Dev Reveals Secrets Behind Stunning New "3D" Platformer For The ZX Spectrum
'Cubix' launched earlier this month as part of YRGB 2025
Away from Gmail | etcetera
This was a tough decision, having used Gmail since 2007/2008. However, I had to draw the line and stop giving Google my data for free.
Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately | TechCrunch
After getting licenses to cover every engineer, some at the cryptocurrency exchange warned Armstrong that adoption would be slow, predicting it would take months to get even half the engineers using AI.
Line scan camera image processing
I use my line scan camera to take cool pictures of trains and other stuff.
Why Was Apache Kafka Created?
The story behind how LinkedIn created Apache Kafka
Computer-Use Evals are a Mess — Benjamin Anderson
What exactly are we doing here?
Essay about how getting on Twitter unexpectedly added a lot of value to my life
~fpereiro
(Context: I’m thinking about individual contributors in the context of a startup – outside of that setting, I wonder how much validity there is to this)
Product shouldn't decide what to build
(neither should engineering)
What is Threat Modeling?
Threat modeling is really just a fancy way of saying: “Let’s think about what could go wrong with our software in advance, so we can stop it before it happens.” When we build applications, most of …
Have smart glasses finally hit an inflection point?
I know what many of you may be thinking now, as you read the headline of this post. You might be remembering the photo reproduced below, in which Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen (who, it must be said, has a large and rather egg-shaped head, n…
i'm bored, so here's a useless 0day
i either want my US$2.5k professional-grade device backdoored or not at all
Harper Evolves
I want you to read that title as literally as possible. Harper is now capable of evolution.
Engineering Manager Technical Deep Dives
How engineering managers should handle technical deep dives: show system ownership, trade-offs, impact, and lessons learned.
The science of loudness
My watch has a “Noise” app: it shows , for decibels. My amp has a volume knob, which also shows decibels, although.. negative ones, this time. And finally, my video editing software has a ton of me...
The Hidden Cost of Winning: Moral Alignment Degradation in RL-Trained AI
Our investigation reveals that models trained to play poker don’t just get better at poker—they gradually reweight the importance of ethical behavior versus winning, becoming progressively more willing to take unethical actions when victory is at stake. For th…
LLMs Won't Replace Programming Languages
Corey Montella • January 9 2025