The magic of through running - Works in Progress Magazine
Commuter trains often stop at the edge of cities. Building a short tunnel to join them up is often by far the most efficient way to improve a city's transport.
The Mass Trauma of Porn
What have we done?
Coordinated Progress – Part 1 – Seeing the System: The Graph — Jack Vanlightly
At some point, we’ve all sat in an architecture meeting where someone asks, “ Should this be an event? An RPC? A queue? ”, or “ How do we tie this process together across our microservices? Should it be event-driven? Maybe a workflow orchestration? ” Cue a flu…
On the value of commercial coding courses – Miloš Švaňa
Since January, I have been teaching a commercial AI engineering course. During a recent session, one of the students told me that they made a mistake signing up. It had nothing to do with my teaching methods, they just said it wasn’t for them.
Phoenix contexts are simpler than you think
Beginners are always overthinking yet, but it doesn’t need to be confusing
The Unreality of Pro Wrestling
On a Joe Rogan podcast Rick Rubin dropped the single most intriguing and confusing statement I'd ever heard:
The web could use machine code
Marcus Lewis
Broad Cloudflare service outages
Cloudflare's Status Page - Broad Cloudflare service outages.
PostgreSQL Upgrade using GCP DMS · Anantha Kumaran
At work, we recently upgraded our multi-terabyte PostgreSQL database from version 13 to 16 in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This post shares lessons learned during the process, focusing on our experience using Google’s Database Migration Service (DMS).
It's the climb - Herbert Lui
If you’re considering using artificial intelligence and generative technology in your creative process, just remember these two parables. First: An old man in Calcutta would walk to get water from a well every day. He’d carry a clay pot and lower it by hand sl…
What_about_the_Island
In the previous blog post, PaperMatch Analysis, we saw how when we analyse the embedding vectors from arXiv abstracts and use dimensionality reduction techniques, we can effectively map out how academia has evolved, at least in the eyes of arXiv. There was eve…
Writing a Verified Postfix Expression Calculator in Ada/SPARK
A venture in writing a larger SPARK project.
Comparison of Android-based Operating Systems
Comparison of Android-based Operating Systems
Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure
Securely connect to anything on the internet with Tailscale. Built on WireGuard®️, Tailscale enables you to make finely configurable connections, secured end-to-end according to zero trust principles, between any resources on any infrastructure.
Google Cloud Service Health
This page provides status information on the services that are part of Google Cloud. Check back here to view the current status of the services listed below. If you are experiencing an issue not listed here, please contact Support. Learn more about what's post…
A receipt printer cured my procrastination [ADHD]
Why can I focus for hours on a game but procrastinate on simple tasks? I finally cracked the code using thermal receipt printer and game design.
From Word and Excel to LibreOffice: Danish ministry says goodbye to Microsoft
All employees at the Danish Ministry of Digital Affairs are to work without Microsoft. Instead, Linux and LibreOffice will be used, says the minister.
Spark
An advanced 3D Gaussian Splatting renderer for THREE.js
GitHub - resemble-ai/chatterbox: SoTA open-source TTS
SoTA open-source TTS. Contribute to resemble-ai/chatterbox development by creating an account on GitHub.
Don't McBlock me
“That cannot be done.” Is rarely true, but it’s a phrase I’ve heard more and more from technical people without offering any rationale or further explanation...
LLM Chess Leaderboard
Random Player (White)
The Shift to Distributed LLM Inference: 3 Key Technologies Breaking Single-Node Bottlenecks
Explore 3 key strategies — prefill/decode disaggregation, KV cache utilization-aware load balancing, and prefix cache-aware routing — to optimize distributed LLM inference at scale.
Coding LLMs from the Ground Up: A Complete Course
Why build an LLM from scratch? It's probably the best and most efficient way to learn how LLMs really work. Plus, many readers have told me they had a lot of...
Core 2 Duo - Beta Test Signup!
We're looking for willing and able volunteers to help test the new watch hardware, software and mobile apps.
Texting myself the weather every day
My personal website. Hopefully always being updated!
What if the Big Bang wasn’t the beginning? Our research suggests it may have taken place inside a black hole
In this blog, Professor Enrique Gaztanaga from the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation at the University of Portsmouth, puts forward a new theory about how the Universe was created.
It doesn’t matter if RSS is ‘dying’?
A protocol is the gift that keeps on giving. Even if it's 'dying'. So people should keep building on RSS.
Alex West
Sharing everything I learn along the way and blog about my progress daily.
The Art of Engineering Management
Learn effective strategies to master engineering management and deliver great products.
No, You're Not Going Extinct. But You Will Need to Evolve | Nik Wakelin
Disable MacOS doodoo garbage shinies with Nix Darwin
FIRE ALL OF THE DESIGNERS AT APPLE I WANT USABLE AND FAST USER INTERFACES NOT 15 MINUTES OF NOVELTY
Reverse Engineering the YC Directory
How I managed to reverse-engineer Y Combinator's Work at a Startup directory.
Why Chrome DevTools Isn’t Enough — Profiling End Users | Palette Docs
Understand why Chrome DevTools fall short for end user performance issues and how companies like Facebook and Slack use the Self-Profiling API to optimize JavaScript in production.
Forth Feedback Loop
Inspired by Andreas Wagner’s ecr word, I created the word go: go.fs : go#empty s" ---marker--- marker ---marker---" evaluate ; : go#open s" vim my_project.fs" system ; : go#run s" my_project.fs" included ; : go go#empty go#open go#run ; marker ---marker--- ma…
Newber
Recently, when I was at the airport looking to get a ride share back home I checked the price of both Uber and Lyft. I noticed that an Uber was 25$ and a Lyft was 39$…that is a price difference of 14$, or more than half the price of the Uber! The Lyft ride was…