Featured post what's this? ✨ A Japanese Glossary of Chopsticks Faux Pas An overview of chopsticks gaffes that are best avoided when eating in Japan.
Delve - Fake Compliance as a Service - Part I How Delve managed to falsely convince hundreds of customers they were compliant and then lied about it when exposed and called out
Bored of eating your own dogfood? Try smelling your own farts! I called a large company the other day. Did I know the information I wanted could be found on their website? And was I aware that I could manage my account online? And would I like to receive a link to chat with their AI assistant via WhatsApp? Naturally...
Hormuz Minesweeper Classic Minesweeper laid across the Strait of Hormuz. Clear the water, flag the mines, and survive the shipping lane.
Tooscut - Video Editor A powerful NLE editor with GPU compositing, keyframe animation, and real-time preview. No installs required.
The Three Pillars of JavaScript Bloat A brief look at the three main causes of bloat in our JavaScript dependency trees, and how we can start to address them.
A simple and powerful neural network framework We write and maintain tinygrad, the fastest growing neural network framework
Bun vs Node.js Performance: Why Your Event Loop Is the Real Bottleneck Bun is faster than Node.js — but switching runtimes won't fix a saturated connection pool or a blocking Event Loop. This guide covers what Bun actually speeds up, why Promise.all kills your p99 latency, how JSC and V8 GC differ under load, and when migrat...
Why craft-lovers are losing their craft Les Orchard made a quiet observation recently that I haven't been able to shake. Before LLM coding assistants arrived, the split between developers was…
america's biggest problem (it's not what you think) I have lived in this country for right around 20 years. My family settled in the US due to its abundance of economic opportunity and its open mind. Just in m...
The Future of SaaS Is Agentic TL;DR: The future of SaaS is agentic, but agentic SaaS is not just a chatbot layered on top of APIs and a dashboard. Traditional SaaS was built for users to ...
9 Ways to Fail at Installing a Browser Extension — Daniel Walker All I wanted was for an extension to auto-update. Two hours later, I'm impersonating an IT department.
The Singularity is Coming It is not uncommon for popular culture to pick up on a concept from science and twist it until it is nearly unrecognizable. The concept of the “technological singularity” is no exception. Still, when the singularity is talked about as “the machines taking...
The Claude Dichotomy AI is creating a genuine dichotomy: teams drowning in AI-supercharged chaos, others are thriving. The difference is in the approach to transformation.
Who's Writing the Spec? Why the bottleneck of knowledge work isn't production but the ability to say what you want. On Taste, Specification, and Evaluation -- the three competencies that are suddenly scarce.
Vibe Coding, QWERTY, and US Healthcare - or: The Future of Software Engineering? Why is changing existing code with AI so much harder than writing new code?
Do Not Turn Child Protection Into Internet Access Control Age verification turns the open internet into a permission system and pushes control away from families, schools, and users.