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Pointless Exposition I’m not in the Apple ecosystem, but I was quite enthused about the announcement of the airtag and the FindMy network back in 2019. The private-by-design protocol / implementation looked great, especially compared …

When I announced my intention to join Microsoft Research in 2008, my friends set up a betting pool over how long I would “last” there. No one thought that I’d be at MSR more than …

Last week William Woodruff wrote an excellent blog post about the implementation of PEP 740 on PyPI: digital attestations for Python package releases. Apparently the release of this feature was controversial because of decisions like …

Bluesky promises to rethink social media by focusing on openness and user control. But what does this actually mean for the millions of people joining the site? November was a good month for alternatives to …

still stronger claims of self-authority in OSI’s new AI “definition”

Recently, I encountered a weird issue where one of my four WiFi access points, a Mikrotik wAP AC, stopped functioning correctly despite being powered on. Here’s how I uncovered the issue and what I learned …

I joined Freja with Redox to talk about the state of US politics and white supremacy following Donald Trump’s second election. It’s partly in Danish, but my contributions are in English. Have a listen!

The Dynamics User Group (DUG) Power Platform Meetup group is offering a chance for you to share your Power Platform projects and celebrate the holidays on Wednesday, December 18 with a showcase followed by celebrations …

My dear wife, Kathryn Farley, just woke me this Friday the 20th from a nap with something that she said was amazing. She told me it was the top most viewed video of the entire …

This screenshot basically sums up “the internet as we know it”. For the past decade or so the social internet has consisted of a handful of websites that the vast majority of people frequented. The …

May 2021’s Gwern.net newsletter is now out; previous, April 2021 (archives). This is a collation of links and summary of major changes, overlapping with my Changelog; brought to you by my donors on Patreon.Note: I …

Among us Hackaday writers, there are quite a few enthusiasts for retro artifacts – and it gets even better when they’re combined in an unusual way. So, when we get a tip about a build …

Happy Sunday everyone! This week we crossed the 1,000 email subscriber mark for this nerdy little newsletter. Whether you’re reading this via email, RSS, or just surfing the web, I sincerely thank you all for …

I’m very excited to announce my first proper album: Melodic Guitar Music. It’s ten original guitar tunes, inspired by Django Reinhardt, The Beatles and Chet Atkins. I’d describe the style as “Django phrasing + Chet …

Self-hosted setup using docker-compose and importing of articles from OmnivoreThe read-it-later app which I had been using, Omnivore, recently announced that it was being acquired by EvenLabs and would shut down on 30 November 2024.1 …

I’ve been following the press and social media coverage of Apple’s pricey new Vision Pro Augmented Reality headset, which now totals hundreds of stories and thousands of comments and I’ve noticed one idea missing from …

Tea sales in the UK are falling. It’s an old person’s drink (BBC): less than half the nation, 48%, now drink tea at least once a day. Shocking. Coffee is where it’s at, of course. …

We recently rebuilt our merchant-facing help and documentation site to make it easier to update, and easier to use.User-facing documentation is an important element of good software. Sure, good software should always be as easy …

The first time I heard a critique of mediated experience, the critic was my dad. He was an avid photographer who, during our family’s year in India, when I was a young child, used his …

Life in America has long felt like a game played between adults and children; a game where one side knows the rules and is dedicated to keeping them, and the other is merely making up …