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Running a private mail server for six years, easy peasy
Motivation The Right Reasons Tech Stack Implementation Mail rate and Spaminess Ongoing Maintenance Alternatives Conclusion
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,153 posts.
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A career ending mistake
As software engineers, we're constantly making detailed, elaborate plans for computers to execute. Isn't it weird that we rarely give a moment's thought to the program for our own careers?
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Capcom CPS-1 Graphic system study
As I keep on exploring the internals of the machine that animated so many hours of my childhood, I came to study its GFX system.
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How I Built LoginWithHN
How I built LoginWithHN, an OAuth2+OpenID Connect provider for HackerNews.
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What I learned running a SaaS for a year
This time last year, OnlineOrNot was born. Here's what I learned in the first year of running the business.
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Flutter is the most popular cross-platform mobile SDK
Running a development team for each mobile platform sucks up resources from other work. Flutter is the most popular way for one development team to build on all platforms.
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Live Streaming a Macintosh Plus
Since recording a handful of C Programming on System 6 videos, I've occasionally wanted to live-stream the more casual daily programming being done on my Macintosh Plus. After getting all of the pieces together, I now have a working self-hosted broadcasting setup.
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Why I will never buy another Samsung device
I’ve been on Nexuses and Pixels since Nexus one. Stock-or-nothing was me. However, the mobile phone market has become a bit stale and…
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Misidentifying talent
Out of context, you might think they were scouting actors or models, but these are baseball players ("A" is Lloyd Moseby, "B" is Jim Abbott, and "C" is Derek Jeter), ones that were quite good (Lloyd Moseby was arguably only a very good player for perhaps four years, but that makes him extraordinary compared to most…
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The Price of Nails Since 1695
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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Bytecode interpreters for tiny computers (2007)
I've previously come to the conclusion that there's little reason for using bytecode in the modern world, except in order to get more compact code, for which it can be very effective. So, what kind of a bytecode engine will give you more compact code?
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Frugal Computing (2021)
On the need for low-carbon and sustainable computing and the path towards zero-carbon computing.
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Dutch antitrust authority fines Apple for fifth time
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What a $500k grant proposal looks like
A walkthrough of my NSF CAREER proposal.
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Feynman’s advice to W&M student resonates 45 years later (2020)
Early in her career as a William & Mary student, Beulah Elizabeth Cox turned in a physics exam that contained what became one of the most famous incorrect answers in science.
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Medieval Photoshop
Manipulating and enhancing images may seem something that is particular to the current digital age. The Kattendijke Chronicle, a late fifteenth-century manuscript from the Low Countries, contains fascinating examples of analogue image editing.
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Find You: Building a stealth AirTag clone
We built an AirTag clone capable of silently and continuously tracking someone. The device accomplishes this by sending just one beacon per generated public key, thereby staying invisible to tracking notifications for iOS users and Apple’s Tracker Detect Android app.
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Data Structures in the Fleet Editor
This is a multipart series on building Fleet, a next generation IDE by JetBrains. Part I - Architecture Overview Part II - Breaking down the editor Part III – State Management Part IV – D
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I was wrong, we need crypto
To say I've been skeptical about Bitcoin and the rest of the crypto universe would be an understatement of epic proportions. Since the early 2010s, some of my most ferocious Twitter battles have been against the HODL army with the laser eyes. There's just so much to oppose: Bitcoin's grotesque energy consumption, the…
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What made World of Warcraft's environments so compelling?
Texts on this and that.
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Minsky Moments in Venture Capital
Markets rise, and markets fall. This much, at least, is well-known. But why do market cycles occur? What causes the pendulum to swing from euphoria to crisis and back? Hyman Minsky was a 20th-century economist whose ‘financial instability hypothesis’ is probably the best-known explanation for the boom and bust cycles…
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A Vicious Cycle: The Dangerous Dehumanisation of Cyclists
A new study suggests the "dehumanisation" of cyclists could be contributing to acts of aggression towards them on the road.
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I wrote the least-C C program I could
As a fun afternoon challenge, I decided to write a C program that looked nothing like C. Not necessarily obfuscated, though there is a competition for that if you are so inclined.
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