Featured post what's this? ✨ Please, use a link! This is a rant. It didn't start today, but I think I've reached the end of the line. The straw that broke the camel's back, so to say. I used an internal tool for the first time. I logged in and navig
Making a better Social Media Introduction What is a ‘better’ social media? My last post on recreating old Facebook surprisingly made it to the front page of Hacker News, so it’s safe to assume there’s some interest, or nostalgia, for something in the social space that perhaps existed...
Reverse Engineering the Anticheat on a Private MMO Server I play on a private Aion server. For those unfamiliar, Aion is an MMO from 2009 that NCSoft has largely abandoned in the West, but a community of private servers keeps it alive. The server I play on uses a third-party anticheat called Active Anticheat, a ...
Trying to fix complicated problems — Epi Notes One day I watched a video where David Pruess goes through an analysis of a chess position (David is an amazing chess teacher and commentator), and he goes through like a dozen moves before pointing out one random little detail that reverses the conclusion...
~fpereiro A few months ago I wrote an article in which I considered the idea of LLMs being the “new high level language”: something on a higher abstraction layer that allows to build software.
The outsized impact of cultural idiosyncrasies Cultural idiosyncrasies reveal what a company actually does, not just what it says. They can have an outsized impact on both public company image and internal perception and job satisfaction.
Have you bought a car lately? • Ninjas and Robots Single people can be as productive as whole teams. People are freaking out. There’s so much angst about how their jobs are changing with AI. I get it. It does feel like the things you used to do aren’t as valuable anymore. There’s new things to... | Ninja...
Preliminary analysis of AUR malware Malware Analysis Report: deps Report date: 2026-06-11 VT Link Triage Link Note: The following report was very hastily written by Codex. (I have fact-checked it against the IDA decompilation though 🐉) Scope and Handling This report summarizes static ...
Lisp’s Influence on Ruby Once I wrote users.select { |u| u.admin? }.map(&:email) and realized I’d written Lisp.
Making a vintage LLM from scratch - Cr;Lf; In this blog post, I will share the adventures I had creating my own LLM, from (almost) scratch, trained only on old texts.I made my own base-training and fine-tuning scripts, data processing pipelines and custom datasets.("almost from scratch" means I di...
Finding Optimal Tokenizers In this post, I will present an algorithm that was able to compute an optimal tokenizer in some settings. This result is cool because optimal tokenization is theoretically intractable, but seems to be solvable in practice. ...
A Commons of Software Productive Infrastructure, By and For Capital There is a growing call for sustainable open source, non-profits, and adjacent organisations that appears to align with the very strong culture of radical anti-capitalist organising and contribution in either free or open source software projects1. There ...
The optimal number of unreviewed PRs is not zero Code got cheap. Review didn’t. What queueing theory says about the AI-era backlog.
Neural Cellular Automata with WebGPU A WebGPU demo of Growing Neural Cellular Automata. Each cell runs inference through a shared pretrained neural network entirely in compute shaders
6.0.0 Today, I’m proud to announce Homebrew 6.0.0. The most significant changes since 5.1.0 are a new tap trust security mechanism, the new faster, smaller, default internal Homebrew JSON API, sandboxing on Linux, better defaults informed by our user survey, ma...
Lines of Code Got a Better Publicist A case against measuring AI-assisted engineering by code volume and other vanity metrics instead of outcomes.
AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere Agentic AI systems can be used to do a variety of things autonomously on behalf of a human user [...]
Anthropic's Model Naming, Extrapolated · Sam Wilkinson With the release of Claude Fable, it is clear that Anthropic is progressing from poems to enterprise-scale narrative objects.
