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A Primer on Logic Programming
Getting a kickstart in the logic programming world with Prolog
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Norway Fining Meta $98,500 per Day for User Privacy Breach
Norway’s DPA Datatilsynet is penalizing Meta over alleged data privacy breaches, with profound implications across Europe. Learn more in the full news story!
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Marginalia Search Receives FUTO Grant
I’m happy to announce that the generous people at FUTO have granted the project $15,000 with no strings attached to help the search engine out with some more server power. FUTO is a young Austin, TX-based organization “dedicated to developing, both through in-house engineering and investment, technologies that…
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Willingham sends Fables into the public domain
Here, below, is the press release I sent out today to explain what I did and why.
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How can we have a proper debate when we no longer speak the same language?
In the culture wars, hypersensitivity and accusations of ‘hate’ risk leading us into an Orwellian future
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Linear code is more readable
Code linearity is more desireable than keeping abstraction layers separate.
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A mathematical formalization of dimensional analysis (2012)
Mathematicians study a variety of different mathematical structures, but perhaps the structures that are most commonly associated with mathematics are the number systems, such as the integers $late…
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Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? (2003)
Try to spot who liked hacking away at corpses rather than computers
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Webhook Failure Scenarios
<p>A webhooks allow two applications to communicate events. It is relatively simple to get started using webhooks using HTTP and JSON. However, there a number of failure scenarios that developers should be aware of in order to make their webhook implementation robust.</p>
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An Opinionated Yubikey Set-Up Guide
How to set up a YubiKey 5 in 2023.
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Can I take ducks home from the park?
16 queries and 6 language models
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Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates
Chromebooks are getting 10 years of automatic updates, plus new features to help devices last longer.
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How I stay reasonably anonymous online (2022)
I'm not wanted by the FBI, nor am I worried about my ISP watching me, and I don't care about Google knowing what I search for. What I am worried about is cra...
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The end of tweeted articles
Elon Musk, X and the end of tweeted articles
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The Tyranny of the Marginal User
why consumer software gets worse, not better, over time
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PostgreSQL 16
September 14, 2023 - The PostgreSQL Global Development Group today announced the release of PostgreSQL 16, the latest version of …
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Public exposure to BPA exceeds acceptable health safety levels
Population exposure to the synthetic chemical Bisphenol A (BPA), which is used in everything from plastic and metal food containers to reusable water bottles and drinking water pipes in Europe is well above acceptable health safety levels, according to updated research data. This poses a potential health risk to…
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Bacteria generate electricity from wastewater
In a breakthrough for the field of bioelectronics, researchers at EPFL have enhanced the ability of E. coli bacteria to generate electricity. The innovative approach offers a sustainable solution for organic waste processing while outperforming previous state-of-the-art technologies, opening new horizons for versatile…
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Tech Workers Deserve a Union: An Interview with Ethan Marcotte
Ethan Marcotte's book, "You Deserve a Tech Union," provides a mix of practical guidelines and steps that tech workers can take to form a union.
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How to build a IP geolocation database from scratch?
Download a free IPv4 and IPv6 geolocation database (CSV, CC BY-SA 4.0), or the commercial one with full coverage in CSV and MMDB, updated at least twice a week.
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How mobile apps illegally share personal data
Some mobile apps share your personal data immediately after they're opened. This isn't compliant with EU privacy laws
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Painting with math: A gentle study of raymarching
A compilation of my Raymarching and Signed Distance Field learnings and work. In it, I teach you how to leverage those techniques along with lighting models, smoothmin, soft shadows, and some math to create beautiful 3D raymarched scenes ranging from abstract shapes to infinite realistic-looking landscapes.
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How far back in time can I take my website's design?
A look back through web-browser history, as I test my site against the browsers of the past.
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An easy way to concurrency and parallelism with Python stdlib
Because life doesn't have to be hard all the time
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Game Development Post-Unity
What are the options for game developers looking to migrate away from Unity?
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Solar
I spent some time (in Fall 2023) reading about solar deployment. Some facts that struck me:
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