Tootfinder

Wrote a blog post on installing Linux native on a MacBook. So I could remember what I did 🙂
#Apple

Focus and Context and LLMs | Taras' Blog on AI, Perf, Hacks
#AI

from my link log —
Syntactic musings on match expressions in Rust.
https://blog.yoshuawuyts.com/syntactic-musings-on-match-expressions/
saved 2025-04-29

If you missed my content on social this week, find it in one place in my newsletter. Specially curated for you, so you don't have to.
https://blog.frankel.ch/java-geek-weekly/88/

Here's my latest Boles Bells article!
https://bolesbells.com/blog/2025/6/9/the-iron-ballast-kettlebells-national-identity-and-the-russian-mythos-of-strength

The Iron Ballast: Kettlebells, National Identity, and the Russian Mythos of Strength — David Boles Bells
The trajectory of Russia over the past century is a story deeply etched with societal upheavals, ideological fervor, and an unyielding quest for national assertion on the global stage. Knotted into this complex tapestry is the seemingly modest history of the kettlebell, or girya . This unassuming i

30 years of PHP and I've published my thoughts in the @… blog: https://blog.bitexpert.de/blog/30-years-of-php

30 years of PHP | bitExpert
Reflecting on 30 years of the PHP ecosystem, this blog post celebrates its enduring role in modern web development and how it continues to power significant projects at bitExpert.

New post on our family learning blog, "USAFA Letter: 13 August 1990"
#USAFA

USAFA Letter: 13 August 1990
My mother, Angie Fryer, kept meticulous records of every letter I sent home as a cadet at the US Air Force Academy from 30 June 1988 to 27 May 1992. She also kept numerous other related news articl…

"Rebuilding the library community in a post-Twitter world" by Ned Potter: https://www.ned-potter.com/blog/rebuilding-the-library-community-in-a-post-twitter-world
(unfortunately, due to "audience reasons" he pr…

A post from the archive 📫:
A talk about Dump File analysis
#debugging

finally started my new business!! it's quite exciting for me as I get to finally do what I love on my own terms and with the person I love.
We do phone stuff and MSP stuff in the UK, and we are doing a free trial right now on our cloud phone systems so if you want to check us out id be very appreciative
I made a blog post as well about how we automate phone system deployment, useful if you want to learn how to tie terraform and ansible together!

This year is the 20th year since my first Tuppenceworth.ie blog post recording when it was Flying Ant Day.
In 2005 it was on the 9th August.
This year, it is on the 8th July.
https://www.tuppenceworth.ie/blog/

This story of an ex-Googler is well worth reading. After some personal observations, @… asks interesting questions:
What is crypto mining if not a textbook Captain Planet villain scheme—to kill and raze and destroy for nothing but imaginary tokens proving that you did lots of killing and razing and …

from my link log —
On Jujutsu and Magit.
https://blog.alarsyo.net/posts/2025/02/on-jujutsu-and-magit/
saved 2025-02-13

What the fuck is it with #overlay companies and their apologists commenting on my blog?
I got two today (on the same post):
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/01/ftc-

FTC Catches up to #accessiBe
From the FTC on Friday: The Federal Trade Commission will require software provider accessiBe to pay $1 million to settle allegations that it misrepresented the ability of its AI-powered web accessibility tool to make any website compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) for people with disabilities. FTC Order…

I wrote a blog post about my experience installing #Meshcore on my #Heltec V3 device and the settings you need when you are in Canada.
This is not an intro blog post to mesh in general, this assume existing knowledge about

There is something very satisfying about building my blog now with #Emacs.
However it is quite a large yak to shave.
Styling needs to be finished but RSS is already working thanks to @…
The whole thing is of course set up in a reproducible way with

from my link log —
The plight of the misunderstood atomic memory ordering.
https://www.grayolson.me/blog/posts/misunderstood-memory-ordering/
saved 2025-06-18

Sent my May (?) newsletter
https://buttondown.com/seedling/archive/slightly-late-may-2025-update/

Slightly Late May 2025 update
Blog posts I've managed to get a few of them done. The one I'm probably most proud of is a belated entry to the Conclave blog jam(?): Assorted thoughts on...

Go is 80/20 language: https://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/d-2025-06-26/go-is-8020-language.html
Good piece, a bit misleading on a couple of Go details but essentially right I think. I spent my last 20 years of employment working in Java-heavy …

Yes, yes, yes, yes, @…! 👏
“For now, I’m planning on continuing to roll up my sleeves. I want to make things because I’m human and alive. I want to go on journeys and grow. I’m not always looking for an easy path, I want the friction. Because if I give up the journey, what am I really making? What do I actually learn?”

With Josh Barro trending, here's my takedown of his views on transit in Dissent ten years ago. https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/the-sovereign-consumer-pushed-off-the-train/

The Sovereign Consumer, Pushed Off the Train - Dissent Magazine
Establishment economists insist that they don't second-guess consumer preferences. You are, they say, your own best judge of what's good for you. But not if you like to travel by train.

I finally finished the blogpost including some new photos and a short video (!!) from my hike last Saturday.
To me it was a really really gorgeous day!
Read the story here: https://www.franzgraf.de/blog/2025/getting-up-early-for-the-mountains/
(a…

So, if you've been using Fly to deploy stuff you might want to reconsider. Given this true believer post on "AI" my trust into the security of their infrastructure has plummeted to zero. (My one deployment I had with them was incidentally already deleted before reading this 😅).
https://fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/

I also finally got around to setting up a local Wallabag instance running in a FreeBSD jail on the home server, and applying the requisite hacks to my Kobo to replace its now-gone Pocket support (shakes fist at Mozilla)
https://jqno.nl/post/2025/06/04/reading-b…

Reading blogs on my Kobo e-reader via Wallabag
In which I compare two options for reading blog posts on my e-reader, using the Wallabag read-it-later service.

I blogged about the history of the public-service broadcasting institution ARD in Germany and how I finally got access to TV program data to answer my reoccuring question of when the news program is on tonight in the spirit of "Public Money, Public Good".
https://johl.io/blog/o-news-program-wh…

There was somebody fussing in my replies to my last link to my blog post about Medium (I don’t see them now; they probably blocked me, but their specific words don’t really matter), and the gist of their message was that they didn’t like that site. On the modern internet, if you have an issue with content written by humans, with no surveillance ads, that doesn’t allow AI scraping or AI slop content, with a business model that makes money… I don’t know how to help you. Honestly.

Tech bros: “Why does everyone hate us?”
Also tech bros: https://caneandable.social/@WeirdWriter/114782913349454383

Arthur Ward, my father, was a participant in the D-Day invasion. He was born in Northampton in 1925. He served with the Royal Signals landing in France on D-Day 1 (7th June). His primary task was building a telephone network to support the RAF. In 1995 he wrote an extensive memoir. This blog post contains his recollection of the days before D-Day, at sea, landing and the first few days in France.

Arthur James WARD, 1925-2017 - Miscellanea Edintone
Lance Corporal no.14568781, 55 Construction Section, Royal Corps of Signals, part of 16 Air Formation Signals, attached to the Royal Air Force.

If you are interested in the multiple moving parts needed to get #mte support for #qemu's #gdbstub you might find my colleges blog post interesting:

Adding Support for MTE debugging to QEMU | Blog | Linaro
This blog post explains how Linaro enabled QEMU to debug MTE (Memory Tagging Extension) code on machines that support this feature. We'll start by explaining MTE and what was needed to enable debugging. Then, we'll describe the components we upstreamed to GDB and QEMU to make it work.

Working again on a project with Delphi 1.0 was a pleasure. Few IDEs nowadays are as simple, lightweight, complete, useful, and stable as Delphi was in… 1995.
Le sigh.
https://akos.ma/blog/conway-in-borland-delphi/

Conway in Borland Delphi
Yet another version of my Polyglot Conway project, this time in good old Borland Delphi 1.0 (which recently celebrated its 30th anniversary!) from 1995, running on Windows 3.1, and as usual you can found the source code on my GitLab account.

Zip Bombs: simple, yet powerful in the fight against #AI bots
https://idiallo.com/blog/zipbomb-protection

Anybody who's thinking right now whether :ruby: #ruby or #rails might be a good fit:
Start-ups like 🗓️ #attendlist are using the

Our production Ruby on Rails stack
Explore the gems and infrastructure choices I've made while building my Ruby on Rails app, AttendList.

Over the past twenty-one years, I've posted 365 posts to my blog, on average one every twenty-one days. They total almost half a million words.
That's quite some corpus of work.
#Blog
#Blogging

365 posts
Checking my blog yesterday, I noticed that I had published 365 posts, one for every day of the year. Which, considering that the oldest post that remains is from the 24th June 2004, almost twenty one years ago, means that I've averaged one post every twenty-one days over that period. Mind you, I've not been consistent; there've been periods I've posted more, others I've posted less.

a good, but depressing read... this Australian scrubbed his blog reporting on the Columbia student protests before flying to the US, but they'd already saved the posts, possibly triggered by his ESTA application or him being on a list from a far-right pro-Israel org.
https://www.…

My regular Monday contribution at the blog Balloon Juice.
#Birds

My experience is limited to ASP.NET, SQL, and some Python at a Fortune 500 company, so take this with a grain of salt. When he talks about agents, it sounds like automation to me. I’ve been writing jobs (or agents) for decades to run automated tasks on a schedule. If you want to add another point of failure into your job, knock yourself out. Also, I’m wary of encouraging neophytes to outsource work they don’t know how to do. That’s a recipe for disaster.

Oh god, the picture invokes some very mousetrap-adjacent vibes, in the @… sense of the word. https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114440131512138899

A couple of folks said I should replace the pop-over email signup form on my blog with a much more subtle inline signup form at the top of the page. So! If you'd like to reward the more user-friendly design with your patronage and support (it's free, I only ask for your attention), you can sign up to get my new posts in your inbox just by sharing your email address. I won't spam you or sell your email, and don't post too often.

Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Whenever two Americans meet, we find ourselves talking about "the situation," an eerie crossover from lands of war and dictatorship.
My thoughts on the big picture, and why I have more reason for concern and more hope in resisting than I expected.
https://woborders.blog/2025/05/17/trum

Trump’s authoritarian turn is everyone’s problem
It’s May 2025, and it feels like every new conversation (in my circles? in the United States? far beyond that?) needs to start with an acknowledgement of the bleak bigger picture on the natio…

Having to use Mac instead of Linux for work soon, I finally found a concise article on the topic.
Most others are either about installing Linux on a Mac (interesting, but not my situation) or switching because they prefer Mac (uhh..) and want to use it as one.
I aim to create an workflow as similar to Linux as I manage, without having to juggle with VMs

Doing a more extensive SI/PI workup on the switch line card in preparation for a) a blog update on the switch project and b) getting all my I's dotted and T's crossed before spending a lot of money stuffing three more boards and ordering the logic board.
Here's the 2.5V rail, putting out a bit over 2A at 2.5V. Ripple is dominated by ~300 kHz switching noise plus some harmonics of the 125 MHz PHY symbol rate (which makes sense this rail is driving the PHY PAM5 transceivers a…

on my blog!
performance of random floats
in which i examine the relative cost of bithacking floating point numbers vs more conventional conversions
https://dotat.at/@/2025-06-08-floats.html

Social post:
https://bsky.app/profile/lflegal.bsky.social/post/3lqofepe7kc2e
Blog post:

While I'm copying yesterday's photos to my computer, I'll just share some more photos from my recent blog post.
I tried to put the bushes at the lake as framing elements into the #photos. I think it worked out quite okay. -- And while we were on this walk I imagined all the time where and how this could look at sunset or with fog.
Maybe I should go there a again a couple o…

This article from @… is called "When legitimate tools go rogue" but could have easily been named "Know your environment" instead. It's one of my #cybersecurity maxims: the better you understand your environment the better you …

When legitimate tools go rogue
Attackers are increasingly hiding in plain sight, using the same tools IT and security teams rely on for daily operations. This blog breaks down common techniques and provides recommendations to defenders.

Sat writing up my Algeria trip at last. I’ll post a link once I get better internet and can upload more photos.

i hate that i even gotta say this but just so it's on record, anything you see me post online — blog or otherwise — is 100% my own voice! (and yes, those were em dashes, dangit!)
merely mimicking journalistic cadence is enough to get you accused of assisted writing now 😭 i do not like this timeline

Another essential thread from @… ...
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114733317506784669
pluralistic@mamot.fr - A major problem with letting billionaires decide how your country is run is that they will back whichever psycho promises the lowest taxes and least regulation, no matter how completely batshit and unfit that person is:
https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/nations-are-people
--
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/23/billionaires-eh/#galen-weston-is-a-rat
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I've tried *again* to write a blog post (about my new corne layout) but failed *again* after 5 lines.
It really requires more focus and time than what I can give after work. On a great way to complete my 0 post challenge this year. Nothing can stop me !!! -evil laugh-

from my link log —
Recovering control flow structures from Java bytecode without CFGs.
https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/recovering-control-flow-structures-without-cfgs/
saved 2025-06-06

Recovering control flow structures without CFGs
I’m working on a Java decompiler because I’m not satisfied with the performance of other solutions. I’ve always heard that decompiling JVM bytecode is a solved problem, but I’ve concluded that the decompilation methods used by CFR and Vineflower are hacky, inefficient, and sometimes don’t even work. The existing solutions are haphazard and inadequate compared to alternative approaches. Specifically, I have beef with the control flow extraction strategies employed by most decompilers. …

There are now exactly 365 posts on my blog. So, considering I've been writing it for twenty years, I have a long term average of one post every twenty days, over all that time.
Some of them are good. I'd go further. Some of them are excellent.
https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/

Home
Random thoughts on politics, fiction and software; occasionally interesting.

Why is my blog called 'Edintone' and why do I use that as my handle too? The mystery is over ... #DomesdayBook

Why Edintone?
One branch of my family, Vorley, originates from Great Addington in Northamptonshire and were known to be living there in the 17th century.

#Goals
https://caneandable.social/@WeirdWriter/114782913349454383

Jumping between node (my blog) and python (frontmatter changes) today was fun but I made an oops with #activepieces 😂 which then required more python (bulk deletes) which then required making edits to mastodon/config/initializers
/rack_attack.rb
Sorry to those I spammed on the #Fediverse

Check out my new blog post: Better Video Audio with Auphonic
https://www.speedofcreativity.org/2025/05/18/better-video-audio-with-auphonic/
Featuring my new video: Spring Cleaning My RecTeq RT-700 Bull Smoker: Tips & Tricks!

from my link log —
Portable dynamically linked packages on Linux.
https://brioche.dev/blog/portable-dynamically-linked-packages-on-linux/
saved 2025-03-18

from my link log —
The database row that did and didn't exist according to Django.
http://mistys-internet.website/blog/blog/2025/05/13/the-database-row-that-did-and-didnt-exist
saved 2025-05-14

#AskFedi: meeting-booking software like Calendly or SimplyMeet.me
I need to set up one of those things where other people can pick a time for us to meet.
I only need it for a few meetings on a few days, so I don't want to have to maintain an entire online calendar up-to-date just so that it can see where the gaps are. I want one which is easy to use as follows: I go into the thing itself and select a few chunks of time which _are_ available, it turns those into bookable slots.
I'd also like it to be easy to remove unbooked slots manually without messing up any adjacent booked ones.
Previously I've not even used this type of software the other way round, as the person booking someone _else's_ available time - so I'm starting fresh with looking into it!
I've got my eye on SimplyMeet.me, because the below Zapier article said it was a nicely customisable one and can do intake questions, which would be nice. Has anyone else used that?
Any other recommendations or pointers?
Thanks in advance for clues!
(boosts very welcome)
#AskFedi #software #Calendly #SimplyMeetMe

hey friends! One more photo from my recent hike into the #mountains .
My way went from this point to the right over the summit (not seen on the photo), down to the ridge (right into the photo), along the ridge, and down into the middle of the photo.
An amazing day and an impressive trail!

My weekly contribution at the blog Balloon Juice.
#Birds …

from my link log —
The first year of free-threaded Python.
https://labs.quansight.org/blog/free-threaded-one-year-recap
saved 2025-05-14

The first year of free-threaded Python
A recap of the first year of work on enabling support for the free-threaded build of CPython in community packages.

from my link log —
Thoughts on hashing in Rust.
https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/thoughts-on-rust-hashing/
saved 2024-12-13

Thoughts on Rust hashing
In languages like Python, Java, or C++, values are hashed by calling a “hash me” method on them, implemented by the type author. This fixed-hash size is then immediately used by the hash table or what have you. This design suffers from some obvious problems, like: How do you hash an integer? If you use a no-op hasher (booo), DoS attacks on hash tables are inevitable. If you hash it thoroughly, consumers that only cache hashes to optimize equality checks lose out of performance.

from my link log —
Implement your programming language twice.
https://futhark-lang.org/blog/2025-05-07-implement-your-language-twice.html
saved 2025-05-08

Check out and share my latest blog post, “Hijacked Minds and Broken Trust”
https://www.speedofcreativity.org/2025/06/19/hijacked-minds-and-broken-trust/
(btw I blogged this on my iPad, which I’m trying to use more for media creation and sharing)

Just sent a truly epic email to the Freedom of Information office at the BC Ministry requesting that they release a bunch of information that they refused/redacted in my 2000 page Island Railway related information disclosure.
It was 1160 words with 11 attachments. 😂
Feeling my citizen-power rn
Though i don't envy the FOI analyst opening that up just before lunch on a Friday in June. 😇
(blog post about the FOI request: (#BCPoli #BCGov #IslandRail #FOIPPA #FOI

from my link log —
Sneak peek: A new ASN.1 API for Python.
https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/04/18/sneak-peek-a-new-asn.1-api-for-python/
saved 2025-04-18

Sneak peek: A new ASN.1 API for Python
We’re working on integrating an ASN.1 API into PyCA Cryptography, built on top of the same Rust ASN.1 implementation already used by Cryptography’s X.509 APIs.

on my blog!
some notes on making summer coffee so i don't forget and screw it up again next spring
https://dotat.at/@/2025-06-01-bialetti.html

I have been trialling Substack as a supplement to my blog. Substack has a large community of people interested in local and social history, so it's a good fit for me. I'm not planning to stop blogging, and some posts may appear in both places, but it allows me scope to write on a wider range of topics. https://

Newspapers and Research
The Norwood Review and Sir Archur Conan Doyle

on my blog!
https://dotat.at/@/2025-07-02-cmp.html
a few tangentially-related ideas vaguely near the theme of comparison operators

from my link log —
What's higher-order about so-called higher-order references?
https://www.williamjbowman.com/blog/2025/06/02/what-s-higher-order-about-so-called-higher-order-references/
saved …

from my link log —
Lock-free Rust: how to build a rollercoaster while it’s on fire.
https://yeet.cx/blog/lock-free-rust/
saved 2025-05-16 https://

from my link log —
Tools built on tree-sitter's concrete syntax trees.
https://www.scannedinavian.com/tools-built-on-tree-sitters-concrete-syntax-trees.html
saved 2025-06-01

from my link log —
Helmdar: 3D scanning Brooklyn on rollerblades.
https://owentrueblood.com/blog/2025/05/04/helmdar/
saved 2025-05-05

on my blog!
a TIL post about the algebra of dependent types
https://dotat.at/@/2025-05-28-types.html

on my blog!
https://dotat.at/@/2025-06-28-boulder.html
Golang and Let's Encrypt: a free software story