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Why does anything exist?
Why does anything exist? Why is there something rather than nothing? Would it not have been easier for there to be nothing at all?
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,821 posts.
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Instagram can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser
I work with U.S. law firms as a non-testifying technical consulting expert on matters involving the Apple platform and iOS apps. Learn more about my litigation consulting.
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Hacking the Hedonic Treadmill
Hacking the happiness treadmill
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Review of /e/ – Android-based alternative for mobile phones
A review of the /e/ OS Android-alternative operating system for mobile devices, as used on the Teracube 2e smartphone.
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How to market to developers on Twitter: Learnings from 4 months of Supabase feed
Sep 01, 2026 - Learnings from going over 4 months of Supabase Twitter feed. Social media marketing tips for dev-focused companies.
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“Autistic people can’t acknowledge when they’re wrong”
I have heard this sentence many times in my life, always in the workplace. This puzzles me as I pride myself on seeking out things I am wrong about and learn...
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How to present to executives (2021)
Have you presented to company executives about a key engineering initiative, walking into the room excited and leaving defeated? Maybe you only made it to your second slide before unrelated questions derailed the discussion. Maybe you worked through your entire presentation only to have folks say, “Great job,” and…
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Why aren't smart people happier?
A new way to think about brainpower.
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Faster Ruby: Thoughts from the outside
(This is Part II of the Faster Ruby posts, which started with a retrospective on Ruby+OMR, a Ruby JIT compiler I worked on five years ago )
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How to choose the right Python concurrency API
In this tutorial, you will discover a helpful step-by-step procedure and helpful questions to guide you to the most appropriate concurrency API.
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Reddit’s database has two tables (2012)
Steve Huffman talks about Reddit’s approach to data storage in a High Scalability post from 2010. I was surprised to learn that they only have two tables in their database.
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Falling for Kubernetes
I default to bare metal where I can. But recently I had to adopt a more complicated server management solution. And after a couple months of building for kubernetes, I must admit I'm falling for it more every day.
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Tornado cash takedown and its repercussions
HN Discussion
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The state of South Africa, 28ish years post-apartheid
A blog containing essays, of varying cogency, about various things that my mind have wandered to.
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Lz_xor
If LZ compression is compilation , what other instructions are useful to add? I've spent the last several years, off and on, trying to figur...
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Noether's Theorem in a Nutshell (2020)
Noether's theorem is an amazing result which lets physicists get conserved quantities from symmetries of the laws of nature. Time translation symmetry gives conservation of energy; space translation symmetry gives conservation of momentum; rotation symmetry gives conservation of angular momentum, and so on.
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The problem with Go’s default HTTP handlers
Explicit > Implicit
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From novice to master, and back again (2013)
In 1985, I was a freshman at St. Olaf College in Minnesota. The college had a VAX 11/780 running 4.2BSD and a PDP-11/70 running v7 with some Berkeley and local code hacked in. It was my first exper…
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Hydroponics: Growing an appreciation for plants
I once heard a saying – “Don’t feel pity on plants because they can’t move. Feel pity on us, because we have to”. I really didn’t have an appreciation for what this meant until the COVID pandemic hit, which restricted my movement for a couple of years, and I decided to spend some of my new-found time at home learning…
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“Who Should Write the Terraform?”
Working in Cloud Native consulting , I’m often asked about who should do various bits of ‘the platform work ‘.
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How do palm trees survive hurricanes? (2017)
The destructive force of typhoons and hurricanes are no joking matter. Human structures are torn to shreds and flooded in the blink of an eye. It is devastating to say the least. With all of this destruction, one must wonder how native flora and fauna have coped with such forces over millions of years. The true…
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Area 5150: 8088 MPH gets a successor
In case you have missed it, over the weekend, a new demo for IBM PC with CGA was released at Evoke, under the name Area 5150. It placed first in the competition, which should not surprise anyone: I…
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Achieving an open-source implementation of Apple Code Signing and notarization
As I've previously blogged in Pure Rust Implementation of Apple Code Signing (2021-04-14) and Expanding Apple Ecosystem Access with Open Source, Multi Platform Code signing (2022-04-25), I've been hacking on an open source implementation of Apple code signing and notarization using the Rust programming language. This…
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IKEA Symfonisk Gen2 Amp Modification Guide – A Much Cheaper Sonos Amp
A guide and video on how to modify an Ikea Symfonisk Gen2 Speaker into a general purpose Sonos Amplifier.
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Using unwrap() in Rust is okay
One day before Rust 1.0 was released, I published a blog post covering the fundamentals of error handling . A particularly important but small section buried in the middle of the article is named “ unwrapping isn’t evil ”. That section briefly described that, broadly speaking, using unwrap() is okay if it’s in…
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Run your own DALL-E-like image generator
Run your own text to image prompts with CUDA, a bunch of disk space, and an insane amount of memory.
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No More “Insight Porn”
If you’re not getting something actionable out of it, you’re probably wasting your time
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MiniRust
I have been thinking about the semantics of Rust – as in, the intended behavior of Rust programs when executed, in particular those containing unsafe code – a lot. Probably too much. But al...
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Vector graphics on GPU
Using GPU to render vector graphics.