Featured post what's this? ✨ I'm excited for Intel after testing the XPS 13 Shortly after Apple launched the budget MacBook Neo, Dell announced their response, a new low-end XPS 13. Matching the Neo's current pricing, it starts at $699, or $599 with an educational discount. That discount is currently set to expire on November 2, ...
(Non-)Functional Ramblings - How to not write parsers Writing parsers is tricky and cumbersome, and that's even with provided grammars. This post is about approaching parsing from a different angle.
GitHub - xoreaxeaxeax/asm-hall-of-shame: Racing to the bottom of CPU performance Racing to the bottom of CPU performance. Contribute to xoreaxeaxeax/asm-hall-of-shame development by creating an account on GitHub.
Looking elsewhere - Robb Owen Against the backdrop of mass layoffs, LLMs, site-builders and vibe coding what does it mean to conscientiously build for the web, and where do we go from here?
The Circle That Swallowed Everyone: AI and the End of the Coding Moat Seven flat years, then a vertical line. What a 2026 surge in new Trello Power-Ups says about AI coding tools and the end of the coding moat for bootstrappers.
KV Cache vs. Prompt Cache: What’s the Difference, and How Are They Related? - Jake blog - Articles From JakeBlog These two types of redundant computations correspond to two concepts that are often confused: KV Cache and Prompt Cache. A model's processing of a single
Most explanations fail for the same reason A finance person understood RAG from the casual explanation, not the formal one. Why the reader should choose the depth and the voice, not the writer.
Super Mario Derivations One of the most surprising aspects of the Nix language is that it is lazy, especially if you have never used a lazy language before. This laziness is what makes much of Nixpkgs possible, and its complexity.
App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/07/browsers-have-standards-the-app.html
Moving Forward from Hot Fable Summer Suggestions on how to move forward on the craziest 90 days in cyber and AI history.
Browsers have standards, the App Store has judgment There is a post going around called Native Apps Should Be Avoided Whenever Possible. I first saw it through Matt Birchler’s response, Native App …
Dealroom.co | Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK despite Ellison's claim 'Oracle isn't writing' its own code Oracle has banned AI-generated code from OpenJDK contributions, citing safety, security, and intellectual property risks. The open-source Java project steward said developers can use LLMs privately for debugging and reviewing code but cannot submit AI-gen...
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 - ARC-AGI Results DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 reasoning variants across ARC-AGI-1, ARC-AGI-2, and ARC-AGI-3.
Ethernet Explained so well that even YOU can Understand it! Dave explains Ethernet from the outside in and back again! Check out an episode of ShopTalk! https://youtu.be/-5nVab-8CjI
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I'm excited for Intel after testing the XPS 13 Shortly after Apple launched the budget MacBook Neo, Dell announced their response, a new low-end XPS 13. Matching the Neo's current pricing, it starts at $699, or $599 with an educational discount. That discount is currently set to expire on November 2, ...
How to keep thinking Imagine you’re the guest on some kind of frenetic, software-engineering-themed game show. The host is constantly flipping over new cards with questions that you have to answer as fast as possible:
Quake – 30th Anniversary Update To celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Quake, we have collaborated with MachineGames to create a new episode, Dawn of the Machine, now available as a free update to Quake.
NASA Engineers Help Prolong Voyager 2’s Science Mission - NASA Science Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have successfully freed up power on Voyager 2, extending how long the spacecraft can continue to do
