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Privatizing our digital identities
Trying to make the case for permanent irrevocable digital identities, which unfortunately today, by de-facto, are email addresses.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,920 posts.
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Ahrefs saved $400m in 3 years by not going to the cloud
How Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years by NOT Going to the Cloud Clouds for IT infrastructure are so popular lately that moving into the cloud has become a trend. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) …
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Why Write?
In a world of AI-powered writing tools, it's tempting to think human writing skills are losing their value. But this article reveals the surprising reasons why writing remains essential for clarifying your thinking, deepening your understanding, and standing out in an increasingly automated future. Discover the…
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Who reads your email?
A look at diversity of MX records across all gTLDs and the Top 1M domains, indicating where SMTP is concentrated and what organizations might have broad access to the world's emails.
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What a good debugger can do
When people say “debuggers are useless and using logging and unit-tests is much better,” I suspect many of them think that debuggers can only put breakpoints on certain lines, step-step-step through the code, and check variable values. While any reasonable debugger can indeed do all of that, it’s only the tip of the…
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Avoiding visible texture repetition (2015)
Tutorials and articles of Inigo Quilez on computer graphics, fractals, math, art, demoscene, shaders and more.
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How to start a rocket engine
This article answeres the questions of how to start a rocket engine and takes you on a deep dive into spark plugs, torch ignitors and more.
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Curl 25 Years Online Celebration
curl turns 25 years old and what better way to celebrate this than to join fellow curl friends, developers and fans online on the exact birthday? At 17:00 UTC March 20, 2023. We run an Online birthday party open for everyone to join. Consider muting yourself when you join, but feel encouraged to leave the … Continue…
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I use cheap notebooks
I've had my fair share of nice notebooks over the years, from Moleskines to Leuchtturms. And I love them: I love their smooth leather covers, thick sheets, a...
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How to Yubikey
How to use and configure a Yubikey
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SPA view transitions land in Chrome 111
The View Transition API allows page transitions within single-page apps, and will later include multi-page apps.
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The AI hype bubble is the new crypto hype bubble
Back in 2017 Long Island Ice Tea – known for its undistinguished, barely drinkable sugar-water – changed its name to "Long Blockchain Corp." Its shares surged to a peak of 400% over their pre-announcement price. The company announced no specific integrations with any kind of blockchain, nor has it made any such…
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Steel Threads are a powerful but obscure software design approach
Steel Threads are a powerful but obscure software design approach. Learning about Steel Threads will make you a better engineer. You can use them to avoid common problems like integration pain. And you can use them to cut through the complexity of system design.
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Serverless maps at 1/700 the cost of Google Maps API
Accelerating Protomaps with a CDN for fast and affordable maps
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ChatGPT is now finding bugs in databases
Engineering notes and product news from the PhoenixAI team — real-time analytics, AI agent workloads, lakehouse architecture, and what we're shipping.
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How computer vision is changing manufacturing in 2023
Computer vision applications are transforming manufacturing, from defect detection to predictive maintenance. Learn computer vision strategies from industry leaders.
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The Quest for Netflix on Asahi Linux
Note: If you're here because you just want to watch Netflix on Asahi, install this (Edit: for Arch users, grab this . Fedora users can install the widevine-installer package), and then scroll down to the "Netflix-Specific Annoyances" section.
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The 24 Hour “Do Nothing” Challenge
There’s not too much to say on this one, so I’ll keep it short. My goal was to do nothing for 24 hours. Like everyone in the modern world, I’m hopelessly addicted to little dopamine bur…
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There’s no such thing as a tree phylogenetically (2021)
Dendronization – Evolving into a tree-like morphology. (In the style of “carcinization”.) From ‘dendro’, the ancient Greek root for tree.
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Physical Knobs and Elixir
I like production gear. Audio, video and .. miscellaneous. I like things that seem like they'll make me oh-so-very productive. I'm a sucker prosumer as a hobby. Let's talk about Elgato, Elixir and why I never actually get anything done. This is unfortunately not sponsored by a prosumer brand, or anyone, that'd have…
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Writing a Kubernetes Operator
Basic introduction to Kubernetes Operators and Controllers, with a tutorial on creating an Operator in Rust
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Getting Past “Ampersand-Driven Development” in Rust
A little mental model for ownership and borrowing
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DuckDuckGo Launches DuckAssist
A new feature that generates natural language answers to search queries using Wikipedia.
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The Basics of Arm64 Assembly
Just one instruction at a time!
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The threat on your desk: Building an evil USB-C dock
BadUSB attacks have been a threat for years, but is the USB-C dock sitting on your desk the latest threat in disguise?
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The False Promise of Chomskyism
Important Update (March 10): On deeper reflection, I probably don’t need to spend emotional energy refuting people like Chomsky, who believe that Large Language Models are just a laughable fa…
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Stylized Water Shader
💦 A huge, step-by-step tutorial on how to create a beautiful stylized water shader in Unity using Shader Graph. This works with Unity's Universal Render Pipeline (URP). Includes colors, foam, refraction, reflections, caustics and Gerstner waves.
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JavaScript and TypeScript features of the last 3 years
This article goes through almost all of the changes of the last 3 years (and some from earlier) in JavaScript / ECMAScript and TypeScript.