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The fifth part of a series about bare-metal programming for x86 PC-type computers, using Linux for development. This article is about handling files using EFI's Simple File Protocol.
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Introduction An occasional collection of things I've recently found on the Internet and added to my bookmarks. DHH Is Way Worse Than I Thought While a year old at the point of saving this, it's still a pretty good collection of details of problematic things related to DHH. It's only got worse since. Awesome Steam...
Unplanned Ten Week HiatusI’m back! Well, technically I haven’t left my internet home; it’s just my weeknotes that went into intermission. It was likely triggered as a respite from Blaugust1 and also time spent on migrating my secondary site from WordPress to Quartz2. It feels like there has been a fair amount that...
Canadian poet and writer Anne Carson has been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. I’m not the biggest fan of poetry, but poets, particularly Evelyn Araluen, have been doing well in some of the literary awards in recent years, which is certainly a boost for the craft.
Weekly cleaning and home improvement series, with some thoughts in between. Late/lazy start today. My bedtime routine has disappeared. I'm getting into bed after 2:00. I've stopped listening to records before bed and I think the knee injury also gave me an excuse to not be on top of hygiene stuff. So I want to get...
Today is the 226th anniversary of Oktoberfest, a holiday which began as a city-wide celebration of the marriage of a royal couple. Raise a glass! I wish I liked beer more.In an interesting juxtaposition of holidays, today is also the real Columbus Day and also the federal holiday. Oktoberfest and Christopher...
October 2026. Glynde. East Sussex. We didn’t actually make it up the hill to the opera house at Glyndebourne; blame it on my dodgy leg or Mrs RM’s dodgy foot, whatever. But we made it as far as Glynde Place (I’m a bit confused by all the Glyndes to be honest), which you can peep into from the graveyard of the parish...
heya! every now and then, I'll see a post complaining about how narrow the focus of the small/indie web is. today, that was this post, by Yunzi, where they talk about non-tech topics being absent from the indie web... using kagi small web search results as an example. despite the name, kagi small web is in no way...
https://bubbles.town/static/bubbles_1200x630.png While reading 6 Months of Bubbles by Gordon, I started wondering to myself how I'd change bubbles to make it easier to discover fresher and more niche content, while still providing the "best" posts for easy reading. Here's how Gordon put it: I want eclectic, quirky,...
Today was is a holiday in Brazil, and me and my friend were feeling pretty down, só we went to the beach together to stare at the ocean and feel the sun.
I literally just bought a new notebook to replace the near-full battered Moleskine that permanently lives in my back pocket. Then I saw this! The lines are watermarked, not printed so they basically are invisible! One of those ridiculously simple solutions that you wonder why no-one thought of it before. £62 whole...
I was walking along Market Street (pedestrianised) this morning when a man, walking briskly in the opposite direction, drew level with me and, as he passed, turned his head and, looking me firmly in the eye and grinning cheerily, exclaimed: 'Growing up in the Fifties and Sixties, eh? The best of times, weren't they,...
I wrote the chapter on app icon history for The iOS App Icon Book. The other day I found an old note stashed away where I had started researching the macOS version of that chapter (which Michael ultimately ended up writing). At the time, I didn’t know what to write. I mean, how do you write a history of icon design...
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I’ve made something today to help me use my phone less. It’s a little background for my lock screen. Here is how it looks. And boy, it’s effective! I tend to pick up my phone so often, to do simple searches or to read Mastodon, it’s ridiculous! I even do it when I have my laptop in my lap! I want to remind myself...
On the most recent episode of the Waveform podcast, the hosts talk about two new announcements in the MMORPG world (relevant bit starts at 1:21 and goes on for 14 minutes): The context is this: RuneScape launched in 2001, and World of WarCraft in 2004, each game already had a “relaunch”: RuneScape via Old School...
Various parties concerned about the risks that artificial intelligence (AI) pose to humanity have called for a pause in its development. But such a call faces a difficult collective action problem. Can it be solved? I have been skeptical (and suggested an alternate type of approach to AI safety here). But a new...
The curl security team happens to also double as the curl core team. The small group of people who assess security reports and take project decisions. The exact set of participants in this team of course vary over time, as this is a volunteer membership role without monetary compensation. I decided to write this...
La resistencia invisible (The world will Tremble) es un drama histórico ambientado en plena Segunda Guerra Mundial. Dirigida por Lior Geller que recupera una historia real poco conocida: la fuga de dos prisioneros judíos del campo de exterminio de Chełmno y su empeño en convertir aquella huida en el primer...
My blog used to use Crimson Pro as the main body font, something that threads the needle of being serif-y enough for the Possession-esque posts, but not too out of place for the technical macOS Messages debugging ones. You should consider customizing anything you use, and the font is no exception. Let's tweak it!