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Overconsumption is a spiritual problem
Overconsumption is a spiritual problem, not a money problem. Lessons about desire from "Spirited Away".
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Paperbacks and TikTok
In 1939, Simon & Schuster revolutionized the American publishing industry with the launch of Pocket Books, a line of diminutive volumes (measuring 4 by 6 ... Read more
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Decentralized Syndication – The Missing Internet Protocol
The Internet is decentralized by design. It came into being not at once, but in parts. New protocols were added on top of previous ones, but one crucial protocol is still missing.
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RustAssistant: Using LLMs to Fix Compilation Errors in Rust Code
The Rust programming language, with its safety guarantees, has established itself as a viable choice for low-level systems programming language over the traditional, unsafe alternatives like C/C++. These guarantees come from a strong ownership-based type system, as well as primitive support for features like closures…
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Geocoding APIs compared: Pricing, free tiers and terms of use
Pick the cheapest geocoding API provider for your project. An impartial comparison of pricing for HERE, Google Maps Platform, Azure Maps, OpenCage, TomTom Maps, LocationIQ, and Nominatim.
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Gemini 2.5 Pro reasons about task feasibility
... in which a surprisingly reflective AI tells me no (for good reasons) ...
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We are still using 88x31 buttons
introduction If you surf the modern "small web" to any extent you've encountered 88x31 buttons - a staple of late 90s and early 2000's websites under…
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Transmitting data via ultrasound without any special equipment
There are secret messages flying all around you all the time, being transmitted via, most of the time, electromagnetic waves going from antenna to antenna. ELOs “Secret Messages” is a song about posting conspiracy theories via WiFi. But what if you need to get a few bytes from device A to device B (one of the hard…
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The current state of TLA⁺ development
The 2025 TLA⁺ Community Event was held last week on May 4th at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It was a satellite event to ETAPS 2025, which I also attended, and plan to write about in the near future. I gave a talk somewhat-hucksterishly titled It’s never been easier to write TLA⁺ tooling! which I…
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Reverse Engineering All the Raspberry Pis
Earlier this month I covered Jonathan Clark's effort to reverse-engineer the Pi Zero 2 W, and just yesterday, I discovered TubeTime reverse-engineered the Compute Module 5. i reverse-engineered the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5! check it out at github.com/schlae/cm5-r... [image or embed] — Tube Time…
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Setting up a trusted, self-signed SSL/TLS certificate authority in Linux
With OpenSSL, it’s pretty easy to generate a simple self-signed TLS certificate . Just run the following command:
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JupyterGIS breaks through to the next level
Launched in June 2024, JupyterGIS was introduced as a collaborative, web-based GIS environment built on the JupyterLab framework. Its objective is to
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Iroh-blobs
Learn about the new features in the new blobs API
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PostgreSQL 18 Released
The [PostgreSQL Global Development Group](https://www.postgresql.org) today announced the release of [PostgreSQL 18](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/release-18.html), the latest version of the world's most advanced …
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We need more optimistic science fiction
We cannot create a better world if we cannot imagine it.
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Bot or human? Creating an invisible Turing test for the internet
Behavioral and cognitive patterns distinguish humans from bots. Explore interactive demos and a practical framework for invisible Proof of Human.
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Partially Matching Zig Enums
A short post about a neat little Zig idiom. Consider your average {sum type, variant, tagged union, enum, alt}:
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Hate Radio (2011)
Anti-Tutsi articles and graphic cartoons began appearing in the Kangura newspaper from around 1990. In June 1993 a new radio station called Radio-Television Libre des Mille Collines (RTLMC) began broadcasting in Rwanda…
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Detecting and countering misuse of AI
Anthropic's August 2025 threat intelligence report on AI cybercrime and other abuses.
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Why email startups fail
Comprehensive analysis of email startup failures. Why most email companies fail, burn millions in VC funding, and shut down. Learn what actually works.
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Dangerous advice for software engineers
I’m a big fan of “sharp tools”. These are tools that are powerful enough to be hugely helpful or harmful, depending on how they’re used. Most forms of direct…
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How memory maps (mmap) deliver faster file access in Go
Learn how memory maps (mmap) accelerate file I/O, reduce latency, and improve app performance in Unix and Go with real-world benchmarks.
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A bubble that knows it's a bubble
Railway Mania, dot-com, AI. Technology bubbles follow a pattern older than any of them. What's different this time is that everyone knows the script.
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Baffled by generational garbage collection – wingolog
wingolog: article: baffled by generational garbage collection
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Requiem for a Solar Plant
"...requiring reconductoring of 1.71 miles at a cost of $795,150...limiting output to 3MW..."
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