Jul 30, 2025 from BattlePenguin Privacy Guard: You Don't Need to Scan My Drivers License Nearly a decade ago, I was purchasing beer for a friend’s party at a drug store and the cashier wanted to scan my drivers license. I refused and her manager said my ID had to be scanned to make my ...
Jul 30, 2025 from (Fabio Alessandro Locati|Fale)'s blog Google Professional Cloud Architect At this point, it has become kind of a ritual for me: renewing my Google Professional Architect Certification during the summer months. This time around, I renewed it slightly earlier than usual, w...
Jul 25, 2025 from Sophia Willows' Blog Jitter the first request, too Exponential backoff with jitter is an effective retry strategy that helps avoid thundering herds, but most implementations only start applying jitter after the initial request fails. If you’re usin...
Jul 24, 2025 from Rock and Null Big clients aren’t always a big win "Whale" clients can look like a dream, but they often come with strings. When one customer makes up most of your revenue, your business becomes fragile.
Jul 24, 2025 from Adventures in Open Source Software Open Source, GenAI and the Post-Truth Society One of my favorite TV shows of all time is The Big Bang Theory. It is somewhat divisive among my circle of friends, but I like it. One scene from the show has the character Leonard, a physicist, ta...
Jul 23, 2025 from Michael Lynch Migrating a ZFS pool from RAIDZ1 to RAIDZ2 p img { display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; } I recently upgraded my home TrueNAS server and migrated 18 TB of data from a 4-disk RAIDZ1 ZFS pool to a new RAIDZ2 pool. The neat p...
Jul 22, 2025 from Ryan Bagley Street Photography in Chongqing Chongqing (重庆市) has taken the triple crown of sweatiest, most crowded, and hectic place I’ve ever been to in my entire life. Traversing the heart of the city near the Hongyadong Folk Custom Scene A...
Jul 22, 2025 from home - SHRIK3 on SHRIK3 Memory Jargons /proc/meminfo (free) $ man proc_meminfo MemTotal (total) total usable RAM i.e. total physical RAM minus reserved bits and kernel binary code. MemAvailable memory that can bed used if there is deman...
Jul 22, 2025 from kmcd.dev Morse Code Explore the history of Morse code, from its dits and dahs to the first transatlantic cable. Discover how this elegant system was the original binary and test your own skills with an interactive spe...
Jul 21, 2025 from home - SHRIK3 on SHRIK3 RDMA 101 - libverbs APIs and hello world Introduction to Programming Infiniband RDMA by Insu Jang https://insujang.github.io/2020-02-09/introduction-to-programming-infiniband/ Code https://github.com/Arlu/RDMA-Hello-World Copy-Verbatim, a...
Jul 21, 2025 from Julio Merino (jmmv.dev) Bazel and action (non-) determinism A key feature of Bazel is its ability to produce fast, reliable builds by caching the output of actions. This system, however, relies on a fundamental principle: build actions must be deterministic...
Jul 21, 2025 from home - SHRIK3 on SHRIK3 RDMA 101 - basics SRC: Netdev 0x16: RDMA Tutorial by Roland Dreier (Enfabrica) and Jason Gunthorpe (NVIDIA) https://netdevconf.info/0x16/slides/40/RDMA%20Tutorial.pdf Introduction to Programming Infiniband RDMA by I...
Jul 20, 2025 from Kevin Cox's Blog I Don't Like Imports I think this is an unusual opinion, so I thought I would share.I prefer not to import external symbols into the local scope. For example, I prefer:let body = reqwest::get("https://kevincox.ca/feed....
Jul 20, 2025 from Chris Short 914 Days Later — My Journey Off Klonopin This is a significant accomplishment for me. I’m taking a moment to celebrate it while at the same time trying to warn others about the highly addictive drug, Klonopin (clonazepam). Mental healthca...
Jul 18, 2025 from Commented Out The Case of the Field Problem Picking up someone else's design to get it into production is a common enough situation and yet there are always interesting problems to be solved. These can get particularly challenging if that pr...
Jul 17, 2025 from R74n Newsletter 🎨 Sandboxels v1.12 - Saves For All - OUT NOW 💾 Game-changing save browser is here. Steam Workshop support. And more.
Jul 17, 2025 from Jasco's Website Why Bigfoot I talk about my belief in the existence of sasquatch, and address the main problem non-believers raise
Jul 17, 2025 from Jasco's Website Why Bigfoot I talk about my belief in the existence of sasquatch, and address the main problem non-believers raise
Jul 16, 2025 from Sophia Willows' Blog Every tool call is a chance to prompt There’s a subtlety in building AI agents that took me an embarrassingly long time to appreciate: your tool responses are prompts!So many tools and MCP servers treat outputs as mere data pipes: the ...
