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What do I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code?
Lead programmer talks Lua’s flexibility, challenges, and integration with Defold game engine after 60k lines of code in Craftomation 101.
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I analyzed chord progressions in 680k songs
And the results surprised me
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Gemini 2.5 Flash
Gemini 2.5 Flash, is now in preview, offering improved reasoning while prioritizing speed and cost efficiency for developers.
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SQLite transactions and virtual tables
In my previous post I introduced SQL virtual tables and how to use them in Go—registering modules per connection, defining schemas, and querying external sources as regular tables.
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AGI Is Still 30 Years Away – Ege Erdil and Tamay Besiroglu
The economy will literally double every year afterwards
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A cute proof that makes e natural
Po-Shen Loh explains why Euler's number e is natural using only precalculus: one exponential curve has tangent slope 1 at the y-axis, which leads to the compound interest limit.
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Milwaukee M18 Battery Reverse Engineering
2023-01-01: This project has been ongoing for a while... now its time to post some of this info and see what comes of it. I have access to several junk Milwaukee M18 batteries. Age varies a little. I thought it would be 'fun' to reverse engineer a battery just to see how it functions... That is until I actually opened
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HDR‑Infused Emoji
Supercharging Slack’s Reaction Icons
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Everyone knows your location, Part 2: try it yourself and share the results
Learn how to record and analyse your mobile device traffic, take an app from the list of "shady" apps and share the results.
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TikTok is harming children at an industrial scale
Recently revealed text in legal briefs tells a damning story about the company, in its employees’ own words
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Encryption Is Not a Crime
Encryption is not a crime, encryption protects us all. Encryption, and especially end-to-end encryption, is an essential tool to protect everyone online. Attempts to undermine encryption are an attack to our fundamental right to privacy and an attack to our inherent right to security and safety.
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An intro to DeepSeek's distributed file system
Personal website for some random tidbits I work on
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Cutting down Rust compile times from 30 to 2 minutes with one thousand crates
How we split Feldera into a thousand crates to use every core rustc can get, cutting compile times from 30 minutes to 2.
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The Halting Problem is a terrible example of NP-Harder
It's a justifiable copout, but it's still a copout.
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Passing planes and other whoosh sounds
A blog about signals, programming, music, and other stuff.
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Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative
When I stopped using Spotify I tried a few different solutions until I found the perfect replacement for me. If you want the tl;dr: I now use Jellyfin. But if you want to know how I got here, follow me through each step of the way.
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Seth Rogen Speaks Truth to Billionaires, Gets Censored for It
For the past 11 years, the Breakthrough Prize awards have “celebrated outstanding scientific achievements, honoring scientists driving remarkable discoveries in
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How a Forgotten Battle Created a More Peaceful World
The legacy of Solferino is in more danger than ever
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Kaggle and the Wikimedia Foundation are partnering on open data
Kaggle is hosting Wikimedia Enterprise's beta release of structured data in both French and English. Kaggle is home to a vast trove of open and accessible data, with mor…
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OpenAI o3 and o4-mini
Our smartest and most capable models to date with full tool access
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Why drinking coffee in Iran has become so complicated
It all started with a sarcastic jab in a chat: “You shouldn’t be more Catholic than the Pope. You go to order a coffee, and the guy’s like, ‘From Kenyan farms or Brazil?’ It’s l...
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Kermit: A typeface for kids
Using design to empower children by making reading easier, improving comprehension, and helping dyslexics.
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JetBrains IDEs Go AI: Coding Agent, Smarter Assistance, Free Tier
All JetBrains AI tools – including our improved AI Assistant and new coding agent Junie – are now available within our IDEs under a single subscription and come with a free tier.
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Snapchat is harming children at an industrial scale?
In their own words, we see that Snap Inc’s design choices expose millions of kids to harm
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Marching Events: What does iCalendar have to do with ray marching?
... and why signed distance functions are cool!
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An Introduction to Stochastic Calculus (2022)
Through a couple of different avenues I wandered, yet again, down a rabbit hole leading to the topic of this post. The first avenue was through my main focus on a particular machine learning topic th
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Four Years of Jai (2024)
I’ve been programming for long enough to be righteously cantankerous about a lot of things. The list of languages, frameworks and libraries I’ve worked with professionally or on personal projects is too long to list – but it includes everything from C and assembly languages through C++, Pascal and Delphi, through Java…