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Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger?
Was Daft Punk Having a Laugh When They Chose the Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger?
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"Inspector Dangerfuck", ANSI art comic from 1994
In 1994, a teenager wanted to be noticed in the ANSI art scene. So he created "Inspector Dangerfuck": a profane, stoned, gray-skinned cartoon detective.
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Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Exams
Paper: This blog post has been expanded into a full paper: Scalable and Personalized Oral Assessments Using Voice AI (Panos Ipeirotis and...
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I wanted a camera that doesn't exist, so I built it
The Leica G9ii
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Try to take my position: The best promotion advice I ever got
My CTO leaned back in our 1-on-1 and said something that sounded almost threatening: "You want to get promoted? Try to take my position."
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Parental controls aren't for parents
I found a stranger texting my 12-year-old on a 'kid-safe' Gabb phone. Parental controls are broken.
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Repair a ship’s hull still in the river in -50˚C (2022)
Despite these hard times, we continue our work saving the world from all manner of cyber-maliciousness. We adapt; we carry on. Meanwhile, I hope my travel notes and photos will bring a little cheeriness to all who view them – because there’s hardly a better way to do that than with the beauty of nature
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Assorted less(1) tips
In a recent discussion on Reddit I shared a number of tips about the common utility less(1) that others found helpful so I figured I'd aggregate some of those tips here.
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10 years of personal finances in plain text files
I've been tracking my finances using Beancount in plain text files for 10 years. Here are the numbers, the workflow, and why I believe plaintext accounting will outlive any app.
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A small collection of text-only websites
A couple of years ago, I started serving my blog posts as plain text. Add .txt to the end of any URl and get a deliciously lo-fi, UTF-8, mono[chrome|space] alternative. Here's this post in plain text - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/a-small-collection-of-text-only-websites.txt Obviously a webpage without links is…
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One Number I Trust: Plain-Text Accounting for a Multi-Currency Household
Two people. Eighteen accounts spanning checking, savings, credit cards, investments. Three currencies. Twenty minutes of work every week. One net worth number I actually trust. The payoff: A single, …
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Going immutable on macOS, using Nix-Darwin
From imperative chaos to nix-darwin
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FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 1 – configuring ZFS mirror (RAID1)
Prototyping a Home NAS with RAID1 on FreeBSD on a virtual machine: system installation via SSH with bsdinstall, configuring ZFS mirror and working with datasets
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Welcome to Gas Town
Happy New Year, and Welcome to Gas Town!
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Can Bundler be as fast as uv?
At RailsWorld earlier this year, I got nerd sniped by someone. They asked “why can’t Bundler be as fast as uv?” Immediately my inner voice said “YA, WHY CAN’T IT BE AS FAST AS UV????” My inner voice likes to shout at me, especially when someone asks a question so obvious I should have thought of it myself. Since then…
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A website to destroy all websites
How to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.
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Six Harmless Bugs Lead to Remote Code Execution
It was May 2024, and our internal security team was evaluating the LogPoint SIEM/SOAR platform to replace our existing platform, potentially. As part of a habit I’ve built over the years —and honestly, part of our 3rd party due diligence— I gave myself 24 hours to do what I always do with any technology we’re […]
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Dell's version of the DGX Spark fixes pain points
Dell sent me two of their GB10 mini workstations to test: In this blog post, I'll cover the base system, just one of the two nodes. Cluster testing is ongoing, and I'll cover things like AI model training and networking more in depth next year, likely with comparisons to the Framework Desktop cluster and Mac Studio…
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Build a Deep Learning Library
Instead of just learning how to use a deep learning library, we are going to learn how to create one.
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Python numbers every programmer should know
A cheat sheet of real-world timing and memory numbers to guide performance-sensitive decisions.
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2025 Letter
Corgis, compute, Cold War; Ecclesiastes; ties; Stendhal; humor; Pascal's Wager; deep infrastructure; Germanic obedience; Texas State Fair
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I rebooted my social life
Some self-help for the New Year
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Children and Helical Time
If childhood is half of our subjective life, how should that change how we live?
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2025: The Year in LLMs
This is the third in my annual series reviewing everything that happened in the LLM space over the past 12 months. For previous years see Stuff we figured out about …
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Love your customers
There were many reasons why I left Oracle shortly after it acquired Sun, but first among them: I could not stomach the disdain that Oracle had for its own customers. Sun — for all of its (many!) other faults — loved its customers.
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On privacy and control
I have 15+ years of software engineering experience across different parts of the tech stack including networking libraries, congestion control, performance improvements, Backend, and Android development.
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I canceled my book deal
I've always wanted to write a book, and I was close, but not this time.
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Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups
If you were an Internet user for a few years on either side of the turn of the millennium, you will remember pop-up advertisements.
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Scaffolding to Superhuman: How Curriculum Learning Solved 2048 and Tetris
Training gaming agents is an addictive game. A game of sleepless nights, grinds, explorations, sweeps, and prayers. PufferLib allows anyone with a gaming computer to play the RL game, but getting from “pretty good” to “superhuman” requires tweaking every lever, repeatedly.