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Edmund Lawall must have felt cursed. He’d brought his family to New York in the late 1800s to carry on his father’s business as a pharmacist, but fate—or perhaps the city itself—seemed determined to drive him back out again. Lawall’s health had been in decline since their arrival, and his wife’s kidney disease had worsened, despite all of the tinctures and patent medicines available to his turn-of-the-century expertise. Not long after that,....
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Preston Thorpe : I’m very excited to announce that I have recently joined Turso as a software engineer. For many in the field, including myself, getting to work on databases and solve unique challenges with such a talented team would be a dream job, but it is that much more special to me because of my unusual and unlikely circumstances. As difficult as it might be to believe, I am currently incarcerated and I landed this job from my cel..
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If only DESQview/X had been launched when Quarterdeck starting talking about it
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liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org
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11 months ago
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eng
A response to an HN comment ... The PC press had rumours of Quarterdeck's successor to DESQview, Desqview/X, from around 1987-1988. That is roughly when I entered the computer industry. Dv/X was remarkable tech, and if it had shipped earlier could have changed the course of the industry. Sadly, it came too late. Dv/X was rumoured then, but the state of the art was OS/2 1.1, released late 1988 and the first version of OS/2 with a GU....
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In 2001, The Cure released Greatest Hits, the compilation with which they ended their contract with Fiction Records. The first edition of the anthology was accompanied by Acoustic Hits, an acoustic reinterpretation of the band’s hits, including Boys Don’t Cry, Friday I’m in Love, A Forest, Just Like Heaven, Lullaby, and Lovesong, one of the simplest and greatest love songs of all time (just listen to the bass line). The bonus disc was not r..
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Scan your AI-generated code from Cursor using Model Context Protocol (MCP)
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snyk.io
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11 months ago
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eng
Secure your AI-generated code from Cursor in real-time with Snyk's CLI Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. Detect vulnerabilities and accelerate secure development without compromising agility.
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Secure and accelerate your adoption of AI coding with pre-screened auto-fixes and autonomous code security for modern, developer-loved SAST.
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I have some thoughts on the Google Cloud’s latest global outage! The incident report contains some interesting nuggets, if you look deep enough. For the most part it’s a pretty typical failure for a complicated distributed system. Google’s service for authorizing inbound API calls was missing handling for an edge case triggered while parsing empty configuration values, and hitting this case causes the service to panic and crash. When Googl....
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I have some thoughts on the Google Cloud’s latest global outage! The incident report contains some interesting nuggets, if you look deep enough. For the most part it’s a pretty typical failure for a complicated distributed system. Google’s service for authorizing inbound API calls was missing handling for an edge case triggered while parsing empty configuration values, and hitting this case causes the service to panic and crash. When Googl....
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I deleted my Bluesky account. I didn’t follow anyone anyway, and I only used it to repost content from my website. Being almost mainstream now, I found Bluesky to have the same dynamics as other mass-adopted social networks: controversies, lots of ego-hunting, vanity fairs, sterile debates, witticisms, and everything else that doesn’t interest me. Having left Twitter a while ago and Facebook a long time before that, I’m left with Masto..
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I'll start with me LAN --> My russian VPS server running OpenVPN--> ( TOR ) --> onion SSH Tunnel to hacked VPS / Host from RDPs I brought --> Destination Host But to be honest sometimes I just VPN + TOR Are you willing to leak yours?
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I think that there is a serious issue in how non-fiction books (as well as scientific articles) are distributed. Readers of books have no means to verify integrity of books. A book is a product, and each product has metrics of success: 1. count of distributed copies 2. amount of money earned 3. familiarity of population with the ideas within the book 4. acceptance of population the ideas within the book 5. recognisability of the title ....
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Comment on Arduino “warning: internal error: out of range error” by Norman Dunbar
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blog.qiqitori.com
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11 months ago
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eng
Thank you for this small by useful hint. I was having exactly this problem, in Assembly, whenever I had odd size text data in the PROGMEM. Cheers, Norm.
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Scaling Python Web Applications With Kubernetes and Karpenter
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realpython.com
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11 months ago
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eng
What goes into scaling a web application today? What are resources for learning and practicing DevOps skills? This week on the show, Calvin Hendryx-Parker is back to discuss the tools and infrastructure for autoscaling web applications with Kubernetes and Karpenter.
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The Block, a home renovation/construction competition TV show from Australia, is for my money the most compelling reality series. It’s full of melodrama and obviously over the top behavior from the contestants but because there are so many episodes (generally at least 45 and often 60+) per season you get so much more of the … Continue reading The Block (Australia)
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There’s a LOT of Role permissions to comb through for your Discord server, and every community has its own needs. In this article, we’ll give some general guidance on each permission to help you decide what works best.
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It has been over a year since I released Voyage of the Marigold, my similar-but-completely-legally-distinct homage to old-school Star Trek - high time for a retrospective post mortem. This post...
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It’s become exhausting how many different ways I have to remember to make a link in editors: Select text, ⌘-K, paste link Select text, paste link over top Type [markdown](link syntax) ... Of course, these are all mutually independent, so half the time I try one, hit ⌘-Z, then try again. Anyhow. Gripe.
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I’ve been doing “agentic coding” for some time, and well, it’s weird. On stable, mature technology (in my case, the C#/.NET stack), it is beneficial, as it significantly boosts productivity. But, there’s a bit, and that’s that I’m not programming anymore, or very little now, and I love coding. I love entering “the zone” and solving complex problems, one at a time. It’s always been my superpower. Will I still have fun in the future now tha..
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The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times… The best moments usually occur if a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile. – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi ( via )
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The links today include lessons from an angry meeting, Internet artifacts, the developer tooling industry, the length of media and a writing tip.
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The links today include lessons from an angry meeting, Internet artifacts, the developer tooling industry, the length of media and a writing tip.
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Configure Tailwind 4 with Vite in an NPM Workspace: The Complete Guide
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nx.dev
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11 months ago
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eng
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Quick shout-out to Consent-O-Matic ( Chrome , Firefox , Safari , Edge ). It automatically clicks through all the silly “consent” banners. Per EU law, every website must ask me for my consent to get stabbed . Er, I mean, tracked . Naturally, I would prefer to be able make my preference on this matter extremely clear to all websites, applications, and vendors - but apparently, this remains a debatable matter . I feel powerless..
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tl;dr I migrated from a Raspberry Pi 5 to a mini PC powered by an AMD Ryzen 6600H with PCIe 4.0 x4 — running my full monitoring stack: Grafana, Prometheus, Mimir, Promtail, and Loki. After BIOS-level optimizations, the system now consumes just 10–12W at idle. The entire stack runs on Alpine Linux directly on bare metal — no Docker, no virtual machines. The configuration remained unchanged: no data loss, and no major reconfiguration w..
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tl;dr I migrated from a Raspberry Pi 5 to a mini PC powered by an AMD Ryzen 6600H with PCIe 4.0 x4 — running my full monitoring stack: Grafana, Prometheus, Mimir, Promtail, and Loki. After BIOS-level optimizations, the system now consumes just 10–12W at idle. The entire stack runs on Alpine Linux directly on bare metal — no Docker, no virtual machines. The configuration remained unchanged: no data loss, and no major reconfiguration w..
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Have you noticed that bubbles in conventional beers go up, but that they apparently go down in stout beers? This goes against conventional wisdom, but is quite simply explained in the end: there is a convection due to the shape of the glass. Larger at the top leads to an
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Today, my blog turned 18 years old! I published my first blog entry on June 18, 2007 and have since published over 300 posts . The first blog entry, like most of my others, was about systematic troubleshooting and performance optimization of various (Oracle) database workloads and especially their touchpoint with underlying Unix/Linux operating systems, storage and network I/O. The articles covering interactions between multiple ..
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