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Writing a Gimp 3.0 Plugin
GIMP 3.0 is almost out, and I'm thrilled. Not only will this version bring new features and improvements, but it finally modernizes the technology stack in two important ways:
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,859 posts.
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Vanishing Culture: Punch Card Knitting
The following guest post from digital humanities scholar Nichole Misako Nomura is part of our Vanishing Culture series, highlighting the power and importance of preservation in our digital age. Read more essays online or download the full report now. Punch cards are a fascinating binary data storage format that aren’t…
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Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10k
What could've been the largest data breach in the world - an attack chain on Google services to leak the email address of any YouTube channel
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League of Legends data scraping the hard and tedious way for fun
Personal website for some random tidbits I work on
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Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji
With ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequences you could in theory encode an unlimited amount of data in a single emoji.
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Everything about Google Translate crashing React (and other web apps)
A deep dive into Google Translate (and other browser extensions) interference breaking React and other web apps.
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The year I didn't survive
Grief and new motherhood have transformed my brain, my body, and my sense of self.
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Apache Iceberg now supports geospatial data types natively
Apache Iceberg and Parquet now support native geospatial types, connecting Wherobots, PostGIS, Sedona, Databricks, and Snowflake to one table format.
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WASM will replace containers
WebAssembly is a true write-once-run-anywhere experience.
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JJ Cheat Sheet
I’ve been learning Jujutsu a.k.a. jj , a version control system that’s compatible with git repos. It’s clicked for me in a way that git hasn’t even after many years of use.
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A Year of Telepathy
Over the past year, three people with paralysis have received Neuralink implants. This blog post explores how each person is using Telepathy in everyday life.
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Go 1.24 Is Released
Go 1.24 brings generic type aliases, map performance improvements, FIPS 140 compliance and more.
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The subtle art of designing physical controls for cars
Prototyping a concept for simpler, physical climate controls
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JetBrains Fleet drops support for Kotlin Multiplatform
A couple of years ago, we initiated the idea of creating a Kotlin Multiplatform IDE to help facilitate the development of KMP applications. We embarked on this venture, building on the Fleet platform,
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I tasted Honda’s spicy rodent-repelling tape and I will do it again (2021)
And I will do it again unless someone stops me.
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Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024
The 2024 Year End Drive Stats Report is here. See the the latest annualized failure rates and data insights for the Backblaze drive fleet.
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Boring tech is mature, not old
Talking about my description of tech as “boring” to be a compliment, and how to think about it.
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Firing programmers for AI is a mistake
Ah, the tech industry.
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How about trailing commas in SQL?
Anecdotally, this might be the most requested feature in SQL: Allow some trailing commas.
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Ways to generate SSA
Static Single Assignment is a program representation where each “variable” (though this term can be misleading) is assigned exactly once. Mostly the variables aren’t variables at all, but instead names for values—for expressions. SSA is used a lot in compilers. See this lesson from Cornell for converting Bril to SSA…
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Apple software update “bug” enables Apple Intelligence
Some people who had previously disabled Apple Intelligence in macOS 15.3 and iOS 18.3 saw it re-enabled after updating to macOS 15.3.1 and iOS 18.3.1 today. In fact I personally have two different Apple silicon Macs running macOS Sequoia, and after I updated both Macs to 15.3.1, Apple Intelligence was re-enabled on my…
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Make Your Own Website: A beginner's guide
You can make your own website. This guide can help anyone make a website with HTML and CSS. You can make a personal site, link tree, hobby site, digital garden, fansite, or any other website you want. It's fun, and easy enough for a 12-year-old.
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We replaced our React front end with Go and WebAssembly
Build powerful software environments and containerized operations from modular components and simple functions. Perfect for complex software delivery and AI agents. Built by the creators of Docker.
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How Copyover MUD Servers Worked
When I was younger, I played a lot of MUDs (“ Multi-User Dungeons ” — the text-only predecessors of modern MMORPGs, often played over Telnet ). They were great fun, particularly during high school: a lightweight multiplayer game with no client state meant you could log in from any machine in any lab, even Windows…
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Patterns for Building Realtime Features
Realtime features make apps feel modern, collaborative, and up-to-date. The features predominantly require sharing changes triggered by one user to other …
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NAT Is the Enemy of Low Power Devices
If you have ever tried communicating with a device on a private network, you may have encountered Network Address Translation (NAT). Because the number of connected devices has long outpaced the number of unique addresses in the IPv4 address space, public IP addresses have to be shared between devices. This introduces…
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Work at the Mill: The story of Digital Equipment Corporation
Or, the Story of Digital Equipment Corporation