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Old Spleens Suck (2021)
Why? We Just Don't Know.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,821 posts.
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The Edited Latecomer’s Guide to Crypto
A group of cryptocurrency researchers and critics annotate the irresponsible cryptocurrency puff piece that was originally published in the New York Times.
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I built a receipt printer for GitHub issues
I wanted a way to have physical tickets from GitHub in front of me. One Epson printer, a Raspberry Pi, and some PHP later, I had a working system in place.
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Making a Stainless Steel Rubik's Cube
I wasn't entirely satisfied with the aluminum cube , so after thinking about the design for a while, I decided to make another one out of stainless steel. Just for fun, I thought I would make all the pieces using only manual machines. How hard could it be?
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Epistemic legibility: being easy to argue with is a virtue
Tl;dr: being easy to argue with is a virtue, separate from being correct. Introduction Regular readers of my blog know of my epistemic spot check series, where I take claims (evidential or logical)…
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VoWiFi
I haven't written for a bit, in part because I am currently on vacation in Mexico. Well, here's a short piece about some interesting behavior I've noticed here.
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Java Development on an Apple M1 – A One Year Review
Collection of pitfalls, tips & tricks, and workarounds for Java development on an Apple M1 processor (ARM64): Testcontainers, Docker, Testing
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The flood that filled the Mediterranean Sea - in one year
"Zanclean Megaflood? What's that, a glam-rock band?"
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How to add thousands of lights to your renderer and not die in the process
Why ReSTIR is good for you.
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The end of the nice GTK button
A look into my favorite Adwaita button and why I'm not happy it's going away
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Arguing Without Warning
We should encourage more public disagreement.
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I became the world's most prolific DJ, using code
Or a clickbait title: How I became the world’s most prolific DJ, using code.This week I stumbled across a cool project: All The Music.Damien Riehl (programm...
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Modern PHP
While I wasn’t paying attention, PHP got quite good
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I have quit my job
Several years ago, I decided to quit freelancing and do a day job. The job would pay much less but I was struggling with mental health (ADHD). On my therapist's suggestion, I decided to give the job thing a try. It worked wonderfully, my struggles with discipline are a thing of past. Or so I believe.
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AWS Graviton vs. M1 vs. M1 Pro Node.js Benchmarks
I am lucky in that I have a few side projects which have grown up to become full fledged companies. One of them builds little tools to detect different types of financial crime.
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But life had other plans
In May 2021 I took a sabbatical to take care of family, but things did not go as planned.
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A Closer Look at the Lapsus$ Data Extortion Group
Microsoft and identity management platform Okta both this week disclosed breaches involving LAPSUS$ , a relatively new cybercrime group that specializes in stealing data from big companies and threatening to publish it unless a ransom demand is paid. Here’s a closer look at LAPSUS$, and some of the low-tech but…
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Pocket-sized cloud with a Raspberry Pi
Put your pocket-sized silicon to work as the world's smallest API-driven cloud - to run automation scripts, scheduled tasks, functions and to host web sites
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The Wisdom in Kung Fu Panda
Laughing All The Way To Peace, Harmony, and Focus
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Happiness and the Art of Being (2012)
Error on Requested Web Page: The teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi
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How to properly interpret a traceroute or mtr
traceroute vs mtr When a packet travels across the Internet, it travels through multiple routers. The traceroute and mtr tools can be used to identify the routers a packet passes through between you and a given destination IP address. traceroute is a one-shot sort of tool whereas mtr runs and agg
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I won an award from the FSF for my contributions to Emacs
In this video I thank the Free Software Foundation for the award and stress the importance of the community.
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Nintendo Switch prevents downgrades by irreparably blowing its own fuses (2020)
How the Nintendo Switch uses irreversible hardware fuses to prevent firmware downgrades.
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I don't need a VPS anymore
I've paid for either a "shared hosting" subscription, or a VPS subscription, for my own use, for the last two decades. Mainly for serving web traffic, but also for backups, for Git repos, and for other bits and pieces.