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Learning German with Bilbo · 3 min read · [edit] I have been trying to learn German without much success for a while now. The main issue I run into is motivation – I speak English at work, Czech at home and German… well, not many places, as most of my friends are either international, or speak English just fine. Since I listen to audiobooks quite a bit, I thought of the following: combine the English and the German v..
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Yes, “AI” will compromise your information security posture. No, not through some mythical self-aware galaxy-brain entity magically cracking your passwords in seconds or “autonomously” exploiting new vulnerabilities. It’s way more mundane. When immensely complex, poorly-understood systems get hurriedly integrated into your toolset and workflow, or deployed in your infrastructure, what inevitably follows is leaks, comprom..
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🎲 If computers are the future, why are computer users expected to be permanently illiterate?
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lapcatsoftware.com
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5 days ago
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If computers are the future, why are computer users expected to be permanently illiterate? March 11 2026 I was introduced to computers by my father, though not intentionally. Now retired, my father worked in sales and was assigned a local territory within which he traveled by car to meet with customers. It made more sense for him to keep an office in our home and travel from there instead of first commuting to an offic..
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As I covered in my plan for a Metro Line from Takapuna to the Airport getting across Auckland Harbour is difficult. The problem is that while a bridge would be cheaper and have the option of a pedestrian/cycling lane the requirements to allow a 43 metre clearance for ships would require a line too steep for rail to climb In my plan I ended up going for a tunnel under the harbour as I couldn’t make the bridge option work. However r..
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March was all about one product: verimu. It has three connected parts: I built this because I keep seeing the same pattern across teams in the EU, especially from my own medtech experience: everyone knows the Cyber Resilience Act is real, but many teams are still not operationally ready. Why this product exists Most teams do not fail compliance because they do not care. They fail because compliance work gets fragmented: ..
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For something a little different, here’s a little zine I made about finding joy in difficult times. This random indieblog.page link was picked on Saturday, May 30th 2026. It was originally published on Friday, January 16th 2026 at This Wild Curiosity . If you'd like to report any problems with this post or the blog, please include the following ID with your report: a9d7910d1aa97a08e2aa17d1fca41bb2-646273
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You get the invite. No description. No agenda. No attached document. Just a title like “Quick sync” and a 30-minute calendar hold. You accept it anyway, because what else are you going to do — decline a meeting with your skip-level? I’ve written before about how meetings should be a point of escalation, not a starting point. But the agenda-free meeting is an even more fundamental failure mode: it’s a meeting that hasn’t even bothered t..
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I still remember the first time I saw ChatGPT. It was around November 2022, and there was something strangely beautiful about it. Not beautiful in the polished, product-design sense. Beautiful because it felt unfinished in the right way — rough, limited, occasionally wrong, but carrying the unmistakable smell of the future. It was nowhere near what it is today. And even today, it is nowhere near what I imagine it will become. ..
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I love Steam Next Fest so much. Every year, multiple times per year, we get to go hands-on with the future of the medium and try out as many games as possible within a short time frame. I adore the threads in Discord and Reddit and Bluesky and elsewhere in which people share their favorites, and I'm grown to adore doing the same via these videos. Here are the three demos I played which I think are going to go on to be a huge deal after..
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This post is my personal opinion based on my testing and observations. I'm pretty confident in my test methodology, but William O'Connell is human and can make mistakes, check important info, etc. How much of your code is AI? That question would've been gibberish to me five years ago, but of course the last few years have seen an explosion of "AI-enhanced" IDEs and other software development tools. Software companies are spending huge ..
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Simon's LLM Predictions for 2026 - Vlad Iliescu This random indieblog.page link was picked on Saturday, May 30th 2026. It was originally published on Thursday, January 8th 2026 at Vlad Iliescu . If you'd like to report any problems with this post or the blog, please include the following ID with your report: 3eca9f0ee560c5ad25842ceec44dab27-642107
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🎲 The Filipino qualities we need to build world-class language technologies
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ljvmiranda921.github.io
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5 days ago
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I gave a talk at the Analytics & AI Association of the Philippines (AAP) on the topic of Philippine language model evaluation (Slides), specifically on FilBench. The purpose of the meetup was really to figure out (1) whether we can build a “Philippine LLM” and (2) what doing so would entail. I had some experience building open language models back in my previous work, and my research on multilinguality is directly related, so I was able..
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Last week was an interesting week at work. I moved to Canada midway through January and, despite being at Google for nearly 7.5 years, I’m a “Noogler” again, and got to go through Noogler training. Almost everyone in my cohort last week was a new grad from the University of Waterloo or University of Toronto (Canada, eh?) and it was really interesting hearing the questions that they had about working at both Google and being out in industry ..
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I wake up in our dark, quiet hotel room in Lijiang in China’s Yunnan province. My family is still asleep. I’ve already laid out my clothes the night before — a Nike Aeroswift singlet, shorts, arm sleeves, gloves, and a jacket — so I can get dressed without turning on any lights. I check the weather on my phone: 35°F now, climbing to around 40°F by the time I’m halfway through my run. I grab my Nathan ExoDraw handheld bottle tha..
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🎲 How to pick a vibe coding project you can actually finish
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www.nothingeasyaboutthis.com
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5 days ago
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It's possible to fail my vibe coding class in week 0. Not because students can’t code. Not because they can’t prompt. Not because they aren’t “technical enough”. They fail because they pick a project that cannot be completed in the time budget, then spend six weeks discovering that fact one sharp edge at a time. Let’s do the math you’re trying to avoid: Forty-eight hours is not “a small startup.” It’s not “a MVP.” It’s n..
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It’s looking like I’m going to need to build a reactive engine for work, so I’m going to prepare for that by writing down what I know about them. I want to look at three ways of building reactive engines: push reactivity, pull reactivity, and the hybrid push/pull combination that is used in a bunch of web frameworks. The Problem Statement The simplest way to visualise reactivity, in my opinion, is as a spreadsheet. You have a seri..
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Slightly conflicted. The spambot in October meant I was no longer recording my various forms of travel and the need for a new battery for my Apple Watch reduced my quantifiable self to a nubbin. And now I wonder whether I really care enough to do anything about that. Probably not to restore the status quo ante but possibly to have a slightly more meaningful approach to where I've been. Highlights of the month: Activities Nove..
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Trying and Migrating to Vivaldi Browser I have known the Vivaldi browser for years but never actually tried it, until it was recently recommended by Ralf Christian on X. Currently, I am using the Helium browser for the last few months, and it works fine but lacks some features like Widevine DRM, translation, etc. So... this time I actually decided to try the Vivaldi browser. I'm on macOS currently, so I downloaded the .dmg install..
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Alpinism I booked my first five day alpinism course at MountainBeat to climb the Grossvenediger. It is expensive, but money is not that important if you ever want to do it in your life. The longer you wait the older you get, and thus the more difficult. The idea of crossing a glacier and alpinism excites me. Those views are impressive, and worth the money. It is a risk, and you are paying for something that could kill you. Althoug..
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25-03-2026 I’m 30 now and I’ve never done proper workout my whole life. I’ve always been on the skinny side with 179cm height and 64kgs weight. I have a natural flexibility but didn’t have strength. 2 months ago I decided to change it and started bodyweight workout of Recommended Routine by r/bodyweightfitness. Now I have been training for two months and I must say first two weeks were hell. I was shocked how weak my arms wer..
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This is a story of a most unexpected journey — one that is just starting. If somebody had told me four years ago that I’d be writing this today, I would have stared at them in astonishment or laughed dismissedly. Yet here I am, writing about a late-found hobby that has somehow become a very important part of my life. It almost feels like making a confession. Deep breath. Okay, here we go: In 2022, at the age of 38, I’ve picked up ..
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This random indieblog.page link was picked on Saturday, May 30th 2026. It was originally published on Saturday, January 31st 2026 at Megan's writings . If you'd like to report any problems with this post or the blog, please include the following ID with your report: a076b29f87f5008e64c66e7ef54833b5-656469
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I spent two years mastering buffer overflows and hunting cross-site scripting vulnerabilities at Johns Hopkins University’s Information Security Institute. I spent my first week on my first job after grad school learning how to write emails that don't piss people off. Guess which skill mattered more? No one told you what actually happens when you leave the classroom and enter the corporate world. So I will. This isn’t a rant ..
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Rishabh emailed me the other day, asking me to answer the 7 questions of his new blog challenge, and who am I to say no to such a request? So here we go. How was your first experience with AI models? I assume by AI models we mean the current crop of LLMs, and not AI models in general, because I’m old enough to remember when “Machine Learning” was a thing. What even is AI anyway at this point, since everything is lumped together into one ....
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Dlho som uvažovala, či tieto myšlienky vyliať na verejnosť, ale možno je čas. Neviem presne, kedy vojna skončí – možno o šesť mesiacov, možno o rok, možno o tri. Ale samotný proces približovania sa ku koncu (aj keď zdĺhavému) už spúšťa v priestore mechanizmus sebazničenia, o čom bude reč nižšie. Obrovské množstvo ľudí si začína […] O „vojnových korešpondentoch“ a ich konci
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Peklo je již na Zemi, lidé jsou nyní kořistí Satana. Publikováno dne 28. května 2026 Karbonie 26.05.2026 Peklo je již … Další
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V spoločnom vyhlásení vedúci predstavitelia Medzinárodnej energetickej agentúry, MMF, Svetovej banky a WTO varovali, že rekordný pokles globálnych zásob ropy v dôsledku prerušení lodnej dopravy v Hormuzskom prielive ohrozuje bezpečnosť dodávok palív pred letným vrcholom dopytu. „Zároveň globálne zásoby ropy klesajú rekordným tempom v reakcii na veľkú stratu dodávok cez Hormuzský prieliv. Pokiaľ sa lodné […] MMF a Svetová banka varovali p..
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Watching the recent rise of popularity in Linux got me curious about BSD as I've never tried it before, and even more curious does anyone actually daily drive it? If you do I'd love to hear your reasoning as to why you daily drive it instead of Linux.
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Karpenter v1 vs Cluster Autoscaler: A Production Migration Story
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andrewodendaal.com
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5 days ago
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I’d been running Cluster Autoscaler on our production EKS cluster for years. It worked. It wasn’t exciting, it wasn’t cheap, but it worked. Then in early 2025 Karpenter hit v1 and the API stopped breaking every release, and I finally ran out of excuses. This is the story of that migration — what I learned, what I’d do differently, and why I think Karpenter has effectively won the EKS autoscaling argument.
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Super important video for EVERY Washington state resident to watch on the extreme corruption that is the cultural resources survey scam. It affects EVERYONE and makes every renter and property owner pay FAR high prices than needed: Every single property I have worked on in both Eastern WA and Western WA has triggered these scam cultural resources surveys.… read more “WA State Cultural Resources Survey Scam / Bribe” The post WA..
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Canonical has released the first monthly snapshot of Ubuntu 26.10 ‘Stonking Stingray’. This is the first of 4 planned testing builds in the lead up to the final, stable release of Ubuntu 26.10 on 15 October, 2026. Utkarsh Gupta announced the release on the Ubuntu developer mailing list, noting that a couple of images – including the ubiquitous Intel/AMD64 build most of us use – are missing from the first snapshot. Those will return in time ..
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New resource: (en) The Persistence of Snitch Culture in Communities of Resistance & How to Defeat It
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My blog turned 16 this month! I did nothing to celebrate, but made some little tools and clicked some links about tech ethics. Things from me this month I published four little tools this month: ZIP Shrinker , a web app that shrinks ZIP files with higher compression ratios A command line tool to do (completely offline) translation Open Link in Unloaded Tab , a Firefox extension to open links without loading them png-cmp , a command....
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Nejde jen o můj názor, ale dokonce to zveřejnují i sami psychiatři. Probereme si jednoho po druhém. Nejprve politručka z Hradu. Nestačí ji kromě několika armádních výsluh plat, který si vynutila od minulé vlády, ale chce si ještě přivydělávat jako starostka. Její nenažranost je neuvěřitelná.
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Nejde jen o můj názor, ale dokonce to zveřejnují i sami psychiatři. Probereme si jednoho po druhém. Nejprve politručka z Hradu. Nestačí ji kromě několika armádních výsluh plat, který si vynutila od minulé vlády, ale chce si ještě přivydělávat jako starostka. Její nenažranost je neuvěřitelná.
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Trdlování Sudeťáků v Brně nám nabízí poněkud netradiční možnost, jak se podívat na českou politiku. Myslím, že se na to díváme málo systémově. Abychom pochopili, wo co tady gou, měli bychom se na situaci kolem soudruha Bratwursta dívat trochu praktičtější optikou. Soudruh Bratwurst nejel do Brünn si tak trochu zahajlovat bezdůvodně. Jasně: Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft si na svém zasedání v roce 2016 odhlasoval do stanov, že se jako organ..
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