Blogs about Development

I've been experimenting with methods for visualising harmony, intonation (tuning), and overtones in music. Ordinary spectrograms aren't very well suited for that as the harmonic relations are not intuitively visible. Let's see what could be …

Writing improves thoughts and ideas. Doubly so for thoughts and ideas about code. Writing, about software or otherwise, is a process wherein: thoughts and ideas are clarified ideas are transferred to colleagues culture (of a …

I was unsure about writing this blog post, but today I was turned away from signing up for the openly-advertised University of Sheffield’s Open Research initiative’s inaugural annual Open Research lecture for not being a …

tldr When considering buying a used car, you’re not just acquiring a mode of transportation, but also valuable insight into the car’s longevity. By knowing the car has stood the test of time for a …

As a Rust programmer you are probably quite familiar with how references work in Rust. If you have a value of type T you can generally get various references to it by using the ampersand …

Previously I built the SAP-1 on an FPGA based on a design laid out in the book Digital Computer Electronics by Malvino and Brown. Now it’s time to build the SAP-2, also from the book, …

Recently, I decided to take the plunge and switch from my usual editor-of-choice, VSCode, to the terminal-based Neovim. I had already been using the terminal for more and more things in my day-to-day workflow, and …

In September we have been invited to present bonfire at the Italian PrivacyWeek. We joined Francesco Macchia and Filippo Delle Bianca in a speech titled: "Does it exist an alternative and a future for social …

I just wanted to take a moment once again to point you to my “Stuff I Use” page on this site. It’s a bunch of my favorite tools and services with whom I have affiliate …

What’s this? I recently built an “Automatic #plotloop Machine”, named after the common social media hashtag for these animations made of individually plotted frames. This article is a thorough description of the project, covering both …

Whisper, from OpenAI, is a new open source tool that "approaches human level robustness and accuracy on English speech recognition"; "Moreover, it enables transcription in multiple languages, as well as translation from those languages into …

With monkeypox in the news, some people are encountering the phrase “men who have sex with men” (“MSM” for short) for the first time. I’ve even seen some hot takes positing that it’s a new …

Recently I started playing around with Traefik on Kubernetes and wanted to request wildcard LetsEncrypt certificates.

Back in 2017 I had created a site which took the the audio of some of my favorite podcasts and tried to make them searchable by passing them through an automated speech-to-text engine. In the …

The Furry Fandom is a vibrant participatory online community. Furries skew heavily LGBTQIA+ and largely originated as a queer-positive spin-off of the science fiction fandom. Last year, a group of trolls decided to prank the …

Over the past couple of years I’ve slowly stopped using twitter. Initially I was just tweeting less, while still reading lots of it. Then as they slowly broke Tweetbot by removing APIs I slowly just …

Long story short: I'm working on a super cool tool called Modal. Please check it out — it lets you run things in the cloud without having to think about infrastructure. Scaling out, scheduling, containerization, …

Melchior and I are doing a course offered by KAIST on coursera.org. This web notes has solutions to problems from the course. We’re pretty new to this so the solutions might contain errors. If you …

Knex recently released a new version this week (2.4.0). Before this version, Knex had a pretty scary SQL injection. Knex currently has 1.3 million weekly downloads and is quite popular. The security bug is probably …