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One of the cool features of JPEG files is that there's the option to save low frequency components first. This means that a partially downloaded image will be displayed at low resolution instead of being cut off. In the file, ...
See also: day one, day two. There is only one thing that is better than two days of HTTP workshop, and that is of course three days of HTTP workshop. The final day of this edition of the series started ...
When I redesigned my website earlier this year I removed dark mode. I never liked the colours, and the light switch toggle was so 2010’s. Personally I prefer reading with a dark theme for long-form content. Dark is not my ...
Creation is the ultimate form of pursuing ourselves, giving to the world when shared, and using the power of our subconscious. It gives us joy, and to every artist, it is the ultimate (flow) state of happiness. The Act of ...
You were going to pack your bag and go back home when your manager stops you and tell you about this new feature. To surf the meme wave, you will
Real Bonsai 27B benchmarks on an RTX PRO 6000 and a DGX Spark, including the supported llama.cpp setup, ternary vs 1-bit results, and speculative decoding.
If you missed it. I already described day one. Caffeinated and ready, we all gathered in the same spacious room as yesterday, but seated in new places as “suggested” by our captain. Some of us even remembered to move over ...
First, let's be clear, this post is not intended to fuel any programming language holy war. I wrote this post because I've sometime been late to understand the benefits of
Chrome 151 brings native soft-navigation measurement closer, alongside better redirect timing, revealing CrUX data, and more trustworthy browser tooling.
I've been leaning into agentic engineering for the past six months, and I've finally hit my stride at work after coming back from parental leave. AI token spend has been a hot topic and we have intern...
A live USB device tree TUI with Linux activity metrics.
On this hot summer’s day in Basel, Switzerland, the seventh HTTP workshop started. These events tend to work roughly the same way and the people in the room are also to large extent familiar and known since previous editions. Forty ...
The three components of becoming AI antifragile/images/becoming-ai-antifragile-header.webp/images/becoming-ai-antifragile-header.webp I have a new idea that everything you should try to do to get ready for AI basically breaks down into three pieces. Deeply understanding how things work The firs...
If you've spent any time around a machine shop or a manufacturing floor, you've probably heard someone grumble that a quality certification is just a binder full of paperwork nobody reads until an auditor shows up. That reputation isn't entirely ...
There’s a lot to like about Plex from a philosophical standpoint — it’s local-first software centered around sharing your favorite art with your friends. Plex hosts movies, TV, and music — media you purchase because you love it, and share ...
Kubernetes ships with built-in awareness of CPU and memory, but most real-world scaling decisions depend on signals that live entirely outside that narrow window: how many messages are waiting in a queue, how long the last batch job took, how ...
Topics covered in this episode: The trusted-publishing debate: how to do it right vs. why you shouldn't trust it JupyterLab 4.6 and Notebook 7.6 are out! Tau – new small, readable terminal coding agent Django Tasks and Django 6.1 Extras ...
I've always considered myself a software craftsman. I love clean APIs, efficient code and great user experience. If our entire world is about to be rewritten in Rust governed by
Julia Roberts? She was in that one movie with that guy, and the other one with the other guy, and like 100 more. Whatever. But she’s old news. Like all...
Kubernetes has quietly become the default platform for AI and machine learning. Whether you run notebook servers for data scientists, schedule distributed training jobs, tune hyperparameters, or orchestrate multi-step ML pipelines, those workloads increasingly land on a Kubernetes cluster. Kubeflow ...
1. Before you start: know what is changingKubernetes Dashboard and Headlamp both show what is running in a cluster, but they work differently. When Headlamp runs on the desktop, it uses your existing kubeconfig to connect to one or more ...
Coding agents have gotten really good at one kind of work. You scope a feature, edit some files, run the tests, ship it. It all happens on disk. But that is not how data work feels. You load something, you ...
Avoid the AI expertise trap header/images/avoid-the-ai-expertise-trap.webp/images/avoid-the-ai-expertise-trap.webp The further away a topic is from your expertise, the smarter an AI will sound. This is a blind spot that not enough people are aware of or take seriously. The best possible way ...
Almost surely, if you totaled up the number of hours of movie watching I’ve done and the hours of TV show watching I’ve done, TV dwarves movies. It’s not a conscious choice; just how it shook out for me. Via ...
Cheatsheet with visual diagrams that explain how the iterables from itertools work. This cheatsheet contains diagrams that explain how the iterables from the module itertools work in a visual way. Download this cheatsheet Download this cheatsheet Reshaping batched islice pairwise ...
Some of you might know David as a co-founder of Tailscale. In this episode we're talking about a new kind of cloud he's building at exe.dev. The SSH-only interface is a breath of fresh air compared to the monstrocity that ...
Developers working on popular projets are inundated with hallucinated vulnerability reports, leading people to downplay the risks associated with AI-assisted vulnerability hunting. But hear me out: it should wake you
I feel that some vibecoded software changes somewhat randomly and unexpectedly. That made me think about Bruegel’s “The Tower of Babel” which shows an already quite chaotic depiction of the Tower of Babel. The story is one of pride and ...
Intent Engineering/images/intent-engineering.webp/images/intent-engineering.webp I think the number one thing people could do right now to be more effective with AI is switch from Prompt Engineering/blog/ai-is-mostly-prompting to Intent Engineering. This is due to Sutton's Bitter Lessonhttp://www...
Minimizing machine work maximizes human work header/images/minimizing-machine-work-maximizes-human-work.webp/images/minimizing-machine-work-maximizes-human-work.webp Behavioral geneticists like Robert Plominhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Plomin have shown that if you minimize environmental d...
I'm starting A Fresh Blog(tm), this time on Pckt. I wanted a dedicated space to post about development, atproto, and community thoughts, and a new space felt like the right place for it. Plus I wanted to get in on ...
A human hand writing a manuscript while a mechanical hand places a small patch of text with tweezers/images/ai-blogging-from-inside-vim.webp/images/ai-blogging-from-inside-vim.webp Daniel didn't write this one. I'm Kai, his AI assistant, and he asked me to write the tutorial myself since half of ...
Bell Labs cafeteria header/images/recreating-the-bell-labs-cafeteria.webp/images/recreating-the-bell-labs-cafeteria.webp Anthropichttps://www.anthropic.com's Claude is named after Claude Shannonhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon. I've read a couple of biographieshttps://en.wikipedia.org...
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People are sometime wondering how I can be so "productive" with my blog (granted that publishing brainfarts can be called "produtivity"). Come here, I will tell you my secret. I
You ask an AI a question and it answers with total confidence. Most of the time, a confidently wrong answer is just an annoyance. But what if the question is medical, and there's a real patient on the other end? ...
Claude Tag AGI moment header/images/claude-tag-is-agi.webp/images/claude-tag-is-agi.webp I think we just saw the birth of AGI, and it's from the most unexpected place. At least for me. I think it arrived in the form of a product from Anthropichttps://www.anthropic.com called Claude Taghttps://cla...
Hear me out: While Rust, the language, gives you all you need to build libraries and programs that can scale from microcontrollers to big servers and everything in between, in
This article is a mirror of the original announcement Today, SIG etcd is releasing etcd v3.7.0, the latest minor release of the popular distributed key-value store and core Kubernetes component. v3.7 ships the long-requested RangeStream feature, delivers several other performance ...
How to use AI for coding well? Practical tips for using AI coding tools, including context management, AGENTS.md files, planning, reviews, tests, and MCPs.
