Featured post what's this? ✨ FreeCAD Version 1.1 Released After an enormous amount of work and dedication from FreeCAD contributors we are delighted to announce that FreeCAD Version 1.1 is now released and available for download. There are significant amo…
End of “Chat Control”: EU Parliament Stops Mass Surveillance in Voting Thriller – Paving the Way for Genuine Child Protection! The controversial mass surveillance of private messages in Europe is coming to an end. After the European Parliament had already rejected the indiscriminate and blanket Chat Control by US tech companies on 13 March, conservative forces attempted a democra...
Tuta (@tuta.com) You did it! 🥳 European Parliament just decided that Chat Control 1.0 must stop. This means on April 6, 2026, Gmail, LinkedIn, Microsoft and other Big Techs must stop scanning your private messages in the EU. #PrivacyWins 💪 [contains quote post or oth...
Engineers do get promoted for writing simple code It’s a popular joke among software engineers that writing overcomplicated, unmaintainable code is a pathway to job security. After all, if you’re the only person who can work on a system, they can’t fire you. There’s a related take that “nobody gets promo...
FreeCAD Version 1.1 Released After an enormous amount of work and dedication from FreeCAD contributors we are delighted to announce that FreeCAD Version 1.1 is now released and available for download. There are significant amo…
False claims in a widely-cited paper. No corrections. No consequences. Welcome to the Business School. A couple months ago we had a post, This paper in Management Science has been cited more than 6,000 times. Wall Street executives, top government officials, and even a former U.S. Vice President have all referenced it. It’s fatally flawed, and the scholarl...
ARC-AGI-3 ARC-AGI-3 is the first interactive reasoning benchmark for AI agents—play as humans and build agents that learn in novel environments.
Fast .NET CLI Downloader | no dogma blog I often download large files like Linux distros, these can take a while, so I wrote a fast downloader that splits the file into multiple parts and downloads them in parallel.
Running Tesla Model 3's Computer on My Desk Using Parts From Crashed Cars David Schütz's bug bounty writeups
Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you “verify” the bug remains unfixed Why do I file bug reports with Apple Feedback Assistant? I plead insanity. Or perhaps addiction. I seesaw between phases of abstinence and falling off the wagon. I’ve even tried organizing a public boycott of Feedback Assistant, with a list of demands to ...
Poking Around ChatGPT's Sandbox An exploration of what ChatGPT's code execution environment can and can't do — filesystem access, process introspection, networking, and the curious 'prove it' prompting pattern.
I Am The Bottleneck This is the future, and it’s coming for all of us. The real question is who gets the blame when 90% of the excuses to get started disappear.
Encode Less Video Editing If you have been on the internet, you’ve surely encountered some internet memes. A simple search on Startpage shows the noun definition as “An image, video, piece of text, etc., typically humorous in nature, that is copied and spread rapidly by internet u...
Slot-Machine Development: The Hidden Cost of AI Coding Tools - mortenvistisen After a year using AI coding tools, I'm less convinced. Faster output can erode your mental model and quietly turn a codebase into spaghetti.
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I Tried to Invent a Better Replication Policy. It Failed. I built Nearsight, a distributed KV store based on time-decaying consistency, expecting it to reduce replication cost. The prototype worked. The benchmark st...
On Claude Code One of the largest value creation events has been Claude code's popularization of the $20 / $100 / $200 per month subscriptions for an almost endless supply of staff software engineer level contributions to a codebase, available on tap. To act as if that ...
Is What Politicians Do Similar to What they Say? – Michele Coscia Part of the Italian lore infused on me when growing up is to be disillusioned when it comes to interactions with politicians. Assuming that what a politician promises carries information about what they’re going to do is not the wisest way of living one’s...
Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy From April 24 onward, interaction data from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users will be used to train and improve our AI models unless they opt out.
Pulling the Lever Walk through a casino and you will see rows of slot machines. Someone sits down, pulls the lever, watches the reels spin, and waits for the result. Most of the time nothing happens. Occasionally a small win appears. Rarely, the machine pays out. If the ou...
Why I built my own expense tracker For years I kept trying different expense tracking apps. At first they always seemed promising. I would install one, enter a few transactions, maybe explore the charts and reports. For a week or two I would even use it consistently. Then gradually I stopp...
Slightly safer vibecoding by adopting old hacker habits I have seen a lot of public discussion around supply-chain attacks on the Python ecosystem, prompt injection risks when using coding agents,...
The Software Factory: Why Your Team Will Never Work the Same Again | alexop.dev We already have everything we need to build software factories. Teams will change. The only variable is speed.
i bought the macbook neo and it sucks why did i spend money on this when my ancient thinkpad still goes hard
Designing a Slider for Feeling A deep dive into the Ferrari Luce temperature knob and why showing the delta from before to current matters for feeling.
I Installed Fedora and Accidentally Created a Haunted House My fiancée heard sound coming from the HomePods and didn't know what was happening. I didn’t know either.
Disappointing People Early One of my favourite phrases to remind people of as I'm fumbling about the business of producing reliable systems is "We Should Disappoint People Early". I've gotten enough funny...
How losing my email account locked me out of my Digital Life A few weeks ago, I lost access to my email account. That experience opened my eyes to just how much I depended on it and how expensive a “free” service can become when things go wrong. This is a post-mortem of what happened and what I learned.
Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.
