Featured post what's this? ✨ The Vibe Tax | insufferable.dev Pol had 12 hours, a blank repo, and a fresh weekly quota. By morning, only one of those remained.
Everything I own, owned Turning Claude loose on the firmware of five USB and WiFi peripherals, and finding a command shell in a microphone, a defeatable webcam activity LED, and unauthenticated memory writes over the network.
The silence that reads as safety Consider a representative detection team building a rule for suspicious LSASS access. On a modern Windows estate, Sysmon Event ID 10 (or an equivalent EDR process-access event) is the collection choice, because the standard Security log has no event for o...
Optimizing memory use in a Markdown parser I ported a Markdown parser from Rust to C++ and then optimized the hell out of it.
How To Report A Bug So It Actually Gets Fixed A production ByteBuf leak took me from Netty logs to a fix shipped by Microsoft in a few weeks. Here is the step-by-step process I use to report bugs so they actually get fixed.
Cache-Control for LLMs Claude Sonnet 5 charges $2.00 per million fresh input tokens. Writing them into a five-minute cache costs $2.50, and every read after that costs $0.20 (see here). So two identical calls cost $2.70 with caching instead of $4.00. One reuse pays for the writ...
There's no substitute for real-world experience | MattCASmith From the CEO who once drove a forklift to game developers taking 250,000 photos of New York, real experience beats abstraction every time and can make the difference between good and groundbreaking.
Risky Bulletin: Slovakia finds Russian backdoor in traffic speed cameras - Risky Business Media Slovakia's national security service NBU has issued a security alert against the use of NERO R-ONE high-speed traffic cameras.The agency s [Read More]
Everything is Nix if you squint hard enough [Talk @ Nix Community DEFCON 34] Thanks to the Nix Vegas team for recording and releasing the talks from this year. Here are the slides from my talk on August 7th, 2026 at the Nix Comunity from DEFCON 34.
Eliminate GPU Waste by Cutting the Retry Tax — Rahmi Pruitt Retries aren't free. A look at how retry amplification wastes GPU capacity during inference, and why pacing demand instead of rejecting it can turn excess load into waiting time instead of wasted compute.
The Vibe Tax | insufferable.dev Pol had 12 hours, a blank repo, and a fresh weekly quota. By morning, only one of those remained.
We Have the Model, Why do We Need You? — hank.bond I already have Claude Code, so if all you bring to the table is 'I know how to use Clude Code' then I don't really need you.
Quantization Barely Mattered Until Two Bits — Rakuen Software Thirty-seven runs, seven models, two tasks, one RTX 5080. Thirty of forty-five accuracy comparisons did not separate. The ones that did are almost all below four bits, where dense models pay roughly five times what mixtures pay and a quantization-aware bu...
Euge's blog - Engineerification Why more professions are becoming engineer-shaped just as engineering itself may be automated
Building a Better Inner Loop — Bradley Gibbs Loop engineering as a systems problem: the same development work, reallocated across a new boundary — where each function should live, what changes when it moves, and what evidence would show the resulting system is better.
I Shouldn’t Need an LLM to Explain My LLM I’ve been using Opus a lot at work lately for a project and have had serious issues with it reaching for bizarre analogies, obscure jargon, and strange phrases.
Amazon kept shutting down my tablet, so I spent $266 on four AI models to own it Owning a tablet Amazon kept shutting down: CVE-2022-38181, four AI models, five months
I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job I assumed needed a frontier model, and it finished in 30 minutes Qwen 3.8 27B genuinely shocked me with what it achieved here.
The Golden Rule for Becoming a Better Writer - T.R Napper I’m obsessed with the craft of writing. I write every day, I read about the craft often, and in my...
