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Travel without a phone
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Building a Relational Database Using Kafka
In a previous post, I showed how Kafka can be used as the persistent storage for an embedded key-value store, called KCache. Once you have a key-value store, it can be used as the basis for other m…
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My Talk at Microsoft
It is now public knowledge that on 4 September 2019 I gave a talk at the Microsoft campus in Redmond. I was invited and I accepted. The report of this has led to a certain amount of speculation and rumor.
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Serverless: slower and more expensive
Recently I wanted to try changing the API we have at CardGames.io and try using the Serverless framework. Serverless has been a hot topic in the tech world for the last few years and I was procrastinating wanted to keep my tech skills up to date by trying something new, so I decided to spend a few hours learning about…
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When TCP sockets refuse to die
While working on our Spectrum server , we noticed something weird: the TCP sockets which we thought should have been closed were lingering around. We realized we don't really understand when TCP sockets are supposed to time out!
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Why I don't love Light Rail Transit
Snippets 2, Episode 22
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The Church of Interruption
A conversation with a Wizard
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Using Gooey as a Universal Front End for Any Language or CLI Application
A quick walk through demoing how to use Gooey as the frontend for any language or application!
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Reverse-engineering precision op amps from a 1969 analog computer
We are restoring a vintage 1 computer that CuriousMarc recently obtained. Analog computers were formerly popular for fast scientific compu...
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The ReMarkable Tablet: A Review
The reMarkable tablet is a 10" e-paper tablet on which you can read PDF and ePub files, and write on with the stylus that comes with the device. It has fundamentally changed how I read textbooks.
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The tech behind building an independent, internet radio station
Oscar is on the web
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Weld: Accelerating numpy, scikit and pandas as much as 100x with Rust and LLVM
Lambdaclass's blog about distributed systems, machine learning, compilers, operating systems, security and cryptography.
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Why I Write Games in C (yes, C)
I am an unusual beast. All my solo project games I've been making recently have been written in 'vanilla' C. Nobody does this. So I think it might be interesting to explain why I do.
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WeWTF, Part Deux
So, the mother of all party crashers took a dump in the We IPO punch bowl. The crasher? Math. The autopsy will show the shelving of this IPO was death by S-1.
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Async.h – asynchronous, stackless subroutines in C
The async/await idiom is becoming increasingly popular. The first widely used language to include it was C#, and it has now spread into Jav...
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The longer it has taken, the longer it will take (2015)
With fat tail, I.e. power law, project times, late projects are likely to be even later,
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Common Systems Programming Optimizations and Tricks
Today’s blog post is an overview of some common optimization techniques and neat tricks for doing “systems programming” – whatever that means today. We’ll walk through some methods to make your code run faster, be more efficient, and to squeeze just a little more juice from whatever you got.
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Breaking Pills
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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AI competitions don’t produce useful models
Ai competitions are fun, community building, talent scouting, brand promoting, and attention grabbing. But competitions are not intended to develop useful models.
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Working with GitHub Actions
GitHub Actions are still in beta and are changing quickly. But if you are looking to get started the possibilities are endless.
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Challenges in Implementing a Full-Text-Search Engine
While Full-text-search is famous for search through documents at a faster rate, there are other interesting ways in which these systems handle scale, synonyms, abbreviations, misspellings etc., we will
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iPhone 11 Pro Camera Review
Testing the iPhone 11 Pro as I continue on-going work photographing The Bach Project w/ Yo-Yo Ma, a world tour where Yo-Yo is performing Bach in unconventional places around the globe. It’s been a privilege to photograph this amazing journey.
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Oh shit, my weekend project turned into an App Store Best New App (2018)
How a quick weekend app for sharing book quotes, Snaplight, got featured by Apple—and the lessons that matter more than star ratings.
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Linux Terminal Goods
Some time ago I blogged about some cool terminal plugins I was using in my Linux notebook. Also some awesome retro- emulator terminals j...