Updated December 4, 2024

Brad Lander ----------- Ricky Robinett and I are cohosting a fundraiser for Brad Lander's Mayoral campaign on Thursday December 12 in Churches -------- My dad was a pastor. Growing up, we lived in the parsonage next to the church he served. I spent Photos from OpenAI DevDay ------------------------- Originally posted over on my other blog at HaiHai Labs, but felt like this post paired nicely with my previous What I talk about when I talk about photography ----------------------------------------------- Thoughts after half-a-million photos. How to fix datapacks "Unknown function" error in Minecraft 1.21 --------------------------------------------------------------- 1.21 changed the name of the functions directory Wes Mak ------- Wes Mak passed away yesterday. He was 39 years old. He leaves behind his wife, three year old daughter, and FDR --- As Rachel drove us out of Brooklyn and up the FDR, I snagged some shots out the window. AI Hack Night Vegas (and David Blaine) -------------------------------------- Last week I was in Vegas for AI Hack Night, hosted by Cloudflare and Coding Scape. I gave a short Low Back Pain ------------- I'm 44 years old, which apparently means that it's time for me and a bunch of Last Days In New York --------------------- Photos from our farewell tour

Updated December 3, 2024

Who? ---- This site is the blog and webcomic of Matt Maldre, a graphic designer and public spaces artist in Chicago. * Encourage creativity in everyone. * Finding the joy in little things. * A new idea every day. * Always be learning, and share what you learn with others. What’s on this site ------------------- This site is a place to share interesting thoughts. Whenever I have an idea for an art project, I’ll post it here and the feedback from others really helps the idea to grow and be much more. I love it when people leave feedback on my ideas. What does “spudart” mean? My approach to street art; and a list of my art projects. Subscribe --------- Join over 500 people who receive creative blog posts once a week (or every day, or every month. You pick the frequency). Social Media ------------ * Bluesky (@spudart.bsky.social) * Facebook Page (Spudart) * Flickr (Spudart) * Mastodon (@spudart@mastodon.social) (don’t use anymore) * Threads (@spudart) (don’t use anymore) * Instagram (@spudart) (don’t use anymore) * Substack Notes (don’t use anymore) * Twitter (don’t use anymore) My websites ----------- * Sharing interesting & creative thoughts on spudart.org for 23 years (first post on September 28, 2001) * Fun with baseball cards, stats, and scorecards on 57hits.com & podcast * Design portfolio on mattmaldre.com (formerly a 12-year-long blog about how to use media better) * Blogging about creativity and faith on christiannotebook.com Day job ------- Senior Designer/Web Marketing Strategist for Tribune Content Agency in the historic Tribune Tower on the Magnificent Mile of downtown Chicago at home. Some occasional illustration work for them, too. (More details on my LinkedIn profile) Interviews ---------- * The interview with Sixty Inches from Center said, “Matt Maldre who creates probably some of the most non-intrusive, non-defacing, hyper-curious yet completely obvious forms of public art.” * I was the Gapers Block feature of the week for the Arts + Culture section in July 2008. * Chicagoscope interviewed me about my baseball scorecard techniques in August 2006 _(podcast no longer available online)._ * Another interview by Chicagoscope in December 2007. This time, we discussed a handout I designed to help save public transit in Chicago _(podcast no longer available online)._ If you’d like to interview me, I’m open anytime. Let’s get in touch. Influential artists ------------------- * **Joseph Beuys** (The great teacher and artist. Warmth over coldness) * **Jörg Immendorff** (German artist who coined the phrase, “Painting must assume the function of the potato. He makes great paintings too.) * **Christo** (A fantastic installation artist who involves the community and all aspects of life in his art. When he can get the cashier ladies at the grocery store to discuss what art is, oh, dude! That is incredible) * **Edward Hopper** (Great moods established by his work. Amazing colors) * **Jackson Pollock** (The studly artist himself.) * **Starn Twins** (Their work is totally my aesthetic) * **Laszlo Moholy-Nagy** (The master of transparency and structure) * **Erik Maldre** (creative work, my twin) * **Mati Maldre** (my Dad the photography professor) * **Andy Goldsworthy** (incredible arrangements made in nature from rocks, sticks, leaves, etc.) Favorite characters ------------------- Spongebob Squarepants, Balki Bartokomous, and Buddy the Elf are my heroes. Wishlists --------- My Amazon wishlist. It’s got a bunch of books, CDs, games, and other fun things that I’d like to get. Do you have a wish list? Personality Type ---------------- According to the Myers-Briggs personality test, I’m either an INTJ (the Mastermind) or INTP (the Logician, Philosopher). Go ahead and take the personality test. Contact me and let me know what you are. What I like ----------- Theology, croquet, art (art theory, public art, oil pastels), design, structures, stats, metaphors for life, libraries, predicting fog, digging holes, toys, Chicago cubs, how things are made, benches instead of chairs, observing solar flare activity, big thick furniture, wool, welding, wrapping gifts in wacky ways, the color gray, macs, paper airplanes, dirt, window washers. View over 500 of my favorite things. Quick description of my art --------------------------- * About creativity and using everyday objects in a new and interesting way. * Offer a moment of pause and reflection, whether it’s to enjoy the beauty of nature, appreciate the passage of time, or simply be mindful of the present moment. * Suggests that we can find joy and meaning in the simple things in life. Favorite books -------------- * Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art * Mere Christianity * The Monumental Impulse: Architecture’s Biological Roots * Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference * Synectics: the Development of Creative Capacity * Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture * Thinking about Exhibitions * Criticizing Art: Understanding the Contemporary * Dictionary * Thesaurus » **Contact me, I am happy to talk.** -------------------------------------

Updated December 3, 2024

Home ---- What I am doing right now ------------------------- I’ve been living back in the US for the past 9 months! It’s been a _huge_ adjustment being back in the United States after living abroad for almost a decade. I don’t think I’ll stay, but I will be here until next year. These days all, I do is work as I try to get my business making money. What I’m doing right now: Sharing art with the world with–https://randomdailyart.com and https://randomdailyart.ai * Waiting around for Google to not approve the extension I made! https://ufe.email/ * Build AI agents and a tool to kick them off from your inbox https://aichat.email Random ------ I have become a bit obsessed with personal health data. I’m sort of on a personal mission to get my resting heart rate down over time. What I am excited about ----------------------- * Launching new products! _Updated: December, 3rd, 2024 - Clovis, California, USA_

Updated December 2, 2024

Hi I'm Emmy. I'm a Masters student in mathematical biology at the University of Melbourne. I did my undergraduate degree as a double major in developmental biology and pure mathematics and minored in history and philosophy of science (HPS). I like exploring the regularities that explain how life as we know it works. Naturally, that makes me interested in evolutionary theory, mathematics and philosophy of biology. Recently I've been thinking about biological agency, perspectivism and developing mathematical formalisms for both of those frameworks. A good place to start with the math has to be Robert Rosen's seminal work _Life Itself_ expressed in the language of category theory. I really enjoy living in a cosmopolitan and inter-disciplinary world so wouldn't box myself into any one field. But maybe we could call it philosophical biology (a mostly forgotten branch of theoretical biology) or organicism. I'm still unsure if I really want to go into academia because, well, it doesn't seem like such a good place to do theoretical research in the 21st century (also this). Plus, I really love teaching and sharing these ideas with a wider audience. They don't get a lot of coverage in typical popular science. So while I'm still young (and perhaps naïve), I may as well try to figure out YouTube and if it doesn't work out, then the academy isn't going anywhere. My email is emmy 'at' subanima 'dot' org.

Updated December 1, 2024

photo by Oliver Potratz Born and raised in Hamburg, Germany, Johannes Haage started playing music on violin from age 5, but switched to guitar about eight years later. As a highschool exchange student in Portland, Oregon he started playing jazz regularly and continued to do so back home. He started his college education at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen, but soon transfered to Berlin to succesfully finish his studies. Over the years his travels playing and studying music took him to places like the Center of the Arts in Banff, Canada, and New York City where he had the chance to play and deepen his studies with Bill Frisell, Brad Shepik, Ben Monder, Mark Turner, Dave Douglas, Drew Gress, Ralph Alessi and many others. In Berlin he has been a very active member of the vital young jazz and improvised music scene since moving there in 2002, playing with many different musicians like Ben Kraef, Tobias Backhaus, Phil Donkin, Heinrich Koebberling, Philipp Gropper, Richard Koch, Oli Steidle, Simon Bauer, Brendan Dougherty, and many more. Besides the many loose collaborations and gigs as sideman he has been leading his own groups such as Johannes Haage´s P.O.5, the Slowtrio, and the Johannes Haage Trio (with Andreas Lang on bass and Sebastian Merk on drums), which released an Album in 2010 featuring their original cover versions of songs that Marlene Dietrich was known for. Currently his main band is the Trio DRIFT with Drummer Joe Smith and Matthias Pichler on Bass - to date they have four LP albums out on shoebill music, an independent Vinyl /digital record label directed by Haage. Their latest Album “Cycles” came out in December 2024.

Updated December 1, 2024

Bugasnoo: rock your baby to sleep with Lego ------------------------------------------- I have recently become a dad, which is sometimes amazing, and sometimes suffering, such as when the baby is in a fussy mood and refusing to sleep. Some friends were very enthusiastic about a $1.5k smart crib that makes white noise and rocks your baby to sleep. You know what also makes noise, rocks your baby to sleep, and doesn’t cost $1.5k? That’s right, this Lego model. This is already by far my most useful Lego creation, and we’re using it regularly to great effect. At the core of this creation are two bogies, driven by Lego motors, strapped to the wheel of a stroller with rubber bands. Each bogie is driven by two motors for a total of 4 driven wheels and 4 motors for maximum traction and power. You could honestly get away with two motors and maybe gear them down 12:20. This design has excess torque and velocity and is limited by traction. The traction is provided by the rubber bands, and kept straight with coaster wheels. This particular design uses parts from the Lego Mindstorms Robot Inventor kit, which has been discontinued. It should however be possible to construct a similar model from Powered Up motors using the Technic Hub. ps: bugasnoo is obviously from buggy and snooze and not from any similar sounding trademarks ;) pps: I have considered turning this into a product but I’d need a cofounder who’s more into Industrial Design Engineering and business. Claude by the token in Open WebUI --------------------------------- Last month I subscribed to Claude Pro, but was dismayed to learn it doesn’t give you API access to use it in VS Code or Home Assistant or whatever. So I didn’t renew my subscription and instead bought API access, thinking I’d just use some chat app. Turns out it’s not that easy to find a good chat app where you can just plug in your API token. The solution I settled on is to use LiteLLM with Open WebUI. Open WebUI is a great chat interface that is primarily used with Ollama, but it also supports OpenAI compatible APIs. LiteLLM is a proxy that translates a ton of LLMs to a unified OpenAPI compatible API. Badabing badaboom, give LiteLLM your Anthropic key, plug it into Open WebUI and bob’s your uncle. It’s actually great if you are a very heavy or very casual user because you pay by the token. That means if you use it only a little, it’s cheaper than Claude Pro, and if you use it a lot, you aren’t limited to a certain amount of messages. Surprisingly it also does better RAG than Claude, letting you do web searches and include more and bigger documents than would fit in the context window. Here is my Docker compose file to set it all up. It is modified from ollama-intel-gpu to include LiteLLM with an Anthropic config.yaml. But if you’re on team green or red, you can just change the first image to use `ollama/ollama` I suppose. services: ollama-intel-gpu: build: context: . dockerfile: Dockerfile container_name: ollama-intel-gpu image: ollama-intel-gpu:latest restart: always devices: - /dev/dri:/dev/dri volumes: - ollama-intel-gpu:/root/.ollama ports: - "11434:11434" ollama-webui: image: ghcr.io/open-webui/open-webui:latest container_name: ollama-webui volumes: - ollama-webui:/app/backend/data depends_on: - ollama-intel-gpu - litellm ports: - ${OLLAMA_WEBUI_PORT-3000}:8080 environment: - OLLAMA_BASE_URL=http://ollama-intel-gpu:11434 - OPENAI_API_BASE_URL=http://litellm:4000 extra_hosts: - host.docker.internal:host-gateway restart: always litellm: image: ghcr.io/berriai/litellm:main-latest container_name: litellm volumes: - ./litellm_config.yaml:/app/config.yaml ports: - 4000:4000 environment: - ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=YOURKEYHERE restart: always command: --config /app/config.yaml volumes: ollama-webui: {} ollama-intel-gpu: {} JPEG compress your LLM weights ------------------------------ So quantization is kinda bad lossy compression right? JPEG is good lossy compression. This may sound stupid, and maybe it is, but hear me out. I’ve read that LLM performance is usually constrained by memory bandwidth, and for us plebs also by memory size, and there is a precedent in for example ZFS compression which has shown to _increase_ disk performance because you’re IO constrained rather than compute constrained. So it might be beneficial to decompress LLM parameters on the fly, and if you’re doing that you might want to use a good lossy compression algorithm instead of blunt quantization. It is said that compression is equivalent to general intelligence, so in that sense lossy compression would be expected to reduce intelligence, so you’d want to get a good compression ratio with minimal loss. The way JPEG works is basically * break down the pixels in chunks - after decompression chunk boundaries are visible as JPEG artifacts. * Discrete Cosine Transform them - lossless transformation in the family of Fourier transforms * quantize them - data loss happens here, creating longer runs * Run Length Encode them - compression happens here RLE is a lossless compression technique, which gets turbocharged by discarding some data to create longer runs. In the case of image data, the DCT concentrates most information in the low frequencies so you can quantize high frequencies with minor loss in image quality. Now, I don’t expect LLM parameters to be “smooth” like image data, so naive JPEG compression of LLM weights is not likely to be effective. BUT! You can reorder the columns and rows of a matrix without affecting the result. It’s like \\(a+b+c=d \\rightarrow c+b+a=d\\). So you could reorder your rows and columns to maximize clustering of similar values. Not sure how you’d do this, maybe just sort by vector sum, or some genetic algorithm, or other cleverness. So my proposed LLM compression would work like this * reorder the matrices to improve value clustering * break down the values in chunks * DCT them * quantize them * RLE them And then inference would * RLE expand a chunk * inverse DCT it * perform the multiplications So the compressed data would exist in VRAM and be decompressed on the fly chunk by chunk to perform a matrix vector product. It’d take more compute, 11 multiplications to be precise, but if you’re memory constrained it could be worth it. I guess the real question is if you can obtain any useful clustering in LLM data. In a sense the parameters are already compressed(=intelligence), but there is no information in their order, so reordering and transforming parameters could improve RLE compression without incurring extra quantization loss.

Updated December 1, 2024

This is a Now page | **Updated:** December 2024, Smithfield, NC ### Full House Mrs. H's cousin and family living in Goldsboro experienced a family tragedy, the upshot of which is we have a full house, now! We've added our uncle, cousin, her son, and 5 month old baby to the permanent mix, and host another relative on weekends. It was quite the adjustment at first, especially in terms of space. We reorganized the rooms around, made the garage a hang-out area and put the drums there, moved our "offices" to the main bedroom, and got things set-up in the other two bedrooms for everyone. It's a little hectic at times, but we've settled into a routine and having the family around is really nice. We try to have meals around our giant table several times a week and that's been lovely. We've gotten the 8 year old into the local school and involved in a couple of different activities. ### Playing Drums, Still! I'm working on original music in two bands at the moment, practicing with them couple times a week and every day at home. Sadly, the bass player for Power Child, the band I had been focusing on for the past 2 years, retired with his wife to Spain, and the band has been what I would consider defunct at this point, although there's been no official break-up. It's a bummer because that was one of my favorite bands I've been in. Maybe it will come around again, or I'll get to play with members of that band again in another context. Copyright © Phillip Harrington. All rights reserved. Made with in Smithfield, NC This website doesn't set any damn cookies

Updated November 30, 2024

_Last Update: November 30, 2024_ I’m Aman Mittal, a documentarian and developer. I love to explore and write about different technologies. My journey in the tech world started as a consultant and a Developer Advocate and has evolved through various roles in content development and technical writing. Work history ------------ I’ve worn many hats over the years: * 🚀 Software consultant and documentation lead at Expo (2022 — Present) * 📝 Senior Content Developer at Vercel (2022) * 🥑 Developer Advocate at Draftbit (2021 — 2022) * 💻 📝 Software consultant and Tech Writer for Crowdbotics (2018 — 2021) * Logrocket (Tech Writer, 2020 — 2023) * Heartbeat (a.k.a FritzAI) (React Native Technical Writer, 2019 — 2020) * Jscrambler (React Native Technical Writer, 2018 — 2022) Open source and me ------------------ In 2018, I made my first open-source contribution by writing a Twitter Bot for freeCodeCamp’s #100DaysOfCode campaign, which now has over 200k followers. Over the years I’ve made some contributions to some projects and organizations such as Node.js, Gatsbyjs and freeCodeCamp both as a contributor. and I was recognized among the Top 200 Open Source Contributors by freeCodeCamp.org in 2018. Technical writing ----------------- My journey in technical writing started on Medium in 2017. Since then, I’ve: * Become an AWS Amplify Community contributor in 2019. * Reached over 2 million views on Medium by July 2020. * Been recognized as a Distinguished Author and moderator by Dev.to in December 2020. * Had my work featured as an official resource by Google’s Dev Library in 2021. * Written over 100 articles and tutorials for more than 30 organizations and tech publications by 2022. You can find my work in publications like LogRocket, Jscrambler, freeCodeCamp, Expo.io, Sentry, AppSignal, FlyCode, Crowdbotics, Educative Edpresso, Heartbeat.fritz.ai, Draftbit, Dzone, Open Replay, HarperDB, Hackernoon, Alligator.io/Digital Ocean, Newline.co, Geek Culture, JavaScript Plain English. Other notable publications and organizations: Rising Stack, Codeburst.io, ZeoLearn.com, Art + Marketing, 42hire.com, ITNext, Eduonix, The Startup, JavaBeginnersTutorial.com, LevelUp Gitconnected, Better Programming, React Native Training, Pusher, Instamobile, Soshace, and Transifex Native. Some of my blog articles and tutorials have featured in esteemed Newsletters: Node Weekly, React Status, Mobile Dev Weekly, Daily.dev Weekly Picks, Mobile Developers Café, and React Native Newsletter. Speaking engagements -------------------- I’ve shared my knowledge at various events: * **2023:** Workshop on developing and deploying React Native apps with Expo and EAS at App.js 2023. * **2021:** Talks on Build Low-Code Apps using Hasura & Draftbit, Building Attractive UIs with Draftbit at Explore Hacks, Getting Started with Drafitbit- Aman Mittal at Hack The Mountains 2.O, The Rise of No-Code and a Guide to Using Draftbit. * **2020:** Session on writing consistently at Hashnode’s Technical Writing Bootcamp. * **2018:** Podcast on setting up and getting used to Gatsby with Charles Max Wood, Cory House, Tara Manicsic, and Kent C. Dodds. Awards and recognition ---------------------- I was awarded as the Most Authentic Developer Advocate of the Year 2022 at #Noonies2022 by Hackernoon.

Updated November 30, 2024

I’m Simone, a gen X with a straight to the point attitude. Based in the UK, I play bass and design sound under the moniker _Minutes to Midnight_. It's a reference to the _Doomsday Clock_, a connection with the world I grew up in during the Cold War. In previous lives I worked as a game audio designer and a web developer. Today my day job is with the University of Cambridge. To dig deeper, I wrote a personal manifesto.

Updated November 29, 2024

Ga naar inhoud What am I currently working on?Martijn Verheij2024-11-29T15:58:54+01:00 On this page I will keep a list of things I am currently working on. The idea of this page is inspired by an inspiration from Derek Sievers from nownownow.com ### Professional * Working on a new IT advice process for a customer for a couple hours in the week * Working on a book about the first usage of Microsoft Outlook (more wil come) ### Hobbies * During the weekend I like to fire up the BBQ to prepare tasty meat and fish dishes * Wachting Formula 1 (now season stop till the end of February 😟) ### And Personal * Building my own business * The most ideal man and (bonus) father for my partner Suzanne, our daughter Froukje (9) and the bonus daughter Lieke (15) * Helping my wife with her own webshop (www.dehuiswinkel.nl) * Working on sharing productivity and digital knowledge * Reading books ### Volunteer * Co-organizer and presenter of ExpertsLive Radio * Upcoming presentor on a Dutch commercial radiostation Hot Dance Radio Together with my partner we are addicted to series, and also regularly watch a movie via Apple TV. When I am on my way to clients and / or office I listen to one of the podcasts below: * Digitale fitheid (Dutch) – Apple Podcasts – Spotify * Come Get IT Podcast (Dutch) – Apple Podcasts – Spotify * Ik weet je wachtwoord (Dutch) – Apple Podcasts – Spotify * Vurige verhalen (Dutch) – Apple Podcasts – Spotify * F1 aan tafel (Dutch) – Apple Podcasts – Spotify * Racing News 365 Formule 1 (Dutch) – Apple Podcasts – Spotify * The working with: Podcast (English) – Apple Podcasts – Spotify At the moment I am reading: Ik (k)en mijn ikken by Karin Brugman, Judith Budde & Berry Collewijn Updated November – 2024 Page load link Ga naar de bovenkant

Updated November 28, 2024

Nov 28, 2024 v1.8.1 Support for OKLCH and APCA, and a few bug fixes See full changelog Sep 29, 2024 v1.8 Backdrop tool: add gradient backgrounds, shadows and rounded corners to your screenshots. See full changelog Nov 4, 2023 v1.7.2 Expandable canvas, side-by-side screenshots, and new experimental features July 27, 2023 v1.7.1 Fixed bugs introduced by the recent macOS update May 28, 2023 v1.7.0 Screenshot resize and new tools: freehand drawing, highlighter and spotlight See full changelog February 25, 2023 v1.6.2 Auto-update functionality, new in-app shortcuts, scroll-to resize pinned windows, and more. See full changelog October 22, 2022 v1.6.1 Pinned thumbnail, hotkey for "Capture Any Window", auto-padding button, improved work with the third-party clipboard managers. See full changelog September 4, 2022 v1.6.0 Pin screenshots, image overlays, new confirmations. See full changelog July 17, 2022 v1.5.4 Text-only blur/erase, step counter tool, opt+drag duplication and uploaded files management. See full changelog February 10, 2022 v1.5.3 Preview thumbnail for Area Capture, a setting to auto-save or auto-copy the screenshot. See full changelog January 9, 2022 v1.5.2 Colors and styles for drawings, narrow and curved arrows, guides, convenience settings, QR reader, open PNG and Jpeg, Repeat Area screenshot, Delayed screenshot. See full changelog October 6, 2021 v1.5.1 Added an ability to Drag'n'Drop screenshot file to the other applications and a setting to downscale retina screenshots. September 21, 2021 v1.5.0 Scrolling screenshots, objects removal, preferences, and more. See full changelog July 24, 2021 v1.4.8 Shottr was rebuilt from scratch, it's a much smaller and faster app now. Added annotation capabilities. December 19, 2020 v1.3 Improved performance of the fullscreen screenshot. Added Cmd+Shift+2 shortcut to grab a part of the screen. Added New Version notification. Improved Ruler — press Shift to get an outer size of the element, click while measuring to imprint the measurement onto the screenshot. December 6, 2020 v1 Shottr is now signed and notarized by Apple. Added quick measure tool (arrow keys). November 28, 2020 v1.0 Bug fixes (autosave crop issue, toolbar visual glitch); Show icon in the dock when shottr is active. September 5, 2020 v0.1 The private beta release

Updated November 28, 2024

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Updated November 28, 2024

My name is Nima Badizadegan, a software and hardware developer in the Northeastern United States. I am passionate about building computer systems to solve problems, and I like to examine the underlying assumptions of computer systems, from hardware to numerics, to build systems with durable advantages in their field. I am a Member of the Technical Staff at Anthropic. A combined interest in computer systems, numerics, and other foundations of computing has brought me to the most exciting supercomputing project of the 2020's: AI training. All views on this site are my own, and they do not represent Anthropic in any way. I like to write, and recently wrote a book on floating point. I wanted to help software writers who rely on floating point understand how floating-point numbers work so you can chase down your weird bugs and take advantage of the properties of the number system fully. ### Interests and Blog Topics This blog should generally focus on technical topics, based on my interests. Topics you should expect to see represented include: * System-level software engineering * FPGAs and design of hardware-accelerated systems * Computer system performance * Micro-optimization of algorithms * Data structure and algorithm internals, and hardware implementation of algorithms * Time synchronization * Numerical algorithms and computer math * High-performance computing technologies * Fundamental physical limits of computer systems I am also fond of several less-technical topics including the following: * The culture of hardware and software engineering * Organizational psychology and corporate structure * The goings on of the financial markets * Goings on in intellectual property and IP law (not a lawyer) ### How to Get in Touch The best way to get in touch with me is through email, but you can use any of the social links on the right. If you are reaching out about employment, I am not interested at this time. Otherwise, feel free to shoot me an email about anything you find interesting at \[email protected\]. If you would like to receive an email when a new post goes live on this blog, you can sign up for my email list using the email link in the top right.

Updated November 27, 2024

Roni Äikäs ---------- Etusivu Blogi Projektit Now Nippelitietoa 🇬🇧 In English "Now page is a place to tell you about the things I focus on right now, in no particular order. I’ll try to keep this up to date best I can. Inspired by the Derek Sivers’ 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.

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** – Released on November 26, 2024 – 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

Updated November 26, 2024

### What I’m Up To This was inspired by Derek Sivers’ “Now” page, and I’ve 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 I’m 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

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 can’t 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

Updated November 25, 2024

About ----- Hello! ------ I’m Matt, and I’m 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. It’s always nice to take a break from computers and enjoy some time away with friends and family! If you’d like to get in touch, feel free to reach out on: * Bluesky: @mdlayher.com * Email: mdlayher@gmail.com * Gophers Slack: @mdlayher, #networking

Updated November 24, 2024

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Updated November 24, 2024

nicolo.dev ---------- * Chi sono * Progetti * EN Studente di Scienze e Ingegneria Informatica (magistrale) presso l’Università degli Studi di Verona. Ho una solida formazione nel reverse engineering, nell’analisi statica e nella ricerca e sviluppo inerente a programmi automatici di reverse engineering, come disassembler, decompilatori e linguaggi intermedi. Questo è 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, l’informatica e tutto ciò che riguarda la protezione del software :) Sviluppo principalmente progetti legati al reverse engineering e alla binary exploitation, utilizzando Rust come principale linguaggio di programmazione perché è 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 l’analisi 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 più 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 più 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._

Updated November 22, 2024

Like many, when I first saw VPTERNLOG, my reaction was “\\(\\log\_2(3) \\approx 1.58\\) is a nice reduction in depth, but my code mostly doesn’t have super deep reductions.” 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 it’s not like the throughput (or latency for that matter) is worse. Plus it’s hard to be more orthogonal than a lookup table. Cute lightweight instruction, two thumbs up!

Updated November 21, 2024

Hi, I’m Erika Rowland (a.k.a. **erikareads**). Hi, I’m Erika. I’m an Ops-shaped Software Engineer, Toolmaker, and Resilience Engineering fan. I like Elixir and Gleam, Reading, and Design. She/Her. ← Constellation Webring → 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 * * * ← Constellation Webring →

Updated November 20, 2024

Hi! I’m Gabriel Garrido. I’m 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 I’ve learned. Among other things, I have a passion for permaculture, ecology, and philosophy. I also enjoy fermenting, reading, and playing electronic music.

Updated November 20, 2024

_(This is a now page, and if you have your own site, you should make one too. Here’s my profile there )_ Recently I bought a waterrower so have been focusing on doing “a row” per day. Sometimes 1km, more rarely (twice!) 5km. Really enjoying the whooshing sound. Completed a short-ish course hosted by coursera related to generative “AI” 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.