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Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner
an adventure in image processing and taking very wide photographs (blog post; 4,600 words)
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,415 posts.
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AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
I'm about as pro-AI as you can be, but this is becoming a pet peeve of mine (and I'm not alone). That's why I love the AI;DR acronym as my new solution for ignoring the walls of slop.
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An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail
It's been a few months since my post on leaving Gmail which sparked a lot of discussion on Hacker News. Here's an update on how things have been going after my move to Fastmail.
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How to disable or avoid intrusive AI
One of the biggest questions I get at Drop-In Time at the library (besides "what is taking up all my cloud storage?") is how to disable or avoid intrusive AI that shows up where people don't want it. This is a guide for people who would like less intrusive AI in their tech environment. Maybe you lik
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I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone
I built a small tool that turns my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper, so I can read my favorite blogs on a pocket e-reader instead of my phone.
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My Agent Setup
Personal website of Chad Arimura - My agent setup
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Harness engineering for self-improvement
The concept of recursive self-improvement (RSI) dates back to I. J. Good (1965), where he defined an “ultraintelligent machine” as a system that can surpass humans in all intellectual activities and design better machines to improve itself. Yudkowsky (2008) used the phrase “recursive self-improvement” for a specific…
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As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program
A blog about software craft and quality
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Atom is better than RSS, in ways that matter
Everyone with knowledge agrees that Atom is technically superior to RSS. Everything should have switched to it twenty years ago. All feed readers support Atom just fine ( except in podcasts , for no good reason).
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CodePen 2.0
Noting perhaps my largest personal career accomplishment, which is launching CodePen 2.0. Far more work, believe it or not, than the entire creation of the original CodePen. This isn’t the pl…
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The Productivity Mirage
What I once thought about programming productivity was wrong
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Turning a dumb AC unit smart (without losing my security deposit)
TL;DR: DIY home automation is ezpz with nothing more than a stepper motor, an esp32, and a high tolerance for Jank. My rental apartment’s AC unit can only be controlled using these retro-looking analog knob-based controls, mounted right onto the unit. No separate wall-mounted thermostat, no remote…
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Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management
Unattributed is a former IT person, discovering life after work.
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Bad Apple but It's Traceroute
This was unavoidable, given my post from the other day about how to make traceroute display (almost) arbitrary strings.
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Should you wash your solar panels?
I have a small solar farm and the panels have got visibly dusty. Is cleaning them worthwhile? How much difference does it make? Let's find out.
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Git rebase -i is not that scary
a guide to interactive rebasing.
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Emacs Is a Lispboard
What would have happened if Emacs' default buffer had been a terminal emulator? Conceptually, from the outside, it would be perceived as a terminal…
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Malleable computing, Emacs, and you
It all started with a routine task. I use GitHub issues for all of my public-facing projects but my preference is keeping track of things in Org Agenda. To reconcile the two, I would manually...
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Back to Kagi
A reflection on returning to Kagi after trying some alternatives including the much worse search engine called Google.
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git's –end-of-options Flag
The git flag I assumed was an LLM hallucination
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Escape IntelliJ: Scala and Kotlin LSPs on Emacs Eglot
Enjoy Emacs and its built-in language server (LSP) superpowers, for JVM languages. Let's walk through basic language setups, specialized workspace configuration handling, and dive deep into some advanced JSON-RPC and advice-based workarounds for Scala (Metals) and Kotlin that make development truly seamless from Emacs…
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Making ASCII Art in Vim
I like using Vim to make ASCII art. I don't use any plugins; Vim already has a bunch of built-in features that are super useful for making ASCII art!
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The death and rebirth of my home server
steen's online burrow
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Transcribe.cpp
A place to play around with technology and make it easy and fun
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Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide
Step-by-step guide to turning your spare Mac into an always-on machine Claude Code can fully control - talk to it from your phone through the Claude app or from your main Mac over SSH.
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I started a “dirt notebook”
I love taking notes, but one problem that I have is that that I start cherishing every notebook that I start. I can't seem to keep my notes messy. Eventually...
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Guide to data tools landscape for developers
Found yourself on a data project and have no idea what they all are talking about? Feel excluded from all the fun discussions in the office kitchen? If only there were a humongous guide going over all the concepts and buzzwords...
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I also filed the corners off my MacBook
Modify your tools more!