Going Through Snowden Documents, Part 4
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OpenChaos.dev
A self-evolving open source project. Vote on PRs. Winner gets merged every Sunday.
Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11
When it comes to performance, it’s hard to find users who are completely satisfied with Windows 11. Many believe it’s filled with unnecessary features that are difficult to disable.
Should the UK cyber resilience bill cover the public sector?
ANALYSIS: Ministers promise equivalent standards just without the legal obligation
LLMs have burned Billions but couldn't build another Tailwind
This week brought a total saga: Tailwind laid off 75% of its workforce.
Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO (@jmaris@eupolicy.social)
Attached: 1 image I often hear Americans & rich brits justify buying oversized, polluting vehicles by claiming they need them because they live in the "countryside". I call bullshit, Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15⬇ #C15 #carBra…
2 Years Later...I'm Shocked!
I tried v0 for the first time in 2 years and I'm blown away! Check out v0 - https://v0.dev/ **Newsletter** Newsletter 🗞 - https://www.jamesqquick.com/newsletter **DISCORD** Join the Learn Build Teach Discord Server 💬 - https://discord.gg/vM2bagU Follow m…
I'm making a game engine based on dynamic signed distance fields (SDFs)
My motivation when starting this project was to build an engine that enables high fidelity modifications to world geometry during gameplay. In most games, the game world is relatively static. In the games where geometry is dynamic - like Minecraft or No Man's …
The Rise of Computer Games, Part I: Adventure
Author’s note: I originally intended for this post to cover adventure games, computer role-playing games, wargames and other simulations, a brief look at the home video game market, and final…
RFC 5737 IPs: Reserved for Documentation and Examples | Pure Krome
📚 Understanding RFC 5737 IP address ranges reserved for documentation and examples.
Planetary Alignment
Terence Tao (@tao@mathstodon.xyz)
Recently, the application of AI tools to Erdos problems passed a milestone: an Erdos problem (#728 https://www.erdosproblems.com/728) was solved more or less autonomously by AI (after some feedback from an initial attempt), in the spirit of the problem (as rec…
You probably don't need Oh My Zsh
Why you might not need Oh My Zsh for your Zsh configuration.
The future of Stack Overflow
Stack Overflow, once the cornerstone developer communities, is fading away. What is the future of Stack Overflow considering its recent declining popularity?
Please stop building scroll-driven websites
Does it look cool? Yes. Is it distracting and annoying? Also yes.
Why Claude Code feels different
Claude Code shows me an unusual ability across massive and complex codebases, while others struggle despite using the same base models. I use many coding tools daily: Claude Code, Cursor, Jetbrains AI, Antigravity, Zed, and Warp. I won't go into detail about e…
Stored Procedures Considered Harmful
Having used stored procedures extensively in the past year, I have come to the conclusion that they bring more pain than good in a modern .NET web application.
Tiny TPU in a Week · Shri
2026-01-09
Claude Code sessions should be encrypted
Claude Code is exploding in popularity right now, and people are using it for much more than writing code. Everyone should be using Claude Code more PMs, marketers, designers, founders, parents. Everyone. The trick is to forget that it’s called Claude Code and…
The 1000 commits problem | Dave Kiss
Software is moving faster than humans can manage. The old ways don't scale to AI-assisted velocity.
We are still the OS | Gwendall
The brain is like a computer with limited RAM. When you have too many thoughts / cognitive tasks going on in parallel, you can get slower and burn out. AI a
53 Times Flock Safety Hardcoded the Password for America's Surveillance Infrastructure
A responsible disclosure documenting an organization-wide ArcGIS API key exposed across 53 public-facing assets, granting access to the mapping infrastructure underlying approximately 12,000 law enforcement, community, and private sector deployments.
Life Happens at 1x Speed
Why I stopped consuming content at 2x speed, and the simple rule that changed how I listen to everything.
Garbage collection is contrarian · Nova
Modeling unrooted handles to garbage collected data using contravariant lifetimes.
Avoiding TanStack Form Pitfalls
While integrating TanStack Form with schema validation libraries like Zod, I ran into a subtle type system gap that caused validation errors to silently fail. Here's how I diagnosed the issue and built a type-safe wrapper to prevent it from happening again.
Tom Silver | Prompt Fiddling Considered Harmful
Tom Silver's academic website.
Everyone Codes Isn't About Coding
I watched our CEO and a senior technical leader debate “everyone ships code” in a Slack thread this week. The technical leader is exactly the kind …
PACER Isn't Just Expensive — It Forces You to Pay Before You Understand Anything
PACER's per-page pricing turns curiosity into cost. The real problem isn't $0.10 per page—it's downloading everything just to understand anything.
Non-Traditional Profiling — Matthew Gaudet
Edited to Add: I should mention this code is nowhere. Given I don’t entirely know how actionable this ends up being, and the code quality is subpar, I haven’t even pushed this code. Think of this as an inspiration, not a feature announcement.
claude code and the shift
how ai coding assistants are changing everything faster than we expected