J-Space Oddity: Do VLMs Dream of Text Tokens? | Blog | Yogesh Kumar
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If You Can't Be Replaced You Can't Be Promoted. Career Growth Through Succession Planning.
Career growth, delegation, and succession planning are all siblings.
Salience-Driven Development
Every big idea feels right in the moment. Six months later, no one asks what happened to it. Why teams that chase salience end up spinning their wheels.
Apple's New Speech API vs Whisper: The First Real Benchmark
SpeechAnalyzer vs SFSpeechRecognizer vs Whisper on 5,559 LibriSpeech utterances. Apple never published accuracy numbers. Here they are, with raw transcripts you can rescore.
The leakiest of abstractions — var0.xyz
Every abstraction leaks. GraphQL is the only one I know that leaks in both directions: out to the frontend and back into the backend.
I stopped destructuring everything - Matt Smith
I used destructuring every object in JavaScript. Here's why keeping objects intact often makes code easier to read, debug, and maintain.
CLAUDE.md is RAM, not disk
A simple memory model for structuring docs in a Claude Code project, plus a Laravel starter repo you can copy.
Eliyahu Gluschove-Koppel
I was in the middle of writing yet another job application (#internship-grind) when one of friends messaged me telling I should just use an LLM to write it for me. My immediate response, as it is to most LLM related things, was “AAAAAAAA ughhhhhh I have feelin…
I like the Uruky search engine | AksDev
Silly name but works wonders.
Friendship is an Exponential Function
The best friendships are the ones that happen, not because of scheduled time, but in spite of it.
The bread paradox: why convenience always wins, and why SaaS isn’t doomed
No, you're not going to code your own Jira
The GPU Is the New Storage Controller | Murat Karslioglu
For 40 years, the CPU decided what gets read from storage, when, and where it lands in memory. AI inference is breaking that model. The GPU now knows what data it needs next, and routing that request through the CPU is pure overhead. GPU-initiated I/O is the a…
Just Let Me Write Digits | Blog | Guillaume Endignoux
Digital identities and what they mean for the web have become a hot topic of discussion in the last few years.They have also brought many controversies: age verification laws and what they mean for online anonymity, Wikipedia potentially having to verify the i…
I am building a browser for agents · Gaurav Koley
For most of its existence, the browser has made a simple assumption: there is a person sitting in front of it.
Just Let Me Write Digits | Blog | Guillaume Endignoux
Digital identities and what they mean for the web have become a hot topic of discussion in the last few years.They have also brought many controversies: age verification laws and what they mean for online anonymity, Wikipedia potentially having to verify the i…
Setting up Webmentions on my Static Site 💬 | Alex Hyett
I have been getting back into blogging recently. I know I write this newsletter every 2 weeks, but I try and keep to a set number of topics as I know my audience is mostly developers.
SMS Pumping Fraud
Introduction While working on PicPocket, we had a development server online that was connected to our Twilio account with $5 worth of balance, which was used for SMS authentication during user registration. While one of our developers was testing some things o…
Cyberattacks Are Becoming Compute Wars
As compute scales, so does the number of agents that can attack and defend. Agent wars are compute wars, and compute wars are chip and energy wars.
The Future of Software Factories Is Multiplayer
An 18-month journey from Linear for coding agents to a multiplayer software factory.
The Venice paradox: why the entry ticket won't stop the city's depopulation
The overtourism debate tends to focus on visitor numbers. But Venice's real crisis is structural: pricing policies that don't work, runaway property rent, and a resident community that keeps shrinking.
The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News
Every so often the Earth produces a signal that is impossible to ignore. This graph is one of them. It shows sea-surface temperatures in the Niño 3.4 region of the equatorial Pacific, one of the most important parts of the Earth's climate system. Each blue lin…
Tiny Emulators
Visual 6502 Remix
Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke
Programming language drama ensues as tech bros oversell the end of software engineering.
How to read more books | scotto.me
My method for reading more
Your Browser Does Math Differently on Every OS, and Anti-Bot Systems Read the Bits · scrapfly.dev
Math.tanh, every CSS trig function, and the Web Audio compressor all route through the host libm, so the rounding of a cosine betrays the OS a browser actually …
you don't need anubis
don't use anubis just to block llm scrapers