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The most underused browser feature: reader mode
A great feature that is available in almost every browser allows you to reject the cookie consent popup.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,820 posts.
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Life Before Unicode
Unicode definitely added a lot of complexity to string handling, and people who use languages with ASCII alphabets exclusively may think it's unjustified. However, I'm a non-ASCII language speaker who's old enough to remember the alternatives, and the alternatives are far worse than the complexity of Unicode.
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Hiding Images in Plain Sight: The Physics of Magic Windows
I recently made a physical object that defies all intuition. It’s a square of acrylic, smooth on both sides, totally transparent. A tiny window.
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Error stack traces in Go with x/xerror
A workaround to get nice stack traces for errors in Go.
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How we paid for the War on Terror
Or, why Keynesianism and functional finance demand politics.
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Ten Years of Bootstrap
Ten years ago today, we shipped the first release of Bootstrap. Releasing it on GitHub was my first real plunge into open source—what an introduction! Here we…
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Wikidata or Scraping Wikipedia
Yesterday I was pointed to a blog post describing how to answer an interesting project: how many generations from Alfred the Great to Elizabeth II ? Alfred the Great was a king in England at the end of the 9th century, and Elizabeth II is the current Queen of England (and a bit more).
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Fighting Like Taliban
Over the last month or so we have seen several reports out of Afghanistan registering the shock of the Americans, the Afghani government, and even the Taliban itself with the speed at which the Tal…
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America Had an Atomic Mecha Warrior Robot
"REAL stories. REAL history."
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Deno on MDN
Web compatibility data for Deno is now available on MDN.
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Home Lab Hardware Guide
My home lab in a 12U rack as of March 2026. What is a Home Lab? Think of a home lab as a place where you can fail in the privacy of your own home. As
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Platforms want to be utilities, self-govern like empires
Whether it’s “bringing the world closer together” (Facebook), “organizing the world’s information” (Google), to be a market “where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online” (Amazon) or “to make personal computing accessible to each and every individual” (Apple), the founding missions of…
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Lambdas as values in Excel
Excel has new LAMBDA functions
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The only skin care that works? science video response (2020)
Recently ASAP Science released a video called "The ONLY face cream that works! – according to science". A lot of people asked me to do a response, so here it is on YouTube (keep scrolling for the text…
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Tesla Project Dojo Overview
A couple of days back, Ganesh Venkataramanan, leader of the Tesla Dojo project, announced the Dojo machine learning training system. It’s an unusually network rich, power dense, and memory light design. I’ve summarized the architecture of the system below but I found three aspects of the system particularly…
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Conditionally setting your gitconfig
Did you know you can change Git attributes based on what folder you're in?
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Bigger vehicles are directly resulting in more deaths of people walking
Smart growth is an approach to community design that connects housing, transportation, and land use to create healthy, prosperous, and resilient neighborhoods.
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Machine learning’s crumbling foundations
Technological debt is insidious, a kind of socio-infrastructural subprime crisis that's unfolding around us in slow motion. Our digital infrastructure is built atop layers and layers and layers of code that's insecure due to a combination of bad practices and bad frameworks.
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How to deliver constructive feedback in difficult situations (2019)
“We are dangerous when we are not conscious of our responsibility for how we behave, think, and feel.”―Marshall Rosenberg, As a founder, my biggest regrets revolve around not having difficu…
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C++20 Concepts: The Definitive Guide
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Bringing the Unix philosophy to the 21st century (2019)
JSON output must become the norm for application pipelining. Until then, jc can help.
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Noted study in psychology fails to replicate, crumbles with evidence of fraud
About 80 people pointed me to this post by Uri Simonsohn, Joe Simmons, and Leif Nelson about a 2012 article, “Signing at the beginning makes ethics salient and decreases dishonest self-reports in comparison to signing at the end.” Apparently some of the data in that paper were faked; see for example here:
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AWS doesn’t know who I am
AWS needs an identity that uniquely represents its users, not fractured across corporate identity providers.
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Rolling hash; Rabin-Karp string search
This is yet another string search algorithm. (Previously my readers have read about Knuth-Morris-Pratt .)
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Gitfs: Version Controlled File System
gitfs went on a trip around the world, and we were there to document it: fro Italy to Sweden, from the UK to Spain, gitfs has been center stage.
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Expert help needed to decode rare piece of space history: Lunokhod data tapes
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Don’t starve, Diablo – Parallax 7 (2016)
In the 1990s, games started to move from 2D to 3D and if an alien would have landed on earth back then, it surely would have thought that nobody needs these low-res polygon-models without any filtering. Then it would destroy the earth.