Featured post what's this? ✨ score by collisions, patch by panic TLDR; Score severity by collision count. Researchers ship patches not just reports. Companies redesign for a world where the exploit lands before the patch. No magic. No vendor pitch. Just the playbook. The last post went further than I expected. NYT&rsqu...
Technical Interviews Reject the Wrong Engineers 20 years of observation, 50 years of research, and a framework for measuring the interview instead of the candidate
We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations—and it scaled (2026) - Shopify How we used SKIP LOCKED, composite primary keys, and connection visibility to hit our scale targets.
BBEdit 16 is here! | Bare Bones Software There are more than a hundred new feature additions, changes, and refinements, including forward-looking foundational work which brings order-of-magnitude performance improvements in some parts of the product.
Hail Mary - Star Map See a recreation of the Project Hail Mary in-ship navigation computer with accurate star data from the GAIA DR3 mission.
Why Patagonia? — Edward Champion I feel awkward about my body, I don't feel like the picture of an outdoorsy person, and I work indoors for a living. Why do I buy Patagonia clothes? A mix of quality, warranty, and the company's commitment to its products. I like a little ethics in my clo...
Does using LLMs make me dumber? - Wilsons Blog So this is something I’ve heard a lot and have thought about a lot. First I want to re-frame the question from what I usually read to what I think is actually a good question: “How does using LLMs change the way I learn?” I think this is better because 1....
SpaceX's IPO Bagship carries full payload of Elon's mistakes In which the great American space dream, it turns out, is just another vehicle where the greater fool flies coach.
Understanding KV Cache: The Hidden Memory Cost of Serving LLMs A deep dive into KV cache — the hidden memory bottleneck of LLM inference. Learn how KV cache grows with context length and concurrency, why it matters for self-hosted models, and how attention innovations like GQA, MQA, MLA, sliding-window attention, hyb...
Highest Random Weight in Elixir | jola.dev A description of HRW/rendezvous hashing and the HRW elixir library.
Intelligence Some problems don’t get solved in your head, they get solved in someone else’s while you watch or read their solution. You might feel it before you understand it. A small calibration. A quiet “Oh!”
50 Hours to Draw Some Lines - Doug MacDowell Hand drawn data visualizations by artist Doug MacDowell.
Fixing LLM writing with Distribution Fine Tuning Technical Report: How Distribution Fine Tuning (DFT) improves LLM writing quality
The Maintainer's Dilemma | spf13 Open source maintenance is breaking at scale. Can AI code review can help maintainers without breaking trust, judgment, or community.
Containers Are a Security Boundary (some assembly required) ┈ Tianon's Ramblings ✿ I've heard "containers are not a security boundary" enough times that it's started to feel like received wisdom, and my honest read (after 13+ years) is that it's technically defensible but practically sloppy – and the sloppiness matters.
Adults Have Lost the Ability to Smile, Why? Today at the supermarket, I was smiling at a baby. The baby saw my smile and she smiled back. I did a few more times with older kids and they all smiled back...
Lessons I Learned from Creating Searx Seven years of maintaining a popular open source metasearch engine taught me a great deal about privacy, community, and the fundamental limits of the metasearch approach. Here is what led me to build Hister.
Back up your TOTP codes by just printing them Scan the Quick Response (QR) code above with your favorite Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) app. You should get a six digit number, rotating every 30 seconds, that looks something like 1 2 237601 # as of Wed May 20 09:44:53 AM EEST 2026 If you then...
Google's Antigravity Bait and Switch The day was to begin like any other, with Antigravity open, expecting to get some work done before my attention fragments. But Google had other plans. They had rolled out a new version of Antigravity the day before, at I/O 2026, presenting it as a shiny, ...
no slop grenade Stop throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations. If they wanted an AI essay, they would have asked ChatGPT themselves.
AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale AI takes in all the input, whether the original authors have consented or not, and do some "learning", and then the AI companies sell these learned result to...
Flipper One — we need your help With Flipper One, we're reimagining what a Linux cyberdeck can be — it's a huge project. We're opening up the development process and asking the community for help.
A new generation of ads for the AI era of Search Google is introducing new ad formats built with Gemini in Search and expanding the Direct Offers pilot for shoppers.
DOS Zone | DOS games in browser Ultimate collection of free dos games to play online in browser. No registration needed, no advertisment, just play!
GitHub - kageroumado/phosphene: A video wallpaper engine for macOS Tahoe A video wallpaper engine for macOS Tahoe. Contribute to kageroumado/phosphene development by creating an account on GitHub.
The famous o3 "GeoGuessr" prompt did not work In April last year, Kelsey Piper discovered that OpenAI’s o3 model was surprisingly good at figuring out where a photo was taken from. Like human “geoguessr” pros, o3 could sometimes take a nondescript photo of a beach and tell you exactly where it is. He...
