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Hi, my name is Peter and I'm a Claudoholic. A reflection on AI addiction, extreme work culture, and the blurry line between productivity and obsession in the age of agentic engineering.
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We honestly didn’t really do much in part 1 beyond cleaning and getting the thing powered; fixed some keys and the source of the constant power consumption in part 2, and this is part 3, which is just a quickie really. The calculator works wonderfully, it’s just annoying to have to use it with wall … Continue reading Commodore SR-37 calculator part 3
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Marcin ‘mbork’ Borkowski has a nice post showing us how he trims video clips from our beloved editor . Trimming clips is something I do from time to time, specially when posting a screencast of sorts. Since I don't need much, I typically resort to QuickTime Player's trimming functionality that ships with macOS. While it does the job, ever since I added a "graphical" seeker to Ready Player Mode , I had been meaning to build a simple video ....
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This glider story was amazing—the way you described the cold creeping into the cockpit and the delicate balance of lift really made me feel like I was right there. I love how you capture small details that create big memories; it’s the same idea I try to bring in my little shop Baby and Toys (babyandtoys \[dot] us). Curious—what moment in your flights has stayed with you the longest?
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How to Make your Customers Happy and Your Engineers Even Happier
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8thlight.com
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9 months ago
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How to make your customers happy and your engineers even happier It’s common for monitoring and alerting solutions on production services to be quite chatty, sometimes producing hundreds of notifications per day. There’s a scene in the classic film The Matrix where one of the characters (Cypher) is looking at a screen with green unintelligible code. He’s asked: “Do you always look at it encoded?” He responds by telling Neo he doesn’t see ....
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Gary Yourofsky Ranks Human Rights as the Number One Blocker to the Animal Rights Movement - But Is It?
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joshbaldwin.substack.com
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9 months ago
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The legendary activist Gary Yourofsky has returned after a decade-long break from activism, doing a slew of interviews.
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Hello! Eddie Android edition is a fully integrated with AirVPN, free and open source WireGuard and OpenVPN GUI client. It is based on official WireGuard library and latest OpenVPN3-AirVPN library (free and open source software library by AirVPN), allowing comfortable connections to both OpenVPN and WireGuard servers. We're very glad to inform you that Eddie Android edition 3.3.0 beta 1 is now available. UPDATE 2025-09-12: Eddie Android e....
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The natural way for developers to test out code is in a simple console application. That is a simple, obvious, and really easy way to test things out. It is also one of those things that can completely mislead you about the actual realities of using a particular API. For example, let’s take a look at what is probably the most trivial chatbot example: var kernel = Kernel . CreateBuilder ( ) . AddAzureOpenAIChatCompletion ( .....
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On July 27, 2025 the Tour de France ended again. This time the winner stayed the same in the hands of Tadej Pogačar of UAE Team Emirates.
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Matching the Tool to the Task A Quick Recap In a previous article , we focused on the strengths of Large Language Models (LLMs), traditional Machine Learning (ML), and statistical methods and recommended 4 key questions to help you choose the right tool for a data solution. Your Data : Is it structured or unstructured? Bounded or unbounded? Your Goal : Do you need prediction, generation, or inference? Your Data Volume : Are you work....
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Transforming Game Discovery with Instant Play Experiences on Discord
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discord.com
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9 months ago
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Discord and NVIDIA partner to showcase cloud-streamed gaming experiences on Discord to transform game discovery for players and developers, starting with Fortnite.
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This was a tough decision, having used Gmail since 2007/2008. However, I had to draw the line and stop giving Google my data for free. The problem with email is that everything is transmitted in plain text. Technically, Google can store every message you receive and know everything, and U.S. agencies can request access to that data (this include also EU citizens under the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Frameworks ). For someone li..
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This was a tough decision, having used Gmail since 2007/2008. However, I had to draw the line and stop giving Google my data for free. The problem with email is that everything is transmitted in plain text. Technically, Google can store every message you receive and know everything, and U.S. agencies can request access to that data (this include also EU citizens under the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Frameworks ). For someone li..
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Do you remember MapReduce? That distributed computing pattern that powered early Google and Hadoop? “Mapping” a lot of tasks to some compute clusters, then “reducing” the results? Well, I’ve been experimenting with applying the same concept to AI tasks using Claude Code, and the results have been surprisingly powerful. This is already being used to generate RAGs, but it’s a lot more fun to try it locally in your own documents.
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Second week of my NixOS notes on what happened in the community or that I learned that I found interesting.
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Do you remember MapReduce? That distributed computing pattern that powered early Google and Hadoop? “Mapping” a lot of tasks to some compute clusters, then “reducing” the results? Well, I’ve been experimenting with applying the same concept to AI tasks using Claude Code, and the results have been surprisingly powerful. This is already being used to generate RAGs, but it’s a lot more fun to try it locally in your own documents.
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The Marginalia Search index has been partially rewritten to perform much better, using new data structures designed to make better use of modern hardware. This post will cover the new design, and will also touch upon some of the unexpected and unintuitive performance characteristics of NVMe SSDs when it comes to read sizes. The index is already fairly large, but can sometimes feel smaller than it is, and paradoxically, query performance i..
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Matt ODell [26:26]: "Trump has absolutely filled his bags with as much Bitcoin as possible, including all of his cronies. I mean right now his stock, Trump Media, has 15000 Bitcoin in the Treasury. Bro has more Bitcoin than Coinbase." #
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Back to science fiction with another installment in the Hainish Cycle! The Telling is about orthodoxy, totalitarianism, and cultural revolution. It felt different than other sci-fi I’ve read from Le Guin. Instead of being a man from an alient planet like Hain-Davenant or Annares, the narrator is an Indian-Canadian woman from Earth. While the story takes place on the recently-uplifted planet Aka, Earth and the narrator’s rememberings and a..
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Back to science fiction with another installment in the Hainish Cycle! The Telling is about orthodoxy, totalitarianism, and cultural revolution. It felt different than other sci-fi I’ve read from Le Guin. Instead of being a man from an alient planet like Hain-Davenant or Annares, the narrator is an Indian-Canadian woman from Earth. While the story takes place on the recently-uplifted planet Aka, Earth and the narrator’s rememberings and a..
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I’m trying to get a bit back into the habit of daily blogging. I’ve found that when I get very in depth absorbed into development work, my blogging output decreases. It’s a focus thing, but also a balance thing. There are times when blogging can be an ephemeral and non-distracting activity, something you just do in a few minutes in between tasks. But it can also sometimes turn into something more involved. And when you are really in the thi..
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Single Sign On scales headcount and maintains security under a single credential. Services unfairly price for SSO, so I made my own for a furry convention.
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When considering an object-oriented programming problem, should you prefer inheritance or composition? Why wouldn't it just be simpler to use functions? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects.
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This is the online writing home of Tony Pisculli (I do other stuff in other places). You can find links to my published stories and interactive fiction, with notes on produced plays coming soon. The best place to start, if you’re new here, is probably this roundup of short stories I wrote for Inktober in […]
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Figure 1: Happy little storage buckets made of star stuff. I store all of my critical data in ZFS and replicate it offsite nightly with zrepl . The monitoring page of the zrepl docs mock me with: Monitoring endpoints are configured in the global.monitoring section of the config file. […] zrepl can expose Prometheus metrics via HTTP. Without the ability to fire commands after replication completes, this monitoring solu....
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One of my favorite projects has been using my Mac Mini as a home data center. It hosts this blog and all of my projects. After using cloud machines for decades, there's something tactile about maintai...
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Lately, I have been pondering the waste we generate as we live and the ways to reduce it. As I scale down, I fill trash bags with things I can’t use, which bothers me. The items that can be donated and have a second life are strictly excluded from this definition, though. They’re donated to people who need them. The items that are disposed of include cardboard boxes, plastic containers, and items that have leaked or reached the end of the....
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