Featured post what's this? ✨ Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL Since about a week, Cloudflare Turnstile (their "Verify you're human" device verification) has been looping indefinitely in my webkit-gtk based browser. Preventing access to quite few websites (previously, but it even went worse lately). Turns out i...
Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC Anthropic has confidentially submitted a draft S-1 registration statement to the Securities and Exchange Commission
The Newest Instagram "Exploit" is the Goofiest I've Seen Yesterday, a slew of Instagram accounts, including some high profile ones like the Obama White House account, seemingly got hacked. I've seen my share of exploits and takeover techniques, but this is the most unserious, "almost too stupid to be true" of t...
A 10 year old Xeon is all you need - point.free Or running Gemma 4 on a 2016 Xeon with no GPU, 25 flags, 128 GB of DDR3, and a 25B-parameter MoE.
Chuwi Minibook X: the netbook we deserve Netbooks are dead, but the Chuwi Minibook X scratches the same itch.
Weird projects I shipped with AI Where are all the AI-generated projects? This is a common question from AI skeptics: if LLMs are so good at writing code, where is the tsunami of new AI-generated apps, services and games?
Converting ISO Country Codes to Flag Emojis Did you know that there's a simple formula you can use to convert from an ISO two-letter country code to the emoji of the flag of that country. I've made an interactive thingy to demonstrate it, and shared some other fun things I've learned while playing ...
Typeface Specimens of Houston Mono™ Neil Panchal, the creator of soon-to-released Typeface Houston Mono™, recently sent me a complimentary set of the TX-24 Houston Mono typeface specimens. Some of you know this probably, but U.S Graphics is also the company that created the famous Berkeley ...
From Chat Completions to an Agents API – Notes by Dennis Yurkevich A note on the shift from chat completions to agents that return finished work, and what that means for builders outside frontier labs.
Simple systems are the best systems When it comes to systems design, John Gall knew his stuff. He even has a LAW1 about it: A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be pat...
Colonies on Mars require more than engineering Elon Musk talks about a city on Mars the way a developer talks about a new subdivision outside Phoenix. The engineering problems are hard, but they are the kind of hard we know how to attack: get there cheaply, make propellant on site, close the life-supp...
Why I'm building a SaaS company during the SaaSpocalypse. When building is cheap, all that remains is focus, taste, and conviction.
The Agentic Mesh: Cognitive Automation at Scale Convictions for designing tomorrow’s agentic systems — an agent mesh system capable of delivering value at scale, borrowing principles from the data mesh.
Encrypted Client Hello: A Big Tech Privacy Fix Much of the traffic on the web is now encrypted thanks to SSL/TLS (https). This prevents attackers from seeing the contents of your traffic. But they can still see which domains you are connecting to, and that might be a problem still.
Snapshot-based CMEK Bypass: Cross-Project Disk Replication This follow-up demonstrates a snapshot-based bypass that complements the disk-cloning attack described earlier.
Scientists found that the creatine supplement millions take for muscle gains is quietly raising brain energy levels and slowing early Alzheimer's cognitive decline by 30% - thesciverse Tens of millions of people take creatine every day for their muscles. A comprehensive review and a landmark clinical trial published in 2025 and 2026 have now documented what the same supplement is quietly doing to their brains. Creatine crosses the blood...
