Old and new apps, via modern coding agents I have been interested in machine-assisted ways to do and teach mathematics from as far back as 1999, when I started coding several applets in Java 1.0, both for my complex analysis and linear alge…
What xAI Grok Build CLI actually sends to xAI - a wire-level analysis (grok 0.2.93) What xAI Grok Build CLI actually sends to xAI - a wire-level analysis (grok 0.2.93) - grok-build-cli-wire-analysis.md
Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh How Mesh LLM pools existing GPU resources across machines into a single OpenAI-compatible API, built on iroh.
Ant, a lightweight JavaScript runtime Run real npm packages and TypeScript - all from a single 9 MB binary. Ant is a lightweight JavaScript runtime built from scratch on its own engine, with a Node-compatible API, a VM-isolated sandbox, and Wasm support built-in.
Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom Neoclouds are one of the more hotly debated AI business models, with CoreWeave and Nebius being the two most widely recognized names. These companies have seen their sales, backlog, and share prices soar. Yet, supporting their growth is extremely expensiv...
Prefer STRICT tables in SQLite I prefer strict tables in SQLite because they avoid some datatype problems, such as putting text in number columns.
Your ‘App’ Could Have Been a Webpage (so I fixed it for you…) I was asked to install a mobile app to get access to the itinerary of a trip to Disneyland I'm taking with the kids. Fuck that noise: couldn't it have just been a Web page? An hour of reverse-engineering later, it is, and it's superior in virtually every ...
The Dogfood Advantage People often explain OpenAI and Anthropic’s velocity with culture, talent or capital. I think there is a more mundane compounding effect at play: dogfooding.
Lean Software Production As AI accelerates software development, I see something emerging that I think needs a name. Excuse me for getting fancy, but I propose we...
The PhD Metagame: Try Even a Little at Conferences - Maxwell Forbes The bar is extremely low. Why not meet just 1 new person each day?
Why 'com_maxfps 250x' uncaps Quake Live's frame rate - Marco Nett A Ghidra dive into a buggy integer parser that lets a clamped cvar run the engine at ~1000 FPS.
Who is walking who? One good way to annoy a neuroscientist is to compare an LLM to the brain. It’s appealing though! There are similarities! In infancy we take a complex fusion of sensory inputs and learn to make pred…
Error Log Pattern Analysis is Hard (and Important) Why building a catalog of error log patterns in a legacy system is harder than it looks, and why it matters more than ever.
The Restraint Problem Agent leverage doesn't fix your bottleneck, it moves it. When building gets cheap, volume detaches from value, and the scarce skill becomes restraint. What one operator learned running a company on a fleet of agents.
What loss.backward() actually does Backpropagation from scratch with microcrad — a tiny autograd engine in C that shows you every step.
Can Nix Be a Better Arch Linux AUR? If you have used Linux for a while, you have heard the warning. The AUR will eventually run untrusted code on your machine. It is true, and it is also why people look at Nix and wonder if its flake ecosystem could do the same job more safely. The pitch
