27 January 2026

30 links · Tuesday

Jade (@JadedBlueEyes@tech.lgbt)

Cloudflare just published a vibe coded blog post claiming they implemented Matrix on cloudflare workers. They didn't, their post and README is AI generated and the code doesn't do any of the core parts of matrix that make it secure and interoperable. Instead i…

Kimi K2.5: Visual Agentic Intelligence

Try Kimi K2.5, the strongest open-source model for visual coding. Explore agent swarm preview for massive tasks. Simplify complex Office work with precision.

The First C# 15 Feature Is Here

Learn PostgreSQL for Free at Dometrain: https://dometrain.com/course/hands-on-learn-postgresql/?ref=nick-chapsas&promo=youtube Hello, everybody. I'm Nick, and in this video, I will talk about a brand new feature coming in C# and .NET 11 called Collection Expr…

Positional Encodings: The Part Everyone Skips

If the following image doesn’t make sense to you, there’s a good chance you haven’t fully grasped positional encodings in transformer architecture. Please stick around as I’ll try to explain them in a way that actually feels intuitive. The 128-dimensional posi…

Lean, Mean, Solitaire Machine

My dada (grandpa on my dad's side) is a fiend for spider solitaire. Indeed, that's all his laptop really does these days. The shot battery struggles to hold...

why i love cheap coffee

<img src="https://bear-images.sfo2.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/alieniloquy/cheapcoffee.webp" width="767"/> I spent a decade of my life working in the coffee ...

Setting up Year in Command Line — Danish Prakash

I’ve tracked my command line history in a MariaDB instance for the past 5 years. The original idea was to simple keep track of everything I do on the command line so that I can refer to them later on. The utility of the history command was immediately apparent…

The Voice Principle

As I’ve gotten more interested in A.I., and use it more and more, I’ve discovered a very clear boundary or value in my use of it for writing.

The Value of Things – journal.stuffwithstuff.com

One of the reasons I write is to help me organize my own mind. I have a compulsive need to figure things out and I’ll lay awake at night shuffling sentences around in my head until it hangs together. Then I just have to try to get it all down in Markdown befor…

kp9 - Soundness and Completeness

Natural language is beautiful for poetry, but lethal for processors. When we describe a language loosely, we leave room for "undefined behavior", which is the dark matter of the programming universe where anything can happen.

Who uses LLMs? - Neon Vagabond

There's this common argument that only those who are bad at coding, or don't care about the craft of it, use AI to code. I think this is pretty clearly false. Let's look at a list, shall we? More iffy ones:This refutes a few arguments that I see a lot of peopl…

Livid Spot

  title: i invented 'decisions' yes hello welcome not much to read on the internet today so i am going to write for you i am writing as an u...

Less is More: When Agents Learn Not Because But Despite My Doings

Last month, I wrote about how curriculum learning helped me train a 2048 agent that reaches the 65k tile. That agent achieved a 14.75% rate of reaching 65k with many built-in heuristics to encourage the snake-pattern (keeping the highest tile in the corner wit…

The Relative Trap

Why 'analysis paralysis' is often a refusal to accept the finite nature of evidence. A look at why your mental health—and your work—depends on loving reality more than your narrative.

I went on Holiday with my Colleagues

I just spent a week living in an Airbnb with four other people. We went to the supermarket together, cooked breakfast together, visited museums, went out to the pub…all the things you (well, I) do on a holiday. But it wasn’t my four closest friends. These were…

Long branches in compilers, assemblers, and linkers

Branch instructions on most architectures use PC-relative addressing with a limited range. When the target is too far away, the branch becomes "out of range" and requires special handling. Consider a

Docs in Code

Your agent doesn’t understand your code. What can you do about that?

Notes about Basic Polyphase Decimation Filters

I’ve been reading up on polyphase filters and multi-rate digital signal processing. It’s a broad topic, but as a beginner I need to start with the basics. And to better internalize those, I like to expand the generic math into concretely worked-out, smaller …

Recapping My 5 Year Old Studio Monitors

A few weeks ago, I started hearing a slight crackle at the loudest parts of whenever sound was playing through my PreSonus Eris E3.5 speakers. It was very faint, but quite annoying, especially when editing my YouTube videos. For a few days I thought it could b…