Featured post what's this? ✨ Alternatives to the UK government’s social media ban | MattCASmith The UK government wants to ban social media for under-16s. The goal is reasonable, but there are more effective alternatives that don't require sacrificing privacy and anonymity for the rest of the population.
Vulnerability Reports Are Not Special Anymore We needed the insight and confidentiality to protect our users, but now that anyone can get the same results from LLM?
In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words - The Old New Thing Starting in Word and expanding to nearly every other word processor, and even things that aren't word processors.
What If Creativity Was the Constraint? What happens when the distance between an idea and working software becomes dramatically shorter? Some thoughts on creativity, curiosity, and AI-powered building.
Building Intelligent Games – Rasmus Rasmussen dot com In the world of game development the term AI has been around for decades, though it was not referring to chatbots and neural networks but rather things like finite state machines and behavior trees. Both of those are fantastic tools for game development a...
Less is more, more or less In the age of AI, knowing what not to build might be the most important skill of all.
The Map — Jerry's Map In the summer of 1963 Jerry began drawing a map of an imaginary city. The work started as a doodle done in the spare time he had while working at a tedious job. He continued to add to that map through the years until, in 1983, he set it aside to put his f...
Death by a Thousand Comments — Royal Icing Gergely Orosz of the Pragmatic Engineer newsletter/podcast writes:
Who Owns the Model of You? — 0set0set A person-owned architecture for what AI agents are allowed to know about you — claims, provenance, consent, and portability, exposed to agents over MCP.
Alternatives to the UK government’s social media ban | MattCASmith The UK government wants to ban social media for under-16s. The goal is reasonable, but there are more effective alternatives that don't require sacrificing privacy and anonymity for the rest of the population.
I received a fake job offer. The npm package in the project was a full info-stealer. | Yunus Aydın Blog A social engineering attack disguised as a freelance NFT staking project. The zip file contained a typosquatted npm package (pretie_x1) that drops a multi-stage, AES-encrypted info-stealer targeting browser credentials, crypto wallets, SSH keys, and OS lo...
Vibe under constraint Vibe coding is great. You describe what you want, the agent writes it, the tests pass, you ship. It keeps working right up to the moment it does not: the job gets killed by the OOM reaper in production, or it opens ten thousand file descriptors and falls ...
Stop AB2047 - California's bill that pulls 3D printers from schools and businesses A plain-language guide to AB2047 you can share with your school board, PTA, or neighbor. Learn what's at stake and how to take action.
Mistral OCR 4 : SOTA OCR for Document Intelligence Mistral OCR 4 delivers enterprise document AI with 170-language support, bounding boxes, and self-hosted deployment.
GitHub - future-file-format/F3: [SIGMOD 2026] F3: The Open-Source Data File Format for the Future [SIGMOD 2026] F3: The Open-Source Data File Format for the Future - future-file-format/F3
