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Love Your Bugs
In early October I gave a keynote at Python Brasil in Belo Horizonte. Here is an aspirational and lightly edited transcript of the talk. There is …
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,470 posts.
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Raspberry Pi Zero W as a headless time-lapse camera
tl;dr: There are many ways to capture time-lapse videos. But this one is cheap, completely wireless, and mine. If you want to skip the post and go straight for the glory, grab a copy of my Time-lapse app for the Raspberry Pi. Time-lapses transform subtle, slow processes into something beautiful, and often make us…
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Against Murderism
[Content warning: discussion of racism. Comments are turned off due to bad experience with the comments on this kind of material.] I. A set of questions, hopefully confusing: Alice is a white stay-…
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Building a Lisp from scratch with Swift
This article describes how you can build a simple LISP, based on the 1978 article <i>'A Micro Manual For LISP - Not The Whole Truth'</i> with Swift, taking advantage where possible of the features the language offers.
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Hunting Performance in Python Code: Measuring Memory Consumption
In this post I will talk about some tools that can help us solve a painful problem in Python, especially when using PyPy: memory consumption. Why are we concerned with this in the first place? Why …
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Pastes on Have I Been Pwned are no longer publicly listed
Over the weekend, a Have I Been Pwned [https://haveibeenpwned.com/] (HIBP) subscriber contacted me after they found their Spotify credentials online. It turns out that this particular woman went searching for her specific password after finding "some guy listening to Mexican music from a foreign device on my acct"
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Https hurts users far away from the server
Welcome to my personal blog! I use it to share what I'm currently learning or thinking about, usually on topics related to technology, business, and health.
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Grsecurity: Potential contributory infringement and breach of contract risk
It's my strong opinion that your company should avoid the Grsecurity product sold at grsecurity.net because it presents a contributory infringement and breach of contract risk.
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Toronto Is in a Housing Bubble
With stocks hitting new all-time highs almost every day, global bond yields at or near zero, and Canadian home prices at nose-bleed levels, it seems like everything these days is in a bubble. This is particularly true for the Toronto housing market with average home prices up 22% Y/Y.
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Surviving the New MacBook Pro
I'm Brad Frost, an independent creator, web designer & developer, teacher, speaker, writer, musician, and artist based in Pittsburgh, PA.
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Chris Lattner on the Realm WWDC 2017 Swift Panel
I typed up some quotes from Chris Lattner on a recent panel discussion about Swift.
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Hard and Soft Skills in Tech
It’s both more serious and less serious than we’ve admitted
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High Sierra's Disk Utility does not recognize unformatted disks
unless you click View > Show All Devices, quit Disk Utility, then relaunch it (thanks to xenadu02 for the workaround !)
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Taming Undefined Behavior in LLVM
Interesting post, but you lost me at “Let’s try to do that using undef”. Why bother with notions of an “undef value” (or “deferred UB”), when plain UB is all you need?
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How United Onboards New Users (design)
Approx. reading time: just a couple minutes, despite insane slide count (it's a lot of tiny changes from one to the other)
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Principles of TLA+
TLA+ is a formal specification and verification language intended to help engineers specify, design and reason about complex, real-life algorithms and software or hardware systems. We explore its motivation, application and principles of design.
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.NET Core Web API on AWS Lambda Performance
In order to understand what I’m going to talk about, you must know what is AWS Lambda, I talked about in this blog post where I went through getting started with Visual studio code and AWS Lambda, …
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Patching is hard; so what?
It’s now been about a week since Equifax announced the record-breaking breach that affected 143 million Americans. We still don’t know enough — but a few details have begun to com…
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Thunderbolting your video card
When I wrote about The Golden Age of x86 Gaming, I implied that, in the future, it might be an interesting, albeit expensive, idea to upgrade your video card via an external Thunderbolt 3 enclosure. I’m here to report that the future is now. Yes, that’s right, I