Why Solarpunk is already happening in Africa
Or: How Africa is building the future by skipping the past
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iOS 26.2 to Allow Third-Party App Stores in Japan Ahead of Regulatory Deadline
Apple on Tuesday released the first beta of iOS 26.2 to developers, and it appears that the software will allow users in Japan to install alternative...
Google Removed 749 Million Anna's Archive URLs from its Search Results * TorrentFreak
With nearly 750 million URLs removed from Google search, popular shadow library Anna's Archive is a top target for copyright holders.
Send this article to your friend who still thinks the cloud is a good idea
You've been lied to. You don't need the cloud – you can just run servers and save 10x your AWS costs. It's not that difficult.
Mr TIFF
For as long as I have published my books, one of my overarching goals was to give credit to those who actually invented the hardware and software that we use. I have spent 10,000+ hours to create an accurate record of their work but I'm not complaining. The '…
Writing an LLM from scratch, part 27 -- what's left, and what's next?
Having finished the main body of 'Build an LLM (from scratch)', it's time to think about what I need to do to treat this project as fully done
Things I Don't Like in Configuration Languages
Spoiler: I created my own configuration language maml.dev
Does momentum exist in prediction markets? A short analysis
A change of pace driven by a minor obsession. Back to normal NDI next week.
Hetzner Servers Benchmarks
* EDITED: 4 November 2025 - Added EX63 benchmarks I wanted to quickly compare how different Hetzner servers are doing (especially in single-threaded), for CPU-intensive tasks. I ran sysbench on four different machines: * Hetzner Cloud CPX21 (AMD EPYC Proce…
We need to give LLMs human-like vision
Most people think that the biggest problem facing LLMs is continuous learning. The far bigger problem in my opinion is that LLMs cannot use the most impo...
Why we don't use an ORM and why you (probably) shouldn't
Jump to TLDR? > This post is mainly intended for coders early in their careers, ✨vibe...
From Stock Markets To Ledgers Series, Part I: Fairness
Why fairness, not speed, is the ultimate validation of stock markets
One codebase to rule them all: why to spend time on monorepo for large digital ecosystems
Implementing a monorepo streamlines workflows, reduces errors, and helps decision-makers scale large projects efficiently. Learn practical strategies for managing complex development.
From web developer to database developer in 10 years
From web developer to database developer in 10 years
The Evolution from RAG to Agentic RAG to Agent Memory – Leonie Monigatti
Learn how agent memory evolved from vanilla RAG and agentic RAG. Understand the shift from read-only retrieval to read-write operations with pseudo code examples.
Coding with agents is really good but I feel so empty
Coding agents are great but it sucks in a way
Coding Agents Are Outliers
If you look at the agent landscape today, one of the most prominent success stories has been software coding agents, particularly the quantum leap since the CLI coding agents came out, starting with Claude Code in early 2025. While people were certainly using …
You are doing your team retrospective wrong
A team retrospective is not just another useless meeting, and if you feel so, it means you are doing it wrong, and this article is for you.
Disaggregated Inference: 18 Months Later
Eighteen months ago, our lab introduced DistServe with a simple bet: split LLM inference into prefill and decode, and scale them independently on separate compute pools. Today, almost every production-grade LLM serving framework – NVIDIA Dynamo, llm-d, SGLang,…
Resurrecting valuable expired domains
I processed a large fraction of the Internet on a single machine, trying to find some valuable but forgotten domain names to buy (probably 25 years too late). Here’s the story of what I found and how I did it, and not the story of why I decided to try, because…
Implementing Soft Deletion in Prisma with Client Extensions
This post, my first, walks through extending the popular TypeScript <abbr title="Object–relational mapping">ORM</abbr> Prisma to enable "soft deleting" re...
My Experience of building bytebeat player in Zig
I left my job at startup last month to have break and enjoy some time being bored, on the weekend i decided to write a bytebeat player for...
How Airbus took off - Works in Progress Magazine
Airbus is an example of successful industrial policy and the rare European company that is better than its American rival. Could its success be copied elsewhere?
GitHub - Snowflake-Labs/pg_lake: pg_lake: Postgres with Iceberg and data lake access
pg_lake: Postgres with Iceberg and data lake access - Snowflake-Labs/pg_lake
GitHub - codykociemba/NoLongerEvil-Thermostat: Breathe fresh life into your bricked Nest Gen 1 & 2, now with 100% less evil!
Breathe fresh life into your bricked Nest Gen 1 & 2, now with 100% less evil! - codykociemba/NoLongerEvil-Thermostat
37 years ago this week, the Morris worm infected 10% of the Internet within 24 hours — worm slithered out and sparked a new era in cybersecurity
The Internet contracted worms a year before the World Wide Web was even a thing.