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I own an emotiscope[1]. Crafted by a solo developer that went on to do other things. This device seems to have implemented the hard part pretty well. Different algorithms with mini…

The Cisco Time Series model is inspired by this model from Google. This one is targeted at observability data and I can confirm it works great in that context https://github.com/sp…

As a user I don’t get why Apple allows this user hostile behavior in an app they distribute in their app store.The platform has alternatives. iOS has a sharing sheet. iOS has a def…

Vulcan point in the Taal Crater is my favorite recursive island. It’s an island in a lake on an island in a lake on a big island in the ocean (the Philippines). [1] https://www.ope…

This happened to Gitlab.

Passkeys are what you describe here.

FTA: A chat bot can handle expected, middle-of-the-road queries (as in, for a bank, “what’s my balance” and so on) – but customers can get those answers already from the app or web…

Honest question: why are you vaccinating while you also identify as low risk?

Why sample otel spans and miss out on the important ones?

Thanks for reminding me of http://drunkmenworkhere.org/200 I also had a blog there.

In my career I got quite some technical certifications. Any cert shows you are taking your job seriously and you are willing to learn. The following three certs helped to show I kn…

https://erwinvrolijk.nl Static site hosted on gitlab pages. Build with the zola static site generator using gitlab cicd.

I’ve been doing that as well. Here [1] a more elaborate example, might be the original article. [1] https://www.thapaliya.com/en/writings/well-documented-makefi...

Many moons ago I created all graphs in the LPIC2 exam prep book [1] using graphviz. The book is open sourced now, and all dot files are preserved in the accompanying repo [2]. One …

I’ve fixed production bugs by removing code copied verbatim from the PHP manual. It looked like the clueless previous developer had copy pasted code from all over the place until t…

"A backup not restored is a backup not made." Should be on the wall in every IT department. Together with "Snapshots are NOT backups".

Probably none. Why should telemetry data sent from Mars be encrypted? Encryption makes the system more complex and requires more computations and power on Mars.

Some retailers already use RFID to track items around the store. They track the full journey of items around the store. Which items go into the fitting room together, which will be…

As a user I really don't like sites disabling autofill. In this case, you make me type my address, because you want to use one address field. A better solution would be to detect s…

The future of iPhone charging is wireless. The current iPhone12 with MagSafe is the first of the new system. I predict future iPhones will have no physical ports at all, 100% wirel…

This script is too much boilerplate and opiniated for me. I maintain a snippet with the most important settings for safe and robust shell script execution: https://gitlab.com/-/sni…

There used to be something like this, the pod safe music network. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podsafe_Music_Network