5 September 2025

29 links · Friday

Secret Storage in OCI

Shhhh, it’s a secret… Secrets are an essential part of secure programming. I’ve been programming since the early 90s, and back then, secrets weren’t nearly as big a deal as they are today. Passwords would be hard-coded into applications… connection s...

Learn Python in 10 minutes for Beginners! (with homework)

Learn Python NOW! I show how to install Python, what editor to use, and how to write your first programs in Python. Basics, practice, homework - all included. 👉 Coding for Dummies: A complete beginners guide - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXTnzOybuY0 🆇 …

Absolutely Right!

Claude Code said it 21 times today

What Is the Fourier Transform? | Quanta Magazine

Amid the chaos of revolutionary France, one man’s mathematical obsession gave way to a calculation that now underpins much of mathematics and physics. The calculation, called the Fourier transform, decomposes any function into its parts.

Fil-C

Fil-C uses a parallel concurrent on-the-fly grey-stack Dijkstra accurate non-moving garbage collector called FUGC (Fil's Unbelievable Garbage Collector). You can find the source code for the collector itself in fugc.c, though be warned, that code cannot possib…

The Indie Dev Outshining Tech Giants on GitHub

Recently, I was browsing the top GitHub organizations, and something quickly caught my attention. Who the fuck is Sindre Sorhus?  All of the names in this top 10 are related to massive global tech companies (Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Alibaba, OpenAI) or …

The Trillion Dollar Chart

In 2020, one of the most important papers in the development of AI was published: , which came from a group at OpenAI. This paper showed with just ...

Ads Are a Positional Good

Non-technical armchair economics post, where I explain my pet theory for why everything on and outside of the internet is absolutely infested with ads.

Content Query Languages

I have a weird fetish for blurring the lines between code and content in CMS. Traditionally, you have code which is written by developers, and content which is written by editors, and never shall the two meet. But what happens when editors need to write some c…

Protect Your Database from Cursor

a Postgres proxy that blocks dangerous SQL from AI assistants, preventing data loss and teaching your AI to write safer queries.

On evaluating agents – aunhumano

No amount of evals will replace the need to look at the data, once you have a evals good coverage you’ll be able to decrease the time but it’ll be always a must to just look at the agent traces to identify possible issues or things to improve.