Articles by speckx
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The Tax Free Year Edition on Denmark, 1969, and System Migrations (whyisthisinteresting.substack.com)

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Boring Tech May Become Irrelevant Tech (alexn.org)

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Do We No Longer Care About the Code? (schalkneethling.com)

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Flickr iOS App Reverted (gyford.com)

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Deleting Codeberg (thanosapollo.org)

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Apple won't turn on any 'restricted mode' for missed lease payments (theverge.com)

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American bison all have some cattle DNA. Here's why. (2022) (nationalgeographic.com)

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Pay for Software That Respects You (trop.in)

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Data centers may face temporary power cuts to prevent blackouts (techcrunch.com)

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Writing for Readers, Not Algorithms (thehourisblue.com)

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The same code printed 10 on Linux and 0 on a Mac (bichanna.github.io)

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My ultimate setup: a £40 box that codes while I poop (byk.im)

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I Don't Know What I'm Doing Here (shitmypants.bearblog.dev)

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Terminal Themes, and the Rabbit Hole That Produced Them (williamzujkowski.github.io)

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Designing With AI on a budget as an engineer: Google+ChatGPT (kcoleman.me)

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Substack writers, you need a website (elizabethtai.com)

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EVE Online virtual space war costs gamers £400k (bbc.com)

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Citizen of the Galaxy (full text) by Robert Heinlein (metallicman.com)

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There Isn't a Microchip Under Your Skin Tracking You (vale.rocks)

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Removing Apache Log Noise (j11g.com)

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The making of Don Matrelli's Legacy, a mod for Grand Prix Circuit (part I) (marnetto.net)

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The Mess, the Commons, and the Paths Out of Mess (hamishcampbell.com)

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Setup Script Should Support Git Worktrees (piechowski.io)

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Me in the Notes App (time.com)

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Well, Why Not? (rhollick.wordpress.com)

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GOG confirm they are working towards GOG Galaxy on Linux (gamingonlinux.com)

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I'd not buy a LG monitor (famkos.net)

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CachyOS Outperforming Windows 11, Slight Advantage over Ubuntu and Fedora (phoronix.com)

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Moving from Claude to Proton Lumo (nutts.org)

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France Approves Automated, Real-Time Blocking of Pirate Sports Streams (torrentfreak.com)

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macOS Files and Folders System Settings Confusing UI (lapcatsoftware.com)

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Controlling your home with tiny, cheap touchscreens (wholelottanothing.org)

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Goodbye File Browser, for Real This Time (hacdias.com)

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Podcasts Ruined America (compactmag.com)

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Express Your Money Down the Drain (ti.org)

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The Disappearance of Self Checkout (moth.monster)

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Using AI for Automated Tasks (visualgui.com)

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Rebuilding FIFA Standings Layout with CSS Subgrid (ishadeed.com)

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Hollywood Stopped Making Movies in Hollywood (statsignificant.com)

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I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore (itsmevox.substack.com)

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Claude shared chats and Artifacts may have ended up on Google (techcrunch.com)

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I Rewrote Json2xml in C–After Making It Fast with Rust (vinitkumar.me)

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Programming Language Picky Eater (ellie-g.com)

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Alive Internet Theory (basic.bearblog.dev)

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The thing about that dog in "The Thing," now in the National Film Registry (loc.gov)

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Backfills should fail in minutes, not days (will-keleher.com)

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Things I would like to tell my 10 year old self (winnielim.org)

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Open Secure AI Alliance aims to open-source AI security defences (developer-tech.com)

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Freenom Is Back, and No Longer Free (webhosting.today)

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Read More. Read Often. Read Every Day (joanwestenberg.com)

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Stop Putting Your UniFi Admin Password in an Env Var (herlein.com)

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Why AI Will Not Replace the Classroom (chestergrant.com)

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Ads in Software Are Like Stickers on Laptops (daringfireball.net)

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When Canceling Subscriptions Is Not Easy (mouseprint.org)

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The Brain Needs Euphoric Fatigue (jrswab.com)

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Prestel and Micronet: Britain's Lost Internet (escapistmagazine.com)

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Should we become our own algorithms? (liubuntu.tech)

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Europe wildfires rage on, forcing more than 250k to flee (dw.com)

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Replacing gas stoves with electric stoves greatly reduces asthma symptoms (theconversation.com)

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What Happens During an ECS Rolling Deployment (muhammadraza.me)

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The Google Cafeteria at the End of the World (cakezine.substack.com)

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Launch First, Improve Later (herbertlui.net)

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Write the Documentation First (jrhawley.ca)

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AI doesn't get better at this board game with practice (epoch.ai)

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Stirring Up the Colonial Past (oxonianreview.com)

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The Mathematics of Build Queue Optimization and Auto-Scaling (iankduncan.com)

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I Published an Offline Reader for the Jargon File (mattbrown.com)

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Phished. Again (jeremycherfas.net)

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Could a Crash Halve Stock Prices? (nakedcapitalism.com)

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1,500 Curl Authors (haxx.se)

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Lessons Learned Building High-Performance Rust Profiler (hotpath.rs)

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To read more, pick up a book not your phone, no wait (disassociated.com)

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The Bliss of Graphene (srikanthperinkulam.com)

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Emacs Dedicate Windows with toggle-window-dedicated (emacsredux.com)

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A system prompt to get AI to stop pretending to be human (swiftrocks.com)

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Re: I Stopped "Creating Content" (unattributed.cc)

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Wind turbine is being used to produce zero-carbon "green ammonia" fertilizer (energiesmedia.com)

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Should you upgrade to macOS and iOS public betas? (no) (wholelottanothing.org)

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Privacy Is Not a Soundbite (mendhak.com)

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Download Everything (dasrecht.net)

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Australia's huntsman fastest spider recorded in new study (abc.net.au)

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Accessibility Rant: Reader Mode (unattributed.cc)

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The Dark Arts of Web Automation. OpenAI threatened to ban my account (gallon.me)

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Transform any binary file into sound and MIDI, right in the browser, free (cdm.link)

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I got into YC Startup School by hacking it (obaid.wtf)

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PlayStation Network outage leaves players dreading all-digital future (polygon.com)

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Building a DynamoDB Conformance Suite (martinhicks.dev)

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The Kids' Guide to Piracy (friendo.monster)

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The small, real, original web (spacetimetech.wordpress.com)

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Open Source Vacuum Avoids Cloud (hackaday.com)

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The Tool Is Not the Author (poppastring.com)

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Metadata in WordPerfect 1994: Ada and WCAG 2.1 Compliance (rietta.com)

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Cloning Mifare Classic Cards via Proxmark3 (muffn.io)

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Sweden eases mining permits to cut China minerals reliance (dw.com)

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Telstar: Narrowing transatlantic divide to size of TV screen (newsguy.substack.com)

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Hacking my Keyboard to do Less (duckrowing.com)

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Adopting Standard.site (vivsha.ws)

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Marc Andreessen, venture capitalist, married to wait, what? (tyrandus.dev)

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Watch: 'Human refrigerator' debuts in Japan amid rising temperatures (upi.com)

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I'm Running a Programming Contest (eieio.games)