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Who needs a case? The 3D Printed Mil-Plastic is here
Short, medium, and long form tech projects. Detailed photos and build logs with benefits for paid subscribers.
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Deep Dive into PHP 8's JIT
PHP 8's Just In Time compiler is implemented as part of the Opcache extension and aims to compile some Opcodes into CPU instructions in runtime. Let's understand how it works all together.
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Modernizing the OpenBSD Console
Facts, directions, and thoughts regarding the evolution of OpenBSD framebuffer consoles
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Using an old BlackBerry as a portable SSH or Telnet terminal
EDIT 2022-07-22: With the shutdown (or imminent shutdown) of the 2G/EDGE/3G network in the US I'm now switching to a BlackBerry Q10, which supports LTE and is able to run ConnectBot.
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Examining Windows 1.0 Hello.c
For those who’ve been long-time readers of SoylentNews, it’s not exactly a secret that I have a personal interest in retro computing and documenting the history and evolution of the Personal Computer. About three years ago, I ran a series of articles about restoring Xenix 2.2.3c, and I’m far overdue on writing a new…
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Analysis of all YouTube trending videos in US for 2019
This analysis was featured on: The Hustle newsletter (lead story), TechCrunch, Hacker News, The Growth Newsletter (issue #021), Social Blade, Data Science...
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Unremarkables
There has never been a better time to be remarkable, nor a worse time to be unremarkable.
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Building DIY LED strips for fun
I work remotely and have for many years, but let's be honest: it's the case for a lot of people now. Lately I've been trying to step up how my home office looks, especially with regards to its video conferencing capabilities. I started using a DSLR as
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Shrinking a Kotlin Binary by 99.2%
We'll get to the shrinking, but first let's motivate the binary in question. Three years ago I wrote the "Surfacing Hidden Change to Pull Requests" post which covered pushing important stats and diffs into PRs as a comment. This avoids surprises with changes that affect binary size, manifests, and dependency trees.
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Walking the Clojure source history: a talk not given
Years ago I planned to give a talk centered around exploring the Clojure source history to find interesting buried artifacts. In service to that goal I walked every commit in the repository to see what I could find. There were indeed interesting discoveries, but eventually my passion for giving the talk 1 dissipated…
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Reverse-engineering the audio chip in the Nintendo Game Boy Color
The Nintendo Game Boy Color is a handheld game console that was released in 1998. It uses an audio amplifier chip to drive the internal s...
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Scale is a fantastic book on the hidden order of complex systems
A deep dive summary into on of the most interesting books I read this year.
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Give Yourself More Playtime (2015)
I remember my first computer fondly. As a kid I was more than addicted to the Commodore 64.
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In Depth: The Game Boy Printer
Diving deep into how this Game Boy accessory really works
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Finding Software Bugs Using Symbolic Execution
Internet home of Raimondas Sasnauskas. Stories of my journey.
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What the Dunning-Kruger effect is and isn’t (2010)
If you regularly read cognitive science or psychology blogs (or even just the lowly New York Times!), you’ve probably heard of something called the Dunning-Kruger effect. The Dunning-Kruger e…
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How much do rockets pollute?
Some might find it ironic that an organization like NASA, who studies our atmosphere, is ok with rockets polluting it so much. Or isn’t it weird that Elon Musk, the same person who is pushing sustainable energy with Tesla also has a rocket company that runs on fossil fuels? So today we are going to do a deep dive into…
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What Is Zig's “Colorblind” Async/Await?
An introduction to Zig's curious concurrent programming API.
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Say goodbye to resource-caching across sites and domains
A look-back at caching strategies from the past; with recent changes in Chrome's and Safari's caching strategies, there is no caching benefit from using publicly available third-party libraries anymore.
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Wikipedia Is Badly Biased
Wikipedia's "NPOV" is dead. The original policy long since forgotten, Wikipedia no longer has an effective neutrality policy. There is a rewritten policy, but it endorses the utterly bankrupt canard that journalists should avoid what they call "false balance."
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Quines: self-replicating programs (2005)
A “ quine ” (or “ selfrep ”) is a computer program which prints its own listing. This may sound either impossible, or trivial, or completely uninteresting, depending on your temper and your knowledge of computer science. Actually, it is possible, and there are some interesting ideas involved (in particular, writing a…
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Blogging about Midori (2015)
Joe Duffy's Blog | Adventures in the high-tech underbelly
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Face Masks: Much More Than You Wanted to Know
There’s been recent controversy about the use of face masks for protection against coronavirus. Mainstream sources, including the CDC and most of the media say masks are likely useless and no…
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"Within C++, there is a much smaller and cleaner language struggling to get out"
These are questions that people ask me often. If you have better questions or comments on the answers, feel free to email me. Please remember that I can't spend all of my time improving my homepages.
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Archiving URLs (2019)
Archiving the Web, because nothing lasts forever: statistics, online archive services, extracting URLs automatically from browsers, and creating a daemon to regularly back up URLs to multiple sources.