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What's new for Berliners in 2025

Update: the 2026 version is live Every year, on the first of January, all sorts of things change in Germany as new laws come into force. Mostly, life gets more expensive, but there are some nice su...

Label-Studio: Annotate Text and Image Data for AI and ML training

A few months ago I used streamlit to build a simple UI, so I can collect manually labeled data for a LLM fine-tuning task at work. Streamlit is fine, but the full process of creating a nice UI with...

Being better

My epistemic breakthrough to better living A year and a half ago, I decided to go completely vegan. Actually, scratch that—completely plant-based. I only went vegan about a year ago1. It took six m...

My Bash Script Preamble Boilerplate

I’ve been writing Bash scripts for years and have slowly built up a boilerplate of sorts that I typically copy and paste into new scripts at the start. Hence a “preamble boilerplate.” If you just w...

Linkfest #28: Neolithic Octopuses, Weeping Trees, and a Forty-Year-Old Snowman

Hello! It’s time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — or, my latest “Linkfest”, in which I painstakingly debone the entire Internet to extract its finest cuts of science, culture and technology, j...

Moon

In the vastness of empty space surrounding Earth, the Moon is our closest celestial neighbor. Its face, periodically filled with light and devoured by darkness, has an ever-changing, but dependable...

Mixing CEL and Protobuf for Fun

Pixi - Real World Usage

Managing dependencies and environments across multiple platforms can be a nightmare. That’s why I was thrilled to discover Pixi. I’ve previous talked about Pixi on LinkedIn/Twitter, but haven’t use...

🎉 Sandboxels v1.10.2 - Birthday Update OUT NOW ⛄️

Long-awaited additions and polish to celebrate this year's Sandboxels anniversary.

16-bit BGP Community Architecture

There are a lot of reasons a network engineer might use a 16-bit BGP community tag in an enterprise environment. It can be forced from pre-existing constraints and overcoming technical debt while s...

Using LLMs to Explain Historical Code: FLOW-MATIC Investigation

The new generation of code assistance tools powered by Large Language Models (LLM)s may be useful in efficiently categorizing and translating historical software corpora. In this qualitative study,...

Celebrate

Sadhguru

The joy of feed readers and alternative ways to consume content

Let’s talk about feed readers: software that lets you subscribe to feeds to get updates when new content is published. There are many kinds of feeds and feed readers. We’ll focus on the ones that p...

Why I choose Microdata

The four most popular ways to use RDF-based metadata on websites are RDFa-Core, RDFa-Lite, Microdata, and inline JSON-LD.I can’t use RDFa-Lite because I need rel HTML attributes. rel silently upgra...

My deleted review of this restaurant

Guess my review didn't pass the community rules of Google Maps

Remote SSH Access Without Static IP or Domain Name Using Cloudflare Zero Trust: A Step-by-Step Guide

During my undergraduate studies, I relied on a gaming laptop for most of my university projects because I needed a powerful CPU and GPU. Carrying it around in my backpack was cumbersome, but at the...

"Rules" that terminal programs follow

Recently I’ve been thinking about how everything that happens in the terminal is some combination of: Your operating system’s job Your shell’s job Your terminal emulator’s job The job of whatever p...

Send Applescript Notifications from your CLI easily with this nifty alias

Have you ever wanted to send desktop notifications from your command line on macOS? This can be particularly useful when you want to be notified when a long-running process completes. For example, ...

Scrapers I block (and allow), with explanations

Here’s my thought process when deciding whether to block a scraper from seirdy.one, the scrapers I block, the scrapers I allow, and the ways I block them.

Optimizing mastodon for a single user

I’ve been participating in the Fediverse through my own mastodon instance since 2017. What started as an experiment to test new things, focused on exploring decentralized and federated alternatives...