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Golay codes are practical error correcting codes. They were used, for example, on the Voyager missions. They also have deep mathematical connections.

Data archiving codec for paper, laser printer and scanner

How much data can you reliably store on a piece of paper? Experimental results.

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Learn from architectural design decisions made when bringing open source vector database technology to the cloud.

Over the past few months, I've been thinking a lot about intellectual property and the underlying moral and legal issues. In blogging and tweeting about these thoughts, I've tended to use the word...

Corruption everywhere, even in YouTube's kids content

Happy Friday! What's good? I am doing a bit better than last week, thanks for asking, although I haven't written anything and, more shockingly perhaps, haven't run all week. This is the first time since I started running (in 2022) that I have missed runs. Considering the injury rates among

There was this article and discussion on Lobster last...

Whether you call it imposter syndrome or simply your jerkbrain acting up, we all have our moments of feeling like a fake and that, someday, everyone will find out. And at it turns out, one of the professions most prone to imposter syndrome is software development.

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Evolution from a traditional software deployment infrastructure to a modern, containerized approach

Pondering the way that physical objects, like newspapers and photos, degrade over time, and why digital objects won’t fade in exactly the same way.

A look inside the world of alternative command line environments, or "opinionated prompt systems," such as Liquid Prompt and Oh-My-Posh.

While technology has gotten us into this climate change mess only technology can get us out of it. Only the technium (our technological system) is “big” enough to work at the global scale needed to fix this planetary sized problem. … Continue reading →

Modern Kubernetes-based infrastructures require observability, not just monitoring and optimizing application performance.

A Firefly survey suggests usage of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools is evolving rapidly in the cloud computing era.

A walk through the pros and cons of using cloud and on-premises storage as well as a third, best-of-both-worlds option: cloud-adjacent storage.

A (rather long) view on the configuration-compliance-coherence trust problem in IT

Tech and creativity once had a symbiotic relationship. As generative content matures, it feels like they’re starting to diverge. That’s bad for creative people.

High-impact engineers 10X the value they create by working on the most impactful features for users and aggressively decreasing the time it takes to get things out to users.

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