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Start with pen and paper
Notes on building and operating software
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,567 posts.
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Cool Machine Learning Books
awhile ago i posted my list of cool machine learning books , but it's been awhile so it's probably time to update it...
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Attention Is My Most Valuable Asset for Productivity as a Software Developer
My high-level workflow looks something like this: identify the problem to solve; think on the problem and let ideas percolate; research, discuss, and experiment with these ideas; implement and test the solution; deliver and maintain the solution.
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Looking for Voter Fraud (In Old Elections) with Data Visualization
The 2020 US election is finally over, and all the election excitement of the last week reminded me of something I had been meaning to look into: Sergey Shpilkin’s data visualizations that cle…
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A Pico-8 story: How the fantasy console unlocked Frédéric Souchu’s dreams
Pico-8 and the retro-gaming trend
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Restoring a 37 Year-Old IBM F Mechanical Keyboard
I wanted to share my journey from start to finish to restore a 1983 IBM Model F XT mechanical keyboard to it's former glory. It includes...
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RansomEXX Trojan attacks Linux systems
We recently discovered a new file-encrypting Trojan built as an ELF executable and intended to encrypt data on machines controlled by Linux-based operating systems.
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One Week of NixOS
The website of Jae.
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Send Payments in India with WhatsApp
Starting today, people across India will be able to send money through WhatsApp. This secure payments experience makes transferring money just as easy as sending a message. People can safely send money to a family member or share the cost of goods from a distance without having to exchange cash in person or going to a…
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Parsing the Infamous Japanese Postal CSV
Late last year I released posuto, a package presenting Japanese postal code data in an easy-to-use format. It's based on data released by Japan Post, which is infamous for being widely used but hard to parse.
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Mutt 2.0 Release Notes
Note: this is a review of some of the more interesting features in this release. For a complete list of changes please be sure to read the UPDATING file.
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Most Americans say government has a responsibility to ensure health care coverage
Most Americans (66%) say the federal government has a responsibility to make sure all Americans have health care coverage.
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Marketers are addicted to bad data
Modern marketing is all about data and however hard you might try, you can't spend any time around marketers online without being subjected to endless
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The Un-American Rule on VC's Legal Fees
Legal Fees: Not a Hill to Die On, But Some Parity Would be Nice
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Policy, not tech, spurred Danish dominance in wind energy
An analysis of Denmark’s wind industry offers lessons for policymakers seeking to increase renewable electricity production with limited budgets, according to Cynthia Lin Lawell.
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Why not use GraphQL?
Analyzing common misconceptions on the discussion around GraphQL vs. REST.
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Raspberry Pi 400 – First Impressions
These are my first impressions of the new Raspberry Pi 400, and my experiences of setting it up as a machine for development and blogging.
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US Government Continues Encryption War
Evergreen privacy guides, threat modeling, encryption, practical tutorials.
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Is this Mahler? This sounds like Mahler
One of the most delightful parts of being a software engineer and hardware tinkerer is having the ability to solve my own specific (and often niche) problems. In this post, the particular problem I’ll be solving is the burning need to know what is currently playing on WQXR , NYC’s classical radio station.
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Signs you might be a micromanager
Warning signs of micromanagement include sweating the small stuff, getting CC'ed on every email, and needing to approve everything.
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Fast open-source intrusion detection
The system, developed by Carnegie Mellon University CyLab researchers, achieves speeds of 100 gigabits per second using a single server.