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It is hard to recommend Google Cloud
Discover the challenges of migrating from Google Domains and Container Registry. Explore Google Cloud's strengths and pitfalls, plus read why strategy is key.
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Cloudflare Is Breaking My SVGs?
Fixing problems that shouldn't exist
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They stole my voice with AI
UPDATE 9/23: The CEO of Elecrow responded. I've posted a follow-up blog post with my reaction to the response and some other thoughts on AI voice cloning. Listen to this clip: Your browser does not support the video tag. I don't know about you, but that sounds pretty familiar. I mean I would like you to subscribe to…
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Twenty Years of FM Synthesis Inside Ableton Live
In 2004 I created Ableton's first software synthesiser - Operator. On the occasion of its twentieth birthday, this page provides background, a few tips and a download link to a pack with presets I and a few Ableton colleagues created for this occasion.
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What happened to the Japanese PC platforms?
(This was originally posted on a social media site; I’ve revised and updated it for my blog.) The other day a friend asked me a pretty interesting...
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Sanding UI
One of the ways I like to do development is to build something, click around a ton , make tweaks, click around more, more tweaks, more clicks, etc., until I…
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Analyzing the OpenAPI Tooling Ecosystem
Diagram of the OpenAPI Specification tooling ecosystem, focusing on how tasks relate to the specification
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Picking Glibc Versions at Runtime
Using a glibc version that is different from the system-provided one shouldn't require the use of containers, as I recently heard someone claim. Let's take a look at how dynamic linking works and what the options are.
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Using YouTube to steal your files
A writeup of my $4133.70 Google Drive vulnerability chain.
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The Gravo-Thermal Catastrophe
In 1962, V. A. Antonov did some remarkable simulations showing that in Newtonian mechanics, gravitating systems can violate the usual rules of thermodynamics. Instead of reaching equilibrium they c…
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I Like Makefiles
Fancy new build tools come and go, but I think I will stick with using makefiles to orchestrate everyday tasks in my projects.
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Dropbox keeps threatening to delete my files
For the past two years, I’ve been on the receiving end of a passive aggressive win-back campaign from Dropbox. The feud originally started when I migrated away from Dropbox and hence canceled my subscription while leaving them saddled with over a terabyte of my data to carry forever, like a camel in the digital…
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Mitosis in the Gray-Scott model: writing shader-based chemical simulations
Use the parallel processing power of your GPU to simulate a simple chemical system that exhibits emergent behaviors
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Reactive Relational Algebra
databases plus wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff
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Optimizing Guile Scheme
Guile is a rather niche language that I love dearly. Guile is a Scheme dialect that features an advanced optimizing bytecode compiler, a JIT compiler, and a modest set of developer tools for inspecting and debugging. Through my time spent developing Chickadee , a game programming library, I have gotten quite familiar…
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Linux/4004: booting Linux on Intel 4004 for fun, art, and no profit
Dmitry.GR: Slowly booting full Linux on the intel 4004 for fun, art, and absolutely no profit
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Stop Designing Your Web Application for Millions of Users When You Dont Have 100
It’s easy to get carried away when you’re building a new web app. You’ve got big ideas, you picture millions of users flocking to your platform, and you start imagining the kind of infrastructure needed to handle all that traffic. So, you build for scale from day one—optimising databases, setting up powerful servers…
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Gaining access to anyones Arc browser without them even visiting a website
gaining access to anyones browser without them even visiting a website
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Visual guide to SSH tunneling and port forwarding (2023)
Sysadmin doing syadmin stuff
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GitHub notification emails used to send malware
Malicious actors are abusing legitimate notification emails sent by GitHub to try and trick people into downloading malware.
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Up to a Quarter of Rental Inflation Is Due to Price-Fixing
From 2020-2024, rent prices spiked by a third. How much of that is due to collusion by corporate landlords and a software coordinator? And where is the Fed?
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Zb: An Early-Stage Build System
Reproducible builds configured in Lua
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Turning Everyday Gadgets into Bombs Is a Bad Idea
I think turning everyday gadgets into bombs is a bad idea. However, recent news coverage has been framing the weaponization of pagers and radios in the Middle East as something we do not need to concern ourselves with because “we” are safe.
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Diatom Arrangements
An odd post. Diatoms are single-celled algae with glass shells, and people arrange them into patterns under a microscope.
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Forbes Marketplace: The Parasite SEO Company Trying to Devour Its Host
Are you sick of Forbes appearing in search results? For topics that Forbes doesn’t have any expertise in? Here’s the organic rankings for “best pet insurance”: Forbes ranks #2. Not sure a business website knows how pet insurance actually works. But okay. They also have the #1 ranking for best cbd gummies: Because it’s…
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Digital signatures and how to avoid them
Wikipedia’s definition of a digital signature is: A digital signature is a mathematical scheme for verifying the authenticity of digital messages or documents. A valid digital signature on a messag…
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Twitter shut off API access; users volunteering their own data for an open API
A lot of community applications died when API access to twitter, reddit & others was severely restricted, but they can't stop us from sharing our own data with each other!
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Things I've learned serving on the board of the Python Software Foundation
Two years ago I was elected to the board of directors for the Python Software Foundation—the PSF. I recently returned from the annual PSF board retreat (this one was in …