Featured post what's this? ✨ Degoogling — Vishnu's Pages Moving away from Google services after 20 years, and the journey so far.
The Age Verification Trap Platforms are caught in a dilemma: enforce age restrictions or protect user privacy. How are they navigating this tricky terrain?
Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI - Ladybird We're adopting Rust as our C++ successor language, and using AI agents to accelerate the transition.
The Little Red Dot Sometimes, I have 50 tabs open. Looking for a single piece of information ends up being a rapid click on each tab until I find what I'm looking for. Somehow, every time I get to that LinkedIn tab, I p
CIA World Factbook Archive 36 years of structured intelligence data. Search, browse, compare, and export 1,061,522 fields across 281 entities (1990-2025).
Insider amnesia Speculation about what’s really going on inside a tech company is almost always wrong.
Loops - Short videos. Your community. Your rules. All the fun of short-form video, none of the corporate control. Loops is federated, open-source, and designed to give power back to creators and communities.
Account Restricted Without WARNING– Google AI Ultra / OAuth via OpenClaw - Google Antigravity - Google AI Developers Forum I’m seeking assistance regarding a sudden restriction on my Google AI Ultra account that has persisted for three days. I received no prior warnings or notifications regarding a potential violation. The only recent change in my workflow was connecting Gem...
Does Syntax Matter? Yes.But not necessarily in the ways you might think n.b. This article could have been a lot longer than it currently is..Concrete and Abstract SyntaxesIn the previous article, Choosing a Language Based on its Syntax?, I talked about how many people will...
What I learned using local vision-language models to scrape target.com Using a 2 billion local visual language llm coupled with playwright to identify and click on elements in a browser.
mcp-fusion — The MVA Framework for MCP Servers The first framework where AI agents perceive, understand, and act on your data — not guess. MVA (Model-View-Agent) architecture with Presenters, cognitive guardrails, and structured perception packages.
Consent is all you need The agentic web has a consent problem. Every agent depends on the same unstated assumption: the model knows when it should stop and ask you.
The Absurdity of the term "AI Engineer" Integrating a third-party LLM SDK does not make you an AI Engineer: a rant on the inflation of job titles in the age of ChatGPT wrappers.
Building personal software is now Practical Building personal software is now Practical - When building is cheap enough, more problems are worth solving
What happens at 60% unemployment rate? In the US, white-collar work has grown from 17.6% of total employment in 1900 to ~60% in 2002. Presumably, that share has grown even more and other first world countries have seen a similar trajectory.
Disagree and commit is not disagree and complain Leadership musings and hackery from the Perl generation
I'm Behind and I Don't Care - kukicola.io AI tools change every week. New models, new workflows, new hype. I decided to stop chasing and focus on building instead. Here's why being behind is not a bad thing.
Looking Back On Phabricator For Code Review In my professional software engineering career, I've used a few different code review tools: * Launchpad ~2012-2014 (Bazaar was great... IYKYK), and also GitHub * 2016 – 2019 Phabricator * 2019 – 2023 GitLab * 2023 – 2025 GitHub * 2025 – 2026 Graphi...
LLM pretraining on TPU v6e with a $50 budget Andrej Karpathy has the nanochat project with the description “The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy”. He evolved a model architecture and training setup that reaches the performance of GPT-2 while costing 600 times less than the original OpenAI run from 201...
memex All writing on this site is entirely my own. AI is occasionally used for light editorial review.
Claws don't need to be complicated How I built a persistent personal AI agent in 2000 lines of Go that uses my Claude subscription instead of API keys, runs sandboxed via nono and talks to me on Telegram; Learnings about what seems to matter.
blog.carter2099.com I recently built Delta Neutral, a self-hosted concentrated liquidity hedge rebalancer.
A Poet with No Verse :: Akshay Sasidharan It’s been a while since my last post. Since then, I left my consulting gig and joined an early-stage startup. I wore more hats than I expected, got to lead and mentor people, and along the way entered my 30s (midlife-crisis / existential-dread era). Just ...
How I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard - Joel Hawksley Over the past decade, I've worked to build the perfect family dashboard system for our home, called Timeframe:
