Richard's Software Blog

The company's app are now being manged in-house by Bending Spoons.

Patching Linux is easy. Except when you need to patch tens of thousands of servers without downtime. Here's how Meta does it.

Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams - excalidraw/excalidraw

Musings about the changes to Python over the years, particularly typing.

In 2021, scientists experimenting with fiber optics picked up a strange signal: the cacophony of cicadas. It could lead to a new way of monitoring insects.

Plug-and-play gateway firewalls with integrated WiFi that deliver an instant UniFi experience. Just add internet.

Distributing the Great Backyard Bird Count

Back in 2016, I wrote an article for How We Get To Next on an informal settlement called Treasure Hill, in Taiwan, that could be a prototype for the future of sustainable urban living. How We Get To Next is still online in archived format, but with bitrot…

Now for something completely different. In the spiritual vein of One Night in Rio: Vacation photos from Plan9 and AWK for multimedia, here is a tool that is the link that ties almost all the projec…

https://www.reddit.com/r/SimpleMobileTools/comments/187w64x/simple_mobile_tools_bought_by_zipoapps/

Slow waves that usually only occur in the brain during sleep are also present during wakefulness in people with epilepsy and may protect against increased brain excitability associated with the condition, ...

This is a very brief post announcing a fascinating discovery.
It appears to be possible to use the cosine similarity approach powering explore2.marginalia.nu as a substitute for the link graph in an eigenvector-based ranking algorithm (i.e. PageRank).
The…

Have you ever wondered if it would be possible to make a "dumb" "hi-fi system" smart? Not that smart, but simply connect a device and it would play whatever stream you want into you? Maybe even stream from your phone? Then this is for you.

AI-powered journaling plugin for your Obsidian notes, inspired by cognitive behavioral therapy - clairefro/obsidian-chat-cbt-plugin

I’m going to show you how I took a very simple program and made it run almost 5 times faster, with very minimal adjustments. You may know…