vs chest strap heart rate monitors Understanding the differences in common HR monitors used in wearables, smartwatches and fitness...
14th Jul 2019
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Optical vs chest strap heart rate monitors

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

14th Jul 2019
Understanding the differences in common HR monitors used in wearables, smartwatches and fitness trackers
Building an serial and VGA "everything console" Some of our recent (and some upcoming) projects are oriented to systems with serial consoles, but...
14th Jun 2026
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Building an serial and VGA "everything console"

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

14th Jun 2026
Some of our recent (and some upcoming) projects are oriented to systems with serial consoles, but it's been getting pretty old dragging around old CRT terminals or tying up Mac laptops with a serial port. I'd like something that's self-contained, a little more portable and a bit...
Standard ML in 2020 Incredibly, Standard ML implementations are still actively developed. MLton, Poly/ML, MLKit, SML#...
25th Oct 2020
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Standard ML in 2020

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

25th Oct 2020
Incredibly, Standard ML implementations are still actively developed. MLton, Poly/ML, MLKit, SML# and SML/NJ are the most prominent. Discussion on the future direction of Standard ML remains healthy as well. And somehow OCaml's lesser known cousin still beats out OCaml...
Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 3. LLVM Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 2. user-defined functions and variables ...
10th Mar 2019
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Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 3. LLVM

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

10th Mar 2019
Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 2. user-defined functions and variables 4. LLVM conditionals and compiling fibonacci 5. LLVM system calls 6. an x86 upgrade In this post we'll extend the compiler to emit LLVM IR as an option instead of...
Testing a cheap ExpressCard to NVMe SSD adapter on my ThinkPad T430 I stumbled upon this post in /r/thinkpad, which got my attention. It showcases an ExpressCard to M.2...
4th Oct 2022
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Testing a cheap ExpressCard to NVMe SSD adapter on my ThinkPad T430

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

4th Oct 2022
I stumbled upon this post in /r/thinkpad, which got my attention. It showcases an ExpressCard to M.2 NGFF adapter that they purchased from AliExpress. The adapter has a similar purpose to the one designed by thinkmods.store, with the added bonus that it could fit longer NVMe...
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