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April 2025

Want to Progress? Don’t Fall Into the Trap of 'Lifestyle Training' - 2025-04-01 - PDF - You hear run coaches say it again and again: if you train the same way day after day, you’re unlikely to see much progression. If you are targeting a faster run time, it’s important to structure your training properly, as Matt Fitzgerald explains.
Get the hell out of the LLM as soon as possible | sgnt.ai - 2025-04-01 - - PDF - Don’t let an LLM make decisions or implement business logic: they suck at that.
Yes, you can still book United flights for just 7,500 miles through Turkish Miles & Smiles (now 10K) - 2025-04-01 - PDF - Update: While this sweet spot still exists, the best possible fare that you can now get for United flights is 10,000 miles, not 7,500. ~~~ As a kid, I was a huge fan of the TV show The A-Team. The opening monologue ended dramatically in these words: If you have a problem, if no one else […]

March 2025

Minimal containers using Nix | Mellow Root - 2025-03-29 - - PDF - Recently I learned that you can create your own docker images with ! I'm not going to go into details about one should do this, but in short: small...
Build Times - You should know this before choosing Next.js - 2025-03-27 - - PDF - Picking the technology stack for a project is an important and consequential decision. In the enterprise space in particular, it often involves a multi-year commitment with long-lasting implications on the roadmap of the project, the pace of its development, the quality of the deliverables, and even the ability to assemble and maintain a happy team.The open-source software model is a fundamental answer to this. By using software that is developed in the open, anyone is free to extend it or modify it in whatever way fits their use case. More crucially, the portability of open-source software gives developers and organisations the freedom to move their infrastructure between different providers without fear of getting locked in to a specific vendor.This is the expectation with Next.js, an open-source web development framework created and [governed by Vercel](https://nextjs.org/governance), a cloud provider that offers managed hosting of Next.js as a service.
The "think" tool: Enabling Claude to stop and think in complex tool use situations - 2025-03-23 - PDF - Fascinating new prompt engineering trick from Anthropic. They use their standard tool calling mechanism to define a tool called "think" that looks something like this: <div class="highlight highlight-source-json"><pre>{ "name": …
The Grandmaster in the Corner Office: What the Study of Chess Experts Teaches Us about Building a Remarkable Life - Cal Newport - 2025-03-21 - PDF - Becoming a Grandmaster How do great chess players become great? If you read Malcom Gladwell’s Outliers, you probably have an answer: the 10,000 hour rule. ... Read more
New audio models from OpenAI, but how much can we rely on them? - 2025-03-21 - PDF - OpenAI announced several new audio-related API features today, for both text-to-speech and speech-to-text. They’re very promising new models, but they appear to suffer from the ever-present risk of accidental (or …
maaslalani/slides: Terminal based presentation tool - 2025-03-17 - - PDF - Terminal based presentation tool. Contribute to maaslalani/slides development by creating an account on GitHub.
The 2FA app that tells you when you get `314159` - 2025-03-16 - - PDF - An indie project for early 2010s internet addicts
1-1 | The GitLab Handbook - 2025-03-12 - PDF - Learn more about GitLab and what makes us tick.
crawshaw - 2020-01-28 - 2025-03-06 - - PDF
Scientists Have Bred Woolly Mice on Their Journey to Bring Back the Mammoth | TIME - 2025-03-04 - PDF - The mice were created by Colossal Biosciences, which edits DNA for species conservation, and has been working to bring back the woolly mammoth since 2021.
Piglets will be left to starve in a controversial art exhibit in Denmark | AP News - 2025-03-02 - PDF - An artist in Denmark is seeking to raise awareness of the suffering caused by modern pig production with an art installation that includes three piglets starving to death.
Piglets will be left to starve in a controversial art exhibit in Denmark | AP News - 2025-03-02 - PDF - An artist in Denmark is seeking to raise awareness of the suffering caused by modern pig production with an art installation that includes three piglets starving to death.

February 2025

exaequOS - 2025-02-28 - - PDF - exaequOS, your browser is your computer
Breaking into dozens of apartment buildings in five minutes on my phone – Eric Daigle - 2025-02-25 - - PDF - What a place to use default credentials
Removing Jeff Bezos From My Bed ◆ Truffle Security Co. - 2025-02-24 - - PDF - Eight Sleep smart bed found to contain an exposed AWS key and a likely backdoor that allowed engineers to remotely access users' beds
Manna – Two Views of Humanity’s Future – Chapter 1 | MarshallBrain.com - 2025-02-23 - - PDF
Helix: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Generalist Humanoid Control - 2025-02-23 - - PDF - Figure was founded with the ambition to change the world.
On Running systemd-nspawn Containers - benjamintoll.com - 2025-02-22 - - PDF
kmaasrud - 2025-02-22 - - PDF - The personal website of Knut Magnus Aasrud
Is ChatGPT autocomplete bad UX/UI? - 2025-02-21 - - PDF - The new ChatGPT suggestions make me want to scream. Am I weird?
A Neighborhood of Infinity: The Three Projections of Doctor Futamura - 2025-02-18 - - PDF - Introduction The Three Projections of Futamura are a sequence of applications of a programming technique called 'partial evaluation' or 'sp...
Leaked Audio: Jamie Dimon Goes OFF On Staffers Wanting WFH - 2025-02-15 - - PDF - JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon torched young staffers for wanting to work from home, tearing into employees who opposed the bank’s RTO mandate.
Simple declarative schema migration for SQLite - 2025-02-15 - - PDF
Elon Musk’s Vision Is Coming Into Focus—and It Looks a Lot Like Neo-Apartheid | The Nation - 2025-02-14 - PDF - Apartheid was, first and foremost, a business plan—one that the South African–born Musk seems to be reworking for the modern age.
technomancy search - 2025-02-14 - - PDF
The Framework 16 Laptop, is it Worth it? | James Ebert - 2025-02-13 - PDF - My thoughts on the Framework 16 Laptop
Thousands of Danes sign petition to buy California from U.S. | KTLA - 2025-02-11 - - PDF - In response to President Donald Trump’s continued musing about the U.S. acquiring Greenland from Denmark, Danish citizens have launched their own effort to purchase America’s most econo…
Three Years of Ephemeral NixOS: My Experience Resetting Root on Every Boot - 2025-02-09 - - PDF
There to Where - 2025-02-08 - - PDF - Making moving easy.
HTML Whitespace is Broken - Devel without a Cause - 2025-02-06 - PDF - A deep dive into HTML whitespace collapsing: How it works, why it sucks, how it should work, and how to deal with it.
Anthropic’s new Citations API - 2025-02-02 - - PDF - Here’s a new API-only feature from Anthropic that requires quite a bit of assembly in order to unlock the value: Introducing Citations on the Anthropic API. Let’s talk about what …
A shell script for running Go one-liners | Simon Willison’s TILs - 2025-02-01 - PDF - bitfield/script is a really neat Go project: it tries to emulate shell scripting using Go chaining primitives, so you can run code like this:
A shell script for running Go one-liners | Simon Willison’s TILs - 2025-02-01 - PDF - bitfield/script is a really neat Go project: it tries to emulate shell scripting using Go chaining primitives, so you can run code like this:

January 2025

Unique 0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord and hundreds of platform · GitHub - 2025-01-24 - - PDF - Unique 0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord and hundreds of platform - research.md
MasterCard DNS Error Went Unnoticed for Years – Krebs on Security - 2025-01-23 - - PDF
I Was All Set to Become the Most Popular Guy in the Cancer Ward. Then I Met My Nemesis: Ben. - Washingtonian - 2025-01-22 - PDF - It was late afternoon in the cancer center, and I was wiped out from my daily zap of chemotherapy. The final drips were washing through my IV, and as usual, I was slumped in my green recliner, blank-faced and stone quiet. I was about four months into treatment, and the chemotherapy had overwhelmed my system.
Tony Finch – link log - 2025-01-11 - - PDF
Stop Trying To Schedule A Call With Me - 2025-01-11 - - PDF - Stop Trying To Schedule A Call With Me - The harassment by SaaS
Be aware of the Makefile effect - 2025-01-10 - - PDF
Why Go Should Sometimes Be a No-Go | QotNews - 2025-01-09 - PDF - {{ description }}
Why Go Should Sometimes Be a No-Go | QotNews - 2025-01-09 - PDF - {{ description }}
28h Days: year 1 update - 2025-01-09 - - PDF
Nix on the Steam Deck - 2025-01-09 - PDF - When I first started using Linux in 2006, I remember dreaming of a Linux Console. It wasn't so far fetched, the PlayStation 3 had just been released with OtherOS support which allowed users to install Linux (or BSD). Still, it seemed that a Linux-first console seemed like it would only ever be a dream.
All clocks are 30 seconds late | Victor Poughon - 2025-01-07 - - PDF - OK, this is going to sound crazy: I believe all clocks are 30 seconds late. Let's get a few things out of the way: this is neither about time zones, nor l...
You wouldn't download an AI - by Altay Akkus - Altay's Blog - 2025-01-06 - - PDF - Extracting AI models from mobile apps
The Begining of the End for ANT+ Wireless | DC Rainmaker - 2025-01-04 - - PDF - First off, no, your ANT+ devices aren’t going to stop working. In fact, companies are not only supporting them going forward, but will continue to make ANT+ devices for some time to come. Instead, ANT+ (or more technically, Garmin), has
sixos: a nix os without systemd - media.ccc.de - 2025-01-03 - PDF - This talk announces the first public release of sixos, a two year project to create a nixpkgs-based operating system using skarnet's s6 s...
connet-dev/connet: A p2p reverse proxy with NAT traversal. Inspired by frp, rathole and ngrok - 2025-01-03 - - PDF - A p2p reverse proxy with NAT traversal. Inspired by frp, rathole and ngrok - connet-dev/connet
My favourite computer ergonomics hack - 2025-01-03 - - PDF

December 2024

About - 2024-12-31 - - PDF
MPs vote to ban smoking for anyone born after 2008 - 2024-12-31 - PDF - Legislation passes second reading in Commons as Streeting says it will 'come down on the vaping industry like a ton of bricks'
j3s.sh - 2024-12-31 - - PDF
j3s.sh - 2024-12-31 - - PDF
Thinking about personal website style galleries | James' Coffee Blog - 2024-12-31 - PDF - I continue to learn a lot about content design and web development from the GOV.UK design system. Inspired by the idea of having all styles and patterns and components in one place, I started to think: how can design systems apply to personal websites?
Why shouldn’t you give money to homeless people? – Spirals of Progress - 2024-12-31 - - PDF - Singer asks if you should save a drowning child. Obviously yes! And what if you were wearing a nice suit which could get ruined in the pond? Does not matter, you still have to jump in.And what if, …
Rubenerd: Our personal home database - 2024-12-31 - - PDF - We just run Postgres and pgAdmin. I can’t recommend this to everyone, unless you’re a bit weird.
Rubenerd: Blocked when using a VPN - 2024-12-31 - PDF - I always get blocked when using my own VPN, but not on commercial ones. HMM!
A secure captive portal browser with automatic DNS detection - 2024-12-19 - PDF - Captive portals are the worst. Flaky detection. The OS and browser try to detect these annoying network features but fail quite often, leaving you with broken connections. > DID YOU KNOW that probe-based captive portal detection really doesn't work very well, with ~30% FP *and* ~30% FN rate in Chrome? — Emily
The age of average — Alex Murrell - 2024-12-13 - - PDF - In the early 1990s, two Russian artists named Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid hired a market research firm to survey the public on what they wanted in a work of art. Across 11 countries they then set about painting a piece that reflected the results. Each piece was intended to be a unique a colla
Net zero: Copenhagen’s failure to meet its 2025 target casts doubt on other major climate plans - 2024-12-11 - PDF - The Danish capital reneged on its net zero target after an incinerator failed to secure state aid.
The Nine Mile Walk by Harry Kemelman - 2024-12-09 - PDF - In this story, logical inferences lead to the solving of a murder.
The Biggest Shell Programs in the World · oils-for-unix/oils Wiki - 2024-12-07 - - PDF - Oils is our upgrade path from bash to a better language and runtime. It's also for Python and JavaScript users who avoid shell! - oils-for-unix/oils
Does Your Code Pass The Turkey Test? - 2024-12-06 - - PDF - Over the past 6 years or so, I’ve failed each item on “The Turkey Test.” It’s very simple: will your code work properly on a person’s machine in or around th...
sequinstream/sequin: Postgres CDC to streams and queues like Kafka, SQS, HTTP endpoints, and more - 2024-12-05 - PDF - Postgres CDC to streams and queues like Kafka, SQS, HTTP endpoints, and more - sequinstream/sequin
EdgePipes The Alternative to SSR and RSCs | runspired.com - 2024-12-05 - - PDF - EdgePipes | The Alternative to SSR and RSCs
Deploying Containers on NixOS - 2024-12-05 - - PDF - Let's make managing infrastructure on your own machine less cumbersome. Simplify it with NixOS and containers.
Phoenix LiveView 1.0.0 is here! - Phoenix Blog - 2024-12-04 - - PDF - LiveView 1.0 is out!
Oklahoma city threatens to call FBI over 'renegade' Linux maker • The Register - 2024-12-03 - - PDF - Our mistake is YOUR problem
About - Intenty - 2024-12-03 - PDF - What is Intenty? Intenty, previously known as Acture/Actuflow, is an innovative Android app crafted to enhance mindfulness and intentionality in device usage. At its core, Intenty encourages users to ponder, “Why do I use the device?” right at the onset of usage. Its standout feature is a prompt form that appears immediately after unlocking your device, nudging you to define your intention before proceeding. Why should I care? Intenty is more than just an app; it’s a tool for empowerment.

November 2024

Why pipes sometimes get "stuck": buffering - 2024-11-30 - - PDF - Why pipes sometimes get "stuck": buffering
Sweden asks China to co-operate with severed cable investigation - 2024-11-29 - PDF - Two cables in the Baltic Sea linking Sweden to Lithuania, and Finland to Germany, were damaged.
How Sweden and Finland went from neutral to Nato - 2024-11-29 - PDF - Russia has threatened to retaliate, but Sweden is now set to join Finland as the 32nd Nato member.
Why TanStack Start is Ditching Adapters | TanStack Blog - 2024-11-28 - PDF - Nitro HeaderTo “adapter” or not? Building a new front-end Javascript framework is a daunting task, as I’ve been learning with building TanStack Start, my new TanStack-powered full stack framework. There’s so many...
far.in.net - 2024-11-27 - - PDF
Listen to the whispers: web timing attacks that actually work | PortSwigger Research - 2024-11-22 - - PDF - Websites are riddled with timing oracles eager to divulge their innermost secrets. It's time we started listening to them. In this paper, I'll unleash novel attack concepts to coax out server secrets
Way too many ways to wait on a child process with a timeout - 2024-11-12 - - PDF
Algorithms we develop software by - 2024-11-11 - - PDF - Pathfinding applied to the software solution domain
Algorithms we develop software by - 2024-11-11 - - PDF - Pathfinding applied to the software solution domain
Chekhov's gun principle for testing - 2024-11-10 - PDF - Improving how you write your tests by following advice of a famous 19th century playwright
Booleans Are a Trap - 2024-11-10 - - PDF - Don't use booleans for domain modeling or at least think twice before doing it.
IMDb SQL - 2024-11-05 - - PDF
Please just stop saying "just" - 2024-11-04 - - PDF - Do you work in Software Engineering, and have you seen messages or sentences like these before?

October 2024

Eternal Terminal - 2024-10-31 - - PDF - Remote terminal for the busy and impatient
Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone | SSOReady - 2024-10-30 - - PDF - Timezones are weird. But only finitely so. Here's the exact conceptual model you should have of them.
Building search-based RAG using Claude, Datasette and Val Town - 2024-10-25 - - PDF - Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is a technique for adding extra “knowledge” to systems built on LLMs, allowing them to answer questions against custom information not included in their training data. …
Request-reply in Postgres - 2024-10-24 - - PDF - Who doesn't like to go a little overboard with Postgres? Extensions like pgsql-http push what we think is possible (or permissible) to do in the database. I wondered the other day if you could build a request-reply mechanism using plain Postgres components. Turns out, you can! Whether or not you
You Can Now See the Code That Helped End Apartheid | WIRED - 2024-10-18 - - PDF - John Graham-Cumming, who happens to be Cloudflare's CTO, cracked a 30-year-old encrypted file that had a role in rewriting South Africa’s history.
Anjan's Homepage - 2024-10-15 - - PDF
The 1/8th Sleep | near.blog - 2024-10-13 - - PDF
Orchestrating Agents: Routines and Handoffs | OpenAI Cookbook - 2024-10-12 - PDF - Open-source examples and guides for building with the OpenAI API. Browse a collection of snippets, advanced techniques and walkthroughs. Share your own examples and guides.
Database Remote-Copy Tool For SQLite - 2024-10-07 - - PDF
Database Remote-Copy Tool For SQLite - 2024-10-07 - - PDF
We hacked a robot vacuum — and could watch live through its camera - ABC News - 2024-10-04 - - PDF - Without even entering the building, we were able to silently peer through the camera on a Deebot device made by Chinese giant Ecovacs.
use() and data fetching - 2024-10-03 - PDF - use() and data fetching
NixOS is a good server OS, except when it isn't | Bernardo Vecchia Stein / Daniel Sidhion - 2024-10-02 - - PDF
Using YouTube to steal your files Ʊ lyra's epic blog - 2024-10-01 - - PDF - A writeup of my $4133.70 Google Drive vulnerability chain.

September 2024

Address Not Found - 2024-09-29 - - PDF
Cumulative CO₂ emissions by world region - 2024-09-27 - PDF - Cumulative carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions by region from the year 1750 onwards. This measures CO₂ emissions from fossil fuels and industry only – land-use change is not included.
GitHub - brandonmcconnell/tailwindcss-signals: Signals for Tailwind CSS simplifies styling based on ancestor state via style queries. Its declarative API for signaling states eliminates complex selectors, resulting in cleaner, more maintainable code. - 2024-09-27 - - PDF - Signals for Tailwind CSS simplifies styling based on ancestor state via style queries. Its declarative API for signaling states eliminates complex selectors, resulting in cleaner, more maintainable...
The Misunderstood Rise of Anti-Tourism in Europe : TrueReddit - 2024-09-21 - PDF - Posted in r/TrueReddit by u/Fickle-Syllabub6730 • 153 points and 102 comments
A Spreadsheet and a Debugger walk into a Shell | Arcan - 2024-09-21 - - PDF - Here we continue the series of posts on the development of a command-line shell which defies terminal emulation by using the display server API locally and a purpose built network protocol remotely…
How to succeed in MrBeast production (leaked PDF) - 2024-09-18 - - PDF - Whether or not you enjoy MrBeast’s format of YouTube videos (here’s [a 2022 Rolling Stone profile](https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/mrbeast-youtube-cover-story-interview-1334604/) if you’re unfamiliar), this leaked onboarding document for new members of his production company …
How to succeed in MrBeast production (leaked PDF) - 2024-09-18 - - PDF - Whether or not you enjoy MrBeast’s format of YouTube videos (here’s [a 2022 Rolling Stone profile](https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/mrbeast-youtube-cover-story-interview-1334604/) if you’re unfamiliar), this leaked onboarding document for new members of his production company …
How to succeed in MrBeast production (leaked PDF) - 2024-09-18 - - PDF - Whether or not you enjoy MrBeast’s format of YouTube videos (here’s [a 2022 Rolling Stone profile](https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/mrbeast-youtube-cover-story-interview-1334604/) if you’re unfamiliar), this leaked onboarding document for new members of his production company …
Features of your font you had no idea about · OlegWock - 2024-09-12 - - PDF - Different weights are cool, but the real question is whether your font can swash.
Features of your font you had no idea about · OlegWock - 2024-09-12 - - PDF - Different weights are cool, but the real question is whether your font can swash.
Home | aider - 2024-09-10 - - PDF - aider is AI pair programming in your terminal
Getting the most out of your Yubikey on NixOS ~ Joinemm.dev - 2024-09-06 - PDF - There are many different use cases I found for the Yubikeys.
Dancing plague of 1518 - Wikipedia - 2024-09-05 - PDF
Scientists testing deadly heat limits on humans show thresholds may be much lower than first thought - ABC News - 2024-09-03 - - PDF - Heatwaves loom as a growing threat to humanity in a warming climate. This summer alone, in the northern hemisphere, thousands have died during extreme heat events. It's driving researchers to find out more about the point when heat turns deadly.
There’s no significant connection between your personality as a teenager and a septuagenarian - 2024-09-03 - - PDF - Researchers found no correlation of personality traits.

August 2024

Coolify's rise to fame. And why it could be a big deal. - 2024-08-26 - - PDF - An increasing number of self-hostable software meets a tool to make self-hosting trivial.
Modularize Your NixOS Configuration | NixOS & Flakes Book - 2024-08-24 - PDF - An unofficial and opinionated book for beginners
Modularize Your NixOS Configuration | NixOS & Flakes Book - 2024-08-24 - PDF - An unofficial and opinionated book for beginners
OpenSSH Backdoors - 2024-08-24 - - PDF - Imagine this: an OpenSSH backdoor is discovered, maintainers rush to push out a fixed release package, security researchers trade technical details on mailing lists to analyze the backdoor code. Speculation abounds on the attribution and motives of the attacker, and the tech media pounces on the story. A near miss
OpenSSH Backdoors | QotNews - 2024-08-24 - PDF - {{ description }}
GitHub - instantdb/instant: The realtime client-side database - 2024-08-22 - - PDF - The realtime client-side database. Contribute to instantdb/instant development by creating an account on GitHub.
Cloning a laptop over NVME TCP - 2024-08-20 - - PDF
Cloning a laptop over NVME TCP - 2024-08-20 - - PDF
Splicing Duck and Elephant DNA - 2024-08-18 - - PDF - Introducing the DuckDB + Postgres Extension: You can have your analytics and transact them too with pg_duckdb by DuckDB Labs, MotherDuck, Hydra, Neon and Microsoft.
AI Seinfeld was the peak of AI-generated content. It will never happen again. | Max Woolf's Blog - 2024-08-18 - - PDF - What’s the deal with the uncanny valley?
Search for descendants of Aboriginal people who settled in Indonesia at least 150 years ago - ABC News - 2024-08-17 - PDF - There's growing evidence Aboriginal people moved to Indonesia at least 150 years ago and started families. These images are the first photographic proof of this community.
The federal government wants to build 1.2 million homes. Could fewer car parks be part of the answer? - ABC News - 2024-08-17 - PDF - Urban planners say Australia has too much parking. But as car ownership grows, questions have surfaced as to whether we could ever build less.
Aristotle — How to live a good life - Ralph Ammer - 2024-08-16 - - PDF - 2400 years ago Aristotle found out how to be happy. His Nicomachean Ethics is an operating manual for a good life.
Against Names - 2024-08-13 - - PDF
Everyone Struggles to Identify Bottlenecks - Patshead.com Blog - 2024-08-12 - PDF - Identifying bottlenecks is a skill that many of us struggle with. Learning to pinpoint bottlenecks is important, and learning which bottlenecks to …
Everyone Struggles to Identify Bottlenecks - Patshead.com Blog - 2024-08-12 - PDF - Identifying bottlenecks is a skill that many of us struggle with. Learning to pinpoint bottlenecks is important, and learning which bottlenecks to …
Why German Strings are Everywhere | CedarDB - The All-In-One-Database - 2024-08-12 - - PDF - German Strings Strings are conceptually very simple: It’s essentially just a sequence of characters, right? Why, then, does every programming language have their own slightly different string implementation? It turns out that there is a lot more to a string than “just a sequence of characters”1. We’re no different and built our own custom string type that is highly optimized for data processing. Even though we didn’t expect it when we first wrote about it in our inaugural Umbra research paper, a lot of new systems adopted our format.
Why German Strings are Everywhere | CedarDB - The All-In-One-Database - 2024-08-07 - - PDF - German Strings Strings are conceptually very simple: It’s essentially just a sequence of characters, right? Why, then, does every programming language have their own slightly different string implementation? It turns out that there is a lot more to a string than “just a sequence of characters”1. We’re no different and built our own custom string type that is highly optimized for data processing. Even though we didn’t expect it when we first wrote about it in our inaugural Umbra research paper, a lot of new systems adopted our format.

July 2024

We live to compete. What I learned by winning the Duolingo diamond league | by Karolina Kozmana | Medium - 2024-07-31 - PDF - It’s Sunday night, and until midnight I can’t go to sleep. My opponent, an account called Roman with a status of a French flag, is only 100…
Common side effects of not drinking | by Karolina Kozmana | Medium - 2024-07-31 - - PDF - By rejecting alcohol, you reject something very human, an extra limb that we have collectively grown to deal with reality and with each…
Fantasy Meets Reality – cabel.com - 2024-07-31 - - PDF - One of my favorite things to notice as a weirdo is when the good intentions of design slam into the hard reality of humans and the real world. It’s always interesting. Let’s start with …
eBPF - Wikipedia - 2024-07-31 - PDF
7 Months Inside an Online Scam Labor Camp - The New York Times - 2024-07-29 - - PDF - A man was abducted by a Chinese gang and forced to work in a scam operation. He gathered financial information, photos and videos and shared the material with The New York Times.
Schengen ain't what it used to be - 2024-07-29 - - PDF - My wife and I were on the train back from a one-week bike trip in Germany and Czechia, and were crossing back into Denmark. As the train pulled into Padborg, multiple border officers boarded the train, systematically checking IDs - passports, residence cards, and so on. The unusual thing is
Schengen ain't what it used to be - 2024-07-29 - - PDF - My wife and I were on the train back from a one-week bike trip in Germany and Czechia, and were crossing back into Denmark. As the train pulled into Padborg, multiple border officers boarded the train, systematically checking IDs - passports, residence cards, and so on. The unusual thing is
Inside a viral website - by Tom - Not Fun at Parties - 2024-07-29 - - PDF - Peeling back the curtain of running a viral meme website for 5 days. More details than you could ever hope for.
Inside a viral website - by Tom - Not Fun at Parties - 2024-07-29 - - PDF - Peeling back the curtain of running a viral meme website for 5 days. More details than you could ever hope for.
How I Use Git Worktrees - 2024-07-26 - - PDF - There are a bunch of posts on the internet about using git worktree command. As far as I can tell, most of them are primarily about using worktrees as a replacement of, or a supplement to git branches. Instead of switching branches, you just change directories. This is also how I originally had useed worktrees, but that didn't stick, and I abandoned them. But recently worktrees grew on me, though my new use-case is unlike branching.
Split-flap display - Wikipedia - 2024-07-25 - PDF
The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins / Jordan Eldredge - 2024-07-25 - - PDF - I started looking through corrupt Winamp skins and it lead me down some very strange rabbit holes
Taking my diabetes treatment into my own hands | Martin Janiczek - 2024-07-24 - - PDF - First of all, this blogpost is kinda long. Let me prove to you reading it will actually have some payoff:
TIL: Mermaid Gantt diagrams are great for displaying distributed traces in Markdown - brycemecum.com - 2024-07-23 - - PDF
TIL: Mermaid Gantt diagrams are great for displaying distributed traces in Markdown - brycemecum.com - 2024-07-23 - - PDF
vyxos: My laptop and server Nix configuration | Lobsters - 2024-07-20 - PDF
PySkyWiFi: completely free, unbelievably stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights | Robert Heaton - 2024-07-09 - - PDF - The plane reached 10,000ft. I took out my laptop, planning to peruse the internet and maybe do a little work if I got really desperate.
The search for tiles: adventures in mapmaking with Stamen Toner, OSM and the German Federal Agency for Cartography - 2024-07-08 - - PDF - All I want is a tileset that's free to use and grayscale
The search for tiles: adventures in mapmaking with Stamen Toner, OSM and the German Federal Agency for Cartography - 2024-07-08 - - PDF - All I want is a tileset that's free to use and grayscale
how fast is javascript simulating 20 000 000 particles - 2024-07-08 - - PDF - Technical and non technical thoughts.
The search for tiles: adventures in mapmaking with Stamen Toner, OSM and the German Federal Agency for Cartography - 2024-07-07 - - PDF - All I want is a tileset that's free to use and grayscale
The search for tiles: adventures in mapmaking with Stamen Toner, OSM and the German Federal Agency for Cartography - 2024-07-07 - - PDF - All I want is a tileset that's free to use and grayscale
Reverse Engineering a Smartwatch. Sharing the reverse engienering process… | by Benjamen Lim | CSG @ GovTech | Jun, 2024 | Medium - 2024-07-06 - - PDF - Sharing the reverse engienering process of a smartwatch from reprogramming to firmware patching!

June 2024

Australia's US Ambassador Kevin Rudd 'couldn't possibly comment' on whether he was 'linchpin' in Julian Assange plea deal - ABC News - 2024-06-27 - PDF - Australia's Ambassador to the United States Kevin Rudd says he "couldn't possibly comment" on whether he encouraged Julian Assange and his team to accept a plea deal with the US.
I Wore Meta Ray-Bans in Montreal to Test Their AI Translation Skills. It Did Not Go Well | WIRED - 2024-06-27 - PDF - WIRED took Meta’s Ray-Ban Smart Glasses to French-speaking Canada to trial its AI smarts. Quelle catastrophe!
Aging Might Not Be Inevitable | WIRED - 2024-06-27 - PDF - There are biological underpinnings to aging—and so researchers are investigating cell manipulations, transfusions of young blood, and chemical compounds that can mimic low-calorie diets.
I can’t picture things in my mind. I didn’t realize that was unusual | Well actually | The Guardian - 2024-06-26 - - PDF - People with aphantasia can’t mentally visualize things. Mental imagery is a spectrum, and we lie outside it, in the dark
the end game | scott ludlam - 2024-06-25 - PDF - WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange is slowly dying in a UK prison, as the US maintains its fight to have him die in theirs – but there is hope.
GitHub - k1LoW/tbls: tbls is a CI-Friendly tool for document a database, written in Go. - 2024-06-23 - - PDF - tbls is a CI-Friendly tool for document a database, written in Go. - k1LoW/tbls
GitHub - k1LoW/tbls: tbls is a CI-Friendly tool for document a database, written in Go. - 2024-06-23 - - PDF - tbls is a CI-Friendly tool for document a database, written in Go. - k1LoW/tbls
We are still early with the cloud: why software development is overdue for a change · Erik Bernhardsson - 2024-06-22 - - PDF - Software development still has a long way to go until it fully embraces the cloud
Simple sabotage for software · Erik Bernhardsson - 2024-06-22 - - PDF - How to sabotage software productivity, in the style of CIA
Simple sabotage for software · Erik Bernhardsson - 2024-06-22 - - PDF - How to sabotage software productivity, in the style of CIA
GitHub - hanslub42/rlwrap: A readline wrapper - 2024-06-19 - - PDF - A readline wrapper. Contribute to hanslub42/rlwrap development by creating an account on GitHub.
Automatic Query Invalidation after Mutations | TkDodo's blog - 2024-06-18 - PDF - Even though there is nothing built into React Query, it doesn't need a lot of code to implement automatic query invalidation in user-land thanks to the global cache callbacks.
Automatic Query Invalidation after Mutations | TkDodo's blog - 2024-06-18 - PDF - Even though there is nothing built into React Query, it doesn't need a lot of code to implement automatic query invalidation in user-land thanks to the global cache callbacks.
React 19 and Suspense - A Drama in 3 Acts | TkDodo's blog - 2024-06-18 - PDF - React 19 is a very promising release - but there's something not quite right yet with suspense...
React 19 and Suspense - A Drama in 3 Acts | TkDodo's blog - 2024-06-18 - PDF - React 19 is a very promising release - but there's something not quite right yet with suspense...
Reader API - 2024-06-18 - - PDF - Read URLs or search the web, get better grounding for LLMs.
Inside a low budget consumer hardware espionage implant - 2024-06-17 - - PDF
Inside a low budget consumer hardware espionage implant - 2024-06-17 - - PDF
So You Want To Abolish Time Zones @ Things Of Interest - 2024-06-15 - - PDF
Marginalia Search - 2024-06-14 - - PDF - search.marginalia.nu is a small independent do-it-yourself search engine for surprising but content-rich websites that never ask you to accept cookies or subscribe to newsletters. The goal is to bring you the sort of grass fed, free range HTML your grandma used to write.
Marginalia Search - 2024-06-14 - - PDF - search.marginalia.nu is a small independent do-it-yourself search engine for surprising but content-rich websites that never ask you to accept cookies or subscribe to newsletters. The goal is to bring you the sort of grass fed, free range HTML your grandma used to write.
Marginalia Search - 2024-06-14 - - PDF - search.marginalia.nu is a small independent do-it-yourself search engine for surprising but content-rich websites that never ask you to accept cookies or subscribe to newsletters. The goal is to bring you the sort of grass fed, free range HTML your grandma used to write.
Marginalia Search - 2024-06-14 - - PDF - search.marginalia.nu is a small independent do-it-yourself search engine for surprising but content-rich websites that never ask you to accept cookies or subscribe to newsletters. The goal is to bring you the sort of grass fed, free range HTML your grandma used to write.
Immersed - 2024-06-12 - - PDF - Have your desktop in VR on Mac, PC, and Linux with Immersed!
GitHub - wheaney/breezy-desktop: XR virtual workspace library for Linux - 2024-06-12 - PDF - XR virtual workspace library for Linux. Contribute to wheaney/breezy-desktop development by creating an account on GitHub.
XREAL Air | Elevate Your AR Experience with Cutting-Edge Smart Glasses - 2024-06-11 - - PDF - Discover the power of XREAL Air AR glasses and step into a world where virtual meets real. Elevate your visual experience.
Welcome to Bashly | Bashly - Bash CLI Framework - 2024-06-04 - - PDF - Bashly is a command line application (written in Ruby) that lets you generate feature-rich bash command line tools.
qStudio Release Version 3.0 » qStudio - 2024-06-03 - - PDF
qStudio Release Version 3.0 » qStudio - 2024-06-03 - - PDF
Two lifeforms merge in once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event - 2024-06-03 - - PDF - Last time this happened, Earth got plants.
Import AI 375: GPT-2 five years later; decentralized training; new ways of thinking about consciousness and AI - 2024-06-03 - PDF - …Are today's AGI obsessives trafficking more in fiction than in fact?...
Hacking Millions of Modems (and Investigating Who Hacked My Modem) - 2024-06-03 - - PDF - Two years ago, something very strange happened to me while working from my home network. I was exploiting a blind XXE vulnerability that required an external HTTP server to smuggle out files, so I spun up an AWS box and ran a simple Python webserver to receive the traffic from the vulnerable server.
The Universe of Discourse : Monads are like burritos - 2024-06-02 - - PDF - From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
The Universe of Discourse : Monads are like burritos - 2024-06-02 - - PDF - From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
Welcome - Docs ⋅ Storybook - 2024-06-01 - PDF
Wired Elements - 2024-06-01 - - PDF - Common UI Elements with a sketchy hand-drawn look.
Wired Elements - 2024-06-01 - - PDF - Common UI Elements with a sketchy hand-drawn look.

May 2024

How to Build a Low-tech Internet | LOW←TECH MAGAZINE - 2024-05-31 - PDF - If we want the internet to keep working in circumstances where access to energy is more limited, we can learn important lessons from alternative network technologies.
DuckDB Doesn’t Need Data To Be a Database - 2024-05-30 - - PDF
DuckDB Doesn’t Need Data To Be a Database - 2024-05-30 - - PDF
Essays on programming I think about a lot | benkuhn.net - 2024-05-25 - - PDF - Computers can be understood • Choose Boring Technology • The Wrong Abstraction • Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names • The Hiring Post • The Product-Minded Engineer • Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend • The Law of Leaky Abstractions • Reflections on software performance • Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods • End-to-End Arguments in System Design • Inventing on Principle
Essays on programming I think about a lot | benkuhn.net - 2024-05-25 - - PDF - Computers can be understood • Choose Boring Technology • The Wrong Abstraction • Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names • The Hiring Post • The Product-Minded Engineer • Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend • The Law of Leaky Abstractions • Reflections on software performance • Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods • End-to-End Arguments in System Design • Inventing on Principle
GitHub - anvo/scala-devcontainer: Devcontainer for scala development - 2024-05-25 - PDF - Devcontainer for scala development. Contribute to anvo/scala-devcontainer development by creating an account on GitHub.
Daylight Computer | The Fast 60fps E-paper and Blue-Light Free Tablet - 2024-05-24 - - PDF - The Daylight Computer is a calm tablet, with a high refesh-rate 60hz e-paper display — that's also blue-light free, and eye-strain free.
UI Density || Matthew Ström, designer-leader - 2024-05-22 - - PDF - I speak and write about design, front-end code, leadership, and (occasionally) math.

April 2024

What's new in CSS and UI: I/O 2023 Edition | Blog | Chrome for Developers - 2024-04-23 - - PDF - The top 20 CSS and UI features highlighted at Google I/O 2023 that you don't want to miss.
Talk to Me Human - 2024-04-20 - - PDF - The talking your way out of it simulator
Why you need a "WTF Notebook" - 2024-04-19 - - PDF - There's a very specific reputation I want to have on a team: "Nat helps me solve my problems. Nat get things I care about done."
Why you need a "WTF Notebook" - 2024-04-19 - - PDF - There's a very specific reputation I want to have on a team: "Nat helps me solve my problems. Nat get things I care about done."
12 Map Happenings that Rocked our World: Part 9 – Map Happenings - 2024-04-16 - - PDF - The Map Happenings series on the hugely impactful events that forever changed our world. This week: the story of a little known company called ‘Etak’. I think you’ll find it a fas…
Function Health • 100 Healthy Years - 2024-04-16 - PDF - Test your whole body and own your health. Function, co-founded by Dr. Mark Hyman, is a lifelong routine of 100+ lab tests for the whole body including thyroid, hormones, fertility, autoimmunity, heart, kidney, liver and more. Lab results direct to you with insights from top doctors.
datasette-ripgrep: deploy a regular expression search engine for your source code - 2024-04-16 - - PDF - This week I built datasette-ripgrep—a web application for running regular expression searches against source code, built on top of the amazing ripgrep command-line tool. datasette-ripgrep demo I’ve deployed a demo …
[BUG] Firefox reader mode doesn't work · Issue #2157 · microsoft/playwright - 2024-04-13 - PDF - Context: Playwright Version: 1.0.1 Operating System: Windows 10 Node version: 13.8.0 Browser: Firefox Code Snippet When I try to navigate to an about:reader url, the response is null. In a real Fir...
sway-floating/floating at master · Synthetica9/sway-floating - 2024-04-13 - PDF
Declarative NixOS containers - 2024-04-09 - PDF - Everything you need to know about declarative containers in NixOS with a simple example to demonstrate logging in, mounting volumes and forwarding ports.
Adding VMs to PATH - NixOS Wiki - 2024-04-09 - PDF
services/immich.nix · main · Felix Schröter / nixos-config · GitLab - 2024-04-09 - PDF - My NixOS configuration
ReSource RICA tree-planting project turns 'ugly' hill in central Victoria into 'paradise' over 20 years - ABC News - 2024-04-08 - PDF - A group of friends, dismayed about climate change, bought the most degraded piece of farmland they could find. Not to live on, or to make money from, but to transform into the bushland it once was.
ElectricSQL - Sync for modern apps - 2024-04-08 - - PDF - Build reactive, realtime, local-first apps directly on Postgres.
GenZ software engineers, according to older colleagues - 2024-04-04 - - PDF - Responses to a survey about GenZ suggest this new generation possesses standout differences. We explore what makes GenZ distinctive, and check out ideas for ways to work fruitfully together.
HyiKi/ai-review-code: AI Automated Code Review For GitLab - 2024-04-03 - PDF - AI Automated Code Review For GitLab. Contribute to HyiKi/ai-review-code development by creating an account on GitHub.
ai-cicd-code-reviewer/.gitlab-ci.yml at main · ugwun/ai-cicd-code-reviewer - 2024-04-03 - PDF
What I learned when I replaced my cheap Pi 5 PC with a no-name Amazon mini desktop | Ars Technica - 2024-04-02 - - PDF - Pi 5 is still an odd fit for day-to-day desktop use; cheap mini PCs come closer.
Türkiye election: Is this the beginning of the end for strongman Recep Erdoğan? | SBS News - 2024-04-01 - PDF - Türkiye's main opposition party has emerged from a nationwide local vote as a serious challenger to veteran President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

March 2024

Observable - 2024-03-27 - PDF
Scripts should be written using the project main language | João Freitas - 2024-03-27 - - PDF - Almost all projects I've worked on have scripts we wrote to automate a repetitive process. Consecutively, the majority of the scripts became obsolete and unmaintainable after some weeks, because we either didn't need them anymore or they have become too complex to be looked at. Afterwards, these scripts are either refactored or they stay forever in the scripts graveyard
On Tech Debt: My Rust Library is now a CDO | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings - 2024-03-27 - - PDF - Bringing the great successes of financial engineering to Rust.
Writing system software: code comments. - <antirez> - 2024-03-26 - - PDF
Service Unavailable - 2024-03-26 - - PDF
Many Small Queries Are Efficient In SQLite - 2024-03-25 - - PDF
How much can you really get out of a 4$ VPS? - 2024-03-25 - - PDF - When starting a new project, evaluating the budget needed for cloud hosting can be a tricky question.On one side, you will hear horror stories of people waki...
Kid Pix - The Early Years — Dry reading - 2024-03-25 - - PDF - The history of Kid Pix by Craig Hickman
Getting started | MistCSS - 2024-03-25 - PDF - Write atomic React components using only CSS
2024 Barkley Marathon Results: Jasmin Paris Rewrites History - 2024-03-23 - - PDF - The 2024 Barkley Marathons smashed records, with the first woman finisher, five finishers, and the first person to finish four times.
DuckDB as the New jq - Paul Gross’s Blog - 2024-03-22 - - PDF - Recently, I’ve been interested in the DuckDB project (like a SQLite geared towards data applications). And one of the amazing features is that it has many data importers included without requiring extra dependencies. This means it can natively read and parse JSON as a database table, among many other formats.
Suspicious discontinuities - 2024-03-21 - - PDF
Mona: Australian art museum sued over women's-only exhibit - 2024-03-21 - - PDF - The opulent Ladies Lounge exhibit aims to highlight the exclusion faced by Australian women for decades.
PocketBase - Open Source backend in 1 file - 2024-03-20 - - PDF - Open Source backend in 1 file with realtime database, authentication, file storage and admin dashboard
People Hate the Idea of Car-Free Cities—Until They Live in One | WIRED - 2024-03-20 - - PDF - Removing cars from urban areas means lower carbon emissions, less air pollution, and fewer road traffic accidents. So why are residents so resistant?
Introducing Devin, the first AI software engineer - 2024-03-19 - - PDF
Look ma, I wrote a new JIT compiler for PostgreSQL – Pinaraf's website - 2024-03-19 - - PDF
Dead air on the incident call – Dan Slimmon - 2024-03-19 - - PDF - Silence can mean different things to different people in different situations. In this post, I’ll present a few incident scenarios and explore the role of the incident commander in breaking (…
Sensible Firefox Setup | 𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚗 - 2024-03-19 - - PDF - I really wanted to do that Firefox guide earlier but always other things came up as usual. But that also has some upsides. Yes – I used the Firefox logo from 2009 (some reported it is from 20…
aider is AI pair programming in your terminal | aider - 2024-03-17 - - PDF - A command-line chat tool for coding with GPT
Everest 2024: Nepal’s “GPS Chip” Plan has Major Problems | The Blog on alanarnette.com - 2024-03-15 - - PDF
Estimate your age of death - 2024-03-15 - - PDF - Use public life tables to understand life expectancy for people your age in your country.
How we replaced Vagrant with devenv | Website of Andreas Zweili - 2024-03-11 - - PDF - This is the website of Andreas Zweili. Containing some of my notes and observations.
Store and Execute Formulas in Database Fields - 2024-03-11 - - PDF - Harness the potential of Storing and Executing Formulas in Database Fields for Expanded Analytical Power.
DNS over Wikipedia – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US) - 2024-03-11 - PDF - Download DNS over Wikipedia for Firefox. Resolve .idk domains using the URL provided by the Wikipedia page for a given topic
nixos-bsd/nixbsd: An unofficial NixOS fork with a FreeBSD kernel - 2024-03-10 - - PDF - An unofficial NixOS fork with a FreeBSD kernel. Contribute to nixos-bsd/nixbsd development by creating an account on GitHub.
The GPT-4 barrier has finally been broken - 2024-03-09 - - PDF - Four weeks ago, GPT-4 remained the undisputed champion: consistently at the top of every key benchmark, but more importantly the clear winner in terms of “vibes”. Almost everyone investing serious …
Run NixOS Integration Tests on macOS - 2024-03-09 - - PDF - Big news:You can now run NixOS integration tests on macOS without any changes to thetest!This article helps you set up your Mac and get going.
NixOS & Flakes Book | Home Page - 2024-03-08 - - PDF - An unofficial and opinionated book for beginners
Using Nix with Dockerfiles – Mitchell Hashimoto - 2024-03-08 - - PDF
Leadership Is A Hell Of A Drug — Ludicity - 2024-03-07 - - PDF
Well-Known URIs - 2024-03-07 - - PDF
How I use git worktrees - llimllib notes - 2024-03-06 - - PDF
Detecting Residential Proxy Networks - 2024-03-06 - - PDF - Uncovering the hidden networks powering nefarious activity on the internet.
A homelab dashboard for NixOS · Jon Seager - 2024-03-06 - - PDF - The homepage-dashboard NixOS service previously enabled the deployment of the wonderful homepage dashboard, but its configuration was not handled natively in Nix by the module. This post shows how I added support for native configuration, and how you can migrate.
BASH with Debugger and Improved Debug Support and Error Handling - 2024-03-02 - PDF
bash debugging - 2024-03-02 - - PDF
He Who Controls the Bootloader - 2024-03-02 - - PDF

February 2024

How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its Targets—and Vladimir Putin | WIRED - 2024-02-29 - - PDF - Meet the guy who taught US intelligence agencies how to make the most of the ad tech ecosystem, "the largest information-gathering enterprise ever conceived by man."
The Unexpected $30,000 Benefit of the Pandemic: Haircuts – Dan Quach Blog - 2024-02-29 - - PDF
World Athletics long jump plans will not solve the problem. Here is a better idea | Athletics | The Guardian - 2024-02-27 - PDF - A take-off zone, called an ‘April Fool’s joke’ by Carl Lewis, is a bad idea. But we need jeopardy. Why not make it a knockout?
RFC 9512 - YAML Media Type - 2024-02-25 - - PDF - This document registers the application/yaml media type and the +yaml structured syntax suffix with IANA. Both identify document components that are serialized according to the YAML specification.
The Earth is getting greener. Literally. - Vox - 2024-02-25 - - PDF - Humans are literally changing the color of the planet. Scientists are worried.
Len Sassaman and Satoshi: a Cypherpunk history | Medium - 2024-02-23 - - PDF - We’ve lost far too many hackers to suicide. What if Satoshi was one of them?
Multi-modal prompt injection image attacks against GPT-4V - 2024-02-22 - - PDF - GPT4-V is the new mode of GPT-4 that allows you to upload images as part of your conversations. It’s absolutely brilliant. It also provides a whole new set of vectors …
Things Unexpectedly Named After People · Notes - 2024-02-22 - - PDF
The New Terminal (Beta) Is Now in JetBrains IDEs | The IntelliJ IDEA Blog - 2024-02-22 - - PDF - The new terminal (Beta) is now in JetBrains IDEs and will be available in the new UI starting from the 2024.1 version of the IDEs.
React Labs: What We've Been Working On – March 2023 – React - 2024-02-22 - - PDF - The library for web and native user interfaces
readysettech/readyset: Readyset is a MySQL and Postgres wire-compatible caching layer that sits in front of existing databases to speed up queries and horizontally scale read throughput. Under the hood, ReadySet caches the results of cached select statements and incrementally updates these results over time as the underlying data changes. - 2024-02-21 - - PDF - Readyset is a MySQL and Postgres wire-compatible caching layer that sits in front of existing databases to speed up queries and horizontally scale read throughput. Under the hood, ReadySet caches t...
Cachix Blog | Downtime due to sign up spam - 2024-02-20 - - PDF
htmz - a low power tool for html - 2024-02-20 - - PDF
Show HN: Linen.team – A lightweight, thread-first Slack alternative | Hacker News - 2024-02-14 - PDF
Sam Altman Wants $7 Trillion - by Scott Alexander - 2024-02-14 - - PDF - Machine Alignment Monday 2/12/24
Switching from S3 to Tigris on Fly.io - 2024-02-13 - - PDF - How I switched my side project from using Amazon S3 for file hosting to using Tigris (which is built on Fly.io infrastructure). It was a good experience overall, but there were a few quirks.
A Woman Who Can Smell Parkinson's Is Inspiring New Research Into Diagnosis : Shots - Health News : NPR - 2024-02-13 - - PDF - Years before he got diagnosed with Parkinson's, Joy Milne noticed her husband's characteristic scent had changed. The discovery that she could smell his illness has opened up a new field of research.
Tsunami Patong Beach, Phuket Thailand: observations by Mark Oberle - 2024-02-13 - PDF
Iran-backed hackers interrupt UAE TV streaming services with deepfake news | Hacking | The Guardian - 2024-02-09 - - PDF - Microsoft analysts cite reports saying disruption by group known as Cotton Sandstorm also reached audiences in UK and Canada
Trellis | Trellis is where sustainability happens - 2024-02-09 - PDF - Trellis is a data and collaboration hub which speeds up your sustainability journey by bringing the right people and the right information together.
A Portable Nix-shell Shebang · Patrick Jackson - 2024-02-07 - PDF - Updated November 8, 2023 All of my personal scripts with more than a few dependencies start with the Nix-shell shebang: #!/usr/bin/env nix-shell. Regardless of what language they are written in. That only works if nix is installed, so it is difficult to share with others who may not use nix. If I want the script to be shared with other people, I instead use something like this: #!/usr/bin/env bash if [ -z "$INSIDE_NIX_RANDOMSTRING" ] && command -v nix-shell &> /dev/null; then # Install dependencies with nix INSIDE_NIX_RANDOMSTRING=1 nix-shell \ -I nixpkgs=https://github.
Hidden DNA found in blue whales reveals they've been mating with other species — and their hybrid offspring | Live Science - 2024-02-06 - PDF - Newly sequenced genomes of blue whales in the Atlantic Ocean contain "unexpectedly high" levels of fin whale DNA, hinting that the two species have been interbreeding much more than previously realized.
OKRs are Bullshit - by drmorr - 2024-02-06 - - PDF - It's a new year, time for a new rant! And yes, before you ask, the post title is deliberately provocative. You might say this is my ploy to get more paid subscribers, because only paid subscribers can leave comments and I expect that the title alone will make many of you want to comment. 😝
Making a PDF that’s larger than Germany – alexwlchan - 2024-02-01 - - PDF - We’re gonna need a bigger printer.

January 2024

bjesus/wren: The simplest task management system with the most advanced features - 2024-01-30 - - PDF - The simplest task management system with the most advanced features - bjesus/wren: The simplest task management system with the most advanced features
Don’t Shave That Yak! | Seth's Blog - 2024-01-28 - - PDF - The single best term I’ve learned this year. I want to give you the non-technical definition, and as is my wont, broaden it a bit. Yak Shaving is the last step of a series of steps that occur…
The Ur Programming Language Family - 2024-01-28 - - PDF
Does the birth of a cloned monkey mean we could now clone people? | New Scientist - 2024-01-26 - PDF - A healthy rhesus monkey has been born after being cloned from fetal cells, but creating a clone of an adult human being would be much harder
The MAF-GPS Test - Dr. Phil Maffetone - 2024-01-22 - PDF
Should I Open Source my Company? - 2024-01-22 - - PDF - The unexpected upsides of building in public
What's that touchscreen in my room? | Nikita Lapkov - 2024-01-20 - - PDF - Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. Roughly a year ago I moved into my new apartment. One of the reasons I picked this apartment was age of the building. The construction was finished in 2015, which ensured pretty good thermal isolation for winters as well as small nice things like Ethernet ports in each room. However, there was one part of my apartment that was too new and too smart for me.
kffl/speedbump: TCP proxy for simulating variable, yet predictable network latency :globe_with_meridians::hourglass_flowing_sand: - 2024-01-16 - - PDF - TCP proxy for simulating variable, yet predictable network latency :globe_with_meridians::hourglass_flowing_sand: - kffl/speedbump: TCP proxy for simulating variable, yet predictable network latenc...
High-speed 10Gbps full-mesh network based on USB4 for just $47.98 – Fang-Pen's coding note - 2024-01-15 - - PDF - Fang-Pen Lin's blog about programming
Flo Control 1 - 2024-01-13 - PDF
The Two Reacts — overreacted - 2024-01-11 - - PDF - UI = f(data)(state)
Could electronic mail undermine conventional post? – archive, 1983 | Email | The Guardian - 2024-01-10 - - PDF - 1 December 1983: Electronic mail tends to be informal in style encouraging people to send brazen messages but even if you are abroad, work can follow you wherever you are
Why stdout is faster than stderr? - Orhun's Blog - 2024-01-10 - - PDF - FOSS • Linux • Programming
Microlife - Wikipedia - 2024-01-09 - - PDF
Micromort - Wikipedia - 2024-01-09 - - PDF
Simple lasts longer: making a map stateful using scotch tape and Web Storage API - 2024-01-09 - - PDF - 🗺️ Too many invaders to keep track of; I really don't want to run another database; Web Storage to the rescue
time.fyi - all the time related tools in one place - 2024-01-06 - - PDF - time.fyi provides all the time related tools in one place.
Could Children Communicate if No One Taught Them a Language? - 2024-01-06 - PDF - What would language be like if it was totally up to kids?
An app can be a home-cooked meal - 2024-01-06 - - PDF - I made a messaging app for my family and my family only.
HackerNews: With Privacy!* - 2024-01-06 - PDF
Doctors want more realistic TV scripts about dying : Shots - Health News : NPR - 2024-01-05 - PDF - Clinicians who work with people at the end of life say the most common television depictions of death aren't representative of what happens in the real world. They want to flip the script.
The computer with a dedicated pizza key on its keyboard #Keyboards #VintageComputing @lazygamereviews « Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers! - 2024-01-05 - PDF - Vintage PC YouTubeer Lazy Game Reviews/LGR recently posted about the iopener “network appliance” from 1999. It likely is the only computing device to come from the factory with a dedica…
$450 for a School Bag?! - 2024-01-05 - - PDF - Every year, around March, a curious social custom occurs in Japanese families. Parents of kids entering elementary school visit the grandparents and gingerly tread the topic of buying the kids a very expensive item: a randoseru. And gingerly they must tread. The randoseru, a Japanese school bag, costs a whopping
Minimum Wage Clock · Luna’s Blog - 2024-01-05 - - PDF
Chris's Wiki :: blog/sysadmin/TenYearsNotLongEnough - 2024-01-04 - - PDF
Playback | Last.fm - 2024-01-02 - PDF - Listen to music from jamesmstone711’s library (186,228 tracks played). Get your own music profile at Last.fm, the world’s largest social music platform.
jamesmstone711’s year in music | Last.fm - 2024-01-02 - PDF - Check out jamesmstone711
NHS faces huge damages bill after millennium bug error | UK news | The Guardian - 2024-01-02 - PDF - The health service is facing big compensation claims after admitting yesterday that failure to spot a millennium bug computer error led to incorrect Down's syndrome test results being sent to 154 pregnant women.
Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus convicted in Bangladesh labour law case - ABC News - 2024-01-02 - PDF - A court in Bangladesh has sentenced Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus to six months in prison for labour law violations for what he says is a crime he did not commit.

December 2023

Amazon's Silent Sacking - Justin Garrison - 2023-12-30 - - PDF - Companies are fighting back for quiet quitting and it's having a big impact.
Malware abuses Google OAuth endpoint to ‘revive’ cookies, hijack accounts - 2023-12-30 - - PDF - Multiple information-stealing malware families are abusing an undocumented Google OAuth endpoint named "MultiLogin" to restore expired authentication cookies and log into users' accounts, even if an account's password was reset.
Query Engines: Push vs. Pull - 2023-12-26 - - PDF
Sandbox for AI Apps & Agents - 2023-12-21 - - PDF - Secure sandboxed cloud environments made for AI agents and AI apps
e2b-cookbook/guides/ai-github-developer-py at main · e2b-dev/e2b-cookbook - 2023-12-21 - - PDF - Examples and guides for using the E2B API. Contribute to e2b-dev/e2b-cookbook development by creating an account on GitHub.
COP28 a “tragedy for the planet” as Stockholm Syndrome took hold | RenewEconomy - 2023-12-19 - PDF - Up to 100,000 people — most of whom derive their professional status and income from climate-related politics, advocacy and business — flew into Dubai for COP28. The result was an unmitigated disas…
How we clone a running VM in 2 seconds - 2023-12-17 - - PDF - Or... how to clone a running Minecraft server
The UX of delivering parcels - 2023-12-15 - - PDF - I shipped identical boxes, less than a mile, with multiple delivery companies — one was seized by the police. This is the UX of delivering parcels.
Make your terminal snow - 2023-12-15 - PDF - Make your terminal snow. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
PostgREST 12 - 2023-12-14 - PDF - PostgREST 12 is out and we take a look at some of the major new features like JWT Caching and Aggregate Functions
Cop28 squibs on fossil fuel phase out, but calls for quick transition | RenewEconomy - 2023-12-13 - PDF - Latest COP28 text squibs on phase out of fossil fuels, mentioning only “unabated” coal but falling short on gas and oil as the petrol-states hold court.
pg_graphql: Postgres functions now supported - 2023-12-12 - - PDF - pg_graphql now supports the most requested feature: Postgres functions a.k.a. User Defined Functions (UDFs)
Edge Functions: Node and native npm compatibility - 2023-12-12 - - PDF - We're adding Node and native npm compatibility for Edge Functions.
Draft COP28 text omits phase-out of fossil fuels angering some Pacific leaders - ABC News - 2023-12-11 - PDF - Leaders from countries in favour of a fossil fuel phase-out, including Australia’s Pacific neighbours, were left stunned when the draft text for COP28 omitted any mention of fossil fuels.
Simplifying Complexity: The Journey from WebSockets to HTTP Streams - Unladen swallow - Olivier Wulveryck - 2023-12-11 - - PDF - This article explores the transition from a WebSocket-based implementation to a simpler, more direct stream over HTTP in the context of capturing touch screen inputs on Linux. It begins by introducing the main theme, encapsulated in the statement Everything is a file is a stream of byte. The need to capture finger positions on a touchscreen by reading /dev/input/events in Linux is initially discussed, followed by a dilemma of transferring this data to a JavaScript client in a browser. Initially, WebSockets are chosen, leading to a discussion on how frameworks often shape our technological choices and the challenges faced in debugging WebSocket connections. The article then introduces an alternative about sending a stream of bytes over HTTP, drawing a parallel to Linux’s approach to handling devices and files. Serialization, the process of encoding messages for this stream, is discussed next, highlighting the implementation specifics in GoLang and its native advantages. The final section covers how to receive and decode this stream in JavaScript within a worker thread, and then send the decoded messages to the main thread using post requests. The article concludes by reflecting on the benefits of simplicity in technology, urging readers to reevaluate default choices and consider more straightforward solutions to complex problems.
tcgoetz/GarminDB: Download and parse data from Garmin Connect or a Garmin watch, FitBit CSV, and MS Health CSV files into and analyze data in Sqlite serverless databases with Jupyter notebooks. - 2023-12-11 - PDF - Download and parse data from Garmin Connect or a Garmin watch, FitBit CSV, and MS Health CSV files into and analyze data in Sqlite serverless databases with Jupyter notebooks. - tcgoetz/GarminDB: D...
Dynamic music and sound techniques for video games ⌘I Get Info - 2023-12-10 - - PDF - The only aspect of game development I’ve not attempted myself is the music. I mostly use royalty free music of Japanese origin (just because I dig their vibe...
PAGNIs: Probably Are Gonna Need Its - 2023-12-08 - - PDF - Luke Page has a great post up with his list of YAGNI exceptions. YAGNI—You Ain’t Gonna Need It—is a rule that says you shouldn’t add a feature just because it …
95%-ile isn't that good - 2023-12-07 - - PDF
The Internet Enabled Mass Surveillance. AI Will Enable Mass Spying. - Schneier on Security - 2023-12-05 - - PDF
llamafile is the new best way to run a LLM on your own computer - 2023-12-03 - - PDF - Mozilla’s innovation group and Justine Tunney just released llamafile, and I think it’s now the single best way to get started running Large Language Models (think your own local copy …
James Hansen sets new parkrun Australia record | parkrun AU Blog - 2023-12-03 - PDF - A mishap with booking flights turned into parkrun glory for Launceston parkrunner James Hansen, who broke the parkrun Australia record today in a time of 13:53. James was supposed to be at the National Cross Country Championships in Adelaide this weekend but messed up his flight booking and couldn’t get there. With plenty...
WikiReader - Wikipedia - 2023-12-03 - PDF
You don't need JavaScript for that - HTMHell - 2023-12-02 - - PDF - A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.
Should you split that file? | Path-Sensitive - 2023-12-01 - PDF - You’re a line programmer for EvilCorp, and it’s just an average day working on some code to collapse the economy. Then you realize you n...
Chris Ball » Announcing GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub - 2023-12-01 - - PDF

November 2023

Do we really need Eraring when we’ll have 5,500MW of batteries by 2026? - WattClarity - 2023-11-30 - PDF - Tristan Edis from Green Energy Trading discusses whether a surge in renewable energy projects and battery capacity would be sufficient to fill any reliability gap before (and after) Eraring's scheduled closure.
Learnings from fine-tuning LLM on my Telegram messages - 2023-11-28 - - PDF
Pollution from coal power contributes to far more deaths than scientists realised, study shows | RenewEconomy - 2023-11-27 - PDF - New study finds air pollutants from coal power plants were associated with nearly half a million premature deaths of elderly Americans from 1999 to 2020.
Wing Programming Language for the Cloud - 2023-11-26 - - PDF - Wing is a cloud-oriented programming language. Most programming languages think about computers as individual machines. In Wing, the cloud is the computer.
CORE · GitLab - 2023-11-24 - PDF - CORE Markets https://app.coremarkets.co
tanner/qotnews - qotnews - Gitea: Git with a cup of tea - 2023-11-22 - PDF - qotnews
How large pull requests slow down development - 2023-11-22 - - PDF - One of the fundamental challenges in software engineering is managing and minimizing complexity. This challenge is not just a theoretical concern; it has real and tangible impacts on the pace of development.
ayushpai/Sports-Buddy: Conversational AI with GPT-4 Vision, OpenAI Whisper, and TTS - 2023-11-22 - PDF - Conversational AI with GPT-4 Vision, OpenAI Whisper, and TTS - ayushpai/Sports-Buddy: Conversational AI with GPT-4 Vision, OpenAI Whisper, and TTS
Windows is now an app for iPhones, iPads, Macs, and PCs - The Verge - 2023-11-21 - - PDF - The Windows App could pave the way for consumer cloud PCs
A space station fell to Earth. A boy brought it to San Francisco - 2023-11-20 - - PDF - In 1979 NASA’s abandoned space station, Skylab, was about to fall back down to the Earth, and no one knew where it might land.
Sleep Procrastination: Why People Procrastinate on Going to Sleep and How to Stop – Solving Procrastination - 2023-11-20 - PDF
We'll See - A Chinese Proverb | IMPOSSIBLE - 2023-11-19 - - PDF - Once upon a time, there was an old farmer who had worked his crops for many years. One day his horse ran away. Upon hearing the news, his neighbors came to visit. "Such bad luck," they said sympathetically, "you must be so sad." "We'll see," the farmer replied. The next…
North Korea was floundering under sanctions. Now it's making billions from stolen cryptocurrency - ABC News - 2023-11-18 - - PDF - Last year, stealing cryptocurrency became North Korea's primary form of foreign currency income.
Norway's Privacy Battle With Meta Is Just Getting Started | WIRED - 2023-11-17 - PDF - The Norwegian data regulator has already fined Meta $7 million. Now it says it’s investigating the company’s new ad-free subscription services.
Signal >> Blog >> Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive - 2023-11-17 - - PDF - Signal is the world’s most widely used truly private messaging app, and our cryptographic technologies provide extra layers of privacy beyond the Signal app itself. Since launching in 2013, the Signal Protocol—our end-to-end encryption technology—has become the de facto standard for private commu...
My story of storing chat logs | Gempir - 2023-11-16 - PDF
Exploring GPTs: ChatGPT in a trench coat? - 2023-11-16 - PDF - The biggest announcement from last week’s OpenAI DevDay (and there were a LOT of announcements) was GPTs. Users of ChatGPT Plus can now create their own, custom GPT chat bots …
Building an occupancy sensor with a $5 ESP32 and a serverless DB - 2023-11-14 - - PDF - How I built an occupancy sensor with an ESP32C3, Cloudflare Workers/D1, and Grafana
Monaspace - 2023-11-10 - - PDF - An innovative superfamily of fonts for code
Lazy Backup (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought) - 2023-11-08 - PDF
'I’m calling from Israeli intelligence. We have the order to bomb. You have two hours' - BBC News - 2023-11-08 - - PDF - An extraordinary warning call to a Palestinian dentist starts the panicked evacuation of a Gazan neighbourhood.
What I learned from analysing 1.65M versions of Node.js modules in NPM | by Karl Düüna | Security and Node.js - 2023-11-08 - - PDF - NPM and open source modules are one of Node.js’ greatest strengths — and also one of it’s greatest weaknesses. took it upon myself to…
Parenting’s New Frontier: What Happens When Your 11-Year-Old Says No to a Smartphone? | Vogue - 2023-11-06 - - PDF
How to Do a TypeScript Conversion — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho - 2023-11-05 - - PDF - Addressing a very common question: do-it-as-you-go or follow the dependency graph?
How Bear does analytics with CSS | ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's blog - 2023-11-01 - PDF - Bear Blog has a few design constraints for speed, efficiency, and stability. There are many great open-source, privacy-focussed analytics platforms out there...

October 2023

Making Music with Google Sheets and Web MIDI API | Asep Bagja - 2023-10-29 - - PDF - With the help of Web MIDI API, we can use Google Sheets as a music sequencer.
Approaching unconventional problems | Manas.Tech - 2023-10-26 - - PDF - Or "How to find a lost phone in a no-cell-coverage camping site?"
Automattic acquires Texts, a universal messaging app - The Verge - 2023-10-24 - - PDF - A less chaotic chat app is coming to a device near you.
Two Kinds of Code Review - 2023-10-24 - - PDF - I've read a book about management and it helped me to solve a long-standing personal conundrum about the code review process. The book is High Output Management. Naturally, I recommend it (and read this review as well: https://apenwarr.ca/log/20190926).
Fresh water is scarce in the Marshall Islands so rain must be collected in creative ways - ABC News - 2023-10-24 - PDF - The Marshall Islands are surrounded by seawater, but fresh water is in short supply. As the Pacific nation stares down the barrel of climate change, people are working to help mitigate what's to come.
Gagged and grief-stricken, but not without hope - ABC News - 2023-10-24 - - PDF - The beauty and wonder of the natural world is what keeps scientists like Dana Bergstrom fighting to protect it. She's one of many who say speaking out comes at a cost but not speaking up can take an even greater personal toll.
nearform/temporal_tables: Postgresql temporal_tables extension in PL/pgSQL, without the need for external c extension. - 2023-10-21 - PDF - Postgresql temporal_tables extension in PL/pgSQL, without the need for external c extension. - nearform/temporal_tables: Postgresql temporal_tables extension in PL/pgSQL, without the need for exter...
24 hours in an invisible epidemic - 2023-10-21 - - PDF - Watch 24 hours of an American day, and the invisible crisis hiding in plain sight
Stocketa — PaulStamatiou.com - 2023-10-17 - - PDF - A dive into the app I designed, built and never launched. Stocketa was a personal project developed to serve as a simple stock portfolio tracker for casual investors. ...
Engineering Team Lessons from Cycling - 2023-10-17 - - PDF - Cycling provides interesting example for software development. Like software development it's possible to race individually or in teams. A group that's an effective team will outperform the same group acting as individuals every time.
Postgres: the next generation. Investing in the next generation of committers. – James Governor's Monkchips - 2023-10-13 - - PDF - PostgreSQL isn’t getting any younger. Which is fine – after all, databases generally improve with age. The platform is going from strength, and is a default choice for a big chunk of modern software development. But Postgres has been around for a while – it launched in 1986 – which has an implication for the
Life on the beaches of Tel Aviv and Gaza City – in pictures | Photography | The Guardian - 2023-10-11 - PDF - The beaches in Tel Aviv and Gaza City, just 70km (40 miles) apart, are different worlds on opposite sides of a century-old conflict, but on long summer days Israelis and Palestinians enjoy some of the same delights.
How I made a heap overflow in curl | daniel.haxx.se - 2023-10-11 - - PDF
Introducing the Tailscale Universal Docker Mod - 2023-10-09 - - PDF - We created a universal Docker mod for Tailscale, which lets you slap Tailscale on the side of existing Docker containers from linuxserver.io. In this article, Xe explains how you can use this and why it's funny.
"Feel" bracelet makes you happy when you are feeling stressed - Gadgets & Wearables - 2023-10-07 - PDF - Feel bracelet: Sentio Solutions, a new wearables company out of Los Angeles, showed off a new kind of wearable tracker at CES 2016 in Las Vegas. Feel is the first wristban
Serving Dynamic Vector Tiles from PostGIS - 2023-10-06 - PDF - Guide to building up a tile server and map client from scratch with PostGIS and PostgreSQL.
Climate scientist faces sack for refusing to fly to Germany from Solomon Islands archipelago | Greenhouse gas emissions | The Guardian - 2023-10-04 - - PDF - Dr Gianluca Grimalda told by Kiel Institute for World Economy he must be at his desk on Monday after finishing fieldwork
Explore the In Our Time archive | Braggoscope - 2023-10-04 - PDF - Explore the In Our Time archive.
I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information. Is this the future? - 2023-10-03 - - PDF - What will happen when our phones record everything we say 24x7 using AI to process that information?, before someone else does, I tried to do it myself, and this is the result. First of all some clarifications. It’s not really 24x7 because I didn’t find it useful to leave it
The 10 funniest Danish expressions and how to use them - 2023-10-02 - PDF - From windy pelicans to wet bottoms: our columnist gets to grips with her new neighbours and their strange sayings
The Curse of Dialup World - Allen Pike - 2023-10-02 - - PDF - An acquisition gets weird.
Amsterdam preparing to lower speed limit to 30 kilometers per hour | NL Times - 2023-10-02 - - PDF - Amsterdam is preparing to lower its speed limits to 30 kilometers per hour. The measure will only take effect on December 8, but from Monday, the city will install almost 5,000 new speed signs, adjust 170 traffic lights, and take other “infrastructural measures,” the municipality said. It is also launching a campaign with the slogan: “We drive 30 for each other.”
Never say “no,” but rarely say “yes.” - 2023-10-01 - - PDF - "Focus" requires saying "no" to most things, but there's a way to do it that allows you to say "yes" exactly when it matters most.

September 2023

Server Thief Bait - catch them red handed! - 2023-09-30 - - PDF - Get a baited crypto wallet so you know if someones broken into your computer or server.
New York City flooding: Record rain generated 'life-threatening' flooding | CNN - 2023-09-30 - PDF - Record-setting rain overwhelmed New York City’s sewer system Friday, sending a surge of floodwater coursing through streets and into basements, schools, subways and vehicles throughout the nation’s most populous city.
Meta in Myanmar, Part I: The Setup - Erin Kissane's small internet website - 2023-09-30 - - PDF - “Technology is like a bomb in Myanmar.” —Kyaw Kyaw, frontman of Burmese punk band Rebel Riot 1 Back in early July, I started working on a quick
Introducing Enhance Music — Begin Blog - 2023-09-30 - - PDF - Today, the Enhance team is excited to introduce our latest demo app: Enhance Music — a music library and audio player app built with HTML and CSS, and progressively enhanced with a couple pinches of JavaScript. Despite being built as a traditional multipage website, Enhance Music features an audio player that persists across page loads, and some gorgeous interactive UI built entirely with web standards.
Wifi without internet on a Southwest flight - james vaughan - 2023-09-29 - - PDF - I spent a recent flight finding out what I could do with a connection to the flight’s wifi, but without access to the internet. I was on my way home from Strange Loop, a direct flight from St. Louis to Oakland. It’s a long enough flight that I planned to purchase the $8 internet access and get some work done, but Southwest’s wifi portal wouldn’t accept any form of payment. The web page didn’t give me any helpful error messages, so I opened up my browser’s network dev tools to see if I could figure out what was going wrong.
The X220 ThinkPad is the Best Laptop in the World - 2023-09-27 - - PDF
Daniel Andrews resigns as premier of Victoria after three elections, nine years - ABC News - 2023-09-26 - PDF - The Victorian Premier will formally step down from the role at 5pm on Wednesday after announcing his resignation.
Small Focused Modules — Sindre Sorhus - 2023-09-25 - - PDF - Make small focused modules for reusability and to make it possible to build larger more advanced things that are easier to reason about.
Ship Of Fools | Successful Software - 2023-09-21 - - PDF - I recently had a 3 week holiday in Florida with my family. My 17 year old son is interested in rocketry and my wife is interested in wildlife. We got to see plenty of both and had a great time. The…
Your Cache Headers Could Probably be More Aggressive | Alex MacArthur - 2023-09-21 - - PDF - It's common for modern hosts to cache static assets in a flexible, but not most optimal way. Let's explore why that is and what we can do to push cache performance (for some assets) even further.
Grouping digits in SQL | Peter Eisentraut - 2023-09-21 - - PDF - PostgreSQL 16 was released last week. This is the story of a feature.
Vonng/pigsty: PostgreSQL in Great STYle, Battery-Included Free RDS Alternative! - 2023-09-20 - PDF
Discussing PostgreSQL: What changes in version 16, how we got here, and what to expect in future releases - 2023-09-20 - - PDF - Amit Kapila lists the new features introduced in PostgreSQL 16, and shares his views on what is in store for PostgreSQL 17 and beyond.
Why do some countries drive on the left and others on the right? - 2023-09-19 - PDF - About 35 per cent of the world's countries drive on the left. This strange quirk perplexes the rest of the world; but there is a perfectly good reason.
Kunstner, der stak museumspenge i egen lomme, dømt til at betale knap en halv million tilbage | Kultur | DR - 2023-09-19 - PDF - Jens Haaning, der lavede værket ’Take the Money and Run’ skal betale 492.549 kroner til museum.
North Korea spent the pandemic building a huge border wall - 2023-09-19 - - PDF - Kim Jong Un upgraded security on the Chinese and Russian frontiers, blocking routes for smugglers and defectors
How slums in Delhi were flattened before the G20 summit - 2023-09-19 - - PDF - Scores of people in India's capital have seen their homes demolished over the last few months
How concrete, asphalt and urban heat islands add to the misery of heat waves - 2023-09-19 - - PDF - How concrete, asphalt and urban heat islands add to the misery of heat waves
Today I learned this weird Windows keyboard shortcut opens LinkedIn - The Verge - 2023-09-16 - - PDF - Microsoft’s Office key is available to all Windows users.
A Different Type of SQL Recursion with PostgreSQL · vb-consulting/blog · Discussion #1 · GitHub - 2023-09-16 - - PDF - A Different Type of SQL Recursion with PostgreSQL PostgreSQL offers a powerful procedural programming model out of the box (in addition to the standard SQL). You can combine that with the standard ...
Sharding & IDs at Instagram. With more than 25 photos and 90 likes… | by Instagram Engineering | Instagram Engineering - 2023-09-16 - - PDF - With more than 25 photos and 90 likes every second, we store a lot of data here at Instagram. To make sure all of our important data fits…
GitHub - 47ng/next-usequerystate: useQueryState hook for Next.js - Like React.useState, but stored in the URL query string. - 2023-09-16 - PDF - useQueryState hook for Next.js - Like React.useState, but stored in the URL query string. - GitHub - 47ng/next-usequerystate: useQueryState hook for Next.js - Like React.useState, but stored in the...
Fine-tuning GPT3.5-turbo based on 140k slack messages · Ross Lazerowitz - 2023-09-10 - - PDF - Using GPT to emulate my writing style
Are Any Words the Same in All Languages? - 2023-09-08 - - PDF - There are 2 words that all languages seem to share—and you wouldn't want to live without them!
Are Any Words the Same in All Languages? - 2023-09-08 - - PDF - There are 2 words that all languages seem to share—and you wouldn't want to live without them!
Coincidentally-identical waypoint names foxed UK air traffic control system | News | Flight Global - 2023-09-08 - - PDF - Preliminary investigation into the serious UK air traffic control failure on 28 August has traced the root cause to a processing conflict triggered by a single flightplan featuring two separate waypoints which - although geographically distant - had identical designators. UK air navigation service NATS has not disclosed details of ...
rehub-anz - tradsasiasoftware - 3 new items - Slack - 2023-09-07 - PDF
What OpenAI Really Wants | WIRED - 2023-09-06 - - PDF - The young company sent shock waves around the world when it released ChatGPT. But that was just the start. The ultimate goal: Change everything. Yes. Everything.
VanJS - A 0.9kB No-JSX Framework Based on Vanilla JavaScript - 2023-09-05 - - PDF
Neil Fraser: News: Blockly Rising - 2023-09-04 - - PDF
Neil Fraser: News: Background Radiation - 2023-09-04 - PDF
FPS: 60 - 2023-09-04 - - PDF
Neil Fraser: News: Backwards Debugging - 2023-09-04 - PDF
Introducing shaq, a CLI for Shazam - 2023-09-03 - - PDF
Google Maps Testing New Apple Maps-Inspired Map Style - 2023-09-01 - - PDF

August 2023

Fine-tuning GPT-3.5-Turbo for Natural Language to SQL | by Mo Pourreza | Dataherald | Aug, 2023 | Medium - 2023-08-31 - - PDF - Photo by Mariia Shalabaieva on Unsplash
Rocker Jack White - Serious Jibber-Jabber with Conan O'Brien | Team Coco - YouTube - 2023-08-31 - PDF - Grammy-winning musician and producer Jack White joins Conan for a special episode of Serious Jibber-Jabber -- shot entirely on 35mm film. More Serious Jibber...
Sleeping at Night @ marginalia.nu - 2023-08-31 - - PDF - I’ve started going on a long walk each morning immediately as I wake up, and it’s had the unexpected side-effect of fixing my broken circadian rhythm. For decades, as long as I can remember, I’ve been what you might consider a serious night owl. Regardless of how long I slept or when I woke up, I would get nothing requiring any sort of thought done until sometime after lunch, and it wasn’t really until late at night that my brain really kicked into gear.
Absurd Success @ marginalia.nu - 2023-08-31 - - PDF - So… I’ve had the most unreal week of coding. Zero exaggeration, I’ve halved the RAM requirements of the search engine, removed the need to take the system offline during an upgrade, removed hard limits on how many documents can be indexed, and quadrupled soft limits on how many keywords can be in the corpus. It’s been a long term goal to keep it possible to run and operate the system on low-powered hardware, and so far improvements have been made, to the point where my 32 Gb RAM developer machine feels spacey rather than cramped, but this set of changes takes it several notches further.
Reaching the Unix Philosophy's Logical Extreme with Webassembly - Xe Iaso - 2023-08-30 - - PDF - Reaching the Unix Philosophy's Logical Extreme with Webassembly - Xe's Blog
mjg59 | Unix sockets, Cygwin, SSH agents, and sadness - 2023-08-30 - - PDF
print(“lol”) doubled the speed of my Go function | by Ludi Rehak | Aug, 2023 | Medium - 2023-08-24 - - PDF - Here is a Go function, if_max(). It finds the max value of an array of integers. Simple enough:
The banteng paradox - ABC listen - 2023-08-23 - PDF - Banteng are an introduced species in Arnhem Land, but in their home range, they are in danger of complete extinction. So, what to do?
Introducing Python in Excel: The Best of Both Worlds for Data Analysis and Visualization - Microsoft Community Hub - 2023-08-23 - - PDF - Today, we are excited to introduce the Public Preview of Python in Excel – making it possible to integrate Python and Excel analytics within the..
Folklore.org: Stolen From Apple - 2023-08-22 - - PDF
I Walked Across Luxembourg - The Blog of Matt - 2023-08-22 - - PDF - A hike from the west to the east of the Grand Duchy
Stan Grant leaves ABC for position with Monash University - ABC News - 2023-08-22 - PDF - The ABC has announced that the veteran journalist will be taking up a new position with Monash University to lead a conversation "about how media can foster a more constructive and kinder discourse".
Significant electrical fault causes power outage at Flinders Medical Centre - ABC News - 2023-08-22 - PDF - An electrical fault has caused a power outage at one of Adelaide's major hospitals with health authorities urging the community to find other care options if possible.
I Come Here Not to Bury Delphi, But to Praise It - 2023-08-21 - - PDF - What helps a programming language gain traction? Patrick Martin remembers why he used to use Delphi.
How much suffering is too much? « The Story's Story - 2023-08-19 - - PDF - This is by my wife, Bess. For the second time in a two weeks, Jake tells me he’s ready to die. The first time he says it, he’s frustrated: red-faced and retching, trying to hack out a thick glob of…
Breaking the rules: I threw away 10 months of work after 2 months on the job. - 2023-08-19 - - PDF - When I took over the team, they were in month 8 of a 3-month project to relaunch the company's ecommerce website. After 2 months leading the team, I decided to scrap it and start over. This is the story of how and why, and whether it all worked out.
Generating interesting inputs for property-based testing | F# for fun and profit - 2023-08-18 - - PDF - And how to classify them
TypeScript is Surprisingly OK for Compilers - 2023-08-18 - - PDF - There are two main historical trends when choosing an implementation language for something compiler-shaped.
Computerworld Cloud Festival 2023 - 2023-08-17 - PDF - Computerworld Cloud Festival 2023 klæder dig som it-professionel på til at vælge den rigtige digitale vej for dig og din organisation.
Five years of GPT progress - 2023-08-16 - - PDF
David Anderson says ABC will abandon the majority of Twitter accounts - ABC News - 2023-08-16 - PDF - The ABC is discontinuing all but four accounts on social media platform X (formerly Twitter) to focus on the accounts that provide the most value
Virtual Blender Camera — ///// - 2023-08-16 - - PDF
Projects — ///// - 2023-08-16 - PDF
MLC | GPU-Accelerated LLM on a $100 Orange Pi - 2023-08-15 - - PDF
How They Bypass YouTube Video Download Throttling | 0x7D0 - 2023-08-14 - - PDF - Have you ever tried to download videos from YouTube? I mean manually without relying on software like youtube-dl, yt-dlp or one of “these” websites. It’s much more complicated than you might think.
Fourteen days across the Atlantic, perched on a ship’s rudder - BBC News - 2023-08-13 - - PDF - Four Nigerian stowaways set out for Europe on a tanker rudder. Two weeks later they were in Brazil.
symbex: search Python code for functions and classes, then pipe them into a LLM - 2023-08-13 - - PDF - I just released a new Python CLI tool called symbex. It’s a search tool, loosely inspired by ripgrep, which lets you search Python code for functions and classes by name …
German Comedy (ENG SUB): Dieter Hallervorden - The cow Elsa - YouTube - 2023-08-12 - PDF - Butler Didi calls to let the landowner know, that one of his cows has died.
too long to tweet - 2023-08-11 - - PDF - It’s 3am. Paul, the head of PayPal database administration carefully enters his elaborate passphrase at a keyboard in a darkened cubicle of 1840 Embarcadero Road in East Palo Alto, for the fifth time....
I Fixed A Bug The Other Day | Thoughts by Javier - 2023-08-11 - - PDF - I fixed a bug that was in production for 2 years with a few lines of code.
Prepare your Firefox desktop extension for the upcoming Android release | Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog - 2023-08-11 - - PDF - In the coming months Mozilla will launch support for an open ecosystem of extensions on Firefox for Android on addons.mozilla.org (AMO). We’ll announce a definite ...
How we tested triple j’s Hottest 100 of Like A Version and left nothing to chance - ABC - 2023-08-11 - PDF - triple j's Hottest 100 is one of the ABC's most treasured institutions, so when Richard King was given the job of testing the voting system for the first ever Hottest 100 of Like a Version, there was a huge responsibility to get it right.
zknill/sqledge: Replicate postgres to SQLite on the edge - 2023-08-10 - - PDF - Replicate postgres to SQLite on the edge. Contribute to zknill/sqledge development by creating an account on GitHub.
Raku: A Language for Gremlins • Buttondown - 2023-08-08 - PDF - By Gremlins, For Gremlins™
Mofi - Snappy UIs With WebAssembly and Web Workers - 2023-08-07 - - PDF - Shorten and lengthen a song, making it the perfect length to match a video or performance. Find perfect loops automatically for your next edit.
Getting my library cards onto my phone the hard way — iliana.fyi - 2023-08-07 - PDF
paul-gauthier/aider: aider is GPT powered coding in your terminal - 2023-08-07 - PDF - aider is GPT powered coding in your terminal. Contribute to paul-gauthier/aider development by creating an account on GitHub.
Marten | .NET Transactional Document DB and Event Store on PostgreSQL - 2023-08-06 - - PDF - .NET Transactional Document DB and Event Store on PostgreSQL
supabase/postgres_lsp: A Language Server for Postgres - 2023-08-06 - - PDF - A Language Server for Postgres. Contribute to supabase/postgres_lsp development by creating an account on GitHub.
I do not use a debugger – Daniel Lemire's blog - 2023-08-06 - - PDF - I learned to program with BASIC back when I was twelve. I would write elaborate programs and run them. Invariably, they would surprise me by failing to do what I expect. I would struggle for a time, but I’d eventually give up and just accept that whatever “bugs” I had created were there to stay. … Continue reading I do not use a debugger
We’re closer to ‘engineering’ blood vessels | Pursuit by The University of Melbourne - 2023-08-06 - - PDF - Researchers at the University of Melbourne have developed a fast, inexpensive and scalable method for engineering blood vessels from natural tissue.
Data Analysis | Microsoft Fabric - 2023-08-05 - PDF - Få mere værdi fra dine data med Microsoft Fabric, der er en analyseplatform, der er drevet af kunstig intelligens, som kombinerer dine data med tjenester, herunder datalogi og datasøer.
Painting and color of the Eiffel Tower - OFFICIAL Website - 2023-08-04 - - PDF - The repainting campaign is an important event in the life of the monument and takes on a truly mythical nature, as with everything linked to the Eiffel Tower. It represents the lasting quality of a work of art known...
Offshore wind: Perpetuating the myth of 'terra nullius' in Australia waters could prove costly | RenewEconomy - 2023-08-04 - PDF - The Commonwealth’s offshore wind scheme makes First Nations’ rights, interests and responsibilities invisible, creating enormous financial and reputational risk.
Ocean heat record broken, with grim implications for the planet - BBC News - 2023-08-04 - - PDF - The oceans are a vital regulator for the climate and our weather but are rapidly heating up.
GPT-4 for API design research | Simon Willison’s TILs - 2023-08-03 - - PDF - I came up with a really useful prompt for GPT-4 today. I was considering options for refactoring how Datasette's core view functions work, and was contemplating alternative ways to dispatch to different functions based on a combination of the URL path and the HTTP verb.
Man Spends Entire Career Mastering Crappy Codebase - 2023-08-03 - - PDF - Westbrook spent 35 years in a codebase that allegedly powers some sort of medical software somewhere. During his tenure, he contributed hundreds of lines of code to his projects.
Evasive Phishing Tactic Utilizes Google AMP | Cofense - 2023-08-03 - - PDF - Learn about a new phishing tactic utilizing Google Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) that is proving to be very successful at reaching intended targets.
"Landmark alliance:" Origin, Coles strike solar and battery deal to cut emissions, balance grid | RenewEconomy - 2023-08-03 - PDF - Origin to supply 20MW of solar plus batteries to Coles retail outlets, and tap into its fridges to help balance the grid.
Something went wrong :-( - 2023-08-02 - - PDF
Splitting the Web - 2023-08-01 - - PDF - Splitting the Web écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.
Emacs is My New Window Manager - 2023-08-01 - - PDF
Pay dirt for ice core scientists in East Greenland as they reach bedrock – University of Copenhagen - 2023-08-01 - - PDF - An international research collaboration (EGRIP) headed by ice core scientists from the University of Copenhagen has attained their goal of drilling to the bottom of the ice sheet. It marks the first time that this has been achieved in an ice stream, where vast amounts of ice slide coastwards. The breakthrough could be critical for understanding and projecting rising sea levels.

July 2023

Database-centric Backends: What has your experience been like? | Lobsters - 2023-07-31 - PDF
My Journey Away from the JAMstack | The Spicy Web - 2023-07-31 - - PDF - The name is all but dead, nerfed by the company who invented it. Here’s why Netlify was ahead of its time and where everything went wrong.
Remote Synthesis | Is Jamstack Officially Finished? - 2023-07-31 - - PDF - Do recent changes mean the end of the term Jamstack? Unfortunately, it looks like a yes.
The strange way airlines are actually central banks - 2023-07-31 - - PDF - Issue 013
File distribution over DNS: (ab)using DNS as a CDN (eighty-twenty news) - 2023-07-31 - - PDF
The Future of the Web is VNC – Terence Eden’s Blog - 2023-07-31 - - PDF - Many gallons of digital ink spilled at Google's plans for "Web Environment Integrity" which - depending on who you believe - is either an entirely reasonable proposal to protect users or a devious plan to add DRM to the entire web. (It's the latter, obviously.) We'll never know exactly whether users want this because Google [...]
Cloudflare + Remote Browser Isolation - 2023-07-31 - - PDF - Cloudflare announced today that it has purchased S2 Systems Corporation, a Seattle-area startup that has built an innovative remote browser isolation solution unlike any other currently in the market.
Relay-style GraphQL | Alan Norbauer - 2023-07-31 - PDF - GraphQL best practices for 2023
Computers Are Bad - 2023-07-31 - - PDF
A 46,000-year-old worm found in Siberian permafrost was brought back to life, and started having babies | Business Insider India - 2023-07-30 - PDF - Scientists on Thursday published a paper identifying and naming the worm, which they said belonged to an unidentifiable species.
The British-American coup that ended Australian independence | John Pilger | The Guardian - 2023-07-30 - - PDF - John Pilger: In 1975 prime minister Gough Whitlam, who has died this week, dared to try to assert his country’s autonomy. The CIA and MI6 made sure he paid the price
Roben Kleene: The Five-Year Rule of Software Transitions - 2023-07-28 - PDF - Roben Kleene’s blog
blog/posts/sql-eq.md at main · remysucre/blog - 2023-07-28 - - PDF - Contribute to remysucre/blog development by creating an account on GitHub.
How to Be Blind | The New Yorker - 2023-07-28 - - PDF - As a kid, I was told that one day I would lose my sight. Recently, I went to a residential school for the blind, where I learned to live without it.
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Sequence Diagrams in MermaidJS - 2023-07-25 - - PDF - Clone and deploy your own Next.js portfolio in minutes.
ProjectionLab - Build Financial Plans You Love - 2023-07-24 - - PDF - Simulate your financial future. Build modern and privacy-friendly plans for early retirement, financial independence, monte carlo simulation, and more.
Wikipedia over DNS - 2023-07-24 - - PDF
Changing the Android captive portal page – en|crypted.at - 2023-07-24 - - PDF - This article shows how to replace the existing captive portal link on your Android device - you'll need a shell and adb access.
plv8/pljs: PLJS - Javascript Language Plugin for PostreSQL - 2023-07-24 - - PDF - PLJS - Javascript Language Plugin for PostreSQL. Contribute to plv8/pljs development by creating an account on GitHub.
Talon - 2023-07-24 - - PDF - Talon enables you to write code, play games, and control your computer with voice, eye tracking, or noises.
persistent.info: Visualize Them Towers - 2023-07-24 - PDF
persistent.info: Slack Canvas In The Streets, Quip In The Sheets - 2023-07-24 - PDF
Carbon footprint of travel per kilometer, 2018 - 2023-07-23 - PDF - The carbon footprint of travel is measured in grams of carbon dioxide-equivalents per passenger kilometer. This includes the impact of increased warming from aviation emissions at altitude.
ChatGPT Peanut Butter Cookies | t0.vc - 2023-07-19 - PDF - A recipe generated by ChatGPT for peanut butter cookies.
[UPDATED] Russian Man Turns Tables on Bank, Changes Fine Print in Credit Card Agreement, Then Sues, Now Settles | Nasdaq - 2023-07-19 - PDF - Editor 's note: This story has been updated. Please see our final update at the bottom of this previously reported story . In Soviet Russia ,.
FAQ on the 500-mile email - 2023-07-19 - - PDF
ArrowJS - Reactive interfaces with no build tools & native JavaScript. - 2023-07-19 - - PDF - ArrowJS is a tool for programming reactive interfaces using native JavaScript. It’s 2Kb, requires no build tools, has no virtual DOM, and is blazing fast.
Telegram raises $210 million through bond sales | TechCrunch - 2023-07-19 - PDF - Telegram founder Pavel Durov bought "tens of millions" of the company's bonds as part of a $210 million bond sales this week.
Jerusalem syndrome - Wikipedia - 2023-07-17 - PDF
Paris syndrome - Wikipedia - 2023-07-17 - PDF
"balls": The day I locked everyone out of the company intranet. - 2023-07-15 - - PDF - I was just over a month into my first job in the tech industry - a lowly HTML jockey and frontline support drone at a local web agency. Everything that could have gone wrong this particular morning, had. I'd woken up late, made a mess of my breakfast, there was
The Year of Hygge, the Danish Obsession with Getting Cozy | The New Yorker - 2023-07-15 - PDF - At least six books about the concept of Scandinavian coziness were published in the U.S. this year, with more to come in 2017.
Demo: Brute-forcing a macOS user’s real name from a browser using mDNS - 2023-07-14 - - PDF - Exploring potential privacy vulnerabilities in Apple devices. This article discusses revealing a user's first name without permissions using the mDNS protocol.
Where did the name libpurple come from? - DEV Community - 2023-07-14 - PDF - This article was originally posted on Patreon and has been brought over here to get all of the...
Instant Messenger History: Lessons for the Threads Era of Social Media - 2023-07-13 - - PDF - The current splintering of social media across networks is creating a problem reminiscent of the early battles over instant messaging. Here’s what we can learn.
Defecting From North Korea Is Now Far Harder - The New York Times - 2023-07-10 - - PDF - Recent efforts to help people escape Kim Jong-un’s regime via China have been thwarted by digital surveillance, profiteering and the pandemic.
plotlychartexport - npm - 2023-07-08 - PDF - Export plotly charts on server. Latest version: 1.0.5, last published: 6 years ago. Start using plotlychartexport in your project by running `npm i plotlychartexport`. There are no other projects in the npm registry using plotlychartexport.
Gregg shorthand - Wikipedia - 2023-07-07 - - PDF
JSX is quasi-quoting - Xe Iaso - 2023-07-07 - - PDF - JSX is quasi-quoting - Xe's Blog
stream : Real-time Whisper transcription in WebAssembly - 2023-07-06 - PDF
React-Admin - The Open-Source Framework For B2B Apps - 2023-07-06 - - PDF - A frontend Framework for building B2B applications running in the browser on top of REST/GraphQL APIs, using ES6, React and Material Design
A slack clone in 5 lines of bash - 2023-07-05 - - PDF
Write Thin to Write Fast - 2023-07-04 - - PDF - October 15, 2021 — I'm always trying to improve my writing. I want my writing to be more meaningful, clearer, more memorable, and shorter. I would also like to write faster.
An Angel Investor's Data - 2023-07-04 - - PDF - September 1, 2022 — There's a trend where people are publishing real data first, and then insights. Here is my data from angel investing:
3 Kinds of Tech Debt | Byte Size Theories - 2023-07-04 - - PDF - In software engineering, we’re often faced with trade-offs that sacrifice what is best for the long term against something that increases velocity in the short term. A commonly used financial analogy is describing this as taking on technical debt. I will not cover accidental and deliberate tech debt, neither will I give a decision making framework in this article. That is its own subject, and context specific. However, there is a mental framework that has worked well for me across different teams, codebases and systems.
Binding On Port 0 - 2023-07-04 - - PDF
Joins 13 Ways - 2023-07-04 - PDF
RailMiles :: Thomas Pain - 2023-07-03 - PDF - I built an app to track how far I've travelled on trains because of course I did
The dingo fence is the world's longest and has cascading effects on the Australian environment - ABC News - 2023-07-03 - PDF - The dingo fence does its job keeping the predator at bay — but that single change has cascading effects on the environment, right down to the shape of the sand dunes.
Star Ownership - 2023-07-03 - - PDF
Tesla gives new owners in the UK a grabbing stick after forcing them to get left-hand-drive | Electrek - 2023-07-03 - - PDF - Tesla has started to deliver new Model S and Model X vehicles in the UK with a grabbing stick after...
The pg_tiktoken extension - Neon Docs - 2023-07-03 - PDF - The pg_tiktoken extension enables fast and efficient tokenization of data in your PostgreSQL database using OpenAI's tiktoken library. This topic provides guidance on installing the extension, utilizi...
Using iCalendar RRULE in Postgres | This and That - 2023-07-03 - PDF
Site update, self-hosted search via pagefind - Raymii.org - 2023-07-02 - PDF
Breaking Up with SVG-in-JS in 2023 | Jacob Groß | kurtextrem.de - 2023-07-02 - - PDF - Technical deep-dive on why you shouldn't have SVGs in your JS bundle and better techniques for JSX usage.
Tahiti digs in to protect ‘most beautiful wave’ ahead of Olympic surf event | Pacific islands | The Guardian - 2023-07-01 - PDF - World famous break Teahupo’o to host the 2024 competition but residents are fearful of damage to the pristine environment
The photos we hate to love: why school portraits continue to enthral us (despite their cost) | Parents and parenting | The Guardian - 2023-07-01 - PDF - An image of her daughter smiling at a stranger is Anna Spargo-Ryan’s most precious possession. But does she really need so many versions of it?
France protests: Funeral held for teenager after police detain more than 1,300 over riots | CNN - 2023-07-01 - PDF
Men are hunters, women are gatherers. That was the assumption. A new study upends it. - 2023-07-01 - PDF
Postgres schema changes are still a PITA - 2023-07-01 - - PDF - Table locking, downtime risks, long running migrations, manual steps, difficult rollbacks. Is there a better way?

June 2023

How does Linux really handle writes? - 2023-06-30 - - PDF - I examine the somewhat surprising way how Linux handles writes.
JavaScript Macros in Bun | Bun Blog - 2023-06-30 - - PDF - Call JavaScript functions at bundle-time and inline results into the AST
Announcing Hurl 4.0.0 - 2023-06-30 - - PDF
Goodreads Has No Incentive to be Good - by Lincoln Michel - 2023-06-30 - - PDF - Goodreads is full of trolls, spam, and harassment campaigns. They probably like it that way.
The Darwinian Argument for Worrying About AI | Time - 2023-06-30 - - PDF - As the autonomy of AIs increases, so will their control over the key decisions that influence society.
Chinese Workers Confront the Curse of 35 - The New York Times - 2023-06-29 - PDF - It’s widely discussed in China: Employers don’t want you after 35. Some job listings say it plainly, leaving a generation of prime-age workers feeling defeated.
SQLPage - 2023-06-27 - - PDF - Official SQLPage website: write web applications in SQL !
The Best Place to Drink Is the Emptiest Bar in the City - The New York Times - 2023-06-27 - - PDF - When your hearing starts to go, you just want a place to sit, sip and have a talk: namely, a hotel bar.
5 reasons why a browser and mail combination is great. - 2023-06-27 - - PDF - A browser with a built-in email client is a unique combination. Read why this combination works and improves your time spent online.
Mofi - Content-aware fill and trim for music! - 2023-06-27 - - PDF - Shorten and lengthen a song, making it the perfect length to match a video or performance. Keep the vibe of the song with seamless transitions.
Noticing when an app has servers in different regions | JonLuca’s Blog - 2023-06-27 - PDF - I was talking to a friend of mine about native apps and how some apps not built using UIKit/SwiftUI just feel laggier, and it got me thinking about other latency and small performance things you notice.
Cachix - Managed self-hosted GitHub runners for Nix/NixOS - 2023-06-27 - PDF - Set up your Nix infrastructure in minutes.
A Senior Engineer’s Guide to FAANG Interviews - 2023-06-26 - - PDF - Made by interviewers for candidates – we spent hundreds of hours talking to technical interviewers from FAANG about their processes.
Introducing the Magic Nix Cache - 2023-06-26 - - PDF - Nix builds at speeds you never thought possible
Petnames: A humane approach to secure, decentralized naming | QotNews - 2023-06-26 - PDF - {{ description }}
Wesley Aptekar-Cassels | The Curse of NixOS - 2023-06-24 - PDF
GitHub - binpash/try: "Do, or do not. There is no try." We're setting out to change that. - 2023-06-24 - - PDF - "Do, or do not. There is no try." We're setting out to change that. - GitHub - binpash/try: "Do, or do not. There is no try." We're setting out to change that.
Next.js App Router Update | Next.js - 2023-06-23 - - PDF - The Next.js team is focused on performance, stability, and developer experience for the upcoming months.
Running Postgres as a Unikernel - 2023-06-23 - - PDF - This isn't the first time we took a look at running postgres as a unikernel. A few years ago one of our engineers took a look at how difficult it might be to port it.
Unbrick Google Pixel 6A via Fastboot Commands [Fix Bootloop & Brick] - 2023-06-21 - PDF - In this comprehensive tutorial, we will show you the detailed steps to unbrick your Google Pixel 6A via Fastboot commands.
Should you standardise tools in your company? - 2023-06-20 - - PDF
Style your RSS feed - 2023-06-20 - - PDF - How to make your RSS feed look nice and provide useful information at the same time.
HDR QR Code | notes.dt.in.th - 2023-06-19 - - PDF
How Canva saves millions annually in Amazon S3 costs - 2023-06-19 - - PDF - Understanding our data and usage patterns was the real key.
Follow up to “I booted Linux 292,612 times” | Richard WM Jones - 2023-06-18 - - PDF - Well that blew up. It was supposed to be just a silly off-the-cuff comment about how some bugs are very tedious to bisect. To answer a few questions people had, here’s what actually happened.…
Oh My Git! - 2023-06-18 - - PDF - An open source game about learning Git
The Staggering Frontiers of CSS - 2023-06-17 - - PDF - Friends! Pals! CSS deviants! One thing I’ve always loved about CSS, besides its obvious and immediate effect on a webpage—wow this table is now red!—is that...
defunkt on Twitter: "Just heard that Google is selling off Google Domains. And people ask me why we didn't sell GitHub to Google. Seriously? Not one high level person I spoke to during negotiations is still at Google today. Meanwhile, everyone on the Microsoft side still works there..." / Twitter - 2023-06-17 - - PDF - “Just heard that Google is selling off Google Domains. And people ask me why we didn't sell GitHub to Google. Seriously? Not one high level person I spoke to during negotiations is still at Google today. Meanwhile, everyone on the Microsoft side still works there...”
Everything Must Be Paid for Twice - 2023-06-16 - - PDF - One financial lesson they should teach in school is that most of the things we buy have to be paid for twice. There’s the first price, usually paid in dollars, just to gain possession of the desired thing, whatever it is: a book, a budgeting app, a unicycle, a bundle of kale. But then, in order to make use of
PostgreSQL: Documentation: 14: F.33. pg_trgm - 2023-06-16 - PDF - F.33. pg_trgm F.33.1. Trigram (or Trigraph) Concepts F.33.2. Functions and Operators F.33.3. GUC Parameters F.33.4. Index Support F.33.5. Text Search Integration …
PostgreSQL: Re: Let's make PostgreSQL multi-threaded - 2023-06-15 - PDF - Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]> writes: > I spoke with some folks at PGCon about making PostgreSQL multi-threaded, > so that the …
Rental properties - minimum standards - Consumer Affairs Victoria - 2023-06-15 - PDF - Rental providers have an obligation to rent properties that meet minimum standards. Renters can take action if these standards are not met.
Residential Tenancies Regulations 2021 | Victorian Building Authority - 2023-06-15 - PDF - These new laws expand the rights and responsibilities of renters (tenants) and rental providers (landlords).
GPT - OpenAI API - 2023-06-15 - - PDF - Explore developer resources, tutorials, API docs, and dynamic examples to get the most out of OpenAI's platform.
FogCam - The World's Oldest Webcam - 2023-06-15 - PDF
I’m an ER doctor. Here’s how I’m already using ChatGPT to help treat patients. | by Inflect Health | Jun, 2023 | Medium - 2023-06-15 - - PDF - There are many futuristic possibilities for how AI might transform healthcare. But it can help doctors do a better job in small, safe ways…
Why do Client Components get SSR'd to HTML? · reactwg/server-components · Discussion #4 - 2023-06-15 - PDF - If you're familiar with React, your mental model before RSC might look similar to this (blank space on the left is intentional): RSC does not change that mental model, but it adds a new layer befor...
Lejebolig - Lejligheder, værelser, huse til leje og fremleje. - 2023-06-12 - PDF - Søger du lejebolig? Find lejligheder, værelser eller huse til leje og fremleje, eller opret en gratis udlejningsannonce i dag.
Richmond Tigers AFL player Marlion Pickett arrested for alleged burglary - ABC News - 2023-06-12 - PDF - In a statement, Richmond Football Club said the alleged offences occurred in December 2022 and January 2023.
GraphQL on Fly with Hasura · Fly Docs - 2023-06-11 - PDF - Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
Netlify functions - continue after completion - Serge van den Oever's weblog - 2023-06-11 - PDF - Netlify functions are a powerful beast for all your API needs. But what if I want to return as soon as possible from my API call to keep my web UI responsive, but still need to do something like sending out an e-mail?
AudD Music Recognition API - 2023-06-11 - PDF - Music Recognition API: Recognize music in audio files, UGC, and microphone recordings. Identify what's playing on radio stations and audio streams. Monitor airplay and create radio charts or make your own music recognition app. Recognize music from social networks and analyze trends.
Stevey's Google Platforms Rant - 2023-06-10 - - PDF - Stevey's Google Platforms Rant. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
We don’t trade with ants | world spirit sock puppet - 2023-06-10 - - PDF
spamscanner/spamscanner: Spam Scanner is a Node.js anti-spam, email filtering, and phishing prevention tool and service. Built for @ladjs, @forwardemail, @cabinjs, @breejs, and @lassjs. - 2023-06-10 - PDF - Spam Scanner is a Node.js anti-spam, email filtering, and phishing prevention tool and service. Built for @ladjs, @forwardemail, @cabinjs, @breejs, and @lassjs. - spamscanner/spamscanner: Spam Scan...
Implementing "seen by" functionality with Postgres - 2023-06-09 - - PDF - Different approaches for tracking visitor counts with PostgreSQL.
Home – PostgresML - 2023-06-09 - - PDF - Train and deploy models to make online predictions using only SQL, with an open source Postgres extension.
Bring your tailnet to VS Code · Tailscale - 2023-06-09 - - PDF - We’re releasing a Tailscale extension for Visual Studio Code, a text editor we hear is pretty popular. The new extension, now in beta, brings the magic of your tailnet even closer to your code and makes it easier than ever to share your local development over the internet for collaboration, testing, and experimentation.
A heuristic for feeling fine - Personal Science Wiki - 2023-06-09 - PDF
Developers are lazy, thus Flatpak - 2023-06-09 - - PDF - A look at Flatpak madness
Tremor – The React library to build dashboards fast - 2023-06-08 - - PDF - Modular components to build insightful dashboards in a breeze.
Tremor • Components - 2023-06-08 - - PDF - Modular components to build insightful dashboards in a breeze.
wanasit/chrono: A natural language date parser in Javascript - 2023-06-07 - PDF - A natural language date parser in Javascript. Contribute to wanasit/chrono development by creating an account on GitHub.
US urged to reveal UFO evidence after claim that it has intact alien vehicles | UFOs | The Guardian - 2023-06-07 - - PDF - Whistleblower former intelligence official says government posseses ‘intact and partially intact’ craft of non-human origin
Driver fined $195,796 for speeding in Finland, where penalties are based on income - ABC News - 2023-06-06 - PDF - Anders Wiklöf says he really regrets driving 30 kilometres per hour over the limit in Finland, where such penalties are based an offender's income.
Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness Contest: Psychedelic Cryptography (Innovate) - 2023-06-06 - - PDF
xkcd: Depth Perception - 2023-06-06 - - PDF
LXRA's stuck station building at Mont Albert - Waking up in Geelong - 2023-06-06 - PDF - This is the story of how the Level Crossing Removal Authority contractors tried and failed to deliver a prefabricated station building to the new Union station, part of the Surrey Hills and Mont Albert level crossing removal project. Working within a constrained railway corridor, there as no space to build a new station clear of […]
Intelligence Officials Say U.S. Has Retrieved Craft of Non-Human Origin - The Debrief - 2023-06-06 - - PDF - In a Debrief exclusive, Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean report that a former official says the U.S. has retrieved craft of non-human origin.
SpeechBrain: A PyTorch Speech Toolkit - 2023-06-05 - - PDF
The NixOS Foundation's Call to Action: S3 Costs Require Community Support - Announcements - NixOS Discourse - 2023-06-05 - - PDF - Hi all, TL;DR - Kicking off an effort to secure long-term funding for our S3 costs and exploring alternatives. This comes after multiple years where Logicblox has been graciously sponsoring the S3 costs for Nix! An enormous thank you to them. The LogicBlox team (which has since been acquired by Infor) has been providing significant support to the Nix ecosystem by sponsoring our S3 buckets. They have asked to transfer the ownership of the costs and give us a good heads up (timeline discussed be...
shiyangzhaoa/css-modules-to-tailwind: Tailwind css convert tool - 2023-06-05 - PDF - Tailwind css convert tool. Contribute to shiyangzhaoa/css-modules-to-tailwind development by creating an account on GitHub.
Unusual Japanese Train Station Has No Entrance or Exit - 2023-06-05 - PDF - Your only choice is to stop and admire the view!
DiceBear | Open Source Avatar Library - 2023-06-05 - PDF - The avatar library you've always been looking for. Create avatars for your profiles, designs, websites or apps. Piece by piece or based on a seed.
A Graph-Based Firebase - 2023-06-05 - - PDF - In A Database in the Browser, I wrote that the schleps we face as UI engineers are actually database problems in disguise ^1. This begged the question: would a database-looking solution solve them?...
Do we need copyright? – Daniel Lemire's blog - 2023-06-04 - - PDF - The concept of property is a social construction. Animals, such as cats, can own a piece of food, or a territory, but only as long as they are able to personally maintain a credible threat of violence. And animals can only defend concrete, physical properties, such as an area, a dead bird or a tree. … Continue reading Do we need copyright?
</> htmx ~ How Did REST Come To Mean The Opposite of REST? - 2023-06-04 - PDF
5/57a The Corso, Parkdale, Vic 3195 - Unit for Rent - realestate.com.au - 2023-06-04 - PDF - This renovated two-bedroom apartment offers a desirable lifestyle with stunning views of the sunset across Port Phillip Bay. Situated at the top and in the middle of a small beachside block, it provides a rare opportunity to enjoy bay views and Parkdale village The apartment's location is highly convenient, being just a four-minute walk to the station, cafes, shops, beach trails, and the water's edge. This proximity ensures that your leisure time is easily accessible and enjoyable. Upon entering the apartment, you'll find a welcoming open-plan living/dining area and a contemporary kitchen, large windows in this space perfectly frame the captivating view, allowing you to appreciate the beauty of the bay. The generous living area extends further out to a full-width balcony, which provides ample space for evening drinks or entertaining guests. The two double-sized bedrooms, located off a central hallway, offer fitted wardrobes and share a sleek updated bathroom. The bathroom is designed with practical provisions for laundry, adding to the convenience of the apartment. Additionally, the apartment includes a reverse cycle heater and air conditioning for year-round comfort. For security and peace of mind, the apartment offers secure entry, an allocated lock-up garage, and additional storage space. Overall, this apartment presents an appealing opportunity to enjoy a desirable lifestyle in a sought-after location, with stunning views and convenient amenities. ARRANGING AN INSPECTION IS EASY – Simply press the BOOK INSPECTION button to submit your inquiry. Select a time that suits you or alternatively, you can suggest your own time and we will confirm. Once registered, we can keep you updated about any changes or cancellations. So don’t miss out – register for an inspection time today
dcmoura/spyql: Query data on the command line with SQL-like SELECTs powered by Python expressions - 2023-06-03 - - PDF - Query data on the command line with SQL-like SELECTs powered by Python expressions - dcmoura/spyql: Query data on the command line with SQL-like SELECTs powered by Python expressions
I love electric vehicles – and was an early adopter. But increasingly I feel duped | Rowan Atkinson | The Guardian - 2023-06-03 - - PDF - Sadly, keeping your old petrol car may be better than buying an EV, says actor Rowan Atkinson
Promoted from Dev to Team Lead: 8 Things They Didn’t Tell Me - 2023-06-03 - PDF - When I was promoted to Dev Team Lead, I was in over my head. Read the 8 things that I wish someone had told me when I was promoted.
cloudquery/pg_gpt: Experimental extension that brings OpenAI API to your PostgreSQL to run queries in human language. - 2023-06-02 - - PDF - Experimental extension that brings OpenAI API to your PostgreSQL to run queries in human language. - cloudquery/pg_gpt: Experimental extension that brings OpenAI API to your PostgreSQL to run queri...
Windows 11 is getting a force quit option to close apps without the Task Manager - The Verge - 2023-06-01 - - PDF - No need to open the Task Manager anymore for most people.
What Are the Enduring Innovations of Lisp? - 2023-06-01 - - PDF
Three new features launching at Tailscale Up · Tailscale - 2023-06-01 - - PDF - Today we’re kicking off Tailscale Up, our first ever community conference. To celebrate the occasion, we’re announcing new features that address some of the top community feature requests — and we hope will excite you. We’ll be rolling out more information about these announcements over the next week, but for now we’ve got some stuff that we can’t wait to share.

May 2023

South Australia passes laws to crack down on protest after disruption of oil and gas conference | South Australia | The Guardian - 2023-05-31 - - PDF - After 14-hour debate, upper house passes laws on disruptive protests, which increase maximum fine to $50,000 along with potential jail time
Welcoming bit.io to Databricks: Investing in the Developer Experience - 2023-05-31 - - PDF
I gave commit rights to someone I didn't know, I could never have guessed what happened next! · Jacob Davis-Hansson - 2023-05-30 - - PDF - (Spoiler: trusting your contributors works) Some years ago, I polished up and released an abandoned project for storing financial data in Django. It let you declare “Money” fields on your models, dealing with proper storage and currencies for you. My use case for the library, django-money eventually faded, but it ended up teaching me a useful lesson in trust and OSS abandonware.
NASA's Laser Link Boasts Record-Breaking 200 Gbps Speed - IEEE Spectrum - 2023-05-30 - - PDF - Researchers doubled the downlink record they set just last year
You Can Serve Static Data Over HTTP - 2023-05-30 - - PDF
Hardening Drupal with WebAssembly - 2023-05-29 - - PDF - Explore how Drupal can benefit from the capabilities-based security model offered by WebAssembly.
Working with resolvers and Vercel Postgres – Grafbase - 2023-05-29 - PDF - Use Grafbase resolvers and Vercel Postgres to handle OpenAI vector embeddings
The odd appeal of absurdly long YouTube videos that play nothing on purpose - The Verge - 2023-05-29 - - PDF - It’s 24 hours long, it’s just a black screen, and it has 40 million views. WHAT.
Cloudflare Workers Introduces connect() API to Create TCP Sockets - 2023-05-29 - - PDF - During the recent developer week, Cloudflare announced a Worker API to create outbound TCP sockets. The new socket API allows developers to connect back to TCP-based infra directly from a Worker, including databases.
Let us serve you, but don’t bring us down | Internet Archive Blogs - 2023-05-29 - - PDF
Comparing iPhone 13 vs iPhone 14 for astrophotography - 2023-05-29 - - PDF - The best camera is the one you have with you, or so the old saying goes. That statement has never been more powerful than now. I recently took a break from Adobe MAX to hit the desert for a short adventure with Russell Brown from Adobe. I wanted to shoot some star trails with a […]
Forrest says he did not bid for Sun Cable, has his own 20GW to build | RenewEconomy - 2023-05-28 - PDF - Forrest says he made no final offer for Sun Cable and intends to focus instead on his own 20GW renewable pipeline.
Melbourne CBD council car plan: Pedestrians and public transport winners in new plan | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site - 2023-05-28 - PDF - A proposal put forward by a Melbourne council could see cars banned from large parts of the CBD, prioritising pedestrians and public transport instead.
Motherfucking Website - 2023-05-28 - - PDF
About txti - 2023-05-28 - PDF
VHEMT - 2023-05-28 - - PDF
The HTTP QUERY Method - 2023-05-28 - - PDF - This specification defines a new HTTP method, QUERY, as a safe, idempotent request method that can carry request content.
Why does "👩🏾‍🌾" have a length of 7 in JavaScript? - 2023-05-27 - - PDF - 👩🏾‍🌾 is made up of 1 grapheme cluster, 4 scalars, and 7 UTF-16 code units.
Lawyer cites fake cases invented by ChatGPT, judge is not amused - 2023-05-27 - - PDF - Legal Twitter is having tremendous fun right now reviewing the latest documents from the case Mata v. Avianca, Inc. (1:22-cv-01461). Here’s a neat summary: So, wait. They file a brief …
SIP on Android – Sipgate and Linphone – Terence Eden’s Blog - 2023-05-27 - - PDF
Building a Personal VoIP System - 2023-05-27 - - PDF - Take control of your telephony with Asterisk!
code-relay/HowIDidIt.md at main · mmulet/code-relay · GitHub - 2023-05-26 - - PDF - Source for the Code Relay website. Code Relay The fastest and easiest way to contribute to open source! - code-relay/Secrets.md at main · mmulet/code-relay
HP Plus: an exciting new way to DRM your inkjet printer! - The Verge - 2023-05-26 - - PDF - No such thing as free ink.
Find the right app | Microsoft AppSource - 2023-05-26 - - PDF
Loop much? :: The Upside-Down Trees - 2023-05-26 - PDF - Combining list/ array operators in a single iteration
Replit - Super Colliding Nix Stores: Nix Flakes for Millions of Developers - 2023-05-26 - - PDF - …
</> htmx ~ Essays - 2023-05-26 - PDF
tudurom/dotfiles: My small loan of configuration files and scripts - based on NixOS - 2023-05-25 - PDF - My small loan of configuration files and scripts - based on NixOS - tudurom/dotfiles: My small loan of configuration files and scripts - based on NixOS
phaazon.net - 2023-05-25 - - PDF
GitHub - patte/fly-tailscale-exit: Run a VPN with global exit nodes with fly.io, tailscale and github! - 2023-05-25 - - PDF - Run a VPN with global exit nodes with fly.io, tailscale and github! - GitHub - patte/fly-tailscale-exit: Run a VPN with global exit nodes with fly.io, tailscale and github!
You don't need a modal window - 2023-05-24 - PDF - Just make a separate page.
What Number Comes Next? The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences Knows. - The New York Times - 2023-05-24 - - PDF - The “mathematical equivalent to the FBI’s voluminous fingerprint files” turns 50 this year, with 362,765 entries (and counting).
I block ads • Cory Dransfeldt - 2023-05-23 - - PDF - I'm a software developer in Camarillo, California. I enjoy hanging out with my beautiful family and 4 rescue dogs, technology, automation, music, writing, reading and tv and movies.
'BlackBerry' review: The comedy and tragedy of the innovator's dilemma | Engadget - 2023-05-23 - - PDF - The BlackBerry movie is funny, dramatic and one of the best films ever made about tech..
Everything you think you know about homelessness is wrong - 2023-05-20 - - PDF - A guest post by Aaron Carr.
Victoria prepares for cuts as the Premier and Treasurer get ready to unveil the state budget - ABC News - 2023-05-20 - PDF - Labor is preparing to tighten the purse strings in the upcoming state budget as it deals with the rising costs of its building projects and pays the bills incurred during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Australia’s rising road toll: how the pandemic and a love of big cars are putting lives at risk | Transport | The Guardian - 2023-05-20 - PDF - Decades of gains in road safety are being set back by the rise in SUV ownership and impatient drivers used to empty lockdown streets
Coding with voice dictation using Talon Voice - 2023-05-20 - - PDF - Earlier this year, I lost the ability to use a keyboard and mouse for extended periods. Fortunately, this wasn't as catastrophic as it sounds! This article chronicles my experience using adaptive tools like dictation and eye-tracking as my primary mechanisms for writing code.
Migrating from Supabase - 2023-05-20 - - PDF - In the last couple weeks, we've migrated Val Town away from Supabase to a simpler database setup at Render. We’ve gotten a few questions about this, so we wanted to share what motivated the move, what we learned, and how we pulled it off. Supabase is an enormously successful product with a lot of happy users, but we ended up having a lot of problems getting to scale to our team's needs. Your mileage may vary, but we hope our experience is a useful data point.
Derailed again, the decades-long quest for a Melbourne airport train feels like a mirage | Anna Spargo-Ryan | The Guardian - 2023-05-20 - PDF - Talk of a rail line has existed longer than the airport, but broken promises and stalled construction make you wonder if it will ever materialise
How I won Telegram's $50,000 Sticker App Contest using Flutter – Telegraph - 2023-05-19 - PDF - Telegram Contests Telegram runs its own platform contest.com with developer challenges aimed at adding or improving features of Telegram ecosystem. The contests are paid and prize pools are split between participants based on their results. Sticker App Contest On June 25 2021 Sticker App Contest was announced. The task was to create a mobile app that let users create and export Telegram stickers. The contest had a prize pool of $50,000, and participants had less than 10 days to develop their app. I decided…
Expand Contract for Databases and Services | Andy Dote - 2023-05-19 - - PDF - I haven’t seen Expand-Contract written about in some years, and I think it is a great way of performing database schema migrations without the need for application downtime. I also realised that it also applies to microservices and service-to-service communication in general. The Easy Example One of the two examples given is wanting to change how an address is stored in a database. The schema starts off looking like this:
All languages are NOT created (tokenized) equal - 2023-05-18 - - PDF - Language models cost much more in some languages than others
Why an Engineering Manager Should Not Review Code | by Emily Dresner | May, 2023 | Better Programming - 2023-05-18 - PDF - When discussing team organization, I am often asked: “Why don’t you have the tech lead manage the team?” My response is to hiss like a…
the case for bash - Chris Dickinson - 2023-05-18 - - PDF
Read Every Single Error - 2023-05-18 - - PDF
Beautiful Documents with Groff (Part I) - 2023-05-17 - - PDF
Call for SkyBus priority lanes as Melbourne Airport Rail link delayed - 2023-05-17 - PDF - The setback to the long-awaited rail project has renewed calls to give SkyBus a dedicated lane on the Tullamarine Freeway, amid warnings the bus service may suffer worsening travel times as congestion grows.
Train travel in Australia: We’re falling behind the rest of the world - 2023-05-17 - PDF - The world’s most enjoyable travel experiences – that is, the actual act of moving from one place to another – are aboard trains.
How one man's rare Alzheimer’s mutation delayed the onset of disease - 2023-05-16 - - PDF - Genetic resilience found in a person predisposed to early-onset dementia could potentially lead to new treatments.
Colossal Biosciences Aims to ‘De-Extinct’ the Woolly Mammoth | NVIDIA Blog - 2023-05-16 - - PDF - Ten thousand years after the last woolly mammoths vanished with the last Ice Age, a team of computational biologists is on a mission to bring them back within five years. Led by synthetic biology pioneer George Church, Colossal Biosciences is also seeking to return the dodo bird and Tasmanian tiger, as well as help save Read article >
Decision to lift interest rates influenced by higher-than-forecast rent increases, RBA says | Reserve Bank of Australia | The Guardian - 2023-05-16 - PDF - Minutes from recent meeting say surprise call was ‘finely balanced’ and aimed at diminishing the risks of high inflation becoming entrenched
My 20 Year Career is Technical Debt or Deprecated - 2023-05-15 - PDF - Deprecated should be my middle name
~bt/alpine-suck - Alpine Linux installer running core suckless programs - sourcehut git - 2023-05-15 - PDF
Thailand opposition crushes military parties in election rout | Reuters - 2023-05-15 - PDF - The stunning win sets the stage for deal-making over forming a government in a bid to end nearly a decade of army-backed rule.
Delimiters won’t save you from prompt injection - 2023-05-14 - - PDF - Prompt injection remains an unsolved problem. The best we can do at the moment, disappointingly, is to raise awareness of the issue. As I pointed out last week, “if you …
Prompt injection explained, with video, slides, and a transcript - 2023-05-14 - - PDF - I participated in a webinar this morning about prompt injection, organized by LangChain and hosted by Harrison Chase, with Willem Pienaar, Kojin Oshiba (Robust Intelligence), and Jonathan Cohen and Christopher …
Bulk billing costs: I’m a GP and I’m sorry – but I can’t afford to bulk bill you - 2023-05-14 - PDF - GP clinics are small businesses. We want to help our patients, but altruism is not a sustainable business model. We can’t keep making a loss for bulk-billed consultations.
TypeScript is 'not worth it' for developing libraries, says Svelte author, as team switches to JavaScript and JSDoc • DEVCLASS - 2023-05-13 - - PDF - Svelte creator Rich Harris has made the case for switching from TypeScript to JavaScript and JSDoc, countering a trend that has seen strong growth in TypeScript usage. A pull request for TS to JSDoc conversion attracted some puzzled comments. “Why is this change being made? I was looking around for an issue or discussion around […]
CG/SQL | CG/SQL - 2023-05-13 - - PDF - CG/SQL is a compiler that converts a SQL Stored Procedure like language into C for SQLite. CG/CQL also generates other useful artifacts for testing and schema maintenance.
Why I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Denormalized Tables - 2023-05-13 - - PDF - My journey of how I've ended up embracing denormalized tables, how to use tools like dbt to bridge normalized and denormalized tables, and how denormalized data accelerates exploratory data analysis and self service analytics.
Google Bard blocks all European Union countries - 2023-05-12 - - PDF - Google Bard is blocking all European Union countries, presumably due to issues with GDPR compliance of the AI chatbot.
What's New in pg_graphql v1.2 - 2023-05-12 - - PDF - New Features in the v1.2 release of pg_graphql
One Day You’ll Find Yourself - 2023-05-12 - - PDF - Select advice from your uncle in the big city.
wick3dr0se/snake: A super minimal TUI snake game written in pure BASH v5.1+ - 2023-05-11 - PDF - :snake: A super minimal TUI snake game written in pure BASH v5.1+ - wick3dr0se/snake: A super minimal TUI snake game written in pure BASH v5.1+
Adding Webseed URLs to Torrent Files - 2023-05-10 - PDF - I was recently hanging out on a Slack discussing the deficiencies in the BitTorrent protocol for fast file distribution. A decade ago when L...
Booting Linux Over HTTP - 2023-05-10 - PDF - A couple years ago, one of my friends gave me a big pile of little Dell FX160 thin clients, which are cute little computers which have low...
Creating an Internet Exchange for Even More Fun and Less Profit - 2023-05-10 - PDF - Last quarter, I was pulled into the slightly odd underground of people running their own autonomous systems , and since then, our circle ...
Creating an Autonomous System for Fun and Profit - 2023-05-10 - PDF - At its core, the Internet is an interconnected fabric of separate networks. Each network which makes up the Internet is operated independe...
Building the Micro Mirror Free Software CDN - 2023-05-10 - PDF - As should surprise no one, based on my past projects of running my own autonomous system , building my own Internet Exchange Point , and bui...
German EMS uses QR technology to discourage illegal photography at emergency scenes - 2023-05-08 - - PDF
Australia finally has a Net Zero Authority. What should top its agenda? | RenewEconomy - 2023-05-08 - PDF - Now that we finally have a Net Zero Authority, how can it help Australia make the most of this once-in-a-generation economic transformation?
Branding in the Real World: Acronym Branding - 2023-05-08 - - PDF - Should you change the name of the brand or stick with it?
Digital Driver Licences On The Way For Victorian Motorists | Premier of Victoria - 2023-05-08 - PDF - The Andrews Labor Government will give motorists the option to carry their licence on their phone with a digital driver licence trial in Ballarat before a statewide roll-out by 2024. The new technology will give motorists the choice to store a secure digital version of their driver licence in the popular Service Victoria app or soon-to-be-launched my VicRoads app.
Sam Altman says remote work ‘experiment’ was a mistake | Fortune - 2023-05-07 - - PDF - The CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI said one of the tech industry's biggest mistakes was thinking "startups didn't need to be together."
The businessman and the fisherman - The Storytellers - 2023-05-07 - - PDF - A lesson in keeping our goals in sight.
Give it the Craigslist test Erica Heinz - 2023-05-07 - - PDF - All the AI design hype got me twitching enough to write about the business risks of working so high-fidelity so fast.
The UNIX Koans - 2023-05-06 - - PDF
What’s new in Citus 11.3 & Postgres for multi-tenant SaaS workloads - 2023-05-05 - - PDF - All about what’s new in the Citus 11.3 extension to Postgres, with new tenant monitoring features for SaaS workloads, metadata synchronization for those with large numbers of tables, parallel shard rebalancing, MERGE support for co-located distributed tables, and logical decoding for CDC (in preview.)
Stop Using Hamburger Menus - 2023-05-05 - - PDF
Re-implementing LangChain in 100 lines of code - 2023-05-05 - - PDF - LangChain has become a tremendously popular toolkit for building a wide range of LLM-powered applications, including chat, Q&A and document search. In this blogpost I re-implement some of the novel LangChain functionality as a learning exercise, looking at the low-level prompts it uses to create these higher level capabilities.
I found the best anagram in English - 2023-05-05 - - PDF
How Does a Database Work? | Let’s Build a Simple Database - 2023-05-05 - - PDF - Writing a sqlite clone from scratch in C
Matt Canavan says Liddell power station's closure is linked to several 'lack of power' alerts. Is that correct? - ABC News - 2023-05-05 - PDF - Nationals senator Matt Canavan has sought to link recent AEMO energy alerts with the closure of Liddell power station. But is there a link?
Anonymous Tor Phone - 2023-05-03 - - PDF
Vercel Markup - 2023-05-03 - - PDF
the last unit of Liddell Power Station closes - 2023-05-01 - PDF

April 2023

scrapscript - 2023-04-28 - - PDF
Glen Huntly, Glenhuntly, Ferntree Gully, Fern Tree Gully, Wattle Glen, Wattleglen: Melbourne suburbs with two different spellings - 2023-04-27 - PDF - Ferntree Gully or Fern Tree Gully? Ripponlea or Rippon Lea? If you look hard enough, naming anomalies dot the suburbs of Melbourne and beyond.
What is Scotland's not proven verdict? - BBC News - 2023-04-26 - PDF - The controversial third verdict will be scrapped if proposed reforms are approved by the Scottish Parliament.
Fast Flash | HackerNews - 2023-04-25 - - PDF - I downloaded 35 million posts from HackerNews, here's what I've known.
Demotivating a (Skilled) Programmer | by Mohamed Aboelez | Mar, 2023 | Level Up Coding - 2023-04-24 - - PDF - Based on a true story, but not mine.
Wtf is a kdf? | blog.dataparty - 2023-04-23 - - PDF - Earlier this week a letter from an activist imprisoned in France was posted to the internet. Contained within Ivan Alococo’s dispatch from the Villepinte prison
Researchers Taught Parrots to Video Call Other Parrots - 2023-04-23 - - PDF - Pet parrots in a new study led by Northeastern researchers loved using iPads to call fellow birds to chat while forging lasting friendships.
TxtNet-Browser/README.md at master · lukeaschenbrenner/TxtNet-Browser · GitHub - 2023-04-22 - - PDF - An app that lets you browse the web over SMS. Contribute to lukeaschenbrenner/TxtNet-Browser development by creating an account on GitHub.
The Car Thieves Using Tech Disguised Inside Old Nokia Phones and Bluetooth Speakers - 2023-04-21 - - PDF - Motherboard posed as an interested buyer to learn more about the wild world of car hacking.
World's largest battery maker announces major breakthrough in energy density - 2023-04-21 - - PDF - "A new era of universal electrification of sea, land and air transportation." CATL announces new battery that doubles energy intensity.
Use Databases Without Putting Domain Logic in Them | Alex Kondov - Software Engineer - 2023-04-21 - - PDF - Even though I’m very passionate about front-end development now, I started my career with different intentions. For the first few years, I worked predominantly…
Australia grid rides through solar eclipse, but the next one will be a "doozy" | RenewEconomy - 2023-04-21 - PDF - Solar eclipse casts shadow over Australian grid and its world-leading share of solar PV, but the next one will cross over major population centres.
Spinning Diagrams with CSS - 2023-04-21 - - PDF - This article discusses using CSS to make spinning 3D diagrams.
Evidence - Business Intelligence as Code - 2023-04-21 - - PDF - Evidence enables analysts to build a trusted, version-controlled reporting system by writing SQL and markdown. Evidence reports are publication-quality, highly customizable, and fit for human consumption.
Assured Open Source Software | Google Cloud - 2023-04-21 - - PDF - Improve the security of your software supply chain by incorporating the same trusted OSS packages that Google uses into your own developer workflows.
Father Bob Maguire, charity campaigner and Catholic priest, dies aged 88 - ABC News - 2023-04-19 - PDF - Father Bob Maguire was the parish priest at Sts Peter and Paul Catholic Church in South Melbourne for nearly 40 years. He was known for his tireless charity work and for reaching younger audiences through his media appearances.
The Technium: Lifelogging, An Inevitability - 2023-04-18 - - PDF - The goal of lifelogging: to record and archive all information in one’s life. This includes all text, all visual information, all audio, all media activity, as well as all biological data from sensors on one’s body. The information would be … Continue reading →
HaggardHawks: Ampersand - 2023-04-18 - PDF - This & is called an AMPERSAND. And here's why...
dbdev: PostgreSQL Package Manager - 2023-04-17 - - PDF - We're publicly previewing dbdev, a PostgreSQL package manager.
Postgres Superpowers in Practice - Event-Driven.io - 2023-04-17 - PDF - Event-Driven by Oskar Dudycz
Jessica Watson shares how lessons learnt at sea helped her navigate the waves of grief over losing partner - ABC News - 2023-04-16 - PDF - Jessica Watson faced life-threatening storms and a collision with a tanker as "the girl in the pink boat" who sailed the world solo, but nothing would be as hard as the tragedy she would face 11 years after her record-breaking voyage.
Chatting with a hacker about cybercrime gangs, Medibank and supporting Russia's attacks on Ukraine - ABC News - 2023-04-16 - PDF - A hacker — who claims to have been part of one of the world's most successful gangs — tells us why Australia is a target and laughs at the distress caused by the Medibank data breach.
Dishwasher salmon - Wikipedia - 2023-04-16 - - PDF
Cat Pages — Faster man-db. Use catman to Speed Up Your Man Pages | by Sebastian Carlos | Apr, 2023 | Medium - 2023-04-15 - PDF - Use catman to Speed Up Your Man Pages
The Case of the Exploding COALESCE Statements - Yellowbrick - 2023-04-15 - PDF - Introduction I’d like to take you through an interesting bug I dug into and fixed in my first months here at Yellowbrick. I joined the planning and optimization team about four months ago, which focuses most of its time on the query-planning component of our core product, the Yellowbrick Data Warehouse, a MPP (Massively Parallel […]
aditya-K2/gspt: Spotify for the terminal written in Go - 2023-04-15 - PDF - Spotify for the terminal written in Go . Contribute to aditya-K2/gspt development by creating an account on GitHub.
Prompt injection: what’s the worst that can happen? - 2023-04-14 - - PDF - Activity around building sophisticated applications on top of LLMs (Large Language Models) such as GPT-3/4/ChatGPT/etc is growing like wildfire right now. Many of these applications are potentially vulnerable to prompt …
916 days of Emacs - 2023-04-14 - - PDF - Freedom is a state of mind
John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack): "Everyone knows that when you have similar code repeated several times that you should consolidate into a loop or function, but changing discrete variables into arrays and adding loops can have a small readability cost, so sometimes it can feel like a debatable choice for something small just repeated two or three times. Usually, optimizing for readability is positive, but a requirement to keep two separate things aligned through future changes is an “invisible constraint” that is quite likely to cause problems eventually. Many years ago, I would casually copy-paste-paste-paste-modify 4D vector statements, but now I almost never even do two related statements like that. The hazard is when you combine two things that are close, but not exactly the same, and the strain induces complexity." | nitter - 2023-04-13 - PDF - Everyone knows that when you have similar code repeated several times that you should consolidate into a loop or function, but changing discrete variables into arrays and adding loops can have a small readability cost, so sometimes it can feel like a debatable choice for something small just repeated two or three times. Usually, optimizing for readability is positive, but a requirement to keep two separate things aligned through future changes is an “invisible constraint” that is quite likely to cause problems eventually. Many years ago, I would casually copy-paste-paste-paste-modify 4D vector statements, but now I almost never even do two related statements like that. The hazard is when you combine two things that are close, but not exactly the same, and the strain induces complexity.
Google's 2023 Shutdown Spree: 6 Products Pulled in Just 4 Months - 2023-04-13 - - PDF - Google is notorious for its habit of killing off products and 2023 has been no exception In just the first four months of the year the tech giant has already pulled the plug on six products leaving users scrambling for alternatives Let s take a closer look at each of the products
Baking Images with Nix for Robust Private Networks at Bowtie - 2023-04-13 - - PDF - Learn how Bowtie uses Nix to build network appliance images, enabling us to support a variety of formats with a high degree of code reuse and an elegant upgrade process. Ensuring that network appliances are easy to run, test, update, and operate reliably is important and underpins Bowtie’s commitment to robust simplicity.
DB Recruiter | Online platform for conducting SQL assessments - 2023-04-13 - PDF - An online SQL environment for evaluating a candidate's skills using MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite.
Passkeys: What the Heck and Why? | CSS-Tricks - CSS-Tricks - 2023-04-13 - PDF - These things called passkeys sure are making the rounds these days. They were a main attraction at W3C TPAC 2022, gained support in Safari
What you give up when moving into engineering management - 2023-04-13 - - PDF
On a great interview question. Between 2010 and 2019 I interviewed… | by Behdad Esfahbod | Apr, 2023 | Medium - 2023-04-13 - - PDF - Between 2010 and 2019 I interviewed dozens of Software Engineer candidates at Google. Almost always I asked the same interview question…
Displaying My Washing Machine's Remaining Time With curl, jq, and pizauth - 2023-04-13 - - PDF
Lindows 4.0 (2003) — Daniil Baturin - 2023-04-13 - - PDF
Microsoft is Slowly Rolling Out Ads in Windows 11 Start Menu - 2023-04-13 - - PDF - The latest Windows 11 update adds promotional ‘notifications’ to bait users into using services like OneDrive.
avahi - mDNS/DNS-SD - 2023-04-12 - - PDF
Tailscale sucks - 2023-04-12 - - PDF - In which I liberate a robot vacuum cleaner from the cloud, and run Tailscale on it.
Introducing BloombergGPT, Bloomberg’s 50-billion parameter large language model, purpose-built from scratch for finance | Press | Bloomberg LP - 2023-04-11 - PDF - BloombergGPT is a 50-billion parameter large language model that was purpose-built from scratch for finance.
My Rancher Parents Hate Wolves. I Took Them on a Wolf-Watching Tour in Yellowstone to Change Their Minds. - Outside Online - 2023-04-11 - PDF - Wolves are my favorite animal, but my parents see them as the enemy that kills their livestock
Supabase Logs: open source logging server - 2023-04-11 - - PDF
Dashcam Footage Shows Driverless Cars Clogging San Francisco | WIRED - 2023-04-10 - - PDF - Videos obtained by WIRED from public transit vehicles reveal self-driving cars causing delays and potential danger to buses, trains, and passengers.
supabase/supavisor: A cloud-native, multi-tenant Postgres connection pooler. - 2023-04-09 - - PDF - A cloud-native, multi-tenant Postgres connection pooler. - supabase/supavisor: A cloud-native, multi-tenant Postgres connection pooler.
Closing a stale SSH connection | DIDEV - 2023-04-09 - - PDF - Suppose you’re connected to a remote host with SSH and after a while the SSH session goes stale. The terminal is unresponsive and no keypress seem to take effect. There might be something with the network, the remote host is restarting or maybe your machine has been in hibernation, there could be multiple reasons for a stale session. The first solution that might come to mind is to just close the terminal emulator and create another one, but there is a better way.
Australia says U.S. facial recognition software firm Clearview breached privacy law | Reuters - 2023-04-09 - PDF - An Australian regulator on Wednesday ordered U.S. facial recognition software company Clearview AI Inc to stop collecting images from websites and destroy data collected in the country after an investigation found it breached privacy laws.
I Road-Tested Three Cults Around Melbourne - 2023-04-09 - PDF - Am I a Moonie, a Scientologist, or a Hare Krishna?
This USPS facility in Utah does nothing but decipher your bad handwriting - 2023-04-09 - - PDF - Neither rain, nor snow, nor heat, nor terrible penmanship nor perfect cursive will keep the postal service from delivering your mail.
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows - 2023-04-08 - - PDF - “Creates beautiful new words that we need but do not yet have.” — John Green, author of The Fault in...
Birrarung Trial Floating Wetlands - City of Melbourne - 2023-04-08 - PDF - City of Melbourne is installing floating wetlands in the Yarra River as part of a trial funded by the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP).
How to Beat Roulette: One Gambler Figured It Out and Won Big - 2023-04-07 - PDF - For decades, casinos scoffed as mathematicians and physicists devised elaborate systems to take down the house. Then an unassuming Croatian’s winning strategy forever changed the game.
A clipboard for your tailnet with Telltail: Q&A with developer Ajit Singh - 2023-04-07 - PDF - Telltail is a Go application that allows different machines on your tailnet to copy and paste text with a shared clipboard. We caught up with its developer Ajit Singh for a Tailscale Q&A about how it came together.
Over 60 million people could have their tax returns automatically done by the IRS - Vox - 2023-04-07 - - PDF - "Automatic returns" could vastly simplify tax season for millions of people.
Voice to Parliament referendum question and constitutional amendment announced - ABC News - 2023-04-06 - PDF - Prime Minister Anthony Albanese reveals the proposed question Australians will be asked at the Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum later this year, as well as the proposed change to the constitution.
Unravelling the 80-year-old mystery of the woman found in a wych elm in Hagley Wood - ABC News - 2023-04-06 - PDF - Four teenage boys were trespassing on an aristocrat’s property when they found a human skull hidden in a tree. Eighty years on, the mystery of why she was put in a wych elm continues to haunt this English village. WARNING: This article contains details readers might find distressing.
Many of my own people tell me they don't understand the Voice - ABC News - 2023-04-06 - PDF - Aunty Patty Undi is sitting next to me in a place of our ancestors. She is an old lady now and she is wondering does this nation — Australia — truly care for us? Many of my own people don't know who to trust and they wonder if the Voice will truly speak for them, writes Stan Grant
Are you a man born in 1970? You might live to be 141 - 2023-04-06 - - PDF - Increasing life expectancy means maximum human age could be reached, say scientists
JSON vs XML With Douglas Crockford - CoRecursive Podcast - 2023-04-06 - - PDF - Today's guest is Douglas Crockford. He's sharing the story of JSON, his discovery of JavaScript's good parts, and his approach to finding a simple way to build software. Also, his battles against XML, against complexity, his battles to say that there's a better way to build software. This is foundational stuff for the web, and Doug is an iconoclast. […]
The Day Windows Died - 2023-04-06 - - PDF - As a longtime user of Windows, it was my first choice when preparing the first computer for my son. But that didn't work out as expected.
Rethinking Paris: France braces for 4°C warming in “turning point” strategy | RenewEconomy - 2023-04-06 - PDF - Paris plans to use 2024 Olympics as a showcase for urban climate adaptation, including proposals to deal with 4°C of warming.
I’m an ER doctor: Here’s what I found when I asked ChatGPT to diagnose my patients | by Inflect Health | Apr, 2023 | Medium - 2023-04-06 - - PDF - ChatGPT recently passed the U.S. Medical Licensing Exam, but using it for a real-world medical diagnosis would quickly turn deadly.
How Paris Pulled Off What New York and London Can Only Dream About - 2023-04-06 - - PDF
Remembering Bob Lee | Hacker News - 2023-04-05 - PDF
What CTOs Say vs. What Their Developers Hear w/ DataStax's Shankar Ramaswamy - 2023-04-05 - PDF - From the archives: As we progress through Season 3, we thought it would be nice to look back at some of our best episodes that haven’t been posted to our Substack page. This episode was originally published on February 5th, 2022. Enjoy! Anyone who’s been in a rapidly scaling company with an ever-expanding engineering team knows that communication is never as simple as it seems.
script(1) - Linux manual page - 2023-04-05 - - PDF
Five hurricanes and 240 days later: Australian woman rows 14,000km solo across the Pacific | Queensland | The Guardian - 2023-04-05 - PDF - Michelle Lee, a 50-year-old massage therapist, reached the Queensland coast on Wednesday after leaving Mexico on 8 August
Saying Goodbye to GitHub - 2023-04-03 - - PDF
how-software-companies-die - 2023-04-03 - - PDF - GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
Bullsh*t Jobs - 2023-04-01 - - PDF - Doing meaningless work is not a new concept. After automation started to get wider adoption in the second part of the 20th century, people were eagerly
Bullsh*t Jobs - 2023-04-01 - - PDF - Doing meaningless work is not a new concept. After automation started to get wider adoption in the second part of the 20th century, people were eagerly
Vim prank: alias vim='vim -y' - 2023-04-01 - - PDF - Vim easy mode is tough to use for seasoned users!

March 2023

Tailscale Funnel now available in beta · Tailscale - 2023-03-30 - - PDF - Tailscale Funnel, a tool that lets you share a web server on your private tailnet with the public internet, is now available as a beta feature for all users. With Funnel enabled, you can share access to a local development server, test a webhook, or even host a blog.
Six things to do today to boost your borrowing power by $130k - realestate.com.au - 2023-03-30 - PDF - The average person could add $130,000 to their borrowing power by taking six clear steps from the comfort of their couch – and a warning, one of them involves getting stuck in with scissors.
S3 as an Eternal Service - 2023-03-30 - - PDF
Gergely Orosz on Twitter: "What I am hearing: GitHub’s India engineering team is no more. Yesterday, the complete dev team was let go at once. We’re talking of ~100 engineers. Engineers speculate this was done as teams were smaller than other locations, owning fewer & lower priority stuff. My thoughts:" / Twitter - 2023-03-29 - - PDF - “What I am hearing: GitHub’s India engineering team is no more. Yesterday, the complete dev team was let go at once. We’re talking of ~100 engineers. Engineers speculate this was done as teams were smaller than other locations, owning fewer & lower priority stuff. My thoughts:”
I Am Going Blind, and I Now Find It Strangely Exhilarating - 2023-03-29 - PDF
TaxyAI/browser-extension: Automate your browser with GPT-4 - 2023-03-29 - - PDF - Automate your browser with GPT-4. Contribute to TaxyAI/browser-extension development by creating an account on GitHub.
Poor man’s islands architecture. How to implement a simple component… | by Hajime Yamasaki Vukelic | Mar, 2023 | Better Programming - 2023-03-28 - PDF - How to implement a simple component islands loader in plain JS
Quicker serverless Postgres connections - Neon - 2023-03-28 - - PDF - Neon’s serverless driver redirects the PostgreSQL TCP wire protocol over WebSockets. This makes ordinary, fully-functional PostgreSQL connections accessible from new environments — including serverless platforms like Cloudflare Workers and Vercel Edge Functions. A key feature of these environments is that state is not generally persisted from one request to the next. That means we can’t […]
Keeping up with the overwhelming pace of AI innovation - 2023-03-28 - - PDF - Or, what increasingly feels like we're living life inside of an exponential function
Apple introduces Apple Pay Later - Apple - 2023-03-28 - - PDF - Apple today introduced Apple Pay Later, which allows users to split purchases into four payments, spread over six weeks with no interest and no fees.
Fast Unix Commands | Alex Saveau - 2023-03-28 - - PDF - Fast Unix Commands (FUC) is a project that aims to create the world’s fastest Unix commands. Currently, this means rm and cp replacements named rmz and cpz (the ‘z’ stands for “zippy”). When better performance cannot be achieved, the next highest priority is efficiency. In practice, rmz appears to be the fastest file deleter available while cpz wins in most cases, only losing in flat directory hierarchies.
Introducing Custom OIDC · Tailscale - 2023-03-28 - - PDF - At Tailscale, we don’t want your users (or us) managing a separate list of usernames and passwords, which is why you must use single sign-on with an identity provider to create and manage your network. Until now, that meant you needed to choose from a handful of trusted identity providers including Google, Okta, GitHub, and Azure AD. Custom OIDC, now in open beta (and available for everyone), changes all that. New users can set up custom OIDC and sign in at login.tailscale.com/start/oidc, and existing customers can contact our support team to request account migration.
"Huge hit" to coal and gas as hard cap and pollution trigger added to Safeguard reforms | RenewEconomy - 2023-03-27 - PDF - Labor and Greens agree to raft of changes to Safeguard Mechanism, including new measures the Greens say will put new coal and gas projects “on the ropes.”
Video Rendering with Node.js and FFmpeg - 2023-03-27 - - PDF
Learning face-to-face with actual scientists, students can now plot their own career path in science - 2023-03-27 - PDF
SQLite Forum: The craziest thing I ever used SQLite for: partial file deduplication - 2023-03-27 - - PDF
PaLM-E: An Embodied Multimodal Language Model - 2023-03-27 - - PDF - Project page for PaLM-E: An Embodied Multimodal Language Model.
E-Prime - Wikipedia - 2023-03-27 - - PDF
When Will AI Take Your Job? - by Tomas Pueyo - 2023-03-27 - - PDF - Cristiano Ronaldo makes 100 times more money than Pelé did in his prime. If you understand why, you’ll know when to expect an AI to take your job.
Easy PostgreSQL Time Bins - 2023-03-26 - - PDF - Paul has some fast and easy tricks to show you how to get time series data into nice reportable data charts. Using functions like floor(), generate_series(), width_bucket(), and date_bin() you can bin your data in groups any way you like and retrieve charts in a flash.
Ban 1+N in Django - 2023-03-26 - - PDF
Scientists Finally Figure Out Why the Water Bear is Nearly Indestructible - 2023-03-26 - PDF - Scientists Finally Figure Out Why the Water Bear is Nearly Indestructible
ChatGPT + Code Interpreter = Magic – @AndrewMayne - 2023-03-26 - - PDF - tl;dr: OpenAI is testing the ability to run code and use third-party plugins in ChatGPT. OpenAI has announced that we’re developing plugins for ChatGPT that will extend its capabilities. [Link] Plu…
Updates from the 95th TC39 meeting - DEV Community - 2023-03-25 - PDF - There were several items on the agenda, this post focuses on feature proposals and their progress...
How these art sleuths reunited a family after centuries apart : NPR - 2023-03-24 - - PDF - In 1626, a father and son sat for a portrait. Nearly 400 years later their story is still being examined by experts in Europe.
I Bought Back My Acquihired Startup - 2023-03-24 - - PDF
Tales of a Sardinian software engineer - 2023-03-24 - PDF - Functional Friday, Episode 2. Learning how to use ReScript expressions and how they compare to TypeScript and JavaScript
Post-GPT Computing | Grady Simon - 2023-03-24 - - PDF - Is software done now? Processing the the ChatGPT Plugins announcement.
Luitjes IT | InjectGPT: the most polite exploit ever - 2023-03-24 - - PDF
We updated our RSA SSH host key | The GitHub Blog - 2023-03-24 - - PDF - At approximately 05:00 UTC on March 24, out of an abundance of caution, we replaced our RSA SSH host key used to secure Git operations for GitHub.com.
A Eulogy for Dark Sky, a Data Visualization Masterpiece - 2023-03-23 - - PDF - A deep look at how the Dark Sky weather app used simple but highly effective charts to report and contextualize the weather.
Codeium - 2023-03-23 - - PDF - Codeium offers best in class AI code completion & search — all for free. It supports over 40+ languages and integrates with your favorite IDEs, with lightning fast speeds and state-of-the-art suggestion quality.
Pull vs push: intentional notifications — Secluded.Site - 2023-03-23 - - PDF
MRSK vs Fly.io · Fly - 2023-03-23 - - PDF - Comparison of MRSK and Fly.io
When did New York start building slowly? - by Brian Potter - 2023-03-23 - - PDF - It’s good to be able to build things quickly. The faster you build something, the quicker the benefits from it accrue, making it more valuable. Additionally, you can reallocate your resources to another project, letting you build more things overall. Building things faster also generally means building them cheaper. If you’re building slowly, you’re probably building inefficiently, spending more time and effort than is really required. It’s also hard to avoid accumulating costs as a project drags on: you end up with more financing costs, more project status meetings, more time spent getting people up to speed as the team working on the project changes. And the longer a project takes, the more chances there are for something to go horribly wrong. Bent Flyvbjerg, who has spent his career studying megaprojects (projects costing a billion dollars or more),
Cool frontend arts of local-first: storage, sync, conflicts—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog - 2023-03-22 - - PDF - Web applications often require an internet connection, but a fair chunk can also work offline. We show frontend engineers how to gracefully implement the big 3 local-first solutions: storage, synchronization, and conflict resolutions.
WeasyPrint - 2023-03-21 - - PDF - WeasyPrint, The Awesome Document Factory. Transform HTML and CSS into PDF documents.
Laying Out a Print Book With CSS - 2023-03-21 - - PDF
Ramda Documentation - 2023-03-21 - - PDF
href.li: hide your referrer - 2023-03-21 - - PDF - Make a short link with an expiry date.
The Inflight Entertainment Challenge - 2023-03-21 - - PDF
Collapses like SVB triggers demand for limited-edition corporate merch - 2023-03-21 - - PDF - Thanks to the internet, a new type of resale economy has risen around demand for merch from corporations with a spectacular fall from grace.
Tell HN: MailChimp blacklists your IP if you open the browser's dev tools | Hacker News - 2023-03-21 - PDF
I’ve been employed in tech for years, but I’ve almost never worked – Emmanuel Maggiori - 2023-03-21 - - PDF
refinedev/refine: Build your React-based CRUD applications, without constraints. - 2023-03-21 - - PDF - Build your React-based CRUD applications, without constraints. - refinedev/refine: Build your React-based CRUD applications, without constraints.
Australia Home Sold Price, Property Sales Data, Victoria, New South Wales, Sydney, Canberra, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth - 2023-03-20 - PDF
Shanty: about - 2023-03-20 - PDF
Shanty: map of Australian property prices! - 2023-03-20 - PDF - An interactive map for Australian historic property prices! Search for and filter past sales by address, suburb, date, price, building type, bedrooms, bathrooms, and carspaces.
The PostgreSQL Job Scheduler You Always Wanted - 2023-03-20 - PDF - We created a job scheduler built into PostgreSQL with no external dependencies. This is the power you always wanted, but with a few caveats.
Mind the gap: Using SQL functions for time-series analysis - 2023-03-20 - PDF - Write more efficient and readable queries with a new set of time-series analytic tools included in TimescaleDB 1.2
Leaving China - Persuasion - 2023-03-20 - - PDF - Why expatriates like me abandoned the futures we planned in China.
WTF are purple carrots and where did they come from? | Popular Science - 2023-03-20 - PDF - Where did the plum-colored carrot come from, and why is it showing up in my grocery store all of a sudden?
Why people misuse inheritance | Thoughts, solicited and otherwise - 2023-03-19 - PDF - Jimmy Koppel wrote a thread about inheritance: "The Flaws of Inheritance" by @CodeAesthetic1 is beautiful, as always.Problem though, is that none of the thin...
Copy-Paste from Website to Terminal - 2023-03-19 - - PDF
The dress - Wikipedia - 2023-03-19 - PDF
Mark Zuckerberg: "Please Resign" - Internal Tech Emails - 2023-03-19 - - PDF - This was an act of betrayal.
A Brief History of Time is ‘wrong’, Stephen Hawking told collaborator | Stephen Hawking | The Guardian - 2023-03-19 - - PDF - Thomas Hertog worked with cosmologist on a new book after he shared his doubts about A Brief History of Time
Theme Hospital - 2023-03-19 - PDF
Cachix 1.3: Uploads unleashed - Cachix Blog - 2023-03-19 - - PDF - Serving files is the bread and butter of Cachix. Fetching store paths from Cachix is fast — downloads are served directly from fast distributed cloud storage. Uploads, however, are a different story. Each upload still had to go directly through one of our servers, making our ingest bandwidth a scarce and highly contested resource during peak times. Many of our users rely on Cachix in their CI pipelines, where slower uploads lead to longer CI runs and a worse developer experience, which is why we’ve been busy reorganizing our internals to remove this bottleneck.
AI can fool voice recognition used to verify identity by Centrelink and Australian tax office | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian - 2023-03-18 - - PDF - Exclusive: Voiceprint program used by millions of Australians to access data held by government agencies shown to have a serious security flaw
AI can fool voice recognition used to verify identity by Centrelink and Australian tax office | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian - 2023-03-18 - - PDF - Exclusive: Voiceprint program used by millions of Australians to access data held by government agencies shown to have a serious security flaw
NAB launches Sharia loan product into Australian Islamic finance market tipped to be worth $250b - ABC News - 2023-03-18 - PDF - Australia's finance sector is tapping into the Islamic market, with one of the country's biggest lenders today launching a Sharia compliant loan and smaller institutions vying to become the first bank for the nation's Muslim population.
Here’s how to participate in Monday’s oral arguments - Internet Archive Blogs - 2023-03-18 - - PDF - We’re standing up for the digital rights of all libraries in court! On Monday at 1pm ET, the Southern District of New York will hear oral argument in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the lawsuit against our library and the longstanding library practice of controlled digital lending, brought by 4 of the world’s largest publishers. Here’s […]
Streaming | Remix - 2023-03-17 - PDF
The Modern Web Sucks :: Thomas Pain - 2023-03-16 - PDF - And what can be done about it
docopt—language for description of command-line interfaces - 2023-03-16 - - PDF
Introducing react.dev - 2023-03-16 - - PDF
What the fuck is a closure? ・ Dan’s JavaScript Glossary - 2023-03-16 - - PDF - Dan’s JavaScript Glossary
The Future of Data Fetching in React | Niraj Chauhan - 2023-03-15 - PDF - React has recently announced the development of a new hook that will provide first-class support for Promises.
ChatGPT — Release Notes | OpenAI Help Center - 2023-03-15 - - PDF - The latest update for ChatGPT
Things DBs Don't Do - But Should - 2023-03-15 - - PDF
Duolingo Max Uses OpenAI’s GPT-4 For New Learning Features - 2023-03-15 - - PDF
NAPLAN results inform schools, parents and policy. But too many kids miss the tests altogether - 2023-03-15 - PDF
Thai authorities searching for missing radioactive cylinder taken from coal power plant - ABC News - 2023-03-15 - PDF - A cylinder containing radioactive material has gone missing in a Thai province around 160 kilometres east of Bangkok, sparking a wide-scale search.
The next generation of AI for developers and Google Workspace - 2023-03-15 - - PDF
Why some GitHub labels illegible - 2023-03-15 - - PDF - Source of Moritz Firsching’s web page
Mount Gambier man Ryan Anthony Chambers declared dead after 17-year search - ABC News - 2023-03-14 - PDF - Ryan Anthony Chambers was last seen in August 2005, but extensive searches to find him have proven unsuccessful
Spirit of Tasmania ferry operator and ex-polo captain both convicted and fined following 2018 polo pony deaths - ABC News - 2023-03-14 - PDF - After more than half a decade, a Tasmanian ferry operator and a former Australian polo captain have been ordered to pay thousands of dollars in fines in relation to the deaths of 16 polo ponies.
Australia begins its nuclear age as AUKUS overcomes years of submarine struggles - ABC News - 2023-03-14 - PDF - From a dalliance with Japan, to an extended French flirt, Australia's now firmly back in the bosom of its Anglosphere allies during a meandering and disjointed journey to find its next generation submarine fleet and with that, Australia's nuclear age has begun, writes Andrew Probyn.
Over 2,300 MS-DOS games now completely free to play at Internet Archive - 2023-03-14 - PDF
Ask HN: Small scripts, hacks and automations you're proud of? | Hacker News - 2023-03-13 - PDF
after some work minutes, lock the screen requiring password entry, and disable the keyboard for a few minutes, delaying possibility of unlock and forcing break minutes - 2023-03-13 - PDF
charmbracelet/gum: A tool for glamorous shell scripts 🎀 - 2023-03-13 - - PDF - A tool for glamorous shell scripts 🎀. Contribute to charmbracelet/gum development by creating an account on GitHub.
Bhupesh-V/ugit: 🚨️ ugit helps undo git commands. Your damage control git buddy. Undo from 20+ git scenarios. - 2023-03-13 - PDF
SIVB: Held-to-Mortem Governance - by Mike - 2023-03-13 - - PDF - When did Silicon Valley Bank insiders begin to realize they were potentially in trouble?
Official Google Blog: A second spring of cleaning - 2023-03-13 - - PDF - Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
murex shell guide - 2023-03-13 - - PDF - $SHELL featuring smart error handling, data-types, builtin testing framework, usability improvements, etc
Emacs is Not Just An Editor - 2023-03-13 - - PDF
Who reads your email? - 2023-03-10 - - PDF - A look at diversity of MX records across all gTLDs and the Top 1M domains, indicating where SMTP is concentrated and what organizations might have broad access to the world's emails.
3 Mistakes I Made as an Engineer, but Had To Become a Manager To See - 2023-03-10 - - PDF - I was shocked at how obvious my mistakes as an engineer became after my perspective changed. Taking on manager responsibilities for the first time revealed mistakes I had made as an engineer. Here are the top three things I could only see after becoming a manager.
New research shows ancestral Māori adapted quickly in the face of rapid climate change - 2023-03-10 - - PDF - A more precise timeline now shows Polynesian ancestors of Māori first settled in the North Island before expanding south and then retreating again when the climate changed.
Protomaps | Serverless Maps - Now Open Source - 2023-03-10 - - PDF - Accelerating Protomaps with a CDN for fast and affordable maps
Upload Anything: How We Revolutionized Data Upload - 2023-03-10 - PDF - Upload a CSV, XLS, SHP, GeoJson, GDB, KML, GML, OSM, GPX, or even image files, & it just works in Felt. Here's how we delivered this buttery smooth experience.
Free The Game Boy - 2023-03-09 - - PDF -
In Scramble for Clean Energy, Europe Is Turning to North Africa - Yale E360 - 2023-03-09 - - PDF - In its quest for green energy, Europe is looking to North Africa, where vast solar and wind farms are proliferating and plans call for submarine cables that will carry electricity as far as Britain. But this rush for clean power is raising serious environmental concerns.
Losing Signal - 2023-03-09 - - PDF - Losing Signal écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.
The Quest for Netflix on Asahi Linux | Blog - 2023-03-09 - - PDF
The Internet’s Richest Fitness Resource Is a Site from 1999 | The New Yorker - 2023-03-09 - - PDF - Exrx.net is little changed since the days of Yahoo GeoCities and dial-up and saying “www” aloud. Yet beneath its bare-bones interface is a deep physiological compendium.
The never-ending story? More delays in return-to-service at both Callide C3 and C4 - WattClarity - 2023-03-08 - PDF - A short article today noting the additional delays in return-to-service expectations for both Callide C3 and C4.
Collating widely available time/money trades - LessWrong - 2023-03-08 - - PDF - In the xkcd comic Working, a man is seen filling up his gas tank. "Why are you going here", says the observer, "Gas is ten cents a gallon cheaper at the station five minutes that way". He responds "B…
diziet | Never use git submodules - 2023-03-08 - - PDF
Gas industry knew about air pollution problems from stoves in early 1970s | RenewEconomy - 2023-03-07 - PDF - As industry fights to discredit current research on health impacts of gas stoves, newly revealed documents show it was a concern five decades ago.
CSS System Colors - 2023-03-06 - - PDF
Reliability: It's Not Great - General - Fly.io - 2023-03-06 - - PDF - The last four months have been rough. We’ve had more issues than we’re OK with. I’ve hesitated to share this because, well, I’m fighting a debilitating feeling of failure. Fear, too. If we don’t improve, our company ceases to exist, and I really like working on this company. One interesting problem we have is that we’ve exploded in popularity. It sounds like a good problem to have! But we’ve pushed the platform past what it was originally built to do. We’ve put a lot of work and resources into...
The Edge Computing Opportunity: It’s Not What You Think - 2023-03-06 - - PDF - Cloudflare Workers® is one of the largest, most widely used edge computing platforms. We announced Cloudflare Workers nearly three years ago and it's been generally available for the last two years.
The World's Smallest Hash Table | orlp.net - 2023-03-06 - - PDF
"Huge flaw" in safeguard design could double emissions task for non-fossil industries | RenewEconomy - 2023-03-06 - PDF - Report finds critical industries like steel, aluminium and cement will carry the weight of coal and gas under Labor’s Safeguard Mechanism reboot.
2022 letter | Dan Wang - 2023-03-05 - - PDF - Becoming a barbarian; an ideological revelry; lockdown; sweetgrass and banana leafs; crankiness; delightful animals; to the mountains
We're never getting rid of ChatGPT - Xe Iaso - 2023-03-05 - - PDF - We're never getting rid of ChatGPT - Xe's Blog
Intro to Content Defined Chunking - 2023-03-05 - - PDF
New repository format for faster and smaller updates | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository - 2023-03-04 - - PDF - We just released version 1.16 of the official F-Droid client app forAndroid which includes many radical changes under the hood as well as manybug fixes for l...
Could we make the web more immersive using a simple optical illusion? – Spatial Commerce Projects – A Shopify lab exploring the crossroads of spatial computing and commerce; creating concepts, prototypes, and tools. - 2023-03-04 - - PDF - In the history of mind-blowing tech demos there is one that stands out, and that is Johnny Lee’s Wii Remote hack to create VR displays:
This geologist found the oldest water on earth—in a Canadian mine - Macleans.ca - 2023-03-02 - - PDF - The billion-year-old water might help unlock one of humanity's biggest unanswered questions: Could there be life on other planets?
You Cannot Have Exactly-Once Delivery – Brave New Geek - 2023-03-02 - - PDF - I’m often surprised that people continually have fundamental misconceptions about how distributed systems behave. I myself shared many of these misconceptions, so I try not to demean or dismi…
What time is it on moon? Europe pushing for lunar time zone - 2023-03-02 - - PDF
Aboriginal Australian genomes reveal Indian ancestry - 2023-03-01 - - PDF
Reverse Engineering A Mysterious UDP Stream in My Hotel - Gokberk Yaltirakli - 2023-03-01 - - PDF - Hey everyone, I have been staying at a hotel for a while. It’s one of those modern ones with smart TVs and other connected goodies. I got curious and opened Wireshark, as any tinkerer would do.
Chess Insights | Blog • lichess.org - 2023-03-01 - PDF - Reach chess enlightenment through analysis of your playing style.
Stop saying “technical debt” - 2023-03-01 - - PDF
Rooftop solar poised to become Australia's biggest power source amid coal's demise - ABC News - 2023-03-01 - - PDF - A new report says more than 3.4 million Australian customers have a rooftop solar system, with the rate of new installations running at roughly 300,000 a year, accelerating the decline of fossil fuel-fired power.

February 2023

Beeper — All your chats in one app. Yes, really. - 2023-02-28 - - PDF - A single app to chat on iMessage, WhatsApp, and 13 other chat networks. You can search, snooze, or archive messages. And with a unified inbox, you’ll never miss a message again.
The lone developer problem - 2023-02-28 - - PDF - If a single programmer builds something, it can be hard for others to maintain later.
Homepage | Civet - 2023-02-27 - - PDF - With Civet, you can enjoy a more concise and readable syntax while leveraging the power of TypeScript. Check out the documentation and resources on our website to learn more about Civet and how to use it effectively
What Is Scope 4? Reporting Avoided CO2 Emissions & More - 2023-02-27 - PDF - The term Scope 4 is used to describe avoided emissions as well as home-working emissions in some situations. We explore both concepts and the importance of their consideration in full scope carbon reporting.
Meet the Runner Who Leads Every Pack and Then Vanishes - 2023-02-27 - - PDF
Getting around website paywalls with devtools alone | Brad Barrows' Blog - 2023-02-27 - - PDF - Brad Barrows' Blog
From Go on EC2 to Fly.io: +fun, −$9/mo - 2023-02-27 - - PDF - How I switched hosting my Go-based side projects from Amazon EC2 to Fly.io, significantly simplified deployment, and saved a bit of cash while I was at it.
I'm All-In on Server-Side SQLite · Fly - 2023-02-27 - - PDF - Ben Johnson has joined Fly.io
ER diagrams with SQL and Mermaid - Pavlo Golub - 2023-02-26 - PDF - Generate an ER diagram for a PostgreSQL database using plain SQL and Mermaid. Explore entity relationship diagrams for architecture/ dev
some more about Spain (especially financial) - Eli Bendersky's website - 2023-02-26 - PDF
Using GoatCounter for blog analytics - Eli Bendersky's website - 2023-02-26 - PDF
A first look at Bun: is it really 3x faster than Node.js and Deno? - DEV Community - 2023-02-26 - PDF - Love it or hate it, the JavaScript tooling landscape is the subject of a lot of chatter yet...
How to Protect Your Career From a ChatGPT Future - 2023-02-26 - - PDF - ChatGPT has taken the world by storm and soon we'll see how careers are affected. Prepare for the future of work and protect your career with our guide on how to secure your job from the rise of AI and automation.
Mantine - 2023-02-26 - - PDF - React components and hooks library with native dark theme support and focus on usability, accessibility and developer experience
Primitives – Radix UI - 2023-02-26 - - PDF - An open-source React component library for building high-quality, accessible design systems and web apps.
Victor Mota - 2023-02-26 - - PDF
DNSFS. Store your files in others DNS resolver caches - 2023-02-26 - - PDF
analysis - Average centipawn loss - Chess Stack Exchange - 2023-02-24 - PDF
National security: Would an enemy really try to blow up an offshore wind farm in Australia? | RenewEconomy - 2023-02-24 - PDF - Federal energy minister Chris Bowen asked if offshore wind turbines are a threat to national security because an enemy could blow them up. In Europe, it’s a valid question.
AirGradient Open Air Outdoor Air Quality Monitor - 2023-02-23 - - PDF - Open-source / open-hardware low cost outdoor air quality monitor to enable citizen science projects around the world with a trusted and accurate design.
thibault's Blog • Starting from scratch • lichess.org - 2023-02-22 - PDF - If you had to start Lichess from scratch, what would you change?
My favourite 3 lines of CSS | Andy Bell - 2023-02-21 - - PDF - In Every Layout, we wrote about The Stack. It’s a marriage of Heydon’s Lobotomised Owl selector and my method of managing Flow and Rhythm with CSS Custom Properties. .stack > * + * { margin-bloc…
My class required AI. Here's what I've learned so far. - 2023-02-20 - - PDF - (Spoiler alert: it has been very successful, but there are some lessons to be learned)
Cave Clan - 2023-02-20 - PDF - Australia's foremost Urban Exploration group.
The world’s 1st modern airliner - Boeing - 2023-02-20 - - PDF - The innovative Boeing Model 247 made its first flight 90 years ago.
You kinda want an orange favicon. - 2023-02-20 - PDF
Welcome To Partytown - 2023-02-20 - - PDF - Partytown - Run third-party scripts from a web worker
Welcome To Partytown - 2023-02-20 - - PDF - Partytown - Run third-party scripts from a web worker
The state of gRPC in the browser | gRPC - 2023-02-19 - - PDF - gRPC 1.0 was released in August 2016 and has since grown to become one of the premier technical solutions for application communications. It has been adopted by startups, enterprise companies, and open source projects worldwide. Its support for polyglot environments, focus on performance, type safety, and developer productivity has transformed the way developers design their architectures.
sips: Scriptable image processing system | Simon Willison’s TILs - 2023-02-19 - - PDF - I wanted to convert some `.webp` images to `.png` on my Mac. I asked ChatGPT: > On MacOS use CLI to convert webp images to PNG And it told me about `sips`: sips -s format png image.webp --out i
Reminder: Why You Can’t View Images Directly In Google Image Search - 2023-02-18 - PDF - In early 2018, Google made a few changes to the way Image Search works, the biggest tweak being the removal...
Type Constraints in 65 lines of SQL - 2023-02-17 - - PDF - Creating validated data types in Postgres
Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today? | Hacker News - 2023-02-17 - PDF
Strapi - Open source Node.js Headless CMS 🚀 - 2023-02-17 - - PDF - Strapi is the next-gen headless CMS, open-source, javascript, enabling content-rich experiences to be created, managed and exposed to any digital device.
GPT for second brains · Reasonable Deviations - 2023-02-17 - - PDF
A Proposal For Type Syntax in JavaScript - TypeScript - 2023-02-17 - - PDF - Today we’re excited to announce our support and collaboration on a new Stage 0 proposal to bring optional and erasable type syntax to JavaScript. Because this new syntax wouldn’t change how surrounding code runs, it would effectively act as comments. We think this has the potential to make TypeScript easier and faster to use for development at every scale.
Writing Javascript without a build system - 2023-02-17 - - PDF
Buildless JavaScript - 2023-02-17 - - PDF
Sorting 400+ Chrome tabs in seconds | QotNews - 2023-02-17 - PDF - {{ description }}
Troy Hunt: Banks, Arbitrary Password Restrictions and Why They Don't Matter - 2023-02-17 - - PDF - Allow me to be controversial for a moment: arbitrary password restrictions on banks such as short max lengths and disallowed characters don't matter. Also, allow me to argue with myself for a moment: banks shouldn't have these restrictions in place anyway. I want to put forward cases for both arguments
Why This Bike Company Put a TV on Its Box - 2023-02-17 - - PDF - Dutch bike manufacturer VanMoof got fed up with how often U.S. shippers damaged its products—so they got creative
VanMoof Bike Hunters - Tracking Down Stolen Bikes - 2023-02-17 - - PDF - If they can’t find it in two weeks, they’ll give you a new one—guaranteed.
Reducing Tailscale’s binary size on macOS - 2023-02-17 - - PDF
Stop the War on Whistleblowers! - 2023-02-16 - PDF - Whistleblowers Richard Boyle & David McBride are going to be on trial for doing the right thing: calling out abuses of power of the Australian government. Contrary to that, the EU is pushing for better whistleblower protections. Will they succeed?
The Winograd Schema Challenge - 2023-02-16 - PDF
Try out CSS Nesting today - 2023-02-16 - - PDF
Would Rust secure cURL? - 2023-02-16 - - PDF
/random/RIIR - 2023-02-16 - - PDF - A blag
The US Airforce may have shot down an Amateur Radio Pico Balloon over Canada - 2023-02-16 - - PDF - Since the famous takedown of a suspected Chinese spy balloon, US jets have shot down a total of three more unidentified balloon objects, now confirmed to have been 'commercial or benign'. There is speculation that at least one these three objects may have been an amateur radio 'pico' balloon. One part of the amateur radio hobby is launching high altitude balloons with various radio and other payloads. Larger amateur radio balloons launched in the USA require FAA clearance, need a radar reflector attached, and usually continually transmit APRS telemetry before naturally popping and falling back to earth after a few
Status Checks in React Query | TkDodo's blog - 2023-02-16 - PDF - How the wrong status check order can negatively impact user experience
Using WebSockets with React Query | TkDodo's blog - 2023-02-16 - - PDF - A step-by-step guide on how to make real-time notifications work with react-query
HTML5DevConf: Alessandro Alinone, "...WebSockets for Real-Time Multiplayer Games and Collaboration" - YouTube - 2023-02-16 - PDF - More Than Just WebSockets for Real-Time Multiplayer Games and CollaborationTime: Tuesday @ 2:30pm | Room N-124The advent of WebSockets has made it easier to ...
React Awesome Query Builder - Examples - 2023-02-16 - PDF
Just Use Postgres for Everything | Amazing CTO - 2023-02-16 - - PDF - Startups use too much technology. My advice: Use Postgres for everything
What happens if you put HTTP server inside Postgres? - DEV Community 👩‍💻👨‍💻 - 2023-02-16 - PDF - Cover photo by Clark Tibbs on Unsplash Benchmarks and performance claims are attention-grabbers, but...
Layoff - 2023-02-15 - - PDF - Friday was my nine year anniversary. Monday I was laid off.
GitHub Next | Hey, GitHub! - 2023-02-15 - - PDF - GitHub Next Project: Write code without the keyboard. Difficulty typing? Use your voice to code without spelling things out by talking with GitHub Copilot.
Bing AI Can't Be Trusted - by Dmitri Brereton - DKB Blog - 2023-02-14 - - PDF - Microsoft knowingly released a broken product for short-term hype
Nope, coffee won't give you extra energy. It'll just borrow a bit that you'll pay for later - 2023-02-14 - - PDF - Feeling tired and groggy in the morning may well lead you to crave a coffee boost. But is it a gift or just a loan in terms of energy?
Home | Twind - 2023-02-13 - - PDF - The smallest, fastest, most feature complete tailwind-in-js solution in existence
observing/thor: The WebSocket god of thunder - 2023-02-13 - PDF - The WebSocket god of thunder. Contribute to observing/thor development by creating an account on GitHub.
PlanetScale: The world’s most advanced database platform - 2023-02-13 - - PDF - PlanetScale is the MySQL-compatible, serverless database platform.
Inside Airbnb: Melbourne - 2023-02-12 - PDF - Adding data to the debate
<dialog>: The Dialog element - HTML: HyperText Markup Language | MDN - 2023-02-12 - - PDF - The <dialog> HTML element represents a dialog box or other interactive component, such as a dismissible alert, inspector, or subwindow.
A Gentle Introduction to CRDTs - 2023-02-11 - - PDF
An Actual "Digital Town Square" - by Justin Hanagan - 2023-02-11 - PDF - What might a publicly owned social media platform look like?
U.S. shoots down car-sized unidentified object flying above Alaska | Reuters - 2023-02-11 - PDF - A U.S. F-22 fighter jet on Friday shot down an unidentified object flying high over Alaska, U.S. officials said, less than a week after the military brought down a Chinese balloon that had flown across the United States.
Regular Expressions make me feel like a powerful wizard – and that’s not a good thing – Terence Eden’s Blog - 2023-02-10 - - PDF - (This is a rant because I’m exhausted after debugging something. If you’ve made RegEx your whole personality, I’m sorry.) The other day I had to fix a multi-line Regular Expressio…
There Are Only Four Billion Floats–So Test Them All (2014) | QotNews - 2023-02-09 - PDF - {{ description }}
Shane Warne leaves bulk of his $20.7 million estate to his children - 2023-02-08 - PDF - The late cricketer divided most of his estate equally among his three children, including prime Melbourne real estate, cash and a car collection, probate documents show.
Passengers left out of the Loop as Metro cuts corners to run trains on time - 2023-02-08 - PDF - The number of trains skipping the City Loop has soared this year, new figures show, as Metro resorts to bypassing Melbourne's underground stations at near record levels to avoid running late.
Sisters are doin' it for themselves - 2023-02-02 - PDF - Call it teen power. Or the epitome of kawaii culture. Or a great marketing idea. Some may also detect a strange, Lolita-tinted vibe. But with their own TV, anime and manga series, as well as the record for "highest selling musical act in Japan in terms of singles sold", AKB48, with 48 members, are a long-standing Japanese idol girl-group known for their super-cute style and catchy tunes. It has been described as a national phenomenon in its country of origin, with a devoted fanbase that has followed the band's songs and merchandise since its inception over a decade ago in 2005.
Flightradar - 2023-02-02 - PDF
Artificial intelligence and the rise of optical computing - 2023-02-02 - - PDF
Introducing ChatGPT Plus - 2023-02-02 - - PDF - We’re launching a pilot subscription plan for ChatGPT, a conversational AI that can chat with you, answer follow-up questions, and challenge incorrect assumptions. The new subscription plan, ChatGPT Plus, will be available for $20/month, and subscribers will receive a number of benefits: * General access to ChatGPT, even during
The Rock 5 B is not a Raspberry Pi killer—yet - 2023-02-02 - - PDF
Where Does ChatGPT Fall on the Political Compass? - 2023-02-02 - - PDF
Eric Wallace (@Eric_Wallace_): "Models such as Stable Diffusion are trained on copyrighted, trademarked, private, and sensitive images. Yet, our new paper shows that diffusion models memorize images from their training data and emit them at generation time. Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13188 👇[1/9]" | Nitter | PussTheCat.org - 2023-02-01 - PDF - Models such as Stable Diffusion are trained on copyrighted, trademarked, private, and sensitive images. Yet, our new paper shows that diffusion models memorize images from their training data and emit them at generation time. Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13188 👇[1/9]
How to Visualize Your PostgreSQL Database with One Command (and Nothing to Install) - DEV Community 👩‍💻👨‍💻 - 2023-02-01 - PDF - Generate a diagram of your PostgreSQL database with one command.
How to visualize a PostgreSQL schema as SVG with SchemaSpy - DEV Community 👩‍💻👨‍💻 - 2023-02-01 - PDF - TLDR: Use the option -imageformat svg to generate an ER diagram in SVG format with SchemaSpy....

January 2023

Sun Cable sale process kicks off, plays up Singapore link and green hydrogen | RenewEconomy - 2023-01-31 - PDF - Sun Cable sales process officially begins, with the salesman playing up both the proposed Singapore link and the strong demand for green hydrogen.
Determine durations with monotonic clocks if available - 2023-01-30 - - PDF
🥺: the best sudo replacement - 2023-01-25 - - PDF
An Ideal CI/CD System - 2023-01-25 - - PDF - A good CI/CD system means developer productivity. What an ideal CI/CD system looks like today. Serverless – A CI/CD system should be serverless. There's no reason to be managing Jenkins or individual nodes. Managing CI/CD machines makes it really easy to introduce configuration and environment drift, which causes hard to trace down bugs. Container-native is usually a good choice, especially if you often deploy software inside containers, but anything that provides a real ephemeral environment i
The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security - 2023-01-25 - - PDF
Ways to improve your team's code quality - 2023-01-25 - - PDF
Bowen pushed Snowy to show "market leadership" on prices through energy crisis | RenewEconomy - 2023-01-24 - PDF - FOI documents reveal tensions between Bowen’s office and Snowy Hydro, a call to the utility to be a model corporate citizen in midst of market crisis, and a new solar farm proposal.
How Wine works 101 - 2023-01-24 - - PDF - Wine is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, macOS, & BSD (https://www.winehq.org). If you have been using Linux for some time now, chances are you’ve used Wine at some point. Maybe to run that one very important Windows program that doesn’t have a Linux version or maybe to play World of Warcraft or some other game. Fun fact, Valve’s Steam Deck uses a Wine-based solution to run games (called Proton).
Code reviews need to shift-left. We often talk about the idea of… | by Sourcery | Jan, 2023 | Medium - 2023-01-24 - - PDF - We often talk about the idea of “shifting-left” for testing code and security analysis to speed up development and reduce risks further on…
Small Victorian project tops performance rankings of Australian wind farms in 2022 | RenewEconomy - 2023-01-24 - PDF - The Kiata wind farm in Victoria may be small, but it is perfectly located, and has topped the rankings of best performing wind farms in 2022.
What is Mittens? A chess nightmare behind an innocent kitty bot | Esports.gg - 2023-01-23 - - PDF - Get to know Mittens, a Chess.com Cat Bot with an undisclosed rating that has wreaked cat-astrophe in the Chess dimension.
Chess Is Booming! And Our Servers Are Struggling. - 2023-01-23 - - PDF
my dream computer | a rickety bridge of impossible crossing - 2023-01-23 - - PDF - 🥇 Thanks to maya.land and goofpunk for sponsoring the blog! If you'd like to learn how to support my writing and get a shoutout here every week, check the sp...
Cannon-Brookes keeps world's biggest solar project alive with $65m zero interest loan | RenewEconomy - 2023-01-23 - PDF - Cannon-Brookes zero interest loan of $65 million will ensure the staff and vision of Sun Cable are retained while a sale is finalised.
Employees at TikTok Apparently Have a Secret Button That Can Make Anything Go Viral - 2023-01-22 - - PDF - TikTok employees reporetdly have access to a secret "heating" button. Hit that button, and content gets boosted — unbeknownst to users.
In 2023, India is set to overtake China as the world's most populous country : Goats and Soda : NPR - 2023-01-20 - PDF - Any day now, the United Nations will declare India's population the largest in the world. The country's next generation is poised to be healthier, more literate — and more female — than ever before.
how to completely own an airline in 3 easy steps - 2023-01-20 - - PDF - and grab the TSA nofly list along the way
Axolo | GitLab Slack integration bot for merge requests - 2023-01-19 - PDF - Axolo is a bidirectional GitLab-Slack integration bot to help tech teams reduce merge request time. Collaborate on merge requests in ephemeral channels.
No Start Menu for You | Random ASCII - tech blog of Bruce Dawson - 2023-01-18 - - PDF - I tend to launch most programs on my Windows 10 laptop by typing the <Win> key, then a few letters of the program name, and then hitting enter. On my powerful laptop (SSD and 32 GB of RAM) th…
Security Bulletins · Tailscale - 2023-01-18 - - PDF - Security notifications affecting the Tailscale client and service If you’re directly affected by a security issue in Tailscale, and we have your contact information, we will contact you.
Headless WYSIWYG Text Editor – Tiptap Editor - 2023-01-17 - PDF
They're rebuilding the Death Star of complexity - 2023-01-17 - - PDF - I started my career in programming during heydays of Java Enterprise Edition (J2EE). This was late 90s/early 00s, and there was a rich ecosystem of enterprise vendors hawking application servers, monitoring tools, and boxes upon boxes of other fancy solutions. These tools were difficult to learn, expensive to license, and required an a...
The Cab Ride I'll Never Forget | Kent Nerburn - 2023-01-16 - - PDF - The Cab Ride I'll Never Forget There was a time in my life twenty years ago when I was driving a cab for a living. It was a cowboy’s life, a gambler’s lif
Cables Detail CIA's Torture of Accused 9/11 Mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed - 2023-01-16 - PDF - Thirteen recently declassified cables reveal interrogators’ attempts to turn detainees into collaborators in the war against Al Qaeda.
150 International Organizations Call on Biden to Close Guantánamo on 21st Anniversary - 2023-01-16 - - PDF - Guantánamo Bay “is the iconic example of the abandonment of the rule of law,” the letter argues.
NSA asks congress to reauthorize warrantless data collection • The Register - 2023-01-16 - - PDF - Also: That Pokemon is actually a RAT, Uncle Sam fails a password audit
nix-shell and Shebang Lines - 2023-01-15 - - PDF - nix-shell and Shebang Lines. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
tRPC - Move Fast and Break Nothing. End-to-end typesafe APIs made easy. | tRPC - 2023-01-13 - - PDF - End-to-end typesafe APIs made easy. Automatic typesafety & autocompletion inferred from your API-paths, their input data, & outputs 🧙‍♂️
Old mice grow young again in study. Can people do the same? - 2023-01-13 - PDF
dependencies:reuse-cache (#3597459280) · Jobs · CORE / frontend · GitLab - 2023-01-13 - PDF - The frontend for the CORE markets app
World's biggest solar and battery project hangs in balance as Sun Cable enters administration | RenewEconomy - 2023-01-11 - PDF - Sun Cable enters voluntary administration amid hints of a falling out between the company’s two biggest backers, Mike Cannon-Brookes and Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest.
NT government downplays Sun Cable's voluntary administration as list of troubled major projects grows - 2023-01-11 - PDF
GitHub - joweich/chat-miner: Parsers and visualizations for chats - 2023-01-11 - - PDF - Parsers and visualizations for chats. Contribute to joweich/chat-miner development by creating an account on GitHub.
s14e06: Congratulations, Your App Has Apps In It Now - 2023-01-11 - - PDF - 0.0 Context Setting A not-rainy, nicely cloudy, not-too-cold morning in Portland, Oregon, on Tuesday 10 January, 2023. 1.0 Some Things That Caught My...
Ants Live 10 Times Longer by Altering Their Insulin Responses | Quanta Magazine - 2023-01-11 - - PDF - Queen ants live far longer than genetically identical workers. Researchers are learning what their longevity secrets could mean for aging in other species.
Gigabit internet is now a legal requirement for new homes in England - The Verge - 2023-01-10 - - PDF - It’s also now easier for tenants to install it into existing blocks of flats.
Story Points Revisited - 2023-01-08 - - PDF - This is RonJeffries.com, the combination of new articles, XProgramming, SameElephant, and perhaps even some new items never before contemplated. Copyright © 1998-forever Ronald E Jeffries
ssh whoami.filippo.io - 2023-01-08 - - PDF - I updated the whoami.filippo.io dataset! I explain how it works, and how I fetched the new data.
Introduction | Regolith Desktop - 2023-01-08 - - PDF
awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted: A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers - 2023-01-06 - - PDF - A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers - awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted: A list of Free Software network services and web appli...
Optimizing React performance without refs and memo | Alex Sidorenko - 2023-01-04 - PDF - Frequent state updates in React can lead to performance problems. How to fix this withohut using refs or memo?
underthebreach: "Breaking - Twitter database le…" - Infosec Exchange - 2023-01-04 - - PDF - Attached: 2 images Breaking - Twitter database leaks for free with 235,000,000 records. As I anticipated yesterday, the database was circulating heavily and is now leaked. The database contains 235,000,000 unique records of Twitter users and their email addresses and will unfortunately lead to a lot of hacking, targeted phishing, and doxxing. This is one of the most significant leaks I've seen. We also posted it on Twitter in case you are there too (https://twitter.com/RockHudsonRock/status/1610554406805671936)
Terrateam - 2023-01-04 - - PDF
Brian Moore (@lanewinfield): "I made this thing called LOL Verifier: a device that only lets you type lol if you’ve actually laughed out loud"|bird.trom.tf - 2023-01-04 - PDF - I made this thing called LOL Verifier: a device that only lets you type lol if you’ve actually laughed out loud
Solving a Dungeons & Dragons riddle using prolog - 2023-01-02 - - PDF - Solving a Dungeons & Dragons riddle using prolog. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
How a secret message in a Colombian song gave hostages hope - 2023-01-02 - - PDF
dbi Blog - 2023-01-02 - PDF - One of the features which is currently missing in PostgreSQL is Temporal Tables. Other database systems have that since a long time and many people want to have in PostgreSQL as well. If you don’t know what it is, here is a short overview. Basically you can ask for a row as it was at […]
Soft Deletion Probably Isn't Worth It — brandur.org - 2023-01-02 - - PDF
Easy, alternative soft deletion: `deleted_record_insert` — brandur.org - 2023-01-02 - - PDF
The state of HTTP in 2022 - 2023-01-02 - - PDF - So what happened at all of those working group meetings, specification documents, and side events in 2022? What are implementers and deployers of the web’s protocol doing? And what’s coming next?

December 2022

Jacek's Software Engineering Blog · Book Review: Algorithms to Live By - The Computer Science of Human Decisions - 2022-12-31 - - PDF
Critics of ‘hostile’ Myki say Melbourne doesn’t need a world-beating system – just one that works | Transport | The Guardian - 2022-12-31 - PDF - Tap-and-pay card outdated compared with more innovative transport systems that integrate credit cards and smartphones
Baida | HTTPS explained with carrier pigeons - 2022-12-31 - PDF - Personal website of Andrea Zanin
PostgREST 11 pre-release - 2022-12-29 - PDF
sup | drew dot shoes - 2022-12-29 - - PDF - When I was in junior high, my friends and I discovered that a Command Prompt command called net send was enabled on our school network. AIM and similar services were blocked, but if we wanted to send messages to each other we could open up the Command Prompt and type something like: net send lab2126-24 test and get an alert that looked like: The computer names were predictable, something like lab + room number + computer number, and the computer numbers were physically written on the machines themselves.
ealexandros/editable-antd-tree: This is an editable tree component based on antd. - 2022-12-28 - PDF - This is an editable tree component based on antd. Contribute to ealexandros/editable-antd-tree development by creating an account on GitHub.
Master Notifications With ChatGPT, React and NodeJS 🧨 - DEV Community 👩‍💻👨‍💻 - 2022-12-28 - PDF - TLDR; In this tutorial, you'll learn how to build a web application that allows you to...
Mapping the Hidden Patterns of Cities - Bloomberg - 2022-12-26 - PDF - Some cities’ roads follow regimented grids. Others twist and turn. See it all on one chart.
Building a website like it's 1999... in 2022 - localghost - 2022-12-26 - - PDF - I'm on a bit of a mission this year to bring back the spirit of the old web. The creativity and flair of the late 90s and early 2000s. So I've recreated some of that old web magic, in modern HTML, CSS and JS.
NBL plays on Christmas Day for first time, joins NBA, NFL and 1950's Test cricket in scheduling December 25 games - ABC News - 2022-12-24 - PDF - The National Basketball League is playing a match on Christmas Day for the first time this year, but Christmas Day sport is something of a staple in Australia's sporting history, including two previous Test matches at the Adelaide Oval.
Inside the Melbourne boxing gym with a neo-Nazi underbelly - 2022-12-24 - PDF - An investigation by The Age has uncovered links between Legacy Boxing Gym, in Sunshine West, some of Victoria’s most dangerous neo-Nazi activists, and a growing community of young men learning to box at the centre.
Turn Your Best Programmers into Managers - levelup Education - 2022-12-24 - - PDF - I'm one of a small, but growing, crowd who believe that People Who Make Software Happen (you may know them as "programmers")
Things to argue about over the holidays instead of politics - 2022-12-24 - - PDF - Report back on how it goes
Reverse Engineering Tiktok's VM Obfuscation (Part 1) - 2022-12-24 - - PDF - TikTok has a reputation for its aggressive data collection. The platform has implemented various methods to make it difficult for reverse-engineers to understand exactly what data is being collected and how it is being used.
GiorgosXou/TUIFIManager: A cross-platform terminal-based termux-oriented file manager (and component), meant to be used with a Uni-Curses project or as is. - 2022-12-24 - PDF - A cross-platform terminal-based termux-oriented file manager (and component), meant to be used with a Uni-Curses project or as is. - GiorgosXou/TUIFIManager: A cross-platform terminal-based termux...
Qantas flight makes emergency landing in Azerbaijan after fault indicator - 2022-12-23 - PDF - A Qantas flight to London from Singapore has made an emergency landing in Azerbaijan after pilots received an alert to the potential of smoke in the cargo hold.
LastPass says hackers stole customers’ password vaults | TechCrunch - 2022-12-23 - - PDF - The password manager giant said hackers stole both encrypted and unencrypted customer data, including password vaults.
bash - How can I interrupt or debounce an inotifywait loop? - Stack Overflow - 2022-12-23 - PDF
For Want of a JOIN - 2022-12-23 - - PDF
Why I gave up drinking in my early twenties - 2022-12-23 - - PDF - The obvious and unexpected difficulties of going sober
How superblocks can free up and improve CBD space for the people of Melbourne – a step-by-step guide - Centre for Urban Research - 2022-12-23 - PDF
Why and how you should be composing with Docker Compose | Brev docs - 2022-12-22 - PDF - How to manage multi-service, multi-environment dev environments/applications - with Docker Compose | Brev docs
Sneaking into an Uber parking lot to get your Development Environment up and running | Brev docs - 2022-12-22 - PDF - Paneau (YC W20) to Brev.dev. Why Configuring development environments were a painful challenge. | Brev docs
Time Travel with Serverless Postgres - Neon - 2022-12-22 - - PDF - Data recovery with database branching
Watch folder/files change with bash script - 2022-12-22 - PDF - One of the greatest thing about web development is instant gratification. If you make any changes to your HTML, CSS, or JavaScript all you have to do is refresh the browser page and your new changes w
Steampipe | select * from cloud; - 2022-12-21 - - PDF - Steampipe is an open source tool to instantly query your cloud services (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP and more) with SQL. No DB required.
jc | CLI tool and python library that converts the output of popular command-line tools, file-types, and common strings to JSON, YAML, or Dictionaries. This allows piping of output to tools like jq and simplifying automation scripts. - 2022-12-21 - - PDF - CLI tool and python library that converts the output of popular command-line tools, file-types, and common strings to JSON, YAML, or Dictionaries. This allows piping of output to tools like jq and simplifying automation scripts.
Ask HN: Why do search functions everywhere not return what I search for? | Hacker News - 2022-12-21 - PDF
Okta's source code stolen after GitHub repositories hacked - 2022-12-21 - PDF
Signed distance functions in 46 lines of Python - 2022-12-21 - - PDF - A walkthrough of 46 lines of code that render a 3D ASCII donut using signed distance functions.
How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub - 2022-12-20 - - PDF
Major Version Numbers are Not Sacred - 2022-12-20 - - PDF
Google Graveyard - Killed by Google - 2022-12-20 - - PDF - Killed by Google is the open source list of dead Google products, services, and devices. It serves as a tribute and memorial of beloved services and products killed by Google.
Death by AI - 2022-12-20 - - PDF - Death by AI is like Killed by Google but two words have been changed. A RIP-off!
Thailand launches rescue operation for 33 missing sailors after navy ship sinks - ABC News - 2022-12-19 - PDF - A search and rescue operation is underway for 33 missing crew from the HTMS Sukhothai, which sank overnight in choppy waters in the Gulf of Thailand.
South Gippsland removed from offshore wind zone after community concerns - ABC News - 2022-12-19 - PDF - South Gippsland residents have welcomed a new zone earmarked for offshore wind energy production in the Bass Strait, which now excludes waters west of Wilsons Promontory.
The Personal Analytics of My Life—Stephen Wolfram Writings - 2022-12-19 - PDF
Enhance Speech from Adobe | Free AI filter for cleaning up spoken audio - 2022-12-19 - - PDF - This AI audio filter improves spoken audio to make it sound like it was recorded in a soundproofed studio.
Neoen to add big battery to what is now Australia's biggest solar farm | RenewEconomy - 2022-12-19 - PDF - Neoen to add big battery to what is now the country’s biggest operating solar farm in Queensland.
Australia backs $2.7bn of big batteries to narrow gap to 100 pct renewables | RenewEconomy - 2022-12-18 - PDF - Australia to fund eight big battery projects with advanced “grid forming” inverters that will help close coal and narrow the gap to 100 pct renewables
Nicolas Mattia – Lockfile trick: Package an npm project with Nix in 20 lines - 2022-12-18 - PDF - Software Engineer based in Zurich who has a thing for functional programming, reproducible builds and infrastructure as code
Forced home sales set to rise as borrowers struggle with surging interest rates and mortgage repayments - ABC News - 2022-12-18 - PDF - Australian home owners are spending more of their income on mortgage repayments, and the pain is only set to worsen. Experts say some could be forced to sell.
The enduring value of an analogue technology | The Economist - 2022-12-17 - - PDF - When paper beats the screen
CodeImage - A tool to manage and beautify your code screenshots - 2022-12-16 - PDF - CodeImage is the newest tool to help developers to manage their snippets and create beautiful screenshots of their source code
Introducing WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in your browser - 2022-12-16 - - PDF - Today we're excited to announce WebContainers, a new type of WebAssembly-based operating system that boots instantly and enables Node.js environments to run natively in-browser.
Supabase Wrappers, a Postgres FDW framework written in Rust - 2022-12-16 - - PDF
What killed Haskell, could kill Rust, too - 2022-12-16 - - PDF - What killed Haskell, could kill Rust, too. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
Lichess & Scala 3 - 2022-12-15 - - PDF
Communications system achieves fastest laser link from space yet | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology - 2022-12-15 - - PDF - MIT Lincoln Laboratory, in partnership with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, built and designed a communications payload, TBIRD, which is demonstrating space-to-ground laser communications at unprecedented data rates.
Riffusion - 2022-12-15 - - PDF - Stable diffusion for real-time music generation
pg_crdt - an experimental CRDT extension for Postgres - 2022-12-14 - - PDF - Embedding Yjs and Automerge into Postgres for collaborative applications.
Painless NixOS server management - Shipnix - 2022-12-14 - - PDF - A simple way to manage your own NixOS web severs. Configure declaratively with no vendor lock-in.
BOM forecasters to be replaced by community information officers on radio programs - 2022-12-14 - PDF
BoM paid communication consultants almost $70,000 to rebrand it ‘the Bureau’ | Australia weather | The Guardian - 2022-12-14 - PDF - Staff were treated like ‘naughty school children’ if they slipped up and referred to Bureau of Meteorology by its common acronym
Fauci responds to Musk’s Twitter attack and rates world’s COVID response - 2022-12-14 - PDF
Blacked out: Contract for "world's most powerful battery" to be kept secret for now | RenewEconomy - 2022-12-14 - PDF - Waratah super battery is being built to help prevent black-outs after the closure of NSW coal generators. But details of its contract have been blacked out.
Goodbye Twitter, Hello Fediverse! - Xe Iaso - 2022-12-14 - PDF - Goodbye Twitter, Hello Fediverse! - Xe's Blog
Tailscale on the Fediverse · Tailscale - 2022-12-14 - - PDF - Hey everyone! The last few weeks have been something else eh? We want to make it easier for you to keep in touch with us. As such, we have created a Fediverse account on Hachyderm. Feel free to give us a follow if you want to keep up to date!
Userspace isn't slow, some kernel interfaces are! · Tailscale - 2022-12-14 - - PDF - We made significant improvements to the throughput of wireguard-go, which is the userspace WireGuard® implementation that Tailscale uses. What this means for you: improved performance of the Tailscale client on Linux. We intend to upstream these changes to WireGuard as well.
The Lengths People Go To Just To Avoid DNSSEC - 2022-12-13 - - PDF
No, Google Did Not Hike the Price of a .dev Domain from $12 to $850 - 2022-12-13 - - PDF
After spending 20 years simulating reality, the Dwarf Fortress devs have to get used to a new one: being millionaires | PC Gamer - 2022-12-13 - - PDF - With 300,000 sales and counting, Dwarf Fortress's creators no longer have to rely on Patreon donations.
ATO's director ID system deadline looms, with more than 1 million people facing $13,000 fines - ABC News - 2022-12-13 - PDF - There are concerns that up to 1 million Australians are in the dark about a looming tax office requirement — or know about it and are putting off an administrative headache — with just a week until it becomes law.
How to steal a website and how to prevent it - DEV Community 👩‍💻👨‍💻 - 2022-12-13 - PDF - A quick showcase of how someone proxy-mirrored my website, and it was super difficult to catch or prevent it.
Explainer: How do floating wind turbines work? | RenewEconomy - 2022-12-13 - PDF - California has awarded it first floating wind farm leases. Why and when do we need floating wind farms – and how do they work?
Brendan O'Leary 🐢 · GitLab - 2022-12-12 - PDF - Sr. Developer Evangelist
Just Use Postgres for Everything | Amazing CTO - 2022-12-12 - - PDF - Startups use too much technology. My advice: Use Postgres for everyting
Massive Tasmania wind farm approved - on condition it shuts down for five months a year | RenewEconomy - 2022-12-12 - PDF - Huge Robbins Island wind farm gets green light from EPA, on condition it is shut down for five months each year to protect endangered parrot.
Labor has a hard sell ahead of it for voters who expect their energy bills to fall - 2022-12-11 - PDF
AI learns to write computer code in ‘stunning’ advance - 2022-12-11 - - PDF
Creating aerial imagery with a bike helmet camera (GoPro) and OpenDroneMap - 2022-12-11 - - PDF
Printer Facts - 2022-12-11 - PDF
Codux | Visual IDE for React - 2022-12-08 - - PDF - Develop React components fluidly and faster, all in one visual IDE. Codux enables you to visually edit your own code and see changes reflected instantly, everywhere.
systemd.timer, an alternative to cron - Andrew Pillar's Blog - 2022-12-08 - - PDF - There will come a point in time during your time administering a Linux server where you will want to perform a job on a schedule. Perhaps you want to rotate some TLS certificates before they expire, or delete old files that are no longer needed. Typically for this, you would use cron, perhaps the most widely used job scheduler for UNIX like systems. You would fire up the crontab for the user, punch in the schedule followed by the command, then write and quit. If you wanted to monitor the job, then you would add MAILTO at the top to receive the cron logs should the job fail.
Time Travel with Serverless Postgres - Neon - 2022-12-08 - - PDF - Data recovery with database branching
New Kite System for Ships Trialed on Transatlantic Voyage - 2022-12-08 - PDF - France-based wind propulsion specialist Airseas is sharing the first footage of its automated kite system Seawing in use during transatlantic sea trials. The trial took place on board the roll-on/roll-off...
AN. Blog: Adventures in Teletext Recovery - 2022-12-08 - - PDF - My first attempt at recovering teletext pages from VHS cassette tapes.
Put `glab` at your fingertips with the GitLab CLI | GitLab - 2022-12-07 - PDF - We just adopted the `glab` project. Here's what's next and how to contribute!
How 30,000 people helped pick the new Bash logo | Opensource.com - 2022-12-07 - - PDF - Learn lessons for creating a new project logo from the Bash logo experiment.
Sleeping Through the Technical Interview - Xe Iaso - 2022-12-07 - - PDF - Sleeping Through the Technical Interview - Xe's Blog
IRC: Why it Failed - Xe Iaso - 2022-12-07 - PDF - IRC: Why it Failed - Xe's Blog
'Anti-woke' reaction? Fund giant Vanguard quits net-zero climate alliance - MarketWatch - 2022-12-07 - PDF - Vanguard said it will track its climate-change focus independent of the sector's net-zero alliance, as an effort to provide "clarity" to its investors.
My Blog is Hilariously Overengineered to the Point People Think it's a Static Site - Xe Iaso - 2022-12-07 - - PDF - My Blog is Hilariously Overengineered to the Point People Think it's a Static Site - Xe's Blog
Automagically assimilating NixOS machines into your Tailnet with Terraform - Xe Iaso - 2022-12-07 - - PDF - Automagically assimilating NixOS machines into your Tailnet with Terraform - Xe's Blog
OwnTracks Booklet - 2022-12-07 - PDF - None
Napkin Ideas Around What Changes to Expect Post-ChatGPT - 2022-12-07 - - PDF
I Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language - by Dylan Black - 2022-12-06 - - PDF - In which ChatGPT and I invent a fictional language spoken by slime-people
Quickly switch between Tailscale accounts · Tailscale - 2022-12-06 - - PDF - Fast user switching has come to Tailscale! Starting in v1.34, out today, you’ll be able to quickly switch between Tailscale accounts on the same device, without re-authenticating. (We heard you.)
Engineering company Clough collapses in fresh blow for Snowy 2.0 after Webuild walks away from acquisition - 2022-12-05 - PDF
The great Covid and fags cover-up - spiked - 2022-12-05 - - PDF - Study after study shows that smokers are less likely to get Covid. But this inconvenient truth has been buried.
thibault's Blog • Lichess on scala3 - help needed • lichess.org - 2022-12-05 - PDF - A week after deploying Lichess rewritten with scala 3, I had to revert to the scala 2 version. I need help diagnosing a peculiar JVM behaviour.
Introducing Codux - DEV Community 👩‍💻👨‍💻 - 2022-12-05 - PDF - TL;DR - Introducing Codux, a new visual IDE for easing and accelerating the development of React...
Company 'Hijacks' Blender's CC BY-Licensed Film, YouTube Strikes User (Update) * TorrentFreak - 2022-12-05 - - PDF - When a TV channel claimed ownership of a Creative Commons licensed film, YouTube gave a user a copyright strike and rejected every appeal.
Stack Overflow questions are being flooded with answers from ChatGPT | Hacker News - 2022-12-04 - PDF
Chatgpt Generate Ruby Code to Check User Exists in Github - 2022-12-04 - - PDF
Switzerland, Facing an Unprecedented Power Shortage, Contemplates a Partial Ban on the Use of Electric Vehicles - 2022-12-02 - - PDF - It turns out that you can have battery-powered cars, or you can have renewable energy, but you can't have both.
100 - Platform certificates used to sign malware - apvi - 2022-12-01 - - PDF
The Administered Price Cap has increased to $600/MWh as of today 1st December 2022 - 2022-12-01 - PDF
Ai solves Advent of Code 2022 | Note's on software - 2022-12-01 - - PDF - I will try to solve all of the advent of code with as little human input as possible

November 2022

How We Built Fly Postgres · Fly - 2022-11-30 - - PDF - The database. The app. The legend.
a blog by biggiemac42 - 2022-11-30 - - PDF - Using new techniques, every object in Conway's Game of Life that can be constructed at all, now has a fixed cost of 15 gliders. Here's how.
Running 1000 tests in 1s - 2022-11-30 - PDF - Most code doesn't require the amount of test isolation modern test runners apply by default. If you only opt into the amount of isolations you need, you can easily run 1000 tests in 1s.
Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem - one library at a time - 2022-11-30 - - PDF
Ellyse Perry - Wikipedia - 2022-11-30 - PDF
Marnus Labuschagne uses rubber mat and aluminium sheets to prepare for Australian tour of Pakistan - ABC News - 2022-11-30 - PDF - Labuschagne creates a makeshift pitch on his home balcony as he looks to combat Pakistan's turning wickets on Australia's upcoming three-Test tour.
Open Source & Saying "No" - 2022-11-30 - PDF
Introducing DigitalOcean’s state-of-the-art data center in Sydney, Australia - 2022-11-29 - - PDF - We're thrilled to announce our newest data center in Sydney, Australia!
Software disenchantment @ tonsky.me - 2022-11-29 - - PDF - Everything is going to hell and nobody seems to care
Meet the Library of Babel: Every Possible Combination of Letters That has Been (or could be) Written - 2022-11-29 - - PDF - Imagine a library whose books contain every possible combination of letters and numbers. When you really think about it, the implications are staggering. Assuming that you really have every possible combination, that means that you will have every poem ever written and every poem that will ever be written. You will also have every scientific finding—every […]
hello i am james - 2022-11-29 - PDF - Bookmark hello i am james - page 146 of a book entitled chhrhhsla.jmduvx,t from volume 2pl5hxtehiq97t0cthzajlvlbaylww4k9d0pkto...-w1-s3-v27 of the Library of Babel.
Apple to limit AirDrop 'everyone' setting to 10 minutes - 2022-11-29 - PDF
Stable Diffusion 2.0 and the Importance of Negative Prompts for Good Results - 2022-11-29 - PDF
Is it cheating to use spell check? - 2022-11-29 - - PDF
Illegal Hashes - 2022-11-29 - PDF
The Fijian island being strangled by vines | Photography | The Guardian - 2022-11-29 - - PDF - Vanua Levu is being overrun by invasive vines – and the increasing number of natural disasters, brought on by climate change, is only making things worse
To infinity and beyond: enabling the future of GitHub's REST API with API versioning | The GitHub Blog - 2022-11-29 - PDF - We’re introducing calendar-based versioning for our REST API, so we can keep evolving our API, whilst still giving integrators a smooth migration path and plenty of time to update their integrations.
State owned water utility to build new wind farm to provide power for desalination | RenewEconomy - 2022-11-29 - PDF - WA state-owned water utility kicks off shift to renewables with deal to buy and build a 150MW wind farm to help power its operations, including desalination.
I Repeat: Do Not Listen to Your Users - 2022-11-29 - PDF
getlago/lago: Open Source Metering and Usage Based Billing - 2022-11-28 - - PDF - Open Source Metering and Usage Based Billing. Contribute to getlago/lago development by creating an account on GitHub.
The One Thing That the United States Indisputably Does Better than Any Country on Earth - 2022-11-28 - PDF
MyNixOS - 2022-11-27 - - PDF - Build and share reproducible software environments with Nix and NixOS
Massively increase your productivity on personal projects with comprehensive documentation and automated tests - 2022-11-27 - - PDF - I gave a talk at DjangoCon US 2022 in San Diego last month about productivity on personal projects. I’m maintaining a lot of different projects at the moment. Somewhat unintuitively, …
Landmark first trade in peak demand certificates takes load off electricity market | RenewEconomy - 2022-11-27 - PDF - Core Markets says it has brokered the first ever trade in certificates for a New South Wales market scheme designed to reduce electricity demand over summer months.
'This case has made legal history’: young Australians just won a human rights case against an enormous coal mine - 2022-11-27 - - PDF - Here are four reasons their victory is so significant.
The Internet Tidal Wave - 2022-11-26 - - PDF
With dialogue re-established, the Albanese government has a chance to reset the China relationship - ABC News - 2022-11-26 - PDF - The most important thing to be said about Anthony Albanese's meeting with Xi Jinping this week is that it took place at all, writes Laura Tingle.
Victorian election live updates: Daniel Andrews claims victory for Labor as election results roll in - ABC News - 2022-11-26 - PDF - Premier Daniel Andrews says "hope always defeats hate" and pledges to deliver on his government's "positive and optimistic plan" as he claims victory in Victoria's election.
Emperor Charles V's secret code cracked after five centuries | Spain | The Guardian - 2022-11-26 - - PDF - Letter from 1547 reveals Spanish king’s fears of a French assassination plot against him
WebOas.is | WebOasis | Web Oasis | v1.26.2 - 2022-11-26 - PDF - Startpage, Homepage, All-in-One Web Portal For Internet & Tech Enthusiasts Who Love Exploring & Learning About The Digital Underground.
Cloudflare servers don't own IPs anymore – so how do they connect to the Internet? - 2022-11-25 - - PDF
Australia: How 'bin chickens' learnt to wash poisonous cane toads - BBC News - 2022-11-25 - - PDF - The "bin chicken" has figured out how to eat one of the few animals locals hate more - cane toads.
How I built currency conversion tooltips - 2022-11-25 - - PDF
Complete rewrite of ESLint · Discussion #16557 · eslint/eslint - 2022-11-25 - - PDF - Introduction ESLint was first released in 2013, meaning it will be ten years old next year. During that time, the way people write JavaScript has changed dramatically and we have been using the inc...
Bid to print customer car number plates on McDonald’s wrappers | The Independent - 2022-11-25 - PDF - Plaid Cymru launched a petition calling on Welsh Government to make it compulsory for fast food outlets to print car number plates on all packaging
Parasite gives wolves what it takes to be pack leaders | QotNews - 2022-11-25 - PDF - {{ description }}
UK government to rip out its Hikvision cameras | QotNews - 2022-11-25 - PDF - {{ description }}
Many millennials are worse off than their parents -- a first in American history | QotNews - 2022-11-25 - PDF - {{ description }}
Public Service Broadcasting Seeks Unity Say ABC, CBC & RNZ Bosses – Deadline - 2022-11-24 - PDF - Every year, around 20 of the world’s most influential public broadcasters get together to discuss the issues of the day such as the challenge from global streaming platforms, rights and the very pu…
James Lovelock obituary | James Lovelock | The Guardian - 2022-11-24 - PDF - Scientist, environmentalist, inventor and exponent of the Gaia theory of the Earth as a self-regulating system
GitHub Pages: The Missing Manual | Simon Willison’s TILs - 2022-11-24 - - PDF - [GitHub Pages](https://pages.github.com/) is an excellent free hosting platform, but the documentation is missing out on some crucial details. I built a [simonw/playing-with-github-pages](https://git
Richard Stallman Is Back - 2022-11-24 - PDF - Mostly The Lonely Howls Of Mike Baying His Ideological Purity At The Moon
How Long Should A Blog Post Be - 2022-11-24 - PDF - Mostly The Lonely Howls Of Mike Baying His Ideological Purity At The Moon
100 Days To Offload - 2022-11-24 - - PDF - Can you publish 100 posts on your blog in a year?
Never Use a Warning When you Mean Undo - 2022-11-24 - - PDF
SA-NSW Interconnector — a 'new super highway between two states' — promises to open up export markets - ABC News - 2022-11-24 - PDF - The SA-NSW interconnector will open renewable energy export opportunities and encourage new developments in regional Australia.
“Invalid Username or Password”: a useless security measure | Kevin Burke - 2022-11-23 - - PDF
Last.fm turns 20 and now has a following on Discord - The Verge - 2022-11-23 - - PDF - “People like to talk about music. This is a tool to easily see other people’s music taste.”
Why HTML is a Strategic Dead End for Business Transactions and E-Commerce - 2022-11-23 - - PDF
Socceroos outclassed by France in first World Cup game in Qatar, with 4-1 scoreline putting Australia in deep hole - ABC News - 2022-11-23 - PDF - An early goal gives the Socceroos hope of an upset, but the superstars turn up for Les Bleus in their Qatar World Cup opener, leaving Australia with a mountain to climb to get out of Group D.
How two Australian soldiers became unwitting poster boys for Russian mercenary Wagner Group's Ukraine recruitment drive - ABC News - 2022-11-23 - PDF - On a spring day in 2013, two Australian soldiers had their photograph taken in Afghanistan. Now the photo has resurfaced in a scheme to recruit mercenaries for Russia's invasion of Ukraine — all without the soldiers' knowledge.
Sydney Transit Graph - 2022-11-22 - PDF - A visualisation of realtime Sydney bus congestion using Marey diagrams. A side project by Jake Coppinger.
Tumblr to add support for ActivityPub, the social protocol powering Mastodon and other apps - 2022-11-22 - - PDF
Considering C99 for curl - 2022-11-22 - - PDF
Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10 billion this year - 2022-11-22 - - PDF
Always use [closed, open) intervals. A programmer's perspective - 2022-11-22 - - PDF - fhur's blog
Action required: Upgrade Windows clients to v1.32.3 · Tailscale - 2022-11-21 - - PDF - Tailscale has recently been notified of security vulnerabilities in the Tailscale Windows client which allow a malicious website visited by a device running Tailscale to change the Tailscale daemon configuration and access information in the Tailscale local and peer APIs.
Eleven children, one adult, taken to hospital after explosion at Sydney primary school - 2022-11-21 - PDF
InfinityBook Pro 14 - Gen7 - TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 14 - Gen7 - TUXEDO Computers - 2022-11-21 - - PDF - TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 14 - Gen7 - 14 inch 16:10 Omnia 3K display + 99 Wh battery + magnesium chassis + Intel Core i7-12700H Alder Lake + max 64GB RAM + Thunderbolt 4
Cranes on key Sydney construction projects switch to renewable diesel | RenewEconomy - 2022-11-21 - PDF - Cranes at two major infrastructure projects will start running on so-called renewable diesel, as a key contractor shifts its fleet away from fossil fuels.
Man of the Hole - Wikipedia - 2022-11-20 - PDF
huma - 2022-11-20 - - PDF - A blog about Humans & Machines
The 64 Milliseconds Manifesto - 2022-11-20 - - PDF
Using a self-rewriting README powered by GitHub Actions to track TILs - 2022-11-20 - - PDF - I’ve started tracking TILs—Today I Learneds—inspired by this five-year-and-counting collection by Josh Branchaud on GitHub (found via Hacker News). I’m keeping mine in GitHub too, and using GitHub Actions to …
Create an NFT in 69 Seconds (not clickbait!) - YouTube - 2022-11-20 - PDF
Digging 10 miles underground could yield enough geothermal energy to power Earth - 2022-11-20 - - PDF - The total energy content of the heat stored underground exceeds our annual energy demand as a planet by a factor of a billion. Could geothermal energy provide all the energy we need?
8 billion people: how different the world would look if Neanderthals had prevailed - 2022-11-19 - - PDF - Neanderthals were wiped out by chance changes in the environment. The rise of Homo sapiens wasn’t inevitable.
Investigating why Steam started picking a random font - 2022-11-19 - - PDF
Elizabeth Holmes Is Sentenced to More Than 11 Years for Theranos Fraud - The New York Times - 2022-11-19 - - PDF - Ms. Holmes was convicted in January of four counts of wire fraud for deceiving investors with claims about her blood testing start-up Theranos.
The 12-bit rainbow palette - 2022-11-19 - - PDF - A palette of twelve colours chosen with consideration for how we perceive hue, chroma, and luminance
selenized/whats-wrong-with-solarized.md at master · jan-warchol/selenized · GitHub - 2022-11-19 - PDF - Solarized redesigned: fine-tuned color palette for programmers with focus on readability. - selenized/whats-wrong-with-solarized.md at master · jan-warchol/selenized
Why Manual Transmission Might Still Have a Future in the EV Era – Robb Report - 2022-11-19 - - PDF - Some enthusiasts don’t want to give up the pleasure and control of shifting through gears, and automakers are taking note.
Faceless Clock Makes You Think Twice About How It Works | Hackaday - 2022-11-19 - - PDF - We love projects that make you do a double-take when you first see them. It’s always fun to think you see one thing, but then slowly realize everything is not quite what you expected. And thi…
An idea how to monetize social software - ~tech - Tildes - 2022-11-19 - PDF - 10 comments in the discussion of this post on Tildes
How does Windows decide whether your computer has limited or full Internet access? - The Old New Thing - 2022-11-19 - - PDF - Looking for special servers.
How To Sell Tickets Fairly - 2022-11-19 - - PDF
Solvitur ambulando - Wikipedia - 2022-11-18 - - PDF
The Centipede's Dilemma - Wikipedia - 2022-11-18 - - PDF
Letting mu4e reply from a catchall address - 2022-11-18 - - PDF
BBC - Radio Labs: Perl on Rails - 2022-11-18 - - PDF - Like most organisations the BBC has its own technical ecosystem; the BBC's is pretty much restricted to Perl and static files. This means that the vast majority of the BBC's...
Astrid Båhl - Wikipedia - 2022-11-18 - PDF
Flag families - Wikipedia - 2022-11-18 - PDF
Brad Fitzpatrick [bradfitz.com] - 2022-11-18 - - PDF
Brad Fitzpatrick - Wikipedia - 2022-11-18 - PDF
The “je ne sais quoi” of TikTok — Daniel Immke - 2022-11-18 - - PDF - How a misunderstood platform has completely taken over the world.
Introducing Tailscale Funnel - 2022-11-18 - - PDF
I wish my web server were in the corner of my room (Interconnected) - 2022-11-18 - - PDF - Posted on Monday 10 Oct 2022. 1,417 words, 11 links. By Matt Webb.
Drought exposes Aboriginal burial grounds - ABC News - 2022-11-18 - PDF - Aboriginal communities along the Lower Lakes and Coorong in South Australia say they are concerned that receding water levels are exposing ancient burial grounds to damage.
Anthony Albanese speaks with Sean Turnell following release from Myanmar jail - ABC News - 2022-11-17 - PDF - Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says Australian man Sean Turnell is in remarkably good spirits after being released from a Myanmar jail.
Townsville cyclist gears up to conquer Race Across America, the world's toughest bike ride - ABC News - 2022-11-17 - PDF - Queensland's Allan Jefferson will spend more than 20 hours a day on his bike competing in the 12-day Race Across America, which is 30 per cent longer than the Tour de France but with no rest breaks.
The Hidden Power of Custom States For Web Components - 2022-11-17 - PDF
Launceston looks at making green hydrogen on-site with solar farm on airport land | RenewEconomy - 2022-11-17 - PDF - Launceston Airport considers proposal to build an on-site solar farm and install an electrolyser to producer green hydrogen.
Gorillaz release new single about a stage diving princess - 2022-11-17 - PDF - A hero!
Gorillaz share 'Baby Queen', inspired by a stagediving Thai princess - 2022-11-17 - PDF
AI Found a Bug in My Code - 2022-11-17 - - PDF - I wanted to see how a language model would analyze my existing code.
Overview — Pyrseas 0.10.0 documentation - 2022-11-17 - PDF
How I quit social media — Daniel Immke - 2022-11-17 - PDF - Earlier this year I quit social media. I would recommend trying it.
sqlite-zstd: Transparent dictionary-based row-level compression for SQLite - An sqlite extension written in Rust to reduce the database size without losing functionality - phiresky's blog - 2022-11-16 - - PDF - Motivation (or side side projects) While working on my startup (DishDetective) I started a side project of an automatic time-tracking tool (timetrackrs), where I try to collect a lot of information about my habits for later analysis. The main component collects data from my computer about what
Hosting SQLite databases on Github Pages - (or any static file hoster) - phiresky's blog - 2022-11-16 - - PDF
Keyboard Shortcuts every Command Line Hacker should know about GNU Readline - 2022-11-16 - - PDF
Evernote’s Next Move: Joining the Bending Spoons Suite of Apps | Evernote Blog - 2022-11-16 - - PDF - CEO Ian Small discusses what’s next for the company, and reaffirms Evernote’s commitment to helping customers remember everything and accomplish anything.
Tell HN: Facebook Messenger is testing in-call video ads | Hacker News - 2022-11-16 - - PDF
Yubikey based Full Disk Encryption (FDE) on NixOS - NixOS Wiki - 2022-11-16 - PDF
Twitter’s SMS Two-Factor Authentication Is Melting Down | WIRED - 2022-11-16 - PDF - Problems with the important security feature may be some of the first signs that Elon Musk’s social network is fraying at the edges.
Climate solutions powerhouse emerges to "demystify" clean energy and carbon markets | RenewEconomy - 2022-11-16 - PDF - Renewable Energy Hub buys up competitor to form new entity to meet soaring corporate demand for net zero solutions.
Ukraine war latest: Missiles land in Poland, killing two - reports - BBC News - 2022-11-15 - - PDF - Russia hit back at reports it was responsible, calling them a "provocation aimed at escalation".
Postgres at Scale: Running Multiple PgBouncers - 2022-11-15 - PDF - Connection pooling with pgBouncer is great. For some our customers with high transaction loads, we can run multiple PgBouncers. Read about running multiple connection poolers and how we approach scaling out this part of your infrastructure.
Webrings were a staple of the internet in the 90's. Where'd they go? - 2022-11-15 - - PDF - Before search engines were what they are today, webrings were a great way to find websites that interested you. So what happened to them?
Why We Should Have Markdown Rendered Websites - 2022-11-15 - - PDF - You're viewing this document in your HTML-rendering browser but its sourceis actually a markdown file.
Cannon-Brookes wins historic battle to green up AGL Energy's board | RenewEconomy - 2022-11-15 - PDF - AGL shareholders vote in all four independent board candidates nominated by tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes, in direct opposition to advice of current board.
Using Generators in React Components - 2022-11-14 - PDF
Power cuts have hit SA in a big way — here's how they compare to the 2016 statewide blackout - ABC News - 2022-11-14 - PDF - South Australia's weekend storms knocked out power to 163,000 homes and businesses, and the event has inevitably invoked comparisons with the infamous statewide blackout. Based on what we know so far, here's how the situations compare.
∞ - Wearables versus there-ables. What if we’ve got... - 2022-11-14 - PDF - Wearables versus there-ables. What if we've got it all wrong? What if we're not actually supposed to wear all sorts of technology on our bodies and on our clothes? What if we didn't have to / weren't...
Your next smart home device is a $30 used Kindle - Matt Healy - 2022-11-14 - - PDF - If you know how to use a command line, you can build one
ninakali/chip_scavenger - 2022-11-14 - - PDF
Building an e-ink weather display for our home - 2022-11-14 - - PDF
Agile sucks for software development and I’m tired of pretending it doesn’t | Hacker News - 2022-11-13 - PDF
Don’t record your social life on an append-only social network | Ctrl blog - 2022-11-13 - - PDF - The tech behind peer-to-peer (P2P) social networks such as Secure Scuttlebutt enforces permanency. Absolute permanency isn’t what you want in a social network.
From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server | Ctrl blog - 2022-11-13 - - PDF - Why I uninstalled Plex Media Server after over a decade and migrated my movie and TV show collection to Jellyfin instead of Emby.
Frontpage -- Terms of Service; Didn't Read - 2022-11-13 - - PDF - “Terms of Service; Didn't Read” (short: ToS;DR) is a project started in June 2012 to help fix the “biggest lie on the web”: almost no one really reads the terms of service we agree to all the time.
Biography - 2022-11-13 - PDF
Internal Documents Show How Close the F.B.I. Came to Deploying Spyware - The New York Times - 2022-11-13 - - PDF - Christopher Wray, the F.B.I.’s director, told Congress last December that the bureau purchased the phone hacking tool Pegasus for research and development purposes.
“Bench Press 500 Pounds”: When 71-Year-Old Arnold Schwarzenegger Yelled “Old Age S**ks” Despite Mind-Numbing Strength - EssentiallySports - 2022-11-12 - PDF - Arnold Schwarzenegger, who had an iconic physique and is a seven-time Mr. Olympia winner, once revealed how he felt about growing old.
Guillermo Rauch on Twitter: "me: notices the new GitHub repo UI feels *great* 👀 inspects 👀 one weird trick: @reactjs! https://t.co/euNJLuX0Wa" / Twitter - 2022-11-12 - - PDF - “me: notices the new GitHub repo UI feels *great* 👀 inspects 👀 one weird trick: @reactjs!”
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Record ice loss in Arctic - 2022-11-12 - PDF
The origin of the name POSIX. - 2022-11-12 - - PDF
What sort of laws would give us real privacy? - 2022-11-12 - - PDF
Police vetting failures have allowed ‘predatory’ officers to join up, watchdog finds | Police | The Guardian - 2022-11-12 - PDF - Inspectorate for England and Wales says potentially thousands officers cleared who should have failed checks
Wells are running dry in drought-weary Southwest as farms guzzle water to feed cattle overseas | CNN - 2022-11-12 - PDF - Around 80% of Arizona has no laws overseeing how much groundwater corporate megafarms are using, nor is there any way to track it.
‘An invisible killer’: how fishing gear became the deadliest marine plastic | Plastics | The Guardian - 2022-11-12 - PDF - Plastic in the depths: as ‘ghost gear’ chokes the ocean, campaigners call for mandatory measures including buy-back schemes and recycling
xkcd: Digital Data - 2022-11-12 - - PDF
I'm sitting in AI · Michail Rybakov - 2022-11-12 - - PDF - Alvin Lucier’s 1981 work ‘I Am Sitting In A Room’ is a classic of media art. Lucier recorded himself reading a text, then played it back and recorded it again. Then played back the recording of the recording and recorded it again. After a while his words were hardly decipherable, as the resonance of the room, multiplied again and again, took over. AI-based super resolution algorithms try to upscale an image in a way that seems most natural. That includes generating details that were not present in the original image. There are quite a few super resolution algorithms available, from open source ERSGAN, SwinIR and BSRGAN to those included in commercial products such as Topaz Labs’ Gigapixel AI, Photoshop and Pixelmator. They are trained on different data and work in slightly different ways. But they all do need to ‘dream’, to infer some image details where there were none before. But what are those details? Are they different for each model? In order to see that I let each AI model reinforce its idiosynchrasies, again and again, until its resonance became visible just as the resonance of the room was reinforced in Alvin Lucier’s work. I let each super resolution algorithms upscale an image, again and again, slightly (4-15%) zooming im between the steps. After a while, AI begins to upscale its own artifacts, with some algorithms trapping themselves in a solid color, while others continuing to generate imaginary details indefinitely. I selected a photograph with a lot of details as a starting point. This will be our starting image. Zooming in by a typical non-AI algorithm would look something like this: Now let’s see what kind of artifacts are generated by the AI-based upscaling algorithms. Pixelmator, 15% zoom per frame. Pixelmator upscales an image x3 instead of the more common x2 or x4. It is also special as it continues to generate this kind of dust detail in the video and could go on indefinitely. Photoshop, 8% zoom per frame. Photoshop generates these cristalline looking high-contrast structures, until it gets stuck in a solid color. Photoshop, 11,5% zoom per frame. With some settings or starting images Photoshop gets stuck in a texture and continues to generate it until it converges to black or white. Gigapixel AI, 13% zoom per frame, standard setting. Here we can observe how at some point it seems to generate the texture of water as seen from above from a solid blue color. It doesn’t happen with other solid colors. Gigapixel AI, 14% per frame. Gigapixel AI is special as it offers multiple models trained on different kind of images. This one was trained specifically for upscaling low quality images. Gigapixel AI, 5% per frame. This one was upscaled using a model trained on CG art images. SwinIR exceedingly increases the contrast of the image, and ends up (in this case of 4% upscale per step) with a sequence repeating indefinitely. ESRGAN is pretty violent in what it does to images, darkening the image in the first few steps, then removing the details while emphasizing the edges. 6% zoom per frame. But it also contains an option to include GFPGAN to upscale faces better. Here I’ll try using it on Ilya Repin’s masterpiece. Cossacks write a letter to the Turkish sultan, Ilya Repin, 1891. ESRGAN with 4% zoom per frame. The option to include GFPGAN to upscale faces is enabled. In reality that turns out to be quite a destructive option, generating similar but different faces in place. Here is the same image with the same 4% setting using ESRGAN, but without GFPGAN. Similar to ESRGAN, BSRGAN overemphasizes the edges, but does not darken the image, filling it with colorful gradients instead. Technical details and code The image is upscaled to whatever the particular model is trained for (2x, 3x or 4x). Then the image is downscaled to around 104%-115% (whatever produces the more visible effect) of the original image, and cropped at 100% of the original image, thus generating the starting image for the next cycle. code tbd.
About - 2022-11-11 - PDF
Tumblr Staff — Okay, your blog looks great, but what's the point... - 2022-11-11 - - PDF - Okay, your blog looks great, but what's the point of being important online if you can’t prove it with an actual, physical unverified verification symbol? We felt morally obligated to help you. That's...
VCE specialist maths exam questions at centre of complaints - 2022-11-11 - PDF - Teachers and students have identified potential errors in this year’s VCE specialist maths exam, raising fears that some students might have been disadvantaged.
"Nine years left:" Emissions record in 2022 puts world on course to breach 1.5° | RenewEconomy - 2022-11-11 - PDF - On current emissions rates, the world has a 50:50 chance of breaching 1.5°C warming in the next nine years.
Thirteen Years of Go - The Go Programming Language - 2022-11-11 - - PDF
New French law mandates solar panels on new parking lots | RenewEconomy - 2022-11-11 - PDF - The French Senate has approved a bill that will require parking lots with a minimum of 80 spaces to be covered with a canopy of solar panels.
Accidental $70k Google Pixel Lock Screen Bypass - bugs.xdavidhu.me - 2022-11-10 - - PDF - David Schütz's bug bounty writeups
Why I Strive to be a 0.1x Engineer - 2022-11-10 - - PDF - There has been more discussion recently on the concept of a “10x engineer”. 10x engineers are, (from Quora) “the top tier of engineers that are 10x more productive than the average” Productivity I have observed that some people are able to get 10 times more done than me. However, I’d argue that individual productivity is... Read more »
Origin receives non-binding, indicative offer at $9.00 per share - Origin Energy - 2022-11-10 - PDF - Origin Energy Limited (Origin) advises it has received an indicative, conditional and non-binding proposal from Brookfield Asset Management Inc., together with its affiliates and their managed funds (Brookfield) and MidOcean Energy (MidOcean), an LNG company formed and managed by EIG (the Consortium), to acquire all the issued shares in Origin, by way of a scheme of arrangement, at a price of $9.00 cash per share[1] (Indicative Proposal). This Indicative Proposal values Origin at $18.4 billion on an enterprise value basis.
Postgres v15 - a billion transactions later - 2022-11-09 - PDF - As the last Postgres release, carrying the number 15, seemed kind of an “anniversary” release to me, I thought it would be fun / useful to run a series of tests to try to gauge the scale of improvements over the last 5 years, i.e. putting v10 and v15 in...
The Age of PageRank is Over - 2022-11-09 - - PDF
Millions of .git folders exposed publically by mistake - 2022-11-09 - PDF - 2022 has been the year of source code leaks; Microsoft, Nvidia, Samsung, Rockstar, and many more companies have had their source code involuntarily open-sourced. But some new research by CyberNews has revealed that there are millions of private git repositories that are, in fact, not all that private. In this
Social Media Is Dead - 2022-11-09 - PDF - What we call social media networks are anything but. Now that they're beginning to unravel, we should ask what it would take to create social media for people, not advertisers.
Unix as a tool forge - 2022-11-09 - - PDF
Volvo pledges to phase out petrol cars in Australia by 2026 - ABC News - 2022-11-08 - PDF - The Swedish company's deadline has shocked the local car industry and comes as the federal government attempts to bring down the cost of electric vehicles.
BeardedTek-com/tailscale: Tailscale subnet router docker sidecar - 2022-11-08 - PDF - Tailscale subnet router docker sidecar. Contribute to BeardedTek-com/tailscale development by creating an account on GitHub.
ntfy.sh | Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST - 2022-11-08 - - PDF - ntfy is a simple HTTP-based pub-sub notification service. It allows you to send desktop notifications via scripts from any computer, entirely without signup or cost. Made with ❤ by Philipp C. Heckel, Apache License 2.0, source at https://heckel.io/ntfy.
Build your own schema language with TypeScript's infer keyword - 2022-11-08 - - PDF - A case study on using TypeScript's infer keyword, combined with recursive types, to create a custom schema language using template literal types.
Setting up a private Nix cache for fun and profit - 2022-11-08 - - PDF - We set up a private Nix cache for our office to (massively) speed up downloads and to save large amounts of bandwidth.
btrfs-undelete - 2022-11-08 - PDF - btrfs-undelete. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
Why would anyone need JavaScript generator functions? - 2022-11-08 - - PDF - You can go a long time as a JavaScript developer without ever feeling the need for generators. Hence, it’s natural to wonder: What are they good for? Why would you ever need one? What’s the point? But there generators can do some neat tricks. And they may even change the way you approach certain problems.
Steve Krenzel (@stevekrenzel): "With Twitter's change in ownership last week, I'm probably in the clear to talk about the most unethical thing I was asked to build while working at Twitter. 🧵"|nitter - 2022-11-08 - PDF - With Twitter's change in ownership last week, I'm probably in the clear to talk about the most unethical thing I was asked to build while working at Twitter. 🧵
France electricity prices surge past €1,000/MWh as more nuclear reactors close for winter | RenewEconomy - 2022-11-08 - PDF - France announces another four reactors are broken and won’t be operating over winter, sending power prices soaring and increasing fears of blackouts.
Help:Using the Wayback Machine - Wikipedia - 2022-11-08 - PDF
Twenty years of my blog - 2022-11-08 - - PDF - I started this blog on June 12th 2002—twenty years ago today! To celebrate two decades of blogging, I decided to pull together some highlights and dive down a self-indulgent nostalgia …
What to blog about - 2022-11-08 - - PDF - You should start a blog. Having your own little corner of the internet is good for the soul! But what should you write about? It’s easy to get hung up …
Like changing a gas bottle in a BBQ: EV battery swap technology charges on - 2022-11-07 - PDF
Offshore floating solar plant linked with offshore wind in world first | RenewEconomy - 2022-11-07 - PDF - The world’s first commercial offshore floating solar plant has been commissioned off the east of China, integrated with offshore wind.
getify/CAF: Cancelable Async Flows (CAF) - 2022-11-07 - - PDF - Cancelable Async Flows (CAF). Contribute to getify/CAF development by creating an account on GitHub.
[PATCH] drm/atomic: do not branch based on the value of current->comm[0] - Jason A. Donenfeld - 2022-11-07 - PDF
Edge Security (@EdgeSecurity): "Apparently, if your process name starts with the letter 'X', Linux's DRM subsystem will change its API behavior. Something having to do with hacking the kernel rather than fixing X11... Yowza. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/"|nitter - 2022-11-07 - PDF - Apparently, if your process name starts with the letter 'X', Linux's DRM subsystem will change its API behavior. Something having to do with hacking the kernel rather than fixing X11... Yowza. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/
Mastodon is not ready for me - 2022-11-06 - - PDF
Bike: Innovative Rich Text Editing - 2022-11-06 - - PDF - Hog Bay Software
Ukraine suffered a comms outage when 1,300 SpaceX satellite units went offline over funding issues | CNN Politics - 2022-11-04 - PDF - Ukraine's fears that its troops  may lose access to Elon Musk's crucial Starlink internet service deepened in the past week after 1,300 of the military's satellite units went offline, according to two sources familiar with the outage.
Search CNN - Videos, Pictures, and News - CNN.com - 2022-11-04 - PDF - Search
In defense of linked lists - <antirez> - 2022-11-04 - - PDF
2004 Subaru Impreza WRX CarPC Install - 2022-11-04 - PDF - Car is finished, go to page 6 (if on default for posts per page) to see. A lot of pictures went down, there are the ones I salvaged, picture log is
Nix.Camp 2021 to 2022 - 2022-11-04 - - PDF - Nix.Camp was born out of a desire to meet up with other Nixxers participating in the Summer of Nix, and also to have the least corporate Nix event possible. In 2021, at the height of the pandemic, we had just one arrival, DavHau. Here he is, coding up a flake.nix whilst eating a Cadbury Flake® and enjoying the furniture.
Shubhro Saha (@shubroski): "This weekend I built =GPT3(), a way to run GPT-3 prompts in Google Sheets. It's incredible how tasks that are hard or impossible to do w/ regular formulas become trivial. For example: sanitize data, write thank you cards, summarize product reviews, categorize feedback..."|nitter - 2022-11-04 - PDF - This weekend I built =GPT3(), a way to run GPT-3 prompts in Google Sheets. It's incredible how tasks that are hard or impossible to do w/ regular formulas become trivial. For example: sanitize data, write thank you cards, summarize product reviews, categorize feedback...
advice - nabeelqu - 2022-11-03 - - PDF - Persona
[mosh-users] mosh 1.4.0 released - 2022-11-03 - - PDF
A love letter to React · Fly - 2022-11-03 - - PDF - Respect for React, with receipts
Introducing Signals | Preact: Fast 3kb React alternative with the same ES6 API. Components & Virtual DOM. - 2022-11-02 - - PDF - Signals are a way of expressing state that ensure apps stay fast regardless of how complex they get. Signals are based on reactive principles and provide excellent developer ergonomics, with a unique
Australia's carbon report card smeared in red ink as climate action goes backwards | RenewEconomy - 2022-11-02 - PDF - Australia has spent more on fossil fuel subsidies and done less on climate disclosure. Will the new government change this?

October 2022

Blocked persons and letters of marque - 2022-10-30 - - PDF - What are letters of marque and reprisal, and who is on the US’s list of Block Persons?
A modest proposal: For preventing the heat in bathwater in Britain - 2022-10-30 - - PDF - FROM BEING A WASTE TO THE BATHER AND COUNTRY, AND FOR MAKING IT BENEFICIAL TO THE PUBLICK
Troy Hunt: Big Changes are Afoot: Expanding and Enhancing the Have I Been Pwned API - 2022-10-29 - - PDF - Just over 3 years ago now, I sat down at a makeshift desk (ok, so it was a kitchen table) in an Airbnb in Olso and built the authenticated API for Have I Been Pwned (HIBP). As I explained at the time, the primary goal was to combat abuse of
Misterio77/nix-starter-configs: Simple and documented config templates to help you get started with NixOS + home-manager + flakes. All the boilerplate you need! - 2022-10-29 - PDF - Simple and documented config templates to help you get started with NixOS + home-manager + flakes. All the boilerplate you need! - Misterio77/nix-starter-configs: Simple and documented config templ...
Brittany Higgins case: Bruce Lehrmann trial aborted after juror misconduct - 2022-10-28 - PDF - After the jury in the trial of Bruce Lehrmann was discharged over juror misconduct, Brittany Higgins criticised the criminal justice system.
RBA says Australia flush with $50, $100 notes - 2022-10-28 - PDF - But cautious households are stashing their cash away and the Reserve Bank has had to destroy more than $9 million of notes damaged in floods earlier this year.
Making an SSH client the hard way · Tailscale - 2022-10-28 - - PDF - Today, we’re launching a web-based SSH client: Tailscale SSH Console.
Manage Secrets in NixOS | sekun's blog - 2022-10-28 - PDF - Recently, I experimented with running NixOS on a DigitalOcean droplet (which I will probably write about in the future), and migrated some of my toy projects from App Platform. During the migration process, I realized that I would have to somehow handle the DB certificate, and other sensitive credentials. I can’t just hardcode these! One of the more popular projects for problems like this is agenix. Their README for how to use it was a bit confusing (for me) so hopefully this post will be of use to others.
Why can an ad break the Windows 11 desktop and taskbar? | Ctrl blog - 2022-10-28 - - PDF - A new promo message for Microsoft Teams broke the Windows desktop shell and the taskbar for Windows 11 Insider users. Why can cloud services break Windows PCs?
Zelenskyy has aged in 41 days: Here is what these peace and war photos show - The Kashmir Monitor - 2022-10-28 - PDF - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a changed man and looks much older as his country suffers due to Russia's unprovoked attack that has been going on
Finance Minister Katy Gallagher and federal budget criticised for ignoring youth and cost of living on Q+A - ABC News - 2022-10-27 - PDF - The government is criticised for not doing enough to ease cost-of-living pressures for Australia's most vulnerable and youth as the impact of rising inflation bites.
Shell Script Best Practices — The Sharat's - 2022-10-27 - - PDF - This article is about a few quick thumb rules I use when writing shell scripts that I’ve come to appreciate over the years. Very opinionated....
WebOas.is | WebOasis | Web Oasis | v1.26.2 - 2022-10-27 - PDF - Startpage, Homepage, All-in-One Web Portal For Internet & Tech Enthusiasts Who Love Exploring & Learning About The Digital Underground.
Starter Tab - 2022-10-27 - - PDF - A customizable website to replace your 'New Tab' homepage
Just how bad could a big solar storm be in the internet age? And how would Australia be affected? - ABC News - 2022-10-26 - PDF - In 1859 a massive solar storm knocked out the telegraph, but back then there was no electricity or internet. So what would happen if a storm that big hit today?
Yubikey Madness - 2022-10-25 - - PDF - How to take full advantage of your yubikey... all the way down the rabbit hole.
WebRTC Local IP Leak Test 🍌 - github.com/niespodd/webrtc-local-ip-leak - 2022-10-25 - - PDF
Dotfile madness - 2022-10-24 - - PDF
Trying Cloudflare Pages: Best Server Tech Since cgi-bin - Perf and other stuff - 2022-10-23 - - PDF - being sold short by subpar documentation
Home loan repayment calculator · Figura - 2022-10-23 - PDF - Australia's first and only accurate calculator that simulates every day of the loan. Add extra repayments, see daily interest and a full transaction schedule
epoll: The API that powers the modern internet · Graham King - 2022-10-22 - PDF - Linux’s epoll API solved the C10K problem, enabling fast and afforable Internet services.
Linux: What can you epoll? · Graham King - 2022-10-22 - - PDF - On Linux what can you turn into a file descriptor and then monitor with epoll?
Tailscale is magic; even more so with NixOS | Farid Zakaria’s Blog - 2022-10-22 - PDF - Our adventure into NixOS continues; this time let’s look into how we can harden our NixOS machines by putting them within a VPN. We will be using tailscale to setup our VPN. Restricting your machines; especially SSH for servers; behind a VPN is a great way to add a layer of security without having to mess with various checklists like making sure password based logins are disabled.
Australia's biggest electricity system 'on life support' as states take control of the energy transition - ABC News - 2022-10-22 - PDF - Top energy expert says the country's biggest electricity market is dying as state and federal governments take control of renewable energy switch.
Ventoy - 2022-10-22 - - PDF - Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO files. With ventoy, you don't need to format the disk again and again, you just need to copy the iso file to the USB drive and boot it.
Starlink signals can be reverse-engineered to work like GPS—whether SpaceX likes it or not | MIT Technology Review - 2022-10-21 - - PDF - Elon said no thanks to using his mega-constellation for navigation. Researchers went ahead anyway.
Linus's blog - Back to Ubuntu: Linux dual-boot, but cheaper - 2022-10-21 - - PDF
MagicDNS is generally available · Tailscale - 2022-10-21 - - PDF - Tailscale automatically assigns IP addresses for every unique device in your network, giving each device an IP address no matter where it is located. We further improved on this with MagicDNS, which automatically registers a human-readable, easy-to-remember DNS name for each device — so you don’t need to use an IP address to access your devices. This means you can access the device monitoring, even if it moves from on-prem to the cloud, without ever needing to know its IP address in the first place.
Liz Truss resignation: Tory PM hopefuls need backing of 100 MPs by Monday to enter race - BBC News - 2022-10-20 - - PDF - Liz Truss steps down after 45 days in office, kickstarting a process that will give the UK its third prime minister this year.
An ORDER BY statement improved our query times by 100x - 2022-10-20 - - PDF - PostgreSQL queries can be sped up by creating the right indices, and making sure that the indices are being used.
Using commands - ZNC - 2022-10-20 - PDF
Click Fraud Protection & Detection Software | ClickCease™ - 2022-10-20 - PDF - ClickCease is an ad fraud and click-fraud detection and protection service software. Our anti click-fraud service protects Google Ads and Bing by using our industry leading detection algorithms blocking fraudulent IPs automatically.
EasyList is in trouble and so are many ad blockers - 2022-10-20 - - PDF - You may not be aware of it, but the work of every ad blocker is powered by “filter lists” — lists of rules that tell the ad blocker how exactly it should block ads. EasyList is a community-run project that maintains one of the world’s most popular ad blocking filter lists.
Victoria fast-tracks coal exit with target for 95 pct renewables by 2035 | RenewEconomy - 2022-10-20 - PDF - Victoria Labor jacks up its renewable energy and net-zero emissions ambition, with promise of new government-owned energy company to deliver targets.
Tell HN: I asked Signal motivations for SMS removal | Hacker News - 2022-10-19 - PDF
What is RCS messaging, how does it work, and will it replace SMS? | Digital Trends - 2022-10-19 - PDF - What is RCS? Rich Communication Services messaging is the next-generation SMS with group chats, video, audio, and images. Here's what you need to know.
Ukrainian woman offers seeds to Russian soldiers so 'sunflowers grow when they die' – video | World news | The Guardian - 2022-10-19 - PDF - A woman is being hailed on social media after she offered a heavily-armed Russian soldier sunflower seeds – so that flowers grow when he dies on Ukraine’s soil
Carbon M&A: Renewable Energy Hub merges with TFS Green APAC to form CORE Markets - 2022-10-18 - PDF - Renewable Energy Hub has merged with TFS Green APAC in a $50m deal, creating an end-to-end service for the ever-rising number of companies seeking to meet net zero goals.
Meta ordered to sell Giphy by UK's competition watchdog CMA - BBC News - 2022-10-18 - - PDF - The social media giant says it is disappointed with the ruling but will accept it.
Protecting the Metro Tunnel from flooding - Waking up in Geelong - 2022-10-18 - PDF - The October 2022 Maribyrnong River flood in Melbourne’s west has reminded many that urban areas are not immune from being inundated with water. But what does this mean for the Metro Tunnel portal at South Kensington, located just a short distance from the river? Photo via Adam Bandt The flooding The recent Maribyrnong River flood […]
Site-to-site networking · Tailscale - 2022-10-18 - PDF - Learn how to connect two subnets on your tailnet with each other.
Mahmoud Mazouz - 2022-10-17 - - PDF
Saving a web page to PDF - shot-scraper - 2022-10-17 - PDF
richardanaya/wasm-service: HTMX, WebAssembly, Rust, ServiceWorkers - 2022-10-17 - - HTMX, WebAssembly, Rust, ServiceWorkers. Contribute to richardanaya/wasm-service development by creating an account on GitHub.
This Danish Political Party Is Led by an AI - 2022-10-17 - - The Synthetic Party in Denmark is dedicated to following a platform churned out by an AI, and its public face is a chatbot named Leader Lars.
graphql-engine/streaming-subscriptions.md at master · hasura/graphql-engine - 2022-10-17 - - Blazing fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on your DB with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database events. - graphql-engine/streaming-subscriptions.md at master · hasura/gra...
The Nightscout Project – We Are Not Waiting - 2022-10-16 - - What is the Nightscout project? Nightscout (CGM in the Cloud) is an open source, DIY project that allows real time access to a CGM data via personal website, smartwatch viewers, or apps and widgets available for smartphones. Nightscout was developed by parents of children with Type 1 Diabetes and has continued to be developed, maintained, and supported by volunteers. When first implemented,
A guide to French eating habits, from daily baguettes to wine and three courses for lunch - ABC News - 2022-10-15 - In France, food is a national passion. Here's how to eat like a Parisian.
2022 Cyberdeck Contest: Picking The Best Of The Best | Hackaday - 2022-10-15 - Given how many incredible builds we’ve covered over the last couple of years, we knew that an official Cyberdeck Contest would certainly receive some impressive entries. But never in our wild…
lovesegfault/nix-config: My personal NixOS config - 2022-10-15 - My personal NixOS config. Contribute to lovesegfault/nix-config development by creating an account on GitHub.
TommyX12/rapid-time-tracker: A fast and lightweight time tracker with fuzzy completion, visualizations, and plain text data storage. - 2022-10-15 - A fast and lightweight time tracker with fuzzy completion, visualizations, and plain text data storage. - TommyX12/rapid-time-tracker: A fast and lightweight time tracker with fuzzy completion, vis...
Instantly create a GitHub repository to take screenshots of a web page - 2022-10-15 - - I just released shot-scraper-template, a GitHub repository template that helps you start taking automated screenshots of a web page by filling out a form. shot-scraper is my command line tool …
Scraping pages using JavaScript - shot-scraper - 2022-10-15
Equifax Fires Employees for Working Two Jobs - 2022-10-15 - - Equifax fired the remote workers in recent months as part of a probe dubbed 'Operation Home Alone' that investigated thousands staff and contractors.
It Seems No One is Using Nintendo 3DS StreetPass Feature Anymore - 2022-10-15 - One 3DS user discovers that no one uses StreetPass anymore after they decide to spend the day in the heart of New York City with their handheld.
(6) Brendan Dolan-Gavitt on Twitter: "How cool is this! The VSCode GitLab extension now supports getting code completions from FauxPilot :D https://t.co/ITl0mOWoDW https://t.co/LJKd9hyMka" / Twitter - 2022-10-15 - - “How cool is this! The VSCode GitLab extension now supports getting code completions from FauxPilot :D https://t.co/ITl0mOWoDW”
The future of rendering in React - 2022-10-14 - Understand what are the problems with current rendering patterns in React, and how the new rendering patterns introduced with React 18 and future versions of React aim to solve them.
PostgreSQL: PostgreSQL 15 Released! - 2022-10-14 - - **October 13, 2022** - The PostgreSQL Global Development Group today announced the release of [PostgreSQL 15](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/release-15.html), the latest version of …
xkcd: Road Space Comparison - 2022-10-13 -
Goodbye, Clean Code — Overreacted - 2022-10-13 - - Let clean code guide you. Then let it go.
Chinese Zero Covid was always a lie - UnHerd - 2022-10-13 - - Western media upheld the CCP's fabricated success
Introducing the Fleet Public Preview | The JetBrains Fleet Blog - 2022-10-12 - - Since the initial announcement of Fleet, we have had an overwhelming amount of interest from all of you, with over 137,000 people signing up for the private preview. Our reason for starting with a clo
Welcome to Fleet! | Company Blog - 2022-10-12 - - Update (Dec 3, 2021): We’ve received an overwhelming number of requests for the Fleet Early Preview program. Unfortunately we can't accept any new requests, but we will continue sending invites to tho
Why the Internet needs the InterPlanetary File System - IEEE Spectrum - 2022-10-10 - - We could be using the InterPlanetary File System, a peer-to-peer file-sharing system that promises to make the Net more efficient
When you browse Instagram and find former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's passport number - 2022-10-10 - - Do not get arrested challenge 2020
Bowen tackles carbon market reform with new look Safeguard Mechanism – but is it enough? | RenewEconomy - 2022-10-10 - Proposed reforms will swap ACCUs for the new credit, but now they’ll only be granted if the emitter can get under their new baseline emissions level.
Emacs: Reveal in macOS Finder (DWIM style) - 2022-10-09 -
The Forgotten Operating System That Keeps the NYC Subway System Alive - 2022-10-09 - - Vintage technology has powered the innards of the NYC subway system for decades—and sometimes, it surfaces in interesting ways. This one’s for you, OS/2 fans.
Victorian Greens push for cannabis to be legalised, taxed similarly to alcohol | Victoria state election 2022 | The Guardian - 2022-10-09 - Plan would see a 30% tax imposed, which analysis suggests will add $1.21bn in revenue over a decade
Victorian election 2022: Opposition pledges to cut public transport fares to $2 a day - 2022-10-09 - Under the opposition’s plan, daily zone 1 and 2 fares would drop from $9.20 to $2, or from $4.60 to $1 for concession holders, but analysis shows wealthier suburbs better served by public transport would benefit the most.
Generating Date Ranges in SQLite | Geeky Tidbits - 2022-10-09 - SQLite supports <a href="https://www.sqlite.org/lang_with.html#x1140">Recursive Common Table Expressions</a> which is very handy sometimes. Although you have to keep an eye on performance, they can help you accomplish something that would otherwise be non-trival. Something like generating a range of dates or months, as I recently had to do.
Greta Thunberg - Wikipedia - 2022-10-09 -
Greta Thunberg on the climate delusion: ‘We’ve been greenwashed out of our senses. It’s time to stand our ground’ | Climate crisis | The Guardian - 2022-10-09 - Governments may say they’re doing all they can to halt the climate crisis. Don’t fall for it – then we might still have time to turn things around
Reserve Bank acknowledges its rapid rate hikes could force some people to sell their homes - ABC News - 2022-10-08 - Australia's Reserve Bank says its rapid interest rate rises could see some mortgage owners fall into arrears, and some even having to sell their homes.
Work/life balance: What Gen Z can teach Millennials - 2022-10-08 - Gen Z are much better at policing their leisure time and respecting boundaries than Millennials.
How Melbourne brought butterflies back to the CBD - 2022-10-08 - Not just butterflies, but bees too. Now the city is expanding its trial putting in more understory plants to see if birds will come back too.
DALL·E 2 vs $10 Fiverr Commissions — Simon Berens - 2022-10-08 - - Recently I wrote a blog post that had a concept I wanted to show graphically. Given that my drawing skills are terrible, I turned to Fiverr to get something that didn’t make my eyes bleed. While waiting for my commissioned art, I realized this was the perfect opportunity to compare the state of th
Self-Driving Cars Are Not (Yet) Safe | Hackaday - 2022-10-07 - Three things have happened in the last month that have made me think about the safety of self-driving cars a lot more. The US Department of Transportation (DOT) has issued its guidance on the safet…
Why Asians Use the (~) Tilde Mark For Texting and What It Means - 2022-10-07 - In Asian texting culture, the purpose of the ~ mark is to communicate an excited or friendly tone, similar to how an English typer would elongate and emphasize words like "heyyyy" "yessssss" or "loooooove it" to show an added layer of excitement onto their response.
How To Download All of Wikipedia onto a USB Flash Drive in 2022 - 2022-10-07 - - Here's how to download all of Wikipedia (6M+ articles) onto a USB flash drive for offline access. After hours of trying and failing, here's what worked for me
Future Proofing SQL with Carefully Placed Errors | Haki Benita - 2022-10-06 - - How to fail loudly when you really should
WebVM Virtual Machine With Networking via Tailscale - 2022-10-06 - - Today we are proud to announce that we have introduced full TCP and UDP network support to WebVM via integration with Tailscale.
Google officially launches Equiano subsea cable - DCD - 2022-10-06 - - Equiano is expected to create 1.6 million jobs
A flight to quality, as carbon traders hedge against a tightening of rules | RenewEconomy - 2022-10-06 - A mixed quarter of trading shaped by the announcement of the Chubb ERF review and the federal government’s plan to reform the Safeguard Mechanism.
Digraphs and trigraphs - Wikipedia - 2022-10-06
The banker who caused the 1929 stock crash - 2022-10-06 - - At the outset of the Depression, Charles Mitchell was the most wanted banker in America. Today, his name’s largely been forgotten.
Just, Nix Shell and Podman are a Killer Combo | Abhinav's Notes - 2022-10-05 - - Short notes about things I come across and ideas I run into
libSQL | libSQL is an open source, open contribution fork of SQLite. We aim to evolve it to suit many more use cases than SQLite was originally designed for. - 2022-10-05 - - libSQL is an open source, open contribution fork of SQLite. We aim to evolve it to suit many more use cases than SQLite was originally designed for.
Flavoracle — It’s sad how much of what is taught in school is... - 2022-10-05 - - I took calculus my senior year of high school, and I really liked the way our teacher framed this on the first day of class. He asked somebody to raise their hand and ask him when we would use...
bionic/bionic: Convert data exports from various services to a single SQLite database - 2022-10-04 - - Convert data exports from various services to a single SQLite database - bionic/bionic: Convert data exports from various services to a single SQLite database
How fateful? - 2022-10-04 -
Eliud Kipchoge: Daily Routine - Balance The Grind - 2022-10-04 - In Daily Routines, we profile successful leaders, artists, entrepreneurs, executives, athletes and more. In this edition we look at Eliud Kipchoge's daily routine.
(6) Nat Friedman on Twitter: "I’ve been playing with using GPT-3 to control a browser the last couple days. Here’s a quick demo. As you can see it's pretty neat! But also quite flakey. Will publish the source code shortly for others to try and improve. https://t.co/vXSIBsM7Rp" / Twitter - 2022-10-04 - “I’ve been playing with using GPT-3 to control a browser the last couple days. Here’s a quick demo. As you can see it's pretty neat! But also quite flakey. Will publish the source code shortly for others to try and improve.”
Journalists Are Making The Same Mistake With Dietary Change They Made With Climate Change: Study - 2022-10-04 - Scientists agree that developed nations need to eat less meat and shift to a plant-based diet, but newspapers cover the issue as an open question, repeating a mistake they made covering climate change.
Careful with that middleware, Eugene - 2022-10-02
handwritten.blog - 2022-10-02 - - How this blog is written
Build your fanbase using the K-pop method - 2022-10-02 - - Every successful startup needs a fanbase. To build one, learn from the masters.
230,000 Chinese "persuaded to return" from abroad, China to establish Extraterritoriality | Safeguard Defenders - 2022-10-02 - - This latest installment in Safeguard Defenders’ Investigations series takes a deep dive into the Chinese police’s expanding global policing toolkit by examining a seemingly recent campaign to counter transnational telecom and online fraud (according to the official provincial statements) by several provinces in the People’s Republic of China.
Browsers with built-in VPNs — the new normal? Microsoft bakes a VPN into Edge and turns it on - 2022-10-01 - - Microsoft has followed a small group of its competitors in building a VPN service directly into its own browser. The VPN feature, known as “Microsoft Edge Secure Network,” has rolled out to a limited selection of users in the latest Edge Canary version.
The world is flirting with another global financial crisis, and the next few weeks are key - ABC News - 2022-10-01 - It's hard to overstate the magnitude of the financial trouble Britain, and because of its financial heft, the world, found itself in this week, writes David Taylor.

September 2022

Stadia employees learned of shutdown just minutes before public - 2022-09-30 - - Stadia's Phil Harrison only told employees about the streaming service's shutdown minutes before the public learned.
Steampipe | select * from cloud; - 2022-09-30 - - Steampipe is an open source tool to instantly query your cloud services (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP and more) with SQL. No DB required.
Praise from Unreliable Sources | your passport to complaining - 2022-09-30 - I have been looking of google reviews a lot recently, and Twin Oaks as a community have a very high overall rating on google, 4.7 stars. There were very few low star reviews, but one of my favorit…
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Queensland's Browns Plains without electricity after drone food delivery crashes into powerlines - ABC News - 2022-09-30 - An Energex spokesman says, though many objects, including shoes, umbrellas, trampolines, kites and even toilet seats, have caused issues, it is "rare" for a drone to hit a powerline.
Matt on Tumblr — Why “Go Nuts, Show Nuts” Doesn’t Work in 2022 - 2022-09-29 - - For those who don’t know or remember, Tumblr used to have a policy around porn that was literally “Go nuts, show nuts. Whatever.” That was memorable and hilarious, and for many people, Tumblr both...
LiveTracker Datafield | Garmin Connect IQ - 2022-09-29 - Let your friends know, where you are while biking, running, hiking, paragliding, etc.!This datafield uses the energy efficient GPS of your GARMIN device for livetracking. Location data ist sent every 5 minutes via BLE and your mobile phone to a private server of your own choice (for example https://github.com/tomyvi/php-tracks-recorder; owntracks server, traccar server).Please be aware: To use this datafield, you need your own tracking server!!The 5 minutes update interval is caused by a restriction for datafields to make only every 5 minutes a webrequest to save battery power.The Owntracks-JSON-payload with location information is posted via HTTP.This is an alternative to the official Garmin Livetrack service. Your track data is stored on your private server and track data does not vanish after 24h.The datafield has been tested on the Fenix 6x and on the Vivoactive HR.Feel free to contact me, if you want to test this app on another device and I will add it to the supported devices - if possible.If you like this app: go to https://www.buymeacoffee.com/b8flyh - Thanks!Settings:device ID: Set your device name (Standard: GarminTracker)server URL: Set the URL to your tracking server API (Standard: https://domain.com/post )Transmitted data payload:{batt:76, // battery [percent]_type:location,lat:53.610501,cog:174, // heading [degrees]alt:3128, // altitude [m]lon:10.079511,vel:12.5, // speed [km/h]acc:4, // Garmin does not provide accuracy in meters - 4=Good, 3=Usable, 2=Poortst:1645652097, // UNIX timestamp [s]tid:GarminTracker // can be set in settings}
OwnTracks - Your location companion - 2022-09-29 - - Your location companion
Australian govt wants telco Optus to pay for new passports for data breach victims | RNZ News - 2022-09-29 - - The Foreign Affairs Minister formally asked teleco Optus to cover passport application fees for anyone caught up in a data breach which affected millions of Australians.
Ken Thompson Really Did Launch His "Trusting Trust" Trojan Attack in Real Life - 2022-09-29 - - Ken Thompson's "Trusting Trust" compiler Trojan attack was not just a thought experiment. In fact, Usenet poster Jay Ashworth stated that, from personal communications, Thompson really did launch this attack in real life and successfully compromised the Unix Support Group at Bell Labs. Recently, I've rediscovered this original message with full message headers in a search effort using various Usenet archives, showing the authenticity of the post.
The Endless Doomscroller — Ben Grosser - 2022-09-29 - An endless stream of doom, without all the specifics.
Org-mode tricks for team management - 2022-09-28
UK climate activists held in jail for up to six months before trial | Environmental activism | The Guardian - 2022-09-28 - Campaigners say protesters arrested for blocking roads getting ‘lost in prison system’ while on remand
Autumn has arrived in the UK – but the season is not like it used to be | Autumn | The Guardian - 2022-09-28 - There’s a new season’s beauty in the Fens, but also signs of altered behaviour by flora and fauna stressed by the milder weather
62 people own the same as half the world, reveals Oxfam Davos report | Oxfam International - 2022-09-28 -
Russia issues new nuclear warning as contested Ukraine referendums end | Reuters - 2022-09-27 - An ally of President Vladimir Putin issued a stark new nuclear warning to Ukraine and the West on Tuesday as Russia began releasing results of referendums it bills as a prelude to it annexing four Ukrainian regions.
CIA warned Berlin about possible attacks on gas pipelines in summer - Spiegel | Reuters - 2022-09-27 - The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had weeks ago warned Germany about possible attacks on gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea, German magazine Spiegel said on Tuesday, after gas leaks in Russia pipelines to Germany were reported.
JMAP: It’s like IMAP But Not Really – Unencumbered by Facts - 2022-09-26 - - With the new year upon us, I decided it was time to do something ambitious for my Open Source project. This is where I normally quip about never mentioning my project before, even though I literall…
How well do you know GitHub Actions? | fusectore.dev - 2022-09-26 - - During one of my assignments, I worked with GitHub Actions pretty much every day. I implemented workflows, created new actions, and helped people migrate their projects from jenkins to actions. As much as I like actions – and I like them a lot – there are some things that caught me off guard. I have collected some of these things, both for other people to let them know, and for myself as a future reference. How well do you know actions? Can you answer all of these questions correctly? ℹ️ Assume that all YAML and code is valid/compiles Output from a previous job What does the following print? jobs: jobOne: runs-on: ubuntu-latest outputs: foo: ${{ steps.foo.outputs.foo }} steps: - run: echo '::set-output name=foo::bar' id: foo jobTwo: needs: jobOne runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - run: echo hello jobThree: needs: jobTwo runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - run: echo ${{ needs.jobOne.outputs.foo }} Solution: It prints an empty line, because if you want to access an output from a job, you need to list it as a dependency. Outputs from transitive dependencies cannot be accessed. To fix this, make the third job depend on the first job explicitly needs: [jobOne, jobTwo] Exec explodes GitHub provides action developers with a toolkit to develop actions in JavaScript. One of the functions in there is called exec and can be used to run a command. Here’s its signature: /** * Exec a command. * Output will be streamed to the live console. * Returns promise with return code * * @param commandLine command to execute (can include additional args). Must be correctly escaped. * @param args optional arguments for tool. Escaping is handled by the lib. * @param options optional exec options. See ExecOptions * @returns Promise<number> exit code */ export async function exec( commandLine: string, args?: string[], options?: ExecOptions ): Promise<number> In an action, you might use it like so: const returnCode = await exec.exec('node', ['index.js']); if (returnCode != 0) { console.error('Uh! Something did not quite work :(') } Do you see any problems with that code? The problem is that exec does not return a non-zero return code if the command fails. Instead, it returns a rejected promise. So if you want to handle the error case, you need to wrap it in a try-catch block. While this behavior can be changed by passing ignoreReturnCode as the third argument ExecOptions, the default behavior is very surprising. I have seen many examples of people checking the return code without knowing how this function really behaves. Nevertheless, I still think throwing an error by default is probably not a bad choice, given that (A) many people ignore error handling and (B) you probably want to abort on error. Push for all? Say you’re working on your open source project, and you just started using actions to make sure the build always passes: on: push jobs: build: runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v3 # etc.. The push trigger seems to do the trick in all cases: You can push to a branch (or pull request) and the build runs. You can push to the main branch and the build runs. But there’s a scenario where it won’t run. Do you know when? Solution: If I fork your project and create a pull request, then push won’t trigger. If you want the PRs of external contributors to be validated with your workflows as well, you need to use the trigger pull_request. And once you do that, you also need to make sure the push only triggers on main, because otherwise your own pull requests will trigger the workflow twice (both from push and pull_request): on: pull_request: push: branches: [main] When talking about running actions from contributors, it is important to mention that: You can control how actions are triggered in pull requests from forks by Approving workflow runs from public forks Secrets are generally not available in PRs from forks, except for $GITHUB_TOKEN, which is read-only. There’s a trigger called pull_request_target to work around that, but you need to be careful as this open up the gates for potential vulnerabilities. Too much information, GitHub Say I have an open pull request based on a branch called my-feature, and the following workflow is triggered. What does it print? on: pull_request jobs: branch: runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - run: echo ${{ github.ref_name }} I’ll even give you the docs on github.ref_name: The short ref name of the branch or tag that triggered the workflow run. This value matches the branch or tag name shown on GitHub. For example, feature-branch-1. I’m going to guess you said my-feature, but unfortunately you’re wrong. It is going to print the PR number followed by /merge. For example, it would print 18/merge for the 18th pull request in your repository. Why is that? 🤔 The simple explanation is that when you create a pull request on GitHub, they create some additional internal(!) branches to make it easier for them to manage your pull request and tell you how it compares to the branch you want to merge into. As a result of that, when you run a workflow on a pull_request event, it runs on one of these “internal” branches rather than the one you just pushed. In terms of contents on your branch, this doesn’t make a difference – you’re still running your builds and tests on your contents – it’s just the branch name that is different. Unfortunately, this implementation detail is exposed here. Please see this answer on stackoverflow for more information. Note that $GITHUB_SHA is not what you’d expect either So how can you access the name of your branch in a pull request? It’s in the payload from the event: on: pull_request jobs: branch: runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - run: echo ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.ref }} Bonus: Am I there or not? Consider this reusable workflow: on: workflow_call: inputs: my-input: description: optional input required: false type: string jobs: greet: runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - uses: my/action@v1 with: my-input: ${{ inputs.my-input }} Let’s say the action my/action@v1 has an optional input my-input which has a default value my-value. Now if you were to call the reusable workflow as shown in the following example, what value would be passed to my/action@v1? Would the default be used? jobs: jobA: uses: org/repo/.github/workflows/workflow.yml@v1 Solution: An empty string is passed to my/action@v1 as my-input. The way this works is that if no value is passed to the reusable workflow, then the input my-input is still passed to the action, but it’s passed as an empty string. And even though we usually see an empty string as “no value passed”, the default value is not used here, because we did pass something. If you wanted to use the default value if no input was passed, then you’d have to invoke the action differently based on whether the input was passed to the reusable workflow. steps: - uses: my/action@v1 if: inputs.my-input with: my-input: ${{ inputs.my-input }} - uses: my/action@v1 if: inputs.my-input == '' This has been a long-standing issue in the runner, but there’s likely no easy solution that does not break existing workflows.
So when did POP and IMAP become a “legacy protocol?” - The Boston Diaries - Captain Napalm - 2022-09-26 - - So when did POP and IMAP become a “legacy protocol?”
Optus Under $1 Million Extortion Threat in Data Breach - 2022-09-26 - Australia’s Optus telco is facing a $1 million extortion demand to prevent the release of up to 11.2 million sensitive customer records. The data appears to be
Jeremy Kirk on Twitter: "UPDATE: I reached the person who claims to have hacked Optus. I've also been contacted by a second, separate source who says the hacker's version of events is approximately correct. Here's what they said. #OptusHack #infosec #auspol" / Twitter - 2022-09-26 - “UPDATE: I reached the person who claims to have hacked Optus. I've also been contacted by a second, separate source who says the hacker's version of events is approximately correct. Here's what they said. #OptusHack #infosec #auspol”
Get in Zoomer, We're Saving React — Acko.net - 2022-09-26 - - Looking back, and forward
Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers, follow-up - The Old New Thing - 2022-09-26 - - Deeper speculation by others.
Web Design in 4 minutes - 2022-09-26 - Learn the basics of web design in 4 minutes with this interactive tutorial.
foone on Twitter: "Someday aliens are going to land their saucers in a field somewhere in New Jersey and everything is going to go just fine right up until we try to explain our calendar to them" / Twitter - 2022-09-25 - - “Someday aliens are going to land their saucers in a field somewhere in New Jersey and everything is going to go just fine right up until we try to explain our calendar to them”
The Baked Data architectural pattern - 2022-09-25 - - I’ve been exploring an architectural pattern for publishing websites over the past few years that I call the “Baked Data” pattern. It provides many of the advantages of static site …
Kipchoge Smashes World Record to Win Berlin Marathon - Kenyans.co.ke - 2022-09-25 - Kipchoge set the world record during the 2018 BMW Berlin Marathon edition.
Aging programmer - 2022-09-25 - - Back in college, they told me that I would start my career writing code, but eventually, I would move to a position where I would ask others to code my designs. To celebrate that this turned out to be completely false, here are some assorted reflections as a 40-year-old programmer that looks back: • Compared to my younger versions, I f...
Geelong eviscerate Sydney by 81 points in AFL grand final win for the ages | AFL | The Guardian - 2022-09-24 - This decider, on return to a full house of 100,024 at the MCG after a two-year hiatus, was a famous victory for the ages
Guix for development — dthompson - 2022-09-24 -
Schedule Cronjob for the First Monday of Every Month, the Funky Way – Healthchecks.io - 2022-09-24 - - The crontab man page ("man 5 crontab" or read online) contains this bit: Note: The day of a command's execution can be specified by two fields — day of month, and day of week. If both fields are restricted (i.e., don't start with *), the command will be run when either field matches the current t
David Buchanan on Twitter: "The image in this tweet displays its own MD5 hash. You can download and hash it yourself, and it should still match - 1337e2ef42b9bee8de06a4d223a51337 I think this is the first PNG/MD5 hashquine. https://t.co/3Aw8F823MZ" / Twitter - 2022-09-24 - - “The image in this tweet displays its own MD5 hash. You can download and hash it yourself, and it should still match - 1337e2ef42b9bee8de06a4d223a51337 I think this is the first PNG/MD5 hashquine.”
Slack unveils canvas, a sharing tool inspired by Quip - 2022-09-23 - - Slack kept trying to build a flexible, interactive tool for sharing info–and kept failing. Then it turned to its Salesforce sibling Quip for the answer.
How much time do we waste waiting for websites to load? - 2022-09-23 - - A few weeks ago, I came across a blog post claiming that websites today are no faster than they were more than 10 years ago. My first reaction was disbelief. After all, home and mobile broadband today are significantly faster than 10 years ago. With home broadband reaching 70 Mbps
I spent two years trying to do what Backstage does for free - Stack Overflow Blog - 2022-09-22 - - Absent a time machine, telling others how to avoid my mistakes is the best I can do.
Introducing LiteFS · Fly - 2022-09-21 - - We are building a distributed file system for your SQLite databases. Kinda weird, huh?
NetNewsLedger - Russian President Putin to Declare Mobilization - 2022-09-21 - - MOSCOW – Russian President Putin is moving to announcing a general mobilization. The State Duma of the Russian Federation has added the concepts of “mobilization”, “martial law,” and “wartime” into the Russian Criminal Code and is going to impose a penalty of up to 10 years in prison for voluntary surrender. This is widely across …
10 Hotel Safety Tips from a Former Intelligence Officer | 2018-06-11 | Security Magazine - 2022-09-21 - - When traveling for business or pleasure, it’s important to always be conscious of the fact that hotels are a target for criminals, terrorists, and the mentally unstable. Here is a personal safety checklist to share with your C-Suite, frequent business travelers and your security team from an expert who has spent more than 30 years in intelligence and international security.
Cache your CORS, for performance & profit | HTTP Toolkit - 2022-09-20 - - CORS is a necessity for many APIs, but basic configurations can create a huge number of extra requests, slowing down every browser API…
Unique 2-in-1 calculator app adds up to surprise hit for retired engineer in Japan - The Mainichi - 2022-09-20 - - TOKYO -- A 63-year-old man in Japan who is an avid iPhone user has dedicated some of his post-retirement years to developing a popular, unique app tha
There is no “software supply chain” — iliana.fyi - 2022-09-20 -
Origin's Beetaloo exit is not enough, the fracking has got to stop | RenewEconomy - 2022-09-19 - Governments, now, must intervene on developments like Beetaloo; listen to the science and, as promised, to the voices of First Nations people.
iterating-over-the-other-80-percent.md - 2022-09-19 - - GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
Travelers Slam Lengthy Airbnb Chore Lists and Cleaning Fees - 2022-09-19 - - "If I'm paying $229 a night to stay somewhere, plus a $125 cleaning fee, I'm not doing any laundry," one traveler said in a viral TikTok.
GPU Mining No Longer Profitable After Ethereum Merge | Tom's Hardware - 2022-09-16 - - Expect a glut of used cards to show up on eBay soon.
Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » I had a dream - 2022-09-16 - - As I slept fitfully, still recovering from COVID, I had one of the more interesting dreams of my life: I was desperately trying to finish some PowerPoint slides in time to give a talk. Uncharacteri…
Why the number input is the worst input - Stack Overflow Blog - 2022-09-16 - - Think that web form has got your number? If you used input type="number", you may be surprised to find that it doesn't.
Building a professional design tool on the web - Made by Evan - 2022-09-16
Renewables at record highs, fossil fuels at record low, with more to come | RenewEconomy - 2022-09-15 - Renewables share nudges new peak of 62.94 per cent, with more records to fall in coming months.
Reimagining Capitalism — Patagonia - 2022-09-15 - - We're standing extractive capitalism on its head in an unprecedented way. Patagonia created a way to lock in its purpose as a company—we’re in business to save our home planet—and unlock more funds for fighting the climate and extinction crisis.
Patagonia Founder Gives Away the Company to Fight Climate Change - The New York Times - 2022-09-15 - - Yvon Chouinard has forfeited ownership of the company he founded 49 years ago. The profits will now be used to fight climate change.
Thin Backend: Instead of manually writing REST API endpoints or GraphQL resolvers you can use a Thin Backend server to automatically get a fully featured API backend. - 2022-09-14 - - Blazing fast, universal web app backend for making realtime single page apps
ContainerSSH/ContainerSSH: ContainerSSH: Launch containers on demand - 2022-09-12 - - ContainerSSH: Launch containers on demand. Contribute to ContainerSSH/ContainerSSH development by creating an account on GitHub.
Shortest URLs on the Internet | James Williams - 2022-09-11 - - What’s the shortest URL for which content is served on the internet? There are quite a few single-letter second-level domains that are used in very short URLs, such as Google’s http://g.co or Facebook’s https://m.me. But we can go shorter than this: there’s nothing stopping TLD registry operators serving A records at the apexes of their TLD zones. For example, if Verisign (the operator of the com TLD registry) wished, they could add an A record at the apex of the com TLD zone – com would then resolve to that IP, and your browser would connect to that IP when you visited https://com.
Should King Charles speak his mind on climate action, or just ugly buildings? | RenewEconomy - 2022-09-11 - Should King Charles speak out on climate change, as he has done as prince? Of course he should, says Albanese.
Infinite Scrolling: When to Use It, When to Avoid It - 2022-09-11 - - Infinite scrolling minimizes interaction costs and increases user engagement, but it isn’t a good fit for every website. For some, pagination or a Load More button will be a better solution.
Rethinking GPS: Engineering Next-Gen Location at Uber | Uber Blog - 2022-09-11 - - Uber’s Sensing, Inference, and Research team released a software upgrade for GPS on Android phones that significantly improves location accuracy in urban environments.
Why public chats are better than direct messages - Teamplify blog - 2022-09-09 - - How we communicate makes an enormous impact on our work. One of the best strategies for improving communication in a team is making it open
Implementing "seen by" functionality with Postgres - 2022-09-09 - - Different approaches for tracking visitor counts with PostgreSQL.
Choosing a Postgres Primary Key - 2022-09-09 - Turns out the question of which identifier to use as a Primary Key is complicated -- we're going to dive into some of the complexity and inherent trade-offs, and figure things out
Notica | t0.vc - 2022-09-09 - Send browser notifications from your terminal. No installation. No registration.
tdarb.org / Making a Website Under 1kB - 2022-09-09 -
The self-fulfilling prophecy of React - Josh Collinsworth blog - 2022-09-09 - - The only thing React is better at than other front-end frameworks is being popular. So how long will that self-perpetuating cycle continue?
Whitney Merrill on Twitter: "Whoa @Patreon laid off their ENTIRE security team. Wouldn’t trust my data there. Also there’s some amazing talent to scoop up." / Twitter - 2022-09-08 - - “Whoa @Patreon laid off their ENTIRE security team. Wouldn’t trust my data there. Also there’s some amazing talent to scoop up.”
This is not your grandfather's Perl - Stack Overflow Blog - 2022-09-08 - - That Perl interpreter you have on your Linux machine? Update it and check out the present.
http://http://http://@http://http://?http://#http:// | daniel.haxx.se - 2022-09-08 -
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese suspends parliament and pays tribute to Queen Elizabeth II - ABC News - 2022-09-08 - Prime Minister Anthony Albanese offers his condolences to the royal family after the death of Queen Elizabeth II, as parliament is suspended.
Queen Elizabeth II's death prompts suspension of England-South Africa cricket Test - ABC News - 2022-09-08 - Play has been paused before day two of the men's Test between England and South Africa in London after the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
Queen Elizabeth II dies aged 96, Buckingham Palace announces, Charles becomes King - ABC News - 2022-09-08 - The UK's Accession Council is expected to gather soon to proclaim Charles as the new King following the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, at the age of 96.
TheCaseForTheUsrMerge - 2022-09-08 -
I ran the worlds largest DDoS-for-Hire empire and CloudFlare helped - 2022-09-08 - - The perils of remaining neutral on a global scale: fanning the flames and selling the extinguisher.
James Stanley - Cheating at chess with a computer for my shoes - 2022-09-08 -
Blockade Australia climate activist can't use encrypted apps, must let police access phone - ABC News - 2022-09-08 - - One phone, no encrypted apps, and sharing passwords with police: These are some of the technology-focused bail conditions faced by Blockade Australia climate protesters.
Troy Hunt: "Pwned", the Book, is Finally Here! - 2022-09-08 - - The first time I ever wrote publicly about a company's security vulnerabilities, my boss came to have a word with me after seeing my name in the news headlines. One of the worst days I've ever had was right in the middle of the Have I Been Pwned sale process,
I Tracked Everything I Read on the Internet for a Year :: Thomas Pain - 2022-09-08 -