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Arduino Blog
This beautiful table creates art in the sand Kinetic sand art tables are pretty hot right now, because they look really cool. They’re like zen...
10 months ago
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This beautiful table creates art in the sand

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10 months ago
Kinetic sand art tables are pretty hot right now, because they look really cool. They’re like zen gardens that rake themselves in intricate patterns. But most of the builds we’ve seen use a conventional cartesian CNC layout or polar layout. This table by Newsons Electronics takes...
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The Pragmatic...
Where did TikTok’s software engineers go? How has this uncertainty affected software engineers at the Chinese-owned social network?
4 months ago
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Where did TikTok’s software engineers go?

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4 months ago
How has this uncertainty affected software engineers at the Chinese-owned social network?
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csvbase blog
I didn't write any Javascript, and other shortcuts Getting it done by not doing a lot of it
a year ago
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I didn't write any Javascript, and other shortcuts

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a year ago
Getting it done by not doing a lot of it
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Abishek Muthian
Contact Us You can contact us through email me@[this domain] or through any of the social media platforms...
over a year ago
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Contact Us

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over a year ago
You can contact us through email me@[this domain] or through any of the social media platforms mentioned above.
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Azad's Blog
Simulating + Streaming a 4k, 90hz, ultrawide, HDR PC monitor to Apple Vision Pro VR headsets can be pretty awesome at simulating monitors of any size and shape. Most VR headsets are...
10 months ago
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Simulating + Streaming a 4k, 90hz, ultrawide, HDR PC monitor to Apple Vision Pro

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

10 months ago
VR headsets can be pretty awesome at simulating monitors of any size and shape. Most VR headsets are also capable of outputting at a high refresh rate (60hz, 90hz, 120hz, or even 144hz). Some headsets (like Apple Vision Pro) can also output in HDR! The beauty of it all is that in...
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The Pragmatic...
How does ChatGPT work? As explained by the ChatGPT team. For those of us who have not spent the past few years building ChatGPT from the ground up, how does...
a year ago
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How does ChatGPT work? As explained by the ChatGPT team.

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a year ago
For those of us who have not spent the past few years building ChatGPT from the ground up, how does it work? From Evan Morikawa, who leads the Applied engineering team at OpenAI
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Computer Ads from...
1988 Interview Between Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems and MicroTimes Scott McNealy talks about Sun Microsystems, RISC, UNIX, and NeXT
a year ago
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1988 Interview Between Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems and MicroTimes

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a year ago
Scott McNealy talks about Sun Microsystems, RISC, UNIX, and NeXT
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./techtipsy
OpenWRT, ISP modem and dynamic IP addresses: how to fix connectivity issues without rebooting your... My current ISP provides an internet connection over a copper wire. To use it, I have a crappy modem...
a year ago
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OpenWRT, ISP modem and dynamic IP addresses: how to fix connectivity issues without rebooting your router every time

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a year ago
My current ISP provides an internet connection over a copper wire. To use it, I have a crappy modem (Technicolor CGA2121, DOCSIS 3.0). It’s running in bridge mode, meaning that all it does is convert the signal running over the coax cable into plain old Ethernet. My main...
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Simply Explained
HEIC to JPG: Build a Quick Action with Automator With the release of iOS 11, Apple switched from JPG to HEIC to store your photos. The...
over a year ago
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HEIC to JPG: Build a Quick Action with Automator

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over a year ago
With the release of iOS 11, Apple switched from JPG to HEIC to store your photos. The High-Efficiency Image File Format saves a lot of storage space on your devices while still maintaining your photos' quality. However, it does become problematic if you want to share those files...
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Good Enough
Actual Customer Support Is Remarkable What a sad thing to write. We believe in good software around here. There is a lot of poorly built...
over a year ago
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Actual Customer Support Is Remarkable

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over a year ago
What a sad thing to write. We believe in good software around here. There is a lot of poorly built software on the Internet and in the app stores. Our motivation with Good Enough is to try to put together a few products that feel just right to the folks using them. The things we...
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Neil Madden
Book review: The Joy of Cryptography Mike Rosulek, Oregon State University. Draft of January 3, 2021. Online: The Joy of Cryptography....
over a year ago
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Book review: The Joy of Cryptography

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

over a year ago
Mike Rosulek, Oregon State University. Draft of January 3, 2021. Online: The Joy of Cryptography. This is a freely-available book covering introductory material on cryptography. It’s suitable for anyone with undergraduate-level computer science knowledge. As is often the case in...
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Style over Substance
Using the EZCOO / AVStar HAE118 HDMI2.1 Audio Extractor for PS5/Xbox audio Back in 2021, we bought a PlayStation 5 (PS5) as our main living room console. Making the most out...
over a year ago
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Using the EZCOO / AVStar HAE118 HDMI2.1 Audio Extractor for PS5/Xbox audio

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over a year ago
Back in 2021, we bought a PlayStation 5 (PS5) as our main living room console. Making the most out of this console meant we also had to buy a new TV, as our old TV was not 4K-compatible and did not support HDMI2.1, the new A/V standard required to support all of the PS5’s...
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Louwrentius
Determining smartphone market share using wireless sniffing I started a project to see if I could track smartphone users by sniffing for wifi-clients. Most...
over a year ago
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Determining smartphone market share using wireless sniffing

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over a year ago
I started a project to see if I could track smartphone users by sniffing for wifi-clients. Most smartphones support wifi and most people don't bother disabling wifi when they go outdoors1. If wifi is left on, it is possible to detect these smartphones and track their movement. To...
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Applied Cartography
Why your marketing site should be separate In Notes on buttondown.com and How Buttondown uses HAProxy, I outlined the slightly kludgy way we...
9 months ago
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Why your marketing site should be separate

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

9 months ago
In Notes on buttondown.com and How Buttondown uses HAProxy, I outlined the slightly kludgy way we serve buttondown.com both as a marketing site (public-facing, Next/Vercel, largely just content pushed by non-developers) and an author-facing app (behind a login, Django/Heroku/Vue)...
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Himanshu Mishra |...
Lessons for creating good open source software I was reading about The Cathedral and the Bazaar, a book by Eric S. Raymond on various (open source)...
over a year ago
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Lessons for creating good open source software

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

over a year ago
I was reading about The Cathedral and the Bazaar, a book by Eric S. Raymond on various (open source) software development methods. The…
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Ian's Blog
Hardware-Accelerated Video Encoding with Intel Arc on Redhat Linux I've been wanting hardware-accelerated video encoding on my Linux machine for quite a while now, but...
8 months ago
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Hardware-Accelerated Video Encoding with Intel Arc on Redhat Linux

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8 months ago
I've been wanting hardware-accelerated video encoding on my Linux machine for quite a while now, but ask anybody who's used a Linux machine and they'll tell you of the horrors of Nvidia or AMD drivers. Intel, on the other hand, seems to be taking things in a much different, much...
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Willem's Blog
Linking Lemmid Store with kitchens Designing backend servers to connect with external services is challenging as you need to take into...
over a year ago
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Linking Lemmid Store with kitchens

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over a year ago
Designing backend servers to connect with external services is challenging as you need to take into account unreliability and unpredictability.
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Arduino Blog
Arduino is at work to make bio-based PCBs! April 22 is Earth Day – a powerful reminder of our shared responsibility to preserve the planet for...
2 months ago
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Arduino is at work to make bio-based PCBs!

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2 months ago
April 22 is Earth Day – a powerful reminder of our shared responsibility to preserve the planet for future generations. While the call for climate action grows louder, Arduino is committed to making sustainability an ongoing priority through concrete projects and global...
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csvbase blog
Caching secrets of the HTTP elders, part 1 ETags - an elegant weapon, for a more civilised age
a year ago
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Caching secrets of the HTTP elders, part 1

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a year ago
ETags - an elegant weapon, for a more civilised age
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Nabeel S. Qureshi
Films + Books, Q1 2023 What I watched and read
over a year ago
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Films + Books, Q1 2023

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over a year ago
What I watched and read
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Posts on Made of...
Git in pictures In my previous blog post, I discussed how git is distinctive among version control system in the way...
over a year ago
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Git in pictures

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

over a year ago
In my previous blog post, I discussed how git is distinctive among version control system in the way in which it makes the backend model that is being used to store data the most important element of the tool, and that experts use it by having the complete model in their head,...
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Lighthouse Blog
Updates March 15
a year ago
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Updates March 15

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a year ago
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Posts on Made of...
Lightweight Linux Kernel Development with KVM I don’t do a ton of Linux kernel development these days, but I’ve done a fair bit in the past, and...
over a year ago
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Lightweight Linux Kernel Development with KVM

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

over a year ago
I don’t do a ton of Linux kernel development these days, but I’ve done a fair bit in the past, and picked up a number of useful techniques for doing kernel development in a relatively painless fashion. This blog post is a writeup of the tools and techniques I use when developing...
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Jonas Hietala
Mailto: links with FastMail in Firefox You can change the application to handle mailto: links in Firefox in Preferences -> Applications....
over a year ago
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Mailto: links with FastMail in Firefox

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

over a year ago
You can change the application to handle mailto: links in Firefox in Preferences -> Applications. The problem is that you can’t input custom urls and some email providers, like hotmail or fastmail, aren’t supported. I managed to fix it with the plugin MailtoWebmails. It annoys me...
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Simply Explained
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...
over a year ago
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Good Home Automation Should be Boring

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over a year ago
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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Computer Ads from...
MicroTimes Interviews Apple Newton Devs (1993) The Newton laid the groundwork for the I-devices.
a week ago
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MicroTimes Interviews Apple Newton Devs (1993)

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a week ago
The Newton laid the groundwork for the I-devices.
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somenice
Painting of Russet Lake Summer in Garibaldi Provincial Park, British Columbia, is a breathtaking experience, where the...
10 months ago
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Painting of Russet Lake

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10 months ago
Summer in Garibaldi Provincial Park, British Columbia, is a breathtaking experience, where the natural world is alive with vibrant colours and serene beauty. One of the most stunning scenes unfolds at Russet Lake, where the iconic Fissile Mountain is mirrored perfectly in the...
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GitButler
The Birth of THE MERGE Sitting at lunch one day, the GitButler team were having our usual conversations of how awesome our...
a year ago
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The Birth of THE MERGE

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a year ago
Sitting at lunch one day, the GitButler team were having our usual conversations of how awesome our community is, product feature ideas, and how much Kiril loves food. As we shifted toward the topic of conferences, the idea of hosting our own event emerged. Wouldn’t it be fun
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Home on Erik...
My issue with GPU-accelerated deep learning I've been spending several hundred bucks renting GPU instances on AWS over the last year. The...
over a year ago
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My issue with GPU-accelerated deep learning

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

over a year ago
I've been spending several hundred bucks renting GPU instances on AWS over the last year. The speedup from a GPU is awesome and hard to deny. GPUs have taken over the field. Maybe following the footsteps of Bitcoin mining there's some research on using FPGA (I know very little...
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anderegg.ca
Halls of Torment: a thematically questionable downtime game Merry Christmas and happy holidays! I hope everyone out there has a joyful and relaxing day, however...
6 months ago
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Halls of Torment: a thematically questionable downtime game

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6 months ago
Merry Christmas and happy holidays! I hope everyone out there has a joyful and relaxing day, however you celebrate. During the downtime I got to play a game I’d been wanting to try for a while. Last summer on The Besties podcast, Russ Frushtick mentioned that he was enjoying...
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Arduino Blog
BrainPatch.AI: How a British neurotech startup built a working prototype fast, using Arduino Nano 33... The field of neurotechnology has been advancing rapidly in recent years, opening up to safe and...
9 months ago
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BrainPatch.AI: How a British neurotech startup built a working prototype fast, using Arduino Nano 33 IoT

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9 months ago
The field of neurotechnology has been advancing rapidly in recent years, opening up to safe and effective non-invasive interfaces that can deliver tiny milliamp currents to the right stimulation location on the head, neck or body. One example of the new players in this field is...
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Arduino Blog
Improve laser engraving speeds with an Arduino-controlled turntable Engraving items with a laser-based system at home is amazingly convenient for one-off parts, but...
a year ago
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Improve laser engraving speeds with an Arduino-controlled turntable

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a year ago
Engraving items with a laser-based system at home is amazingly convenient for one-off parts, but what happens when the production volume needs to increase? For element14 Presents host Clem Mayer, this usually meant preparing many uniform pieces of engraving stock, opening the...
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watchTowr Labs
Auth. Bypass In (Un)Limited Scenarios - Progress MOVEit Transfer (CVE-2024-5806) In the early hours of a day in a month in 2024, watchTowr Labs was sent a chat log: 13:37 -!-...
a year ago
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Auth. Bypass In (Un)Limited Scenarios - Progress MOVEit Transfer (CVE-2024-5806)

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a year ago
In the early hours of a day in a month in 2024, watchTowr Labs was sent a chat log: 13:37 -!- dav1d_bl41ne [def_not_phalanx@kernel.org] has joined #!hack (irc.efnet.nl) 13:37 -!- dav1d_bl41ne changed the topic of #!hack to: mag1c sh0w
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anderegg.ca
My 2024 Upgradies Picks The latest instalment of The Upgradies is coming soon from our friends at the Upgrade podcast. I...
7 months ago
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My 2024 Upgradies Picks

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7 months ago
The latest instalment of The Upgradies is coming soon from our friends at the Upgrade podcast. I submitted my recommendations earlier today, and thought it would be fun to share my picks. Best Overall iOS App Bear I once again don’t have a new app for this category, but Bear has...
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Himanshu Mishra |...
Letters What did you do?? I have developed a habbit of writing letters to friends and family for the past...
over a year ago
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Letters

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

over a year ago
What did you do?? I have developed a habbit of writing letters to friends and family for the past few years. Today, I made some of them…
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Birchtree
Balatro continues to bring a smile Jay Peters for The Verge: Why Balatro’s Developer Stays Anonymous It’s an arrangement that the...
3 months ago
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Balatro continues to bring a smile

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3 months ago
Jay Peters for The Verge: Why Balatro’s Developer Stays Anonymous It’s an arrangement that the Playstack team figured out with LocalThunk ahead of other ceremonies like The Game Awards, where Balatro won three awards and was nominated for Game of the Year. LocalThunk didn’t
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Arduino Blog
Turning a desk mat into a MIDI drum kit Playing drums is a lot of fun, but drum sets are very big and very loud. They also aren’t cheap....
7 months ago
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Turning a desk mat into a MIDI drum kit

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7 months ago
Playing drums is a lot of fun, but drum sets are very big and very loud. They also aren’t cheap. Those factors keep them from being an option for many people who would otherwise be interested. Conventional electronic drum sets are much quieter and a bit more compact, but they...
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Arduino Blog
A drone remote designed to enhance magic shows Maker culture has always been a major part of magic performance. Some tricks are well-rehearsed...
a year ago
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A drone remote designed to enhance magic shows

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a year ago
Maker culture has always been a major part of magic performance. Some tricks are well-rehearsed slight of hand, but many of them rely on clever engineering to sell an illusion. And modern technology offers a great deal of interesting possibilities. That is the idea behind Peter...
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Never Met a Science
A View on the Job Market for Computational Social Science and some professional news...
a year ago
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A View on the Job Market for Computational Social Science

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a year ago
and some professional news...
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Greater Still by...
Revisiting Borderless Payments What’s old is new again. By Gaby Goldberg & Bridget Harris
a year ago
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Revisiting Borderless Payments

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a year ago
What’s old is new again. By Gaby Goldberg & Bridget Harris
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Odds and Ends of...
The Planning Bill, Lab Meat, and why Milton Keynes isn't afraid of growth The Abundance Agenda - Episode 2 - with Chris Curtis MP
3 months ago
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The Planning Bill, Lab Meat, and why Milton Keynes isn't afraid of growth

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3 months ago
The Abundance Agenda - Episode 2 - with Chris Curtis MP
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Vitalik Buterin's...
Crypto Cities
over a year ago
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Crypto Cities

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over a year ago
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lcamtuf’s thing
Random object: Sony Mavica MVC-FD73 Floppy disk digital cameras, or why our views of technological progress are not always rooted in...
5 months ago
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Random object: Sony Mavica MVC-FD73

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5 months ago
Floppy disk digital cameras, or why our views of technological progress are not always rooted in reality.
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Gwern.net Newsletter
April 2021 newsletter with links on AI scaling, particular new East Asian record-breaking work & deep reinforcement...
over a year ago
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April 2021 newsletter

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over a year ago
with links on AI scaling, particular new East Asian record-breaking work & deep reinforcement learning.
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Nabeel S. Qureshi
May Updates + New Essay On Moral AI A few months back, I read a tweet from Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) which stuck in my...
over a year ago
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May Updates + New Essay On Moral AI

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

over a year ago
A few months back, I read a tweet from Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) which stuck in my mind: “the long term goal is to build AGI that loves people the way parents love their children”.
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computers are bad
2023-04-20 different kinds of differential On the front page of HN today was an [article with a confusing headline], "Farmers 'crippled' by...
over a year ago
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2023-04-20 different kinds of differential

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over a year ago
On the front page of HN today was an [article with a confusing headline], "Farmers 'crippled' by satellite failure as GPS-guided tractors grind to a halt." Of course the headline doesn't actually say this, but it does seem to imply that there has been some kind of failure of...
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Christian Selig
Qi2 is kinda underwhelming Using MagSafe for portable battery packs has so many niceties versus Qi1: Increased communication...
a year ago
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Qi2 is kinda underwhelming

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a year ago
Using MagSafe for portable battery packs has so many niceties versus Qi1: Increased communication with the device, allowing for better efficiency due to better thermal management and charging Easily view the charge percentage of the external battery when first attaching it, and...
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Notes on software...
Responsibility and ownership Responsibility is only possible by granting ownership and setting expectations. If you don't turn...
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Responsibility and ownership

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over a year ago
Responsibility is only possible by granting ownership and setting expectations. If you don't turn over ownership, don't expect folks to take responsibility. When you grant ownership and set expectations, you'll be astounded what folks will accomplish without you. I am astounded.
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Jonas Hietala
Tufte style sidenotes and marginnotes in Pollen When evaluating Pollen I complained about markdown/pandoc’s lack of sidenote handling. I have solved...
over a year ago
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Tufte style sidenotes and marginnotes in Pollen

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over a year ago
When evaluating Pollen I complained about markdown/pandoc’s lack of sidenote handling. I have solved it for Pollen but felt it deserved it’s own post. A caveat: I generated Tufte CSS style sidenotes and marginnotes which made it more complex than if I had simply generated...
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Willem's Blog
Riding with Omata One If you're looking for an alternative for common cycling computers, the Omata One is something truely...
over a year ago
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Riding with Omata One

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over a year ago
If you're looking for an alternative for common cycling computers, the Omata One is something truely special: it indicates your speed, distance, ascent and time ridden using mechanical hands!
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Lighthouse Blog
Lighthouse now integrates with mobile reader apps
12 months ago
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Lighthouse now integrates with mobile reader apps

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Birchtree
Stunts are getting their Oscar in 2028 Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences: Academy Establishes Stunt Design Award for 100th...
2 months ago
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Stunts are getting their Oscar in 2028

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2 months ago
Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences: Academy Establishes Stunt Design Award for 100th Oscars The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today the creation of an annual competitive Academy Award® for Achievement in Stunt Design,...
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Electronics etc…
Symmetricom 58532A GPS Antenna Supply Voltage Mod The Symmatricom 58532A Opening up the 58532A Voltage Regulation Result What about the other 58532A...
a year ago
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Symmetricom 58532A GPS Antenna Supply Voltage Mod

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a year ago
The Symmatricom 58532A Opening up the 58532A Voltage Regulation Result What about the other 58532A variant? References The Symmatricom 58532A As part of a package deal, I got my hands on a Symmetricom 58532A L1 GPS antenna. Microchip, which acquired Symmetricom in 2013, doesn’t...
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Home on Erik...
I already found the best gifs Just search for “hackers gif“. There you go. Fun for your work emails for the next 500 years. From...
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I already found the best gifs

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over a year ago
Just search for “hackers gif“. There you go. Fun for your work emails for the next 500 years. From the awesome movie Hackers. That movie together with The Warriors convinced me that I wanted to live in NYC when I was like… 14 years old.
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Abishek Muthian
Fixing bluetooth issues on Raspberry Pi I had trouble pairing Colmi P8 watch with Raspberry Pi 3B running Arch Linux via bluetooth and I had...
over a year ago
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Fixing bluetooth issues on Raspberry Pi

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over a year ago
I had trouble pairing Colmi P8 watch with Raspberry Pi 3B running Arch Linux via bluetooth and I had to resort to following actions to resolve it. If you are facing bluetooth issues with newer Raspberry Pi, these fixes may work but I haven't tested them for newer RPi. Do Nothing...
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Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #65: Everything is about everything Plus why Britain can't build things... except for the Lower Thames Crossing, apparently.
3 months ago
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Odds and Ends #65: Everything is about everything

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3 months ago
Plus why Britain can't build things... except for the Lower Thames Crossing, apparently.
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Old Vintage...
Refurb weekend: Canon Cat It's the Memorial Day holiday weekend and it's time for a little deferred maintenance, especially on...
a year ago
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Refurb weekend: Canon Cat

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a year ago
It's the Memorial Day holiday weekend and it's time for a little deferred maintenance, especially on those machines I intend to work on more in the near future. So we'll start with one that's widely considered to be a remarkable cul-de-sac in computing history: the Canon...
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Arduino Blog
This desk lamp automatically adjusts its brightness using AI on an Arduino UNO When you hear about all of the amazing things being accomplished with artificial intelligence today,...
a year ago
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This desk lamp automatically adjusts its brightness using AI on an Arduino UNO

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a year ago
When you hear about all of the amazing things being accomplished with artificial intelligence today, you probably assume that they require a massive amount of processing power. And while that is often true, there are machine learning models that can run on the edge — including on...
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Birchtree
Sign up for X to see that amber alert. Yikes Kate Knibbs writing for Wired: Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About...
6 months ago
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Sign up for X to see that amber alert. Yikes

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6 months ago
Kate Knibbs writing for Wired: Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old Earlier this week, the California Highway Patrol sent an Amber Alert push notification to phones in the Los Angeles area about a 14-year-old girl that authorities...
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Arduino Blog
Why is STEAM education important for kids? 6 activity tips School’s out for summer – at least for most of us. While the majority of children (and teachers!)...
a year ago
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Why is STEAM education important for kids? 6 activity tips

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a year ago
School’s out for summer – at least for most of us. While the majority of children (and teachers!) will probably be breathing a huge sigh of relief, parents face a new challenge: how to keep kids engaged during the long break. Of course, downtime is important, but there are also...
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Arduino Blog
This UNO R4 WiFi-controlled device streamlines a restaurant’s online order system Most successful restaurants operating today have to take advantage of online ordering, as a huge...
10 months ago
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This UNO R4 WiFi-controlled device streamlines a restaurant’s online order system

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10 months ago
Most successful restaurants operating today have to take advantage of online ordering, as a huge chunk of customers have switched to takeout and delivery. But point-of-sale (POS) systems don’t always integrate well into a kitchen’s workflow and that can lead to missed orders —...
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Posts on Made of...
A brief look at Linux's security record After the fuss of the last two weeks because of CVE-2010-3081 and CVE-2010-3301, I decided to take a...
over a year ago
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A brief look at Linux's security record

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over a year ago
After the fuss of the last two weeks because of CVE-2010-3081 and CVE-2010-3301, I decided to take a look at a handful of the high-profile privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux from the last few years. So, here's a summary of the ones I picked out. There are also a large...
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The Pragmatic...
Why my new audiobook “The Software Engineer's Guidebook” is everywhere except on Audible Currently, Audible’s position is hurting audiobook authors. My audiobook isn’t on Audible due to a...
6 months ago
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Why my new audiobook “The Software Engineer's Guidebook” is everywhere except on Audible

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6 months ago
Currently, Audible’s position is hurting audiobook authors. My audiobook isn’t on Audible due to a mix of their monopolistic pricing practices, and the company’s own complacency in how long they take to approve new titles.
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Posts on Made of...
Why scons is cool I’ve recently started playing with scons a little for some small personal projects. It’s not...
over a year ago
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Why scons is cool

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over a year ago
I’ve recently started playing with scons a little for some small personal projects. It’s not perfect, but I’ve rapidly come to the conclusion that it’s a probably far better choice than make in many cases. The main exceptions would be cases where you need to integrate into legacy...
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Never Met a Science
The YouTube Apparatus Two quick announcements:
a year ago
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The YouTube Apparatus

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a year ago
Two quick announcements:
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lcamtuf’s thing
Choosing a microcontroller RP2040, ESP32, AVR, PIC, STM32...? When it comes to hobby projects, there's plenty of choice and...
4 months ago
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Choosing a microcontroller

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4 months ago
RP2040, ESP32, AVR, PIC, STM32...? When it comes to hobby projects, there's plenty of choice and just as much zealotry.
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Vitalik Buterin's...
How do layer 2s really differ from execution sharding?
a year ago
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How do layer 2s really differ from execution sharding?

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Jonas Hietala
Reinstalling Slackware So I reinstalled slackware on my machine and decided to take some rough notes of the most important...
over a year ago
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Reinstalling Slackware

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over a year ago
So I reinstalled slackware on my machine and decided to take some rough notes of the most important steps I made. I did not document the steps in detail, and some are very specific for my setup. But maybe it can be useful for someone, or myself. Basic steps Make slackware usb...
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GitButler
GitButler is now Fair Source GitButler is now officially one of the first members of the Fair Source movement, helping to shift...
11 months ago
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GitButler is now Fair Source

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11 months ago
GitButler is now officially one of the first members of the Fair Source movement, helping to shift closed source to publicly available software by default.
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Jonas Hietala
Postmortem: Beebop The Island Hopper So I participated in the Ludum Dare for the first time and this is a postmortem of my game Beebop...
over a year ago
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Postmortem: Beebop The Island Hopper

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over a year ago
So I participated in the Ludum Dare for the first time and this is a postmortem of my game Beebop The Island Hopper for the theme Islands. About Ludum Dare Ludum Dare is a competition which runs maybe two times a year and the competition is 24 hours long with a specific theme....
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Neil Madden
From KEMs to protocols This is the third part of my series on Key Encapsulation Mechanisms (KEMs) and why you should care...
over a year ago
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From KEMs to protocols

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over a year ago
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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Jonas Hietala
Ludum Dare 22 Here I Come The time has finally come. After more than three hours of exam writing, and almost double spent on...
over a year ago
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Ludum Dare 22 Here I Come

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over a year ago
The time has finally come. After more than three hours of exam writing, and almost double spent on studying for it, I am now ready to declare my entry into Ludum Dare 22! I’ve been away far too long, with my entries for the 17th and the 20th dare being almost a century away, the...
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Home on Erik...
Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by opportunity cost Hanlon's razor is a classic aphorism I'm sure you have heard before: Never attribute to malice that...
over a year ago
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Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by opportunity cost

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over a year ago
Hanlon's razor is a classic aphorism I'm sure you have heard before: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. I've found that neither malice nor stupidity is the most common reason when you don't understand why something is in a certain way.
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Vitalik Buterin's...
Base Layers And Functionality Escape Velocity
over a year ago
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Base Layers And Functionality Escape Velocity

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Greater Still by...
Enjoying the Journey Reflections on training for a marathon and a lesson from my late Uncle Murray
a year ago
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Enjoying the Journey

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a year ago
Reflections on training for a marathon and a lesson from my late Uncle Murray
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Posts on Made of...
A Brief Introduction to termios: termios(3) and stty (This is part two of a multi-part introduction to termios and terminal emulation on UNIX. Read part...
over a year ago
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A Brief Introduction to termios: termios(3) and stty

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over a year ago
(This is part two of a multi-part introduction to termios and terminal emulation on UNIX. Read part 1 if you’re new here) In this entry, we’ll look at the interfaces that are used to control the behavior of the “termios” box sitting between the master and slave pty. The behaviors...
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Louwrentius
Linux: script that creates table of network interface properties My server has 5 network interfaces and I wanted a quick overview of some properties. There may be an...
over a year ago
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Linux: script that creates table of network interface properties

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over a year ago
My server has 5 network interfaces and I wanted a quick overview of some properties. There may be an existing linux command for this but I couldn't find it so I quickly wrote my own script (download). This is the output: The only requirement for this script is that you have...
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lcamtuf’s thing
Deep dive: the (in)stability of op-amps A closer look at op-amp feedback loops and the stability criteria for circuits that use them.
8 months ago
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Deep dive: the (in)stability of op-amps

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8 months ago
A closer look at op-amp feedback loops and the stability criteria for circuits that use them.
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Arduino Blog
VIGOR fuses fashion and technology in an avant-garde wearable Fashion isn’t just about following current clothing and accessory trends. It is also a form of art...
a month ago
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VIGOR fuses fashion and technology in an avant-garde wearable

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a month ago
Fashion isn’t just about following current clothing and accessory trends. It is also a form of art and creative expression. And like every other form of art, fashion has a place for technology — both in the fabrication of garments and in the garments themselves. Inspired by...
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Construction Physics
The Long Road to Fiber Optics Over the past six decades, advances in computers and microprocessors have completely reshaped our...
9 months ago
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The Long Road to Fiber Optics

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9 months ago
Over the past six decades, advances in computers and microprocessors have completely reshaped our world.
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Jonas Hietala
2024 in review It’s time for my 15th yearly review. Nerdy things I enjoyed I read a lot of fantasy books this...
6 months ago
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2024 in review

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6 months ago
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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Willem's Blog
Batavus Champion bike from 1978 Restore the retro glory of an old bike from the 70s using the internet.
over a year ago
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Batavus Champion bike from 1978

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over a year ago
Restore the retro glory of an old bike from the 70s using the internet.
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Willem's Blog
Realtime human pose recognition through computer vision For an exciting new project I have been experimenting with TensorFlow, enabling realtime pose...
over a year ago
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Realtime human pose recognition through computer vision

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over a year ago
For an exciting new project I have been experimenting with TensorFlow, enabling realtime pose detection using PoseNet.
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Arduino Blog
This vending machine draws generative art for just a euro If you hear the term “generative art” today, you probably subconsciously add “AI” to the beginning...
4 months ago
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This vending machine draws generative art for just a euro

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4 months ago
If you hear the term “generative art” today, you probably subconsciously add “AI” to the beginning without even thinking about it. But generative art techniques existed long before modern AI came along — they even predate digital computing altogether. Despite that long history,...
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Applied Cartography
What's in a name Guillermo posted this recently: What you name your product matters more than people give it credit....
5 months ago
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What's in a name

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5 months ago
Guillermo posted this recently: What you name your product matters more than people give it credit. It's your first and most universal UI to the world. Designing a good name requires multi-dimensional thinking and is full of edge cases, much like designing software. I first will...
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Posts on Made of...
Performance of the Python 3.14 tail-call interpreter About a month ago, the CPython project merged a new implementation strategy for their bytecode...
3 months ago
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Performance of the Python 3.14 tail-call interpreter

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3 months ago
About a month ago, the CPython project merged a new implementation strategy for their bytecode interpreter. The initial headline results were very impressive, showing a 10-15% performance improvement on average across a wide range of benchmarks across a variety of...
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Vitalik Buterin's...
Proof of Stake FAQ
over a year ago
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Proof of Stake FAQ

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over a year ago
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Home on Erik...
Giving more tools to software engineers: the reorganization of the factory It's a popular attitude among developers to rant about our tools and how broken things are. Maybe...
over a year ago
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Giving more tools to software engineers: the reorganization of the factory

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over a year ago
It's a popular attitude among developers to rant about our tools and how broken things are. Maybe I'm an optimistic person, because my viewpoint is the complete opposite! I had my first job as a software engineer in 1999, and in the last two decades I've seen software engineering...
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Lighthouse Blog
How to manage tags
a year ago
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How to manage tags

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computers are bad
2024-05-15 catalina connections Some things have been made nearly impossible to search for. Say, for example, the long-running...
a year ago
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2024-05-15 catalina connections

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a year ago
Some things have been made nearly impossible to search for. Say, for example, the long-running partnership between Epson and Catalina: a query that will return pages upon pages of people trying to use Epson printers with an old version of MacOS. When you think of a point of sale...
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Neil Madden
On PBKDF2 iterations There has been a lot of discussion recently around the LastPass breach, especially with regards to...
over a year ago
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On PBKDF2 iterations

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over a year ago
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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Notes on software...
Effective unemployment and social media Being unemployed can be incredibly depressing. So much rejection. Everything seems to be out of your...
8 months ago
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Effective unemployment and social media

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8 months ago
Being unemployed can be incredibly depressing. So much rejection. Everything seems to be out of your control. Everything except for one thing: what you produce. You might know that repeatedly posting on social media that you are looking for work is ineffective. That it looks (or...
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Home on Erik...
We are still early with the cloud: why software development is overdue for a change This is is in many respects a successor to a blog post I wrote last year about what I want from...
over a year ago
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We are still early with the cloud: why software development is overdue for a change

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over a year ago
This is is in many respects a successor to a blog post I wrote last year about what I want from software infrastructure, but the ideas morphed in my head into something sort of wider.
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Louwrentius
ZFS: resilver performance of various RAID schemas When building your own DIY home NAS, it is important that you simulate and test drive failures...
over a year ago
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ZFS: resilver performance of various RAID schemas

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over a year ago
When building your own DIY home NAS, it is important that you simulate and test drive failures before you put your important data on it. It makes sense to know what to do in case a drive needs to be replaced. I also recommend putting a substantial amount of data on your NAS and...
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Good Enough
TIL: Rails Testing I had to figure out how to run browser-based tests in Rails again. In part that meant working around...
over a year ago
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TIL: Rails Testing

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over a year ago
I had to figure out how to run browser-based tests in Rails again. In part that meant working around my lack of Chrome. Rails System Tests with Safari. I also had some problems with Rails Turbo Drive taking over EVERYTHING, which required me to figure out how to deal with a Rails...
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Jorge Arango
What’s the Object of Information Architecture? Ironically, information architects haven’t explained how we create value in terms most people...
6 months ago
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What’s the Object of Information Architecture?

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6 months ago
Ironically, information architects haven’t explained how we create value in terms most people understand. If I tell someone at a party that I’m an IA, they won’t know what I do. It’s a problem: if others don’t understand how we can help, they won’t hire us. The main challenge is...
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Abishek Muthian
Smart Watch to Smart Clock I was one of the early adopters of smart watch ecosystem with OG LG G Watch, but lately I have...
over a year ago
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Smart Watch to Smart Clock

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over a year ago
I was one of the early adopters of smart watch ecosystem with OG LG G Watch, but lately I have stopped wearing watches altogether as they're sweaty and that I've become weary of having devices with large batteries closer to my body especially those with connectivity. But the LG G...
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./techtipsy
Archive
over a year ago
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Archive

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Birchtree
+ Power users need love too
2 months ago
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+ Power users need love too

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Vitalik Buterin's...
The roads not taken
over a year ago
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The roads not taken

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Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #61: Fake Woolly Mammoths Plus why intelligence is social, Land Registry open data, and some completely invisible VFX
4 months ago
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Odds and Ends #61: Fake Woolly Mammoths

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4 months ago
Plus why intelligence is social, Land Registry open data, and some completely invisible VFX
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Willem's Blog
Three tips to make a content strategy work Consider these three things to maximise the effect of the words you write for your website, blog or...
over a year ago
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Three tips to make a content strategy work

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over a year ago
Consider these three things to maximise the effect of the words you write for your website, blog or company.
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Gwern.net Newsletter
December newsletter December 2020 gwern.net newsletter with links on AI and technology; major new site feature:...
over a year ago
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December newsletter

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over a year ago
December 2020 gwern.net newsletter with links on AI and technology; major new site feature: fully-generalized recursive popups.
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Birchtree
+ The broken toe
2 months ago
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+ The broken toe

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2 months ago
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Computer Ads from...
Massive Interview with Steve Jobs from MicroTime (1992) An in-depth discussion on NeXT
4 months ago
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Massive Interview with Steve Jobs from MicroTime (1992)

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4 months ago
An in-depth discussion on NeXT
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Willem's Blog
The day I sold my car This week I sold my car, I now no longer own one. I look back at my years of owning a sports car, if...
over a year ago
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The day I sold my car

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over a year ago
This week I sold my car, I now no longer own one. I look back at my years of owning a sports car, if you're looking for a reason to buy one you should check this out.
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Jonas Hietala
Christmas break So school is on a break and I welcome it with all of my heart. The semester has been pretty fun and...
over a year ago
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Christmas break

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over a year ago
So school is on a break and I welcome it with all of my heart. The semester has been pretty fun and I really enjoy studying here. We had lisp the whole time which is a pretty sweet little language and if you haven’t, give it a shot. Then we had math and I do like math, although I...
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Bryan Braun - Blog
The flood of AI website builders There are so many of them. instead of markdown to enable lazy-loading --> How good...
a year ago
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The flood of AI website builders

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a year ago
There are so many of them. instead of markdown to enable lazy-loading --> How good are these site builders? I don’t know. Are you worried about job security? I have two thoughts… 1. We’ve seen this before Wordpress, Squarespace, Shopify, Webflow… all these tools...
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Computer Ads from...
Comics from 1984/04 Creative Computing Mag Sorry for the delay. - JP
5 months ago
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Comics from 1984/04 Creative Computing Mag

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5 months ago
Sorry for the delay. - JP
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Christian Selig
Recreating Apple's beautiful visionOS search bar Many of Apple’s own visionOS apps, like Music, Safari, and Apple TV, have a handy search bar front...
a year ago
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Recreating Apple's beautiful visionOS search bar

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a year ago
Many of Apple’s own visionOS apps, like Music, Safari, and Apple TV, have a handy search bar front and center on the window so you can easily search through your content. Oddly, as of visionOS 1.1, replicating this visually as a developer using SwiftUI or UIKit is not...
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Jonas Hietala
My Dream Game: The RTS Even if there are a million great games there’s one that has a very special place in my heart:...
over a year ago
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My Dream Game: The RTS

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over a year ago
Even if there are a million great games there’s one that has a very special place in my heart: Supreme Commander. It’s not the game I’ve played the most and there might even be games which are better and more fun but supcom was the game that introduced me to competitive gaming...
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Notes on software...
From web developer to database developer in 10 years Last month I completed my first year at EnterpriseDB. I'm on the team that built and...
4 months ago
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From web developer to database developer in 10 years

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4 months ago
Last month I completed my first year at EnterpriseDB. I'm on the team that built and maintains pglogical and who, over the years, contributed a good chunk of the logical replication functionality that exists in community Postgres. Most of my work, our work, is in C and Rust with...
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somenice
CBC Spark with Nora Young Really upset to recently learn that Spark with Nora Young has been cancelled by the CBC, ending in...
a year ago
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CBC Spark with Nora Young

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a year ago
Really upset to recently learn that Spark with Nora Young has been cancelled by the CBC, ending in June 2024. (Announcement episode) One of the most intelligent, progressive technology-in-society news shows in Canada or anywhere for that matter. Perhaps that it’s medium is radio...
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Birchtree
The tale of Narcissus Ted Gioia: What's Happening to Students? I’m dumbfounded when I hear ‘experts’ claim that phones are...
3 months ago
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The tale of Narcissus

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3 months ago
Ted Gioia: What's Happening to Students? I’m dumbfounded when I hear ‘experts’ claim that phones are not the problem. Like tobacco companies—whose hired experts long denied the connection between smoking and cancer—they say that “correlation does not prove causation.
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Arduino Blog
Controlling a drum machine with the Arduino Opta Makers have long asked the question “why bother with an expensive PLC when I can just use an...
a year ago
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Controlling a drum machine with the Arduino Opta

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a year ago
Makers have long asked the question “why bother with an expensive PLC when I can just use an Arduino?” The answer comes down to the priorities and needs of industrial clients. In a factory automation setting, the client will prioritize durability, reliability, and serviceability...
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Jonas Hietala
Printing Hextraction for my kids A session of Hextraction, a 3D printed board game. I did it. I made something actually useful with...
a year ago
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Printing Hextraction for my kids

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a year ago
A session of Hextraction, a 3D printed board game. I did it. I made something actually useful with my 3D printer instead of just tinkering with it. I printed Hextraction, a very cool 3D printed board game for my kids—and they love it. Hextraction is a gamified marble run, where...
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./techtipsy
Feature toggles: just roll your own! When you’re dealing with a particularly large service with a slow deployment pipeline (15-30...
4 months ago
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Feature toggles: just roll your own!

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4 months ago
When you’re dealing with a particularly large service with a slow deployment pipeline (15-30 minutes), and a rollback delay of up to 10 minutes, you’re going to need feature toggles (some also call them feature flags) to turn those half-an-hour nerve-wrecking major incidents into...
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Louwrentius
FreeBSD 10.1 unattended install over PXE & HTTP (no NFS) To gain some more experience with FreeBSD, I decided to make a PXE-based unattended installation of...
over a year ago
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FreeBSD 10.1 unattended install over PXE & HTTP (no NFS)

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over a year ago
To gain some more experience with FreeBSD, I decided to make a PXE-based unattended installation of FreeBSD 10.1. My goal is to set something up similar to Debian/Ubuntu + preseeding or Redhat/CentOS + kickstart. Getting a PXE-based unattended installation of FreeBSD 10.1 was...
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Engineers Need Art
Offline Advocate Digital hoarding as a check against the ephemeral nature of the internet ... and maybe some peace of...
7 months ago
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Offline Advocate

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7 months ago
Digital hoarding as a check against the ephemeral nature of the internet ... and maybe some peace of mind.
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Ken Shirriff's blog
Inside an unusual 7400-series chip implemented with a gate array When I look inside a chip from the popular 7400 series, I know what to expect: a fairly simple...
a year ago
20

Inside an unusual 7400-series chip implemented with a gate array

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a year ago
When I look inside a chip from the popular 7400 series, I know what to expect: a fairly simple die, implemented in a straightforward, cost-effective way. However, when I looked inside a military-grade chip built by Integrated Device Technology (IDT)4 I found a very unexpected...
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Jonas Hietala
Before the Games: The Site I’ve got some things I want to do before I start with my next game and they’re all about improving...
over a year ago
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Before the Games: The Site

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over a year ago
I’ve got some things I want to do before I start with my next game and they’re all about improving the site. The last week or so has been extremely productive with me throwing out a lot of wasted code, speeding up the site and adding/removing features and I want to continue with...
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Applied Cartography
February, 2025 What a start to the year! January was a bit more flat-packed than I think Haley and I would have...
4 months ago
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February, 2025

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4 months ago
What a start to the year! January was a bit more flat-packed than I think Haley and I would have otherwise liked, but all with great things. (Highlights include: first weekend trip with Lucy, signing a lease on an office, and Third South's annual offsite.) A roundup of writing...
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Christian Selig
Table of Contents Selector View I wrote a new little view for a future version of Apollo that makes some changes to the default iOS...
over a year ago
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Table of Contents Selector View

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over a year ago
I wrote a new little view for a future version of Apollo that makes some changes to the default iOS version (that seems to be a weird trend in my recent programming, despite me loving built-in components). Here’s some details about it! It’s also available as a library on GitHub...
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Louwrentius
Benchmarking storage with Fio and generating charts of the results Introduction Fio is a widely-used tool for performing storage benchmarks. Fio offers a lot of...
over a year ago
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Benchmarking storage with Fio and generating charts of the results

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over a year ago
Introduction Fio is a widely-used tool for performing storage benchmarks. Fio offers a lot of options to create a storage benchmark that would best reflect your needs. Fio allows you to assess if your storage solution is up to its task and how much headroom it has. Fio outputs...
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Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course Week 12: Suetonius It’s hard to believe, but we’re almost at the first quarter mark for the humanities crash course. Up...
3 months ago
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Humanities Crash Course Week 12: Suetonius

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3 months ago
It’s hard to believe, but we’re almost at the first quarter mark for the humanities crash course. Up this week: Suetonius’s The Twelve Caesars. I doubled down on the Republic’s fall by watching a classic movie set in this time. Readings The Twelve Caesars is a collection of...
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Louwrentius
ZFS RAIDZ expansion is awesome but has a small caveat Introduction Update April 2023: It has been fairly quiet since the announcement of this feature. The...
over a year ago
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ZFS RAIDZ expansion is awesome but has a small caveat

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over a year ago
Introduction Update April 2023: It has been fairly quiet since the announcement of this feature. The Github PR about this feature is rather stale and people are wondering what the status is and what the plans are. Meanwhile, FreeBSD has announced In February 2023 that they...
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Abort Retry Fail
Intel: Winning and Losing Idling at a Zenith
3 months ago
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Intel: Winning and Losing

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3 months ago
Idling at a Zenith
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Birchtree
A lot changed for LLMs in 2024 I thought this was a fascinating post by Simon Willison: Things We Learned About LLMs in 2024 This...
5 months ago
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A lot changed for LLMs in 2024

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5 months ago
I thought this was a fascinating post by Simon Willison: Things We Learned About LLMs in 2024 This increase in efficiency and reduction in price is my single favourite trend from 2024. I want the utility of LLMs at a fraction of the energy cost and it looks like that&
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Arduino Blog
KiPneu makes soft robotic biomimetics accessible to STEAM students Biomimicry, which is a method for developing new technology inspired by nature, has been one of...
12 months ago
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KiPneu makes soft robotic biomimetics accessible to STEAM students

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12 months ago
Biomimicry, which is a method for developing new technology inspired by nature, has been one of humanity’s greatest assets. But systems reliant on soft tissue, such as an octopus’s tentacles, have been notoriously difficult to reproduce in the robotics world. To give STEAM...
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Jonas Hietala
Autocomplete with nvim-cmp Autocomplete tags in the frontmatter. Autocompletion is an absurdly powerful feature that I—and I...
a year ago
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Autocomplete with nvim-cmp

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a year ago
Autocomplete tags in the frontmatter. Autocompletion is an absurdly powerful feature that I—and I must assume most programmers—use all the time. It’s not as crucial for writing blog posts as when you’re coding but it’s still easy to come up with examples of how autocomplete...
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Neil Madden
Regular JSON For better or worse, depending on your perspective, JSON has become a dominant data format and shows...
over a year ago
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Regular JSON

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over a year ago
For better or worse, depending on your perspective, JSON has become a dominant data format and shows no signs of being replaced any time soon. There are good reasons for that: on the face of it, it provides a very simple format with just enough features to cover a lot of...
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Louwrentius
Bash Shell Function Library (BSFL) released. The Bash Shell Function Library (BSFL) is a small Bash script that acts as a library for bash...
over a year ago
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Bash Shell Function Library (BSFL) released.

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over a year ago
The Bash Shell Function Library (BSFL) is a small Bash script that acts as a library for bash scripts. It provides a couple of functions that makes the lives of most people using shell scripts a bit easier. The purpose of this library is to provide pre-build functions for...
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Vitalik Buterin's...
不同類型的 ZK-EVM
over a year ago
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不同類型的 ZK-EVM

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over a year ago
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Notes on software...
SQLite has pretty limited builtin functions This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
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SQLite has pretty limited builtin functions

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over a year ago
This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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The New Oil
Cybersecurity & Privacy For Beginners: Ad Blocking
5 months ago
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Cybersecurity & Privacy For Beginners: Ad Blocking

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5 months ago
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Odds and Ends of...
The Abundance Vibe Shift What is Abundance, where did it come from, and what is its wife's name?
3 months ago
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The Abundance Vibe Shift

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3 months ago
What is Abundance, where did it come from, and what is its wife's name?
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./techtipsy
What I've learned running Linux and Windows off of USB flash drives I’ve recently made an effort to reduce the amount of tech stuff that I own. Lack of space, lack of...
7 months ago
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What I've learned running Linux and Windows off of USB flash drives

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7 months ago
I’ve recently made an effort to reduce the amount of tech stuff that I own. Lack of space, lack of time and the guilt of storing perfectly functional hardware unused in a box were the main motivators. This has resulted in experiments with my assortment of USB flash storage that...
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Abort Retry Fail
The Tandy Corporation, Part 2 Trash-80s get Colorful, and Trash-80s get into your pockets
a month ago
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The Tandy Corporation, Part 2

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a month ago
Trash-80s get Colorful, and Trash-80s get into your pockets
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Posts on Made of...
On git and usability I’ve been helping a number of people get started working with git over the last couple of weeks, as...
over a year ago
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On git and usability

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over a year ago
I’ve been helping a number of people get started working with git over the last couple of weeks, as Ksplice has brought on some new interns, and we’ve had to get them up to speed on our internal git repositories. (As you might expect from a bunch of kernel hackers, we use git for...
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Louwrentius
'Tip of the day for every Linux or Unix user: brace expantion' Searching the web I discovered some really nice feature of the unix shell, which I didn't know...
over a year ago
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'Tip of the day for every Linux or Unix user: brace expantion'

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over a year ago
Searching the web I discovered some really nice feature of the unix shell, which I didn't know about. Try this: touch foobar.conf Now try this: cp foobar.conf{,.bak} It is equivalent to: cp foobar.conf foobar.conf.bak This is also the easiest way to create sequences. Do not use...
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Abishek Muthian
Pricing Bone Health Tracker Premium Track your bone health, Monitor the progress of your treatments. Get...
3 months ago
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Pricing

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

3 months ago
Bone Health Tracker Premium Track your bone health, Monitor the progress of your treatments. Get more reports and cloud sync for just ₹1,332.21/year Free Premium Parsed BMD reports ✓ ✓ Skeleton visualization ✓ ✓ T-Score chart ✓ ✓ Z-Score chart ✓ ✓ Submit reports without private...
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Vitalik Buterin's...
The Three Transitions
over a year ago
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The Three Transitions

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over a year ago
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anderegg.ca
Anzu Castle Gracula Turns out you can release a QBasic game on Steam if it’s packaged correctly. Beside being a nerdy...
7 months ago
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Anzu Castle Gracula

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7 months ago
Turns out you can release a QBasic game on Steam if it’s packaged correctly. Beside being a nerdy oddity, this game is extremely well made and quite fun! Lots of Castlevania II vibes going on here. Check out Anzu Castle Gracula on Steam, or give it a shot on Itch.io.
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Vitalik Buterin's...
The end of my childhood
a year ago
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The end of my childhood

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a year ago
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Jonas Hietala
Postmortem: The Chronicles of Bim: The 100 Fake Afros My first shooter! It’s working (although a friend got a null pointer error) so I’m a little...
over a year ago
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Postmortem: The Chronicles of Bim: The 100 Fake Afros

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

over a year ago
My first shooter! It’s working (although a friend got a null pointer error) so I’m a little happy. The Time I spent about 24 hours on this game. A whopping 30% was break time, mostly me eating, reading manga or playing games… This is proof of me being really lazy this month I...
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Home on Erik...
Delivering Music Recommendations I've turned into a lazy bastard and I'm just posting presentations on this blog, but here's one from...
over a year ago
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Delivering Music Recommendations

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

over a year ago
I've turned into a lazy bastard and I'm just posting presentations on this blog, but here's one from Rohan Singh at Spotify talking about the backend infrastructure of the Discover page.
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Notes on software...
Writing a simple JSON library from scratch: a tour through modern C++ Modern C++ has a lot of cool features. Move semantics means passing around structs in functions is...
over a year ago
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Writing a simple JSON library from scratch: a tour through modern C++

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over a year ago
Modern C++ has a lot of cool features. Move semantics means passing around structs in functions is cheap. std::shared_ptr means I don't have to manage any memory; no more new/delete! (But try as I might to understand std::unique_ptr, I'm just not there yet.) The syntax has also...
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Abishek Muthian
Powering Xbox OneX using ATX power supply My post-warranty Xbox One X power supply went kaput, Microsoft wanted me to visit a walk-in center...
over a year ago
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Powering Xbox OneX using ATX power supply

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

over a year ago
My post-warranty Xbox One X power supply went kaput, Microsoft wanted me to visit a walk-in center 500 Km (~ 300 Mi) away and exchange it for a new one for ~ 250 USD. I couldn't find replacement power supply online where I live and shipping it from abroad was risky on several...
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Applied Cartography
You should build this: A prior iteration of this site had a page called "Project ideas" that listed a bunch of things that...
8 months ago
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You should build this:

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

8 months ago
A prior iteration of this site had a page called "Project ideas" that listed a bunch of things that I'd like to build. This was a good idea and useful in its own right (I got a few people to build companies and projects based on them, and it was a useful avenue by which folks...
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Birchtree
A project to smooth relations with devs Theo in a video about some recent Visual Studio Code drama: We have to remember the role of VS Code....
2 months ago
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A project to smooth relations with devs

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2 months ago
Theo in a video about some recent Visual Studio Code drama: We have to remember the role of VS Code. VS Code was never, ever, ever meant to make money. Microsoft's plan with VS Code was at no point, "we're going to charge for this
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Birchtree
The Gen Z-powered retro gaming revival Eve Upton-Clark writing for Fast Company: ‘It’s Like Their Escape’: Retro Gaming Is Back Thanks to...
3 months ago
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The Gen Z-powered retro gaming revival

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3 months ago
Eve Upton-Clark writing for Fast Company: ‘It’s Like Their Escape’: Retro Gaming Is Back Thanks to Gen Z Low-tech holds nostalgic appeal and may even offer a solid antidote to our increasingly fast-paced tech-driven society. For 78% of those polled, one reason they enjoy using...
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Yazin Alirhayim
The best bank in Bahrain … is Meem Yes, that’s right. The best bank in Bahrain is … Meem. This nomination will be especially shocking...
over a year ago
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The best bank in Bahrain … is Meem

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

over a year ago
Yes, that’s right. The best bank in Bahrain is … Meem. This nomination will be especially shocking to those of you that read my last post that ripped the Meem app to shreds. Criteria for ‘best bank’ My criteria for “best bank” isn’t the best user experience or customer support....
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computers are bad
2024-09-26 the GE switched services network We currently find ourselves in something of a series, working our way from private lines to...
9 months ago
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2024-09-26 the GE switched services network

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

9 months ago
We currently find ourselves in something of a series, working our way from private lines to large private line systems like the four-wire private-line national warning system. Let's continue to build on the concept of the private line into large corporate systems. In principle, a...
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Vitalik Buterin's...
Prediction Markets: Tales from the Election
over a year ago
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Prediction Markets: Tales from the Election

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

over a year ago
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Applied Cartography
Content debt There’s a nascent trend of releasing ostensibly-private material (changelogs, public wikis,...
12 months ago
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Content debt

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

12 months ago
There’s a nascent trend of releasing ostensibly-private material (changelogs, public wikis, handbooks, etc.) to the public as a bit of a marketing push. This is essentially a form of debt, to the extent that you’re taking a lump-sum payment now in exchange for the implicit cost...
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Lighthouse Blog
Updates April 05
a year ago
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Updates April 05

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a year ago
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Avestura's Blog
How to change visibility in massive GitHub organizations like EpicGames? How to publicize and un-publicize your visibility in massive GitHub orgs?
over a year ago
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How to change visibility in massive GitHub organizations like EpicGames?

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

over a year ago
How to publicize and un-publicize your visibility in massive GitHub orgs?
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Lighthouse Blog
What are feed readers?
2 months ago
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What are feed readers?

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2 months ago
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Posts on Made of...
Versioning dotfiles in git I’ve been looking for a good solution for versioning and synchronizing my dotfiles between machines...
over a year ago
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Versioning dotfiles in git

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

over a year ago
I’ve been looking for a good solution for versioning and synchronizing my dotfiles between machines for some time. I experimented with keeping all of ~ in subversion for a while, but it never worked out well for me. I’ve finally settled on a solution that I like using git, and so...
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Willem's Blog
Developing a native iOS app How hard can it be to build your own cycling and running workout tracker app using native code with...
a year ago
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Developing a native iOS app

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

a year ago
How hard can it be to build your own cycling and running workout tracker app using native code with some help from AI? Read along to find out!
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Willem's Blog
Apple Watch as Phone Embark on a digital detox journey as I swap my smartphone for an Apple Watch Ultra, exploring the...
a year ago
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Apple Watch as Phone

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

a year ago
Embark on a digital detox journey as I swap my smartphone for an Apple Watch Ultra, exploring the liberating yet challenging world of wearable tech.
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./techtipsy
Tech tip: eliminate HDD humming noise Anyone that has bought themselves external WD drives from the Elements/My Book/Easystore series are...
over a year ago
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Tech tip: eliminate HDD humming noise

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

over a year ago
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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latest projects -...
Talking Tines [Concept] Tuning forks that talk
a year ago
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Talking Tines

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

a year ago
[Concept] Tuning forks that talk
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Ken Shirriff's blog
Inside an IBM/Motorola mainframe controller chip from 1981 In this article, I look inside a chip in the IBM 3274 Control Unit.1 But before I discuss the chip,...
11 months ago
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Inside an IBM/Motorola mainframe controller chip from 1981

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

11 months ago
In this article, I look inside a chip in the IBM 3274 Control Unit.1 But before I discuss the chip, I need to give some background on mainframes. (I didn't completely analyze the chip, so don't expect a nice narrative or solid conclusions.) Die photo of the Motorola/IBM SC81150...
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Willem's Blog
Workout data in 3D I had this idea to use ThreeJS to visualise workout data from a recent run, read along to see what...
3 months ago
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Workout data in 3D

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

3 months ago
I had this idea to use ThreeJS to visualise workout data from a recent run, read along to see what I've created.
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Lars Lofgren
The Billion-Dollar World of Parasite SEO: How to Cash In Parasite SEO is when a third-party company partners with an established domain, then posts a bunch...
8 months ago
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The Billion-Dollar World of Parasite SEO: How to Cash In

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

8 months ago
Parasite SEO is when a third-party company partners with an established domain, then posts a bunch of SEO content to make a bunch of money. Content often gets published in a subfolder or subdomain or the website. The goal is to leverage the domain’s trust with Google to get...
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Birchtree
Tariffs, integrity, and chaos Ben Thompson: American Disruption (emphasis mine): [T]he most important components for executing a...
2 months ago
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Tariffs, integrity, and chaos

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

2 months ago
Ben Thompson: American Disruption (emphasis mine): [T]he most important components for executing a fundamental shift in trade are those that go into building actual factories, or equipment for those factories. In the vast sea of stupidity that are these tariffs this is perhaps...
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Jorge Arango
Using AI to Illuminate My Blind Spots I’ve worked a lot with ChatGPT over the last couple of years. Recently, OpenAI enabled the ability...
2 months ago
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Using AI to Illuminate My Blind Spots

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

2 months ago
I’ve worked a lot with ChatGPT over the last couple of years. Recently, OpenAI enabled the ability for the LLM to work with past chat transcripts. This opens lots of interesting possibilities. I just tried a prompt that taps into these possibilities. The response is 100% spot on,...
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Abort Retry Fail
Intel: Stumbling in the Spotlight Shrinking nodes and shrinking profits
2 months ago
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Intel: Stumbling in the Spotlight

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2 months ago
Shrinking nodes and shrinking profits
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Birchtree
Are these 2025’s new iPhones? 9to5Mac has links to two mock ups claiming to represent the iPhone 17 Air and iPhone 17 Pro coming...
4 months ago
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Are these 2025’s new iPhones?

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

4 months ago
9to5Mac has links to two mock ups claiming to represent the iPhone 17 Air and iPhone 17 Pro coming this fall. If I could be so bold, I’d say the 17 Air looks potentially reasonable, but the 17 pro render looks absolutely atrocious. I think there’s
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./techtipsy
I tried out the CyberPower UT650EG UPS After some spicy feedback to my post where a ThinkPad T430 acted as a server, I decided to try out...
over a year ago
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I tried out the CyberPower UT650EG UPS

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

over a year ago
After some spicy feedback to my post where a ThinkPad T430 acted as a server, I decided to try out one UPS that was recommended on the basis of it being much more power efficient compared to the APC UPS that I previously ran. That UPS? CyberPower UT650EG. Why switch out a...
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Home on Erik...
Functional programming is the libertarianism of software engineering This is a pretty dumb post, in which I argue that functional programming has a lot of the bad parts...
over a year ago
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Functional programming is the libertarianism of software engineering

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

over a year ago
This is a pretty dumb post, in which I argue that functional programming has a lot of the bad parts of libertarianism and a lot of the good parts: Both ideologies strive to eliminate [the] state.
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Jonas Hietala
Browse posts with telescope.nvim I’ve used telescope.nvim's find files with require("telescope.builtin").find_files for quite some...
a year ago
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Browse posts with telescope.nvim

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

a year ago
I’ve used telescope.nvim's find files with require("telescope.builtin").find_files for quite some time. I use find files together with it’s cousin .oldfiles (find recently opened files) all the time for finding source code files, blog posts, and more. But it’s naturally...
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Home on Erik...
Presentations about Spotify music recommendations A couple of people in my old team have been around talking about how Spotify does music...
over a year ago
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Presentations about Spotify music recommendations

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

over a year ago
A couple of people in my old team have been around talking about how Spotify does music recommendations and put together some quite good presentations. First one is Neville Li's presentation about Scala Data Pipelines @ Spotify:
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Birchtree
A clear-eyed look at LLM energy use Andy Masley: A Cheat Sheet for Why Using ChatGPT Is Not Bad for the Environment If you want to...
2 months ago
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A clear-eyed look at LLM energy use

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

2 months ago
Andy Masley: A Cheat Sheet for Why Using ChatGPT Is Not Bad for the Environment If you want to prompt ChatGPT 40 times, you can just stop your shower 1 second early. If you normally take a 5 minute shower, set a timer for 299 seconds instead, and you’
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Posts on Made of...
CVE-2010-4258: Turning denial-of-service into privilege escalation Dan Rosenberg recently released a privilege escalation bug for Linux, based on three different...
over a year ago
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CVE-2010-4258: Turning denial-of-service into privilege escalation

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

over a year ago
Dan Rosenberg recently released a privilege escalation bug for Linux, based on three different kernel vulnerabilities I reported recently. This post is about CVE-2010-4258, the most interesting of them, and, as Dan writes, the reason he wrote the exploit in the first place. In...
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Jonas Hietala
2014 in Review Previous reviews: 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. 2014 Geek Achievements Solved 73 UVa problems. Won a...
over a year ago
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2014 in Review

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

over a year ago
Previous reviews: 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. 2014 Geek Achievements Solved 73 UVa problems. Won a turn in IMPA and solved a bunch of problems. Completed a doctorand course about algorithmic problem solving. Finished my 4 first years in University. Became a contributor to rust and...
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Good Enough
TIL: System Colors are supported in CSS, but they’re unreliable I’ve said this before: We’re primarily a web shop here at Good Enough, but occasionally we come up...
a year ago
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TIL: System Colors are supported in CSS, but they’re unreliable

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

a year ago
I’ve said this before: We’re primarily a web shop here at Good Enough, but occasionally we come up with ideas that we think would work really well as a native desktop or mobile application. Still, we prototype those ideas on the web first. Recently, I wanted to try and make one...
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noahbuscher.com
Radio Install in a Porsche Boxster The 987.2 Porsche Boxster is one of the best values in the used sports car market today. There is so...
over a year ago
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Radio Install in a Porsche Boxster

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

over a year ago
The 987.2 Porsche Boxster is one of the best values in the used sports car market today. There is so much to love about the vehicle, but the OEM headunit is not one of them. It's very dated, clunky, and doesn't support CarPlay (!), so one of the first things I did after picking...
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Neil Madden
I still don’t really get “hash shucking” If you want to learn how to store passwords securely, you could do a lot worse than looking at the...
over a year ago
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I still don’t really get “hash shucking”

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

over a year ago
If you want to learn how to store passwords securely, you could do a lot worse than looking at the OWASP Password Storage Cheat Sheet. These cheat sheets are generally pretty good, and the password storage one is particularly good. The editors do a great job of keeping it up to...
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Jonas Hietala
CS:GO AWP Nerf When this man opens his mouth, truth comes out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsFnJYJ2buU If I...
over a year ago
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CS:GO AWP Nerf

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

over a year ago
When this man opens his mouth, truth comes out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsFnJYJ2buU If I ever make a game and I want someone to balance it and I had the money, I would hire Thorin.
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Notes on software...
Container scheduling strategies for integration testing 14 different databases in Github Actions This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
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Container scheduling strategies for integration testing 14 different databases in Github Actions

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

over a year ago
This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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Arduino Blog
This 1D camera captures 2D images of things it can’t see Yes, the title of this article sounds pretty crazy. But not only is it entirely possible through the...
a week ago
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This 1D camera captures 2D images of things it can’t see

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

a week ago
Yes, the title of this article sounds pretty crazy. But not only is it entirely possible through the lens of physics, but it is also practical to achieve in the real world using affordable parts. Jon Bumstead pulled it off with an Arduino, a photoresistor, and an inexpensive...
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Jonas Hietala
Weekend Tournaments This weekend was filled by playing cards. On Saturday I hosted a small Game of Thrones tournament...
over a year ago
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Weekend Tournaments

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

over a year ago
This weekend was filled by playing cards. On Saturday I hosted a small Game of Thrones tournament and on Sunday the local Netrunner community hosted a small summer kit tournament. Game of Thrones We’ve had a similar tournament once before when me and my girlfriend invited two of...
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Jonas Hietala
2011 in Review It’s time to wrap up the year that’s been. Be warned for slight ego boosting here. 2011 Geek...
over a year ago
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2011 in Review

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

over a year ago
It’s time to wrap up the year that’s been. Be warned for slight ego boosting here. 2011 Geek Achievements Wrote three games this year: My Minions Grand Thief Arto Sat-E Bought a new computer! Bought a mechanical keyboard. Bought custom Starcraft 2 keycaps for the...
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Simply Explained
ESP-IDF: Storing AWS IoT certificates in the NVS partition (for OTA) When using AWS IoT Core, most tutorials will tell you to include device certificates in your...
over a year ago
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ESP-IDF: Storing AWS IoT certificates in the NVS partition (for OTA)

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over a year ago
When using AWS IoT Core, most tutorials will tell you to include device certificates in your firmware. While that does work, it means you won't be able to run over-the-air updates.In this post, I'll show how to store AWS certificates in the NVS partition. This will make it...
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Himanshu Mishra |...
Joining Spotify in Sweden Image source Life in Japan All the things that I knew about Japan turned out to be true, as soon as...
over a year ago
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Joining Spotify in Sweden

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

over a year ago
Image source Life in Japan All the things that I knew about Japan turned out to be true, as soon as I arrived here 8 months ago. Japan is a…
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Abishek Muthian
How I run LLMs locally A HN user asked me0 how I run LLMs locally with some specific questions, I’m documenting it here for...
6 months ago
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How I run LLMs locally

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6 months ago
A HN user asked me0 how I run LLMs locally with some specific questions, I’m documenting it here for everyone. Before I begin I would like to credit the thousands or millions of unknown artists, coders and writers upon whose work the Large Language Models(LLMs) are trained, often...
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Birchtree
New weekend, new video recommendations My fellow F1 fans should watch this to make sure they know the main rule changes coming in this...
4 months ago
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New weekend, new video recommendations

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4 months ago
My fellow F1 fans should watch this to make sure they know the main rule changes coming in this season. I totally missed that the fastest lap point was going away. Unsecured and still-using0the-default-password cameras are quite the thing…always always always change your...
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Computer Ads from...
Ergotron Mouse Cleaner 360 Keeps your mouse operating like new!!
4 months ago
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Ergotron Mouse Cleaner 360

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

4 months ago
Keeps your mouse operating like new!!
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Louwrentius
Cryptocurrencies are detrimental to society Want to listen to this article? audio element. Introduction How would you explain the inner...
over a year ago
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Cryptocurrencies are detrimental to society

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over a year ago
Want to listen to this article? audio element. Introduction How would you explain the inner workings of bitcoin to a person in simple, understandable terms? source This explanation seems perfect to me because it illustrates some seriously problematic aspects of...
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Louwrentius
'Zabbix Security: client-server communication seems insecure' Zabbix is a populair tool for monitoring servers, services and network equipment. For monitoring...
over a year ago
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'Zabbix Security: client-server communication seems insecure'

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
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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Willem's Blog
Write your own words Why not to use AI for writing - a blog post on the underestimated long term costs of AI tools for...
7 months ago
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Write your own words

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7 months ago
Why not to use AI for writing - a blog post on the underestimated long term costs of AI tools for human creativity.
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Notes on software...
RFCs and asynchronous-first culture I hated writing documentation before working on features. But after a while I realized I couldn't...
over a year ago
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RFCs and asynchronous-first culture

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over a year ago
I hated writing documentation before working on features. But after a while I realized I couldn't communicate well enough, even with folks I had a good connection with. It took me a number of mistaken deliveries to get the message. Sketches and mockups Designers solve this by...
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Applied Cartography
Applied Cartography × Indie Rails Chatted with Jess and Jeremy about a whole slew of things, from pricing strategy to terrifying and...
9 months ago
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Applied Cartography × Indie Rails

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9 months ago
Chatted with Jess and Jeremy about a whole slew of things, from pricing strategy to terrifying and arcane differences between various Markdown parsers (including why I hate Slack.) They were particularly kind and gracious given that the amount of production-quality Rails I've...
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Notes on software...
Building a fast SCSS-like rule expander for CSS using fuzzy parsing This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
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Building a fast SCSS-like rule expander for CSS using fuzzy parsing

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over a year ago
This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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GitButler
GitButler 0.13 - "Lucky Baseball" It has been 4 months since our last minor release. In that time, we have done 27 patch releases,...
8 months ago
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GitButler 0.13 - "Lucky Baseball"

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8 months ago
It has been 4 months since our last minor release. In that time, we have done 27 patch releases, adding lots of small features, bug fixes, performance improvements and experiments. Last week we released GitButler 0.13, which is our first release with our new Fearless Rebasing...
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Abort Retry Fail
The History of Slackware The Oldest Surviving Linux Distribution
a year ago
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The History of Slackware

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a year ago
The Oldest Surviving Linux Distribution
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Vitalik Buterin's...
A CBC Casper Tutorial
over a year ago
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A CBC Casper Tutorial

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over a year ago
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Ken Shirriff's blog
Pi in the Pentium: reverse-engineering the constants in its floating-point unit Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of...
6 months ago
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Pi in the Pentium: reverse-engineering the constants in its floating-point unit

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6 months ago
Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of high-performance processors.1 The Pentium includes a floating-point unit that can rapidly compute functions such as sines, cosines, logarithms, and exponentials. But how does the Pentium...
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Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing MagBase Today we launched MagBase - it makes Apple's MagSafe Charger much easier to use. After trying other...
over a year ago
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Introducing MagBase

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over a year ago
Today we launched MagBase - it makes Apple's MagSafe Charger much easier to use. After trying other mounts for the MagSafe charger, we found it annoying to not be able to pick up & use your iPhone while charging. So we designed MagBase: Pull up to use your iPhone with MagSafe...
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Abort Retry Fail
The History of OS/2 Getting a Divorce
a year ago
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The History of OS/2

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a year ago
Getting a Divorce
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Home on Erik...
We're hiring at Better Just a quick note that my team is always hiring at Better. A lot of new people have been joining the...
over a year ago
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We're hiring at Better

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over a year ago
Just a quick note that my team is always hiring at Better. A lot of new people have been joining the team here in NYC lately—the tech team has actually grown from 35 to 60 in just ~3 months.
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Electronics etc…
HP 8656A Signal Generator Schematics Agilent has made the 8656A Signal Generator Operating & Service Manual available as a PDF, but the...
a year ago
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HP 8656A Signal Generator Schematics

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a year ago
Agilent has made the 8656A Signal Generator Operating & Service Manual available as a PDF, but the schematics of chapter 8 are all spread over 3 or 4 pages, which makes them hard to follow. I spent a good evening extracting the schematics pages, cutting-and-pasting them together...
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computers are bad
2023-07-29 Free Public WiFi Remember Free Public WiFi? Once, many years ago, I stayed on the 62nd floor of the Westin Peachtree...
a year ago
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2023-07-29 Free Public WiFi

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a year ago
Remember Free Public WiFi? Once, many years ago, I stayed on the 62nd floor of the Westin Peachtree Plaza in Atlanta, Georgia. This was in the age when the price of a hotel room was directly correlated with the price of the WiFi service, and as a high school student I was not...
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Jonas Hietala
An Elixir based payment processor for the Coinparty hackathon Bitcoin Unlimited is hosting a Bitcoin Cash hackathon this December and it seemed like a good...
over a year ago
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An Elixir based payment processor for the Coinparty hackathon

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over a year ago
Bitcoin Unlimited is hosting a Bitcoin Cash hackathon this December and it seemed like a good opportunity for me to explore how to program against Bitcoin Cash, and it gives me an excuse to build something real with Phoenix and Elixir. (While an event like this might help combat...
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Vitalik Buterin's...
What I would love to see in a wallet
7 months ago
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What I would love to see in a wallet

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7 months ago
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Ken Shirriff's blog
It's time to abandon the cargo cult metaphor The cargo cult metaphor is commonly used by programmers. This metaphor was popularized by Richard...
5 months ago
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It's time to abandon the cargo cult metaphor

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5 months ago
The cargo cult metaphor is commonly used by programmers. This metaphor was popularized by Richard Feynman's "cargo cult science" talk with a vivid description of South Seas cargo cults. However, this metaphor has three major problems. First, the pop-culture depiction of cargo...
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Arduino Blog
This Kenyan engineer modernizes vintage cars with a custom ECU and EFI upgrades The automotive industry’s switch from carburetion to fuel injection was one of the most effective...
9 months ago
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This Kenyan engineer modernizes vintage cars with a custom ECU and EFI upgrades

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9 months ago
The automotive industry’s switch from carburetion to fuel injection was one of the most effective advancements of the 20th century. Electronic fuel injection allows for precise control over an internal combustion engine’s air-fuel mixture, which dramatically improves fuel...
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Construction Physics
How We Got the Lithium-ion Battery It took decades of research, performed around the world, before a practical lithium-ion battery was...
7 months ago
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How We Got the Lithium-ion Battery

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7 months ago
It took decades of research, performed around the world, before a practical lithium-ion battery was possible.
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Vitalik Buterin's...
Quadratic Payments: A Primer
over a year ago
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Quadratic Payments: A Primer

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over a year ago
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Arduino Blog
How to customize your Arduino Cloud IoT dashboards on the go The Arduino Cloud has long been a trusted platform for makers, engineers, and developers to manage...
8 months ago
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How to customize your Arduino Cloud IoT dashboards on the go

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8 months ago
The Arduino Cloud has long been a trusted platform for makers, engineers, and developers to manage their IoT projects with ease. From tracking sensor data to automating smart devices, the cloud enables seamless connectivity. Complementing this, the Arduino IoT Remote mobile app...
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Krebs on Security
Microsoft: 6 Zero-Days in March 2025 Patch Tuesday Microsoft today issued more than 50 security updates for its various Windows operating systems,...
3 months ago
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Microsoft: 6 Zero-Days in March 2025 Patch Tuesday

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3 months ago
Microsoft today issued more than 50 security updates for its various Windows operating systems, including fixes for a whopping six zero-day vulnerabilities that are already seeing active exploitation.
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Arduino Blog
Using Arduino UNO to sync a visual neuroscience lab Common research methods to study the visual system in the laboratory include recording and...
8 months ago
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Using Arduino UNO to sync a visual neuroscience lab

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8 months ago
Common research methods to study the visual system in the laboratory include recording and monitoring neural activity in the presence of sensory stimuli, to help scientists study how neurons encode and respond, for example, to specific visual inputs.  One of the biggest technical...
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Old Vintage...
Virtualizing the 6502 on a 6502 with 6o6 (and The Incredible KIMplement goes 1.0) Okay, promises, promises. Here's the first of my bucket list projects I'm completing which I've...
a year ago
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Virtualizing the 6502 on a 6502 with 6o6 (and The Incredible KIMplement goes 1.0)

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a year ago
Okay, promises, promises. Here's the first of my bucket list projects I'm completing which I've intermittently worked on for literally two decades. Now that I've finally shaken out more bugs, tuned it up and cleaned it off, it's time to let people play with the source...
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./techtipsy
Zimaboard: the closest thing to my dream home server setup I stumbled upon this Hardware Haven video about the Zimaboard recently. I liked it a lot. I finally...
a year ago
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Zimaboard: the closest thing to my dream home server setup

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a year ago
I stumbled upon this Hardware Haven video about the Zimaboard recently. I liked it a lot. I finally bought one. In short, Zimaboard is a small single-board computer that is relatively affordable and comes with an interesting selection of ports, which includes an exposed PCI...
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Arduino Blog
Build your own smart pet feeder with the Arduino Plug and Make Kit If you are a pet owner, you know how important it is to keep furry companions fed and happy – even...
5 months ago
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Build your own smart pet feeder with the Arduino Plug and Make Kit

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5 months ago
If you are a pet owner, you know how important it is to keep furry companions fed and happy – even when life gets busy! With the Arduino Plug and Make Kit, you can now build a customizable, smart pet feeder that dispenses food on schedule and can be controlled remotely. It’s the...
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Birchtree
Should we do a Conclave? Niléane insists she's not bringing another task manager, Chris has a new e-ink toy he loves, and the...
3 months ago
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Should we do a Conclave?

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3 months ago
Niléane insists she's not bringing another task manager, Chris has a new e-ink toy he loves, and the whole crew finds interesting ways to add some more text expansion to their lives. We want to hear from you! How would you have done our challenges? How
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Arduino Blog
Easily add Python-controlled GPIO pins to any computer Let’s say that, hypothetically, you wanted to use your computer to blink an LED or read the state of...
a year ago
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Easily add Python-controlled GPIO pins to any computer

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a year ago
Let’s say that, hypothetically, you wanted to use your computer to blink an LED or read the state of a button. Could you? Almost certainly not — at least not without additional hardware. Most modern computers don’t provide any interface for direct interaction with low-level...
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Jordan’s Substack
Coming soon This is Jordan’s Substack.
7 months ago
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Coming soon

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7 months ago
This is Jordan’s Substack.
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Abishek Muthian
Resurrecting Nexus 6P from bootloop of death Nexus Before the Pixel there was Nexus, smartphones and tablets to showcase the latest in android...
over a year ago
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Resurrecting Nexus 6P from bootloop of death

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over a year ago
Nexus Before the Pixel there was Nexus, smartphones and tablets to showcase the latest in android with the brand of the manufacturer. They packed in latest android version with top end specifications and pathetic camera (processed image/video) quality; no wonder they didn't take...
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Nabeel S. Qureshi
Principles // This was originally a Google Doc where I gathered hard-won life lessons; eventually I open...
5 months ago
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Principles

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5 months ago
// This was originally a Google Doc where I gathered hard-won life lessons; eventually I open sourced it. It got a great response, including a shoutout from Tim Ferriss, so here it is on Substack.
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Willem's Blog
Different ways to visualise health To better understand how to visualise health I looked at different health/fitness apps and games.
over a year ago
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Different ways to visualise health

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over a year ago
To better understand how to visualise health I looked at different health/fitness apps and games.
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Arduino Blog
Repurposing an automatic train control unit as a car speedometer We’re just now getting semi-autonomous self-driving capabilities in cars, which let them adhere to...
9 months ago
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Repurposing an automatic train control unit as a car speedometer

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9 months ago
We’re just now getting semi-autonomous self-driving capabilities in cars, which let them adhere to posted speed limits and maintain their lanes. But trains have been doing the same thing for a long time — well before machine learning and computer vision became ubiquitous. How did...
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Odds and Ends of...
Britain needs a national drone company Forget GB Railways and GB Energy... how about GB Drones?
3 months ago
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Britain needs a national drone company

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3 months ago
Forget GB Railways and GB Energy... how about GB Drones?
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Vitalik Buterin's...
Understanding PLONK
over a year ago
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Understanding PLONK

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over a year ago
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Applied Cartography
Does that dependency spark joy? If there's been one through line in changes to Buttondown's architecture over the past six months or...
4 months ago
29

Does that dependency spark joy?

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4 months ago
If there's been one through line in changes to Buttondown's architecture over the past six months or so, it's been the removal and consolidation of dependencies: on the front-end, back-end, and in paid services. I built our own very spartan version of Metabase, Notion, and...
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Willem's Blog
One year of cycling GPS recording an entire year of bike rides using Garmin and Strava.
over a year ago
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One year of cycling

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over a year ago
GPS recording an entire year of bike rides using Garmin and Strava.
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Posts on Made of...
Exploiting misuse of Python's "pickle" If you program in Python, you’re probably familiar with the pickle serialization library, which...
over a year ago
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Exploiting misuse of Python's "pickle"

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over a year ago
If you program in Python, you’re probably familiar with the pickle serialization library, which provides for efficient binary serialization and loading of Python datatypes. Hopefully, you’re also familiar with the warning printed prominently near the start of pickle’s...
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GitButler
How Core Git Developers Configure Git What `git config` settings should be defaults by now? Here are some settings that even the core...
4 months ago
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How Core Git Developers Configure Git

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4 months ago
What `git config` settings should be defaults by now? Here are some settings that even the core developers change.
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Abishek Muthian
Backup PostgreSQL to cloud This post will help you with easy, cost-effective and secure way to backup your PostgreSQL database...
over a year ago
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Backup PostgreSQL to cloud

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over a year ago
This post will help you with easy, cost-effective and secure way to backup your PostgreSQL database to cloud. Create local scheduled backup of PostgreSQL database Login as postgres user on the console (tmux is recommended). Create .pgpass file to access database without entering...
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Arduino Blog
This robotic tongue drummer bangs out all the ambient hits If you like to listen to those “deep focus” soundtracks that are all ambient and relaxing, then...
4 weeks ago
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This robotic tongue drummer bangs out all the ambient hits

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4 weeks ago
If you like to listen to those “deep focus” soundtracks that are all ambient and relaxing, then you’ve heard a tongue drum in action. A tongue drum, or tank drum, is a unique percussion instrument traditionally made from an empty propane cylinder — though purpose-built models are...
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GitButler
Fixing up Git with Autosquash How can you amend a series of commits automatically to keep a clean history? Let's take a look at...
a year ago
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Fixing up Git with Autosquash

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a year ago
How can you amend a series of commits automatically to keep a clean history? Let's take a look at git autosquash.
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computers are bad
2024-11-23 cablesoft As an American, I often feel an intense jealousy of Ceefax, one of several commercially successful...
7 months ago
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2024-11-23 cablesoft

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7 months ago
As an American, I often feel an intense jealousy of Ceefax, one of several commercially successful teletext services in the UK and Europe. "Teletext" is sometimes a confusing term because of its apparent relation to telecom-industry technologies like the teletypewriter and...
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Arduino Blog
Meet Pico: A smart companion robot with vision Drawing upon the design and behaviors of the BD-1 droid from Star Wars, Mateo of the YouTube channel...
a month ago
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Meet Pico: A smart companion robot with vision

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a month ago
Drawing upon the design and behaviors of the BD-1 droid from Star Wars, Mateo of the YouTube channel MateoTechLab has adapted it into a shoulder-mounted animatronic named “Pico” that can constantly interact with the wearer. All movement, sound generation, and lighting are handled...
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latest projects -...
LED Industrial Piercing [Hardware] Illuminated circuit inside a hypodermic
a year ago
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LED Industrial Piercing

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a year ago
[Hardware] Illuminated circuit inside a hypodermic
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Willem's Blog
Enjoy a festival without alcohol This year I didn't drink alcohol during Rock Werchter, leading to interesting observations during...
over a year ago
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Enjoy a festival without alcohol

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over a year ago
This year I didn't drink alcohol during Rock Werchter, leading to interesting observations during the music festival.
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tim.sh
$2m laundered: the YouTube crypto tutorials’ huge scam (investigation) How 1 youtube video turned out to be a part of a million dollar scam scheme
5 months ago
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$2m laundered: the YouTube crypto tutorials’ huge scam (investigation)

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5 months ago
How 1 youtube video turned out to be a part of a million dollar scam scheme
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Construction Physics
Morris Chang and the Origins of TSMC Book review of the autobiography of Morris Chang.
6 months ago
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Morris Chang and the Origins of TSMC

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6 months ago
Book review of the autobiography of Morris Chang.
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Willem's Blog
Using a budget Android as main smartphone I switched to Android to find out how good a budget smartphone performs compared to an expensive...
over a year ago
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Using a budget Android as main smartphone

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over a year ago
I switched to Android to find out how good a budget smartphone performs compared to an expensive iPhone.
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Applied Cartography
Humane Inc. Humane Inc. started in 2018; it raised around $250M over five years before coming out of stealth...
4 months ago
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Humane Inc.

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4 months ago
Humane Inc. started in 2018; it raised around $250M over five years before coming out of stealth mode with an AI pin that people did not like very much, and today they announced their sale (or, to be specific, the sale of their patent library) to HP for $116M. Here is a hype...
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computers are bad
2023-12-05 vhf omnidirectional range The term "VHF omnidirectional range" can at first be confusing, because it includes "range"---a...
a year ago
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2023-12-05 vhf omnidirectional range

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a year ago
The term "VHF omnidirectional range" can at first be confusing, because it includes "range"---a measurement that the technology does not provide. The answer to this conundrum is, as is so often the case, history. The "range" refers not to the radio equipment but to the space...
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Willem's Blog
Is the Apple Watch the modern tool watch? I tested the Apple Watch during my work in Frankfurt this week where I had to go inside an internet...
over a year ago
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Is the Apple Watch the modern tool watch?

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over a year ago
I tested the Apple Watch during my work in Frankfurt this week where I had to go inside an internet data centre.
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Vitalik Buterin's...
Notes on Blockchain Governance
over a year ago
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Notes on Blockchain Governance

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over a year ago
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Computer Ads from...
Datamost Nightraiders Day Must Turn to Night Before Mankind Dares to Fight
a month ago
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Datamost Nightraiders

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a month ago
Day Must Turn to Night Before Mankind Dares to Fight
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Birchtree
What's that power you've amassed for if you're not going to use it? I read this excellent post by Niléane: Are Pride Wallpapers and a Watch Band Enough in 2025?… At a...
2 months ago
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What's that power you've amassed for if you're not going to use it?

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2 months ago
I read this excellent post by Niléane: Are Pride Wallpapers and a Watch Band Enough in 2025?… At a time when some trans people are actively seeking to flee the U.S. to preserve their fundamental right to a healthy, safe, and decent life free from the
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Birchtree
That app could probably be a website P. Martin Ortiz writing for Rogue Engine: Your App Should Have Been a Website Some companies push...
6 months ago
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That app could probably be a website

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6 months ago
P. Martin Ortiz writing for Rogue Engine: Your App Should Have Been a Website Some companies push for app installations because they gain access to more permissions than they would in the browser. Apps allow them to collect more data and track user activity, often under the...
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latest projects -...
World's Smallest Molecules [Misc] If ever I had a complaint about molecule models, it's that they're too big.
2 months ago
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World's Smallest Molecules

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2 months ago
[Misc] If ever I had a complaint about molecule models, it's that they're too big.
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Jonas Hietala
Ugly and Slow Progress Ludum Dare is coming along… Slowly. The rust on me is probably so brown it’s nearly black. But I...
over a year ago
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Ugly and Slow Progress

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over a year ago
Ludum Dare is coming along… Slowly. The rust on me is probably so brown it’s nearly black. But I have an idea and it might be good, all I need to do is execute it. Right? Programmer graphics coming to take you away! Anyway it’s going to be a risk-like game with a twist: you can...
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Arduino Blog
A DIY weather display with dedicated outdoor sensor station Weather stations are popular projects in the maker community because they’re useful and usually...
a year ago
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A DIY weather display with dedicated outdoor sensor station

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a year ago
Weather stations are popular projects in the maker community because they’re useful and usually quite affordable to construct. But most that we see are really weather information displays that gather data through the internet from stations in the region. That data is fairly...
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Computer Ads from...
Electronic Protection Devices' Electro-Clamp line The Underrated Virtues of Plain Vanilla
a year ago
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Electronic Protection Devices' Electro-Clamp line

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a year ago
The Underrated Virtues of Plain Vanilla
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Applied Cartography
Is cool enough? Via HN I ran into not one but two extremely neat and pleasant-looking libraries for URL...
a year ago
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Is cool enough?

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a year ago
Via HN I ran into not one but two extremely neat and pleasant-looking libraries for URL manipulation. They look like great libraries, and a prior version of me would have taken a brief set of cursory glances at the hodgepodge of janky URL manipulation code that I wrote for...
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Toni Lijic
2024 Year in Review Everything that happened to me this year
6 months ago
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2024 Year in Review

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6 months ago
Everything that happened to me this year
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Jonas Hietala
Ludum Dare 22 results! The results from Ludum Dare 22 are in! I made the game Sat-E for the 48 hour competition and I was...
over a year ago
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Ludum Dare 22 results!

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over a year ago
The results from Ludum Dare 22 are in! I made the game Sat-E for the 48 hour competition and I was quite happy with it. #24 Community 3.71 #40 Fun 3.38 #49 Theme 3.69 #65 Overall 3.42 #95 Humor 2.82 #167 Mood 2.92 #247 Innovation 2.69 #338 Audio 2.23 #340 Graphics 2.62 #376...
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Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course Week 16: The Art of War In week 16 of the humanities crash course, I revisited the Tao Te Ching and The Art of War. I just...
2 months ago
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Humanities Crash Course Week 16: The Art of War

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2 months ago
In week 16 of the humanities crash course, I revisited the Tao Te Ching and The Art of War. I just re-read the Tao Te Ching last year, so I only revisited my notes now. I’ve also read The Art of War a few times, but decided to re-visit it now anyway. Readings Both books are...
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Christian Selig
Announcing Juno 2.0 Juno’s been a really fun project to build, and it’s been so great hearing how other people have been...
a year ago
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Announcing Juno 2.0

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a year ago
Juno’s been a really fun project to build, and it’s been so great hearing how other people have been enjoying Juno since its launch, as well as providing awesome feedback and input to improve it. Today I’m releasing Juno 2.0, which incorporates a ton of that community feedback,...
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Engineers Need Art
Apple Interview (1995) Recalling my somewhat unusual interview with Apple back in 1995.
over a year ago
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Apple Interview (1995)

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over a year ago
Recalling my somewhat unusual interview with Apple back in 1995.
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lcamtuf’s thing
The Long Winter Interior of a vast cavern.
2 months ago
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The Long Winter

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2 months ago
Interior of a vast cavern.
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GitButler
GitButler's new patch based Code Review (Beta) Introducing Butler Review, a new commit-based, chat centered code review tool, now in beta.
3 months ago
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GitButler's new patch based Code Review (Beta)

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3 months ago
Introducing Butler Review, a new commit-based, chat centered code review tool, now in beta.
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Willem's Blog
Hello, stranger "Discover the transformative power of simple conversations in our tech-dominated world, as one...
a year ago
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Hello, stranger

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a year ago
"Discover the transformative power of simple conversations in our tech-dominated world, as one individual delves into the lost art of talking to strangers and the profound connections it can forge."
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Applied Cartography
Klarna: nineteen years, twenty billion kroner I tend to ignore the entire genre of what we now refer to as BNPL businesses — Affirm, Afterpay...
7 months ago
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Klarna: nineteen years, twenty billion kroner

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7 months ago
I tend to ignore the entire genre of what we now refer to as BNPL businesses — Affirm, Afterpay (RIP), Klarna, et al — not for any particular sin I feel that they are committing, but because they in my mind are much less interesting companies with less volatile upside than the...
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Odds and Ends of...
Four nuggets of Postcode Address File news To free the PAF we must first solve a coordination problem
4 months ago
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Four nuggets of Postcode Address File news

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4 months ago
To free the PAF we must first solve a coordination problem
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Notes on software...
An explosion of transitive dependencies A small standard library means an explosion in transitive dependencies. A more comprehensive...
5 months ago
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An explosion of transitive dependencies

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5 months ago
A small standard library means an explosion in transitive dependencies. A more comprehensive standard library helps you minimize dependencies. Don't misunderstand me: in a real-world project, it is practically impossible to have zero dependencies. Armin Ronacher called for a vibe...
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Odds and Ends of...
The social justice case for self-driving cars Abundant mobility should be a moral crusade
5 months ago
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The social justice case for self-driving cars

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5 months ago
Abundant mobility should be a moral crusade
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Matt Blewitt
Thoughts on User Safety: 2 Following up from last time, let’s explore the internal and insider fronts when moving beyond...
over a year ago
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Thoughts on User Safety: 2

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over a year ago
Following up from last time, let’s explore the internal and insider fronts when moving beyond security towards safety for our users.
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Applied Cartography
Mass renaming files in fish on macOS One of many two-liners to come as I migrate things from the old site onto Obsidian: brew install...
a year ago
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Mass renaming files in fish on macOS

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a year ago
One of many two-liners to come as I migrate things from the old site onto Obsidian: brew install rename rename "s/.mdx/.md/" **.md
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watchTowr Labs
SonicBoom, From Stolen Tokens to Remote Shells - SonicWall SMA (CVE-2023-44221, CVE-2024-38475) Another day, another edge device being targeted - it’s a typical Thursday! In today’s blog post,...
2 months ago
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SonicBoom, From Stolen Tokens to Remote Shells - SonicWall SMA (CVE-2023-44221, CVE-2024-38475)

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2 months ago
Another day, another edge device being targeted - it’s a typical Thursday! In today’s blog post, we’re excited to share our previously private analysis of the now exploited in-the-wild N-day vulnerabilities affecting SonicWall’s SMA100 appliance. Over the last few months, our...
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Louwrentius
Setting up a Jabber instant messaging server |_http-title: Site doesn't have a title (text/html;... I wanted to see how dificult it is to setup an instant messaging server based on open source...
over a year ago
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Setting up a Jabber instant messaging server |_http-title: Site doesn't have a title (text/html; charset=utf-8).

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over a year ago
I wanted to see how dificult it is to setup an instant messaging server based on open source software. Now I know that it is very easy, unless you are stubborn and do things your own way. In this example, I'm setting up a small IM server that is only for internal company use, but...
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Lars Lofgren
CNN and USA Today Have Fake Websites, I Believe Forbes Marketplace Runs Them What if I told you that Forbes Marketplace, the affiliate company operating on Forbes.com ALSO had...
9 months ago
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CNN and USA Today Have Fake Websites, I Believe Forbes Marketplace Runs Them

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9 months ago
What if I told you that Forbes Marketplace, the affiliate company operating on Forbes.com ALSO had agreements with CNN and USA Today? And that Forbes Marketplace was stuffing those sites full of affiliate content just like it is with Forbes? And what if Forbes Marketplace went to...
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Himanshu Mishra |...
What do I do when I’m bored from studying (or not studying) for the exams? The semester is about to end and I have no clue about what is going in the end semester...
over a year ago
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What do I do when I’m bored from studying (or not studying) for the exams?

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over a year ago
The semester is about to end and I have no clue about what is going in the end semester examinations. I have been studying a good amount of…
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Vitalik Buterin's...
The Triangle of Harm
over a year ago
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The Triangle of Harm

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over a year ago
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Jonas Hietala
Resurrection Aah what a nice summer! It was nice to be back in Övertorneå, doing nothing in particular. Just not...
over a year ago
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Resurrection

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over a year ago
Aah what a nice summer! It was nice to be back in Övertorneå, doing nothing in particular. Just not having to make lunch and dinner every day is such a relief, and if you do slip up food with grandma or Veronica’s parents is only a phone call away. I watched TV, played...
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lcamtuf’s thing
Investigating an "evil" RJ45 dongle Reverse-engineering hardware can be difficult -- but sometimes, all you need is a comfy armchair and...
5 months ago
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Investigating an "evil" RJ45 dongle

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5 months ago
Reverse-engineering hardware can be difficult -- but sometimes, all you need is a comfy armchair and some Google Translate.
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Jonas Hietala
Rewriting my Neovim config in Lua This screenshot betrays just how much productive time was wasted setting this up. I’ve got tons of...
a year ago
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Rewriting my Neovim config in Lua

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a year ago
This screenshot betrays just how much productive time was wasted setting this up. I’ve got tons of things to do; clean the bathrooms, prototype an idea for a SaaS and ponder world peace. So naturally the procrastination took over and I rewrote my Neovim configuration in...
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computers are bad
2023-10-15 go.com Correction: a technical defect in my Enterprise Content Management System resulted in the email...
a year ago
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2023-10-15 go.com

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a year ago
Correction: a technical defect in my Enterprise Content Management System resulted in the email having a subject that made it sound like this post would be about the classic strategy game Go. It is actually about a failed website. I regret the error; the responsible people have...
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Jonas Hietala
Long Term Goals Update During my vacation I suddenly got a bunch of “life crisis” type thoughts in an almost panic inducing...
over a year ago
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Long Term Goals Update

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over a year ago
During my vacation I suddenly got a bunch of “life crisis” type thoughts in an almost panic inducing intensity. They were mostly thoughts about not having accomplished anything and that the future looks bleak and meaningless and it’s not worth to do anything. As usual they are...
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GitButler
Interdiff review with git range-diff Diving into `range-diff`, the little known Git power tool to compare two versions of a series of...
4 months ago
34

Interdiff review with git range-diff

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4 months ago
Diving into `range-diff`, the little known Git power tool to compare two versions of a series of patches.
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Jonas Hietala
The T-34/0 keyboard layout This is an update to the T-34 keyboard layout I’ve been using for a solid number of weeks. While...
over a year ago
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The T-34/0 keyboard layout

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over a year ago
This is an update to the T-34 keyboard layout I’ve been using for a solid number of weeks. While there are more changes I’d like to try, I’m quite pleased with these changes so I figured I might as well immortalize them before I explore further. (And I do have a bunch of big...
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tim.sh
Why I created Ethereum Proof of Stake demo Hi there!
8 months ago
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Why I created Ethereum Proof of Stake demo

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8 months ago
Hi there!
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computers are bad
2024-10-26 buy payphones and retire PAYPHONES at High Volume Existing sites! Earn BIG $$. Money Back Guarantee! Dropshipping AliExpress...
8 months ago
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2024-10-26 buy payphones and retire

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8 months ago
PAYPHONES at High Volume Existing sites! Earn BIG $$. Money Back Guarantee! Dropshipping AliExpress watches, AI-generated SEO spam websites... marginally legal and ethical passive income schemes, that serve to generate that income mostly for their promoters, can feel like a...
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Simply Explained
Shelly 2.5 + ESPHome: potential fire hazard + fix If you have flashed your Shelly 2.5 with ESPHome, make sure to configure GPIO16. Otherwise, the pin...
over a year ago
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Shelly 2.5 + ESPHome: potential fire hazard + fix

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over a year ago
If you have flashed your Shelly 2.5 with ESPHome, make sure to configure GPIO16. Otherwise, the pin will be short-circuited and cause the unit to heat up significantly, creating a potential fire hazard!
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Buck on Software
23 things you should know 1: Management’s true confidence is reflected in how fast they are hiring
over a year ago
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23 things you should know

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over a year ago
1: Management’s true confidence is reflected in how fast they are hiring
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Good Enough
TIL: Tiptap Excerpt Extension with Rails While building Pika’s Stream of posts layout, we had need to add the capability to manage excerpts...
5 months ago
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TIL: Tiptap Excerpt Extension with Rails

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5 months ago
While building Pika’s Stream of posts layout, we had need to add the capability to manage excerpts in the Pika editor. These excerpts would be used to show a small portion of your post in a post stream while offering a “continue reading” link for readers to click to read the rest...
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./techtipsy
How I ended up working as a software developer I’ve officially worked as a software developer since August 2016, and by now I have a fair share of...
10 months ago
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How I ended up working as a software developer

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10 months ago
I’ve officially worked as a software developer since August 2016, and by now I have a fair share of stories to tell from those years. But those are stories for another time. Today I’d like to focus on where it all got started. The early days I never considered myself good with...
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Arduino Blog
Why we chose Claude for the Arduino Cloud AI Assistant We know that introducing AI into your coding environment comes with questions – about safety,...
a week ago
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Why we chose Claude for the Arduino Cloud AI Assistant

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a week ago
We know that introducing AI into your coding environment comes with questions – about safety, accuracy, privacy, and trust. That’s why we want to be transparent about how we built the recently-announced Arduino AI Assistant in the Cloud IDE, and why we chose to power it with...
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Computer Ads from...
IBM RISC System/6000 Family Just when PowerSeeker thought they had nowhere to go...
a year ago
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IBM RISC System/6000 Family

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a year ago
Just when PowerSeeker thought they had nowhere to go...
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Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course: Week 1 I’m embarking on a year-long crash course in the humanities. These are my notes for week...
6 months ago
40

Humanities Crash Course: Week 1

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6 months ago
I’m embarking on a year-long crash course in the humanities. These are my notes for week 1. Readings Following Gioia’s plan, I read six of Plato’s dialogues: Euthypro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, and Books I and VII of The Republic. I used the beautiful edition published (for free)...
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Jorge Arango
AI and Taxonomies: Creating vs. Applying Recently, I wrote about using AI to solve taxonomy drift — the all-too-common problem of lists of...
3 months ago
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AI and Taxonomies: Creating vs. Applying

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3 months ago
Recently, I wrote about using AI to solve taxonomy drift — the all-too-common problem of lists of terms (tags, categories) falling out of sync with the content they describe. A response to that post raised an important distinction worth clarifying: the difference between creating...
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Birchtree
📕 I recommend: Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI Hey everyone, this post is for everyone, but it’s a part of a new series I’m doing on More Birchtree...
5 months ago
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📕 I recommend: Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

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5 months ago
Hey everyone, this post is for everyone, but it’s a part of a new series I’m doing on More Birchtree where I review the books and games I read and play in 2025. My movie reviews have been a relative hit on social media for the
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Style over Substance
Peak Design quick-connect Leash and Cuff straps My camera collection has been growing steadily over the years, but it’s been expanding even faster...
over a year ago
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Peak Design quick-connect Leash and Cuff straps

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over a year ago
My camera collection has been growing steadily over the years, but it’s been expanding even faster during the COVID-19 lockdowns. Online shopping therapy keeps me sane while I’m cooped up at home, and with easy access to eBay and other auction sites my GAS – photographers...
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Applied Cartography
11ty .njk as the default templating language is an odd choice, and I find myself stubbing my toe on it a...
a year ago
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11ty

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a year ago
.njk as the default templating language is an odd choice, and I find myself stubbing my toe on it a good amount. Maybe that's a me thing! It is extremely fast. This site has around 2300 pages; Eleventy is compiling it in around two seconds. The extensibility ergonomics are...
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Jonas Hietala
The Chronicles of Bim: The 100 Fake Afros Aaah feels good having a game ready after the last month’s failure! This time it’s a small...
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The Chronicles of Bim: The 100 Fake Afros

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over a year ago
Aaah feels good having a game ready after the last month’s failure! This time it’s a small shooter. The Chronicles of Bim: The 100 Fake Afro Bullet masher - can you keep up with 100 enemies at the screen? Instruction W: up Credits Music: The Last Prophecy - Matthew Le Blanc...
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Home on Erik...
Implicit data and collaborative filtering A lot of people these days know about collaborative filtering. It's that Netflix Prize thing, right?...
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Implicit data and collaborative filtering

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

over a year ago
A lot of people these days know about collaborative filtering. It's that Netflix Prize thing, right? People rate things 1-5 stars and then you have to predict missing ratings. While there's no doubt that the Netflix Prize was successful, I think it created an illusion that all...
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Style over Substance
M4 Hex Socket Thumbscrew Knob Caps For the past few weeks I’ve been teaching myself how to use Fusion 360, a free online cloud-based...
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M4 Hex Socket Thumbscrew Knob Caps

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over a year ago
For the past few weeks I’ve been teaching myself how to use Fusion 360, a free online cloud-based CAD/CAM program that lets you create your own 3D designs. The best way to learn how to use a new program is to build something you actually need. And my latest design is a work in...
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Never Met a Science
Do Something Else Lakens and the Second Reformation
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Do Something Else

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9 months ago
Lakens and the Second Reformation
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Posts on Made of...
Running Tensorflow on AWS GPUs I’ve been spending some time learning deep learning and tensorflow recently, and as part of that...
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Running Tensorflow on AWS GPUs

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over a year ago
I’ve been spending some time learning deep learning and tensorflow recently, and as part of that project I wanted to be able to train models using GPUs on EC2. This post contains some notes on what it took to get that working. As many people have commented, the environment setup...
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Electronics etc…
Guide Technology GT300 Frequency Standard Teardown MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [...
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Guide Technology GT300 Frequency Standard Teardown

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a year ago
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Jonas Hietala
Undo git reset --hard I purposefully and more or less idiotically executed git reset --hard <hash> in hopes of going back...
over a year ago
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Undo git reset --hard

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over a year ago
I purposefully and more or less idiotically executed git reset --hard <hash> in hopes of going back a bit. What I didn’t realize then is that you throw away all the commits between now until <hash>. Not quite what was planned. After a bit of panic I found the answer: Find your...
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Simply Explained
Tracking gas usage with ESPHome, Home Assistant, and TCRT5000 In 2019, I built an energy monitor to keep track of our electricity consumption. Then, in 2021, Home...
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Tracking gas usage with ESPHome, Home Assistant, and TCRT5000

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over a year ago
In 2019, I built an energy monitor to keep track of our electricity consumption. Then, in 2021, Home Assistant added an Energy Management feature that keeps track of electricity and gas usage. So naturally, I had to make my gas meter smart as well.
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./techtipsy
Overcoming hardware limitations: the time-to-sleep script As some of you might own, I’m still rocking a ThinkPad T430, a laptop model originally released in...
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Overcoming hardware limitations: the time-to-sleep script

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over a year ago
As some of you might own, I’m still rocking a ThinkPad T430, a laptop model originally released in 2012. It’s not the fastest laptop out there, but it is plenty fast for a number of tasks, even most software development work. I also try to keep my machines up to date and properly...
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