Articles by speckx
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Debugging AWS API Gateway HTTP with OIDC-JWT Authorizers (loige.co)

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Blocking AI web-scraping bots on personal sites using Nginx on low-power servers (cheapskatesguide.org)

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Dell preps price hikes up to 30% citing memory pricing 'out of our control' (tomshardware.com)

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The power crunch threatening America's AI ambitions (ft.com)

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I don't think Lindley's paradox supports p-circling (vilgot-huhn.github.io)

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Overconsumption is a spiritual problem (sherryning.com)

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Where are you? A look at GeoIP (potaroo.net)

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Designing a Passive Lidar Detector Device (atredis.com)

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A Critique of Mathematical Objectivity (lapcatsoftware.com)

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From devastation to wonder as Kangaroo Island bushfires lead to cave discoveries (abc.net.au)

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I'm a Tool Builder at Heart (hamatti.org)

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Be a Problem-Solver Not a Politician (mo42.bearblog.dev)

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Improving Emacs Screenshots (mbork.pl)

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Close Idle Tmux Panes (philz.dev)

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Maximise your time between jobs (niqwithq.com)

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Life HAPPENS (a talk on open source maintaining) (artlung.com)

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The Year 2025 for PowRSS (pabloecortez.com)

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Anticloaking (incoherency.co.uk)

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Is it an evil overlay? How can you tell? (joedolson.com)

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Verizon refused to unlock man's iPhone, so he sued the carrier and won (arstechnica.com)

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We Still Need the Risk of Criminal Sanctions in Food Poisoning Cases (efoodalert.com)

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Drawing parallels between home renovation and software development (ounapuu.ee)

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Tracking kernel commits across branches (kroah.com)

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It's Uncomfortable to Sit with "I Don't Know" (jim-nielsen.com)

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Well, at Least the Anti-States' Rights AI EO Spares AI-CSAM Laws (stanford.edu)

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Actual lines from tech recruiter emails (cjquines.com)

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Gnome Now Forbids Vibe Coded Extensions (gjs.guide)

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LG TV users baffled by unremovable Microsoft Copilot installation (tomshardware.com)

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Amazon pulls AI recap from Fallout TV show after it made several mistakes (bbc.com)

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GPT 5.2 says there are no "R"s in "garlic" (globalnerdy.com)

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Do Dyslexia Fonts Work? (edutopia.org)

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Fake 'One Battle After Another' torrent hides malware in subtitles (bleepingcomputer.com)

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Taking Blogging Seriously (tomcritchlow.com)

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John Varley (1947-2025) (locusmag.com)

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Rescale your Hetzner VPS and save money (j11g.com)

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Moving from Lightroom to Apple Photos (gyford.com)

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Something from Nothing (tante.cc)

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CM0 – A new Raspberry Pi you can't buy (jeffgeerling.com)

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De-Shittification (n0v.io)

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Man charged with theft after allegedly swallowing Fabergé pendant in store (theguardian.com)

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Impact statements submitted by victims of Do Kwon, 2022 Terra/Luna meltdown (mollywhite.net)

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GitHub Actions for Pulumi with an AWS S3 Back End (nelson.cloud)

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Nintendo Switch 2 RAM prices rise 41%, NAND flash up 8% – shares nosedive (tomshardware.com)

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Why Nobody Reads Anymore (and What That Says About Us) (mackleen.substack.com)

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Malicious VSCode Marketplace extensions hid trojan in fake PNG file (bleepingcomputer.com)

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Buy. Physical. Media (pjmedia.com)

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What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you? (louplummer.lol)

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Time for Another LinkedIn Break (ontestautomation.com)

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Can AI Predict the Quantum Universe? (quantumfrontiers.com)

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AI Can Write Your Code. It Can't Do Your Job (terriblesoftware.org)

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I implemented relative imports with Pyodide (evanhahn.com)

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Tracing how much time the kernel spends in a function (younglogic.com)

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Running Windows apps natively in Linux with Docker (mendhak.com)

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The Natural Path to Gamblification (idiallo.com)

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Notes from Venkat Subramaniam's presentation on finding and fixing code with AI (globalnerdy.com)

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Slack dark patterns to make us "always-available" (tomechangosubanana.com)

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PhD candidate busted for repeatedly sabotaging rival student's computer (tomshardware.com)

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Tor Ditches C for Rust and Your Privacy Benefits (sambent.com)

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Non-Interactive Apt (terokarvinen.com)

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AI Turns the Firehose into a Funnel (niemanlab.org)

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Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration (ankursethi.com)

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Certificate Authorities Are Once Again Issuing Certificates That Don't Work (agwa.name)

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We are past the point of no return for model collapse (obsessivefacts.com)

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Is Helium the Browser Brave Was Meant to Be? (itsfoss.com)

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Pre-Teaching Programming Languages to Visually Impaired Students (veroniiiica.com)

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"restart on excessive memory usage" experiment: discordapp (reddit.com)

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Qt, Linux and everything: Debugging Qt WebAssembly (qtandeverything.blogspot.com)

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Context Engineering in Manus (rlancemartin.github.io)

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Traceroute Tool from Scratch in Go (kmcd.dev)

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Semiconductor industry enters 'giga cycle' – scale of AI is rewriting economics (tomshardware.com)

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Selling H200s to China Is Unwise and Unpopular (thezvi.wordpress.com)

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The Tate Modern posted my job application on the internet (maxakohler.substack.com)

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So you want to speak at software conferences? (dylanbeattie.net)

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2003: BowieNet 3 Launch and the Peak of Flash Web Design (cybercultural.com)

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Let users zoom in on mobile devices (idiallo.com)

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React2Shell serves as good reminder why JavaScript is no fun (zarar.dev)

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Two Githubs, One Laptop (djnavarro.net)

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The AI Price Hike (molodtsov.me)

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Developing a food-safe finish for my wooden spoons and cups (alinpanaitiu.com)

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Did 37Signals Just Accidentally Make Writebook Open Source? (kerrick.blog)

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LA Parents say school-issued iPads and Chromebooks cause chaos (nbcnews.com)

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My favourite small hash table (corsix.org)

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FlowSQL is a free, privacy-focused SQL editor that runs in the browser (flowsql.com)

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AI Coding Agents for Designers (lukew.com)

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When AI will browse the web for me (stefanjudis.com)

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PHP 8.5: Boost Your App Performance (nicolas-dabene.fr)

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Gemini 3 Pro vs. GPT-5.1 Codex-Max vs. Claude Opus 4.5: AI Coding Benchmark (hansreinl.de)

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But, I worry, because I can see the cracks in the wall (baldurbjarnason.com)

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The C3PO Bug in Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga (frederikbraun.de)

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Learning a new programming language with an LLM (cloud.geek.nz)

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Student Loan Deductions (incoherency.co.uk)

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We need an XDG spec for repositories (jrhawley.ca)

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Reviving an Amiga 600: From Dead Video to a Clean Boot (linuxjedi.co.uk)

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Brainrot (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)

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AI is hallucinating its way into research (thelibre.news)

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If Your Electron App Is "Just a Browser Wrapper" You're Doing It Wrong (jasonscheirer.com)

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Generative AI use continues to rise (birchtree.me)

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Getting out of being people's secondary authoritative DNS server is hard (utcc.utoronto.ca)

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US TP-Link Router Ban Saga: Where TP-Link Routers Are Made? (dongknows.com)

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Managing Light/Dark Scheme in macOS and Linux (takeonrules.com)