Apparently Apple thinks nobody with a modern Mac uses spinning rust (hard drives with platters) anymore. I plugged in a hard drive from an old iMac into my Mac Studio using my Sabrent USB to SATA Hard Drive enclosure, and opened up Disk Utility, clicked on the…
Our latest image generation model offers advanced world knowledge, production-ready specs, subject consistency and more, all at Flash speed.
Ever wondered why your “clean” polymorphic design underperforms in benchmarks? Virtual dispatch enables polymorphism, but it comes with hidden …
The AI boom created the worst electronics supply chain crisis in history. Here’s a simple map of what’s broken, who broke it, and when it gets fixed.
I wrote my first Clojure program in anger a few months ago. Only, it’s not accurate to say that I wrote it; AI did most of the writing, and I directed it on what my design goals were and why. Architecturally, you could call it was a stateless anti-corruption l…
Stress testing Claude's language skills
Polyglot or poly-not?
The cartography of reason
Quit being tired of your best reasoning getting lost in endless chat logs or messy notes.
The 84-Day Arc from Weekend Project to Weaponized Infrastructure. Why warnings aren’t stopping OpenClaw enthusiasts from giving AI agents the keys to everything.
I rendered 1,418 Unicode confusable pairs across 230 fonts. Most aren't confusable to the eye.
confusable-vision renders every TR39 confusable pair across 230 macOS system fonts and measures visual similarity with SSIM. 96.5% of confusables.txt is not high-risk, but 82 pairs are pixel-identical in at least one font.
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Joe Bertolami's portfolio and blog covering artificial intelligence, game development, computer graphics, data compression, and more.
From COBOL in the 1960s to AI in the 2020s, every generation promises to eliminate programmers. Explore the recurring cycles of software simplification hype.
How Did Hendrix Turn His Guitar Into a Wave Synthesizer?
How did Jimi Hendrix turn his guitar into a wave synthesizer? Dive into the engineering behind his iconic sound.
Why Core Banking Systems Are Terrible and Always Were
Core banking systems promised to solve everything in one platform but became architectural nightmares that prevent banks from adapting to modern needs.
My bar on software is too high
I'm comparing myself with the best in the world
AI agents generate code faster than teams can write Terraform. Infrastructure from Code, where infrastructure is derived from application code, is the only approach that scales.
Just use symlinks and be agent agnostic
Coding is solved right? Everything is great, AI is replacing us, we just need to press “allow”. But on which model? Which agent? Coding agents move fast, an...
Practical Decentralization
The point of decentralization is to guarantee the rights of individuals and communities on the Internet. Pulling that off is a balancing act between practicality and ideology.
The IDE Might Die – Taking My Favorite Programming Language With It
I've been in love with F# for many years. But as AI changes how I write code, the IDE I depend on may not survive – and F# might not either (at least not in my toolstack).
Power Efficiency - why we care so much about it
No one wants to spend their life charging batteries.
As AI becomes better at cloning people's open source work, what ends up becoming most valuable are software contracts, tests, and API surface area. This clashes the incentives of clearly defining your commercialized open source software with protecting it.
Algorithmic Feeds Need to Be Banned
"What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would gi…
At Last I Am Free - On the liberation of building with AI agents
The flatness of the machine
AI prose is fluent, frictionless, and hollow. Why next-token prediction, RLHF, and model collapse are systematically and increasingly optimized against voice.