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The Future Is Niri
The worst "street-cred" I have is that I've been using tiling window managers for thirty-five percent of my life: five years with Sway and two...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,198 posts.
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Extracting Hacker News book recommendations with the ChatGPT API
2023-10-12: I have written a followup with some details about the process used to generate this list: Extracting HN Book Recommendations with the ChatGPT API, Vol. II
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How to increase your chances of finding a hidden camera
Take note of the title of this blog. What you read below will give you some additional knowledge that may help you identify a hidden camera but it certainly won’t guarantee that. We got lucky…
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How to get better at painting without painting anything (2015)
John Wooden died in 2009. But if you’re a basketball coach today, you’re still living in his shadow.
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AirPlay and Touch Bar = Network Disaster
Mnpn's website and blog containing projects and other information.
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Google AMP Is Not a Good Thing
You might have used Google’s new AMP project without even knowing. It’s a technology that makes mobile page results load very quickly on Google, it
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100k TPS over a billion rows: the unreasonable effectiveness of SQLite
A blog mostly about Clojure programming
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Delegate or die: the self-employed trap
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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BMW are complying with the GPL
The good news follow-up rarely gets as much attention as the original bad-news story. Earlier this month I accidentally kicked off a minor kerfuffle over whether BMW was respecting the GPL. Their i3 car contains a huge amount of Open Source Software and there was some confusion as to BMW's compliance with the licence…
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Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools
In Dec 2022 I watched Richard Stallman's talk on the EmacsConf , it was titled "What I'd like to see in Emacs". One of the interesting points Mr. Stallman pointed out in this talk was "memorable names", "I think every …
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Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?
My head has been spinning after getting a spreadsheet roughly a week ago. Before we dive into my dirty laundry, let’s state the obvious: millions of people have a vague sense that AI is changing things. And LLMs sure are convenient for getting answers quickly. My team and I use Claude and other tools daily. […]
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Why I Wrote PGP (1999)
"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." -Mahatma Gandhi
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Software 2.0 (2017)
I sometimes see people refer to neural networks as just “another tool in your machine learning toolbox”. They have some pros and cons, they…
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AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet
Over the weekend Ars Technica retracted an article because the AI a writer used hallucinated quotes from an open source library maintainer. The irony here is the maintainer in question, Scott Shambaugh, was harassed by someone's AI agent over not merging its AI slop code. It's likely the bot was running through…
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Why I Quit Tech and Became a Therapist
The story of an unusual career transition.
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Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month
Personal website of Cody Ho
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Figma Slides Is a Beautiful Disaster
Some highlights and lowlights.
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What to learn to be a graphics programmer
I get asked fairly often what people need to know to be hireable as a graphics programmer. I figured it was time to make a page to link instead of re-typing it each time. We are in a strange time w…
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Over-editing refers to a model modifying code beyond what is necessary
AI-assisted coding has become the norm and with tools like Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Codex, we are increasingly letting models touch our code. If you have used any of these tools in the past year, you have probably experienced something like this: you ask the model to fix a simple bug (perhaps a single…
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Unix command line conventions over time
ETA, 2022-05-19: I'm happy this blog post has gathered a fair bit of interest. However, this post is as much effort as I'm prepared to put into the topic. I think it would be a good idea to write an essay, article, or even a book, on how syntax of the Unix command line has varied over the years, and in different…
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“Dynamic programming” is not referring to “computer programming”
When seeing the phrase “dynamic programming” in an algorithms class or leetcode study guide, the first question people ask is “what does ‘dynamic’ mean in this context?”.
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How to boss without being bossy
Leaders command people. That’s kind of what a leader is: someone with the authority to direct the actions of others.
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Burner Phone 101
Hosted by the Brooklyn Public Library, this Burner Phone 101 workshop introduced participants to phone-related risk modeling, privacy-protective smartphone practices, the full spectrum of burner phone options, and when to leave phones behind entirely.
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When we got to the scanner, I opted out. Then they opted out.
Writing and Stuff from Isaac Z. Schlueter
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Getting started with bare-metal assembly
Seeing a program you wrote running directly on the bare metal is deeply satisfying to anyone who enjoys writing software. And it turns out that creating such a program from scratch is easier than it sounds. The hardest part is figuring out where to start. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to write, build and run the…
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OnePlus OxygenOS built-in analytics
We take a look at the analytics built into the OxygenOS, the flavour of Android built by phone manufacturer OnePlus.