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31. Texas traffic stop reveals pitfalls of police surveillance Intel
32. Apex: Universal Markdown Processor
This is currently a work in progress, but I have a 0.1.0 release of a “One Ring To Rule Them All” Markdown processor published.
33. Mechanical power generation using Earth's ambient radiation
34. GitHub Actions Has a Package Manager, and It Might Be the Worst
GitHub Actions has a package manager that ignores decades of supply chain security best practices: no lockfile, no integrity verification, no transitive pinning
35. An Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transform
36. GitHub Notifications triggered by spam accounts are now correctly hidden
37. Optimize for Momentum
38. CATL Expects Oceanic Electric Ships in 3 Years
39. (2018) How I created a database of all interesting Rush Hour configurations
40. Jujutsu Worktrees Are Convenient
A place to dump thoughts
41. The Anatomy of a macOS App
How Mac applications evolved from a multitude of resources to a bundle formed from a standard layout of directories, and how they have come to be largely self-contained in macOS 26.
42. AI should only run as fast as we can catch up
43. Sperry/Ford Mark-6 Fire Control Computer (2022)
A collection of old IBM and military computers.
44. I Tried and Failed to Rebuild the 1996 Space Jam Website with Claude
Can Claude Recreate the 1996 Space Jam Website? No. Or at least not with my prompting skills.
45. ActivityPub Fuzzer: Improving Testing in the Fediverse
The ActivityPub Fuzzer is a small program to help developers build social media software on the Fediverse by emulating known Fediverse software.
46. The f*** off contact page
How to get people to NOT contact you
47. Scala 3 slowed us down?
Is this clickbait? Not really. Is this the fault of the language or the compiler? Definitely not. Rather, it was part of a rushed migration. Sharing the lessons learned in the process.
48. Weather radars used to count flying insects in the skies over the US
49. The Area 51 of New England
50. I block all online ads
A couple of years ago, I decided I'd had enough of ads. Not just the occasional banner or a quick pre-roll video — I mean all of them. They have to go.
51. I Wasted 8 Years of My Life in Crypto
52. Nested Learning: A new ML paradigm for continual learning
53. Bad Dye Job
54. Alignment Is Capability
Alignment is not a constraint on capable AI systems. Alignment is what capability is at sufficient depth. OpenAI and Anthropic have been running this experiment for two years.
55. Dollar-stores overcharge cash-strapped customers while promising low prices
A Guardian investigation reveals Dollar General and Family Dollar stores often fail to honor their shelf prices – charging more at checkout for everything from frying pans to Frosted Flakes
56. Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery despite Netflix deal
Paramount is launching a hostile bid to acquire Warner Bros.
57. Google Titans architecture, helping AI have long-term memory
58. Java Hello World, LLVM Edition
59. One too many words on AT&T's $2k Korn shell and other Usenet topics
This post dives into the Usenet archives and covers 1980s online discussions about Unix, BSD, and historical hardware.
60. Goodbye, Microsoft: Schleswig-Holstein Relies on Open Source and Saves Millions
Schleswig-Holstein saves 15 million euros in license costs by migrating from Microsoft to free software. The conversion is significantly cheaper.