2911
Why is x & -x equal to the largest power of 2 that divides x?
Or how to find the largest power of 2 that divides x?
2912
Building a fair multi-tenant queuing system
Building the Inngest queue - Part I
2913
Systematically Improving Your RAG
Discover systematic strategies to enhance your Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems for better performance and user experience.
2914
Smoother sailing: Studying audio imperfections in Steamboat Willie
A deep dive into investigating and reducing the flutter distortion on the soundtrack of Steamboat Willie (1928).
2915
Using YouTube to steal your files
A writeup of my $4133.70 Google Drive vulnerability chain.
2916
iTerm2 and AI Hype Overload
Xe Iaso's personal website.
2917
Why Don't Tech Companies Pay Their Engineers to Stay?
Why don’t tech companies pay engineers more to stay? The top companies for engineers are transparent and they pay attention to an engineer's salary. Ethena
2918
Scale Ruins Everything
Your Startup Could Destroy Society
2919
How on-the-wrist sleep apnea detection works
80% of sleep apnea cases are undiagnosed, and undiagnosed sleep apnea causes $150B of wasted medical spend every year.
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Silicon Valley Tea Party a.k.a. the great 1998 Linux revolt take II (1999)
Anyway, here's what happened: Not to say that big brother is everywhere, but short of having microsoft people monitoring our lists and newsgroups (with wouldn't overly surprise me, after all they also tried a PR compain with magazines, posing as simple users who liked microsoft products), the announcement was…
2922
"My Bike Is Everything to Me"
Former NBA player and TV sportscaster Bill Walton died on Monday at the age of 71. He was a quirky dude and as someone who’s been known to veer off onto seeming
2923
The weirdest QNX bug I've encountered (2021)
I am responsible for the reliability of the firmware updates on our devices and this work never gets boring. The thing about firmware updates is that by definition, every bug is caused by the updater because before installing the affected version, the bug was not present. You could say that updates are the cause and…
2924
Old dogs, new CSS tricks
A lot of new CSS features have shipped in the last years, but actual usage is still low. One of the biggest barriers: we need to re-wire our own brains.
2925
Parsing URLs in Python
Tech babble and other stuff
2926
Ethernet History Deepdive – Why Do We Have Different Frame Types?
In my previous post Encapsulation of PDUs On Trunk Ports , I showed what happens to PDUs when you change the configuration of a trunk. You may have noticed that there are typically three different types of Ethernet encapsulations that we see:
2927
Use Your Potions and Scrolls
I find that when I play RPG games, I often hoard single-use items like potions and scrolls, saving them for some future critical moment. I finish games like Skyrim with a backpack full of unspent resources, reserved for a crisis that never actually arrives. What’s the point, then, of all these items? Just like I save…
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1584 LAN party photos from 1996 – 2010 from Australia's island state archived
In July 2023 I was reminiscing about a thing of the past, large-scale public LAN parties. I remember them being a semiregular occurrence around Tasmania, only attending a couple in my young age before they disappeared. I wondered if I could find some photos of these events to help the memories come back clearer. After…
2930
Spin 3.0 – open-source tooling for building and running WASM apps
Read some of the latest blog posts from Akamai Developers.
2931
Pdf.tocgen
pdf.tocgen is a set of command-line tools for automatically extracting and generating the table of contents (ToC) of a PDF file. It uses the embedded font attributes and position of headings to deduce the basic outline of a PDF file.
2932
Reverse Engineering the Stream Deck+
Sniffing USB HID traffic from the Stream Deck Plus to map its dial encoder and touchscreen events, building on the original Stream Deck reverse engineering.
2933
Zen, CUDA, and Tensor Cores, Part I: The Silicon
Given the complexity of today's computing hardware, it’s easy to get confused about what is meant by the word “core”.
2934
How we built Townie – an app that generates fullstack apps
Like Claude Artifacts, but with a backend and database
2935
Using Large Language Models to Catch Vulnerabilities
Posted by the Big Sleep team Introduction In our previous post, Project Naptime: Evaluating Offe...
2936
An unexpected journey into Microsoft Defender's signature World
Microsoft Defender is the endpoint security solution preinstalled on every Windows machine since Windows 7. It's a fairly complex piece of software, addressing both EDR and EPP use cases. As such, Microsoft markets two different products. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is a cloud based endpoint security solution that…
2937
The Eclipse via Satellite
Yesterday’s eclipse as seen by the GOES-East weather satellite. I just grabbed the full-disk geocolor JPGs with wget and stitched them together with ffmpeg. BTW, If you’re wondering why the clouds remain in view as night falls to the East, it’s because the geocolor image is a composite of “true color” daytime and a…
2938
David Holladay, blindness technology pioneer, has died
This week brings sad news for our Duxbury Systems family. Our colleague, David Holladay, passed away in a hospital on Thursday, February 15th, following an accident at home that morning. David was a cancer survivor and valiantly battled multiple medical problems over his last five years.
2939
Unit tests as documentation
Unit tests are always in sync with the code, making them a powerful tool for up-to-date documentation.
2940
No more blurry fonts in Linux (2023)
Ever since I saw elementary os sporting the very legible Inter font for its UI and site, I wanted to make it part of my desktop too. The only problem was any font I'd choose got a little blurry. Not any more!