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My release checklist for chrome extensions Many products can be updated very quickly. You spot a bug, you push a fix in next 5 minutes, sadly...
9th Jul 2022
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My release checklist for chrome extensions

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

9th Jul 2022
Many products can be updated very quickly. You spot a bug, you push a fix in next 5 minutes, sadly for chrome extensions it’s not like that. When you update a chrome extension in the chrome web store you submit a package that then goes through a lengthy review. It can take...
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Enumerating and analyzing 40+ non-V8 JavaScript implementations V8 is, I'm sure, the most used implementation of JavaScript today. Used in Chrome, (and by...
21st Sep 2021
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Enumerating and analyzing 40+ non-V8 JavaScript implementations

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

21st Sep 2021
V8 is, I'm sure, the most used implementation of JavaScript today. Used in Chrome, (and by extension) Microsoft Edge, Node.js, etc. Safari's JavaScriptCore and Firefox's SpiderMonkey are also contenders for extremely mainstream implementations. But what else is out there? What if...
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Pea Bee #6: Drive a train, forever, through a dreamlike land Hi all, shipping a new issue after a long time.
22nd May 2021
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Pea Bee #6: Drive a train, forever, through a dreamlike land

from Pea Bee [alt+shift+b] in technology

22nd May 2021
Hi all, shipping a new issue after a long time.
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Making the Internet Alive Again The Internet is changing. Are we changing, too?
28th Feb 2024
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Making the Internet Alive Again

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

28th Feb 2024
The Internet is changing. Are we changing, too?
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Verge interview at CES 2016 2025 Note - Behind the scenes, Pebble was a mess. We were about to do a layoff and enter the final...
8th Jan 2016
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Verge interview at CES 2016

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

8th Jan 2016
2025 Note - Behind the scenes, Pebble was a mess. We were about to do a layoff and enter the final year…
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Recycle your old laptop display and turn it into a monitor During a cleaning spree I decided that it was time to recycle two old laptops that were just...
13th Mar 2021
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Recycle your old laptop display and turn it into a monitor

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

13th Mar 2021
During a cleaning spree I decided that it was time to recycle two old laptops that were just collecting dust on a shelf for many years. Although I didn't have any purpose for them anymore, I realised that the displays were still perfectly fine. This is the display of my old 13"...
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Minor site updates As it happens I got a little tired of the syntax highlighter Pandoc uses so on a whim I started...
29th Apr 2020
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Minor site updates

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

29th Apr 2020
As it happens I got a little tired of the syntax highlighter Pandoc uses so on a whim I started looking at moving to Pygments as my highlighter. With some searching around I found a blog post about just that! That’s lucky because while I like Haskell, I’ve never really grocked it...
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The birth of a child Today I witnessed the birth of my daughter! You feel humble as a man, witnessing the labour and...
12th Jul 2021
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The birth of a child

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

12th Jul 2021
Today I witnessed the birth of my daughter! You feel humble as a man, witnessing the labour and magic. Not sure if I can come up with something having more impact on a man than this. For the purposes of science and curiosity I wore a biometric sensor, and this is what it...
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Scripts I wrote that I use all the time In my decade-plus of maintaining my dotfiles, I’ve written a lot of little shell scripts. Here’s a...
22nd Oct 2025
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Scripts I wrote that I use all the time

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

22nd Oct 2025
In my decade-plus of maintaining my dotfiles, I’ve written a lot of little shell scripts. Here’s a big list of my personal favorites. Clipboard copy and pasta are simple wrappers around system clipboard managers, like pbcopy on macOS and xclip on Linux. I use these all the...
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Why node.js is cool (it's not about performance) For the past N months, it seems like there is no new technology stack that is either hotter or more...
12th Mar 2012
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Why node.js is cool (it's not about performance)

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

12th Mar 2012
For the past N months, it seems like there is no new technology stack that is either hotter or more controversial than node.js. node.js is cancer! node.js cures cancer! node.js is bad ass rock star tech!. I myself have given node.js a lot of shit, often involving the phrase...
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How to use a Phase One H20 digital back on a medium format Hasselblad V camera (500EL/M) My newest purchase was a bit of a gamble. I bought a $500 Phase One H20 digital back for my...
1st Jan 2021
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How to use a Phase One H20 digital back on a medium format Hasselblad V camera (500EL/M)

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

1st Jan 2021
My newest purchase was a bit of a gamble. I bought a $500 Phase One H20 digital back for my Hasselblad 500EL/M medium format camera. Or, simply put, I bought an expensive old gadget for my even older analog camera, making it a digital camera. A gadget that was released in the...
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Life lessons after one year at Rostra Today marks one year at Rostra, where I’ve had the incredible privilege of working alongside Lulu...
16th Sep 2025
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Life lessons after one year at Rostra

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

16th Sep 2025
Today marks one year at Rostra, where I’ve had the incredible privilege of working alongside Lulu Meservey to help some of the most consequential companies of our time tell their stories.
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Six Websites in Ten Days Halfway June I came back from Amsterdam buzzing. A week and a half later six websites were live on a...
23rd Jun 2026
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Six Websites in Ten Days

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

23rd Jun 2026
Halfway June I came back from Amsterdam buzzing. A week and a half later six websites were live on a publisher that did not exist before: MP1, a static site generator that lives as a ZIP file inside my own CMS. This post is about what made that possible: automating the dull work...
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E-book Bellows [Concept] Dynamically deflatable
4th Nov 2025
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E-book Bellows

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

4th Nov 2025
[Concept] Dynamically deflatable
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Work is Life Too 10 PM on a Sunday night. You’re back home after a night out with friends. A couple of beers and some...
31st Mar 2025
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Work is Life Too

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

31st Mar 2025
10 PM on a Sunday night. You’re back home after a night out with friends. A couple of beers and some pizza. The place was too loud but you…
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Control as Liability
9th May 2019
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Control as Liability

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

9th May 2019
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A simple timeline using CSS flexbox As I added a /now page to the site I also decided to refresh my /about page and I figured it would...
25th Aug 2024
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A simple timeline using CSS flexbox

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

25th Aug 2024
As I added a /now page to the site I also decided to refresh my /about page and I figured it would be neat to have timeline element where I could list some of the larger events in my life. To my surprise it wasn’t too difficult to create one that looks pretty clean—the flexbox...
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Reading List 02/06/2026 Welcome to the reading list, a look at what happened this week in infrastructure, buildings, and...
6th Feb 2026
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Reading List 02/06/2026

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

6th Feb 2026
Welcome to the reading list, a look at what happened this week in infrastructure, buildings, and building things.
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The grief when AI writes most of the code When AI writes almost all code, what happens to software engineering? There is grief involved for us...
7th Jan 2026
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The grief when AI writes most of the code

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

7th Jan 2026
When AI writes almost all code, what happens to software engineering? There is grief involved for us developers, that's for sure.
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Made in 2025 Here are some things I made in 2025: Pro-Wrestler or Roller Coaster A Fusion 360 Script for creating...
1st Jan 2026
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Made in 2025

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

1st Jan 2026
Here are some things I made in 2025: Pro-Wrestler or Roller Coaster A Fusion 360 Script for creating a Penrose Triangle in CAD A personal book recommendation tool, which used my archive of book reviews, the OpenAI API, and RAG techniques to give me personalized book...
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Fairphone 5: my heavily biased overview after 58 days of use (and counting) After months of contemplating I finally pulled the trigger and got myself a Fairphone 5. The...
6th Mar 2024
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Fairphone 5: my heavily biased overview after 58 days of use (and counting)

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

6th Mar 2024
After months of contemplating I finally pulled the trigger and got myself a Fairphone 5. The fact that iPhone X stopped receiving major iOS updates certainly helped make that decision. “But why? My Xiaomi/Oneplus/Samsung/other glued-together device is like so much cheaper and...
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Announcing Juno 2.0 Juno’s been a really fun project to build, and it’s been so great hearing how other people have been...
27th Jun 2024
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Announcing Juno 2.0

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

27th Jun 2024
Juno’s been a really fun project to build, and it’s been so great hearing how other people have been enjoying Juno since its launch, as well as providing awesome feedback and input to improve it. Today I’m releasing Juno 2.0, which incorporates a ton of that community feedback,...
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You need a Product Mindset Treat Your Developers Like VIP Customers Your developers are not just users; they're customers who...
23rd Sep 2023
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You need a Product Mindset

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

23rd Sep 2023
Treat Your Developers Like VIP Customers Your developers are not just users; they're customers who have high expectations from your internal…
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Exploring Command-line space time
26th Sep 2023
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Exploring Command-line space time

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

26th Sep 2023
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Intel's Inboard 386/PC Welcome to the 1990s.
15th Oct 2024
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Intel's Inboard 386/PC

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

15th Oct 2024
Welcome to the 1990s.
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One year on the ultimate commuter bike Answering questions from one of the most popular posts of last year, I am reviewing my commuter bike...
26th Feb 2019
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One year on the ultimate commuter bike

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

26th Feb 2019
Answering questions from one of the most popular posts of last year, I am reviewing my commuter bike after one year of extensive use through winter and summer.
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Pareto efficency Pareto efficiency is a useful concept I like to think about. It often comes up when you compare...
25th Oct 2016
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Pareto efficency

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

25th Oct 2016
Pareto efficiency is a useful concept I like to think about. It often comes up when you compare items on multiple dimensions. Say you want to buy a new TV. To simplify it let's assume you only care about two factors: price and quality.
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Interview on Crackberry 2025 Note - Kevin from Crackberry was the first person in the press who covered us! The timeline was...
27th Apr 2010
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Interview on Crackberry

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

27th Apr 2010
2025 Note - Kevin from Crackberry was the first person in the press who covered us! The timeline was crazy - I sent him this email and he…
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Data architecture vs backend architecture A modern tech stack typically involves at least a frontend and backend but relatively quickly also...
10th Jan 2019
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Data architecture vs backend architecture

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

10th Jan 2019
A modern tech stack typically involves at least a frontend and backend but relatively quickly also grows to include a data platform. This typically grows out of the need for ad-hoc analysis and reporting but possibly evolves into a whole oil refinery of cronjobs, dashboards, bulk...
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A Guide to Safe Online Shopping (2025 Edition)
1st Nov 2025
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A Guide to Safe Online Shopping (2025 Edition)

from The New Oil [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Nov 2025
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The Living Computers Museum finally isn't First off, apologies for a quiet month as I've been dealing with family matters which hopefully are...
26th Jun 2024
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The Living Computers Museum finally isn't

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

26th Jun 2024
First off, apologies for a quiet month as I've been dealing with family matters which hopefully are now on a better footing (more articles are in the hopper). Unfortunately, the same apparently can't be said for the once-great Living Computers Museum + Labs in Seattle,...
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The First Time I Was Almost Fired From Apple Oh yes, I screwed up more than once during my tenure at Apple.
3rd Jun 2025
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The First Time I Was Almost Fired From Apple

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

3rd Jun 2025
Oh yes, I screwed up more than once during my tenure at Apple.
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Joining a16z I’m excited to share that I’m joining Andreessen Horowitz as a Partner on the New Media team,...
18th May 2026
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Joining a16z

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

18th May 2026
I’m excited to share that I’m joining Andreessen Horowitz as a Partner on the New Media team, focusing on the intersection of comms, networks, and investing.
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Matrox Graphics for Professionals
24th Jul 2026
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Matrox

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

24th Jul 2026
Graphics for Professionals
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This Stream Deck alternative runs on an Arduino UNO Q If you do a lot of creative work, you’ve probably found that your computer’s keyboard and mouse...
1st Feb 2026
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This Stream Deck alternative runs on an Arduino UNO Q

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

1st Feb 2026
If you do a lot of creative work, you’ve probably found that your computer’s keyboard and mouse alone just don’t cut it. There are simply too many different shortcuts and macros to cover with memorable key combos. That’s why BlommeJan used an Arduino UNO Q to build the Starkpad....
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Setting Up a Symmetricom SyncServer S200 Network Time Protocol Server Introduction What was the SyncServer S200 Supposed to be Used For? IMPORTANT: Use the Right GPS...
14th Jul 2024
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Setting Up a Symmetricom SyncServer S200 Network Time Protocol Server

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

14th Jul 2024
Introduction What was the SyncServer S200 Supposed to be Used For? IMPORTANT: Use the Right GPS Antenna! The SyncServer S200 Outside and Inside Installing the Missing BNC Connectors Setting Up a SyncServer S200 from Scratch Opening up the SyncServer S200 The SyncServer File...
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Plus Post: Logic Programming Associates 386-PROLOG Yes, it's here! LPA 386-PROLOG is now available in a version for Windows!
1st Jul 2026
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Plus Post: Logic Programming Associates 386-PROLOG

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

1st Jul 2026
Yes, it's here! LPA 386-PROLOG is now available in a version for Windows!
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Why I'm back to Whoop (for now) I recently started to subscribe to Whoop again after I canceled it around a year ago. I was partly...
2nd Jun 2025
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Why I'm back to Whoop (for now)

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

2nd Jun 2025
I recently started to subscribe to Whoop again after I canceled it around a year ago. I was partly dissatisfied with my Garmin watch as a fitness and health tracker and I also wanted a new tech device to tinker with. The plan was to write a short post about what I like and don’t...
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Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full
17th Aug 2026
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Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full

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

17th Aug 2026
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Mythos and its impact on security I’m sure by now you’ve all read the news about Anthropic’s new “Mythos” model and its apparently...
14th Apr 2026
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Mythos and its impact on security

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

14th Apr 2026
I’m sure by now you’ve all read the news about Anthropic’s new “Mythos” model and its apparently “dangerous” capabilities in finding security vulnerabilities. I’m sure everyone reading this also has opinions about that. Well, here are a few of mine. Is it all just hype? Firstly,...
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Insurers are putting the lives of sick and disabled at risk during COVID-19 pandemic This is about Insurance companies in India, their behaviour with customers with preexisting illness....
4th Aug 2020
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Insurers are putting the lives of sick and disabled at risk during COVID-19 pandemic

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

4th Aug 2020
This is about Insurance companies in India, their behaviour with customers with preexisting illness. Incase you are not from India, you might still find this content useful as almost all of these companies are in tie-up with a major international insurer whom you might have your...
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Software Sprezzatura Sprezzatura is “a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or says...
26th Jan 2020
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Software Sprezzatura

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

26th Jan 2020
Sprezzatura is “a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or says appear to be without effort and almost without any thought about it”, coined by Castiglione in 1528’s The Book of the Courtier.
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Notes from April Welcome to spring, bona fide and humid. Lots of writing this month:
1st May 2024
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Notes from April

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

1st May 2024
Welcome to spring, bona fide and humid. Lots of writing this month:
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Six months with MCADD It's six months since our son was born with MCADD, a good moment to reflect upon the experience of...
23rd Jun 2019
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Six months with MCADD

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

23rd Jun 2019
It's six months since our son was born with MCADD, a good moment to reflect upon the experience of being a parent with some thoughts and tips.
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Are Two Heads Better Than One? Are Two Heads Better Than One? You're playing a game with your lying friends Alice and Bob. Bob...
9th Dec 2025
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Are Two Heads Better Than One?

from eieio.games [alt+shift+b] in technology

9th Dec 2025
Are Two Heads Better Than One? You're playing a game with your lying friends Alice and Bob. Bob flips a coin and shows it to Alice. Alice tells you what she saw - but she lies 20% of the time. Then you take your best guess on whether the coin is heads or tails. Your best...
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Confessions of a programmer: I hate code review Most of the projects I've been working on today have fairly strict code review policies. My work...
6th Jun 2010
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Confessions of a programmer: I hate code review

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

6th Jun 2010
Most of the projects I've been working on today have fairly strict code review policies. My work requires code review on most of our code, and as we bring on an army of interns for the summer, I've been responsible for reviewing lots of code. Additionally, about five months ago...
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La Guía Incompleta de los Rollups
5th Jan 2021
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La Guía Incompleta de los Rollups

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

5th Jan 2021
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The $12,000 Intersection between Clickjacking, XSS, and Denial of Service
4th Jul 2018
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The $12,000 Intersection between Clickjacking, XSS, and Denial of Service

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

4th Jul 2018
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Google Summer of Code 2016 Report : Stingray It began 5 months ago, in February. Due to my recent interests in Image Processing, I had made few...
20th Jan 2017
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Google Summer of Code 2016 Report : Stingray

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

20th Jan 2017
It began 5 months ago, in February. Due to my recent interests in Image Processing, I had made few Pull Requests to the scikit-image library…
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How I Became a Spam Vector There are several reasons for Google to downrank a website from their search results. My first...
1st Dec 2025
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How I Became a Spam Vector

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

1st Dec 2025
There are several reasons for Google to downrank a website from their search results. My first experience with downranking was on my very first day at a job in 2011. The day I walked into the building, Google released their first Panda update. My new employer, being a "content...
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Zoo elephants get a musical toy to enrich their lives Everyone loves looking at exotic animals and most of us only get to do that at zoos. But, of course,...
2nd Dec 2024
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Zoo elephants get a musical toy to enrich their lives

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

2nd Dec 2024
Everyone loves looking at exotic animals and most of us only get to do that at zoos. But, of course, there is a lot to be said about the morality of keeping those animals in captivity. So, good zoos put a lot of effort into keeping their animals healthy and happy. For more...
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AI Coworkers Could Be Great, But Only If They Get Serious On Sunday morning, a lot of us woke up to Grok Bot, the always-on AI assistant, decidedly off. “100%...
6 days ago
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AI Coworkers Could Be Great, But Only If They Get Serious

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

6 days ago
On Sunday morning, a lot of us woke up to Grok Bot, the always-on AI assistant, decidedly off. “100% used” read my quota meter. It’d been 45% late the night before. It was an error, but of the Freudian slip sort, and that’s a problem if tools like this are to be taken seriously.
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Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 6. an x86 upgrade Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 2. user-defined functions and variables ...
8th Dec 2019
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Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 6. an x86 upgrade

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

8th Dec 2019
Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 2. user-defined functions and variables 3. LLVM 4. LLVM conditionals and compiling fibonacci 5. LLVM system calls This post upgrades the ulisp x86 backend from using a limited set of registers (with no spilling...
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The Limits to Blockchain Scalability
23rd May 2021
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The Limits to Blockchain Scalability

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

23rd May 2021
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2025-01-05 pairs not taken So we all know about twisted-pair ethernet, huh? I get a little frustrated with a lot of histories...
5th Jan 2025
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2025-01-05 pairs not taken

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

5th Jan 2025
So we all know about twisted-pair ethernet, huh? I get a little frustrated with a lot of histories of the topic, like the recent neil breen^w^wserial port video, because they often fail to address some obvious questions about the origin of twisted-pair network cabling. Well, I...
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More Doom III BFG Documentation id Software developer Jan Paul Van Waveren (a.k.a Mr Elusive) is sharing some more of the knowledge...
4th Sep 2013
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More Doom III BFG Documentation

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

4th Sep 2013
id Software developer Jan Paul Van Waveren (a.k.a Mr Elusive) is sharing some more of the knowledge gained while working on Doom 3 BFG. This part focuses highly on the choice of data-structures and how paramount cacheline are to performances.
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Script that shows relevant disk information I wrote a small Python script called 'showdisks' that displays relevant information about any...
1st Oct 2013
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Script that shows relevant disk information

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

1st Oct 2013
I wrote a small Python script called 'showdisks' that displays relevant information about any physical storage devices supported by hdparm. Information such as model and capacity are shown, but also controller and device path. This script only requires python and hdparm. I hope...
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Train Simulator Controller: Laser-Cutting a Door Control Panel As the different pieces of my Train Simulator controller come together, a bite-sized first task of...
1st May 2024
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Train Simulator Controller: Laser-Cutting a Door Control Panel

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

1st May 2024
As the different pieces of my Train Simulator controller come together, a bite-sized first task of building the physical dashboard is the door controls placed at each side of the cab. Here, I detail the process of prototyping the door control panel from a Class 80x out of...
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TIL: Rails, CloundFront CDN, and imgproxy In September, I worked on improving Pika’s image performance. I’ve had a long career now (25 years...
14th Oct 2025
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TIL: Rails, CloundFront CDN, and imgproxy

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14th Oct 2025
In September, I worked on improving Pika’s image performance. I’ve had a long career now (25 years 😭) doing mostly web-programming tasks, yet somehow I’ve never set up a CDN myself. I suppose the “management years” right as my prior organization was getting bigger contributed to...
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Australian Open 2026: Alcaraz and Rybakina Triumph In The Shadow Of Legends The gala which precedes the tournament is not a ball, but exhibition tennis, which featured legends...
4th Feb 2026
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Australian Open 2026: Alcaraz and Rybakina Triumph In The Shadow Of Legends

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

4th Feb 2026
The gala which precedes the tournament is not a ball, but exhibition tennis, which featured legends Roger Federer, Andre Agassi, Patrick Rafter, and 2022 women’s champion Ashleigh Barty. Long-time OFB readers will know how much seeing Federer again means to me.
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Building the blog... in style! Find out if it is possible to turn a computer from the 90s into a modern development machine.
22nd Jun 2016
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Building the blog... in style!

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

22nd Jun 2016
Find out if it is possible to turn a computer from the 90s into a modern development machine.
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Analysis of CVE-2019-14994 - Jira Service Desk Path Traversal leads to Massive Information...
26th Sep 2019
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Analysis of CVE-2019-14994 - Jira Service Desk Path Traversal leads to Massive Information Disclosure

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

26th Sep 2019
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Strike Commander: Interview with Frank Savage There is a playful way to study the architecture of computers of the past. Find a piece of software...
3rd Dec 2019
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Strike Commander: Interview with Frank Savage

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

3rd Dec 2019
There is a playful way to study the architecture of computers of the past. Find a piece of software you know well and try to find out how it was ported to these machine you don't...
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My E-Reader Setup My E-Reader Setup Posted on August 10, 2023 This post is from a legacy version of this blog! No...
10th Aug 2023
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My E-Reader Setup

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

10th Aug 2023
My E-Reader Setup Posted on August 10, 2023 This post is from a legacy version of this blog! No changes have been made to the content in the migration, so things might read weird. I bought an e-reader recently, specifically the Kobo Libra 2. I felt like I wasn’t reading...
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GitButler is now Fair Source GitButler is now officially one of the first members of the Fair Source movement, helping to shift...
6th Aug 2024
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GitButler is now Fair Source

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6th Aug 2024
GitButler is now officially one of the first members of the Fair Source movement, helping to shift closed source to publicly available software by default.
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Fell For It If there is anything as embarrassing as confessing one’s sins it has to be confessing one’s...
4th Mar 2026
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Fell For It

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

4th Mar 2026
If there is anything as embarrassing as confessing one’s sins it has to be confessing one’s stupidities. Yet here we are. Instead of describing how well my cool new Starlink-based phone-internet setup is coming together, I’m obligated to detail how I fell for a swindle so obvious...
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Final Fantasy IX I’ve noticed that if I want to give something a perfect score but know that it’s not a “perfect”...
28th Dec 2013
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Final Fantasy IX

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

28th Dec 2013
I’ve noticed that if I want to give something a perfect score but know that it’s not a “perfect” thing, I always start off with “okay, so, it has flaws.”
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Planning my Kubernetes homelab The Kubernetes iceberg. If I’d have to describe my homelab setup via analogy I guess it would be...
5th May 2026
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Planning my Kubernetes homelab

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

5th May 2026
The Kubernetes iceberg. If I’d have to describe my homelab setup via analogy I guess it would be similar to me on a unicycle carrying plates with both of my hands, or maybe a leaking barrel with water that I try to patch up with silver tape. I’ve also been Kubernetes-curious so...
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How to hire smarter than the market: a toy model Let's consider a toy model where you're hiring for two things and that those are equally valuable....
13th Jan 2020
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How to hire smarter than the market: a toy model

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

13th Jan 2020
Let's consider a toy model where you're hiring for two things and that those are equally valuable. It's not very important what those are, so let's just call them “thing A” and “thing B” for now.
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FYI: Broadcom is ruining Bitnami containers You'll need to switch off ASAP.
28th Aug 2025
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FYI: Broadcom is ruining Bitnami containers

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28th Aug 2025
You'll need to switch off ASAP.
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Some personal user experiences
28th Feb 2023
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Some personal user experiences

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

28th Feb 2023
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Master of Change In this post I discuss the brilliant book Master of Change by Brad Stulberg, providing a...
17th Jan 2025
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Master of Change

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

17th Jan 2025
In this post I discuss the brilliant book Master of Change by Brad Stulberg, providing a thought-provoking guide to thrive in a changing world.
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Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it’s haunted In mid-2022 I bought a new domain name. The name was musicbox.fun. I got it for a side-project, an...
25th Oct 2024
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Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it’s haunted

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

25th Oct 2024
In mid-2022 I bought a new domain name. The name was musicbox.fun. I got it for a side-project, an interactive online music box that I had built and hosted at musicboxfun.com. The new name was shorter and more quirky. I felt lucky to have grabbed it. Unfortunately, musicbox.fun...
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71 TiB DIY NAS based on ZFS on Linux This is my new 71 TiB DIY NAS. This server is the successor to my six year old, twenty drive 18 TB...
2nd Aug 2014
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71 TiB DIY NAS based on ZFS on Linux

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

2nd Aug 2014
This is my new 71 TiB DIY NAS. This server is the successor to my six year old, twenty drive 18 TB NAS (17 TiB). With a storage capacity four times higher than the original and an incredible read (2.5 GB/s)/write (1.9 GB/s) performance, it's a worthy successor. Purpose The...
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Game Design Analysis: World of Goo Introduction This is the second essay for the course Game Design and this thime I will be analysing...
1st Jun 2010
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Game Design Analysis: World of Goo

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

1st Jun 2010
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...
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Creating a minimal iPhone stand Today I created a minimal iPhone stand from oak wood. While it's much faster to buy one online, I...
1st Jun 2018
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Creating a minimal iPhone stand

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

1st Jun 2018
Today I created a minimal iPhone stand from oak wood. While it's much faster to buy one online, I wanted one to fit my phone horizontally, with its case on. I like minimal design, so I opted to machine a single piece of wood to get it done. Workmate with wood router ready for...
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What Happened After I Outed a Reddit Mod for Affiliate Spam I recently broke down how Reddit mods and users are abusing Google search rankings with affiliate...
9th Sep 2024
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What Happened After I Outed a Reddit Mod for Affiliate Spam

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

9th Sep 2024
I recently broke down how Reddit mods and users are abusing Google search rankings with affiliate spam. It’s reddit marketing gone awry. The post blew up and got a decent amount of attention. Then I got a front row seat to how deep of a spam filled porta-potty Reddit has become....
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Unit testing C code with gtest This post covers building and testing a minimal, but still useful, C project. We'll use...
31st Aug 2019
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Unit testing C code with gtest

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

31st Aug 2019
This post covers building and testing a minimal, but still useful, C project. We'll use Google's gtest and CMake for testing C code. This will serve as a foundation for some upcoming posts/projects on programming Linux, userland networking and interpreters. test/CMakeLists.txt...
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Linking Lemmid Store with kitchens Designing backend servers to connect with external services is challenging as you need to take into...
11th Jun 2020
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Linking Lemmid Store with kitchens

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

11th Jun 2020
Designing backend servers to connect with external services is challenging as you need to take into account unreliability and unpredictability.
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GitButler for Windows The GitButler client is now available natively on Windows.
12th Apr 2024
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GitButler for Windows

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

12th Apr 2024
The GitButler client is now available natively on Windows.
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More interruptions, not fewer Have you ever gotten to the end of a long work day and realized you’re no closer to your goals? I...
1st Dec 2025
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More interruptions, not fewer

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

1st Dec 2025
Have you ever gotten to the end of a long work day and realized you’re no closer to your goals? I have. The problem, counterintuitively, was lack of interruption. Sure, I was doing a lot of stuff. But I never paused to ask whether I was doing the right stuff. Or whether my...
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Simple sabotage for software CIA produced a fantastic book during the peak of World War 2 called Simple Sabotage. It laid out...
13th Dec 2023
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Simple sabotage for software

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

13th Dec 2023
CIA produced a fantastic book during the peak of World War 2 called Simple Sabotage. It laid out various ways for infiltrators to ruin productivity of a company. Some of the advice is timeless, for instance the section about “General interference with Organizations and...
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Theming Apps on iOS is Hard Theming apps (the ability to change up the color scheme for an app from say, a white background with...
7th Feb 2022
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Theming Apps on iOS is Hard

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

7th Feb 2022
Theming apps (the ability to change up the color scheme for an app from say, a white background with blue links to a light green background with green links) is a pretty common feature across a lot of apps. It’s one of the core features of the new “Twitter Blue” subscription,...
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Does digital ID have risks even if it's ZK-wrapped?
28th Jun 2025
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Does digital ID have risks even if it's ZK-wrapped?

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

28th Jun 2025
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Maths is Fun and Useful but Lasers Are More So Way back when, I made a cool but basic paper sculpture (in Maths is Fun and Useful) by hand, using a...
11th Aug 2017
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Maths is Fun and Useful but Lasers Are More So

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

11th Aug 2017
Way back when, I made a cool but basic paper sculpture (in Maths is Fun and Useful) by hand, using a perl script for the shape template. For cultural reasons, I wanted to make a gift out of paper and it had to be Heaps Good. I had finally got access to a laser cutter (omgomg)...
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Proxmox officially supports Arm, with some caveats Proxmox today announced their Proxmox Virtual Environment is now available for 64-bit ARM. I tested...
5th Aug 2026
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Proxmox officially supports Arm, with some caveats

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

5th Aug 2026
Proxmox today announced their Proxmox Virtual Environment is now available for 64-bit ARM. I tested it on my Ampere Altra Dev Platform—the same machine on which I've booted Windows on Arm the first time, messed with multiple GPUs, and most recently tested Houdini's native arm64...
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Klara and the gift of curiosity In October, a new movie will be released based on one of my favorite books, Klara and the Sun. This...
26th Aug 2026
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Klara and the gift of curiosity

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

26th Aug 2026
In October, a new movie will be released based on one of my favorite books, Klara and the Sun. This has happened a lot for me recently (see The Three Body Problem, The Martian, Project Hail Mary, and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow). I know it’s cliché to say that the book is...
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A Go/C Polyglot Writing a Go/C polyglot Someone on a Slack I’m on recently raised the question of how you might...
5th Sep 2019
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A Go/C Polyglot

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

5th Sep 2019
Writing a Go/C polyglot Someone on a Slack I’m on recently raised the question of how you might write a source file that’s both valid C and Go, commenting that it wasn’t immediately obvious if this was even possible. I got nerdsniped, and succeeded in producing one, which you can...
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Protecting VMware ESXi In response to a possible security breach on a VMware ESXi host machine, I search for a way to...
30th Aug 2021
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Protecting VMware ESXi

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

30th Aug 2021
In response to a possible security breach on a VMware ESXi host machine, I search for a way to improve security of the management console using NGINX and a firewall
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The case for Nightingale Datacentres Britain isn’t prepared for the looming AI national security crisis
27th Aug 2026
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The case for Nightingale Datacentres

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

27th Aug 2026
Britain isn’t prepared for the looming AI national security crisis
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The Joy of Computer History Books
1st Apr 2023
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The Joy of Computer History Books

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

1st Apr 2023
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My issue with GPU-accelerated deep learning I've been spending several hundred bucks renting GPU instances on AWS over the last year. The...
3rd Feb 2016
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My issue with GPU-accelerated deep learning

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

3rd Feb 2016
I've been spending several hundred bucks renting GPU instances on AWS over the last year. The speedup from a GPU is awesome and hard to deny. GPUs have taken over the field. Maybe following the footsteps of Bitcoin mining there's some research on using FPGA (I know very little...
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Pick and place without the CNC Pick and place (PnP) machines are the linchpin on which modern electronics manufacturing rests. A...
2nd Apr 2026
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Pick and place without the CNC

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

2nd Apr 2026
Pick and place (PnP) machines are the linchpin on which modern electronics manufacturing rests. A PnP is a special kind of robot with a vacuum end effector designed to pick up SMD (surface-mount device) components and place them on a PCB for soldering. But for hobbyists, they’re...
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Candid experiences starting a hardware startup 2025 Note - I gave this talk at the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View about 6 months before we launched...
4th Oct 2011
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Candid experiences starting a hardware startup

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

4th Oct 2011
2025 Note - I gave this talk at the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View about 6 months before we launched Pebble on Kickstarter. I was 4 years into…
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New Blog Location I finally got fed up with Blogger, and am moving this blog to live on Wordpress hosted off of...
12th Sep 2008
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New Blog Location

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

12th Sep 2008
I finally got fed up with Blogger, and am moving this blog to live on Wordpress hosted off of scripts.mit.edu. In the process of converting everything over and setting up Wordpress I’ve decided I hate it, but hopefully I hate it less than I hate Blogger. We’ll see. I’ve also...
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Self-hosting 101: Server and Tailscale
8th Sep 2025
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Self-hosting 101: Server and Tailscale

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8th Sep 2025
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Why startup pivots are like build optimizations
22nd Jul 2025
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Why startup pivots are like build optimizations

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22nd Jul 2025
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2024-01-06 usb on the go USB, the Universal Serial Bus, was first released in 1996. It did not achieve widespread adoption...
6th Jan 2024
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2024-01-06 usb on the go

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6th Jan 2024
USB, the Universal Serial Bus, was first released in 1996. It did not achieve widespread adoption until some years later; for most of the '90s RS-232-ish serial and its awkward sibling the parallel port were the norm for external peripheral. It's sort of surprising that USB...
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Resource Management “We had to display a lot of information at once and help them make sense of it. There are many ways...
15th Jun 2017
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Resource Management

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

15th Jun 2017
“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...
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Downdetector and the real cost of no upstream dependencies During the Cloudflare outage, Downdetector was also unavailable. I got details from the team about...
5th Dec 2025
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Downdetector and the real cost of no upstream dependencies

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

5th Dec 2025
During the Cloudflare outage, Downdetector was also unavailable. I got details from the team about why they have a hard dependency on Cloudflare, and why that won’t change anytime soon.
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I broke and fixed my Ghost blog In case you find this post after hours of google searching
16th Oct 2025
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I broke and fixed my Ghost blog

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16th Oct 2025
In case you find this post after hours of google searching
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Balsa “2001: A Space Odyssey” Model The spacecraft from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey have always had a special place for me. Here I...
30th Dec 2025
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Balsa “2001: A Space Odyssey” Model

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

30th Dec 2025
The spacecraft from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey have always had a special place for me. Here I build a replica from balsa.
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So you want to migrate to Kubernetes: observations from a software developer Kubernetes: everyone wants to do it, regardless of their scale and business objectives.1 Common...
1st Oct 2024
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So you want to migrate to Kubernetes: observations from a software developer

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

1st Oct 2024
Kubernetes: everyone wants to do it, regardless of their scale and business objectives.1 Common justifications include better scalability, cost savings, standardization and being super modern and stuff. It’s the future! In my personal experience, Kubernetes is far from the...
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Tom Dowdy Tom Dowdy was a software engineer at Apple back in 1995 when I was still writing Macintosh games in...
3rd Apr 2022
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Tom Dowdy

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

3rd Apr 2022
Tom Dowdy was a software engineer at Apple back in 1995 when I was still writing Macintosh games in Lawrence, Kansas.
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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...
18th Mar 2021
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Peak Design quick-connect Leash and Cuff straps

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

18th Mar 2021
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...
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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...
7th Jul 2021
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Building a data team at a mid-stage startup: a short story

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

7th Jul 2021
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.
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Confusion and disengagement in meetings The quickest way to cut through confusion or disagreement among otherwise amiable and honest folks...
30th Nov 2019
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Confusion and disengagement in meetings

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

30th Nov 2019
The quickest way to cut through confusion or disagreement among otherwise amiable and honest folks is to ask questions. Ask early so you don't waste time. But it's not enough to just ask clarifying questions because the answers won't always be clear. Sounds like Human Interaction...
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Links #14 See below for links to recent things that have made me think. It’s quite the mix of mediums...
30th Mar 2026
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Links #14

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

30th Mar 2026
See below for links to recent things that have made me think. It’s quite the mix of mediums (animated videos, short posts, letters, and 6-hour podcasts), but it wasn’t until I gathered them that I noticed a recurring theme: sacrifice Sometimes the world imposes constraints on us,...
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HoloISO: the unofficial Steam Deck experience on your PC If you have spent any time in gaming hardware circles, then you’ve probably heard about the Steam...
1st Dec 2022
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HoloISO: the unofficial Steam Deck experience on your PC

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

1st Dec 2022
If you have spent any time in gaming hardware circles, then you’ve probably heard about the Steam Deck, the Linux-based handheld gaming PC built by Valve. Yes, you heard that right: not Windows, but Linux. I’ve had my fair share of attempts at gaming on Linux. When it works,...
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3 Reflections from a sabbatical after Google I quit Google at the end of July 2024 and I took a work break until mid-January 2025 (when I joined...
15th Mar 2025
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3 Reflections from a sabbatical after Google

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15th Mar 2025
I quit Google at the end of July 2024 and I took a work break until mid-January 2025 (when I joined a startup accelerator full time). It would be a miss if I didn’t reflect on my sabbatical experience! I will describe what I was up to in another post, but in short it was a mix of...
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Doom iPhone code review I took some time away from programming something I hope will become a really good shmup and read the...
1st Feb 2010
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Doom iPhone code review

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

1st Feb 2010
I took some time away from programming something I hope will become a really good shmup and read the source code of Doom for iPhone. I was very interested in finding out how a pixel oriented engine made the transition to openGL. Here are my notes, as usual I got a bit carried...
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Breakneck I, like so many other people in the Tyler Cowen / Stripe Press extended universe, have deeply...
1st Nov 2025
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Breakneck

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Nov 2025
I, like so many other people in the Tyler Cowen / Stripe Press extended universe, have deeply enjoyed Dan Wang's annual letters over the past years. And I was delighted to see that he returned to writing in the form of a long-form book, largely about the same subject. In writing...
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The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon
5th Jul 2025
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The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon

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5th Jul 2025
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Bypassing Authentication Like It’s The ‘90s - Pre-Auth RCE Chain(s) in Kentico Xperience CMS I recently joined watchTowr, and it is, therefore, time - time for my first watchTowr Labs blogpost,...
17th Mar 2025
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Bypassing Authentication Like It’s The ‘90s - Pre-Auth RCE Chain(s) in Kentico Xperience CMS

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

17th Mar 2025
I recently joined watchTowr, and it is, therefore, time - time for my first watchTowr Labs blogpost, previously teased in a tweet of a pre-auth RCE chain affecting some ‘unknown software’. Joining the team, I wanted to maintain the trail of destruction left by the watchTowr Labs...
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Turbine Transport Transformer [Concept] Transforming turbine transport
19th Jun 2025
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Turbine Transport Transformer

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

19th Jun 2025
[Concept] Transforming turbine transport
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Don't overload Ethereum's consensus
21st May 2023
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Don't overload Ethereum's consensus

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

21st May 2023
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Using Tor outside of the Tor Browser This post shows how to run Tor with a simple PowerShell script and use it in other apps like...
13th May 2019
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Using Tor outside of the Tor Browser

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

13th May 2019
This post shows how to run Tor with a simple PowerShell script and use it in other apps like Telegram...
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Fun and Games with Exposure Notifications Exposure Notifications is a protocol developed by Apple and Google for facilitating COVID-19 contact...
7th Sep 2020
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Fun and Games with Exposure Notifications

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

7th Sep 2020
Exposure Notifications is a protocol developed by Apple and Google for facilitating COVID-19 contact tracing on mobile phones by exchanging codes with nearby phones over Bluetooth, implemented within the Android and iOS operating systems, now available here in Toronto. Wait –...
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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...
7th Jan 2014
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Achieving 450 MB/s network file transfers using Linux Bonding

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

7th Jan 2014
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...
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How to: Adding a floating “Back to top” button in Pika As we say repeatedly on its homepage, Pika is designed to help you focus on writing, not tinkering...
22nd May 2026
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How to: Adding a floating “Back to top” button in Pika

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

22nd May 2026
As we say repeatedly on its homepage, Pika is designed to help you focus on writing, not tinkering with your blog design. To that end Pika purposely doesn’t support complex liquid templating or other such code customization. However, today I thought I’d share how crazy powerful...
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Using the EZCOO / AVStar HAE118 HDMI2.1 Audio Extractor for PS5/Xbox audio Back in 2021, we bought a PlayStation 5 (PS5) as our main living room console. Making the most out...
9th Jun 2023
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Using the EZCOO / AVStar HAE118 HDMI2.1 Audio Extractor for PS5/Xbox audio

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

9th Jun 2023
Back in 2021, we bought a PlayStation 5 (PS5) as our main living room console. Making the most out of this console meant we also had to buy a new TV, as our old TV was not 4K-compatible and did not support HDMI2.1, the new A/V standard required to support all of the PS5’s...
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The Sleazy World of Reddit Marketing, Everything is Fake I’m going to show you how to cash grab as a Reddit moderator. 5 minutes of work, then thousands of...
21st Aug 2024
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The Sleazy World of Reddit Marketing, Everything is Fake

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

21st Aug 2024
I’m going to show you how to cash grab as a Reddit moderator. 5 minutes of work, then thousands of dollars per month for doing nothing. Maybe tens of thousands. With a 100% real example. I’ve edited nothing. When you’re a Reddit mod, you have a TON of power in that subreddit. You...
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2025-09-02 As an experiment, I've machine-translated the help docs in Lua Carousel into 7 languages: Spanish...
2nd Sep 2025
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2025-09-02

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

2nd Sep 2025
As an experiment, I've machine-translated the help docs in Lua Carousel into 7 languages: Spanish (Peninsular and Latin American) German French Japanese Chinese Portuguese Hopefully it...
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Between the World and Me It was hard to get through BtWaM, and not because of the dense, beautiful prose or the sprawling...
13th Aug 2016
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Between the World and Me

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13th Aug 2016
It was hard to get through BtWaM, and not because of the dense, beautiful prose or the sprawling indictment of the American institution. The central thing Coates keeps returning to is the physical body as a symbol of freedom, and how whips and belts and chains and bullets don’t...
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Anything's a portable speaker if you're brave enough I hate buying things that are single-purpose, which is why I ended up with this setup. Take a...
2nd Jan 2023
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Anything's a portable speaker if you're brave enough

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

2nd Jan 2023
I hate buying things that are single-purpose, which is why I ended up with this setup. Take a speaker, a battery, put them together, and what you now have is a portable speaker. Since I had access to both, I felt no need to buy a separate portable speaker for use in social...
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Should Security Solutions Be Secure? Maybe We're All Wrong - Fortinet FortiSIEM Pre-Auth Command... It’s Friday, but we’re here today with unscheduled content - pushing our previously scheduled...
15th Aug 2025
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Should Security Solutions Be Secure? Maybe We're All Wrong - Fortinet FortiSIEM Pre-Auth Command Injection (CVE-2025-25256)

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

15th Aug 2025
It’s Friday, but we’re here today with unscheduled content - pushing our previously scheduled shenanigans to next week. Fortinet is no stranger to the watchTowr Labs research team. Today we’re looking at CVE-2025-25256 - a pre-authentication command injection in FortiSIEM that...
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2025-06-08 Omnimax In a previous life, I worked for a location-based entertainment company, part of a huge team of...
8th Jun 2025
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2025-06-08 Omnimax

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

8th Jun 2025
In a previous life, I worked for a location-based entertainment company, part of a huge team of people developing a location for Las Vegas, Nevada. It was COVID, a rough time for location-based anything, and things were delayed more than usual. Coworkers paid a lot of attention...
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Running Theano on EC2 Inspired by Sander Dieleman's internship at Spotify, I've been playing around with deep learning...
19th Aug 2014
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Running Theano on EC2

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

19th Aug 2014
Inspired by Sander Dieleman's internship at Spotify, I've been playing around with deep learning using Theano. Theano is this Python package that lets you define symbolic expressions (cool), does automatic differentiation (really cool), and compiles it down into bytecode to run...
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Release of PPSS - the Parallel Processing Shell Script PPSS is a shell script that processess files or other items in parallel. It is designed to make use...
3rd Jan 2009
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Release of PPSS - the Parallel Processing Shell Script

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

3rd Jan 2009
PPSS is a shell script that processess files or other items in parallel. It is designed to make use of the current multi-core CPUs. It will detect the number of available CPUs and start a thread for each CPU core.  This script is build with the goal to be very easy to use. Also,...
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Introducing MagicGrips Apple has a long history with with computer mice. They pioneered one of the first commercially...
8th Feb 2017
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Introducing MagicGrips

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

8th Feb 2017
Apple has a long history with with computer mice. They pioneered one of the first commercially available with the Lisa Mouse and helped make it mainstream when it shipped with the Macintosh 128K.   Apple has also been known to make good looking mice at the expense of ergonomics -...
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Backup Rotation Scheme Learn about the rsync-backup-rotator tool that helps you automatically rotate backups using rsync,...
14th Dec 2023
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Backup Rotation Scheme

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

14th Dec 2023
Learn about the rsync-backup-rotator tool that helps you automatically rotate backups using rsync, creating and maintaining multiple recovery points from your backups.
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Revisiting LLM Geolocation Two Years Later In 2023 Bellingcat published “Can AI Chatbots Be Used for Geolocation?”. In that article, they...
21st Mar 2025
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Revisiting LLM Geolocation Two Years Later

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

21st Mar 2025
In 2023 Bellingcat published “Can AI Chatbots Be Used for Geolocation?”. In that article, they examine the ability of LLMs to geolocate photos. They gave Microsoft Bing and Google Bard three photos of locations in Canada: the Edmonton City Hall Churchill Square, also in...
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Designing a personal Pebble watchface I recently got a Pebble Time 2 as it seemed like a fun smartwatch away from Google/Apple/Samsung...
26th Jun 2026
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Designing a personal Pebble watchface

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

26th Jun 2026
I recently got a Pebble Time 2 as it seemed like a fun smartwatch away from Google/Apple/Samsung with a good 4 weeks of battery life. One thing I wanted to do is to create a custom watchface for my specific problems. It took more effort to design the watch than I had anticipated...
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Vulkan 1.4 sur Asahi Linux English version follows. Aujourd’hui, Khronos Group a sorti la spécification 1.4 de l’API graphique...
2nd Dec 2024
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Vulkan 1.4 sur Asahi Linux

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

2nd Dec 2024
English version follows. Aujourd’hui, Khronos Group a sorti la spécification 1.4 de l’API graphique standard Vulkan. Le projet Asahi Linux est fier d’annoncer le premier pilote Vulkan 1.4 pour le matériel d’Apple. En effet, notre pilote graphique Honeykrisp est reconnu par...
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Letters What did you do?? I have developed a habbit of writing letters to friends and family for the past...
7th Apr 2019
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Letters

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

7th Apr 2019
What did you do?? I have developed a habbit of writing letters to friends and family for the past few years. Today, I made some of them…
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inPulse tumblr - ah memories
19th Sep 2010
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inPulse tumblr - ah memories

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

19th Sep 2010
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Comment on My 7 Rules for A/B Testing That Triple Conversion Rates by nick Hey Lars, any rules you have for killing tests early, other than the 10% rule? For example, if a new...
26th Jan 2018
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Comment on My 7 Rules for A/B Testing That Triple Conversion Rates by nick

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

26th Jan 2018
Hey Lars, any rules you have for killing tests early, other than the 10% rule? For example, if a new test is showing a 40% decrease at 97% confidence after only 3 days... would you kill it, let it keep bleeding out, or at the very least allocate less traffic to the test?
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Bomb Squad Peripherals' BLOWGUN It Could Have Been a Lot Worse - His Data is BLOWGUN Protected!
19th Jun 2024
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Bomb Squad Peripherals' BLOWGUN

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

19th Jun 2024
It Could Have Been a Lot Worse - His Data is BLOWGUN Protected!
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GitButler 0.22 - "Catch 22" The newest GitButler release has landed, including native GitHub stacked pull requests
6th Aug 2026
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GitButler 0.22 - "Catch 22"

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

6th Aug 2026
The newest GitButler release has landed, including native GitHub stacked pull requests
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Lunch by plane This week I went out for lunch by plane from Hilversum to Texel with a good buddy of mine.
8th May 2018
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Lunch by plane

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

8th May 2018
This week I went out for lunch by plane from Hilversum to Texel with a good buddy of mine.
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On Design and Chemistry How I transitioned from chemistry to design, and back again.
12th Sep 2024
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On Design and Chemistry

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

12th Sep 2024
How I transitioned from chemistry to design, and back again.
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A trip down NBA Jam graphics pipeline I took some time to study how NBA Jam arcade cabinet worked. Here is what I learned.
28th Oct 2019
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A trip down NBA Jam graphics pipeline

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

28th Oct 2019
I took some time to study how NBA Jam arcade cabinet worked. Here is what I learned.
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Verge interview at CES 2013 2025 Note - probably the last video of me without a beard!
9th Jan 2013
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Verge interview at CES 2013

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

9th Jan 2013
2025 Note - probably the last video of me without a beard!
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A real PowerBook: the Macintosh Application Environment on a PA-RISC laptop I like the Power ISA very much, but there's nothing architecturally obvious to say that the next...
3rd Aug 2025
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A real PowerBook: the Macintosh Application Environment on a PA-RISC laptop

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

3rd Aug 2025
I like the Power ISA very much, but there's nothing architecturally obvious to say that the next natural step from the Motorola 68000 family must be to PowerPC. For example, the Palm OS moved from the DragonBall to ARM, and it's not necessarily a well-known fact that the...
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2024-08-12 a pedantic review of the las vegas loop Did you hear that Elon Musk dug a tunnel under the Las Vegas Convention Center? I think it is pretty...
12th Aug 2024
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2024-08-12 a pedantic review of the las vegas loop

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

12th Aug 2024
Did you hear that Elon Musk dug a tunnel under the Las Vegas Convention Center? I think it is pretty universally known by now that the "Las Vegas Loop" is impractical, poorly thought out, and generally an embarrassment to society and industry. I will spare an accounting of the...
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A controversial opinion about REST API design I was just reading yet another article on REST API design guidelines. Some of it is good advice,...
2nd Nov 2023
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A controversial opinion about REST API design

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

2nd Nov 2023
I was just reading yet another article on REST API design guidelines. Some of it is good advice, some of it I could quibble with. But several of the rules are about how to design the path hierarchy of your API: use plural nouns, don’t use nested sub-paths unnecessarily, etc. In...
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Qualcomm Acquires Arduino At todays “blink to think” event a new Arduino board was released, the Arduino Q, however perhaps...
8th Oct 2025
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Qualcomm Acquires Arduino

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in technology

8th Oct 2025
At todays “blink to think” event a new Arduino board was released, the Arduino Q, however perhaps most important was the announcement that chipmaker Qualcomm had acquired Arduino for an undisclosed amount. After watching the entire two hours of announcements I’m not crazy about...
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Hilariously Fast Volume Computation with the Divergence Theorem (No, there won’t be jokes.) The following presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of...
16th Feb 2018
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Hilariously Fast Volume Computation with the Divergence Theorem

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

16th Feb 2018
(No, there won’t be jokes.) The following presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of a simple, closed, triangulated 3D mesh. This assumption is a consequence of the divergence theorem. Further extensions may generalise to other meshes as well, although that is presently...
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Accidentally turning the ASRock DeskMini X300 into a semi-passively cooled PC After playing around with fan curves on my ASRock DeskMini X300 based home server, I noticed one...
17th Sep 2022
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Accidentally turning the ASRock DeskMini X300 into a semi-passively cooled PC

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

17th Sep 2022
After playing around with fan curves on my ASRock DeskMini X300 based home server, I noticed one interesting thing. At least it was interesting to me. Background I had one goal: to try to see if I could turn it into a semi-passive PC by only turning the fan on when the PC was...
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What's up It’s been a while again since the last time we met mr. Blog. I’ve been busy with school and other...
22nd Apr 2011
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What's up

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

22nd Apr 2011
It’s been a while again since the last time we met mr. Blog. I’ve been busy with school and other stuff. I’ve thought about you but I just never really picked up emacs to write to you. I know it’s my fault but I beg of your mercy mr. Blog. You know that I had laid off school for...
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Highs And Lows
15th Jul 2016
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Highs And Lows

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15th Jul 2016
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What is the type of Type? Should type of `Type` be also `Type`? Or is there an alternative?
20th Mar 2022
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What is the type of Type?

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

20th Mar 2022
Should type of `Type` be also `Type`? Or is there an alternative?
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Computer says no This morning I enjoyed my bike ride on a nearly empty bicycle lane, picture perfect rays of sunlight...
10th Sep 2022
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Computer says no

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

10th Sep 2022
This morning I enjoyed my bike ride on a nearly empty bicycle lane, picture perfect rays of sunlight illuminated the dew above the fields around me. Where were all the other cyclists? I suspect it has something to do with popular weather apps. It strikes me how great the control...
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The MANIAC One third of the way through The MANIAC, I found myself wondering why this book was not more...
2nd Nov 2024
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The MANIAC

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Nov 2024
One third of the way through The MANIAC, I found myself wondering why this book was not more popular: it seemed to be a perfect storm of formalism and postmodernism (it being told in a fugue-like oral history), scientistic reckoning (suddenly in vogue thanks to oppenheimer),...
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Performance monitoring using dstat I'd like to introduce the utility 'dstat'. Dstat provides detailed statistics about what is...
22nd May 2011
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Performance monitoring using dstat

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

22nd May 2011
I'd like to introduce the utility 'dstat'. Dstat provides detailed statistics about what is currently happening on your Linux box. Dstat allows you to monitor the system load, disk troughput, disk io, network bandwith, and many more items. Dstat is so valuable because it...
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Annoy – now without Boost dependencies and with Python 3 Support Annoy is a C++/Python package I built for fast approximate nearest neighbor search in high...
3rd May 2015
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Annoy – now without Boost dependencies and with Python 3 Support

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

3rd May 2015
Annoy is a C++/Python package I built for fast approximate nearest neighbor search in high dimensional spaces. Spotify uses it a lot to find similar items. First, matrix factorization gives a low dimensional representation of each item (artist/album/track/user) so that every item...
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Eco-driving measures could significantly reduce vehicle emissions New research shows automatically controlling vehicle speeds to mitigate traffic at intersections can...
7th Aug 2025
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Eco-driving measures could significantly reduce vehicle emissions

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

7th Aug 2025
New research shows automatically controlling vehicle speeds to mitigate traffic at intersections can cut carbon emissions between 11 and 22 percent.
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SoTW Eve The State of the Word is tomorrow, and it’s so fun to see SF abuzz with WordPress open source...
2nd Dec 2025
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SoTW Eve

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

2nd Dec 2025
The State of the Word is tomorrow, and it’s so fun to see SF abuzz with WordPress open source energy. We’re doing a lot of firsts tomorrow, including the first release timed to the State of the Word, and we’ll have a good chunk of the release team there to push the button and...
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D’Angelo & Diane Just last night I was re-watching Annie Hall to remember and honor Diane Keaton, and now the news...
15th Oct 2025
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D’Angelo & Diane

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

15th Oct 2025
Just last night I was re-watching Annie Hall to remember and honor Diane Keaton, and now the news that D’Angelo had passed. I’m writing this listening to Voodoo, one of the great albums of all time. That CD in my beater car in Houston was on constant rotation, the richness of the...
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Collecting health data with Biostrap Most wearables (smartwatches, fitness trackers, etc.) use very basic sensors to capture heart rate....
14th Nov 2017
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Collecting health data with Biostrap

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

14th Nov 2017
Most wearables (smartwatches, fitness trackers, etc.) use very basic sensors to capture heart rate. Their signal is binary: just counting beats. Biostrap is different, instead of just checking pulses, it captures a high-fidelity PPG waveform. These waveforms are the same kind...
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OpenBSD on the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano (1st Gen) Lenovo has finally made a smaller version of its X1 Carbon, something I've been looking forward to...
27th Jan 2021
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OpenBSD on the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano (1st Gen)

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

27th Jan 2021
Lenovo has finally made a smaller version of its X1 Carbon, something I've been looking forward to for years. Table of Contents Top Hardware Firmware Current OpenBSD Support Summary Updates Hardware The X1 Nano is basically a 13" version of the 14" X1 Carbon,...
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Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later
22nd Nov 2019
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Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later

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

22nd Nov 2019
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Compiling Handbrake CLI on Debian Lenny In this post I will show you how to compile Handbrake for Debian Lenny. Please note that although...
3rd Aug 2010
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Compiling Handbrake CLI on Debian Lenny

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

3rd Aug 2010
In this post I will show you how to compile Handbrake for Debian Lenny. Please note that although the Handbrake GUI version does compile on Lenny, it crashes with a segmentation fault like this: Gtk: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -5 and height...
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Agentic Version Control Benchmarks Which version-control tool should you give your coding agent? We pit Git, Jujutsu and GitButler...
7th Jul 2026
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Agentic Version Control Benchmarks

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

7th Jul 2026
Which version-control tool should you give your coding agent? We pit Git, Jujutsu and GitButler against each other in a fight to the death
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IBM QRadar - When The Attacker Controls Your Security Stack (CVE-2022-26377) Welcome to April 2024. A depressing year so far - we've seen critical vulnerabilities across a wide...
12th Apr 2024
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IBM QRadar - When The Attacker Controls Your Security Stack (CVE-2022-26377)

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

12th Apr 2024
Welcome to April 2024. A depressing year so far - we've seen critical vulnerabilities across a wide range of enterprise software stacks. In addition, we've seen surreptitious and patient threat actors light our industry on fire with slowly introduced backdoors in the XZ...
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Storage and I/O: reads vs. writes There is a fundamental difference between a read operation and a write operation. Storage can lie...
1st Apr 2013
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Storage and I/O: reads vs. writes

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

1st Apr 2013
There is a fundamental difference between a read operation and a write operation. Storage can lie about completing a write operation, but it can never lie about completing a read operation. Therefore read and writes have different characteristics. This is what I've learned. About...
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Ted Lasso (Season 1) Gilbert & Sullivan would have loved Ted Lasso — absurd and friendly and ever, ever obsessed with...
4th Aug 2024
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Ted Lasso (Season 1)

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

4th Aug 2024
Gilbert & Sullivan would have loved Ted Lasso — absurd and friendly and ever, ever obsessed with having its pathos and eating it too. I write this in a period of what I would describe as post-post-backlash: there was a period where America, particularly during COVID, was obsessed...
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Transparency Report: 2024
5th Jan 2025
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Transparency Report: 2024

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5th Jan 2025
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How to get better at recursion tldr; reimplement standard library functions in your favorite language without loops. Background For...
7th Mar 2021
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How to get better at recursion

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

7th Mar 2021
tldr; reimplement standard library functions in your favorite language without loops. Background For a few years after college I spent a lot of free time doing projects in Standard ML and Scheme. As a result I got really comfortable doing recursion. The two big reasons for this...
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Introducing TagVault Universal for AirTag We wanted an ultra-secure AirTag case that could be mounted to anything. Easy to change AirTags...
13th Nov 2024
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Introducing TagVault Universal for AirTag

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

13th Nov 2024
We wanted an ultra-secure AirTag case that could be mounted to anything. Easy to change AirTags battery. Waterproof. Robust. And discreet. So we designed TagVault Universal Mount for AirTag. It has mounting holes for screws, rivets, and slots for zip ties. Or just epoxy it down....
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Duane Blehm A little about Duane Blehm, an early Macintosh shareware author.
3rd Mar 2025
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Duane Blehm

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3rd Mar 2025
A little about Duane Blehm, an early Macintosh shareware author.
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July 2020 gwern.net newsletter Links on the Uighurs, authoritarianism, negative emissions, AI overhang; 1 movie & 2 anime reviews
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20th Aug 2020
Links on the Uighurs, authoritarianism, negative emissions, AI overhang; 1 movie & 2 anime reviews
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DEF CON I’m sitting in the airport in Las Vegas on the way back from DEF CON 15. It’s the first time I’ve...
5th Aug 2007
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DEF CON

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5th Aug 2007
I’m sitting in the airport in Las Vegas on the way back from DEF CON 15. It’s the first time I’ve been at the con, and it wasn’t really what I expected. Frankly, I walked away feeling kinda underwhelmed. Very few of the talks were as technical as I was hoping – they were almost...
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Home is where the home server is I moved recently, and so did my home server. You might have noticed it due to the downtime. This...
15th May 2025
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Home is where the home server is

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15th May 2025
I moved recently, and so did my home server. You might have noticed it due to the downtime. This time I have built a dedicated shelf for it, which allows for more flexibility and room for additional expensive ideas. The internet connection is a fiber line, which is fantastic for...
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First, Do Harm It’s doubly tragic that just days before Easter there’s need to address the appalling fact that more...
2nd Apr 2026
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First, Do Harm

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

2nd Apr 2026
It’s doubly tragic that just days before Easter there’s need to address the appalling fact that more and more countries in the world, and a dozen states, now have laws that allow the killing of killing their citizens and residents.
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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...
4th Jun 2021
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Coolest hard-tech companies in NYC 2021

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

4th Jun 2021
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...
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Home Energy Monitor: V2 My DIY home energy monitor has been running for almost a year now. It's been recording my...
11th Feb 2020
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Home Energy Monitor: V2

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

11th Feb 2020
My DIY home energy monitor has been running for almost a year now. It's been recording my electricity consumption every second and everything is neatly archived in my AWS account.Still, though, there is room for improvement. It's time to look back, evaluate & improve the design....
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API Security in Action handed over to production After a flurry of last-minute corrections and updates in response to review feedback, my book has...
5th Aug 2020
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API Security in Action handed over to production

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

5th Aug 2020
After a flurry of last-minute corrections and updates in response to review feedback, my book has now been handed over to Manning’s production team. That means a few weeks of copy editing and graphics polish, then indexing and typesetting to produce the final version around...
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Filtering spam on YouTube with TensorFlow & AI My YouTube channel has been attracting a lot of spammers. They try to trick people by saying they...
6th Jul 2021
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Filtering spam on YouTube with TensorFlow & AI

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

6th Jul 2021
My YouTube channel has been attracting a lot of spammers. They try to trick people by saying they know how to profit from trading cryptocurrencies or that they can recover lost wallet keys.I've been marking these comments as spam, thinking that YouTube would learn to recognize...
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How I stole the identity of every Yahoo user
9th May 2017
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How I stole the identity of every Yahoo user

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9th May 2017
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A minimal REST API in Java There's a style of Java that is a joy to write. This post will cover how to set up a basic...
1st Feb 2020
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A minimal REST API in Java

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

1st Feb 2020
There's a style of Java that is a joy to write. This post will cover how to set up a basic PostgreSQL-integrated REST API using Jersey and JOOQ in a style not dissimilar to Flask and SQLAlchemy in Python. In particular, we'll try to avoid as much runtime reflection/class-loading...
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Comics from 1984/04 Creative Computing Mag Sorry for the delay. - JP
22nd Jan 2025
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Comics from 1984/04 Creative Computing Mag

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22nd Jan 2025
Sorry for the delay. - JP
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The antimeme is the message of the medium The antimeme of the antimeme no longer exists.
1st Aug 2025
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The antimeme is the message of the medium

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1st Aug 2025
The antimeme of the antimeme no longer exists.
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Some spoiler free thoughts about the first episode of “Jet Lag: The Game” season 13 Tom Scott is playing to win. The intro music made me wonder if the Wendover team watch...
5th Mar 2025
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Some spoiler free thoughts about the first episode of “Jet Lag: The Game” season 13

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5th Mar 2025
Tom Scott is playing to win. The intro music made me wonder if the Wendover team watch c90dventures. At one point in the episode, Adam breaks out some Scatman. This is going to be a great season.
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Trump 2.0 Brings Cuts to Cyber, Consumer Protections One month into his second term, President Trump's actions to shrink the government through mass...
23rd Feb 2025
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Trump 2.0 Brings Cuts to Cyber, Consumer Protections

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23rd Feb 2025
One month into his second term, President Trump's actions to shrink the government through mass layoffs, firings and withholding funds allocated by Congress have thrown federal cybersecurity and consumer protection programs into disarray. At the same time, agencies are battling...
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MicroTimes Interviews Borland's Philippe Kahn Again (1995) Khan talks about his post-Borland work at Starfish and competition with Lotus and Microsoft
3rd Mar 2026
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MicroTimes Interviews Borland's Philippe Kahn Again (1995)

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3rd Mar 2026
Khan talks about his post-Borland work at Starfish and competition with Lotus and Microsoft
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Pebble Kickstarter Campaign Success!
18th May 2012
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Pebble Kickstarter Campaign Success!

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18th May 2012
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Why Digital Fashion Matters “We’re in the midst of a technological revolution.
14th Jul 2022
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Why Digital Fashion Matters

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

14th Jul 2022
“We’re in the midst of a technological revolution.
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On The Contrary: “Hook” Is A Great Film Hook, the absolutely star-studded film directed by Stephen Spielberg, has received mixed reviews...
7th Jan 2026
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On The Contrary: “Hook” Is A Great Film

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7th Jan 2026
Hook, the absolutely star-studded film directed by Stephen Spielberg, has received mixed reviews from critics since its release in 1991. I still can’t figure out why. One could have given the Academy Award for Best Actor to Dustin Hoffman, and Best Supporting Actor to Robin...
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Et Tu, Aldi? It was the day that I stopped forever my weekly visit to Kroger. The COVID-19 epidemic was underway,...
5th Nov 2025
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Et Tu, Aldi?

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

5th Nov 2025
It was the day that I stopped forever my weekly visit to Kroger. The COVID-19 epidemic was underway, and we were advised to stay away from each other. It was cold, and the forecast was that an ice storm would hit about sundown (made an hour earlier each year for no good reason by...
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Final Fantasy The game certainly shows its age, I can tell you that much. (I played Dawn of Souls, which was the...
28th Dec 2007
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Final Fantasy

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

28th Dec 2007
The game certainly shows its age, I can tell you that much. (I played Dawn of Souls, which was the slightly easier remake, and even then it was a bit of a slog.) It’s short, though, and it’s I think worth playing for its place in the canon.
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On Nathan Schneider on the limits of cryptoeconomics
26th Sep 2021
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On Nathan Schneider on the limits of cryptoeconomics

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26th Sep 2021
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Updates March 01
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Updates March 01

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1st Mar 2024
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Slow Horses (Season 2) Not as great as the first season; still tremendously entertaining television, with more than a few...
7th Jan 2024
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Slow Horses (Season 2)

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7th Jan 2024
Not as great as the first season; still tremendously entertaining television, with more than a few twists that I couldn't predict and an underlying thread of competence in set design, pacing, and acting that is hard to deny.
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Low-risk defi can be for Ethereum what search was for Google
21st Sep 2025
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Low-risk defi can be for Ethereum what search was for Google

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21st Sep 2025
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Winners Take All The book is not groundbreaking, and it owes a lot (in terms of "MarketWorld" and "protocols") to...
5th Jun 2020
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Winners Take All

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

5th Jun 2020
The book is not groundbreaking, and it owes a lot (in terms of "MarketWorld" and "protocols") to James Scott, but I liked it more than I thought it would. The distillation of a corporate "win-win" ethos was a pretty damning excoriation of my alma mater's consulting pipeline, and...
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2023 in review This is my yearly review #14. Amazing that I’ve kept up with this for 14 years. Even though it’s not...
1st Jan 2024
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2023 in review

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

1st Jan 2024
This is my yearly review #14. Amazing that I’ve kept up with this for 14 years. Even though it’s not anything advanced, I really like looking back at the year to see what has happened. Maybe it’s a very light version of a reverse bucket list, and I can see that it provides some...
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How I gained access to chef, docker, AWS, and MongoDB instances in a single request
3rd Aug 2017
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How I gained access to chef, docker, AWS, and MongoDB instances in a single request

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3rd Aug 2017
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On Reading Proust’s In Search of Lost Time 1.
18th Dec 2025
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On Reading Proust’s In Search of Lost Time

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18th Dec 2025
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test tr Thanks for reading. If you have any feedback or would like to discuss further, I would be happy to...
30th Dec 2025
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test tr

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30th Dec 2025
Thanks for reading. If you have any feedback or would like to discuss further, I would be happy to hear from you. twitter | [email protected] Previous
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