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How to Get a North Korea / Antarctica VPS
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Think in math, write in code (2019)
Programmers love to discuss programming languages. We not only debate their technical merits and aesthetic qualities, but they become integrated into our personal identities, along with the values and traits that we associate with them. Some even defend a form of Linguistic Determinism that thinking is confined to…
2044
How I block all 26M of your curl requests
A journey in packet filtering
2045
A PM's Guide to AI Agent Architecture
A complete guide to agent architecture, orchestration patterns, trust strategies, and adoption plans for PMs building AI agents.
2046
Lightfastness Testing of Colored Pencils
Discover the best and worst coloured pencils and markers for lightfastness, ensuring your artwork stays vibrant and doesn't fade too quickly.
2047
Bloom filters are good for search that does not scale
Jonathan Arns's personal blog
2048
Solving Wordle with uv's dependency resolver
mildbyte.xyz
2049
2050
Linux on the Fujitsu Lifebook U729
A short review and troubleshooting guide.
2051
Proximity to coworkers increases long-run development, lowers short-term output (2023)
Revise and resubmit, Quarterly Journal of Economics
2052
2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web
Following in Amazon's footsteps, two student projects independently use 'collaborative filtering' to bring recommendations and social networking to online music; soon they will join forces.
2053
More random home lab things I've recently learned
From my series of "Christian's Home Lab adventures", here's some more things I've recently learned / discovered and figured are worth sharing: NVMe SSDs on a Raspberry PI, ARM64 adventures, more zfs troubles, and some cool tools you should try.
2054
Just talk to it – A way of agentic engineering
A practical guide to working with AI coding agents without the hype.
2055
2056
Cities panic over having to release mass surveillance recordings
Flock's 'licence plate readers' read much more than license plates. A judge says what they record must be released.
2057
Being good isn't enough
Giving good career advice is hard. Maybe it’s because careers can look more alike than they really are. Two people can have the same title but what helps one...
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2059
Discovering errors in Donald Knuth's TAOCP
As Donald Knuth has just published Volume 4, Fascicle 7 of The Art of Computer Programming (TAOCP), on constraint satisfaction, I would like to provide…
2060
2061
Passing planes and other whoosh sounds
A blog about signals, programming, music, and other stuff.
2062
Oberon Pi
Oberon, the jewel by Niklaus Wirth and Jürg Gutknecht: Operating System, Compiler and Computer.
2063
How to Train an AI Image Model on Yourself
It takes less than an hour and $3.
2064
A Tour of Microsoft's Mac Lab (2006)
Today I'll stop my 3rd person perspective . I'm going to write a little bit more about what I do to help MacBU ship great software and provide some color around what's it's like to work on Mac software at Microsoft. Often when we have press events or special visits from our MVPs I'll give them a tour of the Mac Lab…
2065
Frame of preference A history of Mac settings, 1984–2004
A story of early Mac settings told by 10 emulators.
2066
Zig feels more practical than Rust for real-world CLI tools
Why I reach for Zig first for my CLI tools lately
2067
I'm too dumb for Zig's new IO interface
Karl Seguin's Blog - A mix of coding and creative writing
2068
The UI future is colourful and dimensional
On the return of texture, depth, and expressiveness in UI.
2069
The Banished Bottom of the Housing Market
How America Destroyed Its Cheapest Homes
2070
Pasta Cooking Time
I generally find the numbers printed on pasta boxes for cooking time far too high: I'll set the timer for a minute below their low-end "al dente" time, and when I taste one it's already getting too mushy. I decided to run a small experiment to get a better sense of how cooked I like pasta. I decided to use Market…