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The rising popularity of AI, Edge, and Telecommunications workloads on Kubernetes has led to new requirements for hardware management. We now need hardware specification beyond CPU time and memory allocations. This includes allocating GPUs, TPUs, network interfaces, and other hardware, ...
As the permafrost disappeared from the fjords of Edwinland – gosh, I'd absolutely kill to be living through a miniature Ice Age right now – Norel, shaman of the Moon tribe, gathered his people to make a fateful proclamation. The ...
When Valve first announced the Steam Machine, Steam Controller, and Steam Frame last year, it was the dinky living room PC that I latched onto. I've wanted to hook my PC up to a TV and treat it like a ...
The View from the Office. I met up with John Kraski at Soho House in the Meatpacking District. I had an iced latte. He had an iced La Colombe oat milk latte. John and I first met on LinkedIn while ...
Empulse developers 1047 Games are known first for their Splitgate series of Portal-inspired arena shooters, and perhaps known second for a daft red hat. At last year’s Summer Game Fest, CEO and co-founder Ian Proulx took to the stage to ...
It's clear from Signet City's reveal trailer that it's going to be an unusual game. After all, you'll be playing a fungal brain parasite that influences multiple hosts across an algae-powered city. But, when creator Gareth Damian Martin and I ...
Xavier de Maistre in an armchair, displaying his “book of discoveries” (Veyssier, 1860) Every so often I like to include a public domain image in a blog post. I’m fond of the woodblock and lithographic illustrations of the late 1800s. ...
Mastodon 4.6 has improved accessibility by allowing users to provide alt text for their profile avatar and banner. Credit to Chee Aun for the tip! The alt text only seems to work on profile mastheads and not all avatars yet.
Release presentation Numbers the 275th release6 changes56 days (total: 10,817)276 bugfixes (total: 14,187)531 commits (total: 39,077)0 new public libcurl function (total: 100)0 new curl_easy_setopt() option (total: 308)1 new curl command line option (total: 274)102 contributors, 69 new (total: 3,731)45 authors, ...
Just last week, the iroh project announced the release of its v1.0. What is iroh? Well, I'm glad you're asking because it's a very interesting project that I'm following for
A quote popped up on Mastodon shared by Nathan Knowler (who rightly shuddered in reaction (because this is terrible advice)): “The W3C ARIA Authoring Practices Guide is an incredibly detailed resource. It describes every common pattern (tabs, dialogs, menus, accordions) ...
I've been back at work for about a month now after parental leave and a 12 week programming retreat at Recurse Center. We're leaning hard into agentic engineering and I'm bullish on it - I spent a lot...
A powerful TUI email client & calendar tool for your terminal.
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My win rate in Slay the Spire 2 is atrocious with The Ironclad despite enjoying the character. Persistence paid off today! A heavy block build carried me to an easy ascension 10 victory. I picked up the Sturdy Clamp relic ...
“You race like a poodoo!” podracer Ben Quadinaros, a large bit of snot whose body is 60% face, yells as we sweep through a turn side-by-side. “Right,” I think as I begin to channel my inner Dale Earnhardt, “you’re going ...
Today's links Spying on kids to save kids from spying is very, very stupid: First they came for the VPNs. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: RIP Darwin's tortoise; ISPs conspire to create copyright jail; Waxy v ...
Topics covered in this episode: Backup Docker volumes locally or to any S3 Pyodide 314.0 Release nb-cli: A Command-Line Interface for AI Agents and Notebook Automation Hindsight Agent Memory That Learns Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored ...
I don’t prompt Claude anymore. I have loops running that prompt Claude and figuring out what to do. My job is to write loops. — Boris Cherny Over the last months I have watched more and more people build something ...
So you find a bug in an Open Source project and wish to spend your tokens solving that issue for the good of humanity. Your fingers hover over the keyboard, trembling in anticipation of the glorious prompt that will unblock ...
Consistency serves a purpose in visual design, but it seems to have become the purpose of a lot of visual design. Look no further than these evolutions of macOS icons (image courtesy of BasicAppleGuy): The Creator Studio icons are undeniably ...
Today's links Good politics: Just make people's lives better. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: WWII online; Xbox security blunders; Homeless bloggers; Thermal printer racing game; Robbing a bank to get healthcare in jail; Crumb v Trump; ...
Sometimes designers have silly ideas that eventually grow on you. That happened to me with this concept where I had to build columns of items moving in opposite directions when a user scrolls the page. CodePen Embed Fallback Note: This ...
Learn how to write a coding agent in this Python tutorial that teaches how to interact with an LLM through an API, how to manage the conversation context, and how to do tool calling. Introduction This tutorial will show you ...
I’ve caught up with (audio)book eight of Dungeon Crawler Carl. Took me a few months. Can’t wait for book nine! I’m now listening all over again with the audio immersion tunnel version that adds music, sound effects, a wider cast, ...
Most of the literature about QUIC RFC 9000 describes it as a replacement for TCP + TLS, with the traditional use case of communication over IP in mind. It's true,
Exploring the new HTTP Query method with first principles, what is the need for new method, and where it sits. We explore the limitations of GET and the unintuitive use of POST methods for filtering
This is my first Father’s Day without my dad. It’s been two months since he passed at the age of 99 after a brief illness. Today would normally be a day I’d drive down to have lunch with my parents. ...
The View from the Office. I met up with Chris Van de Voorde, the founder of JUUNOO, which makes reusable, modular interior walls for construction, at his office near Union Square. We had coffee and Danishes from Ole & Steen. ...
AI has ruined just about everything. My self-hosted journey has focused on software because homelab hardware costs are through the roof. I heard the situation was bad so I checked the prices on stuff I bought in 2024. Yeah… that’s ...
Sundays are for sitting by a window in your pants eating cold pasta, as a game of football meanders through its grassy paces on a screen not too far away. Light curtains drawn in an attempt to eliminate any chance ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FxXr3enprE My discussion with @ZackKormanhttps://x.com/ZackKorman on whether Dario and Anthropic are good or bad for the world. Some quick post-debate thoughts: I think Zach is very wrong about the tech itself and its capabilities, and the speed with which it's ...
RFC 10008 is brand new a specification detailing the new HTTP method called QUERY: This specification defines the QUERY method for HTTP. A QUERY requests that the request target process the enclosed content in a safe and idempotent manner and ...
My Updated Definitions of AGI vs. ASI/images/agi-vs-asi-definitions.webp/images/agi-vs-asi-definitions.webp I've been working on a better way to think and talk about AGI and ASI. I've thought a lot about these terms in the past, but they're mushy in my mind now in ...
Today's links How the Epstein Class recruits: Oh wait, THAT'S what this was?! Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: MPAA blasted in WSJ; RFID skimmers; Post-Soviet inventions; "Farthing"; "Dirty, Drunk and Punk"; Dweb v founders' frailty; Tax ...
I haven’t played Slay the Spire 2 for a couple of weeks. The new patch invited me back. They replaced final boss Doormaker with Aeonglass which I’m now learning has a boring mechanic. I turned a bad Necrobinder deck into ...
Saturdays are for realising that there are ASMR playlists for Frictional's Amnesia games. ASMR playlists, for games that make use of subliminal crackling noises to suggest mounting delirium, and Shepard tones to create the impression that a life-saving generator is ...
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Today's links The Big Con: Making the pile of shit bigger won't increase the number of ponies underneath it. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: TVA v SETI@Home; Telemarketers v DHS batphones; Matt Stone's MPAA censorship memo; ...
You’ve probably heard the term. It’s meant to convey how difficult it can be to start something. “Blank page paralysis”. But for my money, beginning is easy. Finishing is the hard part. In software, they call it “the last 90%”. ...
Companies with money but no AI vision burn down while the disciplined few pull away/images/ultimate-ai-prompt-for-businesses.webp/images/ultimate-ai-prompt-for-businesses.webp Absolutely insane to me the damage that multiple companies have done to themselves with their AI strategies. - Meta spent...
Billionaires rarely make for very interesting fabulists - they have people for that sort of thing - but in their obsession with securing a legacy, they do necessarily spend a lot of time in the realm of make-believe. Nowhere is ...
CSS is hard and it should be hard. For good reason: “CSS isn’t just a complex language, it’s one of the most advanced graphics, layout, and typesetting languages available in computing. The deskilling of web dev is harming the product ...