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What would a “good” WebMD look like?
And what would a "good" WebMD look like?
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,821 posts.
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Becoming a Systems Architect
Unknowingly I’ve become what I always wanted, but couldn’t even name it. I have a short story to tell, about how I got here, and where I want to go.
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Remotely Controlled Lawn Tractor
The process of building a remotely controlled tractor.
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Observations from our Joe Rogan Experience experience
And other observations from our Joe Rogan Experience experience
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Why are you so busy?
Thoughts and more by Tom Lingham
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Why DALL-E will not steal my job as an illustrator
I finally was able to try it. And I can assure you it’s impossible to create professional and useful images from a text description.
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DevOps: An idea so good, no one admits they don’t do it
The ideas behind the DevOps movements undeniably changed the software development world for the better - but by now, the term “DevOps” has lost all meaning. Sometimes an idea is so good, that you can’t argue with it. I’m not saying that the original idea behind “DevOps” was perfect - I’ve written about some of the…
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Large scale Internet SSH brute force attacks seem to have stopped here
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Rewriting my blog in Rust for fun and profit
I’ve used Hakyll as my static site generator for around 9 years now. Before that I think I used Jekyll and also more dynamic pages with Mojolicious in Perl and Kohana in PHP, but I can’t be completely sure as the git history doesn’t go back that far.
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Rights, Laws, and Google
Google is not bound by the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments, but its actions in a false positive CSAM case show that it is flouting the spirit behind them.
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OCaml at First Glance
You never get a second chance to make a first impression.
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How the Consumer Computer Is Consuming Computing
When the personal computer went from being a "bicycle for the mind" to a surveilled shopping mall.
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Eastern European Guide to Writing Reference Letters
Excruciating. One phrase I often use to describe what it's like to read reference letters for Eastern European applicants to PhD and Master's programs in Cambridge. Even objectively outstanding students often receive dull, short, factual, almost negative-sounding reference letters. This is a result of (A)...
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The state of Flow-based Programming
Where Flow-based Programming stands after 50 years since its introduction. What problems it solves today. And what problems it can solve tomorrow for broader Software Engineering industry
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The silent majority in software
I was re-reading Nixon’s 1969 “silent majority” speech last week (Smithsonian ran a good breakdown in 2017), mostly because YouTube’s algorithm
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Stable Diffusion is a big deal
If you haven’t been paying attention to what’s going on with Stable Diffusion, you really should be. Stable Diffusion is a new “text-to-image diffusion model” that was released to the …
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Writing a toy WebSocket server from scratch
WebSocket (WS) connections are pretty neat. I’ve gotten to play around with them before, both for personal and professional projects, but my view has mostly been at a high level and concerned mainly with the things that I can build on top of them. I haven’t spent much time digging through the protocol. I thought it…
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Tetsuji: Remote Code Execution on a GameBoy Colour 22 Years Later
Introduction It’s that time of year again - the Binary Golf Grand Prix is back for a third year running! You can also check out my entries to the first and second times this amazing competition ran. The theme this year was to produce a binary that crashes a given program. Bonus points for hijacking execution…
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Stable Diffusion Is the Most Important AI Art Model Ever
A state-of-the-art AI model available for everyone through a safety-centric open-source license is unheard of.
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Why I quit using SwiftUI
SwiftUI is currently the new trend in the Apple development world. And I wanted to give it a try. I did. However, in this post, I explain why I went back to AppKit for The Untitled Project’s authoring tools.
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We are all nerds: The literary works of Neal Stephenson
If you and I ever had a longer conversation, chances are that Neal Stephenson might have come up once or twice. As contemporary authors go, Neal’s books are by far the most enthralling on my long and ever-growing reading list. This post is primarily written for people that usually shy away from reading what they…
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Weird monitor bugs people sent me in the last 5 years
I develop 🌕 Lunar, a macOS app for getting intelligent adaptive brightness on external monitors and controlling every aspect of your monitor using DDC and other obscure protocols. I get tons of email about Lunar, especially after it became my full time “job” in 2021. A lot of those emails complain about Lunar bugs…
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Don’t think to write, write to think
This is one of the lessons that every writer comes to appreciate: writing is thinking. Writing is not the artifact of thinking, it’s the actual thinking process. There’s no shortage of great quotes on this topic, the implications are less clear: Writing is the planning process and the final product: You don’t design a…
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Why none of my books are available on Audible
And why Amazon owes me $3,218.55.