LLMs aren't remotely like compilers or power tools Any metaphor for LLMs that relates them to deterministic systems with discrete interfaces is misleading you.
Engineering management after the cost of code collapsed I have been a director of engineering for a bit over three years now, and I still hear and read what I call the "old rules" repeated over and over: a director should not spend time coding, good work takes time, protect the team from the business, get cons...
An ode to the old ways When I was a kid in middle school (Class VI in the Indian education system), I can vividly remember learning about the “Five Generations of Computer”. The first few generations were about vacuum tubes and transistors, then came the integrated circuit. The...
I Revived My Broken MacBook Into My Own Personal Cloud As a tech enthusiast, I have a habit of accumulating "retired" hardware. Over the years, several iPhones and Macs have ended up in drawers, collecting dust. Rather than let them keep collecting dust, I started thinking about how to get some actual use out...
CANBUS – Networking so simple, even YOU can understand it! Dave explains the CAN BUS all the way down to how the signaling works over the wires, so you can understand the entire process! Check out an episode of ShopTalk on Dave's Attic where we answer the best user questions! https://youtu.be/ZUvDO2g5Y1s Follo...
Anatomy of a Room How we create rooms for The Incident at Galley House, from floorplans to final renders.
My first winter in Boston · xydac Ten years ago I landed in Boston from India in the middle of winter, knowing almost no one. A first blizzard, empty grocery shelves, learning a city that moves around the Patriots and the Celtics and the Red Sox, a landlady who scammed me out of my deposi...
How to piss off your Nix friends Warning If you are pissed off reading this blog post, I guess, mission accomplished ? Try not to take life too seriously. Unfortunately, there’s a lot worse things in life than my opinions on Nix.
I’m done with Mullvad - moonwriting Dear reader, For a long time, Mullvad VPN stood as the embodiment of a perfect privacy-focused company. From innovative features and data minimization to...
Taking OCaml and Eio for a spin My first blog post on this website was about Haskell. I've always been interested in functional programming but the complexity of Haskell never seemed worth.
What Bad Bases Are Good For Base two numerals can be awkward to compute with, and Roman numerals are even more awkward. But awkward is not the same as bad. Today I’ll tell you about a truly awful numeral system—possibly the v…
Expensive Is Just a Brand Now You've probably heard this one before. It might have come from a parent, a teacher, or a friend who bought an expensive item and wanted to justify it. It goes something like this:
How I rid myself of short form media My process of failing and succeeding in ridding myself of social media
Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (potential) Unravelling Kimi K3 and Qwen 3.8 prove open models can reach the frontier. Why the economics of frontier labs favor infrastructure owners — and why Anthropic's model-only position risks unravelling.
The value chain cascade Why the most important phase of a technology begins the moment it stops improving.
Who You Gonna Call Generative AI makes software quality mistakes that experts for decades have known to avoid.
I'm Building a Secure USB Drive That Hides Itself This article was written by a human, for humans. Many places don’t respect privacy laws, in certain situations you may be forced to unencrypt …
Jelly UI — Soft Web Components Jelly UI is a dependency-free Web Components library for tactile product interfaces: soft-body physics, real form controls, dark mode, RTL and WCAG AA accessibility.
Through the Thick of It: Punching Summer Grass Mats for Bass By July, the grass tops out, mats over, and most anglers give up on it. Underneath that canopy is the best bass habitat on the lake — shade, cooler water, oxygen, and food. Here's the science of why they're under there, and how a heavy tungsten Texas rig ...
Don't Wait, Learn - The Best Resource is Mythical Stop searching for the perfect resource! Focus on consistent learning, critical thinking, and adapting to new information for continuous growth.
Kimi Work: Next-Gen Desktop AI Agent for Knowledge Workers Download the desktop AI to automate workflows, organize files, & operate across the web. Empower financial research, analysis, & office tasks with 300 agents.
American AI is locked down and proprietary. It's losing. China's open-weights AI strategy is winning: its companies are taking the lead. America's closed-first, locked-down strategy is doomed to failure - and it could take the US economy down with it.
Stop Using OpenCode If you don’t know what OpenCode is, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever. The boot is made of TypeScript and the face is everything we have learned about security and systems software since the invention of the electronic computer in the 1940s....
Hacker wipes Romania's entire land registry database In other news: Graykey maker sues former employee for leaking exploit; Hugging Face was hacked using AI; unauth RCE finally found in WordPress.
Exploit brokers pay $500,000 for a WordPress RCE. I found one with GPT5.6 Sol Ultra and $25 › Searchlight Cyber Stay current: Get research alerts for newly disclosed vulnerabilities and exposures If you're running WordPress and want to check if your instance is vulnerable, you can use our tool we've hosted here: https://wp2shell.com/. We held off on publishing this...
Robotics @ XIAOMI Breaking the data barrier. Scaling robot policy models with embodiment-free pre-training.
GitHub - hgaiser/moonshine: Headless streaming server for Moonlight clients, written in Rust. Headless streaming server for Moonlight clients, written in Rust. - hgaiser/moonshine
