Mar 31, 2025 from SIGPLAN Blog How to Give a Good Talk In computer science, conferences are a focal point of academic attention. Conferences are a moment where computing communities—distributed over the globe—come together. Giving a talk at a conferenc...
Mar 31, 2025 from Saeed Esmaili Comparing local large language models for alt-text generation I’m always interested in reading how people use language models for automating boring tasks or performing what they wouldn’t be able to do manually. In his post, Dries explores using several local ...
Mar 31, 2025 from Saeed Esmaili Could That Meeting Be An Email? I liked this post’s rules of thumbs for when to avoid scheduling meetings at work: Before calling a meeting, ask yourself: What’s the goal? If it’s just to convey information—like a status update—t...
Mar 31, 2025 from Michael Lynch My Book's Pre-Sale Just Barely Succeeded For the past few months, I’ve been working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developers. I didn’t want to spend a year writing the book only to find out that nobo...
Mar 31, 2025 from Muffin Man Make regular expressions easier to read This is a simple formatting trick I use to make regular expressions more readable. The secret? Break them into multiple lines. To achieve this, format the regex as an array of strings and then conc...
Mar 30, 2025 from Daryl Sun's Journal Special Edition — Self-Expression Special Edition — Self-Expression TL;DR:This website is my form of self-expression. This blog post has approximately 413 words and may take 3 minutes to read. This post was submitted as part of the...
Mar 29, 2025 from Gonçalo Valério Security.txt in the wild: 2025 edition One year ago, I checked the top 1 million “websites” for a security.txt file and then posted the results in this blog. As it was described at the time, I used a tool written by someone else who had...
Mar 28, 2025 from fasterthanli.me Impromptu disaster recovery Background im-promp-tu (im-ˈpräm(p)-(ˌ)tü) made, done, or formed on or as if on the spur of the moment: improvised composed or uttered without previous preparation: extemporaneous Merriam-Webster O...
Mar 28, 2025 from Heitor's log Pushing Docker images to a remote host How to push and pull Docker/Podman images to a remote server, without using an Image Registry.
Mar 27, 2025 from briancmoses.com Rackstack: An open-source, modular, and 3D-printed miniature rack An awesome open source project which enabled me to design and 3D-print a completely customized miniature network rack for my homelab.
Mar 27, 2025 from Sam Patterson's Blog Informed versus Uninformed AI Skeptics In Which I Describe why some AI Skeptics need to Experiment
Mar 26, 2025 from Saeed Esmaili Building a Personal Content Recommendation System, Part Two: Data Processing and Cleaning In part one of this blog series , I explored the motivation behind developing a personal recommendation system. The main goals are to learn how recommendation systems work and to build a tool that ...
Mar 26, 2025 from ℤ→ℤ Ludii Wumpus World Ludii is a general game system for modeling games and puzzles, although it focuses on historical and traditional games. Ludii was recently used to provide the training data for a Kaggle competition...
Mar 25, 2025 from ℤ→ℤ Investigating MacPaint's Source Code MacPaint is a monochromatic raster image painting program that introduced many people to mouse-driven controls, tool palettes, and copy and paste integration with other applications. One of two lau...
Mar 25, 2025 from Adventures in Open Source Software 2025 FOSSAsia - Bangkok, Thailand Hot on the heels of SCaLE 22x I found myself on the way to Bangkok for the 2025 edition of FOSSAsia Summit. This meant an eleven hour flight from Los Angeles to Tokyo (Haneda), a seven hour layover...
Mar 24, 2025 from Julio Merino (jmmv.dev) The next generation of Bazel builds Today marks the 10th anniversary of Bazel’s public announcement so this is the perfect moment to reflect on what the next generation of build systems in the Bazel ecosystem may look like. I write t...
Mar 24, 2025 from Sam Patterson's Blog No Longer 98.6 - How Human Body Temperature has Changed In Which I Learn that our Body Temperature is Lower than Commonly Believed
Mar 23, 2025 from Jordi Villar 2025W11 Less ceremony, more shipping — Tinybird introduces their new deployment tool, which simplifies data schema changes for teams. This tool automates the entire deployment process, ensuring no downtime...
Mar 23, 2025 from Suffix Getting Started with Meshtastic A simple off-grid two-node setup from the command line.
Mar 23, 2025 from Saeed Esmaili Lessons in creating family photos that people want to keep I love taking photos , taking my Sony A7cii wherever I travel. Although it’s a relatively small camera, I recently got a Ricoh gr iii to be able to carry a good camera with me everywhere, even when...
