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Introduction Link to heading The London LOOP is the London Outer Orbital Path, a 150 mile (242km) walking route which encircles the city, like a hiking equivalent of the M25 (the London Orbital Motorway). There’s more good info on the LOOP on the TFL and Ramblers sites. I split the walk over 9 days between May and September 2024, averaging 15-20 miles (24-32km) per day. These are some notes I took.
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I admit it has been a while since we last posted here, diverging from our otherwise roughly monthly schedule – we simply did not find anything interesting enough to post about that was too long or otherwise unsuitable for Fedi. However, now we do have something. We played through several sessions of Dungeons and Dragons (DnD) , a popular pen & paper/tabletop RPG over the past few weeks. We decided we wanted to summarize the events happen....
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In the late 2000's, I worked at a niche MMO game company. We had a small team, not a lot of money, but a loyal audience. It was a game of skill without any of the usual powerups and unreality, and the players enjoyed the challenge. Then, one
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Authentic blocking frenzy antidote (Issue #186) 2024-10-19 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith This week’s newsletter is out! (2024-10-19) In this week’s edition: Workplace software, AI subprime, libertarian geopolitics, perfect accents, open source, podcasting origins, Wordpress chaos, cash freedom, Trump madness, BTC & stablecoins, ancient history and drugs Issue details: Title: Authentic blocking frenzy antidote Issue: 186 Pa..
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Back in 2017, I wrote a blog post predicting intense competition between Intel x86-based and ARM-based PCs. And finally, after many years of lukewarm development efforts on the part of Microsoft and Qualcomm, that competition is here with Windows 11 Copilot+ PCs running powerful ARM-based Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite CPUs with built in graphics and AI acceleration. As shown in the desktop screenshot at the top of this post I’ve been usin..
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Back in 2017, I wrote a blog post predicting intense competition between Intel x86-based and ARM-based PCs. And finally, after many years of lukewarm development efforts on the part of Microsoft and Qualcomm, that competition is here with Windows 11 Copilot+ PCs running powerful ARM-based Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite CPUs with built in graphics and AI acceleration. As shown in the desktop screenshot at the top of this post I’ve been usin..
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This is a quick guide on how to program a Sipeed Tang Nano 9K (GOWIN GW1NR-9) using a fully open source toolchain for FPGA programming. I will use Arch Linux but you may find some of the required packages available in your distro’s package repository as well. Install Yosys and OpenFPGALoader from the official Arch repository with pacman : sudo pacman -S yosys openfpgaloader Now you will need to install nextpnr and Project Apic....
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Insights from Drew Houston on the Latent Space podcast about his founder journey, the challenges of leadership, and the evolution of "Founder Mode."
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Recently I needed to add some keyboard shortcuts to an app I was working on. I wrote up some example code and decided to write this article…
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I’m often asked what do I think the future for Postgres holds, and my answer has been mostly the same for probably 8 years now, maybe even longer. You see for Postgres itself stability and reliability is core. So where does the new stuff come from if it’s not in the stable core… extensions . Extensions within Postgres are unlike most other databases allowing you to modify or well extend the standard Postgres behavior. You can build oth....
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I’m often asked what do I think the future for Postgres holds, and my answer has been mostly the same for probably 8 years now, maybe even longer. You see for Postgres itself stability and reliability is core. So where does the new stuff come from if it’s not in the stable core… extensions . Extensions within Postgres are unlike most other databases allowing you to modify or well extend the standard Postgres behavior. You can build oth....
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During and after my time as the lead of Debezium , a widely used open-source platform for Change Data Capture (CDC) for a variety of database, I got repeatedly asked whether I’d be interested in creating a company around CDC. VCs, including wellknown household names, did and do reach out to me, pitching this idea.
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During and after my time as the lead of Debezium , a widely used open-source platform for Change Data Capture (CDC) for a variety of database, I got repeatedly asked whether I’d be interested in creating a company around CDC. VCs, including wellknown household names, did and do reach out to me, pitching this idea.
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How does a Python tool support all types of DataFrames and their various features? Could a lightweight library be used to add compatibility for newer formats like Polars or PyArrow? This week on the show, we speak with Marco Gorelli about his project, Narwhals.
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I like smart home stuff - in moderation. Some things end up too smart for my liking. So I got rid of my Homepods and got me a pair of KRK Classic 5 s. These studio monitors sound great, and are fantastic value for their price, but have one annoying feature: the built-in circuitry that shuts them down when there’s no audio playing. It makes sense in a studio context, but sometimes I just like to listen to music quietly, and the shutdown t..
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A speech by Theodore Letis Introduction I want to start off by telling you a little story that happened to me while I was in Berlin last week. I was there attending an academic conference at an ancient German university there, the International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, and I was addressing a session dealing with biblical manuscripts. Before I got to the meeting, I had to check into a very small, a obscure little ....
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A speech by Theodore Letis Introduction I want to start off by telling you a little story that happened to me while I was in Berlin last week. I was there attending an academic conference at an ancient German university there, the International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, and I was addressing a session dealing with biblical manuscripts. Before I got to the meeting, I had to check into a very small, a obscure little ....
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Heroku is a powerful general-purpose PaaS offering, but when combined with the broader Salesforce portfolio, it excels in unlocking and unifying customer data, regardless of its age, location, size, or structure. Salesforce customers turn to Heroku when they need to leverage high data volumes from sources such as consumer web or mobile apps or when […] The post How to Create an AI Agent With Heroku and Agentforce appeared first on Hero..
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Learn how to integrate comprehensive security testing into DevOps pipelines to protect your entire software development lifecycle.
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Snyk Analytics is a comprehensive new offering that lets AppSec leaders improve program health by tracking coverage, exposure, management, and prevention metrics.
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Snyk announces commitment to Service for America, bringing security education access to all
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Snyk partners with the Service for America Initiative to offer free cybersecurity education through Snyk Learn. Discover Snyk Learn’s free, hands-on training and workshops designed to equip developers and security teams with the skills to build secure applications. From coding security to Capture the Flag events, Snyk helps prepare students and professionals for the ever-evolving cyber landscape.
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Introduction: Welcome to Episode 2 of JSON for Engineers! In this episode, we explore the unique characteristics of JSON as a schema-less format, discussing both its benefits and challenges. You’ll learn how JSON’s flexibility, while enabling rapid development, can create issues when working with strongly-typed languages like Go. Additionally, we’ll cover the differences between JSON and more compact binary formats, and how to handle JSON’..
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Streamlined blogging: I'm sharing my thoughts faster than ever, with instant publishing to both my RSS feed and X account.
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Exploring the importance of thinking probabilistically when working with LLMs, this post highlights insights on effective eval methodologies, the quirks of model behavior, and practical tips for building robust evaluation processes that go beyond traditional testing.
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Reflections on Tyler Cowen's insights from a captivating interview with Rick Rubin, exploring Japan's economic evolution and my personal experiences that highlight the contrast between the country's past vibrancy and its current state.
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Victor V. Gurbo shares his new covers of Mr. Blue and I'm So Tired, with the story of how his covers came to be and background information about the original songs.
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Shit may flow downhill, but responsibility flows uphill
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Bob moved to New York City to work for me. He was working for one of our largest customers, a large hedge fund. Two weeks in, he was fired. What do we take away from this?
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Kara Swisher, a dean in digital and classical journalism, has an interesting article in the New York Magazine. As a witness and protagonist she recounts how in the last 30 years digital has eaten away at traditional media and how today, with the advent of AI, there is a risk of it happening all over again. Above all, she reasons why it is essential for journalists not to surrender their weapons and lawmakers to step in and finally harness a..
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Find out why developer experience is so crucial to Snyk and how we enable a more streamlined developer experience with our newest features.
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Exploring the Micropub spec and its integration with iA Writer, I’ve implemented a way to post directly to my blog from the app, embracing the #indieweb ethos along the way.
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In this blog post, I share a recent enhancement to my website's intake endpoint that utilizes LLM technology to automatically generate short descriptions for my blog posts. By integrating OpenAI's API, I can now effortlessly create engaging summaries whenever I upload new content. I discuss the process behind this implementation, its effectiveness with past examples, and my plans to add features for generating tags based on existing ones. D..
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Kristin Lauter and her colleagues at Facebook research recently announced a project to benchmark attacks against LWE. The announcement was on the post-quanum crypto mailing list. They state: “Our approach is motivated by the need to study more carefully the effect on security of using small secrets and small error in standardized LWE settings like Kyber and Homomorphic Encryption. In addition, as sparse secrets have been used in Homomorphic..
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Kristin Lauter and her colleagues at Facebook research recently announced a project to benchmark attacks against LWE. The announcement was on the post-quanum crypto mailing list. They state: “Our approach is motivated by the need to study more carefully the effect on security of using small secrets and small error in standardized LWE settings like Kyber and Homomorphic Encryption. In addition, as sparse secrets have been used in Homomorphic..
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