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Birchtree
Birchtree's new look Oh, hello. Something's different around here, huh? Yup, it's been a few years, and I decided it was...
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Oh, hello. Something's different around here, huh? Yup, it's been a few years, and I decided it was time to refresh the look around these parts of the indie web. The main impetus for this change was the simple fact I have too many projects I
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&
Arduino Blog
A lightweight file server running entirely on an Arduino Nano ESP32 Home file servers can be very useful for people who work across multiple devices and want easy...
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Home file servers can be very useful for people who work across multiple devices and want easy access to their documents. And there are a lot of DIY build guides out there. But most of them are full-fledged NAS (network-attached storage) devices and they tend to rely on...
Birchtree
➕ Who cares about smartphone design? Just how important is physical design in someone's smartphone buying decision? As with so many...
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Just how important is physical design in someone's smartphone buying decision? As with so many things, it depends who you ask.
Engineers Need Art
Duane Blehm A little about Duane Blehm, an early Macintosh shareware author.
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Arduino Blog
Making a photo enlarger more efficient with precisely controlled LEDs In photography, an enlarger is a piece of equipment that projects a smaller image onto a...
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In photography, an enlarger is a piece of equipment that projects a smaller image onto a photosensitive material below using a strong light source and a negative to produce a much larger print. And while these have historically relied on single-color incandescent bulbs, such as...
Birchtree
Is ChatGPT the next Dropbox or the next iPhone? Ed Zitron on his Where's Your Ed At blog: There Is No AI Revolution I kept coming back to one...
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Ed Zitron on his Where's Your Ed At blog: There Is No AI Revolution I kept coming back to one thought: where's the money? No, really, where is it? Where is the money that this supposedly revolutionary, world-changing industry is making, and will make? The answer
Ken Shirriff's blog
The Pentium contains a complicated circuit to multiply by three In 1993, Intel released the high-performance Pentium processor, the start of the long-running...
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In 1993, Intel released the high-performance Pentium processor, the start of the long-running Pentium line. I've been examining the Pentium's circuitry in detail and I came across a circuit to multiply by three, a complex circuit with thousands of transistors. Why does the...
Abort Retry Fail
Chipzilla Extends its Domination MMX, Bunny People, Celeron, Xeon
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Birchtree
How I’m using AI tools in early 2025 (members post) What am I actually using these LLMs for at the start of 2025? Quite a bit, actually.
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Jorge Arango
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...
Computer Ads from...
Plus Post: Centram TOPS Network Can we talk?
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lcamtuf’s thing
The Afterlife AGENT: I am prescribing vardenafil 5 mg for you.
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Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #60: Greenpeace is complaining about... solar energy? Plus why the west has semiconductor politics all wrong, and why you should watch Conclave.
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Construction Physics
Reading List 03/01/25 Nissan courting Tesla, Europe’s Starlink competitor, Chinese semiconductor progress, ways to use...
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Nissan courting Tesla, Europe’s Starlink competitor, Chinese semiconductor progress, ways to use existing interconnection capacity, and more.
Applied Cartography
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...
computers are bad
2025-03-01 the cold glow of tritium I have been slowly working on a book. Don't get too excited, it is on a very niche topic and I will...
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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...
Arduino Blog
This three-fingered robot hand makes use of serial bus servos A small startup called K-Scale Labs is in the process of developing an affordable, open-source...
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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...
Construction Physics
Why it's so hard to build a jet engine Civilization's toughest technical challenges are those that require extraordinary (and constantly...
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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.
Arduino Blog
Arduino and System Electronics partner for industrial vision and AI-powered inventory and logistics Arduino and System Electronics are joining forces to create cutting-edge solutions for industrial...
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Arduino and System Electronics are joining forces to create cutting-edge solutions for industrial and building automation, focusing specifically on edge computing to deliver real-time processing, predictive analytics, and seamless integration for AI-driven inventory management...
GitButler
Interdiff review with git range-diff Diving into `range-diff`, the little known Git power tool to compare two versions of a series of...
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Jorge Arango
Book Notes: “A Thousand Brains” A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence By Jeff Hawkins Basic Books, 2021 If you’re...
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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...
Notes on software...
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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Vitalik Buterin's...
AI as the engine, humans as the steering wheel
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Computer Ads from...
Manx's Aztec C Leap into a new dimension with Aztec C
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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...
lcamtuf’s thing
Meta: 5,000 I don't really do self-congratulatory posts, but bear with me just once.
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Odds and Ends of...
How to fix the New Statesman In which I probably burn some bridges.
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Applied Cartography
HQ1 After many wonderful years of working out of my home office (see Workspaces), I've now "expanded"...
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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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Massive Interview with Steve Jobs from MicroTime (1992) An in-depth discussion on NeXT
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Birchtree
Who's using AI in the workplace? Pew has a new report out where they talked to workers in the US and asked them how they were using...
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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
Computer Ads from...
Ergotron Mouse Cleaner 360 Keeps your mouse operating like new!!
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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
Birchtree
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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Giles Thomas writing on his personal blog, which he’s been writing since 2006: It's Still Worth Blogging in the Age of AI If you want to blog to make a name for yourself, then you're going to have a hard time. Here's
anderegg.ca
Maze Mice I was late to the party, but I played Luck Be a Landlord last year and really enjoyed it. It’s a...
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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...
ElevationLab - The...
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
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
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...
Odds and Ends of...
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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anderegg.ca
Sequoia’s “Macintosh” screen saver and old Control Panels I was recently on-site with a client and noticed that one person was using the new “Macintosh”...
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I was recently on-site with a client and noticed that one person was using the new “Macintosh” screen saver that was added in macOS Sequoia. If you haven’t seen it, here’s a video of it in action. I knew that the screen saver had released, but I was very happy with Relay’s St....
Computer Ads from...
Expedited Vote for the February 2025 + Post Topic Time is running out.
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Jorge Arango
Traction Heroes Ep. 4: Mental Models In episode 4 of the Traction Heroes podcast, Harry and I discussed mental models. It’s a tricky...
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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”...
Abort Retry Fail
Intel: a Bug and a Pro The FDIV bug and release of the P6
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Computer Ads from...
A Quick Note and Some Comics An apology and some entertainment
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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...
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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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...
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...
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.
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.
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #59: The end of "woke capitalism" Plus the government did the stupid thing after all.
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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
“Trust me” I’m not trying to send any hate at a random MacRumors forum commentor who I don’t know, so please...
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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
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IC Necklace [Misc] Setting silicon
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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...
lcamtuf’s thing
The Review Interior of a low-rise office park.
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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...
ElevationLab - The...
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
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
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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Birchtree
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
Arduino Blog
DIY micro lab analyzes ammonia levels in blood and urine Cirrhosis of the liver is an extremely serious condition that requires extensive medical monitoring...
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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....
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...
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...
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...
Birchtree
The worst product Marques Brownlee ever reviewed dies after 10 months Jay Peters for The Verge: HP Is Buying Humane and Shutting Down the AI Pin Humane is selling “key AI...
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Jay Peters for The Verge: HP Is Buying Humane and Shutting Down the AI Pin Humane is selling “key AI capabilities” to HP for $116 million and will stop selling AI Pin, the company announced today. AI Pins that have already been purchased will continue to function normally
ElevationLab - The...
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...
Birchtree
Are these 2025’s new iPhones? 9to5Mac has links to two mock ups claiming to represent the iPhone 17 Air and iPhone 17 Pro coming...
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9to5Mac has links to two mock ups claiming to represent the iPhone 17 Air and iPhone 17 Pro coming this fall. If I could be so bold, I’d say the 17 Air looks potentially reasonable, but the 17 pro render looks absolutely atrocious. I think there’s
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...
Odds and Ends of...
Building luxury homes for millionaires is good for poor people Yes In My Back Yard!
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Matt Mullenweg
Sun and shadows
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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...
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...
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
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
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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...
Odds and Ends of...
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.
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...
computers are bad
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...
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,
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...
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....
Birchtree
My toxic tech trait 99% of the time I want my software to be as fast as humanly possible. I want UI elements that...
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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
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...
Birchtree
Netflix accidentally gave us something nice Chris Welch writing for The Verge: Netflix Says Its Brief Apple TV App Integration Was a...
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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
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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./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...
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%.
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
Birchtree
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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...
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The Pragmatic Engineer's YouTube channel crossed 100K subscribers. Celebrating with a giveaway of 100 books and newsletter subs: 10x signed physical books (The Software Engineer’s Guidebook [in English or German - your choice!], Building Mobile Apps at Scale; winners get both;...
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People think I'm joking or something when I say that Android TV is better than you'd think, and that tvOS could learn some things from it. Today's post is a video walk through of Android TV which tries to illustrate why it's compelling to me.
Arduino Blog
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As a Node.js developer, you’re probably eager to put your JavaScript skills to work beyond the browser or server, diving into the world of hardware control with Raspberry Pi GPIOs. If that’s the case, you’re in the right place! This article is the third part of our series,...
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Electric power in the US is provided by the electrical grid, a huge network of power plants, transmission lines, and transformers that moves electric power from where it's generated to where it's consumed.
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I liked Ubuntu. For a very long time, it was the sensible default option. Around 2016, I used the Ubuntu GNOME flavor, and after they ditched the Unity desktop environment, GNOME became the default option. I was really happy with it, both for work and personal computing...
Birchtree
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I know it's a bit of cliché, but count me in the group of white men who 2021's Inside really connected with me in a huge way. Anyway, now All Eyes on Me is going to be stuck in my head for the next month.
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We’re thrilled to announce the latest member of our System Integrators Partnership Program (SIPP): ControlSI, based in Peru, is well known for their expertise in Industry 4.0 solutions – including industrial automation, operational intelligence, data analytics, computer vision,...
Birchtree
Quick Reviews is out now! Quick Reviews is currently available on the App Store and is a free download. Check it out! I...
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Quick Reviews is currently available on the App Store and is a free download. Check it out! I recently wrote about how the app works, so I’ll let you read that to see how it works. I have finalized my monetization, so I did want to lay that
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NEW EVENT: How the YIMBYs won Book now to see my conversation with housing hero Anya Martin!
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In week 5 of my humanities crash course, I read Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and Poetics. I also listened to more Bach, looked at Italian Baroque sculpture, and watched a classic – if somewhat boring – movie. Getting through it despite the difficulties was part of the...
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My First Million I had a great chat with Sam Parr and Shaan Puri on their podcast, My First Million.
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computers are bad
2025-02-02 residential networking over telephone Recently, I covered some of the history of Ethernet's tenuous relationship with installed...
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Recently, I covered some of the history of Ethernet's tenuous relationship with installed telephone cabling. That article focused on the earlier and more business-oriented products, but many of you probably know that there have been a number of efforts to install IP...
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What is the origin of the word "mainframe", referring to a large, complex computer? Most sources agree that the term is related to the frames that held early computers, but the details are vague.1 It turns out that the history is more interesting and complicated than you'd...
Birchtree
This is why people see attacks on DEI as thinly veiled racism The tragedy in Washington D.C. this week was horrible, and a shocking incident. There should and...
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The tragedy in Washington D.C. this week was horrible, and a shocking incident. There should and will be an investigation into what went wrong here, but every politician and official who spoke at the White House today explicitly blamed DEI programs for this crash. The message may...
Applied Cartography
What's in a name Guillermo posted this recently: What you name your product matters more than people give it credit....
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Guillermo posted this recently: What you name your product matters more than people give it credit. It's your first and most universal UI to the world. Designing a good name requires multi-dimensional thinking and is full of edge cases, much like designing software. I first will...
Arduino Blog
Join us for Arduino Day 2025: celebrating 20 years of community! Mark your calendars for March 21-22, 2025, as we come together for a special Arduino Day to...
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Mark your calendars for March 21-22, 2025, as we come together for a special Arduino Day to celebrate our 20th anniversary! This free, online event is open to everyone, everywhere. Two decades of creativity and community Over the past 20 years, we have evolved from a simple...
Jorge Arango
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Disruptive technologies call for rethinking product design. We must question assumptions about underlying infrastructure and mental models while acknowledging neither change overnight. For example, self-driving cars don’t need steering wheels. Users direct AI-driven vehicles by...
lcamtuf’s thing
Working with OLEDs: SSD1353 & SSD1333 A quick intro to interfacing common OLED displays to bare-metal microcontrollers.
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Displaying games on a 9x9x9 LED cube Many modern video games may put your character inside of a virtual 3D environment, but you aren’t...
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Many modern video games may put your character inside of a virtual 3D environment, but you aren’t seeing that in three dimensions — your TV’s screen is only a 2D display, after all. 3D displays/glasses and VR goggles make it feel more like you’re in the 3D world, but it isn’t...
Birchtree
Incomplete thought: using data to tell a story (members post) A year ago I tried to understand how much power ChatGPT was using and if I should be outraged by it....
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Odds and Ends #55: The left needs to learn to love AI Plus Waymo's masterplan, life on a container ship, and the one guy responsible for slowing down road...
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Palantir Word Processing We Don't Have to Beef Up Our Guarantee With A Lot Of Bull
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Edit for clarity I have the fortune to review a few important blog posts every year and the biggest value I add is to...
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I have the fortune to review a few important blog posts every year and the biggest value I add is to call out sentences or sections that make no sense. It is quite simple and you can do it too. Without clarity only those at your company in marketing and sales (whose job it is to...
Matt Mullenweg
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What an exciting time to be alive. I was hipped to Deepseek by Andrej Kaparthy’s tweet the day after Christmas, it was clear then that something big had happened and that it was truly open source and open weights (not this fake Llama stuff). It’s been fun to see the rest of the...
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DeepSeek isn't a victory for the AI sceptics Am I mad... or is everyone else?
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The User Research Strategist Podcast Nikki Anderson interviewed me for her User Research Strategist podcast. Our focus was AI’s impact on...
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Nikki Anderson interviewed me for her User Research Strategist podcast. Our focus was AI’s impact on research and informaton architecture – and how practitioners can take advantage of this new technology. See the episode page, which includes show notes. If you want to learn...
lcamtuf’s thing
PCBs, ground planes, and you A closer look at a fashion trend in printed circuit board design.
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Applied Cartography
Becoming Trader Joe (Shout out to Red Queen Podcast for introducing me to this book.) Becoming Trader Joe is, more than...
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(Shout out to Red Queen Podcast for introducing me to this book.) Becoming Trader Joe is, more than any other business book (certainly any other business memoir), a turpentine book. There is interesting philosophy and retrospective here — and Coloumbe, whether through earnestness...
Posts on Made of...
Building personal software with Claude Earlier this month, I used Claude to port (parts of) an Emacs package into Rust, shrinking the...
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Earlier this month, I used Claude to port (parts of) an Emacs package into Rust, shrinking the execution time by a factor of 1000 or more (in one concrete case: from 90s to about 15ms). This is a variety of yak-shave that I do somewhat routinely, both professionally and in...
watchTowr Labs
Get FortiRekt, I am the Super_Admin Now - FortiOS Authentication Bypass CVE-2024-55591 Welcome to Monday, and what an excitingly fresh start to the week we're all having. Grab your...
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Welcome to Monday, and what an excitingly fresh start to the week we're all having. Grab your coffee, grab your vodka - we're diving into a currently exploited-in-the-wild critical Authentication Bypass affecting foRtinet's (we are returning the misspelling gesture 🥰) flagship...
Birchtree
The LLM bubble might be about to burst (but not for the reason you think) Ben Turner: Chinese Researchers Just Built an Open-Source Rival to ChatGPT in 2 Months. Silicon...
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Ben Turner: Chinese Researchers Just Built an Open-Source Rival to ChatGPT in 2 Months. Silicon Valley Is Freaked Out. Now, R1 has also surpassed ChatGPT's latest o1 model in many of the same tests. This impressive performance at a fraction of the cost of other models, its...
Jorge Arango
Traction Heroes Ep. 2: Unprecedented In episode 2 of the Traction Heroes podcast, Harry shared an extreme personal experience in service...
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In episode 2 of the Traction Heroes podcast, Harry shared an extreme personal experience in service to exploring the question: How can we act skillfully in unfamiliar circumstances? I considered adding a trigger warning – Harry’s story made me wince. That said, we landed in a...
Computer Ads from...
Commodore Magazine Interviews Epyx (1989) They discuss the early days of computer game company.
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Podcast Downloader Tired of being constantly nudged toward "more relevant content", I built a script to break free from...
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Tired of being constantly nudged toward "more relevant content", I built a script to break free from commercial or closed-source podcast apps.
Birchtree
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Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course: Week 4 I’m undertaking a year-long crash course in the humanities. These are my notes for week 4. Following...
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I’m undertaking a year-long crash course in the humanities. These are my notes for week 4. Following Ted Gioia’s curriculum, this week I read the Analects of Confucius. As I did last week, ChatGPT helped me select a movie to complement this reading – albeit...
Birchtree
I think OpenAI’s next app is a web browser Casey Newton: Hands on With Operator — A Promising but Frustrating New Frontier for Artificial...
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Arduino Blog
The future of making, Made in India: Introducing the Arduino UNO Ek R4 We are proud to announce the Made-in-India UNO Ek R4! Available exclusively in India in both WiFi...
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We are proud to announce the Made-in-India UNO Ek R4! Available exclusively in India in both WiFi and Minima variants, it is born to meet the needs of the country’s growing maker and innovation ecosystem, by combining all the powerful features of the UNO R4 with the benefits of...
Notes on software...
An explosion of transitive dependencies A small standard library means an explosion in transitive dependencies. A more comprehensive...
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A small standard library means an explosion in transitive dependencies. A more comprehensive standard library helps you minimize dependencies. Don't misunderstand me: in a real-world project, it is practically impossible to have zero dependencies. Armin Ronacher called for a vibe...
Birchtree
🫡 A certain individual who owns a certain social media site spoke at a certain President's...
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A certain individual who owns a certain social media site spoke at a certain President's inauguration earlier this week and at one point gave a very distinctive salute. Now look, I'm not calling this billionaire a Nazi, and I'm not telling you whether I
Odds and Ends of...
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Web tech rocks John Siracusa is making a new Mac app and he’s been talking about the development process on ATP for...
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John Siracusa is making a new Mac app and he’s been talking about the development process on ATP for the last few weeks. I got a kick out of his frustrations with using a payment system that delivered a confusing user experience he had no control over, and
lcamtuf’s thing
UI is hell: four-function calculators One of the simplest and best-known computing devices on the planet is a fascinating study in...
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I teased this last week for More Birchtree subscribers, and today I'm excited to announce my new app, Quick Reviews! Wait, Quick Reviews which I've been making on the web for years? No, Quick Reviews for iOS. I talked about what tools helped me make this
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Why Is Homeowners Insurance Getting So Expensive? The recent Los Angeles fires have highlighted the rising costs of homeowners insurance in the US.
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Don't build a platform... unless? "Build a product, not a platform" is a common saying among tech entrepreneurs. But why do some...
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"Build a product, not a platform" is a common saying among tech entrepreneurs. But why do some platforms succeed?
Arduino Blog
This ‘modular server room’ is an interesting scale POC Server rooms are built for the comfort of servers — not people. But those servers need maintenance,...
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Server rooms are built for the comfort of servers — not people. But those servers need maintenance, which means they need to be accessible. The resulting access corridors take up room that could be filled with more servers, which is why Jdw447 designed a claw machine-esque...
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Scaling Ethereum L1 and L2s in 2025 and beyond
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📕 I strongly recommend: Nexus (members post)
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This blog post highlights often-unseen details behind the high performance website of Escape Club Amsterdam, blending cutting-edge technology with design and commerce.
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LISTEN: The future of transport – with Michael Dnes Where we're going, we need roads (and trains) (and maybe drones)
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Comics from 1984/04 Creative Computing Mag Sorry for the delay. - JP
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Embedding Python in Rust (for tests) This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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Are LLMs making StackOverflow irrelevant? Fresh data shows that the number of questions asked on StackOverflow are as low as they were back in...
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Fresh data shows that the number of questions asked on StackOverflow are as low as they were back in 2009 – which was when StackOverflow was one years old. The drop suggests that ChatGPT – and LLMs – managed to make StackOverflow’s business model irrelevant in about two years’...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Interesting BiCMOS circuits in the Pentium, reverse-engineered Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of...
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Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of processors. Earlier, I wrote about the ROM in the Pentium's floating point unit that holds constants such as π. In this post, I'll look at some interesting circuits associated with this...
Arduino Blog
MicroPython programming on Arduino just got easier If you’ve been exploring MicroPython on Arduino, you already know how powerful and flexible this...
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If you’ve been exploring MicroPython on Arduino, you already know how powerful and flexible this Python-based language can be for microcontroller programming. Whether you’re a pro or just starting out, MicroPython opens up a new world of quick prototyping and clean, readable...
Odds and Ends of...
Britain should ban TikTok My uncharacteristically illiberal opinion
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Matt Mullenweg
What’s in My Bag, 2025 It’s another year, I have ordered all the things and tested all the cables, there’s a little bit...
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It’s another year, I have ordered all the things and tested all the cables, there’s a little bit about tech and a little bit about life. Here’s what made the cut, now I’m going to be factoring in weight of everything as well. The flat-lay this year was taken at my sister...
./techtipsy
Why my blog was down for over 24 hours in November 2024 In November 2024, my blog was down for over 24 hours. Here’s what I learned from this absolute...
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In November 2024, my blog was down for over 24 hours. Here’s what I learned from this absolute clusterfuck of an incident. Lead-up to the incident I was browsing through photos on my Nextcloud instance. Everything was fine, until Nextcloud started generating preview images for...
Arduino Blog
Motion-controlled Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots will make you feel like Jackman in Real Steel 2011’s Real Steel may have vanished from the public consciousness in a remarkably short amount of...
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2011’s Real Steel may have vanished from the public consciousness in a remarkably short amount of time, but the concept was pretty neat. There is something exciting about the idea of fighting through motion-controlled humanoid robots. That is completely possible today — it would...
Birchtree
🕹️ I strongly recommend: Resident Evil 2 (members post) Oh buddy, what a game!
a month ago
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #53: Now TfL is betting on AI cameras to improve safety Plus Leicester's neo-imperial ambitions, why governments are too scared to govern, a theory on why...
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Jonas Hietala
Securing my partner's digital life I’ve been with Veronica for over a decade now and I think I’m starting to know her fairly well. Yet...
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I’ve been with Veronica for over a decade now and I think I’m starting to know her fairly well. Yet she still manages to surprise me. For instance, a couple of weeks ago she came and asked me about email security: I worry that my email password is too weak. Can you help me change...
computers are bad
2025-01-20 office of secure transportation I've seen them at least twice on /r/whatisthisthing, a good couple dozen times on the road, and...
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I've seen them at least twice on /r/whatisthisthing, a good couple dozen times on the road, and these days, even in press photos: GMC trucks with custom square boxes on the back, painted dark blue, with US Government "E" plates. These courier escorts, "unmarked" but about as...
Birchtree
TikTok is gone for at least a couple days, so here's some YouTube videos to stave off the boredom I don't use TikTok so I have no idea, but presumably some people are like "what do I even watch on...
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I don't use TikTok so I have no idea, but presumably some people are like "what do I even watch on my phone now?" LegalEagle with a good explainer over what's happening. For the record, I think this sucks and isn't how
Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course: Week 3 I’m undertaking a year-long crash course in the humanities. These are my notes for week 3. Following...
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I’m undertaking a year-long crash course in the humanities. These are my notes for week 3. Following Ted Gioia’s curriculum, this week I read the remainder of the Odyssey. On the audiovisual front, I watched a movie that made me think differently about the poem’s...
Old Vintage...
The "35-cent" Commodore 64 softmodem Rockwell famously used 6502-based cores in modems for many years, but that doesn't mean other 6502s...
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Rockwell famously used 6502-based cores in modems for many years, but that doesn't mean other 6502s couldn't be used. If only there were a way to connect a Commodore 64's audio output directly to an RJ-11 plug ... Convergent WorkSlate stuff I've got to catalogue. Officially...
Arduino Blog
The Swervebot is an omnidirectional robot that combines LEGO and 3D-printed parts Robotic vehicles can have a wide variety of drive mechanisms that range from a simple tricycle setup...
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Robotic vehicles can have a wide variety of drive mechanisms that range from a simple tricycle setup all the way to crawling legs. Alex Le’s project leverages the reliability of LEGO blocks with the customizability of 3D-printed pieces to create a highly mobile omnidirectional...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Reverse-engineering a carry-lookahead adder in the Pentium Addition is harder than you'd expect, at least for a computer. Computers use multiple types of adder...
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Addition is harder than you'd expect, at least for a computer. Computers use multiple types of adder circuits with different tradeoffs of size versus speed. In this article, I reverse-engineer an 8-bit adder in the Pentium's floating point unit. This adder turns out to be a...
Arduino Blog
A Game Boy is the worst and best option for a car’s dash If your car was made in the last decade, its dash probably has several displays, gauges, and...
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If your car was made in the last decade, its dash probably has several displays, gauges, and indicator lights. But how many of those do you actually look at on a regular basis? Likely only one or two, like the speedometer and gas gauge. Knowing that, John Sutley embraced...
Willem's Blog
Master of Change In this post I discuss the brilliant book Master of Change by Brad Stulberg, providing a...
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In this post I discuss the brilliant book Master of Change by Brad Stulberg, providing a thought-provoking guide to thrive in a changing world.
Birchtree
Comfort Zone predicts tech in 2025 In this very special episode, the gang makes their "Pro" and "Pro Max" predictions for tech in 2025...
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In this very special episode, the gang makes their "Pro" and "Pro Max" predictions for tech in 2025 and oh my, does it get wild! Who's best clued into the tech coming this year? Who is just wish-casting their way to third place? This
lcamtuf’s thing
Investigating an "evil" RJ45 dongle Reverse-engineering hardware can be difficult -- but sometimes, all you need is a comfy armchair and...
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Reverse-engineering hardware can be difficult -- but sometimes, all you need is a comfy armchair and some Google Translate.
Jorge Arango
LLMs Give You Power User Abilities LLMs are a general-purpose technology with seemingly endless use cases. Among my favorite is...
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LLMs are a general-purpose technology with seemingly endless use cases. Among my favorite is unlocking the potential of other technologies. For example, all modern “desktop” OSs come with shell environments. If you know a bit of scripting, you can automate tasks in ways that go...
Odds and Ends of...
Yes, AI really can be used to tackle potholes It's not bullshit, it's already happening.
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Notes on software...
Logical replication in Postgres: Basics This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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Good Enough
There's no “A” or “I” in “Jelly” The second half of 2024 was definitely an inflection point in the world of software. Large Language...
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The second half of 2024 was definitely an inflection point in the world of software. Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI started to permeate products everywhere, from chatbots to operating systems, and at times it felt like everyone was taking part in a race to...
Birchtree
Meta, moderation, and whose freedoms come first A lot has been said about Meta’s recently-announced moderation changes, so I won’t add too much to...
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A lot has been said about Meta’s recently-announced moderation changes, so I won’t add too much to your reading backlog today, but I did want to comment on it after letting it simmer in my head for a bit. Let me just start by repeating the
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #52: A right to air conditioning? Plus how New Zealand solved a housing crisis, dodgy Chinese robotaxis and Newsnight reviewing...
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lcamtuf’s thing
Random object: Sony Mavica MVC-FD73 Floppy disk digital cameras, or why our views of technological progress are not always rooted in...
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Good Enough
TIL: Tiptap Excerpt Extension with Rails While building Pika’s Stream of posts layout, we had need to add the capability to manage excerpts...
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While building Pika’s Stream of posts layout, we had need to add the capability to manage excerpts in the Pika editor. These excerpts would be used to show a small portion of your post in a post stream while offering a “continue reading” link for readers to click to read the rest...
Birchtree
First look at my next big thing (members post) I've been working on something new, but it's not ready for prime time.
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./techtipsy
Backing up another PC with a single Ethernet cable I was in a pinch. I needed to make a full disk backup of a PC, but I had no external storage device...
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I was in a pinch. I needed to make a full disk backup of a PC, but I had no external storage device with me to store it on. The local Wi-Fi network was also way too slow to transfer the disk over it. All I had was my laptop with an Ethernet port, a Fedora Linux USB stick, and a...
Joey's Hoard of...
I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS—and You Should Too <img src="/assets\images\blog_posts\2025_01_12-rss\banner.png" alt="An image of a banner cartoon of...
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anderegg.ca
Two flavours of open social media Yesterday, the Mastodon team announced it would be handing over control of its project to a new...
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Yesterday, the Mastodon team announced it would be handing over control of its project to a new non-profit organization. The timing of this announcement is perfect given everything that’s happening with WordPress, Meta, and… well, everything else. To date, I think Eugen Rochko...
Jorge Arango
Gall’s Law Strikes Again: the Sonos Debacle Update: in the afternoon of January 14, news emerged that Sonos CPO Maxime Bouvat-Merlin is also...
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Update: in the afternoon of January 14, news emerged that Sonos CPO Maxime Bouvat-Merlin is also leaving the company. Sonos CEO Patrick Spence is out, felled by last year’s disastrous app launch. I have no inside track on what happened, but from what I’ve read, Sonos’s leaders...
Odds and Ends of...
5 questions about the "AI opportunities action plan" What the lobby should have asked.
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Arduino Blog
This robot can dynamically change its wheel diameter to suit the terrain  A vehicle’s wheel diameter has a dramatic effect on several aspects of performance. The most obvious...
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A vehicle’s wheel diameter has a dramatic effect on several aspects of performance. The most obvious is gearing, with larger wheels increasing the ultimate gear ratio — though transmission and transfer case gearing can counteract that. But wheel size also affects mobility over...
GitButler
Why is Git Autocorrect too fast for Formula One drivers? Why does Git's autocorrect wait 0.1s before executing a mistyped command? Let's dig in.
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Construction Physics
Why Skyscrapers Became Glass Boxes Everything put into the building that is unnecessary, every cubic foot that is used for purely...
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Everything put into the building that is unnecessary, every cubic foot that is used for purely ornamental purposes beyond that needed to express its use and to make it harmonize with others of its class, is a waste — is, to put it in plain English, perverting someone’s money —...
latest projects -...
Fluid Simulation Pendant [Hardware] Wearable real-time FLIP device
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Never Met a Science
in the belly of the MrBeast what does MrBeast mean?
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Jorge Arango
New Podcast: “Traction Heroes” I’m excited to share with you a new podcast: Traction Heroes. The first episode is now up on the...
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I’m excited to share with you a new podcast: Traction Heroes. The first episode is now up on the major podcasting platforms. You can also see show notes and get the RSS feed at www.tractionheroes.com. Here’s the backstory. My previous podcast, The Informed Life, originated as a...
Odds and Ends of...
New event! How AI can (maybe) fix the government! Book your tickets now!
a month ago
Applied Cartography
Truncating timedeltas in Django Consider a fan-out-ish model that you want to aggregate a bunch of: likes on a post, for...
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Consider a fan-out-ish model that you want to aggregate a bunch of: likes on a post, for instance. class Post(models.Model): created_at = models.DateTimeField() class Event(models.Model): post = models.ForeignKey(Post, on_delete=models.CASCADE) created_at =...
Nabeel S. Qureshi
Principles // This was originally a Google Doc where I gathered hard-won life lessons; eventually I open...
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// This was originally a Google Doc where I gathered hard-won life lessons; eventually I open sourced it. It got a great response, including a shoutout from Tim Ferriss, so here it is on Substack.
Ken Shirriff's blog
It's time to abandon the cargo cult metaphor The cargo cult metaphor is commonly used by programmers. This metaphor was popularized by Richard...
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The cargo cult metaphor is commonly used by programmers. This metaphor was popularized by Richard Feynman's "cargo cult science" talk with a vivid description of South Seas cargo cults. However, this metaphor has three major problems. First, the pop-culture depiction of cargo...
Arduino Blog
This maker designed a custom flight controller for his supercapacitor-powered drone Basic drones are very affordable these days—you can literally find some for less than the cost of a...
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Basic drones are very affordable these days—you can literally find some for less than the cost of a fast food drive-thru meal. But that doesn’t mean drones are easy to control. That is actually quite difficult, but manufacturers are able to work off of established reference...
Birchtree
📕 I recommend: Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI Hey everyone, this post is for everyone, but it’s a part of a new series I’m doing on More Birchtree...
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Hey everyone, this post is for everyone, but it’s a part of a new series I’m doing on More Birchtree where I review the books and games I read and play in 2025. My movie reviews have been a relative hit on social media for the
watchTowr Labs
Exploitation Walkthrough and Techniques - Ivanti Connect Secure RCE (CVE-2025-0282) As we saw in our previous blogpost, we fully analyzed Ivanti’s most recent unauthenticated Remote...
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As we saw in our previous blogpost, we fully analyzed Ivanti’s most recent unauthenticated Remote Code Execution vulnerability in their Connect Secure (VPN) appliance. Specifically, we analyzed CVE-2025-0282. Today, we’re going to walk through exploitation. Once again, however,...
Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course: Week 2 I’m embarking on a year-long crash course in the humanities. These are my notes for week...
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I’m embarking on a year-long crash course in the humanities. These are my notes for week 2. Following Ted Gioia’s curriculum, I tackled a small volume of early Greek poetry and the first ten books of the Odyssey. I also heard music from recent descendents of these ancient bards...
Matt Mullenweg
Matt 4.1 Forty-one is a nice birthday because it doesn’t feel like too much pressure. For forty I did a big...
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Forty-one is a nice birthday because it doesn’t feel like too much pressure. For forty I did a big eclipse thing that ended up amazing, this year I’m replicating what I did a few years ago and celebrating in New York, Houston, and San Francisco. My birthday today has already been...
anderegg.ca
WordPress is in trouble Since I last wrote about WordPress, things have gone off the rails. This after a brief period when...
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Since I last wrote about WordPress, things have gone off the rails. This after a brief period when things were blissfully quiet. Matt Mullenweg stopped commenting for a while, though his company had launched WP Engine Tracker — a site for tracking WordPress-driven websites that...
Birchtree
This remote has me questioning everything I recently lost my Apple TV remote (the latest model) and despite apparently being somewhere in the...
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I recently lost my Apple TV remote (the latest model) and despite apparently being somewhere in the couch according to Find My, my wife and I can not find it. We were using our phones as remotes for a couple days, which was annoying, but got the job done. But
Matt Mullenweg
Status Quo I wrote over on WordPress.org about breaking the status quo with a Joost/Karim fork. It’s a perfect...
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I wrote over on WordPress.org about breaking the status quo with a Joost/Karim fork. It’s a perfect time as Automattic is re-focusing its work while the legal stuff is going on.
Birchtree
It's time for some more YouTube videos just in time for the weekend This behind-the-scenes of one of my favorite 2024 movies was so much fun Shout out to Truth social,...
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This behind-the-scenes of one of my favorite 2024 movies was so much fun Shout out to Truth social, which got called out as having the best UX in this video...which is based on Mastodon The internet's dad, Hank Green, is starting a new podcast I'm
lcamtuf’s thing
Getting silly with C, part (void*)2 They won't be able to find bugs in your code if they can't figure out how it works.
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watchTowr Labs
Do Secure-By-Design Pledges Come With Stickers? - Ivanti Connect Secure RCE (CVE-2025-0282) Did you have a good break? Have you had a chance to breathe? Wake up. It’s 2025, and the chaos...
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Did you have a good break? Have you had a chance to breathe? Wake up. It’s 2025, and the chaos continues. Haha, see what we did? We wrote the exact same thing in 2024 because 2024 was exactly the same. As an industry, we are on GroundHog day
Birchtree
Comfort Zone: OLED Dreams and Studio Display Realities Niléane is out, so Chris and I are left to fend on ourselves! Chris steals like an artist and I...
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Niléane is out, so Chris and I are left to fend on ourselves! Chris steals like an artist and I defend a new purchase…oh, and we have some fun with desks that sadly ends in Vision Pro slander. Why does this keep happening?! Watch on YouTube
Jorge Arango
Prescriptive and Descriptive Information Architectures There are two stances you can take toward language in your website or app: prescriptive or...
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There are two stances you can take toward language in your website or app: prescriptive or descriptive. Which you choose influences the system’s understandability and findability. The terms come from linguistics. I heard about them in a radio show (or was it a podcast?) many...
Applied Cartography
January, 2025 Hello, 2025! (As always, Death Cab remains the soundtrack by which you should read this.) Headlining...
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Hello, 2025! (As always, Death Cab remains the soundtrack by which you should read this.) Headlining this month was my annual review; everything else is flotsam. But, speaking of flotsam: A quick development note on the order attribute in CSS Notes on Linear and Fathom Why...
Matt Mullenweg
Studio Sync WordPress.com launched a new update to Studio this week, and we’re already seeing some buzz....
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WordPress.com launched a new update to Studio this week, and we’re already seeing some buzz. Studio is our free and open source app for local WordPress development, enabling you to spin up unlimited WordPress sites on your personal computer. Through its newest feature, Studio...
Arduino Blog
Export data from Arduino Cloud to AWS S3 Managing your IoT data just got a whole lot easier — Arduino Cloud, now lets you send your time...
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Managing your IoT data just got a whole lot easier — Arduino Cloud, now lets you send your time series data straight to AWS S3. With this seamless connection, organizing and analyzing your data is a breeze. In case you don’t know, Arduino Cloud is a robust, integrated platform...
Birchtree
📕 I mildly recommend: Life as No One Knows It (members post) A new book explaining assembly theory, a new way of thinking about the question of "what is life?"
a month ago
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #51: Transport for London made a terrible decision and I hope they reverse it Plus Britain's broken car market, what the LibDems should do next and how some lefty institutions...
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The Pragmatic...
Where to find to The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast covers software engineering at Big Tech and startups, from the...
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The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast covers software engineering at Big Tech and startups, from the inside. We do deepdives with experienced engineers and tech professionals who share their hard-earned lessons, interesting stories and advice they have on building software. After each...
watchTowr Labs
Backdooring Your Backdoors - Another $20 Domain, More Governments After the excitement of our .MOBI research, we were left twiddling our thumbs. As you may recall, in...
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After the excitement of our .MOBI research, we were left twiddling our thumbs. As you may recall, in 2024, we demonstrated the impact of an unregistered domain when we subverted the TLS/SSL CA process for verifying domain ownership to give ourselves the ability to issue valid and...
anderegg.ca
Apple and the AI divide This morning I read a 404 Media article about Instagram showing people ads with AI-generated images...
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This morning I read a 404 Media article about Instagram showing people ads with AI-generated images of themselves. I thought this take from Sam Biddle was very good: Never in my career have I seen such a giant gulf between What Companies Think Is the Most Important Thing in the...
Birchtree
The day Birchtree grew up Today's a symbolically big day for Birchtree! After doing this site and its many offshoot projects...
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Today's a symbolically big day for Birchtree! After doing this site and its many offshoot projects since 2010, I finally put a ring on it and registered Birchtree Productions LLC. 🎉 For you, this means basically nothing at all. Footers might be updated and I might invest in
Arduino Blog
Prototype faster and smarter in 2025: Meet the Arduino Pro Portenta Proto Kit Launching today at CES 2025, the Arduino Pro Portenta Proto Kit is here to revolutionize how...
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Launching today at CES 2025, the Arduino Pro Portenta Proto Kit is here to revolutionize how professionals approach prototyping. Designed to empower engineers, designers, and innovators from all walks of life, this kit provides everything you need to turn your ideas into...
Jorge Arango
IA Fail: Which Kindle Edition? One of the goals of information architecture is making it possible for people to easily find what...
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One of the goals of information architecture is making it possible for people to easily find what they’re looking for. As a large and complex information environment, Amazon.com provides lots of examples of how to do it right – and how to do it wrong. This post highlights one of...
Odds and Ends of...
The social justice case for self-driving cars Abundant mobility should be a moral crusade
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Birchtree
A lot changed for LLMs in 2024 I thought this was a fascinating post by Simon Willison: Things We Learned About LLMs in 2024 This...
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I thought this was a fascinating post by Simon Willison: Things We Learned About LLMs in 2024 This increase in efficiency and reduction in price is my single favourite trend from 2024. I want the utility of LLMs at a fraction of the energy cost and it looks like that&
lcamtuf’s thing
Weekend projects: Sketchy Sketch Making a nicer version of a forgotten, electronic Etch-A-Sketch toy.
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Arduino Blog
Control your volume with a wireless rotary encoder, as you deserve Every decent stereo sold since the invention of sound has included a knob on the front for adjusting...
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Every decent stereo sold since the invention of sound has included a knob on the front for adjusting volume. There are influencers and entire communities dedicated to evaluating the feel of those wonderful knobs. So why would you settle for the mushy volume buttons on a remote?...
Birchtree
Sign up for X to see that amber alert. Yikes Kate Knibbs writing for Wired: Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About...
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Kate Knibbs writing for Wired: Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old Earlier this week, the California Highway Patrol sent an Amber Alert push notification to phones in the Los Angeles area about a 14-year-old girl that authorities...
Never Met a Science
"Republic.com 2.0" is a terrible book title we don't always need citations to justify research
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Birchtree
I strongly recommend Portal: Revolution (members post) In this new series, I’ll be reviewing the media I experience (I don’t like saying I “consume” media)...
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In this new series, I’ll be reviewing the media I experience (I don’t like saying I “consume” media) in more detail than I normally do. Don’t worry, the movie reviews are staying free and on social media ✌️
Jonas Hietala
First impressions of Ghostty There are two conflicting forces in play in setting up your computer environment: It’s common to...
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There are two conflicting forces in play in setting up your computer environment: It’s common to find people get stuck at the extreme ends of the spectrum; some programmers refuse to configure or learn their tools at all, while others get stuck re-configuring their setups...
Birchtree
That app could probably be a website P. Martin Ortiz writing for Rogue Engine: Your App Should Have Been a Website Some companies push...
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P. Martin Ortiz writing for Rogue Engine: Your App Should Have Been a Website Some companies push for app installations because they gain access to more permissions than they would in the browser. Apps allow them to collect more data and track user activity, often under the...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Pi in the Pentium: reverse-engineering the constants in its floating-point unit Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of...
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Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of high-performance processors.1 The Pentium includes a floating-point unit that can rapidly compute functions such as sines, cosines, logarithms, and exponentials. But how does the Pentium...
Birchtree
Bending the knee, $1 million at a time M.G. Siegler on his blog, Spyglass: $1M Knee Pads Of course, the point here, in the real world,...
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M.G. Siegler on his blog, Spyglass: $1M Knee Pads Of course, the point here, in the real world, isn't actually the money – though I would just note that as President, Trump will have access to thousands of warheads... – but what the money signals. That is,
Jorge Arango
A Crash Course in the Humanities My education has lots of gaps. “Youth is wasted on the young” is an apt cliché: I wasted lots of...
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My education has lots of gaps. “Youth is wasted on the young” is an apt cliché: I wasted lots of opportunities as a young person. After graduation, I committed to ongoing learning. Alas, it’s been scattered and undirected. This year, I’m doing something about it: immersing myself...
Old Vintage...
Refurb weekend: Atari Stacy Ask any Atari Stacy owner how to open an Atari Stacy and the answer is always "never, if you can...
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Ask any Atari Stacy owner how to open an Atari Stacy and the answer is always "never, if you can avoid it." So I'll just lead with this spoiler image after the refurb to prove this particular escapade didn't completely end in tragedy: see the much lighter and streamlined STBook...
somenice
CircuitPython in 2025 This post is a wishlist for CircuitPython in 2025. Each year Adafruit asks the community to...
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This post is a wishlist for CircuitPython in 2025. Each year Adafruit asks the community to contribute their thoughts or requests for the open source microcontroller language as outlined on the Adafruit blog. In 2025 I would like a library for working with vectors, similar to...
Jonas Hietala
2024 in review It’s time for my 15th yearly review. Nerdy things I enjoyed I read a lot of fantasy books this...
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It’s time for my 15th yearly review. Nerdy things I enjoyed I read a lot of fantasy books this year! My favorite new series were The Kingkiller Chronicle, Gentlemen Bastards series, and The Stormlight Archive. If you’re curious about Sanderson’s books but a little apprehensive...
Vitalik Buterin's...
d/acc: one year later
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computers are bad
2025-01-05 pairs not taken So we all know about twisted-pair ethernet, huh? I get a little frustrated with a lot of histories...
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So we all know about twisted-pair ethernet, huh? I get a little frustrated with a lot of histories of the topic, like the recent neil breen^w^wserial port video, because they often fail to address some obvious questions about the origin of twisted-pair network cabling. Well, I...
Birchtree
Samsung will release their phone first and still gets accused of copying Apple Chance Miller on 9to5Mac: Samsung Is Already Working on Its iPhone 17 Air Copycat Apple is expected...
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Chance Miller on 9to5Mac: Samsung Is Already Working on Its iPhone 17 Air Copycat Apple is expected to release an all-new “iPhone 17 Air” model this year, prioritizing form over function. A new supply chain report today reiterates what to expect from the iPhone 17 Air size and
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #50: The weird thing about London's New Year's Fireworks Plus how the government should respond to Musk's nonsense, and an AI video that might just show us...
a month ago
Jorge Arango
One Year of “Duly Noted” Duly Noted just celebrated its first birthday. It’s an opportunity for me to reflect on what’s...
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Duly Noted just celebrated its first birthday. It’s an opportunity for me to reflect on what’s changed since it came out. The book’s central premise is evergreen: thinking isn’t limited to the spongy mass between your ears. Instead, you think by interacting with your environment...
Birchtree
My lil' Ghostty terminal config I wrote about Ghosty last week, and since then I've played around with it enough to know it's my new...
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I wrote about Ghosty last week, and since then I've played around with it enough to know it's my new terminal emulator of choice. For me the killer feature is how fast it is, putting the most popular apps to shame (Apple Terminal and iTerm, specifically)
lcamtuf’s thing
Choosing an op-amp for your project Just say no to LM741.
a month ago
Jorge Arango
What’s the Object of Information Architecture? Ironically, information architects haven’t explained how we create value in terms most people...
2 months ago
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Ironically, information architects haven’t explained how we create value in terms most people understand. If I tell someone at a party that I’m an IA, they won’t know what I do. It’s a problem: if others don’t understand how we can help, they won’t hire us. The main challenge is...
./techtipsy
My very first Dungeons and Dragons campaign In December 2024, I did something that I had never done before: I participated in a short (~6 hours)...
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In December 2024, I did something that I had never done before: I participated in a short (~6 hours) Dungeons and Dragons campaign. It was the nerdiest thing ever, and I loved it! The setting After another day of keeping a critical production service up, the whole team met up at...
Lighthouse Blog
Improvements and fixes: December 2024
2 months ago
Bryan Braun - Blog
Made in 2024 Here are some things I made in 2024: Music Box Fun: Advanced Editing (a new major feature): ...
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Here are some things I made in 2024: Music Box Fun: Advanced Editing (a new major feature): Adds multiple-note selection for bulk operations on notes (like deletion, copy/paste, nudging and dragging) Also includes a “space editor” for arbitrarily adding/removing space...
Birchtree
Was 2024 a good year? Oh, and all the metrics and earnings info you could ever want. 2024 was a weird year for the Birchler household. Without getting into the details, two things put a...
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2024 was a weird year for the Birchler household. Without getting into the details, two things put a damper on the year right from the jump: a health issue and a radical increase in monthly spending. I won't go into the details here, but over the course of
anderegg.ca
A look back at 2024, and what’s next for 2025 At the end of last year, I wrote about wanting to focus on the web in 2024. How did that shake...
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2 months ago
At the end of last year, I wrote about wanting to focus on the web in 2024. How did that shake out? Top level stats I considered 2023 the first year that I honestly tried getting back into blogging. My goal then was to post something every month, and I managed that with 14 posts...
Construction Physics
Morris Chang and the Origins of TSMC Book review of the autobiography of Morris Chang.
2 months ago
Notes on software...
How I run a coffee club I started the NYC Systems Coffee Club in December of 2023. It's gone pretty well! I regularly get...
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I started the NYC Systems Coffee Club in December of 2023. It's gone pretty well! I regularly get around 20 people each month. You bring a drink if you feel like it and you hang out with people for an hour or two. There is no agenda, there is no speaker, there is no structure....
Birchtree
More YouTube goodies? More YouTube goodies. Here we go again! This is a fascinating look at trying to find the biggest tube TV On the other...
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Here we go again! This is a fascinating look at trying to find the biggest tube TV On the other end of things, here's a QVC presenter destroying a TV live on camera. Cybertruck reveal vibes here too If you've tried Balatro and haven't