I keep reading this thing, repeated as if it's fact: "The Open Web is Dead". At first I agreed, maybe because I also felt bummed out by what's happening, but I have since come 180° on this viewpoint. The Open Web cannot die. As long as there is one person beli…
Last week, I spent some time with Haley (one year old) doing serious research into ‘putting things into other things’. We’d brought her a soft toy squirrel and, inevitably, she had found the cardboard box it came in much more interesting. There followed a cons…
Celebration of the six-year anniversary of Admiral Shark's Keyboards!
Started by [[Niklas Luhmann]], also called “Slip Box”. This approach will further dilute the idea of a librarian who organizes books in main categories and sub-folder and focuses only on the thought at hand as an individual note. Instead of spending lots of yo…
I’ve long been interested in new and different platforms. I ran Debian on an Alpha back in the late 1990s and was part of the Alpha port team; then I helped bootstrap Debian on amd64. I’ve got somewhere around 8 Raspberry Pi devices in active use right now, …
From lovers to spouses, from employers to parental approval, we search for ourselves in others' eyes—creating perhaps the most elaborate illusion ever sustained: that validation exists outside the self that seeks it.
Please help me out and give this post a vote over on Hacker News 😉 (if you haven’t already). I’ve been listening to podcasts for over 15 years. Back then, ads were host-read and usually relevant. Now? Many shows cram in 15+ minutes of loud, intrusive ads per …
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Back in the day, I was on my school’s debate team. It was basically a sport for nerds. (In hindsight, my friend group did a lot of “sports for nerds” activities: chess, quiz bowl, competitive gaming, etc.) Anyway, back to the debate team. We treated it like …
I have the good fortune to have a job right now, but many of my friends are out of work. Most have been searching for a while. Some are encountering a problem that has my full sympathy, something I’ve experienced myself at various times. I’m not sure I can sol…
Mock testing is useful, but there is a risk of building false confidence when we don't pay close attention.
AI for Formal Mathematical Reasoning
Discovering indepently evolved life on Mars would bad news for humanity.
Hello people, long time no chat! I have some unfortunate news: The promised 2025 Balatro 1.1 update isn’t going to come out in 2025. I know, I announced that it would, but it has become clear now that it won’t happen by the end of the year and I wanted to te…
Systems thinkers fail because they ignore an important fact: systems fight back.
Plus, how VLA models work, self-improvement from deployment, and China’s hardware advantage
Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.
I’ve been sitting with Dr. Matthew Bennett’s (2024) Four Quadrants of Personality from his book Toward an Integrated Analytical Psychology . His system borrows from traditional psychoanalytic structures but reframes them in a way that feels less about patholo…
Social Signaling is the idea that people, through actions or even words, may be trying to get others to believe something about them. A simple example might be trying to signal you are smart by using big words. Or conversely, trying to signal you’re a chill br…
Have you ever seen a Number grazing in the fields? Or a Functor chirping in the trees? No? That’s because they’re LIES. LIES told by the bourgeoisie to keep common folk down. But I say NO, no longer shall we be kept down by deceit! Come brothers and sisters, c…
Personal academic profile showcasing research, publications, and experiments
QGIS is a free, open source, cross platform (lin/win/mac) geographical information system (GIS) - qgis/QGIS
The story of SVHA Adventure, and how it was saved after over 40 years of obscurity.
Exploring the brilliant design of UTF-8 encoding system that represents millions of characters while being backward compatible with ASCII
This is an update to an earlier post on caching Tasks and only executing them when first accessed. This version uses Lazy<Task<string>> to hold the Task.
Keynote sessions at Open Source Summit events tend not to allow much time for detailed talks, a [...]
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Wishlist HomeGrown on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1894560/HomeGrown/ Support the channel on Patreon and get access to the game & code for Homegrown, the city-builder, and Equilinox: https://www.patreon.com/thinmatrix Play my previous game "Equi…
We shouldn't have to cater to the lowest common denominator.
Qwen Chat offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.
I have a problem with many large, technical websites. Often times, I’ll want to refer to different pages at the same time. So I’ll CMD + click “a…
Interesting: a Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores" that can keep open for up to three days without power or telecom and store an expanded stock of non-perishable food and essentials. The idea is that no one should be more than 50 km from …
A breakdown of Claude's memory implementation, how it differs from ChatGPT, and what these opposite approaches reveal about each company's philosophy.
A curated collection of fun and creative examples generated with Nano Banana🍌, Gemini-2.5-flash-image based model. This repository showcases diverse AI-generated visuals and prompts, highlighting t...