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Dec 03, 2024 from Silence Calling

Murky Waters

O fish

Dec 03, 2024 from Londogard Blog

Data Loading - Comparing Common Tooling

This blog was supposed to be more in-depth but my enthusiasm was drastically cut and I felt like splitting it up into multiple smaller one, whereas daft one is already uploaded. I started writing a...

Dec 02, 2024 from Coding Horror

The Great Filter Comes For Us All

With a 13 billion year head start on evolution, why haven’t any other forms of life in the universe contacted us by now?(Arrival is a fantastic movie. Watch it, but don’t stop there – read the Stor...

Dec 02, 2024 from All content on Seirdy’s Home

My workouts

Documenting my low-equipment at-home workout regiment. How I work out, why I work out, my workout split, my list of exercises, and advice I'm soliciting.

Dec 01, 2024 from All content on Seirdy’s Home

A clarification on Google Page Annotations

Reply to google’s latest fuckery: if you write online, read this by solarbird I agree wholeheartedly with Google’s Page Annotations being an absolutely awful antifeature, and recommend that others ...

Dec 01, 2024 from Saeed Esmaili

Access Google Gemini LLM via OpenAI Python Library

Google Gemini now can be accessed via OpenAI python library: from openai import OpenAI client = OpenAI( api_key="GEMINI_API_KEY", base_url="https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/openai/"...

Nov 30, 2024 from (Fabio Alessandro Locati|Fale)'s blog

Hyperscalers are not serious about Service Level Agreements (SLA)

I often talk with people about Service Level Agreements (SLAs) in public cloud contexts, and I discover that their idea of what those SLAs are is often distorted. I believe SLAs need to be approach...

Nov 29, 2024 from Julia Evans

Why pipes sometimes get "stuck": buffering

Here’s a niche terminal problem that has bothered me for years but that I never really understood until a few weeks ago. Let’s say you’re running this command to watch for some specific output in a...

Nov 29, 2024 from ~hedy

Removing comments on my posts

A few years ago I had a wonderful idea. Arguably the best system I could think of for comments for my blog: a mailing list. Here’s how it worked. I had set up a mailing list on lists.sr.ht, which a...

Nov 28, 2024 from ~gallant

Whither poetry?

I have a soft spot for poetry. That is what poems are for - sentimental musings and meditative cogitation. These are perennial features of humanity, and well worth the time. As we find ourselves in...

Nov 28, 2024 from ~hedy

Webmentions

Webmention is a system in which other websites can notify you that when their site has mentioned a page on your site. It originated from the IndieWeb and is now a W3C Recommendation. To receive Web...

Nov 27, 2024 from The Linkfest

Linkfest #27: Aztec Death Whistles, "Supercircular" Solar, and Collateralized GPU Obligations

Why HELLO THERE. It’s time for my latest “Linkfest” — or, "the opposite of doomscrolling”: A collection of the best stuff in science, culture and technology that I could ransack from the rangy glob...

Nov 26, 2024 from briancmoses.com

DIY NAS: 2025 Edition

A diminuitive, TrueNAS SCALE machine featuring: 92TB of storage (90TB of HDD, 2TB of SSD), an Intel N100 CPU, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and 10Gbps networking for under $2,300.

Nov 26, 2024 from Boris Tane

Observing Serverless Applications

Best practices for observing serverless applications

Nov 25, 2024 from ~hedy

Hugo shortcodes in Lume

Recently, I’ve been looking at Lume, a new-ish static-site generator that runs on Deno as a possible replacement for Hugo on my site. I decided to give it a try when starting a new project, the sta...

Nov 23, 2024 from fasterthanli.me

Highlighted code in slides

I have obsessed about this long enough, I think it’s only fair I (and you!) get some content out of it. When I started writing this article, I was working on my P99 CONF slides. Those slides happen...

Nov 22, 2024 from nutcroft

Goodbye

I had been struggling to write for many years. Back then I was dreaming of having a blog with lots of entries. Now I do. I admired the people who did and now I'm one of them. The feeling now is: th...

Nov 21, 2024 from Ryan Bagley

It Doesn't Matter if Baltic Submarine Cable Cuts Were Sabotage

Map of the C-Lion1 Submarine Cable path from Finland to Germany. Source: TeleGeography. The recent severing of submarine cables in the Baltic Sea has brought to the forefront the critical vulnerabi...

Nov 21, 2024 from SIGPLAN Blog

Evaluating Human Factors Beyond Lines of Code

Software systems researchers want to make human-centered claims, but don't have the proper tools to do so. That's how we ended up with the ubiquitous lines-of-code comparison found in evaluation se...

Nov 20, 2024 from Meadow

Initial thoughts on The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

I finally started reading The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. I've tried to start this book many times before, but I always stopped in the first chapter or so because I felt that the author was bein...