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Non-Consensual Personalization
Illustration from unDraw I want to personalize things I use. I want to change the settings. I want to change the colors, the desi...
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 49,223 posts.
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Why and How I Got My Own ASN
In this article, I'll explain how, and why I acquired an Autonomous System Number and some IPv6 addresses.
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An introduction to type programming in TypeScript
The official site of Zhenghao He, a software engineer and a TypeScript/JavaScript enthusiast.
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mmWave radar, you won't see it coming
Made in Notion, the connected workspace where AI agents and teams organize docs, projects and knowledge together.
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On Why I'm Quitting Alcohol
Essay 52
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The complicated futility of WordPress
The challenges of working in opposition to the world's larget blogging platform.
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Analysis of Magic Leap 2 at SPIE AR/VR/Mr 2022
Magic Leap 2 Presentation Was the Hit of the Conference Kevin Curtis (Curtis), Magic Leap’s VP of Optical Engineering, presentation “Unveiling Magic Leap 2’s Advanced AR Platform and Re…
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Furiosa's Cat Feeder (2016)
Furiosa’s Cat Feeder
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Code colocation is king
A simple principle to help structure code better
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The web starts on page four
After 25 years of working for, on and with the web, I am looking at the current state of it and I don’t like it. There is still a lot of beautiful, creative and amazing work out there, but on the whole, we lost an amazing opportunity. In its place we have a consumption machine that creates bubbles and assumes new…
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Predicting the tide with an analog computer made from Lego
Didn't you ever wish your<br>computer understood you?
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Push Notifications, WebXR, and better PWA support coming to iOS
New APIs, capabilities, bugs, and challenges for Safari and PWAs running in iOS 15.4 and iPadOS 15.4, including Web Push Notifications, WebXR
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Installing Every Arch Package
Using algorithms and Julia to install as many packages as possible from the Arch Linux official repositories
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How to Explain an Idea
What's an idea? What sorts of ideas are there? And how to explain them once you have them?
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The Economics of Data Businesses
How data businesses start, and how they keep going, and growing, and growing.
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A short introduction to the undeciphered Aegean writing systems
Every so often a news article will make the rounds of the internet – or, for that matter, a paper will be published in an academic journal – presenting a new ‘decipherment’ …
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SimpleDB: A Basic RDBMS Built from Scratch
My databases class at UCLA wasn’t very challenging so I never truly understood the internals of databases. This always bothered me so I vowed to build a simple database from scratch to learn the fundamentals. MIT's Database Systems course has their students implement a simple database from scratch and it provided me…
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Red Light Green Light
I was listening to the Tim Ferriss Show podcast episode #532 with Sheila Heen (Harvard Negotiation Project, co-author of Difficult Conversations: How To Discuss What Matters Most) and a specific story she told during the conversation really resonated with me and I have been thinking alot about it since I heard it…
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Pay attention to WebAssembly
Read in Japanese thanks to the folks at POSTD.
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It's dire: Raspberry Pi availability tracker
Yesterday André Costa emailed me about his new website, rpilocator. It's a website to track Raspberry Pi 4 model B, Compute Module 4, Pi Zero 2 W, and Pico availability across multiple retailers in different countries. In his own words: This database was created out of frustration trying to locate a Raspberry Pi…
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The unreasonable effectiveness of one-on-ones
When I started dating my partner, I quickly noticed that grad school was making her very sad. This was shortly after I’d started leading an engineering team at Wave, and so the “obvious” hypothesis to me was that the management (okay, “management”) one gets in graduate school is totally ineffective. Most graduate…
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Gains I'm seeing from my second brain tool
Field notes on shipping fast, privacy-first, evergreen web products.
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Yemen's bifurcated monetary system
Over the last five years Yemen has stumbled into a unique monetary situation. I initially wrote about Yemen's odd currency status two years ...
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Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a different web
I'm Left Handed is a blog mostly about technology.
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The Awk state machine parser pattern (2018)
I run the Ganglia Monitoring System on the home lan to keep an eye on temperatures, loads, disk usages, network throughput and such on the gateway and, more recently, my desktop workstation as well 1 1 The primary reason is that I have noticed some instability, and I would like to know if it’s related to temperature…
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Generate static sites from Markdown files with Caddy (2018)
Caddy can not only serve files fast and safely. It can also generate static files from markdown, so you dont need a generator.