nliu.net ->

The personal website of Jeffrey Paul.

Also: That Pokemon is actually a RAT, Uncle Sam fails a password audit

The first package of a stable version of GIMP for Apple Silicon is available!

DIY Raspberry / Orange Pi NAS That Really Looks Like a NAS - 2023 Edition: Background Story
Back in 2018, I published an instructable sharing my build on my Raspberry Pi NAS that really looks like a NAS project. I have been using it for some time back in…

Reflections on the benefits of tweaking an existing app, instead of starting from scratch.

Well, it happened. We knew it was coming. A prick pulled the plug. And what bothers me most about it is how Phony Stark did it. My mom passed away just before Christmas. Her decline was something everyone in the family saw coming and we prepared for her demise.…

Why won’t our artistic-literary establishment recognise that there’s mystery, beauty and humanity in maths?

If you can't beat them, join them. If you can't join them because you weren't born into an excessively wealthy family, eat them. If you can't eat the…

The American plane, a 22 year old Boeing 777-200 (registration N754AN) crossed in front of the Delta jet that was in its takeoff roll. Air traffic control saw this happening and at almost the last possible moment called out to Delta to abort takeoff, out…

Andy Oram explores the history and continuing appeal of the Awk programming language.

It's time to deal with the bane of online multiplayer games: Lag . Previously Command & Construct just displayed raw network updates - as soon as a message arrived it'd update units accordingly. However with my low-bandwidth design on a (simulated) really…

Why and how we continuously invested the team bandwidth to pay back tech debt and what were the results?

Court documents reveal reasons for Awad Al-Qarni’s arrest – even though rulers are major investors in social media platforms

In Age of Empires the time to complete each simulation step varies greatly: the rendering time changes if the user is watching units, scrolling, or sitting over unexplored terrain, and large paths or strategic planning by the AI made the game turn fluctuate…

Mathematicians are taking ideas developed to study random numbers and applying them to a broad range of categories.