Featured post what's this? ✨ 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.
How to Talk to Your Coworkers You know you explained the same issue before in two or three different places, yet here they are asking again. Why don't they understand you? Why do they ask the same question when you've already give
OpenSCAD LLM Benchmark: Building the Pantheon | ModelRift Blog A practical OpenSCAD LLM benchmark comparing Codex 5.5 High, Claude Sonnet, Claude Opus, Cursor Composer, Google Antigravity, and ModelRift on a detailed Pantheon model.
How to Call an API from an Email Emails can’t run JavaScript, but by selling your soul to the CSS devil you can get pretty close.
This blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD After a decade on Ubuntu 16.04, I migrated my blog to FreeBSD on Hetzner. Some notes on setting up a VPS with FreeBSD, Jails, Bastille, Caddy reverse proxies, and load testing and benchmarking the blog from four continents.
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...
