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We're wasting money by only supporting gzip for raw DNA files
Stylised graphics of money with DNA helix in the foreground.
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Jump Servers
Today we're going to talk about how jump servers work and how hoop can be a great alternative to them. Jump Servers are nodes that will grant access to your underline infra-structure services. Imagine that someone from your company need to access a database or an application inside your internal infra-structure…
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How to store your app's entire state in the url
I'm working on a flowchart editor that runs in the browser, and I wanted a way for people to use it without having to sign in, or store any data on our server. I wanted to give them control over their data and to be able to store it locally to open and edit later. And also easily share it with other people. It's easy…
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Demystifying Apache Arrow (2020)
Demystifying Apache Arrow - some observations from a data scientist. Learning more about a tool that can filter and aggregate two billion rows on a laptop in two seconds
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Fake it until you automate it
A pragmatic way for you to start automating deployments of a Legacy system.
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Sourcehut will blacklist the Go module mirror
sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.
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'Terminator' 1 and 2 Save Their Reveals for the Right Time
And Other Thoughts on James Cameron's Classic
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Identity thieves bypassed Experian security to view credit reports
Identity thieves have been exploiting a glaring security weakness in the website of Experian , one of the big three consumer credit reporting bureaus. Normally, Experian requires that those seeking a copy of their credit report successfully answer several multiple choice questions about their financial history. But…
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Tetris is capable of universal computation
This text presents a method for embedding a programmable, general-purpose, digital computer into Tetris. It describes the capabilities and performance of an implementation that runs Tetris on Tetris.
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Raspberry Pi Camera Module 3 released
Time and CMOS image sensor technology has marched on since 2013. So today, we’re happy to announce the launch of Camera Module 3.
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TouchEn nxKey: A keylogging anti-keylogger solution
TouchEn nxKey is supposed to combat keyloggers. Instead, this application made writing a keylogger extremely simple, allowed attacking banking websites and more.
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A look at Unison: a revolutionary programming language
Unison is a pure functional programming language that comes with a few revolutionary ideas. Seriously, it makes everything we’re used to, like long builds, dependency version conflicts, tests that run every single build even when nothing checked by them has changed, manual encoding and serialization of data, and lots…
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High level mods/patches for console video games
This blogpost explores my journey of bringing higher level languages (in this case C) to console video-game modding, as an alternative to hand-tailored assembly mods.
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Extreme questions to trigger new, better ideas
We know, "no idea is a bad idea," but brainstorming is often unsuccessful. These prompts actually work. They could even lead to a unique business model.
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Alan Kay on web browsers, document viewers, Smalltalk, NeWS and HyperCard (2021)
Alan Kay answered: “Actually quite the opposite, if “document” means an imitation of old static text media (and later including pictures…
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ssh whoami.filippo.io
I updated the whoami.filippo.io dataset! I explain how it works, and how I fetched the new data.
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Linux Touchpad like MacBook Update: 2022 progress and new poll
Bill is driven by the challenge of how best to quantify valuable questions that defy quantification. It's possible this instinct may have been awakened in Bill at age 14, when he won a soft, stuffed bunny at the orthodontist for guessing the number of jelly beans in the gumball machine.
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My encounter with Medley Interlisp
Imagine someone let you into an alien spaceship they landed in your backyard, sat you at the controls, and encouraged you to fly the ship...
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Shorting Tether
The trials and tribulations of betting against crypto's biggest stablecoin.
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The Art of LaTeX: Common mistakes and advice for typesetting proofs
When was the first time you had to use LaTeX? If you are like most people, it was probably suddenly forced upon you during your first math or CS class where you had to start writing proofs, with minimal guidance on how to get started. Unfortunately, this meant that while many people have good operational knowledge of…
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Effects on the lips of horn players seated too close to the timpani (2014)
Timpani-horn interactions:
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OOP in C
The art of good programming depends upon the discipline of the programmer, no matter what language is being used. The purpose of object oriented programming (OOP) is to produce well designed reusable code. In principle OOP can be done in any language, even assembly. This is because all OO language compilers/assemblers…
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Cheap, sustainable hydrogen through solar power
https://youtu.be/uNQLOU8aATc Study: Solar-to-hydrogen efficiency of >9% in photocatalytic water splitting (DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05399-1) A new kind of solar panel, developed at the University of Michigan, has achieved 9% efficiency in converting water into hydrogen and oxygen—mimickin