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PHP in 2022
A blog about modern PHP, the web, and programming in general. Follow my newsletter and YouTube channel as well.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,821 posts.
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Zero rupee note (2015)
A Non-Violent Weapon of Non-Cooperation Against Corruption Have you heard of the ZERO-RUPEE NOTE, yet? Many of you may wonder what the use of it is. Well, All Indians face Corruption in almost all…
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Why isn't there a replication crisis in math?
The replication crisis is a major problem in medicine and social science; we know that a huge fraction of the published literature is outright wrong. But in math we don't seem to have a similar crisis, despite reasonably frequent minor errors in published papers. Why not, and what can this tell us about the fields…
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State of the Sanderson 2022
State of the Sanderson 2022 Introduction Wow. What a year. I can remember writing this essay last year, and being all giddy about the fact that I was hiding four secret novels from you all. I said, “Maybe next year, I’ll be able to explain to you all why my year was so strange.” One big part of it was those novels. The
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Picking up free lithium cells off the street and making them safe for use
This blog post reveals how you can salvage lithium cells from the many discarded, disposable vape devices that get littered in our towns and cities. With a pair of pliers and some bravery, I manage...
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How to feel engaged at work: a software engineer's guide
On fighting the feeling of "blah".
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Getting Started with Tmux
Sysadmin doing syadmin stuff
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The Banality of Genius: Notes on Peter Jackson's Get Back
A Special Edition of The Ruffian
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50th Anniversary of the Mother of All Demos (2018)
I was asked to give a toast in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of [The Mother of All Demos](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos) so I spent some time reflecting on Engelbart's w...
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Swallowing the elephant into Blender
Some years ago Matt Pharr wrote an excellent blog post series, “ Swallowing the elephant ”, in which he describes various optimizations done in pbrt using Disnay’s Moana Island Scene .
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Weird Al had 100 gigs of RAM
So many lines in that song have been surpassed, but RAM sticks out as something that hasn’t.
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Pretty maps in Python
Benchmarks & Tips for Big Data, Hadoop, AWS, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python & More...
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Over-reliance on CGI in movies
On the digital void that is modern cinema
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Shamelessness as a strategy (2019)
I’ve enjoyed playing a game called Avalon recently. I won’t go too far into the rules, but it’s a hidden role game in the vein of Secret Hitler or Werewolf, where one team is “good”, trying to uncover who among them is “evil”, before the evil team wins.
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How I See Numbers
Please see the associated Hacker News comments for some interesting discussion related to this article.
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Knuth changes his mind on Bernoulli number B_1
(I thank Yoshiyuki Kotani for this identity. We'll be able to use the same idea again in 2024 and 2027!)
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Using Windows after 15 years on Linux
I've been using Linux exclusively for ~15 yrs. This is my first time using Windows after a 15-year break. This is how it's been going.
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American Airlines and The Points Guy are suing each other
American Airlines has been clamping down on websites that work with AAdvantage member data for their customers. They made Award Wallet stop tracking member accounts and they sent a cease and desist letter to Red Ventures, which owns The Points Guy, over its TPG app which - among other things - lets customers track…
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My 70 year old mother has been using Linux on the desktop for the past 21 years
My mother turned 70, February 2021, and she has been using Linux on the desktop for the past 21 years. My mother-in-law is 65, she has been using Linux on the desktop since 2015.
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The 5GHz “Problem” for Wi-Fi Networks: DFS (2018)
Wi-Fi networking provides us with 2 bands for the operation of wireless LAN networks: the 2.4Ghz band and the 5GHz band. The 2.4GHz band has...
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A high-dimensional sphere spilling out of a high-dimensional cube
Make a square, split each side into two halves, producing four cells. Put a circle into each cell such that it fills it completely. There is a small gap right in the middle of the square. Put a circle there again such that it touches the other four circles. The central circle is obviously inside the square, right?…
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Server-sent events, WebSockets, and HTTP
The orange site is currently discussing an article about Server-Sent Events, especially as compared with WebSockets (and the emerging WebTransport). Both the article and discussion are well-informed, but I think they miss out on one aspect that has fairly deep implications.
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Why don’t we do email verification in reverse?
Just about everybody who has ever used a service on the web has experienced the following account creation follow:
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Did the early medieval era ever take place?
On the “phantom time hypothesis”, the bizarre conspiracy theory that 297 years of European history were entirely made up.
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How to Store an SSH Key on a Yubikey
Xe Iaso's personal website.
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What makes a senior engineer? Writing software vs. building systems
Junior Engineers care about writing Software. They value code quality, employ best practices, try to adopt cutting-edge technologies. They invest a lo