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Time to subsidize e-bikes?
We offer tax credits for electric cars — but ebikes are arguably even more transformative
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Build your own Docker with Linux namespaces, cgroups, and chroot
Take a practical approach to containerization as we guide you through the step-by-step process of building your own Docker-like environment using Linux namespaces, cgroups, and chroot. Dive into the code and command examples to gain a deeper understanding of how these technologies work together to create isolated and…
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Modern TLS/SSL on 16-bit Windows
Lately, there's been an resurgence of new programs written for retro computers—everything from a Slack client to many Wordle clones, to a Mastodon client. But most of these programs, if they connect to the Internet, require a proxy running on a modern computer to handle the SSL/TLS connection, which almost all APIs…
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Discovering that a Bluetooth car battery monitor is siphoning location data
Reverse engineering an Android app for a Bluetooth connected car battery monitor with some startling discoveries ...
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The Magic Nix Cache, a GitHub Action for speeding up your Nix workflows
Nix builds at speeds you never thought possible.
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A response to the git.centos.org changes
More about Red Hat's decision to make CentOS Stream the primary repository for RHEL sources.
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A Senior Engineer’s Guide to FAANG Interviews
Made by interviewers for candidates – we spent hundreds of hours talking to technical interviewers from FAANG about their processes.
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Demystifying burnout – A deep dive into its symptoms and remedies
Discover the roots of burnout, its distinct symptoms, and key causes. Learn to identify potential signs and explore strategies to overcome this chronic syndrome.
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I'm Done with Red Hat (Enterprise Linux)
Two years ago, Red Hat killed CentOS, a widely-used free version of their Enterprise Linux distribution. The community of CentOS users—myself included—were labeled as 'freeloaders', using the work of the almighty Red Hat corporation, without contributing anything back. Don't mind all the open source developers, Linux…
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Every factorial approximates a power
For every n, there is a base b such that n! = b^n. The relation between n and b(n) is surprisingly close to linear.
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Text rendering hates you (2019)
Rendering text, how hard could it be? As it turns out, incredibly hard! To my knowledge, literally no system renders text “perfectly”. It’s all best-effort, although some efforts are more important than others.
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Working with Docker containers with the dexec bash script
I wrote a simple dexec script to make running commands through Docker containers less clunky. I'll show you what dexec is and how to use it!
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Google has a secret browser hidden inside the settings
My most popular article about Google - breakthrough in gms
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Code the shortest path first
There is a strange thing that I noticed as I progressed from a junior engineer to mid-career to senior. When you’re a new engineer, still learning the basics, you are given a task or you have an idea, and you proceed to implement exactly that idea. Very simple, point A to point B, whatever gets the job done. You hate…
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The last day of Constantinople
Discover how the fall of Constantinople in 1453 ended the Byzantine Empire and transformed the great city into Ottoman Istanbul.
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ThinMachine – A $25 thin client macOS Time Machine appliance
The instructions below set up Time Machine using the Apple File Protocol (AFP). After publishing this blog post, I’ve been told that this is now deprecated and that Samba should be used instead. I’ll update this blog post in the near future.
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The Shitty Stack System
How Microsoft's ruthless employee evaluation system annihilated team collaboration.
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Miles Davis: A candid conversation (1962)
Last Modified Sunday, 05-Aug-2018 12:53:53 EDT These pages were made by Justin R. Erenkrantz unless otherwise stated. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License . These pages will look best in an XHTML 1.0 compliant browser.
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Breadbee: Build your own (tiny) single board computer (2020)
Background Back in April, the hardware news site cnx-software featured a very nice new small Linux board called Breadbee , that was design...
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What are embeddings?
A deep-dive into machine learning embeddings.
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Monitoring Is a Pain
And we're all doing it wrong (including me) I have a confession. Despite having been hired multiple times in part due to my experience with monitoring platforms, I have come to hate monitoring. Monitoring and observability tools commit the cardinal sin of tricking people into thinking this is an
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4D Toys Update 8: Rotating the 3D Slice, 2D Faces Projections, Marble Scenes
This is a Mega-Update ®™ that focuses on features that people have been requesting for a long time. I have a ton of stuff in Miegakure that could be shared with 4D Toys but what takes development time is not the cool 4D stuff but all the UI/UX around it. First of all because there is the VR version, the mouse/keyboard…
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Like diffusion but faster: The Paella model for fast image generation
The ability to generate realistic images without waiting would unlock applications from engineering to entertainment and beyond. New work takes a step...
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Ways to say no with grace and style (2021)
Saying no with grace is its own leadership capability. It is not just a peripheral skill. As with any ability, we start with limited experience.
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Upload a Godot HTML5 Game to Itch.io with GitHub Actions
Automatically upload your Android Godot game to itch.io with Github Actions godot-html-export and itchio-butler-upload
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XML is the future
Okay, campers, rise and shine...