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I’m back in Uppsala after two back-to-back road trips - one to Jönköping, and another to Tiveden followed by some Dalarna exploration. I doodled on my reMarkable tablet through the trip, and figured I’d break this post up with my unfinished sketches.
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A retelling of the initial encounter in Tenoxtitlan between the Aztecs and the Spanish. I found it a bit hard to get into this book. Translations are always tough since translators are rarely as skilled with words as the original authors and there’s two levels of intention and meaning to work through. One thing I did enjoy was how Moctezuma and Cortés, both giant historical figures, were brought down to human scale through their point-of-..
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A retelling of the initial encounter in Tenoxtitlan between the Aztecs and the Spanish. I found it a bit hard to get into this book. Translations are always tough since translators are rarely as skilled with words as the original authors and there’s two levels of intention and meaning to work through. One thing I did enjoy was how Moctezuma and Cortés, both giant historical figures, were brought down to human scale through their point-of-..
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In reply to Nicholas. @Nicholas I finally figured out a workaround for communicating what I need back to MATLAB in version 2024b using javascript in the HTML browser. Since I was able to get that to work, I next needed to get it compiled. It worked for me to just replace both the jar and jarext folders in the "C:\Program Files\MATLAB\MATLAB ....
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In reply to Nicholas. @Nicholas I finally figured out a workaround for communicating what I need back to MATLAB in version 2024b using javascript in the HTML browser. Since I was able to get that to work, I next needed to get it compiled. It worked for me to just replace both the jar and jarext folders in the "C:\Program Files\MATLAB\MATLAB ....
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Neuromancer has become more than just an influential novel; it’s now the blueprint for the entire Cyberpunk genre. Even if you’ve never read it, you’ve felt its impact in nearly every major sci-fi film, TV show, anime, and video game of the past 40 years. Gibson didn’t invent cyberpunk, but he defined it. He created the lexicon—cyberspace, matrix, sprawl—that shaped how we imagine our digital future. Reading Neuromancer for the very fir..
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Everyone’s either panicking that AI will replace them or assuming they don’t need to learn anything anymore. Both miss the point entirely. AI amplifies what you already know. If you understand distributed systems, you’ll use AI to build better ones. If you don’t, you’ll use AI to create distributed disasters. The difference? When that AI-generated code breaks in production — and it will — you need to know why. When it doesn’t scale — a..
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I have two types of journals for work: a small-ish disc-bound one for time-based task planning, and a second for notes and research. The first one is a 5x7 I just got from the dollar store. It turns out they have a bunch that work just fine. Each morning I write out the hours and mark in the meetings I have. I wrote down what I'll say at the Standup (= what I'm working on). During the day I plot each task as it's being done in 15-minute i....
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Using ublock origin, we can block the pesty Google SSO popup that seems to be added to random websites all over right now. Head to the uBlock origin settings, the “My Filters” tab and paste the following: 1 || id.google.com^ 2 || accounts.google.com/gsi/$3p 3 || smartlock.google.com^ 4 ! Block "Sign in with Google" iframe in top right corner of websites || accounts.google.com/gsi/iframe et voila: no more SSO..
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So I’ve been working on this project called client-w-mcp – it’s a leanring project to truly understand how an AI agent works with MCP servers. And I’m exploring Agentic development - with Claude Code. Why Claude Code? The first time I used it, Claude just… flowed. It seems to do a lot more by itself to figure things out. I especially like the Task() so that it can go do more than one thing at a time.
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So I’ve been working on this project called client-w-mcp – it’s a leanring project to truly understand how an AI agent works with MCP servers. And I’m exploring Agentic development - with Claude Code. Why Claude Code? The first time I used it, Claude just… flowed. It seems to do a lot more by itself to figure things out. I especially like the Task() so that it can go do more than one thing at a time.
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So I’ve been working on this project called client-w-mcp – it’s a leanring project to truly understand how an AI agent works with MCP servers. And I’m exploring Agentic development - with Claude Code. Why Claude Code? The first time I used it, Claude just… flowed. It seems to do a lot more by itself to figure things out. I especially like the Task() so that it can go do more than one thing at a time.
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So I’ve been working on this project called client-w-mcp – it’s a leanring project to truly understand how an AI agent works with MCP servers. And I’m exploring Agentic development - with Claude Code. Why Claude Code? The first time I used it, Claude just… flowed. It seems to do a lot more by itself to figure things out. I especially like the Task() so that it can go do more than one thing at a time.
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Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom Is Wrong–and What You Really Need to Know . By Emily Oster. 328 pages. When Emily Oster found out she was pregnant, she immediately began researching the best ways to take care of her child in utero. On the internet, there are a lot of opinions and not a lot of data, even among the medical community. For example, she wanted a cup of coffee but didn’t know if it would affect her baby.....
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Discover how Snyk's Security R&D Group integrates AI agents to enhance the Snyk Vulnerability Database. Learn how we ensure timeliness, completeness, accuracy, and actionability in open source security intelligence.
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How a Hibernate deprecation log message made our Java backend service super slow
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ounapuu.ee
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10 months ago
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It was time to upgrade Hibernate on that one Java monolithic 1 backend service that my team was responsible for. We took great precautions with these types of changes due to the scale of the system, splitting changes into as many small parts as possible and releasing them as often as possible. With bigger changes we opted for running a few instances of the new version in parallel to the existing one. Then came Hibernate 5.2. Hibernat....
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When comparing REST and GraphQL, it’s not just about payload size, flexibility, or tooling. The real distinction is in how you design your API. REST is centered around resources, with endpoints like createUserGroup or getUserProfile. GraphQL shifts the focus to capabilities, encouraging more semantically rich mutations like groupJoin, which are disconnected from the underlying datastore and instead represent meaningful actions within your..
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Introducing a new type of Quest reward: Discord Orbs! Earn them by completing Quests and redeem them in the Shop for hundreds of different items — including Discord Nitro credit. Available on desktop and mobile.
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Originally published in 2019, this article is part two of a three-part series exploring Go’s garbage collector. Though the Go runtime has continued to evolve, the performance principles covered here remain highly relevant today. This installment focuses on practical techniques for analyzing and reducing garbage collection (GC) overhead in real-world Go applications. It walks through how to interpret GC traces using GODEBUG=gctrace=1 and unc..
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On trying to mash up SQLite with ideas stolen from Accountants, Clojure, Datomic, XTDB, Rama, and Local-first-ers, to satisfy Henderson's Tenth Law. Viz., to make a sufficiently complicated data system containing an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of a bitemporal database. Because? Because laying about on a hammock, contemplating hopelessly complected objects like Current Databases isn't just for the Ri..
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Prime Day just happened, so I wanted to grab the Chase Amazon Prime Visa while the bonus was higher than normal.
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When comparing REST and GraphQL, it’s not just about payload size, flexibility, or tooling. The real distinction is in how you design your API. REST is centered around resources, with endpoints like createUserGroup or getUserProfile. GraphQL shifts the focus to capabilities, encouraging more semantically rich mutations like groupJoin, which are disconnected from the underlying datastore and instead represent meaningful actions within your..
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If I had the budget/compute power and time to research anything at the moment, this is what I would try researching. It’ll make sense in a bit, I swear. The Problem Training robotic policies to perform complex tasks is incredibly difficult. We have some success with generalist policies and existing reinforcement learning research, but they typically have limits on what they can accomplish. The Routing Agent Architecture A common patte..
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I’ve finished reading Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell . I always felt that this must be a very boring read, but the recent rise of trumpism, MAGA, dark enlightenment and all these dystopian things finally made me pick it up. 5/5, highly recommended. Not boring at all. It paints a picture of a totalitarian regime that utilizes new speak , surveillance and propaganda to control the population. Written with Stalinist USSR and Nazi Ge..
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Janet Jackson might not be the first person who comes to mind when you think of a hacker. But she inadvertently created a malicious payload that performed a Denial of Service (DoS) attack on many different hard drive models manufactured in 2005 and later that rotated at a speed of 5400 rpm (rotations per minute). How did it work? If your computer had a 5400 rpm hard drive, all you had to do was play Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation musi..
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Janet Jackson might not be the first person who comes to mind when you think of a hacker. But she inadvertently created a malicious payload that performed a Denial of Service (DoS) attack on many different hard drive models manufactured in 2005 and later that rotated at a speed of 5400 rpm (rotations per minute). How did it work? If your computer had a 5400 rpm hard drive, all you had to do was play Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation musi..
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I really hate it when I’m exposed to some horrible news online, and feel powerless. There is nothing I can do, I am not responsible, and yet at the same time I have this feeling “this shouldn’t be happening”. There is a temptation to immediately react – if it was printed, I would crumple up the paper and throw it away – yet, reading pixels on the screen I don’t have the right gesture to express my discontent. So I made this little brow..
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It's funny I just realised I was so heads down in programming yesterday that I forgot to write any notes, and so that's why yesterday looked a bit strange with only links. Just like the good old days of linkbloging . A lot of those links are probably dead by now. Just a quick note written in Termux on my mobile device while I listen to the latest All-In pod , having my breakfast. It's all about robots and AI supercomputers. Kind of cr..
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We should measure effect sizes on substantively important scales
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wyclif.substack.com
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10 months ago
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Perfect to use at almost any moment in a software engineer's life, this tool generates "O RLY?" books from just a simple query.
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Congratulations to Rani Zilpelwar, the recipient of 8th Light’s Quarterly Beacon Award, a peer-nominated honor that celebrates team members who shine light on our core values. Rani is a Software Delivery Lead with over a decade of experience building high-quality software and high-trust teams. This quarter, Rani’s leadership and influence grew significantly beyond her original role with one of the world’s largest entertainment providers.....
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John Bridges is a software engineer that co-developed PCPaint, which in 1984 was one of the earliest digital painting programs and helped spur the use of mice within the IBM PC market. He supported the growing number of PC video developers by freely releasing the VGAKIT and TGA utilities, tools that helped developers understand and compensate for the many hardware and software quirks of the era. He was also on the forefront of presentation ....
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John Bridges is a software engineer that co-developed PCPaint, which in 1984 was one of the earliest digital painting programs and helped spur the use of mice within the IBM PC market. He supported the growing number of PC video developers by freely releasing the VGAKIT and TGA utilities, tools that helped developers understand and compensate for the many hardware and software quirks of the era. He was also on the forefront of presentation ....
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Building an AI-Powered Amazon Ad Copy Generator with Flask and Gemini
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blog.adnansiddiqi.me
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10 months ago
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This post is part of the GenAI Series. Back-to-back GenAI-related posts, but I could not resist writing this post instead of a trading-related one. A few days ago, I built a small tool that lets you input an Amazon ASIN and instantly generate marketing copy, including Facebook ads, Amazon A+ content, and SEO product descriptions by using Gemini. The frontend is built with Bootstrap + jQuery, and the backend runs on Python Flask. While this ....
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Met deze simpele checklist kun je een website of app duurzamer maken waardoor deze minder energie verbruikt en daardoor minder CO2 uitstoot.
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How does the performance of an algorithm hold up when you put it into a realistic context? Where might Python code defy Big O notation expectations when using a profiler? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects.
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