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Why I Chose Elixir Phoenix over Rails, Laravel, and Next.js
Why I chose Phoenix LiveView over Rails, Laravel, and Next.js
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,109 posts.
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Lace: A New Kind of Cellular Automata Where Links Matter
This article is about a new kind of simple computational rule ("LACE rules" running on LACE, the Link Automata Computing Engine platform) which, when applied locally on a grid of cells, demonstrates fascinating emergent "artificial life" behavior.
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Where's the AI design Renaissance?
AI design is currently overhyped · Will AI take design jobs? · What should designers focus on in light of rapidly changing AI tools?
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When you get to be smart writing a macro
A story of writing Clojure’s println alternative that works inside threading-first/last macros
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Writing an LLM from scratch, part 22 – training our LLM
Finally, we train an LLM! The final part of Chapter 5 of Build an LLM (from Scratch) runs the model on real text, then loads OpenAI’s GPT-2 weights for comparison.
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ImapGoose
ImapGoose is a small program to keep local mailboxes in sync with an IMAP server. The wording “keep […] in sync” implies that it does so continuously, rather than a one-time sync. ImapGoose is designed as a daemon, monitoring both the IMAP server and the local filesystem, and immediately synchronising changes. When…
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Acrobat is intrusive, slow and non-customizable
Acrobat is intrusive, slow and non-customizable. Of course there are alternatives, specifically bad ones...
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Cheap DIY solar fence design
A year ago I installed a 4 kilowatt solar fence . I'm revisiting it this Sun Day , to share the design, now that I have prooved it out.
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Getting syntax highlighting wrong
Applying human ergonomics and design principles to syntax highlighting
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Things I've learned in my 7 years implementing AI
Even though the impacts of LLMs have never been seen before, they feel familiar to earlier assumptions.
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Recursive Language Models (RLMs)
We explore language models that recursively call themselves or other LLMs before providing a final answer. The aim is essentially unbounded context, and a way through context rot.
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Recreating the Canon Cat document interface
Exploring the emergence of user conventions in a minimal system.
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You are the scariest monster in the woods
We shouldn’t worry about AI destroying society because there’s something scarier out there (it’s us)
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Pwning the Nix ecosystem
ptrpaws's blog on reverse engineering, programming, vr finds and miscellaneous stuff.
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I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'
I was 30 seconds away from running malware, Here's how a sophisticated scam operation almost got me, and why every developer needs to read this.
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Reverse engineering iWork
So you don't have to.
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The scariest "user support" email I've received
Hi, it's Takuya. As your app grows in popularity, you occasionally start to attract attacks aimed directly at you—the developer or site owner. Just the other day, I got one that was honestly terrifying, so I'd like to share it. The Email Subject: Cookie consent prevents platform
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How to stop Linux threads cleanly
Stopping a Linux thread is a surprisingly annoying affair. In this post I present common pitfalls and some solutions -- although no truly satisfactory method exists.
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Just talk to it – A way of agentic engineering
A practical guide to working with AI coding agents without the hype.
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I am a programmer, not a rubber-stamp that approves Copilot generated code
Today morning, I came across this reddit post titled Completely losing interest in the career due to AI and AI-pilled people. They describe how in a span of ...
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Nvidia DGX Spark: great hardware, early days for the ecosystem
NVIDIA sent me a preview unit of their new DGX Spark desktop “AI supercomputer”. I’ve never had hardware to review before! You can consider this my first ever sponsored post …
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Bare Metal (The Emacs Essay)
The following submission to Jeremy Friesen’s ‘elevator pitch’-themed Emacs blog carnival is taken from my rather long manuscript in progress (‘the present work’), tent…
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Half of America's Voting Machines Are Now Owned by a MAGA Oligarch
They told us elections were rigged. Then they cloned stolen voting software. Then they bought the voting machines.
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AppLovin nonconsensual installs
Mobile adtech juggernaut AppLovin recently faced multiple allegations of misconduct . Allegations run the gamut—privacy, ad targeting, even national security and ties to China. I was among the researchers consulted by skeptical investors this spring, and I was quoted in one of their reports, explaining my concerns…
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Why the open social web matters now
The needs are real – and you have so much power.
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Your data model is your destiny
Your product's core abstractions determine whether new features compound into a moat or just add to a feature list. Here's how to get it right.
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Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI
Can't you just turn it off?
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How bad can a $2.97 ADC be?
A tale of suspiciously cheap ADS1115s
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Ruby Blocks
How to start really getting Ruby, especially blocks.