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A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials
Exploring the Applecore style
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,899 posts.
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RethinkDB, SageMath, Andreessen-Horowitz, Basecamp and Open Source Software
RethinkDB and sustainable business models Three weeks ago, I spent the evening of Sept 12, 2016 with Daniel Mewes, who is the lead enginee...
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LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models
The AI agent made for open models, built to get things done.
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French Gendarmerie: "Open source desktop lowers TCO by 40%"
Using an open source desktop lowers the total cost of ownership by 40%, in savings on proprietary software licences and by reducing costs on IT management. Using Ubuntu Linux massively reduces the...
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Google launches voice typing in Google Docs
Edit and format your documents — all without touching your keyboard.
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Introducing draft pull requests
You can now use draft pull requests to clearly tag when you’re coding a work in progress.
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How The New York Times Uses Software to Recognize Members of Congress
Even if you’ve covered Congress for The New York Times for a decade, it can be hard to recognize which member you’ve just spoken with…
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Building the most inaccessible site with a perfect Lighthouse score (2019)
An experiment that proves that automatic accessibility testing is only a first step and that manual testing is vital.
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Cisco Must Be Held Accountable for Aiding China’s Human Rights Abuses
San Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is urging a federal appeals court to reinstate a lawsuit seeking to hold Cisco Systems accountable for aiding in human rights abuses by building the Chinese government a system that Cisco officials knew was intended to identify—and facilitate...
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The Reluctant Sysadmin's Guide to Securing a Linux Server
I wrote a follow-up to this guide, which you should probably consider along with this article.
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Three Years on Google App Engine
For the last 3 years I worked on an application that runs on Google App Engine. It is a fascinating, unique piece of service Google is offering here. Unlike anything you’ll find elsewhere. This is my in-depth, personal take on it.
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When network is faster than browser cache (2020)
We assume that browser caches are near-instantaneous, but data shows that retrieving an object from cache can take hundreds of milliseconds!
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Strict Tables – Column type constraints in SQLite - Draft
SQLite strives to be flexible regarding the datatype of the content that it stores. For example, if a table column has a type of "INTEGER", then SQLite tries to convert anything inserted into that column into an integer. So an attempt to insert the string '123' results in an integer 123 being inserted. But if the…
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Fixing Python Performance with Rust
Why your JavaScript events are coming in quicker now.
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My audio interface has SSH enabled by default
I bought a Rodecaster Duo to solve some audio woes, and found that it has ssh enabled by default. I captured the firmware update process and created custom firmware to enable password authentication for ssh.
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Folks, we have the best π
And some novel ideas for bicycle wheel design.
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How to Make an RPG
The How To Make an RPG book teaches you what you need to know to make your own computer role-playing game. Pick it up and start making your game today.
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I Wrote a WebAssembly VM in C
For the last 6 months, I’ve been spending my (limited) free time on evenings and weekends writing a WebAssembly VM in C. After repeatedly throwing away small side-projects, this was an extremely productive experience for me as an engineer. I’m writing this in order to put together some take-aways and organize my…
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State Partitioning
State Partitioning is the new privacy feature called Total Cookie Protection, which will be available in ETP Strict Mode in Firefox 86.
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Measuring mutexes, spinlocks and how bad the Linux scheduler is
This blog post is one of those things that just blew up. From a tiny observation at work about odd behaviors of spinlocks I spent months trying to find good benchmarks, (still not entirely successf…
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pg_timeseries: Open-source time-series extension for PostgreSQL
Engineering deep-dives, product updates, and company news from Tembo — the platform for running coding agents across your stack.
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Announcing Quill 1.0
Quill is a free, open source WYSIWYG editor built for the modern web. Completely customize it for any need with its modular architecture and expressive API.
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IPinside: Korea’s Mandatory Spyware
Banking websites in South Korea can only be used with IPinside installed. This application collects lots of data about the user, and it makes that data accessible to each and every website. The protection is inadequate.
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Writing a file system from scratch in Rust
A file system is responsible for organising and providing an abstraction over the storage devices where the data is physically stored. In this post, we will learn more about the concepts used by file systems, and how they fit together when writing your own.