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We launched Conductor a lifetime ago, in the distant past of July 2025. Writing most of your code with agents (let alone a team of coding agents) felt crazy back then. You trusted us to come along for the ride, and we cannot thank you enough!
CSS animations and hover that keep working while JavaScript is busy, a JavaScript JIT, a new WebAssembly engine, and a redesigned UI.
Go 1.27 introduces new encoding/json/v2 and encoding/json/jsontext packages.
Sharing progress on a powerful type of cryptographic proof known as a zkSNARK, which is uniquely fit for provable inference.
OpenAI will acquire Pierre Computer Company, expanding Codex’s tools for building, understanding, and reviewing code.
two school nights, a pile of bootloops and one homemade rom later, my mother's phone is still e-waste. just faster
My ISP was tampering with my DNS queries and handing back bogus IP addresses. Here are the misconceptions about DoH, DoT and DNSSEC that followed, and the setup I actually run.
Science needs more than answers
kitty is a feature-rich, cross-platform, fast, GPU based terminal. To update kitty, follow the instructions. Recent major new features: Docked windows [0.50]: kitty windows can now be docked to an ...
A hands-on look at dual-booting Linux on the Nvidia RTX Spark laptop, the GPU clock throttling bug found, and why WSL still wins.
Prompted by another project idea that popped into my mind, I did some Unix archaeology and looked at the original sources . This is the most fun I've ever had reading someone else's code - probably due to the historical significance. But also because of how delightfully approachable it was, compared to modern…
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers, along with Mass General Brigham researchers from the Gene Lay Institute of Immunology and Inflammation, and the Broad Institute, have uncovered biological clues to why colorectal cancer can behave more aggressively in younger people. Published today in Nature Medicine, the…
Scientists at Columbia University and Imperial College London have found that the largest canyon system in the solar system is still active and shaping Mars today, billions of years after it first formed.
On October 23, 2026, the unthinkable happened. It was supposed to be a mere formality: C++26 was up for a vote by the ISO National Bodi...
We’re excited to announce Adaptive Dark Mode in Safari 27.3 beta.
macOS ships a VulgarWordUsage.db and a dictionary that rates every word as vulgar, offensive or sensitive. Dumped for 199,000 English words and a dozen other languages.
macOS 15 Sequoia had a hard time with CoreStorage – and thus encrypted HFS+ volumes – since it deprecated both technologies and callously crippled some important tools for working with them, but nonetheless it mostly still worked. While I’d often – but not always – have to manually unlock one of my HFS+ volumes – but…
AES-256 Cross Platform Device Control.
I document how I use AI, one year after my first writeup. Everything's completely different.
Yesterday’s hot paper was Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights by Rikiya Takehi, Jayden Teoh, Alex Zhang, and Omar Khattab. The paper (OK, …
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
An optimization that made Pivot significantly faster on GROUP BY queries with a Top-K operator above them, and a walkthrough of how analytical databases run GROUP BY in the first place.
🐻🎂 Happy 10th bearthday! Join us for the stories behind our design principles, the tiny details hidden all over the app, plus some wonderful new features and Bear swag.
I am a computer science student. I got a scholarship to study computer science and AI last year and I love it! It's something that I wanted to do since I was...
Allison Sheridan is right when she says TextEdit can usually do the job. But I'm sticking with Pages anyway.
What it takes to run Macs in a datacenter: custom MacBook racks, virtualizing macOS with Apple's Virtualization framework, and building and distributing huge VM images across the fleet.
The LLM revolution ran on a pretraining commons that humanity built for other reasons. Posttraining consumes tasks, not documents, and no such commons exists. If the open models community wants...
At the recent EMFCamp, I bumped in to Professor Kate Devlin who was talking a little about the AI Resist List. I think one of the useful things we can do is loudly complain about shitty uses of AI. Here's an example. As mentioned in a previous post, I'm contacting companies which send malformed calendar invites. One…
He was also involved in taking the Pier 1 chain nationwide
