Simple Made Easy
Rich Hickey emphasizes simplicity’s virtues over easiness’, showing that while many choose easiness they may end up with complexity, and the better way is to choose easiness along the simplicity path.
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Stranger Things Creator Insists Viewers Turn Off "Garbage" Settings For Premiere
Stranger Things creator tells fans to turn off "garbage" controls.
NETFLIX OPEN CONTENT
At Netflix, we are always exploring ways to make our content look and sound even better. To provide a common reference for prototyping bleeding-edge technologies within entertainment, technology and academic circles without compromising the security of our or…
Manus is joining Meta, and we’ll continue delivering our current services while accelerating product improvements to bring more powerful, reliable general AI agent capabilities to more users and businesses.
Thoughts about AI Agent Skills, CLI and API's inside Docker Containers.
Bye Bye Big Tech: How I Migrated to an almost All-EU Stack (and saved 500€ per year)
“Bye bye bye.” It took some time, and a serious amount of research, but I have finally crossed the finish line. I have officially migrated my digital life to pure, EU-hosted solutions.
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Sunday Persian family gathering. Conversations from all directions, plates clattering, someone getting advice on home renovations. I escape to see my two cousins: Aria and Ryan.
The alien tool came with no manual. Here’s how I learned to hold it.
Why I'm building my own CLIs for agents
MCP tools eat thousands of tokens. A simple CLI with instructions in your CLAUDE.md file uses 71 tokens and works brilliantly.
Object oriented modeling and its pitfalls.
Huge binaries: I thunk therefore I am
In my previous post, we looked at the “sound barrier” of x86_64 linking: the 32-bit relative CALL instruction and how it can result in relocation overflows. Changing the code-model to -mcmodel=large fixes the issue but at the cost of “instruction bloat” and li…
Lessons learnt from going from zero to $100M ARR in 8 months
Self-Hosting a Photo Server the Whole Family Can Use
Until recently, my family's 90,000+ photos have been hidden away in the depths of my gaming PC's hard drives. Many of the more recent photos were...
Going Paperless | Julian Falk
Last week I spent 20 minutes looking for an insurance document I knew I had somewhere. I remembered holding it. I remembered thinking "I should put this so...
Not 1% better every day
a complaint about LinkedIn math
’Tis the year’s midnight, and it is the day’s.
An introduction to the behind-the-scenes effort maintainers put into OSS vulnerability response.
Are We Ready to Be Governed by Artificial Intelligence?
Experts Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders explore how Artificial Intelligence is already shaping the executive, judicial, and legislative branches, showing that we are already, at least in part, governed by AI—with more likely to come.
How to stop AI agents from littering your codebase with Markdown files
A simple documentation workflow for AI agents. For setup instructions, skip to the How to setup SimpleDoc in your repo section.
Running Cloud LLMs Inside LM Studio
Recently, I’ve been relying heavily on LM Studio in my daily workflow, primarily for local embedding model inference. Agentic AI assistants use embedding models together with a vector database to perform semantic search over a project’s code. This setup is sim…
From Operations to Effects: A Journey Through M-Sets
Bloom Filters
A Bloom filter is a probabilistic data structure that answers a very specific question - have I seen this thing before? - while using almost no memory.
How Writes Work in Apache Cassandra
Apache Cassandra is a distributed database designed for high availability and horizontal scalability. This write-up explores the complete write path in Cassandra, from the moment a client sends a write request to how data gets replicated across nodes in the cl…
Love Letters to Writers and LLMs · Tony Tong
I Fixed My Coworker’s Alignment Problem
A repository of code, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
2025 apparently was the "year of agents". After spending a fair share of the year programming with LLMs both for my personal side-projects and at work, I wanted to reflect on my impressions.
Lesson Learned: The Silent Danger of Hydration Fallbacks
How a missing HTML attribute can leak plain-text credentials during network throttling, and why Progressive Enhancement still matters in 2025.
Life is not a Simulation but a Thought Experiment
Arguing why a simulation is not required to explain live, and that logic itself is sufficient.
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