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My take on how DuckDuckGo can outperform Google
The Current Status Quo
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 49,218 posts.
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Is this the end of social networking?
Scott Rosenberg , in a piece with the title “Sunset of the social network” , writes at Axios:
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Qt signal is ten times slower than a virtual function
I defined a QT Object that contains an integer value and uses QT signal along with awl::Observable based on virtual functions to notify the subscribers when the value changes:
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From Oscilloscope to Wireshark: A UDP Story
Like many of you, I've got hardware on my desk that's sending UDP packets, and the time has come to take a closer look at them.
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Redis explained
A deep technical dive into all things Redis. Covering various Redis topologies, data persistence and process forking.
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The Reason Why Are Trucks Getting Bigger
It's not "ego." It's a claim that you encounter a lot—an insult really—that people are buying bigger and bigger trucks to compensate for… so...
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Things I learnt doing stand-up comedy
Coming on Stage for my Set. From March to April 2022 I took part in a 6 week stand-up comedy course for beginners at The Comedy St...
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IPFS and Their Gateways
The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is according to the Wikipedia description: "a protocol, hypermedia and file sharing peer-to-peer network for storing and sharing data in a distributed file system.". It works a little like bittorrent and you typically access content on it using a very long hash in an ipfs:// URL…
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Operating well – what I learned at Stripe
Over the last few years, I’ve grown from a fine to a good operator.
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There aren't that many uses for blockchains
Criteria for judging when a blockchain is applicable
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Walking Tokyo for Seven Days
A pop-up newsletter running from August 15-21, 2022
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Emacs and Eev, Or: How to Automate Almost Everything
Eduardo Ochs http://angg.twu.net/#eev eduardoochs@gmail.com (HTML version: 2007oct01)
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Let websites framebust out of native apps
Back in 1996, the website TotalNews.com had a brilliantly evil idea. Why not make a single website that itself contained all the top American news websites, directly embedded within?
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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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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.