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What can startups learn from Koch Industries? I recently finished the excellent book Kochland. This isn't my first interest in Koch—I read The...
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I recently finished the excellent book Kochland. This isn't my first interest in Koch—I read The Science of Success by Charles Koch himself a couple of years ago. Charles Koch inherited a tiny company in 1967 and turned it into one of the world's largest ones.
Abort Retry Fail
The History of Red Hat The Billion Dollar Open Source Company
a year ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
In-person meatspace protocol to prove unconditional possession of a private key
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Printing Hextraction for my kids A session of Hextraction, a 3D printed board game. I did it. I made something actually useful with...
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A session of Hextraction, a 3D printed board game. I did it. I made something actually useful with my 3D printer instead of just tinkering with it. I printed Hextraction, a very cool 3D printed board game for my kids—and they love it. Hextraction is a gamified marble run, where...
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Lighthouse Blog
Updates March 15
a year ago
Louwrentius
How to run Debian Linux on an Intel based Mac Mini The Mac Mini is just a gorgeous device. It is beautiful, small, silent, powerfull yet energy...
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The Mac Mini is just a gorgeous device. It is beautiful, small, silent, powerfull yet energy efficient. When idle, it uses around 20 watts. I'm using one of the first Intel-based Minis with an Intel Core Duo chip, running at 1.6 Ghz. I want to use this mini as an expensive router...
Matt Mullenweg
Greatest Hits I’ve been blogging now for approximately 8,465 days since my first post on Movable Type. My...
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I’ve been blogging now for approximately 8,465 days since my first post on Movable Type. My colleague Dan Luu helped me compile some of the “greatest hits” from the archives of ma.tt, perhaps some posts will stir some memories for you as well: Where Did WordCamps Come From?...
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A Cursed Bug In my day job at Anthropic, we run relatively large distributed systems to train large language...
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In my day job at Anthropic, we run relatively large distributed systems to train large language models. One of the joys of using a lot of computing resources, especially on somewhat niche software stacks, is that you spend a lot of time running into the long-tail of bugs which...
Jonas Hietala
IDA Summer of Code 2014: Summary This is a wrap-up post of my entry to IDA Summer of Code this year. Quick stats 65 merged...
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This is a wrap-up post of my entry to IDA Summer of Code this year. Quick stats 65 merged commits 6790 lines added 2822 lines deleted 36 pull requests, 34 merged 12 pull requests directly fixing issues rest either documentation or cleanup 1 RFC submitted...
anderegg.ca
WordPress is in trouble Since I last wrote about WordPress, things have gone off the rails. This after a brief period when...
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Since I last wrote about WordPress, things have gone off the rails. This after a brief period when things were blissfully quiet. Matt Mullenweg stopped commenting for a while, though his company had launched WP Engine Tracker — a site for tracking WordPress-driven websites that...
Birchtree
Steam Deck sales numbers are in, and they’re not as spectacular as I’d hope (but I do still have... Sean Hollister writing for The Verge: Three Years Later, the Steam Deck Has Dominated Handheld PC...
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Sean Hollister writing for The Verge: Three Years Later, the Steam Deck Has Dominated Handheld PC Gaming Shipments Add it up, and that’s just under 6 million shipments in three years. One way to view that: it’s small and it’s not really growing. IDC&
Arduino Blog
Kick off the Monaco Grand Prix weekend with these Formula 1-inspired Arduino projects The Monaco Grand Prix is just days away and will likely be one of the most exciting races of the...
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The Monaco Grand Prix is just days away and will likely be one of the most exciting races of the season. While most fans can’t participate directly — except as spectators — they can celebrate their passion through DIY projects. That’s why we’ve scoured the community to find the...
The Pragmatic...
Why my new audiobook “The Software Engineer's Guidebook” is everywhere except on Audible Currently, Audible’s position is hurting audiobook authors. My audiobook isn’t on Audible due to a...
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Currently, Audible’s position is hurting audiobook authors. My audiobook isn’t on Audible due to a mix of their monopolistic pricing practices, and the company’s own complacency in how long they take to approve new titles.
Arduino Blog
Arduino makes TIME’s 2025 World’s Top EdTech Companies We’re proud to share that Arduino has ranked #9 in TIME magazine’s 2025 list of the World’s Top...
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We’re proud to share that Arduino has ranked #9 in TIME magazine’s 2025 list of the World’s Top EdTech Companies, created in collaboration with global market research firm Statista. This recognition places us in the top 10 globally – and reinforces our long-term commitment to...
The Pragmatic...
Where did TikTok’s software engineers go? How has this uncertainty affected software engineers at the Chinese-owned social network?
5 months ago
Birchtree
Ghostty is the hot new terminal and it’s out now Ghostty is a hip new terminal from Mitchell Hashimoto, who he described in October’s Ghostty 1.0 Is...
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Ghostty is a hip new terminal from Mitchell Hashimoto, who he described in October’s Ghostty 1.0 Is Coming: With Ghostty, I set out to build a terminal emulator that was fast, feature-rich, and had a platform-native GUI while still being cross-platform. I believe Ghostty 1.0...
Willem's Blog
Master of Change In this post I discuss the brilliant book Master of Change by Brad Stulberg, providing a...
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In this post I discuss the brilliant book Master of Change by Brad Stulberg, providing a thought-provoking guide to thrive in a changing world.
Arduino Blog
Get 3 months of Arduino Cloud Free with your UNO R4 WiFi! If you own an Arduino UNO R4 WiFi or plan to get one, there’s a special reward waiting for you....
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If you own an Arduino UNO R4 WiFi or plan to get one, there’s a special reward waiting for you. Register your board on the Arduino website and receive three months of free access to the Arduino Cloud Maker plan. This offer gives you everything you need to start creating smarter,...
Simply Explained
Analyzing Link Rot in My Newsletter (After 31 Editions) I've been writing a monthly newsletter for the past 2.5 years. In every edition, I link to...
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I've been writing a monthly newsletter for the past 2.5 years. In every edition, I link to interesting articles related to science and technology. I thought it would be interesting to analyze how many of those links are still accessible, and how many have succumbed to link rot....
Louwrentius
How to determine which process causes IO ? There is a nifty little program called 'iotop'. Iotop is part of Debian or Ubuntu and can be...
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There is a nifty little program called 'iotop'. Iotop is part of Debian or Ubuntu and can be installed with a simple apt-get. Once you have determined with 'top' that the system is waiting on IO-access, It is nice to know which process is responsibe for this IO. Therefore, you...
Himanshu Mishra |...
#DeleteFacebook After letting Facebook Inc. build a vast profile of me for 9 years, I deleted my facebook account....
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After letting Facebook Inc. build a vast profile of me for 9 years, I deleted my facebook account. Privacy is not my only concern, but I…
Posts on Made of...
How I Write Tests The longer I spend as a software engineer, the more obsessive I get about testing. I fully subscribe...
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The longer I spend as a software engineer, the more obsessive I get about testing. I fully subscribe to the definition of legacy code as “code without an automated test suite.” I’m convinced that the best thing you can do to encourage fast progress in a test suite is to design...
Lighthouse Blog
Updates January 12
a year ago
Louwrentius
Scanning many hosts in parallel with Nmap using PPSS Scanning a large number of hosts using Nmap often takes a lot of time. During this time, no output...
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Scanning a large number of hosts using Nmap often takes a lot of time. During this time, no output is written to a file or disk. Only when Nmap is finished, is all output written to the output file. Often, I want to start processing results of hosts that have already been...
Jorge Arango
Traction Heroes Ep. 9: Procrastination Do you ever catch yourself avoiding things you need to do? Sure you, do: we all do it. In episode 9...
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Do you ever catch yourself avoiding things you need to do? Sure you, do: we all do it. In episode 9 of Traction Heroes, Harry and I discuss what to do about it. The conversation took off when Harry read a fragment from Oliver Burkeman’s book, Meditations for Mortals. I won’t cite...
Vitalik Buterin's...
預測市場:一個選舉小故事(2021年 二月)
over a year ago
anderegg.ca
How decentralized is Bluesky really? Here’s an excellent article from Christine Lemmer-Webber that takes a deeper technical look into...
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Here’s an excellent article from Christine Lemmer-Webber that takes a deeper technical look into some of the criticisms I had in my previous piece. The article is long, but very much worth a read. From the conclusion: Bluesky is built by good people who care, and it is providing...
Home on Erik...
Optimizing over multinomial distributions Sometimes you have to maximize some function $$ f(w_1, w_2, ldots, w_n) $$ where $$ w_1 + w_2 +...
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Sometimes you have to maximize some function $$ f(w_1, w_2, ldots, w_n) $$ where $$ w_1 + w_2 + ldots + w_n = 1 $$ and $$ 0 le w_i le 1 $$ . Usually, $$ f $$ is concave and differentiable, so there's one unique global maximum and you can solve it by applying gradient ascent.
Home on Erik...
Missing the point about microservices: it's about testing and deploying independently Ok, so I have to first preface this whole blog post by a few things: I really struggle with the...
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Ok, so I have to first preface this whole blog post by a few things: I really struggle with the term microservices. I can't put my finger on exactly why. Maybe because the term is hopelessly ill-defined, maybe because it's gotten picked up by the hype train.
Arduino Blog
Storing ephemeral micropoetry on RFID cards for bite-sized readings Most people don’t consume poetry in the same way that they do novels. Instead of reading a book of...
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Most people don’t consume poetry in the same way that they do novels. Instead of reading a book of poetry from cover-to-cover over the course of a few sessions, the majority of people seem to prefer enjoying poetry in occasional little chunks. And unlike the epic poems of Greek...
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Snakebite Just promoting Spotify stuff here: check out the Snakebite repo on Github, written by Wouter de Bie....
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Just promoting Spotify stuff here: check out the Snakebite repo on Github, written by Wouter de Bie. It's a super fast tool to access HDFS over CLI/Python, by accessing the namenode directly over sockets/protobuf. Spotify's developer blog features a nice blog post outlining what...
Louwrentius
How to setup a local or private Ubuntu Mirror Preface In this article I provide instructions on how to setup a local Ubuntu mirror using...
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Preface In this article I provide instructions on how to setup a local Ubuntu mirror using debmirror. To set expectations: the mirror will work as intended and distribute packages and updates, but a do-release upgrade from one major version of Ubuntu to the next won't...
Abishek Muthian
The Social Media Pandemic Earth Health Organization(EHO) has declared a pandemic due to the most dangerous plague till date....
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Earth Health Organization(EHO) has declared a pandemic due to the most dangerous plague till date. It supposedly has severe consequences for not only the current population but also for future generations. It's named 'Social Media Pandemic' as the plague is caused by the several...
Himanshu Mishra |...
PEP8Speaks - Now helping 5,000 open source projects write neat and clean Python What is this project? 🐍 PEP8Speaks = PEP 8 + Speaks GitHub:...
over a year ago
Jorge Arango
Gall’s Law Strikes Again: the Sonos Debacle Update: in the afternoon of January 14, news emerged that Sonos CPO Maxime Bouvat-Merlin is also...
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Update: in the afternoon of January 14, news emerged that Sonos CPO Maxime Bouvat-Merlin is also leaving the company. Sonos CEO Patrick Spence is out, felled by last year’s disastrous app launch. I have no inside track on what happened, but from what I’ve read, Sonos’s leaders...
lcamtuf’s thing
Weekend projects: getting silly with C C is beautiful yet full of horrors. Here's to uncovering its hidden depths.
a year ago
Notes on software...
A minimal distributed key-value database with Hashicorp's Raft library When I wrote the "build a distributed PostgreSQL proof of concept" post I first had to figure...
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When I wrote the "build a distributed PostgreSQL proof of concept" post I first had to figure out how to use Hashicorp's Raft implementation. There weren't any examples I could find in the Hashicorp repo itself. And the only example I could find was Philip O'Toole's hraftd. It's...
Jonas Hietala
I'll give up Neovim when you pry it from my cold, dead hands I recently came upon a horror story where a developer was forced to switch editor from Neovim to...
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I recently came upon a horror story where a developer was forced to switch editor from Neovim to Cursor and I felt I had to write a little to cleanse myself of the disgust I felt. Two different ways of approaching an editor I think that there’s two opposing ways of thinking about...
Electronics etc…
Tesla’s FSD - First and Last Impressions TLDR: It’s a useless technology demo. Introduction Rules of Engagement Test Ride 1: from Kings Beach...
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TLDR: It’s a useless technology demo. Introduction Rules of Engagement Test Ride 1: from Kings Beach to Truckee (11 miles) Test Ride 2: I-80 from Truckee to Blue Canyon (36 miles) Test Ride 3: from West-Valley College to I-85 Entrance (1 mile) Conclusion Introduction In the past...
Louwrentius
Why you should not use IPsec for VPN connectivity IPsec is a well-known and widely-used VPN solution. It seems that it's not widely known that Niels...
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IPsec is a well-known and widely-used VPN solution. It seems that it's not widely known that Niels Ferguson and Bruce Schneier performed a detailed security analysis of IPsec and that the results were not very positive. We strongly discourage the use of IPsec in its current form...
Odds and Ends of...
5 questions about the "AI opportunities action plan" What the lobby should have asked.
5 months ago
Jonas Hietala
Coconut Cauliflower Curry Mash It’s time for lesson 3. I made the mistake of not planning for something to augment the mash with,...
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It’s time for lesson 3. I made the mistake of not planning for something to augment the mash with, but a simple salad had to do: It was okay. Girlfriend gave it 5/10 and I gave it a 6/10, a higher rating would be possible if there was something else to eat it with.
Engineers Need Art
Op-Amp Helper PCB A PCB for breadboards to make working with op-amps easier.
a year ago
Arduino Blog
This desk lamp automatically adjusts its brightness using AI on an Arduino UNO When you hear about all of the amazing things being accomplished with artificial intelligence today,...
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When you hear about all of the amazing things being accomplished with artificial intelligence today, you probably assume that they require a massive amount of processing power. And while that is often true, there are machine learning models that can run on the edge — including on...
Jonas Hietala
Bullets and AI The game is still far from being an actual game but some progress has been made. I fixed most of the...
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The game is still far from being an actual game but some progress has been made. I fixed most of the collision detection problems and I’m now trying to make some sort of AI working for the ship. It’s a bit hard and time consuming and I don’t know how to make things good. Maybe...
Neil Madden
CVE-2022-21449: Psychic Signatures in Java The long-running BBC sci-fi show Doctor Who has a recurring plot device where the Doctor manages to...
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The long-running BBC sci-fi show Doctor Who has a recurring plot device where the Doctor manages to get out of trouble by showing an identity card which is actually completely blank. Of course, this being Doctor Who, the card is really made out of a special “psychic paper“, which...
The New Oil
Nowhere to Go When The Sky is the Limit
2 months ago
Computer Ads from...
Vote for the April 2004 Plus Post Topic If you are a paid subscriber, voting is open for one week
a year ago
Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing TagVault Universal for AirTag We wanted an ultra-secure AirTag case that could be mounted to anything. Easy to change AirTags...
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We wanted an ultra-secure AirTag case that could be mounted to anything. Easy to change AirTags battery. Waterproof. Robust. And discreet. So we designed TagVault Universal Mount for AirTag. It has mounting holes for screws, rivets, and slots for zip ties. Or just epoxy it down....
Home on Erik...
We're hiring at Better Just a quick note that my team is always hiring at Better. A lot of new people have been joining the...
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Just a quick note that my team is always hiring at Better. A lot of new people have been joining the team here in NYC lately—the tech team has actually grown from 35 to 60 in just ~3 months.
Louwrentius
Recovering a lost partition using gpart Even today people do not understand how important it is for the safety of your data to make backups....
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Even today people do not understand how important it is for the safety of your data to make backups. I was asked to perform some data recovery on a hard drive of an old computer, which still contained important documents and photo's. The first thing I did was to make a disk image...
Posts on Made of...
Wordpress tricks: Disabling editing shortcuts One of the major reasons I can’t stand webapps is because I’m a serious emacs junkie, and I can’t...
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One of the major reasons I can’t stand webapps is because I’m a serious emacs junkie, and I can’t edit text in anything that doesn’t have decent emacs keybindings. Fortunately, on Linux, at least, GTK provides basic emacs keybindings if you add gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs" to...
Applied Cartography
You should build this: A prior iteration of this site had a page called "Project ideas" that listed a bunch of things that...
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A prior iteration of this site had a page called "Project ideas" that listed a bunch of things that I'd like to build. This was a good idea and useful in its own right (I got a few people to build companies and projects based on them, and it was a useful avenue by which folks...
./techtipsy
About the time my ThinkPad T430 ran with an external GPU The ThinkPad T430 is not a remarkable laptop. It’s thick, bulky and built like a tank. I got mine in...
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The ThinkPad T430 is not a remarkable laptop. It’s thick, bulky and built like a tank. I got mine in 2016 when the first university scholarship money dropped, and it’s still my backup laptop of choice. Around 2017 I did something every reasonable poor computer science...
Applied Cartography
Letters to a Young Bartender Every straight white male is forced, character-creation-screen-style, to choose one overtly...
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Every straight white male is forced, character-creation-screen-style, to choose one overtly consumptive hobby that in some small part defines their twenties and – God willing — their enduring adulthood. Some choose sourdough; many choose barbecue; I chose mixology. (A...
Abishek Muthian
Raspberry pi3 vs iPad2 for personal computing I blew my personal computer and before I could build a new one I needed a temporary machine which...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I blew my personal computer and before I could build a new one I needed a temporary machine which could perform some of my routine tasks like browsing, social network, word processing, programming, gaming, videos, music & ocassional heavy computation. Though I would be needing a...
Computer Ads from...
Comics from Winter 1980 Issue of Electronics Today International AI and everything in between.
6 days ago
Jonas Hietala
Site restyle and update I’m not sure how I got started but I recently read an excellent book about typography: Butterick’s...
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over a year ago
I’m not sure how I got started but I recently read an excellent book about typography: Butterick’s Practical Typography. It’s free and there’s a section Typography in ten minutes if you want the important bits. He makes a pretty good case for why it matters when he points out the...
Matt Blewitt
Logical Replication Guardrails I’ve been working with logical replication in PostgreSQL recently, and I wanted to share a few...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve been working with logical replication in PostgreSQL recently, and I wanted to share a few thoughts on how to implement some guardrails to make things easier on operators.
Simply Explained
Howto Virtualize Unraid on a Proxmox host Here's how to run Unraid as a virtual machine under Proxmox. This is useful when you're already...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Here's how to run Unraid as a virtual machine under Proxmox. This is useful when you're already using Proxmox and if you want to use Unraid as a NAS.
Jorge Arango
Traction Heroes Ep. 6: Chesterton’s Fence In Episode 6 of the Traction Heroes podcast, Harry and I explored Chesterton’s fence — a simple yet...
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In Episode 6 of the Traction Heroes podcast, Harry and I explored Chesterton’s fence — a simple yet profound idea that has important implications for leaders navigating complex, high-stakes changes. The gist: when change is needed, don’t start by destroying what you don’t...
Posts on Made of...
Why scons is cool I’ve recently started playing with scons a little for some small personal projects. It’s not...
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over a year ago
I’ve recently started playing with scons a little for some small personal projects. It’s not perfect, but I’ve rapidly come to the conclusion that it’s a probably far better choice than make in many cases. The main exceptions would be cases where you need to integrate into legacy...
Abishek Muthian
Send and receive WhatsApp messages through email warning: Sending and receiving messages from WhatsApp through email would bypass the end-to-end...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
warning: Sending and receiving messages from WhatsApp through email would bypass the end-to-end encryption and may leak data to the email providers (Check update). If your reason for reading this is for better data security, then this is may not the right approach. This approach...
Willem's Blog
Multi-Window support in your iPad app Take advantage of the improved support for multiple windows on iPadOS by implementing new UI...
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Take advantage of the improved support for multiple windows on iPadOS by implementing new UI concepts enabling different use cases for your app.
GitButler
Git Merge 2024 GitButler is organizing the 2024 Git Merge conference, Sep 19/20 in Berlin!
11 months ago
heavymeta.org
CrowdStrike's Impact on Aviation Just after midnight Eastern Time on July 19, 2024, the enterprise cybersecurity company CrowdStrike...
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Just after midnight Eastern Time on July 19, 2024, the enterprise cybersecurity company CrowdStrike YOLOed a software update to millions of Windows machines. Or as they put it: On July 19, 2024 at 04:09 UTC, as part of ongoing operations, CrowdStrike released a sensor...
Jonas Hietala
2021 in review A new year is always a good time to review the past year. Funny how this is already the 12th year...
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over a year ago
A new year is always a good time to review the past year. Funny how this is already the 12th year I’ve done this kind of quick review… Time sure flies. 2021 Non-Geek Achievements Started strength training using a strength coach from Kabuki. I got inspired by the book Peak that...
Posts on Made of...
Two kinds of testing While talking about thinking about tests and testing in software engineering recently, I’ve come to...
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While talking about thinking about tests and testing in software engineering recently, I’ve come to the conclusion that there are (at least) two major ideas and goals that people have when they test or talk about testing. This post aims to outline what I see as these two schools,...
Vitalik Buterin's...
How will Ethereum's multi-client philosophy interact with ZK-EVMs?
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Done this, done that. What now? Finished and uploaded our java game Grand Thief Arto, done an exam (didn’t quite go as intended) and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Finished and uploaded our java game Grand Thief Arto, done an exam (didn’t quite go as intended) and starting some new courses in school. I’m liking my choice of Computer Science more and more. Data structures and Algorithms was a super fun course, I actually ordered a new book...
Posts on Made of...
Security doesn't respect abstraction boundaries The fundamental tool of any engineering discipline is the notion of abstraction. If we can build a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The fundamental tool of any engineering discipline is the notion of abstraction. If we can build a set of useful, easily-described behaviors out of a complex system, we can build other systems on top of those pieces, without having to understand to worry about the full complexity...
Louwrentius
AI is critically important but not for you Before Chat-GPT caused a sensation, big tech companies like Facebook and Apple were betting their...
a year ago
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a year ago
Before Chat-GPT caused a sensation, big tech companies like Facebook and Apple were betting their future growth on virtual reality. But I'm convinced that virtual reality will never be a mainstream thing. If you ever used VR you know why: A heavy thing on your head that messes up...
Notes on software...
Writing to be read There is a common struggle in the writing and maintenance of documentation, checklists, emails,...
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over a year ago
There is a common struggle in the writing and maintenance of documentation, checklists, emails, guides, etc. Each provides immense value; a document may be the key to an important process. The goal is to remove barriers -- to encourage understanding and correct application of...
GitButler
GitButler 0.12 - "Stingy Baker" New GitButler release is out! Undo anything, modify your commits with ease, new AI stuff and more!
a year ago
Willem's Blog
Climbing Mount Etna Climbing Mount Etna, an active volcano on Sicily Italy.
over a year ago
lcamtuf’s thing
A 15-minute intro to involute gears Involute gears are everywhere: toys, kitchen appliances, cars. But what's so special about their...
7 months ago
Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing FamilyCharger Today we launched FamilyCharger - it's designed to be a central place to charge all your devices,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Today we launched FamilyCharger - it's designed to be a central place to charge all your devices, fast, without clutter. Our initial designs for a family charger started out as big multi-charging docks, but they were too inflexible, expensive, and took up a lot of space....
Louwrentius
This blog is now running on solar power Introduction This blog is now running on solar power. I've put a solar panel on my balcony, which...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Introduction This blog is now running on solar power. I've put a solar panel on my balcony, which is connected to a solar charge controller. This device charges an old worn-out car battery and provides power to a Raspberry Pi ~~3b+~~ 4B, which in turn powers this (static)...
Louwrentius
Laptop or netbook as router? If you want a router for distribution of internet to your computers at home, there are several...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you want a router for distribution of internet to your computers at home, there are several options. buy some embedded device from Linksys, Draytek, Asus, 3com, ZyXtel or netgear This type of hardware is cheap, economical, and gets you up and running in a few minutes. The...
Home on Erik...
Open source
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Netrunner Summer Tournament Linköping There was another Netrunner tournament this Sunday with 8 entrants. We had two new legal data packs...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There was another Netrunner tournament this Sunday with 8 entrants. We had two new legal data packs with Old Hollywood and The Universe of Tomorrow so a lot of new things were tried. I heard a rumor that a full playset of both Aesop’s Pawnshop and Wyldside were available so I...
Vitalik Buterin's...
A Philosophy of Blockchain Validation
over a year ago
Birchtree
Meta has squandered Threads Jon Passantino writing for Status: Hanging by a Thread Now Threads feels rather lifeless. While...
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3 months ago
Jon Passantino writing for Status: Hanging by a Thread Now Threads feels rather lifeless. While users still post there, for many has become something of a second-tier platform—a place that they dump content out of habit, not because they’re having real conversations or finding...
Louwrentius
Thunderbolt, a cheap high-speed storage interconnect? Intel and Apple released Thunderbolt a high-speed (10 Gigabit/s) interface, that seems to replace...
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Intel and Apple released Thunderbolt a high-speed (10 Gigabit/s) interface, that seems to replace both USB and Firewire. It is mainly targeted at end-user systems allowing to connect peripherals with just a single cable to a computer. Thunderbolt devices, like external hard...
Louwrentius
The impact of the MDADM bitmap on RAID performance Introduction I'm aware that most people with intensive storage workloads won't run those workloads...
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Introduction I'm aware that most people with intensive storage workloads won't run those workloads on hard drives anymore, that ship has sailed a long time ago. SSDs have taken their place (or 'the cloud'). For those few left who do use hard drives in Linux software RAID setups...
computers are bad
2024-03-01 listening in on the neighborhood Last week, someone leaked a spreadsheet of SoundThinking sensors to Wired. You are probably asking...
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Last week, someone leaked a spreadsheet of SoundThinking sensors to Wired. You are probably asking "What is SoundThinking," because the company rebranded last year. They used to be called ShotSpotter, and their outdoor acoustic gunfire detection system still goes by the...
Birchtree
Some thoughts on the Switch 2 Nintendo finally rolled out the red carpet for the Switch 2 yesterday, and I'll be honest, I'm super...
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Nintendo finally rolled out the red carpet for the Switch 2 yesterday, and I'll be honest, I'm super excited for it. The hardware The hardware for the new Switch is everything I ever wanted, minus one thing. The performance looks pretty darn good, and it appears
Ken Shirriff's blog
The Intel 8088 processor's instruction prefetch circuitry: a look inside In 1979, Intel introduced the 8088 microprocessor, a variant of the 16-bit 8086 processor. IBM's...
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In 1979, Intel introduced the 8088 microprocessor, a variant of the 16-bit 8086 processor. IBM's decision to use the 8088 processor in the IBM PC (1981) was a critical point in computer history, leading to the dominance of the x86 architecture that continues to the present.1 One...
Krebs on Security
Cyber Forensic Expert in 2,000+ Cases Faces FBI Probe A Minnesota cybersecurity and computer forensics expert whose testimony has featured in thousands of...
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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...
Notes on software...
Languages you can run in the browser, part 1: Python, JavaScript, SQLite This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
Louwrentius
Firewire: the forgotten security risk The battle between Firewire and USB has been won by USB, but Firewire is still arround. It is not...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The battle between Firewire and USB has been won by USB, but Firewire is still arround. It is not that prevalent, cheap computers lack Firewire, but they often have a PCMCIA slot. The thing is this: Firewire allows direct access to all RAM of your computer. An attacker...
Home on Erik...
Momentum and mean reversion might just be volatility bias The Economist just published an article called The best, the worst and the ugly. By looking at...
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over a year ago
The Economist just published an article called The best, the worst and the ugly. By looking at historical performance for mutual funds, they find strong support for momentum and mean reversion. Picking the best or the worst fund over the previous five years gives great returns...
Christian Selig
Logging information from iOS Widgets Lately users have been emailing me with a few odd things happening with their Apollo iOS 14 home...
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Lately users have been emailing me with a few odd things happening with their Apollo iOS 14 home screen widgets, and some well-placed logs can really help with identifying what’s going wrong. iOS has a sophisticated built in logging mechanism, os_log, and now with SwiftLogger in...
Vitalik Buterin's...
La votación mediante blockchain está sobrevalorada entre personas desinformadas pero subestimada...
over a year ago
Krebs on Security
Whistleblower: DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data A security architect with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleges that employees from Elon...
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A security architect with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleges that employees from Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) transferred gigabytes of sensitive data from agency case files in early March, using short-lived accounts configured to leave few...
Posts on Made of...
Record/Replay testing in Sorbet In 2017 and 2018, I (along with Paul Tarjan and Dmitry Petrashko) was a founding member of the...
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over a year ago
In 2017 and 2018, I (along with Paul Tarjan and Dmitry Petrashko) was a founding member of the Sorbet project at Stripe to build a gradual static typechecking system for Ruby, with the aim of enhancing productivity on Stripe’s millions of lines of Ruby, and eventually producing a...
./techtipsy
What I've learned running Linux and Windows off of USB flash drives I’ve recently made an effort to reduce the amount of tech stuff that I own. Lack of space, lack of...
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I’ve recently made an effort to reduce the amount of tech stuff that I own. Lack of space, lack of time and the guilt of storing perfectly functional hardware unused in a box were the main motivators. This has resulted in experiments with my assortment of USB flash storage that...
Posts on Made of...
Property Testing Like AFL In my last last post, I argued that property-based testing and fuzzing are essentially the same...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In my last last post, I argued that property-based testing and fuzzing are essentially the same practice, or at least share a lot of commonality. In this followup post, I want to explore that idea a bit more: I’ll first detour into some of my frustrations and hesitations around...
Jonas Hietala
Why Cryptocurrencies? is now available in print Today is a big milestone for me, as this marks a big milestone in the biggest personal project I’ve...
over a year ago
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Today is a big milestone for me, as this marks a big milestone in the biggest personal project I’ve undertaken. My book ‘Why Cryptocurrencies?’ is released in print today! It’s my attempt to explain what cryptocurrencies are and what problems they solve, in a simple and...
Odds and Ends of...
How I learned to stop worrying and love the military industrial complex Whether Trump wins or loses today, Europe should tool up and prepare to fight.
8 months ago
Himanshu Mishra |...
Quick guide to git and github (Part 1) Before we start, make sure you have an account on GitHub. Go to https://github.com. Pick a username,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Before we start, make sure you have an account on GitHub. Go to https://github.com. Pick a username, enter your email id and choose a…
Arduino Blog
Reduce power consumption in IoT and wearable devices, with Arduino’s new power management library! Developing energy-efficient IoT and wearable devices is complex and time-consuming, yet it is...
9 months ago
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Developing energy-efficient IoT and wearable devices is complex and time-consuming, yet it is essential for creating high-quality products that stand out in today’s market. A key part in this process is optimizing power consumption without sacrificing performance or...
lcamtuf’s thing
The 101 of analog signal filtering Some intuition about this topic can be developed without summoning the ghost of Pierre-Simon...
12 months ago
Simply Explained
Integrate Home Assistant with Apple Reminders I recently integrated Home Assistant with Apple Reminders so that automations can create new todos....
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I recently integrated Home Assistant with Apple Reminders so that automations can create new todos. This is trickier as it sounds, because Reminders has no API that can be accessed from Home Assistant. Here's how I worked around that problem with a script, input text helper and...
Matt Mullenweg
Sun and shadows
4 months ago
Notes on software...
The limitations of LLMs, or why are we doing RAG? This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Writing lessons learned after writing a book A good writer isn’t born; a good writer is created It may sound dumb, but one of my reasons for...
a year ago
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a year ago
A good writer isn’t born; a good writer is created It may sound dumb, but one of my reasons for writing a book was to improve my writing ability. Maybe I could’ve practiced on the blog instead, but putting things on paper gave it some added weight I don’t think I would’ve gotten...
Old Vintage...
Refurb weekend: Canon Cat It's the Memorial Day holiday weekend and it's time for a little deferred maintenance, especially on...
a year ago
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a year ago
It's the Memorial Day holiday weekend and it's time for a little deferred maintenance, especially on those machines I intend to work on more in the near future. So we'll start with one that's widely considered to be a remarkable cul-de-sac in computing history: the Canon...
Arduino Blog
Web Serial Camera stream with Arduino Hey there, fellow tech enthusiasts! Ever wondered how you could effortlessly stream camera footage...
11 months ago
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Hey there, fellow tech enthusiasts! Ever wondered how you could effortlessly stream camera footage from your Arduino boards directly to your web browser? Wonder no more! Arduino’s Web Serial Camera demo shows how to bring your camera projects to life. Stream images from your...
Jonas Hietala
Vacation Finally back from a 2 week vacation up at Övertorneå. It’s been pretty great to be taken care of and...
over a year ago
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Finally back from a 2 week vacation up at Övertorneå. It’s been pretty great to be taken care of and not doing anything. Well, I did get my ass kicked in Terra Mystica and I played a bit of Minecraft, but still. We got some nice food and my in-laws and my parents were nice. I’m...
Willem's Blog
Saving a MacBook Air with exploded battery Saving a MacBook Air with a swollen battery pack.
over a year ago
Lighthouse Blog
Updates November 10
a year ago
Opsbros
Nix Windows Feedback There turns out to be a far easier way to disable the 'Win+F' Windows Feedback app.
over a year ago
Birchtree
The mythical iOS 18.4 Zac Hall writing for 9to5Mac: Apple’s Competitive Edge in AI Hinges on These Three Unreleased Siri...
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Zac Hall writing for 9to5Mac: Apple’s Competitive Edge in AI Hinges on These Three Unreleased Siri Features It feels like a make-or-break moment for Siri, and these three remaining iOS 18 features are key indicators of Apple’s ability to leverage AI with Siri. These three Siri
Jonas Hietala
Exploring the Gleam FFI My brain is a curious thing. I’m on a business trip right now and I’ve set aside time to finish some...
a year ago
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a year ago
My brain is a curious thing. I’m on a business trip right now and I’ve set aside time to finish some important todos I want and need to get done. But instead of focusing on them, I started playing around with Gleam—a young and interesting programming language. My (current)...
Birchtree
Perplexity is making a web browser Kyle Wiggers writing for TechCrunch: Perplexity Teases a Web Browser Called Comet “Just like...
4 months ago
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Kyle Wiggers writing for TechCrunch: Perplexity Teases a Web Browser Called Comet “Just like Perplexity reinvented search, we’re also reinventing the browser,” a Perplexity spokesperson told TechCrunch via email. “Stay tuned for updates.” Exactly one month ago I wrote “I think...
Arduino Blog
Arduino and System Electronics partner for industrial vision and AI-powered inventory and logistics Arduino and System Electronics are joining forces to create cutting-edge solutions for industrial...
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4 months ago
Arduino and System Electronics are joining forces to create cutting-edge solutions for industrial and building automation, focusing specifically on edge computing to deliver real-time processing, predictive analytics, and seamless integration for AI-driven inventory management...
Home on Erik...
σ-driven project management: when is the optimal time to give up? Hi! It's your friendly project management theorician. You might remember me from blog posts such as...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Hi! It's your friendly project management theorician. You might remember me from blog posts such as Why software projects take longer than you think, which is a blog post I wrote a long time ago positing that software projects completion time follow a log-normal distribution.
Lighthouse Blog
A primer on view management
a year ago
Himanshu Mishra |...
About Metakgp You can listen to this in background Before The Beginning - John Frusciante (YouTube)...
over a year ago
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You can listen to this in background Before The Beginning - John Frusciante (YouTube) :name-retracted: wrote - I wrote this couple of days…
Vitalik Buterin's...
[Mirror] Zk-SNARKs: Under the Hood
over a year ago
Ken Shirriff's blog
Interesting BiCMOS circuits in the Pentium, reverse-engineered Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of processors. Earlier, I wrote about the ROM in the Pentium's floating point unit that holds constants such as π. In this post, I'll look at some interesting circuits associated with this...
Matt Mullenweg
Welcoming Harper As announced by Automattic and covered by TechCrunch, I want to take a moment to welcome Elijah...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
As announced by Automattic and covered by TechCrunch, I want to take a moment to welcome Elijah Potter and Harper to join Automattic. Harper is a super-fast (way faster than LanguageTool and Grammarly), local English grammar checker. The technology is nascent, but I’m very...
Neil Madden
When a KEM is not enough In my previous post, I described the KEM/DEM paradigm for hybrid encryption. The key encapsulation...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In my previous post, I described the KEM/DEM paradigm for hybrid encryption. The key encapsulation mechanism is given the recipient’s public key and outputs a fresh AES key and an encapsulation of that key that the recipient can decapsulate to recover the AES key. In this post I...
lcamtuf’s thing
Weekend projects: Sketchy Sketch Making a nicer version of a forgotten, electronic Etch-A-Sketch toy.
6 months ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Encapsulated vs systemic complexity in protocol design
over a year ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Having a safe CEX: proof of solvency and beyond
over a year ago
computers are bad
2023-11-19 Centrex I have always been fascinated by the PABX - the private automatic branch exchange, often shortened...
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I have always been fascinated by the PABX - the private automatic branch exchange, often shortened to "PBX" in today's world where the "automatic" is implied. (Relatively) modern small and medium business PABXs of the type I like to collect are largely solid-state devices that...
Arduino Blog
Join us for Arduino Day 2025: celebrating 20 years of community! Mark your calendars for March 21-22, 2025, as we come together for a special Arduino Day to...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Mark your calendars for March 21-22, 2025, as we come together for a special Arduino Day to celebrate our 20th anniversary! This free, online event is open to everyone, everywhere. Two decades of creativity and community Over the past 20 years, we have evolved from a simple...
Jonas Hietala
Let's build a VORON: Major failure The left POM nut got ground down, making the bed fall down. After 600 hours, the printer met it’s...
a year ago
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a year ago
The left POM nut got ground down, making the bed fall down. After 600 hours, the printer met it’s first major failure. I know I earlier described how the extruder starter skipping in a big way, but that was just some filament getting stuck in the extruder. This time a part...
Willem's Blog
The day I killed my LAN I killed my office LAN and went 4G only. Saves a lot of clutter, energy and money.
over a year ago
Ken Shirriff's blog
Inside the Intel 386 processor die: the clock circuit Processors are driven by a clock, which controls the timing of each step inside the chip. In this...
a year ago
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a year ago
Processors are driven by a clock, which controls the timing of each step inside the chip. In this blog post, I'll examine the clock-generation circuitry inside the Intel 386 processor. Earlier processors such as the 8086 (1978) were simpler, using two clock phases internally. The...
Willem's Blog
Hospitalised with MCADD This week our son was hospitalised because a regular illness caused him to keep vomiting, a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This week our son was hospitalised because a regular illness caused him to keep vomiting, a dangerous situation if you're diagnosed with MCADD.
Odds and Ends of...
WATCH: Were the US election polls right? My conversation with polling guru Mark Pack
7 months ago
Louwrentius
Benchmark results of Random I/O performance of different RAID levels Introduction I have performed some benchmarks to determine how different RAID levels perform when...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Introduction I have performed some benchmarks to determine how different RAID levels perform when handling a 100% random workload of 4K requests. This is a worst-case scenario for almost every storage subsystem. Normal day-to-day workloads may not be that harsh in a real-life...
OH8HUB’s Substack
Spring ham radio activation of Korkattivuori (Mt. Korkatti) Korkattivuori (“Mount Korkatti”, 186m above sea level) is a small hill and Natura 2000 nature...
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Korkattivuori (“Mount Korkatti”, 186m above sea level) is a small hill and Natura 2000 nature reserve area near town Haapavesi (pop. 6588) in Finland. The nature reserve area consist of short family friendly hiking path of approximately 1.5km. One end of the path has parking...
Matt Blewitt
Thoughts on User Safety: 2 Following up from last time, let’s explore the internal and insider fronts when moving beyond...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Following up from last time, let’s explore the internal and insider fronts when moving beyond security towards safety for our users.
Jonas Hietala
Browse posts with telescope.nvim I’ve used telescope.nvim's find files with require("telescope.builtin").find_files for quite some...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve used telescope.nvim's find files with require("telescope.builtin").find_files for quite some time. I use find files together with it’s cousin .oldfiles (find recently opened files) all the time for finding source code files, blog posts, and more. But it’s naturally...
csvbase blog
Caching secrets of the HTTP elders, part 1 ETags - an elegant weapon, for a more civilised age
a year ago
./techtipsy
How to copy media off of an iPhone the hard way (using Linux) I helped a family member upgrade to a newer iPhone and make some room so that the internal storage...
10 months ago
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I helped a family member upgrade to a newer iPhone and make some room so that the internal storage does not run out. They had Nextcloud installed on the current phone, but due to limitations of the Nextcloud iOS app, the backups only take place if the app itself is open, meaning...
Old Vintage...
Refurb weekend: the Symbolics MacIvory Lisp machine I have hated Every collector has that machine, the machine they sunk so much time and, often, money into that...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Every collector has that machine, the machine they sunk so much time and, often, money into that they would have defenestrated it years ago except for all the aforementioned time and money. Yours truly is no exception. a future article.) They existed in highly technical...
Bryan Braun - Blog
One Million Checkboxes and the fear of viral success When Nolen Royalty’s One Million Checkboxes site went viral, several people sent me links to it. If...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
When Nolen Royalty’s One Million Checkboxes site went viral, several people sent me links to it. If you haven't heard of One Million Checkboxes, see the Wikipedia article for more details. I loved everything about One Million Checkboxes. It was simple but strangely compelling....
The Pragmatic...
Tech hiring: is this an inflection point? We might be seeing the end of remote coding interviews as we know them, and a return of in-person...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
We might be seeing the end of remote coding interviews as we know them, and a return of in-person interviews, trial days and longer trial periods. Could hiring be returning to pre-pandemic norms?
Odds and Ends of...
The government ordering Apple to break its encryption is stupid, counter-productive and unworkable For the love of god, ask the computer people if your plan might actually work first.
4 months ago
Computer Ads from...
Comics from 1978/05 Creative Computing Mag Time for some oldie levity.
3 months ago
Louwrentius
LFS - Linux Firewall Script released I started a small new Google project for a new script I wrote called LFS. It stands for Linux...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I started a small new Google project for a new script I wrote called LFS. It stands for Linux Firewall Script. I run a small Linux box as an internet router that doubles as a firewall. The firewall is configured using iptables. In my opinion, iptables is not the easiest tool to...
Abishek Muthian
False Accusation False accusation for children especially if the accusation goes totally against their values can...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
False accusation for children especially if the accusation goes totally against their values can have profound negative consequences. When I was in grade school(early 2000, India), I went out to take a photo-copy(xerox) of a study material in a shop nearby school. After I...
Arduino Blog
Magnus is an electromagnetic exoskeleton for your hands One of the primary goals of wearable technology is to provide the user with capabilities and data...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
One of the primary goals of wearable technology is to provide the user with capabilities and data that exceed their current abilities. And for motion, this has traditionally existed in the form of electrical muscle stimulation (EMS), where current is applied via electrodes to...
Louwrentius
Parallel / distributed password cracking with John the Ripper and MPI This article has been updated to reflect the changes for John version 1.7.8 as released in june...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This article has been updated to reflect the changes for John version 1.7.8 as released in june 2011. The most important change is the fact that MPI support is now integrated in the jumbo patch. The original John the Ripper off-line password cracker only uses a single processor...
computers are bad
2024-07-13 the contemporary carphone Cathode Ray Dude, in one of his many excellent "Quick Start" videos, made an interesting observation...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
Cathode Ray Dude, in one of his many excellent "Quick Start" videos, made an interesting observation that has stuck in my brain: sophisticated computer users, nerds if you will, have a tendency to completely ignore things that they know are worthless. He was referring to the...
Arduino Blog
Arduino CLI 1.0 is out! We are excited to share some incredible news with you all! We recently released the Arduino CLI...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
We are excited to share some incredible news with you all! We recently released the Arduino CLI version 1.0.0, marking a significant milestone for our software. This release is a big deal because it signifies the stabilization of the software API, bringing greater reliability and...
Opsbros
The Bindicator So I made this project for my dad for Fathers Day a couple of years ago, and thought i'd share it....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
So I made this project for my dad for Fathers Day a couple of years ago, and thought i'd share it. The one shown is the Rev-1 design which is far from perfect, in fact it has several major issues I will discuss below, however it definitely works,
Arduino Blog
Making a photo enlarger more efficient with precisely controlled LEDs In photography, an enlarger is a piece of equipment that projects a smaller image onto a...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
In photography, an enlarger is a piece of equipment that projects a smaller image onto a photosensitive material below using a strong light source and a negative to produce a much larger print. And while these have historically relied on single-color incandescent bulbs, such as...
Abort Retry Fail
The History of Commodore, Part 1 Chuck Peddle, the 6502, MOS, and the PET
a year ago
Birchtree
So much time and money for a minor vibe shift Gary Marcus: Hot Take: GPT 4.5 Is a Nothing Burger Half a trillion dollars later, there is still no...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Gary Marcus: Hot Take: GPT 4.5 Is a Nothing Burger Half a trillion dollars later, there is still no viable business model, profits are modest at best for everyone except Nvidia and some consulting forms, there’s still basically no moat, and still no GPT-5. Any reasonable person
Good Enough
TIL: Overriding Permalink Generation in FriendlyId FriendlyId is a helpful Ruby gem that streamlines creating permalinks and slugs for Rails...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
FriendlyId is a helpful Ruby gem that streamlines creating permalinks and slugs for Rails applications. In Pika we're using it to help with generating permalinks for blog posts and pages as well as slugs for tags. When a customer wrote in with a request to modify the behavior of...
Willem's Blog
Different ways to visualise health To better understand how to visualise health I looked at different health/fitness apps and games.
over a year ago
Home on Erik...
Optimizing things: everything is a proxy for a proxy for a proxy Say you build a machine learning model, like a movie recommender system. You need to optimize for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Say you build a machine learning model, like a movie recommender system. You need to optimize for something. You have 1-5 stars as ratings so let's optimize for mean squared error. Great. Then let's say you build a new model.
Neil Madden
Book review: The Joy of Cryptography Mike Rosulek, Oregon State University. Draft of January 3, 2021. Online: The Joy of Cryptography....
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over a year ago
Mike Rosulek, Oregon State University. Draft of January 3, 2021. Online: The Joy of Cryptography. This is a freely-available book covering introductory material on cryptography. It’s suitable for anyone with undergraduate-level computer science knowledge. As is often the case in...
Never Met a Science
Video Killed the Social Media Star The two 2024 Presidential Debates have proven the continued centrality of television to our...
9 months ago
Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course Week 8: Ancient Egypt Week 8 of my humanities crash course focused on ancient Egypt with musical excursions to modern...
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4 months ago
Week 8 of my humanities crash course focused on ancient Egypt with musical excursions to modern North Africa. I also finally saw an astonishing opera I’d heard countless times but had never seen. The internet delivers! Readings Rather than a specific text, like the Odyssey or the...
Birchtree
+ Impressions of that secret product I'm not talking about yet Another 2,000 words on the thing that I'm not talking about yet.
2 months ago
Arduino Blog
Massive tentacle robot draws massive attention at EMF Camp Most of the robots we feature only require a single Arduino board, because one Arduino can control...
a year ago
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a year ago
Most of the robots we feature only require a single Arduino board, because one Arduino can control several motors and monitor a bunch of sensors. But what if the robot is enormous and the motors are far apart? James Bruton found himself in that situation when he constructed this...
Construction Physics
Morris Chang and the Origins of TSMC Book review of the autobiography of Morris Chang.
6 months ago
Louwrentius
Is there an easy and secure way to transfer files? Many organisations just assume that the local physical network is trusted. That their network...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Many organisations just assume that the local physical network is trusted. That their network equipment is physically secure and that it is impossible for an attacker to get on the wire and start eavesdropping on network traffic. Many organisations do not seem too concerned about...
Birchtree
It’s time to engage Casey Newton writing on Platformer: Google Slings More AI at the Web To get the web we had at its...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Casey Newton writing on Platformer: Google Slings More AI at the Web To get the web we had at its peak, platforms and publishers had to align around mutually beneficial incentives. They did it before, and they can do it again. It would nice to see some progress here before
Jonas Hietala
Soda These quotes are from hacker news and I found them all too funny. It’s hard for me to understand the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
These quotes are from hacker news and I found them all too funny. It’s hard for me to understand the whole soda phenomenon in Canada and the US. Is it as addictive as cigarettes? Does it make you crave for more? Or it simply tastes so good that you can’t get enough of it? Why not...
Notes on software...
Writing a minimal Lua implementation with a virtual machine from scratch in Rust By the end of this guide we'll have a minimal, working implementation of a small part of Lua from...
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By the end of this guide we'll have a minimal, working implementation of a small part of Lua from scratch. It will be able to run the following program (among others): function fib(n) if n < 2 then return n; end local n1 = fib(n-1); local n2 = fib(n-2); ...
Odds and Ends of...
Reels are destroying our brains and I hate them It's time for a new moral panic
2 months ago
Willem's Blog
Back to the University Join me on a special course exploring scientific programming, the perfect moment to learn Python...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Join me on a special course exploring scientific programming, the perfect moment to learn Python with recent advancements in machine learning like ChatGPT!
Jorge Arango
Local GraphRAG: A Progress Report The dream is running GraphRAG with locally-hosted LLMs. And at least for now, the dream is on hold...
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The dream is running GraphRAG with locally-hosted LLMs. And at least for now, the dream is on hold for me. In case you missed it, GraphRAG is a way of getting more useful results with LLMs by working with data you provide (in addition to whatever they’ve trained on.) The system...
Vitalik Buterin's...
The near and mid-term future of improving the Ethereum network's permissionlessness and...
a year ago
computers are bad
2024-04-05 the life of one earth station Sometimes, when I am feeling down, I read about failed satellite TV (STV) services. Don't we all?...
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Sometimes, when I am feeling down, I read about failed satellite TV (STV) services. Don't we all? As a result, I've periodically come across a company called AlphaStar Television Network. PrimeStar may have had a rough life, but AlphaStar barely had one at all: it launched in...
Matt Mullenweg
Kindness and Techcrunch Disrupt Back in June I recorded an episode with Jaclyn Lindsey on the Why Kindness podcast, for their...
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8 months ago
Back in June I recorded an episode with Jaclyn Lindsey on the Why Kindness podcast, for their awesome non-profit kindness.org. You can listen to it through Pocket Casts here: This is kind of funny because I’m obviously in the midst of the big battle with Silver Lake and WP...
Arduino Blog
Adding real-time local voice controls to a SMARS Quad Mod robot with an Arduino RP2040 Connect Robotics kits like the Screwless/Screwed Modular Assemblable Robotic System (SMARS) are great tools...
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Robotics kits like the Screwless/Screwed Modular Assemblable Robotic System (SMARS) are great tools for learning more about how electronics, mechanics, and software can combine to perform useful tasks in the physical world. And in his latest project, Edge Impulse’s senior...
Matt Blewitt
Building a PostgreSQL Extension, Line by Line I’ve been working on a particular problem - how to offer logical replication for a very large number...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve been working on a particular problem - how to offer logical replication for a very large number of Postgres databases, where I don’t have the ability (or capacity) to liaise with the users of the databases one-to-one. In order to mitigate some of the limitations, I wanted to...
The Pragmatic...
The Pragmatic Engineer in 2024 The last 12 months, The Pragmatic Engineer covered a variety of deepdives, revealing previously...
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The last 12 months, The Pragmatic Engineer covered a variety of deepdives, revealing previously unshared details like what Stripe's engineering culture is like, The architecture evolution of Bluesky, How the ChatGPT scaled to meet demand, How Anthropic builds products, How and...
Notes on software...
Exploring a Postgres query plan I learned this week that you can intercept and redirect Postgres query execution. You can hook into...
a year ago
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a year ago
I learned this week that you can intercept and redirect Postgres query execution. You can hook into the execution layer so you're given a query plan and you get to decide what to do with it. What rows to return, if any, and where they come from. That's very interesting. So I...
Vitalik Buterin's...
「网络国家」之我见
over a year ago
Willem's Blog
Around town in an electric car For one week I drove the electric Smart EQ fortwo in and around town. I found out what it's like to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For one week I drove the electric Smart EQ fortwo in and around town. I found out what it's like to drive electrically: fun!
somenice
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11 months ago
Birchtree
🕹️ I strongly recommend: Resident Evil 2 (members post) Oh buddy, what a game!
5 months ago
Azad's Blog
Simulating + Streaming a 4k, 90hz, ultrawide, HDR PC monitor to Apple Vision Pro VR headsets can be pretty awesome at simulating monitors of any size and shape. Most VR headsets are...
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10 months ago
VR headsets can be pretty awesome at simulating monitors of any size and shape. Most VR headsets are also capable of outputting at a high refresh rate (60hz, 90hz, 120hz, or even 144hz). Some headsets (like Apple Vision Pro) can also output in HDR! The beauty of it all is that in...
Lighthouse Blog
Updates July 07
a year ago
Arduino Blog
How to use vintage LED bubble displays with your Arduino If you want to add a display to your Arduino project, the easiest solution will likely be an LCD or...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
If you want to add a display to your Arduino project, the easiest solution will likely be an LCD or OLED screen. But though those are affordable and work really well, they may not provide the vibe you’re looking for. If you want a more vintage look, Vaclav Krejci has a great...
Good Enough
Fixing Things In 2009 I started doing something called "business travel." I bought a piece of dependable luggage:...
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a year ago
In 2009 I started doing something called "business travel." I bought a piece of dependable luggage: the Travelpro WalkAbout Lite 2 22" Rollaboard Suiter. The reality was that this wasn't proper business travel. First, it'd only be two or three round-trip flights a year. Second,...
Louwrentius
Why filtering DHCP traffic is not always possible with iptables When configuring my new firewall using iptables, I noticed something very peculiar. Even if all...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When configuring my new firewall using iptables, I noticed something very peculiar. Even if all input, forward and output traffic was dropped, DHCP traffic to and from my DHCP server was not blocked even if there were no rules permitting this traffic. I even flushed all rules,...
Birchtree
What's that power you've amassed for if you're not going to use it? I read this excellent post by Niléane: Are Pride Wallpapers and a Watch Band Enough in 2025?… At a...
2 months ago
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I read this excellent post by Niléane: Are Pride Wallpapers and a Watch Band Enough in 2025?… At a time when some trans people are actively seeking to flee the U.S. to preserve their fundamental right to a healthy, safe, and decent life free from the
Home on Erik...
More Luigi: Presentation from OSCON I was in Portland, OR for a few days hanging out at OSCON. Was fun. I also talked a bit about...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I was in Portland, OR for a few days hanging out at OSCON. Was fun. I also talked a bit about Luigi: Next week I'm presenting at the NYC Predictive Analytics meetup together with Blake Shaw from Foursquare.
computers are bad
2023-01-29 the parallel port A few days ago, on a certain orange website, I came across an article about an improvised parallel...
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A few days ago, on a certain orange website, I came across an article about an improvised parallel printer capture device. This contains the line: There are other projects out there, but when you google for terms such as "parallel port to usb", they drown in a sea of "USB to...
Good Enough
TIL: Rails has_one Nested Attributes Tweaking In a project I'm working on right now I've been using a Rails nested form and a couple of things...
a year ago
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a year ago
In a project I'm working on right now I've been using a Rails nested form and a couple of things caught me off guard. has_one Nested Form Sending id Attribute In this case I have a nested form that is in a has_one relationship with the parent model. I think this is a common thing...
computers are bad
2025-05-04 iBeacons You know sometimes a technology just sort of... comes and goes? Without leaving much of an...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
You know sometimes a technology just sort of... comes and goes? Without leaving much of an impression? And then gets lodged in your brain for the next decade? Let's talk about one of those: the iBeacon. I think the reason that iBeacons loom so large in my memory is that...
./techtipsy
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...
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over a year ago
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,...
Notes on software...
Generating a full-stack application from a database DBCore can now generate a TypeScript/React CRUD UI that is automatically hooked up to the generated...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
DBCore can now generate a TypeScript/React CRUD UI that is automatically hooked up to the generated REST API (in Go). The UI has full support for login, viewing (and filtering), editing, and creating database entities. PostgreSQL, SQLite and MySQL are supported. How to use? The...
Birchtree
Apple’s 2024 report card: iPhone 📱 This is the first in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
This is the first in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I did this last year and you can read last year’s iPhone report card here. iPhone 16 Pro I really, really liked the 15 Pro lineup, and I would
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #43: An awesome drone trial in central London, legalised e-scooters at last, and... And yes, I am on Bluesky.
7 months ago
Notes on software...
AOT-compilation of Javascript with V8 tldr; I'm working on a AOT-compiled Javascript implementation called jsc. Many dynamically typed...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
tldr; I'm working on a AOT-compiled Javascript implementation called jsc. Many dynamically typed programming languages have implementations that compile to native binaries: Python: Cython Common Lisp: SBCL Scheme: Chicken Scheme The benefits of compiling dynamically typed...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Should there be demand-based recurring fees on ENS domains?
over a year ago
Christian Selig
Juno for YouTube has been removed from the App Store For those not aware, a few months ago after reaching out to me, YouTube contacted the App Store...
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For those not aware, a few months ago after reaching out to me, YouTube contacted the App Store stating that Juno does not adhere to YouTube guidelines and modifies the website in a way they don’t approve of, and alludes to their trademarks and iconography. I don’t personally...
Arduino Blog
Build your own 4DOF robotic arm on a budget Robot arms are very cool and can be quite useful, but they also tend to be expensive. That isn’t...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
Robot arms are very cool and can be quite useful, but they also tend to be expensive. That isn’t just markup either, because the components themselves are pricey. However, you can save a lot of money if you make some sacrifices and build everything yourself. In that case, you can...
Lars Lofgren
Forbes Marketplace: The Parasite SEO Company Trying to Devour Its Host Are you sick of Forbes appearing in search results? For topics that Forbes doesn’t have any...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Are you sick of Forbes appearing in search results? For topics that Forbes doesn’t have any expertise in? Here’s the organic rankings for “best pet insurance”: Forbes ranks #2. Not sure a business website knows how pet insurance actually works. But okay. They also have the #1...
GitButler
Git Merge 2024 Git Merge 2024 has wrapped and we all had a heck of a good time. Here's the overview.
9 months ago
Applied Cartography
February, 2025 What a start to the year! January was a bit more flat-packed than I think Haley and I would have...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
What a start to the year! January was a bit more flat-packed than I think Haley and I would have otherwise liked, but all with great things. (Highlights include: first weekend trip with Lucy, signing a lease on an office, and Third South's annual offsite.) A roundup of writing...
Arduino Blog
This student made his own odds with a DIY slot machine Today’s digital slot machines are anything but “fair,” in the way that most of us understand that...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Today’s digital slot machines are anything but “fair,” in the way that most of us understand that word. There is tight regulation in most places, but the machines can still adjust their odds of payout in order to maintain a specific profit margin. If the machine thinks it has...
Jonas Hietala
(Fake) Bittman Chinese Chicken Lesson 6! I went to Cervera and bought a holder to allow me to steam chicken. I broke the recipe on...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Lesson 6! I went to Cervera and bought a holder to allow me to steam chicken. I broke the recipe on multiple fronts: chicken wings instead of chicken breasts, mushroom soy instead of tamarin, roman salad instead of baby bok choi (where the heck do you find that…) and I even...
Jonas Hietala
Tufte style sidenotes and marginnotes in Pollen When evaluating Pollen I complained about markdown/pandoc’s lack of sidenote handling. I have solved...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When evaluating Pollen I complained about markdown/pandoc’s lack of sidenote handling. I have solved it for Pollen but felt it deserved it’s own post. A caveat: I generated Tufte CSS style sidenotes and marginnotes which made it more complex than if I had simply generated...
Good Enough
Good Enough Marketing: The Preparation We have a couple of exciting projects—Guestbook! Yay.Boo!—that we want to share with the world. But...
a year ago
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a year ago
We have a couple of exciting projects—Guestbook! Yay.Boo!—that we want to share with the world. But that’s a difficult task for us because, honestly, we’re terrible not good at self-promotion. We’d rather spend time making things than talking about the things we’ve made. We’d...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Layer 2s as cultural extensions of Ethereum
a year ago
Arduino Blog
Behind the boards: How Alba PCB Group and Arduino bring Made-in-Italy innovation to life Our manufacturing partner Alba PCB Group, headquartered in Mogliano Veneto, Italy, invites you to...
a month ago
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a month ago
Our manufacturing partner Alba PCB Group, headquartered in Mogliano Veneto, Italy, invites you to take a peek behind the scenes with a beautiful documentary by Italian director Massimiliano Finazzer Flory, A Different Alba: Arduino, an Italian Invention. Discover the...
Vitalik Buterin's...
What else could memecoins be?
a year ago
./techtipsy
The hidden media play/pause/stop keys on the Lenovo ThinkPad L390 Yoga ThinkPad keyboards were once well known for their great layouts, feel and functionality. This...
a year ago
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a year ago
ThinkPad keyboards were once well known for their great layouts, feel and functionality. This included the media playback control keys. On the ThinkPad T430, the new chiclet keyboard layout moved the media keys to the function row. Still there, but less convenient to access. The...
Notes on software...
Reviewing the Surface Book 2 The first few paragraphs cover what I was looking for and what I considered. Then the review. Why...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The first few paragraphs cover what I was looking for and what I considered. Then the review. Why the Surface Book 2 I used a Macbook throughout my professional career until I had the choice a few years ago when I started my current job. Here, I ran Gentoo, then FreeBSD, then...
Vitalik Buterin's...
A Quick Gasprice Market Analysis
over a year ago
Posts on Made of...
Building LLVM in 90 seconds using Amazon Lambda Last week, Frederic Cambus wrote about building LLVM quickly on some very large machines,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Last week, Frederic Cambus wrote about building LLVM quickly on some very large machines, culminating in a 2m37s build on a 160-core ARM machine. I don’t have a giant ARM behemoth, but I have been working on a tool I call Llama, which lets you offload computational work –...
Willem's Blog
Updating Snake '97 This month I bit the bullet big time: I redesigned the game engine of the wildly popular Snake '97...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This month I bit the bullet big time: I redesigned the game engine of the wildly popular Snake '97 game. Read about the design challenges in this blog post.
Home on Erik...
Model benchmarks A lot of people have asked me what models we use for recommendations at Spotify so I wanted to share...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A lot of people have asked me what models we use for recommendations at Spotify so I wanted to share some insights. Here's benchmarks for some models. Note that we don't use all of them in production.
csvbase blog
I didn't write any Javascript, and other shortcuts Getting it done by not doing a lot of it
a year ago
Nabeel S. Qureshi
Video Games are the Future of Education The things you learn by yourself stick; the things that are “taught” to you do not stick.
over a year ago
./techtipsy
Monitoring energy usage with smart plugs, Prometheus and Grafana This post isn’t a detailed line-by-line tutorial on how to set up each individual piece of the setup...
a year ago
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a year ago
This post isn’t a detailed line-by-line tutorial on how to set up each individual piece of the setup as those types of guides tend to get out of date really easily, but if you know your way around Linux and the command line, then you can definitely replicate this setup on your...
Vitalik Buterin's...
A Note on Metcalfe's Law, Externalities and Ecosystem Splits
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Motivation is Valuable It’s funny how motivation can play such a huge role with my productivity. I’m currently having two...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It’s funny how motivation can play such a huge role with my productivity. I’m currently having two math courses; one mandatory about analysis in multiple variables and vector analysis and one voluntary about advanced linear algebra. I don’t like the analysis course, didn’t like...
Home on Erik...
Learning from users faster using machine learning I had an interesting idea a few weeks ago, best explained through an example. Let's say you're...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I had an interesting idea a few weeks ago, best explained through an example. Let's say you're running an e-commerce site (I kind of do) and you want to optimize the number of purchases. Let's also say we try to learn as much as we can from users, both using A/B tests but also...
Jonas Hietala
Ludum Dare 20 Timelapse So this time I managed to compose a timelapse of my weekend and the making of My Minions. Sadly I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
So this time I managed to compose a timelapse of my weekend and the making of My Minions. Sadly I lost the first few hours as I forgot to turn it on… Anyway here’s the result: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABVPlRaA5iI
Willem's Blog
Rolex DateJust 36 Celebrating a major milestone, I treated myself to a Rolex DateJust 36. Want to know what it's like?...
over a year ago
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Celebrating a major milestone, I treated myself to a Rolex DateJust 36. Want to know what it's like? Keep reading!
Computer Ads from...
Adam Osborne Interview by Practical Computing (1983) Osborne reveals his philosophy
3 months ago
Home on Erik...
Google diversity memo, global warming, Pascal's wager, and other stuff There's about 765 million blog posts about the diversity “memo” that leaked out of Google a couple...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There's about 765 million blog posts about the diversity “memo” that leaked out of Google a couple of weeks ago. I think the case for any biological difference is pretty weak, and it bothers me when people refer to an “interest gap” as anything else than caused by the...
Vitalik Buterin's...
The bulldozer vs vetocracy political axis
over a year ago
anderegg.ca
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...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
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...
Computer Ads from...
Comics from 1977/07 Issue of ROM Only two, so read them slowly
3 weeks ago
Jonas Hietala
Grand Thief Arto Here’s me and Li’s game for our school course. The game isn’t tweaked too much but it’s a game with...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Here’s me and Li’s game for our school course. The game isn’t tweaked too much but it’s a game with some fairly cool ideas. Grand Thief Arto Instructions Your goal is to collect loot until you can escape through the entry point when you’ve collected enough to complete the...
Jonas Hietala
Swelling with New Shiny Books So I read the wonderful Design for Hackers and I managed to win some money for books from a course…...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
So I read the wonderful Design for Hackers and I managed to win some money for books from a course… So I ran away and ordered some new books, and they just arrived today. Yay! First off I ordered Introduction to Algorithms which is the de facto book about algorithms and it seemed...
Arduino Blog
Adding proximity unlock to an old car with the Arduino Nano 33 BLE A lot of newer cars have a really nifty feature called “proximity unlock,” which automatically...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
A lot of newer cars have a really nifty feature called “proximity unlock,” which automatically unlocks the doors when the driver approaches while carrying their key fob. When paired with a push-to-start ignition switch, the driver never has to take their keys out of their pocket....
Notes on software...
Parser generators vs. handwritten parsers: surveying major language implementations in 2021 Developers often think parser generators are the sole legit way to build programming language...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Developers often think parser generators are the sole legit way to build programming language frontends, possibly because compiler courses in university teach lex/yacc variants. But do any modern programming languages actually use parser generators anymore? To find out, this post...
Arduino Blog
Toss-launching drones is hard — this automatic launcher does it better Typically, consumer drones take off from the ground or some other solid surface. But that isn’t very...
4 weeks ago
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4 weeks ago
Typically, consumer drones take off from the ground or some other solid surface. But that isn’t very cinematic and toss launches — when the pilot throws the drone up into the air — are a lot more interesting to watch. Sadly, NickFPV isn’t very good at tossing his drone and that...
Arduino Blog
This robotic tongue drummer bangs out all the ambient hits If you like to listen to those “deep focus” soundtracks that are all ambient and relaxing, then...
a month ago
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a month ago
If you like to listen to those “deep focus” soundtracks that are all ambient and relaxing, then you’ve heard a tongue drum in action. A tongue drum, or tank drum, is a unique percussion instrument traditionally made from an empty propane cylinder — though purpose-built models are...
Louwrentius
How to run victron veconfigure on a mac Introduction Victron Multiplus-II inverter/charges are configured with the veconfigure1 tool....
a year ago
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a year ago
Introduction Victron Multiplus-II inverter/charges are configured with the veconfigure1 tool. Unforntunately this is a Windows-only tool, but there is still a way for Apple users to run this tool without any problems. Tip: if you've never worked with the Terminal app on MacOS, it...
Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing TagVault Security Mount for AirTag Having had our skis stolen, we wanted to design the ultimate AirTag ski and snowboard mount. It...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Having had our skis stolen, we wanted to design the ultimate AirTag ski and snowboard mount. It needed to be ultra-tough so it couldn't get knocked off, waterproof, hard to remove, and discreet. After a lot of design, testing, and iteration, we have TagVault Security Mount for...
Jonas Hietala
First impressions of Ghostty There are two conflicting forces in play in setting up your computer environment: It’s common to...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
There are two conflicting forces in play in setting up your computer environment: It’s common to find people get stuck at the extreme ends of the spectrum; some programmers refuse to configure or learn their tools at all, while others get stuck re-configuring their setups...
lcamtuf’s thing
Deep dive: the (in)stability of op-amps A closer look at op-amp feedback loops and the stability criteria for circuits that use them.
8 months ago
Ken Shirriff's blog
Inside a vintage aerospace navigation computer of uncertain purpose I recently obtained an aerospace computer from the early 1970s, apparently part of a navigation...
a year ago
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a year ago
I recently obtained an aerospace computer from the early 1970s, apparently part of a navigation system. Aerospace computers are an interesting but mostly neglected area of computer hardware, so I'm always delighted to examine one up close. In an era when most computers were large...
Matt Blewitt
Tools for a Culture of Writing One of the hardest things we do, as humans, is try and communicate what is going on in our minds to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One of the hardest things we do, as humans, is try and communicate what is going on in our minds to each other. With significant room for misunderstanding, biases, assumptions and cultural differences, communicating with other engineers (or to stakeholders) appears fraught....
Louwrentius
Benchmarking storage with Fio and generating charts of the results Introduction Fio is a widely-used tool for performing storage benchmarks. Fio offers a lot of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Introduction Fio is a widely-used tool for performing storage benchmarks. Fio offers a lot of options to create a storage benchmark that would best reflect your needs. Fio allows you to assess if your storage solution is up to its task and how much headroom it has. Fio outputs...
Arduino Blog
This spinning water contraption is actually a functional battery If you ask someone to think of a battery, they’re probably going to picture a chemical battery, like...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
If you ask someone to think of a battery, they’re probably going to picture a chemical battery, like a AA alkaline or a rechargeable lithium-ion battery. But there are other kinds of batteries that store energy without any fancy chemistry at all. If you find a way to save energy...
Odds and Ends of...
Keir Starmer needs to prepare for a world without America Today's empires, tomorrow's ashes.
8 months ago
Notes on software...
React without webpack: fast path to a working app from scratch This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
Arduino Blog
A desktop-sized DIY vending machine for your room Have you ever wanted your very own vending machine? If so, you likely found that they’re expensive...
a year ago
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a year ago
Have you ever wanted your very own vending machine? If so, you likely found that they’re expensive and too bulky to fit in most homes. But now you can experience vending bliss thanks to this miniature vending machine designed by m22pj, which you can craft yourself using an...
Jonas Hietala
8-puzzle in rust I think rust is one of the most interesting upcoming programming languages out there. So I wrote a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I think rust is one of the most interesting upcoming programming languages out there. So I wrote a solution to the 8-puzzle (see the 15-puzzle) using A*. It also has a breadth first search for solutions on a specific distance away from the goal. The solution is not by any means a...
watchTowr Labs
Bypassing Authentication Like It’s The ‘90s - Pre-Auth RCE Chain(s) in Kentico Xperience CMS I recently joined watchTowr, and it is, therefore, time - time for my first watchTowr Labs blogpost,...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
I recently joined watchTowr, and it is, therefore, time - time for my first watchTowr Labs blogpost, previously teased in a tweet of a pre-auth RCE chain affecting some ‘unknown software’. Joining the team, I wanted to maintain the trail of destruction left by the watchTowr Labs...
Computer Ads from...
Ergotron's MacTilt MacTilt is the Solution
7 months ago
Louwrentius
My home network setup based on managed switches and VLANs My home networking setup I live in a two story apartment, with on the top floor my utilities closet...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My home networking setup I live in a two story apartment, with on the top floor my utilities closet and my living room. The bottom floor contains a bedroom with all my servers and networking gear. So this is my setup (click for a bigger version): I like to run my own router but...
Christian Selig
Introducing Juno for Apple Vision Pro YouTube is probably one of the parts of the internet I consume the most, so I was more than a little...
a year ago
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a year ago
YouTube is probably one of the parts of the internet I consume the most, so I was more than a little sad when YouTube announced that they don’t have plans to build a visionOS app, and disabled the option to load the iPad app. This leaves you with Safari, and the website is okay,...
computers are bad
2023-07-10 the tragedy of beatrice foods Occasionally, research into the history of telephony takes you into some strange places. There are...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Occasionally, research into the history of telephony takes you into some strange places. There are conspiracy theories, of course, and there are people who insist on their version of events so incessantly that details of dates and places can become heated arguments. There is also...
Home on Erik...
Language pitch Here's a fun analysis that I did of the pitch (aka. frequency) of various languages. Certain...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Here's a fun analysis that I did of the pitch (aka. frequency) of various languages. Certain languages are simply pronounced with lower or higher pitch. Whether this is a feature of the language or more a cultural thing is a good question, but there are some substantial...
Willem's Blog
I see dead people This may be Apple Vision Pro's killer feature, enabling you to see dead people: augmenting old...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
This may be Apple Vision Pro's killer feature, enabling you to see dead people: augmenting old photos into lifelike representations.
Home on Erik...
I believe in the 10x engineer, but... The easiest way to be a 10x engineer is to make 10 other engineers 2x more efficient. Someone can be...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The easiest way to be a 10x engineer is to make 10 other engineers 2x more efficient. Someone can be a 10x engineer if they do nothing for 364 days then convinces the team to change programming language to a 2x more productive language.
Arduino Blog
Finally, you can DIY your own espresso machine Caffeine lovers take their coffee very seriously and that is most apparent when you dive into the...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Caffeine lovers take their coffee very seriously and that is most apparent when you dive into the world of espresso machines. To satisfy enthusiasts, an espresso machine needs to provide precise control over temperature, pressure, and flow to enable the perfect pull. But if...
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The History of Commodore, Part 4 The Amiga, The Decline, The Fall
a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Habits to start I haven’t been feeling quite as forward or as energetic lately. There are no set plans, habits or...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I haven’t been feeling quite as forward or as energetic lately. There are no set plans, habits or goals for this spring and I don’t have a clear vision of what to do currently but it also feels… fine? Maybe I will cruise in a lower gear for a while and rev up when my mood...
Matt Blewitt
Shunn The Shunn manuscript format is a set of guidelines for writers to follow when submitting manuscripts...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Shunn manuscript format is a set of guidelines for writers to follow when submitting manuscripts to publishers. It was created by author William Shunn and is widely used in the publishing industry. Here is a brief demonstration of a tool I wrote to facilitate generating...
Avestura's Blog
Hiding a photo inside another photo How to hide a small photo inside a larger photo?
over a year ago
Matt Mullenweg
Status Quo I wrote over on WordPress.org about breaking the status quo with a Joost/Karim fork. It’s a perfect...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
I wrote over on WordPress.org about breaking the status quo with a Joost/Karim fork. It’s a perfect time as Automattic is re-focusing its work while the legal stuff is going on.
Good Enough
TIL: Use randomness to prevent email trimming With conversation threading (which almost everyone has enabled), Gmail was trimming the bottom of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
With conversation threading (which almost everyone has enabled), Gmail was trimming the bottom of the emails we send with our new app because they were too similar to the other emails in the conversation thread. They’re similar because that’s just the link to get back into the...
Birchtree
📕 I recommend: Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI Hey everyone, this post is for everyone, but it’s a part of a new series I’m doing on More Birchtree...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Hey everyone, this post is for everyone, but it’s a part of a new series I’m doing on More Birchtree where I review the books and games I read and play in 2025. My movie reviews have been a relative hit on social media for the
Birchtree
Apple’s 2024 report card: Vision Pro 👓 This is the fifth and final post in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
This is the fifth and final post in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I did this last year and you can read last year’s Vision Pro report card here. Year one of Vision Pro This is a bit of
Himanshu Mishra |...
Erotomania : An Unfortunate Tale “Hey Wake up! Wake up, for you are left with just 30 more minutes. You better sleep after this is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
“Hey Wake up! Wake up, for you are left with just 30 more minutes. You better sleep after this is over; rather that would be your only…
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The History of Windows 3 Windows becomes competitive
a year ago
computers are bad
2023-02-17 something up there pt II As we discussed previously, the search for UAP is often contextualized in terms of the events of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As we discussed previously, the search for UAP is often contextualized in terms of the events of 2017: the public revelation of the AATIP and alien-hunting efforts by Robert Bigelow and Tom DeLonge. While widely publicized, these programs seem to have lead to very little. I...
Matt Blewitt
Everything I Know About Operations, I Learned From NHS 111 Ever heard someone say “It’s only software/money/<trivial thing>, not life or death”, in the context...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Ever heard someone say “It’s only software/money/<trivial thing>, not life or death”, in the context of incidents at your company? Although mostly true, I want to talk about a time in my career when sometimes, just sometimes, it was the latter, and how it shaped my approach to...
Engineers Need Art
Jigsaw Puzzle Those of us who fiddled while Apple Computer burned. Well, actually some of us put together a big...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Those of us who fiddled while Apple Computer burned. Well, actually some of us put together a big jigsaw puzzle.
Neil Madden
API Security in Action handed over to production After a flurry of last-minute corrections and updates in response to review feedback, my book has...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
After a flurry of last-minute corrections and updates in response to review feedback, my book has now been handed over to Manning’s production team. That means a few weeks of copy editing and graphics polish, then indexing and typesetting to produce the final version around...
Jonas Hietala
Settled on an unoriginal idea I think I’ve decided what to do. Some very slight progress has been made.
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Postmortem: Balls So it’s been what? Two, three years since I discovered the art of programming and I haven’t made one...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
So it’s been what? Two, three years since I discovered the art of programming and I haven’t made one single game?! Well now I’m not counting the visual basic nightmare mastermind I made a long time ago but a real game. Whatever that means. I’ve had these monster-projects; Point...
computers are bad
2023-04-30 los alamos - compound to county pt II Where we left off, Los Alamos had become a county, but the town itself continued to be directly...
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over a year ago
Where we left off, Los Alamos had become a county, but the town itself continued to be directly administered by the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). The Atomic Energy Communities Act (AECA) mandated the AEC to dispose of the towns it owned by transferring the property to private...
Good Enough
Adding Social Preview Images To Our 11ty Blog Twitter X recently removed headlines and descriptions from link previews, in the name of...
a year ago
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a year ago
Twitter X recently removed headlines and descriptions from link previews, in the name of “esthetics.” Inspired by Steph Ango, while we try not to run our business on the whims of a social media platform, this change did push us into making a change we’ve been meaning to for...
./techtipsy
How to make digital copies of your old video tapes Introduction This is a short overview of one way to take your old video tapes and make digital...
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over a year ago
Introduction This is a short overview of one way to take your old video tapes and make digital copies of their contents. To get started, you will need the following: old video tapes that you want to make copies of (VHS and its variants) a device that can read analog AV signals...
Louwrentius
Example of a home networking setup with VLANs Updated October 24, 2012, see below. This post is a description of my home network setup based on...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Updated October 24, 2012, see below. This post is a description of my home network setup based on gigabit ethernet. I did a non-standard trick with VLANs that may also be of interest to other people. I'm going to start with a diagram of the network. Just take a look (click to...
Jonas Hietala
Entering Pintos First week of school is over and it’s been full throttle from the start, in a good way. We’re having...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
First week of school is over and it’s been full throttle from the start, in a good way. We’re having four courses and for once I like them all. We have an interesting math course, a useful course “Software Development in Theory” (boring but useful) and a big project course where...
Computer Ads from...
Commodore Magazine Interviews Epyx (1989) They discuss the early days of computer game company.
5 months ago
Notes on software...
Running SQL Server in a container on Github Actions This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
Never Met a Science
"Republic.com 2.0" is a terrible book title we don't always need citations to justify research
6 months ago
Arduino Blog
“Catch me if you can!” — How Alvik learns to dodge trouble with AI, featuring Roni Bandini Have you ever discovered a cool piece of tech buried in your drawer and thought, “This could make...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Have you ever discovered a cool piece of tech buried in your drawer and thought, “This could make for an awesome project”? That’s exactly what happened to Roni Bandini, maker, writer, electronics artist – and Arduino Alvik Star!  Bandini began coding at 10 years old, and has...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Review of Gitcoin Quadratic Funding Round 4
over a year ago
Lighthouse Blog
Updates December 08: YouTube support
a year ago
Neil Madden
Galois/Counter Mode and random nonces It turns out you can encrypt more than 2^32 messages with AES-GCM with a random nonce under certain...
a year ago
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a year ago
It turns out you can encrypt more than 2^32 messages with AES-GCM with a random nonce under certain conditions. It’s still not a good idea, but you can just about do it. #cryptography
Abishek Muthian
I was told, I would become quadriplegic Tingling on the side of the face during tasks involving intense cognition was my first...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Tingling on the side of the face during tasks involving intense cognition was my first symptom. Nature of my job involves regular problem solving of various degree, on certain occasions there was a halting tingling sensation on the right side of my face to the end of lower...
computers are bad
2024-05-25 grc spinrite I feel like I used to spend an inordinate amount of time dealing with suspect hard drives. I mean,...
a year ago
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a year ago
I feel like I used to spend an inordinate amount of time dealing with suspect hard drives. I mean, like, back in high school. These days I almost never do, or on the occasion that I have storage trouble, it's a drive that has completely stopped responding at all and there's...
Lighthouse Blog
New feature: RSS feed export
7 months ago
Arduino Blog
Using an Arduino Nicla Vision as a drone flight controller Drone flight controllers do so much more than simply receive signals and tell the drone which way to...
a month ago
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a month ago
Drone flight controllers do so much more than simply receive signals and tell the drone which way to move. They’re responsible for constantly tweaking the motor speeds in order to maintain stable flight, even with shifting winds and other unpredictable factors. For that reason,...
Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing TagVault Keychain for AirTag AirTags are perfect for your keychain, everyone should have one. The problem is Apple's AirTags...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
AirTags are perfect for your keychain, everyone should have one. The problem is Apple's AirTags scratch easy and donut style cases will get destroyed in your pocket. So we designed TagVault Keychain for AirTag. It's the first waterproof case for AirTag, ultra-durable, and...
lcamtuf’s thing
Investigating an "evil" RJ45 dongle Reverse-engineering hardware can be difficult -- but sometimes, all you need is a comfy armchair and...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Reverse-engineering hardware can be difficult -- but sometimes, all you need is a comfy armchair and some Google Translate.
Louwrentius
The future of ZFS now that OpenSolaris is dead With the probable loss of OpenSolaris, there may be another, maybe more devastating loss. The very...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
With the probable loss of OpenSolaris, there may be another, maybe more devastating loss. The very popular and very advanced Zetabyte File System (ZFS) The only open source platform that actively supports ZFS is FreeBSD. And they just 'copied' the code from OpenSolaris. Are they...
Posts on Made of...
Confessions of a programmer: I hate code review Most of the projects I've been working on today have fairly strict code review policies. My work...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Most of the projects I've been working on today have fairly strict code review policies. My work requires code review on most of our code, and as we bring on an army of interns for the summer, I've been responsible for reviewing lots of code. Additionally, about five months ago...
Notes on software...
How to get better at recursion tldr; reimplement standard library functions in your favorite language without loops. Background For...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
tldr; reimplement standard library functions in your favorite language without loops. Background For a few years after college I spent a lot of free time doing projects in Standard ML and Scheme. As a result I got really comfortable doing recursion. The two big reasons for this...
Louwrentius
Creating configuration backups of HP procurve switches I've created a tool called procurve-watch. It creates a backup of the running switch configuration...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've created a tool called procurve-watch. It creates a backup of the running switch configuration through secure shell (using scp). It also diffs backed up configurations against older versions, in order to keep track of changes. If you run the script from cron every hour or...
Willem's Blog
MUSE in Carré MUSE's legendary rock fused with Amsterdam's Royal Theatre Carré for an unforgettable, electrifying...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
MUSE's legendary rock fused with Amsterdam's Royal Theatre Carré for an unforgettable, electrifying experience - read about my experience!
./techtipsy
My cat water fountain comes with a spicy USB power adapter It turns out that you can’t trust any USB type A power adapter to be within spec. I have a Catit...
a year ago
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a year ago
It turns out that you can’t trust any USB type A power adapter to be within spec. I have a Catit Flower Fountain for my two adorable cats. The idea of a water fountain for cats may sound odd, but having one really helps with cats staying hydrated and that alone avoids all sorts...
watchTowr Labs
Fire In The Hole, We’re Breaching The Vault - Commvault Remote Code Execution (CVE-2025-34028) As we pack our bags and prepare for the adult-er version of BlackHat (that apparently doesn’t...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
As we pack our bags and prepare for the adult-er version of BlackHat (that apparently doesn’t require us to print out stolen mailspoolz to hand to people at their talks), we want to tell you about a recent adventure - a heist, if you will. No heist story
csvbase blog
Being on The Semantic Web is easy, and, frankly, well worth the bother Web 3.0 was not about the blockchain, thank god
10 months ago
Old Vintage...
Programming the Convergent WorkSlate's spreadsheet microcassette future In this particular future, we will all use handheld spreadsheets stored on microcassettes, talking...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
In this particular future, we will all use handheld spreadsheets stored on microcassettes, talking to each other via speakerphone, and probably listening to Devo and New Order a lot. (Though that part isn't too different from my actual present.) a computer whose manufacturer...