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I write this mostly so I can move on. The NBN has been a source of constant frustration and anger for me. While I will never forgive those who caused the current shambles I can perhaps redirect my anger elsewhere will keeping it in the back of my mind. So here is my brief time-line of NBN. I moved to area that was due to get NBN FTTP in ~2014. The fact that it was due to get such a connection influenced the decision. With the change in ..
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An essay that bids farewell to x87, a computing architecture too long for this world: The Floppy Disk of Floating Point
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How to: add Twitter and Instagram Embeds on an Eleventy website using Sanity
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phacks.dev
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6 years ago
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eng
At Orbit, we recently rebuilt our website from the ground up using a Jamstack approach and more specifically using Eleventy as our Static Site Generator and Sanity as our CMS.
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Hypermedia Controls in REST provide links and actions with each response pointing to related resources. This concept is a powerful tool that…
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On Wednesday as I was going to bed I noticed it was quite hot in my house. I checked my central air blower unit and there was frost on the coils and the blower wasn’t moving. It kept trying to start but not being able to start. The 7 segment led was showing “b5” which … Continue reading Fixing the blower motor in my central air system
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Why WordPress, Shopify and the JAMstack each have their place and how combining the right tools leads to better outcomes
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Why WordPress, Shopify and the JAMstack each have their place and how combining the right tools leads to better outcomes
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Why WordPress, Shopify and the JAMstack each have their place and how combining the right tools leads to better outcomes
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Welcome to my first blog post, I’ll explain the purpose of this site, why I started it, and what I hope to accomplish.
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A deep dive into my game engine architecture, looking at how the simulation is entirely separate from its visual representation.
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A deep dive into my game engine architecture, looking at how the simulation is entirely separate from its visual representation.
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Are you familiar with linear programming, and how it can be used to solve resource optimization problems? Would you like to free your Python code from a clunky command line and start making convenient graphical interfaces for your users? This week on the show, David Amos is back with another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects.
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A smart person knows everything about a single topic. An intelligent person knows as much as possible about more than one topic. Both have great value, and depending on the industry, some organizations value one more than the other . In general, though, smart people fill entry-level jobs, who then become intelligent people to move up the ladder 1 . A robust personal development strategy will help you go from the former to the latter. ..
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Most of the applications I see these days heavily depend on APIs. Pentesting them is a bit different than that of web applications. In this writeup I will show you how I discovered the vulnerabilities in the “ Vulnerable API ” project.
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A Monte Carlo simulation is a method of estimating events or quantities which are difficult or computationally infeasible to derive a closed-form solution to. The value of the mathematical constant Pi is a good example of this: although it is possible to calculate the exact value of Pi, a good estimate is easily demonstrated with just a few lines of code.
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Creatures of Thought is a project I discovered just recently. It is about the history of science and technology, and it revolves around two primary tracks: The Switch and The Backbone. The former covers the digital switch; the latter is the story of how the world got online. Both sections are well written, researched, and curated. The latest installment of The Backbone covers Usenet’s invention, then FidoNet, and well, it sent me on a mesm..
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I set up to implement link prefetching in our Ruby on Rails application, and boy was it a wild ride. Buckle up!
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Introducing PerfBeacon - Continuously Measure Site Speed via API or Schedule
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maxrozen.com
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6 years ago
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eng
PerfBeacon was a wrapper around Google Lighthouse that lets you continuously measure your site's performance via API, or a schedule
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Linux software RAID array is in auto-read-only mode (BASH)
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snippets.bentasker.co.uk
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6 years ago
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mdadm may sometimes send a "degraded array alert" reporting that at least one array is in auto-readonly md1 : active ( auto - read - only ) raid1 sdc1 [ 1 ] sdd1 [ 0 ] This most commonly happens after a restart/power-event and isn't usually an issue - MD arrays will be auto-read-only until they're first written too. It happens to try and help make array assembly a bit safer - nothing's written to disk until ..
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Recently, I have realized that all the mistakes I’ve made in the past, and is still making, have been caused by a single type of error: mistaking expedience for desire, for a call to action. When I am looking to make a purchase, say a toaster, I look for a “good deal”. The toaster can’t have a significant number of bad reviews. The price can’t be too low, such that the toaster is bound to break down in a month; but it also can’t be too ex..
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An overview of Hugo, a flexible static website generator written in Go and optimized for speed (LWN.net).
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I couldn’t find much documentation on how to serve Flask with uWSGI and Nginx from a non-root location, so, here’s some.
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I couldn’t find much documentation on how to serve Flask with uWSGI and Nginx from a non-root location, so, here’s some.
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I couldn’t find much documentation on how to serve Flask with uWSGI and Nginx from a non-root location, so, here’s some.
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I had a very weird problem where my menus on a WPF application were dropping down to the left instead of the normal to the right.
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I had a very weird problem where my menus on a WPF application were dropping down to the left instead of the normal to the right.
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A lot has been written about REST but less so when it comes to Hypermedia Controls. I haven't seen too many Hypermedia based APIs out in the…
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If you’ve ever tried to get better at playing a particular song you want to learn, you might want to first learn it in chunks. After you feel good with those chunks you start putting it all together. Then you realize, you still suck at some of those chunks, so you practice them. It would be nice to have a tool that works well for that process. I didn’t feel like coding today but I needed to export this idea out of my mind so here is a qui..
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This post highlights a few powerful lines of CSS that do some serious heavy lifting and help you build robust modern layouts.
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At Remind, we help educators communicate with millions of students and families. These connections are critical for supporting student learning, especially with school closures this year, and it’s equally important for all of the communications on our platform to be secure, protected, and reliably delivered. As part of our security stance, we engage the security researcher community via a bug bounty program—which is how a recent collaborati....
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As part of our Pride Month celebrations, we reached out to individuals and organizations in the tech industry and we talked about everything Pride—from their experience being LGBTQ+ in the tech industry, to heartfelt advice to newcomers in the industry, this Q&A blog series is sure to make you smile and inspire you!
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For most folks, the past few months have likely looked a lot different than usual. Humans are creatures of habit , and spending 99% of your time stuck at home represents a pretty thorough disruption of those habits for many. As a person who was used to spending more like 0.02% of my waking hours at “home”, things have certainly looked different for me. It feels like an eternity ago that I was gearing up for a life without the truck, gath..
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