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Notes on streaming large API responses
I started a Twitter conversation last week about API endpoints that stream large amounts of data as an alternative to APIs that return 100 results at a time and require …
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Hierarchical Structures in PostgreSQL (2020)
Modelling hierarchical/team/categorical/tag data with arbitrary depths.
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Moving from Hey to Fastmail
A summary on my personal experience and how you can do it too!
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Go 1.17 is deprecating the traditional use of 'go get'
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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The Future of Games is an Instant Flash to the past
The success of an open source browser game called Friday Night Funkin tells us where "instant games" might go. Hint: we've been here before.
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The Queen’s Latin or Who Were the Romans, Part II: Citizens and Allies
Bret Devereaux (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)2021140 points54 commentsHistory & Retro Computing details
This is the second part (I, II, III, IV, V) of a series asking the question ‘Who were the Romans?’ How did they understand themselves as a people and the idea of ‘Roman’ as …
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Fun and dystopia with AI-based code generation using GPT-J-6B
At the least, AI-generated code is much more readable than the average human’s.
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Teaching open-source software in North Korea
In 2016, I went to North Korea to teach a class of masters students how to contribute to open source software . Here’s an image from one of my lectures:
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My “Investment Mindset”
The year was 2007. I was a college student attending a 24-hour hackathon where we had had to build something on top of live trucking data. We were given an API that sent GPS and other metadata for 100 trucks roaming across Europe, the data updating every five seconds.
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Introduction to Locality-Sensitive Hashing
Locality-sensitive hashing (LSH) is a set of techniques that dramatically speed up search-for-neighbors or near-duplication detection on data. These techniques can be used, for example, to filter out duplicates of scraped web pages at an impressive speed, or to perform near-constant-time lookups of nearby points from…
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The myth of the myth of the lone genius
The Myth of the Lone Genius is a bullshit cliche and we would do well to stop parroting it to young people like it is some deep insight into the nature of innovation.
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Opinion-Driven Design
Some of my personal thoughts on how we design open source projects
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The Prosperous Software Consultant (2018)
Are you curious about breaking into software consulting? In this post, I’ve laid out 7 steps to living a fulfilling life as a consultant…
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Librem 5 Evergreen vs. PinePhone (Part 2)
It’s been about half a year since I wrote my original post comparing the Librem 5 and Pinephone. The original post saw some controversy as well as quite a bit of attention on Hacker News . Surprisingly, for a market dominated by new tech every year, there remains quite a bit of interest in these two devices.
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New Elixir 1.12 – The developer’s point of view
The Elixir 1.12 version introduced some significant changes. The main one is the ability to create scripts and import dependencies via Mix.install. The interactive console can be more helpful in the software development, prototyping and debugging processes.
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PipeWire Under the Hood
The PipeWire project is slowly getting popular as it matures. Its documentation is still relatively sparse but is gradually growing. However, it's always a good idea to have people from outside the project try to grasp and explain it to others in their own words, reiterating ideas, seeing them from their own…
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I made 50k calls to explore the telephone network
Post describing my research wardialing Finnish freephones.
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The Most Dangerous Censorship
Invisible but present, and far from the eyes of the public
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Subclassing in Python Redux
The conflict between subclassing and composition is as old as object-oriented programming. The latest crop of languages like Go or Rust prove that you don’t need subclassing to successfully write code. But what’s a pragmatic approach to subclassing in Python, specifically?
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A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python
Musings of a Computer Scientist.
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Onboarding to Elixir
I've worked with a number of clients on Elixir projects and I've onboarded myself, I've been onboarded and I've onboarded others. And compared to my experiences with PHP/Python/Javascript and my limited experience with C#/.Net I have experienced quite a difference.
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What's Inside the EU Green Pass QR Code?
Here in Austria, you need to be either vaccinated against, tested negative for, or have recovered from COVID-19 to go to the pub (or pretty much everywhere) right now. If you don't want to carry around your paperwork proving one of those, you can alternatively show your Green Pass QR code to be let in.
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Patent Trolling’s twin: Copyright trolling
Patent Trolling’s twin: Copyright trolling I’ve covered Patent Trolling in some detail in the movie The Patent Scam. Today I’ll briefly go over a variation on […]
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URLs: It's Complicated
Let's play silly games with URLs...
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Your CPU may have slowed down on Wednesday
The death of hardware store optimization.
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FastText is the best text classification library for a quick baseline
Text classification is a very frequent use case for machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP). It’s used for things like spam detection in emails, sentiment analysis for social media posts, or intent detection in chat bots. In this series I am going to compare several libraries that can be used to…
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Apple is building the metaverse substrate
I thought it might be fun to take a semi-serious look at technology from the Apples WWDC21 keynote, and how it might help building the metaverse. I may have spent way too much time watching sessions at 1.5x, and it may have broken my brain a little.