Featured post what's this? ✨ Close Enough to See From the dot-com bubble to mortgage fraud to Nord Stream to a livestreamed genocide, I've spent my life inside the systems that exploit people — across continents. This is what it looks like when the pattern finally clicks.
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Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe Moneypoint in County Clare, Ireland, joins the ranks of other European nations exiting coal by shutting off power generation at its sole remaining coal plant. Industry observers say Ireland’s increased renewable energy generation in recent years, particul...
How the Sriracha guys screwed over their supplier There was a thread the other day about Sriracha going to shit. A lot of the commenters knew that Huy Fong, Sriracha's producer, screwed over...
Why Am I Paranoid, You Say? Technology has advanced to a point I could only have dreamed of as a child. Have you seen the graphics in video games lately? Zero to 60 miles per hour in under two seconds? Communicating with anyone
Agent Safehouse Sandbox your LLM coding agents on macOS. Kernel-level enforcement via sandbox-exec — deny-first, composable, zero dependencies.
Your Agent Doesn’t Need a README Your AI agent is reading your README right now. It’s on paragraph three of the “Getting Started” section, trying to figure out whether npm run dev or make dev is the current way to start the project. It will get there eventually. That’s the problem.
How Claude Code Compresses Your Conversation Reverse-engineering the context window compression system inside Claude Code's binary.
Hey Siri, Make Me a Million Dollars This is my personal website. I will write blog posts here on occasion.
LibreOffice 26.2 is here: a faster, more polished office suite that you control - TDF Community Blog We’re pleased to announce the release of LibreOffice 26.2, the newest version of the free and open source office suite trusted by millions of users around the world. This release makes it easier than ever for users to create, edit and share documents on t...
Am I scared? Lately, I've been getting a lot of questions like, 'Should we be scared about our jobs? Aren't you scared?' The person asking usually expects a soothing response. In reality, I can't answer that, but let me tell you something personal.
Tools, thinking and people - anton September 2007. I'm still a student but got my first job as junior software engineer working 30 hours a week after my classes. As a junior person ...
Build Awesome's Kickstarter is Cancelled After only a couple days, Build Awesome's Kickstarter has been cancelled and rescheduled due to email delivery issues that ruined the project's momentum despite reaching their funding goal in a single day.
Sinclair 4K BASIC for the ZX80 In my study of Tiny BASICs, one I overlooked reviewing was Sinclair 4K BASIC, which stands out for its unique keyboard, its approach to graphics, and its memory usage.
Why I Ditched ESLint + Prettier for Biome After years of chasing ESLint upgrades and managing the Prettier conflict dance, I switched to Biome. One config file, one binary, and I haven't looked back.
Software Development: Abstraction is Overrated Abstraction is considered a virtue in software development. However, practice shows that wrong abstractions cause more harm than none at all.
The Workplace Blind Spot Most knowledge workers assume their role's complexity will protect them from AI. I held the same belief — until I was proven wrong, twice. The models don't need to improve; they just need to be better harnessed.
Running OpenClaw on Synology NAS: complete setup A complete guide to self-hosting the OpenClaw AI agent on a headless Synology NAS
How Long Do Major Strait of Hormuz Disruptions Last? The Strait of Hormuz has experienced five major disruption episodes since 1981, ranging from a multi-year tanker war to brief seizure incidents. With the current 2026 conflict disrupting commercial traffic through t...
Conveying Math Intuition Is Hard 3blue1brown recently felt the need to add a supplementary video to its Grover’s algorithm introduction. Apparently, a lot of people have been confused by what I believe is basically just the logical structure of the concept, or why this algorithm is inter...
I Used NumPy to Plan for My Home Renovations | Pier-Luc Brault - Personal Website My partner and I have been homeowners for over a year now, and it has been great. However, the time has now come for us to start seriously…
Stop Uploading Millions of Files | Francesco Vigni How I escaped the small-file trap with WebDatasets
UPDATED Request to the European Commission to adhere to its own guidances - TDF Community Blog The European Commission has accepted our request, and starting from today – Friday March 6 – has added the Open Document Format ODS version of the spreadsheet to be used to provide the feedback. We are grateful to the people working at DG CONNECT, the Com...
Based on its own charter, OpenAI should surrender the race Based on its own charter, OpenAI should surrender the race
LLM-Driven Large Code Rewrites With Relicensing Are The Latest AI Concern The newest open-source concern around AI that is seeing a lot of interest this weekend is when large language models / AI code generators may rewrite large parts of a codebase and then the 'developers' claiming an alternative license incompatible with the...
Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage Announcements this week were mostly business as usual, but Apple isn't immune.
