Legal Corner: Apple’s “notarisation” – blocking software freedom of developers and users - FSFE The EU’s Digital Markets Act is supposed to shake up the power of tech giants by giving developers and users more choice. Apple’s “notarisation” of mobile ...
OII | Study identifies weaknesses in how AI systems are evaluated Largest systematic review of AI benchmarks highlights need for clearer definitions and stronger scientific standards.
My friends and I accidentally faked the Ryzen 7 9700X3D leaks. This is how we did it, and why you can't trust online bench databases. Posted in r/pcmasterrace by u/A_Canadian_boi • 4,786 points and 130 comments
When did people favor composition over inheritance? The phrase “favor composition over inheritance” has become one of those thought-terminating cliches in software design, and I always like to take a deeper look at those to understand where they come from and what ideas we’re missing if we just take the ph...
GitHub - Snapchat/Valdi: Valdi is a cross-platform UI framework that delivers native performance without sacrificing developer velocity. Valdi is a cross-platform UI framework that delivers native performance without sacrificing developer velocity. - Snapchat/Valdi
GitHub - sayyadirfanali/Myna: monospace typeface designed for symbol-rich programming monospace typeface designed for symbol-rich programming - sayyadirfanali/Myna
Why is Zig so Cool? I can’t think of any other language in my 45 years long career that surprised more than Zig. I can easily say that Zig is not only a new programming language, but it’s a totally new way to write programs, in my opinion. To say it’s merely a language to re...
Jean-Baptiste Kempf receives the European SFS Award 2025 at SFSCON - FSFE The FSFE and LUGBZ have recognized VLC president and core developer with this European award for his long-term dedication to the project. What began as a s...
Apple is crossing a Steve Jobs red line You can fault Tim Cook for a number of things. Number one on the list, of course, is that he is not Steve Jobs. The nerve of that man!
How Men and Women Spend Their Days Women and men tend to spend their days differently in the United States. Varying responsibilities and priorities will do that.
AiDHD Reflecting on six months of vibe coding: building 8 projects, discovering AiDHD, and learning what AI tools can (and can't) do.
Nikrad Mahdi Nikrad Mahdi — Startup engineering leader & builder; advisor, coach, dad; occasional writer.
You Need To Become A Full Stack Person · Den Delimarsky AI tools are commoditizing single-skill roles. The future belongs to people who can think, build, and ship across the entire stack.
Stop Trying to Promote My Best Engineers There has always been a disconnect between the hiring process and finding the best engineers. But when we somehow find them, the career ladder ensures that they don't remain in that position of streng
Nilo Stolte Graphics - Vector Graphics UI/GUI Is your app prepared for tomorrow's resolutions? We offer services and promote vector graphics primitives for the development of interfaces (UI, GUI) on desktops, mobile, web, and embedded systems. The objective is better portability across different plat...
An Idea to Not Get Phished Anyone who is remotely tech savvy doesn't need Google to tell them 'Phishing is one of the top ways bad actors intrude and steal data.' We recently witnessed a phishing attack on the npm supply chain. Luckily it was caught before having major repercussion...
Anatomy of a boarding pass: how to detect fake flight tickets by scammers Questions about scams are common on Travel Stack Exchange, particularly those where inventive scammers come up with sob stories about how they’ve been detained at the airport or can’t g…
Promise based Web Worker Messaging · Muffin Man A simple way to make Workers feel more synchronous using Promises.
Why 5x Engineers Don't Make 5x Teams AI makes individual contributors 5x faster. But teams stay slow. The bottleneck is planning, reviews, and allocation. Here's how Claude Code plugins cut management overhead by automating coordination.
Prompt Emergent Meaning Explore how AI can unpack meaning and spark creativity. Learn how to fuel AI with complex ideas to uncover new insights and elevate your work.
Using CRDTs + Sync as a Database Can you use a CRDT as a Database? I’ve been thinking about this a lot, and my answer is a resounding… Maybe Depends on your data, and your use case. If your data is a good fit, and you’re ready to take on the quirks associated with doing so, I’m working o...
Startup Lessons from my Piracy Website A personal account of building HeheStreams, facing the consequences, and going to prison as a startup founder who had a piracy website.
How much is a gigawatt? How to wrap your head around how much power a gigawatt is, and how much energy a gigawatt-year is.
Notes on ClickHouse Scaling I spent some time playing around with ClickHouse to understand how it scales and what it takes to operate it. I wanted to distill what I learned, so here's my brain dump. Disclaimer: These are my notes from some unscientific tests, docs, and content put ...
On Async Mutexes A short note on contradiction or confusion in my language design beliefs I noticed today.
How I built a notebook inside Obsidian · OlegWock One personal project to add callout component to Obsidian that quickly spiraled out of control. No regrets though.
Build Your Own RP2040 Devboard This is a really in-depth tutorial on how to make your own Raspberry Pi Pico clone! Learn fundamental PCB design, make a cool project, and learn how to solder!
The Road Ahead: Why I'm Going All-In on Zig A 12-month public commitment to learning Zig and systems programming. This is a story about leaving the comfort of web development to tackle hard problems, find a new philosophy, and build software that lasts.
An Engineer's Guide to the Trolley Problem Why philosophy's most famous ethical dilemma is a poorly-posed question—and how to actually solve it
YouTube Goes Bonkers, Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm' When will these Big Tech platforms learn?