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Once in a Lifetime
Here is what might possibly be my single favorite song in the world:
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,153 posts.
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Paginating Requests in APIs (2020)
When exposing large data sets through APIs, it needs to provide a mechanism to paginate the list of resources. There are multiple…
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What I wish I knew about onboarding
Mindset, 100-day plan, and balancing learning and taking action to earn trust.
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Reverse engineering Xiaomi air purifier NFC stickers
For a very thorough write-up on how this all works , please visit : https://unethical.info/2024/01/24/hacking-my-air-purifier/
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Code quality only matters in context (2019)
I used to obsess about code quality earlier in my career. My experience indicates that I'm in good company here; a lot of us developers spend so much time growing our programming skills, and that kind of drive comes from intrinsic motivation. We care about what we do, and we want to do it well.
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Terraform should have remained stateless
For major providers, Terraform does not really need state. My proposal: add a ’none’ backend that uses the provider APIs as state. Here’s how.
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What would a recession mean for developers?
With markets in a slump, many of us are concerned a recession could be right around the corner. The NASDAQ is already down 27% so far in 2022. Heck, maybe we're already in the middle of a recession.
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Investing in lighting did great things for my mental and physical health
Controlling lighting is an extremely powerful force on your daily life satisfaction
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Lost “canceled” Squaresoft game 3156 Coro Coro located and preserved
Hello, Gaming Alexandria readers! It is me, Chris Kohler, former journalist, current game developer and forever fan of obscure old games. The good people at Gaming Alexandria have given me this space to make a fortuitous announcement: A long-lost Square game, previously thought to have been canceled, has now been…
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Dark Moon: The Inevitable Collapse of Luna
Luna/UST went from a collective market capitalization of ~$50 billion to now down 99%. The collapse of the Luna/UST Ponzi scheme occurred even faster than anyone expected, but this implosion was perfectly predictable.
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Rocket.chat leverages the Matrix protocol for interoperable communications
Learn more about how the leading open-source platform is furthering its efforts toward collaboration without compromise
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The age of Scrum is over
Scrum has given us a lot, but its time for some conscious uncoupling
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How to stop a robot vacuum from getting stuck on the laundry rack
Is your robotic vacuum cleaner getting stuck on the laundry drying rack? Just raise the rack slightly off the floor and it becomes a natural robot barrier.
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Can growth continue?
A five-minute talk for Ignite Long Now
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Architecture Notes: Datasette
Simon is the creator of Datasette and co-creator of Django web framework. Formerly he was a JSK journalism fellow at Stanford, and prior to that an Engineering Director at Eventbrite.
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Range joins in DuckDB
DuckDB has fully parallelized range joins that can efficiently join millions of range predicates.
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The Growth Ponzi Scheme: A Crash Course
Ponzi schemes fail because they are built on illusions: there is no there there. So what happens when an entire continent of towns and cities is caught up in a kind of Growth Ponzi Scheme? We are finding out.
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Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target Hosts (2021)
This post lists the internet communication targets of the Microsoft Windows operating system, including its various services and UWP apps. This post is a part of my application network connection monitoring series, a group of articles that explain how to analyze the network traffic of any Windows or macOS app.
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How I Built Zig-SQLite
Article explaining how to leverage Zig's compile time metaprogramming to build a SQLite wrapper that can type check SQL queries
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GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor
Goodwill ransomware group propagates very unusual demands in exchange for the decryption key. The Robin Hood-like group is forcing its Victims to donate to the poor and provides financial assistance to the patients in need.
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Why, oh why was this added?
In this post, I take you on a debugging journey and show you why it might be a good idea to add a comment next to a certain method.
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Today’s JavaScript, from an outsider’s perspective (2020)
Today I tried to help a friend who is a great computer scientist, but not a JS person use a JS module he found on Github. Since for the past 6 years my day job is doing usability research & teaching at MIT, I couldn’t help but cringe at the slog that this was. Lo and behold, a pile of unnecessary error conditions…
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NPM security update: Attack campaign using stolen OAuth tokens
npm's impact analysis of the attack campaign using stolen OAuth tokens and additional findings.
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Cannoli: The Fast QEMU Tracer
Cannoli Cannoli is a high-performance tracing engine for qemu-user. It can record a trace of both PCs executed as well as memory operations. It consists of a small patch to QEMU to expose locations to inject some code directly into the JIT, a shared library which is loaded