Featured post what's this? ✨ Task Manager is LYING About Your CPU Usage (Here's the Truth) Ever wonder why Task Manager shows a CPU value that doesn't "feel" right? Dave explains why Task Manager shows you the values it does and how they are determined. Comments with question marks get answered on our weekly ShopTalk: https://youtu.be/iT0T52...
The F-35 Is a Masterpiece Built for the Wrong War Think of a violin made by a master craftsman: beautiful, precise, capable of extraordinary performance, but impossible to produce quickly or cheaply. It
How The Heck Does Shazam Work? (An Interactive Exploration) Explore how Shazam and song identification work through interactive visualizations — spectrograms, constellation maps, hash fingerprints, and time-offset matching.
Why We Accepted Surveillance as Default — Vivian Voss Thirty years ago two men in New York invented the third-party cookie. Google paid $3.1 billion for the company. 600 billion bid requests per second later, the question is still unanswered: what if the browser had defended the user?
Why you should work for a top tier tech company I joined a FAANG company 1.5 years ago after working mostly in startups and one medium sized company. I wish I’d joined way sooner because I’d have millions more in my bank account. But besides the…
Code is the new assembly Codex recently coded a browser from scratch. It took a week, but the AI worked solo, with no human in the loop. Could a human parse that code and truly understand it? The bigger question is: does it matter? Have you ever audited your binary’s assembly cod...
Three Time-to-Power Strategies that Failed in 2025 We’ve learned a lot in the last year about what won’t work for accelerating time-to-power for large data center projects.
The Missing Bundler Features Over the last few months, there has been a lot of talk about making Bundler faster, both by improving it directly, or by reimplementing it in another language, and while it may surprise some, that didn’t excite me much.
Opus 4.7 — the best model nobody likes | I didn't know. The sycophancy problem, the compute crunch, and why coding agents will not stay cheap.
⭐Why Your First Token Is Always Late (Part 2) The inference side of transformers, along with systems tricks that make production LLMs fast
Lessons from going solo Strategies that worked for me when I left a salaried job to consult on my own.
Tim Cook to become Apple Executive Chairman John Ternus to become Apple CEO Apple announced Tim Cook will become executive chairman of Apple’s board of directors and John Ternus will become Apple’s next CEO.
What is Canton Network (and why should you care)? Canton Network is a layer-1 blockchain designed for regulated financial markets, addressing privacy, regulatory compliance, and interoperability without centralized control. Unlike typical public b…
When “Right vs Wrong” Isn’t Really About Truth — A Thought on Bias, Power, and Decision Making By: Neeraj R One day, while attending a class on human bias, a simple thought experiment turned into something much deeper. It started with a very ordinary scenario. Imagine a group of 10 friends p…
Decision Graphs About eight years ago, I wrote a little blog post on dynamic decision trees. If you have the time, go back and read that and the follow up posts on the subject. If not, I’ll summarize. Instea…
Connecting in Narratives Missing a flight to my cruise can teach us how the right narratives invite others on the journey with us.
Uncorrelated Contents When you take a close-up photo of a small object, there tends to be a small portion of the subject in focus, with the rest blurred out. The range of distance that's acceptably in focus is the depth of field; with macro photography it tends to be quite nar...
I'm never buying another Kindle, and neither should you Bricked hardware, ads, and control. The Amazon Kindle is no longer built for readers. Here’s why I’m done with it.
I’m Back. Here’s my life story in a nutshell I haven’t posted anything here in almost 3 years. The main reason is that because after a grueling job search in 2024, I lucked into joining a Big Tech / FAANG company as a senior software engineer…
Looking back on Stripe’s payment API migration This 2020 post walks through the first and second iteration of Stripe’s payment API. The original API was designed for credit card charges and was delightfully simple. You could move money with a s…
The Ultimate Question: What Does the Endgame Look Like? - Pawel Brodzinski on Leadership in Technology Asking "what does the endgame look like?" will show how many predictions can't hold or what other second-order consequences we will face.
Benchmarking open-weight models for security research Testing open-weight models against unpublished vulnerabilities in real products.
Language Modeling Without Neural Networks Generating Shakespeare has become the “Hello World” of language models.1 Recently, I’ve been messing with alternative language models and came across unbounded …
Scaling Claude beyond individual workflows A practical look at deploying Claude across an organization: skills, plugins, governance, and real-world challenges from a 23-person team.
Hauleth's blog - Scotty, I need warp speed in three minutes My journey into optimising Elixir codebase of Ultravisor (my fork of Supabase's Supavisor). This story is not about a goal, but ~~friends~~ optimisations we met along the way.
Data as a Product is a Promise | Yusuf Aytas Stop shipping tables. Build data products with clear contracts, real owners, lifecycle discipline, and observability so teams can trust data.
ggsql: A grammar of graphics for SQL Introducing ggsql, a grammar of graphics for SQL that lets you describe visualizations directly inside SQL queries.
Saunas Lower Your Heart Rate More Than Exercise We analyzed 59,000+ daily records from 256 sauna users to quantify what saunas actually do to your body. Using paired t-tests on same-day wearable data, we foun
ME2-Writeup/README.md at master · coremaze/ME2-Writeup Reconstructing a Dead USB Protocol: A Handheld's Secrets Unlocked by a Hot Knife -- A multi-disciplinary journey to reviving a forgotten USB interface - coremaze/ME2-Writeup
Kimi K2.6 Tech Blog: Advancing Open-Source Coding Kimi K2.6 advances open-source coding, featuring long-horizon coding, coding-driven design, agent swarms, proactive agents, and the Claw Groups research preview.
Qwen Studio QWEN STUDIO DISCORD Following the release of Qwen3.6-Plus, we are sharing an early preview of our next proprietary model: Qwen3.6-Max-Preview. Compared to Qwen3.6-Plus, this preview release brings stronger world knowledge and instruction following, along ...
Making illegal state unrepresentable A couple of years ago, I wrote that The Builder pattern is a finite state machine!. A state machine consists of states and transitions between them. As a developer, I want to make illegal states unrepresentable, i.e., users of my API can’t create non-exis...
Atlassian Enables Default Data Collection to Train AI Atlassian will begin collecting customer metadata and in-app content from **Jira**, **Confluence**, and other cloud products by default on **August 17, 2026**, to train its AI offerings including `Rovo` and `Rovo Dev`. The change affects roughly **300,000...
EU to force replaceable batteries in phones and tablets from 2027 SMARTPHONES and tablets sold in Europe will have to feature replaceable batteries starting next year, according to EU rules, amid efforts to slash
Comment Tesla a caché des accidents fatals pour continuer à tester la conduite autonome sur les routes | RTS Une fuite de données révèle que Tesla a dissimulé des milliers d'incidents liés à sa conduite autonome. Certains accidents ont été fatals. Un premier verdict condamne le constructeur à verser 243 millions de dollars aux victimes. Une enquête diffusée dans...
Inside GitHub's Fake Star Economy Six million fake stars, $0.06 per click, and a VC funding pipeline that treats GitHub popularity as proof of traction. We ran our own analysis on 20 repos and found the fingerprints.
Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people I spend a lot of time negotiating this in the software world: And if you're wondering why this happens, it's normally because: 1. people aren't talking to people 2. people aren't listening So lots of designers and product people have leapt onto 1, ba...
