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32-bit hat, with LEDs Built in November 2015 (now-traditional multi-year writeup delay applied) A hat,...
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over a year ago
Built in November 2015 (now-traditional multi-year writeup delay applied) A hat, bejewelled with 38 RGB LEDs Is this thing on..? It’s been a while since I’ve written one of these. So, the hat. It’s been on the writeup pile for almost 6 years, nagging away. Finally...
Notes on software...
Writing a document database from scratch in Go: Lucene-like filters and indexes In this post we'll write a rudimentary document database from scratch in Go. In less than 500 lines...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In this post we'll write a rudimentary document database from scratch in Go. In less than 500 lines of code we'll be able to support the following interactions, inspired by Elasticsearch: $ curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"name": "Kevin", "age": "45"}'...
Applied Cartography
Notebook as marketing primitive Earlier this week, I stumbled upon this brilliant marketing-slash-documentation idea from...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Earlier this week, I stumbled upon this brilliant marketing-slash-documentation idea from SingleStore — notebooks as a first-party page! There are a handful of nice things about this idea: Very easy to fan out. You're not going to really run out of sample notebooks from which you...
Birchtree
A lot changed for LLMs in 2024 I thought this was a fascinating post by Simon Willison: Things We Learned About LLMs in 2024 This...
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6 months ago
I thought this was a fascinating post by Simon Willison: Things We Learned About LLMs in 2024 This increase in efficiency and reduction in price is my single favourite trend from 2024. I want the utility of LLMs at a fraction of the energy cost and it looks like that&
Elevation Lab - Blog
A newer, better, ElevationDock Today we launched an update to our iPhone dock. It's wider to fit a bigger generation of phones,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Today we launched an update to our iPhone dock. It's wider to fit a bigger generation of phones, ships with an Apple-certified Lightning connector (that you can assemble in seconds with the new tool-free back plate), and we've added some new lateral supports for added...
Jonas Hietala
Postmortem: Bugger It’s time for the follow up on my latest game Bugger. Wow it seems like forever since I begun this...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It’s time for the follow up on my latest game Bugger. Wow it seems like forever since I begun this monthly game business, but it’s only been two months since I first thought about this and here I am having finished my third game. I’ve really come a long way, in the beginning I...
Good Enough
Yes, Facebook Is Terrible, but Also… I’m not on Facebook. It was eight or ten years ago when I left for good. While there were some good...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’m not on Facebook. It was eight or ten years ago when I left for good. While there were some good and useful interactions, the algorithm brought me down, I didn’t have a lot of desire to keep up with old acquaintances, and hearing everyone’s political stance was not good for...
Notes on software...
Emulating linux/AMD64 userland: interpreting an ELF binary In this post we'll stumble toward a working emulator for a barebones C program compiled for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In this post we'll stumble toward a working emulator for a barebones C program compiled for linux/AMD64. The approach will be slightly more so based on observation than by following a spec; a great way to quickly become familiar with a topic, and a bad way to...
Vitalik Buterin's...
La votación mediante blockchain está sobrevalorada entre personas desinformadas pero subestimada...
over a year ago
Buck on Software
Model transitions: A framework for value creation And a quick and dirty look at SPLK, NTNX, and GWRE
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Postmortem: Balls So it’s been what? Two, three years since I discovered the art of programming and I haven’t made one...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
So it’s been what? Two, three years since I discovered the art of programming and I haven’t made one single game?! Well now I’m not counting the visual basic nightmare mastermind I made a long time ago but a real game. Whatever that means. I’ve had these monster-projects; Point...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Review: museums of the future, Dubai and Tokyo
11 months ago
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #58: An even greater London? Plus a revealing portrait of Westminster's hidden connections and some cope on why Trump might not...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Plus a revealing portrait of Westminster's hidden connections and some cope on why Trump might not be *so* catastrophic. Maybe. If we're lucky.
Home on Erik...
Leaving Spotify Febrary 6 was my last day at Spotify. In total I spent more than six years at Spotify and it was an...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Febrary 6 was my last day at Spotify. In total I spent more than six years at Spotify and it was an amazing experience. I joined Spotify in Stockholm in 2008, mainly because a bunch of friends from programming competitions had joined already.
Never Met a Science
The Incoherence of Science Reform Wake up, Boomers: Science 2 just dropped.
11 months ago
Jonas Hietala
Breaking the rule of three It’s pretty darn stressful making a game in a week, especially when you have this big great vision...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It’s pretty darn stressful making a game in a week, especially when you have this big great vision on how your game should be (which is always grand). For me making Balls, Black and White and Jonas IceCream Stand where truly stressful, MenuCity and Bugger not so much but...
Notes on software...
Go database driver overhead on insert-heavy workloads The most popular SQLite and PostgreSQL database drivers in Go are (roughly) 20-76% slower than...
a year ago
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a year ago
The most popular SQLite and PostgreSQL database drivers in Go are (roughly) 20-76% slower than alternative Go drivers on insert-heavy benchmarks of mine. So if you are bulk-inserting data with Go (and potentially also bulk-retrieving data with Go), you may want to consider the...
Notes on software...
dsq: Commandline tool for running SQL queries against JSON, CSV, Excel, Parquet, and more. This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
Willem's Blog
Creating a minimal iPhone stand Today I created a minimal iPhone stand from oak wood. I used a single piece of wood to get it done.
over a year ago
Willem's Blog
Clouds below my floor Building a little datacenter in my basement utilising a very fast internet connection.
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Finishing Stuff I haven’t done much blogging or game programming in a while but instead I’ve finished some school...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I haven’t done much blogging or game programming in a while but instead I’ve finished some school stuff. We completed the assembly course labs, which were pretty fun actually, and I managed to finally complete the electronics course I’ve been holding off on for like forever… But...
Arduino Blog
This spinning water contraption is actually a functional battery If you ask someone to think of a battery, they’re probably going to picture a chemical battery, like...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
If you ask someone to think of a battery, they’re probably going to picture a chemical battery, like a AA alkaline or a rechargeable lithium-ion battery. But there are other kinds of batteries that store energy without any fancy chemistry at all. If you find a way to save energy...
Computer Ads from...
Comics from Winter 1980 Issue of Electronics Today International AI and everything in between.
3 days ago
Construction Physics
Why Is Homeowners Insurance Getting So Expensive? The recent Los Angeles fires have highlighted the rising costs of homeowners insurance in the US.
5 months ago
Odds and Ends of...
Why we need seven bins It's time for some #binchat
6 months ago
Willem's Blog
Being a volunteer in Amsterdam-Zuidoost About my work as volunteer in the local community center in Amsterdam Zuidoost
over a year ago
Elevation Lab - Blog
BatteryPro available on Apple.com! Good news, BatteryPro is now available worldwide online at Apple! This makes it much easier and less...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Good news, BatteryPro is now available worldwide online at Apple! This makes it much easier and less expensive for customers outside the USA to pick one up. And we couldn't be more humbled and proud - it goes to show that when you design a product you really want for yourself,...
Jonas Hietala
The Experimental Games It’s been nine months since I started doing Experimental Games and I think it’s time to evaluate and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It’s been nine months since I started doing Experimental Games and I think it’s time to evaluate and maybe go in a new direction. At first I had been stuck for ages with my never-ending projects and I had literally nothing to show for all my coding. Well now things have changed a...
Computer Ads from...
Plus Post: Computerwise TransTerm 3 Introducing the TransTerm 3 Battery Powered Terminal
2 months ago
latest projects -...
3D Model Viewer Improvements [Software] Unlocking the embedded gimbals
a year ago
Abishek Muthian
On Apple slowing down its phones Build world’s best smartphone CPU & release a CPU governor to slow it down via software update...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
Willem's Blog
Around town in an electric car For one week I drove the electric Smart EQ fortwo in and around town. I found out what it's like to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For one week I drove the electric Smart EQ fortwo in and around town. I found out what it's like to drive electrically: fun!
Posts on Made of...
reptyr: Changing a process's controlling terminal reptyr (announced recently on this blog) takes a process that is currently running in one terminal,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
reptyr (announced recently on this blog) takes a process that is currently running in one terminal, and transplants it to a new terminal. reptyr comes from a proud family of similar hacks, and works in the same basic way: We use ptrace(2) to attach to a target process and force...
Posts on Made of...
Using X forwarding with screen by proxying $DISPLAY If you’re reading this blog, I probably don’t have to explain why I love GNU screen. I can keep a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you’re reading this blog, I probably don’t have to explain why I love GNU screen. I can keep a long-running session going on a server somewhere, and log in and resume my session without losing any state. I also love X-forwarding. I love being able to log into a remote server...
Birchtree
It's time for some more YouTube videos just in time for the weekend This behind-the-scenes of one of my favorite 2024 movies was so much fun Shout out to Truth social,...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
This behind-the-scenes of one of my favorite 2024 movies was so much fun Shout out to Truth social, which got called out as having the best UX in this video...which is based on Mastodon The internet's dad, Hank Green, is starting a new podcast I'm
Avestura's Blog
How optimistic or pessimistic are the Kurzgesagt videos? A sentiment analysis on the last 20 videos of Kurzgesagt.
over a year ago
computers are bad
2023-04-20 different kinds of differential On the front page of HN today was an [article with a confusing headline], "Farmers 'crippled' by...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
On the front page of HN today was an [article with a confusing headline], "Farmers 'crippled' by satellite failure as GPS-guided tractors grind to a halt." Of course the headline doesn't actually say this, but it does seem to imply that there has been some kind of failure of...
Computer Ads from...
Plus Post: Objects, Inc's Layout Build Programs Without Programming
a year ago
Arduino Blog
This belt grinder uses an Arduino Opta micro PLC A mainstay in most machine shops, the belt grinder assists in greatly increasing the speed at which...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
A mainstay in most machine shops, the belt grinder assists in greatly increasing the speed at which parts can be ground down in a safer, more controlled manner compared to an angle grinder. As an effort to build a tool like this one for the first time, Julien Alexandre chose to...
Matt Mullenweg
Response to DHH I’ve taken this post down. I’ve been attacked so much the past few days; the most vicious, personal,...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
I’ve taken this post down. I’ve been attacked so much the past few days; the most vicious, personal, hateful words poisoned my brain, and the original version of this post was mean. I am so sorry. I shouldn’t let this stuff get to me, but it clearly did, and I took it out on DHH,...
Arduino Blog
Enjoy a perpetual solar eclipse with this machine Total solar eclipses are rare — at least from the perspective of any specific point on the planet. A...
a year ago
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a year ago
Total solar eclipses are rare — at least from the perspective of any specific point on the planet. A total eclipse will occur somewhere on Earth once every 18 months or so, but that is more likely to track across the middle of the Pacific Ocean than wherever you happen to be....
Louwrentius
Ubuntu and full disk encryption (FDE) Ubuntu is based on Debian Linux. As part of a regular Debian installation, you can choose to create...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Ubuntu is based on Debian Linux. As part of a regular Debian installation, you can choose to create an encrypted disk volume based on LUKS. This is different from the option within the Ubuntu installation to encrypt home directories. To be able to install Ubuntu and use full disk...
./techtipsy
I encourage you to write a blog It’s been over 4 years since my first post on this blog. During those 4 years I’ve written over 90...
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10 months ago
It’s been over 4 years since my first post on this blog. During those 4 years I’ve written over 90 posts, received over 1 million clicks, a dozen legitimate reader e-mails and thousands of spam e-mails. And I love it! I’ve found that writing can be very fulfilling and I encourage...
Daniel De Laney
Resource Management “We had to display a lot of information at once and help them make sense of it. There are many ways...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
“We had to display a lot of information at once and help them make sense of it. There are many ways to do that wrong and only a few ways to do it right.” The Challenge The client came to us with a problem: They had paid for a custom tool that didn’t do what they needed. They had...
Jonas Hietala
No game this month Well here I am in the end of the month - without a game. It’s a failure I know but once again I lack...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Well here I am in the end of the month - without a game. It’s a failure I know but once again I lack inspiration and then it’s really hard to do something. Instead I’ve been thinking of something I could do that would make me wanna code like really bad again. I’m thinking of...
Arduino Blog
CamRo is a robot that captures awesome product videos at the touch of a button Presentation is always important — even in the maker community. Nice photos and videos get people in...
a month ago
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a month ago
Presentation is always important — even in the maker community. Nice photos and videos get people in the door and technical achievements keep them around. But recording nice videos can be difficult, which is why Cameron Coward developed this robot, called CamRo, to do the work...
Neil Madden
Macaroon access tokens for OAuth: Part 2 – transactional auth In part 1, I showed how Macaroon access tokens in ForgeRock Access Management 7.0 can be used as a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In part 1, I showed how Macaroon access tokens in ForgeRock Access Management 7.0 can be used as a lightweight and easy-to-deploy alternative to proof of possession (PoP) schemes for securing tokens in browser-based apps. The same techniques can be adapted to secure tokens in...
somenice
Cake Hole Whistler Mountain Often inviting. This terrain just off the Whistler peak road can be an enticing sun-swept run of...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Often inviting. This terrain just off the Whistler peak road can be an enticing sun-swept run of untouched powder.Understanding that you need to come back up the same way you go down, can make you question if it’s really worth it.Know before you go. Cake Hole by Andrew...
Simply Explained
ESP32 Cam: cropping images on device The ESP32 camera is the cheapest microcontroller with a built-in camera that you can buy. The OV2640...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The ESP32 camera is the cheapest microcontroller with a built-in camera that you can buy. The OV2640 sensor has a max resolution of 1600x1200, but sometimes you don't need the entire image.In this post I'll show how to crop the images on the ESP32 itself, before sending it of to...
Home on Erik...
Headcount goals, feature factories, and when to hire those mythical 10x people When I started building up a tech team for Better, I made a very conscious decision to pay at the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When I started building up a tech team for Better, I made a very conscious decision to pay at the high end to get people. I thought this made more sense: they cost a bit more money to hire, but output usually more than compensates for it.
Jorge Arango
Traction Heroes Ep. 4: Mental Models In episode 4 of the Traction Heroes podcast, Harry and I discussed mental models. It’s a tricky...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
In episode 4 of the Traction Heroes podcast, Harry and I discussed mental models. It’s a tricky phrase: we brought up two different, yet common, uses: Mental models as individuals’ internal understandings of a particular things and situations – i.e., the “Indi Young”...
Notes on software...
1 million page views I was delighted to notice this morning that this site has recently passed 1M page views. And since...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
I was delighted to notice this morning that this site has recently passed 1M page views. And since Murat wrote about his 1M page view accomplishment at the time, I felt compelled to now too. I started regularly blogging in 2018. For some reason I decided to write a blog post...
Willem's Blog
Half Marathon Discover my journey from noob to (half) marathon finisher and how I balanced data with fitness -...
a year ago
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a year ago
Discover my journey from noob to (half) marathon finisher and how I balanced data with fitness - read about my experiences!
Birchtree
More YouTube goodies? More YouTube goodies. Here we go again! This is a fascinating look at trying to find the biggest tube TV On the other...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Here we go again! This is a fascinating look at trying to find the biggest tube TV On the other end of things, here's a QVC presenter destroying a TV live on camera. Cybertruck reveal vibes here too If you've tried Balatro and haven't
Birchtree
AI as Normal Technology Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor: AI as Normal Technology We articulate a vision of artificial...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor: AI as Normal Technology We articulate a vision of artificial intelligence (AI) as normal technology. To view AI as normal is not to understate its impact—even transformative, general-purpose technologies such as electricity and the internet are...
Christian Selig
Table of Contents Selector View I wrote a new little view for a future version of Apollo that makes some changes to the default iOS...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I wrote a new little view for a future version of Apollo that makes some changes to the default iOS version (that seems to be a weird trend in my recent programming, despite me loving built-in components). Here’s some details about it! It’s also available as a library on GitHub...
Birchtree
+ Why I quit Superhuman I appreciate the app, I just had to let it go.
3 months ago
Never Met a Science
Do Echo Chambers Cause Echo Chambers? Towards poetic validity
11 months ago
Jorge Arango
AI and Taxonomies: Creating vs. Applying Recently, I wrote about using AI to solve taxonomy drift — the all-too-common problem of lists of...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Recently, I wrote about using AI to solve taxonomy drift — the all-too-common problem of lists of terms (tags, categories) falling out of sync with the content they describe. A response to that post raised an important distinction worth clarifying: the difference between creating...
Simply Explained
Building Air Quality Sensor: Luftdaten + Home Assistant Luftdaten (now Sensor Community) is a global sensor network that measures air quality around the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Luftdaten (now Sensor Community) is a global sensor network that measures air quality around the world. Best of all: it's open-source and anyone can build a sensor.I was very curious to see the air quality in my neighborhood, so I decided to build myself a sensor. And of course,...
Birchtree
📕 I strongly recommend: Nexus (members post)
5 months ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
STARKs, Part I: Proofs with Polynomials
over a year ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
The bulldozer vs vetocracy political axis
over a year ago
Birchtree
On the new iPhone 16e Today Apple unveiled the iPhone 16e, which they're calling a part of the iPhone 16 lineup now,...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Today Apple unveiled the iPhone 16e, which they're calling a part of the iPhone 16 lineup now, rather than this odd duck the SE had been since launch. Honestly, I think this move in particular is interesting and maybe makes a ton of sense, but let's
Arduino Blog
Introducing Arduino cores with ZephyrOS (beta): take your embedded development to the next level Last July, when we announced the beginning of the transition from Mbed to Zephyr, we promised to...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Last July, when we announced the beginning of the transition from Mbed to Zephyr, we promised to release the first beta by the end of 2024. Today, we are excited to announce the first release of Arduino cores with ZephyrOS in beta! ZephyrOS is an open-source, real-time operating...
Birchtree
The next few vids you'll watch on YouTube I know it's a bit of cliché, but count me in the group of white men who 2021's Inside really...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
I know it's a bit of cliché, but count me in the group of white men who 2021's Inside really connected with me in a huge way. Anyway, now All Eyes on Me is going to be stuck in my head for the next month.
somenice
CBC Spark with Nora Young Really upset to recently learn that Spark with Nora Young has been cancelled by the CBC, ending in...
a year ago
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a year ago
Really upset to recently learn that Spark with Nora Young has been cancelled by the CBC, ending in June 2024. (Announcement episode) One of the most intelligent, progressive technology-in-society news shows in Canada or anywhere for that matter. Perhaps that it’s medium is radio...
Jonas Hietala
Game Design Analysis: World of Goo Introduction This is the second essay for the course Game Design and this thime I will be analysing...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Introduction This is the second essay for the course Game Design and this thime I will be analysing the game World of Goo a bit. The first level The game is very simple. You begin with a structure and a few Goo balls, the charming balls bobbing around there, which you can drag...
Home on Erik...
Bagging as a regularizer One thing I encountered today was a trick using bagging as a way to go beyond a point estimate and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One thing I encountered today was a trick using bagging as a way to go beyond a point estimate and get an approximation for the full distribution. This can then be used to penalize predictions with larger uncertainty, which helps reducing false positives.
Louwrentius
What home NAS builders should understand about silent data corruption Introduction When it comes to dealing with storage in a DIY NAS context, two important topics come...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Introduction When it comes to dealing with storage in a DIY NAS context, two important topics come up: Unrecoverable read errors (UREs) or what old people like me call 'bad sectors' Silent data corruption (data corruption unnoticed by the storage layers) I get a strong impression...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
MenuCity This game is called MenuCity and it’s a numbers game. Well that’s the theme anyway. The game pretty...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This game is called MenuCity and it’s a numbers game. Well that’s the theme anyway. The game pretty much held to what I planned for - except that it deviated from the theme -again- a bit. My game is very reminiscent of the old calculator classic Block Dude made by Brandon...
Jorge Arango
Gall’s Law Strikes Again: the Sonos Debacle Update: in the afternoon of January 14, news emerged that Sonos CPO Maxime Bouvat-Merlin is also...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Update: in the afternoon of January 14, news emerged that Sonos CPO Maxime Bouvat-Merlin is also leaving the company. Sonos CEO Patrick Spence is out, felled by last year’s disastrous app launch. I have no inside track on what happened, but from what I’ve read, Sonos’s leaders...
Jonas Hietala
The 4-Hour Chef: Scrambled Eggs I’ve been listening to The Tim Ferriss Show a while now and he and his guests often inspire me to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been listening to The Tim Ferriss Show a while now and he and his guests often inspire me to make changes and start doing new things. I got introduced to Josh Waitzkin’s excellent The Art of Learning and the meta skill of learning has since then fascinated me. So when I got...
Lars Lofgren
The Sleazy World of Reddit Marketing, Everything is Fake I’m going to show you how to cash grab as a Reddit moderator. 5 minutes of work, then thousands of...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
I’m going to show you how to cash grab as a Reddit moderator. 5 minutes of work, then thousands of dollars per month for doing nothing. Maybe tens of thousands. With a 100% real example. I’ve edited nothing. When you’re a Reddit mod, you have a TON of power in that subreddit. You...
Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course: Week 4 I’m undertaking a year-long crash course in the humanities. These are my notes for week 4. Following...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
I’m undertaking a year-long crash course in the humanities. These are my notes for week 4. Following Ted Gioia’s curriculum, this week I read the Analects of Confucius. As I did last week, ChatGPT helped me select a movie to complement this reading – albeit...
Lighthouse Blog
Updates January 12
a year ago
Matt Mullenweg
Matt 4.1 Forty-one is a nice birthday because it doesn’t feel like too much pressure. For forty I did a big...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Forty-one is a nice birthday because it doesn’t feel like too much pressure. For forty I did a big eclipse thing that ended up amazing, this year I’m replicating what I did a few years ago and celebrating in New York, Houston, and San Francisco. My birthday today has already been...
Jonas Hietala
Design for Hackers has arrived! Design for Hackers It’s here! After about a month of waiting I’ve finally gotten the book that will...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Design for Hackers It’s here! After about a month of waiting I’ve finally gotten the book that will make me a design god! Or at least make me aware of something called design. Joking aside I’m really terrible at design and making things look good. Admittedly my programming art...
./techtipsy
Your Wi-Fi might be terrible because of Dynamic Frequency Selection (DFS) For a few months, I had issues with my Wi-Fi network. The 2.4 GHz network would be fine, but the 5...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
For a few months, I had issues with my Wi-Fi network. The 2.4 GHz network would be fine, but the 5 GHz one would suddenly stop working and completely disappear from the available Wi-Fi networks. OpenWRT upgrades also didn’t improve the situation. This was very annoying. After...
Jonas Hietala
The T-34/0 keyboard layout This is an update to the T-34 keyboard layout I’ve been using for a solid number of weeks. While...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is an update to the T-34 keyboard layout I’ve been using for a solid number of weeks. While there are more changes I’d like to try, I’m quite pleased with these changes so I figured I might as well immortalize them before I explore further. (And I do have a bunch of big...
Louwrentius
ZFS: resilver performance of various RAID schemas When building your own DIY home NAS, it is important that you simulate and test drive failures...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When building your own DIY home NAS, it is important that you simulate and test drive failures before you put your important data on it. It makes sense to know what to do in case a drive needs to be replaced. I also recommend putting a substantial amount of data on your NAS and...
Home on Erik...
3D in D3 I have spent some time lately with D3. It's a lot of fun to build interactive graphs. See for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I have spent some time lately with D3. It's a lot of fun to build interactive graphs. See for instance this demo (will provide a longer writeup soon). D3 doesn't have support for 3D but you can do projections into 2D pretty easily.
Ken Shirriff's blog
The origin and unexpected evolution of the word "mainframe" What is the origin of the word "mainframe", referring to a large, complex computer? Most sources...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
What is the origin of the word "mainframe", referring to a large, complex computer? Most sources agree that the term is related to the frames that held early computers, but the details are vague.1 It turns out that the history is more interesting and complicated than you'd...
Lighthouse Blog
Updates April 19
a year ago
Birchtree
Dangerous ground Zolan Kanno-Youngs: El Salvador’s President Says He Won’t Return Maryland Man Who Was Wrongly...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Zolan Kanno-Youngs: El Salvador’s President Says He Won’t Return Maryland Man Who Was Wrongly Deported In an Oval Office meeting with President Trump on Monday, President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador said that he would not return a Maryland man who was wrongly deported from the
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Apple is killing off the optical drive just like the floppy disk With the release of the new MacBook Air we are one step closer to killing off the cd-rom and the...
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With the release of the new MacBook Air we are one step closer to killing off the cd-rom and the dvd. As with the previous MacBook Air, this device has no optical drive. And that is a good thing. People do not need an optical drive. You have the network and you have USB disks....
Arduino Blog
A Game Boy is the worst and best option for a car’s dash If your car was made in the last decade, its dash probably has several displays, gauges, and...
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If your car was made in the last decade, its dash probably has several displays, gauges, and indicator lights. But how many of those do you actually look at on a regular basis? Likely only one or two, like the speedometer and gas gauge. Knowing that, John Sutley embraced...
Posts on Made of...
Property-Based Testing Is Fuzzing “Property-based testing” refers to the idea of writing statements that should be true of your code...
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“Property-based testing” refers to the idea of writing statements that should be true of your code (“properties”), and then using automated tooling to generate test inputs (typically, randomly-generated inputs of an appropriate type), and observe whether the properties hold for...
Notes on software...
Benchmarking esbuild, swc, tsc, and babel for React/JSX projects This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
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Restart modem automatically when Internet is down If I have to restart my modem often like a caveman, I'll at least automate it. Years ago I would...
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If I have to restart my modem often like a caveman, I'll at least automate it. Years ago I would have pitied the soul which had to restart their Internet modem often, Now I'm in the situation where the ISP seems to have not heard about network reliability and so my modem hangs at...
anderegg.ca
The “Home Alone” / “NiGHTS into Dreams” connection NiGHTS into Dreams is one of those games I tend to think about when Christmas rolls around. It’s one...
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NiGHTS into Dreams is one of those games I tend to think about when Christmas rolls around. It’s one of my favourites from the Saturn lineup, and it also had a free Christmas version. In it, there’s a song I really love that plays on the level select screen called Gate of Your...
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Vote for the Topic of the March 2024 Plus Post If you are a paid subscriber, voting is open for one week
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Alleged Co-Founder of Garantex Arrested in India Authorities in India today arrested the alleged co-founder of Garantex, a cryptocurrency exchange...
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Authorities in India today arrested the alleged co-founder of Garantex, a cryptocurrency exchange sanctioned by the U.S. government in 2022 for facilitating tens of billions of dollars in money laundering by transnational criminal and cybercriminal organizations. Sources close to...
computers are bad
2023-05-07 electrical characteristics of telephone lines Let's take a break from our boring topic of regional history to focus instead on an even more boring...
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Let's take a break from our boring topic of regional history to focus instead on an even more boring topic: implementation details of telephone lines. The conventional "copper pair" analog telephone line is fading away. The FCC has begun to authorize abandonment of copper outside...
Arduino Blog
Elevate your IoT with ultra-wideband: Meet Arduino Stella and Portenta UWB Shield! We are proud to announce two groundbreaking additions to the Arduino Pro portfolio: the Arduino...
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We are proud to announce two groundbreaking additions to the Arduino Pro portfolio: the Arduino Stella and Portenta UWB Shield, developed in partnership with Truesense. These advanced tools leverage ultra-wideband (UWB) technology to redefine precision tracking, indoor...
Birchtree
Apple might be cooking this fall Tim Hardwick reporting on Gurman’s reporting in Bloomberg, which I don’t have access to, so I’m...
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3 months ago
Tim Hardwick reporting on Gurman’s reporting in Bloomberg, which I don’t have access to, so I’m quoting the MacRumors article: While specific details are scarce, it's supposedly the biggest update to iOS since iOS 7, and the biggest update to macOS since
Style over Substance
Peak Design quick-connect Leash and Cuff straps My camera collection has been growing steadily over the years, but it’s been expanding even faster...
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My camera collection has been growing steadily over the years, but it’s been expanding even faster during the COVID-19 lockdowns. Online shopping therapy keeps me sane while I’m cooped up at home, and with easy access to eBay and other auction sites my GAS – photographers...
Home on Erik...
Being data driven I picked up an issue of Foreign Affairs while flying back to NYC from SFO. It features this long...
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over a year ago
I picked up an issue of Foreign Affairs while flying back to NYC from SFO. It features this long interview with U.S. General Stanley McChrystal and I thought it was pretty interesting how striking some of the similarities are between fighting in a war and developing software.
Abishek Muthian
The Social Media Pandemic Earth Health Organization(EHO) has declared a pandemic due to the most dangerous plague till date....
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over a year ago
Earth Health Organization(EHO) has declared a pandemic due to the most dangerous plague till date. It supposedly has severe consequences for not only the current population but also for future generations. It's named 'Social Media Pandemic' as the plague is caused by the several...
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Palantir Word Processing We Don't Have to Beef Up Our Guarantee With A Lot Of Bull
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Arduino Blog
Arduino and Truesense partner to bring UWB technology to millions We are excited to announce our latest partnership with Truesense, a leader in ultra-wideband (UWB)...
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8 months ago
We are excited to announce our latest partnership with Truesense, a leader in ultra-wideband (UWB) technology, known for its innovative software and hardware solutions. This collaboration enhances our ecosystem of hardware products, software solutions, and cloud services,...
./techtipsy
About the time my ThinkPad T430 ran with an external GPU The ThinkPad T430 is not a remarkable laptop. It’s thick, bulky and built like a tank. I got mine in...
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The ThinkPad T430 is not a remarkable laptop. It’s thick, bulky and built like a tank. I got mine in 2016 when the first university scholarship money dropped, and it’s still my backup laptop of choice. Around 2017 I did something every reasonable poor computer science...
Arduino Blog
Turn your old Android smartphone into an Arduino screen with the RemoteXY app Each component you add to your Arduino project increases its complexity and the opportunity for...
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6 months ago
Each component you add to your Arduino project increases its complexity and the opportunity for mistakes. But most projects require some “auxiliary” hardware — components that you use to interact with the Arduino or to help it do the job you’re asking of it. Buttons and displays...
lcamtuf’s thing
A 15-minute intro to hobby CNC In which the author tilts at windmills for a brief while.
10 months ago
Birchtree
Yesterday's 'golden age' turns into today's mess Nick Timiraos for the Wall Street Journal: Corporate America’s Euphoria Over Trump’s ‘Golden Age’ Is...
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Nick Timiraos for the Wall Street Journal: Corporate America’s Euphoria Over Trump’s ‘Golden Age’ Is Giving Way to Distress Investors were caught flat-footed by Trump’s animus toward Canada, which wasn’t a part of last year’s election campaign. Global
Abishek Muthian
Add subscribers to mailchimp list using PHP Static websites require a middleware to add subscribers to the Mailchimp list if we don't want to...
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Static websites require a middleware to add subscribers to the Mailchimp list if we don't want to redirect our visitors to another website. PHP middleware which uses Mailchimp API 3.0 is useful because there's wide range of inexpensive options to host a PHP web service either in...
Abishek Muthian
India income tax e-filing utility for Linux India has made a major overhaul to it's Income Tax filing website and with it its offline e-filing...
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over a year ago
India has made a major overhaul to it's Income Tax filing website and with it its offline e-filing utilities which are now available only for Windows and Mac. Earlier the utility was in Java and was available for linux. Now it's been replaced with electron wrapper over the...
Notes on software...
Experimenting with column- and row-oriented datastructures This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
Louwrentius
Achieving 450 MB/s network file transfers using Linux Bonding Linux Bonding In this article I'd like to show the results of using regular 1 Gigabit network...
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over a year ago
Linux Bonding In this article I'd like to show the results of using regular 1 Gigabit network connections to achieve 450 MB/s file transfers over NFS. I'm again using Linux interface bonding for this purpose. Linux interface bonding can be used to create a virtual network...
Applied Cartography
MD5-based uniqueness constraints in Django Yesterday, I was trying to set a unique constraint for comments in Buttondown to prevent accidental...
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10 months ago
Yesterday, I was trying to set a unique constraint for comments in Buttondown to prevent accidental double-commenting, and I ran into a problem that I hadn't seen before: index row size 2816 exceeds btree version 4 maximum 2704 for index...
Opsbros
WiFi Binary Clock Who doesn't love a classic Binary Clock? I remember getting one of these when I was in my 20's from...
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over a year ago
Who doesn't love a classic Binary Clock? I remember getting one of these when I was in my 20's from ThinkGeek, and it was pride of place on my desk. LED's are a thing of beauty.
Engineers Need Art
VPX Scripting - Part 5 (DOF) Some light Visual Pinball debugging and the world of DOF. New to DOF? Read on.
a year ago
Abishek Muthian
No more global micro-SaaS from India Reserve Bank of India has published draft regulatory guidelines for payment aggregators1 which...
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11 months ago
Reserve Bank of India has published draft regulatory guidelines for payment aggregators1 which requires payment aggregators to perform physical KYC on small & medium sized merchants, verify their bank accounts among other regulations. Stripe, sighting the aforementioned...
Louwrentius
Understanding Ceph: open-source scalable storage Introduction In this blog post I will try to explain why I believe Ceph is such an interesting...
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over a year ago
Introduction In this blog post I will try to explain why I believe Ceph is such an interesting storage solution. After you finished reading this blog post you should have a good high-level overview of Ceph. I've written this blog post purely because I'm a storage enthusiast and I...
./techtipsy
Steam local network game transfers are a game-changer Steam recently launched a new feature: local network game transfers. The idea is simple: if you have...
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Steam recently launched a new feature: local network game transfers. The idea is simple: if you have a game downloaded on another PC and you’re both on the same local network, then Steam can download game data from that PC, avoiding the need to download the game over public...
Willem's Blog
Marathon Read the story of how it feels to complete your first marathon.
8 months ago
computers are bad
2023-08-19 meanwhile elsewhere I had meant to write something today, but I'm just getting over a case of the COVID and had a hard...
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I had meant to write something today, but I'm just getting over a case of the COVID and had a hard time getting to it. Instead I did the yard work, edited and uploaded a YouTube video, and then spewed out a Cohost thread as long as a blog post. So in lieu of your regularly...
./techtipsy
My very first career day This post is a short overview of my experience at a career day in Valga, Estonia, hosted with the...
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This post is a short overview of my experience at a career day in Valga, Estonia, hosted with the help of GreenDice. I’ve never spoken at a career day before nor attended one as a student, which is why I instantly agreed to going to one when GreenDice reached out to me. Why? I...
Arduino Blog
This Arduino Nano Every-controlled machine automatically mixes acrylic paint of any color When you want to paint the walls in your bedroom that very specific shade of Misty Irish Green, all...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
When you want to paint the walls in your bedroom that very specific shade of Misty Irish Green, all you have to do is head to your local hardware store and have them scan the corresponding card. The paint-mixing machine will then add the pigment to a white base and, a few minutes...
Arduino Blog
Ready for SPS Italia 2024? Ready for accessible industrial automation! Save the date on May 28th-30th, Arduino will be back at SPS Italia in Parma, showcasing how our...
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Save the date on May 28th-30th, Arduino will be back at SPS Italia in Parma, showcasing how our open-source solutions are revolutionizing the industrial sector with high performance and accessibility. At Arduino’s booth #C020, hall 7, we’ll be presenting the latest additions to...
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Homage to My Last Name How I build my custom error page with Next.js & Tailwind
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Matt Blewitt
Everything I Know About Operations, I Learned From NHS 111 Ever heard someone say “It’s only software/money/<trivial thing>, not life or death”, in the context...
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over a year ago
Ever heard someone say “It’s only software/money/<trivial thing>, not life or death”, in the context of incidents at your company? Although mostly true, I want to talk about a time in my career when sometimes, just sometimes, it was the latter, and how it shaped my approach to...
Abishek Muthian
Did I break WhatsApp? I told my friend that I don't use WhatsApp and asked to be contact me via Signal. We had a...
over a year ago
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I told my friend that I don't use WhatsApp and asked to be contact me via Signal. We had a conversation on Signal and this happened, Can even Facebook stoop so low? I was told that the WhatsApp didn't work after installing Signal, I replied that it could be a coincidence. But I...
Birchtree
I feel more empowered than ever Bryan Irace: Tim, Don’t Kill My Vibe Like it or not, LLMs—both through general chat interfaces and...
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Bryan Irace: Tim, Don’t Kill My Vibe Like it or not, LLMs—both through general chat interfaces and purpose-built developer tools—have meaningfully increased the rate at which new software can be produced. And they’ve done so both by making skilled developers more productive
Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing TagVault Pet for AirTag Having pets that went missing before, AirTags are the perfect companion. We wanted a case that could...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Having pets that went missing before, AirTags are the perfect companion. We wanted a case that could take the abuse of an active full-size dog, fit nice on a cat, work with all pet collars, and be durable. So we designed Tagvault Pet. It's waterproof, fits every collar, and is...
anderegg.ca
Skylight and the AT Protocol Since my last piece about Bluesky, I’ve been using the service a lot more. Just about everyone I...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Since my last piece about Bluesky, I’ve been using the service a lot more. Just about everyone I followed on other services is there now, and it’s way more fun than late-stage Twitter ever was. Halifax is particularly into Bluesky, which reminds me of our local scene during the...
Old Vintage...
Refurb weekend: the Symbolics MacIvory Lisp machine I have hated Every collector has that machine, the machine they sunk so much time and, often, money into that...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Every collector has that machine, the machine they sunk so much time and, often, money into that they would have defenestrated it years ago except for all the aforementioned time and money. Yours truly is no exception. a future article.) They existed in highly technical...
Notes on software...
Book Review: ANSI Common Lisp Score: 4.5 / 5 Paul Graham and his editor(s) are excellent. His prose is light and easy to follow....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Score: 4.5 / 5 Paul Graham and his editor(s) are excellent. His prose is light and easy to follow. The only awkward component of the book's organization is that he tends to use a concept one section before explicitly introducing and defining that concept. I'm not sure yet if this...
Notes on software...
Leaders, you need to share organization success stories more frequently This post goes out to anyone who leads a team: managers, directors, VPs, executives. You need to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This post goes out to anyone who leads a team: managers, directors, VPs, executives. You need to share organization success stories with your organization on a regular and frequent basis. Talk about sales wins, talk about new services released, talk about the positive impact of a...
computers are bad
2024-01-16 the tacnet tracker Previously on Deep Space Nine, I wrote that "the mid-2000s were an unsettled time in mobile...
a year ago
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Previously on Deep Space Nine, I wrote that "the mid-2000s were an unsettled time in mobile computing." Today, I want to share a little example. Over the last few weeks, for various personal reasons, I have been doing a lot of reading about embedded operating systems and ISAs for...
Arduino Blog
The Club Master is a Nano RP2040 Connect-powered device that improves your golf swing When playing golf, few things are as important as using the correct form when swinging, since even...
a year ago
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a year ago
When playing golf, few things are as important as using the correct form when swinging, since even small deviations can be the difference between a hole-in-one and additional strokes. To improve his game, Concept Bytes has designed a small clip-on device called the “Club Master.”...
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Live Asynchronously I first heard the phrase "Live Asynchronously" in this article written by the amazing Quincy Larson,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I first heard the phrase "Live Asynchronously" in this article written by the amazing Quincy Larson, the creator of freecodecamp.org. In my…
Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course: Week 3 I’m undertaking a year-long crash course in the humanities. These are my notes for week 3. Following...
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5 months ago
I’m undertaking a year-long crash course in the humanities. These are my notes for week 3. Following Ted Gioia’s curriculum, this week I read the remainder of the Odyssey. On the audiovisual front, I watched a movie that made me think differently about the poem’s...
computers are bad
2024-11-23 cablesoft As an American, I often feel an intense jealousy of Ceefax, one of several commercially successful...
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7 months ago
As an American, I often feel an intense jealousy of Ceefax, one of several commercially successful teletext services in the UK and Europe. "Teletext" is sometimes a confusing term because of its apparent relation to telecom-industry technologies like the teletypewriter and...
Home on Erik...
The mathematical principles of management I've read about 100 management books by now but if there's something that always bothered me it's...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've read about 100 management books by now but if there's something that always bothered me it's the lack of first principles thinking. Basically it's a ton of heuristics. And heuristics are great, but when you present heuristics as true objectives, it kind of clouds the...
Arduino Blog
A single RGB camera turns your palm into a keyboard for mixed reality interaction Interactions in mixed reality are a challenge. Nobody wants to hold bulky controllers and type by...
a month ago
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a month ago
Interactions in mixed reality are a challenge. Nobody wants to hold bulky controllers and type by clicking on big virtual keys one at a time. But people also don’t want to carry around dedicated physical keyboard devices just to type every now and then. That’s why a team of...
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Good Enough
Prettier Email Headers As we’re building Jelly, we have found ourselves looking at lots of raw emails. In particular, we’ve...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
As we’re building Jelly, we have found ourselves looking at lots of raw emails. In particular, we’ve spent a lot of time with email headers. If you’ve ever had cause to do the same, you know it can lead to lots of scanning and squinting. There’s got to be a better way! And here...
Notes on software...
Coolest hard-tech companies in NYC 2021 For years I've kept a private list of really cool tech companies in NYC. Now that I'm funemployed...
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over a year ago
For years I've kept a private list of really cool tech companies in NYC. Now that I'm funemployed it's the perfect time to publish. This list is influenced by 1) my perception of the difficulty of the engineering behind the product and 2) the company's educational and OSS...
Applied Cartography
Bozos Kevin Twohy has a list of heuristics for new projects/clients, and my favorite is simple: No Bozos....
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8 months ago
Kevin Twohy has a list of heuristics for new projects/clients, and my favorite is simple: No Bozos. Simple policy. No exceptions. You know it when you see it. Every founder has a story about the time that they ignored the red flags and bent over backwards for a particularly...
Abort Retry Fail
The History of Windows 1.0 Vaporware
a year ago
Matt Mullenweg
Inc Hit Piece When Inc Magazine reached out to have David H. Freedman (website powered by WordPress) write a...
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When Inc Magazine reached out to have David H. Freedman (website powered by WordPress) write a feature piece I was excited because though Inc wasn’t a magazine I have read much since I was a teenager, David seemed like a legit journalist who usually writes for better publications...
Arduino Blog
Coolest controllers ever? Icy gamepads melt in users’ hands Nintendo’s Joy-Con controller system is very innovative and generally well-regarded, with one major...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
Nintendo’s Joy-Con controller system is very innovative and generally well-regarded, with one major exception: stick drift. That’s a reliability issue that eventually affects a large percentage of Joy-Cons, to the frustration of gamers. But what if that was intentional and...
Jonas Hietala
My Minions So I think I made it! It became a pretty different game from what I set out to create, but I’m glad...
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over a year ago
So I think I made it! It became a pretty different game from what I set out to create, but I’m glad with how it turned out. My Minions Instructions Build a pathway and then place objects or release minions on it, everything must be on a path. Place musical objects or make the...
Abort Retry Fail
The History of Commodore, Part 4 The Amiga, The Decline, The Fall
a year ago
Birchtree
Tariffs, integrity, and chaos Ben Thompson: American Disruption (emphasis mine): [T]he most important components for executing a...
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2 months ago
Ben Thompson: American Disruption (emphasis mine): [T]he most important components for executing a fundamental shift in trade are those that go into building actual factories, or equipment for those factories. In the vast sea of stupidity that are these tariffs this is perhaps...
./techtipsy
You can use almost anything as a key file for your encrypted storage device Imagine that you have an unencrypted drive containing your private data and one day it starts...
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Imagine that you have an unencrypted drive containing your private data and one day it starts throwing a bunch of errors. You have backups of the data so you’ve got that part covered, but would you feel comfortable sending the drive in to be warrantied? You have no control over...
Applied Cartography
Keeping a technical edge Someone emailed me in response to Two years as an independent technologist, in which I wrote: I miss...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Someone emailed me in response to Two years as an independent technologist, in which I wrote: I miss of being at a large company, which is dealing with deeply cutting-edge technical problems, but my ability to analyze information, make decisions, and perform at a high-level has...
computers are bad
2023-12-23 ITT Technical Institute Programming note/shameless plug: I am finally on Mastodon. The history of the telephone industry is...
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Programming note/shameless plug: I am finally on Mastodon. The history of the telephone industry is a bit of an odd one. For the greatest part of the 20th century, telephony in the United States was largely a monopoly of AT&T and its many affiliates. This wasn't always the case,...
Abishek Muthian
Are we worrying more about AI than global warming So, my friend said this — If I may state mine — It’s not we’re more worried about AI, it’s the media...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
So, my friend said this — If I may state mine — It’s not we’re more worried about AI, it’s the media inducing cognitive biases fuelled by Hollywood when a celebrity speaks about dooms day AI. Let’s discuss some facts, Let’s take prof. Hawing, he’s vocal about the need to keep AI...
Yazin Alirhayim
Braindump Been having a hard time lately focusing. It’s like whenever I start doing anything of any...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Been having a hard time lately focusing. It’s like whenever I start doing anything of any significance I get derailed, and fall into this spiral of thought where I reconsider whether what I’m about to do matters, why it would, and whether I could be doing something else that...
Notes on software...
Two books I recommend to developers Originally published on February 1, 2021. The original version included two books I don't think...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Originally published on February 1, 2021. The original version included two books I don't think are actually so worthwhile. This list is down to two. I think that's a good thing actually. These are the books I recommend to developers wanting to improve their skills as...
Notes on software...
Writing a Jinja-inspired template library in Python In this post we'll build a minimal text templating library in Python inspired by Jinja. It will be...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In this post we'll build a minimal text templating library in Python inspired by Jinja. It will be able to display variables and iterate over arrays. By the end of this article, with around 300 lines of code, we'll be able to create this program: from pytemplate import...
Home on Erik...
Building a data team at a mid-stage startup: a short story I guess I should really call this a parable. The backdrop is: you have been brought in to grow a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I guess I should really call this a parable. The backdrop is: you have been brought in to grow a tiny data team (~4 people) at a mid-stage startup (~$10M annual revenue), although this story could take place at many different types of companies.
Jonas Hietala
Minecraft Server Hosting I play the phenomena that is Minecraft on and off. Sometimes the laid back building or the exploring...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I play the phenomena that is Minecraft on and off. Sometimes the laid back building or the exploring is just what I need. Sometimes I can challange myself to build cool complex stuff and I’m even an avid follower of Doc’M and Etho and the other mindcrackers over at the youtube....
Arduino Blog
Save 20% on Arduino Cloud Maker Plan this May! Enhance your IoT projects with our special offer! Get 20% off a yearly subscription to the Arduino...
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Enhance your IoT projects with our special offer! Get 20% off a yearly subscription to the Arduino Cloud Maker Plan using code CLOUD20MAY. Valid until the end of May, this deal saves you $14.38, reducing the price from $71.88 to $57.50. Benefits of the Maker Plan: What is Arduino...
Good Enough
TIL: Tiptap Excerpt Extension with Rails While building Pika’s Stream of posts layout, we had need to add the capability to manage excerpts...
5 months ago
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While building Pika’s Stream of posts layout, we had need to add the capability to manage excerpts in the Pika editor. These excerpts would be used to show a small portion of your post in a post stream while offering a “continue reading” link for readers to click to read the rest...
Louwrentius
Tracking down a faulty Storage Array Controller with ZFS One day, I lost two virtual machines on our DR environment after a storage vMotion. Further...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One day, I lost two virtual machines on our DR environment after a storage vMotion. Further investigation uncovered that any storage vMotion of a virtual machine residing on our DR storage array would corrupt the virtual machine's disks. I could easily restore the affected...
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Odds and Ends #49: How bat protection regulations broke Britain's planning system Plus how Europe isn't *all bad* at growth, why every Netflix film is forgettable, and why you should...
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2025-05-04 iBeacons You know sometimes a technology just sort of... comes and goes? Without leaving much of an...
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2 months ago
You know sometimes a technology just sort of... comes and goes? Without leaving much of an impression? And then gets lodged in your brain for the next decade? Let's talk about one of those: the iBeacon. I think the reason that iBeacons loom so large in my memory is that...
./techtipsy
Good reads This is an unsorted list of articles that I find to be good in one way or another. Maker’s Schedule,...
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over a year ago
This is an unsorted list of articles that I find to be good in one way or another. Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule a must-read for anyone working in a software development team. Helps express what most of us have felt at some point in our careers. The case of the 500-mile...
Jonas Hietala
It's Time for More School Today it’s finally starting again and it’s off with a flying start. We have 11 lectures this first...
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Today it’s finally starting again and it’s off with a flying start. We have 11 lectures this first week and an absolutely smacked schedule. If that wasn’t enough I also have a mentor time to prepare for and I need to start Taekwon-do again. On another note Ḯ’m currently plowing...
Home on Erik...
Optimizing things: everything is a proxy for a proxy for a proxy Say you build a machine learning model, like a movie recommender system. You need to optimize for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Say you build a machine learning model, like a movie recommender system. You need to optimize for something. You have 1-5 stars as ratings so let's optimize for mean squared error. Great. Then let's say you build a new model.
Ken Shirriff's blog
Reverse engineering standard cell logic in the Intel 386 processor The 386 processor (1985) was Intel's most complex processor at the time, with 285,000...
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a year ago
The 386 processor (1985) was Intel's most complex processor at the time, with 285,000 transistors. Intel had scheduled 50 person-years to design the processor, but it was falling behind schedule. The design team decided to automate chunks of the layout, developing "automatic...
Computer Ads from...
The Grand Stand Joystick Stabilizer Support & Score Enhancer
7 months ago
Push to Prod
Making an AB Test Allocator 20x Faster Using Non-blocking IO Many moons ago, I inherited a cross-company AB test and had to figure out how to allocate it...
8 months ago
Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course Week 15: Boethius In week 15 of the humanities crash course, we started making our way out of classical antiquity and...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
In week 15 of the humanities crash course, we started making our way out of classical antiquity and into the Middle Ages. The reading for this week was Boethius’s The Consolation of Philosophy, a book perhaps second only to the Bible in influencing Medieval thinking. I used the...
Louwrentius
Debian Lenny and Dell R410 network card not supported For those who are running Debian Lenny and want to order the new Dell R410 server, beware! There is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For those who are running Debian Lenny and want to order the new Dell R410 server, beware! There is no safe solution to get Debian Lenny working with the on-board Broadcom network cards. A fairly recent kernel is required. Basically, you will have to install back-ported kernels,...
Home on Erik...
What can startups learn from Koch Industries? I recently finished the excellent book Kochland. This isn't my first interest in Koch—I read The...
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over a year ago
I recently finished the excellent book Kochland. This isn't my first interest in Koch—I read The Science of Success by Charles Koch himself a couple of years ago. Charles Koch inherited a tiny company in 1967 and turned it into one of the world's largest ones.
Notes on software...
Effective unemployment and social media Being unemployed can be incredibly depressing. So much rejection. Everything seems to be out of your...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Being unemployed can be incredibly depressing. So much rejection. Everything seems to be out of your control. Everything except for one thing: what you produce. You might know that repeatedly posting on social media that you are looking for work is ineffective. That it looks (or...
Applied Cartography
Applied Cartography × Indie Rails Chatted with Jess and Jeremy about a whole slew of things, from pricing strategy to terrifying and...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Chatted with Jess and Jeremy about a whole slew of things, from pricing strategy to terrifying and arcane differences between various Markdown parsers (including why I hate Slack.) They were particularly kind and gracious given that the amount of production-quality Rails I've...
Good Enough
Why We're Writing Blog Software We’re seven months into our Cosmic Maelstrom and we have started writing blogging software. What the...
a year ago
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a year ago
We’re seven months into our Cosmic Maelstrom and we have started writing blogging software. What the why?! First, let me say that, yes, I do realize there are probably 100s of blog software options out there. In terms of static-site generators (SSGs) alone, there are probably...
Arduino Blog
An engineer’s journey to bring the ultimate TMJ pain relief tool to market To the average person, invention and new product development seem like pretty straightforward...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
To the average person, invention and new product development seem like pretty straightforward processes; you come up with a killer idea, do the engineering work to cobble together a working prototype, have a truckload of units manufactured, and then sell those to turn a profit....
Arduino Blog
French Minitel terminal becomes a peculiar AI workstation Before the rest of the world began logging on to the World Wide Web, the French had a very...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Before the rest of the world began logging on to the World Wide Web, the French had a very interesting online service called Télétel. It was somewhat similar to early bulletin board systems (BBS), but with much more functionality than really anything else from the era. By 1982,...
Abort Retry Fail
The History of Commodore, Part 3 Are you keeping up with the Commodore?
a year ago
./techtipsy
ASRock DeskMini X300: the future form factor of desktop PC-s? I wasn’t happy with my “one machine that does it all” setup, which is why I finally bit the bullet...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I wasn’t happy with my “one machine that does it all” setup, which is why I finally bit the bullet and got myself an ASRock DeskMini X300 bare-bones kit. This is a fantastic little desktop PC kit that is very small, quiet and can still be configured to have ridiculous amounts of...
Posts on Made of...
Exploiting misuse of Python's "pickle" If you program in Python, you’re probably familiar with the pickle serialization library, which...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you program in Python, you’re probably familiar with the pickle serialization library, which provides for efficient binary serialization and loading of Python datatypes. Hopefully, you’re also familiar with the warning printed prominently near the start of pickle’s...
Engineers Need Art
The First Time I Was Almost Fired From Apple Oh yes, I screwed up more than once during my tenure at Apple.
a month ago
./techtipsy
Things I've learned during my self-hosting adventure This is a list of lessons that I’ve learned while playing around with my computer setup during the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is a list of lessons that I’ve learned while playing around with my computer setup during the last 6-7 years or so. USB connected storage is a bad idea when you are using BTRFS. USB connected storage is still a bad idea when you are using ZFS, but it is at least much more...
Posts on Made of...
Navigating the Linux Kernel In response to my query last time, ezyang asked for any tips or tricks I have for finding my way...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In response to my query last time, ezyang asked for any tips or tricks I have for finding my way around the Linux kernel. I’m not sure I have much in the way of systematic advice for tracking down the answers to questions about the Linux kernel, but thinking about what I do when...
The Pragmatic...
Is the “AI developer”a threat to jobs – or a marketing stunt? One startup released “the first AI software engineer,” while another aims to build a “superhuman...
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a year ago
One startup released “the first AI software engineer,” while another aims to build a “superhuman software engineer.” As intimidating as these sound: what if it’s more marketing than reality?
Himanshu Mishra |...
BFS vs DFS in friendships If you already know and remember what Breadth First Search (BFS) and Depth First Search (DFS) are,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you already know and remember what Breadth First Search (BFS) and Depth First Search (DFS) are, skip to What are you saying? Take my…
Birchtree
Apple jumps in the hot tub Zac Hall writing for 9to5Mac: Apple Responds After Being Forced to Approve Porn App on EU iPhones...
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5 months ago
Zac Hall writing for 9to5Mac: Apple Responds After Being Forced to Approve Porn App on EU iPhones Due to DMA The bottom line for parents, though, is that the “Apple-approved” messaging around the porn app on iPhone omits the fact that Apple is legally required to approve the
lcamtuf’s thing
Deep dive: the (in)stability of op-amps A closer look at op-amp feedback loops and the stability criteria for circuits that use them.
8 months ago
lcamtuf’s thing
The 8-bit (MCU) manifesto Eight-bit microcontrollers aren't relics; they are a design philosophy. You might want to use them...
a year ago
Nabeel S. Qureshi
Reflections on Palantir A retrospective of an eight-year stint.
8 months ago
Louwrentius
Laptop or netbook as router? If you want a router for distribution of internet to your computers at home, there are several...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you want a router for distribution of internet to your computers at home, there are several options. buy some embedded device from Linksys, Draytek, Asus, 3com, ZyXtel or netgear This type of hardware is cheap, economical, and gets you up and running in a few minutes. The...
Yazin Alirhayim
Part 1: Will greater access to capital spark Bahrain’s economy? Today, I was on a panel discussing lending and access to capital (not a wooden panel, mind you — but...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Today, I was on a panel discussing lending and access to capital (not a wooden panel, mind you — but a panel of speakers. Now that I think about it, we may have been sitting on wooden panel flooring). At any rate, the discussion covered alot of ground, all as part of the larger...
computers are bad
2023-07-15 underwater ears everywhere Programming note: the subscribe link was broken for a while because I am bad at computers (yet...
a year ago
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a year ago
Programming note: the subscribe link was broken for a while because I am bad at computers (yet another case of "forgot to enable the systemd unit"). It's fixed now. The unsubscribe link was also broken and is now fixed but, you know, maybe that was a feature. Did wonders for...
Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course Week 5: Eudaemonia In week 5 of my humanities crash course, I read Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and Poetics. I also...
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5 months ago
In week 5 of my humanities crash course, I read Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and Poetics. I also listened to more Bach, looked at Italian Baroque sculpture, and watched a classic – if somewhat boring – movie. Getting through it despite the difficulties was part of the...
Jonas Hietala
A friendly game of Twilight Imperium A few weeks ago I played my first game of Twilight Imperium (Fourth Edition). It was fantastic. We...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A few weeks ago I played my first game of Twilight Imperium (Fourth Edition). It was fantastic. We were six players, most had played the third edition before. As I was quite hyped before the game, I had read up on the rules, watched a let’s play or two and listened to a podcast...
Electronics etc…
Tesla’s FSD - First and Last Impressions TLDR: It’s a useless technology demo. Introduction Rules of Engagement Test Ride 1: from Kings Beach...
a year ago
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a year ago
TLDR: It’s a useless technology demo. Introduction Rules of Engagement Test Ride 1: from Kings Beach to Truckee (11 miles) Test Ride 2: I-80 from Truckee to Blue Canyon (36 miles) Test Ride 3: from West-Valley College to I-85 Entrance (1 mile) Conclusion Introduction In the past...
Birchtree
Incomplete thought: using data to tell a story (members post) A year ago I tried to understand how much power ChatGPT was using and if I should be outraged by it....
5 months ago
./techtipsy
My cat water fountain comes with a spicy USB power adapter It turns out that you can’t trust any USB type A power adapter to be within spec. I have a Catit...
a year ago
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a year ago
It turns out that you can’t trust any USB type A power adapter to be within spec. I have a Catit Flower Fountain for my two adorable cats. The idea of a water fountain for cats may sound odd, but having one really helps with cats staying hydrated and that alone avoids all sorts...
Jonas Hietala
Failed mime type for Krita I thought Krita worked fine… Until I tried to save. Krita crashed whenever I tried to save (or open)...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I thought Krita worked fine… Until I tried to save. Krita crashed whenever I tried to save (or open) a file and gave the error: Could not find mime type "application/x-krita" Turns out if you reinstall the package shared-mime-info which comes natively with Slackware the...
Applied Cartography
Notes on 'Founder Mode' / Lieutenancy In Paul Graham’s latest essay, he writes: The theme of Brian's talk was that the conventional wisdom...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
In Paul Graham’s latest essay, he writes: The theme of Brian's talk was that the conventional wisdom about how to run larger companies is mistaken. As Airbnb grew, well-meaning people advised him that he had to run the company in a certain way for it to scale. Their advice could...
Jorge Arango
How AI Is Built Podcast Nicolay Gerold interviewed me for his How AI is Built podcast. Our conversation focused on...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Nicolay Gerold interviewed me for his How AI is Built podcast. Our conversation focused on information architecture – with an interesting angle: Nicolay’s audience consists primarily of engineers developing AI products. What can these folks learn from IA to create better AI...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Control as Liability
over a year ago
Abishek Muthian
Resurrecting Nexus 6P from bootloop of death Nexus Before the Pixel there was Nexus, smartphones and tablets to showcase the latest in android...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Nexus Before the Pixel there was Nexus, smartphones and tablets to showcase the latest in android with the brand of the manufacturer. They packed in latest android version with top end specifications and pathetic camera (processed image/video) quality; no wonder they didn't take...
Vitalik Buterin's...
The roads not taken
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Slackware installation notes It seems like it’s been a yearly recurrence reinstalling slackware from scratch. This time it...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It seems like it’s been a yearly recurrence reinstalling slackware from scratch. This time it happened during my vacation when I was mucking around with trying to compile erlang with wxWidgets support and somehow a make clean started to remove / and I only noticed it too late…...
./techtipsy
We get laptops with annoying cooling fans because we keep buying them I don’t like laptops with loud cooling fans in them. Quite a controversial position, I know. But...
a month ago
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a month ago
I don’t like laptops with loud cooling fans in them. Quite a controversial position, I know. But really, they do suck. A laptop can be great to use, have a fantastic keyboard, sharp display, lots of storage and a fast CPU, and all of that can be ruined by one component: the...
Greater Still by...
Good Things Take Time A crypto whitepill with Bridget Harris
10 months ago
lcamtuf’s thing
A 15-minute intro to resin casting At one point in my life, I penned an epic, 110-page opus on hobby manufacturing.
6 months ago
Matt Blewitt
So, You Want To Build A DBaaS So you’ve made the decision to build a Database-as-a-Service product (or something similar). As a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
So you’ve made the decision to build a Database-as-a-Service product (or something similar). As a result, you are making state and coordination your problem. Here are some things I’ve learned to keep in mind as you embark on this project, in no particular order (other than the...
./techtipsy
Whacky setups: seedbox on a wall The Orange Pi Zero is one hell of an SBC. It has served as a Wi-Fi access point for months without...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The Orange Pi Zero is one hell of an SBC. It has served as a Wi-Fi access point for months without issues and as a testbed for playing around with MySQL. I wanted it to be a useful device again, but had trouble finding an use case for it due to its hardware limitations. After...
Birchtree
The urge that comes with power Nilay Patel on this week's The Vergecast: You can just see that they picked the finances over the...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Nilay Patel on this week's The Vergecast: You can just see that they picked the finances over the product over and over again. And if they had just figured out a way to make in-app purchases worth more to developers than leaving the ecosystem, developers, I think, would
Arduino Blog
Discover the new Arduino UNO SPE Shield: the quick and easy way to advanced connectivity Arduino and Microchip are excited to open electronica – the “world’s leading trade fair and...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Arduino and Microchip are excited to open electronica – the “world’s leading trade fair and conference for electronics” – by introducing the Arduino UNO SPE Shield, a powerful ally to bring advanced connectivity to new and existing projects, with Single-Pair Ethernet (SPE) and...
Matt Mullenweg
CNBC on WP Engine Ari Levy at CNBC has a great article covering the battle between WordPress and Silver Lake / WP...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Ari Levy at CNBC has a great article covering the battle between WordPress and Silver Lake / WP Engine: Why WordPress [co-]founder Matt Mullenweg has gone ‘nuclear’ against tech investing giant Silver Lake.
detreville
The IBM 701 "IBM's first computer"
over a year ago
Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing TagVault Camera for AirTag After having $10k+ of camera gear stolen, we set our to make the best AirTag mount for cameras. We...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
After having $10k+ of camera gear stolen, we set our to make the best AirTag mount for cameras. We wanted it to be very discreet and something you never needed to take off.  After many design iterations, tool changes, testing exotic materials, drop testing with old camera bodies...
Greater Still by...
Finance, Fairer Sharing our investment in Jia, which turns crypto liquidity into working capital for small...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Sharing our investment in Jia, which turns crypto liquidity into working capital for small businesses in every corner of the world.
Notes on software...
My favorite software subreddits Originally published on December 5, 2021. If you are an experienced software developer whose only...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Originally published on December 5, 2021. If you are an experienced software developer whose only exposure to reddit is dank memes, proggit or even language-specific subreddits like /r/python, you're missing out. What follows are my favorite subreddits in tech. My criteria is...
computers are bad
2023-02-14 something up there pt I Over the last few weeks, there has been an astounding increase in the number of objects shot down by...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Over the last few weeks, there has been an astounding increase in the number of objects shot down by North American air defense. Little is yet known about some of these objects, but it is clearly one of the more dramatic UFO turns in recent memory. Some of the mystery is simply...
Notes on software...
Favorite compiler and interpreter resources This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
Arduino Blog
Adding voice commands to a LEGO planetarium set with an Arduino Nano 33 IoT From Mindstorms to Technic, LEGO has produced a wide variety of sets that give users new learning...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
From Mindstorms to Technic, LEGO has produced a wide variety of sets that give users new learning and creative experiences, and for Electromaker’s Robin Mitchell, this was the LEGO planetarium set. With it, rotational input will cause the Earth and moon models to orbit around the...
Jonas Hietala
Rising from the Dead, it's Ludum Dare I’ve been a long time gone, been busy with school then having summer vacation and generally not...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been a long time gone, been busy with school then having summer vacation and generally not making games or blogging. But I have revived! I scrambled to push my new website live because today it’s Ludum Dare time! The theme is “Evolution” and it’s the 24th time for Ludum Dare...
Notes on software...
Things that go wrong with disk IO There are a few interesting scenarios to keep in mind when writing applications (not just...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
There are a few interesting scenarios to keep in mind when writing applications (not just databases!) that interact with read and writes files, particularly in transactional contexts where you actually care about the integrity of the data and when you are editing data in...
Home on Erik...
Machine, Platform, Crowd I just bought Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future and discovered that it...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I just bought Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future and discovered that it mentions my blog – in particular the post When machine learning matters. Ok, I lied a little bit. I didn't discover it serendipitously.
watchTowr Labs
The Best Security Is When We All Agree To Keep Everything Secret (Except The Secrets) - NAKIVO... As an industry, we believe that we’ve come to a common consensus after 25 years of circular debates...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
As an industry, we believe that we’ve come to a common consensus after 25 years of circular debates - disclosure is terrible, information is actually dangerous, it’s best that it’s not shared, and the only way to really to ensure that no one ever
Computer Ads from...
Massive Interview with Steve Jobs from MicroTime (1992) An in-depth discussion on NeXT
4 months ago
Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course: Week 2 I’m embarking on a year-long crash course in the humanities. These are my notes for week...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
I’m embarking on a year-long crash course in the humanities. These are my notes for week 2. Following Ted Gioia’s curriculum, I tackled a small volume of early Greek poetry and the first ten books of the Odyssey. I also heard music from recent descendents of these ancient bards...
Odds and Ends of...
How the government can raise taxes – and get away with it It's time to treat Trump like the crisis he is
3 months ago
Jonas Hietala
Why make games Why did I start making games? Because I like to play them of course. Think of all the fantastic...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Why did I start making games? Because I like to play them of course. Think of all the fantastic games; Super Mario, Lemmings, Tetris, GTA, The Sims, Counterstrike, Theme Hospital, SimCity and Rollercoaster Tycoon… Damn - when you count them like this you’ll see how many great...
Home on Erik...
More recommender algorithms I wanted to share some more insight into the algorithms we use at Spotify. One matrix factorization...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I wanted to share some more insight into the algorithms we use at Spotify. One matrix factorization algorithm we have used for a while assumes that we have user vectors $$ bf{a}_u $$ and item vectors $$ bf{b}_i $$ .
Daniel De Laney
Artificial Intelligence In 2018 I worked with argodesign on an artificial intelligence client project, and Fast Company...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In 2018 I worked with argodesign on an artificial intelligence client project, and Fast Company published an article on our work: This Is The World’s First Graphical AI Interface. For confidentiality reasons I can’t publicly go into more detail on the project than to link to that...
Jonas Hietala
8-puzzle in rust I think rust is one of the most interesting upcoming programming languages out there. So I wrote a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I think rust is one of the most interesting upcoming programming languages out there. So I wrote a solution to the 8-puzzle (see the 15-puzzle) using A*. It also has a breadth first search for solutions on a specific distance away from the goal. The solution is not by any means a...
Louwrentius
I made my blog solar-powered, then things escalated In 2020 I wondered if I could run my blog on solar power, being inspired by Low-tech Magazine, doing...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In 2020 I wondered if I could run my blog on solar power, being inspired by Low-tech Magazine, doing the same thing (but better)1. The answer was 'yes', but only through spring and summer. I live in an apartment complex in The Netherlands and my balcony is facing west. This...
Never Met a Science
Is The Best Social Science Good Enough? Note: this is the first of several posts discussing the 2020 Meta Election research partnership and...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
Note: this is the first of several posts discussing the 2020 Meta Election research partnership and the resulting papers, in advance of a keynote panel at IC2S2 on the topic next Thursday July 18.
The Pragmatic...
Survey: What’s in your tech stack? We want to capture an accurate snapshot of software engineering, today – and need your help! Tell us...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
We want to capture an accurate snapshot of software engineering, today – and need your help! Tell us about your tech stack and get early access to the final report, plus extra analysis
Jonas Hietala
Netrunner Summer Tournament Linköping There was another Netrunner tournament this Sunday with 8 entrants. We had two new legal data packs...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There was another Netrunner tournament this Sunday with 8 entrants. We had two new legal data packs with Old Hollywood and The Universe of Tomorrow so a lot of new things were tried. I heard a rumor that a full playset of both Aesop’s Pawnshop and Wyldside were available so I...
The Pragmatic...
Did Automattic commit open source theft? The maker of WordPress took 2M customers from its biggest rival: has a red line been crossed?
8 months ago
Simply Explained
Retrospective: 4 years on YouTube Every year I sit down and take a look at how my YouTube channel has been doing. I reflect, evaluate,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Every year I sit down and take a look at how my YouTube channel has been doing. I reflect, evaluate, and set goals for the coming year. This year is no exception. January 13th, 2020, marks my fourth year on YouTube. Time to do a little retrospective.
Opsbros
The Bindicator So I made this project for my dad for Fathers Day a couple of years ago, and thought i'd share it....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
So I made this project for my dad for Fathers Day a couple of years ago, and thought i'd share it. The one shown is the Rev-1 design which is far from perfect, in fact it has several major issues I will discuss below, however it definitely works,
Posts on Made of...
A Cursed Bug In my day job at Anthropic, we run relatively large distributed systems to train large language...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
Louwrentius
The sorry state of CoW file systems I'd like to argue that both ZFS and BTRFS both are incomplete file systems with their own drawbacks...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I'd like to argue that both ZFS and BTRFS both are incomplete file systems with their own drawbacks and that it may still be a long way off before we have something truly great. Both ZFS and BTRFS are two heroic feats of engineering, created by people who are probably ten times...
Home on Erik...
Dollar cost averaging (I accidentally published an unfinished draft of this post a few days ago – sorry about...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
(I accidentally published an unfinished draft of this post a few days ago – sorry about that). There's a lot of sources preaching the benefits of dollar cost averaging, or the practice of investing a fixed amount of money regularly.
Old Vintage...
prior-art-dept.: The hierarchical hypermedia world of Hyper-G Prior Art Department and today we'll consider a forgotten yet still extant sidebar of the early...
a month ago
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a month ago
Prior Art Department and today we'll consider a forgotten yet still extant sidebar of the early 1990s Internet. If you had Internet access at home back then, it was almost certainly dialup modem (like I did); only the filthy rich had T1 lines or ISDN. Moreover, from a user...
Notes on software...
Transactions are a protocol Transactions are not an intrinsic part of a storage system. Any storage system can be made...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Transactions are not an intrinsic part of a storage system. Any storage system can be made transactional: Redis, S3, the filesystem, etc. Delta Lake and Orleans demonstrated techniques to make S3 (or cloud storage in general) transactional. Epoxy demonstrated techniques to make...
lcamtuf’s thing
Don't build a platform... unless? "Build a product, not a platform" is a common saying among tech entrepreneurs. But why do some...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
"Build a product, not a platform" is a common saying among tech entrepreneurs. But why do some platforms succeed?
Ian's Blog
GitHub Notification Emails Hijacked to Send Malware As an open source developer I frequently get emails from GitHub, most of these emails are...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
As an open source developer I frequently get emails from GitHub, most of these emails are notifications sent on behalf of GitHub users to let me know that somebody has interacted with something and requires my attention. Perhaps somebody has created a new issue on one of my...
Jonas Hietala
Beginning Programming I read a wonderful post, 3 Things I hate about “beginner” programming books, which I couldn’t agree...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I read a wonderful post, 3 Things I hate about “beginner” programming books, which I couldn’t agree more with. Basically he has these points: Too long Too many examples like “Hello World!” No answers to exercises. Nr 1 is a pretty curious one. Even though I think a book is good,...
Willem's Blog
Repairing a Giro AEON bicycle helmet Try fixing your Giro bicycle helmet? I went through some trouble to do it! Read along to find out...
over a year ago
Willem's Blog
Offline Music People sometimes act suprised when I tell them about my music hobby, manually converting CD's to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
People sometimes act suprised when I tell them about my music hobby, manually converting CD's to lossless audio files; there is some reason to this madness however!
Jonas Hietala
rustc: error while loading shared libraries: librustc_driver I had installed and used rust already but today I fired it up and received: rustc...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I had installed and used rust already but today I fired it up and received: rustc --version rustc: error while loading shared libraries: librustc_driver-7e44814b.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I’ve seen this before… I thought modifying...
Birchtree
Ghost 6 is coming in 2025 and will include ActivityPub for everyone The Ghost Blog: The Story So Far This year we're going to ship ActivityPub to everyone, in a...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
The Ghost Blog: The Story So Far This year we're going to ship ActivityPub to everyone, in a flagship Ghost 6.0 release. I have nothing else to add other than I’m happy with my choice of blogging back end.
Arduino Blog
Circuit Canvas can help you quickly create illustrated wiring diagrams Good documentation is extremely useful when conceiving, building, or sharing electronic circuit...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
Good documentation is extremely useful when conceiving, building, or sharing electronic circuit designs, but traditional schematics and technical drawings are difficult for non-professionals to interpret and create. Makers can benefit from intuitive illustrations that look good...
Home on Erik...
Luigi conquering the world I keep forgetting to buy a costume for Halloween every year, so this year I prepared and got myself...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I keep forgetting to buy a costume for Halloween every year, so this year I prepared and got myself a Luigi costume a month in advance. Only to realize I was going to be out of town the whole weekend.
Abishek Muthian
Memory and Mental Health It's been known for a while that depression can cause us to not remember finer details of an past...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It's been known for a while that depression can cause us to not remember finer details of an past event (or) even cause forgetfulness of future events. But while depressed, We have no dearth of negative thoughts and memories i.e. Rumination. Since rumination weakens our cognitive...
Old Vintage...
The Hall SC-VGA-2 video processor, the Atari ST and NeXTSTEP: more tales of the unscreenshotable A periodic fascination on this blog is figuring out better ways to get better screenshots of our...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
A periodic fascination on this blog is figuring out better ways to get better screenshots of our classic systems, which often hail from the Wild Wild West/East in terms of video standards (read all entries in this series). Naturally the best way is a bitwise direct grab of the...
Arduino Blog
Can this tiny lawn mower robot cut it in the real world? We’re finally starting to see robotic lawn mowers gain a little bit of traction as prices come down...
a year ago
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a year ago
We’re finally starting to see robotic lawn mowers gain a little bit of traction as prices come down and consumer trust goes up. They work a bit like Roomba vacuums and pathfinding sophistication varies from one model to the next. But even the most basic models are still a lot...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Notes on Blockchain Governance
over a year ago
Never Met a Science
Video Killed the Social Media Star The two 2024 Presidential Debates have proven the continued centrality of television to our...
9 months ago
Neil Madden
Galois/Counter Mode and random nonces It turns out you can encrypt more than 2^32 messages with AES-GCM with a random nonce under certain...
a year ago
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a year ago
It turns out you can encrypt more than 2^32 messages with AES-GCM with a random nonce under certain conditions. It’s still not a good idea, but you can just about do it. #cryptography
Jonas Hietala
Let's build a VORON: Filters I can print, but the printer is missing a very important thing that I alluded to in the previous...
a year ago
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a year ago
I can print, but the printer is missing a very important thing that I alluded to in the previous post: filtering dangerous particles and fumes. This is mostly covered by the kit, but I was missing some parts from the print it forward and the kit didn’t include a HEPA...
Posts on Made of...
Dear Twitter: Stop screwing over your developers. I really like Twitter. I think it’s a great, fun, service, that helps enable interesting online...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I really like Twitter. I think it’s a great, fun, service, that helps enable interesting online communities, and is a surprisingly effective way to spread news and information to lots of people online. One of the things that I’ve loved about Twitter is their API, and how open and...
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #50: The weird thing about London's New Year's Fireworks Plus how the government should respond to Musk's nonsense, and an AI video that might just show us...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Plus how the government should respond to Musk's nonsense, and an AI video that might just show us how video production is going to change.
Old Vintage...
An Apple district manager's Macintosh Portable in 1989-91 (featuring GEIS AppleLink and a look at... a late prototype Macintosh Portable. But it turns out it's not merely notable for what it is than...
a year ago
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a year ago
a late prototype Macintosh Portable. But it turns out it's not merely notable for what it is than what it has on it: a beta version of System 6.0.6 (the doomed release that Apple pulled due to bugs), Apple sales databases, two online services — the maligned Mac Prodigy client,...
axio.ms
Classical virtualisation rules applied to RISC-style atomics In 1974, Gerald Popek and Robert Goldberg published a paper, “Formal Requirements for Virtualizable...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In 1974, Gerald Popek and Robert Goldberg published a paper, “Formal Requirements for Virtualizable Third Generation Architectures”, giving a set of characteristics for correct full-machine virtualisation. Today, these characteristics remain very useful. Computer architects will...
Vitalik Buterin's...
What do I think about network states?
over a year ago
Greater Still by...
Revisiting Borderless Payments What’s old is new again. By Gaby Goldberg & Bridget Harris
a year ago
Jorge Arango
The New Leverage: AI and the Power of Small Teams This weekend, a small team in Latvia won an Oscar for a film they made using free software. That’s...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
This weekend, a small team in Latvia won an Oscar for a film they made using free software. That’s not just cool — it’s a sign of what’s coming. Sunday night was family movie night in my home. We picked a recent movie, FLOW. I’d heard good things about it and thought we’d enjoy...
Ken Shirriff's blog
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...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
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...
Arduino Blog
Adjusting office chair height with simple voice commands A month ago, ElectronicLab modified his office chair with an electric car jack, giving it motorized...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
A month ago, ElectronicLab modified his office chair with an electric car jack, giving it motorized height adjustment. That worked well, but required that he push buttons to raise or lower the seat. Pushing those buttons is a hassle when one’s hands are full, so ElectronicLab...
Odds and Ends of...
A significant UK think-tanking is backing the campaign to liberate the Postcode Address File The pressure is on the government to abolish the Innovation Tax
4 months ago
Jonas Hietala
Let's build a VORON: Wrap-up It’s finally done™. I’ve built a VORON that prints reliably and I’ve modded it enough to be able to...
a year ago
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a year ago
It’s finally done™. I’ve built a VORON that prints reliably and I’ve modded it enough to be able to leave it alone for a while, so I think it’s time to wrap up this build series with a little retrospective. Building the printer was really fun and rewarding I’ve always seen...
Gwern.net Newsletter
May Gwern.net Newsletter Link compilation newsletter with anime GAN updates, links on AI scaling, discussion of GPT-3, and 1...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Link compilation newsletter with anime GAN updates, links on AI scaling, discussion of GPT-3, and 1 book review.
Style over Substance
My Home Assistant setup (2023 edition) For the past few years, I have been running Home Assistant to make my apartment a smart home. It’s...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For the past few years, I have been running Home Assistant to make my apartment a smart home. It’s become such a hobby of mine that I’ve even started coding add-ons for it. While there are other popular automation platforms, Home Assistant’s versatility blows the rest out of the...
Applied Cartography
HQ1 After many wonderful years of working out of my home office (see Workspaces), I've now "expanded"...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
After many wonderful years of working out of my home office (see Workspaces), I've now "expanded" [1] into an office of my own. 406 W Franklin St #201 is now the Richmond-area headquarters of Buttondown. Send me gifts! The move is a bittersweet one; it was a great joy to be so...
Jonas Hietala
Browse posts with telescope.nvim I’ve used telescope.nvim's find files with require("telescope.builtin").find_files for quite some...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve used telescope.nvim's find files with require("telescope.builtin").find_files for quite some time. I use find files together with it’s cousin .oldfiles (find recently opened files) all the time for finding source code files, blog posts, and more. But it’s naturally...
Louwrentius
Thunderbolt, a cheap high-speed storage interconnect? Intel and Apple released Thunderbolt a high-speed (10 Gigabit/s) interface, that seems to replace...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Intel and Apple released Thunderbolt a high-speed (10 Gigabit/s) interface, that seems to replace both USB and Firewire. It is mainly targeted at end-user systems allowing to connect peripherals with just a single cable to a computer. Thunderbolt devices, like external hard...
Louwrentius
Setup a VPN on your iPhone with OpenVPN and Linux ⚠️ 🚨 Update 2024 🚨⚠️ I'm not using OpenVPN anymore for my VPN needs and this article is considered...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
⚠️ 🚨 Update 2024 🚨⚠️ I'm not using OpenVPN anymore for my VPN needs and this article is considered unmaintained. It's stronly recommended not to use this tutorial and find up-to-date documentation. I also have no plans to update this blogpost in the future. [Update 2018] This...
Willem's Blog
Tudor Black Bay 36 long-term review For the past six months I have been wearing the same watch, every day and night. Read along to learn...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For the past six months I have been wearing the same watch, every day and night. Read along to learn what makes the Tudor Black Bay 36 the perfect every day watch.
Odds and Ends of...
Four big US election takes: Yes, it was the woke stuff. Plus how to know when the Democrats are taking their problems seriously, the one good thing Trump...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Plus how to know when the Democrats are taking their problems seriously, the one good thing Trump might do, and why the polls were right
Willem's Blog
Google Analytics vs AWStats Comparing Google Analytics with AWStats to find out where they differ and which is better.
over a year ago
Notes on software...
Minimal downtime Postgres major version upgrades with EDB Postgres Distributed This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
4 months ago
Computer Ads from...
A Quick Note and Some Comics An apology and some entertainment
4 months ago
Jonas Hietala
My first netrunner store championship My girlfriend has told me I get these narrow interests where I pour all my energy and thoughts into...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
lcamtuf’s thing
Resistors, Johnson-Nyquist, nV/√Hz A major source of noise in electronic circuits is easy to understand. The unit we use to measure it...
2 months ago
./techtipsy
Feature toggles: just roll your own! When you’re dealing with a particularly large service with a slow deployment pipeline (15-30...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
When you’re dealing with a particularly large service with a slow deployment pipeline (15-30 minutes), and a rollback delay of up to 10 minutes, you’re going to need feature toggles (some also call them feature flags) to turn those half-an-hour nerve-wrecking major incidents into...
Jonas Hietala
Microfeatures in my blog xkcd: Nerd sniping A while I ago I encountered a blog post called Microfeatures I Love in Blogs and...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
xkcd: Nerd sniping A while I ago I encountered a blog post called Microfeatures I Love in Blogs and Personal Websites, and together with the related Hacker News discussion I got nerd sniped. (I spent more time than I care to admit implementing new and exciting microfeatures for...
Vitalik Buterin's...
What else could memecoins be?
a year ago
Arduino Blog
This automatic emergency braking system protects RC cars It is a story as old as time (or at least the 1960s): kid gets an RC car for Christmas and excitedly...
4 days ago
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4 days ago
It is a story as old as time (or at least the 1960s): kid gets an RC car for Christmas and excitedly takes it for spin, but crashes it into a wall within five minutes and tears ensue. The automotive industry has cut down on accidents by implementing automatic emergency braking...
Christian Selig
Using PHPickerViewController Images in a Memory-Efficient Way PHPickerViewController is (in my opinion) one of the more exciting parts of iOS 14. We developers...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
PHPickerViewController is (in my opinion) one of the more exciting parts of iOS 14. We developers now have a fully-fledged photo picker that we can just use, rather than having to spend a bunch of our time creating our own (much like SFSafariViewController did for developers and...
Simply Explained
Secure Home Assistant Access with Cloudflare and Ubiquiti Dream Machine I've become increasingly reliant on Home Assistant to automate various tasks around the house. But...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've become increasingly reliant on Home Assistant to automate various tasks around the house. But how do you safely expose your instance to the internet for remote access?You want to be able to log in from a remote location, but how to keep others out? This post will show how...
./techtipsy
Surviving the front page of HackerNews on a 50 Mbps uplink Around a month ago I shared my blog post on HackerNews. I guess I lucked out with the choice of the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Around a month ago I shared my blog post on HackerNews. I guess I lucked out with the choice of the topic, because it brought out a lot of enthusiasts who shared their own experiences with older machinery that still works in 2022. I really appreciate the feedback and...
Jonas Hietala
Drawing a self portrait Drawing is hard. I’d like to improve though. Here’s a self portrait I tried to draw in Krita. I’m...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Drawing is hard. I’d like to improve though. Here’s a self portrait I tried to draw in Krita. I’m really slow so I stopped a bit before it really was finished. Obviously I’d like it to be a bit better, but I’m still a little happy about the glasses and the eyebrows. The mouth...
Jonas Hietala
Where's Teddy? So I did this course Game Design and what’s a course on Game Design without a game? Well, here it...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
So I did this course Game Design and what’s a course on Game Design without a game? Well, here it is. Made in about seven days (more likely eight) and I thought it became quite cool. Where’s Teddy? How to Play Your mission is to find teddy and his teddybear friends. The...
Christian Selig
Embedding Godot games in iOS is easy Recently there’s been very exciting developments in the Godot game engine, that have allowed really...
a month ago
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a month ago
Recently there’s been very exciting developments in the Godot game engine, that have allowed really easy and powerful integration into an existing normal iOS or Mac app. I couldn’t find a lot of documentation or discussion about this, so I wanted to shine some light on why this...
Louwrentius
HP Proliant Microserver Gen10 as router or NAS Introduction In the summer of 2017, HP released the Proliant Microserver Gen10. This machine...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Introduction In the summer of 2017, HP released the Proliant Microserver Gen10. This machine replaces the older Gen8 model. For hobbyists, the Microserver always has been an interesting device for a custom home NAS build or as a router. Let's find out if this is still the case....
Louwrentius
My solar-powered blog is now on Lithium Iron Phosphate In my last blog post I discussed how a small solar project - to power this blog on a Raspberry Pi -...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In my last blog post I discussed how a small solar project - to power this blog on a Raspberry Pi - escalated into a full-blown off-grid solar setup, large enough to power the computer I use at the moment to write this update1. In this update, I want to discuss my battery...
Jonas Hietala
FTL got a new victim Faster than Light the great game I lost a ton of time on, has found a new victim. It’s not someone...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Faster than Light the great game I lost a ton of time on, has found a new victim. It’s not someone you’d expect, it’s even someone who said: “What a bad game” when she saw me playing it. But nevertheless this Saturday she played it more than 2.5 hours! I told Veronica I wanted...
Home on Erik...
MCMC for marketing data The other day I was looking at marketing spend broken down by channel and wanted to compute some...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The other day I was looking at marketing spend broken down by channel and wanted to compute some simple uncertainty estimates. I have data like this: <th> Total spend </th> <th> Transactions </th> Channel A <td> 2292.
Posts on Made of...
reptyr: Attach a running process to a new terminal Over the last week, I’ve written a nifty tool that I call reptyr. reptyr is a utility for taking an...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Over the last week, I’ve written a nifty tool that I call reptyr. reptyr is a utility for taking an existing running program and attaching it to a new terminal. Started a long-running process over ssh, but have to leave and don’t want to interrupt it? Just start a screen, use...
Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing TagVault Surface for AirTag We wanted something easy and secure to mount AirTag to any surface. And indestructible and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We wanted something easy and secure to mount AirTag to any surface. And indestructible and waterproof so it could be used in extreme environments - like on skis. So we designed TagVault Surface Mount for AirTag. Opens and closes like a contact lens case. Glass reinforced...