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Car Bloat: “Huge Cars Are Terrible for Society”
David Zipper, who researches and writes about mobility and transportation, recently did a big thread on Mastodon (and Bluesky) about car bloat: the way in which
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,209 posts.
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Criticisms of “The Body Keeps the Score”
The popular book from the "world's most famous living psychiatrist" is riddled with blatant misrepresentations
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Things I wish I knew about state management when I started writing React apps
Think about the most complex frontends you’ve used. Frontends that made you wonder — “how did they create this”?
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We chose Java for our high-frequency trading application
In the world of High-Frequency Trading, automated applications process hundreds of millions of market signals every day and send back…
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Why does software development take so long?
Nageru 1.4.0 is out (and on its way through the Debian upload process right now), so now you can do live video mixing with multichannel audio to your heart's content. I've already blogged about most of the interesting new features, so instead, I'm trying to answer a question: What took so long?
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C99 doesn't need function bodies, or 'VLAs are Turing complete'
The 1999 revision to the C programming language brought several interesting changes and additions to the standard. Among those are variable length arrays, or VLAs for short, which allow array types to have lengths that are determined at runtime. These can show up in different contexts, but for the purposes of this…
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Tech job listings are down 40% on several job boards
I run a job board that caters to tech jobs, primarily web professionals. This year has been pretty bonkers compared to previous years.
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Introduction to WebAssembly: why should we care?
Explaining WebAssembly, the new bytecode format for the web: why it is so important and a tutorial to start using it right now
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How to make websites that will require lots of your time and energy
Some lessons I’ve learned from experience. 1. Install Stuff Indiscriminately From npm Become totally dependent on others , that’s why they call them…
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Moving on from React, a year later
A retrospective on making the switch from React to StimulusJS at Scholarly
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Librem 5: First Impressions
The Librem 5 does not run Android or iOS, it runs a proper Linux operating system ( PureOS , derived from Debian). There are hardware kill switches for the baseband modem, the camera and microphone, and WiFi and bluetooth. The phone's main selling point is that it doesn't spy on you.
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The Path to Rust
About six months ago, I started my first large-scale Rust-based project. I’d dabbled with the language in its early days, but back then it was a different beast, and not particularly approachable. I decided to try again, and I’m glad I did. Rust is quickly becoming my favorite language for all systems work (which is…
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My professional opinion as a blockchain researcher: I don’t see the point (yet)
I’ve spent the last 15 months researching the implications and possibilities of blockchains and related “distributed trust technologies” from a business and societal point of view…
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Why I never finish my Haskell programs
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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They made computers behave like annoying salesmen
They made computers behave like annoying salesmen | exotext
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Vitamin D, part 3 – The Evidence
Vitamin D deficiency is linked to cancer, heart disease, respiratory infection, stroke, diabetes, and death. It might seem reasonable that we should all be taking this supplement.
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Agentic Coding Recommendations
Current recommendations of agentic coding.
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False memory implantation in adults is easy
false memory implantation in adults is easy (bonus: here's one way to do it)
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Modern Mono
I’ve just finished setting up a new Mac (14" MBP, M2 Pro, 32G, 4T). It dawned on me that most of my really intense interactions with this thing involve looking at “monospace” (i.e. fixed-width) text; in Emacs where I write this blog, in my IDE, and in my terminal. The ones that came with the machine by default are…
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When Rust hurts
Why I am not enjoying programming in Rust.
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Making macOS Apps Uninstallable
Wiggling apps in Launchpad There's this thing called **Launchpad** on macOS which shows you all the apps on your Mac in an iOS like manner. You may already have it in the Dock, but you can also launch it as any other app. There's even a nifty trackpad gesture for it where you *pinch with thumb and three fingers*. ...
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Lessons from Growing a Piracy Streaming Site
A personal account of building HeheStreams, facing the consequences, and going to prison as a startup founder who had a piracy website.
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Oura says it gets government demands for user data
Oura users' data is not end-to-end encrypted and can be handed to the government. Will the wearable tech maker say how often it turns over data?
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Heartbleed
Heartbleed is a catastrophic bug in OpenSSL: “The Heartbleed bug allows anyone on the Internet to read the memory of the systems protected by the vulnerable versions of the OpenSSL software. This compromises the secret keys used to identify the service providers and to encrypt the traffic, the names and passwords of…
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The Roots of Lisp
(I wrote this article to help myself understand exactly what McCarthy discovered. You don't need to know this stuff to program in Lisp, but it should be helpful to anyone who wants to understand the essence of Lisp � both in the sense of its origins and its semantic core. The fact that it has such a core is one of…
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XFCE 4.18
After almost two years of work, we are happy to announce the release of Xfce 4.18 !