Introducing Grok 4.5
Grok 4.5 is SpaceXAI's smartest model built for coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work.
ADHD & Masking
Don't hide yourself from others.
Airport Meeting
Lucky Code
Recently, while I was working on an optimized Quicksort implementation, I came across a rather interesting quirk. Modern compilers (especially Clang) optimize loops using fast, branch-free instructions - provided you use the right programming style.
The pros and cons of Cons
This article is about the advantages and disadvantages of using cons cells when implementing a Lisp-like programming language.
Proving to Fable I maintain the repo – Philip O'Toole
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database built on SQLite and Raft. After my initial experience with Fable, it got me thinking. I created rqlite, I maintain it. Why won't Fable help me find and fix bugs in the software? Why does it …
A software engineer among lawyers
Fifteen years building software, and now I work among lawyers. Field notes on uniforms, truth and egos, and the difference underneath: in court there is no second chance.
One Year Without Pocket – Byline
One year ago today, Pocket shut down. The read-later category scattered – and the real gap isn't saving articles, it's the context to understand what you read.
Organization is a bigger idea than intelligence -- human, or artificial
The AI race focuses on intelligence. History suggests we should focus on organization.
Raising the Baseline ‣ Gustavo Veloso | My Thoughts
gjmveloso's personal blog. The opinions expressed here are my own and do not necessarily represent those of current or past employers.
EU now one step away from reviving private message scanning rules
The European Parliament has approved an urgent procedure to fast-track legislation that would revive the expired "Chat Control 1.0" rules.
I stopped watching my agents work and started listening
How Tri-State Relay Service grew from queued audio updates into Live mode, and why per-line voices make agent work easier to follow.
Seeing Does Not Mean Understanding — w@lter
A sign does not communicate because it exists: it communicates when its meaning arrives, stays clear, and lets someone act.
Announcing TypeScript 7.0 - TypeScript
Today we are proud to announce the availability of TypeScript 7, a 10x faster native port of TypeScript! Since its early days, TypeScript has promised to
Why I Still Build Small Windows Tools with AutoIt
I know AutoIt is not the most modern programming language. It is not trendy, it is not something people usually mention next to Rust, Go, Python, or C#. But I still use it, and for the kind of small Windows tools I build, it still makes a lot of sense.
Self-Hosting My Own LLMs
Originally published 2026-07-05.
Wall clock is the wrong metric
AI coding tools change how engineering organizations allocate attention more than they compress project timelines.
How I Built the ShareMyPage MCP (and How I Measured Its UX)
I built an MCP server that lets Claude create, edit, and comment on real hosted pages. There is no screen, so every UX decision lives in a tool schema, an error message, or a single line of returned text, and measuring whether any of it actually works needed t…
Monty, rebuilt as a Bazel remote build. No fork.
121.1s cold build, 15.7s fully cached — all 432 executable actions served from the remote cache. Measured, committed as JSON, reproducible with Docker.
Preventing LLM unit test spam
Stop the unit test spam
How I Transferred WhatsApp Chat History from Android to iPhone When Every Tool Failed
When the official WhatsApp Android to iPhone transfer failed, I migrated 325,647 messages myself with open source tools by rebuilding the legacy database schema WhatsApp abandoned years ago.
Funding open-source software without compromising it
Funding open-source software is a challenge, especially for projects without a large existing community. While various approaches exist, they all come with their own drawbacks. For example, asking for donations is by far the most commonly used approach but als…
The Conversation Isn’t Real – Lon Riesberg
14 prompting techniques that work because AI chats aren’t what you think.
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Chatto is now Open Source!
The snappiest chat application you've ever used is now available for self-hosting.
Robostral Navigate: single-camera AI navigation | Mistral AI
Introducing Robostral Navigate: 8B model achieving 76.6% on R2R-CE with just a single RGB camera. No depth sensors, LiDAR, or multiple cameras needed.
Introducing GPT-Live
A new generation of voice models for natural human-AI interaction, now powering ChatGPT Voice.
Obfuscated, self-evaluating bash script by CDN Akamai being supplied to consumers via retail stores
IP, technology & commercial law
GitLost: How We Tricked GitHub’s AI Agent into Leaking Private Repos - Noma Security
TL;DR: Noma Labs discovered a critical prompt injection vulnerability within GitHub’s new Agentic Workflows, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to silently pull data from private repositories by posting a crafted GitHub Issue in a public repository belonging…
The Special Value Pi 4 was extremely short-lived
The 'Special Value' Pi 4 pictured above is probably the rarest Raspberry Pi I own—even rarer than my blue special edition Pi. A Raspberry Pi reseller briefly listed a special 'value edition' Pi 4. But the product page 404's now. While it was up, my curiosity g…
And Then the Billionaire Paid Off $550 Million of Our Debts
Imagine being worth $2 billion. Would you give away $550 million? That's a quarter of your wealth, more money than I could spend in several lifetimes. Yet that's how much Evan Spiegel, the CEO of Snap
Davit — a native macOS UI for Apple containers
Free, open-source, fully native. Run Linux containers on Apple silicon with Apple's container platform — no Docker Desktop required.
Slopfix — we refactor vibecoded codebases
Your AI-built product works, but past 100,000 lines every change breaks two things. Three senior engineers make your codebase maintainable again. One week, fixed price, guaranteed.
Why does WhatsApp drain so much phone battery?
Even closed and without permissions to run in the background and send notifications, WhatsApp remained one of the most energy-consuming applications on my phone.
You shouldn't trust Trusted Publishing
Jul 7, 2026 Tags: oss, python, security
The footgun of right-to-left decorative characters - Vox Silva
Fleurons, and other printer's ornaments are decorative elements used in typography. Many of these have made it into fonts in the digital age, with Unicode supporting classic fleurons like ❦ and ❧, but also additional symbols-turned-visual indicators ranging fr…
What a Data Engineer Misses About Transformers (Until You Build One) | Saran Teja Mallela
I move data through pipelines for a living. Then I built the transformer stack from scratch, from autograd to attention. Five places my instincts pointed the wrong way, and three bugs that never crashed.
Implementing Browser and Server Side Tracking on Shopify Using GTM and Meta CAPI | Adnan's Random bytes
Learn how I implemented browser and server-side tracking on a Shopify store using GTM, GA4, and Meta CAPI, including debugging, deduplication, and event optimization
Own Your Weights
The API is a landlord. Weights on your own disk are a deed. Sovereignty now includes your intelligence supply.
Voice Is My New Keyboard | sanju
Wispr Flow made voice the primary way I work. Three weeks, 35,574 words, and my whole thought process feels more natural.
Fable is very good
Astonishment.
MCP Auth, Explained: Every Method, Direct and Through a Proxy
A field guide to authentication and authorization in the Model Context Protocol: OAuth 2.1 with PKCE, dynamic client registration, client ID metadata documents, machine-to-machine flows, and what changes when an MCP gateway sits in the middle — token passthrou…
Don't Try to Be Original | Brian Kitano
You can't be derivative if you don't create at all
Managing Development Secrets on a Mac: Keychain, 1Password CLI, and direnv
GitHub caught 39M leaked secrets in 2024. Here's how I store API keys on my Mac: Keychain, 1Password CLI references, and direnv -- no plaintext .env files.
I was wrong about Duff’s device – Unsung
A blog about software craft and quality
The dream of v2 - @duggan
Joel Spolsky once called it "the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make", and not for nothing: "When you throw away code and start from scratch, you are throwing away all that knowledge. All those collected bug fixes. Years of progr…
Owning Inference - Qwen3.6 on DGX Spark for real coding
How I got Qwen3.6-27B running locally on a DGX Spark with tools, reasoning, and MTP - and used it to ship real code.
Sure, Your Claude Is Doing Amazing Things. Prove It.
Bragging about your Claude is easy. Proving the behavior you deploy into agents keeps working is harder. Runme v3.17 brings local task evals into the repo, so AI workflows can be rerun, compared, and promoted with evidence.
Selling to the assistant – Dominic Monn
Buying used to be a human process of searching, comparing, filtering, and deciding. As more customers arrive through AI assistants, the sale increasingly happens before they ever reach your website.
An Agent in 100 Lines of Lisp, or How my Prof was Right - Just 25 Years Early
Around 2000 I took an AI course at the University of Guelph. I don’t think I learned too much. We didn’t talk about neural networks, as far as I can remember. My end of term project was, I think, a pathfinding algorithm wearing an AI costume. There were certai…
Rising Floor, Runaway Ceiling
A short story about two coworkers, one tool, and the difference between using a machine and building with one.
Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro
Just a few years ago, realistic local speech generation seemed unimaginable. Today, its quality is exceptional and, crucially, it delivers these results without compromising privacy.
TableStakes
How statisticians split a bill
Make invalid states unrepresentable (for your agents)
This blog post was written by me, a human (as evidenced by how long it takes to explain a simple idea). If you want to skip straight to the main idea, scroll to The Point.
UUIDs, ULIDs and Sqids: A Practical Deep Dive
A practical deep dive into UUIDs, ULIDs, and Sqids, from generation models and sorting behavior to database storage, public IDs, and security trade-offs.
Your subagents are zombie processes
Orphaned subagents keep running and billing after their parent moves on. The fix isn't a smarter model — it's a lifecycle contract Unix shipped in 1985.
Building a Datacenter in My Dorm Room
I’ve had a small homelab, mainly of older desktops and workstations for a while now, but I have always dreamed of creating a high availability setup for my lab. I’ve also always wanted to try out Ceph and recently got very interested in high speed networking i…
Demystifying the Red Zone: Optimizing Leaf Functions
Recently I’ve been learning Assembly language. Specifically focused on x86-64, using the GNU Assembler (GAS), in Intel syntax. I guess it’s my way of rebelling against AI: the higher-level they try to take me, the deeper down the stack I dive. If I get pushed …
Incomplete Open Dodecahedra
I have a secret. Don’t tell anyone, but after majoring in Computer Science and Data Science at Berkeley’s College of Letters and Sciences I somehow ended up with a Bachelor of \({\color{#dd2222}\mathcal{A}}{\color{#dd8800}\mathfrak{r}}{\color{#00aa00}\mathfrak…
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writing about my projects, experiments and ideas