GitButler
20 years of Git. Still weird, still wonderful.
Twenty years ago, Git was born. How did this unlikely "information manager" take over the world?
7th Apr 2025
Twenty years ago, Git was born. How did this unlikely "information manager" take over the world?
Himanshu Mishra |...
Aldous Huxley's world of perceptions
You may already know of this novel called 1984, and its author George Orwell. Aldous Huxley wrote a...
18th Jul 2021
You may already know of this novel called 1984, and its author George Orwell. Aldous Huxley wrote a dystopian classic called Brave New World…
computers are bad
2025-07-06 secret cellular phone numbers
A long time ago I wrote about secret government telephone
numbers,
and before that, secret military...
6th Jul 2025
A long time ago I wrote about secret government telephone
numbers,
and before that, secret military telephone
buttons.
I suppose this is becoming a series. To be clear, the "secret" here is a joke,
but more charitably I could say that it refers to obscurity rather than any
real...
Louwrentius - Solar
ZFS RAIDZ expansion is awesome but has a small caveat
Introduction
Update April 2023:
It has been fairly quiet since the announcement of this feature.
The...
22nd Jun 2021
Introduction
Update April 2023:
It has been fairly quiet since the announcement of this feature.
The Github PR about this feature is rather stale and people are wondering what the status is and what the plans are. Meanwhile, FreeBSD has announced In February 2023 that they...
Applied Cartography
When Harry Met Sally
This, to me, is the ur-romcom — the gold standard against which all others are compared, and most...
27th Sep 2018
This, to me, is the ur-romcom — the gold standard against which all others are compared, and most are found wanting. The chemistry, the script, the everpresent autumn, the interstitials with old couples — it is all so good, and exactly what it is trying to be!
Engineers Need Art
Apple Interview (1995)
Recalling my somewhat unusual interview with Apple back in 1995.
13th May 2022
Recalling my somewhat unusual interview with Apple back in 1995.
Posts on Made of...
Towards solving Ultimate Tic Tac Toe
Summary: Read about my efforts to solve the game of Ultimate Tic Tac Toe. It’s been a fun journey...
15th Jul 2020
Summary: Read about my efforts to solve the game of Ultimate Tic Tac Toe. It’s been a fun journey into interesting algorithms and high-performance parallel programming in Rust.
Backstory Starting around the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdown, I’ve gotten myself deeply nerdsniped...
Jonas Hietala
The T-34/1 keyboard layout
This is the revision of the T-34 keyboard layout that I use as my primary driver. I’ve used this...
15th Dec 2021
This is the revision of the T-34 keyboard layout that I use as my primary driver. I’ve used this particular version without any major changes for almost 3 months, so I’d say it’s a good improvement over the last revision.
There are two large changes from T-34/0: swapping o and...
latest projects -...
Turbine Transport Transformer
[Concept] Transforming turbine transport
19th Jun 2025
[Concept] Transforming turbine transport
Evan Hahn (dot com)
Notes from August 2025
Things I published and things I saw this August.
See also: my notes from last month, which has links...
31st Aug 2025
Things I published and things I saw this August.
See also: my notes from last month, which has links to all the previous months so far.
Things I published this month
Most of my work this month was on private stuff, like some contracting and a demo app for a small social group....
Jonas Hietala
February gets Themed: Rejection
The Experimental Gameplay Project has announced their next theme - and shame on me if I wouldn’t...
1st Feb 2010
The Experimental Gameplay Project has announced their next theme - and shame on me if I wouldn’t follow suite! With valentine coming up I might just have found a pretty nice idea, just now, writing this…
Booyah!!
Louwrentius - Solar
Using iSCSI with time machine and Super Duper
In the past, as a Mac user, I've used separate external drives for Time Machine backups and Super...
21st Jul 2013
In the past, as a Mac user, I've used separate external drives for Time Machine backups and Super Duper clones but I'm not happy with that. External hard drives make noise and create clutter.
I'd like to move away all my storage from my living room (or home office) and put it in...
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...
3rd Mar 2025
A Minnesota cybersecurity and computer forensics expert whose testimony has featured in thousands of courtroom trials over the past 30 years is facing questions about his credentials and an inquiry from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Legal experts say the inquiry...
John Wiseman
Comparison of Models Used for Aviation Briefings
I have a collection of prompts and tools that I give to LLMs to
generate daily aviation briefings....
18th Jul 2026
I have a collection of prompts and tools that I give to LLMs to
generate daily aviation briefings. The briefings are supposed to be a
summary of everything interesting that’s happened in the air in the
past several hours, either globally or in a region of interest. The
model...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Analyzing Token Sale Models
9th Jun 2017
Willem L. Middelkoop
Is the Apple Watch the modern tool watch?
This week I went to Frankfurt for business. I had to perform maintenance to servers in a data...
1st Nov 2018
This week I went to Frankfurt for business. I had to perform maintenance to servers in a data centre. This seemed like a great opportunity to test the Apple Watch's usefulness in real life (other than health and fitness). I wondered, is the Apple Watch the modern tool watch? ...
benn.substack
Can analysis ever be automated?
The catch-22 of all these AI analysts. Plus, go crazy folks; go crazy.
1st Aug 2025
The catch-22 of all these AI analysts. Plus, go crazy folks; go crazy.
Style over Substance
Our favorite places to eat and drinks during our Portugal vacation
In the summer of 2023, we went on an amazing trip through Portugal. We’d already visited Lisbon on a...
25th May 2024
In the summer of 2023, we went on an amazing trip through Portugal. We’d already visited Lisbon on a short city trip a few years earlier, and that experience was so good we knew we had to return. This time, we decided to take a full three weeks and see the sights. We were...
Louwrentius - Solar
Secure caching DNS server on Linux with DJBDNS
The most commonly used DNS server software is ISC BIND, the "Berkeley Internet
Name Daemon"....
12th Jun 2010
The most commonly used DNS server software is ISC BIND, the "Berkeley Internet
Name Daemon". However, this software has a bad security track record and is in
my opinion a pain to configure.
Mr. D.J. Bernstein developed "djbdns", which comes with a guarantee: if anyone
finds a...
Scott Kennedy
Principal Engineers and their million dollar microbiomes
29th Jul 2023
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...
7th Nov 2010
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...
Joey's Hoard of...
I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS—and You Should Too
<img src="/assets\images\blog_posts\2025_01_12-rss\banner.png" alt="An image of a banner cartoon of...
15th Jan 2025
<img src="/assets\images\blog_posts\2025_01_12-rss\banner.png" alt="An image of a banner cartoon of the topic at ...
Opsbros
JSON and PowerShell
Working with Object-based arrays in PowerShell can be a challenge; but here's a trick that will...
11th May 2020
Working with Object-based arrays in PowerShell can be a challenge; but here's a trick that will allow you to manipulate these objects efficiently.
Writing
Gosling’s Old Rum
Virginia has draconian liquor laws, which means I have to get interesting bottles shipped from...
3rd Feb 2024
Virginia has draconian liquor laws, which means I have to get interesting bottles shipped from [REDACTED], a site on which I am very prone to judging a book by its cover; every month I'll end up purchasing a bottle of something purely because it looks interesting and I can...
computers are bad
2024-05-06 matrix
For those of you who are members of the Matrix project, I wanted to let you
know that I am running...
6th May 2024
For those of you who are members of the Matrix project, I wanted to let you
know that I am running for the Governing Board, and a bit about why. For those
of you who are not, I hope you will forgive the intrusion. Maybe you'll find my
opinions on the topic interesting anyway.
I...
./techtipsy
Shrinkflation, SanDisk style
2023-02-16 update: this post is not about the “GB vs GiB” issue, or the “lost disk space” that...
15th Feb 2023
2023-02-16 update: this post is not about the “GB vs GiB” issue, or the “lost disk space” that you
notice after formatting the device in an OS. Please read the article in full before
making inaccurate comments online.
For many years, I have used two SanDisk Ultra 16 GB USB flash...
Arduino Blog
Improving bicycle safety with voice-activated turn signals
Bicycle safety is always a concern, but is a particularly big problem in cities where cycling is...
2nd Nov 2025
Bicycle safety is always a concern, but is a particularly big problem in cities where cycling is less common. Drivers in cars don’t expect to encounter cyclists and don’t know how to share the road properly. To protect themselves, cyclists need to be as predictable as possible...
Pea Bee
Pea Bee #4: Speak the time to me
Google search
13th Mar 2021
Christian Selig
I have thoughts on the iPhone Air
Hard to believe, but it’s been over 9 months since the current crop of iPhones came out, and I...
7th Jul 2026
Hard to believe, but it’s been over 9 months since the current crop of iPhones came out, and I elected to grab the (apparently not super popular) iPhone Air, a new model of iPhone introduced for the first time. Rumor season for the new iPhones is in full swing, so it seemed like...
watchTowr Labs
Backdooring Your Backdoors - Another $20 Domain, More Governments
After the excitement of our .MOBI research, we were left twiddling our thumbs. As you may recall, in...
8th Jan 2025
After the excitement of our .MOBI research, we were left twiddling our thumbs. As you may recall, in 2024, we demonstrated the impact of an unregistered domain when we subverted the TLS/SSL CA process for verifying domain ownership to give ourselves the ability to issue valid and...
Jonas Hietala
Blogging in Djot instead of Markdown
What if we weren’t chained to the past? What if we tried to create a light markup syntax that keeps...
2nd Feb 2024
What if we weren’t chained to the past? What if we tried to create a light markup syntax that keeps what is good about Markdown, while revising some of the features that have led to bloat and complexity in the CommonMark spec?
John Macfarlane, Beyond Markdown
I recently...
Never Met a Science
We Need To Talk
Advice for keeping up activity on a blog: don’t get appendicitis in a country where you barely speak...
17th Aug 2026
Advice for keeping up activity on a blog: don’t get appendicitis in a country where you barely speak the language at the same time that your newborn baby gets his first major daycare illness.
Abishek Muthian
Resurrecting Nexus 6P from bootloop of death
Nexus Before the Pixel there was Nexus, smartphones and tablets to showcase the latest in android...
14th Jun 2019
Nexus Before the Pixel there was Nexus, smartphones and tablets to showcase the latest in android with the brand of the manufacturer. They packed in latest android version with top end specifications and pathetic camera (processed image/video) quality; no wonder they didn't take...
Engineers Need Art
Balsa “2001: A Space Odyssey” Model
The spacecraft from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey have always had a special place for me. Here I...
30th Dec 2025
The spacecraft from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey have always had a special place for me. Here I build a replica from balsa.
Willem's Blog
The birth of a child
Witnessing the birth of a child changes a man, for science and curiosity I wore a biometric sensor...
12th Jul 2021
Witnessing the birth of a child changes a man, for science and curiosity I wore a biometric sensor capturing the impact of birth on yours truly.
Pea Bee
Pea Bee #7: Planned Obsolescence
A few weeks ago, my laptop stopped working.
16th Sep 2021
A few weeks ago, my laptop stopped working.
Willem's Blog
Hello, stranger
"Discover the transformative power of simple conversations in our tech-dominated world, as one...
12th Oct 2023
"Discover the transformative power of simple conversations in our tech-dominated world, as one individual delves into the lost art of talking to strangers and the profound connections it can forge."
./techtipsy
Testing a cheap ExpressCard to NVMe SSD adapter on my ThinkPad T430
I stumbled upon this post in /r/thinkpad,
which got my attention. It showcases an ExpressCard to M.2...
4th Oct 2022
I stumbled upon this post in /r/thinkpad,
which got my attention. It showcases an ExpressCard to M.2 NGFF adapter that
they purchased from AliExpress. The adapter has a similar purpose to the one
designed by thinkmods.store, with the added bonus
that it could fit longer NVMe...
Willem's Blog
Search like a pro: Google search operators
Read along for a comprehensive list of advanced Google search operators that allow you to filter...
24th Apr 2019
Read along for a comprehensive list of advanced Google search operators that allow you to filter your search results.
Notes on software...
A minimal REST API in Java
There's a style of Java that is a joy to write. This post will cover
how to set up a basic...
1st Feb 2020
There's a style of Java that is a joy to write. This post will cover
how to set up a basic PostgreSQL-integrated REST API using
Jersey and
JOOQ in a style not dissimilar to Flask and
SQLAlchemy in Python.
In particular, we'll try to avoid as much runtime
reflection/class-loading...
Willem's Blog
Is the Apple Watch the modern tool watch?
I tested the Apple Watch during my work in Frankfurt this week where I had to go inside an internet...
1st Nov 2018
I tested the Apple Watch during my work in Frankfurt this week where I had to go inside an internet data centre.
Abishek Muthian
Backup PostgreSQL to cloud
This post will help you with easy, cost-effective and secure way to backup your PostgreSQL database...
9th Sep 2020
This post will help you with easy, cost-effective and secure way to backup your PostgreSQL database to cloud.
Create local scheduled backup of PostgreSQL database Login as postgres user on the console (tmux is recommended).
Create .pgpass file to access database without entering...
Avestura's Blog
Versioning microservices in GitLab monorepos and polyrepos
What are some possible options to version projects for a microservices project in Gitlab?
2nd Jan 2022
What are some possible options to version projects for a microservices project in Gitlab?
Ken Shirriff's blog
The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker
Before GPS, how did aircraft navigate?
One important technique was celestial navigation: navigating...
18th Apr 2026
Before GPS, how did aircraft navigate?
One important technique was celestial navigation: navigating from the positions of the stars, planets,
or the sun.
While celestial navigation is accurate, cannot be jammed, and doesn't require any broadcast infrastructure,
it is a difficult...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Obfuscation (Part III): Local Mixing
3 weeks ago
matduggan.com
I Am a Flat-Rate Monthly Responsibility Service
Most people, when asked why they do what they do, lie. This isn’t because they’re malicious but it’s...
6 days ago
Most people, when asked why they do what they do, lie. This isn’t because they’re malicious but it’s because the honest justification for a career is rarely noble. It’s usually a combination of a decent paycheck, tolerable hours, and whatever neurosis you
Birchtree
When you put your brand's mascot on the enemy's platform
Back in February 2024, Xbox held a short podcast where they reacted directly to swirling rumors...
28th Oct 2025
Back in February 2024, Xbox held a short podcast where they reacted directly to swirling rumors about Xbox exclusive titles that were about to go multi-platform, which was giving Xbox fans anxiety. This question from host Tina Amini was right near the start:
So when you are...
Buck on Software
The Wrong Bet
The next decade in SaaS won't look like the last
10th May 2021
The next decade in SaaS won't look like the last
Kent de Bruin
How I use Obsidian with Claude Code
Thinking alongside an AI that lives inside my notes
20th Jan 2026
Thinking alongside an AI that lives inside my notes
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...
1st Oct 2024
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...
Fabien Sanglard
Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D, 2nd Edition
The second edition of the Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D is out.
6th Dec 2018
The second edition of the Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D is out.
Louwrentius - Solar
Lustre and the risk of Serious Data Loss
Personally I have a weakness for big-ass storage. Say 'petabyte' and I'm
interested. So I was...
3rd Jul 2010
Personally I have a weakness for big-ass storage. Say 'petabyte' and I'm
interested. So I was thinking about how you would setup a large, scalable
storage infrastructure. How should such a thing work?
Very simple: you should be able just to add hosts with some bad-ass huge...
Elevation Lab - Blog
Designers Desk #1: Angelo Vilar
Designer's Desk is a new series featuring the desk setups of artists, designers, and creators -...
8th Jun 2017
Designer's Desk is a new series featuring the desk setups of artists, designers, and creators - showcasing how they work and what their workspace looks like.
Angelo Vilar (AKA Ansirone) is an art director, animation designer, & illustrator based in Los Angeles. He keeps it...
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...
5th Apr 2022
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.
Applied Cartography
Hamilton
I was not a Hamilton hater exactly (I, like many other snoots, didn’t hate Hamilton so much as I...
28th Oct 2019
I was not a Hamilton hater exactly (I, like many other snoots, didn’t hate Hamilton so much as I hated the people who, for a brief but painful time, were really, really into Hamilton) but I certainly was not a huge fan until Haley roped me into listening to the soundtrack. I...
computers are bad
2024-11-09 iron mountain atomic storage
I have quipped before about "underground datacenters," and how they never
succeed. During the late...
9th Nov 2024
I have quipped before about "underground datacenters," and how they never
succeed. During the late decades of the Cold War and even into the '00s, the
military and (to a lesser extent) the telecommunications industry parted ways
with a great number of underground facilities....
csvbase blog
Client libraries are better when they have no API
fsspec is secretly everywhere, and boss
10th Apr 2024
fsspec is secretly everywhere, and boss
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.
30th Jul 2017
I killed my office LAN and went 4G only. Saves a lot of clutter, energy and money.
Electronics etc…
A Hardware Interposer to Fix the Symmetricom SyncServer S200 GPS Week Number Rollover Problem
Introduction
IMPORTANT: Use the Right GPS Antenna!
The Problem: SyncServer Refuses to Lock to...
18th Aug 2024
Introduction
IMPORTANT: Use the Right GPS Antenna!
The Problem: SyncServer Refuses to Lock to GPS
The GPS Week Number Rollover Issue
Making the Furuno GT-8031 Work Again
How It Works
Build Instructions
Power Supply Recapping
The Future: A Software-Only Solution
The...
Simply Explained
Filtering spam on YouTube with TensorFlow & AI
My YouTube channel has been attracting a lot of spammers. They try to trick people by saying they...
6th Jul 2021
My YouTube channel has been attracting a lot of spammers. They try to trick people by saying they know how to profit from trading cryptocurrencies or that they can recover lost wallet keys.I've been marking these comments as spam, thinking that YouTube would learn to recognize...
./techtipsy
btrbk is awesome
I like having a safety net whenever I’m doing something potentially destructive,
which is why I use...
9th Jul 2022
I like having a safety net whenever I’m doing something potentially destructive,
which is why I use the btrfs file system for my operating system and my data.
Snapshots are one half of my “whoops, there goes all my work” strategy (backups
are the other half).
I’ve written about...
Open for Business
My Half-Anniversary with Starlink
It was six months ago today that I first plugged my computer into the Starlink router, connected to...
4 weeks ago
It was six months ago today that I first plugged my computer into the Starlink router, connected to the standard-sized Starlink “dish” (it’s a panel) that was flopped down haphazardly in my back yard.
Himanshu Mishra |...
Why should one do Open Source in college?
More and more students are now being involved with Open Source programming. Thanks to programs like...
19th Dec 2020
More and more students are now being involved with Open Source programming. Thanks to programs like Google Summer of Code who have seriously…
Vitalik Buterin's...
Engineering Security Through Coordination Problems
8th May 2017
Jeff Geerling
Qualcomm's buying Arduino – what it means for makers
Qualcomm's buying Arduino – what it means for makers
Qualcomm just announced they're...
7th Oct 2025
Qualcomm's buying Arduino – what it means for makers
Qualcomm just announced they're acquiring Arduino, the company that introduced a whole generation of tinkerers to microcontrollers and embedded electronics.
The Uno R3 was the first microcontroller board I owned....
On Life and Lisp
The first conformant M1 GPU driver
Conformant OpenGL® ES 3.1 drivers are now available for M1- and
M2-family GPUs. That means the...
22nd Aug 2023
Conformant OpenGL® ES 3.1 drivers are now available for M1- and
M2-family GPUs. That means the drivers are compatible with any OpenGL ES
3.1 application. Interested? Just install Linux!
For existing Asahi Linux users,
upgrade your system with dnf
upgrade (Fedora) or pacman
-Syu...
Posts on Made of...
Two kinds of testing
While talking about thinking about tests and testing in software engineering recently, I’ve come to...
24th Dec 2019
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,...
computers are bad
speed reading (the meaning of language)
One of the difficult things about describing a grift, or at least what became
a grift, is judging...
8th Dec 2025
One of the difficult things about describing a grift, or at least what became
a grift, is judging the sincerity with which the whole thing started. Scams
often crystallize around a kernel of truth: genuinely good intentions that
start rolling down the hill to profitability and...
./techtipsy
Disabling the crappy Broadcom Bluetooth adapter in your ThinkPad T430 running Linux
You’ve disabled the boneheaded Lenovo WiFi adapter whitelist using a tool like
1vyrain, installed a...
1st Jun 2022
You’ve disabled the boneheaded Lenovo WiFi adapter whitelist using a tool like
1vyrain, installed a better adapter like the
Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260,
and found that Bluetooth is not working as intended on your ThinkPad T430
running Linux?
Here’s a guide on what you can...
Evan Hahn (dot com)
Notes from "Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology"
Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology
is a book of essays by Ellen Ullman.
In the book,...
8th Apr 2025
Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology
is a book of essays by Ellen Ullman.
In the book, Ullman laments the bad parts of computers and the internet. These
systems eroded privacy, deepened income inequality, and enabled the rise of
modern fascism. And they were built by a...
Louwrentius - Solar
My 71 TiB ZFS NAS after 10 years and zero drive failures
My 4U 71 TiB ZFS NAS built with twenty-four 4 TB drives is over 10 years old and still going...
14th Sep 2024
My 4U 71 TiB ZFS NAS built with twenty-four 4 TB drives is over 10 years old and still going strong.
Although now on its second motherboard and power supply, the system has yet to experience a single drive failure (knock on wood).
Zero drive failures in ten years, how is that...
eieio.games
Running a million-board chess MMO in a single process
Running a million-board chess MMO in a single process
Recently I made a game called One Million...
24th Jun 2025
Running a million-board chess MMO in a single process
Recently I made a game called One Million Chessboards. It's a realtime chess MMO played over a 1000x1000 grid of chess boards. Pieces can move between boards and there are no turns. I ran the game out of a single process and...
Never Met a Science
Unbundling and Abundance
on the (high) dimensionality of 21st century ideology
13th Mar 2025
on the (high) dimensionality of 21st century ideology
Butler's Log
GitButler 0.12 - "Stingy Baker"
New GitButler release is out! Undo anything, modify your commits with ease, new AI stuff and more!
3rd Jun 2024
New GitButler release is out! Undo anything, modify your commits with ease, new AI stuff and more!
./techtipsy
I finally found an use case for my Raspberry Pi Model B+
You have probably heard about the Raspberry Pi. It’s a nice little affordable
single-board computer...
1st Nov 2022
You have probably heard about the Raspberry Pi. It’s a nice little affordable
single-board computer with a huge community using it for all sorts of projects.
I got my first Raspberry Pi, the Model B+,
during my first year at university, which was around the winter of...
Notes on software...
Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 1. lisp to assembly
Next in compiler basics:
2. user-defined functions and variables
3. LLVM
4. LLVM...
20th Nov 2018
Next in compiler basics:
2. user-defined functions and variables
3. LLVM
4. LLVM conditionals and compiling fibonacci
5. LLVM system calls
6. an x86 upgrade
In this post we'll write a simple compiler in Javascript (on Node)
without any third-party libraries....
Writing
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
a bad book with a good thesis. the author warns you of its incoherence early on, which is a shame...
1st Mar 2020
a bad book with a good thesis. the author warns you of its incoherence early on, which is a shame because there are very good pieces of logos amidst the circumlocution
Software and Tech...
Clickable whitespace
It's easier for someone in my position, after working 20 years in this field to talk about morals. I...
a week ago
It's easier for someone in my position, after working 20 years in this field to talk about morals. I can disagree with the choices my employer makes. In fact, I can walk away. But I remember the dilemma I felt I was in, earlier in my career.
The lead developer stood behind me...
Louwrentius - Solar
I made my blog solar-powered, then things escalated
In 2020 I wondered if I could run my blog on solar power, being inspired by Low-tech Magazine, doing...
17th Apr 2023
In 2020 I wondered if I could run my blog on solar power, being inspired by Low-tech Magazine, doing the same thing (but better)1. The answer was 'yes', but only through spring and summer.
I live in an apartment complex in The Netherlands and my balcony is facing west. This...
Abort Retry Fail
The Birth of Windows Gaming
Software is a fluid that expands to fill its container
2nd Sep 2023
Software is a fluid that expands to fill its container
Nabeel S. Qureshi
How To Sell
Sales at a startup is counter-intuitive.
18th Jan 2020
Sales at a startup is counter-intuitive.
Matt Mullenweg
Automattic Alignment
Winston Churchill said, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Since I last blogged here, WP Engine...
4th Oct 2024
Winston Churchill said, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Since I last blogged here, WP Engine filed a meritless lawsuit and Automattic responded, and there’s been a hurricane of public activity and press. Inside of Automattic, there’s been a parallel debate and process....
benn.substack
Will there ever be a worse time to start a startup?
Today's frontier is tomorrow's tech debt.
5th Dec 2025
Today's frontier is tomorrow's tech debt.
Willem's Blog
My first weeks as dad
Last Christmas my wife gave birth of our son. It's a life changing experience to become a parent....
23rd Jan 2019
Last Christmas my wife gave birth of our son. It's a life changing experience to become a parent. Read along for my (biometric) findings and some practical tips.
Krebs on Security
The Kimwolf Botnet is Stalking Your Local Network
The story you are reading is a series of scoops nestled inside a far more urgent Internet-wide...
2nd Jan 2026
The story you are reading is a series of scoops nestled inside a far more urgent Internet-wide security advisory. The vulnerability at issue has been exploited for months already, and it’s time for a broader awareness of the threat. The short version is that everything you...
Jonas Hietala
Netrunner Summer Tournament Linköping
There was another Netrunner tournament this Sunday with 8 entrants. We had two new legal data packs...
18th Sep 2015
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...
Notes on software...
On NYC, Tokyo and Seoul
I’ve lived in NYC for the past year — moved here after years in Philly
and after growing up in a...
20th Oct 2018
I’ve lived in NYC for the past year — moved here after years in Philly
and after growing up in a rural community a few hours west of
there. My wife is South Korean and last week concluded my second trip
to the suburbs of Seoul to visit her family. We finished up that trip
with a...
Neil Madden
Book review: The Joy of Cryptography
Mike Rosulek, Oregon State University. Draft of January 3, 2021. Online: The Joy of Cryptography....
16th Feb 2023
Mike Rosulek, Oregon State University. Draft of January 3, 2021. Online: The Joy of Cryptography. This is a freely-available book covering introductory material on cryptography. It’s suitable for anyone with undergraduate-level computer science knowledge. As is often the case in...
Jonas Hietala
3D printer repairing and modding
I’ve had my VORON Trident for 2 years and I’ve run it for 2600 hours.
Overall I’m happy with the...
2nd Dec 2025
I’ve had my VORON Trident for 2 years and I’ve run it for 2600 hours.
Overall I’m happy with the printer but I’ve been itching to make some more mods to it.
Having finally finished the VORON 0 (with mods) I now have a backup printer I can use to rescue myself when I screw up.
As...
Yazin Alirhayim
The Meem app: it sucks
I've been using Meem, the first digital-only bank in the Middle East, for about a year now. I...
1st Dec 2019
I've been using Meem, the first digital-only bank in the Middle East, for about a year now. I absolutely hate their app.
Notes on software...
The impact of management teams as a decision-making group, in startups and enterprise
Ambitious companies form management teams at every level above you,
sometimes including you....
11th Nov 2020
Ambitious companies form management teams at every level above you,
sometimes including you. Management teams meet periodically and have
private chat rooms. They discuss customers, product and organizational
direction. Sometimes discussions are well documented and...
Notes on software...
Notes from Neal Gabler's Walt Disney
Disney was a celebrity by his mid-30s, Disney the company was famous
by 1930s.
Even though...
18th Feb 2023
Disney was a celebrity by his mid-30s, Disney the company was famous
by 1930s.
Even though politically the 1930s was considered the decade of
Roosevelt (elected President in 1933), culturally the 1930s was
considered the decade of Mickey Mouse.
Almost every new...
Open for Business
Ecclesiology, Doctrine, Ecumenism: A Few Difficult Questions
I am provoked by an internet presence that goes by “Redeemed Zoomer,” presumably a 20-something...
6th Aug 2026
I am provoked by an internet presence that goes by “Redeemed Zoomer,” presumably a 20-something young man holding theologically conservative views, and similar views on Christian ethics, who is Reformed.
Vitalik Buterin's...
What do I think about Community Notes?
16th Aug 2023
Willem L. Middelkoop
Wearing Grand Seiko
Sadness could be seen in my eyes when my custom made watch got damaged earlier this month, while...
4th Jun 2021
Sadness could be seen in my eyes when my custom made watch got damaged earlier this month, while awaiting repairs I was fortunate to wear a Grand Seiko. Its unique mix of craftsmanship, innovation and practicality is worth sharing with you.
As a friend of my blog, you might know...
Posts on Made of...
Efficiency trades off against resiliency
What’s the “right” level of CPU utilization for a server? If you look at a monitoring dashboard from...
15th Apr 2023
What’s the “right” level of CPU utilization for a server? If you look at a monitoring dashboard from a well-designed and well-run service, what CPU utilization should we hope to see, averaged over a day or two?
It’s a very general question, and it’s not clear it should have a...
Old Vintage...
Harpoom: of course the Apple Network Server can be hacked into running Doom
a $10,000+ Apple server running IBM AIX. Of course you can. Well, you can now.
Now, let's go ahead...
1st Jun 2025
a $10,000+ Apple server running IBM AIX. Of course you can. Well, you can now.
Now, let's go ahead and get the grumbling out of the way. No, the ANS is not running Linux or NetBSD. No, this is not a backport of NCommander's AIX Doom, because that runs on AIX 4.3. The Apple...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Let a thousand societies bloom
17th Dec 2025
GitButler
Stacked Branches with GitButler
GitButler can now manage dependent branches that are stacked, including managing stacked GitHub PRs.
4th Dec 2024
GitButler can now manage dependent branches that are stacked, including managing stacked GitHub PRs.
Louwrentius - Solar
Got myself a Norco RPC-4020
I've got this fetish for storage. So I bought a case that gives me some room
for future expantion....
16th Jun 2009
I've got this fetish for storage. So I bought a case that gives me some room
for future expantion. The current 6 TB RAID 6 storage server does not have any
room for expantion.
This Norco RPC-4020 case with 20 hot swap drive bays does however. Don't know
what to fill it with yet.
Himanshu Mishra |...
Introducing the OrkoHunter Discord Community
👉🏻 Join the OrkoHunter Discord Community 10 years ago, I arrived as a naive fresher in my...
7th Dec 2024
👉🏻 Join the OrkoHunter Discord Community 10 years ago, I arrived as a naive fresher in my engineering college. And like many, my first…
Bryan Braun - Blog
Waiting is risky
I’m a note-taker and a list-maker. I have lists of books I want to read and movies I want to watch,...
21st Jun 2025
I’m a note-taker and a list-maker. I have lists of books I want to read and movies I want to watch, but most of my lists are for collecting ideas. They include ideas for blog posts, websites, businesses, open-source code, video games, books, and other kinds of projects.
Some of...
Abort Retry Fail
The Story of Creative Technology
The Sound Blaster
10th Aug 2025
Louwrentius - Solar
ZFS performance on HP Proliant Microserver Gen8 G1610T
I think the HP Proliant Microserver Gen8 is a very interesting little box if you want to build your...
14th Aug 2015
I think the HP Proliant Microserver Gen8 is a very interesting little box if you want to build your own ZFS-based NAS. The benchmarks I've performed seem to confirm this.
The Microserver Gen8 has nice features such as:
iLO (KVM over IP with dedicated network interface)
support...
Project Blog on...
Train Simulator Controller: Power/Brake Controller, Part 1
The core of a train simulator setup could be considered its throttle and brake, the control or...
4th Aug 2024
The core of a train simulator setup could be considered its throttle and brake, the control or controls that make a train go and stop. In previous blog posts, I detailed my exploration of building my own controller from scratch, but a fortuitous eBay listing provided me a real...
./techtipsy
So you want to migrate to Kubernetes: observations from a software developer
Kubernetes: everyone wants to do it, regardless of their scale and business objectives.1
Common...
1st Oct 2024
Kubernetes: everyone wants to do it, regardless of their scale and business objectives.1
Common justifications include better scalability, cost savings, standardization and being super modern and stuff. It’s
the future!
In my personal experience, Kubernetes is far from the...
Willem's Blog
Marathon
Read the story of how it feels to complete your first marathon.
19th Oct 2024
Read the story of how it feels to complete your first marathon.
Notes on software...
One year as a solo dev building open-source data tools without funding
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10th Jun 2022
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Jonas Hietala
Christmas break
So school is on a break and I welcome it with all of my heart. The semester has been pretty fun and...
18th Dec 2010
So school is on a break and I welcome it with all of my heart. The semester has been pretty fun and I really enjoy studying here. We had lisp the whole time which is a pretty sweet little language and if you haven’t, give it a shot. Then we had math and I do like math, although I...
matduggan.com
Clickhouse is winning the Observability Wars
For roughly the last ten years, a meaningful percentage of my working hours have been spent thinking...
1st Jul 2026
For roughly the last ten years, a meaningful percentage of my working hours have been spent thinking about observability. If you're not familiar with the term, "observability" is what we call it now that "monitoring" doesn't sound expensive enough. The actual work
Applied Cartography
Emma
this was so fun. i am reminded of walter scott's description of austen as a flemish painter: "[the]...
1st Apr 2020
this was so fun. i am reminded of walter scott's description of austen as a flemish painter: "[the] subjects are not often elegant and certainly never grand; but they are finished up to nature, and with a precision which delights the reader"
MIT News - Civil and...
A faster way to solve complex planning problems
By eliminating redundant computations, a new data-driven method can streamline processes like...
16th Apr 2025
By eliminating redundant computations, a new data-driven method can streamline processes like scheduling trains, routing delivery drivers, or assigning airline crews.
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...
9th Dec 2019
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.
computers are bad
The Ascent to Sandia Crest II
Where we left
off,
Albuquerque's boosters, together with the Forest Service, had...
19th Oct 2025
Where we left
off,
Albuquerque's boosters, together with the Forest Service, had completed
construction of the Ellis Ranch Loop and a spur to the Sandia Crest. It was
possible, even easy, to drive from Albuquerque east through Tijeras Pass, north
to the present-day location of...
Posts on Made of...
Followup to "A Very Subtle Bug"
After my previous post got posted to reddit, there was a bunch of interesting discussion there about...
3rd Mar 2010
After my previous post got posted to reddit, there was a bunch of interesting discussion there about some details I’d handwaved over. This is a quick followup on some the investigation that various people carried out, and the conclusions they reached.
In the reddit thread,...
Home on Erik...
More Luigi alternatives
The workflow engine battle has intensified with some more interesting entries lately! Here are a...
2nd Jul 2015
The workflow engine battle has intensified with some more interesting entries lately! Here are a couple I encountered in the last few days. I love that at least two of them are direct references to Luigi!
Willem L. Middelkoop
Six Websites in Ten Days
Halfway June I came back from Amsterdam buzzing. A week and a half later six websites were live on a...
23rd Jun 2026
Halfway June I came back from Amsterdam buzzing. A week and a half later six websites were live on a publisher that did not exist before: MP1, a static site generator that lives as a ZIP file inside my own CMS. This post is about what made that possible: automating the dull work...
Vitalik Buterin's...
What do I think about biometric proof of personhood?
24th Jul 2023
computers are bad
2024-09-08 private lines
I have been meaning, for some time, to write about common carrier switching
arrangements (CCSAs)....
8th Sep 2024
I have been meaning, for some time, to write about common carrier switching
arrangements (CCSAs). These could be considered an early form of products like
"virtual private ethernet:" a private telephone network that was served by the
same switching machines that handled the...
Writing
Godzilla Minus One
I wrote a bit in Everybody's in L.A. about the constraint of evaluating the merit of something...
4th Jun 2024
I wrote a bit in Everybody's in L.A. about the constraint of evaluating the merit of something that's in conversation with a genre you don't really care for in the first place; I don't care much for late night shows, and I care even less for kaiju movies, even with my knowledge...
Home on Erik...
ML+Hadoop at NYC Predictive Analytics
I was just at the NYC Predictive Analytics meetup talking about how we build machine learning...
3rd Aug 2013
I was just at the NYC Predictive Analytics meetup talking about how we build machine learning algorithms using Hadoop to power music recommendations.
Great meetup, where we had two speakers, me and Blake Shaw from Foursquare.
Matt Mullenweg
Taxonomist
I’m really excited to introduce a project I worked on with various AI agents the other night, which...
2nd Apr 2026
I’m really excited to introduce a project I worked on with various AI agents the other night, which I think represents a new way we might build things in the future. First, the problem: My WordPress site has 5,600+ posts going back decades, and I had some categories that were old...
Fabien Sanglard
Building a 1997 Quake PC!
8th Jan 2026
Jonas Hietala
5 Kup
After a season with very bad attendence, I blame school and lack of motivation, I still went to...
2nd Dec 2012
After a season with very bad attendence, I blame school and lack of motivation, I still went to grading. I slept well but I was super stressed all weekend so I had to constantly run to the bathroom and I couldn’t eat lunch or breakfast properly, and I don’t usually get...
eieio.games
One Million Chessboards
One Million Chessboards
I made a website. It's called One Million Chessboards. It has a million...
28th Apr 2025
One Million Chessboards
I made a website. It's called One Million Chessboards. It has a million chessboards on it. Moving a piece moves it for everyone, instantly. There are no turns.
Read the full post on my blog!
Here's a raw link, if you need it:
...
Electronics etc…
Cable Length Measurement with an HP 8007B Pulse Generator
MathJax.Hub.Config({
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tex2jax: {
inlineMath: [...
1st Apr 2023
MathJax.Hub.Config({
jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"],
tex2jax: {
inlineMath: [ ['$', '$'], ["\\(", "\\)"] ],
displayMath: [ ['$$', '$$'], ["\\[", "\\]"] ],
processEscapes: true,
skipTags: ['script', 'noscript', 'style', 'textarea', 'pre',...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction
In the 1970s, floating-point arithmetic was a mess. Computer manufacturers had a dozen incompatible...
5 days ago
In the 1970s, floating-point arithmetic was a mess. Computer manufacturers had a dozen incompatible arithmetic standards.
Moreover, floating-point systems were designed around hardware simplicity rather than mathematical rigor, leading to problems
with numerical stability.
This...
Fabien Sanglard
dEngine Source Code Released
More...
28th Apr 2011
Applied Cartography
Fatherhood
Read essay: Fatherhood
10th May 2025
Vitalik Buterin's...
We should talk less about public goods funding and more about open source funding
29th Mar 2025
Ken Shirriff's blog
Inside the tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets
To use the Montreal subway (the Métro), you tap a paper ticket against the turnstile and it...
23rd Jun 2024
To use the Montreal subway (the Métro), you tap a paper ticket against the turnstile and it opens.
The ticket works through a system called NFC, but what's happening internally?
How does the ticket work without a battery? How does it communicate with the turnstile?
And how can it...
Old Vintage...
Microsoft makes 6502 BASIC open source
It was probably going to happen sooner or later, but Microsoft has officially released the source...
3rd Sep 2025
It was probably going to happen sooner or later, but Microsoft has officially released the source code for 6502 BASIC. The specific revision is very Commodore-centric: it's the 1977 "8K" BASIC variant "1.1," which Commodore users know better as BASIC V2.0, the same BASIC used in...
eieio.games
Legibility of Effort
Legibility of Effort
LLMs have broken legibility of effort - our ability to tell, at a glance,...
22nd Jun 2026
Legibility of Effort
LLMs have broken legibility of effort - our ability to tell, at a glance, whether something took a human real work. What happens next?
Read the full post on my blog!
Here's a raw link, if you need it:
https://eieio.games/blog/legibility-of-effort
Louwrentius - Solar
Is storage really that cheap?
Nowadays you can buy a 1 TB harddrive for less than 100 euro's . So I build
myself a 4 TB NAS box,...
5th Oct 2008
Nowadays you can buy a 1 TB harddrive for less than 100 euro's . So I build
myself a 4 TB NAS box, which is already 50% full. However, although it is to
some degree fault-tollerant by using RAID 6, one mistake or catastrophic
hardware faillure and all data is lost.
And that's...
watchTowr Labs
Sometimes, You Can Just Feel The Security In The Design (Junos OS Evolved CVE-2026-21902 RCE)
On today’s ‘good news disguised as other things’ segment, we’re turning our gaze to CVE-2026-21902 -...
3rd Mar 2026
On today’s ‘good news disguised as other things’ segment, we’re turning our gaze to CVE-2026-21902 - a recently disclosed “Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource” vulnerability affecting Juniper’s Junos OS Evolved platform. This vulnerability affects only Juniper’s...
Willem's Blog
Collecting health data with Biostrap
Wearing a clinical-grade PPG sensor for a month to collect advanced biometrics from my wrist.
14th Nov 2017
Wearing a clinical-grade PPG sensor for a month to collect advanced biometrics from my wrist.
Writing
Rear Window
I'm not sure at what point it dawned on me that the setting & vantage of Rear Window was going to be...
1st Feb 2022
I'm not sure at what point it dawned on me that the setting & vantage of Rear Window was going to be a fixture of the entire film, and not just a cute way to stage the first fifteen minutes — but that realization, and everything therein (the vignettes of every other "screen"...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Inside the Apollo "8-Ball" FDAI (Flight Director / Attitude Indicator)
During the Apollo flights to the Moon, the astronauts observed the spacecraft's orientation on a...
14th Jun 2025
During the Apollo flights to the Moon, the astronauts observed the spacecraft's orientation on a special instrument
called the FDAI (Flight Director / Attitude Indicator).
This instrument showed the spacecraft's attitude—its orientation—by rotating a ball.
This ball was nicknamed...
Willem's Blog
Master of Change
In this post I discuss the brilliant book Master of Change by Brad Stulberg, providing a...
17th Jan 2025
In this post I discuss the brilliant book Master of Change by Brad Stulberg, providing a thought-provoking guide to thrive in a changing world.
Joel Gustafson
The beginning of the end of the open web
22nd Oct 2023
./techtipsy
I held a talk about my self-hosting adventure!
There are two reasons why I haven’t written much lately, and one of them is that I was cooking up...
26th May 2023
There are two reasons why I haven’t written much lately, and one of them is that I was cooking up a
talk about self-hosting, more specifically my own self-hosting adventure (the other one is the Steam Deck, more about
that in the future).
The talk took place on May 25th 2023 at...
Odds and Ends of...
I don't know how to feel about Palantir
Normal company or uniquely evil? Let's reason through it.
3rd May 2026
Normal company or uniquely evil? Let's reason through it.
videah.net
Web Push Pitfall
Web Push Pitfall
Posted on March 30, 2023
This post is from a legacy version of this blog!
No...
30th Mar 2023
Web Push Pitfall
Posted on March 30, 2023
This post is from a legacy version of this blog!
No changes have been made to the content in the migration, so things might read weird.
Whilst implementing Web Push notifications for my toy Q&A service curiouswolf I ran into an issue...
Opsbros
Nix Windows Feedback
There turns out to be a far easier way to disable the 'Win+F' Windows Feedback app.
11th Oct 2020
There turns out to be a far easier way to disable the 'Win+F' Windows Feedback app.
Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing TagVault Fabric for AirTag
Having an AirTag fall out of our camera bag pocket that was then stolen, we wanted something...
19th Apr 2023
Having an AirTag fall out of our camera bag pocket that was then stolen, we wanted something better.
So we designed TagVault Fabric Mount for AirTag. It is ultra-flexible to move and flow with your fabric. Discreet, so it doesn't stand out to a would-be thief. And it's...
Willem L. Middelkoop
Fietselfstedentocht 2017
This month I cycled the Fietselfstedentocht, a 235KM tour through Friesland. This tour brings you...
29th Jun 2017
This month I cycled the Fietselfstedentocht, a 235KM tour through Friesland. This tour brings you through various Frisian cities throughout one of the most Northern provinces of the Netherlands. The tour was first organised in 1912 and has grown to become legendary due to its...
Writing
Black Bag
There's a (likely apocryphal) quote from Soderbergh about Ocean's Eleven, one of the greatest movies...
14th Jun 2025
There's a (likely apocryphal) quote from Soderbergh about Ocean's Eleven, one of the greatest movies about America:
Jonas Hietala
Netrunner Spring Tournament
There was another, smaller, netrunner tournament about a week ago. I was looking forward to a very...
4th May 2015
There was another, smaller, netrunner tournament about a week ago. I was looking forward to a very casual setting but there were also some guys who came from… Västerås I think, but I’m not sure. We managed to scrape together 9 people at least, and I didn’t notice anyone bringing...
Notes on software...
Is it worth writing about?
You acquire a skill or experience through time and effort,
then downplay the impact of writing and...
1st Dec 2022
You acquire a skill or experience through time and effort,
then downplay the impact of writing and sharing the learning
process.
Professionals seem naturally to imagine a high bar for what
is worth writing about.
I think that's misguided. This article is not criticism of folks...
Notes on software...
Benchmarking esbuild, swc, tsc, and babel for React/JSX projects
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13th Nov 2021
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Open for Business
Australian Open 2026: Alcaraz and Rybakina Triumph In The Shadow Of Legends
The gala which precedes the tournament is not a ball, but exhibition tennis, which featured legends...
4th Feb 2026
The gala which precedes the tournament is not a ball, but exhibition tennis, which featured legends Roger Federer, Andre Agassi, Patrick Rafter, and 2022 women’s champion Ashleigh Barty. Long-time OFB readers will know how much seeing Federer again means to me.
Abishek Muthian
Postmortem of Butt Mover
I suffer from chronic lower back pain, Since I don't consume opioids I find exercises 1 to be the...
13th Dec 2022
I suffer from chronic lower back pain, Since I don't consume opioids I find exercises 1 to be the best pain management technique.
In addition to the specific exercises for managing back pain, Not sitting for long durations seems to be the key factor for me to not trigger the back...
Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing TagVault Pet for AirTag
Having pets that went missing before, AirTags are the perfect companion. We wanted a case that could...
22nd May 2021
Having pets that went missing before, AirTags are the perfect companion. We wanted a case that could take the abuse of an active full-size dog, fit nice on a cat, work with all pet collars, and be durable.
So we designed Tagvault Pet. It's waterproof, fits every collar, and is...
Yazin Alirhayim
Braindump
Sometimes, getting it all down on paper helps me think through things. This is that, a complete...
21st Oct 2020
Sometimes, getting it all down on paper helps me think through things. This is that, a complete brain dump.
Jonas Hietala
Customizing Neovim
Scripting is configuration. Configuration is scripting.
TJ DeVries A different take on editing...
2nd May 2024
Scripting is configuration. Configuration is scripting.
TJ DeVries A different take on editing code
I’ve been using Neovim since it forked from Vim almost 8 years ago, and I used Vim many years before that.
I feel quite comfortable with Neovim, and I’ve gone down the...
Vitalik Buterin's...
7ème tour des subventions Gitcoin - Rétrospective
18th Oct 2020
Eric Migicovsky's...
Kickstarter 1 Campaign Updates
20th Jun 2012
Willem L. Middelkoop
Protecting VMware ESXi
In response to an incident on a server, I detected a possible security breach. The affected machine...
30th Aug 2021
In response to an incident on a server, I detected a possible security breach. The affected machine ran VMware ESXi, a bare metal hypervisor used to run virtual private servers. In standalone mode, a web based management console offers full control over the infrastructure, posing...
Applied Cartography
Cribsheet
A follow-up to Expecting Better focusing on the first few years of parenthood and what some...
2nd Apr 2024
A follow-up to Expecting Better focusing on the first few years of parenthood and what some combination of data, studies, and rational rigor tells us about common crossroads (breastfeeding vs. formula, daycare vs. nanny, television vs. no television, et cetera.)
Louwrentius - Solar
The sorry state of CoW file systems
I'd like to argue that both ZFS and BTRFS both are incomplete file systems with their own drawbacks...
1st Mar 2015
I'd like to argue that both ZFS and BTRFS both are incomplete file systems with their own drawbacks and that it may still be a long way off before we have something truly great.
Both ZFS and BTRFS are two heroic feats of engineering, created by people who are probably ten times...
Engineers Need Art
Adam74
The Adam74 is a small ASCII-based terminal designed for the 8-bit hobbyist.
21st Aug 2022
The Adam74 is a small ASCII-based terminal designed for the 8-bit hobbyist.
Gwern.net Newsletter
Jan 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter
January 2021 gwern.net newsletter with links on AI scaling up and down.
4th Feb 2021
January 2021 gwern.net newsletter with links on AI scaling up and down.
Eric Migicovsky's...
Evolution of inPulse - Part 1
25th Oct 2009
Willem L. Middelkoop
It Observes
An observer writing a daily log of what it sees watching Earth, it uses no names of countries or...
13th Mar 2026
An observer writing a daily log of what it sees watching Earth, it uses no names of countries or organisations, instead it speaks in metaphorical descriptions. Its distance provides an alternative perspective on our daily news. Let me tell you about this experiment I have been...
Writing
Fairy Tale
Alternate universe VGM-y nujabes. Nothing world-shattering, but extremely good vibes.
3rd Mar 2022
Alternate universe VGM-y nujabes. Nothing world-shattering, but extremely good vibes.
Applied Cartography
What Are You Going Through
The book was good but it felt like a step back from the masterwork of The Friend; they are so...
3rd Jan 2021
The book was good but it felt like a step back from the masterwork of The Friend; they are so similar in structure and style but it felt a little bit like everything in this one was a few percentage points less powerful, which accumulated. The writerly citations and digressions...
Himanshu Mishra |...
Brain, Mind and Consciousness — Essay
Layers of ‘I’ when perceiving anything which is external to it Thanks to Montaigne, one of the first...
16th Apr 2018
Layers of ‘I’ when perceiving anything which is external to it Thanks to Montaigne, one of the first essay writers, for popularizing this…
Willem L. Middelkoop
Repairing a Nintendo Gameboy Advance SP
This month Nintendo released the Switch with Zelda "Breath of the Wild". The new console received...
25th Mar 2017
This month Nintendo released the Switch with Zelda "Breath of the Wild". The new console received positive reviews. The new Zelda game is amazing and can be played on-the-go, thanks to the portability of the Nintendo Switch. But it its hardly the first Nintendo device that...
Louwrentius - Solar
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...
6th Apr 2020
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...
Writing
Breasts and Eggs
I think if I were to recommend this book to someone I would do it simply: do not read the second...
3rd Jan 2021
I think if I were to recommend this book to someone I would do it simply: do not read the second part. This is an amalgam of two novellas (explicitly demarcated as such in the final product), and the first book — rife with a crisper style and interesting voices — is dulled by the...
Freewheeling Apps
2026-01-28
As I start teaching the kids programming, I’ve been thinking about how to motivate it to them. They...
29th Jan 2026
As I start teaching the kids programming, I’ve been thinking about how to motivate it to them. They do a lot of drawing, so that seemed like a potential hook to show how drawing on the computer may make some things easier (erasing, manipulating, repeating) and other things harder...
Writing
Game of Thrones
Okay, so, Game of Thrones.
28th Dec 2019
Okay, so, Game of Thrones.
Louwrentius - Solar
Howto get the hard disk size under Linux?
A: There is no single tool for this job, but it seems that Fdisk is just fine:
server:~# fdisk -l 2>...
18th Aug 2009
A: There is no single tool for this job, but it seems that Fdisk is just fine:
server:~# fdisk -l 2> /dev/null | grep Disk | grep -v identifier
Disk /dev/sda: 500.0 GB, 500028145664 bytes
Disk /dev/sdb: 500.0 GB, 500028145664 bytes
Disk /dev/sdc: 1000.1 GB, 1000123400192...
Louwrentius - Solar
RAID array size and rebuild speed
When a disk fails of a RAID 5 array, you are no longer protected against
(another) disk failure and...
3rd Apr 2010
When a disk fails of a RAID 5 array, you are no longer protected against
(another) disk failure and thus data loss. During this rebuild time, you are
vulnerable. The longer it takes to rebuild your array, the longer you are
vulnerable. Especially during a disk-intensive period,...
Simply Explained
Serverless Anagram Solver with Cloudflare R2 and Pages
Six years ago, I reworked my anagram solver so it would run on top of AWS Lambda and DynamoDB....
10th Sep 2022
Six years ago, I reworked my anagram solver so it would run on top of AWS Lambda and DynamoDB. However, this year I realized I didn't need server-side code or a database at all. I could make it completely static by pre-computing anagram solutions.
Never Met a Science
things will have to change
Social Science in the age of AI
15th Jan 2026
Social Science in the age of AI
Writing
The First Ninety Days
This book is an excellent example of the “would this be better as a long blog post” litmus test...
3rd Aug 2020
This book is an excellent example of the “would this be better as a long blog post” litmus test (which it strongly fails.)
Butler's Log
Opening Up GitButler
Today we're flipping the public switch on GitHub for our GitButler client code and removing the...
2nd Feb 2024
Today we're flipping the public switch on GitHub for our GitButler client code and removing the waiting list entirely. Everyone and anyone can now directly download the GitButler client and access the source code.
Arduino Blog
This Stream Deck alternative runs on an Arduino UNO Q
If you do a lot of creative work, you’ve probably found that your computer’s keyboard and mouse...
1st Feb 2026
If you do a lot of creative work, you’ve probably found that your computer’s keyboard and mouse alone just don’t cut it. There are simply too many different shortcuts and macros to cover with memorable key combos. That’s why BlommeJan used an Arduino UNO Q to build the Starkpad....
Bryan Braun - Blog
Raise your standards for important things; lower them for unimportant things
I think we’ve all got some built in tendencies, pulling us towards certain behaviors, whether or not...
27th Dec 2025
I think we’ve all got some built in tendencies, pulling us towards certain behaviors, whether or not they are worthwhile.
It takes many different forms. If you have OCD cleaning tendencies, you spend excessive time making sure your windows are spotless. If you are money-focused,...
Elevation Lab - Blog
NightStand at your local Apple Store
NightStands now come in some beautiful new colors & new packaging - you can find them in Apple...
26th Aug 2015
NightStands now come in some beautiful new colors & new packaging - you can find them in Apple Stores around the globe beginning today.
For any designer, to see something you made out in the wild is a special experience. So today is a real trip for our tiny little Portland...
On Life and Lisp
Hilariously Fast Volume Computation with the Divergence Theorem
(No, there won’t be jokes.)
The following presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of a...
16th Feb 2018
(No, there won’t be jokes.)
The following presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of a simple, closed, triangulated 3D mesh. This assumption is a consequence of the divergence theorem. Further extensions may generalise to other meshes as well, although that is presently...
Avestura's Blog
Using Tor outside of the Tor Browser
This post shows how to run Tor with a simple PowerShell script and use it in other apps like...
13th May 2019
This post shows how to run Tor with a simple PowerShell script and use it in other apps like Telegram...
Kent de Bruin
The Desktop Metaphor
The implications of the desktop metaphor on digital interfaces
10th Oct 2021
The implications of the desktop metaphor on digital interfaces
Neil Madden
Is Datalog a good language for authorization?
Datalog is a logic programming language, based on Prolog, which is seeing something of a resurgence...
19th Feb 2022
Datalog is a logic programming language, based on Prolog, which is seeing something of a resurgence in interest in recent years. In particular, several recent approaches to authorization (working out who can do what) have used Datalog as the logical basis for access control...
Bryan Braun - Blog
SolidGoldMagikarp
In November 2019, years before the launch of ChatGPT, OpenAI created a 1.5 billion parameter Large...
28th Oct 2025
In November 2019, years before the launch of ChatGPT, OpenAI created a 1.5 billion parameter Large Language Model and released it publicly under the name GPT-2.
Immediately, researchers and enthusiasts began playing with it, using it to generate poetry, folk music, fan-fiction...
benn.substack
To weigh a watermelon
There are many frontiers.
3rd Jul 2026
There are many frontiers.
Willem L. Middelkoop
Marathon
Last Sunday I completed my first full marathon, covering a distance of 42KM in and around Amsterdam....
19th Oct 2024
Last Sunday I completed my first full marathon, covering a distance of 42KM in and around Amsterdam. An idea that started in a bar with some beers and concluded with a finish in the Olympic Stadium. What a journey, what an experience, well worthy of a blog post.
About a year ago,...
Jonas Hietala
Stereotypes
I read a great essay or article about stereotypical programmers called The Little Printf. I really...
14th Oct 2015
I read a great essay or article about stereotypical programmers called The Little Printf. I really couldn’t do it justice so do yourself a favor and go read it. It touches on several types of programmers or rather traits of programmers I recognize in my surroundings and also...
Simply Explained
How I Built an NFC Movie Library for my Kids
When I was a kid, my sister and I had a tower of VHS tapes we watched endlessly. Fast-forward to...
14th Nov 2023
When I was a kid, my sister and I had a tower of VHS tapes we watched endlessly. Fast-forward to today, and my children's movie collection is vastly different. It's completely digital and dispersed across services. I wanted to recreate the tangible magic of my childhood for them.
watchTowr Labs
8 Million Requests Later, We Made The SolarWinds Supply Chain Attack Look Amateur
Surprise surprise, we've done it again. We've demonstrated an ability to compromise significantly...
4th Feb 2025
Surprise surprise, we've done it again. We've demonstrated an ability to compromise significantly sensitive networks, including governments, militaries, space agencies, cyber security companies, supply chains, software development systems and environments, and more.
“Ugh, won’t...
Louwrentius - Solar
Understanding Windows KMS and MAK volume license activation
Introduction
If you have to administer a large number of PCs running Windows, you will end up...
9th Jun 2012
Introduction
If you have to administer a large number of PCs running Windows, you will end up creating an automated deployment platform for your Windows clients. You may implement something like Windows Deployment Services.
I used WDS to create a fully automated installation of...
Blog | Sam Curry
We Hacked Apple for 3 Months: Here’s What We Found
7th Oct 2020
Never Met a Science
For-Profit Academic Publishers Love LLM Garbage
Against For-Profit "Open Access"
4th Apr 2026
Against For-Profit "Open Access"
Arduino Blog
3Duino helps you rapidly create interactive 3D-printed devices
Every few months, some new software comes along that promises to make some complex engineering...
3rd Dec 2025
Every few months, some new software comes along that promises to make some complex engineering discipline accessible to everyone. Such software rarely lives up to the developer’s claims, because the claims are far too ambitious. But what if the scope is more reasonable? 3Duino...
Elevation Lab - Blog
A newer, better, ElevationDock
Today we launched an update to our iPhone dock.
It's wider to fit a bigger generation of phones,...
1st Jun 2015
Today we launched an update to our iPhone dock.
It's wider to fit a bigger generation of phones, ships with an Apple-certified Lightning connector (that you can assemble in seconds with the new tool-free back plate), and we've added some new lateral supports for added...
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