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Running an Open Source Home Area Network
Insights on running a Home Area Network (HAN) nearly completely on open source software, including configurations and metrics.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,821 posts.
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Patina and Intimacy
“Each one of us has, somewhere in his heart, the dream to make a living world, a universe.”
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Digital Gardening
A website is a lot like a garden.
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UK telecom EE blocks archive.org
Well at first that looks weird. It pings and all so I jump to incognito mode, and…
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Writing Is Hard
Writing is hard. Especially if you start thinking. Never stop to think about what to write (unless you must), it will ruin the flow. Never stop to correct yourself, to judge or run a spellcheck. Don’t do that; that’s what editing is for. I’ve read the same tips again and again: Write first, edit later. […]
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An unwinnable seed of Slay the Spire
Overview In this post, I will describe a collaborative effort that proved that unwinnable Slay the Spire seeds exist. This project is joint work with gamerpuppy and ForgottenArbiter and is based on the several attempts that have been made to prove unwinnability for seeds in Slay the Spire.
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Some of the forces blocking new ideas in science
Some of the forces blocking really new ideas in science
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Mystery Blips
A young operations engineer learns a lesson about creative debugging
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Buffers on the Edge: Python and Rust
One of my least favorite kinds of bug is when two different systems are interacting and the result has bad behavior but it’s difficult to say which (if either!) system is at fault. This is one of those stories, about Python’s buffer protocol and Rust’s memory model.
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Faster zlib/DEFLATE decompression on the Apple M1 (and x86)
DEFLATE is a relatively slow compression algorithm from 1991, which (along with its wrapper format, zlib) is incredibly widely used, for example in the PNG, Zip and Gzip file formats and the HTTP, …
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Why are male testosterone levels falling?
Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
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The Agony of Eros: Dating
This is the first post in a series where I explore how love hurts and why.
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Purchasing Power Parity: Fair pricing for SaaS products
Developer, writer, indie hacker · 📍 Montreal, QC
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Things I hate about Rust, redux
Two years ago, I wrote a post with a handful of grievances about Rust , a language that I then (and still) consider my favorite compiled language.
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Code colocation is king
A simple principle to help structure code better
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Having, a less understood SQL clause
Understanding how the group by and having clauses work can help us write more efficient SQL. I want to demonstrate this with an example…
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Terrible things I'd do with your money
In some of Daniel Kahnemann's books and any other business advice-type articles, you always seem to read the same argument: The thing important people all over the world would like to see is incr
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Emacs’s Builtin Elisp Cheat Sheet
Emacs now has a builtin cheat sheet for a large swathe of common elisp functions. If you can't remember exactly how to do something, then this is a great place to look for it first.
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Increasing the surface area of blogging
Open feeds, OPML, books, blogs and graphs
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The Awk state machine parser pattern (2018)
I run the Ganglia Monitoring System on the home lan to keep an eye on temperatures, loads, disk usages, network throughput and such on the gateway and, more recently, my desktop workstation as well 1 1 The primary reason is that I have noticed some instability, and I would like to know if it’s related to temperature…
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Real Problems That Web3 Solves, Part 1
Social recovery wallets introduces new ways to authenticated with our own owned identities.
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I tricked myself into working out 3 times per week
…and why I think it'll work for everyone
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One does not simply destroy a nuclear weapon
It's the isotopes...
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Clojure from a Schemer's perspective (2021)
Hi, I'm Peter Bex, a Scheme and free software enthusiast from the Netherlands. See my user page on the CHICKEN wiki or my git server for some of my projects.
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Fetish tabooness vs. popularity
~250 fetishes, graphed for your pleasure
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Blockchain-based systems are not what they say they are
If you go out seeking to learn why blockchains and the systems built atop them are apparently the future of our web, you’ll begin to see some common themes. These fall apart under further scrutiny.