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Lawmakers in both houses of Congress are demanding answers from the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) after KrebsOnSecurity reported this week that a CISA contractor intentionally published AWS GovCloud keys and a vast trove of other agency secrets on a public GitHub account. The inquiry comes…
The internal logic of the world’s strangest corporations
Why coding agents perform better in cohesive ecosystems like Go than fragmented ones like JavaScript or Python
I don't remember where the idea came from, but I decided that it would be cool if I could write websites using a stack-based language. Something like this: : h1 ( s -- ) "<h1>" emit . "</h1>" em…
errno(2) values for the AI age
I'm Writing Again For those of you who are still here — and given how long it's been, "still here" is a real act of patience — thank you. I haven't written a column since 2022. Just like everyone else, I've been busy all this time on Artificial Intelligence, founding with two partners a company
In response to a question on Twitter 1 , Richard Hipp wrote about why SQLite uses a bytecode VM for executing SQL statements.
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In this post I discuss the support for union types released in .NET 11, how they're implemented, the choices made, and how to create your own
Scientists have uncovered how tobacco plants naturally make nicotine, solving a mystery that has puzzled researchers for nearly two centuries.
Organisations using AI to cut headcount are making a short-term trade with long-term consequences. The ones holding their teams together and investing in how those teams operate with AI are building something more durable.
`import defer`, six new subcommands (`deno transpile`, `deno pack`, `deno bump-version`, `deno ci`, `deno why`, `deno audit fix`), network debugging in Chrome DevTools, framework-aware `deno compile`, and 3.66x faster cold npm installs.
Chess is a lot trickier than it looks. It has so many rules: castling, en passant, pawn promotion, pinning, the discovered check, and the de...
A practical OpenSCAD LLM benchmark comparing Codex 5.5 High, Claude Sonnet, Claude Opus, Cursor Composer, Google Antigravity, and ModelRift on a detailed Pantheon model.
I have a huge appreciation for the Scheme programming language. I just seem to be unable to get it to stick in my head. This seems like a huge revelation for someone who named their blog after the Scheme textbook, but there it is. This post is the public admission I need to make, to...
Jack Little and Cleve Moler, cofounders of MathWorks, recognized the need among engineers and scientists for more powerful and productive computation environments beyond those provided by languages such as Fortran and C. In response to that need, they combined their expertise in mathematics, engineering, and computer…
Gnutella Explanation
I used to think Google owning the full vertical stack was a masterstroke. Like TSMC silicon, TPUs, their own data centers, proprietary models, search engine....
Every end-to-end encrypted messenger ships a fingerprint UI. Almost nobody opens it. A note on what's actually missing.
The global memory crunch and the great repricing of consumer electronics
uv's CLI feels surprisingly clunky compared to its peers like pnpm or Poetry.
A 2026 sequel to C Constructs That Don't Work in C++: what still breaks, what C++20 changed, and what C23 changed.
How I'm using Kagi Search with low vision to manage visual fatigue, plus my favorite Kagi accessibility features for low vision + CVI and Kagi low vision theme
After a decade on Ubuntu 16.04, I migrated my blog to FreeBSD on Hetzner. Some notes on setting up a VPS with FreeBSD, Jails, Bastille, Caddy reverse proxies, and load testing and benchmarking the blog from four continents.
The `unsafe` keyword is being redesigned to mark caller-facing contracts rather than just syntax. Safety obligations between callers and callees become visible and reviewable. The model is motivated by the rise of AI-assisted code generation and arrives as a preview in .NET 11.
Hand drawn data visualizations by artist Doug MacDowell.
Drawing on five years of Pew Research Center surveys, here are 13 findings about how Americans use and view AI, and where they see promise and risk.
How I built a queryable video archive locally on a 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max using Gemma 4 31B in LM Studio. The build journey, the absurdity of 50GB of swap, and four bugs that taught real lessons.
