Featured post what's this? ✨ Wargames Movie Magic: Where it Cheats - IMSAI & WOPR! Dave takes you through the computers behind the scenes in the movie WarGames! Comments with question marks get answered on our weekly ShopTalk!: https://youtu.be/iT0T52OV9B8
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The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs I had coffee last year with a guy - I won't use his real name - who told me he was "building a business." I asked what it did. Dropshipping jade face rollers. I made him say it twice. Jade face rollers. He'd found them on Alibaba for $1.20
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7 For anyone who has been (inadvisably) taking my pelican riding a bicycle benchmark seriously as a robust way to test models, here are pelicans from this morning’s two big model …
LLMs & Agents: How do they Work? For as much as AI has dramatically changed all of our lives, mine included, I was a bit uneasy that I didn’t really know how they are implemented and how they work. What is thinking and chain-of-thought reasoning? How does it choose a tool? What are param...
Breaking Up With WordPress After Two Decades | Yusuf Aytas Moving off WordPress was not really about cost or performance. It was about turning years of writing into a searchable, linkable archive instead of leaving it as a pile of published pages.
I made an MVP in one day - Diego López Hello. It all starts with my pressing need to have a Cornhole. Do you know that feeling when you know you don’t need something, but you need it? Well, that’s how I was, doing deep research all over the web, comparing prices, studying second-hand markets, ...
Moving my mobile numbers to VoIP Porting my personal and work mobile numbers to AAISP, using Groundwire as the client, and a small self-hosted proxy to plug the SMS gap.
The Economics of Forced Mitigation The difficult part of the Mythos discussion is not that a frontier model became better at finding and exploiting vulnerabilities. That was always going to happen. The harder part is that the surrounding response already assumes continued capability growth...
JIT Compilers and Cache Coherency Deep-dive into cache coherency considerations for JIT compilers on AArch64
How To Stay Sane Running a ‘Default Dead’ Startup I’m in my 40s, have a family, kids, and my startup is default dead . But I’m calm and confident that I’ll dig my way out. I haven’t always felt this way. Here’s how I changed that.
My experience with Claude and Codex on a system architecture bug I gave two state-of-the-art AI models the same architecture bug. I was quite surprised with the difference in results.
I Applied to 1,600 Jobs. That’s Why I Got 4 Offers. — Jelena Dobric Two months. 1,600+ applications. 4 offers. At companies I actually liked. Hiring market was not great. Plenty of strong candidates. Plenty of “we’ve decided to move forward with other applicants.” And yet—this worked. Not because I had a perfect resume. ...
The Skills That Matter Now AI changed what engineers spend their time on. The skills that separate engineers who thrive from those still catching up.
Postgres: One Database to Rule Them All | Marmot I'm a huge fan of simple software. There's something really satisfying about solving a problem and reducing the number of moving parts. Most of the time, you'll find the tool you already have can do more than you thought.
The player/coach trap: why Engineering Managers shouldn’t be expected to code When managers code, teams lose leadership.
What Breaks When You Run Coding Agents Unsupervised Five failure modes that surface only when coding agents run without anyone watching. None involve code generation.
Bash is the SQL for file systems Introducing serverless execution: run bash on Archil file systems directly, without provisioning compute or moving data. Live today in all AWS regions.
The Case for Semi-Autonomous Nonprofits - Emre Sarbak AI can automate 50-70% of nonprofit operations. Unlike businesses, where automation enriches owners, automating a nonprofit sends all the value to the people it serves.
How I learned Unity the wrong way I spent 3 years building Unity games by copying tutorials and stitching forum scripts together. Then an interviewer asked me what Queue<T> was. I could not a...
