Featured post what's this? ✨ How to Keep Your Brain Sharp: A Practical Playbook Beyond the Basics - The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss The following is a guest post from Dr. Tommy Wood (@drtommywood), associate professor of pediatrics and neuroscience at the University of Washington, where his research focuses on brain health. In this blog post, Tommy covers: Tommy’s new book is The Sti...
Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date" Old 86-DOS source code dates back to the time before Microsoft bought it.
Proxies all the way down. A couple of days ago, exe.dev raised a lot of money1. I decided to poke around with it a little, and signed up. Their trial is 7 days long, so despite having no actual plans, I just started doing stuff. In doing so, I noticed a few interesting things that...
Oops, I invented REST APIs Now THAT’s a title. It’s a bit like saying “How I invented bit shifting” or, for the less technical people reading this “How I invented restaurants”.
The Bombadil Terminal Experiment Last week at Bug Bash 2026, I had a bunch of interesting discussions about testing non-web interfaces with Bombadil, our new property-based testing framework for user interfaces. One direction that I already wanted to explore is terminal user interfaces (...
I'm finally Powered By Linux I have officially made it to Linux. It's now my desktop of choice 99.9% of the time.
A fully static Terraform registry Explore the architecture of a purely static Terraform registry. Includes code examples for Cloudflare Workers, CloudFront Functions, and Bunny CDN.
San Francisco streets with confusingly similar names A list and history of San Francisco's many humorously similar street names, which are liable to confuse both locals and out-of-towners.
My local agentic dev setup today — Willem van den Ende I was planning to write about my local development setup at my leisure. Moving this forward as my post on LinkedIn the other day about cancelling my Claude Max $100 plan and going local raised a lot more interest and questions than I expected. This post a...
My agent management software | Liam DeVoe I write a lot of code. Or rather, I used to write a lot of code. After Claude Opus ~4.5, it's now more accurate to say that I review and design a lot of code.
On running creative online bots with ten thousand followers | Stefan Bohacek's Personal Website and Blog A short look back on 10 years of making creative online bots.
Tar Files Created on macOS Display Errors When Extracting on Linux tar.gz files seem to include extra files starting with ._. When these are extracted on Linux, a bunch of errors are displayed.
Scaling Pain of Coding Agent Serving: Lessons from Debugging GLM-5 at Scale Our belief in Scaling Laws has not only driven continuous breakthroughs in model parameters and data scale, but has also pushed infrastructure engineering toward its limits. This process inevitably comes with growing pains, which we refer to as Scaling Pa...
Sammy's Blog I finished reading On the Edge last week, and it was bad. Not that I don't respect Nate Silver. I respect him a lot. So when his seminal text on gambling and risk taking was a rambling mess, I was suprised and disappointed. Nevertheless, a completionist a...
GPT-5.5 authorship and order effects - Guillaume Valmont's Weblog While comparing medium, high, and extra-high reasoning modes on the same task, I uncovered consistent authorship and presentation-order effects in GPT-5.5’s evaluations.
Mark Ferraz — AI Infrastructure Architect · Builder · Author AI Infrastructure Architect building production AI systems. CPO of Govern 365 at Netwoven. Founder of LittleGuy. Author, Microsoft Press.
Reddit is the most dangerous Social Media Platform for Human Creativity - Opinion OpenAI recently revealed why Goblins and Gremlins were featured more than they should have been in chats...
The Mutable Value Semantics (MVS): A Non-superficial Study This post is part of The Eter programming Language series.
Dynamic Software For fifty years, software has been static. Then 2024 happened. The control flow came alive and a new category of software was born.
Does Prop 13 explain California’s relatively lower birth rates? California’s total fertility rate dropped from 17th to 43rd in the country since 2008. It is easy to see: home prices predict birth rates with striking accuracy — and Prop 13 is what made California’s housing costs a political choice, not just a market ou...
Agentic Coding is Burning Me Out The familiar pacing of software development has been completely compressed by agentic coding because you no longer have those routine stretches of just wiring things together to catch your breath. Writing code by hand, or trad coding as Twitter likes to c...
Rivian Support - Support Center - Rivian Vehicle connectivity is a core feature of Rivian vehicles. If you choose to disable all vehicle connectivity, it will prevent data from leaving the vehicle, but it will also limit or disable certain functionality in the vehicle (e.g., navigation, lane kee...
LinkedIn Is Scanning Your Browser Extensions. This Is How They Use the Data. — 404 When companies get caught doing this sort of thing, the response is almost always the same: "we're using this technology to combat fraud," or "ensure positive user experience," or "save computing resources," or some other hog wash. The simple truth, ther...
Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library The PyPI package lightning was compromised in versions 2.6.2 and 2.6.3 with Mini Shai-Hulud themed malicious code to execute credential-stealing malware on import.
Fast .NET CLI ISO Downloader with Integrity Validation | no dogma blog A fast .NET CLI tool for downloading ISO files with built-in integrity validation.
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The Whistleblower Who Uncovered the NSA’s ‘Big Brother Machine’ An unexpected visitor gave my team the evidence we needed to prove that the government was secretly wiretapping Americans.
GCC 16 Release Series — Changes, New Features, and Fixes This page is a "brief" summary of some of the huge number of improvements in GCC 16. You may also want to check out our Porting to GCC 16 page and the full GCC documentation.
J. Craig Venter, genomics pioneer and founder of JCVI and Diploid Genomics, Inc., dies at 79 La Jolla, California—April 29, 2026—The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) announced that J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., the Institute’s founder, board...
How to Make a 1990s Payphone Work in Your Garage! Find out what's inside a 1990s payphone and how to make one work in your own home or office. Full working example and no unethical hacking! Check out Shop Talk on Dave's Attic! Post a question here and we answer them every Friday! https://youtu.be/iT0...
The Zig project's rationale for their firm anti-AI contribution policy Zig has one of the most stringent anti-LLM policies of any major open source project: No LLMs for issues. No LLMs for pull requests. No LLMs for comments on the …
