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I worry our Copilot is leaving some passengers behind
Why I worry about the effect GitHub Copilot is having and will continue to have on the accessibility of the web at scale.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,900 posts.
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The epidemic of fraudulent DMCA takedowns
There’s an enormous and largely invisible campaign to use fraudulent notices under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act to remove critical articles from the internet. We don’t know who is running…
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Ollama is now available on Windows in preview
Ollama is now available on Windows in preview, making it possible to pull, run and create large language models in a new native Windows experience. Ollama on Windows includes built-in GPU acceleration, access to the full model library, and serves the Ollama API including OpenAI compatibility.
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So long, and thanks for all the bytes
Goodbye Tech, Hello Future
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The game theory of seduction and marriage with Jane Austen
The enduring success of her early 19th century novels are in large part due to their persistent relevance
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We Have to Start Over: From Atom to Zed
From the Zed Blog: Thorsten interviews co-founders Nathan, Max, Antonio about the vision and the technological choices behind Zed, how they went from Atom and Electron to Rust and GPUs with Zed.
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It’s Official, Apple Kills Web Apps in the EU
If you ship a Web App in the EU and will be impacted by this, please sign our open letter to Tim Cook. It is critical that we gather as much evidence as possible to prevent Apple from breaking Web Apps in the EU.
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Considerations for a long-running Raspberry Pi
Keeping a Raspberry Pi online and working with zero intervention for weeks, months, or years is somewhat of an art form. Several classes of things can go wrong, and you need to consider how your Pi will recover from each of them.
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Options for genuine ECC RAM on the desktop in (early) 2024
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…
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From engineer to manager: what I love, what I hate
It's been almost 2 years since I moved to a team lead role, then to a full-time engineering management position after the expansion of our team. I've been a front-end developer for 7 years before that, and initially I took the "advanced individual contributor" career track before doing the management turnaround. How's…
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Raising Children on the Eve of AI
How do we prepare them for what we're not prepared for?
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Recording and visualising the 20k system calls it takes to "import seaborn"
Last time we counted CPU instructions, let’s look at syscalls now!
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Paying people to work on open source is good
If you have a problem with maintainers getting paid then you have a problem with me and I suggest you let that one marinate.
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Ledger: Stripe's system for tracking and validating money movement
Technical details on how Stripe built Ledger, a state-of-the-art money movement tracking system, including how teams at Stripe interact with the data quality metrics that underlie our payment processing network.
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GPU synchronization in Godot 4.3 is getting a major upgrade
Say goodbye to placing barriers, hello to the new acyclic graph
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Findaway's new terms of service are unacceptable
When Findaway Voices first appeared, it made it comparatively easy for independent authors to do audiobooks. Audio was still hard, mind you, but it was possible.
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UI = f(statesⁿ)
“UI is a function of state” is a pretty popular saying in the front-end world. In context (pun intended), that’s typically referring to application or component state. I thought I’d pull that thread a little further and explore all the states that can effect the UI layer…
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I'm an Old Fart and AI Makes Me Sad
Previous major advancements in Computer Science and its applications always felt empowering to me, AI feels different.
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The Emacsen family, the design of an Emacs and the importance of Lisp (2023)
00:00.000 Introduction 00:17.000 Why Lisp matters 01:26.640 Why Emacs Lisp was chosen 02:54.841 Other "Emacsen" 03:38.581 Why not Common Lisp? 06:39.120 Common Lisp is still not dead or is always dead 08:30.080 Lem is a nice Emacsen implementation 08:58.260 Why not just use GNU Emacs? 10:31.080 Why Lem 14:03.080…
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Erlang/OTP 27.0 Release Candidate 1
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
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Clean your codebase with basic information theory
Cut out everything that's not surprising.
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No one cares about open-source, until
If you follow privacy news, you have probably heard that Skiff, an end-to-end encrypted productivity suite, announced that it has been acquired by Notion. We could not resist chiming in since Skiff was compared with CryptPad in the past.
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Guix on the Framework 13 AMD
wingolog: article: guix on the framework 13 amd
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German credit agency earns millions through unlawful customer manipulation
The comapny uses manipulative designs to prevent people from obtaining a free copy of their data in accordance with law
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Trading trust
The Brookings Institution did a fascinating survey series over the last five years. I have two takeways from this: The first is that focused and persistent propaganda is able to shift public opinio…