Say No to Palantir in Europe A powerful US spy-tech company run by billionaires is linked to genocide in Gaza, helps ICE separate families, and fuels Trump’s war with Iran. And now it’s quietly expanding across Europe gaining access to our data, our hospitals, and our police systems....
Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics, U-M study reveals Nitrile and latex gloves that scientists wear while they are measuring microplastics may lead to a potential overestimation of the tiny pollutants, according to a University of Michigan study.
CSS is DOOMed! Every wall, floor, barrel, and imp is a div — DOOM rendered entirely in CSS. Using 3D transforms, CSS math functions, @property, clip-path, anchor positioning, and SVG filters to build a fully playable 3D first-person shooter in the browser without Canvas...
Mockup 147 — The Editorial Engine Editorial pretext demo: animated orbs, live multi-column text flow, and zero DOM measurements.
I Beat the Benchmark and Still Failed I recently learned a harsh lesson about building startups. You can build a product that beats your competitors in both quality and addictiveness, and still fail miserably if you don't know how to distribute it.
When All You Can Do Is All or Nothing, Do Nothing – CSS Wizardry If your design system can only apply `loading=lazy` or `fetchpriority=high` blindly, it may be safer not to apply them at all.
I accidentally spammed a year of calendar invites A calendar sync went sideways, people across my past and future started getting meeting invites from me again, and I spent the afternoon replacing the whole setup with a safer read-only tool.
How I Built a Public RAG App for Chicago Budget Documents A practical build log of creating a public-facing RAG app over large municipal budget PDFs, with source citations, embedded document viewing, quality tuning, and production deployment.
How the (Em)ighty Have Fallen— A journey of the em dash, my obsession with it growing up, my deep appreciation, and the modern constraints upon its usage.
Everyone is building a software factory - exe.dev blog Is exe.dev the compute primitive you've been waiting for?
Tell the Model What to Do, Not What to Avoid Blind A/B tests on Go code generation showed positive framing in agent instructions consistently outperforms prohibition language. I built a linter to enforce it.
Sycophantic behavior in AI affects us all, say researchers : Sycophantic bots coach users into selfish, antisocial behavior, say researchers, and they love it
I Decompiled the White House's New App The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages.
Cancer I’ve taken agency in the treatment of my bone cancer (osteosarcoma in the T5 vertebrae of the upper spine). After I’ve ran out of standard of care treatment options and there were no trials available…
CERN Uses Tiny AI Models Burned into Silicon for Real-Time LHC Data Filtering CERN has developed ultra-small AI models embedded directly into custom chips to filter massive data streams from the Large Hadron Collider in real time, addressing the enormous data challenge of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator.
GitHub - J-x-Z/cocoa-way: Native macOS Wayland Compositor written in Rust using Smithay. Experience seamless Linux app streaming on macOS without XQuartz. Native macOS Wayland Compositor written in Rust using Smithay. Experience seamless Linux app streaming on macOS without XQuartz. - J-x-Z/cocoa-way
How I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64 I built a custom open-world engine for the N64. In this video, I break down how I achieved a seamless, massive world with zero loading screens on N64 hardware. You can download it here https://github.com/lambertjamesd/n64brew2025/releases Here is the t...
