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Eliminating radio interference from Apple charger
Apple's product design teams should do a better job eliminating unwanted radio frequency emissions from their product!
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Deming Paradox: Operationally rigorous companies aren't nice places to work
Is it possible to be data driven and operationally rigorous and still be human centric at the same time? Deming — who came up with these data techniques — believe that it is possible. I'm not so sure.
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An Update on the Lock Icon
Editor’s note: based on industry research (from Chrome and others), and the ubiquity of HTTPS, we will be replacing the lock icon in Chrome’...
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SDXL Turbo: A Real-Time Text-to-Image Generation Model
SDXL Turbo is a new text-to-image mode based on a novel distillation technique called Adversarial Diffusion Distillation (ADD), enabling the model to create image outputs in a single step and generate real-time text-to-image outputs while maintaining high sampling fidelity.
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The hardest part of building software is not coding, it's requirements
Why replacing programmers with AI won’t be so easy.
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How to train your own large language models
From raw code to a model serving users: the data pipelines, training infrastructure, and evaluation work behind Replit’s language models.
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WebP is so great except it's not (2021)
I’m a responsible web designer, and as such, since WordPress (finally) accepts media uploads of image/webp MIME type and since all web browsers newer than …
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How to Not Get Screwed over as a Software Engineer [video]
Dalton & Michael: The stories are true: technical founders (and early technical employees!) often end up with the short end of the stick when starting a company. In this episode of Dalton & Michael, we'll discuss how to keep that from happening to you.
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Not Using Zoom
Dear client, Setting aside the challenges of using Zoom under ChromeOS and Linux, I have mostly been declining invitations to Zoom calls...
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Artificial General Intelligence – A gentle introduction
[On-line document since 2007, last updated in September 2026] [Translations: 中文 , Español , lietuvių kalba ]
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Low Code Software Development Is a Lie
I’ve been writing custom software for a long time and one of the things that annoys me most is when a client adopts the position that there is a silver bullet which will reduce or remove the inherent complexity of this task. This happens more often than you’d think and guess what? They are almost always wrong. Perhaps…
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Google Colab will soon introduce AI coding features
Colab will soon add AI coding features like code completions, natural language to code generation and even a code-assisting chatbot.
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Text showdown: Gap Buffers vs. Ropes
I have been working on a hobby project to reimagine the C core of Emacs in Rust. On this journey, I reached the point where I needed some way to represent the text of a buffer. The simplest approach is to just use a large string or array of lines. However these each suffer from poor performance as either the size or…
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Type system updates: moving from research into development
A short status update on the effort to bring a type system into Elixir.
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I wrote a GameBoy emulator for my hobby OS (2022)
The Nintendo GameBoy is an exceptionally well-documented system, perfect for anybody who’d like to take a crack at emulation. Publicly-maintained resources like the Pan Docs make it both approachable and convenient to get an overview of the GameBoy’s address space layout, to understand the mechanics of hardware…
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We need more of Richard Stallman's ideas, not less
We need more of Richard Stallman, not less par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
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I Block Ads
I block ads in the browser. I block ads at the DNS level.
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Early Computer Art in the 50s and 60s
A deep dive on the early days of creative computing coming to life. Punch cards, plotters, light pens and lots more.
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It’s not wrong that "🤦🏼♂️".length == 7 (2019)
From time to time, someone shows that in JavaScript the .length of a string containing an emoji results in a number greater than 1 (typically 2) and then proceeds to the conclusion that haha JavaScript is so broken—and is rewarded with many likes. In this post, I will try to convince you that ridiculing JavaScript for…
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Gnu/Hurd strikes back: How to use the legendary OS in a (somewhat) practical way
How to use the legendary OS in a (somewhat) practical way
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Just paying Figma because nothing else works
My family wasn’t poor by any stretch of the imagination, but I was raised to avoid spending money whenever possible. I was also taught “it’s a poor craftsman that blames their tools”, which apparen...
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Moving from Rust to C++
Note to readers: this is an April Fools post, intended to satirize bad arguments made against Rust. I have mixed feelings about it now, as I think people who understood the context appreciated the humor, but some people were confused. That’s partly because it’s written in a very persuasive style, and I mixed in some…
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Deleting System32\curl.exe
Let me tell you a story about how Windows users are deleting files from their installation and as a consequence end up in tears. Background The real and actual curl tool has been shipped as part of Windows 10 and Windows 11 for many years already. It is called curl.exe and is located in the … Continue reading deleting…
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The Deliberate Practice Guide (2021)
Deliberate practice is the key to expert performance in writing, teaching, sports, programming, music, medicine, therapy, chess, business, and more. But there’s more to it than 10,000 hours. Read to learn how to accelerate learning, overcome plateaus, turn experience into expertise, and enhance focus.
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Young people in 13 EU countries refuse surveillance of online communication
Poll: the 80% would not feel comfortable being politically active or exploring their sexuality if authorities can monitor their communication.
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