Raspberry Pi is cheaper than a Mini PC again (that's not good) Almost a year ago, I found that N100 Mini PCs were cheaper than a decked-out Raspberry Pi 5. So comparing systems with: 16GB of RAM 512GB NVMe SSD Including case, cooler, and power adapter Back in March last year, a GMKtec Mini PC was $159, and a similar-...
Radar #16: Week of 01/05/2026 The Low Orbit Security Radar is a weekly security newsletter from an offensive practitioner's perspective. One idea, curated news, and links worth your time. News: There Were BGP Anomalies During The Venezuela Blackout When watching the situation in Ve...
All AI Videos Are Harmful When OpenAI released the first version of Sora, I was excited. For years, I'd had this short story sitting on my hard drive, something I'd written long ago and always dreamed of bringing to life as a
Anna's Archive Loses .Org Domain After Surprise Suspension * TorrentFreak Popular shadow library Anna's Archive has lost control over its main domain name. Annas-archive.org was suspended and put on serverhold status.
Databases in 2025: A Year in Review The world tried to kill Andy off but he had to stay alive to to talk about what happened with databases in 2025.
It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe
During Helene, I Just Wanted a Plain Text Website We recently passed the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Helene and its devastating impact on Western North Carolina. As a web developer, I am thinking again about my experience with the mobile web on the day after the storm.
How I Taught My Neighbor to Keep the Volume Down When I moved to a new apartment with my family, the cable company we were used to wasn't available. We had to settle for Dish Network. I wasn't too happy about making that switch, but something on the
Why does a linear least squares fit appear to have a bias when applied to simple test data? I used python to generate a correlated data set for testing, and then plotted a basic linear least-squares fit. The result looked a bit strange to me, because the line doesn't really seem to pass &...
GitHub - huseyinbabal/taws: Terminal UI for AWS (taws) - A terminal-based AWS resource viewer and manager Terminal UI for AWS (taws) - A terminal-based AWS resource viewer and manager - huseyinbabal/taws
The Hive Mind · Jacques Mattheij For the last couple of years, my colleagues and myself have been playing around with AI. I can’t speak for them but from the perspective of a casual user I am very much impressed by the capabilities on display. If you dedicate some time to it you can get ...
Low-tech for kids manifesto - Michał Ćwiok Raising your kid without ever showing it a cartoon and limiting the screen time to zero is for sure possible, but carries a risk of it being an outcast. If we like it or not, kids will talk about shows, characters and recent trends and I feel that to some...
The Hardest Part of My Side Project Isn't the Code When I kicked off this project at the beginning of the year, I set a goal for myself: send 300 kind words by the end of 2025. I’m happy to report that I hit that milestone on December 2nd. The 100th order was for the words “Dreams come true,” which kinda ...
Education after ChatGPT A few times now, I have heard people bring up Socrates' suspicion of writing in the context of the impact of AI on learning. As a defense of AI, the point is that people (even wise people like Socrates) have long been concerned about the impact of technol...
Democracy Will Not Survive the Age of Consumption The productive minority sustains democracy, which increasingly favours the consumptive majority. Only one can win.
Who Owns the Memory? Part 2: Who Calls Free? | Luca Lombardo Destructors, RAII, and the ownership question.
Distinguishing yourself early in your career as a developer Distinguishing yourself early in your career as a developer
Sven Malvik - Portfolio Personal portfolio of Sven Malvik. Building Vissper AI meeting companion and Malfi personal finance app.
A Small Time Review of Clickhouse How Small Time? Clickhouse powers the back-end for Old School Snitch, a plugin for the game Old School Runescape which tracks individual XP gains, item drops, and in-game character locations for roughly 100 users. Old School Snitch is a hobby project of ...
Snakes & ladders: a short statistical analysis - Emir's blog Snakes & ladders is a classic board game, originally imported into the United Kingdom from India circa 1890 according to Wikipedia. Its a square grid numbered row wise from 1-100, with some of the cells connected together either by a snake or a ladder. Pl...
The real-time event tracker I want | Telesink Why existing tools fall short for a simple real-time view of key product events, and the vision for a dedicated solution.
I Built a Transcription App Over Christmas PTO A deep dive into my experience building a transcription app from idea conception to realizing that it had potential.
Web development is fun again AI tools brought me back to levels of productivity I haven't felt in years. Web development is fun again.
Let's Build Rad Shit Together The real magic happens at the intersection of building to learn and solving problems that matter. Let's talk about what it means to build products people love in an AI world.
