Articles by dxs
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Payment fees matter more than you think (cuencahighlife.com)

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Rig for Turbulence (davegriffith.substack.com)

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Linux, Product and the Art of Essence (dedoimedo.com)

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Emacs Is a C-Based Lisp Runtime, Not a Text Editor (reddit.com)

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Locklin on science: Coding assistant experience (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)

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Self-Employment: Ownership Is Not Freedom (charleshughsmith.blogspot.com)

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AI Will Not Save Cybersecurity: Why the Arms Race Favors Attackers (smarterarticles.co.uk)

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When 20 Watts Beats 20 Megawatts: Rethinking Computer Design (smarterarticles.co.uk)

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Brain Dumps as a Literary Form (davegriffith.substack.com)

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Is it Really So Much Better Now? (walkingtheworld.substack.com)

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Stop Typing and Start Deciding

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Six incredibly hyped software trends that failed to deliver (infoworld.com)

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Dedoimedo's Greatest Sites on the Internet (dedoimedo.com)

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Modern Life Is Good (walkingtheworld.substack.com)

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A Month Exploring Fizzy, "Kanban as it should be" (zolkos.com)

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A brief, incomplete, and mostly wrong climate forecast for 2026 (climatedrift.substack.com)

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Engineering coffee producing vs. climate change, high demand, speculation (elpais.com)

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AI, the forty percent problem, and the future of work (smarterarticles.co.uk)

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The man who died three times (cuencahighlife.com)

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Don't go to physics grad school and other cautionary tales (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)

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Pop _OS 24.04's New Scratch-Built Cosmic: Hands-On, with Screenshots (fossforce.com)

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The Mysterious Forces Steering Views on Hacker News (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)

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The 10 Most Mind-Blowing Discoveries About the Brain in 2025 (scientificamerican.com)

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How to Choose the Best Programming Languages, Libraries, and Patterns (freecodecamp.org)

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Claude Code made $1B in 6 months – my AI-coded iPhone app shows why (zdnet.com)

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Model Collapse: The Bubble Economy Is a Hallucination (charleshughsmith.blogspot.com)

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Vibe coding: What is it good for? nothing (theregister.com)

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The Last Programming Language, and the End of (A Bit of) History (davegriffith.substack.com)

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What if a tiny black hole shot through your body? Physicist did the math (sciencealert.com)

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Historic Engineering Wonders: Photos That Reveal How They Pulled It Off (rarehistoricalphotos.com)

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Destroying Value Wherever They Go (irreal.org)

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Zorin OS 18 Hits 1M Downloads in Just One Month (linuxiac.com)

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Linux Career Opportunities in 2025: Skills in High Demand (linuxcareers.com)

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Why Software Development Fell to AI First (davegriffith.substack.com)

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Cameras, Cameras Everywhere (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)

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From Scripts to Scale: Python, Mypy, and the Rise of Static Typing (simplethread.com)

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AI layoffs to backfire: Half rehired at lower pay (theregister.com)

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Mathematical proof debunks idea the universe is a computer simulation (phys.org)

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Of Two Minds: Revolution and technology-driven progress (charleshughsmith.blogspot.com)

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Ken Thompson recalls Unix's rowdy, lock-picking origins (thenewstack.io)

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The Agile Modeling Method (agilemodeling.com)

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I'm a Senior Developer and I Still Google Everything (Perfectly Normal) (dev.to)

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The Return of Assembly: When LLMs No Longer Need High-Level Languages (dev.to)

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Crichton, Spielberg, Horner, Jurassic Park, and Chickenosaurus [audio] (bbc.com)

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The White House is already one of the most blocked accounts on Bluesky (techcrunch.com)

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Janus-I Flying Suitcase (x-controlsystem.com)

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Easter Island's giant statues walked to their final platforms (arstechnica.com)

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Coming: A Repairable Printer with Refillable Ink Cartridges (fossforce.com)

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Coming: A Repairable Printer with Refillable Ink Cartridges (fossforce.com)

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How Steel Balls Are Forged [video] (laughingsquid.com)

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Ken Isaacs: "How to Build Your Own Living Structures" (1974) (flashbak.com)

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Is Worse Better? (funcall.blogspot.com)

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World record: Held his breath for nearly 30 minutes (sciencenorway.no)

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9 Linux certifications to boost your career (networkworld.com)

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I Hate Barney (popupbackpacker.com)

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Self-Driving People (bitfieldconsulting.com)

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The Ultimate Guide to Linux Default Package Managers (maketecheasier.com)

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Harness GitOps on Linux for Seamless Git-First Infrastructure Management (linuxjournal.com)

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The importance of process, organ harvesting edition (cnn.com)

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The Marketing Genius of Steve Jobs, Part 1 (Under the Influence, 2012) (podscripts.co)

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Yet Another Init System? Meet Nitro, a Fresh Take on Process Supervision (linuxiac.com)

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Awesome-ricing, tools to help with ricing on Linux (github.com/fosslife)

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The plan for Linux after Torvalds has a kernel of truth: There isn't one (theregister.com)

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How Giant Animatronic Props Are Made [video] (laughingsquid.com)

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Stop Hunting 10x Engineers: Build a 10x Organization Instead (shiftmag.dev)

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How Tooth-in-Eye Surgery Works (howstuffworks.com)

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Staying Relevant (zeldman.com)

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Electric Egg Car: Rare Photos of the Futuristic 1942 L'Œuf électrique (rarehistoricalphotos.com)

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When Flatpak's Sandbox Cracks (linuxjournal.com)

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Turn on the LLM and use it in your daily workflow (funcall.blogspot.com)

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2,500-year-old Siberian 'ice mummy' had intricate tattoos, imaging reveals (bbc.com)

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Food tech stops rot: No more brown bananas or squishy avocados (2019) (latimes.com)

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So Good They Can't Ignore You (kk.org)

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The Rise of Immutable Linux Distros: A New Era of Security and Stability (itprotoday.com)

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I Tried Homebrew on Linux (howtogeek.com)

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Baqpaq for personal data backups on Linux systems (teejeetech.com)

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Just Say No to Overcomplicated Cars (fossforce.com)

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Chimpfluencers Stick Grass in Their Ears and Butts in Latest Viral Trend (sciencealert.com)

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Could a Paper Plane Thrown from the ISS Survive the Flight? (sciencealert.com)

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How Silicon Valley Got Rich (elysian.press)

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Tools for Possibilities: Domes and Yurts (kk.org)

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Bolivia's Last-Ditch Currency Bet: Spare Change Becomes Crypto Lifeline (latinamericanpost.com)

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Beyond the Buzz: How 'Deep Tech' Startups Are Changing the Game (fossforce.com)

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How Muppets Break Free from their Puppeteers [video] (youtube.com)

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[flagged] Long live Xorg, I mean Xlibre (dedoimedo.com)

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Icons of Aviation History: Boeing X-29 (lflank.wordpress.com)

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A map, a myth and a pre-Incan lagoon: the man who brought water back (theguardian.com)

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Why AI and SQL Go Together Like Peanut Butter and Jelly (thenewstack.io)

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A Mathematician Calculated Size of a Giant Meatball Made of Every Human (sciencealert.com)

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How Frederick Forsyth wrote The Shepherd [audio] (cbc.ca)

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Who Gives a S T About Cursing Robots? (ieee.org)

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Fruit flies are rewriting the story of cocaine research (latinamericanpost.com)

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Why I'm done with Firefox for good, and which browser I'm using instead (zdnet.com)

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Stone Age BBQ: How early humans may have preserved meat with fire (phys.org)

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We Are No Longer a Serious Country And the world is starting to notice (paulkrugman.substack.com)

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Mercury-Redstone 1: The Four-Inch Flight (lflank.wordpress.com)

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Defeating a Virus That Killed Half a Billion People [video] (flowingdata.com)

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SpaceX Starship Third Consecutive Failure – Implications for Starlink? (rvmobileinternet.com)

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AI didn't kill Stack Overflow (infoworld.com)

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Sex, Drugs, Power, and Money (funcall.blogspot.com)