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How I am deeply integrating Emacs
A blog, notes, gallery, lifestyle and fully conglomerated posts from Joshua.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,825 posts.
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My fan worked fine, so I gave it WiFi
How I went about creating a concealed modification for a fan so I could control it over WiFi with ESPHome and Home Assistant.
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A Lost IBM PC/at Model? Analyzing a Newfound Old Bios
VileR's blog: old school PCs, games, graphics, programming, fonts, demos, and so on.
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New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise tooth repair
A new material has been used to create a gel that can repair and regenerate tooth enamel, opening up new possibilities for effective and long-lasting preventive and restorative dental treatment.
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The state of SIMD in Rust in 2025
If you’re already familiar with SIMD, the table is all you need. And if you’re not, you will understand the table by the end of the…
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Fourier Transforms
Fourier Transform
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Ruby and Its Neighbors: Smalltalk
Smalltalk was the second major influence on Ruby's design. A different kind of influence, since almost nothing of Smalltalk's syntax made into Ruby. But many of the details of how objects work are directly inspired by Smalltalk, including the idea that every piece of data is part of the object system.
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The shadows lurking in the equations
If you've ever graphed equations, chances are you have only ever graphed equations in what I refer to as "Binary mode" - which draws a line where the equation is EXACTLY equal, and leaves white everywhere else.
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Removing XSLT for a more secure browser
Prepare for Chrome deprecating and removing XSLT from the browser.
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A P2P Vision for QUIC (2024)
Using QUIC to achieve everything needed for NAT traversal, from address discovery to proxying UDP
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Why Your Best Engineers Are Interviewing Elsewhere, CodeGood
A company lost five senior engineers in 18 months. Exit interviews cited compensation. The real problem: information does not flow upward through organizational hierarchy. By the time problems reach executive level, they have metastasized into resignation decisions made months earlier.
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The kind of company I want to be a part of
'aight, hear me out guy(s) (👀 👀 👀)
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I’m worried that they put co-pilot in Excel
I'm worried that they put co-pilot in Excel because Excel is the beast that drives our entire economy and do you know who has tamed that beast? Brenda. Who is …
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What Happened to Piracy? Copyright Enforcement Fades as AI Giants Rise
"Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught." -Balzac
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The Microsoft SoftCard for the Apple II: Getting two processors to share memory
Reportedly Microsoft's first hardware product.
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Mr TIFF
For as long as I have published my books, one of my overarching goals was to give credit to those who actually invented the hardware and software that we use. I have spent 10,000+ hours to create an accurate record of their work but I'm not complaining. The
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I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars
You've been lied to. You don't need the cloud – you can just run servers and save 10x your AWS costs. It's not that difficult.
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Measuring the doppler shift of WWVB during a flight
We advertise 100 kHz as the lower edge of HackRF Pro ’s operating frequency range, but that isn’t a hard limit. While working on the design, I realized that it should work fairly well to pick up longwave time signals such as WWVB , broadcast at 60 kHz from Colorado, USA.
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Deepnote, a Jupyter alternative, is going open source
Explore data with Python & SQL, work together with your team, and share insights that lead to action — all in one place with Deepnote.
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Codemaps: Understand Code, Before You Vibe It
Codemaps is meant to offer a shared understanding of a system between humans and AI, enabling your AI to teach you about the code you are looking at…
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An eBPF loophole: Using XDP for egress traffic
XDP only works for ingress. We found a loophole that lets it work for egress. Here's how we did the impossible.
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How devtools map minified JS code back to your TypeScript source code
A deep dive into how JavaScript source maps work under the hood, with examples showing how all the pieces fit together.
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Optimizing Datalog for the GPU
Datalog primer and a neat data structure
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Modular monolith and microservices: Modularity is what matters
Modularity is a crucial concept when designing and creating software. Independent of whether our chosen architecture style is to have a single unit of deployment - Monolith or multiple units of deployment - Microservices/Services. It is a quality that should be treated completely independent of how many deployable…
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Chaining FFmpeg with a Browser Agent
Discover how we embedded FFmpeg inside a browser agent to process videos instantly, no servers, APIs, or uploads. Watch how it all comes together.
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When your hash becomes a string: Hunting Ruby's million-to-one memory bug
An "impossible" Ruby bug: Hashes becoming Strings at runtime. 2,700 identical crashes. No corruption. Just objects changing what they are. Deep dive.
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Pose Animator – An open source tool to bring SVG characters to life (2020)
The TensorFlow blog contains regular news from the TensorFlow team and the community, with articles on Python, TensorFlow.js, TF Lite, TFX, and more.
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When Soviet-made cars roamed Singapore roads
From the seventies to nineties, cars that roamed Singapore roads were largely imported from countries such as Australia (Holden), Czechoslovakia (Skoda), France (Citroen, Peugeot, Renault), Germany…
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This Month in Ladybird – October 2025
Progress across caching, media, Trusted Types, XPath, CSS, WebGL, and even first runs on Windows.