TLD stands for top-level domain, but if you clicked this post, you already know that. To make this joke more accurate, I would need to say “I bought a second-level domain”, but the amount of people who know what a SLD…
I shipped a new feature for my blog today: the Newsletters page, which offers an index of all of the newsletters I’ve sent out, both my free weekly Substack and …
Rust already has most of what I want from error handling: explicit control flow, errors as values, and concise propagation with ?. The friction comes when deciding what to put in the error half of Result. We often end up choosing between precise types that req…
Accumulating evidence indicates that circadian rhythm dysfunction is a clinically significant and highly prevalent phenotype in a substantial subgroup of ind...
It's not a political debate, it's a chance at finding a sound bite that sticks and help you win the political race. We can change how debates are presented.
I don't remember exactly when but, earlier in the year, I decided I didn't want this website to be indexed by search engines anymore. A lot of it has to do w...
An interactive simulation of Elizabeth Holmes' desk. Open her MacBook, scroll her iPhone, run the Edison machine. Every text and email is real, from the court trial, parsed by Extend.
I have had the displeasure of integrating with a few different APIs over the past few weeks while working to automate Vori’s onboarding flow. These APIs have been for systems including contract rendering and e-signature collection, invoicing/billing systems, C…
I have a Dokku box in my lab that runs a pile of real things: side projects, a couple of databases, and the backups for all of it. It’s my own little Heroku, and it’s been great.
TLD stands for top-level domain, but if you clicked this post, you already know that. To make this joke more accurate, I would need to say “I bought a second-level domain”, but the amount of people who know what a SLD…
Contrary to some of my prior writing, I’ve been having a grand ol’ time working with agents… mostly. Today’s world is the world in which my strangest ideas can be birthed, designed, prototyped, tested, and then thrown in the trash by the dozen, with little mor…
Computer programming is, fundamentally, about two things: Problem-solving using computers Learning to control complexity while solving these problems I have a hard time imagining a future where knowing how to …
Three attempts to prove that LLMs are not conscious: Claude's and Devin's independent drafts, the human conjecture both were prompted with, and a discussion of where they differ and fail.
Every significant software project I’ve worked on has,
at some point,
developed rules about its architecture.
These have usually been expressed in the form of restrictions:
this component cannot depend on that component,
a certain dependency cannot be used in …
Every app you use was built by a company that optimized it for itself. On building software for one person, why it breaks, and why companies can't ship it.
An open speech recognition model that runs on the same CPU engine as Needle. It transcribes seven languages, reaches the first token in 11 ms, and loads beside Needle so one binary turns a clip straight into tool calls.
We run a high-volume rafting operation on our own system, with AI on top. The booking software is the one piece we can't connect. What we need from it.
Browser-in-the-Browser paints a browser window inside the page. Browser-in-the-Middle streams a real one from the attacker's machine. Both aim at the one check users are taught to make. Here is what each looks like in Grizzly's data.
With the growing importance of LLM post-training,
mastery of Reinforce
has become arguably as central as techniques like attention.
The algorithm is critical to producing models
that reason, act, and discover.
I’ve been a reMarkable 2 user for a few years now. Bought on a whim, it has become an important part of my digital life, and I’ve recently jumped on its modding bandwagon.
Fleeting — Sorry, I'm in a meeting
Frontiers | ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder: evidence and implications for chronotherapy
If one anti-malware software is good, does that make two better? - The Old New Thing
The benefits of rain · Mainbrella
C for Rust Programmers
I bought my own TLD! (well not really)
Your Tool Has a New Reader
I Won't Hire Juniors Anymore
Can Decision Models Abstain?
When code is cheap, judgement becomes the job
Machines
Dear LLM, or how I stopped getting generic advice — kol3x.com
Everything is connected except the booking software
Your .md File Is Not a Specification: Using Formal Analysis to Find Requirements Gaps
Two ways to fake a browser: BitB and BitM