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Anything's a portable speaker if you're brave enough I hate buying things that are single-purpose, which is why I ended up with this setup. Take a...
2nd Jan 2023
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Anything's a portable speaker if you're brave enough

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

2nd Jan 2023
I hate buying things that are single-purpose, which is why I ended up with this setup. Take a speaker, a battery, put them together, and what you now have is a portable speaker. Since I had access to both, I felt no need to buy a separate portable speaker for use in social...
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Vibe Coding Grossing over $48K a month, the flight simulator game by Pieter Levels spurred a whole flurry of...
14th Apr 2025
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Vibe Coding

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

14th Apr 2025
Grossing over $48K a month, the flight simulator game by Pieter Levels spurred a whole flurry of innovation. Without detailed knowledge of 3D game engine technology, he 'vibe coded' his game using AI. Critics of his work pointed at security and scalability issues, while...
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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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Eztables: simple yet powerful firewall configuration for Linux I've created and released Eztables on Github. Anyone who ever has a need to setup a firewall on...
16th Nov 2013
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Eztables: simple yet powerful firewall configuration for Linux

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

16th Nov 2013
I've created and released Eztables on Github. Anyone who ever has a need to setup a firewall on Linux may be interested in this project. It doesn't matter if you need to protect a laptop, server or want to setup a network firewall. Eztables supports it all. If you're not afraid...
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Different types of layer 2s
31st Oct 2023
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Different types of layer 2s

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

31st Oct 2023
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Postmortem of my 9 year journey at Google I started writing this retrospective during my last week at Google, I have already wrapped up...
16th Aug 2024
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Postmortem of my 9 year journey at Google

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

16th Aug 2024
I started writing this retrospective during my last week at Google, I have already wrapped up everything, had my goodbyes. In the spirit of SRE (as an ex-SRE), I thought it would be fun to write a little retrospective in the form of a postmortem. Introduction I joined Google...
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March Theme: 10 seconds Well well here’s something interesting. The Experimental Gameplay Project has given us a really...
2nd Mar 2010
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March Theme: 10 seconds

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

2nd Mar 2010
Well well here’s something interesting. The Experimental Gameplay Project has given us a really interesting thing to focus on: Time. Like Braid, it’s time for us to make something interesting with time itself. 10 seconds is the constraint and that’s not a lot, but perhaps enough?
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MicroTimes Interviews Borland's Philippe Kahn Again (1995) Khan talks about his post-Borland work at Starfish and competition with Lotus and Microsoft
3rd Mar 2026
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MicroTimes Interviews Borland's Philippe Kahn Again (1995)

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

3rd Mar 2026
Khan talks about his post-Borland work at Starfish and competition with Lotus and Microsoft
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DeltaForce 65: Das Wilde Keyboard One of my all time favorite brands is Metadot’s Das Keyboard. They typically don’t include all the...
18th Dec 2025
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DeltaForce 65: Das Wilde Keyboard

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

18th Dec 2025
One of my all time favorite brands is Metadot’s Das Keyboard. They typically don’t include all the bells and whistles, but they are built so well. But what if a Das Keyboard had all the current extras?
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Rescuing photos from a crashed iMac This week I attempted to recover two decades of personal photo history from a crashed iMac.
14th Oct 2020
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Rescuing photos from a crashed iMac

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

14th Oct 2020
This week I attempted to recover two decades of personal photo history from a crashed iMac.
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Whoop strap review: 24/7 wearable sensor
30th Dec 2019
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Whoop strap review: 24/7 wearable sensor

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

30th Dec 2019
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Why is the Internet So Lonely? Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote a piece called My Modern Friends and Me, as an ode to the...
27th Dec 2021
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Why is the Internet So Lonely?

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

27th Dec 2021
Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote a piece called My Modern Friends and Me, as an ode to the digital-turned-physical friends I had made throughout 2020.
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I made a Chrome extension to help avoid playing cheaters in chess If you google “chrome extension for cheating in chess”, you’ll find a lot of them. Cheating is so...
22nd Dec 2024
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I made a Chrome extension to help avoid playing cheaters in chess

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

22nd Dec 2024
If you google “chrome extension for cheating in chess”, you’ll find a lot of them. Cheating is so easy, it’s crazy. If you google “chrome…
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2023-03-13 the door close button This will probably be a short one, and I know I haven't written for a while, but it has always been...
13th Mar 2023
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2023-03-13 the door close button

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

13th Mar 2023
This will probably be a short one, and I know I haven't written for a while, but it has always been the case that you get what you pay for and Computers Are Bad is nothing if not affordable. Still, this is a topic on which I am moderately passionate and so I can probably stretch...
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From error-handling to structured concurrency How should we think about error-handling in concurrent programs? In single-threaded programs, we’ve...
23rd Mar 2026
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From error-handling to structured concurrency

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

23rd Mar 2026
How should we think about error-handling in concurrent programs? In single-threaded programs, we’ve mostly converged on a standard pattern, with a diverse zoo of implementations and concrete patterns. When an error occurs, it is propagated up the stack until we find a stack frame...
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Confusion is a muse Some of the most interesting technical blog posts I read come from, and a common reason for posts I...
14th Jun 2024
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Confusion is a muse

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

14th Jun 2024
Some of the most interesting technical blog posts I read come from, and a common reason for posts I write is, confusion. You're at work and you start asking questions that are difficult to answer. You spend a few hours or a day trying to get to the bottom of things. If you ask a...
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Algorithms and Data structures books: One size doesn't fit them all Over the years running this moderately popular website, I have been asked many times what is the...
14th Feb 2014
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Algorithms and Data structures books: One size doesn't fit them all

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

14th Feb 2014
Over the years running this moderately popular website, I have been asked many times what is the best book about Algorithms and Data Structures. The answer is always "It depends" ! It depends on how the programmer's brain works and what kind of notation he is comfortable with....
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My home lab server with 20 cores / 40 threads and 128 GB memory Update fall 2024 I have decided to decomission this machine and it is no longer in use. As of this...
12th Aug 2019
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My home lab server with 20 cores / 40 threads and 128 GB memory

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

12th Aug 2019
Update fall 2024 I have decided to decomission this machine and it is no longer in use. As of this moment, it's replaced by a cluster of four 1L PCs which use about a third of the idle power usage and boot within 20 seconds. The single-core performance of these low-power 1L PCs...
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Bitcoin's security isn't binary I’d like to address a misconception that’s at the core in many Bitcoin discussions lately: Bitcoin’s...
28th Jul 2018
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Bitcoin's security isn't binary

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

28th Jul 2018
I’d like to address a misconception that’s at the core in many Bitcoin discussions lately: Bitcoin’s security isn’t binary. In fact security in general isn’t black and white. It’s a trade-off being secure enough for your threat model vs the cost and feasibility of your...
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February 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter links on AI scaling, semaglutide, and ethicist ethics
13th Mar 2021
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February 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter

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

13th Mar 2021
links on AI scaling, semaglutide, and ethicist ethics
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BFS vs DFS in friendships If you already know and remember what Breadth First Search (BFS) and Depth First Search (DFS) are,...
9th Feb 2020
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BFS vs DFS in friendships

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

9th Feb 2020
If you already know and remember what Breadth First Search (BFS) and Depth First Search (DFS) are, skip to What are you saying? Take my…
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AI as Normal Science shoutsout to Arvind and Sayash
2nd Sep 2025
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AI as Normal Science

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

2nd Sep 2025
shoutsout to Arvind and Sayash
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The TikTok Model is the Future of the Web I hate to say it, but when I wake up in the morning, the very first thing I do is check my phone....
24th Oct 2025
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The TikTok Model is the Future of the Web

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

24th Oct 2025
I hate to say it, but when I wake up in the morning, the very first thing I do is check my phone. First I turn off my alarm, I've made it a habit to wake up before it goes off. Then I scroll through a handful of websites. Yahoo Finance first, because the market is crazy. Hacker...
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Nearest neighbors and vector models – part 2 – algorithms and data structures This is a blog post rewritten from a presentation at NYC Machine Learning on Sep 17. It covers a...
1st Oct 2015
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Nearest neighbors and vector models – part 2 – algorithms and data structures

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

1st Oct 2015
This is a blog post rewritten from a presentation at NYC Machine Learning on Sep 17. It covers a library called Annoy that I have built that helps you do nearest neighbor queries in high dimensional spaces.
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Enjoy a festival without alcohol Last weekend me and my brother went to Rock Werchter, a multi-day, music festival in Belgium. Over...
9th Jul 2018
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Enjoy a festival without alcohol

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

9th Jul 2018
Last weekend me and my brother went to Rock Werchter, a multi-day, music festival in Belgium. Over 140 thousand visitors enjoy world famous artists like Pearl Jam, Nick Cave, Artic Monkeys, Noel Gallagher, The Killers and the Queens of the Stone Age. This year I didn't drink...
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Pebble Time 2* Design Reveal TL;DR Pebble Time 2 Design reveal Available in 4 colourways Final specifications How to change your...
13th Aug 2025
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Pebble Time 2* Design Reveal

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

13th Aug 2025
TL;DR Pebble Time 2 Design reveal Available in 4 colourways Final specifications How to change your pre-order from P2D to PT2… Like what you…
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Introducing TagVault Security Mount for AirTag Having had our skis stolen, we wanted to design the ultimate AirTag ski and snowboard mount. It...
24th Oct 2024
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Introducing TagVault Security Mount for AirTag

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

24th Oct 2024
Having had our skis stolen, we wanted to design the ultimate AirTag ski and snowboard mount. It needed to be ultra-tough so it couldn't get knocked off, waterproof, hard to remove, and discreet. After a lot of design, testing, and iteration, we have TagVault Security Mount for...
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I broke and fixed my Ghost blog In case you find this post after hours of google searching
16th Oct 2025
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I broke and fixed my Ghost blog

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

16th Oct 2025
In case you find this post after hours of google searching
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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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Housekeeping 20241208 Corrections, stats, and an update
8th Dec 2024
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Housekeeping 20241208

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

8th Dec 2024
Corrections, stats, and an update
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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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Hacking Millions of Modems (and Investigating Who Hacked My Modem)
3rd Jun 2024
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Hacking Millions of Modems (and Investigating Who Hacked My Modem)

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

3rd Jun 2024
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Speedrunning Tesco (Odds and Ends #93) Plus mixed feelings about Artemis, Mormon gambling, and a council finance nightmare.
1st Apr 2026
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Speedrunning Tesco (Odds and Ends #93)

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

1st Apr 2026
Plus mixed feelings about Artemis, Mormon gambling, and a council finance nightmare.
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April, 2026 I had hoped and expected that the chaos which had marked the start of the year — floors, termites,...
1st May 2026
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April, 2026

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

1st May 2026
I had hoped and expected that the chaos which had marked the start of the year — floors, termites, sickness, fires, ACL surgery — was largely behind us, and that I would be freed to find some sort of rhythm or backbeat with which to tether a new normalcy. And of course, this has...
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Tumblr's awesome project names Not sure how I managed to miss this, but I'm watching this Tumblr presentation and they talk about...
18th Nov 2012
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Tumblr's awesome project names

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

18th Nov 2012
Not sure how I managed to miss this, but I'm watching this Tumblr presentation and they talk about their projects named after Arrested Development topics: Gob, Parmesan, Buster, Jetpants, Oscar, George and Motherboy. Still, the best software project name is probably still Apple's...
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Parquet: more than just "Turbo CSV" Quicker, but also more convenient
3rd Apr 2023
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Parquet: more than just "Turbo CSV"

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

3rd Apr 2023
Quicker, but also more convenient
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Collecting health data with Biostrap Most wearables (smartwatches, fitness trackers, etc.) use very basic sensors to capture heart rate....
14th Nov 2017
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Collecting health data with Biostrap

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

14th Nov 2017
Most wearables (smartwatches, fitness trackers, etc.) use very basic sensors to capture heart rate. Their signal is binary: just counting beats. Biostrap is different, instead of just checking pulses, it captures a high-fidelity PPG waveform. These waveforms are the same kind...
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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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Fathom I'd been meaning to jot down some thoughts on Fathom for a while, and did not have a particularly...
1st Dec 2024
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Fathom

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Dec 2024
I'd been meaning to jot down some thoughts on Fathom for a while, and did not have a particularly good reason to do so until the news broke that Paul Jarvis was selling his share of the company to Jack Ellis, the technical co-founder. 1The blog post itself is a great example of...
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NeXTWorld Interviews Bud Tribble (1994) They discuss NeXT's OpenStep, open standards, and more.
1st Feb 2026
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NeXTWorld Interviews Bud Tribble (1994)

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

1st Feb 2026
They discuss NeXT's OpenStep, open standards, and more.
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A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers I liked the book. I found it charming and winsome and funny. There were no elements, of, like,...
1st Jul 2020
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A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Jul 2020
I liked the book. I found it charming and winsome and funny. There were no elements, of, like, transformative exultation: so many of the books in this genre, the woman’s bildungsroman, the Dept. of Speculations and the Bluets of the world, have a couple moments that totally and...
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Aldous Huxley's world of perceptions You may already know of this novel called 1984, and its author George Orwell. Aldous Huxley wrote a...
18th Jul 2021
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Aldous Huxley's world of perceptions

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

18th Jul 2021
You may already know of this novel called 1984, and its author George Orwell. Aldous Huxley wrote a dystopian classic called Brave New World…
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2025 in review It’s time for a yearly review again. Time flies. Nerdy things I enjoyed I read a few books this...
3rd Jan 2026
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2025 in review

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

3rd Jan 2026
It’s time for a yearly review again. Time flies. Nerdy things I enjoyed I read a few books this year. The whole Dungeon Crawler Carl series was absolutely amazing and it quickly jumped up to one of my favorite series of all time. I can’t be held accountable for everything I’ve...
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Two weeks of parenthood We've had lucy for two weeks, which qualifies us as experts, which means it is time to write about...
6th Oct 2024
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Two weeks of parenthood

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Oct 2024
We've had lucy for two weeks, which qualifies us as experts, which means it is time to write about parenthood. (In all seriousness, consider the below descriptive and not prescriptive: mostly, it's a notepad filled with things that were remarkable or surprising or divergent from...
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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 Applied Cartography [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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Making RSS More Fun I wrote a browser extension to try and make finding random, independent websites more fun.
2nd Dec 2025
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Making RSS More Fun

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

2nd Dec 2025
I wrote a browser extension to try and make finding random, independent websites more fun.
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RailScan: Museum Track and Wire Scanner I volunteer at a train, trolley, and subway museum, including working on restoration of full-sized...
25th Jun 2026
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RailScan: Museum Track and Wire Scanner

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

25th Jun 2026
I volunteer at a train, trolley, and subway museum, including working on restoration of full-sized rail vehicles and maintaining railway infrastructure. As a non-authoritative, hobby project combining my love of trains, electronics, mapping, and data, I am building a LiDAR...
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Master of the Senate I’m going to dispense with the usual reverence for Caro — not because I don’t think this book merits...
1st May 2022
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Master of the Senate

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st May 2022
I’m going to dispense with the usual reverence for Caro — not because I don’t think this book merits it, but because I think I’ve covered that enough in my postscripts to Path to Power and Means of Ascent.
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When you put your brand's mascot on the enemy's platform Back in February 2024, Xbox held a short podcast where they reacted directly to swirling rumors...
28th Oct 2025
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When you put your brand's mascot on the enemy's platform

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

28th Oct 2025
Back in February 2024, Xbox held a short podcast where they reacted directly to swirling rumors about Xbox exclusive titles that were about to go multi-platform, which was giving Xbox fans anxiety. This question from host Tina Amini was right near the start: So when you are...
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Digital Minimalism I find myself weirdly torn on this book.
3rd Dec 2020
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Digital Minimalism

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Dec 2020
I find myself weirdly torn on this book.
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Got myself a Norco RPC-4020 I've got this fetish for storage. So I bought a case that gives me some room for future expantion....
16th Jun 2009
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Got myself a Norco RPC-4020

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

16th Jun 2009
I've got this fetish for storage. So I bought a case that gives me some room for future expantion. The current 6 TB RAID 6 storage server does not have any room for expantion. This Norco RPC-4020 case with 20 hot swap drive bays does however. Don't know what to fill it with yet.
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Tracking down a faulty Storage Array Controller with ZFS One day, I lost two virtual machines on our DR environment after a storage vMotion. Further...
15th Dec 2016
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Tracking down a faulty Storage Array Controller with ZFS

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

15th Dec 2016
One day, I lost two virtual machines on our DR environment after a storage vMotion. Further investigation uncovered that any storage vMotion of a virtual machine residing on our DR storage array would corrupt the virtual machine's disks. I could easily restore the affected...
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Trials and Tribulations of Making an Interruptable Custom View Controller Transition on iOS I think it’s safe to say while the iOS custom view controller transition API is a very powerful one,...
19th Feb 2021
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Trials and Tribulations of Making an Interruptable Custom View Controller Transition on iOS

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

19th Feb 2021
I think it’s safe to say while the iOS custom view controller transition API is a very powerful one, with that power comes a great deal of complexity. It can be tricky, and I’m having one of those days where it’s getting the better of me and I just cannot get it to do what I want...
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The Hunting Gun A slim, potent, and dense novella. The easy (lazy) comparison is to rashomon, and the way we see...
15th Jul 2018
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The Hunting Gun

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

15th Jul 2018
A slim, potent, and dense novella. The easy (lazy) comparison is to rashomon, and the way we see Misugi change from thin and narrow to nuanced and vital and then to a defeated husk of a man is expertly drawn. This kind of framing device has an odd effect: if it was done in a more...
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Highs And Lows
15th Jul 2016
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Highs And Lows

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

15th Jul 2016
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Plus Post: subLOGIC Flight Simulator II Put yourself in the pilot's seat of a Piper 181 Cherokee Archer for an awe-inspiring flight over...
3rd Apr 2026
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Plus Post: subLOGIC Flight Simulator II

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

3rd Apr 2026
Put yourself in the pilot's seat of a Piper 181 Cherokee Archer for an awe-inspiring flight over realistic scenery...
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Legibility of Effort Legibility of Effort LLMs have broken legibility of effort - our ability to tell, at a glance,...
22nd Jun 2026
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Legibility of Effort

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

22nd Jun 2026
Legibility of Effort LLMs have broken legibility of effort - our ability to tell, at a glance, whether something took a human real work. What happens next? Read the full post on my blog! Here's a raw link, if you need it: https://eieio.games/blog/legibility-of-effort
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Something in the orange A last exit.
3rd Oct 2025
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Something in the orange

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

3rd Oct 2025
A last exit.
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Fairy Tale Alternate universe VGM-y nujabes. Nothing world-shattering, but extremely good vibes.
3rd Mar 2022
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Fairy Tale

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3rd Mar 2022
Alternate universe VGM-y nujabes. Nothing world-shattering, but extremely good vibes.
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How much agency do we actually want? "Mr. Torres did as instructed."
13th Jun 2025
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How much agency do we actually want?

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13th Jun 2025
"Mr. Torres did as instructed."
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from hookswitch to grave Through decades of consolidation, reorganization, and divestiture, AT&T left a famously complicated...
14th Jun 2026
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from hookswitch to grave

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14th Jun 2026
Through decades of consolidation, reorganization, and divestiture, AT&T left a famously complicated corporate history. One of the greatest enterprises in American history, arguably the greatest enterprise, AT&T has often rivaled the federal government in the size of its budget...
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Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by opportunity cost Hanlon's razor is a classic aphorism I'm sure you have heard before: Never attribute to malice that...
10th Mar 2020
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Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by opportunity cost

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

10th Mar 2020
Hanlon's razor is a classic aphorism I'm sure you have heard before: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. I've found that neither malice nor stupidity is the most common reason when you don't understand why something is in a certain way.
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2023-12-05 vhf omnidirectional range The term "VHF omnidirectional range" can at first be confusing, because it includes "range"---a...
5th Dec 2023
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2023-12-05 vhf omnidirectional range

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5th Dec 2023
The term "VHF omnidirectional range" can at first be confusing, because it includes "range"---a measurement that the technology does not provide. The answer to this conundrum is, as is so often the case, history. The "range" refers not to the radio equipment but to the space...
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Good Vibrations
17th Jun 2023
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Good Vibrations

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

17th Jun 2023
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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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Fields or Hutches? When I was small, living on a small farm near a college town, my father fell for an idea proffered...
12th Nov 2025
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Fields or Hutches?

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

12th Nov 2025
When I was small, living on a small farm near a college town, my father fell for an idea proffered by the Ralston Purina Company of Checkerboard Square in St. Louis.
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Property-Based Testing Is Fuzzing “Property-based testing” refers to the idea of writing statements that should be true of your code...
3rd Oct 2017
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Property-Based Testing Is Fuzzing

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3rd Oct 2017
“Property-based testing” refers to the idea of writing statements that should be true of your code (“properties”), and then using automated tooling to generate test inputs (typically, randomly-generated inputs of an appropriate type), and observe whether the properties hold for...
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Building the blog... in style! Find out if it is possible to turn a computer from the 90s into a modern development machine.
22nd Jun 2016
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Building the blog... in style!

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22nd Jun 2016
Find out if it is possible to turn a computer from the 90s into a modern development machine.
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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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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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La Guía Incompleta de los Rollups
5th Jan 2021
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La Guía Incompleta de los Rollups

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

5th Jan 2021
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Scala Data Pipelines for Music Recommendations Chris Johnson‘s presentation from Data Day Texas:
13th Jan 2015
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Scala Data Pipelines for Music Recommendations

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

13th Jan 2015
Chris Johnson‘s presentation from Data Day Texas:
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Rebuilding a 1995 GPS Time Server so I don't get Telstra'd In June I purchased this TrueTime XL-AK time server, so I could learn more of the history of...
4th Sep 2026
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Rebuilding a 1995 GPS Time Server so I don't get Telstra'd

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

4th Sep 2026
In June I purchased this TrueTime XL-AK time server, so I could learn more of the history of GPS-based time. I received it on June 22, and just 16 days later a similar GPS time server took down Australia's cell service for 12 hours! I made a short video about it but put off...
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Dipco's Easy Reader "Sight for Sore Eyes"
1st Nov 2024
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Dipco's Easy Reader

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1st Nov 2024
"Sight for Sore Eyes"
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You can’t fix a problem you don’t understand A few weeks ago, I was building a server-side API client. I had written the code and tested it in...
17th Feb 2025
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You can’t fix a problem you don’t understand

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

17th Feb 2025
A few weeks ago, I was building a server-side API client. I had written the code and tested it in isolation. Everything looked good. Unfortunately, when I included it in the main service, I started seeing errors. I decided to try asking an AI tool for suggestions. I gave it the...
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What's up It’s been a while again since the last time we met mr. Blog. I’ve been busy with school and other...
22nd Apr 2011
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What's up

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

22nd Apr 2011
It’s been a while again since the last time we met mr. Blog. I’ve been busy with school and other stuff. I’ve thought about you but I just never really picked up emacs to write to you. I know it’s my fault but I beg of your mercy mr. Blog. You know that I had laid off school for...
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Habits to start I haven’t been feeling quite as forward or as energetic lately. There are no set plans, habits or...
9th Mar 2017
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Habits to start

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

9th Mar 2017
I haven’t been feeling quite as forward or as energetic lately. There are no set plans, habits or goals for this spring and I don’t have a clear vision of what to do currently but it also feels… fine? Maybe I will cruise in a lower gear for a while and rev up when my mood...
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Quick Pebble Project Update
9th Jul 2025
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Quick Pebble Project Update

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

9th Jul 2025
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The square roots of all evil Every programmer knows Donald Knuth’s famous quote that “premature optimization is the root of all...
3rd Dec 2024
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The square roots of all evil

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

3rd Dec 2024
Every programmer knows Donald Knuth’s famous quote that “premature optimization is the root of all evil”, from his 1974 Turing Award lecture (pdf). A fuller quotation of the surrounding context gives a rounder view: I am sorry to say that many people nowadays are condemning...
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Why should I accept all cookies? Around 2013, my team and I finally embarked in upgrading our company's internal software to version...
1st Nov 2025
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Why should I accept all cookies?

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1st Nov 2025
Around 2013, my team and I finally embarked in upgrading our company's internal software to version 2.0. We had a large backlog of user complaints that we were finally addressing, with security at the top of the list. The very top of the list was moving away from plain text...
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Train Simulator Controller: Dashboard Prototyping, Part 1 After sourcing rough measurements of the dashboard of a Class 80x train, I began creating a...
31st Jul 2025
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Train Simulator Controller: Dashboard Prototyping, Part 1

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

31st Jul 2025
After sourcing rough measurements of the dashboard of a Class 80x train, I began creating a cardboard prototype, plus associated CAD designs to get the design fabricated.
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Do people in Bahrain buy online? The story of Canvas.bh How I started a business to answer this simple question. The story of Canvas.bh
9th Sep 2014
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Do people in Bahrain buy online? The story of Canvas.bh

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9th Sep 2014
How I started a business to answer this simple question. The story of Canvas.bh
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In response to a frontend developer asking about database development This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
1st Jan 2023
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In response to a frontend developer asking about database development

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1st Jan 2023
This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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The Fellowship I am a sucker for all things Joseph Shabason at this point, and maybe it's fair to call this album a...
1st May 2021
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The Fellowship

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st May 2021
I am a sucker for all things Joseph Shabason at this point, and maybe it's fair to call this album a little too reminiscent of his prior work, but — who cares? It's sonically diverse and lush and delightful to listen to.
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250 lbs Six months ago, while I was setting up a new code editor, I noticed that the default font size felt...
16th Feb 2026
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250 lbs

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

16th Feb 2026
Six months ago, while I was setting up a new code editor, I noticed that the default font size felt just a bit too small, when displayed on my monitor. Not a big deal, I just bumped it up one size and went back to my work. Then it happened again, this time, when reading sheet...
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Black Bag There's a (likely apocryphal) quote from Soderbergh about Ocean's Eleven, one of the greatest movies...
14th Jun 2025
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Black Bag

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

14th Jun 2025
There's a (likely apocryphal) quote from Soderbergh about Ocean's Eleven, one of the greatest movies about America:
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Finance, Fairer Sharing our investment in Jia, which turns crypto liquidity into working capital for small...
17th May 2023
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Finance, Fairer

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

17th May 2023
Sharing our investment in Jia, which turns crypto liquidity into working capital for small businesses in every corner of the world.
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2023-01-16 huff-duff We've talked a fair amount about HF radio recently, in the context of OTH radar. Recall that an...
16th Jan 2023
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2023-01-16 huff-duff

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

16th Jan 2023
We've talked a fair amount about HF radio recently, in the context of OTH radar. Recall that an extremely useful property of HF radio here is that HF frequencies can reflect off of the upper layers of the atmosphere, causing them to rebound towards earth at a range much further...
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Intel's $475 million error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug In 1993, Intel released the high-performance Pentium processor, the start of the long-running...
28th Dec 2024
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Intel's $475 million error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug

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

28th Dec 2024
In 1993, Intel released the high-performance Pentium processor, the start of the long-running Pentium line. The Pentium had many improvements over the previous processor, the Intel 486, including a faster floating-point division algorithm. A year later, Professor Nicely, a number...
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POV Candle [Hardware] Tiny volumetric display
1st Dec 2023
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POV Candle

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

1st Dec 2023
[Hardware] Tiny volumetric display
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Resource Management “We had to display a lot of information at once and help them make sense of it. There are many ways...
15th Jun 2017
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Resource Management

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

15th Jun 2017
“We had to display a lot of information at once and help them make sense of it. There are many ways to do that wrong and only a few ways to do it right.” The Challenge The client came to us with a problem: They had paid for a custom tool that didn’t do what they needed. They had...
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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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Family Computing Interviews Jack Tramiel after Atari Purchase (1985) They talk about Jack's past and the future of Atari.
3rd Nov 2025
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Family Computing Interviews Jack Tramiel after Atari Purchase (1985)

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3rd Nov 2025
They talk about Jack's past and the future of Atari.
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Building LLVM in 90 seconds using Amazon Lambda Last week, Frederic Cambus wrote about building LLVM quickly on some very large machines,...
21st May 2021
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Building LLVM in 90 seconds using Amazon Lambda

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

21st May 2021
Last week, Frederic Cambus wrote about building LLVM quickly on some very large machines, culminating in a 2m37s build on a 160-core ARM machine. I don’t have a giant ARM behemoth, but I have been working on a tool I call Llama, which lets you offload computational work –...
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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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The 'hidden' cost of using ZFS for your home NAS Introduction Update December 2023: In June, it was announced that iXsystems would sponsor...
2nd Jan 2016
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The 'hidden' cost of using ZFS for your home NAS

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

2nd Jan 2016
Introduction Update December 2023: In June, it was announced that iXsystems would sponsor implementing the VDEV expansion feature. A new pr has been created for this effort. The feature was merged into the code base, but may not be available to the general public before the end...
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Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go: 1. SELECT, INSERT, CREATE and a REPL Next in database basics: 2. binary expressions and WHERE filters 3. indexes 4. a...
6th Mar 2020
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Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go: 1. SELECT, INSERT, CREATE and a REPL

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

6th Mar 2020
Next in database basics: 2. binary expressions and WHERE filters 3. indexes 4. a database/sql driver In this series we'll write a rudimentary database from scratch in Go. Project source code is available on Github. In this first post we'll build enough of a parser to...
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We Need To Talk Advice for keeping up activity on a blog: don’t get appendicitis in a country where you barely speak...
17th Aug 2026
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We Need To Talk

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

17th Aug 2026
Advice for keeping up activity on a blog: don’t get appendicitis in a country where you barely speak the language at the same time that your newborn baby gets his first major daycare illness.
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USB Cheat Sheet
5th May 2022
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USB Cheat Sheet

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

5th May 2022
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The Aces Some isolated bops but extremely uneven and unfinished in terms of feel.
1st Feb 2021
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The Aces

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Feb 2021
Some isolated bops but extremely uneven and unfinished in terms of feel.
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My first weeks as dad Last Christmas my wife gave birth to our son, a little boy that would change everything! It's an...
23rd Jan 2019
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My first weeks as dad

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

23rd Jan 2019
Last Christmas my wife gave birth to our son, a little boy that would change everything! It's an incredible experience to become a parent, especially if it is your first kid. It introduces a whole new way of living, having to deal with regular feeding, caring and sleepless...
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Impact of Adblockers on Google Analytics (vs. Plausible) Adblocker usage is quickly rising, with some estimates saying that almost 25% of internet users have...
27th Oct 2020
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Impact of Adblockers on Google Analytics (vs. Plausible)

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

27th Oct 2020
Adblocker usage is quickly rising, with some estimates saying that almost 25% of internet users have one installed. Not only do they block advertisements, but also analytics scripts (like Google Analytics, Matomo, etc.)So that begs the question: what is the impact of these...
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Doing some online Personality tests For some reason I’ve done a couple of personality tests the last month, mostly to satisfy my own...
11th Dec 2016
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Doing some online Personality tests

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

11th Dec 2016
For some reason I’ve done a couple of personality tests the last month, mostly to satisfy my own curiosity. The Braverman Test Inspired by Charles Poliquin’s visit on The Tim Ferriss Show I tried out the Braverman test to determine my neurotransmitter type. The point Charles...
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How the SNES Graphics System works
9th Aug 2024
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How the SNES Graphics System works

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

9th Aug 2024
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Hello, stranger "Discover the transformative power of simple conversations in our tech-dominated world, as one...
12th Oct 2023
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Hello, stranger

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

12th Oct 2023
"Discover the transformative power of simple conversations in our tech-dominated world, as one individual delves into the lost art of talking to strangers and the profound connections it can forge."
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telephones caught in between During the heyday of AT&T, it was often said that the telephone system was the largest machine ever...
2nd Aug 2026
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telephones caught in between

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

2nd Aug 2026
During the heyday of AT&T, it was often said that the telephone system was the largest machine ever built. The "hello machine" certainly was vast, but whether or not you consider it to be a single machine raises challenging questions of definition. The Internet, I think we can...
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Wearing Grand Seiko I am glad I took the opportunity to wear a Grand Seiko, learning first hand about its craftsmanship,...
4th Jun 2021
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Wearing Grand Seiko

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

4th Jun 2021
I am glad I took the opportunity to wear a Grand Seiko, learning first hand about its craftsmanship, innovation and practicality.
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One year on the ultimate commuter bike A year ago I tried to create the ultimate commuter bike, a modified Sensa Cintura with the Gates...
26th Feb 2019
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One year on the ultimate commuter bike

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

26th Feb 2019
A year ago I tried to create the ultimate commuter bike, a modified Sensa Cintura with the Gates CDN/CDX carbon belt drive. I received lots of messages from cyclists and commuters from all over the world. From the Swiss alps, France, Italy, Germany, United States and even "down...
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My grandfather’s Rolleiflex 2.8D twin-lens reflex (TLR) camera One of the first vintage cameras I ever got was my dad’s old Polaroid SX-70. Like so many family...
10th Oct 2020
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My grandfather’s Rolleiflex 2.8D twin-lens reflex (TLR) camera

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

10th Oct 2020
One of the first vintage cameras I ever got was my dad’s old Polaroid SX-70. Like so many family cameras it had disappeared into a closet decades ago and was only found again recently. When he gave it to me, he told me there was another classic camera he wanted to give me – if...
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SEO Is Dead In the first week of April I did the SEO job I had put off for years: new landing pages and...
18th Apr 2026
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SEO Is Dead

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

18th Apr 2026
In the first week of April I did the SEO job I had put off for years: new landing pages and thousands of cross-links, on willem.com and on two customer sites, generated through the new API of my platform. It works, and well, I wrote on 4 April. Two weeks later I looked at what it...
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Testing the Mono Gateway, a custom-built 10 Gbps Router Testing the Mono Gateway, a custom-built 10 Gbps Router Last month, the stars aligned...
2nd Jan 2026
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Testing the Mono Gateway, a custom-built 10 Gbps Router

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

2nd Jan 2026
Testing the Mono Gateway, a custom-built 10 Gbps Router Last month, the stars aligned for me to bring the Mono Gateway (a 10 Gbps router that YouTuber Tomaž Zaman and his team at Mono built from scratch) on a trip to Phoenix, and test it with one of the most OP...
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Using wpa_supplicant on Debian/Ubuntu I’ve been using wpa_supplicant to manage wifi on my Ubuntu laptop for a while, and have found that...
22nd Aug 2008
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Using wpa_supplicant on Debian/Ubuntu

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

22nd Aug 2008
I’ve been using wpa_supplicant to manage wifi on my Ubuntu laptop for a while, and have found that it’s pretty close to what I want for managing wireless — closer than anything else I’ve found, at least. I figured I should document my setup and experiences. Some Background You...
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Principal Engineers and their million dollar microbiomes
29th Jul 2023
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Principal Engineers and their million dollar microbiomes

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29th Jul 2023
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November Theme: Art Game Back over at The Experimental Gameplay Project a new theme has come up. My last three themes haven’t...
1st Nov 2009
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November Theme: Art Game

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

1st Nov 2009
Back over at The Experimental Gameplay Project a new theme has come up. My last three themes haven’t been “my” themes: I’ve been following their lead and their themes and this month is no exception. This months’ apparently a big theme - Art. It’s even a collaboration with a big...
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Adam74 The Adam74 is a small ASCII-based terminal designed for the 8-bit hobbyist.
21st Aug 2022
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Adam74

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

21st Aug 2022
The Adam74 is a small ASCII-based terminal designed for the 8-bit hobbyist.
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It Must *Be* Good The need for companies to do the right thing
15th Dec 2022
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It Must *Be* Good

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

15th Dec 2022
The need for companies to do the right thing
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On Design and Chemistry How I transitioned from chemistry to design, and back again.
12th Sep 2024
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On Design and Chemistry

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

12th Sep 2024
How I transitioned from chemistry to design, and back again.
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IBM QRadar - When The Attacker Controls Your Security Stack (CVE-2022-26377) Welcome to April 2024. A depressing year so far - we've seen critical vulnerabilities across a wide...
12th Apr 2024
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IBM QRadar - When The Attacker Controls Your Security Stack (CVE-2022-26377)

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

12th Apr 2024
Welcome to April 2024. A depressing year so far - we've seen critical vulnerabilities across a wide range of enterprise software stacks. In addition, we've seen surreptitious and patient threat actors light our industry on fire with slowly introduced backdoors in the XZ...
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Threads “You’re an interesting species. An interesting mix. You’re capable of such beautiful dreams, and...
14th Oct 2018
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Threads

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

14th Oct 2018
“You’re an interesting species. An interesting mix. You’re capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost…
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Dig for dummies When you're building websites, apps or email services you may run into domain names and their...
23rd May 2019
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Dig for dummies

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

23rd May 2019
When you're building websites, apps or email services you may run into domain names and their configurations. When everything is working as it should, most of this is invisible. But when troubleshooting a domain name configuration, it may be necessary to dig a little deeper......
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Against choosing your political allegiances based on who is "pro-crypto"
17th Jul 2024
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Against choosing your political allegiances based on who is "pro-crypto"

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

17th Jul 2024
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BigBasket slot alert BigBasket is the leading online grocery delivery portal in India, due to the reduced workforce and...
19th Apr 2020
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BigBasket slot alert

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

19th Apr 2020
BigBasket is the leading online grocery delivery portal in India, due to the reduced workforce and extraordinary demand; the bookings happen at random slots and we have no other choice but to keep checking the app regularly. A need gap was posted recently, asking for a solution...
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Over-Engineering Sleep A while back, this implementation of a cross-platform sleep for GitHub Actions Runners caught my...
24th Aug 2025
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Over-Engineering Sleep

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

24th Aug 2025
A while back, this implementation of a cross-platform sleep for GitHub Actions Runners caught my eye, and I wanted to see what it would take to re-implement sleep from the ground up, while trying to be as cross-platform as possible.
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Poor Person Software's Write-Hand Man "Almost a sidekick for CP/M"
1st Dec 2025
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Poor Person Software's Write-Hand Man

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

1st Dec 2025
"Almost a sidekick for CP/M"
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The Comet’s Path: On Cycles of Presence and Withdrawal Some of us burn bright in moments of presence, then retreat to darker orbits. It's not...
2nd Dec 2024
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The Comet’s Path: On Cycles of Presence and Withdrawal

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

2nd Dec 2024
Some of us burn bright in moments of presence, then retreat to darker orbits. It's not antisocial—it's survival. A meditation on the natural rhythm of engagement and withdrawal.
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Enjoy a festival without alcohol This year I didn't drink alcohol during Rock Werchter, leading to interesting observations during...
9th Jul 2018
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Enjoy a festival without alcohol

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

9th Jul 2018
This year I didn't drink alcohol during Rock Werchter, leading to interesting observations during the music festival.
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Nitrous oxide, a product of fertilizer use, may harm some soil bacteria While some N2O is produced naturally at the plant root, agricultural practices can increase its...
4th Mar 2026
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Nitrous oxide, a product of fertilizer use, may harm some soil bacteria

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

4th Mar 2026
While some N2O is produced naturally at the plant root, agricultural practices can increase its levels, to the detriment of some microbes that support plant growth.
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The Godfather It has taken me far too long to watch The Godfather, and having finished it I find myself slightly...
6th Feb 2023
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The Godfather

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

6th Feb 2023
It has taken me far too long to watch The Godfather, and having finished it I find myself slightly deflated — because it is a tremendous movie, worthy of its status in both the American and cinematic anons, and every line and meme which has etched itself into the collective...
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Instant Pan Gesture Interactions Apple has a really awesome WWDC 2018 video called Designing Fluid Interfaces, and one of the key...
13th May 2023
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Instant Pan Gesture Interactions

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

13th May 2023
Apple has a really awesome WWDC 2018 video called Designing Fluid Interfaces, and one of the key takeaways from the videos that one of the presenters, Chan Karunamuni, said is “Look for delays everywhere. Everything needs to respond instantly.” (6:28) A really great example of...
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Commuter bike checkup This week my trustworthy commuter bike started making strange squeaking noises when braking. It has...
9th Jan 2021
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Commuter bike checkup

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

9th Jan 2021
This week my trustworthy commuter bike started making strange squeaking noises when braking. It has been just over three years since I started cycling on it. People frequently ask me how the bike is performing and how the Gates Carbon CDX belt drive is doing? Time to have a look...
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The different types of ZK-EVMs
4th Aug 2022
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The different types of ZK-EVMs

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

4th Aug 2022
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London Match A satisfying but non-revelatory ending to the trilogy started by Berlin Game and Mexico Set, whose...
6th Mar 2024
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London Match

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

6th Mar 2024
A satisfying but non-revelatory ending to the trilogy started by Berlin Game and Mexico Set, whose lack of true satisfaction in its ending both feels earned (in the sense that one of the main messages of these books has been the lack of clean breaks and endings in the conflicts...
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Introducing GitButler The development world runs on Git, yet pretty much nobody actually likes using Git. The main reason...
13th Apr 2023
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Introducing GitButler

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

13th Apr 2023
The development world runs on Git, yet pretty much nobody actually likes using Git. The main reason people put up with Git is love for GitHub, but GitHub is where people collaborate, not where people work. GitHub is not local. Nobody has really tried to reinvent the concept of...
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Detecting corporate fraud using Benford's law Note: This is a silly application. Don't take anything seriously. Benford's law describes a...
7th Oct 2014
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Detecting corporate fraud using Benford's law

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

7th Oct 2014
Note: This is a silly application. Don't take anything seriously. Benford's law describes a phenomenon where numbers in any data series will exhibit patterns in their first digit. For instance, if you took a list of the 1,000 longest rivers of Mongolia, or the average daily...
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Introducing TagVault Strap for AirTag Having DSLR cameras stolen, having gear bags stolen, we wanted a hard-core AirTag mount to mount to...
8th Sep 2022
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Introducing TagVault Strap for AirTag

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

8th Sep 2022
Having DSLR cameras stolen, having gear bags stolen, we wanted a hard-core AirTag mount to mount to them and to be discreet. So we took our much loved TagVault Pet waterproof AirTag case, over engineered to take abuse from large dogs, and gave it all matte black hardware so it...
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σ-driven project management: when is the optimal time to give up? Hi! It's your friendly project management theorician. You might remember me from blog posts such as...
5th Apr 2022
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σ-driven project management: when is the optimal time to give up?

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

5th Apr 2022
Hi! It's your friendly project management theorician. You might remember me from blog posts such as Why software projects take longer than you think, which is a blog post I wrote a long time ago positing that software projects completion time follow a log-normal distribution.
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Made in 2024 Here are some things I made in 2024: Music Box Fun: Advanced Editing (a new major feature): ...
1st Jan 2025
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Made in 2024

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

1st Jan 2025
Here are some things I made in 2024: Music Box Fun: Advanced Editing (a new major feature): Adds multiple-note selection for bulk operations on notes (like deletion, copy/paste, nudging and dragging) Also includes a “space editor” for arbitrarily adding/removing space...
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My first tweet
15th Jan 2008
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My first tweet

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

15th Jan 2008
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Subtext 3.0 Released Subtext 3.0 has been released: subtext-3.0.sit (StuffIt 3 archive, includes source code and THINK C...
11th Nov 2023
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Subtext 3.0 Released

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

11th Nov 2023
Subtext 3.0 has been released: subtext-3.0.sit (StuffIt 3 archive, includes source code and THINK C 5 project file) 713f9b465281f89405522f7aef23d4fa2bf035c7cd070f690395302a4a77045a SHA1: 47ba8aa40e2abcd3811c3f26b349a15a78bcd956 ipdb-2023-11.db (Free IP Geolocation...
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🎼This Is the Worst Trip I’ve Ever Been On 🎶 (A Lengthy Vacation Post-Mortem)
9th May 2024
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🎼This Is the Worst Trip I’ve Ever Been On 🎶

from detreville [alt+shift+b] in technology

9th May 2024
(A Lengthy Vacation Post-Mortem)
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The Three Transitions
9th Jun 2023
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The Three Transitions

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

9th Jun 2023
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Don't be afraid of RAID Introduction I sense this sentiment on the internet that RAID is dangerous, that the likelihood of...
22nd May 2020
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Don't be afraid of RAID

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

22nd May 2020
Introduction I sense this sentiment on the internet that RAID is dangerous, that the likelihood of your RAID array failing during a rebuild is almost a certainty, because hard drives have become so large. I think nothing is further from the truth and I would like to dispel this...
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Build your own handheld retro console with the Arduino® UNO™ Q board Arduino® Project Hub has featured a lot of DIY handheld consoles on this blog over the years. Most...
6th Aug 2026
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Build your own handheld retro console with the Arduino® UNO™ Q board

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

6th Aug 2026
Arduino® Project Hub has featured a lot of DIY handheld consoles on this blog over the years. Most of them are impressive, and most of them require at least some custom hardware – a purpose-designed PCB, a specialized connector, a part you can only get from one supplier. They’re...
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The Raspberry Pi 5 is no match for a tini-mini-micro PC I've always been fond of the idea of the Raspberry Pi. An energy efficient, small, cheap but capable...
16th Jun 2024
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The Raspberry Pi 5 is no match for a tini-mini-micro PC

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

16th Jun 2024
I've always been fond of the idea of the Raspberry Pi. An energy efficient, small, cheap but capable computer. An ideal home server. Until the Pi 4, the Pi was not that capable, and only with the relatively recent Pi 5 (fall 2023) do I feel the Pi is OK performance wise, although...
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Power, democracy, and clarity What does the end of the Voting Rights Act mean?
1st May 2026
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Power, democracy, and clarity

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

1st May 2026
What does the end of the Voting Rights Act mean?
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Hilariously Fast Volume Computation with the Divergence Theorem (No, there won’t be jokes.) The following presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of...
16th Feb 2018
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Hilariously Fast Volume Computation with the Divergence Theorem

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

16th Feb 2018
(No, there won’t be jokes.) The following presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of a simple, closed, triangulated 3D mesh. This assumption is a consequence of the divergence theorem. Further extensions may generalise to other meshes as well, although that is presently...
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Backup Rotation Scheme In today's digital age, safeguarding your data is paramount. Simply creating a copy of your files...
14th Dec 2023
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Backup Rotation Scheme

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

14th Dec 2023
In today's digital age, safeguarding your data is paramount. Simply creating a copy of your files may not be enough as they can get corrupted, overwritten or blocked by ransomware. Having multiple, time-rotated (and ideally, offsite) backups is a stronger defense. I created a new...
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Notifications with xmonad/irssi/urxvt So I’ve been idling on irc for years now and I’ve been using irssi for that, which works fine. I...
3rd Jul 2014
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Notifications with xmonad/irssi/urxvt

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

3rd Jul 2014
So I’ve been idling on irc for years now and I’ve been using irssi for that, which works fine. I have not had notifications enabled, so I can see from the statusbar whenever someone messages me. As I’ve never been very active this has been fine, but now I figured it’s time to fix...
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Solving Problems In this post, I describe a Problem Solving methodology I unexpectedly picked up while working at a...
1st Jan 2019
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Solving Problems

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

1st Jan 2019
In this post, I describe a Problem Solving methodology I unexpectedly picked up while working at a Fortune 500 company. It's a technique I use to this day when solving tricky problems.
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Why conversion matters: a toy model There are often close relationships between top level business metrics. For instance, it's well...
30th Oct 2017
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Why conversion matters: a toy model

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

30th Oct 2017
There are often close relationships between top level business metrics. For instance, it's well known that retention has a super strong impact on the valuation of a subscription business. Or that the % of occupied seats is super important for an airline.
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My first weeks as dad Last Christmas my wife gave birth of our son. It's a life changing experience to become a parent....
23rd Jan 2019
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My first weeks as dad

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

23rd Jan 2019
Last Christmas my wife gave birth of our son. It's a life changing experience to become a parent. Read along for my (biometric) findings and some practical tips.
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The Stupidity of Google’s Site Reputation Abuse Policy Site reputation abuse is when a third-party abuses the reputation of a domain to rank a bunch of...
5th Nov 2024
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The Stupidity of Google’s Site Reputation Abuse Policy

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

5th Nov 2024
Site reputation abuse is when a third-party abuses the reputation of a domain to rank a bunch of pages in Google. The SEO community refers to this type of thing as parasite SEO. Google has gone so far as to publish an official policy (documented here) on how this isn’t allowed:...
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GitHub Copilot for Vim Review My review of GitHub Copilot for Vim
1st May 2025
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GitHub Copilot for Vim Review

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

1st May 2025
My review of GitHub Copilot for Vim
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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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Pardon the Corruption Trump’s justification for invading American cities and other countries is to reduce the crime he is...
2nd Dec 2025
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Pardon the Corruption

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

2nd Dec 2025
Trump’s justification for invading American cities and other countries is to reduce the crime he is actively encouraging through his pardons
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Klarna’s AI chatbot: how revolutionary is it, really? Klarna launched its AI chatbot, built in collaboration with OpenAI, which the company wants to use...
8th Aug 2024
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Klarna’s AI chatbot: how revolutionary is it, really?

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

8th Aug 2024
Klarna launched its AI chatbot, built in collaboration with OpenAI, which the company wants to use to eliminate 2/3rds of customer support positions. But is it as revolutionary, and as likely to replace jobs, as Klarna claims?
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Links #11 Here are some more links to things that I keep thinking about. I shared a bit more detail on these...
3rd Dec 2024
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Links #11

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

3rd Dec 2024
Here are some more links to things that I keep thinking about. I shared a bit more detail on these ones than I usually do—there were so many good quotes to include. Enjoy! Selfishness & Therapy Culture Earlier this year, there was a post in the New York Times called “Sometimes,...
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A minimal distributed key-value database with Hashicorp's Raft library When I wrote the "build a distributed PostgreSQL proof of concept" post I first had to figure...
17th Sep 2022
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A minimal distributed key-value database with Hashicorp's Raft library

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

17th Sep 2022
When I wrote the "build a distributed PostgreSQL proof of concept" post I first had to figure out how to use Hashicorp's Raft implementation. There weren't any examples I could find in the Hashicorp repo itself. And the only example I could find was Philip O'Toole's hraftd. It's...
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2020 in review And so 2020 has come to an end. On a global scale it’s been quite a horrible year, and for me...
4th Jan 2021
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2020 in review

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

4th Jan 2021
And so 2020 has come to an end. On a global scale it’s been quite a horrible year, and for me personally it’s been both good and bad. Luckily we haven’t been directly affected by COVID too much, but it’s still been very disruptive. Either way as I’ve done for years now it always...
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Snakebite Just promoting Spotify stuff here: check out the Snakebite repo on Github, written by Wouter de Bie....
7th May 2013
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Snakebite

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

7th May 2013
Just promoting Spotify stuff here: check out the Snakebite repo on Github, written by Wouter de Bie. It's a super fast tool to access HDFS over CLI/Python, by accessing the namenode directly over sockets/protobuf. Spotify's developer blog features a nice blog post outlining what...
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Train Simulator Controller: Stepper Speedometer Begins For quite a few years now, I have been an avid Train Simulator player, operating virtual trains from...
27th Jan 2023
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Train Simulator Controller: Stepper Speedometer Begins

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

27th Jan 2023
For quite a few years now, I have been an avid Train Simulator player, operating virtual trains from the United States, the UK, and beyond. I’ve played Dovetail Games’ Train Simulator 2015 to 2022 and now “Train Simulator Classic”, FIFA-style annual upgrades that have...
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Situazioni di collusione
1st Jan 2000
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Situazioni di collusione

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

1st Jan 2000
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A single-node Kubernetes cluster without virtualization or a container registry This post is a recipe for setting up a minimal Kubernetes cluster on Fedora without requiring...
25th Jul 2020
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A single-node Kubernetes cluster without virtualization or a container registry

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

25th Jul 2020
This post is a recipe for setting up a minimal Kubernetes cluster on Fedora without requiring virtualization or a container registry. These two features make the system cloud-agnostic and the cluster entirely self-contained. The post will end with us running a simple Flask...
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Train Simulator Controller: Horn Control My several iterations over a CAN bus controller for my Train Simulator physical dashboard has made...
21st Jun 2025
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Train Simulator Controller: Horn Control

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

21st Jun 2025
My several iterations over a CAN bus controller for my Train Simulator physical dashboard has made it simple to add new controls. Here’s how I used it plus a joystick to add UK horn control to my virtual train.
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Achieving 2.3 GB/s with 16 x 4 TB drives I'm in the process of building a new storage server to replace my 18 TB NAS. The server is almost...
12th Jul 2014
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Achieving 2.3 GB/s with 16 x 4 TB drives

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

12th Jul 2014
I'm in the process of building a new storage server to replace my 18 TB NAS. The server is almost finished, it's now down to adding disk drives. I'm using the HGST 4 TB 7200 RPM drive for this build (SKU 0S03356) (review). I have not bought all drives at once, but slowly adding...
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SipHash-based encryption for constrained devices I see a lot of attempts to define encryption schemes for constrained devices with short...
6th May 2024
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SipHash-based encryption for constrained devices

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

6th May 2024
I see a lot of attempts to define encryption schemes for constrained devices with short authentication tags (e.g., 64 bits) using universal hashing. For example, there’s a proposal in CFRG at the moment for a version of AES-GCM with short tags for this kind of use-case. In my...
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From nanoscale to global scale: Advancing MIT’s special initiatives in manufacturing, health, and... MIT.nano cleanroom complex named after Robert Noyce PhD ’53 at the 2025 Nano Summit.
13th Nov 2025
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From nanoscale to global scale: Advancing MIT’s special initiatives in manufacturing, health, and climate

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

13th Nov 2025
MIT.nano cleanroom complex named after Robert Noyce PhD ’53 at the 2025 Nano Summit.
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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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Snake '97 High Scores Happily accepting the invitation to attend an exhibition of Snake 97 art works in Antwerp. This was...
17th Apr 2022
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Snake '97 High Scores

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

17th Apr 2022
Happily accepting the invitation to attend an exhibition of Snake 97 art works in Antwerp. This was totally WOW!
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Setup a VPN on your iPhone with OpenVPN and Linux ⚠️ 🚨 Update 2024 🚨⚠️ I'm not using OpenVPN anymore for my VPN needs and this article is considered...
18th Jun 2018
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Setup a VPN on your iPhone with OpenVPN and Linux

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

18th Jun 2018
⚠️ 🚨 Update 2024 🚨⚠️ I'm not using OpenVPN anymore for my VPN needs and this article is considered unmaintained. It's stronly recommended not to use this tutorial and find up-to-date documentation. I also have no plans to update this blogpost in the future. [Update 2018] This...
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Bagging as a regularizer One thing I encountered today was a trick using bagging as a way to go beyond a point estimate and...
6th Dec 2013
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Bagging as a regularizer

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

6th Dec 2013
One thing I encountered today was a trick using bagging as a way to go beyond a point estimate and get an approximation for the full distribution. This can then be used to penalize predictions with larger uncertainty, which helps reducing false positives.
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PEP8Speaks - Now helping 5,000 open source projects write neat and clean Python What is this project? 🐍 PEP8Speaks = PEP 8 + Speaks GitHub:...
5th Apr 2020
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PEP8Speaks - Now helping 5,000 open source projects write neat and clean Python

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

5th Apr 2020
What is this project? 🐍 PEP8Speaks = PEP 8 + Speaks GitHub: https://github.com/OrkoHunter/pep8speaks PEP 8 is Python's recommended coding…
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Comment on The 35 Headline Formulas of John Caples by Ace Rashid I was reading copy hackers article title "Is $5000 a lot to charge for a sales page" and you were...
4th Oct 2018
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Comment on The 35 Headline Formulas of John Caples by Ace Rashid

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

4th Oct 2018
I was reading copy hackers article title "Is $5000 a lot to charge for a sales page" and you were one of the 14 marketers that were asked this bonus question to which you felt that it was too low for a sales page. That drew me to your site to learn more about you. I am glad...
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Updates May 3
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Updates May 3

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

3rd May 2024
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Links #12 Oscar, an open-source contributor agent architecture - Oscar is a project from the Go community that...
15th Apr 2025
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Links #12

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

15th Apr 2025
Oscar, an open-source contributor agent architecture - Oscar is a project from the Go community that aims to develop AI agents that assist open source maintainers. I think this is a great idea. Open source is a load-bearing pillar in our modern digital infrastructure and...
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All you may need is HTML
2nd Mar 2023
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All you may need is HTML

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

2nd Mar 2023
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A Tektronix TDS 684B Oscilloscope Uses CCD Analog Memory Introduction The TDS600 Series The Acquisition Board Measuring Along the Signal Path A Closer Look...
4th May 2025
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A Tektronix TDS 684B Oscilloscope Uses CCD Analog Memory

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

4th May 2025
Introduction The TDS600 Series The Acquisition Board Measuring Along the Signal Path A Closer Look at the Noise Issue Conclusion Introduction I have a Tektronix TDS 684B oscilloscope that I bought cheaply at an auction. It has 4 channels, 1 GHz of BW and a sample rate of 5...
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I made my blog solar-powered, then things escalated In 2020 I wondered if I could run my blog on solar power, being inspired by Low-tech Magazine, doing...
17th Apr 2023
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I made my blog solar-powered, then things escalated

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

17th Apr 2023
In 2020 I wondered if I could run my blog on solar power, being inspired by Low-tech Magazine, doing the same thing (but better)1. The answer was 'yes', but only through spring and summer. I live in an apartment complex in The Netherlands and my balcony is facing west. This...
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Marathon Read the story of how it feels to complete your first marathon.
19th Oct 2024
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Marathon

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

19th Oct 2024
Read the story of how it feels to complete your first marathon.
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Small Systems Engineering's PETSPEED Fast Enough for the Human Race
10th Jul 2024
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Small Systems Engineering's PETSPEED

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10th Jul 2024
Fast Enough for the Human Race
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Building a professional 72TB NAS This month I installed a professional HPE ProLiant DL380p server in a datacenter in Amsterdam, read...
21st Nov 2019
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Building a professional 72TB NAS

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

21st Nov 2019
This month I installed a professional HPE ProLiant DL380p server in a datacenter in Amsterdam, read this post to see how this was done!
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Six months with MCADD It's six months since our son was born with MCADD, a good moment to reflect upon the experience of...
23rd Jun 2019
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Six months with MCADD

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

23rd Jun 2019
It's six months since our son was born with MCADD, a good moment to reflect upon the experience of being a parent with some thoughts and tips.
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Humanities Crash Course Week 9: The Bible For week 9 of the humanities crash course, I revisited the most important text in Western culture:...
2nd Mar 2025
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Humanities Crash Course Week 9: The Bible

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

2nd Mar 2025
For week 9 of the humanities crash course, I revisited the most important text in Western culture: the Bible. Of course, I didn’t read the whole book – only a small subset. Still, it was a lot. As I’ve done in previous weeks, I followed Gioia’s suggestions for the...
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Going to University I mentioned in the last post that I’m going to the university, which might explain my lack of...
6th Oct 2010
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Going to University

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

6th Oct 2010
I mentioned in the last post that I’m going to the university, which might explain my lack of activity here and for that I’m sorry. It’s not as hard as I had imagined, and I don’t have that much in school but there’s still a lot that’s going on. For example now how to make...
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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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Escaping the flat tires Finding the answer to the question how resilient a puncture-proof tire really is took me quite some...
18th Nov 2021
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Escaping the flat tires

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18th Nov 2021
Finding the answer to the question how resilient a puncture-proof tire really is took me quite some time, but alas - here it is!
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I'm running a programming contest I'm running a programming contest I've spent the last few months working with friends to design the...
24th Jul 2026
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I'm running a programming contest

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24th Jul 2026
I'm running a programming contest I've spent the last few months working with friends to design the 29th annual ICFP programming contest. Designing a programming contest in a world with AI agents is tricky! I think we've made some interesting choices here. Read the full post on...
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Star-Crossed The obvious and deserved comparison is with Evermore/Folklore — a stripped down, mellower version of...
2nd Oct 2021
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Star-Crossed

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

2nd Oct 2021
The obvious and deserved comparison is with Evermore/Folklore — a stripped down, mellower version of the author's ouevre. While I think Taylor's latest outings are good-not-great, I thought this was closer to great; the songwriting is steadier and more interesting, and the pathos...
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Planning my Kubernetes homelab The Kubernetes iceberg. If I’d have to describe my homelab setup via analogy I guess it would be...
5th May 2026
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Planning my Kubernetes homelab

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

5th May 2026
The Kubernetes iceberg. If I’d have to describe my homelab setup via analogy I guess it would be similar to me on a unicycle carrying plates with both of my hands, or maybe a leaking barrel with water that I try to patch up with silver tape. I’ve also been Kubernetes-curious so...
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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

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2nd Sep 2023
Software is a fluid that expands to fill its container
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Search like a pro: Google search operators You probably use the world's most famous search engine to find things everyday, but you might not...
24th Apr 2019
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Search like a pro: Google search operators

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

24th Apr 2019
You probably use the world's most famous search engine to find things everyday, but you might not know about some of its advanced search operators. You can use these special search phrases to find things that are otherwise burried in the search results. Read along for a...
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AI stirs up the recipe for concrete in MIT study With demand for cement alternatives rising, an MIT team uses machine learning to hunt for new...
2nd Jun 2025
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AI stirs up the recipe for concrete in MIT study

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2nd Jun 2025
With demand for cement alternatives rising, an MIT team uses machine learning to hunt for new ingredients across the scientific literature.
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I resurrected my Dutch movie review site from 2003 Introduction Between 2003 and 2006, I ran a Dutch movie review site called moevie.nl.1 I built the...
9th Jun 2022
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I resurrected my Dutch movie review site from 2003

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

9th Jun 2022
Introduction Between 2003 and 2006, I ran a Dutch movie review site called moevie.nl.1 I built the site and wrote the reviews. It never made any money. It cost me money to host, and it cost me a lot of time writing reviews, but I remember enjoying writing reviews about films I...
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Creating storage benchmark charts with FIO and GNUplot Edit 2019: I've made a new tool called 'fio-plot'to create various graphs. I use FIO to perform...
22nd May 2013
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Creating storage benchmark charts with FIO and GNUplot

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

22nd May 2013
Edit 2019: I've made a new tool called 'fio-plot'to create various graphs. I use FIO to perform storage IO performance benchmarks. FIO does provide a script called "fio_generate_plots" which generates PNG or JPG based charts based on the data generated by FIO. The charts are...
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Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full
17th Aug 2026
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Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full

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17th Aug 2026
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Improving bicycle safety with voice-activated turn signals Bicycle safety is always a concern, but is a particularly big problem in cities where cycling is...
2nd Nov 2025
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Improving bicycle safety with voice-activated turn signals

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

2nd Nov 2025
Bicycle safety is always a concern, but is a particularly big problem in cities where cycling is less common. Drivers in cars don’t expect to encounter cyclists and don’t know how to share the road properly. To protect themselves, cyclists need to be as predictable as possible...
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When machine learning matters I joined Spotify in 2008 to focus on machine learning and music recommendations. It's easy to...
5th Aug 2016
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When machine learning matters

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

5th Aug 2016
I joined Spotify in 2008 to focus on machine learning and music recommendations. It's easy to forget, but Spotify's key differentiator back then was the low-latency playback. People would say that it felt like they had the music on their own hard drive.
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Quest for Universal action — Essay You may listen to this while reading We Are All Astronauts - Ether (YouTube). Few months ago, a...
28th Jan 2018
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Quest for Universal action — Essay

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

28th Jan 2018
You may listen to this while reading We Are All Astronauts - Ether (YouTube). Few months ago, a significant percentage of my peers were…
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There is Definitely a Grid Grids are the best thing to ever happen to graphic design. They form a rational basis for organizing...
10th Jun 2016
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There is Definitely a Grid

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

10th Jun 2016
Grids are the best thing to ever happen to graphic design. They form a rational basis for organizing information. They support the harmonious distribution of elements and visual weight. We don’t design things with grids because it’s easy, or because everyone else is doing it....
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HandCash handles require trust and are insecure The HandCash wallet has recently become a popular Bitcoin Cash wallet in large part thanks to their...
22nd Sep 2018
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HandCash handles require trust and are insecure

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

22nd Sep 2018
The HandCash wallet has recently become a popular Bitcoin Cash wallet in large part thanks to their $handle concept. It’s basically a username you use instead of the normal Bitcoin Cash address, similar to how domain names abstract away IP addresses. For example instead of...
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