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Headlamp is an open-source, extensible Kubernetes SIG UI project designed to let you explore, manage, and debug cluster resources. Knative brings serverless workloads to Kubernetes, handling traffic routing, autoscaling, and revision management so teams can deploy and iterate without fighting ...
While I decide what to do with PEP 832 after polling folks on their opinion, I thought I would write out why I'm even bothering with any of this.I'm going to talk from the perspective of VS Code and its ...
I have to publish this now, we’re already halfway through W26. Current situation: Monday 08 June: The U of Ark college visit. Zeke really likes it and they have a...
The rising popularity of AI, Edge, and Telecommunications workloads on Kubernetes has led to new requirements for hardware management. We now need hardware specification beyond CPU time and memory allocations. This includes allocating GPUs, TPUs, network interfaces, and other hardware, ...
Xavier de Maistre in an armchair, displaying his “book of discoveries” (Veyssier, 1860) Every so often I like to include a public domain image in a blog post. I’m fond of the woodblock and lithographic illustrations of the late 1800s. ...
Just last week, the iroh project announced the release of its v1.0. What is iroh? Well, I'm glad you're asking because it's a very interesting project that I'm following for
I've been back at work for about a month now after parental leave and a 12 week programming retreat at Recurse Center. We're leaning hard into agentic engineering and I'm bullish on it - I spent a lot...
A powerful TUI email client & calendar tool for your terminal.
Topics covered in this episode: Backup Docker volumes locally or to any S3 Pyodide 314.0 Release nb-cli: A Command-Line Interface for AI Agents and Notebook Automation Hindsight Agent Memory That Learns Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored ...
I don’t prompt Claude anymore. I have loops running that prompt Claude and figuring out what to do. My job is to write loops. — Boris Cherny Over the last months I have watched more and more people build something ...
So you find a bug in an Open Source project and wish to spend your tokens solving that issue for the good of humanity. Your fingers hover over the keyboard, trembling in anticipation of the glorious prompt that will unblock ...
Learn how to write a coding agent in this Python tutorial that teaches how to interact with an LLM through an API, how to manage the conversation context, and how to do tool calling. Introduction This tutorial will show you ...
Most of the literature about QUIC RFC 9000 describes it as a replacement for TCP + TLS, with the traditional use case of communication over IP in mind. It's true,
Exploring the new HTTP Query method with first principles, what is the need for new method, and where it sits. We explore the limitations of GET and the unintuitive use of POST methods for filtering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FxXr3enprE My discussion with @ZackKormanhttps://x.com/ZackKorman on whether Dario and Anthropic are good or bad for the world. Some quick post-debate thoughts: I think Zach is very wrong about the tech itself and its capabilities, and the speed with which it's ...
My Updated Definitions of AGI vs. ASI/images/agi-vs-asi-definitions.webp/images/agi-vs-asi-definitions.webp I've been working on a better way to think and talk about AGI and ASI. I've thought a lot about these terms in the past, but they're mushy in my mind now in ...
What I loved and hated
Companies with money but no AI vision burn down while the disciplined few pull away/images/ultimate-ai-prompt-for-businesses.webp/images/ultimate-ai-prompt-for-businesses.webp Absolutely insane to me the damage that multiple companies have done to themselves with their AI strategies. - Meta spent...
Bug fixes and performance improvements
I just ran a quick benchmark comparing the different xxHash hashing functions on an AMD Zen 5 EPYC processor (in pure Rust, from https://github.com/rust-stdx/stdx), and Ho My G..., XXH3 is
Named slots are one of web components’ biggest superpowers ✨. Imagine a Button component with an optional icon; in Web Components we don’t need a separate Button and IconButton, a single Button component with will do. Or a card component ...
“Gentle A gentler world begins in the way you touch your heart. Be soft with the light inside you. Caress your body with this breath. God is nothing else but...
My rambling thoughts about the increasingly poor storytelling of Doctor Who, which has led to its cancellation.
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A runner coiled in the starting blocks, looking down a glowing purple lane/images/things-to-do-when-fable-comes-back.webp/images/things-to-do-when-fable-comes-back.webp I originally wrote this for Claude's Fable 5, but the list applies to any real intelligence jump from any lab. Every so often a ...
I play Clues by Sam nearly every single day. I wrote about it before, but solving a little crime puzzle adds a micro-thrill to my day. A little blast of logic, misdirection, and wordplay. It’s a frequent topic of conversation ...
“As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself…The critical issue is allowing yourself to know what you know. That takes an enormous...
The K-shaped bifurcation: thriving behaviors climbing above a rising Employability Line, struggling behaviors sinking below it/images/unified-theory-ai-jobs-k.webp/images/unified-theory-ai-jobs-k.webp Tyler Cowen recently made the positive argument in this a16 interview. There are two main camps ...
OpenAI just acquired Astral, the company behind uv, Ruff, and ty. And if your first thought was "wait, is uv toast?", you are not alone. But here's the twist Charlie Marsh shared with me: he thinks they may ship more ...
Why stdx is not on crates.io While I think that the xxx aspect of stdx has been well received, a lot of Rust developers were suffering with the current status
Today we are releasing DuckDB 1.4.5 LTS with bugfixes and performance improvements.
Today we are releasing DuckDB 1.5.4 (Variegata) with bugfixes and performance improvements.
I've been running a new meditation practice for the past several months and it's working great so wanted to share. Morning Pages My meditation practice is morning pages adapted from The Artist's Way....
“So instead of asking "why not React?" we asked: Which of our actual problems would React solve? We went through the list. There were none.”
A TUI note management app inspired by Obsidian.
Did you think this was gonna be some grand metaphor blog post? Nope. You probably know: if you put Mentos in Diet Coke, it makes the carbonation go crazy and fizz shoots out of the bottle. It’s a “science” experiment ...
If You are Asking for Human Attention, Demonstrate Human Effort — Tom Bedor. There’s a bit of a blog post that goes with it, but the title really says it all. Pairs nicely with Dave’s I don’t want a screenshot ...
There’s a longstanding criticism of Buddhism in the West as McMindfulness™, a watered-down and commodified version of the real thing. And it’s certainly disheartening to see how few Buddhist groups charge nothing for the teachings and look like little more ...
Topics covered in this episode: pi + superpowers Terminal: Warp.dev + OhMyZSH {Blink,kitty} + mosh + tmux Claude code MacWhisper or Handy Tailscale Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses ...
TL;DR - A game where you get $1 trillion of Elon Musk's money and spend it. Try it now: Spend Elon Musk's Money What is it You get $1 trillion of Elon Musk's money. Spend it on a catalog of ...
I’ve been working with local models since they came out, and finally, they’re surprisingly good now. I have a 2022 M2 Mac with 64 GB RAM and 1TB storage and I’ve used Mistral 7B Gemma 3 OpenAI OSS-20B Qwen 3 ...
Just ran a quick benchmark comparing different hashing functions on a Zen 5 EPYC processor (in pure Rust, from https://github.com/rust-stdx/stdx), and Ho My G..., BLAKE3 on Zen 5 is crazy
