what the watch can't measure My watch doesn’t know if I’m tired. It measures pace, heart rate, distance. Slowly, without noticing, I started trusting those numbers more than my own bo...
The Ever-receding Pocket - Gibberish and Stuff I'm having an existential crisis. The latest Claude model just disproved the Jacobian conjecture. There's a Neil deGrasse Tyson quote about God being an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance...
The Hardest Way to Make a GIF Everyone loves a good GIF, and my favourite (of all time) is this one (circa 2015):
Do I need to charge my toothbrush via my monitor? I bought a new shaver and discovered that Philips apparently expects me to charge my bathroom devices via USB-A now. A stream of thought about a pattern I can't quite explain.
Micro-SaaS Is Dead. Service with a Software Replaces It. — Adrien Gonin Private tools that never get sold, built to make one service impossible to compete with.
Does a PhD Pay Off? Every week, I discuss with people who want to get a PhD. For years, I have been advising people not to pursue a PhD. It may come as a surprise to some. You would expect people with a PhD to earn more money. Individuals who complete doctorates tend to have...
Our tech has made things worse... Before you get your hopes up, this isn’t an essay criticizing the water consumption of data-centers, rising memory prices or capitalism itself. I leave those debates to others. This, dear reader, is an examination of what we, the ’technology collective’, ...
David Nicholas Williams In a lot of meetings and need a system to keep track of key points and actions week to week?
Running npm in a Separate Container when using Claude | no dogma blog I use Claude in a container, but from time to time I need to use more tools when developing some application. Rather than installing them on my computer or in the Claude container, I spin up a new container with the same mounts and install the tools I nee...
Introducing Claude Opus 5 Opus 5 is a step change improvement for the Opus tier powering long-running agents while delivering improvements in coding and professional work.
Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat over security concerns: Jack Dorsey Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth app Bitchat over security risks amid internet restrictions during protests, says Jack Dorsey.
My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page i dissected some firmware for a Hanwha Wisenet XNP-9300RW and found that it had github admin tokens in it, also miltech is weird
It's getting harder to focus every day I’m feeling it right now. I had to set a timer for 15 minute on my computer and block all distractions to write this. If I didn’t force myself to focus I would easily get distracted by something after few minutes. Even when I’m doing things that I’ve been...
LLMs reward expertise In the 2010s, if you had technical gaps (say, you couldn’t write CSS), you had to either rely on a skilled colleague or just hope that the answer to your exact problem was out there on the internet. Today, everyone can write sort-of-okay CSS by delegating...
Adding a backup Internet WAN on my OPNsense Router AKA "Spectrum has gone down two weeks in a row and I'm sick of it". I've been borrowing a portable 5G gateway from my Dad for a few weeks, for testing... and two weeks in a row, I've used it as a backup Internet option, since my Spectrum Business cable In...
Have you read it? When using LLM to write, take the time to understand what you wrote so you can defend it. Otherwise, why bother wasting our time when you cant bother reading.
FLUX 3 - Real World Models: Towards Multimodal Flow Models as the Backbone of Visual Intelligence. FLUX 3, our new multimodal frontier model, jointly learns from images, video, and audio to build one representation of the world. Now available in Early Access.
What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all If you work in or around the film industry, there is a decent chance you have used the work of The Numbers this month, whether you realise it or not.