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Oxiis Intelligent Bike Booster｜Bike Booster｜ASUS Global(opens in new tab)
ASUS Oxiis E250G1 transforms any bike with 500W peak boost, 50 km eco range, app control, fast USB-C charging, and easy install now for riders
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...
8 years ago I needed drugs to focus. Now I work a 6 figure tech job(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 ...
A neat tiny round trackpad #mechanicalkeyboards #3dprinting #cyberdeck(opens in new tab)
AI Roasted Chats(opens in new tab)
He Saved Us All(opens in new tab)
Pluralistic: Surveillance vs guillotines (11 Aug 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links Surveillance vs guillotines: Someone's gonna fleece these rubes, why not me? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: DeCSS; Warhol Worm; Camgirls x Amazon wishlists; 2021 State of Tech (in 2001); RIAA v grieving family; Stasi ...
You're pointing the camera the wrong way(opens in new tab)
HAMi Dynamic MIG on RTX PRO 6000: A Live Kubernetes Test(opens in new tab)
A hands-on test of topology-aware HAMi Dynamic MIG on RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell, with pinned setup commands, real allocations, mixed profiles, reclamation, and recovery.
Tuesday, August 11, 2026(opens in new tab)
My AGENTS.md & SKILLS.md Breakdown (Don't copy them)(opens in new tab)
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WordPress if famous for its backwards compatibility. That’s if you ignore its non-existent CSS strategy. Over seven years ago the Gutenberg block editor was rushed into v5.0. Ever since, WordPress has polluted the front-end with impossible to manage styles. I’ve ...
🔗 Claude doesn't need you anymore(opens in new tab)
This week, Anthropic shipped a new messaging feature to Claude Code. It sounds innocuous enough: Cross-session messaging lets Claude deliver a message from one of your Claude Code sessions to another. When a change in one session breaks what another ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 398(opens in new tab)
No, local models will not win(opens in new tab)
Introducing Muse Glimmer(opens in new tab)
Introducing Muse Glimmer Meta are back in the open weights game! Muse Glimmer is a brand new 30B model under a clean Apache 2.0 license (a step up from the janky Llama licenses of old). They claim to have optimized ...
This Makes 3D Printed Lids Fit Better(opens in new tab)
[Sponsor] Drata(opens in new tab)
My nomination statement for the 2026 Python packaging council(opens in new tab)
I have decided to run for the inaugural/2026 Python packaging council (PPC). I will say I have the support of my employer (Microsoft) to do this, but they didn't ask me to and my usual thing that I would quit ...
Add Combine StrEnum With Pydantic For Union Type as a Python TIL (opens in new tab)
What’s New in iOS 27 Beta 5(opens in new tab)
‘Friday Night Baseball’ Will Start Broadcasting Games Live, in Apple Immersive, on Vision Pro(opens in new tab)