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Block the “Upgrade to Tahoe” alerts
Although I have to have a machine running macOS Tahoe to support our customers, I personally don't like the look of Liquid Glass, nor do I like some of the functional changes Apple has made in macOS Tahoe.
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Techno‑feudal elite are attempting to build a twenty‑first‑century fascist state
Introduction: Fascism at the End of Industrial Civilization This essay argues that the United States is drifting toward a distinctly twenty‑first‑century form of fascism driven not by mass parties …
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The whole thing was a scam
The fix was in, and Dario never had a chance.
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DOS Memory Management
The memory management in DOS is simple, but that simplicity may be deceptive. There are several rather interesting pitfalls that programming documentation often does not mention.
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Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension
A systems analysis of how AI-assisted development creates a gap between output speed and understanding, and why organizations cannot see it happening.
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What AI coding costs you
What's the effect of the prolonged AI usage among coders and is it tracked correctly, if it all?
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Why Objective-C
In my previous post I talk about how I got rid of hundreds of thousands of lines of Objective-C code while at Audible and I explain why keeping Objective-C code around is a terrible idea. And I explain that…
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Don't trust AI agents
AI agents need a security model that assumes things will go wrong. The right response isn't better permission checks, it's architecture that makes trust unnecessary.
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The Future of AI
The Parents’ Paradox: AI, Ethics, and the Limits of Machine Morality This post is based on a talk I gave at The AI & Automation Conference in London on February 25, 2026, and my slides. A…
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MCP server that reduces Claude Code context consumption by 98%
Mert Köseoğlu • Senior SWE (IC) with 12+ YoE building…2026570 points107 commentsAI & Machine Learning details
MCP server that reduces Claude Code context consumption by 98%. 315 KB becomes 5.4 KB.
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Rust is just a tool
A programming language should not be your identity.
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Cash issuing terminals
In the United States, we are losing our fondness for cash. As in many other countries, cards and other types of electronic payments now dominate everyday commerce. To some, this is a loss. Cash represented a certain freedom from intermediation, a comforting simplicity that you just don't get from Visa. It's funny to…
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Disable Your SSH access accidentally with scp
Here's an interesting bug I ran into recently: After transferring some files to my server via scp, I couldn't log in via SSH anymore - my key was rejected by sshd.
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Don't use passkeys for encrypting user data
Passkeys are the future of authentication, but using them for data encryption is a disaster waiting to happen. Overloading these credentials creates a dangerous blast radius that can lead to the irreversible loss of a user's most sacred memories and documents.
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Bootc and OSTree: Modernizing Linux System Deployment
Discover how Bootc and OSTree are revolutionizing Linux system deployment, offering modern, efficient, and immutable management.
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Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
Anthropic's response to the Secretary of War and advice for customers
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Leaving Google has actively improved my life
In May of 2023, Google introduced “AI overviews” into their search engine.^1] This followed years of decisions leading to worse search quality and the consum...
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Let's discuss sandbox isolation
A dive into the spectrum of sandboxing and isolation, from Linux namespaces and gVisor to hardware-enforced microVMs and WebAssembly, and why picking the right boundary matters for multi-tenant workloads.
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Writing a Guide to SDF Fonts
(TL;DR: this is a blog post about the process of writing my guide to SDF fonts .)
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Robust and efficient quantum-safe HTTPS
Today we're announcing a new program in Chrome to make HTTPS certificates secure against quantum computers. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) recently created a…
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747s and coding agents
Comparing a career flying the 747 and a career coding with AI assistance.
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Allocating on the Stack
A description of some of the recent changes to do allocations on the stack instead of the heap.
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Tove Jansson's criticized illustrations of The Hobbit (2023)
Tove Jansson illustrated books of other appreciated authors during her career. One of them was J. R. R. Tolkien's classic The Hobbit.
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We gave terabytes of CI logs to an LLM
We gave our AI agent a SQL interface to billions of CI log lines in ClickHouse. How we ingest, store, and query 1.5 billion log lines a week.
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Mondrian Entered the Public Domain. The Estate Disagrees
The Mondrian Trust claims a 1930 painting is still protected—citing "dual copyrights," Spanish law, and a misreading of the Copyright Act.
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An ode to houseplant programming (2025)
Waxing poetic about hyperlocal phytoid software development
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Court finds Fourth Amendment doesn’t support broad search of protesters’ devices
In a big win for protesters’ rights, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit overturned a lower court’s dismissal of a challenge to sweeping warrants to search a protester’s devices and digital data and a nonprofit’s social media data.The case, Armendariz v. City of Colorado Springs, arose...
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The Pentagon is making a mistake by threatening Anthropic
Anthropic faces a Friday deadline to allow domestic surveillance and automated killer robots.
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Scaling AI for everyone
Today we’re announcing $110B in new investment at a $730B pre money valuation. This includes $30B from SoftBank, $30B from NVIDIA, and $50B from Amazon.
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A better streams API is possible for JavaScript
The Web streams API has become ubiquitous in JavaScript runtimes but was designed for a different era. Here's what a modern streaming API could (should?) look like.