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How I Became a Spam Vector There are several reasons for Google to downrank a website from their search results. My first...
1st Dec 2025
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How I Became a Spam Vector

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

1st Dec 2025
There are several reasons for Google to downrank a website from their search results. My first experience with downranking was on my very first day at a job in 2011. The day I walked into the building, Google released their first Panda update. My new employer, being a "content...
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How much agency do we actually want? "Mr. Torres did as instructed."
13th Jun 2025
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How much agency do we actually want?

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

13th Jun 2025
"Mr. Torres did as instructed."
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Exploring Command-line space time
26th Sep 2023
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Exploring Command-line space time

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

26th Sep 2023
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They call it Mister Pibb (again) As Pibb is the official beverage of Old Vintage Computing Research, no doubt to the profound chagrin...
2nd Nov 2025
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They call it Mister Pibb (again)

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

2nd Nov 2025
As Pibb is the official beverage of Old Vintage Computing Research, no doubt to the profound chagrin of the Coca-Cola Company, I feel compelled to offer a public service announcement. Old and busted: inconsistent on their own brand name) is back and Pibb Xtra, the face of...
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PEP8Speaks - Now helping 5,000 open source projects write neat and clean Python What is this project? 🐍 PEP8Speaks = PEP 8 + Speaks GitHub:...
5th Apr 2020
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PEP8Speaks - Now helping 5,000 open source projects write neat and clean Python

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

5th Apr 2020
What is this project? 🐍 PEP8Speaks = PEP 8 + Speaks GitHub: https://github.com/OrkoHunter/pep8speaks PEP 8 is Python's recommended coding…
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Fluid speed issues! Fluid v1.3 is too fast on 3GX iPhones ;( ! I will released a fix tonight !
29th Jun 2009
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Fluid speed issues!

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

29th Jun 2009
Fluid v1.3 is too fast on 3GX iPhones ;( ! I will released a fix tonight !
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How I Built an NFC Movie Library for my Kids When I was a kid, my sister and I had a tower of VHS tapes we watched endlessly. Fast-forward to...
14th Nov 2023
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How I Built an NFC Movie Library for my Kids

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

14th Nov 2023
When I was a kid, my sister and I had a tower of VHS tapes we watched endlessly. Fast-forward to today, and my children's movie collection is vastly different. It's completely digital and dispersed across services. I wanted to recreate the tangible magic of my childhood for them.
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Python's easter eggs and hidden jokes Just when you thought, Python could not be more fun. Read on GitHub...
8th May 2017
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Python's easter eggs and hidden jokes

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

8th May 2017
Just when you thought, Python could not be more fun. Read on GitHub https://github.com/OrkoHunter/python-easter-eggs 1. Hello World 2. The…
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Fixed Gear Gran Fondo Taking a fixed gear road bike for a gran fondo! Let some of my fun be of inspiration to you!
9th Apr 2021
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Fixed Gear Gran Fondo

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

9th Apr 2021
Taking a fixed gear road bike for a gran fondo! Let some of my fun be of inspiration to you!
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February Shenzhen Trip Update It took me a few days to get back to normal after returning from my trip to Shenzhen last week....
3rd Mar 2025
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February Shenzhen Trip Update

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

3rd Mar 2025
It took me a few days to get back to normal after returning from my trip to Shenzhen last week. Overall, pretty decent trip - I met with 1…
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App Clip Local Experiences have consumed my day Okay, I have to be doing something astronomically stupid, right? This should be working? I’m playing...
8th Sep 2025
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App Clip Local Experiences have consumed my day

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

8th Sep 2025
Okay, I have to be doing something astronomically stupid, right? This should be working? I’m playing around with an App Clip and want to just run it on the device as a test, but no matter how I set things up nothing ever works. If you see what I’m doing wrong let me know and I’ll...
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Alleged Jabber Zeus Coder ‘MrICQ’ in U.S. Custody A Ukrainian man indicted in 2012 for conspiring with a prolific hacking group to steal tens of...
2nd Nov 2025
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Alleged Jabber Zeus Coder ‘MrICQ’ in U.S. Custody

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

2nd Nov 2025
A Ukrainian man indicted in 2012 for conspiring with a prolific hacking group to steal tens of millions of dollars from U.S. businesses was arrested in Italy and is now in custody in the United States, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Sources close to the investigation say Yuriy...
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Advice That Actually Worked For Me My contribution to the 'productivity advice' genre.
4th Jul 2022
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Advice That Actually Worked For Me

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

4th Jul 2022
My contribution to the 'productivity advice' genre.
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Predicting solar eclipses with Python As I am en route to see my first total solar eclipse, I was curious how hard it would be to compute...
7th Apr 2024
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Predicting solar eclipses with Python

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

7th Apr 2024
As I am en route to see my first total solar eclipse, I was curious how hard it would be to compute eclipses in Python. It turns out, ignoring some minor coordinate system head-banging, I was able to get something half-decent working in a couple of hours.
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I didn't write any Javascript, and other shortcuts Getting it done by not doing a lot of it
22nd Aug 2023
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I didn't write any Javascript, and other shortcuts

from csvbase blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

22nd Aug 2023
Getting it done by not doing a lot of it
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The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon
5th Jul 2025
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The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon

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5th Jul 2025
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Nitrous oxide, a product of fertilizer use, may harm some soil bacteria While some N2O is produced naturally at the plant root, agricultural practices can increase its...
4th Mar 2026
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Nitrous oxide, a product of fertilizer use, may harm some soil bacteria

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

4th Mar 2026
While some N2O is produced naturally at the plant root, agricultural practices can increase its levels, to the detriment of some microbes that support plant growth.
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Compiling dynamic programming languages It can be difficult to disassociate the idea that dynamically typed programming languages are tied...
2nd Sep 2018
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Compiling dynamic programming languages

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

2nd Sep 2018
It can be difficult to disassociate the idea that dynamically typed programming languages are tied to byte-code interpreters (e.g. YARV Ruby, CPython, V8, Zend Engine, etc.). But for many languages, a compiled implementation also exists. Cython, Chicken Scheme and SBCL are good...
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Done this, done that. What now? Finished and uploaded our java game Grand Thief Arto, done an exam (didn’t quite go as intended) and...
5th Nov 2011
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Done this, done that. What now?

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

5th Nov 2011
Finished and uploaded our java game Grand Thief Arto, done an exam (didn’t quite go as intended) and starting some new courses in school. I’m liking my choice of Computer Science more and more. Data structures and Algorithms was a super fun course, I actually ordered a new book...
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Expecting Better Really good book, and one I would recommend to anyone thinking about family planning. Nothing coy or...
3rd Nov 2023
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Expecting Better

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

3rd Nov 2023
Really good book, and one I would recommend to anyone thinking about family planning. Nothing coy or clever to say; just thought it was solid, actionable, and sober without being a drag to read.
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2015 Read Books I didn’t read a lot of books in 2015, but the books I did read were pretty damn good. Fiction A Song...
1st Jan 2016
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2015 Read Books

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

1st Jan 2016
I didn’t read a lot of books in 2015, but the books I did read were pretty damn good. Fiction A Song of Ice and Fire: A Dance with Dragons - George R.R. Martin Reread. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms - Gearge R.R. Martin The Skin Collector - Jeffery Deaver Best Served Cold - Joe...
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On Nathan Schneider on the limits of cryptoeconomics
26th Sep 2021
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On Nathan Schneider on the limits of cryptoeconomics

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

26th Sep 2021
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Plex Might Be Indavertently Bottlenecking You Plex has this Relay feature that basically pipes your traffic through their servers if direct access...
12th May 2025
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Plex Might Be Indavertently Bottlenecking You

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

12th May 2025
Plex has this Relay feature that basically pipes your traffic through their servers if direct access isn't possible for whatever reason, bypassing NAT and presumably cutting down on their support tickets. For free users the relay is capped at a measly 1 Mbps and the [ever-growing...
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Repairing a Nintendo Gameboy Advance SP Reparing an old Nintendo Gameboy Advance to play classic Zelda again.
25th Mar 2017
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Repairing a Nintendo Gameboy Advance SP

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

25th Mar 2017
Reparing an old Nintendo Gameboy Advance to play classic Zelda again.
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test tr Thanks for reading. If you have any feedback or would like to discuss further, I would be happy to...
30th Dec 2025
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test tr

from sibervepunk [alt+shift+b] in technology

30th Dec 2025
Thanks for reading. If you have any feedback or would like to discuss further, I would be happy to hear from you. twitter | [email protected] Previous
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What I learned while gaming at 480 FPS It’s clear that with display technologies, we’ve hit a point of diminishing returns with packing...
12th May 2025
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What I learned while gaming at 480 FPS

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

12th May 2025
It’s clear that with display technologies, we’ve hit a point of diminishing returns with packing pixels more densly. However, there is room for rendering frames faster and faster. Having listened to Digital Foundry’s John Linneman talk so highlighy about playing games in 480hz on...
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Reverse engineering the mysterious Up-Data Link Test Set from Apollo Back in 2021, a collector friend of ours was visiting a dusty warehouse in search of Apollo-era...
21st Jul 2025
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Reverse engineering the mysterious Up-Data Link Test Set from Apollo

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

21st Jul 2025
Back in 2021, a collector friend of ours was visiting a dusty warehouse in search of Apollo-era communications equipment. A box with NASA-style lights caught his eye—the "AGC Confirm" light suggested a connection with the Apollo Guidance Computer. Disappointingly, the box was...
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250 lbs Six months ago, while I was setting up a new code editor, I noticed that the default font size felt...
16th Feb 2026
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250 lbs

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

16th Feb 2026
Six months ago, while I was setting up a new code editor, I noticed that the default font size felt just a bit too small, when displayed on my monitor. Not a big deal, I just bumped it up one size and went back to my work. Then it happened again, this time, when reading sheet...
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Train Simulator Controller: Dashboard Prototype Part 4, All the Panels With the center console of my train simulator built, I rapidly modeled and fabricated prototypes of...
30th Dec 2025
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Train Simulator Controller: Dashboard Prototype Part 4, All the Panels

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

30th Dec 2025
With the center console of my train simulator built, I rapidly modeled and fabricated prototypes of the four other panels.
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Gosling’s Old Rum Virginia has draconian liquor laws, which means I have to get interesting bottles shipped from...
3rd Feb 2024
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Gosling’s Old Rum

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Feb 2024
Virginia has draconian liquor laws, which means I have to get interesting bottles shipped from [REDACTED], a site on which I am very prone to judging a book by its cover; every month I'll end up purchasing a bottle of something purely because it looks interesting and I can...
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Do amazing things with a focused mind Read about my experience during the workshop I got as a birth day present involving the Wim Hof...
5th Dec 2018
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Do amazing things with a focused mind

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

5th Dec 2018
Read about my experience during the workshop I got as a birth day present involving the Wim Hof Method.
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Plotting author statistics for Git repos using Git of Theseus I spent a few days during the holidays fixing up a bunch of semi-dormant open source projects and I...
3rd Jan 2018
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Plotting author statistics for Git repos using Git of Theseus

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

3rd Jan 2018
I spent a few days during the holidays fixing up a bunch of semi-dormant open source projects and I have a couple of blog posts in the pipeline about various updates. First up, I made a number of fixes to Git of Theseus which is a tool (written in Python) that generates...
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FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more...
1st Sep 2026
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FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses

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

1st Sep 2026
A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from people in the United States and Canada. Based on interviews with individuals whose licenses are available for purchase on this service, it...
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2024-06-02 consumer electronics control In a previous episode, I discussed audio transports and mention that they have become a much less...
2nd Jun 2024
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2024-06-02 consumer electronics control

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

2nd Jun 2024
In a previous episode, I discussed audio transports and mention that they have become a much less important part of the modern home theater landscape. One reason is the broad decline of the component system: most consumers aren't buying a television, home theater receiver,...
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How to take down production with a single Helm command You’re Cletus Kubernetus: a software developer, and a proud Fedora Linux user.1 You know Kubernetes,...
4th Apr 2024
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How to take down production with a single Helm command

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

4th Apr 2024
You’re Cletus Kubernetus: a software developer, and a proud Fedora Linux user.1 You know Kubernetes, especially after the time you migrated some services to it. Everything is calm. Your pods are running. Your service is up. Business as usual. You release some minor changes to...
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Maths is Fun and Useful but Lasers Are More So Way back when, I made a cool but basic paper sculpture (in Maths is Fun and Useful) by hand, using a...
11th Aug 2017
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Maths is Fun and Useful but Lasers Are More So

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

11th Aug 2017
Way back when, I made a cool but basic paper sculpture (in Maths is Fun and Useful) by hand, using a perl script for the shape template. For cultural reasons, I wanted to make a gift out of paper and it had to be Heaps Good. I had finally got access to a laser cutter (omgomg)...
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The T-34/0 keyboard layout This is an update to the T-34 keyboard layout I’ve been using for a solid number of weeks. While...
5th Sep 2021
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The T-34/0 keyboard layout

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

5th Sep 2021
This is an update to the T-34 keyboard layout I’ve been using for a solid number of weeks. While there are more changes I’d like to try, I’m quite pleased with these changes so I figured I might as well immortalize them before I explore further. (And I do have a bunch of big...
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Be A Donor This is probably the proudest moment of my Computer Science career so far: On April 17th, 2012 the...
22nd Apr 2012
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Be A Donor

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

22nd Apr 2012
This is probably the proudest moment of my Computer Science career so far: On April 17th, 2012 the Government of Ontario released the Mobile Website I designed and implemented for the major part of 2011. Beadonor.ca allows you reinforce your decision to be an organ donor. I feel...
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Computer says no The weather app indicating rain caused an empty bike lane this morning, making me wonder about the...
10th Sep 2022
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Computer says no

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

10th Sep 2022
The weather app indicating rain caused an empty bike lane this morning, making me wonder about the power we put into these things.
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AI Allows More Diversity in the Forms of Social Science Glad to be back!
1st May 2026
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AI Allows More Diversity in the Forms of Social Science

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

1st May 2026
Glad to be back!
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GitButler is joining the Open Source Pledge GitButler is joining the Open Source Pledge to help move towards a more sustainable open source...
2nd Sep 2024
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GitButler is joining the Open Source Pledge

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

2nd Sep 2024
GitButler is joining the Open Source Pledge to help move towards a more sustainable open source ecosystem.
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Book review: The Joy of Cryptography Mike Rosulek, Oregon State University. Draft of January 3, 2021. Online: The Joy of Cryptography....
16th Feb 2023
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Book review: The Joy of Cryptography

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

16th Feb 2023
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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Enjoy a festival without alcohol This year I didn't drink alcohol during Rock Werchter, leading to interesting observations during...
9th Jul 2018
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Enjoy a festival without alcohol

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

9th Jul 2018
This year I didn't drink alcohol during Rock Werchter, leading to interesting observations during the music festival.
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Let's compile Quake like it's 1997!
5th Feb 2026
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Let's compile Quake like it's 1997!

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

5th Feb 2026
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I deleted my favorite feature, and the image got better: Direct Binary Search (DBS) in OpenDithering When I created OpenDithering back in June, the feature I was proudest of was the Auto-tune button....
4 days ago
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I deleted my favorite feature, and the image got better: Direct Binary Search (DBS) in OpenDithering

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

4 days ago
When I created OpenDithering back in June, the feature I was proudest of was the Auto-tune button. It did the slider work for me: it compared the dithered result to the original image, nudged the settings, and repeated until the image stopped improving. Over the summer it grew...
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Quick Reviews is out now! Quick Reviews is currently available on the App Store and is a free download. Check it out! I...
2nd Feb 2025
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Quick Reviews is out now!

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Feb 2025
Quick Reviews is currently available on the App Store and is a free download. Check it out! I recently wrote about how the app works, so I’ll let you read that to see how it works. I have finalized my monetization, so I did want to lay that
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Introducing QuickDraw This may be the best product we've ever designed. Existing cord organizers sit at the back or edge...
23rd Nov 2021
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Introducing QuickDraw

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

23rd Nov 2021
This may be the best product we've ever designed. Existing cord organizers sit at the back or edge of your desk and create a mountain of clutter. Using them requires reaching for the cord you want and pulling it across your desk. To put it back, you have to flip the the cord...
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Across the Spiderverse It is very gratifying for me to see all the praise for this movie, some of it feeling overdue from...
7th Jun 2023
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Across the Spiderverse

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

7th Jun 2023
It is very gratifying for me to see all the praise for this movie, some of it feeling overdue from the somehow-underappreciated Into the Spiderverse. And, to be sure, the praise is earned: this is "what if the first movie, but more" in the best way possible. I thought the former,...
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The Design of Everyday Things My favorite book of the year. I’m not going to gush about it — enough others have in the decades of...
30th Dec 2014
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The Design of Everyday Things

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

30th Dec 2014
My favorite book of the year. I’m not going to gush about it — enough others have in the decades of its existence — but know that it is that good and that timeless. Norman changed the way I thought about technology.
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Script that shows relevant disk information I wrote a small Python script called 'showdisks' that displays relevant information about any...
1st Oct 2013
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Script that shows relevant disk information

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

1st Oct 2013
I wrote a small Python script called 'showdisks' that displays relevant information about any physical storage devices supported by hdparm. Information such as model and capacity are shown, but also controller and device path. This script only requires python and hdparm. I hope...
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On building quicker How AI tools have transformed my approach to building projects, making it possible to launch ideas...
31st Mar 2025
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On building quicker

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

31st Mar 2025
How AI tools have transformed my approach to building projects, making it possible to launch ideas faster and focus on what matters most.
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Galaxy brain resistance
7th Nov 2025
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Galaxy brain resistance

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

7th Nov 2025
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Let's build a VORON: Major failure The left POM nut got ground down, making the bed fall down. After 600 hours, the printer met it’s...
1st Mar 2024
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Let's build a VORON: Major failure

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

1st Mar 2024
The left POM nut got ground down, making the bed fall down. After 600 hours, the printer met it’s first major failure. I know I earlier described how the extruder starter skipping in a big way, but that was just some filament getting stuck in the extruder. This time a part...
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Filling in the Blanks: Exploiting Null Byte Buffer Overflow for a $40,000 Bounty
1st Nov 2019
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Filling in the Blanks: Exploiting Null Byte Buffer Overflow for a $40,000 Bounty

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

1st Nov 2019
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2025-06-01 I've been reading The Nature of Order by Christopher Alexander, and it's inspired me to experiment...
1st Jun 2025
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2025-06-01

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

1st Jun 2025
I've been reading The Nature of Order by Christopher Alexander, and it's inspired me to experiment with this representation to communicate the global structure of the source code of the Game of Snake: The whole program is arranged on a 2D surface within a series of nested...
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Health and fitness data Exploring the balance between health data and intuition, this blog post delves into how personal...
15th Jan 2024
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Health and fitness data

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

15th Jan 2024
Exploring the balance between health data and intuition, this blog post delves into how personal well-being and fitness goals shape our relationship with technology and self-awareness.
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Using a budget Android as main smartphone Every now and then, I switch phones to keep track of mobile developments. As professional app and...
8th Oct 2018
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Using a budget Android as main smartphone

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

8th Oct 2018
Every now and then, I switch phones to keep track of mobile developments. As professional app and web developer, I need to know how different devices work in real life. This time I used a budget Android smartphone, making me curious how it would compare to an expensive iPhone....
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Talking tablets: what makes a great tablet? Over the past few weeks I worked with Microsoft Surface Pro X to see if it is any good, can it be...
13th Apr 2020
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Talking tablets: what makes a great tablet?

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

13th Apr 2020
Over the past few weeks I worked with Microsoft Surface Pro X to see if it is any good, can it be your main computer?
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Some thoughts on Quora With the announcement this week that Quora had taken $11 million in VC at an $86 million valuation,...
4th Apr 2010
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Some thoughts on Quora

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

4th Apr 2010
With the announcement this week that Quora had taken $11 million in VC at an $86 million valuation, there’s been an awful lot of attention on Quora. I’ve had an account there and wanted to write up some of my initial thoughts. If you haven’t heard about Quora, it’s yet another...
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Core 2 Duo - Beta Test Signup! My personal Core 2 Duo, featuring irek’s beautiful Brutal watchface Hopefully you have...
11th Jun 2025
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Core 2 Duo - Beta Test Signup!

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

11th Jun 2025
My personal Core 2 Duo, featuring irek’s beautiful Brutal watchface Hopefully you have pre-ordered a Core 2 Duo watch - if not, you…
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Repetition is the shadow of structure
2nd Nov 2019
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Repetition is the shadow of structure

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

2nd Nov 2019
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OpenBSD on the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano (1st Gen) Lenovo has finally made a smaller version of its X1 Carbon, something I've been looking forward to...
27th Jan 2021
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OpenBSD on the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano (1st Gen)

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

27th Jan 2021
Lenovo has finally made a smaller version of its X1 Carbon, something I've been looking forward to for years. Table of Contents Top Hardware Firmware Current OpenBSD Support Summary Updates Hardware The X1 Nano is basically a 13" version of the 14" X1 Carbon,...
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It’s not just an IDE: building the developer cloud is hard
9th Aug 2023
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It’s not just an IDE: building the developer cloud is hard

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

9th Aug 2023
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Switching away from Debian to Ubuntu LTS Over the last couple of years, Debian Linux has released new stable versions about every two years....
6th Jul 2011
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Switching away from Debian to Ubuntu LTS

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

6th Jul 2011
Over the last couple of years, Debian Linux has released new stable versions about every two years. This pace is great for progress, but there is a serious problem. This problem is related to their support for older Debian stable versions. If you read the quote below from the...
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Notes from "Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology" Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology is a book of essays by Ellen Ullman. In the book,...
8th Apr 2025
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Notes from "Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology"

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

8th Apr 2025
Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology is a book of essays by Ellen Ullman. In the book, Ullman laments the bad parts of computers and the internet. These systems eroded privacy, deepened income inequality, and enabled the rise of modern fascism. And they were built by a...
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Data architecture vs backend architecture A modern tech stack typically involves at least a frontend and backend but relatively quickly also...
10th Jan 2019
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Data architecture vs backend architecture

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

10th Jan 2019
A modern tech stack typically involves at least a frontend and backend but relatively quickly also grows to include a data platform. This typically grows out of the need for ad-hoc analysis and reporting but possibly evolves into a whole oil refinery of cronjobs, dashboards, bulk...
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Gitcoin Grants Round 9: The Next Phase of Growth
2nd Apr 2021
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Gitcoin Grants Round 9: The Next Phase of Growth

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

2nd Apr 2021
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Mindwalk Let us know how the water rises.
1st Apr 2026
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Mindwalk

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

1st Apr 2026
Let us know how the water rises.
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How to change visibility in massive GitHub organizations like EpicGames? How to publicize and un-publicize your visibility in massive GitHub orgs?
23rd Oct 2021
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How to change visibility in massive GitHub organizations like EpicGames?

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

23rd Oct 2021
How to publicize and un-publicize your visibility in massive GitHub orgs?
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MicroTimes Interviews Borland's Philippe Kahn Again (1995) Khan talks about his post-Borland work at Starfish and competition with Lotus and Microsoft
3rd Mar 2026
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MicroTimes Interviews Borland's Philippe Kahn Again (1995)

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

3rd Mar 2026
Khan talks about his post-Borland work at Starfish and competition with Lotus and Microsoft
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Hilariously Fast Volume Computation with the Divergence Theorem (No, there won’t be jokes.) The following presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of a...
16th Feb 2018
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Hilariously Fast Volume Computation with the Divergence Theorem

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

16th Feb 2018
(No, there won’t be jokes.) The following presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of a simple, closed, triangulated 3D mesh. This assumption is a consequence of the divergence theorem. Further extensions may generalise to other meshes as well, although that is presently...
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Compiling Multicore PAR2 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin If you want to compile PAR2 with multicore support on Linux, it may not work right away from source....
15th Sep 2012
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Compiling Multicore PAR2 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin

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

15th Sep 2012
If you want to compile PAR2 with multicore support on Linux, it may not work right away from source. I used this version of PAR2 with multicore support. Update 2015: the original link is dead, I foud a copy of the source and put it on my own site here for you to download. First,...
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Bypassing Authentication Like It’s The ‘90s - Pre-Auth RCE Chain(s) in Kentico Xperience CMS I recently joined watchTowr, and it is, therefore, time - time for my first watchTowr Labs blogpost,...
17th Mar 2025
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Bypassing Authentication Like It’s The ‘90s - Pre-Auth RCE Chain(s) in Kentico Xperience CMS

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

17th Mar 2025
I recently joined watchTowr, and it is, therefore, time - time for my first watchTowr Labs blogpost, previously teased in a tweet of a pre-auth RCE chain affecting some ‘unknown software’. Joining the team, I wanted to maintain the trail of destruction left by the watchTowr Labs...
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GitButler for Windows The GitButler client is now available natively on Windows.
12th Apr 2024
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GitButler for Windows

from GitButler [alt+shift+b] in technology

12th Apr 2024
The GitButler client is now available natively on Windows.
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Towards Crypto Literacy Consumer scale isn’t reached by abstracting the crypto away — not yet, at least.
6th Feb 2023
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Towards Crypto Literacy

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

6th Feb 2023
Consumer scale isn’t reached by abstracting the crypto away — not yet, at least.
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Stop Babysitting Your AI Coding Agents Move 10x as fast, break 10x as many things
20th Jan 2026
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Stop Babysitting Your AI Coding Agents

from Push to Prod [alt+shift+b] in technology

20th Jan 2026
Move 10x as fast, break 10x as many things
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Achieving 2.3 GB/s with 16 x 4 TB drives I'm in the process of building a new storage server to replace my 18 TB NAS. The server is almost...
12th Jul 2014
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Achieving 2.3 GB/s with 16 x 4 TB drives

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

12th Jul 2014
I'm in the process of building a new storage server to replace my 18 TB NAS. The server is almost finished, it's now down to adding disk drives. I'm using the HGST 4 TB 7200 RPM drive for this build (SKU 0S03356) (review). I have not bought all drives at once, but slowly adding...
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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...
7th Sep 2024
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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

7th Sep 2024
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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Amazon Basics, but for intellectual property. Amazon has been accused several times for ripping off merchants on its platform. And every single...
6th Jul 2026
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Amazon Basics, but for intellectual property.

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

6th Jul 2026
Amazon has been accused several times for ripping off merchants on its platform. And every single time they denied any wrongdoing. A merchant, or anyone really, can create a product (or source it from China), then resell it on amazon. Amazon is the service provider, and hosts...
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Why fastDoom is fast
4th Mar 2025
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Why fastDoom is fast

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

4th Mar 2025
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Consumerism: The First Universal Religion Humans Actually Practice From Apple's glass cathedrals to unboxing rituals and tech prophets, we replaced religious...
1st May 2025
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Consumerism: The First Universal Religion Humans Actually Practice

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

1st May 2025
From Apple's glass cathedrals to unboxing rituals and tech prophets, we replaced religious behavioral patterns with product worship without acknowledging it—creating perhaps the first truly global faith.
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Would you like a drainer served at the very top of DuckDuckGo? Probably no, right? That would be very dangerous, especially if the phishing website serving it is...
16th Jun 2026
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Would you like a drainer served at the very top of DuckDuckGo?

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

16th Jun 2026
Probably no, right? That would be very dangerous, especially if the phishing website serving it is an exact copy of the thing you was looking for. Well that's what happened to me! TL;DR I found a fake tronscan blockchain explorer duplicate on the #1 position in the
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The Joy of Computer History Books
1st Apr 2023
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The Joy of Computer History Books

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

1st Apr 2023
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Film in the Fridge I’ve got a bunch of old film I need to get through. Stored properly – I shouldn’t need to add too...
7th May 2026
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Film in the Fridge

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in technology

7th May 2026
I’ve got a bunch of old film I need to get through. Stored properly – I shouldn’t need to add too many additional stops.I think this may be the golden age. Enjoy while you can.
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Writing a SQL database, take two: Zig and RocksDB For my second project while learning Zig, I decided to port an old, minimal SQL database project...
13th Nov 2022
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Writing a SQL database, take two: Zig and RocksDB

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

13th Nov 2022
For my second project while learning Zig, I decided to port an old, minimal SQL database project from Go to Zig. In this post, in ~1700 lines of code (yes, I'm sorry it's bigger than my usual), we'll create a basic embedded SQL database in Zig on top of RocksDB. Other than the...
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JJ Con 2026 Talks are Up All the talks from JJ Con 2026 in Lisbon are now on YouTube. Here is a quick overview of each of...
a week ago
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JJ Con 2026 Talks are Up

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

a week ago
All the talks from JJ Con 2026 in Lisbon are now on YouTube. Here is a quick overview of each of them.
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Cult Classic I can't find where I wrote this, but I described Crosley's writing persona (having read her other...
8th Nov 2022
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Cult Classic

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

8th Nov 2022
I can't find where I wrote this, but I described Crosley's writing persona (having read her other two books) as that of a friend you run into at a party who fits in perfectly and has the best bon mots and she knows it and needs to make sure you know it, too.
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Spring ham radio activation of Korkattivuori (Mt. Korkatti) Korkattivuori (“Mount Korkatti”, 186m above sea level) is a small hill and Natura 2000 nature...
16th Apr 2023
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Spring ham radio activation of Korkattivuori (Mt. Korkatti)

from OH8HUB’s Substack [alt+shift+b] in technology

16th Apr 2023
Korkattivuori (“Mount Korkatti”, 186m above sea level) is a small hill and Natura 2000 nature reserve area near town Haapavesi (pop. 6588) in Finland. The nature reserve area consist of short family friendly hiking path of approximately 1.5km. One end of the path has parking...
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UNIX Review Magazine Interviews Larry Tesler They discuss Tesler's involvement with Xerox, Apple and office automation with Unix.
10th Sep 2024
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UNIX Review Magazine Interviews Larry Tesler

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

10th Sep 2024
They discuss Tesler's involvement with Xerox, Apple and office automation with Unix.
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Walter Torous named executive director of MIT Center for Real Estate The senior lecturer, already director of the degree program, will now oversee all aspects of the...
1st Sep 2026
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Walter Torous named executive director of MIT Center for Real Estate

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

1st Sep 2026
The senior lecturer, already director of the degree program, will now oversee all aspects of the center’s activities and operations.
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Professor Emeritus Chiang Chung Mei, pioneering scholar of ocean wave dynamics and fluid mechanics,... A towering figure in theoretical hydrodynamics is remembered for his intellectual rigor, generosity,...
14th Aug 2026
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Professor Emeritus Chiang Chung Mei, pioneering scholar of ocean wave dynamics and fluid mechanics, dies at 91

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

14th Aug 2026
A towering figure in theoretical hydrodynamics is remembered for his intellectual rigor, generosity, and lifelong devotion to his students.
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Intel's $475 million error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug In 1993, Intel released the high-performance Pentium processor, the start of the long-running...
28th Dec 2024
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Intel's $475 million error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug

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

28th Dec 2024
In 1993, Intel released the high-performance Pentium processor, the start of the long-running Pentium line. The Pentium had many improvements over the previous processor, the Intel 486, including a faster floating-point division algorithm. A year later, Professor Nicely, a number...
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Transformers for software engineers Ever since its introduction in the 2017 paper, Attention is All You Need, the Transformer model...
1st Apr 2022
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Transformers for software engineers

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

1st Apr 2022
Ever since its introduction in the 2017 paper, Attention is All You Need, the Transformer model architecture has taken the deep-learning world by storm. Initially introduced for machine translation, it has become the tool of choice for a wide range of domains, including text,...
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Luigi: complex pipelines of tasks in Python I'm shamelessly promoting my first major open source project. Luigi is a Python module that helps...
21st Oct 2012
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Luigi: complex pipelines of tasks in Python

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

21st Oct 2012
I'm shamelessly promoting my first major open source project. Luigi is a Python module that helps you build complex pipelines of batch jobs, handle dependency resolution, and create visualizations to help manage multiple workflows. It also comes with Hadoop support built in...
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Why I don't take sponsorships Last year I made that video in response to a sponsorship offer that I got from various VPN...
20th May 2020
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Why I don't take sponsorships

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

20th May 2020
Last year I made that video in response to a sponsorship offer that I got from various VPN providers. They all told me the same thing: our service is the best way to protect your privacy, and we were hoping you could convey this message in one of your videos.So I decided to do...
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The Dawn of Hybrid Layer 2 Protocols
28th Aug 2019
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The Dawn of Hybrid Layer 2 Protocols

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

28th Aug 2019
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Minor site updates As it happens I got a little tired of the syntax highlighter Pandoc uses so on a whim I started...
29th Apr 2020
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Minor site updates

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

29th Apr 2020
As it happens I got a little tired of the syntax highlighter Pandoc uses so on a whim I started looking at moving to Pygments as my highlighter. With some searching around I found a blog post about just that! That’s lucky because while I like Haskell, I’ve never really grocked it...
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Precision Clock Mk IV [Hardware] GPS synchronised, millisecond precision, automatic timezones and more!
31st May 2025
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Precision Clock Mk IV

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

31st May 2025
[Hardware] GPS synchronised, millisecond precision, automatic timezones and more!
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How I made a kick-ass cover for my self-published book If you want to publish a book, one of the most important things to consider is the cover—after all,...
10th May 2021
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How I made a kick-ass cover for my self-published book

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

10th May 2021
If you want to publish a book, one of the most important things to consider is the cover—after all, we judge the book by the cover. And I did it the universally recommended way: I hired a designer. Simple, right? But real talk; it’s not exactly that simple and I did a bunch of...
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Scripts I wrote that I use all the time In my decade-plus of maintaining my dotfiles, I’ve written a lot of little shell scripts. Here’s a...
22nd Oct 2025
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Scripts I wrote that I use all the time

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

22nd Oct 2025
In my decade-plus of maintaining my dotfiles, I’ve written a lot of little shell scripts. Here’s a big list of my personal favorites. Clipboard copy and pasta are simple wrappers around system clipboard managers, like pbcopy on macOS and xclip on Linux. I use these all the...
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AI automatically preps a bottle when the baby cries Bottle prepping machines make life just a little bit less hectic for overwhelmed parents, but they...
2nd Jan 2026
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AI automatically preps a bottle when the baby cries

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

2nd Jan 2026
Bottle prepping machines make life just a little bit less hectic for overwhelmed parents, but they do still need to be started and that is easier said than done when you’ve got a wailing baby in your arms. That’s why Manivannan created this edge AI-powered system that...
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Grit: rewriting Git in Rust with agents We used agents to port all of Git to library-first, memory-safe Rust and it passes the entire C Git...
9th Jun 2026
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Grit: rewriting Git in Rust with agents

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

9th Jun 2026
We used agents to port all of Git to library-first, memory-safe Rust and it passes the entire C Git test suite.
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Family Computing Interviews Jack Tramiel after Atari Purchase (1985) They talk about Jack's past and the future of Atari.
3rd Nov 2025
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Family Computing Interviews Jack Tramiel after Atari Purchase (1985)

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

3rd Nov 2025
They talk about Jack's past and the future of Atari.
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Don't be afraid of RAID Introduction I sense this sentiment on the internet that RAID is dangerous, that the likelihood of...
22nd May 2020
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Don't be afraid of RAID

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

22nd May 2020
Introduction I sense this sentiment on the internet that RAID is dangerous, that the likelihood of your RAID array failing during a rebuild is almost a certainty, because hard drives have become so large. I think nothing is further from the truth and I would like to dispel this...
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2024-08-12 a pedantic review of the las vegas loop Did you hear that Elon Musk dug a tunnel under the Las Vegas Convention Center? I think it is pretty...
12th Aug 2024
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2024-08-12 a pedantic review of the las vegas loop

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

12th Aug 2024
Did you hear that Elon Musk dug a tunnel under the Las Vegas Convention Center? I think it is pretty universally known by now that the "Las Vegas Loop" is impractical, poorly thought out, and generally an embarrassment to society and industry. I will spare an accounting of the...
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Desirée Plata appointed associate dean of engineering Faculty member in civil and environmental engineering will advance research and entrepreneurial...
8th Apr 2026
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Desirée Plata appointed associate dean of engineering

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

8th Apr 2026
Faculty member in civil and environmental engineering will advance research and entrepreneurial initiatives across the School of Engineering.
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Links #11 Here are some more links to things that I keep thinking about. I shared a bit more detail on these...
3rd Dec 2024
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Links #11

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

3rd Dec 2024
Here are some more links to things that I keep thinking about. I shared a bit more detail on these ones than I usually do—there were so many good quotes to include. Enjoy! Selfishness & Therapy Culture Earlier this year, there was a post in the New York Times called “Sometimes,...
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Versioning microservices in GitLab monorepos and polyrepos What are some possible options to version projects for a microservices project in Gitlab?
2nd Jan 2022
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Versioning microservices in GitLab monorepos and polyrepos

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

2nd Jan 2022
What are some possible options to version projects for a microservices project in Gitlab?
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Cash is king, or is it? Very often I see men carry a wallet filled with plastic: multiple debit and credit cards plus a...
14th Jul 2016
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Cash is king, or is it?

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

14th Jul 2016
Very often I see men carry a wallet filled with plastic: multiple debit and credit cards plus a bunch of loyalty programs and membership cards. Then, some even top it off with stinky paper money and sticky metal coins! It made me wonder if I can free up one pocket by ditching the...
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Elon Musk Drove ~1/3 of Women Off Twitter X? More like XY lmao gotem
25th Nov 2025
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Elon Musk Drove ~1/3 of Women Off Twitter

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

25th Nov 2025
X? More like XY lmao gotem
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Software engineering with LLMs in 2025: temperature check How are devs using AI tools at Big Tech and startups, and what do they actually think of them? This...
5th Jul 2025
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Software engineering with LLMs in 2025: temperature check

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

5th Jul 2025
How are devs using AI tools at Big Tech and startups, and what do they actually think of them? This was the topic of my annual conference talk, in June 2025, in London, at LDX3 by LeadDev. At LDX3 by LeadDev To research, I talked with devs at: AI
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The Rehearsal As many people have mentioned, this show owes a lot to Synecdoche; New York (a film that I have very...
3rd Sep 2022
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The Rehearsal

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

3rd Sep 2022
As many people have mentioned, this show owes a lot to Synecdoche; New York (a film that I have very strong memories of and for despite having only seen once, in a haze, ten years ago.) It's also a show in the discourse, which I think belies a little just how deeply weird it...
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Puzzling out climate change Accenture Fellow Shreyaa Raghavan applies machine learning and optimization methods to explore ways...
10th Feb 2025
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Puzzling out climate change

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

10th Feb 2025
Accenture Fellow Shreyaa Raghavan applies machine learning and optimization methods to explore ways to reduce transportation sector emissions.
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Traveling with Apple Vision Pro The Vision Pro has quickly become an essential item that I take onto every flight. It’s a fantastic...
9th Oct 2024
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Traveling with Apple Vision Pro

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

9th Oct 2024
The Vision Pro has quickly become an essential item that I take onto every flight. It’s a fantastic device to travel with—Be it by train or by plane, it offers an unparalleled opportunity to selectively tune out your environment and sink into an engaging activity like watching a...
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The common theme is focus Meditation, Mindfulness, Flow etc. The common theme seems to be 'Focus'. Focus is a key component...
4th Aug 2022
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The common theme is focus

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

4th Aug 2022
Meditation, Mindfulness, Flow etc. The common theme seems to be 'Focus'. Focus is a key component for mental health, Yet it has been made very expensive thanks to constant assault on our senses by the corporations who would then sell their 'Mindfulness' app back to us. Chat apps...
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Antenna diodes in the Pentium processor I was studying the silicon die of the Pentium processor and noticed some puzzling structures...
23rd Nov 2024
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Antenna diodes in the Pentium processor

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

23rd Nov 2024
I was studying the silicon die of the Pentium processor and noticed some puzzling structures where signal lines were connected to the silicon substrate for no apparent reason. Two examples are in the photo below, where the metal wiring (orange) connects to small square regions of...
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Cake Hole Whistler Mountain Often inviting. This terrain just off the Whistler peak road can be an enticing sun-swept run of...
1st Dec 2024
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Cake Hole Whistler Mountain

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Dec 2024
Often inviting. This terrain just off the Whistler peak road can be an enticing sun-swept run of untouched powder.Understanding that you need to come back up the same way you go down, can make you question if it’s really worth it.Know before you go. Cake Hole by Andrew...
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Inside an Isotemp OCXO107-10 Oven Controlled Crystal Oscillator The Isotemp OCXO107-10 Gathering Information from time-nuts Getting It to Run On the Bench Inside...
26th Oct 2025
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Inside an Isotemp OCXO107-10 Oven Controlled Crystal Oscillator

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

26th Oct 2025
The Isotemp OCXO107-10 Gathering Information from time-nuts Getting It to Run On the Bench Inside the OCXO107-10 Looking Forward The Isotemp OCXO107-10 I spent $5 at the Silicon Valley Electronics Flea Market on an Isotemp OCXO107-10 oscillator. Compared to my other OCXOs, this...
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Introducing Anchor Pro! Our original Anchor, the first under-desk headphone mount, is truly a great product - easy to...
22nd Oct 2018
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Introducing Anchor Pro!

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

22nd Oct 2018
Our original Anchor, the first under-desk headphone mount, is truly a great product - easy to install, does what it says, and a timeless design. It's in use on over 100,000 desks worldwide. So what do you do when you have a great product like The Anchor? Well, we decided to make...
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Everything That Goes Up... For as long as people have had fears, we have been afraid of things falling from the sky....
9th Oct 2025
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Everything That Goes Up...

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

9th Oct 2025
For as long as people have had fears, we have been afraid of things falling from the sky. Palentologists of comedy tell us that this particular danger may have been discovered by a researcher named Og, a colleague of the late Thag Simmons, when a flock of prehistoric pigeons flew...
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The stack circuitry of the Intel 8087 floating point chip, reverse-engineered Early microprocessors were very slow when operating with floating-point numbers. But in 1980, Intel...
9th Dec 2025
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The stack circuitry of the Intel 8087 floating point chip, reverse-engineered

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

9th Dec 2025
Early microprocessors were very slow when operating with floating-point numbers. But in 1980, Intel introduced the 8087 floating-point coprocessor, performing floating-point operations up to 100 times faster. This was a huge benefit for IBM PC applications such as AutoCAD,...
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Resource Management “We had to display a lot of information at once and help them make sense of it. There are many ways...
15th Jun 2017
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Resource Management

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

15th Jun 2017
“We had to display a lot of information at once and help them make sense of it. There are many ways to do that wrong and only a few ways to do it right.” The Challenge The client came to us with a problem: They had paid for a custom tool that didn’t do what they needed. They had...
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Battling burnout Mamma Mia! Here we go again… Once again, I’m finding myself trying to recover from burnout, and...
14th Mar 2023
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Battling burnout

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

14th Mar 2023
Mamma Mia! Here we go again… Once again, I’m finding myself trying to recover from burnout, and after about a year I’m finally feeling more like myself. Even though I’ve been here before, it’s a difficult thing to recognize and avoid, so I’m writing this to maybe help you or my...
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Netrunner Spring Tournament There was another, smaller, netrunner tournament about a week ago. I was looking forward to a very...
4th May 2015
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Netrunner Spring Tournament

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

4th May 2015
There was another, smaller, netrunner tournament about a week ago. I was looking forward to a very casual setting but there were also some guys who came from… Västerås I think, but I’m not sure. We managed to scrape together 9 people at least, and I didn’t notice anyone bringing...
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VC-subsidized tokens Simon Willison writes about the recent Cursor changes:
1st Jul 2025
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VC-subsidized tokens

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Jul 2025
Simon Willison writes about the recent Cursor changes:
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BM Snaps Burning Man really tests my mantra, “There’s no bad weather, only bad clothing.” But it’s true! For...
3rd Sep 2026
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BM Snaps

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

3rd Sep 2026
Burning Man really tests my mantra, “There’s no bad weather, only bad clothing.” But it’s true! For one week, it’s the most interesting art and technology playground in the world, creativity unbound. As a photographer, it’s a great place to test out new gear and processes. Here’s...
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The number of letters in the word for each number Just for fun, I generated these graphs of the number of letters in the word for each number. I...
6th Sep 2017
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The number of letters in the word for each number

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

6th Sep 2017
Just for fun, I generated these graphs of the number of letters in the word for each number. I really spent about 10 minutes on this (ok…possibly also another 40 minutes tweaking the plots): More languages!
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So thieves broke into your storage unit - again If you've been wondering why entries have been a little slow lately, let me tell you a story. All...
5th Oct 2024
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So thieves broke into your storage unit - again

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

5th Oct 2024
If you've been wondering why entries have been a little slow lately, let me tell you a story. All collectors tend to be a bit obsessive by nature, and us classic computer nerds probably pick up more hardware than we can (or should) store in our residence — especially if the...
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Are Two Heads Better Than One? Are Two Heads Better Than One? You're playing a game with your lying friends Alice and Bob. Bob...
9th Dec 2025
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Are Two Heads Better Than One?

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

9th Dec 2025
Are Two Heads Better Than One? You're playing a game with your lying friends Alice and Bob. Bob flips a coin and shows it to Alice. Alice tells you what she saw - but she lies 20% of the time. Then you take your best guess on whether the coin is heads or tails. Your best...
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Figma agent vs. one button: shipping design tokens to npm I automated our design tokens release with two AI agents. It took six minutes per run. A button my...
7th Sep 2026
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Figma agent vs. one button: shipping design tokens to npm

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

7th Sep 2026
I automated our design tokens release with two AI agents. It took six minutes per run. A button my plugin has had for years takes seconds.
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How to setup a local or private Ubuntu Mirror Preface In this article I provide instructions on how to setup a local Ubuntu mirror using...
18th Jan 2023
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How to setup a local or private Ubuntu Mirror

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

18th Jan 2023
Preface In this article I provide instructions on how to setup a local Ubuntu mirror using debmirror. To set expectations: the mirror will work as intended and distribute packages and updates, but a do-release upgrade from one major version of Ubuntu to the next won't...
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iPad Pro next to my primary machine Using iPad Pro with Apple Pencil next to my computer to form a create powerhouse
29th Jan 2017
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iPad Pro next to my primary machine

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

29th Jan 2017
Using iPad Pro with Apple Pencil next to my computer to form a create powerhouse
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Leaderbored Is it a race or a run?
1st May 2026
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Leaderbored

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

1st May 2026
Is it a race or a run?
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Confusion is a muse Some of the most interesting technical blog posts I read come from, and a common reason for posts I...
14th Jun 2024
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Confusion is a muse

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

14th Jun 2024
Some of the most interesting technical blog posts I read come from, and a common reason for posts I write is, confusion. You're at work and you start asking questions that are difficult to answer. You spend a few hours or a day trying to get to the bottom of things. If you ask a...
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2023 in review This is my yearly review #14. Amazing that I’ve kept up with this for 14 years. Even though it’s not...
1st Jan 2024
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2023 in review

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

1st Jan 2024
This is my yearly review #14. Amazing that I’ve kept up with this for 14 years. Even though it’s not anything advanced, I really like looking back at the year to see what has happened. Maybe it’s a very light version of a reverse bucket list, and I can see that it provides some...
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Doom iPhone code review I took some time away from programming something I hope will become a really good shmup and read the...
1st Feb 2010
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Doom iPhone code review

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

1st Feb 2010
I took some time away from programming something I hope will become a really good shmup and read the source code of Doom for iPhone. I was very interested in finding out how a pixel oriented engine made the transition to openGL. Here are my notes, as usual I got a bit carried...
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Trials of Mana Oh, this game should have been catnip for me! I love ARPGs. I have been waiting literally 15 years...
1st Jun 2021
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Trials of Mana

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

1st Jun 2021
Oh, this game should have been catnip for me! I love ARPGs. I have been waiting literally 15 years to play this game. I wanted something pleasant and smooth brain to hack away with in the late evenings.
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Testing the Mono Gateway, a custom-built 10 Gbps Router Testing the Mono Gateway, a custom-built 10 Gbps Router Last month, the stars aligned...
2nd Jan 2026
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Testing the Mono Gateway, a custom-built 10 Gbps Router

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

2nd Jan 2026
Testing the Mono Gateway, a custom-built 10 Gbps Router Last month, the stars aligned for me to bring the Mono Gateway (a 10 Gbps router that YouTuber Tomaž Zaman and his team at Mono built from scratch) on a trip to Phoenix, and test it with one of the most OP...
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Transactions are a protocol Transactions are not an intrinsic part of a storage system. Any storage system can be made...
20th Apr 2025
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Transactions are a protocol

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

20th Apr 2025
Transactions are not an intrinsic part of a storage system. Any storage system can be made transactional: Redis, S3, the filesystem, etc. Delta Lake and Orleans demonstrated techniques to make S3 (or cloud storage in general) transactional. Epoxy demonstrated techniques to make...
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More MCMC – Analyzing a small dataset with 1-5 ratings I've been obsessed with how to iterate quickly based on small scale feedback lately. One awesome...
5th Dec 2015
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More MCMC – Analyzing a small dataset with 1-5 ratings

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

5th Dec 2015
I've been obsessed with how to iterate quickly based on small scale feedback lately. One awesome website I encountered is Usability Hub which lets you run 5 second tests. Users see your site for 5 seconds and you can ask them free-form questions afterwards.
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Understanding Storage Performance - IOPS and Latency Introduction The goal of this blogpost is to help you better understand storage performance. I want...
21st Mar 2020
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Understanding Storage Performance - IOPS and Latency

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

21st Mar 2020
Introduction The goal of this blogpost is to help you better understand storage performance. I want to discuss some fundamentals that are true regardless of your particular needs. This will help you better reason about storage and may provide a scaffolding for further learning....
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Movement for Engineers Until we get get to be chromed-up cyborgs, we’re stuck with our meat bodies, and like many things,...
9th Jul 2023
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Movement for Engineers

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

9th Jul 2023
Until we get get to be chromed-up cyborgs, we’re stuck with our meat bodies, and like many things, they need regular maintenance. Here is a brief introduction to keeping your body moving as someone who spends a lot of time sitting down.
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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...
22nd Jun 2021
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ZFS RAIDZ expansion is awesome but has a small caveat

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

22nd Jun 2021
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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Study of facial bacteria could lead to probiotics that promote healthy skin During the early teen years, many new strains of C. acnes colonize the skin on our faces. This could...
1st May 2025
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Study of facial bacteria could lead to probiotics that promote healthy skin

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

1st May 2025
During the early teen years, many new strains of C. acnes colonize the skin on our faces. This could be an optimal time for probiotic treatment.
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Headcount goals, feature factories, and when to hire those mythical 10x people When I started building up a tech team for Better, I made a very conscious decision to pay at the...
21st Feb 2019
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Headcount goals, feature factories, and when to hire those mythical 10x people

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

21st Feb 2019
When I started building up a tech team for Better, I made a very conscious decision to pay at the high end to get people. I thought this made more sense: they cost a bit more money to hire, but output usually more than compensates for it.
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The birth of a child Today I witnessed the birth of my daughter! You feel humble as a man, witnessing the labour and...
12th Jul 2021
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The birth of a child

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

12th Jul 2021
Today I witnessed the birth of my daughter! You feel humble as a man, witnessing the labour and magic. Not sure if I can come up with something having more impact on a man than this. For the purposes of science and curiosity I wore a biometric sensor, and this is what it...
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2024-03-01 listening in on the neighborhood Last week, someone leaked a spreadsheet of SoundThinking sensors to Wired. You are probably asking...
1st Mar 2024
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2024-03-01 listening in on the neighborhood

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

1st Mar 2024
Last week, someone leaked a spreadsheet of SoundThinking sensors to Wired. You are probably asking "What is SoundThinking," because the company rebranded last year. They used to be called ShotSpotter, and their outdoor acoustic gunfire detection system still goes by the...
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Notes about Basic Polyphase Decimation Filters Introduction Decimation with FIR Anti-Aliasing Filter Naive Hardware Implementation Reduce number of...
25th Jan 2026
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Notes about Basic Polyphase Decimation Filters

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

25th Jan 2026
Introduction Decimation with FIR Anti-Aliasing Filter Naive Hardware Implementation Reduce number of calculations - Move decimator before multiplier Polyphase decomposition of the original filter The Noble Identity for Decimation Re-using Common Hardware in the Fast Clock...
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No Way, PHP Strikes Again! (CVE-2024-4577) Orange Tsai tweeted a few hours ago about “One of [his] PHP vulnerabilities, which affects XAMPP by...
7th Jun 2024
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No Way, PHP Strikes Again! (CVE-2024-4577)

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

7th Jun 2024
Orange Tsai tweeted a few hours ago about “One of [his] PHP vulnerabilities, which affects XAMPP by default”, and we were curious to say the least. XAMPP is a very popular way for administrators and developers to rapidly deploy Apache, PHP, and a bunch of other tools, and
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I have nine bosses, Bob: costs of org layering
12th Nov 2022
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I have nine bosses, Bob: costs of org layering

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

12th Nov 2022
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Why I still won't switch to Linux and keep my Mac The current state of Linux is amazing. If we take a look at, for example, Ubuntu Linux, we have to...
1st Feb 2009
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Why I still won't switch to Linux and keep my Mac

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

1st Feb 2009
The current state of Linux is amazing. If we take a look at, for example, Ubuntu Linux, we have to admit that the Linux desktop is really becoming a nice, user-friendly environment. I'm truly starting to like what I see. I considered whiping Mac OS X from my macbook, but there...
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Vacation Finally back from a 2 week vacation up at Övertorneå. It’s been pretty great to be taken care of and...
14th Aug 2014
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Vacation

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

14th Aug 2014
Finally back from a 2 week vacation up at Övertorneå. It’s been pretty great to be taken care of and not doing anything. Well, I did get my ass kicked in Terra Mystica and I played a bit of Minecraft, but still. We got some nice food and my in-laws and my parents were nice. I’m...
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The Wrong Bet The next decade in SaaS won't look like the last
10th May 2021
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The Wrong Bet

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

10th May 2021
The next decade in SaaS won't look like the last
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2025 in review It’s time for a yearly review again. Time flies. Nerdy things I enjoyed I read a few books this...
3rd Jan 2026
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2025 in review

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

3rd Jan 2026
It’s time for a yearly review again. Time flies. Nerdy things I enjoyed I read a few books this year. The whole Dungeon Crawler Carl series was absolutely amazing and it quickly jumped up to one of my favorite series of all time. I can’t be held accountable for everything I’ve...
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Towards solving Ultimate Tic Tac Toe Summary: Read about my efforts to solve the game of Ultimate Tic Tac Toe. It’s been a fun journey...
15th Jul 2020
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Towards solving Ultimate Tic Tac Toe

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

15th Jul 2020
Summary: Read about my efforts to solve the game of Ultimate Tic Tac Toe. It’s been a fun journey into interesting algorithms and high-performance parallel programming in Rust. Backstory Starting around the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdown, I’ve gotten myself deeply nerdsniped...
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Tech rants: PC-s use way too much power in 2021 Welcome to 2021. We have: supply chain issues no reasonably priced GPU-s consumer-grade CPU-s with...
3rd Nov 2021
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Tech rants: PC-s use way too much power in 2021

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

3rd Nov 2021
Welcome to 2021. We have: supply chain issues no reasonably priced GPU-s consumer-grade CPU-s with peak power consumption at 296W GPU-s that consume 350-400W of power under normal use At the same time, we have made great leaps in CPU/GPU architectures and chip manufacturing...
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Disable Transparent Hugepages tl;dr “Transparent Hugepages” is a Linux kernel feature intended to improve performance by making...
10th Jul 2017
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Disable Transparent Hugepages

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

10th Jul 2017
tl;dr “Transparent Hugepages” is a Linux kernel feature intended to improve performance by making more efficient use of your processor’s memory-mapping hardware. It is enabled ("enabled=always") by default in most Linux distributions. Transparent Hugepages gives some applications...
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Notes from "Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy" I just finished Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy, a profile of the Tor Project. I...
8th Nov 2025
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Notes from "Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy"

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

8th Nov 2025
I just finished Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy, a profile of the Tor Project. I thought it was an approachable overview of Tor and its history. If you’re interested, the book is free! Or you can read my chapter-by-chapter notes below. Chapter 1: Privacy...
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Polygon Codec More...
26th Jun 2011
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Polygon Codec

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

26th Jun 2011
More...
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The confusing world of USB
10th Jan 2021
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The confusing world of USB

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

10th Jan 2021
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Fun indie projects I wrote in November that I’m taking a break from indie hacking, well, the break didn’t take long...
27th Feb 2023
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Fun indie projects

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

27th Feb 2023
I wrote in November that I’m taking a break from indie hacking, well, the break didn’t take long (2-3 months). A break made sense at that time, because my project watchlimits.com wasn’t getting traction and I just changed jobs. New job presented a lot of new learning...
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A Year With the Mini M Just over a year ago I got my Unicomp Model M Mini, a newly manufactured version of what is in my...
1st Jan 2026
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A Year With the Mini M

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

1st Jan 2026
Just over a year ago I got my Unicomp Model M Mini, a newly manufactured version of what is in my estimation the best computer keyboard ever, the IBM Model M SSK. The Minis and the SSKs are like a regular IBM Model M, but they don’t have a number pad at the right, so I can put...
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An incomplete guide to stealth addresses
20th Jan 2023
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An incomplete guide to stealth addresses

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

20th Jan 2023
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Thoughts on User Safety We need to move beyond mere security and towards safety for our customers and our users. This is how...
18th Sep 2019
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Thoughts on User Safety

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

18th Sep 2019
We need to move beyond mere security and towards safety for our customers and our users. This is how we can do that.
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Microscope Light [Hardware] Illumination improvements
13th Mar 2026
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Microscope Light

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

13th Mar 2026
[Hardware] Illumination improvements
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The case for Nightingale Datacentres Britain isn’t prepared for the looming AI national security crisis
27th Aug 2026
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The case for Nightingale Datacentres

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

27th Aug 2026
Britain isn’t prepared for the looming AI national security crisis
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Canvas Breach Disrupts Schools & Colleges Nationwide An ongoing data extortion attack targeting the widely-used education technology platform Canvas...
8th May 2026
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Canvas Breach Disrupts Schools & Colleges Nationwide

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

8th May 2026
An ongoing data extortion attack targeting the widely-used education technology platform Canvas disrupted classes and coursework at school districts and universities across the United States today, after a cybercrime group defaced the service’s login page with a ransom demand...
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Yes, Xxit Xxit is like Brexit for X haha
9th Dec 2024
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Yes, Xxit

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

9th Dec 2024
Xxit is like Brexit for X haha
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Introducing TagVault Pet for AirTag Having pets that went missing before, AirTags are the perfect companion. We wanted a case that could...
22nd May 2021
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Introducing TagVault Pet for AirTag

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

22nd May 2021
Having pets that went missing before, AirTags are the perfect companion. We wanted a case that could take the abuse of an active full-size dog, fit nice on a cat, work with all pet collars, and be durable. So we designed Tagvault Pet. It's waterproof, fits every collar, and is...
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Opening Up GitButler Today we're flipping the public switch on GitHub for our GitButler client code and removing the...
2nd Feb 2024
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Opening Up GitButler

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

2nd Feb 2024
Today we're flipping the public switch on GitHub for our GitButler client code and removing the waiting list entirely. Everyone and anyone can now directly download the GitButler client and access the source code.
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Good Home Automation Should be Boring I'm a huge fan of Home Assistant to automate various things around the house. I often look at other...
10th Apr 2021
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Good Home Automation Should be Boring

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

10th Apr 2021
I'm a huge fan of Home Assistant to automate various things around the house. I often look at other people's setup for inspiration, and one thing struck me. Many people have cluttered dashboards and use Home Assistant to track just about any metric they can.That's quite different...
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Our favorite places to eat and drinks during our Portugal vacation In the summer of 2023, we went on an amazing trip through Portugal. We’d already visited Lisbon on a...
25th May 2024
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Our favorite places to eat and drinks during our Portugal vacation

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

25th May 2024
In the summer of 2023, we went on an amazing trip through Portugal. We’d already visited Lisbon on a short city trip a few years earlier, and that experience was so good we knew we had to return. This time, we decided to take a full three weeks and see the sights. We were...
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Legibility of Effort Legibility of Effort LLMs have broken legibility of effort - our ability to tell, at a glance,...
22nd Jun 2026
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Legibility of Effort

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

22nd Jun 2026
Legibility of Effort LLMs have broken legibility of effort - our ability to tell, at a glance, whether something took a human real work. What happens next? Read the full post on my blog! Here's a raw link, if you need it: https://eieio.games/blog/legibility-of-effort
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Integrate Are we building apps or infrastructure? ...Yes
25th Apr 2024
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Integrate

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

25th Apr 2024
Are we building apps or infrastructure? ...Yes
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Tracking down a faulty Storage Array Controller with ZFS One day, I lost two virtual machines on our DR environment after a storage vMotion. Further...
15th Dec 2016
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Tracking down a faulty Storage Array Controller with ZFS

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

15th Dec 2016
One day, I lost two virtual machines on our DR environment after a storage vMotion. Further investigation uncovered that any storage vMotion of a virtual machine residing on our DR storage array would corrupt the virtual machine's disks. I could easily restore the affected...
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Following Street Fighter 2 paper trails
22nd Dec 2021
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Following Street Fighter 2 paper trails

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

22nd Dec 2021
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Master of Change In this post I discuss the brilliant book Master of Change by Brad Stulberg, providing a...
17th Jan 2025
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Master of Change

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

17th Jan 2025
In this post I discuss the brilliant book Master of Change by Brad Stulberg, providing a thought-provoking guide to thrive in a changing world.
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Going down the rabbit hole of Git's new bundle-uri Git's new bundle-uri could help significantly speed up clones, but what bugs lurk within?
13th Mar 2025
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Going down the rabbit hole of Git's new bundle-uri

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13th Mar 2025
Git's new bundle-uri could help significantly speed up clones, but what bugs lurk within?
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Super ultrawide Niri A Niri workspace with 7 visible columns. After having used practically the same xmonad...
4 weeks ago
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Super ultrawide Niri

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

4 weeks ago
A Niri workspace with 7 visible columns. After having used practically the same xmonad configuration for a decade and a half I’ve now modernized my setup with the scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor Niri. It’s been a bit of a struggle to unlearn my old workflow but I’m really...
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When Overwhelmed, Make a List of Questions In my first big project at Netflix, I learned this disturbingly simple problem-solving technique.
5th Aug 2024
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When Overwhelmed, Make a List of Questions

from Push to Prod [alt+shift+b] in technology

5th Aug 2024
In my first big project at Netflix, I learned this disturbingly simple problem-solving technique.
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What MongoDB got Right MongoDB is perhaps the most-widely-mocked piece of software out there right now. While some of the...
1st Nov 2015
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What MongoDB got Right

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

1st Nov 2015
MongoDB is perhaps the most-widely-mocked piece of software out there right now. While some of the mockery is out-of-date or rooted in misunderstandings, much of it is well-deserved, and it’s difficult to disagree that much of MongoDB’s engineering is incredibly simplistic,...
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Okay, now this is what a fantasy movie should be. Absolutely gorgeous effects & cinematography (a...
3rd Oct 2020
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Oct 2020
Okay, now this is what a fantasy movie should be. Absolutely gorgeous effects & cinematography (a marked improvement from the drab darkness and excessively cool tones of Order of the Phoenix), a script with a bunch of levity (the first and I think only Harry Potter movie that...
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Fathom I'd been meaning to jot down some thoughts on Fathom for a while, and did not have a particularly...
1st Dec 2024
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Fathom

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

1st Dec 2024
I'd been meaning to jot down some thoughts on Fathom for a while, and did not have a particularly good reason to do so until the news broke that Paul Jarvis was selling his share of the company to Jack Ellis, the technical co-founder. 1The blog post itself is a great example of...
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One year on the ultimate commuter bike A year ago I tried to create the ultimate commuter bike, a modified Sensa Cintura with the Gates...
26th Feb 2019
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One year on the ultimate commuter bike

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

26th Feb 2019
A year ago I tried to create the ultimate commuter bike, a modified Sensa Cintura with the Gates CDN/CDX carbon belt drive. I received lots of messages from cyclists and commuters from all over the world. From the Swiss alps, France, Italy, Germany, United States and even "down...
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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...
10th Jan 2017
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Functional programming is the libertarianism of software engineering

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

10th Jan 2017
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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+ The only thing of value I can provide There is one main type of value I can bring to this blog. If I lose that, what am I even doing?
2nd Nov 2025
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+ The only thing of value I can provide

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2nd Nov 2025
There is one main type of value I can bring to this blog. If I lose that, what am I even doing?
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Sidechains vs Plasma vs Sharding
12th Jun 2019
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Sidechains vs Plasma vs Sharding

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

12th Jun 2019
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Clickhouse is winning the Observability Wars For roughly the last ten years, a meaningful percentage of my working hours have been spent thinking...
1st Jul 2026
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Clickhouse is winning the Observability Wars

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1st Jul 2026
For roughly the last ten years, a meaningful percentage of my working hours have been spent thinking about observability. If you're not familiar with the term, "observability" is what we call it now that "monitoring" doesn't sound expensive enough. The actual work
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Traction Heroes Ep. 37: Legibility Many teams are being measured for the wrong things: tokens used, agents deployed, etc. Their orgs...
1st Jun 2026
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Traction Heroes Ep. 37: Legibility

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

1st Jun 2026
Many teams are being measured for the wrong things: tokens used, agents deployed, etc. Their orgs have focused on tech adoption rather than value creation. It’s a mistake. I wanted to discuss this with Harry, so I read a passage from one of my favorite books, James C. Scott’s...
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A Go/C Polyglot Writing a Go/C polyglot Someone on a Slack I’m on recently raised the question of how you might...
5th Sep 2019
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A Go/C Polyglot

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

5th Sep 2019
Writing a Go/C polyglot Someone on a Slack I’m on recently raised the question of how you might write a source file that’s both valid C and Go, commenting that it wasn’t immediately obvious if this was even possible. I got nerdsniped, and succeeded in producing one, which you can...
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Which IDEs do software engineers love, and why? oftware engineers shared their favorite IDEs on social media, and the most-mentioned one by a...
26th Nov 2024
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Which IDEs do software engineers love, and why?

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

26th Nov 2024
oftware engineers shared their favorite IDEs on social media, and the most-mentioned one by a comfortable margin was Cursor. WindSurf and Zed also seem to be getting traction at the expense of Visual Studio, and JetBrains.
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Six Websites in Ten Days Halfway June I came back from Amsterdam buzzing. A week and a half later six websites were live on a...
23rd Jun 2026
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Six Websites in Ten Days

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

23rd Jun 2026
Halfway June I came back from Amsterdam buzzing. A week and a half later six websites were live on a publisher that did not exist before: MP1, a static site generator that lives as a ZIP file inside my own CMS. This post is about what made that possible: automating the dull work...
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Finding An Idea The first step is finding an idea, one of the most intimidating parts of this whole process. In this...
25th Jun 2017
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Finding An Idea

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

25th Jun 2017
The first step is finding an idea, one of the most intimidating parts of this whole process. In this post, I describe how I go about tackling this
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Survey: What’s in your tech stack? We want to capture an accurate snapshot of software engineering, today – and need your help! Tell us...
18th Mar 2025
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Survey: What’s in your tech stack?

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

18th Mar 2025
We want to capture an accurate snapshot of software engineering, today – and need your help! Tell us about your tech stack and get early access to the final report, plus extra analysis
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SRI & ARC The Dawn of the Information Age
27th Sep 2025
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SRI & ARC

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

27th Sep 2025
The Dawn of the Information Age
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Two worlds: idea people and developers I recently attended a startup weekend and was surprised by the backgrounds of the other...
29th Apr 2023
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Two worlds: idea people and developers

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

29th Apr 2023
I recently attended a startup weekend and was surprised by the backgrounds of the other attendees. As a software engineer myself, I expected to see mostly engineers, but that wasn’t the case. Instead, I found myself surrounded by people with a diverse range of backgrounds and...
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Implementing SARM on your VLA dataset in practice 1. Motivation: use big video dataset optimally for VLA training In the first part of this series, I...
14th Dec 2025
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Implementing SARM on your VLA dataset in practice

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

14th Dec 2025
1. Motivation: use big video dataset optimally for VLA training In the first part of this series, I explained what is SARM: Stage-Aware Reward Modeling for Long Horizon Robot Manipulation and how it can be used with a challenge such as Stanford Behavior Challenge (1200h of...
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Vulkan 1.4 sur Asahi Linux English version follows. Aujourd’hui, Khronos Group a sorti la spécification 1.4 de l’API graphique...
2nd Dec 2024
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Vulkan 1.4 sur Asahi Linux

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

2nd Dec 2024
English version follows. Aujourd’hui, Khronos Group a sorti la spécification 1.4 de l’API graphique standard Vulkan. Le projet Asahi Linux est fier d’annoncer le premier pilote Vulkan 1.4 pour le matériel d’Apple. En effet, notre pilote graphique Honeykrisp est reconnu par...
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Logical replication in Postgres: Basics This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
17th Jan 2025
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Logical replication in Postgres: Basics

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

17th Jan 2025
This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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From voice command to robotic arm: how agentic AI on the edge is changing the factory floor For years, bringing real intelligence to industrial automation meant expensive infrastructure,...
1st Sep 2026
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From voice command to robotic arm: how agentic AI on the edge is changing the factory floor

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1st Sep 2026
For years, bringing real intelligence to industrial automation meant expensive infrastructure, proprietary systems, and steep learning curves. That’s changing – fast. Foundation models powerful enough to run at the edge are turning natural language into machine control, and the...
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