12 January 2025

26 links · Sunday

The HTTP QUERY Method

This specification defines a new HTTP method, QUERY, as a safe, idempotent request method that can carry request content.

AI founders will learn The Bitter Lesson

Historically, general approaches always win in AI. Founders in AI application space now repeat the mistakes of AI researchers.

Why I Chose Common Lisp — Dan's Musings

After ~7 years, I was done with Clojure. I was writing a some CLI apps, and I hated how long they took to start up. The community at large seemed not to care about this problem, except for the babashka folks. However, I spent long, hard hours banging my head a…

Why is hash(-1) == hash(-2) in Python?

While browsing Reddit the other day waiting for my code to compile , I ran across this question on r/Python: is hash(-1) == hash(-2) an easter egg? Wait, is that really true? $ python Python 3.9.6 (default, Jun 29 2021, 00:00:00) [GCC 11.1.1 20210531 (Red Ha…

Jeremia Kimelman (@jeremiak@journa.host)

Attached: 1 image Thinking of Aaron Swartz today & I’m stuck on this photo - he & OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (both circled) each scraped 1000s of docs but one did it to make the knowledge free for all while the other did it to make $$$$ through probabilistic plagi…

De-smarting the Marshall Uxbridge

This is the story of a commercially unavailable stereo pair of the bi-amped Marshall Uxbridge, with custom-built replacement electronics: active filters feeding two linear power amps. Listening to this high-fidelity set has brought me immense enjoyment. Play a…

Exploring ways to optimize compute shaders - Part 1.

In this post we’ll be looking at compute shaders, profiling tools and failed experiments to improve performance. This is my journey learning compute shaders first through WebGPU and then Vulkan. My goal was to implement Conway’s Game Of Life algorithm in a bru…

My 20-Year Trading Journey & Building Passive Income

What Passive Income Really Means: It’s not about money magically dropping into your bank account. Instead, it’s about uncoupling your income from your daily working hours. Picture writing a book or developing a piece of software once and continuing to earn fro…

WordPress is in trouble

Since I last wrote about WordPress, things have gone off the rails. This after a brief period when things were blissfully quiet. Matt Mullenweg stopped commenting for a while, though his company had launched WP Engine Tracker — a site for tracking WordPress-dr…

You Only Exist In The Moment

The moment is all there is. Relativity makes this kind of confusing when applied to , but let's do what we do best and focus on ourselves: You only exi...