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Like many Unix users, I long ago created a ~/bin/ directory in my home directory and added it to my PATH so that I could supplement the wonderfully rich set of basic Unix commands with some conveniences and shell scripts of my own devising.
Heads-up: An update to this article has been posted. There have been a lot of complaints about both the competency and the logic behind the latest Epstein archive release by the DoJ: from censoring…
Learn about new F# 10 language features, performance upgrades, and tooling improvements shipping with .NET 10.
The economy is crashing because Wall Street spent trillions shorting Japan's currency and now they're being squeezed.
In November, my friend and fellow Recurser, Frank , picked up an arcade machine for the Recurse Center . We call it the RCade. He wanted to leave the original CRT in - which I think is a great choice! - and drove it off of a Raspberry Pi. Eventually we wanted to move to a more powerful computer, but we needed a way to…
SaaS is the most profitable business model on Earth.1 It’s easy to understand why: build once, sell the same thing again ad infinitum, and don’t suffer any marginal costs on more sales. I have been writing software for more than half my life. In the last year itself, I’ve talked to hundreds of founders and operators…
Why Postgres postmaster contention becomes a bottleneck at scale, how connection bursts and worker churn trigger it, and which fixes helped in production.
Back in 2005, when I first joined the SUNY Buffalo CSE department, the department secretary was a wonderful lady named Joann, who was over 6...
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The recent release of a tranche of files by the US Department of Justice (DoJ) under the “Epstein Files Transparency Act (H.R.4405)” has once again prompted many people to closely examine redacted and sanitized PDF documents. Our previous articles on the Manafort papers and the Mueller report , as well as a study by…
Claude will remain ad-free. We explain why advertising incentives are incompatible with a helpful AI assistant.
AI has changed the experience of being an engineer, starving my Thinker side while satisfying the Builder ...
focus • maintain a detailed plan for victory • run a fast OODA loop • overcommunicate • break off subprojects • have fun • bonus content: my project management starter kit
Kaspersky GReAT experts discovered previously undocumented infection chains used in the Notepad++ supply chain attacks. The article provides new IoCs related to those incidents which employ DLL sideloading and Cobalt Strike Beacon delivery.
The electric tractor is finished! I have been working on this on and off for about 6 months. It is a toy for children (and me) to drive around the garden.
SpaceX acquired xAI on Monday, forming a $1.25 trillion behemoth with the goal of sending data centers into space. They’re not alone either: Google and a host of startups like Lonestar, Axiom, and...
Xcode 26.3 introduces support for agentic coding, a new way in Xcode for developers to build apps, powered by coding agents from Anthropic and OpenAI.
I made 20 GDPR data deletion requests in the past year. 2 complied immediately. 6 complied after I filed complaints with data protection offices. 12 still haven't. The regulation exists, the enforcement doesn't.
Like many developers, I find myself more and more using AI agents to help with software development. I currently use Claude Code, the co...
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Like most people, I’ve had my identity stolen once or twice in my life. It’s annoying, but thankfully I’ve avoided some of the more catastrophic outcomes when criminals begin impe…
We usually learn that 1 kilobyte is 1024 bytes, 1 MB is 1024 kilobytes, etc. But is this true or a kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes?
Qwen offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.
How generative AI exposes the gap between copyright law and everyday enforcement, from fan art and private creation to commercial competition.
over the past week the discourse around openclaw (fka clawdbot) has absolutely exploded. it has felt to me like all threads of conversation have veered towards the extreme and indefensible. some are running openclaw with unlimited permissions on their main computers. others are running it in the cloud and blowing…
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In this Weekly Chart, we look for sci-fi books and their changing titles.
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