Articles by mikecarlton
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Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files (boingboing.net)

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Bitchat (bitchat.free)

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Bitchat: Jack Dorsey's Bluetooth Messaging Experiment (42zero.org)

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AWS and Google Cloud collaborate to simplify multicloud networking (cloud.google.com)

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UTF-8 history (2003) (cat-v.org)

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Wolves in the Repository: Software Eng Analysis of the XZ Supply Chain Attack (arxiv.org)

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Belkin abandons support for Wemo devices (kmail-lists.com)

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PID 1 Bash script for Docker containers explained line by line (sirikon.me)

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United States Net Worth Brackets, Percentiles, and Top One Percent – Dqydj (dqydj.com)

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Free Grammar Checker – LanguageTool (languagetool.org)

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Simonw/LLM: Access large language models from the command-line (github.com/simonw)

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Open-source data multitool – VisiData (visidata.org)

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Self-Hosted Is Awesome (pixeljets.com)

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ASCII Camera (andrei.codes)

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Global Inflation by Country (ft.com)

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Data USA: The definitive place to explore US public data (datausa.io)

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Damm Algorithm (wikipedia.org)

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Go Enums Suck (zarl.dev)

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Finding the Air Cannon (twobraids.com)

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Convert Curl Commands to Code (curlconverter.com)

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Kamal – Deploy web apps anywhere (kamal-deploy.org)

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DragonRuby (dragonruby.org)

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Write cross-platform native apps in Ruby – RubyMotion (rubymotion.com)

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CryptoHack – A fun, free platform for learning cryptography (cryptohack.org)

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RSA is deceptively simple and fun (ntietz.com)

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Streamlit • A faster way to build and share data apps (streamlit.io)

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A Qmail example of dealing with unavoidable race conditions (plover.com)

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In Defense of Simple Architectures (danluu.com)

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Power Buys You Distance from the Crime – Aceso Under Glass (acesounderglass.com)

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The StoryCorps App – StoryCorps (storycorps.org)

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CUBOTino Autonomous: Small, 3D Printed, Rubik's Cube Robot (Pi Zero 2, PiCamera) (instructables.com)

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YEd – Graph Editor (yworks.com)

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How to Write Email with Military Precision (hbr.org)

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The Mad Magazine Fold-In Effect in CSS – Thomas Park (2020) (thomaspark.co)

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Online Data Type Change in PostgreSQL (percona.com)

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John Goodenough, Nobel laureate and battery pioneer, dies at 100 (autoblog.com)

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The LockBit ransomware (kinda) comes for macOS (objective-see.org)

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The Grand Follies of Software Development (gitconnected.com)

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Every Web Performance Test Tool (swyx.io)

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Eytzinger Binary Search (algorithmica.org)

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Crime App ‘Citizen’ Fires Overseas $2 an Hour Workers (vice.com)

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80k Hours: How to make a difference with your career (80000hours.org)

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Installing Python: the bare minimum you can get away with (bitecode.substack.com)

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HSTS Preload List Submission (hstspreload.org)

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MkDocs – Project Documentation with Markdown (mkdocs.org)

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Making a Lunar Lander in JavaScript (ucl.ac.uk)

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Gasoline Car Review (greer.fm)

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Why Everything You Buy Is Worse Now (kottke.org)

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PCG, a Better Random Number Generator (pcg-random.org)

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GoodJob 1.0, a new Postgres-based, multithreaded, ActiveJob back end for Rails (island94.org)

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Rails on Docker (fly.io)

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Public-APIs/public-APIs: A collective list of free APIs (github.com/public-apis)

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Pg_idkit: Postgres Extension for Generating UUIDs (github.com/vadosware)

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Pycasso: How to build a picture frame to show you random AI art every day (jezs00.medium.com)

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Balena – The complete IoT fleet management platform (balena.io)

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How Dark Sky Works (2011) (jackadam.github.io)

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Pirate Weather Docs (pirateweather.net)

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Sonic: A super-light alternative to Elasticsearch (valeriansaliou.name)

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Things they didn’t teach you about software engineering (vadimkravcenko.com)

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Password Purgatory – Making Life Hell for Spammers (passwordpurgatory.com)

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Delegating trust is hard (infosec edition) (pluralistic.net)

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Implementing Phishing-Resistant MFA [pdf] (cisa.gov)

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The Rise of Rust (wired.com)