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For years, I've been chasing the illusion of the so-called "Smart Home". Thermostats and vacuums. Doorbells and cameras. Light bulbs and switches. Garage door openers and bird feeders. Stoves and grills. Sleep mats and of course, bathroom scales. Fucking bathroom scales. Oh, and the stove I've never been able to get setup. Sure they add a level of convenience, but also, how necessary is any of it? Considering how long humans have ....
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I haven’t posted anything here in almost 3 years. The main reason is that because after a grueling job search in 2024, I lucked into joining a Big Tech / FAANG company as a senior software engineer. I felt like this was the opportunity of a lifetime, and didn’t want to jeopardize it with some … Continue reading I’m Back. Here’s my life story in a nutshell
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When information was imperfect and events were still unfolding, how did journalists capture the gravity of the moment? This curated list features historic news articles that reported on pivotal events - moments that, in hindsight, undeniably reshaped our world.
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New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, with Sol Cesto and People of Note - 2026-04-11 Edition
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boilingsteam.com
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1 month ago
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Between 2026-04-04 and 2026-04-11 we selected 10 newly released games that are rated as Verified or Playable on the Steam Deck, and meeting specific criteria in terms of user ratings. It’s a good week for releases, with Sol Cesto being a great roguelite game where you direct your heroes against impossible odds. It has a very unique art style. There’s also People of Note from Annapurna which looks like a delightful mix of turn-based RPG and ..
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New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, with Sol Cesto and People of Note - 2026-04-11 Edition
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boilingsteam.com
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1 month ago
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Between 2026-04-04 and 2026-04-11 we selected 10 newly released games that are rated as Verified or Playable on the Steam Deck, and meeting specific criteria in terms of user ratings. It’s a good week for releases, with Sol Cesto being a great roguelite game where you direct your heroes against impossible odds. It has a very unique art style. There’s also People of Note from Annapurna which looks like a delightful mix of turn-based RPG and ..
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Island of Hearts is a lackluster dating FMV, developed by Titan Digital Media and 4Divinity (who is also the publisher). It did work on Steam Deck with a few caveats, but I only got a black screen on CachyOS. FMV (full-motion video) games have popping-up on my Steam suggestions for a while. Some appears to have the production value of Netflix series, and mixing styles and genres with plenty of minigames. I don’t think I saw anything release....
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Island of Hearts is a lackluster dating FMV, developed by Titan Digital Media and 4Divinity (who is also the publisher). It did work on Steam Deck with a few caveats, but I only got a black screen on CachyOS. FMV (full-motion video) games have popping-up on my Steam suggestions for a while. Some appears to have the production value of Netflix series, and mixing styles and genres with plenty of minigames. I don’t think I saw anything release....
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Manage your own ludus, and bring your gladiators to combat across the fantasy realm of Bloodgrounds. A turn-base combat RPG developed by Exordium Games, and published by Daedalic Entertainment. It runs well on Linux and Steam Deck.
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Manage your own ludus, and bring your gladiators to combat across the fantasy realm of Bloodgrounds. A turn-base combat RPG developed by Exordium Games, and published by Daedalic Entertainment. It runs well on Linux and Steam Deck.
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I built a full LLM Wiki system inside the Obsidian Starter Kit: 7 skills, a Wiki Curator agent, 70+ articles in one session. OSK v4 is coming with 360+ AI skills, agents with persistent memory, and LLM Wikis. Plus a new book, Claude Code updates, and 6,000+ subscribers.
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99.99% availability sounds great until you realize that’s 4 minutes and 19 seconds of downtime per month. Four minutes. That’s barely enough time to get paged, open your laptop, authenticate to the VPN, and find the right dashboard. You haven’t even started diagnosing anything yet. I’ve watched teams commit to four-nines SLOs because someone in a leadership meeting said “we need to be best in class.” No capacity planning. No discussion ab..
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Hacking a Cheap PIR Night Light Into Something Actually Useful
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www.atomic14.com
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1 month ago
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I’ve been picking up a whole bunch of these motion sensitive night lights and, let’s just say, they haven’t been great. The range is poor, the battery life is nowhere near the advertised “charge it four times a year”, and the timeout is so short it’s not even enough time to get to the toilet. I thought it might be interesting to crack one open and see if I could improve it. I’ve got both flavours — round ones and oval ones — and ....
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Hacking a Cheap PIR Night Light Into Something Actually Useful
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www.atomic14.com
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1 month ago
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I’ve been picking up a whole bunch of these motion sensitive night lights and, let’s just say, they haven’t been great. The range is poor, the battery life is nowhere near the advertised “charge it four times a year”, and the timeout is so short it’s not even enough time to get to the toilet. I thought it might be interesting to crack one open and see if I could improve it. I’ve got both flavours — round ones and oval ones — and ....
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Whenever a new technology shows up, the conversation quickly splits into camps. There are the people who reject it outright, and there are the people who seem to adopt it with religious enthusiasm. For more than a year now, no topic has been more polarising than AI coding agents. What I keep noticing is that a lot of the criticism directed at these tools is perfectly legitimate, but it often comes from people without a meaningful amount ....
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let's talk about embedded languages and language standards that are optimized for embedded usage i'm talking tiny c, mruby, micropython, lua, ETC i'm trying to school myself on embedded languages so I can truly have a solid toolkit for using the Ox64 by pine
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Get Oracle Partition High Values as VARCHAR2 types instead of LONG in Oracle 19c and earlier
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tanelpoder.com
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1 month ago
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Here’s a little PL/SQL function create_partition_high_value_func.sql that allows you to write SQL queries against data dictionary for partition maintenance automation and examination operations, by converting the cumbersome LONG-datatype to VARCHAR2 on the fly. This approach works also on Oracle 19c and earlier versions. It runs a nested SQL query inside PL/SQL for every (owner, table, partition_name) tuple that your SQL passes into the..
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Get Oracle Partition High Values as VARCHAR2 types instead of LONG in Oracle 19c and earlier
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tanelpoder.com
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1 month ago
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Here’s a little PL/SQL function create_partition_high_value_func.sql that allows you to write SQL queries against data dictionary for partition maintenance automation and examination operations, by converting the cumbersome LONG-datatype to VARCHAR2 on the fly. This approach works also on Oracle 19c and earlier versions. It runs a nested SQL query inside PL/SQL for every (owner, table, partition_name) tuple that your SQL passes into the..
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From Reddit I learn that a new generation of LLM bots is getting really really good at finding exploitable vulnerabilities in large C codebases, and making exploits for them. Good. Maybe it will result in the destruction of the entire C-based software industry before the LLM industry self-immolates. Slight snag: it may take human civilisation with it. I am vaguely working towards some kind of overall Liam's Theory of Software thin....
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What goes into managing a major project? What techniques can you employ for a project that's in crisis? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week with another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects.
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