I was reminded recently of a question that had been in the back of my mind when I was working at Twitter. With the exception of very old content, IDs of tweets and other entities like users are so-called “snowflake IDs” – unique timestamped integer IDs, constructed specifically to try and avoid ID collisions in …
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I participated in elections in Finland and the Philippines, as an overseas voter using mail ballots. Here’s a summary of my experiences.
Late last year, I replaced my main desktop PC, after using it for just about 7 years – a pretty good run. I decided to just buy an off-the-shelf system from Dell, rather than build my own (which I have done many times in the past), since my current computing needs are not super unusual, …
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Background I have a fairly unusual personal background. My parents immigrated to the US from two very different countries: Finland and the Philippines. When I grew up, dual citizenship was kind of a murky thing, which seemed to be frowned upon and discouraged. But after the turn of the millennium, there was a sea change …
Because it was kind of difficult to find information about this, I figured I would post some details about a tiny little upgrade that I did to a Dell XPS 8900. It originally came with a Dell DW-1801 wireless adapter, which only supports 802.11 b/g/n, and not ac. Also, it doesn’t support the 5 GHz …
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(Ludum Linguarum is an open source project that I recently started, and whose creation I’ve been documenting in a series of posts. Its purpose is to let you pull localized content from games, and make flash cards for learning another language. It can be found on GitHub.) In this post, I’ll talk a little bit …
(Ludum Linguarum is an open source project that I recently started, and whose creation I’ve been documenting in a series of posts. Its purpose is to let you pull localized content from games, and make flash cards for learning another language. It can be found on GitHub.) When I started this project, I figured that …
(Ludum Linguarum is an open source project that I recently started, and whose creation I’ve been documenting in a series of posts. Its purpose is to let you pull localized content from games, and make flash cards for learning another language. It can be found on GitHub.) When I started working on Ludum Linguarum, I …
I’ve been working on a side project for some time now, and it’s gotten far enough along that it’s worth releasing it, and discussing it. It’s called Ludum Linguarum (LL) – a little awkward, yeah, but I figured that a unique name would be better in this case than spending a lot of time trying …
This is just a test post to try out Open Live Writer on my blog. I used to use the old Live Writer a bit, and was glad to hear that it had recently been open sourced. So why am I all of a sudden interested in blogging again? Well, I have a few articles …
