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Zotero 8
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,935 posts.
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16×16 Pixel Art Tutorial
Apparently pixel art is cool once again, and if you are reading this blog, chances are, you like pixel art. As my first actual article on the site, I thought I’d make a little tutorial on how to pixel your own 16*16 sprite, that you can use as a favicon for your website or game. There are many ways to go about pushing…
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A Virtual Machine
Magicians protect their secrets not because the secrets are large and important, but because they are so small and trivial. The wonderful effects created on stage are often the result of a secret so absurd that the magician would be embarrassed to admit that that was how it was done.
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Microsoft, Please Stop This Madness
Microsoft have released a beta of Internet Explorer 9. This much is good, they’re back in the game. The engine supports modern standards—and for the first time Internet Explorer now renders this website (which has been HTML5 since early 2008 ).
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Avast Antivirus Remote Stack Buffer Overflow with Magic Numbers
Blog about anti-virus software vulnerabilities.
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AWS Organizations: Centrally Manage Multiple AWS Accounts
Today, AWS launched AWS Organizations: a new way for you to centrally manage all the AWS accounts your organization owns. Now you can arrange your AWS accounts into groups called organizational units (OUs) and apply policies to OUs or directly to accounts. For example, you can organize your accounts by application…
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Dave Täht has died
It is with heavy hearts that we report that Dave Täht has passed away.
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Why 451?
Today, the IESG approved publication of “An HTTP Status Code to Report Legal Obstacles”. It’ll be an RFC after some work by the RFC Editor and a few more process bits, but effectively you can start using it now.
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Reverse engineering the Sega Channel game image file format
Sega Channel was a games-on-demand service that gave cable subscribers access to a library of around 50 Sega Genesis games per month in exchange for a monthly fee (typically $10-$15/month depending on the cable provider). It operated between June 1994 (with a nationwide rollout in December 1994) and June 1998. Cable…
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Comcast Has Always Opposed Internet Freedom
Years of lobbying and litigation has made it clear Comcast wants to turn the Internet into a toll road and run the booth If you have signed onto Twitter and have been following the network neutrality debate, you've probably seen Comcast's campaign to rewrite its history of opposition to the Open...
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Demangling C++ Symbols in Rust
I wrote a Rust crate to demangle C++ symbols: cpp_demangle. Find iton crates.io and github.
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Mistakes we made adopting event sourcing and how we recovered
Good judgement is the result of experience ... Experience is the result of bad judgement. — Fred Brooks
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Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase seven-fold in last decade
As global battery demand continues to surge, the number of end-of-life batteries from electric vehicles alone is expected to grow from 1.2 million in 2030 to 14 million by 2040. Battery circularity technologies enable the reuse and recycling of these batteries and, as with battery technologies more generally, Asia…
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How a computer boots up
The previous post described [motherboards and the memory map] memory-map in Intel computers to set the scene for the initial phases of boot. Booting is an involved, hacky, multi-stage affair - fun st
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Being Present: You have ten to twelve years to connect with your kids
I've recently come back to yoga after a five year hiatus. I didn't realize how much my body missed it. I stopped doing yoga because I couldn't handle the mental aspect of the practice. I struggle with being present mentally for 90 minutes. In fact, I find it impossible. Even as I've come back to […]
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Writing for Engineers
This article is available as Korean- (thanks to longfin ) and Chineese- (thanks to webup ) translation.
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Navier-Stokes fluid simulation explained with Godot game engine
When I first stumbled upon fluid simulations in game dev I was amazed on how good the effect could be. I really wan...
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Viewing Matrices and Probability as Graphs
Today I'd like to share an idea. It's a very simple idea. It's not fancy and it's certainly not new. In fact, I'm sure many of you have thought about it already. But if you haven't—and even if you have!—I hope you'll take a few minutes to enjoy it with me. Here's the idea: Every matrix corresponds to a graph. So…
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Google Account Recovery Vulnerability
Global Main Authentication and Identification Library (GMAIL) was exposed to a security threat by Oren Hafif.
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Crafting Painterly Shaders
A detailed essay on my research and process of building a shader to mimic paint, watercolor, and aquarelle by exploring various implementations of the Kuwahara image smoothing filter.
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