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I don’t know if memory shortages have permanently killed off the concept of 'cheap' gaming PCs, but they have at least beat it into a coma. On the desktop side, inflated RAM, SSDs and graphics card prices continue to inflict ...
Wish I knew a programmer with the last name Holland so I could annoy them by insistently referring to Claude as Mr. Holland's Opus.
Interviewing Zach Holman this morning on Hot Fix about AI and our discontents. Have something you want us to talk about? Let me know: https://justin.searls.co/feedback/
Where we're going, we don't need Windows.
After seeing open-world imm-sim No Law last month, I'm sure the developers would hope I was gripped by memories of missions you can approach stealthily or in all-out action, the sci-fi combat where you wield slow-time grenades and cyberpunk implants, ...
Do you know what's actually slow in your Python app? Or are you guessing? Until now, profiling Python meant a tracing profiler that made your code 2 to 3 times slower. Or a third-party tool that broke with every new ...
When a query groups on long, repeated strings, move the strings into a small dimension table with sorted, narrow integer keys. Aggregate on the keys, then join the strings back in at the very end. The query works as before, ...
A charcoal sketch of a giant purple robotic hand pouring streams of small sienna coins down to four human creators standing on a rock ledge beside the things they made: a sketch on an easel, a stack of handwritten pages, ...
The internet is changing! Accessibility is getting better! And it's also weird!
Today's links Voting is to politics as shopping is to boycotts: The big P only matters if the small p is in play. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Gilberto Gil v WIPO; Censored Apple wifi hacker ...
In my time as a videogame partaker, I have crawled through approximately three billion airvents. I may well have crawled through more vents than you've had hot dinners. As such, any videogame that can get me excited about loosening a ...
My trusty iPhone Air just tumbled down a full flight of stairs at high speed without a single scuff, much less a scratch or crack. Still my favorite physical design for an iPhone.
If you are in PR how should you reach out to reporters? I teamed up with Mila Che this week to do a training session for PR people that went over best practices for how professionals should approach journalists. What ...
Note from James, 02/10: We've heard your complaints that some of the wording in this piece - a lot of which, if I'm honest, was added/changed by me in the edit - overstates the chair's potential health benefits. The HBADA’s ...
In the last 24 hours I have received dozens of e-mails that open with an LLM-generated line about something I wrote or said in my podcast. Then the rest of the email is an exhortation to try some cursed vibe-coded ...
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in September 2026.
Port Desire, the hemmed-in city setting of immersive sim No Law, is hard to place. At points, it reminds me of walking around Lisbon. It shares that Portuguese city's verticality, where hill-straddling streets shouldered by colourful houses and corner shops ...
Marques Brownlee just released a video essay titled “Dear YouTube”. I loved it. He talks about how YouTube is going to start shipping this new feature where makers can essentially publish different “variants” of their videos and see which performs ...
I recently bought a bed setup from Nectar. (This is not an ad; I just prefer linking to things.) I needed a quick setup for a guest room, and an online ad showing the no-hardware bamboo bed frame caught my ...
Deadpool’s a weird character. Like fellow mutant Wolverine, Wade Wilson is a trained killer whose primary superpower is a healing factor that lets him recover and reform from any wound, even if bisected or decapitated. Unlike Wolverine, Wade knows he’s ...
My very soul has been cleft into pieces on this day. January 3rd, 902 AD. First, my Christian faith fractured in twain. I stand in Rome, head of the Roman Rite and now the leader of the Catholic world. My ...
In case you missed it, September happened. Technically it’s still happening, and we have one more exclusive post for RPS Premium Supporters coming this week, but this time I fancy doing the monthly rewards roundup within the month being rounded ...
When I first learned about Core Values, the upcoming expansion to factory automation game Satisfactory, I didn't grasp the scale of the challenge developer Coffee Stain had set themselves. 'So, the game is set underground now?' I thought. 'I'll just ...
A long-standing lux.js bug left Event Timing on its 104 ms default, while browser releases improve testing and rendering performance.
beware the growth of sin... harboring it leads to worse consequences for us and others. Cain's initial sin is left ambiguous but his response to his sin...
A lot of efforts are directed toward transitioning mainstream kernels to memory safe programming languages, Rust for Linux, Android and Windows and Swift for iOS / macOS. Others are building
I've been pretty vocal about my move towards AI-native creation. I wouldn't say I'm an early adopter and I'm certainly not pushing the boundaries of what AI is capable of but I do like to keep tabs on...
A terminal tool for visually comparing time zones around the world.
A charcoal sketch of a giant seesaw with a tall angular purple AI machine on the raised left end and a domed purple AI machine on the lowered right end, as small sienna builders with laptops run down the beam ...
Experiencing the common cold for the first time since I had turbinate reduction surgery and holy shit, this is how noses are supposed to work? You blow your nose and mucus comes out? And you can breathe all week long? ...
When you start factory automation game Satisfactory you awake in a drop pod plunging towards the surface of an alien world. In its first expansion you'll be heading a little deeper. Set entirely in an underground biome, Core Values sees ...
Topics covered in this episode: MemTensor / MemoryOS PyPI package hijacked via a malicious build backend TinyMongo Jev: what to know One innocent dict read makes attribute access permanently slower Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by ...
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide continues to cling tightly, perhaps even aggressively, to my Steam installations, my occasionally waning interest repeatedly re-sparked by the addition of akimbo-autopistolling chem fiends or haughty toasterpeople. A live service sucker, it makes me. Today's Depths of ...
Today's links Lindsay Owens's "Gouged": The end of a fair price and what that means for your wallet. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Doonesbury on 9/11; Suspicious Looking Device; Elephant-shit paper; The Onion x TSA liquid ...
The vast majority of programmers are late adopters. They don't follow programming news. They show up, do the job, go home. They may hear about things through the grapevine. They might go to a conference every 2 years. But they ...
It’s safe to say that Apple broke copy/paste on macOS 27. I thought it was just me. Like a sudden onset skill issue, or a crumb under my keyboard. The amount of “I thought it was just me!” on the ...
If I could go back in time 20 years and tell myself one thing, it would be this: "whatever it is, don't bother programming it if there's any way you can put it off until mid-2025."
TypeSafe AI released Jev, a model that returns typed answers instead of text, on September 15, 2026. Within ten days, several community extensions let you filter, classify and score DuckDB rows with plain-English conditions. This post covers what Jev is, ...
Serde is an amazing serialization library for Rust and it has been a huge reason why I felt productive with it for years. However already while at Sentry I got quite frustrated with some of the limitations with it but ...
