Featured post what's this? ✨ I'll probably never use Windows Windows, as a traditional operating system that users controlled, is becoming a thing of the past. Microsoft is gradually eroding personal computing.
Allow me to get to know you, mistakes and all I think I’ve finally pinpointed why it is that I have an allergic reaction when I’m confronted with a text that has me as the intended recipient, but that has been run through an LLM to change or “clean up” the wording - especially if it’s internal commun...
Building my own cloud in 3 months For many years now, I've been managing the backups for my family, phone data, laptop data, camera data, everything. While I kept all my personal data since I was 12 intact, that has not been the case for my family; broken external hard drives, photos stor...
You Can Just Deploy Things | Relax, it's software. How Nix makes it trivially easy to deploy software on your home server.
Living with (Jagged) Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) A form of jagged artificial superintelligence is here. Models learned to think and use tools, crossing a threshold where agents are genuinely useful. But the human brain remains remarkably cost-effective for dynamic, judgment-heavy problems. Stop trying t...
Still choose boring technology Dan McKinley's classic advice on "choosing boring technology" is even more true in the AI era.
Validation is your agent's bottleneck A framework for validating the outputs of coding agents is what's currently missing in the AI coding agent space.
Why I Stopped Using Spotify | Yar Kravtsov's Blog I thought streaming was the ethical upgrade from piracy. Turns out it just made music disposable. Now I buy CDs, pirate FLACs, and actually listen to albums …
Resourceful Computing: What Happens When We Optimize for Old Hardware? Laptop prices are climbing and Windows is pushing users toward new devices. But millions of perfectly capable machines are sitting in homes right now. Here's why optimizing for old hardware is good for users, developers, and the environment.
Overlay Bar Chart · Anantha Kumaran In this post, I will discuss the overlay bar chart. There is plenty of material on stacked and grouped bar charts, but relatively little written about overlay bar charts. This post attempts to address that gap.
Mathematics Distillation Challenge – Equational Theories Mathematical research traditionally involves a small number of professional mathematicians working closely on difficult problems. However, I have long believed that there is a complementary way to …
You Digg? Digg was just opened to the public in January 2026. After facing a swarm of AI bots, they decided to shutdown once more. I will mourn them in peace again.
computer graphics, maths, shaders, fractals, demoscene Tutorials and articles of Inigo Quilez on computer graphics, fractals, math, art, demoscene, shaders and more.
GitHub - TomBadash/MouseControl: A lightweight, open-source alternative to Logitech Options+ for remapping buttons on the Logitech MX Master 3S mouse A lightweight, open-source alternative to Logitech Options+ for remapping buttons on the Logitech MX Master 3S mouse - TomBadash/MouseControl
GitHub - Hammerspoon/hammerspoon: Staggeringly powerful macOS desktop automation with Lua Staggeringly powerful macOS desktop automation with Lua - Hammerspoon/hammerspoon
1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 | Claude Standard pricing now applies across the full 1M window for both models, with no long-context premium. Media limits expand to 600 images or PDF pages.
Your Phone is an Entire Computer The new MacBook Neo announcement raises old questions around what rights we have (and don't have) to install software on devices we own.