Tuning AIO in PostgreSQL 18
One of the significant improvements in PG18 is AIO. What are some basic tuning recommendations?
When Responsibility and Power Collide: Lessons from the RubyGems Crisis
As a RubyGems security contributor, I watched Ruby Central's takeover unfold. My take on why necessary changes became a crisis of trust and governance.
The virtue of building from source
Building from source is both a joy, sometimes necessary, and also a great pain.
Blog - Divested Computing
Occasional updates about Divested projects and other fun from Tavi.Sundry updates are now on the Roll page.The text on this page is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 unless stated otherwise.
My Favorite Technology
Language. It's what took us from ape to apex. More than fire or the wheel. In the beginning was the word. Agriculture and the internet bow to language. It precedes and undergirds all of our many revolutions: French, Communist, Haitian, Industrial—language d…
The self-trivialisation of software development
How software keeps making itself simpler: from libraries and open source to no‑code and AI. What self‑trivialisation means for developers’ skills, roles, and future.
VassiLife
In this small project, the goal is to learn a bit the world of finetuning/creating LoRA's with diffusion models. Indeed, I did a bit of pre-training, both for LLMs and diffusion models, but I have not experimented much with finetuning yet. The idea for this pr…
Why do wind turbines have three blades?
What makes three the perfect blade count for wind turbines? Why not two for simplicity, or five to catch more wind? The answer connects physics,
Using a fault tolerant trie for address matching
An interactive explanation of how a fault tolerant trie can be used for address matching
The Tiny JSON Parser That Fixes Your CSP Headaches
Learn how to pass server data to React without CSP violations using json-from-script - a tiny library that leverages safe JSON script tags instead of risky inline JavaScript.
Erlang Ecosystem Foundation - Supporting the BEAM community
September 19, 2025 by Jonatan Männchen
How many valid JSON strings are there?
A valid JSON string is a string conforming to the simple grammar described at json.org. In this scenario a string is a finite sequence of Unicode characters. Unicode provides us with an alphabet of some 1,114,112 possible characters, which we number in hexade…
Wild Linker Update - 0.6.0
David Lattimore - 2025-09-23
Noteflakes - My Thoughts on Euruko
I’ve just got back home from Euruko last night. The conference ended on Friday, but I decided to stay two more nights in Portugal and visit Porto. In between walking all over the city, eating great food and enjoying the dancing and music making in the street, …
😾 30 Years Defending Linux — Until I Called It Quits
Yeah, I know, the title seems written by a chatbot. Rest assured, the content is not. As announced almost four weeks ago, it's time for me to bid Linux farewell on my laptops, but on all present and future computers for sure. Should I need it, there's WSL unde…
Locking in CockroachDB, Part 2 - Finding Locked Rows | no dogma blog
CockroachDB has an internal table that shows all locked rows. With a simple query, you can find out a lot about what is locked, and maybe the cause.
Fantastic Four
I stand by what I said...mostly!
My response to a response. Response tweet with awesome video - https://x.com/bookercodes/status/1970506121757761690 Mastra AI - https://mastra.ai/ **Newsletter** Newsletter 🗞 - https://www.jamesqquick.com/newsletter **DISCORD** Join the Learn Build Teach …
Terence Tao (@tao@mathstodon.xyz)
Some loosely organized thoughts on the current Zeitgeist. They were inspired by the response to my recent meta-project mentioned in my previous post https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115254145226514817, where within 24 hours I became aware of a large number of ongo…
American Joins Delta, Southwest, United and Other US Airlines Push to Strip Away Travelers’ Rights and Add More Fees by Rolling Back Key Protections in New Deregulation Move - Travel And Tour World
American Airlines, Delta, Southwest, United, and other US airlines are pushing to remove key protections for passengers and add more fees by rolling back rules, claiming it will lower costs and boost competition, but it may leave travelers with fewer rights an…
My game's server is blocked in Spain whenever there's a football match on
Hello, I am a guy that makes a funny rhythm game called [Project Heartbeat](https://ph.eirteam.moe). I'm based in Spain. Recently, I got a home...
I Misunderstood Rejection Sampling All This Time
If you’re like me, you have cobbled together an understanding of statistics following your mediocre second-year stats class by watching YouTube videos and...
That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus
It's just normal crime
Procedural Generation with Wave Function Collapse
An In-Depth Explanation in C++, From First Principles to Practical Implementation
Postgres’ Original Project Goals: The Creators Totally Nailed It | Crunchy Data Blog
Dig in to the original goals of the Postgres academic project at UC Berkeley and how they shaped the Postgres we use today.
Game Boy Advance Audio | jsgroth's blog
This is a moderately low-level overview of the Game Boy Advance audio hardware, from the perspective of having recently emulated it. GBA audio has a reputation for being very low-quality, one that I personally think is deserved, but this is not entirely caused…
Just Let Me Select Text
Text is a universal medium. And yet we try to prevent users of our UIs from using it. Let’s not.
Internes Protokoll: Dänemark will Chatkontrolle durchdrücken
Dänemark will die Chatkontrolle in drei Wochen durchdrücken. Am Gesetz ändert die Ratspräsidentschaft nichts, stattdessen sollen Staaten ihre Meinung ändern. Die Position Deutschlands ist maßgeblich. Darüber entscheidet Innenminister Dobrindt. Wir veröffentlic…
Qwen
Qwen Chat offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.
Support - Larian Studios | Steam Deck - Native Version
Upon release of Hotfix #34 on your Steam Deck, your device will install the Native version. If you are unsure whether the build has been installed correctly, you can do the following: Go to the game’s Steam page. Click on the Set...
Why I Keep Business Logic Out of SQL
Should I default to pushing logic into the database—using views, procedures, functions—or should I default to keeping logic inside the application code (including SQL statements)?