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Sundays are for hopping over stepping stones across a river. There's a stone missing in the middle. Immediately, a quest decision prompt flashes up before my eyes, offering three choices: turn back in humiliation; attempt the leap and risk perishing ...
Here's a technical walkthrough of how I made a fun little demo to mask some text in a clever way with CSS.
I’ve taken notes over my whole life. As a Swiss, I’m very particular about organization and structured in filing my knowledge. I’ve tried and taken notes in many different ways, from forgetting everything, to noting down every detail, to only ...
Sanders’s tweet is better punctuated and capitalized, but it’s the same argument as Trump’s. Zero economic sense, 100 percent ideological wishful thinking.
I'll watch just about anything with John Cena, but I couldn't make it through this. I didn't find it funny enough, often enough, so I bailed after about 30 minutes.
Hmm. On the one hand, a Turbulent Thursday. On the other, a Big Mum. We’ve all had Thursdays we could describe as turbulent, so the owner of the 2014 Nissan Fairlady Z who drives with the Neo Limited crew scores ...
Today's links Zuckerberg's increasingly bizarre war on whistleblowers: Under no circumstances should you rush out and read the book that prompted Mark Zuckerberg to demand $111m and eternal auctorial silence. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Flame ...
I would like to say this missive is brought to you from a dark, ventilated room where I lay upon a bed of ice packs. However, if all goes according to masochistic plan, I will already have been cycling for ...
Operating the data orchestration layer can be as critical as the source OLTP databases, when decisions are taken from the data assets produced by downstream data pipelines. When orchestration gets at the heart of triggering and observing most of the ...
I almost burnt out recently, but I made it through!
Data is from 2026-06-20. North is right. 0.53"/pixel (27'x27' field). FWHM=4' A nice, if rather small (~100") edge on spiral galaxy. Arp filed this one under "low surface brightness companions", but the companion doesn't seem to exist. There's a bright ...
This is going to sound cornier than a bucket of Jiffy-Pop, but it is a profound irony that a man with such a big and beautiful figurative heart could have such a lousy literal one.
This episode is a fun crossover from our Python news and tips podcast, Python Bytes. We have had some big changes over there. Brian Okken has moved on and Calvin Hendryx-Parker has joined the show as the new co-host. To ...
This is a bad state of affairs. Consider, in particular, some industry dynamics: Frontier models are trained at an enormous cost, and a significant fraction of that cost is recouped in the few post-release months that they are broadly available. ...
This is like saying there's no learning curve to being a manager because your employees will just do whatever you tell them to do. — Timothy B. Lee, on the idea that LLMs take no skill and have no learning ...
I’m back to thinking about constraints. This time, Terry Godier’s great video The Feeling Music Used to Give You (hat tip to Robert). Having what amounts to an infinite library of background music was fixing the wrong constraint. And that’s ...
What happened after 2,000 people tried to hack my AI assistant Fernando Irarrázaval ran a challenge on hackmyclaw.com to see if anyone could leak secrets held by his OpenClaw test instance by sending it email. Surprisingly, after 6,000 attempts (and ...
AI has really changed the game around software development. More people are leveraging AI than ever to contribute patches to projects they use. To me, this is a good thing as more folks will contribute patches rather than fork or ...
Incident Report: CVE-2026-LGTM Spectacular hypothetical incident report by Andrew Nesbitt. Day 2, 16:00 UTC --- Two AI review agents from competing vendors, both attached to a downstream pull request bumping foxhole-lz4, enter a disagreement loop over whether the package is ...
We're beginning a limited preview of the GPT‑5.6 series: Sol, our flagship model; Terra, a balanced model for everyday work; and Luna, a fast and affordable model. Terra has competitive performance to GPT‑5.5 while being 2x cheaper and Luna brings ...
Urgh. Have you seen memory prices lately? If you somehow haven’t, make sure to look through your fingers, as they are truly terrifying. DDR5 RAM sticks are ungodly expensive, older DDR4's not much better, high VRAM graphics cards are ridiculous, ...
Please take a minute to understand what ARIA is and is not. ARIA and especially the ARIA Authoring Practices Guide (APG) are commonly misunderstood. I read an article the other day that had this facepalm moment: “And with modern LLM ...
An Unemotional Analysis of This AI Regulation Situation/images/ai-regulation-unemotional-analysis.webp/images/ai-regulation-unemotional-analysis.webp Here's a more logical and less emotional way to look at what's happening with the chaotic regulation of these AI models... It took decades/centurie...
Learn how Big W plans to deliver Porsche performance on a Volkswagen budget.
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One of my favorite visuals for known vulnerabilities in curl is the mountain. It shows how many currently known vulnerabilities were present in the code through-out curl’s history. In the end of June 2026 it looks like this: Over time ...
