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HSLuv, a developer friendly perceptual color space
Programmer chronicles.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,567 posts.
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Oklab: A perceptual color space for image processing
From personal project to industry standard Introduction added in 2025 When introduced Oklab in 2020, I never expected it to reach as far as...
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Life Is Made of Unfair Coin Flips
It’s time we did a non-pandemic related newsletter issue. So this week we’ll do something more fun. Today we’re going to talk about an interesting journal article that came out two weeks ago,…
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Psychic Paper: iOS Sandbox Escape
Siguza’s Blog
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Pysa: An open source tool to detect and prevent security issues in Python code
Today, we are sharing details about Pysa, an open source static analysis tool we’ve built to detect and prevent security and privacy issues in Python code. Last year, we shared how we built Zoncola…
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Banks are slow to increase rates on savings accounts, but quick to reduce them
Chase Sunset & Vine, 2012. Painting by Alex Schaefer There is a fundamental asymmetry to banking. Banks don't like to share higher inte...
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You’re not writing code, you’re solving problems
If you go beyond software, and frameworks, beyond test suites and sprints and Jira tickets, you will always find a problem that needs to be solved.
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Designing Raspberry Pi 400
Raspberry Pi 400's designer, Simon Martin, pens a few words on the making of our latest computer
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Look ma, no mouse: Vimium
Repeatedly reaching for your mouse slows you down in the short term, and in the long term brings on health problems (RSI). To stay fast and healthy...
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Reviving a 16-year-old Mac App
Today we released Whisk 2.0: a lightweight web page editor with a live preview that updates as you type. The name may be new, but the mac app’s origins are in shareware called HyperEdit that I started while in college over 16 years ago. It is hard to believe I’ve worked on an app old eno
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How I bypassed Cloudflare's SQL Injection filter
astrocamel, Blog, Portfolio, George Skouroupathis
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Little Tasks, Little Trust
Why Delegating Responsibilities Beats Micromanagement
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Portable MRI promises to provide immediate diagnosis in virtually any setting
New Yale research represents the first known attempt to deploy a mobile, bedside MRI, which promises to provide immediate diagnosis in virtually any setting.
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Receiving images of Earth from satellites with software defined radio
FM radio headphones were given out at the door. Each set was tuned beforehand to receive a broadcast from my programmed station. Visitors were then invited to walk around the room, contemplating the artifacts of the exhibit.
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How Internet Archive Is Ensuring Permanent Access to Open Access Journals
Internet Archive has archived and identified 9 million open access journal articles-- the next 5 million is getting harder Open Access journals, such as New Theology Review (ISSN: 0896-4297) and Open Journal of Hematology (ISSN: 2075-907X), made their research articles available for free online for years. With a quick…
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Firefox turns on DoH as default for US users
Today, Firefox began the rollout of encrypted DNS over HTTPS (DoH) by default for US-based users. The rollout will continue over the next few weeks to conf
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"Equal pay for equal work" in remote jobs
Tough questions to ask your remote employer who gives you Cost Of Living based compensation and some thoughts on how remote compensation will work in the future
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The Impending Doom of Expiring Root CAs and Legacy Clients
Regular readers will know that I'm very active in the CA / PKI space and even deliver a 2-day advanced training course [https://www.feistyduck.com/training/the-best-ssl-and-tls-training-in-the-world] on the topic. Over the last year or so I've been watching
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Jim Lehrer’s Rules of Journalism
The long-time host of PBS NewsHour Jim Lehrer died this week at the age of 85. In this age of news as entertainment and opinion as news, Lehrer seems like one o
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Improving my productivity as a working programmer (2017)
For the past few weeks, I’ve been obsessed with improving my productivity. During this time, I’ve continuously been monitoring the amount of work I’ve been getting done and have been experimenting with changes to make myself more productive. After only two months, I can now get significantly more work done than I did…
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AWS’s Share of Amazon’s Profit
I’ve often heard it said that AWS is a major contributor to Amazon’s profitability. How major? Here’s a graph covering the last ten quarters, with a brief methodology discussion:
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Someone attacked our company
At the start of November, someone decided that they would try to attack and destroy our company. Here’s how we stopped them.
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Pinboard Turns Eleven
Pinboard is eleven years old today! Every year when I don't forget I try to publish the same stats:
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Towards Principled Reactive UI
Update 7 May 2022: A followup to this post containing significant conceptual advance is Xilem: an architecture for UI in Rust. I consider the Crochet experiment to be mostly negative, as there were a number of ergonomic and functional “paper cuts,” though several of the research goals were met, at least to some extent.