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Hacking the Hedonic Treadmill
Hacking the happiness treadmill
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Apple Interview – 1995
In the 1990’s, I had access to the early internet (before the web) and made use of a public forum ( Usenet ) where I could ask and respond to questions about programming the Macintosh computer. I’ve mentioned before how this caught the attention of engineering at Apple ( Tom Dowdy , in any event). Perhaps too, the…
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My Mega65 has arrived
This week I returned from a business trip overseas for the past few weeks. This is why I haven't been able to blog this month until now. But...
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What NPM should do to stop a new colors attack
Over the weekend, a developer named Marak Squires intentionally sabotaged his popular NPM package colors and his less popular package faker . As I write this, NPM claims 18,971 direct dependents for colors and 2,751 for faker . Open Source Insights counts at least 42,000 more indirect dependents for colors . Many…
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Money, money, money (and investing) (2015)
A comprehensive introduction to investing in stocks, mutual funds (managed and index), short-selling, and stock options.
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The sum of all knowledge and the sorry state of the web
Last week my mother died. After we put her urn into the ground next to my father’s we went back to their flat to talk about next steps and dividing up their belongings amongst us three children. One thing I immediately called dibs on were my father’s two books.
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Run your own DALL-E-like image generator
Run your own text to image prompts with CUDA, a bunch of disk space, and an insane amount of memory.
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Hot-code reloading on macOS/arm64 with Zig
Jakub Konka's weblog about programming, game theory, maths, and more.
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Former Labor Secretary Found What Work Is Like Now
Bill McCamley was NM's labor secretary, but working at a local movie theater taught him the truth about what's ailing the workforce.
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I don't like computers (2016)
Welp, I kinda gave up waxing personal on this blog a while ago, but what the hell, why not make an exception once in a while. So in the last couple of years I've been thinking about work and stuff a
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An open letter on E.O. Wilson's legacy
Response to Scientific American's "The Complicated Legacy..."
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Thanks to the Israeli accessibility law, I have to delete my websites
Thanks to the Israeli accessibility law, I have no other choice but to delete the websites I developed for learning Java, PHP, C#, Scala, HTML, Linux etc.
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Blockchain Is Dangerous Nonsense
I’ve been concerned about the excesses of the blockchain industry and their spread into all parts of society for some time now. Here I’ve summarized my thoughts regarding the subject.
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DevOps: An idea so good, no one admits they don’t do it
The ideas behind the DevOps movements undeniably changed the software development world for the better - but by now, the term “DevOps” has lost all meaning. Sometimes an idea is so good, that you can’t argue with it. I’m not saying that the original idea behind “DevOps” was perfect - I’ve written about some of the…
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Lufthansa has not banned AirTags
Lufthansa has not banned Apple AirTags and I think it is clear why: it is the sort of rule that would practicably be unenforceable.
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Dear Linux, Privileged Ports Must Die
Privileged ports were a security feature in the days of dumb terminals, in the age of the World Wide Web, they are a security vulnerability.
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Vector graphics on GPU
Using GPU to render vector graphics.
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Fedora 36: A brave new (DRM/KMS only) world
The upcoming Fedora release includes a change proposed by Peter Robinson and yours truly, that disables all the Frame Buffer Device (fbdev) drivers in the Linux kernel package. This means that star…
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Year 2038 problem is still alive and well
Largely because of a single code snippet used by many.
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Viral “racism in academia” story deleted when I started asking questions
Do Western names lead to more callbacks than Middle Eastern ones? Heck if I know, but this viral Twitter thread won't get you any closer to the truth
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Hardening macOS
Quick and easy guide for securing macOS systems, for both laymen and security enthusiasts. Last updated for Golden Gate.
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The SymPy/HackerRank DMCA Incident
Thank you to Ondřej Čertík, Oscar Benjamin, Travis Oliphant, and Pamela Chestek for reviewing this blog post. Any errors in the post are my own. On April 19, 2022, for approximately 11.5 hours, the do