F-bombs don’t make LLMs smarter
Imagine someone asks you to solve a math puzzle right after you stepped on a LEGO brick. Are you going to do better or worse than the baseline? Relatedly, can we make LLMs step on LEGO bricks?
How simple event design creates clarity across product, data, and engineering
I seem to have an unusual way of running Claude Code, but I find it a good trade-off between convenience and security.
The mailboxes are from Denmark. That’s the joke.
The old internet was a niche community. Only a few nerds were there. Then every September, a batch of university freshmen would join, causing a lot of annoyance. But it was okay, because they...
The historic go-to solution for network booting is PXE. PXE is based on DHCP and TFTP. It is tricky to correctly configure, even trickier to make it highly available and good luck with the security with this clear-text unsigned protocol.
Software Engineer writing about infrastructure, Kubernetes, and Go
Twenty Years of Stacking Commits — jd:/dev/blog
Every code review tool I've used in twenty years has tried to answer the same question. AI just made the answer unavoidable.
My Struggles Talking to An Old Piece Of Junk (Fanuc 0M) | Nia Schlegel
This February I became the proud owner of an old Hermle UWF 851 vertical machining center. An industrial CNC mill with tool changer and everything. I already had a FoxAlien Masuter Pro (which seems laughable in comparison) and a lot of 3D-printing experience s…
A new code world
Building a small filesystem in Rust with metadata in JSON and file contents in plain local files, using FUSE to explore inodes, caching, and what it means for a write to become durable.
Back when I started working on the web-based version of Basketball GM in 2012, web development was very different. npm was brand new and hardly anyone used it. Bundling/deploying JS was very primitive, a lot of people still were just concatenating files togeth…
Converting four RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell cards to waterblocks, finding a VRM choke loose on the workbench, and getting back to 41k tok/s.
This is part of a series I’m writing on generative AI.
I check Hacker News and Lobsters all the time. It's sort of like an addiction, or maybe just a bad habit. It started about three years ago when I would post blog links on the two platforms. Which Lobsters banned me for. Apparently self promotion is wrong. Well…
The FCC is proposing to require KYC for anyone who uses a phone. We can act now to stop further erosion of our privacy.
Apple FINALLY lets you turn on your Mac remotely, without having to press the power button. In the media, articles suggest it's a reaction to Mac mini power button complaints. While I agree the M4 mini's power button is in a really dumb spot, that's not why I …
I can never fully embrace LLMs for code
My younger sister graduated with a CompSci degree a few years ago. I've been behind her, motivating her and demystifying the world of programming from the very beginning. There was a piece of advice I
An AI agent tried to join the DN42 hobbyist network to perform a network scan, and bankrupted their operator with a $6531.30 AWS bill.
Why I’m Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass | René Mayrhofer
I am forced to leave Google with 2026-08-31 because of the deal with the US Department of War, which is incompatible with my ethical principles.
After two days of experience with Claude Fable 5 I think the best way to describe it is relentlessly proactive. It knows a whole lot of tricks and it will …
If You are Asking for Human Attention, Demonstrate Human Effort | Tom Bedor's Blog
An ever-increasing volume of debug investigations, document writing, and code is written by robots. This has created a new etiquette question when working with a team - when is it OK to forward the output of an AI to another human to read?
Strangers chip in to fund one ambitious instruction — an AI agent carries it out milestone by milestone, with every credit on a public ledger. Funding targets are set by the AI planner (projects total at least $100); backers chip in any amount from $0.25.