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Tim Bachmann's Blog
Jan 18, 2023 from Tim Bachmann's Blog

Running the WeeChat IRC Client on a VPS in Docker

Walkthrough on how to setup the WeeChat IRC client in docker.

Anirudh Oppiliappan
Jan 18, 2023 from Anirudh Oppiliappan

I am moving to Finland

This is what I was packing for The past two weeks or so have felt like a fever dream. It’s been a blurry daze ever since I received my passport from the Finnish Embassy in New Delhi. I still can’t ...

Home on Random effect
Jan 16, 2023 from Home on Random effect

Web processing with Gnus

This is a post about reading news using an Emacs package called Gnus instead of a traditional web browser. Gnus gets a lot of bad press from the Emacs community, but I think it is a very effective ...

Anirudh Oppiliappan
Jan 14, 2023 from Anirudh Oppiliappan

2022 in review

Late again because I was busy packing Quite possibly the “fastest” year I’ve experienced—it feels like yesterday when 2022 began. I think I did a lot last year, contrary to previous years where I f...

Latest entries from petermolnar.net
Jan 12, 2023 from Latest entries from petermolnar.net

I ended up with a Zigbee smart home because the alternative was hurting my ears

I've been eyeing with FIR (far infrared) heating for years, long before we got to buy our current house. Now we have it, and while it's certainly not a cheap way to heat, it feels lovely; getting h...

[tekovic.com~]#
Jan 07, 2023 from [tekovic.com~]#

Configure Lenovo Thinkpad T480s fingerprint reader on Debian Bullseye

The fingerprint sensor on Lenovo Thinkpad T480s is not supported by libfprint, so you can’t use it out of the box. Thankfully, there’s a project called python-validity based on open-fprintd that’s ...

William Lyon's Blog
Jan 03, 2023 from William Lyon's Blog

Spatial Search Functionality With Neo4j

Radius Distance, Bounding Box, and Point in Polygon Search With Graphs

Lorenzo Setale's Blog
Dec 27, 2022 from Lorenzo Setale's Blog

Switching to Helix: My Experience and Tips

I recently switched from Visual Studio Code (VS Code) to Helix as my primary text editor. I wanted a more efficient and powerful modal editor for working with Go, Terraform, YAML, and other languag...

~gallant
Dec 25, 2022 from ~gallant

The Blurring of the Public Square and the Megaphone

I originally envisioned writing this post some time back - in early 2022, Twitter escalated its dark patterns, requiring accounts (or viewing on a phone) to see certain content. My draft sat long e...

Luke Salamone's Blog
Dec 18, 2022 from Luke Salamone's Blog

Paper Summary: Dual-Encoders in Ranking

In Defense of Dual-Encoders for Neural Ranking by Menon et. al. discusses the question of why dual-encoder (DE) models, also called Bi-Encoders elsewhere, don’t match the performance of cross-atten...

Luke Salamone's Blog
Dec 18, 2022 from Luke Salamone's Blog

Paper Summary: Dual-Encoders in Ranking

In Defense of Dual-Encoders for Neural Ranking by Menon et. al. discusses the question of why dual-encoder (DE) models, also called Bi-Encoders elsewhere, don’t match the performance of cross-atten...

Tim Bachmann's Blog
Dec 03, 2022 from Tim Bachmann's Blog

IndieWebifying my Website Part 1 - Microformats and Webmentions

This site now supports sending and receiving webmentions and surfacing structured data using microformats2.

Tim Bachmann's Blog
Dec 03, 2022 from Tim Bachmann's Blog

Hosting Images with Storj and Cloudflare

Learn how to setup affordable image hosting for your personal website with Storj.io and Cloudflare.

Lorenzo Setale's Blog
Nov 30, 2022 from Lorenzo Setale's Blog

Handling Secrets should not be complicated: Mozilla SOPS

Managing secrets in Git repositories has been one of the biggest issues when I write code. I have used multiple solutions based on the complexity and how many things I have to do in case of leaks. ...

~gallant
Nov 28, 2022 from ~gallant

Life is Context - Language is Specificity

"Aaaaarrrrggggh!" What does that mean? It could mean I stubbed my toe - or it could mean I dropped something. Somebody may be in mortal danger - or maybe they just read a disagreeable headline. For...

Home on Random effect
Nov 28, 2022 from Home on Random effect

Vim's ~ in Emacs

For a bunch of reasons, I recently decided to stop using Vim emulation in Emacs, and switch to a different modal keybinding system. But that’s a topic for another post. One of the things that Vim d...

Luke Salamone's Blog
Nov 27, 2022 from Luke Salamone's Blog

My Favorite Antimaia Games

This is a follow up to When Suboptimal Minimax is Better. After running 400 simulations, I can conclusively say that opponent modeling is pretty cool. The TLDR on opponent modeling is that if we ha...

Anirudh Oppiliappan
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...

Tim Bachmann's Blog
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!

Luke Salamone's Blog
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...

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