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The economics of writing technical books
Yes, you can make money writing books. But never do it for that.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,433 posts.
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Bytecode Breakdown: Unraveling Factorio's Lua Security Flaws
Dynamic languages are safe from memory corruptions bugs, right?
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A bunch of programming advice I'd give to myself 15 years ago
I finally have the feeling that I’m a decent programmer, so I thought it would be fun to write some advice with the idea of “what would have gotten me to this point faster?” I’m not claiming this is great advice for everyone, just that it would have been good advice for me. If you (or your team) are shooting…
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How I overcame my addiction to sugar
Overcoming any addiction is hard. Sugar is very addictive and bad for your health. Here's my journey fighting with that addiction so far in case it can help anyone out there.
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All web "content" is freeware
By Ruben Schade in Eora/Sydney, Australia.
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Neo Geo Architecture: A practical analysis
An in-depth analysis that explains how this console works internally
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The XAES-256-GCM extended-nonce AEAD
XAES-256-GCM is a new AEAD extended-nonce algorithm designed for high-level APIs and FIPS 140 compliance.
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A Eulogy for DevOps
The DevOps movement has died out. What went wrong?
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Apple II graphics: More than you wanted to know
The Apple ][ is one of the most iconic vintage computers of all time. But since Wozniak’s monster lasted all the way until 1993 (1995 if you could the IIe ca...
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Quaternion Differentiation (2012)
I wanted to point someone to a short explanation of this today and noticed, with some surprise, that I couldn’t find something concise within 5 minutes of googling. So it seems worth writing …
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Understanding React Compiler
Cache all the things. How React Compiler works under-the-hood.
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The Death of NYC Congestion Pricing
And What is Says About the Institutional Problems in American Cities & Infrastructure
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Everything I Knew About Stretching Was Wrong
In the past 12 months my body’s mobility and flexibility went from abysmal, a source of persistent pain impacting my quality of life, to pretty darn good. I’m not about to become a stretching influencer, but after a year of researching, trial and error, and hard work I feel back on track and like I... Continue reading…
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Making the Kinopio source code public
On the eve of it’s 5th anniversary, I’ve decided to make the code for the kinopio-client app public. That means you can run Kinopio on your own computer, make changes, and share improvements.
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How to think about creating a dataset for LLM fine-tuning evaluation
I summarise the kinds of evaluations that are needed for a structured data generation task.
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Flow Charts with CSS Anchor Positioning
Learn how to use CSS Anchor Positioning to create flow charts and diagram with just CSS.
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Eplot: A new package for making charts in Emacs
One of the items on my todo list was: And that’s because I’ve been looking for an easy way to do simple plots for yonks. When I did a post about movie ratings, I tried chart.el: It̵…
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Claude 3.5 Sonnet
There is a new clear best (non-tiny) LLM.
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DoorDash and Pizza Arbitrage (2020)
There is such a thing as a free lunch
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Will we ever get fusion power?
“Every one of the stars in the sky uses fusion to generate enormous amounts of energy. Why shouldn’t we?”
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gRPC: The Bad Parts
gRPC isn't perfect but who is?
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My (Neo)Vim workflow
A guy decides to show off his Neovim setup.
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The Point of the Banach Tarski Theorem (2015)
One of my favourite Limited Audience Jokes (although technically it's actually a riddle) goes:
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FICO and the Credit Bureau Cartel
Mortgage lenders face destruction as a cartel of Experian, TransUnion, and Equifax work with FICO to drive them out of business. Regulator and anti-monopolist Rohit Chopra is pushing back.
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The album art of Phil Hartmann (2022)
You might remember him from such roles as Troy McClure or Lionel Hutz, but in the years before legendary comic Phil Hartman shaved the second ‘n’ from his name, he was designing album art for some West Coast rock bands.
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A brief introduction to interval arithmetic
Why x^2 isn't always x*x.
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Fixing QuickLook (2023)
How I Still Use Flash in 2022