I was visiting family this past weekend and saw an iMac from 2007 and MacBook from 2008 destined for the trash. As the tech nerd of the family, I was asked if these machines were still useful at all. I also had a 2012 Macbook Air no one was using,...
How I built a graphical bootable "game" for the Raspberry Pi (or any other modern computer) in C#.
Organizations are increasingly adopting hybrid and multi-cloud strategies to access the latest compute resources, consistently support worldwide customers, and optimize cost. However…
UPDATE: I gave a talk expanding on this blog post at EMPEX NYC 2023 . The Problem Writing useful features for your users is key to a succes...
In 1969, Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert published Perceptrons: An Introduction to Computational Geometry. In it, they showed that a single-layer perceptron cannot compute the XOR function. The main argument relies on linear separability: Perceptrons are linear classifiers, which essentially means drawing a line to…
This text presents a method for embedding a programmable, general-purpose, digital computer into Tetris. It describes the capabilities and performance of an implementation that runs Tetris on Tetris.
The source code for the classic PSX launch title wipEout was leaked in 2022. A few month ago I finally sat down to take a look at it. The result is a (nearly) complete rewrite that compiles to Windows, Linux, macOS and WASM.
Talk to your smart home and let it talk back with our new voice assistant features.
I've been trying to invest more and more of my free time interacting with founders. I genuinely feel we've been through a lot with Sentry and I can provide some useful value to others. More so, I believe most people in this industry, most successful people, do others a disservice but not having honest conversations…
An introduction to using SIMD with Zig
How I accidentally breached a nonexistent database and found every private key in a 'state-of-the-art' encrypted messenger called Converso.
Learn how modern image analysis and processing algorithms works under the hood with their C/C++ implementation on PixLab's APIs & FACEIO, facial recognition framework using the SOD Embedded Computer Vision Library.
Thank you to David Peter for your hard work making the world a better place through open source.
A practical guide to starting a personal blog you can keep for years, without depending on social platforms or fragile tools.
I recently wrote about completing Advent of Code 2022 using a different programming language (or two) every day for 25 days.
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
Panoptica by Outshift delivers advanced cloud-native security insights to help teams protect modern applications and infrastructure at scale.
After several years of development, complicated by the pandemic, disrupted supply chains, and war in Europe, we announced our new Original Prusa MK4 today. We began shipping the first units of the XL two weeks ago. There is an upcoming PrusaSlicer...
Driving across America, you will encounter a wide variety of cultures, landscapes, people and animals. But the one consistent thing that will stay the same from Maine to California are the signs you pass on the highway. That is because America’s roads and highways have a big, fat style guide.
TeleSign generates a “reputation score” and sells it to various clients. TeleSign secretly received the mobile phone data from BICS, a Belgian company that provides interconnection services
I already have a dedicated post about a hypothetical Zig language server. But perhaps the most important thing I've written so far on the topic is the short note at the end of Zig and Rust.
TXT Record Specification Primer # Reading through the RFC Using the Domain Name System To Store Arbitrary String Attributes to summarise the relevant part: Any printable ASCII character is permitted for the attribute name. More importantly, on the restrictions section Some DNS server implementations place limits on…
I encountered yet another discussion about OpenBSD PF versus FreeBSD PF . For those who are new to the discussion: OpenBSD developers created PF in 2001, and it rapidly improved to become the most approachable open source packet filter. FreeBSD ported PF over to its kernel in 2004, with occasional updates since. Today…
In this article, you can find how setting the TZ environment variable can prevent thousands of system calls.
Hello and welcome back to The Cool Blog. I've been meaning to write more but I had these things called finals and then I had to move home for the summer and then I got addicted to Satisfactory again and yeah. Anyway I'm back and time for me to share a project of mine that I've been working on since like March.
At least, not with today's software.
Researchers tracked the whereabouts of stolen bicycles in Amsterdam, revealing patterns of activity after bikes are pilfered. The work was led by members of MIT’s Sensable City Lab.
