FDA Authorizes First Wearable Device That Continuously Monitors Both Ketone Levels and Blood Sugar The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today authorized the Libre Duo 10 Day Continuous Dual Glucose Ketone Monitoring System for people aged 2 years and older living with diabetes.
Vector search in PostgreSQL: deduplicating thousands of speakers with pgvector and HNSW From an O(N²) cosine self-join that timed out to HNSW + LATERAL k-nearest-neighbour queries: deduplicating voice embeddings in PostgreSQL.
Tech (or political?) choices The Italian-American blog MacStories reversed a decision made in 2022 and returned to using X (formerly Twitter), opening up a crisis among contributors and readers who feel betrayed.
Debugging Ubiquiti's 5G Backup on AT&T For a mobile 'mini homelab' project I'm working on, I wanted to use 5G Internet as a primary 'on-to-go' connection, but still have the ability to plug in another Internet connection when I put the mobile rack I'm building in a fixed location. I'll have mo...
Thinking Is Slow. Copying Is Fast. | Michael Gomes Vieira Nearly all behavior of biological species is ultimately a result of what is effectively the giant reinforcement learning algorithm in nature. It...
Say something people want You've worked your heart out building your startup. You’ve convinced the smartest investors to pour millions into your vision. You’ve recruited a dedicated, world-class team. Your conviction is immutable, and the timing couldn't be better to make your lon...
Actually Queryable Executables I was pleasantly surprised and happy to see that my article ‘Your executable is a SQLite database’ resonated with people. It is a format I have been thinking about for a while, and the idea seems to have struck a chord with others.
Silence Is a Feature The server room is too loud. You picture blue LEDs blinking in the dark. It’s actually a wall of sound - thousands of small fans screaming in slightly different keys, a noise that gets into your teeth. I had the yellow ear protection on and could still f...
Don't Blame the Fire. Look at Who Struck the Match Fear of artificial intelligence, concentrated power, and the case for public infrastructure.
Have We Forgotten How to Design? Last week, I read a story about how Waymo (self-driving taxi service) is partnering with Door Dash (food delivery service).
My Friend Aaron This one is about my friend, Aaron. I met him at school, and in our first year when we were eleven years old I told him I wanted to be his best friend but he…
The language around language models — Dilpreet Singh Laude Institute, introducing Headlong: A Microharness for Persistent Agents:
Multi-agent workflows have an amnesia problem Multi-agent AI pipelines lose context at every handoff between agents. A look at why, backed by Salesforce's CRMArena-Pro benchmark, and what a shared memory layer actually fixes.
Using a shock collar to stop myself doomscrolling I’m hooked up to the dopamine scroll machine where Meta harvests my soul for advertising. At this point that’s how I see it. Like anyone with a smartphone and social media I’m susceptible to a junk food diet of endlessly scrolling Instagram Reels or viewi...
How I use Claude Code Here's how I make the most out of Claude Code: my CLAUDE.md rules and a pre-commit hook for Claude to check its own work.
I built a forgetting curve for an agent with one user What I learned, mostly: I overbuilt the clever part, and then kept it anyway.
Freedom to Handcraft Software — rohanrd Why is it that great artists still want to make their art by hand? Why do musicians still want to compose their tunes? Why do writers still prefer to write their own stories? When AI can do it all within seconds. It's not just these artists that do not us...
The Internet Is Becoming An App I have been online long enough to remember when “the internet” and “the web” were different things, and when the web was genuinely a web. Pages linked to other pages and you…
A scale invariance property of PCA The PCA algorithm is sensitive to changes in measurement scale. Measuring one variable of a system in inches rather than centimeters, say, alters both its principal axes and principal eigenvalues. Although this scale dependence is generally complicated, w...
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I Put 8.8 Billion Tokens on My CV This morning I found Claude Code's /cost command and discovered I've pushed 8.8 billion tokens through it in 234 days. I added the number to my résumé — here's the case for token throughput as an AI-era CV signal.
An interactive introduction to the spanning tree protocol Root election, port roles, proposals and agreements, topology changes: explore RSTP through simulations powered by MSTPD compiled to WebAssembly.
Apple unveils a more powerful Mac mini featuring the all-new M6 and M5 Pro Apple announced the new Mac mini with the all-new M6 and powerful M5 Pro, delivering a dramatic boost in performance and more versatility in its supersmall desktop design.
Balancing flex items with flex-wrap: balance A look at how flex items wrap and how to balance them across lines.
Apple introduces new Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra Apple announced the new Mac Studio, featuring M5 Max and the all-new M5 Ultra, delivering a monumental leap in AI performance and even faster graphics.
Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in performance and AI compute Apple debuted M6 in the new Mac mini and M5 Ultra in the new Mac Studio, providing an extraordinary leap in performance and AI capabilities.
Docker Engine: Install free version with no Licensing issues | Pure Krome How to install the free version of Docker Engine without licensing issues.
Back to Basics: Caching with Cache-Control header | Pure Krome Some simple basics of caching with the Cache-Control header.
