BlogDB

Oct 21, 2023 from unixdigest.com

We have used too many levels of abstractions and now the future looks bleak

A big percentage of so-called experts today only know how to configure tools, but they understand nothing about how things work at the deeper level. This is a real challenge and a big problem for t...

Oct 19, 2023 from Heitor's log

Deploying Nomad on NixOS

How to get Nomad running on NixOS for local development, with Podman and Docker task drivers.

Oct 18, 2023 from William Lyon's Blog

Why I Joined Wherobots Plus A Look At Apache Sedona

My take on the exciting world of spatial database technology plus a look at getting started with Apache Sedona.

Oct 15, 2023 from Outside the Asylum

One Ring to Confuse Them All

A guide to rules and policy interactions with The One Ring.

Oct 09, 2023 from Joybuke

Stuckism: What Conservative Action Really Is

Often, I write my work with a presumption in mind: Progress is bad. This view is based in various points of view, some on the question of Industrialism, others on the corrosion inherit to progress-...

Oct 07, 2023 from Sagar Tiwari's blog

Reverse engineering SBF file format

Describes the SBF assets used to store music in DFBHD

Oct 03, 2023 from Alejandro AR (kinduff)

The 10_001 magic number

Unraveling the story behind a magic number in code

Oct 02, 2023 from Luke Salamone's Blog

Summary: Deep & Cross Net v2

Paper link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2008.13535 Learning to rank is an important problem in many machine-learning products such as search, recommendation, and advertising. Originally, many machine lea...

Sep 29, 2023 from nixCraft

How to block AI Crawler Bots using robots.txt file

Are you a content creator or a blog author who generates unique, high-quality content for a living? Have you noticed that generative AI platforms like OpenAI or CCBot use your content to train thei...

Sep 29, 2023 from Darek Kay

Delaying asset requests in Eleventy

Simulate slow connections on your Eleventy website using dev server middleware.

Sep 26, 2023 from Luke Salamone's Blog

What is a blunder in chess?

What is a blunder in chess? The tension between the qualitative and quantitative answers to this question is at the heart of different approaches towards chess, and more broadly, how quantitative m...

Sep 25, 2023 from William Lyon's Blog

Importing Overture Maps Data Into Neo4j

A look at loading points of interest from the Overture Maps public dataset into the Neo4j graph database, plus writing Spatial SQL queries with AWS Athena.

Sep 24, 2023 from Silence Calling

Taking Off

A plane crawls on ground during taxi But in the same distance it takes off

Sep 23, 2023 from PREPEND

Quantified Kilimanjaro (or Procrastination)

I climbed Kilimanjaro via the Rongai route in October of 2012, capturing runkeeper, and other metrics all along the way. I’ve also been meaning to write this post since then and it’s taken over 10 ...

Sep 20, 2023 from Tim Bachmann's Blog

Getting the Absolute Path of a Remote Directory in Ansible

There is no builtin way to convert a relative path to an absolute path in ansible. However we can use the readlink command for this.

Sep 20, 2023 from Changelog

XML is better than YAML. Hear me out...

This is a fancified excerpt of Carl M. Johnson’s unpopular opinion on the Go Time podcast. Click here to listen along while you read or watch the video on YouTube. Jump to the end for the poll resu...

Sep 20, 2023 from Outside the Asylum

Stop Trying to Make CR Backups Happen

Stop Trying to Make CR Backups Happen

Sep 19, 2023 from Heitor's log

Multiplexing the output of a process to multiple processes

How to feed the output of one process to multiple other processes simultaneously, using tee and Bash's process substitution.

Sep 18, 2023 from Tim Bachmann's Blog

Automated Planning using Property-Directed Reachability with Seed Heuristics

Masters Thesis. The goal of this thesis is to implement a pre-processing step to the Property Directed Reachability algorithm, to potentially improve the run-time performance. We use the pattern da...

Sep 18, 2023 from Home on Random effect

Air Quality Indicator

There is a new utility on my GitHub page, air-quality.el. It’s a status indicator for the Emacs modeline. I wanted a way to glance at how the air quality in my area changes through out the day with...