1 January 2026

27 links · Thursday

Using alternative browser engines in Japan - Support

iOS 26.2 introduces new capabilities that let iOS apps use alternative browser engines — browser engines other than WebKit — for dedicated browser apps and apps providing in-app browsing experiences in Japan.

ACM is Now Fully Open Access!

As of January 1, 2026, all ACM publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library are now open access. This change reflects the long-standing and growing call across the global computing community for research to be more accessible, discoverable, an…

2025: The year in LLMs

This is the third in my annual series reviewing everything that happened in the LLM space over the past 12 months. For previous years see Stuff we figured out about …

Communicating in Pull Requests

Most software projects gate new contributions by a code review step, and that’s normally done by pull requests (or equivalently, merge requests). Projects may also set up additional technical requirements, such as building and testing the code, performing stat…

On boiling water

I recently wrote . People are complaining about it. Some of them disagree about how to boil water, but most of them are complaning for the usual reasons: the...

The Cost of Translation

How Product teams assist in product failure, and how your organization can retool to improve ownership.

return to the trenches

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the blog of Marco

Running out of places to move the goalposts to

The history of artificial intelligence is full of moved goalposts. For example, chess was long thought to be a holy grail of intelligence. A solution to chess would be the solution to intelligence itself. But then chess got solved, and it didn’t seem like inte…

My most ridiculous bug of 2025

During my day job at $COMPANY, I was seeing some very perplexing service behavior that could only be explained by a certain property being unexpectedly null. The property in question:

Children and Helical Time

If childhood is half of our subjective life, how should that change how we live?

The Bug That Ruined Game Physics For Decades

❤️ Check out Lambda here and sign up for their GPU Cloud: https://lambda.ai/papers Using DeepSeek on Lambda: https://lambda.ai/inference-models/deepseek-r1 📝 The paper "A Stream Function Solver for Liquid Simulations" is available here: https://pub.ista.ac.…

Game Physics Just Jumped A Generation

❤️ Check out Weights & Biases and sign up for a free demo here: https://wandb.me/papers 📝 The paper is available here: https://wanghmin.github.io/publication/wu-2022-gbm/ 📝 My paper on simulations that look almost like reality is available for free here: h…

NVIDIA’s AI Finally Solved Walking In Games

❤️ Check out Lambda here and sign up for their GPU Cloud: https://lambda.ai/papers Using DeepSeek on Lambda: https://lambda.ai/inference-models/deepseek-r1 📝 The paper is available here: https://research.nvidia.com/labs/toronto-ai/trace-pace/ 📝 My paper o…