it's intended to dispel a few common myths and help regular people understand UEFI a bit better.

The article is a bit long, but it indeed contains a lot of information I actually wanted to know.

A theory on how ChatGPT find it so hard to calculate the rot13 cipher - ChatGPT is only capable of System 1 thinking, which is based on quick intuition, whereas the rot13 problem requires going through elaborated inference, which requires the System 2 thinking ability.

Make a fragment shader with a node editor. You connect the nodes, preview the effect, and get a shader definition.

This project is similar to something I wanted to create for a long time.

An advocate on using Postgres to replace the role for cache, data warehouse, message queue, document database, full-text search, and backend API. It surprises me that Postgres has all these capabilities.

A thought provoking article on the coding syntax of sequences (lists, fields, pipes). An interesting reflection on how we typically intuit about sequence syntax in natural languages and how it may be better written in the other way around.

A bunch of trivia about linking in UNIX-like operating systems.

An article on how to make a handwritten font with Inkscape (trace bitmap) and Fontforge.

A type of music composer that is based on calculating each the amplitude of a wave based on an expression at each time step. It's pretty amazing how complex the melody can be from some of the very simple expressions.

I learned a bit about how bluetooth low energy (BLE) works from this article.

(1) A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost? __ cents

(2) If it takes 5 machines 5 minutes to make 5 widgets, how long would it take 100 machines to make 100 widgets? __ minutes

(3) In a lake, there is a patch of lily pads. Every day, the patch doubles in size. If it takes 48 days for the patch to cover the entire lake, how long would it take for the patch to cover half of the lake? __ days

Three simple questions with misleading answers :)

An interesting human-computer interaction design based on scribbling.

Search books on zlibrary ipfs mirrors after the shutdown of the main site.

source code: https://github.com/zu1k/zlib-searcher

Theories, laws, effects about psychology and society (e.g. Murphy's law).

Intuit what kind of data it is by looking at a blob of binary.

A great post on an interesting nteworking problem: how does distributed servers send packets to the internet while sharing a common set of IP addresses?

For ingress there is the technique of anycast which allows the client to connect to any one of the servers, but for egress it's a lot more trickier because the client needs to know about where the traffic comes from.

Turing famously showed that computers can’t decide whether your code halts. But in 1951, Henry Rice proved a much more devastating result: “computers can’t decide anything interesting about your code’s input-output!”

A new chapter of busy-beavers on tigyog!

A lot of Linux command line tips and tricks.

After installing on a usb stick, it can boot any iso files from the usb file system, without the need for dd or additional usb-boot maker tools. Looks quite interesting.

I feel awestruck when looking this website. I also learned how we do not see through the same types of astrobodies through the time and space, which is contrary to my former misconception.

Anna’s Archive is a project that aims to catalog all the books in existence, by aggregating data from various sources. We also track humanity’s progress toward making all these books easily available in digital form, through “shadow libraries”.

An alternative to z-library. RIP.