Building a Quake PC After I finished restoring the IBM 2168 486 DX2-66MHz (my childhood dream DOOM PC), there was another box that I wanted to check.
A$AP Rocky Releases Helicopter Music Video featuring Gaussian Splatting - Radiance Fields This is actually not the first time A$AP has used Radiance Fields in a music video.
HomeGrown Devlog - Preparing for Gamescom! Devlog video about "HomeGrown", the casual farming game I'm creating using my own engine. I'll be taking HomeGrown to Gamescom in Cologne this year, 20th-24th August! Support the channel on Patreon and get access to the game & code for Homegrown, the ci...
The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable - Nobel Peace Prize The medal and the diploma are the physical symbols confirming that an individual or organisation has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The prize itself – the honour and recognition – remains inseparably linked to the person or organisation designated as...
Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom (englanniksi) - Presidentti As members of NATO, we are committed to strengthening Arctic security as a shared transatlantic interest. The pre-coordinated Danish exercise ”Arctic Endurance” conducted with Allies, responds to this necessity. It poses no threat to anyone. We stand in f...
The A in AGI stands for Ads Had to crunch the ad revenue projection numbers for OpenAI real quick, had enough of the fearmongering and nonsense takes. AGI... now funded by 5x60 second unskippable ads!
Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source If you care about supporting open source software, and still use MySQL in 2026, you should switch to MariaDB like so many others have already done.
Héliographe (@heliographe_studio@mastodon.social) Attached: 1 image If you put the Apple icons in reverse it looks like the portfolio of someone getting really really good at icon design
TTY and Buffering Every developer has at least once in their career stumbled upon the scenariowhere a program would not print something as they initially thought. A fewyears a...
Don't waste your back pressure · Back pressure for agents You might notice a pattern in the most successful applications of agents over the last year. Projects that are able to setup structure around the agent itself, to provide it with automated feedback on quality and correctness, have...
Hardware for local coding models is still affordable. For how long? The recent RAM price hikes have pushed GPU prices up as well. The only systems that have not yet been affected to the same extent are Macs and high-end GPUs (RTX 6000 Pro and above). However, I would already classify GPUs as out of reach: running coding m...
Artisanal Code - Sunny Amrat-Nath > Our single-origin, small-batch code is traceable through its commit history to artisanal programmers and traditional foundries. Incorporating a confluence of different cultures and languages, our code is hand-crafted, wrought through pull requests, proc...
The year everything changed Far from my best years being behind me, it feels as though everything in my life has been leading to this moment: building a completely new category of product where the most useful lessons come not from GitHub repos, but from the science fiction novels I...
Using the M1 MacBook Air in 2026 It's surprisingly capable more than five years later — as long as you temper your expectations.
Counterfactual Evaluation for Recommendation Systems Thinking about recsys as interventional vs. observational, and inverse propensity scoring.
Backpressure in Client-Server Applications | Travis Haagen's Blog Backpressure, in client-server applications, is accomplished when a client adjusts its transmission of messages in response to a server that has slowed its processing of messages.
We Don't Build the Machines Anymore We design the machines. We don't build them anymore. I'm still not sure how I feel about that.
The Death of Software Development The job of software developer is dead. You might still be coding, but the profession as you knew it is gone.
From Desired State to Negotiated State Software Engineer writing about infrastructure, Kubernetes, and Go
Architecture for Disposable Systems As coding agents make software cheaper and lower quality, we're moving toward disposable software, and that changes everything about how we architect systems.
Why I Stopped Reading Fiction and How I Found It Again For some reason that I don't understand I've always been searching for something. This need to search has always been present within me but I can't quite put into words what it is that I'm searching for, whether I will ever find it, or if the search will ...
Why We've Tried to Replace Developers Every Decade Since 1969 Every decade brings new promises: this time, we'll finally make software development simple enough that we won't need so many developers. From COBOL to AI, the pattern repeats. Business leaders gro...
Why Is Password Hygiene Important? – hnst1 Introduction: In an era where our bank accounts, family photos, and work identities live behind a login screen, the phrase “it won’t happen to me” is no longer a security strategy. With billions of data points leaked every year, your digital safety isn’t ...
I'll build this later Your roadmap is a cat-and-mouse game between new ideas/features/bugs that are added to it versus what you and your team can tackle. Ideally, it should go down, but it’s often the contrary that happens. And then, you get a customer asking you for some...
