Twin Peaks Actually Explained (in a four-hour video). “Lynch’s obsession with electricity and fire is essential to the theory” presented in the video. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org → Twin Peaks Actually Explained (in a four-hour video). “Lynch’s obsession with electricity and fire is essential to the theory” presented in the video. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org → Twin Peaks Actually Explained ...

Realizing Meshtastic's Promise with the T-Deck Meshtastic —a simple off-grid mesh network used to transfer short messages—is a neat bit of tech, but until recently, most development has focused on little nodes with or without tiny OLED displays, and a separate phone app or web UI to actually interact with the mesh. The major use case I have for Meshtastic is backup comms—when cell networks and physical infrastructure may be unavailable. In those conditions, I don't want...

This is Part 4 in a series of posts describing the Raft distributed consensus algorithm and its complete implementation in Go. Here is a list of posts in the series: Part 0: Introduction Part 1: Elections Part 2: Commands and log replication Part 3: Persistence and optimizations Part 4: Key/Value database (this post) In this part, we're going to use our Raft module to implement a simple but realistic application - a replicated key / value database with strong consistency semantic...

0.0 Context Setting Wednesday, 9 October 2024 in Portland, Oregon, where it is still unseasonably warm. I have a puppy now. She’s a good girl. 0.1 Events: Hallway Track, and Pulling the Cord Hallway Track 010: Let’s Fix Government Procurement (in the U.S.) is on Wednesday 16 October, at 10am Pacific, 1pm Eastern. Our guests will be: Kathrin Frauscher , co-founder and Deputy Executive Director of the Open Contracting Partnership . Ryan Ko , freelance consultant, co-author of ...

This essay is part of a series on offensive horticulture . It's weird how everybody suddenly forgot about Henry George : He inspired the economic philosophy known as Georgism , the belief that people should own the value they produce themselves, but that the economic value of land (including natural resources) should belong equally to all members of society. George famously argued that a single tax on land values would create a more productive and just society. The US is...

At over 4,000 words, this is my longest article ever. In one fell swoop, the Indian Government sanctioned multiple flagship space projects last month. And so in this special edition of ‘Indian Space Progress’, I contextualize them all. In particular, I noticed that nobody covered the planned science and rationale of India’s first mission to Venus or put it in context with the upcoming NASA and ESA missions to the planet. And ISRO’s announcement reads like jargon-land . So I’m attempti...

This is the 59th edition of People and Blogs , the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Chris O'Donnell and his blog, odonnellweb.com To follow this series subscribe to the newsletter . A new interview will land in your inbox every Friday. Not a fan of newsletters? No problem! You can read the interviews here on the blog or you can subscribe to the RSS feed . If you're enjoying the People and Blogs series and you want to see it gro...

Earlier this week I gave a short presentation to some undergrads at the University of Toronto on how to be interviewed for internships. The points I made are listed below; as always, I’d be grateful for feedback. Why Should You Listen to Me? Worked at six universities, a dozen companies, and a non-profit over 40 years Supervised over 20 undergraduate interns and hired that many again for other people Why Shouldn’t You Listen to Me? I graduated in a tech boom 40 years ago — ...

My wife and I recently bought an Emma Mattress, but it's since gone back because, frankly, it's shite. If you've never heard of Emma Mattresses , they're a UK based company that supplies fancy pants memory foam mattresses. They're very expensive, but they offer a 200 day money back guarantee on their mattresses, so a few months ago my wife and I took a punt and bought one. Initially I thought it was very nice - it was supportive, moulded to my body, and both my wife and I couldn't feel it...

Hey I'm a developer not an artist Following my last blog post about difficulties surrounding UserDefaults and edge cases that lead to data loss (give it a read if you haven’t, it’s an important precursor to this post!), I wanted to build something small and lightweight that would serve to fix the issues I was encountering with UserDefaults and thus TinyStorage was born! It’s open source so you can use it in your projects too if would like. GitHub link 🐙 Overview As me...

Hello, It's time to reveal the last planet. So. Warning: Spoilers ahead. Welcome to Aquilo It's day, but stars still twinkle in the dark sky. You count the planet's sun among the stars, larger and brighter than the others, but still so dim you can barely feel its warmth at all. A howling wind chills you to the bone and gently rocks the iceberg you are sitting on. This planet has no land. It's an ocean world of liquid ammonia. One continuous ocean covers the en...

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I use my webcam constantly for streaming and I'm pretty familiar with all the internals and how the camera model on Windows works. I also use OBS extensively, so I regularly use the OBS virtual camera and flow everything through Open Broadcasting Studio. For my podcast, I use Zencastr which is a web-based app that talks to the webcam via the browser APIs. For YouTubes, I'll use Riverside or StreamYard, also webapps. I've done this reliably for the last several years without any trouble. Yes...

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I was reading the back of a Lucky Charms cereal box today (as you do) and I learned some things that were SHOCKING. SHOCKING. Here’s the cereal box in question. It gives a breakdown of all 8 of Lucky the leprechaun’s marshmallows, and what magical power they give him. I was expecting some wishy washy baloney – this marshmallow gives Lucky the power of friendship! stuff like that – but in fact, nearly all of them are legit magic abilities. In fact, they map onto D&D spells to an ast...