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Serving a website on a Raspberry Pi Zero running in RAM
My micro site, zero.btxx.org , is being served to the public internet from a Raspberry Pi Zero v1.3 running Alpine Linux.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 49,187 posts.
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PC Engine CPU
You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites. This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone.
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Just Use Go
Hey, dipshit. You know what compiles in two seconds, deploys as a single binary, and doesn't shit itself when a transitive dependency gets yanked from npm at 3am? Go. The same way HTML has been sitting there since the dawn of the goddamn internet waiting for you to stop overcomplicating the frontend, Go has been…
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Building a web server in aarch64 assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning
a static http server in aarch64 assembly
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Podman rootless containers and the Copy Fail exploit
On April 29th CVE-2026-31431 was publicly disclosed at https://copy.fail/ . This vulnerability allows a local unprivileged user to obtain a root shell by running the Python script shared by the author.
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The Boring Part of Bell Labs (2025)
It took me a long time to realize that Bell Labs was cool. You see, my dad worked at Bell Labs, and he has not done a single cool thing in his life except create me and bring a telescope to my thir…
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Stop MitM on the first SSH connection, on any VPS or cloud provider
This little script stops attacks on the first SSH connection to a new VM, even on providers (like Hetzner Cloud ) that don't offer a proprietary solution ; we only need cloud-init , which is widely supported .
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dBase: 1979-2026
Litigation, neglect killed dBase. The dBase newsgroup servers went off-line since November 2025. Court-smart dBase vendors and AI accelerated the fall.
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Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit
Oh boy yet more linux kernel vulns
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AI slop is killing online communities
Like a young child coming home from kindergarten with their latest crayon scrawls, the internet is currently awash with people sharing their AI-generated work. And just like the young child’s drawings, much of that work should be proudly put up on the walls within the artist’s house—and no further.
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Agents need control flow, not more prompts
Thesis: reliable agents tackling complex tasks need deterministic control flow encoded in software, not increasingly elaborate prompt chains If you’ve eve...
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I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook
Documenting my journey switching away from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14
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The Serial TTL connector we deserve
Goodbye dangling Dupont pins, hello Julet E-Bike connector. I have them now everywhere, from my router to my servers.
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The Self-Cancelling Subscription
When family TV show night became systems debugging night.
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The map that keeps Burning Man honest
The event's Leave No Trace principle isn't just a promise — it's measured, mapped, and made public.
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Making your own programming language is easier than you think (but also harder)
In mid-December last year I started making my own programming language. It's waaay far from any production quality yet (though I did manage to write a working 1k LOC Monte-Carlo path tracer in it), but the project is on pause right now, so I figured it's a good time to write something about it.
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Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense
Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense
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Mythical Man Month
a bliki entry for Mythical Man Month
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Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI and PXE
Diskless Linux Boot
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RSS feeds send me more traffic than Google
Yeah yeah, I know, data-point of 1. I recently read Susam's blog post where they said that "most of the traffic to my personal website still comes from web feeds" - I wondered if that was true for my site. I've been writing this blog for a while. I've never much bothered with "aggressive" SEO - I have a fairly…
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Bitter Lessons from the ISSpresso
Why launch costs aren't the reason it costs a fortune to do things in space
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Programming Still Sucks
Sorry Peter. — I'm at a birthday party, and while most people here also work in tech, there's always a Guy with a Real Job. You know, a physical job, building some or other thing people need. And this Guy always asks some variant of the same question: aren't you worried AI is taking your job? I glance around and see a…
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Learning the Integral of a Diffusion Model
A deep dive on flow maps.
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I'm writing a history of Visual Basic, Chapter 1 is up
Starting a long-form history of Visual Basic on EvilGeniusLabs.ca. Chapter 1 covers the BASIC dynasty Microsoft had been running since 1975, the California developer Microsoft bought to put a face on it, and the launch pitch Bill Gates seeded in BYTE Magazine eighteen months before VB shipped. Six articles, focused on…
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Going Full Time on Open Source
Why I left Figma to work full-time on open source, and how I plan to make the work sustainable.
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Life During Class Wartime
War is bad. Don’t start one. But we’re already in a class war and we’re losing. Where by “we” I mean most people; the winning side comprises, roughly, the richest 0.1% of the population, who are morphing into a hereditary aristocracy. [I mean that, see below.] So, what to do in a war one didn’t choose?
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Appearing productive in the workplace
AI can produce work that looks expert without being expert. The failure arrives in two shapes, and both are reshaping the workplace.
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We see something that works, and then we understand it
“We see something that works, and then we understand it.” (Thomas Dullien) It is a deeper insight than it seems. Young people spend years in school learning the reverse: understanding happens before progress. That is the linear theory of innovation. So Isaac Newton comes up with his three laws of mechanics, and we get…
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Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like
I recently talked with Joseph Ruscio about AI coding tools for Heavybit’s High Leverage podcast: Ep. #9, The AI Coding Paradigm Shift with Simon Willison. Here are some of my …