Use Rounded Rectangles
I think it may be best to make all hardware and software buttons and elements slightly rounded squares and rectangles instead of circles or pill shaped stadiums, except for uncommon…
Why do OpenAI's GPT-2 weights beat mine? Part five: data quality
Does improving the training data quality help me close the gap between my models and the original GPT-2 small on my IFT eval?
RIP, vector database
turbopuffer is pushing the frontier of search. To do that, we have to fundamentally redesign our storage architecture so the vector index is no longer primary.
Exponential Failure
AI made software cheap to build. It didn’t make it reliable. And it didn’t make it cheap to own. An old law of reliability engineering explains why good projects fail, why the usual fixes make failure more likely, and what it takes to build software that works…
Current Agentic Development Environment: Orca + Oh My Pi
A detailed walkthrough of my current setup as an indie developer for maximizing my token usage while minimizing my spend. It also covers how I keep development moving when I am away from my PC.
Your folder structure has two jobs, but only does one
Finding files and deciding where to put them are different jobs. Your folder structure needs to account for both.
The Router Economy
For six days in September, ChatGPT recommended my company to people who had never heard of it, and signups jumped 36-fold. What that week says about an economy where the buyer is an AI.
Four days of ricing Fedora without installing Arch
I did not start this because I wanted a screenshot for /r/unixporn. I wanted to stop moving windows around manually. That was basically the entire plan. Four days later I have Hyprland, Waybar, Rofi,
We linted 6,008 real database schemas. 45% of foreign keys have no index.
6,008 real database schemas from public repos, linted: 45.1% of foreign keys have no index, 24.5% of schemas declare no foreign key, and design tools score worst.
Introducing Clef: our open-source decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform
We are introducing Clef and Clef-flash, open-source decision models hosted on Workers AI for high-speed classification and agentic workflows. Also launching: a new reinforcement learning platform that allows developers to fine-tune decision models using their …
Part 1: Coding Agents are Broken
Welcome to my blog!
Eight Bytes Are Already a Number
You needed a function to read a number, or a type. It also built a place to keep the bytes? That was not free.
Safe Optimistic Lock Coupling
A blog by and for database architects.
We are all just LLMs • F055
What if Douglas Adams was right all along? What if we are just a one big computer? If you think about it, we are just beings that try to reason based on
Write it yourself
Gathering my thoughts on the use of LLMs for writing prose, and how I’ve changed my workflow following some feedback and reflection on my own writing.
Pi 1.0 | Earendil
Today we are shipping Pi 1.0, a hardened, minimal, extensible agent harness, alongside Pi Durable, a new experimental substrate for long-running agentic applications.
Google breaks promise to provide 10 years of updates to Chromebooks – OSnews
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IANA's email about why example.com changed | Oliver Dunk
I emailed IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) earlier today to ask about the new content on example.com. To my surprise, their VP replied. Here is the email: I am happy to try and answer any questions you have. The changes we make to the site from time-…
Tcl/Tk 9.1
Latest Release: Tcl/Tk 9.1.0 (Sep 29, 2026)
A quote from Matthew Green
[...] Put these pieces together and you have the two halves of a worm: a payload that hijacks the agent, and an agent that will carry the payload to the …
Windows on AArch64 also provides for hot-patching, but it's much simpler than on x86 - The Old New Thing
Fixed-length instructions makes it a much easier task.