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I got paid to live in Antarctica
Sharing how I got paid to live in Antarctica, how to get a job on the ice, and everything you need to know about life at McMurdo Station.
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S32 Unix Clock
I've been thinking I should do more "short form" blogging. Something between microblogging and regular blogging. This is me doing that!
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Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware
The common pattern of trying to delete yourself.
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Lessons from YC AI Startups
The evolution of the AI landscape, and YC's Copilot era.
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The Greatest Counterfeiter (2021)
What if you could counterfeit so much money that it stopped being illegal?
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How long it took different companies to find product-market fit
Part five of my seven-part series on kickstarting and scaling a B2B business
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Credit card debt collection
Credit card debt is the waste stream of consumer finance. The debt collection industry ends up being sordid, for complex structural and microeconomic reasons.
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What the interns have wrought, 2023 edition
We’re once again at the end of our internship season, and it’s my task to provide a few highlights of what the dev interns accomplished while they were here.
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Some notes on local-first development
How local-first software works: sync engines, CRDTs, replicated databases, developer tools, architecture tradeoffs, and when to use each approach.
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Free Download Manager backdoored – a possible supply chain attack on Linux
Kaspersky researchers analyzed a Linux backdoor disguised as Free Download Manager software that remained under the radar for at least three years.
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The Rules of Margin Collapse
“Margin collapse” has a dastardly reputation, one of the trickier parts of CSS. Fortunately, it gets a lot easier once you learn a few rules! In this tutorial, we take a deep dive into the governing principles, and learn how to use them to our advantage.
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iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus
Apple today announced iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus, featuring an industry-first color-infused back glass with a stunning, textured matte finish.
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Obsidian 1.4.10 Desktop (Public)
Improvements Editor - Empty lines before the frontmatter block are no longer allowed. Previously this was supported by some parts of the app and ignored by othe...
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New world record with an electric racing car: From 0 to 100 in 0.956 seconds
Students from ETH Zurich and Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts have broken the previous world record for acceleration with their hand-built electric racing car, mythen. The vehicle accelerated from zero to 100 km/h in 0.956 seconds over a distance of 12.3 metres.
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Notes from building a blog in Django
We launched the Datasette Cloud blog today. The Datasette Cloud site itself is a Django app - it uses Django and PostgreSQL to manage accounts, teams and soon billing and payments, then launches dedicated containers running Datasette for each customer.
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The New Godot Development Fund
We are excited to introduce a major improvement in terms of funding the development efforts of the Godot Engine.
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We built the fastest CI and it failed
Earthly CI, touted as the fastest CI system, is shutting down due to a lack of market demand and difficulty in convincing users to switch from exis...
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Unity plan pricing and packaging updates
After deep consultation with our community, customers, and partners, we’ve made the decision to cancel the Runtime Fee, effective immediately.
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The Relativity of Wrong (1989)
I received a letter from a reader the other day. It was handwritten in crabbed penmanship so that it was very difficult to read. Nevertheless, I tried to make it out just in case it might prove to be important.
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How large is that number in the Law of Large Numbers?
All large numbers are large, but some are larger than others
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Sony develops energy harvesting module from electromagnetic wave noise
Sony Semiconductor Solutions Group develops device business which includes Micro display, LSIs, and Semiconductor Laser, in focusing on Image Sensor.
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QtWayland 6.6 Brings Robustness Through Compositor Handoffs
Every release has a killer feature. Qt 6.6 features the opposite - staying alive. This blog post describes work to make Qt clients more robust and seemlessly migrate between compositors, providing resistance against compositor crashes and more.
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Simulating History with ChatGPT
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
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I think I kind of hate lazy loading
Yesterday I was on a train. I clicked on a link and my browser loaded a long article for me to read. Halfway through reading it, the train went into a tunnel and I lost signal. That meant I couldn't see the images on the other half of the page for the rest of the journey. I had a sea of broken images. Even though the…
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Phoenix 1.7 for Elixir: Edit a Form in a Modal
In the final part of our series, we'll implement an edit modal.
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Chrome: Heap buffer overflow in WebP
The Stable and Extended stable channels has been updated to 116.0.5845.187 for Mac and Linux and 116.0.5845.187/.188 for Windows, which will...
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86Box v4.0
Release for August 2023.
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Category Theory Illustrated – Sets
Ready, set , begin… (you don’t know how hard I tried to resist to making that pun). We begin our inquiry with the theory of sets. Set theory and category theory share many similarities. We can view category theory as a generalization of set theory. That is, it’s meant to describe the same thing as set theory…