Day 1 ‚ The Problem
Day 1 ‚ The Problem - Supreme Founder
LLMs Are Transpilers | alloc.dev
Using LLMs in programming
Wtf is the Synergic Mode? • Malcolm Ocean
[Written August 2022. Published now because editing is hard and sometimes calling it how you see it is too scary to share with everybody at first.] Framing on this write-up: “guys I’m really confused, this weird thing keeps happening and it seems really good s…
Neural Networks: Simpler Than You Think | Hamza's Blog
A walkthrough of implementing a neural network from scratch in Python, exploring what makes these seemingly complex systems actually quite straightforward.
Rejecting an xAI Interview
As you may have noticed, like everyone else in SF, I've been pondering AI. There will probably be at least 10 more years of world-changing developments ahead of us. Like with the internet, things may take decades to unfold. It's still early days. the internet…
Why Did I Write a Novel about IT and Software Engineering? - Surviving Software
Acknowledging the influences that led me to write "Human Software" and the professional journey that has got me to this point.
OpenAI's inflated valuation, as I understand it
Blog post: OpenAI's inflated valuation, as I understand it
Implementing ZADD If Key Exists
I recently had to make some performance optimizations. These are my favorite kind of coding task as they usually require some sort of creativity and tradeoff. This time around I also learned more about Redis and practiced using AI to generate code.
How I watch YouTube videos on my phone without getting distracted
Adding friction, retaining an outlet
Why Your Company Needs a Chief Failure Officer
Build a culture of innovation by embracing fast, frequent failure. Discover why every company should have a Chief Fail Officer to drive learning and growth.
(re)Introducing the Pebble Appstore
(re)Introducing the Pebble Appstore
Rescue me always
My latest arch update broke system boot and plugging in a pen drive is too much work, so I installed grml on my local hard disk partition. Post also explores how live boot works.
Accidentally Made a Zig dotenv Parser
How I ended up creating a dotenv parser while working on a CLI argument parser
The relentless rule of my fitness tracker
At a time when we’re all blaming digital devices for ruining our attention spans, our children’s mental health and even the future of democracy itself, let’s give credit where it’s due: my cheap fi…
The Get Your Shit Together Day
Everyone needs a Get Your Shit Together day every once in a while...
When Will Quantum Computing Work?
Quantum computers will create good businesses beyond 2030, maybe 2040, but not before then. Many R&D breakthroughs are required to build useful machines.
Hot Water Balloon
Igalia, Servo, and the Sovereign Tech Fund | Igalia
Igalia is an open source consultancy specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and client-side web technologies, graphics pipeline, compilers and…
DDN: Discrete Distribution Networks
Novel Generative Model with Simple Principles and Unique Properties
Nobel Peace Prize 2025
The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 was awarded to Maria Corina Machado "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy"
Cubemaps // Vulkan For Beginners #25
In this video we learn how to implement Cubemapping in Vulkan. This can be used to render a skybox around the viewer. 🔥 See the list of the books that I'm using as background information for my tutorials: https://ogldev.org/books.html. I highly recommend the…
Python 3.14 Is Here. How Fast Is It?
In November of 2024 I wrote a blog post titled "Is Python Really That Slow?", in which I tested several versions of Python and noted the steady progress the language has been making in terms of…
AI Coding Sucks
AI coding tools suck and are not at all what was promised. I'm done. 00:00 - intro 00:15 - i used to enjoy programming 01:05 - why did I become a programmer 01:55 - AI / LLMs are not predictable 02:47 - models are magic boxes 03:26 - ai programming has become…
Rubygems.org AWS Root Access Event – September 2025
As part of standard incident-response practice, Ruby Central is publishing the following post-incident review to the public. This document summarizes the September 2025 AWS root-access event, what occurred, what we verified, and the actions we’ve taken to str…
GitHub - mafik/keyer: Firmware & goodies for making a KEYER (one-handed chorded keyboard).
Firmware & goodies for making a KEYER (one-handed chorded keyboard). - mafik/keyer
MCP Servers vs Extensions in Gemini CLI: When to Use What
Learn when to use MCP servers or extensions in Gemini CLI for personal configurations versus team workflows
How to avoid npm link issues
When using component libraries, you'll often need to use npm link in order to test changes to the component library in an app that uses the component library locally. Let's say you're working on a dashboard in a company-portal project and you're using a Butto…
Beyond the Plateau: The Real Existential Crisis Is a Slowdown, Not a Takeoff
For most of history, humanity’s greatest accomplishment has been its ability to out-accelerate its own existential problems.
The lost art of semaphores
I am a huge fan of System V Inter Process Communication primitives. There is some rawness and UNIX spirit to them. There is a newer and kinda “improved” version of those primitives named POSIX IPC. While there are a few things in POSIX IPC that can’t be done w…
jimmyff | Keeping my Nix inputs fresh
Fun loving creative (he/him) 🏳️🌈
My Friend is Giving Me a Kidney
A fresh start for me thanks to a generous friend
Ship Broken Things
Ship Broken Things Published on 06.10.2025
Why Your Simple Password Is a Mathematical Catastrophe - Tawanda Munongo
From ancient Caesar ciphers to quantum-resistant cryptography, the journey of secret-keeping reveals not just the evolution of our technology, but the deepening of our understanding of information, computation, and trust itself.
ChatGPT pretends to run code
ChatGPT recently pretended to run Python code
LINQ and Learning To Be Declarative
If you’re familiar with functional programming concepts, you may enjoy the idea of declarative programming using LINQ or Language Integrated Query. Querying data is a common solution to a lot of problems in business, but within itself we get a lot of different…
My Claude Code Setup | Justin D Fuller
My Claude Code Setup | Justin D Fuller
ESP32 and Termux
Documenting my journey in trying to use my ESP32 on my phone through Termux
Understanding OpenAI's new Apps announcement
Why ChatGPT Apps are not what you think they are
Compound: Everything Does
Compounding is something so substantial. You can do it with notes ([[Compounding Note-Taking]]), money, and in life ([[Principles]]). It is slow, but it’s the right way to grow.
Why I switched from HTMX to Datastar
Why Nix Will Win (and What's Stopping It): A 3-Year Production Story
Nix is poised to win the future of cloud infrastructure, but critical obstacles remain. A 3-year production story on the promise, the pain, and the concrete path forward for Nix.
Interval Calculator
This is a calculator that works over unions of intervals rather than just real numbers. It is an implementation of Interval Union Arithmetic.