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Strong static typing, a hill I'm willing to die on
This is a post about strong static typing, why I feel strongly about the topic, and some of the ways we utilize the Rust type system at Svix.
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The FTC sues to break up Amazon over an economy-wide “hidden tax”
"We have nowhere else to go and Amazon knows it." The FTC and states are going after Amazon, largely for stopping merchants from offering discounts elsewhere.
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Nobel Prize Chemistry 2023
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 was awarded to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Aleksey Yekimov "for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots"
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Enabling IPv6 support for IPv4-only apps on Linux
Guest Post: How to easily enable IPv6 support for apps without it.
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Extracting Hacker News book recommendations with the ChatGPT API
2023-10-12: I have written a followup with some details about the process used to generate this list: Extracting HN Book Recommendations with the ChatGPT API, Vol. II
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Career Advice (2013)
To my great surprise, young people now somewhat frequently contact me in order to solicit career advice.They are usually in college or highschool, and want to know what the best next steps are for a career in security or software development.This is, honestly, a really complicated question, mostl...
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BBC gives up on Threads, sticks with Mastodon
So numerous brands are giving up on Threads by Instagram, allegedly due to lack of engagement (ironically, most of them are still using...
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Dick Smith’s Wizzard-ry 8 (Bit)
Homemade clone of the Dick Smith Wizzard/VTech CreatiVision game console.
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Passive Solar Water Desalination
I know we are supposed to be worried about the world supply of fresh water. I have been hearing that at least for the last 40 years, and the statistics are alarming. According to the Global Commission on the Economics of Water: "We are seeing the consequences not of freak events, nor of population growth
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Michael F. Flynn has died
Hello family, friends and fans of Michael F. Flynn. It is with sorrow and regret that I inform you that my father passed away yesterday,...
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Lumber prices down 11% YoY
Here is another monthly update on lumber prices. SPECIAL NOTE: The CME group discontinued the Random Length Lumber Futures contract on May...
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Debunking NIST's calculation of the Kyber-512 security level
[Sidney Harris cartoon used with permission. Copyright holder: ScienceCartoonsPlus.com .]
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Working on Multiple Web Projects with Docker Compose and Traefik
Docker Compose is a brilliant tool for bringing up local development environments for web projects. But working with multiple projects can be a pain due to clashes. For example, all projects want to listen to port 80 (or perhaps one of the super common higher ones like 8000 etc.). This forces developers to only bring…
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Honey, I shrunk the NPM package
Have you ever wondered what lies beneath the surface of an npm package? At its heart, it’s nothing more than a gzipped tarball. Working in software development, source code and binary artifacts are nearly always shipped as .tar.gz or .tgz files. And gzip compression is supported by every HTTP server and web browser…
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I applied to 250 jobs and timed how long each one took
I applied to 250 jobs and timed how long it took me to apply to each one. Here is what I found.
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Building personal and organizational prestige
Most months I get at least one email from an engineering leader who believes they’d be a candidate for significantly more desirable roles if their personal brand were just better known. Similarly, when funding is readily available during periods of tech industry expansion, many companies believe they are principally…
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Pgroll: zero-downtime, reversible schema migrations for Postgres
We are excited to ship the first version of pgroll, a command line tool that offers safe and reversible schema migrations for PostgreSQL
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Translating Latin demonology manuals with GPT-4 and Claude
At long last, a real-world use case for AI!
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Extism makes WebAssembly easy
An exploration of how Extism makes it easy to use WebAssembly
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root with a single command: sudo logrotate
Starting from the constraint that only sudo logrotate * may be run, and ending at root: abusing the log file flag to overwrite root owned scripts and ride cron to privilege escalation.
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Hey, computer, make me a font
This is a story of my journey learning to build generative ML models from scratch and teaching a computer to create fonts in the process.
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Five Kinds of Friends (2022)
The word “friends” has at least five different meanings: Allies Backstage intimates Fun friends Mutual interests friends Soc...
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Amino – The Public IPFS DHT Is Getting a Facelift
The ProbeLab team is working on a major refactoring of the Public IPFS DHT (henceforth called Amino) and a new feature which will accelerate the provide operation by several orders of magnitude. Read through to find out the details and how to get involved.
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Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Agostini, Krausz, and L’Huillier
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 was awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier "for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter"
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Ági Szabados Does Not Need to Apologize to Me
So, at the opening ceremonies of the Budapest International Book Festival this year, a couple of people gave prefatory remarks before I received the Budapest Grand Prize and participated in my own …
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Windows NT 3.1 on Dec Alpha AXP
As I was preparing the Windows NT RISC exhibit for VCF west , I realized that I’m missing a rather important piece of the history. While I was showing the potentially last DEC Alpha Windows build ever – AXP64 2210 , I don’t have anything earlier than NT 3.51. It would be nice to showcase the very first RTM version …
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The 300% Production Problem
Earlier this year, I attended CfgMgmtCamp in Ghent and listened to Adam Jacob’s “What if Infrastructure as Code never existed” keynote. Note: I’d like to extend a huge thanks to