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Tidy First?
“Software design is preparation for change; change of behavior” Tidy First? is a new book by Kent Beck. It is a short little book, only about 100 pages (and lots of white space on them)…
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,273 posts.
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The biggest losers: Metabolic damage or constrained energy?
Did the Biggest Loser contestants really damage their metabolism or was something else going on?
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The GPT Store
We’re launching the GPT Store to help you find useful and popular custom versions of ChatGPT.
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Coming home from the South Pole
Emerging from winter and preparing for our first flight!
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GitHub Actions as a time-sharing supercomputer
Learn how and why I turned GitHub's APIs into a time-sharing supercomputer from the 1970s to execute modern batch jobs.
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"I Contribute to the Windows Kernel. We Are Slower" (2013)
I was explaining on Hacker News why Windows fell behind Linux in terms of operating system kernel performance and innovation. And out of nowhere an anonymous...
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The teen mental illness epidemic is international (2023)
Why did mental health fall off a cliff at the same time and in the same way in the USA, The UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand? Part 1 of 3.
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I quit my job to work full time on my open source project
Quitting my job to start a company
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Gmail and Yahoo’s 2024 inbox protections and what they mean for email programs
Gmail and Yahoo announce transformative updates to come in 2024. The updates impact senders but implementing the changes is easier than you think. Are you ready?
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Glucoboy
Emulating the unknown: Blood testing device for the GBA
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Mathematica 14
Wolfram's Version 14 includes expansive connections to and from LLMs. New learning tools, including courses and books. Plus, functionality advances in math, core language, video objects, trees, finite fields, Knowledgebase, systems engineering, graphics. Astro, biological and chemical computation.
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I pwned half of America's fast food chains simultaneously
How I pwned half of America’s fast food chains, simultaneously. Also checkout Eva’s blogpost of this event. With an upbeat pling my console alerted me that my script had finished running, to be precise it was searching for exposed Firebase credentials on any of the hundreds of recent AI startups. This was achieved…
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Ancient Stars Made Extraordinarily Heavy Elements (2023)
How heavy can an element be? Ancient stars were capable of producing elements heavier than any element on the periodic table found naturally on Earth.
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Study Finds Microplastics in Nearly 90% of Proteins Sampled
Researchers at Ocean Conservancy and University of Toronto estimate that American adults could be consuming up to 3.8 million microplastics per year from protein alone
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Databases and why their complexity is now unnecessary
This post is not going to be about what’s wrong with individual databases. There are so many databases and so many individual API issues, operational problems, and arbitrary limitations that it wou…
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Non-PC compatible x86 computers (2007)
This is, so far, the only article of mine that's been completely deleted from Wikipedia. I've salvaged a copy of it from Search.com , since it's gone from the site's history now, and am putting it here until I decide what else to do with it. Non-PC compatible x86 computers For much of the time that…
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Building an e-ink picture frame that displays an iCloud photo album
For Christmas, I gave my parents this e-ink picture frame (built from an old e-reader) that cycles through photos from a shared iCloud photo album:
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Missing the Point of WebAssembly
wingolog: article: missing the point of webassembly
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GE Vernova announces order of 674 wind turbines, providing 2.4 GW of power
GE Vernova announces 2.4 GW order for Pattern Energy’s SunZia wind project
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Using Git Offline
Some companies use an isolated network or even the complete lack of a network as a security measure to protect from unauthorized access. Working on these systems can be a struggle but it is still possible, and perhaps even more important, to use a proper version control tool like Git.
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Heat pumps, more than you wanted to know (2023)
Over the last few months, Baker and I have been digging in deep on Heat Pumps . I'm putting my explorations here on pause but wanted to write up everything we've learned over the last few months.
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Python 3.13 Gets a JIT
Reviewing the JIT in Python 3.13
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Where Have All the Websites Gone?
It feels like all the cool websites from the late 2000s are gone. But maybe we are looking at this the wrong way. Maybe it is us who vanished.
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Bit-Banging Bluetooth Low Energy
Dmitry.GR: Creating BTLE-compliant advertisement packets, so that iOS and android devices can see and parse them.
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Carta to exit secondary trading business
No. Not anymore. Because we have the data, if we are trading secondaries, people will always worry that we are using the data, even if we…
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Golden Rules of Interface Design (2013)
I have often been asked to distill the vast corpus of user interface design into a few key principles. While I was reluctant to do this, it turned out to be a good exercise to write “Golden Rules,” that are applicable in most interactive systems. These principles, derived from experience and refined over three…