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Introducing ASP.NET vNext
There’s some really cool stuff going on on the ASP.NET and Web Tools team. The ...
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,981 posts.
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Unicode in Python 3
A list of things about unicode on Linux and Python 3 you really did not want to know.
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Bezier Curves and Type Design: A Tutorial
[2026/09/14]: This article became the most popular I've ever written. Since it was written a long time ago, I decided to rework it: polishing the wording to facilitate comprehension, fixing dead links and typos, and adding interactivity. Still, it remains faithful to the original — a lot of people discussed it and…
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iPad charger teardown: inside Apple's charger and a risky phony
This article is now available in Turkish iPad şarjının iç yapısı and Chinese [中文翻译版本] Apple iPad原装充电器拆解 . Apple sells their iPad charger...
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Transform any text into a patent application
[Hello everyone! Thanks for taking a look at my blog! If you want updates on this project or other things I’m working on, just follow me on twitter ]
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If You Can Read This, You're SNIing
When TLS was defined, it didn’t allow more than one hostname to be available on a single IP address / port pair, leading to “virtual hosting” issues; each Web site (for example) now requires a dedicated IP address.
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What's wrong with systemd
So many weird little demands on time, mostly spinning out of the Signal groups set up to counter ICE and now being used for general community stuff.
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What Happened at NewsGator
I sat in the back of the bus the whole time and I don’t really know all the details. But here are the parts that I know about.
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The Financial Future of Game Developers
To go back a ways, back in 2006 I suggested that you could look at the winding path a piece of media takes to the public in this way:
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Cdb: a fast, reliable, simple package for creating, reading constant databases
Packages that need to read cdb files should incorporate the necessary portions of the cdb library rather than relying on an external cdb library.
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Architecture of a Real World Haskell Application
There were numerous posts on reddit, SO and the like which were asking for how to architect real world Haskell applications. Well, this is my go at it for an in-house testing tool which is used extensively. I would not claim myself an advanced Haskeller, some of the code is probably not idiomatic Haskell (and also…
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Free Your Android
After all the recent NSA revelations, it's been even more important to use Free Software on our mobile phones. Let me express this in another way: We should be very careful about what software we use on a device that is always on and in our pocket 24h a day. Starting from the very basic thing tha...
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Working on The Witness, Part 1 (2012)
Mapping the walkable surfaces on the island of The Witness as a step toward bulletproofing the player movement code.
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Let’s Make a Bubble Map
My previous Let’s Make a Map tutorial describes how to make a basic map with D3 and TopoJSON ; now it’s time to cover thematic mapping in the form of a proportional symbol map. The simplest symbol is a circle, or bubble , whose area is proportional to the associated data. In this tutorial, we’ll make a bubble map of…
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Hacking the Samsung NX300 "Smart" Camera
blog about networking, cameras, old gear, and xmpp
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Visualisation of the expansion of IKEA
Watch how IKEA expanded around the world in this data visualisation
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I don't love the single responsibility principle
Did you ever happen to disagree with a colleague on the single responsibility principle and its application? Let's try to understand why that could be the case.
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Rust for C++ programmers – part 5: borrowed references
In the last post I introduced unique pointers. This time I will talk about another kind of pointer which is much more common in most Rust p...
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PyPy.js: Now faster than CPython
OK OK, I couldn't resist that title but it probably goes a bit far. Let me try for a little more nuance:
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Working from home
The challenges of working from home full-time, and some tips on how to do so effectively.