Let's make /photo pages
<figure> Old cameras <figcaption>Cameras spotted during a house inspection</figcaption> </figure> I’ve mentioned before that I would love to see so...
Comment: Mistral Large 4
Mistral Large 4
Schools must be like gyms
How to stop AI from ruining our kids
Comment: EmbeddingGemma 2
EmbeddingGemma 2
Vaughan Hilts - LLMs may have immensely helped my RSI
Just a place to store my random thoughts and contributions to the world.
Release: llm-mistral 0.16
LLM plugin providing access to Mistral models using the Mistral API
When random is not actually random enough
A short lesson in API design
I had Codex and Pi build the same app in Orca, then compared them side by side · Haifeng (Kevin) Zhao
Two coding-agent teams, one chess coach, matched conditions. Every review passed both; side by side, the gaps were large.
Jev plays chess
I had Jev play 470 games of chess and solve 1,000 puzzles. It plays at about 600 to 800 Elo.
TIL: Using Parseable with Datasette for OpenTelemetry traces
[Parseable](https://www.parseable.com) is a brand new observability tool, compatible with [OpenTelemetry](https://opentelemetry.io), for storing and querying observability data.
Hosting without hyperscalers
How I host my blog has evolved throughout the years. In this post I explain how and why I moved my blog from American hyperscalers to European infrastructure.
Vibecoding Photoshop: Time and Pressure
I’m sure you’ve seen the argument before: “If anyone can now vibecode their own software, why haven’t we seen any viable replacements for industry standard tools like Photoshop?” And for...
Writing blog posts while walking the dog
I’m excited about how AI is changing how I work, it has made me more productive and able to get more things done. I’m also frustrated by how much low-effort content is being generated and sprayed across the internet. Content that isn’t created to benefit the r…
Release: datasette-atom 0.11a0
Datasette plugin that adds a .atom output format
Solving problems is still the fun part of software development
I love the current state of software development. I care about solving people’s problems, and coding agents make more of the things I want to build feel worth attempting. There is a particular pleasure in getting rid of an awkward workaround that somebody has …
I'm Just Gonna Leave This Here - Brent Ozar Unlimited®
Sometimes my value as a blogger is to make complex topics simple, or to deliver industry news to you, or to entertain you. Sometimes, it’s just to keep you posted on things that are happening in the industry. So with that in mind, at Microsoft FabCon Barcelona…
Why vector databases are a scam. - Blog by Simon Frey
Read this article BEFORE you pitch Pinecone, Qdrant, Weaviate, LanceDB,... to your boss. For this article, I assume you know what a vector database/index is.
Worth building – Colin Armstrong
What changes when a tool doesn't have to pay for itself. Years ago, if an app annoyed me, I shrugged and dealt with it.
Software developers are not okay
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
Meta’s Muse Is An Adorable Privacy And Security Dumpster Fire
Meta’s agentic AI product Muse has had a rocky few weeks since launch. The product, which features an animated avatar named Jolly (one presumes to make mass hyper surveillance seem adorable) …
Tool: Scrimshaw Jukebox
Scrimshaw Jukebox
Nobel Prize in Physics 2026
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2026 was awarded to Francis Halzen “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.”
JetBrains - Company Data
JetBrains (Media & Entertainment, Czechia): total revenue CZK 16,008 mil, net profit CZK -315 mil in 2025, ROE -11.1%. 721 indicators from filings, financials, KPIs and Excel download.
GitHub - rcalixte/ncdu: NCurses Disk Usage (an updated fork)
NCurses Disk Usage (an updated fork). Contribute to rcalixte/ncdu development by creating an account on GitHub.
Introducing Mistral Large 4 | Mistral
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
Mistral Large 4 - Mistral AI
Mistral Large 4 is a state-of-the-art, open-weight, general-purpose multimodal model with a granular Mixture-of-Experts architecture. It features 49B active parameters and 1.05T total parameters, and a 1.6B vision encoder.
Two Room-Temperature Antiferromagnetic Semiconductor Candidates | Vals AI
We are sharing two candidate magnets for next-generation computer memory, found by a team of Claude Opus 5.5 agents. Both are predicted to have zero net magnetism yet still sort electrons by spin: one a new compound we designed, the other a material first made…
If somebody tries to hot-patch an already-hot-patched function, how do they avoid conflicts? - The Old New Thing
Hot-patching is for Windows, not for you.
A quote from Felix Rieseberg
The "old" version of Cowork runs model inference in the cloud, executing tool calls in an Anthropic-provided VM we shipped to your computer. We added the VM for capability, safety, …
Introducing Beam: Reflection’s 501B open-weight model — Reflection
Make intelligence open and accessible to all
OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects
Recently, multiple organisations have disclosed how clusters of so-called “rogue” AI agents attempted to break into websites and online services, sometimes successfully. Agents from OpenAI’s enviro…