curl performance(opens in new tab)
tldr: the live version is here: https://curl.se/perf/ How fast is “fast” and is it good enough? Does it run as fast now as it did before or was there a regression? What exactly needs to be fast? How fast is ...
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Pluralistic: Capital formation (14 Aug 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links Capital formation: Going legit means going mainstream. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: London Copyfighters x Speaker's Corner; TSA v lipstick; Long Beach v photographers; China x David Cameron's internet censorship; McMansion Hell; Copyrighting an ...
I deleted nearly all of my notes, on purpose.(opens in new tab)
Claude watermarks your code now(opens in new tab)
Friday, August 14, 2026(opens in new tab)
Failure of the week: encoding images to AVIF without keeping the originals(opens in new tab)
I was reading about the AV1 video codec and the derived AVIF image format and decided to experiment with it. The results are impressive: PNG file size can be divided
sqlite-utils 4.2.1(opens in new tab)
Release: sqlite-utils 4.2.1 Fixes a crashing bug in sqlite-utils 4.2. I'd introduced code that looks like this: from typing_extensions import Self It turned out the typing-extensions package was not listed as a dependency for sqlite-utils - it was installed by ...
2.5 Admins 312: Bus Factor(opens in new tab)
sqlite-utils 4.2(opens in new tab)
Release: sqlite-utils 4.2 Lots of improvements in this one relating to the table.transform() feature, which adds support for complex alter table operations by creating a fresh table, copying across the data and then dropping and replacing the old one. transform() ...
llm-gemini 0.33(opens in new tab)
Release: llm-gemini 0.33 It's been a while since the last llm-gemini release. This version of the plugin adds support for today's Gemini 3.7 Flash release, plus gemini-3.6-flash, gemini-3.5-flash-lite and two embedding models gemini-embedding-2 and gemini-embedding-001. The plugin is also upgraded ...
Keyboard Features for Hand Tremors #mechanicalkeyboards #3dprinting #raspberrypi(opens in new tab)
Add Delete Empty Files With Find as a Unix TIL (opens in new tab)
"Obvious tells and subtle hints" - Alien: Isolation's lead designer on the lethal variety of The Lost Wild's dinosaurs(opens in new tab)
First-person sneakalot The Lost Wild is about surviving on an island overrun by dinosaurs, from the relatively affable diplodocus to the absolutely intolerable allosaurus. I'm not sure how you survive a brush with an allosaurus, because allosauruses appear to be ...
Ceramic Shield 2 Is the Real Deal(opens in new tab)
Fable Hates C(opens in new tab)
Necrons are "extremely arrogant aliens that feel like they cannot die," so their weakness in Dawn of War 4 is an obvious one: greed(opens in new tab)
Dawn of War 4's Necrons are the hard nuts of Warhammer 40,000. Each one of their soldiers is a >soul trapped in a living metal body, practically immortal thanks to the faction's reanimation technology. Like a clothes moth infestation, once ...
Do a literal monster mash in Dance of Theseus, a strangely undisgusting blend of plastic surgery and Balatro-style fashion battles(opens in new tab)
It is time to confront the terrible truth that I once took part in a school fashion show. I ran in two categories, Ballroom and Street, a serious test of range for a kid who had only just mastered the ...
xAI just caught up (Grok 4.6 is here)(opens in new tab)
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I jumped in at the hour mark of Miriam Suzanne’s chat with Brad Frost around the time they discuss the true costs of AI. Miriam’s words are incredible. Brad nods along seemingly agreeing, but fails to see he’s part of ...
🔥 "You can't afford bad engineers anymore."…(opens in new tab)
"You can't afford bad engineers anymore." https://blog.florianherrengt.com/ai-removing-middle-class-software-engineering.html
alchemy-utils 0.1a1(opens in new tab)
Release: alchemy-utils 0.1a1 Performance boost for DuckDB exports and CSV imports, see here.
Google Design Pisses Its Pants on Twitter/X(opens in new tab)
Another partial SSI trick with canonicalize(opens in new tab)
See the previous post for context and explanation of SSI. After reading Chris Fallin’s aegraph post, new ZJIT contributor dak2 landed a block-local version of the canonicalize function in #16828. The pseudocode of the block-local canonicalize function looks like this: ...
Ilya Explains How LLMs Create a World Model(opens in new tab)
https://youtu.be/8BPtNZ8S3e0 ilya sutskever at gtc in march 2023, the day after gpt-4 launched I've been arguing for many years that modern AI creates a world model. I thought I came to that conclusion on my own. I don't directly remember ...
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (on OpenRouter)(opens in new tab)
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (on OpenRouter) The latest DeepSeek Pro model is now available, via API only. I had to link to OpenRouter because DeepSeek don't have any obvious announcement page for their new model. I haven't been able to ...
Joanna Stern on the Pixel 11 ‘HiLight’ Notification Light(opens in new tab)
Google Introduces ‘Camera Looks’ With Pixel 11 Phones(opens in new tab)
Why BIP-110 Failed(opens in new tab)
TechCrunch on Google’s Pixel 11 Lineup(opens in new tab)
Hands-On With Google Pixel 11 Pro Fold(opens in new tab)
Google’s Pixel Watch 5(opens in new tab)
Amazon Is Spiting Customers With Unhelpful Order Confirmation Emails(opens in new tab)
Starlink satellites and space junk risks(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 ...
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)
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)