35 links from the last 24 hours · 7 October 2026
A short lesson in API design
Visa, Mastercard, Major Banks Facing New Litigation Over ‘Anticompetitive’ Merchant Credit Card Transaction Fees
A class action lawsuit alleges Visa, Mastercard and some of America's largest banks have conspired to artificially inflate merchants' credit card transaction fees.
Last rites for Gentoo's Chromium package
Chromium, the open-source upstream project for Google's Chrome web browser, is the browser of c [...]
Janet on x32: 32-bit Pointers, 64-bit Speed, 25% Less RAM
RAM's expensive again. Can existing software run faster with 50% less RAM via an unloved compiler flag?
Some excellent writing advice from Michael Lynch. Michael warns against "meandering intros", misjudging your reader's existing knowledge, assuming they'll read your previous posts, and excessive formality. He also warns against …
GitHub - boykopovar/AnyPS5: Tool for automatic PS5 executables porting to Linux and Windows
Tool for automatic PS5 executables porting to Linux and Windows - boykopovar/AnyPS5
Decisions | OpenAI API
Use the Decisions API to check conditions, select from fixed options, and score text and images against a rubric.
Why does the compiler sometimes use ud2 and sometimes int 3 for code that shouldn't execute? - The Old New Thing
It shouldn't execute, but for different reasons.
I was a graph theory junkie long ago and even moved to Budapest for awhile to study among the greats. While I was there I started working on Barnette's Conjecture …
Please don't be like this guy.
Given how tempting a target wikis are for rogue agent swarms, it's not a huge surprise that Wikipedia found evidence of that activity once they went looking: The Wikimedia Foundation …
How to read code
Everyone knows how to read a book. Beginning at the first page, you read each word in order, stopping periodically to think, until you arrive at the last word…
LLM plugin for the OpenAI Decisions API
Sharing AI progress in mathematics
OpenAI publishes new results on open problems in mathematics from an internal frontier model and shares Lean proof formalizations and research details on GitHub.
<figure> Old cameras <figcaption>Cameras spotted during a house inspection</figcaption> </figure> I’ve mentioned before that I would love to see so...
Mistral Large 4
Schools must be like gyms
How to stop AI from ruining our kids
EmbeddingGemma 2
Just a place to store my random thoughts and contributions to the world.
LLM plugin providing access to Mistral models using the Mistral API
When random is not actually random enough
A short lesson in API design
Two coding-agent teams, one chess coach, matched conditions. Every review passed both; side by side, the gaps were large.
Jev plays chess
I had Jev play 470 games of chess and solve 1,000 puzzles. It plays at about 600 to 800 Elo.
[Parseable](https://www.parseable.com) is a brand new observability tool, compatible with [OpenTelemetry](https://opentelemetry.io), for storing and querying observability data.
How I host my blog has evolved throughout the years. In this post I explain how and why I moved my blog from American hyperscalers to European infrastructure.
Vibecoding Photoshop: Time and Pressure
I’m sure you’ve seen the argument before: “If anyone can now vibecode their own software, why haven’t we seen any viable replacements for industry standard tools like Photoshop?” And for...
Writing blog posts while walking the dog
I’m excited about how AI is changing how I work, it has made me more productive and able to get more things done. I’m also frustrated by how much low-effort content is being generated and sprayed across the internet. Content that isn’t created to benefit the r…
Datasette plugin that adds a .atom output format
Solving problems is still the fun part of software development
I love the current state of software development. I care about solving people’s problems, and coding agents make more of the things I want to build feel worth attempting. There is a particular pleasure in getting rid of an awkward workaround that somebody has …
I'm Just Gonna Leave This Here - Brent Ozar Unlimited®
Sometimes my value as a blogger is to make complex topics simple, or to deliver industry news to you, or to entertain you. Sometimes, it’s just to keep you posted on things that are happening in the industry. So with that in mind, at Microsoft FabCon Barcelona…
Read this article BEFORE you pitch Pinecone, Qdrant, Weaviate, LanceDB,... to your boss. For this article, I assume you know what a vector database/index is.
What changes when a tool doesn't have to pay for itself. Years ago, if an app annoyed me, I shrugged and dealt with it.
Software developers are not okay
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
Meta’s Muse Is An Adorable Privacy And Security Dumpster Fire
Meta’s agentic AI product Muse has had a rocky few weeks since launch. The product, which features an animated avatar named Jolly (one presumes to make mass hyper surveillance seem adorable) …
Scrimshaw Jukebox