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121. Porting 100k lines from TypeScript to Rust using Claude Code in a month
122. Home Office Is Sabotaging You
You optimized for Deep Work and built a sensory deprivation chamber. Here's how to turn your sealed cockpit into a space where your nervous system can actually rest.
123. 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.
124. What does Werner Herzog's nihilist penguin teach us about life?
Encounters at the End of the World features one of the great existential moments in modern cinema.
125. Bridging the Gap Between PLECS and SPICE
All Levels of Detail in One Model. PLECS Spice brings SPICE device-level simulation directly into PLECS, enabling both system-level and device-level analysis within a single tool.
126. The Texas Instruments CC-40 invades Gopherspace (plus TI-74 BASICALC)
127. TikTok settles just before social media addiction trial to begin
Defendants include Meta, which owns Instagram and Facebook, and YouTube parent Google.
128. 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.
129. The Adolescence of Technology
Confronting and Overcoming the Risks of Powerful AI
130. I made my own Git
131. 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.
132. State Department confirms federal censorship shield law incoming
Today, Sarah Rogers, United States Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy, confirmed that the US is poised to forever block foreign censorship of US citizens under laws like the UK Online Safety Act or the EU Digital Services Act. https://twitter.com/mrharrycole/status/2016580769477505098?s=46 Cognizant this may come as a shock to some of you, it's actually the latest…
133. You have to know how tech companies work
134. Tesla profit plunges as sales fall and AI expenses pile up
135. Love it or hate it, Windows 11 has reached 1B users faster than 10
136. Television is 100 years old today
137. France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc.
138. Pipelining and prefetching: a 45% speedup story
139. 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.
140. Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee says he is in a battle for the soul of the internet
Founder of the world wide web says commercialisation means the net has been ‘optimised for nastiness’, but collaboration and compassion can prevail
141. We Do Not Support Opt-Out Forms (2025)
142. Spanish scientists successfully eliminate pancreatic cancer in mice
The therapy is regarded as an unprecedented advancement in the experimental treatment of this type of cancer.
143. 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.
144. Aperture: Senior QA (2004-2005)
Click here to view all the articles about my Apple career.
145. ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files
146. 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.
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. People who know the formula for WD-40
149. 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.
150. I was an Amazon L7, I led global AI enablement, I was laid off