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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...
9th Sep 2024
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What Happened After I Outed a Reddit Mod for Affiliate Spam

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

9th Sep 2024
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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Creating a minimal iPhone stand Today I created a minimal iPhone stand from oak wood. While it's much faster to buy one online, I...
1st Jun 2018
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Creating a minimal iPhone stand

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

1st Jun 2018
Today I created a minimal iPhone stand from oak wood. While it's much faster to buy one online, I wanted one to fit my phone horizontally, with its case on. I like minimal design, so I opted to machine a single piece of wood to get it done. Workmate with wood router ready for...
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3 Reflections from a sabbatical after Google I quit Google at the end of July 2024 and I took a work break until mid-January 2025 (when I joined...
15th Mar 2025
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3 Reflections from a sabbatical after Google

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

15th Mar 2025
I quit Google at the end of July 2024 and I took a work break until mid-January 2025 (when I joined a startup accelerator full time). It would be a miss if I didn’t reflect on my sabbatical experience! I will describe what I was up to in another post, but in short it was a mix of...
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Precision Clock Acrylic Case [Hardware] Smoked acrylic upgrade for the Precision Clock Mk IV
29th Oct 2025
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Precision Clock Acrylic Case

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

29th Oct 2025
[Hardware] Smoked acrylic upgrade for the Precision Clock Mk IV
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The Billion-Dollar World of Parasite SEO: How to Cash In Parasite SEO is when a third-party company partners with an established domain, then posts a bunch...
23rd Oct 2024
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The Billion-Dollar World of Parasite SEO: How to Cash In

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

23rd Oct 2024
Parasite SEO is when a third-party company partners with an established domain, then posts a bunch of SEO content to make a bunch of money. Content often gets published in a subfolder or subdomain or the website. The goal is to leverage the domain’s trust with Google to get...
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The First Time I Was Almost Fired From Apple Oh yes, I screwed up more than once during my tenure at Apple.
3rd Jun 2025
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The First Time I Was Almost Fired From Apple

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

3rd Jun 2025
Oh yes, I screwed up more than once during my tenure at Apple.
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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...
9th Jan 2022
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Why I went back to using a ThinkPad from 2012

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

9th Jan 2022
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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NYC subway math Apparently MTA (the company running the NYC subway) has a real-time API. My fascination for the...
4th Apr 2016
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NYC subway math

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

4th Apr 2016
Apparently MTA (the company running the NYC subway) has a real-time API. My fascination for the subway takes autistic proportions and so obviously I had to analyze some of the data. The documentation is somewhat terrible, but here's some relevant code for how to use the API:
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On The Contrary: “Hook” Is A Great Film Hook, the absolutely star-studded film directed by Stephen Spielberg, has received mixed reviews...
7th Jan 2026
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On The Contrary: “Hook” Is A Great Film

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

7th Jan 2026
Hook, the absolutely star-studded film directed by Stephen Spielberg, has received mixed reviews from critics since its release in 1991. I still can’t figure out why. One could have given the Academy Award for Best Actor to Dustin Hoffman, and Best Supporting Actor to Robin...
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Amazon is complicit with counterfeiting (updated) When someone goes to the lengths of making counterfeits of your products, it's at least a sign...
1st Mar 2018
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Amazon is complicit with counterfeiting (updated)

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

1st Mar 2018
When someone goes to the lengths of making counterfeits of your products, it's at least a sign you're doing something right. And it deserves a minute of flattery. But when Chinese counterfeiters tool up and make copies of your product, send that inventory to Amazon, then overtake...
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Content debt There’s a nascent trend of releasing ostensibly-private material (changelogs, public wikis,...
4th Jul 2024
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Content debt

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

4th Jul 2024
There’s a nascent trend of releasing ostensibly-private material (changelogs, public wikis, handbooks, etc.) to the public as a bit of a marketing push. This is essentially a form of debt, to the extent that you’re taking a lump-sum payment now in exchange for the implicit cost...
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I'm done with Ubuntu I liked Ubuntu. For a very long time, it was the sensible default option. Around 2016, I used the...
5th Feb 2025
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I'm done with Ubuntu

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

5th Feb 2025
I liked Ubuntu. For a very long time, it was the sensible default option. Around 2016, I used the Ubuntu GNOME flavor, and after they ditched the Unity desktop environment, GNOME became the default option. I was really happy with it, both for work and personal computing...
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Introducing TagVault Security Mount for AirTag Having had our skis stolen, we wanted to design the ultimate AirTag ski and snowboard mount. It...
24th Oct 2024
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Introducing TagVault Security Mount for AirTag

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

24th Oct 2024
Having had our skis stolen, we wanted to design the ultimate AirTag ski and snowboard mount. It needed to be ultra-tough so it couldn't get knocked off, waterproof, hard to remove, and discreet. After a lot of design, testing, and iteration, we have TagVault Security Mount for...
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A Quick Garbled Circuits Primer
21st Mar 2020
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A Quick Garbled Circuits Primer

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

21st Mar 2020
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Goals for Autumn 2016 Every once and a while I like to redo my priorities and set new goals for myself. I recently read...
12th Aug 2016
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Goals for Autumn 2016

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

12th Aug 2016
Every once and a while I like to redo my priorities and set new goals for myself. I recently read the book 59 seconds which among other things presented a way of structuring goals I will try out. In short you should divide your main goal into 5 subgoals with a date of completion,...
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Tom Dowdy Tom Dowdy was a software engineer at Apple back in 1995 when I was still writing Macintosh games in...
3rd Apr 2022
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Tom Dowdy

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

3rd Apr 2022
Tom Dowdy was a software engineer at Apple back in 1995 when I was still writing Macintosh games in Lawrence, Kansas.
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Gosling’s Old Rum Virginia has draconian liquor laws, which means I have to get interesting bottles shipped from...
3rd Feb 2024
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Gosling’s Old Rum

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Feb 2024
Virginia has draconian liquor laws, which means I have to get interesting bottles shipped from [REDACTED], a site on which I am very prone to judging a book by its cover; every month I'll end up purchasing a bottle of something purely because it looks interesting and I can...
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The case for comments in code When I first started programming, especially when asked for code samples, my comments lacked purpose...
7th Sep 2020
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The case for comments in code

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

7th Sep 2020
When I first started programming, especially when asked for code samples, my comments lacked purpose and would often duplicate in English what the code clearly indicated. I knew that "commenting is good" but as a beginner I had no further insight. Over time with the help of books...
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Nearest neighbors and vector models – part 2 – algorithms and data structures This is a blog post rewritten from a presentation at NYC Machine Learning on Sep 17. It covers a...
1st Oct 2015
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Nearest neighbors and vector models – part 2 – algorithms and data structures

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

1st Oct 2015
This is a blog post rewritten from a presentation at NYC Machine Learning on Sep 17. It covers a library called Annoy that I have built that helps you do nearest neighbor queries in high dimensional spaces.
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Governance, Part 2: Plutocracy Is Still Bad
28th Mar 2018
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Governance, Part 2: Plutocracy Is Still Bad

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

28th Mar 2018
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How I made HA-meural: a Meural Canvas integration for Home Assistant One of my 2020 lockdown projects I’m extremely proud of is HA-meural – a custom integration for the...
30th Nov 2020
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How I made HA-meural: a Meural Canvas integration for Home Assistant

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

30th Nov 2020
One of my 2020 lockdown projects I’m extremely proud of is HA-meural – a custom integration for the Home Assistant home automation software that lets you control a NETGEAR Meural Canvas digital frame. It’s the result of a few months of work, lots of trial and error, and many...
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2015 Read Books I didn’t read a lot of books in 2015, but the books I did read were pretty damn good. Fiction A Song...
1st Jan 2016
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2015 Read Books

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

1st Jan 2016
I didn’t read a lot of books in 2015, but the books I did read were pretty damn good. Fiction A Song of Ice and Fire: A Dance with Dragons - George R.R. Martin Reread. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms - Gearge R.R. Martin The Skin Collector - Jeffery Deaver Best Served Cold - Joe...
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2025-06-01 I've been reading The Nature of Order by Christopher Alexander, and it's inspired me to experiment...
1st Jun 2025
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2025-06-01

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

1st Jun 2025
I've been reading The Nature of Order by Christopher Alexander, and it's inspired me to experiment with this representation to communicate the global structure of the source code of the Game of Snake: The whole program is arranged on a 2D surface within a series of nested...
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Writing a Jinja-inspired template library in Python In this post we'll build a minimal text templating library in Python inspired by Jinja. It will be...
23rd May 2021
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Writing a Jinja-inspired template library in Python

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

23rd May 2021
In this post we'll build a minimal text templating library in Python inspired by Jinja. It will be able to display variables and iterate over arrays. By the end of this article, with around 300 lines of code, we'll be able to create this program: from pytemplate import...
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An Elixir based payment processor for the Coinparty hackathon Bitcoin Unlimited is hosting a Bitcoin Cash hackathon this December and it seemed like a good...
30th Nov 2020
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An Elixir based payment processor for the Coinparty hackathon

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

30th Nov 2020
Bitcoin Unlimited is hosting a Bitcoin Cash hackathon this December and it seemed like a good opportunity for me to explore how to program against Bitcoin Cash, and it gives me an excuse to build something real with Phoenix and Elixir. (While an event like this might help combat...
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3Duino helps you rapidly create interactive 3D-printed devices Every few months, some new software comes along that promises to make some complex engineering...
3rd Dec 2025
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3Duino helps you rapidly create interactive 3D-printed devices

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

3rd Dec 2025
Every few months, some new software comes along that promises to make some complex engineering discipline accessible to everyone. Such software rarely lives up to the developer’s claims, because the claims are far too ambitious. But what if the scope is more reasonable? 3Duino...
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Values One of the most important things that a company needs to agree on is values. Values are a strange...
11th Feb 2016
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Values

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

11th Feb 2016
One of the most important things that a company needs to agree on is values. Values are a strange being though — they are defined even when no one has explicitly taken the task of putting them on a powerpoint deck.
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One-parting some Commodore 64 utilities for fun and profit I've got a few retrocomputing bucket list items I'm slowly working down, and a couple of them...
17th Nov 2024
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One-parting some Commodore 64 utilities for fun and profit

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

17th Nov 2024
I've got a few retrocomputing bucket list items I'm slowly working down, and a couple of them involve some little Commodore 64 games I've had kicking around on the backburner. However, every game needs media assets, and while there are many great tools for doing art on your...
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2025-02-13 I seem to be alternating between working with html and Lua/LÖVE. In the last few days I've been...
13th Feb 2025
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2025-02-13

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

13th Feb 2025
I seem to be alternating between working with html and Lua/LÖVE. In the last few days I've been trying to extract some more timeless tools out of the ad hoc static site I replaced my old Rails website with a couple of years ago. Here's the project. Requires just Lua (any version...
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Migration from blogger to blogofile and disqus is complete As stated in my previous post, I migrated all posts from blogger.com to my own host running...
3rd Jan 2011
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Migration from blogger to blogofile and disqus is complete

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

3rd Jan 2011
As stated in my previous post, I migrated all posts from blogger.com to my own host running blogofile. At the time of my previous post, I was not able to restore all comments made on my old blog. Thanks to some help from disqcus I fixed an error on my behalf and all old comments...
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I killed my side projects - clean slate I have recently shut down the indie products I’ve been accumulating over the years, RIP: redeal.app...
15th Sep 2024
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I killed my side projects - clean slate

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

15th Sep 2024
I have recently shut down the indie products I’ve been accumulating over the years, RIP: redeal.app - real estate investment calculator - inspired by bigger pockets, initially scraping daft (irish real estate listing website) invertimo.com - investment tracking and bookkeeping...
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Travel time ~= 750 * distance ^ 0.6
14th Apr 2023
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Travel time ~= 750 * distance ^ 0.6

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

14th Apr 2023
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The Postcard and the Thing Itself (On Falling in Love with Ideas) My meditation teacher said something that stopped me cold: “We fall in love with the idea of a...
28th Oct 2025
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The Postcard and the Thing Itself (On Falling in Love with Ideas)

from Simone Salis [alt+shift+b] in technology

28th Oct 2025
My meditation teacher said something that stopped me cold: “We fall in love with the idea of a person, and then we fight so hard to keep it alive.”
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Multiple $20 AI Plans Are Better Than a Single $100 AI Plan After using the $200 and $100 Anthropic monthly plans for Claude, I have now settled on $20...
1st Jul 2026
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Multiple $20 AI Plans Are Better Than a Single $100 AI Plan

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

1st Jul 2026
After using the $200 and $100 Anthropic monthly plans for Claude, I have now settled on $20 Anthropic + $20 OpenAI + $10 OpenCode Go monthly plans for coding and design work. I also use local AI occasionally for non-coding-related tasks. By using multiple entry-level AI plans...
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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,...
8th Apr 2025
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Notes from "Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology"

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

8th Apr 2025
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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Housekeeping for 20240102 Some stats, updates, and whatnot
3rd Jan 2024
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Housekeeping for 20240102

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

3rd Jan 2024
Some stats, updates, and whatnot
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Being a volunteer in Amsterdam-Zuidoost About my work as volunteer in the local community center in Amsterdam Zuidoost
20th Nov 2016
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Being a volunteer in Amsterdam-Zuidoost

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

20th Nov 2016
About my work as volunteer in the local community center in Amsterdam Zuidoost
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SipHash-based encryption for constrained devices I see a lot of attempts to define encryption schemes for constrained devices with short...
6th May 2024
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SipHash-based encryption for constrained devices

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

6th May 2024
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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How Long Does It Take to Plan a Bridge? Many folks, including me, have observed that it seems to take much longer to build infrastructure in...
4th Jun 2026
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How Long Does It Take to Plan a Bridge?

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

4th Jun 2026
Many folks, including me, have observed that it seems to take much longer to build infrastructure in the US than it used to.
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Instant Pan Gesture Interactions Apple has a really awesome WWDC 2018 video called Designing Fluid Interfaces, and one of the key...
13th May 2023
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Instant Pan Gesture Interactions

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

13th May 2023
Apple has a really awesome WWDC 2018 video called Designing Fluid Interfaces, and one of the key takeaways from the videos that one of the presenters, Chan Karunamuni, said is “Look for delays everywhere. Everything needs to respond instantly.” (6:28) A really great example of...
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Fun and Games with Exposure Notifications Exposure Notifications is a protocol developed by Apple and Google for facilitating COVID-19 contact...
7th Sep 2020
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Fun and Games with Exposure Notifications

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

7th Sep 2020
Exposure Notifications is a protocol developed by Apple and Google for facilitating COVID-19 contact tracing on mobile phones by exchanging codes with nearby phones over Bluetooth, implemented within the Android and iOS operating systems, now available here in Toronto. Wait –...
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Your product either lives long enough to become a platform or it dies out Everything around you is a platform💡 If you are building a software to be used by developers, you...
25th Oct 2022
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Your product either lives long enough to become a platform or it dies out

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

25th Oct 2022
Everything around you is a platform💡 If you are building a software to be used by developers, you can not ignore extensibility. It needs to…
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What working on Pebble taught me about building hardware Building hardware is fun but tough. We worked on Pebble for a full four years before we launched on...
19th Sep 2017
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What working on Pebble taught me about building hardware

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

19th Sep 2017
Building hardware is fun but tough. We worked on Pebble for a full four years before we launched on Kickstarter in 2012. We went on to sell…
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The AI Bubble Is Bursting My surprisingly frustrating experience with Google force enabling Gemini AI on Workspaces.
20th Jan 2025
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The AI Bubble Is Bursting

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

20th Jan 2025
My surprisingly frustrating experience with Google force enabling Gemini AI on Workspaces.
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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...
2nd Jan 2023
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Anything's a portable speaker if you're brave enough

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

2nd Jan 2023
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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DIY cloud gaming setup with VFIO, Parsec and AMD This is a follow-up to my previous post where I covered the VFIO setup in general. For many people...
7th Sep 2021
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DIY cloud gaming setup with VFIO, Parsec and AMD

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

7th Sep 2021
This is a follow-up to my previous post where I covered the VFIO setup in general. For many people that would have been good enough, but my goal with this setup was to have a powerful gaming setup that I could access from my living room PC with 20 meters of Ethernet cables...
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Simplifying the L1
3rd May 2025
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Simplifying the L1

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

3rd May 2025
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BlueSCSI Wi-Fi Desk Accessory 1.3 Released BlueSCSI Wi-Fi Desk Accessory 1.3 has been released: wifi_da-1.3.sit (StuffIt 3...
13th Jan 2025
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BlueSCSI Wi-Fi Desk Accessory 1.3 Released

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

13th Jan 2025
BlueSCSI Wi-Fi Desk Accessory 1.3 has been released: wifi_da-1.3.sit (StuffIt 3 archive) 40b49ef83b6512bde571171aa42e90419a8577efa895cfaeb19bf18a0c82d4de SHA1: b8fa941eb104c0f925436cc8fbc3018a3ded5b96 This update brings internationalization support for Macs running...
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Op-Amp Helper PCB A PCB for breadboards to make working with op-amps easier.
8th Nov 2023
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Op-Amp Helper PCB

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

8th Nov 2023
A PCB for breadboards to make working with op-amps easier.
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Introducing The AirTag Silencer Apple made AirTag randomly chirp when bumped or moved when out of bluetooth range of your iPhone....
30th Sep 2026
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Introducing The AirTag Silencer

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

30th Sep 2026
Apple made AirTag randomly chirp when bumped or moved when out of bluetooth range of your iPhone. That's great, but if your bike is stolen - the very last thing you would want is for the thief to hear the AirTag and throw it away. That's why we designed The AirTag Silencer - a...
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Having a safe CEX: proof of solvency and beyond
19th Nov 2022
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Having a safe CEX: proof of solvency and beyond

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

19th Nov 2022
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FYI: Broadcom is ruining Bitnami containers You'll need to switch off ASAP.
28th Aug 2025
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FYI: Broadcom is ruining Bitnami containers

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

28th Aug 2025
You'll need to switch off ASAP.
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Puzzling out climate change Accenture Fellow Shreyaa Raghavan applies machine learning and optimization methods to explore ways...
10th Feb 2025
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Puzzling out climate change

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

10th Feb 2025
Accenture Fellow Shreyaa Raghavan applies machine learning and optimization methods to explore ways to reduce transportation sector emissions.
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New control system teaches soft robots the art of staying safe MIT CSAIL and LIDS researchers developed a mathematically grounded system that lets soft robots...
2nd Dec 2025
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New control system teaches soft robots the art of staying safe

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

2nd Dec 2025
MIT CSAIL and LIDS researchers developed a mathematically grounded system that lets soft robots deform, adapt, and interact with people and objects, without violating safety limits.
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A Cursed Bug In my day job at Anthropic, we run relatively large distributed systems to train large language...
23rd Feb 2022
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A Cursed Bug

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

23rd Feb 2022
In my day job at Anthropic, we run relatively large distributed systems to train large language models. One of the joys of using a lot of computing resources, especially on somewhat niche software stacks, is that you spend a lot of time running into the long-tail of bugs which...
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Hilariously Fast Volume Computation with the Divergence Theorem (No, there won’t be jokes.) The following presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of...
16th Feb 2018
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Hilariously Fast Volume Computation with the Divergence Theorem

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

16th Feb 2018
(No, there won’t be jokes.) The following presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of a simple, closed, triangulated 3D mesh. This assumption is a consequence of the divergence theorem. Further extensions may generalise to other meshes as well, although that is presently...
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Is MAGA Melting Down? Signs and wonders, portents and data points
2nd Aug 2026
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Is MAGA Melting Down?

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

2nd Aug 2026
Signs and wonders, portents and data points
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Achieving 2.3 GB/s with 16 x 4 TB drives I'm in the process of building a new storage server to replace my 18 TB NAS. The server is almost...
12th Jul 2014
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Achieving 2.3 GB/s with 16 x 4 TB drives

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

12th Jul 2014
I'm in the process of building a new storage server to replace my 18 TB NAS. The server is almost finished, it's now down to adding disk drives. I'm using the HGST 4 TB 7200 RPM drive for this build (SKU 0S03356) (review). I have not bought all drives at once, but slowly adding...
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Test Post This is a test post to verify the blog functionality
19th Mar 2024
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Test Post

from Kent de Bruin [alt+shift+b] in technology

19th Mar 2024
This is a test post to verify the blog functionality
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Invertimo Binance Crypto Integration You can now import your binance Crypto related transactions to invertimo.com (open source investment...
2nd Feb 2022
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Invertimo Binance Crypto Integration

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

2nd Feb 2022
You can now import your binance Crypto related transactions to invertimo.com (open source investment tracking app). Why track crypto transactions in invertimo? Invertimo helps you track all transactions related to your investments as well as dividends and received income in one...
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Core i7 920 @ 3,6 Ghz is a true beast! Even today, Core 2 Duo processors clocked at 2 ghz are no slugs. However, the Core i7 920 is of a...
4th Mar 2009
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Core i7 920 @ 3,6 Ghz is a true beast!

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

4th Mar 2009
Even today, Core 2 Duo processors clocked at 2 ghz are no slugs. However, the Core i7 920 is of a different kind. First, it is not only clocked at a higher speed (default 2,8 Ghz), it is also a quad-core processor. Thanks to the re- introduction of hyperthreading, this processor...
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Gitcoin Grants Round 5 Retrospective
30th Apr 2020
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Gitcoin Grants Round 5 Retrospective

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

30th Apr 2020
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The antimeme is the message of the medium The antimeme of the antimeme no longer exists.
1st Aug 2025
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The antimeme is the message of the medium

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

1st Aug 2025
The antimeme of the antimeme no longer exists.
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FOSDEM 2024: my experience, some notes and tech tips I finally went to FOSDEM. I’m sleep-deprived, completely exhausted, but incredibly excited about the...
12th Feb 2024
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FOSDEM 2024: my experience, some notes and tech tips

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

12th Feb 2024
I finally went to FOSDEM. I’m sleep-deprived, completely exhausted, but incredibly excited about the whole experience. I’ve split this post into three separate sections. overall notes on the conference and the city less technical, but sheds light on the FOSDEM experience the...
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What went wrong with wireless USB (Hat tip to the late Bill Strauss and The Capitol Steps' Lirty Dies.) take my Palm OS Fossil Wrist...
4th May 2025
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What went wrong with wireless USB

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

4th May 2025
(Hat tip to the late Bill Strauss and The Capitol Steps' Lirty Dies.) take my Palm OS Fossil Wrist PDA smartwatch mobile. It has no on-board networking libraries but can be coerced into doing PPP over its serial port (via USB) by using the libraries from my Palm m505. Of...
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Versioning microservices in GitLab monorepos and polyrepos What are some possible options to version projects for a microservices project in Gitlab?
2nd Jan 2022
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Versioning microservices in GitLab monorepos and polyrepos

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

2nd Jan 2022
What are some possible options to version projects for a microservices project in Gitlab?
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Analyzing Token Sale Models
9th Jun 2017
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Analyzing Token Sale Models

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

9th Jun 2017
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Outside the comfort zone: amateur acting This month I made my debut as amateur actor. I am no Hollywood star, nor do I envy to become one....
17th Apr 2018
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Outside the comfort zone: amateur acting

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

17th Apr 2018
This month I made my debut as amateur actor. I am no Hollywood star, nor do I envy to become one. But I do like crazy experiments and operating outside of my comfort zone often leads to new and refreshing insights. I took part in an amateur drama play and - in the name of science...
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This inexpensive adapter brings Apple Universal Control to vintage Macs In the distant past of about two decades ago, one would need to use a KVM (Keyboard, Video, Mouse)...
4th Aug 2025
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This inexpensive adapter brings Apple Universal Control to vintage Macs

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

4th Aug 2025
In the distant past of about two decades ago, one would need to use a KVM (Keyboard, Video, Mouse) switch to control multiple computers with the same mouse and keyboard — and even then, it would take a button press to move from one to the other. Today, Apple’s Universal Control...
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Three kinds of memory leaks So, you’ve got a program that’s using more and more over time as it runs. Probably you can...
29th Apr 2018
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Three kinds of memory leaks

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

29th Apr 2018
So, you’ve got a program that’s using more and more over time as it runs. Probably you can immediately identify this as a likely symptom of a memory leak. But when we say “memory leak”, what do we actually mean? In my experience, apparent memory leaks divide into three broad...
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How I could've taken over the production server of a Yahoo acquisition through command...
4th Jun 2017
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How I could've taken over the production server of a Yahoo acquisition through command injection

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

4th Jun 2017
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Marathon Read the story of how it feels to complete your first marathon.
19th Oct 2024
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Marathon

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

19th Oct 2024
Read the story of how it feels to complete your first marathon.
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Some personal user experiences
28th Feb 2023
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Some personal user experiences

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

28th Feb 2023
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Wearing WHOOP 4.0 Use WHOOP to see the impact your choices have on your body, think of it as a special kind of mirror...
13th Jan 2022
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Wearing WHOOP 4.0

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

13th Jan 2022
Use WHOOP to see the impact your choices have on your body, think of it as a special kind of mirror - it's so powerful, that I don't take mine off!
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Composite and hard reset mods for the Tandyvision One I still have my literal first home computer (the Tomy Tutor), and it so happens I also have my...
8th Dec 2024
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Composite and hard reset mods for the Tandyvision One

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

8th Dec 2024
I still have my literal first home computer (the Tomy Tutor), and it so happens I also have my literal first game console: the Tandyvision One, Tandy Radio Shack's label variant of the Mattel Intellivision Master Component. The Mattel Intellivision proper originally hails...
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Are we any closer to the Quantum Apocalypse? Another day, another urgent pronouncement on the need to transition to post-quantum cryptography...
2nd Jul 2026
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Are we any closer to the Quantum Apocalypse?

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

2nd Jul 2026
Another day, another urgent pronouncement on the need to transition to post-quantum cryptography ASAP: this one from the White House, in the form of an Executive Order requiring certain “high value” systems to transition to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) by the end of 2030 (for...
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Git Worktrees and GitButler How do git worktrees help you work on more than one branch at the same time, and how does that...
4th Mar 2024
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Git Worktrees and GitButler

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

4th Mar 2024
How do git worktrees help you work on more than one branch at the same time, and how does that differ from virtual branches in GitButler?
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Is storage really that cheap? Nowadays you can buy a 1 TB harddrive for less than 100 euro's . So I build myself a 4 TB NAS box,...
5th Oct 2008
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Is storage really that cheap?

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

5th Oct 2008
Nowadays you can buy a 1 TB harddrive for less than 100 euro's . So I build myself a 4 TB NAS box, which is already 50% full. However, although it is to some degree fault-tollerant by using RAID 6, one mistake or catastrophic hardware faillure and all data is lost. And that's...
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An infuriating goodbye to Photoshop I’ve been using Photoshop since the mid-90s. First at school, with Photoshop 3, then through work. I...
12th Jul 2026
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An infuriating goodbye to Photoshop

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

12th Jul 2026
I’ve been using Photoshop since the mid-90s. First at school, with Photoshop 3, then through work. I bought my first boxed copy of CS2 in 2005, then upgraded to CS5 in 2010. I subscribed to Photoshop Creative Cloud on day one. Today, I uninstalled it. I hope I never have to use...
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Embedding youtube videos with Hakyll A while ago a made a timelapse of my entry to Ludum Dare. This is how I parse and embed videos using...
1st Sep 2014
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Embedding youtube videos with Hakyll

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

1st Sep 2014
A while ago a made a timelapse of my entry to Ludum Dare. This is how I parse and embed videos using Hakyll. I don’t want to remember any special syntax for embedding, I don’t want to bother (remember?) to use something like {% youtube: <link> %} or whatever syntax we might find...
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We are still early with the cloud: why software development is overdue for a change This is is in many respects a successor to a blog post I wrote last year about what I want from...
19th Oct 2022
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We are still early with the cloud: why software development is overdue for a change

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

19th Oct 2022
This is is in many respects a successor to a blog post I wrote last year about what I want from software infrastructure, but the ideas morphed in my head into something sort of wider.
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Guy’s Cool Tools This is a placeholder post! I’m a huge fan of Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools site and have loved their...
16th Jul 2022
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Guy’s Cool Tools

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

16th Jul 2022
This is a placeholder post! I’m a huge fan of Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools site and have loved their recommendations for years. So much, so that I even started a Pinterest board filled with my own recommendations. But after a few years of running into the limitations of the form, I...
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[Mirror] Zk-SNARKs: Under the Hood
1st Feb 2017
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[Mirror] Zk-SNARKs: Under the Hood

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

1st Feb 2017
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On Apple slowing down its phones Build world’s best smartphone CPU & release a CPU governor to slow it down via software update...
22nd Dec 2017
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On Apple slowing down its phones

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

22nd Dec 2017
Build world’s best smartphone CPU & release a CPU governor to slow it down via software update 😑 This isn’t an isolated incident, Li-ion batteries have been plaguing the tech industry. While other parts of the smartphone like displays, compute power, data transfer, storage...
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My Ceph test cluster based on Raspberry Pi's and HP MicroServers Introduction To learn more about Ceph, I've build myself a Ceph Cluster based on actual hardware. In...
26th Jan 2019
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My Ceph test cluster based on Raspberry Pi's and HP MicroServers

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

26th Jan 2019
Introduction To learn more about Ceph, I've build myself a Ceph Cluster based on actual hardware. In this blogpost I'll discus the cluster in more detail and I've also included (fio) benchmark results. This is my test Ceph cluster: The cluster consists of the following...
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Clothes Rail [Misc] Tubular
a week ago
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Clothes Rail

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

a week ago
[Misc] Tubular
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Weird SEGA facts I fell down a weird Wikipedia rabbit hole this morning. It was kicked off by a Bluesky post from...
15th Aug 2025
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Weird SEGA facts

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

15th Aug 2025
I fell down a weird Wikipedia rabbit hole this morning. It was kicked off by a Bluesky post from Jeff Gerstmann, and it taught me two weird things about Sonic the Hedgehog. Gerstmann’s post shows off MTV’s Beavis and Butt-Head for the Game Gear. I’d never seen it before and...
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Multitasking on ESP32 with Arduino and FreeRTOS By now, it's no secret that the ESP32 is my go-to chip for making IoT devices. They're small,...
6th Jan 2020
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Multitasking on ESP32 with Arduino and FreeRTOS

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

6th Jan 2020
By now, it's no secret that the ESP32 is my go-to chip for making IoT devices. They're small, powerful, have a ton of onboard features, and they're relatively easy to program.However, when using it together with Arduino, all your code runs on a single core. That seems a bit...
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Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later
22nd Nov 2019
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Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later

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

22nd Nov 2019
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A 12.48 inch (1304x984) three-color e-paper display by Waveshare Introduction Update September 2023: A small horizontal and large vertical row of pixels died. Demo...
22nd Dec 2020
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A 12.48 inch (1304x984) three-color e-paper display by Waveshare

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

22nd Dec 2020
Introduction Update September 2023: A small horizontal and large vertical row of pixels died. Demo of defective display here. I'm running a solar-powered blog and I wanted to add a low-power display to show the daily solar 'harvest'1 and maybe some additional information. So I...
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2019 2019 was pretty great. here are the highlights:
25th Dec 2019
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2019

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

25th Dec 2019
2019 was pretty great. here are the highlights:
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What's the big deal about Deterministic Simulation Testing? Bugs in distributed systems are hard to find, largely because systems interact in chaotic ways. And...
20th Aug 2024
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What's the big deal about Deterministic Simulation Testing?

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

20th Aug 2024
Bugs in distributed systems are hard to find, largely because systems interact in chaotic ways. And even once you've found a bug, it can be anywhere from simple to impossible to reproduce it. It's about as far away as you can get from the ideal test environment: property...
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Designing a personal Pebble watchface I recently got a Pebble Time 2 as it seemed like a fun smartwatch away from Google/Apple/Samsung...
26th Jun 2026
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Designing a personal Pebble watchface

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

26th Jun 2026
I recently got a Pebble Time 2 as it seemed like a fun smartwatch away from Google/Apple/Samsung with a good 4 weeks of battery life. One thing I wanted to do is to create a custom watchface for my specific problems. It took more effort to design the watch than I had anticipated...
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This is Personal One of the trickiest tightropes for an author publishing a business book to walk is: "how deftly do...
2nd Apr 2024
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This is Personal

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Apr 2024
One of the trickiest tightropes for an author publishing a business book to walk is: "how deftly do I tip my hand that this is all part of a greater lead generation and monetization engine?"
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The TikTok Model is the Future of the Web I hate to say it, but when I wake up in the morning, the very first thing I do is check my phone....
24th Oct 2025
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The TikTok Model is the Future of the Web

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

24th Oct 2025
I hate to say it, but when I wake up in the morning, the very first thing I do is check my phone. First I turn off my alarm, I've made it a habit to wake up before it goes off. Then I scroll through a handful of websites. Yahoo Finance first, because the market is crazy. Hacker...
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The Kingdom Hmmmmm.
6th Jul 2021
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The Kingdom

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Jul 2021
Hmmmmm.
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Deploying apps in Coolify, part 1
1st Oct 2025
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Deploying apps in Coolify, part 1

from tim.sh [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Oct 2025
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Vote for our SXSW panel! If you have a few minutes, you should check out mine and Chris Johnson‘s panel proposal. Go here and...
4th Sep 2013
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Vote for our SXSW panel!

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

4th Sep 2013
If you have a few minutes, you should check out mine and Chris Johnson‘s panel proposal. Go here and vote: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/24504 Algorithmic Music Discovery at Spotify ****Spotify crunches hundreds of billions of streams to analyze user's music taste and provide...
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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...
2nd May 2025
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Some VORON 0 mods

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

2nd May 2025
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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You are not your grand plans “You are not your grand plans. You are your daily patterns.” I love this quote from James Clear...
11th Jul 2026
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You are not your grand plans

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

11th Jul 2026
“You are not your grand plans. You are your daily patterns.” I love this quote from James Clear because it hurts me in all the right ways. At my worst, I feel like my daily patterns are at war with my grand plans. When I’m fighting a daily battle and willpower is slipping, I need...
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Nitrous oxide, a product of fertilizer use, may harm some soil bacteria While some N2O is produced naturally at the plant root, agricultural practices can increase its...
4th Mar 2026
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Nitrous oxide, a product of fertilizer use, may harm some soil bacteria

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

4th Mar 2026
While some N2O is produced naturally at the plant root, agricultural practices can increase its levels, to the detriment of some microbes that support plant growth.
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Carving the Super Nintendo Video System
29th Jul 2024
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Carving the Super Nintendo Video System

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

29th Jul 2024
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2024-04-05 the life of one earth station Sometimes, when I am feeling down, I read about failed satellite TV (STV) services. Don't we all?...
5th Apr 2024
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2024-04-05 the life of one earth station

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

5th Apr 2024
Sometimes, when I am feeling down, I read about failed satellite TV (STV) services. Don't we all? As a result, I've periodically come across a company called AlphaStar Television Network. PrimeStar may have had a rough life, but AlphaStar barely had one at all: it launched in...
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I Made It! It’s been over a year, but I haven’t lost (most) my touch yet! For the second time I’ve completed a...
2nd May 2011
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I Made It!

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

2nd May 2011
It’s been over a year, but I haven’t lost (most) my touch yet! For the second time I’ve completed a Ludum Dare! Not an easy feat and yet there are tons of games that look absolutely wonderful. I’m not there yet but now I have at least gotten back into game making again, long...
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The joy of a simple laptop This week I tested the Surface Laptop Go with Windows 10 and quite frankly was amazed by the...
2nd Nov 2020
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The joy of a simple laptop

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

2nd Nov 2020
This week I tested the Surface Laptop Go with Windows 10 and quite frankly was amazed by the experience!
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Simsim Pendant [Concept] Mercurial Medallion
5th Mar 2024
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Simsim Pendant

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

5th Mar 2024
[Concept] Mercurial Medallion
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Bringing Foam Monsters to Life: How I Wrote and Illustrated a Children's Book Using AI I've always wanted to write a book. It's been on my bucket list for several years, but I never got...
12th Feb 2025
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Bringing Foam Monsters to Life: How I Wrote and Illustrated a Children's Book Using AI

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

12th Feb 2025
I've always wanted to write a book. It's been on my bucket list for several years, but I never got around to it. Last summer I had a revelation: my kids love being read to, so why don't I write a story for them?Here's how I approached writing a children's book and how I used AI...
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Humanities Crash Course Week 40: Good &amp; Evil Week 40 of the humanities crash course had me pondering deep philosophical questions. I read...
5th Oct 2025
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Humanities Crash Course Week 40: Good &amp; Evil

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

5th Oct 2025
Week 40 of the humanities crash course had me pondering deep philosophical questions. I read Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilych. and Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil. Both books were published in 1886 — and that’s not the only thing they have in common (despite also having many...
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Dithering is obsolete (except when it isn’t); creating OpenDithering Dithering is one of those techniques that feels like it belongs in a museum. It peaked in the ’90s,...
6th Jun 2026
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Dithering is obsolete (except when it isn’t); creating OpenDithering

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

6th Jun 2026
Dithering is one of those techniques that feels like it belongs in a museum. It peaked in the ’90s, the era of 256-color palettes and early computer graphics, when you needed to trick the eye into seeing colors that your hardware couldn’t actually produce. Now, even our phones...
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Book review: The Joy of Cryptography Mike Rosulek, Oregon State University. Draft of January 3, 2021. Online: The Joy of Cryptography....
16th Feb 2023
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Book review: The Joy of Cryptography

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

16th Feb 2023
Mike Rosulek, Oregon State University. Draft of January 3, 2021. Online: The Joy of Cryptography. This is a freely-available book covering introductory material on cryptography. It’s suitable for anyone with undergraduate-level computer science knowledge. As is often the case in...
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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...
3rd Mar 2024
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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)

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

3rd Mar 2024
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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Why Nextcloud feels slow to use Nextcloud. I really want to like it, but it’s making it really difficult. I like what Nextcloud...
3rd Nov 2025
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Why Nextcloud feels slow to use

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

3rd Nov 2025
Nextcloud. I really want to like it, but it’s making it really difficult. I like what Nextcloud offers with its feature set and how easily it replaces a bunch of services under one roof (files, calendar, contacts, notes, to-do lists, photos etc.), but no matter how hard I try and...
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Final Fantasy IX I’ve noticed that if I want to give something a perfect score but know that it’s not a “perfect”...
28th Dec 2013
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Final Fantasy IX

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

28th Dec 2013
I’ve noticed that if I want to give something a perfect score but know that it’s not a “perfect” thing, I always start off with “okay, so, it has flaws.”
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Home Energy Monitor: V2 My DIY home energy monitor has been running for almost a year now. It's been recording my...
11th Feb 2020
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Home Energy Monitor: V2

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

11th Feb 2020
My DIY home energy monitor has been running for almost a year now. It's been recording my electricity consumption every second and everything is neatly archived in my AWS account.Still, though, there is room for improvement. It's time to look back, evaluate & improve the design....
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How I treat my urge to hoard data The tagline for /r/datahoarder reads: “It’s A Digital Disease!”. I agree. At some point I realized...
8th Mar 2022
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How I treat my urge to hoard data

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8th Mar 2022
The tagline for /r/datahoarder reads: “It’s A Digital Disease!”. I agree. At some point I realized that the pursuit to hoard all the things will just keep on consuming more and more of my time and money. Storage is cheap up until to a point, once you find yourself tracking hard...
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Commuting by bike One week on the VanMoof Electrified S E-bike testing it for commuting and comparing it to a normal...
1st Dec 2017
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Commuting by bike

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

1st Dec 2017
One week on the VanMoof Electrified S E-bike testing it for commuting and comparing it to a normal bike.
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Refurb weekend: Atari Stacy Ask any Atari Stacy owner how to open an Atari Stacy and the answer is always "never, if you can...
5th Jan 2025
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Refurb weekend: Atari Stacy

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

5th Jan 2025
Ask any Atari Stacy owner how to open an Atari Stacy and the answer is always "never, if you can avoid it." So I'll just lead with this spoiler image after the refurb to prove this particular escapade didn't completely end in tragedy: see the much lighter and streamlined STBook...
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Why software projects take longer than you think: a statistical model Anyone who built software for a while knows that estimating how long something is going to take is...
15th Apr 2019
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Why software projects take longer than you think: a statistical model

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

15th Apr 2019
Anyone who built software for a while knows that estimating how long something is going to take is hard. It's hard to come up with an unbiased estimate of how long something will take, when fundamentally the work in itself is about solving something.
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Why don't you move abroad? The IIT Dream College and Open Source Twitter @ San Francisco The Emotional Turmoil in San Francisco...
18th Nov 2024
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Why don't you move abroad?

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

18th Nov 2024
The IIT Dream College and Open Source Twitter @ San Francisco The Emotional Turmoil in San Francisco College placements and first job Life…
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From Capelton Hill This is very much an album about what it means to have spent twenty years making music that is...
4th Jun 2022
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From Capelton Hill

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Jun 2022
This is very much an album about what it means to have spent twenty years making music that is almost entirely about being in your late twenties and feeling that the most important parts of life are happening and fleeting. It is soft and comforting and you can't help but feel...
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Odds and Ends #60: Greenpeace is complaining about... solar energy? Plus why the west has semiconductor politics all wrong, and why you should watch Conclave.
1st Mar 2025
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Odds and Ends #60: Greenpeace is complaining about... solar energy?

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

1st Mar 2025
Plus why the west has semiconductor politics all wrong, and why you should watch Conclave.
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Smart lights behind a wall switch (Shelly + ESPHome) Using smart light bulbs means you can no longer use your physical wall switches because the bulbs...
7th Oct 2022
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Smart lights behind a wall switch (Shelly + ESPHome)

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

7th Oct 2022
Using smart light bulbs means you can no longer use your physical wall switches because the bulbs need constant power. I think that's pretty dumb. Using a physical switch can be way faster than using an app to control the lights.Here's how you can put a Shelly in between the...
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Integrate Home Assistant with Apple Reminders I recently integrated Home Assistant with Apple Reminders so that automations can create new todos....
27th Jul 2022
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Integrate Home Assistant with Apple Reminders

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

27th Jul 2022
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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A week with the iPhone I’ve had a new iPhone for about a week now, so I figure it’s time to write up some thoughts about...
31st Dec 2007
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A week with the iPhone

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

31st Dec 2007
I’ve had a new iPhone for about a week now, so I figure it’s time to write up some thoughts about it. First, the little things. It is, in typical Apple fashion, an incredibly slick piece of work. Scrolling and zooming images or webpages is simple, easy, and, well, just fun to do...
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Plus Post: subLOGIC Flight Simulator II Put yourself in the pilot's seat of a Piper 181 Cherokee Archer for an awe-inspiring flight over...
3rd Apr 2026
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Plus Post: subLOGIC Flight Simulator II

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

3rd Apr 2026
Put yourself in the pilot's seat of a Piper 181 Cherokee Archer for an awe-inspiring flight over realistic scenery...
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Vulkan 1.4 sur Asahi Linux English version follows. Aujourd’hui, Khronos Group a sorti la spécification 1.4 de l’API graphique...
2nd Dec 2024
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Vulkan 1.4 sur Asahi Linux

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

2nd Dec 2024
English version follows. Aujourd’hui, Khronos Group a sorti la spécification 1.4 de l’API graphique standard Vulkan. Le projet Asahi Linux est fier d’annoncer le premier pilote Vulkan 1.4 pour le matériel d’Apple. En effet, notre pilote graphique Honeykrisp est reconnu par...
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Programming on Apple Watch Programming with VIM over SSH on Apple Watch using a bluetooth keyboard
15th Feb 2017
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Programming on Apple Watch

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

15th Feb 2017
Programming with VIM over SSH on Apple Watch using a bluetooth keyboard
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Information and Technological Evolution I spend a lot of time reading about the nature of technological progress, and I’ve found that the...
2nd Apr 2026
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Information and Technological Evolution

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

2nd Apr 2026
I spend a lot of time reading about the nature of technological progress, and I’ve found that the literature on technology is somewhat uneven.
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Passing the reins on Panfrost Today is my last day at Collabora and my last day leading the Panfrost driver. It’s been a wild...
10th Apr 2023
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Passing the reins on Panfrost

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

10th Apr 2023
Today is my last day at Collabora and my last day leading the Panfrost driver. It’s been a wild ride. In 2017, I began work on the chai driver for Mali T (Midgard). chai would later be merged into Lyude Paul’s and Connor Abbott’s BiOpenly project for Mali G (Bifrost) to form...
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0x4 reasons to write and publish
7th Nov 2023
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0x4 reasons to write and publish

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

7th Nov 2023
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Goodbye Evernote, Hello Obsidian I use note-taking software every day. I use it for journaling, blogging, capturing ideas,...
10th Jun 2024
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Goodbye Evernote, Hello Obsidian

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

10th Jun 2024
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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From nanoscale to global scale: Advancing MIT’s special initiatives in manufacturing, health, and... MIT.nano cleanroom complex named after Robert Noyce PhD ’53 at the 2025 Nano Summit.
13th Nov 2025
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From nanoscale to global scale: Advancing MIT’s special initiatives in manufacturing, health, and climate

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

13th Nov 2025
MIT.nano cleanroom complex named after Robert Noyce PhD ’53 at the 2025 Nano Summit.
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The cryptographic world computer
27th Sep 2026
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The cryptographic world computer

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

27th Sep 2026
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bitCards Thrill Your Friends This Christmas with a gift from bitCards
1st Sep 2026
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bitCards

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

1st Sep 2026
Thrill Your Friends This Christmas with a gift from bitCards
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Ideal failures The way I used to design UI was to sit with paper sketches, or Figma, or a React prototype with no...
13th May 2026
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Ideal failures

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

13th May 2026
The way I used to design UI was to sit with paper sketches, or Figma, or a React prototype with no back end. Imagine every failure mode. Design beautiful flows for each. I slipped into this mistake while working on LanWhisper, a voice dictation app. I designed for the failure...
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10NES
18th Jul 2023
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10NES

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

18th Jul 2023
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When machine learning matters I joined Spotify in 2008 to focus on machine learning and music recommendations. It's easy to...
5th Aug 2016
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When machine learning matters

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

5th Aug 2016
I joined Spotify in 2008 to focus on machine learning and music recommendations. It's easy to forget, but Spotify's key differentiator back then was the low-latency playback. People would say that it felt like they had the music on their own hard drive.
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How to get better at recursion tldr; reimplement standard library functions in your favorite language without loops. Background For...
7th Mar 2021
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How to get better at recursion

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

7th Mar 2021
tldr; reimplement standard library functions in your favorite language without loops. Background For a few years after college I spent a lot of free time doing projects in Standard ML and Scheme. As a result I got really comfortable doing recursion. The two big reasons for this...
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Day of the Dead in Mexico City If you visit, someone someone will inevitably tell you: “The Day of the Dead parade isn’t a real...
11 hours ago
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Day of the Dead in Mexico City

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

11 hours ago
If you visit, someone someone will inevitably tell you: “The Day of the Dead parade isn’t a real tradition!
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Network Engineering “My first job was to understand what network engineers do. Then, I had to show them complex data in...
24th May 2017
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Network Engineering

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

24th May 2017
“My first job was to understand what network engineers do. Then, I had to show them complex data in a comprehensible and usable way. Finally, I had to make it less ugly.” The Challenge When you type “google.com” into your browser and press the Enter key, what happens? How do you...
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Long Term Goals Update During my vacation I suddenly got a bunch of “life crisis” type thoughts in an almost panic inducing...
18th Jul 2016
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Long Term Goals Update

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

18th Jul 2016
During my vacation I suddenly got a bunch of “life crisis” type thoughts in an almost panic inducing intensity. They were mostly thoughts about not having accomplished anything and that the future looks bleak and meaningless and it’s not worth to do anything. As usual they are...
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Back to Training Five days of school now and things are starting to settle down a bit. The courses are pretty cool;...
4th Sep 2011
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Back to Training

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

4th Sep 2011
Five days of school now and things are starting to settle down a bit. The courses are pretty cool; we have linear algebra which is pretty interesting, we have a java course where we’re going to make a game (!) and one about structures and algorithms. Pretty promising but we’ll...
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Apple Watch as Phone Imagine a week without your smartphone, replaced solely by the sleek simplicity of a smartwatch....
9th Nov 2023
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Apple Watch as Phone

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

9th Nov 2023
Imagine a week without your smartphone, replaced solely by the sleek simplicity of a smartwatch. This week I did this, leaving my smartphone behind and letting an Apple Watch take the helm. Many hail this as a liberating escape from our attention-seeking digital sidekicks, but...
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High quality, low filesize GIFs While the GIF format is a little on the older side, it’s still a really handy format in 2025 for...
2nd Aug 2025
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High quality, low filesize GIFs

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

2nd Aug 2025
While the GIF format is a little on the older side, it’s still a really handy format in 2025 for sharing short clips where an actual video file might have some compatibility issues. For instance, I find when you just want a short little video on your website, a GIF is still so...
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Design of Public Posts: Twitter vs Facebook What design tells you about the company’s values Both Facebook and Twitter allow posts to be...
1st Feb 2018
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Design of Public Posts: Twitter vs Facebook

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

1st Feb 2018
What design tells you about the company’s values Both Facebook and Twitter allow posts to be publicly accessible by people who have not…
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Introducing FamilyCharger Today we launched FamilyCharger - it's designed to be a central place to charge all your devices,...
18th Jul 2019
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Introducing FamilyCharger

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

18th Jul 2019
Today we launched FamilyCharger - it's designed to be a central place to charge all your devices, fast, without clutter. Our initial designs for a family charger started out as big multi-charging docks, but they were too inflexible, expensive, and took up a lot of space....
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Brain, Mind and Consciousness — Essay Layers of ‘I’ when perceiving anything which is external to it Thanks to Montaigne, one of the first...
16th Apr 2018
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Brain, Mind and Consciousness — Essay

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

16th Apr 2018
Layers of ‘I’ when perceiving anything which is external to it Thanks to Montaigne, one of the first essay writers, for popularizing this…
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All you may need is HTML
2nd Mar 2023
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All you may need is HTML

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

2nd Mar 2023
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Measuring Capacity Through Utilization (This post is cross-posted from Honeycomb’s instrumentation series). One of my favorite concepts...
8th Jan 2017
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Measuring Capacity Through Utilization

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

8th Jan 2017
(This post is cross-posted from Honeycomb’s instrumentation series). One of my favorite concepts when thinking about instrumenting a system to understand its overall performance and capacity is what I call “time utilization”. By this I mean: If you look at the behavior of a...
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A slept on upscaling tool for macOS I uploaded YouTube videos from time to time, and a fun comment I often get is “Whoa, this is in...
30th Jun 2025
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A slept on upscaling tool for macOS

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

30th Jun 2025
I uploaded YouTube videos from time to time, and a fun comment I often get is “Whoa, this is in 8K!”. Even better, I’ve had comments from the like, seven people with 8K TVs that the video looks awesome on their TV. And you guessed it, I don’t record my videos in 8K! I record them...
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Testing the Mono Gateway, a custom-built 10 Gbps Router Testing the Mono Gateway, a custom-built 10 Gbps Router Last month, the stars aligned...
2nd Jan 2026
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Testing the Mono Gateway, a custom-built 10 Gbps Router

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

2nd Jan 2026
Testing the Mono Gateway, a custom-built 10 Gbps Router Last month, the stars aligned for me to bring the Mono Gateway (a 10 Gbps router that YouTuber Tomaž Zaman and his team at Mono built from scratch) on a trip to Phoenix, and test it with one of the most OP...
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Train Simulator Controller: CAN Controller, Part 1 I’m building a physical cab dashboard to control Train Simulator, from master controller to an AWS...
22nd Jun 2023
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Train Simulator Controller: CAN Controller, Part 1

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

22nd Jun 2023
I’m building a physical cab dashboard to control Train Simulator, from master controller to an AWS sunflower to a speedometer, and everything in between. The engineer or hobbyist interested in getting this project ready expediently would probably find their favorite...
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Breaking Rohde &amp; Schwarz AMIQ License Key Generation - the Hard and the Easy Way Or better: the fun and the unsatisfying way… Introduction How AMIQ License Keys Work An Easter...
12th Apr 2026
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Breaking Rohde &amp; Schwarz AMIQ License Key Generation - the Hard and the Easy Way

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

12th Apr 2026
Or better: the fun and the unsatisfying way… Introduction How AMIQ License Keys Work An Easter Egg Reverse Engineering the License Check A Funny Disabled Master Key Using Codex Conclusion Introduction One of the guilty pleasures of playing with old test equipment is to enable...
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The Creep of Politicization A new assault on science highlights a broader pattern
1st Jun 2026
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The Creep of Politicization

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

1st Jun 2026
A new assault on science highlights a broader pattern
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Aldous Huxley's world of perceptions You may already know of this novel called 1984, and its author George Orwell. Aldous Huxley wrote a...
18th Jul 2021
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Aldous Huxley's world of perceptions

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

18th Jul 2021
You may already know of this novel called 1984, and its author George Orwell. Aldous Huxley wrote a dystopian classic called Brave New World…
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Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems Rockets, calculators, and personal computers at MITS
1st Jun 2026
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Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems

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

1st Jun 2026
Rockets, calculators, and personal computers at MITS
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Challengers One of the things that may be apocryphal—because I’ve never bothered to actually look it up, just...
6th Dec 2025
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Challengers

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Dec 2025
One of the things that may be apocryphal—because I’ve never bothered to actually look it up, just kept it kicking around in my head—is David Foster Wallace’s justification for the emphasis on footnotes in Infinite Jest: that they’re meant to be a physical metaphor for the...
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Some low-stakes misinformation spread like wildfire, and I got it wrong too Giovanni Colantonio writing for Digital Trends: The Confusion Around $90 Switch 2 Games Proves How...
1st May 2025
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Some low-stakes misinformation spread like wildfire, and I got it wrong too

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st May 2025
Giovanni Colantonio writing for Digital Trends: The Confusion Around $90 Switch 2 Games Proves How Broken the Internet Is There’s just one problem: *Mario Kart World* does not cost $90, at least based on what we know right now. No currently announced Nintendo Switch 2 game...
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Gosling’s Old Rum Virginia has draconian liquor laws, which means I have to get interesting bottles shipped from...
3rd Feb 2024
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Gosling’s Old Rum

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

3rd Feb 2024
Virginia has draconian liquor laws, which means I have to get interesting bottles shipped from [REDACTED], a site on which I am very prone to judging a book by its cover; every month I'll end up purchasing a bottle of something purely because it looks interesting and I can...
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Writing a storage engine for Postgres: an in-memory Table Access Method With Postgres 12, released in 2019, it became possible to swap out Postgres's storage engine. This...
1st Nov 2023
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Writing a storage engine for Postgres: an in-memory Table Access Method

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

1st Nov 2023
With Postgres 12, released in 2019, it became possible to swap out Postgres's storage engine. This is a feature MySQL has supported for a long time. There are at least 8 different built-in engines you can pick from. MyRocks, MySQL on RocksDB, is another popular third-party...
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Cannot access Windows guest within VMware Fusion when running vsphere client Currently, I am running VMware ESXi 4.1 on a test system. To manage ESXi, you need the VSphere...
17th Jun 2011
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Cannot access Windows guest within VMware Fusion when running vsphere client

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

17th Jun 2011
Currently, I am running VMware ESXi 4.1 on a test system. To manage ESXi, you need the VSphere client, which is only available for the Windows platform. Therefore, I run VMware Fusion on my Mac to be able to access VSphere and manage my ESXi host. The trouble is that both ESXi...
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Lion's Disk Utility not compatible with CoreStorage and Filevault My 1 TB hard drive of my 2011 27" iMac was partitioned with: A bootable partition with Mac OS X...
2nd Aug 2011
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Lion's Disk Utility not compatible with CoreStorage and Filevault

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

2nd Aug 2011
My 1 TB hard drive of my 2011 27" iMac was partitioned with: A bootable partition with Mac OS X Lion Time machine partition (I use an external SSD as my main OS) Bootcamp partition with windows A data partition containg... data. The problem is that CoreStorage is too new. Disk...
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Trump Shoots the Messenger Firing the BLS Commissioner moves us into banana republic territory
1st Aug 2025
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Trump Shoots the Messenger

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

1st Aug 2025
Firing the BLS Commissioner moves us into banana republic territory
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Lessons from a takeaway plastic bag How we're tricked into repeated purchases replacing perfectly fine products just for the sake of...
7th Jan 2018
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Lessons from a takeaway plastic bag

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

7th Jan 2018
How we're tricked into repeated purchases replacing perfectly fine products just for the sake of change.
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Joining Rostra I am thrilled to share that I am joining Rostra, where I’ll be working alongside Lulu Meservey and...
17th Sep 2024
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Joining Rostra

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

17th Sep 2024
I am thrilled to share that I am joining Rostra, where I’ll be working alongside Lulu Meservey and Sergey Alexashenko to help founders go direct.
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Raise your standards for important things; lower them for unimportant things I think we’ve all got some built in tendencies, pulling us towards certain behaviors, whether or not...
27th Dec 2025
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Raise your standards for important things; lower them for unimportant things

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

27th Dec 2025
I think we’ve all got some built in tendencies, pulling us towards certain behaviors, whether or not they are worthwhile. It takes many different forms. If you have OCD cleaning tendencies, you spend excessive time making sure your windows are spotless. If you are money-focused,...
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Going down the rabbit hole of Git's new bundle-uri Git's new bundle-uri could help significantly speed up clones, but what bugs lurk within?
13th Mar 2025
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Going down the rabbit hole of Git's new bundle-uri

from GitButler [alt+shift+b] in technology

13th Mar 2025
Git's new bundle-uri could help significantly speed up clones, but what bugs lurk within?
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June, 2026 June, like any month in which I neither write very much nor read very much, feels already...
1st Jul 2026
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June, 2026

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

1st Jul 2026
June, like any month in which I neither write very much nor read very much, feels already cryptographic in retrospect.
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Pi in the Pentium: reverse-engineering the constants in its floating-point unit Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of...
5th Jan 2025
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Pi in the Pentium: reverse-engineering the constants in its floating-point unit

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

5th Jan 2025
Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of high-performance processors.1 The Pentium includes a floating-point unit that can rapidly compute functions such as sines, cosines, logarithms, and exponentials. But how does the Pentium...
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How We Configure Our Rails Local CI Continuous integration is a great thing, and having tests and security checks run before every...
9th Jan 2026
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How We Configure Our Rails Local CI

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

9th Jan 2026
Continuous integration is a great thing, and having tests and security checks run before every deploy is also a great thing. But if you’re a developer who has been shipping production code for more than a week, you definitely understand how much it can all feel like a house of...
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Everyone knows your location, Part 2: try it yourself and share the results Learn how to record and analyse your mobile device traffic, take an app from the list of "shady"...
17th Apr 2025
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Everyone knows your location, Part 2: try it yourself and share the results

from tim.sh [alt+shift+b] in technology

17th Apr 2025
Learn how to record and analyse your mobile device traffic, take an app from the list of "shady" apps and share the results.
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MIT engineers whip up a more breathable hydrogel The new aerated material could enable longer-lasting bandages, implants, and wearable sensors.
8th Jul 2026
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MIT engineers whip up a more breathable hydrogel

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

8th Jul 2026
The new aerated material could enable longer-lasting bandages, implants, and wearable sensors.
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My Very Own Rival I’ve always marveled at people who are motivated purely by the love of what they’re doing. There’s...
12th Feb 2025
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My Very Own Rival

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

12th Feb 2025
I’ve always marveled at people who are motivated purely by the love of what they’re doing. There’s something so wholesome about that approach to life—where winning and losing don’t matter. They’re simply there to revel in the experience
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4 Ways To Say No, Elegantly and Effectively In my early days at Netflix, my inability to say no led me into unpleasant terrain. Here's how I...
4th Sep 2024
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4 Ways To Say No, Elegantly and Effectively

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

4th Sep 2024
In my early days at Netflix, my inability to say no led me into unpleasant terrain. Here's how I evolved to navigate these situations more fluidly.
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Escaping LLM piping mess with nifty engineering In this post I’ll walk through how I upgraded a set of tangled Python notebooks—responsible for...
25th Jun 2025
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Escaping LLM piping mess with nifty engineering

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

25th Jun 2025
In this post I’ll walk through how I upgraded a set of tangled Python notebooks—responsible for thousands of LLM calls—into a robust content-adaptation studio powered by: an async FastAPI pipeline, a disk-first Next.js frontend, and a small suite of custom CLI...
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Visionaries Have Democratised Remote Network Access - Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops... Well, we’re back again, with yet another fresh-off-the-press bug chain (and associated Interactive...
12th Nov 2024
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Visionaries Have Democratised Remote Network Access - Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (CVE-2024-8068 and CVE-2024-8069)

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

12th Nov 2024
Well, we’re back again, with yet another fresh-off-the-press bug chain (and associated Interactive Artifact Generator). This time, it’s in Citrix’s “Virtual Apps and Desktops” offering. This is a tech stack that enables end-users (and likely, your friendly neighbourhood...
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Vim's UserGettingBored autocmd In short: Vim has a joke autocmd called UserGettingBored that doesn’t do anything. Vim’s automatic...
22nd Aug 2026
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Vim's UserGettingBored autocmd

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

22nd Aug 2026
In short: Vim has a joke autocmd called UserGettingBored that doesn’t do anything. Vim’s automatic commands feature, usually shortened to “autocmd”, lets you run code when various events occur. For example, you could implement an auto-save feature by binding the TextChanged event...
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Train Simulator Controller: Dashboard Prototype Part 4, All the Panels With the center console of my train simulator built, I rapidly modeled and fabricated prototypes of...
30th Dec 2025
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Train Simulator Controller: Dashboard Prototype Part 4, All the Panels

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

30th Dec 2025
With the center console of my train simulator built, I rapidly modeled and fabricated prototypes of the four other panels.
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Performance of the Python 3.14 tail-call interpreter About a month ago, the CPython project merged a new implementation strategy for their bytecode...
9th Mar 2025
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Performance of the Python 3.14 tail-call interpreter

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

9th Mar 2025
About a month ago, the CPython project merged a new implementation strategy for their bytecode interpreter. The initial headline results were very impressive, showing a 10-15% performance improvement on average across a wide range of benchmarks across a variety of...
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YouTube is a mysterious monopoly Yesterday I saw this Bluesky post from Adrian Black. He runs Adrian’s Digital Basement, a retro...
8th Sep 2025
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YouTube is a mysterious monopoly

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

8th Sep 2025
Yesterday I saw this Bluesky post from Adrian Black. He runs Adrian’s Digital Basement, a retro computer repair channel I really enjoy. In the post, he points out a trend I didn’t know about: YouTube views seem to have fallen off a cliff recently. Further down the thread, Jeff...
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Introducing BatteryPro BatteryPro is designed to keep anyone with an iPhone and Apple Watch powered, it's comfortable to...
2nd May 2017
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Introducing BatteryPro

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

2nd May 2017
BatteryPro is designed to keep anyone with an iPhone and Apple Watch powered, it's comfortable to carry, charges fast, and lessens cord clutter when you travel. It sports an integrated MFi-certified Apple Watch Magnetic Charger, high-speed USB-out that charges iPhone at max rate,...
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Should Security Solutions Be Secure? Maybe We're All Wrong - Fortinet FortiSIEM Pre-Auth Command... It’s Friday, but we’re here today with unscheduled content - pushing our previously scheduled...
15th Aug 2025
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Should Security Solutions Be Secure? Maybe We're All Wrong - Fortinet FortiSIEM Pre-Auth Command Injection (CVE-2025-25256)

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

15th Aug 2025
It’s Friday, but we’re here today with unscheduled content - pushing our previously scheduled shenanigans to next week. Fortinet is no stranger to the watchTowr Labs research team. Today we’re looking at CVE-2025-25256 - a pre-authentication command injection in FortiSIEM that...
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Using Google Free Android Nearly all folks I know use iOS or Android from a mainstream smartphone brand, yet alternatives...
24th Oct 2021
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Using Google Free Android

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

24th Oct 2021
Nearly all folks I know use iOS or Android from a mainstream smartphone brand, yet alternatives still exist! The German Volla Phone prides itself to be a worthy option for those who value privacy and freedom. I bought one to experience it firsthand, read along for my...
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Review of the 2-dial TTArtisan Light Meter My latest purchase for my analog cameras is the TTArtisan light meter, a hotshoe-mounted meter...
30th Dec 2021
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Review of the 2-dial TTArtisan Light Meter

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

30th Dec 2021
My latest purchase for my analog cameras is the TTArtisan light meter, a hotshoe-mounted meter accessory. The market for these shoe-mounted light meters for vintage cameras has become weirdly competitive. They fit on top of a mechanical camera and provide you with the right...
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My first netrunner store championship My girlfriend has told me I get these narrow interests where I pour all my energy and thoughts into...
24th Feb 2015
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My first netrunner store championship

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

24th Feb 2015
My girlfriend has told me I get these narrow interests where I pour all my energy and thoughts into and about 1,5 months ago I discovered Netrunner, a very awesome card game. Check out this how to play or team covenant’s channel if you want to know more. So this Sunday I went to...
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Superhacker Rossum hacked inPulse - Have you?
18th Feb 2011
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Superhacker Rossum hacked inPulse - Have you?

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

18th Feb 2011
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The Most Important Micros That is, for what they represent
28th Feb 2026
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The Most Important Micros

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

28th Feb 2026
That is, for what they represent
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The Pulse: AI load breaks GitHub – why not other vendors? GitHub’s leadership blames the 3.5x increase in service load as the cause of degradation – or it...
7th May 2026
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The Pulse: AI load breaks GitHub – why not other vendors?

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

7th May 2026
GitHub’s leadership blames the 3.5x increase in service load as the cause of degradation – or it might be self-inflicted.
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A tricky Commodore PET repair: tracking down 6 1/2 bad chips .cite { font-size: 70%;} .ref { vertical-align: super; font-size: 60%;} code {font-size: 100%;...
13th Apr 2025
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A tricky Commodore PET repair: tracking down 6 1/2 bad chips

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

13th Apr 2025
.cite { font-size: 70%;} .ref { vertical-align: super; font-size: 60%;} code {font-size: 100%; font-family: courier, fixed;} In 1977, Commodore released the PET computer, a quirky home computer that combined the processor, a tiny keyboard, a cassette drive for storage, and...
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More Doom III BFG Documentation id Software developer Jan Paul Van Waveren (a.k.a Mr Elusive) is sharing some more of the knowledge...
4th Sep 2013
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More Doom III BFG Documentation

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

4th Sep 2013
id Software developer Jan Paul Van Waveren (a.k.a Mr Elusive) is sharing some more of the knowledge gained while working on Doom 3 BFG. This part focuses highly on the choice of data-structures and how paramount cacheline are to performances.
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How I self-host this blog at home with a dynamic IPv4 address, IPv6 prefix, and a dash of Wireguard Networking has long been my Achilles heel. I know the very basics, but the more complex areas of...
6th May 2026
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How I self-host this blog at home with a dynamic IPv4 address, IPv6 prefix, and a dash of Wireguard

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

6th May 2026
Networking has long been my Achilles heel. I know the very basics, but the more complex areas of networking have been a bit puzzling to me. By the time I figured out how IPv4 works, I found IPv6 and that my ISP supports it. Back to square one. That didn’t stop me from learning...
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「网络国家」之我见
13th Jul 2022
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「网络国家」之我见

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

13th Jul 2022
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Our We Are Developers Adventure Last week the GitButler team descended in force on the We Are Developers World Congress in our home...
2nd Aug 2023
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Our We Are Developers Adventure

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

2nd Aug 2023
Last week the GitButler team descended in force on the We Are Developers World Congress in our home town of Berlin.
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WandaVision What to say about this show that isn’t damning with faint praise?
1st Mar 2021
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WandaVision

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

1st Mar 2021
What to say about this show that isn’t damning with faint praise?
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All The Ways I Broke My Website This post is a living diary of all the times I messed up something with my website in a funny way. I...
19th Sep 2026
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All The Ways I Broke My Website

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

19th Sep 2026
This post is a living diary of all the times I messed up something with my website in a funny way. I value those who have the confidence to own their mistakes and share the learning with others, and so this is me doing just that! That Time I Accidentally Made a Tarpit That Time I...
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Control as Liability
9th May 2019
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Control as Liability

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

9th May 2019
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Review of Gitcoin Quadratic Funding Round 4
28th Jan 2020
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Review of Gitcoin Quadratic Funding Round 4

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

28th Jan 2020
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Gitcoin Grants Round 9: The Next Phase of Growth
2nd Apr 2021
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Gitcoin Grants Round 9: The Next Phase of Growth

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

2nd Apr 2021
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Standard ML in 2020 Incredibly, Standard ML implementations are still actively developed. MLton, Poly/ML, MLKit, SML#...
25th Oct 2020
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Standard ML in 2020

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

25th Oct 2020
Incredibly, Standard ML implementations are still actively developed. MLton, Poly/ML, MLKit, SML# and SML/NJ are the most prominent. Discussion on the future direction of Standard ML remains healthy as well. And somehow OCaml's lesser known cousin still beats out OCaml...
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It Must *Be* Good The need for companies to do the right thing
15th Dec 2022
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It Must *Be* Good

from Kent de Bruin [alt+shift+b] in technology

15th Dec 2022
The need for companies to do the right thing
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