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History of “Adventure” for the Atari 2600
Of all the original games Atari put out for the VCS, Adventure may be the one that most people are familiar with today.
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Internet usage pattern during power outage in Spain and Portugal
What patterns do we see in RUM data during the April 28th power outage in Portugal and Spain?
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The Death of Daydreaming
What we lose when phones take away boredom and interstitial time
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The Beauty of Having a Pi-Hole (2024)
Why Pi-hole, the Raspberry Pi DNS sinkhole, is worth running at home to block trackers, ads, and analytics endpoints across every device on the network.
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AWS Built a Security Tool. It Introduced a Security Risk
Discover how AWS’s Account Assessment tool introduced a serious security risk through its default deployment guidance & key steps to detect & remediate it.
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The vocal effects of Daft Punk
Daft Punk have used a wide variety of vocal effects in their songs. A May 2001 interview in Remix magazine provided a rare insight from Daft Punk themselves on the topic.
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How Obama’s BlackBerry got secured (2013)
A weblog about Signals Intelligence, Communications Security and top level telecommunications equipment
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AI Meets WinDBG
Because manually squinting at hex dumps is so last century. Let me show you how AI-assisted debugging is leaving WinDBG's command line in the dust.
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Unparalleled Misalignments
This is a list of Unparalleled Misalignments, pairs of non-synonymous phrases where the words in one phrase are each synonyms of the words in the other. I've maintained this list since 2018; attributions (when known) can be seen on hover.
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Helmdar: 3D Scanning Brooklyn on Rollerblades
One of my favorite joys is exploring a city late at night on rollerblades. I’ve been doing it fairly regularly for about 10 years now, first in Boston and then in NYC. Every time day turns to night and back again a city takes a breath. At night people flow out or huddle up in buildings, leaving the streets clear for…
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Graceful Shutdown in Go: Practical Patterns
Go applications can implement graceful shutdown by handling termination signals (SIGTERM, SIGINT) via os/signal or signal.NotifyContext. Shutdown must complete within a specified timeout (e.g., Kubernetes’ terminationGracePeriodSeconds)…
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I'd rather read the prompt
I have literally never seen LLM writing that actually improved my life.
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Design for 3D-Printing
Deep dive into mechanical design that is optimized for 3d-printing.
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Load-Store Conflicts
meshoptimizer implements several geometry compression algorithms that are designed to take advantage of redundancies common in mesh data and decompress quickly - targeting many gigabytes per second in decoding throughput. One of them, index decoder, has seen a significant and unexpected variance in performance across…
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Typed Lisp, a Primer
Exploring Lisp's fine-grained type hierarchy.
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How three years at McKinsey shaped my second startup
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you...
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Nevermind, an album on major chords
🎵 Back in 1991, Nevermind become an unexpected critical and commercial sensation.
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Oberon Pi
Oberon, the jewel by Niklaus Wirth and Jürg Gutknecht: Operating System, Compiler and Computer.
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Brian Eno's Theory of Democracy
Organizing and generating variety in politics
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What went wrong with wireless USB
(Hat tip to the late Bill Strauss and The Capitol Steps' Lirty Dies.) A few moons ago I was thinking of ways to take my Palm OS Fossil Wr...
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Understanding Memory Management, Part 5: Fighting with Rust
This is the fifth post in my planned multipart series on memory management. You will probably want to go back and read Part I , which covers C, parts II and III , which cover C++, and part IV , which introduces Rust memory management. In part IV, we got through the basics of Rust memory management up through smart…
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When flat rate movers won't answer your calls
Back in 2023 I went through an inter-state move with Flat Rate Movers, LTD. , a.k.a. Flat Rate Moving, US DOT 488466, MC 254356. They bungled the job, damaged my stuff and my house, and then refused to talk to me or their own insurance company. I placed dozens of calls, wrote letters, emails, nothing worked. I finally…
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DuckDB is probably the most important geospatial software of the last decade
DuckDB’s spatial extension cut geo setup to two lines of SQL, and interest in geospatial data turned upward the moment it shipped.
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“An independent journalist” who won't remain nameless
Too many legacy outlets still refuse to credit indie journos. Enough is enough.
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We fell out of love with Next.js and back in love with Ruby on Rails
A look at how and why we migrated from Next.js to Ruby on Rails.
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Why I stopped angel investing after 15 years, and what I'm doing instead
Plus: My interview with Oscar co-founder Mario Schlosser
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Why can't HTML alone do includes?
Is there a perfectly clear and reasonable answer? Or could we get this someday?
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Minimum Viable Blog
A place for me to vent about my current obsessions.