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The Pragmatic...
Software engineering job openings hit five-year low? There are 35% fewer software developer job listings on Indeed today, than five years ago. Compared...
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There are 35% fewer software developer job listings on Indeed today, than five years ago. Compared to other industries, job listings for software engineers grew much more in 2021-2022, but have declined much faster since. A look into possible reasons for this, and what could come...
somenice
5 Frames with Nikon FM and Fomapan 100 On a few photowalks around Kitsilano in Vancouver BC with my first roll of Fomapan Classic 100. All...
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On a few photowalks around Kitsilano in Vancouver BC with my first roll of Fomapan Classic 100. All pictures shot with older, non-AI Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 lens. Developed in Ilford Ilfosol3 for 5 minutes at 20°C and scanned with a cheap film scanner. Color has been removed and some...
anderegg.ca
Algorithms are breaking how we think Today, Alec Watson posted a video titled “Algorithms are breaking how we think” on his YouTube...
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Today, Alec Watson posted a video titled “Algorithms are breaking how we think” on his YouTube channel, Technology Connections. The whole thing is excellent and very well argued. The main thrust is: people seem increasingly less mindful about the stuff they engage with. Watson...
The Pragmatic...
Where did TikTok’s software engineers go? How has this uncertainty affected software engineers at the Chinese-owned social network?
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Construction Physics
How Will the Trump Tariffs Affect Construction? Earlier this month the Trump administration announced hefty 25% tariffs on Canadian and Mexican...
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Earlier this month the Trump administration announced hefty 25% tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports, along with an additional 10% tariffs on Chinese imports.
Construction Physics
Reading list 02/22/25 Waymo’s factory, a map of US land values, ships in the Arctic Circle, battery industry trends, and...
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Waymo’s factory, a map of US land values, ships in the Arctic Circle, battery industry trends, and more.
Bryan Braun - Blog
You can’t fix a problem you don’t understand A few weeks ago, I was building a server-side API client. I had written the code and tested it in...
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A few weeks ago, I was building a server-side API client. I had written the code and tested it in isolation. Everything looked good. Unfortunately, when I included it in the main service, I started seeing errors. I decided to try asking an AI tool for suggestions. I gave it the...
Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course Week 6: Herodotus Week 6 of my humanities crash course included four books from Herodotus’s Histories and Plato’s...
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Week 6 of my humanities crash course included four books from Herodotus’s Histories and Plato’s Symposium. I also listened to gorgeous music from exotic (to me) ports of call, learned about Persian art and architecture, and watched a new documentary about René...
Willem's Blog
Better Laptop This post is a quick rundown of assembling my new Framework 13 laptop, why I chose this brand and...
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This post is a quick rundown of assembling my new Framework 13 laptop, why I chose this brand and what's next.
lcamtuf’s thing
Choosing a microcontroller RP2040, ESP32, AVR, PIC, STM32...? When it comes to hobby projects, there's plenty of choice and...
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RP2040, ESP32, AVR, PIC, STM32...? When it comes to hobby projects, there's plenty of choice and just as much zealotry.
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Turns out that I'm a 'prolific open-source influencer' now Yes, you read that right. I’m a prolific open-source influencer now. Some years ago I set up a...
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Yes, you read that right. I’m a prolific open-source influencer now. Some years ago I set up a Google Alert with my name, for fun. Who knows what it might show one day? On 7th of February, it fired an alert. Turns out that my thoughts on Ubuntu were somewhat popular, and it ended...
Matt Mullenweg
Ed Catmull on Change I’ve been really enjoying the book Creativity Inc by Ed Catmull of Pixar, it was recommended to me...
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I’ve been really enjoying the book Creativity Inc by Ed Catmull of Pixar, it was recommended to me by my colleague Dave Martin a while back and I finally got around to it. There’s an interesting story in it where George Lucas has asked him to develop a film editing system that...
Matt Mullenweg
On Logan Bartlett Show You may not have heard of Logan Bartlett, but he’s one of the most hilarious people on Twitter and...
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You may not have heard of Logan Bartlett, but he’s one of the most hilarious people on Twitter and does a really interesting podcast. (He had a cool episode with Marc Benioff recently.) We sat down for a discussion on managing through crisis, open source and AI, employee...
GitButler
How Core Git Developers Configure Git What `git config` settings should be defaults by now? Here are some settings that even the core...
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What `git config` settings should be defaults by now? Here are some settings that even the core developers change.
Applied Cartography
What Gives Matthieu asks: Since you do a lot of things (investor, dad, owner of a "small" business, blog...
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Matthieu asks: Since you do a lot of things (investor, dad, owner of a "small" business, blog writer) I was wondering what you don't do to keep up with this level of commitment. In the same line, it often said that behind one person success, there's a wife/husband that helps to...
Applied Cartography
February, 2025 What a start to the year! January was a bit more flat-packed than I think Haley and I would have...
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What a start to the year! January was a bit more flat-packed than I think Haley and I would have otherwise liked, but all with great things. (Highlights include: first weekend trip with Lucy, signing a lease on an office, and Third South's annual offsite.) A roundup of writing...
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Feature toggles: just roll your own! When you’re dealing with a particularly large service with a slow deployment pipeline (15-30...
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When you’re dealing with a particularly large service with a slow deployment pipeline (15-30 minutes), and a rollback delay of up to 10 minutes, you’re going to need feature toggles (some also call them feature flags) to turn those half-an-hour nerve-wrecking major incidents into...
Birchtree
noclip is my favorite website find of 2025 so far noclip is quite the find, and I've lost more time than I'd like to admit in it this week. Basically,...
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noclip is quite the find, and I've lost more time than I'd like to admit in it this week. Basically, it has a bunch of 3D models from mostly PS2-Wii era games that you can explore in your browser. It's awesome and anyone with
./techtipsy
IODD ST400 review: great idea, good product, terrible firmware I’ve written about abusing USB storage devices in the past, with a passing mention that I’m too...
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I’ve written about abusing USB storage devices in the past, with a passing mention that I’m too cheap to buy an IODD device. Then I bought one. I’ve always liked the promise of tools like Ventoy: you only need to carry the one storage device that boots anything you...
lcamtuf’s thing
The Review Interior of a low-rise office park.
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Birchtree
Development is going through a real change Thomas Ricouard: Is Software Engineering Over as We Know It? Writing code has always been a means to...
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Thomas Ricouard: Is Software Engineering Over as We Know It? Writing code has always been a means to an end, especially in my case, where my goal is to build and ship products to millions of users. What’s really happening is a shift in focus: away from obsessing
Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course Week 7: Gilgamesh Week 7 of my humanities crash course had me exploring ancient Mesopotamia with a side trip to...
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Week 7 of my humanities crash course had me exploring ancient Mesopotamia with a side trip to northern India. I also watched an Iranian film that had me pondering the meaning of life. Readings This week, I read two short ancient texts: the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Dhammapada....
Computer Ads from...
A Quick Note and Some Comics An apology and some entertainment
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Jorge Arango
Jorge’s Wager: Why AI Needs Information Architecture One of the most common questions I’m asked is, “is information architecture still relevant now that...
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One of the most common questions I’m asked is, “is information architecture still relevant now that we have AI?” Of course, not everyone puts it like that. Instead, they’ll say things like “we won’t need navigation if we have chat” or “AI will organize the website” or “in a world...
Arduino Blog
Gustavo Reynaga: Inspiring the next generation of makers with MicroPython If you’re a fan of open-source technology, Gustavo Salvador Reynaga Aguilar is a name to know. An...
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If you’re a fan of open-source technology, Gustavo Salvador Reynaga Aguilar is a name to know. An experienced educator with a passion for technology, Gustavo has spent nearly three decades teaching and inspiring students at CECATI 132 in Mexico. He’s worked with platforms like...
Simply Explained
Bringing Foam Monsters to Life: How I Wrote and Illustrated a Children's Book Using AI I've always wanted to write a book. It's been on my bucket list for several years, but I never got...
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I've always wanted to write a book. It's been on my bucket list for several years, but I never got around to it. Last summer I had a revelation: my kids love being read to, so why don't I write a story for them?Here's how I approached writing a children's book and how I used AI...
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #56: The awkward truth about Brexit Plus a giant leap for devolution, the nuclear industry being cowards, and some crazy humanoid robots
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Jorge Arango
AI Needs Architects – That’s Why I’m Pivoting In over thirty years in business, two technological shifts have fundamentally changed my work. The...
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In over thirty years in business, two technological shifts have fundamentally changed my work. The first was the web in the mid 1990s, which led me to leave architecture and focus on what we now call UX. The second is happening now – and it may be bigger. AI is poised to reshape...
Applied Cartography
YOLO-squashing our Django repository Buttondown's core application is a Django app, and a fairly long-lived one at that — it was, until...
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Buttondown's core application is a Django app, and a fairly long-lived one at that — it was, until recently, sporting around seven hundred migration files (five hundred of which were in emails, the "main" module of the app). An engineer pointed out that the majority of our five...
Odds and Ends of...
Just Stop Oil is doing more harm for the cause than good Mitigating climate change requires more than poems and protest
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Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing AirTag Security Cable We wanted to make a better braided steel AirTag mount - more compact, stronger, really well...
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We wanted to make a better braided steel AirTag mount - more compact, stronger, really well made.    So we fired up our Swiss lathe and machined a custom oversized screw that keeps it secure and looks awesome. It is T10 Torx and comes with an included driver.   There is an...
Abort Retry Fail
Intel: a Bug and a Pro The FDIV bug and release of the P6
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Jorge Arango
Book Notes: “Co-Intelligence” Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick Portfolio, 2024 Over the weekend, I...
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Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick Portfolio, 2024 Over the weekend, I caught up with a friend I hadn’t seen in years. When I explained that most of my work these days is focused on AI, he asked if there was one book he could read to understand how to...
lcamtuf’s thing
meta: apologies for the spam... To explain: in several places in the UI, the platform encourages you to enable “subscriber chat” —...
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To explain: in several places in the UI, the platform encourages you to enable “subscriber chat” — but doesn’t really explain what it does:
Notes on software...
From web developer to database developer in 10 years Last month I completed my first year at EnterpriseDB. I'm on the team that built and...
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Last month I completed my first year at EnterpriseDB. I'm on the team that built and maintains pglogical and who, over the years, contributed a good chunk of the logical replication functionality that exists in community Postgres. Most of my work, our work, is in C and Rust with...
Jonas Hietala
I'll give up Neovim when you pry it from my cold, dead hands I recently came upon a horror story where a developer was forced to switch editor from Neovim to...
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I recently came upon a horror story where a developer was forced to switch editor from Neovim to Cursor and I felt I had to write a little to cleanse myself of the disgust I felt. Two different ways of approaching an editor I think that there’s two opposing ways of thinking about...
Birchtree
Apple jumps in the hot tub Zac Hall writing for 9to5Mac: Apple Responds After Being Forced to Approve Porn App on EU iPhones...
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Zac Hall writing for 9to5Mac: Apple Responds After Being Forced to Approve Porn App on EU iPhones Due to DMA The bottom line for parents, though, is that the “Apple-approved” messaging around the porn app on iPhone omits the fact that Apple is legally required to approve the
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Reasons to have higher L1 gas limits even in an L2-heavy Ethereum
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Odds and Ends of...
The government ordering Apple to break its encryption is stupid, counter-productive and unworkable For the love of god, ask the computer people if your plan might actually work first.
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Birchtree
Matt Gemmell is back on the Mac Matt Gemmell went iPad-only in 2016, but he's made the move Back to Mac [The Mac is] satisfying in...
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Matt Gemmell went iPad-only in 2016, but he's made the move Back to Mac [The Mac is] satisfying in the conventional way, in that it meets needs without drama or acrobatics. It works in the sense that it directs its resources firmly in the direction of service, rather
Matt Mullenweg
Hash tables “You didn’t just come up with a cool hash table,” he remembers telling Krapivin. “You’ve actually...
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“You didn’t just come up with a cool hash table,” he remembers telling Krapivin. “You’ve actually completely wiped out a 40-year-old conjecture!” There’s a delightful article on an undergraduate discovering an optimization in a very basic computer science principle.
Jorge Arango
Solsbury Hill Today is Peter Gabriel’s 75th birthday. He’s contributed much through his music and by bringing...
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Today is Peter Gabriel’s 75th birthday. He’s contributed much through his music and by bringing people together through the arts. But today, I want to celebrate one of his songs that’s had a profound impact on my life: Solsbury Hill. Solsbury Hill was Gabriel’s debut single as...
Birchtree
The mythical iOS 18.4 Zac Hall writing for 9to5Mac: Apple’s Competitive Edge in AI Hinges on These Three Unreleased Siri...
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Zac Hall writing for 9to5Mac: Apple’s Competitive Edge in AI Hinges on These Three Unreleased Siri Features It feels like a make-or-break moment for Siri, and these three remaining iOS 18 features are key indicators of Apple’s ability to leverage AI with Siri. These three Siri
lcamtuf’s thing
How security teams fail There are mistakes most companies are more or less bound to make.
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Matt Mullenweg
WordCamp Asia and Maha Kumbh Mela It’s been fantastic being in the Philippines for this year’s WordCamp Asia. We have attendees from...
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It’s been fantastic being in the Philippines for this year’s WordCamp Asia. We have attendees from 71 countries, over 1,800 tickets sold, and contributor day had over 700 people! It’s an interesting contrast to US and EU WordCamps as well in that the audience is definitely a lot...
Birchtree
New estimates have ChatGPT using 10x less power than previously thought Josh You publishing a study on Epoch AI: How Much Energy Does ChatGPT Use? A commonly-cited claim is...
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Josh You publishing a study on Epoch AI: How Much Energy Does ChatGPT Use? A commonly-cited claim is that powering an individual ChatGPT query requires around 3 watt-hours of electricity, or 10 times as much as a Google search. However… We find that typical ChatGPT queries using...
Applied Cartography
Humane Inc. Humane Inc. started in 2018; it raised around $250M over five years before coming out of stealth...
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Humane Inc. started in 2018; it raised around $250M over five years before coming out of stealth mode with an AI pin that people did not like very much, and today they announced their sale (or, to be specific, the sale of their patent library) to HP for $116M. Here is a hype...
Birchtree
Trump’s latest executive order plainly states no one has authority over him The White House: Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies Sec. 7. Rules of Conduct Guiding Federal...
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The White House: Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies Sec. 7. Rules of Conduct Guiding Federal Employees’ Interpretation of the Law. The President and the Attorney General, subject to the President’s supervision and control, shall provide authoritative interpretations of law...
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IC Necklace [Misc] Setting silicon
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Arduino Blog
MKR Keylock is an open-source IoT keypad for your front door The age-old combination of physical locks and keys, although reliable, also comes with a few...
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The age-old combination of physical locks and keys, although reliable, also comes with a few drawbacks, such as when you lose the key or you want to share access with someone else remotely. Davide Gomba has recognized this and built the MKR Keylock project as a way to address...
Birchtree
This menu needs to die M.G. Siegler: The Great AI UI Unification And depending on which model you choose to use, you get...
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M.G. Siegler: The Great AI UI Unification And depending on which model you choose to use, you get other options from there, as various buttons will be enabled in the message box for 'Web Search' and now 'Deep Research'. Oh and I forgot the '
Matt Mullenweg
Scale In high school when 5% of your class doesn’t like you it’s like 3-5 people. Running a company of...
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In high school when 5% of your class doesn’t like you it’s like 3-5 people. Running a company of 1,700+ when 5% doesn’t like you, that’s 85 people! That fills a room. 150k followers and 5% don’t like you now you have a small stadium of 7,500 people. It’s still 5%.
Matt Mullenweg
Sun and shadows
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Birchtree
Superhuman’s next big update looks very compelling On the Superhuman blog: The Next Evolution of Superhuman AI 💖 Custom Auto Labels. Our built-in Auto...
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On the Superhuman blog: The Next Evolution of Superhuman AI 💖 Custom Auto Labels. Our built-in Auto Labels are great, but what's even better is making your own. Just write a prompt, like “job applications” or “requests for me to review work”. You can
Birchtree
People Change (members post) Too often I see people suggest that others are a static combination of beliefs. I stongly believe...
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Too often I see people suggest that others are a static combination of beliefs. I stongly believe that people can, and do change.
Applied Cartography
Naughty vs. nice I love this bit from Paul Graham on pattern-matching founders: Though the most successful founders...
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I love this bit from Paul Graham on pattern-matching founders: Though the most successful founders are usually good people, they tend to have a piratical gleam in their eye. They're not Goody Two-Shoes type good. Morally, they care about getting the big questions right, but not...
Arduino Blog
Tecnoseta revives the silk industry with open-source innovation The silk industry has a rich history in Italy, but modern challenges have brought this centuries-old...
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The silk industry has a rich history in Italy, but modern challenges have brought this centuries-old tradition to the brink of decline. Once a cornerstone of the rural economy in Italy, with a strong presence in Zagarolo, Rome, silk production has dwindled in the country due to...
Odds and Ends of...
Four nuggets of Postcode Address File news To free the PAF we must first solve a coordination problem
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Arduino Blog
This mod simplifies single-point threading on mini lathes “Single-point threading” on a lathe is the process of cutting threads, such as for a bolt, into the...
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“Single-point threading” on a lathe is the process of cutting threads, such as for a bolt, into the material through turning. The spindle/workpiece spin and the carriage moves linearly at a precise amount per turn of the spindle. That linear movement is the thread pitch. But this...
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Here's a pitch for what the National Data Library should actually be Do you want to be a National Data Librarian?
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2025-02-17 of psychics and securities September 6th, 1996. Eddie Murray, of the Baltimore Orioles, is at bat. He has had 20 home runs in...
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September 6th, 1996. Eddie Murray, of the Baltimore Orioles, is at bat. He has had 20 home runs in the season; 499 in his career. Anticipation for the 500th had been building for the last week. It would make Murray only the third player to reach 500 home runs and 3000 hits. His...
Arduino Blog
This robotic piano has solenoids for all 88 keys Pianos famously have a lot of keys. A standard full-size piano has 52 white keys and 36 black keys,...
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Pianos famously have a lot of keys. A standard full-size piano has 52 white keys and 36 black keys, for a total of 88. Therefore, people need to get clever when they build self-playing pianos. However, the brute force approach works, too. Paul Junkin’s brute force strategy was to...
Arduino Blog
The 2024 Arduino Open Source Report is here! Every year, we take a moment to reflect on the contributions we made to the open source movement,...
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Every year, we take a moment to reflect on the contributions we made to the open source movement, and the many ways our community has made a huge difference. As we publish the latest Open Source Report, we are proud to say 2024 was another year of remarkable progress and...
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Building luxury homes for millionaires is good for poor people Yes In My Back Yard!
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Odds and Ends #58: An even greater London? Plus a revealing portrait of Westminster's hidden connections and some cope on why Trump might not...
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Plus a revealing portrait of Westminster's hidden connections and some cope on why Trump might not be *so* catastrophic. Maybe. If we're lucky.
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Odds and Ends #59: The end of "woke capitalism" Plus the government did the stupid thing after all.
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Louwrentius
Bose SoundLink on-ear headphones battery replacement Skip to the bottom two paragraph for instructions on how to replace the battery. I bought my Bose...
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Skip to the bottom two paragraph for instructions on how to replace the battery. I bought my Bose SoundLink on-ear Bluetooth headphones for 250 Euros around 2017 and I really like them. They are small, light, comfortable and can easily fit in a coat pocket when folded. Up until...
Jorge Arango
Traction Heroes Ep. 3: Beyond Data In episode 3 of the Traction Heroes podcast, Harry and I discussed the relationship between...
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In episode 3 of the Traction Heroes podcast, Harry and I discussed the relationship between decision-making and data. Is it ok for some decisions to be made intuitively? What role do emotions play in decision-making? How do you deal with stakeholders who demand that decisions be...
Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course Week 8: Ancient Egypt Week 8 of my humanities crash course focused on ancient Egypt with musical excursions to modern...
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Week 8 of my humanities crash course focused on ancient Egypt with musical excursions to modern North Africa. I also finally saw an astonishing opera I’d heard countless times but had never seen. The internet delivers! Readings Rather than a specific text, like the Odyssey or the...
Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing TagVault Camera for AirTag After having $10k+ of camera gear stolen, we set our to make the best AirTag mount for cameras. We...
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After having $10k+ of camera gear stolen, we set our to make the best AirTag mount for cameras. We wanted it to be very discreet and something you never needed to take off.  After many design iterations, tool changes, testing exotic materials, drop testing with old camera bodies...
Birchtree
It’s time to engage Casey Newton writing on Platformer: Google Slings More AI at the Web To get the web we had at its...
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Casey Newton writing on Platformer: Google Slings More AI at the Web To get the web we had at its peak, platforms and publishers had to align around mutually beneficial incentives. They did it before, and they can do it again. It would nice to see some progress here before
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #57: The government isn't as sluggish as it feels Why Labour supporters should hold their nerve (for now)
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Birchtree
Another study on LLM energy use This study was linked to by The Verge today, and as someone who keeps looking at the energy costs of...
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This study was linked to by The Verge today, and as someone who keeps looking at the energy costs of AI wondering why he’s missing something, one of the opening lines in the study’s executive summary really caught my eye: Electricity consumption from data centres, artificial
Birchtree
Your brain doesn’t want you to work out Dean Burnett writing for Science Focus: Your Brain Is Hard-Wired to Avoid Exercise. Here's Why So...
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Dean Burnett writing for Science Focus: Your Brain Is Hard-Wired to Avoid Exercise. Here's Why So why, even though we’ve evolved to do it, doesn't everyone enjoy exercise? The baffling complexity of the human brain is to blame. Evolving an ability doesn’t
watchTowr Labs
The Best Security Is When We All Agree To Keep Everything Secret (Except The Secrets) - NAKIVO... As an industry, we believe that we’ve come to a common consensus after 25 years of circular debates...
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As an industry, we believe that we’ve come to a common consensus after 25 years of circular debates - disclosure is terrible, information is actually dangerous, it’s best that it’s not shared, and the only way to really to ensure that no one ever
lcamtuf’s thing
But good sir, what is electricity? A quick look at the physics of conductors, insulators, and electric charges.
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Arduino Blog
Wired for success: Inspiring the next generation of women in science Did you know that it’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science on February 11th, 2025? To...
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Did you know that it’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science on February 11th, 2025? To celebrate this global event, we’re shining a light on the efforts to make STEM more accessible, inclusive, and inspiring for future generations. Let’s dive in! Mind the gap: gender...
Birchtree
New weekend, new video recommendations My fellow F1 fans should watch this to make sure they know the main rule changes coming in this...
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My fellow F1 fans should watch this to make sure they know the main rule changes coming in this season. I totally missed that the fastest lap point was going away. Unsecured and still-using0the-default-password cameras are quite the thing…always always always change your...
Birchtree
Quick Reviews 1.0.5: the quality of life update An update to my app, Quick Reviews, is rolling out now! After a lot of feature adds in the first few...
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An update to my app, Quick Reviews, is rolling out now! After a lot of feature adds in the first few updates, I took this as a chance to clean up some bugs and improve a few elements that made the app a little annoying to use at times. Oh,
Birchtree
400 million people use OpenAI/ChatGPT every week Kate Rooney for CNBC: OpenAI Tops 400 Million Users Despite DeepSeek’s Emergence The San...
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Kate Rooney for CNBC: OpenAI Tops 400 Million Users Despite DeepSeek’s Emergence The San Francisco-based tech company had 400 million weekly active users as of February, up 33% from 300 million in December, the company’s chief operating officer, Brad Lightcap, told CNBC. I don’t
Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing TagVault Surface Aero for AirTag With the popularity of our TagVault Surface Mount for AirTag, we wanted another option that was just...
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With the popularity of our TagVault Surface Mount for AirTag, we wanted another option that was just as durable, waterproof, and secure - but with a more minimal industrial design.  So we designed TagVault Surface Aero. It will look great on your motorcycle and even more...
Birchtree
Castro is back, baby Dustin Bluck writing for the Castro blog: State of the App: Year 1 Private and popular feeds update...
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Dustin Bluck writing for the Castro blog: State of the App: Year 1 Private and popular feeds update have seen marked improvements, but unpopular feeds were the real issue before and that issue is entirely gone. I emailed Castro support back in 2021 to ask them for help with my
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Chris Welch writing for The Verge: Netflix Says Its Brief Apple TV App Integration Was a Mistake Considering the trajectory of 2025 so far, perhaps we should’ve known that Netflix finally playing nice with the Apple TV app was too good to be true. And now the streaming
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On the new iPhone 16e Today Apple unveiled the iPhone 16e, which they're calling a part of the iPhone 16 lineup now,...
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Today Apple unveiled the iPhone 16e, which they're calling a part of the iPhone 16 lineup now, rather than this odd duck the SE had been since launch. Honestly, I think this move in particular is interesting and maybe makes a ton of sense, but let's
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Cirrhosis of the liver is an extremely serious condition that requires extensive medical monitoring and often intervention. Progression of the condition can be fatal, so even if caught early it must be monitored closely. But, like most things in medicine, that gets expensive....
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In episode 4 of the Traction Heroes podcast, Harry and I discussed mental models. It’s a tricky phrase: we brought up two different, yet common, uses: Mental models as individuals’ internal understandings of a particular things and situations – i.e., the “Indi Young”...
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99% of the time I want my software to be as fast as humanly possible. I want UI elements that respond quickly, and I want keyboard shortcuts to do as much as possible. But 1% of the time, for whatever reason, I just like when a computer takes a long
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Civilization's toughest technical challenges are those that require extraordinary (and constantly improving) performance to be delivered at a low cost.
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I’m not trying to send any hate at a random MacRumors forum commentor who I don’t know, so please take this more as me explaining why there’s more skepticism about the Vision Pro than other gen-1 Apple products. From the post: BTW, I also
Birchtree
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I was late to the party, but I played Luck Be a Landlord last year and really enjoyed it. It’s a deckbuilder where you build combos by manipulating the icons in your custom slot machine. I linked above to the Steam page, but it’s on just about every platform — I played through it...
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Pew has a new report out where they talked to workers in the US and asked them how they were using AI at work. The data is really interesting in a few places, so I wanted to share the most notable insights in my view. First off, only 16% of
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After many wonderful years of working out of my home office (see Workspaces), I've now "expanded" [1] into an office of my own. 406 W Franklin St #201 is now the Richmond-area headquarters of Buttondown. Send me gifts! The move is a bittersweet one; it was a great joy to be so...
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Sean Hollister writing for The Verge: Three Years Later, the Steam Deck Has Dominated Handheld PC Gaming Shipments Add it up, and that’s just under 6 million shipments in three years. One way to view that: it’s small and it’s not really growing. IDC&
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We do this same thing with AI bots and human blogs Giles Thomas writing on his personal blog, which he’s been writing since 2006: It's Still Worth...
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The Pentium contains a complicated circuit to multiply by three In 1993, Intel released the high-performance Pentium processor, the start of the long-running...
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In 1993, Intel released the high-performance Pentium processor, the start of the long-running Pentium line. I've been examining the Pentium's circuitry in detail and I came across a circuit to multiply by three, a complex circuit with thousands of transistors. Why does the...
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I have been slowly working on a book. Don't get too excited, it is on a very niche topic and I will probably eventually barely finish it and then post it here. But in the mean time, I will recount some stories which are related, but don't quite fit in. Today, we'll learn a bit...
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Claude finally gets its “thinking” update Anthropic released Claude 3.7 yesterday, and as a bit of a Claude stan myself, it’s fair to say I...
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Anthropic released Claude 3.7 yesterday, and as a bit of a Claude stan myself, it’s fair to say I was excited to see it. The last few months have seen meaningful updates to GPT and Gemini, and in an industry moving at this rate, Anthropic felt like
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Nissan courting Tesla, Europe’s Starlink competitor, Chinese semiconductor progress, ways to use existing interconnection capacity, and more.
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Minimal downtime Postgres major version upgrades with EDB Postgres Distributed This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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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...
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Kyle Wiggers writing for TechCrunch: Perplexity Teases a Web Browser Called Comet “Just like Perplexity reinvented search, we’re also reinventing the browser,” a Perplexity spokesperson told TechCrunch via email. “Stay tuned for updates.” Exactly one month ago I wrote “I think...
Arduino Blog
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A small startup called K-Scale Labs is in the process of developing an affordable, open-source humanoid robot and Mike Rigsby wanted to build a compatible hand. This three-fingered robot hand is the result, and it makes use of serial bus servos from Waveshare. Most Arduino users...
Birchtree
Now I love Pedro Pascal even more Seemingly lovely actor Pedro Pascal posted this photo to Instagram a few days ago (via Kottke): ...
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Seemingly lovely actor Pedro Pascal posted this photo to Instagram a few days ago (via Kottke): View this post on Instagram A post shared by Pedro Pascal he/him (@pascalispunk) In response to a transphobic comment someone left, he...
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A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence By Jeff Hawkins Basic Books, 2021 If you’re interested in artificial intelligence (and you should be,) it behooves you to learn about intelligence in general. While there’s still lots to learn, neuroscience has made lots of...
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Worst headline of 2025 contender just dropped Victor Tangermann writing for Yahoo Finance with the very enticing headline: Microsoft CEO Admits...
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Victor Tangermann writing for Yahoo Finance with the very enticing headline: Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value During an appearance on podcaster Dwarkesh Patel's show this week, Nadella offered a reality check. "Us self-claiming some [artificial...
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Does that dependency spark joy? If there's been one through line in changes to Buttondown's architecture over the past six months or...
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If there's been one through line in changes to Buttondown's architecture over the past six months or so, it's been the removal and consolidation of dependencies: on the front-end, back-end, and in paid services. I built our own very spartan version of Metabase, Notion, and...
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Humanities Crash Course Week 9: The Bible For week 9 of the humanities crash course, I revisited the most important text in Western culture:...
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For week 9 of the humanities crash course, I revisited the most important text in Western culture: the Bible. Of course, I didn’t read the whole book – only a small subset. Still, it was a lot. As I’ve done in previous weeks, I followed Gioia’s suggestions for the...
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One of my must-read newsletters for the past several years has been Lenny’s Newsletter, probably best known for its writing on growth and product management, which really means it covered everything you need to create a great company. It expanded into a really well-done podcast;...
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How I’m using AI tools in early 2025 (members post) What am I actually using these LLMs for at the start of 2025? Quite a bit, actually.
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Making a photo enlarger more efficient with precisely controlled LEDs In photography, an enlarger is a piece of equipment that projects a smaller image onto a...
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In photography, an enlarger is a piece of equipment that projects a smaller image onto a photosensitive material below using a strong light source and a negative to produce a much larger print. And while these have historically relied on single-color incandescent bulbs, such as...
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.
Birchtree
➕ Who cares about smartphone design? Just how important is physical design in someone's smartphone buying decision? As with so many...
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Just how important is physical design in someone's smartphone buying decision? As with so many things, it depends who you ask.
Birchtree
Is ChatGPT the next Dropbox or the next iPhone? Ed Zitron on his Where's Your Ed At blog: There Is No AI Revolution I kept coming back to one...
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Ed Zitron on his Where's Your Ed At blog: There Is No AI Revolution I kept coming back to one thought: where's the money? No, really, where is it? Where is the money that this supposedly revolutionary, world-changing industry is making, and will make? The answer
Arduino Blog
This vending machine draws generative art for just a euro If you hear the term “generative art” today, you probably subconsciously add “AI” to the beginning...
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If you hear the term “generative art” today, you probably subconsciously add “AI” to the beginning without even thinking about it. But generative art techniques existed long before modern AI came along — they even predate digital computing altogether. Despite that long history,...
Birchtree
The battle of the budget phones Just days after I got my iPhone 16e, Apple’s (less) budget (than ever before) iPhone, Nothing is out...
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Just days after I got my iPhone 16e, Apple’s (less) budget (than ever before) iPhone, Nothing is out here with new their new budget phones, the Phone (3a) and (3a) Pro. These models start at $379 and $459 respectively, so they certainly undercut the new iPhone, so let&
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Apple’s new iPads are here, let’s break them down Another day, another opportunity to rate my 2025 Apple predictions! iPad Here’s what I predicted...
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Another day, another opportunity to rate my 2025 Apple predictions! iPad Here’s what I predicted would happen with the base iPad this year: I fully expect to see the 11th gen iPad in 2025, and I think it will come with a jump to the A17 Pro or
Birchtree
The releases keep on coming! New MacBook Air and Mac Studio Man, the releases recently are coming in fast and furious, today with Apple announcing new MacBook...
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Man, the releases recently are coming in fast and furious, today with Apple announcing new MacBook Airs and Mac Studios. My MacBook Air predictions The Air will likely get a bump to the M4 chip and I’m not totally sure what will happen to the $999 model. as
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Oh, hello. Something's different around here, huh? Yup, it's been a few years, and I decided it was time to refresh the look around these parts of the indie web. The main impetus for this change was the simple fact I have too many projects I
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The new GOV.UK login system is the first step in a radical transformation of the British state A British "DOGE" (of sorts) is rearchitecting the government
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A lightweight file server running entirely on an Arduino Nano ESP32 Home file servers can be very useful for people who work across multiple devices and want easy...
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Home file servers can be very useful for people who work across multiple devices and want easy access to their documents. And there are a lot of DIY build guides out there. But most of them are full-fledged NAS (network-attached storage) devices and they tend to rely on...
Birchtree
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Gary Marcus: Hot Take: GPT 4.5 Is a Nothing Burger Half a trillion dollars later, there is still no viable business model, profits are modest at best for everyone except Nvidia and some consulting forms, there’s still basically no moat, and still no GPT-5. Any reasonable person
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This weekend, a small team in Latvia won an Oscar for a film they made using free software. That’s not just cool — it’s a sign of what’s coming. Sunday night was family movie night in my home. We picked a recent movie, FLOW. I’d heard good things about it and thought we’d enjoy...
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A significant UK think-tanking is backing the campaign to liberate the Postcode Address File The pressure is on the government to abolish the Innovation Tax
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➕ iPhone 16e review in progress: photography Here's a peek behind the scenes as I work on my iPhone 16e review.
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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...
Birchtree
Wow, what courage Mia McCarthy writing for Politico: No More in-Person Town Halls, NRCC Chief Tells House...
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Mia McCarthy writing for Politico: No More in-Person Town Halls, NRCC Chief Tells House Republicans The chair of the House GOP's campaign arm told Republican lawmakers Tuesday to stop holding in-person town halls amid a wave of angry backlash over the cuts undertaken by President...
Birchtree
NVIDIA finally gets some competition Tom Warren for The Verge: AMD Radeon RX 9070 / 9070 XT Review and Benchmarks The RX 9070 is around...
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Tom Warren for The Verge: AMD Radeon RX 9070 / 9070 XT Review and Benchmarks The RX 9070 is around 17 percent faster than Nvidia’s RTX 5070 in 4K without upscaling enabled, cruising past Nvidia’s card for the same price. The RX 9070 XT is as fast
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
Willem's Blog
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I am open-sourcing the Gran Fondo app that tracks runs and rides, designed for privacy and freedom in mind.
Birchtree
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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
Applied Cartography
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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...
Birchtree
Watch me write a task manager in 30 minutes A core tenet of A Better Computer is showing, not telling. I don’t use a lot of press kit material...
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A core tenet of A Better Computer is showing, not telling. I don’t use a lot of press kit material or talking points from companies in my videos because I don’t particularly care about those. My incentives are fully aligned with showing software (and sometimes hardware)
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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
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...
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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...
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...
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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...
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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
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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...
detreville
The IBM 701 "IBM's first computer"
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Engineers Need Art
Kim-1 User Manual For sale: a few KIM-1 User Manuals I printed up.
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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.
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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...
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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
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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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VPX Scripting - Part 2 (Linting) The second in a series of posts about scripting Visual Pinball tables.
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Op-Amp Helper PCB A PCB for breadboards to make working with op-amps easier.
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VPX Scripting - Part 1 (Teacher's Pet) The first in a series of posts about scripting Visual Pinball tables.
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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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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...
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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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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...
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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.
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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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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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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...
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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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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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2023-11-04 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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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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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,...
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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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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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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...
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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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Experiments in Printmaking - Part 1 Trying some unconventional techniques to create a pop-art print of a Cherry Mash candy bar.
11 months 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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Housekeeping for 20240701 Another correction
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VPX Scripting - Part 5 (DOF) Some light Visual Pinball debugging and the world of DOF. New to DOF? Read on.
10 months ago
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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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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...
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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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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...
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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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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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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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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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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...
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IBM RISC System/6000 Family Just when PowerSeeker thought they had nowhere to go...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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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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...
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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LED Industrial Piercing [Hardware] Illuminated circuit inside a hypodermic
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VPX Scripting - Part 4 (Pet Sounds) Teacher's Pet gets new sounds in this post in a series about scripting Visual Pinball tables.
10 months ago
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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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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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The History of GM-NAA I/O and SHARE The Birth of Computer Operating Systems
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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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Talking Tines [Concept] Tuning forks that talk
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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,...
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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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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...
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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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Housekeeping for 20240102 Some stats, updates, and whatnot
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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
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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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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...
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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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Robot Slide Whistle Orchestrion [Hardware] Army of Robot Slide Whistles
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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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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...
Arduino Blog
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....
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...
Christian Selig
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...
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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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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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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
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Smallest USB-C MIDI Synth [Hardware] The smallest and silliest MIDI synth yet
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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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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...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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The History of Windows 3 Windows becomes competitive
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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.
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POV Candle [Hardware] Tiny volumetric display
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The History of Commodore, Part 3 Are you keeping up with the Commodore?
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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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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 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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Motorised Camera Slider [Hardware] Simple smooth motor mod
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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...
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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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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...
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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,...
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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...
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The History of Commodore, Part 4 The Amiga, The Decline, The Fall
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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,...
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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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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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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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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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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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...
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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,...
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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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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...
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Simsim Pendant [Concept] Mercurial Medallion
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Bible Research Systems' THE WORD Processor For Those Who Seek.
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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...
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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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Light comms on the 003 [Hardware] Tiny terrahertz transmissions
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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The History of Commodore, Part 2 The VIC-20
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Adam74 The Adam74 is a small ASCII-based terminal designed for the 8-bit hobbyist.
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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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LED Matrix Earrings [Hardware] Itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow dot-matrix LED
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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.
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3D Model Viewer Improvements [Software] Unlocking the embedded gimbals
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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The History of Microsoft Encarta Searchable Human Knowledge
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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...
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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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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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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.
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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...
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...
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The History of Windows 2.0 Success and Litigation
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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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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...
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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...
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The History of the IBM 5100 IBM's First Personal Computer
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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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Badge [Hardware] A RISC-V LED matrix
a year ago
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Same Stop Marvelling at the full circle life seems to have taken after retirement.
a year ago
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The History of Windows 1.0 Vaporware
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The History of Slackware The Oldest Surviving Linux Distribution
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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...
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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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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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The History of Lotus The Hardest Working Software in the World
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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...
detreville
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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over a year ago
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
7 months ago
computers are bad
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...
computers are bad
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...
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 —...
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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The History of Windows NT 3.1 A Highly Portable Future
a year ago
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,...
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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over a year ago
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...
Electronics etc…
A Hardware Interposer to Fix the Symmetricom SyncServer S200 GPS Week Number Rollover Problem Introduction IMPORTANT: Use the Right GPS Antenna! The Problem: SyncServer Refuses to Lock to...
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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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The History of Windows 95 The Dawn of Microsoft's Golden Age
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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...
Electronics etc…
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',...
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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over a year ago
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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The History of OS/2 Getting a Divorce
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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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a year ago
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...
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?
./techtipsy
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!
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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Gould Electronic's PowerNode 6000 The Firebreathers from Gould blast the competition into oblivion.
7 months ago
Engineers Need Art
Soft Dorothy Software — Shareware Projects Wherein I attempt to recover and restore old shareware code and program again like it's 1989.
6 months ago
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...
6 months ago
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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...
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...
10 months ago
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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...
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...
Electronics etc…
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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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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The Birth of Windows Gaming Software is a fluid that expands to fill its container
a year ago
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...
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 —...
computers are bad
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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Page 6 Magazine Interviews the Godfather of Adventure Games, Scott Adams Scott McNealy talks about Sun Microsystems, RISC, UNIX, and NeXT
7 months ago
Electronics etc…
Cable Length Measurement with an HP 8007B Pulse Generator 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
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...
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
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...
The Pragmatic...
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?
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Analemmagraph [Concept] Video of a day, one year in every frame
a year ago
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...
Electronics etc…
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...
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The History of Commodore, Part 1 Chuck Peddle, the 6502, MOS, and the PET
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...
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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The History of Windows NT 4 Taking the Server Market
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...
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...
Electronics etc…
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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The History of Red Hat The Billion Dollar Open Source Company
a year ago
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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a year ago
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...
computers are bad
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,...
The Pragmatic...
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.
detreville
Father's Day (First posted on Father's Day, 2022.)
over a year ago
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.
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...
./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...
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.
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.
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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...
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...
computers are bad
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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over a year ago
Those of us who fiddled while Apple Computer burned. Well, actually some of us put together a big jigsaw puzzle.
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...
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...
./techtipsy
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...
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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...
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
2023-01-16 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...
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
2023-12-23 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,...
./techtipsy
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...
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...
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!
./techtipsy
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,...
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...
7 months ago
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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...
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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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...
Construction Physics
Energy Cheat Sheet Building an intuition about energy
2 months ago
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...
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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...
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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...
latest projects -...
Portable Probability Panel [Misc] Laser-cut Galton board
7 months ago
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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...
5 months ago
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5 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...
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...
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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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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techtipsy, now hosted on k-space! This site is now hosted on infrastructure provided by k-space, a friendly hackerspace in Tallinn,...
a year ago
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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...
latest projects -...
Hand-cranked Flux Capacitor [Concept] Control the flow of time
a year ago
Computer Ads from...
Mark Williams' C Programming System What C did for Programming Mark Williams has done for C Programming
6 months ago
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...
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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...
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.
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!)...
8 months ago
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8 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...
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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...
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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...
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,...
Willem's Blog
Podcast Downloader Tired of being constantly nudged toward "more relevant content", I built a script to break free from...
a month ago
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a month ago
Tired of being constantly nudged toward "more relevant content", I built a script to break free from commercial or closed-source podcast apps.
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...
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ThinkPad as a server: the follow-up It’s been a while since I last wrote about my ThinkPad T430 that was tasked with being a home...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It’s been a while since I last wrote about my ThinkPad T430 that was tasked with being a home server. After doing some experiments with my setup a couple of times, it is once again the main server for all my self-hosting needs. However, this time I have made some...
The Pragmatic...
Open source business model struggles at WordPress Automattic, creator of Wordpress, is being sued by one of the largest WordPress hosting providers....
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Automattic, creator of Wordpress, is being sued by one of the largest WordPress hosting providers. The conflict fits into a trend of billion-dollar companies struggling to effectively monetize open source, and are changing tactics to limit their competition and increase their...
Abort Retry Fail
Unboxing New Old Stock Windows 3.11 A Photo Gallery
a year ago