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Today's links Apple's robo-repo: Privatizing the risk premium, socializing its costs. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Printed batteries; Monopoly credit cards; Mapping airport power outlets; EMI loves pirates; Mexican indigenous phone co-op; Sewer cover textiles; Surge ...
I spent most of last Saturday laid out in a Baku hotel room, muscles in both legs ground to flecks of useless meat by the decision to walk down a mountain when there was a perfectly good funicular right there. ...
Ed Catmull, co-founder of Pixar and former president of Disney Animation, was on the David Senra podcast and I quite enjoyed the interview. (If you like the interview, you should read his book.) Ed talks about what he considered his ...
If the Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike’s analogue clickers were all about fine-tuning the sensation at the very tips of your mousing fingers, the HyperX Pulsefire Saga is all about adjusting the parts nestled in the rest of your hand. ...
Back when I began freelancing I figured I’d set up a limited company eventually. I guess thirteen years later is eventually. I’ve finally got a local accountant working on company registration. Exciting times! The final push was this Making Tax ...
I'd describe my approach to work as, "light-hearted and heavy-handed."
In hindsight, I was a fool for meeting Denshattack’s satirical, irreverent, downright countercultural sensibilities with surprise. Upbeat, even goofy as it is for a train driving game, it shares more common ground with skateboarding games, and while the commodification of ...
Jellyfin and Codeberg hurt themselves in their confusion
Today's links AI solipsists and AI cynics: You don't have to believe that AI "works" to believe that it's a good investment. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Malware v stolen computer; Industrial material made from old ...
Codeberg recently changed its terms to exclude projects that are largely written with generative AI. Since I want GitHub to face competition I have thoughts. Codeberg is entirely within its rights to do this. It is an association with members ...
A person showing an AI the exact structure they imagine, and the AI building it/images/ai-ideal-state-articulation.webp/images/ai-ideal-state-articulation.webp I've been saying this for something like eight months now, with varying approaches and volume levels, and no one is paying attention yet. ...
Today's links California's privacy obstacle course: Malice or incompetence (why not both?). Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Continuous partial attention, TSA is the worst; Trump's FCC v the future. Upcoming appearances: Edinburgh, Sydney, Melbourne, Brighton, London, ...
Share NVIDIA GPUs in Kubernetes with HAMi software vGPU slicing: memory and compute limits, Helm configuration, a verified PyTorch manifest, a real RTX PRO 6000 OOM test, and Prometheus monitoring.
Apple has quietly discontinued Safari Technical Preview for macOS 15 (Sequoia). Version 245 was the last release. macOS 26 (Tahoe, aka Trainwreck) was required from version 256 onwards. For now it remains possible to install Safari 26 and apparently Safari ...
AI. The risks are real. (just kidding, this article is 100% human produced) How? I have a huge backlog of ideas to write about. The most important part is to
Codeberg is “Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs”. TL;DR: keep your slop on GitHub. Nice to see a project push back against the dead internet.
The summer heat ended up thawing out my podcast, so I had no choice but to go buy a new microphone and grumble into it for a couple hours. Just how that works. Please enjoy. I am actively soliciting mailbag ...
In last week’s article I discussed some of the benefits of obtaining compliance to either ISO 9001 or AS9100. This week I’ll discuss the difference between compliance and certification, and why independence and impartiality are important at every level. In ...
Frosthaven, and Gloomhaven before it, are complex turn-based tactical boardgames. Filled with cards, plastic figurines, a dense rulebook, and a denser tome filled with scenario descriptions and special conditions, Frosthaven's box comes to a weighty 36Ibs, or, in old money, ...
One thing that I don't think enough people are thinking about with this OpenAI / Hugging Face incidenthttps://thehackernews.com/2026/07/openai-says-its-own-ai-models-escaped.html is that it's an actual instance of the famous Paperclip Maximizer scenario loved by AI safety types. 📚 A really good bo...
The View from the Office. I met up with Nirav Shah, founder of Quantal AI, at the Hendricks Hotel on 38th Street. He had a cappuccino. I had the truffle mac and cheese and an iced tea. Nirav grew up ...
Today's links Trump's America can't even win a rigged game: America has created a post-American world. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: "Fagin"; Scott McCloud on comics' future; Laurie Penny on Milo Yiannopoulos; Singaporean regulator rap; Conservatives ...
There isn't a lot of resources about how to actually deliver Rust projects to your users: workflows, security hardening and artifacts management, so here is the checklist I use to
Today we are releasing DuckDB 1.5.5 with bugfixes and performance improvements.
GPT 5.6 came out several weeks ago and the initial benchmarks look good - capable, fast, and cheap. Claude and Claude Code have been my daily driver for the past year, and I thought it was a good time...
Ambiguity sucks. It often leaves people self-conscious. It leaves room for anxiety and doubt. It’s super important to say things.
A friendly TUI for rsync.
Haroon Meer is back! Haroon is the Founder of Thinkst, the ~50-person bootstrapped company behind Canary and Canarytokens — honeypots and tripwires you sprinkle inside your network and forget about until an attacker touches one. We talk about the AWS ...
The 2026 update to my real-world device testing recommendations paints a clearer picture than ever…
Replay the EuroPython 2026 Python quiz. These are the questions asked during the EuroPython 2026 quiz. They will test your knowledge of the Python language, the community, and of EuroPython 2026. Since we were celebrating 25 years of EuroPython at ...
"Wreckreation wasn’t actually an attempt to recreate Burnout," former Criterion Games studio head Fiona Sperry says as she and her team reveal their latest arcade racer, Wreckreation 2. "I think some people thought it was. But it was actually an ...
The writing-mode CSS property sets whether lines of text are laid out horizontally or vertically, and the direction in which blocks and lines progress. .element { writing-mode: vertical-rl; } This is most useful in languages such as Chinese, Japanese or ...
Today's links Dealing with dickovers: The web is an open platform, and that matters. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Broadcast's bad week; Congress v wifi; EFF v DRM law; Snowden and bunnie's smartphone smartcase. Upcoming appearances: ...
Topics covered in this episode: django-orjson Best Django Redis configuration for speed and size Linus Torvalds puts the foot down against Anti-AI Kernel Maintainers Django Steering Council backs the Triptych Project Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored ...
Quantum computers are a threat to traditional cryptography, more specifically to asymmetric cryptography (signatures and key exchanges) with Shor's algorithm enabling fast factoring of big numbers.
Launching a new SSD in the current hardware climate, even a simple, DRAMless, QLC-packing SSD like the Samsung 990, may seem like starting up a roof thatching business during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius: innocuous idea, apocalyptically bad timing. Read ...
For years I've been thinking about electrification, now I'm going to write about it.
GPU sharing in Kubernetes explained: time-slicing vs MPS vs MIG, every nvidia-smi command to enable and disable MIG on one GPU or eight, GPU Operator automation, pitfalls, and DCGM monitoring.
One thing I've learned working on https://github.com/rust-stdx/stdx (Rust's extended standard library), is that libraries often have common cases that are worth optimizing for.
Niki is a software engineer and product designer specializing in databases, synchronization, frontend systems, and interface design. He is looking for a new role
Charcoal sketch of business figures feeding a blank scroll into a massive thinking machine/images/ai-is-thinking-and-doing.webp/images/ai-is-thinking-and-doing.webp One useful way to cut through noise and hype in AI conversations is to replace the word "AI" with the words "Thinking" and "Doing". ...
Sundays are for realising that there's a car in Japan's Super GT racing series this year which is sponsored by horse girl game Umamusume Pretty Derby. Here it is. It's been racing in the GT300 category against, among other cars, ...
