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No NAT November: My month without IPv4
Near the beginning of November, nixCraft posted this challenge on Mastodon, daring people to take the No NAT November challenge and disable IPv4 for the month, relying only on IPv6:
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,433 posts.
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I algorithmically donated $5000 to Open Source
Notable case of algorithmic approach to open source and non-profit giving
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Derivative at a Discontinuity
Alok Singh's Blog
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LLM abstraction levels inspired by fish eye lens
We often think of the same information at different levels or abstraction. Here's a simple example:
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My brand new digitizing workflow using a 25 year old film scanner
Photography is arguably my oldest hobby. I’ve loved taking photos for as long as I can remember. I reflected on my first encounter with digital photography in 2003 in a recent post, but I’m old enough…
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Tweaking Stunt Island's 30-year-old 3D engine
Note: the patch is available at the end of the article ( HERE ). This post is about its making-of.
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Phishers Love New TLDs Like .shop, .top and .xyz
Phishing attacks increased nearly 40 percent in the year ending August 2024, with much of that growth concentrated at a small number of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) — such as .shop , .top , .xyz — that attract scammers with rock-bottom prices and no meaningful registration requirements, new research finds…
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Dependency management fatigue, or why I ditched React for Go+HTMX+Templ
After getting to work on some personal projects using Go+HTMX+Templ this year, I have decided to give up on using React on any personal projects. You can actually find a lot of compelling arguments for ditching React in favor of HTMX in the essays found in the HTMX official website. But I feel that not that many…
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A simple way to scale pixel art games
Previously in How to present MS-DOS screenshots , I encouraged readers to take the original pixel aspect ratio into account when showing pictures of old games. There’s also a subtler issue to consider: the blur analog display systems had.
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No need to email me about Cisco AnyConnect
My name and email address can be found in the VPN client application made by Cisco called AnyConnect. They are present there as part of the curl license, because this product - like thousands of others - uses libcurl. My name appears in many products. Apparently, people often have problems finding an appropriate…
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Y Combinator and Power in Silicon Valley
A demonstration of power by Silicon Valley’s top startup accelerator.
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Raspberry Pi boosts Pi 5 performance with SDRAM tuning
tl;dr Raspberry Pi engineers tweaked SDRAM timings and other memory settings on the Pi, resulting in a 10-20% speed boost at the default 2.4 GHz clock. I of course had to test overclocking, which got me a 32% speedup at 3.2 GHz! Changes may roll out in a firmware update for all Pi 5 and Pi 4 users soon. My quest for…
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Next-level frosted glass with backdrop-filter
Glassy headers have become a core part of the “slick startup” UI toolkit, but they’re all missing that final 10% that really makes it shine. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create the most realistic lush frosted glass anywhere on the internet.
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Lessons I learned working at an art gallery
1. It is possible to turn a mediocre job into a great one
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Distributed Erlang
I'm a two hit wonder
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8 months of OCaml after 8 years of Haskell in production (2023)
Dmitrii Kovanikov's Personas Web Space
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Kenya and "the decline of the greatest coffee" (2021)
During one of his “yes or no” Instagram Q&As, Scott Rao lamented the declining quality of Kenyan coffees over the last three years—a sentiment I’ve heard echoed by buyers across Europe, the US, and Australia. He kicked a different question over to me about whether cultivar or microclimate or process has the greatest…
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PostgreSQL High Availability Solutions – Part 1: Jepsen Test and Patroni
Note: code used in this article can be found on the Github repo jepsen-postgres-ha .
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Bicameral, Not Homoiconic
Parenthetically Speaking: Articles by Shriram Krishnamurthi
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Demystifying Git Submodules
Demystifying git submodules by showing exactly how they work.
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Thinking in Actors – Challenging your software modelling to be simpler
Challenging your software modelling techniques to be simpler
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Programming the C64 with Visual Studio Code
How to program the Commodore 64 in BASIC, Assembly or C using Microsoft Visual Studio Code on Mac, Windows and Linux!
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Kubernetes on Hetzner: cutting my infra bill by 75%
Hi, my name is Bill. I’m a software engineer based in London. This is a blog about software development.
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Map UI – Ghost in the Shell
Map UI (User Interface) for the film “Ghost in the Shell” Copyright Shirow Masamune / Kodansha • Bandai Visual • Manga Entertainment •
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You must read at least one book to ride
The first is going to sound bad in a culture where engineers are encouraged to apologize for existing while it is totally acceptable for a grifter that can't code to insist that they're a "thought leader". It is that, in my immediate professional environment, I am consistently acknowledged to be one of the best…
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Square roots and maxima
A brief numerical and graphical check on a 3Blue1Brown video.
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Accessing a DRM Framebuffer to display an image
To test if a display interface works we often don't want to use a huge framework like GTK or Qt. This article shows an easy way on how we can use a framebuffer directly on a DRM graphics driver under Linux.