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The reason GCC is not a library (2000)
This is the mail archive of the gcc@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project .
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Macro Splats 2025
A Gaussian splat is essentially a bunch of blurry ellipsoids. Each one has a view-dependent color, using a process similar to training an AI model, you can optimize until it converges to the photos you feed in. The result is a sort of 3D photograph that can be viewed freely from any angle. Captivated by this…
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The Spilhaus Projection: A world map according to fish
When Mr Lewin began explaining how cartographers addressed the challenge of portraying what is essentially a three dimensional object - the world - on a two dimensional plane - a piece of paper - my eyes lit up!
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Nostr and ATProto (2024)
This post could’ve been titled “Nostr vs ATProto”, but that really isn’t what I wanted to do here. While I will be comparing and contrasting them a lot, and that’s kind of even the point of writing this, I didn’t want to really pit the two against each other at all, and especially not with the title. I also want to…
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Why it took 4 years to get a lock files specification
(This is the blog post version of my keynote from EuroPython 2025 in Prague, Czechia.) We now have a lock file format specification. That might not sound like a big deal, but for me it took 4 years of active work to get us that specification. Part education, part therapy,
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AdapTive-LeArning Speculator System (ATLAS): Faster LLM inference
LLM inference that gets faster as you use it. Our runtime-learning accelerator adapts continuously to your workload, delivering 500 TPS on DeepSeek-V3.1, a 4x speedup over baseline performance without manual tuning.
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The App Store was always authoritarian
Apple bent the knee for months, leaving many commentators to ask why. But the reasons are not mysterious: Apple wants things that only the government can provide, things that will defend and extend its power to extract rents, rather than innovate. Namely, selective exemption from tariffs and an end to the spectre of…
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Three ways formally verified code can go wrong in practice
"Correct" doesn't mean "correct" when correctly using "correct"
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Pipelining in psql (PostgreSQL 18)
the psql client version 18 comes with pipelining, which can speed up client-server communication. In this post, let's see how it works and how much can be g...
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China's New Rare Earth and Magnet Restrictions Threaten US Defense Supply Chains
China has imposed its most stringent rare earth and magnet export controls yet, restricting products with even trace Chinese content. This bolsters its leverage ahead of the Trump-Xi meeting and heightens risks to U.S. defense and semiconductor supply chains.
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Meta Superintelligence Labs' first paper is about RAG
Long awaited first paper from Meta Superintelligence Labs is not a model layer innovation. What does this mean?
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CamoLeak: Critical GitHub Copilot Vulnerability Leaks Private Source Code
Get details on our discovery of a critical vulnerability in GitHub Copilot Chat.
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Heroin addicts often seem normal
At least, they did to me ten years ago
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Datastar response to misunderstandings
A recent blog post titled HTMX, Datastar, greedy developer and several Hacker News threads raised concerns about Datastar Pro, pricing, and whether features were “moved behind a paywall”. Here’s what has changed, who Pro is for, and how to achieve some of the same things with the free version.
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A Guide for WireGuard VPN Setup with Pi-Hole Adblock and Unbound DNS
I’ve used Mullvad as my VPN provider for a few years. Their service is good, they provide keys for 5 devices, rely on the Wireguard protocol, and offer alternative configurations as well. Despite that, my needs have changed and I wanted to be able to have granular control over DNS queries and the ability to connect my…
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Rating 26 years of Java changes
I first started programming Java at IBM back in 1999 as a Pre-University Employee. If I remember correctly, we had Java 1.1.8 installed at that time, but were moving to Java 1.2 (“Java 2”), which w…
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Vibing a non-trivial Ghostty feature
I recently shipped a non-trivial Ghostty feature (unobtrusive macOS automatic updates) that was largely developed with AI.
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Firefox is the best mobile browser
Firefox is an open source, private browser, one of the few mainstream browsers that supports extensions on mobile (Android) as powerful as the desktop ones (A lot of extensions have been ported), with seamless sync and a customizable homepage.
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Root cause analysis? You're doing it wrong
If you have arrived here, you should know this is an early draft containing mostly unedited stream-of-consciousness crap because I have found it difficult to structure this topic. My latest attempt is to split this information up into multiple separate articles.
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The <output> Tag
Make your dynamic content accessible by default with the HTML tag that time forgot.
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Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025
I'm Jesse. I make stuff. Software, hardware. Very occasionally, trouble.
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How hard do you have to hit a chicken to cook it? (2020)
Some questions are timeless, innocent yet penetrating in their simplicity. Why is the sky blue? Why do things fall? How hard must one hit a chicken to cook it? It is this last mystery of the universe that we discuss today.
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How to tame a user interface using a spreadsheet
Many years ago, while working at Apple and running a lab at WWDC, I met a guy who was using a piece of Apple software designed for creating interactive ads t...
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Programming in the Sun: A Year with the Daylight Computer
I’ve been hinting on X/Twitter about my use of the Daylight DC-1 as a programming environment, and after about a year of use, it’s time to write about it in longer form. This isn’t a full product review, but rather an experience report on coding in sunlight. It’s also about the Boox Tab Ultra – which has a different…
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Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26
iOS 26’s visual language obscures content instead of letting it take the spotlight. New (but not always better) design patterns replace established conventions.
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Tangled, a Git collaboration platform built on atproto
A Git collaboration platform, built on AT Protocol
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I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery
What's the modern equivalent of flipping through CDs? Physical album cards with NFC tags that bring back the tactile joy of music discovery.
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Does our “need for speed” make our wi-fi suck?
It is common knowledge among Wi-Fi professionals that using 20 MHz or 40 MHz channel widths when planning 5 GHz networks offers the best overall ex