Featured post what's this? ✨ How I Stumbled into the Perfect API Architecture I set out to build a fuel price API for the UK and convinced myself I'd need PostGIS, tile servers, and a small fleet of infrastructure to make it work. The actual answer was a script, a file, and a CDN. I just took the long way round to find it.
Browsers Treat Big Sites Differently Safari and Firefox change how big sites render based on the domain. TikTok, Netflix, Instagram… even SeatGuru. Chrome doesn’t. Why is that?
GitHub - DepthFirstDisclosures/Nginx-Rift: exploit for CVE-2026-42945 exploit for CVE-2026-42945. Contribute to DepthFirstDisclosures/Nginx-Rift development by creating an account on GitHub.
How Poor Sleep Drove Me Insane, and My Long Path to Recovery I'm sharing my experience dealing with what might be the most underdiagnosed and under-treated health disorder today.
Four tech waves. Six companies. Here’s what I’m building next. I’ve been lucky. Lucky to be building during four major technology shifts: the internet, SaaS/web services, mobile/social, and now AI, and to have learned something useful from each one. Not by being the smartest person in the room, but by being around ot...
Working Hard | Joy of Reading Before podcasts were a thing, Bill Simmons would trade e-mails with somebody successful for his piece on ESPN called "The Curious Guy". I ran into this excha...
I owe my career to open-source communities. I'm not sure newcomers can say the same. Open-source communities shaped my career in ways no tutorial ever could. Now, as AI floods those same spaces with noise, I worry about the people arriving just a few years too late.
Agents Can Reason. They Still Can't Really Search. Agents have a search problem across the whole stack: web search, RAG, tool discovery, skills/workflow loading, and even context compaction.
May I recommend… understanding Emacs's patterns The above, unless I've completely forgotten my Shakespeare, was a soliloquy from Juliet Consulet regarding Romeo Montagnu
The End of Claude Code Automation Starting June 15, Anthropic is moving automated Claude Code usage out of the normal subscription bucket. usage will now count against a separate monthly API-style credit that is much smaller than what…
Noam Hurwitz Modern chips are produced in part through lithography: light is projected through a mask onto photosensitive material coating silicon to pattern transistors, contacts, vias, interconnects, and other structures. As Moore’s Law pushes on and chips continue ...
Naturally Occurring Quasicrystals I love quasicrystals—like crystals, but with patterns that never repeat, like Penrose tiles. But they’ve very rare in nature. They’re created only by the most exotic and violent e…
Small Model Forensics What ~2,000 timed API calls reveal about how closed-weight model providers scale inference, or fail to, in 2026.
Cheap agents, alumni shirts, and Elias Thorne · Daniel May On agent-coded cold outreach, the alumni t-shirt scam, the Elias Thorne convergence, and what gets visible when no one does the work.
God Damn AI is making me dumb It's so god damn tempting to use AI to write. Whether it is articles, code, or documents. I feel like using AI is diminishing my ability to write myself. ...
Bitcoin trader recovers $400,000 using Claude AI after getting 'stoned' and losing wallet password 11 years ago — bot tried 3.5 trillion passwords before decrypting an old wallet backup The user apparently changed the password while 'stoned.'
RTX 5090 + M4 MacBook Air: Can it Game? What if you could strap a full desktop GPU to your MacBook Air? Turns out, you can.
Video transcript: A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline | MIT Office of the President | MIT Hello, everyone.
Rewrite Bun in Rust by Jarred-Sumner · Pull Request #30412 · oven-sh/bun Blog post with details coming soon. It passes Bun's pre-existing test suite on all platforms (and fixes several memory leaks and flaky tests), the binary size shrinks by 3 MB - 8 MB, the benchm...
Introducing Claude for Small Business We're launching Claude for Small Business, a package of connectors and ready-to-run workflows that put Claude inside the tools small businesses use every day.
