Does the news reflect what we die from?
What do Americans die from, and what do the New York Times, Washington Post, and Fox News report on?
Currency control - Praful Mathur
I’ve recently been doing a bunch of research into international payments, stablecoins, and the role of the US dollar in the world today. What surprised me when reading the online discourse (the comments section) was how often people seemed to be talking past e…
What Dynamic Typing Is For
How dynamic typing makes DSL-driven development easy, and what can be done to bring static typing up to par.
Reducing Screen time by 86% |
Ramblings about anything that interests me - mainly Music, Cars and Programming.
Analyzing the domains (and sites) of an authoritarian regime • Cory Dransfeldt
If you've ever wondered what domains the US federal government has registered, there's a rather exhaustive list over in the [dotgov-data](https://github.com/cisagov/dotgov-data) repository on GitHub, which is maintained by [CISA](https://www.cisa.gov). [You ca…
War on Slop
War on Slop
Why I create presentations in HTML
Since a year, I don't use PowerPoint anymore. I instead enjoy using HTML and CSS to create my slides with reveal.js.
Competency porn
What is comtency porn?
Import AI 431: Technological Optimism and Appropriate Fear
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Imagined Unrealities
things I write sometimes
I trained a ChatGPT clone for £75
I just watched a machine learn to speak. Over the course of 4 hours, for £75 ($100), I trained my own conversational AI from scratch. Not by using an API or fine-tuning someone else’s model - I mean actually training a language model, watching it go from rando…
choosing friction
In 2018, legal scholar Tim Wu wrote in the New York Times that: Today’s cult of convenience fails to acknowledge that difficulty is a constitutive feature of human experience. Convenience is all destination and no journey. This piece well predates the current …
Can We Outsource Imagination?
AI-generated Everything I got my Sora 2 invite last week, and I was excited to see how it worked. If you are not aware, Sora 2 is OpenAI's new video generati...
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08 Jun 2025
Django forever
Tomorrow, I am taking a very early morning flight to Chicago to attend DjangoCon US. Buttondown is sponsoring, less as an exercise in lead generation and more as an act of circuitous open source sponsorship, and perhaps "sponsorship" is not quite the right wor…
It's not just about the em-dashes, it's about ✨substance✨ - Ritza Articles
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Rounding up
I’ve noticed that people almost always round up. Maybe you’ve seen it too. The almost-candidate becomes close enough. The design is fine if you don’t look...
Classic Demo Effects, Fire
The classic demoscene effect explained and implemented in GLSL
Digital Society | Posts | Migrating to Hetzner
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Better sRGB to greyscale conversion
A common approach to convert a gamma-corrected sRGB color (R′,G′,B′)(R', G', B') to greyscale is to take a weighted sum of its components:
Environment variables are a legacy mess: Let's dive deep into them
Programming languages have rapidly evolved in recent years. But in software development, the new often meets the old, and the scaffolding that OS gives for running new processes hasn’t changed much since Unix. If you need to parametrize your application at run…
Don't Be a Sucker
National Archives Identifier: 24376 Local Identifier: 111-EF-6 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/24376 Creator(s): Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Chief Signal Officer. (9/18/1947 - 3/1/1964) (Most Recent) From: Series: Educationa…