For as much as AI has dramatically changed all of our lives, mine included, I was a bit uneasy that I didn’t really know how they are implemented and how they work. What is thinking and chain-of-thought reasoning? How does it choose a tool? What are parameters…
Thinking inside boxes
Moving off WordPress was not really about cost or performance. It was about turning years of writing into a searchable, linkable archive instead of leaving it as a pile of published pages.
I made an MVP in one day - Diego López
Hello. It all starts with my pressing need to have a Cornhole. Do you know that feeling when you know you don’t need something, but you need it? Well, that’s how I was, doing deep research all over the web, comparing prices, studying second-hand markets, looki…
Engineering contraptions
Porting my personal and work mobile numbers to AAISP, using Groundwire as the client, and a small self-hosted proxy to plug the SMS gap.
The difficult part of the Mythos discussion is not that a frontier model became better at finding and exploiting vulnerabilities. That was always going to happen. The harder part is that the surrounding response already assumes continued capability growth, con…
Deep-dive into cache coherency considerations for JIT compilers on AArch64
I’m in my 40s, have a family, kids, and my startup is default dead . But I’m calm and confident that I’ll dig my way out. I haven’t always felt this way. Here’s how I changed that.
I gave two state-of-the-art AI models the same architecture bug. I was quite surprised with the difference in results.
I Applied to 1,600 Jobs. That’s Why I Got 4 Offers. — Jelena Dobric
Two months. 1,600+ applications. 4 offers. At companies I actually liked. Hiring market was not great. Plenty of strong candidates. Plenty of “we’ve decided to move forward with other applicants.” And yet—this worked. Not because I had a perfect resume. Not b…
AI changed what engineers spend their time on. The skills that separate engineers who thrive from those still catching up.
iPhone (17?) Air, One Month Later
I fear I am about to feel what iPhone Mini people feel.
Write down what you mean.
Postgres: One Database to Rule Them All | Marmot
I'm a huge fan of simple software. There's something really satisfying about solving a problem and reducing the number of moving parts. Most of the time, you'll find the tool you already have can do more than you thought.
The player/coach trap: why Engineering Managers shouldn’t be expected to code
When managers code, teams lose leadership.
Five failure modes that surface only when coding agents run without anyone watching. None involve code generation.
Introducing serverless execution: run bash on Archil file systems directly, without provisioning compute or moving data. Live today in all AWS regions.
AI can automate 50-70% of nonprofit operations. Unlike businesses, where automation enriches owners, automating a nonprofit sends all the value to the people it serves.
Posting on the internet freightens me
A Survey of the Ticket (Re)Selling Landscape
How I learned Unity the wrong way
I spent 3 years building Unity games by copying tutorials and stitching forum scripts together. Then an interviewer asked me what Queue<T> was. I could not a...
The updated Codex app for macOS and Windows adds computer use, in-app browsing, image generation, memory, and plugins to accelerate developer workflows.
Thunderbolt — AI You Control
The Open-Source, Cross-Platform, Extensible AI Client
This is a long article, so I've broken it up into a series of posts, listed below. You can also read the full work as a PDF or EPUB.
Email for agents - Cloudflare Email Service now in public beta
Agents are becoming multi-channel. That means making them available wherever your users already are — including the inbox. Today, Cloudflare Email Service enters public beta with the infrastructure layer to make that easy: send, receive, and process email nati…
Introducing Claude Opus 4.7
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Qwen Studio
QWEN STUDIO HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE DISCORD Following the launch of Qwen3.6-Plus, we are excited to open-source Qwen3.6-35B-A3B — a sparse yet remarkably capable mixture-of-experts (MoE) model with 35 billion total parameters and only 3 billion active paramete…
I’ve been a Postman user for my entire developer career. I remember when it was just a simple Chrome extension that made pentesting APIs slightly less painful. Those were simpler times. Today, I find myself joining the growing exodus of developers abandoning t…
Unexpected €54k billing spike in 13 hours: Firebase browser key without API restrictions used for Gemini requests - Gemini API - Google AI Developers Forum
Hello, We are looking for guidance regarding an unexpected €54,000+ Gemini API charge that occurred within a few hours after enabling Firebase AI Logic on an existing Firebase project. Background: We created the project over a year ago and initially used it…
Dave takes you through the computers behind the scenes in the movie WarGames! Comments with question marks get answered on our weekly ShopTalk!: https://youtu.be/iT0T52OV9B8
Visualizing Claude Code MCP Requests with Coding Agent Explorer
See exactly how Claude Code communicates with MCP servers. Use the MCP Observer to monitor requests, debug tool usage, and gain full visibility into coding agent behavior.
Darkbloom — Private AI Inference on Apple Silicon
Decentralized inference on hardware-verified Apple Silicon. End-to-end encrypted. The node operator never sees your data. OpenAI-compatible — change one line.
Friends Don't Let Friends Use Ollama | Sleeping Robots
Ollama gained traction by being the first easy llama.cpp wrapper, then spent years dodging attribution, misleading users, and pivoting to cloud, all while riding VC money earned on someone else's engine. Here's the full history, and why the alternatives are be…
Check out McDonald's new, limited and regular burger menus for breakfast, regular and dinner time. Order and pay in advance on your smartphone without waiting at the cashier and just pick up at store nearby.
Three fires in one week. A Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's mansion, an arson at a toilet paper factory, a mall ablaze. The common thread is not crime. It's what happens when you replace human judgment with spreadsheets.
If all code will be written by LLMs, build vs buy will simply be a context arbitrage between startups and their customers.
In this post, we’ll dig into the internal designs of binary encoding for JSON. There’s been little discussion of the trade-offs these encodings make. We’ll see how even a straightforward binary encoding can materially improve retrieval performance.
I Suddenly Lost My Enthusiasm for Interneting
Why the internet feels like total garbage. Why the literacy level of the content available online looks, to me, like it decreases exponentially.
I Did My Taxes with Claude. Here's What Happened.
It’s tax day — so, shoutout to my tax friends. I hope you get some sleep tonight. I got mine done. Twice, actually: once with Claude, once with TurboTax, then reconciled the two side-by-side to the dollar. I was curious how AI would handle a workflow we all k…
It is April in Cyprus and the windows are open. I have been sitting with a coffee that went cold twenty minutes ago, thinking about a conversation I had in January last year, on a video call from the desk in my home office in Düsseldorf, with a manager who
Writing an LLM from scratch, part 32k -- Interventions: training a better model locally with gradient accumulation
Having worked out which combination of interventions into my model and training run improved loss the most, it was time to see how well that worked with a local run, which meant I had to learn about gradient accumulation
Gym Anything is a framework for building and running computer-use environments.
One Layer, +12%: What 667 Configs Reveal About Small LLM Anatomy - Austin's Nerdy Things
I’ve been messing around with local LLMs on my 3090 for a while now — I have a growing collection of Qwen models on D:LLM that I probably should be embarrassed about. A few weeks ago I stumbled across David Noel Ng’s LLM Neuroanatomy blog posts, where he showe…
Mainstream ML fixes the scoring rule and trains the weights. We're exploring the opposite — searching the rule.
Harper's mission is to encourage and assist people with communicating their complex ideas and emotions.
Fun with EML (Exp-Minus-Log)
A paper is proposing that most elementary functions such as sin, cos, 1/x can be expressed as a combination of the following function and the constant 1. eml(x,y)=exp(x)−ln(y)eml(x,y) = exp(x) R…
Hi, I’m Nikita Volkov - architect, consultant, and the author of hasql, one of the two main PostgreSQL drivers in Haskell used in major production projects like PostgREST and IHP. After 25 years in IT and more late-night schema-drift fires than I care to count…
The Great Software Meltdown
Naval called it. Software was eaten by AI.— Naval (@naval) March 14, 2026 And the market already agreed. Atlassian down 75%. HubSpot down 69%. Figma
I don't care that it's X times faster
Many new project announcements these days come with a tagline of 'X times faster than ...' and I need to rant about it.
Let’s start with things you probably did know.
🚂 Temporal — Under the Hood
What actually happens when you start a Temporal workflow? We trace every SQL statement, count the event-history nodes, and then watch Absurd — a 5-table, single-SQL-file system — do the same job with one-fifth the queries and twenty-times the throughput.
I Connected a Desktop Phone to a FreeBSD Server, so Now I Can Call It
I turned a Panasonic KX-T2315 desk phone into a physical menu for my FreeBSD server. When I pick up the handset, the phone adapter calls Asterisk, waits for one digit, and triggers a predefined script on the FreeBSD server. This post covers the phone restorati…
How Wispr Flow Ate My Spacebar: A Forensic Investigation Into Silent Keyboard Interception
A deep forensic investigation into how Wispr Flow silently intercepts every keystroke via CGEventTap, suppressed 145 spacebar presses, tracks every app and URL, and uploads data even with sharing disabled.
I recently wrote a program, mesh2frep, that is, honestly, a bit unhinged at best. Let me tell you about it!