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I recently submitted my PhD thesis , and while waiting for the physical copies to get printed I thought I’d write about something you (hopefully) wouldn’t notice when reading it. I wrote it in Typst, not LaTeX. In this post I will talk a bit about what went well and what didn’t.
Preamble# The internet is the bane of my existence. Ads, distractions, sponsored content, bad news, bad ideas, more ads, social media, antisocial media, even more ads. Also, I’m a software developer, so the internet is basically indispensable for me, a central pillar of my income and a convenient way to communicate…
What happened?
I wrote a small script that runs in the background, polling for the state of an $8 smart plug .
How difficult could it really be?
Exploring the math behind hash collisions.
I've been working with TPUs a lot recently and it's fun to see how they had such different design philosophies compared to GPUs.
"...requiring reconductoring of 1.71 miles at a cost of $795,150...limiting output to 3MW..."
Despite the hype, Model Context Protocol (MCP) isn’t magic or revolutionary. But, it’s simple, well-timed, and well-executed. At Stainless, we’re betting it’s here to stay.
The Senate reconciliation package is a disturbing giveaway that will mandate the “disposal” of public lands across the western United States.
Read how we scaled our observability platform from 19PB to 100PB and 500 trillion rows by replacing OpenTelemetry with a native ClickHouse-to-ClickHouse pipeline, embracing wide events and cutting CPU usage by 90%.
The European CTO’s Dilemma: Keeping Compliance outside AWS
New research on simulated blackmail, industrial espionage, and other misaligned behaviors in LLMs.
The Hidden Power of Aesthetics in Design
Moving from WhatsApp to Signal is an important action, right now. WhatsApp’s parent company, Meta, has been involved in several cases of election interference: America in 2016, Trinidad and Tobago …
In recent months, we have received numerous reports from users across West Asia and North Africa (WANA) expressing alarm over a little-known but deeply intrusive bloatware application—AppCloud—pre-installed on Samsung’s A and M series smartphones. Without users’ knowledge or consent, this bloatware collects sensitive…
This is the introduction to a series on Abstract Algebra. In particular, our focus will be on Galois Fields (also known as Finite Fields) and their applications in Computer Science. This is a project I've been excited about for many years now, but have been too busy to dedicate the adequate effort to meet my…
This year marks the 40th anniversary of one of the most exciting and interesting aspects of electronic engineering: the FPGA. The first commercially viable FPGA introduced in 1985 was the Xilinx XC2064, which provided developers with 64 configurable logic blocks, each with a three-input look-up tables. From tiny…
Chris Lattner mentioned that Python can actually call Mojo code now. I love this idea (!) as I'm definitely in the market for a simple compiled language that can offer Python some really fast functions.
A story with legal drama, a mystery, snow leopards, and, uh, naughty bits.
If I could offer you a single piece of career advice, it’s this: avoid negativity echo chambers.
In mid-May 2025, blocked the largest DDoS attack ever recorded: a staggering 7.3 terabits per second (Tbps).
How I wrote filter rules for YouTube
In the spring of 1996, Brian Reynolds and Jeff Briggs took a long, hard look around them and decided that they’d rather be somewhere else.
Who will take over for us if we don't train the next generation to replace us? A critique of craft, AI, and the legacy of human expertise.
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
28 . That's the minimum number of AND or OR operators you need in order to write any Boolean function of five variables. Alex Healy and I computed that in April 2010. Until then, I believe no one had ever known that little fact. This post describes how we computed it and how we almost got scooped by Knuth's Volume 4A…
Hide your kids, hide your wife: how the Agile Industrial Complex has set us all up to be duped by AI codegen
In the second part of our series, let's dive deeper into some of Solid Queue's more advanced features.
