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#492: Codeberg Puts Head in Sand(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: Python 3.12.14, 3.11.16, 3.10.21 - security releases Codeberg’s AI-code ban tests its role as a GitHub alternative Brett Cannon: what's missing for reproducible builds on PyPI nothing records the source code a distribution came from. ...
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I’ve been trying real hard to like Penpot but it doesn’t like me back. Penpot has a bug when moving objects with the keyboard. Maybe I’m just unlucky but it’s impossible to miss for me. They never fixed it but ...
Made to Fit Perfectly, 3D Printed Lids(opens in new tab)
I don't work in my Terminal anymore(opens in new tab)
‘Dickover’ Makes It Into The Guardian(opens in new tab)
Trainwatch is a life sim, a horror game, and a time management experience rolled up into a haunting story about the eerie places you see from a speeding carriage(opens in new tab)
Recently, RPS has seen a mighty renaissance of train game reporting. Look to east, and you will find James doing locomotive kickflips in Denshattack, a J-pop stunt racer turbocharged by the hope of a better world. Look to west, and ...
My kubernetes homelab completely runs itself, no ssh needed.(opens in new tab)
OpenAI Pot Complains That Google Kettle Is Black(opens in new tab)
Pluralistic: IP can't save you from AI (18 Aug 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links IP can't save you from AI: Property rights cannot substitute for labor rights and privacy rights. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Flying Brits v brown people; Probability neglect; Law v "enhanced patdowns"; Onion says ...
Unconventional Thought Is the Differentiator(opens in new tab)
A rigid purple lattice of identical cells cracking and warping into warm organic curves around a single figure whose chest emits an irregular waveform/images/unconventional-thought-differentiator.webp/images/unconventional-thought-differentiator.webp I think one of the most important ideas right n...
Compiled Typescript(opens in new tab)
Nature Is Healing: MacOS 27 Golden Gate Beta 6 Adds Redesigned Traffic Light Window Controls(opens in new tab)
Introducing LUX Sidecar: Your SpeedCurve Companion(opens in new tab)
LUX Sidecar is a small SpeedCurve RUM plugin that adds browser and navigation context to your real-user performance data.
Tuesday, August 18, 2026(opens in new tab)
The Local LLM Glossary: Every Term, Flag, and Number in Plain English(opens in new tab)
Plain-English definitions for every term you hit in local LLM posts: prefill and decode, tokens per second, FP8 and NVFP4, Q4_K_M, KV cache, YaRN, Gated DeltaNet, speculative decoding, and every vLLM, llama.cpp, and Ollama flag worth knowing.
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Regional and Cultural Tells In Digital Textual Communication — Declan Chidlow notes a few cultural quirks. I hate to drag the topic back to “AI” but these fun regional differences will be erased by LLM homogenization. Just say no!
7.5x faster encryption in Go with the new "simd" and "simd/archsimd" packages(opens in new tab)
I needed to implement my ChaCha20-BLAKE3 encryption algorithm in Go, but unfortunately ChaCha20 from Go's stdlib is lacking SIMD acceleration on amd64, probably because ChaCha20-Poly1305 (used in TLS) already has
Building a Plugin System for Rust: WebAssembly vs Native vs Scripting Language vs Rules Engine(opens in new tab)
Now that software is ru(i)nning the world, there are very few things that are more frustrating and productivity-killing than being limited by a piece of software, either because the maker
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Slop watermarks are unpopular with “writers” as Pivot to AI notes. Baldur Bjarnason sums it up nicely: “These once serious people didn’t have to turn themselves into clowns but they just had to go through the effort to pratfall in ...
MacOS 26.7 Tahoe Release Candidate Contains a Video Demonstrating Camera-Equipped AirPods in Action(opens in new tab)
Add `npm run` Has Some Typo Aliases as a JavaScript TIL (opens in new tab)
★ Follow-Up Thoughts on Watermarking Schemes for AI-Generated Text(opens in new tab)
I want the answers that I read to be cogent, lucid, accurate, blessedly terse — and ideally to strike a consistent tone that is pleasant to my reading ear. The genie is not going back in the bottle.
Reconciling JSON in DuckDB, One Patch at a Time(opens in new tab)
DuckDB v2.0 will ship JSON functions that allow you to easily apply JSON patches.
August 2026(opens in new tab)
Help peer(opens in new tab)
Qwen 3.8 27B scores 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index(opens in new tab)
Qwen 3.8 27B scores 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index That's the same score as GPT-5.6 Luna (max), and just one point behind GLM-5.2 (max) and DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (max) - that GLM is 753B and that DeepSeek ...
I'm done with terminals(opens in new tab)
Apple TV Still Has No Start Date for ‘The Savant’(opens in new tab)
No Update Since Early July Regarding Siri AI Coming to the EU, Ever(opens in new tab)
There’s a libcurl.dll in my system32(opens in new tab)
This afternoon I had a meeting with IT people at a huge US power infrastructure company. They had found a libcurl.dll file in their C:\Windows\System32 directory and asked us for help to upgrade it. Their vulnerability scanner identified it as ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 399(opens in new tab)
How to Get Started in Cybersecurity 2026(opens in new tab)
A person vaulting on a machine lever toward a glowing keyhole/images/how-to-get-started-in-cybersecurity-2026.webp/images/how-to-get-started-in-cybersecurity-2026.webp I've been writing versions of this guide since 2008. The most recent big one was the 2019 update/blog/build-successful-infosec-car...
Stripe Buys OpenRouter for $7B ⟡ Tanstack Charts First Look ⌁ Syntax Weekly ⌁(opens in new tab)
When Safari’s ‘Ignore Cache’ Ignored Cache-Control(opens in new tab)
Safari Technology Preview 250 fixed a subtle Web Inspector bug that overwrote page-authored Cache-Control request headers when the resource cache was disabled.
How AI Builders Will Get Hacked(opens in new tab)
How AI Builders Will Get Hacked/images/how-ai-builders-get-hacked.webp/images/how-ai-builders-get-hacked.webp If you are building stuff with AI I have a critical security recommendation for you. Create a continuously-running security testing system that: 1. Maintains a list of all the public stu...
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility(opens in new tab)
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility Excellent piece of reporting from 404 Media. For a while now there have been stories of book dealers receiving orders for large volumes of books ...
Shadow-piercing local component variables(opens in new tab)
Edit (2026.08.24): Got feedback from the Web Components Community Group that I was mixing up inheritance, specificity, and the cascade and that * might be a better selector than :defined. I agree with both of those perspectives and I’ve updated ...
Dark mode toggles: two states are enough(opens in new tab)
Lea's pushing back on light/dark mode implementations that display three state options for visitors: light, dark, and system. Dark mode toggles: two states are enough originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as ...
Running Qwen3.8-27B on DGX Spark(opens in new tab)
Qwen3.8-27B on DGX Spark with llama.cpp, Ollama, vLLM, and SGLang: the recipes, the tokens per second I measured, MTP speculative decoding, and the sharp edges I hit along the way.
You probably have Malware(opens in new tab)
Lawns are stupid(opens in new tab)
Hugging face hacked(opens in new tab)
The secret to longevity(opens in new tab)
It turns out that the real secret to longevity is to live in an area with poor record keeping. Something is very wrong with modern longevity is a nice New Yorker piece questioning the whole “Blue Zone” idea.
Alice Cooper on rock and politics(opens in new tab)
Monday, August 17, 2026(opens in new tab)
Fix Execution, Not the SOP(opens in new tab)
A flood of documents pours into a funnel that drips onto a tiny model a man is polishing, while real unbuilt work waits through an open door/images/fix-execution-not-the-sop.webp/images/fix-execution-not-the-sop.webp AI is multiplying the problem of us having far too many inputs. I'm ...
🔥 Now that I stand to gain very little financially…(opens in new tab)
Now that I stand to gain very little financially from posting correct takes on the Internet, I find myself less motivated to post correct takes on the Internet.
I Ran an AI SRE Copilot on My Own Hardware. Here Is What It Actually Does.(opens in new tab)
Running NudgeBee v1.4.0 end to end - a self-hosted AIOps platform behind AI-SRE, AI-FinOps, AI-K8sOps, and agentic automation - on a Mac, a kiac cluster, and a DGX Spark.
Pluralistic: Jennifer Jenkins' 'Music Copyright, Creativity, and Culture' (17 Aug 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links Jennifer Jenkins' 'Music Copyright, Creativity, and Culture': The definitive textbook (with comics!). Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Hair-gel bombers v bras; Hair-gel bombers v chemistry; AOL digs for spammer's platinum; Stross on infosec in ...
