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121. Pipelining and prefetching: a 45% speedup story
122. A first look at Aperture by Tailscale (private alpha)
Aperture is an AI gateway that doesn't get in the way of developers, and works with most AI tools.
123. Aperture: Senior QA (2004-2005)
Click here to view all the articles about my Apple career.
124. Arrows to Arrows, Categories to Queries
125. Reliable 25 Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt
I found this tiny fanless Thunderbolt 25G Ethernet adapter. With a little tinkering, it actually works.
126. Two Twisty Shapes Resolve a Centuries-Old Topology Puzzle
The Bonnet problem asks when just a bit of information is enough to uniquely identify a whole surface.
127. Porting 100k lines from TypeScript to Rust using Claude Code in a month
128. I made my own Git
129. Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability
Apple today unveiled the new AirTag, now with an expanded finding range and a louder speaker.
130. Chrome will make popular scripts load faster (by picking winners)
131. The Adolescence of Technology
Confronting and Overcoming the Risks of Powerful AI
132. You have to know how tech companies work
133. Two Cities Under Siege
Remarkably similar scenes from Boston and Minneapolis, 260 years apart, show a federal government betraying its founding principles.
134. Capgemini in turmoil over its work with ICE
A US subsidiary of the French IT services multinational has been helping track undocumented individuals on behalf of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
135. Had LLM/AI build an unbiased quiz: Where in the World Should I Live?
136. LLM-as-a-Courtroom
How we built a multi-agent courtroom simulation to decide when code changes require documentation updates—and why the legal system is humanity's best framework for binary decisions under uncertainty.
137. The Universal Pattern Popping Up in Math, Physics and Biology
All complex correlated systems, from Arctic melt ponds to the Internet, appear to be governed by the same math as a random matrix.
138. France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc.
139. Television is 100 years old today
140. We Do Not Support Opt-Out Forms (2025)
141. Academic Slop Just Reached a New Low
In an effort to justify more use-cases for their chatbot, OpenAI introduces Prism: an online LaTeX editor tailored for professional researchers. There's only one problem: everything.
142. The C-Shaped Hole in Package Management
System package managers and language package managers are solving different problems that happen to overlap in the middle.
143. ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files
144. Anthropic CEO of AI Threat to Jobs: Unemployed or Very-Low-Wage Underclass Looms
Dario Amodei's 20,000-word essay warns AI could displace half of entry-level white-collar jobs in five years—and lower-skilled workers will be hit first.
145. People who know the formula for WD-40
146. 40 years after the Challenger disaster, spaceflight remains far from routine
Seven astronauts lost their lives during the Challenger space shuttle disaster on Jan. 28, 1986. Four decades later, human spaceflight remains a difficult business.
147. After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand
Agents write units of changes that look good in isolation. They are consistent with themselves and your prompt. But respect for the whole, there is not.
148. Vibe Coding is an E-Bike for the Mind
Vibe Coding is an E-Bike for the Mind
149. Windows 11's Patch Tuesday nightmare gets worse
Microsoft has posted an online bulletin confirming that the company is investigating reports that state Windows 11's latest security update has rendered some PCs unbootable.
150. LED lighting undermines visual performance unless supplemented by wider spectra
Life evolved under broad spectrum sunlight, from ultraviolet to infrared (300–2500 nm). This spectrally balanced light sculpted life’s physiology and metabolism. But modern lighting has recently become dominated by restricted spectrum light emitting diodes (350–650 nm LEDs). Absence of longer wavelengths in LEDs and their short wavelength dominance impacts physiology, undermining normal mitochondrial respiration that regulates metabolism, disease and ageing. Mitochondria are light sensitive. The 420–450 nm dominant in LEDs suppresses respiration while deep red/infrared (670–900 nm) increases respiration in aging and some diseases including in blood sugar regulation. Here we supplement LED light with broad spectrum lighting (400–1500 nm+) for 2 weeks and test colour contrast sensitivity. We show significant improvement in this metric that last for 2 months after the supplemental lighting is removed. Mitochondria communicate across the body with systemic impacts following regional light exposure. This likely involves shifting patterns of serum cytokine expression, raising the possibility of wider negative impacts of LEDs on human health particularly, in the elderly or in the clinical environment where individuals are debilitated. Changing the lighting in these environments could be a highly economic route to improved public health.