SM Articles from blogs I follow
2023-06-03 – SQL Recipe: Compare with Neighbors
via Anton Zhiyanov
Calculate the difference between each record and the previous or next one.
2023-06-03 – P1144 PMR koans
via Arthur O’Dwyer
This is the fourth in a series of blog posts (I, II, III, IV) that I started after the Issaquah WG21 meeting, in order to (1) resolve the technical differences between P1144 “std::is_trivially_relocatable” and the now-multiple Bloomberg papers on the topi…
2023-06-03 –
AutoTrader Scammers
via
Kev Quirk
I was nearly scammed while selling a car on AutoTrader. Here’s how the whole thing went…
Owning cars is a pain in the arse; they’re money pits and I hate dealing with them. My wife and I need a car each, so the problem is compounded by ru…
2023-06-01 – A New Frontier
via hut.pm
Ok let's be honest, the old game was crap. Let's start from scratch!
Here is a new idea:
A space game with a similar vibe, but which runs in the browser, controllable
with any input device, with zero barriers of entry. With no user interface, no
sav…
2023-05-31 – Book Review: Bloodhounds (includes spoilers)
via jes's blog
Bloodhounds by Peter
Lovesey is a locked room murder mystery. It has reasonably good reviews, and is set in Bath in the 90s, which is why
I read it. I enjoyed most of the book, and I liked that I knew most of the places the book talks about. However, the pl…
2023-05-30 – Monitoring my indoor air quality
via Tyler Cipriani: blog
Fri, 19 May 2023 Denver air quality live
cam
If there’s one thing that feels like it’s gotten worse in my
lifetime, it’s air quality.
Colorado’s air quality last week was dismal, filled with smoke from
Canadian wildfires, making Denver’s air quality among the …
2023-05-27 – Extract the kernel.
via Irrational Exuberance
As I’ve served longer in an executive role, I’ve started to notice recurring communication challenges between executives and the folks they work with. The most frequent issue I see is when a literal communicator insists on engaging in the details with a l…
2023-05-25 – New playground: memory spy
via Julia Evans
Hello! Today we’re releasing a new playground called “memory spy”. It lets you run C programs
and see how their variables are represented in memory. It’s designed to be
accessible to folks who don’t know C – it comes with bunch of extremely simple
example C …
2023-05-22 – Status update, May 2023
via emersion
Hi all!
This status update comes in a bit late because I was on leave last week. The
highlight this month is the HDR hackfest, I’ve written a dedicated blog
post about it. After the publication of that blog post, I’ve
sent out an RFC to dri-devel.
We’ve made s…
2023-05-08 – Enable Crate Features in Helix Editor With rust-analyzer
via artemis.sh
So you’re using helix, you’re working on a rust crate, and you need to turn a feature flag on. Here’s how:
2023-05-01 – Burnout
via Drew DeVault's blog
It kind of crept up on me. One day, sitting at my workstation, I stopped typing,
stared blankly at the screen for a few seconds, and a switch flipped in my head.
On the night of New Year’s Eve, my backpack was stolen from me on the train from
Berlin to Amste…
2023-04-22 – Finding and blocking spambots and other unwanted guests
via Jan Wildeboer’s Blog
Since I finished my 5-part E-Mail Done My Way series, I have made a few minor and bigger changes (replaced fail2ban with crowdsec being one of the bigger changes). So today we will take a look at how I stay connected with the hard work my little e-mail se…
2023-04-10 – Mycroft and Bad Timing
via mikestone.me
If you’ve been reading this page for any length of time, you’ve seen me post more than once about Mycroft. At the end of January, Mycroft CEO Michael Lewis let us in on what’s pretty much the end of Mycroft. There were a variety of factors that finally di…
2023-04-02 – Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201
via bt.ht
Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201
2023-04-02
I recently received a ThinkPad X201 to start using as my daily driver. I purchased the X201 to replace my existing X260. Although some might look at this as a "downgrade" in terms of s…
2023-03-27 – SourceHut's 2022 Financial report
via Blogs on Sourcehut
In summary, SourceHut continues to be sustainable, profitable, and growing. We
continued to grow YoY between 2021 and 2022. We were able to make some
significant investments, particularly in establishing a new datacenter presence
in Europe, and we intend to …
2023-03-06 – DDoS detection and remediation with Akvorado and Flowspec
via Vincent Bernat
Akvorado collects sFlow and IPFIX flows, stores them in a
ClickHouse database, and presents them in a web console. Although it lacks
built-in DDoS detection, it’s possible to create one by crafting custom
ClickHouse queries.
DDoS detection
Let’s assume we want…
2023-02-20 – Pebble Cobbler 2023 Race Report
via Arnav's Weblog
The Pebble Cobbler is an annual gravel bike race held in Bakersfield, California. This year it was held on a cold morning on February 11. Participating in this race is right up there with the most crazy, most risky, most insane, and most exciting things I…
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