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The Banished Bottom of the Housing Market
How America Destroyed Its Cheapest Homes
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,109 posts.
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210 IQ Is Not Enough
You will never have enough IQ, nor money, nor time, nor energy.
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Building a Durable Execution Engine with SQLite
Lately, there has been a lot of excitement around Durable Execution (DE) engines. The basic idea of DE is to take (potentially long-running) multi-step workflows, such as processing a purchase order …
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PHP 8.5
A blog about modern PHP, the web, and programming in general. Follow my newsletter and YouTube channel as well.
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Inside Rust's std and parking_lot mutexes – who wins?
A teardown of Rust's mutex internals plus real benchmarks so you know when to choose std or parking_lot.
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Measuring the impact of AI scams on the elderly
We worked with Reuters to measure the impacts of AI scams on the elderly
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Precise geolocation via Wi-Fi Positioning System
How dare you!
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I built a faster Notion in Rust
Outcrop is a modern knowledge base for software teams, built with Rust and Solid.
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How Slide Rules Work
The survival of our species owes much to our brain, specifically, its ability to observe, analyse, and plan. Planting crops and storing grains for the winter were some of the earliest uses of these abilities. Measuring and calculating are foundational elements of observation, analysis, and planning. Computation, upon…
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The Boring Part of Bell Labs
How Bell Labs supported itself between moonshots
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The lost cause of the Lisp machines
I am just really bored by Lisp Machine romantics at this point: they should go away. I expect they never will....
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AI is a front for consolidation of resources and power
Best case: we're in a bubble. Worst case: the people profiting most know exactly what they're doing.
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Broccoli Man, Remastered
A breakdown of how I used modern AI tools (Veo 3.1 and Nano Banana) to create a new version of a Google cultural classic.
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Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150
Compare static web hosting performance on an Intel N150 using the same nginx.conf across FreeBSD jails, SmartOS zones, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux, focusing on HTTP vs HTTPS and TLS CPU usage.
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Moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD for firewalls
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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The peaceful transfer of power in open source projects
Most of the people who run Open Source projects are mortal. Recent history shows us that they will all eventually die, or get bored, or win the lottery, or get sick, or be conscripted, or lose their mind. If you've ever visited a foreign country's national history museum, I guarantee you've read this little snippet…
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What Killed Perl?
Trick question! Perl is not dead. I’ll show you what I mean, and then still answer what I think killed Perl.
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Rebecca Heineman – from homelessness to porting Doom (2022)
Today Rebecca Burger Becky Heineman shares the tale of porting Doom to the 3DO console under extreme conditions. There is an engine to tweak, deadlines to hit, hardware acceleration to get working, and dramatic rock anthems to record. We also learn about how game piracy led her to game development and what it was like…
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Monotype font licencing shake-down
tl;dr Don’t try to shake-down a typography nerd with your dubious, automated claims about his employer using unlicensed fonts. How it started It started with a LinkedIn InMail message (sanitised to protect privacy): Subject: [Urgent] Font Software Licensing Review Hi Ameel I hope you
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A surprise with how '#!' handles its program argument in practice
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Trying out Gemini 3 Pro with audio transcription and a new pelican benchmark
Google released Gemini 3 Pro today. Here’s the announcement from Sundar Pichai, Demis Hassabis, and Koray Kavukcuoglu, their developer blog announcement from Logan Kilpatrick, the Gemini 3 Pro Model Card, …
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OrthoRoute – GPU-accelerated autorouting for KiCad
OrthoRoute: GPU-Accelerated PCB Autorouter
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Disney Lost Roger Rabbit
Gary K Wolf is the author of a fantastic 1981 novel called Who Censored Roger Rabbit? which Disney licensed and turned into an equally fantastic 1988 live action/animated hybrid movie called Who Framed Roger Rabbit? But despite the commercial and critical acclaim of the movie, Disney hasn't made any feature-length…
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`satisfies` is my favorite TypeScript keyword (2024)
TIL: `satisfies` is my favorite TypeScript keyword
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Short Little Difficult Books
Novels that challenge with style, story, or form that you can read in a day.
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Experiment: Making TypeScript immutable-by-default
I got it working with arrays and records, but couldn't make it work for regular objects.
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Do not put your site behind Cloudflare if you don't need to
At the time of writing 12:43 UTC on Tue 18 Nov, Cloudflare has taken many sites down. I'm trying to browse the web, but about half of the sites show an error: cloudflare.webp Most of these sites are n...