How Wikipedia looks in Eink mode What is Eink Mode? The Eink mode, as the name suggests, is a web browsing mode specifically designed for users of Electronic Ink (E Ink) devices. Its purpose is to present the website’s content … Read more
Have you ever wondered how a touch screen knows you are touching it? Well, it has these layers of transparent metal electrodes embedded in the display. When your finger gets close to the screen it causes a disturbance in the … Read more
27 Mar, 2025 Some time ago, I saw this video by DIY Perks where they make artificial sunlight at home with a 500W LED and a gigantic (1.2m) parabolic reflector. I’ve been fascinated by this project ever since, and I … Read more
A quick-fun story. My (ops-but-sometimes-writes-scripts-to-help-out) coworker just tapped on my shoulder and asked me to look at his code that wasn’t working. It was a bit something like this: User.includes(investments: -> { where(state: :draft) })… This is not a feature … Read more
February 22, 2025 at 14:53 Tags Math There’s a cute math puzzle that can be interesting to folks on very different levels: Given exactly four instances of the digit 2 and some target natural number, use any mathematical operations to … Read more
Jan 18, 2025 (Chemistry) Important disclaimer: Several of the reagents used here are very corrosive and can produce toxic gasses. If you try to repeat this, at the very least please wear eye protection — no project is worth permanent … Read more
How the redesign of a street in a walkable college town reflects our broader values for cars over people. Today, I bring you to Orange, California, a small college town that hosts Chapman University. Being in Orange County, you may … Read more
tl;dr – Since developers are our customers, we wanted them to have beautiful API keys. We couldn’t find a suitable standard solution so we made our own package – uuidkey – that you can use to encode & format UUIDs … Read more
We finished the first version of a synthesizer that starts to resemble a real product. It’s the same concept that I’ve already written about – a simple switches-over-knobs style analog synth for live performance, called Hog – but with completely reworked … Read more
Undefined behavior (UB) in the C programming language is a regular source of heated discussions among programmers. On the one hand, UB can be important for compiler optimizations. On the other hand, it makes is easy to introduce bugs that … Read more