Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB, Affecting Shizuku, libadb and Developers Changes proposed for ADB could kill an entire ecosystem of open-source power-user apps, mobile developer setups, and rootless privacy tools based on Shizuku.
Comparison of AI Models across Intelligence, Performance, and Price Comparison and analysis of AI models across key performance metrics including quality, price, output speed, latency, context window & others.
Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY Actually Scales | DBOS How we optimized Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY-backed data streams at scale, achieving 60K writes per second on a single Postgres server with millisecond-scale latency.
what the watch can't measure My watch doesn’t know if I’m tired. It measures pace, heart rate, distance. Slowly, without noticing, I started trusting those numbers more than my own bo...
The Ever-receding Pocket - Gibberish and Stuff I'm having an existential crisis. The latest Claude model just disproved the Jacobian conjecture. There's a Neil deGrasse Tyson quote about God being an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance...
The Hardest Way to Make a GIF Everyone loves a good GIF, and my favourite (of all time) is this one (circa 2015):
Do I need to charge my toothbrush via my monitor? I bought a new shaver and discovered that Philips apparently expects me to charge my bathroom devices via USB-A now. A stream of thought about a pattern I can't quite explain.
Micro-SaaS Is Dead. Service with a Software Replaces It. — Adrien Gonin Private tools that never get sold, built to make one service impossible to compete with.
Does a PhD Pay Off? Every week, I discuss with people who want to get a PhD. For years, I have been advising people not to pursue a PhD. It may come as a surprise to some. You would expect people with a PhD to earn more money. Individuals who complete doctorates tend to have...
Our tech has made things worse... Before you get your hopes up, this isn’t an essay criticizing the water consumption of data-centers, rising memory prices or capitalism itself. I leave those debates to others. This, dear reader, is an examination of what we, the ’technology collective’, ...
David Nicholas Williams In a lot of meetings and need a system to keep track of key points and actions week to week?
Running npm in a Separate Container when using Claude | no dogma blog I use Claude in a container, but from time to time I need to use more tools when developing some application. Rather than installing them on my computer or in the Claude container, I spin up a new container with the same mounts and install the tools I nee...
