Listing the contents of a remote ZIP archive, without downloading the entire file – Zoned Out Why I needed to do this is a longer story, but this was a question I was looking for an answer to.
Being Normal - Econlib I’ve always been weird, but at this point in my life I feel like I understand non-weird people quite well. If you’re still baffled, my weird friends, one simple principle captures most of what you need to know. The Principle of Normality: A normal pers...
value of time IMHO there are fundamentally two ways to think about the value of ones time. realised value (cashflow here and now) & expected gains (what you aim to achieve) based on ones vocation. i think ab…
What's in the box? - fasterthanli.me Here's a sentence I find myself saying several times a week: ...or we could just box it. There's two remarkable things about this sentence. The first, is that the advice is ...
Strong Evidence is Common Portions of this are taken directly from Three Things I’ve Learned About Bayes’ Rule.
Thoughts on writing a wayland window manager with wlroots I recently released Vivarium, a dynamic tiling wayland compositor built using the wlroots library. Going from zero to compositing was interesting, there are good libraries available but everything has moved very fast in the last couple of years so it can...
I made an AI-powered Linux shell using OpenAI [All commands shown were actually generated by OpenAI.]If you're curious about how the AI would run a command, post it in the comments and I'll make a follow...
Unix networking command line tools I use to do my job I write software for routers that shuttle packets between datacenters. The nitty gritty of exactly how packets are crafted, forwarded and received by different brands of routers and their respectiv…
Reverse-engineering a vintage comparator chip I recently saw an interesting die photo of an unknown chip on Twitter , so I did some analysis of it. Looking at the circuitry inside, the...
Why should you care about privacy - even if you had nothing to hide You feel a sense of disgust when your mum or spouse looking into your phone, but why is it that it's alright for internet companies or your country to do the same?
Self-employment: three months update Read through the experiences I made during three months of self-employment as a DevOps freelancer.
Meet the .NET Upgrade Assistant, Your .NET 5 Moving Company | Dave Brock The .NET Upgrade Assistant is a global command-line tool that guides you through migrating your .NET Framework apps to .NET 5, automating several painful steps along the way. In this post, we revie...
November 29, 2021 - Blazor, Twitch Clips, Bug fixes and more Fritz picks up where he left off in starting development on KlipTok - the Twitch Clips website built with Blazor and Azure Static Web Apps. He improves the ...
December 1, 2020 - Building a comment system for a Blazor Static Web App Fritz continues working on KlipTok, and starts developing the comment system using Blazor, Azure Static Websites, and Azure Table Storagehttps://kliptok.comB...
Using Kubernetes ConfigMaps for Cardano Node Topology Config Moving the Cardano nodes topology config to a ConfigMap makes it easier to modify in one place
Domino's India hacked; credit card data of 10L users on 'sale' for Rs 4 cr The threat actor is looking for around $550,000 (approximately Rs 4 crore) for the database and saying they have plans to build a search portal to enable querying the data.
December 3, 2020 - Building and deploying a comment system for a Blazor Static Web App Fritz continues to iterate on the comment system for KlipTok and ships the initial revision to the public website. He also added a single-page view of a cli...
Proposal: Treat FLoC as a security concern Google is rolling out Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) for the Chrome browser. TL;DR: FLoC places people in groups based on their browsing habits to target advertising. Why is this bad? As the …
Announcing Livebook - Dashbit Blog Livebook is a web application for writing interactive and collaborative code notebooks
Alienware Really Doesn't Want You to Buy an AMD Ryzen PC - ExtremeTech Just because Alienware sells Ryzen systems doesn't mean the company wants you to buy one. All objective evidence suggests it would rather you didn't.
Take your first steps with Go - Learn Interested in learning a programming language but aren't sure where to start? Start here! Learn the basic syntax and thought processes required to build simple programs using Go.
Take your first steps with Rust - Learn Interested in learning a new programming language that's growing in use and popularity? Start here! Lay the foundation of knowledge you need to build fast and effective programs in Rust.
Retro nostalgia & why my new website looks like Window 9x I was feeling particularly nostalgic for the days of Geocities and floppy disks, so my new homepage is all the best bits of that idealized past.
I made a Guitar Hero robot (and it SHREDS) I wanted to be great at Guitar Hero. So I might have enlisted the help of robots and artificial intelligence...Music:Sayonara by Blue Wednesday - https://sou...
Backdoored developer tool that stole credentials escaped notice for 3 months AWS credentials and private repository tokens could allow self-perpetuating attacks.
Starting Jetbrains Rider when it hangs on startup Shows how you can disable plugins when startin Jetbrains Rider when a plugin interferes with the normal startup process
The Brain ‘Rotates’ Memories to Save Them From New Sensations Some populations of neurons simultaneously process sensations and memories. New work shows how the brain rotates those representations to prevent interference.
The Moclans Teach Ed How To Play Latchcomb | Season 1 Ep. 12 | THE ORVILLE Latchcomb isn't for everyone, and Ed quickly finds this out.Subscribe now for more The Orville clips: http://fox.tv/SubscribeTheOrvilleWatch more videos from...
Thanks for the Bonus, I Quit! A corporate tale of greed, desperation, and the power of expectations. And a little bit about Capacitors.