Featured post what's this? ✨ blog As is true for everything, a lot of things need to happen for anything to happen, and so it’s true for this blogpost as well. Out of all of these everything that needed to happen, 3 are these:
Time travelling with IKEA catalogues 1951-2021 - IKEA Museum Browse IKEA catalogues through the ages, reflecting different eras and lifestyles - a goldmine for the nostalgic, design enthusiasts and history buffs.
Introducing the Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model Today we are releasing the Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model via the API, which outperforms leading alternatives at browser and mobile tasks.
How To Figure Out What You're Not Good At A blog post that has rolled around in my head ever since it arrived in my feed reader is How to say what you're good at by…
JSON Schema Compatibility and the Robustness Principle In a previous article, I explained how to evolve JSON Schemas, based on whether backward, forward, or full (both backward and forward) compatibility is desired. In JSON Schema, the value of additio…
Can you compress water and turn it solid? A question asked on reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/1n02vlg/ Yes and this has been experimentally confirmed. Shock compr...
Why I'm Pursuing Amateur Motorcycle Racing To excel at something requires focus, sacrifice, and dedication. To be truly good at something requires dedicating almost all of your free time to it—a constant obsession with how to get better. And, as is often the case today, especially in motorsports, ...
What Europe teaches the world about technology How Europe’s human-centered approach to technology offers a healthy alternative to the speed-obsessed U.S. and the state-driven model of China — a vision of innovation built on ethics, balance, and quality of life.
The Day My Smart Vacuum Turned Against Me Would you allow a stranger to drive a camera-equipped computer around your living room? You might have already done so without even realizing it. The Beginning: A Curious Experiment It all started innocently enough. I had recently bought an iLife A11 s...
Boat, not moat. To create a survivable business, the metaphor of the defensible “moat” will be outdated as the land shifts beneath us. The water is rising. Your company doesn’t need a moat, it ne…
domm / Perl / I brain coded a static image gallery in a few hours: snig.pl For quite some I wanted to write a small static image gallery so I can share my pictures with friends and family. Of course there are a gazillion tools like this, but, well, sometimes I just want to roll my own.
The Future of Mankind: Some Reflections A child standing on the shore of the Mediterranean and a child standing on the shore of the Pacific should share the same bright hope for their future and for the future of mankind.
Why you should self-host your (vibecoded) app How and why I decided to self-host all of my apps and services, and why I believe you should do the same in almost every case.
When a tool becomes a hobby Sometimes I get into collecting something, when usually a single one is enough, this happens with many tools, so I shared some thoughts about why.
Banana Curving Machine What is a Banana Curving Machine? Well it's a fantastic apparatus that does what it says. Curves Bananas.
No account? No Windows 11 for you, says Microsoft : Workaround sent to the big OOBE in the sky with latest Insider builds
Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was awarded jointly to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit"
Qualcomm to Acquire Arduino—Accelerating Developers’ Access to its Leading Edge Computing and AI In addition to maintaining compatibility with the Arduino IDE and iconic UNO ecosystem, UNO Q is the first Arduino board to work with Arduino App Lab, a new, integrated development environment built to unify the Arduino development journey across Real-tim...
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Ocean Rendering, Part 1 - Simulation · Robert Ryan In this post I will go through the theory and mathematics of implementing an ocean simulation for real-time rendering using oceanographic spectra and the Fast Fourier Transform.
A case for learning GPU programming with a compute-first mindset – Maister's Graphics Adventures Beginners coming into our little corner of the programming world have it rough. Normal CPU-centric programming tends to start out with a “Hello World” sample, which can be completed in mere minutes. It takes far longer to simply download the toolchains an...
GPU Instanced Grass Breakdown A post showing how Shader Graph can be used with DrawMeshInstancedProcedural / RenderMeshPrimitives and DrawMeshInstancedIndirect / RenderMeshIndirect to draw grass using GPU Instancing.