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My Mathematical Regression
i become stupid
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The room the economy can't see
(This post is written mostly by Claude, you can tell that it isn’t in the same voice as my other work, but it has notes of it. All the personal anecdotes are still from my life, and it’s interesting that this is one of my most popular posts of all time. Go figure. Also Interesting: […]
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So You Want to Define a Well-Known URI
When to reach for a well-known URI — and the traps that catch most protocol designers.
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Datasette Apps: Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette
Today we launched a new plugin for Datasette, datasette-apps, with this launch announcement post on the Datasette project blog. That post has the what, but I’m going to expand on …
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The AirPods Effect
How earbuds influence our beliefs and push us apart.
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I told them forced consent was unlawful. 5 years later it cost Elkjop €1.8M
Datatilsynet just fined Elkjop NOK 20 million (€1.8m) for the forced consent in its loyalty club — five years after I told their DPO it was unlawful.
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The AI Hate Progression
I think I've spoken at length in other places about how I am a very staunch AI hater and covered everything I hate about how the tech is pre...
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The Token Compression Illusion: Why I'm Skeptical of RTK
RTK promises dramatic token savings for coding agents, but raw terminal compression is not the same as cheaper, safer, or more accurate software engineering.
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Migrating from GNU Stow to Chezmoi
Why I swapped GNU stow's symlink farm for chezmoi: one command to bootstrap a Mac with Homebrew packages and macOS settings, a small daily sync loop, and agent skills shared between Claude Code and Codex.
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TerraPower in deal with Meta for eight Natrium 345 MW nuclear plants
TerraPower in Mega Deal with Meta for Eight 345 MW Natrium Advanced Nuclear Plants DOE Awards $2.7 Billion for Uranium Enrichment Oklo, Meta Plan 1.2 GW Nuclear Energy Development in Southern Ohio …
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What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000
I liked the UIs of the entire era from 3.0 to 2000, really. I'm mostly using Windows 2000 as an example here because it runs so well in QEMU/KVM and that allows me to easily take screenshots.
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Usbliter8: an A12/A13 SecureROM Exploit
This page is taking an unexpected detour...
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W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty
European public institutions are betting big on digital sovereignty and open source software. And yet they recently moved their Bluesky accounts to W Social, a private, for profit network owned by Swedish entrepreneurs that has quietly gone closed-source.
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I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware
This is the story of how I found 10,000 repositories on GitHub that distribute Trojan malware. They are all from different contributors, have different names, and are not forks of other repositories. But they share a common pattern, which is what allowed me to write a script to find
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Excessive nil pointer checks in Go
Let’s talk about nil pointer checks in Go. You want to prevent panics in production, but that doesn’t start with a deferred recover. It starts with defensive programming. Check your inputs, check your bounds, and check pointers for nil before dereferencing them. I’ve started to see more nil checks in Go code. In the…
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.gitignore Isn't the only way to ignore files in Git
You can ignore files in .gitignore, .git/info/exclude, and ~/.config/git/ignore
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Can you see three trees?
There's a simple three-part test for whether your city has enough nature. Most fall short.
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A Perceptron in Age of Empires II
An operational NAND gate in Age of Empires II , built with the game's scenario editor. This one can also be built within the game in a two-player setup but it's a lot easier (so to speak) to just script it.
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I hate compilers
You'd think that given the same bytes of input you'd get the same bytes of output. lol. lmao. No, you don't. It's complicated.
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Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool
We've all heard people say that Qwen is near-Opus level, but I have receipts and am here to be transparent with you.
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Zigzag Decoding with AVX-512
I’ve been working on speeding up AVX-512 vertex decoding in meshoptimizer recently; in the process I stumbled upon two optimizations that I did not end up using but I thought they might be fun to write about! The optimizations that actually made it in require some higher level background / explanations that will have…
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The Competitive Moat That AI Can't Replicate
In a world racing to automate every interaction, the organisations that invest in genuine human connection are quietly building something no algorithm can copy.
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AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less
If you lived through the shift from handcrafted server pets to immutable infrastructure, you should sense something oddly familiar about what's happening now.
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How Japan's railways stayed one while splitting apart
When Japan broke up its national railway in 1987, the new companies agreed on one thing to keep the same.
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Want your images back? That'll be $5
We're in the era of trillion-dollar companies, but that doesn't mean you should leave $5 on the table!
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Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone
Why does a five-minute hallway conversation sometimes solve what a week of solo thinking couldn't?