Articles by speckx
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Notes on Using Fonts in Computers (lockywolf.net)

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Don't run your own mailserver (iter.ca)

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What ArtCraft's Vibe-Coded Apps Say About Adobe (tedium.co)

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The Deeply Impersonal Personalized Recruiter Mail (pentlander.com)

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Don't 'meet them where they are' and leave them there (joannejacobs.com)

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You're Not an Extension of Anyone's Self (prgrmmr.org)

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AI scrapers are hiding behind referrer spam (disassociated.com)

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Magic Bullet? Sci-Fi Laser Weapons Are Now an Anti-Drone Reality (rferl.org)

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Design Is a Nice-to-Have (draganbabic.com)

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Vercel Paid $50k for a KVM Escape That Has No CVE and No Patch (webhosting.today)

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Recreating an 80s hit song as a shader (shadertoy.com)

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Is Google limiting -AI Searches (musings101.bearblog.dev)

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The phone was compromised before the user turned it on: rise of Midnight Mimosa (bitdefender.com)

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Dark Forestry (henry.codes)

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Software gets malleable when describing it is enough (ttvl.co)

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Beauty in DVD Menus (vale.rocks)

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Opening the Can of Tooltips (patrickbrosset.com)

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Dark Patterns Won (ronbronson.com)

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It's Probably Time to Start Worrying About the 4G LTE Shutdown Bricking Cars (thedrive.com)

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I tried to move my notes out of Emacs. I failed. Again (baty.net)

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Firefox version 157 is round (and how to make it less round) (creolened.com)

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The Internet Is Getting Weird Again (baldawa.com)

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Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI (rswebsols.com)

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Push ifs up and fors down: The idiom, its algebra, and its limits (debasishg.github.io)

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Decode Decoded (zhebrak.io)

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Curious bug where cfpm CLI commands may fail unexpectedly, tracker ticket filed (carehart.org)

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Zed Editor, Docker Agent, ACP, but in a sandbox: running the agent with sbx (k33g.org)

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The dawn of the age of the exoskeleton (theconversation.com)

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ShinyHunters Extorted Boeing Spin-Off Prior to Arrests (krebsonsecurity.com)

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Toronto-Based VPN Provider Plans to Quit Canada over Lawful-Access Bill (citizenlab.ca)

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California closed the Montana license plate loophole (thedrive.com)

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'The eels were climbing out of the water to die' (theguardian.com)

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High Diesel Prices Bankrupted 16 Trucking Companies in Just 30 Days (thedrive.com)

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The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux (phoronix.com)

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MapQuest is now the No. 1 U.S. app after bucking Trump's 'Lake America' renaming (techcrunch.com)

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`Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5` contradicts this being a hand-written manifesto (github.com/jimmitchell)

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Legacy Lenovo login opens 5k Dropbox accounts to attackers (theregister.com)

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The Post-AI Internet Doesn't Look Great (jordangoodman.xyz)

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Elder fraud scheme that allegedly moved millions through dummy Florida companies (courtwatch.news)

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Developer's Open Source Tool Strips Anthropic's New Claude Watermark (startupfortune.com)

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SynkLoader: When you throw in everything but the kitchen sink (expel.com)

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Longtime Linux CIFS/SMB3 Maintainer Steps Down (phoronix.com)

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Figmimic – A bookmarklet to copy any webpage into Figma as editable layers (marcua.net)

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Motorola's GrapheneOS phones will launch in 2027 priced higher than Pixels (arstechnica.com)

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Apple is laying off staffers working on the Vision Pro and Siri (theverge.com)

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A week of using Codex more than Claude (ghinda.com)

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Waiter, there's a watermark in my slop (zgp.org)

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[flagged] Death to the Self-Playing Game (jank.cool)

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The Death of the Job: How AI and Robots Will Rewrite Work in the Next 10 Years (simonroses.com)

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KDE Linux Experiences (akselmo.dev)

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When the shortage is the strategy (nooneshappy.com)

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What Everyone Should Know About Australia (zacharykai.net)

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People sick, 57 hospitalized in 32 states courtesy of contaminated jalapeños (efoodalert.com)

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Rising CO2 Speeds the Growth of Grasses on the African Savanna (yale.edu)

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Walmart to Start Accepting Apple Pay and Google Pay (techcrunch.com)

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NATO's Operations Continue as Russia Escalates in Romania (olgalautman.substack.com)

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DRC Ebola outbreak 'growing exponentially,' UN says (dw.com)

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The Rise of AI and Its Implications for Entrepreneurs (incolumitas.com)

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Haiku OS Logo: The Untold Story Behind the Iconic Design (desktoponfire.com)

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Mid-90s E3 and CES Trade Show Tapes (brianpeek.com)

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Longer meal intervals linked to faster disease accumulation in older adults (ki.se)

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DDR5 scalper bots outnumber shoppers 10 to 1, scraping hits every 6.5 seconds (tomshardware.com)

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What we lost when search stopped making us think (8ball.space)

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Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results (kagi.com)

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Zoomers don't know what Usenet is (tchotchke.substack.com)

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New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson (precastreinforced.co.uk)

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Isopolis – Behind the Scenes (isopolis.city)

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No IP? No Problem (ersei.net)

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Loss of Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age (cerebralrift.cc)

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AI;DR or Don't be a meat proxy (theaspiringnerd.com)

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If Your New People Are on X, Maybe Your New People Suck (coyotetracks.org)

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AI-Driven Development Means Test-Driven Development (meiert.com)

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Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence (curiousquail.com)

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Where Vandals Can't Reach? Flock Safety's Future Is Full of Spying Drones (cnet.com)

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5-8x Coding Improvement that Could be Doubled (patrickdesjardins.com)

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Where's The Beef? – The lab-grown-meat revolution that wasn't (harpers.org)

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Tab Completion After Colon (nwalsh.com)

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Subscriber Rot (birchtree.me)

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Slopbait (writingball.blogspot.com)

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Reading Together, Unsupervised (abelson.live)

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Taylor Farms 2009 to 2026: Outbreaks and the Recalls That Did and Did Not Follow (marlerblog.com)

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The Modern Tech Career: A Survival Guide (jeremyckahn.github.io)

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Those Who Removed Code Review Are Right (f2r.github.io)

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Why can't you combine .tar.gz files with cat? (alexwlchan.net)

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Firefox Extensions Linked to Crypto Wallet and Credential Theft (socket.dev)

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GTA VI Leaks Seemingly Cost Take-Two $2B in Value (techpowerup.com)

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Writing Tickets for Software Engineers (nickhayden.com)

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What a dead salmon reminds us about fMRI analysis (2009) (stanford.edu)

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A Practical Guide to Reducing Token Spend (adamhjk.com)

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How to fix Claude 5's token vomit (zachahn.com)

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Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful (yaros.ae)

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Silencing the Second Hand of a Second-Hand Bird Clock (kyleniewiada.org)

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Hacking with Claude on a $27 smart watch (mikekasberg.com)

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Don't Check Out (simeongriggs.dev)

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I spent twenty years becoming good at the wrong game (savvynormie.com)

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Perth medical researchers working on artificial placentas for premature babies (abc.net.au)

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Giant whales move into Greenland waters as ice disappears (bbc.com)

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I recently sat down for coffee with one of my oldest friends in the industry (jordanscales.com)

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Putting a Bunny.net CDN in Front of My Static Blog (hmmr.online)

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Police officer used Flock cameras to track estranged wife 717 times (wsbtv.com)