DeFlock
Find license plate readers (LPRs) near you.
Something is afoot in the land of Qwen
I’m behind on writing about Qwen 3.5, a truly remarkable family of open weight models released by Alibaba’s Qwen team over the past few weeks. I’m hoping that the 3.5 …
Say hello to MacBook Neo
Apple today unveiled MacBook Neo, an all-new laptop that delivers the magic of the Mac at a breakthrough price.
Solar Warning
Agentic Engineering Patterns - Simon Willison's Weblog
Sponsored by: Augment Code — Agent Orchestration. Living Specs. Your favorite agents. Build with Intent.
Make Your .NET Tests Insanely Faster
Get every Dometrain 30% off with code HANDSON30: https://dometrain.com/courses/?ref=nick-chapsas&promo=youtube&coupon_code=HANDSON30 Hello, everybody. I'm Nick, and in this video, I will talk about a new mocking library called Imposter that can speed up your …
Interruption-Driven Development
I have a hard time listening to music while working. I know a lot of people do it, but whenever I need to focus on a problem, I have to hunt down the tab playing music and pause it. And yet I still we
Unmasking Epstein: My Open Source AI Tool
This video is about a problem that has been considered unsolvable: the permanent redaction of the Epstein case files. As an engineer, I don't see a black bar as a dead end—I see it as a geometry problem with a data-driven solution. In this video, I demonstrat…
I Put a Full JVM Inside a Browser Tab. It "Works". Technically. Eventually.
There is an entire Linux kernel in there and it takes 55 seconds to print Hello World
GrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social)
@luana@wetdry.world It will fully support using other operating systems including users making their own builds of GrapheneOS. It's part of our hardware requirements. We'll likely be able to make hardened builds of firmware and drivers which can be released in…
Lenovo’s New T-Series ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability
Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo’s new T-series business laptops, which earned our highest honor with a 10/10 repairability score.
Intel's make-or-break 18A process node debuts for data center with 288-core Xeon 6+ CPU — multi-chip monster sports 12 channels of DDR5-8000, Foveros Direct 3D packaging tech
Intel unveils x86 CPU with the industry's highest core count.
What is a token
AI is meant to seem like magic. But there's no such thing as magic. It's all illusion. So, allow me to spoil that illusion for you.
We Automated Everything Except Knowing What's Going On
The personal site of whom Kenneth has designed and built impactful systems that power global-scale operations, improve security, and drive efficiency. From leading infrastructure transformations at Cloudflare to optimizing AI-driven platforms at Balto, his car…
The Shady World of IP Leasing
The IPv4
Risk, in Perspective
In my cushy 2026 tech bubble in San Francisco, risk-taking is a personality trait. The failure case, for most in my circles, is going back to a six-figure salary. My grandparents would not have recognized this as risk at all.
The Social Media Discoverability Problem
As a gay kid from an isolated suburb, algorithmic feeds showed me the interests that changed my life. How do we build a healthy form of social media that provides this for future generations?
Designing the Perfect ID: Marrying UUIDv7, Stripe Prefixes, and ULID · Technical Blog · Alcazar Security
Designing the Perfect ID: Marrying UUIDv7, Stripe Prefixes, and ULID
What if code wasn't a text document?
Fine-Tuning Qwen3 Embeddings for product category classification on the Large-Scale Product Corpus
Language-models such as GPT, Llama, DeepSeek, Qwen trained with a filtered slice of Common Crawl. For e-commerce work, though, we can start…
Voice Can Make Coding Agents Better (In Some Cases!) — Nima Sadri
Building ata, an open-source AI research agent
ADAPT: the server to bring back the (Social) Web · Raphael Lullis
I built a self-hosted RSS system that actually keeps me informed — Jordan Krueger
Email newsletters were drowning me. Algorithm feeds were wasting my time. So I used Claude Code to build a self-hosted RSS setup with Miniflux, NetNewsWire, and an AI filter that only shows me stuff worth reading.
It’s Always DNS — Until You’re Stuck and Can’t Fix It
DNS fails in specific, predictable ways: UDP truncation, TTL propagation lag, and the distributed deadlock that occurs when your recovery tools depend on the thing that is broken.
Building My Own Canva Over a Weekend
I was manually turning generated children's books into Instagram carousels, hit the limit of “doing things that don't scale,” and built a focused internal editor to make the workflow deterministic and fast.
The Data Doesn't Speak
Your formation shapes what the data can tell you.
What's new in Linux kernel... for PostgreSQL · Erthalion's blog
03 Feb 2026
Two months as a vibe coder - Pinch of Intelligence
The last two months my work completely changed. My job changed from thinking long and hard about problems and coming up with the best few code to solve this, to full-on talking in English to my computer begging it to produce better code. In this blog I am shar…
Working On Things That Suck
Have you ever been working on a project and realise what you're working on sucks? Like it just isn't good enough for anyone to find it useful. I've recen...
Breaking Up with TurboTax: How I Used Claude to File My Taxes for Free
A journey from paid tax software to AI-assisted free filing using Claude and IRS Free File Fillable Forms.
An Age of Promethean Ambitions
In a recent post, I wrote the following:
Stop asking junior engineers to struggle harder
Four pieces landed in the past two weeks that circle the same problem from different altitudes.
mpv Is the MVP of Video and Image Viewing — Nick Janetakis
Since I switched to native Linux, I really missed IrfanView for image viewing but mpv is filling that gap quite nicely.