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Fun with gzip bombs and email clients
I served a 10MB gzip bomb as an image in HTML email. Most clients and proxies coped, iOS Mail crashed and Evolution wrote 100GB of cache to my disk.
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I built my own CityMapper
We've all used a public transit router to find a quick route from A to B, such as Google Maps or CityMapper, but how do they actually work?
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The Art of Dithering and Retro Shading for the Web (2024)
A detailed walkthrough of the inner workings of dithering and other shading techniques to give a retro look and feel to your WebGL and React Three Fiber work.
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Why not use DNS over HTTPS (DoH)?
DoH is not about protecting your DNS queries from peepers. That is a big lie. It is about making sure only one peeper can see all of your queries.
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The ROI of Exercise
The math on why exercise is a good deal.
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Failing to Understand the Exponential, Again
Posts and writings by Julian Schrittwieser
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How three years at McKinsey shaped my second startup
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you...
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Atari Means Business with the Mega ST
The first "pro" ST
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What, if anything, should I do about using Mozilla's Firefox
I have used it for a long time - 20 years now, including for a while the IceWeasel variant - and I like it as a browser.
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Parameterized types in C using the new tag compatibility rule
C23 has a new rule for struct, union, and enum compatibility finally appearing in compilers starting with GCC 15, released this past April, and Clang later this year. The same struct defined in different translation units (TU) has always been compatible — essential to how they work. Until this rule change, each such…
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I made a small LED panel
I bought a really small 8x8 LED panel a while ago because I have a problem. I just can’t resist a nice WS2812 LED panel, much like I can’t resist an e-ink display. These days I manage to stay sober, but once in a while I’ll see a nice cheap LED panel and fall off the wagon. It has now been thirteen minutes that I have…
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Common misconceptions about the complexity in robotics vs. AI (2024)
Common misconceptions about the complexity in robotics vs AI
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A deep dive into Rust and C memory interoperability
An in-depth exploration of what happens when Rust and C memory allocators collide, featuring crash analysis.
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What happens to your online accounts when you die?
A few months ago, I heard of a work acquaintance's death via his company's social media. Shocking and abrupt - I had just met up with him (let’s call him George) for the first time. We joked over beers in a cozy little alleyway cafe, me and a coworker and George. It made me queasy to see George’s s
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Build Your Own Minisforum N5 Inspired Mini NAS
Print your own 5-bay N5 Mini NAS! Inspired by the Minisforum N5, this 175mm x 175mm design fits most small beds—use any mini PC you prefer.
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You're missing your near misses
FAA data shows 30 near-misses at Reagan Airport – NPR, Jan 30, 2025 The amount of attention an incident gets is proportional to the severity of the incident: the greater the impact to the organizat…
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When root meets immutable: OpenBSD chflags vs. log tampering
Rafael Sadowski
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Anno 1800: Shadows of Beauty
While playing Anno 1800 , I noticed something which I’ve never noticed before in any other game (but to be fair, I don’t play too many city builders): The sun keeps a position relative to the camera and thus the shadows alway s fall from left to right:
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Learn you Galois fields for great good (2023)
This is the introduction to a series on Abstract Algebra. In particular, our focus will be on Galois Fields (also known as Finite Fields) and their applications in Computer Science. This is a project I've been excited about for many years now, but have been too busy to dedicate the adequate effort to meet my…
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Beautiful Abelian Sandpiles
I can't remember where I first saw them, but ever since, I have been unable to forget them: abelian sandpiles. I'm far from the only one . They're remarkably simple, yet produce lovely symmetric patterns. I loved them so much that I adorned the title banner of this blog with an animation of an abelian sandpile. But…
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What happens when housing prices go down?
A reflection on affordability, finance, and the deep contradictions we struggle to face.
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Mag Wealth (2024)
Mag World: an intuitive sense of scale, using orders of magnitude
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Response to "Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language"
[5 min read] The question Sheon Han poses — “Is Ruby a serious programming language?” — says a lot about what someone thinks programming is supposed to fee...
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Fundamental flaws of SIMD ISAs (2021)
According to Flynn’s taxonomy SIMD refers to a computer architecture that can process multiple data streams with a single instruction (i.e. “Single Instruction stream, Multiple Data streams”). There are different taxonomies, and within those several different sub-categories and architectures that classify as “SIMD”.
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What could have been
Even if we manage to snap out of the AI bubble, we are never going to get these years back. I can only be left to wonder what could have been.
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A Look at Rust from 2012
Recently I was scrolling through brson’s Rust quote database and stumbled upon a link to the official Rust tutorial from the very beginning of 2013. It says Rust 0.6 in the corner, but it lists many things that were removed in 0.6, so it’s likely closer to 0.5. I heard tales of old Rust before, but not of how the…
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Coding agent in 94 lines of Ruby
“It’s not that hard to build a fully functioning, code-editing agent.” Thorsten Ball
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