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Damnit I slipped and (mostly) built an Amiga 500
EDIT - the original article has an image of the PCB with the floppy power connector mounted the WRONG WAY. This is the INCORRECT WAY. Do NO...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 6,153 posts.
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Compilers and IRs: LLVM IR, SPIR-V, and MLIR
Overall discussion on compilers and IRs (LLVM IR, SPIR-V, and MLIR): why they are in their current manner and how they would evolve
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Partitioning in Postgres, 2022 Edition
Tracking improvements to Postgres partitioning since 2017. In just five years it’s gone from a non-feature to a very good one.
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Range joins in DuckDB
DuckDB has fully parallelized range joins that can efficiently join millions of range predicates.
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Picture This: The Periodic Table
Philip Ball on the visual ordering of all the elements known to humankind—and how we might order them differently.
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My Org Roam Notes Workflow (2021)
A description of my org-roam notes workflow, from writing the notes to publishing them on my website.
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The future of interactive theorem proving?
This is a guest post, written by Zhangir Azerbayev. Zhangir is an undergraduate at Yale, majoring in computer science and mathematics. He completed this work while visiting Carnegie Mellon’s …
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50 Years of Text Games: The End of a Journey
Some final thoughts on this epic expedition.
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UK-Morocco 10GW Renewable Electricity Interconnector Planned
The Morocco – UK Power Project, Xlinks’ most publicised venture, is designed to deliver 8% of Great Britain’s current electricity needs (3.6GW of clean, reliable power), which is enough for seven million homes.
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A message from Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson: 11% workforce cut
Build amazing customer experiences on the Twilio platform with APIs for SMS, RCS, voice, and email, plus conversational AI for smarter engagement, and identity verification for trust.
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Why is the terminal input so weird?
Learn about the technical architecture of the terminal that makes it very hard to implement rich – or even “normal” – editing features like you’d find in an IDE.
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My journey for dual displays with my M1 Pro Mac (2021)
After numerous failed attempts at dual 4K monitors for my M1 Pro Mac, I finally found a winning combination. Read all about the journey here.
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Tailwind CSS v3.2: revisiting my “feature creep” warning
Only nine months after I suggested Tailwind might someday hit an unpleasant inflection point, that may now be happening.
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Investing in Flow
Our nation has a housing crisis. The demographic trends driving America’s housing market are impossible to ignore: our country is creating households faster than we’re building houses. Structural shortages in available homes for sale push housing prices higher, while young people are staying single for longer and…
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Why are mathematicians so bad at arithmetic? (2017)
18 x 93 is… hey, look over there!
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How will the correction in the stock market impact startup fundraising?
Analyze how the 52% public market correction impacts startup funding rounds, with data showing divergent effects on Series A vs. Series D valuations in 2022.
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Review of the Kinesis Advantage360 Professional
The Advantage360 Professional is the successor to the well-known Advantage2. It comes with several new features, such as Adjustable Split, Wireless connection, Tenting, ZMK (highly customizable firmware), and many other minor things. In this blog post, I will explain the significant design changes and my experiences…
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The hero's journey of getting laid off
Culture, technology, & travel once or twice a week. Click to read Back to Humanity, a Substack publication.
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What I Learned at Clubhouse
25 lessons, 2 years, from 1,000 users to millions
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How to earn money by hacking a “walking for money” app
Or how to reverse engineer React Native apps, and abuse API.
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Work Somewhere Dysfunctional
The rewards are great if you can survive…
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Should you work fixed hours, even if you have a flexible schedule?
The beauty of having a flexible schedule, when you are a freelancer, remote worker, or consultant, is being able to work whenever you like. When traveling, you can spend the whole day touring and working at night. Or maybe working in the morning and night, and enjoying the evenings. Whatever you want, it’s your call…
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Toward a Better Music Theory (2013)
Update: a version of this post appeared on Slate.com. I seem to have touched a nerve with my rant about the conventional teaching of music theory and how poorly it serves practicing musicians. I th…
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35mm cinema film and digital audio
A while ago I decided to pick up some 35mm cinema film to help me experiment with projection optics.
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Keeping POWER relevant in the open source world
I’m not a POWER (or recently: Power) expert, only an enthusiastic user and advocate. Still, in the past couple of weeks a number of people from around the world asked my opinion how the POWER architecture could be kept relevant. This blog is really just an opinion, as I do not have the financial means to go ahead. It…