2011
Exploring Mastodon
With the current uncertainty over Twitter, I'm starting to explore using Mastodon
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,821 posts.
2012
Protect me from what I want
Over on Mastodon, there are many people who enjoy not being in the grip of software like Facebook or Twitter that single-mindedly tries to maximize “engagement”, which means the amount of time you stare at the screen so they can show you ads. These algorithms don’t care what they’re showing you and if it turns out…
2013
I have quit my job
Several years ago, I decided to quit freelancing and do a day job. The job would pay much less but I was struggling with mental health (ADHD). On my therapist's suggestion, I decided to give the job thing a try. It worked wonderfully, my struggles with discipline are a thing of past. Or so I believe.
2014
What I wish someone would have told me about using RabbitMQ (2020)
RabbitMQ Crash Course for 2025
2015
How much I’ve spent so far running my own Mastodon server on AWS
📖 You can read more of my posts on running your own Mastodon server right here: https://www.micahwalter.com/tag/mastodon/ I’ve been running my own single-user...
2016
Cocktail party ideas
You don't have to be at a party to see this phenomenon in action, but there's a curious thing I regularly see at parties in social circles where people value intelligence and cleverness without similarly valuing on-the-ground knowledge or intellectual rigor. People often discuss the standard trendy topics (some recent…
2017
How Fly.io and Tailscale Saved Notado
A technical overview of Notado's migration to Fly.io
2018
2019
Software Mise En Place
I am really, really into cooking. In the heady days of 2016 I regularly threw dinner parties for 30+ people. These days I don't hate myself that much, but...
2020
Negative incentives in academic research
In the first half of the XXth century, there were relatively few scientists, and these scientists were generally not lavishly funded. Yet it has been convincingly argued that these scientists were massively more productive. We face a major replication crisis where important results in fields such as psychology and…
2021
Tech CEO pleads to wire fraud in IP address scheme
The CEO of a South Carolina technology firm has pleaded guilty to 20 counts of wire fraud in connection with an elaborate network of phony companies set up to obtain more than 735,000 Internet Protocol (IP) addresses from the nonprofit organization that leases the digital real estate to entities in North America.
2022
When Apple Built a Mac OS Running on Top of Solaris and HP-UX
Macintosh Application Environment for Unix -- from back in 1994.
2023
New technical analysis confirms the evidence against Billy Mitchell
Hot off the heels of the new Billy Mitchell testimony published on Friday, perfectpacman.com is proud to publish a new 48-page technical analysis by hardware engineer and Donkey Kong expert Tanner Fokkens. Fokkens is a moderator and longtime member of Donkey Kong Forum, and co-founder of Snektronix Incorporated…
2024
Pocket-sized cloud with a Raspberry Pi
Put your pocket-sized silicon to work as the world's smallest API-driven cloud - to run automation scripts, scheduled tasks, functions and to host web sites
2025
2026
Who Watches Watchmen? – Integrating Elixir Applications with Systemd
A lot of application use systems like Kubernetes for their deployment. In my humble opinion it is often overkill as system, that offers most of the stuff such thing provide, is already present in your OS. In this article I will try to present how to utilise the most popular system supervisor from Elixir applications.
2027
Visualizing black holes with general relativistic ray tracing
Okay I ended up making this write-up waaaaaay too long, so before I get into any of the jargon, let’s take a look at the finished product:
2028
The Feynman Technique 2.0: How to Take Your Learning to the Next Level
A deep dive into the Feynman Technique, a method designed to learn through teaching. How can we upgrade it with a few teaching principles?
2029
A Critique of SQL, 40 Years Later
Homepage of Carlin Eng
2030
Introducing Svelte, and Comparing Svelte with React and Vue (2021)
Svelte is a new style of framework for building sites and apps. Let's dive into what makes it different, why it's so enjoyable, and how it's able to ship such tiny, fast apps.
2031
Turn the radio volume down for adverts and DJs talking
A script for automatically lowering the volume during radio advertisements and DJ announcements and turns the volume back up when songs are playing. It controls a Sonos speaker using the Soco-cli P…
2032
Thinking with pen and paper
With the world inundated with productivity apps, it feels nice to return to the tried and tested pen-and-paper methods. In this blog post, I'll share my anal...
2033
Post-Apocalyptic Programming
In a post-apocalyptic future with no internet or stackoverflow, let's try to build a programming environment from scratch.
2034
“Chatbots: Still Dumb After All These Years”
In 1970, Marvin Minsky, recipient of the Turing Award (“the Nobel Prize of Computing”), predicted that within “three to eight years we will have a machine with the general intelligence of an average human being.”
2035
We're Drowning
Matthew Childs / Reuters We live in a golden age of software reuse. We’ve never before had such a wealth of freely available code, in so many languages, so easy to find and install. And yet, …
2036
Science Is Getting Harder
Evidence that discoveries are getting smaller on average
2037
Open Source and Saying “No”
An Open Source project can balloon to extreme sizes and then lose purpose of why it started - a rant.
2038
I built an open-source, AI-powered solar panel that's 95% optimal
This research demonstrates a model-free approach to optimize the energy produced by a dual-axis solar panel using reinforcement learning. Specifically, a softmax actor-critic agent optimizes energy production in a simulated, dynamic lighting environment which is generated from real power data. All s
2039
iOS Ships Dvorak, Finally
I’m a huge fan of the Dvorak keyboard layout, but if there’s one thing I love more than “Evolved vs Engineered” solution debates, is that nothing wins the ”standardized” debate.
2040
Dutch antitrust authority fines Apple for fifth time
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