Featured post what's this? ✨ Go 1.27 is released - The Go Programming Language Go 1.27 adds generic methods, encoding/json/v2 package, uuid package, faster memory allocation, goroutine leak profiles, and more.
Malicious Rust Crate arrayref Runs a Build-Time Payload A compromised release of the popular Rust crate arrayref pulled in a typosquatted proc-macro1 whose build script downloads and runs a remote binary at compile…
Training a 125M-parameter Model to Autocomplete Piano Can a small transformer autocomplete MIDI performances in real time?
AliExpress webpage keeping multipoint Bluetooth headphones active with WebAudio fingerprinting Recently I ran into a strange problem with my Bluetooth headphones. They support multipoint Bluetooth audio, so they can be connected to my ...
Getting the Steam Deck LCD working on a Raspberry Pi The BOE TV070WXM-TV0 LCD used in the original Steam Deck can be had for around $30. It's a serviceable 7" touchscreen with 400 nits of brightness and a resolution of 1280x800 (for a sharp 216 ppi). The specs are a lot nicer than the Pi 7" Touch Display, w...
Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone - The Old New Thing It seems that no matter what you do, somebody will get offended. Every Windows 95 box has an anti-piracy hologram on the side. The photographer chose his
Faster pull requests are faster horses — Royal Icing Perhaps we should throw out the rubber stamp and just commit to main? How would we then work?
HTML Can Do That HTML has been gobbling up swathes of what used to be JavaScript’s remit. This page lists a bunch of dynamic functionality that we can now achieve with just HTML.
Bill Atkinson and Dithering Algorithms An exploration of dithering with error diffusion because of Bill Atkinson
How I hijacked my Hacker News habit to learn Spanish How putting flashcards into a natural break between Hacker News stories turned an inconsistent Anki habit into light, nearly daily review.
Obsidian + Claude Code: The Setup I Use Every Day How I use Obsidian as the markdown editor and project organizer next to Claude Code. No plugin, no MCP server, one folder per project.
Where do people spend their money? Nobody Haggles Over a Birthday Gift What a supermarket till taught me about where people actually spend their money, and why the same person will fight over fo…
The job ain’t quite the same I’ve had a really fun time using Codex/Claude to build whatever software I want. Early this year, the SaaS-pocalypse drawdown in software stocks was justified by the notion that many of those companies weren’t going to exist because, in the near future, y...
My experience with the Fitbit Air after a month Smartwatches haven’t appealed to me for years. I used to have an Apple Watch Series 2, but eventually got rid of it and went back to mechanical watches. One of the reasons was that I didn’t really know what to use it for. I have notifications disabled for...
Good writing is obvious, not original When you write, you should try to say things that are obviously true, and spend very little time worrying about whether you’re being original. Ironically, this…
Is Cloudflare Pro Worth It? In the blink of an eye, I have been a Cloudflare user for nearly ten years, long enough to watch both the company and its stock price grow dramatically. However, today I’m not planning to introduce any specific Cloudflare product or feature. In my opinion...
PWAs: Personal Web Apps Offline-first PWAs are my format for family software: a mono-repo of small tools, added to the home screen in two taps, no App Store and no sideloading.
Reclaim the terminal · Nishant Joshi Your keystrokes never go to stdin. A binary piped into itself four times shows how tools like less and fzf get the keyboard back through /dev/tty.
GrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social) Google replaced pushing Git tags for certain source code with obtaining source code via Google Drive after making a request through Google Forms. It's completely ridiculous and they've gradually become very slow at handling requests. They're in clear viol...
Where the Tool Stops Negotiating the distribution of responsibility between myself and artificial intelligence, drawing from a prior life in carpentry, and what the nail gun did to the hammer.
The ECDSA tax: a field guide to threshold signing Every MPC wallet pays a price set by one line of algebra. A tour of Lindell17, GG18/GG20, CGGMP, DKLs and FROST - who implements them, who audited what, which ones broke - with benchmarks from one machine.
DePIN is Dead. Long Live Infrastructure-as-a-Service. Why crypto's best infrastructure companies stopped looking like crypto?
OpenRouter is Joining Stripe — OpenRouter Blog OpenRouter is joining forces with Stripe. Same mission, same name, same product, same roadmap, and routing that stays driven by what's best for you.
Go 1.27 is released - The Go Programming Language Go 1.27 adds generic methods, encoding/json/v2 package, uuid package, faster memory allocation, goroutine leak profiles, and more.
