GitHub - rxi/sj.h: A tiny little JSON parsing library
A tiny little JSON parsing library. Contribute to rxi/sj.h development by creating an account on GitHub.
Procedural Island Generation (VI)
Wrapping CartoKit with the baked terrain output, the egui viewer, and the GLB/image export helpers.
Parsing Crusader Kings III data files to generate mods
- 21st September 2025
LaLiga’s Anti-Piracy Crackdown Triggers Widespread Internet Disruptions Across Spain
Entire neighborhoods of the internet are going dark just so LaLiga can keep pirated streams off your screen.
The performance impact of vertex shader exports
Following up on the previous post on GPU utilization and performance, and to provide a practical example, I expanded a bit on a topic discussed in brief: vertex shader exports and their impact on p…
How to stop functional programming
The following has never happened to me but I often hear stories.
AI Was Supposed to Help Juniors Shine. Why Does It Mostly Make Seniors Stronger? | <Can ELMA/>
AI was supposed to empower junior developers. In reality, it has become a tool that makes seniors more valuable while exposing the gaps in software culture.
Apple’s Thinnest iPhone Still Stands Up to Repairs
To be honest, we were holding our breath for the iPhone Air. Thinner usually means flimsier, harder to fix, and more glued-down parts. But the iPhone Air proves otherwise. Apple has somehow built its…
Introducing SGS-1
Spectral Labs releases SGS-1: the first generative model for structured CAD.
The Germans, 1933-45 by Milton Mayer, an excerpt, 2017 edition
An excerpt from They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 by Milton Mayer. Also available on web site: online catalogs, secure online ordering, excerpts from new books. Sign up for email notification of new releases in your field.
Jason Spielman • Designing NotebookLM
Designer, builder, and visual storyteller. Now building Huxe. Previously led design on NotebookLM and contributed to Google AI projects like Gemini and Search. Also shoot photo/video for brands like Coachella, GoPro, and Rivian.
$2 WeAct Display FS adds a 0.96-inch USB information display to your computer - CNX Software
WeAct Display FS is an inexpensive 0.96-inch USB display dongle designed to add an information display or a tiny secondary display to your computer or
Random Mutation Hill Climbing (RMHC)
An exploration of how we approximate an image using an evolutionary strategy. One candidate, one mutation, accept if better. We climb the fitness landscape in real time with frame-budgeted renderin...
Running a RAG powered language model on Android using MediaPipe
A couple of months ago I gave a talk about running on device SLMs in apps. It was well recieved and refreshing to be able to give a talk where mobile apps can gain an advantage from the rise in language model usage.
Blockchain in Zig - PART 1
Building a blockchain in Zig
The Mars manifest: which laws get a seat on the rocket?
A thought experiment: if Mars gets only 150 tons of civilization, which laws, systems, and rules make the cut?
Code should be clean because business isn't
I am an ardent capitalist. I am also an ardent Unix philosopher. I have long percieved there to be some interesting tensions between these two wolves inside me. The Unix philosopher in me wants my code to be as simple and flexible as possible, and - not always…
When Scrolling Becomes the Default
I woke up today at 1pm after a long night of sleep (thank god it's the weekend), and before I knew it, it was 5pm. That's a large chunk of my day gone by, an...
Filter the tools from MCP servers
What I like about MCP servers: they give me lots of great tools that can make my agents more powerful, with very little work on my side. ...
Why Does a PostgreSQL UPDATE Query Increase Table Size?
The statement is ultimately false, but a single update query will cause the table's size to increase. This occurs due to PostgreSQL's storage model and its use of MVCC (Multi-Version Concurrency Control). To fully explain this, we must first understand these t…
Kafka to HelixDB | langchain-beam
The Kafka to helixdb Pipeline is a pre-built Apache Beam streaming pipeline that lets you consume real-time text data from Kafka topics, generate embeddings using OpenAI models, and store the vectors into HelixDB node for similarity search and retrieval. The p…
Trying Jujutsu VCS - mkaz.blog
Marcus Kazmierczak's blog about code, data visualization, and life
How to Train an LLM-RecSys Hybrid for Steerable Recs with Semantic IDs
An LLM that can converse in English & item IDs, and make recommendations w/o retrieval or tools.
From Exit to Restart
A Framework for Navigating Post-Exit Uncertainty
The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature
The influential essay that prompted a lively public conversation about the meaning of wilderness in American culture.
MagSafe Ice Packs
So here's a neat way to magically cut in half the time it takes to transfer to your new iPhone. Back in 2019, I realized iPhone restores run much faster when…
My Journey to Stop Using My Phone
At some point this past summer, I decided I needed to find ways to stop myself from using my phone. Not completely, of course. Smartphones…