Fifty Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio(blinry.org)

178 points by Timothee 2 years ago | 10 comments

Taking a Radio Camping(ewpratten.com)

93 points by ewpratten 2 years ago | 24 comments

A Tour of Oodi(blinry.org)

160 points by zdw 6 months ago | 44 comments

Multiple Mouse Cursors in Wayland(blinry.org)

132 points by marvinborner 2 months ago | 91 comments

Programming SDF animations of Rick and Morty(danielchasehooper.com)

443 points by LordNibbler 1 year ago | 37 comments

Daniel Hooper's blog post explaining how he programmed an SDF animation of Rick from Rick and Morty in 240 lines of code, with an embedded live coding editor.

Gears (2020)(ciechanow.ski)

124 points by mhb 3 years ago | 5 comments

Radios, how do they work?(lcamtuf.substack.com)

613 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 101 comments

A blog post by lcamtuf giving a brief introduction to antennas, superheterodyne receivers, and signal modulation schemes for hobbyists.

Things you can do with diodes(lcamtuf.substack.com)

367 points by zdw 11 months ago | 106 comments

A blog post on lcamtuf's Substack explaining the diode and the practical circuit applications of this often-overlooked electronic component.

Software development topics I've changed my mind on(chriskiehl.com)

806 points by belter 1 year ago | 737 comments

Personal blog post listing software development opinions the author changed after 10 years working in the industry.

So you want to parse a PDF?(eliot-jones.com)

369 points by UglyToad 1 year ago | 199 comments

Blog post by Eliot Jones explaining how PDF parsing should work per the spec, covering headers, cross-reference tables, object offsets and trailers, and its real-world pitfalls.

Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining(si.inc)

392 points by nee1r 1 year ago | 267 comments

Standard Intelligence blog post describing how they built a 30-petabyte hard drive storage cluster in a San Francisco colocation center for under $500k to store video pretraining data.

20 years working on the same software product(successfulsoftware.net)

431 points by hermitcrab 1 year ago | 149 comments

A Successful Software blog post reflecting on 20 years of developing and selling the same software product as an independent developer.