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Oct 22, 2025 from Autistic As Fxxk

Coming to terms with having medium support needs

For a very long time after getting my autism diagnosis at age 20, I assumed I had low support needs. I was originally diagnosed with Asperger’s when that was still a thing and thought that meant I ...

Oct 22, 2025 from Commented Out

Using Finite State Machines to Implement Modal Applications

The ability to trace requirements through to implementation is an important property of commercial software development. As we know from the last 24 years of Agile, it's very rare to be able to obt...

Oct 22, 2025 from The Fly Blog

Corrosion

Fly.io transmogrifies Docker containers into Fly Machines: micro-VMs running on our own hardware all over the world. The hardest part of running this platform isn’t managing the servers, and it isn...

Oct 22, 2025 from Londogard Blog

Pixi - A year later

I’ve been using pixi professionally in my team for a year now, and it has been a pleasure from the start. N.B. We’ve also been utilizing uv inside the pixi environment. Brief Intro uv: A faster & b...

Oct 21, 2025 from Improve Something Today

‘Undiscussables’ 45 years later: still here, still bad & somehow even worse

Revisiting Argyris’ ‘undiscussables’ as emergent, unwanted behaviors & as features of organizational control. Keeping courage, showing kindness.

Oct 21, 2025 from home - SHRIK3 on SHRIK3

The Nucleus of a Multiprogramming System

Per Brinch Hansen, The nucleus of a multiprogramming system.1 ;pretty much the paper the started microkernels … but it’s not a microkernel itself Abstract: This paper describes the philosophy and s...

Oct 21, 2025 from Journal on n3s0 || journal

Lacey, WA

Lacey, Washington, is a city in Thurston County, located near Olympia, with a population of approximately 57,000. Known for its extensive parks and outdoor activities, Lacey offers a blend of urban...

Oct 21, 2025 from Tim Hårek

Hima Devlog #1

You should read the first devlog before reading this devlog. There I explain what Hima is and my motivation behind the project. On January 25th 2025 I started to rewrite Hima. My initial reason was...

Oct 20, 2025 from Commented Out

Countdown Timer for Children's Games: Firmware Design

In the first of these four blog posts on the firmware for the countdown timer, we'll look at the firmware layer design, the user interface functions and power consumption. The bargraph LEDs, button...

Oct 20, 2025 from home - SHRIK3 on SHRIK3

GNU toolchains

§§ every damn single GNU toolchain binary NOTE: - placeholder for machine tuple e.g. x86_64-linux-gnu - placeholder for toolchain (gcc) version GCC, under /usr/bin; Sometimes they are prefixed wi...

Oct 20, 2025 from JoeHx Blog

October 2025 Blog Statistics

I know the 20th falls on a Monday this month, but I don’t have much time, so this month I’ll just make a quick post.

Oct 19, 2025 from BEEW

Proofs of Wonder

On May 20, 1999, just after five in the morning, my daughter was born. If you've been in that room, you know. Reality splits in two. Awe, terror, love, relief, all of it flooding in at once. The ro...

Oct 19, 2025 from Chuniversiteit

Your app needs more than just a dark and high-contrast mode

Dark and high-contrast modes help make apps more accessible, but not all support them well enough.

Oct 19, 2025 from Galaxy Garden

42 Core Programme Milestone 0 Completed

On 6 October 2025, I returned to school by officially attending the core programme of my local campus of 42 the computer science school, after having passed the school's 26-day bootcamp named the P...

Oct 17, 2025 from Bobby Hiltz

Testing Octothorpes

A note on using octothorpes on my blog

Oct 17, 2025 from Bobby Hiltz

Testing Octothorpes

A note on using octothorpes on my blog

Oct 17, 2025 from The Phoenix Trap

Talking with an AI about whether it’s conscious

In a late‑night dialogue with an AI, I tested whether pattern‑matching could ever amount to consciousness. The exchange sharpened Objectivist insights: life, stakes, and caring are prerequisites fo...

Oct 17, 2025 from ℤ→ℤ

Design of a Wild Shape/Polymorph Decision Aid

In Fifth Edition (5e) Dungeons & Dragons™ (D&D), druids can transform into certain Beast forms using the Wild Shape ability. Similarly, casters of the Polymorph spell can transform allies and enemi...

Oct 17, 2025 from Palladium

The Birth and Burial of Evolutionary Science in Australia

Activists of often mostly European ancestry have appropriated prehistoric cultures and are systematically destroying fossils vital to understanding the evolutionary heritage of all humankind. The p...

Oct 16, 2025 from Previous Magazine

The Benefits of an Autism Diagnosis

Getting an autism diagnosis can be daunting, but it can improve a person’s well-being and quality of life. Here are a few reasons why people may choose to pursue an autism diagnosis and how can ben...