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Trifecta is a simple open source image sharing site, built with a combination of modern C++, database and web technologies. Intended to both be useful and make some points. This page sets out to explain the underlying technology of this small yet hopefully useful piece of software. More background can be found on its main page, where you can also read a bit about why I built this software. In short, 1: I need an image sharing site I trust and that does not track its users and 2: I want to show that you can still run a service yourself safely.

Trifecta is actual stand-alone software that you can use to paste and drag images to, for easy sharing. It has pained me for years that I had to use imgur for this purpose. Not only does imgur install lots of cookies and trackers on my browser, I also then force these onto the people that visit the images that I share. I checked out some existing solutions you could download, but I worry about their security.

the number of people who have left the rust project due to burnout is shockingly high. the number of people in the project who are close to burnout is also shockingly high. this post is about myself, but it's not just about myself. i'm not going to name names because either...

We’re thrilled to announce that our next game, I Feel Fine, is coming out this year! I Feel Fine is developed by studio, Secret Lab, written by Eisner Award-winning writer Ryan North, powered by Yarn Spinner, and funded by Screen Tasmania:

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Here’s the situation. You’re a tourism information robot aboard a space station orbiting Jupiter. An asteroid will hit the station in three days, destroying it and everything on it. And you’re bolted to the floor.

From a theoretical standpoint, the best reply provided by an LLM is obtained by always picking the token associated with the highest probability. This approach makes the LLM output deterministic, which is not a good property for a number of applications. For this reason, in o...

Over the past few years I’ve been writing a lot about innovation, and specifically, the lack thereof in Europe. I also touch on how we’ve outsourced a ton of operational capabilities, leaving us relatively helpless. By now this is such a huge amount of words, audio and video that it is in dire need of a summary, if only to see if it makes any kind of sense taken together.

This article is part of a series on (European) innovation and capabilities. The very short version: All of computing is moving to the cloud at a rapid pace, including (government) parts you might want to keep under your own control Europe has no relevant ‘hyperscaler’ cloud providers at all, and there is a desire to change this by policy means Competing with the IKEA-concept is nearly impossible. Offering IKEA-like products but then with a smaller range is not an attractive proposition.

My usual process for writing blog posts is more or less in two steps: 1. Think about what I want to say for weeks or months. No, I don’t spend weeks focusing on a blog post, the process is exactly reversed: I write blog posts about things that are so important to me to be in...

Vandaag groot in het nieuws, een Nederlandse AIVD agent zou een sleutelrol gespeeld hebben in het binnenbrengen van sabotagesoftware bij het Iraanse kernwapenprogramma. Nou moet me wel van het hart, dit zou op zichzelf geen schandaal moeten zijn. Iran zijn onze vrienden niet, en ik heb liever dat ze geen kernwapenprogramma hebben. Wel wekken de artikelen van Huib Modderkolk in de Volkskrant de indruk dat politiek Den Haag niet of niet voldoende op de hoogte was van dit alles.

UI = f(data)(state)

Libraries are collections of code that are intended to be usable by multiple consumers (if you're interested in the etymology, watch this video). In the old days we had what we now refer to as "static" libraries, collections of code that existed on disk but which would be cop...

I'll start by saying that this article is not meant to be a retrospective on LLMs. It's clear that 2023 was a special year for artificial intelligence: to reiterate that seems rather pointless. Instead, this post aims to be a testimony from an individual programmer. Since the...

The final compromise text of the EU Cyber Resilience Act is now officially available, and various open source voices are currently opining on it. This is a complex act and other parts of the open source world (like the Eclipse Foundation and NLNet Labs) have been hard at work to advocate with the EU and member states to get a CRA that is good for open source. I’ve also been highly critical.

A bit of an “emergency blog post”. The final compromise text of the EU Cyber Resilience Act is now available, and various open source voices are now opining on it. This is a complex act and other parts of the open source world (like the Eclipse Foundation and NLNet Labs) have been hard at work to advocate with the EU and member states to get a CRA that is good for open source.

Je kunt een discussie winnen op de vorm of op de inhoud. Ik heb het graag over de inhoud, maar dan moet je wel goed opletten dat je ook echt aan die inhoud toekomt. Want er zijn genoeg mensen die het liever over wat anders hebben, of het houden bij mooie woorden die niet de kern van hun mening of plan zijn. Men noemt dat soort technieken ook wel “debating trucjes”.

a sense of wonder is a wonderful thing

Earlier this year, after Github accidentally committed their private RSA SSH host key to a public repository, I wrote about how better support for SSH host certificates would allow this sort of situation to be handled in a user-transparent way without any negative impact on s...