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Lotus 1-2-3 on the PC with DOS
VisiCalc started it, but 1-2-3 finished it. "It" being the discussion of what a spreadsheet can be, and also VisiCalc itself.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 49,188 posts.
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We might all be AI engineers now
The models are good now. But most people still miss the point.
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GPL upgrades via section 14 proxy delegation
I am not a lawyer. This is provided solely for the purposes of general information and does not constitute legal advice, guidance, or counsel. No attorney-client relationship is established by the provision of this information, and no reliance should be placed on this information in lieu of seeking professional legal…
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It took four years until 2011’s iOS 5 gave everyone an emoji keyboard
A blog about software craft and quality
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Dumping Lego NXT firmware off of an existing brick (2025)
Catgirls can have little a RCE, as a treat
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How to install and start using LineageOS on your phone
Android is one of the most popular operating systems in the world. I is probably also one of the most versatile, used on PCs, phones, cars, autonomous devices such as drones, fridges, and many more.
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Stop using grey text (2025)
Dear web designers:
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Let's Get Physical
This week has been… eventful. And when I say eventful, I can say this has been the funniest pentest I have ever been on in my life. Let me tell you about it!
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Remotely unlocking an encrypted hard disk
what's a few systemd services in initramfs between friends?
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I love email (2023)
I constantly hear about how much everybody hates email. Look, I receive just as many spam messages and useless email-based notifications and stuffy vapid “regarding my previous email” work messages as the next gal. I get it. But I’ve found there’s something magical about email as a medium of communication, and as a…
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Cameras built to police Iranians became the regime's Achilles' heel
On the irony of cameras built to police Iranians becoming the regime’s Achilles’ heel
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Analytic Fog Rendering with Volumetric Primitives (2025)
In this post I’m going to cover a neat technique for rendering regions of fog with varying density. I’ll start by covering some of the basic principles behind fog rendering and a few co…
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AI and the Ship of Theseus
Slopforks: what happens when a library gets rewritten with AI?
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Good software knows when to stop
Good software knows what problem it solves and what needs to be tackled by another tool
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Every single board computer I tested in 2025
I benchmarked 15 SBCs released in 2025 across every price point. Here's what stood out, what disappointed, and what the year looked like for single board computers.
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Smalltalk's Browser: Unbeatable, yet Not Enough
The four-pane System Browser has shaped Smalltalk development for forty years. It’s still brilliant at providing context. But the real problem may not be the browser itself—it may be the lack of composition between the tools that surround it.
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Poor Man's Polaroid
Hand-made Lights, Gadgets & DIY Electronics2026252 points56 commentsLife, Learning & Writing details
How to build a poor man's Polaroid camera - a DIY instant camera project with parts, assembly and photos.
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The Self-Help Trap: What 20 Years of "Optimizing" Has Taught Me
“We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.” — Aldous Huxley, Island It was cold out, but none of us were cold. I sat with five men in the mountains of Montana. As the sun set, the fire […]
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Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite
Exploring the chardet v7.0.0 controversy: Can an AI rewrite legally 'launder' a library from LGPL to MIT?
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You Just Reveived
ex program, en farm
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The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying
Questioning the frame of inevitability in use of AI
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Maybe there's a pattern here?
Inventors and impacts
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My “grand vision” for Rust
I don’t think I’ve ever quite articulated my “grand vision” for Rust, despite having written a fair bit about the language and its features. There is a lot I could say here, but currently there are three directions of development which I find particularly interesting:
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Why can't you tune your guitar? (2019)
Short answer: because math. Longer answer: because prime numbers don’t divide into each other evenly. To understand what follows, you need to know some facts about the physics of vibrating st…
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Does that use a lot of energy?
This tool was designed to get a sense of the differences in energy consumption between different products. It's often difficult to understand whether activities matter a lot or very little for our overall energy consumption.
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The View from RSS
What the web looks like when you subscribe to 2,000 RSS feeds.
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