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I’m encountering a somewhat controversial dilemma…in a few words: I can either write about what I’ve done, or I can do something. Let me put it this way: I’m often caught between doing (new) things and writing about them. Honestly, I’d rather dive into solving problems and making improvements than document what I’ve done, due to this, as soon as I solve one problem, my mind jumps to a next thing, which means I rarely stop to take my time ..
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After 14 Years of Cantarell, GNOME is Testing a New Default Font
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www.omglinux.com
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2 years ago
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When GNOME 47 is released later this year it may come with a new desktop font. Well, not new new, so don’t get too excited. We’re talking new to GNOME,... The post After 14 Years of Cantarell, GNOME is Testing a New Default Font is from OMG! Linux and reproduction without permission is, like, a nope.
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Before I read The Man from the Future by Ananyo Bhattacharya, I only knew about John von Neumann in two contexts: that computers use the von Neumann architecture, and that he appeared in a story about a mathematical problem I … Continue reading →
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Introduction Link to heading I’ve probably spent way too much time writing about cherry trees already (see Growing a cherry tree on a north-facing balcony 2019-2021 ). That said, I’d like to quickly jot down a few more notes, before hopefully wrapping up the topic once and for all:-) 2022 Link to heading We had a new roof installed in 2022, which was a big job involving scaffolding all the way up both sides of th..
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This year has seen a resurgence in really high quality systems programming meetups. Munich Database Meetup , Berlin Systems Group , SF Distributed Systems Meetup , NYC Systems , Bengaluru Systems , to name a few. This post summarizes a bit of disappointing recent tech meetup history, the new trend of excellent systems programming meetups, and ends with some encouragement and guidance for running your own systems programming events. ....
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Introduction Link to heading I’ve probably spent way too much time writing about cherry trees already (see Growing a cherry tree on a north-facing balcony 2019-2021 ). That said, I’d like to quickly jot down a few more notes, before hopefully wrapping up the topic once and for all:-) 2022 Link to heading We had a new roof installed in 2022, which was a big job involving scaffolding all the way up both sides of th..
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back to Smart Home overview A while ago my power net company installed new smart power meters, specifically the Iskra MT681 . It has a standardized infrared interface to get some data from it. There are different designs available to attach a microcontroller, both open-source and commercial. I've gone the lazy route and bought one from eBay . Unfortunately the meter is mounted in the basemet of my apartment building, too ....
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back to Smart Home overview A while ago my power net company installed new smart power meters, specifically the Iskra MT681 . It has a standardized infrared interface to get some data from it. There are different designs available to attach a microcontroller, both open-source and commercial. I've gone the lazy route and bought one from eBay . Unfortunately the meter is mounted in the basemet of my apartment building, too ....
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Shell Spell: Extracting and Propagating Multiple Values With jq
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www.morling.dev
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2 years ago
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In my day job at Decodable , I am currently working with Terraform to provision some cloud infrastructure for an upcoming hands-on lab. Part of this set-up is a Postgres database on Amazon RDS, which I am creating using the Terraform AWS modules . Now, once my database was up and running, I wanted to extract two dynamically generated values from Terraform: the random password created for the root user, and the database host URL. On my way..
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Shell Spell: Extracting and Propagating Multiple Values With jq
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www.morling.dev
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2 years ago
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In my day job at Decodable , I am currently working with Terraform to provision some cloud infrastructure for an upcoming hands-on lab. Part of this set-up is a Postgres database on Amazon RDS, which I am creating using the Terraform AWS modules . Now, once my database was up and running, I wanted to extract two dynamically generated values from Terraform: the random password created for the root user, and the database host URL. On my way..
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Surrounded By Paperclip Maximisers (Issue #171) 2024-07-06 12:45:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith This week’s newsletter is out! In this week’s edition: US EU French and UK Politics, music industry & AI, money problems in developing nations Issue details: Title: Surrounded By Paperclip Maximisers Issue: 171 Page: issue webpage Another awesome issue of the newsletter. #
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This is kind of a followup post to Using a Mac Mini as a bedroom PC for Kodi, Moonlight and YouTube . It's been nearly a year since I set up a Mac Mini as my one-stop-shop for all multimedia related tasks in the bedroom. It's generally worked well, and both streaming media, games, general web browsing and PC usage has been smooth. You're rolling around in bed, playing video games, watching YouTube, or maybe the freshest episode of Sm....
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Ep. 2: Mastering LLM Integration with Go and Prediction Guard
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www.ardanlabs.com
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2 years ago
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Introduction: Welcome to Episode 2 of our Intro to Generative AI series! In this segment, Daniel dives into the practical aspects of working with large language models (LLMs) using the Go programming language and the Prediction Guard API. Accessing LLMs: Learn how to set up and connect to hosted models using the Go client for Prediction Guard. Prompt Engineering: Discover how to create effective prompts and configure parameters like ..
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Reading code is a Skill (with a capital letter, yes) that is really important for developers. You cannot be a good developer without it. Today I want to talk about one aspect of this. The ability to go into an unfamiliar codebase and extract one piece of information out. The idea is that we don’t need to understand the entire system, grok the architecture, etc. I want to understand one thing about it and get away as soon as I can. For e....
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Reading code is a Skill (with a capital letter, yes) that is really important for developers. You cannot be a good developer without it. Today I want to talk about one aspect of this. The ability to go into an unfamiliar codebase and extract one piece of information out. The idea is that we don’t need to understand the entire system, grok the architecture, etc. I want to understand one thing about it and get away as soon as I can. For e....
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Does Python round numbers the same way you learned back in math class? You might be surprised by the default method Python uses and the variety of ways to round numbers in Python. Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects.
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Since lots of people come looking for the Arduino Uno technical drawing, I decided to make a drawing with the main dimensions of the Wemos ESP32 as well. It’s probably the same as the D1 and other Lolin / Wemos … Continue reading →
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Since lots of people come looking for the Arduino Uno technical drawing, I decided to make a drawing with the main dimensions of the Arduino MKR1000 as well. It’s based off the CAD-model by Johannes Funk on GrabCAD.
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Since lots of people come looking for the Arduino Uno technical drawing, I decided to make a drawing with the main dimensions of the Arduino Mega as well. It’s based off the CAD-model by Augustine Aelevanthara on GrabCAD.
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I love that browsers are now shipping new CSS features that may not necessarily have been fully baked yet behind feature flags. I can't actually pinpoint the…
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Handle Irregular Bursts of Files using EventBridge and Glue Workflow
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www.vladsiv.com
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2 years ago
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Exploring ways of handling irregular and sudden bursts of multiple files for data processing using event driven architecture on AWS. This blog posts showcases how to use S3 notification with EventBridge to trigger a Glue Workflow that has number of events and batch window trigger conditions.
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How I used jq and Rust to build a repo of my Exercism solutions that showed how they evolved over time Read the whole thing .
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Repository: @knadh/otpgateway GitHub release page: v3.5.1 Changelog 15afcad chore: upgrade deps
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How I used jq and Rust to build a repo of my Exercism solutions that showed how they evolved over time Read the whole thing .
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Exploring and discovering unfamiliar codebases is always a challenge. In this blog post, I will introduce a novel way to explore a new codebase by looking
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Handle Irregular Bursts of Files using EventBridge and Glue Workflow
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www.vladsiv.com
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2 years ago
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eng
Exploring ways of handling irregular and sudden bursts of multiple files for data processing using event driven architecture on AWS. This blog posts showcases how to use S3 notification with EventBridge to trigger a Glue Workflow that has number of events and batch window trigger conditions.
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Suppose we have a large collection of documents, and we wish you identify which documents are approximately the same as each other. For instance, we may have crawled the web over some period of time, and expect to have fetched the “same page” several times, but to see slight differences in metadata, or that we have several revisions of a page following small edits. In this post I want to explore the method of approximate deduplication via J..
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Suppose we have a large collection of documents, and we wish you identify which documents are approximately the same as each other. For instance, we may have crawled the web over some period of time, and expect to have fetched the “same page” several times, but to see slight differences in metadata, or that we have several revisions of a page following small edits. In this post I want to explore the method of approximate deduplication via J..
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My ebooks have surpassed the 200,000 downloads mark. English rules, but it’s India in the lead, with almost 5x the downloads of the US. Meanwhile, 2024 looks like Indonesia’s year, with more downloads in Indonesian than in English ! Google… Continue reading →
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For the last four months I’ve been developing a custom container image builder, collaborating with Outerbounds1. The technical details of the builder itself might be the topic of a future article, but there’s something surprising I wanted to share already: you can use S3 as a container registry! You heard it right. All it takes is to expose an S3 bucket through HTTP and to upload the image’s files to specific paths.
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As an Emacs user, I eventually made the leap over to dired as my file manager of choice. Dired has magical things like wdired . But this post isn't so much about dired and more about the occasional need to peek at media files (images, audio, and video) from Emacs (including dired). To view images in Emacs, there's image mode , a fantastic major mode for taking a quick look without leaving your editor. Image mode strikes a great balanc....
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I’ve made some big changes to my blog! This post is just for me to document what I’ve done and why, as well as to test some of the new features I’ve added. New fonts # First off: new fonts! I am using Valkyrie for the body text and Concourse for the headings. I’ve increased the font size on larger displays for added legibility. I also made the background a little darker for better contrast. Margin notes and sidenotes # ....
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I’ve made some big changes to my blog! This post is just for me to document what I’ve done and why, as well as to test some of the new features I’ve added. New fonts # First off: new fonts! I am using Valkyrie for the body text and Concourse for the headings. I’ve increased the font size on larger displays for added legibility. I also made the background a little darker for better contrast. Margin notes and sidenotes # ....
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Recently, Vanguard announced the end of their solo 401k program, which left me with a decision to make about my solo 401k account. Should I just close it? Transfer the money to my IRA? After some research and consideration, I decided to transfer my solo 401k account to Fidelity. Here’s a detailed account of my experience during this transition.
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