Anubis uses a sha256 proof-of-work challenge to protect upstream resources from scraper bots. This program is designed to help protect the small internet from the endless storm of requests that flood in from AI companies.

Tool powered with generative AI for creating engaging slides for kids, on any topic.

The project aims to re-imagine the role of lighting in public urban spaces with a symbiotic relationship between the artificial and the natural world, focusing on a deeper understanding of the fundamental importance of microorganisms as collaborator in the city.

Game Builder was a game engine and toolset aiming to make building a game feel like playing a game. The project has since joined the long list of abandoned Google products.

We’re going to keep covering this story because, frankly, it’s the only story that matters right now, and one that not everyone manages to see clearly. The political press may not understand what’s happening (or may be too afraid to say it out loud), but those of us who’ve spent decades studying how technology and power interact? We see it and we can’t look away.

Undersea horror where your only form of navigation is an unreliable AI.

Opinionated list of changes to Phoenix’s default project boilerplate generated by mix phx.new

An opinionated list of git settings that most people likely don’t know about and which should probably be defaulted differently.

The Mozilla foundation does privacy reviews of a wide range of consumer products.

Overview of Relaxed Radix Balanced Trees, a data structure that allows for efficient merging of Persistent Vectors.

Describes a way of representing graph-like data in Postgresql, and querying it in a flexible way.

The Floppotron is a musical instrument made of a synchronized array of partially obsolete computer hardware (e.g. floppy drives) programmed to play tunes.

Comprehensive guide on how to install a Bluesky Personal Data Server (PDS) alongside other services without using Caddy as the reverse proxy.

Additional notes to get a custom domain handle properly set up.

Complementary notes regarding the installation of the Bluesky Personal Data Server (PDS).

httptap is a process-scoped http tracer that you can run without root priveleges. You can run httptap <command> where <command> is a linux program and you get a trace of http/https requests and responses in standard output.

It works by running <command> in an isolated network namespace. It has its own TCP/IP stack (for which it uses gVisor). It is not an HTTP proxy and so does not rely on <command> being configured to use an HTTP proxy. It decrypts TLS traffic by generating a CA on the fly. It won’t install any iptables rules or make other global system changes.

An overview of the Moon and its path around the Earth.

Interesting and detailed write up on finding and exploiting a vulnerability in the OpenWrt firmware upgrade feature.

A title drop is when a character in a movie says the title of the movie they’re in. Here’s a large-scale analysis of 73,921 movies from the last 80 years on how often, when and maybe even why that happens.

Stephen Edwards, captain of the 58.6m Perini Navi built Seahawk, was previously Captain from 2015 to 2020 for the 56m Perini Navi Bayesian which sank August 19 2024 with seven deaths while at anchor off the coast of Porticello, Italy. Edwards issued the following statement from his experience with the 2008 yacht.