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UPDATE: This article has started an ongoing conversation with the Godot devs. They care about the issues raised, and would like to improve things. Significant improvements will almost certainly be made, although it’s still early days and it’s unclear what will change and by how much. I am encouraged by the response. I…
Learn how Apple TV now supports Tailscale with tvOS 17, enabling secure remote networking, media streaming, and exit node functionality. Transform your Apple TV into a powerful networking tool today!
A joint blog post between the Internet Archive and the IIIF Community Summary After eight years hosting an experimental IIIF service for public benefit, the Internet Archive is moving forward with important steps to make its International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) service official. Each year, the…
Recently, I started working on a new LLM-oriented project . It’s currently far from feature-complete and probably filled with bugs, but I’m hoping to use it as a platform for exploring a question I’ve been considering a lot lately: what will LLM-powered software look like in the medium-term future? It seems undeniable…
One of my all-time favorite games is Halo: Combat Evolved that launched together with the original Xbox in 2001. One major part of the game was multiplayer, up to 16 people at a LAN party could play together by connecting four Xbox consoles over Ethernet , referred to as System Link .
UPDATE 10/11: The update to the Paint app for Windows 11 that includes layers and transparency is now rolling out to Windows Insiders in the Release Preview Channel (version
iOS 17 makes iPhone even more personal and intuitive with StandBy, easier sharing with AirDrop, and more, and is available as a free software update.
In the old days when I started programming, green programmers trying to build their skills and get experience started out doing maintenance programming. Only the old hands got to write new code. The newbies cut their teeth debugging and fixing musty old code that still worked for the business. I’ve done my share of…
How can we build machines with human-level intelligence? There’s a limit to how far the field of AI can go with supervised learning alone. Here's why self-supervised learning is one of the most promising ways to make significant progress in AI.
Anything that can't go on forever will eventually stop. 40 years of declining worker power shattered the American Dream (TM), producing multiple generations whose children fared worse than their parents, cratering faith in institutions and hope for a better future.
A guide to adding Rust to a Java codebase with JNI and the rust-maven-plugin.
Meet Kargo, the open source continuous promotion tool from the creators of Argo that moves changes from stage to stage with GitOps, not CI scripts.
Wiz Research found a data exposure incident on Microsoft’s AI GitHub repository, including over 30,000 internal Microsoft Teams messages – all caused by one misconfigured SAS token
If you're considering building a homemade billing system for your SaaS company, there are a few things you should be aware of. In this article, Qonto's first billing engineer shares four lessons he learned while working on this project.
Proper support for sum types or tagged unions have become table stakes for systems programming languages. However, they can incur a lot of memory fragmentation that's not trivial to avoid without good support for metaprogramming. This post goes into Zig's powerful comptime feature, and how it allows some radical…
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…
Suppose the OpenDocument file format, and specifically the "ODP" OpenDocument Presentation format, were built around SQLite. Benefits would include:
A couple of things I learned and one reasonable guess.
What did Vincent van Gogh look like? His self-portraits provide a good indication. Read on to find out all about them.
FoundationDB is a very impressive database. Its paper won the best industry paper award in SIGMOD’21. In this post, I will explain, in detail, how FDB works and discuss a few very interesting design choices they made. It’s a dense paper packed with neat ideas. Many details (sometimes even proof of correctness) are not…
In this article, you will learn what stands behind the label immutable when it comes to Linux systems
AWS grew its IPv4 estate with an additional 27 million IP addresses to now owning 128 Million IPv4 addresses. At a value of $35 per IPv4 address, the total value of AWS’ IPv4 estate is ~4.5 Billion dollars. An increase of $2 billion
In 2017, consulting giant Booz Allen cut a deal with the government to extract junk fees from Americans who want to use Federal lands and waters for hunting or fishing. Will Congress or Biden act?
Introducing Infrastructure Manager, which integrates HashiCorp Terraform infrastructure as code workflow into the Google Cloud experience.
Get started on using LaTeX for writing your tabletop rulebooks, adventures, and zines.
Exploring the Applecore style
