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Hello from Boulder, Colorado - where we've been dealing with power outages due to high wind. Alas, as I lost power in Boulder, my apartment in San Francisco also lost power. I knew because my Mac Mini home datacenter went offline.
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I recently went back and read Ken Thompson’s lecture from the 1984 Turing Awards. The basic idea is well known, but still very interesting: even if you carefully audit a program’s source code and convince yourself it’s clean, that doesn’t mean the resulting binary can be trusted. If the compiler itself is compromised, it can silently inject malicious behavior during compilation, regardless of what the source says. Thompson even shows and ex....
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One CLI/MCP front-end for Tavily, Brave, Linkup, and self-hosted SearXNG. Tries free providers first, falls back to paid ones, tracks credits.
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One CLI/MCP front-end for Tavily, Brave, Linkup, and self-hosted SearXNG. Tries free providers first, falls back to paid ones, tracks credits.
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Multiple people on the field expect AGI within the next 5 – 10 years. How will that affect our lives? It feels like it is worth pausing for a moment and wondering. This is speculative. I only hope it will make some readers annoyed enough to form their own thoughts. AGI won’t be selfish. Simply […]
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I walked into a budget meeting expecting the usual spreadsheet tour: what went up, what went down, and where we should trim next year. We did that. But in the middle of the call, something else surfaced: we were debating how decisions should happen, not just what the numbers were. Someone suggested a simple rule: any spend above a threshold should go to a committee for approval. It was well-intentioned, practical, and it looked good o....
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Here we are at the end of another year, so I will share again the two books I enjoyed the most. Before starting, here are the links to similar posts covering the previous years: This time, after thoughtful consideration, I finally included one Portuguese book. It may not be that interesting for an international audience, […]
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WINTERY KNIGHT :: Good news: 60% of young Britons planning to go to church for Christmas
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winteryknight.com
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6 months ago
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Well. if there ever was a good time for good news. it’s Christmas time. Now is the time for everyone to remember that our biggest problem – our separation from God problem – has already been solved. because God stepped into history. And if you live in a country that is going in the wrong … Continue reading Good news: 60% of young Britons planning to go to church for Christmas →
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New 3d Printer, A new BITX* Release, and it’s almost 2026 already!
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miscdotgeek.com
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6 months ago
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Hi. Remember Me? I’m the guy that hasn’t blogged in all of 2025. Yeah, that guy. 2025 has been a huge year. I now own my own home. I have a shed to tear down, another shed to move. I fixed up one of my trucks. I bought a newer (2012) car. I got health … Continue reading The post New 3d Printer, A new BITX* Release, and it’s almost 2026 already! appeared first on MiscDotGeek .
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At a client I currently work for, we started a small code club a few months ago. The idea was simple: regularly try something outside our day-to-day stack. I began doing the challenges with Erlang, then moved to Elixir. For December, instead of making up a new monthly challenge, we decided to just do Advent of Code. It fits well: small problems, no long-term commitment, and plenty of room to experiment.
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🎄 Advent of EIP Day 6: Canonical Data Model & Message Transformation
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james-carr.org
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6 months ago
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Message Translation, Content Enricher, Content Filter, Canonical Data Model - these patterns don’t get as much attention as the flashier routing patterns, but they’re where the real work happens. Every integration I’ve built has needed at least one of them. When systems talk to each other, they rarely agree on data formats. Your e-commerce platform calls it a “customer,” your CRM calls it a “contact,” and your billing system calls it an “ac..
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Among the 50 books I read in 2025, I recommend the following 11 non-fiction and 7 fiction works (complete list here ). These were the 18 books that I rated a four or five out of five stars. Non-fictionOn Writing Well by William Zinsser This is the third or fourth time I've read this book and it has stood the test of time. It's been a few years since I last read it so it was a good reminder that a lot of the things I believe and tell peopl....
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Having an email address especially one that is publicly announced like mine, you should expect spam emails. I generally don’t get many but this one was stupid and funny in my opinion so it deserved a short post about it. The TLDR of the story is people trying to make you pay tonnes of money to supposedly purchase a Chinese version of your domain name before another company who is already interested in purchasing it gets it which can potenti..
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In today's episode I complain about how web development has not been fun for a while, the excesses of modern development patterns, and cargo cults following huge enterprise patterns for a 5 person teams. We touch on the RAM/SSD crisis and how it may have the potential
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Hey, just wanteda let y'all know we'll be at 39C3 (39th Chaos Communication Congress) this year. There's been some back n forth on whether we'd wanna go or not, I mean, we didn't wanna catch Covid or the flu or whatever there, n we're not all that interested in computer touching, but well, there's gonna be non-computer-touching related thingsa do, like watching science talks or doing various volunteer work, n regarding diseases, it's been p..
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Another batch of links, coming your way! While I’m a little sad this weekly didn’t follow on the heels of #29, I can’t complain too much. I spent some time working on a new side project! I’m working on my own little algorithmic newsfeed prioritized by what I think is most important. I subscribe to a ton of RSS feeds that all publish on different frequencies. I want to make sure that infrequent publishers are never drowned out by more freq....
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'Feuerwehr‑Bedarfsplan der Verbandsgemeinde Lauterecken-Wolfstein' an Verbandsgemeindeverwaltung Lauterecken-Wolfstein
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fragdenstaat.de
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6 months ago
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Den Feuerwehr‑Bedarfsplan der Verbandsgemeinde Lauterecken-Wolfstein einschließlich aller Anlagen, Fortschreibungen und zugrunde liegenden Datengrundlagen. Falls derzeit kein Feuerwehr‑Bedarfsplan vorliegt, bitte ich um Mitteilung, - ob ein solcher Plan erstellt werden soll, - ob sich ein Bedarfsplan aktuell in der Erarbeitung befindet, - und, falls ja, in welchem Stadium sich der Prozess befindet
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In the previous post , I introduced the PropertySphere sample application (you can also watch the video introducing it here ). In this post, I want to go over how we build a Telegram bot for this application, so Renters can communicate with the application, check their status, raise issues, and even pay their bills. I’m using Telegram here because the process of creating a new bot is trivial, the API is really fun to work with, and it ....
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In the previous post , I introduced the PropertySphere sample application (you can also watch the video introducing it here ). In this post, I want to go over how we build a Telegram bot for this application, so Renters can communicate with the application, check their status, raise issues, and even pay their bills. I’m using Telegram here because the process of creating a new bot is trivial, the API is really fun to work with, and it ....
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After playing oscilloscope music the next obvious question that came up was: can we make it run Doom ? Turns out a couple of people already did that , even in different ways . The last link is just running normal Doom on a modern LCD osci, which seems a bit boring. Even more involved is modifying the game engine to output vectors, which has been done here or here, for Quake . For this project I copied the circuit from the XYZ c....
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After playing oscilloscope music the next obvious question that came up was: can we make it run Doom ? Turns out a couple of people already did that , even in different ways . The last link is just running normal Doom on a modern LCD osci, which seems a bit boring. Even more involved is modifying the game engine to output vectors, which has been done here or here, for Quake . For this project I copied the circuit from the XYZ c....
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If you were using a Windows computer in the ‘90s or early 2000s, half of your applications were created with Visual Basic 6. But all good things must come to an end, and when Microsoft officially ended support for the VB6 IDE in 2008 an era was concluded. Sic transit gloria mundi. But VB6 applications […] The post How to use the Visual Basic 6 and VBA Parser appeared first on Strumenta .
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Rediscovering a 2021 podcast on Python, .NET, and open source
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nicolaiarocci.com
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6 months ago
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Yesterday, the kids came home for the Christmas holidays. Marco surprised me by telling me that on his flight from Brussels, he discovered and listened to “my podcast” on Spotify. I was stunned. I didn’t remember ever recording a podcast, even though I’ve given a few interviews here and there over the years. During my usual morning walk today, I went to look for it, and there it was , an interview I had done in 2021 that I had completely..
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Rediscovering a 2021 podcast on Python, .NET, and open source
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nicolaiarocci.com
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6 months ago
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Yesterday, the kids came home for the Christmas holidays. Marco surprised me by telling me that on his flight from Brussels, he discovered and listened to “my podcast” on Spotify. I was stunned. I didn’t remember ever recording a podcast, even though I’ve given a few interviews here and there over the years. During my usual morning walk today, I went to look for it, and there it was , an interview I had done in 2021 that I had completely..
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In an era where any password or key can be lost - a solution that requires no keys seems extremely attractive.
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Similar to what I wrote for Ubuntu 18.04 , here is how to setup an LXC container on Debian forky. Installing the required packages Start by installing the necessary packages on the host: apt install lxc libvirt-clients debootstrap Network setup Ensure the veth kernel module is loaded by adding the following to /etc/modules-load.d/lxc-local.conf: veth and then loading it manually for now: modprobe veth Enable IPv4 forwarding by p....
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🎄 Advent of EIP Day 5: Message Types & Event Payload Strategies
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james-carr.org
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6 months ago
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Today we’re answering the question, “Should I name my event OrderPlaced or PlaceOrder?” We’re going to be getting more precise about something we’ve been pretty casual about: what exactly is a message? We’ve been tossing events around without much ceremony. But not all messages are alike. Some carry data. Some request actions. Some announce facts. Understanding these distinctions (and how much data events should carry) shapes how your syste..
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I built this simply n8n workflow mainly for myself, it lets me automatically cross-post my (or any other user) new posts from Hacker News to my (or any other) Mastodon instance (using the title from Hacker News + the URL). Every 10 minutes the workflow checks a Hacker News user feed and, when it finds a new post, it publishes the latest one on Mastodon, making sure it is published only once.
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I built this simply n8n workflow mainly for myself, it lets me automatically cross-post my (or any other user) new posts from Hacker News to my (or any other) Mastodon instance (using the title from Hacker News + the URL). Every 10 minutes the workflow checks a Hacker News user feed and, when it finds a new post, it publishes the latest one on Mastodon, making sure it is published only once.
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The Los Angeles Review of Books on The Bovadium Fragments , JRR Tolkien’s posthumous complete work, which was just recently published. Anyone who has read Tolkien’s letters will know that he is at his funniest when filled with rage, and The Bovadium Fragments is a work brimming with Tolkien’s fury—specifically, ire over mankind’s obsession with motor vehicles. Tolkien’s anger is expressed through a playful satire told from the perspe..
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The Los Angeles Review of Books on The Bovadium Fragments , JRR Tolkien’s posthumous complete work, which was just recently published. Anyone who has read Tolkien’s letters will know that he is at his funniest when filled with rage, and The Bovadium Fragments is a work brimming with Tolkien’s fury—specifically, ire over mankind’s obsession with motor vehicles. Tolkien’s anger is expressed through a playful satire told from the perspe..
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