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Jul 10, 2024 from ttntm.me - Blog

Website Evolution: Q2 2024

There weren’t quite as many changes in Q2 2024 as there were in Q1, but I managed to do lots of cool things nevertheless. Part of the website #evolution series. This post covers versions 3.14 to 3....

Jul 08, 2024 from Hugo’s Blog

Freedom of the Last Minute

Leaving logistical plans until the last minute leaves you with fewer decisions to make, fewer options to compare, and more importantly, more time to enjoy yourself. If you accept that the future is...

Jul 08, 2024 from Benny Powers: Web Developer

Hosting Firefish on a Raspberry Pi

Self-hosting the firefish fediverse microblogging app isn't as hard as you might think. Using Gentoo Linux and Podman on a Raspberry Pi, initial setup is almost entirely straightforward

Jul 08, 2024 from nutcroft

An ontology of political decisions

Not all political decisions are the same. Some are easier to make but potentially less effective while others harder to make and effective yet potentially dangerous. It’s important that we understa...

Jul 05, 2024 from R74n Newsletter

🗳️ RESULTS: Sandboxels Census June 2024

A census was performed for players of Sandboxels from June 26th to July 5th.

Jul 04, 2024 from ttntm.me - Blog

Making Your Own Tools

Growing up with computers and the internet, my idea of a tool became equivalent to software at a rather early age. Actual tools, in terms of hammers, power tools or screwdrivers, certainly existed ...

Jul 01, 2024 from nutcroft

Introducing Shoshin College

Have you ever thought that universities are boring and we might be able to make one that's not? Well, my friends and I went ahead and started one. We call it Shoshin College and it’s here, in Londo...

Jun 28, 2024 from Gonçalo Valério

Ways to have an atomic counter in Django

This week, I’m back at my tremendously irregular Django tips series, where I share small pieces of code and approaches to common themes that developers face when working on their web applications. ...

Jun 28, 2024 from Joybuke

Sarkic Tropes: the Horror of Flesh

The phrase “Sarkic” is a Greek word, meaning flesh. It’s a phrase used by the Gnostics to refer to carnal urges: those urges that are instinctual, animalistic, and fleshy. The term now, from my kno...

Jun 28, 2024 from Luke Salamone's Blog

Very Large Datasets in PyTorch

In God we trust. All others must bring data. ~ W. Edwards Deming Datasets that fit in memory For simple machine learning problems, your PyTorch dataset class probably looks something like this: cla...

Jun 26, 2024 from seize the dev

A Tricky Floating-Point Calculation

Figuring out why a seemingly simple floating-point calculation returned a very wrong result.

Jun 24, 2024 from Thranpages

MacOS: Mail from 1993

Apple's MacOS presents itself as a slick and modern operating system. Yet under the modern garb the ancient roots run deep.

Jun 23, 2024 from Latest entries from petermolnar.net

When you have an evening and a morning in Granada

A brief visit to the a wonderful old town and an unbelievably serene Generalife

Jun 23, 2024 from All content on Seirdy’s Home

On valid XHTML5 again

Reply to what if I put in a bunch of effort to make my website valid XHTML5 by LunarEclipse Switching a site to XHTML5 is only a lot of work at first, because it may have latent bugs. For instance,...

Jun 19, 2024 from Ryan Bagley

Exceptions For Removing Private Autonomous Systems in BGP

Quite a while ago, I got assigned to what seemed like a straightforward network task: turning up a simple cross connect with an external company using eBGP for route advertisement. However, this mu...

Jun 18, 2024 from Luke Salamone's Blog

How to Create Rust Python Bindings

Rust is super fast. Python is super flexible. Porting slow python code to rust can make your life a lot easier, and it’s not too difficult to set up. I will demonstrate rust bindings for summing th...

Jun 18, 2024 from Boris Tane

Lessons from self-hosting ClickHouse

We self-hosted ClickHouse for nearly 3 years, what did we learn?

Jun 16, 2024 from nixCraft

lnav – Awesome terminal log file viewer for Linux and Unix

It is no secret that whether you are a developer or sysadmin, you need to use log files to troubleshoot errors on your Linux and Unix systems. You use tools like grep, tail, cat, or journalctl to v...

Jun 14, 2024 from Luke Salamone's Blog

The Most Ramified Chess Position of 2023

I spent some time considering words to describe a chess position with many legal moves. “Complex” doesn’t quite capture the situation since we would usually describe a complex position as one with ...

Jun 13, 2024 from Heitor's log

TIL: looping over hex numbers in Bash

TIL: looping over hexadecimal numbers in Bash just takes one line.