Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP Anthropic this morning introduced Claude Skills, a new pattern for making new abilities available to their models: Claude can now use Skills to improve how it performs specific tasks. Skills …
Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away "The problems are tractable, but they're still difficult”
You did no fact checking, and I must scream I'm neither a journalist nor a professional fact checker but, the thing is, it's has never been easier to check basic facts. Yeah, sure, there's a world of misinformation out there, but it doesn't take much effort to determine if something is likely to be...
Don't Tell My Wife! I bought ANOTHER $100K VAX on eBay! Follow as I take an eBay find of a VAX4000-500, restore it, configure it, set it up and install UNIX on it! You can buy the VAX on eBay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/336237047572 Free Sample of my Book on the Spectrum: https://amzn.to/3zBinWM Check out my ...
k8s-1m Overview Early on in this project, I asked ChatGPT “I want to scale Kubernetes to 1 million nodes. What types of problems would I need to overcome?”
Most of What We Call Progress What years of software development reveal about progress, process, and people, reflections on why good judgment outlasts tools, and simplicity always wins.
Gemini 3.0 Spotted in the Wild Through A/B Testing Testing Google's highly anticipated Gemini 3.0 through AI Studio's A/B feature using SVG generation as a quality proxy
Devlog ⚡ Zig Programming Language This page contains a curated list of recent changes to main branch Zig.
Understanding Convex – How I built a real-time application under 4 hours Understanding Convex – The Backend Platform that keeps your app in sync
279: Confidence as the progressive overload of risk Treating confidence like a weight training program
Understanding Gradients A deep dive into how gradients work, how color models affect them and why some gradients look better than others.
On Storing TOTP in Password Managers — Vishnu's Pages My argument is that storing TOTP in password managers undermines the very essence of two-factor authentication (2FA), and is still '1FA' in disguise.
How 2XKO Handles Online Play Here’s all the tech we’re using to make online play just as fair, fast, and fun as offline.
Re(blog, tweet, toot, skoot, skeеt, post) Have you noticed the similar terms used for sharing someone else's content with attribution from your own account? Reblogging was the original term for “blogging” another user's content, first deve...
Your startup has to be a surveillance state to automate jobs AI can't automate jobs without context. Big companies struggle with historic data, startups struggle with real-time changes. The solution? Solo founders who eliminate coordination overhead—or surveillance states that record everything.
Craft and Industry Can you make something for mass consumption that retains its soul? A homemade burger and a McDonalds Big Mac. Shoestring cult classic vs the next Marvel m...
Technology is my leverage, not design • Ole Herland I'm an overthinker by default, and I always get stuck on the design part of building products.
The Slack I Loved Is Slipping Away Salesforce's grip on Slack is reshaping it from a neutral collaboration layer into a gated CRM surface, squeezing communities and third-party builders.
Are we Trek yet? This guide is intended to be a comprehensive look at the tech that Star Trek suggested to drive humanity forward ad astra per aspera. The emphasis is on innovations that don’t violate physics according to present consensus understanding. Go ahead and exp...
How I switched from ruby to elixir and to learn it better - built a product How I transitioned from Ruby to Elixir by building a product, exploring Elixir/Phoenix features, and overcoming deployment challenges
Sanitized SQL A couple times within the past month, I’ve had people send me a message asking if I have any suggestions about where to learn postgres. I like to share the collection of links that I’ve…
autumn (@froggi.es) After about 3 days of work, I got DLSS to work on NVK (the open source NVIDIA driver in Mesa)! 🎉 DLSS is essentially just some launched Cuda kernels, so it was just a matter of implementing the VK_NVX_binary_import and VK_NVX_image_view_handle extension...
Why I’m not a fan of zero-copy Apache Kafka-Apache Iceberg — Jack Vanlightly Over the past few months, I’ve seen a growing number of posts on social media promoting the idea of a “zero-copy” integration between Apache Kafka and Apache Iceberg. The idea is that Kafka topics could live directly as Iceberg tables. On the surface it s...