Bun is joining Anthropic
Bun has been acquired by Anthropic. Anthropic is betting on Bun as the infrastructure powering Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, and future AI coding products & tools.
Introducing the Advent of Compiler Optimisations 2025 — Matt Godbolt’s blog
Announcing AoCO 2025 - daily December posts about compiler optimisations
Introducing Mistral 3 | Mistral AI
A family of frontier open-source multimodal models
Vertical Christmas from Dave's Garage!
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End-to-End Video Generative Modeling with Normalizing Flows
STARFlow-V is the first normalizing flow-based causal video generator demonstrating that normalizing flows can match video diffusion models in visual quality while offering end-to-end training, exact likelihood estimation, and native multi-task support across …
A Series of Vignettes From My Childhood and Early Career
A short set of anecdotes, apropos of nothing.
Why Am I Paying $40,000 for the Birth of My Child?
The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence.
What Will Enter the Public Domain in 2026?
At the start of each year, on January 1st, a new crop of works enter the public domain. Find our highlights of what lies in store for 2026 here.
High-income job losses are cooling housing demand
Which local economies sustain housing? We analyze Charlotte's job boom vs. Austin/Denver slowdowns. High-wage contractions impact for-sale demand.
GitHub - coder/ghostty-web: Ghostty for the web with xterm.js API compatibility
Ghostty for the web with xterm.js API compatibility - coder/ghostty-web
Last Week on My Mac: Losing confidence
What was the key to successfully learning to drive, ride a bike, or speak a foreign language? Confidence, and it’s every bit as important in computing, and in macOS.
Around The World, Part 27: Planting trees
In the previous post, I determined what kind of vegetation should grow where in my procedurally generated world. Now it’s time to actually plant those plants!
Always Do a Work Trial
Why work trials are the best way to evaluate candidates and find great matches beyond traditional interviews.
The End of the Train-Test Split
The train-test split does not work for classification tasks at the frontier of LLM capability.
What is a City Super App and Why Every City Needs One – Mert Bulan
Why I believe every city needs a super app and how it will transform the way we engage with digital devices.
Packaging Caffeine | Caffeine
A step-by-step guide to creating distributable binaries from Gleam code by targeting JavaScript and compiling with Deno.
Periodic Spaces
One of my favorite SDF techniques is domain repetition:
Computer Science Degree in 2026
Is it wise to start a Computer Science degree in 2026? Is AI going to take all of the software development jobs? These are especially relevant questions for me as my son graduates from high school this year. This is the advice I gave him. I believe it is a fin…
The Anatomy of a One-Shot Prompt
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how i found a europa.eu compromise (thanks to cricket)
TLDR While looking for a way to stream the India vs Pakistan cricket match on 14th September 2025, I stumbled across a suspicious search result on a europa.eu dev subdomain. It was being abused for blackhat SEO and redirecting users to scam streaming sites. I …
Better than JSON
An in-depth look at why Protobuf can outperform JSON for modern APIs, with practical Dart examples showing how strong typing, binary serialization, and shared schemas improve both performance and developer experience.
Multi-Horizon Delivery Framework
A practical model for aligning execution and strategy through clear risk signals, priorities, and structured planning.
Prompt the Loop When Using Coding Agents
The difference between a language model and an agent isn't just tool access. It's about giving the agent a condition to loop on. Here's how to prompt agents to actually finish tasks instead of just taking first steps.
Some musings on code generation: kintsugi
How code generation can be made to work in the real world.
Maxims of good software
An essay by Kevin Gugelmann
Can LLMs give us AGI if they are bad at arithmetic? – Wes McKinney
Karim Shehadeh - The Quiet Grief Behind Modern Management
For people who know me, it might be surprising to hear how much I love people 🙂. Especially the folks on the teams I’ve managed over the years. They’re relentlessly talented, curious, funny, stubborn in all the right ways, and full of these rich inner worlds …
On Idempotency Keys
In distributed systems, there’s a common understanding that it is not possible to guarantee exactly-once delivery of messages. What is possible though is exactly-once processing. By adding a unique idempotency key to each message, you can enable consumers to …
Crafting a Single File Neovim Config
One file to rule them all,
How to Implement a File Integrity Monitor in Linux
Learn how to secure Linux systems by detecting unauthorized file changes. Implement a File Integrity Monitor, and harden your defenses.
Constructing The Word's First JPEG XL MD5 Hash Quine
A walk through of building an image that displays its own MD5 Hash
Today is Full of Possibilities
I have my mother’s last words tattooed on my arm. I got them thirteen years ago, a few months after she died. I was twenty-four. I thought I understood what they meant. Something about hope, about choosing light over darkness. The kind of thing you’d want to …
Understanding Why AGI Still Feels Distant
A technical deep-dive into modern AI fundamentals from gradient descent to transformers explaining why current systems excel at pattern recognition but struggle with reasoning and extrapolation.
Notepad: Get Back What THEY Took From You!
Dave uses GPT Codex Max 5.1 in Extra High mode to generate a perfect clone of Notepad that brings back everything you missed about it. Free Sample of my Book on the Spectrum: https://amzn.to/3zBinWM Black Friday Affiliate Links!! Save $40 on the Slate 7: htt…
Vibe CADing an Interactive Data Physicalization
Ever since I bought a 3d printer, I’ve wanted to dip a toe into data physicalization. I’m not very good at point-and-click 3d modelling tools, and this is kind of a casual hobby rather than serious work so I used Claude Code, an AI programming assistant, to vi…