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Three apps that will not change your life After what has felt like a long winter of habitual reliance on my existing tools, I’m finally...
15th Aug 2025
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Three apps that will not change your life

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

15th Aug 2025
After what has felt like a long winter of habitual reliance on my existing tools, I’m finally playing around with some new ones. This is a healthy habit—so long as you don’t convince yourself that you’re just one more App Store download away from a previously unimaginable level...
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Cursed circuits: charge pump voltage halver There's plenty of circuits that are hard to understand because they're complicated. And some that...
2nd Dec 2025
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Cursed circuits: charge pump voltage halver

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

2nd Dec 2025
There's plenty of circuits that are hard to understand because they're complicated. And some that are hard to make sense of because they seem too simple.
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Action Syllabus Week 1: Decide Technology Policy in the Classroom
22nd Apr 2024
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Action Syllabus

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

22nd Apr 2024
Week 1: Decide Technology Policy in the Classroom
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March 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter 2 major new site features: 'popins' and recursive Wikipedia popups
6th Apr 2021
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March 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter

from Gwern.net Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Apr 2021
2 major new site features: 'popins' and recursive Wikipedia popups
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JJ Con 2026 Talks are Up All the talks from JJ Con 2026 in Lisbon are now on YouTube. Here is a quick overview of each of...
1st Oct 2026
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JJ Con 2026 Talks are Up

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

1st Oct 2026
All the talks from JJ Con 2026 in Lisbon are now on YouTube. Here is a quick overview of each of them.
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Bad Apple but it's 6,500 regexes that I search for in vim Bad Apple but it's 6,500 regexes that I search for in vim Look. There's simply no reason that I...
10th Jan 2025
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Bad Apple but it's 6,500 regexes that I search for in vim

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

10th Jan 2025
Bad Apple but it's 6,500 regexes that I search for in vim Look. There's simply no reason that I should have to exit vim when I want to watch Bad Apple, the shadow-art video that folks enjoy embedding in fun spots. So I got Bad Apple running inside vim just using vim's search...
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Apollo for Reddit 1.9 Apollo 1.9’s a massive update to Apollo that’s taken months and months to complete, but I’m really...
12th Sep 2020
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Apollo for Reddit 1.9

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

12th Sep 2020
Apollo 1.9’s a massive update to Apollo that’s taken months and months to complete, but I’m really happy with the result, and it brings together a ton of ideas from the community to make Apollo even nicer to use. The update includes a variety of features around crossposts, flair,...
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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...
30th Oct 2021
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Tools for a Culture of Writing

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

30th Oct 2021
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....
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When One Pro Is Worth Ten Cons Stop listing options and start making arguments
3rd Feb 2026
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When One Pro Is Worth Ten Cons

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

3rd Feb 2026
Stop listing options and start making arguments
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From prediction markets to info finance
9th Nov 2024
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From prediction markets to info finance

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

9th Nov 2024
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Fixed Gear Gran Fondo Taking a fixed gear road bike for a gran fondo! Let some of my fun be of inspiration to you!
9th Apr 2021
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Fixed Gear Gran Fondo

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

9th Apr 2021
Taking a fixed gear road bike for a gran fondo! Let some of my fun be of inspiration to you!
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Crazy With the Heat Heat is awful, humidity makes it worse, and deathly stillness renders it just about...
16th Jul 2026
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Crazy With the Heat

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

16th Jul 2026
Heat is awful, humidity makes it worse, and deathly stillness renders it just about insufferable. The other night my neighbor was standing on his porch. He blew a smoke ring. Next morning, it was still there, though the morning fog had made it soggy so it had sunk to the ground.
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Attention is All You Need Reading Expands Our Context Windows
7th Jul 2025
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Attention is All You Need

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

7th Jul 2025
Reading Expands Our Context Windows
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Building a killer NAS with an old Rackable Server Like many others, I'm generating a lot of digital data. Constantly taking photos, writing scripts,...
29th Jun 2021
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Building a killer NAS with an old Rackable Server

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

29th Jun 2021
Like many others, I'm generating a lot of digital data. Constantly taking photos, writing scripts, taking notes, coding projects, and making videos. I'm storing all these files on Google Drive, which has been very reliable but also a bit risky. What if Google closes my account?...
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The Living Computers Museum finally isn't First off, apologies for a quiet month as I've been dealing with family matters which hopefully are...
26th Jun 2024
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The Living Computers Museum finally isn't

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

26th Jun 2024
First off, apologies for a quiet month as I've been dealing with family matters which hopefully are now on a better footing (more articles are in the hopper). Unfortunately, the same apparently can't be said for the once-great Living Computers Museum + Labs in Seattle,...
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Pareto efficency Pareto efficiency is a useful concept I like to think about. It often comes up when you compare...
25th Oct 2016
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Pareto efficency

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

25th Oct 2016
Pareto efficiency is a useful concept I like to think about. It often comes up when you compare items on multiple dimensions. Say you want to buy a new TV. To simplify it let's assume you only care about two factors: price and quality.
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Writing a minimal in-memory storage engine for MySQL/MariaDB I spent a week looking at MySQL/MariaDB internals along with ~80 other devs. Although MySQL and...
9th Jan 2024
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Writing a minimal in-memory storage engine for MySQL/MariaDB

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

9th Jan 2024
I spent a week looking at MySQL/MariaDB internals along with ~80 other devs. Although MySQL and MariaDB are mostly the same (more on that later), I focused on MariaDB specifically this week. Before last week I had never built MySQL/MariaDB before. The first day of this hack week,...
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Doom3 Source Code Review On November 23, 2011 id Software maintained the tradition and released the source code of their...
8th Jun 2012
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Doom3 Source Code Review

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

8th Jun 2012
On November 23, 2011 id Software maintained the tradition and released the source code of their previous engine. This time is was the turn of idTech4 which powered Prey, Quake 4 and of course Doom 3. Within hours the GitHub repository was forked more than 400 times and...
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Modeling conversion rates using Weibull and gamma distributions This is a blog post originally featured on the Better engineering blog. If you want to link to this...
5th Aug 2019
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Modeling conversion rates using Weibull and gamma distributions

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

5th Aug 2019
This is a blog post originally featured on the Better engineering blog. If you want to link to this article or share it, please go to the original post URL! Separately, I'm sorry it's been so long with no posts on this blog.
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Plus Post: Logic Programming Associates 386-PROLOG Yes, it's here! LPA 386-PROLOG is now available in a version for Windows!
1st Jul 2026
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Plus Post: Logic Programming Associates 386-PROLOG

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

1st Jul 2026
Yes, it's here! LPA 386-PROLOG is now available in a version for Windows!
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Building personal software with Claude Earlier this month, I used Claude to port (parts of) an Emacs package into Rust, shrinking the...
27th Jan 2025
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Building personal software with Claude

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

27th Jan 2025
Earlier this month, I used Claude to port (parts of) an Emacs package into Rust, shrinking the execution time by a factor of 1000 or more (in one concrete case: from 90s to about 15ms). This is a variety of yak-shave that I do somewhat routinely, both professionally and in...
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The ITTAGE indirect branch predictor While investigating the performance of the new Python 3.14 tail-calling interpreter, I learned (via...
4th Jul 2025
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The ITTAGE indirect branch predictor

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

4th Jul 2025
While investigating the performance of the new Python 3.14 tail-calling interpreter, I learned (via this very informative comment from Sam Gross) new (to me) piece of performance trivia: Modern CPUs mostly no longer struggle to predict the bytecode-dispatch indirect jump inside a...
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Death, and Utsuge This post discusses topics some may wish to avoid: terminal illness, hospice care, death, and...
1st Nov 2024
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Death, and Utsuge

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

1st Nov 2024
This post discusses topics some may wish to avoid: terminal illness, hospice care, death, and Japanese visual novels.
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Analyzing the Monoprice Blackbird HDCP 2.2 to 1.4 Down Converter Introduction Some Words about HDCP Inside the Monoprice Blackbird 4K Pro The Test Digging Deeper:...
26th Nov 2023
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Analyzing the Monoprice Blackbird HDCP 2.2 to 1.4 Down Converter

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

26th Nov 2023
Introduction Some Words about HDCP Inside the Monoprice Blackbird 4K Pro The Test Digging Deeper: UART Transactions Decoding HDCP I2C Transactions The Legality of It All References Footnotes Introduction I got my hands on a Monoprice Blackbird 4K Pro HDCP 2.2 to 1.4...
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JSON and PowerShell Working with Object-based arrays in PowerShell can be a challenge; but here's a trick that will...
11th May 2020
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JSON and PowerShell

from Opsbros [alt+shift+b] in technology

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.
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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
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How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

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
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“To live is to fight, to fight is to live! - IBM ODM Remote Code Execution In previous blogs, we’ve discussed some of the big players in the enterprise software space, but...
22nd Feb 2024
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“To live is to fight, to fight is to live! - IBM ODM Remote Code Execution

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

22nd Feb 2024
In previous blogs, we’ve discussed some of the big players in the enterprise software space, but there is one that we have not mentioned before, that is - quite frankly - the heavy-weight champion of the world in terms of applications for large enterprises. With over a hundred
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The Birth of Windows Gaming Software is a fluid that expands to fill its container
2nd Sep 2023
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The Birth of Windows Gaming

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

2nd Sep 2023
Software is a fluid that expands to fill its container
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Vision Pro Currently, I am overlooking a lake at Mount Hood while writing this. I hear birds in the distance...
15th Feb 2024
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Vision Pro

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

15th Feb 2024
Currently, I am overlooking a lake at Mount Hood while writing this. I hear birds in the distance and see the lake calm, with subtle waves and some mist in the distance. Yet, it is fake, as I am sitting on our top floor, a barely furnished room full of items belonging to a family...
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A Brief History of Sega Enterprises Sega does what Nintendon't
12th Jan 2026
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A Brief History of Sega Enterprises

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

12th Jan 2026
Sega does what Nintendon't
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Skylight and the AT Protocol Since my last piece about Bluesky, I’ve been using the service a lot more. Just about everyone I...
4th Apr 2025
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Skylight and the AT Protocol

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

4th Apr 2025
Since my last piece about Bluesky, I’ve been using the service a lot more. Just about everyone I followed on other services is there now, and it’s way more fun than late-stage Twitter ever was. Halifax is particularly into Bluesky, which reminds me of our local scene during the...
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CBC Spark with Nora Young Really upset to recently learn that Spark with Nora Young has been cancelled by the CBC, ending in...
13th Jun 2024
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CBC Spark with Nora Young

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in technology

13th Jun 2024
Really upset to recently learn that Spark with Nora Young has been cancelled by the CBC, ending in June 2024. (Announcement episode) One of the most intelligent, progressive technology-in-society news shows in Canada or anywhere for that matter. Perhaps that it’s medium is radio...
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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
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Repairing a Nintendo Gameboy Advance SP

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

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...
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Embedding the Sky Two projects at the intersection of geospatial data and AI. First, a semantic search engine for...
27th Feb 2026
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Embedding the Sky

from John Wiseman [alt+shift+b] in technology

27th Feb 2026
Two projects at the intersection of geospatial data and AI. First, a semantic search engine for aerial imagery, fine-tuned on OpenStreetMap-tagged data. Second, WARP—a custom neural model that learns embeddings of aircraft flight trajectories, trained on roughly a million...
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Reclaiming Your Memory in the Age of Distraction In today's social media-saturated world, does it feel like your memory is failing you? It's not that...
1st Jul 2025
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Reclaiming Your Memory in the Age of Distraction

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

1st Jul 2025
In today's social media-saturated world, does it feel like your memory is failing you? It's not that you can't remember anything, but rather that you're constantly distracted while trying to remember. Just a few years ago, I had a nightly ritual. Before drifting off to sleep, I'd...
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Let a thousand societies bloom
17th Dec 2025
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Let a thousand societies bloom

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

17th Dec 2025
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The stack circuitry of the Intel 8087 floating point chip, reverse-engineered Early microprocessors were very slow when operating with floating-point numbers. But in 1980, Intel...
9th Dec 2025
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The stack circuitry of the Intel 8087 floating point chip, reverse-engineered

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

9th Dec 2025
Early microprocessors were very slow when operating with floating-point numbers. But in 1980, Intel introduced the 8087 floating-point coprocessor, performing floating-point operations up to 100 times faster. This was a huge benefit for IBM PC applications such as AutoCAD,...
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New trend: extreme hours at AI startups Pulling 80+ hour work weeks – including weekends – is becoming the norm across AI startups, and is...
14th Aug 2025
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New trend: extreme hours at AI startups

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

14th Aug 2025
Pulling 80+ hour work weeks – including weekends – is becoming the norm across AI startups, and is unlikely to stop while AI is so hot.
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Packing Neovim with Fennel I’ve got lots of stuff to do but I ended up rewriting my Neovim config instead. … anyone can do...
29th Oct 2025
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Packing Neovim with Fennel

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

29th Oct 2025
I’ve got lots of stuff to do but I ended up rewriting my Neovim config instead. … anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment. Robert Benchley, in Chips off the Old Benchley, 1949 My partner Veronica is amazing as...
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Updates March 01
1st Mar 2024
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Updates March 01

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

1st Mar 2024
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Home is where the home server is I moved recently, and so did my home server. You might have noticed it due to the downtime. This...
15th May 2025
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Home is where the home server is

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

15th May 2025
I moved recently, and so did my home server. You might have noticed it due to the downtime. This time I have built a dedicated shelf for it, which allows for more flexibility and room for additional expensive ideas. The internet connection is a fiber line, which is fantastic for...
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Web Push Pitfall Whilst implementing Web Push notifications for my toy Q&A service curiouswolf I ran into an issue...
30th Mar 2023
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Web Push Pitfall

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

30th Mar 2023
Whilst implementing Web Push notifications for my toy Q&A service curiouswolf I ran into an issue that led to me being stumped for hours. I was successfully receiving notifications from my server when using Chrome, but no matter what Safari was not playing ball. Web Push requires...
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Pea Bee #2: We're here because we're here Hi all, thank you for subscribing to this newsletter.
5th Jan 2021
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Pea Bee #2: We're here because we're here

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

5th Jan 2021
Hi all, thank you for subscribing to this newsletter.
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My attempt at archiving nfscars.net Background My mother once had a laptop: the Compaq Armada 1592DT. It came with Windows ME which...
1st Mar 2021
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My attempt at archiving nfscars.net

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

1st Mar 2021
Background My mother once had a laptop: the Compaq Armada 1592DT. It came with Windows ME which later got “upgraded” to Windows 98 SE after I managed to completely screw up the OS, a whopping 96MB of RAM and a hard drive that probably wasn’t much larger than 1-3GB. It wasn’t...
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Alleged Jabber Zeus Coder ‘MrICQ’ in U.S. Custody A Ukrainian man indicted in 2012 for conspiring with a prolific hacking group to steal tens of...
2nd Nov 2025
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Alleged Jabber Zeus Coder ‘MrICQ’ in U.S. Custody

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

2nd Nov 2025
A Ukrainian man indicted in 2012 for conspiring with a prolific hacking group to steal tens of millions of dollars from U.S. businesses was arrested in Italy and is now in custody in the United States, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Sources close to the investigation say Yuriy...
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How to get better at recursion tldr; reimplement standard library functions in your favorite language without loops. Background For...
7th Mar 2021
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How to get better at recursion

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

7th Mar 2021
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...
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Advice That Actually Worked For Me My contribution to the 'productivity advice' genre.
4th Jul 2022
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Advice That Actually Worked For Me

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

4th Jul 2022
My contribution to the 'productivity advice' genre.
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How to: Adding a floating “Back to top” button in Pika As we say repeatedly on its homepage, Pika is designed to help you focus on writing, not tinkering...
22nd May 2026
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How to: Adding a floating “Back to top” button in Pika

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

22nd May 2026
As we say repeatedly on its homepage, Pika is designed to help you focus on writing, not tinkering with your blog design. To that end Pika purposely doesn’t support complex liquid templating or other such code customization. However, today I thought I’d share how crazy powerful...
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David Cuartielles receives the Open Source Award on Skills and Education We are proud to announce that David Cuartielles, co-founder of Arduino, has been honored with the...
3rd Feb 2025
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David Cuartielles receives the Open Source Award on Skills and Education

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

3rd Feb 2025
We are proud to announce that David Cuartielles, co-founder of Arduino, has been honored with the Open Source Award on Skills and Education 2025 and has become a founding member of the Open Source Academy of Europe. This prestigious award recognizes individuals who have made...
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SolidGoldMagikarp In November 2019, years before the launch of ChatGPT, OpenAI created a 1.5 billion parameter Large...
28th Oct 2025
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SolidGoldMagikarp

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

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...
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Apple is killing off the optical drive just like the floppy disk With the release of the new MacBook Air we are one step closer to killing off the cd-rom and the...
23rd Oct 2010
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Apple is killing off the optical drive just like the floppy disk

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

23rd Oct 2010
With the release of the new MacBook Air we are one step closer to killing off the cd-rom and the dvd. As with the previous MacBook Air, this device has no optical drive. And that is a good thing. People do not need an optical drive. You have the network and you have USB disks....
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My Half-Anniversary with Starlink It was six months ago today that I first plugged my computer into the Starlink router, connected to...
20th Aug 2026
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My Half-Anniversary with Starlink

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

20th Aug 2026
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.
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No Way, PHP Strikes Again! (CVE-2024-4577) Orange Tsai tweeted a few hours ago about “One of [his] PHP vulnerabilities, which affects XAMPP by...
7th Jun 2024
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No Way, PHP Strikes Again! (CVE-2024-4577)

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

7th Jun 2024
Orange Tsai tweeted a few hours ago about “One of [his] PHP vulnerabilities, which affects XAMPP by default”, and we were curious to say the least. XAMPP is a very popular way for administrators and developers to rapidly deploy Apache, PHP, and a bunch of other tools, and
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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...
2nd Sep 2023
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Analyzing Link Rot in My Newsletter (After 31 Editions)

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

2nd Sep 2023
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....
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Testing a cheap ExpressCard to NVMe SSD adapter on my ThinkPad T430 I stumbled upon this post in /r/thinkpad, which got my attention. It showcases an ExpressCard to M.2...
4th Oct 2022
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Testing a cheap ExpressCard to NVMe SSD adapter on my ThinkPad T430

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

4th Oct 2022
I stumbled upon this post in /r/thinkpad, which got my attention. It showcases an ExpressCard to M.2 NGFF adapter that they purchased from AliExpress. The adapter has a similar purpose to the one designed by thinkmods.store, with the added bonus that it could fit longer NVMe...
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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
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Disabling the crappy Broadcom Bluetooth adapter in your ThinkPad T430 running Linux

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

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...
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The Billion-Dollar World of Parasite SEO: How to Cash In Parasite SEO is when a third-party company partners with an established domain, then posts a bunch...
23rd Oct 2024
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The Billion-Dollar World of Parasite SEO: How to Cash In

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

23rd Oct 2024
Parasite SEO is when a third-party company partners with an established domain, then posts a bunch of SEO content to make a bunch of money. Content often gets published in a subfolder or subdomain or the website. The goal is to leverage the domain’s trust with Google to get...
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A new job, a new life Last month, I started a new job working as a fullstack software engineer at ClassDojo. This was an...
3rd Jul 2025
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A new job, a new life

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

3rd Jul 2025
Last month, I started a new job working as a fullstack software engineer at ClassDojo. This was an interesting job transition for me. It was the first time I got caught up in layoffs and the first time that I ended up with multiple job offers to choose from. As I weighed the...
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January, 2025 Hello, 2025! (As always, Death Cab remains the soundtrack by which you should read this.)
5th Jan 2025
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January, 2025

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

5th Jan 2025
Hello, 2025! (As always, Death Cab remains the soundtrack by which you should read this.)
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May Day activation on island of Hailuoto May Day is celebrated on first of May.
4th May 2025
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May Day activation on island of Hailuoto

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

4th May 2025
May Day is celebrated on first of May.
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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
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Using Tor outside of the Tor Browser

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

13th May 2019
This post shows how to run Tor with a simple PowerShell script and use it in other apps like Telegram...
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Bomb Squad Peripherals' BLOWGUN It Could Have Been a Lot Worse - His Data is BLOWGUN Protected!
19th Jun 2024
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Bomb Squad Peripherals' BLOWGUN

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

19th Jun 2024
It Could Have Been a Lot Worse - His Data is BLOWGUN Protected!
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Final Fantasy The game certainly shows its age, I can tell you that much. (I played Dawn of Souls, which was the...
28th Dec 2007
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Final Fantasy

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

28th Dec 2007
The game certainly shows its age, I can tell you that much. (I played Dawn of Souls, which was the slightly easier remake, and even then it was a bit of a slog.) It’s short, though, and it’s I think worth playing for its place in the canon.
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How to be Right without being Sure
9th Jun 2025
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How to be Right without being Sure

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

9th Jun 2025
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Coordination, Good and Bad
11th Sep 2020
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Coordination, Good and Bad

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

11th Sep 2020
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Lighthouse manifesto - Personal value matters more than general quality
16th Jun 2025
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Lighthouse manifesto - Personal value matters more than general quality

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

16th Jun 2025
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Stacked Branches with GitButler GitButler can now manage dependent branches that are stacked, including managing stacked GitHub PRs.
4th Dec 2024
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Stacked Branches with GitButler

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

4th Dec 2024
GitButler can now manage dependent branches that are stacked, including managing stacked GitHub PRs.
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New benchmarks for approximate nearest neighbors UPDATE(2018-06-17): There are is a later blog post with newer benchmarks! One of my super nerdy...
15th Feb 2018
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New benchmarks for approximate nearest neighbors

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

15th Feb 2018
UPDATE(2018-06-17): There are is a later blog post with newer benchmarks! One of my super nerdy interests include approximate algorithms for nearest neighbors in high-dimensional spaces. The problem is simple. You have say 1M points in some high-dimensional space.
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Forty years of programming
8th Oct 2023
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Forty years of programming

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

8th Oct 2023
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Plex Might Be Inadvertently Bottlenecking You Plex Might Be Inadvertently Bottlenecking You Posted on May 12, 2025 This post is from a legacy...
12th May 2025
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Plex Might Be Inadvertently Bottlenecking You

from videah.net [alt+shift+b] in technology

12th May 2025
Plex Might Be Inadvertently Bottlenecking You Posted on May 12, 2025 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. Plex has this Relay feature that basically pipes your traffic through...
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Should there be demand-based recurring fees on ENS domains?
9th Sep 2022
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Should there be demand-based recurring fees on ENS domains?

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

9th Sep 2022
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Stacked Branches with GitButler GitButler can now manage dependent branches that are stacked, including managing stacked GitHub PRs.
4th Dec 2024
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Stacked Branches with GitButler

from GitButler [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Dec 2024
GitButler can now manage dependent branches that are stacked, including managing stacked GitHub PRs.
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avalanche technology One of the downsides of having written here for six years now is that my messy, ever-growing text...
5th Sep 2026
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avalanche technology

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

5th Sep 2026
One of the downsides of having written here for six years now is that my messy, ever-growing text file of topics for future articles contains a bunch of ideas that have been there for about six years. Part of the problem is that I just have to scroll so far up to even see them...
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Trying and returning the Eight Sleep Pod 4 I recently bought the Eight Sleep Pod 4—a smart mattress cover that tracks your heart rate, HRV,...
5th Oct 2024
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Trying and returning the Eight Sleep Pod 4

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

5th Oct 2024
I recently bought the Eight Sleep Pod 4—a smart mattress cover that tracks your heart rate, HRV, snoring, and cools or warms the mattress during the night. There’s a lot to like about the mattress but in the end I opted to return it. This post describes my experience with the Pod...
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GitButler 0.22 - "Catch 22" The newest GitButler release has landed, including native GitHub stacked pull requests
6th Aug 2026
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GitButler 0.22 - "Catch 22"

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

6th Aug 2026
The newest GitButler release has landed, including native GitHub stacked pull requests
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Smart lights behind a wall switch (Shelly + ESPHome) Using smart light bulbs means you can no longer use your physical wall switches because the bulbs...
7th Oct 2022
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Smart lights behind a wall switch (Shelly + ESPHome)

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

7th Oct 2022
Using smart light bulbs means you can no longer use your physical wall switches because the bulbs need constant power. I think that's pretty dumb. Using a physical switch can be way faster than using an app to control the lights.Here's how you can put a Shelly in between the...
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Virtual Pinhead Discovering virtual pinball, a hobbyist community devoted to it, and building a full-size virtual...
2nd Apr 2024
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Virtual Pinhead

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

2nd Apr 2024
Discovering virtual pinball, a hobbyist community devoted to it, and building a full-size virtual pinball cabinet.
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A faster way to solve complex planning problems By eliminating redundant computations, a new data-driven method can streamline processes like...
16th Apr 2025
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A faster way to solve complex planning problems

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

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.
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On building quicker How AI tools have transformed my approach to building projects, making it possible to launch ideas...
31st Mar 2025
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On building quicker

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

31st Mar 2025
How AI tools have transformed my approach to building projects, making it possible to launch ideas faster and focus on what matters most.
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0x4 reasons to write and publish
7th Nov 2023
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0x4 reasons to write and publish

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

7th Nov 2023
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Health and fitness data Since the start of this new year I am working out harder than the previous months. I have set some...
15th Jan 2024
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Health and fitness data

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

15th Jan 2024
Since the start of this new year I am working out harder than the previous months. I have set some goals for myself and have taken on a training scheme incorporating running, cycling and swimming. As I sift through the growing mountain of workout data, I find myself questioning:...
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3D-printable Raleno 104 lightbox adapter for camera film scanning My latest creation is a 3D-printed adapter for the Raleno PLV-S104 (Raleno 104) light. The model...
11th Jul 2021
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3D-printable Raleno 104 lightbox adapter for camera film scanning

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

11th Jul 2021
My latest creation is a 3D-printed adapter for the Raleno PLV-S104 (Raleno 104) light. The model turns it into a lightbox that you can use for digital camera scanning of your negative film. It also contains a holder compatible with the Valoi 35mm/120 film carriers. Additionally,...
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Stack overflow is almost dead Today, Stack overflow has almost as few questions asked per month, as when it launched back in 2009....
15th May 2025
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Stack overflow is almost dead

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

15th May 2025
Today, Stack overflow has almost as few questions asked per month, as when it launched back in 2009. A recap of its slow, then rapid, downfall.
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The Future of Software and Open Source I've been writing software for the better part of 30 years, and like many of my colleagues, I have...
18th May 2023
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The Future of Software and Open Source

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

18th May 2023
I've been writing software for the better part of 30 years, and like many of my colleagues, I have recently had a difficult time identifying the last thing that has changed the way I work more quickly and massively than the current wave of large language model tooling like...
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What Makes Art Great? Some notes toward an answer
3rd May 2026
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What Makes Art Great?

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

3rd May 2026
Some notes toward an answer
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How I’m using AI tools in early 2025 (members post) What am I actually using these LLMs for at the start of 2025? Quite a bit, actually.
2nd Mar 2025
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How I’m using AI tools in early 2025 (members post)

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Mar 2025
What am I actually using these LLMs for at the start of 2025? Quite a bit, actually.
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Streaming public key authenticated encryption with insider auth security Note: this post will probably only really make sense to cryptography geeks. In “When a KEM is...
2nd Jul 2025
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Streaming public key authenticated encryption with insider auth security

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

2nd Jul 2025
Note: this post will probably only really make sense to cryptography geeks. In “When a KEM is not enough”, I described how to construct multi-recipient (public key) authenticated encryption. A naïve approach to this is vulnerable to insider forgeries: any recipient can construct...
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Building a professional 72TB NAS Over the past few years I have been moving my data and work from local computers (mostly laptops)...
21st Nov 2019
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Building a professional 72TB NAS

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

21st Nov 2019
Over the past few years I have been moving my data and work from local computers (mostly laptops) into the cloud. Cloud computing is done by servers in a datacenter, powerful computers that do the hard work. As my company grew, I needed more capacity. It was time to add some...
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April 2020 gwern.net newsletter This is the April 2020 edition of the gwern.net newsletter; previous, March 2020 (archives).
1st May 2020
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April 2020 gwern.net newsletter

from Gwern.net Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st May 2020
This is the April 2020 edition of the gwern.net newsletter; previous, March 2020 (archives).
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Introducing The 10-Year Battery for AirTag My camera bag with $10k of gear was stolen from my car. When I saw the broken glass and empty...
18th Dec 2024
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Introducing The 10-Year Battery for AirTag

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

18th Dec 2024
My camera bag with $10k of gear was stolen from my car. When I saw the broken glass and empty backseat, I immediately pulled up FindMy to track the thief - only to find that its last location was my office 3 months ago... because I hadn't changed the AirTag's battery. It was a...
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Train Simulator Controller: CAN Controller, Part 1 I’m building a physical cab dashboard to control Train Simulator, from master controller to an AWS...
22nd Jun 2023
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Train Simulator Controller: CAN Controller, Part 1

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

22nd Jun 2023
I’m building a physical cab dashboard to control Train Simulator, from master controller to an AWS sunflower to a speedometer, and everything in between. The engineer or hobbyist interested in getting this project ready expediently would probably find their favorite...
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I made a little audio speed calculator I was recently listening to an 8-hour-and-51-minute audiobook, and wanted to know how much time I’d...
3rd Dec 2025
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I made a little audio speed calculator

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

3rd Dec 2025
I was recently listening to an 8-hour-and-51-minute audiobook, and wanted to know how much time I’d save if I listened to it on 1.5× speed. This math is easy enough; divide 8 hours and 51 minutes by 1.5 to get the new duration: 5 hours and 54 minutes. But I also wanted to: See...
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Setting up your /now page with an RSS feed I have a /now page, which I use to tell people what I’m up to these days. I like the concept of “now...
2nd Nov 2024
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Setting up your /now page with an RSS feed

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

2nd Nov 2024
I have a /now page, which I use to tell people what I’m up to these days. I like the concept of “now pages” but I felt like it would be better if it had an RSS feed. The feed would give interested parties a way to subscribe to life changes. The problem is that RSS feeds aren’t...
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Slackware update The last time I (re)installed Slackware I documented what I did. Somehow I managed to really bork my...
2nd Aug 2015
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Slackware update

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

2nd Aug 2015
The last time I (re)installed Slackware I documented what I did. Somehow I managed to really bork my installation and I decided to go through with a larger reinstallation once more. This is a log of some things I did differently. Kernel Before installing the kernel it’s nice to...
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Rolex DateJust 36 Celebrating a major milestone, I treated myself to a Rolex DateJust 36. Want to know what it's like?...
21st Dec 2022
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Rolex DateJust 36

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

21st Dec 2022
Celebrating a major milestone, I treated myself to a Rolex DateJust 36. Want to know what it's like? Keep reading!
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I see dead people Imagine seeing your dead family members - not just on a picture, but lifelike and in three...
9th Sep 2024
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I see dead people

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

9th Sep 2024
Imagine seeing your dead family members - not just on a picture, but lifelike and in three dimensions! You can almost touch them. It hits you differently, I can assure you. I'm still in awe: I just saw my dead grandfather, lifelike and for the first time ever in three dimensions!...
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Forecasting - Metaculus Q4 2024 Retrospective
13th Jan 2025
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Forecasting - Metaculus Q4 2024 Retrospective

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

13th Jan 2025
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What I learned while gaming at 480 FPS It’s clear that with display technologies, we’ve hit a point of diminishing returns with packing...
12th May 2025
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What I learned while gaming at 480 FPS

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

12th May 2025
It’s clear that with display technologies, we’ve hit a point of diminishing returns with packing pixels more densly. However, there is room for rendering frames faster and faster. Having listened to Digital Foundry’s John Linneman talk so highlighy about playing games in 480hz on...
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Should Security Solutions Be Secure? Maybe We're All Wrong - Fortinet FortiSIEM Pre-Auth Command... It’s Friday, but we’re here today with unscheduled content - pushing our previously scheduled...
15th Aug 2025
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Should Security Solutions Be Secure? Maybe We're All Wrong - Fortinet FortiSIEM Pre-Auth Command Injection (CVE-2025-25256)

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

15th Aug 2025
It’s Friday, but we’re here today with unscheduled content - pushing our previously scheduled shenanigans to next week. Fortinet is no stranger to the watchTowr Labs research team. Today we’re looking at CVE-2025-25256 - a pre-authentication command injection in FortiSIEM that...
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2023-10-03 overheard overhead Let's talk about overhead paging. The concept goes by various names: paging, public address, even...
3rd Oct 2023
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2023-10-03 overheard overhead

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

3rd Oct 2023
Let's talk about overhead paging. The concept goes by various names: paging, public address, even intercom, although the accuracy of the latter term can be questionable. It's probably one of the aspects of business telephone systems that gets the most public attention, on account...
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Having a safe CEX: proof of solvency and beyond
19th Nov 2022
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Having a safe CEX: proof of solvency and beyond

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

19th Nov 2022
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The Future of Open Source A GitHub founder's musings on the past, present and future of large groups of people collaborating...
6th Aug 2024
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The Future of Open Source

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

6th Aug 2024
A GitHub founder's musings on the past, present and future of large groups of people collaborating on software in awesome ways.
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Antenna diodes in the Pentium processor I was studying the silicon die of the Pentium processor and noticed some puzzling structures...
23rd Nov 2024
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Antenna diodes in the Pentium processor

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

23rd Nov 2024
I was studying the silicon die of the Pentium processor and noticed some puzzling structures where signal lines were connected to the silicon substrate for no apparent reason. Two examples are in the photo below, where the metal wiring (orange) connects to small square regions of...
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Introducing TagVault Pet for AirTag Having pets that went missing before, AirTags are the perfect companion. We wanted a case that could...
22nd May 2021
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Introducing TagVault Pet for AirTag

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

22nd May 2021
Having pets that went missing before, AirTags are the perfect companion. We wanted a case that could take the abuse of an active full-size dog, fit nice on a cat, work with all pet collars, and be durable. So we designed Tagvault Pet. It's waterproof, fits every collar, and is...
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Album Search in Album Whale Did you know that we, Good Enough, make a little website called Album Whale where you can make...
24th Mar 2026
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Album Search in Album Whale

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

24th Mar 2026
Did you know that we, Good Enough, make a little website called Album Whale where you can make beautiful lists of albums to share with your friends, the world, or just yourself? It’s true! We haven’t made an update there in quite some time (it’s pretty good enough as-is), but I...
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Digital Minimalism I find myself weirdly torn on this book.
3rd Dec 2020
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Digital Minimalism

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

3rd Dec 2020
I find myself weirdly torn on this book.
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2013 Read Books I actually read more books in 2013 than in 2012. In a somewhat unorganized list: Fiction Livet...
3rd Jan 2014
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2013 Read Books

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

3rd Jan 2014
I actually read more books in 2013 than in 2012. In a somewhat unorganized list: Fiction Livet Deluxe - Jens Lapidius Escape from camp 14 - Blaine Harden Wonderful. A great book. Edge - Jeffery Deaver Dollar - Lee Child Gisslan - Lee Child Bränd - Lee Child Besökaren - Lee...
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FFmpeg performance on a Core i7 920 @ 3.6 Ghz The system i'm running is a Core i7 920 @ 3.6 Ghz. I am transcoding a DVD (Grave Of The Fire Flies)...
22nd Apr 2009
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FFmpeg performance on a Core i7 920 @ 3.6 Ghz

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

22nd Apr 2009
The system i'm running is a Core i7 920 @ 3.6 Ghz. I am transcoding a DVD (Grave Of The Fire Flies) to iPod format (640x480 x264). Thread support is enabled, to FFmpeg uses about 250% CPU. That's 2.5 of the 4 cores available. If possible, I would have liked to see it use all four...
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LotusNotes I tend to focus on the origin of the computer within the military. Particularly in the early days of...
14th Mar 2026
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LotusNotes

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

14th Mar 2026
I tend to focus on the origin of the computer within the military. Particularly in the early days of digital computing, the military was a key customer, and fundamental concepts of modern computing arose in universities and laboratories serving military contracts. Of course, the...
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GitButler is now Fair Source GitButler is now officially one of the first members of the Fair Source movement, helping to shift...
6th Aug 2024
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GitButler is now Fair Source

from GitButler [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Aug 2024
GitButler is now officially one of the first members of the Fair Source movement, helping to shift closed source to publicly available software by default.
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Nielsen Norman Group on iOS 26 usability On Friday, Raluca Budiu posted “Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26” to the...
12th Oct 2025
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Nielsen Norman Group on iOS 26 usability

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

12th Oct 2025
On Friday, Raluca Budiu posted “Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26” to the Nielsen Norman Group site. If the name isn’t familiar to you, the Nielsen Norman Group are UI/UX specialists who’ve been commenting insightfully about design since the late-90s. The...
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An incomplete guide to stealth addresses
20th Jan 2023
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An incomplete guide to stealth addresses

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

20th Jan 2023
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Why Android developers no longer need Windows USB drivers
30th Dec 2023
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Why Android developers no longer need Windows USB drivers

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

30th Dec 2023
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Smoking coolermaster Silent Pro M 600W TN6M50 So I was just messing around on my work station, when suddenly I smelled the smell any person...
9th Feb 2010
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Smoking coolermaster Silent Pro M 600W TN6M50

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

9th Feb 2010
So I was just messing around on my work station, when suddenly I smelled the smell any person familiar with electronics fears. The smell of some electrical component burning. The whole upper floor smelled like something was smoldering. So I shut down both my storage servers....
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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
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Waiting is risky

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

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...
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learning to swim at 26 I learned how to swim at the age of 26. Or rather, I'm still learning. In my last lesson, I managed...
17th Jul 2026
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learning to swim at 26

from sibervepunk [alt+shift+b] in technology

17th Jul 2026
I learned how to swim at the age of 26. Or rather, I'm still learning. In my last lesson, I managed to swim 50 meters without using any support (and I didn't drown, lol). In the lesson before that, I got dizzy, my leg cramped three times, and I had swallowed half the pool. (you...
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Talking tablets: what makes a great tablet? Earlier this year Microsoft released their brand new Surface Pro X tablet computer, in many ways...
13th Apr 2020
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Talking tablets: what makes a great tablet?

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

13th Apr 2020
Earlier this year Microsoft released their brand new Surface Pro X tablet computer, in many ways this is a forward thinking device. As I like working with tablets I wondered what exactly makes a great tablet? Is Surface Pro X any good? Read along to find out. Surface Pro X Unlike...
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Open source
1st Jan 2001
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Open source

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

1st Jan 2001
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Great Tools Disappear The best designed products get out of the way and let you focus on the work instead of the tool
18th Sep 2025
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Great Tools Disappear

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

18th Sep 2025
The best designed products get out of the way and let you focus on the work instead of the tool
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YouTube is a mysterious monopoly Yesterday I saw this Bluesky post from Adrian Black. He runs Adrian’s Digital Basement, a retro...
8th Sep 2025
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YouTube is a mysterious monopoly

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

8th Sep 2025
Yesterday I saw this Bluesky post from Adrian Black. He runs Adrian’s Digital Basement, a retro computer repair channel I really enjoy. In the post, he points out a trend I didn’t know about: YouTube views seem to have fallen off a cliff recently. Further down the thread, Jeff...
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What's with ML software and pickles? I have spent many years as an software engineer who was a total outsider to machine-learning, but...
8th Nov 2023
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What's with ML software and pickles?

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

8th Nov 2023
I have spent many years as an software engineer who was a total outsider to machine-learning, but with some curiosity and occasional peripheral interactions with it. During this time, a recurring theme for me was horror (and, to be honest, disdain) every time I encountered the...
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Resurrection Aah what a nice summer! It was nice to be back in Övertorneå, doing nothing in particular. Just not...
18th Aug 2011
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Resurrection

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

18th Aug 2011
Aah what a nice summer! It was nice to be back in Övertorneå, doing nothing in particular. Just not having to make lunch and dinner every day is such a relief, and if you do slip up food with grandma or Veronica’s parents is only a phone call away. I watched TV, played...
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Improve your sleep by blocking light Over the past few weeks I have been experimenting with wearing a sleep mask in bed, blocking all...
23rd Jan 2020
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Improve your sleep by blocking light

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

23rd Jan 2020
Over the past few weeks I have been experimenting with wearing a sleep mask in bed, blocking all light. Our bodies produce the sleep hormone, melatonin, in darkness. Living in an environment awash in artificial light, is therefore exactly the sort of thing that disrupts one's...
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Oversimplified ideas of the great philosophers of all times Ideas of the great philosophers of all times explained in a few lines
23rd Mar 2023
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Oversimplified ideas of the great philosophers of all times

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

23rd Mar 2023
Ideas of the great philosophers of all times explained in a few lines
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Survey: What’s in your tech stack? We want to capture an accurate snapshot of software engineering, today – and need your help! Tell us...
18th Mar 2025
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Survey: What’s in your tech stack?

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

18th Mar 2025
We want to capture an accurate snapshot of software engineering, today – and need your help! Tell us about your tech stack and get early access to the final report, plus extra analysis
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Experiments in Printmaking - Part 1 Trying some unconventional techniques to create a pop-art print of a Cherry Mash candy bar.
13th Mar 2024
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Experiments in Printmaking - Part 1

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

13th Mar 2024
Trying some unconventional techniques to create a pop-art print of a Cherry Mash candy bar.
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I Want People To Agree With Me, Not Die Pastor Tim has already written about this in light of another assassination attempt on either...
6th May 2026
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I Want People To Agree With Me, Not Die

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

6th May 2026
Pastor Tim has already written about this in light of another assassination attempt on either President Trump or other members of the administration. Many people are unhealthily and dangerously angry, and it seems like it’s getting worse.
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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
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Raise your standards for important things; lower them for unimportant things

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

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,...
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RIP Sonny Rollins Sonny Rollins, the Saxophone Colossus, has passed. He is probably my favorite saxophonist, and while...
27th May 2026
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RIP Sonny Rollins

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

27th May 2026
Sonny Rollins, the Saxophone Colossus, has passed. He is probably my favorite saxophonist, and while the aforementioned album is one of the five I would take to a deserted island, he has so many other good ones like The Cutting Edge which also has bagpipes, or Sonny Side Up with...
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Comics from December 1962 Issue of Computers and Automation Out oldest one yet
10th Oct 2025
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Comics from December 1962 Issue of Computers and Automation

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

10th Oct 2025
Out oldest one yet
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Reading List 08/01/26 Pepper-spray drones, China’s chip Manhattan Project, Commonwealth Fusion’s fundraise, and a proposed...
1st Aug 2026
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Reading List 08/01/26

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

1st Aug 2026
Pepper-spray drones, China’s chip Manhattan Project, Commonwealth Fusion’s fundraise, and a proposed Dulles Airport renovation.
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Rivian R2 wishes as an R1 owner After 7 years with a Tesla Model 3, we picked up a gen 2 Rivian R1S in April of 2025. We still have...
9th Feb 2026
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Rivian R2 wishes as an R1 owner

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

9th Feb 2026
After 7 years with a Tesla Model 3, we picked up a gen 2 Rivian R1S in April of 2025. We still have the Model 3 as a second vehicle, but it’s been really cool experiencing a new electric vehicle from a very passionate new company. 2026 is a really exciting time for Rivian, as in...
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The day I sold my car This week I sold my car, I now no longer own one. For me, this is something of a change as over the...
12th Feb 2020
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The day I sold my car

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

12th Feb 2020
This week I sold my car, I now no longer own one. For me, this is something of a change as over the years I owned various sports cars that were like a hobby to me. My discovery of cycling and the birth of my son changed this. But if you're looking for a reason to buy a sports...
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Migrating to rocks.nvim My relationship with my Neovim config is best described as an On-again, off-again relationship. At...
2nd Jun 2024
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Migrating to rocks.nvim

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

2nd Jun 2024
My relationship with my Neovim config is best described as an On-again, off-again relationship. At times I’m deeply in love and spend all my time caressing the config—like how in September I did a complete rewrite in Lua—while other times I’m busy with other love interests and...
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Benchmarking cheap SSDs for fun, no profit (be warned) The price of Solid-state drives (SSDs) has dropped significantly over the last few years. It's now...
26th Mar 2023
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Benchmarking cheap SSDs for fun, no profit (be warned)

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

26th Mar 2023
The price of Solid-state drives (SSDs) has dropped significantly over the last few years. It's now possible to buy a 1TB solid-state drive for less than €60. However, at such low price points, there is a catch. Although cheap SSDs do perform fine regarding reads, sustained write...
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CANARY Corrugated Cardboard Cutter The CANARY corrugated cardboard cutter is definitely in my top 10 list of most useful purchases...
15th Nov 2022
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CANARY Corrugated Cardboard Cutter

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

15th Nov 2022
The CANARY corrugated cardboard cutter is definitely in my top 10 list of most useful purchases ever. During the COVID-19 lockdowns, we all started shopping online a lot more. The number of cardboard boxes in our house basically quadrupled overnight and cutting them down to size...
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Track Zelda release anniversaries in your calendar The original Legend of Zelda came out 40 years ago today. With other birthdays on the horizon, like...
21st Feb 2026
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Track Zelda release anniversaries in your calendar

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

21st Feb 2026
The original Legend of Zelda came out 40 years ago today. With other birthdays on the horizon, like Twilight Princess’s 20th in November, I wanted a calendar that showed the anniversary of every Zelda game. So I made one. Subscribe to this URL in your calendar...
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Cribsheet A follow-up to Expecting Better focusing on the first few years of parenthood and what some...
2nd Apr 2024
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Cribsheet

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

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.)
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Graceful behavior at capacity Suppose we’ve got a service. We’ll gloss over the details for now, but let’s stipulate that it...
7th Aug 2023
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Graceful behavior at capacity

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

7th Aug 2023
Suppose we’ve got a service. We’ll gloss over the details for now, but let’s stipulate that it accepts requests from the outside world, and takes some action in response. Maybe those requests are HTTP requests, or RPCs, or just incoming packets to be routed at the network layer....
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High quality, low filesize GIFs While the GIF format is a little on the older side, it’s still a really handy format in 2025 for...
2nd Aug 2025
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High quality, low filesize GIFs

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

2nd Aug 2025
While the GIF format is a little on the older side, it’s still a really handy format in 2025 for sharing short clips where an actual video file might have some compatibility issues. For instance, I find when you just want a short little video on your website, a GIF is still so...
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Going Somewhere Vicky, driving me home from O'Hare, got sixteen dollars for the best conversation I had in months....
2 weeks ago
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Going Somewhere

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

2 weeks ago
Vicky, driving me home from O'Hare, got sixteen dollars for the best conversation I had in months. The last line is hers.
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2025-02-02 residential networking over telephone Recently, I covered some of the history of Ethernet's tenuous relationship with installed...
2nd Feb 2025
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2025-02-02 residential networking over telephone

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

2nd Feb 2025
Recently, I covered some of the history of Ethernet's tenuous relationship with installed telephone cabling. That article focused on the earlier and more business-oriented products, but many of you probably know that there have been a number of efforts to install IP...
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UNIX Review Magazine Interviews Larry Tesler They discuss Tesler's involvement with Xerox, Apple and office automation with Unix.
10th Sep 2024
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UNIX Review Magazine Interviews Larry Tesler

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

10th Sep 2024
They discuss Tesler's involvement with Xerox, Apple and office automation with Unix.
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One year on the ultimate commuter bike Answering questions from one of the most popular posts of last year, I am reviewing my commuter bike...
26th Feb 2019
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One year on the ultimate commuter bike

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

26th Feb 2019
Answering questions from one of the most popular posts of last year, I am reviewing my commuter bike after one year of extensive use through winter and summer.
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Annoy Annoy is a simple package to find approximate nearest neighbors (ANN) that I just put on Github. I'm...
12th Apr 2013
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Annoy

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

12th Apr 2013
Annoy is a simple package to find approximate nearest neighbors (ANN) that I just put on Github. I'm not trying to compete with existing packages, but Annoy has a couple of features that makes it pretty useful.
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Epaper digital art frame based on Seeed Studio reTerminal E1002 display and IKEA RÖDALM using... For the last month, I’ve been experimenting with making a digital art frame based on color epaper....
24th Nov 2025
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Epaper digital art frame based on Seeed Studio reTerminal E1002 display and IKEA RÖDALM using ESPHome and Home Assistant

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

24th Nov 2025
For the last month, I’ve been experimenting with making a digital art frame based on color epaper. Spectra 6 is the latest color epaper tech available, offering 6 colors (black, white, red, green, blue, yellow) in brighter and more saturated tones then its predecessors. And with...
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speed reading (the meaning of language) One of the difficult things about describing a grift, or at least what became a grift, is judging...
8th Dec 2025
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speed reading (the meaning of language)

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

8th Dec 2025
One of the difficult things about describing a grift, or at least what became a grift, is judging the sincerity with which the whole thing started. Scams often crystallize around a kernel of truth: genuinely good intentions that start rolling down the hill to profitability and...
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Hitting pause for a month! A brief programming note.
1st Jan 2026
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Hitting pause for a month!

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

1st Jan 2026
A brief programming note.
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Self-hosting 101: Server and Tailscale
8th Sep 2025
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Self-hosting 101: Server and Tailscale

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

8th Sep 2025
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Concrete “battery” developed at MIT now packs 10 times the power Improved carbon-cement supercapacitors could turn the concrete around us into massive energy storage...
1st Oct 2025
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Concrete “battery” developed at MIT now packs 10 times the power

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

1st Oct 2025
Improved carbon-cement supercapacitors could turn the concrete around us into massive energy storage systems.
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Analyzing Token Sale Models
9th Jun 2017
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Analyzing Token Sale Models

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

9th Jun 2017
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The Rehearsal As many people have mentioned, this show owes a lot to Synecdoche; New York (a film that I have very...
3rd Sep 2022
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The Rehearsal

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Sep 2022
As many people have mentioned, this show owes a lot to Synecdoche; New York (a film that I have very strong memories of and for despite having only seen once, in a haze, ten years ago.) It's also a show in the discourse, which I think belies a little just how deeply weird it...
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MD5-based uniqueness constraints in Django Yesterday, I was trying to set a unique constraint for comments in Buttondown to prevent accidental...
1st Sep 2024
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MD5-based uniqueness constraints in Django

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Sep 2024
Yesterday, I was trying to set a unique constraint for comments in Buttondown to prevent accidental double-commenting, and I ran into a problem that I hadn't seen before:
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Luigi: complex pipelines of tasks in Python I'm shamelessly promoting my first major open source project. Luigi is a Python module that helps...
21st Oct 2012
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Luigi: complex pipelines of tasks in Python

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

21st Oct 2012
I'm shamelessly promoting my first major open source project. Luigi is a Python module that helps you build complex pipelines of batch jobs, handle dependency resolution, and create visualizations to help manage multiple workflows. It also comes with Hadoop support built in...
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Switching to Lenovo Carbon X1
2nd Oct 2020
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Switching to Lenovo Carbon X1

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

2nd Oct 2020
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Books update
15th Dec 2022
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Books update

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

15th Dec 2022
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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
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The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker

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

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...
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2023-05-07 electrical characteristics of telephone lines Let's take a break from our boring topic of regional history to focus instead on an even more boring...
7th May 2023
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2023-05-07 electrical characteristics of telephone lines

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

7th May 2023
Let's take a break from our boring topic of regional history to focus instead on an even more boring topic: implementation details of telephone lines. The conventional "copper pair" analog telephone line is fading away. The FCC has begun to authorize abandonment of copper outside...
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The Desktop Metaphor The implications of the desktop metaphor on digital interfaces
10th Oct 2021
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The Desktop Metaphor

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

10th Oct 2021
The implications of the desktop metaphor on digital interfaces
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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
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Juno for YouTube has been removed from the App Store

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

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...
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The reasons Trump gives for attacking Iran It does not add up to much
1st Mar 2026
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The reasons Trump gives for attacking Iran

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

1st Mar 2026
It does not add up to much
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Extending gosql to supporting LIMIT and OFFSET It's been a few months since I picked up gosql and I wanted to use it to prototype a SQL interface...
23rd Jan 2021
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Extending gosql to supporting LIMIT and OFFSET

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

23rd Jan 2021
It's been a few months since I picked up gosql and I wanted to use it to prototype a SQL interface for data stored in S3. But one missing critical feature in gosql is LIMIT and OFFSET support. This post walks through the few key changes to gosql to support LIMIT and OFFSET. You...
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So, You Want To Build A DBaaS Part 2: Technical Bits In my first post in this pseudo-series, we covered more of the theory and organisational practices...
21st May 2023
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So, You Want To Build A DBaaS Part 2: Technical Bits

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

21st May 2023
In my first post in this pseudo-series, we covered more of the theory and organisational practices around building and operating a database-as-a-service platform. In this post, I’ll cover some of the more technical aspects of this that I think are worth considering, drawn from my...
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Cyber Forensic Expert in 2,000+ Cases Faces FBI Probe A Minnesota cybersecurity and computer forensics expert whose testimony has featured in thousands of...
4th Apr 2025
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Cyber Forensic Expert in 2,000+ Cases Faces FBI Probe

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

4th Apr 2025
A Minnesota cybersecurity and computer forensics expert whose testimony has featured in thousands of courtroom trials over the past 30 years is facing questions about his credentials and an inquiry from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Legal experts say the inquiry...
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Send and receive WhatsApp messages through email warning: Sending and receiving messages from WhatsApp through email would bypass the end-to-end...
12th Jan 2021
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Send and receive WhatsApp messages through email

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

12th Jan 2021
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...
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May, 2026 There are two mental models about work and fatigue which, like my brief dalliance with Roshe Runs, I...
1st Jun 2026
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May, 2026

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

1st Jun 2026
There are two mental models about work and fatigue which, like my brief dalliance with Roshe Runs, I have loved and outgrown:
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Why I created Ethereum Proof of Stake demo Hi there!
2nd Nov 2024
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Why I created Ethereum Proof of Stake demo

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

2nd Nov 2024
Hi there!
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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
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Is storage really that cheap?

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

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...
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How Live Chat Tools Impact Conversions and Why I Launched a Bad Variant Do those live chat tools actually help your business? Will they get you more customers by allowing...
21st Jul 2015
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How Live Chat Tools Impact Conversions and Why I Launched a Bad Variant

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

21st Jul 2015
Do those live chat tools actually help your business? Will they get you more customers by allowing your visitors to chat directly with your team? Like most tests, you can come up with theories that sound great for both sides. Pro Live Chat Theory: Having a live chat tool helps...
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Leitz Summicron 50mm f/2 rigid (type 2) lens My newest lens acquisition wasn’t actually originally on my wishlist. I already had a 50mm Summicron...
8th Sep 2020
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Leitz Summicron 50mm f/2 rigid (type 2) lens

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

8th Sep 2020
My newest lens acquisition wasn’t actually originally on my wishlist. I already had a 50mm Summicron lens, though that was the first generation collapsible model known as a Type 1. This lens has lived on my Leica M3 permanently for the past few years, and I have enjoyed the hell...
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Magic the Gathering format: Fun 40
20th May 2026
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Magic the Gathering format: Fun 40

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

20th May 2026
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SQLite has pretty limited builtin functions This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
21st Aug 2022
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SQLite has pretty limited builtin functions

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

21st Aug 2022
This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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Using AI to generate code Discover how AI-generated code can revolutionise your software development process and optimise...
2nd May 2023
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Using AI to generate code

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

2nd May 2023
Discover how AI-generated code can revolutionise your software development process and optimise cloud performance in our fascinating exploration of GPT-4's transformative capabilities.
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Halo and more: exploring incremental verification and SNARKs without pairings
5th Nov 2021
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Halo and more: exploring incremental verification and SNARKs without pairings

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

5th Nov 2021
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Trespasser: Jurassic Park CG Source Code Review More...
10th Jun 2014
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Trespasser: Jurassic Park CG Source Code Review

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

10th Jun 2014
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Some personal user experiences
28th Feb 2023
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Some personal user experiences

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

28th Feb 2023
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When the Going Gets Tough Yesterday I finished the Leiden Marathon, it was the hardest 42K I ever completed due to the...
11th May 2025
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When the Going Gets Tough

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

11th May 2025
Yesterday I finished the Leiden Marathon, it was the hardest 42K I ever completed due to the temperature. Sunny with a clear sky, temperatures climbed to 25°C. Several runners collapsed from heat exhaustion, and one even required resuscitation. When you push your limits,...
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Benchmarking a 1.44 MB floppy drive I've used fio - a storage benchmarking tool - to benchmark a 1.44 MB floppy drive to gauge its...
16th Dec 2019
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Benchmarking a 1.44 MB floppy drive

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

16th Dec 2019
I've used fio - a storage benchmarking tool - to benchmark a 1.44 MB floppy drive to gauge its random I/O performance. I have no real reason for doing this. I just thought it was funny. I've run a benchmark against the floppy drives for different queue depths. The results are...
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Refurbishing a Tektronix TDS7104 Oscilloscope Introduction The TDS7104 Common Failures Make an Image of the Hard Drive CR2032 Backup Battery...
23rd Aug 2026
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Refurbishing a Tektronix TDS7104 Oscilloscope

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

23rd Aug 2026
Introduction The TDS7104 Common Failures Make an Image of the Hard Drive CR2032 Backup Battery Replacement and Display Brightness Do NOT Remove the Front Panel Scope Disassembly A Failed Attempt at Switching over to an SSD Reinstalling from Scratch: Windows 2000 Pro or Windows...
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AI and software security: the slop is now signal No matter how you feel about AI, it’s changing the world of software. The “T” in ChatGPT was...
10th May 2026
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AI and software security: the slop is now signal

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

10th May 2026
No matter how you feel about AI, it’s changing the world of software. The “T” in ChatGPT was invented to improve language translation, and large language models (LLMs) are very good at this. Interestingly, translating between French and Japanese is effectively the same as...
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IBM M13 Trackpoint USB Converter Me, never not on the lookout for an opportunity to design something, whether needed or not, worked...
4th Jan 2022
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IBM M13 Trackpoint USB Converter

from Opsbros [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Jan 2022
Me, never not on the lookout for an opportunity to design something, whether needed or not, worked with @micon to design a module that could fit snugly in the keyboard, and provide a USB-C interface directly into the Keyboard/Mouse module.
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Integrate Home Assistant with Apple Reminders I recently integrated Home Assistant with Apple Reminders so that automations can create new todos....
27th Jul 2022
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Integrate Home Assistant with Apple Reminders

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

27th Jul 2022
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...
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A look at CloudFlare’s AI-coded OAuth library I decided today to take a look at CloudFlare’s new OAuth provider library, which they apparently...
6th Jun 2025
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A look at CloudFlare’s AI-coded OAuth library

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

6th Jun 2025
I decided today to take a look at CloudFlare’s new OAuth provider library, which they apparently coded almost entirely with Anthropic’s Claude LLM: This library (including the schema documentation) was largely written with the help of Claude, the AI model by Anthropic. Claude’s...
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Updating Snake '97 This month I bit the bullet big time: I redesigned the game engine of the wildly popular Snake '97...
20th Feb 2018
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Updating Snake '97

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

20th Feb 2018
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.
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Hitachi Ltd, Part I Kabushikigaisha Hitachi Seisaku-sho
23rd Mar 2026
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Hitachi Ltd, Part I

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

23rd Mar 2026
Kabushikigaisha Hitachi Seisaku-sho
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Cult Classic I can't find where I wrote this, but I described Crosley's writing persona (having read her other...
8th Nov 2022
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Cult Classic

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

8th Nov 2022
I can't find where I wrote this, but I described Crosley's writing persona (having read her other two books) as that of a friend you run into at a party who fits in perfectly and has the best bon mots and she knows it and needs to make sure you know it, too.
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Inside the mechanical Bendix Air Data Computer, part 3: pressure transducers MathJax = { tex: { inlineMath: [['$', '$'], ['\\(', '\\)']] }, svg: { fontCache:...
16th Jan 2024
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Inside the mechanical Bendix Air Data Computer, part 3: pressure transducers

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

16th Jan 2024
MathJax = { tex: { inlineMath: [['$', '$'], ['\\(', '\\)']] }, svg: { fontCache: 'global' }, chtml: { displayAlign: 'left' } }; MathJax.Hub.Config({ "HTML-CSS": { scale: 175} }); .MathJax {font-size: 1em !important} The Bendix Central Air...
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Train Simulator Controller: TPWS Control Panel TPWS is a key safety system in UK trains, so my Class 80x cab needed a precisely replicated TPWS...
16th Nov 2025
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Train Simulator Controller: TPWS Control Panel

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

16th Nov 2025
TPWS is a key safety system in UK trains, so my Class 80x cab needed a precisely replicated TPWS control panel.
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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...
27th Dec 2020
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How to make digital copies of your old video tapes

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

27th Dec 2020
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...
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We moved away from the city When me and my girlfriend Veronica moved to Linköping to study at the University the plan was never...
18th Oct 2019
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We moved away from the city

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

18th Oct 2019
When me and my girlfriend Veronica moved to Linköping to study at the University the plan was never to stay there permanently. We just moved there to study but the longterm plan, if you can have one at that stage, was always to move back to the north of Sweden where we came...
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The two kinds of error In short: in my mind, errors are divided into two categories. Expected errors (think “user entered...
1st Mar 2026
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The two kinds of error

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

1st Mar 2026
In short: in my mind, errors are divided into two categories. Expected errors (think “user entered invalid data”), which are part of normal operation, aren’t the developer’s fault, and should be handled. Unexpected errors (think “null pointer exception”) are the developer’s...
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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
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Filtering spam on YouTube with TensorFlow & AI

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

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...
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How China Is Like the 19th Century U.S. I spend a lot of time reading about manufacturing and its evolution, which means I end up repeatedly...
1st Nov 2024
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How China Is Like the 19th Century U.S.

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

1st Nov 2024
I spend a lot of time reading about manufacturing and its evolution, which means I end up repeatedly reading about the times and places where radical changes in manufacturing were taking place: Britain in the late 18th century, the US in the late 19th and early 20th centuries,...
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How quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack
17th Nov 2025
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How quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack

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

17th Nov 2025
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Why I left Google: work-life balance
4th May 2022
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Why I left Google: work-life balance

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

4th May 2022
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Compiling dynamic programming languages It can be difficult to disassociate the idea that dynamically typed programming languages are tied...
2nd Sep 2018
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Compiling dynamic programming languages

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

2nd Sep 2018
It can be difficult to disassociate the idea that dynamically typed programming languages are tied to byte-code interpreters (e.g. YARV Ruby, CPython, V8, Zend Engine, etc.). But for many languages, a compiled implementation also exists. Cython, Chicken Scheme and SBCL are good...
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A work week one bag travel Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. Neale Donald Walsch I’m lucky that I have a job...
10th Mar 2026
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A work week one bag travel

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

10th Mar 2026
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. Neale Donald Walsch I’m lucky that I have a job where I can work remotely as it allows me to live in a small community where there are no tech jobs anywhere close. It does require me to travel a few weeks per year to the office but...
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DevDays in Vilnius The team headed to DevDays conference in Lithuania last week. I gave a keynote about the history and...
1st Jun 2023
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DevDays in Vilnius

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

1st Jun 2023
The team headed to DevDays conference in Lithuania last week. I gave a keynote about the history and future of version control tools and we had a blast meeting new friends and talking version control.
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Snake '97 High Scores Last week I received a very kind invitation from a Belgian artist, to attend her art exhibition in...
17th Apr 2022
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Snake '97 High Scores

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

17th Apr 2022
Last week I received a very kind invitation from a Belgian artist, to attend her art exhibition in Antwerp. The work on display involved the Snake '97 game that I have created. Uttering to find the right words and thrilled with excitement, I happily accepted the invitation! Snake...
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Most Technical debt is just bullshit Introduction I made an offhand remark about technical debt to a friend and he interrupted me,...
25th Sep 2020
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Most Technical debt is just bullshit

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

25th Sep 2020
Introduction I made an offhand remark about technical debt to a friend and he interrupted me, saying: "technical debt is just bullshit". In his experience, people talking about technical debt were mostly trying to: cover up bad code cover up unfinished work source1 Calling...
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