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Carta's 83b Oversight: A Tax Trap for Married Startup Employees (2023)
There's a blind spot in Carta's 83(b) election feature you need to know about if you're married and living in California.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,273 posts.
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ESP32-C61: Delivering Affordable Wi-Fi 6 Connectivity
ESP32-C61 marks Espressif's response to a significant demand for Wi-Fi 6 technology, offering optimized peripherals, improved connectivity, and increased memory options.
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Epistemic Learned Helplessness (2019)
[This is a slightly edited repost of an essay from my old LiveJournal] A friend recently complained about how many people lack the basic skill of believing arguments. That is, if you have a valid a…
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We need technology that is less immersive, not more
How come so many of the most talented engineers of our time work on making our entertainment more immersive?
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Changes we're making to Google Assistant
Google Assistant will no longer support a number of underutilized features to focus on improving quality and reliability.
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CLI user experience case study
Topiary’s journey to a modern, user-friendly CLI experience.
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QMK and Keyboards
A collection of QMK firmware libraries, macros, and thoughts on ergonomic keyboards.
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Is Fortran “A Dead Language”? (2022)
Some C++ folk seem to think so, but they're wrong!
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Doing First Grade Math in Rust's Type System
MIT student who enjoys performance engineering, compilers, and creating unconventional code
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We removed advertising cookies, here's what happened
Since our removal of cookies, we’ve seen both positive & negative effects. Learn more about our experience of going cookieless here.
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Unity's Open-Source Double Standard: The Ban of VLC
This page has moved to https://martinfinkel.com/blog/unity-double-oss-standards/ .
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Keycloak open redirect: wildcard redirect URIs can be exploited to steal tokens
CVE-2023-6927 Keycloak vulnerability allows bypassing redirect URI validation which can be used as a vector for stealing authorization codes, access tokens and be used to redirect victims to arbitrary hosts.
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The Wolfram Prompt Repository (2023)
Curated collection of prompts for use with LLMs. Accessible interactively in Chat Notebooks and programmatically in functions like LLMFunction. Initial categories in the Prompt Repository cover personas, functions, modifiers.
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Postgres Incremental Backup
We walk through the incremental backup feature committed to the Postgres 17 development branch by Robert Haas. We show an example on our local machine.
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A Love Letter to Tinkerable Software
I work in product growth helping people discover and use great software, currently at SurveyMonkey. In the past I've done it at Prismatic (acq. by LinkedIn), Clara Lending (acq. by Sofi), Right Side Up, Hubstaff. I've also enjoyed consulting with interesting companies like DoorDash, Empower, StitchFix, Calm, Dell…
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How virtualisation came to Apple Silicon Macs
From Hypervisor APIs in OS X 10.10 Yosemite in 2014, through early VirtIO kernel extensions in Mojave in 2018, and Arm hypervisor support in Big Sur.
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Generating SVG for the prime knots
How I created a wall poster of knot diagrams.
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Attack of the Week: Airdrop Tracing
It’s been a while since I wrote an “attack of the week” post, and the fault for this is entirely mine. I’ve been much too busy writing boring posts about Schnorr signatures!…
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A Technical Dive into PostgreSQL's replication mechanisms
Guide to PostgreSQL Replication and CDC - Navigate the complexities of logical replication in PostgreSQL.
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Removing data transfer fees when moving off Google Cloud
Customers discontinuing their use of Google Cloud can move their data without incurring any network data transfer fees.
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Outlook is Microsoft's new data collection service
The new Outlook now appears to be a data collection service for Microsoft’s 801 external partners for targeted advertising.
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Is htmx Just Another JavaScript Framework?
Alexander Petros give a thoughtful exploration of htmx's relationship to traditional JavaScript frameworks, examining how its HTML-first approach and narrow focus on network requests sets it apart. He argues that while htmx exhibits framework-like qualities in how it shapes application architecture, its deep…
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Meta unlawfully ignores the users' right to easily withdraw consent: complaint
If Instagram and Facebook users want to withdraw their consent, they have to buy an expensive subscription
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Building a baseline JIT for Lua automatically (2023)
This is the Part 2 of a series. Feel free to read the prequel for more context: Building the fastest Lua interpreter automatically Building a good VM for a dynamic language takes a ton of engineerin
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Blur Radius Comparison
The most common type of blur used on the web and in design tools is Gaussian blur. There’s many ways to describe how blurry the blur is, and implementations vary so much that a blur in one app may be a completely different size to the blur in another app.
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epoll: The API that powers the modern internet (2022)
Linux's epoll API solved the C10K problem, enabling fast and afforable Internet services.
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The memory remains: Permanent memory with systemd and a Rust allocator
A Rust object that survives program restart thanks to Rust allocators, systemd's file descriptor store, and syscall memfd_create.
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Signs that it's time to leave a company
When the company stops growing, when the founder moves on, when HR is calling the shots, when the executives care more about real estate…
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Conditional Git Configuration
Building on the earlier article on automatically transforming Git URLs, I’m back with another article on a (potentially powerful) feature of Git—the ability to conditionally include Git configuration files. This means you can configure Git to be configured (and behave) differently based on certain conditions, simply…