Articles by l0b0
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I am not a Software Engineer (mataroa.blog)

1

Galileo's Basilisk (hexmhell.writeas.com)

2

BMW deploys the humanoid robot AEON in production sites in Germany (hexagon.com)

1

Artificial Innovation (4u.lol)

1

The Art of Markdown (githubusercontent.com)

22

That's a Lot of YAML (noyaml.com)

75

Does X cause Y? An in-depth evidence review (2021) (cold-takes.com)

1

8M Requests Later, We Made the SolarWinds Supply Chain Attack Look Amateur (watchtowr.com)

1

PC Forum (Idle Words) (idlewords.com)

2

Just cracking an embedded root password, no big deal (rachelbythebay.com)

22

I Will Always Be Angry About Software Engineering (mataroa.blog)

159

Accountability sinks (aworkinglibrary.com)

2

Skin-Shedding Code – By Thorsten Ball – Register Spill (thorstenball.com)

4

Tossed Salads and Scrumbled Eggs (mataroa.blog)

3

Nightly Rust Development with Nix (paperless.blog)

3

Linux Close to Enabling Real-Time "Preempt_rt" Support (phoronix.com)

1

Git Bisect Run Techniques (paperless.blog)

35

Interactive NixOS Tests (paperless.blog)

2

Quitting My Job for the Way of Pain (mataroa.blog)

1

Liberty, Science and Law (archive.org)

2

Can you run in a tight loop and still be well-behaved? (rachelbythebay.com)

1

Beware of BioWare (danluu.com)

5

Don't Lie in Interviews (simplermachines.com)

2

The Complex Problem of Lying for Jobs (mataroa.blog)

3

What Precious Things Does the Corporate World Steal from Us? (mataroa.blog)

1

Camera System Hell (xeiaso.net)

20

The Violence of Relentless Positivity in the Workplace (mataroa.blog)

178

Leadership is a hell of a drug (mataroa.blog)

2

DRM-CI: A Gitlab-CI pipeline for Linux kernel testing (collabora.com)

36

Flexible schemas are the mindkiller (mataroa.blog)

33

Geospatial Nix – create, use and deploy today (geospatial-nix.today)

1

A vintage network attack called smurf (rachelbythebay.com)

1

Decent Imaginaries (berjon.com)

239

Figure out who's leaving the company: dump, diff, repeat (rachelbythebay.com)

2

Fury Driven Development – Ludicity (mataroa.blog)

2

My Company Has Earned Its First Paycheck – Ludicity (mataroa.blog)

1

RFC 9413: Maintaining Robust Protocols (rfc-editor.org)

18

The Dark Arts – LessWrong (lesswrong.com)

1

Merry Christmas, Ya Filthy Animals (2023) – Ludicity (mataroa.blog)

2

Performing Technical Responsibility – Ludicity (mataroa.blog)

7

NixOS/Nixpkgs 23.11 (github.com/nixos)

1

TDD Outcomes (tidyfirst.substack.com)

1

Registering My Hypotheses on Starting a Business – Ludicity (mataroa.blog)

1

Reflections on Reader Correspondence – Ludicity (mataroa.blog)

3

Strategy Doesn't Matter If You Blunder Every Move – Ludicity (mataroa.blog)

143

Firefox Development Is Moving from Mercurial to Git (groups.google.com)

1

My Wild Experience Interviewing with Real Engineers – Ludicity (mataroa.blog)

147

What the Goddamn Hell Is Going on in the Tech Industry? (mataroa.blog)

4

I Accidentally Saved Half a Million Dollars – Ludicity (mataroa.blog)

1

Being Open about Openness (paperless.blog)

187

Organization probably doesn't want to improve things (mataroa.blog)

1

Interesting (apenwarr.ca)

5

Xkcd: Factorial Numbers (xkcd.com)

91

Add extra stuff to a “standard” encoding? Sure, why not (rachelbythebay.com)

2

Ask HN: Pinboard is dead, long live whom?

1

Expert Opinions I Agree with (That Most People Don't) – Scott H Young (scotthyoung.com)

2

Nix Shell Template (paperless.blog)

2

Bisect (gitlab.com/engmark)

3

Adventures in Time: Debugging a Daylight Saving Bug (alextaylor.ca)

1

Contempt Culture (aurynn.com)

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People can read their manager's mind (2015) (yosefk.com)

3

WPA3: No go on Raspberry Pi (plus some Mac gotchas) (rachelbythebay.com)

2

Sockrates – Penny Arcade (penny-arcade.com)

2

Systems design and being bitten by edge-triggering (rachelbythebay.com)

4

My Impressions of NixOS (yusuf.fyi)

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Kittens Game – a Dark Souls of incremental gaming (kittensgame.com)

1

Broken Patreon Bot Protection (stackexchange.com)