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WebRTC is designed to degrade and drop my prompt during poor network conditions. wtf my dude WebRTC aggressively drops audio packets to keep latency low. If you’ve ever heard distorted audio on a conference call, that’s WebRTC baybee. The idea ...
Two parchment pages — a hand reaching into raw markdown text on the left, the same content sealed inside a purple ornamental shell on the right/images/text-as-thought.webp/images/text-as-thought.webp Thariq Shihiparhttps://x.com/trq212 from Anthropic put out a thought-provoking articlehttps://x.co...
Using Claude Code: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of HTML Thought-provoking piece by Thariq Shihipar (on the Claude Code team at Anthropic) advocating for HTML over Markdown as an output format to request from Claude. The article is crammed with interesting examples ...
Volume group snapshots were introduced as an Alpha feature with the Kubernetes v1.27 release, moved to Beta in v1.32, and to a second Beta in v1.34. We are excited to announce that in the Kubernetes v1.36 release, support for volume ...
This week the former Zachtronics folk of Coincidence released U.V.S. Nirmana, a new "Zach-like" puzzler that has fairly spaghettified my synapses, despite being billed as "medium-difficulty". It puts you in charge of a monastic spacecraft embarked on a pilgrimage through ...
I first played Family Reunion at Gamescom Latam last week, which in hindsight was a bit of trek, considering the demo is right there on Itch and Steam. It’s good fun, though: a unique and chaotic time-attack adventure game, in ...
Giving lightbulbs a MAC address was a mistake that I’m living with. “I’m literally unscrewing lightbulbs to renew their DHCP lease @dbushell.com - Bluesky”Instead of enjoying the bank holiday Monday I updated my homelab software. I was ‘inspired’ by the ...
Thank you for agreeing to meet me, Commander. Have you met the head scientist? I hate him. I... haven't met him yet. Should I? Don't, he's an arsehole. They call me "Commander" but won't let me fire him. "He's a ...
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I came across Kitty Giraudel’s folded corners technique. I’ve been on a bit of a corner-shape kick lately, so I figured that corner-shape could be used to create folded corners as well. Using CSS corner-shape For Folded Corners originally handwritten ...
Today's links Lee Lai's "Cannon": A beautiful, subtle, long-lingering tale of duty, sex, and working for a shitty restaurant boss. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Ebay paying to run newspaper classifieds; Chuck Tingle v Sad Puppies; ...
A couple of links for the “it’s just a tool” crowd: Why I object to and reject generative AI Building for the future In the first, Prof. Deborah Lupton reminds us of the real harm. In the second, Clownflare reminds ...
We are hosting DuckCon #7 in Amsterdam on June 24, 2026. Join us at the Royal Tropical Institute for talks, lightning sessions, and a borrel.
I really, really want local models to work. I want them to work in the very practical sense that I can open my coding agent, pick a local model, and get something that feels competitive enough that I do not ...
No-Vary-Search lets HTTP caches ignore irrelevant query parameters such as UTM tags, while still keeping meaningful ones like product variants in the cache key.
Release: llm-gemini 0.31 gemini-3.1-flash-lite is no longer a preview. Here's my write-up of the Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Preview model back in March. I don't believe this new non-preview model has changed since then. Tags: llm-release, gemini, llm, google, generative-ai, ai, ...
One of the most important concepts I picked up designing and building Formula SAE racecars in college was systems thinking. A team could easily have "the best engine" or "the best suspension" or "the best controls" and get beat in ...
I keep quoting him, but here’s another Cal Newport podcast that I can’t stop thinking about: Why do better tools make me worse at my job?. To save you a long listen: when you think about the theory of constraints, ...
Tool: Big Words I'm using my vibe coded macOS presentations tool to put together a talk, and I wanted to add a slide with some text on it. The tool only accepts URLs, so I put together a quick page ...
Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) has fundamentally changed how platform administrators handle hardware accelerators and specialized resources in Kubernetes. In the v1.36 release, DRA continues to mature, bringing a wave of feature graduations, critical usability improvements, and new capabilities that extend ...
“There’s also the question of what the browser is even for. A browser is a user agent – it’s supposed to act on behalf of the user, not the vendor. Silently downloading 4 GB of AI model to your machine, ...
I will explain how my mum inspired this 2026 Mother’s Day scrollytelling experiment — but also, how she inspired my approach to dev and life. A Scrollytelling Gift for Mum on Mother’s Day 2026 originally handwritten and published with love ...
Chrome 148 shipped this week, and in the release notes you’ll find one of the best things to happen to web performance in a long time: loading="lazy" for <video> and <audio> elements. Scott Jehl, an engineer at Squarespace focusing on ...
Today's links Bubbles are REALLY evil: Bernie Ebbers got what was coming to him. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Mozilla v DHS wiretaps; Judge v FCC's internet wiretaps; Foxconn workers must promise not to kill themselves; ...
The European Union took four years to draft the AI Act - with OpenAI shipping GPT-4 to a hundred million users in two months. By the time Brussels finalised its definitions of “high-risk” systems, the systems in question had moved ...
DuckDB's Delta and Unity Catalog extensions shed their experimental tags — now with writes, Unity Catalog and time travel support.
When OpenAI trained GPT-3, they didn't roll their own orchestration layer. They used Ray, an open source Python framework born out of the same Berkeley research lab lineage that gave us Apache Spark. And here's the twist: Ray was originally ...
Mat Marquis on Google pulling the web standards equivalent of U2 album marketing: As a Chrome user, you’ll have received Gemini Nano in the form of a 4GB transfer recently; no permission asked or required. If you remove it, … ...
As Kubernetes clusters grow to tens of thousands of nodes, controllers that watch high-cardinality resources like Pods face a scaling wall. Every replica of a horizontally scaled controller receives the full stream of events from the API server, paying the ...
“No web standard should require you to agree to an advertising company’s “terms of use.” Google’s Prompt API - Mat Marquis”Chrome 148 shipped the giant nano plagiarism machine. One Googler claimed the Prompt API is “not a web standard” despite ...
Most grid layouts sit in neat rows, perfectly aligned, like soldiers in formation. But sometimes you want something with more rhythm like, say, a zigzag pattern. Here's how to do it with CSS Grid. Making Zigzag CSS Layouts With a ...
You might know that I – with the generous help from Brandon Kelly on the Craft 5 version – wrote and maintain a Webmention plugin for Craft CMS. Today, I shipped version 1.3.0. It’s a security and abuse hardening release, ...
The cheapest way to learn is to learn from others, so I always take a day every week to see what other organizations are doing and how they are doing
There was a time when adults could feel something without screaming at you about it. We could disagree - hard - in a meeting and walk out with our faces still attached. When bad news arrived at the dinner table, ...
Agentic engineering is the future. But it's still unclear which harness will win, if any. I've been hedging my bets by moving to a harness-agnostic system for AI skills so no matter the harness I use,...
