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Cgit, Nginx and Gitolite: A Personal Git Server
Hi'ya I'm Bryan, and this is my collection of projects, ideas, thoughts, feelings, opinions, ramblings, concepts, concerns, notions, conclusions, blurbs, and schemes, to name a few.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,497 posts.
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The Left-NIMBY Canon
Standing athwart urban history, yelling Stop
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90% of Everything Is Crap
I like Sturgeon’s law for a lot of reasons. But most of all, I like it as a nudge to try harder to like things.
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FedEx shipping damage creates fractured artworks
Since 2007, artist Walead Beshty has been cleverly using FedEx’s shipping infrastructure to create a series of artworks. He constructs glass objects that fit ex
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Flow-Based Programming
Official website for flow-based programming
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I no longer trust The Great Suspender
I know a number of folks use The Great Suspender to automatically suspend inactive browser tabs in Chrome. Apparently recent versions of this extension have been taken over by a shady anonymous entity and is now flagged by Microsoft as malware . Notably the most recent version of the extension (v7.1.8) has added…
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Update: YouTube-dl reinstated thanks to EFF (2020)
In October, the popular and famous archivist tool youtube-dl was taken down by GitHub due to a DMCA request by the Recording Industry Association of America. I posted a detailed analysis explaining the relation between international, US, EU and German law, and showing why this request was very different from what most…
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The Unauthorized Story of Andreessen Horowitz
Why media whisperer Margit Wennmachers is going direct.
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USN AN-1 Submarine Aircraft Carrier (2018)
**US Navy SubmarineAircraft Carrier design** In the late 1950s the US Navy experimented with the concept of aircraft carrying submarines armed with jet fighters… Read More >….
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Exploring the Supply Chain of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna Covid-19 Vaccines
Sections of this post were co-authored by Cornelia Scheitz. Noah Leidinger created a German translation. Piotr Kwapin created a Polish translation. Last updated on February 7, 2021. Bert Hubert’s excellent and widely shared article about Reverse Engineering the source code of the Pfizer-BioNTech SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine is…
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Storming Reddit's Moat
A Guide to Reddit, Its Key Competitive Advantages, and How to Unbundle It
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Make Your Own Internet Archive with Archive Box
Nixintel Open Source Intelligence & Investigations2021257 points77 commentsTools & Productivity details
One of the biggest challenges of internet investigation is preserving data once you’ve found it. We have access to more information than ever before, but so much of it can be easily lost if w…
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Container networking is simple (2020)
Begin with the basics to understand Docker and Kubernetes networking: learn how to create and interconnect Linux network namespaces using only command-line tools.
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Intel Problems
Intel is in much more danger than its profits suggest; the problems are a long time in the making, and the solution is to split up the company.
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Again on 0-based vs. 1-based indexing
André Garzia made a nice blog post called “Lua, a misunderstood language” recently, and unfortunately (but perhaps unsurprisingly) a bulk of HN comments on it was about the age-old 0-based vs. 1-based indexing debate. You see, Lua uses 1-based indexing, and lots of programmers claimed this is unnatural because “every…
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Soyuz spacecraft digital clock teardown
We recently obtained a clock that flew on a Soyuz space mission. 1 The clock, manufactured in 1984, is much more complex inside than you'd ...
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User power, not power users: htop and its design philosophy
This short story is not really about htop, or about the feature request that I’ll use as an illustration, but about what are the core principles that drive the development of a bit of software, down to every last detail. And by “core principles” I really mean it.
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An interactive review of the Oklab perceptual color space
Blog of Raph Levien.
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When costs are nonlinear, keep it small
Batching work is more efficient … until cost rises nonlinearly with batch size. Then smaller batches are the most efficient. So don’t delay maintenance!
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Everything you need to know to design your own CNC router
This is the encyclopedic blog post I wish I could have read when I started designing my CNC router.
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Software engineering is a learning process, working code is a side effect
I have come to the conclusion that Software Engineering is primarily a learning endeavour, the working code is rather a side effect. This quote is actually not mine but I am paraphrasing Alberto Brandolini who is making this very point in Event Storming (he was actually talking about Software Development, but I do not…
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I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea
When good ideas make bad business
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How I Build Web Apps As A Freelancer
It's now roughly seven or eight years that I'm building dynamic front ends for the web. From digital art wallets to games (1, 2) and synthesizers, I've seen it all. And since my process
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Software effort estimation is mostly fake research
Effort estimation is an important component of any project, software or otherwise. While effort estimation is something that everybody in industry is involved with on a regular basis, it is a niche topic in software engineering research. The problem is researcher attitude (e.g., they are unwilling to venture into the…
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Mammalian Aggression
Introduction