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TODO apps are meant for robots
What if I'm a left-handed person in the world of right-handed tools?
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Unauthenticated RCE on a RIGOL oscilloscope
I work in a company that uses custom electronic boards, so there are plenty of instruments floating around that electrical engineers employ to debug faulty connections and solderings. One kind of tools used are the oscilloscopes, tools that measure signals and plot them in a graphically understandable way. We have a…
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CSS findings from the Threads app
A few interesting CSS findings from the threads app by Meta.
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How I run my servers (2022)
I've been writing recently about servers and internet infrastructure 1 . A lot of this writing is predicated on running server software on a VM or physical machine, rather than using a more cloudy solution, which is somewhat unpopular these days. However, I think it's a pretty reasonable way to do things, and it's not…
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The Perfect Laptop
Personal preference is an interesting thing. People can have a particular preference for something until they are able to experience something else. As we gain experience, our personal preference gets more finely tuned.
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How to Use AI to Do Stuff: An Opinionated Guide
Covering the state of play as of Summer, 2023
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Nobody cares about your blog
Nobody cares about your blog, but you should keep writing!
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Nailing jelly to a wall: is it possible? (2007)
We've all heard the old saying "it's like nailing jelly to a wall" to describe a task that is very difficult or impossible. But is our view of the difficulty of this task justified? Has anybody actually tried nailing jelly to a wall? In this experiment I attempt to establish, one way or the other, the validity of the…
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“The Famous F40” Vector Illustration
I was looking through some old Macintosh CD-ROMs, searching for my usual things that I do whenever I add new discs to my collection: hanafuda, specific artis...
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Look ma, no React: I recoded my portfolio site with vanilla everything
Welcome to my new site, brought to you by vanilla everything. No Javascript frameworks, CSS libraries or flashy animations. Just markdown, html templa...
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Why checked exceptions failed
Programming language features are never orthogonal.
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The pull request hack is fucking magic
I don't have time to keep up with all the daft Open Source projects I release. I wish my skill and my energy was as wide as my ambition. Several years ago, I came across Felix Geisendörfer's Pull Request Hack. The premise is simple - if people are making decent Pull Requests to your project then you should give them…
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Matrices and Graph
The single most undervalued fact of linear algebra: matrices are graphs, and graphs are matrices
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Minify and Gzip (2022)
I've been doing a bit of work cleaning up the CSS on this blog in the past couple days — the CSS is from a template that I copied more than five years ago at this point, and it was pretty crufty even when I first got it.
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Why can’t you just roll back from a bad macOS update?
If it’s so easy to uninstall a troublesome RSR, why can’t we simply roll back to a previous version of macOS, like we did in High Sierra?
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The theory versus the practice of “static websites”
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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Tor is not just for anonymity (2022)
Tech, Pets, and Vettes
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Bank transfers as a payment method (2021)
Bank transfers have exploded as a payment method in India and may become more common in much of the world.
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The Problem with LangChain
LangChain is complicated, so it must be better. Right?
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Gallery of Processor Cache Effects
Most of my readers will understand that cache is a fast but small type of memory that stores recently accessed memory locations. This description is
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There is no data engineering roadmap
Data Engineering is booming and many are looking for a cheat sheet to get started. Do you really need to learn 200 tools before you get your first job?
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Personal relations as a manager
I was reminded by a discussion with a friend why, as a manager, you should be cautious about the relations you develop with the people in your team.
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Patching GCC to build Actually Portable Executables
Gautham's Blog
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The FCC responds to my ATSC 3 encryption complaint – they want to hear from you
The FCC reached out to me and is asking all of you who signed the petition to also file a comment in their docketing system for the ATSC 3 petition. This is very easy to do and will just take a few minutes. So far there are only about a dozen or so complaints filed. … Continue reading The FCC Responds to my ATSC 3…
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Keep work fresh by teaching your successors and investing a bit in long-shots
If you’re doing what you’re told to do, they are paying you too much.
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Passkeys will come at a cost
Firstyear's blog
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A relatively small amount of force applied at just the right place
Explaining Y Combinator