yet another way to invoke functions without parentheses
i found yet another way to invoke arbitrary functions in javascript without using parentheses
Building Design Buddy
I started Design Buddy out of curiosity. I wanted to see what AI could do, and I assumed other designers would be interested. That's not who ended up using it.
How to stop your brain from rotting | scotto.me
Tricks to prevent mental habilities decay
It took me nine years to hack my Xbox 360
I purchased a Matrix CoolRunner Rev D back in 2017. This little chip is called a glitcher and it’s a type of modchip. Its sole purpose, the reason it was designed, is to deliver a short pulse of energy (~ 100 nanoseconds) to an Xbox 360 Console.
Is coding like making music?
On drumming, coding, and the difference between loving the craft and building something with it. Does AI change who has the advantage?
your c is not standard c
this is an incomplete list of some incompatibilities between c as it's written in the standard and c as it exists in the real world for people who use gcc/clang + glibc/musl.
Making my font smarter - Vox Silva
My blog used to use Crimson Pro as the main body font, something that threads the needle of being serif-y enough for the Possession-esque posts, but not too out of place for the technical macOS Messages debugging ones. You should consider customizing anything …
Who closes the loop?
Every few months, we rename what software engineers do with AI. In two years we’ve gone from context engineering to harness engineering to…
Nixpkgs for the frontend impaired
tl;dr jinx is a tool that compiles Nix to TypeScript. All of nixpkgs, each 231,777 attribute, produces the exact drvPath Nix does. Open the playground or evaluate hello in your browser tab with no Nix installed anywhere. 😈 Despite my admiration and joy for Ni…
behind the scenes of paper writing
Pages of "Base Models Can Reason By Taking a Cue From Training Data".
Outside the distribution
The marginal cost of making software is dropping to effectively zero, and that changes what craft is for. Plenty of what gets built with AI still breaks, but...
You Are Not the Only One
If you've felt it, you probably haven't said it out loud. The sense that most of your days are a sequence of exchanges: labor for a paycheck, a paycheck for rent, attention for a feed, a five-star rating for a ride. Each one works. Each one is fair, more or le…
ClangIR and the cost of MLIR
ClangIR (CIR) is an MLIR dialect between the AST and LLVM IR, and in October 2026 the clang area team accepted building it by default. CIR is built on MLIR because each step along the way was locally
How to Make SQL Easier to Understand for Developers
Understand SQL concepts through familiar JavaScript examples.
Don’t run the race – Grow
“How do I use Claude or Copilot effectively?” is probably the most common question I hear from colleagues right now. Close behind it: which agent-skills work best, which model to pick, …
The Periodic Table of Software Architecture
Ninety-two architectural patterns, principles, and practices arranged as a periodic table you can explore.
Mercury 2.5: a cheap diffusion LLM with a hard ceiling – Henry Towbin
What Mercury 2.5, a fast and cheap diffusion language model, did inside a coding agent I built around it: where it held up, where it failed, and what it cost.
I just wanted a cheap film camera, so I stitched 28 web scrapers together
My agent kept reading empty pages, every web tool broke somewhere, so I glued them all together. Then I tried to beat Firecrawl.
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I Was A Meat Proxy For A Day
The timeline for a task I needed to do changed from three days to this afternoon. The only reason for this was so that some sales people could show off the f...
A plea not to use uv-build
After seeing yet another dozen packages lose keywords on Gentoo because of a single key dependency switching to uv-build, I would like to plea on behalf of Gentoo users: please don’t use uv-b…
Did Ente Locker copy my code without attribution?
October 12, 2026
Contact Recycling :: Box2D
Contact recycling is a technique I developed for Box2D and Box3D. Contact recycling can drastically improve rigid body simulation performance, making the process of computing contact points almost free. Further, recycling can significantly improve stability. C…
I want to build a time machine for running programs | Trigora
Once a running program is a durable continuation, recovery is only the start. Fork its future, evaluate from real checkpoints, and treat execution like a versioned object.
Release: llm-meta-ai 0.2
LLM plugin for the Meta AI API
Research: Profiling web-edit with Python 3.15: flame graphs and source heatmaps
Profiling the unmodified web-edit app with Python 3.15’s built-in `profiling.sampling` revealed that mixed line-ending preservation dominated a busy editing workload: `preserve_endings` appeared in 64.8% of 15,296 recorded CPU stacks, with …
Redesigning source control at Anthropic
As our merges per day grew more than tenfold, source control became our biggest development bottleneck. Here, we share how we migrated to an in-house version control system in five months.
We have no moat, and neither does open source
A few months ago I decided to build an idea I’d been considering for a while — the ability to scan an entire project for license information (e.g. LICENSE.md files) and report back any possible conflicts with a company’s organizational policy (e.g. a GPL-3.0 d…
Why I Started Moving Inference In-House
Why I started moving the AI behind USA Arms onto our own hardware, a video of building three quad-R9700 servers, and the full build guide to hand to your AI.
How I Found a $90,000 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Google | Simon Koeck
A Flask cookie on developers.google.com was signed with a secret it carried inside itself. Pulling that secret out turned a forged session into code execution across Google's developer sites.
Who is vfmaddrnd231pd??
vfmaddrnd231pd is a unique instruction from the FMA instruction set. Most instructions in that set have mnemonics like vfmadd231pd, but here rnd means something very specific. The Intel Software Development Manual documents it as: VFMADDRND231PD – Fused Multi…
Gemini
Our next era of frontier intelligence
Firefox Enterprise
The browser is where work, data, identity, and AI converge. That makes it a critical layer for governance and compliance — and one many enterprise technology stacks still don’t fully cover.
A quote from Geoffrey Huntley
If the agent isn't using my diagnostics library, I could introspect and update AGENTS.md, but there's still a delta, and it'll drift. Instead, I write a pre-commit hook that checks …
C++ futures part 2: The mental model for std::promise, std::packaged_task - The Old New Thing
Building things out of the state.
Vi Hart's Big Navier-Stokes Post | Vi Hart
The first 5 parts get increasingly intense and then part 6 is for fun, as a treat. But feel free to skip around. 1: "Lean? That sounds famil
The Last Answer
Read the non-interactive version.
Living in the Weimar era of Ruby
Much has been said about the DHH keynote that he gave at RailsWorld. To me, it was the voice of a person in an existential crisis, but also a very jaded one. “Look how I don’t care anymore, and you should not care either” is not a great message when you are th…
C++ futures part 1: The mental model - The Old New Thing
Managing a value that is produced later.
Linus Torvalds Working On A Hefty Linux Kernel Improvement With Claude Code
Linux creator Linus Torvalds has been known to use AI to help with kernel debugging and outside of the kernel tree has also done some vibe coding with Google's Antigravity
(Post-Quantum) Cryptographic Right Answers
In the tradition started by Colin Percival and Thomas Ptacek, a set of “Cryptographic Right Answers” updated for the accelerated post-quantum transition timeline.
Release: web-edit 0.1a0
Web app for editing files in a folder
AI Is a Tool. Using It Well Takes Skill.
A response to Rich Hickey's "'AI' is Not a Tool": automation and tool use can coexist, and wielding an LLM well requires skill, feedback, and judgment.