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A mostly complete list of articles I've read on the internet.
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November 2024

• Half of Young Norwegians Say Online Piracy Is an Acceptable Way to Save Money * TorrentFreak - 2024-11-23 - - A new survey from Norway reveals that 50% of young people under 30 believe that pirating content is an acceptable way to save money.
• Dear Sir, You Have Built a Compiler | Rachit Nigam - 2024-11-23 -
• I was banned from the hCaptcha accessibility account for not being blind | The Blog of Michael Taboada - 2024-11-19 - - Also known as: why you shouldn't trust a company who makes their product intensionally inaccessible with allowing you an accessibility workaround Update: I've been informed that hCaptcha now has a text captcha option. The bulk of this blog post still stands. Thanks to D Hamlin for the ...
• DOJ Will Push Google to Sell Chrome to Break Search Monopoly - Bloomberg - 2024-11-18 - - Top Justice Department antitrust officials have decided to ask a judge to force Alphabet Inc.’s Google to sell off its Chrome browser in what would be a historic crackdown on one of the biggest tech companies in the world.
• How a BBC navigation bar component broke depending on which external monitor it was on - Josh Tumath - 2024-11-18 -
• PSA: SQLite does not do checksums - blag - 2024-11-17 - SQLite does not do checksums by default. Disk corruptions go silently unnoticed.
• Naming My Computers • Robb Knight - 2024-11-17 - The naming scheme for my computers and other devices
• Please, Stop the Absurd Coding Challenges | _blackentropy - 2024-11-15 - - Let’s talk about tech interviews – specifically, the ones that go overboard with unrealistic coding assignments. If you’re a developer who’s been asked to de...
• Migrating a Jellyfin Domain - scholz.ruhr - 2024-11-15 - Join me in my quest to migrate my Jellyfin installation to a new domain. Let’s start off with the current situation. I used to run Jellyfin under some old domain that is mostly decommissioned by now. Jellyfin is literally the only thing that’s still running on there (as I could migrate Plex without the end-users even knowing). But to not inconvenience the folks that still have the old domain configured in their browser bookmarks or one of the thousand Jellyfin clients out there, I’ve kept [trimmed]
• Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess - 2024-11-15 - - Are they good or bad?
• MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia - 2024-11-14 - - Today marks two years since I first set up an e-ink display in my mom’s apartment to help her live on her own with amnesia.
• Transit | No GPS required: our app can now locate underground trains - 2024-11-13 - - Bad service in the subway? Transit's offline motion detection shows where you are between stations, and reminds you when your stop’s up next
• Thinking About Recipe Formats More Than Anyone Should • Robb Knight - 2024-11-13 - - I investigated the various standards available for storing and presenting recipes on the web
• Grab challenges Google Maps in Southeast Asia with hyperlocal mapping - Rest of World - 2024-11-13 - - The super-app uses its own drivers and cameras to create hyperlocal maps in eight countries.
• How We Built a Self-Healing System to Survive a Terrifying Concurrency Bug At Netflix - 2024-11-13 - - Our CPUs were dying, the bug was temporarily un-fixable, and we had no viable path forward. Here's how we managed to survive.
• Georgia Mother Jailed for Letting 10-Year-Old Walk Alone to Town - 2024-11-13 - - It was dinnertime on October 30, 2024, when police handcuffed Brittany Patterson in front of three of her four children and drove her to the station in
• Deanna Dikeman - Leaving and Waving - 2024-11-13 - - For 27 years, I took photographs as I waved good-bye and drove away from visiting my parents at their home in Sioux City, Iowa. I started in 1991 with a quick snapshot, and I continued taking photographs with each departure. I never set out to make this series. I just took these photographs as a way to deal with the sadness of leaving. It gradually turned into our good-bye ritual. And it seemed natural to keep the camera busy, because I had been taking pictures every day while I was there. These [trimmed]
• AI companies are surprisingly normal - 2024-11-12 - A year ago, we started noticing that Tailscale was getting popular with AI companies. That was the good news. The bad news: we didn't know why. After a bunch of research, it turns out AI companies like Tailscale for pretty much the same reasons everyone else does.
• fmt.Sprintf vs String Concat | DoltHub Blog - 2024-11-12 - - Blog for DoltHub, a website hosting databases made with Dolt, an open-source version-controlled SQL database with Git-like semantics.
• All the data can be yours — Jerome Paulos - 2024-11-11 -
• New microblog with TILs - 2024-11-10 - New microblog with TILs
• Google Banned Me From Google Voice - 2024-11-08 -
• Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada — but Canadians can still use it | CBC News - 2024-11-07 - - Citing national security concerns, the federal government has ordered TikTok to shutter its Canadian operations — but users will still be able to access the popular video app.
• Why shouldn’t you give money to homeless people? | Spirals of Progress - 2024-11-05 - - Singer asks if you should save a drowning child. Obviously yes! And what if you were wearing a nice suit which could get ruined in the pond? Does not matter, you still have to jump in.And what if, …
• Interview gone wrong - 2024-11-04 - - I have a very basic question which I usually ask in a interview which is to implement a tic tac toe game. I like this because the logic is straightforward and it helps to judge things like code quality / speed / conciseness etc. The candidate this time was programming in python
• I've had a change of heart regarding employee metrics - 2024-11-04 -
• If you need the money, don't take the job — Bitfield Consulting - 2024-11-03 - - Money: how to get people to give it to you, how much to ask for, and how to be worth what you're asking. Some real talk about the challenges you’ll face as a newly independent worker.
• How Evri became the UK’s most hated delivery company | The Independent - 2024-11-02 - From parcels that look like they’ve been savaged by a pack of rabid dogs to packages that mysteriously vanish into thin air, the courier has accrued enough horror stories to rival the Goosebumps series. But is it really any worse than its rivals? Helen Coffey looks into the reality behind the rep
• Celebrating 21 Years of Notepad++: The Legendary Journey of Our Favorite Text Editor - learnhub - 2024-11-02 - - Alright, folks, gather around because it’s story time about one of the most underrated yet indispensable tools in the digital world—Notepad++. This month
• Sorry, Gas Companies - Parody Isn't Infringement (Even If It Creeps You Out) | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 2024-11-02 - - Activism comes in many forms. You might hold a rally, write to Congress, or fly a blimp over the NSA. Or you might use a darkly hilarious parody to make your point, like our client Modest Proposals recently did. Modest Proposals is an activist collective that uses parody and culture jamming to...

October 2024

• jb… Gross Apple Marketing - 2024-10-31 - - a weblog by Jonathan Buys
• Eighteen years of ABI stability | daniel.haxx.se - 2024-10-30 - - It has been eighteen years of libcurl ABI stability.
• I got dysentery so you don’t have to | Eukaryote Writes Blog - 2024-10-28 - - On turning 30 in a human challenge trial ward.
• Janky remote backups without root on the far end - 2024-10-22
• Do AI Detectors Work? Students Face False Cheating Accusations - Bloomberg - 2024-10-21 - - About two-thirds of teachers report regularly using tools for detecting AI-generated content. At that scale, even tiny error rates can add up quickly.
• Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens - 2024-10-21 - - The Internet Archive was breached again, this time on their Zendesk email support platform after repeated warnings that threat actors stole exposed GitLab authentication tokens.
• HTTP/3 in curl mid 2024 | daniel.haxx.se - 2024-10-20 -
• Focus on decisions, not tasks - 2024-10-19 -
• Spliit by the Stats: Usage, Costs, Donations · Spliit Blog - 2024-10-19 - - Spliit has grown to 152k visitors, with community donations helping cover its hosting costs. Explore its usage trends, funding, and the contributors driving its development.
• You Can Now See the Code That Helped End Apartheid | WIRED - 2024-10-19 - - John Graham-Cumming, who happens to be Cloudflare's CTO, cracked a 30-year-old encrypted file that had a role in rewriting South Africa’s history.
• Using static websites for tiny archives – alexwlchan - 2024-10-19 - - I've been creating small, hand-written websites to organise my files. It's a lightweight, flexible approach that I hope will last a long time.
• Docker builds over SSH - Xe Iaso - 2024-10-19 - - Plan 9 clustering at home
• Using Cloudflare on your website could be blocking RSS users - Open RSS - 2024-10-17 - - Cloudflare's security features could be blocking RSS feed users from accessing your website
• Rubenerd - 2024-10-13 - - By Ruben Schade in Sydney, Australia. 🌻
• Introducing Kotlin Money - 2024-10-12 - Manipulating monetary amounts is a common computing chore. However, no mainstream language has a first-class data type for representing money, it’s up to pro...
• Some notes on upgrading Hugo - 2024-10-08 - - Some notes on upgrading Hugo
• We’ll buy back your Typewriter ... for Uncle Sam! - 2024-10-07 - - In this blog post, we will explore another poster I recently bought, which highlights Smith-Corona’s campaign to buy back typewriters for the U.S. government due to wartime shortages during World War II.
• How do HTTP servers figure out Content-Length? - aarol.dev - 2024-10-07 - - Anyone who has implemented a simple HTTP server can tell you that it is a really simple protocol. Basically, it’s a text file that has some specific rules to make parsing it easier. All HTTP requests look something like this: 1 GET /path HTTP/1.1\r\n Host: aarol.dev\r\n Accept-Language: en,fi-FI\r\n Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate\r\n \r\n The first line is the “request line”, and it has the requested method, path and HTTP version. The following lines are headers, each terminated with “ca [trimmed]
• Old Vintage Computing Research: So thieves broke into your storage unit - again - 2024-10-06 - - If you've been wondering why entries have been a little slow lately, let me tell you a story. All collectors tend to be a bit obsessive by ...
• I stayed. - Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design - 2024-10-06 - - My insight into corporate legal disputes is as meaningful as my opinion on Quantum Mechanics. What I do know is that, when given the chance this week to leave my job with half a year’s salary paid in advance, I chose to stay at Automattic.
• 12 Months of Mandarin - 2024-10-05 - - Estimates for achieving intermediate fluency in Mandarin Chinese range up to spending years and around 4000 total hours (2,200h classroom hours, 1,800 outside). I did it in 1500 hours total and less than a year.[1] 1. There is a lot of disagreement on language proficiency estimates. They

September 2024

• Floating Megabomb Heaves to Near the English Coast - CEPA - 2024-09-30 - - The MV Ruby, a ship carrying a highly explosive Russian cargo, is damaged and looking for a port. The threat is clear.
• The best $4 ever spent - 2024-09-28 - - Kids get excited about things that are very different from those of adults.You probably remember your kid's first birthday. The members of ...
• Some Go web dev notes - 2024-09-28 - - Some Go web dev notes
• You're probably not vulnerable to the CUPS CVE - Xe Iaso - 2024-09-27 - - Unless your servers can print for some reason
• Hacking Kia: Remotely Controlling Cars With Just a License Plate - 2024-09-27 - - On June 11th, 2024, we discovered a set of vulnerabilities in Kia vehicles that allowed remote control over key functions using only a license plate. These attacks could be executed remotely on any hardware-equipped vehicle in about 30 seconds, regardless of whether it had an active Kia Connect subscription.
• WordPress.org bans WP Engine, blocks it from accessing its resources | TechCrunch - 2024-09-27 - - WordPress drama went up another notch on Wednesday after WordPress.org banned hosting provider WP Engine from accessing its resources.
• Thoughts on working inside a data center suite - 2024-09-26 -
• Google Cache Is Now Fully Dead - 2024-09-25 - - Google has now totally disabled the Google Cache from completely working. Earlier this year, Google removed the cache link from the search result snippets. Then a couple of weeks ago, added links to the Wayback Machine. Now, the direct link to see the Google Cache has been fully disabled.
• More jabbering from me about non-clown hosting - 2024-09-24 -
• A terrible way to jump into colocating your own stuff - 2024-09-24 -
• Sanding UI - Jim Nielsen’s Blog - 2024-09-22 - - Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
• They stole my voice with AI | Jeff Geerling - 2024-09-22 -
• 2024-09-14 the national warning system - 2024-09-15 -
• BookStack Project Update for September 2024 · BookStack - 2024-09-13 - Since we’ve gone a few months without an update I thought it’d be good to provide a post regarding project progress & other activities, so here’s what’s been going on over the last few months:
• I Wish I Didn't Miss the '90s-00s Internet | rohan ganapavarapu - 2024-09-12 - - about me I am 18, born in 2006. This is generally a good thing as I am in the prime of life currently. I am not one of those people who think they were “born in the wrong decade”, I think I was born at the perfect time to take advantage of superlinearly growing technological advancements. the internet today I generally greatly dislike social media, although I am an avid user of it.
• Don't defer Close() on writable files – joe shaw - 2024-09-10 - - It'll bite you some day
• FTC Pushed To Crack Down On Companies That Ruin Hardware Via Software Updates Or Annoying Paywalls | Techdirt - 2024-09-10 - - We’ve noted for years how you no longer really own the things you buy. Whether it’s smart home hardware that becomes useless paperweights when the manufacturer implodes, or post-purchase …
• My Blog Engine is the Erlang Build Tool - 2024-09-04 -
• Court handcuffs employees with non-compete agreements — again – Computerworld - 2024-09-04 - - For a brief moment, it appeared employees would no longer be locked into jobs with arbitrary, non-compete contracts. But a recent court decision has workers back in non-compete jail.
• State of S3 - Your Laptop is no Laptop anymore - a personal Rant - 2024-09-04 - - The state of laptop standby is currently dysfunctional. This personal rant outlines the events that have led to this situation.
• Why bother with argv[0]? - 2024-09-04 - - The first argument of a program’s command line, typically reflecting the program’s name/path and often referred to as argv[0], can in most cases be set to an arbitrary value without affecting the process’ flow. Making the case against argv[0], this post demonstrates how it can be used to deceive security analysts, bypass detections and break defensive software, across all main operating systems.
• 2024-08-31 ipmi - 2024-09-04 -
• How to Give Away a Fortune | The New Yorker - 2024-09-03 - An Austrian heiress recruited fifty people from all walks of life to redistribute twenty-five million euros—if they could agree on how to spend it.
• 1,000,000 - An's Blog | SpaceHey - 2024-09-02 - - Hello everyone - it's been a while! I was super busy with university and my mandatory internship in a software company for the past 6 months, so I haven't poste...
• Did your car witness a crime? Police may be coming for your Tesla - 2024-09-01 - - Across the Bay Area, police are increasingly relying on video footage captured by bystander Teslas when investigating crimes.

August 2024

• Did you lose your AirPods? | Alex Yancey - 2024-08-31 - Reuniting AirPods with a few clever tricks
• The secret inside One Million Checkboxes | eieio.games - 2024-08-30 - - Teens wrote secret binary messages in One Million Checkboxes. I found them.
• Bypassing airport security via SQL injection - 2024-08-30 - - We discovered a serious vulnerability in the Known Crewmember (KCM) and Cockpit Access Security System (CASS) programs used by the Transportation Security Administration.
• Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch - 2024-08-30 - - Forcing customers to replace an entire system just because the cheapest component failed might be really profitable, I have no idea… But I do know that it annoyed me enough to make me want to fix it myself. While I understand that what I do next is beyond a large number of Advantage Air customers, in my investigation I found that there seems to be only software choices preventing modern tablets from working with older control systems.
• Hub Exclusive: U.S. Ambassador says Canadians are consuming an ‘unhealthy’ amount of American news - The Hub - 2024-08-28 -
• The Monospace Web - 2024-08-27 -
• Removing stuff is never obvious yet often better - 2024-08-27 - - You know the nagging feeling that your product, project, or company has become more complicated than it needs to be? You can solve many problems and get better results by doing something unthinkable to many: removing parts that once seemed essential. My crusade against complexity continues with this short story
• BSAG » Exploring desktop Linux - 2024-08-27 - Part One in what is likely to be a long series on my explorations in modern Linux desktop land.
• Fight Health Insurance uses AI to appeal claim denials - 2024-08-26 - - Sick of the lengthy process of battling insurance denials to get companies to pay for her medical care, Holden Karau decided to fight back like an engineer: She built an AI program to automate the process.
• AI Training Shouldn't Erase Authorship - 2024-08-24 - - AI training scrubs authorship knowledge from open source code
• 17-Year-old Student Exposes Germany's 'Secret' Pirate Site Blocklist * TorrentFreak - 2024-08-24 - - A 17-year-old student has launched a dedicated portal to exposing Germany's 'secret' pirate site blocklist to the public.
• Troy Hunt: The Trouble with Procurement Departments, Resellers and Stripe - 2024-08-24 - - It should be so simple: you're a customer who wants to purchase something so you whip out the credit card and buy it. I must have done this thousands of times, and it's easy! I've bought stuff with plastic credit cards, stuff with Apple Pay on my phone and watch
• This confidential government report proves that we need to liberate the Postcode Address File - 2024-08-23 - - This is the Pentagon Papers for the UK address database
• Being on The Semantic Web is easy, and, frankly, well worth the bother - 2024-08-22 - - Web 3.0 was not about the blockchain, thank god
• US hospital told family their daughter had checked out when in fact she’d died | California | The Guardian - 2024-08-22 - - Family of Jessie Peterson, 31, spent a year searching for her before learning hospital had shipped body to storage facility
• Toasts are Bad UX – Max Schmitt - 2024-08-21 -
• I've Built My First Successful Side Project, and I Hate It - 2024-08-21 - - How I learned the old truth that when building a software product and selling it to people, "building" is just the beginning. And often, it's the easiest part.
• The anatomy of a 2AM mental breakdown | Zarar's blog - 2024-08-21 - - Note: this somehow. Around 2AM this morning I had a realization that this was the most stressed I have ever been. On verge of a complete breakdown. Wh...
• mjg59 | Client-side filtering of private data is a bad idea - 2024-08-20 -
• Sourcegraph went dark | Eric Fritz - 2024-08-20 -
• Migrating Mess With DNS to use PowerDNS - 2024-08-20 - - Migrating Mess With DNS to use PowerDNS
• Transponder Landing System enables precision approaches at McMurdo in Antarctica | Flightradar24 Blog - 2024-08-18 - - The ANPC transponder landing system at McMurdo station allows aircraft to land on the moving ice runway in poor weather or low visibility.
• A common bug in a bunch of feed readers - 2024-08-18
• How We Survived 10k Requests a Second: Switching to Signed Asset URLs in an Emergency - Hardcover | Hardcover - 2024-08-15 - - A long day of debugging led to a better solution: Signed URLs.
• Troy Hunt: Inside the "3 Billion People" National Public Data Breach - 2024-08-15 - - I decided to write this post because there's no concise way to explain the nuances of what's being described as one of the largest data breaches ever. Usually, it's easy to articulate a data breach; a service people provide their information to had someone snag it through an act of
• Disney Seeking Dismissal of Raglan Road Death Lawsuit Because Victim Was Disney+ Subscriber - WDW News Today - 2024-08-15 - - Disney asks a Florida court to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit for an allergy-related death at Disney Springs, citing a Disney+ arbitration clause.
• The new PostgreSQL 17 make dist | Peter Eisentraut - 2024-08-13 - - When the PostgreSQL project makes a release, the primary artifact of that is the publication of a source code tarball. That represents the output of all the work that went into the creation of the PostgreSQL software up to the point of the release. The source tarball is then used downstream by packagers to make binary packages (or file system images or installation scripts or similar things), or by some to build the software from source by hand.
• Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail - 2024-08-13 - - Always choose the right tool for the job? Nah. I use Go basically everywhere, which either makes me insightful or stupid. Decide for yourself! :D
• Apple’s requirements to hit creators and fans on Patreon - 2024-08-13 - - Apple requires that Patreon switch to their iOS in-app purchase system, or risk being removed from the App Store. Here’s what’s creators need to know.
• Feed Polling for Unread Cloud - 2024-08-13
• 2024-08-12 a pedantic review of the las vegas loop - 2024-08-13 -
• Feedback on github, mangling code, and a feed reader - 2024-08-12 -
• Things I Won't Work With: Dimethylcadmium | Science | AAAS - 2024-08-11 -
• Building a highly-available web service without a database – Screenshotbot Blog - 2024-08-11 - - If you’ve ever built a web service or a web app, you know the drill: pick a database, pick a web service framework (and in today’s day and age, pick a front-end framework, but let&#8217…
• Tracking supermarket prices with playwright - 2024-08-09
• It ends at the border: More and more German trains are not allowed to enter Switzerland | blue News - 2024-08-08 - - If Deutsche Bahn trains are too unpunctual, they are not allowed to cross the Swiss border. This is happening more and more frequently.
• Parody site ClownStrike refused to bow to CrowdStrike’s bogus DMCA takedown | Ars Technica - 2024-08-07 - - Parody site ClownStrike defended the "obvious" fair use.
• “No Salt” « The Story's Story - 2024-08-06 - - This is by my brother, Sam. I arrived to Arizona late Saturday, after learning that my brother has only a few days left before cancer ends him. Jake’s wife, Bess, confessed that she had neither the…
• Gen Z's Favorite Work Perk: Having Their Own Desk to Decorate - Business Insider - 2024-08-05 - Instead of resigning themselves to the mundanity of office life, many Gen Zers are taking matters into their own hands and decorating their desks.
• How Gen Z became so nihilistic about money - BBC Worklife - 2024-08-05 - The "buy everything, own nothing" generation has seen the cost of living soar. They're "vibing" their way into adulthood, and some experts say they've got it right.
• Airlines Are Running Out Of Flight Numbers, And They Don't Know What To Do About It - View from the Wing - 2024-08-05 - - Airlines use up to four digits for flight numbers. That means they can have up to 9,999 flights (since there’s no flight zero), and no one comes close. American Airlines operates around 6,700 daily flights including its American Eagle regional services. So they should have plenty of room to grow! Except they don’t. American Airlines, Delta, and United are running out of flight numbers, and nobody knows what to do about it.
• Moscow’s Spies Were Stealing US Tech — Until the FBI Started a Sabotage Campaign - POLITICO - 2024-08-05 - - During the early days of Silicon Valley, a tech industry entrepreneur teamed up with the FBI to ship faulty devices to Moscow.
• Feedback on feed stuff and those pesky blue screens - 2024-08-04 -
• How to Build Anything Extremely Quickly - Learn How To Learn - 2024-08-03 - - Do “outline speedrunning”: Recursively outline an MVP, speedrun filling it in, and only then go back and perfect. This is a ~10x speed up over the ‘loading-bar’ style (more on that below) Don’t just read this article and move on. Go out and do this for the very next thing you make so you can […]
• "We ran out of columns" - The best, worst codebase - 2024-08-03 -
• Two months of feed reader behavior analysis - 2024-08-03 -
• Google pulls Olympics AI ad ‘Dear Sydney’ | Ad Age - 2024-08-02 - - Google’s “Dear Sydney” had been criticized for appearing tone-deaf to AI concerns.
• What Happens in a Mind That Can’t ‘See’ Mental Images | Quanta Magazine - 2024-08-02 - - Neuroscience research into people with aphantasia, who don’t experience mental imagery, is revealing how imagination works and demonstrating the sweeping variety in our subjective experiences.
• TOTP tokens on my wrist with the smartest dumb watch. // flurries of latent creativity - 2024-08-02
• After 10 Years, Yelp Gave My App 4 Days ~ Observational Hazard - 2024-08-01 - - David Kopec's blog.
• Don’t Let Your Domain Name Become a “Sitting Duck” – Krebs on Security - 2024-08-01 -
• How I Got My Laser Eye Injury - Funranium Labs - 2024-08-01 - - It has been brought to my attention that I have never actually written this story down before, merely told it in person to many students for valuable lessons and also for laughs over cocktails. It is a litany of bad ideas from several people that all came together at once to reach out and zap … Continue reading "How I Got My Laser Eye Injury"
• Suspicious data pattern in recent Venezuelan election | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science - 2024-08-01 -
• Why I prefer rST to markdown • Buttondown - 2024-08-01 - - I will never stop dying on this hill
• Less Coffee, Better Sleep @ marginalia.nu - 2024-08-01 - As an experiment, I’ve reduced my coffee-intake to a single cup a day for about a week now. It’s made an enormous difference in sleep, mood and energy. I get tired at night, fall asleep quickly, and wake up refreshed. As mentioned previously in the context of morning sunlight exposure—another thing that’s aided my sleeping habits, but is somewhat less practical to sustain as it requires fair weather—I’ve always been slow to get going in the morning, active at night, bad at getting to [trimmed]

July 2024

• Astronomers discover technique to spot AI fakes using galaxy-measurement tools | Ars Technica - 2024-07-30 - - Researchers use technique to quantify eyeball reflections that often reveal deepfake images.
• Running One-man SaaS, 9 Years In – Healthchecks.io - 2024-07-30 - - Healthchecks.io launched in July 2015, which means this year we turn 9. Time flies! Previous status updates: In 2018, My One-person SaaS Side Project Celebrates its Third Birthday In 2021, Healthchecks Turns 6, Status Update Money Healthchecks.io currently has 652 paying customers,
• Is Cloudflare overcharging us for their images service? - 2024-07-29 -
• Attribution is Dying. Clicks are Dying. Marketing is Going Back to the 20th Century. - SparkToro - 2024-07-29 - - Welcome to another edition of 5-Minute Whiteboards. And folks, we've got a doozy of a topic. Yes, I'm being intentionally provocative. But it's because
• No, Southwest Airlines is not still using Windows 3.1 – OSnews - 2024-07-29
• CrowdStrike's Impact on Aviation - heavymeta.org - 2024-07-29 -
• Revolut finally gets a banking licence - what it means for your account - 2024-07-28 - Revolut has been given a UK licence after a three-year wait
• Just Stop Oil co-founder tells BBC from jail: We're not done yet - BBC News - 2024-07-28 - Just Stop Oil co-founder tells BBC from jail: We're not done yet
• Courts Close the Loophole Letting the Feds Search Your Phone at the Border - 2024-07-27 - - Customs and Border Protection insists that it can search electronics without a warrant. A federal judge just said it can't.
• The New Internet - 2024-07-27 - - We don’t talk a lot in public about the big vision for Tailscale, why we’re really here. Usually I prefer to focus on what exists right now, and what we’re going to do in the next few months. But let’s look at the biggest of big pictures for a change.
• Europe's Tech Regulations Are Destroying Its Future - 2024-07-26 - - Poorly designed laws are forcing global firms to leave.
• A gentle introduction to SAML | SSOReady - 2024-07-26 - The SAML spec is an absolute beast. We've each read it multiple times. Here's a simpler explanation.
• The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins / Jordan Eldredge - 2024-07-26 - - I started looking through corrupt Winamp skins and it lead me down some very strange rabbit holes
• Generating sudokus for fun and no profit - 2024-07-26 - - A guide on how to generate sudokus of any difficulty.
• CrowdStrike will be liable for damages in France, based on the OVH precedent | The HFT Guy - 2024-07-26 - - Hello, Today I am doing a quick post to cover the recent CrowdStrike incident that is estimated to have disabled 8.5M computers and caused more than $5.4B in damages since last week. Now a common q…
• Every company should be owned by its employees - 2024-07-26 - - Central States Manufacturing as a model for employee-ownership.
• What “consent” really looks like for the DEA and TSA – Papers, Please! - 2024-07-25 -
• Anyone can Access Deleted and Private Repository Data on GitHub ◆ Truffle Security Co. - 2024-07-25 - - You can access data from deleted forks, deleted repositories and even private repositories on GitHub. And it is available forever. This is known by GitHub, and intentionally designed that way.
• July Reply: A Blog Relationship | Robert Birming - 2024-07-23 - Junited, the June blogging challenge where bloggers shared interesting posts by others, was described as a blog love letter. is a way to take those lo...
• Re: Do people IRL know you have a blog? – Lars-Christian.com - 2024-07-23 -
• Do people IRL know you have a blog? | Bacardi55's Web Cave - 2024-07-23 -
• Ryanair wins case against Booking.com in US court - 2024-07-22 - - A US court ruled that Booking.com violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by accessing part of Ryanair's website without permission, court documents showed, a ruling the airline said would help end unauthorised screen scraping by booking sites.
• 2024-07-20 minuteman missile communications - 2024-07-21 -
• Public toilets are vanishing and that’s a civic catastrophe | Psyche Ideas - 2024-07-21 - - New research shows it is a nightmare for all of us, but especially for people with health issues and marginalised groups
• Researcher finds flaw in a16z website that exposed some company data | TechCrunch - 2024-07-21 - Venture capital giant a16z fixed a security vulnerability in one of the firm's websites after being warned by a security researcher.
• how to pwn a billion dollar vc firm using inspect element - eva's site - 2024-07-21 - - how to pwn a billion dollar vc firm using inspect element
• Guerrilla event planning at larger conferences - Xe Iaso - 2024-07-21 - - How to capitalism with care
• As an Employee, You Are Disposable | nelson.cloud ☁️ - 2024-07-19 - Companies are willing to lay off employees despite being profitable.
• Ryanair – when every page is a dark pattern - 2024-07-19 - - Ryanair Airlines is an excellent example of a company that will use as many dark patterns as possible...
• Unintentionally troubleshooting a new way to filter traffic - 2024-07-18
• Researchers: Weak Security Defaults Enabled Squarespace Domains Hijacks – Krebs on Security - 2024-07-16 -
• Building and scaling Notion’s data lake - 2024-07-15 - - How Notion build and grew our data lake to keep up with rapid growth
• Give people something to link to so they can talk about your features and ideas - 2024-07-15 - - If you have a project, an idea, a product feature, or anything else that you want other people to understand and have conversations about... give them something to link to! …
• Who Owns Your Wireless Service? Crooks Do. – Krebs on Security - 2024-07-13 -
• CISA broke into US federal agency, wasn't spotted for months • The Register - 2024-07-13 - - Red team exercise revealed a score of security fails
• Use A Work Journal To Recover Focus Faster And Clarify Your Thoughts - 2024-07-13 - - You’re working on the most complex problem in computer science: fixing permissions on a deployment pipeline. It’s been 4 days you started on that simple task...
• Nine Years of BookStack · BookStack - 2024-07-13 - Today the BookStack project becomes 9 years old! Like last year’s post, and the years before it, we’ll take this as an opportunity to provide an update on the status of the project including the financials, current development status, and the growth figures.
• Using S3 as a container registry | Adolfo Ochagavía - 2024-07-12 - - For the last four months I’ve been developing a custom container image builder, collaborating with Outerbounds1. The technical details of the builder itself might be the topic of a future article, but there’s something surprising I wanted to share already: you can use S3 as a container registry! You heard it right. All it takes is to expose an S3 bucket through HTTP and to upload the image’s files to specific paths.
• Suella Braverman sparks outrage after LGBTQ+ flag comments - BBC News - 2024-07-12 - Ms Braverman, MP for Fareham and Waterlooville, has criticised the flying of the Progress Pride flag.
• CCC | Second Factor SMS: Worse Than Its Reputation - 2024-07-12 -
• If AI chatbots are the future, I hate it | Jeff Geerling - 2024-07-11
• Geoff Greer's site: Making My Own Wedding Rings - 2024-07-09 - - I’m getting married pretty soon, and I figured it’d be fun to make my own rings. I’d seen a Nile Red video where he made purple gold, and the process seemed simple enough: Make a mold, pour some mol…
• Reverse Engineering TicketMaster's Rotating Barcodes (SafeTix) - 2024-07-09 - - “Screenshots won’t get you in”, but Chrome DevTools will. Click here to skip the rant and go straight to the nerdy stuff. I recently purchased tickets to a concert from TicketMaster. If they had issue
• Anxious Generation — How Safetyism and Social Media are damaging the kids | Matija Munjaković | Digital Product Development - 2024-07-08 - - Senior Software Engineer doing Product Development & Business Optimization
• Birmingham University censoring student beliefs over Gaza camp evictions, court hears | University of Birmingham | The Guardian - 2024-07-06 - University is taking legal action to shut down pro-Palestine encampment on Edgbaston campus
• Pwning a Brother labelmaker, for fun and interop! - 2024-07-06 - - today, we'll jump into a rabbithole of exploiting a printer, and up being angry at vendors and capitalism alike. come over, it's gonna be fun :3c
• Reform UK's Invisible Candidates: Who Are They Hiding? – Byline Times - 2024-07-06 - Absent from hustings, media interviews, and social media, why are Nigel Farage's Reform champions quite so elusive?
• Twilio Confirms Data Breach After Hackers Leak 33M Authy User Phone Numbers - SecurityWeek - 2024-07-05 - - Twilio has confirmed a data breach after hackers leaked 33 million phone numbers associated with the Authy app.
• I received an AI email - Tim Hårek - 2024-07-04 - - At first I thought it was from a reader.
• Canada 'sleepwalking' into cashless society, consumer advocates warn | CBC News - 2024-07-01 - - A consumer group is urgently calling on the federal government to follow other jurisdictions in the U.S and Europe and bring in legislation to stem the slide toward a cashless society.

June 2024

• Euro 2024: 'Deepfake' Gareth Southgate social media videos anger FA - BBC Sport - 2024-06-30 - The Football Association criticises AI-generated videos on social media purporting to show Gareth Southgate making crude remarks about England players.
• What happened to my /edu page, and why it came back - 2024-06-30 -
• Gareth Jenkins: Five key moments from Post Office inquiry - BBC News - 2024-06-29 - Key moments from former Fujitsu engineer Gareth Jenkins' long-awaited appearance at the Post Office inquiry.
• How to waste bandwidth, battery power, and annoy sysadmins - 2024-06-29 -
• A high-level view of all of this feed reader stuff - 2024-06-29
• Making the Kinopio Source Code Public - 2024-06-28 - - On the eve of it’s 5th anniversary, I’ve decided to make the code for the kinopio-client app public. That means you can run Kinopio on your own computer, make changes, and share improvements.
• Microsoft breached antitrust rules by bundling Teams and Office, EU says | AP News - 2024-06-28 - European Union regulators have accused Microsoft of “possibly abusive” practices that violate the bloc’s antitrust rules by tying its Teams messaging and videoconferencing app to its widely used business software.
• Some parents struggle to stop tracking their kids' every move — even in college - 2024-06-27 - There comes a time to turn off location sharing.
• AI can beat real university students in exams, study suggests - BBC News - 2024-06-26 - - University exams taken using artificial intelligence beat those by real students, in a limited study.
• South Korean telecom company attacks torrent users with malware — over 600,000 customers report missing files, strange folders, and disabled PCs | Tom's Hardware - 2024-06-26 - - ISP sends malware to hundreds of thousands of customers to stop them from using a file-sharing service.
• The plan-execute pattern - 2024-06-26 - - A ubiquitous pattern you won’t find in your textbook.
• A Note on Essential Complexity | olano.dev - 2024-06-26 - - The fact that we can’t remove essential complexity with a software redesign doesn’t mean that there’s nothing we can do about it. What if the problem definition wasn’t outside of our purview? What if we could get the world to conform to the software, and not just the other way around?
• Rishi Sunak backs Kemi Badenoch in David Tennant row - BBC News - 2024-06-26 - The prime minister says Tennant is "the problem" after the actor says Ms Badenoch should "shut up".
• Feed reader score project participants: I made a mistake - 2024-06-26
• Huang Jie and Miao Poya: Taiwan's gay politicians have broken ground - but their battle isn't over - BBC News - 2024-06-25 - Huang Jie made history as Taiwan's first gay MP, but she and others say more needs to be done.
• Debian/Raspbian rngd with -S0 will bite you after a week - 2024-06-24 -
• Start all of your commands with a comma - 2024-06-23 -
• Inside the tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets - 2024-06-23 - - To use the Montreal subway (the Métro), you tap a paper ticket against the turnstile and it opens. The ticket works through a system called ...
• My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore - 2024-06-23 - - What am I even paying for?
• After my dad died, I ran and sold his company (and I was completely clueless) - 2024-06-23 - - On April 17, 2017, I got thrown into running a business in an industry and country I knew little about. I didn't totally f^ck it up.
• The Prototype's Language - by Alvaro Duran - 2024-06-20 - - How "The Innovator's Dilemma" Explains the Demise of Java as the Predominant Payments Language
• EU Council has withdrawn the vote on Chat Control - 2024-06-20 - - The EU Council and its participants have decided to withdraw the vote on the contentious Chat Control plan proposed by Belgium, the current EU President.
• The 5 A.M. Club: This Is How I Managed to Get Up at 5 A.M. Every Day—and How It Changed My Life | Glamour - 2024-06-19 - This is how I managed to get up early every day—and how it impacted my life.
• One year of solo dev, wrapping up the grant-funded work @ marginalia.nu - 2024-06-19 - - A year ago I walked out of the office for the last time. I handed in my corpo laptop, said some good-byes, and since then I have been my own boss. This first year has been funded by an NLnet grant, which I’m in the midst of wrapping up. As of now, the work is all done, the final request for payment has been sent. There’s a similar last-day-of-school levity to both these events.
• Weeknotes: Datasette Studio and a whole lot of blogging - 2024-06-19 - I’m still spinning back up after my trip back to the UK, so actual time spent building things has been less than I’d like. I presented an hour long workshop …
• A homepage redesign for my blog’s 22nd birthday - 2024-06-19 - This blog is 22 years old today! I wrote up a whole bunch of higlights for the 20th birthday a couple of years ago. Today I’m celebrating with something a …
• I Spent a Week Eating Discarded Restaurant Food. But Was It Really Going to Waste? | WIRED - 2024-06-18 - Food app Too Good To Go promises to cut waste by directing hungry bargain hunters to leftover restaurant food. But the week I spent living off the app had me wondering if Too Good To Go is too good to be true.
• How to get your stuff repaired when the retailer and manufacturer don't wanna: take 'em to court - Simon Rumble's blog - 2024-06-18 - - A few weeks ago I was roasting some pumpkin for a delicious soup and towards the end of the cooking time the fan on the oven started into overdrive, making a lot of noise then it started beeping...
• j3s.sh - 2024-06-18 -
• Mocking is an Anti-Pattern | Amazing CTO - 2024-06-17 - - Mocking is an Anti-Pattern - ways for better tests without mocking
• What You Get After Running an SSH Honeypot for 30 Days - 2024-06-17 - - What is a honeypot?A honeypot detects and records attacks when an attacker tries to break into a system. The honeypot we will discuss here is an SSH honeypot. Environment12OS: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x86_6
• Perplexity AI Is Lying about Their User Agent • Robb Knight - 2024-06-16 - - Perplexity AI claims it sends a user agent and respects robots.txt but it absolutely does not
• Plain text journaling | ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's blog - 2024-06-15 - - The new/old way of keeping a digital journal
• Supercronching videos for embedding in websites with ffmpeg - Xe Iaso - 2024-06-15 - TL;DR: I convert it from video to gif to video
• Microsoft Refused to Fix Flaw Years Before SolarWinds Hack — ProPublica - 2024-06-14 - - Former employee says software giant dismissed his warnings about a critical flaw because it feared losing government business. Russian hackers later used the weakness to breach the National Nuclear Security Administration, among others.
• Some early results for feed reader behavior monitoring - 2024-06-14
• Silicon Valley’s Best Kept Secret: Founder Liquidity - 2024-06-13 - - Ask most venture-backed founders why they get 10x more equity than employee #1, 100x more equity than employee #5, and 1000x more equity than employee #15, and you'll get the same answer: "I'M TAKING SO MUCH RISK, IT'S SO HARD TO START A COMPANY, I MADE A BIG MOVE!!!" And
• Can you run in a tight loop and still be well-behaved? - 2024-06-13 -
• The Time I Built an ROV to Solve Missing Person Cases - Part 1 - The Anttidote - 2024-06-11 - - Introduction
• I really like the RP2040 | Dan Groshev - 2024-06-11 -
• Australian Border Force searched phones of 10,000 travellers in past two years, data shows | Australian security and counter-terrorism | The Guardian - 2024-06-11 - - Exclusive: About one in four people stopped at border had some data copied from their devices by Australian Border Force
• Error Flows in Go · Preslav Rachev - 2024-06-11 - - Change the narrative
• Overengineering this blog's preview site with Kubernetes - Xe Iaso - 2024-06-10 - - A small overview on how future-sight, my blog's preview site server, is overengineered with the power of Kubernetes.
• Designing a Lego orrery | Marian's Blog - 2024-06-10 - - Designing a Lego orrery - Personal blog about game development, programming and making
• Sending Emails to my 3-year-old - 2024-06-10 -
• South Pole Water Infrastructure - 2024-06-09 - - Fresh water from snow, at 70 below!
• The Backrooms of the Internet Archive | Internet Archive Blogs - 2024-06-09 -
• Things the guys who stole my phone have texted me to try to get me to unlock it - Gothamist - 2024-06-05 - - Don’t fall for these texts from scammers trying to crack into your stolen phone.
• Type in the exact number of machines to proceed - 2024-06-04 -
• An unusual heist seems to be unfolding at Taco Bell - 2024-06-04 - - Paintings are disappearing from Taco Bells and winding up on eBay for thousands of dollars.
• Majority for chat control possible – Users who refuse scanning to be prevented from sharing photos and links – Patrick Breyer - 2024-06-04 - - The highly controversial indiscriminate child sexual abuse regulation (so-called chat control) could still be endorsed by EU governments after all, as France could give up its previous veto. This is reported by Euractiv and confirmed by internal documents. France considers the new "upload moderation
• Why Ruby’s Timeout is dangerous (and Thread.raise is terrifying) - 2024-06-04 - - Why Ruby’s Timeout is dangerous (and Thread.raise is terrifying)
• Please support “skip to main content” on your docs site - 2024-06-04 -
• Hacking Millions of Modems (and Investigating Who Hacked My Modem) - 2024-06-04 - - Two years ago, something very strange happened to me while working from my home network. I was exploiting a blind XXE vulnerability that required an external HTTP server to smuggle out files, so I spun up an AWS box and ran a simple Python webserver to receive the traffic from the vulnerable server.
• Brioche - 2024-06-04 -
• I Am So Sick of Leetcode-Style Interviews | nelson.cloud ☁️ - 2024-06-04 - - Leetcode-style interviews do not reflect real world software engineering problems.
• Go: Don't name packages common nouns — brandur.org - 2024-06-04 -
• Reader feedback: feed reader scores and "like" buttons - 2024-06-04 -
• KVRT for Linux: malware scanner for Linux systems | Kaspersky official blog - 2024-06-03 - - Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool (KVRT), a free application for scanning Linux systems for known malware.
• Kintsugi - Fredrik F. Ellertsen - 2024-06-02 -
• This message does not exist | Mark J. Nelson - 2024-06-02 -
• Absurd crimes with shadow bucket migration - Xe Iaso - 2024-06-02 - - Because of course you can use an AI model as a key-value store.
• Redeployment Part Three - 2024-06-01 - - Off-continent after 446 days!
• Redeployment Part Two - 2024-06-01 - - Station opening, and my flight out of Pole!
• Redeployment Part One - 2024-06-01 - - Emerging from winter and preparing for our first flight!
• Engineering for Slow Internet - 2024-06-01 - - How to minimize user frustration in Antarctica.

May 2024

• You can force employees back to the office, but not the good ones - 2024-05-30 - - Organisations that impose return-to-office mandates face the catastrophic possibility of losing their most valuable workers
• I'm going to give this "reader score" thing a spin - 2024-05-30
• DuckDB Doesn’t Need Data To Be a Database - 2024-05-29 -
• I Sold TinyPilot, My First Successful Business · mtlynch.io - 2024-05-29 - - Four years after starting TinyPilot from scratch, I've sold the company and handed complete control over to a new owner.
• More Cars Are Being Totaled as Repair Costs, Used Car Prices Bite - Bloomberg - 2024-05-29 - - Salvage auction firms like Copart are benefiting from more vehicles being totaled, but auto owners risk a less pleasant outcome.
• Runtime code generation and execution in Go: Part 1 | BitByteWise - 2024-05-29 - - Part 1 of the introduction to the weird world of runtime code generation and execution in Go
• Hello World, Simple Event Broker! - 2024-05-29 - - For various side projects I’ve worked on, I’ve wanted to introduce event queues in order to simplify some things. Normally, I just go with the “one DB to rul...
• Your API Shouldn't Redirect HTTP to HTTPS - 2024-05-29 - - Instead of redirecting API calls from HTTP to HTTPS, make the failure visible. Unfortunately, many well-known API providers don't currently do so.
• So many feed readers, so many bizarre behaviors - 2024-05-29 -
• Junior doctors call five-day strike just before election - BBC News - 2024-05-29 - Ministers accuse doctors' union of "cynical" tactics with walkout due to start on 27 June in England.
• Should I Use JWTs For Authentication Tokens? - Tinker, Tamper, Alter, Fry - 2024-05-28 -
• Feynman's Garden @ marginalia.nu - 2024-05-27 - - The best description of my problem solving process is the Feynman algorithm, which is sometimes presented as a joke where the hidden subtext is “be smart”, but I disagree. The “algorithm” is a surprisingly lucid description of how thinking works in the context of hard problems where the answer can’t simply be looked up or trivially broken down, iterated upon in a bottom-up fashion, or approached with similar methods. Feynman’s thinking algorithm is described like this:
• Cloudflare took down our website after trying to force us to pay 120k$ within 24h - 2024-05-27 - - TL;DR: We've been on the Cloudflare Business plan ($250/month) for years. They suddenly contacted us and asked us to either pay them $120k up front for one year of Enterprise within 24 hours or they would take down all of our domains. While this escalated up our business we had 3 sales calls with them, trying to figure out what was happening and how to reach a reasonable contract in a week. When we told them we were also in talks with Fastly, they suddenly "purged" all our domains, causing huge downtime in our core business, sleepless nights migrating away from CF, irreparable loss in customer trust and weeks of ongoing downtime in our internal systems.
• tmux is worse is better | Andrew Quinn's TILs - 2024-05-27 - - tmux (short for “terminal mux” (short for “multiplexer”)) is i3 for your terminal. Oh, it’s so much more than that, and I recently discovered with some joy that it is installed by default on OpenBSD, but its fundamental value add to any programmer who has to SSH into servers more than once a week is it allows you to split your screen up into multiple independent shells without needing a graphical environment at all.
• Writing a Unix clone in about a month - 2024-05-27 -
• Is the iPad worth it? - by Callum Booth - The Rectangle - 2024-05-23 - - How the Apple's tablet shows the duality of humanity.
• Arup revealed as victim of 5 million deepfake scam involving Hong Kong employee | CNN Business - 2024-05-23 - A British multinational design and engineering company behind world-famous buildings such as the Sydney Opera House has confirmed that it was the target of a deepfake scam that led to one of its Hong Kong employees paying out 5 million to fraudsters.
• Uber Migrates 1 Trillion Records from DynamoDB to LedgerStore to Save Million Annually - InfoQ - 2024-05-23 - - Uber migrated all its payment transaction data from DynamoDB and blob storage into a new long-term solution, a purpose-built data store named LedgerStore. The company was looking for cost savings and had previously reduced the use of DynamoDB to store hot data (12 weeks old). The move resulted in significant savings and simplified the storage architecture.
• Coding my Handwriting — Amy Goodchild - 2024-05-23 - - Coding my handwriting in Javascript - how I did it and what I’m doing with it.
• Going Dark: The war on encryption is on the rise. Through a shady collaboration between the US and the EU. - 2024-05-22 - - Under the slogan ‘Think of the children’, the European Commission tried to introduce total surveillance of all EU citizens. When the scandal was revealed, it turned out that American tech companies and security services had been involved in the bill, generally known as ‘Chat Control’ – and that the whole thing had been directed by completely different interests. Now comes the next attempt. New battering rams have been brought out with the ‘Going Dark’ initiative. But the ambition is the same: to install state spyware on every European cell phone and computer.
• Abortion In England & Wales Is Under Threat From MPs - 2024-05-18 - Once again, access to abortion in England and Wales is being threatened with restriction by some MPs.
• Hearing is be-leafing: Students invent quieter leaf blower | Hub - 2024-05-17 - - Patent-pending design by Hopkins undergrads could be available in stores within two years
• The Forged Apple Employee Badge – cabel.com - 2024-05-17 - - Here’s a quick and cautionary tale. This eBay auction, spotted by Eric Vitiello, immediately caught my eye: Wow. Someone was selling Apple Employee #10’s employee badge?! What an incred…
• Sand Won't Save You This Time | Science | AAAS - 2024-05-17 -
• How Not to Do It: Bromine | Science | AAAS - 2024-05-17
• The Higher States of Bromine | Science | AAAS - 2024-05-17
• Computer Scientists Invent an Efficient New Way to Count | Quanta Magazine - 2024-05-17 - - By making use of randomness, a team has created a simple algorithm for estimating large numbers of distinct objects in a stream of data.
• Experiment in Java native calls @ marginalia.nu - 2024-05-17 - - I’ve experimentally replaced some of the Java implementations of quicksort and binary search with calls to C++ code, and saw huge benefits for the sorting code but the same or worse performance for binary search. The Marginalia Search engine is mainly written in Java, which is language that is good at many things, but not particularly pleasant to work with when it comes to low level systems programming. Unfortunately, a part of building an internet search engine involves database-adjacent low level programming.
• The Worst Website In The Entire World - 2024-05-16 - - The Worst Website In The Entire World is owned by Broadcom
• SSD death, tricky read-only filesystems, and systemd magic? - 2024-05-16 -
• ok Considered Harmful | DoltHub Blog - 2024-05-15 - - A polemic against the use of one of the most common idioms in the Go world: boolean variables named ok
• Oracle goes vegan: Dumps Terraform for OpenTofu - 2024-05-15 - - OCI tells customers to shift to latest update built on open source. We guess OpenTofu is enterprise-ready!
• Protecting your email address via SVG instead of JS | protecting-your-email-address-via-svg-instead-of-js - 2024-05-14 - - Conventionally, email addresses published on webpages may be protected from email-harvesting spambots via various HTML, CSS & JS-based techniques. This alternative technique is SVG-based.
• The Alternative Implementation Problem | Pointers Gone Wild - 2024-05-13 - - In this post, I want to talk about a dynamic that I’ve seen play itself over and over again in the software world. In fact, I would venture a guess that this kind of situation probably happen…
• Nearly Half of All Masters Degrees Aren't Worth Getting - 2024-05-13 - - According to new research, 23 percent of bachelor's degree programs and 43 percent of master's degree programs have a negative ROI.
• Thread - the tech we can't use or teach - Dennis Schubert - 2024-05-12 - - Random thoughts, articles and projects by a chronic overengineer.
• Netflix’s horrendously tasteless London real estate show should kill off the genre entirely | British GQ - 2024-05-12 - Buying London could just be all your worst nightmares come to life
• Rubenerd - 2024-05-12 - By Ruben Schade in s/Singapore/Sydney/. 🌻
• FDA recalls iOS app software that injured over 200 insulin pump users - The Verge - 2024-05-09 - - Tandem Diabetes Care hasn’t reported any deaths linked to the issue.
• The One Where I Lie To The CTO | Grumpy Old Dev - 2024-05-09 - - This was several years back. Keep in mind that early in my career, my father had told me that doing a good job often meant doing what needed to be done in spite of your boss. And by that he meant that you can either make your boss successful and happy or you can run every decision by your boss. In which case no one is successful or happy. I was working at the time for a Fortune 500 company and our CTO had signed up to deliver a big project for an important client with whom he had personal connections.
• Opening windows in linux with sockets, bare hands and 200 lines of C | Hereket - 2024-05-09 -
• Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking | Ars Technica - 2024-05-09 - - Report claims new tracking starts May 13 with unclear consequences.
• From doomscrolling to sex: being a boy in 2024 | Young people | The Guardian - 2024-05-09 - I travelled the country interviewing teenage boys. I found openness, thoughtfulness, honesty and vulnerability on topics from sex, to pornography, feelings and isolation
• Rubenerd - 2024-05-09 - By Ruben Schade in s/Singapore/Sydney/. 🌻
• Stack Overflow Upset Over Users Deleting Answers After OpenAI Partnership | Build5Nines | Cloud, DevOps & SRE Guidance - 2024-05-08 - - In this ever changing and evolving world of user generated versus AI generated content, the recent announcement of Stack Overflow partnering with OpenAI
• Evolving the Go Standard Library with math/rand/v2 - The Go Programming Language - 2024-05-07 - - Go 1.23 adds math/rand/v2 and charts a course for the evolution of the Go standard library.
• Lost in Translation: The Bug That Spoke Russian and Crashed My App - 2024-05-07 - - How do you solve a bug when you can't even see it? This is the story of how I tackled one of the most peculiar bugs I've faced in an Android app.
• How an empty S3 bucket can make your AWS bill explode | by Maciej Pocwierz | Apr, 2024 | Medium - 2024-05-06 - - Imagine you create an empty, private AWS S3 bucket in a region of your preference. What will your AWS bill be the next morning?
• How I Think About Debt · Collab Fund - 2024-05-06 - - Japan has 140 businesses that are at least 500 years old.
• Braun Börse 2024 - 2024-05-06 - - The Braun+Design Börse is an annual event and fair focusing on Braun products. Braun might not be the design icon it was 40 years ago, but starting in 1955, it profoundly impacted the design world, starting with its cooperation with the Ulm School of Design. With Dieter Rams as
• How do you accidentally run for President of Iceland? | by Anna Andersen | Apr, 2024 | UX Collective - 2024-05-06 - - A digital endorsement process gone wrong
• Your 14-Day Free Trial Ain't Gonna Cut It - 2024-05-06 - - Ramblings about common free trial lengths and time-to-convert.
• Bollards: Why & What · Josh Thompson - 2024-05-06 - - Naming something we see and benefit from every day
• MIT abandons use of DEI statements – Why Evolution Is True - 2024-05-06 - - DEI statements are affirmations made when you're applying for college admission, university jobs, or even science-society grants, recounting to the authorities your philosophy of "diversity, equity, a
• Why you should take a look at traefik, even if you don't use containers - 2024-05-05 -
• I joined a bunch of landlord groups to subtly manipulate them into being better people » This is a lot - 2024-05-05 - - A riveting tale of potentially sociopath behavior for the greater good.
• No, I don’t want to fill out your contact form - Adam Jones's Blog - 2024-05-05
• SSO tax, cut - 2024-05-02 - A few weeks ago, we quietly updated one component of our identity pricing options, making Tailscale usable with any OIDC-compliant SSO identity provider on any plan. It's a small change that reflects a bigger security principle.
• Reader feedback on autoconf and bugginess in general - 2024-05-02

April 2024

• Hitting every branch on the way down - 2024-04-30 -
• I made a new backplane for my Terramaster F2-221 NAS | codedbearder - 2024-04-30 -
• Shared post - The Internet Archive's last-ditch effort to save itself - 2024-04-30 - - Connect with Lunduke and other members of Lunduke community
• Rubenerd - 2024-04-29 - By Ruben Schade in s/Singapore/Sydney/. 🌻
• The crazy world of rail ticketing – BusAndTrainUser - 2024-04-28 - Tuesday 15th February 2022 As a Brighton Main Line regular I’ve long been used to playing the ‘Thameslink only’ ticket game to save myself money on travels to and from London, not least during the …
• How TfL’s simple pop-up message led to a significant drop in paper ticket sales - 2024-04-28 - - Transport for London (TfL) has seen a drop in the sale of paper tickets after it made a small change to the ticket machines in London Underground stations.
• Google Made Me Ruin A Perfectly Good Website: A Case Study On The AI-Generated Internet - 2024-04-28 - - An anticapitalist tech blog. Embrace the technology that liberates us. Smash that which does not.
• What’s New in Go 1.22: cmp.Or · The Ethically-Trained Programmer - 2024-04-27 - - The uses and history of a new function in the cmp package of Go 1.22.
• curl is just the hobby | daniel.haxx.se - 2024-04-27 -
• Rubenerd - 2024-04-27 - By Ruben Schade in s/Singapore/Sydney/. 🌻
• Rubenerd - 2024-04-27 - By Ruben Schade in s/Singapore/Sydney/. 🌻
• incolumitas.com – So you want to Scrape like the Big Boys? 🚀 - 2024-04-27 - - What it really takes to scrape without getting detected.
• 💡What contributing to Open-source is, and what it isn't | Such Dev Blog - 2024-04-27 - Very open, much source.
• Much ado about "nothing" - Xe Iaso - 2024-04-27 -
• The server chose violence - Cliffle - 2024-04-27 -
• Rubenerd - 2024-04-27 - - By Ruben Schade in s/Singapore/Sydney/. 🌻
• bun.report is Bun's new crash reporter | Bun Blog - 2024-04-27 - - How we built an anonymous Zig/C++ crash reporter that doesn't require debug symbols to be shipped with the application.
• Firstyear's blog-a-log - 2024-04-27 - - Firstyear's blog
• The Man Who Killed Google Search - 2024-04-26 - Wanna listen to this story instead? Check out this week's Better Offline podcast, "The Man That Destroyed Google Search," available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts. This is the story of how Google Search died, and the people responsible for killing it. The story begins
• Corporate Open Source is Dead | Jeff Geerling - 2024-04-26 -
• No More Alarm Clocks - 2024-04-22 -
• Mailoji: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service | Tiny Projects - 2024-04-21 - - I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an emoji email address service. In the process I went viral on Tik Tok, made $1000 in a week, hired a Japanese voice actor, and learnt about the weird world of emoji domains.
• cohost! - "DO NOT BUY HISENSE TV'S LOL (Or at least keep them offline)" - 2024-04-21 - - holy fucking shit!!!!!!!!!! I've had this in my drafts to finish writing up for a few weeks but today I made another discovery that has pushed me to finally write it up lol. My PC had a few hiccups over the past couple of years. Nothing so serious that I was truly concerned (at first) but, annoyances, to be sure. ("PC? Weren't you talking about a TV??" you might be thinking to yourself. Yes. I'll get there. Oh, will I ever get there.) For a long time, the most serious hiccup with my PC was being unable to open Display Settings on my PC. I had to use Nvidia control panel to make adjustments. Whatever. Didn't affect my ability to work or anything. I had just updated to Windows 11 so I thought maybe something went wrong in the update. So I did another install (which meant I had to re-install a ton of music plugin stuff on my computer which takes ages given all the stuff I use.) The fresh install still didn't fix it. So I simply ignored it for the better part of 2 years. Over time, so slowly I didn't really clock them as being related, other things started to fail. I have a Komplete Kontrol S88 midi Keyboard that interfaces with Kontakt and Komplete Kontrol in my DAW. I can use the keyboard to adjust settings or select instruments without having to look at my computer screen. At some point last year this stopped working. I could still use it to input midi, and I was afraid I'd have to do a fresh install of all the Native Instruments stuff I use, so I kept putting off trying to fix it until I had less going on with work. It worked, just not as well as it should! Then, Task manager started to hang in weird ways. It wouldn't close unless I forced it closed with ProcExp. Whatever! Computers are weird! I had trouble getting video capture cards to connect when I considered streaming Splatoon. Whatever! I'm not a streamer, I should probably use that energy on something else. But then, in March, I had some things fail that, turns out, are pretty necessary to using the computer. I was trying to get remote desktop to work on my tablet so I could work in the living room closer to my cat, Grendel, who was still very much in mourning for his best friend (<3 Guts). Grendel is at his happiest when he's napping on the couch next to a human. So I thought, hey, I could do some stuff in remote desktop mode! It wasn't something I used very often because it doesn't play super nice with audio, it'd been probably over a year since I last used it, but I knew it had worked and had been easy to set up. Well. It refused to connect despite appearing as an option on my tablet. And as I was trying to troubleshoot this problem... My task bars on my PC disappeared! If I moused over the spot they should have been I got the loading circle. And my monitors would jitter! System settings were nowhere to be found. To navigate I had to open Task Manager (which if you recall was already acting strange and sluggish for the past year) in order to open the command panel, which I'd then use to launch programs. Or, attempt to. If I tried to open the system settings, my PC spat out "Uhhh what's "Settings"? We ain't got settings" (in command I got "C:\Windows\System32>start ms-settings: Access is denied." despite being in admin mode) SO I started to panic a wee bit. It's not a great time for me to possibly need a new PC! Plus, it works great when it works. I manually backed up everything important from my main PC drive (as I could not access the windows backup program because it lived in settings!!!!!!!!) and downloaded the Windows 11 installer to a drive in case I needed to completely wipe my computer and start fresh. In a last ditch effort, I tried updating my Nvidia GeForce graphics driver and restarted. Lo and behold, my taskbars came back and I could access settings again! Huzzah! This lasted for 6 days. And then the taskbars disappeared AGAIN along with Settings. At least by now I'd become somewhat comfortable using command to get around, so I was less panicked than I was in round 1. I at least knew the computer wouldn't crash and delete all my shit suddenly (plus I had my backups that were up-to-date). I asked my friends if they'd ever heard of anything like this, and Cohost's own @vogon helped me poke around some additional graphics driver stuff in case updating to the new Nvidia program that's in beta would solve my issue. This felt super promising when I went into safe mode and saw taskbars. So, I did the update, and, as before, when I updated, the taskbars came back! But there were gone again almost immediately. My screen literally started flickering and they vanished. It was so fucking bizarre. I turned to google once more, hoping that somehow, as useless as google is these days, maybe I'd find what I needed to fix my damn computer! Somehow, against all odds, I found it. I happened to use the exact right string in my search to pull up some reddit threads. The first one didn't have anything useful, but a few results down I spotted "no taskbar and task manager freezes" holy moly!!! At first glance however, there wasn't anything useful. But then I spotted some collapsed comments at the bottom of the thread. I knew more than likely they just had comments like "sucks bro" or "this is why i use linux :/" But I expanded them and inside was a link to a Microsoft forum post. I kept my expectations in check and clicked on the link. What I saw had my nearly vibrating in my seat. Screenshots showing the path from my google search to reddit to a minimized comment that contained a link to a microsoft forum post with the solution to my several year long problem - caused by our TV [https://staging.cohostcdn.org/attachment/d9f5719e-fe05-4247-9c27-39c3381f0648/screenshot%20collage.png?width=675&#x26;auto=webp&#x26;dpr=1] This was the solution. [https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1339707/help-with-figuring-out-what-is-causing-waitchain-d] Narayan B Nov 16, 2023, 12:20 AM So I finally solved it! Source of the problem: an Android TV (HiSense model) connected to my network. Yes. A TV caused this issue. HISENSE? LIKE THE SAME BRAND OF TV I HAVE HAD SINCE 2020??? I followed the instructions. I deleted keys generated by our TV for 5 straight minutes. 5 Minutes of like 200BPM clicking. I restarted. Everything worked again. I laughed so hard I cried. I felt like I'd solved a murder. The main suspect was the PC but the culprit was the TV in the other room. And he almost got away with it!!! If I had spent a few days carrying out a clean install and re-installing all my work stuff, my problem would have come back. If I had taken the PC out back and shot it and replaced it with a fancy new computer, the problem would have come back. Because the problem was never the PC. The Problem was my Hisense TV in the next room. Once I carried this out, I was able to open display settings for the first time (outside of safe mode) in 2 years. When I deleted the keys, my Task Manager started behaving normally again. I turned around and saw that my keyboard was once again displaying the VST controls on its screen. The fancy midi keyboard was back at full functionality. I was able to connect my CRT as a display again using the HDMI -> RCA converters I'd assumed had stopped working (nope! they still worked, they always worked!) Which brings me to today. Almost a month later everything still works. So, I decided to see if remote desktop would magically work again. The answer is: Yes. Yes, in fact, my TV was the reason my remote desktop connection had failed the month before. So here I am, sitting on my couch with my tablet and bluetooth keeb and mouse, writing this post in remote desktop mode so I could attach screenshots of this saga to my post without sitting at my PC. Grendel is snoring beside me as I write. As a treat for reading this far, please enjoy two screenshots of my friends reacting to the solution of my great mystery. friends reacting in discord, the overall sentiment: what the fuck that is so cursed [https://staging.cohostcdn.org/attachment/a23624ba-f7bc-4b5b-aa53-68b1e16bfd2e/cursed%20TV%20PC%20reactions.png] friends reacting in discord, the overall sentiment: what the fuck that is so cursed [https://staging.cohostcdn.org/attachment/b9d4234d-4a60-4bb0-b2a9-92b898e75fba/cursed%20TV%20PC%20reactions2.png] adding: the TV in question, in case you're curious: Hisense 50Q8G- 50" Smart 4K ULED™ Android TV with Quantum Dot Technology (Canada Model)
• Billions of public Discord messages may be sold through a scraping service | Ars Technica - 2024-04-21 - Cross-server tracking suggests a new understanding of "public" chat servers.
• Tesla recalls the Cybertruck for faulty accelerator pedals that can get stuck | TechCrunch - 2024-04-20 - It's technically the Cybertruck's second recall, but it is the most serious to date, and it caps a tumultuous week for Tesla.
• Stop Acting Like You're Famous - 2024-04-19
• I can’t use my number pad for 2FA codes – Terence Eden’s Blog - 2024-04-17 -
• Go Is An Object Oriented Programming Language - 2024-04-17 -
• Redis is forked | ★❤✰ Vicki Boykis ★❤✰ - 2024-04-17 - - Where do we go from here?
• This is a teenager - 2024-04-16 - - Watch hundreds of teenagers grow up into adults – and see how their lives turn out
• 5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030 | Ars Technica - 2024-04-16 - "We have a technical debt that stretches back many decades."
• My Cat Alerted Me to a DDoS Attack - 2024-04-15 -
• BSAG » The joy of folded pyjamas - 2024-04-15 - I have become the sort of person who irons their pyjamas and then folds them carefully every day. Who even am I any more?
• Page Not Found | Docker Hub - 2024-04-14 -
• Harmful 5G Fast Lanes Are Coming. The FCC Needs to Stop Them | Center for Internet and Society - 2024-04-14 -
• The darker side of being a doctor - DrEricLevi’s Substack - 2024-04-14 - - The Home Doctor - Practical Medicine for Every Household - is a 304 page doctor written and approved guide on how to manage most health situations when help is not on the way. I’m a surgeon. I’d like to think that I’m resilient and well adjusted, having gone through medical school and rigorous surgical training. I’ve been a doctor for 13 years and much of that period has been spent training to be as good a surgeon as I could ever be. I have great family support, a physician wife who understands my work and I’ve never been diagnosed with a mental illness.
• How Google is killing independent sites like ours - HouseFresh - 2024-04-13 - - And why you shouldn’t trust product reviews from big media publishers ranking at the top of Google.
• The Recovery Kit Version Two - 2024-04-12 - - If you're not familiar with the Recovery Kit, it's something I made back in 2019 and posted to my original back7.co blog. I created it before I knew what a "cyberdeck" was beyond a simple part of William Gibson's Neuromancer. I wanted a rugged computer enclosure for my Raspberry
• Man Creatively Sneaks Onto Delta Flight, But Gets Caught - One Mile at a Time - 2024-04-12 - - A man tried to sneak onto a Delta Air Lines flight from Salt Lake City to Austin with a creative strategy. There was just one small problem.
• Going in circles without a real-time clock - 2024-04-11 -
• Adult transgender clinics in England face inquiry into patient care | Transgender | The Guardian - 2024-04-11 - NHS England to review seven specialist services after staff share misgivings privately
• Deep Bug @ marginalia.nu - 2024-04-11 - - The project has been haunted by a mysterious bug since sometime February. It relates to the code that constructs the index, particularly the code that merges partial indices. In short the search engine constucts the reverse index through successive merging of smaller indices, which reduces the overall memory requirement. You can conceptualize the revese index itself as two files, one with offset pointers into another file, which has sorted numbers. This code runs after each partition finishes crawling and processing its data, and has a run time of about 4 hours.
• Safer table saws may get mandated, possibly preventing severed fingers : NPR - 2024-04-10 - - After years of false starts, the Consumer Product Safety Commission looks poised to mandate a blade safety brake on all new table saws sold in the United States.
• j3s.sh - 2024-04-10 -
• Discrete logic IC CPU | Ivan's blog - 2024-04-10 - Custom CPU built with discrete logic chips
• Discrete logic network card | Ivan's blog - 2024-04-10 - - Building a 10BASE-T Ethernet transceiver (receiver and transmitter) with discrete logic chips
• EuroRust 2024 officially welcomes independent workers (updated) - 2024-04-09 - TL;DR I purchased individual tickets for EuroRust and added my VAT number, so it could be a tax-deductible expense for me as an independent worker. The organizer...
• Just How Much Faster Are the GNOME 46 Terminals? | Ivan Molodetskikh’s Webpage - 2024-04-09 - I use a hardware latency tester to measure how much the VTE-based terminals improved from GNOME 45 to GNOME 46.
• How To Found a Company In Germany: 14 “Easy” Steps And Lots Of Pain – Oliver Eidel's Blog - 2024-04-08 -
• Sharing the best of my photos as wallpapers - Xe Iaso - 2024-04-08
• Home · thmsmlr - 2024-04-07 -
• Insurers Are Spying on Your Home From the Sky - WSJ - 2024-04-07 - - Companies are using drones to check out roofs or to spot yard debris and undeclared trampolines.
• How we’ve saved 98% in cloud costs by writing our own database - 2024-04-06 -
• Online porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom | Popular Science - 2024-04-06 - - New internet laws requiring age verification for porn and social media may be contributing to a surge in VPN adoption, experts say.
• What to do when an airline website doesn't accept your legal name - 2024-04-06 - Southwest usually has good customer service... but in this case it's completely broken, I can't fix it myself, and the company has no plans of fixing it
• Aphantasia: Why I cannot picture my children in my mind - BBC News - 2024-04-06 - - Not everyone can picture images in their mind's eye and remember sounds or faces - but why?
• What I think about when I edit — Eva Parish - 2024-04-06 - - I’m often asked to edit friends’ or coworkers’ writing, anything from emails to short stories to documentation. Recently, someone asked me how I edit. What am I looking for? How do I know what changes to make? That made me stop and think about what I’ve been doing semi-instinctually.
• The Confessions of Marcus Hutchins, the Hacker Who Saved the Internet | WIRED - 2024-04-05 - - At 22, Marcus Hutchins put a stop to the worst cyberattack the world had ever seen. Then he was arrested by the FBI. This is his untold story.
• Kobold letters – Lutra Security - 2024-04-05 - - Anyone who has had to deal with HTML emails on a technical level has probably reached the point where they wanted to quit their job or just set fire to all the mail clients due to their inconsistent implementations. But HTML emails are not just a source of frustration, they can also be a serious security risk.
• reflections on distrusting xz - 2024-04-04 -
• Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores - 2024-04-03 - - Amazon Fresh is moving away from a feature of its grocery stores where customers could skip checkout altogether.
• autoconf makes me think we stopped evolving too soon - 2024-04-03 -
• Optimizing SQLite for servers - 2024-04-02 - - SQLite is often misconceived as a &#34;toy database&#34;, only good for mobile applications and embedded systems because it&#39;s default configuration is optimized for embedded use cases, so most people trying it will encounter poor performances and the dreaded SQLITE_BUSY error. But what if I told you that by tuning a
• This is How We Do It - 2024-04-02 - How we build popular open source software
• What we know about the xz Utils backdoor that almost infected the world | Ars Technica - 2024-04-02 - - Malicious updates made to a ubiquitous tool were a few weeks away from going mainstream.
• Making crochet cacti - 2024-04-02 - Making crochet cacti
• The ‘Worst Mug’ in Your Kitchen Cabinet Has an Important Purpose - Eater - 2024-04-01 - Despite its lame typography or weird texture, the dumbest cup in your cupboard serves an invaluable purpose
• RSS Feed Organization Strategies And New Feed Cost - 2024-04-01
• Error Handling in Baby Toys | Brain Baking - 2024-04-01 - - Electrical baby toys are interesting to disassemble and look at how it’s made. Not up to the …
• Robot Slide Whistle Orchestrion - mitxela.com - 2024-04-01 -
• Hosting a Public Website on MS-DOS - 2024-04-01 -
• XZ Backdoor: Times, damned times, and scams - 2024-04-01 - - Some timezone observations on the recently discovered backdoor hidden in an xz tarball.

March 2024

• How to graduate your PhD when you have no hope - 2024-03-31 - - a.k.a. Richard Hamming vs. Richard Feynman
• "Real" anonymous functions for Python [LWN.net] - 2024-03-31 -
• On "real name" policies - 2024-03-31
• Roll-Invert-Unroll: An Easier Way to Replace a Duvet Cover | A Danver Braganza Extravaganza - 2024-03-31 - - This way of putting a cover onto a duvet might save you effort and time!
• Running OCR against PDFs and images directly in your browser - 2024-03-31 - - I attended the Story Discovery At Scale data journalism conference at Stanford this week. One of the perennial hot topics at any journalism conference concerns data extraction: how can we …
• liblzma and xz version 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 are vulnerable to arbitrary code execution compromise - Xe Iaso - 2024-03-30
• Sean Coates blogs about Matter and Privacy - 2024-03-30 - - When I was still working at Faculty, we took on a new client that was not yet named Matter. We eventually transitioned from an agency-client relationship to a startup relationship, where I became the
• The Great Migration from MongoDB to PostgreSQL - 2024-03-29 - - How Infisical migrated from MongoDB to PostgreSQL.
• Jasmin Paris first woman to complete gruelling Barkley Marathons race - BBC News - 2024-03-28 - Jasmin Paris from Midlothian made history by finishing the gruelling 100-mile Barkley Marathons.
• The What, Why and How of Containers – Annwan - 2024-03-28 -
• Recent ‘MFA Bombing’ Attacks Targeting Apple Users – Krebs on Security - 2024-03-28 -
• On Tech Debt: My Rust Library is now a CDO | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings - 2024-03-27 - - Bringing the great successes of financial engineering to Rust.
• The Case Of A Leaky Goroutine | Brain Baking - 2024-03-26 - - In the programming language Go, it’s very easy to build something using high-level concurrent …
• Camera system hell - Xe Iaso - 2024-03-26 -
• Reviving PyMiniRacer - Disparate Treasures - 2024-03-24 - - In this last blog post, I created a helper to call JavaScript from Python using a NodeJS sidecar process. In the post I commented that in- process JS evaluation might be nicer. The old Sqreen PyMiniRacer project had only recently fallen into disrepair. Can we revive it? TL;DR: Yes! It just took a couple weeks of elbow grease, and new ownership (it me). I now own the two best ways to run JavaScript from a Python program: PyMiniRacer and nodejs-eval.
• furialog - 2024-03-23
• Generating The Alphabet — Amy Goodchild - 2024-03-23 - - My current generative artwork-in-progress includes text, but I don’t want to use a font. In browser based art work, using a “web safe” font could produce inconsistent results, while including a font file would mean a large file size. Additionally, I don’t want a visual element of the project to be s
• Google Ordered To Identify Who Watched Certain YouTube Videos - 2024-03-23 - - The federal government asked Google to turn over information on anyone who viewed multiple YouTube videos. Privacy experts say the orders are unconstitutional.
• Port-scanning the fleet and trying to put out fires - 2024-03-22
• Hackers Found a Way to Open Any of 3 Million Hotel Keycard Locks in Seconds | WIRED - 2024-03-21 - - The company behind the Saflok-brand door locks is offering a fix, but it may take months or years to reach some hotels.
• The Reddits | Y Combinator - 2024-03-21 - - "I met the Reddits before we even started Y Combinator. In fact they were one of the reasons we started it," writes PG.
• Mona: Australian art museum sued over women's-only exhibit - BBC News - 2024-03-21 - The opulent Ladies Lounge exhibit aims to highlight the exclusion faced by Australian women for decades.
• Regex character “$” doesn't mean “end-of-string” - 2024-03-21 - - This article is about a bit of surprising behavior I recently discovered using Python's regex module (re) while developing SBOM tooling for CPython. Folks who've worked with regular expressions be...
• Troy Hunt: Inside the Massive Alleged AT&T Data Breach - 2024-03-20 - - I hate having to use that word - "alleged" - because it's so inconclusive and I know it will leave people with many unanswered questions. But sometimes, "alleged" is just where we need to begin and over the course of time, proper attribution is made and the dots are joined.
• Foone Turing — We keep finding space stations, and we don't know... - 2024-03-19 - We keep finding space stations, and we don't know why yet. Most are in orbit around planets, but plenty more are orbiting moons, stars, the odd black hole, or just floating in deep space. Their age...
• There is no cookie banner law - 2024-03-18 - - On why you keep seeing these cookie banners
• I'm So Old: Web Edition - 2024-03-18 - - Time can be a funny thing. I still remember discovering HTML, CSS, and JavaScript coding. I still remember my first college programming course. I still
• 900 Sites, 125 million accounts, 1 vulnerability - env.fail - 2024-03-18 - - 900 Sites, 125 million accounts, 1 vulnerability
• ct2: Heinlein’s Fan Mail Solution - 2024-03-18 - - I found this letter in a folder of old correspondence from my days when I was editing at the Whole Earth Catalog. It is from the science fiction master Robert Heinlein. Heinlein engineered his own nerdy solution to a problem … Continue reading →
• How to mess with your roommate | Max Bernstein - 2024-03-17 - - Before I explain what I did to hurt poor Logan, I must explain our apartment’s media setup. You will see why shortly.
• Hackintosh is (almost) dead · aplus.rs - 2024-03-17 -
• Cloudflare loses 22% of its domains in Freenom .tk shutdown | Netcraft - 2024-03-17 - - A staggering 12.6 million domains on TLDs controlled by Freenom (.tk, .cf and .gq) have been shut down and no longer resolve, leading to a significant reduc ...
• "No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens - Xe Iaso - 2024-03-16 -
• Nix is a better Docker image builder than Docker's image builder - Xe Iaso - 2024-03-16 -
• 'If anything happens, it's not suicide': Boeing whistleblower's prediction before death - 2024-03-16 - - A close family friend of John Barnett said he predicted he might wind up dead and that a story could surface that he killed himself.
• Are We Watching The Internet Die? - 2024-03-13 - - Sometime this month, Reddit will go public at a valuation of $6.5bn. Select Redditors were offered the chance to buy stock at the initial listing price, which it hasn’t announced yet but is expected to be in the range of $31-34 per share. Regardless of the actual price,
• The internet is slipping out of our reach - 2024-03-13 - - With AI encroaching every open forum on the internet, the future of human discourse is bleak.
• LATAM Airlines passenger says pilot told him he lost control of Boeing plane after instrument failure | CNN - 2024-03-13 - The pilot of a terrifying flight from Australia to New Zealand told those on board he temporarily lost control of his Boeing 787 after one of its instruments failed, a passenger said Monday, as authorities investigate what caused a sudden drop that threw terrified travelers around the cabin, injuring dozens.
• ​​The NYPD Sent a Warrantless Subpoena for a Copwatcher's Social Media Account, but Won't Defend It in Court - Hell Gate - 2024-03-13 - - What does the NYPD want with the social media data from a police accountability account?
• Dysfunctional options pattern in Go | Redowan's Reflections - 2024-03-13 - - Ever since Rob Pike published the text on the functional options pattern1, there’s been no shortage of blogs, talks, or comments on how it improves or obfuscates configuration ergonomics. While the necessity of such a pattern is quite evident in a language that lacks default arguments in functions, more often than not, it needlessly complicates things. The situation gets worse if you have to maintain a public API where multiple configurations are controlled in this manner.
• S3 is files, but not a filesystem - 2024-03-11 - - "Deep" modules, mismatched interfaces - and why SAP is so painful
• UCL lecturer warns academic freedom at risk as module removed after student complaints | UK News | Sky News - 2024-03-10 - UCL associate professor Michelle Shipworth says large groups of foreign students can contain significant minorities seeking to curtail academic freedoms in the interest of protecting their home governments' reputations.
• the Apple curl security incident 12604 | daniel.haxx.se - 2024-03-10 -
• How I keep myself Alive using Golang - 2024-03-10 - - In this blog I explore how I use an incident management mindset to manage a complex medical condition. I hope you enjoy it!
• Deploying Fiber In The Home - 2024-03-10 -
• The end of Airplane.dev | Benjamin Yolken - 2024-03-10 - I worked at Airplane, an internal tooling startup, for nearly two years. Earlier this year, it was announced that the company was being acquired by Airtable and that the product would be shut down. In this blog post, I want to explain what happened from my perspective as a former employee.
• How HEAD works in git - 2024-03-10 - - How HEAD works in git
• Socialism, anti-fascism and anti-abortion on Prevent list of terrorism warning signs | Prevent strategy | The Guardian - 2024-03-08 - Communism also among ideologies on document as human rights groups say UK scheme has been politicised
• Sometimes the dam breaks even after plenty of warnings - 2024-03-06
• Jobs: the worst possible way to be rejected for a job is suddenly everywhere. - 2024-03-03 - - One moment, you think you’re about to get an offer. The next, you're having a complete and total meltdown.
• 2024-03-01 listening in on the neighborhood - 2024-03-03 -
• Where I’m at on the whole CSS-Tricks thing – Chris Coyier - 2024-03-02 - - It was March 2022 when I sold CSS-Tricks to DigitalOcean. So it’s been just about 2 years now. This was me and my wife’s thinking: The negotiated sale price was fair. They are a big com…
• These companies tried a 4-day workweek. More than a year in, they still love it : NPR - 2024-03-01 - - Most of the companies in a U.K. trial were so pleased with the results — improved wellbeing, lower turnover, greater efficiency — they've made the four-day workweek permanent.
• ☠️ How I Accidentally made my Link Shortener into a Malware Honeypot - 2024-03-01 - - I built a great, free link shortener. Cybercriminals immediately tried to use it to host spam, malware, and phishing sites. This is what I learned.
• XeDN on Tigris - Xe Iaso - 2024-03-01 -
• Today's only half of the leap year fun - 2024-03-01 -

February 2024

• Why I use Firefox - 2024-02-29 - - I’m interested in HTML, CSS, and making the web less annoying
• The Yak Shave @ marginalia.nu - 2024-02-29 - - I set out a little over a week ago to add a service registry to Marginalia Search, primarily to reduce its dependence on docker. I would like it to be able to run on bare metal as well, which poses a problem since configuring the application manually is a bit of a headache with dozens of ports that need to be set up. It would also be desirable to be able to run multiple instances of important services in order elliminate downtime during upgrades.
• A Retrospective on Requests - cat /dev/brain - 2024-02-27 -
• How I turned my open-source project into a business - 2024-02-27 - - When I started writing and publishing open-source software about 15 years ago, I was pretty radical about it. I only used permissive licenses like MIT or BSD, as all I cared about was reach. Using a copyleft license with strings attached seemed to hinder that reach. Getting another A-category company
• 🦑 The 14 pains of building your own billing system - Arnon Shimoni - 2024-02-27 - - Trying to cobble together your own billing system is like wrestling an octopus that's armed with tax codes and invoices instead of tentacles. It's a beast of complexity that can tangle up everything from customer support to compliance. I have 14 points on why it's hard.
• Marginalia: 3 Years @ marginalia.nu - 2024-02-27 - - It’s been three years since the inception of Marginalia Search, then a dinky experiment to find where the heck the cool Internet has gone, now my full time job. While there’s always things that can be improved, it’s fair to say the search engine has never worked as well as it does right now. A great number of milestones have been reached, perhaps biggest of all the search engine has moved out of my living room and into a proper enterprise server.
• My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file - 2024-02-25
• How Does BlueSky Work? - 2024-02-25 -
• ARCHITECTURE.md - 2024-02-25 - - If you maintain an open-source project in the range of 10k-200k lines of code, I strongly encourage you to add an ARCHITECTURE document next to README and CONTRIBUTING. Before going into the details of why and how, I want to emphasize that this is not another docs are good, write more docs advice. I am pretty sloppy about documentation, and, e.g., I often use just simplify as a commit message. Nonetheless, I feel strongly about the issue, even to the point of pestering you :-)
• Brexit’s latest twist: Britain pushes the EU to increase red tape – POLITICO - 2024-02-25 - The City of London was supposed to have been set free by Britain’s departure from the EU. That’s not how it’s turning out.
• Troy Hunt: Thanks FedEx, This is Why we Keep Getting Phished - 2024-02-24 - - I've been getting a lot of those "your parcel couldn't be delivered" phishing attacks lately and if you're a human with a phone, you probably have been too. Just as a brief reminder, they look like this: These get through all the technical controls that exist at my telco and
• Why I still have an old-school cert on my https site - 2024-02-23 -
• curl is a CNA | daniel.haxx.se - 2024-02-21 -
• DISPUTED, not REJECTED | daniel.haxx.se - 2024-02-21 -
• Using content representations to create OG images | Kirby CMS - 2024-02-21 - - Dynamic creation of Open Graph images for social sharing
• So You Want to Ship a Command-Line Tool for macOS @ rebecca® - 2024-02-21 - - It's one executable, how hard could it be?
• If Architects had to work like Programmers - 2024-02-21 -
• The day I canceled my Spotify subscription - 2024-02-21 - - I used to be a big fan of Spotify. Today I cancelled my subscription.
• Home Office to pay TikTok influencers to warn migrants not to cross the Channel | The Independent - 2024-02-19 - Goverment plans could see taxpayers pay social media celebrities to warn people of deportation to Rwanda
• Poland's PM says authorities in the previous government widely and illegally used Pegasus spyware | AP News - 2024-02-19 - - Poland’s new prime minister says he has documentation proving that state authorities under the previous government used the powerful Pegasus spyware illegally and targeted a “very long” list of hacking victims.
• BSAG » Blog housekeeping round 2 - 2024-02-19
• So Long, and Thanks for All the Bytes | by Chet Haase | Feb, 2024 | Medium - 2024-02-18 - - Goodbye Tech, Hello Future
• The Layoff - Xe Iaso - 2024-02-18 -
• Goodbye Auth0 - Josh Can Help - 2024-02-18 - - My 6 years at Auth0 ... how it all started, what Auth0 meant to me, and why I will proudly wear that shield for as long as the swag holds up.
• Apple confirms it’s breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on purpose | TechCrunch - 2024-02-18 - Well, it turns out it's not a bug that broke iPhone web apps, also known as progressive web apps (PWAs), in the EU. Following developer complaints and
• Jonas Hietala: How I did the layout for my self-published book - 2024-02-18
• My Sixth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder · mtlynch.io - 2024-02-17 - - Six years ago, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own self-funded software business. This is a review of my last year and what I've learned so far about bootstrapping software businesses.
• His Best Friend Was a Warthog. It Decided to Kill Him. – Texas Monthly - 2024-02-13 - Austin Riley spent decades raising exotic animals in the Texas Hill Country. The animal he thought he knew best changed his life forever.
• What it was like working for GitLab - 2024-02-12 -
• Reversing UK mobile rail tickets - 2024-02-10 - - The UK has used small credit-card sized tickets to pay for train travel for years and years, since long before I was born — originally theAPTIS ticket1,which...
• How I write HTTP services in Go after 13 years | Grafana Labs - 2024-02-10 - - Mat Ryer, principal engineer at Grafana Labs and host of the Go Time podcast, shares what he's learned from more than a dozen years of writing HTTP services in Go.
• Figure out who's leaving the company: dump, diff, repeat - 2024-02-09 -
• 250 million-plus reserved IPv4 addresses could be released • The Register - 2024-02-09 - - A new chapter in the long saga of the 240/4 block is being written. If you want more and cheaper IPv4, maybe you should help
• Context Control in Go - 2024-02-09 - - Best practices for handling context plumbing in Go
• A search engine in 80 lines of Python - 2024-02-09 - In this post I explain how I built a search engine from scratch using python. The resulting search engine is used to search in the posts of the blogs I follow.
• Stamping production binaries with build info - 2024-02-06 -
• How to Replace Your CPAP In Only 666 Days - 2024-02-05 -
• TIL: you need to escape the </script> in a string in an inline script in HTML - Xe Iaso - 2024-02-04

January 2024

• How to deal with receiving a cease-and-desist letter from Big Tech - 2024-01-31 - - Although this article isn’t related to any of the 12 Challenges so far, it’s on a subject I’m developing for a potential future challenge. In July 2021 Facebook sent me a cease-and-desist letter because I made a browser extension, Unfollow Everything, which helped people use Facebook less.
• Why You’ve Never Been In A Plane Crash—Asterisk - 2024-01-30 - - The United States leads the world in airline safety. That’s because of the way we assign blame when accidents do happen.
• In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox @ tonsky.me - 2024-01-29 - - History of checkboxes and radio buttons in user interfaces
• How I got an O-1 visa as a software engineer / founder - 2024-01-27 - - I am a software engineer turned CTO / co-founder. My O-1A petition was approved in ~1 week with premium processing, and was sponsored by the company I co-founded. I met 4 of the 8 ‘extraordinary ability’ eligibility criteria required for the O-1.
• Rook to XSS: How I hacked chess.com with a rookie exploit - 2024-01-27 - - Playing Chess is one of the many hobbies I like to do in my spare time, apart from tinkering around with technology. However, I'm not very good at it, and after losing many games, I decided to see if I could do something I'm much better at; hacking the system!
• I abandoned OpenLiteSpeed and went back to good ol’ Nginx | Ars Technica - 2024-01-26 - - One weather site’s sudden struggles, and musings on why change isn’t always good.
• What's that touchscreen in my room? | Nikita Lapkov - 2024-01-26 - Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. Roughly a year ago I moved into my new apartment. One of the reasons I picked this apartment was age of the building. The construction was finished in 2015, which ensured pretty good thermal isolation for winters as well as small nice things like Ethernet ports in each room. However, there was one part of my apartment that was too new and too smart for me.
• Boeing Whistleblower: Production Line Has "Enormous Volume Of Defects" Bolts On MAX 9 Weren't Installed - View from the Wing - 2024-01-24 - - A reader at respected airline industry site Leeham News offered a comment that suggests they have access to Boeing’s internal quality control systems, and shares details of what they saw regarding the Boeing 737 MAX 9 flown by Alaska Airlines that had a door plug detach inflight, causing rapid decompression of the aircraft. The takeaway appears to be that outsourced plane components have so many problems when they show up at the production line that Boeing’s quality control staff can’t keep up with them all.
• Why the fuck are we templating yaml? | lbr. - 2024-01-24 - - I was at cfgmgmtcamp 2019 in Ghent, and did a talk which I think was well received about the need for some Kubernetes configuration management as well as the solution
• How we migrated our PostgreSQL database with 11 seconds downtime - Government Digital Service - 2024-01-19 - - GDS is leading the digital transformation of the UK government.
• Today I learned that bash has hashmaps - Xe Iaso - 2024-01-16 -
• When Random Isn't | orlp.net - 2024-01-15 -
• A Soviet-Educated Professor’s Warning for American Academia - The Atlantic - 2024-01-15 - - What happens when the noble goal of social justice is invoked in ways that corrupt rather than improve?
• US regulator grounds 737 Max 9 until it receives further data from Boeing - 2024-01-13 - FAA says it wants to analyse information from jet inspections following mid-air blowout of Alaska Airlines flight
• Discord lays off 17 percent of employees - The Verge - 2024-01-11 - - 170 people are being laid off by the popular messaging app.
• I quit my job to work full time on my open source project - 2024-01-11 - - Quitting my job to start a company.
• No-fault evictions: 'I thought it would never happen to me... until my landlord left a Section 21 notice' | Evening Standard - 2024-01-08 - Don't think it will never happen to you — any tenant can be evicted for no reason
• Fired Comedian Ordered to Get Day Job Back After Jokes Ruled 'Simply Funny' - 2024-01-07 - - Jad Sleiman was a reporter in Philadelphia before he was fired over his budding comedy career. Now, his employer has been ordered to reinstate him.
• Boeing wants FAA to exempt MAX 7 from safety rules to get it in the air | The Seattle Times - 2024-01-06 - - Boeing asked the FAA to exempt its 737 MAX 7 from certain safety regulations. Without the exemption, an engine anti-ice system defect will keep the jet from being certified.
• BookStack in 2023 · BookStack - 2024-01-05 - As we enter into 2024 I thought we’d once again look back over the past year to review the development of the platform throughout 2023 while also diving into topics about the wider project including funding and the impact of AI.
• RedTeam Pentesting - Blog - Bitwarden Heist - How to Break Into Password Vaults Without Using Passwords - 2024-01-04 - - Sometimes, making particular security design decisions can have unexpected consequences. For security-critical software, such as password managers, this can easily lead to catastrophic failure: In this blog post, we show how Bitwarden’s Windows Hello …
• Tom Scott, and the formidable power of escalating streaks - 2024-01-03 - - Ten years ago yesterday, Tom Scott posted this video to YouTube about “Special Crossings For Horses In Britain”. It was the first in his Things You Might Not Know series, …
• All DMCA Notices Filed Against TorrentFreak in 2023 Were Bogus * TorrentFreak - 2024-01-03 - - In 2023, anti-piracy companies continued to file DMCA notices against TorrentFreak both directly and with Google. All 100% bogus.
• 2023: Year in review - 2024-01-01 - - 2023: Year in review

December 2023

• Why I'm skeptical of low-code - Nick Scialli | Senior Software Engineer - 2023-12-31 - - Low-code can be a great tool but it often fails to live up to its marketing
• In 2024, please switch to Firefox – Roy Tanck - 2023-12-30 - - This December, if there's one tech New Year's resolution I'd encourage you to have, it's switching to the only remaining ethical web browser, Firefox. According to recent posts on social media, Firefox's market share is slipping. We should not let that happen. There are two main reasons why switchin
• Shared post - Mozilla 2023 Annual Report: CEO pay skyrockets, while Firefox Marketshare nosedives - 2023-12-29 - - Connect with Lunduke and other members of Lunduke community
• NY Times sues Open AI, Microsoft over copyright infringement | Ars Technica - 2023-12-29 - - Shows evidence that GPT-based systems will reproduce Times articles if asked.
• 4 billion if statements | Blabbin’ - 2023-12-29 - - I recently stumbled upon this screenshot while researching social media on the train. Of course, it was followed by a cascade of spiteful comments, criticizing this fresh programmer’s attempt to solve a classical problem in computer science. The modulus operation.
• Cold-blooded software - 2023-12-29 -
• The New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement - The Verge - 2023-12-28 - - The lawsuit says ChatGPT “recites Times content verbatim.”
• Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names | Kalzumeus Software - 2023-12-27 -
• The Life and Death of Open Source Companies | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings - 2023-12-27 - - More thoughts on Open Source licensing and companies.
• No last-minute reprieve, US ban on some Apple Watch sales now in effect | Ars Technica - 2023-12-26 - - Watch Series 9 and Watch Ultra 2 blood oxygen sensors are patent-infringing.
• Your Website Search Hurts My Feelings - 2023-12-26 - - Searching and displaying results isn't hard, why do so many websites suck at it?
• Lab Notebooks | Sam Bleckley - 2023-12-26 - - What wet-lab chemistry can teach software engineers
• Challenging projects every programmer should try - Austin Z. Henley - 2023-12-26 - - Challenging projects every programmer should try
• A year-end wrapup of responses to reader feedback - 2023-12-26
• Costs of running a macOS app studio business — Alin Panaitiu - 2023-12-25 - - I created The low-tech guys, a brand under which I develop macOS apps for a living. I started this business with a good friend of mine, thinking I could help him stop working long hours at his consulting job and ease into more creative work. However, getting to a state where you earn enough to live off the app sales takes time, and he did not have that time. So it's just one "low-tech guy" doing all this, and that is me. ...
• Games Played in 2023 · Danb Blog - 2023-12-25
• Reclaiming the Web with a Personal Reader - 2023-12-23 - There’s a kind of zen flow that programmers unblock when they experience their software daily as an end user. There’s no better catalyst for ideas and experimentation, no better prioritization driver than having to face the bugs, annoyances, and limitations of an application first-hand.
• Google Search Overwhelmed By Massive Spam Attack - 2023-12-23 - - Google is apparently struggling to contain a spam attack that's been ongoing for days
• A Frivolous Feature @ marginalia.nu - 2023-12-23 - - Marginalia Search very recently gained the ability to filter results by Autonomous System, not only searching by ASN but by the organization information for that AS. At a glance this seems like a somewhat frivolous feature, but it has interesting effects. Autonomous Systems are part of the Internet’s routing infrastructure. If your mental model of an IP number is that they are the phone number of the computer, this is something akin to a postal code.
• WARC'in the crawler @ marginalia.nu - 2023-12-23 - - The Marginalia Crawler has seen improvements! A long term problem with the crawler design is that if for whatever reason the crawler shuts down, then it needs to re-start fetching whatever domains it was currently traversing during the termination from zero. This isn’t fantastic, since not only does crawling a website take a fair bit of time, it’s a nuisance for the server admins to re-crawl stuff that was already fetched, and a real liability for ending up in robots.
• Google OAuth is broken (sort of) - Truffle Security - 2023-12-22 - - A Google Oauth vulnerability that allows employees to maintain access to services after they're offboarded.
• Advice for new software devs who've read all those other advice essays • Buttondown - 2023-12-22 - - From a person who really shouldn't be giving others advice.
• Unbricking my MacBook took an email to Tim Cook | TokyoDev - 2023-12-20 - - After my lost MacBook was returned to me with an Activation Lock on it, Apple refused to unlock it. Only after emailing Tim Cook could I get it unlocked.
• My SimpliSafe doorbell lit its own fire this winter | Jeff Geerling - 2023-12-19 -
• The Largest Money-Printing UI Element Ever Made - Jim Nielsen’s Blog - 2023-12-17 - - Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
• Flying Friday: my first precautionary engine shutdown | Paul's Down-Home Page - 2023-12-17 - - A couple of weeks ago, I had my first real in-flight engine shutdown, with a bonus declared emergency as a cherry on top. I wanted to write up what happened and what I learned from it. I have about…
• Bricked Xmas - 2023-12-16 - - Reverse engineering Bluetooth LE LED light controllers, or How I Bricked My Christmas Lights If a device communicates via Bluetooth LE and has an app, it deserves to be integrated into my home automation system. I’ve spent a significant amount of time reverse engineering various budget-friendly LED light strips to...
• Smallest USB-C MIDI Synth - mitxela.com - 2023-12-15 -
• NASA working to solve Voyager 1 computer glitch from billions of miles away | CNN - 2023-12-15 - NASA’s 46-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft has experienced a computer glitch that prevents it from returning science data to Earth from the solar system’s outer reaches.
• The AI trust crisis - 2023-12-15 - - Dropbox added some new AI features. In the past couple of days these have attracted a firestorm of criticism. Benj Edwards rounds it up in Dropbox spooks users with new …
• Passion projects - stitcher.io - 2023-12-14 - A blog about modern PHP, the web, and programming in general. Follow my newsletter and YouTube channel as well.
• Bad NEWS, Emacs - 2023-12-11 - - Post by Eshel Yaron about changes for the worse in Emacs 30 registers feature
• blakewatson.com – omg.lol: an oasis on the internet - 2023-12-11 - - If you enjoyed the old web of the 90s and 00s; if you love tinkering with your personal website; or if you just like quirky, fun things on the internet, you will love this.
• Stealthy Linux rootkit found in the wild after going undetected for 2 years | Ars Technica - 2023-12-11 - - Krasue infects telecom firms in Thailand using techniques for staying under the radar.
• Pluralistic: “If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing” (08 Dec 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow - 2023-12-10 -
• CRD to YAML as WASM website | Ramblings of a cloud engineer - 2023-12-09 - - CRD to YAML as WASM website A while ago, I wrote about Generating Sample YAML files from CRDs. It’s a tool I created that lives here. It has a front-end service as well for convenience. I wrote it in a traditional client-server manner. It’s running from a Docker Swarm container. But, as I was thinking about it, nothing in this service requires interaction with a server. It gets some user input, processes it, and has some output.
• Dieselgate, but for trains – some heavyweight hardware hacking – BadCyber - 2023-12-09 - - [this is an English translation of the original article in Polish, we occasionally publish the best cyber stories from Poland in English] A train manufactured by a Polish company suddenly broke down during maintenance. The experts
• Apple cuts off Beeper Mini’s access after launch of service that brought iMessage to Android | TechCrunch - 2023-12-09 - Was it too good to be true? Beeper, the startup that reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users, is experiencing an outage,
• Optimizing Go string operations with practical examples | by Alex Bledea | Dec, 2023 | Medium - 2023-12-06 - - I’m going to show you how I took a very simple program and made it run almost 5 times faster, with very minimal adjustments. You may know…
• How Did I Get Here? - 2023-12-06 - - A cool-as-shit dynamic traceroute powered by custom software, married with an informative article about how the BGP routing protocol works and guides the shape of the Internet.
• Firefox on the brink? | BryceWray.com - 2023-12-06 - - The Big Three may effectively be down to a Big Two, and right quick.
• Central District of California | Santa Barbara County Man Sentenced to 6 Months in Prison for Obstructing Federal Probe into Plane Crash He Posted on YouTube | United States Department of Justice - 2023-12-06 - - A YouTuber pilot was sentenced today to six months in federal prison for obstructing a federal investigation by deliberately destroying the wreckage of an airplane that he intentionally crashed in Santa Barbara County to gain online views.
• AI generated YouTube videos - Xe Iaso - 2023-12-05
• You don't need JavaScript for that - HTMHell - 2023-12-03 - - A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.
• Not Everything Is Google’s Fault (Just Most Things) - 2023-12-03 - - Over the last 18 months, we’ve had more than a handful of issues with Google. I was waiting to write about them until AFTER we got off Google, but, now seems like a good time as any.
• xCurl | daniel.haxx.se - 2023-12-01 -

November 2023

• llamafile is the new best way to run a LLM on your own computer - 2023-11-30 - Mozilla’s innovation group and Justine Tunney just released llamafile, and I think it’s now the single best way to get started running Large Language Models (think your own local copy …
• The birth & death of search engine optimization - Xe Iaso - 2023-11-29 -
• Python is Easy. Go is Simple. Simple != Easy. · Preslav Rachev - 2023-11-29 - - Python and Go have distinct qualities that can complement each other.
• WLK0023030 | Worklink Case | ServiceNow ServiceNow - 2023-11-28
• Break before make, abstractions, and sleazy ISPs - 2023-11-28 -
• That time Verisign typo-squatted all of .com and .net - 2023-11-28 -
• Tesla sues Swedish state agency over number plate blockage - The Local - 2023-11-27 - - The electric car giant Tesla has sued the Swedish Transport Agency, saying it has an obligation to deliver number plates, despite a strike at its courier Postnord.
• Demystifying Web Push Notifications | PQVST - 2023-11-27 - - For my recent One Day Build: Expense Tracking project I wanted to enable notifications in a progressive web app. ChatGPT struggled to generate any good code for me, and I also struggled to find any minimal clear explanations online.
• Making it clear when we’re on a call with you to protect you from fraud - 2023-11-27 - - If someone calls you claiming to be from Monzo, you can now check to see if they’re telling the truth or not in the Monzo app.
• Our developer account was removed by Apple, and they haven't paid out $108,878 - 2023-11-23 - - A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
• Russ Bishop - Github Renamed Me - 2023-11-22 - - Github Renamed Me - We will change your SSH keys and you will like it
• A Very Subtle Bug - Made of Bugs - 2023-11-21 -
• </> htmx ~ Why I Tend Not To Use Content Negotiation - 2023-11-20 -
• I hacked the Magic Mouse - 2023-11-18 - - Magic Mouse hack with USB-C charger
• Microsoft is a key investor in OpenAI. It was blindsided by Sam Altman's exit. - 2023-11-18 - - The firm learned what was happening a minute before it was announced, per a source.
• Push Ifs Up And Fors Down - 2023-11-16 - - A short note on two related rules of thumb.
• curl on 100 operating systems | daniel.haxx.se - 2023-11-16 -
• Troy Hunt: Acuity Who? Attempts and Failures to Attribute 437GB of Breached Data - 2023-11-16 - Allegedly, Acuity had a data breach. That's the context that accompanied a massive trove of data that was sent to me 2 years ago now. I looked into it, tried to attribute and verify it then put it in the "too hard basket" and moved onto more pressing issues. It
• Hacking ADHD - Strategies for the Modern Developer | Ledger - 2023-11-16 - - Introduction After struggling a lot with my mental health (anxiety, depressive condition) for several years, I was diagnosed with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, commonly known as ADHD, at the age of 44. This diagnosis shocked me a lot: I wasn’t a wild child, in fact, I was even a good pupil. With the help of my therapist, […]
• Chris's Wiki :: blog/programming/GoModulesAndDomainExpiry - 2023-11-15 -
• HTML Web Components - Jim Nielsen’s Blog - 2023-11-14 - - Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
• Suits ignored IT’s warnings, so the tech team throttled them • The Register - 2023-11-12 - - Causing pain can be so much more effective than a rational explanation
• Typing Fast Is About Latency, Not Throughput - 2023-11-10 -
• Switching to Elixir - 2023-11-10 -
• Ombudsman: European Commission’s concealment of secret ‘expert list’ on CSAM regulation constitutes ‘maladministration’ - Irish Council for Civil Liberties - 2023-11-09 - - After a year-long inquiry, the EU Ombudsman recommends that the European Commission should monitor stages of progress in every Big Tech case that the Irish Data Protection Commission is responsible for.
• Seeing like a Bank - 2023-11-08 - - The structural reasons why banks sometimes behave bizarrely in interactions with customers, like forgetting things which customers tell them.
• Troy Hunt: Welcome to the New Have I Been Pwned Domain Search Subscription Service - 2023-11-08 - - This is a big one. A massive one. It's the culmination of a solid 7 months of work that finally, as of now, is live. The full back story is in my blog post from mid-June about The Big 5 Announcements but to save you trawling through all of that,
• Troy Hunt: Hackers, Scrapers & Fakers: What's Really Inside the Latest LinkedIn Dataset - 2023-11-08 - - Edit (1 day later): After posting this, the party responsible for leaking the data turned around and said "that was only a small part of it, here's the whole thing", and released records encompassing a further 14M records. I've added those into HIBP and will shortly be re-sending notifications to
• Anchor Tags @ marginalia.nu - 2023-11-08 - - I’ve been working on getting anchor tag keywords into the search engine, basically using link texts to complement the keywords on a webpage. The problem I’m attempting to address is that many websites don’t really describe themselves particularly well. As Steve Ballmer’s stage performance once illustrated, merely repeating a word doesn’t on its own make what you’re saying relevant to the term. Another good example of how it falls short is PuTTY’s website, which will be used as a pilot case to improve.
• BSAG » Reading with kobo - 2023-11-07
• Don't be fooled: Net neutrality is about more than just blocking and throttling | Brookings - 2023-11-05 - - The net neutrality debate has huge implications beyond the reductive "blocking and throttling" buzzwords that ISPs use to characterize it.
• Software that supports your body should always respect your freedom — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software - 2023-11-05 -
• YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers - 2023-11-05 - - People are installing and uninstalling ad blockers in record high numbers as a result of YouTube's anti-ad blocking efforts.
• Wait, what's a bookmarklet? - The History of the Web - 2023-11-03 - How this one small browser quirk turned into a tool used by countless people for decades.
• My Favourite Static Site Deploy Method · Danb Blog - 2023-11-02
• My rude-ass car — Never be clever. - 2023-11-02 -
• How Bear does analytics with CSS | ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's blog - 2023-11-02 - - Bear Blog has a few design constraints for speed, efficiency, and stability. There are many great open-source, privacy-focussed analytics platforms out there...

October 2023

• .io considered harmful - 2023-10-31 - - The .io top-level domain funds and legitimises Britain's exile of the Chagossian people from their homeland. Here's the history and the facts.
• Partitioning The Index @ marginalia.nu - 2023-10-31 - - So a bit of an update on what I’ve been working on. This will be adapted into release notes in a while, but I haven’t quite wrapped a bow on the change set yet. Still, it has certainly been a few weeks. Didn’t quite land how busy I’ve been until I set down to draft this post. Them’s some changes, and I’m skipping a few to keep this meandering post at a sane length.
• BookStack Release v23.10 · BookStack - 2023-10-31 - This October maintenance release brings with it more than originally planned, with a significant revamp of user self-management in addition to an updated editor design, along with many other additions & improvements.
• Gmail introduces new requirements to fight spam - 2023-10-31 - - Today, we’re announcing new requirements for bulk senders that will help keep Gmail safer and more spam-free.
• I Accidentally Saved Half A Million Dollars — Ludicity - 2023-10-30 -
• Finding the services companies use via their TXT records / Abenezer Belachew - 2023-10-30 - - How to use a company's TXT records to discover the products they use.
• Threads Software Limited Gives Meta’s Instagram 30 Days to Desist from Using the Service Name Threads | Business Wire - 2023-10-30 - - UK software company Threads Software Limited and its lawyers have today (30 October) written to Meta’s Instagram giving it 30 days to stop using the n
• Youtube’s Anti-adblock and uBlock Origin - And a Dinosaur - 2023-10-30 - - Recently, YouTube has been ramping up its anti-adblock effort, and I’ve been watching this closely due to personal interest. This blog post is where I write down what I know. Some Background Here’s...
• How to use Tailwind CSS in your Go programs - Xe Iaso - 2023-10-29
• Fixing the Volume on my Bluetooth Earbuds - 2023-10-29 - - A bit of reverse engineering goes a long way
• Getting my library cards onto my phone the hard way — iliana.fyi - 2023-10-29
• Why you should probably be using SQLite | Epic Web Dev by Kent C. Dodds - 2023-10-28 - - Where you store your application data has enormous impacts on your entire application. There are implications on the entire stack based on what you decide to...
• How to find a lost phone in a no-cell-coverage camping site | Manas.Tech - 2023-10-26 - - Or <em>"How to find a lost phone in a no-cell-coverage camping site?"</em>
• Software disenchantment @ tonsky.me - 2023-10-26 - - Everything is going to hell and nobody seems to care
• Incredibly, I Face Investigation for Terrorism - Defence Funds Appeal - Craig Murray - 2023-10-25 - - My phone is not being returned to me by police as, astonishingly, I am now formally under investigation for terrorism. Whether this relates to support for Palestine or for Wikileaks has currently not been made clear. What follows is, unspun and unvarnished, my account of my interview under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act as […]
• What DevRel means to me - Xe Iaso - 2023-10-25 -
• The white furnace test – Light is beautifulLight is beautiful - 2023-10-23 - - What;s up with those empty renders in rendering research papers? The white furnace test, one of my favourite rendering debug tools. It can be used to check several levels of implementation, not just the BRDF, but also the sampling and the Monte Carlo integration loop, Continue reading →
• Stealing OAuth tokens of connected Microsoft accounts via open redirect in Harvest App | 0xcrypto - 2023-10-23 - - Reported an OAuth token leak via open redirect in Harvest.
• ASCII protocol buffers as config files - 2023-10-22 -
• We have used too many levels of abstractions and now the future looks bleak - 2023-10-21 -
• Encrypted traffic interception on Hetzner and Linode targeting the largest Russian XMPP (Jabber) messaging service — - 2023-10-21 -
• Just paying Figma $15/month because nothing else fucking works - 2023-10-20 - - My family wasn't poor by any stretch of the imagination, but I was raised to avoid spending money whenever possible. I was also taught &quot;it's a poor craftsman that blames th...
• Google-hosted malvertising leads to fake Keepass site that looks genuine | Ars Technica - 2023-10-20 - - Google-verified advertiser + legit-looking URL + valid TLS cert = convincing lookalike.
• Using Goatse to Stop App Theft | The Blog of Dr. Josh C. Simmons - 2023-10-18
• getaddrinfo() on glibc calls getenv(), oh boy - 2023-10-17 -
• Mastercard Should Stop Selling Our Data | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 2023-10-16 - - We trust companies with our information every day. But many companies—even those that hold our most revealing information—are using it not just to provide the services we ask for, but to amp up their profits at the cost of our privacy.That's why EFF has joined a campaign, led by the U.S. Public...
• Google has sent internet into ‘spiral of decline’, claims DeepMind’ Mustafa Suleyman - 2023-10-16 - - The British entrepreneur says search results are plagued with ‘clickbait’
• Not setting up Find My bricked my MacBook | TokyoDev - 2023-10-15 - - How I had paid ¥77,619 (500 USD) to have a bricked MacBook returned to me.
• ✨every app that adds AI looks like this✨ - 2023-10-15 - - and just like that - poof! - we scammed you into thinking this shit was cool
• First word discovered in unopened Herculaneum scroll by 21yo computer science student | Vesuvius Challenge - 2023-10-13 - - Vesuvius Challenge $700,000 Grand Prize “now definitely achievable”
• Administrivia: new page/feed generator is now live - 2023-10-13
• The midwit home - DYNOMIGHT INTERNET NEWSLETTER - 2023-10-12 - - Less automation and less agony
• How I made a heap overflow in curl | daniel.haxx.se - 2023-10-12 -
• Bristol Area Pay-as-you-go Scheme – the first serious attempt at fares reform? – BR Fares Blog - 2023-10-11
• UK Address Oddities! – The Unusually Named Blog - 2023-10-09 -
• Big Oil Using Fortnite And TikTok To Get Kids Into Fossil Fuel - 2023-10-09 - - Shell knows young people are worried about climate change and hopes some Fortnite maps will fix that
• Moving Marginalia to a New Server @ marginalia.nu - 2023-10-09 - - So the search engine is moving to a new server soon, thanks to the generous grant mentioned recently. If you visit search.marginalia.nu now, it may or may not use the old or new server. It’ll be like this for a while, since I need them both for testing and maintenance type work. I’ll also apologize if this post is a bit chaotic. It is a reflection of a very chaotic couple of weeks that apart from setting up this migration also involved a very short notice invitation for a presentation at ossym23.
• Salford students furious over letting firm's falsified document - BBC News - 2023-10-07 - A major student letting company is accused of adding a tenant's signature to a waiver form.
• How we’re opening up access to GOV.UK Forms - Government Digital Service - 2023-10-07 - - GDS is leading the digital transformation of the UK government.
• Why HTTP/3 is eating the world | APNIC Blog - 2023-10-06 - - Guest Post: What problems HTTP/3 solves, how it performs, why it’s seen such swift adoption, and what limitations it is still working to overcome.
• Detroit man steals 800 gallons using Bluetooth to hack gas pumps at station - 2023-10-04 - - Some gas station owners are falling victim to a sophisticated scam.
• Redfin is Leaving NAR - Redfin Real Estate News - 2023-10-04 - - Redfin is moving to end our support of the National Association of Realtors
• I screwed something up in that last post about Hue - 2023-10-04
• Return to Office Is Bullshit And Everyone Knows It - Dhole Moments - 2023-10-03 - - I quit my job towards the end of last month. When I started this blog, I told myself, “Don’t talk about work.” Since my employment is in the rear view mirror, I’m going to b…
• Goodbye to sequential integers, hello UUIDv7! - 2023-10-03 - - Exploring the tradeoffs of different database indexes; from sequential integers, randomly generated UUIDs, to time-based identifiers and the latest & greatest UUIDv7
• diziet | DKIM: rotate and publish your keys - 2023-10-01 -
• Sine - Xe Iaso - 2023-10-01

September 2023

• Reorient GitHub Pull Requests Around Changesets – Mitchell Hashimoto - 2023-09-30 - - I've had the experience of using GitHub as a maintainer for very large open source projects (1000+ contributors), as an engineer for very large closed source corporate projects, and everything smaller. Through those experiences up to today, GitHub pull requests is where I spend almost all of my time while on GitHub, and to me its also unfortunately the most frustrating part of GitHub.
• How to See Bright, Vivid Images in Your Mind's Eye - 2023-09-30 - - Learn to improve the brightness and clarity of images in your mind's eye. Image Streaming is an easy technique to learn. Is it a cure for aphantasia?
• Things I’ve learned about building CLI tools in Python - 2023-09-30 - - I build a lot of command-line tools in Python. It’s become my favorite way of quickly turning a piece of code into something I can use myself and package up …
• Working part-time at uni risks worsening inequalities, warns think tank - BBC News - 2023-09-29 - - As the cost of living rises nearly half of universities now promote part-time jobs on their websites.
• Wifi without internet on a Southwest flight - james vaughan - 2023-09-29 - - I spent a recent flight finding out what I could do with an connection to the flight’s wifi, but without access to the internet. I was on my way home from Strange Loop, on a flight from St. Louis to Oakland. It’s a long enough flight that I planned to purchase the $8 internet access and get some work done, but Southwest’s wifi portal wouldn’t accept any form of payment.
• bananas - 2023-09-27 -
• The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing into stupidity - 2023-09-27 -
• ICloud Drive Silently Deletes Your Content | Dominik Mayer – Products, Asia, Productivity - 2023-09-24 - - The first time it happened, I was writing a paper. The paragraphs I had just typed vanished into thin air, faster than Time Machine or Backblaze could save them. Gone. The next occurrence was during app development; Xcode suddenly flagged numerous errors in previously error-free code.
• School Surveillance Harms Kids, Messes Up Homework Time—Report - 2023-09-24 - - Students and teachers alike say monitoring software and internet filtering tools are disproportionally harming LGTB+ students and students with disabilities.
• A Disk Usage Mystery @ marginalia.nu - 2023-09-24 - - I ran into a bit of a puzzling situation yesterday, testing some of the new index construction changes before they’re going live in a few days. The process crashed with a pretty non-descript stack trace complaining about illegal instructions, so first glance it looked more like it was within the realm of freak JVM bug, cosmic ray, hardware error maybe. I was doing this on my developer workstation, which also spawned a popup complaining that the hard drive it was working on had nearly run out of space, and inferred that the error probably was due to memory mapping more space onto a disk than what was possible.
• GitHub Actions could be so much better - 2023-09-23 -
• I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser - 2023-09-23 -
• No sacred masterpieces - by Matt Basta - Basta’s Notes - 2023-09-22 - Or "that time I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it like a week after launch"
• Today The UK Parliament Undermined The Privacy, Security, And Freedom Of All Internet Users  | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 2023-09-22 - - The U.K. Parliament has passed the Online Safety Bill (OSB), which says it will make the U.K. “the safest place” in the world to be online. In reality, the OSB will lead to a much more censored, locked-down internet for British users. The bill could empower the government to undermine not just the privacy and security of U.K. residents, but internet users worldwide.
• Add extra stuff to a "standard" encoding? Sure, why not. - 2023-09-20 -
• WASI support in Go - The Go Programming Language - 2023-09-19 - - Go 1.21 adds a new port targeting the WASI preview 1 syscall API
• Anmeldung form filler - Nicolas Bouliane - 2023-09-19 - - A tool to help you fill the Anmeldung form.
• Trans guidance is needed in schools, parents tell BBC - BBC News - 2023-09-18 - As a new school term gets under way, two parents share different views about why they want guidance.
• The chaotic beauty of street art | ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's blog - 2023-09-14 - - Some thoughts on street art in my city and beyond
• We built the fastest CI in the world. It failed. Here’s what we learned - Earthly Blog - 2023-09-13 - - Imagine you live in a world where no part of the build has to repeat unless the changes actually impacted it. A world in which all builds happened ...
• Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads. Here's what you need to know - 2023-09-12 - - Google is paving the way to serve you ads based directly on your browsing history, instead of cookies.
• UK air traffic control meltdown - 2023-09-12 - - Some notes about the UK air traffic control meltdown
• I wired up my bike's GPS to order me pizza during a gravel race 🍕 - Matt Steele - 2023-09-11 - - As harvest season begins here in the Midwest, I once again celebrate by grinding Nebraska gravel at the Gravel Worlds Long Voyage bike race. As in previous…
• Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome | Ars Technica - 2023-09-08 - - Chrome now directly tracks users, generates a "topic" list it shares with advertisers.
• Mozilla Report Finds That New Cars Give Out Lots of Your Info - 2023-09-07 - - Bad news: your car is a spy. Every major car brand failed a recent privacy and security test from Mozilla. You’re probably driving around in a "privacy nightmare" that may collect information as sensitive as your race, health status, and sexual activity.
• Koreller's diary | North Korea Mapping Guide, a guide to the country, why and how | OpenStreetMap - 2023-09-05 - OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open licence.
• Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python - 2023-09-05 - - Blog about linguistics, programming, and my projects
• Social Media Decline: Ending for Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok - 2023-09-04 - Social media is on the decline. Instagram is all ads. No one's posting on BeReal. TikTok is for influencers. The new place for sharing: group chats.
• The Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge - 2023-09-04 -
• The boiling frog of digital freedom | Gazoche's blog - 2023-09-04 - - Note: the dates of past events are only approximate. The other half of the timeline is wildly speculative and hypothetical.
• The Worst Programmer I Know - Dan North & Associates Ltd - 2023-09-03 - - The great thing about measuring developer productivity is that you can quickly identify the bad programmers. I want to tell you about the worst programmer I know, and why I fought to keep him in the team.
• Farewell EC2-Classic, it’s been swell | All Things Distributed - 2023-09-02 - - It is time to celebrate EC2-Classic, which defined early cloud computing, and which is finally retiring.
• </> htmx ~ Why htmx Does Not Have a Build Step - 2023-09-01
• Absurd Success @ marginalia.nu - 2023-09-01 - - So… I’ve had the most unreal week of coding. Zero exaggeration, I’ve halved the RAM requirements of the search engine, removed the need to take the system offline during an upgrade, removed hard limits on how many documents can be indexed, and quadrupled soft limits on how many keywords can be in the corpus. It’s been a long term goal to keep it possible to run and operate the system on low-powered hardware, and so far improvements have been made, to the point where my 32 Gb RAM developer machine feels spacey rather than cramped, but this set of changes takes it several notches further.

August 2023

• A DIY ‘bionic pancreas’ is changing diabetes care — what's next? - 2023-08-31 - - A community of people with type 1 diabetes got a self-built device approved. What can they offer that big companies can’t?
• A note to young folks: download the things you love - 2023-08-30 - - Many years ago, my favorite podcast was The Totally Rad Show. It was a fun video podcast where the hosts reviewed movies, games, TV shows, and other general nerd stuff. The hosts were Jeff Cannata (who last year I called the podcasting GOAT), Dan Trachtenberg (who went on to direct
• OpenTF Foundation - 2023-08-29 - - Supporting an impartial, open, and community-driven Terraform.
• The Cheap Radio Hack That Disrupted Poland's Railway System | WIRED - 2023-08-29 - - The sabotage of more than 20 trains in Poland by apparent supporters of Russia was carried out with a simple “radio-stop” command anyone could broadcast with $30 in equipment.
• When your classmates threaten you with felony charges | R. Miles McCain - 2023-08-29 - - A few weeks ago, I was part of a talk at DEF CON 31 called The Hackers, The Lawyers, and the Defense Fund.
• Where do fonts come from? This one business, mostly - The Hustle - 2023-08-28 - Creators say they struggle to gain a foothold in a font market dominated by Monotype
• Lock Him Up? A New Poll Has Some Bad News for Trump - POLITICO - 2023-08-27 - A new POLITICO Magazine/Ipsos poll punctures some prevailing political narratives about the Trump indictments.
• Why Does Email Development Have to Suck? - 2023-08-26 - Explaining all the <tr>'s and <td>'s…
• No one actually wants simplicity - lukeplant.me.uk - 2023-08-26 - We think we do, but in fact every web developer will happily sacrifice simplicity to the first shiny thing promising them relief from the mildest of ailments.
• Web Scraping for Me, But Not for Thee (Guest Blog Post) - Technology & Marketing Law Blog - 2023-08-26 - - by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy There are few, if any, legal domains where hypocrisy is as baked into the ecosystem as it is with web scraping. Some of the biggest companies on earth—including Meta and Microsoft—take aggressive, litigious approaches to...
• OpenTF Foundation - 2023-08-26 - - Read the official announcement: opentf.org/announcement
• Homelab v5: Going Down The Network Stack - scholz.ruhr - 2023-08-24 - The Old Setup To properly appreciate the upcoming network shenanigans I’ll have to give you a bit of context on my current setup first. You see, there is a server VLAN at home where everything is hosted, using normal, local IPv4 addresses. Traffic comes in via a Hetzner VPS which runs a reverse proxy (Caddy), that reverse proxy talks to the local network via a WireGuard VPN between VPS and my router.
• Sleeping at Night @ marginalia.nu - 2023-08-23 - I’ve started going on a long walk each morning immediately as I wake up, and it’s had the unexpected side-effect of fixing my broken circadian rhythm. For decades, as long as I can remember, I’ve been what you might consider a serious night owl. Regardless of how long I slept or when I woke up, I would get nothing requiring any sort of thought done until sometime after lunch, and it wasn’t really until late at night that my brain really kicked into gear.
• GNU Parallel, where have you been all my life? | Alex Plescan - 2023-08-22 - - How to use GNU Parallel to gather stats on long-running flaky tests by running them many times and capturing their results.
• “We’re All Just Temporarily Abled” - Jim Nielsen’s Blog - 2023-08-22 - - Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
• Alpine Linux does not make the news - 2023-08-21 -
• flipreps - 2023-08-20 -
• What I learned about Lucy Letby after 10 months in court - BBC News - 2023-08-19 - The nurse was questioned for nearly 60 hours - the BBC's Judith Moritz watched it all.
• Short session expiration does not help security - 2023-08-19 - - When logged into a web application, the session does not remain valid forever. Typically, the session expires after a fixed time after login, or after the user has been idle for some time. How long should these times be?
• It’s Now Even Easier To Check How A Game Runs On Steam Deck - 2023-08-17 - Loading screen maps and movement physics are just some of the Zelda elements Nintendo is trying to patent
• Windows feature that resets system clocks based on random data is wreaking havoc | Ars Technica - 2023-08-17 - - Windows Secure Time Seeding resets clocks months or years off the correct time.
• How They Bypass YouTube Video Download Throttling | 0x7D0 - 2023-08-15 - - Have you ever tried to download videos from YouTube? I mean manually without relying on software like youtube-dl, yt-dlp or one of “these” websites. It’s much more complicated than you might think.
• I had a great time at DEF CON 31 - Xe Iaso - 2023-08-15 - I had a great time at DEF CON 31 - Xe's Blog
• Judge denies HP's request to dismiss printer lockdown suiit • The Register - 2023-08-14 - - AiO devices won't scan or fax without ink, and plaintiffs say IT giant illegally withheld that info from buyers
• The Elite's War on Remote Work Has Nothing to Do with Productivity - 2023-08-14 - - The elite are trying to whip everyone back to the office to avoid a commercial real estate crash.
• Police stage 'chilling' raid on Marion County newspaper, seizing computers, records and cellphones - Kansas Reflector - 2023-08-13 - - In an unprecedented raid Friday, local law enforcement seized computers, cellphones and reporting materials from the Marion County Record office, the newspaper's reporters, and the publisher's home.
• Life in 1080p @ marginalia.nu - 2023-08-13 - I recently got a smaller computer screen. It’s actually not that small, it’s 27", but the resolution is modest compared to what is available. And in short, it’s fantastic. It’s not an expensive screen, it’s not a fancy screen; but it’s comparatively a small screen. For a few years I was using a 34" ultra-wide monitor, which has been causing me nothing but grief. It’s sort of crept up on me that so many small annoyances in my computer-use all originated from using this screen.
• Fourteen days across the Atlantic, perched on a ship’s rudder - BBC News - 2023-08-12 - - Four Nigerian stowaways set out for Europe on a tanker rudder. Two weeks later they were in Brazil.
• Squeeze the hell out of the system you have – Dan Slimmon - 2023-08-12 - - When complexity leaps are on the table, there’s usually also an opportunity to squeeze some extra juice out of the system you have. By tweaking the workload, tuning performance, or supplement…
• Vim Boss - Neovim - 2023-08-11 - - vim out of the box
• Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas | New Zealand | The Guardian - 2023-08-11 - - Pak ‘n’ Save’s Savey Meal-bot cheerfully created unappealing recipes when customers experimented with non-grocery household items
• HashiCorp adopts Business Source License - 2023-08-11 - - HashiCorp adopts the Business Source License to ensure continued investment in its community and to continue providing open, freely available products.
• Opinion | To lure people back from remote working, give them individual offices - The Washington Post - 2023-08-10 - - Office space is leasing at a discount, making this a good time for employers to give workers individual offices, complete with desks and doors that close.
• Notes on Self-hosted Transactional Email – Healthchecks.io - 2023-08-10 - - Since a little more than two months ago, Healthchecks.io has been sending transactional email (~300'000 emails per month) through its own SMTP server. Here are my notes on setting it up. The Before Before going self-hosted, Healthchecks sent email using 3rd-party SMTP relays: AWS SES and later
• Uninstall the Nightowl App, now. - 2023-08-09 - - EDIT: It seems this made it to HN. Is this my cue to Soatokify this article?
• Blocked by Cloudflare - 2023-08-09 - Well, it finally happened to me. I was blocked out of a website I use for work because of Cloudflare. And I have no idea if or when I'll be...
• What helps people get comfortable on the command line? - 2023-08-09 - - What helps people get comfortable on the command line?
• Cyber-attack on UK's electoral registers revealed - BBC News - 2023-08-08 - - The Electoral Commission warns the public to be vigilant for unauthorised use of their personal data.
• Some tactics for writing in public - 2023-08-08 - - Some tactics for writing in public
• I Would Rather See My Books Get Pirated Than This (Or: Why Goodreads and Amazon Are Becoming Dumpster Fires) | Jane Friedman - 2023-08-08 - - Amazon and Goodreads must take steps to combat the flood of AI-generated content that will mislead readers and damage author reputations.
• The Lose-Lose-Lose-Lose Bill C-18 Outcome: Meta Blocking News Links on Facebook and Instagram in Canada - Michael Geist - 2023-08-07 - - For months, supporters of Bill C-18, the Online News Act, assured the government that Meta and Google were bluffing when they warned that a bill based on mandated payments for links was unworkable and they would comply with it by removing links to news from their platforms. However, what has been readily apparent for months became reality yesterday: Meta is now actively blocking news links and sharing on its Facebook and Instagram platforms. The announcement does not reference Threads, but it would not surprise if news links are ultimately blocked on that platform as well. The company says that the blocking will take several weeks to fully roll out to all users, suggesting that it has learned from the over-blocking mistakes made in Australia and is proceeding more cautiously in Canada. By the end of the month, the world’s largest social media platform will become a news desert in Canada, with links to all news - both Canadian and foreign - blocked on the platform.
• Just normal web things. - 2023-08-06 - - A plea for us to get back to building websites that can do normal website things.
• Comcast, Centurylink Fail To Derail Community-Owned Gigabit Fiber Network In Bountiful, Utah | Techdirt - 2023-08-05 - - More than 600 communities across the U.S. have decided to build their own broadband networks after decades of predatory behavior, slow speeds, and high prices by regional telecom monopolies.That in…
• How I discovered the underground world of credit card network exploitation - 2023-08-04
• Google’s Plan To DRM The Web Goes Against Everything Google Once Stood For | Techdirt - 2023-08-04 - - The grand old enshittification curve strikes again. Remember, as stated by Cory Doctorow, the process of enshittification entails these steps: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse t…
• Hackers manage to unlock Tesla software-locked features worth up to $15,000 | Electrek - 2023-08-04 - - A group of hackers have exposed an exploit that can unlock Tesla’s software-locked features worth up to $15,000. Free heated...
• Cops still take more stuff from people than burglars do - 2023-08-03 - - Let’s get one thing out of the way: it’s not normal to stuff $100,000 in cash into a suitcase and then check said suitcase on to a domestic flight. It’s extremely weird, in fact, not something you’d expect a typical person to do in their lifetime. However, doing so is emphatically
• I'm betting on HTML - 2023-08-03 - - AI Use Disclaimer: I wrote this post and then GPT-4 fixed my grammer and spelling
• The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media - BBC R&D - 2023-08-01 - - Trialling ActivityPub and the federated model for social media and it's possibilities for the BBC.
• NASA mistakenly severs communication to Voyager 2 • The Register - 2023-08-01 - - Thankfully the probe regularly phones home to fix this sort of mess

July 2023

• Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse - Blockworks - 2023-07-29 - - Opinion: Worldcoin is no radical new financial system, and certainly not one aimed at equality or fairness.
• Bootstrapping to €600k MRR and getting killed by Shopify. The story of Checkout X. - 2023-07-28 - - I’ve been building websites since I was 10 years old and I’ve started multiple companies along the way. I write about Startups, Shopify, and the entrepreneurship journey.
• Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3 | All Things Distributed - 2023-07-28 - - Three distinct perspectives on scale that come along with building and operating a storage system the size of S3.
• Tesla’s secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints - 2023-07-28 - - About a decade ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard readouts in its electric cars to provide “rosy” projections of how far owners can drive before needing to recharge, a source told Reuters.
• Unpacking Google’s new “dangerous” Web-Environment-Integrity specification - 2023-07-27 - - Why Vivaldi browser thinks Google’s new proposal, the Web-Environment-Integrity spec, is a major threat to the open web and should be pushed back.
• Apple already shipped attestation on the web, and we barely noticed | HTTP Toolkit - 2023-07-26 - - There's been a lot of concern recently about the Web Environment Integrity proposal, developed by a selection of authors from Google, and…
• Apple already shipped attestation on the web, and we barely noticed | HTTP Toolkit - 2023-07-26 - - There's been a lot of concern recently about the Web Environment Integrity proposal, developed by a selection of authors from Google, and…
• At this company, we are family - pboyd.io - 2023-07-26 - - At this company, we are family. And what a family we are.
• Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web | Ars Technica - 2023-07-25 - - It's just a "proposal," but it's also being prototyped inside Chrome right now.
• The Balkans’ alternative postal system: an ad-hoc courier’s tale | Bosnia and Herzegovina | The Guardian - 2023-07-25 - - The long read: Across this fractured region, informal networks rule. So if you need to send something, ask someone who’s already going that way
• Man Found Guilty of Child Porn, Because He Ran a Tor Exit Node (The Story of William Weber) - LowEndBox - 2023-07-24 - - Guns. Drugs. TOR. Child pornography. The long and twisted tale of LowEndTalk's famous member William goes deep.
• The man who won the lottery 14 times - The Hustle - 2023-07-24 - How a rogue Romanian economist legally gamed the lottery and won millions of dollars around the world.
• The man who won the lottery 14 times - The Hustle - 2023-07-24 - How a rogue Romanian economist legally gamed the lottery and won millions of dollars around the world.
• I am dying of squamous cell carcinoma, and the treatments that might save me are just out of reach « The Story's Story - 2023-07-23 - - Alex Tabarrok writes about how “when the FDA fails to approve a good drug, people die but the bodies are buried in an invisible graveyard.” I’d like to make that graveyard a littl…
• Accidentally Load Bearing - 2023-07-21 - Sometimes people will talk about Chesterton's Fence, the idea that if you want to change something&#8212;removing an apparently useless fence&#8212;you should first determine why it was set up that way: The gate or fence did not grow there. It was not set up by somnambulists who built it in their sleep. It is highly improbable that it was put there by escaped lunatics who were for some reason
• Kyla Scanlon: Why Gen Z is redefining the concept of job satisfaction - 2023-07-19 - Gen Z, born between 1996 and 2010, have different ideas about jobs and fulfillment. Why? The 2008 financial crisis, Occupy, the 2010s era of grift, and COVID-19.
• The Death of Infosec Twitter | Cyentia Institute - 2023-07-19 - - "Infosec Twitter," a vibrant community of security practitioners, known for its insight, inspiration, and entertainment, is coming to an end.
• Wesley Aptekar-Cassels | How I run my servers - 2023-07-17 -
• I don't know how I feel about email - Xe Iaso - 2023-07-17 - - I don't know how I feel about email - Xe's Blog
• Plan to crack down on 'rip-off' university degrees - BBC News - 2023-07-17 - University courses will have to limit student numbers if they do not lead to highly-skilled jobs.
• 'Every Body' documentary explores what it means to be intersex : Shots - Health News : NPR - 2023-07-14 - Alicia Roth Weigel is one of three activists profiled in Julie Cohen's new documentary. She says intersex is an umbrella term for people whose "anatomy doesn't fit super neatly into a binary box."
• Disney, Netflix, and More Are Fighting FTC's 'Click to Cancel' Proposal - 2023-07-14 - Trade groups for Netflix, Disney, and others oppose an FTC proposal that would make it easier for people to cancel streaming and other subscriptions.
• El Salvador's secretive mega-jail - BBC News - 2023-07-14 -
• I am leaving (Webbed Briefs) - 2023-07-13 - - A video from Webbed Briefs
• firefox address bar tips :: tilde.institute - 2023-07-11 -
• Defecting From North Korea Is Now Far Harder - The New York Times - 2023-07-10 - - Recent efforts to help people escape Kim Jong-un’s regime via China have been thwarted by digital surveillance, profiteering and the pandemic.
• BSAG » Totem keyboard - 2023-07-10
• How to build a website without frameworks and tons of libraries | Koding Kitty - 2023-07-05 - - A simple toolchain that Koding Kitty uses for building its web.
• Of course the network can be a filesystem - Xe Iaso - 2023-07-01 - - Of course the network can be a filesystem - Xe's Blog
• Captcha *this* - 2023-07-01 -

June 2023

• YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers - 2023-06-30 - - YouTube's got its sights on ad blockers with a new dialog box notifying users of a three-strike policy
• How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) - 2023-06-30 - How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.
• Supreme Court bans affirmative action in college admissions - Los Angeles Times - 2023-06-30 - - In another major reversal, the Supreme Court forbids the use of race as an admissions factor at colleges and universities.
• Publishers Carpet-Bomb IPFS Gateway Operators With DMCA Notices * TorrentFreak - 2023-06-25 - - A volunteer IPFS gateway operator has quit after major publishers demanded the removal of 7,350 URLs, none of which had ever been accessed.
• Car quality is suffering as automakers shift focus to technology | TechSpot - 2023-06-25 - - That's more or less the summary of J.D. Power's 2023 U.S. Initial Quality Study (IQS), which highlighted quality declines in eight out of nine key categories. Driving...
• The ElasticSearch Rant - Xe Iaso - 2023-06-25 - - The ElasticSearch Rant - Xe's Blog
• Chris's Wiki :: Everything that uses configuration files should report where they're located - 2023-06-25 -
• Time is not a synchronization primitive - Xe Iaso - 2023-06-25 - - Time is not a synchronization primitive - Xe's Blog
• Dear Red Hat: Are you dumb? | Jeff Geerling - 2023-06-23 -
• Criminalization of encryption : the 8 december case – La Quadrature du Net - 2023-06-23 - - This article was written on the basis of information related to the so-called "8 December" case (see the footnotes for a global overview of the case, we focus on the "numerical part" of it in this article<fn>For a summary of the 8 December affair see in particular the testimonies available in thi
• The Story Behind Last Week's Let's Encrypt Downtime - 2023-06-22 -
• How my online gaming addiction saved my Ph.D. – Advait Sarkar - 2023-06-22 - - Or, how I cookie-clicked my way to a doctorate in interaction design. It’s been 5 years since I finished my Ph.D. on user interfaces for machine learning. To celebrate/commiserate, I’m sharing an u…
• A case for socks with toes | ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's blog - 2023-06-22 - - I love toe socks and I think you should too
• Maps Distort How We See the World - by Tomas Pueyo - 2023-06-22 - - 30 Maps to Rethink the World
• FTC sues Amazon over 'deceptive' Prime sign-up and cancellation process - 2023-06-21 - - The agency claims Amazon used so-called "dark patterns" to steer users to enroll in Prime without their consent.
• Hackers warn University of Manchester students’ of imminent data leak - 2023-06-21 - - The ransomware operation behind a cyberattack on the University of Manchester has begun to email students, warning that their data will soon be leaked after an extortion demand was not paid.
• Apple could force a 111-year-old fruit company to change its apple logo - 2023-06-21 - - Apple wants to trademark an image of an apple in Switzerland, and this could force a 111-year-old fruit company to change its logo.
• My generation drank to quell our self-loathing. Gen Z is admirably tough and teetotal | Zoe Williams | The Guardian - 2023-06-20 - They are more likely to avoid alcohol than any other age group. Not easy, when you’re facing the nerves of starting university or navigating a new job
• Twitter’s Lawyers Admit They’re Overwhelmed As Nearly 2000 Laid Off Employees File Arbitration Claims | Techdirt - 2023-06-20 - - Back in college, I took an arbitration class, and it was one of my favorite classes. The professor (James Gross, who just retired last year after teaching for an astounding 56 years) was amazing, a…
• Friendly_Ghost's diary | Finding SEO spam in OSM | OpenStreetMap - 2023-06-19 - OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open licence.
• Swing VPN app is a DDOS botnet | Greek geek - 2023-06-19 - - tldr: Swing VPN is using its user base to DDOS sites using its users as a an attack botnet. new: Some people wrote me saying that the DDOS is not happening on ios devices. Just did a quick check and you guys are right. iOS app is using different way to do VPN and also does not do anything suspicious. I should appologize to you and to Appstore team for my lazy extrapolation without actually checking it.
• I Don't Need Your Query Language - 2023-06-18 - - Seriously, I don't. I'd prefer SQL.
• The Staggering Frontiers of CSS - 2023-06-18 - - Friends! Pals! CSS deviants! One thing I’ve always loved about CSS, besides its obvious and immediate effect on a webpage—wow this table is now red!—is that...
• Full Time @ marginalia.nu - 2023-06-17 - - I’m working on Marginalia Search full time. I left the office for the last time today, and it’s the strangest feeling. I’ve quit jobs, taken time off work, been laid off, but this is different from any of those things. This is deliberate. There’s a note of relief. I’ve essentially been working two pretty demanding jobs; one for pay and one for passion and the joy of making a difference.
• Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators From Subreddits Continuing Apollo-Related Blackouts - MacRumors - 2023-06-16 - - As some subreddits continue blackouts to protest Reddit's plans to charge high prices for its API, Reddit has informed the moderators of those...
• Troy Hunt: Have I Been Pwned Domain Searches: The Big 5 Announcements! - 2023-06-16 - - There are presently 201k people monitoring domains in Have I Been Pwned (HIBP). That's massive! That's 201k people that have searched for a domain, left their email address for future notifications when the domain appears in a new breach and successfully verified that they control the domain. But that's only
• The Reddit blackout has left Google barren and full of holes | TechRadar - 2023-06-15 - - Google really did rely on Reddit for a lot of content
• Scrubbing sensitive data at 180MiB/sec/core – Encore Blog - 2023-06-13 - - Dealing with PII and sensitive information is hard, this is how we scrub it from our logs and traces at Encore
• Caching Golang tests in CI | Airplane - 2023-06-13 - - We use Golang (go) at Airplane and run all of our unit tests through a CI on each change in our monorepo. These tests were very slow, but we were able to use go test caching to speed them up by an order-of-magnitude (from minutes to seconds in many cases!). In the remainder of this post, we provide a high-level overview of how Golang test caching works and then describe how we adapted our CI workflows to fully take advantage of it. Background At Airplane, all of our backend systems are wr
• The Asymmetry of Open Source — Matt Holt - 2023-06-11 - - A comprehensive guide to funding open source software projects
• Reddit CEO doubles down on attack on Apollo developer in drama-filled AMA | TechCrunch - 2023-06-10 - Reddit’s unpopular decision to revise its API pricing in a move that’s forcing third-party apps out of business has taken a weird turn. In an AMA hosted today by Reddit co-founder and CEO Steve Huffman, aka u/spez on the internet forum site, the exec doubled down on accusations against the developer behind the well-liked third-party […]
• The Beer Can - 2023-06-08 - - Connecting old and new.
• Vivaldi on Android bypasses restrictions to access Bing Chat. - 2023-06-08 - - The new version of Vivaldi on Android, tablets, and Chromebooks masquerades as competitors to benefit its users and lets users access Bing Chat.
• The Last Egg - 2023-06-08 - - Five more months until freshies...
• Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough - Xe Iaso - 2023-06-05 - - Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough - Xe's Blog
• Lyft’s secret plan to take control of its maps — and its future - 2023-06-02 - Until very recently, Lyft’s in-app navigation system was built using Google Maps, which gave the company little control over a key aspect of its service. But now, after a scrappy three-year effort, Lyft has released its own maps — and it’s starting to unveil new features that could remake the driving and riding experience.
• I gave commit rights to someone I didn't know, I could never have guessed what happened next! · Jacob Davis-Hansson - 2023-06-02 - - (Spoiler: trusting your contributors works) Some years ago, I polished up and released an abandoned project for storing financial data in Django. It let you declare “Money” fields on your models, dealing with proper storage and currencies for you. My use case for the library, django-money eventually faded, but it ended up teaching me a useful lesson in trust and OSS abandonware.
• I think Zig is hard...but worth it - ratfactor - 2023-06-01 -
• The mystery person who spies on theme parks from the sky | Boing Boing - 2023-06-01 - - @Bioreconstruct is a Twitter account that seems to post almost daily aerial (and ground) photos of Walt Disney World and Universal Orlando Resort, particularly construction projects. Here is a phot…

May 2023

• How to Stare at Your Phone Without Losing Your Soul | Sim O.N.E. (Observations, Nonsense, Exaggerations) - 2023-05-31 - - How many hours per day can you stare at your phone before you qualify for a 12-step program? Eight? Four? Twenty? One? Here’s the truth: Screen time doesn’t ...
• The Gemini protocol seen by this HTTP client person | daniel.haxx.se - 2023-05-29 -
• Why I left Rust - 2023-05-29 -
• Music Company Asks Google to Delist 'YouTube Downloader' Wikipedia Article * TorrentFreak - 2023-05-29 - - A recent DMCA anti-circumvention notice asks Google to remove a Wikipedia entry that lists a comparison of YouTube downloaders.
• Lawyer cites fake cases invented by ChatGPT, judge is not amused - 2023-05-28 - - Legal Twitter is having tremendous fun right now reviewing the latest documents from the case Mata v. Avianca, Inc. (1:22-cv-01461). Here’s a neat summary: So, wait. They file a brief …
• How to delete an OVH account (without providing your ID) — scholz.ruhr - 2023-05-26 -
• I have no idea what the hell I’m doing, either – It's Just DJ - 2023-05-26
• Fogknife : Six days of the Python (5 minute read) - 2023-05-26 - A few thoughts and observations as I start to learn Python with some friends this month.
• I block ads • Cory Dransfeldt - 2023-05-26 - I'm a software developer in Camarillo, California. I enjoy hanging out with my beautiful family and 4 rescue dogs, technology, automation, music, writing, reading and tv and movies.
• You don't need a modal window - 2023-05-24 - - Just make a separate page.
• How to cook onions: Why recipe writers lie and lie about how long they take to caramelize. - 2023-05-23 - - Browning onions is a matter of patience. My own patience ran out earlier this year while leafing through the New York Times food section. There, in the...
• 'More Than 600,000 Students and Teachers Use Z-Library' * TorrentFreak - 2023-05-22 - - Pirate eBook repository Z-Library has shared some interesting data concluding that more than 600,000 students and scholars use the site.
• What if you did the exact opposite? (like the rogue bees do) - 2023-05-22 - - Bees have a dance to indicate to others where food is. It’s called the waggle dance. Great name. But a significant portion of bees in a hive completely ignore the waggle dance and venture off on their own accord. Scientists studied this and were perplexed as to why. It
• Modern work requires attention. Constant alerts steal it - Stack Overflow Blog - 2023-05-22 - - Attention—the time and freedom to focus—is your team’s most valuable resource.
• Investigating the impact of HTTP3 on network latency for search - Dropbox - 2023-05-22 -
• Migrating from Supabase - 2023-05-20 - In the last couple weeks, we've migrated Val Town away from Supabase to a simpler database setup at Render. We’ve gotten a few questions about this, so we wanted to share what motivated the move, what we learned, and how we pulled it off. Supabase is an enormously successful product with a lot of happy users, but we ended up having a lot of problems getting to scale to our team's needs. Your mileage may vary, but we hope our experience is a useful data point.
• 🤠 "Where have all the hackers gone?" + a way to discuss programming languages 👨‍🎤 - 2023-05-19 - - A way to talk about programming languages, and a plea to Think Different™
• How BeReal works - 2023-05-14 - - Today we take a deep dive on how the BeReal app works, behind the Scenes
• How to Mend Your Clothes: 5 Easy Stitch Fixes for Beginners - 2023-05-13 - Want to know how to mend your clothes at home? From sewing a button to darning a sock, here are five easy stitch fixes for your wardrobe.
• Ligatures in programming fonts | Butterick’s Practical Typography - 2023-05-13 -
• Using GoatCounter for blog analytics - Eli Bendersky's website - 2023-05-12 -
• Twenty years of blogging - Eli Bendersky's website - 2023-05-12
• 1-bit Hokusai’s ”The Great Wave” – Hypertalking - 2023-05-12
• Ed Sheeran, Once Again, Demonstrates How Modern Copyright Is Destroying, Rather Than Helping Musicians | Techdirt - 2023-05-12 - To hear the recording industry tell the story, copyright is the only thing protecting musicians from poverty and despair. Of course, that’s always been a myth. Copyright was designed to benefit the…
• YouTuber who staged plane crash faces up to 20 years jail: US officials - 2023-05-12 - A YouTuber pilot who bailed out midair and deliberately sent his plane crashing into the ground to bolster viewing numbers on his channel could be jailed for up to 20 years, US authorities said Thursday.He has agreed to plead guilty to one count of destruction and concealment with the intent to obstruct a federal investigation, a crime that carries a statutory maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison.
• YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers - 2023-05-11 - - YouTube is running an experiment asking some users to disable their ad blockers or pay for a premium subscription, or they will not be allowed to watch videos.
• UN Human Rights Chief urges UK to reverse ‘deeply troubling’ Public Order Bill | OHCHR - 2023-05-10 - - GENEVA (27 April  2023) - The Public Order Bill, which has now been passed by Parliament in the United Kingdom, is deeply troubling legislation that is incompatible with the UK’s international human rights obligations regarding people’s rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk warned on Thursday.
• ‘Too greedy’: mass walkout at global science journal over ‘unethical’ fees | Peer review and scientific publishing | The Guardian - 2023-05-08 - - Entire board resigns over actions of academic publisher whose profit margins outstrip even Google and Amazon
• Pixel phones are sold with bootloader unlocking disabled – fitzsim's development log - 2023-05-07 -
• Waking up to Hacker News - Johnathan Nader - 2023-05-07 - - Waking up to Hacker News by Johnathan Nader
• The Messy Page - by Thorsten Ball - Register Spill - 2023-05-07 - - Or: why I don't like greenfield projects
• Memoirs from the old web: IE's crazy content rating system - 2023-05-07 -
• Give it the Craigslist test Erica Heinz - 2023-05-06 - - All the AI design hype got me twitching enough to write about the business risks of working so high-fidelity so fast.
• On writing regularly | ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's blog - 2023-05-05 - - Thoughts on regularly writing in public
• The ChatGPT vs Bear Blog spam war | ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's blog - 2023-05-05 - Fighting the good fight against internet spam
• My product is my garden | ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's blog - 2023-05-05 - I’ve been part of the internet startup scene for a while. There are so many different camps: the bootstrappers, the VC-backed tech-bros, the crypto “investor...
• How companies use dark patterns to keep you subscribed - 2023-05-04 - - Unsubscribing should be easy. It’s not.
• Passkeys: What they are and how to use them - 2023-05-04 - - We’ve begun rolling out support for passkeys across Google Accounts on all major platforms as an additional option that people can use to sign in.
• Evolving Usernames on Discord - 2023-05-03 - - Discord usernames are changing to remove four-digit discriminators. Display Names are being added so how you appear to other users stays the same. Read on for more info.
• Stock Ticker Machine – The Secret Batcave - 2023-05-03
• Writing an OS in Go: The Bootloader - 2023-05-02 - - BEWARE: Low-level gophers playing
• Millions snap up new Germany-wide public transit ticket | AP News - 2023-05-02 - - Public transit companies in Germany say more than three million people have already snapped up a new ticket being launched Monday that allows them to use all local and regional trains, buses and metros across the country for 49 euros a month. The new Germany Ticket is intended to encourage people to ditch their cars in favor of more environmentally friendly forms of transport. It follows on from an experimental 9-euro ‘all you can ride’ ticket that proved to be success last year, but which officials said wasn’t financially viable. The new ticket is considered a revolution in Germany’s fractured public transit system where dozens of regional companies offered myriad different fare options that baffled many travelers.
• Blocked Crossings Force Kids to Crawl Under Trains to Get to School — ProPublica - 2023-05-01 - - When crossings are blocked for hours, kids risk their lives to get to school by crawling through trains that could start at any moment. Ambulances and fire trucks can’t get through. The problem has existed for decades. But it’s getting worse.
• German EMS uses QR technology to discourage illegal photography at emergency scenes - 2023-05-01 - - Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe's "Gaffen Tötet," or "Gawking Kills," campaign warns of the penalties for interfering with emergency operations

April 2023

• Just Simply | Stop saying how simple things are in our docs - 2023-04-30 -
• Big Tech hates the right to repair. But Microsoft is changing its tune. | Grist - 2023-04-30 - - Major tech companies have long opposed the right to repair, but Microsoft is finally engaging with lawmakers and activists.
• It doesn’t take much to make machine-learning algorithms go awry | The Economist - 2023-04-26 - - The rise of large-language models could make the problem worse
• LSD: Not even once. Really. | QWORD - 2023-04-24 - - Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. […] – Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple
• Housing Should Be Affordable Except When I Sell My House for a Million Dollars - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency - 2023-04-23 - - My heart breaks for would-be homeowners priced out of housing markets across the country. We need to do something to bring the price of all houses ...
• Spinning Diagrams with CSS - 2023-04-21 - - This article discusses using CSS to make spinning 3D diagrams.
• Mullvad VPN was subject to a search warrant. Customer data not compromised - Blog | Mullvad VPN - 2023-04-21 - - On April 18 at least six police officers from the National Operations Department (NOA) of the Swedish Police visited the Mullvad VPN office in Gothenburg with a search warrant.
• Go's Error Handling Is a Form of Storytelling · Preslav Rachev - 2023-04-19 - - Good error messages add up and tell a story
• RedPajama, a project to create leading open-source models, starts by reproducing LLaMA training dataset of over 1.2 trillion tokens — TOGETHER - 2023-04-18 - - RedPajama is a project to create a set of leading, fully open-source models. Today, we are excited to announce the completion of the first step of this project: the reproduction of the LLaMA training dataset of over 1.2 trillion tokens.
• I made my blog solar-powered, then things escalated - 2023-04-18 -
• The Universe of Discourse : I liked this simple calculus exercise - 2023-04-18 -
• Designing for colorblindness - The Verge - 2023-04-17 - - Pro tip: when you meet a colorblind person, don’t repeatedly point to things and ask what color they are.
• AT&T Wireless traffic shaping apparently making some websites unusable - Adriano Caloiaro - 2023-04-17 - - When I’m living in my RV, wireless service providers are my primary source of connectivity. So when either AT&T or Verizon make major changes, I take notice. I recently noticed that multiple websites are quite slow when browsing with my AT&T business plan, listed in AT&T Premier (business account management UI) as “Wireless Broadband Ultra for Router or Hotspt (sic)”. This is an “unlimited” 100Mbit plan with 50GB for Business Fast Track (prioritized) data.
• Booking.com De-Stresser - 2023-04-17 -
• 'Valve Restricts Accounts of 2500 Users Who Marked a Negative Game Review Useful' - Slashdot - 2023-04-16
• ‘Youtube-dl Hosting Ban Paves the Way to Privatized Censorship’ * TorrentFreak - 2023-04-14 - - The owner of the company held liable for hosting youtube-dl warns that the "devastating" verdict opens the door to privatized censorship.
• Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500,000 group chat messages - 2023-04-13 - - An exploration into customizing LLMs for personal use
• How we're building a browser when it's supposed to be impossible - 2023-04-12 - - “How is the SerenityOS team making such good progress on building their Ladybird browser, when we've heard for years that it’s impossible”? I've seen this question a few times on sites like Hacker News and Reddit, and I thought I’d offer my own personal take on it.
• I worked at Google for -10 days - 2023-04-12 - - It’s the story of how I was laid off from Google before I even started to do my job there.
• Dutch journalist who writes critically on China targeted in “bizarre” intimidation scheme | NL Times - 2023-04-10 - - Volkskrant journalist Marije Vlaskamp said she has been the victim of serious threats and intimidation since last autumn, including when individual or several people made bomb threats under her name at targeting the Chinese embassy in The Hague and other locations. Threats sent to the Dutch journalist over Telegram demanded that she retract an article critical of China, she wrote in English and in Dutch in the Saturday edition of the Volkskrant.
• The big idea: how can England’s universities survive? | Universities | The Guardian - 2023-04-08 - The government’s laissez-faire approach has imperilled the whole system. It’s time for a radical rethink
• Building GitHub with Ruby and Rails | The GitHub Blog - 2023-04-08 - - Since the beginning, GitHub.com has been a Ruby on Rails monolith. Today, the application is nearly two million lines of code and more than 1,000 engineers collaborate on it daily. We deploy as often as 20 times a day, and nearly every week one of those deploys is a Rails upgrade. Upgrading Rails weekly Every […]
• The dumb reason Twitter won’t allow retweeting tweets linking to Substack | Ars Technica - 2023-04-08 - - "Some actions on this tweet have been disabled by Twitter."
• The Day Windows Died - 2023-04-07 - As a longtime user of Windows, it was my first choice when preparing the first computer for my son. But that didn't work out as expected.
• Making myself uncomfortable again – Andreas Kling – I like computers! - 2023-04-07 - - In early 2019, some months after completing a rehab program for drug addiction, I was in a very open-minded headspace where I wanted to challenge myself and find ways to improve as a person.
• If we lose the Internet Archive, we're screwed – The Statesman - 2023-04-07 - - #OPINION: If the Internet Archive's legal appeal fails, it will be a tragedy of historical proportions.
• Defamed by ChatGPT: My Own Bizarre Experience with Artificiality of “Artificial Intelligence” – JONATHAN TURLEY - 2023-04-07 - - Yesterday, President Joe Biden declared that “it remains to be seen” whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) is “dangerous.” I would beg to differ. I have been writing about th…
• Monster Energy Goes After Indie Dev For Using The Word 'Monster' - 2023-04-05 - - This isn't the first time the beverage brand is going after a dev for using the word.
• Parquet: more than just "Turbo CSV" - 2023-04-04 - - Quicker, but also more convenient
• Rishi Sunak criticises political correctness over grooming gangs - BBC News - 2023-04-03 - Plans for a police taskforce and better data on grooming gangs, including ethnicity, are being criticised.
• Own Your Work | Jose M. - 2023-04-03 - - One of the easiest ways to start sharing your work in the form of writing, designs, or photographs is by using the latest trendy platform in that space, especially when everyone else seems to be using it. How many Blogspot sites are you checking these days? They still work, but Google has killed one or two services, so who knows for how long? Medium was great for publishing content, but it doesn’t seem to be the case anymore.
• The tech helping driverless cars see round corners - BBC News - 2023-04-02 - A trial in London used existing street cameras to help an autonomous car navigate city streets.
• Google Drive does a surprise rollout of file limits, locking out some users | Ars Technica - 2023-04-01 - - The new file limit means you can't actually use the storage you buy from Google.
• Moving from Rust to C++ | Raph Levien’s blog - 2023-04-01 - - I’ve been involved in Rust and the Rust community for many years now. Much of my work has been related to creating infrastructure for building GUI toolkits in Rust. However, I have found my frustrations with the language growing, and pine for the stable, mature foundation provided by C++.
• Administrivia: HTML generation and my general clowniness - 2023-04-01 -
• Building a custom site for zine feedback - 2023-04-01 - - Building a custom site for zine feedback
• I'm done being an underpaid and mistreated wage slave. I am going out on my own and never going back. - 2023-04-01 - - The low pay and abuse ends now
• Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT – POLITICO - 2023-04-01 - - Calls have grown to suspend new releases of popular AI tool.

March 2023

• When Google paid websites to promote Firefox · leonidasv.com - 2023-03-31 - - Having grown up in the 2000s, I love when I discover that something I presumed was banal back then was, in fact, part of some untold history.
• The Teen Mental Illness Epidemic is International: The Anglosphere - 2023-03-30 - - Why did mental health fall off a cliff at the same time and in the same way in the USA, The UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand? Part 1 of 3.
• What's in a (Version) Number? : dylanbeattie.net - 2023-03-29 - On version numbers, prereleases, semantic versioning, release candidates - and why they might matter more than you think
• The age of average — Alex Murrell - 2023-03-29 - - In the early 1990s, two Russian artists named Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid hired a market research firm to survey the public on what they wanted in a work of art. Across 11 countries they then set about painting a piece that reflected the results. Each piece was intended to be a unique a colla
• Amazon to flag ‘frequently returned’ products you maybe shouldn’t buy - The Verge - 2023-03-29 - - Hopefully, this will make fake reviews easier to spot.
• The drama in trying to convert election PDFs to Spreadsheets - Mark Essien - 2023-03-28 -
• JPMorgan's Nickel Bags Turned Out to Filled With Stones - 2023-03-28 - The bank kept bags of stones in a Dutch warehouse thinking they were bags of nickel that would have been worth more than a million dollars.
• How Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them — ProPublica - 2023-03-26 - - Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.
• Site Update: New Character - Xe Iaso - 2023-03-26 - Site Update: New Character - Xe's Blog
• Lidia Thorpe: Australian police review conduct after senator pulled to ground - BBC News - 2023-03-25 - Police will investigate their conduct after Lidia Thorpe says she was "pulverised" at a protest.
• MI5 spy reveals secret 'unauthorised' IRA talks - BBC News - 2023-03-25 - - The officer who helped bring peace to Northern Ireland tells the BBC he defied orders from the government.
• a[low:high:max] in Golang — A Rare Slice Trick | Blog | build-your-own.org - 2023-03-24 - - Full Slice Expressions in Golang — A Rare Slice Trick
• Book Publishers Won’t Stop Until Libraries Are Dead | Techdirt - 2023-03-24 - - 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…
• Framework | Introducing the Framework Laptop 16 and both Intel and - 2023-03-24 - We announced a colossal set of new products and upgrades at our Next Level Event on March 23, 2023.
• Introducing Mozilla.ai: Investing in trustworthy AI - 2023-03-23 - - We’re committing $30M to build Mozilla.ai: A startup — and a community — building a trustworthy, independent, and open-source AI ecosystem. We’re o
• Limited by committee - stitcher.io - 2023-03-23 - Thoughts about design by committee
• Hyundai Promises To Keep Buttons in Cars Because Touchscreen Controls Are Dangerous - 2023-03-22 - - Hyundai knows you like to keep your eyes on the road, and it's giving you the controls to do just that.
• So you've installed fzf - now what? - 2023-03-22 -
• 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...
• Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought - Bitestring's Blog - 2023-03-21 -
• Laying Out a Print Book With CSS | Ian G McDowell's Blog - 2023-03-21 - - In which I embark on a quixotic quest to make a physical book using web rendering technology.
• Supreme Court Asked to Strike Down Immunity for Police Task Force Officers Who Brutally Beat Innocent College Student - Institute for Justice - 2023-03-21 - - ARLINGTON, Va.—A new cert petition before the United States Supreme Court asks the Justices to strike down an immunity recognized by a lower court for […]
• Chuck E. Cheese still uses floppy disks in 2023, but not for long | Ars Technica - 2023-03-20 - - Employee TikTok demos a robot show upgrade from floppy and DVD—possibly for the last time.
• Site Update: New Fonts - Xe Iaso - 2023-03-20 - Site Update: New Fonts - Xe's Blog
• The GraphicalEmoji hack - Xe Iaso - 2023-03-19 - - The GraphicalEmoji hack - Xe's Blog
• My Coffee Isekai - Xe Iaso - 2023-03-19 - My Coffee Isekai - Xe's Blog
• MEMEX - Are you ok? [ 2023-01-27 ] - 2023-03-19 -
• Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market with Dagster, dbt and BigQuery | Dagster Blog - 2023-03-19 - - It's easy for an open-source project to buy fake GitHub stars. We share two approaches for detecting them.
• OK, it’s time to freak out about AI - Nonzero Newsletter - 2023-03-18 - There are at least two kinds of catastrophe scenarios, and both are getting more plausible
• Just write | Robert Birming - 2023-03-16 - - I just finished listening to a podcast about Lena Dunham. I didn't know anything about her, have never seen any of her work and maybe never will. But the epi...
• Docker is deleting Open Source organisations - what you need to know - 2023-03-16 - - This controversial decision coupled with poor messaging has created anxiety the Open Source community. Learn what's happening and how we can move forward.
• Sam Altman Sent Money to Startup to Survive SVB Collapse, Report Says - 2023-03-13 - Altman is one of several tech executives reportedly giving money to startups to help them weather the uncertainty of Silicon Valley Bank's collapse.
• The Threat on Your Desk: Building an Evil USB-C Dock · Aura Research Division - 2023-03-12 - - BadUSB attacks have been a threat for years, but is the USB-C dock sitting on your desk the latest threat in disguise?
• Large language models are having their Stable Diffusion moment - 2023-03-12 - - The open release of the Stable Diffusion image generation model back in August 2022 was a key moment. I wrote how Stable Diffusion is a really big deal at the …
• Life is a game. This is your strategy guide - 2023-03-10 - Real life is the game that – literally – everyone is playing. But it can be tough. This is your guide.
• The Quest for Netflix on Asahi Linux | Blog - 2023-03-10 -
• Load 'em up and throw 'em under the bus - 2023-03-10 -
• Remote Code Execution as a Service - Earthly Blog - 2023-03-08 - - Earthly Compute is an internal service that customers use indirectly via Earthly CI. Now that CI has been publicly announced, we have some stuff to...
• My Hardest Bug Ever - 2023-03-07 - - This is the story of the hardest thing I've ever debugged, from Crash Bandicoot 1.
• Reliability: It's Not Great - General - Fly.io - 2023-03-07 - - 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...
• I Found a Vulnerability in Croniter – Healthchecks.io - 2023-03-07 - (This was in 2021, and the maintainer fixed it the next day.) croniter is a python library for evaluating cron expressions. Given a cron expression and a datetime, it can calculate the nearest next datetime that matches the given cron expression. I was fuzzing the croniter library with atheris
• Maybe Treating Housing as an Investment was a Colossal, Society-Shattering Mistake - 2023-03-06 - - Thoughts on science, economics, politics, relationships. Not an expert.
• 5 Years of Indie Hacking - 2023-03-06 - - This February marks five years since quitting my corporate 9-5 job and jumping into indie hacking full time. Five years always felt like an important benchmark for my journey. Therefore, I wanted to take time to share the three biggest things I've learned so far, as well as reflect on my progress.
• Dear Mr. Sunak, will you block access to encryption, just like Russia & Iran? - 2023-03-01 - - Tutanota: We will not 'walk out' of UK like Signal. Nor will we comply with any request to bypass our encryption.

February 2023

• My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account | Jeff Geerling - 2023-02-25 -
• Disqualified from a National Web Design Competition…for using GitHub | by Ifedolapo Shiloh Olotu | Feb, 2023 | Medium - 2023-02-24 - - Yes, you did read that right. On 2/18/2023, my school’s Web Design team, including myself, Ben Nasse, and Nolan Yee, was disqualified from…
• Self hosting in 2023 - Grifel - 2023-02-20 - - Why I've decided to host my page on my own in home server and how community is building amazing tools like Coolify.
• Analytics: Hacker News v.s. a tweet from Elon Musk - 2023-02-19 - - My post Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first” really took off. It sat at the top of Hacker News for a full day, and is …
• Frost - 2023-02-16 - - Everyday objects, but cold.
• Last Flight Out - 2023-02-16 - - Good-byes, and the beginning of winter isolation.
• Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first” - 2023-02-15 - - Last week, Microsoft announced the new AI-powered Bing: a search interface that incorporates a language model powered chatbot that can run searches for you and summarize the results, plus do …
• Let Teenagers Sleep - Scientific American - 2023-02-14 - - Despite years of evidence that starting school later promotes better health and improved grades, too few schools have adopted this measure
• ‘As bad as it gets without body bags.’ - by James Fallows - 2023-02-08 - - Why the Austin airport situation was so dangerous.
• Connecticut Parents Arrested for Letting Kids Walk to Dunkin' Donuts - 2023-02-03 - - "I have never felt threatened by a single person in this town until meeting those officers and the social worker."
• Stop the proposal on mass surveillance of the EU - Blog | Mullvad VPN - 2023-02-02 - - The European Commission is currently in the process of enacting a law called Chat control. If the law goes into effect, it will mean that all EU citizens' communications will be monitored and listened to.
• Foreigners Reveal What Shocked Them About the British Class System - 2023-02-02 - "It’s weird that people are socialised from young to think that going to a specific private school means you’ll be successful."

January 2023

• Embrace the Chaos: How to Write a Code Editor from Scratch in 4 Months | Edita Blog - 2023-01-31 -
• Xe's blog made $2564.42 in profit last year - Xe Iaso - 2023-01-31 - Xe's blog made $2564.42 in profit last year - Xe's Blog
• How Airports Catch Illicit Radioactive Cargo | WIRED UK - 2023-01-30 - Hidden screening devices are used to track the movement of dangerous materials—and recently caught a shipment of uranium at London’s Heathrow Airport.
• Roam, Twenty Years Before Roam - 2023-01-30 - - Wikipedia has had bidirectional links for twenty years and nobody noticed.
• An Oral History Of The Time Six Doctors Swallowed Lego Heads To See How Long They'd Take To Poo | Defector - 2023-01-28 - - Five of the pediatricians recovered their Lego heads in a matter of days. One pediatrician never recovered his Lego head. This is their story.
• Reader feedback: "bad" names, !main(), and Mastodon - 2023-01-27
• Why curly brackets go on new lines - stitcher.io - 2023-01-25 - My personal thoughts on the web and programming.
• JSX is quasi-quoting - Xe Iaso - 2023-01-24 - - JSX is quasi-quoting - Xe's Blog
• Life as a 21st-Century Trucker | WIRED - 2023-01-22 - Technology, corporate greed, and supply-chain chaos are transforming life behind the wheel of a big rig. I went on the road to find exactly how.
• New Tab - 2023-01-21 -
• Fighting Distraction With Unit Tests | Matthew C Dev - 2023-01-21 - - While I won’t go so far as to diagnose myself with ADD without consulting a doctor, those who know me know I can be distracted quite easily. So recently, I decided to do something a little different with a personal project I started a few weeks ago (link to come). I wrote unit tests. That may seem rather uninspired, but I’ve always poo-pood the idea of test-driven development (TDD), as it seems wild to me to write a test for something that you don’t know what it needs to do yet.
• First Officer On American JFK Runway Incursion Flight Had Added Task At Departure, Source Says - 2023-01-21 - The first officer on American Airlines Flight 106, which was involved in a runway incursion Friday night at JFK, was flying her first flight with new cockpit procedures, a source said. The crew did not learn of the incursion until they arrived in London.
• 🥺: the best sudo replacement - Xe Iaso - 2023-01-21 - - 🥺: the best sudo replacement - Xe's Blog
• how to completely own an airline in 3 easy steps - 2023-01-20 - - and grab the TSA nofly list along the way
• We invested 10% to pay back tech debt; Here's what happened - 2023-01-20 - Why and how we continuously invested the team bandwidth to pay back tech debt and what were the results?
• Setting the clock ahead to see what breaks - 2023-01-20 -
• Levelling up funding process is broken, says Tory mayor Andy Street - BBC News - 2023-01-20 - Andy Street calls for an end to "begging bowl culture" as £2.1bn is allocated to local projects.
• Short, friendly base32 slugs from timestamps — brandur.org - 2023-01-19 -
• Troy Hunt: Pwned or Bot - 2023-01-19 - - It's fascinating to see how creative people can get with breached data. Of course there's all the nasty stuff (phishing, identity theft, spam), but there are also some amazingly positive uses for data illegally taken from someone else's system. When I first built Have I Been Pwned (HIBP), my mantra
• No Start Menu for You | Random ASCII - tech blog of Bruce Dawson - 2023-01-19 - - I tend to launch most programs on my Windows 10 laptop by typing the <Win> key, then a few letters of the program name, and then hitting enter. On my powerful laptop (SSD and 32 GB of RAM) th…
• Feeds, updates, 200s, 304s, and now 429s - 2023-01-19 -
• You don't have to engage with people on the Internet - Xe Iaso - 2023-01-19 - You don't have to engage with people on the Internet - Xe's Blog
• Chris's Wiki :: blog/web/AggressiveStealthyWebSpider - 2023-01-19 -
• What’s New in Go 1.20, Part II: Major Standard Library Changes · The Ethically-Trained Programmer - 2023-01-17 - - The second part of a three part look at new features in Go 1.20.
• How does it know I want csv? ⁠— An HTTP trick - 2023-01-17 - - Forgotten parts of RFC2616
• The IAB loves tracking users. But it hates users tracking them. – Terence Eden’s Blog - 2023-01-17 - - The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) is a standards development group for the advertising industry. Their members love tracking users. They want to know where you are, who you’re with, wh…
• The Cab Ride I'll Never Forget | Kent Nerburn - 2023-01-17 - - The Cab Ride I'll Never Forget There was a time in my life twenty years ago when I was driving a cab for a living. It was a cowboy’s life, a gambler’s lif
• What We Know Now About Friday Night's Near-Disaster At JFK Airport - View from the Wing - 2023-01-16 - - The American plane, a 22 year old Boeing 777-200 (registration N754AN) crossed in front of the Delta jet that was in its takeoff roll. Air traffic control saw this happening and at almost the last possible moment called out to Delta to abort takeoff, out of fear the two planes would collide ("Shit! Delta 1943 cancel takeoff clearance!"). We know a little bit more than was immediately available when this incident was first disclosed.
• I'm Shadow Banned by DuckDuckGo (and Bing) - daverupert.com - 2023-01-16 - - My personal site has zero pages indexed by DuckDuckGo and Bing and even searches for my URL return zero results. This post is a description of the problem and the start of my journey to fix it.
• YouTube Addiction - 2023-01-14 -
• What the hell is Forth? — blog dot information dash superhighway dot net - 2023-01-14 - - Forth is perhaps the tiniest possible useful interactive programming language. It is tiny along a number of dimensions: The amount of c...
• Embedding Our New React UI in Go | Flipt Blog - 2023-01-13 - - A journey embedding React in Go.
• How to build large Golang applications using FX | by The Devops Guy | Dec, 2022 | Medium - 2023-01-13 - - Effortlessly avoid tight coupling in Go while increasing code reuse and quality using FX, a dependency injection tool created by Uber.
• SourceHut will blacklist the Go module mirror - 2023-01-13 - - 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.
• Taking over a Dead IoT Company - 2023-01-11 - - 5 years after NYCTrainSign collapsed, I investigate why the company failed and end up writing an exploit to take over their fleet.
• Stop filming strangers in 2023 - The Verge - 2023-01-09 - - Normalize not making content out of random strangers.

December 2022

• Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang - 2022-12-31 - In the two years since I've posted I want off Mr Golang's Wild Ride , it's made the rounds time and time again, on Reddit, on Lobste.rs, on HackerNews, and elsewhere. And every...
• The Grumpy Economist: Stanford hates fun - 2022-12-26 -
• How I still use Flash in 2022 – Foon by Robin Allen - 2022-12-22 - - A Hapland Trilogy postmortem
• Systems design and being bitten by edge-triggering - 2022-12-22 -
• Disputing A Parking Fine with ChatGPT - Notes by Lex - 2022-12-16 - This article covers a use case for ChatGPT, an exciting new product by OpenAI. This post made it to the front page of Hacker News. See the discussion here. Sydney Morning Herald also mentioned...
• thibault's Blog • Lichess & Scala 3 • lichess.org - 2022-12-16 - - Lichess gets a big upgrade. It doesn't go as planned.
• Doors of McMurdo - 2022-12-16 - - Doors, in a variety of shapes and styles.
• Site Update: No More Revue - Xe Iaso - 2022-12-16 - Site Update: No More Revue - Xe's Blog
• Bike Helmet Laws | How Mandatory Helmet Laws Hurt Cities - 2022-12-05 - - Requiring all riders to wear a helmet has proven negative effects.
• Air Marshals Will Refuse Orders To Go To The Border, Prefer Protecting First Class Cabins - View from the Wing - 2022-12-05 - - Armed federal officers publicly threatening to defy orders from the President seems like it’s getting insufficient attention. The Biden administration largely continuing Trump’s border policies (he’s building the wall!) seems under-covered as well. The claim about vulnerable flights as a result is absurd.
• Administrators Have Seized the Ivory Tower — The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal - 2022-12-05 - - The “ivory tower” has long been the lens through which American popular culture views higher education. The phrase conjures up images of seminar rooms and high-minded ideas debated at a … Continue reading "Administrators Have Seized the Ivory Tower"
• Twenty five thousand dollars of funny money - 2022-12-04 -
• At SpaceX, work was taken away from me in case I “might retire or die.” - 2022-12-01 - - 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

November 2022

• BSAG » Hold me closer, tiny keyboard - 2022-11-28
• Cracking my windshield and earning $10,000 on the Tesla Bug Bounty Program | Sam Curry - 2022-11-27 -
• Site Update: Version 3.0 - Xe Iaso - 2022-11-26 - Site Update: Version 3.0 - Xe's Blog
• The night of 1000 alerts (but only on the Linux boxes) - 2022-11-25 -
• Smart Move, Google - 2022-11-25 -
• Door to door solar sales jobs in Florida bring 'constant rejection,' big commission pay - 2022-11-24 - - We tagged along with a solar sales rep in Tampa to see what the grind was like.
• Interconnected, a blog by Matt Webb - 2022-11-23 - - My notebook and space for thinking out loud since February 2000.
• A thought experiment: what if we talked about the over-60s’ screen time the way we talk about young people’s screen time? – Hi, I'm Heather Burns - 2022-11-23 -
• The carcinization of Go programs - Xe - 2022-11-23 - - The carcinization of Go programs - Xe's Blog
• How To Sell Tickets Fairly | Barnabas Kendall - 2022-11-20 - - A proposal of how to sell a limited number of tickets to a live concert in a fair way
• You cannot find me on Mastodon - stitcher.io - 2022-11-20 - My personal thoughts on the web and programming.
• James Stanley - Problems with Protohackers - 2022-11-19
• Making a Go program 42% faster with a one character change • Harry Marr - 2022-11-18 - - Programmer and engineering manager working at GitHub. Co-founded Dependabot, and helped build Monzo and GoCardless.
• Missing the point completely - 2022-11-18 -
• Voter ID list gives few options for younger voters – Electoral Reform Society – ERS - 2022-11-18 - Long-awaited details of the government’s voter ID scheme have now finally been released including details of which IDs will be accepted at the polling station.With no alternatives for
• Nothing has ever angered me more than The Google Play Team - 2022-11-17 - - 2 weeks of dealing with Google as a developer
• Mom Handcuffed, Jailed for 8-Year-Old Son Walking Half a Mile - 2022-11-17 - - Heather Wallace was prosecuted for child endangerment after her 8-year-old son walked half a mile home through the Waco, TX suburbs.
• Goodbye Twitter, Hello Fediverse! - Xe - 2022-11-13 - Goodbye Twitter, Hello Fediverse! - Xe's Blog
• Browsers, JSON, and FormData - Jim Nielsen’s Blog - 2022-11-12 -
• Thoughts on the "Guard" Proposal for Go's Error Handling | Lane's Blog - 2022-11-11 - - I found this proposal for improvements to error handling in Go interesting, but still not something I’d be happy to see implemented. Allow me to clear up my thoughts on Go’s errors. Overall, I prefer how Go forces me to think about errors at every turn. When working in try/catch languages like JavaScript, I often easily forget which functions can throw. Even if I do remember, it’s easy to think “I think this gets caught somewhere up the call chain”.
• Duck! Octopuses caught on camera throwing things at each other - 2022-11-11 - - Cephalopods living unusually close together have been filmed throwing shells, algae and silt — sometimes at another octopus.
• Voting from Antarctica - 2022-11-11 - - How to vote back home while you're in Antarctica!
• Getting it or not getting it, and then what? - 2022-11-11 -
• 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.
• 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.
• Home invasion - 2022-11-10 - - The fediverse is dealing with a huge wave of Twitter people bringing toxic ideas with them.
• ongoing by Tim Bray · Just Don’t - 2022-11-09 -
• What to blog about - 2022-11-07 - - You should start a blog. Having your own little corner of the internet is good for the soul! But what should you write about? It’s easy to get hung up …
• Xess 2: CSS variable edition - Xe - 2022-11-07 - - Xess 2: CSS variable edition - Xe's Blog
• It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon - 2022-11-06 - - Elon Musk laid off about half of Twitter this morning. There are many terrible stories emerging about how this went down, but one that particularly struck me was that he …
• Programmers Should Plan For Lower Pay - 2022-11-05 - - Summary: we don't understand why programmers are paid so well. If you're a programmer, there's enough of a chance that this is temporary that it's worth explicitly planning for a future in which you're laid off and unable to find similarly high-paying work. Programmers are paid surprisingly well given how much work it is to become one. Here's Dan Luu comparing it to other high-paid careers: I
• White House deletes tweet after Twitter adds 'context' note - POLITICO - 2022-11-05 - - The original tweet touted a record increase in Social Security benefits under President Joe Biden.
• The Real Problem with Go - Vanity Notes - 2022-11-05 -
• Organizing 1,700 Resistors in a Ring Binder - 2022-11-04 - Home automation, electronics, software development, etc.
• How I make a living working on SerenityOS – Andreas Kling – I like computers! - 2022-11-04 - - This post describes in detail how I support myself while working on the SerenityOS project.
• OpenSSL gave everyone alarm fatigue - Xe - 2022-11-02 - - OpenSSL gave everyone alarm fatigue - Xe's Blog

October 2022

• Nobody Wants Touch-Screen Glove Box Latches And It Needs To Stop Now - The Autopian - 2022-10-31 - - I’ve been seeing some absolute nonsense online recently, nonsense showing some actual real-world car features, and I’ve realized it’s my duty to take a moment and let the whole world know what’s going on here is very much not okay. It’s not okay. I’m not going to sit back and just let it happen, let …
• Various site updates - Xe - 2022-10-31 - Various site updates - Xe's Blog
• How we became the world's foremost expert on Google Play Store policy violations | Pushbullet Blog - 2022-10-28 -
• University staff to strike over pay and pensions - BBC News - 2022-10-25 - Lecturers, librarians and admin staff across the UK vote to take action over pay and pensions.
• Dotfile madness - 2022-10-24 -
• Fake books - lcamtuf’s thing - 2022-10-24 - - Late last year, at the peak of the non-fungible token (NFT) craze, I purchased about a dozen highest-rated NFT books on Amazon: I did this because I wanted to publish a balanced critique of NFTs; I figured the most honest approach would to get familiar with the best-articulated arguments put forward by the proponents of this tech.
• 3-3 Natural Deduction | BookStack - 2022-10-22 - 2022-10-13, 1200-1300, University Center Avon roomVincent Rahli Natural deduction is the "natural"...
• Blink-182 Tickets Are So Expensive Because Ticketmaster Is a Disastrous Monopoly and Now Everyone Pays Ticket Broker Prices - 2022-10-22 - - Or: Why you are not ever getting an inexpensive ticket to a popular concert ever again.
• Hosting SQLite databases on Github Pages - (or any static file hoster) - phiresky's blog - 2022-10-21 - - I was writing a tiny website to display statistics of how much sponsored content a Youtube creator has over time when I noticed that I often write a small tool as a website that queries some data from a database and then displays it in a graph, a table, or similar. But if you want to use a
• 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...
• Photoshop for text — Stephan Ango - 2022-10-21 - - When I think about editing images, a vast array of options come to mind: contrast, saturation, sharpen, blur, airbrush, clone stamp, etc. Even basic image ed...
• Is a ‘software engineer’ an engineer? Alberta regulator says no, riling the province’s tech sector - The Globe and Mail - 2022-10-16 - The long-standing rift pits government-mandated engineering associations against the fast-growing tech industry that has used the well-worn title since the 1960s
• Train Travel in the UK: A Foreigner's Perspective - Paliparan - 2022-10-14 - Although British people love to complain about the state of their railways, my impressions about train travel in the UK were mostly positive.
• RSS Club: School vs Wikipedia - ratfactor - 2022-10-14
• Inside the world of Wikipedia’s deaditors - The Face - 2022-10-14 - This community of dedicated volunteers is so fast it even beat the BBC to announcing the Queen’s death.
• Dutch employee fired by U.S. firm for shutting off webcam awarded €75,000 in court | NL Times - 2022-10-10 - - A remote employee of a U.S. business who was fired for refusing to leave his webcam on while he was working was awarded roughly 75,000 euros by a Dutch court for wrongful termination. The resident of Diessen, Noord-Brabant, was hired by the the Rijswijk branch of Chetu Inc., a software development company headquartered in Miramar, Florida.
• A Florida Mom Claimed Trans Organ Harvesters Abducted Her Son. He Had Simply Moved Out | Them - 2022-10-09 - Advocates say the case shows the impact of anti-trans disinformation.
• Migrating our monorepo seamlessly from Dep to Go Modules - 2022-10-07 - - Since 2018, we've used Dep to manage our monorepo dependencies, but when it was deprecated switching to Go Modules was a high risk change. This post explains how we reduced that risk by iteratively updating our dependencies for a seamless migration.
• Why Modern Software is Slow–Windows Voice Recorder | Random ASCII – tech blog of Bruce Dawson - 2022-10-07 - - I apologize for this title because there are many things that can make modern software slow. Blindly applying one explanation without a bit of investigation is the software equivalent of a cargo cu…
• Our domain and 700 non-profit sites got blocked by Meta. - 2022-10-07 - - 📢Update: My message has been heard and our domain has been unblocked. Thank you everyone for sharing. I'm so so happy right now 😭❤️ In my spare time, I maintain an open-source SAAS tool for non-profits that allows you to build an online shop, sell tickets and register members online. This
• When A Brand Becomes More Popular Than The Meaning Of The Word In Google - 2022-10-04 - - There are some brands that have generic names that have become more popular than the actual meaning of the word. In those cases, Google Search may rank or show information about the brand over the mea
• Mahmoud Mazouz - 2022-10-03
• Stadia died because no one trusts Google | TechCrunch - 2022-10-02 - - There’s a lot of chatter right now about the “surprise” shutdown of Stadia, Google’s game-streaming service. While it’s true that rivals like Geforce Now and Xbox Cloud Gaming presented entrenched competition, and that Google knows next to nothing about gaming, the main trouble — as with most of its products these days — is that […]
• Software engineering practices - 2022-10-02 - - Gergely Orosz started a Twitter conversation asking about recommended “software engineering practices” for development teams. (I really like his rejection of the term “best practices” here: I always feel it’s …
• Prompt engineering is hard - Xe - 2022-10-02 - - Prompt engineering is hard - Xe's Blog
• Outdated vs. Complete - 2022-10-01 - 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...
• Someone is pretending to be me. - 2022-10-01 - One random day - someone spills the beans. They were picked to impersonate me and get a job using my information.
• Meet the robots coming to a restaurant near you - The Washington Post - 2022-10-01 - - Facing a labor shortage, fast-food restaurants are increasingly turning to robots to man the fryer and do other unpopular tasks.

September 2022

• Ken Thompson Really Did Launch His "Trusting Trust" Trojan Attack in Real Life - 2022-09-29 - - Ken Thompson's "Trusting Trust" compiler Trojan attack was not just a thought experiment. In fact, Usenet poster Jay Ashworth stated that, from personal communications, Thompson really did launch this attack in real life and successfully compromised the Unix Support Group at Bell Labs. Recently, I've rediscovered this original message with full message headers in a search effort using various Usenet archives, showing the authenticity of the post.
• 'I was hate-crimed at Birmingham Pride - don’t you dare tell me we don’t need Pride anymore' - Birmingham Live - 2022-09-27 - Raphael Kohn, 20, was verbally abused and threatened on his way home from the parade
• Go runtime: 4 years later - The Go Programming Language - 2022-09-27 - - A check-in on the status of Go runtime development
• Shirts That Go Hard's creator is now going a little less hard - 2022-09-26 - Input speaks to the guy behind the infamous Twitter gimmick account.
• James Stanley - Solving Protohackers with Fly.io - 2022-09-25
• Gen Z Never Learned to Read Cursive - The Atlantic - 2022-09-23 - - How will they interpret the past?
• Ukraine war: Russians flee to border after military call-up - BBC News - 2022-09-23 - - Georgia's border sees large queues after flights sell out as some fighting-age men flee Russia.
• Avoiding homework with code (and getting caught) - 2022-09-23 - - The eventful tale of me getting fed up with my homework
• Framework | Introducing the Framework Laptop Chromebook Edition - 2022-09-22 - - The Framework Laptop Chromebook Edition is now available for pre-ordering with shipments starting in early December.
• You don’t want to be on Cloudflare’s naughty list | Ctrl blog - 2022-09-21 - - 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.
• Google removed our website from search because it uses youtube-dl - 2022-09-20 - - A week ago, we received an email that every website owner dreads - a notification of a DMCA takedown request that has resulted in our website being removed from Google Search. In this email, Google summarized the takedown request (which can be viewed here) which accuses our company, Kapwing, of
• Jeff Geerling, Stably Diffused | Jeff Geerling - 2022-09-17
• I don’t know how to solve prompt injection - 2022-09-17 - - Some extended thoughts about prompt injection attacks against software built on top of AI language models such a GPT-3. This post started as a Twitter thread but I’m promoting it …
• Push notification two-factor auth considered harmful - Xe - 2022-09-17 - - Push notification two-factor auth considered harmful - Xe's Blog
• That Annoying Shade of Blue • bsago.me - 2022-09-15 - - How the default settings of many ANSI terminal emulators use an unreadable shade of blue by default, where the colour came from, and why I’m choosing to just ignore it.
• Say Hello to Crazy Thin ‘Deep Insert’ ATM Skimmers – Krebs on Security - 2022-09-15 -
• QR codes | Dan Hollick 🇿🇦 - 2022-09-15 - - Ever wondered how a QR code works? No, me neither but it's low-key fascinating. (Warning, there is some extremely nerdy shit here.👇 )
• How we built Pingora, the proxy that connects Cloudflare to the Internet - 2022-09-15 - - Today we are excited to talk about Pingora, a new HTTP proxy we’ve built in-house using Rust that serves over 1 trillion requests a day
• The Follower – Dries Depoorter - 2022-09-14 - - How does this work? Recorded a selection of open cameras for weeks. Scraped all Instagram photos tagged with the locations of the open cameras. Software compares the Instagram with the recorded footage. I launched the project on 12 September 2022. The YouTube video was just created with results of 10 days. I will publish new…
• A pair of Rust kernel modules [LWN.net] - 2022-09-14 -
• ZeroBanana – Senior Engineers are Living in the Future - 2022-09-14 -
• Automating a Reading List - Zanshin.net - 2022-09-13 - The personal website of Mark Hanford Nichols.
• My Blog is Hilariously Overengineered to the Point People Think it's a Static Site - Xe - 2022-09-13 - - My Blog is Hilariously Overengineered to the Point People Think it's a Static Site - Xe's Blog
• Software Component Names Should Be Whimsical And Cryptic | by Aaron Zinger | Sep, 2022 | Medium - 2022-09-13 - - Descriptive names considered harmful.
• Discontinuing Bibliogram - cadence's blog - 2022-09-13 -
• Planning Go 1.20 Cryptography Work - 2022-09-13 - - My plans for Go 1.20 include landing the crypto/ecdh package, making progress on moving math/big out of the security perimeter, and a batch of crypto/tls work.
• Who Cares About Diversity? - by Michael Huemer - Fake Noûs - 2022-09-13 - - All across the Academy, schools are requiring “Diversity Statements” as a condition for new hires. Everyone has to submit a statement explaining how they are going to contribute to “diversity”. What you’re supposed to do in these, and what everyone damn well knows you’re supposed to do, is (i) talk about your race, gender, and other “identity group” traits that it would be illegal for the university to explicitly ask you about, and (ii) talk about your activism on behalf of left-wing identity politics.
• NHS cancels thousands of appointments because of Queen’s funeral | openDemocracy - 2022-09-13 - Exclusive: Thousands of patients waiting for surgery, maternity checks and some cancer care will be affected
• Anti-royal protesters are being arrested in the U.K. as the 'Not My King' tag grows - 2022-09-13 -
• Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project – Andreas Kling – I like computers! - 2022-09-12 - - This post describes the Ladybird browser, based on the LibWeb and LibJS engines from SerenityOS.
• Why we should link student loan forgiveness to national service | The Hill - 2022-09-12 - - President Biden recently announced a plan to forgive an estimated $240 billion in student loans for some 25 million people. Last month, the Department of Defense announced our armed forces cannot m…
• Old School Unix Administration (My Next Homelab Generation) — scholz.ruhr - 2022-09-11 -
• School chaplain told pupils 'you don't have to accept LGBT stuff' - BBC News - 2022-09-11 - Rev Bernard Randall says he was unfairly dismissed for opposing a school inclusivity programme.
• 'I want to see the rainbow flag raised in Iran' - BBC News - 2022-09-11 - One of two lesbians sentenced to death in Iran had spoken to the BBC about her hopes for the future.
• Build Your Career on Dirty Work | Stay SaaSy - 2022-09-11 - - The Dirty Work Theory: The lamentable work that many people avoid are great places to look for high impact, low hanging fruit.
• Shortest URLs on the Internet | James Williams - 2022-09-11 - - What’s the shortest URL for which content is served on the internet? There are quite a few single-letter second-level domains that are used in very short URLs, such as Google’s http://g.co or Facebook’s https://m.me. But we can go shorter than this: there’s nothing stopping TLD registry operators serving A records at the apexes of their TLD zones. For example, if Verisign (the operator of the com TLD registry) wished, they could add an A record at the apex of the com TLD zone – com would then resolve to that IP, and your browser would connect to that IP when you visited https://com.
• On my resignation as regulator of the Dutch intelligence and security services - Bert Hubert's writings - 2022-09-10 - - I’ve seen some mediocre automated translations of my Dutch language resignation statement go round. To prevent any confusion, please find the story here in English: Until today I was one of the three members of the board that checks warrants for the Dutch intelligence and security services. This board is called “Toetsingscommissie Inzet Bevoegdheden” or TIB. If either of the civil or the military intelligence and security services of The Netherlands want to use their lawful intercept, SIGINT or hacking (& some other) legal powers, they have to first convince their own jurists, then their ministry and finally the TIB.
• BookStack Release v22.09 · BookStack - 2022-09-09 - The BookStack September release is here with a variety of desired features that build upon, and enhance, existing BookStack systems. As usual, it also includes language updates and a bunch of tweaks & fixes.
• Developing Situation: Something is up with Patreon - Xe - 2022-09-09 - - Developing Situation: Something is up with Patreon - Xe's Blog
• http://http://http://@http://http://?http://#http:// | daniel.haxx.se - 2022-09-08 -
• Difftastic, the Fantastic Diff – Wilfred Hughes::Blog - 2022-09-08 - - programming, language design, and human factors
• TheCaseForTheUsrMerge - 2022-09-08 -
• A trillion prices | DoltHub Blog - 2022-09-07 - - Blog for DoltHub, a website hosting databases made with Dolt, an open-source version-controlled SQL database with Git-like semantics.
• AdGuard’s new ad blocker struggles with Google’s Manifest v3 rules - 2022-09-06 - - AdGuard has published the first ad blocker extension for Chrome that is compatible with Manifest V3, Google's newest extension platform protocol for the world's most popular web browser.
• James Stanley - Cheating at chess with a computer for my shoes - 2022-09-06 -
• Node.js creator Ryan Dahl urges Oracle to release JavaScript trademark • DEVCLASS - 2022-09-06 - The creator of Node.js and Deno, Ryan Dahl, has penned an open letter to Oracle imploring the company to release the JavaScript trademark into the public domain. “The trademark is a dark cloud looming over the world’s most popular programming language,” he wrote. “Careful law abiding engineers bend over backwards to avoid its use – […]
• Piled On | The Nib - 2022-09-06 - What it’s like on the other side of an online hatefest.
• Static site hosting hurdles -- Volution Notes - 2022-09-06 - - When it comes to static sites, there are a myriad of solutions for authoring and compiling, but talk about hosting these static sites, and we are still in the early 2000s. I discuss the challenges one faces when hosting, and even make a proposal to solve some of these.
• I ran the worlds largest DDoS-for-Hire empire and CloudFlare helped - 2022-09-05 - - The perils of remaining neutral on a global scale: fanning the flames and selling the extinguisher.
• After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel. The oligopoly has won. - 2022-09-05 -
• Announcing the glorious advent of XeDN - Xe - 2022-09-05 - Announcing the glorious advent of XeDN - Xe's Blog
• Blocking Kiwifarms - 2022-09-04 - - We have blocked Kiwifarms. Visitors to any of the Kiwifarms sites that use any of Cloudflare's services will see a Cloudflare block page and a link to this post.
• In praise of qemu - 2022-09-03 -
• Cops wanted to keep mass surveillance app secret; privacy advocates refused | Ars Technica - 2022-09-03 - - Fog Reveal is "almost invisible" when attempting to search for it online.
• Pluralistic: 21 Aug 2022 The Shitty Technology Adoption Curve Reaches Apogee – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow - 2022-09-03 -
• The utterly delightful site dedicated to classifying plastic bread tags - 2022-09-02 - The Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group sounds super-official, but it's just one very obsessed guy.
• Things not available when someone blocks all cookies - 2022-09-01 - - The personal blog of Thomas Steiner
• AdGuard’s new ad blocker struggles with Google’s Manifest v3 rules - 2022-09-01 - AdGuard has published the first ad blocker extension for Chrome that is compatible with Manifest V3, Google's newest extension platform protocol for the world's most popular web browser.

August 2022

• Quiet quitting: The workplace trend taking over TikTok - BBC News - 2022-08-31 - Workers are starting to "quiet quit" in a bid to get their work-life balance back.
• Why is WebMD so awful? - by Tom - TJCX - 2022-08-31 - And what would a "good" WebMD look like?
• Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture - 2022-08-31 - - I used to think GitHub Codespaces would help popularise Gitpod but now realize it is the other way around. Gitpod is currently permitted to exist in the Visual Studio Code ecosystem to popularise GitHub Codespaces, and Microsoft can step in at any moment to create legal crises that strategically divide the market from a business perspective because, like Apple and their AppStore: it is their ecosystem that they control and they are in absolute control.
• apt_key deprecated in Debian/Ubuntu - how to fix in Ansible | Jeff Geerling - 2022-08-31
• Tutorial - Setting up Shiori - 2022-08-31 - Let's setup Shiori, a simple bookmarks manager and clone of Pocket!
• Code: Falsehoods programmers believe about email - 2022-08-31 - - In the spirit of falsehoods programmers believe about names and time, here’s some falsehoods about email which are all too common.
• 4.2 Gigabytes, or: How to Draw Anything - ⌨️🤷🏻‍♂️📷 - 2022-08-30 -
• Stable Diffusion is a really big deal - 2022-08-30 - - If you haven’t been paying attention to what’s going on with Stable Diffusion, you really should be. Stable Diffusion is a new “text-to-image diffusion model” that was released to the …
• The silent majority - 2022-08-30 - - The “silent majority” was used by President Richard Nixon during his presidency and his campaign. In this usage, it referred to those Americans who did
• Echo reply (an incomplete update on things) - 2022-08-30
• Fear of Landing – Post-Pandemic Mystery at Heathrow - 2022-08-29 - In June 2021, the British Air Accident Investigative Branch (AAIB) initiated a fascinating investigation after they noticed three similar incidents at London Heathrow over a three-day period. Soon,…
• Jonas Hietala: Rewriting my blog in Rust for fun and profit - 2022-08-29 -
• It's Now Illegal for Anyone Under 21 to Buy Canned Whipped Cream in NY - 2022-08-29 - - A New York state senator said the legislation targets the use of whippets after there were "complaints about empty canisters on neighborhood streets."
• Theyre trying to get me kidnapped and tortured, but Twitter doesnt care | Waqas Ahmed - 2022-08-29 - - People spreading disinfo about me that can get me kidnapped and tortured by a fascist govt.
• Weird monitor bugs people sent me in the last 5 years — Alin Panaitiu - 2022-08-29 - - Alin Panaitiu's notes and ramblings: short-form content on macOS apps, music and computers in general
• What's going on with security at PayPal? - Christian Varga - 2022-08-28 - - PayPal's one-time login codes are a security disaster. Your account is at severe risk; remove your data or close your account immediately.
• #17: One kitchen, hundreds of internet restaurants - by pb - 2022-08-28 - - There are a few cloud kitchen restaurants that deliver food that is so shit that I want to know which other brands are being run from the same kitchen so that I can avoid them all.
• André Staltz - Time Till Open Source Alternative - 2022-08-28 - - Open Source Freelancer
• Ghana Bans A Delta Boeing 767 (Yes, Just One) - One Mile at a Time - 2022-08-27 - - The aviation authority in Ghana has banned one specific Delta Boeing 767 from flying to the country, following an incident. Here's why.
• Smiling Dogs? Captcha Has Gone Too Far | WIRED UK - 2022-08-27 - Users face increasingly impossible challenges to prove they are not bots.
• Why Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus - 2022-08-27 - - On July 18, 2022, Slack announced that starting September 1, search history for organizations on Slack’s Free plan will be limited to just the past 90 days of message history. Instead of a 10,000-message limit and 5 GB of storage, we are giving full access to the past
• waifud Progress Report #2 - Xe - 2022-08-27 - waifud Progress Report #2 - Xe's Blog
• How I used Go to make my radio auto-switch to AUX-IN when a Raspi plays music · Applied Go - 2022-08-26 - - How Go code detects music output on a Raspberry and switches a 3sixty radio to AUX-IN via Frontier Silicon API
• Your online identity is owned by your email provider | Ctrl blog - 2022-08-26 - - Your email provider owns your online identity by controlling your email address. You can’t port your email address to another provider as with phone numbers.
• Random Acts of Kindness Make a Bigger Splash Than Expected - Neuroscience News - 2022-08-26 - People often underestimate the positive emotions and outcomes people who are the recipients of random acts of kindness feel.
• The Legacy of Heroku's Free Tier - Xe - 2022-08-26 - - The Legacy of Heroku's Free Tier - Xe's Blog
• The Three F's of Open Source Development | Ben E. C. Boyter - 2022-08-26 -
• The downfall of smart TVs: From promises of seamless viewing to ad tool on steroids - 2022-08-22 - - Before we start talking about smart TV technology, let's take a short trip down memory lane and recall what television was like without it: it's the early 2000s, your favorite show is on, the action builds to a climax, you're on the edge of your seat.... and there it is, the dreaded commercial break.
• Silent crisis of soaring excess deaths gripping Britain is only tip of the iceberg - 2022-08-22 - - Britain is in the grip of a new silent health crisis.
• Nobody Wants to Teach Anymore. Everyone should know why. | by Jessica Wildfire | Aug, 2022 | Medium - 2022-08-22 - - Everyone should know why.
• A Dad Took Photos of His Naked Toddler for the Doctor. Google Flagged Him as a Criminal. - The New York Times - 2022-08-22 - - Google has an automated tool to detect abusive images of children. But the system can get it wrong, and the consequences are serious.
• Why don't we do email verification in reverse? - 2022-08-22
• App Store doesn't accept "too simple" apps — Alin Panaitiu - 2022-08-20 - - Alin Panaitiu's notes and ramblings: short-form content on macOS apps, music and computers in general
• It wasn't for nothing - Grasping gexps - 2022-08-18 -
• Google is killing off Google Cloud IoT Core at five-years-old - 2022-08-18 - "Existing connections will be shut down" -- Google is killing off Google Cloud IoT Core from August 2023. Users have their work cut out.
• Software Development is very subjective - 2022-08-18 - - Most of you are familiar with the feeling of joining a new company and have that urge to rewrite everything. Seeing the blasphemy that your new team
• Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds | Vi Bilägare - 2022-08-18 - - Physical buttons are increasingly rare in modern cars. Most manufacturers are switching to touchscreens – which perform far worse in a test carried out by Vi Bilägare. The driver in the worst-performing car needs four times longer to perform simple tasks than in the best-performing car.
• Why McDonald's McPlant Became a McFlop | Bon Appétit - 2022-08-17 - The chain's plant-based burger reveals how fake meat at fast food restaurants is, as a whole, a grift.
• Using the Same Arch Linux Installation for a Decade - 2022-08-16 - - As of today, I’ve been using the same Arch Linux installation for ten years on my main computer. I don’t have much to say, but I’m writing this because my experience doesn’t match the common notion that Arch Linux is unstable.1 I’m not trying to convince anyone to use Arch Linux. ↩
• Ford F-150 Lightning review: fast truck, slow computer - The Verge - 2022-08-16 - - The electric F-150 is a terrific electric truck. Too bad about the touchscreen climate controls.
• A pizzeria owner made money buying his own $24 pizzas from DoorDash for $16 - The Verge - 2022-08-16 - - This must make sense to someone, right?
• You can’t afford to be an artist and/or author, let alone be respected. — cdahmedeh (Ahmed El-Hajjar) - 2022-08-16 - - Us denizens of the Internet have become familiar with concepts that were foreign more than a decade ago, one of the most that causes the most influence is going viral. There’s so much variety on the web with content providing the impression that anything could essentially make you rich. However, hid
• part 1: antisoftware action | anti software software club - 2022-08-16 - - software is eating the world. we want to bite back.
• How Animal Crossing helped me explore my gender - The Verge - 2022-08-16 - - A virtual head start.
• blog: A robots.txt Problem - 2022-08-16 - - To prevent a part of our web application from being scanned by search engines and other web crawlers, we add a robots.txt like     User-agen...
• How Discord Supercharges Network Disks for Extreme Low Latency - 2022-08-15 - - It's no secret that Discord's your place to talk; 4 billion messages sent a day have us convinced. But text only accounts for a chunk of the features that Discord supports — learn how Discord optimizes its platform to respond to the high frequency of queries for all types of content and data as quickly as possible.
• How I Hacked my Car Part 3: Making Software :: Programming With Style - 2022-08-14 - If you haven&rsquo;t read Part 1 and Part 2 please do so. Making Software I am a programmer by nature. I now had root access to a cool new linux box so now I must develop software for it. The Goal While looking through many of the IVI&rsquo;s files, I found tons of really cool C++ header files relating to ccOS in /usr/include. ccOS is the Connected Car Operating System, an OS developed by Nvidia and Hyundai which is supposed to power all Hyundai vehicles from 2022 onwards, but I guess some of the underlying system was in previous Hyundai vehicles for quite some time.
• How I Hacked my Car Part 2: Making a Backdoor :: Programming With Style - 2022-08-14 - If you haven’t read Part 1 please do so. No More Waiting On April 28, 2022 a new round of Display Audio firmware updates was released for Hyundai and Kia vehicles. Luckily, it included my car. I wasted no time in developing my own firmware update with a backdoor. Firmware Security Through the linux_envsetup.sh script I learned exactly how a D-Audio2V encrypted firmware update is made: First, all of the various binary files are sorted into the correct directories.
• How I Hacked my Car :: Programming With Style - 2022-08-14 - - The Car Last summer I bought a 2021 Hyundai Ioniq SEL. It is a nice fuel-efficient hybrid with a decent amount of features like wireless Android Auto/Apple CarPlay, wireless phone charging, heated seats, &amp; a sunroof. One thing I particularly liked about this vehicle was the In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) system. As I mentioned before it had wireless Android Auto which seemed to be uncommon in this price range, and it had pretty nice, smooth animations in its menus which told me the CPU/GPU in it wasn&rsquo;t completely underpowered, or at least the software it was running wasn&rsquo;t super bloated.
• The Hacking of Starlink Terminals Has Begun | WIRED - 2022-08-13 - - It cost a researcher only $25 worth of parts to create a tool that allows custom code to run on the satellite dishes.
• Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash - FIOD - 2022-08-13 - - On Wednesday 10 August, the FIOD arrested a 29-year-old man in Amsterdam. He is suspected of involvement in concealing criminal financial flows and facilitating money laundering through the mixing of cryptocurrencies through the decentralised Ethereum mixing service Tornado Cash. Multiple arrests are not ruled out. These advanced technologies, such as decentralised organisations that may facilitate […]
• I Don’t Like Go’s Default HTTP Handlers · Preslav Rachev - 2022-08-12 - - Explicit > Implicit
• reb00ted | Is this the end of social networking? - 2022-08-12 -
• This 17-Year-Old Designed a Motor That Could Potentially Transform the Electric Car Industry | Innovation| Smithsonian Magazine - 2022-08-12 - - Robert Sansone's research could pave the way for the sustainable manufacturing of electric vehicles that do not require rare-earth magnets
• Let websites framebust out of native apps | Holovaty.com - 2022-08-11 -
• Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes | Ars Technica - 2022-08-11 - - Jared Mauch gets $2.6 million from gov't to expand fiber ISP in rural Michigan.
• The little ssh that (sometimes) couldn't | Mina Naguib - 2022-08-10
• Write a Note to Your Spouse Every Day | Jordan O’Connor - 2022-08-10 - - A note a day keeps the divorce attorney away.
• The Story of Mel - 2022-08-10 -
• Facebook Gave Nebraska Cops A Teen's DMs So They Could Prosecute Her For Having An Abortion - 2022-08-10 - A Nebraska teenager is facing criminal charges alleging she aborted a fetus in violation of state law, after authorities obtained her Facebook messages using a search warrant.
• It’s time for Apple to fix texting. - 2022-08-10 - - Texting between iPhones and Android is broken. It’s time for Apple to fix green and blue bubbles, and texting for everyone.
• Cramming 'Papers, Please' Onto Phones | Development Logs by Lucas Pope - 2022-08-07 - - I created Papers, Please in 2013 specifically for desktop computers with mouse control. Now, here, in 2022, desktop computers no longer exist and all computing is done via handheld mobile telephone. Time to update this dinosaur. These thousands of words and megabytes of images will cover some bits of porting the game from big desktop to little phone. As a winking throwback to days past, this is a big dump of text and inline img tags instead of exciting splashes of quick-cut video.
• Nix – taming Unix with functional programming - Tweag - 2022-08-05 - Nix is all about applying functional programming to files and processes.
• cr.yp.to: 2022.08.05: NSA, NIST, and post-quantum cryptography - 2022-08-05 -
• The OG Social Network: Other People’s Websites - Jim Nielsen’s Blog - 2022-08-04 -
• GitLab plans to delete dormant projects from free accounts • The Register - 2022-08-04 - - Hopes to save a quarter of hosting costs by binning repos that haven't been touched for a year
• MEMEX - Botspam Apocalypse [ 2022-08-03 ] - 2022-08-04 -
• Textualize.io - Blog - 7 things I've learned building a modern TUI framework - 2022-08-04 - - Textualize.io - Blog - 7 things I've learned building a modern TUI framework
• Troy Hunt: Sending Spammers to Password Purgatory with Microsoft Power Automate and Cloudflare Workers KV - 2022-08-04 - - How best to punish spammers? I give this topic a lot of thought because I spend a lot of time sifting through the endless rubbish they send me. And that's when it dawned on me: the punishment should fit the crime - robbing me of my time - which means
• Troy Hunt: Building Password Purgatory with Cloudflare Pages and Workers - 2022-08-04 - - I have lots of little ideas for various pet projects, most of which go nowhere (Have I Been Pwned being the exception), so I'm always looking for the fastest, cheapest way to get up and running. Last month as part of my blog post on How Everything We're Told About
• The danger of bad error messages – alexwlchan - 2022-08-04 - An Excel mistake shows why learning to write good error messages is a critical skill for software developers.
• Cut the cutesy errors – alexwlchan - 2022-08-04 - - If your app has just ruined my day, I need help, not humour.
• Crimes with Python's Pattern Matching • Hillel Wayne - 2022-08-03 - - Let's make the CPython team regret adding pattern matching to Python!
• Please stop citing TIOBE - 2022-08-03 - - Krishna's personal blog
• Widely Mocked Anti-Piracy Ads Made People Pirate More, Study Finds - 2022-08-03 - A behavioral economics study of anti-piracy ads reveals that they’re largely ineffective and often encourage piracy.
• Fotomat History | Mental Floss - 2022-08-03 - - The tiny photo processing kiosks could be found everywhere in the 1970s and 1980s. And that was the problem.
• How I Used DALL·E 2 to Generate The Logo for OctoSQL | Jacob Martin - 2022-08-03 - - Everybody has heard about the latest cool thing™, which is DALL·E 2 (henceforth called Dall-e). A few months ago, when the first previews started, it was basically everywhere. Now, a few weeks ago, the floodgates have been opened and lots of people on the waitlist got access - that group included me. I’ve spent a day playing around with it, learned some basics (like the fact that adding “artstation” to the end of your phrase automatically makes the output much better…), and generated a bunch of (even a few nice-looking) images.
• Use One Big Server - Speculative Branches - 2022-08-03 -
• TikTok Diagnosis Videos Leave Some Teens Thinking They Have Rare Mental Disorders - WSJ - 2022-08-02 - - When teens decide they have a personality disorder or other mental-health affliction based on information they found in TikTok videos, it can fray family relationships and pose a treatment challenge.
• Blockade Australia climate activist can't use encrypted apps, must let police access phone - ABC News - 2022-08-01 - - One phone, no encrypted apps, and sharing passwords with police: These are some of the technology-focused bail conditions faced by Blockade Australia climate protesters. 

July 2022

• The looming copper crunch and why recycling can’t fix it - MINING.COM - 2022-07-31 - - S&P Global warns copper shortfall could put brakes on energy transition
• Turning an old Amazon Kindle into a eink development platform – adq - 2022-07-31 - - I fancied getting an eink screen to use for future projects. I bought a wee one with a raspberry pi “hat” attached. However, I realised later that I could maybe just re-purpose an old A…
• Page Weight Matters - 2022-07-31 - - Three years ago, while I was a web developer at YouTube, one of the senior engineers began a rant about the page weight of the video watch page being far too large. The page had ballooned to as high as 1.2MB and dozens of requests. This engineer... | Chris Zacharias | Founder of imgix. YCombinator alum. Ex-YouTuber. Studied New Media at RIT.
• Dear Startups: I Hate Subscription Services | Medium - 2022-07-31 - - Subscription Overload is the New Bandwagon
• How Tor Is Fighting—and Beating—Russian Censorship | WIRED - 2022-07-31 - - Russia has been trying to block the anonymous browser since December—with mixed results.
• Bristol Drag queen children's story hour disrupted by protests - BBC News - 2022-07-29 - A demonstration against a drag queen story reading for children causes the Bristol event to be postponed.
• Google's Nest Will Provide Data to Police Without a Warrant | PetaPixel - 2022-07-28 - - Google and Amazon are the only providers to do so.
• Paul Butler – Why is it so hard to give Google money? - 2022-07-26 -
• UK under international pressure over deletion of abortion commitments | Global development | The Guardian - 2022-07-26 - - Exclusive: open letter sent to Liz Truss after removal of commitment to repeal laws threatening women and girls’ rights from global pact
• You should take more screenshots – alexwlchan - 2022-07-25 - - If you do any sort of creative digital work, screenshots and screen recordings are a great way to remember it.
• How Standard Ebooks serves millions of requests per month with a 2GB VPS; or, a paean to the classic web - Alex Cabal - 2022-07-25 -
• How a Clip From Stray Got Me Banned From Twitter - 2022-07-24 - - Somehow, posting a video clip of the cat game Stray on Twitter got me banned from Twitter, and I'm baffled as to how.
• Writing my PHD using groff - Joshua Stutter - 2022-07-24 - - A Blog about Joshua Stutter's PhD
• Polio detected in US—in same NY county with explosive measles outbreak in 2019 [Updated] | Ars Technica - 2022-07-22 - - Here's what we know and how vaccine-derived polioviruses occur.
• Hardcoded password in Confluence app has been leaked on Twitter | Ars Technica - 2022-07-22 - - Advisory had already warned hardcoded password was "trivial to obtain."
• British recycle old arguments for bypassing E2E encryption • The Register - 2022-07-22 - - Levy and Robinson are at it again
• Spf13 google | spf13 - 2022-07-22 - - I’m leaving my role as the Product Lead for the Go Language at Google. I’m super proud of everything the Go team has accomplished in the last six years, and I’ve never been more excited for Go’s future. Read on if you’re interested in what led me to my decision, what I’ll be doing next, and what I’ll miss about my time at Google. Go has been my passion for the past 10 years Ten years ago, I used Go for the first time.
• I Regret my $46k Website Redesign · mtlynch.io - 2022-07-22 - - Mistakes I made working with my first design agency.
• TeamViewer installs suspicious font only useful for web fingerprinting | Ctrl blog - 2022-07-21 - - A weird almost unreadable font file bundled with TeamViewer for Windows software lets website detect if you’ve installed the software. Raises privacy concerns.
• What happens when you press a key in your terminal? - 2022-07-21 - - What happens when you press a key in your terminal?
• Soft Deletion Probably Isn't Worth It — brandur.org - 2022-07-20 -
• Wiki - 2022-07-19 -
• Learning Go as a Python Developer: The Good and The Bad - 2022-07-18 - - I've been thinking about supplementing another language to Python for some time – mainly to cope with areas Python struggles with, or is a pain to use (which I'll go over in a minute). I had used C/C++ some years ago, but don't want to go back to them. C
• RSS is on fire again, and it's all down to SlackOps · Cross Dominant - 2022-07-18 - - Mixed laterality since 1968
• The Pneumatic Clocks of Paris | Amusing Planet - 2022-07-18
• Scratch is a big deal | Bryan Braun - Frontend Developer - 2022-07-17 - - While none of us were paying attention, Scratch has transformed from a programming language for kids to a massive online community of self-guided, student-pr...
• How I went about learning Rust - Eli Bendersky's website - 2022-07-16 -
• DNS Esoterica – Why you can’t dig Switzerland – Terence Eden’s Blog - 2022-07-15 - - As part of my new job, I’m learning a lot more about the mysteries of the Domain Name System than any mortal should know I thought possible. The humble unix dig command allows you to query al…
• Unity is merging with a company who made a malware installer | PC Gamer - 2022-07-15 - - Game developers working in Unity aren't pleased about it.
• Melbourne woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her consent | TikTok | The Guardian - 2022-07-15 - - Maree describes being given flowers by Harrison Pawluk in a ‘random act of kindness’ video as ‘patronising’
• New working speculative execution attack sends Intel and AMD scrambling | Ars Technica - 2022-07-13 - - Both companies are rolling out mitigations, but they add overhead of 12 to 28 percent.
• Giving a Shit as a Service - Allen Pike - 2022-07-13 - - A mental model for service businesses.
• Photographer Documents All 12,795 Items That She Owns | PetaPixel - 2022-07-12 - - That's a lot of stuff.
• Your compliance obligations under the UK’s Online Safety Bill; or, welcome to hell – Hi, I'm Heather Burns - 2022-07-12 -
• BMW F Series Gear Selector, Part Three: Success – Project Gus - 2022-07-12 -
• How to do a Feeds Reboot to take back control of your algorithms - The Verge - 2022-07-12 - - Step one: make sure you still want to follow everything you follow.
• Experian, You Have Some Explaining to Do – Krebs on Security - 2022-07-11 -
• Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals | Uber | The Guardian - 2022-07-11 - - 124,000 documents expose inner workings behind US tech firm’s rise as a global empire responsible for 19m journeys a day
• Why the world needs a non-profit search engine - 2022-07-10 -
• Sourceless - The Continuous Delivery Test - 2022-07-10 -
• Boeing threatens to cancel Boeing 737 MAX 10 aircraft unless given exemption from safety requirements - 2022-07-10 - Boeing threatens to cancel Boeing 737 MAX 10 aircraft unless given exemption from safety requirements - More than 600 of the jets are currently on order
• EFF Legal Director: "Copyright law does not stand in the way of a library’s right to lend its books" - Internet Archive Blogs - 2022-07-10 - On July 8, 2022, Corynne McSherry, legal director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, spoke at a press conference about the copyright lawsuit brought against the Internet Archive by four commercial publishers. These are her remarks: The Internet Archive, headquartered in San Francisco, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit library dedicated to preserving and sharing knowledge. Through Controlled Digital Lending […]
• Arizona makes it illegal for bystanders to record cops at close range | Ars Technica - 2022-07-10 - - Critics say the law gives police too much discretion.
• Monitoring tiny web services - 2022-07-09 - - Monitoring tiny web services
• Spearphishing: it can happen to you too - Xe - 2022-07-09 - - Spearphishing: it can happen to you too - Xe's Blog
• Why DRY is the most over-rated programming principle | Thoughts on Software - 2022-07-08 - - I figured I'd kick off my new blog with the most click baity thing I could think of. I suspect any developer reading this is aware of the DRY principle because
• Maya Forstater: Woman discriminated against over trans tweets, tribunal rules - BBC News - 2022-07-07 - Maya Forstater lost her job at a think tank over tweets saying people cannot change their biological sex.
• SourceHut is committed to making IRC better - 2022-07-06 - - 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.
• Cubernetes - 2022-07-06 - - Parts list and process for creating a home lab Kuberenetes cluster
• Auto manufacturer family tree: Who owns what? - 2022-07-06 - - You might be surprised how the world's top car brands are shared around just a few parent companies
• Today’s Robotic Surgery Turns Surgical Trainees Into Spectators - IEEE Spectrum - 2022-07-05 - - Medical training in the robotics age leaves residents short on skills
• Nigerian Ife head: Why UK police are holding a priceless sculpture - BBC News - 2022-07-04 - Original Ife bronze heads, of which only some 20 survive, are thought to be about 700 years old.
• It's Quite Hard to Lose a Duolingo Streak - 2022-07-03 -
• Unity Employees ‘Mad and Stressed Out’ Amidst Unexpected Layoffs - 2022-07-01 - - The company's CEO wrote in an internal memo it "did not enter into this process with a target in mind of how many jobs needed to be eliminated."
• Sell Me Your Climate Bombs : Planet Money : NPR - 2022-07-01
• Most workers want their employer to share their values - 2022-07-01 - - Research shows addressing hot-button social issues can influence a firm's ability to find and keep talent. But many workers want a boss who shares their values.
• Can a corporation "own" a color? - The Hustle - 2022-07-01 - - A handful of companies have pushed the boundaries of intellectual property law by laying claim to individual colors.
• Star Minecraft creator Technoblade has died following battle with cancer - Dot Esports - 2022-07-01 - - Minecraft streamer and content creator Technoblade has died following an extended battle with stage four cancer, his family has announced.
• Unity is laying off hundreds of employees - Protocol - 2022-07-01 - - The popular game engine platform is cutting costs.
• Give Up GitHub: The Time Has Come! - Conservancy Blog - Software Freedom Conservancy - 2022-07-01 - - Those who forget history often inadvertently repeat it. Some of us recall that twenty-one years ago, the most popular code hosting site, a fully Free and Open Source (FOSS) site called SourceForge, proprietarized all their code — never to make it FOSS again. Major FOSS projects slowly left SourceForge since it was now, itself, a proprietary system, and antithetical to FOSS. FOSS communities learned that it was a mistake to allow a for-profit, proprietary software company to become the dominant FOSS collaborative development site. SourceForge slowly collapsed after the DotCom crash, and today, SourceForge is more advertising link-bait than it is code hosting. We learned a valuable lesson that was a bit too easy to forget — especially when corporate involvement manipulates FOSS communities to its own ends. We now must learn the SourceForge lesson again with Microsoft's GitHub.

June 2022

• Writing Coherently At Scale - Xe - 2022-06-30 - Writing Coherently At Scale - Xe's Blog
• The future of privacy rights in a post-Roe world - 2022-06-29 - - Abortion rights were rooted in privacy rights. Now that Roe is overturned, other kinds of privacy may be at risk.
• BMW F Series Gear Selector, Part Two: Breakthrough – Project Gus - 2022-06-29 -
• The Imperfectionist: It's worse than you think - 2022-06-29 - - ​ ​ ​ It's worse than you think Here's a surprisingly useful question to ask yourself next time you're stumped by a problem, daunted by a challenge, or stuck in a creative rut: ...
• Inside the secret, often bizarre world that decides what porn you see - 2022-06-29 - - The adult industry’s de facto regulator isn’t government, international convention or business itself. It’s Mastercard and Visa
• Micromanagement vs. micro-tasks: how to set junior employees up for success in remote - 2022-06-28 - - How to set junior employees up for success in remote
• ‘Just stop buying lattes’: The origins of a millennial housing myth - 2022-06-28 - - Financial gurus want young home shoppers to stop complaining and cut back on small luxuries. But there are broader affordability issues at play.
• Here’s Google’s letter saying employees can relocate to states with abortion rights - The Verge - 2022-06-26 - - "Googlers can apply for relocation without justification."
• Digital Trails: How Bungie Identified a Mass Sender of Fake DMCA Notices * TorrentFreak - 2022-06-25 - - After fake DMCA notices targeted YouTube, Bungie filed a lawsuit to protect its image. This is how the company tracked down its target.
• I Finally Found a Solid Debian Tablet: The Surface Go 2 | The Changelog - 2022-06-25 - - I have been looking for a good tablet for Debian for… well, years. I want thin, light, portable, excellent battery life, and a servicable keyboard. For a while, I tried a Lenovo Chromebook Du…
• How we built a $1M ARR open source SaaS | Plausible Analytics - 2022-06-25 - - We’ve reached a significant milestone of $1 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) with Plausible Analytics. This post is a recap of how we got to this point.
• SMS phishing is way too easy - 2022-06-25 - - Spoofing SMS messages is very easy, we must change this to prevent fraud.
• Surprising result while transpiling C to Go - Fabrice Aneche - 2022-06-24 - - Experimenting transpiling Uber h3 library with ccgo.
• GitHub Copilot and open source laundering - 2022-06-24 -
• When Skills are Paywalled - sadgrl.online - 2022-06-23 - When skills are paywalled
• Observations on 6 years of journaling | ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's blog - 2022-06-23 - - My thoughts and experiences on how writing a daily journal improved my memory and understanding of myself.
• Teens Are Getting Sick From Products With High THC Levels - The New York Times - 2022-06-23 - - With THC levels close to 100 percent, today’s cannabis products are making some teenagers highly dependent and dangerously ill.
• Hardening the Registers: A Cascading Failure of Edge Induced Fault Tolerance - 2022-06-23 - - Hardening the Registers: A Cascading Failure of Edge Induced Fault Tolerance: An article by John Engelman
• a brief history of one line fixes - 2022-06-23 -
• Crafting Interpreters: A Review - 2022-06-23 - - Source: Bob Nystrom Certain areas within the field of computer science seem to me to be almost comparable to wizardry. I’ve spent most of my time as a software engineer working on high-level web applications, so large, complex, lower-level software like compilers, databases, operating systems, and browsers often appear daunting. While I use them regularly, I often feel I don’t appreciate or understand them well enough.
• The driving enthusiast’s dilemma with electric cars | Ars Technica - 2022-06-22 - - EVs are better at almost everything, but more power doesn't always mean more fun.
• One year as a solo dev building open-source data tools without funding - 2022-06-21 -
• Cloudflare outage on June 21, 2022 - 2022-06-21 - - Today, June 21, 2022, Cloudflare suffered an outage that affected traffic in 19 of our data centers
• We are removing the option to create new subscriptions - Blog | Mullvad VPN - 2022-06-20 - - In order to store less data we will no longer accept NEW PayPal and Credit card subscriptions (recurring payments). One-time payments are not affected.
• Don't be that open-source user, don't be me - 2022-06-19 - - Before I was a maintainer of open source software I was a user of open source software, and I sometimes behaved badly.
• Akamai Blog | Panchan’s Mining Rig: New Golang Peer-to-Peer Botnet Says “Hi!” - 2022-06-18 - - Akamai researchers have discovered a new P2P botnet targeting APJ. Read about it here.
• Pop-ups are dead, long live pop-ups: or, the bait-and-switch hidden in today’s cookie announcement – Hi, I'm Heather Burns - 2022-06-18 -
• Don't Put All Your Code In Internal | Ido Perlmuter - 2022-06-17 - Personal Website of Ido Perlmuter
• Cool desktops don’t change 😎 - Tyler Cipriani - 2022-06-17 -
• ⚡️ The computers are fast, but you don't know it | 🌚 Computer Science After Dark - 2022-06-17 - - The computers are fast but you don't know it: Speeding up your Python functions with Cython & C++
• Cloudflare mitigates 26 million request per second DDoS attack - 2022-06-17 - - Last week, Cloudflare automatically detected and mitigated a 26 million request per second DDoS attack — the largest HTTPS DDoS attack on record
• Free associating from 'df' to RCE - 2022-06-17 -
• How Price Shocks in Formative Years Scar Consumption for Life - Knowledge at Wharton - 2022-06-16 - - Teens who experienced gas price shocks of the 1970s drive less in later years, according to experts at Wharton and the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.…Read More
• shot-scraper: automated screenshots for documentation, built on Playwright - 2022-06-13 - - shot-scaper is a new tool that I’ve built to help automate the process of keeping screenshots up-to-date in my documentation. It also doubles as a scraping tool—hence the name—which I …
• Documentation unit tests - 2022-06-13 - - Or: Test-driven documentation. Keeping documentation synchronized with an evolving codebase is difficult. Without extreme discipline, it’s easy for documentation to get out-of-date as new features are added. One thing that …
• How I build a feature - 2022-06-13 - - I’m maintaining a lot of different projects at the moment. I thought it would be useful to describe the process I use for adding a new feature to one of …
• Twenty years of my blog - 2022-06-13 - - I started this blog on June 12th 2002—twenty years ago today! To celebrate two decades of blogging, I decided to pull together some highlights and dive down a self-indulgent nostalgia …
• Git scraping: track changes over time by scraping to a Git repository - 2022-06-13 - - Git scraping is the name I’ve given a scraping technique that I’ve been experimenting with for a few years now. It’s really effective, and more people should use it. Update …
• UK will not copy EU demand for common charging cable - BBC News - 2022-06-13 - - The EU has provisionally agreed new mobile devices must, by autumn 2024, use the same type of charger.
• High-School Start Times Are Still Too Early for Teens - The Atlantic - 2022-06-13 - - Adolescents in the U.S. are chronically sleep-deprived, in part because most schools start too early. This summer, California will become the first state in the nation to require later start times.
• AirPlay network disaster - 2022-06-11 - - Ever since about the time I upgraded my 2019 MacBook Pro to macOS Monterey in August of 2021 I had been unable to use Parsec properly. I constantly encountered dips in performance every other second, with lots of rubber banding and pretty much constant audio lag...
• Things you're allowed to do - 2022-06-11 - - A list of things you're allowed to do that you thought you couldn't, or didn't even know you could. - Milan Cvitkovic
• The Alkyne GC · mcyoung - 2022-06-11
• Why I turned down $500K, Pissed off my investors, and Shut down my startup - - 2022-06-11 - - I just did what no startup founder is ever supposed to do. I gave up. It wasn’t even one of those glorious “fail fast and fail forward” learning experiences. After seven months of hard work and two weeks before we were to start ...
• Ready to transform the enterprise world? We are! | Arduino Blog - 2022-06-11 - - Exciting news about how Arduino is forging new partnerships with Bosch, Renesas, Anzu Partners and Arm that will take things to new levels.
• MIT researchers uncover ‘unpatchable’ flaw in Apple M1 chips | TechCrunch - 2022-06-11 - MIT researchers uncover vulnerability in a hardware-level security mechanism utilized in Apple M1 chips called pointer authentication codes, or PAC.
• If OpenSSL were a GUI - 2022-06-11 - - "When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical." - Jony Ive
• Cooling the tube – Engineering heat out of the Underground - 2022-06-10 - - On a summer's day a trip in a hot tube train is a dreadful experience, but how did we end up with such hot tube trains, and what's being done about it?
• Cull your dependencies - 2022-06-10 -
• Firefox and Chrome are squaring off over ad-blocker extensions - The Verge - 2022-06-10 - - A browser privacy showdown has been brewing for a while.
• Mostly automatic Go dependency updates with GitHub Actions — brandur.org - 2022-06-10 -
• I’ve locked myself out of my digital life – Terence Eden’s Blog - 2022-06-08 - - Imagine… Last night, lightning struck our house and burned it down. I escaped wearing only my nightclothes. In an instant, everything was vaporised. Laptop? Cinders. Phone? Ashes. Home server? A sm…
• I Built a Ruby Parser | My Point of View - 2022-06-07 - - Sorry, this post will read like a “dear diary” entry rather than some life-changing HN-worthy guidance. Back in November 2020, almost on a whim I started work on a new parser for the Ruby programming language. It was almost exactly a year after I had started working on my compiler project (I hope to write a longer post about that someday soon), and in my frustration with the state of affairs with Ruby parsers available to a humble C/C++ programmer, I decided to see how hard it would be.
• I wrote a Brainfuck to Go compiler · Kabir Goel - 2022-06-07 - And it taught me about writing Actually Useful compilers.
• Abigail Shrier’s Irreversible Damage: A Wealth of Irreversible Misinformation | Science-Based Medicine - 2022-06-06 - A critical, science-based analysis of Abigail Shrier's book Irreversible Damage.
• 7 Absolute Truths I Unlearned as Junior Developer - 2022-06-06 - - A few things I strongly believed when I was a junior developer which turned out to be wrong.
• Tim Hortons coffee app broke law by constantly recording users’ movements | Ars Technica - 2022-06-06 - Canada says company misled users while collecting "vast amounts of location data."
• Plain text. With lines. - 2022-06-06 - - A text editor called lines.love
• ‘You only have one shot’: how film cameras won over a younger generation | Photography | The Guardian - 2022-06-06 - A new wave of enthusiasts are eschewing the multi-megapixel convenience of digital photography in favour of an older, slower, ‘magical’ tech
• I only care about the helpful notifications, not the promotional ones · Caffeinspiration - 2022-06-05 -
• I Cheated on My Microsoft Interview | The Facet Blog - 2022-06-05 - - In 2004, I was a senior majoring in Computer Engineering at Brigham Young University. The tech industry hadn’t yet fully recovered from the bubble bursting, so programming jobs were pretty hard to come by. I was applying for jobs everywhere, but just couldn’t seem to get an interview. One day, I saw a flyer pinned to the mostly empty job board in the Computer Science department. It said that Microsoft would be coming to the campus for a job fair.
• The FBI Tried to Ambush My Source. Now I’m Telling the Whole Story. - 2022-06-04 - - I’ve been reluctant to write what I know about the FBI’s scheme because the tale is so complicated that I’m still not sure I fully understand it.
• Installing a payphone in my house | bertrand fan - 2022-06-04 - - When I was growing up in the 90s, I remember wanting to get on the Internet. My parents weren’t going to help me, so I called up an ISP and said I wanted to set up an account. They asked for my name and I gave them a fake name. And then they asked for a credit card number and I told them I had to find my wallet and call them back.
• Mimeoprinting (Printmaking as play, part 2) - NO BAD MEMORIES - 2022-06-04
• Printmaking as play - NO BAD MEMORIES - 2022-06-04 -
• Dear JetBrains. Don't mess with your UI. - 2022-06-04 - So we have yet a new UI overhaul. This time, bringing consumer-grade UI practices to the world of professionals. Announcement: https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2022/05/take-part-in-the-new-ui-preview-for-your-jetbrains-ide/ We're professionals. We can handle the complexity and the density of the current UI. You made a contract with us about what
• Dear Spotify. Can we just get a table of songs? - 2022-06-04 - - Dear Spotify. I tried to search for podcasts on your Desktop app. I know you're into fancy cross-platform Electron framework. I've come to terms with it. It's fine. It'll do. But, your understanding of interface design seems like it needs a bit of a history lesson. Back in iTunes Good
• Dangerous Gift - 2022-06-04 -
• Europe's hope to scan devices for unlawful files criticized • The Register - 2022-06-03 - Antivirus-but-for-pictures would trample rights, not even work as expected, say academics
• Ford EVs will be online only with a nonnegotiable price - 2022-06-03 - Ford boss expects car just for Uber, Lyft and a price war benefitting consumers, among other big changes in the auto industry.
• A Letter to Discord for not Supporting the Linux Desktop | TheEvilSkeleton - 2022-06-02 - - Discord is popular among the Linux desktop community. Thanks to Electron, the framework that Discord uses, it was possible for Discord to port the client over to Linux very easily. Electron facilitates deploying the same application in different desktop platforms.
• Fortune 500 companies are making political donations to anti-LGBTQ+ politicians while celebrating Pride month | Fortune - 2022-06-02 - Fortune 500 companies have donated almost $3 billion to anti-LGBTQ+ legislators over the last three years
• Using a catch-all domain is a mistake — ⍻ - 2022-06-02 - - After about a decade of dealing with this madness, surely it's been worthwhile? No, not really.
• Gmail accepts forged YouTube emails - 2022-06-02
• Taiwan Restricts Russia, Belarus to CPUs Under 25 MHz Frequency | Tom's Hardware - 2022-06-02 - - No more Taiwan-made CPUs, microcontrollers for Russia and Belarus.
• I got hacked and Facebook banned me - 2022-06-02 -
• Opinion | Stop Pretending All Books Are Written in English - The New York Times - 2022-06-01 - Publishers routinely omit the names of translators.

May 2022

• Unknown Sender: The Mystery of the Circleville Letters - 2022-05-31 - For years, residents in and around Circleville, Ohio were plagued by a mysterious letter writer who seemed to know their darkest secrets. Death followed.
• Discord Is the World’s Most Important Financial Messenger, And a Hotbed for Scammers - 2022-05-31 - - Rampant spam, phishing attacks, scammers, and malware—Discord has a lot of challenges securing crypto projects.
• So I Took a Huge Corporation to Arbitration. This is How it Went. - 2022-05-31 - - It went pretty well.
• A decade of dotfiles - 2022-05-31 - - Reflections on a decade of configuration files.
• Why is Front-End Development So Unstable? - 2022-05-30 -
• Big Tech talks up privacy while trying to kill privacy laws • The Register - 2022-05-30 - - Study claims Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft work to derail data rules
• Major Version Numbers are Not Sacred - 2022-05-30 -
• Boris Johnson to reportedly bring back imperial measurements to mark platinum jubilee | Brexit | The Guardian - 2022-05-30 - Move is an apparent attempt to win support from Brexit voters in seats Tories fear losing
• Site Update: The Big Domain Move To xeiaso.net - Xe - 2022-05-29 - Site Update: The Big Domain Move To xeiaso.net - Xe's Blog
• Building a Budget Homelab NAS Server (2022 Edition) · mtlynch.io - 2022-05-29 - - How I chose parts, built, and configured my first custom home storage server.
• I'm Retiring From the Engineering Profession - 2022-05-29 - - To protect our advocacy work against future harassment from the Minnesota licensing board, Strong Towns President Charles Marohn is retiring as a professional engineer.
• Britain should scrap its Online Safety Bill | The Economist - 2022-05-29 - - It is both illiberal and impractical
• My students cheated... A lot • crumplab - 2022-05-29 - - *May 26th, 2022* - Lot's of cheating happened. It's a long story with ups and downs. I tried my best to turn things around. I'm blogging about it for catharsis and personal growth.
• The billable hour is a trap into which more and more of us are falling | Tim Harford - 2022-05-27 - - It will take about three minutes to read this column. Whether it’s worth three minutes depends on me, of course. I will do my best. But it also depends on you, on your attitude to time and, perhaps…
• Google has been DDoSing SourceHut for over a year - 2022-05-26 -
• Healthchecks.io Hosting Setup, 2022 Edition – Healthchecks.io - 2022-05-25 - - Here's the summary of the hardware and the software that powers Healthchecks.io. Hardware Since 2017, Healthchecks.io runs on dedicated servers at Hetzner. The current lineup is: HAProxy servers: 4x AX41-NVMe servers (Ryzen 3600, 6 cores)Web servers: 3x AX41-NVMe servers (Ryzen 3600, 6 core
• We Already Have Go 2 - Xe - 2022-05-25 - We Already Have Go 2 - Xe's Blog
• Memory safety for SerenityOS – Andreas Kling – I like computers! - 2022-05-24 - - This post describes how we’re going to achieve memory safety in SerenityOS.
• How Uber Uses Zig - Motiejus Jakštys Public Record - 2022-05-24
• My Stance on Toxicity About Programming Languages - Xe - 2022-05-24 - - My Stance on Toxicity About Programming Languages - Xe's Blog
• Grubhub's NYC Free Lunch Promo Didn't Go Smoothly - 2022-05-23 - - One unhappy customer was 3,630th in line to talk to Grubhub's customer service about his missing order when he gave up.
• Big Fat Websites | ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's blog - 2022-05-23 - - Websites should be clean and fast.
• Migrating millions of lines of code to TypeScript - 2022-05-22 - - On Sunday, March 6, we migrated we converted more than 3.7 million lines of code with a single pull request. The next day, hundreds of engineers came in to start writing TypeScript for their projects.
• The balance has shifted away from SPAs | Read the Tea Leaves - 2022-05-22 - - There’s a feeling in the air. A zeitgeist. SPAs are no longer the cool kids they once were 10 years ago. Hip new frameworks like Astro, Qwik, and Elder.js are touting their MPA capabilities w…
• Predatory community - 2022-05-21 - Projects that seek to create new communities of marginalized people to draw them in to risky speculative markets rife with scams and fraud are demonstrating
• GOV.UK drops jQuery from their front end. - 2022-05-20 - - GOV.UK dropped their jQuery dependency from their front end. You'll never guess what happened. (Yes, you will.)
• Troy Hunt: Downloading Pwned Passwords Hashes with the HIBP Downloader - 2022-05-20 - Just before Christmas, the promise to launch a fully open source Pwned Passwords fed with a firehose of fresh data from the FBI and NCA finally came true. We pushed out the code, published the blog post, dusted ourselves off and that was that. Kind of - there was just
• Tasks, lists, and promises - 2022-05-20 -
• Why Google is so unbearable (and how to fix it) | MR IXNS - 2022-05-19 - - Why Google is so unbearable (and how to fix it)
• Dealing with deprecations - stitcher.io - 2022-05-19 - How to handle deprecations in minor PHP updates
• Site Update: I Fixed the Patron Page - Xe - 2022-05-19 - Site Update: I Fixed the Patron Page - Xe's Blog
• Some Top 100,000 Websites Collect Everything You Type—Before You Hit Submit | WIRED - 2022-05-18 - - A surprising number of the top 100,000 websites effectively include keyloggers that covertly snag everything you type into a form.
• on terminal control - 2022-05-18 -
• Response to the Change.org petition about me - 2022-05-17 - A rebuttal to the claims made about me in a Change.org petition
• The use of "Assume Good Faith" to shut down discussions about sexism on Wikipedia - 2022-05-17 - Sexism is a systemic issue on Wikipedia, but the "Assume Good Faith" guideline is too often used to shut down any discussion of specifics.
• In Search of Organic Software - 2022-05-16 - - So over the last couple weeks, I’ve been talking to VCs and founders who have and haven’t taken VC to learn whether it makes sense for Kinopio. I don’t think it does.
• MEMEX - The Small Website Discoverability Crisis [2021-09-08] - 2022-05-16
• The Modos Paper Laptop | Modos - 2022-05-16 - - At Modos, we want to give you the tools and space to focus on what truly matters in life. That’s why we created the Modos Paper Laptop: the world's first e-ink laptop designed for reading, writing, and thinking in a distraction and eyestrain-free environment.
• Almost all searches on my independent search engine are now from SEO spam bots - 2022-05-16 - - searchmysite.net was designed to be a search engine free from SEO spam, but now almost all traffic comes from SEO spammers.
• Fly.io: the Reclaimer of Heroku's Magic - Xe - 2022-05-16 - - Fly.io: the Reclaimer of Heroku's Magic - Xe's Blog
• Rosenzweig – The Apple GPU and the Impossible Bug - 2022-05-14 -
• How i fixed my broken monitor with a hair dryer - Johnnys.News - 2022-05-14 - - RIP beloved GD245HQ ☠️? In 2010 i bought the Acer GD245HQ for 430€. The main reason for me at that time was gaming performance especially a high refresh rate. It also works with Nvidia 3D Vision and s
• The saddest "Just Ship It" story ever - 2022-05-13 - - This is a story of how it took me way too long to ship a product, and I ended up paying for a competitor product instead.
• Why I Quit Google’s WebAssembly Team, And How It Made Me Sick | by Katelyn Gadd | May, 2022 | Medium - 2022-05-12 - - I joined Google in early 2015 to work on the V8 team as one of the first authors of the WebAssembly specification. This is a partial story…
• Why I left Google: work-life balance / Scott Kennedy - 2022-05-12 -
• I Miss Heroku's DevEx - Xe - 2022-05-12 - - I Miss Heroku's DevEx - Xe's Blog
• Converting a Python library to Rust - 2022-05-10 - - I rewrote a Python project in Rust. The rewrite took a fair bit longer than expected, but the results were good (about 9 times faster...
• I Saw a Cool Truck Today - The AP (Alex Pareene) Newsletter - 2022-05-10 - If you ever see it too, thank London
• Jeffrey Snover claims Microsoft demoted him for PowerShell • The Register - 2022-05-10 - Twitter thread reveals Redmondian machinations
• I'm a fucking webmaster - 2022-05-10 - - We were magicians and the web was our magic
• I'm All-In on Server-Side SQLite · Fly - 2022-05-10 - - Ben Johnson has joined Fly.io
• Only Microsoft can give open source the gift of NTFS • The Register - 2022-05-09 - - Forget the days of NT (Nineties Tyranny), let's change that to New Trust. Corporate IT is watching
• WordPress sites getting hacked ‘within seconds’ of TLS certificates being issued | The Daily Swig - 2022-05-08 - - Attackers pounce before site owners can activate the installation wizard
• GitHub Next | Visualizing a Codebase - 2022-05-08 - - GitHub Next Project: How can we “fingerprint” a codebase to see its structure at a glance? Let’s explore ways to automatically visualize a GitHub repo, and how that could be useful.
• Looking for a job while looking after yourself - 2022-05-08 -
• Lessons learned from the recent job hunt · Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer - 2022-05-08 - - A recap of the recent interview process with several companies, what I learned, and what others should know.
• Site Update: Axum - Xe - 2022-05-08 - Site Update: Axum - Xe's Blog
• robocadey: Shitposting as a Service - Xe - 2022-05-08 - - robocadey: Shitposting as a Service - Xe's Blog
• Hundreds of Suicidal Teens Sleep in Emergency Rooms. Every Night. - The New York Times - 2022-05-08 - - With inpatient psychiatric services in short supply, adolescents are spending days, even weeks, in hospital emergency departments awaiting the help they desperately need.
• Unix command line conventions over time - 2022-05-08 -
• Apple's Director of Machine Learning Resigns Due to Return to Office Work - MacRumors - 2022-05-08 - - Apple's director of machine learning, Ian Goodfellow, has resigned from his role a little over four years after he joined the company after...
• Amazon Fires Senior Managers Tied to Unionized Staten Island Warehouse - The New York Times - 2022-05-08 - - Company officials said the terminations were the result of an internal review, while the fired managers saw it as a response to the recent union victory.
• Your Phone May Soon Replace Many of Your Passwords – Krebs on Security - 2022-05-07 -
• Breaking the Monolith at Twitch: Part 2 | Twitch Blog - 2022-05-06 - - The Story So Far:
• Breaking the Monolith at Twitch: Part One | Twitch Blog - 2022-05-06 - - This is Part One (of two) of our story chronicling Twitch’s journey from monolithic architecture to microservices. In Part One, you’ll learn about our early days, from our rapid growth to the perfo...
• How I Accidentally Deleted 7TB of Videos Before Going To Production - 2022-05-05 - - a blog made by someone who tries to do stuff
• Please, stop disabling zoom - Manuel Matuzović - 2022-05-05 -
• GitHub will require all users who contribute code to enable two-factor authentication by the end of 2023 | TechCrunch - 2022-05-05 - - By the end of 2023, GitHub will require all users who contribute code on the platform to enable one or more forms of two-factor authentication (2FA).
• IBM's asshole test — johnpublic - 2022-05-05 -
• Writing a Book for O'Reilly - Party One - 2022-05-04 - - Part One of a series on how I came to be writing for O’reilly, and what the process is like
• Considered “18+” | daniel.haxx.se - 2022-05-04 -
• Reviving httpstatuses | Jon Kulton - 2022-05-03 - - After learning what happened to the site, I revived httpstatuses on a new domain.
• Man accidentally ejects himself from fighter jet during surprise flight | France | The Guardian - 2022-05-02 - - Sixty-four-year-old lands in field after grabbing ejection handle to steady himself, French air investigators find
• New government maps show nearly all of the West is in drought and it's not even summer yet: "This is unprecedented" - CBS News - 2022-05-02 - - The latest government maps show 95% of California is suffering severe or extreme drought.
• How I manage my LaTeX lecture notes | Gilles Castel - 2022-05-02 - - Over the past few years, I’ve been developing an efficient way to structure and organize my LaTeX lecture notes. In this blog post, I’ll explain my current solution. I’ve talked about taking notes and drawing figures before, which makes this the third post in…
• How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim | Gilles Castel - 2022-05-02 - - A while back I answered a question on Quora: Can people actually keep up with note-taking in Mathematics lectures with LaTeX. There, I explained my workflow of taking lecture notes in LaTeX using Vim and how I draw figures in Inkscape. However, a lot has…
• How I draw figures for my mathematical lecture notes using Inkscape | Gilles Castel - 2022-05-02 - - In my previous blog post, I explained how I take lecture notes using Vim and LaTeX. In this post, I’ll talk about how I draw figures for my notes using Inkscape and about my custom shortcut manager.Some examples First, let me show you some examples of figures…
• The Universe of Discourse : Mental illness, attention deficit disorder, and suffering - 2022-05-02 -
• Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen3 Review (with Linux) | Ernestas Narmontas - 2022-05-02 - - I’ve used Linux for many years on servers, but still kept macOS as my main working environment for almost ten years now. A few months ago, I gave up on macOS and started using Fedora as my main operating system on the ThinkPad P1 Gen3 15”.
• I won free load testing - 2022-05-02 - - Long story short: a couple of my articles got really popular on a bunch of sites, and someone, somewhere, went &quot;well, let's see how much traffic that smart-ass can handle...
• The Niche Programmer - 2022-05-02 - - Sometimes the road less traveled is the best road.
• Things I don't want to do to grow my side project | Lane's Blog - 2022-05-02 - - Life is to short to work on things you hate
• We think this cool study we found is flawed. Help us reproduce it. - 2022-05-02 - - Are 25 year olds really more random than 60 year olds?
• Gender Dysphoria Isn’t What You Think… | by Cassie LaBelle | Gender From The Trenches | Medium - 2022-05-01 - My incomplete list of things that were actually gender dysphoria the whole time!
• Google Developers Blog: What is black and white and read all over? Noto emoji, a new black and white emoji font - 2022-05-01 - News and insights on Google platforms, tools, and events.
• I've Used All The Notebooks - Tyler Cipriani - 2022-05-01 -
• Internet Archive Joins Opposition to the "SMART Copyright Act" - Internet Archive Blogs - 2022-05-01 - - In the past few weeks, governments around the world have renewed their efforts to restrain free expression online. In Canada, a revised “Online Streaming Act” comes as the latest in a long-running attempt to bring streaming under a restrictive regulatory regime. In the UK, a new “Online Safety Bill” seeks to censor “legal but harmful […]

April 2022

• Crafting “Crafting Interpreters” – journal.stuffwithstuff.com - 2022-04-30
• Paying a visit to planet BSD - 2022-04-30 -
• My Raspberry Pi-based temperature tracking project - 2022-04-29 -
• Dropbox unplugged its own datacenter to test resilience • The Register - 2022-04-29 - Two years of disaster planning massively reduced recovery time objective, company says
• The Technium: 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known - 2022-04-29 - - Today is my birthday. I turn 70. I've learned a few things so far that might be helpful to others. For the past few years, I've jotted down bits of unsolicited advice each year and much to my surprise I
• You Don't Need a Fucking Blockchain - 2022-04-29 -
• Johnny Depp and Amber Heard Defamation Trial: What to Know | Time - 2022-04-28 - A high-profile trial involving actors Johnny Depp, 58, and his ex-wife Amber Heard, 36, began April 12 in Fairfax, Va. The trial revolves around a...
• The Worst Bug Ever—Randomly Losing Your Best Players | by Pocket Gems | Pocket Gems Tech Blog | Apr, 2022 | Medium - 2022-04-28 - - By Ron Little
• Tory health minister Sajid Javid attacks NHS gender services for trans kids - 2022-04-25 - Tory health minister Sajid Javid has attacked NHS gender services for trans youth as "bordering on ideological".
• Sajid Javid condemned for linking being trans to child sex abuse - 2022-04-25 - British health secretary Sajid Javid has brushed aside calls to legislate a trans conversion therapy ban, saying 'we need to be more careful'.
• Olympic champion Katie Archibald says sport is failing trans athletes - 2022-04-25 - Olympic gold medalist Katie Archibald has declared that trans athletes have been “let down” by inclusion policies in the sporting world. 
• Sajid Javid to review gender treatment for children - BBC News - 2022-04-25 - The health secretary is considering letting an inquiry access a database of young people already treated.
• GP's online transgender clinic follow-up care criticised - BBC News - 2022-04-25 - But a tribunal finds Dr Helen Webberley competent to provide treatment for transgender children.
• 0x006 - Large Language Models 🦣 - 2022-04-25 - Problem: Computers can’t perform natural language tasks easily. Solution: Train deep neural networks at scale, so they could simulate a human-like understanding of textual problems.
• Angela Rayner: MPs hit back over claims of 'Basic Instinct' tactics to distract PM - BBC News - 2022-04-24 - An article suggesting Labour's deputy tries to distract the PM in the Commons is roundly condemned.
• Partygate: Removing PM would lead to instability, says Oliver Dowden - BBC News - 2022-04-24 - As some Tories join calls for Boris Johnson to quit over partygate, his chairman says it would bring uncertainty.
• Excuse me, has anybody seen the FOCAL interpreter? - The Old New Thing - 2022-04-24 - I thought you had it.
• The Applesoft Compiler (TASC): We have the source code, in a sense - The Old New Thing - 2022-04-24 - - The desperation of programming under tight memory constraints.
• Google, Meta, and others will have to explain their algorithms under new EU legislation - The Verge - 2022-04-24 - - The EU’s new legislation is designed to explain the web to users
• Google’s AI-Powered ‘Inclusive Warnings’ Feature Is Very Broken - 2022-04-23 - - A feature rolling out this month uses algorithms to suggest edits in Google Docs, but falls into the same bias traps it’s trying to prevent.
• Stop Validating Email Addresses With Regex - 2022-04-22 - - Just stop, y’all. It’s a waste of your time and your effort. Put down your Google search for an email regular expression, take a step back, and breathe. Ther...
• Rapidly building interactive CLIs in Go with Bubbletea → Inngest Blog - 2022-04-22 -
• Shitposting as a Learning Style - Last Week in AWS Blog - 2022-04-22 - Everyone learns in different ways. Some methods work super well for one person, while someone else just doesn't "get it." While most of us know this intellectually, it's easy to forget that other people aren't all like we are. I'm speaking in this case, of course, about myself.
• A YouTuber Purposely Crashed His Plane in California, F.A.A. Says - The New York Times - 2022-04-21 - The video from December shows Trevor Jacob cursing in panic before leaping with a parachute out of a small plane. Some experts had wondered if the crash was a publicity stunt.
• ‘Jack Dorsey’s First Tweet’ NFT Went on Sale for $48M. It Ended With a Top Bid of Just $280 - 2022-04-21 - - Crypto entrepreneur Sina Estavi bought Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s first-ever tweet as an NFT for $2.9 million last year. He listed the NFT for sale again at $48 million last week.
• Doctor Who: 'I wanted The Doctor to whisk me away from everything awful' - BBC News - 2022-04-20 - A new Timelord audio series starts this weekend - written by and starring transgender women.
• How we upgraded our 4 TB main application Postgres database - 2022-04-20 - - Last fall, we migrated our 4TB Postgres database from version 9.6 to version 13 with minimal downtime. In this post, we’ll tell the story and share tips to help you with a similar upgrade.
• Practical Guide to Solving Hard Problems - 2022-04-19 - - I sometimes find myself in a position of needing to write some code that I’m just not sure how to write. Been there have you? Here are the steps I take when I’m stumped. No huge revelations here, just hard-earned advice.
• How Intuit's TurboTax capitalized on taxpayers' fear. - 2022-04-19 - - ProPublica’s Justin Elliot on how Intuit built its Turbo Tax empire.
• Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms | TechCrunch - 2022-04-19 - The landmark web scraping case was bounced back to the Ninth Circuit by the U.S. Supreme Court.
• Richard Stallman - "The state of the Free Software movement" - April 13, 2022 - 2022-04-18 - - Free Software founder has choice words for Ubuntu, Apple. Announces a manual for GNU C.
• The musl preprocessor debate | The Cat Fox Life - 2022-04-18 - - Today, I would like to discuss a project that I care very deeply about: the musl libc. One of the most controversial and long-standing debates in the musl community is that musl does not define a p…
• Be less technical - 2022-04-17 - - Improving communication by being less technical whenever you can be
• Quartz is taking down the paywall on QZ.com — Quartz - 2022-04-17 - - We are excited to announce that we have lifted the paywall on QZ.com, and are making the vast majority of our journalism free for everyone to read.
• Overview · e-basteln - 2022-04-16 -
• A Census of Minecraft Servers - 2022-04-16 - - Did you know that one person can scan the entire Internet? I searched all four billion IP addresses for running Minecraft servers. Here are the results.
• The Dunning-Kruger Effect is Autocorrelation – Economics from the Top Down - 2022-04-16 - - Do unskilled people actually underestimate their incompetence?
• DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its Search Results * TorrentFreak - 2022-04-16 - - Search engine DuckDuckGo has completely removed all search results for popular pirate sites including The Pirate Bay, 1337x, and Fmovies.
• GitHub: Attacker breached dozens of orgs using stolen OAuth tokens - 2022-04-16 - GitHub revealed today that an attacker is using stolen OAuth user tokens (issued to Heroku and Travis-CI) to download data from private repositories.
• I hope distributed is not the new default - 2022-04-15 -
• How we lost 54k GitHub stars – HTTPie blog - 2022-04-15 - - What we learned from losing a decade of stargazers and watchers. Aka the biggest accidental community loss in open source history.
• Matt Roelle | Fennel: The Practical Lisp - 2022-04-14 -
• Tokyo’s Manuscript Writing Cafe only allows writers on a deadline, and won’t let them leave until finished – grape Japan - 2022-04-14 - - Japanese manuscript writing cafe for writers in Tokyo only allows customers who are writers on a deadline, and doesn't let them leave until they've finished writing
• The Scoop: Inside the Longest Atlassian Outage of All Time - 2022-04-14 - Hundreds of companies have no access to JIRA, Confluence and Atlassian Cloud. What can engineering teams learn from the poor handling of this outage?
• The History of the Elimination of Leaded Gasoline | In Custodia Legis: Law Librarians of Congress - 2022-04-14 - - This post discusses the history of rules on unleaded gasoline.
• Elon Musk Wants to Buy Out Twitter (TWTR) in Final $43 Billion Unsolicited Bid - Bloomberg - 2022-04-14 - - Elon Musk has made a controversial offer to buy Twitter Inc., saying the company has extraordinary potential and he is the person to unlock it.
• Why is selling software so weird? - 2022-04-14 - - Building software looks a lot like building a house. Selling the two is nothing alike.
• Russian trolls tried to distract voters with music tweets in 2016 | Cornell Chronicle - 2022-04-13 - - The research shows Russia applied the tactics it uses on its own people to try to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign; the work has implications for the 2022 midterm elections.
• A System-Witch's Package Manager Murder Mystery - 2022-04-13 - - It was a calm day on the puppy-linux thinkpad. The CPU was cool, the RAM was operating at double data rate, and a gentle breeze flowed through the chassis as the fan whirred away. A girl wanted to log onto Discord to chat with her friends, but much to her dismay, Discord needed a package update! No matter, such things happen from time to time, but she’d need to uninstall the old version first. She threw on her systems-witch hat and set to work.
• Git security vulnerability announced | The GitHub Blog - 2022-04-13 - - Upgrade your local installation of Git, especially if you are using Git for Windows, or you use Git on a multi-user machine.
• At last, Atlassian sees an end to its outage ... in two weeks • The Register - 2022-04-12 - Cloud collaboration biz says script deleted data that's so far been restored via backups
• What Le Corbusier got right about office space | Tim Harford - 2022-04-12 - - A century ago, the father of modern architecture, Le Corbusier, was commissioned by a French industrialist to design some homes for factory workers near Bordeaux. The resulting development, Cité Fr…
• Why Enzymit Decided to Build its Own On-Prem HPC Infrastructure | by Lior Zimmerman | Enzymit.log — The Enzymit Blog | Apr, 2022 | Medium - 2022-04-12 - - Since the foundation of the first public cloud companies in the early 2000s, they have radically transformed the landscape of the internet…
• Impressions from a first-time Mac user | Logan Marchione - 2022-04-12 - - TL;DR ⚠️ Warning Apple fanboys: this is a rant ⚠️ Hardware = Good Software = Bad Introduction I recently started a new job where my employer provided me with a brand-new 2021 16‑inch MacBook Pro. A little background on me: I’ve been using Windows and Linux my entire professional life, I have been daily-driving various Linux desktops at home for 10+ years, all of my servers run Linux, but I have never used a Mac in my life.
• Kevin Lee: The Briton who plays the bad guy in China's patriotic movies - BBC News - 2022-04-11 - Actor Kevin Lee has carved out his niche - playing the Western villain in China's patriotic films.
• What Is ‘Medical Gaslighting’ and How Can You Elevate Health Care - The New York Times - 2022-04-11 - Studies show female patients and people of color are more likely to have their symptoms dismissed by medical providers. Experts say: Keep asking questions.
• Taking pictures the hard way - 2022-04-11 - - A documentation of my journey into analog film photography
• How I decided to move away from bigTech for my children and myself - 2022-04-11 -
• My Mathematics PhD research workflow | Gilles Castel - 2022-04-11 - - Earlier this year I started a PhD in pure mathematics at KU Leuven in Belgium and in this blog post I discuss my research workflow. I talk about how I take daily notes, both handwritten ones and ones in LaTeX and how I handle references, featuring a way to…
• Here’s what happens when cops pull over a driverless Cruise vehicle - The Verge - 2022-04-11 - - The Cruise vehicle didn’t have its headlights on.
• Capabilities for Nodejs - 2022-04-11 -
• The Joy of Small Projects - Dominick Schroer's Blog - 2022-04-11 -
• Heresy - 2022-04-11 -
• YouTube Comments Discontinuation - Xe - 2022-04-08 - YouTube Comments Discontinuation - Xe's Blog
• Troy Hunt: Beg Bounties - 2022-04-08 - - When someone passed me hundreds of thousands of records on kids taken from CloudPets a few years ago, I had a nightmare of a time getting in touch with the company. They'd left a MongoDB instance exposed to the public without a password and someone had snagged all their data.
• Open Source Software Faces Threats of Protestware and Sabotage | WIRED - 2022-04-08 - - A recent uptick in disruptions to open source software, including incidents aimed at objecting to Russia's war in Ukraine, have left the community on edge.
• Prime Minister Boris Johnson says transgender women should not compete in women's sport - BBC Sport - 2022-04-08 - UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he does not believe transgender women should compete in female sporting events.
• You can do a lot with an empty file - 2022-04-07 -
• Twitter Edits You - 2022-04-07 - - With all the fuss about Twitter’s promised edit button, and how they might design it, we’re missing a disturbing development — Twitter is using its embedded javascript to edit other people’s sites.
• Go net/http.ServeMux and Trailing Slashes - Xe - 2022-04-06 - Go net/http.ServeMux and Trailing Slashes - Xe's Blog
• How I VTuber - Xe - 2022-04-06 - - How I VTuber - Xe's Blog
• Site Updates: Better Contrast Ratio and Using Xeact - Xe - 2022-04-06 - Site Updates: Better Contrast Ratio and Using Xeact - Xe's Blog
• GNU Doesn't Care About Your Agency - Xe - 2022-04-06 - - GNU Doesn't Care About Your Agency - Xe's Blog
• Want to Learn a New Language? Write a Blog Backend! - Xe - 2022-04-06 - - Want to Learn a New Language? Write a Blog Backend! - Xe's Blog
• How I Pomodoro - Xe - 2022-04-06 - - How I Pomodoro - Xe's Blog
• Compiling Code to Matter in My Living Room - Xe - 2022-04-06 - Compiling Code to Matter in My Living Room - Xe's Blog
• What To Do As A Recruiter When A Gender-diverse Person Asks You To Update Their Name - Xe - 2022-04-06 - What To Do As A Recruiter When A Gender-diverse Person Asks You To Update Their Name - Xe's Blog
• Tailscale’s human-scale networks are still controlled by Google and Microsoft — iliana.fyi - 2022-04-06
• A Model for Identity in Software - Xe - 2022-04-06 - - A Model for Identity in Software - Xe's Blog
• GitHub can now auto-block commits containing API keys, auth tokens - 2022-04-06 - - GitHub announced on Monday that it expanded its code hosting platform's secrets scanning capabilities for GitHub Advanced Security customers to automatically block secret leaks.
• Breaking PCBs for Science - News - SparkFun Electronics - 2022-04-06 - - Nick sets out to learn everything about "mouse bite" breakaway tabs!
• How an Ivy League School Turned Against a Student | The New Yorker - 2022-04-06 - - Mackenzie Fierceton was championed as a former foster youth who had overcome an abusive childhood and won a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. Then the University of Pennsylvania accused her of lying.
• Dallas Got Rick Rolled With a Giant QR Code on April Fools Day | Dallas Observer - 2022-04-06 - - Internet fads come and go faster than a hiccup, but one that's somehow lasted almost as long as the Internet itself is the "Rick roll."
• TikTok doesn't show the war in Ukraine to Russian users – Oslo og Viken - 2022-04-06 -
• A Tale of Yak Shaving: Accidentally Making a Language, for an Engine, for a Game - 2022-04-05 -
• Exit Interviews Are a Trap - Jacob Kaplan-Moss - 2022-04-05 - - It’s tempting to air your grievances at your exit interview. Don’t. There’s almost no upside to speaking up, and tremendous potential downside. Avoid exit interviews if you can. If you must go, be totally bland; say nothing negative.
• Conversion therapy ban: Over 80 LGBT groups quit government conference - BBC News - 2022-04-04 - Charities react to the government's decision not to ban conversion therapy for trans people.
• The Squeaky Blog | Why we don’t use a staging environment - 2022-04-04 - - Do you need a staging environment? We've written this short blog post to share how an alternative approach is saving us time, and helping us ship better code.
• The project with a single 11,000-line code file - Austin Z. Henley - 2022-04-04 - - I was responsible for a critical software project written by non-programmers a decade ago.
• Vizio TVs are now showing banner ads over live TV - FlatpanelsHD - 2022-04-04 - - Vizio TV owners still have time to voice their concerns
• Chris's Wiki :: blog/programming/GoOnIdentifierVisibility - 2022-04-02
• The story behind creepy-as-hell ‘milk bath’ flyers - 2022-04-02 - About a week ago, disturbing fliers began popping up around Los Angeles. Featuring horror movie-worthy images, they advertised a rather unsavory service: the chance to “bathe” in a stone-faced, sil…
• Yet Another GitHub Profile Generator - House Absolute(ly Pointless) - 2022-04-02 - - A number of the companies I’ve been interviewing with are using Guide to create an “interview guide” that they send to candidates. I really like this. It includes information about the interview topic, interviewer profiles, and relevant links to pages on the company website and/or blog. For one company, an interviewer profile linked to that person’s GitHub profile, so I took a look. Instead of the standard profile, they have a custom thing with lots of fun stats about their activity on GitHub.
• A database for 2022 · Tailscale - 2022-04-02 - - Hi, it’s us again, the ones who used to store our database in a single JSON file on disk, and then moved to etcd. Time for another change! We’re going to put everything in a single file on disk again.
• Twitter user sentenced to 150 hours of community service in UK for posting ‘offensive’ tweet - The Verge - 2022-04-02 - - "Grossly offensive" tweets can get you prosecuted in the UK
• A few things to know before stealing my 914 - Hagerty Media - 2022-04-02 - - If you're going to make a getaway in Norman Garrett's Porsche 914, he's got some tips to help grease the wheels, as it were.
• SerenityOS: A remarkable achievement for a small project • The Register - 2022-04-01 - - Lead dev of modest ground-up Unix-like OS quit job to work on it
• Lupinia Studios - I'm a Scam Prevention Expert, and I Got Scammed - 2022-04-01 - - When discussing scams and social engineering attacks, it's easy for security experts to imply the victims of these attacks should have known better. And, as much as we may like to think we'd handle these situations so much better, that's just not true.
• How Go Mitigates Supply Chain Attacks - The Go Programming Language - 2022-04-01 - - Go is an open source programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software.

March 2022

• ‘Really alarming’: the rise of smart cameras used to catch maskless students in US schools | Surveillance | The Guardian - 2022-03-30 - Schools brought in surveillance cameras to monitor mask compliance and other Covid risks – and while masks are on their way out, the cameras aren’t
• Emily Bridges: Transgender cyclist will not race in women's National Omnium event - BBC Sport - 2022-03-30 - Transgender cyclist Emily Bridges will not compete at Saturday's National Omnium Championships in her first women's event after a ruling by cycling's world governing body.
• I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea - by Tom - TJCX - 2022-03-29 - When good ideas make bad business
• The ghost junction | Roads.org.uk - 2022-03-28 - - The only UK motorway that didn’t connect to ordinary roads finally got its own interchange in 2019. But it's not open, because it still doesn’t touch any ordinary roads.
• Google destroyed my Google Play Developer Account and my work for the last 2 years. | by Andrei Savchuk | Mar, 2022 | Dev Genius - 2022-03-27 - I hope that sometime in the future Google will change its automatic termination policy and stop destroying the dreams and labors of…
• Mourning Loss of a Team Member as a Remote Team - 2022-03-27 - - Mourning with an all remote team across 5 timezones where we've never met each other is challenging. This is my story about losing Pete.
• Saving time in UTC doesn't work and offsets aren't enough | Swizec Teller - 2022-03-26 - Lessons from a painful outage with timezones, UTC offsets, and database clients that took a whole week to resolve.
• Implementing a toy version of TLS 1.3 - 2022-03-25 - - Implementing a toy version of TLS 1.3
• Laptop art: From Vans to Harry Styles - BBC News - 2022-03-25 - Photography student Thorsten Mjölnir captures the way students decorate their laptops.
• An email urging lower wages for new employees due to higher gas prices sparks walkout at Lawrence Applebee’s | News, Sports, Jobs - Lawrence Journal-World: news, information, headlines and events in Lawrence, Kansas - 2022-03-25 - - Rising gasoline prices are causing all types of problems for businesses, but Lawrence’s lone Applebee’s restaurant faced a new one this week. The restaurant on south Iowa Street was closed for large parts of Tuesday because of high gasoline prices, but perhaps not for the reasons you would think. Multiple employees of the chain quit […]
• Leaked opinion of the Commission sets off alarm bells for mass surveillance of private communications - European Digital Rights (EDRi) - 2022-03-24 - A newly-revealed Opinion of a European Commission review board about their own colleagues’ upcoming proposal for a ‘Legislation to effectively tackle child sexual abuse’ shows strong concerns with the legislative proposal. Leaked by French media outlet Contexte yesterday (22 March), and dated 15 February 2022 confirms the fears EDRi and 39 other civil society groups recently raised about the proposal which could destroy the integrity of private online communications across the EU, and set a dangerous precedent for the world.
• “Protestware”: A Slippery Slope | codeshaunted - 2022-03-24 - Foreword I’d like to preface this post by saying that I in no way support the actions taken by Russia in Ukraine. The actions of the Russian state in Ukraine are criminal and must be put to an end. Russia is very clearly on the wrong side of history. This post is not a commentary on politics or the war in Ukraine, it’s an expression of my perspective on “protestware”.
• But life had other plans ... - 2022-03-24 - - In May 2021 I took a sabbatical to take care of family, but things did not go as planned.
• Why You Should Start Self Hosting | Rohan Deshmukh - 2022-03-24 - - Find out why self hosting is important
• Lia Thomas: Florida governor Ron DeSantis refuses to recognise Thomas win - BBC Sport - 2022-03-23 - Florida governor Ron DeSantis signs a proclamation recognising runner-up Emma Weyant as the winner of the highest US national college swimming title.
• Mercedes Drive Pilot Beats Tesla Autopilot By Taking Legal Responsibility - 2022-03-23 - - Mercedes will accept full legal responsibility for the vehicle whenever Drive Pilot is active. The automaker hopes to offer the system in the U.S. by the end of 2022.
• The New Filter Mandate Bill Is An Unmitigated Disaster | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 2022-03-22 - - After the defeat of SOPA/PIPA, Big Content has mostly focused on quiet, backroom deals for copyright legislation, like the unconstitutional CASE Act, which was so unpopular it had to be slipped into a must-pass bill in the dead of winter. But now, almost exactly a decade later, they’ve come...
• His software sang the words of God. Then it went silent. - 2022-03-21 - - Who was Thomas Buchler, the late creator of beloved Torah program 'TropeTrainer'? And can anything be done to revive his life’s work?
• Lily, the Immortal - Uncanny Magazine - 2022-03-21 - In Lily’s last vlog, she says she’s not scared of dying. I know it’s a lie because her gaze drifts off camera and she blinks three times, like there’s something in her eyes. Lily was always a bad liar, but I am a very good editor, so her six-point-five million loyal subscribers never have to […]
• Windows Needs a Change in Priorities | Den Delimarsky - 2022-03-21 - - We need to talk about Windows priorities as a product. And I am saying this as someone who wants Windows to succeed - it's a great OS that, despite it's naysayers, is still one of the best when it comes to backwards compatibility and richness of functionality. I mean, I can literally run a game written for Windows 95 on Windows 11 without major issues.
• Please put units in names - 2022-03-21 - - Using strong types, or putting units in names, is a small effort that can make a tremendous difference for code readability.
• What Web Frameworks Solve And How To Do Without Them (Part 1) — Smashing Magazine - 2022-03-20 - - In this article, Noam Rosenthal dives deep into a few technical features that are common across frameworks, and explains how some of the different frameworks implement them and what they cost.
• My one-way ticket out of Moscow | The Spectator - 2022-03-20 - Things fall apart. Moscow friends call to say that I have to urgently send my 19-year-old son out of Russia. He is travelling on his Russian passport and a new law says that he is obliged to register for the military draft. Nikita is on a gap year working at a Moscow theatre and he begs not to be se...
• The British government reportedly asked when Microsoft would 'get rid' of algorithms | Windows Central - 2022-03-19 - Nadine Dorries, who is the UK's secretary for technology, asked Microsoft to "get rid" of algorithms, according to sources at Politico.
• Amazon intentionally made it difficult to cancel Prime subscription in secret project | The Independent - 2022-03-19 - - Project ‘Iliad’ put multiple layers of questions and offers between the main Amazon page and the final cancellation
• Court says non-open 'open source' code is false advertising • The Register - 2022-03-18 - - Strap in for a wild ride of forks, trademarks, and licensing
• Even More Minor Features in Go 1.18 · The Ethically-Trained Programmer - 2022-03-18 - - By popular demand, even more obscure features of Go
• Each Firefox download has a unique identifier - gHacks Tech News - 2022-03-18 - - Internet users who download the Firefox web browser from the official Mozilla website get a unique identifier attached to the installer that is submitted to Mozilla on install and first run.
• UK introduces exhaustive Online Safety Bill - BBC News - 2022-03-17 - Under its rules, social networks could be fined or blocked if they fail to remove harmful content.
• The three-minute rule: the scientific way to tackle your most-hated chores | Life and style | The Guardian - 2022-03-15 - Psychologists say the secret to stop procrastinating over tasks you dislike is to do them for a few minutes. Could it work?
• Microsoft is testing ads in the Windows 11 File Explorer - 2022-03-15 - - Microsoft has begun testing promotions for some of its other products in the File Explorer app on devices running its latest Windows 11 Insider build.
• Medical student surgically implants Bluetooth device into own ear to cheat in final exam | The Independent - 2022-03-15 - - It was the student’s final attempt to clear the exam after repeatedly failing it since getting admission into the college 11 years ago
• Putin changes law on leased jets to keep them flying - BBC News - 2022-03-14 - The Russian president signs new law allowing foreign-leased jets to keep flying in Russia.
• Ukraine war: Protester interrupts Russian TV news show - BBC News - 2022-03-14 - A woman with a placard reading 'no war' appeared behind a newsreader on Russian state-controlled TV.
• Transgender children: Texas plan to probe parents halted - BBC News - 2022-03-12 - Parents seeking gender transition for their children may not be investigated for so-called abuse.
• You Don’t Really Ever Own an EV – Review Geek - 2022-03-12 - - Buying an electric vehicle is a lot like buying a subscription to a car. Almost no one can work on them except the manufacturer, features get locked behind in-app purchases or software updates, and those features can get disabled at the flip of a switch. If carmakers can dictate how you use your car, do you really even own it?
• Twitter makes it harder to choose the old reverse-chronological feed - The Verge - 2022-03-12 - - Twitter is pushing users toward the algorithmic feed.
• Azure moves ahead of AWS in cloud adoption – report • The Register - 2022-03-11 - - It's close as Microsoft finds favor with surveyed enterprise IT pros
• JetBrains’ Statement on Ukraine | JetBrains News - 2022-03-11 - - We have already made our position very clear in regard to the invasion of Ukraine. We condemn the attacks of the Russian government, and we stand with the Ukrainian people, including our own colleagues and their families.
• How to use undocumented web APIs - 2022-03-11 - - How to use undocumented web APIs
• Toll signs on 101 report your transponder setting - 2022-03-11 -
• elementary OS is imploding - by Bryan Lunduke - 2022-03-10 - elementary founder: "I might take some time off from Linux or join another community maybe"
• The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote | Derek Sivers - 2022-03-10 - - In May 2003, Apple invited me to their headquarters to discuss getting CD Baby’s catalog into the iTunes Music Store.
• Some tiny personal programs I've written - 2022-03-10 - - Some tiny personal programs I've written
• Cloudflare refuses to pull out of Russia, says Putin would celebrate shutoff | Ars Technica - 2022-03-09 - - Cloudflare: "We believe the Russian government would celebrate us shutting down."
• At long last: Apple will sell a desktop monitor that doesn’t cost $5,000 | Ars Technica - 2022-03-09 - The new monitor will support 5K and house an A13 Bionic chip.
• VW unveils adorable electric ID. Buzz, US sales begin in 2024 | Ars Technica - 2022-03-09 - The three-row-long wheelbase version for North America is still two years away.
• The new silent majority: People who don't tweet - 2022-03-09 - - The rising power and prominence of the nation's loudest, meanest voices distort our reality.
• Leaked Nvidia Code-Signing Certificate Now Being Used by Malware | Abi's Hardware - 2022-03-08 - - Two such certificates were part of the Nvidia hack attack haul we reported on last week.
• My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll · Caffeinspiration - 2022-03-07 -
• No, "Open Source" does not mean "Includes Free Support" - 2022-03-06 - - We need to talk.
• A new year, a new MDN - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog - 2022-03-05 - - If you’ve accessed the MDN website today, you probably noticed that it looks quite different.
• Sky News team's harrowing account of their violent ambush in Ukraine this week | World News | Sky News - 2022-03-05 - - On Monday, near Kyiv, chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay and his team were attacked. Camera operator Richie Mockler took two rounds to his body armour, Stuart was wounded. Their experience illustrates the scale of the mayhem and violence as Russia's invasion enters a new and deadlier phase.
• Cybercriminals who breached Nvidia issue one of the most unusual demands ever | Ars Technica - 2022-03-05 - - Chipmaker has until Friday to comply or see its crown-jewel source code released.
• Texas Parents of Transgender Teen Win Legal Victory - WSJ - 2022-03-04 - Court forbids the state from investigating family for child abuse under new Texas directive.
• using www-authenticate for user authentication - 2022-03-04 - - This article explains how to use the www-authenticate header to handle user authentication without any client side code.
• Wartime Is a Bad Time To Mess With the Internet | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 2022-03-04 - - Like most people, we at EFF are horrified by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Also like most people, we are not experts on military strategy or international diplomacy. But we do have some expertise with the internet and civil liberties, which is why we are deeply concerned that governments around the...
• Don’t use the Unlicense, an inferior license with an atrocious name - an article by Chris Morgan - 2022-03-04 - - Not only is it poorly drafted with better alternatives available, but “Unlicensed” means the precise opposite of “unlicensed”.
• ICANN's rejection of Ukraine's request to sever Russia from the internet [pdf] | Hacker News - 2022-03-04
• SPAs were a mistake | Go Make Things - 2022-03-03 - - For years, a trend in our industry has been to build single-page apps, or SPAs. With an SPA, the entire site or app lives in a single HTML file. After the initial load, everything about the app is handled with JavaScript. This is, in theory, supposed to result in web apps that feel as fast and snappy as native apps. Today, I want to explore why that’s nonsense. Let’s dig in!
• Better mental health found among transgender people who started hormones as teens | News Center | Stanford Medicine - 2022-03-02 - Transgender adults who started gender-affirming hormone therapy as teens had better mental health than those who waited until adulthood or wanted the treatment but never received it, a Stanford-led study found.
• Jobfished: the con that tricked dozens into working for a fake design agency - BBC News - 2022-03-02 - - Dozens of young people were tricked into thinking they were working for a glamorous UK design agency - which didn’t really exist.
• Tell HN: If You Are in Russia | Hacker News - 2022-03-02
• How to take credit for someone else's work on GitHub - 2022-03-01 - - Surface insights with our real-time dashboards or turn your project into a beautiful data visualization for your home or office.. A bizarre flaw in how GitHub attributes commits

February 2022

• Storms with female names are not ‘more deadly’ because people underestimate them - Full Fact - 2022-02-28 - The claim that more people die in storms with female names, like Eunice, is based on flawed research. Better evidence suggests that the name makes no difference.
• On Regular Expressions · @radekmie’s take on IT and stuff - 2022-02-28 - Whenever I introduce a regular expression in a project, there’s always someone that is not fond of this idea. Let’s change it today!
• 1.7 million Hondas are being investigated for phantom braking | Ars Technica - 2022-02-26 - - NHTSA has received 278 complaints about inappropriate automatic emergency braking.
• Miscellanea: Understanding the War in Ukraine – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry - 2022-02-26 - - This week, I want to break from our usual format and respond to the fairly unusual global events. I expect a lot of my readers are trying to get a grasp on what is happening right now in Ukraine an…
• Ukraine war flashes neon warning lights for chips | Reuters - 2022-02-25 - - Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by land, air and sea risks reverberating across the global chip industry and exacerbating current supply-chain constraints. Ukraine is a major producer of neon gas critical for lasers used in chipmaking and supplies more than 90% of U.S. semiconductor-grade neon, according to estimates from research firm Techcet. About 35% of palladium, a rare metal also used for semiconductors, is sourced from Russia. A full-scale conflict disrupting exports of these elements might hit players like Intel , which gets about 50% of its neon from Eastern Europe according to JPMorgan.
• Why I will never buy another Samsung device | by Juhani Lehtimäki | Feb, 2022 | Medium - 2022-02-23 - - I’ve been on Nexuses and Pixels since Nexus one. Stock-or-nothing was me. However, the mobile phone market has become a bit stale and…
• MEMEX - I have no capslock and I must scream [ 2022-02-21 ] - 2022-02-22 -
• r00695363 current alevelsb_p2_ex9mix - 2022-02-21
• Things that used to be hard and are now easy - 2022-02-21 - - Things that used to be hard and are now easy
• Be anonymous - 2022-02-21 - - My website.
• The United States of Amazon: The Day Amazon Sent the FBI to Take My Family’s Bank Accounts | by Amy Nelson | Feb, 2022 | Medium - 2022-02-18 - - https://gofund.me/8950f458
• Young People Are Having Less Sex - The Atlantic - 2022-02-18 - - Despite the easing of taboos and the rise of hookup apps, Americans are in the midst of a sex recession.
• how I wound up causing a major outage of my services and destroying my home directory by accident – Ariadne's Space - 2022-02-18 - - As a result of my FOSS maintenance and activism work, I have a significant IT footprint, to support the services and development environments needed to facilitate everything I do. Unfortunately, I …
• The Unreasonable Math of Type 1 Diabetes | by Graham Jenson | Feb, 2022 | Maori Geek - 2022-02-18 - - In January our son was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D). This post talks about the unreasonable math needed to manage his T1D.
• Reddit can’t build a better search engine - Rukshan's Blog - 2022-02-18 - - Every week or twice a week, you will come across a post on HackerNews that Google is dying or Google is awful. There are some valid points to some of their arguments. However, I don't see Google going anywhere anytime soon. Yesterday, I came across a post titled, 'Google search is Dying' and the
• Avoid the Apple App Store | Jonatan Heyman | heyman.info - 2022-02-17 -
• Change - Xe - 2022-02-16 - Change - Xe's Blog
• Building an iPod for 2022 - 2022-02-16 - - I modified an old iPod Video with more storage, a new casing, and more battery life. Also some fancy software :)
• Ask HN: Should we own the free stuff we pay for? | Hacker News - 2022-02-16
• Kash Goudarzi - 2022-02-16 - - My website.
• Google Search Is Dying | DKB - 2022-02-16 - - Reddit is currently the most popular search engine. The only people who don’t know that are the team at Reddit, who can’t be bothered to build a decent search interface. So instead we resort to using Google, and appending the word “reddit” to the end of our queries.
• The simple system I’m using to stay in touch with hundreds of people – Jakob Greenfeld – Experiments in Entrepreneurship and Learning - 2022-02-15 - - Staying in touch with people is one of these asymmetric habits that require little effort, time and resources but has an unlimited upside.
• Jerry and Marge Selbee: How a retired couple won millions using a lottery loophole - 60 Minutes - CBS News - 2022-02-15 - It was completely legal and it won them millions. Jon Wertheim reports on how Jerry Selbee and his wife Marge used "basic arithmetic" to crack the code on certain lottery games
• set -ex - The most useful bash trick of the year - Peterbe.com - 2022-02-12
• Why won’t anyone teach me math? - The Princetonian - 2022-02-12 - - “We are often told of B.S.E or STEM students exploring the humanities to their heart's content, but I feel that we rarely hear of students in the humanities being encouraged to take scientific classes.”
• Key Senators Have Voted For The Anti-Encryption EARN IT Act | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 2022-02-12 - - Earlier today, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance the dangerous EARN IT bill. We’re disappointed to see the committee advance this misguided bill. If enacted, EARN IT will put massive legal pressure on internet companies both large and small to stop using encryption and instead scan...
• Senator Blumenthal, After Years Of Denial, Admits He's Targeting Encryption With EARN IT | Techdirt - 2022-02-12 - - Senator Richard Blumenthal has now admitted that EARN IT is targeting encryption, something he denied for two years, and then just out and said it. Since the very beginning many of us have pointed out that the EARN IT Act will undermine...
• Rights watchdog 'should lose status' over trans row - BBC News - 2022-02-12 - Britain's human rights watchdog shouldn't be considered an independent group, charities tell the BBC.
• How We Write GitHub Actions in Go · Blend Engineering: Full Stack Finance - 2022-02-11 - Using Prebuilt Binaries to Minimize Build Costs
• Young Men and Society: We Will Only Get Out What We Put In | Institute for Family Studies - 2022-02-10 - When our book Man Interrupted was published in 2016, concern over boy’s and men’s issues, however legitimate, could not have been more unpopular. It’s a new world out there for everybody, yet amidst the shifting economic, social, and technological climates, boys are getting left behind. There are a record number of young men that are flaming out academically, wiping out socially with girls, and later failing in relationships with women. 
• Opinion | Andrew Yang: The boys are not all right - The Washington Post - 2022-02-10 - - American men and boys are struggling. Why aren't the media and government paying attention?
• Nick Brown Smelled Bull - 2022-02-09 - - A plucky amateur dared to question a celebrated psychological finding. He wound up blowing the whole theory wide open.
• Semantic Compression - 2022-02-08 - - An introduction to the idea that code should be approached with a mindset towards compressing it semantically, rather than orienting it around objects.
• Signal >> Blog >> You Can Change Your Number - 2022-02-08 - - Millions of people worldwide rely on Signal every day for secure and private communication. Some of these people change their phone number, but want to continue using Signal without registering for a new account. We now provide the ability to change the phone number on your Signal account, while ...
• IRS To Ditch Biometric Requirement for Online Access – Krebs on Security - 2022-02-08 -
• One machine can go pretty far if you build things properly - 2022-02-07 -
• Thank you, Valve | Alejandro AR (kinduff) - 2022-02-07 - - For all the effort to make Linux a platform to game on.
• Why I Quit Shopify After Five Months | The Blog of Josh Simmons - 2022-02-07 - - The blog of Josh Simmons
• My father had a lifelong ticket to fly anywhere. Then they took it away | Family | The Guardian - 2022-02-07 - - My dad was one of the only people with a ‘golden ticket’ on American Airlines. This is the true story of having – and losing – a superpower
• LGBT tolerance 'going backwards' as hate crimes up - BBC News - 2022-02-06 - After the homophobic murder of a doctor, a campaigner says attacks happen "all too often".
• Tech giants targeted in harmful content crackdown - BBC News - 2022-02-06 - - Sending genuinely harmful communications will become illegal if the bill becomes law.
• SPAM blacklisting is out of control | Roastisdio.us Blog - 2022-02-05 - - If you got shuned by the society not because of what you did but what your neighbor did, you will cry bloody injustice. This is exactly what is happening in SPAM blacklisting.
• The EARN IT Act Is Back, and It’s More Dangerous Than Ever | Center for Internet and Society - 2022-02-05 -
• Unlearning Perfectionism | Arun Prasad - 2022-02-05 - - A way out from the perfectionism trap
• Jan-Piet Mens :: A shell command to create JSON: jo - 2022-02-05 -
• Optimizing GoAWK with a bytecode compiler and virtual machine - 2022-02-04 - - How I sped up GoAWK by switching from a tree-walking interpreter to a bytecode compiler and virtual machine interpreter.
• Don’t Feed the Beast – the Great Recruitment Agency Infestation - 2022-02-02 - Don’t Feed the Beast – the Great Recruitment Agency Infestation - dontfeedthebeast.md
• Career Advice Nobody Gave Me: Never Ignore a Recruiter | by Alex Chesser | Feb, 2022 | Index - 2022-02-02 - They are frustrating, annoying, and one of the best career resources you can find
• Red Light Green Light | James Sevedge - 2022-02-01 - - I was listening to the Tim Ferriss Show podcast episode #532 with Sheila Heen (Harvard Negotiation Project, co-author of Difficult Conversations: How To Discuss What Matters Most) and a specific story she told during the conversation really resonated with me and I have been thinking alot about it since I heard it. Below is the excerpt of that story in her own words. It reminds me, I sometimes tell this story about my eldest son.
• the new hire who showed up is not the same person we interviewed — Ask a Manager - 2022-02-01 - - A reader writes: This is a situation currently unfolding at my husband's office so I’m a very amused bystander and thought I’d get your opinion on this

January 2022

• A UX designer walks into a Tesla Bar – Scott Jenson - 2022-01-30 -
• Reclaiming the lost art of Linux server administration | pietrorea's blog - 2022-01-28 -
• If Looks Could Kill - 2022-01-28 - by Leonard Tramiel At one of the many computer trade shows over the years I had a really funny interaction with Bill Gates. I was doing demo...
• Elon Musk SpaceX rocket on collision course with moon - BBC News - 2022-01-27 - - Astronomers say that a rocket in space since 2015 is hurtling towards the Moon where it will explode.
• Zheng Bang ZB3245TSS Pick & Place Machine - Custom Electronics, PWM Circuits, Induction Heating, and DIY Science Projects - 2022-01-27 - - Zhengbang ZB3245 review. We bought a Zhengbang Pick & Place machine and this page tells you all about our experience of setting up and using.
• To my surprise and elation, the Webb Space Telescope is really going to work | Ars Technica - 2022-01-26 - - At times, it remains difficult to believe this is really happening.
• Electric Tables V0.1 - 2022-01-26 - - Tom Critchlow. Move. Think. Create.
• The Prisoner Who Revolutionized Chinese Language With a Teacup | WIRED - 2022-01-26 - - While imprisoned for being a “reactionary,” physicist and engineer Zhi Bingyi began devising a system to help computing machines read Chinese characters.
• Google drops FLoC and proposes new Topics API for ads - 9to5Google - 2022-01-26 - - Following FLoC criticism and feedback over the past year, Google today announced a replacement Topics API proposal for placing ads...
• Infix Operators in Python - 2022-01-25 - - Discussing a nice hack which adds support for infix operators in python by Tomer Filiba
• LogJ4 Security Inquiry – Response Required | daniel.haxx.se - 2022-01-25 -
• Survey Says Developers Are Definitely Not Interested In NFTs - 2022-01-25 - - 'How this hasn’t been identified as a pyramid scheme is beyond me'
• Troy Hunt: How I Got Pwned by My Cloud Costs - 2022-01-24 - - I have been, and still remain, a massive proponent of "the cloud". I built Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) as a cloud-first service that took advantage of modern cloud paradigms such as Azure Table Storage to massively drive down costs at crazy levels of performance I never could have achieved
• This 22-Year-Old Builds Chips in His Parents’ Garage | WIRED - 2022-01-24 - - Sam Zeloof combines 1970s-era machines with homemade designs. His creations show what’s possible for small-scale silicon tinkerers.
• Finding love as a trans woman - BBC News - 2022-01-23 - Trans woman Daniella McDonald had bad experiences dating men until she met Josh - but thinks attitudes are slowly changing.
• Golang’s most important feature is invisible | by Jack Strohm | Jan, 2022 | Dev Genius - 2022-01-23 - - I have been surprised about is how little fan fair has been given to what I consider Go’s most important feature.
• The case for a modern language - 2022-01-22 - - There is a difference of opinion among many programmers regarding the idea of replacing C, either in newly wrritten code or else altogether. I find myself coming down on the side that it makes little sense to try to replace a legacy codebase, and still find C useful in some contexts (particularly in the realm of microcontrollers). That said I think a strong case can be made for using one of the several more modern languages that have sprung up in the systems programming space, at least for newly written code.
• Pankraz Piktograph | Felix Fisgus - 2022-01-22 - The Portfolio of Felix Fisgus.
• webassembly: the new kubernetes? -- wingolog - 2022-01-22 -
• The Internet Changed My Life | Pointers Gone Wild - 2022-01-21 - - I’ve seen multiple discussions online as to the negative effects of the internet on society. There’s definitely harmful content online. It makes me sad to see the internet being used as a tool to s…
• Roblox Return to Service 10/28-10/31 2021 - Roblox Blog - 2022-01-21 - - Starting October 28th and fully resolving on October 31st, Roblox experienced a 73-hour outage. We’re sharing these technical details to give our community an understanding of the root cause of the problem, how we addressed it, and what we are doing to prevent similar issues from happening in the future.
• Make debugging suck less. Keep a logbook. 📓 | Conor Lamb - 2022-01-18 - - Scientists keep logbooks for their findings. Why don’t computer scientists? A great place to start doing this is for debugging. Debugging sucks enough as is, make it easier on yourself. A logbook will… 🗺 Enumerate where you are in the bug fix journey. You’ll forget this journey when you pick it up tomorrow, write it down. 🌳 Keep you rooted to the ground. (Creating an “issue stack”.) Related to above, it often feels like you’re completely lost in the aether when you’re 50 opened browser tabs deep into an issue that’s not even the same issue anymore, its a sub issue of a sub issue.
• The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet - 2022-01-18 - - how we found, analyzed (with the help of Reddit) and in the end caught the culprit of a malicious device in our network
• Your app is not compliant with Google Play Policies: A story from hell | Sylvia van Os - 2022-01-17 - - Hello, I'm Sylvia. I like to hack on things.
• Failing to Learn Zig via Advent of Code - ForrestTheWoods - 2022-01-17 - - My experience trying to learn Zig via Advent of Code.
• Woozle Hypertwin: "*crossposted from <a href="https://www.linkedin.c…" - Toot.Cat - 2022-01-17 - - *crossposted from <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/woozle_tldr-why-isnt-there-a-universal-data-format-activity-6888590321362452480-_0rw">LinkedIn</a>* TL;DR: **Why isn't there a universal data-format for résumés?** So, here's a thing. A lot of job application sites will ask you to upload a résumé (henceforth "CV") and then attempt to parse it out into something more like a set of database entries, presumably with the idea of making it easier for prospective employers to search for people with particular types of experience. The problem is, the parsing software they all seem to use is hot garbage. I thought at first it was something to do with my CV's decorative layout, so I tried creating a new one from scratch that's laid out with the intention of being minimally confusing for a parsing algorithm. My name and contact info is at the top, then an "Experience" header, followed by sub-headers with the name of each job, with labeled bullet-items under each one which include things like dates worked, tech used, tasks performed, etc. The algorithm doesn't seem to do any better with this. It picked two work-experience items seemingly at random (including the oldest one, down at the end of the list), and it got the dates completely wrong for the first one (it showed dates which are not given *anywhere* on my CV; it seems to have completely invented them, for no apparent reason). Yes, I can go in and manually enter all my work experience -- but I have to do this for every new site where I apply for work, AND -- this is the key thing -- there's no way to SAVE THAT WORK in a format which I can reload elsewhere. The larger employers and job-hosting web sites need to get their acts together and work this out. Some kind of XML microformat seems like a good idea to me, though JSON would probably work fine too (though I prefer XML because JSON doesn't support comments). Please.
• It's not still the early days - 2022-01-16 - - When I speak about the inefficiency of popular blockchains, or mention that we seem to be hurtling towards a
• "It's your fault" - stitcher.io - 2022-01-16 - - My personal thoughts on the web and programming.
• FedEx asks FAA permission to add anti-missile system to some cargo planes - CNN - 2022-01-15 - FedEx wants to operate cargo planes outfitted with lasers that throw off incoming heat-seeking missiles, according to a newly published federal documents.
• PayPal faces lawsuit for freezing customer accounts and funds | Engadget - 2022-01-15 - Three PayPal users who've allegedly had their accounts frozen and funds taken by the company without explanation are proposing a class-action lawsuit..
• Don't Make My Mistakes: Common Infrastructure Errors I've Made - 2022-01-15 - - One surreal experience as my career has progressed is the intense feeling of deja vu you get hit with during meetings. From time to time, someone will mention something and you'll flash back to the same meeting you had about this a few jobs ago. A decision was made then,
• research!rsc: What NPM Should Do Today To Stop A New Colors Attack Tomorrow - 2022-01-15 -
• Even if a function doesn't do anything, you still have to call it if the documentation says so, because it might do something tomorrow - The Old New Thing - 2022-01-14 - - If the documentation says that you have to call a function, then you have to call it. It may be that the function doesn’t do anything, but that doesn’t prevent it from doing something in the future. Today’s example is the function GetEnvironmentStrings,
• Updating a 50 terabyte PostgreSQL database - Adyen - 2022-01-14 -
• Exploring System76's New Rust Based Desktop Environment | Devloop - 2022-01-14 - - This article intends to shine a light at the development of a new desktop environment for the Pop!_OS operating system.
• Music industry is suing youtube-dl hosters - 2022-01-14 - - The music industry is shifting up a gear and is now taking action against a German hosting provider. Three big labels are suing the provider Uberspace for hosting the website of the open source project youtube-dl. With the software, which is available on the code sharing platform Github, YouTube videos and music files can be… Continue reading Music industry is...
• How I plan - stitcher.io - 2022-01-14 - My personal thoughts on the web and programming.
• Making Your Game Go Fast by Asking Windows Nicely | Anthropic Studios - 2022-01-14 - How to stop Windows throttling your game, set DPI awareness programatically, use Application Manifests in Rust and prefer discrete GPUs to integrated in OpenGL.
• Transgender Healthcare in the UK: My Experience - 2022-01-13 - James shares his personal experience with transgender healthcare in the UK, from miscommunication and ignorance to year-long waiting times.
• The Laurels: NHS gender clinic only assessed two patients in 12 months - 2022-01-13 - The Laurels, an NHS gender identity clinic (GIC), has assessed just two patients in a year, leaving one on the waiting list for six years. 
• Google hired union-busting consultants to convince employees “unions suck” | Ars Technica - 2022-01-13 - - NLRB judge orders Google to shed light on its secret anti-union project.
• The Optional Chaining Operator, “Modern” Browsers, and My Mom - Jim Nielsen’s Blog - 2022-01-12 -
• Is the madness ever going to end? - 2022-01-12 -
• LastPass appears to be holding users' passwords hostage alongside more expensive pricing plans | AlternativeTo - 2022-01-12 - - LastPass is likely knowingly restricting users from exporting their passwords while putting their...
• After ruining Android messaging, Google says iMessage is too powerful | Ars Technica - 2022-01-12 - - Google failed to compete with iMessage for years. Now it wants Apple to play nice.
• Make Beautiful Gradients in CSS, with linear-gradient, radial-gradient, or conic-gradient. - 2022-01-12 - - Have you ever noticed that gradients tend to look a little gray and washed-out in the middle? This happens because of a mathematical quirk with RGB colors. Fortunately, we can work around this quirk, and create beautiful, lush, saturated gradients.
• Dependency Risk and Funding | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings - 2022-01-11 - - Some more thoughts about dependencies.
• Who wrote this shit? | Philip Heltweg - 2022-01-11 - - Trashing legacy software is fun. It creates camaraderie.
• Physicians re-evaluate use of lead aprons during X-rays - Scope - 2022-01-10 - Based on new technologies and improved understanding, physicians are no longer recommending routine use of radioprotective shields for X-ray procedures.
• The right to delete: how faker.js exposed the fragile nature of open source culture, again - 2022-01-10 - When the author of faker.js decided to delete his entire repository, it caused thousands of other codebases to break. Is open source a viable concept today?
• Dev corrupts NPM libs 'colors' and 'faker' breaking thousands of apps - 2022-01-09 - - Users of popular open-source libraries 'colors' and 'faker' were left stunned after they saw their applications, using these libraries, printing gibberish data and breaking. Some surmised if the NPM libraries had been compromised, but it turns out there's more to the story.
• New Notepad enters Windows Insider Beta Channel • The Register - 2022-01-09 - - It avoided Aero. Missed Modern. Now the update edges ever closer to release
• Fired for being female - 2022-01-09 - - Irene Cybulsky was a superstar surgeon, and head of cardiac surgery at her hospital, but her all-male staff resented her. When she was replaced by a man, she found a novel way to get justice
• The James Webb Space Telescope — making 300 points of failure reliable | by Robert Barron | Jan, 2022 | Medium - 2022-01-09 - - The JWST must perform a bewildering array of tasks — unfurling panels, mirrors and more — how can engineers trust telescope’s reliability?
• Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report says - 2022-01-09 - - Researchers, though, cautioned against drawing direct lines between the spike and conditions brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.
• Avoid meaningless binary labels — Bobbie Chen - 2022-01-09 -
• Upwork wants me to refund $12k as their client was using "another" card. - 2022-01-09 - -  Upwork, a billion-USD firm, wants me, a freelancer, to work for free for 230 hours to refund their client who was using another credit card.
• Simplicity of IRC - Susam's Maze - 2022-01-09 -
• UZH - School Closures Led to More Sleep and Better Quality of Life for Adolescents - 2022-01-09 -
• Saving a Third of Our Memory by Re-ordering Go Struct Fields | Lane's Ramblings - 2022-01-08 - - Simply changing the order of some uint variables we managed to drop our memory usage significantly
• How a routine gem update ended up creating $73k worth of subscriptions - 2022-01-08 - - On November 5, 2021 (a Friday of course), we've deployed innocent-looking gem updates. Minor versions of Ruby on Rails, Ruby Sentry client, Ruby Slack client, http libraries, Puma, Devise, OmniAuth Ruby client, Mongoid, and a few test gems. However, something went very wrong. We saw odd Stripe errors on Airbrake.
• I Miss RSS - Wilcosky - 2022-01-06 - - A long time ago every website was closed off. There was no way to know if a website was updated other than to go there. There were various attempts to come u...
• Platonic relationships aren't just for friends. They can be for life. - 2022-01-05 - People are opting for platonic life partnerships instead of traditional, romantic marriage. Here's why.
• Python Type Hints - How to Handle Optional Imports - Adam Johnson - 2022-01-05 - - This post is not about importing typing.Optional, but instead imports that are themselves optional. Libraries often have optional dependencies, and the code should work whether or not the import is there. A common pattern to solve this to catch ImportError and replace the module with None:
• Orbifolds and Other Games - Three Problems with a Tool - 2022-01-05 -
• Researcher discovers 70 web cache poisoning vulnerabilities, nets $40k in bug bounty rewards | The Daily Swig - 2022-01-04 - - Targets included GitHub, GitLab, HackerOne, and Cloudflare
• 100 ways to slightly improve your life without really trying | Life and style | The Guardian - 2022-01-04 - - Whether it’s taking fruit to work (and to the bedroom!), being polite to rude strangers or taking up skinny-dipping, here’s a century of ways to make life better, with little effort involved …
• You don't need that CORS request - Nick Olinger - 2022-01-04 - - A low code optimization
• 7 moments of trans brilliance from 2021 | Xtra Magazine - 2022-01-03 - While there is plenty from the last year to hate, these are the culture touchpoints we should focus on
• Your attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen | Psychology | The Guardian - 2022-01-03 - - Social media and many other facets of modern life are destroying our ability to concentrate. We need to reclaim our minds while we still can
• Why I Believe Printers Were Sent From Hell To Make Us Miserable - The Oatmeal - 2022-01-02 - Behold, the printer hate machine.
• Wesley Aptekar-Cassels | web3 is Centralized - 2022-01-02 -
• Why I’m Using HTTP Basic Auth in 2022 | Joel Dare - 2022-01-02 -
• Emirates' Terrifying Boeing 777 Flight To Washington - One Mile at a Time - 2022-01-02 - - A recent Emirates Boeing 777 flight from Dubai to Washington allegedly had a serious Incident after takeoff due to pilot error.
• Firefox is the Only Alternative - (think) - 2022-01-02 - - Supposedly today we have a lot of browsers to choose from - Google Chrome, Safari, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, etc. Having choices is a good thing, right? Nobody wants to relive the time of almost complete Internet Explorer domination again. Unfortunately our choices are significantly fewer than they seem to be at first glance, as Chrome and Safari (thanks to the iPhone) totally dominate the browser landscape in terms of usage and almost all browsers these days are built on top of Chromium, Google’s open-source browser project. Funny enough even Edge is built on top of Chromium today, despite the bitter rivalry between Google and Microsoft. What’s also funny is that Chrome and Safari control about 85% of the browser market share today, and Microsoft’s Edge commands only about 4%:
• How To Get Hacked By Accidentally Copy Pasting - 2022-01-01 - This is why you should NEVER copy paste commands directly into your terminal. Ask any developer or Admin if they have ever copied a command line or code snippet from the web. T
• How Telegram Messenger circumvents Google Translate's API | DanPetrov - 2022-01-01 -

December 2021

• Python 4.0 will never arrive🤚😔. Said by Python’s creator | by Sabrina Carpenter | CodeX | Nov, 2021 | Medium - 2021-12-31 - Said by Python’s creator
• University loses 77TB of research data due to backup error - 2021-12-31 - - The Kyoto University in Japan has lost about 77TB of research data due to an error in the backup system of its Hewlett-Packard supercomputer.
• Hyrum's Law - 2021-12-31 -
• Parson says he believes prosecutor will bring charges in Post-Dispatch case | Politics | stltoday.com - 2021-12-31 - - Missouri’s governor has often tangled with news outlets over coverage he doesn’t like.
• GCC 12 Adds Support For Using The Mold Linker - Phoronix - 2021-12-30 -
• Social Media Faces Privacy ‘Paradox’ in Spotting Underage Users - 2021-12-30 - Social media platforms under pressure to shield children from harmful content face a dilemma: figuring out how old their users are without violating their privacy.
• 2021: The year of the mask - BBC Future - 2021-12-30 - As the world entered its second full year of the coronavirus pandemic, masks became a ubiquitous sight, from sports stadiums to the highest political offices.
• Wesley Aptekar-Cassels | Consider SQLite - 2021-12-30 -
• Chris's Wiki :: blog/tech/EmailCriticalInfrastructure - 2021-12-30 -
• Facebook Said My Article Was 'False Information.' Now the Fact-Checkers Admit They Were Wrong. - 2021-12-30 - - While this is a problem, it's not one that scrapping Section 230 would solve.
• glibc is still not Y2038 compliant by default – Ariadne's Space - 2021-12-29 - - Most of my readers are probably aware of the Y2038 issue by now. If not, it refers to 3:14:07 UTC on January 19, 2038, when 32-bit time_t will overflow. The Linux kernel has internally switched to …
• What January 6 Insurrectionists Wanted — and What They Lost - 2021-12-29 - What three January 6 insurrectionists wanted — and what they lost.
• April Ashley: Model, actress and trans trailblazer dies aged 86 - BBC News - 2021-12-29 - The Vogue model and actress was only the second Briton to undergo male-to-female reassignment surgery.
• Paul Butler – “Play-to-earn” and Bullshit Jobs - 2021-12-29 -
• Covid: Warning over patchy lateral flow test supply - BBC News - 2021-12-29 - As more and more people seek rapid tests, pharmacists say staff and customers are stressed over supplies.
• Japan's Paper Culture | JetPens - 2021-12-29 - - With Japan’s rich traditions in paper, it’s no wonder that paper is such a big part of Japanese culture. Keep reading to learn more about why paper is so important in Japan—plus, take a look at a few of our favorite Japanese paper companies.
• LastPass users warned their master passwords are compromised - 2021-12-29 - - Many LastPass users report that their master passwords have been compromised after receiving email warnings that someone tried to use them to log into their accounts from unknown locations.
• Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects - 2021-12-29 -
• Alexa tells 10-year-old girl to touch live plug with penny - BBC News - 2021-12-28 - - Amazon has fixed its voice assistant so that it will not suggest the dangerous “challenge” again.
• Brute-forcing 22 trillion parameters in AoC 2021-24 - 2021-12-28
• Italian Courts Find Open Source Software Terms Enforceable | If This Be Treason - 2021-12-28 - - In a first-time ruling by Italian courts on open source, a software vendor has been fined for failing to comply with an open source license.
• You block ads in your browser, why not in your city? | bearblog - 2021-12-27 - - There are defences against badvertising on the internet, and you should use them. But there are defences against bad advertising in real life too, and you should use them too. Put badvertising in its place: nowhere!
• Snow Removal - 2021-12-26
• Common Anti-Patterns in Go Web Applications - 2021-12-25 - - At one point in my career, I was no longer excited about the software I was building. My favorite part of the job were low-level details and complex algorithms. After switching to user-facing applications, they were mostly gone. It seemed programming was about moving data from one place to another using existing libraries and tools. What I&rsquo;ve learned so far about software wasn&rsquo;t that useful anymore. Let&rsquo;s face it: most web applications don&rsquo;t solve tough technical challenges.
• 3 Things Go Needs Right Now More Than Generics | by Ryan Collingham | Better Programming - 2021-12-25 - - My suggestions to make Go an even better language
• Chris's Wiki :: blog/sysadmin/EmailServersNoLongerPractical - 2021-12-25 -
• Thoughts on how to structure Go code |> Changelog - 2021-12-24 - - Programmers are taught very early on about the importance of organizing their code. Whether it is naming variables and functions, or naming and organizing files, this is a topic covered early in nearly every programming course. All of this begs the question: why is it so damn hard to figure out how to structure Go code...
• Why I wrote my own Go HTTP client · The Ethically-Trained Programmer - 2021-12-24 - - Requests is a convenient Go library for building, sending, and handling HTTP requests.
• My productivity app is a single .txt file - 2021-12-24 -
• AWS power failure killed some hardware and instances • The Register - 2021-12-23 - Some servers and EBS volumes won’t make it back
• Takedown notices threaten online thrift shops as business is exploding - The Verge - 2021-12-23 - - Small online sellers fear their businesses are at stake.
• MPs urge changes to 'outdated' gender recognition laws - BBC News - 2021-12-22 - A committee says legally changing gender remains too difficult and risks entrenching stereotypes.
• McDonald's faces a French fries shortage in Japan - BBC News - 2021-12-22 - The firm's potato deliveries from North America are being delayed by supply chain disruptions.
• Hidden Networks in TP-Link Routers | Jahed Ahmed - 2021-12-22 - - I was debugging my WiFi settings this week when I noticed something strange. WiFi Analyzer was showing two hidden networks coming from my router, one for each frequency: 2.4GHz and 5GHz. Networks whic
• Boeing and Airbus warn US over 5G safety concerns - BBC News - 2021-12-21 - The world's two biggest plane makers say the technology could have a negative impact on the aviation industry.
• Troy Hunt: Open Source Pwned Passwords with FBI Feed and 225M New NCA Passwords is Now Live! - 2021-12-21 - - In the last month, there were 1,260,000,000 occasions where a service somewhere checked a password against Have I Been Pwned's (HIBP's) Pwned Password API. 99.7% of the time, that check went no further than one of hundreds of Cloudflare edge nodes spread around the world (95%
• The TikTok Couch Guy on what it’s like to be investigated on the internet. - 2021-12-21 - - The invasive TikTok sleuthing I experienced was not an isolated instance, but rather the latest manifestation of a large-scale sleuthing culture.
• Tesla allegedly remotely unlocks Model 3 owner's car, uses smart summon to help repo agent - Alt Car news - 2021-12-20 - - Tesla remotely activated smart summon, locate, and unlock to help a repo agent reposess a car after an owner fell behind on payments.
• I Was Part of a Human Subject Research Study Without My Consent - Xe - 2021-12-20 - - I Was Part of a Human Subject Research Study Without My Consent - Xe's Blog
• Lithuania evacuates its embassy in China | The Economist - 2021-12-19 - - It is the worst diplomatic crisis between China and a European state in decades
• What to Do When You Get an Omicron Breakthrough Infection - The Atlantic - 2021-12-19 - America is in for a lot more breakthrough infections. Here’s what to do if you fall sick.
• My Bose QC-35 II headphones suddenly burst into flames and left me with chemical burns - 2021-12-19 - - About me: I'm a software engineer with one of the FANGs. I've been in the industry for 20 years.   I have been a fan of Bose's noise cancell...
• A380: Last of the superjumbos handed to new owner - BBC News - 2021-12-18 - Emirates has taken ownership of the final A380 to be built. What does the future hold for the plane?
• I blew $720 on 100 notebooks from Alibaba and started a Paper Website business | Tiny Projects - 2021-12-14 - - I started a business that lets you build websites using pen and paper. In the process I went viral on Twitter, made $1,000 in two days, and blew $720 on 100 paper notebooks from Alibaba.
• "Open Source" is Broken - Xe - 2021-12-12 - - "Open Source" is Broken - Xe's Blog
• Professional maintainers: a wake-up call - 2021-12-12 - - Open Source software runs the Internet, and by extension the economy. This is an undisputed fact about reality in 2021. And yet, the role of Open Source maintainer has failed to mature from a hobby into a proper profession.
• How Cloudflare security responded to log4j2 vulnerability - 2021-12-11 - - Yesterday, December 9, 2021, when a serious vulnerability in the popular Java-based logging package log4j was publicly disclosed, our security teams jumped into action to help respond to the first question and answer the second question. This post explores the second.
• Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 is Deceitful and Threatening | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 2021-12-10 - - Manifest V3, Google Chrome’s soon-to-be definitive basket of changes to the world of web browser extensions, has been framed by its authors as “a step in the direction of privacy, security, and performance.” But we think these changes are a raw deal for users. We’ve said that since Manifest V3 was...
• Pixel prevented me from calling 911 : GooglePixel - 2021-12-09 - - I had to call an ambulance for the grandmother on Friday as she appeared to be having a stroke. I got off a phone call with my mom, and proceeded...
• Apple broke up with me 😢 - 2021-12-07 - - Do not get too attached to your Apple account; it belongs to Apple, NOT YOU!
• Google Pixel repairs resulted in leaked pics and a privacy nightmare - The Verge - 2021-12-05 - - Trying to fix your phone shouldn’t violate your privacy
• Prestigious prize visa: UK Global Talent fast-track scheme for scientists hasn’t received any applications since it launched | New Scientist - 2021-12-05 - - Exclusive: A fast-track visa route for Nobel prize laureates and other award-winners in science, engineering, the humanities and medicine has failed to attract any applicants
• LEGO has designed a set that can't be taken apart | Brickset: LEGO set guide and database - 2021-12-03 - - Traditionally, LEGO sets are designed to be assembled and, should you wish, taken apart to allow you to use the pieces for your own creations.
• Microsoft says its own Edge browser is more trustworthy than "so 2008" Google Chrome - Neowin - 2021-12-03 - - Microsoft has been really trying to promote Edge amongst people so that it can gain more regular users. There are now funny pop-ups when trying to download Google Chrome on Edge, and a lot more.
• Some guidelines for writing web scrapers - 2021-12-02 - - I’ve been working on www.rtljobs.com, a job board for RTL and FPGA engineers, since September. Right now, RTLjobs is an aggregator. We index open FPGA/RTL roles at a number of companies, check them for relevance, and post them to our site. I’ve already written two job scraping systems to help ease the work of indexing jobs. Here’s some general rules I’ve come to hold for writing web scrapers and other ETL systems.
• Instagram is Facebook now - by kate lindsay - Embedded - 2021-12-02 - - Users are saying a recent algorithm update has officially ruined the app.
• Project Zero: This shouldn't have happened: A vulnerability postmortem - 2021-12-02 - - Posted by Tavis Ormandy, Project Zero Introduction This is an unusual blog post. I normally write posts to highlight some hidden att...

November 2021

• Why Paper Jams Persist | The New Yorker - 2021-11-29 - - A trivial problem reveals the limits of technology.
• Welcome to Fleet! | JetBrains News - 2021-11-29 - - For years folks have been asking us,
• Statically compiling Go programs - 2021-11-29
• The World’s Deadliest Thing — Anthony Warner - 2021-11-29 - - It is deadly, invisible and shapes much of the food we eat. A teaspoon of it could kill millions of people, and it is probably the most expensive material on earth. Yet you probably have some stuck to the bottom of you shoe.
• Reduce code complexity: Guard clauses - 2021-11-28 - There are patterns to keep complexity to the minimum. The simplest pattern with an impressive impact is the guard clause.
• Why is the UK less likely to go into lockdown than Europe? | Evening Standard - 2021-11-28 - Britons are holding onto hopes of a Covid-free Christmas while countries across Europe are being placed into lockdown.
• The Internet is Held Together With Spit & Baling Wire – Krebs on Security - 2021-11-27 -
• AWKGo, an AWK-to-Go compiler - 2021-11-26 - - A discussion of AWKGo, a simple compiler that translates a useful subset of the AWK text processing language into Go source code.
• Underrated reasons to be thankful - 2021-11-26 - - 30 underrated reasons to be thankful, starting with the fact that atomic bombs don’t ignite the atmosphere
• Is my cat Turing-complete? | Belay the C++ - 2021-11-25 - - Author: Chloé LourseyreEditor: Peter Fordham This article is an adaptation of a Lightning Talk I gave at CppCon2021. A link to the video will be given here as soon as it’s available…
• The unbearable fussiness of the smart home - Stacey on IoT | Internet of Things news and analysis - 2021-11-25 - - As we head into another gifting season and more and more connected devices make their way onto gift guides, I want to offer a cautionary note. The smart home is like a cat — mostly self-sufficient and nice to have, but also possessing a mind of its own that can lead to frustration and confusion […]
• Fifty percent of Facebook Messenger’s total voice traffic comes from Cambodia. Here’s why - Rest of World - 2021-11-24 - - Keyboards weren’t designed for Khmer. So Cambodians have just decided to ignore them
• My journey to type checking 7521 lines of Python - 2021-11-23 - What did the cherry pie say at the end of fall dinner? Good-pie!
• Chat control: The latest EU plans to outlaw encryption and introduce telecommunications surveillance | mailbox.org - 2021-11-23 - - EU Commission plans to proactively involve telecommunications providers in the surveillance of their customers' e-mail and chat messages.
• Cis people benefit from gender-affirming healthcare, not just trans folk - 2021-11-22 - Access to gender-affirming healthcare for trans and non-binary people is being attacked in the UK. Yet cis people access it all the time.
• Who, and Where, Is Chinese Tennis Star Peng Shuai? - The New York Times - 2021-11-21 - A blackout within China on discussion of the tennis star’s #MeToo allegations has not been able to silence a global chorus of concern for her safety.
• Fiona Bruce: ‘Sometimes I struggle not to cry’ - YOU Magazine - 2021-11-21 - FIONA BRUCE opens up to Cole Moreton about holding back the tears on live TV and the one thing she refuses to talk about – even to her family. PHOTOGRAPHS: RACHELL SMITH I laughed like a drain,’ says Fiona Bruce, her face lighting up. We don’t often see the presenter like this. We’re more used […]
• Bill of the Month: Critically ill woman skips ER after spouse's costly stitches : Shots - Health News : NPR - 2021-11-21 - - With few options for health care in their rural community, a Tennessee couple's experience with one outrageous bill could have led to a deadly delay when they needed help the most.
• How to make a selfhostable service that plays nice - 2021-11-20
• Cats track their owners’ movements, research finds | Cats | The Guardian - 2021-11-20 - Findings of Japanese study back idea that cats retain a mental representation of their owners
• I Had Breakthrough COVID. It Was a Logistical Nightmare. - The Atlantic - 2021-11-20 - - I was ultracareful for 18 months. Then I got COVID.
• Swedish study suggests hiring discrimination is primarily a problem for men in female-dominated occupations - 2021-11-20 - - New research provides evidence of "clear, consistent, and large discrimination" against men in female-dominated occupations in Sweden. The study indicates ...
• Understanding why our build got 15x slower with Webpack 5 - Tines Engineering - 2021-11-18 - - A while back, we encountered an odd problem. All of a sudden, building our front-end went from taking a few seconds to taking a few minutes. We felt this most acutely when starting our front-end development server.
• Yes, PHP is Worth Learning/Using in $CURRENT_YEAR | Bulletproof PHP - 2021-11-18 -
• Weird English | National Review - 2021-11-18 - - A review of Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don’t Rhyme — and Other Oddities of the English Language, by Arika Okrent.
• Microsoft Calls Firefox’s Browser Workaround “Improper,” Will Block It - 2021-11-18 - - Windows 11 lets you choose your default browser, but it takes a lot of clicks and Microsoft sometimes forces you to use Edge, anyway. Firefox had a workaround, but Microsoft calls it “improper” and will soon block it.
• Python: Please stop screwing over Linux distros - 2021-11-16 -
• Goodbye, Clean Code — Overreacted - 2021-11-16 - - Let clean code guide you. Then let it go.
• The secret court case 50 years ago that has robbed transgender people of their rights ever since - 2021-11-15 - The story of Ewan Forbes shows how trans people were able to enjoy equality - until it was quietly removed to protect male rights of succession
• Running a law firm on Linux - decoded.legal: Internet, telecoms and tech law decoded. - 2021-11-13 - - A quick explanation of decoded.legal's switch to an (almost) exclusively Linux-based law firm.
• Latest Windows 11 overrides attempts to avoid using Edge • The Register - 2021-11-12 - - The days of redirecting microsoft-edge: links to a non-Microsoft browser are over
• Breaking Printf · Phil Pearl's Blog - 2021-11-12 -
• Upcoming Features in Go 1.18 · Sebastian Holstein - 2021-11-12 -
• The Invisible JavaScript Backdoor – Certitude Blog - 2021-11-11 -
• Jimmy Wales’ Final Email. Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia… | by Craig Younkins | Nov, 2021 | Medium - 2021-11-10 - - Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, is emailing me? “Signing off”? Is he leaving Wikipedia? Is he dying?! No, just asking for more…
• ProctorU is dystopian spyware – Terence Eden’s Blog - 2021-11-10 - - As part of my MSc, I have to take an online exam. Obviously, this means I am highly likely to cheat by looking up things on Wikipedia or by having a bit of paper with notes on it. EVIL! So, the exa…
• Stop requiring specific technology experience for senior-plus engineers | Mike McQuaid - 2021-11-09 - - A conversation I’ve had (too) many times in our industry: You: “I’m looking to hire a senior engineer. Know anyone good?” Me: “Oh great, I know some good people! How about $A?” You: “They won’t do. We need someone with at least $X years in $TECHNOLOGY. Me: “Why?” You: “They need to be able to get up to speed quickly.” Me: ☹️
• How Pinterest utterly ruined photo search on the internet - 2021-11-09 - - The social media site is the bane of non-users’ lives, hijacking image search results with a pushy sign-up screen. It needs to stop.
• A terrible schema from a clueless programmer - 2021-11-08
• What is AT&T doing at 1111340002? - 2021-11-06 -
• incolumitas.com – So you want to Scrape like the Big Boys? 🚀 - 2021-11-06 - - What it really takes to scrape without getting detected.
• These Parents Built a School App. Then the City Called the Cops | WIRED UK - 2021-11-05 - - Stockholm’s official app was a disaster. So annoyed parents built their own open source version—ignoring warnings that it might be illegal.
• An oral history of Bank Python - 2021-11-04 - - The strange world of Python, as used by big investment banks
• How GoGuardian AI Spyware Took Over Schools, Student Devices During Covid - Bloomberg - 2021-11-04 - - The pandemic caused schools to embrace laptops, tablets, Zoom, and an app called GoGuardian that tracks everything students (and, sometimes, parents) do online.
• Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation – Dan Slimmon - 2021-11-03 - - Every ops team has some manual procedures that they haven’t gotten around to automating yet. Toil can never be totally eliminated. Very often, the biggest toil center for a team at a growing …
• Signal >> Blog >> Improving first impressions on Signal - 2021-11-03 - - The phenomenon of unsolicited and unwanted messaging dates back to the earliest communication platforms: from prehistoric cave graffiti and postal chain letters to popup ads and robocalls. To prevent spam, most online services rely on large-scale inspection of plaintext conversation content or de...
• Trump's new social media platform found using Mastodon code: Our statement - Official Mastodon Blog - 2021-11-03 - - From media reports and individual findings that various people have presented to us, it seems that the new social media platform owned by the former president of the United States, Donald J. Trump, so-called Truth Social, is using Mastodon’s source code with various visual adjustments. The platform has not formally launched yet, but it was made accessible ahead of time. Users were quick to note that the terms of service included a worrying passage, claiming that the site is proprietary property and all source code and software are owned or controlled by them or licensed to them:
• Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application that you open | Robert Heaton - 2021-11-01 - - I have a Wacom drawing tablet. I use it to draw cover illustrations for my blog posts, such as this one.

October 2021

• The metaverse is already here, it's called the internet - Can's blog - 2021-10-31 - - The big news in tech this week is, of course, that Facebook is now called Meta. If you’ve watched Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook Connect keynote, the …
• Architect Resigns in Protest over UCSB Mega-Dorm - The Santa Barbara Independent - 2021-10-30 - - He criticizes Munger Hall as "a social and psychological experiment" with unknown consequences.
• Signal >> Government Requests >> Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central District of California (again!) - 2021-10-30 - - Signal still knows nothing about you, but inexplicably the government continues to ask.
• US issues first gender-neutral 'X' passport - BBC News - 2021-10-28 - The document has an "X" in the gender box, to show the holder does not identify as male or female.
• Viewing website HTML code is not illegal or “hacking,” prof. tells Missouri gov. | Ars Technica - 2021-10-28 - - Professor demands that governor halt "baseless investigation" and apologize.
• ‘I left university and adopted my brother and sister’ - BBC News - 2021-10-27 - When Jemma Bere’s family was in crisis, she made a split-second decision that changed the trajectory of her life.
• Tech giants try distancing themselves from Facebook - BBC News - 2021-10-27 - TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube are facing claims they are failing to protect children.
• Ideas | The “Phone Disaster”: How WeChat became digital traps for Chinese Uyghurs - Rest of World - 2021-10-26 - - The Muslim population in Xinjiang, China were early smartphone adopters. Then the tech betrayed them.
• Why are the Tories still leading in the polls? - New Statesman - 2021-10-26 - The Conservatives have been in power for 11 years. Why isn’t the country sick of them yet?
• Notes From the Meeting On Python GIL Removal Between Python Core and Sam Gross - Łukasz Langa - 2021-10-25 - - During the annual Python core development sprint we held a meeting with Sam Gross, the author of nogil, a fork of Python 3.9 that removes the GIL. This is a non-linear summary of the meeting.
• Despite having just 5.8% sales, over 38% of bug reports come from Linux | Hacker News - 2021-10-25
• They Might Never Tell You It’s Broken | Pointers Gone Wild - 2021-10-25 - - This blog post is a public service announcement (or maybe a reminder) for anyone working on a programming project that they already have, or intend to release to the public, be it as something open…
• Corporate Transition - 2021-10-23 - - When presenting as a man, this “tech bro” entrepreneur was the toast of Silicon Valley—until she stepped into boardrooms as a woman.
• Leaving Google — jayconrod.com - 2021-10-23 - - Last Friday was my last day at Google. This article is a reflection on the last seven years of my life, thinking about what was important and what I'll do differently in the future.
• EXCLUSIVE Dutch forensic lab says it has decoded Tesla's driving data | Reuters - 2021-10-23 - - The Dutch government's forensic lab said on Thursday it had decrypted electric carmaker Tesla Inc's closely guarded driving data-storage system, uncovering a wealth of information that could be used to investigate serious accidents.
• Police Can’t Demand You Reveal Your Phone Passcode and Then Tell a Jury You Refused | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 2021-10-23 - - The Utah Supreme Court is the latest stop in EFF’s roving campaign to establish your Fifth Amendment right to refuse to provide your password to law enforcement. Yesterday, along with the ACLU, we filed an amicus brief in State v. Valdez, arguing that the constitutional privilege against self-...
• Alec Baldwin 'heartbroken' over fatal film set shooting - BBC News - 2021-10-22 - Director of photography Halyna Hutchins was killed by a prop gun fired by the actor in New Mexico.
• Come Go With Me - Darren Parkinson - 2021-10-22 - Why Network Engineers Should Learn Go
• You Don't Need a Library for File Walking in Go | Kablamo Engineering Blog - 2021-10-22 - - Go file walk implementations have radically different performance characteristics. In 2021 the native implementation has improved so much, you don't need anything else.
• Beej's Guide to C Programming - 2021-10-22 -
• Willingness to look stupid - 2021-10-22 -
• Netflix staff protest against 'transphobic' Dave Chappelle show - BBC News - 2021-10-22 - Activists say the streaming giant's comedy special could fuel attacks on transgender people.
• Parson doubles down on push to prosecute reporter who found security flaw in state site • Missouri Independent - 2021-10-22 - - Gov. Mike Parson continues to push to prosecute a reporter who discovered teacher social security numbers were at risk of exposure.
• We Analyzed 425,909 Favicons • iconmap.io - 2021-10-21 -
• About that time I had an outburst during the YCombinator Interview - by Jabari - The Trick Revealed - 2021-10-21 - - And what it taught me.
• ESA - Three hours to save Integral - 2021-10-21 - - On 22 September, around midday, ESA’s Integral spacecraft went into emergency Safe Mode. One of the spacecraft’s three active ‘reaction wheels’ had turned off without warning and stopped spinning, causing a ripple effect that meant the satellite itself began to rotate.
• Why I Hate Frameworks, Benji Smith. - 2021-10-21 -
• Leave no trace: how a teenage hacker lost himself online | Hacking | The Guardian - 2021-10-20 - - The long read: Edwin Robbe had a troubled life, but found excitement and purpose by joining an audacious community of hackers. Then the real world caught up with his online activities
• mdk.fr – How APT does its fancy progress bar - 2021-10-19 - - It uses good old VT100 instructions.
• PM urged to enact ‘David’s law’ against social media abuse after Amess’s death | UK news | The Guardian - 2021-10-19 - - Calls for crackdown on threats to public figures and an end to online anonymity
• The Day My Script Killed 10,000 Phones in South America - 2021-10-19 - This post is a horror story about what happens when your code/test scripts go wrong. It's also a horror story on how not to test your code. Most testing advice hits low hanging fruit advice: Kid, you should write unit tests. Sure, grandpaWe won't be doing that. Instead, I
• The Javascript "ecosystem" is a hot mess and so is software development in general - nadh.in - 2021-10-17 - - Developer / Tinkerer / Absurdist
• Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink - 2021-10-17 - - Canon USA is being sued for not allowing owners of certain printers to use the scanner or faxing functions if they run out of ink.
• Valve bans blockchain games and NFTs on Steam, Epic will try to make it work - The Verge - 2021-10-16 - - Press (N)F(T) to pay respects.
• Most Canadians believe Facebook harms their mental health, survey suggests - The Globe and Mail - 2021-10-16 - - Forty per cent of those who responded to an online survey by Leger and the Association for Canadian Studies said they had a negative opinion of Facebook
• BoltDB vs Badger: A Comparison of Go Key-Value databases - 2021-10-15 -
• Finding and fixing memory leaks in Go - DEV Community - 2021-10-15 - This post reviews how I found a memory leak, how I fixed it, how I fixed similar issues in Google's...
• Safer Enums in Go - 2021-10-15 - Enums are a crucial part of web applications. Go doesn&rsquo;t support them out of the box, but there are ways to emulate them. Many obvious solutions are far from ideal. Here are some ideas we use that make enums safer by design. iota Go lets you enumerate things with iota. const ( Guest = iota Member Moderator Admin ) Full source: github.com/ThreeDotsLabs/go-web-app-antipatterns/02-enums/01-iota/role/role.go While Go is explicit, iota seems relatively obscure.
• Hey linker, can you spare a meg? · Tailscale - 2021-10-15 - - Tailscale on iOS runs as a special kind of app, a Network Extension. This lets us run in the background, so we can secure traffic from all of your applications, without them having to change anything. But with this power comes a memory straightjacket. Normal iOS apps can use 5GB or so of memory before iOS kills them. We get 15MB. With an “M”.
• Covid Is Rising In Schools, Here's What It Means For You | HuffPost UK Life - 2021-10-15 - School absences have jumped by two-thirds. Should we be worried?
• Missouri governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website • Missouri Independent - 2021-10-15 - - Missouri's governor promises to seek prosecution of a reporter and news outlet that discovered a privacy flaw in a state website.
• Apple silently fixes iOS zero-day, asks bug reporter to keep quiet - 2021-10-14 - - Apple has silently fixed a gamed zero-day vulnerability with the release of iOS 15.0.2, on Monday, a security flaw that could let attackers gain access to sensitive user information.
• Firefox Suggest: An Anatomy of a PR Incident - 2021-10-12 - Firefox 93 was released last Tuesday, and early reviews were positive. That didn’t last long though, as reports soon spread on tech media that Firefox was no...
• Magpie Driven Development (MDD) - Niche Software - 2021-10-12 -
• China Makes Sure Everyone Writes Taiwan’s Name Just So—Even a Colorado High School - WSJ - 2021-10-12 - - No group is too small to escape the attention of Beijing bureaucrats scouring applications to attend United Nations functions, who correct anyone failing to call the island a Chinese province. Among recent offenders: French bicycle makers and groups devoted to hedgehogs and the moon.
• Relational Databases Aren’t Dinosaurs, They’re Sharks - Simple Thread - 2021-10-12 - - Oh relational databases, that tired old relic of another age. Codd and friends were great in their time, but serious software engineers need to move on. People building Web Scale™ software You’ve probably heard a similar sentiment at some point. That relational databases were great, but they are dinosaurs that are slowly being replaced by […]
• Code rant: The Configuration Complexity Clock - 2021-10-11 - When I was a young coder, just starting out in the big scary world of enterprise software, an older, far more experienced chap gave me a ste...
• I keep making things out of checkboxes | Bryan Braun - Designer/Developer - 2021-10-11 - - Something happened earlier this year where I got on a run making checkbox animations and just couldn’t stop.
• IoT Hacking and Rickrolling My High School District | WhiteHoodHacker - 2021-10-11 - - This is the story of how I created a botnet of IPTVs to rickroll 10,000+ students for my senior prank.
• China again blocks Wikimedia Foundation’s accreditation to World Intellectual Property Organization – Wikimedia Foundation - 2021-10-11 - - 5 October 2021, San Francisco, CA, USA — China today blocked the Wikimedia Foundation’s bid for observer status at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) for the second time after the …
• The BBC’s radical new data plan takes aim at Netflix | WIRED UK - 2021-10-10 - The BBC’s R&D team has built experimental systems that pull in data from Netflix and Spotify. The goal? More personalisation
• Finding and reporting an asyncio bug in Python 3.10 - 2021-10-10 - - I found a bug in Python 3.10 today! Some notes on how I found it and my process for handling it once I figured out what was going on. Testing …
• Luxury student complex in Glasgow 'unfinished and filthy' - BBC News - 2021-10-10 - Students in Glasgow have complained to the provider about holes in floors, construction dust and flooding.
• Chris Packham: Fire attack on New Forest home will not sway me - BBC News - 2021-10-10 - - The broadcaster vows to continue campaigning after a suspected arson attack outside his home.
• Apple’s fortress of secrecy is crumbling from the inside - The Verge - 2021-10-09 - - Employees want to be heard. Does the company want to listen?
• Why We Need to Upgrade Our Face Masks--and Where to Get Them - Scientific American - 2021-10-09 - - High-quality respirators such as N95s and K95s are now widely available and provide the best protection against COVID, according to experts. Why aren&rsquo;t more people wearing them?
• API Handyman | Empty list, HTTP status code 200 vs 204 vs 404 - 2021-10-09 - - When designing APIs, choosing HTTP status codes is not always that obvious and prone to errors, I hope this post series will help you to avoid common mistakes and choose an adapted one according to the context. This fourth post answers the following question: given that /users is a collection (a list) and no users are named Spock, what should return GET /users?name=spock? 200 OK, 204 No Content or 404 Not Found
• Faster time parsing · Phil Pearl's Blog - 2021-10-08 - - A story in 3 acts
• 3 Things Go Needs Right Now More Than Generics | by Ryan Collingham | Oct, 2021 | Better Programming - 2021-10-08 - My suggestions to make Go an even better language
• Twitch blames server error for massive data leak - BBC News - 2021-10-08 - - The livestreaming site says a mistake exposed its data to a malicious third party on the internet.
• Samsung apologises for Russian app download error - BBC News - 2021-10-08 - The firm said a message sent to UK users saying Russian software had been installed was a mistake.
• Tesla: Elon Musk says company headquarters will move to Texas - BBC News - 2021-10-08 - Elon Musk announces that the most valuable car company in the world is moving away from California.
• Insulate Britain: Protesters block Old Street roundabout and M25 junction - BBC News - 2021-10-08 - Police make 35 arrests in the group's 12th day of protest in the past four weeks.
• Facebook banned me for life because I created the tool Unfollow Everything. - 2021-10-08 - - Facebook’s behavior isn’t just anti-competitive; it’s anti-consumer.
• Whistleblower breaks Facebook secrecy wall, MP says - BBC News - 2021-10-07 - Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen will soon give evidence to a parliamentary committee.
• 'X' gender markers in passports would be 'extremely difficult', government argues in UK's top court - 2021-10-07 - Introducing ‘X’ gender markers on British passports is a “sensitive and extremely difficult moral, ethical and legal issue”, the Supreme Court heard Tuesday (13 July). The government does not want to bring in ‘X’ gender markers in passports because it would be a “major change” with “some significant [financial] cost and the number of people … Continued
• More details about the October 4 outage - Facebook Engineering - 2021-10-06 - - Now that our platforms are up and running after yesterday’s outage, we are sharing more detail on what happened and what we've learned.
• Why you can’t switch to Python 3.10 just yet - 2021-10-05 - - Python 3.10 is out now—when should you start using it?
• Brave and Firefox to intercept links that force-open in Microsoft Edge - 2021-10-05 - - Brave and Firefox implement support for the microsoft-edge: URL scheme. Brave to hijack Bing search links. Plus, the history of all this anti-competitive crap.
• Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet - 2021-10-05 - - Today at 1651 UTC, we opened an internal incident entitled "Facebook DNS lookup returning SERVFAIL" because we were worried that something was wrong with our DNS resolver 1.1.1.1. But as we were about to post on our public status page we realized something else more serious was going on.
• The Problem of Marital Loneliness | The New Yorker - 2021-10-04 - - The new “Scenes from a Marriage,” on HBO, avoids the dark questions that Ingmar Bergman confronted in the original.
• Lime fights back against QR code snatchers - BBC News - 2021-10-03 - The company says vandals have been peeling off QR codes to render its vehicles useless.
• How Google destroyed our startup by terminating our Google Play Developer Account | by 6Ace Games | Oct, 2021 | Medium - 2021-10-03 - - First of all, anyone reading this post, I wish health to you and your loved ones in this tough time of the pandemic.
• A Conspiracy To Kill IE6 - 2021-10-02 - - The bittersweet consequence of YouTube’s incredible growth is that so many stories will be lost underneath all of the layers of new paint. This is why I wanted to tell the story of how, ten years ago, a small team of web developers conspired to... | Chris Zacharias | Founder of imgix. YCombinator alum. Ex-YouTuber. Studied New Media at RIT.
• New Microsoft Study of 60,000 Employees: Remote Work Threatens Long-Term Innovation | Inc.com - 2021-10-01 - - The new study confirms what Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella calls the hybrid work paradox.
• A teenager on TikTok disrupted thousands of scientific studies with a single video - The Verge - 2021-10-01 - - One TikTok created a mystery for some scientific surveys.
• Chip shortage leads carmaker Opel to shut German plant until 2022 | Reuters - 2021-10-01 - - Carmaker Opel, which is part of the Stellantis group, said on Thursday it will close one of its plants in Germany until at least the end of the year due to chip shortages.