Featured post what's this? ✨ Do Not Write with an LLM I have been seeing an increasingly prevalent trend of people showing up in online spaces flaunting that they are writing with the assistance of AI. They seem to be proud of this. They shouldn't be.
Something is afoot in the land of Qwen I’m behind on writing about Qwen 3.5, a truly remarkable family of open weight models released by Alibaba’s Qwen team over the past few weeks. I’m hoping that the 3.5 …
Say hello to MacBook Neo Apple today unveiled MacBook Neo, an all-new laptop that delivers the magic of the Mac at a breakthrough price.
Agentic Engineering Patterns - Simon Willison's Weblog Sponsored by: Augment Code — Agent Orchestration. Living Specs. Your favorite agents. Build with Intent.
Make Your .NET Tests Insanely Faster Get every Dometrain 30% off with code HANDSON30: https://dometrain.com/courses/?ref=nick-chapsas&promo=youtube&coupon_code=HANDSON30 Hello, everybody. I'm Nick, and in this video, I will talk about a new mocking library called Imposter that can speed up ...
Interruption-Driven Development I have a hard time listening to music while working. I know a lot of people do it, but whenever I need to focus on a problem, I have to hunt down the tab playing music and pause it. And yet I still we
Unmasking Epstein: My Open Source AI Tool This video is about a problem that has been considered unsolvable: the permanent redaction of the Epstein case files. As an engineer, I don't see a black bar as a dead end—I see it as a geometry problem with a data-driven solution. In this video, I demon...
I Put a Full JVM Inside a Browser Tab. It "Works". Technically. Eventually. There is an entire Linux kernel in there and it takes 55 seconds to print Hello World
GrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social) @luana@wetdry.world It will fully support using other operating systems including users making their own builds of GrapheneOS. It's part of our hardware requirements. We'll likely be able to make hardened builds of firmware and drivers which can be releas...
Lenovo’s New T-Series ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo’s new T-series business laptops, which earned our highest honor with a 10/10 repairability score.
Intel's make-or-break 18A process node debuts for data center with 288-core Xeon 6+ CPU — multi-chip monster sports 12 channels of DDR5-8000, Foveros Direct 3D packaging tech Intel unveils x86 CPU with the industry's highest core count.
What is a token AI is meant to seem like magic. But there's no such thing as magic. It's all illusion. So, allow me to spoil that illusion for you.
We Automated Everything Except Knowing What's Going On The personal site of whom Kenneth has designed and built impactful systems that power global-scale operations, improve security, and drive efficiency. From leading infrastructure transformations at Cloudflare to optimizing AI-driven platforms at Balto, hi...
Risk, in Perspective In my cushy 2026 tech bubble in San Francisco, risk-taking is a personality trait. The failure case, for most in my circles, is going back to a six-figure salary. My grandparents would not have recognized this as risk at all.
The Social Media Discoverability Problem As a gay kid from an isolated suburb, algorithmic feeds showed me the interests that changed my life. How do we build a healthy form of social media that provides this for future generations?
Designing the Perfect ID: Marrying UUIDv7, Stripe Prefixes, and ULID · Technical Blog · Alcazar Security Designing the Perfect ID: Marrying UUIDv7, Stripe Prefixes, and ULID
Fine-Tuning Qwen3 Embeddings for product category classification on the Large-Scale Product Corpus Language-models such as GPT, Llama, DeepSeek, Qwen trained with a filtered slice of Common Crawl. For e-commerce work, though, we can start…
Voice Can Make Coding Agents Better (In Some Cases!) — Nima Sadri Building ata, an open-source AI research agent
I built a self-hosted RSS system that actually keeps me informed — Jordan Krueger Email newsletters were drowning me. Algorithm feeds were wasting my time. So I used Claude Code to build a self-hosted RSS setup with Miniflux, NetNewsWire, and an AI filter that only shows me stuff worth reading.
It’s Always DNS — Until You’re Stuck and Can’t Fix It DNS fails in specific, predictable ways: UDP truncation, TTL propagation lag, and the distributed deadlock that occurs when your recovery tools depend on the thing that is broken.
Building My Own Canva Over a Weekend I was manually turning generated children's books into Instagram carousels, hit the limit of “doing things that don't scale,” and built a focused internal editor to make the workflow deterministic and fast.
Two months as a vibe coder - Pinch of Intelligence The last two months my work completely changed. My job changed from thinking long and hard about problems and coming up with the best few code to solve this, to full-on talking in English to my computer begging it to produce better code. In this blog I am...
Working On Things That Suck Have you ever been working on a project and realise what you're working on sucks? Like it just isn't good enough for anyone to find it useful. I've recen...
Breaking Up with TurboTax: How I Used Claude to File My Taxes for Free A journey from paid tax software to AI-assisted free filing using Claude and IRS Free File Fillable Forms.
Stop asking junior engineers to struggle harder Four pieces landed in the past two weeks that circle the same problem from different altitudes.
mpv Is the MVP of Video and Image Viewing — Nick Janetakis Since I switched to native Linux, I really missed IrfanView for image viewing but mpv is filling that gap quite nicely.
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