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I stopped worrying and learned to love denormalized tables
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IBM PC 8088 replaced with a Motorola 68000
I was wondering what the IBM Personal Computer would have been like if they had chosen the Motorola 68000 instead of the Intel 8088, so I used my MCL86+ to emulate the 68000 and find out! The MCL86…
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Has Apple sounded the last POST?
Power-on self-test routines are widespread in electronics, and one of the oldest features in personal computers. Do Apple silicon Macs run them?
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Extreme Multi-Threading: C++ and Julia 1.9 Integration
A guide to weaving C++ threads into Julia with the latest thread adoption feature in Julia version 1.9
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I've mostly stopped reading technical mailing lists
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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Delimiters won’t save you from prompt injection
Prompt injection remains an unsolved problem. The best we can do at the moment, disappointingly, is to raise awareness of the issue. As I pointed out last week, “if you …
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What happened after I left my software engineering career (2022)
It’s been over a year since I wrote Fetch the Bolt Cutters. Or, as it was called in Technical.ly Philly,… Read more > What happened next
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Drug shortages have worsened and may only increase in the future, experts say
COVID-19 snarled the US healthcare supply chain, but it was in trouble long before, experts say.
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Gamedev from Scratch 1: Scaffolding
Welcome to part 1 of this narrative series about writing a complete video game from scratch, using the PICO-8. This is actually the second part, because in this house (unlike Lua) we index from 0, so if you’re new here you may want to consult the introductory stuff and table of contents in part zero. If you’ve been…
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What the data says about gun deaths in the U.S.
The number of gun deaths in the U.S. fell for the third consecutive year in 2024 but remained among the highest annual totals on record.
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Problems harder than NP-Complete
People always talk about "P vs NP" like P problems are easy and NP problems are hard. This is a useful day-to-day model but also an oversimplification....
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Session recording for Tailscale SSH in beta
This guide shows you how to set up session recordings for Tailscale SSH. Learn how to record the terminal output whenever someone on your tailnet initiates a Tailscale SSH connection. Use these recordings to detect threats, investigate security incidents, and remain compliant with your network security policies.
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100K Context Windows
Claude's context window expands from 9K to 100K tokens, roughly 75,000 words, letting it process hundreds of pages in under a minute.
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Electronics Lab Bench Setup Guide
I have set up an electronics lab bench for all my hobby and product development projects. In this article, I will dive deep into every part of the setup and guide you through the structure, organiz…
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Understanding the power of bitwise operators
When learning a new programming language, there is usually a table in the documentation that shows the various operators that can be used with numbers.
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Place mushrooms in sunlight to get your vitamin D (2012)
(Originally published online in Huffington Post's Healthy Living section.) Vitamin D is an essential vitamin that boosts the immune system and plays vital roles in human metabolism. Did you know that tasty mushrooms are one source for vitamin D, and that you can naturally multiply their levels by exposing them to sunli
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Majority of gig economy workers are earning below minimum wage: research
As the cost of living continues to spiral, a new report shows more than half of gig economy workers in the UK are paid below the minimum wage.
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Pytz: The Fastest Footgun in the West (2018)
An explanation of the differences between dateutil and pytz's time zone models and why people tend to misuse pytz and introduce bugs into their datetime code.
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Pharo 11
Pharo is a pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful environment focused on simplicity and immediate feedback.
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Baseline: a unified view of stable web features
MDN leads the way in implementing WebDX community group's efforts, delivering a clear and simple baseline for the web platform to developers.
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Fuck being productive
Fuck being productive. I decided to go easy on my self about being "productive". I'm already working full time from 6:30 to 18:30 everyday and I've got o...
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The Viterbi Algorithm at 50 (2017)
In a noisy world, it allows you to be heard.
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The Backbone: A History of the Internet
This page provides a single entry point to all the posts in the story of how the world got online. Now available as a book, buy here. The Backbone: Introduction One System, Universal Service? The U…
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Google Earth 3D Models Now Available as Open Standard (GlTF)
Introducing new AI-powered products and tools from Google Maps Platform. Learn more
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Scientists regenerate hair cells that enable hearing
Researchers move closer to gene therapy solution for hearing loss