Featured post what's this? ✨ I don't like websites these days · Ahmed Hossam I open a website because I want to read something. Why is that becoming difficult?
Two techniques for working with System One models I recently wrote about Jev, a new “System One” language model that only outputs decisions: the answers to a set of user-provided multiple-choice questions. This…
PrismML — Introducing Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint Ternary Bonsai 2 27B retains 98.2% of Qwen3.8 27B benchmark performance in a 5.9GB footprint, with multimodal and agentic capabilities.
The Front Page of the Internet Is Up for Grabs The race for the front page of the internet is still going. All the AI companies will fight for it. Benchmarks don't matter when you don't get any views.
GitHub CLI Installation on Ubuntu | no dogma blog Even if you follow the instructions on GitHub, the GitHub CLI is installed from the Ubuntu repository, which is not the latest version. This post shows how to install it from the GitHub repository.
Introducing Astra for Law OpenAI for Law brings frontier intelligence for law, custom firm workflows, connected legal data sources, and legal-grade controls for confidential client work.
My Software Agnostic Window Management Setup – My homebrew website editor + Raycast I have had virtualy the same window manager setup since 2017, when I installed Linux for the first time in my Microsoft Surface Pro 3 laptop. During these years I’ve been swapping multiple Linux distros and also usi...
Time for ATSC Time Capture time from an ATSC broadcast as a step towards having another independent local network clock…
Plan Advice in PostgreSQL 19 There is a conversation that happens in every PostgreSQL shop eventually. A query that has been fine for a year gets slow overnight. Nothing was deployed. The …
Understanding the code is not enough There’s an ongoing debate among people who pay attention to the evolving nature of software development whether reading and understanding the code produced by an AI agent is crucial or a thing of the past.
The Harness Margin Opportunity New Berkeley data shows the right harness cuts the cost of the same result by 71% with no loss of accuracy. Two startups selling that result at the same price can earn 38% or 75% gross margins. The harness decides which.
I hate you Microsoft | Guará Tech The rare moment when I need to open a powerpoint document is here. As usual, I have my institutional account logged into their “services”, because my university pays microslop something in the ballpark of hundreds of thousands of euros in contracts with t...
Don't Make Job Referrals Public A small observation from the job market about public referral programs, incentives, and what a referral is supposed to mean.
Everybody's Lost Their Minds The AI brain worms have been spreading and I don't have a solution, I just want to get off this ride.
GitHub - asciimoo/hister: Your own search engine Your own search engine. Contribute to asciimoo/hister development by creating an account on GitHub.
Your 256GB Mac mini is too small. You need Elbowroom. tl;dr - Elbowroom is a mac app that shows what is taking up space on your Mac, explains what it belongs to, and helps you reclaim files your tools can regene...
My Office Has an On-Air Light (And Yes, It's a Robot) The lamp on my office shelf glows solid red the instant my camera goes live, and turns off the second the meeting ends. Nobody has to knock and wonder. My wife, a kid, the dog-walker — anyone who …
How To Write With An LLM Two rules keep an LLM from pasteurizing your writing: never take a word it suggests, and never let it encourage you. Then hand it all the tedious work.
Why every software engineer should play Factorio · Ahmed Hossam Playing Factorio made a few software problems easier for me to see.
Why I Am Bullish on ChatGPT Ads I have done SEO for more than twenty years, since Google was the new search engine, and I ran Google Ads campaigns back then too. So I have watched a search company build an ad business once before.
Everything Has an API If You're Willing to Prompt Pulling my workout data from Boostcamp with an AI agent
I don't like websites these days · Ahmed Hossam I open a website because I want to read something. Why is that becoming difficult?
We Urgently Need a New Major Search Engine Google is an answer engine now. The search box is still there, but the product is built to hand you an answer, and searching the web has turned into a side feature. Two years ago I wrote that Google…
Understanding Why You'd Use Effect TS One objective reason to use Effect, one big subjective one, and the functional-programming discipline that connects them.