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Dense branching mass compressed through a mechanical iris bottleneck/images/why-arent-things-worse-header.webp/images/why-arent-things-worse-header.webp One of the things I’ve been thinking about for years, but more acutely now because of the conversations around controlling open source models, is...
DuckDB just reached 40 000 stars on GitHub! Here's what happened since the last 10 000-star milestone.
AI agents have been getting a lot of hype for how good they are at coding. But there are still plenty of naysayers saying AI can't replace human programmers. I've worked professionally as a software e...
A fast, privacy friendly terminal music player to listen to music.
The amount of memory a PC needs is a matter that's divided PC owners since before the days of DDR1. Different apps, games, and in-game settings all have different demands, so what works for one rig can be quite different ...
Today's links Post-American compute for a post-American Internet: Building cooperative human rights computing infrastructure in Puerto Rico, the EU, Canada and Mexico. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Urine Luck; Germany v pornoscanners; Moorcock's 3-day novels; Women's ...
I watched a recent Jeff Geerling video (YouTube) and couldn’t believe what I was seeing. The current price of a Raspberry Pi is an absolute rip off. I checked The Pi Hut and Pimoroni both are priced the same for ...
I realize this is Very Rude, but I've noticed a lot of the people who think AI sucks at writing code never seemed very good at writing code themselves. At this point, if you can't get it working, it's probably ...
Who knows how reality will continue to develop? There’s no way to prepare. When you can’t be prepared, be prepared to find poetry in the chaos. Secret messages, serendipitous grace,...
I joked last year that by leveraging coding agents I now "played the orchestra", by directing multiple programmers at once. I have changed jobs again. Now I tell Fable to conduct an orchestra of Opus 5 agents for me. It's ...
The last two posts covered why certification is worth pursuing and why independence is what makes it real. Now we get into the standards themselves, and we're going to start with the shape of the thing before we start reading ...
The Kubernetes SIG Network community is thrilled to share the release of Gateway API v1.6.0, which was released on June 30th of this year! Gateway API has become the standard for modern, role-oriented, and expressive service networking in Kubernetes. In ...
Today, with CSS gap decorations fully supported in Chrome and Edge, starting with version 149, you can now very easily style gaps, and with a lot of control. Gap Decorations Are Now Available, Here’s What’s New originally handwritten and published ...
Sometimes I have to remind myself that I’m a cliché, a person first compelled to write about games because I slew Dark Souls’ Gwynn, Lord Of Cinder and sat quietly for a moment before thinking to myself, “Hit me, come ...
Human architects reconstructing a company into a transparent AI-native operating system/images/the-ai-native-company.webp/images/the-ai-native-company.webp Heading into Black Hat / DEF CON this week I think the biggest idea in tech right now isn’t the attacker vs. defender question as models get s...
Today's links Dualism: Why not both? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: UK's Great Firewall falls; Mint the coins; Virtual pets v DRM; Getty copyfrauds 47,000 photos; Net Mexico-US illegal migration is zero; Build a wall (around ...
At this exact moment curl’s summer of bliss 2026 ends. We (the maintainers of curl) took the entire month of July off from vulnerability reporting and in this post I will try to explain how this went. (If you feel ...
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in July 2026.
Security has always been the vegetables of software. Everyone agrees it matters, and somehow it never quite makes it onto the plate. At PyCon US this year, that changed. For the first time ever, security got its own dedicated, day-long ...
I really don’t understand the purpose of Homebrew anymore. Today I tried to rebuild my Tauri app and I get a weird error. I run tauri info to find: Weird, I thought I had installed Rust via Homebrew. I run ...
Cold opens are the worst new trend in podcasting. Random talking with no context. I’m supposed to guess who is speaking and what they’re rambling on about? I look forward to the vague deja vu I get when it’s repeated ...
My experience living in Osaka and Tokyo on a Working Holiday visa, with practical advice on preparation, housing, work, useful apps, and places to eat.
Sundays are for looking back at the week and honestly just thinking, yeesh, what are you doing, working in an industry that’s succumbed so deeply and so wilfully to moral decay. The publishers sold to executioners. The naked attempts at ...
I am listening to The Licanius Trilogy by James Islington. The Wheel of Time influence is obvious. The audiobooks are read by Michael Kramer who is the voice of the high fantasy genre. I’m not convinced half way into the ...
Sci-fantasy shooter Warframe is the sexy cyborg fruit of 13 years of updates and expansions, encompassing scores upon scores of quests, areas, plotlines, systems and characters, together with a huge quantity of player-made art. Much of Warframe's original design still ...
Today's links Why businesses lie about AI: Humoring the boss all the way into bankruptcy. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Vinge x NYT; Syklarov x publishers; Human hair castles; Gingrich's bot army; Accessibility v Web DRM; ...
I wonder what’s going to happen when we eventually run out of crusty old public-domain drawings to put in these. Hopefully by that point the standards of what’s considered ‘old’ will have shifted and we can start using photos and ...
AIL badge scale showing levels zero through five/images/ail-scale-chart.webp/images/ail-scale-chart.webp AI Influence Level/blog/ai-influence-level-ail has been a text label since 2023. A line at the bottom of a post saying how much of it I wrote and how much the AI did. Text ...
As previously explainderised, not only do we want to do a better job of rewarding RPS Supporters with exclusive articles and other fineries, we want to a better job of highlighting what your patronage gets you, including the chance to ...
As we get closer to the release date for Kubernetes v1.37, the project develops and matures, features may be deprecated, removed, or replaced with better ones for the project's overall health. This blog outlines some of the planned changes for ...
Email from Apple: We’re reaching out to let you know that the iPhone Upgrade Program is coming to an end. Thank you for being a loyal member. Awwww. Sad trombone. I’ve been on this program for as long as I ...
We recently got the shape() function and corner-shape property. What else could we possibly need as far as making shapes in CSS? Let me tell you: the border-shape property! Get Ready For the Powerful CSS border-shape Property! originally handwritten and ...
I can’t take it anymore! If you want to speak to me, send an email. My contact form is out of service indefinitely. This is actually in lieu of moving my professional services to a yet to be announced limited ...
The soon-Baseline sibling-index() function for animations, CSS and the 2026 FIFA World Cup, use cases for the infinity keyword, container "stuck" queries, and more. What’s !important #16: sibling-index() Animations, Use Cases for the infinity Keyword, Container Stuck Queries, and More ...
Photojournalist Frank West is heli-dropped into the Willamette Parkview mall, following a tip-off that there’s something sinister going down in the sleepy Colorado town. Impressively undeterred by the sight of people eating each other by a school bus during his ...
Today's links Better to beg forgiveness: Don't ring the doorbell at the house of no unless you absolutely must. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: RIP Poul Anderson; P2P at PC Forum; Waitress handed her own stolen ...
Yes, but can it run Jellyfin?
Starting with v2.0, scheduled for fall 2026, DuckDB will support asynchronous reads of Parquet and CSV files. This can significantly speed up queries when synchronous I/O does not saturate the available bandwidth, as is typical in EC2/S3 compute-storage setups.
