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121. So, you want to chunk really fast?
How we built memchunk - a blazing fast text chunking library using SIMD and memchr for RAG pipelines
122. Worlds's first all-solid-state battery ready to power up production vehicles now
123. The Data Center Boom Is Concentrated in the U.S.
U.S. data center growth surges, raising concerns about power grid capacity and energy demands, with innovative solutions needed to manage this expansion.
124. Can I start using Wayland in 2026?
Wayland is the successor to the X server (X11, Xorg) to implement the graphics stack on Linux. The Wayland project was actually started in 2008, a year before I created the i3 tiling window manager for X11 in 2009 — but for the last 18 years (!), Wayland was never usable on my computers. I don’t want to be stuck on deprecated software, so I try to start using Wayland each year, and this articles outlines what keeps me from migrating to Wayland in 2026.
125. A Brief History of Ralph
The Ralph Wiggum Technique went viral in the last week of 2025. Here's the story of ralph since the first time I met Geoff in June of 2025.
126. Code is a liability (not an asset)
127. Serious = Suspicious, Shooting with Phone vs. Shooting with Camera
128. Google will now only release Android source code twice a year
Instead of four times a year, Google will now only release Android source code to AOSP twice a year, once in Q2 and again in Q4.
129. The skill of the future is not 'AI', but 'Focus' (2025)
Don't let AI erode your focus.
130. Eurostar AI vulnerability: when a chatbot goes off the rails
131. Gatekeepers of Law: Inside the Westlaw and LexisNexis Duopoly
Ever since a spate of mergers in the 1990s, Westlaw and LexisNexis have dominated legal research. And that might be why searching legal cases is so costly, even in the age of AI.
132. OpenAI Must Turn over 20M ChatGPT Logs, Judge Affirms
OpenAI Inc. will have to turn over 20 million anonymized ChatGPT logs in a consolidated AI copyright case after it failed to convince a federal judge to throw out a magistrate judge’s order the company said insufficiently weighed privacy concerns.
133. LocalFirst: You Keep Using That Word
134. JavaScript's For-Of Loops Are Fast
Running some benchmarks with different types of loops in JavaScript to see how well for-of loops perform compared to other loops.
135. Revisiting the original Roomba and its simple architecture
Revisiting the original Roomba and its simple architecture
136. Tech AI godfather says Meta's new 29-year-old AI boss is 'inexperienced'
"A lot of people have left, a lot of people who haven't yet left will leave," Meta's former chief AI scientist Yann Lecun said.
137. During Helene, I Just Wanted a Plain Text Website
We recently passed the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Helene and its devastating impact on Western North Carolina. As a web developer, I am thinking again about my experience with the mobile web on the day after the storm.
138. Greenland sharks maintain vision for centuries through DNA repair mechanism
139. Anti-Aging Injection Regrows Knee Cartilage and Prevents Arthritis
140. Cigarette smoke effect using shaders
How to make a cigarette smoke effect using shaders and three.js.
141. What if the world is made of cubes? Uncovering the universal geometry of geology
An exercise in pure mathematics has led to a wide-ranging theory of how the world comes together.
142. How Nature Became a 'Prestige' Journal
Since launching in 1869, Nature has evolved from a periodical offering commentary on pigeons to the prestige journal in science. But how did Nature build its reputation, and can it last?
143. Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin split (2010)
144. Six Harmless Bugs Lead to Remote Code Execution
145. Online Museum and Technical History of the Hewlett-Packard Company
146. The Big Regression
147. Neural Networks: Zero to Hero
148. MTV Simulator
Celebrating 44 years of continuous music videos. MTV Rewind brings back 24/7 music television streaming classic hits from the 80s, 90s, and 2000s.
149. FreeBSD Home NAS, part 3: WireGuard VPN, routing, and Linux peers
Setting up WireGuard VPN on FreeBSD 14.3: PF firewall, routing between networks, and peer-to-peer VPN between FreeBSD and Arch Linux
150. Claude Code On-the-Go
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