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After joining Mintlify (which acquired my previous company), I finally fixed a search bug that had bothered me for over a year as a user - the debounced search queries weren't being aborted, causing race conditions and poaor search quality. By adding an AbortController to ensure only the most recent search query…
E ven before I started pressing buttons for a living I was always a pretty heavy computer user. When I was about 18 I started experiencing symptoms of RSI. At around the same time I learnt of the Dvorak keyboard layout, and so I switched, hoping it would solve my problems. It did, at least at the time, and so for the…
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I think it touches on two of the most fundamental aspects of human nature. We all like doing something constructive, where we can see that we are creating something from virtually nothing, and we all have a desire to nurture or look after things. This is what the game is all about. You spend hours painstakingly…
Voting patterns among many demographic groups in 2024 were similar to those in 2020 and 2016, but Trump made gains among several key groups, a Pew Research Center analysis shows.
Live coding measure stress, not coding skills
Warning: towards the end of this post are references to suicide, which may be distressing to some readers. Discretion is advised.
A technical investigation into information uncovered in a class action lawsuit that Facebook had intercepted encrypted traffic from user's devices running the Onavo Protect app in order to gain competitive insights.
Deep Think utilizes extended, parallel thinking and novel reinforcement learning techniques for significantly improved problem-solving.
Our project started in 2016 with the goal of offering alternatives to apps with basic functionality that demanded – back then at install time – many permissions they did not need. From our humble beginnings with Privacy Friendly Torchlight, our apps have always been available in the Google Play Store. Our current…
Antitrust critics say that homebuilding monopolies are the real culprit of America’s housing woes. I looked into some of their claims. They don’t hold up.
What problems can human beings only solve over a very long period of time? And how can we build institutions that solve those problems?
A reshaped learning curve
Explore how organizations leverage Gemini Embedding for context-aware AI systems improving performance, accuracy, and efficiency across diverse industries.
It is wild to think that it has been only a handful of weeks. Claude Code has considerably changed my relationship to writing and maintaining code at scale. I still write code at the same level of quality, but I feel like I have a new freedom of expression which is hard to fully articulate. Claude Code has decoupled…
Ubiquiti just released UniFi OS Server in Early Access, allowing you to self-host the complete UniFi network stack on your own hardware. Initially, it will support UniFi Network and Innerspace. Besides UniFi Network and InnerSpace,
Update (01.08.2025): fixed broken link, typo, clarified problematic behaviour For a number of years now I have a MacBook Pro Silicon M1 Max. It worked beautifully. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, I started noticing that the battery drained over night when I left the notebook somewhere, not connected to power. This got…
Krea announces the open release of FLUX.1 Krea, including model weights, training details, and resources to run and fine-tune the model.
It has been a really long time since I last wrote something here as life happens, things get busier, etc etc. I am now trying to get back into writing things down and here we go! So, imagine a tool or a service that allows you to run some arbitrary code via a shell. Either through a ssh or more commonly, via a web…
Serious learning requires friction, frustration... and other humans
Advice for first-time managers from someone who learned it the hard way, cleaned it up, and passed it on.
We’re launching Stargate Norway—OpenAI’s first AI data center initiative in Europe under our OpenAI for Countries program. Stargate is OpenAI’s overarching infrastructure platform and is a critical part of our long-term vision to deliver the benefits of AI to everyone.
I shouldn't have to care about this. I don't want to care about how someone's code gets into the IDE. Whether you wrote it by hand, copied it from a forum, prom
You know what: Microsoft became miserably incompetent in IT. I develop open-source code. But that never made me one of the “I hate proprietary software or IT giant corporations” types. …
Tomorrow, July 31, 2025, Figma plans to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “FIG.”
Ollama's new app is now available for macOS and Windows.
Code that nobody understands is tech debt
