the watchers: how openai, the US government, and persona built an identity surveillance machine that files reports on you to the feds 53MB of source code leaked from a government endpoint. 269 verification checks. biometric face databases. SAR filings to FinCEN. and the same company that verifies your ChatGPT account.
I Taught My Dog to Vibe Code Games | Caleb Leak My cavapoo Momo vibe coded playable Godot games. All I had to do was teach her to type, route her input to Claude Code, and build the right tools.
The Hidden Cost of AI-Assisted Coding No One is Talking About AI helps us write code faster than ever, but are we sacrificing modularity, readability, and maintainability?
Firefox 148 Launches with Exciting AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements! - ServerHost Hosting Solutions Blog The latest update of Firefox, version 148, introduces a much-anticipated "AI kill switch" feature, allowing users to disable AI functionalities such as chatbot prompts and AI-generated link summaries. Mozilla emphasizes that once AI features are turned of...
Blood test boosts Alzheimer's diagnosis accuracy to 94.5%, clinical study shows A protein lurking around in the blood can help with the accurate diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. In a recent study, researchers from Spain investigated how blood-based biomarkers, such as a protein called p-tau217, affect both the clinical diagnosis of ...
Dictionary Compression is finally here, and it's ridiculously good Dictionary compression could completely change how applications send data over the web. It's recently gained broad support, and offers absurd real-world...
Code Isn’t Slowing Your Project Down, Communication Is - ShiftMag Large software projects slow down not due to code, but poor communication. Conway’s Law shapes architecture but the Inverse Conway Maneuver can speed delivery.
FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook. AI build one for me My old 2016 MacBook Pro has been collecting dust in a cabinet for some time now. The laptop suffers from a “flexgate” problem, and I don’t have any practical use for it. For quite some time, I’ve been thinking about repurposing it as a guinea pig, to play...
Risk-Adjusted Intelligence • Matt Neary Software engineers have maintained a self-conception as highly paid, skilled tradespeople. This framework is falling apart now that the barriers to entry are disappearing. The craft is now carried out by AI — the SWE is just the capital allocator,... | Ma...
Want to Survive Current Tech Era - Learn to Be a Good QA - Work & Life Notes The amount of messages I see these days on our Discord and other platforms from humans and bots desperately looking for jobs is at spam-like levels. Couple of
The Instance Is Up. Or Is It? Health Checking in Client-Side vs Server-Side Load Balancing Why zombie instances survive health checks, and what the choice between server-side and client-side load balancing means for how fast your system detects and reacts to failure.
25 Years of Eggs Two AI agents, 11,345 receipts, and 1.6 billion tokens to find out what I’ve spent on eggs since 2001.
What I Learned After Building 3 TV Apps Coming From Mobile | Dinko Marinac Practical lessons from three TV app projects on why mobile assumptions fail on TV, covering UX, performance, hardware constraints, and developer experience.
Code Review Is Not About Catching Bugs My former Parse colleague Charity Majors – now CTO of Honeycomb and one of the strongest voices in the observability space – recently posted something that caught my attention. She’s frustrated wit...
Context Engineering for Commercial Agent Systems - Jeremy Daly Memory, Isolation, Hardening, and Multi-Tenant Context Infrastructure
Fixing ORM Slowness by 80% with Strategic PostgreSQL Indexing | Stormatics Boost PostgreSQL performance by 80% with strategic indexing, reduce sequential scans and IOPS without changing application code.
herdctl: Composable Fleets of Claude Agents I justed added support for Composable Fleets to herdctl. As I build herdctl into more projects, I increasingly find myself creating a fleet of agents per project, and wanted a way to run them all from a central place so that I can juggle a bunch of things...
The app that fixes itself: Tightening the feedback loop with agent orchestration How I wired a ticket system, an orchestrator, and Claude agents into a feedback loop that lets my app fix itself.
Depth effect wallpapers Building a Windows desktop wallpaper app that uses AI depth estimation to place a clock between image layers, creating an iOS-like depth effect.
Fighting Cognitive Debt in Agentic Code with Video Overviews When AI writes your code, understanding doesn't come along for the ride. What if the same codebase that builds the software also generates narrated video walkthroughs that explain it?
What's so hard about continuous learning? Why can’t models continue to get smarter after they’re deployed? If you hire a human employee, they will grow more familiar with your systems over time, and (if they stick around long enough) eventually become a genuine domain expert. AI models are not li...
