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What Rust Can Do That Other Languages Can't
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,919 posts.
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The worst of the two worlds: Excel meets Outlook
Turning Outlook into a keylogger via VBA macros
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Serve Videos Instead of GIFs
The Graphics Interchange Format ( GIF ) is over 30 years old but is a pervasive part of internet culture. We use GIFs to serve short, silent, and looping videos, which frequently become memes . Entire services exist to create and share them, and many smartphone keyboards have built-in GIF support.
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Fungus breaks down ocean plastic
A fungus living in the sea can break down the plastic polyethylene, provided it has first been exposed to UV radiation from sunlight. Researchers from, among others, NIOZ published their results in the scientific journal Science of the Total Environment. They expect that many more plastic degrading fungi are living in…
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What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes
So I've been job hunting lately. Reading job postings, doing interviews, talking to engineering teams at like a dozen companies. And I noticed...
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On the 10th anniversary of the Snowden revelations
A weblog about Signals Intelligence, Communications Security and top level telecommunications equipment
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Stop trying to make social networks succeed
Stop Trying to Make Social Networks Succeed par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
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macOS dotfiles should not go in –/Library/Application Support
A CLI tool is not an app, and none of you are reading the docs as carefully as you think you are
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The Forgetful CPU (Linux on M4)
This blog post goes into quite some detail about how I first booted Linux on my M4 Mac mini. I encourage you to look up terms and concepts you don’t know, since I cannot explain all the background in this post ;)
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Tailscale ate my network (and I love it)
No matter where you go, there you are If you're like me, you travel occasionally. Access to your office from home, or from an airport loun...
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Pebble Mega Update – July 2026
TL:DR; Pebble Time 2 Shipping Status Pebble Software Updates PT2 Issues You’ve Reported Pebble Round 2 Production Update Index 01 Production Update Pebble Ti...
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GPT4 simulating a FTP server at ftp.disney.com
This is a conversation I had with Chat GPT trying to simulate an interaction with an non existing anonymous FTP server that would be made available for Disney fans
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The contagion of fear
I have a difficult confession to make — a shameful incident that I have never spoken of, even to those closest to me.
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The Deathray: A simple way for an untrusted site to freeze a Mac
A WebGPU shader on an untrusted site can hang a Mac's graphics, making the desktop UI unusable until a restart is forced. All the victim needs to do is click a link. This issue reproduces cross-browser on MacOS, but not other OSes.
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How to Take a Walk
It was cool and mildly breezy around 8 PM today. So I went for a walk, and I noticed something. Though I passed a couple of hundred people, nobody else was…
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EasyDNS threatened with criminal complaint if client data not disclosed
UPDATE (as of Sept 2021): This post seems to be the de facto clearing house for people receiving these threats from Fechner and crew all over the world. Here is everything you need to know: You can ignore it Nobody has actually been sued We recently received a copyright notice…
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How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2018
18 months ago I wrote about some work I did to speed up the Rust compiler (rustc). I’ve recently taken this work up again. Also, in the meantime rustc’s build system has been replaced and its benchmark suite has been overhauled. So it’s a good time for an update.
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The Well Deserved Fortune of Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin creator
I won’t discuss anything in this post. I’m tired of discussing technical things with people with skewed opinions and monetary interest. I’ve talked enough in the Bitcointalk forum…
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Why your startup should be a Delaware C-Corp, not an LLC
LLC vs C Corps. Get valuable insights and learn how to protect your business from unwanted legal liabilities. Be ahead of the competition.
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Is timeless UI design a thing?
Trends come and go, fonts become uncool, buttons aren't supposed to have round corners... but what if UI design became timeless?
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All code is technical debt
As adding more code to a product will slow down development, we should view all code as technical debt.
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MaskerAid iOS App
I am overjoyed to announce MaskerAid, my latest iOS app, which you can use to quickly and easily add emoji to images.
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How to Become a Great JavaScript Developer
Ustun Ozgur - Software Consultant and Engineer. Expert solution architect and programmer in Python (Django), JavaScript (React), .NET, Clojure and Java.