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Building a $400 at-home DIY spin bike for Peloton and Apple Fitness+
Looking to build a DIY bike for spin classes at home? I have you covered with my build and review of the Sunny bike and accessories for under $400
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Seeing the Smoke
Information on the coronavirus is widely available, and it doesn’t look positive. So why is everyone waiting for permission to do something about it?
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Pioneers vs. Process People
A farewell post on leaving Merantix Healthcare, contrasting early-stage pioneers who build fast with process people who optimize as startups mature.
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How we designed Dropbox’s ATF – an async task framework
I joined Dropbox not long after graduating with a Master’s degree in computer science. Aside from an internship, this was my first big-league engineering job. My team had already begun designing a critical internal service that most of our software would use: It would handle asynchronous computing requests behind the…
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Linux Security Hardening and Other Tweaks
A collection of kernel and userland settings one can change to improve the security and usability of a Linux system. Targeted at Arch, but should work for other distros too.
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The C++ Lifetime Profile: How It Plans to Make C++ Code Safer
This blog post explains what the C++ Lifetime Profile is and how it intends to make the language safer and help avoid memory management problems.
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Problems, not solutions (2018)
The most valuable thing a product manager can do is frame the right problem for the right user before anyone writes a line of code.
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Samsung Begins Mass Production of 512GB EUFS 3.1
The new 512GB eUFS 3.1 stores 8K videos and large-size image files without buffering
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Stories about the B5000 and people who were there (1979)
OCRed and HTMLed by Ed Thelen from a very poor copy provided by "anonymous" - Click for operational characteristics of the processors for the Burroughs B5000 - 5 MByte .pdf
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Lessons in Managing Haskell Memory
At Channable, we process several billion product data records for our customers every day according to user-customizable rules. Internally, this work is subdivided into jobs, where one job takes a set of products and the rules for how to process them as input, and returns the transformed set of products as output…
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FermiNet: Quantum Physics and Chemistry from First Principles
In August 2024, we published the next phase of our work in Science. Our research proposes a solution to one of the most difficult challenges in computational quantum chemistry: understanding how molecules transition to and from excited states when stimulated.
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I don’t have time for coding challenges
It tends to be standard recruitment practice in the tech industry to require candidates to complete some sort of coding test or challenge. Sometimes this takes the form of the much-feared whiteboard interview – where candidates are expected to work through a problem on the aforementioned whiteboard, in front of an…
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On Browser Tabs
It's always surprised me how little I hear about browsers.
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Sun's NeWS was a mistake, as are all toolkit-in-server windowing systems (2013)
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Airbnb announces confidential submission of draft Registration Statement
Today, Airbnb confidentially submitted a draft Registration Statement on Form S-1 to the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) relating to the proposed initial public offering of its common stock.
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Are Humans Intelligent? An AI Op-Ed
After seeing so many people debate whether computers can be intelligent I thought it only fair to ask an AI. As with previous posts, I picked the best responses, but everything after the bolded pro…
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Emacs as Email Client
Email with mu4e and offlineimap
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That Dothraki Horde, Part I: Barbarian Couture
Bret Devereaux (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)2020121 points103 commentscited by 6History & Retro Computing details
This series is now available in audio format. You can find the playlist here. This is the first part of a three four part (I, II, III, IV) look at the Dothraki, the fictional horse-borne nomads of …
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Why I’m Willing to Pay a Premium for Security, Privacy, and Peace of Mind
Miguel de Icaza's Blog
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Achieving Accessibility Through Simplicity
sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.
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The GDPR as accidentally explained by people in the US
Bashing the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) seems to have become one of American activists’ favourite hobbies in the tech field. Some criticism is entirely justified. But many claims that the GDPR is “counterproductive” or “misses the point” are based on misconceptions, rather than an…
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Fedora CoreOS Out of Preview
Fedora CoreOS is a new Fedora Edition built specifically for running containerized workloads securely and at scale. It's now available for general use.