19861
Reverse-engineering an unusual IBM modem board from 1965
The vintage IBM circuit board below has a large metal block on it that caught my attention, so I investigated it in detail. It turns out t...
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Always-on Processor magic: How Find My works while iPhone is powered off
Wireless and firmware hacking, PhD life, Technology
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Dublin Core's dirty little secret (2010)
[This is part two in a series — you should read part 1 first for context and then you might go on to part 3.] The Dublin Core — metadata made dumb Just when librarians were in despair o…
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Things Unlearned
One of my favorite questions to ask people is: what are some things that you used to strongly believe but have now changed your mind about?
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Cloudflare's Disruption
Cloudflare’s new storage offering is potentially disruptive both economically and strategically.
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Are software engineering “best practices” just developer preferences?
My housemate the other day asked me something to the effect of “How can Software Engineers call themselves engineers when there’s no rules, governing bodies, or anything to stipulate what true Software Engineering is?”
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The greatest resume I've ever seen
He had zero cloud experience ... or did he?
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The biggest churches in the world: Anglo-Norman eleventh-century cathedrals
Usually the idea of what a cathedral ought to be, that is, a colossal church building with a vast hall-like interior verging on the sublime, is said to originate in France in the twelfth century. A…
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Writing Python Extensions in Assembly
A deep-dive technical overview of how you can write CPython extensions in assembly (with a bonus tutorial on assembly programming)
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Apple didn't revolutionize power supplies; new transistors did (2012)
The new biography Steve Jobs contains a remarkable claim about the power supply of the Apple II and its designer Rod Holt: [1] Instead o...
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What's New in React 18?
Welcome to my website!
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Dithered images and websites (2020)
That's a lot of data. More bytes on average than html, css, fonts, and javascript combined.
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In software, when an engineer exits the team
My perspective when a team member gives their notice
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Why is everything so hard in a large organization?
Update : this post has comments on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28692026 You're a member of a team that is part of a large organiza...
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The Value of In-House Expertise
An alternate title for this post might be, "Twitter has a kernel team!?". At this point, I've heard that surprised exclamation enough that I've lost count of the number times that's been said to me (I'd guess that it's more than ten but less than a hundred). If we look at trendy companies that are within a couple…
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Apple AirTag Bug Enables ‘Good Samaritan’ Attack
The new $30 AirTag tracking device from Apple has a feature that allows anyone who finds one of these tiny location beacons to scan it with a mobile phone and discover its owner’s phone number if the AirTag has been set to lost mode. But according to new research, this same feature can be abused to redirect the Good…
19881
Abstraction, intuition, and the “monad tutorial fallacy” (2009)
While working on an article for the Monad.Reader, I’ve had the opportunity to think about how people learn and gain intuition for abstraction, and the implications for pedagogy. The heart of …
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Podman in Linux
Podman is the new cool kid on the block. Podman is a deamonless container(OCI) engine for Linux. It's the natural open-source Docker replac...
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Xi Jinping’s War on Spontaneous Order
Yesterday the Wall Street Journal published a letter I wrote to their editor in response to Kevin Rudd’s exposition on Xi Jinping’s “Common Prosperity” campaign:
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The code worked differently when the moon was full
I love a good bug, especially ones that are initially hard to explain but then ...
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Tools to measure software energy consumption from your computer
Measuring the energy consumption of software is far from being a trivial task. This article provides essential details about energy consumption tools, their...
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Alexander von Humboldt: the first Solarpunk
Humbolt was captivated by lush nature but loved humanity and the new technological developments. He believed that if we understand Nature and the laws governing her, we can create a sustainable future. He was the first Solarpunk and here are his ideas
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Stack size invisibility in C and the effects on "portability"
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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Revenge Bedtime Procrastination
This is the Sunday edition of Culture Study — the newsletter from Anne Helen Petersen, which you can read about here. If you like it and want more like it in your inbox, consider subscribing.
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