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I recently changed jobs and found myself in a position where I would need to do a lot of work on remote machines. Since I am Emacs user, the most common way to do this is using TRAMP (Transparent Remote access, Multiple Protcol). TRAMP is an Emacs package that let’s you treat a remote host like a local system, similar…
A "magical" experience, and what we get when we let people pursue their passions
Batteries are now cheap enough to unleash solar energy’s full potential, getting as close as 97% of the way to delivering constant electricity supply 24 hours across 365 days cost-effectively in the sunniest places.
An exploration of the mindset, methods, and motivations behind crafting tiny, expressive shaders that combine code, art, and constraint.
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…
I recently submitted my PhD thesis , and while waiting for the physical copies to get printed I thought I’d write about something you (hopefully) wouldn’t notice when reading it. I wrote it in Typst, not LaTeX. In this post I will talk a bit about what went well and what didn’t.
Preamble# The internet is the bane of my existence. Ads, distractions, sponsored content, bad news, bad ideas, more ads, social media, antisocial media, even more ads. Also, I’m a software developer, so the internet is basically indispensable for me, a central pillar of my income and a convenient way to communicate…
What happened?
I wrote a small script that runs in the background, polling for the state of an $8 smart plug .
How difficult could it really be?
Exploring the math behind hash collisions.
I've been working with TPUs a lot recently and it's fun to see how they had such different design philosophies compared to GPUs.
"...requiring reconductoring of 1.71 miles at a cost of $795,150...limiting output to 3MW..."
Despite the hype, Model Context Protocol (MCP) isn’t magic or revolutionary. But, it’s simple, well-timed, and well-executed. At Stainless, we’re betting it’s here to stay.
The Senate reconciliation package is a disturbing giveaway that will mandate the “disposal” of public lands across the western United States.
Read how we scaled our observability platform from 19PB to 100PB and 500 trillion rows by replacing OpenTelemetry with a native ClickHouse-to-ClickHouse pipeline, embracing wide events and cutting CPU usage by 90%.
The European CTO’s Dilemma: Keeping Compliance outside AWS
New research on simulated blackmail, industrial espionage, and other misaligned behaviors in LLMs.
The Hidden Power of Aesthetics in Design
Moving from WhatsApp to Signal is an important action, right now. WhatsApp’s parent company, Meta, has been involved in several cases of election interference: America in 2016, Trinidad and Tobago …
In recent months, we have received numerous reports from users across West Asia and North Africa (WANA) expressing alarm over a little-known but deeply intrusive bloatware application—AppCloud—pre-installed on Samsung’s A and M series smartphones. Without users’ knowledge or consent, this bloatware collects sensitive…
This is the introduction to a series on Abstract Algebra. In particular, our focus will be on Galois Fields (also known as Finite Fields) and their applications in Computer Science. This is a project I've been excited about for many years now, but have been too busy to dedicate the adequate effort to meet my…
This year marks the 40th anniversary of one of the most exciting and interesting aspects of electronic engineering: the FPGA. The first commercially viable FPGA introduced in 1985 was the Xilinx XC2064, which provided developers with 64 configurable logic blocks, each with a three-input look-up tables. From tiny…
Chris Lattner mentioned that Python can actually call Mojo code now. I love this idea (!) as I'm definitely in the market for a simple compiled language that can offer Python some really fast functions.
A story with legal drama, a mystery, snow leopards, and, uh, naughty bits.
If I could offer you a single piece of career advice, it’s this: avoid negativity echo chambers.
In mid-May 2025, blocked the largest DDoS attack ever recorded: a staggering 7.3 terabits per second (Tbps).
How I wrote filter rules for YouTube
In the spring of 1996, Brian Reynolds and Jeff Briggs took a long, hard look around them and decided that they’d rather be somewhere else.
