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Tesla’s FSD - First and Last Impressions TLDR: It’s a useless technology demo. Introduction Rules of Engagement Test Ride 1: from Kings Beach...
a year ago
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Tesla’s FSD - First and Last Impressions

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

a year ago
TLDR: It’s a useless technology demo. Introduction Rules of Engagement Test Ride 1: from Kings Beach to Truckee (11 miles) Test Ride 2: I-80 from Truckee to Blue Canyon (36 miles) Test Ride 3: from West-Valley College to I-85 Entrance (1 mile) Conclusion Introduction In the past...
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Birchtree
Ghost gets ActivityPub into beta Ghost: Social Web We've got our social web integration for Ghost to a point where we're excited to...
3 months ago
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Ghost gets ActivityPub into beta

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

3 months ago
Ghost: Social Web We've got our social web integration for Ghost to a point where we're excited to have you try it out, but there's a lot of work still in progress and (as alluded to earlier) there are some significant rough edges. I&
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Home on Erik...
Why organizations fail One of my favorite business hobbies is to reduce some nasty decision down to its absolute core...
over a year ago
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Why organizations fail

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

over a year ago
One of my favorite business hobbies is to reduce some nasty decision down to its absolute core objective, decide the most basic strategy, and then add more and more modifications as you have to confront the complexity of reality (yes I have very lame hobbies thanks I know).
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Home on Erik...
The Filter Bubble is Silly and you Can't Guess What Happened Next I'm at RecSys 2014, meeting a lot of people and hanging out at talks. Some of the discussions here...
over a year ago
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The Filter Bubble is Silly and you Can't Guess What Happened Next

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

over a year ago
I'm at RecSys 2014, meeting a lot of people and hanging out at talks. Some of the discussions here was about the filter bubble which prompted me to formalize my own thoughts. I firmly believe that it's the role of a system to respect the user's intent.
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Notes on software...
Windows It has been six years since I last used Windows for any remotely serious software development. I've...
over a year ago
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Windows

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over a year ago
It has been six years since I last used Windows for any remotely serious software development. I've used Ubuntu, Arch, or FreeBSD since. But eventually I spent so much time working around common workplace tasks that I decided to put Windows 10 Pro on my work laptop. Windows...
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Odds and Ends of...
DeepSeek isn't a victory for the AI sceptics Am I mad... or is everyone else?
5 months ago
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DeepSeek isn't a victory for the AI sceptics

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

5 months ago
Am I mad... or is everyone else?
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Birchtree
Benchmarks from M2 Pro to M4 Pro Long story short, I picked up a new MacBook Pro this week. I got the M4 Pro version with the higher...
3 months ago
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Benchmarks from M2 Pro to M4 Pro

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

3 months ago
Long story short, I picked up a new MacBook Pro this week. I got the M4 Pro version with the higher core count and 1TB of internal storage. It's the exact same model in the lineup as the M2 Pro I've been using for the last
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Abishek Muthian
Major disaster has struck the computing industry. TL;DR your computers are going to get slow because of patches aimed at fixing unprecedented...
over a year ago
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Major disaster has struck the computing industry.

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

over a year ago
TL;DR your computers are going to get slow because of patches aimed at fixing unprecedented vulnerabilities in the CPU. For the rest (simplified), Modern computational security relies on maintaining the sanctum of memory, i.e keeping secure memory (say your passwords) out of...
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Arduino Blog
Ride safer with these DIY bicycle lights Many people around the world live in cities designed for cars, with bicycle use being a distant...
11 months ago
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Ride safer with these DIY bicycle lights

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11 months ago
Many people around the world live in cities designed for cars, with bicycle use being a distant afterthought. That makes cycling dangerous and lights can do a lot to make riding safer. That’s why Giovanni Aggiustatutto designed this DIY system that includes headlights, a...
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Louwrentius
Setting up a Jabber instant messaging server |_http-title: Site doesn't have a title (text/html;... I wanted to see how dificult it is to setup an instant messaging server based on open source...
over a year ago
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Setting up a Jabber instant messaging server |_http-title: Site doesn't have a title (text/html; charset=utf-8).

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
I wanted to see how dificult it is to setup an instant messaging server based on open source software. Now I know that it is very easy, unless you are stubborn and do things your own way. In this example, I'm setting up a small IM server that is only for internal company use, but...
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Arduino Blog
This DIY standing desk controller provides luxury car-style memory settings One of the best features you’ll find on a fancy luxury car is seat position memory. Typically, there...
a month ago
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This DIY standing desk controller provides luxury car-style memory settings

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

a month ago
One of the best features you’ll find on a fancy luxury car is seat position memory. Typically, there are at least two profiles that “save” the position of the seat. When switching drivers, the new seat occupant can simply push the button for their profile and the seat will...
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Jonas Hietala
MenuCity: Level 0 Walkthrough It hasn’t even been a week since I released my latest game MenyCity and already so much positive...
over a year ago
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MenuCity: Level 0 Walkthrough

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

over a year ago
It hasn’t even been a week since I released my latest game MenyCity and already so much positive feedback! I’m so thrilled :) However, all isn’t blue skies and nice sunshine. A lot of times the first question is: How do you play it? or How do you get past the first level? I admit...
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./techtipsy
Anything's a portable speaker if you're brave enough I hate buying things that are single-purpose, which is why I ended up with this setup. Take a...
over a year ago
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Anything's a portable speaker if you're brave enough

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

over a year ago
I hate buying things that are single-purpose, which is why I ended up with this setup. Take a speaker, a battery, put them together, and what you now have is a portable speaker. Since I had access to both, I felt no need to buy a separate portable speaker for use in social...
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Buck on Software
The Software Slog As a newly minted high school grad I had a brief stint as a wildland firefighter.
over a year ago
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The Software Slog

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over a year ago
As a newly minted high school grad I had a brief stint as a wildland firefighter.
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Arduino Blog
Innovative new tactile sensor helps assess fine motor skills Fine motor skills correlate strongly with cognition and the accurate assessment of an individual’s...
a year ago
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Innovative new tactile sensor helps assess fine motor skills

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

a year ago
Fine motor skills correlate strongly with cognition and the accurate assessment of an individual’s motor skills can be critical in diagnosing and treating a variety of conditions. But objective evaluation has been a challenge, as suitable sensors weren’t available. To help...
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Vitalik Buterin's...
A Note on Metcalfe's Law, Externalities and Ecosystem Splits
over a year ago
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A Note on Metcalfe's Law, Externalities and Ecosystem Splits

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

over a year ago
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Computer Ads from...
Massive Interview with Steve Jobs from MicroTime (1992) An in-depth discussion on NeXT
4 months ago
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Massive Interview with Steve Jobs from MicroTime (1992)

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

4 months ago
An in-depth discussion on NeXT
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Applied Cartography
Why your marketing site should be separate In Notes on buttondown.com and How Buttondown uses HAProxy, I outlined the slightly kludgy way we...
10 months ago
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Why your marketing site should be separate

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

10 months ago
In Notes on buttondown.com and How Buttondown uses HAProxy, I outlined the slightly kludgy way we serve buttondown.com both as a marketing site (public-facing, Next/Vercel, largely just content pushed by non-developers) and an author-facing app (behind a login, Django/Heroku/Vue)...
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Jonas Hietala
December Theme: New World Order The The Experimental Gameplay Project drives on with the Art Game theme which will last the rest of...
over a year ago
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December Theme: New World Order

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

over a year ago
The The Experimental Gameplay Project drives on with the Art Game theme which will last the rest of this year but that’s something we can’t accept! I’ve done my game and I didn’t force myself out from the Haskell world just to do nuthin so here’s a new little theme for me :) What...
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Birchtree
400 million people use OpenAI/ChatGPT every week Kate Rooney for CNBC: OpenAI Tops 400 Million Users Despite DeepSeek’s Emergence The San...
4 months ago
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400 million people use OpenAI/ChatGPT every week

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

4 months ago
Kate Rooney for CNBC: OpenAI Tops 400 Million Users Despite DeepSeek’s Emergence The San Francisco-based tech company had 400 million weekly active users as of February, up 33% from 300 million in December, the company’s chief operating officer, Brad Lightcap, told CNBC. I don’t
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Abishek Muthian
Demand evidence to worry Disclaimer: I'm not qualified to advise on mental health issues, If you think you have OCD, anxiety...
over a year ago
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Demand evidence to worry

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

over a year ago
Disclaimer: I'm not qualified to advise on mental health issues, If you think you have OCD, anxiety or other issues then seek the help of a qualified medical professional. Like physical health, Everyone needs help with mental health at some point. The hair dryer incident is my...
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Arduino Blog
Quickly digitize your Magic deck with this 3D-printable scanning rig We call them “deck builders” for a reason: because players end up with huge piles of trading cards....
3 months ago
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Quickly digitize your Magic deck with this 3D-printable scanning rig

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3 months ago
We call them “deck builders” for a reason: because players end up with huge piles of trading cards. They can get difficult to manage, which is why the ManaBox app exists for Magic: The Gathering. It lets collectors scan and log their decks, which is handy for everything from...
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Buck on Software
Category velocity People make decisions, not businesses.
over a year ago
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Category velocity

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over a year ago
People make decisions, not businesses.
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Willem's Blog
For the love of mini The iPhone Mini has intangible greatness that most folks don't know about: read along for the love...
over a year ago
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For the love of mini

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

over a year ago
The iPhone Mini has intangible greatness that most folks don't know about: read along for the love of mini!
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Willem's Blog
The day I killed my LAN I killed my office LAN and went 4G only. Saves a lot of clutter, energy and money.
over a year ago
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The day I killed my LAN

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

over a year ago
I killed my office LAN and went 4G only. Saves a lot of clutter, energy and money.
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./techtipsy
Testing GPU passthrough on AMD Ryzen 7 5700G APU Introduction Before we jump into all the nitty-gritty details, I’d like to go over what we are...
over a year ago
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Testing GPU passthrough on AMD Ryzen 7 5700G APU

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over a year ago
Introduction Before we jump into all the nitty-gritty details, I’d like to go over what we are dealing with here since these topics may be unfamiliar to you. VFIO is quite a niche topic and not everyone knows about it. GPU passthrough: the process of allowing a VM...
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Birchtree
When friends act like enemies Bert Hubert writing on his blog (normally in Dutch, but this one’s in English): It Is No Longer Safe...
4 months ago
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When friends act like enemies

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4 months ago
Bert Hubert writing on his blog (normally in Dutch, but this one’s in English): It Is No Longer Safe to Move Our Governments and Societies to US Clouds Written down like this, it seems pretty bizarre, and that’s because it is. It’s also not
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Posts on Made of...
Check Plus: An EDSL for writing unit tests in C Check is an excellent unit-testing framework for C code, used by a number of relatively well-known...
over a year ago
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Check Plus: An EDSL for writing unit tests in C

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

over a year ago
Check is an excellent unit-testing framework for C code, used by a number of relatively well-known projects. It includes features such as running all tests in separate address spaces (using fork(2)), which means that the test suite can properly report segfaults or similar crashes...
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Birchtree
That app could probably be a website P. Martin Ortiz writing for Rogue Engine: Your App Should Have Been a Website Some companies push...
6 months ago
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That app could probably be a website

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6 months ago
P. Martin Ortiz writing for Rogue Engine: Your App Should Have Been a Website Some companies push for app installations because they gain access to more permissions than they would in the browser. Apps allow them to collect more data and track user activity, often under the...
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Bryan Braun - Blog
Goodbye Evernote, Hello Obsidian I use note-taking software every day. I use it for journaling, blogging, capturing ideas,...
a year ago
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Goodbye Evernote, Hello Obsidian

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

a year ago
I use note-taking software every day. I use it for journaling, blogging, capturing ideas, researching technologies, managing my projects, and many other things. Writing is how I think through problems, and note-taking software makes all that thinking easy to search and...
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Louwrentius
Google DNS - what to think of it? Google now provide an open DNS service. At first I was scared that they use their service to get...
over a year ago
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Google DNS - what to think of it?

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Google now provide an open DNS service. At first I was scared that they use their service to get information about users. However, their privacy statement tells us that no personal identifiable information is stored for longer than 48 hours. The permanent logs do not contain such...
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Jonas Hietala
A * After a few hours of coding I’ve made a little, little, bit of progress but it took a lot longer...
over a year ago
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A *

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

over a year ago
After a few hours of coding I’ve made a little, little, bit of progress but it took a lot longer than I would have liked. I’ve basically managed to make a world and some tiles in the world and we have a worker who can move around on the tiles and he can’t move on all...
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Applied Cartography
Why can't you just...? Buried in a snarky thread about why Google Calendar doesn’t support calendar syncing is a long,...
a year ago
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Why can't you just...?

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

a year ago
Buried in a snarky thread about why Google Calendar doesn’t support calendar syncing is a long, detailed explanation of why shipping this sort of thing is hard: Designing a consent experience for the enterprise admin and enterprise end user Creating a special "read only" object...
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Arduino Blog
This belt grinder uses an Arduino Opta micro PLC A mainstay in most machine shops, the belt grinder assists in greatly increasing the speed at which...
9 months ago
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This belt grinder uses an Arduino Opta micro PLC

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9 months ago
A mainstay in most machine shops, the belt grinder assists in greatly increasing the speed at which parts can be ground down in a safer, more controlled manner compared to an angle grinder. As an effort to build a tool like this one for the first time, Julien Alexandre chose to...
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Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course Week 6: Herodotus Week 6 of my humanities crash course included four books from Herodotus’s Histories and Plato’s...
5 months ago
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Humanities Crash Course Week 6: Herodotus

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5 months ago
Week 6 of my humanities crash course included four books from Herodotus’s Histories and Plato’s Symposium. I also listened to gorgeous music from exotic (to me) ports of call, learned about Persian art and architecture, and watched a new documentary about René...
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Home on Erik...
Annoy – now without Boost dependencies and with Python 3 Support Annoy is a C++/Python package I built for fast approximate nearest neighbor search in high...
over a year ago
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Annoy – now without Boost dependencies and with Python 3 Support

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

over a year ago
Annoy is a C++/Python package I built for fast approximate nearest neighbor search in high dimensional spaces. Spotify uses it a lot to find similar items. First, matrix factorization gives a low dimensional representation of each item (artist/album/track/user) so that every item...
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lcamtuf’s thing
The 8-bit (MCU) manifesto Eight-bit microcontrollers aren't relics; they are a design philosophy. You might want to use them...
a year ago
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The 8-bit (MCU) manifesto

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

a year ago
Eight-bit microcontrollers aren't relics; they are a design philosophy. You might want to use them more.
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./techtipsy
Things I've learned during my self-hosting adventure This is a list of lessons that I’ve learned while playing around with my computer setup during the...
over a year ago
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Things I've learned during my self-hosting adventure

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over a year ago
This is a list of lessons that I’ve learned while playing around with my computer setup during the last 6-7 years or so. USB connected storage is a bad idea when you are using BTRFS. USB connected storage is still a bad idea when you are using ZFS, but it is at least much more...
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Krebs on Security
Arrests in Tap-to-Pay Scheme Powered by Phishing Authorities in at least two U.S. states last week independently announced arrests of Chinese...
3 months ago
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Arrests in Tap-to-Pay Scheme Powered by Phishing

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3 months ago
Authorities in at least two U.S. states last week independently announced arrests of Chinese nationals accused of perpetrating a novel form of tap-to-pay fraud using mobile devices. Details released by authorities so far indicate the mobile wallets being used by the scammers were...
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Ken Shirriff's blog
Inside the tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets To use the Montreal subway (the Métro), you tap a paper ticket against the turnstile and it...
a year ago
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Inside the tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets

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

a year ago
To use the Montreal subway (the Métro), you tap a paper ticket against the turnstile and it opens. The ticket works through a system called NFC, but what's happening internally? How does the ticket work without a battery? How does it communicate with the turnstile? And how can it...
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Notes on software...
Picking up volleyball in NYC with Goodrec and New York Urban I was so intimidated to go at first, but it is in fact easy and fun to start playing beginner...
6 months ago
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Picking up volleyball in NYC with Goodrec and New York Urban

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6 months ago
I was so intimidated to go at first, but it is in fact easy and fun to start playing beginner volleyball in New York. The people are so friendly and welcoming that it has been easy to keep playing consistently every week since I started for the first time this August. It's been a...
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Ian's Blog
Securing My Web Infrastructure Securing My Web Infrastructure A few months ago, I very briefly mentioned that I've migrated all my...
2 months ago
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Securing My Web Infrastructure

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2 months ago
Securing My Web Infrastructure A few months ago, I very briefly mentioned that I've migrated all my web infrastructure off Cloudflare, as well as having built a custom web service to host it all. I call this new web service WebCentral and I'd like to talk about some of the steps...
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Willem's Blog
Your own addressbook and calendar cloud You can setup a CardDAV/CalDAV server to manage your own contacts, addressbook, agenda and task data...
over a year ago
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Your own addressbook and calendar cloud

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over a year ago
You can setup a CardDAV/CalDAV server to manage your own contacts, addressbook, agenda and task data and share it between your devices.
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Posts on Made of...
wpa_supplicant: GUI and wpa_action I’ve made two new interesting discoveries about wpa_supplicant since writing my last blog post on...
over a year ago
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wpa_supplicant: GUI and wpa_action

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

over a year ago
I’ve made two new interesting discoveries about wpa_supplicant since writing my last blog post on the subject. (Actually, I pretty much made both of them while reading documentation in order to write it, and have been lame about writing them up). Using wpa_gui It turns out that...
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Vitalik Buterin's...
Against choosing your political allegiances based on who is "pro-crypto"
11 months ago
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Against choosing your political allegiances based on who is "pro-crypto"

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11 months ago
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tim.sh
$2m laundered: the YouTube crypto tutorials’ huge scam (investigation) How 1 youtube video turned out to be a part of a million dollar scam scheme
6 months ago
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$2m laundered: the YouTube crypto tutorials’ huge scam (investigation)

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6 months ago
How 1 youtube video turned out to be a part of a million dollar scam scheme
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Jonas Hietala
Before the Games: The Site I’ve got some things I want to do before I start with my next game and they’re all about improving...
over a year ago
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Before the Games: The Site

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I’ve got some things I want to do before I start with my next game and they’re all about improving the site. The last week or so has been extremely productive with me throwing out a lot of wasted code, speeding up the site and adding/removing features and I want to continue with...
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Lighthouse Blog
Browser extensions to add articles
6 months ago
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Browser extensions to add articles

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Birchtree
The worst product Marques Brownlee ever reviewed dies after 10 months Jay Peters for The Verge: HP Is Buying Humane and Shutting Down the AI Pin Humane is selling “key AI...
4 months ago
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The worst product Marques Brownlee ever reviewed dies after 10 months

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4 months ago
Jay Peters for The Verge: HP Is Buying Humane and Shutting Down the AI Pin Humane is selling “key AI capabilities” to HP for $116 million and will stop selling AI Pin, the company announced today. AI Pins that have already been purchased will continue to function normally
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Good Enough
TIL: Fixing Broken Social Share Images in Twitter/X I have an admission to make. Social share images for Pika were broken on Twitter/X, LinkedIn, and...
8 months ago
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TIL: Fixing Broken Social Share Images in Twitter/X

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8 months ago
I have an admission to make. Social share images for Pika were broken on Twitter/X, LinkedIn, and Apple Messages for months. And it made me sad. But in the past few months we got it fixed. And that made me very happy! We really love our Pika social share images. They are...
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Matt Blewitt
Thoughts on User Safety We need to move beyond mere security and towards safety for our customers and our users. This is how...
over a year ago
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Thoughts on User Safety

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over a year ago
We need to move beyond mere security and towards safety for our customers and our users. This is how we can do that.
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Good Enough
TIL: Overriding Permalink Generation in FriendlyId FriendlyId is a helpful Ruby gem that streamlines creating permalinks and slugs for Rails...
10 months ago
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TIL: Overriding Permalink Generation in FriendlyId

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10 months ago
FriendlyId is a helpful Ruby gem that streamlines creating permalinks and slugs for Rails applications. In Pika we're using it to help with generating permalinks for blog posts and pages as well as slugs for tags. When a customer wrote in with a request to modify the behavior of...
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Old Vintage...
An Apple district manager's Macintosh Portable in 1989-91 (featuring GEIS AppleLink and a look at... a late prototype Macintosh Portable. But it turns out it's not merely notable for what it is than...
a year ago
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An Apple district manager's Macintosh Portable in 1989-91 (featuring GEIS AppleLink and a look at System 7.0 alpha)

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a year ago
a late prototype Macintosh Portable. But it turns out it's not merely notable for what it is than what it has on it: a beta version of System 6.0.6 (the doomed release that Apple pulled due to bugs), Apple sales databases, two online services — the maligned Mac Prodigy client,...
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Birchtree
Comfort Zone: OLED Dreams and Studio Display Realities Niléane is out, so Chris and I are left to fend on ourselves! Chris steals like an artist and I...
6 months ago
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Comfort Zone: OLED Dreams and Studio Display Realities

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6 months ago
Niléane is out, so Chris and I are left to fend on ourselves! Chris steals like an artist and I defend a new purchase…oh, and we have some fun with desks that sadly ends in Vision Pro slander. Why does this keep happening?! Watch on YouTube
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Vitalik Buterin's...
An incomplete guide to stealth addresses
over a year ago
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An incomplete guide to stealth addresses

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over a year ago
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The New Oil
The Invisible Way You Can Be Tracked Online
7 months ago
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The Invisible Way You Can Be Tracked Online

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7 months ago
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Willem's Blog
Free from the iCloud: Escaping Apple Photos Recently I freed myself from Apple Photos, using free software to manage my photo library. Read...
over a year ago
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Free from the iCloud: Escaping Apple Photos

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over a year ago
Recently I freed myself from Apple Photos, using free software to manage my photo library. Read along to find out what software I use and how to make it play nice with your devices.
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Ken Shirriff's blog
Inside a vintage aerospace navigation computer of uncertain purpose I recently obtained an aerospace computer from the early 1970s, apparently part of a navigation...
a year ago
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Inside a vintage aerospace navigation computer of uncertain purpose

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a year ago
I recently obtained an aerospace computer from the early 1970s, apparently part of a navigation system. Aerospace computers are an interesting but mostly neglected area of computer hardware, so I'm always delighted to examine one up close. In an era when most computers were large...
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Elevation Lab - Blog
Elevation Lab X Apple: GoStand for iPhone Apple contacted us to design an iPhone stand for Apple Fitness+. So we designed GoStand - Ultra...
over a year ago
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Elevation Lab X Apple: GoStand for iPhone

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over a year ago
Apple contacted us to design an iPhone stand for Apple Fitness+. So we designed GoStand - Ultra compact, widely adjustable, works great. Highly adjustable, from upright down to 45°, for the perfect viewing angle. A hidden push-button ratcheting design makes adjusting the back...
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Krebs on Security
DOGE Worker’s Code Supports NLRB Whistleblower A whistleblower at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleged last week that denizens of Elon...
2 months ago
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DOGE Worker’s Code Supports NLRB Whistleblower

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2 months ago
A whistleblower at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleged last week that denizens of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) siphoned gigabytes of data from the agency's sensitive case files in early March. The whistleblower said accounts created for...
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Odds and Ends of...
AI is going to break how schools work – but that will be good The awkward reality the government seems scared to talk about
5 months ago
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AI is going to break how schools work – but that will be good

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5 months ago
The awkward reality the government seems scared to talk about
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Louwrentius
Shunit2, unit testing for shell scripts This may be of interest to people who are as stupid as I am and write elaborate shell scripts...
over a year ago
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Shunit2, unit testing for shell scripts

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over a year ago
This may be of interest to people who are as stupid as I am and write elaborate shell scripts instead of using a proper scripting language such as Python or Ruby. No I am deliberately not mentioning Perl here. Anyway, testing is always an issue. With PPSS, I encountered many...
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Notes on software...
Build a serverless ACID database with this one neat trick (atomic PutIfAbsent) Delta Lake is an open protocol for serverless ACID databases. Due to its simplicity, scalability,...
9 months ago
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Build a serverless ACID database with this one neat trick (atomic PutIfAbsent)

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9 months ago
Delta Lake is an open protocol for serverless ACID databases. Due to its simplicity, scalability, and the number of open-source implementations, it's quickly becoming the DuckDB of serverless transactional databases for analytics workloads. Iceberg is a contender too, and is...
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Construction Physics
How China Is Like the 19th Century U.S. I spend a lot of time reading about manufacturing and its evolution, which means I end up repeatedly...
8 months ago
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How China Is Like the 19th Century U.S.

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8 months ago
I spend a lot of time reading about manufacturing and its evolution, which means I end up repeatedly reading about the times and places where radical changes in manufacturing were taking place: Britain in the late 18th century, the US in the late 19th and early 20th centuries,...
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Vitalik Buterin's...
Exploring Fully Homomorphic Encryption
over a year ago
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Exploring Fully Homomorphic Encryption

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over a year ago
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Notes on software...
React without webpack: fast path to a working app from scratch This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
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React without webpack: fast path to a working app from scratch

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over a year ago
This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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Arduino Blog
Reduce power consumption in IoT and wearable devices, with Arduino’s new power management library! Developing energy-efficient IoT and wearable devices is complex and time-consuming, yet it is...
9 months ago
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Reduce power consumption in IoT and wearable devices, with Arduino’s new power management library!

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9 months ago
Developing energy-efficient IoT and wearable devices is complex and time-consuming, yet it is essential for creating high-quality products that stand out in today’s market. A key part in this process is optimizing power consumption without sacrificing performance or...
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Jonas Hietala
New Year, New Theme: 100 Things Happy New Year, Everyone! 2009 was great in many ways; I drove a submarine (yeah quite literally), I...
over a year ago
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New Year, New Theme: 100 Things

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over a year ago
Happy New Year, Everyone! 2009 was great in many ways; I drove a submarine (yeah quite literally), I released 6 experimental games and recently I discovered the completely amazing game Evil Genius but lets try to make 2010 even better! So let’s forget our small mishaps (yes I’m...
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Posts on Made of...
Building LLVM in 90 seconds using Amazon Lambda Last week, Frederic Cambus wrote about building LLVM quickly on some very large machines,...
over a year ago
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Building LLVM in 90 seconds using Amazon Lambda

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over a year ago
Last week, Frederic Cambus wrote about building LLVM quickly on some very large machines, culminating in a 2m37s build on a 160-core ARM machine. I don’t have a giant ARM behemoth, but I have been working on a tool I call Llama, which lets you offload computational work –...
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Arduino Blog
This telescope can intelligently point itself anywhere in the sky Known by their characteristic mounting solution, Dobsonian telescopes are the standard in amateur...
6 months ago
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This telescope can intelligently point itself anywhere in the sky

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6 months ago
Known by their characteristic mounting solution, Dobsonian telescopes are the standard in amateur astronomy due to their lower cost and ease-of-use. But after seeing how some of the larger, motorized telescopes at observatories can simply pivot to a target of interest, one member...
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Louwrentius
Do not buy a hardware RAID controller for home use Hardware RAID controllers are considered 'the best' solution for high performance and high...
over a year ago
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Do not buy a hardware RAID controller for home use

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over a year ago
Hardware RAID controllers are considered 'the best' solution for high performance and high availability. However, this is not entirely true. Using a hardware RAID controller might even endanger your precious data. For enterprise environments, where performance is critical, it is...
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Vitalik Buterin's...
Sidechains vs Plasma vs Sharding
over a year ago
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Sidechains vs Plasma vs Sharding

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over a year ago
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Greater Still by...
Integrate Are we building apps or infrastructure? ...Yes
a year ago
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Integrate

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a year ago
Are we building apps or infrastructure? ...Yes
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Notes on software...
Make small changes and solve the problems you have Two frustrating things that can happen in an organization are 1) big changes and 2) changes that...
over a year ago
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Make small changes and solve the problems you have

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over a year ago
Two frustrating things that can happen in an organization are 1) big changes and 2) changes that aren’t clearly associated with a known problem. It’s even worse in that order. These situations tend to happen when a problem remain unaddressed for too long. These situations tend to...
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Posts on Made of...
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...
over a year ago
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reptyr: Attach a running process to a new terminal

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over a year ago
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...
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Notes on software...
Analyzing large JSON files via partial JSON parsing This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
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Analyzing large JSON files via partial JSON parsing

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over a year ago
This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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latest projects -...
Analemmagraph [Concept] Video of a day, one year in every frame
a year ago
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Analemmagraph

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a year ago
[Concept] Video of a day, one year in every frame
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Willem's Blog
Creating a minimal iPhone stand Today I created a minimal iPhone stand from oak wood. I used a single piece of wood to get it done.
over a year ago
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Creating a minimal iPhone stand

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over a year ago
Today I created a minimal iPhone stand from oak wood. I used a single piece of wood to get it done.
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Posts on Made of...
BlackHat/DEFCON 2011 talk: Breaking out of KVM I’ve posted the final slides from my talk this year at DEFCON and Black Hat, on breaking out of the...
over a year ago
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BlackHat/DEFCON 2011 talk: Breaking out of KVM

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over a year ago
I’ve posted the final slides from my talk this year at DEFCON and Black Hat, on breaking out of the KVM Kernel Virtual Machine on Linux. Virtunoid: Breaking out of KVM from Nelson Elhage [Edited 2011-08-11] The code is now available. It should be fairly well-commented, and...
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Arduino Blog
Arduino is at work to make bio-based PCBs! April 22 is Earth Day – a powerful reminder of our shared responsibility to preserve the planet for...
2 months ago
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Arduino is at work to make bio-based PCBs!

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2 months ago
April 22 is Earth Day – a powerful reminder of our shared responsibility to preserve the planet for future generations. While the call for climate action grows louder, Arduino is committed to making sustainability an ongoing priority through concrete projects and global...
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Louwrentius
'A Moment Of Silence: OpenSolaris Is Dead' The last release of OpenSolaris dates back to July 2009. The next release was scheduled for March...
over a year ago
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'A Moment Of Silence: OpenSolaris Is Dead'

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over a year ago
The last release of OpenSolaris dates back to July 2009. The next release was scheduled for March 2010, but Oracle did not release anything. It is dead silent around OpenSolaris. On 12 July 2010, the OpenSolaris Government Board sent out an ultimatum to Oracle: "please...
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Never Met a Science
Yes, Xxit Xxit is like Brexit for X haha
7 months ago
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Yes, Xxit

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7 months ago
Xxit is like Brexit for X haha
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Notes on software...
Bootloader basics I spent a few days playing around with bootloaders for the first time. This post builds up to a text...
over a year ago
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Bootloader basics

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over a year ago
I spent a few days playing around with bootloaders for the first time. This post builds up to a text editor with a few keyboard shortcuts. I'll be giving a virtual talk based on this work at Hacker Nights on Jan 27. There are a definitely bugs. But it's hard to find...
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Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing QuickDraw This may be the best product we've ever designed. Existing cord organizers sit at the back or edge...
over a year ago
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Introducing QuickDraw

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over a year ago
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...
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Arduino Blog
Gustavo Reynaga: Inspiring the next generation of makers with MicroPython If you’re a fan of open-source technology, Gustavo Salvador Reynaga Aguilar is a name to know. An...
4 months ago
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Gustavo Reynaga: Inspiring the next generation of makers with MicroPython

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4 months ago
If you’re a fan of open-source technology, Gustavo Salvador Reynaga Aguilar is a name to know. An experienced educator with a passion for technology, Gustavo has spent nearly three decades teaching and inspiring students at CECATI 132 in Mexico. He’s worked with platforms like...
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Home on Erik...
Wikiphilia I've been obsessed with Wikipedia for the past ten years. Occasionally I find some good articles...
over a year ago
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Wikiphilia

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over a year ago
I've been obsessed with Wikipedia for the past ten years. Occasionally I find some good articles worth sharing and that's why I created the wikiphilia Twitter handle. Just a long stream of stuff that for one reason or another may be interesting.
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Christian Selig
Recreating Apple's beautiful visionOS search bar Many of Apple’s own visionOS apps, like Music, Safari, and Apple TV, have a handy search bar front...
a year ago
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Recreating Apple's beautiful visionOS search bar

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a year ago
Many of Apple’s own visionOS apps, like Music, Safari, and Apple TV, have a handy search bar front and center on the window so you can easily search through your content. Oddly, as of visionOS 1.1, replicating this visually as a developer using SwiftUI or UIKit is not...
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Gwern.net Newsletter
February 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter links on AI scaling, semaglutide, and ethicist ethics
over a year ago
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February 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter

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over a year ago
links on AI scaling, semaglutide, and ethicist ethics
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Vitalik Buterin's...
In Defense of Bitcoin Maximalism
over a year ago
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In Defense of Bitcoin Maximalism

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over a year ago
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Computer Ads from...
VenturCom's VENIX Mixing REAL Time With REAL UNIX Is Not Magic...It Is Technology.
a year ago
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VenturCom's VENIX

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a year ago
Mixing REAL Time With REAL UNIX Is Not Magic...It Is Technology.
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Louwrentius
'Improved' image gallery for Blogofile This blog is just static HTML pages that are generated using Blogofile. The Blogofile website sports...
over a year ago
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'Improved' image gallery for Blogofile

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over a year ago
This blog is just static HTML pages that are generated using Blogofile. The Blogofile website sports a small image gallery that has been written to illustrate how to create your own 'controllers' or Blogofile plugins. My Python skills are horrible buy I managed to improve a bit...
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Computer Ads from...
Creative Computing Magazine Interviews Clive Sinclair (1980) This British inventor speaking about his ZX-80 computer system
7 months ago
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Creative Computing Magazine Interviews Clive Sinclair (1980)

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7 months ago
This British inventor speaking about his ZX-80 computer system
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Neil Madden
SipHash-based encryption for constrained devices I see a lot of attempts to define encryption schemes for constrained devices with short...
a year ago
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SipHash-based encryption for constrained devices

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a year ago
I see a lot of attempts to define encryption schemes for constrained devices with short authentication tags (e.g., 64 bits) using universal hashing. For example, there’s a proposal in CFRG at the moment for a version of AES-GCM with short tags for this kind of use-case. In my...
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Vitalik Buterin's...
Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 2: The Surge
8 months ago
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Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 2: The Surge

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8 months ago
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Jonas Hietala
Calling closures in a Vec In rust one might want to have a list of closures, for example as a list of callbacks. let mut fs:...
over a year ago
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Calling closures in a Vec

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over a year ago
In rust one might want to have a list of closures, for example as a list of callbacks. let mut fs: Vec<||> = Vec::new(); fs.push(|| { println!("imma firing my lazer"); }); for f in fs.iter() { f(); // error: expected function but found `&||` }; Maybe if we borrow...
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Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing TagVault Universal for AirTag We wanted an ultra-secure AirTag case that could be mounted to anything. Easy to change AirTags...
7 months ago
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Introducing TagVault Universal for AirTag

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

7 months ago
We wanted an ultra-secure AirTag case that could be mounted to anything. Easy to change AirTags battery. Waterproof. Robust. And discreet. So we designed TagVault Universal Mount for AirTag. It has mounting holes for screws, rivets, and slots for zip ties. Or just epoxy it down....
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Louwrentius
Raspberry Pi as a router using a single network interface Introduction Disclaimer: this article is intended for consumers and hobbyists. If you want to run...
over a year ago
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Raspberry Pi as a router using a single network interface

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Introduction Disclaimer: this article is intended for consumers and hobbyists. If you want to run your own router at home, the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B1 can be an excelent hardware choice: it's fairly cheap it's fast enough it can saturate it's gigabit network port it is...
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./techtipsy
Home is where the home server is I moved recently, and so did my home server. You might have noticed it due to the downtime. This...
a month ago
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Home is where the home server is

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a month ago
I moved recently, and so did my home server. You might have noticed it due to the downtime. This time I have built a dedicated shelf for it, which allows for more flexibility and room for additional expensive ideas. The internet connection is a fiber line, which is fantastic for...
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Notes on software...
A minimal distributed key-value database with Hashicorp's Raft library When I wrote the "build a distributed PostgreSQL proof of concept" post I first had to figure...
over a year ago
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A minimal distributed key-value database with Hashicorp's Raft library

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over a year ago
When I wrote the "build a distributed PostgreSQL proof of concept" post I first had to figure out how to use Hashicorp's Raft implementation. There weren't any examples I could find in the Hashicorp repo itself. And the only example I could find was Philip O'Toole's hraftd. It's...
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Jonas Hietala
Why make games Why did I start making games? Because I like to play them of course. Think of all the fantastic...
over a year ago
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Why make games

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over a year ago
Why did I start making games? Because I like to play them of course. Think of all the fantastic games; Super Mario, Lemmings, Tetris, GTA, The Sims, Counterstrike, Theme Hospital, SimCity and Rollercoaster Tycoon… Damn - when you count them like this you’ll see how many great...
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Jorge Arango
Why Website Taxonomies Drift (and What to Do about It) AI is everywhere, but most websites are still managed manually by humans using content management...
4 months ago
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Why Website Taxonomies Drift (and What to Do about It)

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

4 months ago
AI is everywhere, but most websites are still managed manually by humans using content management systems like WordPress and Drupal. These systems provide means for tagging and categorizing content. But over time, these structures degrade. Without vigilance and maintenance,...
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Arduino Blog
UNO Rev3 or UNO R4? Choosing the perfect Arduino for your project The Arduino UNO is legendary among makers, and with the release of the UNO R4 in 2023, the family...
6 months ago
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UNO Rev3 or UNO R4? Choosing the perfect Arduino for your project

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

6 months ago
The Arduino UNO is legendary among makers, and with the release of the UNO R4 in 2023, the family gained a powerful new member. But with two incredible options, which UNO should you pick for your project? Here’s a breakdown of what makes each board shine, depending on your needs,...
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Lars Lofgren
What Happened After I Outed a Reddit Mod for Affiliate Spam I recently broke down how Reddit mods and users are abusing Google search rankings with affiliate...
10 months ago
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What Happened After I Outed a Reddit Mod for Affiliate Spam

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

10 months ago
I recently broke down how Reddit mods and users are abusing Google search rankings with affiliate spam. It’s reddit marketing gone awry. The post blew up and got a decent amount of attention. Then I got a front row seat to how deep of a spam filled porta-potty Reddit has become....
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Home on Erik...
There is no magic trick (Warning: super speculative, feel free to ignore) As Yogi Berra said, “It's tough to make...
over a year ago
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There is no magic trick

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

over a year ago
(Warning: super speculative, feel free to ignore) As Yogi Berra said, “It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future”. Unfortunately predicting is hard, and unsurprisingly people look for the Magic Trick™ that can resolve all the uncertainty.
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Home on Erik...
Approximate nearest news As you may know, one of my (very geeky) interests is Approximate nearest neigbor methods, and I'm...
over a year ago
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Approximate nearest news

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

over a year ago
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.
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anderegg.ca
More details on Bluesky’s subscription plan Update: I had missed this, but the Bluesky team had already announced a subscription model was on...
7 months ago
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More details on Bluesky’s subscription plan

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7 months ago
Update: I had missed this, but the Bluesky team had already announced a subscription model was on the way. I had written this article assuming that was the news. What is new is the work happening on their official apps, which contains details on features and potential pricing. An...
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Birchtree
🕹️ I strongly recommend Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (for the right person) God damn, this game.
3 months ago
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🕹️ I strongly recommend Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (for the right person)

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3 months ago
God damn, this game.
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Notes on software...
An intuition for distributed consensus in OLTP systems Distributed consensus in transactional databases (e.g. etcd or Cockroach) is a big deal these days....
a year ago
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An intuition for distributed consensus in OLTP systems

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

a year ago
Distributed consensus in transactional databases (e.g. etcd or Cockroach) is a big deal these days. Most often under the hood are variations of log-based Paxos-like algorithms such as MultiPaxos, Viewstamped Replication, or Raft. While there are new variations that come out each...
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Himanshu Mishra |...
Why should one do Open Source in college? More and more students are now being involved with Open Source programming. Thanks to programs like...
over a year ago
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Why should one do Open Source in college?

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

over a year ago
More and more students are now being involved with Open Source programming. Thanks to programs like Google Summer of Code who have seriously…
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Notes on software...
An explosion of transitive dependencies A small standard library means an explosion in transitive dependencies. A more comprehensive...
5 months ago
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An explosion of transitive dependencies

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5 months ago
A small standard library means an explosion in transitive dependencies. A more comprehensive standard library helps you minimize dependencies. Don't misunderstand me: in a real-world project, it is practically impossible to have zero dependencies. Armin Ronacher called for a vibe...
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Willem's Blog
Podcast Downloader Tired of being constantly nudged toward "more relevant content", I built a script to break free from...
5 months ago
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Podcast Downloader

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

5 months ago
Tired of being constantly nudged toward "more relevant content", I built a script to break free from commercial or closed-source podcast apps.
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Good Enough
Season 1, Issue 1: The Loneliest Number 1. Confirmed Positive After two years of running from reality, it has finally happened for my...
over a year ago
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Season 1, Issue 1: The Loneliest Number

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

over a year ago
1. Confirmed Positive After two years of running from reality, it has finally happened for my family. I have tested positive for SARS Coronavirus-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. For this honor, I would like to thank our society’s collective tiring of virus mitigation. It truly...
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./techtipsy
Turns out that I'm a 'prolific open-source influencer' now Yes, you read that right. I’m a prolific open-source influencer now. Some years ago I set up a...
4 months ago
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Turns out that I'm a 'prolific open-source influencer' now

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

4 months ago
Yes, you read that right. I’m a prolific open-source influencer now. Some years ago I set up a Google Alert with my name, for fun. Who knows what it might show one day? On 7th of February, it fired an alert. Turns out that my thoughts on Ubuntu were somewhat popular, and it ended...
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Applied Cartography
Linear I invited nickd to join our Linear instance yesterday, which reminded me that I had a slew of notes...
6 months ago
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Linear

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6 months ago
I invited nickd to join our Linear instance yesterday, which reminded me that I had a slew of notes I wanted to publish on our own experience of migrating from GitHub Issues to Linear, and some reflections on it as a product now that we've been using it for a few months. One...
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Willem's Blog
Supernova E3 Pro 2 dynamo powered headlight
over a year ago
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Supernova E3 Pro 2 dynamo powered headlight

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

over a year ago
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Home on Erik...
I already found the best gifs Just search for “hackers gif“. There you go. Fun for your work emails for the next 500 years. From...
over a year ago
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I already found the best gifs

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

over a year ago
Just search for “hackers gif“. There you go. Fun for your work emails for the next 500 years. From the awesome movie Hackers. That movie together with The Warriors convinced me that I wanted to live in NYC when I was like… 14 years old.
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Vitalik Buterin's...
Soulbound
over a year ago
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Soulbound

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

over a year ago
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Applied Cartography
VC does not guarantee PMF Two companies that I started following (with no small amount of envy) back in 2021: Hype (fka Pico)...
8 months ago
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VC does not guarantee PMF

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

8 months ago
Two companies that I started following (with no small amount of envy) back in 2021: Hype (fka Pico) sold to an MMA-themed holdco earlier this year. Raised a $4.5m seed from Stripe and Bloomberg Beta and a $10m Series A; crossed the finish line at $200K ARR after eight years. Stir...
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Jonas Hietala
Some VORON 0 mods I recently completed my VORON 0 build and I was determined to leave it as-is for a while and to...
2 months ago
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Some VORON 0 mods

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

2 months ago
I recently completed my VORON 0 build and I was determined to leave it as-is for a while and to start modding my VORON Trident… So before embarking om my larger Trident modding journey I decided to work on the VORON 0 just a little bit more. HEPA filter With the Nevermore Micro...
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Birchtree
Introducing Quick Stuff Today I'm introducing the most side of side projects I've done in a long time, and I'm calling it...
3 months ago
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Introducing Quick Stuff

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

3 months ago
Today I'm introducing the most side of side projects I've done in a long time, and I'm calling it Quick Stuff. Quick Stuff is a place for me to put all of my little projects in one place, and I'm really happy
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Home on Erik...
NoDoc We had an unconference at Spotify last Thursday and I added a semi-trolling semi-serious topic about...
over a year ago
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NoDoc

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

over a year ago
We had an unconference at Spotify last Thursday and I added a semi-trolling semi-serious topic about abolishing documentation. Or NoDoc, as I'm going to call this movement. This was meant to be mostly a thought experiment, but I don't see it as complete madness.
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Arduino Blog
This device prevents garage door security breaches Your automatic garage door is almost certainly the most vulnerable access point in your house....
8 months ago
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This device prevents garage door security breaches

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

8 months ago
Your automatic garage door is almost certainly the most vulnerable access point in your house. Traditional systems are notorious for their susceptibility to replay attacks, but even more sophisticated modern garage door openers and those that lack remote functionality entirely...
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Vitalik Buterin's...
Scaling Ethereum L1 and L2s in 2025 and beyond
5 months ago
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Scaling Ethereum L1 and L2s in 2025 and beyond

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5 months ago
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Birchtree
If this post isn’t a joke, it’ll win my “most cringe blog post of 2025” award I don’t have time to read every dumb post about AI that comes across my feeds (it’s a new, massive,...
2 months ago
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If this post isn’t a joke, it’ll win my “most cringe blog post of 2025” award

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

2 months ago
I don’t have time to read every dumb post about AI that comes across my feeds (it’s a new, massive, growing market so of course there are a bunch of people who are getting it way wrong), so I didn’t think much about this
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Vitalik Buterin's...
A Prehistory of the Ethereum Protocol
over a year ago
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A Prehistory of the Ethereum Protocol

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

over a year ago
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Home on Erik...
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...
over a year ago
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What I have been working on: Modal

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

over a year ago
Long story short: I'm working on a super cool tool called Modal. Please check it out — it lets you run things in the cloud without having to think about infrastructure. Scaling out, scheduling, containerization, using GPUs, setting up webhooks, and all kinds of other stuff.
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Good Enough
TIL: Rails Testing I had to figure out how to run browser-based tests in Rails again. In part that meant working around...
over a year ago
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TIL: Rails Testing

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over a year ago
I had to figure out how to run browser-based tests in Rails again. In part that meant working around my lack of Chrome. Rails System Tests with Safari. I also had some problems with Rails Turbo Drive taking over EVERYTHING, which required me to figure out how to deal with a Rails...
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Matt Mullenweg
On Lenny’s Podcast One of my must-read newsletters for the past several years has been Lenny’s Newsletter, probably...
4 months ago
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On Lenny’s Podcast

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

4 months ago
One of my must-read newsletters for the past several years has been Lenny’s Newsletter, probably best known for its writing on growth and product management, which really means it covered everything you need to create a great company. It expanded into a really well-done podcast;...
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Vitalik Buterin's...
In-person meatspace protocol to prove unconditional possession of a private key
over a year ago
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In-person meatspace protocol to prove unconditional possession of a private key

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over a year ago
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Notes on software...
Two books I recommend to developers Originally published on February 1, 2021. The original version included two books I don't think...
over a year ago
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Two books I recommend to developers

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

over a year ago
Originally published on February 1, 2021. The original version included two books I don't think are actually so worthwhile. This list is down to two. I think that's a good thing actually. These are the books I recommend to developers wanting to improve their skills as...
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Notes on software...
Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 2. user-defined functions and variables Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 3. LLVM 4. LLVM conditionals and...
over a year ago
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Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 2. user-defined functions and variables

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over a year ago
Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 3. LLVM 4. LLVM conditionals and compiling fibonacci 5. LLVM system calls 6. an x86 upgrade In this post we'll extend the compiler to support defining functions and variables. Additionally, we'll require the...
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Vitalik Buterin's...
On Free Speech
over a year ago
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On Free Speech

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over a year ago
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Notes on software...
Writing a minimal in-memory storage engine for MySQL/MariaDB I spent a week looking at MySQL/MariaDB internals along with ~80 other devs. Although MySQL and...
a year ago
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Writing a minimal in-memory storage engine for MySQL/MariaDB

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a year ago
I spent a week looking at MySQL/MariaDB internals along with ~80 other devs. Although MySQL and MariaDB are mostly the same (more on that later), I focused on MariaDB specifically this week. Before last week I had never built MySQL/MariaDB before. The first day of this hack week,...
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Computer Ads from...
Comics from 1978/05 Creative Computing Mag Time for some oldie levity.
3 months ago
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Comics from 1978/05 Creative Computing Mag

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3 months ago
Time for some oldie levity.
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Arduino Blog
Exercise while you game with this interactive treadmill add-on Motion-based controls for games have been around for decades, but even with the latest generation of...
10 months ago
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Exercise while you game with this interactive treadmill add-on

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

10 months ago
Motion-based controls for games have been around for decades, but even with the latest generation of virtual reality headsets, gaming is still done with relatively limited movement unless one has access to an expensive VR walking/running setup. As an effort to get more physical...
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Never Met a Science
How to Research New Media Effects As I approach my second decade studying digital media, there’s one thing I keep noticing:
a year ago
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How to Research New Media Effects

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a year ago
As I approach my second decade studying digital media, there’s one thing I keep noticing:
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./techtipsy
The Fedora Linux starter pack: everything you need for a smooth experience I like Fedora Linux. It’s the Linux distro that stopped my habit of distro-hopping. Big deal? Ooh,...
8 months ago
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The Fedora Linux starter pack: everything you need for a smooth experience

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8 months ago
I like Fedora Linux. It’s the Linux distro that stopped my habit of distro-hopping. Big deal? Ooh, big deal! It’s stable in day-to-day use, ships with up-to-date software, and the software selection is adequate out of the box. It also ships with a fresh Linux kernel version1,...
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Push to Prod
How We Built a Self-Healing System to Survive a Terrifying Concurrency Bug At Netflix Our CPUs were dying, the bug was temporarily un-fixable, and we had no viable path forward. Here's...
10 months ago
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How We Built a Self-Healing System to Survive a Terrifying Concurrency Bug At Netflix

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10 months ago
Our CPUs were dying, the bug was temporarily un-fixable, and we had no viable path forward. Here's how we managed to survive.
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Simply Explained
I Built a CO2 Sensor and It Terrifies Me Governments are pushing CO2 sensors to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, but proper ventilation is...
over a year ago
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I Built a CO2 Sensor and It Terrifies Me

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over a year ago
Governments are pushing CO2 sensors to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, but proper ventilation is equally important for our health and even our cognitive performance.In this blog post we'll look at a DIY CO2 sensor: how it runs ESPHome, how it integrates with Home Assistant, how it...
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Notes on software...
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...
over a year ago
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Writing a Jinja-inspired template library in Python

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over a year ago
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...
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Arduino Blog
Arduino Nicla Sense Env: adding advanced environmental sensing to a broad range of applications We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Nicla Sense Env: the latest addition to our portfolio of...
9 months ago
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Arduino Nicla Sense Env: adding advanced environmental sensing to a broad range of applications

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9 months ago
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Nicla Sense Env: the latest addition to our portfolio of system-on-modules and sensor nodes, empowering innovators with the tools to unlock new possibilities. This tiny yet powerful sensor node is designed to elevate your environmental...
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Louwrentius
'Linux: unattended installation with Debian preseeding' Debian Linux provides a mechanism to install the operating system without user intervention. This...
over a year ago
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'Linux: unattended installation with Debian preseeding'

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over a year ago
Debian Linux provides a mechanism to install the operating system without user intervention. This mechanism is called 'preseeding' and is similar to Red Hat Kick Start and Sun Solaris Jump Start. The basic idea is that the installer is fed a recipe, according to which the system...
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Home on Erik...
New approximate nearest neighbor benchmarks As some of you may know, one of my side interests is approximate nearest neighbor algorithms. I'm...
over a year ago
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New approximate nearest neighbor benchmarks

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

over a year ago
As some of you may know, one of my side interests is approximate nearest neighbor algorithms. I'm the author of Annoy, a library with 3,500+ stars on Github as of today. It offers fast approximate search for nearest neighbors with the additional benefit that you can load data...
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Toni Lijic
SwiftUI Explorations My journey of learning SwiftUI as a designer.
a year ago
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SwiftUI Explorations

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a year ago
My journey of learning SwiftUI as a designer.
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lcamtuf’s thing
Don't build a platform... unless? "Build a product, not a platform" is a common saying among tech entrepreneurs. But why do some...
5 months ago
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Don't build a platform... unless?

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5 months ago
"Build a product, not a platform" is a common saying among tech entrepreneurs. But why do some platforms succeed?
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Computer Ads from...
Datamost Nightraiders Day Must Turn to Night Before Mankind Dares to Fight
a month ago
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Datamost Nightraiders

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a month ago
Day Must Turn to Night Before Mankind Dares to Fight
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Avestura's Blog
Explaining The Postgres Meme Have you seen this legendary SQL iceberg meme? Let's talk about it while wearing our PostgreSQL hat!
over a year ago
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Explaining The Postgres Meme

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

over a year ago
Have you seen this legendary SQL iceberg meme? Let's talk about it while wearing our PostgreSQL hat!
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Computer Ads from...
ViaGrafix Computer Training Videos Learn...by Simply Watching TV
8 months ago
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ViaGrafix Computer Training Videos

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8 months ago
Learn...by Simply Watching TV
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Arduino Blog
Amassing a mobile Minion militia Channeling his inner Gru, YouTuber Electo built a robotic minion army to terrorize and amuse the...
10 months ago
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Amassing a mobile Minion militia

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10 months ago
Channeling his inner Gru, YouTuber Electo built a robotic minion army to terrorize and amuse the public in local shopping malls. Building one minion robot is, in theory, pretty straightforward. That is especially true when, like these, that robot isn’t actually bipedal and...
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Bryan Braun - Blog
Unusual Git IDs You can search Github for unusual commit IDs: There are over 2k commits starting with...
7 months ago
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Unusual Git IDs

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7 months ago
You can search Github for unusual commit IDs: There are over 2k commits starting with 0000000! While looking for commits like these, I started to become suspicious that people were intentionally modifying their commits IDs to be unusual: A commit ID of eeeeeee, with a message...
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Louwrentius
FreeBSD 10.1 unattended install over PXE & HTTP (no NFS) To gain some more experience with FreeBSD, I decided to make a PXE-based unattended installation of...
over a year ago
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FreeBSD 10.1 unattended install over PXE & HTTP (no NFS)

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
To gain some more experience with FreeBSD, I decided to make a PXE-based unattended installation of FreeBSD 10.1. My goal is to set something up similar to Debian/Ubuntu + preseeding or Redhat/CentOS + kickstart. Getting a PXE-based unattended installation of FreeBSD 10.1 was...
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Himanshu Mishra |...
It is okay not to be special Hi :name-retracted:! I hope I don’t bore you with this letter. I feel like talking to you about...
over a year ago
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It is okay not to be special

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over a year ago
Hi :name-retracted:! I hope I don’t bore you with this letter. I feel like talking to you about life. (Which I always want to do. All the…
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Louwrentius
Belkin Gigabit USB 2.0 adapter works perfectly with Linux My ISP upgraded my internet connection speed to a whopping 120 Mbit. I am using a mac mini as my...
over a year ago
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Belkin Gigabit USB 2.0 adapter works perfectly with Linux

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over a year ago
My ISP upgraded my internet connection speed to a whopping 120 Mbit. I am using a mac mini as my internet router. As you may be aware, the mini has only one network interface, so I added a second interface using a USB to ethernet adapter. This adapter was limited to 100 Mbit, so...
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Home on Erik...
Running Theano on EC2 Inspired by Sander Dieleman's internship at Spotify, I've been playing around with deep learning...
over a year ago
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Running Theano on EC2

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

over a year ago
Inspired by Sander Dieleman's internship at Spotify, I've been playing around with deep learning using Theano. Theano is this Python package that lets you define symbolic expressions (cool), does automatic differentiation (really cool), and compiles it down into bytecode to run...
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Jonas Hietala
Groar Download Linux 64bit Windows So I actually finished Ludum Dare 33. I can’t believe how hard it was...
over a year ago
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Groar

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

over a year ago
Download Linux 64bit Windows So I actually finished Ludum Dare 33. I can’t believe how hard it was to actually make something! It continues to amaze me what fantastic stuff everyone manage to make in just 48 hours. This is what I came up with for the theme You are the Monster....
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Yazin Alirhayim
The Meem app: it sucks If you’re a “digital only” bank like Meem, the app your customers use is all they see: it’s like a...
over a year ago
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The Meem app: it sucks

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

over a year ago
If you’re a “digital only” bank like Meem, the app your customers use is all they see: it’s like a virtual 🏦 branch. That’s fitting, because you know what my impression of meem is as a user? When I open up their app, it feels like walking into a crowded butcher shop, with...
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Neil Madden
Galois/Counter Mode and random nonces It turns out you can encrypt more than 2^32 messages with AES-GCM with a random nonce under certain...
a year ago
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Galois/Counter Mode and random nonces

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

a year ago
It turns out you can encrypt more than 2^32 messages with AES-GCM with a random nonce under certain conditions. It’s still not a good idea, but you can just about do it. #cryptography
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Louwrentius
The minimum requirements for a secure system The most secure server system is a system that is not connected to a network and turned off....
over a year ago
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The minimum requirements for a secure system

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
The most secure server system is a system that is not connected to a network and turned off. However, little work seems to be getting done this way. So we want to turn systems on and connect them to a network, or even (God forbid) the internet. The thing is this. A system...
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Arduino Blog
Magnus is an electromagnetic exoskeleton for your hands One of the primary goals of wearable technology is to provide the user with capabilities and data...
11 months ago
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Magnus is an electromagnetic exoskeleton for your hands

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

11 months ago
One of the primary goals of wearable technology is to provide the user with capabilities and data that exceed their current abilities. And for motion, this has traditionally existed in the form of electrical muscle stimulation (EMS), where current is applied via electrodes to...
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Vitalik Buterin's...
A Quick Gasprice Market Analysis
over a year ago
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A Quick Gasprice Market Analysis

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over a year ago
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Arduino Blog
Code faster with the new Arduino AI Assistant We’re very excited to share that the Arduino AI Assistant is now available in the Arduino Cloud...
2 months ago
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Code faster with the new Arduino AI Assistant

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

2 months ago
We’re very excited to share that the Arduino AI Assistant is now available in the Arduino Cloud Editor! This expert coding companion truly understands your project and board, and can generate and fix your code in seconds. We know that many of you already use other AI tools to...
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Greater Still by...
Good Problems Challenges that signal progress
a year ago
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Good Problems

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

a year ago
Challenges that signal progress
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axio.ms
Maths is Fun and Useful but Lasers Are More So Way back when, I made a cool but basic paper sculpture (in Maths is Fun and Useful) by hand, using a...
over a year ago
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Maths is Fun and Useful but Lasers Are More So

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

over a year ago
Way back when, I made a cool but basic paper sculpture (in Maths is Fun and Useful) by hand, using a perl script for the shape template. For cultural reasons, I wanted to make a gift out of paper and it had to be Heaps Good. I had finally got access to a laser cutter (omgomg)...
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Louwrentius
Why I Do Use ZFS as a File System for My NAS On February 2011, I posted an article about my motivations why I did not use ZFS as a file system...
over a year ago
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Why I Do Use ZFS as a File System for My NAS

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
On February 2011, I posted an article about my motivations why I did not use ZFS as a file system for my 18 TB NAS. You have to understand that at the time, I believe the arguments in the article were relevant, but much has changed since then, and I do believe this article is...
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Birchtree
Samsung will release their phone first and still gets accused of copying Apple Chance Miller on 9to5Mac: Samsung Is Already Working on Its iPhone 17 Air Copycat Apple is expected...
6 months ago
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Samsung will release their phone first and still gets accused of copying Apple

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6 months ago
Chance Miller on 9to5Mac: Samsung Is Already Working on Its iPhone 17 Air Copycat Apple is expected to release an all-new “iPhone 17 Air” model this year, prioritizing form over function. A new supply chain report today reiterates what to expect from the iPhone 17 Air size and
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GitButler
Interdiff review with git range-diff Diving into `range-diff`, the little known Git power tool to compare two versions of a series of...
4 months ago
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Interdiff review with git range-diff

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4 months ago
Diving into `range-diff`, the little known Git power tool to compare two versions of a series of patches.
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Birchtree
I don’t care about bad or missing features that I don’t use Sometimes I’ll talk about something I like online and people will express shock that I can use a...
7 months ago
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I don’t care about bad or missing features that I don’t use

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

7 months ago
Sometimes I’ll talk about something I like online and people will express shock that I can use a product that has such a clear downside. I’ve gotten people ask how I can use Things since it doesn’t have shared task lists. More recently I
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The New Oil
Transparency Report: 2024
6 months ago
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Transparency Report: 2024

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6 months ago
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Engineers Need Art
Adam74 The Adam74 is a small ASCII-based terminal designed for the 8-bit hobbyist.
over a year ago
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Adam74

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

over a year ago
The Adam74 is a small ASCII-based terminal designed for the 8-bit hobbyist.
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detreville
Father's Day (First posted on Father's Day, 2022.)
over a year ago
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Father's Day

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over a year ago
(First posted on Father's Day, 2022.)
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GitButler
Why is Git Autocorrect too fast for Formula One drivers? Why does Git's autocorrect wait 0.1s before executing a mistyped command? Let's dig in.
5 months ago
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Why is Git Autocorrect too fast for Formula One drivers?

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5 months ago
Why does Git's autocorrect wait 0.1s before executing a mistyped command? Let's dig in.
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Matt Mullenweg
WPAI Very excited to share that we’ve acquired WPAI and the team is joining Automattic. They have some...
7 months ago
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WPAI

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

7 months ago
Very excited to share that we’ve acquired WPAI and the team is joining Automattic. They have some very cool products including CodeWP, AgentWP, and WP.chat.
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Push to Prod
Is AI-based Root Cause Analysis a Real Thing? Logs, LLMs, AI, Decision Trees, and Root Causes
3 months ago
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Is AI-based Root Cause Analysis a Real Thing?

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3 months ago
Logs, LLMs, AI, Decision Trees, and Root Causes
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Willem's Blog
Creating a minimal road bike I wondered how hard it would be to make a bike from spare parts I had in my garage
over a year ago
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Creating a minimal road bike

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

over a year ago
I wondered how hard it would be to make a bike from spare parts I had in my garage
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Jonas Hietala
Postmortem: Black and White All this time working on my latest game I thought it sucked and I was trying hard to make it to not...
over a year ago
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Postmortem: Black and White

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

over a year ago
All this time working on my latest game I thought it sucked and I was trying hard to make it to not suck. My spirit wasn’t high, just check this post and this but now when it’s done it’s like night and day, or like black and white! I’m damn happy I got it done!! Aah I’ll try to...
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Toni Lijic
2024 Year in Review Everything that happened to me this year
6 months ago
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2024 Year in Review

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6 months ago
Everything that happened to me this year
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Matt Mullenweg
Those Other Lawsuits It’s a heavy day, and I’m sad to write this. Not sure where to start. In 2022, a lawyer recruited...
8 months ago
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Those Other Lawsuits

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8 months ago
It’s a heavy day, and I’m sad to write this. Not sure where to start. In 2022, a lawyer recruited two people who took care of my Mom—an assistant and one of her dozen nurses—to resign and demand a million dollars each, or they would publish horrible things about her in a lawsuit....
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Jonas Hietala
Trying and returning the Eight Sleep Pod 4 I recently bought the Eight Sleep Pod 4—a smart mattress cover that tracks your heart rate, HRV,...
9 months ago
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Trying and returning the Eight Sleep Pod 4

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

9 months ago
I recently bought the Eight Sleep Pod 4—a smart mattress cover that tracks your heart rate, HRV, snoring, and cools or warms the mattress during the night. There’s a lot to like about the mattress but in the end I opted to return it. This post describes my experience with the Pod...
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Louwrentius
Linode hacked: thoughts about cloud security I bought a Linode VPS for private usage just after the report that Linode had reset all passwords of...
over a year ago
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Linode hacked: thoughts about cloud security

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over a year ago
I bought a Linode VPS for private usage just after the report that Linode had reset all passwords of existing users regarding the Linode management console. Resetting passwords is not something you do when under a simple attack such as a DDOS attack. Such a measure is only taken...
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Simply Explained
Integrate Home Assistant with Apple Reminders I recently integrated Home Assistant with Apple Reminders so that automations can create new todos....
over a year ago
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Integrate Home Assistant with Apple Reminders

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over a year ago
I recently integrated Home Assistant with Apple Reminders so that automations can create new todos. This is trickier as it sounds, because Reminders has no API that can be accessed from Home Assistant. Here's how I worked around that problem with a script, input text helper and...
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Louwrentius
'Zabbix Security: client-server communication seems insecure' Zabbix is a populair tool for monitoring servers, services and network equipment. For monitoring...
over a year ago
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'Zabbix Security: client-server communication seems insecure'

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over a year ago
Zabbix is a populair tool for monitoring servers, services and network equipment. For monitoring hosts, Zabbix provides an agent that can be installed on the hosts that must be monitored. Based on the supplied documentation and some remarks on the internets, the 'security' of...
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Birchtree
Balatro continues to bring a smile Jay Peters for The Verge: Why Balatro’s Developer Stays Anonymous It’s an arrangement that the...
3 months ago
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Balatro continues to bring a smile

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3 months ago
Jay Peters for The Verge: Why Balatro’s Developer Stays Anonymous It’s an arrangement that the Playstack team figured out with LocalThunk ahead of other ceremonies like The Game Awards, where Balatro won three awards and was nominated for Game of the Year. LocalThunk didn’t
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Lighthouse Blog
Updates December 08: YouTube support
a year ago
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Updates December 08: YouTube support

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a year ago
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Arduino Blog
This spinning water contraption is actually a functional battery If you ask someone to think of a battery, they’re probably going to picture a chemical battery, like...
3 weeks ago
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This spinning water contraption is actually a functional battery

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3 weeks ago
If you ask someone to think of a battery, they’re probably going to picture a chemical battery, like a AA alkaline or a rechargeable lithium-ion battery. But there are other kinds of batteries that store energy without any fancy chemistry at all. If you find a way to save energy...
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Good Enough
Pika: Start Your Happy Blog Have you thought about starting or restarting a blogging habit? Have you wanted to write on the...
a year ago
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Pika: Start Your Happy Blog

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a year ago
Have you thought about starting or restarting a blogging habit? Have you wanted to write on the internet, but at your own place and at your own address rather than on a social network? Have you been overwhelmed by the online writing options that you’ve found? Well, have we got...
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Birchtree
Matt Gemmell is back on the Mac Matt Gemmell went iPad-only in 2016, but he's made the move Back to Mac [The Mac is] satisfying in...
4 months ago
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Matt Gemmell is back on the Mac

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4 months ago
Matt Gemmell went iPad-only in 2016, but he's made the move Back to Mac [The Mac is] satisfying in the conventional way, in that it meets needs without drama or acrobatics. It works in the sense that it directs its resources firmly in the direction of service, rather
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Abishek Muthian
Paytm says to me that it’s PoS feature didn’t have a security risk Paytm- Alibaba backed India’s leading mobile payment wallet saw a 1000 % growth in the amount of...
over a year ago
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Paytm says to me that it’s PoS feature didn’t have a security risk

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

over a year ago
Paytm- Alibaba backed India’s leading mobile payment wallet saw a 1000 % growth in the amount of money added to its wallet during India’s demonetisation. I must acknowledge that digital wallets like Paytm, Ola money etc. did help in easing the pains of demonetisation for those...
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Matt Mullenweg
Sun and shadows
4 months ago
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Sun and shadows

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4 months ago
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Louwrentius
The future of ZFS now that OpenSolaris is dead With the probable loss of OpenSolaris, there may be another, maybe more devastating loss. The very...
over a year ago
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The future of ZFS now that OpenSolaris is dead

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over a year ago
With the probable loss of OpenSolaris, there may be another, maybe more devastating loss. The very popular and very advanced Zetabyte File System (ZFS) The only open source platform that actively supports ZFS is FreeBSD. And they just 'copied' the code from OpenSolaris. Are they...
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Vitalik Buterin's...
STARKs, Part II: Thank Goodness It's FRI-day
over a year ago
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STARKs, Part II: Thank Goodness It's FRI-day

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over a year ago
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Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course Week 15: Boethius In week 15 of the humanities crash course, we started making our way out of classical antiquity and...
2 months ago
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Humanities Crash Course Week 15: Boethius

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2 months ago
In week 15 of the humanities crash course, we started making our way out of classical antiquity and into the Middle Ages. The reading for this week was Boethius’s The Consolation of Philosophy, a book perhaps second only to the Bible in influencing Medieval thinking. I used the...
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Arduino Blog
The 2024 Arduino Open Source Report is here! Every year, we take a moment to reflect on the contributions we made to the open source movement,...
4 months ago
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The 2024 Arduino Open Source Report is here!

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4 months ago
Every year, we take a moment to reflect on the contributions we made to the open source movement, and the many ways our community has made a huge difference. As we publish the latest Open Source Report, we are proud to say 2024 was another year of remarkable progress and...
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Vitalik Buterin's...
Review of Gitcoin Quadratic Funding Round 3
over a year ago
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Review of Gitcoin Quadratic Funding Round 3

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over a year ago
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Arduino Blog
Marble art madness from a marvelous machine Marbles are underrated. They’re very round, roll well, tend to be pretty shiny, and come in all...
9 months ago
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Marble art madness from a marvelous machine

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9 months ago
Marbles are underrated. They’re very round, roll well, tend to be pretty shiny, and come in all sorts of neat colors. That last characteristic makes them suitable for artwork, like orbicular pixels. In his most ambitious project to date, Engineezy took advantage of those...
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Willem's Blog
Art of visualisation You learn from experts if you have the privilege to work with them, this month I had a chance to...
over a year ago
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Art of visualisation

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over a year ago
You learn from experts if you have the privilege to work with them, this month I had a chance to help a professional food photographer.
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Applied Cartography
Notes on 'Founder Mode' / Lieutenancy In Paul Graham’s latest essay, he writes: The theme of Brian's talk was that the conventional wisdom...
10 months ago
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Notes on 'Founder Mode' / Lieutenancy

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10 months ago
In Paul Graham’s latest essay, he writes: The theme of Brian's talk was that the conventional wisdom about how to run larger companies is mistaken. As Airbnb grew, well-meaning people advised him that he had to run the company in a certain way for it to scale. Their advice could...
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Home on Erik...
Presentation about Luigi I like the editing!
over a year ago
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Presentation about Luigi

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over a year ago
I like the editing!
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Posts on Made of...
Regular Expression Search with Suffix Arrays Back in January of 2012, Russ Cox posted an excellent blog post detailing how Google Code Search had...
over a year ago
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Regular Expression Search with Suffix Arrays

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over a year ago
Back in January of 2012, Russ Cox posted an excellent blog post detailing how Google Code Search had worked, using a trigram index. By that point, I’d already implemented early versions of my own livegrep source-code search engine, using a different indexing approach that I...
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Arduino Blog
Control your volume with a wireless rotary encoder, as you deserve Every decent stereo sold since the invention of sound has included a knob on the front for adjusting...
6 months ago
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Control your volume with a wireless rotary encoder, as you deserve

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6 months ago
Every decent stereo sold since the invention of sound has included a knob on the front for adjusting volume. There are influencers and entire communities dedicated to evaluating the feel of those wonderful knobs. So why would you settle for the mushy volume buttons on a remote?...
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Jonas Hietala
Hearthstone on Wine I like Hearthstone and recently the next expansion Goblins vs Gnomes so I wanted to install and play...
over a year ago
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Hearthstone on Wine

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over a year ago
I like Hearthstone and recently the next expansion Goblins vs Gnomes so I wanted to install and play it. It didn’t work in vanilla wine, with a “time out error”, but I found a bug report which makes it work. Here’s a short summary: Get wine source from git. My version was...
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Posts on Made of...
Performance engineering, profilers, and seeing the invisible I was recently introduced to the paper “Seeing the Invisible: Perceptual-Cognitive Aspects of...
a year ago
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Performance engineering, profilers, and seeing the invisible

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a year ago
I was recently introduced to the paper “Seeing the Invisible: Perceptual-Cognitive Aspects of Expertise” by Gary Klein and Robert Hoffman. It’s excellent and I recommend you read it when you have a chance. Klein and Hoffman discuss the ability of experts to “see what is not...
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Home on Erik...
Analyzing 50k fonts using deep neural networks For some reason I decided one night I wanted to get a bunch of fonts. A lot of them. An hour later I...
over a year ago
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Analyzing 50k fonts using deep neural networks

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over a year ago
For some reason I decided one night I wanted to get a bunch of fonts. A lot of them. An hour later I had a bunch of scrapy scripts pulling down fonts and a few days later I had more than 50k fonts on my computer.
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Arduino Blog
This CanSat doubles as a drone to slow descents A CanSat is a small sensor payload, about the size of a soda can, designed to be launched on a model...
a month ago
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This CanSat doubles as a drone to slow descents

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a month ago
A CanSat is a small sensor payload, about the size of a soda can, designed to be launched on a model rocket to relatively low altitudes of around 1km. But while that isn’t anywhere close to leaving the atmosphere, it is very high and CanSats need a way to get back to the ground...
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Odds and Ends of...
Listen: How the YIMBYs won My event with Anya Martin (with a brief cameo from Chris Curtis MP!)
3 months ago
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Listen: How the YIMBYs won

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3 months ago
My event with Anya Martin (with a brief cameo from Chris Curtis MP!)
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Abort Retry Fail
Chipzilla eats an Apple The rise of Intel Core
3 months ago
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Chipzilla eats an Apple

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3 months ago
The rise of Intel Core
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./techtipsy
Why I went back to using a ThinkPad from 2012 This post is inspired by this article from the Low-tech Magazine. I highly recommend giving that a...
over a year ago
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Why I went back to using a ThinkPad from 2012

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over a year ago
This post is inspired by this article from the Low-tech Magazine. I highly recommend giving that a read as well! Over my lifetime, I’ve used a bunch of different computers, mainly due to new ideas and requirements popping into my mind every time I’m content with my current setup....
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Louwrentius
'Secure programming: how to implement user account management' Most web applications work like this: The application uses a single database account to perform all...
over a year ago
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'Secure programming: how to implement user account management'

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over a year ago
Most web applications work like this: The application uses a single database account to perform all actions. Users are just some records in a table. Account privileges and roles are part of this table, or separate tables. This implies that all security must be designed and build...
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Notes on software...
Exploring PL/pgSQL: Strings, arrays, recursion, and parsing JSON Next in exploring PL/pgSQL: Implementing a Forth-like interpreter PostgreSQL comes with a...
over a year ago
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Exploring PL/pgSQL: Strings, arrays, recursion, and parsing JSON

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over a year ago
Next in exploring PL/pgSQL: Implementing a Forth-like interpreter PostgreSQL comes with a builtin imperative programming language called PL/pgSQL. I used to think this language was scary because it has a bit more adornment than your usual language does. But looking deeper,...
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Vitalik Buterin's...
Gitcoin Grants Round 9: The Next Phase of Growth
over a year ago
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Gitcoin Grants Round 9: The Next Phase of Growth

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over a year ago
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Abishek Muthian
Voice summary of news There is a need gap for Human voice summary of news. Until this need gap gets addressed, we can use...
over a year ago
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Voice summary of news

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

over a year ago
There is a need gap for Human voice summary of news. Until this need gap gets addressed, we can use automation tool like tasker to implement read-aloud feature for news app like inshorts. Requirements Tasker android app. AutoInput android app. Selecting preferred voice in the...
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Abort Retry Fail
The Tandy Corporation, Part 2 Trash-80s get Colorful, and Trash-80s get into your pockets
a month ago
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The Tandy Corporation, Part 2

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a month ago
Trash-80s get Colorful, and Trash-80s get into your pockets
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Birchtree
My god, where did the YouTube suggestions go? They’re back, baby! WTF is going on with US leaders pushing get-rich-quick schemes like...
3 months ago
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My god, where did the YouTube suggestions go?

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3 months ago
They’re back, baby! WTF is going on with US leaders pushing get-rich-quick schemes like memecoins? I always love these "unnecessary" inventions. Season 1 was spectacular, and I can't wait to see what they do in the second season Mostly sharing this because it'
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computers are bad
2023-02-13 my homelab I have always found the term "homelab" a little confusing. It's a bit like the residential version...
over a year ago
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2023-02-13 my homelab

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over a year ago
I have always found the term "homelab" a little confusing. It's a bit like the residential version of "on-premises cloud," in that it seems to presuppose that a lab is the normal place that you find computer equipment. Of course I get that "homelab" is usually used by those who...
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Applied Cartography
How Buttondown uses HAProxy There are few technical decisions I regret more with Buttondown than the decision to combine the...
10 months ago
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How Buttondown uses HAProxy

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10 months ago
There are few technical decisions I regret more with Buttondown than the decision to combine the author-facing app, the subscriber-facing app, and the marketing site all under a single domain. Most technical decisions are reversible with sufficient grit and dedication; this one...
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Vitalik Buterin's...
On Path Independence
over a year ago
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On Path Independence

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over a year ago
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Good Enough
TIL: Don’t forget your Web Manifest file We’re primarily a web shop. We’re dipping our toes into mobile app development, but our collective...
over a year ago
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TIL: Don’t forget your Web Manifest file

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over a year ago
We’re primarily a web shop. We’re dipping our toes into mobile app development, but our collective expertise is in making products and services for the web. And like everyone else, our use of the web has shifted from our desktops and laptops to our phones. As we’re creating and...
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Birchtree
Another study on LLM energy use This study was linked to by The Verge today, and as someone who keeps looking at the energy costs of...
4 months ago
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Another study on LLM energy use

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4 months ago
This study was linked to by The Verge today, and as someone who keeps looking at the energy costs of AI wondering why he’s missing something, one of the opening lines in the study’s executive summary really caught my eye: Electricity consumption from data centres, artificial
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Jonas Hietala
Long Term Goals (part 2) A few minutes after I wrote about my long term goals, in the shower, I realize I forgot a few major...
over a year ago
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Long Term Goals (part 2)

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

over a year ago
A few minutes after I wrote about my long term goals, in the shower, I realize I forgot a few major goals I have: Write my own Programming Language Why? Because it sounds fun and epic as hell. Write a Book So I like books and I like to collect them and I have my whole bookcase...
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Daniel De Laney
There is Definitely&nbsp;a&nbsp;Grid Grids are the best thing to ever happen to graphic design. They form a rational basis for organizing...
over a year ago
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There is Definitely&nbsp;a&nbsp;Grid

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

over a year ago
Grids are the best thing to ever happen to graphic design. They form a rational basis for organizing information. They support the harmonious distribution of elements and visual weight. We don’t design things with grids because it’s easy, or because everyone else is doing it....
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./techtipsy
So you want to migrate to Kubernetes: observations from a software developer Kubernetes: everyone wants to do it, regardless of their scale and business objectives.1 Common...
9 months ago
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So you want to migrate to Kubernetes: observations from a software developer

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9 months ago
Kubernetes: everyone wants to do it, regardless of their scale and business objectives.1 Common justifications include better scalability, cost savings, standardization and being super modern and stuff. It’s the future! In my personal experience, Kubernetes is far from the...
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Engineers Need Art
Duane Blehm A little about Duane Blehm, an early Macintosh shareware author.
4 months ago
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Duane Blehm

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4 months ago
A little about Duane Blehm, an early Macintosh shareware author.
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Gwern.net Newsletter
May Gwern.net Newsletter Link compilation newsletter with anime GAN updates, links on AI scaling, discussion of GPT-3, and 1...
over a year ago
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May Gwern.net Newsletter

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over a year ago
Link compilation newsletter with anime GAN updates, links on AI scaling, discussion of GPT-3, and 1 book review.
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Computer Ads from...
Vote for the May 2025 + Post Topic Make your vote count.
2 months ago
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Vote for the May 2025 + Post Topic

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2 months ago
Make your vote count.
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Home on Erik...
Microsoft's new marketing strategy: give up I think it's funny how MS at some point realized they are not the cool kids and there's no reason to...
over a year ago
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Microsoft's new marketing strategy: give up

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

over a year ago
I think it's funny how MS at some point realized they are not the cool kids and there's no reason to appeal to that target audience. Their new marketing strategy finally admits what's been long known: the correlation between “business casual” and using Microsoft products:
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Louwrentius
Why you should not use IPsec for VPN connectivity IPsec is a well-known and widely-used VPN solution. It seems that it's not widely known that Niels...
over a year ago
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Why you should not use IPsec for VPN connectivity

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
IPsec is a well-known and widely-used VPN solution. It seems that it's not widely known that Niels Ferguson and Bruce Schneier performed a detailed security analysis of IPsec and that the results were not very positive. We strongly discourage the use of IPsec in its current form...
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Himanshu Mishra |...
BFS vs DFS in friendships If you already know and remember what Breadth First Search (BFS) and Depth First Search (DFS) are,...
over a year ago
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BFS vs DFS in friendships

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over a year ago
If you already know and remember what Breadth First Search (BFS) and Depth First Search (DFS) are, skip to What are you saying? Take my…
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Vitalik Buterin's...
[Mirror] Zk-SNARKs: Under the Hood
over a year ago
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[Mirror] Zk-SNARKs: Under the Hood

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over a year ago
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Ken Shirriff's blog
Reverse engineering the 386 processor's prefetch queue circuitry In 1985, Intel introduced the groundbreaking 386 processor, the first 32-bit processor in the x86...
2 months ago
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Reverse engineering the 386 processor's prefetch queue circuitry

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

2 months ago
In 1985, Intel introduced the groundbreaking 386 processor, the first 32-bit processor in the x86 architecture. To improve performance, the 386 has a 16-byte instruction prefetch queue. The purpose of the prefetch queue is to fetch instructions from memory before they are...
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Home on Erik...
Ratio metrics We run a ton of A/B tests at Spotify and we look at a ton of metrics. Defining metrics is a little...
over a year ago
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Ratio metrics

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

over a year ago
We run a ton of A/B tests at Spotify and we look at a ton of metrics. Defining metrics is a little bit of an art form. Ideally you want to define success metrics before you run a test to avoid cherry picking metrics.
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csvbase blog
My favourite API is a zipfile on the European Central Bank's website Simple data pipeline powertools: sqlite, pandas, gnuplot and friends
a year ago
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My favourite API is a zipfile on the European Central Bank's website

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a year ago
Simple data pipeline powertools: sqlite, pandas, gnuplot and friends
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Abishek Muthian
COVID-19 temperature correlation A user on needgap posted a problem of not being able to find graphs showing confirmed COVID-19 cases...
over a year ago
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COVID-19 temperature correlation

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over a year ago
A user on needgap posted a problem of not being able to find graphs showing confirmed COVID-19 cases and local weather data such as temperature. The reason for reputed agencies not publishing such graph is likely to prevent misinformation and possibly to avoid governments getting...
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Birchtree
Was 2024 a good year? Oh, and all the metrics and earnings info you could ever want. 2024 was a weird year for the Birchler household. Without getting into the details, two things put a...
6 months ago
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Was 2024 a good year? Oh, and all the metrics and earnings info you could ever want.

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6 months ago
2024 was a weird year for the Birchler household. Without getting into the details, two things put a damper on the year right from the jump: a health issue and a radical increase in monthly spending. I won't go into the details here, but over the course of
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Odds and Ends of...
This HS2 story will make you mad Plus we dig into the emerging field of AI welfare
2 months ago
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This HS2 story will make you mad

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2 months ago
Plus we dig into the emerging field of AI welfare
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Abishek Muthian
I was told, I would become quadriplegic Tingling on the side of the face during tasks involving intense cognition was my first...
over a year ago
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I was told, I would become quadriplegic

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

over a year ago
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...
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Louwrentius
Systemd Forward Secure Sealing of system logs makes little sense Systemd is a more modern replacement of sysvinit and its in the process of being integrated into...
over a year ago
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Systemd Forward Secure Sealing of system logs makes little sense

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over a year ago
Systemd is a more modern replacement of sysvinit and its in the process of being integrated into most mainstream Linux distributions. I'm a bit troubled by one of it's features. I'd like to discuss the Forward Secure Sealing (FSS) feature for log files that is part of systemd....
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Vitalik Buterin's...
The roads not taken
over a year ago
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The roads not taken

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over a year ago
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Willem's Blog
Migrating to the Cloud Helping a customer clear its on-premise data room and migrate to the cloud: an adventure full of...
over a year ago
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Migrating to the Cloud

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over a year ago
Helping a customer clear its on-premise data room and migrate to the cloud: an adventure full of cables, cabinets and bandwidth!
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Birchtree
🕹️ I casually recommend Steamworld Heist 2 (members post) This game is definitely fun, and I enjoyed my time with it, but it didn't blow me away.
4 months ago
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🕹️ I casually recommend Steamworld Heist 2 (members post)

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4 months ago
This game is definitely fun, and I enjoyed my time with it, but it didn't blow me away.
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Willem's Blog
Upgrading a 27-inch iMac 5K to 14 terabytes This month I nearly destroyed my iMac during an attempt to upgrade it. Thanks to determination and...
over a year ago
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Upgrading a 27-inch iMac 5K to 14 terabytes

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over a year ago
This month I nearly destroyed my iMac during an attempt to upgrade it. Thanks to determination and some spare time I was able to resurrect it from the death!
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Willem's Blog
Different ways to visualise health To better understand how to visualise health I looked at different health/fitness apps and games.
over a year ago
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Different ways to visualise health

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over a year ago
To better understand how to visualise health I looked at different health/fitness apps and games.
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Good Enough
Yes, Facebook Is Terrible, but Also… I’m not on Facebook. It was eight or ten years ago when I left for good. While there were some good...
a year ago
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Yes, Facebook Is Terrible, but Also…

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a year ago
I’m not on Facebook. It was eight or ten years ago when I left for good. While there were some good and useful interactions, the algorithm brought me down, I didn’t have a lot of desire to keep up with old acquaintances, and hearing everyone’s political stance was not good for...
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Notes on software...
Implementing the Raft distributed consensus protocol in Go As part of bringing myself up-to-speed after joining TigerBeetle, I wanted some background on how...
over a year ago
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Implementing the Raft distributed consensus protocol in Go

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over a year ago
As part of bringing myself up-to-speed after joining TigerBeetle, I wanted some background on how distributed consensus and replicated state machines protocols work. TigerBeetle uses Viewstamped Replication. But I wanted to understand all popular protocols and I decided to start...
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csvbase blog
I didn't write any Javascript, and other shortcuts Getting it done by not doing a lot of it
a year ago
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I didn't write any Javascript, and other shortcuts

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Getting it done by not doing a lot of it
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Jorge Arango
Rosenfeld Review: “Traction Heroes” Louis Rosenfeld interviewed Harry Max and me for his Rosenfeld Review podcast. The subject? Harry...
3 months ago
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Rosenfeld Review: “Traction Heroes”

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3 months ago
Louis Rosenfeld interviewed Harry Max and me for his Rosenfeld Review podcast. The subject? Harry and my podcast, Traction Heroes. We recorded this conversation late in 2024, before we’d shared the first episode. This interview lays out Traction Heroes’s backstory. It’s fitting...
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./techtipsy
Whacky setups: seedbox on a wall The Orange Pi Zero is one hell of an SBC. It has served as a Wi-Fi access point for months without...
over a year ago
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Whacky setups: seedbox on a wall

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over a year ago
The Orange Pi Zero is one hell of an SBC. It has served as a Wi-Fi access point for months without issues and as a testbed for playing around with MySQL. I wanted it to be a useful device again, but had trouble finding an use case for it due to its hardware limitations. After...
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Vitalik Buterin's...
Different types of layer 2s
a year ago
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Different types of layer 2s

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Odds and Ends of...
The social justice case for self-driving cars Abundant mobility should be a moral crusade
6 months ago
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The social justice case for self-driving cars

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6 months ago
Abundant mobility should be a moral crusade
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Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #58: An even greater London? Plus a revealing portrait of Westminster's hidden connections and some cope on why Trump might not...
4 months ago
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Odds and Ends #58: An even greater London?

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4 months ago
Plus a revealing portrait of Westminster's hidden connections and some cope on why Trump might not be *so* catastrophic. Maybe. If we're lucky.
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Home on Erik...
How to set compensation using commonsense principles Compensation has always been one of the most confusing parts of management to me. Getting it right...
over a year ago
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How to set compensation using commonsense principles

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over a year ago
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...
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Jonas Hietala
Why Cryptocurrencies? is now available in print Today is a big milestone for me, as this marks a big milestone in the biggest personal project I’ve...
over a year ago
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Why Cryptocurrencies? is now available in print

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Today is a big milestone for me, as this marks a big milestone in the biggest personal project I’ve undertaken. My book ‘Why Cryptocurrencies?’ is released in print today! It’s my attempt to explain what cryptocurrencies are and what problems they solve, in a simple and...
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Krebs on Security
Alleged Co-Founder of Garantex Arrested in India Authorities in India today arrested the alleged co-founder of Garantex, a cryptocurrency exchange...
4 months ago
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Alleged Co-Founder of Garantex Arrested in India

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4 months ago
Authorities in India today arrested the alleged co-founder of Garantex, a cryptocurrency exchange sanctioned by the U.S. government in 2022 for facilitating tens of billions of dollars in money laundering by transnational criminal and cybercriminal organizations. Sources close to...
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Arduino Blog
This automatic laser turret keeps the cats entertained for hours Cats may be adorable, but they evolved to be predators. Unfortunately, responsible owners keep their...
9 months ago
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This automatic laser turret keeps the cats entertained for hours

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9 months ago
Cats may be adorable, but they evolved to be predators. Unfortunately, responsible owners keep their cats indoors to avoid decimating the local wildlife population and that means Mr. Whiskers and Ms. Socks don’t get much opportunity to express their hunting urges. That’s why...
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Notes on software...
Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 4. LLVM conditionals and compiling fibonacci Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 2. user-defined functions and variables ...
over a year ago
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Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 4. LLVM conditionals and compiling fibonacci

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over a year ago
Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 2. user-defined functions and variables 3. LLVM 5. LLVM system calls 6. an x86 upgrade In this post we'll extend the compiler's LLVM backend to support compiling conditionals such that we can support...
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Vitalik Buterin's...
「网络国家」之我见
over a year ago
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「网络国家」之我见

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over a year ago
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Jonas Hietala
We moved away from the city When me and my girlfriend Veronica moved to Linköping to study at the University the plan was never...
over a year ago
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We moved away from the city

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over a year ago
When me and my girlfriend Veronica moved to Linköping to study at the University the plan was never to stay there permanently. We just moved there to study but the longterm plan, if you can have one at that stage, was always to move back to the north of Sweden where we came...
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Louwrentius
RAID array size and rebuild speed When a disk fails of a RAID 5 array, you are no longer protected against (another) disk failure and...
over a year ago
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RAID array size and rebuild speed

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over a year ago
When a disk fails of a RAID 5 array, you are no longer protected against (another) disk failure and thus data loss. During this rebuild time, you are vulnerable. The longer it takes to rebuild your array, the longer you are vulnerable. Especially during a disk-intensive period,...
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./techtipsy
The little Wi-Fi AP that could I have a bad habit of testing things whenever a “good” idea pops into my head. This is a short...
over a year ago
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The little Wi-Fi AP that could

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over a year ago
I have a bad habit of testing things whenever a “good” idea pops into my head. This is a short overview of one of them. The Orange Pi Zero is a SBC (single board computer) that has a slow 32-bit ARM 4 core CPU, 512MB of RAM and no display output. It’s actually quite OK for many...
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Notes on software...
Learning a new codebase: hacking on nginx I have never contributed to nginx. My C skills are 1/10. But downloading the source, hacking it up,...
over a year ago
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Learning a new codebase: hacking on nginx

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over a year ago
I have never contributed to nginx. My C skills are 1/10. But downloading the source, hacking it up, compiling it, and running it doesn't scare me. This post is to help you overcome your own fears about doing so. Not necessarily because you should be running out-of-tree diffs in...
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Notes on software...
A paper reading club at work; databases and distributed systems research I started a paper reading club this week at work, focused on databases and distributed systems...
a year ago
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A paper reading club at work; databases and distributed systems research

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a year ago
I started a paper reading club this week at work, focused on databases and distributed systems research. I posted in a general channel about the premise and asked if anyone was interested. I clarified the intended topic and that discussions would be asynchronous over email, run...
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Vitalik Buterin's...
Understanding PLONK
over a year ago
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Understanding PLONK

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over a year ago
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Notes on software...
SQLite in Go, with and without cgo This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
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SQLite in Go, with and without cgo

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over a year ago
This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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Old Vintage...
MacLynx beta 6: back to the Power Mac prior articles for more of the history, but MacLynx is a throwback port of the venerable Lynx 2.7.1...
3 months ago
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MacLynx beta 6: back to the Power Mac

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3 months ago
prior articles for more of the history, but MacLynx is a throwback port of the venerable Lynx 2.7.1 to the classic Mac OS last updated in 1997 which I picked up again in 2020. Rather than try to replicate its patches against a more current Lynx which may not even build, I've been...
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./techtipsy
Fairphone 5: my heavily biased overview after 58 days of use (and counting) After months of contemplating I finally pulled the trigger and got myself a Fairphone 5. The...
a year ago
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Fairphone 5: my heavily biased overview after 58 days of use (and counting)

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a year ago
After months of contemplating I finally pulled the trigger and got myself a Fairphone 5. The fact that iPhone X stopped receiving major iOS updates certainly helped make that decision. “But why? My Xiaomi/Oneplus/Samsung/other glued-together device is like so much cheaper and...
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Abishek Muthian
Butt Pomodoro - A butt triggered pomodoro timer A need gap of Remind me to take break when working from home was recently posted. Forgetting to take...
over a year ago
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Butt Pomodoro - A butt triggered pomodoro timer

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over a year ago
A need gap of Remind me to take break when working from home was recently posted. Forgetting to take regular breaks when immersed with work in front of a computer is a common problem, especially when working from home. On the flip side, getting distracted from completing a task...
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Birchtree
I'm just gonna be your YouTube algorithm now It turns out I like sharing the cool YouTube videos I see when there aren't any schedules or rules...
6 months ago
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I'm just gonna be your YouTube algorithm now

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6 months ago
It turns out I like sharing the cool YouTube videos I see when there aren't any schedules or rules about how often I share them, so here's another collection I enjoyed recently. An oldie but a goodie, I really loved what Scotty was doing back in
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Abort Retry Fail
The History of GM-NAA I/O and SHARE The Birth of Computer Operating Systems
a year ago
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The History of GM-NAA I/O and SHARE

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a year ago
The Birth of Computer Operating Systems
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Arduino Blog
Use sound to trigger your camera’s flash with this DIY device In the world of photography, the exposure triangle is immutable. To get a properly exposed photo...
8 months ago
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Use sound to trigger your camera’s flash with this DIY device

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8 months ago
In the world of photography, the exposure triangle is immutable. To get a properly exposed photo (not too bright or too dark), you need a balance of aperture size (how much light gets in), shutter speed (how long the light gets in), and ISO (sensitivity to light at the expense of...
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somenice
5 Frames with Nikon FM and Fomapan 100 On a few photowalks around Kitsilano in Vancouver BC with my first roll of Fomapan Classic 100. All...
5 months ago
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5 Frames with Nikon FM and Fomapan 100

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5 months ago
On a few photowalks around Kitsilano in Vancouver BC with my first roll of Fomapan Classic 100. All pictures shot with older, non-AI Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 lens. Developed in Ilford Ilfosol3 for 5 minutes at 20°C and scanned with a cheap film scanner. Color has been removed and some...
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Louwrentius
Using InfiniBand for cheap and fast point-to-point Networking InfiniBand networking is quite awesome. It's mainly used for two reasons: low latency high...
over a year ago
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Using InfiniBand for cheap and fast point-to-point Networking

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over a year ago
InfiniBand networking is quite awesome. It's mainly used for two reasons: low latency high bandwidth As a home user, I'm mainly interested in setting up a high bandwidth link between two servers. I was using quad-port network cards with Linux Bonding, but this solution has some...
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./techtipsy
My very first career day This post is a short overview of my experience at a career day in Valga, Estonia, hosted with the...
a year ago
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My very first career day

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a year ago
This post is a short overview of my experience at a career day in Valga, Estonia, hosted with the help of GreenDice. I’ve never spoken at a career day before nor attended one as a student, which is why I instantly agreed to going to one when GreenDice reached out to me. Why? I...
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Willem's Blog
Monolithic vs Microservices software architecture This week I flew to Gothenburg to talk about enterprise software architecture, read along to learn...
over a year ago
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Monolithic vs Microservices software architecture

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over a year ago
This week I flew to Gothenburg to talk about enterprise software architecture, read along to learn about choosing the right architecture for your app development
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Matt Blewitt
On That Okta LDAP Bug A quick explanation of the Okta AD/LDAP DelAuth bug that was being shared around, and the importance...
8 months ago
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On That Okta LDAP Bug

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8 months ago
A quick explanation of the Okta AD/LDAP DelAuth bug that was being shared around, and the importance of sensible defaults.
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Willem's Blog
Born with MCADD Our son was diagnosed with MCADD days after he was born. We experienced a metabolic crisis but were...
over a year ago
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Born with MCADD

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over a year ago
Our son was diagnosed with MCADD days after he was born. We experienced a metabolic crisis but were lucky to be just in time!
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Home on Erik...
Why conversion matters: a toy model There are often close relationships between top level business metrics. For instance, it's well...
over a year ago
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Why conversion matters: a toy model

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over a year ago
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.
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Posts on Made of...
Fun with the preprocessor: CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION hacks in Linux About two months ago, Linux saw CVE-2010-0307, which was a trival denial-of-service attack that...
over a year ago
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Fun with the preprocessor: CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION hacks in Linux

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over a year ago
About two months ago, Linux saw CVE-2010-0307, which was a trival denial-of-service attack that could crash essentially any 64-bit Linux machine with 32-bit compatibility enabled. LWN has an excellent writeup of the bug, which turns out to be a subtle error related to the details...
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GitButler
Stacked Branches with GitButler GitButler can now manage dependent branches that are stacked, including managing stacked GitHub PRs.
7 months ago
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Stacked Branches with GitButler

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7 months ago
GitButler can now manage dependent branches that are stacked, including managing stacked GitHub PRs.
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computers are bad
2024-04-26 microsoft at work I haven't written anything for a bit. I'm not apologizing, because y'all don't pay me enough to...
a year ago
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2024-04-26 microsoft at work

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a year ago
I haven't written anything for a bit. I'm not apologizing, because y'all don't pay me enough to apologize, but I do feel a little bad. Part of it is just that I've been busy, with work and travel and events. Part of it is that I've embarked on a couple of writing projects only to...
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Abishek Muthian
Apple Watch with Android A friend passed away recently during sleep due to unknown natural causes when they were all alone in...
6 months ago
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Apple Watch with Android

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6 months ago
A friend passed away recently during sleep due to unknown natural causes when they were all alone in a hotel in a foreign country. I couldn't dismiss the thought that may be if they had worn a smart watch they could have had better chances of reaching out for help and perhaps...
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./techtipsy
My very first Dungeons and Dragons campaign In December 2024, I did something that I had never done before: I participated in a short (~6 hours)...
6 months ago
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My very first Dungeons and Dragons campaign

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6 months ago
In December 2024, I did something that I had never done before: I participated in a short (~6 hours) Dungeons and Dragons campaign. It was the nerdiest thing ever, and I loved it! The setting After another day of keeping a critical production service up, the whole team met up at...
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./techtipsy
btrbk is awesome I like having a safety net whenever I’m doing something potentially destructive, which is why I use...
over a year ago
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btrbk is awesome

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over a year ago
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...
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Arduino Blog
Arduino’s Alvik Robot shortlisted for the Bett Awards 2025 in the AV, VR/AR, Robotics, and Digital... We’re thrilled to announce that Arduino Education has been shortlisted for the Bett Awards 2025,...
8 months ago
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Arduino’s Alvik Robot shortlisted for the Bett Awards 2025 in the AV, VR/AR, Robotics, and Digital Device category!

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8 months ago
We’re thrilled to announce that Arduino Education has been shortlisted for the Bett Awards 2025, this time in the AV, VR/AR, Robotics, or Digital Device category with our Alvik robot! This recognition highlights our dedication to innovation, inclusivity, and the advancement of...
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Notes on software...
Experimenting with column- and row-oriented datastructures This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
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Experimenting with column- and row-oriented datastructures

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over a year ago
This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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Jonas Hietala
Reinstalling Slackware So I reinstalled slackware on my machine and decided to take some rough notes of the most important...
over a year ago
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Reinstalling Slackware

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over a year ago
So I reinstalled slackware on my machine and decided to take some rough notes of the most important steps I made. I did not document the steps in detail, and some are very specific for my setup. But maybe it can be useful for someone, or myself. Basic steps Make slackware usb...
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Home on Erik...
Storm in the stratosphere: how the cloud will be reshuffled Here's a theory I have about cloud vendors (AWS, Azure, GCP): Cloud vendors1 will increasingly...
over a year ago
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Storm in the stratosphere: how the cloud will be reshuffled

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over a year ago
Here's a theory I have about cloud vendors (AWS, Azure, GCP): Cloud vendors1 will increasingly focus on the lowest layers in the stack: basically leasing capacity in their data centers through an API. Other pure-software providers will build all the stuff on top of it.
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Evan Hahn's blog
Notes from "Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology" Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology is a book of essays by Ellen Ullman. In the book,...
3 months ago
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Notes from "Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology"

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3 months ago
Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology is a book of essays by Ellen Ullman. In the book, Ullman laments the bad parts of computers and the internet. These systems eroded privacy, deepened income inequality, and enabled the rise of modern fascism. And they were built by a...
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Jonas Hietala
A small LED Cube As a follow up of my hobby project goals this autumn I have now completed the smallest goal there. I...
over a year ago
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A small LED Cube

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over a year ago
As a follow up of my hobby project goals this autumn I have now completed the smallest goal there. I got started a little with soldering by constructing a small 3x3x3 LED cube. Although extremely hard to see in this picture it actually worked without a hitch! It’s not the...
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Jonas Hietala
September theme: Failure I’m out of the busy mode and here’s the new theme! I’ve got an idea and I’ll be beginning very soon...
over a year ago
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September theme: Failure

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over a year ago
I’m out of the busy mode and here’s the new theme! I’ve got an idea and I’ll be beginning very soon I hope and again I’m following Experimental Gameplay Project’s site. Let’s rock!!
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Computer Ads from...
Ampere WS-1 A cool Japanese clamtop
a year ago
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Ampere WS-1

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a year ago
A cool Japanese clamtop
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axio.ms
Colourclock Original concept circa 2008, revisited 2012, hardware designed Feb 2014, firmware designed...
over a year ago
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Colourclock

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over a year ago
Original concept circa 2008, revisited 2012, hardware designed Feb 2014, firmware designed April-August 2014, project completed August 2014, installed in spare room in 2016, written up in March 2018 (jeeez…) Acrylic, LEDs, ARM Cortex-M0 microcontroller. ...
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The tree ring model of culture and politics
3 months ago
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The tree ring model of culture and politics

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Jonas Hietala
On The Decline of FPS Games Mr. Eriksson just sent me this link as a fitting video on my post on The Decline of FPS...
over a year ago
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On The Decline of FPS Games

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over a year ago
Mr. Eriksson just sent me this link as a fitting video on my post on The Decline of FPS Games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1ZtBCpo0eU Oh How true!
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computers are bad
2024-05-15 catalina connections Some things have been made nearly impossible to search for. Say, for example, the long-running...
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2024-05-15 catalina connections

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a year ago
Some things have been made nearly impossible to search for. Say, for example, the long-running partnership between Epson and Catalina: a query that will return pages upon pages of people trying to use Epson printers with an old version of MacOS. When you think of a point of sale...
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Louwrentius
Cannot access Windows guest within VMware Fusion when running vsphere client Currently, I am running VMware ESXi 4.1 on a test system. To manage ESXi, you need the VSphere...
over a year ago
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Cannot access Windows guest within VMware Fusion when running vsphere client

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over a year ago
Currently, I am running VMware ESXi 4.1 on a test system. To manage ESXi, you need the VSphere client, which is only available for the Windows platform. Therefore, I run VMware Fusion on my Mac to be able to access VSphere and manage my ESXi host. The trouble is that both ESXi...
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Jonas Hietala
Recent experiences with Netrunner tournaments After a bit of a hiatus after the Winter Kit Tournament the 16th January I participated in three...
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Recent experiences with Netrunner tournaments

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over a year ago
After a bit of a hiatus after the Winter Kit Tournament the 16th January I participated in three tournaments during February - March. After each of these tournaments I started a writeup of them but they fell off my mind a bit but consider this my break with my blogging...
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Lighthouse Blog
Updates December 01: UX improvements
a year ago
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Updates December 01: UX improvements

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Jonas Hietala
A Four-Eyed Update Wow it’s been a while! Almost a month and a half since my last update. There I complained about my...
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A Four-Eyed Update

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over a year ago
Wow it’s been a while! Almost a month and a half since my last update. There I complained about my almost constant headaches which hampered me a lot actually. Luckily now I have joined the rank of cool. I took home three frames I think and tried them out and I settled some I...
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Birchtree
Claude finally gets its “thinking” update Anthropic released Claude 3.7 yesterday, and as a bit of a Claude stan myself, it’s fair to say I...
4 months ago
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Claude finally gets its “thinking” update

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Anthropic released Claude 3.7 yesterday, and as a bit of a Claude stan myself, it’s fair to say I was excited to see it. The last few months have seen meaningful updates to GPT and Gemini, and in an industry moving at this rate, Anthropic felt like
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GitButler
Git Merge 2024 Git Merge 2024 has wrapped and we all had a heck of a good time. Here's the overview.
9 months ago
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Git Merge 2024

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Git Merge 2024 has wrapped and we all had a heck of a good time. Here's the overview.
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lcamtuf’s thing
The 101 of analog signal filtering Some intuition about this topic can be developed without summoning the ghost of Pierre-Simon...
12 months ago
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The 101 of analog signal filtering

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12 months ago
Some intuition about this topic can be developed without summoning the ghost of Pierre-Simon Laplace.
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Good Enough
Cosmic Maelstrom As Barry wrote in his recent blogpost, we're busy building prototypes here at Good Enough. It's...
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Cosmic Maelstrom

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As Barry wrote in his recent blogpost, we're busy building prototypes here at Good Enough. It's weird to be in this situation. Most of the Good Enough team are used to working on just one software at a time, focusing on steadily improving it. But right now we're doing the...
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