The future of Obsidian plugins
Introducing the new Obsidian Community site and developer dashboard.
Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise
Why senior developers talk in terms of complexity while the rest of the business is worried about uncertainty — and what to do about it now that AI is in the picture.
Prime Line Cover — OEIS A373813
Research Article · May 2026
Googlebook: Designed for Gemini Intelligence | Coming Fall 2026
Meet Googlebook: A new kind of laptop designed for Gemini Intelligence. Built with heavyweight power and perfectly in sync with your Android Phone. Sign up for updates and stay in the know.
On Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets - The Blog of Maxime Heckel
This article explores how to render realistic skies and atmospheres in real time in the browser with shaders, from simple sky domes, to entire planets using shaders, raymarching, Rayleigh and Mie scattering, and ozone absorption.
Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract
Last year I said I'd probably never recommend another Bambu Lab printer again. I still use my P1S, but after Bambu Lab started pushing their always-connected cloud solution as the new default: I blocked the printer from the Internet via my OPNsense Firewall I …
Learning Software Architecture
In reply to an email asking about learning software design skills as a researcher physicist:
Retrotechnology Media - Typewritten Software
GitHub - davmlaw/they_live_adblocker: Replace Ads with They Live style slogans
Replace Ads with They Live style slogans. Contribute to davmlaw/they_live_adblocker development by creating an account on GitHub.
Mass Supply Chain Attack Hits TanStack, Mistral AI npm and PyPI Packages
Over 400 compromised npm package versions and at least 2 PyPI packages published in a coordinated supply chain attack targeting TanStack, Mistral AI, UiPath, OpenSearch, guardrails-ai, and dozens of other packages.
Replacing a 3 GB SQLite database with a 10 MB FST (finite state transducer) binary
Note for numberphiles: all numbers have been rounded to their first significant digit, because I’m a fan of Rob Eastaway’s “zequals” method of getting to the point when it comes to estimation. It’s much more valuable to walk away with the heuristic “some dude …
Pullback Drive
Can Someone Please Explain Whether Cloudflare Blackmailed Canonical?
30 April 2026, 16:33:37 UTC. Canonical’s incident monitoring system marks blog.ubuntu.com as Service Down.
Thinking Machines and interaction models
Thinking Machines just released Interaction Models. This is their first real AI model release1 after a year of work and two billion dollars of capital. What is an “interaction model”? First, it’s not a frontier model. Thinking Machines is not yet competing wit…
GitLab Act 2
A letter to our customers and our investors.
Postmortem: TanStack npm supply-chain compromise | TanStack Blog
On 2026-05-11, an attacker chained a pull_request_target Pwn Request, GitHub Actions cache poisoning across the fork↔base trust boundary, and OIDC token extraction from runner memory to publish 84 malicious versions across 42 @tanstack/* packages on npm. Full …