Author explains why Email is inherently unsafe and cannot be made safe through encryption tools.

A brief history of ambergris.

Collection of tiny and niche museums.

Author shares his experience building a homelab, with tips and links to the components he used.

Analysis of the techniques used in Diablo II to emulate a 3D perspective while only using 2D sprites.

High-level introduction to B-trees and why they are practical when implementing databases.

Article covers the three major components of modern email domain security: DKIM for signing, SPF for sender verification, and DMARC for stricter enforcement of the other two. It is assumed the reader has a basic understanding of DNS and has experience using email with their own domain.

Example of a simple web scraper and a search application using Manticore.

Overview of a toolkit that allows to build 3D scenes from a stream of depth camera images, annotate the scenes using a GUI and fit computer vision algorithms to infer the labels from single images.

The rise of printing caught English at a moment when the norms linking spoken and written language were up for grabs, and so could be hijacked by diverse forces and imperatives that didn’t coordinate with each other, or cohere, or even have any distinct goals at all. If the printing press had arrived earlier in the life of English, or later, after some of the upheaval had settled, things might have ended up differently.

The goal of this little guide is to help those with little or no knowledge of Italian pronunciation avoid some of the errors most commonly made by American English speakers. If you’ve sung much Italian, you probably know most or all of what’s in here.

How the transition to Apple Silicon made all monitor-controlling apps useless overnight, and how Lunar got past that.

How to store files without relying on fancy tools for backup.

m4 is a general-purpose macro processor included in most Unix-like operating systems.

Apollo is a search engine and web crawler to digest your digital footprint. What this means is that you choose what to put in it. When you come across something that looks interesting, be it an article, blog post, website, whatever, you manually add it (with built in systems to make doing so easy). If you always want to pull in data from a certain data source, like your notes or something else, you can do that too. This tackles one of the biggest problems of recall in search engines returning a lot of irrelevant information because with Apollo, the signal to noise ratio is very high. You’ve chosen exactly what to put in it.

Explanation on Blue Origin’s motto and iconography.

Piper is a GTK application to configure gaming mice. Piper is a graphical frontend to the ratbagd DBus daemon.

A collection of thoughts from a maintainer of the Public Suffix List (PSL) about the importance of avoiding new Web Platform features, security, or privacy boundaries assuming the PSL is a good starting point.

TIE Fighter Total Conversion (TFTC) for X-Wing Alliance: a fan project that brings the 1994 LucasArts title of TIE Fighter, made by Totally Games, into a more modern era.

This 3d printed Weighted HiPro Case is designed for MX or Kailh Choc switches. This case is designed with a snap fit assembly, and to include 200g weight in each half.