The Satisfaction of a ChatGPT Plan
The goal of AI providers isn't to impart you with knowledge. It's to keep you entertained while they expose you to ads and spend your tokens. Use it wisely.
quantumslop/URANDOM_DEMO.md at 25ad2e76ae58baa96f6219742459407db9dd17f5 · yuvadm/quantumslop
This repository contains the code and submission detail for the QDay prize challenge by https://www.projecteleven.com/ - yuvadm/quantumslop
There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning
In this paper, we make the case that a scientific theory of deep learning is emerging. By this we mean a theory which characterizes important properties and statistics of the training process, hidden representations, final weights, and performance of neural ne…
My audio interface has ssh enabled by default
I bought a Rodecaster Duo to solve some audio woes, and found that it has ssh enabled by default. I captured the firmware update process and created custom firmware to enable password authentication for ssh.
Firefox Has Quietly Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine
Mozilla shipped it in Firefox 149 without a mention in the release notes.
What Do You Charge For?
I've written about my journey to learn how to charge a fair price for building a website before. But even after landing on a strategy, there is still a question that remains unanswered. What should I
Working With Claude Code: A Field Manual
Last week I published a reflective post on how agentic coding has changed my working day and the shape of the profession. I now want to turn to the other side of that coin: not the philosophy, but the mechanics — the habits, the workflows, the accumulated tric…
Coding agents have no moat | Tom Bedor's Blog
It's been a rough few months for Anthropic.
CSS As A Query Language · evdc.me
IN which we investigate using CSS as a query language, or even a general purpose programming language, to do things other than lay out web pages in a browser.
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Flash Attention 2 in CuteDSL: A Naive Kernel, Three Optimizations, and Where I Got Stuck
After writing Flash Attention 1 in plain CUDA, I wanted to take the next step and port Flash Attention 2 to CuteDSL, the Python front-end NVIDIA ships with C...
70x faster cold(ish) starts for SGLang
Checkpoint/restore with CRIU and cuda-checkpoint, from 12 minutes to 10 seconds on a B200.
Mind the van Emden Gap
I recently read an interesting paper written in 1982 by M.H. van Emden titled “Mental Ergonomics as Basis for New-Generation Computer Systems.” In the paper, van Emden described a “conversational partner” as a way to deal with the problem of software complexit…
Give Your Coding Agent a Journal
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Build Your Own Trust Chain
We have added the ability to create custom trust chains in Certisfy that are verifiable independent of the Certisfy PKI root. These trust ch...
leontrolski - Generalised plusequals
2026-04-24
On the software supply-chain doom spiral
Hackers are pwning packages at an exhausting clip.
LLM research on Hacker News is drying up – Dylan Castillo
Engineering Health Essentials | Yusuf Aytas
Engineering health is more than tech debt; it is the ongoing work of reducing friction, protecting teams, and keeping systems reliable and adaptable.
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A 13-month-old LlamaIndex bug re-embeds unchanged content · Sebastian Tirelli
A re-indexing hash bug in llama-index-core re-embeds byte-identical content on every scheduled run. It has been shipping in defaults for thirteen months. A…
Russell Romney
Russell Romney's personal website.
Do I belong in tech anymore?
On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal.