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Article Response 29 (M.R.E.A.M is almost here!)

“Everyone thinks MCP is for making AI assistants smarter. You know, "Claude, please read my files and understand my soul." And sure, it does that. But here's what they put in the documentation that made me spit out my morning tea:

"MCP provides a standardized way to connect AI models to...

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Article Response 28 (Lost Art of Data Packing)

“But as I worked, and thought about what I was doing, it began to dawn on me that the technique I was using has been more than half forgotten in these latter days. A little web research confirmed that programmers don’t seem to talk about it much any more, at least not where a search engine can...

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Article Response 27 (Finding the Bots)

“Did you know your favorite website can detect when you’re browsing it in public transport and when you scroll it laying in your bed? ”

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In this article, the author goes over the different ways that websites use to detect bots. It's quite detailed with some extra resources at the end...

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Article Response 26 (C2 with Go Infra)

“Now my curiosity is piqued and the evil mode kicks in. It feels like arbitrary data can be pushed to the checksum database without a connection to Go. Why is the data being pushed? And how is it being pushed? I go to bed thinking about this, which is the most dangerous moment for security...

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Article Response 25 (Bouncing the Throttle?)

“When it comes to debounce and throttle developers often confuse the two. Choosing the right one is, however, crucial, as they bear a different effect. ”

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In this article, the author explain the difference between debouncing and throttling. Debouncing is akin to waiting until you stop...

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Article Response 24 (Barbed Wire Marketing)

“The value of the Broadcom T4 design was its ability to work at high speeds on horrible cables. In many cases, you could use it on the cables you already had without upgrading. To demonstrate the power of what it felt was the world's best chip, Broadcom demonstrated its operation using the...

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Article Response 23 (Don't Forget the Backups)

“tl;dr two portable SSDs, synced with rsync; and a Backblaze bucket synced with restic”

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In this article, the author talks about his setup for backing up his laptop data. It's a quick read but the info is valuable. Everyone should have some sort of backup off their data because...

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Article Response 22 (Cognitive Code Load)

“Is this the right way to approach the uncertainty of a new system? It's enormously difficult to elicit the right logical boundaries in the beginning. The key is to make decisions as late as you can responsibly wait, because that is when you have the most information on which to base the...

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Article Response 21 (I'd like an NFC with that Ticket)

“At the right, the ticket appears to have golden smart-card contacts, like a credit card with an EMV chip. However, those contacts are completely fake, just printed onto the card with ink, and there is no chip there. Presumably, the makers thought that making the card look like a smart card would...

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Article Response 20 (Even the Wifi is Watching You!)

“Wi-Fi-based Positioning Systems (WPSes) are used by modern mobile devices to learn their position using nearby Wi-Fi access points as landmarks. In this work, we show that Apple's WPS can be abused to create a privacy threat on a global scale. We present an attack that allows an unprivileged...

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Porting the React Docs from JS to TS

From the title, your first question is probably why?

Well, let me tell you why...

I'm building an app called mulVid. It's a Collaborative Video Production and Asset Managment Suite but more importantly it's completely web-based. Anyone who knows anything about video internals will tell you that...

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Article Response 19 (Language Design)

Article - https://stevelosh.com/blog/2018/08/a-road-to-common-lisp/
I came for the information on Lisp and stayed for the discussion on language design. Language design has always fascinated me because at one point or the other over the last few years I’ve used every major language either...

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Article Response 18 (SMTP Quirks)

Article - https://tjaart.substack.com/p/the-curious-case-of-the-missing-period
As a card carrying member of "Team Open Source", I'll readily admit that modern email is by far the best (and maybe the only) example of "walled gardens" being a net benefit to the internet.
This blog post is another...

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Article Response 17 (Writing Tests)

Article - https://github.com/ohbarye/pbt
Having written thousands of unit tests, I can confidently say this has a lot of alpha.
With traditional unit tests, there will always be edge-cases that are not immediately (or vaguely) obvious and so won't be considered but with PBT that isn't a...

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Article Response 16 (On Greatness)

“A glance at Thorpe’s activities as an editor and translator (a full overview is provided below) shows an admirable range: from poems to law texts, psalms, chronicles and homilies. Thorpe also strikes as a humble man. His humility, as well as his intended purpose for most of his books, are made...

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How To Dissect Open Source Software

Step 0

You need to have working knowledge of the language(s) the software is written in and it's dev/deployment ecosystem. E.g. if you're dealing with a Python project,you should know what a requirements.txt file is.

You have no business dissecting a project if you can't even program in the...

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Article Response 15 (Cpp Optimization)

“This post will be about some source-level techniques for speeding up C++ compilation, and their (dis)advantages. It will not talk about things external to C++, such as buying better hardware, using a better build system, or using smarter...

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Article Response 14 (Coding w/ AI)

“Now, in a world where AI is replacing programmers by the minute, taking their jobs and revolutionizing the way we think about code, maybe we should be more open to the thoughts of the fresh new blood of the industry? In fact, the above code is a perfect example of a time-memory tradeoff. You’re...

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Article Response 13 (Complex Software Systems)

“Major system issues that affect the reliability of our services are detected and mitigated quickly. However, there are several minor issues that take a longer time to detect and mitigate. Such minor issues can collectively result in poor user experiences and revenue loss over time. This is where...

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Article Response 12 (Understanding HTTPS)

“As a mediocre engineer, I took Internet and HTTPS communication for granted and never dove any deeper. Today we’re improving as engineers and learning a rough overview of how internet communication works, specifically focusing on HTTP and TLS.”

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