Breaking to Build: What Security Teaches Us About Openness by Kylie McDevitt Encouraging democratic participation with software by Vanessa Teague Neighbourhood-First Software: How we roll-out the open web without expecting everyone to self-host by Jade Ambrose
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Breaking to Build: What Security Teaches Us About Openness by Kylie McDevitt Encouraging democratic participation with software by Vanessa Teague Neighbourhood-First Software: How we roll-out the open web without expecting everyone to self-host by Jade Ambrose
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In 1971, three college roommates developed an educational computer game. Titled OREGON, it was a simulation of westward migration along the Oregon Trail and proved to be a hit among the students. One of the designers, Don Rawitsch, later carried a copy of the source code to his new employer, Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC). From 1975 to 1983, OREGON was MECC’s most popular courseware on their timeshare service. When MECC d....
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In 1971, three college roommates developed an educational computer game. Titled OREGON, it was a simulation of westward migration along the Oregon Trail and proved to be a hit among the students. One of the designers, Don Rawitsch, later carried a copy of the source code to his new employer, Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC). From 1975 to 1983, OREGON was MECC’s most popular courseware on their timeshare service. When MECC d....
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WINTERY KNIGHT :: New poll: 61% of white leftist women ages 18-44 agree with obstructing law enforcement
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winteryknight.com
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6 months ago
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eng
I was asked by a friend to write something about what’s going on with leftist white women aged 18-44 these days. Everyone has seen the videos of these women using violence against federal law enforcement as they go about their duties removing violent criminals who should not be inside the USA. In this post. I’ll … Continue reading New poll: 61% of white leftist women ages 18-44 agree with obstructing law enforcement →
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Mixed populations make correctly measuring price elasticity (the response of sales to price changes) difficult. In fact, standard methods often mis-price. In our latest screencast we show Bayesian methods and Stan can actually “un-mix” such populations and correctly infer price elasticity. This allows for much better price experiment outcomes.
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Introducing the Knowledge Forge: Where Raw Information Becomes Powerful Knowledge
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www.dsebastien.net
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6 months ago
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eng
I'm thrilled to announce the launch of my brand new store, the Knowledge Forge. Here's what it represents and a special launch offer for you!
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Our latest report highlights the urgent need for machine-speed defense as AI shifts from a tool to an autonomous actor in the face of automated cyberattacks. Learn the key strategies for leaders to bridge the visibility gap and implement technical governance in the age of AI agents.
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Building Production-Ready Docker Images: A Multi-Stage Build Guide
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andrewodendaal.com
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6 months ago
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eng
I’ve shipped Docker images to production for years now, and the single biggest improvement I’ve made wasn’t some fancy orchestration tool or a new CI platform. It was learning to write proper multi-stage Dockerfiles. My CI pipeline used to spend 20 minutes rebuilding a bloated 2GB image every push. After switching to multi-stage builds, that image dropped to 45MB and builds finished in under 3 minutes. That’s not a typo.
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Christianity and masculinity :: The Apex Fallacy – Rooting out job demographic myths and understanding degree and job hypergamy
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deepstrength.wordpress.com
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6 months ago
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eng
Jack briefly mentioned this in his latest post Church-wide. but I wanted to look at US demographics and generate a pyramid that would help identify what this actually looks like in real life for most men. CEOs – Women Business … Continue reading →
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I first encountered NATS a couple years back while experimenting with OpenFaaS. If you’re not familiar, OpenFaaS is a serverless functions framework that uses NATS as its default message queue for async function invocations. At the time, I noted NATS as “that fast pub/sub thing” and moved on. It seemed like a lightweight messaging broker, but not something I needed to dig into. What brought NATS back onto my radar was the Jepsen analysis pu..
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From AsyncAPI to Service Catalog: Tracing Event Flows with Backstage
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james-carr.org
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6 months ago
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eng
In my previous post , I explored AsyncAPI as a way to document event-driven services. But documentation sitting in YAML files only gets you so far. The real power comes when you can answer questions like: “Which services consume the OrderCreated event?” “What happens if I change this Avro schema?” “Who owns the service that publishes to this Kafka topic?” This is where Backstage enters the picture—Spotify’s open-source develope..
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Screen Sharing with niri, Including Specific Regions with OBS
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nickjanetakis.com
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6 months ago
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eng
niri has some of the best features I've seen for seamless screen sharing such as full monitor, specific window or dynamic casting.
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Over the past year, I've dramatically reduced the number of scripts in my package.json files. What started as a gradual shift has become a deliberate practice: minimize abstractions, maximize clarity. This post explores why direct CLI usage beats script wrappers for transparency, flexibility, and AI-friendliness.
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OpenStreetMap Dark: The community favorite, now optimized for the night
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www.maptiler.com
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6 months ago
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eng
Experience the classic OpenStreetMap style in a dark mode. It offers cartography with high-contrast icons, colours, and typography to ensure perfect clarity against the dark background.
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ACM not only hides publicly funded NSF research behind a firewall, even citing it is a premium feature.
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Herewith another small software tool that I built because I needed it, and because I couldn’t find anything that already addressed that need. ID3Minimiser minimises and simplifies the ID3 metadata found in MP3 audio files. This is the information that describes attributes like the album name, track name, genre, track number, etc. Point ID3Minimiser at … Continue reading "An MP3 Metadata Minimiser"
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Reading about lambda calculus led to an interest in how concurrent processes could be explicated formally. I read Concurrent Lambda Calculus with Futures by Niehren, Schwinghammer (cool name), and Smolka. Futures seem considerably nicer than some of the synchronization primitives that I'm familiar with elsewhere. Looking further afield, I found papers and articles on describing various process calculi. Most date from the late 90s to early 2..
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I recently joined a call through CTO Craft (thoroughly recommended) about the path a CTO cal follow to becoming a founder.
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I recently joined a call through CTO Craft (thoroughly recommended) about the path a CTO cal follow to becoming a founder.
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Ever since getting my new monitor (a Dell U3225QE — a nice IPS LCD after some OLED issues) I’ve been having problems with it not…
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Evaluating LLM Agents: Confidence Through Pre-Production Testing
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www.codemancers.com
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6 months ago
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eng
How to design practical pre-production testing for LLM systems—using datasets, evaluators, and experiments to catch regressions before shipping.
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Visualizing K-Way Merge: An Interactive Guide to Database Sorting
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justinhj.github.io
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6 months ago
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Photo by Aleksandr Galichkin on Unsplash In this post, inspired by a video by Tigerbeetle engineers Tobias Ziegler (@toziegler) and Alex Kladov (@matklad), I'll walk through four algorithms for merging multiple sorted runs of data; a problem that shows up in modern database internals. You will be able to use an interactive web application to explore and understand each one. The title image isn't just a pretty picture of tenni....
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I call my LLM agents “Oompa-Loompas”. It started as a fun way to refer to them, especially when talking to non-technical people. They normally just know “ChatGPT”, but I use Claude Code, Codex, and a bunch of others. At some point it felt weird to keep saying “ChatGPT” when that’s not even what I’m using. So I needed a term that covered all of them. Oompa-Loompas. Now I realize the metaphor goes deeper than I thought.
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The most conservative way to build a career as a software developer is 1) to be practical and effective at problem solving but 2) not to treat all existing code as a black box. 1 means that as a conservative developer you should generally use PostgreSQL or MySQL (or whatever existing database), Rails or .NET (or whatever existing framework), and adapt code from Stack Overflow or LLMs. 2 means that you're curious and work over time to better....
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AI wheels coming off < Do you remember people loudly proclaiming we’ve built a sentient intelligence ? Because you should. Those people should be remembered as the first line of “intellectuals” that has fallen to the onslaught of AI propaganda. AI is a marketing term and in the last few years it has become a test, just like NFTs, testing your resilience to corporate propaganda. 'Slightly' is doing a lot of heavy lifting he..
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