BlogDB

Mar 01, 2025 from Julio Merino (jmmv.dev)

Hardware discovery: ACPI & Device Tree

If you grew up in the PC scene during the 1980s or early 1990s, you know how painful it was to get hardware to work. And if you did not witness that (lucky you) here is how it went: every piece of ...

Mar 01, 2025 from Victor Blomqvist's blog

The cost (savings) of AUTO_SHRINK in Azure SQL

Have you ever wanted to reduce the disk space used by an Azure SQL database? You will quickly find out that the general advice on the Internet is Don't do it!. But how bad is it? Read on for a repo...

Feb 28, 2025 from Chaotican Writer

Nerds and Knights: a TTRPG “Nerd Nite” Presentation

Our editor griped the mic at a community TED talk for local nerds, and gushed about tabletop RPGs. Check out more about the presentation here! The post Nerds and Knights: a TTRPG “Nerd Nite” Presen...

Feb 28, 2025 from (Fabio Alessandro Locati|Fale)'s blog

On photographing physical keys

Every one of us probably has some physical keys in our pocket or purse right now. This familiarity with this common object might make us forget about how the security of those objects actually work...

Feb 27, 2025 from Londogard Blog

TIL: Programatically Fetch Python Class/File Dependencies

ImportCollector It’s simple and requires 0 dependencies outside of the standard library. This script will recursively traverse the dependencies of a Class or python-script and find all relevant dep...

Feb 26, 2025 from Jasco's Website

Spring Blossoms

I talk about a trip I took and the beauty that it left me with

Feb 26, 2025 from Sam Patterson's Blog

Claude Code Redesigned my Website in 3 Mins for $0.61

In Which I Recognize How Inferior I am at Design

Feb 25, 2025 from Mr. Money Mustache

Wow, have you seen the stock market lately?

And by lately, I mean the past several years or more.  The value of the S&P 500 index of stocks, where most of us hopefully have a good chunk of our retirement savings stashed into index funds, is ...

Feb 25, 2025 from Londogard Blog

MLFlow Models: Self-Contained ML Models with MLFlow

MLFlow Models MLFlow is a popular tool to track your experiment to compare metrics, parameters and much more. It helps streamlining your job as a data scientist and machine learning engineers. Thei...

Feb 24, 2025 from Daryl Sun's Journal

This Week — New Year, New Upgrades

This Week — New Year, New Upgrades TL;DR:I'm running Fedora XFCE on my old laptop now. I tried out several software on PikaPods and added some improvements to my blog. I also reorganized my Johnny ...

Feb 24, 2025 from Sam Patterson's Blog

Testing Claude Code

In Which I Test the New Claude Code Release

Feb 23, 2025 from The Linkfest

Linkfest #31: Tactile Graphics, "Alexinomnia", and a To-Do App Controlled By Dice

Hello folks! It’s time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — my latest “Linkfest”, a collection of the finest nuggets of science, culture and technology that I could excavate from the fractally-bra...

Feb 23, 2025 from Muffin Man

Bunny jumps again

I love 3D printing. It feels like magic - we are able to design and create physical things in a matter of hours, in our homes. I understand the underlying technology, but it still blows my mind whe...

Feb 22, 2025 from The Autodidacts

Troubleshooting: a skill that never goes obsolete

Much of what I do, in multiple fields, could be reduced to one skill: troubleshooting. I’ll define troubleshooting as systematically determining the cause of unwanted behaviour in a system, and fix...

Feb 21, 2025 from R74n Newsletter

🪸 Sandboxels v1.11 - Everyone's Update - OUT NOW 🟠🔵

This MASSIVE update includes something for every type of Sandboxels player, along with GUI and quality of life improvements!

Feb 21, 2025 from The Scholar's Stage

The Euro-American Split (I): Dread Possibility

THERE ARE DECADES WHEN possibility is constrained in a narrow frame. The terrain has been surveyed, boundaries have been laid, and rules have been established. In such an age there is still room fo...

Feb 21, 2025 from Sam Patterson's Blog

No Ideology Required; AI Customization Makes Open Source Tools the Obvious Choice

In Which I Describe how Cracked LLMs are for Customization

Feb 20, 2025 from ttntm.me - Blog

Reading List Redux

Discovering Omnivore about a year ago felt like an instant win. A free, open source, read-it-later app that could also handle all my newsletter subscriptions and RSS feeds - absolutely marvelous! L...

Feb 20, 2025 from Sam Patterson's Blog

Fitness Tips from a Formerly Obese Nerd

In Which I Explain the Misconceptions I had About Fitness

Feb 19, 2025 from Adventures in Open Source Software

Obligatory 22 Year Anniversary Post

Apparently I started this blog 22 years ago. Sheesh. This anniversary is a bit more nostalgic than most because I just went through over 1200 posts to make sure they worked after my migration from ...