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RCE in React Server Components
A vulnerability affects certain React packages<sup>1</sup> for versions 19.0.0, 19.1.0, 19.1.1, and 19.2.0 and frameworks that use the affected packages, including Next.js 15.x and 16.x using the A...
Everyone in Seattle Hates AI — Jonathon Ready
A post about everyone in Seattle hating AI.
Ghostty Is Now Non-Profit
Ghostty is now fiscally sponsored by Hack Club, a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit.
How I Reverse Engineered a Billion-Dollar Legal AI Tool and Found 100k+ Confidential Files
Update: This post received a large amount of attention on Hacker News — see the discussion thread.
update README.md maintenance mode · minio/minio@27742d4
MinIO is a high-performance, S3 compatible object store, open sourced under GNU AGPLv3 license. - update README.md maintenance mode · minio/minio@27742d4
Steam Deck lead reveals Valve is funding ARM compatibility of Windows games “to expand PC gaming” and release “ultraportables” in the future
Steam Deck creator Pierre-Loup Griffais explains that Valve is funding ARM compatibility layers for future ultraportables.
Helldivers 2 devs slash install size from 154GB to 23GB, thanks to the help of PC port veterans — ditching HDD optimization, 85% size reduction accomplished by de-duplicating game data
PC players can now opt into a slim version that’s 85% smaller.
Edge Detection Using the Sobel Operator
The Sobel operator explained and implemented in GLSL
Sprite Encoding / Decoding Using Literals
A simple approach for sprite texture encoding
The "Mad Men" in 4K on HBO Max Debacle
Reader warning: there's gonna be a lot of pretend puke photos in this post. If you've fired up HBO Max recently, you've probably seen that o...
"Captain Gains" on Capitol Hill
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
The Future of My Channel
I haven't published a video in ~8 months! Let's talk about what's next for the channel! Interested in a FREE year subscription to Scrimba? Let me know why in the comments! New Intro to Astro Course - https://scrimba.com/intro-to-astro-c00ar0fi5u?via=jamesqq…
Zig quits GitHub, gripes about Microsoft's AI obsession
: Zig prez complains about 'vibe-scheduling' after safe sleep bug goes unaddressed for eons
The Junior Hiring Crisis
AI isn’t replacing everyone. It’s removing the apprenticeship ladder. Here’s what that means for students, early-career professionals, and the tech industry’s future.
Paged Out!
Deeply technical zine. And it's free.
Claude 4.5 Opus' Soul Document — LessWrong
Update 2025-12-02: Amanda Askell has kindly confirmed that the document was used in supervised learning and will share the full version and more deta…
100000 TPS over a billion rows: the unreasonable effectiveness of SQLite
A blog mostly about Clojure programming
Running Great Refinement Meetings
This year I’ve run over 25 Scrum refinement meetings; here’s what I’ve learned.
Why Authorization is more important than ever
Broken access control is at the top of the list for OWASP top 10. In fact, it’s still #1 in the 2025 release candidate with 100% (previously 94%) of tested applications showing some form of broken access control. That number alone should make you pay attention…
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I tinker with Linux, open source, AI, TypeScript, Go — backend, infra, deployments & systems.
Helping agents debug webapps
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Re-Signifying my Relationship with Speed
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The Harvest Will Come
A Defense of Human Seasons
Watch men - Works in Progress Magazine
Japanese quartz made watches accurate, lightweight, and thin. But Swiss mechanical watches fought back.
Every Major City as a Tiny Miniature World
46 world cities reimagined as charming isometric miniatures
Software Engineering is Map Making, Not Magic
Everyone wants to replace us, but noone actually knows what we do.
Self-hosting DNS for no fun, but a little profit!
After Gandi was bought up and started taking extortion level prices for their domains I’ve been looking for an excuse to migrate registrar. Last week I decided to bite the bullet and move to Porkbun as I have another domain renewal coming up. However after set…
LLMs Need Better Executive Function
In the past several weeks we’ve gotten GPT-5.1, Gemini 3, and Opus 4.5. They’re incredible machines. Their benchmarks are superhuman and climbing. They can whip up interactive RNA explainers faster than you can consume them. They have EQ and souls! They’re sma…
Flame Graphs
Homepage for Flame Graphs: a visualization for stack traces.
Optimising PostgreSQL Memory Configuration - Tom Foster
Give your PostgreSQL database the memory it craves! Learn to tune `shared_buffers`, `work_mem`, `effective_cache_size`, and more for peak performance, illustrated with Matrix Synapse examples.
Hello there
I tinker with Linux, open source, AI, TypeScript, Go — backend, infra, deployments & systems.
Patrick Evans
Do you dread opening tickets when an internal tool is broken? Do you struggle to find someone to call when a production critical service is broken? Have you ever asked someone why something is broken and gotten a shrug in response?
id Software was Lazy - DOOM could have had PC Speaker Music!
I'm guessing everyone here has played DOOM before, or at least seen someone else play the game. It would also not be of any news for most here, that DOOM has sp
Price as Productive Capacity Signal
Mainstream economics holds a foundational belief: prices signal quality, scarcity, and value. In perfectly competitive markets, prices aggregate dispersed information about supply and demand, guiding efficient resource allocation. When prices rise, they signal…
Some people still drive stick
I used to think that the world was as good as it could be. That things were this way because nothing better had been invented yet. I felt that progress and technology were a linear scale that all of humanity marched towards equally, stopping only at problems n…
Metaphysical Boldness
Some models of reality are bolder than others Digital physics is the body of mathematical and philosophical work treating the universe and the way it works as a giant digital computer. This is often associated with cellular automata, and names like Konrad Zuse…
What To Buy That Improves Quality of Life
Holiday gift guide inspiration
Strongly Worded Emails
Only the finest form of communication.
Distributed ID Formats Are Architectural Commitments, Not Just Data Types
Why ID formats become long-term architectural commitments, and how UUID, ULID, Snowflake, and custom schemes compare.
Latency Profiling in Python: From Code Bottlenecks to Observability
Learn how to pinpoint where time disappears in Python systems, from CPU and I/O bottlenecks to Prometheus metrics and continuous profilers. Explore the tools that turn raw measurements into observability dashboards revealing real performance patterns.
My Complicated Relationship With Side Projects
On the frustrating cycle of starting, doubting, and abandoning side projects.
How I Ported the Web to the Web!
A deep dive into the history and evolution of web proxies, and how we built a modern web proxy that can handle the complexity of modern web applications.
We Never Left the Dark Ages
RAZOR.BLOG: SEEING THINGS AS THEY ARE. Where Philosophy meets the road + questions matter more than answers.