Demystifying transform matrices - Have you ever seen a transform gizmo in a 3D program? If so, you already intuitively know what all of the numbers in a transform matrix are! This blog post will prove it to you with a bunch of interactive diagrams, and picture…
‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid
"Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground."
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Cursor CEO Built a Browser using AI, but Does It Really Work?
A browser built by hundreds of AI agents in just one week sounds impressive, but the real question is what works and what breaks?
Journey through Wikipedia's history and take a quiz to discover which future you belong to.
To those who fired or didn't hire tech writers because of AI
Hey you, Yes, you, who are thinking about not hiring a technical writer this year or, worse, erased one or more technical writing positions last year because of AI. You, who are buying into the promise of docs entirely authored by LLMs without expert oversight…
Today Raspberry Pi launched their new $130 AI HAT+ 2 which includes a Hailo 10H and 8 GB of LPDDR4X RAM. With that, the Hailo 10H is capable of running LLMs entirely standalone, freeing the Pi's CPU and system RAM for other tasks. The chip runs at a maximum of…
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The Other Father of MP3
James D. Johnston spent 26 years at Bell Labs building the technology that became MP3. Then history forgot him.
I'd like to keep it online for a long time
Not quite sure what happened this year but I definitely feel like it was momentous.
Poking holes into bytecode with peephole optimisations
First optimizations I made while redesigning and semi-porting the purple-garden runtime from C to Rust
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The Invisible Work
The coordination work that holds projects together disappears the moment it works. On the unfairness of recognition and finding leaders who see it anyway.
Personal Website of Darjan Salaj, a student at TUG (Graz University of Technology).
The Power Law, The Grind and The Ugly | Silvestre Perret
Power Laws Break Our Intuition
My Parenting “Screen Time” Philosophy
Raising kids in an addictive internet without losing your mind (or theirs)
Ray Dalio has the following formula:
So you’ve decided to learn creative coding—smart move. Just know the road isn’t perfectly paved. As you progress, you’ll get stuck, feel confused, and question if this was really a good idea. But don’t worry! This free book will get you unstuck, back on track,…
Opus 4.5 is out and people cannot stop raving about it. AGI is nigh! It's a step-change in capabilities! Don't get me wrong. It's very impressive. But after trying it out in a real codebase for a few weeks, I think that view is overly simplistic. Claude is no…
My Type 1 Diabetes Genomic Analysis Report | Daniel Diaz's Website
I built a workflow to leverage Illumina Dragen to interpret known T1D genetic risk factors, including HLA and 25 validated variants, and output an easy to understand report.
This morning someone asked in our WhatsApp group if there was any off-the-shelf software that could detect a face in an image and crop it to a fixed size whi...
Coding is Dead | Koen van Gilst
From typing over starfield code as a kid to letting AI agents build features - reflecting on how coding is changing and what it means for software engineers.
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