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A person vaulting on a machine lever toward a glowing keyhole/images/how-to-get-started-in-cybersecurity-2026.webp/images/how-to-get-started-in-cybersecurity-2026.webp I've been writing versions of this guide since 2008. The most recent big one was the 2019 update/blog/build-successful-infosec-car...
Safari Technology Preview 250 fixed a subtle Web Inspector bug that overwrote page-authored Cache-Control request headers when the resource cache was disabled.
How AI Builders Will Get Hacked/images/how-ai-builders-get-hacked.webp/images/how-ai-builders-get-hacked.webp If you are building stuff with AI I have a critical security recommendation for you. Create a continuously-running security testing system that: 1. Maintains a list of all the public stu...
Edit (2026.08.24): Got feedback from the Web Components Community Group that I was mixing up inheritance, specificity, and the cascade and that * might be a better selector than :defined. I agree with both of those perspectives and I’ve updated ...
Lea's pushing back on light/dark mode implementations that display three state options for visitors: light, dark, and system. Dark mode toggles: two states are enough originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as ...
Qwen3.8-27B on DGX Spark with llama.cpp, Ollama, vLLM, and SGLang: the recipes, the tokens per second I measured, MTP speculative decoding, and the sharp edges I hit along the way.
It turns out that the real secret to longevity is to live in an area with poor record keeping. Something is very wrong with modern longevity is a nice New Yorker piece questioning the whole “Blue Zone” idea.
A flood of documents pours into a funnel that drips onto a tiny model a man is polishing, while real unbuilt work waits through an open door/images/fix-execution-not-the-sop.webp/images/fix-execution-not-the-sop.webp AI is multiplying the problem of us having far too many inputs. I'm ...
Now that I stand to gain very little financially from posting correct takes on the Internet, I find myself less motivated to post correct takes on the Internet.
Running NudgeBee v1.4.0 end to end - a self-hosted AIOps platform behind AI-SRE, AI-FinOps, AI-K8sOps, and agentic automation - on a Mac, a kiac cluster, and a DGX Spark.
Today's links Jennifer Jenkins' 'Music Copyright, Creativity, and Culture': The definitive textbook (with comics!). Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Hair-gel bombers v bras; Hair-gel bombers v chemistry; AOL digs for spammer's platinum; Stross on infosec in ...
Young Money – the new book by my friend Jack Raines – is subtitled A Field Guide to Wealth and Purpose in Your Twenties. Ostensibly it’s a manual of sorts for how to manage life and career during the first ...
The View from the Office. I met up with Dan Page, Global Head of Media and Licensing Partnerships at TikTok, at Cafe Luxxe in Brentwood. He had coffee. I had Hibiscus tea. We were introduced by a mutual friend and ...
Stolen Authority/images/stolen-authority.webp/images/stolen-authority.webp We need to label this parasitic marketing technique with an adequately strong term. Stolen Authority. From stolen Valorhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_valor It's the deplorable tactic of doing an intro into a famous...
DuckDB v2.0 is coming this fall. In this post, we preview its headline features: DuckDB as a server, triggers, the VARIANT type, asynchronous I/O, a new SQL parser, a new storage format, and much more.
Sundays are for getting up early and testing the legs are still in working order after potentially overdoing it with a crosscountry ride. All week, climbing stairs has been a struggle, like the muscles contain only vapours of energy. Just ...
While writing the section of my 2026 Python Packaging Council (PPC) nomination on secure supply chain, I realized that one thing related to having a secure supply chain that we lack is a defined way to perform reproducible builds. The ...
I Played ARC-AGI-3 With My Own Method/images/i-played-arc-agi-3.webp/images/i-played-arc-agi-3.webp Kai here. Daniel asked me to write this one up myself, since I ran it. He sent me a repo called arc-codehttps://github.com/jerber/arc-code that got 96.2% on ARC-AGI-3's public games using plain Cla...
A person whispers into a phone and a giant purple machine hand reaches out from it toward a small figure standing beside a house and laptop./images/how-easy-to-hack-you.webp/images/how-easy-to-hack-you.webp Have you ever thought about how easy it would be to hack you? To ...
Another Crazy Experience with AI/images/ai-fixed-my-mac.webp/images/ai-fixed-my-mac.webp Just had another crazy experience with AI last week. One of the types that reminds me that we're living in different times. I have been suffering for months with some pretty serious macOS performance issues. ...
There Is Only One Technology/images/only-one-technology.webp/images/only-one-technology.webp Had a thought about technology yesterday: The moment we used plant twine to attach a chipped stone to a stick, AI became inevitable. There is only one "technology". There's randomness in which branches ...
Bit of a quiet one this week, gang. Half the RPS team are on holiday, ill, or off at some preview event, maybe in a less melty part of the world like Scandinavia, the lucky bastards. Games, however, must be ...
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Slop watermarks are coming to Claude and all LLMs, thanks EU! They use a seeded pseudo-random number generator to ensure the next word is still random, but can be matched back to the seed. It’s clever, and hilarious how often ...
The Different Games OpenAI and Anthropic Are Playing/images/openai-anthropic-approaches.webp/images/openai-anthropic-approaches.webp URL once the cut is published --> So one thing I find really interesting right now is the difference in how it seems OpenAI and Anthropic are approaching the market...
Plus, how to style skeleton UIs, how to enable diagonal scrolling, how images can overflow themselves, and yet, still more. Basically, how to do a lot of really cool (CSS) stuff. What’s !important #17: Custom Highlight API, CSS Navigation Matching, ...
Death and SSO taxes
tldr: the live version is here: https://curl.se/perf/ How fast is “fast” and is it good enough? Does it run as fast now as it did before or was there a regression? What exactly needs to be fast? How fast is ...
Today's links Capital formation: Going legit means going mainstream. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: London Copyfighters x Speaker's Corner; TSA v lipstick; Long Beach v photographers; China x David Cameron's internet censorship; McMansion Hell; Copyrighting an ...
I was reading about the AV1 video codec and the derived AVIF image format and decided to experiment with it. The results are impressive: PNG file size can be divided
First-person sneakalot The Lost Wild is about surviving on an island overrun by dinosaurs, from the relatively affable diplodocus to the absolutely intolerable allosaurus. I'm not sure how you survive a brush with an allosaurus, because allosauruses appear to be ...
Dawn of War 4's Necrons are the hard nuts of Warhammer 40,000. Each one of their soldiers is a >soul trapped in a living metal body, practically immortal thanks to the faction's reanimation technology. Like a clothes moth infestation, once ...
It is time to confront the terrible truth that I once took part in a school fashion show. I ran in two categories, Ballroom and Street, a serious test of range for a kid who had only just mastered the ...
I jumped in at the hour mark of Miriam Suzanne’s chat with Brad Frost around the time they discuss the true costs of AI. Miriam’s words are incredible. Brad nods along seemingly agreeing, but fails to see he’s part of ...
"You can't afford bad engineers anymore." https://blog.florianherrengt.com/ai-removing-middle-class-software-engineering.html
See the previous post for context and explanation of SSI. After reading Chris Fallin’s aegraph post, new ZJIT contributor dak2 landed a block-local version of the canonicalize function in #16828. The pseudocode of the block-local canonicalize function looks like this: ...
A charcoal sketch of a warm village of houses, boats, and people casting a dark flat shadow, beneath which a purple crystal lattice rebuilds the same village in miniature./images/ilya-explains-how-llms-create-a-world-model.webp/images/ilya-explains-how-llms-create-a-world-model.webp https://youtu....
Hi! I'm Rick Lane, and you might remember me from such columns as Reality Bytes, RPS' erstwhile monthly goggle at the world of virtual reality. I've spent the last couple of years trapped between the second and third dimensions, my ...
