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Better Interfaces, Better Products Identity via algorithms, wallets as browsers, crypto's "front page" — how interfaces govern the way...
14th Mar 2023
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Better Interfaces, Better Products

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

14th Mar 2023
Identity via algorithms, wallets as browsers, crypto's "front page" — how interfaces govern the way we interact with the world
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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
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A Software Engineer's Take on The Political Spectrum

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

16th Sep 2025
You heard about the left-wing and right-wing politics. But how is that related to software?
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Measuring Capacity Through Utilization (This post is cross-posted from Honeycomb’s instrumentation series). One of my favorite concepts...
8th Jan 2017
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Measuring Capacity Through Utilization

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

8th Jan 2017
(This post is cross-posted from Honeycomb’s instrumentation series). One of my favorite concepts when thinking about instrumenting a system to understand its overall performance and capacity is what I call “time utilization”. By this I mean: If you look at the behavior of a...
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Degen communism: the only correct political ideology
1st Apr 2024
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Degen communism: the only correct political ideology

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

1st Apr 2024
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Example of a home networking setup with VLANs Updated October 24, 2012, see below. This post is a description of my home network setup based on...
5th Feb 2012
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Example of a home networking setup with VLANs

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

5th Feb 2012
Updated October 24, 2012, see below. This post is a description of my home network setup based on gigabit ethernet. I did a non-standard trick with VLANs that may also be of interest to other people. I'm going to start with a diagram of the network. Just take a look (click to...
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2025-02-02 residential networking over telephone Recently, I covered some of the history of Ethernet's tenuous relationship with installed...
2nd Feb 2025
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2025-02-02 residential networking over telephone

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

2nd Feb 2025
Recently, I covered some of the history of Ethernet's tenuous relationship with installed telephone cabling. That article focused on the earlier and more business-oriented products, but many of you probably know that there have been a number of efforts to install IP...
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The Club Master is a Nano RP2040 Connect-powered device that improves your golf swing When playing golf, few things are as important as using the correct form when swinging, since even...
3rd Jun 2024
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The Club Master is a Nano RP2040 Connect-powered device that improves your golf swing

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

3rd Jun 2024
When playing golf, few things are as important as using the correct form when swinging, since even small deviations can be the difference between a hole-in-one and additional strokes. To improve his game, Concept Bytes has designed a small clip-on device called the “Club Master.”...
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Decoding the Arctic to predict winter weather With the help of AI, MIT Research Scientist Judah Cohen is reshaping subseasonal forecasting, with...
8th Jan 2026
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Decoding the Arctic to predict winter weather

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

8th Jan 2026
With the help of AI, MIT Research Scientist Judah Cohen is reshaping subseasonal forecasting, with the goal of extending the lead time for predicting impactful weather.
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Play YouTube video from firefox on mpv YouTube on Firefox skips frames and neither Google nor Firefox seem to have the incentive to fix it,...
13th Aug 2024
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Play YouTube video from firefox on mpv

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

13th Aug 2024
YouTube on Firefox skips frames and neither Google nor Firefox seem to have the incentive to fix it, let's do it ourselves. When this is done, we can watch YouTube videos in the browser with smooth playback using mpv as the video player backend. Note: This guide is for Linux...
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Winds of Change Software is maybe, just maybe about to get exciting
20th Jun 2024
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Winds of Change

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

20th Jun 2024
Software is maybe, just maybe about to get exciting
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Painting parts beige for retro towers (eventually) So here’s the thing. Late last year I bought the excellent SilverStone FLP02, a retro-themed...
2nd Jun 2026
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Painting parts beige for retro towers (eventually)

from Rubenerd [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Jun 2026
So here’s the thing. Late last year I bought the excellent SilverStone FLP02, a retro-themed computer case with modern component support. It was absolutely, jaw-droppingly gorgeous, and has easily become my favourite modern case alongside the legendary NCASE M1. It’s big,...
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Category velocity People make decisions, not businesses.
15th Jun 2021
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Category velocity

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

15th Jun 2021
People make decisions, not businesses.
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Klara and the gift of curiosity In October, a new movie will be released based on one of my favorite books, Klara and the Sun. This...
26th Aug 2026
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Klara and the gift of curiosity

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

26th Aug 2026
In October, a new movie will be released based on one of my favorite books, Klara and the Sun. This has happened a lot for me recently (see The Three Body Problem, The Martian, Project Hail Mary, and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow). I know it’s cliché to say that the book is...
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My grandfather’s Rolleiflex 2.8D twin-lens reflex (TLR) camera One of the first vintage cameras I ever got was my dad’s old Polaroid SX-70. Like so many family...
10th Oct 2020
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My grandfather’s Rolleiflex 2.8D twin-lens reflex (TLR) camera

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

10th Oct 2020
One of the first vintage cameras I ever got was my dad’s old Polaroid SX-70. Like so many family cameras it had disappeared into a closet decades ago and was only found again recently. When he gave it to me, he told me there was another classic camera he wanted to give me – if...
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Housekeeping for 20240102 Some stats, updates, and whatnot
3rd Jan 2024
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Housekeeping for 20240102

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

3rd Jan 2024
Some stats, updates, and whatnot
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2025 Year in Review Everything that happened to me last year.
4th Jan 2026
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2025 Year in Review

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

4th Jan 2026
Everything that happened to me last year.
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Ideal failures The way I used to design UI was to sit with paper sketches, or Figma, or a React prototype with no...
13th May 2026
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Ideal failures

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

13th May 2026
The way I used to design UI was to sit with paper sketches, or Figma, or a React prototype with no back end. Imagine every failure mode. Design beautiful flows for each. I slipped into this mistake while working on LanWhisper, a voice dictation app. I designed for the failure...
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AI Allows More Diversity in the Forms of Social Science Glad to be back!
1st May 2026
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AI Allows More Diversity in the Forms of Social Science

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

1st May 2026
Glad to be back!
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Creating a Robotics Experimentation Environment: My Experience and Practical Lessons Part 1 of a series on practical robotics experimentation As part of my journey into robotics, I...
13th Aug 2025
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Creating a Robotics Experimentation Environment: My Experience and Practical Lessons

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

13th Aug 2025
Part 1 of a series on practical robotics experimentation As part of my journey into robotics, I found myself facing a classic problem: I wanted to experiment with different learning approaches for robotic manipulation, but I needed a flexible playground where I could quickly test...
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Be A Donor This is probably the proudest moment of my Computer Science career so far: On April 17th, 2012 the...
22nd Apr 2012
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Be A Donor

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

22nd Apr 2012
This is probably the proudest moment of my Computer Science career so far: On April 17th, 2012 the Government of Ontario released the Mobile Website I designed and implemented for the major part of 2011. Beadonor.ca allows you reinforce your decision to be an organ donor. I feel...
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Train Simulator Controller: TPWS Control Panel TPWS is a key safety system in UK trains, so my Class 80x cab needed a precisely replicated TPWS...
16th Nov 2025
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Train Simulator Controller: TPWS Control Panel

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

16th Nov 2025
TPWS is a key safety system in UK trains, so my Class 80x cab needed a precisely replicated TPWS control panel.
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Game Engine Black Book ReleaseDate More...
7th Aug 2017
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Game Engine Black Book ReleaseDate

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

7th Aug 2017
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Testing MacOS on the Apple Network Server 2.0 ROMs It's time for another save point in the continuing saga of the various ROMs for the Apple Network...
3rd May 2026
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Testing MacOS on the Apple Network Server 2.0 ROMs

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

3rd May 2026
It's time for another save point in the continuing saga of the various ROMs for the Apple Network Server, Apple's first through-and-through Unix server (previously, previously). The Apple Network Server was only ever officially able to boot AIX, IBM's proprietary Power...
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2023-07-10 the tragedy of beatrice foods Occasionally, research into the history of telephony takes you into some strange places. There are...
10th Jul 2023
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2023-07-10 the tragedy of beatrice foods

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

10th Jul 2023
Occasionally, research into the history of telephony takes you into some strange places. There are conspiracy theories, of course, and there are people who insist on their version of events so incessantly that details of dates and places can become heated arguments. There is also...
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Love is to die
29th Nov 2021
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Love is to die

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

29th Nov 2021
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'Zabbix Security: client-server communication seems insecure' Zabbix is a populair tool for monitoring servers, services and network equipment. For monitoring...
27th Sep 2010
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'Zabbix Security: client-server communication seems insecure'

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

27th Sep 2010
Zabbix is a populair tool for monitoring servers, services and network equipment. For monitoring hosts, Zabbix provides an agent that can be installed on the hosts that must be monitored. Based on the supplied documentation and some remarks on the internets, the 'security' of...
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Butler Flow: shipping code faster (but less like Alfred, more like CI on steroids) - Part 3 In Part 3, we take a look at some deep examples of where Butler Flow comes in handy.
4th Nov 2025
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Butler Flow: shipping code faster (but less like Alfred, more like CI on steroids) - Part 3

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

4th Nov 2025
In Part 3, we take a look at some deep examples of where Butler Flow comes in handy.
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Why Android developers no longer need Windows USB drivers
30th Dec 2023
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Why Android developers no longer need Windows USB drivers

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

30th Dec 2023
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On Focus
16th Aug 2017
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On Focus

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

16th Aug 2017
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Annoy – now without Boost dependencies and with Python 3 Support Annoy is a C++/Python package I built for fast approximate nearest neighbor search in high...
3rd May 2015
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Annoy – now without Boost dependencies and with Python 3 Support

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

3rd May 2015
Annoy is a C++/Python package I built for fast approximate nearest neighbor search in high dimensional spaces. Spotify uses it a lot to find similar items. First, matrix factorization gives a low dimensional representation of each item (artist/album/track/user) so that every item...
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So long, Z80 You can still buy 6502s from Western Design Center and others, but Zilog's getting out of Z80s...
20th Apr 2024
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So long, Z80

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

20th Apr 2024
You can still buy 6502s from Western Design Center and others, but Zilog's getting out of Z80s (PDF), announcing earlier this week that after June 14th you won't be able to buy them anymore (specifically the last-part-standing Z84C00 which comes in various speeds from 6-20 MHz)...
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The Stupidity of Google’s Site Reputation Abuse Policy Site reputation abuse is when a third-party abuses the reputation of a domain to rank a bunch of...
5th Nov 2024
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The Stupidity of Google’s Site Reputation Abuse Policy

from Comments for Lars Lofgren [alt+shift+b] in technology

5th Nov 2024
Site reputation abuse is when a third-party abuses the reputation of a domain to rank a bunch of pages in Google. The SEO community refers to this type of thing as parasite SEO. Google has gone so far as to publish an official policy (documented here) on how this isn’t allowed:...
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Making the Internet Alive Again The Internet is changing. Are we changing, too?
28th Feb 2024
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Making the Internet Alive Again

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

28th Feb 2024
The Internet is changing. Are we changing, too?
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2011 in Review It’s time to wrap up the year that’s been. Be warned for slight ego boosting here. 2011 Geek...
4th Jan 2012
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2011 in Review

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

4th Jan 2012
It’s time to wrap up the year that’s been. Be warned for slight ego boosting here. 2011 Geek Achievements Wrote three games this year: My Minions Grand Thief Arto Sat-E Bought a new computer! Bought a mechanical keyboard. Bought custom Starcraft 2 keycaps for the...
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Leaking the WARDOGS Server Binary via Remote Code Execution on a Hosting Partner
5 days ago
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Leaking the WARDOGS Server Binary via Remote Code Execution on a Hosting Partner

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

5 days ago
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How to achieve cost-effective predictive maintenance with the Arduino® UNO™ Q board Most machines warn you before they fail. A motor begins to vibrate differently. A pump slowly drifts...
2nd Jul 2026
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How to achieve cost-effective predictive maintenance with the Arduino® UNO™ Q board

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

2nd Jul 2026
Most machines warn you before they fail. A motor begins to vibrate differently. A pump slowly drifts out of balance. A bearing develops a new mechanical signature. A cooling fan starts producing frequencies that were not present during normal operation. These changes can appear...
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Two Perspectives on the End-to-End Principle Back when I was an undergraduate, as part of a class called “Computer Systems Engineering”, we read...
11th Jun 2017
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Two Perspectives on the End-to-End Principle

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

11th Jun 2017
Back when I was an undergraduate, as part of a class called “Computer Systems Engineering”, we read numerous classic papers of systems design. I enjoyed and learned a great deal from many of these papers, but one that paper that has stuck with me in particular was Saltzer et al’s...
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Suggestion time: What should I blog about? I haven’t been feeling very motivated to blog lately – I’ve missed the last two weeks of Iron...
8th Aug 2010
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Suggestion time: What should I blog about?

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

8th Aug 2010
I haven’t been feeling very motivated to blog lately – I’ve missed the last two weeks of Iron Blogger, and I’m not totally enthusiastic about any of the items on my “to blog” list. But, I do enjoy blogging when I actually get into posts, and I’d like to keep updating this blog....
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Are data sets the new server rooms? This blog post Data sets are the new server rooms makes the point that a bunch of companies raise a...
1st Nov 2016
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Are data sets the new server rooms?

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

1st Nov 2016
This blog post Data sets are the new server rooms makes the point that a bunch of companies raise a ton of money to go get really proprietary awesome data as a competitive moat. Because once you have the data, you can build a better product, and no one can copy it (at least not...
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Compiling Handbrake CLI on Debian Lenny In this post I will show you how to compile Handbrake for Debian Lenny. Please note that although...
3rd Aug 2010
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Compiling Handbrake CLI on Debian Lenny

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

3rd Aug 2010
In this post I will show you how to compile Handbrake for Debian Lenny. Please note that although the Handbrake GUI version does compile on Lenny, it crashes with a segmentation fault like this: Gtk: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -5 and height...
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How I Write Tests The longer I spend as a software engineer, the more obsessive I get about testing. I fully subscribe...
29th Dec 2016
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How I Write Tests

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

29th Dec 2016
The longer I spend as a software engineer, the more obsessive I get about testing. I fully subscribe to the definition of legacy code as “code without an automated test suite.” I’m convinced that the best thing you can do to encourage fast progress in a test suite is to design...
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Final Fantasy The game certainly shows its age, I can tell you that much. (I played Dawn of Souls, which was the...
28th Dec 2007
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Final Fantasy

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

28th Dec 2007
The game certainly shows its age, I can tell you that much. (I played Dawn of Souls, which was the slightly easier remake, and even then it was a bit of a slog.) It’s short, though, and it’s I think worth playing for its place in the canon.
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Understanding PLONK
22nd Sep 2019
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Understanding PLONK

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

22nd Sep 2019
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One year of cycling GPS recording an entire year of bike rides using Garmin and Strava.
30th Dec 2016
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One year of cycling

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

30th Dec 2016
GPS recording an entire year of bike rides using Garmin and Strava.
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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...
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SMS Phishers Pivot to Points, Taxes, Fake Retailers China-based phishing groups blamed for non-stop scam SMS messages about a supposed wayward package...
4th Dec 2025
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SMS Phishers Pivot to Points, Taxes, Fake Retailers

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

4th Dec 2025
China-based phishing groups blamed for non-stop scam SMS messages about a supposed wayward package or unpaid toll fee are promoting a new offering, just in time for the holiday shopping season: Phishing kits for mass-creating fake but convincing e-commerce websites that convert...
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A Quick Gasprice Market Analysis
14th Dec 2017
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A Quick Gasprice Market Analysis

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

14th Dec 2017
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The hardest challenge about becoming a manager Note: this post is full of pseudo-psychology and highly speculative content. Like most fun stuff! I...
5th Jun 2015
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The hardest challenge about becoming a manager

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

5th Jun 2015
Note: this post is full of pseudo-psychology and highly speculative content. Like most fun stuff! I became a manager back in 2009. Being a developer is fun. You have this very tangible way to measure yourself.
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Inside the Apollo "8-Ball" FDAI (Flight Director / Attitude Indicator) During the Apollo flights to the Moon, the astronauts observed the spacecraft's orientation on a...
14th Jun 2025
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Inside the Apollo "8-Ball" FDAI (Flight Director / Attitude Indicator)

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

14th Jun 2025
During the Apollo flights to the Moon, the astronauts observed the spacecraft's orientation on a special instrument called the FDAI (Flight Director / Attitude Indicator). This instrument showed the spacecraft's attitude—its orientation—by rotating a ball. This ball was nicknamed...
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Experiments in Printmaking - Part 1 Trying some unconventional techniques to create a pop-art print of a Cherry Mash candy bar.
13th Mar 2024
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Experiments in Printmaking - Part 1

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

13th Mar 2024
Trying some unconventional techniques to create a pop-art print of a Cherry Mash candy bar.
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How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy a bad book with a good thesis. the author warns you of its incoherence early on, which is a shame...
1st Mar 2020
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How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Mar 2020
a bad book with a good thesis. the author warns you of its incoherence early on, which is a shame because there are very good pieces of logos amidst the circumlocution
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I built a timer I can’t fail to set Have you ever gotten to the end of a long work day and realized you’re no closer to your goals? I...
2nd Dec 2025
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I built a timer I can’t fail to set

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

2nd Dec 2025
Have you ever gotten to the end of a long work day and realized you’re no closer to your goals? I have. Sure, I was doing a lot of stuff. But I wasn’t pausing to ask whether I was doing the right stuff. Or whether my approach was working. Or if I was spending the right amount of...
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Vacation Finally back from a 2 week vacation up at Övertorneå. It’s been pretty great to be taken care of and...
14th Aug 2014
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Vacation

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

14th Aug 2014
Finally back from a 2 week vacation up at Övertorneå. It’s been pretty great to be taken care of and not doing anything. Well, I did get my ass kicked in Terra Mystica and I played a bit of Minecraft, but still. We got some nice food and my in-laws and my parents were nice. I’m...
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Tesla Spyware I noticed my Model X was uploading ~2.6gb of something to Tesla when it parked and connected to...
1st Aug 2026
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Tesla Spyware

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

1st Aug 2026
I noticed my Model X was uploading ~2.6gb of something to Tesla when it parked and connected to WiFi. Hopefully turning all these settings off stops it; otherwise, I might need a new car. But are any good?
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Building the blog... in style! One must be a bit crazy to come up with the idea to build a blog (as in: actual programming) on an...
22nd Jun 2016
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Building the blog... in style!

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

22nd Jun 2016
One must be a bit crazy to come up with the idea to build a blog (as in: actual programming) on an old 486 laptop with just 16MB RAM. I happen to be that crazy: I took my very first laptop from the 90s and decided to find out if it was possible to turn it into a development...
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Train Simulator Controller: Inside an AWS Sunflower In my first post about the Train Simulator Controller project, I introduced the Automated Warning...
20th May 2023
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Train Simulator Controller: Inside an AWS Sunflower

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

20th May 2023
In my first post about the Train Simulator Controller project, I introduced the Automated Warning System (AWS) on most of the UK trains that I drive in Train Simulator. This safety system is designed to warn drivers of restricting (non-green) signals, often because there’s a...
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speed reading (the meaning of language) One of the difficult things about describing a grift, or at least what became a grift, is judging...
8th Dec 2025
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speed reading (the meaning of language)

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

8th Dec 2025
One of the difficult things about describing a grift, or at least what became a grift, is judging the sincerity with which the whole thing started. Scams often crystallize around a kernel of truth: genuinely good intentions that start rolling down the hill to profitability and...
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This Kenyan engineer modernizes vintage cars with a custom ECU and EFI upgrades The automotive industry’s switch from carburetion to fuel injection was one of the most effective...
1st Oct 2024
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This Kenyan engineer modernizes vintage cars with a custom ECU and EFI upgrades

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

1st Oct 2024
The automotive industry’s switch from carburetion to fuel injection was one of the most effective advancements of the 20th century. Electronic fuel injection allows for precise control over an internal combustion engine’s air-fuel mixture, which dramatically improves fuel...
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Radxa's Q8B has 2x the performance and expansion of the Pi 5 There was a time I'd look at a board like the Radxa Dragon Q8B (at left, above) and be like,...
9th Oct 2026
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Radxa's Q8B has 2x the performance and expansion of the Pi 5

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

9th Oct 2026
There was a time I'd look at a board like the Radxa Dragon Q8B (at left, above) and be like, "there's no way I'd spend $209 on an SBC with 8 gigs of RAM". But we're in 2026, and seeing the 8 gig Raspberry Pi 5 going for almost the same amount, I figured I'd give it a shot. On...
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Hardware Founders: (When) Should You Try To Raise VC Money? If you choose to raise any amount of venture capital investment you are making an implicit agreement...
9th Jul 2018
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Hardware Founders: (When) Should You Try To Raise VC Money?

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

9th Jul 2018
If you choose to raise any amount of venture capital investment you are making an implicit agreement with your investor that your aim is to…
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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
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Spring ham radio activation of Korkattivuori (Mt. Korkatti)

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

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...
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Entity authentication with a KEM In cryptography, the process of authenticating a user (or app/service) is known as entity...
20th Apr 2023
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Entity authentication with a KEM

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

20th Apr 2023
In cryptography, the process of authenticating a user (or app/service) is known as entity authentication or identification (to distinguish it from message authentication or data origin authentication). There are lots of ways to do this. In this post I’m going to talk about...
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The 167 Point Ceiling of the Game Take-It-Easy
4th Jul 2025
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The 167 Point Ceiling of the Game Take-It-Easy

from Niklas Oberhuber’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Jul 2025
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Solving Regex Crosswords with Z3 For a while now, I’ve been fascinated by Z3 and by SMT solving more broadly. While on pat leave...
21st Oct 2025
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Solving Regex Crosswords with Z3

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

21st Oct 2025
For a while now, I’ve been fascinated by Z3 and by SMT solving more broadly. While on pat leave recently, I was reminded of the existence of regular-expression crossword puzzles, and allowed myself to get nerdsniped by writing a Z3-backed solver. I expected to spend perhaps an...
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A geometric world now
31st Jul 2018
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A geometric world now

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

31st Jul 2018
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David Cuartielles receives the Open Source Award on Skills and Education We are proud to announce that David Cuartielles, co-founder of Arduino, has been honored with the...
3rd Feb 2025
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David Cuartielles receives the Open Source Award on Skills and Education

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

3rd Feb 2025
We are proud to announce that David Cuartielles, co-founder of Arduino, has been honored with the Open Source Award on Skills and Education 2025 and has become a founding member of the Open Source Academy of Europe. This prestigious award recognizes individuals who have made...
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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 Applied Cartography [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),...
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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!
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Trespasser: Jurassic Park CG Source Code Review More...
10th Jun 2014
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Trespasser: Jurassic Park CG Source Code Review

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

10th Jun 2014
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It's All Smiles The production is too glitchy & clever to be pleasant or interesting, which in of itself is not a...
1st Dec 2021
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It's All Smiles

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

1st Dec 2021
The production is too glitchy & clever to be pleasant or interesting, which in of itself is not a huge deal except that the lyrics & vocals are so featherweight that it's not worth the effort of digestion.
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The Triangle of Harm
16th Jul 2017
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The Triangle of Harm

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

16th Jul 2017
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Tracking down a faulty Storage Array Controller with ZFS One day, I lost two virtual machines on our DR environment after a storage vMotion. Further...
15th Dec 2016
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Tracking down a faulty Storage Array Controller with ZFS

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

15th Dec 2016
One day, I lost two virtual machines on our DR environment after a storage vMotion. Further investigation uncovered that any storage vMotion of a virtual machine residing on our DR storage array would corrupt the virtual machine's disks. I could easily restore the affected...
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What's the deal with magnetic fields? I apologize, but there won't be any Insane Clown Posse jokes in this article.
4th Feb 2025
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What's the deal with magnetic fields?

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

4th Feb 2025
I apologize, but there won't be any Insane Clown Posse jokes in this article.
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Baduizm Very relaxing and pleasant and simple and great. Nothing revelatory but I see myself coming back to...
1st Sep 2021
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Baduizm

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Sep 2021
Very relaxing and pleasant and simple and great. Nothing revelatory but I see myself coming back to this over and over (and finally understand the Badu hype.)
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Merklizing the key/value store for fun and profit
4th May 2023
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Merklizing the key/value store for fun and profit

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

4th May 2023
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Better Laptop This post is a quick rundown of assembling my new Framework 13 laptop, why I chose this brand and...
9th Feb 2025
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Better Laptop

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

9th Feb 2025
This post is a quick rundown of assembling my new Framework 13 laptop, why I chose this brand and what's next.
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Netrunner Spring Tournament There was another, smaller, netrunner tournament about a week ago. I was looking forward to a very...
4th May 2015
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Netrunner Spring Tournament

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

4th May 2015
There was another, smaller, netrunner tournament about a week ago. I was looking forward to a very casual setting but there were also some guys who came from… Västerås I think, but I’m not sure. We managed to scrape together 9 people at least, and I didn’t notice anyone bringing...
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How Core Git Developers Configure Git What `git config` settings should be defaults by now? Here are some settings that even the core...
22nd Feb 2025
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How Core Git Developers Configure Git

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

22nd Feb 2025
What `git config` settings should be defaults by now? Here are some settings that even the core developers change.
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Over-Engineering Sleep A while back, this implementation of a cross-platform sleep for GitHub Actions Runners caught my...
24th Aug 2025
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Over-Engineering Sleep

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

24th Aug 2025
A while back, this implementation of a cross-platform sleep for GitHub Actions Runners caught my eye, and I wanted to see what it would take to re-implement sleep from the ground up, while trying to be as cross-platform as possible.
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How to fix Top Gear And the story of my beef with Jeremy Clarkson
2nd Sep 2026
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How to fix Top Gear

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

2nd Sep 2026
And the story of my beef with Jeremy Clarkson
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App Clip Local Experiences have consumed my day Okay, I have to be doing something astronomically stupid, right? This should be working? I’m playing...
8th Sep 2025
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App Clip Local Experiences have consumed my day

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

8th Sep 2025
Okay, I have to be doing something astronomically stupid, right? This should be working? I’m playing around with an App Clip and want to just run it on the device as a test, but no matter how I set things up nothing ever works. If you see what I’m doing wrong let me know and I’ll...
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New benchmarks for approximate nearest neighbors UPDATE(2018-06-17): There are is a later blog post with newer benchmarks! One of my super nerdy...
15th Feb 2018
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New benchmarks for approximate nearest neighbors

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

15th Feb 2018
UPDATE(2018-06-17): There are is a later blog post with newer benchmarks! One of my super nerdy interests include approximate algorithms for nearest neighbors in high-dimensional spaces. The problem is simple. You have say 1M points in some high-dimensional space.
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We Need To Talk Advice for keeping up activity on a blog: don’t get appendicitis in a country where you barely speak...
17th Aug 2026
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We Need To Talk

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

17th Aug 2026
Advice for keeping up activity on a blog: don’t get appendicitis in a country where you barely speak the language at the same time that your newborn baby gets his first major daycare illness.
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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
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Is it worth writing about? You acquire a skill or experience through time and effort, then downplay the impact of writing and...
1st Dec 2022
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Is it worth writing about?

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

1st Dec 2022
You acquire a skill or experience through time and effort, then downplay the impact of writing and sharing the learning process. Professionals seem naturally to imagine a high bar for what is worth writing about. I think that's misguided. This article is not criticism of folks...
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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
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How to setup a local or private Ubuntu Mirror

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

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...
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You’re Not Supposed To ShareFile With Everyone (Progress ShareFile Pre-Auth RCE Chain CVE-2026-2699... If you squint and look at the CISA KEV list, you might think it's made up exclusively of...
2nd Apr 2026
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You’re Not Supposed To ShareFile With Everyone (Progress ShareFile Pre-Auth RCE Chain CVE-2026-2699 & CVE-2026-2701)

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

2nd Apr 2026
If you squint and look at the CISA KEV list, you might think it's made up exclusively of vulnerabilities in file transfer solutions. While this would be wrong (and you shouldn’t squint, it’s bad for your eyes), file transfer solutions do play a decent
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In Defense of Bitcoin Maximalism
1st Apr 2022
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In Defense of Bitcoin Maximalism

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

1st Apr 2022
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Postmortem: Jonas IceCream Stand Ah my latest game Jonas IceCream Stand is finished and up and running and I’m really proud of it!...
1st Dec 2009
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Postmortem: Jonas IceCream Stand

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

1st Dec 2009
Ah my latest game Jonas IceCream Stand is finished and up and running and I’m really proud of it! And thanks for the feedback guys, it’s always welcome. I spent almost exactly fifty hours on this game and that’s by far the most I’ve spent on a 7day project. To be honest it’s...
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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 Applied Cartography [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...
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FLIP Fluid on Flip Dots [Hardware] Electromechanical Fluid Simulation
24th Sep 2026
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FLIP Fluid on Flip Dots

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

24th Sep 2026
[Hardware] Electromechanical Fluid Simulation
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Versioning microservices in GitLab monorepos and polyrepos What are some possible options to version projects for a microservices project in Gitlab?
2nd Jan 2022
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Versioning microservices in GitLab monorepos and polyrepos

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

2nd Jan 2022
What are some possible options to version projects for a microservices project in Gitlab?
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Hitting pause for a month! A brief programming note.
1st Jan 2026
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Hitting pause for a month!

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

1st Jan 2026
A brief programming note.
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This is Personal One of the trickiest tightropes for an author publishing a business book to walk is: "how deftly do...
2nd Apr 2024
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This is Personal

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Apr 2024
One of the trickiest tightropes for an author publishing a business book to walk is: "how deftly do I tip my hand that this is all part of a greater lead generation and monetization engine?"
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Introducing the OrkoHunter Discord Community 👉🏻 Join the OrkoHunter Discord Community 10 years ago, I arrived as a naive fresher in my...
7th Dec 2024
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Introducing the OrkoHunter Discord Community

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

7th Dec 2024
👉🏻 Join the OrkoHunter Discord Community 10 years ago, I arrived as a naive fresher in my engineering college. And like many, my first…
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How to Research New Media Effects As I approach my second decade studying digital media, there’s one thing I keep noticing:
21st May 2024
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How to Research New Media Effects

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

21st May 2024
As I approach my second decade studying digital media, there’s one thing I keep noticing:
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Cable Length Measurement with an HP 8007B Pulse Generator MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [...
1st Apr 2023
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Cable Length Measurement with an HP 8007B Pulse Generator

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

1st Apr 2023
MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [ ['$', '$'], ["\\(", "\\)"] ], displayMath: [ ['$$', '$$'], ["\\[", "\\]"] ], processEscapes: true, skipTags: ['script', 'noscript', 'style', 'textarea', 'pre',...
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Conformant OpenGL 4.6 on the M1 For years, the M1 has only supported OpenGL 4.1. That changes today – with our release of full...
14th Feb 2024
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Conformant OpenGL 4.6 on the M1

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

14th Feb 2024
For years, the M1 has only supported OpenGL 4.1. That changes today – with our release of full OpenGL® 4.6 and OpenGL® ES 3.2! Install Fedora for the latest M1/M2-series drivers. Already installed? Just dnf upgrade --refresh. Unlike the vendor’s non-conformant 4.1 drivers, our...
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Apple Interview (1995) Recalling my somewhat unusual interview with Apple back in 1995.
13th May 2022
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Apple Interview (1995)

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

13th May 2022
Recalling my somewhat unusual interview with Apple back in 1995.
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Test suites as classifiers Suppose we have some codebase we’re considering applying some patch to, and which has a robust and...
1st Mar 2020
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Test suites as classifiers

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

1st Mar 2020
Suppose we have some codebase we’re considering applying some patch to, and which has a robust and maintained test suite. Considering the patch, we may ask, is this patch acceptable to apply and deploy. By this we mean to ask if the patch breaks any important functionality,...
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Hour 10: Updating the website We're back! Instead of working on something brand new, I'll be updating the existing website hosted...
25th Nov 2025
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Hour 10: Updating the website

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

25th Nov 2025
We're back! Instead of working on something brand new, I'll be updating the existing website hosted at eyadquaibi.com
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Updating Snake '97 This month I bit the bullet big time: I redesigned the game engine of the wildly popular Snake '97...
20th Feb 2018
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Updating Snake '97

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

20th Feb 2018
This month I bit the bullet big time: I redesigned the game engine of the wildly popular Snake '97 game. Read about the design challenges in this blog post.
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Multiple input MACs When working with Message Authentication Codes (MACs), you often need to authenticate not just a...
27th Oct 2021
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Multiple input MACs

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

27th Oct 2021
When working with Message Authentication Codes (MACs), you often need to authenticate not just a single string, but multiple fields of data. For example, when creating an authenticated encryption mode by composing a cipher and a MAC (like AES-CBC and HMAC), you need to ensure the...
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Endgame
6th Dec 2021
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Endgame

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

6th Dec 2021
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Abusing HTTP Path Normalization and Cache Poisoning to steal Rocket League accounts
19th Apr 2020
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Abusing HTTP Path Normalization and Cache Poisoning to steal Rocket League accounts

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

19th Apr 2020
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Disking Banana Go Bananas
1st Aug 2025
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Disking Banana

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

1st Aug 2025
Go Bananas
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Simulating + Streaming a 4k, 90hz, ultrawide, HDR PC monitor to Apple Vision Pro VR headsets can be pretty awesome at simulating monitors of any size and shape. Most VR headsets are...
7th Sep 2024
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Simulating + Streaming a 4k, 90hz, ultrawide, HDR PC monitor to Apple Vision Pro

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

7th Sep 2024
VR headsets can be pretty awesome at simulating monitors of any size and shape. Most VR headsets are also capable of outputting at a high refresh rate (60hz, 90hz, 120hz, or even 144hz). Some headsets (like Apple Vision Pro) can also output in HDR! The beauty of it all is that in...
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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),...
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New control system teaches soft robots the art of staying safe MIT CSAIL and LIDS researchers developed a mathematically grounded system that lets soft robots...
2nd Dec 2025
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New control system teaches soft robots the art of staying safe

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

2nd Dec 2025
MIT CSAIL and LIDS researchers developed a mathematically grounded system that lets soft robots deform, adapt, and interact with people and objects, without violating safety limits.
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Secure Home Assistant Access with Cloudflare and Ubiquiti Dream Machine I've become increasingly reliant on Home Assistant to automate various tasks around the house. But...
12th Dec 2020
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Secure Home Assistant Access with Cloudflare and Ubiquiti Dream Machine

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

12th Dec 2020
I've become increasingly reliant on Home Assistant to automate various tasks around the house. But how do you safely expose your instance to the internet for remote access?You want to be able to log in from a remote location, but how to keep others out? This post will show how...
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Metaprogramming in Zig and parsing CSS I knew Zig supported some sort of reflection on types. But I had been confused about how to use it....
19th Jun 2023
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Metaprogramming in Zig and parsing CSS

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

19th Jun 2023
I knew Zig supported some sort of reflection on types. But I had been confused about how to use it. What's the difference between @typeInfo and @TypeOf? I ignored this aspect of Zig until a problem came up at work where reflection made sense. The situation was parsing and storing...
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Commuter bike checkup This week my trustworthy commuter bike started making strange squeaking noises when braking, time to...
9th Jan 2021
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Commuter bike checkup

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

9th Jan 2021
This week my trustworthy commuter bike started making strange squeaking noises when braking, time to have a look at the bike after 21.000KM!
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Analyzing Link Rot in My Newsletter (After 31 Editions) I've been writing a monthly newsletter for the past 2.5 years. In every edition, I link to...
2nd Sep 2023
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Analyzing Link Rot in My Newsletter (After 31 Editions)

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

2nd Sep 2023
I've been writing a monthly newsletter for the past 2.5 years. In every edition, I link to interesting articles related to science and technology. I thought it would be interesting to analyze how many of those links are still accessible, and how many have succumbed to link rot....
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AI and machine learning for engineering design Popular mechanical engineering course applies machine learning and AI theory to real-world...
7th Sep 2025
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AI and machine learning for engineering design

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

7th Sep 2025
Popular mechanical engineering course applies machine learning and AI theory to real-world engineering design.
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Creating a basic ZFS file system on Linux Here are some notes on creating a basic ZFS file system on Linux, using ZFS on Linux. I'm...
1st Feb 2014
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Creating a basic ZFS file system on Linux

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

1st Feb 2014
Here are some notes on creating a basic ZFS file system on Linux, using ZFS on Linux. I'm documenting the scenario where I just want to create a file system that can tollerate at least a single drive failure and can be shared over NFS. Identify the drives you want to use for the...
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The New Economic Reality: It's Still Your Money at the Bank Whether you're an economist or not, a financial professional or not, it's still your money that's...
1st Jun 2025
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The New Economic Reality: It's Still Your Money at the Bank

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

1st Jun 2025
Whether you're an economist or not, a financial professional or not, it's still your money that's being affected. Like many people, I've avoided looking at my 401k these past few weeks. Well, I peeked, and it's all in the red. There are so many interpretations of what's going on....
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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
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Exercise while you game with this interactive treadmill add-on Motion-based controls for games have been around for decades, but even with the latest generation of...
2nd Sep 2024
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Exercise while you game with this interactive treadmill add-on

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

2nd Sep 2024
Motion-based controls for games have been around for decades, but even with the latest generation of virtual reality headsets, gaming is still done with relatively limited movement unless one has access to an expensive VR walking/running setup. As an effort to get more physical...
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Are Two Heads Better Than One? Are Two Heads Better Than One? You're playing a game with your lying friends Alice and Bob. Bob...
9th Dec 2025
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Are Two Heads Better Than One?

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

9th Dec 2025
Are Two Heads Better Than One? You're playing a game with your lying friends Alice and Bob. Bob flips a coin and shows it to Alice. Alice tells you what she saw - but she lies 20% of the time. Then you take your best guess on whether the coin is heads or tails. Your best...
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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
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Django - growing up from SQLite to PostgreSQL

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

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...
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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

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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.
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“To live is to fight, to fight is to live! - IBM ODM Remote Code Execution In previous blogs, we’ve discussed some of the big players in the enterprise software space, but...
22nd Feb 2024
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“To live is to fight, to fight is to live! - IBM ODM Remote Code Execution

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22nd Feb 2024
In previous blogs, we’ve discussed some of the big players in the enterprise software space, but there is one that we have not mentioned before, that is - quite frankly - the heavy-weight champion of the world in terms of applications for large enterprises. With over a hundred
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Reels are destroying our brains and I hate them It's time for a new moral panic
2nd May 2025
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Reels are destroying our brains and I hate them

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

2nd May 2025
It's time for a new moral panic
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Remote Controlling an HP 1670G Logic Analyzer with a Linux PC X Server Introduction Reserving a fixed IP address for the logic analyzer Assign the chosen IP address to the...
26th Dec 2023
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Remote Controlling an HP 1670G Logic Analyzer with a Linux PC X Server

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26th Dec 2023
Introduction Reserving a fixed IP address for the logic analyzer Assign the chosen IP address to the logic analyzer Allow the logic analyzer to access your Ubuntu X server Configure the X-window Settings on the logic analyzer Install and declare the HP logic analyzer font...
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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
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I Want People To Agree With Me, Not Die

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

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

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

14th Feb 2024
For years, the M1 has only supported OpenGL 4.1. That changes today – with our release of full OpenGL® 4.6 and OpenGL® ES 3.2! Install Fedora for the latest M1/M2-series drivers. Already installed? Just dnf –refresh upgrade. Unlike the vendor’s non-conformant 4.1 drivers, our...
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What's New in TLS Inspector 3.0 On March 30th 2016 the first commit of TLS Inspector, back then called Certificate Inspector, was...
11th Apr 2026
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What's New in TLS Inspector 3.0

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

11th Apr 2026
On March 30th 2016 the first commit of TLS Inspector, back then called Certificate Inspector, was made - and just shy of two weeks later version 1.0 was released. Now, 10 years later, TLS Inspector celebrates its 10th year, and I've got some exciting changes to share with you...
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4 Ways To Say No, Elegantly and Effectively In my early days at Netflix, my inability to say no led me into unpleasant terrain. Here's how I...
4th Sep 2024
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4 Ways To Say No, Elegantly and Effectively

from Push to Prod [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Sep 2024
In my early days at Netflix, my inability to say no led me into unpleasant terrain. Here's how I evolved to navigate these situations more fluidly.
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Syncing files seamlessly between smartphone and tablet In order to optimise my workflow, I was looking for a way to seamlessly access the same files on...
15th Sep 2020
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Syncing files seamlessly between smartphone and tablet

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

15th Sep 2020
In order to optimise my workflow, I was looking for a way to seamlessly access the same files on both my computer and smartphone. Read along to find out how I did it.
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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

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12th Oct 2022
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CPS-1: GFX system internals
20th Feb 2022
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CPS-1: GFX system internals

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20th Feb 2022
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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

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6th Jul 2023
GitButler has come up with an entirely new way to work on multiple branches: simultaneously. What are virtual branches?
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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
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Cannot access Windows guest within VMware Fusion when running vsphere client

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

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...
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The story of the Rendition Vérité 1000 The story of how the Rendition v1000 briefly rule the Quake world.
1st Apr 2019
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The story of the Rendition Vérité 1000

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

1st Apr 2019
The story of how the Rendition v1000 briefly rule the Quake world.
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Digital minimalism
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Digital minimalism

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

a week ago
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Fighting backscatter spam at server level This month I had to deal with backscatter spam, affecting one of the mail servers I manage. As...
9th Sep 2019
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Fighting backscatter spam at server level

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

9th Sep 2019
This month I had to deal with backscatter spam, affecting one of the mail servers I manage. As server engineer I make sure that servers don't send spam and that incoming email gets filtered. Despite all good efforts, this server kept being blacklisted for sending spam to iCloud,...
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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
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Microfeatures in my blog

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

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...
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Crypto Cities
31st Oct 2021
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Crypto Cities

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

31st Oct 2021
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The “Home Alone” / “NiGHTS into Dreams” connection NiGHTS into Dreams is one of those games I tend to think about when Christmas rolls around. It’s one...
6th Dec 2024
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The “Home Alone” / “NiGHTS into Dreams” connection

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6th Dec 2024
NiGHTS into Dreams is one of those games I tend to think about when Christmas rolls around. It’s one of my favourites from the Saturn lineup, and it also had a free Christmas version. In it, there’s a song I really love that plays on the level select screen called Gate of Your...
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Does digital ID have risks even if it's ZK-wrapped?
28th Jun 2025
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Does digital ID have risks even if it's ZK-wrapped?

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

28th Jun 2025
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statself.com Btw I just put something up online that I spent a couple of evenings in my couch putting together:...
18th Oct 2013
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statself.com

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

18th Oct 2013
Btw I just put something up online that I spent a couple of evenings in my couch putting together: it's a website where you can track any numerical data on the web. Want to know how many Twitter followers you have?
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On Building Git for Lawyers Over this past weekend, Twitter discovered the problem that I have dedicated the past four years of...
14th Nov 2024
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On Building Git for Lawyers

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

14th Nov 2024
Over this past weekend, Twitter discovered the problem that I have dedicated the past four years of my life to solving. Why don't lawyers and other non-coders use git?
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And 18 very popular NPM Packages are compromised On September 8th, 18 npm packages were compromised with malicious code. These packages are very...
8th Sep 2025
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And 18 very popular NPM Packages are compromised

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8th Sep 2025
On September 8th, 18 npm packages were compromised with malicious code. These packages are very popular. They receive an average of 2 billion downloads every week. If you are not sure whether you are affected, you can run this grep command on your repository to search for the...
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Implementing SARM on your VLA dataset in practice 1. Motivation: use big video dataset optimally for VLA training In the first part of this series, I...
14th Dec 2025
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Implementing SARM on your VLA dataset in practice

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

14th Dec 2025
1. Motivation: use big video dataset optimally for VLA training In the first part of this series, I explained what is SARM: Stage-Aware Reward Modeling for Long Horizon Robot Manipulation and how it can be used with a challenge such as Stanford Behavior Challenge (1200h of...
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Collecting health data with Biostrap Most wearables (smartwatches, fitness trackers, etc.) use very basic sensors to capture heart rate....
14th Nov 2017
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Collecting health data with Biostrap

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

14th Nov 2017
Most wearables (smartwatches, fitness trackers, etc.) use very basic sensors to capture heart rate. Their signal is binary: just counting beats. Biostrap is different, instead of just checking pulses, it captures a high-fidelity PPG waveform. These waveforms are the same kind...
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Release of PPSS - the Parallel Processing Shell Script PPSS is a shell script that processess files or other items in parallel. It is designed to make use...
3rd Jan 2009
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Release of PPSS - the Parallel Processing Shell Script

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

3rd Jan 2009
PPSS is a shell script that processess files or other items in parallel. It is designed to make use of the current multi-core CPUs. It will detect the number of available CPUs and start a thread for each CPU core.  This script is build with the goal to be very easy to use. Also,...
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Super ultrawide Niri A Niri workspace with 7 visible columns. After having used practically the same xmonad...
11th Sep 2026
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Super ultrawide Niri

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

11th Sep 2026
A Niri workspace with 7 visible columns. After having used practically the same xmonad configuration for a decade and a half I’ve now modernized my setup with the scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor Niri. It’s been a bit of a struggle to unlearn my old workflow but I’m really...
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2025 in review It’s time for a yearly review again. Time flies. Nerdy things I enjoyed I read a few books this...
3rd Jan 2026
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2025 in review

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

3rd Jan 2026
It’s time for a yearly review again. Time flies. Nerdy things I enjoyed I read a few books this year. The whole Dungeon Crawler Carl series was absolutely amazing and it quickly jumped up to one of my favorite series of all time. I can’t be held accountable for everything I’ve...
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Help Me Help You, Maintainers My plea with OSS maintainers on how they can help me help them.
7th Mar 2025
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Help Me Help You, Maintainers

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7th Mar 2025
My plea with OSS maintainers on how they can help me help them.
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RailScan: First Point Clouds from Railroad Museum Scanner I volunteer at a train, trolley, and subway museum. As a non-authoritative, hobby project combining...
16th Jul 2026
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RailScan: First Point Clouds from Railroad Museum Scanner

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

16th Jul 2026
I volunteer at a train, trolley, and subway museum. As a non-authoritative, hobby project combining my love of trains, electronics, mapping, and data, I am building a LiDAR scanner to map and analyze the museum. After designing the initial hardware and software for a GNSS-enabled...
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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
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Zoo elephants get a musical toy to enrich their lives

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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...
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CVE-2010-4258: Turning denial-of-service into privilege escalation Dan Rosenberg recently released a privilege escalation bug for Linux, based on three different...
10th Dec 2010
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CVE-2010-4258: Turning denial-of-service into privilege escalation

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

10th Dec 2010
Dan Rosenberg recently released a privilege escalation bug for Linux, based on three different kernel vulnerabilities I reported recently. This post is about CVE-2010-4258, the most interesting of them, and, as Dan writes, the reason he wrote the exploit in the first place. In...
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Logical replication in Postgres: Basics This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
17th Jan 2025
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Logical replication in Postgres: Basics

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17th Jan 2025
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How I made HA-meural: a Meural Canvas integration for Home Assistant One of my 2020 lockdown projects I’m extremely proud of is HA-meural – a custom integration for the...
30th Nov 2020
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How I made HA-meural: a Meural Canvas integration for Home Assistant

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30th Nov 2020
One of my 2020 lockdown projects I’m extremely proud of is HA-meural – a custom integration for the Home Assistant home automation software that lets you control a NETGEAR Meural Canvas digital frame. It’s the result of a few months of work, lots of trial and error, and many...
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Climbing Mount Etna Last week me and my wife went to Sicily for a little summer holiday. It is the largest island in the...
1st Sep 2017
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Climbing Mount Etna

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

1st Sep 2017
Last week me and my wife went to Sicily for a little summer holiday. It is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. It is an autonomous region of Italy, along with surrounding minor islands. It's home to Europe's largest active volcano: Mount Etna. We had a chance to visit...
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Oversimplified guide into snapshots on the btrfs filesystem Friday afternoon. You’re trying out a script that you wrote to mass-rename and move some files...
5th Apr 2022
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Oversimplified guide into snapshots on the btrfs filesystem

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5th Apr 2022
Friday afternoon. You’re trying out a script that you wrote to mass-rename and move some files around. You finish the script and test it out. Oops. All the files now have all the wrong names, and some have been randomly moved 10 folders deep. It’s a mess. And you didn’t make a...
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More pro for the DEC Professional 380 (featuring PRO/VENIX) In computing the DEC PDP-11 is something of a geologic feature. Plus, as most systems in the family...
16th Mar 2025
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More pro for the DEC Professional 380 (featuring PRO/VENIX)

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

16th Mar 2025
In computing the DEC PDP-11 is something of a geologic feature. Plus, as most systems in the family were minicomputers, they had the whole monolith thing going for them too (minus murderous apes and sucking astronauts into hyperspace). Its fame is even more notable given that...
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Faster than Light So I returned to Faster than Light again this weekend, this time for real. I bought it when it came...
12th Feb 2013
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Faster than Light

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

12th Feb 2013
So I returned to Faster than Light again this weekend, this time for real. I bought it when it came out and I played it only in passing, but this weekend I played it a ton. Aaahh a new beginning in FTL. Will it be death once more I generally don’t like games where you have to...
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How old is this newspaper? Guess the year from old newspaper front pages.
29th Dec 2025
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How old is this newspaper?

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

29th Dec 2025
Guess the year from old newspaper front pages.
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Thoughts on User Safety: 2 Following up from last time, let’s explore the internal and insider fronts when moving beyond...
23rd Oct 2019
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Thoughts on User Safety: 2

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

23rd Oct 2019
Following up from last time, let’s explore the internal and insider fronts when moving beyond security towards safety for our users.
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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

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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...
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Repairing a Giro AEON bicycle helmet This month my trustworthy Giro Aeon bicycle helmet broke down! Normally I wouldn't hesitate to...
8th Jul 2020
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Repairing a Giro AEON bicycle helmet

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

8th Jul 2020
This month my trustworthy Giro Aeon bicycle helmet broke down! Normally I wouldn't hesitate to invest in safety and thus buying a new one. But I like the Aeon helmet so much that I went through some extra trouble to fix it. Read along to see how I did it. Giro Aeon The Giro Aeon...
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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

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29th Oct 2025
[Hardware] Smoked acrylic upgrade for the Precision Clock Mk IV
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2025-05-12 Lua Carousel now comes with a comprehensive system of online help you can run on computer or...
12th May 2025
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2025-05-12

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12th May 2025
Lua Carousel now comes with a comprehensive system of online help you can run on computer or phone: A tutorial for using it tailored towards programmers Exercises for learning programming Lots of example programs you can run right from within it, clone and remix Reference...
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Stuff costs money The many temptations of software businesses. Plus, a hackquisition?
5th Sep 2025
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Stuff costs money

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5th Sep 2025
The many temptations of software businesses. Plus, a hackquisition?
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Weather, an argument against simulation hypothesis As I am writing this, cyclone Fani with category 4 level winds 215 kph (130 mph) in the Bay of...
2nd May 2019
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Weather, an argument against simulation hypothesis

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

2nd May 2019
As I am writing this, cyclone Fani with category 4 level winds 215 kph (130 mph) in the Bay of Bengal is expected to make landfall in the state of Odisha, India by tomorrow. Over 800,00 evacuated, as 100 million people are expected to be affected by the cyclone. Cyclone Fani is...
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Forecasting - Metaculus Q4 2024 Retrospective
13th Jan 2025
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Forecasting - Metaculus Q4 2024 Retrospective

from Niklas Oberhuber’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

13th Jan 2025
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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.
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Leaderbored Is it a race or a run?
1st May 2026
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Leaderbored

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1st May 2026
Is it a race or a run?
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Is storage really that cheap? Nowadays you can buy a 1 TB harddrive for less than 100 euro's . So I build myself a 4 TB NAS box,...
5th Oct 2008
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Is storage really that cheap?

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

5th Oct 2008
Nowadays you can buy a 1 TB harddrive for less than 100 euro's . So I build myself a 4 TB NAS box, which is already 50% full. However, although it is to some degree fault-tollerant by using RAID 6, one mistake or catastrophic hardware faillure and all data is lost. And that's...
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Leitz Summicron 50mm f/2 rigid (type 2) lens My newest lens acquisition wasn’t actually originally on my wishlist. I already had a 50mm Summicron...
8th Sep 2020
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Leitz Summicron 50mm f/2 rigid (type 2) lens

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

8th Sep 2020
My newest lens acquisition wasn’t actually originally on my wishlist. I already had a 50mm Summicron lens, though that was the first generation collapsible model known as a Type 1. This lens has lived on my Leica M3 permanently for the past few years, and I have enjoyed the hell...
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I went on an Amazon propaganda tour In which I'm forced to confront a contradictions in my values
1st Jul 2026
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I went on an Amazon propaganda tour

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

1st Jul 2026
In which I'm forced to confront a contradictions in my values
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AI and software security: the slop is now signal No matter how you feel about AI, it’s changing the world of software. The “T” in ChatGPT was...
10th May 2026
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AI and software security: the slop is now signal

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10th May 2026
No matter how you feel about AI, it’s changing the world of software. The “T” in ChatGPT was invented to improve language translation, and large language models (LLMs) are very good at this. Interestingly, translating between French and Japanese is effectively the same as...
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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.
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Dithering is obsolete (except when it isn’t); creating OpenDithering Dithering is one of those techniques that feels like it belongs in a museum. It peaked in the ’90s,...
6th Jun 2026
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Dithering is obsolete (except when it isn’t); creating OpenDithering

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

6th Jun 2026
Dithering is one of those techniques that feels like it belongs in a museum. It peaked in the ’90s, the era of 256-color palettes and early computer graphics, when you needed to trick the eye into seeing colors that your hardware couldn’t actually produce. Now, even our phones...
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Death to the Forum Well it was fun while it lasted, but now it’s gone and it’ll stay gone for a long time I think. It...
2nd Apr 2010
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Death to the Forum

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

2nd Apr 2010
Well it was fun while it lasted, but now it’s gone and it’ll stay gone for a long time I think. It was mainly a test to see if I could do it and I’m really proud of my styling of it but it’s deader than in a grave, which isn’t really surprising, and it bothered me that I didn’t...
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A real PowerBook: the Macintosh Application Environment on a PA-RISC laptop I like the Power ISA very much, but there's nothing architecturally obvious to say that the next...
3rd Aug 2025
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A real PowerBook: the Macintosh Application Environment on a PA-RISC laptop

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

3rd Aug 2025
I like the Power ISA very much, but there's nothing architecturally obvious to say that the next natural step from the Motorola 68000 family must be to PowerPC. For example, the Palm OS moved from the DragonBall to ARM, and it's not necessarily a well-known fact that the...
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Writing a simple JSON parser Writing a JSON parser is one of the easiest ways to get familiar with parsing techniques. The format...
6th May 2018
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Writing a simple JSON parser

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

6th May 2018
Writing a JSON parser is one of the easiest ways to get familiar with parsing techniques. The format is extremely simple. It's defined recursively so you get a slight challenge compared to, say, parsing Brainfuck; and you probably already use JSON. Aside from that last point,...
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A Galois Field Arithmetic Primer Introduction A Galois Field Introduction by Example Base Galois Fields A Real World Example of a...
14th Jun 2026
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A Galois Field Arithmetic Primer

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

14th Jun 2026
Introduction A Galois Field Introduction by Example Base Galois Fields A Real World Example of a Base Galois Field GF(2) Extended Galois Fields Extended Galois Field Addition Extended Galois Field Multiplication A Field Defining Irreducible Polynomial A Primitive Polynomial From...
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DSLogic U3Pro16 Review and Teardown Introduction The DSLogic U3Pro16 In the Box Probe Cables and Clips The Controller Hardware The Input...
12th Apr 2025
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DSLogic U3Pro16 Review and Teardown

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

12th Apr 2025
Introduction The DSLogic U3Pro16 In the Box Probe Cables and Clips The Controller Hardware The Input Circuit Impact of Input Circuit on Circuit Under Test Additional IOs: External Clock, Trigger In, Trigger Out Software: From Saleae Logic to PulseView to DSView Installing DSView...
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Detecting corporate fraud using Benford's law Note: This is a silly application. Don't take anything seriously. Benford's law describes a...
7th Oct 2014
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Detecting corporate fraud using Benford's law

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

7th Oct 2014
Note: This is a silly application. Don't take anything seriously. Benford's law describes a phenomenon where numbers in any data series will exhibit patterns in their first digit. For instance, if you took a list of the 1,000 longest rivers of Mongolia, or the average daily...
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Lenovo ThinkCentre M900 Tiny: how does it fare as a home server? My evenings of absent-minded local auction site scrolling1 paid off: I now own a Lenovo ThinkCentre...
6th Jun 2025
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Lenovo ThinkCentre M900 Tiny: how does it fare as a home server?

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

6th Jun 2025
My evenings of absent-minded local auction site scrolling1 paid off: I now own a Lenovo ThinkCentre M900 Tiny. It’s relatively old, being manufactured in 20162, but it’s tiny and has a lot of useful life left in it. It’s also featured in the TinyMiniMicro series by...
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Qualcomm's buying Arduino – what it means for makers Qualcomm's buying Arduino – what it means for makers Qualcomm just announced they're...
7th Oct 2025
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Qualcomm's buying Arduino – what it means for makers

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

7th Oct 2025
Qualcomm's buying Arduino – what it means for makers Qualcomm just announced they're acquiring Arduino, the company that introduced a whole generation of tinkerers to microcontrollers and embedded electronics. The Uno R3 was the first microcontroller board I owned....
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Virtual Branches Alpha GitButler is introducing an entirely new way to work on branches in Git. Join the alpha!
1st Sep 2023
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Virtual Branches Alpha

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

1st Sep 2023
GitButler is introducing an entirely new way to work on branches in Git. Join the alpha!
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Rewriting my Neovim config in Lua This screenshot betrays just how much productive time was wasted setting this up. I’ve got tons of...
1st Oct 2023
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Rewriting my Neovim config in Lua

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

1st Oct 2023
This screenshot betrays just how much productive time was wasted setting this up. I’ve got tons of things to do; clean the bathrooms, prototype an idea for a SaaS and ponder world peace. So naturally the procrastination took over and I rewrote my Neovim configuration in...
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You’re Back In The Room (Citrix NetScaler Pre-Auth RCE CVE-2026-8452(?)) Suddenly, you’re in a room. You look around - oh, you’re surrounded by other new starters at your...
14th Aug 2026
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You’re Back In The Room (Citrix NetScaler Pre-Auth RCE CVE-2026-8452(?))

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

14th Aug 2026
Suddenly, you’re in a room. You look around - oh, you’re surrounded by other new starters at your new job. Yes, it’s Monday, and you’re being onboarded. You know the drill - it’s the typical enterprise “please don’t be
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You Already Have Our Personal Data, Take Our Phone Calls Too (FreePBX CVE-2025-57819) We’re back - it’s a day, in a month, in a year - and once again, something has happened. In this...
10th Sep 2025
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You Already Have Our Personal Data, Take Our Phone Calls Too (FreePBX CVE-2025-57819)

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

10th Sep 2025
We’re back - it’s a day, in a month, in a year - and once again, something has happened. In this week’s episode of “the Internet is made of string and there is literally no evidence to suggest otherwise”, we present even
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My home lab server with 20 cores / 40 threads and 128 GB memory Update fall 2024 I have decided to decomission this machine and it is no longer in use. As of this...
12th Aug 2019
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My home lab server with 20 cores / 40 threads and 128 GB memory

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

12th Aug 2019
Update fall 2024 I have decided to decomission this machine and it is no longer in use. As of this moment, it's replaced by a cluster of four 1L PCs which use about a third of the idle power usage and boot within 20 seconds. The single-core performance of these low-power 1L PCs...
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25th Dec 2012
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Game timers: Issues and solutions

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

25th Dec 2012
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Wolfenstein 3D for iPhone code review For once, developers were able to read the source code of an id software product just a few days...
9th May 2009
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Wolfenstein 3D for iPhone code review

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

9th May 2009
For once, developers were able to read the source code of an id software product just a few days after its release. I spent a week in my spare time reading the internal of the Wolfenstein 3D for iPhone engine. It is by far the cleanest and easiest id source code release to date.
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Eurorack Knob Idea [Hardware] An idea for knobs for synthesizers.
24th Apr 2025
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Eurorack Knob Idea

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

24th Apr 2025
[Hardware] An idea for knobs for synthesizers.
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Exploring Fully Homomorphic Encryption
20th Jul 2020
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Exploring Fully Homomorphic Encryption

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

20th Jul 2020
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Plus Post: Sony SMC-777C One person, Eight languages. The 8bit.
1st Jun 2025
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Plus Post: Sony SMC-777C

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

1st Jun 2025
One person, Eight languages. The 8bit.
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Recreating Apple's beautiful visionOS search bar Many of Apple’s own visionOS apps, like Music, Safari, and Apple TV, have a handy search bar front...
24th Mar 2024
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Recreating Apple's beautiful visionOS search bar

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

24th Mar 2024
Many of Apple’s own visionOS apps, like Music, Safari, and Apple TV, have a handy search bar front and center on the window so you can easily search through your content. Oddly, as of visionOS 1.1, replicating this visually as a developer using SwiftUI or UIKit is not...
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A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers I liked the book. I found it charming and winsome and funny. There were no elements, of, like,...
1st Jul 2020
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A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Jul 2020
I liked the book. I found it charming and winsome and funny. There were no elements, of, like, transformative exultation: so many of the books in this genre, the woman’s bildungsroman, the Dept. of Speculations and the Bluets of the world, have a couple moments that totally and...
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Made in 2025 Here are some things I made in 2025: Pro-Wrestler or Roller Coaster A Fusion 360 Script for creating...
1st Jan 2026
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Made in 2025

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

1st Jan 2026
Here are some things I made in 2025: Pro-Wrestler or Roller Coaster A Fusion 360 Script for creating a Penrose Triangle in CAD A personal book recommendation tool, which used my archive of book reviews, the OpenAI API, and RAG techniques to give me personalized book...
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The great Hochstapler Hey there. A lot has happened lately since my last update and my last game here. I’m now a pretty...
19th Sep 2010
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The great Hochstapler

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

19th Sep 2010
Hey there. A lot has happened lately since my last update and my last game here. I’m now a pretty happy student at Linköpings university and I’m reading something similar to Computer Science or Computer engineering, but I guess it’ll become whatever you make it to be. For...
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Durable Smartphone While sitting in the train the guy in front of me surprised me, out of his fancy pants he pulled...
4th Mar 2025
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Durable Smartphone

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

4th Mar 2025
While sitting in the train the guy in front of me surprised me, out of his fancy pants he pulled this well worn, patina rich, piece of tech. We're travelling first class and judging by his classy attire, this man is not of limited means. Like a well-raced Porsche, this thing has...
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How I stole the identity of every Yahoo user
9th May 2017
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How I stole the identity of every Yahoo user

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

9th May 2017
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A Prehistory of the Ethereum Protocol
14th Sep 2017
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A Prehistory of the Ethereum Protocol

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

14th Sep 2017
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