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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

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

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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Master of Change Change is one of life's few constants. Yet, even with its inevitability, facing it head-on can feel...
17th Jan 2025
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Master of Change

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

17th Jan 2025
Change is one of life's few constants. Yet, even with its inevitability, facing it head-on can feel daunting and disorienting. In the book "Master of Change", Brad Stulberg offers a thought-provoking guide to not just survive but thrive in an ever changing world. As you grow...
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Marathon Last Sunday I completed my first full marathon, covering a distance of 42KM in and around Amsterdam....
19th Oct 2024
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Marathon

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

19th Oct 2024
Last Sunday I completed my first full marathon, covering a distance of 42KM in and around Amsterdam. An idea that started in a bar with some beers and concluded with a finish in the Olympic Stadium. What a journey, what an experience, well worthy of a blog post. About a year ago,...
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Barry is Good Enough We put a lot of ourselves into our work, and it occurs to us that you, dear reader, might not know...
15th Apr 2025
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Barry is Good Enough

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

15th Apr 2025
We put a lot of ourselves into our work, and it occurs to us that you, dear reader, might not know much about us. So we’re continuing our Q&A column to introduce ourselves, one-at-a-time. Today, we’re meeting the biggest Pika fan, Barry Hess… Who are you? (Who, who, who, who?) My...
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The Tapestry of Influence: The Inspirations That Shape Us Discover how your unique combination of influences—from art and philosophy to pop culture and...
5th Nov 2024
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The Tapestry of Influence: The Inspirations That Shape Us

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

5th Nov 2024
Discover how your unique combination of influences—from art and philosophy to pop culture and personal experiences—shapes your creative perspective. Explore how connecting seemingly unrelated passions and memories creates unexpected insights and original expression.
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RSS in Next 14 We finished Buttondown’s migration from MDX to Markdoc last week. It went swimmingly, except for one...
1st Sep 2024
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RSS in Next 14

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

1st Sep 2024
We finished Buttondown’s migration from MDX to Markdoc last week. It went swimmingly, except for one little hitch: our RSS feeds, which sat on top of getServerSideProps and read in the flat .mdoc files, threw 500s in Vercel. (They worked fine locally and in CI, but then those...
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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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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
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Annoy 1.10 released, with Hamming distance and Windows support

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

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.
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Canadian Man Pleads Guilty in Snowflake Extortions A 26-year-old Canadian man once described as one of the most consequential cybercrime threat actors...
6th Aug 2026
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Canadian Man Pleads Guilty in Snowflake Extortions

from Krebs on Security [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Aug 2026
A 26-year-old Canadian man once described as one of the most consequential cybercrime threat actors of 2024 has pleaded guilty to computer fraud and conspiracy to hack and extort more than 165 organizations that used the cloud data storage provider Snowflake. Connor Riley Moucka,...
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AI for generating 2D animations I wanted to add some frills in Memory Hammer app1 when the user completes review of their...
26th Oct 2025
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AI for generating 2D animations

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

26th Oct 2025
I wanted to add some frills in Memory Hammer app1 when the user completes review of their flashcards. I decided to add a simple 2D animation where a brain is sulking and after being hit by the hammer (memory hammer's mascot) the brain becomes happy and jubilant. I made a simple...
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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
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Using the Olympus XA as an everyday carry camera

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

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...
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The Kingdom Hmmmmm.
6th Jul 2021
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The Kingdom

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Jul 2021
Hmmmmm.
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Don't Force Yourself to Become a Bug Bounty Hunter
11th May 2020
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Don't Force Yourself to Become a Bug Bounty Hunter

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

11th May 2020
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2025 in review It’s time for a yearly review again. Time flies. Nerdy things I enjoyed I read a few books this...
3rd Jan 2026
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2025 in review

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

3rd Jan 2026
It’s time for a yearly review again. Time flies. Nerdy things I enjoyed I read a few books this year. The whole Dungeon Crawler Carl series was absolutely amazing and it quickly jumped up to one of my favorite series of all time. I can’t be held accountable for everything I’ve...
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Saibah Securitah It's always okay to buy the domain for the meme!
17th Sep 2021
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Saibah Securitah

from Opsbros [alt+shift+b] in technology

17th Sep 2021
It's always okay to buy the domain for the meme!
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The Problem With Bitcoin A few days ago the value of a single Bitcoin briefly surpassed $100K, a milestone that seemed...
8th Dec 2024
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The Problem With Bitcoin

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

8th Dec 2024
A few days ago the value of a single Bitcoin briefly surpassed $100K, a milestone that seemed unimaginable just some years ago. I wonder how durable the ever growing love for Bitcoin is. Let's have a closer look at the mechanisms underpinning the world's most famous...
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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
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Quest for Universal action — Essay

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

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…
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'Zabbix Security: client-server communication seems insecure' Zabbix is a populair tool for monitoring servers, services and network equipment. For monitoring...
27th Sep 2010
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'Zabbix Security: client-server communication seems insecure'

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

27th Sep 2010
Zabbix is a populair tool for monitoring servers, services and network equipment. For monitoring hosts, Zabbix provides an agent that can be installed on the hosts that must be monitored. Based on the supplied documentation and some remarks on the internets, the 'security' of...
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January, 2025 Hello, 2025! (As always, Death Cab remains the soundtrack by which you should read this.)
5th Jan 2025
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January, 2025

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

5th Jan 2025
Hello, 2025! (As always, Death Cab remains the soundtrack by which you should read this.)
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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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Composite and hard reset mods for the Tandyvision One I still have my literal first home computer (the Tomy Tutor), and it so happens I also have my...
8th Dec 2024
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Composite and hard reset mods for the Tandyvision One

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

8th Dec 2024
I still have my literal first home computer (the Tomy Tutor), and it so happens I also have my literal first game console: the Tandyvision One, Tandy Radio Shack's label variant of the Mattel Intellivision Master Component. The Mattel Intellivision proper originally hails...
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ML+Hadoop at NYC Predictive Analytics I was just at the NYC Predictive Analytics meetup talking about how we build machine learning...
3rd Aug 2013
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ML+Hadoop at NYC Predictive Analytics

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

3rd Aug 2013
I was just at the NYC Predictive Analytics meetup talking about how we build machine learning algorithms using Hadoop to power music recommendations. Great meetup, where we had two speakers, me and Blake Shaw from Foursquare.
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On PBKDF2 iterations There has been a lot of discussion recently around the LastPass breach, especially with regards to...
9th Jan 2023
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On PBKDF2 iterations

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

9th Jan 2023
There has been a lot of discussion recently around the LastPass breach, especially with regards to the number of PBKDF2 iterations applied to the master password to derive the vault encryption key. Other people have already dissected this particular breach, but I want to more...
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The Three Transitions
9th Jun 2023
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The Three Transitions

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

9th Jun 2023
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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
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Scalable application design without magic

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

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...
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We moved away from the city When me and my girlfriend Veronica moved to Linköping to study at the University the plan was never...
18th Oct 2019
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We moved away from the city

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

18th Oct 2019
When me and my girlfriend Veronica moved to Linköping to study at the University the plan was never to stay there permanently. We just moved there to study but the longterm plan, if you can have one at that stage, was always to move back to the north of Sweden where we came...
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Control Loops and Rice Cookers Rice cookers are fascinating machines. I’ve owned one for years, as rice is a significant part of my...
8th Dec 2021
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Control Loops and Rice Cookers

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

8th Dec 2021
Rice cookers are fascinating machines. I’ve owned one for years, as rice is a significant part of my regular diet, and it completely removes the stress of preparing rice. They also operate on a simple principle that can help us operate cloud infrastructure – the control loop.
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Designing a multi dimensional capacity queue This month I needed to create additional dimensions to a capacity queue mechanism. The food ordering...
1st Dec 2020
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Designing a multi dimensional capacity queue

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

1st Dec 2020
This month I needed to create additional dimensions to a capacity queue mechanism. The food ordering app that I created needed to be able to restrict capacity based on the number of orders, the contents in individual orders and the dispatch type (takeaway/delivery). Read along to...
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2023-11-04 nuclear safety Nuclear weapons are complex in many ways. The basic problem of achieving criticality is difficult on...
4th Nov 2023
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2023-11-04 nuclear safety

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

4th Nov 2023
Nuclear weapons are complex in many ways. The basic problem of achieving criticality is difficult on its own, but deploying nuclear weapons as operational military assets involves yet more challenges. Nuclear weapons must be safe and reliable, even with the rough handling and...
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On Blobs, Files and Data URIs in Javascript A guide to how to use Data URIs, Blobs and Files in Javascript for the complete beginner.
12th Apr 2019
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On Blobs, Files and Data URIs in Javascript

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

12th Apr 2019
A guide to how to use Data URIs, Blobs and Files in Javascript for the complete beginner.
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Java’s SSLContext protocol name is a footgun This should be old news, but I keep seeing the same mistake crop up, so I thought I’d blog about it...
23rd Jun 2026
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Java’s SSLContext protocol name is a footgun

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

23rd Jun 2026
This should be old news, but I keep seeing the same mistake crop up, so I thought I’d blog about it and spread awareness. In Java, if you want to configure TLS you generally start with an SSLContext. And you get an instance of this class by calling the static method...
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Canvas Breach Disrupts Schools & Colleges Nationwide An ongoing data extortion attack targeting the widely-used education technology platform Canvas...
8th May 2026
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Canvas Breach Disrupts Schools & Colleges Nationwide

from Krebs on Security [alt+shift+b] in technology

8th May 2026
An ongoing data extortion attack targeting the widely-used education technology platform Canvas disrupted classes and coursework at school districts and universities across the United States today, after a cybercrime group defaced the service’s login page with a ransom demand...
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CPS-1: GFX system internals
20th Feb 2022
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CPS-1: GFX system internals

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

20th Feb 2022
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IrDA Light: it's the radiation we can see. The communications potential of light is obvious, and indeed,...
11th Apr 2026
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IrDA

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

11th Apr 2026
Light: it's the radiation we can see. The communications potential of light is obvious, and indeed, many of the earliest forms of long-distance communication relied on it: signal fires, semaphore, heliographs. You could say that we still make extensive use of light for...
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Why we prefer computers over consoles when introducing kids to gaming I grew up gaming on consoles like Nintendo 64 and Gamecube. I have a lot of fond memories playing...
8th Mar 2024
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Why we prefer computers over consoles when introducing kids to gaming

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

8th Mar 2024
I grew up gaming on consoles like Nintendo 64 and Gamecube. I have a lot of fond memories playing games with my brothers on those devices. But as my own kids have gotten older, my wife and I have decided to first introduce them to gaming with computers, instead of consoles. The...
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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

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

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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Gosling’s Old Rum Virginia has draconian liquor laws, which means I have to get interesting bottles shipped from...
3rd Feb 2024
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Gosling’s Old Rum

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

3rd Feb 2024
Virginia has draconian liquor laws, which means I have to get interesting bottles shipped from [REDACTED], a site on which I am very prone to judging a book by its cover; every month I'll end up purchasing a bottle of something purely because it looks interesting and I can...
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Every Enemy Wears Your Face The enemy in your head is usually wearing your face. On projection, the villains we invent, and the...
28th May 2026
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Every Enemy Wears Your Face

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

28th May 2026
The enemy in your head is usually wearing your face. On projection, the villains we invent, and the chair we can't see ourselves sitting in.
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Some thoughts on Quora With the announcement this week that Quora had taken $11 million in VC at an $86 million valuation,...
4th Apr 2010
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Some thoughts on Quora

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

4th Apr 2010
With the announcement this week that Quora had taken $11 million in VC at an $86 million valuation, there’s been an awful lot of attention on Quora. I’ve had an account there and wanted to write up some of my initial thoughts. If you haven’t heard about Quora, it’s yet another...
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Why fastDoom is fast
4th Mar 2025
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Why fastDoom is fast

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

4th Mar 2025
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Don't be foie gras If 2016-2020 was the golden unicorn age of SaaS, 2021 nearly hurtled us into the foie gras* era.
9th Jan 2022
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Don't be foie gras

from Buck on Software [alt+shift+b] in technology

9th Jan 2022
If 2016-2020 was the golden unicorn age of SaaS, 2021 nearly hurtled us into the foie gras* era.
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AI as Normal Science shoutsout to Arvind and Sayash
2nd Sep 2025
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AI as Normal Science

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

2nd Sep 2025
shoutsout to Arvind and Sayash
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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
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Robotics Hackathon in Bimanual Manipulation in Munich

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

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...
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為什麼權益證明棒棒的（2020 年十一月）
6th Nov 2020
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為什麼權益證明棒棒的（2020 年十一月）

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

6th Nov 2020
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Star-Crossed The obvious and deserved comparison is with Evermore/Folklore — a stripped down, mellower version of...
2nd Oct 2021
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Star-Crossed

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Oct 2021
The obvious and deserved comparison is with Evermore/Folklore — a stripped down, mellower version of the author's ouevre. While I think Taylor's latest outings are good-not-great, I thought this was closer to great; the songwriting is steadier and more interesting, and the pathos...
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The story of the Rendition Vérité 1000 The story of how the Rendition v1000 briefly rule the Quake world.
1st Apr 2019
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The story of the Rendition Vérité 1000

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

1st Apr 2019
The story of how the Rendition v1000 briefly rule the Quake world.
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Solving the NYTimes Pips puzzle with a constraint solver pre { background: #f4f4f4; border: 1px solid #ddd; border-left: 3px solid #a03; ...
18th Oct 2025
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Solving the NYTimes Pips puzzle with a constraint solver

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

18th Oct 2025
pre { background: #f4f4f4; border: 1px solid #ddd; border-left: 3px solid #a03; border-radius: 2px; color: #666; display: block; font-family: monospace; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 1.6em; max-width: 60em; overflow: auto; padding: 1em 1.5em; ...
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The Eli Schiff Problem Fellow members of The International Cabal to Destroy Design, I write you today because we stand atop...
19th May 2016
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The Eli Schiff Problem

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

19th May 2016
Fellow members of The International Cabal to Destroy Design, I write you today because we stand atop a precipice, faced with the threat of annihilation. The rogue Eli Schiff has been systematically exposing our wicked deeds in an attempt to derail the Modern Minimalist plot. I’m...
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What MongoDB got Right MongoDB is perhaps the most-widely-mocked piece of software out there right now. While some of the...
1st Nov 2015
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What MongoDB got Right

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

1st Nov 2015
MongoDB is perhaps the most-widely-mocked piece of software out there right now. While some of the mockery is out-of-date or rooted in misunderstandings, much of it is well-deserved, and it’s difficult to disagree that much of MongoDB’s engineering is incredibly simplistic,...
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A Love Letter to Giant Robots Ah, giant robots. I grew up thinking they are the coolest things ever, and I still do. My first...
1st Jun 2024
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A Love Letter to Giant Robots

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

1st Jun 2024
Ah, giant robots. I grew up thinking they are the coolest things ever, and I still do. My first exposure to them was probably through 1994’s BattleTech animated series, where Adam Steiner piloted an AXM-2N Axman, in its frankly ridiculous neon green and purple paint job. And from...
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Who's Threatening Who? The Trump administration says immigration enforcement are being assaulted; the details tell a...
4th Nov 2025
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Who's Threatening Who?

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

4th Nov 2025
The Trump administration says immigration enforcement are being assaulted; the details tell a different story
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Everyone knows your location, Part 2: try it yourself and share the results Learn how to record and analyse your mobile device traffic, take an app from the list of "shady"...
17th Apr 2025
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Everyone knows your location, Part 2: try it yourself and share the results

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

17th Apr 2025
Learn how to record and analyse your mobile device traffic, take an app from the list of "shady" apps and share the results.
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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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Where is Lee Wittlinger? Lee controls the board of WP Engine. The board is why WP Engine hasn’t done a trademark deal for...
28th Sep 2024
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Where is Lee Wittlinger?

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

28th Sep 2024
Lee controls the board of WP Engine. The board is why WP Engine hasn’t done a trademark deal for their use of the WordPress and WooCommerce trademarks. You hide behind lawyers and corporate PR when you’re wrong, not when you’re right. I’m replying on Twitter, I’m commenting on...
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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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The little Wi-Fi AP that could I have a bad habit of testing things whenever a “good” idea pops into my head. This is a short...
22nd Jul 2020
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The little Wi-Fi AP that could

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

22nd Jul 2020
I have a bad habit of testing things whenever a “good” idea pops into my head. This is a short overview of one of them. The Orange Pi Zero is a SBC (single board computer) that has a slow 32-bit ARM 4 core CPU, 512MB of RAM and no display output. It’s actually quite OK for many...
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Stacked Branches with GitButler GitButler can now manage dependent branches that are stacked, including managing stacked GitHub PRs.
4th Dec 2024
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Stacked Branches with GitButler

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4th Dec 2024
GitButler can now manage dependent branches that are stacked, including managing stacked GitHub PRs.
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'Linux RAID level and chunk size: the benchmarks' Introduction When configuring a Linux RAID array, the chunk size needs to get chosen. But what is...
23rd May 2010
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'Linux RAID level and chunk size: the benchmarks'

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

23rd May 2010
Introduction When configuring a Linux RAID array, the chunk size needs to get chosen. But what is the chunk size? When you write data to a RAID array that implements striping (level 0, 5, 6, 10 and so on), the chunk of data sent to the array is broken down in to pieces, each part...
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Trying and returning the Eight Sleep Pod 4 I recently bought the Eight Sleep Pod 4—a smart mattress cover that tracks your heart rate, HRV,...
5th Oct 2024
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Trying and returning the Eight Sleep Pod 4

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

5th Oct 2024
I recently bought the Eight Sleep Pod 4—a smart mattress cover that tracks your heart rate, HRV, snoring, and cools or warms the mattress during the night. There’s a lot to like about the mattress but in the end I opted to return it. This post describes my experience with the Pod...
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VC-subsidized tokens Simon Willison writes about the recent Cursor changes:
1st Jul 2025
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VC-subsidized tokens

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

1st Jul 2025
Simon Willison writes about the recent Cursor changes:
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Leaderbored Is it a race or a run?
1st May 2026
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Leaderbored

from benn.substack [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st May 2026
Is it a race or a run?
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More Luigi alternatives The workflow engine battle has intensified with some more interesting entries lately! Here are a...
2nd Jul 2015
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More Luigi alternatives

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

2nd Jul 2015
The workflow engine battle has intensified with some more interesting entries lately! Here are a couple I encountered in the last few days. I love that at least two of them are direct references to Luigi!
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Veeam Backup & Response - RCE With Auth, But Mostly Without Auth (CVE-2024-40711) Every sysadmin is familiar with Veeam’s enterprise-oriented backup solution, ‘Veeam Backup &...
9th Sep 2024
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Veeam Backup & Response - RCE With Auth, But Mostly Without Auth (CVE-2024-40711)

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

9th Sep 2024
Every sysadmin is familiar with Veeam’s enterprise-oriented backup solution, ‘Veeam Backup & Replication’. Unfortunately, so is every ransomware operator, given it's somewhat 'privileged position' in the storage world of most enterprise's networks. There's no point deploying...
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Writing a simple Python compiler: 1. hello, fibonacci In this post we'll write a Python to C compiler in Python. This is especially easy to do since...
16th Aug 2020
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Writing a simple Python compiler: 1. hello, fibonacci

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16th Aug 2020
In this post we'll write a Python to C compiler in Python. This is especially easy to do since Python has a builtin parser library and because a number of CPython internals are exposed for extension writers. By the end of this post, in a few hundred lines of Python, we'll be able...
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Mortality statistics and Sweden's "dry tinder" effect We live in a year of about 350,000 amateur epidemiologists and I have no desire to join that “club”....
23rd Sep 2020
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Mortality statistics and Sweden's "dry tinder" effect

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

23rd Sep 2020
We live in a year of about 350,000 amateur epidemiologists and I have no desire to join that “club”. But I read something about COVID-19 deaths that I thought was interesting and wanted to see if I could replicated it through data.
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The Purpose of a Baby is What it Does I promised another Flusser post a few weeks ago…but personal events have intervened.
2nd Mar 2026
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The Purpose of a Baby is What it Does

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2nd Mar 2026
I promised another Flusser post a few weeks ago…but personal events have intervened.
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IBM M13 Trackpoint USB Converter Me, never not on the lookout for an opportunity to design something, whether needed or not, worked...
4th Jan 2022
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IBM M13 Trackpoint USB Converter

from Opsbros [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Jan 2022
Me, never not on the lookout for an opportunity to design something, whether needed or not, worked with @micon to design a module that could fit snugly in the keyboard, and provide a USB-C interface directly into the Keyboard/Mouse module.
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Hacking Chess.com and Accessing 50 Million Customer Records
16th Dec 2020
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Hacking Chess.com and Accessing 50 Million Customer Records

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

16th Dec 2020
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Good Home Automation Should be Boring I'm a huge fan of Home Assistant to automate various things around the house. I often look at other...
10th Apr 2021
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Good Home Automation Should be Boring

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

10th Apr 2021
I'm a huge fan of Home Assistant to automate various things around the house. I often look at other people's setup for inspiration, and one thing struck me. Many people have cluttered dashboards and use Home Assistant to track just about any metric they can.That's quite different...
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Omarchy on iMac After helping a family member migrate to a new computer, I found myself with an old iMac. The...
21st Sep 2025
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Omarchy on iMac

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

21st Sep 2025
After helping a family member migrate to a new computer, I found myself with an old iMac. The machine from 2017 was very slow running modern macOS, yet I have a soft spot for these all-in-one computers designed by Jony Ive and his team. Could I install Linux on it to give it a...
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Cannot access Windows guest within VMware Fusion when running vsphere client Currently, I am running VMware ESXi 4.1 on a test system. To manage ESXi, you need the VSphere...
17th Jun 2011
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Cannot access Windows guest within VMware Fusion when running vsphere client

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

17th Jun 2011
Currently, I am running VMware ESXi 4.1 on a test system. To manage ESXi, you need the VSphere client, which is only available for the Windows platform. Therefore, I run VMware Fusion on my Mac to be able to access VSphere and manage my ESXi host. The trouble is that both ESXi...
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The ITTAGE indirect branch predictor While investigating the performance of the new Python 3.14 tail-calling interpreter, I learned (via...
4th Jul 2025
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The ITTAGE indirect branch predictor

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4th Jul 2025
While investigating the performance of the new Python 3.14 tail-calling interpreter, I learned (via this very informative comment from Sam Gross) new (to me) piece of performance trivia: Modern CPUs mostly no longer struggle to predict the bytecode-dispatch indirect jump inside a...
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Precision Clock Mk IV [Hardware] GPS synchronised, millisecond precision, automatic timezones and more!
31st May 2025
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Precision Clock Mk IV

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

31st May 2025
[Hardware] GPS synchronised, millisecond precision, automatic timezones and more!
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Two worlds: idea people and developers I recently attended a startup weekend and was surprised by the backgrounds of the other...
29th Apr 2023
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Two worlds: idea people and developers

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

29th Apr 2023
I recently attended a startup weekend and was surprised by the backgrounds of the other attendees. As a software engineer myself, I expected to see mostly engineers, but that wasn’t the case. Instead, I found myself surrounded by people with a diverse range of backgrounds and...
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Multiple $20 AI Plans Are Better Than a Single $100 AI Plan After using the $200 and $100 Anthropic monthly plans for Claude, I have now settled on $20...
1st Jul 2026
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Multiple $20 AI Plans Are Better Than a Single $100 AI Plan

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

1st Jul 2026
After using the $200 and $100 Anthropic monthly plans for Claude, I have now settled on $20 Anthropic + $20 OpenAI + $10 OpenCode Go monthly plans for coding and design work. I also use local AI occasionally for non-coding-related tasks. By using multiple entry-level AI plans...
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WetSocks Revival How to get a broken METAR/TAF Toolbar application working again; the fun way! Seeing what we can do...
25th Aug 2021
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WetSocks Revival

from Opsbros [alt+shift+b] in technology

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.
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October theme says: Numbers New month and a new theme. As with the two previous games I’m following The Experimental Gameplay...
1st Oct 2009
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October theme says: Numbers

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

1st Oct 2009
New month and a new theme. As with the two previous games I’m following The Experimental Gameplay Project theme which this month is numbers. What’s it gonna be? A sudoku game or something more… thrilling? I’ll see what I can do :)
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2025-06-01 I've been reading The Nature of Order by Christopher Alexander, and it's inspired me to experiment...
1st Jun 2025
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2025-06-01

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

1st Jun 2025
I've been reading The Nature of Order by Christopher Alexander, and it's inspired me to experiment with this representation to communicate the global structure of the source code of the Game of Snake: The whole program is arranged on a 2D surface within a series of nested...
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Backdooring Your Backdoors - Another $20 Domain, More Governments After the excitement of our .MOBI research, we were left twiddling our thumbs. As you may recall, in...
8th Jan 2025
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Backdooring Your Backdoors - Another $20 Domain, More Governments

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

8th Jan 2025
After the excitement of our .MOBI research, we were left twiddling our thumbs. As you may recall, in 2024, we demonstrated the impact of an unregistered domain when we subverted the TLS/SSL CA process for verifying domain ownership to give ourselves the ability to issue valid and...
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In defense of GitHub's poor uptime In short: GitHub’s downtime is bad, but uptime numbers can be misleading. It’s not as bad as it...
10th Apr 2026
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In defense of GitHub's poor uptime

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

10th Apr 2026
In short: GitHub’s downtime is bad, but uptime numbers can be misleading. It’s not as bad as it looks; more like a D than an F. “Zero nines uptime”? 99.99% uptime, or “four nines”, is a common industry standard. Four nines of uptime is equivalent to 1.008 minutes of downtime per...
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The Discovery of pseudo-Acquaintance It’s the dawn of the 20th century. If we pick two homo sapiens on earth, we can classify their...
2nd Mar 2018
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The Discovery of pseudo-Acquaintance

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

2nd Mar 2018
It’s the dawn of the 20th century. If we pick two homo sapiens on earth, we can classify their relationship as one of these three types: An…
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Love is to die
29th Nov 2021
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Love is to die

from Joel Gustafson [alt+shift+b] in technology

29th Nov 2021
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Comment on Why I’m Switching Web Hosts by Hitesh Sahni Great post Lars. I have had my fair share of issues with Godaddy, and then Bluehost. I finally found...
29th Sep 2019
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Comment on Why I’m Switching Web Hosts by Hitesh Sahni

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

29th Sep 2019
Great post Lars. I have had my fair share of issues with Godaddy, and then Bluehost. I finally found satisfaction with SiteGround. The only reason GoDaddy is still in business is because of their heavy online and offline advertising. My WordPress website has not yet reached...
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Deploying apps in Coolify, part 1
1st Oct 2025
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Deploying apps in Coolify, part 1

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1st Oct 2025
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Some actual good news for once! Cornish Lithium, an Oxford Street Monorail, and why astronomy funding is under threat
2nd Mar 2026
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Some actual good news for once!

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

2nd Mar 2026
Cornish Lithium, an Oxford Street Monorail, and why astronomy funding is under threat
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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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AI and software security: the slop is now signal No matter how you feel about AI, it’s changing the world of software. The “T” in ChatGPT was...
10th May 2026
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AI and software security: the slop is now signal

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10th May 2026
No matter how you feel about AI, it’s changing the world of software. The “T” in ChatGPT was invented to improve language translation, and large language models (LLMs) are very good at this. Interestingly, translating between French and Japanese is effectively the same as...
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The Aces Some isolated bops but extremely uneven and unfinished in terms of feel.
1st Feb 2021
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The Aces

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Feb 2021
Some isolated bops but extremely uneven and unfinished in terms of feel.
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Announcing Apollo: a new Reddit app for iPhone I’m really excited to unveil a project I’ve been working on for the last year or so. It’s called...
30th Jan 2015
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Announcing Apollo: a new Reddit app for iPhone

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

30th Jan 2015
I’m really excited to unveil a project I’ve been working on for the last year or so. It’s called Apollo and it’s a new Reddit app for iPhone. I’ve been a Reddit user for about four years now, and the site is a constant source of interesting discussion, hilarity and news for me...
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2025-02-13 I seem to be alternating between working with html and Lua/LÖVE. In the last few days I've been...
13th Feb 2025
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2025-02-13

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

13th Feb 2025
I seem to be alternating between working with html and Lua/LÖVE. In the last few days I've been trying to extract some more timeless tools out of the ad hoc static site I replaced my old Rails website with a couple of years ago. Here's the project. Requires just Lua (any version...
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Visionaries Have Democratised Remote Network Access - Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops... Well, we’re back again, with yet another fresh-off-the-press bug chain (and associated Interactive...
12th Nov 2024
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Visionaries Have Democratised Remote Network Access - Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (CVE-2024-8068 and CVE-2024-8069)

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

12th Nov 2024
Well, we’re back again, with yet another fresh-off-the-press bug chain (and associated Interactive Artifact Generator). This time, it’s in Citrix’s “Virtual Apps and Desktops” offering. This is a tech stack that enables end-users (and likely, your friendly neighbourhood...
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Planes, Trains, and Automobiles You wanna hurt me? Go right ahead if it makes you feel any better. I'm an easy target. Yeah, you're...
9th Jan 2025
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Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

9th Jan 2025
You wanna hurt me? Go right ahead if it makes you feel any better. I'm an easy target. Yeah, you're right, I talk too much. I also listen too much. I could be a cold-hearted cynic like you... but I don't like to hurt people's feelings. Well, you think what you want about me; I'm...
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Momentum strategies Haven't posted anything in ages, so here's a quick hack I threw together in Python on a Sunday...
3rd Mar 2014
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Momentum strategies

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

3rd Mar 2014
Haven't posted anything in ages, so here's a quick hack I threw together in Python on a Sunday night. Basically I wanted to know whether momentum strategies work well for international stock indexes. I spent a bit of time putting together a strategy that buys the stock index if...
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The Most Important Micros That is, for what they represent
28th Feb 2026
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The Most Important Micros

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

28th Feb 2026
That is, for what they represent
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Dispatches from the farm upstate Middle-aged computer expert opts to escape civilization, offers dubious life advice.
3rd Aug 2024
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Dispatches from the farm upstate

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3rd Aug 2024
Middle-aged computer expert opts to escape civilization, offers dubious life advice.
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About Metakgp You can listen to this in background Before The Beginning - John Frusciante (YouTube)...
13th Dec 2017
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About Metakgp

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

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…
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The Design of Everyday Things My favorite book of the year. I’m not going to gush about it — enough others have in the decades of...
30th Dec 2014
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The Design of Everyday Things

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

30th Dec 2014
My favorite book of the year. I’m not going to gush about it — enough others have in the decades of its existence — but know that it is that good and that timeless. Norman changed the way I thought about technology.
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Reading List 12/06/2025 3D printed legos, exploding wire detonators, the David Taylor model basin, multi-point metal...
6th Dec 2025
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Reading List 12/06/2025

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

6th Dec 2025
3D printed legos, exploding wire detonators, the David Taylor model basin, multi-point metal forming, and more.
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2023-02-07 secret government telephone numbers Very nearly a year ago, I wrote a popular article about secret military telephone buttons. To be...
7th Feb 2023
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2023-02-07 secret government telephone numbers

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

7th Feb 2023
Very nearly a year ago, I wrote a popular article about secret military telephone buttons. To be clear, the "secret" here was a joke and these buttons are in fact well documented. The buttons I was talking about were the AUTOVON call precedence buttons, used for a five-level...
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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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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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Clip control on the Apple GPU Neverball rendered on the Apple M1 GPU with an open source OpenGL driver After a year in...
22nd Aug 2022
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Clip control on the Apple GPU

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

22nd Aug 2022
Neverball rendered on the Apple M1 GPU with an open source OpenGL driver After a year in development, the open source “Asahi” driver for the Apple GPU is running real games. There’s more to do, but Neverball is already playable (and a lot of fun!). Neverball uses legacy “fixed...
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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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How traffic shaping can dramatically improve internet responsiveness At work, access to the internet is provided by a 10 Mbit down / 1 Mbit up ADSL-connection. As we are...
8th Mar 2014
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How traffic shaping can dramatically improve internet responsiveness

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

8th Mar 2014
At work, access to the internet is provided by a 10 Mbit down / 1 Mbit up ADSL-connection. As we are a mid-size company, bandwidth is clearly a severe constraint. But it was not our biggest problem. Even simple web-browsing was very slow. As I was setting up a monitoring...
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Death, and Utsuge This post discusses topics some may wish to avoid: terminal illness, hospice care, death, and...
1st Nov 2024
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Death, and Utsuge

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

1st Nov 2024
This post discusses topics some may wish to avoid: terminal illness, hospice care, death, and Japanese visual novels.
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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
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Tools for a Culture of Writing

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

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....
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Notes on Puzzles 1. I mostly don’t play chess anymore — it’s too addictive, and tends to take over your brain in a...
11th Jul 2023
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Notes on Puzzles

from Nabeel S. Qureshi [alt+shift+b] in technology

11th Jul 2023
1. I mostly don’t play chess anymore — it’s too addictive, and tends to take over your brain in a way I don’t like — but one habit I’ve retained is solving puzzles.
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Measuring Capacity Through Utilization (This post is cross-posted from Honeycomb’s instrumentation series). One of my favorite concepts...
8th Jan 2017
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Measuring Capacity Through Utilization

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

8th Jan 2017
(This post is cross-posted from Honeycomb’s instrumentation series). One of my favorite concepts when thinking about instrumenting a system to understand its overall performance and capacity is what I call “time utilization”. By this I mean: If you look at the behavior of a...
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How to Research New Media Effects As I approach my second decade studying digital media, there’s one thing I keep noticing:
21st May 2024
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How to Research New Media Effects

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

21st May 2024
As I approach my second decade studying digital media, there’s one thing I keep noticing:
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btrbk is awesome I like having a safety net whenever I’m doing something potentially destructive, which is why I use...
9th Jul 2022
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btrbk is awesome

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

9th Jul 2022
I like having a safety net whenever I’m doing something potentially destructive, which is why I use the btrfs file system for my operating system and my data. Snapshots are one half of my “whoops, there goes all my work” strategy (backups are the other half). I’ve written about...
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The End of the Tunnel Lately I’ve been feeling like there’s been a shit-ton of stuff going on, quite a turn-around from...
19th Oct 2011
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The End of the Tunnel

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

19th Oct 2011
Lately I’ve been feeling like there’s been a shit-ton of stuff going on, quite a turn-around from the last time. One course about data structure and algorithms (super fun to be honest) has wrapped up. We thought we were ahead with the assignments but in the end it got very...
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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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Taxonomist I’m really excited to introduce a project I worked on with various AI agents the other night, which...
2nd Apr 2026
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Taxonomist

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

2nd Apr 2026
I’m really excited to introduce a project I worked on with various AI agents the other night, which I think represents a new way we might build things in the future. First, the problem: My WordPress site has 5,600+ posts going back decades, and I had some categories that were old...
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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

from Scott Kennedy [alt+shift+b] in technology

22nd Jul 2025
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The Problem With Bitcoin Some thoughts on the long term viability of Bitcoin's rising value.
8th Dec 2024
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The Problem With Bitcoin

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

8th Dec 2024
Some thoughts on the long term viability of Bitcoin's rising value.
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Let's build a VORON: Major failure The left POM nut got ground down, making the bed fall down. After 600 hours, the printer met it’s...
1st Mar 2024
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Let's build a VORON: Major failure

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

1st Mar 2024
The left POM nut got ground down, making the bed fall down. After 600 hours, the printer met it’s first major failure. I know I earlier described how the extruder starter skipping in a big way, but that was just some filament getting stuck in the extruder. This time a part...
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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
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No Way, PHP Strikes Again! (CVE-2024-4577)

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

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
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Ambition, fun and not Cheat on enterprise sales objection handling.
4th Jul 2025
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Ambition, fun and not

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4th Jul 2025
Cheat on enterprise sales objection handling.
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Marc Andreessen Egg Game Marc Andreessen Egg Game Marc Andreessen Egg Game is a game about doodling on eggs to make them look...
7th May 2026
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Marc Andreessen Egg Game

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

7th May 2026
Marc Andreessen Egg Game Marc Andreessen Egg Game is a game about doodling on eggs to make them look like Marc Andreessen. Read the full post on my blog! Here's a raw link, if you need it: https://eieio.games/blog/marc-andreessen-egg-game
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IBM RISC System/6000 Family Just when PowerSeeker thought they had nowhere to go...
1st May 2024
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IBM RISC System/6000 Family

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1st May 2024
Just when PowerSeeker thought they had nowhere to go...
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So, You Want To Build A DBaaS Part 2: Technical Bits In my first post in this pseudo-series, we covered more of the theory and organisational practices...
21st May 2023
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So, You Want To Build A DBaaS Part 2: Technical Bits

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

21st May 2023
In my first post in this pseudo-series, we covered more of the theory and organisational practices around building and operating a database-as-a-service platform. In this post, I’ll cover some of the more technical aspects of this that I think are worth considering, drawn from my...
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March Theme: 10 seconds Well well here’s something interesting. The Experimental Gameplay Project has given us a really...
2nd Mar 2010
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March Theme: 10 seconds

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

2nd Mar 2010
Well well here’s something interesting. The Experimental Gameplay Project has given us a really interesting thing to focus on: Time. Like Braid, it’s time for us to make something interesting with time itself. 10 seconds is the constraint and that’s not a lot, but perhaps enough?
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Quality vs quantity in the age of AI Over the last four months I’ve increased my use of AI for web dev work pretty dramatically. I use it...
27th Apr 2026
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Quality vs quantity in the age of AI

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

27th Apr 2026
Over the last four months I’ve increased my use of AI for web dev work pretty dramatically. I use it every day at work, as do most of my coworkers. I don’t think it’s disputed anymore that AI-assisted development can save a lot of time and effort. The question is, what do we do...
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Grid Happens: Because Flexbox Wasn’t Enough How we built a flexible, responsive 12-column CSS Grid system for our website redesign: lessons,...
13th Oct 2025
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Grid Happens: Because Flexbox Wasn’t Enough

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

13th Oct 2025
How we built a flexible, responsive 12-column CSS Grid system for our website redesign: lessons, hacks, and why grid finally made sense.
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On Apple slowing down its phones Build world’s best smartphone CPU & release a CPU governor to slow it down via software update...
22nd Dec 2017
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On Apple slowing down its phones

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

22nd Dec 2017
Build world’s best smartphone CPU & release a CPU governor to slow it down via software update 😑 This isn’t an isolated incident, Li-ion batteries have been plaguing the tech industry. While other parts of the smartphone like displays, compute power, data transfer, storage...
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I built a timer I can’t fail to set Have you ever gotten to the end of a long work day and realized you’re no closer to your goals? I...
2nd Dec 2025
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I built a timer I can’t fail to set

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

2nd 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. Sure, I was doing a lot of stuff. But I wasn’t pausing to ask whether I was doing the right stuff. Or whether my approach was working. Or if I was spending the right amount of...
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The T-34/0 keyboard layout This is an update to the T-34 keyboard layout I’ve been using for a solid number of weeks. While...
5th Sep 2021
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The T-34/0 keyboard layout

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

5th Sep 2021
This is an update to the T-34 keyboard layout I’ve been using for a solid number of weeks. While there are more changes I’d like to try, I’m quite pleased with these changes so I figured I might as well immortalize them before I explore further. (And I do have a bunch of big...
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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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Do amazing things with a focused mind Read about my experience during the workshop I got as a birth day present involving the Wim Hof...
5th Dec 2018
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Do amazing things with a focused mind

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

5th Dec 2018
Read about my experience during the workshop I got as a birth day present involving the Wim Hof Method.
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The origin and unexpected evolution of the word "mainframe" What is the origin of the word "mainframe", referring to a large, complex computer? Most sources...
1st Feb 2025
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The origin and unexpected evolution of the word "mainframe"

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

1st Feb 2025
What is the origin of the word "mainframe", referring to a large, complex computer? Most sources agree that the term is related to the frames that held early computers, but the details are vague.1 It turns out that the history is more interesting and complicated than you'd...
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The Orientation Game
29th Oct 2025
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The Orientation Game

from Joel Gustafson [alt+shift+b] in technology

29th Oct 2025
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How I Use Alfred to Search My Obsidian Notes Faster (with Spotlight!) In this post, I’ll show you how I integrated Obsidian into Alfred so I can search my vault from...
22nd Mar 2023
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How I Use Alfred to Search My Obsidian Notes Faster (with Spotlight!)

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

22nd Mar 2023
In this post, I’ll show you how I integrated Obsidian into Alfred so I can search my vault from anywhere on my Mac. I just open Alfred, type “note” followed by my query, and see my search results. Hit enter and the correct note opens in Obsidian. Easy and quick!
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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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Introducing AirTag Security Cable We wanted to make a better braided steel AirTag mount - more compact, stronger, really well...
18th Feb 2025
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Introducing AirTag Security Cable

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

18th Feb 2025
We wanted to make a better braided steel AirTag mount - more compact, stronger, really well made.    So we fired up our Swiss lathe and machined a custom oversized screw that keeps it secure and looks awesome. It is T10 Torx and comes with an included driver.   There is an...
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Switching to Claude Code + VSCode inside Docker Why I decided to ditch Cursor and switch to running Claude Code in an isolated environment + diy...
11th Jul 2025
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Switching to Claude Code + VSCode inside Docker

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

11th Jul 2025
Why I decided to ditch Cursor and switch to running Claude Code in an isolated environment + diy guide!
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2024 in review It’s time for my 15th yearly review. Nerdy things I enjoyed I read a lot of fantasy books this...
5th Jan 2025
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2024 in review

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

5th Jan 2025
It’s time for my 15th yearly review. Nerdy things I enjoyed I read a lot of fantasy books this year! My favorite new series were The Kingkiller Chronicle, Gentlemen Bastards series, and The Stormlight Archive. If you’re curious about Sanderson’s books but a little apprehensive...
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How to reverse engineer an analog chip: the TDA7000 FM radio receiver Have you ever wanted to reverse engineer an analog chip from a die photo? Wanted to understand...
2nd Aug 2025
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How to reverse engineer an analog chip: the TDA7000 FM radio receiver

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

2nd Aug 2025
Have you ever wanted to reverse engineer an analog chip from a die photo? Wanted to understand what's inside the "black box" of an integrated circuit? In this article, I explain my reverse engineering process, using the Philips TDA7000 FM radio receiver chip as an example. This...
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Markus Buehler receives 2025 Washington Award Materials scientist is honored for his academic leadership and innovative research that bridge...
3rd Mar 2025
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Markus Buehler receives 2025 Washington Award

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3rd Mar 2025
Materials scientist is honored for his academic leadership and innovative research that bridge engineering and nature.
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Agatha Christie’s Poirot Delightful. I’d recommend pacing out your consumption a bit more than we did — like the books...
3rd Jan 2020
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Agatha Christie’s Poirot

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

3rd Jan 2020
Delightful. I’d recommend pacing out your consumption a bit more than we did — like the books themselves, and perhaps like the format writ large, the formula wears a bit thin and obvious when you’re giving yourself ninety minutes of it each night — but Suchet’s acting is...
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Designing for People The kindest and strongest praise that you can give this book is that it was written in 1955 and...
1st Jan 2023
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Designing for People

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Jan 2023
The kindest and strongest praise that you can give this book is that it was written in 1955 and neither its praxis nor its theory has aged a day. A lot of external praise is directed at its much-ballyhooed prognostication of the future (predicting FaceTime in 1955, that sort of...
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Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce" In short: from my experience, people like map and filter, but not reduce. I use functions like map...
13th Sep 2026
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Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce"

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

13th Sep 2026
In short: from my experience, people like map and filter, but not reduce. I use functions like map and filter all the time. When I put that code up for review, my peers rarely complain. I get plenty of feedback about other decisions, but not about my use of map and filter. I...
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Administering Kubernetes is hard Kubernetes is easy to use after some exposure; it's pretty convenient too. But it is super hard to...
30th Sep 2019
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Administering Kubernetes is hard

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

30th Sep 2019
Kubernetes is easy to use after some exposure; it's pretty convenient too. But it is super hard to set up. eksctl is a good tool for folks who don't want to spend hours/days/weeks debugging VPC configuration in 1000s of lines of CloudFormation. None of the other tools seem to be...
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I found my 7th grade art book ! The drawings from my 7th grade art book gives an insight of what my life and dreams were during that...
24th Apr 2016
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I found my 7th grade art book !

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

24th Apr 2016
The drawings from my 7th grade art book gives an insight of what my life and dreams were during that period. I share this is to inspire at-least few to go back and check what they were and what they are now. Art book cover My 7th grade Art notebook. I’m 29 year old Indian male....
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Major Update: Private AI Recs
2nd Aug 2025
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Major Update: Private AI Recs

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2nd Aug 2025
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Repairing a Nintendo Gameboy Advance SP This month Nintendo released the Switch with Zelda "Breath of the Wild". The new console received...
25th Mar 2017
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Repairing a Nintendo Gameboy Advance SP

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

25th Mar 2017
This month Nintendo released the Switch with Zelda "Breath of the Wild". The new console received positive reviews. The new Zelda game is amazing and can be played on-the-go, thanks to the portability of the Nintendo Switch. But it its hardly the first Nintendo device that...
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Happy New Year I rang in the new year with an unexpected trip to St. Barts that ended up with friends. I made a...
2nd Jan 2026
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Happy New Year

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

2nd Jan 2026
I rang in the new year with an unexpected trip to St. Barts that ended up with friends. I made a resolution in 2025 to watch more films. It’s an art form I have many friends in and when we have hung out I realized how shallow my understanding of the canon of film was. … Continue...
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Stuff costs money The many temptations of software businesses. Plus, a hackquisition?
5th Sep 2025
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Stuff costs money

from benn.substack [alt+shift+b] in technology

5th Sep 2025
The many temptations of software businesses. Plus, a hackquisition?
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Vertigo I’m surprised that this movie is held in such high esteem relative to other Hitchcock films. I liked...
4th Jun 2022
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Vertigo

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

4th Jun 2022
I’m surprised that this movie is held in such high esteem relative to other Hitchcock films. I liked it, and I thought there were very good parts of it, and I thought it was better than Haley did. But it didn’t strike me as one of his best films beyond the dolly shot which is now...
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Servicing a robot vacuum cleaner Back in 2011 I got myself an iRobot Roomba 555 robot vacuum cleaner to automatically clean my...
19th Mar 2019
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Servicing a robot vacuum cleaner

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

19th Mar 2019
Back in 2011 I got myself an iRobot Roomba 555 robot vacuum cleaner to automatically clean my apartment. It's a little circle shaped robot that drives around sucking up dust bunnies. Over the years it has bravely fought the dangers of my apartment... shoes, cables, carpet and...
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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
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Hackers Used Meta’s AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts

from Krebs on Security [alt+shift+b] in technology

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”...
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Counting Agentic Traffic This month I brought Lemmid Count back: the website statistics of my platform, rebuilt from scratch...
6th Jul 2026
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Counting Agentic Traffic

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

6th Jul 2026
This month I brought Lemmid Count back: the website statistics of my platform, rebuilt from scratch without AWStats and without a database. Its party piece is the dimension every other analytics tool throws away: the bots. In the agentic era the question "what did AI agents read...
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3Duino helps you rapidly create interactive 3D-printed devices Every few months, some new software comes along that promises to make some complex engineering...
3rd Dec 2025
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3Duino helps you rapidly create interactive 3D-printed devices

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

3rd Dec 2025
Every few months, some new software comes along that promises to make some complex engineering discipline accessible to everyone. Such software rarely lives up to the developer’s claims, because the claims are far too ambitious. But what if the scope is more reasonable? 3Duino...
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Godzilla Minus One I wrote a bit in Everybody's in L.A. about the constraint of evaluating the merit of something...
4th Jun 2024
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Godzilla Minus One

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

4th Jun 2024
I wrote a bit in Everybody's in L.A. about the constraint of evaluating the merit of something that's in conversation with a genre you don't really care for in the first place; I don't care much for late night shows, and I care even less for kaiju movies, even with my knowledge...
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Inside the mechanical Bendix Air Data Computer, part 3: pressure transducers MathJax = { tex: { inlineMath: [['$', '$'], ['\\(', '\\)']] }, svg: { fontCache:...
16th Jan 2024
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Inside the mechanical Bendix Air Data Computer, part 3: pressure transducers

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

16th Jan 2024
MathJax = { tex: { inlineMath: [['$', '$'], ['\\(', '\\)']] }, svg: { fontCache: 'global' }, chtml: { displayAlign: 'left' } }; MathJax.Hub.Config({ "HTML-CSS": { scale: 175} }); .MathJax {font-size: 1em !important} The Bendix Central Air...
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Using AI to generate code Discover how AI-generated code can revolutionise your software development process and optimise...
2nd May 2023
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Using AI to generate code

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

2nd May 2023
Discover how AI-generated code can revolutionise your software development process and optimise cloud performance in our fascinating exploration of GPT-4's transformative capabilities.
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Discwasher SpikeMaster Meet the Mighty SpikeMaster, Protector of Computers.
1st Feb 2025
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Discwasher SpikeMaster

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

1st Feb 2025
Meet the Mighty SpikeMaster, Protector of Computers.
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Optimizing over multinomial distributions Sometimes you have to maximize some function $$ f(w_1, w_2, ldots, w_n) $$ where $$ w_1 + w_2 +...
24th Jul 2013
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Optimizing over multinomial distributions

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

24th Jul 2013
Sometimes you have to maximize some function $$ f(w_1, w_2, ldots, w_n) $$ where $$ w_1 + w_2 + ldots + w_n = 1 $$ and $$ 0 le w_i le 1 $$ . Usually, $$ f $$ is concave and differentiable, so there's one unique global maximum and you can solve it by applying gradient ascent.
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Fearless Rebasing GitButler now supports first class conflicts, which makes rebasing much less annoying. What is...
23rd Oct 2024
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Fearless Rebasing

from GitButler [alt+shift+b] in technology

23rd Oct 2024
GitButler now supports first class conflicts, which makes rebasing much less annoying. What is "fearless rebasing"?
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I went on an Amazon propaganda tour In which I'm forced to confront a contradictions in my values
1st Jul 2026
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I went on an Amazon propaganda tour

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

1st Jul 2026
In which I'm forced to confront a contradictions in my values
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Game Engine Black Book: DOOM, Korean Edition
5th Apr 2021
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Game Engine Black Book: DOOM, Korean Edition

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

5th Apr 2021
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From KEMs to protocols This is the third part of my series on Key Encapsulation Mechanisms (KEMs) and why you should care...
8th Apr 2021
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From KEMs to protocols

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

8th Apr 2021
This is the third part of my series on Key Encapsulation Mechanisms (KEMs) and why you should care about them. Part 1 looked at what a KEM is and the KEM/DEM paradigm for constructing public key encryption schemes. Part 2 looked at cases where the basic KEM abstraction is not...
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Fearless Rebasing GitButler now supports first class conflicts, which makes rebasing much less annoying. What is...
23rd Oct 2024
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Fearless Rebasing

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

23rd Oct 2024
GitButler now supports first class conflicts, which makes rebasing much less annoying. What is "fearless rebasing"?
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How to transcribe long audios fast with open source (colab included) In this post I will give you code that you can run yourself in Colab (or on your own machine with a...
14th Oct 2024
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How to transcribe long audios fast with open source (colab included)

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

14th Oct 2024
In this post I will give you code that you can run yourself in Colab (or on your own machine with a GPU), that will allow you to very quickly transcribe long audios in many languages. The setup uses the whisper model from huggingface, Google Drive and Colab. I used it to...
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Get notification when a new device connects to OpenWRT When a new device is connects to my OpenWRT router, I get a notification on Gotify. This serves as a...
12th Dec 2024
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Get notification when a new device connects to OpenWRT

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

12th Dec 2024
When a new device is connects to my OpenWRT router, I get a notification on Gotify. This serves as a good low-key intrusion detection along with my earlier OpenWRT login alerts. Heavy lifting was already done by Brandon McFarlin, I had to just modify the code to send messages to...
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Tech tip: eliminate HDD humming noise Anyone that has bought themselves external WD drives from the Elements/My Book/Easystore series are...
2nd Apr 2021
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Tech tip: eliminate HDD humming noise

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

2nd Apr 2021
Anyone that has bought themselves external WD drives from the Elements/My Book/Easystore series are probably familiar with the acoustic characteristics of the drives. The drives have a loud hum caused by WD running the drives at 7200rpm while claiming the drives to be...
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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
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Why I’m Switching Web Hosts

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

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....
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April 2021 newsletter with links on AI scaling, particular new East Asian record-breaking work & deep reinforcement...
3rd Jun 2021
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April 2021 newsletter

from Gwern.net Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Jun 2021
with links on AI scaling, particular new East Asian record-breaking work & deep reinforcement learning.
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Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools Code forces humans to be precise. That’s good—computers need precision. But it also forces humans to...
3rd Feb 2025
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Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools

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

3rd Feb 2025
Code forces humans to be precise. That’s good—computers need precision. But it also forces humans to think like machines. For decades we tried to fix this by making programming more human-friendly. Higher-level languages. Visual interfaces. Each step helped, but we were still...
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Web Push Pitfall Whilst implementing Web Push notifications for my toy Q&A service curiouswolf I ran into an issue...
30th Mar 2023
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Web Push Pitfall

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

30th Mar 2023
Whilst implementing Web Push notifications for my toy Q&A service curiouswolf I ran into an issue that led to me being stumped for hours. I was successfully receiving notifications from my server when using Chrome, but no matter what Safari was not playing ball. Web Push requires...
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Multi-Window support in your iPad app Take advantage of the improved support for multiple windows on iPadOS by implementing new UI...
6th Oct 2019
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Multi-Window support in your iPad app

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

6th Oct 2019
Take advantage of the improved support for multiple windows on iPadOS by implementing new UI concepts enabling different use cases for your app.
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Building my childhood dream PC
18th May 2025
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Building my childhood dream PC

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

18th May 2025
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2023-06-02 the reinvention of owens lake Programming note: In an effort to introduce an exciting new social aspect to Computers Are Bad (a...
2nd Jun 2023
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2023-06-02 the reinvention of owens lake

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

2nd Jun 2023
Programming note: In an effort to introduce an exciting new social aspect to Computers Are Bad (a functional necessity to appease early-stage investor demands for "engagement")¸ I am launching a Matrix room for CAB readers. You can join it! Do whatever you do to join rooms in...
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Subtext 4.0 Released Subtext 4.0 has been released: subtext-4.0.sit (StuffIt 3 archive, includes source code and THINK C...
19th Feb 2024
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Subtext 4.0 Released

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19th Feb 2024
Subtext 4.0 has been released: subtext-4.0.sit (StuffIt 3 archive, includes source code and THINK C 5 project file) c33a6abe15e7f07159a18d936dce7c435d9619f80d6c53d1cdd26fabf06712f7 SHA1: 0f4bdcd08b57b568125d8ddcab5ad97f1f5dd586 ipdb-2023-11.db (Free IP Geolocation...
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Plex Might Be Inadvertently Bottlenecking You Plex Might Be Inadvertently Bottlenecking You Posted on May 12, 2025 This post is from a legacy...
12th May 2025
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Plex Might Be Inadvertently Bottlenecking You

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12th May 2025
Plex Might Be Inadvertently Bottlenecking You Posted on May 12, 2025 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. Plex has this Relay feature that basically pipes your traffic through...
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Vim's UserGettingBored autocmd In short: Vim has a joke autocmd called UserGettingBored that doesn’t do anything. Vim’s automatic...
22nd Aug 2026
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Vim's UserGettingBored autocmd

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

22nd Aug 2026
In short: Vim has a joke autocmd called UserGettingBored that doesn’t do anything. Vim’s automatic commands feature, usually shortened to “autocmd”, lets you run code when various events occur. For example, you could implement an auto-save feature by binding the TextChanged event...
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Talking Tines [Concept] Tuning forks that talk
29th Jun 2024
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Talking Tines

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

29th Jun 2024
[Concept] Tuning forks that talk
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The two kinds of error In short: in my mind, errors are divided into two categories. Expected errors (think “user entered...
1st Mar 2026
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The two kinds of error

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

1st Mar 2026
In short: in my mind, errors are divided into two categories. Expected errors (think “user entered invalid data”), which are part of normal operation, aren’t the developer’s fault, and should be handled. Unexpected errors (think “null pointer exception”) are the developer’s...
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Fixed Gear Gran Fondo Today I took my fixed gear bike for a ride, 176KM from Amsterdam to America (Limburg, The...
9th Apr 2021
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Fixed Gear Gran Fondo

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

9th Apr 2021
Today I took my fixed gear bike for a ride, 176KM from Amsterdam to America (Limburg, The Netherlands). Rain and wind added to the challenge, creating an ultimate test for man and machine. Let some of my fun be of inspiration to you! Gran Fondo The Italians call a big cycle ride...
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Logging information from iOS Widgets Lately users have been emailing me with a few odd things happening with their Apollo iOS 14 home...
1st Dec 2020
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Logging information from iOS Widgets

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

1st Dec 2020
Lately users have been emailing me with a few odd things happening with their Apollo iOS 14 home screen widgets, and some well-placed logs can really help with identifying what’s going wrong. iOS has a sophisticated built in logging mechanism, os_log, and now with SwiftLogger in...
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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
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My first weeks as dad

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

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...
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SipHash-based encryption for constrained devices I see a lot of attempts to define encryption schemes for constrained devices with short...
6th May 2024
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SipHash-based encryption for constrained devices

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

6th May 2024
I see a lot of attempts to define encryption schemes for constrained devices with short authentication tags (e.g., 64 bits) using universal hashing. For example, there’s a proposal in CFRG at the moment for a version of AES-GCM with short tags for this kind of use-case. In my...
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From error-handling to structured concurrency How should we think about error-handling in concurrent programs? In single-threaded programs, we’ve...
23rd Mar 2026
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From error-handling to structured concurrency

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

23rd Mar 2026
How should we think about error-handling in concurrent programs? In single-threaded programs, we’ve mostly converged on a standard pattern, with a diverse zoo of implementations and concrete patterns. When an error occurs, it is propagated up the stack until we find a stack frame...
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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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Review of the 2-dial TTArtisan Light Meter My latest purchase for my analog cameras is the TTArtisan light meter, a hotshoe-mounted meter...
30th Dec 2021
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Review of the 2-dial TTArtisan Light Meter

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

30th Dec 2021
My latest purchase for my analog cameras is the TTArtisan light meter, a hotshoe-mounted meter accessory. The market for these shoe-mounted light meters for vintage cameras has become weirdly competitive. They fit on top of a mechanical camera and provide you with the right...
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The History of Acer A Shy Kid Builds the Taiwanese Tech Industry
7th Jul 2025
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The History of Acer

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

7th Jul 2025
A Shy Kid Builds the Taiwanese Tech Industry
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Hour 10: Updating the website We're back! Instead of working on something brand new, I'll be updating the existing website hosted...
25th Nov 2025
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Hour 10: Updating the website

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

25th Nov 2025
We're back! Instead of working on something brand new, I'll be updating the existing website hosted at eyadquaibi.com
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Studying foreign languages with inbox zero The only time I've been able to seriously, rapidly improve my ability to speak a foreign language...
4th Apr 2020
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Studying foreign languages with inbox zero

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

4th Apr 2020
The only time I've been able to seriously, rapidly improve my ability to speak a foreign language was through intensive language courses in college. I was forced to actively speak, read, and write Chinese for 6-8 hours a week (1-2 hours every day). Then study another 5-10 hours a...
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Train Simulator Controller: TPWS Control Panel TPWS is a key safety system in UK trains, so my Class 80x cab needed a precisely replicated TPWS...
16th Nov 2025
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Train Simulator Controller: TPWS Control Panel

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

16th Nov 2025
TPWS is a key safety system in UK trains, so my Class 80x cab needed a precisely replicated TPWS control panel.
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Builder.ai did not “fake AI with 700 engineers” The claim that the AI startup “faked AI” with hundreds of engineers went viral – and I also fell for...
12th Jun 2025
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Builder.ai did not “fake AI with 700 engineers”

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

12th Jun 2025
The claim that the AI startup “faked AI” with hundreds of engineers went viral – and I also fell for it, initially. The reality is much more sobering: Builder.ai built a code generator on top of Claude and other LLMs; it did not build a so-called “Mechanical Turk.”
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Too Late Smart My grandparents, whose little farm was next door to ours so my sisters and I grew up effectively...
2 weeks ago
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Too Late Smart

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

2 weeks ago
My grandparents, whose little farm was next door to ours so my sisters and I grew up effectively with two houses and two very different sets of parents, were lovely people.
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Zenith Data Systems, Part I The quality goes in before the name goes on
a week ago
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Zenith Data Systems, Part I

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

a week ago
The quality goes in before the name goes on
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Creating a basic ZFS file system on Linux Here are some notes on creating a basic ZFS file system on Linux, using ZFS on Linux. I'm...
1st Feb 2014
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Creating a basic ZFS file system on Linux

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

1st Feb 2014
Here are some notes on creating a basic ZFS file system on Linux, using ZFS on Linux. I'm documenting the scenario where I just want to create a file system that can tollerate at least a single drive failure and can be shared over NFS. Identify the drives you want to use for the...
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Cowboy Bebop (2021) This was neither as bad as I thought it could be nor as good as I hoped it might be. The vast...
1st Jan 2022
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Cowboy Bebop (2021)

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

1st Jan 2022
This was neither as bad as I thought it could be nor as good as I hoped it might be. The vast majority of the blame I think has to go towards the scriptwriting, which has a Joss Whedon-esque self-referentiality to it that completely undermines the philosophy of the original and,...
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Free software scares normal people I’m the person my friends and family come to for computer-related help. (Maybe you, gentle reader,...
30th Oct 2025
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Free software scares normal people

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

30th Oct 2025
I’m the person my friends and family come to for computer-related help. (Maybe you, gentle reader, can relate.) This experience has taught me which computing tasks are frustrating for normal people. Normal people often struggle with converting video. They will need to watch,...
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Curing Mac mini M4 fomo with 3D printing Spoiler: 3D printed! The colored ports really sell the effect If you’re anything like me, you’ve...
12th Nov 2024
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Curing Mac mini M4 fomo with 3D printing

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

12th Nov 2024
Spoiler: 3D printed! The colored ports really sell the effect If you’re anything like me, you’ve found the new, tinier Mac mini to be absolutely adorable. But you might also be like me that you either already have an awesome M1 Mac mini that you have no real reason to replace,...
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It's hard to write code for computers, but it's even harder to write code for humans Writing code for a computer is hard enough. You take something big and fuzzy, some large vague...
27th Sep 2024
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It's hard to write code for computers, but it's even harder to write code for humans

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

27th Sep 2024
Writing code for a computer is hard enough. You take something big and fuzzy, some large vague business outcome you want to achive. Then you break it down recursively and think about all the cases until you have clear logical statements a computer can follow.
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Gosling’s Old Rum Virginia has draconian liquor laws, which means I have to get interesting bottles shipped from...
3rd Feb 2024
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Gosling’s Old Rum

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Feb 2024
Virginia has draconian liquor laws, which means I have to get interesting bottles shipped from [REDACTED], a site on which I am very prone to judging a book by its cover; every month I'll end up purchasing a bottle of something purely because it looks interesting and I can...
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Setting up a Squid proxy with Clamav anti-virus using c-icap Security is all about a defence-in-depth strategy. Create multiple layers of defence. Every layer...
26th Aug 2012
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Setting up a Squid proxy with Clamav anti-virus using c-icap

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

26th Aug 2012
Security is all about a defence-in-depth strategy. Create multiple layers of defence. Every layer presenting a different set of challenges, requiring different skill sets and technology. So every layer will increase the time and effort to compromise your environment. A...
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Visualizing 13 million Bluesky users
12th Nov 2024
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Visualizing 13 million Bluesky users

from Joel Gustafson [alt+shift+b] in technology

12th Nov 2024
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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 Writing [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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