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May 09, 2025 from Chuck Carroll's RSS Feed

The Dark Forest Hypothesis

A few years ago I read Cixin Liu's Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy (The Three Body Problem, The Dark Forest, and Death's End) and I recently revisited it in audiobook format. The Dark Forest is...

May 09, 2025 from unixdigest.com

Evilness is when profit is the sole concern

When a company is small it's easy to care about the good and the evil it does, but when a company gets big, typically profit becomes the sole concern and that is when evilness takes root and starts...

May 08, 2025 from Changelog

Our Slack is dead. Long live Zulip!

It’s officially official. I just turned off our last Slack integration. We’re no longer announcing new episodes there. It’s been more than six months since we invited Zulip’s Alya Abbott on the pod...

May 08, 2025 from cascading space

Moving In With Bear

Despite everything, it's still my blog

May 08, 2025 from Fatbobman's Blog

【Tips】Swift package Access Level: Sharing Code Across Targets Securely

Learn how to share code between multiple Targets within a Swift Package without exposing it publicly. We explore the `package` access modifier to bridge the gap between `internal` and `public`.

May 08, 2025 from Daryl Sun's Journal

Special Edition — Blog Questions Challenge, Technology Edition

Special Edition — Blog Questions Challenge, Technology Edition TL;DR:I answer the Blog Questions Challenge, Technology Edition! This blog post has approximately 385 words and may take 2 minutes to ...

May 08, 2025 from Saeed Esmaili

Playing Tennis in the Netherlands: A Guide for Newcomers

Welcome to the Netherlands! If you’re a newcomer like me and love tennis, or even if you’re looking to pick up a racket for the first time, you’re in luck. Tennis is popular here, and there are ple...

May 07, 2025 from The Fly Blog

Provisioning Machines using MCPs

Today’s state of the art is K8S, Terraform, web based UIs, and CLIs. Those days are numbered. On Monday, I created my first fly volume using an MCP. For those who don’t know what MCPs are, they are...

May 06, 2025 from Chuck Carroll's RSS Feed

Installing Pihole on Fedora Server 42

I've installed Pihole probably a dozen times at this point. The installation guide that Pihole provides is super helpful, but I've had to do some additional steps to get it working in my environmen...

May 06, 2025 from Daryl Sun's Journal

Special Edition — Blog Questions Challenge

Special Edition — Blog Questions Challenge TL;DR:I answer the Blog Questions Challenge! This blog post has approximately 589 words and may take 3 minutes to read. This post was written in response ...

May 05, 2025 from ttntm.me - Blog

Six String Memories

.guitar { max-height: 400px; mix-blend-mode: luminosity; object-fit: cover; transition: all .5s ease-in-out; &:hover { mix-blend-mode: revert; } } It must’ve been 2005 when I started playing guitar...

May 04, 2025 from Peralta's notes on Luis Peralta

Weekly Update #20250504

I upgraded the blogging engine for this site from an outdated version of Hugo (0.92.2) to the latest release (0.147.0). This update also required refreshing the theme (Ananke). I’ve documented my e...

May 03, 2025 from Kevin Cox's Blog

Toronto Fish & Chips

Over the past year I’ve been on a small adventure to find some excellent Fish & Chips in Toronto, Canada. While I haven’t found the perfect chip shop I have gone to a handful of the most popular pl...

May 03, 2025 from Saeed Esmaili

Pure Independence

When you’re independent you feel less desire to impress strangers, which can be an enormous financial and psychological cost. The wild thing about all this effort is how easy it is to overestimate ...

May 02, 2025 from Jasco's Website

Hop, Skip, and a Jump North

I talk about my trip to Linuxfest NorthWest

May 02, 2025 from briancmoses.com

Presidential Tariffs’ Impact on Topton Motherboard Pricing

My curiosity about the impacts of the Presidential tariffs incited me to place an order for a Topton motherboard from AliExpress. I will be sharing updates as that orders progresses.

May 01, 2025 from The Linkfest

Linkfest #34: Neanderthal Sunscreen, Triskaidekaphobia, and a Self-Zippering Zipper

Hello folks! It’s time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — my next “Linkfest”, in which I sift through the contents of the entire known Internet to extract gleaming geodes of science, culture and...

May 01, 2025 from unixdigest.com

The reason why i don't use AI or even code completion

When I code, I don't use AI and I don't even use code completion, this post is about why not.

Apr 30, 2025 from Improve Something Today

You only take what you bring: notes for April 2025

Two things to read. Plus guides for getting started in consulting (find a client), writing (get over oneself) & analysis (find insight in data).

Apr 30, 2025 from Chuck Carroll's RSS Feed

Awesome Yet Challenging Experiences with Proxmox

After hearing a lot of praise for Proxmox both online and in my courses (from both fellow students and instructors), I decided to experiment with it in my homelab environment. I also wanted to get ...