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Google has a secret browser hidden inside the settings
My most popular article about Google - breakthrough in gms
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,299 posts.
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Code the shortest path first
There is a strange thing that I noticed as I progressed from a junior engineer to mid-career to senior. When you’re a new engineer, still learning the basics, you are given a task or you have an idea, and you proceed to implement exactly that idea. Very simple, point A to point B, whatever gets the job done. You hate…
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The last day of Constantinople
Discover how the fall of Constantinople in 1453 ended the Byzantine Empire and transformed the great city into Ottoman Istanbul.
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ThinMachine – A $25 thin client macOS Time Machine appliance
The instructions below set up Time Machine using the Apple File Protocol (AFP). After publishing this blog post, I’ve been told that this is now deprecated and that Samba should be used instead. I’ll update this blog post in the near future.
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The Shitty Stack System
How Microsoft's ruthless employee evaluation system annihilated team collaboration.
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Miles Davis: A candid conversation (1962)
Last Modified Sunday, 05-Aug-2018 12:53:53 EDT These pages were made by Justin R. Erenkrantz unless otherwise stated. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License . These pages will look best in an XHTML 1.0 compliant browser.
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Breadbee: Build your own (tiny) single board computer (2020)
Background Back in April, the hardware news site cnx-software featured a very nice new small Linux board called Breadbee , that was design...
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What are embeddings?
A deep-dive into machine learning embeddings.
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Monitoring Is a Pain
And we're all doing it wrong (including me) I have a confession. Despite having been hired multiple times in part due to my experience with monitoring platforms, I have come to hate monitoring. Monitoring and observability tools commit the cardinal sin of tricking people into thinking this is an
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4D Toys Update 8: Rotating the 3D Slice, 2D Faces Projections, Marble Scenes
This is a Mega-Update ®™ that focuses on features that people have been requesting for a long time. I have a ton of stuff in Miegakure that could be shared with 4D Toys but what takes development time is not the cool 4D stuff but all the UI/UX around it. First of all because there is the VR version, the mouse/keyboard…
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Like diffusion but faster: The Paella model for fast image generation
The ability to generate realistic images without waiting would unlock applications from engineering to entertainment and beyond. New work takes a step...
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Ways to say no with grace and style (2021)
Saying no with grace is its own leadership capability. It is not just a peripheral skill. As with any ability, we start with limited experience.
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Upload a Godot HTML5 Game to Itch.io with GitHub Actions
Automatically upload your Android Godot game to itch.io with Github Actions godot-html-export and itchio-butler-upload
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XML is the future
Okay, campers, rise and shine...
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Everything that uses configuration files should report where they're located
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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How platform engineering works
Lessons learned in my first year as a platform engineer.
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Time is not a synchronization primitive
Xe Iaso's personal website.
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INTERCAL: Practically impossible
A very good friend of mine has been experimenting with trying to coax Chat-GPT4 to successfully do basic coding tasks. So have a lot of people these days, of course. In an idle moment, though, my friend submitted the following query:
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WeeChat 4
Version 4.0.0 is available! WeeChat now follows a practical semantic versioning and there are breaking changes in this release, please read carefully the release notes. See
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Every Mastodon user has an RSS feed
The distributed social network Mastodon has grown to 12.8 million user accounts, supporting itself through user
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Visual Studio’s IntelliSense list can now steer GitHub Copilot code completions
GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio now works with IntelliSense. v1.85 or above is needed, users may need to manually update.
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Why doesn't TypeScript properly type Object.keys?
A look at TypeScript’s structural type system, and we how we can effectively use it to our benefit.
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Common bugs in writing (2021)
Like almost all rules, there are cases where breaking them is a good idea and seasoned writers may well object with "but" responses for some of these. Thus, consider the rules below as mental rumble strips - you should probably slow down and think if you encounter these cases.
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Russia 'Coup' Live Forecast
Russian officials have accused Wagner Group of staging a mutiny, with some calling it an attempted coup. What happens next? Monday 26 June 0700 UTC With the situation somewhat stab