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The web is too big, or scaling down

scottrichmond.me

web
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Downtown Doug Brown » How webcams with focus control work (Razer Kiyo Pro repair)

downtowndougbrown.com

I’ve recently been on a bit of a repair kick and wanted to tell another fun...
I’ve recently been on a bit of a repair kick and wanted to tell another fun repair story. I promise my blog isn’t becoming dedicated just to fixing electronics. This was an interesting story as far as parts sourcing goes though, so I thought it would be a cool one to share. Plus, you’ll get to learn how focus contro...

hardware reversing
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Idiosyncra | blarg

tive.org

linux
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How Multi-User Dungeons Taught Me To Code

tashian.com

historical
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FAQ | FixBrowser # FixProxy

fixbrowser.org

browsers networking web
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GitHub - anatol/booster: Fast and secure initramfs generator

github.com

linux
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How I’m trying to use BlueSky without getting burned again - Welcome

chrisholdgraf.com

web
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The International Obfuscated C Code Contest

ioccc.org

We use Mastodon to make minor announcements, in addition to announcing major events such as the...
We use Mastodon to make minor announcements, in addition to announcing major events such as the opening of a new IOCCC, or who won. See the FAQ on “Mastodon” for more information on Mastodon. 2024-12-28 Good News Everyone! :-) After a 4 year effort by a number of people, with over 6168+ commits, the Great Fork Merge...

ioccc ioccc news news release
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Unintuitive Optimization For Performing Paths Union

minus-ze.ro

bézier curves geometry graphics performance svg
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GitHub - borzacchiello/seninja: symbolic execution plugin for binary ninja

github.com

debugging reversing
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PKM Annotation Woes

ryanwwest.com

Table of Contents Problems App Options Conclusion Update: Zotero 7 was released in 2024 and now...
Table of Contents Problems App Options Conclusion Update: Zotero 7 was released in 2024 and now solves many problems discussed below including new EPUB/HTML annotation support on all major platforms and web. Annotations are still be accessible within Zotero. While videos are the easiest to digest, much of the source...

practices
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Tips for New Open Source Maintainers – Lord.io

lord.io

This November is the one year anniversary of Slate, the small open source project I’ve been...
This November is the one year anniversary of Slate, the small open source project I’ve been maintaining. It started off as a sort of toy project from my internship at TripIt, but now that real companies use it, I feel an obligation to keep it mostly bug-free. I hadn’t done much open source before, so this year has b...

practices
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Hello eBPF: Writing a Linux scheduler in Java with eBPF (15) - Mostly nerdless

mostlynerdless.de

Or: Learn how to write a performant* Linux scheduler in 25 lines of Java code. Welcome...
Or: Learn how to write a performant* Linux scheduler in 25 lines of Java code. Welcome back to my series on ebpf. In the last post, I presented a recording of my JavaZone presentation on eBPF and a list of helpful resources for learning about the topic. Today, I’ll show you how to write a Linux scheduler in Java wit...

java linux performance
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Fish 4.0: The Fish Of Theseus

fishshell.com

linux rust
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Allocator-Aware C++ Type Design - Jonathan Coe - C++ on Sea 2024

youtube.com

c++science & technology video
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Django in 2024 - Timo Zimmermann

screamingatmyscreen.com

2024 was a busy year for me. My clients really kept me on my toes with...
2024 was a busy year for me. My clients really kept me on my toes with lots of fun and exciting R&D projects. Nearly all of them were built on the same stack. Some are internally facing, processing about 1.5 million messages asynchronously per day, some are customer facing, with a few hundred requests per second pea...

async django django rest framework python queue
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I Almost Died for a Full Sentry Database

dragas.net

Yesterday afternoon, a developer notified me that Sentry is down again. I check: 200 gigabytes of...
Yesterday afternoon, a developer notified me that Sentry is down again. I check: 200 gigabytes of database filled in just a few hours. And it reminds me of the night, years ago, when I almost “died” because of a full Sentry.A client had launched a new service with great fanfare. After a few days, the attention was t...

data horrorstories practices recovery sentry
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Axum-style Magic Handler Functions in Go, Part 2

kubuzetto.github.io

In the first part of this blog post, we tried to replicate the magic of axum...
In the first part of this blog post, we tried to replicate the magic of axum in Go. In the end, we had endpoint handlers that looked like this:func createUser(l Logger, payload JSON[CreateUser]) (response JSON[User], _ error) { response.V = User{ID: 1337, Username: payload.V.Username} l.Info("created", "user", paylo...

api axum go http rust
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Intel's $475 million error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug

righto.com

In 1993, Intel released the high-performance Pentium processor, the start of the long-running Pentium line. The...
In 1993, Intel released the high-performance Pentium processor, the start of the long-running Pentium line. The Pentium had many improvements over the previous processor, the Intel 486, including a faster floating-point division algorithm. A year later, Professor Nicely, a number theory professor, was researching re...

hardware historical
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A Universe of Sorts

pixel-druid.com

Quick TL;DR of the year: My research group moved from Edinburgh to Cambridge, so I was...
Quick TL;DR of the year: My research group moved from Edinburgh to Cambridge, so I was looking forward to lots of courses to take! I'd also settled in on an area I wanted to work on for my PhD, which was to design, implement, and verify the correctness of decicision procedures for the Lean theorem prover, which guid...

formalmethods
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Tech worker movements grow as threats of RTO, AI loom

arstechnica.com

"Together, our evidence suggests that RTO mandates are costly to firms and have serious negative effects...
"Together, our evidence suggests that RTO mandates are costly to firms and have serious negative effects on the workforce," the study concluded, echoing some remote workers' complaints about the seemingly non-data-driven logic of RTO, while urging that further research is needed. "These turnovers could potentially h...

culture
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fhur

fhur.me

practices
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How to add metaprogramming to Gleam – lpil.uk

lpil.uk

gleam
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Advent of Code 2024 in pure SQL

databasearchitects.blogspot.com

On a whim I decided to do this years advent of code in pure SQL. That...
On a whim I decided to do this years advent of code in pure SQL. That was an interesting experience that I can recommend to everybody because it forces you to think differently about the problems. And I can report that it was possible to solve every problem in pure SQL.In many cases SQL was actually surprisingly ple...

databases
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