Featured post what's this? ✨ Nobody Pushed Back: Why Engineers Stay Silent Until It's Too Late Nokia, TSB, Boeing, Microsoft — four companies, four disasters, one pattern. The engineers knew. They just didn't speak up. Here's why, and what it costs when nobody pushes back.
AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale AI takes in all the input, whether the original authors have consented or not, and do some "learning", and then the AI companies sell these learned result to...
Flipper One — we need your help With Flipper One, we're reimagining what a Linux cyberdeck can be — it's a huge project. We're opening up the development process and asking the community for help.
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.
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GitHub - kageroumado/phosphene: A video wallpaper engine for macOS Tahoe A video wallpaper engine for macOS Tahoe. Contribute to kageroumado/phosphene development by creating an account on GitHub.
The famous o3 "GeoGuessr" prompt did not work In April last year, Kelsey Piper discovered that OpenAI’s o3 model was surprisingly good at figuring out where a photo was taken from. Like human “geoguessr” pros, o3 could sometimes take a nondescript photo of a beach and tell you exactly where it is. He...
Space Exploration Technologies - S-1 As filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on May 20, 2026
On Google declaring war on the Web In Yesterday’s IO Keynote Google declared war on the remnants of the Web. (See longer description on their website.) TL;DR: They are pushing Search more into the “here’s your processed answer” direction that “AI Overviews” have established (you know, thos...
Why a healthy breath is a piece of engineering we don't appreciate A primary-care doctor on the paradox in every breath, and what intensive care medicine teaches about it.
The Great Token Wager In the first half of 2026 the AI infrastructure buildout has been firmly top of mind.1 The November 2022 launch of ChatGPT brought large-language models into the spotlight, and with each passing year you could feel the diffusion into nearly every conversa...
Agent performance was never the hard part As a Principal Engineer at Faculty, I spent a year building an agent harness for large enterprises in regulated domains. Our goal was production-level performance. Details are anonymised.
I wanted async/await but I got a concurrency model Swift async/await was supposed to be a simple escape from callback hell. Instead it brought a full concurrency model that everyone has to pay for, whether they need it or not.
The quadratic sandwich If you have ever tried to minimize a function with gradient descent, you probably noticed that some functions are a joy to optimize and others are a nightmare. The difference often boils down to two properties: strong convexity and L-smoothness. These two...
Creating another MCP server, but this one is for research In the weeks following my last blog post, I had a niggling feeling that I could apply an MCP server to my literature review. This post is my first run at exploring that. During my grad degree, it has been one of the hardest aspects I’ve had to learn: How ...
Elijah Glover - What I Learned Building 8 Tbps of CDN 15 years across CDN, edge, and regulated data. 8 Tbps of bare-metal CDN at Optus Sport carrying EURO 2020, the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023, and EURO 2024. Privacy-preserving data linkage across 6M+ patient records at NSW Health.
What exactly is an executive chair, Tim Cook’s new position? The “executive chair” is less a fixed position within the board framework and more a useful title designed to meet specific transitional needs.
reMarkable Connection Utility (RCU) All-in-one management software for reMarkable e-paper tablets. With RCU, you actually own your data. It works locally, offline, without clouds or middlemen. Install templates, take screenshots, manage notebooks, backups, and more. Cross-platform for macOS...
The Broken BASIC Years I polled Mastodon people a few weeks back: Twice as many people said their home computer’s BASIC did something illogical as said it did the right thing. What gives? The de facto problem BASIC…
Nobody Cares, Write Anyway Nobody cares about your day, that doesn't mean it's not worth writing about.
score by collisions, patch by panic TLDR; Score severity by collision count. Researchers ship patches not just reports. Companies redesign for a world where the exploit lands before the patch. No magic. No vendor pitch. Just the playbook. The last post went further than I expected. NYT&rsqu...
Not All Software Systems Are Agent Friendly Discourse around AI tends to collapse into two camps: true believers and luddites. A recent piece, Agentic Coding is a Trap, highlights what the author calls the “paradox of supervision” - where the very judgment needed to oversee AI delegation is undermi...
Daniel's Blog · Most Theoretical Physicists Are Doing Engineering Qian Xuesen, while under house arrest during the McCarthy era, wrote Engineering Cybernetics in 1954, drawing the line between a scientist and an engineer. The book was later incorporated deeply into Chinese missile and aerospace doctrine when he successf...
Parsing Math with Pratt Parsing A few weeks ago I decided to start a challenge to build a Lox interpreter in order to learn C++. In the process, I learned about a technique for parsing called Pratt Parsing, one that is not very mainstream and thus not very well taught or documen...
Linux, RSI and the Endless Search for Ergonomics My journey into RSI, Tiling Window Managers & setup aesthetics.
Shifting the Trap Back in 2009, Richard Stallman warned us about The JavaScript Trap. The pitch was simple, and it's aged horrifyingly well. Every time you visit a modern website, your browser silently downloads and executes a pile of non-fr...
An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry An OpenAI model solved the 80-year-old unit distance problem, disproving a major conjecture in discrete geometry and marking a milestone in AI-driven mathematics.
Map of Metal An interactive map of Metal history and the influential bands that helped shaped the genres we know today
Qwen Studio DISCORD Today we introduce Qwen3.7-Max, our latest proprietary model designed for the agent era. Qwen3.7-Max is built to be a versatile agent foundation — equally capable of writing and debugging code, automating office workflows, and sustaining autonomou...
