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The April Fools joke that might have got me fired
Everyone should pull one great practical joke in their lifetimes. This one was mine, and I think it's past the statute of limitations. The s...
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Don’t let an LLM make decisions or execute business logic
Don’t let an LLM make decisions or implement business logic: they suck at that.
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The case against conversational interfaces
Conversational interfaces are a bit of a meme. Every couple of years a shiny new AI development emerges and people in tech go "This is it! The next computing paradigm is here! We'll only use natural language going forward!". But then nothing actually changes and we continue using computers the way w
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Everything is Ghibli
When we got “create anything” and all made the same thing
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Notes on the Pentium's microcode circuitry
Most people think of machine instructions as the fundamental steps that a computer performs. However, many processors have another layer of ...
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Automating Interactive Fiction Logic Generation with LLMs in Emacs
From the creator of Ten Dollar Adventure, a blog about the experience of writing the book, being a parent, navigating the entrepreneurial high seas, and learning.
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Oracle attempt to hide cybersecurity incident from customers?
Being a provider of cloud SaaS (Software-as-a-service) solutions requires certain cybersecurity responsibilities — including being…
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AI agents: Less capability, more reliability, please
Sergey Filimonov's blog
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Why I run FreeBSD for my home servers (2024)
Why FreeBSD instead of Linux for home servers? Exploring ZFS, jails, stability, and the reasons behind choosing FreeBSD for a home infrastructure.
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The Egg (2009)
It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless. You left behind a wife and two children. It was a painless death. The EMTs tried their best to save you, but to no avail. Your body was so utterly shattered you were better off, trust me.
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The demoscene as a UNESCO heritage in Sweden
The demoscene has become a national UNESCO-heritage in Sweden, thanks to an application that Ziphoid and me did last year. This has already happened in several European countries, as part of the international Art of Coding initiative to make the demoscene a global UNESCO heritage. I think this makes
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How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” -U.S. Constitution, First Amendment.
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Raising Kids to Have an Analog Childhood in a Digital World
Kids were not meant to be brought up in the digital world that exists today as it is incompatible with human neurological development.
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Why is this site built with C
Most of what I have written features in the category of notes-to-self. Mostly on how to do A or B.
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Converting a Go-Kart into a Deathtrap
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Rust Any part 3: we have upcasts
Some good news is coming in Rust 1.86
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Minimal CSS-only blurry image placeholders
Here’s a CSS technique that produces blurry image placeholders (LQIPs) without cluttering up your markup — Only a single custom property needed!
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The average college student today
How things have changed
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Self-contained Python scripts with uv
You can add uv into the shebang line for a Python script to make it a self-contained executable.
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Convert Linux to Windows
Thesis: We should create a distro of Linux that runs Windows binaries by default via Wine.
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Everyone knows all the apps on your phone
Until a few years ago, any app you installed on an Android device could see all other apps on your phone without your permission.
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The Candid Naivety of Geeks
The candid naivety of geeks par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
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Train and Weather Tracker with Raspberry Pi and E-Ink
A dashboard with the weather forecast and top headlines is an easy, but useful little project.
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Accessible open textbooks in math-heavy disciplines
The challenge The authoring platform of choice in many math-heavy disciplines is LaTeX. It produces typeset documents of excellent quality and handles formulas and mathematical diagrams extremely w…
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Et Tu, Grammarly?
The one where I deploy counter defences.
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How IMAP works under the hood
Learning how the IMAP protocol actually works