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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...
Construction Physics
Will Boom Successfully Build a Supersonic Airliner? Boom Supersonic is an aerospace startup trying to build a supersonic airliner.
4 weeks ago
latest projects -...
Pocketwatch of Goo [Concept] Liquid filled timepiece
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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...
lcamtuf’s thing
Why are sine waves so common? A simple question that takes some effort to answer in a satisfying way.
3 weeks ago
Electronics etc…
HP Laptop 17 RAM Upgrade Introduction Selecting the RAM Opening up Replacing the RAM Reassembly References Introduction I do...
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Introduction Selecting the RAM Opening up Replacing the RAM Reassembly References Introduction I do virtually all of my hobby and home computing on Linux and MacOS. The MacOS stuff on a laptop and almost all Linux work a desktop PC. The desktop PC has Windows on it installed as...
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...
Construction Physics
Reading List 03/08/2025 China’s industrial diplomacy, streetlights and crime, deorbiting Starlink satellites, a proposed...
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China’s industrial diplomacy, streetlights and crime, deorbiting Starlink satellites, a proposed canal across Thailand, a looming gas turbine shortage, and more.
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...
Never Met a Science
Unbundling and Abundance on the (high) dimensionality of 21st century ideology
3 weeks ago
Construction Physics
Reading List 03/15/25 Chinese EUV machines, North Korea’s nuclear submarine, greenhouse gas and low-orbit satellites,...
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Chinese EUV machines, North Korea’s nuclear submarine, greenhouse gas and low-orbit satellites, far-UVC for pandemic prevention, and more.
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...
Abort Retry Fail
Intel and the New Millenium Losing the performance crown
3 weeks ago
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.
Computer Ads from...
Comics from 1978/05 Creative Computing Mag Time for some oldie levity.
3 weeks ago
Odds and Ends of...
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
4 weeks ago
The Pragmatic...
Survey: What’s in your tech stack? We want to capture an accurate snapshot of software engineering, today – and need your help! Tell us...
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We want to capture an accurate snapshot of software engineering, today – and need your help! Tell us about your tech stack and get early access to the final report, plus extra analysis
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...
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.
Arduino Blog
This Arduino device helps ‘split the G’ on a pint of Guinness Guinness is one of those beers (specifically, a stout) that people take seriously and the Guinness...
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Guinness is one of those beers (specifically, a stout) that people take seriously and the Guinness brand has taken full advantage of that in their marketing. They even sell a glass designed specifically for enjoying their flagship creation, which has led to a trend that the...
Construction Physics
Understanding Solar Energy The biggest energy story of the last fifteen years is the rise of solar photovoltaics, also known as...
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The biggest energy story of the last fifteen years is the rise of solar photovoltaics, also known as solar PV or simply solar panels.
Odds and Ends of...
Listen to The Abundance Agenda A new podcast about growth and progress
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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...
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...
GitButler
Going down the rabbit hole of Git's new bundle-uri Git's new bundle-uri could help significantly speed up clones, but what bugs lurk within?
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lcamtuf’s thing
AI in infosec: the future is now, old man I do my best to keep punditry off this blog, but I don't always succeed.
2 weeks ago
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
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
Greater Still by...
Becoming a person familiar Six months at Rostra
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GitButler
GitButler's new patch based Code Review (Beta) Introducing Butler Review, a new commit-based, chat centered code review tool, now in beta.
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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)
Matt Mullenweg
Dalio & Benioff in Singaore With the world changing so quickly, it’s hard to find alpha, but the best way is by following the...
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With the world changing so quickly, it’s hard to find alpha, but the best way is by following the brightest thinkers. This CNBC interview with Ray Dalio and Marc Benioff is good, but it’s way better if you go to the livestream about 25 minutes in and see the full discussion...
Applied Cartography
Smoke test your Django admin site Here is a confession: I am a very strong proponent of a robust test suite being perhaps the single...
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Here is a confession: I am a very strong proponent of a robust test suite being perhaps the single most important asset of a codebase, but when it comes to auxiliary services like admin sites or CLIs when it comes to testing I tend to ask for forgiveness more than I ask for...
./techtipsy
Fairphone Fairbuds XL review: admirable goals, awful product I bought the Fairphone Fairbuds XL with my own money at a recent sale for 186.75 EUR, plus 15 EUR...
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I bought the Fairphone Fairbuds XL with my own money at a recent sale for 186.75 EUR, plus 15 EUR for shipping to Estonia. The normal price for these headphones is 239 EUR. This post is not sponsored. I admire what Fairphone wants to achieve, even going as far as getting the...
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
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
Jorge Arango
AI and Taxonomies: Creating vs. Applying Recently, I wrote about using AI to solve taxonomy drift — the all-too-common problem of lists of...
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Recently, I wrote about using AI to solve taxonomy drift — the all-too-common problem of lists of terms (tags, categories) falling out of sync with the content they describe. A response to that post raised an important distinction worth clarifying: the difference between creating...
Odds and Ends of...
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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Construction Physics
Reading List 03/22/25 Google’s answer to Starlink, US food imports, an enormous BYD factory, DeepSeek adoption, and more
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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...
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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.
Computer Ads from...
Vote for the March 2025 + Post Topic Time is running out.
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lcamtuf’s thing
What's root mean square voltage? And how do we derive its value for sine waves?
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Jorge Arango
Why Website Taxonomies Drift (and What to Do about It) AI is everywhere, but most websites are still managed manually by humans using content management...
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AI is everywhere, but most websites are still managed manually by humans using content management systems like WordPress and Drupal. These systems provide means for tagging and categorizing content. But over time, these structures degrade. Without vigilance and maintenance,...
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
watchTowr Labs
Bypassing Authentication Like It’s The ‘90s - Pre-Auth RCE Chain(s) in Kentico Xperience CMS I recently joined watchTowr, and it is, therefore, time - time for my first watchTowr Labs blogpost,...
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I recently joined watchTowr, and it is, therefore, time - time for my first watchTowr Labs blogpost, previously teased in a tweet of a pre-auth RCE chain affecting some ‘unknown software’. Joining the team, I wanted to maintain the trail of destruction left by the watchTowr Labs...
watchTowr Labs
By Executive Order, We Are Banning Blacklists - Domain-Level RCE in Veeam Backup & Replication... It’s us again! Once again, we hear the collective groans - but we're back and with yet another...
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It’s us again! Once again, we hear the collective groans - but we're back and with yet another merciless pwnage of an inspired and clearly comprehensive RCE solution - no, wait, it's another vuln in yet another backup and replication solution.. While we would
Krebs on Security
Arrests in Tap-to-Pay Scheme Powered by Phishing Authorities in at least two U.S. states last week independently announced arrests of Chinese...
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Authorities in at least two U.S. states last week independently announced arrests of Chinese nationals accused of perpetrating a novel form of tap-to-pay fraud using mobile devices. Details released by authorities so far indicate the mobile wallets being used by the scammers were...
Old Vintage...
More pro for the DEC Professional 380 (featuring PRO/VENIX) In computing the DEC PDP-11 is something of a geologic feature. Plus, as most systems in the family...
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In computing the DEC PDP-11 is something of a geologic feature. Plus, as most systems in the family were minicomputers, they had the whole monolith thing going for them too (minus murderous apes and sucking astronauts into hyperspace). Its fame is even more notable given that...
Abort Retry Fail
Chipzilla eats an Apple The rise of Intel Core
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Ghetto soldering tweezers [Misc] And other 3D printed accessories
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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
Odds and Ends of...
Britain needs a national drone company Forget GB Railways and GB Energy... how about GB Drones?
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Vitalik Buterin's...
We should talk less about public goods funding and more about open source funding
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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...
Birchtree
The "essential" iPhone Today marks day 13 of using the iPhone 16e as my primary phone, and after this review goes live,...
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Today marks day 13 of using the iPhone 16e as my primary phone, and after this review goes live, I'll be moving my eSIM back to the 16 Pro that I use day to day. I intended to use this phone for a month before going back to
Arduino Blog
SeaPerch II introduces students to underwater ROV exploration While professionals around the world take advantage of Arduino products and the extensive ecosystem,...
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While professionals around the world take advantage of Arduino products and the extensive ecosystem, the core Arduino philosophy is to simplify complex technology. A bare microcontroller is intimidating to the uninitiated, but an Arduino development board is friendly and...
Abishek Muthian
Terms and Conditions The legal terms mentioned here covers abishekmuthian.com and products which explicitly link to this...
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The legal terms mentioned here covers abishekmuthian.com and products which explicitly link to this legal page. For legal terms of my individual products please refer to the legal section on their respective websites. Terms Cancellation If you have monthly payment subscription to...
Birchtree
➕ iPhone 16e review in progress: photography Here's a peek behind the scenes as I work on my iPhone 16e review.
4 weeks ago
Arduino Blog
A DIY sous vide cooker for making the perfect steak Sous vide (which means “under vacuum” in French) is a cooking technique in which food is sealed in a...
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Sous vide (which means “under vacuum” in French) is a cooking technique in which food is sealed in a plastic bag (or another container) and immersed in warm water for a long period of time. It is great for meat, like steak, because it ensures the food is an even temperature...
Computer Ads from...
Anchor Pad Two experts want your computer. Which one will get to it first?
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Ken Shirriff's blog
A USB interface to the "Mother of All Demos" keyset In the early 1960s, Douglas Engelbart started investigating how computers could augment human...
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In the early 1960s, Douglas Engelbart started investigating how computers could augment human intelligence: "If, in your office, you as an intellectual worker were supplied with a computer display backed up by a computer that was alive for you all day and was instantly...
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #62: Right-wing populism is over... maybe... possibly... hopefully Plus over-diagnosis, governance theatre, and... crisps.
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Arduino Blog
Arduino Days 2025 is almost here! With just a few days to go, Arduino Days 2025 promises to be one of the biggest and most exciting...
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With just a few days to go, Arduino Days 2025 promises to be one of the biggest and most exciting events in our 20-year history! Join us for two days of live-streamed content on March 21st-22nd, featuring inspiring talks, major product announcements, and community showcases from...
Construction Physics
Who Wins Nobel Prizes? The most prestigious scientific achievement is likely the Nobel Prize, which is awarded every year...
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The most prestigious scientific achievement is likely the Nobel Prize, which is awarded every year to “those who confer the greatest benefit to mankind” in the fields of physics, medicine, and chemistry (of course, there are also Nobel Prizes for literature and peace, as well as...
Lighthouse Blog
What is RSS?
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Birchtree
Politics are personal Justin Ferrell: It's Not Politics, It's Just Personal What happens when no amount of work or...
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Justin Ferrell: It's Not Politics, It's Just Personal What happens when no amount of work or labor—and no tax cuts—could even scratch the surface of the tens of thousands of dollars in medical care that keeps your son above ground? A very
Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course Week 11: Stoicism In week 11 of the humanities crash course, I revisited one of the most influential philosophies of...
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In week 11 of the humanities crash course, I revisited one of the most influential philosophies of the ancient world: Stoicism. I was already familiar with this material, so I also took the opportunity to revisit another text: the Book of Job. Heavy stuff – and I paired it with...
Odds and Ends of...
The Planning Bill, Lab Meat, and why Milton Keynes isn't afraid of growth The Abundance Agenda - Episode 2 - with Chris Curtis MP
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Matt Mullenweg
Radiohead It’s so funny that my random re-engagement with Radiohead re-emergence coincides with them doing a...
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It’s so funny that my random re-engagement with Radiohead re-emergence coincides with them doing a new entity that might mean something. I did a poll on Twitter and people preferred OK Computer to Kid A 78%!
Odds and Ends of...
Empty climate gestures, Peter Hitchens' timezone crusade, and the big questions about New Towns Let Barry have his solar panels!
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Arduino Blog
This Arduino Nano Every-controlled machine automatically mixes acrylic paint of any color When you want to paint the walls in your bedroom that very specific shade of Misty Irish Green, all...
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When you want to paint the walls in your bedroom that very specific shade of Misty Irish Green, all you have to do is head to your local hardware store and have them scan the corresponding card. The paint-mixing machine will then add the pigment to a white base and, a few minutes...
Vitalik Buterin's...
The tree ring model of culture and politics
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Birchtree
The Pebble (which made me fall in love with smart watches) is back Introducing Two New PebbleOS Watches! We’re excited to announce two new smartwatches that run open...
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Introducing Two New PebbleOS Watches! We’re excited to announce two new smartwatches that run open source PebbleOS and are compatible with thousands of your beloved Pebble apps. The original Pebble was my “a ha!” moment when I realized smart watches were the real deal, even in
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #63: A major electric vehicle breakthrough?! Plus why the Democrats lost, the AI camera explosion, and more.
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Matt Mullenweg
Automattic Operating System I was interviewed by Inc magazine for almost two hours where we covered a lot of great topics for...
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I was interviewed by Inc magazine for almost two hours where we covered a lot of great topics for entrepreneurs but almost none of it made it into the weird hit piece they published, however since both the journalist and I had recording of the interview I’ve decided to adapt some...
Computer Ads from...
Applix Alis Finally, some answers in Wonderland
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Abishek Muthian
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The legal terms mentioned here covers abishekmuthian.com and products which explicitly link to this legal page. For legal terms of my individual products please refer to the legal section on their respective websites. Refund For refunds of any digital goods purchased via...
Birchtree
🕹️ I strongly recommend Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (for the right person) God damn, this game.
2 weeks ago
Jorge Arango
AI is Probabilistic – That’s Why It Needs Constraints For as long as we’ve had computers, they’ve produced predictable outputs. But AI – in the form of...
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For as long as we’ve had computers, they’ve produced predictable outputs. But AI – in the form of large language models – represents a new kind of unpredictable computing. The key to implementing useful AI solutions is making the most of both paradigms. One of the oldest known...
Birchtree
Handheld consoles, assemble! Jez Corden writing for Windows Central: EXCLUSIVE: Xbox's New Hardware Plans Begin With a Gaming...
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Jez Corden writing for Windows Central: EXCLUSIVE: Xbox's New Hardware Plans Begin With a Gaming Handheld Set for Later This Year, With Full Next-Gen Consoles Targeting 2027 Microsoft is working with a PC gaming OEM (think ASUS, Lenovo, MSI, Razer, etc.) on an Xbox-branded gaming...
Birchtree
+ Why I quit Superhuman I appreciate the app, I just had to let it go.
3 weeks ago
Abishek Muthian
Shipping Policy Shipping and Delivery When you subscribe to a SaaS product in the website, You will receive access...
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Shipping and Delivery When you subscribe to a SaaS product in the website, You will receive access to the product as soon as the payment is acknowledged by our payment gateway partners.
Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course Week 12: Suetonius It’s hard to believe, but we’re almost at the first quarter mark for the humanities crash course. Up...
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It’s hard to believe, but we’re almost at the first quarter mark for the humanities crash course. Up this week: Suetonius’s The Twelve Caesars. I doubled down on the Republic’s fall by watching a classic movie set in this time. Readings The Twelve Caesars is a collection of...
Bryan Braun - Blog
Technology you don’t have to think about “Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without...
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“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.” – Alfred North Whitehead Effective technology takes our most time-consuming tasks and moves them into the background so we can focus on other important...
Birchtree
Apple says they will add encryption to RCS Jess Weatherbed writing for The Verge: Apple Will Soon Support Encrypted RCS Messaging With Android...
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Jess Weatherbed writing for The Verge: Apple Will Soon Support Encrypted RCS Messaging With Android Users “End-to-end encryption is a powerful privacy and security technology that iMessage has supported since the beginning, and now we are pleased to have helped lead a cross...
Construction Physics
Reading List 03/29/25 US bridges at risk of ship collisions, Airbus testing an unducted fan, an earthquake in Myanmar,...
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US bridges at risk of ship collisions, Airbus testing an unducted fan, an earthquake in Myanmar, China’s undersea cable cutter, and more.
Arduino Blog
This DIY experimental reactor harnesses the Birkeland-Eyde process Nitrogen is critical for farming at scale and without some form of nitrogen to enrich the soil, we...
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Nitrogen is critical for farming at scale and without some form of nitrogen to enrich the soil, we couldn’t grow staple crops efficiently enough to feed our large global population. Serious science goes into the production of fertilizers and the Birkeland-Eyde process was one...
Jonas Hietala
Let's build a VORON 0 About 1.5 years ago I ventured into 3D printing by building a VORON Trident. It was a very fun...
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About 1.5 years ago I ventured into 3D printing by building a VORON Trident. It was a very fun project and I’ve even used the printer quite a bit. Naturally, I had to build another one and this time I opted for the cute VORON 0. Why another printer? I really like my VORON Trident...
Krebs on Security
When Getting Phished Puts You in Mortal Danger Many successful phishing attacks result in a financial loss or malware infection. But falling for...
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Many successful phishing attacks result in a financial loss or malware infection. But falling for some phishing scams, like those currently targeting Russians searching online for organizations that are fighting the Kremlin war machine, can cost you your freedom or your life.
Birchtree
+ I’m a season 1 sorta guy Yes, this is about Severance, but it's really about more than Severance.
a week ago
Notes on software...
Phil Eaton on Technical Blogging This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
a week ago
Birchtree
Meta has squandered Threads Jon Passantino writing for Status: Hanging by a Thread Now Threads feels rather lifeless. While...
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Jon Passantino writing for Status: Hanging by a Thread Now Threads feels rather lifeless. While users still post there, for many has become something of a second-tier platform—a place that they dump content out of habit, not because they’re having real conversations or finding...
Odds and Ends of...
Listen: How the YIMBYs won My event with Anya Martin (with a brief cameo from Chris Curtis MP!)
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Arduino Blog
Quickly digitize your Magic deck with this 3D-printable scanning rig We call them “deck builders” for a reason: because players end up with huge piles of trading cards....
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We call them “deck builders” for a reason: because players end up with huge piles of trading cards. They can get difficult to manage, which is why the ManaBox app exists for Magic: The Gathering. It lets collectors scan and log their decks, which is handy for everything from...
Birchtree
This challenge escalated quickly! Check it out on YouTube and Podcasts! Matt and Chris have all the new Apple hardware, and Niléane...
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Check it out on YouTube and Podcasts! Matt and Chris have all the new Apple hardware, and Niléane takes the challenge to the next level. Weekly Topics iPhone 16e iPad Air (M3) MacBook Air (M4) Other Things Discussed Niléane’s brilliant Touch ID setup TP-Link
Krebs on Security
DOGE to Fired CISA Staff: Email Us Your Personal Data A message posted on Monday to the homepage of the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security...
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A message posted on Monday to the homepage of the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is the latest exhibit in the Trump administration's continued disregard for basic cybersecurity protections. The message instructed recently-fired CISA employees to get in...
Birchtree
You don’t need AI to play old games on modern hardware Fatima Kardar, Corporate Vice President, Gaming AI, at Microsoft: Empowering Creators and Players...
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Fatima Kardar, Corporate Vice President, Gaming AI, at Microsoft: Empowering Creators and Players With Muse, a Generative AI Model for Gameplay We’re excited to announce a generative AI breakthrough, published today in the journal Nature and announced by Microsoft Research, that...
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...
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The VR market shrunk yet again in 2024 Counterpoint Research: Global VR Market Declines 12% YoY in 2024; ‘AR+AI’ Smart Glasses to Take...
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Counterpoint Research: Global VR Market Declines 12% YoY in 2024; ‘AR+AI’ Smart Glasses to Take Centre Stage in 2025 Global VR headset shipments fell 12% YoY in 2024, marking their third consecutive year of declines due to the continued weak consumer demand. This is actually...
Birchtree
A personal update on Apple TV+ When Apple TV+ launched just over 5 years ago, it’s fair to say I wasn’t a fan. I thought their...
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When Apple TV+ launched just over 5 years ago, it’s fair to say I wasn’t a fan. I thought their launch shows were not to my taste, to put it generously. I don’t want to call out any specific show here, but I tried
Birchtree
Secretary of Defense put war plans in a group chat with a journalist Jeffrey Goldberg with an insane story in The Atlantic: The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted...
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Jeffrey Goldberg with an insane story in The Atlantic: The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans The world found out shortly before 2 p.m. eastern time on March 15 that the United States was bombing Houthi targets across Yemen. > > I, however, knew two hours...
Birchtree
I’m not used to seeing this John Gruber: Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino The fiasco here is not that Apple is late...
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John Gruber: Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino The fiasco here is not that Apple is late on AI. It’s also not that they had to announce an embarrassing delay on promised features last week. Those are problems, not fiascos, and problems happen. They’re
Birchtree
What people do with an empty text box I was listening to Hard Fork this weekend when Kevin Roose said this (emphasis mine): I think that...
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I was listening to Hard Fork this weekend when Kevin Roose said this (emphasis mine): I think that there is sort of a basic assumption if you're a heavy user of, say, ChatGPT, that there are certain things that it's good at and there are certain
Birchtree
My god, where did the YouTube suggestions go? They’re back, baby! WTF is going on with US leaders pushing get-rich-quick schemes like...
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They’re back, baby! WTF is going on with US leaders pushing get-rich-quick schemes like memecoins? I always love these "unnecessary" inventions. Season 1 was spectacular, and I can't wait to see what they do in the second season Mostly sharing this because it'
Birchtree
The base MacBook Air should have an M1 processor Why oh why does the base MacBook Air that Apple sells have their latest generation chip, the M4?...
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Why oh why does the base MacBook Air that Apple sells have their latest generation chip, the M4? That's so overkill for the vast majority of people, and I'd bet that most of them wouldn't even notice the speed difference in their day-to-day tasks.
Birchtree
You’re telling me I’m holding it wrong? Really!?!! Darth Chris makes an appearance, Niléane has an exclusive first look at…checks notes… the iPhone 16...
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Darth Chris makes an appearance, Niléane has an exclusive first look at…checks notes… the iPhone 16 Pro, Matt insists on talking about MacWhisper even more, and the crew actually all followed the rules in this week's challenge (a miracle!). Weekly Topics iPhone 16
Jorge Arango
How AI Is Built Podcast Nicolay Gerold interviewed me for his How AI is Built podcast. Our conversation focused on...
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Nicolay Gerold interviewed me for his How AI is Built podcast. Our conversation focused on information architecture – with an interesting angle: Nicolay’s audience consists primarily of engineers developing AI products. What can these folks learn from IA to create better AI...
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The Abundance Vibe Shift What is Abundance, where did it come from, and what is its wife's name?
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Ghost gets ActivityPub into beta Ghost: Social Web We've got our social web integration for Ghost to a point where we're excited to...
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Ghost: Social Web We've got our social web integration for Ghost to a point where we're excited to have you try it out, but there's a lot of work still in progress and (as alluded to earlier) there are some significant rough edges. I&
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Work is Life Too 10 PM on a Sunday night. You’re back home after a night out with friends. A couple of beers and some...
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10 PM on a Sunday night. You’re back home after a night out with friends. A couple of beers and some pizza. The place was too loud but you…
Notes on software...
Things that go wrong with disk IO There are a few interesting scenarios to keep in mind when writing applications (not just...
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There are a few interesting scenarios to keep in mind when writing applications (not just databases!) that interact with read and writes files, particularly in transactional contexts where you actually care about the integrity of the data and when you are editing data in...
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How the government can raise taxes – and get away with it It's time to treat Trump like the crisis he is
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Odds and Ends #64: Why we cancelled our trip to America Plus how to save Blue Peter
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Rosenfeld Review: “Traction Heroes” Louis Rosenfeld interviewed Harry Max and me for his Rosenfeld Review podcast. The subject? Harry...
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Louis Rosenfeld interviewed Harry Max and me for his Rosenfeld Review podcast. The subject? Harry and my podcast, Traction Heroes. We recorded this conversation late in 2024, before we’d shared the first episode. This interview lays out Traction Heroes’s backstory. It’s fitting...
Birchtree
My job doesn't need to exist? Rands: The Product Engineer You don’t need Product Managers. There. I said it. As someone who just...
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Rands: The Product Engineer You don’t need Product Managers. There. I said it. As someone who just moved into a product management role, you had best believe this line caught my eye. 👀 The post makes some reasonable arguments, although I think a lot of it is an
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Electricity and the speed of light If it's all just electromagnetic waves, why is electricity in a conductor moving slower than visible...
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Ken Shirriff's blog
Notes on the Pentium's microcode circuitry Most people think of machine instructions as the fundamental steps that a computer...
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Most people think of machine instructions as the fundamental steps that a computer performs. However, many processors have another layer of software underneath: microcode. With microcode, instead of building the processor's control circuitry from complex logic gates, the control...
Old Vintage...
The April Fools joke that might have got me fired Everyone should pull one great practical joke in their lifetimes. This one was mine, and I think...
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Everyone should pull one great practical joke in their lifetimes. This one was mine, and I think it's past the statute of limitations. The story is true. Only the names are redacted to protect the guilty. My first job out of college was a database programmer, even though my...
watchTowr Labs
XSS To RCE By Abusing Custom File Handlers - Kentico Xperience CMS (CVE-2025-2748) We know what you’re waiting for - this isn’t it. Today, we’re back with more tales of our adventures...
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We know what you’re waiting for - this isn’t it. Today, we’re back with more tales of our adventures in Kentico’s Xperience CMS. Due to it’s wide usage, the type of solution, and the types of enterprises using this solution
Computer Ads from...
Plus Post: VTech Laser MSX2 The exciting new MSX computer with more features for less money
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Computer Ads from...
MicroTimes Interviews Jim Clark from Mosaic Communications (1994) They discuss how to commercialize the internet.
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Krebs on Security
How Each Pillar of the 1st Amendment is Under Attack In an address to Congress this month, President Trump claimed he had "brought free speech back to...
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In an address to Congress this month, President Trump claimed he had "brought free speech back to America." But barely two months into his second term, the president has waged an unprecedented attack on the First Amendment rights of journalists, students, universities, government...
Birchtree
The Gen Z-powered retro gaming revival Eve Upton-Clark writing for Fast Company: ‘It’s Like Their Escape’: Retro Gaming Is Back Thanks to...
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Eve Upton-Clark writing for Fast Company: ‘It’s Like Their Escape’: Retro Gaming Is Back Thanks to Gen Z Low-tech holds nostalgic appeal and may even offer a solid antidote to our increasingly fast-paced tech-driven society. For 78% of those polled, one reason they enjoy using...
Push to Prod
Is AI-based Root Cause Analysis a Real Thing? Logs, LLMs, AI, Decision Trees, and Root Causes
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Jorge Arango
Traction Heroes Ep. 6: Chesterton’s Fence In Episode 6 of the Traction Heroes podcast, Harry and I explored Chesterton’s fence — a simple yet...
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In Episode 6 of the Traction Heroes podcast, Harry and I explored Chesterton’s fence — a simple yet profound idea that has important implications for leaders navigating complex, high-stakes changes. The gist: when change is needed, don’t start by destroying what you don’t...
Never Met a Science
The Political Institution of Mortality The Democratic incumbent was too old to run for re-election.
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Applied Cartography
Performance improvements can be obvious and silly in retrospect One of the most useful and janky internal tools we have in Buttondown’s codebase is a codegen...
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One of the most useful and janky internal tools we have in Buttondown’s codebase is a codegen pipeline called “autogen”. There is nothing “auto” about autogen: it is a series of scripts that munges a bunch of data into a bunch of different formats, to generate things like our...
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Adam Osborne Interview by Practical Computing (1983) Osborne reveals his philosophy
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The tale of Narcissus Ted Gioia: What's Happening to Students? I’m dumbfounded when I hear ‘experts’ claim that phones are...
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Ted Gioia: What's Happening to Students? I’m dumbfounded when I hear ‘experts’ claim that phones are not the problem. Like tobacco companies—whose hired experts long denied the connection between smoking and cancer—they say that “correlation does not prove causation.
Birchtree
I feel more empowered than ever Bryan Irace: Tim, Don’t Kill My Vibe Like it or not, LLMs—both through general chat interfaces and...
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Bryan Irace: Tim, Don’t Kill My Vibe Like it or not, LLMs—both through general chat interfaces and purpose-built developer tools—have meaningfully increased the rate at which new software can be produced. And they’ve done so both by making skilled developers more productive
Birchtree
Balatro continues to bring a smile Jay Peters for The Verge: Why Balatro’s Developer Stays Anonymous It’s an arrangement that the...
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Jay Peters for The Verge: Why Balatro’s Developer Stays Anonymous It’s an arrangement that the Playstack team figured out with LocalThunk ahead of other ceremonies like The Game Awards, where Balatro won three awards and was nominated for Game of the Year. LocalThunk didn’t
Krebs on Security
ClickFix: How to Infect Your PC in Three Easy Steps A clever malware deployment scheme first spotted in targeted attacks last year has now gone...
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A clever malware deployment scheme first spotted in targeted attacks last year has now gone mainstream. In this scam, dubbed "ClickFix," the visitor to a hacked or malicious website is asked to distinguish themselves from bots by pressing a combination of keyboard keys that...
Birchtree
This alert must die I really thought that the screen recording notifications in macOS Sequoia would be the bane of my...
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I really thought that the screen recording notifications in macOS Sequoia would be the bane of my existence, but thankfully those have been changed quite a bit from the early betas last summer and they're totally a non-issue in my book today. However, these god damned "turn
Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course Week 13: The Qur’an This week, I sampled one of the world’s great spiritual texts: the Qur’an. I also read poems by Rumi...
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This week, I sampled one of the world’s great spiritual texts: the Qur’an. I also read poems by Rumi and saw a movie that led me to question my understanding of both. Readings As with many other people in the West, my understanding of Islam mostly comes from the news — often, in...
Birchtree
OS updates should respect my settings Tim Hardwick writing for MacRumors: PSA: iOS 18.3.2 Re-Enables Apple Intelligence if You Turned It...
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Tim Hardwick writing for MacRumors: PSA: iOS 18.3.2 Re-Enables Apple Intelligence if You Turned It Off With new iOS software updates, Apple has been automatically turning Apple Intelligence on again even for users who have disabled it, a decision that has become increasingly...
Birchtree
I've moved to Ghost Pro Here's hoping this post is short and sweet… Back in 2019 I moved my blog off of WordPress and over...
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Here's hoping this post is short and sweet… Back in 2019 I moved my blog off of WordPress and over to Ghost. In short, I wasn't happy with WordPress and wanted a blogging engine that felt more like it was made for blogging than a
Birchtree
+ Why don't I post mock ups anymore? Hey, where did the design concepts go?
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Before you burn it down… I enjoyed this quote from Casey Newton on today's Hard Fork podcast: Even as somebody who generally...
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I enjoyed this quote from Casey Newton on today's Hard Fork podcast: Even as somebody who generally likes technology, I think some of these tech oligarchs have this extremely know-it-all attitude that "our tech is better than your tech, yours sucks," and they sort of bluster
Birchtree
Should we do a Conclave? Niléane insists she's not bringing another task manager, Chris has a new e-ink toy he loves, and the...
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Niléane insists she's not bringing another task manager, Chris has a new e-ink toy he loves, and the whole crew finds interesting ways to add some more text expansion to their lives. We want to hear from you! How would you have done our challenges? How
Birchtree
+ Book and video game review catchup
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Bryan Braun - Blog
Breaking down circular dependencies in JavaScript I write a lot of JavaScript but circular dependencies have always been kind of a mystery to me. The...
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I write a lot of JavaScript but circular dependencies have always been kind of a mystery to me. The error messages always seem random and inscrutable, and sometimes there’s no error message at all! I wanted to understand this topic better, so I ran a series of experiments and...
Arduino Blog
Forgot your safe combination? This Arduino-controlled autodialer can crack it for you Safes are designed specifically to be impenetrable — that’s kind of the whole point. That’s great...
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Safes are designed specifically to be impenetrable — that’s kind of the whole point. That’s great when you need to protect something, but it is a real problem when you forget the combination to your safe or when a safe’s combination becomes lost to history. In such situations,...
Birchtree
Yesterday's 'golden age' turns into today's mess Nick Timiraos for the Wall Street Journal: Corporate America’s Euphoria Over Trump’s ‘Golden Age’ Is...
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Nick Timiraos for the Wall Street Journal: Corporate America’s Euphoria Over Trump’s ‘Golden Age’ Is Giving Way to Distress Investors were caught flat-footed by Trump’s animus toward Canada, which wasn’t a part of last year’s election campaign. Global
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I keep telling people Google TV is better than you think Jason Snell: Who’s the Laggard? Comparing TV Streamer Boxes In short: Google TV is tasteful, well...
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Jason Snell: Who’s the Laggard? Comparing TV Streamer Boxes In short: Google TV is tasteful, well done, supports live streaming decently if not perfectly, and is a great extension of the Google ecosystem. As someone who does use YouTube TV and YouTube Premium, if I had to stop
Krebs on Security
Microsoft: 6 Zero-Days in March 2025 Patch Tuesday Microsoft today issued more than 50 security updates for its various Windows operating systems,...
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Microsoft today issued more than 50 security updates for its various Windows operating systems, including fixes for a whopping six zero-day vulnerabilities that are already seeing active exploitation.
Birchtree
The Snow Leopard we've built up in our heads Nick Heer: linking to Jeff Johnson's The myth and reality of Mac OS X Snow Leopard I read an article...
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Nick Heer: linking to Jeff Johnson's The myth and reality of Mac OS X Snow Leopard I read an article today from yet another person pining for a mythical Snow Leopard-style MacOS release. While I sympathize with the intent of their argument, it is largely fictional and, as
Birchtree
Settings > Default Apps > Voice Assistant Parker Ortolani writing Gemini, Siri, and Default Assistants on iOS, arguing that Apple should allow...
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Parker Ortolani writing Gemini, Siri, and Default Assistants on iOS, arguing that Apple should allow you to set a different default voice assistant: it would do two things: it would mitigate some of the damage with customer relations while they wait for the new Siri and it sets a...
Odds and Ends of...
The Lower Thames Crossing, getting mad at boomers and the scourge of Everythingism Plus we're 18,000 homes closer to the, er, 1.5 million homes target
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Krebs on Security
Alleged Co-Founder of Garantex Arrested in India Authorities in India today arrested the alleged co-founder of Garantex, a cryptocurrency exchange...
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Authorities in India today arrested the alleged co-founder of Garantex, a cryptocurrency exchange sanctioned by the U.S. government in 2022 for facilitating tens of billions of dollars in money laundering by transnational criminal and cybercriminal organizations. Sources close 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 #65: Everything is about everything Plus why Britain can't build things... except for the Lower Thames Crossing, apparently.
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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...
Jorge Arango
Don’t Let the Drawings Distract You: AI is Not About the Output Last week, I spoke with a business leader who’s excited about AI. But as we talked, it became clear...
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Last week, I spoke with a business leader who’s excited about AI. But as we talked, it became clear that there’s a wide gulf between enthusiasm and creating value for a particular business. Most people’s impression of AI is based on limited use and media hype. Take the recent...
Birchtree
You have got to be kidding me Mia Sato writing for The Verge: Elon Musk’s $1 Million Handout Winners Are Connected to Republican...
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Mia Sato writing for The Verge: Elon Musk’s $1 Million Handout Winners Are Connected to Republican Causes On Sunday, a few thousand people in Green Bay, Wisconsin, gathered to hear Elon Musk speak — and give away two giant cardboard checks for $1 million. Attendance at the event
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The government should stop worrying about the Daily Mail Test You can't fix the Civil Service by penny-pinching
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Birchtree
“Retina” is not a static PPI I’m just going to keep posting about this every few months because people keep getting “retina”...
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I’m just going to keep posting about this every few months because people keep getting “retina” wrong. According to this YouTube video that was recommended to me today, retina on desktop monitors is exactly 218ppi (pixels per inch). Now of course the iPhone 4, which was
Birchtree
Benchmarks from M2 Pro to M4 Pro Long story short, I picked up a new MacBook Pro this week. I got the M4 Pro version with the higher...
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Long story short, I picked up a new MacBook Pro this week. I got the M4 Pro version with the higher core count and 1TB of internal storage. It's the exact same model in the lineup as the M2 Pro I've been using for the last
Birchtree
The post you knew was coming about the Switch 2 display Nintendo gave the Switch 2 it's grand unveiling today, and I think it looks great. $449 is a steep...
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Nintendo gave the Switch 2 it's grand unveiling today, and I think it looks great. $449 is a steep starting price, but considering the features and the fact we live in a world of inflation and significant tariffs on many goods coming into the US, it's
lcamtuf’s thing
The Rapture It’s fascinating how these vascular bundles, containing xylem and phloem, are arranged in a ring...
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It’s fascinating how these vascular bundles, containing xylem and phloem, are arranged in a ring located beneath the skin (periderm) and the cortex.
Arduino Blog
This student made his own odds with a DIY slot machine Today’s digital slot machines are anything but “fair,” in the way that most of us understand that...
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Today’s digital slot machines are anything but “fair,” in the way that most of us understand that word. There is tight regulation in most places, but the machines can still adjust their odds of payout in order to maintain a specific profit margin. If the machine thinks it has...
Birchtree
Peanut butter toast You never know what moments have staying power until they hit you.
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Introducing Quick Stuff Today I'm introducing the most side of side projects I've done in a long time, and I'm calling it...
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Today I'm introducing the most side of side projects I've done in a long time, and I'm calling it Quick Stuff. Quick Stuff is a place for me to put all of my little projects in one place, and I'm really happy
Birchtree
A new/old Pokémon game, how Hollywood can make good movies, and a puzzle with all edge pieces We are so back! Please keep making smaller, original movies so that we get new franchises A puzzle...
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We are so back! Please keep making smaller, original movies so that we get new franchises A puzzle with all edge pieces that looks fun but also very hard Every font is free…as long as you remake it yourself Fellow olds, if you haven't seen this,
Birchtree
Some thoughts on the Switch 2 Nintendo finally rolled out the red carpet for the Switch 2 yesterday, and I'll be honest, I'm super...
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Nintendo finally rolled out the red carpet for the Switch 2 yesterday, and I'll be honest, I'm super excited for it. The hardware The hardware for the new Switch is everything I ever wanted, minus one thing. The performance looks pretty darn good, and it appears
Birchtree
People’s passion for art made by humans persists M.G. Siegler: A Spirited Debate Around AI This isn’t the end of art. It may indeed be the dawn of a...
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M.G. Siegler: A Spirited Debate Around AI This isn’t the end of art. It may indeed be the dawn of a new age for art. And that may not devalue the human-created art as is the clear fear right now. In fact, it may even *elevate* it
./techtipsy
The optimization treadmill: why I keep changing my computing setup all the time I have a bad habit of changing my computing setups all the time. I tend to see new gear, then I...
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I have a bad habit of changing my computing setups all the time. I tend to see new gear, then I get some new ideas, and then I obsessively think about it for weeks and months until I just buy it. And then the cycle repeats. I’ve had time to think about why that keeps happening...
./techtipsy
Fairphone 5: my heavily biased overview after 58 days of use (and counting) After months of contemplating I finally pulled the trigger and got myself a Fairphone 5. The...
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After months of contemplating I finally pulled the trigger and got myself a Fairphone 5. The fact that iPhone X stopped receiving major iOS updates certainly helped make that decision. “But why? My Xiaomi/Oneplus/Samsung/other glued-together device is like so much cheaper and...
./techtipsy
OpenWRT, ISP modem and dynamic IP addresses: how to fix connectivity issues without rebooting your... My current ISP provides an internet connection over a copper wire. To use it, I have a crappy modem...
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My current ISP provides an internet connection over a copper wire. To use it, I have a crappy modem (Technicolor CGA2121, DOCSIS 3.0). It’s running in bridge mode, meaning that all it does is convert the signal running over the coax cable into plain old Ethernet. My main...
Arduino Blog
GLEWBOT scales buildings like a gecko to inspect wall tiles A great deal of building maintenance expenses are the result of simple inaccessibility. Cleaning the...
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A great deal of building maintenance expenses are the result of simple inaccessibility. Cleaning the windows are your house is a trivial chore, but cleaning the windows on a skyscraper is serious undertaking that needs specialized equipment and training. To make exterior wall...
Arduino Blog
Meet Mr. Wallplate, an animatronic wall plate that speaks to you Interactive robots always bring an element of intrigue, and even more so when they feature unusual...
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Interactive robots always bring an element of intrigue, and even more so when they feature unusual parts and techniques to perform their actions. Mr. Wallplate, affectionately named by Tony K on Instructables, is one such robot that is contained within an electrical wall plate...
computers are bad
2024-05-15 catalina connections Some things have been made nearly impossible to search for. Say, for example, the long-running...
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Some things have been made nearly impossible to search for. Say, for example, the long-running partnership between Epson and Catalina: a query that will return pages upon pages of people trying to use Epson printers with an old version of MacOS. When you think of a point of sale...
computers are bad
2024-05-06 matrix For those of you who are members of the Matrix project, I wanted to let you know that I am running...
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For those of you who are members of the Matrix project, I wanted to let you know that I am running for the Governing Board, and a bit about why. For those of you who are not, I hope you will forgive the intrusion. Maybe you'll find my opinions on the topic interesting anyway. I...
detreville
🎼This Is the Worst Trip I’ve Ever Been On 🎶 (A Lengthy Vacation Post-Mortem)
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Electronics etc…
Zephyr Ravenna Control Board Replacement Blog post that probably has an audience of one, myself. Introduction Zephyr Ravenna - Confusing...
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Blog post that probably has an audience of one, myself. Introduction Zephyr Ravenna - Confusing Information Two PCBs - Control Board & Switch Assembly Switch of the Breaker!!! Glass Canopy Removal Duct Cover Removal Swapping the Control...
Computer Ads from...
MicroSpeed PC-TRAC Let's Get Right To the Point
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The IBM 701 "IBM's first computer"
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Monitoring energy usage with smart plugs, Prometheus and Grafana This post isn’t a detailed line-by-line tutorial on how to set up each individual piece of the setup...
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This post isn’t a detailed line-by-line tutorial on how to set up each individual piece of the setup as those types of guides tend to get out of date really easily, but if you know your way around Linux and the command line, then you can definitely replicate this setup on your...
./techtipsy
Control - how to make a game enjoyable for casual audiences I’ve decided to intentionally take more time to play video games this year, since it’s a relatively...
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I’ve decided to intentionally take more time to play video games this year, since it’s a relatively healthy way to escape from the real world once in a while. A friend recommended one game in particular: Control: Ultimate Edition. During the Steam summer sale of 2023, I went...
Style over Substance
My Home Assistant setup (2023 edition) For the past few years, I have been running Home Assistant to make my apartment a smart home. It’s...
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For the past few years, I have been running Home Assistant to make my apartment a smart home. It’s become such a hobby of mine that I’ve even started coding add-ons for it. While there are other popular automation platforms, Home Assistant’s versatility blows the rest out of the...
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Tesla’s FSD - First and Last Impressions TLDR: It’s a useless technology demo. Introduction Rules of Engagement Test Ride 1: from Kings Beach...
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TLDR: It’s a useless technology demo. Introduction Rules of Engagement Test Ride 1: from Kings Beach to Truckee (11 miles) Test Ride 2: I-80 from Truckee to Blue Canyon (36 miles) Test Ride 3: from West-Valley College to I-85 Entrance (1 mile) Conclusion Introduction In the past...
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Building Quarter-Cab - Phase I Lets build a simple virtual pinball controller to bring more immersion to your game.
11 months ago
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Kim-1 User Manual For sale: a few KIM-1 User Manuals I printed up.
a year ago
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The hidden media play/pause/stop keys on the Lenovo ThinkPad L390 Yoga ThinkPad keyboards were once well known for their great layouts, feel and functionality. This...
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ThinkPad keyboards were once well known for their great layouts, feel and functionality. This included the media playback control keys. On the ThinkPad T430, the new chiclet keyboard layout moved the media keys to the function row. Still there, but less convenient to access. The...
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Housekeeping for 20240309 Super quick updates
a year ago
Engineers Need Art
VPX Scripting - Part 1 (Teacher's Pet) The first in a series of posts about scripting Visual Pinball tables.
11 months ago
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VPX Scripting - Part 2 (Linting) The second in a series of posts about scripting Visual Pinball tables.
11 months ago
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Tektronix TDS 684B Oscilloscope Button Swap Introduction Removing the panels Swapping a Rotary Encoder Putting it all back together End...
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Introduction Removing the panels Swapping a Rotary Encoder Putting it all back together End Result Introduction I recently bought a TDS 684B for cheap at a government auction. With 1 GHz BW and 5 Gsps sample rate, it can be used for those cases where my 350 MHz/2Gsps Siglent...
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Op-Amp Helper PCB A PCB for breadboards to make working with op-amps easier.
a year ago
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How to take down production with a single Helm command You’re Cletus Kubernetus: a software developer, and a proud Fedora Linux user.1 You know Kubernetes,...
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You’re Cletus Kubernetus: a software developer, and a proud Fedora Linux user.1 You know Kubernetes, especially after the time you migrated some services to it. Everything is calm. Your pods are running. Your service is up. Business as usual. You release some minor changes to...
Arduino Blog
A drone remote designed to enhance magic shows Maker culture has always been a major part of magic performance. Some tricks are well-rehearsed...
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Maker culture has always been a major part of magic performance. Some tricks are well-rehearsed slight of hand, but many of them rely on clever engineering to sell an illusion. And modern technology offers a great deal of interesting possibilities. That is the idea behind Peter...
Arduino Blog
Assess your aquarium’s health with an AI-enabled ultrasonic sensor Below the surface of any body of water, harmful amounts of toxic gases and contaminates can...
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Below the surface of any body of water, harmful amounts of toxic gases and contaminates can accumulate, which leads to a loss in fish and plant populations if not fixed quickly. But because most water testing, especially in aquariums, is done primarily on the surface, vital...
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Zimaboard: the closest thing to my dream home server setup I stumbled upon this Hardware Haven video about the Zimaboard recently. I liked it a lot. I finally...
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I stumbled upon this Hardware Haven video about the Zimaboard recently. I liked it a lot. I finally bought one. In short, Zimaboard is a small single-board computer that is relatively affordable and comes with an interesting selection of ports, which includes an exposed PCI...
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2023-10-15 go.com Correction: a technical defect in my Enterprise Content Management System resulted in the email...
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Correction: a technical defect in my Enterprise Content Management System resulted in the email having a subject that made it sound like this post would be about the classic strategy game Go. It is actually about a failed website. I regret the error; the responsible people have...
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VPX Scripting - Part 6 (End Sound) This post wraps up the sound work on Teacher's Pet.
11 months ago
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Guide Technology GT300 Frequency Standard Teardown MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [...
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MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [ ['$', '$'], ["\\(", "\\)"] ], displayMath: [ ['$$', '$$'], ["\\[", "\\]"] ], processEscapes: true, skipTags: ['script', 'noscript', 'style', 'textarea', 'pre',...
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HP 8656A Signal Generator Schematics Agilent has made the 8656A Signal Generator Operating & Service Manual available as a PDF, but the...
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Agilent has made the 8656A Signal Generator Operating & Service Manual available as a PDF, but the schematics of chapter 8 are all spread over 3 or 4 pages, which makes them hard to follow. I spent a good evening extracting the schematics pages, cutting-and-pasting them together...
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The Company Rockwell International has been around for quite a while. Willard Rockwell started the company in 1919 to sell a newly designed truck axle bearing. Over the years, Rockwell acquired businesses in many different fields, including defense, industrial electronics,...
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2024-03-09 the purple streetscape Across the United States, streets are taking on a strange hue at night. Purple. Purple streetlights...
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Across the United States, streets are taking on a strange hue at night. Purple. Purple streetlights have been reported in Tampa, Vancouver, Wichita, Boston. They're certainly in evidence here in Albuquerque, where Coal through downtown has turned almost entirely to mood lighting....
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My very first career day This post is a short overview of my experience at a career day in Valga, Estonia, hosted with the...
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This post is a short overview of my experience at a career day in Valga, Estonia, hosted with the help of GreenDice. I’ve never spoken at a career day before nor attended one as a student, which is why I instantly agreed to going to one when GreenDice reached out to me. Why? I...
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A writer's autobiography (Just not mine.)
over a year ago
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2024-04-05 the life of one earth station Sometimes, when I am feeling down, I read about failed satellite TV (STV) services. Don't we all?...
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Sometimes, when I am feeling down, I read about failed satellite TV (STV) services. Don't we all? As a result, I've periodically come across a company called AlphaStar Television Network. PrimeStar may have had a rough life, but AlphaStar barely had one at all: it launched in...
Style over Substance
Adding night shading to a Home Assistant mini-graph-card chart One of my favorite Lovelace interface cards for Home Assistant is the mini-graph-card by kalkih....
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One of my favorite Lovelace interface cards for Home Assistant is the mini-graph-card by kalkih. It’s the card running most of the graphs in our smart home‘s dashboard. Surprisingly, mini-graph card is actually not included in Home Assistant by default – honestly, it should be,...
Arduino Blog
Arduino Cloud is now natively supported on tablets  We’re excited to announce the release of IoT Remote v3.0.0, featuring a native tablet version...
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We’re excited to announce the release of IoT Remote v3.0.0, featuring a native tablet version (available for both Android and iOS platforms) optimized for unlocking the full potential of larger screen sizes. What is the Arduino IoT Remote app?  The Arduino IoT Remote app allows...
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2023-11-04 nuclear safety Nuclear weapons are complex in many ways. The basic problem of achieving criticality is difficult on...
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Nuclear weapons are complex in many ways. The basic problem of achieving criticality is difficult on its own, but deploying nuclear weapons as operational military assets involves yet more challenges. Nuclear weapons must be safe and reliable, even with the rough handling and...
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A free, 3D printable Meta Quest 3 stand People were really kind and seemed to enjoy my 3D printable Apple Vision Pro stand, a stand I...
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People were really kind and seemed to enjoy my 3D printable Apple Vision Pro stand, a stand I designed in Fusion 360 with the goal of being visually appealing and compact as it stored the headset vertically so it wouldn’t take up too much space on your desk. Turns out there were...
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ThinkPad T40: it can still run modern Linux, for now I recently busted out my old ThinkPad T40, the last of the OG IBM ThinkPads. I picked it up some...
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I recently busted out my old ThinkPad T40, the last of the OG IBM ThinkPads. I picked it up some time around my university days because I liked collecting ThinkPads at the time, and it was a nice complement to my existing ThinkPad T60 and T430. The battery is dead, but everything...
Style over Substance
Our favorite places to eat and drinks during our Portugal vacation In the summer of 2023, we went on an amazing trip through Portugal. We’d already visited Lisbon on a...
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In the summer of 2023, we went on an amazing trip through Portugal. We’d already visited Lisbon on a short city trip a few years earlier, and that experience was so good we knew we had to return. This time, we decided to take a full three weeks and see the sights. We were...
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Lenovo ThinkPad P14s gen 4 (AMD): it doesn't suck under Linux I’ve had the opportunity to try out another new laptop at work. I’ve used a brand new laptop...
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I’ve had the opportunity to try out another new laptop at work. I’ve used a brand new laptop recently, and it was horrible. But this time I’m pleasantly surprised. The Lenovo ThinkPad P14s gen 4 has great specs: CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U (8 cores, 16 threads, up to 5.1 GHz) GPU:...
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Comics from 1982/02 Creative Computing Mag Time for some humor
10 months ago
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Choosing a travel pack is hard I love the “carry-on only” traveling style, it’s cheaper and you don’t have to worry about airlines...
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I love the “carry-on only” traveling style, it’s cheaper and you don’t have to worry about airlines losing your stuff. Outside of requiring a bit more planning, what’s not to love? Turns out this is a beloved product category with a passionate community behind it, and as a result...
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Housekeeping for 20240701 Another correction
9 months ago
Engineers Need Art
Experiments in Printmaking - Part 1 Trying some unconventional techniques to create a pop-art print of a Cherry Mash candy bar.
a year ago
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2023-09-03 plastic money You will sometimes hear someone say, in a loose conceptual sense, that credit cards have money in...
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You will sometimes hear someone say, in a loose conceptual sense, that credit cards have money in them. Of course we know that that isn't the case; our modern plastic card payment network relies on online transactions where the balance tracking and authorization decisions happen...
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Symmetricom 58532A GPS Antenna Supply Voltage Mod The Symmatricom 58532A Opening up the 58532A Voltage Regulation Result What about the other 58532A...
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The Symmatricom 58532A Opening up the 58532A Voltage Regulation Result What about the other 58532A variant? References The Symmatricom 58532A As part of a package deal, I got my hands on a Symmetricom 58532A L1 GPS antenna. Microchip, which acquired Symmetricom in 2013, doesn’t...
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VPX Scripting - Part 5 (DOF) Some light Visual Pinball debugging and the world of DOF. New to DOF? Read on.
11 months ago
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Vintage rotary phone becomes stylish kitchen timer It seems like everything that happens in a kitchen requires exact timing. Whisk the batter for three...
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It seems like everything that happens in a kitchen requires exact timing. Whisk the batter for three minutes, knead the dough for 15 minutes, bake for 30 minutes, and so on. A timer is a necessity for cooking and baking, but there is no reason you need to use your phone or a...
Arduino Blog
A desktop-sized DIY vending machine for your room Have you ever wanted your very own vending machine? If so, you likely found that they’re expensive...
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Have you ever wanted your very own vending machine? If so, you likely found that they’re expensive and too bulky to fit in most homes. But now you can experience vending bliss thanks to this miniature vending machine designed by m22pj, which you can craft yourself using an...
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Virtual Pinhead Discovering virtual pinball, a hobbyist community devoted to it, and building a full-size virtual...
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Discovering virtual pinball, a hobbyist community devoted to it, and building a full-size virtual pinball cabinet.
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Check out these Arduino-powered research projects from CHI 2024 Held in Hawaii this year, the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) hosted its annual conference...
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Held in Hawaii this year, the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) hosted its annual conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) that focuses on the latest developments in human-computer interaction. Students from universities all across the world attended the...
detreville
But why "detreville"? (But why not?)
over a year ago
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IBM RISC System/6000 Family Just when PowerSeeker thought they had nowhere to go...
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Lintek Computer Accessories' Paper Tamer Restore Order (to your printer)
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Teardown of the TM4313 GPS Disciplined Oscillator Introduction What is a GPSDO? The TM4313 GPSDO Power Consumption Inside the TM4313 The TM4313...
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Introduction What is a GPSDO? The TM4313 GPSDO Power Consumption Inside the TM4313 The TM4313 Schematic Frequency or Phase Lock Loop? OCXO Temperature The Curious Case of the MAX6192 Voltage Reference The Discrete Tuning DAC GPS Module Microcontroller instead of NMEA Serial...
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2024-04-26 microsoft at work I haven't written anything for a bit. I'm not apologizing, because y'all don't pay me enough to...
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I haven't written anything for a bit. I'm not apologizing, because y'all don't pay me enough to apologize, but I do feel a little bad. Part of it is just that I've been busy, with work and travel and events. Part of it is that I've embarked on a couple of writing projects only to...
Arduino Blog
Kick off the Monaco Grand Prix weekend with these Formula 1-inspired Arduino projects The Monaco Grand Prix is just days away and will likely be one of the most exciting races of the...
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The Monaco Grand Prix is just days away and will likely be one of the most exciting races of the season. While most fans can’t participate directly — except as spectators — they can celebrate their passion through DIY projects. That’s why we’ve scoured the community to find the...
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Steam Deck: I like it I got a Steam Deck. Only took me a year or so of contemplating getting one, and trying out HoloISO,...
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I got a Steam Deck. Only took me a year or so of contemplating getting one, and trying out HoloISO, the unofficial SteamOS installer finally convinced me to get one.1 It took another year to actually get down to writing down my thoughts on it. This post is written from the...
Arduino Blog
Monitoring the weather with an Arduino MKR WiFi 1010-based station Being able to monitor the weather in real-time is great for education, research, or simply to...
11 months ago
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Being able to monitor the weather in real-time is great for education, research, or simply to analyze how the local climate changes over time. This project by Hackster.io user Pradeep explores how he was able to design a simple station outdoors that could communicate with a...
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LED Industrial Piercing [Hardware] Illuminated circuit inside a hypodermic
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2024-03-17 wilhelm haller and photocopier accounting In the 1450s, German inventor Johannes Gutenburg designed the movable-type printing press, the first...
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In the 1450s, German inventor Johannes Gutenburg designed the movable-type printing press, the first practical method of mass-duplicating text. After various other projects, he applied his press to the production of the Bible, yielding over one hundred copies of a text that...
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Applied Analytics' MicroSPEED Test-Fly A $20 Million Jet On An Apple? Yes. With MicroSPEED
10 months ago
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Save 20% on Arduino Cloud Maker Plan this May! Enhance your IoT projects with our special offer! Get 20% off a yearly subscription to the Arduino...
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Enhance your IoT projects with our special offer! Get 20% off a yearly subscription to the Arduino Cloud Maker Plan using code CLOUD20MAY. Valid until the end of May, this deal saves you $14.38, reducing the price from $71.88 to $57.50. Benefits of the Maker Plan: What is Arduino...
Arduino Blog
Create your own affordable Arduino-powered smart glasses When Google Glass launched in 2013, the public opinion seemed to be “interesting technology, but the...
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When Google Glass launched in 2013, the public opinion seemed to be “interesting technology, but the world isn’t ready yet.” Now that more than a decade has passed, the world may finally be ready — especially with the omission of controversial features like video recording. If...
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They make USB-C cables with displays now! I’ve reached a point in my setup where most of the devices that I use are based around the coveted...
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I’ve reached a point in my setup where most of the devices that I use are based around the coveted USB-C port. This meant that I had a valid reason to get a few extra because I didn’t yet have a stockpile of good USB-C cables. That’s when I found out that there exist cables that...
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About the time my ThinkPad T430 ran with an external GPU The ThinkPad T430 is not a remarkable laptop. It’s thick, bulky and built like a tank. I got mine in...
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The ThinkPad T430 is not a remarkable laptop. It’s thick, bulky and built like a tank. I got mine in 2016 when the first university scholarship money dropped, and it’s still my backup laptop of choice. Around 2017 I did something every reasonable poor computer science...
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The History of GM-NAA I/O and SHARE The Birth of Computer Operating Systems
a year ago
Engineers Need Art
VPX Scripting - Part 4 (Pet Sounds) Teacher's Pet gets new sounds in this post in a series about scripting Visual Pinball tables.
11 months ago
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Talking Tines [Concept] Tuning forks that talk
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Analyzing the Monoprice Blackbird HDCP 2.2 to 1.4 Down Converter Introduction Some Words about HDCP Inside the Monoprice Blackbird 4K Pro The Test Digging Deeper:...
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Introduction Some Words about HDCP Inside the Monoprice Blackbird 4K Pro The Test Digging Deeper: UART Transactions Decoding HDCP I2C Transactions The Legality of It All References Footnotes Introduction I got my hands on a Monoprice Blackbird 4K Pro HDCP 2.2 to 1.4...
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Oops, I published my drafts! Those of you who follow my blog using the RSS feed might have seen that new, incomplete posts popped...
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Those of you who follow my blog using the RSS feed might have seen that new, incomplete posts popped up around the time I published my FOSDEM 2024 post. Oops. I recently tried looking for an alternative to writing blog posts in IntelliJ and out of all the options I stuck...
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2024-06-02 consumer electronics control In a previous episode, I discussed audio transports and mention that they have become a much less...
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In a previous episode, I discussed audio transports and mention that they have become a much less important part of the modern home theater landscape. One reason is the broad decline of the component system: most consumers aren't buying a television, home theater receiver,...
Arduino Blog
Expanding possibilities: Blues Wireless amplifies Opta’s connectivity Blues Wireless and Arduino have joined forces to create the game-changing Blues Wireless for Arduino...
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Blues Wireless and Arduino have joined forces to create the game-changing Blues Wireless for Arduino Opta, unveiled this week at the Automate Show in Chicago. The expansion module is an affordable solution to enhance connectivity options for Arduino Opta micro PLCs, and marks a...
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2024-05-25 grc spinrite I feel like I used to spend an inordinate amount of time dealing with suspect hard drives. I mean,...
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I feel like I used to spend an inordinate amount of time dealing with suspect hard drives. I mean, like, back in high school. These days I almost never do, or on the occasion that I have storage trouble, it's a drive that has completely stopped responding at all and there's...
Arduino Blog
Synjets provide non-contact haptic feedback If the COVID pandemic showed us anything, it is that our public spaces are overflowing with...
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If the COVID pandemic showed us anything, it is that our public spaces are overflowing with opportunity for germ transmission. In 2019, most people didn’t think twice about touching a gas pump handle or an ATM touchscreen, but it quickly became apparent that such contact presents...
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Housekeeping for 20240102 Some stats, updates, and whatnot
a year ago
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Christian Selig
Qi2 is kinda underwhelming Using MagSafe for portable battery packs has so many niceties versus Qi1: Increased communication...
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Using MagSafe for portable battery packs has so many niceties versus Qi1: Increased communication with the device, allowing for better efficiency due to better thermal management and charging Easily view the charge percentage of the external battery when first attaching it, and...
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MicroTimes Interviews the Head Honchos of Silicon Graphics (1989) Ed McCracken and Jim Clark talk about their hardware and the future of 3D
10 months ago
Style over Substance
Guy’s Cool Tools This is a placeholder post! I’m a huge fan of Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools site and have loved their...
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This is a placeholder post! I’m a huge fan of Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools site and have loved their recommendations for years. So much, so that I even started a Pinterest board filled with my own recommendations. But after a few years of running into the limitations of the form, I...
Arduino Blog
Galco goes Platinum! Welcome our newest SIPP Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Madison Heights, Michigan, Galco is a leading e-commerce...
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Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Madison Heights, Michigan, Galco is a leading e-commerce distributor that specializes in providing a wide range of industrial and commercial electrical and electronic products, focusing on maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO).  Known for...
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How to save an old printer from the e-waste pile with a Raspberry Pi A family member has a Canon PIXMA MP250 printer, originally released in 2009. It has been a very...
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A family member has a Canon PIXMA MP250 printer, originally released in 2009. It has been a very reliable piece of hardware, especially for a printer. Then came Windows 10. The printer would not work out of the box with it and the official drivers got stuck during installation....
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Bomb Squad Peripherals' BLOWGUN It Could Have Been a Lot Worse - His Data is BLOWGUN Protected!
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Ampere WS-1 A cool Japanese clamtop
a year ago
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Setting Up a Symmetricom SyncServer S200 Network Time Protocol Server Introduction What was the SyncServer S200 Supposed to be Used For? IMPORTANT: Use the Right GPS...
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Introduction What was the SyncServer S200 Supposed to be Used For? IMPORTANT: Use the Right GPS Antenna! The SyncServer S200 Outside and Inside Installing the Missing BNC Connectors Setting Up a SyncServer S200 from Scratch Opening up the SyncServer S200 The SyncServer File...
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a year ago
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Robot Slide Whistle Orchestrion [Hardware] Army of Robot Slide Whistles
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You can now run Arduino and MicroPython side-by-side on multi-core microcontrollers We’re excited to announce a powerful new feature that we have been working on in collaboration with...
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We’re excited to announce a powerful new feature that we have been working on in collaboration with the MicroPython team!  Starting with the upcoming release (v1.23), MicroPython will offer support for Asymmetric Multiprocessing (AMP) on multi-core microcontrollers, based on the...
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11 months ago
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This rolling ball game brings Skee-Ball-style fun from the arcade to your home Ask your friends about their favorite games at the arcade and the most common answer will likely be...
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Ask your friends about their favorite games at the arcade and the most common answer will likely be Skee-Ball. But while many other popular arcade games have viable at-home alternatives, Skee-Ball doesn’t — at least not unless you’re willing to spend a serious amount of money....
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Back to roots This blog is running on a home server again. I have once again gained access to a competent internet...
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This blog is running on a home server again. I have once again gained access to a competent internet connection1, and I think I have figured out the IPv6 setup as well2, leading to this change. The IP address is dynamic, there are occasional power outages and I might just mess up...
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How does ChatGPT work? As explained by the ChatGPT team. For those of us who have not spent the past few years building ChatGPT from the ground up, how does...
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For those of us who have not spent the past few years building ChatGPT from the ground up, how does it work? From Evan Morikawa, who leads the Applied engineering team at OpenAI
Arduino Blog
This Arduino-controlled machine dispenses the perfect bowl of cereal Breakfast cereal is controversial. Milk or cereal first? Best cereal to milk ratio? Favorite cereal?...
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Breakfast cereal is controversial. Milk or cereal first? Best cereal to milk ratio? Favorite cereal? Most attractive mascot? The opportunities for debate never end. But we can all agree that consistency is key when it comes to the milk:cereal ratio — nobody changes that up from...
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Hideo Okawara’s Mixed Signal Lecture Series Introduction Hideo Okawara’s Mixed Signal Lecture Series Frequency/Phase Movement Analysis by...
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Introduction Hideo Okawara’s Mixed Signal Lecture Series Frequency/Phase Movement Analysis by Orthogonal Demodulation Misc Introduction While researching a DSP related topic, Google dug up an excellent article, written by Hideo Okawara, that is just one part of a series of ~53. I...
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Waterfield's weirdly compact Apple Vision Pro Case Disclosure: Waterfield sent this in exchange for a review. Yeah, that probably colors something on a...
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Disclosure: Waterfield sent this in exchange for a review. Yeah, that probably colors something on a deep-down, subconscious level, but I won’t say anything that I don’t truly believe. Unlike a phone or laptop, the Vision Pro is one of those products that is particularly tricky...
computers are bad
2024-03-01 listening in on the neighborhood Last week, someone leaked a spreadsheet of SoundThinking sensors to Wired. You are probably asking...
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Last week, someone leaked a spreadsheet of SoundThinking sensors to Wired. You are probably asking "What is SoundThinking," because the company rebranded last year. They used to be called ShotSpotter, and their outdoor acoustic gunfire detection system still goes by the...
Christian Selig
Announcing Juno 2.0 Juno’s been a really fun project to build, and it’s been so great hearing how other people have been...
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Juno’s been a really fun project to build, and it’s been so great hearing how other people have been enjoying Juno since its launch, as well as providing awesome feedback and input to improve it. Today I’m releasing Juno 2.0, which incorporates a ton of that community feedback,...
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2024-07-20 minuteman missile communications A programming note: I am looking at making some changes to how I host things like Computers Are Bad...
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A programming note: I am looking at making some changes to how I host things like Computers Are Bad and wikimap that are going to involve a lot more recurring expense. For that and other reasons, I want to see if y'all would be willing to throw some money my way. If everyone...
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Smallest USB-C MIDI Synth [Hardware] The smallest and silliest MIDI synth yet
a year ago
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FOSDEM 2024: my experience, some notes and tech tips I finally went to FOSDEM. I’m sleep-deprived, completely exhausted, but incredibly excited about the...
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I finally went to FOSDEM. I’m sleep-deprived, completely exhausted, but incredibly excited about the whole experience. I’ve split this post into three separate sections. overall notes on the conference and the city less technical, but sheds light on the FOSDEM experience the...
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The IKEA-powered homelab on a wall I recently learned about the IKEA SKÅDIS series, which is a pegboard that supports a variety of...
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I recently learned about the IKEA SKÅDIS series, which is a pegboard that supports a variety of extras. During my self-hosting journey having to figure out the best place for putting all my compute stuff to has always been at the back of my mind, especially due to limited...
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Newsletter 1: What's next? This is the first in a series of newsletters covering this blog
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2024-06-08 dmv.org The majority of US states have something called a "Department of Motor Vehicles," or DMV. Actually,...
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The majority of US states have something called a "Department of Motor Vehicles," or DMV. Actually, the universality of the term "DMV" seems to be overstated. A more general term is "motor vehicle administrator," used for example by the American Association of Motor Vehicle...
Arduino Blog
DIY ECU controls Honda Insight’s Kubota diesel engine The Honda Insight was the first hybrid car released in North America and Honda put serious effort...
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The Honda Insight was the first hybrid car released in North America and Honda put serious effort into making it as efficient as was practical at the time. That meant aerodynamic streamlining, which is why the first-generation Insight had very distinct covers over the rear...
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No HDMI port on the ThinkPad T430? No problem! The ThinkPad T430 has a few options for running it with an external display: VGA port, which is...
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The ThinkPad T430 has a few options for running it with an external display: VGA port, which is pretty much obsolete at this point mini DisplayPort connector on the laptop itself DVI or DisplayPort on a dock The mini DisplayPort port has annoyed me for as long as I’ve had this...
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Measuring the HP 11720A Pulse Modulator and Coax Cables Introduction What is a pulse modulator and what are they used for? The HP 11720A Pulse...
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Introduction What is a pulse modulator and what are they used for? The HP 11720A Pulse Modulator Inside the HP 11720A Measurement Setup for a Quick Testing Session Pin Modulator Power Measurements with HP 432A Cable Loss Measurements with HP 432A Cable Power Measurements with...
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Motorised Camera Slider [Hardware] Simple smooth motor mod
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VPX Scripting - Part 3 (Cut & Paste) Sound code is added in this third in a series of posts about scripting Visual Pinball tables.
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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...
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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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Trials and tribulations of 360° video in Juno In building Juno, a visionOS app for YouTube, a question that’s come up from users a few times is...
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In building Juno, a visionOS app for YouTube, a question that’s come up from users a few times is whether it supports 360° and 180° videos (for the unfamiliar, it’s an immersive video format that fully surrounds you). The short answer is no, it’s sort of a niche feature without...
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2024-01-21 multi-channel audio part 1 Stereophonic or two-channel audio is so ubiquitous today that we tend to refer to all kinds of...
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Stereophonic or two-channel audio is so ubiquitous today that we tend to refer to all kinds of pieces of consumer audio reproduction equipment as "a stereo." As you might imagine, this is a relatively modern phenomenon. While stereo audio in concept dates to the late 19th...
Arduino Blog
Can remote co-presence keep distant human connections alive? The pandemic made a lot of things obvious, not the least of which is that humans need social...
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The pandemic made a lot of things obvious, not the least of which is that humans need social interaction to maintain good mental health. Sadly, many of us spend our lives physically separated from our loved ones by great distances or inopportune circumstances. That’s why a team...
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ThinMachine - a $25 Thin Client MacOS Time Machine Appliance The instructions below set up Time Machine using the Apple File Protocol (AFP). After publishing...
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The instructions below set up Time Machine using the Apple File Protocol (AFP). After publishing this blog post, I’ve been told that this is now deprecated and that Samba should be used instead. I’ll update this blog post in the near future. Introduction The HP t520 Thin...
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POV Candle [Hardware] Tiny volumetric display
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The HP 423A and a Beginner’s Deep Dive into RF Crystal Detectors MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [...
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MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [ ['$', '$'], ["\\(", "\\)"] ], displayMath: [ ['$$', '$$'], ["\\[", "\\]"] ], processEscapes: true, skipTags: ['script', 'noscript', 'style', 'textarea', 'pre',...
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The History of Commodore, Part 4 The Amiga, The Decline, The Fall
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Hey Google! Meet Arduino Cloud We’re excited to announce that the Arduino Cloud now supports Google Home™! This means you can now...
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We’re excited to announce that the Arduino Cloud now supports Google Home™! This means you can now interact with your devices, simply through your Google Home Assistant: use voice commands, the Google Home app, or create new routines integrating Arduino solutions.  This new...
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Comics from 1983/08 Today Mag Time for some levity. The following comics were all found in the August 1983 issue of Today...
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Time for some levity. The following comics were all found in the August 1983 issue of Today magazine. Enjoy! What computer ads would you like to see in the future? Please comment below. If you enjoyed it, please share it with your friends and relatives. Thank you.
computers are bad
2023-08-07 STIRred AND SHAKEN In a couple of days, I pack up my bags to head for DEFCON. In a rare moment of pre-planning, perhaps...
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In a couple of days, I pack up my bags to head for DEFCON. In a rare moment of pre-planning, perhaps spurred by boredom, I looked through the schedule to see what's in store in the world of telephony. There is a workshop on SS7, of course [1], plenty of content on cellular, but...
Christian Selig
My little Apple Vision Pro stand I want somewhere to put my Vision Pro when not in use. Many people use the original box, and there’s...
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I want somewhere to put my Vision Pro when not in use. Many people use the original box, and there’s beautiful stands that exist out there, but I was looking for something more compact and vertical so it would take up less room on my desk. So I opened Fusion 360 (which I am still...
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The History of Commodore, Part 3 Are you keeping up with the Commodore?
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My cat water fountain comes with a spicy USB power adapter It turns out that you can’t trust any USB type A power adapter to be within spec. I have a Catit...
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It turns out that you can’t trust any USB type A power adapter to be within spec. I have a Catit Flower Fountain for my two adorable cats. The idea of a water fountain for cats may sound odd, but having one really helps with cats staying hydrated and that alone avoids all sorts...
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Remote Controlling an HP 1670G Logic Analyzer with a Linux PC X Server Introduction Reserving a fixed IP address for the logic analyzer Assign the chosen IP address to the...
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Introduction Reserving a fixed IP address for the logic analyzer Assign the chosen IP address to the logic analyzer Allow the logic analyzer to access your Ubuntu X server Configure the X-window Settings on the logic analyzer Install and declare the HP logic analyzer font...
Style over Substance
CANARY Corrugated Cardboard Cutter The CANARY corrugated cardboard cutter is definitely in my top 10 list of most useful purchases...
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The CANARY corrugated cardboard cutter is definitely in my top 10 list of most useful purchases ever. During the COVID-19 lockdowns, we all started shopping online a lot more. The number of cardboard boxes in our house basically quadrupled overnight and cutting them down to size...
computers are bad
2023-11-19 Centrex I have always been fascinated by the PABX - the private automatic branch exchange, often shortened...
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I have always been fascinated by the PABX - the private automatic branch exchange, often shortened to "PBX" in today's world where the "automatic" is implied. (Relatively) modern small and medium business PABXs of the type I like to collect are largely solid-state devices that...
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Light comms on the 003 [Hardware] Tiny terrahertz transmissions
8 months ago
Style over Substance
Peak Design quick-connect Leash and Cuff straps My camera collection has been growing steadily over the years, but it’s been expanding even faster...
over a year ago
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My camera collection has been growing steadily over the years, but it’s been expanding even faster during the COVID-19 lockdowns. Online shopping therapy keeps me sane while I’m cooped up at home, and with easy access to eBay and other auction sites my GAS – photographers...
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Comics from 1986/06 Australian Personal Computer Mag It’s that time of the month. This time let’s look at humor from down under. These comics are from...
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It’s that time of the month. This time let’s look at humor from down under. These comics are from the June 1986 issue of Australian Computer magazine. Enjoy! What computer ads would you like to see in the future? Please comment below. If you enjoyed it, please share it with your...
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EPYX's Pitstop Where Winning is the Pits.
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2024-02-11 the top of the DNS hierarchy In the past (in fact two years ago, proof I have been doing this for a while now!) I wrote about the...
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In the past (in fact two years ago, proof I have been doing this for a while now!) I wrote about the "inconvenient truth" that structural aspects of the Internet make truly decentralized systems infeasible, due to the lack of a means to perform broadcast discovery. As a result,...
Style over Substance
Review of the 2-dial TTArtisan Light Meter My latest purchase for my analog cameras is the TTArtisan light meter, a hotshoe-mounted meter...
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My latest purchase for my analog cameras is the TTArtisan light meter, a hotshoe-mounted meter accessory. The market for these shoe-mounted light meters for vintage cameras has become weirdly competitive. They fit on top of a mechanical camera and provide you with the right...
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a year ago
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2023-08-19 meanwhile elsewhere I had meant to write something today, but I'm just getting over a case of the COVID and had a hard...
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I had meant to write something today, but I'm just getting over a case of the COVID and had a hard time getting to it. Instead I did the yard work, edited and uploaded a YouTube video, and then spewed out a Cohost thread as long as a blog post. So in lieu of your regularly...
Christian Selig
Introducing Juno for Apple Vision Pro YouTube is probably one of the parts of the internet I consume the most, so I was more than a little...
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YouTube is probably one of the parts of the internet I consume the most, so I was more than a little sad when YouTube announced that they don’t have plans to build a visionOS app, and disabled the option to load the iPad app. This leaves you with Safari, and the website is okay,...
computers are bad
2024-01-06 usb on the go USB, the Universal Serial Bus, was first released in 1996. It did not achieve widespread adoption...
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USB, the Universal Serial Bus, was first released in 1996. It did not achieve widespread adoption until some years later; for most of the '90s RS-232-ish serial and its awkward sibling the parallel port were the norm for external peripheral. It's sort of surprising that USB...
Arduino Blog
This ‘smocking display’ adds data physicalization to clothing Elastic use in the textile industry is relatively recent. So, what did garment makers do before...
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Elastic use in the textile industry is relatively recent. So, what did garment makers do before elastic came along? They relied on smocking, which is a technique for bunching up fabric so that it can stretch to better fit the form of a body. Now a team of computer science...
computers are bad
2024-07-13 the contemporary carphone Cathode Ray Dude, in one of his many excellent "Quick Start" videos, made an interesting observation...
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Cathode Ray Dude, in one of his many excellent "Quick Start" videos, made an interesting observation that has stuck in my brain: sophisticated computer users, nerds if you will, have a tendency to completely ignore things that they know are worthless. He was referring to the...
computers are bad
2024-01-16 the tacnet tracker Previously on Deep Space Nine, I wrote that "the mid-2000s were an unsettled time in mobile...
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Previously on Deep Space Nine, I wrote that "the mid-2000s were an unsettled time in mobile computing." Today, I want to share a little example. Over the last few weeks, for various personal reasons, I have been doing a lot of reading about embedded operating systems and ISAs for...
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Style over Substance
How to use a Phase One H20 digital back on a medium format Hasselblad V camera (500EL/M) My newest purchase was a bit of a gamble. I bought a $500 Phase One H20 digital back for my...
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My newest purchase was a bit of a gamble. I bought a $500 Phase One H20 digital back for my Hasselblad 500EL/M medium format camera. Or, simply put, I bought an expensive old gadget for my even older analog camera, making it a digital camera. A gadget that was released in the...
On Life and Lisp
Vulkan 1.3 on the M1 in 1 month u{text-decoration-thickness:0.09em;text-decoration-color:skyblue} Finally, conformant Vulkan for the...
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u{text-decoration-thickness:0.09em;text-decoration-color:skyblue} Finally, conformant Vulkan for the M1! The new “Honeykrisp” driver is the first conformant Vulkan® for Apple hardware on any operating system, implementing the full 1.3 spec without “portability”...
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My favorite (and least favorite) movies of 2024 I’ve watched 48 new release movies in 2024, and with just a few weeks left in the year, I wanted to...
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I’ve watched 48 new release movies in 2024, and with just a few weeks left in the year, I wanted to make what is my current top 10 (plus honorable mentions & worst movies). As we get to the end of the year and you might have some
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Control your Raspberry Pi GPIOs with Arduino Cloud using Python | Part II As a Python developer, you’re probably eager to control and monitor your Raspberry Pi GPIOs...
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As a Python developer, you’re probably eager to control and monitor your Raspberry Pi GPIOs remotely. Well, you have landed in the right place.  This article builds upon our previous introduction to “Visualize your Raspberry Pi data with Arduino Cloud | Part I.” Now, we’ll...
computers are bad
2023-10-09 prolific counterfeiting I'm working on a side project right now, one of several, which involves telematics devices...
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I'm working on a side project right now, one of several, which involves telematics devices (essentially GPS trackers with i/o) from a fairly reputable Chinese manufacturer. The device is endlessly configurable and so, like you see with a lot of radios, it has a UART for...
computers are bad
2024-01-31 multi-channel audio part 2 Last time, we left off at the fact that modern films are distributed with their audio in multiple...
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Last time, we left off at the fact that modern films are distributed with their audio in multiple formats. Most of the time, there is a stereo version of the audio, and a multi-channel version of the audio that is perhaps 5.1 or 7.1 and compressed using one of several codecs that...
computers are bad
2024-03-27 telephone cables So let's say you're working on a household project and need around a dozen telephone cables---the...
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So let's say you're working on a household project and need around a dozen telephone cables---the ordinary kind that you would use between your telephone and the wall. It is, of course, more cost effective to buy bulk cable, or simply a long cable, and cut it to length and attach...
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The simplicity of the modulo operator: how I scaled an inefficient solution on a legacy system Your service cannot process events fast enough during peak hours. There is no obvious quick and...
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Your service cannot process events fast enough during peak hours. There is no obvious quick and dirty fix. Refactoring would take ages. People have been unhappy for a while now. What the hell do you do? Background I had the pleasure of working with a legacy backend system...
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Simsim Pendant [Concept] Mercurial Medallion
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RIoT Secure joins Arduino’s SIPP as Gold Partner We are excited to announce that RIoT Secure has joined Arduino’s System Integrators Partnership...
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We are excited to announce that RIoT Secure has joined Arduino’s System Integrators Partnership Program at the Gold level. Founded in 2017 in Stockholm, Sweden, RIoT Secure is at the forefront of IoT security, especially in regards to resource-constrained microcontrollers,...
Engineers Need Art
Stereographer Experimenting in stereo photography and I write an app to create old-fashioned stereoscopic cards.
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Experimenting in stereo photography and I write an app to create old-fashioned stereoscopic cards.
Arduino Blog
An ultra-affordable DIY underwater ROV ROVs (remotely operated vehicles) let us explore bodies of water and it is hard not to be excited by...
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ROVs (remotely operated vehicles) let us explore bodies of water and it is hard not to be excited by the possibilities. But traditional ROVs cost a lot of money and often require serious expertise to operate and maintain. Luckily there are affordable alternatives, such as this...
Christian Selig
Recreating Apple's beautiful visionOS search bar Many of Apple’s own visionOS apps, like Music, Safari, and Apple TV, have a handy search bar front...
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Many of Apple’s own visionOS apps, like Music, Safari, and Apple TV, have a handy search bar front and center on the window so you can easily search through your content. Oddly, as of visionOS 1.1, replicating this visually as a developer using SwiftUI or UIKit is not...
./techtipsy
My trip to the Communication and Laptop Museum in Estonia While on vacation I went on a small road-trip across Estonia. During the second half of the trip I...
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While on vacation I went on a small road-trip across Estonia. During the second half of the trip I ended up being in Võrumaa, and while driving I suddenly remembered a random fact that some people mentioned in a hackerspace Slack channel: there’s a new museum around here! The...
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LED Matrix Earrings [Hardware] Itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow dot-matrix LED
a year ago
Style over Substance
M4 Hex Socket Thumbscrew Knob Caps For the past few weeks I’ve been teaching myself how to use Fusion 360, a free online cloud-based...
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For the past few weeks I’ve been teaching myself how to use Fusion 360, a free online cloud-based CAD/CAM program that lets you create your own 3D designs. The best way to learn how to use a new program is to build something you actually need. And my latest design is a work in...
Engineers Need Art
Adam74 The Adam74 is a small ASCII-based terminal designed for the 8-bit hobbyist.
over a year ago
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Apple IIe and IIc Design Manager Peter Quinn Interviewed by BYTE's Gregg Williams A behind-the-scenes look at the development of the Apple IIe and IIc.
a year ago
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The History of Commodore, Part 2 The VIC-20
a year ago
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a year ago
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Fake Parallel Printer - A Parallel Port Traffic Capturing Tool Introduction What Is Out There? The Parallel Printer Port Fake Printer Top Level Design Choices Fake...
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Introduction What Is Out There? The Parallel Printer Port Fake Printer Top Level Design Choices Fake Printer HW Details PCB Revision 1 PCB Revision 2 Firmware Building a Fake Printer Tool Yourself Programming the Raspberry Pico Fake Printer as a USB Serial Device on your...
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a year ago
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The History of Microsoft Encarta Searchable Human Knowledge
a year ago
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2023-07-10 the tragedy of beatrice foods Occasionally, research into the history of telephony takes you into some strange places. There are...
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Occasionally, research into the history of telephony takes you into some strange places. There are conspiracy theories, of course, and there are people who insist on their version of events so incessantly that details of dates and places can become heated arguments. There is also...
Arduino Blog
This small device enables users to feel braille through haptics For the visually impaired community, most of their interactions on mobile phones are confined to...
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For the visually impaired community, most of their interactions on mobile phones are confined to text-to-speech (TTS) interfaces that read portions of the screen aloud. Dynamic braille displays also exist as a tactile means of communication, but their prices can get close to...
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The History of Windows 2.0 Success and Litigation
a year ago
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3D Model Viewer Improvements [Software] Unlocking the embedded gimbals
a year ago
computers are bad
2023-10-22 cooler screens Audible even over the squeal of an HVAC blower with a suffering belt, the whine of small, high...
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Audible even over the squeal of an HVAC blower with a suffering belt, the whine of small, high velocity fans pervades the grocery side of this Walgreens. Were they always this loud? I'm not sure; some of the fans sound distinctly unhealthy. Still, it's a familiar kind of noise to...
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Steam local network game transfers are a game-changer Steam recently launched a new feature: local network game transfers. The idea is simple: if you have...
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Steam recently launched a new feature: local network game transfers. The idea is simple: if you have a game downloaded on another PC and you’re both on the same local network, then Steam can download game data from that PC, avoiding the need to download the game over public...
computers are bad
2023-09-10 the Essex GWEN site Programming note: this post is in color. I will not debase myself to the level of sending HTML...
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Programming note: this post is in color. I will not debase myself to the level of sending HTML email, so if you receive Computers Are Bad by email and want the benefit of the pictures, consider reading this online instead (the link is at the top of the email). In the aftermath of...
computers are bad
2023-11-25 the curse of docker I'm heading to Las Vegas for re:invent soon, perhaps the most boring type of industry extravaganza...
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I'm heading to Las Vegas for re:invent soon, perhaps the most boring type of industry extravaganza there could be. In that spirit, I thought I would write something quick and oddly professional: I'm going to complain about Docker. Packaging software is one of those fundamental...
Arduino Blog
Controlling a drum machine with the Arduino Opta Makers have long asked the question “why bother with an expensive PLC when I can just use an...
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Makers have long asked the question “why bother with an expensive PLC when I can just use an Arduino?” The answer comes down to the priorities and needs of industrial clients. In a factory automation setting, the client will prioritize durability, reliability, and serviceability...
Style over Substance
My new purchase: a Zeiss Ikon Nettar 517/16 Cheaper than a tank of gas, smaller than a Leica, 6x6 medium format negs - tons of fun. This Nettar...
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Cheaper than a tank of gas, smaller than a Leica, 6x6 medium format negs - tons of fun. This Nettar folding camera sure is bang for buck! The post My new purchase: a Zeiss Ikon Nettar 517/16 appeared first on Style over Substance.
Arduino Blog
A DIY weather display with dedicated outdoor sensor station Weather stations are popular projects in the maker community because they’re useful and usually...
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Weather stations are popular projects in the maker community because they’re useful and usually quite affordable to construct. But most that we see are really weather information displays that gather data through the internet from stations in the region. That data is fairly...
Style over Substance
DIY: Use an IKEA VINDRIKTNING air quality sensor in Home Assistant with ESPHome IKEA has released some interesting new products lately, focused on air quality. In this product...
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IKEA has released some interesting new products lately, focused on air quality. In this product line, one unit that stands out is the VINDRIKTNING air quality sensor. This cheap (just €9,99) sensor measures the air quality in your home, using a simple traffic light scheme to...
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How I ended up working as a software developer I’ve officially worked as a software developer since August 2016, and by now I have a fair share of...
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I’ve officially worked as a software developer since August 2016, and by now I have a fair share of stories to tell from those years. But those are stories for another time. Today I’d like to focus on where it all got started. The early days I never considered myself good with...
Engineers Need Art
Same Stop Marvelling at the full circle life seems to have taken after retirement.
a year ago
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The History of the IBM 5100 IBM's First Personal Computer
a year ago
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Badge [Hardware] A RISC-V LED matrix
a year ago
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Reimagining the chicken coop with predator detection, Wi-Fi control, and more The traditional backyard chicken coop is a very simple structure that typically consists of a...
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The traditional backyard chicken coop is a very simple structure that typically consists of a nesting area, an egg-retrieval panel, and a way to provide food and water as needed. Realizing that some aspects of raising chickens are too labor-intensive, the Coders Cafe crew decided...
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The History of Windows 1.0 Vaporware
a year ago
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2023-10-03 overheard overhead Let's talk about overhead paging. The concept goes by various names: paging, public address, even...
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Let's talk about overhead paging. The concept goes by various names: paging, public address, even intercom, although the accuracy of the latter term can be questionable. It's probably one of the aspects of business telephone systems that gets the most public attention, on account...
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The History of Slackware The Oldest Surviving Linux Distribution
a year ago
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This is "detreville" It's my name, and the name of my Substack too. That's one less thing for everyone to remember.
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It's my name, and the name of my Substack too. That's one less thing for everyone to remember.
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Comics from 1982/08 Commodore Computing International Mag Time for some humor
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Soft Dorothy Software — Shareware Projects Wherein I attempt to recover and restore old shareware code and program again like it's 1989.
7 months ago
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Why you might not want to publicly self-host a Wikipedia clone A while ago I wrote about how easy it is to download an archive of Wikipedia and host it...
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A while ago I wrote about how easy it is to download an archive of Wikipedia and host it anywhere you want using Kiwix. I’m still hosting Kiwix sites publicly, but here are a few things you might want to consider before doing so yourself. The spam I have a specific e-mail address...
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A Hardware Interposer to Fix the Symmetricom SyncServer S200 GPS Week Number Rollover Problem Introduction IMPORTANT: Use the Right GPS Antenna! The Problem: SyncServer Refuses to Lock to...
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Introduction IMPORTANT: Use the Right GPS Antenna! The Problem: SyncServer Refuses to Lock to GPS The GPS Week Number Rollover Issue Making the Furuno GT-8031 Work Again How It Works Build Instructions Power Supply Recapping The Future: A Software-Only Solution The...
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Kickstart your tech journey, with the new Arduino Plug and Make Kit! Hey, creating an IoT device shouldn’t be rocket science. We believe technology is for everyone....
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Hey, creating an IoT device shouldn’t be rocket science. We believe technology is for everyone. That’s why we’ve developed the whole new, beginner-friendly Plug and Make Kit – the easiest way to get started with Arduino!  Inside the box, you’ll find everything you need to create...
Arduino Blog
Innovative new tactile sensor helps assess fine motor skills Fine motor skills correlate strongly with cognition and the accurate assessment of an individual’s...
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Fine motor skills correlate strongly with cognition and the accurate assessment of an individual’s motor skills can be critical in diagnosing and treating a variety of conditions. But objective evaluation has been a challenge, as suitable sensors weren’t available. To help...
Style over Substance
Buienalarm / Buienradar Apple Watch complication using Home Assistant Living in the Netherlands, one of the things I really miss on my Apple Watch is a Buienradar...
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Living in the Netherlands, one of the things I really miss on my Apple Watch is a Buienradar complication. Buienradar, Dutch for rain radar, is a popular site here that uses weather radar images to predict if it’s going to rain in the next few hours. For many people living here,...
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The History of Lotus The Hardest Working Software in the World
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The Pragmatic...
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...
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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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The History of Windows 95 The Dawn of Microsoft's Golden Age
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Arduino Blog
This UNO R4 WiFi-controlled device streamlines a restaurant’s online order system Most successful restaurants operating today have to take advantage of online ordering, as a huge...
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Most successful restaurants operating today have to take advantage of online ordering, as a huge chunk of customers have switched to takeout and delivery. But point-of-sale (POS) systems don’t always integrate well into a kitchen’s workflow and that can lead to missed orders —...
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2024-02-25 a history of the tty It's one of those anachronisms that is deeply embedded in modern technology. From cloud operator...
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It's one of those anachronisms that is deeply embedded in modern technology. From cloud operator servers to embedded controllers in appliances, there must be uncountable devices that think they are connected to a TTY. I will omit the many interesting details of the Linux terminal...
Style over Substance
Shooting the Ligero 3D-printed Mamiya Press camera by MaxWanderlush Last year I started shooting my first 3D-printed camera, a Goodman Zone. It was soon followed by the...
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Last year I started shooting my first 3D-printed camera, a Goodman Zone. It was soon followed by the panoramic pinhole Goodman Scura and the MPWide, a modified Fuji Instax Wide 300. The MPWide is a mod by the talented Mario, otherwise known as MaxWanderlush. He has been releasing...
OH8HUB’s Substack
A quick visit to Vaajasalo island Vaajasalo is a small island in lake Kallavesi in eastern Finland with population less than hundred....
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Vaajasalo is a small island in lake Kallavesi in eastern Finland with population less than hundred. There’s also a winery called Alahovi Berry Wine Farm. They produce berry wines, cider, beer and liqueur. The temptation to visit them was huge, but I was on tight schedule. Maybe...
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2024-08-19 mining for meteors Billboards Route 66 is often viewed through the lens of its billboards. The Jack Rabbit Trading...
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Billboards Route 66 is often viewed through the lens of its billboards. The Jack Rabbit Trading Post, a small store a few miles out of Joseph City, would hardly be remembered were it not for its billboards spanning four states. The tradition of far-advance billboards is still...
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The History of Windows NT 3.1 A Highly Portable Future
a year ago
Arduino Blog
Ready for SPS Italia 2024? Ready for accessible industrial automation! Save the date on May 28th-30th, Arduino will be back at SPS Italia in Parma, showcasing how our...
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Save the date on May 28th-30th, Arduino will be back at SPS Italia in Parma, showcasing how our open-source solutions are revolutionizing the industrial sector with high performance and accessibility. At Arduino’s booth #C020, hall 7, we’ll be presenting the latest additions to...
Christian Selig
The Caldera: a sleek split and wireless keyboard I designed my own keyboard and it’s freely available! I’m calling it the Caldera, and it’s basically...
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I designed my own keyboard and it’s freely available! I’m calling it the Caldera, and it’s basically my dream wireless split keyboard. I’ve been using it for months, and I love it. Video overview If you’re a visual person, I made a fun little video showcasing the...
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Dell Latitude 5411: the Linux compatibility sweet spot Oh boy, here I go testing a new laptop again! Well, it was new back in 2020. You might remember my...
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Oh boy, here I go testing a new laptop again! Well, it was new back in 2020. You might remember my article on why I went back to a ThinkPad T430 in 2022. Or that other time when I got a new HP laptop for testing and got so frustrated that I wrote about it. Well, today I’m writing...
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The History of OS/2 Getting a Divorce
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Increasing Frequency Counter Precision with Linear Regression MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [...
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MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [ ['$', '$'], ["\\(", "\\)"] ], displayMath: [ ['$$', '$$'], ["\\[", "\\]"] ], processEscapes: true, skipTags: ['script', 'noscript', 'style', 'textarea', 'pre',...
Arduino Blog
An Arduino-powered robotic ukulele that plays itself The ukulele has a bit of a reputation for being quaint, but it is a legitimate instrument like any...
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The ukulele has a bit of a reputation for being quaint, but it is a legitimate instrument like any other and that means it takes a lot of practice to play competently. Zeroshot is too busy building cool stuff to bother with all of that, so he put his skills to use constructing...
Christian Selig
Smart Open Xcode If you’re like me, you often have multiple versions of Xcode installed. One or two beta versions, a...
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If you’re like me, you often have multiple versions of Xcode installed. One or two beta versions, a stable version, and maybe another version in case the most recent stable version has something weird about it. I also really like mapping my Caps Lock key to something more useful,...
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Generative 3D Modeling Recently Microsoft released the open 3D generation software Trellis. I decided to try a few tests as...
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Recently Microsoft released the open 3D generation software Trellis. I decided to try a few tests as reviews had been quite favourable with results creating 3D models with “AI”. The website describes the technology as unified Structured LATent (SLAT) representation and there is a...
Style over Substance
Using the Olympus XA as an everyday carry camera The Olympus XA has been my EDC camera this year and I gotta say – it’s a ton of fun. The concept of...
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The Olympus XA has been my EDC camera this year and I gotta say – it’s a ton of fun. The concept of EDC – Every Day Carry – is that a piece of equipment should be light and compact enough to have with you every day, yet still versatile enough to be useful in […] The post Using...
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2023-04-30 los alamos - compound to county pt II Where we left off, Los Alamos had become a county, but the town itself continued to be directly...
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Where we left off, Los Alamos had become a county, but the town itself continued to be directly administered by the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). The Atomic Energy Communities Act (AECA) mandated the AEC to dispose of the towns it owned by transferring the property to private...
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Gould Electronic's PowerNode 6000 The Firebreathers from Gould blast the competition into oblivion.
8 months ago
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Cool projects This is an unsorted list of projects that really cool and neat. Chromebook cluster someone took...
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This is an unsorted list of projects that really cool and neat. Chromebook cluster someone took some old Chromebooks, stripped them down and built a cluster. I love this kind of jank!
Engineers Need Art
Tom Dowdy Tom Dowdy was a software engineer at Apple back in 1995 when I was still writing Macintosh games in...
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Tom Dowdy was a software engineer at Apple back in 1995 when I was still writing Macintosh games in Lawrence, Kansas.
Arduino Blog
Improve indoor air quality with Arduino When we think about air quality and pollution, it’s easy to conjure up images of smog-filled cities...
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When we think about air quality and pollution, it’s easy to conjure up images of smog-filled cities and power plants churning clouds of poison into the atmosphere. And while all this is still important, and has massive consequences for our health, it’s all too easy to overlook...
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2024-08-12 a pedantic review of the las vegas loop Did you hear that Elon Musk dug a tunnel under the Las Vegas Convention Center? I think it is pretty...
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Did you hear that Elon Musk dug a tunnel under the Las Vegas Convention Center? I think it is pretty universally known by now that the "Las Vegas Loop" is impractical, poorly thought out, and generally an embarrassment to society and industry. I will spare an accounting of the...
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Suture Software's Bludgeons 'n' Braggarts We very simply give you what you've been asking for -- we give you BLOOD
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Arduino Blog
Shop vac becomes a Roomba on steroids A robotic vacuum, such as a Roomba, offers a lot of convenience. Instead of having to vacuum and...
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A robotic vacuum, such as a Roomba, offers a lot of convenience. Instead of having to vacuum and sweep your own floors, you have a little maid robot to do the job for you. But these devices have very little power and capacity, which makes them useless for anything other than...
The Pragmatic...
Paying down tech debt: further learnings In a counter-intuitive observation: by making small, non-functional improvements, you gain more...
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In a counter-intuitive observation: by making small, non-functional improvements, you gain more confidence in a new codebase, and can start to move faster.
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An In-Depth Look at the ICE-V Wireless FPGA Development Board Introduction The ICE-V Wireless FPGA Board Preloading the PSRAM with User Data The Overall Boot...
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Introduction The ICE-V Wireless FPGA Board Preloading the PSRAM with User Data The Overall Boot Process UART Console Getting Started with the ICE-V Wireless Board for Real Reinstalling or Modifying the ESP32C3 Firmware The RISC-V Example FPGA Design Compiling the RISC-V Example...
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Page 6 Magazine Interviews the Godfather of Adventure Games, Scott Adams Scott McNealy talks about Sun Microsystems, RISC, UNIX, and NeXT
8 months ago
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Why my new audiobook “The Software Engineer's Guidebook” is everywhere except on Audible Currently, Audible’s position is hurting audiobook authors. My audiobook isn’t on Audible due to a...
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Currently, Audible’s position is hurting audiobook authors. My audiobook isn’t on Audible due to a mix of their monopolistic pricing practices, and the company’s own complacency in how long they take to approve new titles.
Arduino Blog
Boring rice cooker becomes uruchimai powerhouse Rice cookers are staple appliances in about half of the world and basic models are very affordable....
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Rice cookers are staple appliances in about half of the world and basic models are very affordable. But those are simple machines that are about as “dumb” as electric kettles. The result is often rice that has been sitting in the warming stage for too long, making the bottom...
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The Birth of Windows Gaming Software is a fluid that expands to fill its container
a year ago
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Installing Linux GPIB Drivers for the Agilent 82357B Introduction Other Installation Instructions Agilent 82357B Initialization Process Installing the...
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Introduction Other Installation Instructions Agilent 82357B Initialization Process Installing the Agilent 82357B GPIB Driver on an Ubuntu Linux Distribution References Introduction I’ve started to grow a collection of older test equipment from the eighties, the nineties, and the...
Arduino Blog
A beautiful custom calculator built with IV-12 VFD tubes Nixie tubes have been the go-to option for makers looking for retro display aesthetics for many...
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Nixie tubes have been the go-to option for makers looking for retro display aesthetics for many years, because their distinct orange glow carries a lot of vintage appeal. But VFD (vacuum fluorescent display) tubes have been gaining in popularity recently and have different —...
Style over Substance
How to build your own Goodman ZONE camera, part 2 The Goodman ZONE is a medium-format 3D-printed film camera designed by Dora Goodman as part of her...
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The Goodman ZONE is a medium-format 3D-printed film camera designed by Dora Goodman as part of her range of open-source camera models, using the existing Mamiya Press lens series for glass and the Mamiya RB67 backs to hold film. She sells pre-printed kits that contain all the...
OH8HUB’s Substack
Eliminating Radio Interference from Apple charger Apple's product design teams should do a better job eliminating unwanted radio frequency emissions...
a year ago
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Is the “AI developer”a threat to jobs – or a marketing stunt? One startup released “the first AI software engineer,” while another aims to build a “superhuman...
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One startup released “the first AI software engineer,” while another aims to build a “superhuman software engineer.” As intimidating as these sound: what if it’s more marketing than reality?
Arduino Blog
This giant animatronic LEGO minifig zombie is a delight  LEGO’s minifigs are the perfect canvas for creativity, as their simple plastic forms provide enough...
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LEGO’s minifigs are the perfect canvas for creativity, as their simple plastic forms provide enough constraint to force people to consider their art and design choices. That’s exactly the kind of pressure that Wicked Makers’ Jaimie and Jay thrive under, leading them to build this...
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HP 33120A Repair - Shutting Down the Eye of Sauron Introduction Opening Up an HP 33120A A Walk Through the Block Diagram Bug Hunting Zener...
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Introduction Opening Up an HP 33120A A Walk Through the Block Diagram Bug Hunting Zener Replacement Staring at the Eye of Sauron FLIR IR Imaging To Destroy a PCB in Order to Save It Circuit Reconstruction Success! Trust but Verify Conclusion References Introduction When the...
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Cable Length Measurement with an HP 8007B Pulse Generator MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [...
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Analemmagraph [Concept] Video of a day, one year in every frame
a year ago
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The History of Commodore, Part 1 Chuck Peddle, the 6502, MOS, and the PET
a year ago
Style over Substance
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...
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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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The History of Red Hat The Billion Dollar Open Source Company
a year ago
Christian Selig
Autonomous Standing Desk and Chair Review Autonomous was nice enough to send me one of both their Smart Desk Pro standing desks and ErgoChair...
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Autonomous was nice enough to send me one of both their Smart Desk Pro standing desks and ErgoChair Pro chairs in exchange for posting about them on Twitter, and I wanted to cover them in more detail on my blog as well so I could give my full thoughts on them for anyone in the...
Arduino Blog
Easily add Python-controlled GPIO pins to any computer Let’s say that, hypothetically, you wanted to use your computer to blink an LED or read the state of...
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Let’s say that, hypothetically, you wanted to use your computer to blink an LED or read the state of a button. Could you? Almost certainly not — at least not without additional hardware. Most modern computers don’t provide any interface for direct interaction with low-level...
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The History of Windows NT 4 Taking the Server Market
a year ago
OH8HUB’s Substack
Spring day ham radio activation in Hiastinlahti, Finland Hiastinlahti is a bay where river Iijoki flows into Bothnian Bay, the northernmost part of Gulf of...
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Hiastinlahti is a bay where river Iijoki flows into Bothnian Bay, the northernmost part of Gulf of Bothnia. This area is a Nature 2000 nature reserve area and good spot for bird watching. The area has a two kilometer long nature trail with fireplace, lean-to and toilet. From the...
Style over Substance
Create a Hue-compatible DIY LED light sculpture Learn how to create your own Hue compatible LED light sculpture, inspired by by the REFLEKTION art,...
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Learn how to create your own Hue compatible LED light sculpture, inspired by by the REFLEKTION art, using cheap LED strips and DIY parts you can order online. The post Create a Hue-compatible DIY LED light sculpture appeared first on Style over Substance.
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2024-07-31 just disconnect the internet So, let's say that a security vendor, we'll call them ClownStrike, accidentally takes down most of...
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So, let's say that a security vendor, we'll call them ClownStrike, accidentally takes down most of their Windows install base with a poorly tested content update. Rough day at the office, huh? There are lots of things you could say about this, lots of reasons it happens this way,...
Electronics etc…
$17 GM1312 Thermometer Review, Test, and Teardown Introduction What is a thermocouple The GM1213 Thermometer A few...
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Introduction What is a thermocouple The GM1213 Thermometer A few tests Internals Conclusion References Introduction I’ve been doing a bunch of measurements on oven-controlled oscillators lately, including their temperature. There are multiple ways to measure...
Construction Physics
Why the U.S. Can’t Build Icebreaking Ships I want to say thank you to all the people who sent condolences following last week’s post,...
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I want to say thank you to all the people who sent condolences following last week’s post, especially those who shared their own stories of loss.
computers are bad
2023-03-24 docker Lately I tend to stick to topics that are historic by at least twenty years, and that does have a...
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Lately I tend to stick to topics that are historic by at least twenty years, and that does have a lot of advantages. But I am supposedly a DevOps professional, and so I will occasionally indulge in giving DevOps advice... or at least opinions, which are sort of like advice but...
Style over Substance
Leitz Summicron 50mm f/2 rigid (type 2) lens My newest lens acquisition wasn’t actually originally on my wishlist. I already had a 50mm Summicron...
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My newest lens acquisition wasn’t actually originally on my wishlist. I already had a 50mm Summicron lens, though that was the first generation collapsible model known as a Type 1. This lens has lived on my Leica M3 permanently for the past few years, and I have enjoyed the hell...
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Father's Day (First posted on Father's Day, 2022.)
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Christian Selig
Instant Pan Gesture Interactions Apple has a really awesome WWDC 2018 video called Designing Fluid Interfaces, and one of the key...
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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...
Arduino Blog
Explore underwater with this Arduino-controlled DIY ROV Who doesn’t want to explore underwater? To take a journey beneath the surface of a lake or even the...
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Who doesn’t want to explore underwater? To take a journey beneath the surface of a lake or even the ocean? But a remotely operated vehicle (ROV), which is the kind of robot you’d use for such an adventure, isn’t exactly the kind of thing you’ll find on the shelf at your local...
Willem's Blog
Data versus Feeling Do you rely on data or on your feeling when running a Marathon? I decided to run two marathons to...
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Do you rely on data or on your feeling when running a Marathon? I decided to run two marathons to find out the differences!
Engineers Need Art
SystemSix SystemSix is a desk calendar project that displays the weather forecast and phase of the moon on an...
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SystemSix is a desk calendar project that displays the weather forecast and phase of the moon on an e-ink display.
Construction Physics
Energy Cheat Sheet Building an intuition about energy
3 months ago
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The Fedora Linux starter pack: everything you need for a smooth experience I like Fedora Linux. It’s the Linux distro that stopped my habit of distro-hopping. Big deal? Ooh,...
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I like Fedora Linux. It’s the Linux distro that stopped my habit of distro-hopping. Big deal? Ooh, big deal! It’s stable in day-to-day use, ships with up-to-date software, and the software selection is adequate out of the box. It also ships with a fresh Linux kernel version1,...
./techtipsy
I held a talk about my self-hosting adventure! There are two reasons why I haven’t written much lately, and one of them is that I was cooking up...
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There are two reasons why I haven’t written much lately, and one of them is that I was cooking up a talk about self-hosting, more specifically my own self-hosting adventure (the other one is the Steam Deck, more about that in the future). The talk took place on May 25th 2023 at...
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2023-05-07 electrical characteristics of telephone lines Let's take a break from our boring topic of regional history to focus instead on an even more boring...
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Let's take a break from our boring topic of regional history to focus instead on an even more boring topic: implementation details of telephone lines. The conventional "copper pair" analog telephone line is fading away. The FCC has begun to authorize abandonment of copper outside...
Christian Selig
Server side Live Activities guide iOS 17.2 gained the capability to start Live Activities from a server, which is pretty cool and...
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iOS 17.2 gained the capability to start Live Activities from a server, which is pretty cool and handy! I’ve been playing around with it a bit and found some parts a bit confusing, so I thought I’d do a little write up for future me as well as anyone else who could benefit! (For...
Christian Selig
Introducing Tiny Storage: a small, lightweight UserDefaults replacement Hey I'm a developer not an artist Following my last blog post about difficulties surrounding...
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Hey I'm a developer not an artist Following my last blog post about difficulties surrounding UserDefaults and edge cases that lead to data loss (give it a read if you haven’t, it’s an important precursor to this post!), I wanted to build something small and lightweight that...
computers are bad
2023-04-10 solving problems with chatgpt One of the foundational goals of computer technology, at least as understood by popular culture, is...
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One of the foundational goals of computer technology, at least as understood by popular culture, is to automate away our jobs. When your job is (put simply) to get computers to work correctly, there's sort of an irony to this view of things. Still, just within the span of my...
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Portable Probability Panel [Misc] Laser-cut Galton board
8 months ago
Style over Substance
How I made HA-meural: a Meural Canvas integration for Home Assistant One of my 2020 lockdown projects I’m extremely proud of is HA-meural – a custom integration for the...
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One of my 2020 lockdown projects I’m extremely proud of is HA-meural – a custom integration for the Home Assistant home automation software that lets you control a NETGEAR Meural Canvas digital frame. It’s the result of a few months of work, lots of trial and error, and many...
Engineers Need Art
Jigsaw Puzzle Those of us who fiddled while Apple Computer burned. Well, actually some of us put together a big...
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Those of us who fiddled while Apple Computer burned. Well, actually some of us put together a big jigsaw puzzle.
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2023-12-23 ITT Technical Institute Programming note/shameless plug: I am finally on Mastodon. The history of the telephone industry is...
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Programming note/shameless plug: I am finally on Mastodon. The history of the telephone industry is a bit of an odd one. For the greatest part of the 20th century, telephony in the United States was largely a monopoly of AT&T and its many affiliates. This wasn't always the case,...
OH8HUB’s Substack
Spring ham radio activation of Korkattivuori (Mt. Korkatti) Korkattivuori (“Mount Korkatti”, 186m above sea level) is a small hill and Natura 2000 nature...
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Korkattivuori (“Mount Korkatti”, 186m above sea level) is a small hill and Natura 2000 nature reserve area near town Haapavesi (pop. 6588) in Finland. The nature reserve area consist of short family friendly hiking path of approximately 1.5km. One end of the path has parking...
computers are bad
2023-02-13 my homelab I have always found the term "homelab" a little confusing. It's a bit like the residential version...
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I have always found the term "homelab" a little confusing. It's a bit like the residential version of "on-premises cloud," in that it seems to presuppose that a lab is the normal place that you find computer equipment. Of course I get that "homelab" is usually used by those who...
computers are bad
2023-06-07 something up there - nasa and uaps A brief note on Grusch First, a disclaimer of sorts: I am posting another article on UAPs, yet I...
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A brief note on Grusch First, a disclaimer of sorts: I am posting another article on UAPs, yet I am not addressing the recent claims by David Grusch. This is for a couple of reasons. First, I am skeptical of Grusch. He is not the first seemingly well-positioned former...
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Shrinkflation, SanDisk style 2023-02-16 update: this post is not about the “GB vs GiB” issue, or the “lost disk space” that...
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2023-02-16 update: this post is not about the “GB vs GiB” issue, or the “lost disk space” that you notice after formatting the device in an OS. Please read the article in full before making inaccurate comments online. For many years, I have used two SanDisk Ultra 16 GB USB flash...
computers are bad
2023-01-29 the parallel port A few days ago, on a certain orange website, I came across an article about an improvised parallel...
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A few days ago, on a certain orange website, I came across an article about an improvised parallel printer capture device. This contains the line: There are other projects out there, but when you google for terms such as "parallel port to usb", they drown in a sea of "USB to...
computers are bad
2023-01-16 huff-duff We've talked a fair amount about HF radio recently, in the context of OTH radar. Recall that an...
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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...
Willem's Blog
Podcast Downloader Tired of being constantly nudged toward "more relevant content", I built a script to break free from...
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Tired of being constantly nudged toward "more relevant content", I built a script to break free from commercial or closed-source podcast apps.
Arduino Blog
What if robots could communicate with humans by emitting scents? Almost all human-robot interaction (HRI) approaches today rely on three senses: hearing, sight, and...
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Almost all human-robot interaction (HRI) approaches today rely on three senses: hearing, sight, and touch. Your robot vacuum might beep at you, or play recorded or synthesized speech. An LED on its enclosure might blink to red to signify a problem. And cutting-edge humanoid...
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I looked at this site on the Wayback Machine Yesterday was election day in Estonia and the results are in, which is why I remembered that one...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Yesterday was election day in Estonia and the results are in, which is why I remembered that one time I looked at my website on the Wayback Machine. This domain used to point to a Wordpress site that hosted content for a candidate in the local elections, at least around...
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My blog successfully survived a scheduled power outage I had the opportunity to test the resiliency of my home server setup due to a scheduled power outage...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
I had the opportunity to test the resiliency of my home server setup due to a scheduled power outage on 2024-09-13. It was also Friday the 13th. I’m not superstitious, but I’m a little stitious. My setup usually consists of the home server, a Wifi AP/router combo box, a converter...
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Mark Williams' C Programming System What C did for Programming Mark Williams has done for C Programming
7 months ago
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ASRock DeskMini X300: the future form factor of desktop PC-s? I wasn’t happy with my “one machine that does it all” setup, which is why I finally bit the bullet...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I wasn’t happy with my “one machine that does it all” setup, which is why I finally bit the bullet and got myself an ASRock DeskMini X300 bare-bones kit. This is a fantastic little desktop PC kit that is very small, quiet and can still be configured to have ridiculous amounts of...
Arduino Blog
Explore two ways to white label with Arduino Cloud We’re excited to announce a brand-new feature called “Custom Branding,” which allows Enterprise plan...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
We’re excited to announce a brand-new feature called “Custom Branding,” which allows Enterprise plan users to white label their workspace and enhance the overall user experience. This announcement is exciting because it empowers businesses to create a truly tailored environment...
computers are bad
2023-02-07 secret government telephone numbers Very nearly a year ago, I wrote a popular article about secret military telephone buttons. To be...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Very nearly a year ago, I wrote a popular article about secret military telephone buttons. To be clear, the "secret" here was a joke and these buttons are in fact well documented. The buttons I was talking about were the AUTOVON call precedence buttons, used for a five-level...
Construction Physics
Do U.S. Ports Need More Automation? On October 1st, 47,000 members of the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA), primarily...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
On October 1st, 47,000 members of the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA), primarily dockworkers on East and Gulf Coast ports, went on strike after failing to agree contract terms with USMX, an alliance of port operators and employers.
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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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
computers are bad
2023-07-29 Free Public WiFi Remember Free Public WiFi? Once, many years ago, I stayed on the 62nd floor of the Westin Peachtree...
a year ago
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a year ago
Remember Free Public WiFi? Once, many years ago, I stayed on the 62nd floor of the Westin Peachtree Plaza in Atlanta, Georgia. This was in the age when the price of a hotel room was directly correlated with the price of the WiFi service, and as a high school student I was not...
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This site will be offline on 2022-08-17 between 18:00-19:00 EEST There really isn’t much to say here, nor is there a rational reason behind this. I just see it as an...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There really isn’t much to say here, nor is there a rational reason behind this. I just see it as an opportunity to send a signal and test the capabilities of my UPS. I’ve prepared for this moment with my self-hosting setup, let’s see how well it holds up. Hopefully better than...
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The IPv6 situation on Docker is good now! Good news, everyone! Doing IPv6 networking stuff on Docker is actually good now! I’ve recently...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Good news, everyone! Doing IPv6 networking stuff on Docker is actually good now! I’ve recently started reworking my home server setup to be more IPv6 compatible, and as part of that I learned that during the summer of 2024 Docker shipped an update that eliminated a lot of the...
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Hand-cranked Flux Capacitor [Concept] Control the flow of time
a year ago
Construction Physics
What Learning by Doing Looks Like The evolution of polycrystalline diamond drill bits
3 months ago
Style over Substance
Using the EZCOO / AVStar HAE118 HDMI2.1 Audio Extractor for PS5/Xbox audio Back in 2021, we bought a PlayStation 5 (PS5) as our main living room console. Making the most out...
a year ago
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a year ago
Back in 2021, we bought a PlayStation 5 (PS5) as our main living room console. Making the most out of this console meant we also had to buy a new TV, as our old TV was not 4K-compatible and did not support HDMI2.1, the new A/V standard required to support all of the PS5’s...
Style over Substance
Fujifilm Instax Wide 300 to Mamiya Press mount mod How I modified an Instax Wide instant camera to mount a Mamiya Press medium format lens The post...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
How I modified an Instax Wide instant camera to mount a Mamiya Press medium format lens The post Fujifilm Instax Wide 300 to Mamiya Press mount mod appeared first on Style over Substance.
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techtipsy, now hosted on k-space! This site is now hosted on infrastructure provided by k-space, a friendly hackerspace in Tallinn,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This site is now hosted on infrastructure provided by k-space, a friendly hackerspace in Tallinn, Estonia. If you’ve been reading any of my previous posts, you might be wondering why I made that move, especially since I was quite proud of hosting my website over a residential...
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btrbk is awesome I like having a safety net whenever I’m doing something potentially destructive, which is why I use...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I like having a safety net whenever I’m doing something potentially destructive, which is why I use the btrfs file system for my operating system and my data. Snapshots are one half of my “whoops, there goes all my work” strategy (backups are the other half). I’ve written about...
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About the time I used Google Drive as a CMS for a web app Near the beginning of my software development career, I worked on a pretty standard web application....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Near the beginning of my software development career, I worked on a pretty standard web application. The project was not a commercial success, but it did give me a good technical foundation that turned out to be very useful for my career so far. For those interested, the tech...
computers are bad
2023-04-27 los alamos - compound to county pt I This weekend, I found myself staying in Los Alamos for a volunteer role in which I judge children on...
a year ago
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a year ago
This weekend, I found myself staying in Los Alamos for a volunteer role in which I judge children on the quality of their software. Clearly this is not the kind of opportunity I would turn down, but I also always take an excuse to drive back up the hill. I only lived in Los...
Style over Substance
3D-printable Raleno 104 lightbox adapter for camera film scanning My latest creation is a 3D-printed adapter for the Raleno PLV-S104 (Raleno 104) light. The model...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My latest creation is a 3D-printed adapter for the Raleno PLV-S104 (Raleno 104) light. The model turns it into a lightbox that you can use for digital camera scanning of your negative film. It also contains a holder compatible with the Valoi 35mm/120 film carriers. Additionally,...
Arduino Blog
Why is STEAM education important for kids? 6 activity tips School’s out for summer – at least for most of us. While the majority of children (and teachers!)...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
School’s out for summer – at least for most of us. While the majority of children (and teachers!) will probably be breathing a huge sigh of relief, parents face a new challenge: how to keep kids engaged during the long break. Of course, downtime is important, but there are also...
Construction Physics
Morris Chang and the Origins of TSMC Book review of the autobiography of Morris Chang.
3 months ago