15 April 2022

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moreutils

moreutils is a collection of the unix tools that nobody thought to write long ago when unix was young.

April 15, 2022

You can combine it with a timeout.

Breaking down broadband nutrition labels

We commend Congress for including broadband nutrition labels in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, and the FCC for moving quickly to implement the labels

RELEASE CANDIDATE!

.NET MAUI RC is here. I don't need to say any more.

StarBook 14-inch

The StarBook Mk V has an increased chassis size when compared to its predecessor. This allows for a battery that is 10% larger, a 14-inch display, twice the amount of speakers and removable memory.

Ethereum Has Issues

I first wrote about the problem of bots front-running transactions a year and a half ago in The Order Flow , citing Dan Robinson and Georgio...

1,000,000 Concurrent Connections

I hear the misconception that a server can only accept 65K connections or a server consumes a port for each accepted connection all the time. Here is a taste of some of them: A TCP/IP address only supports 65,000 connections, so you would have to have to assig…

Refactoring Toward Algorithms in Elixir

Algorithms give a name to a kind of data transformation. They’re the building blocks of programs, and they’re fractal: a program as a whole can be seen as an algorithm, and it’s m…

Plastic Surgery And Virtual Reality

The wellness industry is a multi-billion dollar testament that people want to improve their looks. This article argues that virtual reality will give people perfect control over their appearance and make plastic surgery obsolete.

A Web Renaissance

Thanks to the mistrust of big tech, the creation of better tools for developers, and the weird and wonderful creativity of ordinary people, we’re seeing an incredibly unlikely comeback: the web is thriving again. If you had to pick the unexpected breakout cons…

Notes on Long-Form Notes

Like many people, I find the subject of note-taking to be a little more than a curiosity given I rely on it extensively on a daily basis.

How To Build an Evil Compiler

Did you know there is a type of compiler backdoor attack that is impossible to defend against? In this post I’ll show you how to implement such an attack in less than 100 lines of code.

Migrating to Fastmail

So you want to migrate over to Fastmail for your email — here's how you can go about doing so as seemlessly as possible.