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The sixtyforgan: Commodore 64 equipped with a spring reverb
The sixtyforgan is a Commodore 64 equipped with a spring reverb, featuring the keyboard layout of a chromatic button accordion.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,234 posts.
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Diatom Arrangements
An odd post. Diatoms are single-celled algae with glass shells, and people arrange them into patterns under a microscope.
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You'll be dead soon - Carpe Diem
For the next few months I’ll be posting a series of posts on family, startup culture and careers. These vignettes are about how I’ve lived my life trying to make my dent in the universe and trying …
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Kalman filters and functional programming
A paper on Kalman filtering and functional folds that I alluded to previously has been split into several papers and posted online.
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Undocumented Facebook API to identify friends in photos
So last week I was casually browsing through Facebook feed and looking at some random photo posted by a friend. So hovering over the pictur...
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F/OSS Comics #13: BSD Unix, Part 3 – The Beginning of BSD Unix
From Pascal and ex tapes to a VAX system: Bill Joy handles BSD distribution and debugging, then joins Ozalp Babaoglu to bring virtual memory to Unix.
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Sonic Pi: Ruby as a Composition Tool
Like the blip of an intro on the front page says, my degree was originally in music. My running joke as a web dev is that neither has meaningfully required me to count past 32. And while my main concentration was vocals, I've since realized I should probably stop strictly calling this a nontechnical field, because my…
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A new storage engine for PostgreSQL to provide better control over bloat
In the past few years, PostgreSQL has advanced a lot in terms of features, performance, and scalability for many-core systems. However, o...
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The Signal protocol for Node and browsers
Signal is a protocol for encrypted chat. Developed by Moxie Marlinspike and Trevor Perrin, the Signal protocol backs the excellent Signal Messenger , and has since been incorporated into WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Google Allo.
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Good type against all odds
A blog about software craft and quality
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UIDebuggingInformationOverlay
Update, December 9, 2017: This overlay still exists, but this post’s instructions don’t work on iOS 11 and later. In an update to his excellent book, Advanced Apple Debugging and Reverse Engineering, Derek Selander describes how to get the panel working in iOS 11. He’s generously posted the chapter for free here.While…
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How the AI Bubble Will Pop
The artificial intelligence boom is the most important economic story in the world. But the numbers just don't add up.
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The cultural decline of literary fiction
What happened?
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Why is learning functional programming so damned hard? (2019)
My Functional Programming journey was filled with dead ends, false starts, failed attempts and frustration. And I suspect that I’m not…
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Why isn’t there a decent file format for tabular data?
Tabular data is everywhere. I support reading and writing tabular data in various formats in all 3 of my software application. It is an important part of my data transformation software. But all th…
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Do call yourself a programmer, and other career advice
This is a (very late) reply to Patrick McKenzie's " Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice ". I find much of his advice very sensible, and it might be very helpful to someone in the beginning of their career – assuming they can act upon it (and I really don't know whether my 20-year-old self could…
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SQL nulls are weird
Yes, you read that right. SQL does treat all NULLs as distinct values. I learnt this a while back while working on Convoy and again on LiteQueue: a Golang a queueing library. Basically, any column wi
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Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. (2007)
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
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The Hollow Men of Hims
An admittedly partial - but deeply troubling - case against America's most brazen medical grift, involving Chinese knockoffs, subscription traps, and prescription gas station sex pills.