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Why WinQuake exists and how it works
3rd Dec 2025
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Why WinQuake exists and how it works

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

3rd Dec 2025
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SQLite has pretty limited builtin functions This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
21st Aug 2022
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SQLite has pretty limited builtin functions

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

21st Aug 2022
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Train Simulator Controller: TPWS Control Panel TPWS is a key safety system in UK trains, so my Class 80x cab needed a precisely replicated TPWS...
16th Nov 2025
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Train Simulator Controller: TPWS Control Panel

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

16th Nov 2025
TPWS is a key safety system in UK trains, so my Class 80x cab needed a precisely replicated TPWS control panel.
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Best of Enemies Last year, I watched The War Room, the documentary following Bill Clinton's first campaign — a film...
1st Aug 2026
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Best of Enemies

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

1st Aug 2026
Last year, I watched The War Room, the documentary following Bill Clinton's first campaign — a film I am remiss for having never written about, because it was captivating, satisfying, and illuminating. And whether for good reasons or bad, it punctured most of my belief that the...
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Climbing Mount Etna Climbing Mount Etna, an active volcano on Sicily Italy.
1st Sep 2017
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Climbing Mount Etna

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

1st Sep 2017
Climbing Mount Etna, an active volcano on Sicily Italy.
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Great Tools Disappear The best designed products get out of the way and let you focus on the work instead of the tool
18th Sep 2025
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Great Tools Disappear

from Kent de Bruin [alt+shift+b] in technology

18th Sep 2025
The best designed products get out of the way and let you focus on the work instead of the tool
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Thoughts on User Safety: 2 Following up from last time, let’s explore the internal and insider fronts when moving beyond...
23rd Oct 2019
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Thoughts on User Safety: 2

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

23rd Oct 2019
Following up from last time, let’s explore the internal and insider fronts when moving beyond security towards safety for our users.
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Eco-driving measures could significantly reduce vehicle emissions New research shows automatically controlling vehicle speeds to mitigate traffic at intersections can...
7th Aug 2025
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Eco-driving measures could significantly reduce vehicle emissions

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

7th Aug 2025
New research shows automatically controlling vehicle speeds to mitigate traffic at intersections can cut carbon emissions between 11 and 22 percent.
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Traction Heroes Ep. 46: Tribal Psychology We keep reading scary reports of swarms of AI agents breaking into computer systems and doing other...
5th Oct 2026
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Traction Heroes Ep. 46: Tribal Psychology

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

5th Oct 2026
We keep reading scary reports of swarms of AI agents breaking into computer systems and doing other untoward and perhaps illegal things. To what degree do these agents influence each other? And is there anything we can learn from human behavior that would help mitigate these...
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Wallops 2.0 Released Another large update to my Wallops IRC client is available: wallops-2.0.sit (StuffIt 3 archive,...
12th Sep 2024
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Wallops 2.0 Released

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

12th Sep 2024
Another large update to my Wallops IRC client is available: wallops-2.0.sit (StuffIt 3 archive, includes source code and THINK C 5 project file) 532f6c72eadbb9e7ce74dded1bfcd71369a61d818f7c77160bb8a66d6f1ccf9c SHA1: c375a24e00900378e84745c1e11d3d6976ef749c This release features...
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Finding Killer Domain Names Using LLMs A contrarian approach to finding great domain names by leveraging dropped domains and LLMs, instead...
1st Apr 2025
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Finding Killer Domain Names Using LLMs

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

1st Apr 2025
A contrarian approach to finding great domain names by leveraging dropped domains and LLMs, instead of the traditional domain search and negotiation process.
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Back to the University Join me on a special course exploring scientific programming, the perfect moment to learn Python...
7th Feb 2023
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Back to the University

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

7th Feb 2023
Join me on a special course exploring scientific programming, the perfect moment to learn Python with recent advancements in machine learning like ChatGPT!
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Doom3 BFG Code Review More...
23rd May 2013
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Doom3 BFG Code Review

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

23rd May 2013
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Tesla Spyware I noticed my Model X was uploading ~2.6gb of something to Tesla when it parked and connected to...
1st Aug 2026
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Tesla Spyware

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

1st Aug 2026
I noticed my Model X was uploading ~2.6gb of something to Tesla when it parked and connected to WiFi. Hopefully turning all these settings off stops it; otherwise, I might need a new car. But are any good?
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It's a Gas! If everything worked as well as the product called Evapo-Rust, the world would be a much better...
7th Oct 2026
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It's a Gas!

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

7th Oct 2026
If everything worked as well as the product called Evapo-Rust, the world would be a much better place. That’s just one of the many lessons learned during my recent — successful! — project to transform my old, nonfunctioning gasoline-powered generator into something much better.
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The Power of One For my entire career, I've had a clear goal: to stay a company of one. This isn't a starting point,...
22nd Jul 2025
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The Power of One

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

22nd Jul 2025
For my entire career, I've had a clear goal: to stay a company of one. This isn't a starting point, but a deliberate choice about the best way to do great work and build a sustainable business. In this post, let me explain why. Focus Over Growth In a world that often celebrates...
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Radio Install in a Porsche Boxster The 987.2 Porsche Boxster is one of the best values in the used sports car market today. There is so...
28th Jun 2023
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Radio Install in a Porsche Boxster

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

28th Jun 2023
The 987.2 Porsche Boxster is one of the best values in the used sports car market today. There is so much to love about the vehicle, but the OEM headunit is not one of them. It's very dated, clunky, and doesn't support CarPlay (!), so one of the first things I did after picking...
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Software is Polluting the World Sustainable UX: A design approach to reducing carbon emissions
29th Apr 2020
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Software is Polluting the World

from Kent de Bruin [alt+shift+b] in technology

29th Apr 2020
Sustainable UX: A design approach to reducing carbon emissions
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Some actual good news for once! Cornish Lithium, an Oxford Street Monorail, and why astronomy funding is under threat
2nd Mar 2026
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Some actual good news for once!

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

2nd Mar 2026
Cornish Lithium, an Oxford Street Monorail, and why astronomy funding is under threat
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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 Writing [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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Fietselfstedentocht 2017 Cycling the 235KM long Fietselfstedentocht through Friesland
29th Jun 2017
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Fietselfstedentocht 2017

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

29th Jun 2017
Cycling the 235KM long Fietselfstedentocht through Friesland
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How to be Right without being Sure
9th Jun 2025
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How to be Right without being Sure

from Niklas Oberhuber’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

9th Jun 2025
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Cowboy Bebop (2021) This was neither as bad as I thought it could be nor as good as I hoped it might be. The vast...
1st Jan 2022
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Cowboy Bebop (2021)

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Jan 2022
This was neither as bad as I thought it could be nor as good as I hoped it might be. The vast majority of the blame I think has to go towards the scriptwriting, which has a Joss Whedon-esque self-referentiality to it that completely undermines the philosophy of the original and,...
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Climbing Mount Etna Last week me and my wife went to Sicily for a little summer holiday. It is the largest island in the...
1st Sep 2017
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Climbing Mount Etna

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

1st Sep 2017
Last week me and my wife went to Sicily for a little summer holiday. It is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. It is an autonomous region of Italy, along with surrounding minor islands. It's home to Europe's largest active volcano: Mount Etna. We had a chance to visit...
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My Ceph test cluster based on Raspberry Pi's and HP MicroServers Introduction To learn more about Ceph, I've build myself a Ceph Cluster based on actual hardware. In...
26th Jan 2019
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My Ceph test cluster based on Raspberry Pi's and HP MicroServers

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

26th Jan 2019
Introduction To learn more about Ceph, I've build myself a Ceph Cluster based on actual hardware. In this blogpost I'll discus the cluster in more detail and I've also included (fio) benchmark results. This is my test Ceph cluster: The cluster consists of the following...
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Klarna’s AI chatbot: how revolutionary is it, really? Klarna launched its AI chatbot, built in collaboration with OpenAI, which the company wants to use...
8th Aug 2024
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Klarna’s AI chatbot: how revolutionary is it, really?

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

8th Aug 2024
Klarna launched its AI chatbot, built in collaboration with OpenAI, which the company wants to use to eliminate 2/3rds of customer support positions. But is it as revolutionary, and as likely to replace jobs, as Klarna claims?
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Sometimes stupid product ideas are the best - motivation behind the secret tuna salad recipe I created a digital product out of my family’s favorite tuna salad recipe and in this article I will...
17th Mar 2022
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Sometimes stupid product ideas are the best - motivation behind the secret tuna salad recipe

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

17th Mar 2022
I created a digital product out of my family’s favorite tuna salad recipe and in this article I will tell you why I thought it was a good idea. I’m a software engineer by trade and I have spent thousands of hours building software products that don’t really earn me money...
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The Apple GPU and the Impossible Bug In late 2020, Apple debuted the M1 with Apple’s GPU architecture, AGX, rumoured to be derived from...
13th May 2022
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The Apple GPU and the Impossible Bug

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

13th May 2022
In late 2020, Apple debuted the M1 with Apple’s GPU architecture, AGX, rumoured to be derived from Imagination’s PowerVR series. Since then, we’ve been reverse-engineering AGX and building open source graphics drivers. Last January, I rendered a triangle with my own code, but...
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2025-01-19 Infrastructure for graphical debugging See transcript below. audio/video; 4...
19th Jan 2025
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2025-01-19

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

19th Jan 2025
Infrastructure for graphical debugging See transcript below. audio/video; 4 minutes; 25MB; scroll down for shorter clips Transcript For a while now I've been trying to improve the way I program. I've made some progress. I can edit my programs live, and...
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SEO Is Dead In the first week of April I did the SEO job I had put off for years: new landing pages and...
18th Apr 2026
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SEO Is Dead

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

18th Apr 2026
In the first week of April I did the SEO job I had put off for years: new landing pages and thousands of cross-links, on willem.com and on two customer sites, generated through the new API of my platform. It works, and well, I wrote on 4 April. Two weeks later I looked at what it...
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The half-life of code & the ship of Theseus As a project evolves, does the new code just add on top of the old code? Or does it replace the old...
5th Dec 2016
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The half-life of code & the ship of Theseus

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

5th Dec 2016
As a project evolves, does the new code just add on top of the old code? Or does it replace the old code slowly over time? In order to understand this, I built a little thing to analyze Git projects, with help from the formidable GitPython project.
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Creating a minimal road bike I wondered how hard it would be to make a bike from spare parts I had in my garage
17th Aug 2019
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Creating a minimal road bike

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

17th Aug 2019
I wondered how hard it would be to make a bike from spare parts I had in my garage
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AMD Ryzen 7 5700G: first impressions on Fedora 34 Introduction I’ve covered my self-hosting setup in a previous post. It has been a couple of months...
7th Aug 2021
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AMD Ryzen 7 5700G: first impressions on Fedora 34

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

7th Aug 2021
Introduction I’ve covered my self-hosting setup in a previous post. It has been a couple of months and the setup has mostly been fine. Sure, the power usage was pretty big under load, and yes, my internet did cut out every time I turned the VM on with all the services starting,...
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Emma this was so fun. i am reminded of walter scott's description of austen as a flemish painter: "[the]...
1st Apr 2020
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Emma

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Apr 2020
this was so fun. i am reminded of walter scott's description of austen as a flemish painter: "[the] subjects are not often elegant and certainly never grand; but they are finished up to nature, and with a precision which delights the reader"
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WandaVision What to say about this show that isn’t damning with faint praise?
1st Mar 2021
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WandaVision

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

1st Mar 2021
What to say about this show that isn’t damning with faint praise?
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RAM: the forgotten history We owe computers not to Charles Babbage, but to the invention of electronically-controlled working...
15th Oct 2024
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RAM: the forgotten history

from lcamtuf’s thing [alt+shift+b] in technology

15th Oct 2024
We owe computers not to Charles Babbage, but to the invention of electronically-controlled working memory.
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Testing a cheap ExpressCard to NVMe SSD adapter on my ThinkPad T430 I stumbled upon this post in /r/thinkpad, which got my attention. It showcases an ExpressCard to M.2...
4th Oct 2022
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Testing a cheap ExpressCard to NVMe SSD adapter on my ThinkPad T430

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

4th Oct 2022
I stumbled upon this post in /r/thinkpad, which got my attention. It showcases an ExpressCard to M.2 NGFF adapter that they purchased from AliExpress. The adapter has a similar purpose to the one designed by thinkmods.store, with the added bonus that it could fit longer NVMe...
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RailScan: First Point Clouds from Railroad Museum Scanner I volunteer at a train, trolley, and subway museum. As a non-authoritative, hobby project combining...
16th Jul 2026
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RailScan: First Point Clouds from Railroad Museum Scanner

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

16th Jul 2026
I volunteer at a train, trolley, and subway museum. As a non-authoritative, hobby project combining my love of trains, electronics, mapping, and data, I am building a LiDAR scanner to map and analyze the museum. After designing the initial hardware and software for a GNSS-enabled...
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Food vacation in Japan Me and my friend spent 2 weeks in Japan and had a great time. I wasn’t planning on taking a lot of...
18th Jul 2019
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Food vacation in Japan

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

18th Jul 2019
Me and my friend spent 2 weeks in Japan and had a great time. I wasn’t planning on taking a lot of pictures, but I ended up sending a bunch back home as a ways of keeping my family up to date. When I look back most of them are about food… So I’ll turn this into a post about the...
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Cyber Forensic Expert in 2,000+ Cases Faces FBI Probe A Minnesota cybersecurity and computer forensics expert whose testimony has featured in thousands of...
3rd Mar 2025
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Cyber Forensic Expert in 2,000+ Cases Faces FBI Probe

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

3rd Mar 2025
A Minnesota cybersecurity and computer forensics expert whose testimony has featured in thousands of courtroom trials over the past 30 years is facing questions about his credentials and an inquiry from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Legal experts say the inquiry...
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Scalable application design without magic I needed to design a scalable backend infrastructure that could handle lots of concurrent users. I...
10th May 2020
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Scalable application design without magic

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

10th May 2020
I needed to design a scalable backend infrastructure that could handle lots of concurrent users. I did this by leveraging the client's computing power having it handle most of the user interaction workload.
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A slept on upscaling tool for macOS I uploaded YouTube videos from time to time, and a fun comment I often get is “Whoa, this is in...
30th Jun 2025
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A slept on upscaling tool for macOS

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

30th Jun 2025
I uploaded YouTube videos from time to time, and a fun comment I often get is “Whoa, this is in 8K!”. Even better, I’ve had comments from the like, seven people with 8K TVs that the video looks awesome on their TV. And you guessed it, I don’t record my videos in 8K! I record them...
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Innovation Is Software In August my computer setup changed more than it had in years. And yet the lesson of the month was...
25th Aug 2026
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Innovation Is Software

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

25th Aug 2026
In August my computer setup changed more than it had in years. And yet the lesson of the month was the opposite of new hardware: the existing gear has stretch, innovation is software. This post is about one brain, the machine in the homelab where my files and my agents live, the...
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Should Security Solutions Be Secure? Maybe We're All Wrong - Fortinet FortiSIEM Pre-Auth Command... It’s Friday, but we’re here today with unscheduled content - pushing our previously scheduled...
15th Aug 2025
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Should Security Solutions Be Secure? Maybe We're All Wrong - Fortinet FortiSIEM Pre-Auth Command Injection (CVE-2025-25256)

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

15th Aug 2025
It’s Friday, but we’re here today with unscheduled content - pushing our previously scheduled shenanigans to next week. Fortinet is no stranger to the watchTowr Labs research team. Today we’re looking at CVE-2025-25256 - a pre-authentication command injection in FortiSIEM that...
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A quick visit to Vaajasalo island Vaajasalo is a small island in lake Kallavesi in eastern Finland with population less than hundred....
25th Aug 2023
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A quick visit to Vaajasalo island

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

25th Aug 2023
Vaajasalo is a small island in lake Kallavesi in eastern Finland with population less than hundred. There’s also a winery called Alahovi Berry Wine Farm. They produce berry wines, cider, beer and liqueur. The temptation to visit them was huge, but I was on tight schedule. Maybe...
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Streaming public key authenticated encryption with insider auth security Note: this post will probably only really make sense to cryptography geeks. In “When a KEM is...
2nd Jul 2025
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Streaming public key authenticated encryption with insider auth security

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

2nd Jul 2025
Note: this post will probably only really make sense to cryptography geeks. In “When a KEM is not enough”, I described how to construct multi-recipient (public key) authenticated encryption. A naïve approach to this is vulnerable to insider forgeries: any recipient can construct...
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Solving Ghost in The Wire codes More...
11th Sep 2011
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Solving Ghost in The Wire codes

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

11th Sep 2011
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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 Writing [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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How to hire smarter than the market: a toy model Let's consider a toy model where you're hiring for two things and that those are equally valuable....
13th Jan 2020
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How to hire smarter than the market: a toy model

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

13th Jan 2020
Let's consider a toy model where you're hiring for two things and that those are equally valuable. It's not very important what those are, so let's just call them “thing A” and “thing B” for now.
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Pragmatically Generating a Self-Signed Certificate and Private Key using OpenSSL Recently I found myself needing to generate a HTTPS Server Certificate and Private Key for an iOS...
17th Jul 2017
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Pragmatically Generating a Self-Signed Certificate and Private Key using OpenSSL

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

17th Jul 2017
Recently I found myself needing to generate a HTTPS Server Certificate and Private Key for an iOS app using OpenSSL, what surprised me was the total lack of documentation for OpenSSL. While there is plenty of function documentation, what OpenSSL really lacks is examples of how it...
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Your government is breaking: EPA edition Scientists purged, imaginary gold bars for the rubes
3rd Sep 2025
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Your government is breaking: EPA edition

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

3rd Sep 2025
Scientists purged, imaginary gold bars for the rubes
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Miscellaneous unsolicited (and possibly biased) career advice No one asked for this, but I'm something like ~12 years into my career and have had my fair share of...
26th Sep 2019
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Miscellaneous unsolicited (and possibly biased) career advice

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

26th Sep 2019
No one asked for this, but I'm something like ~12 years into my career and have had my fair share of mistakes and luck so I thought I'd share some. Honestly, I feel like I've mostly benefitted from luck.
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Measuring the HP 11720A Pulse Modulator and Coax Cables Introduction What is a pulse modulator and what are they used for? The HP 11720A Pulse...
6th May 2023
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Measuring the HP 11720A Pulse Modulator and Coax Cables

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

6th May 2023
Introduction What is a pulse modulator and what are they used for? The HP 11720A Pulse Modulator Inside the HP 11720A Measurement Setup for a Quick Testing Session Pin Modulator Power Measurements with HP 432A Cable Loss Measurements with HP 432A Cable Power Measurements with...
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Stereographer Experimenting in stereo photography and I write an app to create old-fashioned stereoscopic cards.
5th Aug 2024
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Stereographer

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

5th Aug 2024
Experimenting in stereo photography and I write an app to create old-fashioned stereoscopic cards.
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So We Read On Well, if it's not biography; and it's not literary criticism; and it's not scholarship... what is...
8th Aug 2023
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So We Read On

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

8th Aug 2023
Well, if it's not biography; and it's not literary criticism; and it's not scholarship... what is it? And the answer appears to be poorly structured, rambling, fandom.
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HEIC to JPG: Build a Quick Action with Automator With the release of iOS 11, Apple switched from JPG to HEIC to store your photos. The...
8th Jul 2020
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HEIC to JPG: Build a Quick Action with Automator

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

8th Jul 2020
With the release of iOS 11, Apple switched from JPG to HEIC to store your photos. The High-Efficiency Image File Format saves a lot of storage space on your devices while still maintaining your photos' quality. However, it does become problematic if you want to share those files...
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Polygon Codec More...
26th Jun 2011
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Polygon Codec

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

26th Jun 2011
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What I wrote in The Atlantic about the Clicktatorship When content matters more than the truth
4th Feb 2026
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What I wrote in The Atlantic about the Clicktatorship

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

4th Feb 2026
When content matters more than the truth
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Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 6. an x86 upgrade Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 2. user-defined functions and variables ...
8th Dec 2019
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Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 6. an x86 upgrade

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8th Dec 2019
Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 2. user-defined functions and variables 3. LLVM 4. LLVM conditionals and compiling fibonacci 5. LLVM system calls This post upgrades the ulisp x86 backend from using a limited set of registers (with no spilling...
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Bringing Foam Monsters to Life: How I Wrote and Illustrated a Children's Book Using AI I've always wanted to write a book. It's been on my bucket list for several years, but I never got...
12th Feb 2025
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Bringing Foam Monsters to Life: How I Wrote and Illustrated a Children's Book Using AI

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

12th Feb 2025
I've always wanted to write a book. It's been on my bucket list for several years, but I never got around to it. Last summer I had a revelation: my kids love being read to, so why don't I write a story for them?Here's how I approached writing a children's book and how I used AI...
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Strike Commander: Interview with Frank Savage There is a playful way to study the architecture of computers of the past. Find a piece of software...
3rd Dec 2019
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Strike Commander: Interview with Frank Savage

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

3rd Dec 2019
There is a playful way to study the architecture of computers of the past. Find a piece of software you know well and try to find out how it was ported to these machine you don't...
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Bomb Squad Peripherals' BLOWGUN It Could Have Been a Lot Worse - His Data is BLOWGUN Protected!
19th Jun 2024
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Bomb Squad Peripherals' BLOWGUN

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19th Jun 2024
It Could Have Been a Lot Worse - His Data is BLOWGUN Protected!
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The cryptographic world computer
27th Sep 2026
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The cryptographic world computer

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

27th Sep 2026
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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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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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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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2023-11-04 nuclear safety Nuclear weapons are complex in many ways. The basic problem of achieving criticality is difficult on...
4th Nov 2023
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2023-11-04 nuclear safety

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4th Nov 2023
Nuclear weapons are complex in many ways. The basic problem of achieving criticality is difficult on its own, but deploying nuclear weapons as operational military assets involves yet more challenges. Nuclear weapons must be safe and reliable, even with the rough handling and...
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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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It Observes An observer writing a daily log of what it sees watching Earth, it uses no names of countries or...
13th Mar 2026
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It Observes

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

13th Mar 2026
An observer writing a daily log of what it sees watching Earth, it uses no names of countries or organisations, instead it speaks in metaphorical descriptions. Its distance provides an alternative perspective on our daily news. Let me tell you about this experiment I have been...
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Fell For It If there is anything as embarrassing as confessing one’s sins it has to be confessing one’s...
4th Mar 2026
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Fell For It

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

4th Mar 2026
If there is anything as embarrassing as confessing one’s sins it has to be confessing one’s stupidities. Yet here we are. Instead of describing how well my cool new Starlink-based phone-internet setup is coming together, I’m obligated to detail how I fell for a swindle so obvious...
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Minecraft Server Hosting I play the phenomena that is Minecraft on and off. Sometimes the laid back building or the exploring...
22nd Apr 2013
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Minecraft Server Hosting

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

22nd Apr 2013
I play the phenomena that is Minecraft on and off. Sometimes the laid back building or the exploring is just what I need. Sometimes I can challange myself to build cool complex stuff and I’m even an avid follower of Doc’M and Etho and the other mindcrackers over at the youtube....
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Evolution of inPulse - Part 1
25th Oct 2009
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Evolution of inPulse - Part 1

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

25th Oct 2009
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Make small changes and solve the problems you have Two frustrating things that can happen in an organization are 1) big changes and 2) changes that...
27th Dec 2018
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Make small changes and solve the problems you have

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

27th Dec 2018
Two frustrating things that can happen in an organization are 1) big changes and 2) changes that aren’t clearly associated with a known problem. It’s even worse in that order. These situations tend to happen when a problem remain unaddressed for too long. These situations tend to...
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Game Design Analysis: World of Goo Introduction This is the second essay for the course Game Design and this thime I will be analysing...
1st Jun 2010
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Game Design Analysis: World of Goo

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

1st Jun 2010
Introduction This is the second essay for the course Game Design and this thime I will be analysing the game World of Goo a bit. The first level The game is very simple. You begin with a structure and a few Goo balls, the charming balls bobbing around there, which you can drag...
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Software Engineers and Automation Every once in a while when talking to smart people the topic of automation comes up. Technology has...
16th Aug 2015
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Software Engineers and Automation

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

16th Aug 2015
Every once in a while when talking to smart people the topic of automation comes up. Technology has made lots of occupations redundant, so what's next? Switchboard operator, a long time ago What about software engineers?
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Detecting corporate fraud using Benford's law Note: This is a silly application. Don't take anything seriously. Benford's law describes a...
7th Oct 2014
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Detecting corporate fraud using Benford's law

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

7th Oct 2014
Note: This is a silly application. Don't take anything seriously. Benford's law describes a phenomenon where numbers in any data series will exhibit patterns in their first digit. For instance, if you took a list of the 1,000 longest rivers of Mongolia, or the average daily...
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DSLogic U3Pro16 Review and Teardown Introduction The DSLogic U3Pro16 In the Box Probe Cables and Clips The Controller Hardware The Input...
12th Apr 2025
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DSLogic U3Pro16 Review and Teardown

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

12th Apr 2025
Introduction The DSLogic U3Pro16 In the Box Probe Cables and Clips The Controller Hardware The Input Circuit Impact of Input Circuit on Circuit Under Test Additional IOs: External Clock, Trigger In, Trigger Out Software: From Saleae Logic to PulseView to DSView Installing DSView...
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The Same, Differently It's been over half a year since I moved from the city to the countryside. I regularly travel...
22nd Aug 2023
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The Same, Differently

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

22nd Aug 2023
It's been over half a year since I moved from the city to the countryside. I regularly travel between these locations for work and leisure. Being a cycling enthusiast, I keep a bike at both places, and this has led me to discover a funny thing. Last November, I relocated to the...
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memories of .us How much do you remember from elementary school? I remember vinyl tile floors, the playground, the...
11th Nov 2025
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memories of .us

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

11th Nov 2025
How much do you remember from elementary school? I remember vinyl tile floors, the playground, the teacher sentencing me to standing in the hallway. I had a teacher who was a chess fanatic; he painted a huge chess board in the paved schoolyard and got someone to fabricate big...
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Announcing Weave, a native iOS app for Typefully I'm happy to announce the release of my new app, Weave. As is often the case with my apps, I built...
2nd Mar 2026
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Announcing Weave, a native iOS app for Typefully

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Mar 2026
I'm happy to announce the release of my new app, Weave. As is often the case with my apps, I built this one for myself and then decided it was worth sharing with the world. Weave is a native iPhone and iPad app for Typefully users. For those
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Memory and Mental Health It's been known for a while that depression can cause us to not remember finer details of an past...
18th Nov 2022
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Memory and Mental Health

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

18th Nov 2022
It's been known for a while that depression can cause us to not remember finer details of an past event (or) even cause forgetfulness of future events. But while depressed, We have no dearth of negative thoughts and memories i.e. Rumination. Since rumination weakens our cognitive...
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The Pinecone DAISY-1 is a fantasy 8-bit computer that exists in reality There was a time when computers were exciting and fun. Now most of them feel like commodity...
2nd Jun 2026
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The Pinecone DAISY-1 is a fantasy 8-bit computer that exists in reality

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2nd Jun 2026
There was a time when computers were exciting and fun. Now most of them feel like commodity appliances — no more interesting than a washing machine or a toaster. Joe longed for the good ol’ days of 8-bit personal computers, so he used a trio of Arduino development boards to...
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Why security is all about defense in depth Many people asume that if you regularly update your computer, you are safe from hackers. But nothing...
23rd Mar 2012
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Why security is all about defense in depth

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

23rd Mar 2012
Many people asume that if you regularly update your computer, you are safe from hackers. But nothing could be further from the truth. Keeping your systems up-to-date only protects you against exploits for publicly known vulnerabilities. Your systems are still not protected...
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Administering Kubernetes is hard Kubernetes is easy to use after some exposure; it's pretty convenient too. But it is super hard to...
30th Sep 2019
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Administering Kubernetes is hard

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

30th Sep 2019
Kubernetes is easy to use after some exposure; it's pretty convenient too. But it is super hard to set up. eksctl is a good tool for folks who don't want to spend hours/days/weeks debugging VPC configuration in 1000s of lines of CloudFormation. None of the other tools seem to be...
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The Postcard and the Thing Itself (On Falling in Love with Ideas) My meditation teacher said something that stopped me cold: “We fall in love with the idea of a...
28th Oct 2025
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The Postcard and the Thing Itself (On Falling in Love with Ideas)

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

28th Oct 2025
My meditation teacher said something that stopped me cold: “We fall in love with the idea of a person, and then we fight so hard to keep it alive.”
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Home is where the home server is I moved recently, and so did my home server. You might have noticed it due to the downtime. This...
15th May 2025
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Home is where the home server is

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

15th May 2025
I moved recently, and so did my home server. You might have noticed it due to the downtime. This time I have built a dedicated shelf for it, which allows for more flexibility and room for additional expensive ideas. The internet connection is a fiber line, which is fantastic for...
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Impact of Adblockers on Google Analytics (vs. Plausible) Adblocker usage is quickly rising, with some estimates saying that almost 25% of internet users have...
27th Oct 2020
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Impact of Adblockers on Google Analytics (vs. Plausible)

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

27th Oct 2020
Adblocker usage is quickly rising, with some estimates saying that almost 25% of internet users have one installed. Not only do they block advertisements, but also analytics scripts (like Google Analytics, Matomo, etc.)So that begs the question: what is the impact of these...
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Understanding zero-knowledge proofs What are zero-knowledge proofs, really?
24th Jul 2022
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Understanding zero-knowledge proofs

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

24th Jul 2022
What are zero-knowledge proofs, really?
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Notes from "The Weather Machine: A Journey Inside the Forecast" In The Weather Machine: A Journey Inside the Forecast, author Andrew Blum gives a high-level...
25th Jul 2025
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Notes from "The Weather Machine: A Journey Inside the Forecast"

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

25th Jul 2025
In The Weather Machine: A Journey Inside the Forecast, author Andrew Blum gives a high-level overview of global weather forecasting. What complexity hides behind the simple interfaces of our daily weather apps? Three main points stuck out to me: “The weather machine has to be a...
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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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On Blobs, Files and Data URIs in Javascript A guide to how to use Data URIs, Blobs and Files in Javascript for the complete beginner.
12th Apr 2019
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On Blobs, Files and Data URIs in Javascript

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

12th Apr 2019
A guide to how to use Data URIs, Blobs and Files in Javascript for the complete beginner.
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Spring day ham radio activation in Hiastinlahti, Finland Hiastinlahti is a bay where river Iijoki flows into Bothnian Bay, the northernmost part of Gulf of...
2nd May 2023
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Spring day ham radio activation in Hiastinlahti, Finland

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

2nd May 2023
Hiastinlahti is a bay where river Iijoki flows into Bothnian Bay, the northernmost part of Gulf of Bothnia. This area is a Nature 2000 nature reserve area and good spot for bird watching. The area has a two kilometer long nature trail with fireplace, lean-to and toilet. From the...
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Point and Call It’s 2AM. You’re paged to respond to a failing set of components that you are the Subject Matter...
14th Sep 2021
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Point and Call

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

14th Sep 2021
It’s 2AM. You’re paged to respond to a failing set of components that you are the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for. Sleepy, you load up the playbook for when the SplineReticulatorBlocked alert has gone off, and start executing. The Incident Commander (IC) is vaguely aware of what...
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For a Business, Should Making (Extra) Money Be Incidental? Humans are desire-driven machines: a business should help dissipate desires by satisfying them...
21st Jul 2026
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For a Business, Should Making (Extra) Money Be Incidental?

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

21st Jul 2026
Humans are desire-driven machines: a business should help dissipate desires by satisfying them without exploiting you.
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When Harry Met Sally This, to me, is the ur-romcom — the gold standard against which all others are compared, and most...
27th Sep 2018
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When Harry Met Sally

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

27th Sep 2018
This, to me, is the ur-romcom — the gold standard against which all others are compared, and most are found wanting. The chemistry, the script, the everpresent autumn, the interstitials with old couples — it is all so good, and exactly what it is trying to be!
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How I self-host this blog at home with a dynamic IPv4 address, IPv6 prefix, and a dash of Wireguard Networking has long been my Achilles heel. I know the very basics, but the more complex areas of...
6th May 2026
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How I self-host this blog at home with a dynamic IPv4 address, IPv6 prefix, and a dash of Wireguard

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

6th May 2026
Networking has long been my Achilles heel. I know the very basics, but the more complex areas of networking have been a bit puzzling to me. By the time I figured out how IPv4 works, I found IPv6 and that my ISP supports it. Back to square one. That didn’t stop me from learning...
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The Problem With Bitcoin Some thoughts on the long term viability of Bitcoin's rising value.
8th Dec 2024
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The Problem With Bitcoin

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

8th Dec 2024
Some thoughts on the long term viability of Bitcoin's rising value.
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This page looks better in the app You’re a web developer at a social media company that has recently made a big push for modernizing...
2nd Aug 2020
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This page looks better in the app

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

2nd Aug 2020
You’re a web developer at a social media company that has recently made a big push for modernizing their frontend for the mobile-first era. It has taken a lot of time and effort from many people. Countless challenges, arguments, testing. The release is near. You’re probably a bit...
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FYI: Broadcom is ruining Bitnami containers You'll need to switch off ASAP.
28th Aug 2025
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FYI: Broadcom is ruining Bitnami containers

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

28th Aug 2025
You'll need to switch off ASAP.
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Design of Public Posts: Twitter vs Facebook What design tells you about the company’s values Both Facebook and Twitter allow posts to be...
1st Feb 2018
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Design of Public Posts: Twitter vs Facebook

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

1st Feb 2018
What design tells you about the company’s values Both Facebook and Twitter allow posts to be publicly accessible by people who have not…
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Changes A lot has been going on lately and it feels like I’m being swamped. I can’t complain too much but...
4th Mar 2012
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Changes

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

4th Mar 2012
A lot has been going on lately and it feels like I’m being swamped. I can’t complain too much but there are things I’d like to change after the exam period this week. Program more! nothing since christmas or someting. I need to finish: Ada project for school. Can’t believe I...
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The impact of management teams as a decision-making group, in startups and enterprise Ambitious companies form management teams at every level above you, sometimes including you....
11th Nov 2020
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The impact of management teams as a decision-making group, in startups and enterprise

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

11th Nov 2020
Ambitious companies form management teams at every level above you, sometimes including you. Management teams meet periodically and have private chat rooms. They discuss customers, product and organizational direction. Sometimes discussions are well documented and...
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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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Revisiting Borderless Payments What’s old is new again. By Gaby Goldberg & Bridget Harris
6th Dec 2023
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Revisiting Borderless Payments

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

6th Dec 2023
What’s old is new again. By Gaby Goldberg & Bridget Harris
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Estimating Logarithms
21st May 2025
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Estimating Logarithms

from Niklas Oberhuber’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

21st May 2025
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Riding the Risk Railway When building and operating a user-facing system, especially one that is open to the public, it is...
9th Mar 2020
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Riding the Risk Railway

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

9th Mar 2020
When building and operating a user-facing system, especially one that is open to the public, it is important to consider the riskiness of a user, which can also be characterised as trustworthiness. These will typically be negatively correlated, with low trust indicating high risk...
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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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2025-01-05 pairs not taken So we all know about twisted-pair ethernet, huh? I get a little frustrated with a lot of histories...
5th Jan 2025
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2025-01-05 pairs not taken

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

5th Jan 2025
So we all know about twisted-pair ethernet, huh? I get a little frustrated with a lot of histories of the topic, like the recent neil breen^w^wserial port video, because they often fail to address some obvious questions about the origin of twisted-pair network cabling. Well, I...
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Liquid Glass updates in 26.4 Apple recently updated all their OSs to 26.4, and there were plenty of Liquid Glass updates. Most of...
29th Mar 2026
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Liquid Glass updates in 26.4

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

29th Mar 2026
Apple recently updated all their OSs to 26.4, and there were plenty of Liquid Glass updates. Most of them of the better! Here are some of the changes that stood out to me, as well as a bit more grumbling about Liquid Glass in general (sorry). When I last wrote about Liquid Glass,...
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Oversimplified ideas of the great philosophers of all times Ideas of the great philosophers of all times explained in a few lines
23rd Mar 2023
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Oversimplified ideas of the great philosophers of all times

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

23rd Mar 2023
Ideas of the great philosophers of all times explained in a few lines
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2023-05-07 electrical characteristics of telephone lines Let's take a break from our boring topic of regional history to focus instead on an even more boring...
7th May 2023
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2023-05-07 electrical characteristics of telephone lines

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

7th May 2023
Let's take a break from our boring topic of regional history to focus instead on an even more boring topic: implementation details of telephone lines. The conventional "copper pair" analog telephone line is fading away. The FCC has begun to authorize abandonment of copper outside...
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JS fetch converts string request bodies to UTF-8 In short: when a fetch request body is a string, the server will receive UTF-8 bytes. I was recently...
6th Sep 2025
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JS fetch converts string request bodies to UTF-8

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

6th Sep 2025
In short: when a fetch request body is a string, the server will receive UTF-8 bytes. I was recently calling fetch with a string body, like this: await fetch("/foo", { method: "POST", body: "🍉", }); I wondered: what exact bytes would the server receive? Most stuff uses...
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Instruction decoding in the Intel 8087 floating-point chip pre {border:none;} In the 1980s, if you wanted your IBM PC to run faster, you could buy the Intel...
14th Feb 2026
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Instruction decoding in the Intel 8087 floating-point chip

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

14th Feb 2026
pre {border:none;} In the 1980s, if you wanted your IBM PC to run faster, you could buy the Intel 8087 floating-point coprocessor chip. With this chip, CAD software, spreadsheets, flight simulators, and other programs were much speedier. The 8087 chip could add, subtract,...
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The “Home Alone” / “NiGHTS into Dreams” connection NiGHTS into Dreams is one of those games I tend to think about when Christmas rolls around. It’s one...
6th Dec 2024
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The “Home Alone” / “NiGHTS into Dreams” connection

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

6th Dec 2024
NiGHTS into Dreams is one of those games I tend to think about when Christmas rolls around. It’s one of my favourites from the Saturn lineup, and it also had a free Christmas version. In it, there’s a song I really love that plays on the level select screen called Gate of Your...
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The two kinds of error In short: in my mind, errors are divided into two categories. Expected errors (think “user entered...
1st Mar 2026
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The two kinds of error

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

1st Mar 2026
In short: in my mind, errors are divided into two categories. Expected errors (think “user entered invalid data”), which are part of normal operation, aren’t the developer’s fault, and should be handled. Unexpected errors (think “null pointer exception”) are the developer’s...
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ESP-IDF: Storing AWS IoT certificates in the NVS partition (for OTA) When using AWS IoT Core, most tutorials will tell you to include device certificates in your...
2nd Nov 2021
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ESP-IDF: Storing AWS IoT certificates in the NVS partition (for OTA)

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

2nd Nov 2021
When using AWS IoT Core, most tutorials will tell you to include device certificates in your firmware. While that does work, it means you won't be able to run over-the-air updates.In this post, I'll show how to store AWS certificates in the NVS partition. This will make it...
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New Blog Location I finally got fed up with Blogger, and am moving this blog to live on Wordpress hosted off of...
12th Sep 2008
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New Blog Location

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

12th Sep 2008
I finally got fed up with Blogger, and am moving this blog to live on Wordpress hosted off of scripts.mit.edu. In the process of converting everything over and setting up Wordpress I’ve decided I hate it, but hopefully I hate it less than I hate Blogger. We’ll see. I’ve also...
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Joining TCG Crypto I am thrilled to share that I am joining the team at TCG, The Chernin Group, to focus on the firm’s...
14th Sep 2021
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Joining TCG Crypto

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

14th Sep 2021
I am thrilled to share that I am joining the team at TCG, The Chernin Group, to focus on the firm’s investments at the intersection of consumer and crypto.
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Benchmarking nearest neighbor libraries in Python Radim Rehurek has put together an excellent summary of approximate nearest neighbor libraries in...
12th Jan 2014
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Benchmarking nearest neighbor libraries in Python

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

12th Jan 2014
Radim Rehurek has put together an excellent summary of approximate nearest neighbor libraries in Python. This is exciting, because one of the libraries he's covering, annoy, was built by me. After introducing the problem, he goes through the list of contestants and sticks with...
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2023-03-13 the door close button This will probably be a short one, and I know I haven't written for a while, but it has always been...
13th Mar 2023
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2023-03-13 the door close button

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

13th Mar 2023
This will probably be a short one, and I know I haven't written for a while, but it has always been the case that you get what you pay for and Computers Are Bad is nothing if not affordable. Still, this is a topic on which I am moderately passionate and so I can probably stretch...
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Hideo Okawara’s Mixed Signal Lecture Series Introduction Hideo Okawara’s Mixed Signal Lecture Series Frequency/Phase Movement Analysis by...
6th Jan 2024
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Hideo Okawara’s Mixed Signal Lecture Series

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

6th Jan 2024
Introduction Hideo Okawara’s Mixed Signal Lecture Series Frequency/Phase Movement Analysis by Orthogonal Demodulation Misc Introduction While researching a DSP related topic, Google dug up an excellent article, written by Hideo Okawara, that is just one part of a series of ~53. I...
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Scalable application design without magic As part of the online food ordering app I'm building, I needed to design a scalable backend...
10th May 2020
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Scalable application design without magic

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

10th May 2020
As part of the online food ordering app I'm building, I needed to design a scalable backend infrastructure that could handle lots of concurrent users. Scalability is considered a hard problem to tackle. Often it's presented like it's something magical, done by million dollar...
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Difference of behavior in SATA Solid State Drives Introduction Update: I've noticed some strange behavior of SSDs when benchmarking them with FIO....
28th Jan 2020
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Difference of behavior in SATA Solid State Drives

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

28th Jan 2020
Introduction Update: I've noticed some strange behavior of SSDs when benchmarking them with FIO. After further investigation and additional testing, I've found the reason for the strange patterns in the graphs. The 'strange' test results are due to the fact that they were...
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The art and engineering of Silpheed
1st Jun 2026
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The art and engineering of Silpheed

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

1st Jun 2026
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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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May Day activation on island of Hailuoto May Day is celebrated on first of May.
4th May 2025
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May Day activation on island of Hailuoto

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

4th May 2025
May Day is celebrated on first of May.
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Final Fantasy IX I’ve noticed that if I want to give something a perfect score but know that it’s not a “perfect”...
28th Dec 2013
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Final Fantasy IX

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

28th Dec 2013
I’ve noticed that if I want to give something a perfect score but know that it’s not a “perfect” thing, I always start off with “okay, so, it has flaws.”
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Autonomous Standing Desk and Chair Review Autonomous was nice enough to send me one of both their Smart Desk Pro standing desks and ErgoChair...
14th Nov 2023
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Autonomous Standing Desk and Chair Review

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

14th Nov 2023
Autonomous was nice enough to send me one of both their Smart Desk Pro standing desks and ErgoChair Pro chairs in exchange for posting about them on Twitter, and I wanted to cover them in more detail on my blog as well so I could give my full thoughts on them for anyone in the...
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Understanding Ceph: open-source scalable storage Introduction In this blog post I will try to explain why I believe Ceph is such an interesting...
19th Aug 2018
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Understanding Ceph: open-source scalable storage

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

19th Aug 2018
Introduction In this blog post I will try to explain why I believe Ceph is such an interesting storage solution. After you finished reading this blog post you should have a good high-level overview of Ceph. I've written this blog post purely because I'm a storage enthusiast and I...
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I built a timer I can’t fail to set Have you ever gotten to the end of a long work day and realized you’re no closer to your goals? I...
2nd Dec 2025
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I built a timer I can’t fail to set

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

2nd Dec 2025
Have you ever gotten to the end of a long work day and realized you’re no closer to your goals? I have. Sure, I was doing a lot of stuff. But I wasn’t pausing to ask whether I was doing the right stuff. Or whether my approach was working. Or if I was spending the right amount of...
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Notes on Puzzles 1. I mostly don’t play chess anymore — it’s too addictive, and tends to take over your brain in a...
11th Jul 2023
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Notes on Puzzles

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

11th Jul 2023
1. I mostly don’t play chess anymore — it’s too addictive, and tends to take over your brain in a way I don’t like — but one habit I’ve retained is solving puzzles.
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My experience with LLM-assisted tools in software development It’s no secret that I was highly skeptical of LLM-s. Cool, there is this new thing that can spit out...
8th Jun 2026
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My experience with LLM-assisted tools in software development

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

8th Jun 2026
It’s no secret that I was highly skeptical of LLM-s. Cool, there is this new thing that can spit out plausible text and create cheap-looking images and videos, resulting in a lot of low-quality content being shared. It was also a huge disappointment to see a human-written post...
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How To Understand Things The smartest person I’ve ever known had a habit that, as a teenager, I found striking...
2nd Jul 2020
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How To Understand Things

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

2nd Jul 2020
The smartest person I’ve ever known had a habit that, as a teenager, I found striking...
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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....
6th Oct 2026
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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

6th Oct 2026
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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Passing the reins on Panfrost Today is my last day at Collabora and my last day leading the Panfrost driver. It’s been a wild...
10th Apr 2023
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Passing the reins on Panfrost

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

10th Apr 2023
Today is my last day at Collabora and my last day leading the Panfrost driver. It’s been a wild ride. In 2017, I began work on the chai driver for Mali T (Midgard). chai would later be merged into Lyude Paul’s and Connor Abbott’s BiOpenly project for Mali G (Bifrost) to form...
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Announcing Startup School Winter 2020
10th Dec 2019
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Announcing Startup School Winter 2020

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

10th Dec 2019
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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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How FM Radio Works
14th Feb 2025
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How FM Radio Works

from Niklas Oberhuber’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

14th Feb 2025
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[Mirror] Exploring Elliptic Curve Pairings
14th Jan 2017
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[Mirror] Exploring Elliptic Curve Pairings

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

14th Jan 2017
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One Year On from the One Big Beautiful Bill: Separating Fact from Trump’s Medicaid Fictions
3rd Jul 2026
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One Year On from the One Big Beautiful Bill:

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3rd Jul 2026
Separating Fact from Trump’s Medicaid Fictions
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Reading List 09/06/2025 London homebuilding, historical home prices, a humanoid robot loading a dishwasher, France’s history...
6th Sep 2025
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Reading List 09/06/2025

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6th Sep 2025
London homebuilding, historical home prices, a humanoid robot loading a dishwasher, France’s history of nuclear reactor construction, and more.
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The Vinland Saga (Season 2) I thought the first season of this anime was good and entertaining but certainly not anything to...
6th Jul 2023
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The Vinland Saga (Season 2)

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

6th Jul 2023
I thought the first season of this anime was good and entertaining but certainly not anything to write home about, a slightly tropey anime with interesting character work and a novel setting. The second season did something that I (to my recollection) have never seen in an anime,...
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Looking for vulnerabilities is the last thing I do There’s a common misconception among developers that my job, as a (application) Security Engineer,...
20th Feb 2026
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Looking for vulnerabilities is the last thing I do

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

20th Feb 2026
There’s a common misconception among developers that my job, as a (application) Security Engineer, is to just search for security bugs in their code. They may well have seen junior security engineers doing this kind of thing. But, although this can be useful (and is part of the...
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Hospitalised with MCADD This week we experienced the first time that our son was hospitalised since he was diagnosed with...
3rd May 2021
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Hospitalised with MCADD

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

3rd May 2021
This week we experienced the first time that our son was hospitalised since he was diagnosed with MCADD, a metabolic condition that limits his body's ability to utilise fats for energy. Do you or your kid have MCADD? Then, read along and don't worry, as everything will be...
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The hardest challenge about becoming a manager Note: this post is full of pseudo-psychology and highly speculative content. Like most fun stuff! I...
5th Jun 2015
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The hardest challenge about becoming a manager

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

5th Jun 2015
Note: this post is full of pseudo-psychology and highly speculative content. Like most fun stuff! I became a manager back in 2009. Being a developer is fun. You have this very tangible way to measure yourself.
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Which stories about academia matter? The Arday affair got more attention than systematic assaults on academic freedom
2nd Sep 2026
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Which stories about academia matter?

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

2nd Sep 2026
The Arday affair got more attention than systematic assaults on academic freedom
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Leadership Power Tools: SQL and Statistics A common pattern I’ve seen over the years have been folks in engineering leadership positions that...
4th Dec 2024
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Leadership Power Tools: SQL and Statistics

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

4th Dec 2024
A common pattern I’ve seen over the years have been folks in engineering leadership positions that are not super comfortable with extracting and interpreting data from stores, be it databases, CSV files in an object store, or even just a spreadsheet. We’re going to cover SQL &...
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iOS 27 has some weird Dynamic Island behavior Thought I’d make a quick blog post about some weird behavior I’m seeing on iOS 27 and Dynamic Island...
2 weeks ago
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iOS 27 has some weird Dynamic Island behavior

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

2 weeks ago
Thought I’d make a quick blog post about some weird behavior I’m seeing on iOS 27 and Dynamic Island live activities, that I initially thought was restricted to the Duo, but turns out affects everything. Yay. Maybe this post can save some others some time, and hopefully Apple can...
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Recent forays into developer productivity I've written before about my posture around LLMs being mostly summarizable as design your systems...
1st Feb 2026
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Recent forays into developer productivity

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

1st Feb 2026
I've written before about my posture around LLMs being mostly summarizable as design your systems and abstractions to accommodate an infinite number of junior engineers.
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From Thought to Entry
5th Mar 2026
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From Thought to Entry

from Kent de Bruin [alt+shift+b] in technology

5th Mar 2026
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Intel's Inboard 386/PC Welcome to the 1990s.
15th Oct 2024
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Intel's Inboard 386/PC

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

15th Oct 2024
Welcome to the 1990s.
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Pea Bee #2: We're here because we're here Hi all, thank you for subscribing to this newsletter.
5th Jan 2021
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Pea Bee #2: We're here because we're here

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

5th Jan 2021
Hi all, thank you for subscribing to this newsletter.
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Geniune Love and Infatuation After a long time, I read something so meaningful on reddit. How do you distinguish genuine love for...
10th Jan 2019
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Geniune Love and Infatuation

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

10th Jan 2019
After a long time, I read something so meaningful on reddit. How do you distinguish genuine love for someone from infatuation? was the…
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Wealth distribution in the United States Forbes recently published the Forbes 400 List for 2024, listing the 400 richest people in the United...
9th Oct 2024
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Wealth distribution in the United States

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

9th Oct 2024
Forbes recently published the Forbes 400 List for 2024, listing the 400 richest people in the United States. This inspired me to make a histogram to show the distribution of wealth in the United States. It turns out that if you put Elon Musk on the graph, almost the entire US...
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Building the blog... in style! Find out if it is possible to turn a computer from the 90s into a modern development machine.
22nd Jun 2016
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Building the blog... in style!

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

22nd Jun 2016
Find out if it is possible to turn a computer from the 90s into a modern development machine.
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Radxa's Q8B has 2x the performance and expansion of the Pi 5 There was a time I'd look at a board like the Radxa Dragon Q8B (at left, above) and be like,...
9th Oct 2026
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Radxa's Q8B has 2x the performance and expansion of the Pi 5

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

9th Oct 2026
There was a time I'd look at a board like the Radxa Dragon Q8B (at left, above) and be like, "there's no way I'd spend $209 on an SBC with 8 gigs of RAM". But we're in 2026, and seeing the 8 gig Raspberry Pi 5 going for almost the same amount, I figured I'd give it a shot. On...
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Review of Gitcoin Quadratic Funding Round 4
28th Jan 2020
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Review of Gitcoin Quadratic Funding Round 4

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

28th Jan 2020
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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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Final Fantasy The game certainly shows its age, I can tell you that much. (I played Dawn of Souls, which was the...
28th Dec 2007
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Final Fantasy

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

28th Dec 2007
The game certainly shows its age, I can tell you that much. (I played Dawn of Souls, which was the slightly easier remake, and even then it was a bit of a slog.) It’s short, though, and it’s I think worth playing for its place in the canon.
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Winter at the Beach A couple more pictures from the Nikon FM with Nikkor 50mm f/1.4This time using Ilford Delta 100...
11th May 2025
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Winter at the Beach

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in technology

11th May 2025
A couple more pictures from the Nikon FM with Nikkor 50mm f/1.4This time using Ilford Delta 100 film, developed in Ilfosol 3 for 5 minutes at 20°CFairly rare for snow in Vancouver to stick around very long. Trees really are the lungs of the earth. The negative I developed looked...
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RAID 5 is perfectly fine for home usage RAID 5 gets a lot of flak these days. You either run RAID 1, RAID 10 or you use RAID 6, but if you...
8th Sep 2016
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RAID 5 is perfectly fine for home usage

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

8th Sep 2016
RAID 5 gets a lot of flak these days. You either run RAID 1, RAID 10 or you use RAID 6, but if you run RAID 5 you're told that you are a crazy person. Using RAID 5 is portrayed as an unreasonable risk to the availability of your data. It is suggested that it is likely that you...
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Polyphase Channelizers with Frequency Offset - a Bluetooth LE Example Introduction A Bluetooth LE Trace as Example Input Complex Heterodyne Derivation of Post-Decimation...
5th Mar 2026
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Polyphase Channelizers with Frequency Offset - a Bluetooth LE Example

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

5th Mar 2026
Introduction A Bluetooth LE Trace as Example Input Complex Heterodyne Derivation of Post-Decimation Offset Correction Simplifying for the Half-Bin Offset Case The Odd Case of an Odd Number of Channels Reducing the Number of Phase Adjustment...
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Books update
15th Dec 2022
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Books update

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

15th Dec 2022
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3D Model Viewer Improvements [Software] Unlocking the embedded gimbals
28th Nov 2023
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3D Model Viewer Improvements

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

28th Nov 2023
[Software] Unlocking the embedded gimbals
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You can now use Wi-Fi® and Bluetooth® LE simultaneously on Arduino NINA-based boards! Here’s how If you like IoT, you’ll love this update! Starting today, if you own a board powered by the...
2nd Mar 2026
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You can now use Wi-Fi® and Bluetooth® LE simultaneously on Arduino NINA-based boards! Here’s how

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

2nd Mar 2026
If you like IoT, you’ll love this update! Starting today, if you own a board powered by the NINA-W102 module – like the Arduino® MKR™ WiFi 1010, Arduino® Nano™ RP2040 Connect, or Nano 33 IoT – you can now use Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Low Energy (Bluetooth LE) at the same time, in the...
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Claude found me an error in the ANES A quick one this week, hopefully something that will save some grad student from mistakenly thinking...
3rd Feb 2026
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Claude found me an error in the ANES

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

3rd Feb 2026
A quick one this week, hopefully something that will save some grad student from mistakenly thinking that they’ve discovered a major reversal in political polarization…
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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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Pattern Recognition It was funny to read 2002-era reviews of this book, which universally bemoaned the "tres hip"-ness...
5th Apr 2023
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Pattern Recognition

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

5th Apr 2023
It was funny to read 2002-era reviews of this book, which universally bemoaned the "tres hip"-ness of Gibson's brand deployments (iBooks! MUJI!) as a flaw that would instantly date its relevance — and nary a mention of how grounded the book was in the September 11th attacks,...
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Speedrunning Tesco (Odds and Ends #93) Plus mixed feelings about Artemis, Mormon gambling, and a council finance nightmare.
1st Apr 2026
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Speedrunning Tesco (Odds and Ends #93)

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

1st Apr 2026
Plus mixed feelings about Artemis, Mormon gambling, and a council finance nightmare.
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The T-34/2 keyboard layout The T-34/2 layout. QMK Heatmap Generator, with all layers and combos. It’s been 6 months since my...
28th Aug 2022
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The T-34/2 keyboard layout

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

28th Aug 2022
The T-34/2 layout. QMK Heatmap Generator, with all layers and combos. It’s been 6 months since my last update on the T-34 keyboard layout, and I’ve made some changes I’d like to document here. As seen in the heatmap above, the layout seems quite decent. There’s still an issue...
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Having a safe CEX: proof of solvency and beyond
19th Nov 2022
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Having a safe CEX: proof of solvency and beyond

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

19th Nov 2022
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2023-01-16 huff-duff We've talked a fair amount about HF radio recently, in the context of OTH radar. Recall that an...
16th Jan 2023
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2023-01-16 huff-duff

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

16th Jan 2023
We've talked a fair amount about HF radio recently, in the context of OTH radar. Recall that an extremely useful property of HF radio here is that HF frequencies can reflect off of the upper layers of the atmosphere, causing them to rebound towards earth at a range much further...
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Clip control on the Apple GPU Neverball rendered on the Apple M1 GPU with an open source OpenGL driver After a year in...
22nd Aug 2022
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Clip control on the Apple GPU

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

22nd Aug 2022
Neverball rendered on the Apple M1 GPU with an open source OpenGL driver After a year in development, the open source “Asahi” driver for the Apple GPU is running real games. There’s more to do, but Neverball is already playable (and a lot of fun!). Neverball uses legacy “fixed...
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Designing a multi dimensional capacity queue This month I needed to create additional dimensions to a capacity queue mechanism. The food ordering...
1st Dec 2020
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Designing a multi dimensional capacity queue

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

1st Dec 2020
This month I needed to create additional dimensions to a capacity queue mechanism. The food ordering app that I created needed to be able to restrict capacity based on the number of orders, the contents in individual orders and the dispatch type (takeaway/delivery). Read along to...
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Internet of kitchen lighting, with OSC This project was completed in June 2015. Wow, is it 2017 already? In this post, I’d like to say...
3rd Jan 2017
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Internet of kitchen lighting, with OSC

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

3rd Jan 2017
This project was completed in June 2015. Wow, is it 2017 already? In this post, I’d like to say that I wrote a useful little bit of software and built up a crappy hack to demonstrate it but, secretly, the crappy hack came first and I’ve retroactively found something vaguely...
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speed reading (the meaning of language) One of the difficult things about describing a grift, or at least what became a grift, is judging...
8th Dec 2025
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speed reading (the meaning of language)

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

8th Dec 2025
One of the difficult things about describing a grift, or at least what became a grift, is judging the sincerity with which the whole thing started. Scams often crystallize around a kernel of truth: genuinely good intentions that start rolling down the hill to profitability and...
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3D printer repairing and modding I’ve had my VORON Trident for 2 years and I’ve run it for 2600 hours. Overall I’m happy with the...
2nd Dec 2025
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3D printer repairing and modding

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

2nd Dec 2025
I’ve had my VORON Trident for 2 years and I’ve run it for 2600 hours. Overall I’m happy with the printer but I’ve been itching to make some more mods to it. Having finally finished the VORON 0 (with mods) I now have a backup printer I can use to rescue myself when I screw up. As...
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5 Frames with Nikon FM and Fomapan 100 On a few photowalks around Kitsilano in Vancouver BC with my first roll of Fomapan Classic 100. All...
8th Feb 2025
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5 Frames with Nikon FM and Fomapan 100

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in technology

8th Feb 2025
On a few photowalks around Kitsilano in Vancouver BC with my first roll of Fomapan Classic 100. All pictures shot with older, non-AI Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 lens. Developed in Ilford Ilfosol3 for 5 minutes at 20°C and scanned with a cheap film scanner. Color has been removed and some...
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Recycle your old laptop display and turn it into a monitor During a cleaning spree I decided that it was time to recycle two old laptops that were just...
13th Mar 2021
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Recycle your old laptop display and turn it into a monitor

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

13th Mar 2021
During a cleaning spree I decided that it was time to recycle two old laptops that were just collecting dust on a shelf for many years. Although I didn't have any purpose for them anymore, I realised that the displays were still perfectly fine. This is the display of my old 13"...
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On idea-driven ideas
12th Aug 2025
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On idea-driven ideas

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

12th Aug 2025
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Using iSCSI with time machine and Super Duper In the past, as a Mac user, I've used separate external drives for Time Machine backups and Super...
21st Jul 2013
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Using iSCSI with time machine and Super Duper

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

21st Jul 2013
In the past, as a Mac user, I've used separate external drives for Time Machine backups and Super Duper clones but I'm not happy with that. External hard drives make noise and create clutter. I'd like to move away all my storage from my living room (or home office) and put it in...
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A practical understanding of lead acid batteries Introduction The goal of this article is to give you a practical understanding Lead Acid batteries....
29th Aug 2021
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A practical understanding of lead acid batteries

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

29th Aug 2021
Introduction The goal of this article is to give you a practical understanding Lead Acid batteries. We won't address the underlying chemistry, we'll treat them as a black-box and we will discover their characteristics and how to keep them healthy. Disclaimer I'm an amateur. I...
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Improve your sleep by blocking light I have been wearing a sleep mask in bed, blocking all light. It has been amazing for my sleep's...
23rd Jan 2020
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Improve your sleep by blocking light

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

23rd Jan 2020
I have been wearing a sleep mask in bed, blocking all light. It has been amazing for my sleep's quality. Read along for my findings!
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A History of Operation Breakthrough Many who look at the high and rising cost of housing see the problem as fundamentally one of...
6th Mar 2026
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A History of Operation Breakthrough

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

6th Mar 2026
Many who look at the high and rising cost of housing see the problem as fundamentally one of production methods; more specifically, that homes could be built more cheaply if they were made using factories and industrialized processes, instead of assembling them on site using...
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What is "Theory"? Substack is clearly growing.
9th Dec 2025
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What is "Theory"?

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

9th Dec 2025
Substack is clearly growing.
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In Crypto, Apps Need Infrastructure Like Infrastructure Needs Apps Or, maybe the real infrastructure was the applications we made along the way
6th Oct 2023
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In Crypto, Apps Need Infrastructure Like Infrastructure Needs Apps

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

6th Oct 2023
Or, maybe the real infrastructure was the applications we made along the way
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Traction Heroes Ep. 44: WEIRD People Are you more of an analytical or a holistic thinker? The answer might depend on the culture in which...
7th Sep 2026
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Traction Heroes Ep. 44: WEIRD People

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

7th Sep 2026
Are you more of an analytical or a holistic thinker? The answer might depend on the culture in which you were raised — and will impact your ability to gain traction. In episode 44 of Traction Heroes, Harry read a short segment from Joseph Henrich’s The WEIRDest People in the...
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Conformant OpenGL 4.6 on the M1 For years, the M1 has only supported OpenGL 4.1. That changes today – with our release of full...
14th Feb 2024
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Conformant OpenGL 4.6 on the M1

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

14th Feb 2024
For years, the M1 has only supported OpenGL 4.1. That changes today – with our release of full OpenGL® 4.6 and OpenGL® ES 3.2! Install Fedora for the latest M1/M2-series drivers. Already installed? Just dnf upgrade --refresh. Unlike the vendor’s non-conformant 4.1 drivers, our...
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Content debt There’s a nascent trend of releasing ostensibly-private material (changelogs, public wikis,...
4th Jul 2024
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Content debt

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

4th Jul 2024
There’s a nascent trend of releasing ostensibly-private material (changelogs, public wikis, handbooks, etc.) to the public as a bit of a marketing push. This is essentially a form of debt, to the extent that you’re taking a lump-sum payment now in exchange for the implicit cost...
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Trump 2.0 Brings Cuts to Cyber, Consumer Protections One month into his second term, President Trump's actions to shrink the government through mass...
23rd Feb 2025
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Trump 2.0 Brings Cuts to Cyber, Consumer Protections

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

23rd Feb 2025
One month into his second term, President Trump's actions to shrink the government through mass layoffs, firings and withholding funds allocated by Congress have thrown federal cybersecurity and consumer protection programs into disarray. At the same time, agencies are battling...
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$17 GM1312 Thermometer Review, Test, and Teardown Introduction What is a thermocouple The GM1213 Thermometer A few...
11th Feb 2023
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$17 GM1312 Thermometer Review, Test, and Teardown

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

11th Feb 2023
Introduction What is a thermocouple The GM1213 Thermometer A few tests Internals Conclusion References Introduction I’ve been doing a bunch of measurements on oven-controlled oscillators lately, including their temperature. There are multiple ways to measure...
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Test Post This is a test post to verify the blog functionality
19th Mar 2024
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Test Post

from Kent de Bruin [alt+shift+b] in technology

19th Mar 2024
This is a test post to verify the blog functionality
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SonicBoom, From Stolen Tokens to Remote Shells - SonicWall SMA (CVE-2023-44221, CVE-2024-38475) Another day, another edge device being targeted - it’s a typical Thursday! In today’s blog post,...
1st May 2025
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SonicBoom, From Stolen Tokens to Remote Shells - SonicWall SMA (CVE-2023-44221, CVE-2024-38475)

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

1st May 2025
Another day, another edge device being targeted - it’s a typical Thursday! In today’s blog post, we’re excited to share our previously private analysis of the now exploited in-the-wild N-day vulnerabilities affecting SonicWall’s SMA100 appliance. Over the last few months, our...
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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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Winds of Change Software is maybe, just maybe about to get exciting
20th Jun 2024
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Winds of Change

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

20th Jun 2024
Software is maybe, just maybe about to get exciting
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You Already Have Our Personal Data, Take Our Phone Calls Too (FreePBX CVE-2025-57819) We’re back - it’s a day, in a month, in a year - and once again, something has happened. In this...
10th Sep 2025
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You Already Have Our Personal Data, Take Our Phone Calls Too (FreePBX CVE-2025-57819)

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

10th Sep 2025
We’re back - it’s a day, in a month, in a year - and once again, something has happened. In this week’s episode of “the Internet is made of string and there is literally no evidence to suggest otherwise”, we present even
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Bye Bye Alan Dye I was trying to get something down about Alan Dye leaving Apple, but John Gruber got there first and...
5th Dec 2025
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Bye Bye Alan Dye

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

5th Dec 2025
I was trying to get something down about Alan Dye leaving Apple, but John Gruber got there first and has done a much better job. I’ve grumbled several times in the past about the new Liquid Glass redesign, but it’s just the latest push in a direction I’ve been unhappy with for...
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Configuring, attacking and securing VRRP on Linux The VRRP or Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol helps you create a reliable network by using multiple...
2nd Jan 2015
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Configuring, attacking and securing VRRP on Linux

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

2nd Jan 2015
The VRRP or Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol helps you create a reliable network by using multiple routers in an active/passive configuration. If the primary router fails, the backup router takes over almost seamlessly. This is how VRRP works: Clients connect to a virtual...
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Rivian R2 wishes as an R1 owner After 7 years with a Tesla Model 3, we picked up a gen 2 Rivian R1S in April of 2025. We still have...
9th Feb 2026
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Rivian R2 wishes as an R1 owner

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

9th Feb 2026
After 7 years with a Tesla Model 3, we picked up a gen 2 Rivian R1S in April of 2025. We still have the Model 3 as a second vehicle, but it’s been really cool experiencing a new electric vehicle from a very passionate new company. 2026 is a really exciting time for Rivian, as in...
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How to: Adding a floating “Back to top” button in Pika As we say repeatedly on its homepage, Pika is designed to help you focus on writing, not tinkering...
22nd May 2026
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How to: Adding a floating “Back to top” button in Pika

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

22nd May 2026
As we say repeatedly on its homepage, Pika is designed to help you focus on writing, not tinkering with your blog design. To that end Pika purposely doesn’t support complex liquid templating or other such code customization. However, today I thought I’d share how crazy powerful...
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