ClawPDF – Open-Source Virtual/Network PDF Printer with OCR and Image Support
ClawPDF may seem like yet another Virtual PDF/OCR/Image Printer, but it actually comes packed with features that are typically found in enterprise solutions. With clawPDF, you can create documents in various formats, including PDF/A-1b, PDF/A-2b, PDF/A-3b, PDF/X, PDF/Image, OCR, SVG, PNG, JPEG, TIF, and TXT. You also have easy access to metadata and can remove […]
Monitoring Node.js: Key Metrics You Should Track
Monitoring Node.js: Key Metrics You Should Track | Last9 Cookie Preferences Our curious cat would like to know how you use our site! Choose your cookie preferences. Accept All Essential Only Vibe monitoring with Last9 MCP: Ask your agent to fix production issues! Setup → Understand which metrics matter in Node.js applications, why they’re important, […]
How scrolling becomes a religious act
how scrolling becomes a religious act It’s no secret that Silicon Valley thinks of AI as God. Talk to any San Francisco tech bro at a party, and you’ll hear the same reverential tone. Transhumanists like Google executive Ray Kurzweil have called for “inventing God” since at least the turn of the century, while venture […]
Telum II at Hot Chips 2024: Mainframe with a Unique Caching Strategy
Mainframes still play a vital role in today, providing extremely high uptime and low latency for financial transactions. Telum II is IBM’s latest mainframe processor, and is designed unlike any other server CPU. It only has eight cores, but runs them at a very high 5.5 GHz and feeds them with 360 MB of on-chip […]
Don’t Guess My Language
If you’re still using IP geolocation to decide what language to show, stop screwing around. It’s a broken assumption dressed up as a feature. IP tells you where the request comes from, that’s it. It doesn’t tell you what language the user wants, speaks, or even understands. It fails all the time — VPNs, travel, […]
Reading “Business” Books Is a Waste of Time
“Business” Books Are Cheap Entertainment, Not Strategic Tools Most popular business books are written for emotional appeal, not intellectual rigor. They turn simplified stories into generic advice, convert rare successes into universal strategies, and replace complex market dynamics with motivational slogans. These books succeed not because they are accurate, but because they are easy to […]
Show HN: Every side project I’ve built since 2009
I’ve been building side projects since 2009. Some got sold, some are still online, and a few quietly disappeared. This page is where I keep track of everything I’ve built over the years. My approach to side projects is straightforward: I build what I like. Most of my them have been created using WordPress, with a […]
Emulator Debugging: Area 5150’s Lake Effect
My last few articles on bus sniffing the IBM 5150 have been building up to this one. We’re going to leverage our bus sniffer and sniffer decoder to finally debug Area5150’s “Lake” effect. “But wait -“, you might be asking: “- doesn’t MartyPC run Area5150 already?” Yes, it does, but I have a dirty little secret […]
Seagate claims spinning disks beat SSDs on carbon footprint
A Seagate Decarbonizing Data report says energy usage is a top concern for more than half of business leaders and better use of disks is a wise datacenter choice. Jason Feist The report cites a forecast by Goldman Sachs that global power demand from datacenters will increase by as much as 165 percent by 2030, […]
What does the end of mathematics look like?
Wherein I muse about the value of understanding. For those who like a pithy takeaway, I propose that the end of mathematics does not look unlike the end of striving for understanding, and the improvement of the singular human mind.Posted on: May 18, 2025 Word count: 1484 As a prelude to what is to follow, […]