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Amazon Is Spiting Customers With Unhelpful Order Confirmation Emails(opens in new tab)
Starlink satellites and space junk risks(opens in new tab)
This Is How 3D Printing Actually Scales(opens in new tab)
The Steam Frame needs to be more than a cool device if Valve want to reshape the VR market(opens in new tab)
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 ...
Clips from Hacker News Thread(opens in new tab)
Instead of our real launch blog post, my little “I should probably mention this on my personal website” post is the one that hit Hacker News. Nevertheless, people got the message. What I loved about CodePen was just being able ...
"The world's becoming so bleak": How Soulframe hopes to escape Warframe's shadow, with a little insight from Elden Ring(opens in new tab)
Fantasy RPG Soulframe's great advantage and possible curse is that it's from the studio behind Warframe, the free-to-play sci-fi bonanza that has kept chugging away since 2013, amid increasingly rocky prospects for live service games in general. Warframe continues to ...
Quoting Florian Herrengt(opens in new tab)
But then users start to report a weird bug. It's the 4th time your team has been trying to fix it. I mean... asking AI to fix it. Unfortunately, it seems like not even Fable can figure it out. You ...
App Store Scam of the Week: ‘TabControl Extension’ for Safari(opens in new tab)
Ask The Hosts – Episode 39(opens in new tab)
Reed Jobs Tells a Neuroscience Story(opens in new tab)
Nature Is Healing(opens in new tab)
Blocked aria-hidden: The Warning is Right, and Every Fix You’ve Found is Wrong(opens in new tab)
The warning is correct. And the recommended fixes you've probably seen are wrong. Here's what you can do instead to properly fix the issue. Blocked aria-hidden: The Warning is Right, and Every Fix You’ve Found is Wrong originally handwritten and ...
Add Handle Bad Numerical Amounts With BigDecimal as a Rails TIL (opens in new tab)
Pokemon Slop Demo Review(opens in new tab)
I bought another watch so I'd stop buying new watches(opens in new tab)
The Workflow of the Future With Zed(opens in new tab)
Web-Perf Wednesday 004 – A Quiet Week Is Time to Investigate(opens in new tab)
A quiet week in web performance is a useful chance to investigate the evidence and problems teams already have.
Minimaxxing(opens in new tab)
Pluralistic: Model collapse (12 Aug 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links Model collapse: Living in a world that's trained on itself. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Wired v Dutch hackers; NYT v DMCA; Hair gel terrorist threat does not exist; AT&T merger is a screwjob; ...
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I had this drafted on my big blog under the title “Abattoirs of taste” which I felt was too killer to waste, so I’m dropping it here unfinished. After reading it back though I had to ask myself: why am ...
Add Where And Which Are Whence as a Zsh TIL (opens in new tab)
Building scalable backend services with Rust and PostgreSQL(opens in new tab)
While Rust is not as productive as Go and its legendary standard library to write backend service, Rust's rich type system, compiler-enforced correctness and zero-cost abstraction make it a great
#491: Feeling Judged(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: Claude Code /insights Post-quantum crypto lands in Python MCP goes stateless — and FastMCP gets renamed inshellisense - IDE style command line auto complete Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by Xweather ...
My Daily Routine as a Software Engineer and Dad of a 1-Year-Old(opens in new tab)
I'm finally feeling back up to speed at work after returning from my parental leave. In this post I want to share what my daily routine looks like as a software engineer with a 1-year-old. My Daily R...
amdtop(opens in new tab)
A TUI system monitor specialized for AMD GPUs.
Write for people(opens in new tab)
Something I’ve noticed recently is that I am no longer able to read and parse PR titles and descriptions across the internet. I don’t think I stopped being able to read or understand code, but now that we are automatically ...
There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text(opens in new tab)
There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text Sophie Alpert shares her "internal policy on acceptable use of AI writing by engineers". It's a short read (supporting its own recommendations) and really good. If you chose to have LLMs help ...
3D Printing Is More Than Just Printers(opens in new tab)
Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs(opens in new tab)
Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs A vanity domain name (stolen-thoughts.com) for a neat paper: Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google return encrypted chain-of-thought blocks to clients that can be replayed across sessions, users, and models. We take a trace produced ...
The Economist: ‘How to Spot AI Writing’(opens in new tab)
Creativity vs. Consumption(opens in new tab)
Charcoal sketch of a seated figure whose left arm dissolves into a cascade of purple glowing phones while their right hand builds a warm wooden tower/images/creativity-vs-consumption-header.webp/images/creativity-vs-consumption-header.webp If there's one metric to watch for managing your happiness...
datasette-upload-dbs 0.5a0(opens in new tab)
Release: datasette-upload-dbs 0.5a0 This plugin has been around for a while - it lets users upload a brand new SQLite database to a hosted Datasette instance, at which point that database will start being served by that instance. It can ...
Make Your 3D Printed Lids Fit Better(opens in new tab)
Alex Micek on BMW’s iDrive ‘Special Surprises’(opens in new tab)
BMW Probably Paid Sony for the Spider-Man Dashboard Ads, Not the Other Way Around(opens in new tab)
View from the Office: Meb Faber(opens in new tab)
The View from the Office. I met up with Meb Faber, founder and chief investment officer of Cambria Investment Management, at North End Cafe in Manhattan Beach. He had a salad. I had the Buddha Bowl. Meb lives a few ...
Mark Zuckerberg Posts 6,500-Word AI Essay(opens in new tab)
The Fruits of AI(opens in new tab)
Terry Godier has a post titled “Mea culpa” (which, given his framing, might’ve been better titled “Claude’s Culpa”). I’m not sure how much to even trust anything in his post given the backstory, but this line stood out: I was ...
The Talk Show: ‘Getting the Snack Right’(opens in new tab)
Netflix Has Peaked(opens in new tab)
How to Pretty-Print Your Kubernetes YAML as KYAML and Why You'd Want To(opens in new tab)
YAML has been the standard way to write Kubernetes manifests for years. Every example, tutorial, and configuration file you come across is written in it. The problem isn't that YAML is a bad format. It's that YAML gives you a ...
Anthropic Posts ‘How Claude Marks AI-Generated Content’ Without Explaining How Claude Marks AI-Generated Content(opens in new tab)
Running Nemotron 3.5 Lightning on DGX Spark(opens in new tab)
NVIDIA's new Nemotron 3.5 Lightning on DGX Spark: how to run it with Ollama and vLLM, the tokens per second I measured, and how the two paths compare.
Skill Descriptions Are Tricky(opens in new tab)
Where an AI Watermark Can Hide in Plain Text(opens in new tab)
Diagram of the four layers a text watermark can live in, from encoding down to meaning, with the two bypasses canonical regeneration and prose rewriting crossing out the layers they strip/images/where-watermarks-hide-in-text-layers.webp/images/where-watermarks-hide-in-text-layers.webp On August 11...
"Nobody Asked for A.I." Is a Stupid Argument(opens in new tab)
Charcoal sketch of a colossal kneeling figure made of hundreds of interlocking hands, reaching down with open palms toward a vast crowd of suffering people/images/nobody-asked-for-ai-header.webp/images/nobody-asked-for-ai-header.webp With lots of competition, the argument that "nobody asked for AI...
Learn to focus without distraction in 29 min (for 12+ hours)(opens in new tab)
Valley Fold Ltd(opens in new tab)
I’ve already announced my new company half a dozen times by now. I figured it was about time I gave real details, so here’s the name and logo! Valley Fold is my new home for professional services… once I’ve finished ...
"Time will tell": Bit Reactor talk queerness in Star Wars: Zero Company and whether they'll keep working with Saudi-owned EA(opens in new tab)
In Bit Reactor's XCOM-style tactics RPG Star Wars: Zero Company, you play a custom character called Hawks who is referred to using they/them pronouns. With my armchair producer hat on, I suspect this is partly just a way to avoid ...
