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An Interview with Unity CEO Matthew Bromberg About Turnarounds

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Listen to this post: Good morning, This week’s Stratechery interview is with Unity CEO Matthew Bromberg. Bromberg took over Unity last year, and previously worked at Zynga, EA, Major League Gaming, and AOL. In this interview — which ended up being primarily about Bromberg, who I found fascinating — we discuss the lessons learned in a […]

Hilbert space: Treating functions as vectors

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September 06, 2025 at 06:46 Tags Math The tools of linear algebra are extremely useful when working in Euclidean space (e.g. ). Wouldn’t it be great if we could apply these tools to additional mathematical constructs, such as functions and sequences? Hilbert space allows us to do exactly this – apply linear algebra to functions. […]

Seed. LINE’s Custom Typeface

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LINE Seed Licensing All content of LINE Seed is copyrighted material owned by LY Corp. All fonts are released under the SIL Open Font License, Version1.1. This license is also available with a FAQ at: https://scripts.sil.org/OFL You can use them for any personal or commercial purposes. However, the software font files themselves cannot be sold […]

Checkout.com hacked, refuses ransom payment, donates to security labs

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Tl;dr: Last week, we were targeted by a criminal extortion attempt. The attackers gained access to a legacy, third-party cloud file storage system.  Our live payment processing platform was not impacted. No merchant funds or card numbers were accessed.  We are donating the ransom amount to fund cybercrime research. Last week, Checkout.com was contacted by […]

Fizz Buzz without conditionals or booleans

I recently learned about the Feeling of Computing podcast and listened to the latest episode. One of the hosts challenged listeners to “write Fizz Buzz with no booleans, no conditionals, no pattern matching, or other things that are like disguised booleans.” Here’s my Python solution: from itertools import cycle def string_mask(a, b): return b + […]

Reverse Engineering Yaesu FT-70D Firmware Encryption

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This article dives into my full methodology for reverse engineering the tool mentioned in this article. It’s a bit longer but is intended to be accessible to folks who aren’t necessarily advanced reverse-engineers. Click on any of the images to view at its original resolution. # Background Ham radios are a fun way of learning […]

The Pen and the Spade: The Poems of Seamus Heaney

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Seamus Heaney was a self-consciously self-made poet. In his essay ‘Feeling into Words’, he gives one of the best accounts available of ‘finding your voice’ as a writer. There were early stirrings of poetry in listening to his mother recite the Latin grammar of her schooldays; the ‘beautiful sprung rhythms’ of the BBC shipping forecast […]

CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring

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About Us CollectWise is a fast growing and well funded Y Combinator-backed startup. We’re using generative AI to automate debt collection, a $35B market in the US alone. Our AI agents are already outperforming human collectors by 2X, and we’re doing so at a fraction of the cost. With a team of three, we scaled […]