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A M.2 HDMI capture card
Have you ever looked at an NVMe drive and thought to yourself, 'Hey, this would be 31.7% cooler with HDMI ports?'
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 49,204 posts.
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Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii
If you are reading this message, the experiment below is still ongoing. This page was served to you by a real Nintendo Wii.
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LLM-powered tools amplify developer capabilities rather than replacing them
How LLM-powered programming tools amplify developer capabilities rather than replace them
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AI assisted search-based research works now
For the past two and a half years the feature I’ve most wanted from LLMs is the ability to take on search-based research tasks on my behalf. We saw the …
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Tabular Programming: A New Paradigm for Expressive Computing
I've been exploring the m8 Dirtywave tracker for a few months now, and it's been a fascinating experience. If you're not familiar with it, the m8 is a portable music sequencer built on the Teensy platform that combines a minimal 8-button interface with a powerful tabular workflow. What makes it special isn't just its…
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Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature
Free-standing function call syntax considered kind of suboptimal.
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Getting forked by Microsoft
Three years ago, I was part of a team responsible for developing and maintaining Kubernetes clusters for end user customers. A main source for downtime in customer environments occurred when image registries went down. The traditional way to solve this problem is to set up a stateful mirror, however we had to work…
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Python’s new t-strings
Dave Peck's home on the web. Dave is an independent software developer, investor, and civic technologist.
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Decomposing Transactional Systems
Every transactional system must execute, order, validate, and persist transactions.
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How I use Kate editor
I love the Kate Text editor. I use it for pretty much all the programming projects I do.…
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How encryption for Cinema Movies works
The Cinema Industry is using its own standards for creating and distributing movies in a secure way. The DCI (Digital Cinema Initiatives) specification defines everything from file formats and encryption to the projection systems itself.
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The movie mistake mystery from "Revenge of the Sith"
Movies are handmade, and just like any other art form, sometimes the seams that hold movies together become visible to the audience. For mov...
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Signal Carnival
At Revision 2025, we released "Signal Carnival" ( csdb , YouTube ). This demo asks you to switch the audio and video cable of your C64:
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Things Zig comptime won't do
Es el disco de Odín. Tiene un solo lado. En la tierra no hay otra cosa que tenga un solo lado.
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The skill of the future is not 'AI', but 'Focus'
Don't let AI erode your focus.
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Jagged AGI: o3, Gemini 2.5, and everything after
New models and new thresholds
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Why is OpenAI buying Windsurf?
$3 billion seems high to me. Google is on a warpath. And Apple shoots itself in the foot, twice.
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The Joy of Linux Theming in the Age of Bootable Containers
Having spent a couple of decades in the Linux world, I have always had an interest in Linux desktop environments and how they are themed. I would often come across a post on /r/unixporn that inspired me to try to customize the look and feel of my desktop environment. So I would install Xfce, LXQt or Sway and try to…
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100 Years to Solve an Integral (2020)
The integral of sec(x) is well known to any beginners calculus student. Yet this integral was once a major outstanding maths problem. It was first introduced...
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Pretty State Machine Patterns in Rust (2016)
A computer scientist working in open source towards a more hopeful future.
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Layered Design in Go
This post will describe how I design my programs in Go. I needed this for work, and while I searched for a link, nothing quite fits my coding practices out there. The word “Layered” can pull up some fairly close descriptions, but I want to lay out what I do.
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Ultrathink is a Claude Code magic word
Extensive new documentation from Anthropic on how to get the best results out of their Claude Code CLI coding agent tool, which includes this fascinating tip: We recommend using the …
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Vibe Coding is not an excuse for low-quality work
A field guide to responsible AI-assisted development
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The Icelandic Voting System (2024)
It’s election season here in Iceland! The election is on Saturday, 30th of November, so next Saturday from when this is written. Every time elections are upcoming, somebody inevitably asks me how the voting system here works, probably expecting a simple answer. So, here’s a stab at it. Iceland uses a biproportional…
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The Web Is Broken – Botnet Part 2
I guess you have all heard about the growing problem of AI companies trying to aggressively collect whatever data they can get their hands on to train their models. This has caused an explosive surge in web crawlers relentlessly hitting servers big and small. But who runs these crawlers? Turns out — it could be you!
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Librarians are dangerous
A public service announcement
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Dumb statistical models, always making people look bad
This is Jessica. In my Prediction for Decision-making class last quarter we talked about human predictions and decisions relative to algorithmic ones. This led to a discussion about why it’s often hard to demonstrate the value of human knowledge once you have a decent statistical model.
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Making a smart bike dumb so it works again
My smart bike company went bankrupt, so I added a physical button to turn the light on/off