Articles by speckx
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Sort Your Sites Out (gordonmclean.co.uk)

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Wikipedia doesn't need my cash (forkingmad.blog)

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Claude Talk Small. Code Still Big (spatie.be)

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SiteGround's Icky Approach to AI in WordPress 7.0 (rhyswynne.co.uk)

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Magnets Are Bad for Hardware Again (hackaday.com)

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Cyber scam victim who lost nearly $1M gets her money back – and then some (vermontpublic.org)

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My Life as a True Crime Spectacle – My Father Was the Infamous Rolex Killer (torontolife.com)

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Erofs – Enhanced Read-Only File System – The Linux Kernel Documentation (kernel.org)

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Celebrating the Launch of FOSS Wiki (fyralabs.com)

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Dropping Privileges in Go (0x21.biz)

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eBPF rootkits and the Volatility blind spot in Linux memory forensics (andreafortuna.org)

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Many Tokens Did You Burn Today (idiallo.com)

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From Losing the Web to Saving Us All (searls.com)

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Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy' (greenend.org.uk)

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Various LLM Smells (shvbsle.in)

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Google Hates You (sfgate.com)

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What it's like to have your insulin pump die while you're on vacation (lauramichet.com)

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CIFSwitch: A non-universal Linux local root vulnerability (heyitsas.im)

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Tame your pesky little scripts (hamatti.org)

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Tracing HTTP Requests with Go's net/HTTP/httptrace (blainsmith.com)

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Websites Are Not Going to Die (meiert.com)

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A 176-Package NPM Campaign Built to Beat Your Internal Dependencies (sonatype.com)

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Microsoft's stance on zero day exploits is a dumpster fire of their own making (doublepulsar.com)

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Archaeologists Extracted a Pristine Leather Notebook from a Medieval Latrine (smithsonianmag.com)

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Acme CAA Extensions to Become Mandatory (feistyduck.com)

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European Software (niqwithq.com)

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Tuning in FM Radio on a 3D Printer Heatbed (jeffgeerling.com)

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A Lambda memory leak exposed publish capability over Zapier's NPM supply (token.security)

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Homelab for the Beginner: You Can Self-Host Your Own Server on $50 Hardware (brennan.day)

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What is the problem to which cognitive outsourcing is the solution? (markcarrigan.net)

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The Costco Theory of the Internet (joanwestenberg.com)

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AI coding agents are installing packages no one owns (thenewstack.io)

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Webmaster It's time to serve slop to AI crawlers (iczelia.net)

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Claude Code's creator on the end of the software engineer (platformer.news)

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SimCity 3k in 4k (2025) (thran.uk)

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The Road to (and from) Damascus (sophisms.substack.com)

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Apple reportedly preps native support for Google Cast in iOS 27 (macdailynews.com)

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Pushing to a pull request that isn't yours (00f.net)

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Centrality in the DNS (potaroo.net)

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Keep calm and use (Rust) monorepos (kerkour.com)

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The Farmers Who Fought a Data Centre–and Won (macleans.ca)

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Authorship in the AI Age (computationalcomplexity.org)

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Beware the boom and bust cycle of memory stocks, investors warn (cnbc.com)

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My Son's Math Homework Is Essentially Just Pokémon (theatlantic.com)

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The future of AI is an AI futures market (semafor.com)

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FFmpeg Audio Normalization: The Complete Loudnorm Guide (32blog.com)

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Greenpeace study finds microplastics in Gerber baby food pouches [pdf] (foodpolitics.com)

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Declassified CIA Cartography Maps from the 1980s (brilliantmaps.com)

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SSMS Copilot Is Messing with Your AI Prompts (brentozar.com)

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Computer programmer finishes game sequel 37 years later (itv.com)

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Software Engineering Won't Be Over (timomeh.de)

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Professional Dual-Sided Monitors (philips.co.uk)

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Poison Your Data (skuka.online)

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Stop Advertising in Your Commits (akselmo.dev)

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When Quiet Undersea Volcanoes Turn Disruptive (quantamagazine.org)

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Shakespeare's World – I thought this would be simple but (knowwhereconsulting.co.uk)

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Could humans become "Sun-eaters" in the future? (bigthinkmedia.substack.com)

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Do AI Risks Require Extraordinary Government Intervention? (normaltech.ai)

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What the Hantavirus Story Reveals About Medical Mistrust (undark.org)

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The Three-Cylinders Problem – When AI Models Choose Beauty over Truth (rabdology.ai)

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What AI race? China and U.S. AI are tightly connected (restofworld.org)

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Could Polymarket Influence an Election? (thenerve.news)

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How the West Could Turn a Trickle of Water into an Endless Supply (reasonstobecheerful.world)

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The Skeleton Library (goodinternet.substack.com)

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Star Citizen game has reached $1B in funding (robertsspaceindustries.com)

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AltTab removed free features and deleted old GitHub releases in an update (reddit.com)

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Why are Flathub downloads so slow sometimes? (barthalion.blog)

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Gemini CLI's Short Life and Google's Antigravity Bait‑and‑Switch (fossforce.com)

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Phone is making you bored (gordonmclean.co.uk)

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Bill C-22, which I Lovingly Refer to as Bill C-an We Not-22 (technically-good.ca)

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(Mostly) disabling the Cyberduck nag on macOS (nyanpasu64.gitlab.io)

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What I've Learned from Agentic Design (chrislachance.com)

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Secure Boot and Microsoft CA Rollover – a heads-up for distributions (einval.com)

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Write good Git commit messages (echooff.dev)

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Has the Anthropic Settlement Changed Everything? (writerbeware.blog)

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CISA tries to contain data leak (krebsonsecurity.com)

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Get Clamped: Unwinding Some Difficult CSS History (bkardell.com)

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AI's Role in Revolutionizing Mathematics and the Quest for Ethical Science (eliza-ng.me)

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The Fake Nobel That Duped the Romanian Academy (scena9.ro)

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Design-Based Vulnerabilities on macOS: Oops, Not a One-Shot Fix (imlzq.com)

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Eleven years later, my Lenovo G50 is still going strong (dedoimedo.com)

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A Forth-inspired language for writing websites (robida.net)

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Software Defaults Create Emotionally Flat Spaces (frostecho.neocities.org)

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Running Gitea Runner with Rootless Podman (nite07.com)

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Self Hosting Passwords (chuck.is)

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Building OpenWrt for the Seeed Studio WM6108 802.11ah HaLow Radio (beyondlogic.org)

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Continuous Development still has prerequisites (danfking.github.io)

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Phantasy Star IV – 1993 Developer Interviews (shmuplations.com)

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Deep Tech Companies Are Built Different (codingvc.com)

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China's AI optimism isn't what it seems (chinatalk.media)

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What My Livewire Honeypot Caught in Its First 60 Hours (helgesver.re)

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Using Kagi Search with Low Vision (veroniiiica.com)

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Wallace Shawn Isn't Ready to Die (interviewmagazine.com)

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The AI has come for my code (conman.org)

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Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD (crocidb.com)

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Just You Wait (shiflett.org)

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"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens (xeiaso.net)

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I'm Using Telegram to Manage and Automate My Website (pootlepress.com)

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Getting an old Computer online with Android Ethernet tethering (82mhz.net)

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Proxmox Virtual Environment 9.2 with Dynamic Load Balancer Released (proxmox.com)