Synchronous vs Asynchronous API Calls | no dogma blog
Here is a simple explanation of the difference between synchronous and asynchronous API calls.
Introducing GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark
Introducing GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark—our first real-time coding model. 15x faster generation, 128k context, now in research preview for ChatGPT Pro users.
Gemini 3 Deep Think: Advancing science, research and engineering
We’re releasing a major upgrade to Gemini 3 Deep Think, our specialized reasoning mode.
Major European Payment Processor Can't Send Email to Google Workspace Users
Viva.com, one of Europe's largest payment processors, sends verification emails without a Message-ID header — a recommendation of RFC 5322 since 2008. Google Workspace rejects them outright. Their support team's response to my detailed bug report: your account…
ai;dr | Sid's Blog
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I Improved 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed.
Cross-posted from X / @_can1357 In fact only the edit tool changed. That’s it. 0x0: The Wrong Question The conversation right now is almost entirely about …
Voice Sound Effects for AI: Righty-o then! Off I go, then! | Pure Krome
Voice sound effects for AI - peon-ping by Tony Yont
[PERF] Replace np.column_stack with np.vstack().T by crabby-rathbun · Pull Request #31132 · matplotlib/matplotlib
This PR addresses issue #31130 by replacing specific safe occurrences of np.column_stack with np.vstack().T for better performance. IMPORTANT: This is a more targeted fix than originally proposed. ...
Turning YouTube Into Cloud Storage
How I made a YouTube file media storage using C++ and a few libraries. You can view my repository here: https://github.com/PulseBeat02/yt-media-storage Here is the Wirehair O(N) fountain codec repository: https://github.com/catid/wirehair For those who want …
GitHub - tonyyont/peon-ping: Warcraft III Peon voice notifications for Claude Code. Stop babysitting your terminal.
Warcraft III Peon voice notifications for Claude Code. Stop babysitting your terminal. - tonyyont/peon-ping
Markdown.exe
We have turned markdown into an executable file. Agent use skills, and threat actors are using it to spread malicious scripts all over the web. md is exe now
Installation
discord/twitch/kick/snapchat age verifier
age verifies your account automatically as an adult on any website using k-id
Building a Pastebin, Hardening Two Services, and Adding an Admin Panel: All in One Afternoon
I built a pastebin from scratch, security-hardened two services, added API auth and an admin panel, 1,700 lines across 14 files in about 90 minutes with Claude Code.
Exploring Chess Positions and Counts
Introduction In our earlier article “How Many Chess Games are Possible?” we derived that the number of typical short chess games is around 10151. This turned out to be much larger than …
On Seeking Order in Chaos
Generalist software developer writing about scalable infrastructure, fullstack development and DevOps practices.
APIs Over UIs: Agents Are the Future Interface to Everything | Dylan Huang
Every database, application, and codebase will be accessed through agents. APIs and MCPs over UIs.
But What To Do About It?
The future is here. I'm deeply uncertain what to do about it. I first had a passive inkling AI might be much bigger than chatbots 2 years ago in Alaska. Like buying my first bitcoins in 2013, I just paid a little extra attention when smart people around me st…
From Muscle to Matrix
Money used to represent human time. Now it represents energy times inference. The human dropped out of the equation.
Request Intent: The Future of Secure Requests
Sigil offers stateless CSRF protection using request intent verification, improving security without traditional middleware drawbacks
Software entrepreneurs are different — Scattered thoughts
December 26, 2025
An Ode to Merge Join
Merge join is such a delightful algorithm.
Building High-Performance Electron Apps - Johnny Le
Strategies for building high-performance Electron apps.
Outcome Engineering
Self-Employment Series #2: Ownership Is Not Freedom
Ownership collapses abstraction. This guest essay by correspondent 0bserver is #2 in a series on self-employment / owning your work. ...
Building Software that Is Good for Humans
Why does so much of the software we use feel harmful?
EyesOff: Why Some Models Quantize Better Than Others
Some models quantize better than others, in this case it was EfficientNetB0 and ResNet18 (the latter quantized better).
If you don't engineer backpressure, you'll get slopped
The mindset shift required to build with AI without drowning in slop.
Human Review is the Bottleneck
Agent-generated code creates a review bottleneck. Frontload cognitive work into planning rather than trying to review harder.
Software 2.0: Code is Cheap, Good Taste is Not
The rules of software development are changing.
Dorodango
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Functional programming in an LLM world — notes
A twenty-something and their ChatGPT has produced a code artefact that is currently in production. Somewhere deep in the code soup, there is this utility function...
Trusting Trust in the Fediverse
Implied trust and how easy it is to break it
The Problem With LLMs
Premise Six months ago, a friend of mine, with whom I work on the nonprofit Pariyatti mobile app, sent me this blog post by Vijay Khanna: From Idea to App in 7 Hours. By now, this is a fairly common zero-to-one LLM coding story. (LLM is short for Large Languag…