2025-09-26 — Why I Choose Email Over Messaging My colleagues and friends know that I prefer to communicate with them via email rather than chat messaging. There are many benefits in such a choice. You may want to consider them and adopt the same stance.
[OGT] Do blind people understand vision? Have you ever imagined what it might be like to be blind? I don’t mean to lose your sight, but rather to never have had it in the first place. I’d argue that...
If It Hurts, Do It More Often When something hurts, lean into it. The discomfort is the teacher that forces you to adapt until it disappears.
LLMs are getting better at character-level text manipulation Recently, I have been testing how well the newest generations of large language models (such as GPT-5 or Claude 4.5) handle natural language, specifically counting characters, manipulating characters in a sentences, or solving encoding and ciphers. Surpri...
Trying Out the Ptyxis Terminal Emulator In my years of using GNOME, I have been using GNOME Terminal, and it has served me well. There has been a newer GNOME Console; while it has a few nice new features, it lacks a small feature that GNOME Terminal has and I depend on, so I have stayed with GN...
Is this the longest time anyone's taken to update an app? Simple Morse Tool finally gets a refresh. Is this the longest time anyone has taken to update an iOS app?
RAG vs Memory: Addressing Token Crisis in Agentic Tasks Context windows grew 20x. Token consumption grew faster. Here’s why RAG alone isn’t enough and what memory-based approaches offer.
There is a dearth of automatic infinite scroll mice There are only two viable optiosn for automatic infinite scroll mouse
Oracle AI World - Day 1 - Monday 8:30am It’s another conference in Vegas, this time Oracle AI World 2025. Ai World is being held in the Venetian Conference Center. Monday is a pre-day. There are several day-long sessions available to attend, covering a variety of topics. OKE Deploy...
People Are People, or Why I Don't Want to Be a Landlord There’s a dustup going on over at Bluesky over moderation decisions. I won’t go into details because—for the purposes of this blog post—I’m less focused on why the dustup is happening and more that it is happening. It’s happening at Bluesky, it happens on...
Multi-Head Latent Attention (MLA) I'm an LLM Research Engineer with over a decade of experience in artificial intelligence. My work bridges academia and industry, with roles including senior ...
Steve Blank No Science, No Startups: The Innovation Engine We’re Switching Off Tons of words have been written about the Trump Administrations war on Science in Universities. But few people have asked what, exactly, is science? How does it work? Who are the scientists? What d…
Why the Best Engineering Teams Don’t Play the Blame Game I once deleted a production-like staging database in my very first job
Field Guide to TSL and WebGPU - The Blog of Maxime Heckel A comprehensive guide to building 3D web experiences with TSL and WebGPU, covering shader development, compute shader applications, and practical examples for particle systems and post-processing effects.
Android’s sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move yet Is Google's push for verified developers really about safety?
SQL Online AiDE - Next gen SQL Editor | SQL Compiler SQL OnLine - SQLite, MariaDB / MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server. AI error helper, User-friendly interface for Data Science. No registration for start, No DownLoad, No Install. | sql compiler, federated queries, BI Analytics
Spotlight on pdfly, the Swiss Army knife for PDF files Project documentation: pdfly.readthedocs.io pdfly is the youngest project of the py-pdf organization. It has been created by Martin Thoma in 2022. It's simply a CLI tool to manipulate PDF files, written in Python and based on the fpdf2 & pypdf libraries. ...
GitHub - karpathy/nanochat: The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy. The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy. Contribute to karpathy/nanochat development by creating an account on GitHub.
Comparing Coplay and Unity MCP - Coplay - Your Unity Copilot Seamlessly create, customize, and deploy AI agents with Coplay. Cutting-edge intelligence frameworks, optimized performance, and an intuitive developer experience—all within your Unity environment.
You Can't Buy This... Yet! The NVIDIA GB10 from Dell - The New Superchip that Terrifies the Cloud! Dave gives you breaking information on the new GB10-based system from Dell, the Dell Pro Max GB10, featuring a Grace Blackwell CPU/GPU Combo and 128GB of AI RAM. Free Sample of my Book on the Spectrum: https://amzn.to/3zBinWM Check out my new merch stor...
Building the Coolest Console Apps in .NET Check out my courses on Dometrain: https://dometrain.com/courses/?ref=nick-chapsas&promo=youtube Download the code here: https://mailchi.mp/dometrain/1c1gtrm7bb4 Subscribe to my newsletter: https://nickchapsas.com Hello, everybody. I'm Nick, and in this ...
Free Software hasn't won This is a translated version of a talk I gave at P.I.W.O in June, with cleanups and adjustments for the blog form.