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How to set compensation using commonsense principles Compensation has always been one of the most confusing parts of management to me. Getting it right...
8th Jun 2020
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How to set compensation using commonsense principles

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

8th Jun 2020
Compensation has always been one of the most confusing parts of management to me. Getting it right is obviously extremely important. Compensation is what drives our entire economy, and you could look at the market for labor as one gigantic resource-allocating machine in the same...
Analemmagraph [Concept] Video of a day, one year in every frame
26th Sep 2023
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Analemmagraph

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

26th Sep 2023
[Concept] Video of a day, one year in every frame
February Shenzhen Trip Update It took me a few days to get back to normal after returning from my trip to Shenzhen last week....
3rd Mar 2025
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February Shenzhen Trip Update

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

3rd Mar 2025
It took me a few days to get back to normal after returning from my trip to Shenzhen last week. Overall, pretty decent trip - I met with 1…
Wearing WHOOP 4.0 Use WHOOP to see the impact your choices have on your body, think of it as a special kind of mirror...
13th Jan 2022
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Wearing WHOOP 4.0

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

13th Jan 2022
Use WHOOP to see the impact your choices have on your body, think of it as a special kind of mirror - it's so powerful, that I don't take mine off!
USA 250 This auspicious 250th Independence Day, I find myself thinking of what Om wrote in iAMerican when he...
5th Jul 2026
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USA 250

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

5th Jul 2026
This auspicious 250th Independence Day, I find myself thinking of what Om wrote in iAMerican when he became a US citizen in 2013. On a globe, America is a landmass, a country. In an immigrant’s heart it is a belief that future is almost always better. It may not be perfect and it...
Enjoy a festival without alcohol This year I didn't drink alcohol during Rock Werchter, leading to interesting observations during...
9th Jul 2018
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Enjoy a festival without alcohol

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

9th Jul 2018
This year I didn't drink alcohol during Rock Werchter, leading to interesting observations during the music festival.
Introducing ElevationDock 4! Well we started from scratch this time... :) ElevationDock 4 is the result of designing every...
7th Sep 2017
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Introducing ElevationDock 4!

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

7th Sep 2017
Well we started from scratch this time... :) ElevationDock 4 is the result of designing every feature that we & our customers wanted into the dock. We made the adjustment not only more precise than any other dock, but easier too. It works out of the box, no cord mounting...
The Farmer's Hotel My first piece of work by O'Hara, shockingly, and it was a cute little three act play filled with as...
3rd May 2020
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The Farmer's Hotel

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd May 2020
My first piece of work by O'Hara, shockingly, and it was a cute little three act play filled with as much drinking and death as I'd been led to believe.
April 2021 newsletter with links on AI scaling, particular new East Asian record-breaking work & deep reinforcement...
3rd Jun 2021
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April 2021 newsletter

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

3rd Jun 2021
with links on AI scaling, particular new East Asian record-breaking work & deep reinforcement learning.
QNAP QTS - QNAPping At The Wheel (CVE-2024-27130 and friends) Infosec is, at it’s heart, all about that data. Obtaining access to it (or disrupting access to it)...
17th May 2024
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QNAP QTS - QNAPping At The Wheel (CVE-2024-27130 and friends)

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

17th May 2024
Infosec is, at it’s heart, all about that data. Obtaining access to it (or disrupting access to it) is in every ransomware gang and APT group’s top-10 to-do-list items, and so it makes sense that our research voyage would, at some point, cross paths with products
Get notification when a new device connects to OpenWRT When a new device is connects to my OpenWRT router, I get a notification on Gotify. This serves as a...
12th Dec 2024
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Get notification when a new device connects to OpenWRT

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

12th Dec 2024
When a new device is connects to my OpenWRT router, I get a notification on Gotify. This serves as a good low-key intrusion detection along with my earlier OpenWRT login alerts. Heavy lifting was already done by Brandon McFarlin, I had to just modify the code to send messages to...
You are not your grand plans “You are not your grand plans. You are your daily patterns.” I love this quote from James Clear...
11th Jul 2026
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You are not your grand plans

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

11th Jul 2026
“You are not your grand plans. You are your daily patterns.” I love this quote from James Clear because it hurts me in all the right ways. At my worst, I feel like my daily patterns are at war with my grand plans. When I’m fighting a daily battle and willpower is slipping, I need...
Apple Watch as Phone Imagine a week without your smartphone, replaced solely by the sleek simplicity of a smartwatch....
9th Nov 2023
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Apple Watch as Phone

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

9th Nov 2023
Imagine a week without your smartphone, replaced solely by the sleek simplicity of a smartwatch. This week I did this, leaving my smartphone behind and letting an Apple Watch take the helm. Many hail this as a liberating escape from our attention-seeking digital sidekicks, but...
25th Sep 2022
What caused the large AWS outage? On Monday, a major AWS outage hit thousands of sites & apps, and even a Premier League soccer game....
23rd Oct 2025
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What caused the large AWS outage?

from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in technology

23rd Oct 2025
On Monday, a major AWS outage hit thousands of sites & apps, and even a Premier League soccer game. An overview of what caused this high-profile, global outage
9th Jun 2023
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The Three Transitions

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

9th Jun 2023
The Big Beautiful Bill has a SNAP Poison Pill How states will get the blame for massive cuts to food stamps
1st Oct 2025
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The Big Beautiful Bill has a SNAP Poison Pill

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

1st Oct 2025
How states will get the blame for massive cuts to food stamps
Implementing SARM on your VLA dataset in practice 1. Motivation: use big video dataset optimally for VLA training In the first part of this series, I...
14th Dec 2025
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Implementing SARM on your VLA dataset in practice

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

14th Dec 2025
1. Motivation: use big video dataset optimally for VLA training In the first part of this series, I explained what is SARM: Stage-Aware Reward Modeling for Long Horizon Robot Manipulation and how it can be used with a challenge such as Stanford Behavior Challenge (1200h of...
Graceful behavior at capacity Suppose we’ve got a service. We’ll gloss over the details for now, but let’s stipulate that it...
7th Aug 2023
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Graceful behavior at capacity

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

7th Aug 2023
Suppose we’ve got a service. We’ll gloss over the details for now, but let’s stipulate that it accepts requests from the outside world, and takes some action in response. Maybe those requests are HTTP requests, or RPCs, or just incoming packets to be routed at the network layer....
Balsa “2001: A Space Odyssey” Model The spacecraft from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey have always had a special place for me. Here I...
30th Dec 2025
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Balsa “2001: A Space Odyssey” Model

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

30th Dec 2025
The spacecraft from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey have always had a special place for me. Here I build a replica from balsa.
Information and Technological Evolution I spend a lot of time reading about the nature of technological progress, and I’ve found that the...
2nd Apr 2026
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Information and Technological Evolution

from Construction Physics [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Apr 2026
I spend a lot of time reading about the nature of technological progress, and I’ve found that the literature on technology is somewhat uneven.
What I have been working on: Modal Long story short: I'm working on a super cool tool called Modal. Please check it out — it lets you...
7th Dec 2022
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What I have been working on: Modal

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

7th Dec 2022
Long story short: I'm working on a super cool tool called Modal. Please check it out — it lets you run things in the cloud without having to think about infrastructure. Scaling out, scheduling, containerization, using GPUs, setting up webhooks, and all kinds of other stuff.
CVE-2007-4573: The Anatomy of a Kernel Exploit CVE-2007-4573 is two years old at this point, but it remains one of my favorite vulnerabilities. It...
5th Feb 2010
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CVE-2007-4573: The Anatomy of a Kernel Exploit

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

5th Feb 2010
CVE-2007-4573 is two years old at this point, but it remains one of my favorite vulnerabilities. It was a local privilege-escalation vulnerability on all x86_64 kernels prior to v2.6.22.7. It’s very simple to understand with a little bit of background, and the exploit is...
Filtering spam on YouTube with TensorFlow & AI My YouTube channel has been attracting a lot of spammers. They try to trick people by saying they...
6th Jul 2021
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Filtering spam on YouTube with TensorFlow & AI

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

6th Jul 2021
My YouTube channel has been attracting a lot of spammers. They try to trick people by saying they know how to profit from trading cryptocurrencies or that they can recover lost wallet keys.I've been marking these comments as spam, thinking that YouTube would learn to recognize...
How to mess up a simple ThinkPad X230 BIOS flash and how to recover from it Background I have a Lenovo ThinkPad X230. It’s a small and good laptop that I’ve used as my main...
28th Jun 2021
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28th Jun 2021
Background I have a Lenovo ThinkPad X230. It’s a small and good laptop that I’ve used as my main laptop and a server as well. A couple of years ago I messed around with flashing alternative BIOS implementations on the X230, such as the skulls project, which made installing...
I don't know how to feel about Palantir Normal company or uniquely evil? Let's reason through it.
3rd May 2026
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I don't know how to feel about Palantir

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

3rd May 2026
Normal company or uniquely evil? Let's reason through it.
A small ode to the CRT Built October 2018 I used to hate Cathode Ray Tubes. As a kid in Europe, everything flickered at...
8th Feb 2022
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A small ode to the CRT

from axio.ms [alt+shift+b] in technology

8th Feb 2022
Built October 2018 I used to hate Cathode Ray Tubes. As a kid in Europe, everything flickered at 50Hz, or made a loud whistle at 15.625KHz (back when I could still hear it). CRTs just seemed crude, “electro-brutalist” contraptions from the valve era. They were heavy, and...
So We Read On Well, if it's not biography; and it's not literary criticism; and it's not scholarship... what is...
8th Aug 2023
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So We Read On

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

8th Aug 2023
Well, if it's not biography; and it's not literary criticism; and it's not scholarship... what is it? And the answer appears to be poorly structured, rambling, fandom.
Design for Testability When designing a new software project, one is often faced with a glut of choices about how to...
6th Mar 2016
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Design for Testability

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

6th Mar 2016
When designing a new software project, one is often faced with a glut of choices about how to structure it. What should the core abstractions be? How should they interact with each other? In this post, I want to argue for a design heuristic that I’ve found to be a useful guide to...
My solar-powered blog is now on Lithium Iron Phosphate In my last blog post I discussed how a small solar project - to power this blog on a Raspberry Pi -...
19th May 2023
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My solar-powered blog is now on Lithium Iron Phosphate

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

19th May 2023
In my last blog post I discussed how a small solar project - to power this blog on a Raspberry Pi - escalated into a full-blown off-grid solar setup, large enough to power the computer I use at the moment to write this update1. In this update, I want to discuss my battery...
Desirée Plata appointed associate dean of engineering Faculty member in civil and environmental engineering will advance research and entrepreneurial...
8th Apr 2026
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Desirée Plata appointed associate dean of engineering

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

8th Apr 2026
Faculty member in civil and environmental engineering will advance research and entrepreneurial initiatives across the School of Engineering.
The Pulse: AI load breaks GitHub – why not other vendors? GitHub’s leadership blames the 3.5x increase in service load as the cause of degradation – or it...
7th May 2026
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The Pulse: AI load breaks GitHub – why not other vendors?

from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in technology

7th May 2026
GitHub’s leadership blames the 3.5x increase in service load as the cause of degradation – or it might be self-inflicted.
The Sleazy World of Reddit Marketing, Everything is Fake I’m going to show you how to cash grab as a Reddit moderator. 5 minutes of work, then thousands of...
21st Aug 2024
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The Sleazy World of Reddit Marketing, Everything is Fake

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

21st Aug 2024
I’m going to show you how to cash grab as a Reddit moderator. 5 minutes of work, then thousands of dollars per month for doing nothing. Maybe tens of thousands. With a 100% real example. I’ve edited nothing. When you’re a Reddit mod, you have a TON of power in that subreddit. You...
Improving bicycle safety with voice-activated turn signals Bicycle safety is always a concern, but is a particularly big problem in cities where cycling is...
2nd Nov 2025
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Improving bicycle safety with voice-activated turn signals

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

2nd Nov 2025
Bicycle safety is always a concern, but is a particularly big problem in cities where cycling is less common. Drivers in cars don’t expect to encounter cyclists and don’t know how to share the road properly. To protect themselves, cyclists need to be as predictable as possible...
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...
18th Aug 2024
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18th Aug 2024
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...
Fixed Gear Gran Fondo Taking a fixed gear road bike for a gran fondo! Let some of my fun be of inspiration to you!
9th Apr 2021
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Fixed Gear Gran Fondo

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

9th Apr 2021
Taking a fixed gear road bike for a gran fondo! Let some of my fun be of inspiration to you!
Figma agent vs. one button: shipping design tokens to npm I automated our design tokens release with two AI agents. It took six minutes per run. A button my...
7th Sep 2026
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Figma agent vs. one button: shipping design tokens to npm

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

7th Sep 2026
I automated our design tokens release with two AI agents. It took six minutes per run. A button my plugin has had for years takes seconds.
Building a killer NAS with an old Rackable Server Like many others, I'm generating a lot of digital data. Constantly taking photos, writing scripts,...
29th Jun 2021
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Building a killer NAS with an old Rackable Server

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

29th Jun 2021
Like many others, I'm generating a lot of digital data. Constantly taking photos, writing scripts, taking notes, coding projects, and making videos. I'm storing all these files on Google Drive, which has been very reliable but also a bit risky. What if Google closes my account?...
statself.com Btw I just put something up online that I spent a couple of evenings in my couch putting together:...
18th Oct 2013
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statself.com

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

18th Oct 2013
Btw I just put something up online that I spent a couple of evenings in my couch putting together: it's a website where you can track any numerical data on the web. Want to know how many Twitter followers you have?
Same Stop Marvelling at the full circle life seems to have taken after retirement.
21st May 2023
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Same Stop

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

21st May 2023
Marvelling at the full circle life seems to have taken after retirement.
Agatha Christie’s Poirot Delightful. I’d recommend pacing out your consumption a bit more than we did — like the books...
3rd Jan 2020
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Agatha Christie’s Poirot

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Jan 2020
Delightful. I’d recommend pacing out your consumption a bit more than we did — like the books themselves, and perhaps like the format writ large, the formula wears a bit thin and obvious when you’re giving yourself ninety minutes of it each night — but Suchet’s acting is...
reptyr: Attach a running process to a new terminal Over the last week, I’ve written a nifty tool that I call reptyr. reptyr is a utility for taking an...
21st Jan 2011
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reptyr: Attach a running process to a new terminal

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

21st Jan 2011
Over the last week, I’ve written a nifty tool that I call reptyr. reptyr is a utility for taking an existing running program and attaching it to a new terminal. Started a long-running process over ssh, but have to leave and don’t want to interrupt it? Just start a screen, use...
Optimising images for the web and performance One way to make your website faster is to make it smaller. Not with tiny fonts, but with less bytes!...
25th Sep 2018
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Optimising images for the web and performance

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

25th Sep 2018
One way to make your website faster is to make it smaller. Not with tiny fonts, but with less bytes! More than half the weight of an average website is because of images. Yet very few people optimise their images for the web and performance, time to find out how much bytes you...
The first conformant M1 GPU driver Conformant OpenGL® ES 3.1 drivers are now available for M1- and M2-family GPUs. That means the...
22nd Aug 2023
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The first conformant M1 GPU driver

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

22nd Aug 2023
Conformant OpenGL® ES 3.1 drivers are now available for M1- and M2-family GPUs. That means the drivers are compatible with any OpenGL ES 3.1 application. Interested? Just install Linux! For existing Asahi Linux users, upgrade your system with dnf upgrade (Fedora) or pacman -Syu...
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...
24th Apr 2016
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I found my 7th grade art book !

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

24th Apr 2016
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....
The Pulse: is GitHub still best for AI-native development? Availability has dropped to one nine (~90% – !!), partly due to not being able to handle increased...
3rd Apr 2026
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The Pulse: is GitHub still best for AI-native development?

from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Apr 2026
Availability has dropped to one nine (~90% – !!), partly due to not being able to handle increased traffic from AI coding agents. There’s also no CEO and an apparent lack of direction.
AI is critically important but not for you Before Chat-GPT caused a sensation, big tech companies like Facebook and Apple were betting their...
14th May 2024
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AI is critically important but not for you

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

14th May 2024
Before Chat-GPT caused a sensation, big tech companies like Facebook and Apple were betting their future growth on virtual reality. But I'm convinced that virtual reality will never be a mainstream thing. If you ever used VR you know why: A heavy thing on your head that messes up...
Protecting VMware ESXi In response to a possible security breach on a VMware ESXi host machine, I search for a way to...
30th Aug 2021
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Protecting VMware ESXi

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

30th Aug 2021
In response to a possible security breach on a VMware ESXi host machine, I search for a way to improve security of the management console using NGINX and a firewall
I was told, I would become quadriplegic Tingling on the side of the face during tasks involving intense cognition was my first...
1st Sep 2018
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I was told, I would become quadriplegic

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

1st Sep 2018
Tingling on the side of the face during tasks involving intense cognition was my first symptom. Nature of my job involves regular problem solving of various degree, on certain occasions there was a halting tingling sensation on the right side of my face to the end of lower...
Record/Replay testing in Sorbet In 2017 and 2018, I (along with Paul Tarjan and Dmitry Petrashko) was a founding member of the...
13th Jan 2020
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Record/Replay testing in Sorbet

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

13th Jan 2020
In 2017 and 2018, I (along with Paul Tarjan and Dmitry Petrashko) was a founding member of the Sorbet project at Stripe to build a gradual static typechecking system for Ruby, with the aim of enhancing productivity on Stripe’s millions of lines of Ruby, and eventually producing a...
The Afterlife AGENT: I am prescribing vardenafil 5 mg for you.
2nd Mar 2025
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The Afterlife

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

2nd Mar 2025
AGENT: I am prescribing vardenafil 5 mg for you.
2023-11-04 nuclear safety Nuclear weapons are complex in many ways. The basic problem of achieving criticality is difficult on...
4th Nov 2023
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2023-11-04 nuclear safety

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

4th Nov 2023
Nuclear weapons are complex in many ways. The basic problem of achieving criticality is difficult on its own, but deploying nuclear weapons as operational military assets involves yet more challenges. Nuclear weapons must be safe and reliable, even with the rough handling and...
Letter with no subject :name-retracted: wrote - Hi Himanshu, Congratulations from the bottom of my heart for joining...
5th Jun 2020
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Letter with no subject

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

5th Jun 2020
:name-retracted: wrote - Hi Himanshu, Congratulations from the bottom of my heart for joining Spotify. We really miss you at college. You're…
Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools Code forces humans to be precise. That’s good—computers need precision. But it also forces humans to...
3rd Feb 2025
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Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools

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

3rd Feb 2025
Code forces humans to be precise. That’s good—computers need precision. But it also forces humans to think like machines. For decades we tried to fix this by making programming more human-friendly. Higher-level languages. Visual interfaces. Each step helped, but we were still...
This Kenyan engineer modernizes vintage cars with a custom ECU and EFI upgrades The automotive industry’s switch from carburetion to fuel injection was one of the most effective...
1st Oct 2024
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1st Oct 2024
The automotive industry’s switch from carburetion to fuel injection was one of the most effective advancements of the 20th century. Electronic fuel injection allows for precise control over an internal combustion engine’s air-fuel mixture, which dramatically improves fuel...
A Christmas Game I’m going through a bit of a boardgame stint, as I usually do during christmas time. I had exactly...
26th Dec 2014
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A Christmas Game

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

26th Dec 2014
I’m going through a bit of a boardgame stint, as I usually do during christmas time. I had exactly one thing on my wishlist for this christmas for my little brother: Ticket to Ride: Nordic Countries. Guess what? I got something from my wishlist! This was our 5th or 6th game (or...
Housekeeping 20241208 Corrections, stats, and an update
8th Dec 2024
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Housekeeping 20241208

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

8th Dec 2024
Corrections, stats, and an update
Expecting Better Really good book, and one I would recommend to anyone thinking about family planning. Nothing coy or...
3rd Nov 2023
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Expecting Better

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Nov 2023
Really good book, and one I would recommend to anyone thinking about family planning. Nothing coy or clever to say; just thought it was solid, actionable, and sober without being a drag to read.
Humanities Crash Course Week 18: 1,001 Nights In week 18 of the humanities crash course, I read five stories from One Thousand and One Nights, a...
4th May 2025
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Humanities Crash Course Week 18: 1,001 Nights

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

4th May 2025
In week 18 of the humanities crash course, I read five stories from One Thousand and One Nights, a collection of Middle Eastern folktales that have influenced lots of other stories. Keeping with the theme, I also saw one of the most influential movies based on these...
It’s 37oC, And All We Can Think About Is ColdFusion (Adobe ColdFusion Security Bulletin APSB26-68... We’re back, melting - we’ve tried shouting, screaming, and throwing things at the Sun, and it is...
2nd Jul 2026
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2nd Jul 2026
We’re back, melting - we’ve tried shouting, screaming, and throwing things at the Sun, and it is just not working. Before we begin our analysis, we want to be clear - given the number of vulnerabilities fixed (and some not mentioned..), we’ve struggled to have confidence
Stop Babysitting Your AI Coding Agents Move 10x as fast, break 10x as many things
20th Jan 2026
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Stop Babysitting Your AI Coding Agents

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

20th Jan 2026
Move 10x as fast, break 10x as many things
Free software scares normal people I’m the person my friends and family come to for computer-related help. (Maybe you, gentle reader,...
30th Oct 2025
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Free software scares normal people

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

30th Oct 2025
I’m the person my friends and family come to for computer-related help. (Maybe you, gentle reader, can relate.) This experience has taught me which computing tasks are frustrating for normal people. Normal people often struggle with converting video. They will need to watch,...
Riding the Risk Railway When building and operating a user-facing system, especially one that is open to the public, it is...
9th Mar 2020
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Riding the Risk Railway

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

9th Mar 2020
When building and operating a user-facing system, especially one that is open to the public, it is important to consider the riskiness of a user, which can also be characterised as trustworthiness. These will typically be negatively correlated, with low trust indicating high risk...
Fio-plot: creating nice charts from FIO storage benchmark data New release of fio-plot I've rewritten fio-plot, a tool that turns FIO benchmark data into nice...
27th Nov 2019
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Fio-plot: creating nice charts from FIO storage benchmark data

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

27th Nov 2019
New release of fio-plot I've rewritten fio-plot, a tool that turns FIO benchmark data into nice charts. It allows you to create four types of graphs which will be discussed below. The github project page explains how to run this tool. Fio-plot also includes a benchmark script...
DevDays in Vilnius The team headed to DevDays conference in Lithuania last week. I gave a keynote about the history and...
1st Jun 2023
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DevDays in Vilnius

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

1st Jun 2023
The team headed to DevDays conference in Lithuania last week. I gave a keynote about the history and future of version control tools and we had a blast meeting new friends and talking version control.
Using Claude Code to write Home Assistant integrations For the past few months, I’ve been dabbling with Claude Code. Not in a “no one needs developers...
5th Apr 2026
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Using Claude Code to write Home Assistant integrations

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

5th Apr 2026
For the past few months, I’ve been dabbling with Claude Code. Not in a “no one needs developers anymore, anyone can build apps now” kind of way. More in a “I have a basic understanding of this, but not enough to turn it into code I can actually use” kind of way. I don’t need...
Repairing a Giro AEON bicycle helmet Try fixing your Giro bicycle helmet? I went through some trouble to do it! Read along to find out...
8th Jul 2020
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Repairing a Giro AEON bicycle helmet

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

8th Jul 2020
Try fixing your Giro bicycle helmet? I went through some trouble to do it! Read along to find out how.
First few hurdles writing a Scheme interpreter I started working on BSDScheme last October, inspired to get back into language implementation after...
10th Jan 2018
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First few hurdles writing a Scheme interpreter

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

10th Jan 2018
I started working on BSDScheme last October, inspired to get back into language implementation after my coworker built bshift, a compiler for a C-like language. BSDScheme is an interpreter for a (currently small subset of) Scheme written in D. It implements a few substantial...
A new job, a new life Last month, I started a new job working as a fullstack software engineer at ClassDojo. This was an...
3rd Jul 2025
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A new job, a new life

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

3rd Jul 2025
Last month, I started a new job working as a fullstack software engineer at ClassDojo. This was an interesting job transition for me. It was the first time I got caught up in layoffs and the first time that I ended up with multiple job offers to choose from. As I weighed the...
Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce" In short: from my experience, people like map and filter, but not reduce. I use functions like map...
4 weeks ago
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Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce"

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

4 weeks ago
In short: from my experience, people like map and filter, but not reduce. I use functions like map and filter all the time. When I put that code up for review, my peers rarely complain. I get plenty of feedback about other decisions, but not about my use of map and filter. I...
Howdy, Is This Thing On? Since things are uh... collapsing? I thought it'd be a good idea to finally get my blog up and...
14th Nov 2022
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Howdy, Is This Thing On?

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

14th Nov 2022
Since things are uh... collapsing? I thought it'd be a good idea to finally get my blog up and running. Come in, get comfy and take a look around! Cozy right? Getting Started (Again) Ok admittedly, this is my 4th attempt at making a blog. This time I'm...
Lessons from a takeaway plastic bag About five months ago I got some take away food from our local Asian restaurant. They packaged the...
7th Jan 2018
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Lessons from a takeaway plastic bag

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

7th Jan 2018
About five months ago I got some take away food from our local Asian restaurant. They packaged the food and gave me a plastic bag to carry it home. On my way home I was thinking about the bag. Although it has some nice styling printed on it, it's designed for single use only....
Tools for a Culture of Writing One of the hardest things we do, as humans, is try and communicate what is going on in our minds to...
30th Oct 2021
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Tools for a Culture of Writing

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

30th Oct 2021
One of the hardest things we do, as humans, is try and communicate what is going on in our minds to each other. With significant room for misunderstanding, biases, assumptions and cultural differences, communicating with other engineers (or to stakeholders) appears fraught....
"Sixteenth of a year", a 1.8 KiB art piece As I write this, we’re about 7 sixteenths through 2026, and it’s about 14 sixteenths through the...
3rd Jun 2026
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"Sixteenth of a year", a 1.8 KiB art piece

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

3rd Jun 2026
As I write this, we’re about 7 sixteenths through 2026, and it’s about 14 sixteenths through the day. For the sixteenth issue of the Taper online magazine, I split time into sixteenths to think about its passage in a different way. The code, which had to be under 2048 bytes,...
Three tips to make a content strategy work Consider these three things to maximise the effect of the words you write for your website, blog or...
24th Mar 2021
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Three tips to make a content strategy work

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

24th Mar 2021
Consider these three things to maximise the effect of the words you write for your website, blog or company.
November newsletter November 2020 gwern.net newsletter with links on DL and genomics scaling, dark mode rewrite, 1...
4th Dec 2020
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November newsletter

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

4th Dec 2020
November 2020 gwern.net newsletter with links on DL and genomics scaling, dark mode rewrite, 1 essay, and 1 opera review ('The Ring' cycle).
Setting up a Squid proxy with Clamav anti-virus using c-icap Security is all about a defence-in-depth strategy. Create multiple layers of defence. Every layer...
26th Aug 2012
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Setting up a Squid proxy with Clamav anti-virus using c-icap

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

26th Aug 2012
Security is all about a defence-in-depth strategy. Create multiple layers of defence. Every layer presenting a different set of challenges, requiring different skill sets and technology. So every layer will increase the time and effort to compromise your environment. A...
A Go/C Polyglot Writing a Go/C polyglot Someone on a Slack I’m on recently raised the question of how you might...
5th Sep 2019
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A Go/C Polyglot

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

5th Sep 2019
Writing a Go/C polyglot Someone on a Slack I’m on recently raised the question of how you might write a source file that’s both valid C and Go, commenting that it wasn’t immediately obvious if this was even possible. I got nerdsniped, and succeeded in producing one, which you can...
Statistics showing relevance of caching proxy In this day and age of dynamic web content, how relevant can a caching proxy server be? I believe...
18th Dec 2012
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Statistics showing relevance of caching proxy

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

18th Dec 2012
In this day and age of dynamic web content, how relevant can a caching proxy server be? I believe that the answer could be: quite! I have installed a caching proxy server based on Squid, which is now used within my company. It also does content scanning using squidclamav and...
2023-07-10 the tragedy of beatrice foods Occasionally, research into the history of telephony takes you into some strange places. There are...
10th Jul 2023
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2023-07-10 the tragedy of beatrice foods

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

10th Jul 2023
Occasionally, research into the history of telephony takes you into some strange places. There are conspiracy theories, of course, and there are people who insist on their version of events so incessantly that details of dates and places can become heated arguments. There is also...
Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it’s haunted In mid-2022 I bought a new domain name. The name was musicbox.fun. I got it for a side-project, an...
25th Oct 2024
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Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it’s haunted

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

25th Oct 2024
In mid-2022 I bought a new domain name. The name was musicbox.fun. I got it for a side-project, an interactive online music box that I had built and hosted at musicboxfun.com. The new name was shorter and more quirky. I felt lucky to have grabbed it. Unfortunately, musicbox.fun...
32-bit hat, with LEDs Built in November 2015 (now-traditional multi-year writeup delay applied) A hat,...
14th Sep 2021
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32-bit hat, with LEDs

from axio.ms [alt+shift+b] in technology

14th Sep 2021
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...
Are We All Forced Meme Stock Investors Now? Let's be honest, the financial landscape feels… weird lately. For years, the mantra for most...
14th Apr 2025
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Are We All Forced Meme Stock Investors Now?

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

14th Apr 2025
Let's be honest, the financial landscape feels… weird lately. For years, the mantra for most investors has been clear: diversify, buy stable index funds, and let time work its magic. It wasn't the most thrilling advice, but it was generally sound. The idea was that the underlying...
Dithering is obsolete (except when it isn’t); creating OpenDithering Dithering is one of those techniques that feels like it belongs in a museum. It peaked in the ’90s,...
6th Jun 2026
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Dithering is obsolete (except when it isn’t); creating OpenDithering

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

6th Jun 2026
Dithering is one of those techniques that feels like it belongs in a museum. It peaked in the ’90s, the era of 256-color palettes and early computer graphics, when you needed to trick the eye into seeing colors that your hardware couldn’t actually produce. Now, even our phones...
How to get better at recursion tldr; reimplement standard library functions in your favorite language without loops. Background For...
7th Mar 2021
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How to get better at recursion

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

7th Mar 2021
tldr; reimplement standard library functions in your favorite language without loops. Background For a few years after college I spent a lot of free time doing projects in Standard ML and Scheme. As a result I got really comfortable doing recursion. The two big reasons for this...
Plus Post: Quantum Software Systems Ltd's QNX Operating Systems Come in Many Flavors But QNX Can Take the Heat
1st Apr 2024
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Plus Post: Quantum Software Systems Ltd's QNX

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

1st Apr 2024
Operating Systems Come in Many Flavors But QNX Can Take the Heat
How I Use Alfred to Search My Obsidian Notes Faster (with Spotlight!) In this post, I’ll show you how I integrated Obsidian into Alfred so I can search my vault from...
22nd Mar 2023
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How I Use Alfred to Search My Obsidian Notes Faster (with Spotlight!)

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

22nd Mar 2023
In this post, I’ll show you how I integrated Obsidian into Alfred so I can search my vault from anywhere on my Mac. I just open Alfred, type “note” followed by my query, and see my search results. Hit enter and the correct note opens in Obsidian. Easy and quick!
Pareto efficency Pareto efficiency is a useful concept I like to think about. It often comes up when you compare...
25th Oct 2016
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Pareto efficency

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

25th Oct 2016
Pareto efficiency is a useful concept I like to think about. It often comes up when you compare items on multiple dimensions. Say you want to buy a new TV. To simplify it let's assume you only care about two factors: price and quality.
How to use a Phase One H20 digital back on a medium format Hasselblad V camera (500EL/M) My newest purchase was a bit of a gamble. I bought a $500 Phase One H20 digital back for my...
1st Jan 2021
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1st Jan 2021
My newest purchase was a bit of a gamble. I bought a $500 Phase One H20 digital back for my Hasselblad 500EL/M medium format camera. Or, simply put, I bought an expensive old gadget for my even older analog camera, making it a digital camera. A gadget that was released in the...
New benchmarks for approximate nearest neighbors UPDATE(2018-06-17): There are is a later blog post with newer benchmarks! One of my super nerdy...
15th Feb 2018
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New benchmarks for approximate nearest neighbors

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

15th Feb 2018
UPDATE(2018-06-17): There are is a later blog post with newer benchmarks! One of my super nerdy interests include approximate algorithms for nearest neighbors in high-dimensional spaces. The problem is simple. You have say 1M points in some high-dimensional space.
Optical vs chest strap heart rate monitors Understanding the differences in common HR monitors used in wearables, smartwatches and fitness...
14th Jul 2019
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Optical vs chest strap heart rate monitors

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

14th Jul 2019
Understanding the differences in common HR monitors used in wearables, smartwatches and fitness trackers
Compiling dynamic programming languages It can be difficult to disassociate the idea that dynamically typed programming languages are tied...
2nd Sep 2018
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Compiling dynamic programming languages

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

2nd Sep 2018
It can be difficult to disassociate the idea that dynamically typed programming languages are tied to byte-code interpreters (e.g. YARV Ruby, CPython, V8, Zend Engine, etc.). But for many languages, a compiled implementation also exists. Cython, Chicken Scheme and SBCL are good...
Hideo Okawara’s Mixed Signal Lecture Series Introduction Hideo Okawara’s Mixed Signal Lecture Series Frequency/Phase Movement Analysis by...
6th Jan 2024
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Hideo Okawara’s Mixed Signal Lecture Series

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

6th Jan 2024
Introduction Hideo Okawara’s Mixed Signal Lecture Series Frequency/Phase Movement Analysis by Orthogonal Demodulation Misc Introduction While researching a DSP related topic, Google dug up an excellent article, written by Hideo Okawara, that is just one part of a series of ~53. I...
Adam74 The Adam74 is a small ASCII-based terminal designed for the 8-bit hobbyist.
21st Aug 2022
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Adam74

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

21st Aug 2022
The Adam74 is a small ASCII-based terminal designed for the 8-bit hobbyist.
2020 in review And so 2020 has come to an end. On a global scale it’s been quite a horrible year, and for me...
4th Jan 2021
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2020 in review

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

4th Jan 2021
And so 2020 has come to an end. On a global scale it’s been quite a horrible year, and for me personally it’s been both good and bad. Luckily we haven’t been directly affected by COVID too much, but it’s still been very disruptive. Either way as I’ve done for years now it always...
Business secrets from terrible people I get bored reading management books very easily and lately I've been reading about a wide range of...
16th Aug 2018
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Business secrets from terrible people

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

16th Aug 2018
I get bored reading management books very easily and lately I've been reading about a wide range of almost arbitrary topics. One of the lenses I tend to read through is to see different management styles in different environments.
TOMO M4: probably the coolest power bank I've owned A friend once showed me a power bank that was so cool that I had to get one myself. Ended up getting...
3rd Mar 2023
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TOMO M4: probably the coolest power bank I've owned

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

3rd Mar 2023
A friend once showed me a power bank that was so cool that I had to get one myself. Ended up getting two, and here’s why. This post is not sponsored. Removable batteries Let’s start with the feature that I appreciate the most: removable batteries! The TOMO M4 accepts up to 4...
Axio.ms site refresh This is the obligatory “first post on new platform” post, coupled with a bit of “first post in 4...
28th May 2016
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Axio.ms site refresh

from axio.ms [alt+shift+b] in technology

28th May 2016
This is the obligatory “first post on new platform” post, coupled with a bit of “first post in 4 years, I’m still alive”. The original axio.ms site was a very HTML1.0 affair and while this was kind of intentional-tongue-in-cheek-chic, it was also a PITA to update. It wasn’t...
16th Jul 2017
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The Triangle of Harm

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

16th Jul 2017
Three apps that will not change your life After what has felt like a long winter of habitual reliance on my existing tools, I’m finally...
15th Aug 2025
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Three apps that will not change your life

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

15th Aug 2025
After what has felt like a long winter of habitual reliance on my existing tools, I’m finally playing around with some new ones. This is a healthy habit—so long as you don’t convince yourself that you’re just one more App Store download away from a previously unimaginable level...
GitHub Copilot for Vim Review My review of GitHub Copilot for Vim
1st May 2025
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GitHub Copilot for Vim Review

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

1st May 2025
My review of GitHub Copilot for Vim
On Building Git for Lawyers Over this past weekend, Twitter discovered the problem that I have dedicated the past four years of...
14th Nov 2024
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On Building Git for Lawyers

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

14th Nov 2024
Over this past weekend, Twitter discovered the problem that I have dedicated the past four years of my life to solving. Why don't lawyers and other non-coders use git?
The Wrong Bet The next decade in SaaS won't look like the last
10th May 2021
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The Wrong Bet

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

10th May 2021
The next decade in SaaS won't look like the last
2024-12-04 operators on the front At the very core of telephone history, there is the telephone operator. For a lot of people, the...
4th Dec 2024
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2024-12-04 operators on the front

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

4th Dec 2024
At the very core of telephone history, there is the telephone operator. For a lot of people, the vague understanding that an operator used to be involved is the main thing they know about historic telephony. Of course, telephone historians, as a group, tend to be much more...
2025-10-30 An experiment involving scrollbars Keeping scrollbars easy to acquire even in large...
31st Oct 2025
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2025-10-30

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

31st Oct 2025
An experiment involving scrollbars Keeping scrollbars easy to acquire even in large files. Demo of an idea for a scrollbar with a shadow or "penumbra" which makes it easier to acquire to drag around, even as the conventional and smaller central object continues to be...
Nielsen Norman Group on iOS 26 usability On Friday, Raluca Budiu posted “Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26” to the...
12th Oct 2025
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Nielsen Norman Group on iOS 26 usability

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

12th Oct 2025
On Friday, Raluca Budiu posted “Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26” to the Nielsen Norman Group site. If the name isn’t familiar to you, the Nielsen Norman Group are UI/UX specialists who’ve been commenting insightfully about design since the late-90s. The...
Climbing Mount Etna Climbing Mount Etna, an active volcano on Sicily Italy.
1st Sep 2017
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Climbing Mount Etna

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

1st Sep 2017
Climbing Mount Etna, an active volcano on Sicily Italy.
Thinking about functional programming Someone on Discord asked about how to learn functional programming. The question and my initial...
15th Aug 2023
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Thinking about functional programming

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

15th Aug 2023
Someone on Discord asked about how to learn functional programming. The question and my initial tweet on the subject prompted an interesting discussion with Shriram Krishnamurthi and other folks. So here's a slightly more thought out exploration. And just for backstory sake: I...
Computer says no This morning I enjoyed my bike ride on a nearly empty bicycle lane, picture perfect rays of sunlight...
10th Sep 2022
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Computer says no

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

10th Sep 2022
This morning I enjoyed my bike ride on a nearly empty bicycle lane, picture perfect rays of sunlight illuminated the dew above the fields around me. Where were all the other cyclists? I suspect it has something to do with popular weather apps. It strikes me how great the control...
Backdooring Your Backdoors - Another $20 Domain, More Governments After the excitement of our .MOBI research, we were left twiddling our thumbs. As you may recall, in...
8th Jan 2025
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Backdooring Your Backdoors - Another $20 Domain, More Governments

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

8th Jan 2025
After the excitement of our .MOBI research, we were left twiddling our thumbs. As you may recall, in 2024, we demonstrated the impact of an unregistered domain when we subverted the TLS/SSL CA process for verifying domain ownership to give ourselves the ability to issue valid and...
Approximate nearest news As you may know, one of my (very geeky) interests is Approximate nearest neigbor methods, and I'm...
2nd Jun 2016
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Approximate nearest news

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

2nd Jun 2016
As you may know, one of my (very geeky) interests is Approximate nearest neigbor methods, and I'm the author of a Python package called Annoy. I've also built a benchmark suite called ann-benchmarks to compare different packages.
Weekend Tournaments This weekend was filled by playing cards. On Saturday I hosted a small Game of Thrones tournament...
6th Sep 2016
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Weekend Tournaments

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

6th Sep 2016
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...
Apple at 50: My journey to the Mac Growing up, I hated Apple the way only an arrogant teenager could. Who in their right mind would buy...
1st Apr 2026
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Apple at 50: My journey to the Mac

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

1st Apr 2026
Growing up, I hated Apple the way only an arrogant teenager could. Who in their right mind would buy an overpriced toy instead of a “real computer”? Here’s how I switched to the Mac, and haven’t looked back… despite some recent reservations. My family’s first real computer was a...
Using WordPress is risky It’s been a couple of weeks since I last wrote about WordPress. Stuff’s been happening in the...
1st Nov 2024
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Using WordPress is risky

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

1st Nov 2024
It’s been a couple of weeks since I last wrote about WordPress. Stuff’s been happening in the background, but I’ve been trying to ignore it. This morning I read a story that bothered me enough to require another round of therapy-by-blog-post. First up, a couple of things that...
How I treat my urge to hoard data The tagline for /r/datahoarder reads: “It’s A Digital Disease!”. I agree. At some point I realized...
8th Mar 2022
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How I treat my urge to hoard data

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

8th Mar 2022
The tagline for /r/datahoarder reads: “It’s A Digital Disease!”. I agree. At some point I realized that the pursuit to hoard all the things will just keep on consuming more and more of my time and money. Storage is cheap up until to a point, once you find yourself tracking hard...
Advent of GitButler Code This holiday season, GitButler is sponsoring the Advent of Code and our first present is a new...
30th Nov 2023
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Advent of GitButler Code

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

30th Nov 2023
This holiday season, GitButler is sponsoring the Advent of Code and our first present is a new release! Join us in solving coding puzzles every day with our new client alpha!
Finding a good blu-ray player for Mac OS X I find playing a Blu-ray movie on my Mac cumbersome. I've been using Plex, XBMC and VLC but these...
22nd Sep 2013
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Finding a good blu-ray player for Mac OS X

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

22nd Sep 2013
I find playing a Blu-ray movie on my Mac cumbersome. I've been using Plex, XBMC and VLC but these free open-source products are all a usability nightmare. To play a Blu-ray movie, you have to perform these steps: right-click on the BDMV file choose 'show packet contents' go to...
12th Aug 2024
Being a volunteer in Amsterdam-Zuidoost About my work as volunteer in the local community center in Amsterdam Zuidoost
20th Nov 2016
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Being a volunteer in Amsterdam-Zuidoost

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

20th Nov 2016
About my work as volunteer in the local community center in Amsterdam Zuidoost
All about the fillrate I bought "Blade infinity" yesterday. The game is a lot of fun and has the ability to satisfy both...
11th Dec 2010
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All about the fillrate

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

11th Dec 2010
I bought "Blade infinity" yesterday. The game is a lot of fun and has the ability to satisfy both people looking for instant fun and people wishing for a long game while collecting powerful items. At $5.99 it is a bargain, a must have not only for the gameplay but also for its...
Introducing QuickDraw This may be the best product we've ever designed. Existing cord organizers sit at the back or edge...
23rd Nov 2021
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Introducing QuickDraw

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

23rd Nov 2021
This may be the best product we've ever designed. Existing cord organizers sit at the back or edge of your desk and create a mountain of clutter. Using them requires reaching for the cord you want and pulling it across your desk. To put it back, you have to flip the the cord...
The number of letters in the word for each number Just for fun, I generated these graphs of the number of letters in the word for each number. I...
6th Sep 2017
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The number of letters in the word for each number

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

6th Sep 2017
Just for fun, I generated these graphs of the number of letters in the word for each number. I really spent about 10 minutes on this (ok…possibly also another 40 minutes tweaking the plots): More languages!
The web is changing, and we are not going back Whenever I saw someone type a natural language query into Google, it made me cringe. "It's not a...
1st Jun 2026
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The web is changing, and we are not going back

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

1st Jun 2026
Whenever I saw someone type a natural language query into Google, it made me cringe. "It's not a person," I would say. "Type like you're talking to a machine." This was especially true for programmers and it was before AI took over everything. Instead of "how do I write a...
Web3’s Mobile Moment In 2013, media & technology analyst Benedict Evans presented “Mobile is eating the world,” looking...
27th Feb 2022
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Web3’s Mobile Moment

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

27th Feb 2022
In 2013, media & technology analyst Benedict Evans presented “Mobile is eating the world,” looking at how the unprecedented scale of mobile was beginning to change the Internet and the economy at large.
Writing a Jinja-inspired template library in Python In this post we'll build a minimal text templating library in Python inspired by Jinja. It will be...
23rd May 2021
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Writing a Jinja-inspired template library in Python

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

23rd May 2021
In this post we'll build a minimal text templating library in Python inspired by Jinja. It will be able to display variables and iterate over arrays. By the end of this article, with around 300 lines of code, we'll be able to create this program: from pytemplate import...
Symmetricom 58532A GPS Antenna Supply Voltage Mod The Symmatricom 58532A Opening up the 58532A Voltage Regulation Result What about the other 58532A...
23rd Mar 2024
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Symmetricom 58532A GPS Antenna Supply Voltage Mod

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

23rd Mar 2024
The Symmatricom 58532A Opening up the 58532A Voltage Regulation Result What about the other 58532A variant? References The Symmatricom 58532A As part of a package deal, I got my hands on a Symmetricom 58532A L1 GPS antenna. Microchip, which acquired Symmetricom in 2013, doesn’t...
A week with the iPhone I’ve had a new iPhone for about a week now, so I figure it’s time to write up some thoughts about...
31st Dec 2007
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A week with the iPhone

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

31st Dec 2007
I’ve had a new iPhone for about a week now, so I figure it’s time to write up some thoughts about it. First, the little things. It is, in typical Apple fashion, an incredibly slick piece of work. Scrolling and zooming images or webpages is simple, easy, and, well, just fun to do...
Goals for Autumn 2016 Every once and a while I like to redo my priorities and set new goals for myself. I recently read...
12th Aug 2016
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Goals for Autumn 2016

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

12th Aug 2016
Every once and a while I like to redo my priorities and set new goals for myself. I recently read the book 59 seconds which among other things presented a way of structuring goals I will try out. In short you should divide your main goal into 5 subgoals with a date of completion,...
Death, and Utsuge This post discusses topics some may wish to avoid: terminal illness, hospice care, death, and...
1st Nov 2024
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Death, and Utsuge

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

1st Nov 2024
This post discusses topics some may wish to avoid: terminal illness, hospice care, death, and Japanese visual novels.
Plus Post: Computerwise TransTerm 3 Introducing the TransTerm 3 Battery Powered Terminal
1st May 2025
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Plus Post: Computerwise TransTerm 3

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

1st May 2025
Introducing the TransTerm 3 Battery Powered Terminal
Butler Flow: shipping code faster (but less like Alfred, more like CI on steroids) - Part 3 In Part 3, we take a look at some deep examples of where Butler Flow comes in handy.
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In Part 3, we take a look at some deep examples of where Butler Flow comes in handy.
Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D, 2nd Edition The second edition of the Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D is out.
6th Dec 2018
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Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D, 2nd Edition

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

6th Dec 2018
The second edition of the Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D is out.
Leadership at the Peak I want to start by thanking the Automattic board, and in particular General (Ret.) Ann Dunwoody, for...
10th Feb 2026
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Leadership at the Peak

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

10th Feb 2026
I want to start by thanking the Automattic board, and in particular General (Ret.) Ann Dunwoody, for encouraging me to step away from the endless work of being CEO of Automattic to focus on training and development. Ann, as one of this generation’s great leaders, did it herself...
Plex Might Be Inadvertently Bottlenecking You Plex Might Be Inadvertently Bottlenecking You Posted on May 12, 2025 This post is from a legacy...
12th May 2025
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Plex Might Be Inadvertently Bottlenecking You

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

12th May 2025
Plex Might Be Inadvertently Bottlenecking You Posted on May 12, 2025 This post is from a legacy version of this blog! No changes have been made to the content in the migration, so things might read weird. Plex has this Relay feature that basically pipes your traffic through...
The banality of surveillance Do our dull lives become worth watching?
6th Mar 2026
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The banality of surveillance

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

6th Mar 2026
Do our dull lives become worth watching?
Conversion rates – you are (most likely) computing them wrong How hard can it be to compute conversion rate? Take the total number of users that converted and...
23rd May 2017
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Conversion rates – you are (most likely) computing them wrong

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

23rd May 2017
How hard can it be to compute conversion rate? Take the total number of users that converted and divide them with the total number of users. Done. Except… it's a lot more complicated when you have any sort of significant time lag.
Meta is holding my Facebook Page hostage I have been trying to delete my Meta/Facebook account for past several months in vain because I...
29th Dec 2021
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Meta is holding my Facebook Page hostage

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

29th Dec 2021
I have been trying to delete my Meta/Facebook account for past several months in vain because I couldn't download a copy of my Facebook Page before I delete my account. Facebook provides 'Request a download' feature for downloading a copy of the the Page. It worked fine for pages...
I see dead people Imagine seeing your dead family members - not just on a picture, but lifelike and in three...
9th Sep 2024
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I see dead people

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

9th Sep 2024
Imagine seeing your dead family members - not just on a picture, but lifelike and in three dimensions! You can almost touch them. It hits you differently, I can assure you. I'm still in awe: I just saw my dead grandfather, lifelike and for the first time ever in three dimensions!...
Model benchmarks A lot of people have asked me what models we use for recommendations at Spotify so I wanted to share...
2nd Nov 2013
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Model benchmarks

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

2nd Nov 2013
A lot of people have asked me what models we use for recommendations at Spotify so I wanted to share some insights. Here's benchmarks for some models. Note that we don't use all of them in production.
Introducing Pebble - Hackable E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android Our first Kickstarter launch! Check out the Hacker News thread for some lively discussion
11th Apr 2012
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Introducing Pebble - Hackable E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android

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

11th Apr 2012
Our first Kickstarter launch! Check out the Hacker News thread for some lively discussion
Increasing Frequency Counter Precision with Linear Regression MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [...
16th Jun 2023
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Increasing Frequency Counter Precision with Linear Regression

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

16th Jun 2023
MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [ ['$', '$'], ["\\(", "\\)"] ], displayMath: [ ['$$', '$$'], ["\\[", "\\]"] ], processEscapes: true, skipTags: ['script', 'noscript', 'style', 'textarea', 'pre',...
2025-05-04 iBeacons You know sometimes a technology just sort of... comes and goes? Without leaving much of an...
4th May 2025
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2025-05-04 iBeacons

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

4th May 2025
You know sometimes a technology just sort of... comes and goes? Without leaving much of an impression? And then gets lodged in your brain for the next decade? Let's talk about one of those: the iBeacon. I think the reason that iBeacons loom so large in my memory is that...
Notes from "On Writing Well" I’ve been trying to improve my writing so I read On Writing Well by William Zinsser. My main...
4th Jan 2026
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Notes from "On Writing Well"

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

4th Jan 2026
I’ve been trying to improve my writing so I read On Writing Well by William Zinsser. My main takeaways: Clear thinking is a prerequisite for clear writing. How do you avoid cluttered writing? “The answer is to clear our heads of clutter. Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one...
Core i7 920 @ 3,6 Ghz is a true beast! Even today, Core 2 Duo processors clocked at 2 ghz are no slugs. However, the Core i7 920 is of a...
4th Mar 2009
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Core i7 920 @ 3,6 Ghz is a true beast!

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

4th Mar 2009
Even today, Core 2 Duo processors clocked at 2 ghz are no slugs. However, the Core i7 920 is of a different kind. First, it is not only clocked at a higher speed (default 2,8 Ghz), it is also a quad-core processor. Thanks to the re- introduction of hyperthreading, this processor...
More MCMC – Analyzing a small dataset with 1-5 ratings I've been obsessed with how to iterate quickly based on small scale feedback lately. One awesome...
5th Dec 2015
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More MCMC – Analyzing a small dataset with 1-5 ratings

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

5th Dec 2015
I've been obsessed with how to iterate quickly based on small scale feedback lately. One awesome website I encountered is Usability Hub which lets you run 5 second tests. Users see your site for 5 seconds and you can ask them free-form questions afterwards.
LotusNotes I tend to focus on the origin of the computer within the military. Particularly in the early days of...
14th Mar 2026
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LotusNotes

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

14th Mar 2026
I tend to focus on the origin of the computer within the military. Particularly in the early days of digital computing, the military was a key customer, and fundamental concepts of modern computing arose in universities and laboratories serving military contracts. Of course, the...
Inspiration from a child Together with my kids I love to explore the world that we think we know as adults. A kid's...
29th Sep 2021
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Inspiration from a child

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

29th Sep 2021
Together with my kids I love to explore the world that we think we know as adults. A kid's perspective inspires and surprises! No need to travel half the world for an adventure: Fly planes, catch bad guys, solve problems, build and break stuff - (re)discover the adventure right...
The Pulse: RoR creator sparks new “death of coding by hand” debate In his Rails World keynote, David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) declared the end for writing code by hand...
a week ago
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The Pulse: RoR creator sparks new “death of coding by hand” debate

from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in technology

a week ago
In his Rails World keynote, David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) declared the end for writing code by hand for professional work – at 37signals at least. Is this change now unstoppable?
Factory Raw: Limited Run Finish Straight from our CNC mills - machining marks and all. These raw ElevationDock 3's have a bright,...
16th Dec 2015
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Factory Raw: Limited Run Finish

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

16th Dec 2015
Straight from our CNC mills - machining marks and all. These raw ElevationDock 3's have a bright, gorgeous, utilitarian look. You can see exactly how they were 5-axis milled, held, and hand deburred. They look cool on a desk and are popular around our office (mostly with machined...
The Godfather It has taken me far too long to watch The Godfather, and having finished it I find myself slightly...
6th Feb 2023
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The Godfather

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

6th Feb 2023
It has taken me far too long to watch The Godfather, and having finished it I find myself slightly deflated — because it is a tremendous movie, worthy of its status in both the American and cinematic anons, and every line and meme which has etched itself into the collective...
No Way, PHP Strikes Again! (CVE-2024-4577) Orange Tsai tweeted a few hours ago about “One of [his] PHP vulnerabilities, which affects XAMPP by...
7th Jun 2024
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No Way, PHP Strikes Again! (CVE-2024-4577)

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

7th Jun 2024
Orange Tsai tweeted a few hours ago about “One of [his] PHP vulnerabilities, which affects XAMPP by default”, and we were curious to say the least. XAMPP is a very popular way for administrators and developers to rapidly deploy Apache, PHP, and a bunch of other tools, and
On NYC, Tokyo and Seoul I’ve lived in NYC for the past year — moved here after years in Philly and after growing up in a...
20th Oct 2018
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On NYC, Tokyo and Seoul

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

20th Oct 2018
I’ve lived in NYC for the past year — moved here after years in Philly and after growing up in a rural community a few hours west of there. My wife is South Korean and last week concluded my second trip to the suburbs of Seoul to visit her family. We finished up that trip with a...
State drift I generally haven't written much about software architecture. People make heuristics into religion....
8th Sep 2016
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State drift

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

8th Sep 2016
I generally haven't written much about software architecture. People make heuristics into religion. But here is something I thought about: how to build in self-correction into systems. This has been something just vaguely sitting in my head lacking a clear conceptual definition...
Threads “You’re an interesting species. An interesting mix. You’re capable of such beautiful dreams, and...
14th Oct 2018
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Threads

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

14th Oct 2018
“You’re an interesting species. An interesting mix. You’re capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost…
Looking for vulnerabilities is the last thing I do There’s a common misconception among developers that my job, as a (application) Security Engineer,...
20th Feb 2026
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Looking for vulnerabilities is the last thing I do

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

20th Feb 2026
There’s a common misconception among developers that my job, as a (application) Security Engineer, is to just search for security bugs in their code. They may well have seen junior security engineers doing this kind of thing. But, although this can be useful (and is part of the...
Comment on How Live Chat Tools Impact Conversions and Why I Launched a Bad Variant by Kannan... Thanks for all your insights. I really wonder why my sales are actually gone down since I...
7th Aug 2018
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7th Aug 2018
Thanks for all your insights. I really wonder why my sales are actually gone down since I implemented tawk. Probably it is a good idea to take off and see if there are a dance in the sales graph.
Klute A terrific, terrific film, with a great performance by Jane Fonda (insert quip of "the film should...
2nd Sep 2023
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Klute

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

2nd Sep 2023
A terrific, terrific film, with a great performance by Jane Fonda (insert quip of "the film should be called Bree!" here.) I think some of the noir aspects felt a little more obvious than in The Conversation, but the pair of performances and the deep sense of sonic dread that...
Traveling with Apple Vision Pro The Vision Pro has quickly become an essential item that I take onto every flight. It’s a fantastic...
9th Oct 2024
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Traveling with Apple Vision Pro

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

9th Oct 2024
The Vision Pro has quickly become an essential item that I take onto every flight. It’s a fantastic device to travel with—Be it by train or by plane, it offers an unparalleled opportunity to selectively tune out your environment and sink into an engaging activity like watching a...
March 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter 2 major new site features: 'popins' and recursive Wikipedia popups
6th Apr 2021
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March 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter

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

6th Apr 2021
2 major new site features: 'popins' and recursive Wikipedia popups
The Farmer's Hotel My first piece of work by O'Hara, shockingly, and it was a cute little three act play filled with as...
3rd May 2020
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The Farmer's Hotel

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

3rd May 2020
My first piece of work by O'Hara, shockingly, and it was a cute little three act play filled with as much drinking and death as I'd been led to believe.
Wayback Machine Joint Automattic has been working with the Internet Archive to develop a plugin to combat link rot, and...
1st Nov 2025
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Wayback Machine Joint

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

1st Nov 2025
Automattic has been working with the Internet Archive to develop a plugin to combat link rot, and it’s a plugin I’d encourage you to install. As the plugin says: When a linked page disappears, the plugin helps preserve your user experience by redirecting visitors to a reliable...
Hospitalised with MCADD This week we experienced the first time that our son was hospitalised since he was diagnosed with...
3rd May 2021
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Hospitalised with MCADD

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

3rd May 2021
This week we experienced the first time that our son was hospitalised since he was diagnosed with MCADD, a metabolic condition that limits his body's ability to utilise fats for energy. Do you or your kid have MCADD? Then, read along and don't worry, as everything will be...
Revisiting LLM Geolocation Two Years Later In 2023 Bellingcat published “Can AI Chatbots Be Used for Geolocation?”. In that article, they...
21st Mar 2025
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Revisiting LLM Geolocation Two Years Later

from heavymeta.org [alt+shift+b] in technology

21st Mar 2025
In 2023 Bellingcat published “Can AI Chatbots Be Used for Geolocation?”. In that article, they examine the ability of LLMs to geolocate photos. They gave Microsoft Bing and Google Bard three photos of locations in Canada: the Edmonton City Hall Churchill Square, also in...
+ The only thing of value I can provide There is one main type of value I can bring to this blog. If I lose that, what am I even doing?
2nd Nov 2025
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+ The only thing of value I can provide

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Nov 2025
There is one main type of value I can bring to this blog. If I lose that, what am I even doing?
Language pitch Here's a fun analysis that I did of the pitch (aka. frequency) of various languages. Certain...
1st Feb 2017
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Language pitch

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

1st Feb 2017
Here's a fun analysis that I did of the pitch (aka. frequency) of various languages. Certain languages are simply pronounced with lower or higher pitch. Whether this is a feature of the language or more a cultural thing is a good question, but there are some substantial...
CircuitPython in 2025 This post is a wishlist for CircuitPython in 2025. Each year Adafruit asks the community to...
5th Jan 2025
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CircuitPython in 2025

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in technology

5th Jan 2025
This post is a wishlist for CircuitPython in 2025. Each year Adafruit asks the community to contribute their thoughts or requests for the open source microcontroller language as outlined on the Adafruit blog. In 2025 I would like a library for working with vectors, similar to...
Implementing a simple jq clone in Go, and basics of Go memory profiling In this post we'll build a basic jq clone in Go. It will only be able to pull a single path out of...
10th Jul 2022
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Implementing a simple jq clone in Go, and basics of Go memory profiling

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

10th Jul 2022
In this post we'll build a basic jq clone in Go. It will only be able to pull a single path out of each object it reads. It won't be able to do filters, mapping, etc. $ cat large-file.json | head -n2 | ./jqgo...
Macaroon access tokens for OAuth: Part 2 – transactional auth In part 1, I showed how Macaroon access tokens in ForgeRock Access Management 7.0 can be used as a...
9th Sep 2020
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Macaroon access tokens for OAuth: Part 2 – transactional auth

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

9th Sep 2020
In part 1, I showed how Macaroon access tokens in ForgeRock Access Management 7.0 can be used as a lightweight and easy-to-deploy alternative to proof of possession (PoP) schemes for securing tokens in browser-based apps. The same techniques can be adapted to secure tokens in...
Stuff costs money The many temptations of software businesses. Plus, a hackquisition?
5th Sep 2025
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Stuff costs money

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

5th Sep 2025
The many temptations of software businesses. Plus, a hackquisition?
The end of AOL dialup America Online has ceased offering dialup access since first doing so in 1991 (using GeoWorks), and...
5th Oct 2025
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The end of AOL dialup

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

5th Oct 2025
America Online has ceased offering dialup access since first doing so in 1991 (using GeoWorks), and presumably any systems attempting to dial in will no longer be able to make a connection. We actually had a fairly long history with AOL and its predecessors in our house. We got...
DSLogic U3Pro16 Review and Teardown Introduction The DSLogic U3Pro16 In the Box Probe Cables and Clips The Controller Hardware The Input...
12th Apr 2025
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DSLogic U3Pro16 Review and Teardown

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

12th Apr 2025
Introduction The DSLogic U3Pro16 In the Box Probe Cables and Clips The Controller Hardware The Input Circuit Impact of Input Circuit on Circuit Under Test Additional IOs: External Clock, Trigger In, Trigger Out Software: From Saleae Logic to PulseView to DSView Installing DSView...
They call it Mister Pibb (again) As Pibb is the official beverage of Old Vintage Computing Research, no doubt to the profound chagrin...
2nd Nov 2025
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They call it Mister Pibb (again)

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

2nd Nov 2025
As Pibb is the official beverage of Old Vintage Computing Research, no doubt to the profound chagrin of the Coca-Cola Company, I feel compelled to offer a public service announcement. Old and busted: inconsistent on their own brand name) is back and Pibb Xtra, the face of...
btrbk is awesome I like having a safety net whenever I’m doing something potentially destructive, which is why I use...
9th Jul 2022
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btrbk is awesome

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

9th Jul 2022
I like having a safety net whenever I’m doing something potentially destructive, which is why I use the btrfs file system for my operating system and my data. Snapshots are one half of my “whoops, there goes all my work” strategy (backups are the other half). I’ve written about...
Claude found me an error in the ANES A quick one this week, hopefully something that will save some grad student from mistakenly thinking...
3rd Feb 2026
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Claude found me an error in the ANES

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

3rd Feb 2026
A quick one this week, hopefully something that will save some grad student from mistakenly thinking that they’ve discovered a major reversal in political polarization…
Game Engine Black Book update The Game Engine Black Books have been updated. Free pdfs, high-quality prints, and source code are...
17th May 2019
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Game Engine Black Book update

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

17th May 2019
The Game Engine Black Books have been updated. Free pdfs, high-quality prints, and source code are available.
Quest for Universal action — Essay You may listen to this while reading We Are All Astronauts - Ether (YouTube). Few months ago, a...
28th Jan 2018
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Quest for Universal action — Essay

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

28th Jan 2018
You may listen to this while reading We Are All Astronauts - Ether (YouTube). Few months ago, a significant percentage of my peers were…
Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 1. lisp to assembly Next in compiler basics: 2. user-defined functions and variables 3. LLVM 4. LLVM...
20th Nov 2018
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Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 1. lisp to assembly

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

20th Nov 2018
Next in compiler basics: 2. user-defined functions and variables 3. LLVM 4. LLVM conditionals and compiling fibonacci 5. LLVM system calls 6. an x86 upgrade In this post we'll write a simple compiler in Javascript (on Node) without any third-party libraries....
Shelly 2.5 + ESPHome: potential fire hazard + fix If you have flashed your Shelly 2.5 with ESPHome, make sure to configure GPIO16. Otherwise, the pin...
9th Nov 2020
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Shelly 2.5 + ESPHome: potential fire hazard + fix

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

9th Nov 2020
If you have flashed your Shelly 2.5 with ESPHome, make sure to configure GPIO16. Otherwise, the pin will be short-circuited and cause the unit to heat up significantly, creating a potential fire hazard!
Finance, Fairer Sharing our investment in Jia, which turns crypto liquidity into working capital for small...
17th May 2023
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Finance, Fairer

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

17th May 2023
Sharing our investment in Jia, which turns crypto liquidity into working capital for small businesses in every corner of the world.
Doom3 Source Code Review On November 23, 2011 id Software maintained the tradition and released the source code of their...
8th Jun 2012
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Doom3 Source Code Review

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

8th Jun 2012
On November 23, 2011 id Software maintained the tradition and released the source code of their previous engine. This time is was the turn of idTech4 which powered Prey, Quake 4 and of course Doom 3. Within hours the GitHub repository was forked more than 400 times and...
I switched my blog from Blogofile to Pelican This blog is a static website, which makes it fast, simple and secure. It was generated by Blogofile...
6th Aug 2013
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I switched my blog from Blogofile to Pelican

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

6th Aug 2013
This blog is a static website, which makes it fast, simple and secure. It was generated by Blogofile but I switched to Pelican. Blogofile has seen almost no updates over the years and I consider the project dead. Realising that blogofile is dead, I decided to look around for...
Blogroll Remember when everyone had a really ugly blog with a blogroll? Anyway, just think the word is...
9th Jun 2017
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Blogroll

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

9th Jun 2017
Remember when everyone had a really ugly blog with a blogroll? Anyway, just think the word is funny. I follow a few hundred blogs using Feedly and Reeder and have been reading a few hundred thousand blog posts over the last 10 years.
Is the “AI developer”a threat to jobs – or a marketing stunt? One startup released “the first AI software engineer,” while another aims to build a “superhuman...
1st May 2024
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Is the “AI developer”a threat to jobs – or a marketing stunt?

from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st May 2024
One startup released “the first AI software engineer,” while another aims to build a “superhuman software engineer.” As intimidating as these sound: what if it’s more marketing than reality?
MkLinux and the pimped-out Apple Workgroup Server 9150 As is typical here in the Floodgap lab, it all started so innocently: rebuilding a flaky Apple...
2nd Aug 2026
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MkLinux and the pimped-out Apple Workgroup Server 9150

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

2nd Aug 2026
As is typical here in the Floodgap lab, it all started so innocently: rebuilding a flaky Apple Workgroup Server 9150, the odd duck of the Workgroup Server line and older cousin to our beloved Apple Network Server. And then I just had to pimp it out for MkLinux. sui generis IBM...
How I blew up my backup server (Valve pls fix) It all started with me getting a Steam Deck. Background After getting familiar with the Steam Deck...
10th Jun 2023
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How I blew up my backup server (Valve pls fix)

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

10th Jun 2023
It all started with me getting a Steam Deck. Background After getting familiar with the Steam Deck and how the Proton compatibility layer works, I decided to write a backup script that would back up everything in the home folder, excluding the Steam games themselves due to the...
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...
1st Apr 2025
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The April Fools joke that might have got me fired

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

1st Apr 2025
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...
Offline Music People sometimes act suprised when I tell them about my music hobby, manually converting CD's to...
16th Jul 2022
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Offline Music

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

16th Jul 2022
People sometimes act suprised when I tell them about my music hobby, manually converting CD's to lossless audio files; there is some reason to this madness however!
Why conversion matters: a toy model There are often close relationships between top level business metrics. For instance, it's well...
30th Oct 2017
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Why conversion matters: a toy model

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

30th Oct 2017
There are often close relationships between top level business metrics. For instance, it's well known that retention has a super strong impact on the valuation of a subscription business. Or that the % of occupied seats is super important for an airline.
Long Story Short Long Story Short, feels like in many ways a synthesis of everything Raphael and Lisa have been...
3rd Oct 2025
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Long Story Short

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Oct 2025
Long Story Short, feels like in many ways a synthesis of everything Raphael and Lisa have been trying to do and say, packaged in a slightly more mature and restrained way than the excesses of Bojack Horseman and their respective written fiction (everyone should read Someone Who...
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