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Friendly DEF CON 31 reminder: The old Bally's in Vegas is now The Horseshoe - so that's the new hotel you're seeing in our room block. Same location, brand new glow-up.

Sidekiq is an amazing background job framework for Ruby with a long history of the best kind of minimalism - one of performance and succinctness. However, a downside of this is that long workflows built from dozens of background jobs queueing subsequent background jobs can be difficult to consistently design and maintain. We especially struggled with refactoring these types of structures since one has to read through all the code for the ....

There is more to it - ilearnt.com - 3 years ago - eng

There is more to it - ilearnt.com - 3 years ago - eng

I’ve been thinking about putting up my own blog/web journal for months, but I finally bit the bullet today. It’s fairly simple, quick and dirty, because I want to focus on delivering my ideas (and noodling on other projects) rather than obsessing about how this site works. If you’ve followed me for a long time, you might remember that “infinitelimit.net” was a “web-zine-blog” for developing games on Fantasy Consoles like the PICO-8 and ..

Minimalist News is the first LLM project that excites me but in a nervous way. Quoting the About page: We only publish significant news. To find them we use AI (ChatGPT-4) to read and analyze 1000 top news every day. For each article it estimates magnitude, scale, potential and credibility. Then we combine these estimates to get the final Significance score from 0 to 10. And now the best part: We’ll only send you the news scored 6.5 or..

This article spotlights several HTTP headers that impact security and suggests best practices for leveraging HTTP response headers to secure web applications.

I recently managed to get access to my Outlook email from Emacs. This took some doing as my university had disabled app passwords. I consider Outlook to be harmful , but inasmuch as companies and schools continue to enforce OAUTH-only authentication with email systems, it is good to find workarounds. This is how I set up email sending/receiving on my computer running macOS with DavMail . I also use mbsync (confusingly also known as is....

April was a busy month for me - I was still able to get plenty of reading in both for me and my kids.

I recently managed to get access to my Outlook email from Emacs. This took some doing as my university had disabled app passwords. I consider Outlook to be harmful , but inasmuch as companies and schools continue to enforce OAUTH-only authentication with email systems, it is good to find workarounds. This is how I set up email sending/receiving on my computer running macOS with DavMail . I also use mbsync (confusingly also known as is....



This blog post introduces a bookmarklet utilizing the EyeDropper API for quickly grabbing color information in Chromium-based desktop browsers. The bookmarklet simplifies color selection by opening the eyedropper tool and returning the chosen color's sRGBHex value in an alert box. A link to a related blog post about creating a similar Chrome extension is also included.

This blog post introduces a bookmarklet utilizing the EyeDropper API for quickly grabbing color information in Chromium-based desktop browsers. The bookmarklet simplifies color selection by opening the eyedropper tool and returning the chosen color's sRGBHex value in an alert box. A link to a related blog post about creating a similar Chrome extension is also included.

Sometimes people need a second chance. In the Simon Sinek interview with Leland Melvin they talk about giving a second chance to an employee and how they can sometimes turn out to be the best employee.

Sometimes people need a second chance. In the Simon Sinek interview with Leland Melvin they talk about giving a second chance to an employee and how they can sometimes turn out to be the best employee.


I moderate the “pleroma.envs.net” Akkoma instance on the Fediverse, as @Seirdy@pleroma.envs.net . I maintain four main blocklists for the Fediverse. Do not import them until you’ve read everything until the “receipts” section. I encourage blocklist skeptics to read the “receipts” sections, and to treat them as lists of reported content rather than importable blocklists. The pleroma.envs.net blocklist A large list of instances that I ....

It’s already May Woah, we have already surpassed the four-month mark for this year. A lot of things have happened in the last four months. In January, I was reassigned to my new team. Now, I’m working on our products’ Share and Review functionality. I’m back to Web Development + plus a little bit of UXP (proprietary Tech) that enables us to target our Desktop Apps with the same JS/TS code base Spent 40 days in Germany from March thro....

Fattura Elettronica for .NET v3.4.8 was released on NuGet today. The Fattura Elettronica project allows for the validation and de/serialization of electronic invoices following the Italian Revenue Agency standards. As with the previous one, this release also addresses a small undocumented behavior in validating the invoice. See the relevant ticket for the details.

We just released a new Snyk Partner Speak Video to showcase how Snyk and ServiceNow work together to provide a complete view of your application security posture.

Take advantage of process and popup features in the latest version of vim to supercharge your workflow by streamlining the linting operation without resorting a plugin.

In the previous post , I have discussed a huge difference between p-values evaluated via the R implementation of the Mann-Whitney U test between the exact and asymptotic implementations. This issue is not unique only to R, it is relevant for other statistical packages in other languages as well. In this post, we review this problem in the Python package SciPy .

In the previous post , I have discussed a huge difference between p-values evaluated via the R implementation of the Mann-Whitney U test between the exact and asymptotic implementations. This issue is not unique only to R, it is relevant for other statistical packages in other languages as well. In this post, we review this problem in the Python package SciPy .


Take advantage of process and popup features in the latest version of vim to supercharge your workflow by streamlining the linting operation without resorting a plugin.


Introduction This is part 2 of 3 of my review of the Petoi Bittle Robot Dog kit. This kit was provided to me for free by Petoi in return for…

In this series so far, we reduced the storage cost of key/value lookups by a lot . And in the last post we optimized the process of encoding the keys and values significantly. This is great, but the toughest challenge is ahead of us, because as much as encoding efficiency matters, the absolute cost we have is doing lookups. This is the most basic operation, which we do billions of times a second. Any amount of effort we’ll spend here....

Measuring things—and some poetry. Let me tell you a story about metrics. Stick with me: the results are more interesting than they sound. We’ll cover choosing what you measure, and what happens when you start acting on the results from your choice of metrics. Read article...

Measuring things—and some poetry. Let me tell you a story about metrics. Stick with me: the results are more interesting than they sound. We’ll cover choosing what you measure, and what happens when you start acting on the results from your choice of metrics. Read article...

Andy Weir is one of my favourite writers. I have read most of his books. However he claims he doesn’t like the writing process.

Andy Weir is one of my favourite writers. I have read most of his books. However he claims he doesn’t like the writing process.

Land and Sea is an essay in short story form written in 1942 by Carl Schmitt. Subtitled “A consideration of world history told to my daughter Anna,” this essay recounts and summarizes the geo-historical-legal evolution of our planet since the discovery of the New World. The originality of the work lies in the author’s identification of the Earth-Sea dichotomy as the driving force of human history. I went into this book knowing very littl..

A fascinating article surfaced on Nautilus last week. Mary-Jane Rubenstein, a professor of religion and science in society at Wesleyan University, shares her concerns about the technical strides and aspirations of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, the company’s mission to enable thousands of people to live on Mars, and the ethics of terraforming the planet to be more like Earth. What’s intriguing, though, is Rubenstein’s thoughts about the religious unde..

British or “quick” crosswords are significantly easier to construct than American or “full” ones - I tried orienting this in a 15x15 grid, but reduced it down to the puzzle you see here. This theme is cleverer than previous, but I’m concerned some of the clues are two obtuse for this format of crossword. 🖨️ Download a printable Version 🧩 Download the .puz file

In this article, we’ll create a new Java application and validate some example strings to demonstrate how JavaBean Validation works.

April 28, 2023: ChatGPT as a coauthor? With at least seven authorship credits on preprints and published scientific articles and multiple mentions in Acknowlegments and Methods sections, ChatGPT is taking the world by stormApril 17, 2023: Ulcerative Colitis triggered by breakthrough COVID-19 Even asymptomatic breakthrough COVID-19 can be associated with severe UCApril 10, 2023: Hearing Aid Research Given the limited research on OTC hearing ..

In chatgpt-shell updates , I highlighted dall-e-shell (a DALL-E Emacs shell), ob-chatgpt-shell (ChatGPT org babel support), and ob-dall-e-shell (DALL-E org babel support) were initially excluded from the chatgpt-shell MELPA submission while I worked out their split. That's now sorted and the packages are available on MELPA. Here's ob-chatgpt-shell and ob-dall-e-shell in action. Here's dall-e-shell.

Introduction: React, the popular JavaScript library for building user interfaces, offers several powerful features that make it a developer-friendly choice. One such feature is prop drilling, a technique used for passing data from a top-level component to a deeply nested component. In this blog post, we will explore the concept of prop drilling, understand its benefits and limitations, and provide an example using TypeScript to demonstrate ..

After reading Towards Maintainable Elixir by Saša Jurić and hearing about his famous Repo.transact in some of his talks, I decided it was time to explore this for myself. This post takes into account that you (the reader) are aware and know why and when to use Ecto.Multi . But for those unfamiliar, the TL;DR is you would use an Ecto.Multi when you want to perform multiple transaction that you want to be committed to the database in one....

The Linux socat command provides a powerful and flexible solution for bidirectional data transfer between network connections. In this article, we'll explore how to use the socat command in Linux and provide practical examples to help you get started.

I’m using this page as a way to track a running list of tech blog posts that have caught my interest this year. This is primarily meant to be a living document for my own purposes, but it will also eventually serve as a historical record and a reference for visitors like you! 👋 Tech Industry “Let It Fail” https://www.maxcountryman.com/articles/let-it-fail When working in an engineering organization of any scale past your immediate..

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