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View from the Office: Kirk McKeown(opens in new tab)
The View from the Office. I met up with Kirk McKeown, the founder of Carbon Arc, at the Dunkin’ Donuts on the corner of 5th Avenue and 31st Street in Manhattan. Kirk had the jelly donut and an iced coffee. ...
Forza Horizon 6 makes a viable Steam Deck game, assuming you can find room to park it(opens in new tab)
Forza Horizon 6 is already Steam Deck Verified, which I’m forced to concede makes much of this article surplus to requirements. Yes alright, big green checkmark, you can convey the meaning of "it works" without publishing an entire performance and ...
Forza Horizon 6 is lightweight enough to perform on just about any PC - though its new ray tracing modes slam on the brakes(opens in new tab)
Forza Horizon 6’s bootful of PC-specific tech features was apparently stuffed enough to warrant a big, colourful blog post about them. Ultrawide support? Yes. DLSS 4 and FSR 4? Both. Ray tracing? A resounding hai, those souped-up lighting and reflection ...
Building a ScottoFrog (PCB Edition)(opens in new tab)
Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS(opens in new tab)
Search engine results are truly terrible(opens in new tab)
A few months ago, I had the displeasure of trying to use the modern web without an ad-blocker. Even though it's is ubiquitous among computer nerds, ad blocking is quite rare even in other technical fields. This got me wondering ...
C++: The Documentary TRAILER│COMING JUNE 4th(opens in new tab)
Kubernetes v1.36: Deprecation and removal of Service ExternalIPs(opens in new tab)
The .spec.externalIPs field for Service was an early attempt to provide cloud-load-balancer-like functionality for non-cloud clusters. Unfortunately, the API assumes that every user in the cluster is fully trusted, and in any situation where that is not the case, it ...
2.5 Admins 299: RMAggravation(opens in new tab)
Add Get User's Preferred Language From Browser as a JavaScript TIL (opens in new tab)
View from the Office: Justin Baer(opens in new tab)
The View from the Office. I caught up with Justin Baer last night at a signing for his new book: House of Fidelity: The Rise of the Johnson Dynasty and the Company That Changed American Investing. The event was at ...
After seven hours in early access, Subnautica 2 feels more like a remake than a sea-quel, but it has plenty of room to grow(opens in new tab)
Like the original Subnautica, released into early access an unnecessarily long time ago in 2014, Subnautica 2 pumps fresh life into the often-grindy survival genre by depriving it of air. Out in early access today, it's a familiar but engrossing ...
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Jarred Sumner, builder of fasc-tech Bun and two-time Peter Thiel fellow and now Anthropic employee (sounds like a lovely bloke), said this nine days ago: “This whole thread is an overreaction. 302 comments about code that does not work. We ...
Pluralistic: Kickstarting "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" (14 May 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links Kickstarting "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI": How to be a better AI critic. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: RIP Douglas Adams; R2-trashcan; EFF v W3C; RIP shonky Disneyland; Stolen oligarch forks; ...
Taking Down Prod with Eve(opens in new tab)
If you're a platform engineer you've had to exit vi at least once. Eve is stuck with it for the rest of her social media life. She's a Sr Platform Engineer and obviously knows a ton about Kubernetes and CI/CD. ...
Internal vs. External Storage? What's the Limit of External Tables(opens in new tab)
When I started my career as a data warehouse engineer and business intelligence engineer in 2003, external tables with materialized views were the standard. We used external tables to integrate CSV files and other data not already in Oracle databases. ...
Automation at the speed of Swamp (Changelog & Friends #130)(opens in new tab)
This week I'm talking with Adam Jacob, founder of System Initiative and creator of Swamp, about what happens when AI agents change the entire shape of software development. We discuss how he went from an 18-person team down to five ...
104: The K Trap(opens in new tab)
Kubernetes v1.36: Advancing Workload-Aware Scheduling(opens in new tab)
AI/ML and batch workloads introduce unique scheduling challenges that go beyond simple Pod-by-Pod scheduling. In Kubernetes v1.35, we introduced the first tranche of workload-aware scheduling improvements, featuring the foundational Workload API alongside basic gang scheduling support built on a Pod-based ...
Pluralistic: Billionaire solipsism, dictator solipsism, AI, and the fascist paradigm (13 May 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links Billionaire solipsism, dictator solipsism, AI, and the fascist paradigm: AGI works best in a K-hole. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Woz's remotes; Furbeowulf; Vinge on AR; Oligarch buys FSU; DNC x GOP megadonors; John ...
Ask The Hosts – Episode 36(opens in new tab)
Bid Rejected(opens in new tab)
The limits of Rust, or why you should probably not follow Amazon, Cloudflare and Discord(opens in new tab)
"Is Rust a great fit for this project?" I get this question quite frequently so I think it's time to write down my thoughts if it can help to avoid
★ Nextpad++(opens in new tab)
Nextpad++ feels like a fever dream. Like what Mac apps would be if the Nazis had won WWII.
cheznav(opens in new tab)
A TUI for managing chezmoi dotfiles.
AI datacenters in space do not have a cooling problem(opens in new tab)
GameStop’s Failed eBay Takeover(opens in new tab)
GameStop's $56B eBay bid and interview stumble(opens in new tab)
No more self-serve sodas at McDonald's?!(opens in new tab)
Building Software Requires Digestion(opens in new tab)
Here’s Scott Jenson in his insightful piece “The Ma of a New Machine”: the chatbot interface [makes us] feel like deep cognitive work is happening. But the interface is fundamentally reactive. It spits complex text at you, you skim it ...
Kubernetes v1.36: PSI Metrics for Kubernetes Graduates to GA(opens in new tab)
Since its original implementation in the Linux kernel in 2018, Pressure Stall Information (PSI) has provided users with the high-fidelity signals needed to identify resource saturation before it becomes an outage. Unlike traditional utilization metrics, PSI tells the story of ...
Meet Your Users Where They Are with Obs.js(opens in new tab)
Obs.js is a tiny inline script that helps you adapt your site to real-world network, battery, CPU, and memory conditions.
The Origins of "Hello, World"(opens in new tab)
my honest advice to someone who wants to master devops(opens in new tab)
Pluralistic: A fascist paradigm (12 May 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links A fascist paradigm: The change that changed everything. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Openstreetmap x Isle of Wight; Found grocery lists; Mayor wants to pray away potholes; Designing a D120; "Too Like the Lightning." ...
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Hey look another JavaScript nightmare got pwned. Socket team continues to find other compromised packages hit by the same supply-chain attack. GitHub and NPM are of course at the centre of this shitstorm. These postmortems read like this instant classic: ...
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“The agentic era affords GitLab the largest opportunity in our history as a company, and we’re making the structural and strategic decisions to meet it. GitLab Act 2 - Bill Staples”Oh dear, GitLab has contracted the rot. Right when the ...
Partial static single information form(opens in new tab)
In compilers, static single information form (SSI) is a common extension to static single assignment form (SSA). It was introduced by C. Scott Ananian in 1999 in his MS thesis (PDF) 1. SSI extends your existing SSA intermediate representation by ...
Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol(opens in new tab)
DuckDB instances can now talk to each other using the Quack remote protocol. This lets you run DuckDB in a client-server setup with multiple concurrent writers. In DuckDB's spirit, Quack is simple to set up and builds on proven technologies ...
Thinking Machines and interaction models(opens in new tab)
The Main Path to Truly Creative AI(opens in new tab)
Two gestural figures: a man on the left with full circulatory anatomy rendered in burnt sienna — heart at center, threads of drive radiating outward — and a mirrored hollow purple silhouette on the right, identical posture but empty inside/images/the-main-path-to-truly-creative-ai.webp/images/the-ma...
How Kubernetes EndpointSlices Actually Work (and Why Endpoints Had to Die)(opens in new tab)
Event Sourcing Design Pattern(opens in new tab)
What if your database worked more like Git? Every change captured as an immutable event you can replay, instead of a single mutating row that quietly forgets its own history. That's event sourcing, and Chris May is back on Talk ...
NVCF Is Now Open Source: Inside NVIDIA's GPU Function Platform(opens in new tab)
View from the Office: Brian Rooney(opens in new tab)
The View from the Office. I caught up with Brian Rooney to discuss his retirement from Goldman Sachs. Brian spent his four-decade career almost entirely at two elite firms – Bloomberg and Goldman. He’s been at the forefront of a ...
Pluralistic: 2024 (apart from the obvious) (11 May 2026)(opens in new tab)
Today's links 2024 (apart from the obvious): Some unforced errors. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Denmark legalizing music trading; Babysuit; Patent Office invites "peer review"; DRM protest at the Bastille; Scientology's "super powers"; Banana Dalek; Florida ...
#479: Talking About Types(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: httpxyz one month in Learn concurrency - a deep dive into multithreading with Python pip 26.1 - lockfiles and dependency cooldowns Python 3.15 sentinal values from PEP 661 Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the ...
Mythos finds a curl vulnerability(opens in new tab)
yes, as in singular one. Back in April 2026 Anthropic caused a lot of media noise when they concluded that their new AI model Mythos is dangerously good at finding security flaws in source code. Apparently Mythos was so good ...
Evolved antennas, LLM-generated code, and a potential antifuture(opens in new tab)
