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“An independent privacy audit of Microsoft, Meta, and Google web traffic in California found that the companies may b...
There are so many peer-to-peer networks now in existence that I have seriously lost count of them. You may think that...
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Document what future-you cannot safely reconstruct. A publishing system needs visible state, a real next action, and ...
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Some drafts do not need harder revision. They are carrying two different jobs, and the honest move is to notice when ...
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We’ve all had those times when your electrical device of choice is running low on battery. Sometimes you even plan ah...
It’s the evening before publication, and a pair of Hackaday writers convene to record the week’s podcast. This week E...
Well, this might just be a Hackaday first. Certainly not the circuit sculpture part, nor the wearable aspect, but the...
Interviews take a lot of energy. In general but this one in particular. And getting through it also deserves a little...
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Glass walls of comp day, “Tough times” reflected on mouth, Spoils go to victor machine.
Tips, guides, and insights about email sharing, email security, and productivity from the EmailShot team.
EmailShot now exports any shared email as a clean Markdown file or a print-ready PDF with a QR code. Here is why that...
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I never paid much attention to the color of caps on bottles of Coca Cola. In fact, I do not think I bought a bottle o...
Manuel Moreale published a blog post on the vertical vs horizontal tabs debate. But instead of choosing a side in wha...
Thoughts on software development, AI, and technology
In Which I Describe why some AI Skeptics need to Experiment
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In Which I Vent my Frustrations about Using LLMs for Coding
I'm Boris Tane, and I build software
Coding agents didn't make poor engineers dangerous. They made them unstoppable.
AI agents didn't make the SDLC faster. They killed it. All that's left is context.
The research-plan-implement workflow I use to build software with Claude Code, and why I never let it write code unti...
Ich habe mal wieder ein kleines Kunstprojekt gemacht, bei dem der Blick von einem Haufen Augen einem kleinen weißen F...
Welcher Idiot is auf die Idee gekommen, die Pfandautomaten _außerhalb_ des Supermarktes aufzustellen?
Ich habe jetzt Links für Kommentare per Email in diesem Blog. Meine Emailadresse habe ich mit einer simplen, aber ans...
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During my holiday break, I built a Stratum 1 NTP server in my home lab. Ordinarily, we get our time from internet-bas...
"Ignorance is bliss" usually has a negative connotation, a way to refer to someone who is ignorant on some topic that...
Other than looking cool to your friends, owning your own domain increases your digital self-reliance. It's kind of li...
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A blog mostly dedicated around web development topics.
This is a dump of my custom elements knowledge and how to make it all work with React.
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I'm Kevin McDonald. I am a backend software engineer from Texas, living and working in Copenhagen, Denmark. Let's learn together.
How Protobuf unknown fields enable seamless schema evolution and robust middleware.
A seamless session update turns every customer's browser into an infinite loop cannon.
Stop hand-writing test fixtures