Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives It’s supposed to be a decentralized service, after all...
EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 – Breyer: "Our children lose out" Today, the European Parliament allowed the suspicionless mass scanning of private communications ("Chat Control 1.0") to pass, a measure it had rejected twice in March. Although a majority of voting Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) actually oppos...
Migrating a production ASP.NET ASMX Web Services API to ASP.NET Core - Existing WebAPI Architecture | Pure Krome Existing WebAPI architecture for migrating a production ASP.NET ASMX web services API to ASP.NET Core
PlayStation can delete all your digital games after 3 years of inactivity Raising important questions about ownership
SWE-1.7: Frontier Intelligence at a Fraction of the Cost Today, we’re launching SWE-1.7, the most capable model we’ve trained so far. It reaches frontier-level intelligence at a much lower cost, advancing the cost-performance Pareto curve.
🐀 ESCAPE THE RAT RACE A FAANG life sim. One tap = one quarter of your life. Layoffs, lifestyle creep, an AI named Kevin, and Milton the desk rat.
John Deere owners will get the right to repair their own equipment under a new FTC settlement John Deere owners should soon feel free to fix their own machines. The Federal Trade Commission and several state attorneys general have secured a “right to repair” settlement with farming equipment company Deere & Co., known as John Deere.
Introducing Grok 4.5 Grok 4.5 is SpaceXAI's smartest model built for coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work.
Lucky Code Recently, while I was working on an optimized Quicksort implementation, I came across a rather interesting quirk. Modern compilers (especially Clang) optimize loops using fast, branch-free instructions - provided you use the right programming style.
The pros and cons of Cons This article is about the advantages and disadvantages of using cons cells when implementing a Lisp-like programming language.
Proving to Fable I maintain the repo – Philip O'Toole rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database built on SQLite and Raft. After my initial experience with Fable, it got me thinking. I created rqlite, I maintain it. Why won't Fable help me find and fix bugs in the software? Why doe...
A software engineer among lawyers Fifteen years building software, and now I work among lawyers. Field notes on uniforms, truth and egos, and the difference underneath: in court there is no second chance.
One Year Without Pocket – Byline One year ago today, Pocket shut down. The read-later category scattered – and the real gap isn't saving articles, it's the context to understand what you read.
Organization is a bigger idea than intelligence -- human, or artificial The AI race focuses on intelligence. History suggests we should focus on organization.
Raising the Baseline ‣ Gustavo Veloso | My Thoughts gjmveloso's personal blog. The opinions expressed here are my own and do not necessarily represent those of current or past employers.
EU now one step away from reviving private message scanning rules The European Parliament has approved an urgent procedure to fast-track legislation that would revive the expired "Chat Control 1.0" rules.
I stopped watching my agents work and started listening How Tri-State Relay Service grew from queued audio updates into Live mode, and why per-line voices make agent work easier to follow.
Seeing Does Not Mean Understanding — w@lter A sign does not communicate because it exists: it communicates when its meaning arrives, stays clear, and lets someone act.
Announcing TypeScript 7.0 - TypeScript Today we are proud to announce the availability of TypeScript 7, a 10x faster native port of TypeScript! Since its early days, TypeScript has promised to
Why I Still Build Small Windows Tools with AutoIt I know AutoIt is not the most modern programming language. It is not trendy, it is not something people usually mention next to Rust, Go, Python, or C#. But I still use it, and for the kind of small Windows tools I build, it still makes a lot of sense.
Wall clock is the wrong metric AI coding tools change how engineering organizations allocate attention more than they compress project timelines.
How I Built the ShareMyPage MCP (and How I Measured Its UX) I built an MCP server that lets Claude create, edit, and comment on real hosted pages. There is no screen, so every UX decision lives in a tool schema, an error message, or a single line of returned text, and measuring whether any of it actually works nee...
Monty, rebuilt as a Bazel remote build. No fork. 121.1s cold build, 15.7s fully cached — all 432 executable actions served from the remote cache. Measured, committed as JSON, reproducible with Docker.
How I Transferred WhatsApp Chat History from Android to iPhone When Every Tool Failed When the official WhatsApp Android to iPhone transfer failed, I migrated 325,647 messages myself with open source tools by rebuilding the legacy database schema WhatsApp abandoned years ago.
Funding open-source software without compromising it Funding open-source software is a challenge, especially for projects without a large existing community. While various approaches exist, they all come with their own drawbacks. For example, asking for donations is by far the most commonly used approach bu...
The Conversation Isn’t Real – Lon Riesberg 14 prompting techniques that work because AI chats aren’t what you think.
Chatto is now Open Source! The snappiest chat application you've ever used is now available for self-hosting.
Robostral Navigate: single-camera AI navigation | Mistral AI Introducing Robostral Navigate: 8B model achieving 76.6% on R2R-CE with just a single RGB camera. No depth sensors, LiDAR, or multiple cameras needed.
Introducing GPT-Live A new generation of voice models for natural human-AI interaction, now powering ChatGPT Voice.
