Clarification: I am not advocating a typical voting ring. That is bad. This is a 20-30 minute push to relevance and then step back. I wouldn't get people upvoting for hours, that is silly. -- Getting...
A guide for Lemmy, Kbin and general Reddit off-ramping. Inclues lists of threadiverse platforms, mobile clients, interesting instances, and other related communities.
Being a child of the 80s I can recall a time before the internet permeated my entire reading experience. It was a happy accident for me and my career when I was able to access the internet on a daily …
Web Extension: Easily find Hacker News discussions about the page you're currently browsing. - pinoceniccola/what-hn-says-webext
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Yaak AI, working on getting robots to understand and interact with the world around them
I know a lot of non-technical people who would love to work in the venture-funded startup world, f...
It has been a interesting 48 hours since the soft launch on Saturday. I wanted to share a quick update on the initial numbers and, more importantly, the path toward getting Sudokrypt onto an actual Ga...
✨ A Swiss Army Knife for Zsh - Unix Shell. Contribute to zdharma/zi development by creating an account on GitHub.
There it is — the end of 2020. The year is slowly but steadily coming to an end. It was a challenging and, overall, a very unusual year. Let's...
Useful Software Kali – A Linux distribution packed with penetration testing and security auditing tools. Metasploit – A framework for developing, testing, and executing exploit code against target systems. TruffleHog – A tool that scans code repositories for exposed secrets like API keys and credentials. Burp Suite – A web vulnerability scanner and proxy tool for testing web application security. Wireshark – A network protocol analyzer for capturing and inspecting network traffic in real time. Online Resources Webhook.site - Webhook.site generates free, unique URLs and e-mail addresses and lets you see everything that’s sent there instantly. The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS) - Seen an interesting sequence of numbers lately? Cybersecurity News Sites Bleeping Computer - Cybersecurity News TheHackerNews - Also Cybersecurity News, not to be confused with the very popular more general tech news site Hacker News The Register - Security - Security news
Assessment criteria for bot behavior: is it transparent, prosocial, and unselfish?
This is my current map. I’m putting it here so in another 4 years I can see what I got right and what I’d rewrite. Actually, this list is inspired by a comment on a YC thread on Hacker …
For those who aren't familiar, Hacker News is a popular site where a community of techies discuss a wide range of topics. According to HN's guidelines, on-topic submissions are "[a]nything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it
It goes without saying that Stack Overflow is an invaluable resource for any coder seeking help. This is in large part because they enforce stringent guidelines such as sticking to factual questions and answers. As a result, many posts that don't meet these guidelines get locked down. Many are du
Thanks to the Postgres Weekly issue #89 and a post to Hacker News front page (see Pgloader: A High-speed PostgreSQL Swiss Army Knife, Written in Lisp it well seems that I just had my first Slashdot effect…
A post recently made the rounds on hacker news claiming that you should teach your kids poker, not chess. The comments on that post go through a lot of the …
It was April 9th 2016, and I tagged my first official release of rqlite -- two years after I actually started coding it. Since then there has been 58 releases, 277 closed issues, 416 closed pull requests, 32,785 insertions, 1954 deletions, and 100 files have changed. What is rqlite? rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed…
It’s now about two weeks since the HMRCs splurge on getting the UK to go out for a meal has finished. In discount dining finder I showed how to make a map-based tool to search all Eat Out to Help Out (EOTHO) establishments in very little time. What follows is the story of what happened after the site launched, and how I failed to make a dent at marketing. To recap:
Update: As of 17th June, 2024, I have also started using font-awesome and google-fonts which goes directly against my principle of “no-cruft”! And while the ...
You’ve looked everywhere, but still no luck. Where should you look next to find job listings?
A vision for the "small web", small software, and small architectures.
As a software developer, how do you sharpen your saw? Sharpening the saw is shorthand for anything you do that isn’t programming, necessarily, but (theoretically) makes you a better programmer. It’s derived from the Covey book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. There’s a guy who
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Yaak AI, working on getting robots to understand and interact with the world around them
It’s hard to believe that it’s been over a year since the last time I posted something to MattVukas.com. I’m still alive, don’t worry. I guess life has just gotten in the way of publishing anything longer than a tweet or collection of pictures on Facebook. Web hosting issues have caused some headaches as well, but that is sorted out now. Since my last post on 7/8/2014, a lot has happened in my life:
Scribblings and nonsense
How and why I built bulletty, a pretty, open-source TUI feed reader written in Rust that stores the articles locally as Markdown. From a failed Flipper Zero project to a TUI tool.
I was reading Hacker News the other day when I came across this . The author is clearly unhappy with his/her profession, but that is not to...
As a researcher, I use a variety of software tools on a regular basis, and I’d like to share this list of tools here.
But for what I do use LLMs for, it’s invaluable.
It is now more than 6 years since I started blogging about software development. It has been a great experience, and I thought I would reflect on what I have learnt. So here are my reasons for writ…
Writing a blog has been an incredibly rewarding experience for me, and I encourage you to give it a try.