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Fingerprints and a mugshot: This is what will happen when Trump is arrested - BBC News - 2023-03-31 - - As the former president faces arrest on criminal charges, here is what you need to know.
Switching to Fedora from Ubuntu - 2023-03-31 -
Can we hide the orange dot without disabling SIP? — Alin Panaitiu - 2023-03-30 - - Alin Panaitiu's notes and ramblings: short-form content on macOS apps, music and computers in general
Austin Kleon — “This is a chord. This is another. This is a... - 2023-03-30 - - “This is a chord. This is another. This is a third. Now form a band.” “There’s an illustration from a fanzine called Sideburn #1, which was a drawing made by Tony Moon just to fill the space. It’s a...
The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained | snarfed.org - 2023-03-30 - - Posted on the Twitter Developers forum and IndieNews. Hi all! I don’t have much new to say about the ongoing chaos at Twitter or the impending death of the free API tier. I’d just like …
OLED MacBook Air Reportedly Now in Development as Apple Plans to Bring New Display Technology to Multiple Product Lines - MacRumors - 2023-03-30 - Samsung Display is developing a 13.3-inch OLED panel for a future MacBook Air model amid plans to switch several of Apple's product lines to the...
Incompetent but Nice - Jacob Kaplan-Moss - 2023-03-29 - - A question I’ve never been able to answer to my satisfaction: how do you manage people who are nice but can’t do the work?
Rust Is a Scalable Language - 2023-03-29 - In my last post about Zig and Rust, I mentioned that Rust is a scalable language. Let me expand on this a bit.
It's Not the Bike Lane's Fault You're a Bad Driver - 2023-03-28 - Instead of complaining about bike lanes, try paying attention while you're driving.
Apple introduces Apple Pay Later - Apple - 2023-03-28 - - 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.
Amazon to flag ‘frequently returned’ products you maybe shouldn’t buy - The Verge - 2023-03-28 - - Hopefully, this will make fake reviews easier to spot.
Getting NixOS to keep a secret :: Brian McGee - 2023-03-28 - In the land of NixOS all roads lead to the Nix Store. Everything you put in your .nix files, any input files/directories said .nix files reference, and all the build output of the derivations said .nix files define will end up in your nix store. And this can be a problem. You don’t want things like api tokens and other credentials ending up in a world readable location like /nix/store, or worse still being pushed to a remote store or binary cache.
Kubernetes is hard - 2023-03-27 -
Apple Passwords Deserve An App – cabel.com - 2023-03-27 - - First, let’s consider three random tweets: They already have. They definitely should. They seemingly won’t… but why? We all know that Apple has nice built-in password management in macO…
“The library is a safe place.” – WIL WHEATON dot NET - 2023-03-27 - - In order to survive, I disassociated for much of my childhood, but I clearly remember the books. That’s where I found comfort, companionship, inspiration and validation. It’s where the …
Common pitfalls of GitHub Actions - 2023-03-27 - If you create GitHub Actions via GitHub's UI by going to the URL of the form https://github.com///actions/new, it provides templates for setting up the build. However, the template is broken. There are four problems with the default template No dependency caching - so package dependencies will be resolved and reinstalled every time No cancelation of
The Forgotten Women Aquanauts of the 1970s - Atlas Obscura - 2023-03-26 - - These scientists spent weeks underwater doing research—and convincing NASA women could also go into space.
Beloved hacking veteran Kelly ‘Aloria’ Lum passes away at 41 | TechCrunch - 2023-03-26 - - Kelly "Aloria" Lum was 41 when she passed away in New York City. She was a beloved member of the cybersecurity community, particularly in the city.
Stanford Law Responds Appropriately, If Belatedly, To Judge Duncan Fiasco - 2023-03-26 - Measured Decisions Rarely Please Anyone
Start all of your commands with a comma - 2023-03-26 -
Utah is first US state to limit teen social media access - BBC News - 2023-03-26 - - One of the bills will give parents full access to their children's online private messages.
Why Take a Compiler Course? – Embedded in Academia - 2023-03-26 -
My experience crafting an interpreter with Rust – Manuel Cerón - 2023-03-26 - - Last year I finally decided to learn some Rust. The official book by Steve Klabnik and Carol Nichols is excellent, but even after reading it and working on some small code exercises, I felt that I …
How John Glenn's $40 Camera Forced NASA to Rethink Space Missions | PetaPixel - 2023-03-25 - How John Glenn's $40 drugstore camera, an Ansco Autoset, changed the course of manned space exploration forever.
Your Problem Is Not With Section 230, But The 1st Amendment | Techdirt - 2023-03-25 - Everyone wants to do something about Section 230. It?s baffling how seldom we talk about what happens next. What if Section 230 is repealed tomorrow? Must Twitter cease fact-checking the President?…
Very few consumers want subscriptions in their cars, survey shows | Ars Technica - 2023-03-25 - - Automakers are pushing subscriptions, but consumer interest just isn't there.
How The New York Times managed to avoid ruining Wordle | Ars Technica - 2023-03-25 - - Producer says new owners were wary to monetize or make changes to the viral hit.
Gordon Moore, Intel Co-Founder, Dies at 94 :: Intel Corporation (INTC) - 2023-03-25 -
Why Engineers Need To Write - by Ryan Peterman - 2023-03-24 - - I hated writing in high school. It wasn’t objective like my favorite subjects, math and science. It also didn’t help that we had to write about old, hard-to-understand literature like Shakespeare. But my perspective on writing changed once I started working full-time as a software engineer.
Rogue Amoeba - Under the Microscope » Blog Archive » The RIAA v. Steve Jobs - 2023-03-24 - - We never knew how close we came to being crushed.
Florida principal fired: Interview with the school board chair who ousted a principal after Michelangelo’s David was shown in class. - 2023-03-24 - - "Well, we’re Florida, OK?"
Apple Stops Allowing Sprint iPhone Activations, Removes Sprint References From Online Store - MacRumors - 2023-03-24 - Apple is no longer allowing customers who purchase an iPhone, cellular iPad, or Apple Watch to activate a device with now-defunct mobile carrier...
Teruyuki Okazaki - Wikipedia - 2023-03-24
The ‘Germany Ticket’ is ready to go on 1 May | TheMayor.EU - 2023-03-24 - Germany will launch the 49-euro ticket on 1 May – the country’s successor policy of last year’s 9-euro travel pass. The ticket is supposed to fix mobility issues and offer people an alternative travel..
The Worry Police – Rands in Repose - 2023-03-24 - - The Worry Police worry. During their career, the Worry Police were rewarded amply for their worrying, so they believe it's their move. It makes them feel important. Worrying. The Worry Police have real power; they are the police. This power was granted to them because sometimes, preparing for immi
Boomer - 2023-03-24 - Remembering our dog Boomer who was the best ever.
Adding to $PATH for a central location for Neovim/NPM tools – Ben Frain - 2023-03-24 - I needed a single location to install my LSPs and other NPM related tools for Neovim, which allows for ‘locked down’ versions and without the need to install NPM packages globally. Like many large workplaces, mine has strict rules on what you can and can’t ‘use’ when it comes to your text editor and associated...
Fascination of AWK | Volodymyr Gubarkov - 2023-03-24 - - I describe why AWK is great for prototyping and is often the best alternative to the shell and Python
Cheating is All You Need - 2023-03-23 - - There is something legendary and historic happening in software engineering, right now as we speak, and yet most of you don’t realize at all how big it is.
The FTC wants to ban those tough-to-cancel gym and cable subscriptions - The Verge - 2023-03-23 - - “We get countless complaints about this.”
Apple 'Tracking Employee Attendance' in Crackdown on Remote Working - MacRumors - 2023-03-23 - Apple is tracking the attendance of its employees at offices using badge records in order to ensure they are coming in at least three times a week,...
Matt Taibbi Can’t Comprehend That There Are Reasons To Study Propaganda Information Flows, So He Insists It Must Be Nefarious | Techdirt - 2023-03-23 - Over the last few months, Elon Musk’s handpicked journalists have continued revealing less and less with each new edition of the “Twitter Files,” to the point that even those of us who write about …
Why ChatGPT Won’t Replace Coders Just Yet | by Clive Thompson | Mar, 2023 | Medium - 2023-03-23 - - The “bullshit” problem turns up in code, too
Book Publishers Won’t Stop Until Libraries Are Dead | Techdirt - 2023-03-22 - Earlier this week there was finally a hearing in the case brought by the big book publishers to kill off libraries. That, of course, is not how the publishers describe the lawsuit, but it’s absolut…
Trump denounces ‘crime-fraud’ ruling forcing attorney to testify in documents probe - POLITICO - 2023-03-22 - The ruling by the federal District Court in D.C. came as its chief judge wound up her term supervising the grand jury.
Why Link Taxes Like Canada’s C-18 Represent An End To An Open Web | Techdirt - 2023-03-22 - Well, here we go again. For years now, the legacy news industry, often led by lobbyists for Rupert Murdoch, have been pushing a bizarre plan to tax links on the internet. The entire rationale for t…
Github Actions and Go - 2023-03-21 - TLDR: See cristalhq/.github build workflow and how it can be used cristalhq/jsn Intro I love open source, and also I love Go. So, a few months ago I decided to build the best CI for Go that I could easily reuse across my projects. This post shares t...
Purported Chinese warships interfering with passenger planes • The Register - 2023-03-21 - Australian airline Qantas warns pilots to keep calm and carry on amid reports of satnav and altimeter jamming
Why I Will Never Use Alpine Linux Ever Again | Martin Heinz | Personal Website & Blog - 2023-03-21 - - <p> Nowadays, Alpine Linux is one of the most popular options for container base images. Many people (maybe including you) use it for anything and everythi...
How a Berkeley Eccentric Beat the Russians—and Then Made Useless, Wondrous Objects - Cal Alumni Association - 2023-03-21 - - Just like that, Cliff Stoll, goofball Berkeley hippie, had suddenly become Cliff Stoll, Cold Warrior.
Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought - Bitestring's Blog - 2023-03-21 -
How Overturning Roe v. Wade Changed Match Day 2023 | MedPage Today - 2023-03-21 - Abortion restrictions are a physician workforce issue
macOS Cursors - 2023-03-21 - - All macOS mouse cursor icons as downloadable SVGs and PNGs
Senselessness — The Inflight Entertainment Challenge - 2023-03-21 - - On a recent flight from NYC -> SFO, I decided to try to re-create as much of the Delta in-flight entertainment system as I could. Try the final result here: https://delta-inflight.vercel.app And...
Why use Rust on the backend? - 2023-03-20 - - I don't care about avoiding GC or about maximum performance. I treat Rust as a high level language.
Betraying vim for the IDEs of March | nicholas@web - 2023-03-20 -
Safety pin: A tiny tool Indian women use to fight sexual harassment - BBC News - 2023-03-20 - Almost every day women in India face sexual harassment in public places. So how do they deal with it?
ignore the code: The Command Line Is the GUI's Future - 2023-03-19 -
The 1967 Experiment That Proved Anyone Can Design a Nuclear Weapon | Amusing Planet - 2023-03-19 -
Leaving China - Persuasion - 2023-03-19 - - Why expatriates like me abandoned the futures we planned in China.
Bitwarden PINs can be brute-forced - ambiso's blog - 2023-03-19 -
Deciphering Glyph :: Building And Distributing A macOS Application Written in Python - 2023-03-19 - - Even with all the great tools we have, getting a macOS application written in Python all the way to a production-ready build suitable for end users can involve a lot of esoteric trivia.</p
On the replaceability of my job by AI - 2023-03-19 - A genuine DKNY handbag in a discounter TK Maxx store, which I still don't buy
Signal >> Blog >> Standing firm against threats to private and safe communication - 2023-03-18 - - Signal exists to provide people everywhere with a tool for real private communication. That’s our only goal, and we take it very seriously. We’re structured as a nonprofit to ensure that market forces can never put profit or expediency over the safety of those who rely on us. Our work also resona...
This week in KDE: “More Wayland fixes” – Adventures in Linux and KDE - 2023-03-18 - - It’s become almost a running joke on Phoronix at this point, but this week we do indeed have more Wayland fixes! :) …And other things as well, including some good UI improvements to var…
The Prospective Student’s Guide to Medieval Universities | Lapham’s Quarterly - 2023-03-18 - - A handbook for time travelers.
Getting Good Sleep Could Add Years to Your Life - American College of Cardiology - 2023-03-18 -
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway rejects call for silence on hot-button issues | Reuters - 2023-03-18 - Berkshire Hathaway Inc , run by billionaire Warren Buffett, on Friday urged shareholders to reject proposals that it avoid discussing hot-button social and political issues, and competing proposals that it disclose more about its climate change and diversity efforts.
Ricky Mondello » Twitter’s Decision to Limit SMS 2FA is Dangerous - 2023-03-17 -
To-Day :: TrozWare - 2023-03-17 - - Creating my own minimalist todo application.
With Ships, Birds Find an Easier Way to Travel | Hakai Magazine - 2023-03-17 - - Why fly all the way across the ocean when you can chill out by the pool?
One-hour operation could cure prostate cancer by destroying tumours with electric currents - 2023-03-17 - - Pioneering treatment has been used to treat the disease for the first time on the NHS, and may offer hope to thousands of men
Captain Ironman — DBT Ventures - 2023-03-17 - - Farewell, 2021 As the curtain drops on 2021, I’d like to share some learnings with you from two recent experiences: Completing an Ironman triathlon (11/21/21) Earning a private pilot certificate (12/30/21) Why these two experiences? Many of our 5,000+ readers are ambitious technology prof
Laurence Tratt: Rust's Two Kinds of 'Assert' Make for Better Code - 2023-03-17 -
FCC orders phone companies to block scam text messages | Ars Technica - 2023-03-17 - - First robotext rule requires blocking of texts from invalid and unused numbers.
What to know about the end of Docker Free Teams | Docker - 2023-03-17 - - We apologize for how we communicated and executed sunsetting Docker “Free Team” subscriptions, which alarmed the open source community. Read our FAQ to learn more.
Portable rusage command - 2023-03-16 - - The best tool for reporting command resource usage across platforms.
Not By AI Badges — A Badge for Your AI-free Content - 2023-03-16 - Your AI-free content deserves a badge. If your content is not generated by AI, add the badge to your work.
Ransomware attacks have entered a heinous new phase | Ars Technica - 2023-03-16 - Cybercriminal gangs now releasing stolen photos of cancer patients, student records.
A new “3rd way” for CarPlay – A Whole Lotta Nothing - 2023-03-16 - I am a fan of Apple’s CarPlay. I think it can make driving safer while keeping you informed of new calls and texts, and entertained with podcasts and music, all without having to take your ey…
The key to the Mac's survival isn't a new Air–it's the next iPad Pro | Macworld - 2023-03-16 - The Mac and the iPad are on a collision course, and they're both about to run into the brick wall that Apple has erected between them.
This is What Happens When Your Phone is Spying on You - 2023-03-15 - - Smartphone spyware apps that allow people to spy on each other are not only hard to notice and detect, they also will easily leak the sensitive personal information they collect, says a team of computer scientists from New York and San Diego.
Download Zed - 2023-03-15 - Code at the speed of thought. Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.
Nebraska lawmaker 3 weeks into filibuster over trans bill | AP News - 2023-03-15 - LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — It was a mundane, unanimously supported bill on liquor taxation that saw state Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh take to the mic on the Nebraska Legislature floor last week. She offered her support, then spent the next three days discussing everything but the bill, including her favorite Girl Scout cookies, Omaha's best doughnuts and the plot of the animated movie “Madagascar.”
Deploys Are the ✨WRONG✨ Way to Change User Experience | Honeycomb - 2023-03-15 - In this post, Charity talks about the differences between deploys and releases, and why deploys are a terrible way to make UX changes.
jwz: Is this not a reasonable form of ID? - 2023-03-15 - Back in June 2022, Facebook decided that my (vestigial) personal Facebook account would no longer be permitted to admin the DNA Lounge page unless I uploaded a photo of my ID. So I sent them this: Things started working again about a month after that, but today -- nine months later -- they rejected it: Do you think it's because the edges aren't clearly visible? Or do you think it's because, ...
Docker is deleting Open Source organisations - what you need to know - 2023-03-15 - - This controversial decision coupled with poor messaging has created anxiety the Open Source community. Learn what's happening and how we can move forward.
Highlights from Git 2.40 | The GitHub Blog - 2023-03-15 - - The first Git release of the year is here! Take a look at some of our highlights on what's new in Git 2.40.
MNT Pocket Reform - Our Campaign is Now Live on Crowd Supply! | Crowd Supply - 2023-03-15 - - The MNT Pocket Reform Laptop is now Available for Pre-order!
e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391 - 2023-03-15 - Intended audience: software engineers working with Git who happen to come across this value and want to confirm that it has particular significance.
epilys/gerb: Graphical font editor (GTK + Rust) - 2023-03-15 - Graphical font editor (GTK + Rust). Contribute to epilys/gerb development by creating an account on GitHub.
Hating Everyone Everywhere All At Once At Stanford - 2023-03-14 - Don't Expect Free Speech Disputes To Have Heroes
Stop Using Custom Web Fonts - 2023-03-14 -
On Star Trek: Discovery and Michelle Yeoh's accent - 2023-03-14 - Contributed by When the Star Trek: Discovery trailer was first announced, I almost didn't want to watch it. I'm a lifelong fan of the franchise — I grew up on The Next Generation and Star Treks II–VI and I'd followed every up and down of the…
Crab crisis in Bering Sea a sign of 'borealization' and big changes in the future, scientists warn - Alaska Beacon - 2023-03-14 - - The conditions that triggered the snow crab crash are expected to be common in future decades, and management may have to change.
Why it does and doesn’t matter if Google, Microsoft, or Zoom certify your webcam | Ars Technica - 2023-03-14 - - PC accessory stamps should emphasize features, not compatibility/marketing.
Ultrathin Metasurface Displays Take Aim at the LCD - IEEE Spectrum - 2023-03-14 - - “Invisibility cloak” physics powers these super-high-res screen prototypes
Using a Mac without a network connection – The Eclectic Light Company - 2023-03-14 - - New version of ViableS runs in a sandbox, with no shared folders, and can now be isolated from networks. So how well does Ventura work without internet?
Switching From C++ to Rust | Nikita Lapkov - 2023-03-14 - - I have been writing C++ professionally for the last 4 years and 3 months ago I started a new job in Rust. I would like to share my experience and thoughts on the transition between 2 languages. Disclaimer: This article is not a C++ vs Rust comparison. I will talk about my personal experience and things which are important to me, not the engineering community in general. What kind of C++ and Rust?
'Absolutely idiotic'. SVB insider says employees are angry with CEO | CNN Business - 2023-03-14 - - The blame game is on for who caused Silicon Valley Bank's collapse, and the tech sector is pointing the finger at SVB CEO Greg Becker for allowing his company to go down in history as the second-biggest US banking failure on record.
Andrew Benton's Blog — Experian is a pile of dark pattern garbage - 2023-03-13 - - Many years ago I froze my credit with all three credit reporting agencies in the US. This was a fairly straightforward process that differed slightly at each agency, but mostly involved getting a...
It’s One API, Michael. What Could It Cost? $42,000 Per Month? | Techdirt - 2023-03-13 - When Elon Musk moved to take over Twitter, Jack Dorsey, who endorsed the deal, talked to him about making the site more open, specifically turning it into a protocol that anyone could build on. Thi…
Silicon Valley Bank Used Former McCarthy Staffers to Weaken Regulations, Lobby FDIC - 2023-03-12 - Two senior aides to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy were among the top lobbyists for the bank at the center of a new financial crisis
Gurman: AirPods to Gain Hearing Health Features Over the Next Two Years - MacRumors - 2023-03-12 - Apple's AirPods could gain more prominent hearing health features in the next year or two, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Apple's...
pedrozath/coltrane: 🎹🎸A music theory library with a command-line interface - 2023-03-12 - - 🎹🎸A music theory library with a command-line interface - pedrozath/coltrane: 🎹🎸A music theory library with a command-line interface
How to use the en dash, em dash and hyphen (also ndash, mdash) - 2023-03-12 - - It's easy to use the hyphen, em dash and en dash to make your writing flow better. Let's look at some examples of the en dash...
Platform Journeys - 2023-03-12 -
Delivering Value with Platform Engineering - Max Countryman - 2023-03-12 - - Platform Engineering offers a unique value prop to engineering orgs by focusing its attention on the holistic system. This in contrast to and in direct support of teams which focus on a narrower domain. In doing so, platform teams elevate and accelerate the work of their peers and drive exceptional business value.
Slimbook Titan, Kubuntu, installation, hybrid graphics - 2023-03-11 - Follow-up review of Slimbook Titan laptop, with 8-core, 16-thread Ryzen 9 5900HX processor, Nvidia RTX 3070 graphics, and two M.2 NVMe drives, covering Kubuntu 22.04 LTS installation, encrypted LVM, proprietary drivers setup, hybrid graphics and Nvidia on-demand profile, HD scaling on 2K resolution, Plasma desktop configuration, look and feel, Ubuntu Pro setup, hardware compatibility, ergonomics - screen and keyboard, performance, heating, noise, battery life, basic application and games testing, various serious problems with the BIOS, keyboard backlighting and first installation attempt, some bugs and papercuts, and more
The Slimbook Titan is here - 2023-03-11 - Review of Slimbook Titan laptop, with 8-core, 16-thread Ryzen 9 5900HX processor, Nvidia RTX 3070 graphics, and two M.2 NVMe drives, covering laptop delivery process, technical specifications, look and feel, build quality and ergonomics, operating system choices, some other early observations, and more
3 Mistakes I Made as an Engineer, but Had To Become a Manager To See - 2023-03-11 - - 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.
Telehealth startup Cerebral shared millions of patients’ data with advertisers | TechCrunch - 2023-03-10 - The startup shared millions of patients' personal information and health data with Google, Facebook, and TikTok.
FDIC: PR-16-2023 3/10/2023 - 2023-03-10 - - FDIC Creates a Deposit Insurance National Bank of Santa Clara to Protect Insured Depositors of Silicon Valley Bank, Santa Clara, California
Twitter’s $42,000-per-Month API Prices Out Nearly Everyone | WIRED - 2023-03-10 - - Tiers will start at $500,000 a year for access to 0.3 percent of the company’s tweets. Researchers say that’s too much for too little data.
Hosting your own Mastodon server — PaulStamatiou.com - 2023-03-10 - Join the Fediverse on your own terms
RIP: Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language • The Register - 2023-03-10 - - Builder and programmer of the ARC and SEC turned 100 this year
why i use cheap notebooks | ティラミス - 2023-03-10 - - I've had my fair share of nice notebooks over the years, from Moleskines to Leuchtturms. And I love them: I love their smooth leather covers, thick sheets, a...
maxgoedjen/secretive: Store SSH keys in the Secure Enclave - 2023-03-10 - - Store SSH keys in the Secure Enclave. Contribute to maxgoedjen/secretive development by creating an account on GitHub.
What does "Copy clean link" mean? – Brave Help Center - 2023-03-09 - - Brave has already implemented a query string filter which helps prevent tracking of individual users without interfering with campaign-level tracking. We have taken this one step further by allowin...
Apple Music Classical: 15 Things You Need to Know About the New App - MacRumors - 2023-03-09 - Apple today unveiled Apple Music Classical on the App Store. Here are 15 things you need to know about the new app: Apple Music Classical is...
Getting Past “Ampersand-Driven Development” in Rust - Blog - 2023-03-09 - - A little mental model for ownership and borrowing
Apple Music Classical Now Available for Pre-Order on the App Store, Launches Later This Month - MacRumors - 2023-03-09 - Apple's long-awaited dedicated classical music app today appeared on the App Store and is available for pre-order ahead of its launch at the end...
Next Year's OLED iPad Pro Models Could Have These Eye-Watering Starting Prices - MacRumors - 2023-03-09 - Apple's 2024 OLED iPad Pro models could be vastly more expensive than its existing iPad Pros and even more costly than some MacBook Pros...
The privacy loophole in your doorbell - POLITICO - 2023-03-08 - - Police were investigating his neighbor. A judge gave officers access to all his security-camera footage, including inside his home.
How long does Twitter have left? - by Dave Karpf - 2023-03-08 - I give it six months before bankruptcy
Widgetsmith += 100,000,000 - David Smith, Independent iOS Developer - 2023-03-08
Hardware microphone disconnect - Apple Support - 2023-03-07 - - Supported Mac computers and iPad devices have a hardware disconnect that helps ensure that the microphone is disabled whenever the lid is closed.
Elon Musk Uses Twitter to Humiliate Fired Employee: 'Guy Did No Actual Work' | PCMag - 2023-03-07 - Musk holds an awkward, public exit interview with Haraldur Thorleifsson, who was uncertain whether he'd been fired or not. Musk at one point replied with laughing emojis.
15-Inch MacBook Air Still on Track to Launch in April, Says Analyst - MacRumors - 2023-03-06 - Apple's rumored 15-inch MacBook Air is still on track to launch in April, according to Ross Young, CEO of Display Supply Chain Consultants. Young...
Microsoft Announces Outlook for Mac is Now Free to Use - MacRumors - 2023-03-06 - Microsoft today announced that its Outlook app for Mac is now free to use, eliminating the need for a Microsoft 365 subscription or license. ...
Reliability: It's Not Great - General - Fly.io - 2023-03-06 - - 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...
Maybe Treating Housing as an Investment was a Colossal, Society-Shattering Mistake - 2023-03-06 - - Thoughts on science, economics, politics, relationships. Not an expert.
How to help someone use a computer - 2023-03-06 -
I’m a very slow thinker | Derek Sivers - 2023-03-06 -
A Practical Guide to Kubernetes: Part 1 — Setting Up Your Development Cluster - 2023-03-06 - For the “hands-on” part, you will need a cluster to work on: You will need a Kubernetes cluster, And you will need a Container Registry. Let’s start with picking up a cluster.
A Practical Guide to Kubernetes: Part 0 — Introduction - 2023-03-06 - In this series, I will assume nothing and build a knowledge base bit by bit that will help whether you are just beginning to learn Kubernetes or you are a seasoned Kubernetes expert. We do not call this site Zero to Hero for nothing, do we 😉?
Gurman: New 13-Inch and 15-Inch MacBook Airs Likely to Launch by Summer - MacRumors - 2023-03-05 - Apple will likely launch both an updated 13-inch MacBook Air and a larger 15-inch MacBook Air "between late spring and summer," according to...
The perfect shell | Tolki’s Blog - 2023-03-05 - The older I get the more I enjoy just doing as much as I can in a terminal. There’s something about the lack of distractions, simplicity of the interface, and speed.
Introducing MailCrab! - Blog - Tweede golf - 2023-03-05 - - MailCrab is an email test server for development, written entirely in Rust.
Do masks work? It’s a question of physics, biology, and behavior | Ars Technica - 2023-03-05 - A recent review from a prominent scientific source has reignited the debate over masks.
Be Careful Using tmux and Environment Variables - Andrew Jorgensen - 2023-03-04 - - Watch out for these common pitfalls when using tmux and environment variables and learn how to avoid them.
ongoing by Tim Bray · Stream Automator - 2023-03-04
NORJAK - 2023-03-04 - - Was D.B. Cooper actually a scientist named Milton B. Vordahl? How did we come across Milton B. Vordahl? SCIENCE! Cooper pulled off one of the most ingenious heists in history. He was the first person in history to escape a crime scene by jumping from it. He made one mistake though: he left his tie…
Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor - 2023-03-04 -
diziet | Never use git submodules - 2023-03-04 -
Star Trek legend Michael Dorn reflects on Worf’s final act in Picard - Polygon - 2023-03-04 - Actor Michael Dorn reflects on the legendary Star Trek character
Seed-Planting Drones Are Reforesting Canada With Lightning Speed - 2023-03-04 - By dropping five seed pods per second onto wildfire-scarred lands, aerial tree planting is quickly creating biodiverse forests from the sky.
They thought they could scam this Windsor grandmother of nearly $10K. She turned the tables on them | CBC News - 2023-03-04 - Windsor, Ont., police say a quick-thinking community hero helped them nab two individuals involved in a grandparents scam — an effort to bilk seniors out of thousands of dollars by pretending to be their grandchildren.
Jason Eckert's Website and Blog - 2023-03-04 - - My personal website and blog
Leaked audio reveals US rail workers were told to skip inspections as Ohio crash prompts scrutiny to industry | Ohio train derailment | The Guardian - 2023-03-03 - - Exclusive: employee says manager told her to stop marking cars for repair, as Ohio derailment brings hard look at industry’s record of blocking safety rules
COBOL: You’re thinking about it wrong - GCN - 2023-03-03 - - The workhorse computing language suffers from a “major image problem” rooted in fundamental misperceptions, researchers say.
The SCO lawsuit, 20 years later [LWN.net] - 2023-03-03 -
tenderlove/initial-v: It's a BMW shifter converted to a Bluetooth Keyboard that you use with Vim - 2023-03-03 - - It's a BMW shifter converted to a Bluetooth Keyboard that you use with Vim - tenderlove/initial-v: It's a BMW shifter converted to a Bluetooth Keyboard that you use with Vim
Egypt: Hidden corridor in Great Pyramid of Giza seen for first time - BBC News - 2023-03-03 - - An endoscope was used to film inside the 9m-long space, whose purpose is still unknown.
As Twitter Goes Down Yet Again, Report Highlights How Fragile Its Infrastructure Has Become | Techdirt - 2023-03-03 - - On Wednesday there was yet another major global outage at Twitter, something that feels like it’s becoming a recurring issue and bringing us back to the days when Twitter regularly crashed an…
"There is no prosecution at any cost." - 2023-03-03 - - Germany opposes EU plans for client-side scanning - it would create an unprecedented surveillance monster that violates fundamental rights.
Advice to Aimless, Excited Programmers - 2023-03-01 -
Mental models for learning Rust - 2023-03-01 - - Let us not beat around the bush: Rust is not easy to learn. I think it took me nearly 1 year of full-time programming in Rust to become proficient and no longer have to read the documentation every 5 lines of code. It's a looong journey but absolutely worth it.
The Universe of Discourse : I wish people would stop insisting that Git branches are nothing but refs - 2023-03-01 -

February 2023

I don’t want to log in to your website - The Verge - 2023-02-28 - - Just say no to salesbros!
Woman single-handedly takes on BA and wins - BBC News - 2023-02-28 - - Jennie Barber cited legislation from 1943 to win flight refund in court battle with British Airways.
Dear Mr. Sunak, will you block access to encryption, just like Russia & Iran? - 2023-02-28 - - Tutanota: We will not 'walk out' of UK like Signal. Nor will we comply with any request to bypass our encryption.
LastPass says employee’s home computer was hacked and corporate vault taken | Ars Technica - 2023-02-28 - - Already smarting from a breach that stole customer vaults, LastPass has more bad news.
Elon Musk calls U.S. media and schools 'racist against whites & Asians' - 2023-02-28 - - Musk posted his comments on Twitter in response to media organizations cutting the comic strip "Dilbert" after its creator, Scott Adams, made racist remarks.
What Transparency? Twitter Seems To Have Forgotten About Transparency Reporting | Techdirt - 2023-02-28 - One of the key things that Elon Musk promised in taking over Twitter was about how he was going to be way more transparent. He’s mentioned it many times, specifically noting that transparency…
The Cello in Soho Square – Rands in Repose - 2023-02-28 - This was the second time we'd heard Audrey play her cello in Soho Square. She found a bench and just started playing. We learned about the first session days after it happened and begged her to give us a warning next time, but her small smile silently said no. We mobilized. Her roommate, Bruce, was
My network home setup - v4.0 | etcetera - 2023-02-28 - - A new update of my network home setup, to both hardware and software.
SSH Tips and Tricks - 2023-02-27 - - Since I joined Charm, I’ve been working and learning more about SSH, and I thought I would share a few quick tips and tricks with you. Forward Yubikey Agent If you use a Yubikey (you should), you can use it in your remotes by having the key in a SSH agent and forwarding it. To manage the agent, I strongly recommend yubikey-agent. You can then forward it in your ~/.ssh/config like the following:
Golang Printing Tabstopped Text into Aligned Columns - Chavez Blog - 2023-02-27 - Technical related blog posts by github.com/mtchavez -
This is my next main browser: a review of Orion | Riccardo Mori - 2023-02-27 - Orion is currently my favourite browser, and has replaced Safari entirely on one of my primary Macs. Here's why.
SSH alternatives for mobile, high-latency or unreliable connections - 2023-02-27 - A review of the best SSH alternatives for connecting to servers over poor connections.
You Can Turn Your Backyard Into a Biodiversity Hotspot | WIRED - 2023-02-27 - - New research shows that if done right, urban farms and gardens can support all kinds of species—for the good of people and the environment.
From Go on EC2 to Fly.io: +fun, −$9/mo - 2023-02-27 - - 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.
These scientists lugged logs on their heads to resolve Chaco Canyon mystery | Ars Technica - 2023-02-27 - - “Tumplines allow one to carry heavier weights over larger distances without getting fatigued."
How do woodpeckers avoid brain injury? - 2023-02-27 - Slamming a beak against the trunk of a tree would seem like an activity that would cause headaches, jaw aches and serious neck and brain injuries. Yet woodpeckers can do this 20 times per second and suffer no ill effects.
The Case For Shunning - by A.R. Moxon - The Reframe - 2023-02-26 - People like Scott Adams claim they're being silenced. But what they actually seem to object to is being understood.
Dilbert comic strip dropped by US media over creator's racist tirade - BBC News - 2023-02-26 - The comic strip's creator Scott Adams said white people should "get the hell away" from black people.
Learn Rust in 2023 with These 17 Resources - 2023-02-26 - Want to learn Rust but don't know where to start? In this article, we have gathered 17 awesome books, articles, videos, and other resources that will help you.
Making Go telemetry opt-in is a mistake - 2023-02-26 - - A hot take.
Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone | Nokia | The Guardian - 2023-02-25 - - Nokia G22 has removable back and standard screws allowing battery swap in less than five minutes at home
Things I Won't Work WIth: Thioacetone | Science | AAAS - 2023-02-25 -
Signal says it will shut down in UK over Online Safety Bill • The Register - 2023-02-25 - - Plan to scan encrypted content to protect children could drive businesses away
Secret crawlspace cryptomine discovered in routine inspection of MA high school | Ars Technica - 2023-02-25 - - The Department of Homeland Security helped track the origins of the mining rig.
Your ‘Simple Solution’ To Section 230 Is Bad: Julia Angwin Edition | Techdirt - 2023-02-25 - It’s getting to be somewhat exhausting watching people who don’t understand Section 230 insisting they have a simple solution for whatever problems they think (mostly incorrectly) are c…
Firefall Photograph by Bill Gallagher - Fine Art America - 2023-02-25 - Firefall Photograph by Bill Gallagher
We are dropping the Dilbert comic strip because of creator Scott Adams’ racist rant: Letter from the Editor - cleveland.com - 2023-02-25 - - this is a decision based on the principles of this news organization and the community we serve. We are not a home for those who espouse racism. We certainly do not want to provide them with financial support.
research!rsc: Opting In to Transparent Telemetry (Transparent Telemetry, Part 4) - 2023-02-25 -
New MacBook Air Rumored to Launch in April With These 5 New Features - MacRumors - 2023-02-25 - Apple plans to release a new MacBook Air with a larger 15-inch display in April, according to display industry analyst Ross Young. The laptop is...
Apple Responds to Report About Thieves Spying on iPhone Passcodes to 'Steal Your Entire Digital Life' - MacRumors - 2023-02-25 - An in-depth report published today by The Wall Street Journal's Joanna Stern and Nicole Nguyen highlights instances of thieves spying on a...
I asked Popehat: Why isn't SBF in jail? - Molly White - 2023-02-24 - A criminal defense attorney and former federal prosecutor shares his expertise.
A Leap of Decades – Eric’s Archived Thoughts - 2023-02-24
How to Engineer Buildings That Withstand Earthquakes - Scientific American - 2023-02-23 - - Though deadly quakes can’t be prevented, science does have some ways to protect buildings—and the people inside them
The FBI now recommends using an ad blocker when searching the web | Evening Standard - 2023-02-23 - - The law enforcement agency warns that scam ads designed to steal your banking details are appearing atop search results
Reverse Engineering A Mysterious UDP Stream in My Hotel - Gokberk Yaltirakli - 2023-02-23 - - 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.
Webb telescope spots super old, massive galaxies that shouldn’t exist | CU Boulder Today | University of Colorado Boulder - 2023-02-23 - - In a new study, CU Boulder astrophysicist Erica Nelson and her colleagues spotted six "fuzzy dots" of light in images from the James Webb Space Telescope. The candidate galaxies may have existed just 500 to 700 million years after the Big Bang and contain almost as many stars as the Milky Way.
Bluetooth Database Spills the Beans on New Macs – 512 Pixels - 2023-02-22 - Rumors about that new 15-inch MacBook Air and the future Mac Pro keep heating up, as Joe Rossignol reports: Apple this week filed a new listing in the Bluetooth Launch Studio database, a move that sometimes foreshadows the launch of new products. The filing does not mention any specific products, but it lists the latest [...]
Microsoft is now injecting full-size ads on Chrome website to make you stay on Edge - Neowin - 2023-02-21 - - Here is another chapter of Microsoft getting more desperate in attempts to prevent you from leaving Edge. Visiting the Chrome website now results in the browser showing a full-size ad banner.
Fast Software, the Best Software — by Craig Mod - 2023-02-21 - - Essay on the benefits of speedy software, and how it affects user perception of engineering quality and overall usability
The return to the office could be the real reason for the slump in productivity. Here’s the data to prove it | Fortune - 2023-02-21 - - Productivity jumped as offices closed, and stayed high through 2021. When companies started mandating a return to the office, productivity dropped sharply.
In a treacherous corner of WA, a classroom with 40-foot waves | The Seattle Times - 2023-02-21 - The hazardous waters of Cape Disappointment are just what's needed for one of the most challenging water-rescue training programs on the planet.
Pluralistic: Turbotax is blitzing Congress for the right to tax YOU (20 Feb 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow - 2023-02-21 -
The age of Agile must end. 30 years ago the technology industry… | by Michael Burnett | Feb, 2023 | UX Collective - 2023-02-21 - - 30 years ago the technology industry attempted to import Lean practices — it failed. Instead of “continuous improvement,” progress halted…
Four Ways to Build Web Apps :: Tom Hummel - 2023-02-21 - - Intro This is my opinionated list of four approaches to building websites and web applications. Publicly hosted on the internet, serving HTML, CSS, JavaScript, images, etc over HTTP. #1: Hugo Static Sites + Progressive Web Apps Static websites are boring. Vendors rarely talk about them because the margins are miniscule compared to flashy, compute-heavy services. It is seen as a table stakes offering. Though they have received more attention during the “JAM Stack” trend, my position is that they are still underappreciated and underutilized.
Linux 6.2: The first mainstream Linux kernel for Apple M1 chips arrives | ZDNET - 2023-02-21 - - Linux is now ready to run on modern Macs.
The guerrilla artist filling Europe’s potholes with colourful mosaics - Positive News - 2023-02-19 - A Banksy-style street artist is turning urban decay into something beautiful, while making the streets safer for pedestrians
Queues should be empty - 2023-02-19 -
Why Shimano’s three-pulley rear derailleur could revolutionise drivetrain design - BikeRadar - 2023-02-19 - - Could this be a new XTR rear derailleur?
Borg, My Post-Pandemic Homelab Server - Tao of Mac - 2023-02-19 - Resistance is, indeed, futile.
Neovim and Rust · sharksforarms - 2023-02-19 - - An effective Rust development experience with Neovim LSP client and rust-analyzer
Ricky Mondello » Twitter’s Decision to Limit SMS 2FA is Dangerous - 2023-02-19
An update on two-factor authentication using SMS on Twitter - 2023-02-18 - - An update on two-factor authentication using SMS on Twitter
Fox Spews - by Elliot Kirschner and Dan Rather - Steady - 2023-02-18 - Of course they knew it was a lie
Reducing Tailscale’s binary size on macOS · Tailscale - 2023-02-18 - - Tailscale v1.36 for macOS features a significantly reduced binary size (going from 92MB to 56MB). The effort started out with a chance observation about a surprisingly large executable, and ended up involving some creative approaches using dlopen.
A top Democrat’s radical plan to deal with Trump’s worst judge and protect abortion rights - Vox - 2023-02-17 - What if the Biden administration simply ignored court orders from the most partisan Republican judges?
How to switch displays on Mac | Nektony - 2023-02-17 - Here is how to duplicate the screen on a Mac. You can extend your Mac’s screen to an external monitor. For this follow these steps...
GoDaddy: Hackers stole source code, installed malware in multi-year breach - 2023-02-17 - - Web hosting giant GoDaddy says it suffered a breach where unknown attackers have stolen source code and installed malware on its servers after breaching its cPanel shared hosting environment in a multi-year attack.
Amazon will require employees to return to the office 3 days a week | The Seattle Times - 2023-02-17 - - Amazon will require its employees to work from the office at least three days per week, effective May 1, the company announced Friday.
Making the Most of AWS and Kubernetes Certifications | 8th Light - 2023-02-17
VanMoof Bike Hunters - Tracking Down Stolen Bikes - 2023-02-17 - - If they can’t find it in two weeks, they’ll give you a new one—guaranteed.
John Fetterman checked himself into hospital "to receive treatment for clinical depression," office says | CNN Politics - 2023-02-16 - Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania checked himself into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center "to receive treatment for clinical depression," his chief of staff announced on Thursday.
Just post | Andy Bell - 2023-02-16 - [starts stopwatch] I see a lot of folks want to write more but struggle with how long it takes. I get it, a super detailed post takes hours of work. Especially when you’re building demos and …
Tesla admits Full Self-Driving beta may cause crashes, recalls 363,000 vehicles | Engadget - 2023-02-16 - The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced on Thursday that Tesla is recalling nearly 363,000 of its vehicles because the Full Self-Driving software may cause a crash..
Apple Store Customer Claims Uber Driver Stole Their $2,000 Delivery Order and Apple Won't Offer Refund - MacRumors - 2023-02-16 - While many Apple Stores in the U.S. offer two-hour delivery of in-stock products for $9, customers should beware of potential theft and...
Tesla fires dozens of workers one day after launching union campaign | TechCrunch - 2023-02-16 - Tesla fired dozens of employees who work at its Buffalo, New York factory in retaliation for union organizing, according to NLRB complaint.
Unordered, incomplete list of things I want from a job | Lynn Fisher - 2023-02-16 - If I have to have to a job, this is what I want it to offer me.
Moving my PC into my rack in a 2U case | Jeff Geerling - 2023-02-16 -
swissmiss | How To Act Around Books - 2023-02-16 - How to act around books.
ongoing by Tim Bray · More Monos! - 2023-02-16
Apple doesn't want you developing hobby apps – Bennett Notes - 2023-02-15 - - Apple still charges a $99 yearly developer fee, even if you don't want to publish your app on the Appstore. The provisioning certificate that Xcode provides only lasts one week.
How to design a sailing ship for the 21st century? - LOW-TECH MAGAZINE - 2023-02-15 - - It is surprisingly difficult to build a carbon neutral sailing ship. This is even more the case today, because our standards for safety, health, hygiene, comfort, and convenience have changed profoundly since the Age of Sail. On board the ship `Garthsnaid' at sea. A view from high up in the rigging. Image by Allan C. Green, circa 1920. The sailing ship is a textbook example of sustainability. For at least 4,000 years, sailing ships have transported passengers and cargo across the world’s seas and oceans without using a single drop of fossil fuels. If we want to keep travelling and trading globally in a low carbon society, sailing ships are the obvious alternative to container ships, bulk carriers, and airplanes....
Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first - 2023-02-15 - - After his Super Bowl tweet did worse numbers than President Biden’s, Twitter’s CEO ordered major changes to the algorithm
You're not going to believe what I'm about to tell you - The Oatmeal - 2023-02-15 - - This is a comic about the backfire effect.
Thunderbird 115 Supernova Preview: The New Folder Pane - 2023-02-15 - - Thunderbird 115 introduces a brand new Folder Pane to make webmail users feel right at home. But what about veteran users? Find out inside!
10 macOS Tips to Make Your Life Easier - MacRumors - 2023-02-15 - One of the neat things about using a Mac is that macOS features various levels of interaction and customization, but many of us only ever scratch the...
Twitter is just showing everyone all of Elon Musk’s tweets now - The Verge - 2023-02-14 - - Your For You feed might look a little different.
Ohio train derailment prompts health, environmental concerns : NPR - 2023-02-14 - - Air monitoring continues in East Palestine after the crews released a number of toxic chemicals in what officials called a "controlled explosion" last week.
Maybe people do care about performance and reliability • Buttondown - 2023-02-14 - - But they are victims of complex societal factors that are beyond their control
Coding with Character | From the Desk of Doug Wilson - 2023-02-14 - - Monospaced fonts are no longer just utilitarian tools—they can also be playful & fun
Bing AI Can't Be Trusted - by Dmitri Brereton - DKB Blog - 2023-02-14 - - Microsoft knowingly released a broken product for short-term hype
ongoing by Tim Bray · Modern Mono - 2023-02-14 -
Blue Origin makes a big lunar announcement without any fanfare | Ars Technica - 2023-02-14 - - "Although our vision is technically ambitious, our technology is real now."
15-Inch MacBook Air Rumored to Launch in April as Display Production Underway - MacRumors - 2023-02-14 - Apple's supply chain started production of display panels for a new 15.5-inch MacBook Air this month, according to display industry analyst Ross...
Report: 15-inch MacBook Air Coming Soon – 512 Pixels - 2023-02-14 - Chance Miller, writing at 9to5Mac: Apple’s highly-anticipated big-screen MacBook Air is nearing a launch, according to a new report. DSCC analyst Ross Young reports today that the 15.5-inch MacBook Air has started panel production this month, suggesting an “early April launch.” All I have to say is this: take my money. Young, as well as [...]
Military shoots down another high-altitude object, over Lake Huron, officials say - ABC News - 2023-02-13 - - The U.S. military shot down another high-altitude object on Sunday afternoon, this one over Lake Huron, three U.S. officials confirmed to ABC News.
NameCheap's email hacked to send Metamask, DHL phishing emails - 2023-02-13 - - Domain registrar Namecheap had their email account breached Sunday night, causing a flood of MetaMask and DHL phishing emails that attempted to steal recipients' personal information and cryptocurrency wallets.
Creating a certification plan | Abstraction.blog - 2023-02-12 - I started my certification journey quite late in my career. I followed the top certified folks on LinkedIn for a while to see if I could learn from their stengths as also mistakes. Some of the questions which I am looking to answer :
The yaml document from hell - 2023-02-12 - - As a data format, yaml is extremely complicated and it has many footguns. In this post I explain some of those pitfalls by means of an example, and I suggest a few simpler and safer yaml alternatives.
American Cars Are Getting Too Big For Parking Spaces - 2023-02-11 - - The changes to parking space standards have not kept up with the explosion in vehicle sizes.
What I Think About LeBron Breaking My NBA Scoring Record - 2023-02-11 - Everything You Wanted to Know About LeBron and Me and the Scoring Record
Elon Musk Throws A Shit Fit And Fires Engineer Because Not Enough People Are Viewing His Personal Tweets | Techdirt - 2023-02-11 - There’s a school of thought among some who believe that the sole reason why Elon Musk bought Twitter was because of a gaping void in his soul and a deep-seeded need to be loved and adored by …
telemetry in the Go toolchain · Discussion #58409 · golang/go - 2023-02-10 - - How do software developers understand which parts of their software are being used and whether they are performing as expected? The modern answer is telemetry, which means software sending data to ...
Adding a Share On Mastodon button to a website | www.bentasker.co.uk - 2023-02-10 - There's been a fairly large migration of users over to Mastodon, so I wanted to add a "Toot on Mastodon" button to my website in order to allow easy sharing of content. This post details how to go abo
Ancient Pompeii site installs 'invisible' solar panels that look like Roman terracotta tiles - 2023-02-10 - - New invisible technology is being used to generate electricity at the archaeological site—and will also be used for other historic buildings in Italy, Portugal and Croatia
Why We're Rebuilding The Thunderbird Interface From Scratch - 2023-02-10 - - "Why does Thunderbird look so old, and why does it take so long to change?" Let's answer that burning question with some important history.
Elon Musk fires a top Twitter engineer over his declining view count - 2023-02-10 - - Inside Twitter 2.0, turmoil leaves employees stretched to the max
1Password Announces Plans to Adopt Passkeys - MacStories - 2023-02-10 - Today, 1Password announced that it’s moving to a passkey-based system for unlocking its password manager app. Using a password manager like 1Password already means not having to remember passwords for every site and service you use because it locks your passwords behind a single, hard-to-guess password. With passkeys, that single password approach will become a
Bitwarden design flaw: Server side iterations | Almost Secure - 2023-02-09 - - Bitwarden is a hot candidate for a LastPass replacement. Looking into how they encrypt data, it doesn’t do things that much better however.
Password strength explained | Almost Secure - 2023-02-09 - - I try to explain how attackers would guess your password, should they get their hands on your encrypted data. There are some thoughts on the strength of real-world passwords and suggestions for your new password.
ongoing by Tim Bray · Larkin Poe Live, 2023 - 2023-02-07
Elon Promises A Free API For ‘Good Bot Content,’ Again, Demonstrating He Has No Idea How Any Of This Works | Techdirt - 2023-02-07 - - It’s been clear since the takeover, that Elon’s running Twitter entirely based on his fleeting and oft-changing whims. The weird decision last week to suddenly, with one week’s no…
Colorectal Cancer Rising among Young Adults - NCI - 2023-02-07 - - Diagnoses of colorectal cancer (which includes colon and rectal cancer) continue to increase among adults younger than 50. In September 2020, more than 400 scientists and patient advocates gathered to discuss potential causes for the trend, such as diet, obesity, gut bacteria, inflammation, and environmental chemicals.
An Introduction To Class Warfare For The Software Engineer | by Lloyd F Hough | Feb, 2023 | Medium - 2023-02-07 - - How it is now in your best interest to act.
Monocle - 2023-02-07 -
Yes, Crypto is ALL a Scam - 2023-02-07 - - Personal Blog
dns0.eu — The European public DNS that makes your Internet safer - 2023-02-07 - - A free, sovereign and GDPR-compliant recursive DNS resolver with a strong focus on security to protect the citizens and organizations of the European Union.
Remote Synthesis | The State of Developer Conferences - 2023-02-07 - Developer conferences still don't appear to be back at full strength, and that may just be a new reality.
One common behavior seen in "mature" software engineers | LUU.IO - 2023-02-06 -
As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). Congress must reveal the truth to the American people | The Hill - 2023-02-06 - - Congress is exercising its oversight of a national security and air safety issue that was going under reported, ignored and even suppressed due to the stigma of UFOs
If you're happy with OpenBSD, probably any computer is good enough. - 2023-02-05 -
Mandolin Plates on the ShopBot – Pumping Station: One - 2023-02-05
Ghost Boat with Garmin GPS Leads Father-Son Duo to Man Overboard - 2023-02-05 - - When Andrew and Jack Sherman discovered an unmanned boat nearly 40 miles off the coast, they used its Garmin chartpotter to find the captain.
Making a loudness monitor for online meetings - 2023-02-05 - - As I work from home 90% of the time, I run into a small issue during meetings: I sometimes speak too loudly. Before my daughter Gloria arrived, this was something that annoyed my wife and others in the house, but now, when Gloria is sleeping, this is not just an
Mount Washington wind chill: New Hampshire summit fell to minus 108 F - 2023-02-04 - The summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire, dropped to a mark that is likely the lowest wind chill ever recorded in the United States.
tcpdump is amazing - 2023-02-04 - - tcpdump is amazing
43 Hours on the Amtrak Southwest Chief - 2023-02-03 - - In September 2022, after watching many YouTube videos of other people on long-distance Amtrak trips, I finally embarked on a journey of my own. I took the Amtrak Southwest Chief train from Chicago to Los Angeles. Continue reading to learn more about it and why I'll do it again on another route.
NetNewsWire - Twitter Integration To Be Removed - 2023-02-03 - Because of Twitter’s announcement that free access to the Twitter API will end February 9, we will be removing Twitter integration from NetNewsWire in the next release (6.1.1) for Mac and iOS. You might think we’re reading RSS feeds from Twitter, but Twitter removed RSS feeds from the service something like ten years ago. We rely completely on the Twitter API. We’re planning, with this new release, to have some kind of message on first run that explains what’s happening.
Want anonymity? Make a persona not a mystery. | Derek Sivers - 2023-02-03 -
ongoing by Tim Bray · Abbie Angie Velar - 2023-02-03
8 Best Window Managers for Linux - 2023-02-03 - Want to organize your windows and use all the screen space you have? These window managers for Linux should come in handy!
Raycast Adds Deeplinking of Commands - MacStories - 2023-02-03 - Raycast, the app launcher and command utility that was our MacStories Selects Best Mac app of 2022, introduced URL scheme support for its extensive collection of built-in and third-party commands. The app’s existing system of hotkey and alias triggers is still the best way to send a command to Raycast in most circumstances, but with
Twitter to end free access to its API in Elon Musk's latest monetization push • TechCrunch - 2023-02-03 - Twitter will discontinue offering free access to the Twitter API starting February 9 and will launch a paid version.
Twitter shutting down free access to their API on February 9 | Botwiki - 2023-02-03 - I keep saying it's an end of an era quite often these days.
Technology: What about “Log in with Twitter”? – Adam Chandler's Blog - 2023-02-03 - Via Twitter’s Developer Site: “Use Log in with Twitter, also known as Sign in with Twitter, to place a button on your site or application which allows Twitter users to enjoy the benefits of a regis…
How to Use Your Apple Watch to Split the Bill and Calculate Tips - MacRumors - 2023-02-03 - All Apple Watch models include a stock Calculator app that offers a couple of handy features for working out how much you should tip when eating out...
The Violin Doctor – Chicago Magazine - 2023-02-03 - - He’s trusted to repair some of the world’s most fabled — and expensive — instruments. How does John Becker manage to unlock the sound of a Stradivarius?
Glen Canyon revealed (Glen Canyon Revealed) — High Country News – Know the West - 2023-02-02 - - What comes next for Lake Powell?
MacBook Air vs. MacBook Pro Buyer's Guide - MacRumors - 2023-02-01 - Apple recently announced a major update for its high-end MacBook Pro models, adding the M2 Pro and M2 Max chips, better battery life, Wi‑Fi 6E,...

January 2023

Entering and Running a Tiny Program from the PDP-11 (PiDP-11) Front Panel | Big Dan the Blogging Man - 2023-01-31 - - Last post I manually entered machine code into the simH PDP-11 using simH commands. That can be seen here: This post I’m going to enter and run the same program, that adds 1+1, using the PDP-…
Embrace the Chaos: How to Write a Code Editor from Scratch in 4 Months | Edita Blog - 2023-01-31 -
Lowe's pioneers system to solve organized retail crime | Fox Business - 2023-01-31 - - Lowe's Innovation Labs has developed a proof-of-concept system called Project Unlock, which is geared towards tackling the ongoing issue of organized retail crime.
Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf Finally Breaks - 2023-01-30 - - A long-watched rift has spawned an iceberg about twice the size of New York City.
SH1MMER.me - 2023-01-30 -
Archaeologists Discover 1.2 Million-Year-Old 'Workshop' in Mind-Blowing Find - 2023-01-29 - The discovery pushes the timeline of obsidian tool use back by an astonishing 500,000 years.
The Window Trick of Las Vegas Hotels - 2023-01-29 -
Masto-do or Masto-don’t? • The Breakroom - 2023-01-28 - Let’s just say that January 12th was expected, yet still surprising. We knew the cutting and slashing at Twitter would affect us at some point, but how we’d get eviscerated was an unknown. Many other people saw it was coming as reality began to sink in at the end of October. We’ve been asked, countless […]
Why Go and not Rust? | Loris Cro's Blog - 2023-01-28 - - What’s the role of Go in a universe where Rust exists?
Blog Upgrade Time (aka Blogging in Swift Part 4) | Adam Bell - 2023-01-28 - building / breaking things
Contracts you should never sign - 2023-01-27 - - When it comes to software engineering and the IT industry in general, contracts are a necessary part of doing business. Here and there, you sign NDAs — as
Micro.blog, Mastodon, and Ivory - MacStories - 2023-01-26 - Manton Reece has a fantastic explanation of the underpinnings of Micro.blog and Mastodon and how they work with third-party clients like Ivory, which Federico reviewed yesterday. Manton’s post is in response to questions about why Micro.blog work with Tapbots’ Ivory since both Micro.blog and Mastodon implement the ActivityPub standard. The answer is that ActivityPub is
Elon Musk thinks Twitter is real life - The Verge - 2023-01-26 - Follower count does not equal positive brand image.
What we look for in a resume - 2023-01-25 - - When we actively hire, our startup gets 150 - 200 applications each month. I read every single one of them. Sometimes, I’d talk to a candidate and see that w...
Do Not Taunt Happy Fun Branch Predictor - 2023-01-25 -
9,000-Year-Old Stonehenge-Like Structure Found Under Lake Michigan - 2023-01-25 - - Archaeologists found something much more fascinating than they got credit for when searching under the waters of Lake Michigan for shipwrecks: they uncovered a rock with a prehistoric carving of a mastodon, as well as a collection of stones arranged in a Stonehenge-like manner. Gazing into the wat
Replacing a SQL analyst with 26 recursive GPT prompts | Patterns - 2023-01-25 - - When I was at Square and the team was smaller we had a dreaded “analytics on-call” rotation. It was strictly rotated on a weekly basis, and if it was your turn up you knew you would get very little “real” work done that week and spend most of your time fielding ad-hoc questions from the various product and operations teams at the company (SQL monkeying, we called it). There was cutthroat competition for manager roles on the analytics team and I think this was entirely the result of managers being exempted from this rotation -- no status prize could rival the carrot of not doing on-call work.
Twitter Tumbleweed Watch - by Dave Karpf - 2023-01-25 - The "view" count reveals a different story than Elon intended
The 12-bit rainbow palette - 2023-01-25 - - A palette of twelve colours chosen with consideration for how we perceive hue, chroma, and luminance
Hyperscale in your Homelab: The Compute Blade arrives | Jeff Geerling - 2023-01-25 -
The Story behind ASINs (Amazon Standard Identification Numbers) - Invent Like An Owner - 2023-01-25 - - This post explains how Amazon replaced ISBNs with ASINs (Amazon Standard Identification Numbers) for its Catalog Database Key
Call of the Void: Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight 370? | by Admiral Cloudberg | Medium - 2023-01-25 - - “Good night, Malaysian three seven zero.”
About Security Keys for Apple ID - Apple Support - 2023-01-25 - - Physical security keys provide extra protection for your Apple ID against phishing attacks.
Daring Fireball: Twitter's Infrastructure Continues to Crumble, Silently - 2023-01-24 - - Link to: https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1616892096434012160
myme.no - Git Commands You Probably Do Not Need - 2023-01-24 -
'Sensational' Runestone Discovered in Norway May Be the World's Oldest | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine - 2023-01-23 - - The find promises to shed new light on lingering questions about runic writing's early history
How we turned the tables to catch my sister’s Bumble stalker | by Steven Renwick | Jan, 2023 | Medium - 2023-01-23 - - Yesterday, my sister’s stalker, who had used Instagram and Bumble to work out where she lived and start stalking her in real life, was…
What’s the right UX for an expired certificate? | Emily M. Stark - 2023-01-22 - - Every once in a while, I encounter some variation of the following question: how can a TLS certificate go from perfectly acceptable one day to completely insecure the next? In other words, why does the browser show a scary full-page warning for a certificate that expired one day, or even one hour, ago – the same as a certificate that is self-signed, chains to an unknown root, or presents the wrong name? The premise behind these questions is that an expired certificate (especially one that is recently expired) is not as bad as a certificate with some other type of validation error, and thus the warning UX shouldn’t be as severe.
DVDs and Blu-rays are necessary as streaming changes. - 2023-01-22 - - Plus, stories from the recent past of Future Tense.
Mercedes-Benz is first to get approval for Level 3 autonomous driving in US - ArenaEV - 2023-01-21 - - With the help of Drive Pilot, motorists in Nevada will soon be able to take their focus from the road without breaking the law.
Series: Unix as IDE « Arabesque - 2023-01-21 -
Monochrome terminal setup for an E-ink monitor - 2023-01-21 - - Thoughts and notes on tech stuff
What to Know When Becoming a DevOps Engineer | 8th Light - 2023-01-21
U.S. No Fly List Left on Unprotected Airline Server - 2023-01-21 - - CommuteAir, a regional carrier, left a copy of the U.S. No Fly List on an unsecured server that could be viewed by anyone.
Copy Dennis — Collection © 2022 - 2023-01-21 - - This collection is a tribute to all the creators who have taken a little bit too much inspiration from the portfolio website of © Dennis Snellenberg
Setting the clock ahead to see what breaks - 2023-01-21 -
Magnificent Black & White Photos of the Earth Rising Over the Moon - 2023-01-21 - South Korea currently has a probe called Danuri orbiting the Moon at an altitude of about 62 miles above the surface. It's jus
The lights have been on at a Massachusetts school for over a year because no one can turn them off - 2023-01-20 - - Blame it on the pandemic and "supply chain problems," says the school district's assistant superintendent of finance.
Twitter Officially Bans All Third-Party Apps - MacRumors - 2023-01-20 - - Twitter today confirmed that it is no longer permitting third-party developers to create Twitter clients, with the information quietly shared in an...
Twitterrific: End of an Era • The Breakroom - 2023-01-19 - - Twitterrific has been discontinued. A sentence that none of us wanted to write, but have long felt would need to be written someday. We didn’t expect to be writing it so soon, though, and certainly not without having had time to notify you that it was coming. We are sorry to say that the app’s […]
cohost! - "How to destroy a certificate authority in one month" - 2023-01-19 - - Once every year or two, it becomes apparent that a Certificate Authority -- a company with the power to say that a website is who they say they are and you should be able to make https connections to it without scary warnings -- might be up to something shady and maybe doesn't deserve to be one of the ultimate sources of trust. There's a public mailing list, dev-security-policy@mozilla.org, where the major browser developers decide whether they should keep trusting a CA. And sometimes it's fun to watch the results. Sometimes the CA in question takes a hostile stance of "whatever nerds, what are you gonna do, shut us down?" and then the nerds shut them down. Turns out it's hard to sell certificates that web browsers don't trust. I had my attention drawn to the TrustCor saga because GitHub Dependabot won't shut up about it. Every time I push anything that might involve a certificate, it tells me about the grave danger I might be in if I trust TrustCor, and gives me a helpful link to the shit that went down [https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-security-policy/c/oxX69KFvsm4]. The beginning of the story seems to be that a journalist was investigating spyware in mobile apps, and finding the companies that seemed to be ultimately responsible for creating them. There was evidence [https://www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/news/252527174/TrustCor-under-fire-over-certificate-authority-concerns] that one such company was TrustCor, one of the certificate authorities that used to be trusted by every web browser. In particular, TrustCor had put a mobile app on the Google App Store that contained one such spyware package, Measurement Systems. It was the only unobfuscated version of the package anyone had ever seen, implying that they didn't just license it from some other company, and it seemed that something in the code phoned home to a server at TrustCor. So that led to some questions. These questions weren't initially "should TrustCor shut down as a CA", because none of this was strictly about certificates. I'm sure TrustCor's VP of operations had a lot of ways to respond to this, but here are some of the responses she chose: * Measurement Systems isn't the same company as us * And anyway that was a single rogue developer * And anyway that was a beta version of an app that we withdrew * What did you expect us to do, use an ineffective old analytics package like Firebase, or use the powerful, beautiful, sexy analytics from Measurement Systems? Who are not us by the way * You're a bunch of ignorant meddlers who don't know anything about the CA business * You're after us because we make an encrypted e-mail product and you secretly work for the US government and want to shut us down * Your claims are false and you can't prove anything If you read enough of the thread, it's clear that not every accusation against TrustCor was true, and it's hard to tell what the truth really was. But also it doesn't matter, because once TrustCor had written the open letter [https://trustcor.com/static/falseclaimsandmedia.txt] saying > It is filled with ridiculous, false claims and out-of-context statements twisted to fulfill a baseless prophecy imagined by a group of researchers who are more concerned with enriching themselves and their company than they are with Internet security. their fate was sealed. The conclusion on the mailing list was roughly: look, we're not here to find you guilty in a court of law, we're here to decide whether we trust you, and after all that we definitely don't. Your certificates get yeeted out of browsers at the end of November, have fun. And just to make the point, they did what they could to make every other software developer know not to trust TrustCor either. They put "trusting TrustCor" into the big database of software vulnerabilities. Again, that's why I heard about it. Because now pushing code to GitHub that might still accept a TrustCor certificate, if it saw one, is a Moderate Severity Vulnerability. What's funny to me is that the TrustCor VP seems like she was almost on the right track. If she really wanted to win the moral high ground at all costs, instead of accusing people of secretly working for the government, she could have pointed out that most of the people on that mailing list work either for or with Google. The world's largest ad company. The company that tracks everyone on 90% of web sites via Google Analytics. The company that also distributes spyware, because they don't check what their ad customers are doing very well and let them run random JavaScript on random web pages. The certificate authority whose company is, in absolute terms, up to more shady shit than any other CA. Saying that would have gotten her company destroyed even faster, but I think she would have been right.
Daring Fireball: App Store Rejection of the Week: Ice Cubes, a Splendid New Mastodon Client - 2023-01-19 - - We’re now on the cusp of a new frontier with Mastodon, and it’s Apple’s utterly clueless bureaucratic App Store reviewers who are doing their best to lock the new playground’s gates before they even open.
Behind the App: Wallaroo • furbo.org - 2023-01-19 - It’s been awhile since I’ve done one of these deep dives on what goes on behind the scenes during the development of an Iconfactory app. There’s a common thread to each one: I feel the need to document our work when there’s a major change in how we build user interfaces. The first one was […]
Elegant Glass 'Elytra' Wings Cleverly Unfurl from Radhika Dhumal's Expandable Wooden Table — Colossal - 2023-01-19 - The clever construction emphasizes natural woodgrain, slender legs, and two swiveling, glass wings that extend from the center.
Chris's Wiki :: blog/web/AggressiveStealthyWebSpider - 2023-01-19 -
20 Things I've Learned in my 20 Years as a Software Engineer - Simple Thread - 2023-01-19 - - Important, Read This First You’re about to read a blog post with a lot of advice. Learning from those who came before us is instrumental to success, but we often forget an important caveat. Almost all advice is contextual, yet it is rarely delivered with any context. “You just need to charge more!” says the company […]
Apple Releases New Firmware for AirPods, AirPods Pro, and AirPods Max - MacRumors - 2023-01-18 - Apple today introduced new 5B59 firmware for the AirPods 2, the AirPods 3, the original AirPods Pro, and the AirPods Max, up from the 5B58 firmware...
Daring Fireball: The Financial Times: 'With $1.5 Billion Bill Due at Month-End, Elon Musk’s Options Aren’t Great' - 2023-01-18 - Link to: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/01/looming-twitter-interest-payment-leaves-elon-musk-with-unpalatable-options/
Fake SSDs with great reviews are still popping up on Amazon - The Verge - 2023-01-18 - Don’t just look at the average rating; read the reviews to avoid getting scammed.
Bitwarden extends passwordless leadership with acquisition | Bitwarden Blog - 2023-01-18 - - Bitwarden has acquired European-based startup Passwordless.dev, a significant milestone in rounding out the Bitwarden commitment to offering open source, scalable, and secure passwordless solutions to every business and end user.
Twitter Confirms Third-Party Apps Like Tweetbot Were Intentionally Blocked - MacRumors - 2023-01-18 - - Third-party Twitter apps like Tweetbot and Twitterrific have been intentionally blocked from using Twitter APIs, Twitter confirmed today. Without...
Inside Elon Musk’s “extremely hardcore” Twitter - The Verge - 2023-01-17 - - Three months, thousands of layoffs, one ego
Minimal Dark Mode Styling – Eric’s Archived Thoughts - 2023-01-17
Apple Rumored to Have Product Announcement Tomorrow - MacRumors - 2023-01-16 - Apple will make its first product announcement of 2023 through a press release on its website tomorrow, Tuesday, January 17, according to Apple...
We invested 10% to pay back tech debt; Here's what happened - 2023-01-16 - - Why and how we continuously invested the team bandwidth to pay back tech debt and what were the results?
For your next side project, make a browser extension - 2023-01-16 - - Reflections on the benefits of tweaking an existing app, instead of starting from scratch.
Saudi prosecutors seek death penalty for academic over social media use | Saudi Arabia | The Guardian - 2023-01-16 - - Court documents reveal reasons for Awad Al-Qarni’s arrest – even though rulers are major investors in social media platforms
Tweetbot is (mostly) working again - The Verge - 2023-01-15 - - Tweetbot is back, but some users are still having issues with it.
The Shit Show • furbo.org - 2023-01-15 - - Well, it happened. We knew it was coming. A prick pulled the plug. And what bothers me most about it is how Space Karen did it. My mom passed away just before Christmas. Her decline was something everyone in the family saw coming and we prepared for her demise. It still hurts like hell, but […]
Realistic daily range of an electric vehicle · Peter Forret - 2023-01-15 -
subverting the software interview - naomi liu's blog - 2023-01-15 - - nliu.net ->
Jack's Blog - Revisiting KDE - 2023-01-15 -
An aviation expert explains how the FAA’s critical NOTAM safety system works | Ars Technica - 2023-01-15 - This is why planes can't fly when NOTAM goes down.
Twitter third-party app 'suspensions are intentional,' - 2023-01-15 - - On Thursday, third-party Twitter apps stopped working in a move that many have come to conclude was intentional. A report now confirms...
Twitter apps are still broken and Musk is still silent - The Verge - 2023-01-14 - - If you can’t use Twitterific or Tweetbot, you’re not alone.
ChatGPT Is a Stunning AI, but Human Jobs Are Safe (for Now) - CNET - 2023-01-14 - Commentary: Large language models can surprise and delight, but they're not perfect.
Developer Portal - 2023-01-14 -
sickcodes/Docker-OSX: Run macOS VM in a Docker! Run near native OSX-KVM in Docker! X11 Forwarding! CI/CD for OS X Security Research! Docker mac Containers. - 2023-01-14 - - Run macOS VM in a Docker! Run near native OSX-KVM in Docker! X11 Forwarding! CI/CD for OS X Security Research! Docker mac Containers. - sickcodes/Docker-OSX: Run macOS VM in a Docker! Run near nati...
New Sony Walkman music players feature stunning good looks, Android 12 | Ars Technica - 2023-01-14 - - Sony holds onto the beautiful dream of standalone portable audio players.
You Don’t Know How Bad the Pizza Box Is - The Atlantic - 2023-01-14 - - The delivery icon hasn’t changed in 60 years, and it’s making your food worse.
Here's What's New in iOS 16.3 So Far - MacRumors - 2023-01-13 - Apple released the second beta of iOS 16.3 earlier this week, and so far only one new feature and two other minor changes have been discovered in the...
State of the Twitterverse • The Breakroom - 2023-01-13 - Last night at about 7:30pm PST, Twitterrific customers started reporting problems accessing Twitter via the iOS app. News quickly spread on Twitter and Mastodon that a wide range of third party apps like Twitterrific, Tweetbot, Echofon, and many others had been disabled. Strangely, Twitterrific for macOS continues to work normally. We cannot say for certain […]
How to switch your Twitter feed to a chronological timeline - The Verge - 2023-01-13 - To read Twitter as the tweets come in, here’s how to turn on chronological timeline.
Twitter clients break as API goes down - 2023-01-13 - - Twitter clients are broken left and right as the API unexpectedly went down on January 11, even bringing down Tweetbot.
Write Admin Tools From Day One - 2023-01-13 - - The Problem Writing useful features for your users is key to a successful product. It makes sense then that you should maximize your time w...
Just use a monorepo - 2023-01-12 - - null
A Visual Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding - 2023-01-12 - - SSH port forwarding explained in a clean and visual way. How to use local and remote port forwarding. What sshd settings may need to be adjusted. How to memorize the right flags.
Extreme 'Rogue Wave' in The North Pacific Confirmed as Most Extreme on Record : ScienceAlert - 2023-01-12 - - In November of 2020, a freak wave came out of the blue, lifting a lonesome buoy off the coast of British Columbia 17.6 meters high (58 feet).
Kuo: New AirPods Max and $99 AirPods to Launch as Early as Next Year - MacRumors - 2023-01-12 - Mass shipments of second-generation AirPods Max and more affordable AirPods will likely begin in the second half of 2024 or the first half of 2025,...
Crisis over the Atlantic: The near crash of Air Transat flight 236 | by Admiral Cloudberg | Jan, 2023 | Medium - 2023-01-12 - - How a series of errors on the ground and in the air caused a fully loaded passenger jet to run out of fuel in the mid-Atlantic.
Scaling Mastodon: The Compendium | Hazel Weakly - 2023-01-11 - - This is honestly a very hastily written selection of various snippets, with text extracted, and notes. No real editing thought was put into this, so I hope it’s...
As Elon Fires More Trust & Safety Staff, Twitter’s Moderation Efforts Fall Apart | Techdirt - 2023-01-11 - Despite having already fired a huge percentage of Twitter’s trust & safety team handling issues around content moderation, including the teams handling child sexual abuse material and ele…
Exclusive: Surveillance Footage of Tesla Crash on Bay Bridge - 2023-01-10 - - Musk has said Tesla’s problematic autopilot features are “really the difference between Tesla being worth a lot of money or worth basically zero.”
Logging practices I follow - 2023-01-10 - - No matter what kind of software you’re developing, you most definitely leverage logging to some extent, probably every single day.You write a lot of logs, you read tons of them too, it is the most bas
SourceHut will blacklist the Go module mirror - 2023-01-09 - - sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.
Vim ZZ and Vim zz | Do you know the difference? | Programmer Hat - 2023-01-09 -
Adam Rich, former 'Eight Is Enough' child star, dies at 54 : NPR - 2023-01-09 - Adam Rich, the child actor with a pageboy mop-top who charmed TV audiences as "America's little brother" on Eight Is Enough, has died. He was 54.
Dotfiles Management - mitxela.com - 2023-01-08 -
There Is No Software Maintenance | Henrik Warne's blog - 2023-01-08 - - Every time I hear about software maintenance as a distinct activity, I cringe. That’s because it is based on the outdated notion that first software is developed, then it is maintained. But t…
Things they didn't teach you about Software Engineering - 2023-01-07 - - As always, a disclaimer before we start, this is purely subjective. Whether you are a seasoned professional or just starting out in the field, I hope
A CompSci Student Built an App That Can Detect ChatGPT-Generated Text - 2023-01-07 - “Human writing can be so beautiful. There is beauty in the human prose that computers can never and should never co-opt."
My bad habit of hoarding information - 2023-01-06 - - A huge stream of information and FOMO
S p a m m y s y s c a l l s in strace dumps - 2023-01-06 -
The science of why you have great ideas in the shower | National Geographic - 2023-01-06 - It has nothing to do with getting clean—and everything to do with your state of mind.
Another look at the steps for issuing a cert - 2023-01-06 -
Resetting Sonos Overnight — Liss is More - 2023-01-06 - At night, I often adapt my Sonos system for quieter TV watching. But I hate having to reset it every morning.
Mastodon — PaulStamatiou.com - 2023-01-05 - - Thoughts on Twitter, Mastodon, and owning your data
Apple launches AI narrators for some audiobooks – Six Colors - 2023-01-05 - Your next audiobook from Apple may not be narrated by a human. Leyland Cecco, writing at The Guardian: Apple has quietly launched a catalogue of books narrated by artificial intelligence in a move …
davecheney/pub: pub, a tiny ActivityPub to Mastodon bridge - 2023-01-05 - pub, a tiny ActivityPub to Mastodon bridge. Contribute to davecheney/pub development by creating an account on GitHub.
Why I still have an old-school cert on my https site - 2023-01-05 -
The ‘breakthrough’ obesity drugs that have stunned researchers - 2023-01-05 - - A class of drugs that quash hunger have shown striking results in trials and in practice. But can they help all people with obesity — and conquer weight stigma?
You're using function keys wrong · Max Gorin - 2023-01-04 -
You're using function keys wrong · Max Gorin - 2023-01-04 -
Go 1.20 Cryptography - 2023-01-04 - - A lot of new cryptography is landing in Go 1.20, including the new crypto/ecdh package and math/big-less RSA and ECDSA backends!
How do you know when macOS detects and remediates malware? – The Eclectic Light Company - 2023-01-04 - - macOS may alert you when you’re trying to open or run a file, with an alert informing you that malware was detected. But what about in scans?
The World's Most Dangerous Toy Edition - 2023-01-04 - - On fun, danger, and 70s airplane toys
MacBook owners have two months to claim up to $395 over butterfly keyboard woes - The Verge - 2023-01-04 - - US owners who had to get replacements are eligible.
Boldly Contrasted Maps by Spencer Schien Visualize Population Density Data — Colossal - 2023-01-04 - It's one thing to know that Chicago is the third largest city in the United States, but how can we see it?
Bach’s Signature | RogerEvansOnline.com - 2023-01-04 - There was no end to the ingenuity of Johann Sebastian Bach. If you read this single note with all the clefs and key signatures that he provides, B A C and H all emerge from the puzzle. (Tip of the …
Flying away from AWS - Terrateam - 2023-01-04 - - Flying away from AWS
French startup unveils new residential thermo-acoustic heat pump – pv magazine International - 2023-01-04 - - Equium has developed a new thermo-acoustic heat pump core that reportedly produces 3 kW to 4 kW of heat for every kilowatt of power it consumes. It says the refrigerant-free device could generate domestic hot water at temperatures of up to 80 C.
Replacement for Dark Sky – Blankbaby - 2023-01-03 - Dark Sky, my weather app of choice for several years, is no more. This is sad, but I’ve done what any sensible person would and downloaded 12 weather apps from the App Store to find a suitable repl…
The Hidden Cost of Cheap TVs - The Atlantic - 2023-01-03 - - Screens have gotten inexpensive—and they’re watching you back.
The decentralized technology inside Mastodon • The Register - 2023-01-03 - - ActivityPub isn't just what we've been doing over the Christmas break
ongoing by Tim Bray · Private and Public Mastodon - 2023-01-02 -
Four causes for ‘Zoom fatigue’ and their solutions | Stanford News - 2023-01-02 - - It’s not just Zoom. Popular video chat platforms have design flaws that exhaust the human mind and body. But there are easy ways to mitigate their effects.
The quest for a family-friendly password manager - 2023-01-02 - - Personal blog of Julien (jvoisin) Voisin
Mastodon Explained in 100, 200, and 500 Words - 2023-01-02 - - Mastodon Explained in 100, 200, and 500 Words. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
Samsung’s ViewFinity S9 is a stylish 5K display for creative professionals - The Verge - 2023-01-02 - It’s the same size and same resolution as the Studio Display.
Kevin McCarthy’s speaker bid in balance as effort to placate hardliners flops | Republicans | The Guardian - 2023-01-02 - Republican ‘Never Kevins’ say series of concessions to rightwingers are ‘insufficient’ to secure support
James Shore: Testing Without Mocks: A Pattern Language - 2023-01-02 -
Deploying a Jekyll website to AWS S3 with GitHub Actions and AWS CloudFormation | by Fatzombi | Jan, 2023 | Medium - 2023-01-02 - Configure a static website using Jekyll, GitHub Actions, AWS S3, Route 53, Certificate Manager, CloudFront, and CloudFormation.
2022 Reflecting on a year in life & game development | Hexops' devlog - 2023-01-02 - 2022 ends in an hour, and new opportunities open. I am filled with optimism, pessimism, fear, and excitement. A walking, talking contradiction of life at your service.
Hidden Film History: The antifa 'Casablanca' star who defied Goebbels for the Jewish woman he loved - 2023-01-01 - January 2023 marks the 80th anniversary of the release of the film classic Casablanca. The film had its world premiere at the Hollywood Theatre on Nov. 26, 1942, and was released nationally in the U.S. on Jan. 23, 1943. In real life, Allied forces had...
An m1 for curl | daniel.haxx.se - 2023-01-01 -
Bring back personal blogging - The Verge - 2023-01-01 - - The personal blog built the internet, and maybe it can fix it.

December 2022

The Downfall of Andrew Tate Isn’t Just Deliciously Ironic. It’s Also Vitally Important. - 2022-12-30 - If you’re like many people, the first time you’d ever heard the name Andrew Tate was through reading about climate activist Greta Thunberg’s brutal takedown on Twitter after the former lightweight world kickboxing champion decided rather unwisely to troll her. As it is Schadenfriday, I’ll review the hilariously ironic part of this first before getting into why this actually matters beyond the hellsite of Twitter.
Recap Year 2022 - 2022-12-30 - It's been four years since I wrote a recap. I wrote an update about my life two years ago when I left the U.S. and moved back to Turkey. It's a Recap of the years 2019-2020. I would suggest reading that blog post if you haven't yet because some
ongoing by Tim Bray · Privacy Is OK - 2022-12-29 -
It Took Just Four Days From Elon Gleefully Admitting He’d Unplugged A Server Rack For Twitter To Have A Major Outage | Techdirt - 2022-12-29 - - I know, I know. Some of the more angry commenters around here keep insisting that I should stop talking about Elon Musk and Twitter, and I want to do exactly that. I planned to do exactly that and …
A New Treatment for Arthritis: Vagus-Nerve Stimulation - IEEE Spectrum - 2022-12-29 - - Studies will soon show whether electroceuticals outperform pharmaceuticals
What Can We Learn from Barnes & Noble's Surprising Turnaround? - 2022-12-29 - - Digital platforms are struggling, meanwhile a 136-year-old book retailer is growing again. But why?
The Great Southwest Meltdown Of 2022 – Seat 31B - 2022-12-28
LastPass Tries To Bury The Full Scope Of Its Disastrous Privacy Breach Behind The Christmas Holiday | Techdirt - 2022-12-28 - Back in August, password storage app LastPass vaguely admitted that hackers had accessed the company’s systems. In the company’s original August reveal, the company generally tap danced…
2023, the year of websites | Andy Bell - 2022-12-28 -
Your Cellphone Will Be a Satphone - IEEE Spectrum - 2022-12-28 - - Existing smartphones will connect with new satellite constellations in 2023
What’s in a PR statement: LastPass breach explained | Almost Secure - 2022-12-27 - - The LastPass statement on their latest breach is full of omissions, half-truths and outright lies. I’m providing the necessary context for some of their claims.
George Santos Confessed to Lying, But There’s a Lot More Out There. And It’s Really Weird. - 2022-12-27 - George Santos, the embattled representative-elect for New York’s 3rd Congressional District, has fessed up. Well, somewhat. After a New York Times exposé broke a week ago calling much of Santos’s background into question, including his claims of where he went to college, where he’s worked, and even whether he had a criminal background and was actually a fugitive from Brazil—allegations which Santos’s attorney claimed at the time were a “shotgun blast of attacks” aimed at “smearing his good name”—the 34-year old fabulist tried to close the story with a heartfelt
Maxwell Rules - NeoVim Notebooks - 2022-12-27 -
Elon Musk Claims He’s Not Worried About The FTC; He Should Be | Techdirt - 2022-12-27 - Soon after Elon took over Twitter and fired everyone, we wondered (somewhat jokingly) if there was anyone left at the company who was aware of the FTC’s consent decree with the company, signe…
Why fix Kubernetes and Systemd?. Learn why and how the Aurae Runtime… | by Kris Nóva | Medium - 2022-12-25 - - Learn why and how the Aurae Runtime project aims to replace parts of Kubernetes and Systemd.
Rotary Keyboard | Squidgeefish - 2022-12-24 - - Bodging a rotary dial into a mechanical keyboard
Apple’s Icons Have That Shape for a Very Good Reason | HackerNoon - 2022-12-24 - - If you haven’t been immersed in <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/ios" target="_blank">iOS</a> interface <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/design" target="_blank">design</a>, you might look at Apple’s icons and think that they’re just a rounded square or a ‘roundrect’. If you’ve been designing icons, you know that they’re something different and may have heard the word <a href="https://applypixels.com/the-hunt-for-the-squircle/" target="_blank">squircle</a> used (mathematical intermediate of a square and a circle). And if you’re an Industrial Designer, you recognize this as a core signature of their hardware products.
Toyota Prius Gets a $140 Catalytic Converter Guard to Protect It - 2022-12-24 - A company called Cat Shield is selling the aluminum shield not only for the Prius but also for many other Toyota models, including the Corolla, RAV4, and Tacoma.
Thank you An Event Apart – Rachel Andrew - 2022-12-23
This is the year of the RSS reader. (Really!) » Nieman Journalism Lab - 2022-12-23 - - "Contrary to what The New York Times has speculated, we are not at peak newsletter. We are just at peak newsletter via email delivery."
Tesla crushed in Consumer Reports reliability rankings despite improvement - 2022-12-23 - Consumer Reports released their annual reliability rankings, and Tesla fell to near the bottom of the list despite improving considerably.
Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media - 2022-12-23 - - I bet you're wondering how we got here...
Assembling a PC in an old Macintosh SE Case - 2022-12-23
Issue 14 – FTX friends flip on fellow fraudster - 2022-12-22 - SBF is in the US, where he has been released on bail. Meanwhile, two top executives are cooperating with the investigation and have pled guilty to their charges.
Thelonious Monk's 25 Tips for Musicians (1960) | Open Culture - 2022-12-22 - - Stories of idiosyncratic and demanding composers and bandleaders abound in mid-century jazz—of pioneers who pushed their musicians to new heights and in entirely new directions through seeming sheer force of will. Miles Davis’ name inevitably comes up in such discussions.
Reading Writing an Interpreter in Go — Paolo Amoroso's Journal - 2022-12-22 - I'm reading the book Writing An Interpreter In Go by Thorsten Ball, which I got along with the sequel Writing A Compiler In Go. I have a...
The story of 'Nuts!' — When an American general refused to surrender - 2022-12-22 - On Dec. 22, 1944, 4 German soldiers walked to American lines in Bastogne, Belgium with a message asking for surrender. The general said no.
O Holy Crap - 2022-12-22 - - My local Montana landfill is full of the remains of short-lived coffee grinders, pens, peelers, laptops. After Christmas, I’ll need to reserve a bigger plot.
Mercedes EQE im Test: Für viel Reichweite muss es kein Tesla mehr sein - electrive.net - 2022-12-22 - Die Angst nach zu wenig Reichweite ist längst vorbei. Für einen großen Aktionsradius und Effizienz muss es zudem kein Tesla mehr sein. Denn abseits der E-SUV bieten die deutschen Autobauer mittlerweile konkurrenzfähige Limousinen an. Eines dieser Modelle ist der Mercedes EQE. Doch wie gut ist die elektrische Interpretation der E-Klasse?…
Using ChatGPT to make Bash palatable | Brev docs - 2022-12-22 - - Using ChatGPT to make Bash palatable | Brev docs
Bike frame stiffness: Why it matters and all you need to know | Cyclist - 2022-12-22 - - Lighter, more aero, stiffer… but how does bike frame stiffness actually affect your ride? And is more always better?
User Generated Content and the Fediverse: A Legal Primer | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 2022-12-21 - A growing number of people are experimenting with federated alternatives to social media like Mastodon, either by joining an “instance” hosted by someone else or creating their own instance by running the free, open-source software on a server they control. (See more about this movement and joining...
The Queues ☃️ down in Queueville | Hachyderm Community - 2022-12-21 - Hachyderm has experienced a minor unplanned degradation in our service. Here is the postmortem, analysis, and writeup on the incident.
In Defense Of Free Speech Pedantry - by Ken White - 2022-12-18 - Why You Should Clarify Which Free Speech Value You’re Debating
3 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Use Public CAs for Internal Infrastructures. - 2022-12-18 - - Public web certificate authorities like Let's Encrypt were not designed to support internal use cases. What you need is a private certificate authority.
Get root on macOS 13.0.1 with CVE-2022-46689, the macOS Dirty Cow bug | Worth Doing Badly - 2022-12-17 - - Get root on macOS 13.0.1 with CVE-2022-46689 (macOS equivalent of the Dirty Cow bug), using the testcase extracted from Apple’s XNU source.
Apple’s taken the joy out of its Books app with iOS 16 - The Verge - 2022-12-17 - - The lovely page flip is gone.
Elon Tries (Badly) To Defend The Banning Of Journalists As Twitter Starts Blocking Links & Mentions Of Mastodon | Techdirt - 2022-12-17 - - Look, I fucking warned Elon that this is exactly how it would go. It’s how it always goes. Remember Parler? They promised that they would moderate “based off the FCC and the Supreme cou…
A Linux evening... - 2022-12-16 -
Things I want as SRE/DevOps from Devs :: oschvr.com - 2022-12-16 - - It has been a while since I’ve been working as SRE/Platform/Cloud Engineer, and lately and I realize I’ve been repeating some questions to developers that I rarely get an answer for straight away. These are not meant to make anyone’s life harder, au contraire, the whole pourpose of having a solid answer to this list of questions, is to make everyone less worried about the probabilty of some high stakes, overnight failure or a data handling missuse that could potentially cause big losses, and of course a lot of unnecessary stress.
Thursday Night Purge: Elon Musk’s Twitter Bans Tons Of High Profile Journalists | Techdirt - 2022-12-16 - Well. Just after finishing that last post about Twitter banning the official Mastodon account on Twitter for tweeting about the ElonJet tracking account existing on Mastodon, it seems that whatever…
People in Rural Areas Die at Higher Rates Than Those in Urban Areas - Scientific American - 2022-12-15 - Deaths from heart disease, cancer and COVID are all higher in rural areas than urban ones in the U.S., and the gap is only widening
Building Go programs with Nix Flakes - Xe Iaso - 2022-12-15 - - Building Go programs with Nix Flakes - Xe's Blog
Introducing tailnet lock: use Tailscale without trusting our infrastructure! · Tailscale - 2022-12-15 - - Users sometimes ask us, “How can I trust Tailscale?” From the beginning, we’ve tried to make it so you don’t have to, by architecting our infrastructure with security and privacy in mind. When you use Tailscale, your data is end-to-end encrypted. Tailscale doesn’t have the private key, so we can’t see your traffic. While Tailscale can’t observe the data transiting your tailnet, we are responsible for managing the control plane, where our coordination server distributes public keys and settings for your tailnet.
Observing Hachyderms. I’ll skip the background about the… | by dma | Nov, 2022 | Medium - 2022-12-15 - I’ll skip the background about the Twitter migration, and the space we’ve created at hachyderm.io because Kris Nóva tells it better.
Twitter’s Big Ad Plan: Violate FTC Consent Decree, California Privacy Law & EU Privacy Laws To Force Users To Hand Over Info For Ad Targeting | Techdirt - 2022-12-15 - - The good folks over at Platformer broke the news that Twitter is experimenting with Elon’s desperate attempt to make money: forcing people to “opt-in” to share personal info so th…
Musk Shakes Up Twitter’s Legal Team as He Looks to Cut More Costs - The New York Times - 2022-12-15 - Twitter has stopped paying rent on offices and is considering not paying severance packages to former employees, among other measures.
How to Install Ghost on Ubuntu 22.04 - LinuxTuto - 2022-12-14 - Ghost is an open-source powerful NodeJS-based Content Management System (CMS) for creating blog oriented websites.
How to Install Ghost on Ubuntu 22.04 - LinuxTuto - 2022-12-14 - Ghost is an open-source powerful NodeJS-based Content Management System (CMS) for creating blog oriented websites.
Goodbye, Twitter - by Ken White - The Popehat Report - 2022-12-12 - Everything Ends, And That’s Okay.
Tainted History • VAN Magazine - 2022-12-12 - In the spring of 2001, Suzanne Farrin auditioned for the Juilliard School’s prestigious composition program. The night after her audition, she says that Christopher Rouse, a faculty member at the time, tried to kiss her. “I sort of twirled out of his arms and ran away,” Farrin said. Farrin wanted to join Rouse’s doctoral studio […]
Air-gapped PCs vulnerable to data theft via power supply radiation - 2022-12-12 - A new attack method named COVID-bit uses electromagnetic waves to transmit data from air-gapped systems isolated from the internet over a distance of at least two meters (6.5 ft), where its captured by a receiver.
CNN - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos - 2022-12-12 - - View the latest news and breaking news today for U.S., world, weather, entertainment, politics and health at CNN.com.
Is Dark Mode Good For Your Eyes? - Kev Quirk - 2022-12-12 - - I've decided to stop using dark mode across all of my devices, because research suggests that going to the dark side ain't all that.
Mastodon instance with 6 files - Justin Garrison - 2022-12-11 - - How to make a single user, publish only, mastodon instance with four json files and two pictures
Taming Names in Software Development - Simple Thread - 2022-12-11 - - Good names What is a name? A name is a label, a handle, a pointer in your brain’s memory. A complex idea neatly encapsulated. A name lets you refer to “the economy” , or “dogfooding” mid-sentence without needing a three-paragraph essay to explain the term. If you think of software development as just carving up […]
The Single Greatest Habit You Can Build | The Curiosity Chronicle - 2022-12-11 - - The Curiosity Chronicle has quickly become one of the most popular newsletters for growth-minded individuals in the world. Each week, subscribers receive a deep dive that covers topics ranging from growth and decision-making to business, finance, startups, and technology. In addition, subscribers receive The Friday Five, a weekly newsletter with five ideas curated to spark curiosity headed into the weekend.
Base editing: Revolutionary therapy clears girl's incurable cancer - BBC News - 2022-12-11 - - New way of altering DNA is used to engineer an "exciting", experimental therapy for a 13-year girl.
Abandoned: the human cost of neurotechnology failure - 2022-12-10 - - When the makers of electronic implants abandon their projects, people who rely on the devices have everything to lose.
Raspberry Pi Hired An Ex-Cop And People Are Pissed - 2022-12-10 - - “I think what we’re looking at is a dogpile that’s being organized somewhere,” a Raspberry Pi cofounder told BuzzFeed News.
A Harrowing Tale That Explains Why Everyone on Mastodon Needs to Get Off It Right Now / Post. - 2022-12-10
Yan tan tethera pethera pimp — an old system for counting sheep | Sentence first - 2022-12-10 - - If any lightfoot Clod Dewvale was to hold me up, dicksturping me and marauding me of my rights to my onus, yan, tyan, tethera, methera, pimp, I’d let him have my best pair of galloper’s…
NASA’s Orion spacecraft is about to face its final test—and it’s a big one | Ars Technica - 2022-12-10 - "Reentry is our priority-one objective for a reason."
Fuck Your 90 Day Exercise Window - 2022-12-09 - - Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
iCloud data security overview - Apple Support - 2022-12-07 - - iCloud uses strong security methods, employs strict policies to protect your information, and leads the industry in using privacy-preserving security technologies like end-to-end encryption for your data.
Working In The Open | sef.kloninger.com - 2022-12-04 - The other day my daughter asked me about Software Engineering -- what do we actually do? She's eighteen and probably won't follow in my footsteps, which is fine, but I still want her to see my field.
Leaving the Basement | Hachyderm Community - 2022-12-04 - - Hachyderm has reached 30,000 users. In the process we have hit substantial scale problems, and had to migrate our services out of the basement. This is the outage report, post mortem, and high level overview of the process of migrating to Hetzner in Germany. From observation to production fixes. This is the story.
Rust and Neovim - A Thorough Guide and Walkthrough | the trait - 2022-12-04 - - Edit: Some readers mentioned an issue with the example Lua code used to configure the simrat39/rust-tools.nvim plugin; that configuration code has been updated with the example configuration recommended in the plugin page as of the date of this edit. Thanks to Nazar Toakarak for letting me know. Readers have also asked me about the link to my latest Neovim config files, you can find them here.
Want a four-day work week? Show the results of research to your boss | Mint - 2022-12-03 - Organizations involved in 4-day work week study registered gains in revenue and employee productivity, as well as drops in absenteeism and turnover
Rail Strike: Why The Railroads Won’t Give In on Paid Leave - 2022-12-02 - - Wall Street’s new robber barons can’t make the trains run on time.
The Alt Right Shows Who’s Boss - TPM – Talking Points Memo - 2022-12-01 - Like many others I've been watching the alt-right take over of Twitter evolve in real time. The whole operation is now chained to the manic outbursts and enthusiasms of majority owner Elon Musk and he…
I Was Wrong About Mastodon - 2022-12-01 - - I said that Mastodon moderation wouldn't scale, it does. The cultural differences will likely continue to maintain a friendlier atmosphere regardless of size.

November 2022

At SpaceX, we're told we can change the world. I couldn't, however, stop getting sexually harassed. - 2022-11-30 - - By Ashley Kosak, former build reliability engineer at SpaceX
At SpaceX, work was taken away from me in case I “might retire or die.” - 2022-11-30 - - I was a “hardcore” Principal Engineer at SpaceX, achieving performance goals and working longer hours than most of my colleagues—yet I saw my work roles gradually transferred to younger engineers who fit the company’s “frat bro” mold. By John Johnson, former Principal Engineer at SpaceX I have watched the recent news about the takeover at Twitter without much surprise. I was an employee of one of Elon Musk’s other companies; for many months, I’ve refrained from speaking about my experience there
Rereading: The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder – Auxiliary Memory - 2022-11-29 - by James Wallace Harris, Friday, January 6, 2017 I first read The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder just after it came out in 1981, before it won the Pulitzer and National Book awards in 1982. …
Why Faulty Streetlights Are Turning Cities Purple — and Why It's Worrisome - 2022-11-29 - Streetlights in a bunch of major cities are turning purple. Is it just a fluke — or a warning of the chaos to come?
A poor man's API - 2022-11-29 - Creating a full-fledged API requires resources, both time and money. You need to think about the model, the design, the REST principles, etc., without writing a single line of code. Most of the time, you don’t know whether it’s worth it: you’d like to offer a Minimum Viable Product and iterate from there. I want to show how you can achieve it without writing a single line of code. The solution The main requirement of the solution is to use the PostgreSQL database. It’s
The Best Go framework: no framework? - 2022-11-29 - While writing this blog and leading Go teams for a couple of years, the most common question I heard from beginners was “What framework should I use?”. One of the worst things you can do in Go is follow an approach from other programming languages. Other languages have established, “default” frameworks. Java has Spring, Python has Django and Flask, Ruby has Rails, C# has ASP.NET, Node has Express, and PHP has Symfony and Laravel.
Having a creative practice as a programmer | the scapegoat dev - 2022-11-29 - - Programming is a creative activity. In fact, I think programming is inherently artistic. A program is not just executed by a computer: it is also an artifact...
ongoing by Tim Bray · Protect Me From What I Want - 2022-11-29
Perspective | How Amazon shopping ads are disguised as real results - Washington Post - 2022-11-28 - Most of what you see at first on Amazon is now an ad.
Can you really live with a Citroen Ami? We put the dinky EV to the test | This is Money - 2022-11-26 - - From using it as a taxi from the train station, to tackling a drive-thru and even a visit to the recycling centre, we put Britain's smallest new car through its paces in a week-long test.
I/O is no longer the bottleneck - 2022-11-26 - - In 2022, disk I/O is very fast, and not usually the performance bottleneck in programs. This article digs into some numbers.
Neovim and Rust · sharksforarms - 2022-11-26 - - An effective Rust development experience with Neovim LSP client and rust-analyzer
Elon Musk and the Narcissism/Radicalization Maelstrom - 2022-11-25 - It's a fascinating thing to watch far-right radicalization unfold in real time. I've been watching the Elon Musk and Twitter drama with a mix of fascination and awe. He bought Twitter as part of his…
Prescient Obsolescence - by Steven Johnson - 2022-11-23 - An ode to the short but influential life of the audio cassette.
Keyboards I’ve used in the past two decades - 2022-11-23 - - I have used many keyboards over the years. Some of those were standard OEM keyboards you would probably have seen and used all the time. But at some point, I started trying out different designs and wanted to type faster and be more productive. Allow me to share some of
So About The New Special Counsel… - by Jay Kuo - 2022-11-23 - For the next two weeks I’ll be in England visiting my sister and brother-in-law and popping into London for press events and the start of rehearsals for our musical “Allegiance” which is getting a production there (and if you’ll be in London from Jan-Apr of 2023, you can get to see George Takei in the show! Visit
Musk's Humongous Mistake - Robert Reich - 2022-11-22 - Listen now | It's the human capital, stupid
Why Twitter Didn’t Go Down: From a Real Twitter SRE - 2022-11-22 - - Twitter supposedly lost around 80% of its work force. What ever the real number is, there are whole teams with out engineers on it now. Yet, the website goes on and the tweets keep coming. This left a lot wondering what exactly was going on with all those engineers and made it seem like it was all just bloat. I’d like to explain my little corner of Twitter (though it wasn’t
It’s Not The Decision, But The Process: Musk & The Trump Decision | Techdirt - 2022-11-21 - Going to put this up front, because I expect a bunch of people to not read and assume something very incorrect: I think there are valid arguments (even pretty strong ones) for why it makes sense fo…
Hachyderm Infrastructure. High level overview of hachyderm.io… | by Kris Nóva | Nov, 2022 | Medium - 2022-11-21 - - High level overview of hachyderm.io infrastructure
The Fraudulent King - Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At - 2022-11-21 - - I have made mistakes in my life. I have done very silly things for even sillier reasons, wrapped myself in very stupid justifications, and then executed again and again on a campaign of sheer idiocy. By the time I have been done making bad decisions, each one inspiring and enhancing the next, I have looked back and said “never again.” And then I have made another bad decision just for good measure, to ensure I am done.
Tesla killers: The new wave of must-have electric vehicles - 2022-11-20 - - The newcomers that are gunning for the world’s most successful EV maker
While Crypto Bro Scammed Clients, Reporters Scammed Readers - FAIR - 2022-11-20 - - Before Bankman-Fried’s transition from financial genius to possible financial criminal, he received little scrutiny in the media.
Apple Executive Phil Schiller Deactivates Twitter Account - MacRumors - 2022-11-20 - Apple's Phil Schiller, responsible for Apple events and the App Store, has deactivated his Twitter account following recent developments on the...
The New Smoking | Conor's Blog - - 2022-11-20 - - Some thoughts on habit forming technology.
Let crypto burn | Financial Times - 2022-11-20 - - Just say no to legitimacy-inferring regulation
I don't want to go back to social media - 2022-11-20 -
In Memoriam: Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. – a Personal Recollection - 2022-11-20 - Brooks is famous for many things. Many people know him best as the author of The Mythical Man-Month, his musings on software engineering and why it's so very hard. Some of his prescriptions seem quaint today -- no one these days would print out documentation on microfiche every night to distribute to developers -- but his observations about the problems of development remain spot-on. But he did so much more.
What’s going to happen to Twitter? A few thoughts. | by David Kaye | Nov, 2022 | Medium - 2022-11-20 - Here’s what I think is going to happen with Twitter. I doubt any of this is news to people but I wanted to put it down in one place. Not…
Thorsten Ball - How can you not be romantic about programming? - 2022-11-19 -
Daring Fireball: Twitter Tumult - 2022-11-18 - If you had told me three weeks ago that Twitter, as a company, would today be embroiled in turmoil over a company-wide email from Elon Musk centered around the phrase “extremely hardcore”, this is not the scenario I’d have imagined.
Researchers Quietly Cracked Zeppelin Ransomware Keys – Krebs on Security - 2022-11-18 -
The Virtue of Owning Books You Haven't Read: Why Umberto Eco Kept an "Antilibrary" | Open Culture - 2022-11-18 - When considering whether to buy yet another book, you might well ask yourself when you'll get around to reading it. But perhaps there are other, even more important considerations, such as the intellectual value of the book in its still-unread state.
Taking the mainframe back to the future! - IBM Z and LinuxONE Community - 2022-11-17 - IBM Community is a platform where IBM users converge to solve, share, and do more.
GitHub Copilot Isn't Worth the Risk - 2022-11-17 - - Copilot may be a glimpse into the future of AI, but it comes with a lot of legal and security baggage.
Laying myself off from Amazon — Daniel Immke - 2022-11-17 - - Yesterday, I resigned from Amazon. My final day is next week, right before Thanksgiving. I realize the timing of this is quite coincidental— as this week Amazon…
Watch Artist Zak Korvin Draw a Precise Geometric Emblem in a Mesmerizing Timelapse — Colossal - 2022-11-16 - Artist Zak Korvin offers a look into the process of making a geometric drawing of three birds in a mesmerizing timelapse.
Digital Books wear out faster than Physical Books - Internet Archive Blogs - 2022-11-16 - - Ever try to read a physical book passed down in your family from 100 years ago? Probably worked well. Ever try reading an ebook you paid for 10 years ago? Probably a different experience. From the leasing business model of mega publishers to physical device evolution to format obsolescence, digital books are fragile and […]
The Sky Is Falling - Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At - 2022-11-15 - I will be honest, dear reader, that I had an entire 1300 word newsletter that I have mostly had to throw in the trash and set on fire. Since my last newsletter, more things have come to light about Sam Bankman-Fried, FTX, and the larger cryptocurrency industry that, while insane, were quickly overshadowed by the last few days' events.
Musk trolls senator demanding answers on Twitter fake-account scandal | Ars Technica - 2022-11-15 - “Selling the truth is dangerous and unacceptable."
Making a Go program 42% faster with a one character change • Harry Marr - 2022-11-14 - - Programmer and engineering manager working at GitHub. Co-founded Dependabot, and helped build Monzo and GoCardless.
Just how complicated could it be to register a German company? | by Steven Renwick | Nov, 2022 | Medium - 2022-11-14 - - Have you heard that it is complicated to start a business in Germany?
Building an e-ink weather display for our home - kimmo.blog - 2022-11-14 - - Building a battery powered e-ink weather forecast display for our home. This was a fun Raspberry PI project.
Structured errors in Go: How to use structured logs & errors - 2022-11-13 - How to use structured logging in Go combined with custom error types to make working with log aggregators easier.
Twitter lawyer warns that Elon Musk is putting company at risk of billions in FTC fines - The Verge - 2022-11-11 - - “Elon puts rockets into space, he’s not afraid of the FTC.”
Why We Should Have Markdown Rendered Websites - 2022-11-10 - - You're viewing this document in your HTML-rendering browser but its sourceis actually a markdown file.
Duck! Octopuses caught on camera throwing things at each other - 2022-11-10 - - Cephalopods living unusually close together have been filmed throwing shells, algae and silt — sometimes at another octopus.
Veterans find relief from nightmares with NightWare and Apple Watch - Apple - 2022-11-09 - - NightWare, a digital therapeutic system that works with Apple Watch and iPhone, is offering relief to veterans experiencing nightmares and PTSD.
Here’s how a Twitter engineer says it will break in the coming weeks | MIT Technology Review - 2022-11-08 - - One insider says the company’s current staffing isn’t able to sustain the platform.
Elon Musk has caused an advertiser revolt. It’s not advertising’s fault! - 2022-11-08 - Twitter's new owner is torn between Madison Avenue and his “free speech” reply guys. Guess where the smart money points.
Musk discusses putting all of Twitter behind a paywall - 2022-11-08 - Will he go through with it? PLUS: Botched layoffs, how the new Blue could lose money, and more
Musk's Kobayashi Maru - Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At - 2022-11-08 - - Elon Musk has had a difficult weekend following a difficult week, with all difficulties a direct result of his actions, a continual flywheel of actions and consequences that confuse a man with too much money and time on his hands. Twitter updated the iOS version of the Twitter app to advertise verification on Saturday
Come Join Me On Mastodon, Folks. A how-to guide for joining the… | by Clive Thompson | Nov, 2022 | Medium - 2022-11-07 - A how-to guide for joining the rapidly-growing social network
Last Week on My Mac: Home truths about macOS – The Eclectic Light Company - 2022-11-06 - - True or false? Apple supports macOS for three years. Apple’s security updates are sufficient. New versions of macOS are full of bugs. It’s safer to delay upgrading.
A concept from physics called negentropy could help your life run smoother - 2022-11-06 - - Life is full of small decisions: Should I pick up that sock on the floor? Should I do the dishes before bed? What about fixing the leaky faucet in the bathroom?
This Engineered ‘Superplant’ Cleans Indoor Air Like 30 Regular Plants - 2022-11-05 - - The team inserted synthetic metabolic pathways that allow the plant to use these chemicals as carbon sources in its cellular metabolism.
TSMC approaching 1 nm with 2D materials breakthrough - EDN - 2022-11-05 - - TSMC is setting up a new 1-nm chip production facility that will be located in an industrial park in Longtan District in Taiwan.
The type system is a programmer's best friend - 2022-11-05 - - Programming Adventures
Twitter, cut in half - by Casey Newton and Zoë Schiffer - 2022-11-05 - - 💙🫡
Inside the Culture War That Elon Musk Has Unleashed at Twitter - 2022-11-04 - - A Twitter employee worries that the old guard's culture of safeguarding the platform is giving way to Elon Musk "ass-kissing."
The Scoop: Turmoil at Twitter - by Gergely Orosz - 2022-11-04 - Overnight, Twitter has gone from one of the best working environments in tech, to one of the worst. What is happening, and why?
Replacing my home desktop computer - Eli Bendersky's website - 2022-11-04 -
Bitcoin mining in the crypto crash — the mining companies’ creative accounting – Amy Castor - 2022-11-04 - - It works, until it doesn’t
‘Andor’ Episode 9 Breakdown: The Empire Is Scarier Without Sith Lords and Superweapons - The Ringer - 2022-11-03 - By avoiding Darth Vader, the Death Star, and the dark side of the Force, ‘Andor’ has foregrounded the disturbing banality of the Empire’s evil
CEO Patrick Collison's email to Stripe employees - 2022-11-03 - - Earlier today, Stripe CEO Patrick Collison sent the following note to Stripe employees.
Hey Elon: Let Me Help You Speed Run The Content Moderation Learning Curve | Techdirt - 2022-11-03 - - It’s kind of a rite of passage for any new social media network. They show up, insist that they’re the “platform for free speech” without quite understanding what that actua…
Source & Binary / An AWS account just for getting into other AWS accounts - 2022-11-03 - - An article about AWS and Substrate
Reflections on 10,000 Hours of Programming - 2022-11-03 - 31 reflections from 10,000 hours of deliberate programming practice.
Cello bridge design - Aitchison & Mnatzaganian Cello Specialists - 2022-11-03 - Cello bridge design is a subtle art. We explore the qualities of the two most common designs: the French and Belgian bridge.
That Whole Twitter Thing: Further Thoughts | Whatever - 2022-11-02 - Now that we’re several days into the Elon Musk era of Twitter, some additional musings on how we got here and where we’re going. In no particular order: 1. Elon Musk did this to himself…
My First Piano: A Story of Hurt, Healing and Joy — Jerome Leroy | Composer - 2022-11-02 - - Being a trained pianist brings its own interesting challenge when it comes to your instrument… because it’s actually quite rare that the piano you play on is actually your instrument. Keyboard players are amongst the few musicians who rarely choose the instrument they play on. Whether at home, at

October 2022

The Simple Cure - by Steven Johnson - Adjacent Possible - 2022-10-31 - Dilip Mahalanabis popularized one of the great medical advances of the 20th century. Why did his death last month go mostly unmentioned?
What is Bluesky, the potential Twitter alternative being tested by former CEO Jack Dorsey? - 2022-10-31 - The project was spun off from Twitter to liberate social media from corporate control – but will Elon Musk try to shut it down?
Reminiscing: the retreat to comforting work. | Irrational Exuberance - 2022-10-31 - - In Work on what matters, I wrote about Hunter Walk’s idea of snacking: doing work that is easy to complete but low impact. The best story of my own snacking behaviors comes from my time at Stripe. I was focused on revamping the engineering organization’s approach to operating reliable software, and decided that it might also make sense to start an internal book club. It was, dear reader, not the right time to start a book club.
How Google Cloud's Kelsey Hightower became one of the most respected people in cloud computing - Protocol - 2022-10-30 - Kelsey Hightower defied the tech sector's diversity problems to become one of the industry's leading figures. Now he wants everyone's voice to be heard.
On Michael Crichton’s Busy Ambition - Study Hacks - Cal Newport - 2022-10-30 - - By his last year at Harvard Medical School, Michael Crichton, 26-years old at the time, knew he didn't want to pursue a medical career, so he went to the dean with a proposition. He planned to write a nonfiction book about patient care, he explained, and wanted to know if he could use his final
My Top 10 Tips for Doing Time In ‘the Hole’ | The Marshall Project - 2022-10-30 - - In prison, going to “the hole” can mean spending 23 hours a day alone in a tiny cell. Here, incarcerated author Michael J. Nichols shares his top 10 tips for enduring long stretches of “administrative segregation.”
How I make a living working on SerenityOS – Andreas Kling – I like computers! - 2022-10-29 - - This post describes in detail how I support myself while working on the SerenityOS project.
Elon Musk’s First Move Is To Fire The Person Most Responsible For Twitter’s Strong Free Speech Stance | Techdirt - 2022-10-29 - - Last night, Elon Musk closed his on-again, off-again, on-again deal to buy Twitter, and his very first order of business was to fire a bunch of top executives. This was not necessarily unexpected. …
Welcome to hell, Elon - The Verge - 2022-10-28 - - Owning Twitter means owning a host of impossible political problems. Is Elon ready?
Shell Script Best Practices — The Sharat's - 2022-10-27 - - 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....
Vim After 15 Years | Ian Langworth - 2022-10-27 - - My earlier posts about using Vim were well received and it's about time for an update. I've been doing a lot more work with Vim lately and have spent some time configuring my workflow for peak efficiency, so here's a snapshot of my current state.
No Safe Efficient Ways to Do Three-way String Comparisons in Go -Go 101 - 2022-10-27 - - Golang online books, articles, tools, etc.
The Case of the Missing Fuel: The story of the Stockport air disaster | by Admiral Cloudberg | Medium - 2022-10-26 - - The crash of an airliner in the center of an English town leads to the discovery of a design flaw that caused the failure of two engines.
Rust vs. Go: Why They’re Better Together - The New Stack - 2022-10-26 - - For most companies and users, Go is the right default option. Its performance is strong, Go is easy to adopt, and Go’s highly modular nature makes it particularly good for situations where requirements are changing or evolving.As your product matures, and requirements stabilize, there may be opportunities to have large wins from marginal increases in performance. In these cases, using Rust to maximize performance may well be worth the initial investment.
On building websites with GoHugo | Ruben Duiveman | Product & UX - 2022-10-26 - I regularly come across tweets asking something like “what framework or tools should I use to build my own blog site?". I usually respond by recommending GoHugo, and given the limited amount of characters in a tweet, I usually leave it at that. In this blog post, I want to share a little more background on why I like GoHugo so much. | Ruben Duiveman | Product & UX
losvedir/transit-lang-cmp: Programming language comparison by reimplementing the same transit data app - 2022-10-24 - - Programming language comparison by reimplementing the same transit data app - losvedir/transit-lang-cmp: Programming language comparison by reimplementing the same transit data app
Security by Obscurity is Underrated – Utku Sen - Blog – computer security, programming - 2022-10-24 - - 🔥 This article widely discussed at Hackernews and Reddit In the information security field, we have developed lots of thoughts that can’t be discussed (or rarely discussed): Never roll your own crypto Always use TLS Security by obscurity is bad And goes like this. Most of them are very generally correct. However, I started to think that people are telling those because everyone is telling them. And, most of the people are actually not thinking about exceptional cases. In this post, I will raise my objection against the idea of “Security by obscurity is bad”. Risk, Defense in Depth and Swiss Cheese One of the main goal of defensive security is reducing the risk for the target business. According to the OWASP’s methodology, the risk of an issue is calculated with the formula below: Risk = Likelihood * Impact
Plastic recycling remains a 'myth': Greenpeace study - 2022-10-24 - - Plastic recycling rates are declining even as production shoots up, according to a Greenpeace U.S. report out Monday that blasted industry claims of creating an efficient, circular economy as "fiction."
My Blog Setup and Writing Process | Navendu Pottekkat - 2022-10-23 - I’ve been writing blogs for almost three years now. Recently, I’ve been putting a lot of effort into building and maintaining my blog. This article documents my blog setup and my writing process from idea to publishing.
incremental parsing in go | dev-nonsense - 2022-10-23 - - This post is an attempt to explain the incremental parsing algorithm aretext uses for syntax highlighting. Like the rest of aretext, parsers are implemented in Go for portability and performance. Most people do not consider Go a functional programming language; nonetheless, aretext’s parsers rely on functional programming patterns. In this post, we’ll see how to implement these patterns in pure Go to build parsers that are fast and expressive. Problem Syntax highlighting is a special case of parsing.
The Raspberry Pi 400 in My Bedroom | Joel Dare - 2022-10-23 -
Review of the Kinesis Advantage360 Professional - 2022-10-22 - - The Advantage360 Professional is the successor to the well-known Advantage2. It comes with several new features, such as Adjustable Split, Wireless connection, Tenting, ZMK (highly customizable firmware), and many other minor things. In this blog post, I will explain the significant design changes and my experiences with Advantage360. Before I
EKS Security Checklist: 10 Best Practices for a Secure Cluster - CAST AI – Kubernetes Automation Platform - 2022-10-21 - - Discover 10 EKS security tactics to protect your Kubernetes clusters and tighten your application security.
Why we're leaving the cloud - 2022-10-21 - - Basecamp has had one foot in the cloud for well over a decade, and HEY has been running there exclusively since it was launched two years ago. We've run extensively in both Amazon's cloud and Google's cloud. We've run on bare virtual machines, we've run on Kubernetes. We've seen all the cloud has to offer, and tried most of it. It's fi...
This Is the Anti-MacBook, and I Love It | CodeX - 2022-10-21 - But can it take on Apple?
Battle with Bots Prompts Mass Purge of Amazon, Apple Employee Accounts on LinkedIn – Krebs on Security - 2022-10-20 -
The Future of Ops Is Platform Engineering | Honeycomb - 2022-10-20 - - Platform engineering works cross-functionally with other SWE teams, optimizing their time to value and helping them own their code in prod.
How and why to properly write copyright statements in your code - … and probably more than what you ever wanted to know about them · Hook’s Humble Homepage - 2022-10-20 - - Copyright is automatic, but for compliance and collaboration purposes you should still use copyright statements of good quality. This post explains some copyright myths and inertia, as well as spells out how (and why) to write a copyright/license notice of great quality.
Is OpenStack fighting a lost battle? | Memo Garcia - 2022-10-20 - - And why Kubernetes “won”. I owe my career to OpenStack and to all its contributors. I have made excellent friends, I learned a lot from them and the project itself. For that and more, thanks a lot OpenStack. However… Even though OpenStack has never been better, I can’t shake the feeling that is fighting a lost battle. Why? because it tried to replace AWS (and the rest of the cloud providers) and compete directly with them.
DevOps is Bullshit | Massdriver Blog - 2022-10-20 - - DevOps is Bullshit. A Critique of How We've Fooled Ourselves for Years.
How to Safely Share Your Email Address on a Website | CSS-Tricks - CSS-Tricks - 2022-10-19 - Spammers are a huge deal nowadays. If you want to share your contact information without getting overwhelmed by spam email you need a solution. I run into
Phantom Forests: Why Ambitious Tree Planting Projects Are Failing - Yale E360 - 2022-10-19 - - High-profile initiatives to plant millions of trees are being touted by governments around the world as major contributions to fighting climate change. But scientists say many of these projects are ill-conceived and poorly managed and often fail to grow any forests at all.
Just for Fun. No, Really. - 2022-10-19 -
An accident at SpaceX | Semafor - 2022-10-18 - - The technicians in the private space industry, responsible for building and repairing rockets, receive little recognition — even when they sacrifice their lives for the mission.
Why Rust? — Rerun - 2022-10-18 -
GitHub Copilot investigation · Joseph Saveri Law Firm & Matthew Butterick - 2022-10-18 - - GitHub Copilot investigation
How to Build Software like an SRE — willett dot io - 2022-10-17 - - I’ve been doing this “reliability” stuff for a little while now (~5 years), at companies ranging from about 20 developers to over 2,000. I’ve always cared primarily about the software elements I describe as living “outside” the application – like, how does it get its configuration? What kinds of instances does it run on, and are those the best kinds to use? What steps does it take on its path from “code in a repository” to “running in production”? And I’ve always kept track of what I liked – which mechanisms allowed fast iteration and which caused frustration, which led to outages and which prevented them.
Koch method to learn Morse - 2022-10-17 -
Mike Acton’s Expectations of Professional Software Engineers - Adam Johnson - 2022-10-17 - - In a 2019 talk/rant titled “Everyone Watching This Is Fired”, games industry veteran Mike Acton rattled off a sample of 50 things he expects of developers he works with. The title refers to his tongue-in-cheek suggestion that anyone who doesn’t meet all these requirements would be immediately fired.
Attached > ... > Apple Computer > Macintosh Newsweek advertisement - 2022-10-16 -
Elaborately Constructed Shops and Homes Translate Tokyo’s Distinct Architecture into Miniature Models | Colossal - 2022-10-16 - From his studio at Skeppsholmen, the small southern island in Stockholm, Christopher Robin Nordstrom constructs precise miniatures of Tokyo's architecture. Flower shops, hair salons, and neighborhood police stations known as kōban are recreated at 1:20 scale from materials like MDF board, styrene pl
Man plays his saxophone through 9-hour, "very, very complex" brain surgery to remove tumor - CBS News - 2022-10-16 - - For the lead doctor, it was an opportunity not only to heal a patient, but to map real-time brain activity during "high cognitive function."
How to Travel - Chris Arnade walks the world - 2022-10-15 - - On the cheap, like a local, and without a lot of luggage.
Recovering a password-protected ThinkPad T60 :: ./techtipsy — Herman's blog - 2022-10-15 - - An illustrated overview about the process of clearing the supervisor password from a ThinkPad T60, based on guides that some smart and persistent people have written.
Disposable Root Servers - 2022-10-15 - - Unlimited, free and dedicated Kali Linux Root Shells - readily set up for hackers. Traffic via VPNs. Accessible directly or via TOR. NO LOGZ.
Bring your own key (BYOK) was a lie! | by Moritz Eckert | Oct, 2022 | Edgeless Systems - 2022-10-13 - - Bring your own key (BYOK) is a popular term used by cloud service providers (CSPs) when it comes to cloud security features.
Taildrop · Tailscale - 2022-10-13 - - Learn how to easily send files between your personal devices on a Tailscale network.
Fixing macOS zsh Terminal History Settings | Andrew Katz - 2022-10-13 - - Follow these instructions to make your own `.zshrc` file that will persist through updates and search through your entire `history` file.
Using a Framework will harm the maintenance of your software - 2022-10-13 -
Students break acceleration world record | News | Oct 6, 2022 | University of Stuttgart - 2022-10-13 - - Self-built electric vehicle sets new best time
How to Prove You Know a Secret Without Giving It Away | Quanta Magazine - 2022-10-12 - - Zero-knowledge proofs allow researchers to prove their knowledge without divulging the knowledge itself.
Skyfall: eBPF agent for infrastructure observability | LinkedIn Engineering - 2022-10-09 - Currently, LinkedIn infrastructure is composed of hundreds of thousands of hosts across multiple data centers. Observability into our infrastructure makes it possible for us to focus on the health and performance of our critical services to provide the best experience to our members. With LinkedIn's large infrastructure growth over the past few years, observability has become more critical to pinpoint the potential root causes for any infrastructure failure or anomaly. There are a few elegant in-house monitoring systems at LinkedIn that provide network switch level metrics, logs, and even flow-level visibility by sampling packets going through our network. However, all of these rely on sampling or some kind of periodic polling of data, which for any meaningful sampling rate generates a very large volume of data to be processed and analyzed.
The Future of Ops Is Platform Engineering | Honeycomb - 2022-10-09 - - Platform engineering works cross-functionally with other SWE teams, optimizing their time to value and helping them own their code in prod.
Neuroscientists unravel the mystery of why you can’t tickle yourself | Ars Technica - 2022-10-09 - New study shows how tickling, playfulness can address key questions about the brain.
Kurtis Knodel // Blog - 2022-10-08 -
Under new rules, patients can now access all their health records digitally - 2022-10-08 - - No more long delays. No more fax machines. No more exorbitant charges for printed pages. Under a new federal law, you can now get your health information digitally.
Detect secrets in your code more accurately with dry runs for custom patterns now available in GitHub Advanced Security | The GitHub Blog - 2022-10-08 - - Learn how you can seamlessly define trusted custom secret patterns to detect secrets unique to your organization with GitHub Advanced Security.
Behold a 21st-Century Medieval Castle Being Built with Only Tools & Materials from the Middle Ages | Open Culture - 2022-10-08 - Construction sites are hives of specialized activity, but there's no particular training needed to ferry 500 lbs of stone several stories to the masons waiting above.
Elon Musk can’t be trusted to complete merger, Twitter tells judge | Ars Technica - 2022-10-08 - Twitter says there's a financing problem and that Musk won't commit to closing date.
BashFAQ/105 - Greg's Wiki - 2022-10-07 -
Daring Fireball: Everything - 2022-10-07 - - What we need isn’t an everything app. It’s an everything *device*, with small focused apps for features.
Text Is the Universal Interface - Scale - 2022-10-06 - - Roon guest-authors a post on large language models and the future of computing.
Deploying to a server via SSH and Rsync in a Github Action | Zell Liew - 2022-10-06 - The hardest part is installing the SSH key and getting it to work. I'm going to show you how so you can do this easily.
mjg59 | Cloud desktops aren't as good as you'd think - 2022-10-06 -
Notes Against Note-Taking Systems - by Sasha Chapin - 2022-10-05 - - ...
Move a running process into a tmux session | ./xai.sh - 2022-10-05 - - It’s rare, but sometimes it still happens that I forget to open a tmux or screen session when working with something that is supposed to be quickly done. However, it also happens that “quickly done” turns into “tedious and ugly” and now the process lives longer than it was supposed to and I become afraid of ssh disconnects or something.
Steve Yegge joins as Head of Engineering (or, “Why I left retirement to join Sourcegraph”) - 2022-10-04 - - TL;DR: Steve Yegge has joined Sourcegraph as Head of Engineering, where we are building the world’s most open and comprehensive code intelligence platform (CIP).
Source & Binary / You should have lots of AWS accounts - 2022-10-03 - - An article about AWS and Substrate
Using the iPad Pro as my development machine - 2022-10-03 - - I purchased an iPad Pro with the Smart Keyboard and Pencil to use as my main computer. Can it replace my local workstation? Is it powerful enough for my day-to-day tasks? Let's find out.
Serving static files and web apps in Go - Eli Bendersky's website - 2022-10-02 -
New LSP features in Neovim 0.8 - 2022-10-01 - - Personal weblog about programming, linux, life, the universe and everything
New LSP features in Neovim 0.8 - 2022-10-01 - Personal weblog about programming, linux, life, the universe and everything

September 2022

My review of the Moonlander MK1 keyboard - 2022-09-30 - - The Moonlander MK1 is an ergonomic, highly customizable split keyboard. I ordered one after I couldn’t stand anymore my hand and wrist pains. In this blog post, I want to share my keyboard journey, my experiences with the Moonlander, how I am using it and what I plan next.
Learn Rust by implementing a SHA-1 hash cracker - 2022-09-30 - - The moment has come to get your hands dirty: let's write your first Rust program. As for all the code examples in this course, you can find the complete code in the accompanying Git repository: https://github.com/skerkour/black-hat-rust $ cargo new sha1_cracker Will create a new project in the folder sha1_cracker. Note
Scientists find wreckage of ship that tried to warn Titanic of iceberg | CNN Travel - 2022-09-29 - - The wreck of a ship that tried to warn the RMS Titanic of the iceberg that sank it on its maiden voyage has been found at the bottom of the Irish Sea.
Outdated vs. Complete - 2022-09-27 - On August 22nd, I got an email out of the blue from Apple that notified me that I had a new App Review message. It was for my app, WorldAnimals, a light-hearted game for guessing animal onomatopoeia sounds in different languages.Usually, you receive a message after you submit a new version to the...
iPhone 14 Pro Review: No phone is an island – Six Colors - 2022-09-26 - Since the near-simultaneous arrival of the iPhone 8 and iPhone X in 2017, Apple has been on a mission to split the iPhone product line into two distinct sets of models: a more expensive set that in…
Ballet Dancers In Super Slow Motion - 2022-09-26 - Bless me Father Sloan, for I have committed a radical act on the Internet. I have watched this slow motion video of ballet dancers
The Smartest Website You Haven't Heard of - 2022-09-26 - - lessons in UI design from an industrial supply company.
Local Neon — The Prepared - 2022-09-26 - - How regional supply chains gave shape to the alluring glow of neon.
Lessons from a Professional Password Cracker – The Markup - 2022-09-26 - - A conversation with Jeremi Gosney
Has The Zodiac Killer Mystery Been Solved (Again) - 2022-09-26 - - For more than 50 years, his identity has remained as maddening a riddle as the ciphers he once sent police. but now an L.A. novelist-turned-amateur sleuth may have finally cracked the case
iPhones and action discoverability, or "How the hell was I supposed to know that?" · Caffeinspiration - 2022-09-25 -
Want cleaner code? Use the rule of six - 2022-09-25 - - A simple and powerful framework for ironing out confusing code.
WHOIS: Fragile, unparseable, obsolete... and universally relied upon - 2022-09-24 - - A rather unstructured look at one of the older and infuriatingly trivial internet protocols: WHOIS
Aging programmer - 2022-09-24 - - 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...
New tech can make your house a solar microgrid | Ars Technica - 2022-09-23 - - New version of support hardware can keep homes solar-powered during outages.
Rust and Neovim - A Thorough Guide and Walkthrough | the trait - 2022-09-22 - - This post is a detailed explanation and walkthrough of how I set up my Rust development environment and workflow with Neovim.
Daring Fireball: Apple Watch Ultra - 2022-09-22 - - It *almost* feels more like having an adorable little iPhone Nano strapped to my wrist than a huge Apple Watch.
Thermodynamics of Rock Salt and Ice Cream - Timothy Rice - 2022-09-21 - - Why do we salt the ice when making ice cream?
You don’t want to be on Cloudflare’s naughty list | Ctrl blog - 2022-09-20 - - My home IP ended up on Cloudflare’s naughty list for six days. Most websites and many apps loaded slowly, partially, or not at all. Just had to wait it out.
DevOps, SRE, and Platform Engineering - 2022-09-20 - - Sharing my understanding of DevOps, SRE, and Platform Engineering based on the first-hand experience in SRE and PE domains.
BRYCE DOT VC - 2022-09-20 - - From an interview with designer/artist/soul searcher Elle Luna: So I was using Uber all the time in San Francisco, even though I hated the design. And then I went to the Crunchies awards ceremony and...
COVID: Chinese scientists develop mask that detects the virus - 2022-09-20 - A sensor built into a mask was able to detect the COVID-19, H5N1 and H1N1 influenza viruses in the air within 10 minutes and send notifications to a device, according to the study led by six scientists working with Tongji University in Shanghai.
Why Kids Are Afraid to Ask for Help - Scientific American - 2022-09-20 - - Children as young as seven years old may hesitate to ask questions in school because they worry classmates will think they are “stupid”
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
A Farewell To A Friend - by Ken White - The Popehat Report - 2022-09-20 - Patrick, Co-Blogger and Has Passed
An X11 Apologist Tries Wayland - 2022-09-19 - - I think it’s only fair to call me an X apologist. I get incredibly frustrated when people talk about dropping support for X11. I fight back against the notion that some day X11 will be dead and unmaintained, a curiosity of a time before. I’ve spoken to people in my circles at-length about the accessibility tools that Wayland simply hasn’t been capable of supporting that X11 has. A lot of times, I’ve ended this conversation with “Maybe 5 years from now it’ll be good”. Well it’s 5 years in since I first said those words, and you know what, I’m actually pleasantly surprised.
Basic Go tooling for generics - Eli Bendersky's website - 2022-09-19 -
Gen Z Never Learned to Read Cursive - The Atlantic - 2022-09-18 - - How will they interpret the past?
Daring Fireball: The iPhones 14 Pro (and iPhones 14) - 2022-09-17 - - There are two super interesting innovations with the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max. There aren’t any interesting innovations with the iPhone 14 or 14 Plus — which fact itself is actually pretty interesting, strategically.
Why David Yach Loves Go | Google Cloud Blog - 2022-09-16 - - Learn all the reasons David Yach, industry veteran and Director of Engineering at Google Cloud, loves to use Go for software development.
Step on it! Walking is good for health but walking faster is even better, study finds | Health | The Guardian - 2022-09-15 - - Walking briskly is beneficial for all health outcomes including dementia, heart disease, cancer and death
Signing Git Commits with Your SSH Key - 2022-09-14 - - You may already be signing your Git commits with a GPG key, but as of today you can instead choose to sign with your SSH key! Signing in SSH is a relatively new feature that lets you use your...</p>
Emporia State University is about to suspend tenure. Here's why you should care. - Kansas Reflector - 2022-09-13 - A plan allowing Emporia State University to fire tenured faculty will likely be approved soon, at immense cost to students and institution.
Cooking on the Frontlines with Chef José Andrés | GQ - 2022-09-12 - He became a star feeding the fortunate, and a saint feeding the unfortunate. We followed Andrés from his operations on the Ukraine border to his kitchens in Washington, D.C.—and found something much more complex and interesting than a mere saint.
Mechanical Watch – Bartosz Ciechanowski - 2022-09-12 - - Interactive article explaining how a mechanical watch works.
Bear App: A Solid Zettelkasten Solution for iOS Users — Mental Pivot - 2022-09-12 - I’ve used The Archive for the past three years to maintain my zettelkasten (notes archive). It’s a well-designed app with a specific feature-set optimized for the zettelkasten note-taking system. Unfortunately, The Archive is only available for MacOS. I recently purchased an iPad Pro with a Magic Keyboard to
The Zettelkasten Method: Examples to help you get started. | by Rebecca Williams | Medium - 2022-09-12 - Writing your first Zettelkasten note is intimidating. Most of the resources on Zettelkasten are principle-based, with few examples of how…
Building a Note-taking System with Vanilla Vim - 2022-09-12
Framework Laptop with Ubuntu Review - 2022-09-12 - - I built my own laptop over the holiday break and it’s a developer’s dream come true. I took a chance and ordered a Framework Laptop DIY Edition. I’m so glad I did. The Framework is an excellent platform to customize and build a very capable and stable Linux machine for development. Here’s what I love about it and things that could be better.
Lightly "sandboxed" homebrew on macOS - 2022-09-11 - - Lightly "sandboxed" homebrew on macOS. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
Documentation System - 2022-09-11 -
Tailscale ate my network (and I love it) - 2022-09-11 - - No matter where you go, there you are If you're like me, you travel occasionally. Access to your office from home, or from an airport loun...
How To Bootstrap A Quality Golang Backend | 8th Light - 2022-09-11 - Building a Golang project from scratch requires making some important decisions that will shape the future of the project, providing a scaffolding for yourself and future team members to follow when scaling the codebase. When...
SMTP protocol basics from scratch in Go: receiving email from Gmail | notes.eatonphil.com - 2022-09-11 - - SMTP protocol basics from scratch in Go: receiving email from Gmail
Decrypting your own HTTPS traffic with Wireshark – Trickster Dev - 2022-09-11 - - Code level discussion of web scraping, gray hat automation, growth hacking and bounty hunting
How to write idempotent Bash scripts · Fatih Arslan - 2022-09-11 -
How to rest well | Psyche Guides - 2022-09-11 - - Taking a break isn’t lazy – learning to recharge is a skill that will allow you to enjoy a more creative, sustainable life
Writing a Technical Book • AndreGarzia.com - 2022-09-11 - - AndreGarzia.com website
Git Techniques at Risk Ledger - Risk Ledger - 2022-09-11 - A deep dive into common Git techniques our Product Engineers use at Risk Ledger.
How To Learn Stuff Quickly - 2022-09-11 - - As software developers, we're always learning new things; it's practically the whole gig! If we can learn to quickly pick up new languages/frameworks/tools, we'll become so much more effective at our job. It's sort of a superpower.
OKRs vs KPIs - Understanding Measurements for your SaaS Product - 2022-09-11 - - OKRs vs KPIs - learn how to measure success the right way for your SaaS product from a business perspective - with examples!
Cello bridge design - Aitchison & Mnatzaganian Cello Specialists - 2022-09-11 - Cello bridge design is a subtle art. We explore the qualities of the two most common designs: the French and Belgian bridge.
“Who Should Write the Terraform?” – zwischenzugs - 2022-09-11 - - The Problem Working in Cloud Native consulting, I’m often asked about who should do various bits of ‘the platform work’. I’m asked this in various forms, and at various leve…
Why are D-sharp and E-flat considered to be two different notes | The Ethan Hein Blog - 2022-09-11 - - Why do the black keys on the piano each have two different names? If the posts on r/musictheory are any indication, this is a persistent point of confusion, especially when music theory teachers ge…
Using Github Actions with Repository Dispatch Event | by Sanjar Kairosh | codeburst - 2022-09-11 - If you ever set up a Github Actions workflow on a repository, you will recognize the YAML file that executes steps upon any code you push…