Teleoperation is Always the Butt of the Joke
A few years back, the term "AI" took an unexpected turn when it was redefined as "Actual Indian". As in, a person in India operating the machine remotely.
PILK #3 | Facebook is absolutely cooked
Through the mirror into the lightly-clothed AI gooniverse
Child’s Play, by Sam Kriss
Tech’s new generation and the end of thinking
Keep Android Open | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Friday, 20 Feb 2026, Week 8 F-Droid core During out talks with F-Droid users at FOSDEM26 we were baffled to learn most w...
Nvidia and OpenAI abandon unfinished $100bn deal in favour of $30bn investment
Chipmaker swaps last year’s complex framework with AI start-up in favour of equity cheque
AWS suffered ‘at least two outages’ caused by AI tools, and now I’m convinced we’re living inside a ‘Silicon Valley’ episode
Amazon just speed-ran a season of 'Silicon Valley'
Cleaning up merged git branches: a one-liner from the CIA's leaked dev docs | spencer.wtf
How to delete all merged git branches locally with a single command. This one-liner has been in my zshrc since 2017 — I found it buried in the CIA's Vault7 l...
ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI · ggml-org/llama.cpp · Discussion #19759
Announcement We are happy to announce that ggml.ai (the founding team of llama.cpp) are joining Hugging Face in order to keep future AI truly open. Georgi and team are joining HF with the goal of s...
The path to ubiquitous AI | Taalas
By Ljubisa Bajic Many believe AI is the real deal. In narrow domains, it already surpasses human performance. Used well, it is an unprecedented amplifier of human ingenuity and productivity. Its widespread adoption is hindered by two key barriers: high latency…
Reaction-Diffusion: Gray-Scott on a 2D Grid
A detailed breakdown of the Gray-Scott reaction-diffusion algorithm. Includes an interactive canvas demo and explains the PDE model, Laplacian stencil, double buffering, and boundary handling.
Learn Hands-On for Free at Dometrain: https://dometrain.com/courses/?ref=nick-chapsas&promo=youtube Hello, everybody. I'm Nick, and in this video, I will talk about the new .NET 11 Runtime Async feature. It completely changes the game in performance for Async…
Amazon service was taken down by AI coding bot
Tech giant blames ‘user error, not AI error’ for incident in December involving its Kiro tool
MuMu Player Pro (NetEase) silently runs 17 system reconnaissance commands every 30 minutes on macOS
MuMu Player Pro (NetEase) silently runs 17 system reconnaissance commands every 30 minutes on macOS - news.md
Context: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…
TL;DR We investigate a fundamental question in recurrent neural network training: why is backpropagation through time always ran backwards? We show, by deriving an exact gradient-based algorithm that propagates error forward in time (in multiple phases), that …
If you’ve been anywhere near tech Twitter in the last few weeks, you’ve heard it:
My website is now ~2.8x faster after converting it to a Django LiveView SPA | Andros Fenollosa
After releasing the 2.2.0 update of Django LiveView to PyPI, which fixed some minor issues, I decided to transform my entire personal website (where y
The Quickening
In a paper titled “THEOREMS FOR A PRICE: Tomorrow’s Semi-Rigorous Mathematics Culture” published in 1993, mathematician Doron Zeilberger wrote: There are writings on the wall that…
I've been running this website since 2008. Over the years I've changed hosting providers and what software to use a bunch of times. Some time in 2015 I switched to hosting it as a static website on Amazon CloudFront. A few years ago I moved from Amazon to Clou…
Redis vs Valkey: A Deep Dive for Enterprise Architects
The in memory data store landscape fractured in March 2024 when Redis Inc abandoned its BSD 3-clause licence in favour of the dual RSALv2/SSPLv1 model. The community response was swift and surgical…
Principal software engineer with deep expertise in full-stack TypeScript, headless and kiosk browsers, and real-time media-centric systems.
Coding agents forget everything between sessions. I built EchoVault — an MCP server that gives agents persistent memory using SQLite, Markdown, and zero clou...
The empire always falls
A citizen of Rome in 117 AD, under Emperor Trajan, would've found it difficult to imagine the empire not existing. The roads, the aqueducts, the legal system, the trade networks stretching from Britain to Mesopotamia: all of it seemed to be a near-fact of natu…
Working with AI changed what I'm willing to attempt. It also changed me.
You had a story
You had a story you used to tell yourself about how you got here in life. You’d share the story with others. Maybe you’d be at a party, and someone would ask what you do, and you’…
Consistency is Primitive - Christopher Butler
When AI becomes infrastructure and software becomes bespoke, the economic imperative for standardization disappears.
Why Killing Epstein Was a Catastrophic Engineering Failure | Machiel Reyneke
In physics, a metastable system looks perfectly stable - until it isn't. The Epstein network held for thirty years. Then someone tried to stabilise it.
Most Developers Don’t Build New Things
The industry tends to celebrate beginnings. New repositories. Clean architecture diagrams. The excitement of choosing tools before real constraints show up....
User research is often just expensive validation for decisions already made by Niki Tisza
A UX hot take
Cursor's Debug Mode Is Arguably Its Best Feature
Back in December, Cursor announced "Debug Mode". The way it works is fairly straightforward: 1. User says "I want to fix this bug!!!" 2. Cursor prompts the model to come up with several hypothesis for why the bug exists 3. Cursor prompts the model to add a…
How Great CEOs Stay in the Details
Why top tech CEOs scale by staying in the details—clarifying core narratives, designing reviews, and building team-wide alignment for speed and quality.