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January 21

The hunt for error -22 - Blog - Tweede golf

tweedegolf.nl

Sit back and grab a drink. This one is a doozy.BackgroundAt Tweede golf we do lots...
Sit back and grab a drink. This one is a doozy.BackgroundAt Tweede golf we do lots of engineering work, and a while ago we worked for a client using the nRF9160 microcontroller. This chip has an LTE modem with which you can reach the internet while still not using a lot of power. It's pretty neat!I built the majorit...

debugging
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January 21

SQL Transactions in Go: The Good Way

thibaut-rousseau.com

Published on 2025-01-21Reading time estimated to 8 minutes In my last work experience, I designed what...
Published on 2025-01-21Reading time estimated to 8 minutes In my last work experience, I designed what I consider a pretty cool and efficient way to manage database transactions across a Go codebase. In a nutshell, I wanted to use database transactions in my business logic without exposing database internals. After ...

go
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January 21

I'll think twice before using Github Actions again

ninkovic.dev

vcs
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January 21

Reminiscing on my early days writing software

rauljordan.com

The beginner's curse of not knowing when to ask "why" We all have stories of our...
The beginner's curse of not knowing when to ask "why" We all have stories of our huge gaps in understanding we had as junior developers, and mine is so embarrassing that I used to hesitate sharing it. The beginner's journey in software is often marked by confusion, impostor syndrome, and endless tutorials that leave...

practices
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January 21

Refinement types for input validation

snork.dev

Most applications need to deal with user input in some capacity; data submitted via a web...
Most applications need to deal with user input in some capacity; data submitted via a web form, incoming JSON payloads, command line arguments, and so on. This data needs to be deserialized into a format that the application can understand, and it may also need to be validated—for example, checking that a text input...

plt
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January 21

Overview - Twine Data

twine-data.dev

Twine-data (twine for short) is a binary format that aims at combining simplicity, compactness, performance of...
Twine-data (twine for short) is a binary format that aims at combining simplicity, compactness, performance of (de)serialization, self descriptiveness, and expressiveness. Unlike most of the modern self-descriptive formats (CBOR, MsgPack, JSON, S-expressions, etc.), twine's data model is not a tree. Rather, a twine ...

programming
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January 20

iOS Privacy: Announcing InAppBrowser.com - see what JavaScript commands get injected through an in-app browser

krausefx.com

Please note that this article is outdated (August 2022). Importantly, the article does not claim that...
Please note that this article is outdated (August 2022). Importantly, the article does not claim that any data logging or transmission is actively occurring. Instead, it highlights the potential technical capabilities of in-app browsers to inject JavaScript code, which could theoretically be used to monitor user int...

mobile security web
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January 20

Steinar H. Gunderson

sesse.net

Pretty much exactly a year ago, I posted about how I was trying out this bcachefs...
Pretty much exactly a year ago, I posted about how I was trying out this bcachefs thing, being cautiously optimistic (but reminding you to keep backups). Now I'm going the other way; I've converted my last bcachefs filesystem to XFS, and I don't intend to look at it again in the near future. What changed in the mean...

linux
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January 20

Documentation on using Renovate with haskell-actions · Issue #111 · haskell-actions/setup

github.com

api haskell vcs
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January 20

Encrypted NixOS home server with passwordless reboot | Olivier's log

pfad.fr

19 January 2025, in Olivier's log These are my notes on refurbishing a laptop with a...
19 January 2025, in Olivier's log These are my notes on refurbishing a laptop with a broken screen hinge to a NixOS home server. A coworker recommended Colmena for managing NixOS on remote machines, so I decided to give it a try. I got confused by the Colmena manual, which expects NixOS to be already set up on the r...

linux nix
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January 20

Generating Test Values using JavaScript Generators · Issue #18 · peter-leonov/type-predicate-generator

github.com

javascript testing
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January 20

Reverse Engineering Bambu Connect - Consumer Action Taskforce

rossmanngroup.com

This video has some background, for those inclined to watch videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYhYkpYpt58 Comments

reversing
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January 20

rust-magic-patterns/async-pipeline-pattern/Readme.md at master · alexpusch/rust-magic-patterns

github.com

rust
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January 20

altair-upset: The Evolution of UpSet plots in Altair

edmundmiller.dev

Altair is the only plotting library that I’ve felt like loved me back. Maybe ggplot2 would...
Altair is the only plotting library that I’ve felt like loved me back. Maybe ggplot2 would love me back as well, but it’s locked away in the tower of R. I went on a bit of a lark when I stumbled upon the original upset-altair-notebook from HMS-DBMI. It was just a Jupyter Notebook, and only worked with Altair 4, whic...

python visualization
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January 20

Project 8086 Part II: Real Mode Productivity; or, 8,086 Reasons to Get a Newer Computer — 512 Pixels

512pixels.net

MS-DOS Correspondent Kevin Lipe reporting again from the trailing edge of computing. When I was last...
MS-DOS Correspondent Kevin Lipe reporting again from the trailing edge of computing. When I was last with you, we discussed the Pocket 8086. If you don’t remember what the Pocket 8086 is, or who I am, or what any of this has to do with everyone’s favorite Apple blog, I’d refer you to part one of that series, as it w...

retrocomputing
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January 20

When the Simplest Concurrent Program Goes Against All Intuition | Waqas Younas' blog

wyounas.github.io

compsci formalmethods
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January 20

OpenAI quietly funded independent math benchmark before setting record with o3

the-decoder.com

ai
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January 20

Mozilla Localization in 2024 – Mozilla L10N

mozilla.org

2024 was a year with plenty of achievements for the Mozilla localization community (here’s the 2023...
2024 was a year with plenty of achievements for the Mozilla localization community (here’s the 2023 report in case you missed it, or want to check how we fared against our original plans). Let’s start with the numbers first: 30 projects (-2 compared to last year) and 369 locales (+111) set up in Pontoon. 4,991 new u...

ai practices
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January 20

Introduction | Versara

versara.ai

Introducing Versara Protecting text content on the web by poisoning AI scraper responses The rise of...
Introducing Versara Protecting text content on the web by poisoning AI scraper responses The rise of AI search tools has fundamentally changed how content is consumed on the web. Tools like Perplexity, ChatGPT search, and Google's AI Overview collect, synthesize, and regurgitate information scraped from digital publ...

release web
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January 20

Using eSIMs with devices that only have a physical SIM slot via a 9eSIM SIM card with Android and Linux

neilzone.co.uk

hardware linux
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January 20

What are you doing this week? | Lobsters

lobste.rs

What are you doing this week? Feel free to share! Keep in mind it’s OK to...
What are you doing this week? Feel free to share! Keep in mind it’s OK to do nothing at all, too.

ask programming
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January 20

WasmBots

shaneliesegang.com

wasm
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January 20

Knowledge Triples – Orbifold Consulting

graphsandnetworks.com

ai
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January 20

34C3: Hacking Into A CPU’s Microcode

hackaday.com

Inside every modern CPU since the Intel Pentium fdiv bug, assembly instructions aren’t a one-to-one mapping...
Inside every modern CPU since the Intel Pentium fdiv bug, assembly instructions aren’t a one-to-one mapping to what the CPU actually does. Inside the CPU, there is a decoder that turns assembly into even more primitive instructions that are fed into the CPU’s internal scheduler and pipeline. The code that drives the...

hardware security
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