A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance... | Continue reading
### tl;dr I'm a skilled open source maintainer, but I struggle to demonstrate my worth in conventional interview settings because of my ... | Continue reading
I will be going through each of the points in their [why we pay local rates](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/compensation... | Continue reading
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It will chew you up and spit you out, and you'll not even complain. I often start new projects at the beginning of the year, around Dec... | Continue reading
by Root BSD Today I learned some cool new things about tmux(1),xterm(1), and installed the source tree via cvs(1). Day 3 into the chall... | Continue reading
Seemingly overnight, there’s been a whole new version of the Web invented, dubbed “web3.” I’ve seen a lot of people talk about it online ... | Continue reading
Once upon a time China was a flourishing country. Trade was booming. Europe was buying and China was producing. Hence the silk road from way back in time. China was sel... | Continue reading
Common Lisp is one of the few languages which is both dynamic and also gives you a full native compiler and the ability to declare types ... | Continue reading
If you've ever wondered why SDKMAN! tends to be quite stable, while at the same time being written in Bash, the answer is simple: Loads a... | Continue reading
Photographing a computer screen produces inevitable moiré patterns – visual artifacts of camera sensor/display interference. A remedy fo... | Continue reading
Latest Project: Tag (https://thelanding.page/tag) Hustle - Sugar in a tube for a dollar in the hall. You didn't get it from me. Amuseme... | Continue reading
The word "collapse" appears more and more often in recent political debate. Online, in the media, in the Academia, and in radical politic... | Continue reading
If I had a cent for every time a README tells me to copy-paste some magic onto my `~/.bashrc`, I suspect I would have amassed a sizeable ... | Continue reading
"KDE Should not be political". I've heard this sentence many times, especially when KDE supports LGBT. But it's wrong. Let me explain. F... | Continue reading
There is a worldwide trend of reviving spirituality. Our feeds and suggestions are filled with everything from eastern mysticism to neo-s... | Continue reading
Screenstab is a new web-based tool that turns screenshots into attractive, high-quality image assets. Why did I build it? My daily job... | Continue reading
So, if you're reading this, you probably need some background information. gRPC is a popular RPC system based on HTTP2 and Protobuf. hRPC... | Continue reading
Some notes on the architecture of this place. Everything can be reduced to INFORMATION. The most efficient form of information is BINARY... | Continue reading
--------- I took FSFE to court. This is my story ––––– Soon after the first lockdown in Berlin this year I filed a public case in the Ber... | Continue reading
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--- Recreating presidential necktie patterns to demonstrate background stacking in CSS. The following background patterns are generated ... | Continue reading
--- Recreating presidential necktie patterns to demonstrate background stacking in CSS. The following background patterns are generated ... | Continue reading
When tasked with creating a web page mockup, UX/UI-designers predominantly employ visual tools, like Figma or Sketch. In essence, these t... | Continue reading
For some people, like myself, jumping into something new is exhilarating and you sink yourself into it 100%. This is where I found myself... | Continue reading
In the bubble, a bunch of Tech Bros burn their brains to produce useless or dangerous data products designed on ridiculous premises, vict... | Continue reading
Recruiter: Hi there! How things are going with you and Alex? I see here you have an impressive list of relationships and I am reaching out to you specifically, as we came... | Continue reading
If the business model cannot support high-quality free software, either free software is (partially) wrong, or the business model is unet... | Continue reading
In the previous post we discussed the key ideas of why zkSNARKs are possible, explained what computation is, and showed why it's poss... | Continue reading
Judging by the amount of media coverage Mastodon is getting, you might conclude that it's already dead. Of course, plenty of folks ha... | Continue reading
A story about impersonation, election integrity and being in the media In my high school history class, we learned about election integr... | Continue reading
The introduction of Bitcoin in 2009 turned more research attention towards generalized blockchains, and privacy issues lead in turn to se... | Continue reading
There’s a problem prevalent in some of the more experienced members of the privacy community: the problem of assuming that privacy and se... | Continue reading
The other day I stumbled upon an open source project that had the following README.md, explaining how the project's source code must ... | Continue reading
This morning I spent some time thinking about Read Write.as and its general purpose. I want to keep its "publication"-like feel, ... | Continue reading
I am in debt. Debts that aren't exactly easy to ignore. If my store closes down, I don't get paid. The comittment to keep paying loyal empolyees doesn't extend to those who are hourly. Which are several that I work with, either in my location or other locations. Many of the … | Continue reading
This is going to be a series of scattered biographical thoughts and polemical remarks. I cannot muster anything more systematic. It pains me, because I don’t want to leave anything unsaid, or unclear. But hopefully the many separate strokes will somehow compose into a complete pi … | Continue reading
_The company’s motto used to be “Don’t be evil.” Things have changed._ ![Ross LaJeunesse, Democratic Candidate for U.S. Senate in Main... | Continue reading
by Darius Kazemi, Dec 31 2018 April 7th, 2019 is going to be the 50 year anniversary of the first ever Request for Comments, known as an... | Continue reading
(It's best to read this blog post after reading Steve Klabnik's The culture war at the heart of open source and What comes after ... | Continue reading
The first part in a sequence on Stoic ideas and techniques. > If you desire something outside your control, you are bound to be disap... | Continue reading
This article is part of a series which will hopefully lead to the creation of an open article about technological dissemination and the n... | Continue reading
``` ~$ cat hello.txt hello how are you? ~$ sleep infinity 100<`which wc` 200<`which grep` & [5] 3988 ~$ /proc/3988/fd/100 -l hello.txt 4 ... | Continue reading
TLDR; niu.moe will close at the end of March 2020. It's not on a sudden impulse, it's been maturing for quite some time, and for obvious reasons I wasn't g... | Continue reading
Today I did a fun experiment with piano chords. I played all the notes of the octave with the following list of chord types and wrote d... | Continue reading
There are many popular Java frameworks that reflect on static type information to drive runtime behavior and yet we would like to exploit... | Continue reading