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Andy Warhol's lost Amiga art found
August 6 is Andy Warhol's birthday, so let's look back at his pioneering digital art
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Waymo One is now open to everyone in San Francisco
The wait is over. Starting today, anyone can hail a ride with Waymo in San Francisco. Rain, shine or Karl the Fog, just download the app, and ride.
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Elixir 1.17 released: set-theoretic types in patterns, durations, OTP 27
Elixir v1.17 released: set-theoretic data types, calendar durations, and Erlang/OTP 27 support.
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Boris Vallejo and the pixel art of the demoscene
Boris Vallejo is an epic fantasy painter, who has had an immense influence on fantasy book covers, computer game box art, and even the demoscene. Throughout the decades, his works have often been replicated by pixel artists, leading to controversy. I rediscovered Vallejo's great work for myself, looked into the…
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Apple and Google deliver support for unwanted tracking alerts in iOS and Android
Apple and Google have teamed up to deliver support for unwanted Bluetooth tracking alerts in iOS and Android.
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Why I still blog after 15 years
Before you know it, your little babies have started school, you celebrate the 30th anniversary of Jurassic Park, and that little blog you started have now been going for 15 years.
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Vector databases are the wrong abstraction
Today’s vector databases disconnect embeddings from their source data. We should treat embeddings more like database indexes—here’s how.
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How America's universities became debt factories
This essay first appeared in my newsletter. Sign up here if interested in F'ing up the status quo and fixing education. Here's a puzzle: how do you create a trillion-dollar debt bubble that can't be popped? Answer: make student loans non-dischargeable in bankruptcy. Now, here's a trickier one: how do you fix this mess…
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Kagi Assistant
Yes, the rumours are true! Kagi has been thoughtfully integrating AI into...
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How I write code using Cursor
A personal review of Cursor, an LLM-powered coding tool.
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How photos were transmitted by wire in the 1930s
I didn’t know what to expect from this 1937 video explanation of how wire photos were transmitted to newspapers, but a double stunt sequence featuring an airpla
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Embezzlers Are Nice People (2017)
We spend a lot of time suing embezzlers. All over the world. Week in and week out. Big embezzlers, small embezzlers, smart embezzlers and very smart embezzlers… That’s right, no dumb embezzlers because almost all the embezzlers we encounter are smart. Some are very smart. Some are brilliant. And, almost always, most…
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Cracking Meta's Messenger Certificate Pinning on macOS
Bypassing certificate pinning in Meta’s Messenger application on macOS.
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OAuth from First Principles
I've wanted to write a blog post for everyone who learns things the same way that I do; by trying to break them. I'll start off with an awfully flawed implementation that authorizes a user with a 3...
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Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy
Why do startups typically fail? It turns out that "avoiding those things" is already a plan for success.
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Okay, I Like WezTerm
A guide to configuring WezTerm using its Lua API. Focuses on appearance, keybindings, multiplexing, workspace navigation, and status bar (powerline) setup.
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Lessons I learned working at an art gallery
1. It is possible to turn a mediocre job into a great one
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The best $4 ever spent
Kids get excited about things that are very different from those of adults. You probably remember your kid's first birthday...
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What I wish someone told me about Postgres
I’ve been working professionally for the better part of a decade on web apps and, in that time, I’ve had to learn how to use a lot of different systems and tools. During that education, I found that the official documentation typically proved to be the most helpful.
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I Created 175 Fonts Using Rust
How I used my own Rust tool to ship 175 quality pixel fonts.
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PHP 8.4
PHP 8.4 is a major update of the PHP language. It contains many new features, such as property hooks, asymmetric visibility, an updated DOM API, performance improvements, bug fixes, and general cleanup.
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Taking my diabetes treatment into my own hands
First of all, this blogpost is kinda long. Let me prove to you reading it will actually have some payoff:
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Codestral Mamba
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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JIT WireGuard
Our fancy WireGuard setup was accumulating stale peers. Here's what we did about it.
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Nix is a better Docker image builder than Docker's image builder
Xe Iaso's personal website.
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The Pentium as a Navajo Weaving
Hurrying through the National Gallery of Art five minutes before closing, I passed a Navajo weaving with a complex abstract pattern. Suddenl...
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Reflections on Palantir
A retrospective of an eight-year stint.
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The One Billion Row Challenge
Update Jan 4: Wow, this thing really took off! 1BRC is discussed at a couple of places on the internet, including Hacker News, lobste.rs, and Reddit. For folks to show-case non-Java solutions, there …
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