Featured post what's this? ✨ I tested every IP KVM in my Homelab Since the PiKVM came out in 2017, there's been an explosion of IP KVMs. I've tested almost every one. But what are they good for? You can use Remote Desktop, Screen Sharing, or VNC to remote control a computer from anywhere on a LAN. And if you don't have...
Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute | TechCrunch In a statement, a Google representative described the deal as a result of unexpected demand for its recently launched AI products.
GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS - GrapheneOS Discussion Forum GrapheneOS discussion forum
S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic SpaceX won’t get easy access to billions of dollars from passive investors.
In the Empire's Defense I didn't watch Star Wars when it was released. I wasn't even born. By the time we popped the cassette tape in the VCR, it was at least 15 years old. But I liked the movie all the same. It was not my f
Amber Alert sends Spam URL? I received an amber alert, but the link seems to redirect to a spam page. Important services need to be fault tolerant. The shorted link needs to be tested.
Stop Using Conventional Commits You’ve almost certainly encountered Conventional Commits before. It may have reared its ugly head in the changelog of an open source project you’ve used. It may have been the enforced commit format for an open source project you contributed to. A lot of p...
The web is changing, and we are not going back Whenever I saw someone type a natural language query into Google, it made me cringe. "It's not a person," I would say. "Type like you're talking to a machine." This was especially true for programmers
Now that your newsletter is AI-generated, I've Unsubscribed I've remained subscribed to some newsletters for over 20 years. The authors managed to keep my attention all that time. But then, one day, they decided to switch to an AI-generated newsletter without
New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste The energy-efficient desalination system produces fresh water without chemical additives and transforms leftover salts into useful materials.
Why all the PRs? It's a signal. That's why we get AI-generated PRs. We told everyone, in order to get your resume taken seriously, you need to show your work.
How Many Tokens Did You Burn Today Early in my career, a manager at one of the big firms where I worked made a request so absurd it remains etched in my memory. I walked back to the team, repeated what he had asked, and couldn't finish
How to Talk to Your Coworkers You know you've explained the same issue before in two or three different places, yet here they are asking again. Why don't they understand you? Why do they ask the same question when you've already g
Don't call yourself a Software Engineer, and other Career Advice I can only imagine what it's like learning the skill of programming in this day and age. What does an average college class look like? What is the CS professor teaching? And students, how do you recon
The commencement speech that shook the world There he was, the man at the helm of innovation. Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google. The man who once said, google doesn't need to record your conversation, it already knows everything about you.
Gemma 4 QAT models: Optimizing model compression for mobile and laptop efficiency We’re releasing Gemma 4 quantization-aware training checkpoints, reducing memory requirements and improving on-device performance.
GitHub - microsoft/pg_durable: PostgreSQL in-database durable execution PostgreSQL in-database durable execution. Contribute to microsoft/pg_durable development by creating an account on GitHub.
I Open-Sourced My UFC Prediction Model, Weights, and Database Five years of building MMA-AI, an open-source UFC prediction model with model weights, a historical odds database, and the ways I learned not to fool myself with machine learning.
Publishing your blog to standard.site in Elixir | jola.dev A walkthrough for posting your Elixir/Phoenix blog to Bluesky and the standard.site network, using a small mix task and an atproto client.
Bend Under Pressure, Not Under Nonsense Real pressure has a mechanism. Nonsense pressure is just social discomfort in disguise. Here is how to tell them apart and why it matters.
See, Act, Correct: three levers for working with a code agent An out-of-the-box code agent only sees a repo and a shell. This article lays out three invariant principles for turning a gadget into a production tool.
How 25 NOPs fixed a 10-year-old GTA V performance issue on AMD A years-old GTA V performance issue, FPS tanking at night when looking at the city, traced to six prefetchnta hints into write-combine vertex buffers, stalling the AMD Zen pipeline. The final fix is 25 NOPs in two places.
Why all the PRs? It's a signal. That's why we get AI-generated PRs. We told everyone, in order to get your resume taken seriously, you need to show your work.
Do I Need to Learn the Domain? Do I Want To? — Ian McNaughton Ian McNaughton's blog — thoughts from a decade in the software industry.
10 tips to get the most out of OpenCode - byandrev OpenCode is a powerful tool, but like any tool, the difference between using it and mastering it lies in the details. These are the tips that have helped me the most in my day-to-day work.
The Reflection on My First Year at Meta Disclaimer: Everything here is just my personal opinion, and this text does not reflect any opinion of my employer. Also, feel free to disagree with me on anything here; again, this is just my personal opinion and reflects my experience. Before I talk abo...
Software Has Long Been Beyond Our Understanding Around the time that I turned twenty I packed my bags and moved across the country. For some odd reason I had decided my PC couldn't make the journey. With the little bit of cash I had left I built another from old parts found at local thrift stores. It w...
LLM Serving and the Bus That Never Stops In-flight batching is the trick that keeps LLM serving from wasting GPU seats.
Good Careers at Bad Companies Someone once asked me whether you can join a dysfunctional company and still have a good career. They assumed dysfunction is rare—something you'd see in advance and choose to join or avoid. But my experience is that most companies are dysfunctional in so...
Anxiety Is Making You Dumber Fear shrinks the prefrontal cortex and degrades the exact thinking you rely on for work. X is engineered to keep you in that state. The Stoics had the fix.
