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Getting a vanity phone number with four consecutive digits
Automating Verizon number searches to find rare phone numbers with repeating digits.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 49,219 posts.
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The Story of Heroku
Heroku made it easy for any developer to build and run applications in the cloud without managing their own infrastructure. Now, 15 years later, it continues to inspire the next generation of developers.
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Embracing Modern C++ Safely, Book Review
C++11 has been around for around 11 years and C++14 for 8. From my experience, I see that even today, many companies struggle to use those standards in production in the most efficient way. As always, with new stuff came benefits, risks, and increased learning effort. Fortunately, with a new book written by top C++…
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A decade of dotfiles
Reflections on a decade of configuration files.
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How to Store an SSH Key on a Yubikey
Xe Iaso's personal website.
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Really Prolific?
Well, it’s been a while since the FTDI fuckup so I guess it was a time for another IC supplier to go bonkers. Yes, it’s again time for a chip manufacturer to mess with your computer drivers. Story starts with me searching for 5V USB cable with a 3.3V…
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Algorithmic stablecoins are provably impossible without continuous funding
Financial theory demonstrates that the concept is fundamentally flawed
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What is the web revival?
Hello, brave netizen! If you’ve found your way onto this guide then you have embarked on the first exciting step into the Web Revival. This guide will give you the low down on all things web! By the end of it you’ll know what the Web Revival is, what it stands for, and how you can take part in it; grab your browser…
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Lisp, Smalltalk, and the power of symmetry (2014)
Like many hackers, my first real programming language love was Lisp. Paul Graham, who inspired my own explorations of the language, is a particular advocate and has written quite a bit about Lisp a…
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Setting up a Pi Hole made my home network faster
Discover how a single Raspberry Pi can speed up your home network by acting as a DNS server. Learn the steps to set up Pi-hole and enjoy faster, more secure internet today!
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Building a Budget Homelab NAS Server
How I chose parts, built, and configured my first custom home storage server.
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In defense of coding interviews
What did whiteboards ever do to you?
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Chaos: The real problem with quantum mechanics
Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
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Once in a Lifetime
Here is what might possibly be my single favorite song in the world:
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Paginating Requests in APIs (2020)
When exposing large data sets through APIs, it needs to provide a mechanism to paginate the list of resources. There are multiple…
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What I wish I knew about onboarding
Mindset, 100-day plan, and balancing learning and taking action to earn trust.
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Reverse engineering Xiaomi air purifier NFC stickers
For a very thorough write-up on how this all works , please visit : https://unethical.info/2024/01/24/hacking-my-air-purifier/
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Code quality only matters in context (2019)
I used to obsess about code quality earlier in my career. My experience indicates that I'm in good company here; a lot of us developers spend so much time growing our programming skills, and that kind of drive comes from intrinsic motivation. We care about what we do, and we want to do it well.
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Terraform should have remained stateless
For major providers, Terraform does not really need state. My proposal: add a ’none’ backend that uses the provider APIs as state. Here’s how.
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Investing in lighting did great things for my mental and physical health
Controlling lighting is an extremely powerful force on your daily life satisfaction
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The age of Scrum is over
Scrum has given us a lot, but its time for some conscious uncoupling
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How to stop a robot vacuum from getting stuck on the laundry rack
Is your robotic vacuum cleaner getting stuck on the laundry drying rack? Just raise the rack slightly off the floor and it becomes a natural robot barrier.
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Can growth continue?
A five-minute talk for Ignite Long Now
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Architecture Notes: Datasette
Simon is the creator of Datasette and co-creator of Django web framework. Formerly he was a JSK journalism fellow at Stanford, and prior to that an Engineering Director at Eventbrite.
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Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target Hosts (2021)
This post lists the internet communication targets of the Microsoft Windows operating system, including its various services and UWP apps. This post is a part of my application network connection monitoring series, a group of articles that explain how to analyze the network traffic of any Windows or macOS app.