Making a Small Mouse-Driven RPG
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C64 Ultimate Review + What's Next?
What is the new C64 Ultimate like and should you get one instead of an original Commodore 64 or TheC64? I review as a developer AND retro fan
I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a CLAUDE.md file – Hugo Daniel
Hugo Daniel's site about ideas and software experimentations
Liquid Glass? That's what your M4 CPU is for
So, Apple just dropped its new "Liquid Glass" design language, and yeah, it looks slick. Translucent, fluid, subtly animated. The kind of thing that makes you nod and say, "Yep, that’s Apple." But while everyone’s drooling over the aesthetics, I’m sitting here…
Happy Juneteenth
"Is Juneteenth even a real holiday? What is it even? It sounds made up."
A new iPhone, a new Pixel, a new Phone
Every year, like clockwork, we get a new device. The old one belongs to the trash because ending is better then mending. Buy the new iphone, pixel, samsung etc.
Reclaiming Your Memory in the Age of Distraction
In today's social media-saturated world, does it feel like your memory is failing you? It's not that you can't remember anything, but rather that you're constantly distracted while trying to remember.
It's cheaper to buy a new printer every month
Technically you can buy a brand new printer every month instead of buying cartridge. And you still save money. Printer company just want you on a subscription.
The Problem with Vibed PRs
I'm doing my best to embrace vibe coding, but here's where I draw the line.
What's the name of that Website?
Streaming services are starting to look like the cable companies they replaced. As a results, people are wondering if they are worth subscribing to.
I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone
Microsoft has deprecated windows 10, yet million of users still use it. They say the hardware is not supported, yet they keep pestering us with endless pings.
And 18 very popular NPM Packages are compromised
On September 8th, 18 npm packages were compromised with malicious code. These packages are very popular. They receive an average of 2 billion downloads every week. If you are not sure whether you are affected, you can run this grep command on your repository t…
Och, The True AI Scotsman
Aye, gather ‘round the fire, lads an’ lasses, an’ I’ll tell ye of the True AI Scotsman. A myth as grand as the Highlands themselves, yet as slippery as an eel in Loch Ness.
No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive
Microsoft is doing everything in its power to alienate users. When it's not enshittification, it's user hostility. You can't even dismiss forced reminders.
The New Economic Reality: It's Still Your Money at the Bank
Whether you're an economist or not, a financial professional or not, it's still your money that's being affected.
Are We All Forced Meme Stock Investors Now?
Let's be honest, the financial landscape feels… weird lately. For years, the mantra for most investors has been clear: diversify, buy stable index funds, and let time work its magic. It wasn't the most thrilling advice, but it was generally sound. The idea was…
Qwen3-TTS Family is Now Open Sourced: Voice Design, Clone, and Generation!
Github HuggingFace Huggingface Demo ModelScope Demo Paper Qwen3-TTS is a series of powerful speech generation capabilities developed by Qwen, offering comprehensive support for voice clone, voice design, ultra-high-quality human-like speech generation, and nat…
GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers
GPTZero's analysis 4841 papers accepted by NeurIPS 2025 show there are at least 100 with confirmed hallucinations
Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over “heroes”
In 2000, Douglas Adams made an interesting observation that I keep returning to. A user on Slashdot named “FascDot Killed My Pr” had asked the following question (where HGttG = Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy): Comedy….or Tragedy? First, a big thank-you. You’…
Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task – MIT Media Lab
This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and …
Duende IdentityServer 7: A Complete Setup Guide for ASP.NET Core
Learn how to build Duende IdentityServer 7 from scratch with ASP.NET Core 10. This step-by-step guide covers logging, configuration, users..
sweepai/sweep-next-edit-1.5B · Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
REAC: 2025 Conference.
Warhammer 40000: Space Marine 2 is based on Swarm Engine, a proprietary in-house engine from Saber being developed for decades. This engine has already proven itself in tasks of simulating and rendering a large number of distinct and interactive entities. The …
Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections - CITP Blog
All internet voting systems are insecure. The insecurity is worse than a well-run conventional paper ballot system, because a very small number of people may have the power to change any (or all) votes that go through the system, without detection.
Stanford scientists found a way to regrow cartilage and stop arthritis
Scientists at Stanford Medicine have discovered a treatment that can reverse cartilage loss in aging joints and even prevent arthritis after knee injuries. By blocking a protein linked to aging, the therapy restored healthy, shock-absorbing cartilage in old mi…
Mental Models for Debugging Hard Problems
Master debugging with proven mental models: First Principles Thinking, Scientific Method, and Four Stages of Competence.
Human Debt | Sanjay Nair
Software engineering leader based in Atlanta, Georgia, sharing insights on leadership, technology, and software development.
Learning to Program in 2026
If I had to start over as a person who wanted to become a professional programmer, in 2026, what would I do?
I don't like Klipy
I get bad vibes from the company that Discord is going to replace Tenor with.
I finally got my sway layout to autostart just the way I like it
I have been using sway as my default window manager on my laptop for a few years. One of the things that I’ve found most annoying about it, after over a decade of using KDE, was the lack of automated save and restore of running applications. There is a way to …
My 2025 Bug Bounty Stories
A recap of my 2025 bug bounty experiences, featuring failures and stories from Google Cloud, GitHub, Vercel, Opera, and others.
Pull requests with LLM attribution are predatory behavior
If there’s a predator[1], there must be prey. Here, the prey is time — first, the time of a person who reviews the PR; second, the time of a maintainer who will be maintaining the code after it lands in master.
Claude's new constitution
A new approach to a foundational document that expresses and shapes who Claude is
Your Prod Code Should Have Bugs
Debugging prod after shipping on Friday Your job as a software engineer Every line of production code is a bet on speed, safety, and correctness. When you ship software, you are balancing: Getting it done fast -> shipping faster means the feature appears earli…
Everything MoE
There are two really good ways to learn the deep fundamentals of a field. One we could call the Carmack/Ilya method: get an expert to give you a list of the seminal papers, systematically work thro…
Building a Multi-Tenant Metrics Pipeline for Thousands of Clients
The last big project I worked on during my time at Yellowbrick was a brand new observability stack for the core product, an OLAP data warehouse. The company had finished a big push to create a cloud version of the product (which up to that point ran on a custo…
I love the old man minimap in VS Code
If you don’t use the minimap in VS code you probably turned it off a while ago (like me). I thought it was small and useless unless your code has a very distinct structure.
Get Closer So I Can Hear the Birds
I spent two weeks using GPT and Codex for my daily work. Between fabricated technical explanations, a model that insisted it could hear birds, and tooling that couldn't keep up with my workflows, I learned a lot about trust. Here's what happened.
Databases are magic ... until ... | Silvestre Perret
Databases are magic until they are not. OLTP vs OLAP explained.
SQLite Vector is now Nix Flake Ready! ❄️
A contribution by Cowork AI to the SQLite ecosystem.
A lifetime of service - Olly
As well as pondering a general price increase for Pagecord, I've been thinking lately about a offering a pay once "lifetime" option. I've heard that this is...
World Models
Some elements here build upon the RL env post. Also, please read the footnotes, given a lot to cover, I moved many clarifications to the bottom.
How I design systems
A practical guide to designing distributed systems by breaking them down into functional areas: architecture, communication, ingress, events, databases, caching, testing, and instrumentation.
Five Mistakes I've Made with Euler Angles
How to debug inverted and backward Euler angles, or avoid those problems in the first place.
I vibe coded a webapp from my phone - here's what I learned
LLMs have come a long way, but how far can we get using cloud agents like Google Jules to build a web app? I tried vibe coding from my phone, acting as a code reviewer rather than writer. Easier than I thought, but not without its fair share of problems.
Can Claude be a travel agent yet? - Ritza Articles
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Fundamental Engineering Principles · Tony Tong
chrome://crash is the best home page
The home page button was included in the oldest web browsers and has been around since, yet it doesn't seem to be used much anymore. Setting the home button URL to chrome://crash/ (in Chromium-based browsers) is a useful trick to use it to easily unload pages …
On Designing Forms That Don't Get in the Way
Notes on validation, accessibility, and the invisible decisions behind a calm sign-in flow.
Everyone has a boss
I had always expected to be an Entrepreneur. As an American, we are born into a world where your safety and health depends on having deep pockets when (*not if*) an emergency occurs.
Why VIPER and MVVM in SwiftUI are actually the same pattern: A lesson in architectural thinking
Architectural design patterns like VIPER might seem radically different from common ones like MVVM. However, upon deeper inspection, it turns out that these patterns share the same constitutive components. In this article, we will compare the MVVM and VIPER de…