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Intel and the New Millenium Losing the performance crown
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Birchtree
Apple might be cooking this fall Tim Hardwick reporting on Gurman’s reporting in Bloomberg, which I don’t have access to, so I’m...
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Tim Hardwick reporting on Gurman’s reporting in Bloomberg, which I don’t have access to, so I’m quoting the MacRumors article: While specific details are scarce, it's supposedly the biggest update to iOS since iOS 7, and the biggest update to macOS since
Abishek Muthian
Pricing Bone Health Tracker Premium Track your bone health, Monitor the progress of your treatments. Get...
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Bone Health Tracker Premium Track your bone health, Monitor the progress of your treatments. Get more reports and cloud sync for just ₹1,332.21/year Free Premium Parsed BMD reports ✓ ✓ Skeleton visualization ✓ ✓ T-Score chart ✓ ✓ Z-Score chart ✓ ✓ Submit reports without private...
Odds and Ends of...
Listen to The Abundance Agenda A new podcast about growth and progress
6 months ago
Jorge Arango
Traction Heroes Ep. 5: Strategic Priorities Episode 5 of the Traction Heroes podcast featured a conversation about strategic priorities. What do...
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Episode 5 of the Traction Heroes podcast featured a conversation about strategic priorities. What do I mean by that? I’m referring to prioritizing at two levels: When you’re thinking about what to focus on now – what you should and shouldn’t do next. When you’re thinking about...
The New Oil
The Unique ID You're Giving to Everyone
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computers are bad
2025-03-10 troposcatter I have a rough list of topics for future articles, a scratchpad of two-word ideas that I sometimes...
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I have a rough list of topics for future articles, a scratchpad of two-word ideas that I sometimes struggle to interpret. Some items have been on that list for years now. Sometimes, ideas languish because I'm not really interested in them enough to devote the time. Others have...
Willem's Blog
Workout data in 3D I had this idea to use ThreeJS to visualise workout data from a recent run, read along to see what...
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I had this idea to use ThreeJS to visualise workout data from a recent run, read along to see what I've created.
Posts on Made of...
Performance of the Python 3.14 tail-call interpreter About a month ago, the CPython project merged a new implementation strategy for their bytecode...
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About a month ago, the CPython project merged a new implementation strategy for their bytecode interpreter. The initial headline results were very impressive, showing a 10-15% performance improvement on average across a wide range of benchmarks across a variety of...
Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course Week 10: Greek Drama Week 10 of the humanities crash course had me reading (and listening to) classic Greek plays. I also...
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Week 10 of the humanities crash course had me reading (and listening to) classic Greek plays. I also listened to the blues and watched a movie starring a venerable recently departed actor. How do they connect? Perhaps they don’t. Let’s find out. Readings The plan for this week...
Birchtree
+ iPhone 16e review in progress: battery life You can never do too much battery testing, but after a week with this phone I've got some...
6 months ago
Matt Mullenweg
Real WordPress Security One thing you’ll see on every host that offers WordPress is claims about how secure they are,...
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One thing you’ll see on every host that offers WordPress is claims about how secure they are, however they don’t put their money where their mouth is. When you dig deeper, if your site actually gets hacked they’ll hit you with remediation fees that can go from hundreds to...
Krebs on Security
Feds Link $150M Cyberheist to 2022 LastPass Hacks In September 2023, KrebsOnSecurity published findings from security researchers who concluded that a...
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In September 2023, KrebsOnSecurity published findings from security researchers who concluded that a series of six-figure cyberheists across dozens of victims resulted from thieves cracking master passwords stolen from the password manager service LastPass in 2022. In a court...
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #61: Fake Woolly Mammoths Plus why intelligence is social, Land Registry open data, and some completely invisible VFX
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Birchtree
Watch me write a task manager in 30 minutes A core tenet of A Better Computer is showing, not telling. I don’t use a lot of press kit material...
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A core tenet of A Better Computer is showing, not telling. I don’t use a lot of press kit material or talking points from companies in my videos because I don’t particularly care about those. My incentives are fully aligned with showing software (and sometimes hardware)
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I yearn for the perfect home server I’ve changed my home server setup a lot over the past decade, mainly because I keep changing the...
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I’ve changed my home server setup a lot over the past decade, mainly because I keep changing the goals all the time. I’ve now realized why that keeps happening. I want the perfect home server. What is the perfect home server? I’d phrase it like this: The perfect home server uses...
Krebs on Security
Who is the DOGE and X Technician Branden Spikes? At 49, Branden Spikes isn't just one of the oldest technologists who has been involved in Elon...
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At 49, Branden Spikes isn't just one of the oldest technologists who has been involved in Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). As the current director of information technology at X/Twitter and an early hire at PayPal, Zip2, Tesla and SpaceX, Spikes is also...
Birchtree
I'm Sick, I Have a Sickness Niléane has entered her keyboard era, Chris has a consumer warning as well as a really good...
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Niléane has entered her keyboard era, Chris has a consumer warning as well as a really good macropad, and then we find the best games on the Mac. Weekly Topics Logitech MX Keys Mini Volt Plus+ numberpad (but probably don’t buy it) BNK8 macropad Stream Deck
Birchtree
I'm setting the bar too low I've been a proponent of high-refresh rate displays for years now, and I think it's pretty...
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I've been a proponent of high-refresh rate displays for years now, and I think it's pretty ridiculous that Apple doesn't put these displays in their sub-$1,000 iPhones. I think if you're just keeping up with the Apple ecosystem then you
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Pocketwatch of Goo [Concept] Liquid filled timepiece
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Birchtree
➕ iPhone 16e review in progress: photography Here's a peek behind the scenes as I work on my iPhone 16e review.
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Birchtree
Wow, what courage Mia McCarthy writing for Politico: No More in-Person Town Halls, NRCC Chief Tells House...
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Mia McCarthy writing for Politico: No More in-Person Town Halls, NRCC Chief Tells House Republicans The chair of the House GOP's campaign arm told Republican lawmakers Tuesday to stop holding in-person town halls amid a wave of angry backlash over the cuts undertaken by President...
Birchtree
NVIDIA finally gets some competition Tom Warren for The Verge: AMD Radeon RX 9070 / 9070 XT Review and Benchmarks The RX 9070 is around...
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Tom Warren for The Verge: AMD Radeon RX 9070 / 9070 XT Review and Benchmarks The RX 9070 is around 17 percent faster than Nvidia’s RTX 5070 in 4K without upscaling enabled, cruising past Nvidia’s card for the same price. The RX 9070 XT is as fast
Arduino Blog
Come visit Arduino at Embedded World 2025! We’re gearing up for Embedded World, the leading event for embedded systems, industrial automation,...
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We’re gearing up for Embedded World, the leading event for embedded systems, industrial automation, and IoT technology, taking place March 11th-13th in Nuremberg. Visit us in Hall 3A, Booth 313 to explore our latest innovations and experience more live demos than ever, thanks to...
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A significant UK think-tanking is backing the campaign to liberate the Postcode Address File The pressure is on the government to abolish the Innovation Tax
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Applied Cartography
Recursive filter schema When we added support for complex filtering in Buttondown, I spent a long time trying to come up...
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When we added support for complex filtering in Buttondown, I spent a long time trying to come up with a schema for filters that felt sufficiently ergonomic and future-proof. I had a few constraints, all of which were reasonable: It needed to be JSON-serializable, and trivially...
Evan Hahn's blog
Notes from "Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement" I just finished James Vincent’s Beyond Measure, a 2023 book about the history of measurement and its...
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I just finished James Vincent’s Beyond Measure, a 2023 book about the history of measurement and its impact on our lives. The book reveals how the meter’s length is tied to the French Revolution. It highlights many scientific discoveries linked to advances in measurement. It...
anderegg.ca
Some spoiler free thoughts about the first episode of “Jet Lag: The Game” season 13 Tom Scott is playing to win. The intro music made me wonder if the Wendover team watch...
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Tom Scott is playing to win. The intro music made me wonder if the Wendover team watch c90dventures. At one point in the episode, Adam breaks out some Scatman. This is going to be a great season.
Willem's Blog
Open-Sourcing Gran Fondo I am open-sourcing the Gran Fondo app that tracks runs and rides, designed for privacy and freedom...
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I am open-sourcing the Gran Fondo app that tracks runs and rides, designed for privacy and freedom in mind.
Birchtree
The releases keep on coming! New MacBook Air and Mac Studio Man, the releases recently are coming in fast and furious, today with Apple announcing new MacBook...
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Man, the releases recently are coming in fast and furious, today with Apple announcing new MacBook Airs and Mac Studios. My MacBook Air predictions The Air will likely get a bump to the M4 chip and I’m not totally sure what will happen to the $999 model. as
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The new GOV.UK login system is the first step in a radical transformation of the British state A British "DOGE" (of sorts) is rearchitecting the government
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Evan Hahn's blog
Why "alias" is my last resort for aliases Aliases were one of the first things I added when customizing my dotfiles. For example, here’s a...
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Aliases were one of the first things I added when customizing my dotfiles. For example, here’s a very early alias I defined: alias g=git Now, I can run g instead of git, which saves me a little time for a command I run dozens of times a day! # These two commands are now...
Willem's Blog
Durable Smartphone
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Birchtree
So much time and money for a minor vibe shift Gary Marcus: Hot Take: GPT 4.5 Is a Nothing Burger Half a trillion dollars later, there is still no...
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Gary Marcus: Hot Take: GPT 4.5 Is a Nothing Burger Half a trillion dollars later, there is still no viable business model, profits are modest at best for everyone except Nvidia and some consulting forms, there’s still basically no moat, and still no GPT-5. Any reasonable person
Birchtree
Apple’s new iPads are here, let’s break them down Another day, another opportunity to rate my 2025 Apple predictions! iPad Here’s what I predicted...
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Another day, another opportunity to rate my 2025 Apple predictions! iPad Here’s what I predicted would happen with the base iPad this year: I fully expect to see the 11th gen iPad in 2025, and I think it will come with a jump to the A17 Pro or
Matt Mullenweg
On Lenny’s Podcast One of my must-read newsletters for the past several years has been Lenny’s Newsletter, probably...
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One of my must-read newsletters for the past several years has been Lenny’s Newsletter, probably best known for its writing on growth and product management, which really means it covered everything you need to create a great company. It expanded into a really well-done podcast;...
Birchtree
The battle of the budget phones Just days after I got my iPhone 16e, Apple’s (less) budget (than ever before) iPhone, Nothing is out...
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Just days after I got my iPhone 16e, Apple’s (less) budget (than ever before) iPhone, Nothing is out here with new their new budget phones, the Phone (3a) and (3a) Pro. These models start at $379 and $459 respectively, so they certainly undercut the new iPhone, so let&
Arduino Blog
A lightweight file server running entirely on an Arduino Nano ESP32 Home file servers can be very useful for people who work across multiple devices and want easy...
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Home file servers can be very useful for people who work across multiple devices and want easy access to their documents. And there are a lot of DIY build guides out there. But most of them are full-fledged NAS (network-attached storage) devices and they tend to rely on...
Jorge Arango
The New Leverage: AI and the Power of Small Teams This weekend, a small team in Latvia won an Oscar for a film they made using free software. That’s...
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This weekend, a small team in Latvia won an Oscar for a film they made using free software. That’s not just cool — it’s a sign of what’s coming. Sunday night was family movie night in my home. We picked a recent movie, FLOW. I’d heard good things about it and thought we’d enjoy...
Evan Hahn's blog
An ode to my favorite mobile game I can’t stop telling my friends about Forward: Escape the Fold and now I’m telling you. I bought it...
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I can’t stop telling my friends about Forward: Escape the Fold and now I’m telling you. I bought it more than two years ago and it’s my favorite mobile game by a mile. Forward describes itself as the “perfect bitesized roguelike dungeon crawler”. You control a character trying to...
Arduino Blog
This vending machine draws generative art for just a euro If you hear the term “generative art” today, you probably subconsciously add “AI” to the beginning...
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If you hear the term “generative art” today, you probably subconsciously add “AI” to the beginning without even thinking about it. But generative art techniques existed long before modern AI came along — they even predate digital computing altogether. Despite that long history,...
Birchtree
Birchtree's new look Oh, hello. Something's different around here, huh? Yup, it's been a few years, and I decided it was...
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Oh, hello. Something's different around here, huh? Yup, it's been a few years, and I decided it was time to refresh the look around these parts of the indie web. The main impetus for this change was the simple fact I have too many projects I
Birchtree
➕ Who cares about smartphone design? Just how important is physical design in someone's smartphone buying decision? As with so many...
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Just how important is physical design in someone's smartphone buying decision? As with so many things, it depends who you ask.
Engineers Need Art
Duane Blehm A little about Duane Blehm, an early Macintosh shareware author.
6 months ago
Krebs on Security
Cyber Forensic Expert in 2,000+ Cases Faces FBI Probe A Minnesota cybersecurity and computer forensics expert whose testimony has featured in thousands of...
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A Minnesota cybersecurity and computer forensics expert whose testimony has featured in thousands of courtroom trials over the past 30 years is facing questions about his credentials and an inquiry from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Legal experts say the inquiry...
Arduino Blog
Making a photo enlarger more efficient with precisely controlled LEDs In photography, an enlarger is a piece of equipment that projects a smaller image onto a...
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In photography, an enlarger is a piece of equipment that projects a smaller image onto a photosensitive material below using a strong light source and a negative to produce a much larger print. And while these have historically relied on single-color incandescent bulbs, such as...
Birchtree
Is ChatGPT the next Dropbox or the next iPhone? Ed Zitron on his Where's Your Ed At blog: There Is No AI Revolution I kept coming back to one...
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Ed Zitron on his Where's Your Ed At blog: There Is No AI Revolution I kept coming back to one thought: where's the money? No, really, where is it? Where is the money that this supposedly revolutionary, world-changing industry is making, and will make? The answer
Ken Shirriff's blog
The Pentium contains a complicated circuit to multiply by three In 1993, Intel released the high-performance Pentium processor, the start of the long-running...
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In 1993, Intel released the high-performance Pentium processor, the start of the long-running Pentium line. I've been examining the Pentium's circuitry in detail and I came across a circuit to multiply by three, a complex circuit with thousands of transistors. Why does the...
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Chipzilla Extends its Domination MMX, Bunny People, Celeron, Xeon
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Birchtree
How I’m using AI tools in early 2025 (members post) What am I actually using these LLMs for at the start of 2025? Quite a bit, actually.
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