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via maia blogJanuary 05, 2025Common questions we see in the OpenSUSE community are "which distro is the least bloated", "how can I remove bloat", "package X is bloat" etc. For the longest time this has confused me - Linux while sometimes slow, isn't "bloated". So where are all these q…
via Firstyear's blog-a-logJanuary 04, 2025I've been absolutely slammed over the last few weeks, between moving to a new house, a large number of readers visiting Melbourne over the holidays and wanting coffee, and doing work for clients at the ol' consultancy. However, writing will pick up again i…
via LudicityDecember 29, 2024Use CSS to style and manage disclosure widgets, which are the HTML details and summary elements.
via Rob O'Leary | BlogDecember 26, 2024I wrote what I thought would be the final blog post of 2024 last week, and was looking forward to starting 2025 strong with a blog I’d been drafting since July 2023. But then, a little after Midnight on Christmas, I received the following unsolicited email…
via Dhole MomentsDecember 26, 2024Bitcoin is decentralized, right? So yesterday I was scrolling my feed on LinkedIn, a thing I usually do once a month, and I found this: So in the image above you can see a chart showing the Bitcoin distribution over different entities. The chart is…
via Christian Visintin BlogDecember 19, 2024Happy end-of-2024! It’s been a pretty good year overall. I’m thankful. There’s no way that I’ll be able to remember and carve out the time around New Years to write this, so here’s some end-of-year roundup, ahead of schedule! Running This was my biggest …
via macwright.comDecember 15, 2024After a year since hyper 1.0, we’re updating the ROADMAP. hyper is an HTTP library written in Rust, used by many in production. The purpose of the ROADMAP is to highlight what is highest priority in order to continue orienting hyper towards its VISION. I…
via seanmonstarDecember 10, 2024As GreyNoise researcher, you always have things to write detection rules for. Some of them aren’t always exciting, but they become more interesting as you dive deeper. Let’s jump right in and take a look at CVE-2024-6633: The default credentials for the s…
via GreyNoise LabsDecember 03, 2024Recently I've been thinking about Swift in terms of Rust, & have appreciated anew some of the choices made. In Rust. There's been a proliferation of X vs Y posts on the web, especially since the advent of LLM AI, so I try to resist the format. It's often e…
via Mike KreuzerNovember 16, 2024The original Twitter thread: https://x.com/TheGingerBill/status/1508833104567414785 I have a huge gripe when I read articles/tutorials on OpenGL: most people have no idea what they are talking about when it comes to coordinate systems and matrices. Specifi…
via Articles on gingerBillNovember 10, 2024In November of last year, I wrote Richard Stallman’s political discourse on sex, which argues that Richard Stallman, the founder of and present-day voting member of the board of directors of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), endorses and advocates for a …
via Drew DeVault's blogSeptember 25, 2024Bevy is the most popular and powerful game engine in Rust. Because of its flexibility, it can be used not only for games but also for (scientific) physics simulations. In this blog post, I will share my experience using Bevy for physics simulations from sc…
via mo8it.comJuly 19, 2024I write this blog because I enjoy writing. Some people enjoy reading what I write, which makes me feel really great! Recently, I took down a post and stopped writing for a few months because I didn't love the reaction I was getting on social media sites li…
via pcloadletterMay 27, 2024This essay was edited out of a chapter of my book, The Intelligence Illusion: a practical guide to the business risks of Generative AI, with minor alterations. “See the choice of dreams”, and then worry about it Very well. This book – this side, Dream …
via Out of the Software Crisis (Newsletter)October 13, 2023Over the last several years, I’ve rewritten Rust’s regex crate to enable better internal composition, and to make it easier to add optimizations while maintaining correctness. In the course of this rewrite I created a new crate, regex-automata, which expos…
via Andrew Gallant's Blog on Andrew Gallant's BlogJuly 05, 2023Thinking back to old forum days I can specifically remember an event where attackers modified their avatars to be invalid pages that responded with "HTTP 401 Unauthorized". This didn't really seem like an issue because there was interaction required by the…
via Blog | Sam CurryMay 10, 2017A high level walkthrough of the basics of video compression techniques used in MPEG, AVC/H.264, codecs.
via Sid BalaNovember 02, 2016
software engineering in various fields. I am a proud member of the openSUSE community, where I maintain 22+ packages that include tools for my organization. I have been involved in open source software development since 2020, starting with Debian as my first Linux distribution. I believe in the spirit of open source and its potential to advance scientific discovery and innovation.