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I now have a list of places you can find me on the web dotat.at/social.html as well as the links in my profile

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Serval administrator.
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D'où vient l'heure de votre ordinateur ? Des horloges atomiques aux satellites GPS, un article qui fait le tour complet des fondements de la mesure du temps (et ça passe par Paris aussi) dotat.at/@/2023-05-26-whence…
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Rubidium fountain clock, from this deep dive into how humans keep time: dotat.at/@/2023-05-26-whence…
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Into the rabbit hole with @fanf on where does my computer get the time from? I knew that NTP relies on atomic clocks but apparently, it involves earth rotation time and a lot of other data layers in between. An interesting read! #utc #time #engineering dotat.at/@/2023-05-26-whence…

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27 Aug 2023
Behold, my newest keyboard I was going to call it the Carpal Tunnel, but someone in chat suggested Shai-Hulud and now I'm torn Thoughts? Feedback?
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19 Aug 2023
looks like all my old link posts have broken too: they are now unclickable t.co hyperlinks

19 Aug 2023
More vandalism from @elonmusk. Twitter has now removed all media posted before 2014. Thats - so far - almost a decade of pictures and videos from the early 2000s removed from the service. For example, here’s a search of my media tweets from before 2014. x.com/search?q=From:tomcoa…
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Images before/around 2014 are still saved on Twitter/X's servers, however, the t.co links appear to be broken at the moment. The famous Ellen DeGeneres selfie from the 2014 Oscars is currently missing from her tweet. twitter.com/EllenDeGeneres… But the original file is still available on their servers. pbs.twimg.com/media/BhxWutnC… twitter.com/Accountabilabu…
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19 Aug 2023
and if i c&p an old t.co hyperlink into my browser, i get a 404

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4 Aug 2023
I made a keyboard! Another keyboard! dotat.at/@/2023-08-04-keybir…
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6 Aug 2023
Keybird69 has an unconventional LEGO Technic beam sandwich case dotat.at/@/2023-08-06-ltbs.h…
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10 Aug 2023
After some faff getting git repositories into shape, here are some notes on making the PCB and plates for Keybird69 dotat.at/@/2023-08-09-kbpcb.… here's the hero image from the blog post, you will have to click through to enjoy the awesome purpleness of the actual PCB
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5 Aug 2023
Uh oh.
16 years ago, I created @music and have been running it ever since. Just now, Twitter / X just ripped it away. Super pissed
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22 Jul 2023
I embedded Bad Apple into a font using Harfbuzz' new wasm shaping engine. #BadApple #touhou #harfbuzz #wasm #rustlang
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We can fight back. The Fun Way- All you need is a cone and an empty AV. Gently place the cone on the hood- you just created a 🦄 & temporary traffic calming! The Responsible Way- Tune into next week’s CPUC meeting (7/13) at 11am & give public comment. tinyurl.com/WeekOfCone/
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31 Oct 2020
“who needs a car in LA? we’ve got the best public transport system in the world!”
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21 Jun 2023
on my blog! the PCG64 DXSM random number generator dotat.at/@/2023-06-21-pcg64-… where it comes from, and wherefore, with several links to enlightening articles by eminent authors and an implementation for you to clone and hack, it's like a dozen lines of code

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23 Jun 2023
another random thing i learned recently is a neat way to get uniformly distributed floating point numbers 0.0 <= n < 1.0 (double)(pcg64_random(rng) >> 11) * 0x1.0p-53 i blogged about it! dotat.at/@/2023-06-23-random…

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Presenting... The Impossiball™️!
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