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Last winter, I rode a ski lift alongside a guy who claimed to be a retired Olympic ski tuner. Ski tuning, he said, was all a scam. If you keep your skis dry between days out they’ll stay sharp for their entire lifetime. Don’t get him started on waxing. His specific claim was that skis get blunt from corrosion, and all…
This post outlines how I used a small 2 inch display as a monitor for my pi. Where it can display tty terminals and X desktops and applications as if it was a normal screen connected over hdmi. My overall goal is to have a sort of handheld “console” that I can connect a keyboard to and use as a normal computer. This…
We're a bunch of ex-Triplebyte people. We loved it there, and we're trying to make something like it. Here's how.
I’ve been meaning to write this one for a while, but the announcement of the Ladybird Browser Initiative makes now a particularly good time.
Our God is a devourer, who makes things only for the swallowing.
Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, a chip to "separate the really power-hungry folks from ordinary mortals." The origin...
Which one makes more sense to use, big and slow or small and fast? Especially with the same appearance and functionality, the youtube-lite component is a no-brainer.
Learn what it's like to attend a launch, which launches you can attend, how much it costs and other launch questions
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…
The thought behind the thought
Artur Malabarba's Debugging Elisp Part 1: Earn your independence is nearly a decade old, yet it rings just as true today. Learning to Edebug really *"...
A few years ago, I read The Toyota Way, driven by my curiosity about the origins of Agile software development. However, I became even more…
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UChicago Pritzker Molecular Engineering Prof. Y. Shirley Meng’s Laboratory for Energy Storage and Conversion has created the world’s first anode-free sodium
“If you look at zero you see nothing; but look through it and you will see the world.”
A review of Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation, exploring how social media and overprotective parenting affect children’s mental health.
There's a fascinating Rust library, loom, which can be used to thoroughly test lock-free data structures. I always wanted to learn how it works. I still do! But recently I accidentally implemented a small toy which, I think, contains some of the loom's ideas, and it seems worthwhile to write about that. The goal here…
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Being involved with retro computers, I have a few floppy disks (of the 3.5-inch variety) that I would like to preserve as faithfully as possible. Of course, I know there are dedicated devices for doing that, such as the Kryoflux or the SuperCard Pro . But it occurred to me that I already own the required hardware to…
DuckDB extensions can now be published as DuckDB Community Extensions. The repository makes it easier for users to install extensions using the INSTALL extension_name FROM community syntax. Extension developers avoid the burdens of compilation and distribution.
One-indexing problems in everyday life
Great success brings with it great expectations. And sometimes it brings an identity crisis as well.
A blog about making a game to achieve my childhood dream (of getting the DVD logo in the corner)
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It has been three days. The room is cold and dark, but your screens are blinding. You feel disoriented as you come in and out of dissociative episodes. Now and again, you laugh, to no accompaniment. Why are you here? Was this your fault?
Web browsers are integrating the current AI trend with Large Language Model (LLM) functionality. But there are fundamental issues with it. We address them.
If you've ever said "soft skills" and felt weird about it, this essay is for you
As projects get more complicated the tooling has to improve. Outgrowing the arduino-ide is easy on the Pi Pico with the excelent pico-sdk but what if things get even more complicated...
