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Arduino Blog
Arduino’s Alvik Robot shortlisted for the Bett Awards 2025 in the AV, VR/AR, Robotics, and Digital... We’re thrilled to announce that Arduino Education has been shortlisted for the Bett Awards 2025,...
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8 months ago
We’re thrilled to announce that Arduino Education has been shortlisted for the Bett Awards 2025, this time in the AV, VR/AR, Robotics, or Digital Device category with our Alvik robot! This recognition highlights our dedication to innovation, inclusivity, and the advancement of...
Willem's Blog
Dig for dummies Learn how to use the dig command to query domain name servers to find the source of network...
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over a year ago
Learn how to use the dig command to query domain name servers to find the source of network problems, IP-addresses, hostnames, mail servers and related info.
Old Vintage...
The April Fools joke that might have got me fired Everyone should pull one great practical joke in their lifetimes. This one was mine, and I think...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Everyone should pull one great practical joke in their lifetimes. This one was mine, and I think it's past the statute of limitations. The story is true. Only the names are redacted to protect the guilty. My first job out of college was a database programmer, even though my...
Birchtree
My toxic tech trait 99% of the time I want my software to be as fast as humanly possible. I want UI elements that...
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5 months ago
99% of the time I want my software to be as fast as humanly possible. I want UI elements that respond quickly, and I want keyboard shortcuts to do as much as possible. But 1% of the time, for whatever reason, I just like when a computer takes a long
Vitalik Buterin's...
What else could memecoins be?
a year ago
Computer Ads from...
Maxell's MF 2-DD Floppies The Gold Standard
7 months ago
Good Enough
Cool Songs Don’t Die Earlier this week, I watched the pilot episode of Alias. Yes, that Alias – the one that began airing...
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over a year ago
Earlier this week, I watched the pilot episode of Alias. Yes, that Alias – the one that began airing 22 years ago and ran for 5 seasons and was a pretty big hit and launched the careers of two bonafide movie stars and featured a cast of very well known supporting actors. So yeah,...
Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course Week 14: Roman Decadence During week 14 of the humanities crash course, I explored foundational myths of Western Culture —...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
During week 14 of the humanities crash course, I explored foundational myths of Western Culture — written during the Roman Empire when decadence was setting in. I paired them with a classic film about social decadence set in mid-20th century Rome. Readings Gioa’s recommendations...
Arduino Blog
UNO Rev3 or UNO R4? Choosing the perfect Arduino for your project The Arduino UNO is legendary among makers, and with the release of the UNO R4 in 2023, the family...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
The Arduino UNO is legendary among makers, and with the release of the UNO R4 in 2023, the family gained a powerful new member. But with two incredible options, which UNO should you pick for your project? Here’s a breakdown of what makes each board shine, depending on your needs,...
Birchtree
The Vision Pro makes Touch ID more appealing Ryan Christoffel writing on 9to5Mac: Why Vision Pro Is Apple’s Best Reason Yet to Bring Touch ID...
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Ryan Christoffel writing on 9to5Mac: Why Vision Pro Is Apple’s Best Reason Yet to Bring Touch ID Back to iPhone Because Face ID on iPhone does no good when Vision Pro is strapped to your face—an unfortunate detail I’m reminded of every time I
Home on Erik...
Music recommendations using cover images (part 1) Scrolling through the Discover page on Spotify the other day it occurred to me that the album is in...
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over a year ago
Scrolling through the Discover page on Spotify the other day it occurred to me that the album is in fact a fairly strong visual proxy for what kind of content you can expect from it. I started wondering if the album cover can in fact be used for recommendations.
Birchtree
A quick, incomplete thought about Squid Game 2 This one thing about Squid Game really sticks in my craw…
6 months ago
Lighthouse Blog
What I want to achieve with Lighthouse
a year ago
Push to Prod
Is AI-based Root Cause Analysis a Real Thing? Logs, LLMs, AI, Decision Trees, and Root Causes
3 months ago
Good Enough
James is Good Enough We put a lot of ourselves into our work, and it occurs to us that you, dear reader, might not know...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
We put a lot of ourselves into our work, and it occurs to us that you, dear reader, might not know much about us. So we’re descending deeper, ever deeper, into the Q&A column introduce ourselves, one-at-a-time. Desperate to keep things interesting, James tried to spice up the...
./techtipsy
Anything's a portable speaker if you're brave enough I hate buying things that are single-purpose, which is why I ended up with this setup. Take a...
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over a year ago
I hate buying things that are single-purpose, which is why I ended up with this setup. Take a speaker, a battery, put them together, and what you now have is a portable speaker. Since I had access to both, I felt no need to buy a separate portable speaker for use in social...
Jonas Hietala
Trying and returning the Eight Sleep Pod 4 I recently bought the Eight Sleep Pod 4—a smart mattress cover that tracks your heart rate, HRV,...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
I recently bought the Eight Sleep Pod 4—a smart mattress cover that tracks your heart rate, HRV, snoring, and cools or warms the mattress during the night. There’s a lot to like about the mattress but in the end I opted to return it. This post describes my experience with the Pod...
Odds and Ends of...
Building luxury homes for millionaires is good for poor people Yes In My Back Yard!
5 months ago
Buck on Software
Crypto and Chasing the Dragon Marc and Ben’s midlife crisis and the Crypto Crusades
over a year ago
Willem's Blog
Open-Sourcing Gran Fondo I am open-sourcing the Gran Fondo app that tracks runs and rides, designed for privacy and freedom...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
I am open-sourcing the Gran Fondo app that tracks runs and rides, designed for privacy and freedom in mind.
The Pragmatic...
Tech hiring: is this an inflection point? We might be seeing the end of remote coding interviews as we know them, and a return of in-person...
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3 months ago
We might be seeing the end of remote coding interviews as we know them, and a return of in-person interviews, trial days and longer trial periods. Could hiring be returning to pre-pandemic norms?
lcamtuf’s thing
Investigating an "evil" RJ45 dongle Reverse-engineering hardware can be difficult -- but sometimes, all you need is a comfy armchair and...
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6 months ago
Reverse-engineering hardware can be difficult -- but sometimes, all you need is a comfy armchair and some Google Translate.
Notes on software...
How do databases execute expressions? Databases are fun. They sit at the confluence of Computer Science topics that might otherwise not...
a year ago
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a year ago
Databases are fun. They sit at the confluence of Computer Science topics that might otherwise not seem practical in life as a developer. For example, every database with a query language is also a programming language implementation of some caliber. That doesn't include all...
Matt Blewitt
Death, and Utsuge This post discusses topics some may wish to avoid: terminal illness, hospice care, death, and...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
This post discusses topics some may wish to avoid: terminal illness, hospice care, death, and Japanese visual novels.
computers are bad
2024-08-19 mining for meteors Billboards Route 66 is often viewed through the lens of its billboards. The Jack Rabbit Trading...
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Billboards Route 66 is often viewed through the lens of its billboards. The Jack Rabbit Trading Post, a small store a few miles out of Joseph City, would hardly be remembered were it not for its billboards spanning four states. The tradition of far-advance billboards is still...
Arduino Blog
Enhance your IoT dashboards with Arduino Cloud’s new Image widget At Arduino, we’re constantly working to improve your IoT management experience. Today, we’re excited...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
At Arduino, we’re constantly working to improve your IoT management experience. Today, we’re excited to announce a new feature for Arduino Cloud that will allow you to enhance your IoT dashboards: the Image widget. The new Image widget The Image widget is a simple yet powerful...
Applied Cartography
Letters to a Young Bartender Every straight white male is forced, character-creation-screen-style, to choose one overtly...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Every straight white male is forced, character-creation-screen-style, to choose one overtly consumptive hobby that in some small part defines their twenties and – God willing — their enduring adulthood. Some choose sourdough; many choose barbecue; I chose mixology. (A...
Louwrentius
HP Procurve "auto DoS" feature causing network problems A feature on more recent HP Procurve models (18xx series, such as 1810G etc.) is called "Auto DoS"....
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over a year ago
A feature on more recent HP Procurve models (18xx series, such as 1810G etc.) is called "Auto DoS". You can find it in the section "Security" and then "Advanced security". If you enable the Auto DoS feature, traffic is blocked based on one of these conditions: the source port...
Arduino Blog
Displaying games on a 9x9x9 LED cube Many modern video games may put your character inside of a virtual 3D environment, but you aren’t...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Many modern video games may put your character inside of a virtual 3D environment, but you aren’t seeing that in three dimensions — your TV’s screen is only a 2D display, after all. 3D displays/glasses and VR goggles make it feel more like you’re in the 3D world, but it isn’t...
Arduino Blog
Gustavo Reynaga: Inspiring the next generation of makers with MicroPython If you’re a fan of open-source technology, Gustavo Salvador Reynaga Aguilar is a name to know. An...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
If you’re a fan of open-source technology, Gustavo Salvador Reynaga Aguilar is a name to know. An experienced educator with a passion for technology, Gustavo has spent nearly three decades teaching and inspiring students at CECATI 132 in Mexico. He’s worked with platforms like...
Birchtree
“Retina” is not a static PPI I’m just going to keep posting about this every few months because people keep getting “retina”...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
I’m just going to keep posting about this every few months because people keep getting “retina” wrong. According to this YouTube video that was recommended to me today, retina on desktop monitors is exactly 218ppi (pixels per inch). Now of course the iPhone 4, which was
Vitalik Buterin's...
Should there be demand-based recurring fees on ENS domains?
over a year ago
./techtipsy
The optimization treadmill: why I keep changing my computing setup all the time I have a bad habit of changing my computing setups all the time. I tend to see new gear, then I...
a year ago
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a year ago
I have a bad habit of changing my computing setups all the time. I tend to see new gear, then I get some new ideas, and then I obsessively think about it for weeks and months until I just buy it. And then the cycle repeats. I’ve had time to think about why that keeps happening...
Louwrentius
Linux Mac Mini - temperature monitoring with lm-sensors This post is about getting temperature monitoring to work with a Mac Mini running Linux. Using...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This post is about getting temperature monitoring to work with a Mac Mini running Linux. Using Debian Lenny, out of the box, lm-sensors is not working. No sensors can be found. This is how temperature monitoring and fan speed monitoring can be made to work: modprobe applesmc If...
GitButler
Fixing up Git with Autosquash How can you amend a series of commits automatically to keep a clean history? Let's take a look at...
a year ago
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a year ago
How can you amend a series of commits automatically to keep a clean history? Let's take a look at git autosquash.
Jorge Arango
AI is Probabilistic – That’s Why It Needs Constraints For as long as we’ve had computers, they’ve produced predictable outputs. But AI – in the form of...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
For as long as we’ve had computers, they’ve produced predictable outputs. But AI – in the form of large language models – represents a new kind of unpredictable computing. The key to implementing useful AI solutions is making the most of both paradigms. One of the oldest known...
Never Met a Science
Yes, Xxit Xxit is like Brexit for X haha
7 months ago
Odds and Ends of...
I'm pro-assisted dying in principle, but I'm not sure about the proposed law Is no law better than a bad law?
8 months ago
Birchtree
Ghost 6 is coming in 2025 and will include ActivityPub for everyone The Ghost Blog: The Story So Far This year we're going to ship ActivityPub to everyone, in a...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
The Ghost Blog: The Story So Far This year we're going to ship ActivityPub to everyone, in a flagship Ghost 6.0 release. I have nothing else to add other than I’m happy with my choice of blogging back end.
Neil Madden
Machine Learning and the triumph of GOFAI I’ve been slowly reading Brian Cantwell Smith’s “The Promise of Artificial Intelligence” recently. I...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve been slowly reading Brian Cantwell Smith’s “The Promise of Artificial Intelligence” recently. I haven’t finished reading it yet, and like much of BCS’s writing, it’ll probably take me 3 or 4 read-throughs to really understand it, but there’s one point that I want to pick up...
Jonas Hietala
Breaking the rule of three It’s pretty darn stressful making a game in a week, especially when you have this big great vision...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It’s pretty darn stressful making a game in a week, especially when you have this big great vision on how your game should be (which is always grand). For me making Balls, Black and White and Jonas IceCream Stand where truly stressful, MenuCity and Bugger not so much but...
Old Vintage...
Ward Christensen dies There was initially some issue verifying this, but there appears to be direct confirmation now that...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
There was initially some issue verifying this, but there appears to be direct confirmation now that Ward Christensen passed away October 11 at the age of 78, co-founder of the pioneering Computerized Bulletin Board System in February 1978 with Randy Suess — now believed to be the...
Posts on Made of...
Distributed cloud builds for everyone CPU cycles are cheaper than they have ever been, and cloud computing has never been more ubiquitous....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
CPU cycles are cheaper than they have ever been, and cloud computing has never been more ubiquitous. All the major cloud providers offer generous free tiers, and services like GitHub Actions offer free compute resources to open-source repositories. So why do so many developers...
Home on Erik...
What's Erik up to? I joined Better in early 2015 because I thought the team was crazy enough to actually change one of...
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over a year ago
I joined Better in early 2015 because I thought the team was crazy enough to actually change one of the largest industries in the US. For six years, I ran the tech team, hiring 300+ people, probably doing 2,000+ interviews, and according to GitHub I added 646,941 lines of code...
Willem's Blog
Being a volunteer in Amsterdam-Zuidoost About my work as volunteer in the local community center in Amsterdam Zuidoost
over a year ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
What kind of layer 3s make sense?
over a year ago
Good Enough
Jelly was #1 on Hacker News Yesterday, Lettini took a chance and posted about Jelly on Hacker News, a discussion site notorious...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Yesterday, Lettini took a chance and posted about Jelly on Hacker News, a discussion site notorious for it's mercurial population of tech-maybe-too-saavy experts. Jelly is a tough sell for some of them, those with the technical skill to pipe email at a low level through...
Computer Ads from...
Comics from 1978/05 Creative Computing Mag Time for some oldie levity.
4 months ago
Odds and Ends of...
Spring Mailbag - Questions Wanted! Ask me stuff!
3 months ago
Computer Ads from...
Vote for the March 2025 + Post Topic Time is running out.
4 months ago
detreville
🎼This Is the Worst Trip I’ve Ever Been On 🎶 (A Lengthy Vacation Post-Mortem)
a year ago
Arduino Blog
Ride safer with these DIY bicycle lights Many people around the world live in cities designed for cars, with bicycle use being a distant...
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a year ago
Many people around the world live in cities designed for cars, with bicycle use being a distant afterthought. That makes cycling dangerous and lights can do a lot to make riding safer. That’s why Giovanni Aggiustatutto designed this DIY system that includes headlights, a...
Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course Week 17: Curiositas In week 17 of the humanities crash course, I read a book that was completely new to me: Apuleius’s...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
In week 17 of the humanities crash course, I read a book that was completely new to me: Apuleius’s Metamorphoses, better known as The Golden Ass. I also watched a movie with a similar story (but with different aims.) Readings The Golden Ass was written by Apuleius around the...
Arduino Blog
Shop vac becomes a Roomba on steroids A robotic vacuum, such as a Roomba, offers a lot of convenience. Instead of having to vacuum and...
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a year ago
A robotic vacuum, such as a Roomba, offers a lot of convenience. Instead of having to vacuum and sweep your own floors, you have a little maid robot to do the job for you. But these devices have very little power and capacity, which makes them useless for anything other than...
Never Met a Science
Deepfakes and Thirst Traps Novel media technology is changing the nature of political communication.
3 months ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Exit games for EVM validiums: the return of Plasma
a year ago
Willem's Blog
Hello, stranger "Discover the transformative power of simple conversations in our tech-dominated world, as one...
a year ago
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a year ago
"Discover the transformative power of simple conversations in our tech-dominated world, as one individual delves into the lost art of talking to strangers and the profound connections it can forge."
Good Enough
Season 1, Issue 1: The Loneliest Number 1. Confirmed Positive After two years of running from reality, it has finally happened for my...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
1. Confirmed Positive After two years of running from reality, it has finally happened for my family. I have tested positive for SARS Coronavirus-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. For this honor, I would like to thank our society’s collective tiring of virus mitigation. It truly...
Jonas Hietala
Let's build a VORON: Software The build continues, now in a little more familiar territory. Firmware flashing To flash the...
a year ago
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a year ago
The build continues, now in a little more familiar territory. Firmware flashing To flash the firmware I had to order a microSD card reader. With that on hand the flashing wasn’t difficult. The VORON docs walks you through the installation very well. Mainsail I chose to install...
Birchtree
Settings > Default Apps > Voice Assistant Parker Ortolani writing Gemini, Siri, and Default Assistants on iOS, arguing that Apple should allow...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Parker Ortolani writing Gemini, Siri, and Default Assistants on iOS, arguing that Apple should allow you to set a different default voice assistant: it would do two things: it would mitigate some of the damage with customer relations while they wait for the new Siri and it sets a...
Applied Cartography
Notes from April Welcome to spring, bona fide and humid. Lots of writing this month: I wrote about spending the past...
a year ago
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a year ago
Welcome to spring, bona fide and humid. Lots of writing this month: I wrote about spending the past two years as an independent technologist. On the media side of things: brief words on Murderville (meh), The Parallax View (incredible), This is Personal (meh), Cribsheet...
Jonas Hietala
Rising from the Dead, it's Ludum Dare I’ve been a long time gone, been busy with school then having summer vacation and generally not...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been a long time gone, been busy with school then having summer vacation and generally not making games or blogging. But I have revived! I scrambled to push my new website live because today it’s Ludum Dare time! The theme is “Evolution” and it’s the 24th time for Ludum Dare...
Arduino Blog
Massive tentacle robot draws massive attention at EMF Camp Most of the robots we feature only require a single Arduino board, because one Arduino can control...
a year ago
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a year ago
Most of the robots we feature only require a single Arduino board, because one Arduino can control several motors and monitor a bunch of sensors. But what if the robot is enormous and the motors are far apart? James Bruton found himself in that situation when he constructed this...
Birchtree
Who's using AI in the workplace? Pew has a new report out where they talked to workers in the US and asked them how they were using...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Pew has a new report out where they talked to workers in the US and asked them how they were using AI at work. The data is really interesting in a few places, so I wanted to share the most notable insights in my view. First off, only 16% of
somenice
Matter as a Smart home standard Matter is the name of the smart home standard that promises to bridge IOT devices and different home...
a year ago
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a year ago
Matter is the name of the smart home standard that promises to bridge IOT devices and different home eco-systems. Amazon Alexa, Google Home, Apple Homekit, Samsung SmartThings, etc. To prevent 6+ flavours of smart lightbulbs working with 6+ different apps, a standard needed to be...
Yazin Alirhayim
Serializing and deserializing a Cookie Jar I was recently working on a way to serialize and deserialize a Faraday connection that uses...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I was recently working on a way to serialize and deserialize a Faraday connection that uses HTTP::CookieJar to manage persistent cookies across requests. I needed to do this because I wanted a way to “freeze” an HTTP connection instance, and later “thaw” it to resume the...
Posts on Made of...
A Brief Introduction to termios If you’re a regular user of the terminal on a UNIX system, there are probably a large number of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you’re a regular user of the terminal on a UNIX system, there are probably a large number of behaviors you take mostly for granted without really thinking about them. If you press ^C or ^Z it kills or stops the foreground program – unless it’s something like emacs or vim, in...
Jonas Hietala
Incomplete game coming up Man I’m far too much of a perfectionist, with this mentality I’ll never get anything done -...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Man I’m far too much of a perfectionist, with this mentality I’ll never get anything done - seriously. I spent far too many hours, even days, figuring out in my mind how the game should be and I started off going for nothing less than just that. But it turned out to be a lot...
Matt Mullenweg
Inc Hit Piece When Inc Magazine reached out to have David H. Freedman (website powered by WordPress) write a...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
When Inc Magazine reached out to have David H. Freedman (website powered by WordPress) write a feature piece I was excited because though Inc wasn’t a magazine I have read much since I was a teenager, David seemed like a legit journalist who usually writes for better publications...
Ian's Blog
Why my Apps Aren't Available on Apple Vision Pro Recently I have received some questions from users of both TLS Inspector and DNS Inspector enquiring...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Recently I have received some questions from users of both TLS Inspector and DNS Inspector enquiring why the apps aren't available on Apple's new Vision Pro headset. While I have briefly discussed this over on my Mastodon, I figured it might be worthwhile putting things down with...
Computer Ads from...
Page 6 Magazine Interviews the Godfather of Adventure Games, Scott Adams Scott McNealy talks about Sun Microsystems, RISC, UNIX, and NeXT
11 months ago
Avestura's Blog
Understanding zero-knowledge proofs What are zero-knowledge proofs, really?
over a year ago
axio.ms
32-bit hat, with LEDs Built in November 2015 (now-traditional multi-year writeup delay applied) A hat,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Built in November 2015 (now-traditional multi-year writeup delay applied) A hat, bejewelled with 38 RGB LEDs Is this thing on..? It’s been a while since I’ve written one of these. So, the hat. It’s been on the writeup pile for almost 6 years, nagging away. Finally...
Himanshu Mishra |...
What do I do when I’m bored from studying (or not studying) for the exams? The semester is about to end and I have no clue about what is going in the end semester...
over a year ago
Simply Explained
ESP-IDF: Storing AWS IoT certificates in the NVS partition (for OTA) When using AWS IoT Core, most tutorials will tell you to include device certificates in your...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When using AWS IoT Core, most tutorials will tell you to include device certificates in your firmware. While that does work, it means you won't be able to run over-the-air updates.In this post, I'll show how to store AWS certificates in the NVS partition. This will make it...
Computer Ads from...
Unix Review Interviews Sun Co-Founder Bill Joy (1994) A lot of talk about editors and the future
3 months ago
csvbase blog
You can't just assume UTF-8 How to infer character encodings with statistics
a year ago
Notes on software...
Running SQL Server in a container on Github Actions This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
Louwrentius
'Linux: show graphical layout of disk temperatures' graphic, representation To get a visual representation of hard drive temperatures, I wrote a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
graphic, representation To get a visual representation of hard drive temperatures, I wrote a small script. The output of this script looks like this: This output is tailored to the exact disk lay-out of my storage server. However, it is also usable for other servers. You have to...
Home on Erik...
More Luigi: Presentation from OSCON I was in Portland, OR for a few days hanging out at OSCON. Was fun. I also talked a bit about...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I was in Portland, OR for a few days hanging out at OSCON. Was fun. I also talked a bit about Luigi: Next week I'm presenting at the NYC Predictive Analytics meetup together with Blake Shaw from Foursquare.
Himanshu Mishra |...
Losing and Re-Gaining trust on .gitignore I would like to share an interesting story of a problem which I’ve faced many times since I started...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I would like to share an interesting story of a problem which I’ve faced many times since I started using git. This story is about “losing…
Birchtree
How Nintendo's "game-key cards" actually work I've seen a remarkable amount of misunderstanding out there on how Nintendo's game-key cards work....
3 months ago
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3 months ago
I've seen a remarkable amount of misunderstanding out there on how Nintendo's game-key cards work. People are losing their ever loving minds over all things Switch 2, but this one really gets me because the people who are the most upset about it seem to not
Matt Blewitt
Logical Replication Guardrails I’ve been working with logical replication in PostgreSQL recently, and I wanted to share a few...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve been working with logical replication in PostgreSQL recently, and I wanted to share a few thoughts on how to implement some guardrails to make things easier on operators.
Himanshu Mishra |...
Brain, Mind and Consciousness — Essay Layers of ‘I’ when perceiving anything which is external to it Thanks to Montaigne, one of the first...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Layers of ‘I’ when perceiving anything which is external to it Thanks to Montaigne, one of the first essay writers, for popularizing this…
Posts on Made of...
Exploiting misuse of Python's "pickle" If you program in Python, you’re probably familiar with the pickle serialization library, which...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you program in Python, you’re probably familiar with the pickle serialization library, which provides for efficient binary serialization and loading of Python datatypes. Hopefully, you’re also familiar with the warning printed prominently near the start of pickle’s...
Odds and Ends of...
Britain should ban TikTok My uncharacteristically illiberal opinion
5 months ago
Arduino Blog
Kickstart your tech journey, with the new Arduino Plug and Make Kit! Hey, creating an IoT device shouldn’t be rocket science. We believe technology is for everyone....
a year ago
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a year ago
Hey, creating an IoT device shouldn’t be rocket science. We believe technology is for everyone. That’s why we’ve developed the whole new, beginner-friendly Plug and Make Kit – the easiest way to get started with Arduino!  Inside the box, you’ll find everything you need to create...
anderegg.ca
How decentralized is Bluesky really? Here’s an excellent article from Christine Lemmer-Webber that takes a deeper technical look into...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Here’s an excellent article from Christine Lemmer-Webber that takes a deeper technical look into some of the criticisms I had in my previous piece. The article is long, but very much worth a read. From the conclusion: Bluesky is built by good people who care, and it is providing...
Jonas Hietala
Zucchini Crabcakes With a tiny bit more planning I made a dinner out the lessons 4 and 5 as the crabcakes were only...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
With a tiny bit more planning I made a dinner out the lessons 4 and 5 as the crabcakes were only supposed to be an appetizer: Crabcakes: Surprisingly delicious. Both me and Veronica gives them a 7. Zucchini: While I thought they passed Veronica said “Zucchini is not my thing” and...
Arduino Blog
This DIY standing desk controller provides luxury car-style memory settings One of the best features you’ll find on a fancy luxury car is seat position memory. Typically, there...
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One of the best features you’ll find on a fancy luxury car is seat position memory. Typically, there are at least two profiles that “save” the position of the seat. When switching drivers, the new seat occupant can simply push the button for their profile and the seat will...
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Book Review: ANSI Common Lisp Score: 4.5 / 5 Paul Graham and his editor(s) are excellent. His prose is light and easy to follow....
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Score: 4.5 / 5 Paul Graham and his editor(s) are excellent. His prose is light and easy to follow. The only awkward component of the book's organization is that he tends to use a concept one section before explicitly introducing and defining that concept. I'm not sure yet if this...
Jorge Arango
One Year of “Duly Noted” Duly Noted just celebrated its first birthday. It’s an opportunity for me to reflect on what’s...
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Duly Noted just celebrated its first birthday. It’s an opportunity for me to reflect on what’s changed since it came out. The book’s central premise is evergreen: thinking isn’t limited to the spongy mass between your ears. Instead, you think by interacting with your environment...
Simply Explained
Serverless Anagram Solver with Cloudflare R2 and Pages Six years ago, I reworked my anagram solver so it would run on top of AWS Lambda and DynamoDB....
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Six years ago, I reworked my anagram solver so it would run on top of AWS Lambda and DynamoDB. However, this year I realized I didn't need server-side code or a database at all. I could make it completely static by pre-computing anagram solutions.
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Why I support privacy
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Book review: The Joy of Cryptography Mike Rosulek, Oregon State University. Draft of January 3, 2021. Online: The Joy of Cryptography....
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Mike Rosulek, Oregon State University. Draft of January 3, 2021. Online: The Joy of Cryptography. This is a freely-available book covering introductory material on cryptography. It’s suitable for anyone with undergraduate-level computer science knowledge. As is often the case in...
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2023-03-24 docker Lately I tend to stick to topics that are historic by at least twenty years, and that does have a...
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Lately I tend to stick to topics that are historic by at least twenty years, and that does have a lot of advantages. But I am supposedly a DevOps professional, and so I will occasionally indulge in giving DevOps advice... or at least opinions, which are sort of like advice but...
Matt Blewitt
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I’ve been having a bunch of conversations with my team about our career ladder, and what it means to be “senior” in a software engineering context. It’s a little different in every company, but here is my view.
Matt Mullenweg
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It’s so funny that my random re-engagement with Radiohead re-emergence coincides with them doing a new entity that might mean something. I did a poll on Twitter and people preferred OK Computer to Kid A 78%!
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rustc: error while loading shared libraries: librustc_driver I had installed and used rust already but today I fired it up and received: rustc...
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I had installed and used rust already but today I fired it up and received: rustc --version rustc: error while loading shared libraries: librustc_driver-7e44814b.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I’ve seen this before… I thought modifying...
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FOSDEM 2024: my experience, some notes and tech tips I finally went to FOSDEM. I’m sleep-deprived, completely exhausted, but incredibly excited about the...
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I finally went to FOSDEM. I’m sleep-deprived, completely exhausted, but incredibly excited about the whole experience. I’ve split this post into three separate sections. overall notes on the conference and the city less technical, but sheds light on the FOSDEM experience the...
Greater Still by...
Better Interfaces, Better Products Identity via algorithms, wallets as browsers, crypto's "front page" — how interfaces govern the way...
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Identity via algorithms, wallets as browsers, crypto's "front page" — how interfaces govern the way we interact with the world
Louwrentius
Is there an easy and secure way to transfer files? Many organisations just assume that the local physical network is trusted. That their network...
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Many organisations just assume that the local physical network is trusted. That their network equipment is physically secure and that it is impossible for an attacker to get on the wire and start eavesdropping on network traffic. Many organisations do not seem too concerned about...
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Memory and Mental Health It's been known for a while that depression can cause us to not remember finer details of an past...
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It's been known for a while that depression can cause us to not remember finer details of an past event (or) even cause forgetfulness of future events. But while depressed, We have no dearth of negative thoughts and memories i.e. Rumination. Since rumination weakens our cognitive...
Simply Explained
Shelly 2.5: Flash ESPHome Over The Air! It's no secret that I'm a fan of Shelly products to automate various devices in my house. They're...
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It's no secret that I'm a fan of Shelly products to automate various devices in my house. They're well built, tiny and rock solid, and best of all: compatible with ESPHome.I flashed ESPHome onto all my Shelly 1's, but for some reason, I have issues with my Shelly 2.5 devices......
Jonas Hietala
Weekend Tournaments This weekend was filled by playing cards. On Saturday I hosted a small Game of Thrones tournament...
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This weekend was filled by playing cards. On Saturday I hosted a small Game of Thrones tournament and on Sunday the local Netrunner community hosted a small summer kit tournament. Game of Thrones We’ve had a similar tournament once before when me and my girlfriend invited two of...
Applied Cartography
Notes on 'Founder Mode' / Lieutenancy In Paul Graham’s latest essay, he writes: The theme of Brian's talk was that the conventional wisdom...
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In Paul Graham’s latest essay, he writes: The theme of Brian's talk was that the conventional wisdom about how to run larger companies is mistaken. As Airbnb grew, well-meaning people advised him that he had to run the company in a certain way for it to scale. Their advice could...
Birchtree
You have got to be kidding me Mia Sato writing for The Verge: Elon Musk’s $1 Million Handout Winners Are Connected to Republican...
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Mia Sato writing for The Verge: Elon Musk’s $1 Million Handout Winners Are Connected to Republican Causes On Sunday, a few thousand people in Green Bay, Wisconsin, gathered to hear Elon Musk speak — and give away two giant cardboard checks for $1 million. Attendance at the event
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Obsession In your professional and personal life, I don't believe there is a stronger motivation than having...
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In your professional and personal life, I don't believe there is a stronger motivation than having something in mind and the desire to do it. Yet the natural way to deal with a desire to do something is to justify why it's not possible. "I want to read more books but nobody reads...
Jorge Arango
Gall’s Law Strikes Again: the Sonos Debacle Update: in the afternoon of January 14, news emerged that Sonos CPO Maxime Bouvat-Merlin is also...
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Update: in the afternoon of January 14, news emerged that Sonos CPO Maxime Bouvat-Merlin is also leaving the company. Sonos CEO Patrick Spence is out, felled by last year’s disastrous app launch. I have no inside track on what happened, but from what I’ve read, Sonos’s leaders...
Old Vintage...
prior-art-dept.: The hierarchical hypermedia world of Hyper-G Prior Art Department and today we'll consider a forgotten yet still extant sidebar of the early...
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Prior Art Department and today we'll consider a forgotten yet still extant sidebar of the early 1990s Internet. If you had Internet access at home back then, it was almost certainly dialup modem (like I did); only the filthy rich had T1 lines or ISDN. Moreover, from a user...
Arduino Blog
What can you do with Arduino and a new 3D printer? When 3D printing matured from an industrial edge case to a mainstream commercial technology in the...
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When 3D printing matured from an industrial edge case to a mainstream commercial technology in the 2010s, it captured the imaginations of everyone from schoolteachers to fashion designers. But if there’s one group that really, really got excited about 3D printing, it was makers....
Arduino Blog
Transform trash into treasure with the DIY Bottle Plotter Manufacturers put a lot of effort into their packaging (there is an entire engineering discipline...
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Manufacturers put a lot of effort into their packaging (there is an entire engineering discipline just for that) and some of it can be quite beautiful. But it usually still ends up in the landfill or, at best, in a recycling center. However, if you’re the type of person who can...
Jonas Hietala
Up like a Sun, Down like a Pancake I was looking forward to this weekend, for Ludum Dare and for me to finally make a game again. But...
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I was looking forward to this weekend, for Ludum Dare and for me to finally make a game again. But it just don’t feel right to me. I’m not prepared, I feel a little bit stressed and I don’t really have faith in my game so I’m gonna step down this one as well. But it’s fine, Ludum...
Old Vintage...
Refurb weekend: Canon Cat It's the Memorial Day holiday weekend and it's time for a little deferred maintenance, especially on...
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It's the Memorial Day holiday weekend and it's time for a little deferred maintenance, especially on those machines I intend to work on more in the near future. So we'll start with one that's widely considered to be a remarkable cul-de-sac in computing history: the Canon...
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The marvelous disappearing capacitor The performance of photodiode amplifiers can be improved in a clever way.
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Monaco What's Yours is Mine I’ve been waiting for soon to be three years for Monaco What’s Yours is Mine, and today I was...
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I’ve been waiting for soon to be three years for Monaco What’s Yours is Mine, and today I was granted an early christmas present - I was given a beta key! w00p!! I was planning on studying and sending some emails to some companies… But who knows what I’ll end up doing? Tomorrow...
Home on Erik...
Implicit data and collaborative filtering A lot of people these days know about collaborative filtering. It's that Netflix Prize thing, right?...
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A lot of people these days know about collaborative filtering. It's that Netflix Prize thing, right? People rate things 1-5 stars and then you have to predict missing ratings. While there's no doubt that the Netflix Prize was successful, I think it created an illusion that all...
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Oh, Today is Diwali? Happy Diwali ! "First brush your teeth, then touch anything," Mommy used to say whenever I tried to sneak in to the...
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"First brush your teeth, then touch anything," Mommy used to say whenever I tried to sneak in to the kitchen for the Diwali sweets. Today…
./techtipsy
Your Wi-Fi might be terrible because of Dynamic Frequency Selection (DFS) For a few months, I had issues with my Wi-Fi network. The 2.4 GHz network would be fine, but the 5...
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For a few months, I had issues with my Wi-Fi network. The 2.4 GHz network would be fine, but the 5 GHz one would suddenly stop working and completely disappear from the available Wi-Fi networks. OpenWRT upgrades also didn’t improve the situation. This was very annoying. After...
Jorge Arango
Traction Heroes Ep. 7: Better Questions Conversations on the Traction Heroes podcast are proving highly relevant. To wit, episode 7 delves...
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Conversations on the Traction Heroes podcast are proving highly relevant. To wit, episode 7 delves into how the questions we ask ourselves influence our ability to act skillfully. This came up in the context of dealing with uncertainty. Specifically, Harry brought to the...
Home on Erik...
coin2dice Here's a problem that I used to give to candidates. I stopped using it seriously a long time ago...
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Here's a problem that I used to give to candidates. I stopped using it seriously a long time ago since I don't believe in puzzles, but I think it's kind of fun. Let's say you have a function that simulates a random coin flip.
computers are bad
2023-01-29 the parallel port A few days ago, on a certain orange website, I came across an article about an improvised parallel...
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A few days ago, on a certain orange website, I came across an article about an improvised parallel printer capture device. This contains the line: There are other projects out there, but when you google for terms such as "parallel port to usb", they drown in a sea of "USB to...
Krebs on Security
China-based SMS Phishing Triad Pivots to Banks China-based purveyors of SMS phishing kits are enjoying remarkable success converting phished...
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China-based purveyors of SMS phishing kits are enjoying remarkable success converting phished payment card data into mobile wallets from Apple and Google. Until recently, the so-called “Smishing Triad” mainly impersonated toll road operators and shipping companies. But experts...
Jonas Hietala
Postmortem: Black and White All this time working on my latest game I thought it sucked and I was trying hard to make it to not...
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All this time working on my latest game I thought it sucked and I was trying hard to make it to not suck. My spirit wasn’t high, just check this post and this but now when it’s done it’s like night and day, or like black and white! I’m damn happy I got it done!! Aah I’ll try to...
Birchtree
The LLM bubble might be about to burst (but not for the reason you think) Ben Turner: Chinese Researchers Just Built an Open-Source Rival to ChatGPT in 2 Months. Silicon...
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Ben Turner: Chinese Researchers Just Built an Open-Source Rival to ChatGPT in 2 Months. Silicon Valley Is Freaked Out. Now, R1 has also surpassed ChatGPT's latest o1 model in many of the same tests. This impressive performance at a fraction of the cost of other models, its...
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Plus Post: Rockwell AIM 65 The Company Rockwell International has been around for quite a while. Willard Rockwell started the...
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The Company Rockwell International has been around for quite a while. Willard Rockwell started the company in 1919 to sell a newly designed truck axle bearing. Over the years, Rockwell acquired businesses in many different fields, including defense, industrial electronics,...
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Refund Policy The legal terms mentioned here covers abishekmuthian.com and products which explicitly link to this...
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The legal terms mentioned here covers abishekmuthian.com and products which explicitly link to this legal page. For legal terms of my individual products please refer to the legal section on their respective websites. Refund For refunds of any digital goods purchased via...
Elevation Lab - Blog
Designers Desk #2 - Aaron Della Vedova Designer's Desk is a new series featuring the desk setups of artists, designers, and creators -...
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Designer's Desk is a new series featuring the desk setups of artists, designers, and creators - showcasing how they work and what their workspace looks like.   Aaron Della Vedova is one of the world's most celebrated tattoo artists and the owner of Guru Tattoo, which has two...
Construction Physics
Do U.S. Ports Need More Automation? On October 1st, 47,000 members of the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA), primarily...
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On October 1st, 47,000 members of the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA), primarily dockworkers on East and Gulf Coast ports, went on strike after failing to agree contract terms with USMX, an alliance of port operators and employers.
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Housekeeping for 20240309 Super quick updates
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Comics from 1983/12 Issue of Videogaming and Computer Gaming Illustrated Time for some oldie levity.
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Willem's Blog
Updating Snake '97 This month I bit the bullet big time: I redesigned the game engine of the wildly popular Snake '97...
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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.
Ken Shirriff's blog
Notes on the Pentium's microcode circuitry Most people think of machine instructions as the fundamental steps that a computer...
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Most people think of machine instructions as the fundamental steps that a computer performs. However, many processors have another layer of software underneath: microcode. With microcode, instead of building the processor's control circuitry from complex logic gates, the control...
Lighthouse Blog
How to organize content
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Good Enough
The Space Between Us Good Enough is a fully-remote team, and I think it's safe to say that we'll never have a physical...
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Good Enough is a fully-remote team, and I think it's safe to say that we'll never have a physical office. I've been working remotely for more than ten years, and overall I really like it. I love the flexibility it affords, being more present with our families, and that my...
Louwrentius
Monitoring HP MSA P2000 G3 I/O latency with Nagios At work we have a couple of HP MSA P2000 G3 SANs. These are entry-level SANs that still seem to have...
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At work we have a couple of HP MSA P2000 G3 SANs. These are entry-level SANs that still seem to have almost all features you might want from a SAN, except for official SSD-support. It seems that the new MSA 2040 adds support for SSDs and also provides 4 GB cache per controller...
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Intuitions for Distributed Consensus by Phil Eaton This is an external talk of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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Abishek Muthian
The common theme is focus Meditation, Mindfulness, Flow etc. The common theme seems to be 'Focus'. Focus is a key component...
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Meditation, Mindfulness, Flow etc. The common theme seems to be 'Focus'. Focus is a key component for mental health, Yet it has been made very expensive thanks to constant assault on our senses by the corporations who would then sell their 'Mindfulness' app back to us. Chat apps...
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A Guide to 99% Fault Tolerant Consensus
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Louwrentius
Understanding Ceph: open-source scalable storage Introduction In this blog post I will try to explain why I believe Ceph is such an interesting...
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Introduction In this blog post I will try to explain why I believe Ceph is such an interesting storage solution. After you finished reading this blog post you should have a good high-level overview of Ceph. I've written this blog post purely because I'm a storage enthusiast and I...
Birchtree
🫡 A certain individual who owns a certain social media site spoke at a certain President's...
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A certain individual who owns a certain social media site spoke at a certain President's inauguration earlier this week and at one point gave a very distinctive salute. Now look, I'm not calling this billionaire a Nazi, and I'm not telling you whether I
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How do layer 2s really differ from execution sharding?
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Willem's Blog
Multi-Window support in your iPad app Take advantage of the improved support for multiple windows on iPadOS by implementing new UI...
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Take advantage of the improved support for multiple windows on iPadOS by implementing new UI concepts enabling different use cases for your app.
Lighthouse Blog
How to combine multiple RSS feeds in one view
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Electronics etc…
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Introduction Finding the Display Tuning Potentiometers The Result Hardcopy Preview Mode Introduction Less than a week after finishing my TDS 684B analog memory blog post, a TDS 684C landed on my lab bench with a very dim CRT. If you follow the lives the 3-digit TDS oscilloscope...
Willem's Blog
The value of notifications It's easy to dismiss your phone's notifications as something that disturbs you, but if you take the...
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It's easy to dismiss your phone's notifications as something that disturbs you, but if you take the time to set them up correctly, notifications can actually save you time!
Lighthouse Blog
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Friend of the Tree I just noticed I was recognized as a friend of the tree in a weekly meeting by the rust team. It...
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I just noticed I was recognized as a friend of the tree in a weekly meeting by the rust team. It came during my documentation sprint during IDA Summer of Code and I discovered it now, only two and a half month later. Still a very pleasant surprise!
The Pragmatic...
The Pragmatic Engineer: Cyber Monday Deals It's Cyber Monday: and I'm offering one-day, one-off discounts on my ebooks, as well as on The...
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It's Cyber Monday: and I'm offering one-day, one-off discounts on my ebooks, as well as on The Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. Here they are: The Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter: 20% off, for the first year, for annual subscriptions. Claim it here. See more details, and read reviews...
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Degen communism: the only correct political ideology
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Birchtree
The tale of Narcissus Ted Gioia: What's Happening to Students? I’m dumbfounded when I hear ‘experts’ claim that phones are...
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Ted Gioia: What's Happening to Students? I’m dumbfounded when I hear ‘experts’ claim that phones are not the problem. Like tobacco companies—whose hired experts long denied the connection between smoking and cancer—they say that “correlation does not prove causation.
Arduino Blog
Use sound to trigger your camera’s flash with this DIY device In the world of photography, the exposure triangle is immutable. To get a properly exposed photo...
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In the world of photography, the exposure triangle is immutable. To get a properly exposed photo (not too bright or too dark), you need a balance of aperture size (how much light gets in), shutter speed (how long the light gets in), and ISO (sensitivity to light at the expense of...
Arduino Blog
Harness the power and connectivity of your Arduino UNO R4 WiFi with this IoT lamp It can be tough to get started with building an Internet of Things (IoT) project from the ground-up,...
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It can be tough to get started with building an Internet of Things (IoT) project from the ground-up, as getting connected, serving a webpage, and managing other devices can all be a challenge to a beginner. This is why the YouTuber known as “Mario’s Ideas” made an end-to-end...
Arduino Blog
Welcoming ControlSI to the Arduino Pro System Integrators Partnership Program! We’re thrilled to announce the latest member of our System Integrators Partnership Program (SIPP):...
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We’re thrilled to announce the latest member of our System Integrators Partnership Program (SIPP): ControlSI, based in Peru, is well known for their expertise in Industry 4.0 solutions – including industrial automation, operational intelligence, data analytics, computer vision,...
Good Enough
Season 3, Issue 3: Cosmic Maelstrom 1. Team Full It's exciting times over here at Good Enough HQ! (There is no Good Enough HQ. I'd say...
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1. Team Full It's exciting times over here at Good Enough HQ! (There is no Good Enough HQ. I'd say it's in the cloud, but even clouds are now looked down upon as dirtyish things that should not be enjoyed. And not because of air pollution per se, though perhaps because of...
Louwrentius
Storage and I/O: reads vs. writes There is a fundamental difference between a read operation and a write operation. Storage can lie...
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There is a fundamental difference between a read operation and a write operation. Storage can lie about completing a write operation, but it can never lie about completing a read operation. Therefore read and writes have different characteristics. This is what I've learned. About...
Jonas Hietala
5 Years at Linköping's University I recently finished my master’s degree (civilingenjör or civil engineering) at Linköping’s...
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I recently finished my master’s degree (civilingenjör or civil engineering) at Linköping’s University. At first it felt like 5 years would be an eternity, but in hindsight it was over in a flash. my gut feeling is that I haven’t learnt or done anything of note, except you know...
Construction Physics
Why Is Homeowners Insurance Getting So Expensive? The recent Los Angeles fires have highlighted the rising costs of homeowners insurance in the US.
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GitButler
Why GitHub Actually Won How GitHub _actually_ became the dominant force it is today, from one of it's cofounders.
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May Day activation on island of Hailuoto May Day is celebrated on first of May.
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Home on Erik...
Toxic meeting culture I spent six years at a company that went from 50 people to 1500 and one contributing factor leading...
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I spent six years at a company that went from 50 people to 1500 and one contributing factor leading to my departure was that I went from a “maker” to a person stuck in meetings every day.
Abishek Muthian
Backup PostgreSQL to cloud This post will help you with easy, cost-effective and secure way to backup your PostgreSQL database...
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This post will help you with easy, cost-effective and secure way to backup your PostgreSQL database to cloud. Create local scheduled backup of PostgreSQL database Login as postgres user on the console (tmux is recommended). Create .pgpass file to access database without entering...
Odds and Ends of...
Yes, AI really can be used to tackle potholes It's not bullshit, it's already happening.
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Neil Madden
Entity authentication with a KEM In cryptography, the process of authenticating a user (or app/service) is known as entity...
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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...
Jorge Arango
Traction Heroes Ep. 6: Chesterton’s Fence In Episode 6 of the Traction Heroes podcast, Harry and I explored Chesterton’s fence — a simple yet...
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In Episode 6 of the Traction Heroes podcast, Harry and I explored Chesterton’s fence — a simple yet profound idea that has important implications for leaders navigating complex, high-stakes changes. The gist: when change is needed, don’t start by destroying what you don’t...
Simply Explained
How I Built an NFC Movie Library for my Kids When I was a kid, my sister and I had a tower of VHS tapes we watched endlessly. Fast-forward to...
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When I was a kid, my sister and I had a tower of VHS tapes we watched endlessly. Fast-forward to today, and my children's movie collection is vastly different. It's completely digital and dispersed across services. I wanted to recreate the tangible magic of my childhood for them.
Construction Physics
Does All Semiconductor Manufacturing Depend on Spruce Pine Quartz? Here’s an idea you see spreading across the internet every so often: that all semiconductor and...
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Here’s an idea you see spreading across the internet every so often: that all semiconductor and solar PV manufacturing depends on extremely pure quartz from the town of Spruce Pine, North Carolina.
Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing CordDock! We spend a lot of time thinking about & observing people charge their devices. Cords are nice...
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We spend a lot of time thinking about & observing people charge their devices. Cords are nice because you can easily hold, text, browse and do everything you normally do on your phone while it charges. But cords require both hands to plug in, you have to hunt for the cord head, &...
Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course Week 7: Gilgamesh Week 7 of my humanities crash course had me exploring ancient Mesopotamia with a side trip to...
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Week 7 of my humanities crash course had me exploring ancient Mesopotamia with a side trip to northern India. I also watched an Iranian film that had me pondering the meaning of life. Readings This week, I read two short ancient texts: the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Dhammapada....
Louwrentius
Linux Software RAID benchmarking script Just a small post. To benchmark your Linux software RAID array as setup with MDADM, please use...
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Just a small post. To benchmark your Linux software RAID array as setup with MDADM, please use my new benchmark script. I used this script to create these results. You may need to configure some values within the header of this file to make it fit your enviroment. ...
Birchtree
My favorite (and least favorite) movies of 2024 I’ve watched 48 new release movies in 2024, and with just a few weeks left in the year, I wanted to...
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I’ve watched 48 new release movies in 2024, and with just a few weeks left in the year, I wanted to make what is my current top 10 (plus honorable mentions & worst movies). As we get to the end of the year and you might have some
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #50: The weird thing about London's New Year's Fireworks Plus how the government should respond to Musk's nonsense, and an AI video that might just show us...
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Plus how the government should respond to Musk's nonsense, and an AI video that might just show us how video production is going to change.
Never Met a Science
What Are Survey Experiments For? The titular question emerged as I was working with Alessandro Vecchiato on our visual conjoint...
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The titular question emerged as I was working with Alessandro Vecchiato on our visual conjoint experiment, just published at the Journal of Experimental Political Science:
Posts on Made of...
CVE-2010-4258: Turning denial-of-service into privilege escalation Dan Rosenberg recently released a privilege escalation bug for Linux, based on three different...
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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...
Electronics etc…
Guide Technology GT300 Frequency Standard Teardown MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [...
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MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [ ['$', '$'], ["\\(", "\\)"] ], displayMath: [ ['$$', '$$'], ["\\[", "\\]"] ], processEscapes: true, skipTags: ['script', 'noscript', 'style', 'textarea', 'pre',...
Abishek Muthian
The immediate threat is AR and not AI Disclaimer: This is an attempt at trolling and satire. Don’t just tag me under technology fear...
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Disclaimer: This is an attempt at trolling and satire. Don’t just tag me under technology fear mongerer, I’m going to present an acute scenario in which AR could be misused to inflict significant damage to a large population. As a technology evangelist, I’am very excited to see...
Home on Erik...
Machine, Platform, Crowd I just bought Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future and discovered that it...
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over a year ago
I just bought Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future and discovered that it mentions my blog – in particular the post When machine learning matters. Ok, I lied a little bit. I didn't discover it serendipitously.
Jonas Hietala
Doing some online Personality tests For some reason I’ve done a couple of personality tests the last month, mostly to satisfy my own...
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For some reason I’ve done a couple of personality tests the last month, mostly to satisfy my own curiosity. The Braverman Test Inspired by Charles Poliquin’s visit on The Tim Ferriss Show I tried out the Braverman test to determine my neurotransmitter type. The point Charles...
Arduino Blog
This 3D-printed robotic arm can be built with just a few inexpensive components Robotics is already an intimidating field, thanks to the complexity involved. And the cost of parts,...
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Robotics is already an intimidating field, thanks to the complexity involved. And the cost of parts, such as actuators, only increases that feeling of inaccessibility. But as FABRI Creator shows in their most recent video, you can build a useful robotic arm with just a handful of...
Lighthouse Blog
How to manually add content to read it later
a year ago
Home on Erik...
Vote for our SXSW panel! If you have a few minutes, you should check out mine and Chris Johnson‘s panel proposal. Go here and...
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If you have a few minutes, you should check out mine and Chris Johnson‘s panel proposal. Go here and vote: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/24504 Algorithmic Music Discovery at Spotify ****Spotify crunches hundreds of billions of streams to analyze user's music taste and provide...
Jonas Hietala
Exploring the Gleam FFI My brain is a curious thing. I’m on a business trip right now and I’ve set aside time to finish some...
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My brain is a curious thing. I’m on a business trip right now and I’ve set aside time to finish some important todos I want and need to get done. But instead of focusing on them, I started playing around with Gleam—a young and interesting programming language. My (current)...
Arduino Blog
It’s silver, it’s green, it’s the Batteryrunner! An Arduino-powered, fully custom electric car Inventor Charly Bosch and his daughter Leonie have crafted something truly remarkable: a fully...
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Inventor Charly Bosch and his daughter Leonie have crafted something truly remarkable: a fully electric, Arduino-powered car that’s as innovative as it is sustainable. Called the Batteryrunner, this vehicle is designed with a focus on environmental impact, simplicity, and custom...
csvbase blog
I didn't write any Javascript, and other shortcuts Getting it done by not doing a lot of it
a year ago
Applied Cartography
Migrating someone who's on Stripe Connect Express Most Stripe accounts on Substack are “Standard Connect”, which essentially means that: the author...
a year ago
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a year ago
Most Stripe accounts on Substack are “Standard Connect”, which essentially means that: the author has full agency over their account and is the merchant of record; they can revoke OAuth access from Substack (or whomever) at any time; Substack continues to take that 10% as an...
Notes on software...
Transactions are a protocol Transactions are not an intrinsic part of a storage system. Any storage system can be made...
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3 months ago
Transactions are not an intrinsic part of a storage system. Any storage system can be made transactional: Redis, S3, the filesystem, etc. Delta Lake and Orleans demonstrated techniques to make S3 (or cloud storage in general) transactional. Epoxy demonstrated techniques to make...
Louwrentius
Don't be afraid of RAID Introduction I sense this sentiment on the internet that RAID is dangerous, that the likelihood of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Introduction I sense this sentiment on the internet that RAID is dangerous, that the likelihood of your RAID array failing during a rebuild is almost a certainty, because hard drives have become so large. I think nothing is further from the truth and I would like to dispel this...
Louwrentius
Making cowpatty recognize a four-way handshake I was unable to get cowpatty working with a packet capture that actually contains a four-way...
over a year ago
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I was unable to get cowpatty working with a packet capture that actually contains a four-way handshake of a WPA session. I got it working like this: First, download cowpatty 4.6 right here, within the source directory of cowpatty. Extract cowpatty and apply this patch using these...
Jorge Arango
Don’t Let the Drawings Distract You: AI is Not About the Output Last week, I spoke with a business leader who’s excited about AI. But as we talked, it became clear...
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Last week, I spoke with a business leader who’s excited about AI. But as we talked, it became clear that there’s a wide gulf between enthusiasm and creating value for a particular business. Most people’s impression of AI is based on limited use and media hype. Take the recent...
Odds and Ends of...
DeepSeek isn't a victory for the AI sceptics Am I mad... or is everyone else?
5 months ago
Home on Erik...
On the Equifax breach and how to really prevent identity theft A funny thing about being a foreigner is how you realize people take broken things for granted. I'm...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A funny thing about being a foreigner is how you realize people take broken things for granted. I'm going to go out on a limb here claiming that the US has a pretty dumb banking system.
Bryan Braun - Blog
Made in 2024 Here are some things I made in 2024: Music Box Fun: Advanced Editing (a new major feature): ...
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Here are some things I made in 2024: Music Box Fun: Advanced Editing (a new major feature): Adds multiple-note selection for bulk operations on notes (like deletion, copy/paste, nudging and dragging) Also includes a “space editor” for arbitrarily adding/removing space...
Matt Mullenweg
Greatest Hits I’ve been blogging now for approximately 8,465 days since my first post on Movable Type. My...
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I’ve been blogging now for approximately 8,465 days since my first post on Movable Type. My colleague Dan Luu helped me compile some of the “greatest hits” from the archives of ma.tt, perhaps some posts will stir some memories for you as well: Where Did WordCamps Come From?...
Greater Still by...
Finance, Fairer Sharing our investment in Jia, which turns crypto liquidity into working capital for small...
over a year ago
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Sharing our investment in Jia, which turns crypto liquidity into working capital for small businesses in every corner of the world.
Engineers Need Art
The First Time I Was Almost Fired From Apple Oh yes, I screwed up more than once during my tenure at Apple.
a month ago
Notes on software...
Finding memory leaks in Postgres C code This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
a year ago
Computer Ads from...
Rabbit Software's Death Star Attila the Hun. Ivan the Terrible. Count Dracula. The Daleks. More evil then all of them put...
2 months ago
Good Enough
Cool URLs Don’t Die If you've been reading our newsletter (and you should be reading our newsletter) you will have seen...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you've been reading our newsletter (and you should be reading our newsletter) you will have seen that I've been building some printers. This is actually the resurrection of a project I began in 2012 with the help of some colleagues, and while I've been updating it, it's been...
Ken Shirriff's blog
It's time to abandon the cargo cult metaphor The cargo cult metaphor is commonly used by programmers. This metaphor was popularized by Richard...
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The cargo cult metaphor is commonly used by programmers. This metaphor was popularized by Richard Feynman's "cargo cult science" talk with a vivid description of South Seas cargo cults. However, this metaphor has three major problems. First, the pop-culture depiction of cargo...
Applied Cartography
Klarna: nineteen years, twenty billion kroner I tend to ignore the entire genre of what we now refer to as BNPL businesses — Affirm, Afterpay...
7 months ago
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I tend to ignore the entire genre of what we now refer to as BNPL businesses — Affirm, Afterpay (RIP), Klarna, et al — not for any particular sin I feel that they are committing, but because they in my mind are much less interesting companies with less volatile upside than the...
Electronics etc…
ThinMachine - a $25 Thin Client MacOS Time Machine Appliance The instructions below set up Time Machine using the Apple File Protocol (AFP). After publishing...
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The instructions below set up Time Machine using the Apple File Protocol (AFP). After publishing this blog post, I’ve been told that this is now deprecated and that Samba should be used instead. I’ll update this blog post in the near future. Introduction The HP t520 Thin...
Arduino Blog
Coolest controllers ever? Icy gamepads melt in users’ hands Nintendo’s Joy-Con controller system is very innovative and generally well-regarded, with one major...
a year ago
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a year ago
Nintendo’s Joy-Con controller system is very innovative and generally well-regarded, with one major exception: stick drift. That’s a reliability issue that eventually affects a large percentage of Joy-Cons, to the frustration of gamers. But what if that was intentional and...
Abishek Muthian
My Last tweet I was on Twitter 13 years ago, It still had 'Fail Whale' when the platform couldn't handle traffic....
over a year ago
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I was on Twitter 13 years ago, It still had 'Fail Whale' when the platform couldn't handle traffic. Those were the good days, Social media was about connecting with friends, Making new ones and not a democracy destroying tool. If this is my last tweet, Let it be about Twitter...
Louwrentius
RAID 5 is perfectly fine for home usage RAID 5 gets a lot of flak these days. You either run RAID 1, RAID 10 or you use RAID 6, but if you...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
RAID 5 gets a lot of flak these days. You either run RAID 1, RAID 10 or you use RAID 6, but if you run RAID 5 you're told that you are a crazy person. Using RAID 5 is portrayed as an unreasonable risk to the availability of your data. It is suggested that it is likely that you...
Jonas Hietala
Writing Home Assistant automations using Genservers in Elixir I’ve been a fan of Home Assistant a while now; it’s a great platform for home automation with its...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
I’ve been a fan of Home Assistant a while now; it’s a great platform for home automation with its beginner friendly and feature rich UI, support for a ton of different devices and integrations, and there’s a bunch of ways to create automations. But there’s no engine for writing...
Jonas Hietala
Let's build a VORON: Wiring Dread it. Run from it. Wiring arrives all the same. It’s time for the part of my VORON build that...
a year ago
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a year ago
Dread it. Run from it. Wiring arrives all the same. It’s time for the part of my VORON build that I’ve been dreading: the wiring. It’s scary because I really have no clue what I’m doing, and mistakes can be very costly and time-consuming. I’ve taken my time to double- and...
Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing The 10-Year Battery for AirTag My camera bag with $10k of gear was stolen from my car. When I saw the broken glass and empty...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
My camera bag with $10k of gear was stolen from my car. When I saw the broken glass and empty backseat, I immediately pulled up FindMy to track the thief - only to find that its last location was my office 3 months ago... because I hadn't changed the AirTag's battery. It was a...
lcamtuf’s thing
A 15-minute intro to hobby CNC In which the author tilts at windmills for a brief while.
10 months ago
Posts on Made of...
Running Tensorflow on AWS GPUs I’ve been spending some time learning deep learning and tensorflow recently, and as part of that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been spending some time learning deep learning and tensorflow recently, and as part of that project I wanted to be able to train models using GPUs on EC2. This post contains some notes on what it took to get that working. As many people have commented, the environment setup...
Krebs on Security
Pakistani Firm Shipped Fentanyl Analogs, Scams to US A Texas firm recently charged with conspiring to distribute synthetic opioids in the United States...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
A Texas firm recently charged with conspiring to distribute synthetic opioids in the United States is at the center of a vast network of companies in the U.S. and Pakistan whose employees are accused of using online ads to scam westerners seeking help with trademarks, book...
GitButler
GitButler 0.13 - "Lucky Baseball" It has been 4 months since our last minor release. In that time, we have done 27 patch releases,...
8 months ago
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It has been 4 months since our last minor release. In that time, we have done 27 patch releases, adding lots of small features, bug fixes, performance improvements and experiments. Last week we released GitButler 0.13, which is our first release with our new Fearless Rebasing...
Jonas Hietala
Building the GH60 I’ve finally completed my first custom made keyboard. I’m still missing stabilizers and some smaller...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve finally completed my first custom made keyboard. I’m still missing stabilizers and some smaller screws to hold it all together but I’ve been using it the last days and I thought I’d share. The hardware Several years ago I joined the geekhack forum and I joined in a few group...
Odds and Ends of...
Nobody knows what the National Data Library is (not even the government) A policy wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma
8 months ago
./techtipsy
ASRock X570M Pro4 motherboard overview Not too long ago, I had the goal of consolidating all my computing needs onto a single desktop PC....
over a year ago
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Not too long ago, I had the goal of consolidating all my computing needs onto a single desktop PC. That meant moving from an mITX-based build to something that had a bit more expandability. Since I already had a Fractal Meshify C Mini, I decided to go for an mATX motherboard. And...
Jonas Hietala
Blogging in Djot instead of Markdown What if we weren’t chained to the past? What if we tried to create a light markup syntax that keeps...
a year ago
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a year ago
What if we weren’t chained to the past? What if we tried to create a light markup syntax that keeps what is good about Markdown, while revising some of the features that have led to bloat and complexity in the CommonMark spec? John Macfarlane, Beyond Markdown I recently...
Louwrentius
My home network setup based on managed switches and VLANs My home networking setup I live in a two story apartment, with on the top floor my utilities closet...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My home networking setup I live in a two story apartment, with on the top floor my utilities closet and my living room. The bottom floor contains a bedroom with all my servers and networking gear. So this is my setup (click for a bigger version): I like to run my own router but...
Computer Ads from...
Adam Osborne Interview by Practical Computing (1983) Osborne reveals his philosophy
3 months ago
Applied Cartography
Vibes and years XH asks: How do indie developers/small teams keep track of and prioritize long-term roadmaps? I've...
a year ago
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a year ago
XH asks: How do indie developers/small teams keep track of and prioritize long-term roadmaps? I've been basically work off my gut + Feeling of the Day for the past few years, and that's getting a bit unsustainable Buttondown's roadmapping has existed for the past three years in a...
Computer Ads from...
EPYX's Pitstop Where Winning is the Pits.
a year ago
latest projects -...
World's Smallest Molecules [Misc] If ever I had a complaint about molecule models, it's that they're too big.
2 months ago
Abishek Muthian
I found my 7th grade art book ! The drawings from my 7th grade art book gives an insight of what my life and dreams were during that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The drawings from my 7th grade art book gives an insight of what my life and dreams were during that period. I share this is to inspire at-least few to go back and check what they were and what they are now. Art book cover My 7th grade Art notebook. I’m 29 year old Indian male....
Push to Prod
When Overwhelmed, Make a List of Questions In my first big project at Netflix, I learned this disturbingly simple problem-solving technique.
11 months ago
Arduino Blog
Discover #Virgil: history comes to life with Arduino We’re excited to introduce #Virgil, an innovative project that combines the power of Arduino...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
We’re excited to introduce #Virgil, an innovative project that combines the power of Arduino technology with a passion for history, creating a groundbreaking interactive experience for museums.  Using Arduino’s versatile and scalable ecosystem, #Virgil operates completely...
computers are bad
2025-05-04 iBeacons You know sometimes a technology just sort of... comes and goes? Without leaving much of an...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
You know sometimes a technology just sort of... comes and goes? Without leaving much of an impression? And then gets lodged in your brain for the next decade? Let's talk about one of those: the iBeacon. I think the reason that iBeacons loom so large in my memory is that...
Christian Selig
First on New Blog Converted the blog over to a new Hugo theme! Hopefully everything here sorta works. Test post will...
over a year ago
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Converted the blog over to a new Hugo theme! Hopefully everything here sorta works. Test post will remove. This goat’s name is apparently Gubgub, and very cute.
Vitalik Buterin's...
Farklı ZK-EVM Türleri
over a year ago
Computer Ads from...
Plus Post: Centram TOPS Network Can we talk?
4 months ago
Never Met a Science
"do not worry about ethical implications" ....is probably not something you want to be prompting LLMs with
2 months ago
Lighthouse Blog
New feature: RSS feed export
7 months ago
Louwrentius
'Gzip with parallel compression support: pigz' The speed at which files are compressed with gzip is currently almost always determined by the speed...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The speed at which files are compressed with gzip is currently almost always determined by the speed of the CPU. However, standard unix gzip is single- threaded and only uses a single CPU (core). However, the maintainer of the zlib library has released 'pigz' or 'pig-zee' whichs...
Never Met a Science
There's Gold in Them Thar Reels Selling Gold Rushes
8 months ago
Arduino Blog
Arduino Days 2025 is almost here! With just a few days to go, Arduino Days 2025 promises to be one of the biggest and most exciting...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
With just a few days to go, Arduino Days 2025 promises to be one of the biggest and most exciting events in our 20-year history! Join us for two days of live-streamed content on March 21st-22nd, featuring inspiring talks, major product announcements, and community showcases from...
latest projects -...
Smallest USB-C MIDI Synth [Hardware] The smallest and silliest MIDI synth yet
a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Let's build a VORON: Printing & Tuning It’s up and running, and now it’s finally printing time! Less exciting—but necessary—tuning the...
a year ago
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a year ago
It’s up and running, and now it’s finally printing time! Less exciting—but necessary—tuning the printer to make the prints better. Filament shipment Even though I’ve been building the printer for more than a month, I wasn’t ready for it being time for printing so soon. I don’t...
Jonas Hietala
Moving to FastMail About two years ago after Lavabit’s shutdown I searched for a replacement email provider. For some...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
About two years ago after Lavabit’s shutdown I searched for a replacement email provider. For some reason I settled on eumx which I used since then. Yesterday I got an email saying the recurring billing could not be renewed as I had my old credit card registered and it got me...
Evan Hahn's blog
Filling in the gaps of the internet Here’s a small philosophy I have about the internet: I believe that it’s my duty to publish the...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Here’s a small philosophy I have about the internet: I believe that it’s my duty to publish the answer to previously-unanswered questions. That way, the next person who comes along has an easier time. For example, I was once trying to figure out how to skip the first line of a...
Abishek Muthian
Voice summary of news There is a need gap for Human voice summary of news. Until this need gap gets addressed, we can use...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There is a need gap for Human voice summary of news. Until this need gap gets addressed, we can use automation tool like tasker to implement read-aloud feature for news app like inshorts. Requirements Tasker android app. AutoInput android app. Selecting preferred voice in the...
Notes on software...
The limitations of LLMs, or why are we doing RAG? This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
a year ago
Birchtree
Where software innovation is focused right now Craig Mod on The Talk Show: In three minutes, I had that script built with ChatGPT. I could see it,...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Craig Mod on The Talk Show: In three minutes, I had that script built with ChatGPT. I could see it, it's this bash thing, it does this thing, and authenticates with the Google, and it's great! The malleability of macOS is now, I think, giving it
computers are bad
2025-01-05 pairs not taken So we all know about twisted-pair ethernet, huh? I get a little frustrated with a lot of histories...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
So we all know about twisted-pair ethernet, huh? I get a little frustrated with a lot of histories of the topic, like the recent neil breen^w^wserial port video, because they often fail to address some obvious questions about the origin of twisted-pair network cabling. Well, I...
Louwrentius
How to run Debian Linux on an Intel based Mac Mini The Mac Mini is just a gorgeous device. It is beautiful, small, silent, powerfull yet energy...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The Mac Mini is just a gorgeous device. It is beautiful, small, silent, powerfull yet energy efficient. When idle, it uses around 20 watts. I'm using one of the first Intel-based Minis with an Intel Core Duo chip, running at 1.6 Ghz. I want to use this mini as an expensive router...
Home on Erik...
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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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.
Arduino Blog
Tecnoseta revives the silk industry with open-source innovation The silk industry has a rich history in Italy, but modern challenges have brought this centuries-old...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
The silk industry has a rich history in Italy, but modern challenges have brought this centuries-old tradition to the brink of decline. Once a cornerstone of the rural economy in Italy, with a strong presence in Zagarolo, Rome, silk production has dwindled in the country due to...
Krebs on Security
Funding Expires for Key Cyber Vulnerability Database A critical resource that cybersecurity professionals worldwide rely on to identify, mitigate and fix...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
A critical resource that cybersecurity professionals worldwide rely on to identify, mitigate and fix security vulnerabilities in software and hardware is in danger of breaking down. The federally funded, non-profit research and development organization MITRE warned today that its...
Louwrentius
The future of ZFS now that OpenSolaris is dead With the probable loss of OpenSolaris, there may be another, maybe more devastating loss. The very...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
With the probable loss of OpenSolaris, there may be another, maybe more devastating loss. The very popular and very advanced Zetabyte File System (ZFS) The only open source platform that actively supports ZFS is FreeBSD. And they just 'copied' the code from OpenSolaris. Are they...
Abishek Muthian
Pricing Bone Health Tracker Premium Track your bone health, Monitor the progress of your treatments. Get...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Bone Health Tracker Premium Track your bone health, Monitor the progress of your treatments. Get more reports and cloud sync for just ₹1,332.21/year Free Premium Parsed BMD reports ✓ ✓ Skeleton visualization ✓ ✓ T-Score chart ✓ ✓ Z-Score chart ✓ ✓ Submit reports without private...
computers are bad
2023-06-02 the reinvention of owens lake Programming note: In an effort to introduce an exciting new social aspect to Computers Are Bad (a...
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over a year ago
Programming note: In an effort to introduce an exciting new social aspect to Computers Are Bad (a functional necessity to appease early-stage investor demands for "engagement")¸ I am launching a Matrix room for CAB readers. You can join it! Do whatever you do to join rooms in...
Willem's Blog
Migrating to the Cloud Helping a customer clear its on-premise data room and migrate to the cloud: an adventure full of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Helping a customer clear its on-premise data room and migrate to the cloud: an adventure full of cables, cabinets and bandwidth!
Jonas Hietala
2015 Read Books I didn’t read a lot of books in 2015, but the books I did read were pretty damn good. Fiction A Song...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I didn’t read a lot of books in 2015, but the books I did read were pretty damn good. Fiction A Song of Ice and Fire: A Dance with Dragons - George R.R. Martin Reread. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms - Gearge R.R. Martin The Skin Collector - Jeffery Deaver Best Served Cold - Joe...
./techtipsy
I've reached the self-hosting endgame Setup After I had a perfectly functional, quiet and performant server up and running, I fell victim...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Setup After I had a perfectly functional, quiet and performant server up and running, I fell victim to my imagination and completely changed my self-hosting setup. Again. Here it is, in all its glory: Well, at least that’s what’s on the table. This machine is a true all-in-one:...
Arduino Blog
Build your own 4DOF robotic arm on a budget Robot arms are very cool and can be quite useful, but they also tend to be expensive. That isn’t...
a month ago
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a month ago
Robot arms are very cool and can be quite useful, but they also tend to be expensive. That isn’t just markup either, because the components themselves are pricey. However, you can save a lot of money if you make some sacrifices and build everything yourself. In that case, you can...
Applied Cartography
Hidden settings are for cowards At Stripe, we had two abstractions for branching logic in production: flags, which were meant to be...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
At Stripe, we had two abstractions for branching logic in production: flags, which were meant to be explicitly temporal (temporarily split-testing traffic; rolling out a new feature or code path; exposing a specific path for a cohort of users during a closed beta) and gates,...
Electronics etc…
Setting Up a Symmetricom SyncServer S200 Network Time Protocol Server Introduction What was the SyncServer S200 Supposed to be Used For? IMPORTANT: Use the Right GPS...
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Introduction What was the SyncServer S200 Supposed to be Used For? IMPORTANT: Use the Right GPS Antenna! The SyncServer S200 Outside and Inside Installing the Missing BNC Connectors Setting Up a SyncServer S200 from Scratch Opening up the SyncServer S200 The SyncServer File...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Endnotes on 2020: Crypto and Beyond
over a year ago
Louwrentius
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...
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over a year ago
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...
Birchtree
Apple says they will add encryption to RCS Jess Weatherbed writing for The Verge: Apple Will Soon Support Encrypted RCS Messaging With Android...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Jess Weatherbed writing for The Verge: Apple Will Soon Support Encrypted RCS Messaging With Android Users “End-to-end encryption is a powerful privacy and security technology that iMessage has supported since the beginning, and now we are pleased to have helped lead a cross...
GitButler
GitButler 0.12 - "Stingy Baker" New GitButler release is out! Undo anything, modify your commits with ease, new AI stuff and more!
a year ago
Home on Erik...
Plotting author statistics for Git repos using Git of Theseus I spent a few days during the holidays fixing up a bunch of semi-dormant open source projects and I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I spent a few days during the holidays fixing up a bunch of semi-dormant open source projects and I have a couple of blog posts in the pipeline about various updates. First up, I made a number of fixes to Git of Theseus which is a tool (written in Python) that generates...
Christian Selig
Logging information from iOS Widgets Lately users have been emailing me with a few odd things happening with their Apollo iOS 14 home...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Lately users have been emailing me with a few odd things happening with their Apollo iOS 14 home screen widgets, and some well-placed logs can really help with identifying what’s going wrong. iOS has a sophisticated built in logging mechanism, os_log, and now with SwiftLogger in...
Notes on software...
SQLite in Go, with and without cgo This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
Christian Selig
Trials and tribulations of 360° video in Juno In building Juno, a visionOS app for YouTube, a question that’s come up from users a few times is...
a year ago
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a year ago
In building Juno, a visionOS app for YouTube, a question that’s come up from users a few times is whether it supports 360° and 180° videos (for the unfamiliar, it’s an immersive video format that fully surrounds you). The short answer is no, it’s sort of a niche feature without...
Opsbros
WetSocks Revival How to get a broken METAR/TAF Toolbar application working again; the fun way! Seeing what we can do...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
How to get a broken METAR/TAF Toolbar application working again; the fun way! Seeing what we can do to get WetSocks Windows 98 tray weather app working again.
Old Vintage...
So thieves broke into your storage unit - again If you've been wondering why entries have been a little slow lately, let me tell you a story. All...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
If you've been wondering why entries have been a little slow lately, let me tell you a story. All collectors tend to be a bit obsessive by nature, and us classic computer nerds probably pick up more hardware than we can (or should) store in our residence — especially if the...
Birchtree
Apple’s new iPads are here, let’s break them down Another day, another opportunity to rate my 2025 Apple predictions! iPad Here’s what I predicted...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Another day, another opportunity to rate my 2025 Apple predictions! iPad Here’s what I predicted would happen with the base iPad this year: I fully expect to see the 11th gen iPad in 2025, and I think it will come with a jump to the A17 Pro or
Louwrentius
Some pretty NAS case designs If you are planning on building your own NAS box, I have some suggestions regarding the case. In my...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you are planning on building your own NAS box, I have some suggestions regarding the case. In my opinion, most computer case designers have absolutely no taste. Antec and Lian Li do create nice cases, but not that spectacular. And Lian Li is just very expensive. A fairly new...
lcamtuf’s thing
How security teams fail There are mistakes most companies are more or less bound to make.
5 months ago
Computer Ads from...
Vote for the April 2025 + Post Topic Poll will only be live for 3 days, so vote while you can.
2 months ago
Computer Ads from...
Plus Post: VTech Laser MSX2 The exciting new MSX computer with more features for less money
3 months ago
Old Vintage...
Refurb weekend: Data General/One (and the worst LCD in the world) I mentioned earlier that while I prefer specializing in non-x86 laptops, that doesn't mean I don't...
a year ago
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a year ago
I mentioned earlier that while I prefer specializing in non-x86 laptops, that doesn't mean I don't collect interesting or unusual x86 laptops, like the Brother GeoBook NB-60 (I finally tracked down a mostly working NB-80C, the top of the line model, which will be the subject of a...
Louwrentius
Why I still won't switch to Linux and keep my Mac The current state of Linux is amazing. If we take a look at, for example, Ubuntu Linux, we have to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The current state of Linux is amazing. If we take a look at, for example, Ubuntu Linux, we have to admit that the Linux desktop is really becoming a nice, user-friendly environment. I'm truly starting to like what I see. I considered whiping Mac OS X from my macbook, but there...
Willem's Blog
WordPress: 10 tips to secure your website A lot of people use WordPress to manage their website. Prevent your site from being hacked using...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A lot of people use WordPress to manage their website. Prevent your site from being hacked using this blog post.
Never Met a Science
Seeing Like a Newsfeed Machine Learning Through Machine Poetry
11 months ago
Toni Lijic
SwiftUI Explorations My journey of learning SwiftUI as a designer.
a year ago
Willem's Blog
Monolithic vs Microservices software architecture This week I flew to Gothenburg to talk about enterprise software architecture, read along to learn...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This week I flew to Gothenburg to talk about enterprise software architecture, read along to learn about choosing the right architecture for your app development
Notes on software...
A reawakening of systems programming meetups This year has seen a resurgence in really high quality systems programming meetups. Munich...
a year ago
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a year ago
This year has seen a resurgence in really high quality systems programming meetups. Munich Database Meetup, Berlin Systems Group, SF Distributed Systems Meetup, NYC Systems, Bengaluru Systems, to name a few. This post summarizes a bit of disappointing recent tech meetup history,...
noahbuscher.com
Radio Install in a Porsche Boxster The 987.2 Porsche Boxster is one of the best values in the used sports car market today. There is so...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The 987.2 Porsche Boxster is one of the best values in the used sports car market today. There is so much to love about the vehicle, but the OEM headunit is not one of them. It's very dated, clunky, and doesn't support CarPlay (!), so one of the first things I did after picking...
Computer Ads from...
Creative Computer Publishes Interview with the Guy Behind the Death Star Trench Run (1978) An Interview With Star Wars Animator Larry Cuba
a year ago
Birchtree
The releases keep on coming! New MacBook Air and Mac Studio Man, the releases recently are coming in fast and furious, today with Apple announcing new MacBook...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Man, the releases recently are coming in fast and furious, today with Apple announcing new MacBook Airs and Mac Studios. My MacBook Air predictions The Air will likely get a bump to the M4 chip and I’m not totally sure what will happen to the $999 model. as
Notes on software...
Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 1. lisp to assembly Next in compiler basics: 2. user-defined functions and variables 3. LLVM 4. LLVM...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Next in compiler basics: 2. user-defined functions and variables 3. LLVM 4. LLVM conditionals and compiling fibonacci 5. LLVM system calls 6. an x86 upgrade In this post we'll write a simple compiler in Javascript (on Node) without any third-party libraries....
Jonas Hietala
First impressions of Pollen After having consumed Practical Typography I took a look at the library he wrote to create books for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
After having consumed Practical Typography I took a look at the library he wrote to create books for the web called Pollen written in Racket. I’ve only used it a little but I feel I can give my first impressions of it. What I like The first thing I really like is Pollen enables...
Louwrentius
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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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.
Louwrentius
Script that shows smart values of all disks' Please use this tool on github instead of this ancient script. So you have a Linux system with a lot...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Please use this tool on github instead of this ancient script. So you have a Linux system with a lot of hard drives. If you want to quickly check on some key SMART values to determine the health of individual disks, you might be interested in this script. I wrote a small Python...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Don't overload Ethereum's consensus
over a year ago
Arduino Blog
You can now run Arduino and MicroPython side-by-side on multi-core microcontrollers We’re excited to announce a powerful new feature that we have been working on in collaboration with...
a year ago
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a year ago
We’re excited to announce a powerful new feature that we have been working on in collaboration with the MicroPython team!  Starting with the upcoming release (v1.23), MicroPython will offer support for Asymmetric Multiprocessing (AMP) on multi-core microcontrollers, based on the...
Engineers Need Art
Experiments in Printmaking - Part 1 Trying some unconventional techniques to create a pop-art print of a Cherry Mash candy bar.
a year ago
Good Enough
Season 3, Issue 2: Britney Coltrane 1. I ❤️HR The past two weeks Barry and Lettini have been building our next little project, and I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
1. I ❤️HR The past two weeks Barry and Lettini have been building our next little project, and I tried to deal with the company-side of work: setting up payroll, health insurance, and making sure we’re compliant (hello, bureaucracy!). Back in the day when Danny and I started...
Krebs on Security
Notorious Malware, Spam Host “Prospero” Moves to Kaspersky Lab One of the most notorious providers of abuse-friendly "bulletproof" web hosting for cybercriminals...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
One of the most notorious providers of abuse-friendly "bulletproof" web hosting for cybercriminals has started routing its operations through networks run by the Russian antivirus and security firm Kaspersky Lab, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.
Electronics etc…
A Hardware Interposer to Fix the Symmetricom SyncServer S200 GPS Week Number Rollover Problem Introduction IMPORTANT: Use the Right GPS Antenna! The Problem: SyncServer Refuses to Lock to...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Introduction IMPORTANT: Use the Right GPS Antenna! The Problem: SyncServer Refuses to Lock to GPS The GPS Week Number Rollover Issue Making the Furuno GT-8031 Work Again How It Works Build Instructions Power Supply Recapping The Future: A Software-Only Solution The...
./techtipsy
The simplicity of the modulo operator: how I scaled an inefficient solution on a legacy system Your service cannot process events fast enough during peak hours. There is no obvious quick and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Your service cannot process events fast enough during peak hours. There is no obvious quick and dirty fix. Refactoring would take ages. People have been unhappy for a while now. What the hell do you do? Background I had the pleasure of working with a legacy backend system...
Notes on software...
Writing a storage engine for Postgres: an in-memory Table Access Method With Postgres 12, released in 2019, it became possible to swap out Postgres's storage engine. This...
a year ago
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a year ago
With Postgres 12, released in 2019, it became possible to swap out Postgres's storage engine. This is a feature MySQL has supported for a long time. There are at least 8 different built-in engines you can pick from. MyRocks, MySQL on RocksDB, is another popular third-party...
Louwrentius
How to escape file names in bash shell scripts After fighting with Bash for quite some time, I found out that the following code provides a nice...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
After fighting with Bash for quite some time, I found out that the following code provides a nice basis for escaping special characters. Ofcource it is not complete, but the most important characters are filtered. If anybody has a better solution, please let me know. It works and...
Birchtree
I’m not used to seeing this John Gruber: Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino The fiasco here is not that Apple is late...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
John Gruber: Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino The fiasco here is not that Apple is late on AI. It’s also not that they had to announce an embarrassing delay on promised features last week. Those are problems, not fiascos, and problems happen. They’re
Jonas Hietala
Ludum Dare 22 Here I Come The time has finally come. After more than three hours of exam writing, and almost double spent on...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The time has finally come. After more than three hours of exam writing, and almost double spent on studying for it, I am now ready to declare my entry into Ludum Dare 22! I’ve been away far too long, with my entries for the 17th and the 20th dare being almost a century away, the...
Christian Selig
Qi2 is kinda underwhelming Using MagSafe for portable battery packs has so many niceties versus Qi1: Increased communication...
a year ago
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a year ago
Using MagSafe for portable battery packs has so many niceties versus Qi1: Increased communication with the device, allowing for better efficiency due to better thermal management and charging Easily view the charge percentage of the external battery when first attaching it, and...
Himanshu Mishra |...
Lessons for creating good open source software I was reading about The Cathedral and the Bazaar, a book by Eric S. Raymond on various (open source)...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I was reading about The Cathedral and the Bazaar, a book by Eric S. Raymond on various (open source) software development methods. The…
Birchtree
The Snow Leopard we've built up in our heads Nick Heer: linking to Jeff Johnson's The myth and reality of Mac OS X Snow Leopard I read an article...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Nick Heer: linking to Jeff Johnson's The myth and reality of Mac OS X Snow Leopard I read an article today from yet another person pining for a mythical Snow Leopard-style MacOS release. While I sympathize with the intent of their argument, it is largely fictional and, as
Matt Mullenweg
Studio Sync WordPress.com launched a new update to Studio this week, and we’re already seeing some buzz....
6 months ago
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6 months ago
WordPress.com launched a new update to Studio this week, and we’re already seeing some buzz. Studio is our free and open source app for local WordPress development, enabling you to spin up unlimited WordPress sites on your personal computer. Through its newest feature, Studio...
Lighthouse Blog
Updates November 4: Free newsletter to RSS tool
8 months ago
Louwrentius
Rebooting results in degraded RAID array using Debian Lenny As described earlier, I setup a RAID 6 array consisting of physical 1 TB disk and 'virtual' 1 TB...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As described earlier, I setup a RAID 6 array consisting of physical 1 TB disk and 'virtual' 1 TB disks that are in fact two 0.5 TB disks in RAID 0.  I wanted to upgrade to Lenny because the new kernel that ships with Lenny supports growing a RAID 6 array. After installing Lenny...
Birchtree
The battle of the budget phones Just days after I got my iPhone 16e, Apple’s (less) budget (than ever before) iPhone, Nothing is out...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Just days after I got my iPhone 16e, Apple’s (less) budget (than ever before) iPhone, Nothing is out here with new their new budget phones, the Phone (3a) and (3a) Pro. These models start at $379 and $459 respectively, so they certainly undercut the new iPhone, so let&