Blogs tagged "tech"

bearblog

Writings by Alexander Harkness

• Anker PowerConf C200: a case study in webcam security theatre May 16, 2026

  The Anker PowerConf C200 webcam looks like a good security choice at first, with triple-layered defences against hack...

• Fix for Error E1 on Tuya Zigbee TRV Smart Radiator Valves Nov 01, 2023

  Tuya Smart TRVs unfortunately suffer from a design flaw where they will produce an apparently unresolvable error afte...

• Living in a Building Site: The Over-Development of London’s Housing Estates Aug 12, 2022

  London's housing crisis necessitates inventive solutions to build new social housing. But have they gone too far at A...

ℤ→ℤ

The mapping of integers to integers is a fair summary of the work of programming. A blog about computer science, history of computing, engineering, game theory, and other things that attract my interest.

• Evaluating OCR on the Community Memory Corpus Oct 07, 2026

  The Community Memory corpus consists of approximately 5,500 scanned printouts of bulletin board-style posts made by B...

• Collisions, Combinatorics, and Markov Analysis: `The Balance` Game Design Aug 28, 2026

  The Balance is a cooperative card game published by New Venture Games. The objective of the game is to set the top ca...

• Number of bags of a given length with exactly d distinct elements Aug 14, 2026

  We develop a formula for counting the number of bags of length \(l\) containing \(d\) distinct elements drawn from \(...

Jordi Villar

I build distributed data systems that operate at scale. What draws me to this work is understanding how things actually work, whether that's performance challenges at scale or diving deep into system internals.

• 2026W39 Oct 05, 2026

  Obituary for a Quiet Life — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER — The idea I keep turning over is that contentment with a small lif...

• 2026W38 Sep 28, 2026

  Semantic Search Without Embeddings — The insight that reframed this for me is that embeddings nail representation and...

• 2026W37 Sep 21, 2026

  the senior engineer death spiral — The pattern he names is one I’ve watched happen, you take on the ambitious thing, ...

Dev Blog

Developer-focused technical blog with practical programming tutorials and setup guides across web development, backend technologies, and developer tools.

• Exporting Project Files into a Markdown Document with Bash Jun 02, 2026

  Exporting Project Files into a Markdown Document with Bash

• Convert a React app to a Desktop app with Electron Feb 12, 2026

  Convert a React app to a Desktop app with Electron

• Electron Resources Feb 12, 2026

  Electron Resources

Ishan Das Sharma

Self-taught developer, writing about the things I have learned

• How to Generate Presigned URLs for R2 When Using Cloudflare Workers (And Make Sure They Actually Work) Jan 14, 2026

  So you want to let users upload files directly to Cloudflare R2 from their browser? Great idea! Presigned URLs are th...

• What I Learned Using Neon Postgres for a Week of Live Traffic Dec 09, 2025

  I recently built a SQL practice platform for my DBMS course at IITM BS Degree. About 50-100 students were hitting it ...

• How to Handle "Bracket" Array Query Parameters (key[]=val) in FastAPI Nov 27, 2025

  FastAPI expects array parameters in the standard key=v1&key=v2 format. However, many frontend client generators like ...

Karl Bartel's Website

• I prefer Djot over Markdown May 14, 2026

  I prefer Djot over Markdown Why Djot? Markdown is very useful, widely adopted and at a first glance simple. But the s...

• Can We Make Simpler Software With LLMs? Feb 28, 2026

  Can We Make Simpler Software With LLMs? Growing numbers of abstraction layers, vast amounts of dependencies and gener...

• Raising Notifications From Terminal Jan 17, 2026

  Raising Notifications From Terminal When executing long-running jobs in the terminal, it's useful to get notified whe...

The Fly Blog

News, tips, and tricks from the team at Fly

• SBD: We Have a Filesystem at Home Oct 22, 2026

  I have unkind things to say about people who make their own pasta. Here, I’ll only use them as an example of how not ...

• Your Agent Speaks MCP. Give It a Computer. Sep 03, 2026

  Sprites are disposable cloud computers. They appear instantly, always include durable filesystems, and cost practical...

• Turn And Face The Strange Jul 24, 2026

  We’re Fly.io, a public cloud platform that is both our favorite way to put an app on the Internet and our favorite wa...

Isaac Clayton

A cozy little corner of the web.

• Half an Umbrella Sep 27, 2026

  A nor’easter storm is rolling over Boston this weekend, and I sit indoors, lit by warm yellow lamps, as sheets of rai...

• As nuvens sobre Sapucaia Sep 22, 2026

  I made this pixel art while listening to lecture. It’s based on a photo I took of some clouds over a small neighborho...

• Personal software blog series Sep 19, 2026

  Short post today. I have a little bit of free time as classes are still ramping up. I’ve done a lot of writing, and I...

Personal Log at usebox.net

Recent content in Personal Log at usebox.net

• Into the Breach Oct 11, 2026

  As I have mentioned here a few times, I don’t play a lot of games these days. The last game I completed was Skyrim. I...

• Using emacs Sep 24, 2026

  There has always been that rivalry between these two editors. In fact, the closing question in my first successful jo...

• The effects of walking Sep 08, 2026

  Before I started working from home, I was lucky enough to commute to the office by foot. That was 35 minutes in each ...

Thranpages

Thranpages; home of idiosyncratic variety and curiosity. Personal website of Thran. Featuring writ, RSRU, WMW and other collected interests.

• phpBB 1.4.4 in Docker Sep 06, 2026

  The final release of the 2001 forum software, running on PHP5 + Apache + mySQL 4 in a modern Docker container. Also i...

• SimCity 3k in 4k Dec 20, 2025

  SimCity 3000 is the best SimCity. Its only problem is that it doesn't run well on contemporary systems. Not to worry,...

• Street Vending Oct 15, 2025

  Selling headphones on Facebook marketplace should be easier than this.

Weekly Robotics Newsletter | Go, Robots!

Weekly Robotics Newsletter - stay up to date on state of the art robotics, drones, space, open source projects and research.

• Weekly Robotics #381 Oct 18, 2026

  Today in Weekly Robotics: An open-source humanoid, an API for general robots, how to build a monocular camera AI-raci...

• Weekly Robotics #380 Oct 11, 2026

  Today in the Weekly Robotics newsletter: Easily create 3D simulation assets, an open-source crab, an easy way to run ...

• Weekly Robotics #379 Oct 04, 2026

  Weekly Robotics 379: Atlas has new hands, lessons learned from building 30,000 robot dogs, how to build a plane in 30...

micheal@ecliptik.com

Professional Website of Micheal Waltz

• Vibe Coding a Fluxbox Inspired Wayland Compositor Feb 27, 2026

  Everything after this paragraph was written with AI. I had Claude Code generate this post from it’s memories, git log...

• Three Days with Claude Code Jan 20, 2026

  Everything after this paragraph was written with AI. I had Claude Code generate this post since I was curious what it...

• Surfing GlobalTalk with a Macintosh 512Ke Mar 10, 2025

  While I’ve discussed the origins of my Macintosh 512Ke and the enhancements I’ve done over the past year. What really...

Julia Evans

Hey! I'm Julia. Welcome to my blog. Here's every post I've ever written, organized by category. Enjoy!

• Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights Sep 27, 2026

  Hello! Recently I needed bike lights for my bike. And I remembered that I already had rechargeable bike lights that I...

• Some more things about Django I've been enjoying Jul 21, 2026

  Hello! I’m on a funny journey right now where I’m trying to learn how to make websites in a sort of 2010 style, where...

• Learning a few things about running SQLite Jul 17, 2026

  Hello! I’ve been working on a Django site recently, and I decided to use SQLite as the database. When I was getting s...

Alejandro AR (kinduff)

Alejandro AR (kinduff) website with blog posts, projects, videos, and more.

• Recompiling The Lion King With an Agent Oct 21, 2026

  How a 1994 SNES cartridge became a native PC program in ten days, one loop at a time.

• The Pink Elephant in Your Prompt Oct 15, 2026

  Telling an agent to ignore your code still puts that code in charge.

• Active Search, Meet Bonsai Sep 25, 2026

FAELIX

News articles and blog posts by the team at FAELIX.

• Moving into a New Data Centre with Equinix MA5 Jul 12, 2023

  We’d been operating out of the Equinix MA2 Reynolds House data centre in Manchester for many years - it was our first...

• Planning Our Manchester Network Migration Aug 01, 2022

  Over the next three months there are going to be a lot of moving parts in the FAELIX machine. All of these will be ch...

• Triple Whammy of Loss of Wavelength, Routing Control Plane Crash, and IGP Issues Jul 26, 2022

  Background I have written many times about our network platform, with the peering and transit edge based around the o...

fasterthanli.me

amos likes to tinker

• 2025 Recap: so many projects Dec 31, 2025

  I’ve been working on so many projects in 2025, I thought it was important for me to make a recap, if only just to cle...

• Introducing arborium, a tree-sitter distribution Dec 13, 2025

  About two weeks ago I entered a discussion with the docs.rs team about, basically, why we have to look at this: When ...

• Does Dioxus spark joy? Nov 22, 2025

  Note: this article is adapted from a presentation I gave at a Rust Paris Meetup — that’s why it sounds a little diffe...

Caffeinspiration

Recent content on Caffeinspiration

• Timeline and Early Days Nov 16, 2025

  Timeline and discovery: the early days The simple timeline of my journey sounds deceptively easy at first: I found ou...

• On having heart surgery at 32 Nov 09, 2025

  Author’s note: this is a departure from topics that I usually write about. It’s not related to tech, learning, or any...

• Cathy: my dear, helpful catheter Nov 09, 2025

  Listen, there isn’t much in this world that’s as luxurious as being able to pee whenever you want to. Imagine floatin...

Changelog

Changelog Posts

• Changelog IRL @ PlanetScale (Sept 17, 2026) Sep 14, 2026

  Changelog is taking over PlanetScale's HQ We’re getting together IRL!! On Thursday, September 17th, Changelog is taki...

• Our Slack is dead. Long live Zulip! May 08, 2025

  It’s officially official. I just turned off our last Slack integration. We’re no longer announcing new episodes there...

• A new era for the Changelog Podcast Universe Dec 05, 2024

  We’re kicking off 2025 with some big changes. Starting in January, we’ll be focusing all of our efforts on producing ...

Pavan Kalyan's Blog

Technical Blog

• Tips on DP + Bitmasking for competitive programming Jul 01, 2023
• Understanding the different kinds of keys used in databases May 21, 2022
• TIL: Determine expected solution from given constraints Apr 14, 2022

It's FOSS

Making You A Better Linux User

• Terminal Text Editor: Like VS Code But in Linux Terminal Oct 22, 2026

  Instead of trying to emulate traditional terminal editors, TTT provides a modern, GUI-like editing experience in the ...

• You Can Reserve This Small-Factor, De-Googled Phone for $30 Oct 21, 2026

  The Brax Wink is a 4-inch phone that runs BraxOS and has a keyboard that clips onto the back.

• Local AI Weekly #6: If You Can Reverse Engineer It, It's Open Source! Oct 21, 2026

  AI is cloning office suites and it can reverse engineer apps for you. Also, people are fixing their smart TVs with AI...