Developers don't understand CORS The recent Zoom vulnerability is just one of many examples which show us that many developers do not understand how CORS works
Your brain was never designed for this much bad news Humans evolved to pay close attention to danger, but today that instinct is being overwhelmed by an endless supply of bad news from around the world. Researchers say the answer isn’t to stop following current events—it’s to build healthier habits around h...
Slow breathing impacts inter-organ dynamics modulating brain function and risk behavior Huang et al. show that prolonged exhalation increases risky decisions by enhancing reward sensitivity and cardiac parasympathetic activity. Individuals with greater parasympathetic upregulation exhibit stronger reward-related responses in the vmPFC and pr...
Linux Finally Eliminates The strncpy API After Six Years Of Work, 360+ Patches Linux 7.2 has finally eliminated the strncpy API from the Linux kernel
Google hits 50% IPv6 | APNIC Blog IPv6 has reached a major milestone, with around half of Google’s users now accessing its services over IPv6.
SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible, Opening Standards Library to the Global Media Technology Community WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — June 17, 2026 — SMPTE®, the home of media professionals, technologists and engineers, has announced that its entire Standards catalog is now freely available to the global media technology community.
Manifest V2 is leaving Chrome Manifest V3 weakens ad blockers in Chrome. The real technical losses, Google's incentives, and how to retain full filtering.
I have not written a line of code in five months | Gerard Rodes Some honest notes after several months building software with LLM agents: what works, what breaks, and why architecture, tests, context, and taste matter more than ever.
Software optimization resources. C++ and assembly. Windows, Linux, BSD, Mac OS X Software optimization manuals for C++ and assembly code. Intel and AMD x86 microprocessors. Windows, Linux, BSD, Mac OS X. 16, 32 and 64 bit systems. Detailed descriptions of microarchitectures.
Building and hosting a website in less than 3 minutes I recently wrote about building a website in minutes, and now it's even faster. As in, literally 4 minutes and 22 seconds. Cloudflare released the ability for agents to deploy with temporary accounts. Using my example from the other post, that means you c...
Cyberdecks, Going Analog, Permacomputing, Medieval Guilds, and the Arts and Crafts Movement People are moving away from corporate controlled tech, and making their own. How the designs of cyberdecks are being driven by women. And how medieval guilds, Luddites, and the Arts and Crafts movement are all connected to our current moment.
Designing a backyard deck for my house Words: 3,500 Reading Time: 15 minutes This post details my process for designing a backyard deck for my house. Since this post is about showing how to produce the drawings for the deck in order to get a building permit, in this post I'll skip the deta...
Scaling a Monolith to 1M LOC: 113 Pragmatic Lessons For context, this is based on a recent freelance contract in a Django/React TS/React Native codebase size: 20-person team. I have 17 years' experience with w...
A Case Study in the Limits of Takeoff Automation An empirical case study on the accuracy ceiling of vision-language models on real Australian construction takeoff. Given everything but the final numbers, a Claude Opus 4.7 / Sonnet 4.6 extractor peaked at 77.5%: because the per-job billing conventions th...
Windows 11's New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs It replaces Groove Music and the classic Windows Media Player.
