Featured post what's this? ✨ Why Custom Attributes in .NET give me Nightmares Some people may think I am a shill for .NET.
VoidZero is joining Cloudflare VoidZero, the team behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+, is joining Cloudflare. Vite stays open source, vendor-agnostic, and built for everyone.
Military experts or arms industry insiders? UK media fails to disclose defence sector links in nearly 60% of cases - AOAV Here AOAV finds that UK media outlets frequently present retired senior military figures as independent defence experts without disclosing their commercial ties to defence, security, intelligence, and technology industries, potentially obscuring conflicts...
fopen is Magic! - Find Out What You've Been Missing All These Years! Dave explains the magic of fopen and the multiple ways it can be used that many programmers do not even know about.
Anti-AI nostalgia and the cult of the past Programmers were better back in the day, weren’t they? Back when we had real programmers. Not just people who got paid to write code, but people who lived it, who were obsessed with their craft, and whose code was a lively expression of themselves. Hacker...
Discovering the LLM's curious and remarkable world knowledge of open data on the web. Turns out you can explore data with AI even if you don't have any... data.
My son, the OpenAI server - byandrev Sam Altman has said that he finds the comparison made regarding the energy consumption of artificial intelligence unfair, and that no one questions how much energy is used to "train" a human.
Evals or You're Blind — Pydantic AI × Pydantic Evals × crabbox A runnable demo: realistic Pydantic Evals grading a Pydantic AI agent, executed on disposable boxes via crabbox. Built around the 7 anti-lessons from PyCon DE.
How to Just Do a Thing I keep reading books from the 19th century and earlier, fiction and nonfiction, because I envy something about the lives of the people in them.
I Built a Local News Website The Boise started as a personal experiment in local media, AI, maps, and UX. It became a way to rethink what local news can feel like when it is built around how people actually live.
Structure of Every LLM Chat Role tagging is not cosmetic. It shapes how the model responds, how context is managed across multiple turns, and how application developers constrain and direct model behaviour at a structural level. Understanding this format is the difference between us...
For EU Open Source, the Budget Is the Policy The EU's new Open Source Strategy is a real step forward, but it still has no procurement teeth. Here is what changed since 2020, what hasn't, and why the budget Brussels already controls is the policy that matters most.
OpenAI has a branding problem The company that led the consumer AI race might be losing the naming one.
Quill Grid Quill Grid: The Starlink for AI becomes a network. An optional, opt-in distributed AI grid where idle Quill One devices share spare capacity, earn credits, and donate AI hours.
Quill Grid Quill Grid: The Starlink for AI becomes a network. An optional, opt-in distributed AI grid where idle Quill One devices share spare capacity, earn credits, and donate AI hours.
You Don't Need an Outbox - EventSourcingDB The outbox pattern has quietly become canonical in microservice tutorials. It has a name, library support, conference talks, and a steady stream of blog posts that walk through implementing it. It's blessed. And yet, every time it shows up in a system, it...
Building with Agents — Readables Agents get you to 90% fast. The last 10% is where the engineering lives — and it still belongs to you. Notes on the last mile, decisions, and scope creep.
The Approach to Equilibrium Coffee cools, eggs scramble, the past never comes back. Yet the laws underneath run just as well in reverse. Here is the simplest machine I know that holds both truths at once, and shows where the missing order really goes.
The Agentic Test Pyramid — Matthew Boston The classic test pyramid assumes every test is deterministic. The moment a model is part of your system, that assumption breaks. You need a second axis.
ESP32-S31 Dual-Core RISC-V + Multi-Protocol SoC Overview Features Products & Resources Product Selector
Server-Side WebRTC Noise Reduction with Pion, FFmpeg, and RNN Models An engineering note on routing WebRTC Opus audio through a Go/Pion server, decoding it to PCM, filtering it with FFmpeg arnndn, and validating the tradeoffs before real-time use.
10 million requests in my bot black hole... Here is some information: | Glade Art Blog And so, ladies and gentlemen, we have hit the 10,000,000 serves threshold of the Data Export tar pit. This is a whole new level of bot trapping, and it's pea...
The Bloat: Devlog Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray
Vivaldi (Chrome) ruining website colors - Yee Chie's Corner I recently tried Vivaldi browser and noticed my website’s colors looked wrong. Vivaldi’s (or any Chrome-based browser) aggressive color management adjusts...
The case for memory safe desktop Linux distribution I am writing this after setting up new laptop, so I have some thought about how I'd like my system to work and decided to write them down. I...
What your router knows but won't tell you - David E. Weekly A while back my home network started acting strange. Not broken, exactly. Just a low-grade wrongness. Video calls would glitch for a few seconds and come back.
Opus 4.8 vs Opus 4.7 vs GPT-5.5 vs Composer 2.5 - 50 Real PRs in Go and Rust I graded four frontier coding models on 50 real merged PRs in Go and Rust - not just whether tests pass, but craft, equivalence, and cost. Opus 4.8 led on craft in both.
An Open Source Motorized XYZ Micro-Manipulator - Affordable sub µm Motion Control A low-cost and easy to build 3-Axis motion plattform is presented. It can achieve step sizes down to 50nm while supporting arbitrary acceleration limited motion paths in a working volume of 23x23x23mm³. The simple G-Coder interface allows easy control fro...
Now that your newsletter is AI-generated, I've Unsubscribed I've remained subscribed to some newsletters for over 20 years. The authors managed to keep my attention all that time. But then, one day, they decided to switch to an AI-generated newsletter without
MacBook Neo is So Popular That Apple Reportedly Doubled Production On an earnings call in late April, Apple's CEO Tim Cook said that customer response to the MacBook Neo was "off the charts," and the popularity of the laptop has reportedly led the company to significantly boost production. Apple supply chain analyst Ming...
Elixir v1.20 released: now a gradually typed language From Elixir v1.20, every program is now gradually type checked in search for verified bugs and typing violations.
DaVinci Resolve – What’s New Professional video editing, color correction, visual effects and audio post production all in a single application. Free and paid versions for Mac, Windows and Linux.
Encephalitis - Andrew Gallant's Blog I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis. It is an autoimmune disorder where your body’s normally helpful antibodies start acting strangely. This leads to inflammation in the brain. This short blog briefly discusses some of my experie...
