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Once in a while, when work and family permits, I take a day off to dive deep into something technical. In the past this has been hacking on OpenBSD, writing a BASIC compiler on paper, or tweaking Ham Radio electronics, b… --- ## [Analyzing programming contest grandmasters' styles and tools - Gennady Korotkevich (tourist) vs Andrew He (ecnerwala) (2023-03-24)](https://pluralist.net/t/analyzing-programming-contest-grandmasters-styles-and-tools-gennady-korotkevich-tourist-vs-andrew-he-ecnerwala-2023-03-24/121)
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This post is a commentary and analysis based on this video, which shows a competition between Gennady Korotkevich (tourist) and Andrew He (ecnerwala): Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBNIIg8REUU … --- ## [Fixing noisy prometheus grafana dashboards with quantile\_over\_time (2024-03-24)](https://pluralist.net/t/fixing-noisy-prometheus-grafana-dashboards-with-quantile-over-time-2024-03-24/119)
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Our home Grafana dashboards are wonderful - we are monitoring ping latency to hosts we care about, as well as humidity and temperature. The ping latency graphs are difficult to parse at a glance, however. There is too m… --- ## [(wiki) Book Highlights & Quotes](https://pluralist.net/t/wiki-book-highlights-quotes/117)
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From Michael Lopp’s Managing Humans - ch 30 “Hacking is Important”: Back in the early 1990s, Borland International was the place to be an engineer. Coming off the purchase of Ashton-Tate, Borland was the third-largest … --- ## [TIL: factoids about authors, productivity, creativity, writing (2024-03-23)](https://pluralist.net/t/til-factoids-about-authors-productivity-creativity-writing-2024-03-23/118)
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Hemingway wrote on a Corona No. 3 typewriter. He liked it because it was portable and he could travel with it. – Ok, but isn’t it just easier to carry pen and paper? More info on Hemingway and Corona No 3: http://m… --- ## [Famous Emacs users (2024-03-22)](https://pluralist.net/t/famous-emacs-users-2024-03-22/116)
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This is an unordered list of famous Emacs users Richard Stallman (rms) rms uses text console and rarely starts X11… but when he does - he uses Maté on a Thinkpad x200 with an ethical GNU/Linux distribution Linus… --- ## [Modern tools to learn old school MOS 6502 assembly language (2024-03-21)](https://pluralist.net/t/modern-tools-to-learn-old-school-mos-6502-assembly-language-2024-03-21/115)
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We love EOR #$FF: 6502 Ponderables and Befuddlements and highly recommend it. Here is how the book begins: “As I write, Apple is selling an M2 Ultra processor that has 134 billion transistors. In contrast, the humble 65… --- ## [Learning 6502 assembly (2024-03-20)](https://pluralist.net/t/learning-6502-assembly-2024-03-20/114)
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learning 6502 Commodore64 assemler first: https://youtu.be/CHLzzfEmj3I?si=agtyXXA2oYyTOW8J and then some: “recreational thinking”: EOR #$FF: 6502 Ponderables and Befuddlements Eor #$Ff: 6502 Ponderables and Bef… --- ## [TIL: There is a new Elecraft QRP Ham Radio - KH1 - and it is small and cute! Should we relearn CW? (2024-03-19)](https://pluralist.net/t/til-there-is-a-new-elecraft-qrp-ham-radio-kh1-and-it-is-small-and-cute-should-we-relearn-cw-2024-03-19/123)
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We are huge fans of Elecraft amateur radio gear. At home, the main (and only) HF (high frequency) rig is the mighty Elecraft K3s, which is sadly no longer produced. Ham radio operators love these machines. The QRP r… --- ## [The appeal of Ham Radio; CW; Digital Modes; Starlink vs Iridium (2024-03-18)](https://pluralist.net/t/the-appeal-of-ham-radio-cw-digital-modes-starlink-vs-iridium-2024-03-18/112)
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Today we are thinking about Ham Radio again… and pondering on whether Winlink would be fun during camping. Introducing the new Elecraft KH1 handheld-portable CW QRP transceiver | Q R P e r Portable HF CW: KH1\_KH1 Hand-… --- ## [Backing up in the cloud using git-annex and rsync.net (2024-03-17)](https://pluralist.net/t/backing-up-in-the-cloud-using-git-annex-and-rsync-net-2024-03-17/110)
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An influential technical article (from over 7 years ago) was Joey Hess here writing about keeping his home directory in SVN: Subverting your homedir, or keeping your life in svn Joey has since then built https://git-an… --- ## [Goal Setting & Tracking - the Elon Musk example; Starlink aiming for 20ms latency (2024-03-16)](https://pluralist.net/t/goal-setting-tracking-the-elon-musk-example-starlink-aiming-for-20ms-latency-2024-03-16/111)
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One very interesting (to us) tweet flew by and was buried in the noise of the Internet last week. Starlink on X: "The Starlink team has been focused on improving network performance with the goal of < 20ms latency. … --- ## [TIL: Broadband definition per FCC is 100/20 Mbps (2024-03-15)](https://pluralist.net/t/til-broadband-definition-per-fcc-is-100-20-mbps-2024-03-15/109)
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As it turns out - FCC increased the bar for the definition of “broadband Internet” Today, the FCC has changed its definition of “broadband” to mean download speeds of 100 megabits per second and upload speeds of 20 meg… --- ## [Discovery: Creative Uses of Discourse.org (2024-03-15)](https://pluralist.net/t/discovery-creative-uses-of-discourse-org-2024-03-15/126)
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We are glad to not be the only ones who are using Discourse.org for something other than just a discussion forum (blog/short-form posts in our case). Here is https://www.wer-weiss-was.de/ Here is another one: http… --- ## [Today we are reading Lapham Quarterly, Cal Newport, John McPhee (2024-03-14)](https://pluralist.net/t/today-we-are-reading-lapham-quarterly-cal-newport-john-mcphee-2024-03-14/108)
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Lapham Quarterly is one of our favorite publications. On our coffee table at the moment is: https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/rule-law Another piece of literature that we are reading this week: My new book: Slow Prod… --- ## [Met Cory Doctorow at SF Public Library (2024-03-13)](https://pluralist.net/t/met-cory-doctorow-at-sf-public-library-2024-03-13/107)
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We had a chance to see Cory Doctorow in person today at the SF Public Library. Thoughts provoked and lessons learned are too many to enumerate in this short post. Next series of books to read from Cory: Red Team Blue… --- ## [TIL: The original Mac OS was written in Pascal (2024-03-12)](https://pluralist.net/t/til-the-original-mac-os-was-written-in-pascal-2024-03-12/106)
**Author:** [@delyan](https://pluralist.net/u/delyan)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 12, 2024, 4:00am UTC](https://pluralist.net/t/til-the-original-mac-os-was-written-in-pascal-2024-03-12/106 "2024-03-12T04:00:00Z")
We are huge fans of Pascal (and Turbo Pascal specifically) here on this site. And today we found out that people used to write operating systems in Pascal. One such example is the classic Mac OS (not the modern macOS): … --- ## [Retro computers we wish were still around... (2024-03-11)](https://pluralist.net/t/retro-computers-we-wish-were-still-around-2024-03-11/103)
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There are machines that look aesthetically pleasing and we find to be perhaps even usable today. No, not the ASR33. No offense - but the Teletype Model 33 was… ugly. Strange humanoid. (source) You’re not convinced? … --- ## [Wiki: Speedrunning the LLM from scratch Curriculum in 72 hours (2024-03-10)](https://pluralist.net/t/wiki-speedrunning-the-llm-from-scratch-curriculum-in-72-hours-2024-03-10/104)
**Author:** [@delyan](https://pluralist.net/u/delyan)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 10, 2024, 1:37pm UTC](https://pluralist.net/t/wiki-speedrunning-the-llm-from-scratch-curriculum-in-72-hours-2024-03-10/104 "2024-03-10T13:37:01Z")
Note: This wiki will overtime grow to become an efficient way to learn Generative AI (GPT) in a contiguous period of 72 hours (optionally including sleep). This is a collection of notes and links at this point. The goal … --- ## [(slow) Internet over Ham Radio; AI over HF (2024-03-09)](https://pluralist.net/t/slow-internet-over-ham-radio-ai-over-hf-2024-03-09/100)
**Author:** [@delyan](https://pluralist.net/u/delyan)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 9, 2024, 9:35am UTC](https://pluralist.net/t/slow-internet-over-ham-radio-ai-over-hf-2024-03-09/100 "2024-03-09T09:35:33Z")
Today we are researching the possibility of using some form of Internet over Ham Radio. Starlink is great! It did not work in the forest – tree cover was great (can never be too much when camping). Can we use (slow) I… --- ## [Searching for 10PRINT on Twitter (2024-03-08)](https://pluralist.net/t/searching-for-10print-on-twitter-2024-03-08/102)
**Author:** [@delyan](https://pluralist.net/u/delyan)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 8, 2024, 5:00am UTC](https://pluralist.net/t/searching-for-10print-on-twitter-2024-03-08/102 "2024-03-08T05:00:00Z")
If you see a VW with the license plate 10PRINT - that’s me! :wave: The inspiration for this was https://10print.org/ - I am a huge fan! Often I check Twitter for 10PRINT. Here are some great finds: Nick Montfort has … --- ## [Are IBM z16 mainframes still relevant? Turns out - yes! (2024-03-07)](https://pluralist.net/t/are-ibm-z16-mainframes-still-relevant-turns-out-yes-2024-03-07/101)
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For awhile now we’ve been pondering whether mainframes are still relevant? What keeps the International Business Machine business in business? What is it that in 2024 makes mainframe attractive to companies? This video… --- ## [Is localhost development still relevant? Yes! Yes it is - especially for competetive programming (2024-03-06)](https://pluralist.net/t/is-localhost-development-still-relevant-yes-yes-it-is-especially-for-competetive-programming-2024-03-06/99)
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We are coding on Chromebook C13 Yoga (Lenovo Thinkpad) with Coreboot and Slackware 15. It is fun to explore KDE, use Konsole, code in Kate and chat with our daughters via shared tmux sessions and emacs buffers. We do he… --- ## [Competitive Programming for Kids (2024-03-05)](https://pluralist.net/t/competitive-programming-for-kids-2024-03-05/98)
**Author:** [@delyan](https://pluralist.net/u/delyan)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 5, 2024, 8:00am UTC](https://pluralist.net/t/competitive-programming-for-kids-2024-03-05/98 "2024-03-05T08:00:00Z")
We are working with my daughters (10 and 7 year old) on competitive programming. (This would be a great book title: “Competitive Programming for Kids” – maybe even adults would enjoy it.) We are creating a dedicated curr… --- ## [Summarizing Linux Kernel threads with LLMs (2024-03-04)](https://pluralist.net/t/summarizing-linux-kernel-threads-with-llms-2024-03-04/97)
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Willy Tarreau over at the Workflows Linux Kernel Mailing list has prototyped an excellent mail summarization tool. I am an avid reader of the Linux Kernel Mailing List, but often times I skim the subject lines of threads… --- ## [Discovered a new text editor: micro - modern, small, written in Golang (2024-03-03)](https://pluralist.net/t/discovered-a-new-text-editor-micro-modern-small-written-in-golang-2024-03-03/96)
**Author:** [@delyan](https://pluralist.net/u/delyan)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 3, 2024, 8:00am UTC](https://pluralist.net/t/discovered-a-new-text-editor-micro-modern-small-written-in-golang-2024-03-03/96 "2024-03-03T08:00:00Z")
A person introduced me to micro today. The micro text editor was created by Zachary Yedidia back in 2016. Micro is designed to be accessible for those coming from Nano, but it is also appealing to Vim users looking for … --- ## [TIL: 802.11ay + Cambium Networks’ 60 GHz cnWave fixed wireless broadband in San Jose + Terragraph from Facebook Connectivity (2024-03-02)](https://pluralist.net/t/til-802-11ay-cambium-networks-60-ghz-cnwave-fixed-wireless-broadband-in-san-jose-terragraph-from-facebook-connectivity-2024-03-02/95)
**Author:** [@delyan](https://pluralist.net/u/delyan)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2024, 8:00am UTC](https://pluralist.net/t/til-802-11ay-cambium-networks-60-ghz-cnwave-fixed-wireless-broadband-in-san-jose-terragraph-from-facebook-connectivity-2024-03-02/95 "2024-03-02T08:00:00Z")
In search for alternative Internet Providers here in San Jose – today we are reading about: IEEE 802.11ay is WiFi above 45 GHz. With the 60 GHz band this has a transmission rate of 20–40 Gbit/s and an extended transmis… --- ## [Testing Cell Networks with G-NetTrack Lite (2024-03-01)](https://pluralist.net/t/testing-cell-networks-with-g-nettrack-lite-2024-03-01/94)
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I love and support the work of my compatriot Julian Gyokov. Julian is an activist and a celebrity in my book: How skeptics called Big Telecom's bluff on broadband coverage maps | StateScoop Vermont official chases cel… --- ## [Using shared tmux to interview candidates (2024-02-29)](https://pluralist.net/t/using-shared-tmux-to-interview-candidates-2024-02-29/93)
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For a long time I have been using services such as CoderPad to interview Software Engineers. Long time ago I was interviewed by Carey Nachenberg (Symantec, Google, UCLA prof) and the IDE was… a Google Doc. It was a tort… --- ## [Reading about GoboLinux (2024-02-28)](https://pluralist.net/t/reading-about-gobolinux-2024-02-28/92)
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Tonight we are reading about GoboLinux: GoboLinux - the alternative Linux distribution At first glance this distro is about complete reorganization of the file system. https://gobolinux.org/downloads.html [Previous page](https://pluralist.net/latest.md?page=4) [Next page](https://pluralist.net/latest.md?page=6)