Hello! This will be a first attempt at coming back to writing some blog posts about interesting topics I end up rabbitholing about. All the older stuff has been sadly lost to time (and “time” here mostly means a bad squarespace website).

The Fairchild Sentry 610 was optimized for engineers

We're all a bunch of chimps in a cage

The Steam client update on November 5th mentions "Fixed some miscellaneous common crashes." in the Linux notes, which I wanted to give a bit of background on. There's more than one fix that made it in under the somewhat generic header, but the one change…

What I think about when I'm lead engineer on a project

The initial Apple Intelligence features aren’t exactly world-changing, but if we’re to believe Apple’s ads, they’re primarily shortcuts for those uninterested in investing time and effort.

And I thought I’d share. I used a Framework 13 mainboard as the core, added IO board to both sides of it and a couple of extra boards for the keyboard, Magsafe and the charge state button.

Effortlessly convert Spotify links to your preferred streaming service - sjdonado/idonthavespotify

Anonymous peer-to-peer distributed communication layer built with open source tools and designed to run any traditional Internet service such as email, IRC or web hosting.

Col. Charles "Tre" Del Pizzo said the commandant of the Marine Corps ordered his removal from command after reviewing the crash investigation.

Reverse Engineering: In this guide, I'll walk you through how I create tools to find exploits in video games for bug bounty programs. Specifically, I'll focus on my research into the game Sword of Convallaria. This exploration is purely for educational purposes.…

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the death of the great mathematician Alexander Grothendieck, occurred on 13 November 2014, the Grothendieck Institute organises a commemorative conference in his honour.The event will be held online on Saturday the 16th…

There are now more than 14.5 million users total on the platform.

This morning for no obvious reason, I remembered the Fuel Rats.

Elite:Dangerous is an MMO space sim game, with a big galaxy in which you fly a spaceship doing stuff. Spaceships need fuel, which you buy at stations, or if you have a fuel scoop you can skim…

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For a long time now, we’ve been wanting to make some pop rocks and I even tried a few crappy “home recipes”. Finally though, we’ve decided to try doing it…

In 1911, a former Louvre employee perpetrated one of the greatest art heists in history: the theft of Leonardo da Vinci’s immortal painting “Mona Lisa.”

A concrete example of Git and jujutsu usage compared.

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