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After 47 years, OpenVMS gets a package manager (VSP)
Published: 17-03-2025 20:33 | Author: Remy van Elst | Text only version of this article
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Archival Storage
I gave a talk at the Berkeley I-school's Information Access Seminar entitled Archival Storage . Below the fold is the text of the talk with...
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Alphabet spins out Taara – Internet over lasers
Taara is now an independent company with a mission to bring high-speed, affordable and abundant connectivity to people everywhere using beams of light.
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Chaos in the Cloudflare Lisbon Office
Cloudflare is now using a wall of waves in our Lisbon, Portugal office to create entropy and strengthen Internet security, turning liquid chaos into secure, unpredictable encryption.
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uv downloads overtake Poetry for Wagtail users
uv download statistics overtake Poetry for Wagtail users
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The exceptional Jordan algebra (2020)
In the early 1930s, Pascual Jordan attempted to formalise the algebraic properties of Hermitian matrices. In particular: Hermitian matrices form a real vector space: we can add and subtract Hermiti…
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How Cursor (AI IDE) Works
Turning LLMs into coding experts and how to take advantage of them.
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Next generation LEDs are cheap and sustainable
Cost, technical performance and environmental impact – these are the three most important aspects for a new type of LED technology to have a broad commercial impact on society. This has been demonstrated by LiU-researchers in a new study.
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Launching RDAP; sunsetting WHOIS
The Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP) is the successor to WHOIS, which is being sunsetted on 28 January 2025.
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Zlib-rs is faster than C
We've released version 0.4.2 of zlib-rs , featuring a number of substantial performance improvements. We are now (to our knowledge) the fastest api-compatible zlib implementation for decompression, and beat the competition in the most important compression cases too.
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AI Is Making Developers Dumb
LLMs are making software engineers dumber.
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Microsoft's 1986 IPO
Its market cap hit $777 million and Bill Gates' net worth reached $350 million
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Our interfaces have lost their senses
We programmed them by punching cards, plugging in wires, and flipping switches. Programmers walked among banks of switches and cables, physically choreographing their logic. Being on a computer used to be a full-body experience.
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Teach, Don't Tell (2013)
This post is about writing technical documentation. More specifically: it's about writing documentation for programming languages and libraries.
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Amiga 600: From the Amiga No One Wanted to Retro Favorite
Maybe putting the designer of the IBM PCjr in charge of this wasn't the best idea
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Selective async commits in PostgreSQL – balancing durability and performance
Safely leverage PostgreSQL's asynchronous commit for significant performance gains
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"Wait, not like that": Free and open access in the age of generative AI
The real threat isn’t AI using open knowledge — it’s AI companies killing the projects that make knowledge free
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When the Dotcom Bubble Burst
The hunt for the next Microsoft created an era of excess that wasn't sustainable
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Building a Personal Archive with Hoarder
How to self-host a personal archive of web content even if stuff get's taken down
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The Defer Technical Specification: It Is Time
After the Graz, Austria February 2025 WG14 Meeting, I am now confident in the final status of the defer TS, and it is now time.
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Breaking Up with On-Call
This article is about why on-call in it's current state in big-tech is flawed, or how to properly develop software.
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Extracting content from an LCP “protected” ePub
As Cory Doctorow once said "Any time that someone puts a lock on something that belongs to you but won't give you the key, that lock's not there for you." But here's the thing with the LCP DRM scheme; they do give you the key! As I've written about previously, LCP mostly relies on the user entering their password (the…
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Rust on the RP2350 (2024)
Today sees the announcement of the latest additions to Raspberry Pi's microcontroller line-up - the RP2350 family. I've had prototype units for a while, and you can run Rust code on it today. To my knowledge this is the first ever microcontroller launch with Rust support out-of-the-box.
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The good times in tech are over
For most of the last decade, being a software engineer has been a lot of fun. Every company offered lots of perks, layoffs and firings were almost unheard of…
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Some notes on Grafana Loki's new "structured metadata"
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Apple's long-lost hidden recovery partition from 1994 has been found
In my last post about hard drives that go bad over time , I hinted at having rescued a lost piece of obscure Apple software history from an old 160 MB Conner hard drive that had its head stuck in the parked position. This post is going to be all about it. It’s the tale of a tad bit of an obsession, what felt like a…
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Career Advice in 2025
Yesterday, the tj-actions repository, a popular tool used with Github Actions was compromised (for more background read one of these two articles). Watching the infrastructure and security engineering teams at Carta respond, it highlighted to me just how much LLMs can’t meaningfully replace many essential roles of…