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Updated November 27, 2024
Roni ĂikĂ€s ---------- Etusivu Blogi Projektit Now Nippelitietoa đŹđ§ In English "Now page is a place to tell you about the things I focus on right now, in no particular order. Iâll try to keep this up to date best I can. Inspired by the Derek Siversâ nownownow.com project." * Surviving the first year of high school/gymnasium (lukio) * I'm doing WordPress related freelance work alongside school :) * Creating a cottage reservation system as a side project * Doing open source contributions. I have created open source software like Mastopoet and contributed to big and small projects, for example Novu and air-light. * Trying to create some small indie horror games with my 3D artist friend. Updated on the 27th of November, 2024.
Roni ĂikĂ€s ---------- Etusivu Blogi Projektit Now Nippelitietoa đŹđ§ In English "Now page is a place to tell you about the things I focus on right now, in no particular order. Iâll try to keep this up to date best I can. Inspired by the Derek Siversâ nownownow.com project." * Surviving the first year of high school/gymnasium (lukio) * I'm doing WordPress related freelance work alongside school :) * Creating a cottage reservation system as a side project * Doing open source contributions. I have created open source software like Mastopoet and contributed to big and small projects, for example Novu and air-light. * Trying to create some small indie horror games with my 3D artist friend. Updated on the 27th of November, 2024.
novelwriter.io
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Updated November 26, 2024
**A markdown-like editor for novels** A markdown-like text editor designed for writing novels and larger projects of many smaller plain text documents. It is designed to be a simple text editor that allows for easy organisation of text files and notes, with a meta data syntax for comments, synopsis, and cross-referencing between files, and built on plain text files for robustness. novelWriter is Free and Open Source, and runs on Linux, Windows and MacOS Latest Release# --------------- **Version 2.5.3** â Released on November 26, 2024 â Read the Release Notes \* Free code signing on Windows is provided by SignPath.io, certificate by SignPath Foundation. See Code Signing Policy. ### Other Install Options# Add the Ubuntu PPA to your system# sudo add-apt-repository ppa:vkbo/novelwriter sudo apt update && sudo apt install novelwriter pip install \--user novelwriter * For more download options, including pre-releases, see the Downloads page. * You can also use the Ubuntu PPA on other Debian-based distros. See Setup and Installation for more details. * Ubuntu pre-releases are available on the Pre-Release PPA, by adding `ppa:vkbo/novelwriter-pre` instead. ### Sha256 Checksums# * **Linux AppImage:** novelWriter-2.5.3.AppImage Sha256: `0a2be9e3c2363e336005d90bffcef013dee3a077801b9a1a200d33305b8a344c` ShaSum File * **Debian Package:** novelwriter\_2.5.3\_all.deb Sha256: `f8f1e7017da68ad9d5ad979190e565588ddd67ca64c1c139da0840986dd4173b` ShaSum File * **Windows Installer:** novelwriter-2.5.3-amd64-setup.exe Sha256: `4cb5d359e4dd17065186e977e3817bf9793c4f2ae71cc218d30dd0284bd8c091` ShaSum File * **MacOS DMG Image (Intel):** novelWriter-2.5.3-x86\_64.dmg Sha256: `9bb2d292ecac9297cf26b2a1eafe969812a34714c6d185d29c116c2464bf51ad` ShaSum File * **MacOS DMG Image (M1):** novelWriter-2.5.3-aarch64.dmg Sha256: `1586d06659f727583a853aae5a6aec371b156879c688a3b5633ad1acb7f906b1` ShaSum File Verify the Checksum Linux Download the corresponding ShaSum File to the same location Run one of the commands below in a terminal window in the same folder shasum \-c novelWriter-2.5.3.AppImage.sha256 shasum \-c novelwriter\_2.5.3\_all.deb.sha256 Windows Run the following command in PowerShell from the same folder Check the Hash value against the value displayed above Get-FileHash \-Algorithm SHA256 novelwriter\-2.5.3-amd64-setup.exe | Format-List MacOS Download the corresponding ShaSum File to the same location Run the command below in a terminal window in the same folder shasum \-c novelWriter-2.5.3-x86\_64.dmg.sha256
**A markdown-like editor for novels** A markdown-like text editor designed for writing novels and larger projects of many smaller plain text documents. It is designed to be a simple text editor that allows for easy organisation of text files and notes, with a meta data syntax for comments, synopsis, and cross-referencing between files, and built on plain text files for robustness. novelWriter is Free and Open Source, and runs on Linux, Windows and MacOS Latest Release# --------------- **Version 2.5.3** â Released on November 26, 2024 â Read the Release Notes \* Free code signing on Windows is provided by SignPath.io, certificate by SignPath Foundation. See Code Signing Policy. ### Other Install Options# Add the Ubuntu PPA to your system# sudo add-apt-repository ppa:vkbo/novelwriter sudo apt update && sudo apt install novelwriter pip install \--user novelwriter * For more download options, including pre-releases, see the Downloads page. * You can also use the Ubuntu PPA on other Debian-based distros. See Setup and Installation for more details. * Ubuntu pre-releases are available on the Pre-Release PPA, by adding `ppa:vkbo/novelwriter-pre` instead. ### Sha256 Checksums# * **Linux AppImage:** novelWriter-2.5.3.AppImage Sha256: `0a2be9e3c2363e336005d90bffcef013dee3a077801b9a1a200d33305b8a344c` ShaSum File * **Debian Package:** novelwriter\_2.5.3\_all.deb Sha256: `f8f1e7017da68ad9d5ad979190e565588ddd67ca64c1c139da0840986dd4173b` ShaSum File * **Windows Installer:** novelwriter-2.5.3-amd64-setup.exe Sha256: `4cb5d359e4dd17065186e977e3817bf9793c4f2ae71cc218d30dd0284bd8c091` ShaSum File * **MacOS DMG Image (Intel):** novelWriter-2.5.3-x86\_64.dmg Sha256: `9bb2d292ecac9297cf26b2a1eafe969812a34714c6d185d29c116c2464bf51ad` ShaSum File * **MacOS DMG Image (M1):** novelWriter-2.5.3-aarch64.dmg Sha256: `1586d06659f727583a853aae5a6aec371b156879c688a3b5633ad1acb7f906b1` ShaSum File Verify the Checksum Linux Download the corresponding ShaSum File to the same location Run one of the commands below in a terminal window in the same folder shasum \-c novelWriter-2.5.3.AppImage.sha256 shasum \-c novelwriter\_2.5.3\_all.deb.sha256 Windows Run the following command in PowerShell from the same folder Check the Hash value against the value displayed above Get-FileHash \-Algorithm SHA256 novelwriter\-2.5.3-amd64-setup.exe | Format-List MacOS Download the corresponding ShaSum File to the same location Run the command below in a terminal window in the same folder shasum \-c novelWriter-2.5.3-x86\_64.dmg.sha256
npschmitt.com
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Updated November 26, 2024
### What Iâm Up To This was inspired by Derek Siversâ âNowâ page, and Iâve also wanted a place to keep track of things I have enjoyed. All photos are my own (except images/media from pop culture, obviously). **Scroll down to see what Iâm doing now** (and then). _Somehwat up to date as of_ **_November 26, 2024_**_._ ### What I'm Climbing ### What I'm Hiking ### Where I'm Traveling ### What I'm Learning ### Pizza Obsession ### What I'm Reading ### What I'm Cooking ### What I'm Watching ### What I'm Listening To ### Video Games I'm Playing ### Board Games I'm Playing
### What Iâm Up To This was inspired by Derek Siversâ âNowâ page, and Iâve also wanted a place to keep track of things I have enjoyed. All photos are my own (except images/media from pop culture, obviously). **Scroll down to see what Iâm doing now** (and then). _Somehwat up to date as of_ **_November 26, 2024_**_._ ### What I'm Climbing ### What I'm Hiking ### Where I'm Traveling ### What I'm Learning ### Pizza Obsession ### What I'm Reading ### What I'm Cooking ### What I'm Watching ### What I'm Listening To ### Video Games I'm Playing ### Board Games I'm Playing
privsec.dev
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Updated November 26, 2024
PrivSec.dev is made by a group of enthusiastic individuals looking to provide practical privacy and security advice for the end user. We are security researchers, developers, system administrators⊠generally people with technical knowledge and work in the field. We focus on in-depth system configuration, security analysis, and software/hardware recommendations. Our site is based on technical merits, not ideologies and politics. Also, to avoid any confusion, we are not affiliated, associated or in any way connected with the PrivSec Global Conference. * * * ### Tommy Benevolent dictator for life @PrivSec.dev. System Administrator. **Website**: tommytran.io **Matrix**: @tommy:arcticfoxes.net **Email**: \[email protected\] ### wj25czxj47bu6q A nerd who canât stop going down rabbit holes. Very much a perfectionist. **Website:** Wandering Computerer **Matrix:** @wj25czxj47bu6q:arcticfoxes.net ### akc3n Just an ordinary human that loves to learn, solve puzzles, and eat food. **Website**: akc3n.page
PrivSec.dev is made by a group of enthusiastic individuals looking to provide practical privacy and security advice for the end user. We are security researchers, developers, system administrators⊠generally people with technical knowledge and work in the field. We focus on in-depth system configuration, security analysis, and software/hardware recommendations. Our site is based on technical merits, not ideologies and politics. Also, to avoid any confusion, we are not affiliated, associated or in any way connected with the PrivSec Global Conference. * * * ### Tommy Benevolent dictator for life @PrivSec.dev. System Administrator. **Website**: tommytran.io **Matrix**: @tommy:arcticfoxes.net **Email**: \[email protected\] ### wj25czxj47bu6q A nerd who canât stop going down rabbit holes. Very much a perfectionist. **Website:** Wandering Computerer **Matrix:** @wj25czxj47bu6q:arcticfoxes.net ### akc3n Just an ordinary human that loves to learn, solve puzzles, and eat food. **Website**: akc3n.page
mdlayher.com
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Updated November 25, 2024
About ----- Hello! ------ Iâm Matt, and Iâm a Software Engineer at PlanetScale, working remotely from Kalamazoo, MI. My primary interests include Linux, computer networking, distributed systems, open source software, and the Go programming language. Open source software is my true passion, and I have authored and published a number of projects on GitHub which have seen wide adoption. In addition, I am regularly involved with the following open source projects: * the Go programming language * commit access, focused on net, x/net, and x/sys/unix * the Prometheus metrics and monitoring system * former team member * the WireGuard VPN tunnel project * maintainer of wgctrl-go I enjoy authoring blog posts and giving presentations about technical content at both meetups and conferences, including GopherCon and KubeCon/Cloud Native Con. You can also find me live-streaming Go and networking projects on Twitch, or catch a recording of a stream on YouTube! I see these opportunities as a great challenge and as a force multiplier: by sharing my knowledge with others, we are able to achieve more together than I ever could on my own. Some of my non-technology hobbies include craft beer, whiskey, exercise, food, and music. Itâs always nice to take a break from computers and enjoy some time away with friends and family! If youâd like to get in touch, feel free to reach out on: * Bluesky: @mdlayher.com * Email: mdlayher@gmail.com * Gophers Slack: @mdlayher, #networking
About ----- Hello! ------ Iâm Matt, and Iâm a Software Engineer at PlanetScale, working remotely from Kalamazoo, MI. My primary interests include Linux, computer networking, distributed systems, open source software, and the Go programming language. Open source software is my true passion, and I have authored and published a number of projects on GitHub which have seen wide adoption. In addition, I am regularly involved with the following open source projects: * the Go programming language * commit access, focused on net, x/net, and x/sys/unix * the Prometheus metrics and monitoring system * former team member * the WireGuard VPN tunnel project * maintainer of wgctrl-go I enjoy authoring blog posts and giving presentations about technical content at both meetups and conferences, including GopherCon and KubeCon/Cloud Native Con. You can also find me live-streaming Go and networking projects on Twitch, or catch a recording of a stream on YouTube! I see these opportunities as a great challenge and as a force multiplier: by sharing my knowledge with others, we are able to achieve more together than I ever could on my own. Some of my non-technology hobbies include craft beer, whiskey, exercise, food, and music. Itâs always nice to take a break from computers and enjoy some time away with friends and family! If youâd like to get in touch, feel free to reach out on: * Bluesky: @mdlayher.com * Email: mdlayher@gmail.com * Gophers Slack: @mdlayher, #networking
blog.djnavarro.net
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Updated November 24, 2024
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##### Categories All (70) Amazon S3 (1) Apache Arrow (9) Art (12) Bayes (4) Blogging (4) Bootstrap (1) Command Line (2) Credentials (2) Data Visualisation (4) Data Wrangling (6) Distill (2) Docker (2) End of Year (2) Git (1) Grid Graphics (2) Javascript (4) Julia (3) Kubernetes (1) Linux (5) Literate Programming (3) MCMC (2) Mastodon (1) NONMEM (1) Networking (1) Object-Oriented Programming (2) Observable (2) P5 (1) Parallel Computing (1) Pharmacometrics (9) Plumber (1) Python (3) Quarto (2) R (54) Randomness (1) Regular Expressions (1) Reproducibility (4) Serialisation (1) Social Media (2) Software Design (1) Stan (4) Statistics (7) Tidy Tuesday (1) Torsten (1) Twitter (1) WebR (1) Worms (1)
nicolo.dev
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Updated November 24, 2024
nicolo.dev ---------- * Chi sono * Progetti * EN Studente di Scienze e Ingegneria Informatica (magistrale) presso lâUniversitĂ degli Studi di Verona. Ho una solida formazione nel reverse engineering, nellâanalisi statica e nella ricerca e sviluppo inerente a programmi automatici di reverse engineering, come disassembler, decompilatori e linguaggi intermedi. Questo Ăš il sito web personale in cui pubblico alcuni pensieri/post riguardo quello che faccio e i miei interessi. Il blog raggruppa gran parte della mia esperienza con la sicurezza del software, lâinformatica e tutto ciĂČ che riguarda la protezione del software :) Sviluppo principalmente progetti legati al reverse engineering e alla binary exploitation, utilizzando Rust come principale linguaggio di programmazione perchĂ© Ăš veloce e potente. Scrivo programmi automatici che consentono di semplificare la vita ad analisti di payload binari, come ad esempio IPA, un programma che consente di semplificare lâanalisi di un file PDF. Tra i progetti che posso citare, ho scritto un offuscatore per espressioni Mixed Boolean Arithmetic lineari chiamato Pocket, molto semplice da deoffuscare. Inoltre, ho sviluppato durante la mia tesi di laurea triennale MicroSCOPE, un programma che mira ad applicare euristiche binarie per individuare un comportamento simile a ransomware. In questo blog, pubblico post riguardo i piĂč disparati argomenti del reverse engineering tra cui il deoffuscamento, sviluppo di decompilatori, analisi statica. Se vuoi stare aggiornato, ti consiglio di sottoscrivere il feed RSS. Se invece vuoi sapere di piĂč sui miei progetti, puoi controllare il mio profilo github. ### Contatti Se vuoi scrivermi un commento o una critica costruttiva, scrivi una email a `seekbytes@protonmail.com`. * profilo Twitter: https://twitter.com/@nicolodev * profilo Github: https://github.com/seekbytes/ * profilo dipartimento: https://www.di.univr.it/?ent=persona&id=73289 _Disclaimer necessario: Le opinioni espresse sono esclusivamente mie e non esprimono i punti di vista o le opinioni del mio datore di lavoro._
nicolo.dev ---------- * Chi sono * Progetti * EN Studente di Scienze e Ingegneria Informatica (magistrale) presso lâUniversitĂ degli Studi di Verona. Ho una solida formazione nel reverse engineering, nellâanalisi statica e nella ricerca e sviluppo inerente a programmi automatici di reverse engineering, come disassembler, decompilatori e linguaggi intermedi. Questo Ăš il sito web personale in cui pubblico alcuni pensieri/post riguardo quello che faccio e i miei interessi. Il blog raggruppa gran parte della mia esperienza con la sicurezza del software, lâinformatica e tutto ciĂČ che riguarda la protezione del software :) Sviluppo principalmente progetti legati al reverse engineering e alla binary exploitation, utilizzando Rust come principale linguaggio di programmazione perchĂ© Ăš veloce e potente. Scrivo programmi automatici che consentono di semplificare la vita ad analisti di payload binari, come ad esempio IPA, un programma che consente di semplificare lâanalisi di un file PDF. Tra i progetti che posso citare, ho scritto un offuscatore per espressioni Mixed Boolean Arithmetic lineari chiamato Pocket, molto semplice da deoffuscare. Inoltre, ho sviluppato durante la mia tesi di laurea triennale MicroSCOPE, un programma che mira ad applicare euristiche binarie per individuare un comportamento simile a ransomware. In questo blog, pubblico post riguardo i piĂč disparati argomenti del reverse engineering tra cui il deoffuscamento, sviluppo di decompilatori, analisi statica. Se vuoi stare aggiornato, ti consiglio di sottoscrivere il feed RSS. Se invece vuoi sapere di piĂč sui miei progetti, puoi controllare il mio profilo github. ### Contatti Se vuoi scrivermi un commento o una critica costruttiva, scrivi una email a `seekbytes@protonmail.com`. * profilo Twitter: https://twitter.com/@nicolodev * profilo Github: https://github.com/seekbytes/ * profilo dipartimento: https://www.di.univr.it/?ent=persona&id=73289 _Disclaimer necessario: Le opinioni espresse sono esclusivamente mie e non esprimono i punti di vista o le opinioni del mio datore di lavoro._
pvk.ca
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Updated November 22, 2024
Like many, when I first saw VPTERNLOG, my reaction was â\\(\\log\_2(3) \\approx 1.58\\) is a nice reduction in depth, but my code mostly doesnât have super deep reductions.â A little bit of thinking reveals a big win at smaller (reasonable) scales: a binary operator takes two values and outputs one, while a ternary operator takes three and outputs one. In a reduction, each application of the binary operator decrements the number of values by \\(2 - 1 = 1\\), but each application of the ternary operator decrements it by \\(3 - 1 = 2\\)! We thus need _half_ as many ternary operations to reduce a given number of bitvectors, compared to binary operations⊠and itâs not like the throughput (or latency for that matter) is worse. Plus itâs hard to be more orthogonal than a lookup table. Cute lightweight instruction, two thumbs up!
Like many, when I first saw VPTERNLOG, my reaction was â\\(\\log\_2(3) \\approx 1.58\\) is a nice reduction in depth, but my code mostly doesnât have super deep reductions.â A little bit of thinking reveals a big win at smaller (reasonable) scales: a binary operator takes two values and outputs one, while a ternary operator takes three and outputs one. In a reduction, each application of the binary operator decrements the number of values by \\(2 - 1 = 1\\), but each application of the ternary operator decrements it by \\(3 - 1 = 2\\)! We thus need _half_ as many ternary operations to reduce a given number of bitvectors, compared to binary operations⊠and itâs not like the throughput (or latency for that matter) is worse. Plus itâs hard to be more orthogonal than a lookup table. Cute lightweight instruction, two thumbs up!
erikarow.land
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Updated November 21, 2024
Hi, Iâm Erika Rowland (a.k.a. **erikareads**). Hi, Iâm Erika. Iâm an Ops-shaped Software Engineer, Toolmaker, and Resilience Engineering fan. I like Elixir and Gleam, Reading, and Design. She/Her. â Constellation Webring â Published on May 18, 2023 Modified on November 21, 2024 * Home * Articles * Notes * Other Home ---- Hello world! Stuff I Have Learned -------------------- Notes as I learn new things. Resilience Engineering notes ---------------------------- My notes on Resilience Engineering. Quick Links ----------- * Fediverse * Bluesky * Github uses RSS feed * * * â Constellation Webring â
Hi, Iâm Erika Rowland (a.k.a. **erikareads**). Hi, Iâm Erika. Iâm an Ops-shaped Software Engineer, Toolmaker, and Resilience Engineering fan. I like Elixir and Gleam, Reading, and Design. She/Her. â Constellation Webring â Published on May 18, 2023 Modified on November 21, 2024 * Home * Articles * Notes * Other Home ---- Hello world! Stuff I Have Learned -------------------- Notes as I learn new things. Resilience Engineering notes ---------------------------- My notes on Resilience Engineering. Quick Links ----------- * Fediverse * Bluesky * Github uses RSS feed * * * â Constellation Webring â
garrido.io
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Updated November 20, 2024
Hi! Iâm Gabriel Garrido. Iâm a software developer with 11 years of professional experience building web applications. I currently work independently on my own projects, though I consult and contract with others on a limited basis. I have a strong interest in appropriate technology, privacy and security, and self-hosting. Most of my writing here is aimed at sharing what Iâve learned. Among other things, I have a passion for permaculture, ecology, and philosophy. I also enjoy fermenting, reading, and playing electronic music.
Hi! Iâm Gabriel Garrido. Iâm a software developer with 11 years of professional experience building web applications. I currently work independently on my own projects, though I consult and contract with others on a limited basis. I have a strong interest in appropriate technology, privacy and security, and self-hosting. Most of my writing here is aimed at sharing what Iâve learned. Among other things, I have a passion for permaculture, ecology, and philosophy. I also enjoy fermenting, reading, and playing electronic music.
its.mw
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Updated November 20, 2024
_(This is a now page, and if you have your own site, you should make one too. Hereâs my profile there )_ Recently I bought a waterrower so have been focusing on doing âa rowâ per day. Sometimes 1km, more rarely (twice!) 5km. Really enjoying the whooshing sound. Completed a short-ish course hosted by coursera related to generative âAIâ and software development which was⊠interesting?! I have thoughts which I will turn into a post. Other than that, reading more books, continuing to work on this blog, walking the dog (that rhymes, yiss). * * * Updated Nov. 20, 2024.
_(This is a now page, and if you have your own site, you should make one too. Hereâs my profile there )_ Recently I bought a waterrower so have been focusing on doing âa rowâ per day. Sometimes 1km, more rarely (twice!) 5km. Really enjoying the whooshing sound. Completed a short-ish course hosted by coursera related to generative âAIâ and software development which was⊠interesting?! I have thoughts which I will turn into a post. Other than that, reading more books, continuing to work on this blog, walking the dog (that rhymes, yiss). * * * Updated Nov. 20, 2024.
pbones.com
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Updated November 20, 2024
Paul Kafasis's Now Page --------------------------- _(This page was inspired by an idea from Derek Sivers.)_ Iâve decided to stop maintaining this /now page. Last Updated: November 20, 2024 Who's Paul? See the basics about me.
Paul Kafasis's Now Page --------------------------- _(This page was inspired by an idea from Derek Sivers.)_ Iâve decided to stop maintaining this /now page. Last Updated: November 20, 2024 Who's Paul? See the basics about me.
abidmoon.hashnode.dev
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Updated November 18, 2024
10 followers Iâm a DevOps Engineer & digital marketer who grows brands and website traffic using content, search and social media marketing. đ
10 followers Iâm a DevOps Engineer & digital marketer who grows brands and website traffic using content, search and social media marketing. đ
jodiecook.com
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Updated November 18, 2024
Play your ace cards. Be obsessed. Achieve everything you're capable of. Level up with my monthly email đ Sign up now and get my FREE "14-days to change your life" download: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Processing your application Please check your inbox and click the link to confirm your subscription. There was an error sending the email Whatâs new? Featured posts Editorâs Choice Get started with our best stories --------------------------------- Previous posts Youâve successfully subscribed to Jodie Cook Welcome back! Youâve successfully signed in. Great! Youâve successfully signed up. Success! Your email is updated. Your link has expired Success! Check your email for magic link to sign-in.
Play your ace cards. Be obsessed. Achieve everything you're capable of. Level up with my monthly email đ Sign up now and get my FREE "14-days to change your life" download: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Processing your application Please check your inbox and click the link to confirm your subscription. There was an error sending the email Whatâs new? Featured posts Editorâs Choice Get started with our best stories --------------------------------- Previous posts Youâve successfully subscribed to Jodie Cook Welcome back! Youâve successfully signed in. Great! Youâve successfully signed up. Success! Your email is updated. Your link has expired Success! Check your email for magic link to sign-in.
collindonnell.com
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Updated November 17, 2024
Freelance software developer from Portland Oregon. subscribe & followhire me Where to Follow Me (Mastodon, Bluesky, etc) ------------------------------------------- November 17, 2024 Since the world of text-based social media seems to be having another shakeup, I felt like this would be a good time to let people know where to find me across all of the places. As of now, Iâm using all of these, so follow me on whichever you like. * Here, obviously (RSS, mailing list) * Mastodon @collin@ruby.social * Bluesky collindonnell.bsky.social * Threads @fishermansporch * My photo blog (RSS, mailing list) * Instagram @fishermansporch My Boring Coding Font Answer ---------------------------- October 24, 2024 Joe Steel wrote a post about how he uses different monospaced fonts for different apps. I feel boring now since I just use SF Mono for everything (the default in recent macOS). New Photo Blog -------------- October 5, 2024 In the last few months Iâve started getting really into film photography. If you want to check that out I started a new photo blog at collin.photo. Iâm going to be posting photos as I get them developed and writing about where I was or what I was thinking. So far Iâve mostly been taking photos around Portland, but I also plan on taking some trips and documenting those. If nothing else, photography has been a great way to get me out of my house. Tech Unions with Ethan Marcotte on the Rooftop Ruby Podcast ----------------------------------------------------------- September 12, 2023 Joel and I were lucky enough to be joined by Ethan Marcotte to talk about his new book, You Deserve a Tech Union. It's a fantastic book which I read in it's entirety before getting to interview Ethan on the show. After the last year and the horrific treatment many full-time and contract tech workers have received, my thoughts on the idea of tech unions have really changed. I wasn't against them before, I just didn't know that it was a realistic thing that could happen. Ethan's book showed me that organized labor both has a long history in tech, and that there are companies with unions right now, like Kickstarter United. If you're not into Ruby, I still recommend listening to this episode, since the entire discussion has nothing to do with Ruby at all, but does have to do with things all tech workers should be thinking about. You can find the episode on our website, Overcast, Apple Podcasts, or anywhere else you can find podcasts. Dash 7 Released --------------- August 18, 2023 Dash, a documentation viewer for macOS, just released version 7. I've been using Dash for at least nine years, and can't imagine why anyone wouldn't. What Dash does is let you have all of your documentation offline and with full text search. If you're familiar with the Xcode documentation window, it's like a better version of that, which also works for man pages, languages, web frameworks, whatever. This version switches from a once a year upgrade to a $15 a year subscription, which seems insanely cheap for the value you're getting. If you're not already a user, you should go try it now. Better Man Page Viewing ----------------------- July 18, 2023 If you use macOS, go put this into your `zshrc` or equivalent. function xman() { open x-man-page://$1 } Once youâve done that, use it by typing things like `xman grep` to show man pages in their own window like this: On macOS, Terminal.app handles the `x-man-page` URL scheme by opening a new window showing the man page you wanted. You can change how it looks by changing the âMan Pageâ profile in settings, but, why would you when the yellow looks so cool? Exercise is hard, I hate it, and I have to do it ------------------------------------------------ July 18, 2023 In 2018 I bought a Peloton bike. Since then, I think Iâve ridden it about 100 times. Always in fits and starts, too. Iâll ride it consistently for a few weeks here and there, then get sick or distracted and stop doing it. Based on that, I would say this has _not_ been the investment I might have hoped it would be. There are a lot of things to hate about working out. Itâs boring. It takes time. Itâs hard. Everyone says to find something you like, and it will be easy. Thatâs hard too. The closest I ever got to this was when I did Aikido for about a year and a half. Then I moved, felt like I regressed, started going less, moved again, and never found a new place to practice. Also, I never got good at the rolls, which is a real blocker in a martial art where large parts consist of getting through headfirst toward the floor. Of all the things I hate about exercise, however, number one is how effective it is for improving my mental health. I can be sitting at home, unable to focus, having a bum out, thinking everyone hates me, get on the bike for twenty minutes, and feel 80% better. Itâs pretty clear if I did this consistently enough to see real progress, my baseline mental state would be significantly improved. Hereâs another thing â Iâm thirty-eight now. My blood pressure and cholesterol arenât at the point of âwe need to put you on medication,â but theyâve been hovering around âletâs keep an eye on thisâ for quite a while now. Regular exercise is pretty much guaranteed to improve that. So, I got on the bike today. Iâm going to try and get on it again tomorrow. Iâm going to look into going to a boxing gym near my house. I donât know if this time will be different, but I owe it to myself to try harder than I have in the past. Letâs see if I can cross 200 rides by the end of the year. All my health stats are already tracked via my Apple Watch, and Iâve already been tracking my mood somewhat consistently. Iâm going to try and post updates with any changes I see in order to give me a _little bit_ of accountability. If you're on Peloton, look me up as âFishermansPorchâ and we can be friends. Wish me luck. #Fitness #MentalHealth The Xerox Smalltalk-80 GUI Was Weird ------------------------------------ July 2, 2023 As part of my ongoing interest in the origins of object-oriented programming and design patterns like MVC, I started to think the best way to fully grasp these things was to go back to the beginning. While there are modern Smalltalkâs like Squeak, Pharo, and Cuis that retain a lot of the old-school vibe, theyâre also pretty different. I could go into detail on how all of those options arenât quite what Iâm looking for, but since I want to write about that later, the short version for now is that I started looking into how you could emulate the original Smalltalk-80 environment on modern hardware. That ended up being incredibly easy when I found this âby the Bluebookâ implementation of it on GitHub. After a couple minutes installing, I got it running and saw this: At first glance, this looks _incredibly_ similar to something like the desktop of the Apple Lisa or early Mac OS. Itâs easy to see why people might think that Apple sort of stole the graphical user interface from itâs rich neighbor Xerox. Itâs not true, though. The first thing is that the Smalltalk environment wasn't really an operating system the same way something like Mac OS was. Itâs more like an IDE that runs on bare hardware. For example, thereâs no traditional file system. Smalltalk environments were stored as images which contained the entire state of the system. That means all of the objects, code, data, whatever, were stored as Smalltalk objects. The creators of Smalltalk wanted to make a system where the person using it was also modifying and programming the system as they used it. Thatâs really cool as a programming environment, but not really how we think of normal people using computers today. Thereâs also no desktop, icons, or pull down menus. The whole desktop metaphor isnât really there, because that isnât really what it was. Itâs sort of pure in an appealing way. There arenât many different categories of things there. Windows, pop-up menus, lists. Not a lot. You can collapse different windows youâre not using and organize them on your screen, but theyâre all just still windows, as opposed to also having icons for files and folders and apps and other sorts of things. If you want to do anything with a window, you might notice thereâs no controls. All window operations are done modally, meaning you click, select what you want to do, and then do that thing. You canât even move or resize a window by clicking and dragging. There is click and drag for scrollbars and text, but not for windows. Weird. If you wanted to move this window you would select âmoveâ, which collapses the window and ties it to your mouse location. You then move your mouse to wherever you want the window to be and click again to place it. Oh, and you can only click, because there are no key commands in this system whatsoever. Looking at all of this together, yeah, the Lisa and Macintosh took a lot from Xerox. But, they also added a lot. The Smalltalk environment was a revolutionary GUI, but it was still a system you would have had to have been a _computer operator_ or something to really use. Itâs not a personal computer at all. The fact Apple was able to see the potential and then figure out all of the metaphors and affordances which needed to be there for regular humans to use a computer like this, and that they got so many of those things right by the time of the original Macintosh is pretty incredible. #programming #apple #smalltalk #ui Not Writing Today ----------------- July 2, 2023 I really wanted to write something today, but I donât think itâs going to happen. Iâve been feeling pretty anxious, which only got worse when I got a cold earlier this week. At this point, I can barely form any coherent thoughts. Thatâs why Iâm not going to write anything. Speaking about the anxiety thing â am I weird, or is everyone anxious most of the time, and they just donât talk about it? The way things have been, and continue to be, itâs hard for me to imagine not having an underlying current of anxiety most of the time. Is everyone afraid theyâre going to lose their jobs or have something go wrong at any moment? Maybe that says more about me than anything else. Maybe Swedish people? Iâve wondered a lot about how living in a place that has a real social safety net affects the mental health of the people who live there. Iâm sure it does. We talk a lot about how if we taxed rich people more in order to pay for doing that in the United States how it could disincentive investors. That doesnât make sense to me though. How many of us might try something they otherwise wouldnât if the cost of failure wasnât so high? Itâs hard for a normal person to invest their personal capital in doing anything but continuing to do what they need to get by, that has to have an effect. Even if Iâm totally wrong, Iâd be okay with the risk of rich people taking fewer chances if it meant everyone else didnât have to walk around feeling like this is the day everything might fall apart. So yeah, thatâs why Iâm not writing anything today. Hopefully soon when Iâm feeling a bit better. #writing #anxiety You're Never Going to Fix Your Technical Debt --------------------------------------------- June 23, 2023 Iâve been thinking this week about how I write code and the quality I want to aim for. Iâve worked some pretty big and successful projects. Iâve _seen_ things. So with that in mind, hereâs what Iâve decided. There are only two times technical debt will ever be addressed: upfront or never. What counts as upfront? ----------------------- Upfront is anytime before the feature is âdone.â Iâm a pretty big fan of a style I call âgetting in there and making a mess.â Itâs actually one of the things I really like about SwiftUI. The whole style of writing SwiftUI encourages hammering out your view to the point where things are functional and then using the refactoring tools to break things up into components. Love that. Figuring out what your abstractions are or where the objects are hidden is super valuable. Itâs also generally only going to happen upfront. You were probably wrong ----------------------- I donât care how many Uncle Bob or Martin Fowler books you read, your architecture is probably going to suck, youâll never really fix it, and youâre going to spend the rest of time with it hanging around your neck. Itâs that feeling where writing code in a project goes from being exciting to something where you mutter under your breath before starting each day _once more unto the breach_. Your clean architecture you made super DRY will be the biggest piece of technical debt you have. Eventually the other people at your job will start telling you why itâs actually a good thing. You donât understand! Weâre not like other companies, weâre cool and quirky and we needed to abstract away every API in the framework we use and put our own crazy thing on top of it. Theyâre wrong. Those people have been indoctrinated. You donât want to be the person starts talking about rewriting everything after their first week, but after a little while if everything still feels crazy and like it makes everything suck a little more, it probably does. Trust that instinct. Or donât! Eventually youâll be indoctrinated too. Or youâll quit or get fired. One of those. You never know less than when youâre starting --------------------------------------------- This is a truism that made sense to me as soon as I heard it the first time. The worst time to make decisions is upfront. You know so little. This is a terrible to commit to anything. Wait. Didnât I say that the only time decisions get made is upfront? Yeah, I did. Listen, life contains a lot of contradictions. Things arenât always going to make sense. You should get used to that. So what should you do? ---------------------- The thing you can do upfront is refactor as you go (donât overdo it) and make it as easy possible to change your mind later. Delay, delay, delay. Just make as few decisions as you can, so when you have to do the next thing. Since I should probably finish this with something kind of actionable, hereâs my recommendations. The biggest thing I would think about is _cohesiveness_ and getting an ability to feel out if things are remaining that way as you try and pull out your abstractions. Avoid heavily abstracting away the API of whatever framework youâre writing on top of as much as possible. Never (never, never) import a complex overarching architecture into your project. Do not. Especially not one that I promise you it will be terrible. My biggest red flag is anything that starts asking you to pass calls through multiple things to do one thing. Keep things as simple as you can as long as you can. I get that this had some contradictions in it, but as I said, life is like that sometimes. The thing with technical debt is to minimize and delay. Also, donât listen to thought leaders. #programming #architecture â Older
Freelance software developer from Portland Oregon. subscribe & followhire me Where to Follow Me (Mastodon, Bluesky, etc) ------------------------------------------- November 17, 2024 Since the world of text-based social media seems to be having another shakeup, I felt like this would be a good time to let people know where to find me across all of the places. As of now, Iâm using all of these, so follow me on whichever you like. * Here, obviously (RSS, mailing list) * Mastodon @collin@ruby.social * Bluesky collindonnell.bsky.social * Threads @fishermansporch * My photo blog (RSS, mailing list) * Instagram @fishermansporch My Boring Coding Font Answer ---------------------------- October 24, 2024 Joe Steel wrote a post about how he uses different monospaced fonts for different apps. I feel boring now since I just use SF Mono for everything (the default in recent macOS). New Photo Blog -------------- October 5, 2024 In the last few months Iâve started getting really into film photography. If you want to check that out I started a new photo blog at collin.photo. Iâm going to be posting photos as I get them developed and writing about where I was or what I was thinking. So far Iâve mostly been taking photos around Portland, but I also plan on taking some trips and documenting those. If nothing else, photography has been a great way to get me out of my house. Tech Unions with Ethan Marcotte on the Rooftop Ruby Podcast ----------------------------------------------------------- September 12, 2023 Joel and I were lucky enough to be joined by Ethan Marcotte to talk about his new book, You Deserve a Tech Union. It's a fantastic book which I read in it's entirety before getting to interview Ethan on the show. After the last year and the horrific treatment many full-time and contract tech workers have received, my thoughts on the idea of tech unions have really changed. I wasn't against them before, I just didn't know that it was a realistic thing that could happen. Ethan's book showed me that organized labor both has a long history in tech, and that there are companies with unions right now, like Kickstarter United. If you're not into Ruby, I still recommend listening to this episode, since the entire discussion has nothing to do with Ruby at all, but does have to do with things all tech workers should be thinking about. You can find the episode on our website, Overcast, Apple Podcasts, or anywhere else you can find podcasts. Dash 7 Released --------------- August 18, 2023 Dash, a documentation viewer for macOS, just released version 7. I've been using Dash for at least nine years, and can't imagine why anyone wouldn't. What Dash does is let you have all of your documentation offline and with full text search. If you're familiar with the Xcode documentation window, it's like a better version of that, which also works for man pages, languages, web frameworks, whatever. This version switches from a once a year upgrade to a $15 a year subscription, which seems insanely cheap for the value you're getting. If you're not already a user, you should go try it now. Better Man Page Viewing ----------------------- July 18, 2023 If you use macOS, go put this into your `zshrc` or equivalent. function xman() { open x-man-page://$1 } Once youâve done that, use it by typing things like `xman grep` to show man pages in their own window like this: On macOS, Terminal.app handles the `x-man-page` URL scheme by opening a new window showing the man page you wanted. You can change how it looks by changing the âMan Pageâ profile in settings, but, why would you when the yellow looks so cool? Exercise is hard, I hate it, and I have to do it ------------------------------------------------ July 18, 2023 In 2018 I bought a Peloton bike. Since then, I think Iâve ridden it about 100 times. Always in fits and starts, too. Iâll ride it consistently for a few weeks here and there, then get sick or distracted and stop doing it. Based on that, I would say this has _not_ been the investment I might have hoped it would be. There are a lot of things to hate about working out. Itâs boring. It takes time. Itâs hard. Everyone says to find something you like, and it will be easy. Thatâs hard too. The closest I ever got to this was when I did Aikido for about a year and a half. Then I moved, felt like I regressed, started going less, moved again, and never found a new place to practice. Also, I never got good at the rolls, which is a real blocker in a martial art where large parts consist of getting through headfirst toward the floor. Of all the things I hate about exercise, however, number one is how effective it is for improving my mental health. I can be sitting at home, unable to focus, having a bum out, thinking everyone hates me, get on the bike for twenty minutes, and feel 80% better. Itâs pretty clear if I did this consistently enough to see real progress, my baseline mental state would be significantly improved. Hereâs another thing â Iâm thirty-eight now. My blood pressure and cholesterol arenât at the point of âwe need to put you on medication,â but theyâve been hovering around âletâs keep an eye on thisâ for quite a while now. Regular exercise is pretty much guaranteed to improve that. So, I got on the bike today. Iâm going to try and get on it again tomorrow. Iâm going to look into going to a boxing gym near my house. I donât know if this time will be different, but I owe it to myself to try harder than I have in the past. Letâs see if I can cross 200 rides by the end of the year. All my health stats are already tracked via my Apple Watch, and Iâve already been tracking my mood somewhat consistently. Iâm going to try and post updates with any changes I see in order to give me a _little bit_ of accountability. If you're on Peloton, look me up as âFishermansPorchâ and we can be friends. Wish me luck. #Fitness #MentalHealth The Xerox Smalltalk-80 GUI Was Weird ------------------------------------ July 2, 2023 As part of my ongoing interest in the origins of object-oriented programming and design patterns like MVC, I started to think the best way to fully grasp these things was to go back to the beginning. While there are modern Smalltalkâs like Squeak, Pharo, and Cuis that retain a lot of the old-school vibe, theyâre also pretty different. I could go into detail on how all of those options arenât quite what Iâm looking for, but since I want to write about that later, the short version for now is that I started looking into how you could emulate the original Smalltalk-80 environment on modern hardware. That ended up being incredibly easy when I found this âby the Bluebookâ implementation of it on GitHub. After a couple minutes installing, I got it running and saw this: At first glance, this looks _incredibly_ similar to something like the desktop of the Apple Lisa or early Mac OS. Itâs easy to see why people might think that Apple sort of stole the graphical user interface from itâs rich neighbor Xerox. Itâs not true, though. The first thing is that the Smalltalk environment wasn't really an operating system the same way something like Mac OS was. Itâs more like an IDE that runs on bare hardware. For example, thereâs no traditional file system. Smalltalk environments were stored as images which contained the entire state of the system. That means all of the objects, code, data, whatever, were stored as Smalltalk objects. The creators of Smalltalk wanted to make a system where the person using it was also modifying and programming the system as they used it. Thatâs really cool as a programming environment, but not really how we think of normal people using computers today. Thereâs also no desktop, icons, or pull down menus. The whole desktop metaphor isnât really there, because that isnât really what it was. Itâs sort of pure in an appealing way. There arenât many different categories of things there. Windows, pop-up menus, lists. Not a lot. You can collapse different windows youâre not using and organize them on your screen, but theyâre all just still windows, as opposed to also having icons for files and folders and apps and other sorts of things. If you want to do anything with a window, you might notice thereâs no controls. All window operations are done modally, meaning you click, select what you want to do, and then do that thing. You canât even move or resize a window by clicking and dragging. There is click and drag for scrollbars and text, but not for windows. Weird. If you wanted to move this window you would select âmoveâ, which collapses the window and ties it to your mouse location. You then move your mouse to wherever you want the window to be and click again to place it. Oh, and you can only click, because there are no key commands in this system whatsoever. Looking at all of this together, yeah, the Lisa and Macintosh took a lot from Xerox. But, they also added a lot. The Smalltalk environment was a revolutionary GUI, but it was still a system you would have had to have been a _computer operator_ or something to really use. Itâs not a personal computer at all. The fact Apple was able to see the potential and then figure out all of the metaphors and affordances which needed to be there for regular humans to use a computer like this, and that they got so many of those things right by the time of the original Macintosh is pretty incredible. #programming #apple #smalltalk #ui Not Writing Today ----------------- July 2, 2023 I really wanted to write something today, but I donât think itâs going to happen. Iâve been feeling pretty anxious, which only got worse when I got a cold earlier this week. At this point, I can barely form any coherent thoughts. Thatâs why Iâm not going to write anything. Speaking about the anxiety thing â am I weird, or is everyone anxious most of the time, and they just donât talk about it? The way things have been, and continue to be, itâs hard for me to imagine not having an underlying current of anxiety most of the time. Is everyone afraid theyâre going to lose their jobs or have something go wrong at any moment? Maybe that says more about me than anything else. Maybe Swedish people? Iâve wondered a lot about how living in a place that has a real social safety net affects the mental health of the people who live there. Iâm sure it does. We talk a lot about how if we taxed rich people more in order to pay for doing that in the United States how it could disincentive investors. That doesnât make sense to me though. How many of us might try something they otherwise wouldnât if the cost of failure wasnât so high? Itâs hard for a normal person to invest their personal capital in doing anything but continuing to do what they need to get by, that has to have an effect. Even if Iâm totally wrong, Iâd be okay with the risk of rich people taking fewer chances if it meant everyone else didnât have to walk around feeling like this is the day everything might fall apart. So yeah, thatâs why Iâm not writing anything today. Hopefully soon when Iâm feeling a bit better. #writing #anxiety You're Never Going to Fix Your Technical Debt --------------------------------------------- June 23, 2023 Iâve been thinking this week about how I write code and the quality I want to aim for. Iâve worked some pretty big and successful projects. Iâve _seen_ things. So with that in mind, hereâs what Iâve decided. There are only two times technical debt will ever be addressed: upfront or never. What counts as upfront? ----------------------- Upfront is anytime before the feature is âdone.â Iâm a pretty big fan of a style I call âgetting in there and making a mess.â Itâs actually one of the things I really like about SwiftUI. The whole style of writing SwiftUI encourages hammering out your view to the point where things are functional and then using the refactoring tools to break things up into components. Love that. Figuring out what your abstractions are or where the objects are hidden is super valuable. Itâs also generally only going to happen upfront. You were probably wrong ----------------------- I donât care how many Uncle Bob or Martin Fowler books you read, your architecture is probably going to suck, youâll never really fix it, and youâre going to spend the rest of time with it hanging around your neck. Itâs that feeling where writing code in a project goes from being exciting to something where you mutter under your breath before starting each day _once more unto the breach_. Your clean architecture you made super DRY will be the biggest piece of technical debt you have. Eventually the other people at your job will start telling you why itâs actually a good thing. You donât understand! Weâre not like other companies, weâre cool and quirky and we needed to abstract away every API in the framework we use and put our own crazy thing on top of it. Theyâre wrong. Those people have been indoctrinated. You donât want to be the person starts talking about rewriting everything after their first week, but after a little while if everything still feels crazy and like it makes everything suck a little more, it probably does. Trust that instinct. Or donât! Eventually youâll be indoctrinated too. Or youâll quit or get fired. One of those. You never know less than when youâre starting --------------------------------------------- This is a truism that made sense to me as soon as I heard it the first time. The worst time to make decisions is upfront. You know so little. This is a terrible to commit to anything. Wait. Didnât I say that the only time decisions get made is upfront? Yeah, I did. Listen, life contains a lot of contradictions. Things arenât always going to make sense. You should get used to that. So what should you do? ---------------------- The thing you can do upfront is refactor as you go (donât overdo it) and make it as easy possible to change your mind later. Delay, delay, delay. Just make as few decisions as you can, so when you have to do the next thing. Since I should probably finish this with something kind of actionable, hereâs my recommendations. The biggest thing I would think about is _cohesiveness_ and getting an ability to feel out if things are remaining that way as you try and pull out your abstractions. Avoid heavily abstracting away the API of whatever framework youâre writing on top of as much as possible. Never (never, never) import a complex overarching architecture into your project. Do not. Especially not one that I promise you it will be terrible. My biggest red flag is anything that starts asking you to pass calls through multiple things to do one thing. Keep things as simple as you can as long as you can. I get that this had some contradictions in it, but as I said, life is like that sometimes. The thing with technical debt is to minimize and delay. Also, donât listen to thought leaders. #programming #architecture â Older
fabian-kleiser.de
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Updated November 16, 2024
Hello there! Iâm Fabian Kleiser, a software engineer transforming business visions into digital products. I work as Executive Vice President Digital Foundation at Mimacom, located in the heart of Stuttgart, Germany. With a decade of experience in software engineering and a strong penchant for code quality, software architecture, and cloud computing, Iâve been fortunate to create a career from my passion for technology. My journey from a young, curious coder to a leader in my field has been marked by constant learning, a few daring leaps, and an unwavering belief in the power of technology to drive change. When Iâm not shaping the future of cloud computing, I am exploring new languages, techniques, and tools to push the boundaries of whatâs possible in digital product engineering. Profession ---------- At Mimacom, I bridge the gap between business and technology, driving innovation through technology. I love being at the forefront of digital transformation, translating technical capabilities into business advantages with modern IT through data, AI and cloud engineering. Iâm a firm believer in Antoine de Saint-ExupĂ©ryâs words: > Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. If youâre interested in discussing software architecture, domain-driven design, digital innovation, or the latest cloud technologies, Iâm all ears. Personal -------- Beyond the realm of ones and zeros, I enjoy bringing ideas to life through woodworking. From a modest shoe shine box to a large, 2.40m long desk I use at home, each project is a testament to my love for crafting tangible solutions. Away from my desk, you might find me playing the piano, dancing with my spouse, capturing life through a lens, or lost in the pages of a good non-fiction book. If youâd like to get in touch, Iâd love to hear from you. You can reach me at: h.e.l.l.o (at) fabian-kleiser.de (hint: remove the dots before the @) I look forward to connecting with you!
Hello there! Iâm Fabian Kleiser, a software engineer transforming business visions into digital products. I work as Executive Vice President Digital Foundation at Mimacom, located in the heart of Stuttgart, Germany. With a decade of experience in software engineering and a strong penchant for code quality, software architecture, and cloud computing, Iâve been fortunate to create a career from my passion for technology. My journey from a young, curious coder to a leader in my field has been marked by constant learning, a few daring leaps, and an unwavering belief in the power of technology to drive change. When Iâm not shaping the future of cloud computing, I am exploring new languages, techniques, and tools to push the boundaries of whatâs possible in digital product engineering. Profession ---------- At Mimacom, I bridge the gap between business and technology, driving innovation through technology. I love being at the forefront of digital transformation, translating technical capabilities into business advantages with modern IT through data, AI and cloud engineering. Iâm a firm believer in Antoine de Saint-ExupĂ©ryâs words: > Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. If youâre interested in discussing software architecture, domain-driven design, digital innovation, or the latest cloud technologies, Iâm all ears. Personal -------- Beyond the realm of ones and zeros, I enjoy bringing ideas to life through woodworking. From a modest shoe shine box to a large, 2.40m long desk I use at home, each project is a testament to my love for crafting tangible solutions. Away from my desk, you might find me playing the piano, dancing with my spouse, capturing life through a lens, or lost in the pages of a good non-fiction book. If youâd like to get in touch, Iâd love to hear from you. You can reach me at: h.e.l.l.o (at) fabian-kleiser.de (hint: remove the dots before the @) I look forward to connecting with you!
fabian-kleiser.de
/now
Updated November 16, 2024
_What I am up to now:_ I am working as EVP Digital Foundation at Mimacom in Stuttgart, Germany helping our customers build digital innovations that thrive with data, AI and cloud technologies. Besides that, youâll also find me doing one of the following: âïž Enhancing my knowledge in all things cloud: Azure, AWS and Kubernetes đïž Blogging on my website on topics related to software development đč Taking lessons to improve my piano skills đž Capturing the world by camera or drone đȘ” Woodworking furniture for my apartment â November, 2024 _Thanks to Derek Sivers for inspiring this /now page._
_What I am up to now:_ I am working as EVP Digital Foundation at Mimacom in Stuttgart, Germany helping our customers build digital innovations that thrive with data, AI and cloud technologies. Besides that, youâll also find me doing one of the following: âïž Enhancing my knowledge in all things cloud: Azure, AWS and Kubernetes đïž Blogging on my website on topics related to software development đč Taking lessons to improve my piano skills đž Capturing the world by camera or drone đȘ” Woodworking furniture for my apartment â November, 2024 _Thanks to Derek Sivers for inspiring this /now page._
rhiaro.co.uk
/about
Updated November 15, 2024
After serving two terms, I'm not standing in the upcoming W3C TAG election. I have loved working with the TAG, and been privileged to learn so much from the other members and wider community over the last four years. I wouldn't rule out running for election again in future. But for a while at least, I need to dial back the time I spend behind my keyboard, and put more focus into my (geographically) local community. If you have a vote in the election, I would strongly encourage you to rank highly Lola Odelola and Sarven Capadisli. Lola has a strong technical background, ample experience of W3C processes, and a track record of fighting for marginalised voices in tech; we've had brilliant, hope-filled conversations at TPACs about what the future could be, and how to build the ethical tech and systems to get there. I worked with Sarven for several years in the Social Web WG days and never have I met someone with such a strong sense of justice and so relentless in pursuit of what they believe in. They'll do the work needed for the TAG to have impact, and far better than I ever could. If these two are elected, I'll sleep easy. It probably goes without saying that you should also re-elect Hadley Beeman, who has been an invaluable member of the TAG for many many years, a great mentor, and a reliable voice of wisdom.
After serving two terms, I'm not standing in the upcoming W3C TAG election. I have loved working with the TAG, and been privileged to learn so much from the other members and wider community over the last four years. I wouldn't rule out running for election again in future. But for a while at least, I need to dial back the time I spend behind my keyboard, and put more focus into my (geographically) local community. If you have a vote in the election, I would strongly encourage you to rank highly Lola Odelola and Sarven Capadisli. Lola has a strong technical background, ample experience of W3C processes, and a track record of fighting for marginalised voices in tech; we've had brilliant, hope-filled conversations at TPACs about what the future could be, and how to build the ethical tech and systems to get there. I worked with Sarven for several years in the Social Web WG days and never have I met someone with such a strong sense of justice and so relentless in pursuit of what they believe in. They'll do the work needed for the TAG to have impact, and far better than I ever could. If these two are elected, I'll sleep easy. It probably goes without saying that you should also re-elect Hadley Beeman, who has been an invaluable member of the TAG for many many years, a great mentor, and a reliable voice of wisdom.
jarbus.net
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Updated November 14, 2024
Hi, Iâm Jack, a computer science PhD interested in machine learning, computing, decentralization, and artificial societies. Featured Projects: * Jevo.jl * A modular, high-performance framework for distributed deep neuroevolution * emergent trade * emergent trading between embodied agents using reinforcement learning * jither * Jackâs image dithering tool, runs locally. Built with web assembly. * jarvis * (jar)busâs audio (vis)ualizer, runs locally. Built with webGPU. * kittyplot * a repl-based terminal plotting program * dtree * a vim-inspired mind-mapping program written in C * fe-alts * A single docker-compose of alternative front-ends to big tech services Favorite Posts: * The Penultimate Wave of AI * Zen in the Art of Beat Saber * Eloquence and Wit from Will Durant * Originality in the Age of AI * Unexpected Benefits of Testing Code Contact me via: * Email: jackgarbus at gmail * Mastodon @jarbus@fosstodon.org * Github: @jarbus * * * Just upgraded my Framework Laptop 13 Mainboard from a Ryzen 7640U to a Ryzen AI HX 370. I run Arch Linux. Hereâs my experience: * Upgrade was easy, but the cables for my WiFi card wouldnât snap into place. Thereâs a plastic thing that I have to put on top of the connector to hold them in place, but itâs a massive pain to connect. Took me over 20 minutes to align and lock the cables into place, but I got it working. Like many edgy teenagers, I once embraced nihilismâthe belief that nothing matters, that existence is fundamentally meaningless. I could write a book on how strongly I subscribed to this area of thought, but thatâs not the point of this post; youâll have to trust that the following comes from someone who climbed out of the pit: _Everything matters._ And thatâs even scarier. I still donât believe in broad concepts like âmeaningâ or âfulfillmentâ. I believe in biological reactions that make something feel meaningful or fulfilling. Those reactions are what matters, and I think nihilismâs pull is strongest on those who lack them. But we can hack our minds. My latest paper is available on arxiv: Low Rank Factorizations are Indirect Encodings for Deep Neuroevolution. The general idea is that we can search for stronger neural networks in a gradient-free fashion by restricting search to networks of low-rank. We show that it works well for language modeling and reinforcement learning tasks. Itâs essentially a crossover between the following papers: * LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models * Deep Neuroevolution: Genetic Algorithms Are a Competitive Alternative for Training Deep Neural Networks for Reinforcement Learning. Iâll be presenting it virtually for the Neuroevolution@Work workshop at GECCO 2025. If all goes well, Iâll leave Brandeis University with a PhD degree in computer science this summer. Here are my parting thoughts for our remaining students, divided into technical and non-technical sections. I write this out of self-interest; students after me will represent our university in years to come, and itâs in my best interest for them to be as effective as possible. NON-TECHNICAL ------------- * Students often lack crucial skills. Technical students may lack communication skills, or social butterflies may lack depth. Some lack both. This doesnât really matter, in my opinion, if they are **willing to learn**. Just like neural networks, they may be all over the place initially, but students who reflect on your feedback will (eventually) be worth more than those who never update their parameters. Donât give up on those who listen and try; they often just need the right kind of mentorship. I used to have a mental block against casually reading things that werenât designed to be casually read, like old papers, textbooks, documentation, etc. If I was going to read for enjoyment, Iâd read blogs or popular science/fiction books. Not sure why. Over time, Iâve met people who read things Iâd never think to read. Iâve gotten a lot of value from copying them, so Iâm sharing my thoughts here. Starting from REINFORCE, the original deep reinforcement learning algorithm, we will trace the evolution of policy gradient methods to the Group Relative Policy Optimization algorithm used to train Deepseek r1. This post ignores the LLM side of things, less-related developments in RL, and most of the equations used for these algorithms, but captures the essence and intuition of the RL-timeline without wasting your time. This is all self-study, so feel free to send me any corrections/suggestions.1 I just finished _The Story of Civilization, Vol. 1_ (1976) by Will Durant. Itâs a fantastic read; Durant is eloquent, witty, and surprisingly relevant today. Below are some of my personal highlights of his writing, mixed with some quotes-of-quotes I found interesting. Sections: Introduction | Communism | Government | Women | Morals | Language | Appearance | Sumeria | Egypt | Babylon | Assyria | Judea | Persia | India | China | Japan | Conclusions Introduction ------------ > âthe provincialism of our traditional histories, which began with Greece and summed up Asia in a line, has become no merely academic error, but a possibly fatal failure of perspective and intelligenceâ I donât think r1 will get us to artificial super intelligence, but whatever comes next probably will. We are reaching a familiar bottleneck in AI. Previously, humans had to manually hardcode the patterns that AI could recognize. With deep learning, machines began to learn patterns on their own, without human assistance. With (relatively) expensive humans out of the loop, we threw machines at the worldâs data until they began to talk, code, and paint. Many people believed this would be sufficient to reach artificial super intelligenceâbut it wasnât. Iâm doing an internship right now, and thankfully, I read a few books on software design before starting. I had to design a database schema, data submission page, submission approval page, and dynamic dashboard for the project I was assigned to. This is one of those projects that AI can obviously do 90% of to work for if designed appropriatelyâif the right abstractions are used, performance trade-offs are made, and the right tools are chosen. I wanted to make sure that, throughout the project, AI could always easily with any part of the codebase. Wikipedia translates the Greek philosophical concept of Eudaimonia as âHuman Flourishingâ, particularly on the spiritual level. It refers to genuine happiness and fulfillment over hedonism or GDP. The modern world feels meaningless at times. Instead of hunting or farming to put food on the table, many of us sit at a computer or stand behind a counter, far removed from the fruits of our laborâif our labor even bears fruit. Our screens bombard us with videos of people more beautiful and successful than we could ever hope to be while we stay inside, alone.
Hi, Iâm Jack, a computer science PhD interested in machine learning, computing, decentralization, and artificial societies. Featured Projects: * Jevo.jl * A modular, high-performance framework for distributed deep neuroevolution * emergent trade * emergent trading between embodied agents using reinforcement learning * jither * Jackâs image dithering tool, runs locally. Built with web assembly. * jarvis * (jar)busâs audio (vis)ualizer, runs locally. Built with webGPU. * kittyplot * a repl-based terminal plotting program * dtree * a vim-inspired mind-mapping program written in C * fe-alts * A single docker-compose of alternative front-ends to big tech services Favorite Posts: * The Penultimate Wave of AI * Zen in the Art of Beat Saber * Eloquence and Wit from Will Durant * Originality in the Age of AI * Unexpected Benefits of Testing Code Contact me via: * Email: jackgarbus at gmail * Mastodon @jarbus@fosstodon.org * Github: @jarbus * * * Just upgraded my Framework Laptop 13 Mainboard from a Ryzen 7640U to a Ryzen AI HX 370. I run Arch Linux. Hereâs my experience: * Upgrade was easy, but the cables for my WiFi card wouldnât snap into place. Thereâs a plastic thing that I have to put on top of the connector to hold them in place, but itâs a massive pain to connect. Took me over 20 minutes to align and lock the cables into place, but I got it working. Like many edgy teenagers, I once embraced nihilismâthe belief that nothing matters, that existence is fundamentally meaningless. I could write a book on how strongly I subscribed to this area of thought, but thatâs not the point of this post; youâll have to trust that the following comes from someone who climbed out of the pit: _Everything matters._ And thatâs even scarier. I still donât believe in broad concepts like âmeaningâ or âfulfillmentâ. I believe in biological reactions that make something feel meaningful or fulfilling. Those reactions are what matters, and I think nihilismâs pull is strongest on those who lack them. But we can hack our minds. My latest paper is available on arxiv: Low Rank Factorizations are Indirect Encodings for Deep Neuroevolution. The general idea is that we can search for stronger neural networks in a gradient-free fashion by restricting search to networks of low-rank. We show that it works well for language modeling and reinforcement learning tasks. Itâs essentially a crossover between the following papers: * LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models * Deep Neuroevolution: Genetic Algorithms Are a Competitive Alternative for Training Deep Neural Networks for Reinforcement Learning. Iâll be presenting it virtually for the Neuroevolution@Work workshop at GECCO 2025. If all goes well, Iâll leave Brandeis University with a PhD degree in computer science this summer. Here are my parting thoughts for our remaining students, divided into technical and non-technical sections. I write this out of self-interest; students after me will represent our university in years to come, and itâs in my best interest for them to be as effective as possible. NON-TECHNICAL ------------- * Students often lack crucial skills. Technical students may lack communication skills, or social butterflies may lack depth. Some lack both. This doesnât really matter, in my opinion, if they are **willing to learn**. Just like neural networks, they may be all over the place initially, but students who reflect on your feedback will (eventually) be worth more than those who never update their parameters. Donât give up on those who listen and try; they often just need the right kind of mentorship. I used to have a mental block against casually reading things that werenât designed to be casually read, like old papers, textbooks, documentation, etc. If I was going to read for enjoyment, Iâd read blogs or popular science/fiction books. Not sure why. Over time, Iâve met people who read things Iâd never think to read. Iâve gotten a lot of value from copying them, so Iâm sharing my thoughts here. Starting from REINFORCE, the original deep reinforcement learning algorithm, we will trace the evolution of policy gradient methods to the Group Relative Policy Optimization algorithm used to train Deepseek r1. This post ignores the LLM side of things, less-related developments in RL, and most of the equations used for these algorithms, but captures the essence and intuition of the RL-timeline without wasting your time. This is all self-study, so feel free to send me any corrections/suggestions.1 I just finished _The Story of Civilization, Vol. 1_ (1976) by Will Durant. Itâs a fantastic read; Durant is eloquent, witty, and surprisingly relevant today. Below are some of my personal highlights of his writing, mixed with some quotes-of-quotes I found interesting. Sections: Introduction | Communism | Government | Women | Morals | Language | Appearance | Sumeria | Egypt | Babylon | Assyria | Judea | Persia | India | China | Japan | Conclusions Introduction ------------ > âthe provincialism of our traditional histories, which began with Greece and summed up Asia in a line, has become no merely academic error, but a possibly fatal failure of perspective and intelligenceâ I donât think r1 will get us to artificial super intelligence, but whatever comes next probably will. We are reaching a familiar bottleneck in AI. Previously, humans had to manually hardcode the patterns that AI could recognize. With deep learning, machines began to learn patterns on their own, without human assistance. With (relatively) expensive humans out of the loop, we threw machines at the worldâs data until they began to talk, code, and paint. Many people believed this would be sufficient to reach artificial super intelligenceâbut it wasnât. Iâm doing an internship right now, and thankfully, I read a few books on software design before starting. I had to design a database schema, data submission page, submission approval page, and dynamic dashboard for the project I was assigned to. This is one of those projects that AI can obviously do 90% of to work for if designed appropriatelyâif the right abstractions are used, performance trade-offs are made, and the right tools are chosen. I wanted to make sure that, throughout the project, AI could always easily with any part of the codebase. Wikipedia translates the Greek philosophical concept of Eudaimonia as âHuman Flourishingâ, particularly on the spiritual level. It refers to genuine happiness and fulfillment over hedonism or GDP. The modern world feels meaningless at times. Instead of hunting or farming to put food on the table, many of us sit at a computer or stand behind a counter, far removed from the fruits of our laborâif our labor even bears fruit. Our screens bombard us with videos of people more beautiful and successful than we could ever hope to be while we stay inside, alone.
lodiplanting.com
/now
Updated November 14, 2024
Hieronder vind je de zaken waar ik nu, now, as we speak, mee bezig ben. Het is het framework in actie om sh\*t gedaan te krijgen en dient als voorbeeld.  Deze pagina is geĂŻnspireerd door Derek Sivers. Laatste update: 14 november 2024. Gezondheid ---------- **Ik ben en blijf gezond** 1. Ik weeg tussen 75 en 85 kilogram (= normaal BMI).  2. Ik sport omdat ik het leuk vind. 3. Ik reduceer mijn stresslevel. 4. Ik geniet van voldoende slaap. Dit zijn mijn projecten voor dit jaar: * 50 keer sporten om af te vallen (-10 kilogram). * 52 boeken lezen (via Blinkist) om te ontspannen. _Op een hockeytoernooi in 2007. Ik ben nog even verdwaald._ FinanciĂ«n --------- **Ik verdien geld met datgene wat ik het liefste doe** 1. Wij zijn financieel onafhankelijk (1 miljoen = 100%). 2. Wij investeren maandelijks 20 â 25% van ons inkomen. 3. Ik maak financiĂ«le sprongen. 4. Wij zijn schuldenvrij. Dit zijn mijn projecten voor dit jaar: * 20% van ons inkomen beleggen elke maand. * 20% financieel onafhankelijk zijn. _Eerst durfde ik mijn financiĂ«n niet aan te kijken en nu zeg ik: âhell yaâ._ Persoonlijke groei (spiritualiteit) ----------------------------------- **Ik ben een voorbeeld voor anderen** 1. Ik lever een maatschappelijke bijdrage (op mijn manier). 2. Ik heb een conference geschreven over mijn leven. 3. Ik investeer in mijn persoonlijke ontwikkeling. 4. Ik leef volgens de 4 inzichten. Dit zijn mijn projecten voor dit jaar: * De website in een nieuw jasje steken. _Het redesign van de website is in de maak._ Haal het maximale uit jouw leven en get sh\*t done! --------------------------------------------------- Het leven is te kort om dingen te doen die je niet leuk vindt. Dus achterhaal jouw life goals â€ïž en start met getting (the right) things done đȘđ». Krijg net als **1.184 andere enthousiastelingen** de juiste dingen gedaan.
Hieronder vind je de zaken waar ik nu, now, as we speak, mee bezig ben. Het is het framework in actie om sh\*t gedaan te krijgen en dient als voorbeeld.  Deze pagina is geĂŻnspireerd door Derek Sivers. Laatste update: 14 november 2024. Gezondheid ---------- **Ik ben en blijf gezond** 1. Ik weeg tussen 75 en 85 kilogram (= normaal BMI).  2. Ik sport omdat ik het leuk vind. 3. Ik reduceer mijn stresslevel. 4. Ik geniet van voldoende slaap. Dit zijn mijn projecten voor dit jaar: * 50 keer sporten om af te vallen (-10 kilogram). * 52 boeken lezen (via Blinkist) om te ontspannen. _Op een hockeytoernooi in 2007. Ik ben nog even verdwaald._ FinanciĂ«n --------- **Ik verdien geld met datgene wat ik het liefste doe** 1. Wij zijn financieel onafhankelijk (1 miljoen = 100%). 2. Wij investeren maandelijks 20 â 25% van ons inkomen. 3. Ik maak financiĂ«le sprongen. 4. Wij zijn schuldenvrij. Dit zijn mijn projecten voor dit jaar: * 20% van ons inkomen beleggen elke maand. * 20% financieel onafhankelijk zijn. _Eerst durfde ik mijn financiĂ«n niet aan te kijken en nu zeg ik: âhell yaâ._ Persoonlijke groei (spiritualiteit) ----------------------------------- **Ik ben een voorbeeld voor anderen** 1. Ik lever een maatschappelijke bijdrage (op mijn manier). 2. Ik heb een conference geschreven over mijn leven. 3. Ik investeer in mijn persoonlijke ontwikkeling. 4. Ik leef volgens de 4 inzichten. Dit zijn mijn projecten voor dit jaar: * De website in een nieuw jasje steken. _Het redesign van de website is in de maak._ Haal het maximale uit jouw leven en get sh\*t done! --------------------------------------------------- Het leven is te kort om dingen te doen die je niet leuk vindt. Dus achterhaal jouw life goals â€ïž en start met getting (the right) things done đȘđ». Krijg net als **1.184 andere enthousiastelingen** de juiste dingen gedaan.
hattislaw.com
/about
Updated November 13, 2024
### False Advertising Lawsuits False advertising hurts everyone who plays by the rulesâconsumers, businesses, investors. Hattis Law seeks to obtain the largest possible monetary awards for consumers who have been wronged. Just as importantly, Hattis Law asks judges and arbitrators to order corporations to permanently change their business practices. Dedicated to protecting consumers --------------------------------- About Hattis Law ------------------ #### Fake Discounts Retailers who advertise fake discounts are violating the law. A product is not âOn Saleâ if it is _always_ âOn Sale.â A âBuy 1 Get 1 Freeâ offer is illegal if the retailer simply doubles the cost of the first item to make the second item âfree.â #### Bogus Fees Companies cannot charge an extra fee for services that they have promised to provide for a fixed price. Companies are not allowed to create a fee and call it a tax. Yet millions of consumers receive monthly invoices that have been unlawfully inflated by made-up âtaxes and fees.â #### Public Injunctions Happily, the law allows a single consumer to seek a public injunctionâan order that requires the corporation to stop and change its unlawful practices. Public injunctions allow a judge or arbitrator to specify how the corporation can and cannot conduct its business. Meet The Team ------------- * Daniel M. Hattis * Paul Karl Lukacs * Che Corrington #### Daniel M. Hattis **Daniel M. Hattis** ATTORNEY University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), J.D. Washington State Bar; California State Bar. Book currently recommending: _Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup_ by John Carreyrou. **Recent Decisions of Interest** _Bekkerman v. California Department of Tax & Fee Administration, Judgment_ (Sacramento Superior Court Oct. 27, 2020) (invalidating regulation imposing unlawful sales tax on certain cell phone purchases). _Adkins v. Comcast Corp._, 2018 WL 4846548 (N.D. Cal. Feb. 15, 2018) (declaring Comcast arbitration agreement unenforceable), affâd, 772 Fed. Appx. 569 (9th Cir. 2019). #### Paul Karl Lukacs **Paul Karl Lukacs** ATTORNEY University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), J.D. Washington State Bar; California State Bar. Former Legal Affairs Contributor, _South China Morning Post_. Book currently recommending: _Quantum of Solace: The Complete James Bond Short Stories_ by Ian Fleming. **Recent Decisions of Interest** _Jack v. Ring LLC_, â F. Supp. 3d â (N.D. Cal. 2021) (remanding action because claim for public injunctive relief is valued by plaintiffâs benefit and not by defendantâs compliance costs). _Aguilar v. Carterâs, Inc._, 501 F. Supp. 3d 1030 (E.D. Wash. 2020) (setting aside defense judgment after plaintiff prevailed at arbitration). #### Che Corrington **Che Corrington** ATTORNEY University of Washington School of Law, J.D. Washington State Bar; Oregon State Bar. Former Extern to Washington Supreme Court Justice Charles Wiggins. Book currently recommending: _Chew Omnivore Edition, # 1_, written by John Layman and drawn by Rob Guillory. **Recent Decisions of Interest** _Vasquez v. Cebridge Telecom CA, LLC_, â F. Supp. 3d â-, 2021 WL 5113217 (N.D. Cal. 2021) (denying motion to compel arbitration because plaintiff had standing to seek public injunction and defendantâs arbitration clause violated Californiaâs _McGill_ rule by unlawfully prohibiting public injunctive relief in any forum). _Nemykina v. Old Navy, LLC_, 461 F. Supp. 3d 1054 (W.D. Wash. 2020) (denying motion to dismiss because false discounting claim was pleaded with sufficient particularity). _Harbers v. Eddie Bauer, LLC_, 415 F. Supp.3d 999 (W.D. Wash. 2019) (claim for violation of Washington Commercial Electronic Mail Act pleaded injury-in-fact with sufficient concreteness to confer Article III standing).
### False Advertising Lawsuits False advertising hurts everyone who plays by the rulesâconsumers, businesses, investors. Hattis Law seeks to obtain the largest possible monetary awards for consumers who have been wronged. Just as importantly, Hattis Law asks judges and arbitrators to order corporations to permanently change their business practices. Dedicated to protecting consumers --------------------------------- About Hattis Law ------------------ #### Fake Discounts Retailers who advertise fake discounts are violating the law. A product is not âOn Saleâ if it is _always_ âOn Sale.â A âBuy 1 Get 1 Freeâ offer is illegal if the retailer simply doubles the cost of the first item to make the second item âfree.â #### Bogus Fees Companies cannot charge an extra fee for services that they have promised to provide for a fixed price. Companies are not allowed to create a fee and call it a tax. Yet millions of consumers receive monthly invoices that have been unlawfully inflated by made-up âtaxes and fees.â #### Public Injunctions Happily, the law allows a single consumer to seek a public injunctionâan order that requires the corporation to stop and change its unlawful practices. Public injunctions allow a judge or arbitrator to specify how the corporation can and cannot conduct its business. Meet The Team ------------- * Daniel M. Hattis * Paul Karl Lukacs * Che Corrington #### Daniel M. Hattis **Daniel M. Hattis** ATTORNEY University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), J.D. Washington State Bar; California State Bar. Book currently recommending: _Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup_ by John Carreyrou. **Recent Decisions of Interest** _Bekkerman v. California Department of Tax & Fee Administration, Judgment_ (Sacramento Superior Court Oct. 27, 2020) (invalidating regulation imposing unlawful sales tax on certain cell phone purchases). _Adkins v. Comcast Corp._, 2018 WL 4846548 (N.D. Cal. Feb. 15, 2018) (declaring Comcast arbitration agreement unenforceable), affâd, 772 Fed. Appx. 569 (9th Cir. 2019). #### Paul Karl Lukacs **Paul Karl Lukacs** ATTORNEY University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), J.D. Washington State Bar; California State Bar. Former Legal Affairs Contributor, _South China Morning Post_. Book currently recommending: _Quantum of Solace: The Complete James Bond Short Stories_ by Ian Fleming. **Recent Decisions of Interest** _Jack v. Ring LLC_, â F. Supp. 3d â (N.D. Cal. 2021) (remanding action because claim for public injunctive relief is valued by plaintiffâs benefit and not by defendantâs compliance costs). _Aguilar v. Carterâs, Inc._, 501 F. Supp. 3d 1030 (E.D. Wash. 2020) (setting aside defense judgment after plaintiff prevailed at arbitration). #### Che Corrington **Che Corrington** ATTORNEY University of Washington School of Law, J.D. Washington State Bar; Oregon State Bar. Former Extern to Washington Supreme Court Justice Charles Wiggins. Book currently recommending: _Chew Omnivore Edition, # 1_, written by John Layman and drawn by Rob Guillory. **Recent Decisions of Interest** _Vasquez v. Cebridge Telecom CA, LLC_, â F. Supp. 3d â-, 2021 WL 5113217 (N.D. Cal. 2021) (denying motion to compel arbitration because plaintiff had standing to seek public injunction and defendantâs arbitration clause violated Californiaâs _McGill_ rule by unlawfully prohibiting public injunctive relief in any forum). _Nemykina v. Old Navy, LLC_, 461 F. Supp. 3d 1054 (W.D. Wash. 2020) (denying motion to dismiss because false discounting claim was pleaded with sufficient particularity). _Harbers v. Eddie Bauer, LLC_, 415 F. Supp.3d 999 (W.D. Wash. 2019) (claim for violation of Washington Commercial Electronic Mail Act pleaded injury-in-fact with sufficient concreteness to confer Article III standing).
charliereese.ca
/about
Updated November 13, 2024
Hey! I'm Charlie Reese. Nice to virtually meet you! I'm the CEO and founder of ForecastOS. We sell software and data solutions to institutional investors and finance professionals. Before ForecastOS I spent almost a decade split between investment banking, software engineering, and quantitative investing / ML engineering. In my free time you can find me skiing and biking in the PNW mountains or hanging out with my wife and dog. Things I'm Making ----------------- * **ForecastOS**. Software and data solutions for institutional investors and finance professionals. * **InvestOS**. Reliable, open source backtesting and portfolio optimization. Things I've Done ---------------- * **Cycled 4,447km Trans-Canada for cancer.** I biked 4,447km over 3 weeks from Toronto to Vancouver to raise money in memory of my dear friend Jonny Kellock. * Competed twice in the Canadian alpine national championships. * Planted +75,000 trees over 8 weeks in northern Ontario, Canada. Platforms I Use --------------- * **My blog and newsletter**. Where I share long-form thoughts and pursuits. * **GitHub**. Where I deposit spaghetti-code. * **LinkedIn**. Where I humble-brag about professional milestones. You can **contact me @ \[email protected\]**
Hey! I'm Charlie Reese. Nice to virtually meet you! I'm the CEO and founder of ForecastOS. We sell software and data solutions to institutional investors and finance professionals. Before ForecastOS I spent almost a decade split between investment banking, software engineering, and quantitative investing / ML engineering. In my free time you can find me skiing and biking in the PNW mountains or hanging out with my wife and dog. Things I'm Making ----------------- * **ForecastOS**. Software and data solutions for institutional investors and finance professionals. * **InvestOS**. Reliable, open source backtesting and portfolio optimization. Things I've Done ---------------- * **Cycled 4,447km Trans-Canada for cancer.** I biked 4,447km over 3 weeks from Toronto to Vancouver to raise money in memory of my dear friend Jonny Kellock. * Competed twice in the Canadian alpine national championships. * Planted +75,000 trees over 8 weeks in northern Ontario, Canada. Platforms I Use --------------- * **My blog and newsletter**. Where I share long-form thoughts and pursuits. * **GitHub**. Where I deposit spaghetti-code. * **LinkedIn**. Where I humble-brag about professional milestones. You can **contact me @ \[email protected\]**
jasongorman.uk
/about
Updated November 13, 2024
JasonGorman ----------- I build _web software_ delivering _scalability,_ _reliability_ and _performance._ Currently helping _Domestic & General_ build their future tech platform. Contact me via **email@jasongorman.uk** or find me online @jasongormanuk.
JasonGorman ----------- I build _web software_ delivering _scalability,_ _reliability_ and _performance._ Currently helping _Domestic & General_ build their future tech platform. Contact me via **email@jasongorman.uk** or find me online @jasongormanuk.
nvl.studio
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Updated November 13, 2024
Est. 2007 Turengista * * * NVL Studio on designtoimisto Turengista, joka rakentaa nettisivuja, verkkokauppoja ja kĂ€yttöliittymiĂ€. Asiakkaina ovat pienyrittĂ€jĂ€t, jotka arvostavat kauneutta, hyvÀÀ kĂ€denjĂ€lkeĂ€ ja tekevĂ€t työnsĂ€ viimisen pÀÀlle. * * * Pannu on kuumana ---------------- MaâPe 8.30â16.30 Kuumolantie 11, Turenki Ota yhteyttĂ€ Työt ---- Sulje ### Grado Design Pirkkalassa kotipaikkaansa pitĂ€vĂ€ Grado Design keskittyy korkeatasoisiin, terĂ€ksestĂ€ ja massiivipuusta valmistettuihin design portaisiin. Grado on omalla sektorillaan selvĂ€ markkinajohtaja ja suunnanannĂ€yttĂ€jĂ€ Suomessa. Gradon porrasmallisto on hyvin kompakti ja toimiva. Vaikka mallisto ja tekniikka ovat modernia, soveltuvat portaat niin uusiin kuin vahoihinkin kohteisiin. Gradon kanssa on tehty yhteistyötĂ€ yrityksen perustamisesta, eli vuodesta 2010 lĂ€htien. TĂ€mĂ€ on tarkoittanut ennen kaikkea brĂ€ndin rakentamista ja ideointia, tuotekuvauksia ja nettisivujen kehitystĂ€. TĂ€llĂ€ hetkellĂ€ työn alla on suurempi brĂ€ndin uudistus. Tarkoituksena on pĂ€ivittÀÀ visuaalisen ilmettĂ€, vĂ€rimaailmaa ja typografiaa, viedĂ€ muutokset eteenpĂ€in mm. nettisivuille ja kasata brĂ€ndikirjaa. www.grado.fi Sulje ### PuusepĂ€nliike Hannes PuusepĂ€nliike Hannes valmistaa perinneikkunoita ja -ovia Suomen Tuuloksessa. KyseessĂ€ on massiivipuun erikoisosaaja ja kovan tason ammattilainen, työt tehdÀÀn "ihan viimesen pÀÀlle" ja jĂ€lki on sen mukaista. Hanneksen ja kumppaneiden kanssa on tehty töitĂ€ vuodesta 2016. BrĂ€ndin rakentamista, visuaalisen ilmeen kehitystĂ€ ja projektien valokuvausta. Vuonna 2021 nettisivut uusittiin kokonaisuudessaan samalla, kun yrityksen tuotantotilat laajentuivat. Tarkoituksena on viestiĂ€ vanhasta ja perinteikkÀÀstĂ€ puusepĂ€n alasta, joka korkealla ammattitaidolla ja modernilla tekniikalla tuottaa huippulaatua. www.puusepanliikehannes.fi Sulje ### KontioMehu KontioMehu on perheyritys Joensuusta, joka viljelee ja valmistaa alkoholittomia kuohujuomia ja mehuja, yli 40 vuoden kokemuksella. Erityisesti viime vuosina alkoholittomat kuohujuomat ovat olleet kovassa nosteessa. KontioMehulle rakennettiin nettisivut uudella visuaalisella ilmeellĂ€. Myynti tulee valtaosin jĂ€lleenmyyjien kautta, mutta asiakkaille haluttiin tarjota mahdollisuus tilata myös suoraan verkosta. TĂ€mĂ€n takia sivut rakennettiin MyCashflown verkkokauppa-alustalle. KyseessĂ€ on kuitenkin ennen kaikkea markkinointisivusto, jossa esitellÀÀn tuotteita ja kerrotaan yrityksen tarinaa. Kauppa integroitiin KontioMehun kassa- ja varastojĂ€rjestelmiin. www.kontiomehu.fi Sulje ### Onni Design Onni Design -kalusteet ovat tyylikkĂ€itĂ€, Suomessa valmistettuja kalusteita, jotka on suunniteltu kestĂ€mÀÀn kĂ€yttöÀ ja aikaa. Onni Design on PuusepĂ€nliike Hanneksen omistama tuotemerkki. Tunnetuin kaluste on Onni syöttötuoli, joita löytyy mm. eduskunnasta ja Oodi-kirjastosta. Onni Design -brĂ€ndiĂ€ on kehitetty vuodesta 2016. Onnille on rakennettu visuaalinen ilme, verkkokauppa, tuotteet valokuvattu, suunniteltu esitteet, pakkaukset ja perinteistĂ€ mainontaa. www.onni-design.fi Sulje ### Trukki Timlin Vuonna 1986 perustettu Trukki Timlin myy ja vuokraa kĂ€ytettyjĂ€ Trukkeja LempÀÀlĂ€ssĂ€. Filosofiana on ostaa vĂ€hĂ€n ajettuja ja hyvĂ€kuntoisia trukkeja Euroopasta, rahdata ne verstaalle jossa trukit kunnostetaan ja huolletaan. LĂ€hes uudenveroiset, mutta hinnaltaan edullisemmat trukit myydÀÀn takuun kanssa pÀÀasiassa Suomeen. Trukki Timlinin kanssa on kehitetty brĂ€ndiĂ€, rakennettu nettisivuja ja verkkokauppaa vuodesta 2016 lĂ€htien. KeskeisessĂ€ osassa on tuotehallintajĂ€restelmĂ€n kĂ€yttöliittymĂ€n kehitys, jonka kautta tuotteita hallitaan ja myydÀÀn. www.trukkitimlin.fi Sulje ### Pahis Pahis on verkkokauppa, joka myy vaatteita, mukeja, koruja, erĂ€kampetta ja monenlaista törkytavaraa. Kauppa kĂ€y varsin vilkkaasti ja erityisesti Pahiksen omiin asennepaitoihin törmÀÀ toreilla ja turuilla. Pahiksella on persoonallinen ote verkkokauppaan ja viestintÀÀn, vahvuutena on nopeat toimitukset ja hyvĂ€ asiakaspalvelu. TĂ€mĂ€ nĂ€kyy vannoutuneena asiakaskuntana. Pahiksen verkkokauppaa on kehitetty vuodesta 2013 lĂ€htien. TĂ€nĂ€ aikana kauppa on kokenut useita uudistuksia. Kauppa on haluttu pitÀÀ Pahiksen nĂ€köisenĂ€, mikĂ€ nĂ€kyy niin visuaalisessa ilmeessĂ€ kuin sisĂ€llössĂ€. Vuosien varrella on testattu monenlaisia verkkokaupan ja markkinoinnin työkaluja, joista toimivammat ovat jÀÀneet pĂ€ivittĂ€iseen kĂ€yttöön. Markkinoinnissa uutiskirje toimii hyvin ja riippuvuutta Facebookista on vĂ€hennetty selkeĂ€sti. Intercomin chatti ja sen muut ominaisuudet ovat asiakaspalvelun tĂ€rkein työkalu. HyvĂ€t tuotearvostelut, kattavat tuotekuvaukset ja hakukoneoptimointi tuovat selvĂ€sti lisĂ€arvoa kauppaan. Kauppaa kehitetÀÀn jatkuvasti ja isompi uudistus on työn alla. Parannuksia haetaan navigointiin, tuotelistauksiin, hakutoimintoa kehitetÀÀn ja tuotesuodattimet otetaan kĂ€yttöön. www.pahis.fi Artikkelit ---------- Kaikki artikkelit Blog ----
Est. 2007 Turengista * * * NVL Studio on designtoimisto Turengista, joka rakentaa nettisivuja, verkkokauppoja ja kĂ€yttöliittymiĂ€. Asiakkaina ovat pienyrittĂ€jĂ€t, jotka arvostavat kauneutta, hyvÀÀ kĂ€denjĂ€lkeĂ€ ja tekevĂ€t työnsĂ€ viimisen pÀÀlle. * * * Pannu on kuumana ---------------- MaâPe 8.30â16.30 Kuumolantie 11, Turenki Ota yhteyttĂ€ Työt ---- Sulje ### Grado Design Pirkkalassa kotipaikkaansa pitĂ€vĂ€ Grado Design keskittyy korkeatasoisiin, terĂ€ksestĂ€ ja massiivipuusta valmistettuihin design portaisiin. Grado on omalla sektorillaan selvĂ€ markkinajohtaja ja suunnanannĂ€yttĂ€jĂ€ Suomessa. Gradon porrasmallisto on hyvin kompakti ja toimiva. Vaikka mallisto ja tekniikka ovat modernia, soveltuvat portaat niin uusiin kuin vahoihinkin kohteisiin. Gradon kanssa on tehty yhteistyötĂ€ yrityksen perustamisesta, eli vuodesta 2010 lĂ€htien. TĂ€mĂ€ on tarkoittanut ennen kaikkea brĂ€ndin rakentamista ja ideointia, tuotekuvauksia ja nettisivujen kehitystĂ€. TĂ€llĂ€ hetkellĂ€ työn alla on suurempi brĂ€ndin uudistus. Tarkoituksena on pĂ€ivittÀÀ visuaalisen ilmettĂ€, vĂ€rimaailmaa ja typografiaa, viedĂ€ muutokset eteenpĂ€in mm. nettisivuille ja kasata brĂ€ndikirjaa. www.grado.fi Sulje ### PuusepĂ€nliike Hannes PuusepĂ€nliike Hannes valmistaa perinneikkunoita ja -ovia Suomen Tuuloksessa. KyseessĂ€ on massiivipuun erikoisosaaja ja kovan tason ammattilainen, työt tehdÀÀn "ihan viimesen pÀÀlle" ja jĂ€lki on sen mukaista. Hanneksen ja kumppaneiden kanssa on tehty töitĂ€ vuodesta 2016. BrĂ€ndin rakentamista, visuaalisen ilmeen kehitystĂ€ ja projektien valokuvausta. Vuonna 2021 nettisivut uusittiin kokonaisuudessaan samalla, kun yrityksen tuotantotilat laajentuivat. Tarkoituksena on viestiĂ€ vanhasta ja perinteikkÀÀstĂ€ puusepĂ€n alasta, joka korkealla ammattitaidolla ja modernilla tekniikalla tuottaa huippulaatua. www.puusepanliikehannes.fi Sulje ### KontioMehu KontioMehu on perheyritys Joensuusta, joka viljelee ja valmistaa alkoholittomia kuohujuomia ja mehuja, yli 40 vuoden kokemuksella. Erityisesti viime vuosina alkoholittomat kuohujuomat ovat olleet kovassa nosteessa. KontioMehulle rakennettiin nettisivut uudella visuaalisella ilmeellĂ€. Myynti tulee valtaosin jĂ€lleenmyyjien kautta, mutta asiakkaille haluttiin tarjota mahdollisuus tilata myös suoraan verkosta. TĂ€mĂ€n takia sivut rakennettiin MyCashflown verkkokauppa-alustalle. KyseessĂ€ on kuitenkin ennen kaikkea markkinointisivusto, jossa esitellÀÀn tuotteita ja kerrotaan yrityksen tarinaa. Kauppa integroitiin KontioMehun kassa- ja varastojĂ€rjestelmiin. www.kontiomehu.fi Sulje ### Onni Design Onni Design -kalusteet ovat tyylikkĂ€itĂ€, Suomessa valmistettuja kalusteita, jotka on suunniteltu kestĂ€mÀÀn kĂ€yttöÀ ja aikaa. Onni Design on PuusepĂ€nliike Hanneksen omistama tuotemerkki. Tunnetuin kaluste on Onni syöttötuoli, joita löytyy mm. eduskunnasta ja Oodi-kirjastosta. Onni Design -brĂ€ndiĂ€ on kehitetty vuodesta 2016. Onnille on rakennettu visuaalinen ilme, verkkokauppa, tuotteet valokuvattu, suunniteltu esitteet, pakkaukset ja perinteistĂ€ mainontaa. www.onni-design.fi Sulje ### Trukki Timlin Vuonna 1986 perustettu Trukki Timlin myy ja vuokraa kĂ€ytettyjĂ€ Trukkeja LempÀÀlĂ€ssĂ€. Filosofiana on ostaa vĂ€hĂ€n ajettuja ja hyvĂ€kuntoisia trukkeja Euroopasta, rahdata ne verstaalle jossa trukit kunnostetaan ja huolletaan. LĂ€hes uudenveroiset, mutta hinnaltaan edullisemmat trukit myydÀÀn takuun kanssa pÀÀasiassa Suomeen. Trukki Timlinin kanssa on kehitetty brĂ€ndiĂ€, rakennettu nettisivuja ja verkkokauppaa vuodesta 2016 lĂ€htien. KeskeisessĂ€ osassa on tuotehallintajĂ€restelmĂ€n kĂ€yttöliittymĂ€n kehitys, jonka kautta tuotteita hallitaan ja myydÀÀn. www.trukkitimlin.fi Sulje ### Pahis Pahis on verkkokauppa, joka myy vaatteita, mukeja, koruja, erĂ€kampetta ja monenlaista törkytavaraa. Kauppa kĂ€y varsin vilkkaasti ja erityisesti Pahiksen omiin asennepaitoihin törmÀÀ toreilla ja turuilla. Pahiksella on persoonallinen ote verkkokauppaan ja viestintÀÀn, vahvuutena on nopeat toimitukset ja hyvĂ€ asiakaspalvelu. TĂ€mĂ€ nĂ€kyy vannoutuneena asiakaskuntana. Pahiksen verkkokauppaa on kehitetty vuodesta 2013 lĂ€htien. TĂ€nĂ€ aikana kauppa on kokenut useita uudistuksia. Kauppa on haluttu pitÀÀ Pahiksen nĂ€köisenĂ€, mikĂ€ nĂ€kyy niin visuaalisessa ilmeessĂ€ kuin sisĂ€llössĂ€. Vuosien varrella on testattu monenlaisia verkkokaupan ja markkinoinnin työkaluja, joista toimivammat ovat jÀÀneet pĂ€ivittĂ€iseen kĂ€yttöön. Markkinoinnissa uutiskirje toimii hyvin ja riippuvuutta Facebookista on vĂ€hennetty selkeĂ€sti. Intercomin chatti ja sen muut ominaisuudet ovat asiakaspalvelun tĂ€rkein työkalu. HyvĂ€t tuotearvostelut, kattavat tuotekuvaukset ja hakukoneoptimointi tuovat selvĂ€sti lisĂ€arvoa kauppaan. Kauppaa kehitetÀÀn jatkuvasti ja isompi uudistus on työn alla. Parannuksia haetaan navigointiin, tuotelistauksiin, hakutoimintoa kehitetÀÀn ja tuotesuodattimet otetaan kĂ€yttöön. www.pahis.fi Artikkelit ---------- Kaikki artikkelit Blog ----
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