Or using lots of little tools to aggressively reject the bots · October 18th, 2024 U G H. For some reason my quaint little piece of the internet has suddenly been inundated with unwanted guests. Now normally speaking I would … Read more
Here’s a useful tool for quickly testing whether a disk (or a cloud block store volume) is a good candidate for your database WAL/redo logs and any other files that require low latency writes. The pg_test_fsync tool is bundled with … Read more
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About four years ago (?!) I wrote a blog post called The Great Composite Comparison, where I compared a number of methods for upscaling composite video. At the time, I mentioned looking forward to the RetroTINK-5X upscaler, and later that … Read more
One of the early decisions we made in Screenshotbot was to not have read-access to your GitHub repositories. This turned out to be a huge advantage for us. It makes our customers much more confident using our product, and makes … Read more
An eBPF agent that captures traffic flowing through the Linux kernel. By attaching to TLS/SSL functions, data is intercepted before and after encryption and then passed to flexible plugins with full visibility along with all of the available context – … Read more
In Java development, logic errors constitute a unique class of defects where code executes flawlessly according to its written instructions while systematically violating business requirements. The disconnect arises when programmatic operations mathematically diverge from domain-specific rules. Think of a tax … Read more
I wanted a much faster way to develop the front-end of my site. And I wanted to use JSX as the templating language but without React. And I didn’t want to be tied down to any one way of doing … Read more
Sep 6, 2022 By Elias Lawson-Fox, Aidan Nyquist, and Robert Smith Table Of Contents Introduction: Coalton and the quilc compiler Quilc is a state-of-the-art optimizing compiler for quantum computers written in Common Lisp. It is capable of taking arbitrary quantum … Read more
introduction If you surf the modern “small web” to any extent you’ve encountered 88×31 buttons – a staple of late 90s and early 2000’s websites undergoing a bit of a revival. The Neocities community especially seems to have truly embraced … Read more
As a developer, fake deadlines drove me crazy. I always feel responsible for delivering on time, so I used to work my ass off (weekends and nights included) just to meet a random date. And then… Silence. Nothing happens. The … Read more