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Man, Myth and Magic
Collect the set! I don’t really need a digital copy of Man, Myth and Magic—I’ve been the fortunate owner for many years of the bound set of original magazines you see above—but I imagin…
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,824 posts.
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A Test Suite for the Intel 8088
In a previous article, I revealed one of the secrets to MartyPC 's accuracy, hardware validation . To summarize, it is a method of using a m...
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LLM Python/CLI tool adds support for embeddings
LLM is my Python library and command-line tool for working with language models. I just released LLM 0.9 with a new set of features that extend LLM to provide tools …
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When tech says ‘no’
The tech industry always has a reason why any new laws or regulations are bad - indeed, so does any industry. They always say that! The trouble is, sometimes it’s true, and some laws are (or would be) disasters. So which is it? Well, there are three ways that people say ‘NO!’
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Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python
Blog about linguistics, programming, and my projects
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Chinchilla’s death
“With more careful calculations, one can win; with less, one cannot” — Sun Tzu, The Art of War .
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The Airbnb Bubble Popping Will Pop the Housing Bubble
This is how bubbles collapse: the "vital few" 4% sell at whatever the market will bear, pushing prices down, and the 64% awaken to the rapidly narrowing window for locking in bubble capital gains. Here's how we can tell if a speculative bubble is a bubble : everyone says it isn't a bubble --the market has reached a…
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Svelte is surprisingly easy to learn
Discover the hidden power of Svelte – the JavaScript framework that feels like déjà vu. Uncover how Svelte simplifies web development, reimagining JS.
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What’s wrong with billable hours
I know a bunch of you already have your pitchforks out, so let me start out by establishing some goalposts for my premise. When I’m done, you may still want to skewer me, but at least it’ll be for the right reasons, if you do. Through the rest of the post, I’m going to draw...
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The curl-wget Venn diagram
In my view, wget is not a curl competitor. It is a companion tool that has a feature overlap with curl. Use the tool that does the job. Getting the job done is the key. If that means using wget instead of curl, then that is good and I don't mind. Why would I? To … Continue reading The curl-wget Venn diagram →
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Plastic Money
You will sometimes hear someone say, in a loose conceptual sense, that credit cards have money in them. Of course we know that that isn't the case; our modern plastic card payment network relies on online transactions where the balance tracking and authorization decisions happen within a financial institution that…
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The History of Windows 95
The Dawn of Microsoft's Golden Age
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Everything I know about floppy disks
Floppy disk drives are curious things. We know them as the slots that ingest those small almost-square plastic "floppy disks" and we only really see them now in Computer Museums. But there's a lot going on in that humble square of plastic and I wanted to write down what I've learned so far.
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Cola: A text CRDT for real-time collaborative editing
A deep dive into the theoretical framework and the technical implementation of a text CRDT.
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Historians have an increasingly strong incentive to tell dramatic stories
How Historians (and Others) Make Themselves Stupid
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Microsoft Edge is starting to annoy me big time
Short article slash rant discussing the Got it! button in a prompt for personalized Web experience in Microsoft Edge, covering user experience interruption, bad design, aggressive marketing, implicit decisions, other annoyances, and more
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I don’t want to grow my freelance design studio into an agency
I'm often asked if I plan to hire more people and grow my own design agency? I don't, and in this article I explain why.
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Harry Browne’s Rules of Financial Safety (1999)
When you read in the news that a person whom you know as rich and wealthy is in financial trouble or has declared bankruptcy, it is easy to feel a sense of futility about managing your own money. Y…
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Just Build It...
Thoughts on building, shipping and iterating quickly
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The Musaicum EU-plus 10M resolution image of Europe
I am pleased to here introduce a new satellite image product that i have been working on for a few months. Development of this has been co-financed by Geofabrik . They are going to offer tile services for web maps based on this image in combination with the Green Marble .
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Hacking the Timex m851
Nope, I think this might be the best ultra-low power consumer digital watch ever produced!
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GameRoy: JIT Compilation in High-Accuracy Game Boy Emulation
Over the past two years, I have spent a lot of time working on my Game Boy emulator, GameRoy. It has reached a good point, where it has a GUI interface (including a debugger and disassembler) and passes numerous tests (comparable to some of the most accurate emulators). I even made a port to Android!
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LensLeech: Touch a camera to control your devices
Christopher Getschmann
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On Craft
My grandpa -- my Missouri grandpa, who played slide guitar to me when I got homesick on the rare occasions I stayed with them -- grew up on a farm without electricity. He went past eighth grade, which really mattered to him. He loved that I played harp, which he always called "elegant," in an extremely Missouri…