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Nov 24, 2022 from Anirudh Oppiliappan

Installing OpenBSD on Oracle Cloud

It finally works in 7.2! I’ve been trying to get OpenBSD to install on OCI since early last year. As described in my email to misc@, my intial method of installation was rather unconventional: Down...

Nov 23, 2022 from Tim Bachmann's Blog

First Go Project: A Jam-stack Commenting API

I built my first project using the Go programming language: A commenting API for the jam-stack. It is simple but easily extensible. And it powers the commenting feature of this website!

Nov 23, 2022 from Luke Salamone's Blog

The Other End of the Earth

White areas show points of earth on land whose antipode is also on land. This is only about 8.6% of all of earth’s surface. If you want to fly across the Pacific Ocean, you’ll have to board an airp...

Nov 21, 2022 from Boris Tane

Exploring JavaScript Runtimes on AWS Lambda

Benchmarking a few JavaScript runtimes on AWS Lambda

Nov 16, 2022 from Luke Salamone's Blog

A Few Notes on the Transformer

A self-attention block depicted as a neural network. In this post I will describe the attention mechanism, commonly used in transformers, a popular neural language architecture. Most of the most we...

Nov 09, 2022 from Luke Salamone's Blog

Rolling My Own Blog Search

I’ve found myself hitting ctrl+f on this blog enough that I figured it’s about time to add some search functionality to it. While there are certainly prefab solutions out there, this task is simple...

Nov 02, 2022 from Caffeinspiration

Practice being a beginner

I’m a big fan of trying new things. Part of the process that I’ve come to enjoy is facing and getting over my initial hesitations and reaffirming that it’s OK to be bad at things. Trying something ...

Oct 25, 2022 from The Schizophrenia Diaries

Why We Need Diverse Stories (A Letter I Wrote in a Dream)

When I was in high school, I started writing my own happy endings.  I was fifteen, in love with another girl, drowning in homework, developing schizophrenia, and generally more confused than ever. ...

Oct 25, 2022 from Home on Random effect

pop-data-frame

I’m still using consult to make fun, little Emacs packages that improve my everyday work. This time, I wrote a little package called pop-data-frame. The idea of pop-data-frame is to work with Emacs...

Oct 23, 2022 from The Schizophrenia Diaries

Schizophrenia in Creativity and Productivity

In some ways, I honestly don’t remember much around the origins of this blog. It was summer 2020 (and let’s face it—who has a great memory of summer 2020?). I wasn’t yet back on antipsychotics (by ...

Oct 21, 2022 from Ryan Schachte's Blog

OAuth2 and Cloudflare Workers

Building a small module for Cloudflare Workers to allow integration with Google/OAuth2

Oct 19, 2022 from Changelog

Arbitrary deadlines are actually awesome

After reading Lucas da Costa’s Why deadlines are pointless and what to do instead, I agree with almost every point he makes, especially this one: It’s about time we start calling deadlines by their...

Oct 18, 2022 from Anirudh Oppiliappan

Unicode text input in ZMK

A hacky interim solution using macros As a highly cultured em-dash (over-)user, being able to type ‘—’ easily is very important to me. While waiting for zmkfirmware/zmk#232 to get merged, I’ve disc...

Oct 17, 2022 from The Schizophrenia Diaries

My Most Common Hallucinations

A very common first question when talking about psychosis is, “What do you hallucinate?” It’s not an incredibly simple question; it’s kind of like asking someone, “What do you see, in general?” Of ...

Oct 16, 2022 from Lorenzo Setale's Blog

For the past 10 years, I have been keeping a diary

I have been writing down events of my life for the last 10 years. I want to celebrate this achievement. 🎉☺️ This diary helped me a lot in the past, and I wish to convince anyone who is on the fence...

Oct 13, 2022 from Silence Calling

Monkey Business

From pain rises fear

Oct 07, 2022 from Home on Random effect

Use Ripgrep-all from Emacs

Previously, I wrote a little package to integrate Everything search into Emacs using the Consult framework. It’s pretty useful if you are searching for (say) all the files on your Windows computer ...

Oct 04, 2022 from Hammy Havoc

Audio Post-production for Imbotero Research Center: Merging Coastal Communities & Science (2022)

REEL Guyana recently released their latest documentary, Imbotero Research Center: Merging Coastal Communities & Science (2022). Split An Atom was proud to be asked to provide audio post-production ...

Oct 03, 2022 from Caffeinspiration

Learning by working on problems just outside of your reach

There’s a common pattern I’ve seen when learning something new, where you can effectively move towards a larger goal by working on problems just outside of your reach. I did a little thinking about...

Sep 29, 2022 from Changelog

Id3vx – a library for parsing and encoding ID3 tags

The podcast moguls of Changelog Media have been keen to introduce chapters into their podcast episodes and they reached out to me for a hand. And would you know, now they have chapters and the Elix...