1951
The Elephant at WWDC
Every developer should watch the 5 videos about DocC from WWDC. But it’s really a plaintive cry for help. Until Apple squares up and addresses the problem, it can only grow worse.
New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,497 posts.
1952
Goodbye Freenode
For the last month or so, the IRC world has been embroiled in drama over the new ownership of Freenode. For me, it culminated yesterday when I was banned from Freenode.
1953
Rust 1.x seems to not always be backward compatible in practice
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…
1954
Animal testing is exploitative and largely ineffective
Texts on this and that.
1955
Infosec Core Competencies
An incomplete list of (technical) things just about anybody working in Information Security would benefit from knowing.
1956
Git for Computer Scientists (2010)
Quick introduction to git internals for people who are not scared by words like Directed Acyclic Graph .
1957
Practical Reed-Solomon for Programmers
Recently I was doing some work decoding the new Galileo High Accuracy Service data. In short, this new service will allow Galileo (“European GPS”) users to achieve decimeter-level accuracy, which is nice. This “HAS” data is transmitted highly redundantly by making good use of Reed-Solomon encoding. To work with this…
1958
Gemini's "uselessness" is its killer feature
So it’s borderline useless for all but the simplest use cases, and even there it does a very subpar job. I’d like to have an inline image every now and then, or organize things in some multi-column layouts or the like, or a table. 19th century newspapers could do this, and if your technology can’t emulate typography…
1959
1960
The Enterprise Eats Software
Just now, Avdi had a miserable experience buying curtains. He went to pick up an order that he placed last night, but Lowe’s didn’t have it. The order was sent to the wrong store and it…
1961
A few thoughts on Fuchsia security
I want to say a few words about my current adventure. I joined the Fuchsia project at its inception and worked on the daunting task of buil...
1962
1963
Asynchronous Everything (2015)
Joe Duffy's Blog | Adventures in the high-tech underbelly
1964
My first Z80 assembly language program
I was 9 years old. A revision of the notebook containing my first Z80 assembly language program
1965
1966
SSH quoting
A while back there was a thread on one of our company mailing lists about SSH quoting, and I posted a long answer to it. Since then a few people have asked me questions that caused me to reach for it, so I thought it might be helpful if I …
1967
Surprising Shared Word Etymologies
I find word etymologies fascinating . Every word we speak or write sits unassumingly on the surface of a rich history, sometimes spanning millenia.
1968
1969
How to average floating point numbers (2015)
When it comes to accuracy, how you add a series of arbitrary values together, and average them still matters.
1970
The Queen’s Latin or Who Were the Romans? Part I: Beginnings and Legends
Bret Devereaux (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)2021125 points79 commentscited by 4History & Retro Computing details
Who were the Romans? How did they understand themselves as a people and ‘Roman’ as an identity? And what were the implications of that understanding – and perhaps more importantly…
1971
Fitting a FORTH in 512 bytes
Software is full of circular dependencies if you look deep enough. Compilers written in the language they compile are the most obvious example, but not the only one. To compile a kernel, you need a running kernel. Linkers, build systems, shells. Even text editors, if you want to write the code instead of just…
1972
Raspberry Pi WiFi to ethernet bridge
The goal is to connect a non-WiFi computer to a WiFi network using a Raspberry Pi. We will use a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B as a bridge between the non-WiFi computer and the WiFi network. The Raspberry Pi connects to WiFi and shares its connection with other computers over Ethernet. These instructions were only tested and…
1973
Good and Bad Elixir
Words from Chris Keathley
1974
Moving my home media library from iTunes to Jellyfin and Infuse
Since 2008, I've ripped every DVD and Blu-Ray I bought to my Mac, with a collection of SD and HD media totaling around 2 TB today. To make that library accessible, I've always used iTunes and the iTunes Shared Library functionality that—while it still exists today—seems to be on life support, in kind of a "we still…
1975
My startup journey
How I “failed” at a YC startup, worked at early Stripe, and then raised $20M
1976
The work-from-home future is destroying bosses' brains
DO NOT SUBSCRIBE HERE subscribe at wheresyoured.at. Click to read DO NOT SUBSCRIBE HERE subscribe at wheresyoured.at, by Ed Zitron, a Substack publication.
1977
Rqlite 6.0: the evolution of a distributed database design
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. v6.0.0 is out now and makes clustering more robust. It also lays the foundation for more important features. What's new in 6.0? 6.0 multiplexes multiple logical connections between rqlite nodes…
1978
No general method to detect fraud
The parts of a convincing deception
1979
Always Be Quitting
A good philosophy to live by at work is to “always be quitting”. No, don’t be constantly thinking of leaving your job 😱. But act as if you might leave on short notice 😎. Counterintuitively, this will make you a better engineer and open up growth opportunities. A thread 👇.
1980
