I’ve fuzzed parts of the GitHub API. Here are my findings
05 Oct 2020 !!! WARNING !!! If you choose to run the steps in this article, please note that you will end up with a significant number of dummy GitHub repos under your username. Over 1k in my case. There is a script at the end of the article that you can use to delete […]
Why your REPL experience sucks
If you’re new to Clojure, or even if you’re not but haven’t had a chance to carefully study its evaluation model, this may seem a bit mysterious. Why should putting two little characters in front of the function name suddenly mean that the HTTP server will be updated when we re-evaluate the definition of the […]
Ask HN: Is Google becoming useless as a search engine, or is it just me?
Google used to be my first stop whenever I had to research anything, but of late, I’ve increasingly found myself appending site:reddit.com or site:stackoverflow.com to get any meaningful results. Most of my searches lately have either revolved around a couple of medical issues (my wife’s slightly complex pregnancy, and my own neck injury) or technical […]
Convert SimCity 2000 cities into Minecraft worlds
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Ask HN: Alternatives to The Economist Magazine?
I’ve be a pretty avid reader of the Economist for a number of years. It doesn’t align exactly with my political values but I’ve always found the writing to be of high quality, even if I don’t agree with their opinions per-se. I feel like it has a good selection of articles on local and […]
How We Built Fly Postgres
Image by Annie Ruygt Like many public cloud platforms, Fly.io has a database offering. Where AWS has RDS, and Heroku has Heroku Postgres, Fly.io has Fly Postgres. You can spin up a Postgres database, or a whole cluster, with just a couple of commands. Sign up for Fly.io and launch a full-stack app in minutes! […]
UK high street banks are quarantining from crypto
Last year, it was almost impossible to miss posters for cryptocurrencies plastered all over London’s public transportation network. Crypto was booming, and commuters were subjected to nearly 40,000 crypto advertisements from 13 different companies in the span of six months. These flyers seemed to captivate retail investors and investment bankers alike, with major institutions like […]
Quarter-Scale Retrocomputing
This is an ongoing project that began as a search for a cool Raspberry Pi case. I couldn’t find something cool, so I decided to build my own. The first completed case was the BeBox, and expanded to the X68000 (as a plastic model kit I found in Japan), the SGI Indy, and the eMachines […]
In Game of Life any buildable pattern can be constructed by colliding 15 gliders
The Conway’s Game of Life community celebrated a landmark achievement on November 9th, 2022. An idea years in the making, the “Reverse Caber Tosser” design finally had all of the pieces it needed to achieve its stated goal. That goal is simple. Select any pattern that can be built in Life – for example, the […]
Apple’s App Store Has Become an Ad-Plagued Version of Its Former Self
Apple used to carefully curate its App store, helping developers gain visibility and customers find what they needed. These days, ads have become intrusive and knock-off apps are cluttering up the user experience. In prioritizing revenue over serving its customers, Apple is becoming the very thing it used to mock. Loading Something is loading. Thanks […]