16 March 2026

23 links · Monday

The Loyalty Oath Crusade

In chapter 11 of Catch-22, two captains create a complex set of rules to ensure security in the military. Among them are some absurd requirements just to get food in the mess hall.

Nasdaq's Shame

How to rig an index to appease a billionaire

LLM Architecture Gallery

A gallery that collects architecture figures from The Big LLM Architecture Comparison and related articles, with fact sheets and links back to the original sections.

The 49MB Web Page

A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.

porting software has been trivial for a while now. here’s how you do it.

This one is short and sweet. if you want to port a codebase from one language to another here’s the approach: 1. Run a ralph loop which compresses all tests into /specs/.md which looks similar to “study every file in tests/* using separate subagents and docu…

Apple Studio Display XDR with M3 Pro

I'm glad Apple updated the Studio Display to offer a version with HDR and 120Hz. The previous Studio Display has accurate colors and great resolution, but the upgrades are very welcome.

Dotfiles by LLM

I let Claude Code configure my entire Arch install

Shower Thought: Git Teleportation

A shower thought about teleportation, git and beam destroy. If we were to build a teleportation device, I have the blueprint. Looking for vibe coders for help.

We do not have a democracy

We do not have a democracy. Politicians here purposefully prevent basic checks so that they can cheat in elections. Without anti-cheating rules like voter ID, your vote does not count. An overwhelming majority of Americans support voter ID and clean voter roll…

How a Deep Learning Library Enables Learning

1. The Familiar Training Step 2. Why Call loss.backward() At All 3. Why An Update Actually Helps 4. Values Remember Where They Came From 5. What One Operation Does During Backward 6. How loss.backward() Walks the Whole Graph 7. So We Have All the Gradients in …

LLMs can be absolutely exhausting

Some days I get in bed after a tortuous 4-5 hour session working with Claude or Codex wondering what the heck happened. It's easy to blame the model - there'...