Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,211 posts.
European public institutions are betting big on digital sovereignty and open source software. And yet they recently moved their Bluesky accounts to W Social, a private, for profit network owned by Swedish entrepreneurs that has quietly gone closed-source.
Information addiction is rotting our brains
PNG is my favourite file format of all time. Version 1.0 of the specification was released in 1996 (before I was born!) and the format remains widely used to this day. I think the main reasons it stuck around for so long are:
I write very short scripts, sometimes for single-line commands. Here's why you should do it too.
I’m slowly developing my own list of advice: have a creative mindset, embrace radical transparency, and write down what makes you happy. I’d like to add one more to the list: stealing is a skill!
Unicode is good. If you’re designing a data structure or protocol that has text fields, they should contain Unicode characters encoded in UTF-8. There’s another question, though: “ Which Unicode characters?” The answer is “Not all of them, please exclude some.”
Your AI coding agent is drowning in noise
Despite my woeful knowledge of networking, I run my own DNS servers on my own websites run from home.
I posit that most software engineers (particularly those working on infrastructural systems) are destined to wallow in unnecessary complexity due to three fundamental laws.
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
Last weekend I attended the MHacks: Refactor hackathon on behalf of my company. I acted as a representative of my company as well as a mentor for the hackers...
When I ssh into a server for the first time, I’m confronted with a dialog which asks me to verify I’m actually talking to the machine I expect to be talking to. $ ssh -l jp 192.0.2.65 The authenti...
In a blowout comedy for the ages, finance pirates take it up the clacker
It’s been more than one year that I wrote “ How I've Made $200k in the iOS Education Market ” post which has been well received by the indie...
It may not be obvious from my other blog entries, but I work as a Java developer. I also freely confess to enjoy it, which probably makes me part of some minority.
On December 19 2017, Microsoft announced that since insider build 17063 of Windows 10, curl is now a default component. I've been away from home since then so I haven't really had time to sit down and write and explain to you all what this means, so while I'm a bit late, here it comes! … Continue reading Microsoft…
Last week, CIA director John Brennan told a Senate committee that there wasn’t any strong cryptography outside of the US. CIA director John Brennan told US senators they shouldn’t worry about mandatory encryption backdoors hurting American businesses. And that’s because, according to Brennan, there’s no one else for…
LangChain is complicated, so it must be better. Right?
This script uses a pregenerated foundation lookup table to find local IP address for ICE candidates that render local mDNS hostnames seen as xx-xxx-xxx-xx.local .
This is my Code BEAM Europe 2025 talk, converted to a blogpost.
The holographic display of the future is here and you can have one on your desk for under $600. Ever since I saw Princess Leia appealing to Obi Wan that
The first step in building my text editor is to implement the core API. If you’re wondering why I want to do this, the original article is here.
Six matrix factorizations dominate in numerical linear algebra and matrix analysis: for most purposes one of them is sufficient for the task at hand. We summarize them here. For each factorization …
Digging up some useful and not so popular commands in Linux
