Jonas Hietala
2018 in review
A new year and a lingering feeling of not having done enough during the year. A fast review of the...
24th Jan 2019
A new year and a lingering feeling of not having done enough during the year. A fast review of the year usually makes me feel better.
2018 non-geek achievements
Was on parental leave for about 7 months.
It was great although I’ve been crawling up the walls a little the last...
Himanshu Mishra |...
Quest for Universal action — Essay
You may listen to this while reading We Are All Astronauts - Ether (YouTube). Few months ago, a...
28th Jan 2018
You may listen to this while reading We Are All Astronauts - Ether (YouTube). Few months ago, a significant percentage of my peers were…
Willem L. Middelkoop
Rescuing photos from a crashed iMac
This week I received a message from someone with a iMac that crashed. It contained more than 50.000...
14th Oct 2020
This week I received a message from someone with a iMac that crashed. It contained more than 50.000 photos, covering two decades of personal history. As there was no backup, it was up to me to attempt to safe as much as I could. Could I possibly recover the personal...
Opsbros
Tasmota Quad Switch Breakout
The Tasmota Quad Switch Breakout is designed to make connecting a custom quad light switch to a...
3rd Oct 2021
The Tasmota Quad Switch Breakout is designed to make connecting a custom quad light switch to a Wemos D1 mini running Tasmota super super easy.
Krebs on Security
Hackers Used Meta’s AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts
The Instagram accounts for the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Space...
1st Jun 2026
The Instagram accounts for the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Space Force were briefly defaced with pro-Iranian images and messages over the weekend, after instructions began circulating on Telegram showing how to trick Meta’s “AI support assistant”...
noahbuscher.com
Radio Install in a Porsche Boxster
The 987.2 Porsche Boxster is one of the best values in the used sports car market today. There is so...
28th Jun 2023
The 987.2 Porsche Boxster is one of the best values in the used sports car market today. There is so much to love about the vehicle, but the OEM headunit is not one of them. It's very dated, clunky, and doesn't support CarPlay (!), so one of the first things I did after picking...
Krebs on Security
FBI Seizes NetNut Proxy Platform, Popa Botnet
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today it worked with industry partners to seize...
2nd Jul 2026
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today it worked with industry partners to seize hundreds of domains associated with NetNut, a sprawling residential proxy service operated by the publicly-traded Israeli company Alarum Technologies [NASDAQ: ALAR]. The action comes...
Neil Madden
Machine Learning and the triumph of GOFAI
I’ve been slowly reading Brian Cantwell Smith’s “The Promise of Artificial Intelligence” recently. I...
30th Jun 2024
I’ve been slowly reading Brian Cantwell Smith’s “The Promise of Artificial Intelligence” recently. I haven’t finished reading it yet, and like much of BCS’s writing, it’ll probably take me 3 or 4 read-throughs to really understand it, but there’s one point that I want to pick up...
Writing
Ted Lasso (Season 1)
Gilbert & Sullivan would have loved Ted Lasso — absurd and friendly and ever, ever obsessed with...
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...
Home on Erik...
The mathematical principles of management
I've read about 100 management books by now but if there's something that always bothered me it's...
9th Apr 2017
I've read about 100 management books by now but if there's something that always bothered me it's the lack of first principles thinking. Basically it's a ton of heuristics. And heuristics are great, but when you present heuristics as true objectives, it kind of clouds the...
Willem L. Middelkoop
Fighting backscatter spam at server level
This month I had to deal with backscatter spam, affecting one of the mail servers I manage. As...
9th Sep 2019
This month I had to deal with backscatter spam, affecting one of the mail servers I manage. As server engineer I make sure that servers don't send spam and that incoming email gets filtered. Despite all good efforts, this server kept being blacklisted for sending spam to iCloud,...
Willem L. Middelkoop
Tablet as main computer
For the past few weeks I have been using the Microsoft Surface Pro as my main computer. It's a...
6th Mar 2018
For the past few weeks I have been using the Microsoft Surface Pro as my main computer. It's a modern tablet computer that can be used as laptop with the type cover. With the Surface Pen, it's a versatile PC that works in a lot of different ways. Time to find out if it's any good...
Louwrentius - Solar
Compiling Multicore PAR2 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin
If you want to compile PAR2 with multicore support on Linux, it may not work right away from source....
15th Sep 2012
If you want to compile PAR2 with multicore support on Linux, it may not work right away from source. I used this version of PAR2 with multicore support.
Update 2015: the original link is dead, I foud a copy of the source and put it on my own site here for you to download.
First,...
computers are bad
2023-03-13 the door close button
This will probably be a short one, and I know I haven't written for a while,
but it has always been...
13th Mar 2023
This will probably be a short one, and I know I haven't written for a while,
but it has always been the case that you get what you pay for and Computers
Are Bad is nothing if not affordable. Still, this is a topic on which I am
moderately passionate and so I can probably stretch...
Neil Madden
Is Datalog a good language for authorization?
Datalog is a logic programming language, based on Prolog, which is seeing something of a resurgence...
19th Feb 2022
Datalog is a logic programming language, based on Prolog, which is seeing something of a resurgence in interest in recent years. In particular, several recent approaches to authorization (working out who can do what) have used Datalog as the logical basis for access control...
Home on Erik...
Music recommendations using cover images (part 1)
Scrolling through the Discover page on Spotify the other day it occurred to me that the album is in...
1st Apr 2014
Scrolling through the Discover page on Spotify the other day it occurred to me that the album is in fact a fairly strong visual proxy for what kind of content you can expect from it. I started wondering if the album cover can in fact be used for recommendations.
Fabien Sanglard
Observing my cellphone switch towers
15th May 2021
Louwrentius - Solar
Understanding the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Server Autoinstaller
Introduction
Ubuntu Server version 18.04 LTS uses the debian-installer (d-i) for the installation...
11th Feb 2021
Introduction
Ubuntu Server version 18.04 LTS uses the debian-installer (d-i) for the installation process. This includes support for 'preseeding' to create unattended (automated) installations of ubuntu.
the debian installer
With the introduction of Ubuntu Server 20.04 'Focal...
The Pragmatic...
Which IDEs do software engineers love, and why?
oftware engineers shared their favorite IDEs on social media, and the most-mentioned one by a...
26th Nov 2024
oftware engineers shared their favorite IDEs on social media, and the most-mentioned one by a comfortable margin was Cursor. WindSurf and Zed also seem to be getting traction at the expense of Visual Studio, and JetBrains.
Birchtree
Micro app 15: Railway Dashboard for iOS
I use Railway to host a few of my projects, and while they have a nice desktop interface in the...
1st May 2026
I use Railway to host a few of my projects, and while they have a nice desktop interface in the browser, their mobile UI isn't so hot, and I wanted to make something t help me monitor things like my cost and deployments on my phone with ease.
Pea Bee
#18: The little Indian internet corner of database sellers
When I googled the name “Inspirewebz”, their website was still active, but it’s no longer available....
28th May 2023
When I googled the name “Inspirewebz”, their website was still active, but it’s no longer available. However, according to the web archive of their website (available since mid-2020), they sold dodgy-looking social media marketing tools like bulk WhatsApp/SMS senders and data...
watchTowr Labs
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
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...
Matt Blewitt
Table Stakes
This is a short post on what I see are table stakes for any new user-facing service, security-wise....
19th Dec 2019
This is a short post on what I see are table stakes for any new user-facing service, security-wise. Mostly focused on user-focused, rather than intra-service, considerations.
Comments for Lars...
The 9 Delusions From the Halo Effect
You’re being lied to. Well, not intentionally. We’re constantly being pinged with stories of...
31st May 2015
You’re being lied to. Well, not intentionally. We’re constantly being pinged with stories of companies that have rocketed to success. Especially in tech, there’s always another $1 billion unicorn around the corner. Uber, Facebook, Airbnb, Slack, Zenefits, Box, Shopify, yadda...
Alyssa Rosenzweig
OpenGL 3.1 on Asahi Linux
Upgrade your Asahi Linux
systems, because your graphics drivers are getting a big...
6th Jun 2023
Upgrade your Asahi Linux
systems, because your graphics drivers are getting a big boost:
leapfrogging from OpenGL 2.1 over OpenGL 3.0 up to OpenGL 3.1!
Similarly, the OpenGL ES 2.0 support is bumping up to OpenGL ES 3.0.
That means more playable games and more functioning...
Writing
Two weeks of parenthood
We've had lucy for two weeks, which qualifies us as experts, which means it is time to write about...
6th Oct 2024
We've had lucy for two weeks, which qualifies us as experts, which means it is time to write about parenthood. (In all seriousness, consider the below descriptive and not prescriptive: mostly, it's a notepad filled with things that were remarkable or surprising or divergent from...
Home on Erik...
Building a data team at a mid-stage startup: a short story
I guess I should really call this a parable.
The backdrop is: you have been brought in to grow a...
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.
Ken Shirriff's blog
The Pentium as a Navajo weaving
Hurrying through the National Gallery of Art five minutes before closing, I passed a Navajo weaving...
1st Sep 2024
Hurrying through the National Gallery of Art five minutes before closing, I passed a Navajo weaving with a complex abstract
pattern.
Suddenly, I realized the pattern was strangely familiar, so I stopped and looked closely.
The design turned out to be an image of Intel's Pentium...
./techtipsy
My experience at the k-space hackerspace hackathon
k-space is a hackerspace in Tallinn, Estonia, and they organized
a hackathon recently. Unlike in...
3rd Aug 2023
k-space is a hackerspace in Tallinn, Estonia, and they organized
a hackathon recently. Unlike in most hackathons, in this one you could whatever you like with no
expectations about building a business or coming up with an MVP, just come on down to the space and
start working on...
Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing QuickDraw
This may be the best product we've ever designed.
Existing cord organizers sit at the back or edge...
23rd Nov 2021
This may be the best product we've ever designed.
Existing cord organizers sit at the back or edge of your desk and create a mountain of clutter. Using them requires reaching for the cord you want and pulling it across your desk. To put it back, you have to flip the the cord...
Arduino Blog
Boomba is a Roomba with every upgrade imaginable
In the classic Ship of Theseus thought experiment, we’re led to wonder if a ship is still the same...
5th May 2026
In the classic Ship of Theseus thought experiment, we’re led to wonder if a ship is still the same ship after all of its parts have been replaced. But we might need to rename that to the “Robot of Boomba,” after Lucas completely rebuilt a Roomba to serve as a robotics platform....
Notes on software...
One year as a solo dev building open-source data tools without funding
This is an external post of mine. Click
here
if you are not redirected.
10th Jun 2022
This is an external post of mine. Click
here
if you are not redirected.
Construction Physics
Reading List 08/01/26
Pepper-spray drones, China’s chip Manhattan Project, Commonwealth Fusion’s fundraise, and a proposed...
1st Aug 2026
Pepper-spray drones, China’s chip Manhattan Project, Commonwealth Fusion’s fundraise, and a proposed Dulles Airport renovation.
Joel Gustafson
The beginning of the end of the open web
22nd Oct 2023
eieio.games
I'm running a programming contest
I'm running a programming contest
I've spent the last few months working with friends to design the...
24th Jul 2026
I'm running a programming contest
I've spent the last few months working with friends to design the 29th annual ICFP programming contest. Designing a programming contest in a world with AI agents is tricky! I think we've made some interesting choices here.
Read the full post on...
Applied Cartography
Rear Window
I'm not sure at what point it dawned on me that the setting & vantage of Rear Window was going to be...
1st Feb 2022
I'm not sure at what point it dawned on me that the setting & vantage of Rear Window was going to be a fixture of the entire film, and not just a cute way to stage the first fifteen minutes — but that realization, and everything therein (the vignettes of every other "screen"...
axio.ms
Axio.ms site refresh
This is the obligatory “first post on new platform” post, coupled with a bit of “first post in 4...
28th May 2016
This is the obligatory “first post on new platform” post, coupled with a bit of “first post in 4 years, I’m still alive”.
The original axio.ms site was a very HTML1.0 affair and while this was kind of intentional-tongue-in-cheek-chic, it was also a PITA to update. It wasn’t...
Willem L. Middelkoop
My first weeks as dad
Last Christmas my wife gave birth to our son, a little boy that would change everything! It's an...
23rd Jan 2019
Last Christmas my wife gave birth to our son, a little boy that would change everything! It's an incredible experience to become a parent, especially if it is your first kid. It introduces a whole new way of living, having to deal with regular feeding, caring and sleepless...
Jonas Hietala
Notifications with xmonad/irssi/urxvt
So I’ve been idling on irc for years now and I’ve been using irssi for that, which works fine. I...
3rd Jul 2014
So I’ve been idling on irc for years now and I’ve been using irssi for that, which works fine. I have not had notifications enabled, so I can see from the statusbar whenever someone messages me. As I’ve never been very active this has been fine, but now I figured it’s time to fix...
Jonas Hietala
Top ten activities that make me happy
Recently we finally moved out of our old apartment and into a new larger apartment and it’s awesome....
24th Jun 2017
Recently we finally moved out of our old apartment and into a new larger apartment and it’s awesome. It’s no more than a year old and feels very fresh compared to the old one. It’s also larger with an extra room, dishwasher (!) and closer to the city centrum and everything is...
Matt Blewitt
Tools for a Culture of Writing
One of the hardest things we do, as humans, is try and communicate what is going on in our minds to...
30th Oct 2021
One of the hardest things we do, as humans, is try and communicate what is going on in our minds to each other. With significant room for misunderstanding, biases, assumptions and cultural differences, communicating with other engineers (or to stakeholders) appears fraught....
Home on Erik...
Software Engineers and Automation
Every once in a while when talking to smart people the topic of automation comes up. Technology has...
16th Aug 2015
Every once in a while when talking to smart people the topic of automation comes up. Technology has made lots of occupations redundant, so what's next?
Switchboard operator, a long time ago
What about software engineers?
Vitalik Buterin's...
收入-邪恶曲线：思考“公共物品融资优先”的另一种方式
28th Oct 2022
Christian Selig
Juno for YouTube has been removed from the App Store
For those not aware, a few months ago after reaching out to me, YouTube contacted the App Store...
1st Oct 2024
For those not aware, a few months ago after reaching out to me, YouTube contacted the App Store stating that Juno does not adhere to YouTube guidelines and modifies the website in a way they don’t approve of, and alludes to their trademarks and iconography.
I don’t personally...
Willem L. Middelkoop
Scalable application design without magic
As part of the online food ordering app I'm building, I needed to design a scalable backend...
10th May 2020
As part of the online food ordering app I'm building, I needed to design a scalable backend infrastructure that could handle lots of concurrent users. Scalability is considered a hard problem to tackle. Often it's presented like it's something magical, done by million dollar...
Vitalik Buterin's...
How do trusted setups work?
14th Mar 2022
Scott Kennedy
Why startup pivots are like build optimizations
22nd Jul 2025
Engineers Need Art
Experiments in Printmaking - Part 1
Trying some unconventional techniques to create a pop-art print of a Cherry Mash candy bar.
13th Mar 2024
Trying some unconventional techniques to create a pop-art print of a Cherry Mash candy bar.
eieio.games
Legibility of Effort
Legibility of Effort
LLMs have broken legibility of effort - our ability to tell, at a glance,...
22nd Jun 2026
Legibility of Effort
LLMs have broken legibility of effort - our ability to tell, at a glance, whether something took a human real work. What happens next?
Read the full post on my blog!
Here's a raw link, if you need it:
https://eieio.games/blog/legibility-of-effort
Opsbros
JSON and PowerShell
Working with Object-based arrays in PowerShell can be a challenge; but here's a trick that will...
11th May 2020
Working with Object-based arrays in PowerShell can be a challenge; but here's a trick that will allow you to manipulate these objects efficiently.
Simone Salis
What If We Made Advertising Illegal?
What if we banned all advertising? Not regulate it—abolish it. This proposal would transform...
2nd Apr 2025
What if we banned all advertising? Not regulate it—abolish it. This proposal would transform manipulation machines, and maybe save democracy itself. A thought experiment worth considering.
Vitalik Buterin's...
Governance, Part 2: Plutocracy Is Still Bad
28th Mar 2018
Abishek Muthian
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
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...
Posts on Made of...
todo.pl ratmenu
broder has been hacking on some better quicksilver integration for Hiveminder using todo.pl.
I don’t...
19th Feb 2008
broder has been hacking on some better quicksilver integration for Hiveminder using todo.pl.
I don’t use a mac, but I don’t see why linux users shouldn’t get fun toys to. So I hacked up the following two-liner that uses todo.pl and ratmenu to pop up a list of tasks, and mark one...
Construction Physics
Reading List 02/06/2026
Welcome to the reading list, a look at what happened this week in infrastructure, buildings, and...
6th Feb 2026
Welcome to the reading list, a look at what happened this week in infrastructure, buildings, and building things.
Christian Selig
Server side Live Activities guide
iOS 17.2 gained the capability to start Live Activities from a server, which is pretty cool and...
23rd Sep 2024
iOS 17.2 gained the capability to start Live Activities from a server, which is pretty cool and handy! I’ve been playing around with it a bit and found some parts a bit confusing, so I thought I’d do a little write up for future me as well as anyone else who could benefit!
(For...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Pi in the Pentium: reverse-engineering the constants in its floating-point unit
Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of...
5th Jan 2025
Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of high-performance processors.1
The Pentium includes a floating-point unit that can rapidly compute functions such as sines, cosines, logarithms, and exponentials.
But how does the Pentium...
Gwern.net Newsletter
June gwern.net newsletter
June 2020 gwern.net newsletter with 3 new pages/essays, and links on CRISPR, population screening,...
2nd Jul 2020
June 2020 gwern.net newsletter with 3 new pages/essays, and links on CRISPR, population screening, AI scaling, politics, and technological unemployment.
Butler's Log
How Core Git Developers Configure Git
What `git config` settings should be defaults by now? Here are some settings that even the core...
22nd Feb 2025
What `git config` settings should be defaults by now? Here are some settings that even the core developers change.
Posts on Made of...
Record/Replay testing in Sorbet
In 2017 and 2018, I (along with Paul Tarjan and Dmitry Petrashko) was a founding member of the...
13th Jan 2020
In 2017 and 2018, I (along with Paul Tarjan and Dmitry Petrashko) was a founding member of the Sorbet project at Stripe to build a gradual static typechecking system for Ruby, with the aim of enhancing productivity on Stripe’s millions of lines of Ruby, and eventually producing a...
Willem's Blog
MUSE in Carré
MUSE's legendary rock fused with Amsterdam's Royal Theatre Carré for an unforgettable, electrifying...
22nd Oct 2022
MUSE's legendary rock fused with Amsterdam's Royal Theatre Carré for an unforgettable, electrifying experience - read about my experience!
Elevation Lab - Blog
BatteryPro available on Apple.com!
Good news, BatteryPro is now available worldwide online at Apple! This makes it much easier and less...
18th Oct 2017
Good news, BatteryPro is now available worldwide online at Apple! This makes it much easier and less expensive for customers outside the USA to pick one up. And we couldn't be more humbled and proud - it goes to show that when you design a product you really want for yourself,...
Odds and Ends of...
I don't know how to feel about Palantir
Normal company or uniquely evil? Let's reason through it.
3rd May 2026
Normal company or uniquely evil? Let's reason through it.
Jonas Hietala
Rewriting my Neovim config in Lua
This screenshot betrays just how much productive time was wasted setting this up.
I’ve got tons of...
1st Oct 2023
This screenshot betrays just how much productive time was wasted setting this up.
I’ve got tons of things to do; clean the bathrooms, prototype an idea for a SaaS and ponder world peace.
So naturally the procrastination took over and I rewrote my Neovim configuration in...
Birchtree
Some low-stakes misinformation spread like wildfire, and I got it wrong too
Giovanni Colantonio writing for Digital Trends: The Confusion Around $90 Switch 2 Games Proves How...
1st May 2025
Giovanni Colantonio writing for Digital Trends: The Confusion Around $90 Switch 2 Games Proves How Broken the Internet Is
There’s just one problem: *Mario Kart World* does not cost $90, at least based on what we know right now. No currently announced Nintendo Switch 2 game...
Abishek Muthian
India income tax e-filing utility for Linux
India has made a major overhaul to it's Income Tax filing website and with it its offline e-filing...
1st Oct 2021
India has made a major overhaul to it's Income Tax filing website and with it its offline e-filing utilities which are now available only for Windows and Mac.
Earlier the utility was in Java and was available for linux. Now it's been replaced with electron wrapper over the...
Simply Explained
Retrospective: My Fifth Year on YouTube
For the past 4 years, I have made a habit of reflecting on the previous year and set goals for the...
15th Jan 2021
For the past 4 years, I have made a habit of reflecting on the previous year and set goals for the new year. This year is no exception, but now I try to set better goals while reflecting on some personal things in life.
Willem L. Middelkoop
Monolithic vs Microservices software architecture
This week I flew to Gothenburg to meet people from a large international shipping company, talking...
2nd Mar 2020
This week I flew to Gothenburg to meet people from a large international shipping company, talking about the development of enterprise level software. During the meeting there were various experts in the room, one of them asked me on choosing the right software architecture (for...
Writing
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
I liked the book. I found it charming and winsome and funny. There were no elements, of, like,...
1st Jul 2020
I liked the book. I found it charming and winsome and funny. There were no elements, of, like, transformative exultation: so many of the books in this genre, the woman’s bildungsroman, the Dept. of Speculations and the Bluets of the world, have a couple moments that totally and...
latest projects -...
LED Matrix Earrings
[Hardware] Itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow dot-matrix LED
20th Feb 2024
[Hardware] Itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow dot-matrix LED
Eric Migicovsky's...
Beeper is joining Automattic
9th Apr 2024
Applied Cartography
Baccano!
I wanted to like this one so much. It seemed tailor-made to what I love in anime: interesting,...
4th Nov 2021
I wanted to like this one so much. It seemed tailor-made to what I love in anime: interesting, anachronistic setting; weird alchemy stuff; a huge slew of characters and viewpoints; framing devices within framing devices.
./techtipsy
How I treat my urge to hoard data
The tagline for /r/datahoarder reads:
“It’s A Digital Disease!”. I agree.
At some point I realized...
8th Mar 2022
The tagline for /r/datahoarder reads:
“It’s A Digital Disease!”. I agree.
At some point I realized that the pursuit to hoard all the things will just keep
on consuming more and more of my time and money. Storage is cheap up until to a
point, once you find yourself tracking hard...
Abort Retry Fail
The History of the IBM 5100
IBM's First Personal Computer
2nd Dec 2023
IBM's First Personal Computer
./techtipsy
The IKEA-powered homelab on a wall
I recently learned about the IKEA SKÅDIS series, which is a
pegboard that supports a variety of...
7th Sep 2023
I recently learned about the IKEA SKÅDIS series, which is a
pegboard that supports a variety of extras. During my self-hosting journey having to figure out the best
place for putting all my compute stuff to has always been at the back of my mind, especially due to limited...
The New Oil
The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon
5th Jul 2025
Willem L. Middelkoop
Linking Lemmid Store with kitchens
As part of the food ordering app I am building, I needed to design a reliable way to link the app to...
11th Jun 2020
As part of the food ordering app I am building, I needed to design a reliable way to link the app to external systems. These external systems are beyond my direct control and include different checkout registers, kitchen management systems and ticket printers. Read along for more...
Simone Salis
For a Business, Should Making (Extra) Money Be Incidental?
Humans are desire-driven machines: a business should help dissipate desires by satisfying them...
21st Jul 2026
Humans are desire-driven machines: a business should help dissipate desires by satisfying them without exploiting you.
Willem L. Middelkoop
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
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...
latest projects -...
Pocketwatch of Goo
[Concept] Liquid filled timepiece
6th Mar 2025
[Concept] Liquid filled timepiece
axio.ms
Classical virtualisation rules applied to RISC-style atomics
In 1974, Gerald Popek and Robert Goldberg published a paper, “Formal Requirements for Virtualizable...
15th May 2022
In 1974, Gerald Popek and Robert Goldberg published a paper, “Formal Requirements for Virtualizable Third Generation Architectures”, giving a set of characteristics for correct full-machine virtualisation.
Today, these characteristics remain very useful. Computer architects will...
Butler's Log
A couple of git nits
A small rant on git papercuts, and why they are like that.
16th Mar 2026
A small rant on git papercuts, and why they are like that.
Buck on Software
The Wrong Bet
The next decade in SaaS won't look like the last
10th May 2021
The next decade in SaaS won't look like the last
Avestura's Blog
Hiding a photo inside another photo
How to hide a small photo inside a larger photo?
28th Apr 2022
How to hide a small photo inside a larger photo?
Comments for Lars...
Why I’m Switching Web Hosts
Recently, I’ve gotten fed up with my web host. Since I stood this site up, I’ve used MediaTemple....
5th Jul 2019
Recently, I’ve gotten fed up with my web host. Since I stood this site up, I’ve used MediaTemple. This was before WP Engine was around. At the time, MediaTemple had carved out a nice niche for themselves as the premium web host. Tim Ferriss also raved about them back in the day....
Computer Ads from...
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
Yes, it's here! LPA 386-PROLOG is now available in a version for Windows!
Fabien Sanglard
Doom3 BFG Code Review
More...
23rd May 2013
Fabien Sanglard
Forty years of programming
8th Oct 2023
Ken Shirriff's blog
Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction
In the 1970s, floating-point arithmetic was a mess. Computer manufacturers had a dozen incompatible...
a week ago
In the 1970s, floating-point arithmetic was a mess. Computer manufacturers had a dozen incompatible arithmetic standards.
Moreover, floating-point systems were designed around hardware simplicity rather than mathematical rigor, leading to problems
with numerical stability.
This...
Fabien Sanglard
The story of the Rendition Vérité 1000
The story of how the Rendition v1000 briefly rule the Quake world.
1st Apr 2019
The story of how the Rendition v1000 briefly rule the Quake world.
Vitalik Buterin's...
An incomplete guide to stealth addresses
20th Jan 2023
Kent de Bruin
Test Post
This is a test post to verify the blog functionality
19th Mar 2024
This is a test post to verify the blog functionality
Arduino Blog
Build your own handheld retro console with the Arduino® UNO™ Q board
Arduino® Project Hub has featured a lot of DIY handheld consoles on this blog over the years. Most...
6th Aug 2026
Arduino® Project Hub has featured a lot of DIY handheld consoles on this blog over the years. Most of them are impressive, and most of them require at least some custom hardware – a purpose-designed PCB, a specialized connector, a part you can only get from one supplier. They’re...
Electronics etc…
Notes about Basic Polyphase Decimation Filters
Introduction
Decimation with FIR Anti-Aliasing Filter
Naive Hardware Implementation
Reduce number of...
25th Jan 2026
Introduction
Decimation with FIR Anti-Aliasing Filter
Naive Hardware Implementation
Reduce number of calculations - Move decimator before multiplier
Polyphase decomposition of the original filter
The Noble Identity for Decimation
Re-using Common Hardware in the Fast Clock...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Review of Gitcoin Quadratic Funding Round 4
28th Jan 2020
Old Vintage...
Hands-on with two Apple Network Server prototype ROMs
Grateful acknowledgement made to the several former Apple employees who materially contributed to...
25th Jan 2026
Grateful acknowledgement made to the several former Apple employees who materially contributed to this entry. This article wouldn't have been possible without you!
Here's why I need to do inventory more often.
its complicated history is a microcosm of some of Apple's strangest...
Willem L. Middelkoop
Wearing WHOOP 4.0
How often do you look in the mirror? Probably more than a few times a week! I have been thinking...
13th Jan 2022
How often do you look in the mirror? Probably more than a few times a week! I have been thinking about this ever since I received my newest WHOOP 4.0 biometric sensor. It's great. But, why do I wear it? What value does it provide? Why should you wear it?
What is WHOOP?
First...
Construction Physics
What Learning by Doing Looks Like
The evolution of polycrystalline diamond drill bits
12th Dec 2024
The evolution of polycrystalline diamond drill bits
Home on Erik...
Conversion rates – you are (most likely) computing them wrong
How hard can it be to compute conversion rate? Take the total number of users that converted and...
23rd May 2017
How hard can it be to compute conversion rate? Take the total number of users that converted and divide them with the total number of users. Done. Except… it's a lot more complicated when you have any sort of significant time lag.
Home on Erik...
Annoy 1.10 released, with Hamming distance and Windows support
I've been a bit bad at posting things with a regular cadence lately, partly because I'm trying to...
26th Nov 2017
I've been a bit bad at posting things with a regular cadence lately, partly because I'm trying to adjust to having a toddler, partly because the hunt for clicks has caused such a high bar for me that I feel like I have to post something Pulitzer-worthy.
Butler's Log
The Future of Software and Open Source
I've been writing software for the better part of 30 years, and like many of my colleagues, I have...
18th May 2023
I've been writing software for the better part of 30 years, and like many of my colleagues, I have recently had a difficult time identifying the last thing that has changed the way I work more quickly and massively than the current wave of large language model tooling like...
Vitalik Buterin's...
On Nathan Schneider on the limits of cryptoeconomics
26th Sep 2021
Writing
Being John Malkovich
I had held off on watching Being John Malkovich for a while, mostly because I think I had a pretty...
1st Feb 2025
I had held off on watching Being John Malkovich for a while, mostly because I think I had a pretty good idea of what it was and, while I wanted to watch it at some point, it never felt particularly urgent. (The vision in my head was a sort of Bosch painting filled with John...
Engineers Need Art
SystemSix
SystemSix is a desk calendar project that displays the weather forecast and phase of the moon on an...
15th Mar 2022
SystemSix is a desk calendar project that displays the weather forecast and phase of the moon on an e-ink display.
Tiny struggles
Django - growing up from SQLite to PostgreSQL
Django by default comes with SQLite as a database.It’s a great choice for initial development and...
11th Jul 2021
Django by default comes with SQLite as a database.It’s a great choice for initial development and for testing,but not if you want to run multiple app servers, e.g. in a SaaS project. At some point it’s time to pick up a DB like MySQL or PostgreSQL that is more suitable for this...
Electronics etc…
Inside an Isotemp OCXO107-10 Oven Controlled Crystal Oscillator
The Isotemp OCXO107-10
Gathering Information from time-nuts
Getting It to Run
On the Bench
Inside...
26th Oct 2025
The Isotemp OCXO107-10
Gathering Information from time-nuts
Getting It to Run
On the Bench
Inside the OCXO107-10
Looking Forward
The Isotemp OCXO107-10
I spent $5 at the Silicon Valley Electronics Flea Market
on an Isotemp OCXO107-10 oscillator.
Compared to my other OCXOs, this...
Engineers Need Art
Op-Amp Helper PCB
A PCB for breadboards to make working with op-amps easier.
8th Nov 2023
A PCB for breadboards to make working with op-amps easier.
Writing
Anxious People
The friend who suggested this book for book club prefaced it with "I like this author because...
4th Nov 2020
The friend who suggested this book for book club prefaced it with "I like this author because nothing is left to subtext", and that certainly is true! If you are ever looking for a book in which the author tells you exactly what everything means and what everyone is thinking and...
Jonas Hietala
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
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...
Jonas Hietala
An update on my book 'Why Cryptocurrencies?'
Five months ago I gloriously declared that “my book was done”. Since then I’ve been working hard to...
9th Oct 2020
Five months ago I gloriously declared that “my book was done”. Since then I’ve been working hard to finish the book.
Sorry that’s a bit of a lie, I’ve had a nice long vacation where I didn’t work on the book and I’m also on part-time parental leave. And believe me there’s not a...
On Life and Lisp
The first conformant M1 GPU driver
Conformant OpenGL® ES 3.1 drivers are now available for M1- and
M2-family GPUs. That means the...
22nd Aug 2023
Conformant OpenGL® ES 3.1 drivers are now available for M1- and
M2-family GPUs. That means the drivers are compatible with any OpenGL ES
3.1 application. Interested? Just install Linux!
For existing Asahi Linux users,
upgrade your system with dnf
upgrade (Fedora) or pacman
-Syu...
Willem L. Middelkoop
For the love of mini
People regulary ask me why I have a small smartphone, a modern iPhone 13 Mini. Often I simply reply...
8th Dec 2021
People regulary ask me why I have a small smartphone, a modern iPhone 13 Mini. Often I simply reply that I like it. The smaller size offers more than just an easier fit in your pocket. I have come to appreciate its intangible greatness, read along for the love of mini!
iPhone...
Louwrentius - Solar
The iPhone, iPad and iOS are powering a revolution
Most people just don't understand computers. Are these people dumb? Some may
be dumb, but the people...
6th Nov 2010
Most people just don't understand computers. Are these people dumb? Some may
be dumb, but the people who make them are maybe even dumber. Because they
can't seem to figure out how to create a computer that the majority of people
understand.
When the original macintosh arrived at...
Yazin Alirhayim
Building a mobile app in 1 day: Thunoob
Is it even possible to make an app in just 1 day? Well, let's find out!
1st Dec 2025
Is it even possible to make an app in just 1 day? Well, let's find out!
Tiny struggles
Generating Hundreds of Consistent Illustrations with Gemini Image Generation
A deep dive into building an automated illustration pipeline for storytelling...
20th Jul 2025
A deep dive into building an automated illustration pipeline for storytelling applications
Introduction
AI image generation has revolutionized creative workflows, but there’s a significant difference between generating a single stunning image and producing hundreds of consistent...
Jonas Hietala
A Four-Eyed Update
Wow it’s been a while! Almost a month and a half since my last update. There I complained about my...
21st Mar 2011
Wow it’s been a while! Almost a month and a half since my last update. There I complained about my almost constant headaches which hampered me a lot actually. Luckily now I have joined the rank of cool.
I took home three frames I think and tried them out and I settled some I...
Willem L. Middelkoop
The day I killed my LAN
Today I called my provider to quit my office's ADSL internet subscription, I don't need it anymore....
30th Jul 2017
Today I called my provider to quit my office's ADSL internet subscription, I don't need it anymore. I have turned off my local area network and switched my workflow onto mobile internet only. The simplicity and savings actually surprised me so much, that I made blog post for it....
Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing The 5-Year Compact Battery for AirTag
There are few things worse than a dead AirTag when you need it. That's why we designed the The...
4th Dec 2025
There are few things worse than a dead AirTag when you need it. That's why we designed the The 5-Year Compact Battery for AirTag.
It replaces the CR2032 coin cell for two uses AAA batteries for 5.5x more capacity. And does so in a small, lightweight form factor.
Discrete,...
Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing TagVault Security Mount for AirTag
Having had our skis stolen, we wanted to design the ultimate AirTag ski and snowboard mount. It...
24th Oct 2024
Having had our skis stolen, we wanted to design the ultimate AirTag ski and snowboard mount. It needed to be ultra-tough so it couldn't get knocked off, waterproof, hard to remove, and discreet.
After a lot of design, testing, and iteration, we have TagVault Security Mount for...
Jonas Hietala
Domains, certificates, and DNS
Accessing services via raw IP addresses isn’t that swell; I’m no Rain Man.
It’s time to set up...
6th Aug 2026
Accessing services via raw IP addresses isn’t that swell; I’m no Rain Man.
It’s time to set up subdomains for my hietala.xyz domain for internal use.
We’ll use the Gateway API to set up routes, cert-manager to give us https without self-signed browser warnings, and ExternalDNS to...
somenice
Cake Hole Whistler Mountain
Often inviting. This terrain just off the Whistler peak road can be an enticing sun-swept run of...
1st Dec 2024
Often inviting. This terrain just off the Whistler peak road can be an enticing sun-swept run of untouched powder.Understanding that you need to come back up the same way you go down, can make you question if it’s really worth it.Know before you go. Cake Hole by Andrew...
Engineers Need Art
Apple Interview (1995)
Recalling my somewhat unusual interview with Apple back in 1995.
13th May 2022
Recalling my somewhat unusual interview with Apple back in 1995.
Posts on Made of...
Building LLVM in 90 seconds using Amazon Lambda
Last week, Frederic Cambus wrote about building LLVM quickly on some very large machines,...
21st May 2021
Last week, Frederic Cambus wrote about building LLVM quickly on some very large machines, culminating in a 2m37s build on a 160-core ARM machine.
I don’t have a giant ARM behemoth, but I have been working on a tool I call Llama, which lets you offload computational work –...
Greater Still by...
Why Digital Fashion Matters
“We’re in the midst of a technological revolution.
14th Jul 2022
“We’re in the midst of a technological revolution.
watchTowr Labs
No Way, PHP Strikes Again! (CVE-2024-4577)
Orange Tsai tweeted a few hours ago about “One of [his] PHP vulnerabilities, which affects XAMPP by...
7th Jun 2024
Orange Tsai tweeted a few hours ago about “One of [his] PHP vulnerabilities, which affects XAMPP by default”, and we were curious to say the least. XAMPP is a very popular way for administrators and developers to rapidly deploy Apache, PHP, and a bunch of other tools, and
Simply Explained
How WebP Images Reduced My Bandwidth Usage by 50%
Last year I migrated this website from Jekyll to Eleventy. This year, I’m finally implementing WebP...
8th Feb 2022
Last year I migrated this website from Jekyll to Eleventy. This year, I’m finally implementing WebP images to save bandwidth and make this site even faster to load! This simple change reduced my bandwidth usage by 50% and is still backwards compatible with old devices and...
Willem L. Middelkoop
Talking tablets: what makes a great tablet?
Earlier this year Microsoft released their brand new Surface Pro X tablet computer, in many ways...
13th Apr 2020
Earlier this year Microsoft released their brand new Surface Pro X tablet computer, in many ways this is a forward thinking device. As I like working with tablets I wondered what exactly makes a great tablet? Is Surface Pro X any good? Read along to find out.
Surface Pro X
Unlike...
The Pragmatic...
Is the “AI developer”a threat to jobs – or a marketing stunt?
One startup released “the first AI software engineer,” while another aims to build a “superhuman...
1st May 2024
One startup released “the first AI software engineer,” while another aims to build a “superhuman software engineer.” As intimidating as these sound: what if it’s more marketing than reality?
./techtipsy
Zimaboard: the closest thing to my dream home server setup
I stumbled upon this Hardware Haven video about the Zimaboard recently.
I liked it a lot.
I finally...
9th Oct 2023
I stumbled upon this Hardware Haven video about the Zimaboard recently.
I liked it a lot.
I finally bought one.
In short, Zimaboard is a small single-board computer that is relatively affordable and comes
with an interesting selection of ports, which includes an exposed PCI...
Open for Business
When the Ground Looks Empty
Don’t you just love spring flowers? Here we are, coming up to Easter and spring flowers are blooming...
2nd Apr 2026
Don’t you just love spring flowers? Here we are, coming up to Easter and spring flowers are blooming outside. But the process of planting spring bulbs is really kind of strange if you think about it.
Home on Erik...
σ-driven project management: when is the optimal time to give up?
Hi! It's your friendly project management theorician. You might remember me from blog posts such as...
5th Apr 2022
Hi! It's your friendly project management theorician. You might remember me from blog posts such as Why software projects take longer than you think, which is a blog post I wrote a long time ago positing that software projects completion time follow a log-normal distribution.
Posts on Made of...
Lightweight Linux Kernel Development with KVM
I don’t do a ton of Linux kernel development these days, but I’ve done a fair bit in the past, and...
30th Dec 2013
I don’t do a ton of Linux kernel development these days, but I’ve done a fair bit in the past, and picked up a number of useful techniques for doing kernel development in a relatively painless fashion. This blog post is a writeup of the tools and techniques I use when developing...
Himanshu Mishra |...
About Metakgp
You can listen to this in background Before The Beginning - John Frusciante (YouTube)...
13th Dec 2017
You can listen to this in background Before The Beginning - John Frusciante (YouTube) :name-retracted: wrote - I wrote this couple of days…
latest projects -...
Virtual Precision Clock
[Software] Pacify that pining for precision
13th May 2026
[Software] Pacify that pining for precision
Home on Erik...
The hacker's guide to uncertainty estimates
It started with a tweet:
New years resolution: every plot I make during 2018 will contain...
8th Oct 2018
It started with a tweet:
New years resolution: every plot I make during 2018 will contain uncertainty estimates
— Erik Bernhardsson (@bernhardsson) January 7, 2018 Why? Because I've been sitting in 100,000,000 meetings where people endlessly debate whether the monthly number of...
Writing
The Farmer's Hotel
My first piece of work by O'Hara, shockingly, and it was a cute little three act play filled with as...
3rd May 2020
My first piece of work by O'Hara, shockingly, and it was a cute little three act play filled with as much drinking and death as I'd been led to believe.
Abort Retry Fail
Housekeeping for 20240102
Some stats, updates, and whatnot
3rd Jan 2024
Some stats, updates, and whatnot
Applied Cartography
Varieties of Disturbance
My review of Break it Down, a much earlier entry in Lydia Davis' ouevre, last year was a bit of...
1st Mar 2023
My review of Break it Down, a much earlier entry in Lydia Davis' ouevre, last year was a bit of damning with faint praise:
Open for Business
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
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...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Glue and coprocessor architectures
2nd Sep 2024
Fabien Sanglard
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
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...
Old Vintage...
The April Fools joke that might have got me fired
Everyone should pull one great practical joke in their lifetimes. This one was mine, and I think...
1st Apr 2025
Everyone should pull one great practical joke in their lifetimes. This one was mine, and I think it's past the statute of limitations. The story is true. Only the names are redacted to protect the guilty.
My first job out of college was a database programmer, even though my...
./techtipsy
How to copy media off of an iPhone the hard way (using Linux)
I helped a family member upgrade to a newer iPhone and make some room so that the internal storage...
2nd Sep 2024
I helped a family member upgrade to a newer iPhone and make some room so that the internal storage does not run out.
They had Nextcloud installed on the current phone, but due to limitations of the Nextcloud iOS
app, the backups only take place if the app itself is open, meaning...
Simply Explained
ESP-IDF: Storing AWS IoT certificates in the NVS partition (for OTA)
When using AWS IoT Core, most tutorials will tell you to include device certificates in your...
2nd Nov 2021
When using AWS IoT Core, most tutorials will tell you to include device certificates in your firmware. While that does work, it means you won't be able to run over-the-air updates.In this post, I'll show how to store AWS certificates in the NVS partition. This will make it...
Pea Bee
How old is this newspaper?
Guess the year from old newspaper front pages.
29th Dec 2025
Guess the year from old newspaper front pages.
Jonas Hietala
A Christmas Game
I’m going through a bit of a boardgame stint, as I usually do during christmas time. I had exactly...
26th Dec 2014
I’m going through a bit of a boardgame stint, as I usually do during christmas time. I had exactly one thing on my wishlist for this christmas for my little brother: Ticket to Ride: Nordic Countries. Guess what? I got something from my wishlist!
This was our 5th or 6th game (or...
Applied Cartography
Two weeks of parenthood
We've had lucy for two weeks, which qualifies us as experts, which means it is time to write about...
6th Oct 2024
We've had lucy for two weeks, which qualifies us as experts, which means it is time to write about parenthood. (In all seriousness, consider the below descriptive and not prescriptive: mostly, it's a notepad filled with things that were remarkable or surprising or divergent from...
Willem L. Middelkoop
The day I sold my car
This week I sold my car, I now no longer own one. For me, this is something of a change as over the...
12th Feb 2020
This week I sold my car, I now no longer own one. For me, this is something of a change as over the years I owned various sports cars that were like a hobby to me. My discovery of cycling and the birth of my son changed this. But if you're looking for a reason to buy a sports...
Fabien Sanglard
Learning Legendary Hardware
More...
7th Oct 2013
Computer Ads from...
Comics from 1984/04 Creative Computing Mag
Sorry for the delay. - JP
22nd Jan 2025
Sorry for the delay. - JP
Home on Erik...
Business secrets from terrible people
I get bored reading management books very easily and lately I've been reading about a wide range of...
16th Aug 2018
I get bored reading management books very easily and lately I've been reading about a wide range of almost arbitrary topics. One of the lenses I tend to read through is to see different management styles in different environments.
Bryan Braun - Blog
Technology you don’t have to think about
“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without...
28th Mar 2025
“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.”
– Alfred North Whitehead
Effective technology takes our most time-consuming tasks and moves them into the background so we can focus on other important...
Style over Substance
Using the Olympus XA as an everyday carry camera
The Olympus XA has been my EDC camera this year and I gotta say – it’s a ton of fun. The concept of...
22nd May 2021
The Olympus XA has been my EDC camera this year and I gotta say – it’s a ton of fun. The concept of EDC – Every Day Carry – is that a piece of equipment should be light and compact enough to have with you every day, yet still versatile enough to be useful in […]
The post Using...
Pea Bee
Pea Bee #4: Speak the time to me
Google search
13th Mar 2021
Ken Shirriff's blog
The rise and fall of IBM's 4 Pi aerospace computers: an illustrated history
The morning of April 12, 1981, 20 years to the day after Yuri Gagarin became the first person in...
29th Mar 2026
The morning of April 12, 1981, 20 years to the day after Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space, the
Space Shuttle thundered into the Florida sky.
Commander Young and Pilot Crippen were at the controls as the Shuttle ascended on its first flight.
But the launch, like much...
Home on Erik...
How to set compensation using commonsense principles
Compensation has always been one of the most confusing parts of management to me. Getting it right...
8th Jun 2020
Compensation has always been one of the most confusing parts of management to me. Getting it right is obviously extremely important. Compensation is what drives our entire economy, and you could look at the market for labor as one gigantic resource-allocating machine in the same...
Home on Erik...
Snakebite
Just promoting Spotify stuff here: check out the Snakebite repo on Github, written by Wouter de Bie....
7th May 2013
Just promoting Spotify stuff here: check out the Snakebite repo on Github, written by Wouter de Bie. It's a super fast tool to access HDFS over CLI/Python, by accessing the namenode directly over sockets/protobuf.
Spotify's developer blog features a nice blog post outlining what...
Blog | Sam Curry
How I gained access to chef, docker, AWS, and MongoDB instances in a single request
3rd Aug 2017
Avestura's Blog
A Software Engineer's Take on The Political Spectrum
You heard about the left-wing and right-wing politics. But how is that related to software?
16th Sep 2025
You heard about the left-wing and right-wing politics. But how is that related to software?
Christian Selig
A slept on upscaling tool for macOS
I uploaded YouTube videos from time to time, and a fun comment I often get is “Whoa, this is in...
30th Jun 2025
I uploaded YouTube videos from time to time, and a fun comment I often get is “Whoa, this is in 8K!”. Even better, I’ve had comments from the like, seven people with 8K TVs that the video looks awesome on their TV.
And you guessed it, I don’t record my videos in 8K! I record them...
Home on Erik...
Missing the point about microservices: it's about testing and deploying independently
Ok, so I have to first preface this whole blog post by a few things:
I really struggle with the...
4th Jun 2018
Ok, so I have to first preface this whole blog post by a few things:
I really struggle with the term microservices. I can't put my finger on exactly why. Maybe because the term is hopelessly ill-defined, maybe because it's gotten picked up by the hype train.
Applied Cartography
Winners Take All
The book is not groundbreaking, and it owes a lot (in terms of "MarketWorld" and "protocols") to...
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...
Willem's Blog
Whoop strap review: 24/7 wearable sensor
30th Dec 2019
Writing
MD5-based uniqueness constraints in Django
Yesterday, I was trying to set a unique constraint for comments in Buttondown to prevent accidental...
1st Sep 2024
Yesterday, I was trying to set a unique constraint for comments in Buttondown to prevent accidental double-commenting, and I ran into a problem that I hadn't seen before:
Abort Retry Fail
Chipzilla Extends its Domination
MMX, Bunny People, Celeron, Xeon
2nd Mar 2025
MMX, Bunny People, Celeron, Xeon
Butler's Log
Using GitButler With Multiple GitHub Accounts
Working across multiple GitHub accounts can get messy fast. GitButler removes a lot of that friction...
15th Dec 2025
Working across multiple GitHub accounts can get messy fast. GitButler removes a lot of that friction with built-in GitHub integration.
watchTowr Labs
8 Million Requests Later, We Made The SolarWinds Supply Chain Attack Look Amateur
Surprise surprise, we've done it again. We've demonstrated an ability to compromise significantly...
4th Feb 2025
Surprise surprise, we've done it again. We've demonstrated an ability to compromise significantly sensitive networks, including governments, militaries, space agencies, cyber security companies, supply chains, software development systems and environments, and more.
“Ugh, won’t...
Himanshu Mishra |...
Book Recommendation - Man's Search for Meaning
Dear :name-retracted:, I finished reading a book today. It’s called Man’s Search for Meaning,...
3rd Nov 2018
Dear :name-retracted:, I finished reading a book today. It’s called Man’s Search for Meaning, written by Viktor Frankl. He was a German…
Opsbros
WetSocks Revival
How to get a broken METAR/TAF Toolbar application working again; the fun way! Seeing what we can do...
25th Aug 2021
How to get a broken METAR/TAF Toolbar application working again; the fun way! Seeing what we can do to get WetSocks Windows 98 tray weather app working again.
Posts on Made of...
Conkeror
I’ve recently switched to Conkeror as my primary browser. It started life as a Firefox extension,...
13th Mar 2008
I’ve recently switched to Conkeror as my primary browser. It started life as a Firefox extension, but nowadays it’s a standalone app built on top of Mozilla’s xulrunner, so it uses the Gecko rendering engine.
What it is, is an emacs implemented in Javascript, for the web. This...
GitButler
Fearless Rebasing
GitButler now supports first class conflicts, which makes rebasing much less annoying. What is...
23rd Oct 2024
GitButler now supports first class conflicts, which makes rebasing much less annoying. What is "fearless rebasing"?
Home on Erik...
Benchmarking nearest neighbor libraries in Python
Radim Rehurek has put together an excellent summary of approximate nearest neighbor libraries in...
12th Jan 2014
Radim Rehurek has put together an excellent summary of approximate nearest neighbor libraries in Python. This is exciting, because one of the libraries he's covering, annoy, was built by me.
After introducing the problem, he goes through the list of contestants and sticks with...
Louwrentius - Solar
Howto get the hard disk size under Linux?
A: There is no single tool for this job, but it seems that Fdisk is just fine:
server:~# fdisk -l 2>...
18th Aug 2009
A: There is no single tool for this job, but it seems that Fdisk is just fine:
server:~# fdisk -l 2> /dev/null | grep Disk | grep -v identifier
Disk /dev/sda: 500.0 GB, 500028145664 bytes
Disk /dev/sdb: 500.0 GB, 500028145664 bytes
Disk /dev/sdc: 1000.1 GB, 1000123400192...
Ian's Blog
Securing Your GitHub Account
Let's talk about some of the simple & practical steps you can take to improve your GitHub account...
11th Mar 2020
Let's talk about some of the simple & practical steps you can take to improve your GitHub account security.
There's plenty of good reasons why you should try to keep any online account safe, but I feel that GitHub deserves special attention among developers. With automation...
Arduino Blog
Exercise while you game with this interactive treadmill add-on
Motion-based controls for games have been around for decades, but even with the latest generation of...
2nd Sep 2024
Motion-based controls for games have been around for decades, but even with the latest generation of virtual reality headsets, gaming is still done with relatively limited movement unless one has access to an expensive VR walking/running setup. As an effort to get more physical...
Jeff Geerling
Testing the Mono Gateway, a custom-built 10 Gbps Router
Testing the Mono Gateway, a custom-built 10 Gbps Router
Last month, the stars aligned...
2nd Jan 2026
Testing the Mono Gateway, a custom-built 10 Gbps Router
Last month, the stars aligned for me to bring the Mono Gateway (a 10 Gbps router that YouTuber Tomaž Zaman and his team at Mono built from scratch) on a trip to Phoenix, and test it with one of the most OP...
Jonas Hietala
Migrating to rocks.nvim
My relationship with my Neovim config is best described as an On-again, off-again relationship.
At...
2nd Jun 2024
My relationship with my Neovim config is best described as an On-again, off-again relationship.
At times I’m deeply in love and spend all my time caressing the config—like how in September I did a complete rewrite in Lua—while other times I’m busy with other love interests and...
Himanshu Mishra |...
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
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…
Abishek Muthian
Owning my Social Network
After yet another Mastodon drama1 and tired of migrating from one Mastodon instance to another I...
14th May 2025
After yet another Mastodon drama1 and tired of migrating from one Mastodon instance to another I have decided to self-host a Mastodon instance.
But Mastodon is an overkill for a single user instance, Luckily GoToSocial2 an ActivityPub social network server written in Go serves my...
MIT News - Civil and...
AI stirs up the recipe for concrete in MIT study
With demand for cement alternatives rising, an MIT team uses machine learning to hunt for new...
2nd Jun 2025
With demand for cement alternatives rising, an MIT team uses machine learning to hunt for new ingredients across the scientific literature.
Home on Erik...
Momentum and mean reversion might just be volatility bias
The Economist just published an article called The best, the worst and the ugly. By looking at...
13th Jan 2013
The Economist just published an article called The best, the worst and the ugly. By looking at historical performance for mutual funds, they find strong support for momentum and mean reversion. Picking the best or the worst fund over the previous five years gives great returns...
Tiny struggles
Robotics Hackathon in Bimanual Manipulation in Munich
How a LinkedIn Post Led Me to a Munich Basement with Millions of Euros Worth of Robotics...
5th Oct 2025
How a LinkedIn Post Led Me to a Munich Basement with Millions of Euros Worth of Robotics Equipment
My LinkedIn feed has become a stream of robotics content over the past few months. As someone diving deep into AI robotics after years in ML/AI/RL, I’ve been deliberately connecting...
Eric Migicovsky's...
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
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…
Eric Migicovsky's...
Verge interview at CES 2013
2025 Note - probably the last video of me without a beard!
9th Jan 2013
2025 Note - probably the last video of me without a beard!
Writing
Goodwill
Read essay: Goodwill
1st Sep 2025
Posts on Made of...
My Apollo Bibliography
Over the last few years — perhaps not that unusually among the nerds I know — I’ve become...
9th Apr 2019
Over the last few years — perhaps not that unusually among the nerds I know — I’ve become increasingly fascinated by the Apollo program (and early space program more generally), and been reading my way through a growing number of books and documentaries written about it. At a...
Daniel De Laney
Artificial Intelligence
In 2018 I worked with argodesign on an artificial intelligence client project, and Fast Company...
4th Jun 2019
In 2018 I worked with argodesign on an artificial intelligence client project, and Fast Company published an article on our work: This Is The World’s First Graphical AI Interface. For confidentiality reasons I can’t publicly go into more detail on the project than to link to that...
Pea Bee
#11: Searchable list of all the mistakes
I have more than a decade old google account that I am no longer able to access even though I know...
13th Feb 2022
I have more than a decade old google account that I am no longer able to access even though I know the correct password.
latest projects -...
POV Candle
[Hardware] Tiny volumetric display
1st Dec 2023
[Hardware] Tiny volumetric display
MIT News - Civil and...
How good old mud can lower building costs
Builders pour concrete into temporary molds called formwork. MIT researchers invented a way to make...
24th Jan 2025
Builders pour concrete into temporary molds called formwork. MIT researchers invented a way to make these structures out of on-site soil.
Fabien Sanglard
All about the fillrate
I bought "Blade infinity" yesterday. The game is a lot of fun and has the ability to satisfy both...
11th Dec 2010
I bought "Blade infinity" yesterday. The game is a lot of fun and has the ability to satisfy both people looking for instant fun and people wishing for a long game while collecting powerful items. At $5.99 it is a bargain, a must have not only for the gameplay but also for its...
Notes on software...
A minimal distributed key-value database with Hashicorp's Raft library
When I wrote the "build a distributed PostgreSQL proof of
concept" post I first had to figure...
17th Sep 2022
When I wrote the "build a distributed PostgreSQL proof of
concept" post I first had to figure out
how to use Hashicorp's Raft
implementation.
There weren't any examples I could find in the Hashicorp repo
itself. And the only example I could find was Philip O'Toole's
hraftd. It's...
Abishek Muthian
On Apple slowing down its phones
Build world’s best smartphone CPU & release a CPU governor to slow it down via software update...
22nd Dec 2017
Build world’s best smartphone CPU & release a CPU governor to slow it down via software update 😑
This isn’t an isolated incident, Li-ion batteries have been plaguing the tech industry. While other parts of the smartphone like displays, compute power, data transfer, storage...
Krebs on Security
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
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...
Louwrentius - Solar
I made my blog solar-powered, then things escalated
In 2020 I wondered if I could run my blog on solar power, being inspired by Low-tech Magazine, doing...
17th Apr 2023
In 2020 I wondered if I could run my blog on solar power, being inspired by Low-tech Magazine, doing the same thing (but better)1. The answer was 'yes', but only through spring and summer.
I live in an apartment complex in The Netherlands and my balcony is facing west. This...
matduggan.com
GitButler CLI Is Really Good
My workflow has remained mostly the same for over a decade. I write everything in Vim using the...
9th Feb 2026
My workflow has remained mostly the same for over a decade. I write everything in Vim using the configuration found here. I run Vim from inside of tmux with a configuration found here. I write things on a git branch, made with the git CLI, then I add them with
Vitalik Buterin's...
A Philosophy of Blockchain Validation
17th Aug 2020
Krebs on Security
Germany Doxes “UNKN,” Head of RU Ransomware Gangs REvil, GandCrab
An elusive hacker who went by the handle “UNKN” and ran the early Russian ransomware groups GandCrab...
6th Apr 2026
An elusive hacker who went by the handle “UNKN” and ran the early Russian ransomware groups GandCrab and REvil now has a name and a face. Authorities in Germany say 31-year-old Russian Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin headed both cybercrime gangs and helped carry out at least 130 acts...
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