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Monkey Island PC-speaker music player
The Monkey Island (TM) PC-Speaker music player
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SvelteKit Is in Public Beta
And we’d love to have your feedback
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MeiliSearch: A Minimalist Full-Text Search Engine
Benchmarks & Tips for Big Data, Hadoop, AWS, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python & More...
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Waiting for PostgreSQL 14 – SEARCH and CYCLE clauses
Which means, that to test it, we need some data for recursive queries. This time I took directory listing of my /etc, and loaded it to db:
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What is BGP? – BGP routing explained
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the routing protocol for the Internet. Much like the post office processing mail, BGP picks the most effecient routes for delivering Internet traffic.
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There's never been a better time to build websites
We're closing in on the end of 2021 and I'm as excited now about building websites as I've been in ~25 years.
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Second-guessing the modern web (2020)
What if everyone's wrong?
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An Invisible Tax on the Web: Video Codecs (2018)
Here’s a surprising fact: It costs money to watch video online, even on free sites like YouTube. That’s because about 4 in 5 videos on the web today re
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Piano Practice Software Progress
First an apology. I started this project because during the first 9 months of the COVID-19 pandemic business was down to a fraction of what it was before then, and I had a lot of time on my hand. But that has changed now and there is a lot of work in my ‘day job’, so I don’t have a whole lot of time to work on the…
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The Apple M1 compiles Linux 30% faster than my Intel i9
(With a caveat: I'm compiling the ARMv8 64-bit Pi OS kernel.) It seems every week or so on Hacker News, a story hits the front page showing some new benchmark and how one of the new M1-based Macs matches or beats the higher-priced competition in some specific benchmark—be it GeekBench, X86-specific code, or building…
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Patterns of Distributed Systems (2020)
A catalog of patterns to better understand, communicate, and teach the design of distributed systems
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Slack’s Outage on January 4th 2021
And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been. — Rainer Maria Rilke January 4th 2021 was the first working day of the year for many around the globe, and for most of us at Slack too (except of course for our on-callers and our customer experience team, who never…
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Right to Repair off to the races in 2021 with 14 active states
2021 is shaping up to be a big year for our efforts to secure your right to fix your stuff.
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“Why We Sleep” Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors
Note: I link to a bunch of paywalled studies in this essay. Please do not use sci-hub to access them for free and do not use this trick (a) to easily redirect papers to sci-hub. For the clearest example of deliberate data manipulation, see how Walker edits out the data that contradicts his argument from the graph…
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The Gates to Hell: Apple’s Notarizing
NeoFinder is a powerful and very fast disk cataloging tool for songs, videos, photos, all your digital documents
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Scattered thoughts on why I waste my own time
I spend way too much time on reddit, hacker news, twitter, feedly, coinbase, robinhood, email, etc. I’d like to spend time on things that are more meaningful - chess, digital painting, side projects, reading, video games, exercising, meditating, etc. This has been a problem for years. This post is only slightly…
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Firefox Release Includes Total Cookie Protection and Multiple Picture-in-Picture
Beginning last year, the internet began playing a bigger role in our lives than ever before. In the US, we went from only three percent of workers to more
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Securing a Postgres Database
A comprehensive overview of the best practices for securing access to PostgreSQL databases.
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Tiny Wins
The big benefits of little changes.
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How this Ends
We are in the middle of one of the great asset bubbles of modern times. It has been brought on by the easy money policies of central banks around the world aimed at weathering the global Covid 19 pandemic. Interest rates are near zero or negative in most developed economies and asset prices have gone […]
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Why is China smashing its tech industry?
Maybe because what countries think of as a "tech industry" isn't always the same
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IRS guidance for thieves, drug dealers, and corrupt officials
IRS guidance for thieves, drug dealers, and corrupt officials. IRS illegal activities guidance helps taxpayers determine how to report their income.
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A review of correlations between big five personality types and life outcomes
People with the same big five personality types tend to be more happy, successful, intelligent, creative, and popular. Why aren’t there more tradeoffs?
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State of the Common Lisp ecosystem, 2020
This is a description of the Common Lisp ecosystem, as of January, 2021, from the perspective of a user and contributor.The purpose of this article is both to give an overview of the ecosystem, and to help drive consolidation in each domain.Each application domain has recommendations for consolidating that part of the…
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A Mind Is Born (2017)
Making a demo in just 256 bytes would be a formidable challenge regardless of platform. A Mind Is Born is my attempt to do it on the Commodore 64. In the absence of an actual 256-byte compo, it was submitted to the Oldskool 4K Intro compo at Revision 2017 , where it ended up on 1st place.
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Cryptocurrency scams cost owners $7.7B in 2021, driven by DeFi-based “rug pulls”
Crypto scams were once again the largest form of crypto crime, with over $7.7 billion worth of cryptocurrency taken from victims worldwide.
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Users are losing out against Big Sur’s sealed System
macOS 11.2, 11.2.1 and 11.2.2 have come in quick succession. What do they tell us about how difficult it is to update Big Sur’s sealed System volume? Is this the way to go?
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Redefining what a map can be with new information and AI
Here's a snapshot of how we're using AI to make Maps work better for you with a number of updates coming this year.