Estimating the heights of New Yorkers from their scuff marks | Jesse Li A commuter waiting for the train leans with one foot against the wall, and their shoe leaves a mark.
Raised by wolves — Cathal Harte Having worked in the startup world for the best part of a decade, I've met a lot of people that believe they were born to be entrepreneurs, but in reality most are simply bred for it, told a thousand times before they're 10 that they're destined to be gre...
Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI? Reflections on autonomy and the value of thinking for ourselves
Same Stock, Three Prices DTC settles its first tokenized Russell 1000 trades this month. The SEC's crypto-wrapper exemption is delayed indefinitely. Equity perps on Hyperliquid didn't wait for either. By October the same share prints three prices — and the basis between them meas...
“Right! Today I Want to Be Able To…” (Fifty Years After Xerox PARC, the Malleable Computer Finally Exists) TL;DR: Open system + AI colleague + AI-aware editor = the malleable computer Xerox PARC promised fifty years ago. Smalltalk bet the missing piece was a friendlier language; it was a colleague. Most…
Test PostgreSQL migrations before COMMIT PostgreSQL's transactional DDL lets you run assertions against the migrated schema inside the deployment transaction — so a failing check means the deployment never happened.
Your Agent Is Reading a Different Design System | Rachel Cantor An agent reads your design system through the Storybook components manifest, and the manifest is a lossy copy. Oversight is an addon that lints it and tells you what never made it in.
Beyond bioinformatics rewrites | Clay McLeod AI should help us build bioinformatics software with more care, not just rewrite existing tools to be faster.
Running My Home Lab Using DNS-SD This post has NOT been generated using AI. Like most of those who I believe would be reading this blog, I run my own home lab. My setup has, over the years, evolved from an old laptop running just my media centre, only accessible on my home network. Today...
Treating Vibecoding Like Engineering | Thoughts by Javier My Journey in creating guardrails to build more 'serious' software without writing the code myself.
Ibid The story, reverse engineering notes, technical details, and browser port of Ibid, a 1994 DOS worm game.
S&P downgrades Oracle to BBB- – only one notch above junk level S&P Global has downgraded Oracle's rating due to massive AI investments. The company is now only one notch away from the speculative territory.
Why design matters for a web framework: a 7-year evolution | Wasp Wasp is a full-stack web framework. After five years of treating design as second-tier, we rebranded it as a technical spec: blueprints, monospace, three colors. Here's why design ended up mattering more for us than for our users.
They Prefer the App I like building websites. But in some circles, I might as well say that I like to drive to the forest before sunrise, chop down a tree, load it in my trunk, and gather some dry wood as well, then driv
Measuring input latency on Linux: X11 vs Wayland, VRR, and DXVK - Marco Nett I built a device to measure end-to-end input latency, then used it to find out what actually moves the needle.
The git history command deserves more attention Working with lots of changes in parallel on git can be painful. You end up juggling branches and commits, and running scary rebase -i commands that can leave your tree in a half-broken state if you so much as sneeze. jj, an alternative to git, gets discus...
What does "playing politics" mean for software engineers? Software engineers are often told to “start playing politics”, but most engineers have no idea what that means.
Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries and it could be a major breakthrough In a real win for Earth Day, it has been reported that scientists in Japan have developed a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries
The Controversial Flock Cameras Tracking Every Car — Full Breakdown Retired Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer explains Flock cameras, how they work, what they record, and every detail you need to understand this important civil liberties issue.
Samsung will delete your health data if you don't let them use it to train AI Samsung has started showing Samsung Health users a controversial notice requiring them to consent to their data being used for AI training if they want to keep their data from being deleted.
