Claude for Excel
Claude understands your entire workbook—from nested formulas to multiple tab dependencies.
The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program
Why do we need dithering? | Dan Hollick
Before we all mute the word 'dithering' I thought I'd explain a little bit about why we needed to dither digital images in the first place. Although it's an aesthetic now, we used to need dithering to trick our eyes into seeing more colors than were actually…
Don’t Forget These Tags to Make HTML Work Like You Expect
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
Hauntsfield by AllieMackie
A wholesome Halloween RPG for Game Boy
You Are How You Act
You are the sum of your behaviors not your intentions
Useful Functions for Graphics
A listing of useful math formulas and their plots
It's insulting to read your AI-generated blog post
It seems so rude and careless to make me, a person with thoughts, ideas, humor, contradictions and life experience to read something spit out by the equivale...
GitHub - longbridge/gpui-component: Rust GUI components for building fantastic cross-platform desktop application by using GPUI.
Rust GUI components for building fantastic cross-platform desktop application by using GPUI. - longbridge/gpui-component
What Happened To Running What You Wanted On Your Own Machine?
When the microcomputer first landed in homes some forty years ago, it came with a simple freedom—you could run whatever software you could get your hands on. Floppy disk from a friend? Pop it in. S…
GitHub - rolflobker/recall-for-linux: Bring Microsoft Recall to Linux!
Bring Microsoft Recall to Linux! Contribute to rolflobker/recall-for-linux development by creating an account on GitHub.
#29: Poison, Poison Everywhere
When I was in high school, my teacher once told us a crazy story.
AI Doom Predictions Are Overhyped | Why Programmers Aren’t Going Anywhere - Uncle Bob's take
#AI #Programming #TechCareers #ArtificialIntelligence #ChatGPT #AIHype #SoftwareDevelopment #GraceHopper #AITools #TechMyths #unclebob Are AI doomsayers right that programmers will soon be obsolete? Or is this just clickbait fear-mongering? In this video, we…
LLMs Are Bottlenecked by Linear Interfaces
Current limitation as I see it So I have been experimenting quite a bit with LLMs recently (see my other posts, especially /state-of-ai-assisted-workflows-october-2025/) and dedicated some serious amount of effort to play around with the tech to both learn mor…
Knowledge is Worth Your Time
Folks who hang out on Bluesky/Twitter may have caught bits and pieces of the discussions amongst academics about what to do about today's university students...
How bugs made me believe in TDD
I always knew that testing was important, but I neglected it for a long time. During my studies, the subject was unfortunately given far too little attention and there was also a lack of practical relevance. However, as I gained more professional experience, I…
questionable | Isaac Bowen
2 + 2 = 4
Building Better Boards
How is your BBB rating?
Unit Tests for Intelligence
Structured tests for model reasoning
In Praise of Amateurism
I. One of my icks is reading anything that was clearly only written because the author felt like they had to write, not because they actually felt the urgent need to share something.
After a Year Rebuilding Search, I Had to Rethink Everything | Sebastian Sigl
A seasoned engineer's lessons from a year rebuilding a search system from the ground up, shifting from engineering-first to product-first thinking.
How I turned Zig into my favorite language to write network programs in
I’ve been watching the Zig language for a while now, given that it was created for writing audio software (low-level, no allocations, real time). I never paid too much attention though, it seemed a little weird to me and I didn’t see the real need. Then I saw …
The difficulties of choosing a startup idea
Note: this piece has no solution (yet).
Kris De Asis | Design for Learning
A position arguing that robots can and should be designed for learning.
Ossa: Towards the Next Generation Web
The internet is one of the most impactful technologies of today, enabling billions of people to communicate with family members around the globe, to share photos with one another, and to collaboratively edit documents in real time. Most of these systems are bu…
Are transformers all we need?
I vividly remember November 10th, 2017, the day I first read the “Attention is All You Need” paper. I was in the Paris CDG airport. It struck me how similar the architecture was to the autoencoders I had learned about just a few months earlier at the DeepLearn…
Language Modeling with Hierarchical Reasoning Models: Lessons from 1M Parameters
The Hierarchical Reasoning Models (HRM) paper made waves by demonstrating strong performance on ARC-AGI reasoning tasks with very few parameters, and the Tiny Recursive Models (TRM) paper pushed it further, setting higher benchmarks with just 7M parameters. Th…
We are all becoming managers – Juan Michelini
AI agents are so good that some days I don’t code anymore: instead, I manage agents. Given a feature, I discuss the requirements with the agent, discuss possible solutions, decide on a design and ask the agent for an implementation.
How the Earth Invented Sleep
The Sunday Morning Post: The scientific connection between billion-year-old volcanos, oxygen, and your dreams