I Vibe-Coded SwiperTab While Watching TV
Building SwiperTab (a browser extension) without manually writing a single line of code
Automating ADHD | 0xFF
Important
Search engine results are truly terrible (Maurycy's blog)
A few months ago, I had the displeasure of trying to use the modern web without an ad-blocker.
Linux was accidentally designed for agents
Beautiful, human-centered design isn’t appreciated by an agent.
I had Codex iterate on its own AGENTS.md 8 times and measured each version against real PRs. The best one still regressed on a clean holdout.
Codex optimized its own AGENTS.md against real Stet repo tasks. The best candidate improved the training slice, then regressed enough on a clean holdout that it was not safe to ship.
The Untold Story About W Social: Unconventional Beginnings, Strategic Pitches and Conflicting Signals
A deep dive into the origin story of W Social, an analysis of the strategic arguments they have been using to appeal to government officials, media companies and advertisers... and the discussion of conflicting signals they have been sending
Avoid Hasty Caching
Approach caching with caution.
Where are those goalposts? I’m sure I put them here somewhere
It’s been a few months since I personally ran out of places to move the AI goalposts to. And the news keeps coming. An internal model from OpenAI just refuted a long-standing mathematical conjecture. For the first time, AI has produced an indisputably novel an…
One million beings
It’s been a while.
How to Weigh a Cell
A single yeast cell weighs about one million times less than a grain of sand. How do we know this?
Why I Write | Hacky Experiments
I used to write for myself, but am doing it increasingly more for the machines.
Your Skills Folder Is a Junk Drawer
Most skills shouldn't exist. The energy the community is pouring into building and collecting them is mostly wasted.
My Deaf Experience in Japan
Living with deafness in Japan for nearly 20 years — navigating work, communication, accessibility, and daily life as a deaf resident.
Time Machine Conversation
Improving AI labels for viewers and creators
We've heard consistently from our community that they value transparency when it comes to generative AI content. Two new updates will make this process much simpler and more intuitive for creators and viewers on YouTube.
Using My Fucking Brain
AI is great when it extends your brain. It gets dangerous when it quietly replaces the part that was supposed to think.
Show Me Less Output
The last time I saw someone showing off AI-generated reports, trying to present it as something insightful and helpful, I was really annoye...
Getting Claude to extract data from a 1997 football manager game
There's a football manager game I got for my birthday when I was nine years old: FIFA Soccer Manager 97. I spent countless hours playing it as a child, trying to win the league, the cup or just avoid getting the sack! Two years later I got a newer manager game…
The Best Engineers Write Less Code
We are living in an age of mass denial. Some very smart people are telling us that we no longer need to write good software because LLMs can generate code now. But terrible software is still terrible software, whether it was written by Claude Code or by a huma…
An Engineering Leader’s Playbook for Delivering High Ambiguity and Rapidly Changing Product
A couple of weeks ago I gave an internal talk at IBM to the next batch of soon to be distinguished engineers. Distinguished engineer designation at IBM a highly coveted recognition. This blog is a brief summary of that hour long talk.
Running llama.cpp on a Mac Pro 6,1 with Dual FirePro D700s on Ubuntu
A D700-specific guide to running llama.cpp with Vulkan on the 2013 Mac Pro: dual 6 GB FirePro cards, Ubuntu, RADV, full GPU offload, cooling, and the traps that make old GCN hardware look slower than it is.
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Whistle
I just realized people don’t whistle anymore. I might even say they’ve forgotten about it. Even worse, if they hear someone whistling, they’ll probably b...
I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
Anthropic are strongly rumored to be about to have their first profitable quarter. Stories are circulating of companies surprised at how expensive their LLM bills are becoming from usage by …
DuckDuckGo's AI-free search saw nearly 28% more visits last week, but Google is still king
"People just want a choice."
Last.fm is now independent - Announcements - Last.fm Support Community
Today, Last.fm begins a new chapter as an independent company. Ownership has changed, but the product you use every day has not. Your account, your listening history, and your data remain exactly where they are. The team building Last.fm is the same. The se…
How Private Equity Bought America’s Essential Services
When a fire truck fails to deploy in a burning building and four people die, the cause isn’t just mechanical failure. It’s a business model.
Cloudflare Flagship
Ship features safely with Flagship, Cloudflare's feature flag service for controlling feature visibility without redeploying code.
I’m tired of talking to AI
I found GitHub repositories that were spreading malware. I asked AI what to do about it, but it gave me nothing useful. So I opened a discussion on GitHub. Someone replied. It was the exact same text the AI had given me. I called it out and the comment was
The pressure
I'm doing Open Source primarily because I love it. The social aspects, the for-the-good angle and for the challenge of engineering this to work for everyone. I also do it because it is my full-time job and getting food on the table and provide for my family is…
That Methyl Methacrylate Tank
I patched iozone for better disk benchmarks on modern macOS
A decade ago, I settled on iozone for disk benchmarking on all my systems. Tools like fio ('Flexible IO' tester) are a little more capable for raw disk performance testing, and other tools test network-scale filesystems better, but iozone gives me an easy over…
How Many Tokens Did You Burn Today
Early in my career, a manager at one of the big firms where I worked made a request so absurd it remains etched in my memory. I walked back to the team, repeated what he had asked, and couldn't finish
The Real Cost of Owning a Home — Eric Turner
Owning a home costs a lot more than just the mortgage. Here are the hidden costs to consider when deciding whether to buy or rent.